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4 She sg^mblieatt AND SEA. J^LASD CHRONICliE, A WEEKLY PAPER BEAUFORT COUNTY. TRICE FOR ONE TEAK $?.50. OFFICE IN THE POST OFFICE BUIIJ)ING, BAY STREET, BEAFFORT, S. C. E abaci iptions and orders for Advertising received at the office, or by ALFRED WILLIAMS or DAVID THOMAS. HATES FOB ADVKKriSIXG. Advertisements -rill be inserted at the rate of 81.50 per square (twelve Nonpareil lines or less) for the first insertion, and $1 for each subsequent insertion. A discount wlH be made to those who wish to advertise by the year. Notice? of marriages, deaths and meetings of religious, literary or social character, not exceeding five lines, 50 cents. * 1 1? vrvoi Advertisements in aoui>?e coiumus. w spcvm tions, or with unusual display, ten per cent more than regular rates. Advertisements, inserted irregularly, charged 25 per cent extra. Changes in Tegular advertisements charged at the wost of making the same. Terms?cash in advance. Special contracts made with large advertisers. ?faufort lltpMkan. SATURDAY, MAY, 21, 1870. TEE PACIFIC RAILROAD COLONIZATION AGENCY. The land sales of the Union Pacific Railroad during April amount to 8,266 acres, for $35,973.38. This is $4.35 per acre. The sales since January foot up 159,032 acres, for $717,789.34, and the company is x>nly just getting fairly at work. J The average rates are less than four dollars and a half per acre. This fact proves that the railroad corporations are not asking exorbitant prices for their lands. They -transport emigrants at bare cost, leave them close by a railroad station, near stores and growing villages with rapidly increasing population. Such advantages make their farms worth six times the regular Government rates for wild land. It is clear, too, that the best emigration agencies in the world are these railroad companies. They, in the first place, lay their track through lands which otherwise would QOt DO Open to settlement ior many years. They next send their agents abroad into every part of Europe, offering cheap passage to groups of settlers, and choice of fertile lands. They bring to this country thousands of settlers able to buy lands, where the Government of itself would induce one to come. The best possible plaa te aside ?p em esaa try rapidly with the better class of emigrants is to give one-half the lands to these companies, and thus set them energetically at work at the immigration business. Just so is it for the .South. We want lines of ocean steamers running directly from Europe to our ports. The several railroad companies will quickly make arrangements - - _ v __ J _ with these steamers, ana me open mnas along every line can quickly be filled up with superior settlers. Let every planter be ready to co-operate heartily to establish these lines of steamers, and to put portions of his lands into their hands for colonization. It will richly repay both railroads and land-owners. THE SWORD BEATEN INTO A LOOM, The extensive buildings at Macon, ua. which were erected and used for a Confederate armory, are to be transformed into cotton factories, and will, this autumn, resound with buzzing spindles and rattling looms. The buildings became the property of the city, and were turned over by it to a corporation, with a capital of $500,000, for $75,000in the stock of the corporation. Of the progress of the work the Telegraph says : "Nothing now remains to be done bat the exchange of formal papers ; after which it is understood the company will swarm 500 masons and carpenters into the immense structures and complete them as rapidly as possible. There is room enough for 50,000 spindles ; but the task of putting everything iu order is almost herculean. If oompleted properly, the world will show few faotories of greater magnitude. "No man ever looked upon more splendid specimens of masonry than are displayed in the walls of tha bnildines. One wine was nearly finished when the war closed. The roofs, floors, and windows were left incomplete, and they must be finished before machinery, looms, spindles, and all the other apparatus for a factory can be introduced. Extraordinary energy and plenty of capital might complete the whole in six months. It is thought by one of our master mechanics that $23,000 will complete them. Located immediately on the Macon and Western Railroad, material both for construction, and afterward for the factory, can be discharged from the cars right upon the grounds." "We hope to see similar enterprise within a year displayed at all leading points in South Carolina. There is abundant encouragement. What we need is a spirit of ambition and co-operation. The present crops will furnish money enough this autumn. Our people can do this for themselves and pocket the profits. They need only one or two competent^ skilled men to take general direction of the mechanical department. These can he readily obtained. Let us do these things for ourselves. "The Anderson Intelligencer says: "We think there is no hazard in affirming that it ia oat of the qaestion to expect the election of any Democrat to fill the Executive chair for the next term." Doubtless there isn't the slightest hazard ! in the world in muking such a statement. | I GEORGIA. We may expect presently to see a lively debate in the House on the Georgia bill, perhaps a long and dull one repeated in the Senate. The Reconstruction Committee are likely to report a new bill admitting the State, authorizing the organization of the wiilifin nwwiHinor fnr millfarxr ftirl in flflrtftin cases to the civil authorities, but not for military government, and leaving the State election matters entirely to judicial decision. The bill will probably pass as reported by the Committee. If not, no human being can tell what sort of a muddle the matter will get into next time. Why not have passed a simple bill in the beginning like that for the other States? AN 0 UTSPOKENDEMO CBA T. Hon. Benj. G. Harris thinks that on the whole he prefers not to be a candidate for Congress in the fifth district of Maryland. He threatened to do it because he feared the Democratic party were going into the baby play of a Citizens' Reform organization. It was recommended by their State Central Committee. But he seems satisfied that they will not, and retires with the honest expression of that which is the heartfelt sentiment of every real Democrat in South Carolina, whatever words may fall from their lips. He say8,: "I have no fear but that your conventions will, when they meet, rescind the resolutions of the central committee, and in their stead will lay clown and spike down as the great distinctive plank in the Democratic platform, ' That the to-called Fifteenth Amendment it not law?it unconstitutional in manner and matter?is void and of no force, and it not entitled to the obedience of any citizen of the United States.' See to it my friends that this or something like it will be the foundation of your action, regardless of consequences, or your condition will be the most abject." THE ARMY BILL. Tho army bill, as it passed the Senate, provides for the reduction of our military f/\wia flflrt in tho ennrsp nf the nresent IV1VV IV Wjvvv **-? v*-v vv***mv w?? year. The proposals to keep it up to its present limit, over 40,000, was rejected by a vote of 31 to 21. The hill prohibits any army officer, either on the active or retired list, from holding a civil office. This will bring Sickles home from Spain, eject Col. Eli Parker from^ the Indian Bureau, discharge President Grant's private Secretaries, and oust all the military officers who are acting as Indian agents on the frontiers. The Senate Military Committee have toned down every harsh feature of the bill, and made it as easy as possible, consistent with the proper reduction of the number of offices. We have in the army eight hundred officers more than we want, costing each from fifteen hundred to three thousand dollars a year. The bill provides tenderly and generously for their exit. It yields all that is consistent with the nrineinlft nf the House hjll. The Tarious provisions, when in operation, Tr.ll save seven millions a year. WHENCE CONE OUR IMMIGRANTS ? The Mobile Register states that 53,000 emigrants passed the city of Memphis on their way Southward during three months ending with April. Of these but 15,000 were foreigners, showing the movement of 38,000 of our own population in that direction. We do not doubt that the proportion of emigrants from the Northern and Middle States to the South is, as is indicated by the above statement, more than twice as great as that from foreign shores. If South Carolina wishes to keep pace in progress with other Southern States she must get her share of this moving host. Another consideration is quite agreeable : of these thoqsands the majority are competent farmers and skilled artisans. They will add both vigor and capital to the South.They will also serve to break down the prejudices of both sections against each other, to promote better understanding, and increase both the harmony and prosperity of our united nation. Let us induce a score of colonies, if we can, of Northern and Middle State farmers to come among us at once. After having two or three times christened the new party which was to bring joy to the hearts of the people of South Carolina, the News, of Friday, suggests a painful ; doubt over the appropriateness of its previ! ous efforts at nartv nomenclature; for it says, " Let the organization be called the Reform party, or the Labor party, or the Citizens' party?anything but the Republican or the Democratic party/' Our correspondent, " Impromptu," calls the movement "the Bob-tail" party. "We second the motion, and move the previous question. We want this matter settled. The agony of suspense which we are compelled to endure by reason of the uncertainty of the name of the embattled hosts of the seven-up editors, " terrble " only " as an army with banners," is positively unbearable. It is very pleasant and very hopeful to see I ilia IrinHltr wav in whio.fi snnip r?f thft innrnftla record the recent visit of Gov. Scott and his co-excursionists to the " up-country." The Governor made a good many friends, we take it. * The statement of Indian depredations and the dangers of war are believed in Washington to be much exaggerated. From the War Departinemt special vigilance has been ordered, and the concentration of supplies at ! proper points, but apprehensions of very serious fighting are not entertained. THE REP AS GRANT SATS, LET US HAVE t PEACE. < The Democrats?or "the Citizens,'' as some | of them prefer to be called?held a meeting * at Hibernian Hall, Charleston. It wasn't a * startlingly brilliant performance, we are in- J clined to think, but worthy of Bome notice, ( inasmuch as it was the first, and, for all we 1 know, may be the last of its kind?that is, we ( mean this particular kind of political hodge- t podge, or amalgamation, orchowdo* **orc- i o?cr, ttc Hill notice it, using it as a kind of text, because there are citizens among us who are being deceived by this "new political movement." We insist upon that which we have all along asserted, that the party out of which < that meeting grew is the old Democratic j Party in disguise, although some few who , are connected with it may honestly think t otherwise. It is the same party which for generations f ruled this State with a rod of iron, crushing , and cursing the many weak for the few pow- , erful. ] It is the party which taught that working- ] men were "the mudsills of society," and ] which so falsely degraded labor that the evil j still rests with us, so that only a lew* days ( ago Col. D. Wyatt Aiken insulted the whole ^ t* * 1? - P V?tt dnnlorin rr f-a*/* ianiuy 01 wurKiugmcn uj m??v v any man occupied his land as his equal it must be after his death?and by asking tchat gentleman would come here from Europe to labor. It is the party of the lash ! It is the party -which sustained and defended slavery long after the awakened conscience of the civilized world had uttered the most solemn protest; which fostered the slave trade; which dealt in chains and pad- . dies, and the bodies and souls of men ; which . ruthlessly broke the hearts of men and women of the poor African race; which held in forced prostitution those of the slaves which its lust craved ; which thus sapped the foundations of our social system, brushing away the bloom and sweetness of nearly every white woman's life ; and so on through all xi J me rccuru ui tuuvcijr. It is the party which refused to pass laws for the education of the masses, putting its iron heel the more recklessly on them for the very ignorance it itself had caused. It is the party which sought to degrade , foreigners; which taught that the dullest ass ( bom on " our sacred soil " was better than , the brightest genius which lit the intellectual heavens if born elsewhere. It is the parcy which cursed every Yankee, , except the very few who would consent to be , toadies and dirt-eaters. , It is the party which, by incompetence and , corruption, loaded this State with debt, for which the present administration is obliged to tax the people. It ia tha partj whidi has roniqvtfa^coaes of murders for merely political opitrrcWf. ^ sake, as witness the campaign of '0$. ' It is the party of many other political ?in^ too numerous to mention. < It is the party of defeat 1 The Knoxcille Chronicle publishes an article from this journal on the indignation of j the Germans concerning the recent Charles- < ton speech of Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken, and i then says: \ "We have in oar city a largo and respectable i class of very worthy Germans, who think and act \ for themselves. They are mostly laboring men, but gentlemen in our estimation for all that, ^ut they know very well, or should know by this time, in what estimation they are held by a very large class calling themselves 'Southern gentlemen.' The above sbows what a South Carolina gentleman thinks of them. He wants to know 'what European gentleman will come here to labor V " "We think our Knoxville Germans will entertain for such sentiments the same indignation as is ex pressed by the prominent German merchant of Charleston in the above card."?[Referring to a letter addressed to the editor of The Republican.] lt k 4 ? " A *% la n a nahtnallv nnnAlPn tA ft "A true vjiuuiau 10 oj uaiuiv^j/v,tVv. ?v ? false aristocracy as to slavery. He is by edacatioo f and origin & true gentleman, and has nothing whatever in common vtith the false chivalry and aristocracy of Southern Demooracy. ] The Congressional appropriation for the Bureau of Education was vigorously opposed e in the Senate by leading Senators. It was j secured by enlightened statement and argument. To this ?nd, no one contributed more ? by clear and broad views on the sulyect, and 1 by forcible expressions of them, tkan did 1 Senator Sawyer. f Yet the New York Associated Preis sends , a brief resume of the remarks of nearly every Senator who spoke at all; while neither South or North does the Associated Press c even mention the fact that Mr. Sawyer said a t single word. If this had occurred once or i twice only, we should not call attention to it. g But it is the almost uniform treatment of the j i Associated Press, not only of Mr. Sawyer, but j t apparently of nearly all Republican Senators ' ] from the South. Why is this ? i t As editorial in the Charleston 2fetcs con- i tains the following : "And, in answer to the charge so persistently made by the hireling trumpeter of Governor Scott, (which is supported from week to week out of the money roobed from the people, and the rery exist ence of which depends upon the continuance 01 tne j. opportunity for public speculation and official . fraud,) tb it the REroRx movement is a democratic 1 movement in disguise, we will," Ac. The "hireling trumpeter" means The Re- t publican, of course. But it is hardly neces- 1 sary to say that this journal is not the " hire- t ling trumpeter " of anybody. o If the Neics will get over its passion and r sit down and contemplate, it will remember j i: that it itself was only a short time ago?and, j v for aught we know, now is?largely owned j c 'UBLICAN. ly Ben. Wood, a "professional gambler and otterv policy dealer, and that it was ready o become the "hireling trumpeter,'" &c.; and t will remember something about several lundred dollars and sundry railroad articles; ma as aouDuess n win remcmuoi ouuitiumg >f an arrangement with certain "lobbyists" ibout phosphate^ and about several hunIred dollars ; and, further, we insist upon it ;hat it distinctly remember that this journal vas never bought on any question. COLORPIIOBIA IN BALTIMORE. One of the funniest phases of this mania iver known has just been developed in Bal;imore. Not long ago the Judge of the United states Circuit Court decided on a case aroucht to the Court by a colored man igainst the Street Railroad Company, that ;he company had no right to deny to colored Dersons who paid full fare, accommodations is good as those furnished to any white parion. Thereupon "Plug Ugly"' Baltimore was agitated to the very centre where its aeart ought to be. "This," shrieked the fierce Democracy, "must not he endured. "We must rend the accursed Union and keep the nigger in his place.'' The Baltimore Democrats, Dbvionsly, are not so well disciplined as ihose of South Carolina in repressing their real sentiments. The astute directors of the road, however, jooled the boiling blood of the Baltimoreans by announcing that separate cars would be run on the road for colored persons. Merciful benefactors, astounding geniuses, these directors doubtless felt themselves to be, and ate their dinners that day with the serene satisfaction of great public benefactors. But, alas! in this strange, cruel world some white men will not appreciate genius, and will, with most exasperating wantonness, lacerate what they heartlessly term the foolish prejudices of others. Such are generally Republicans?of course they are. Well, some such chose to ride, when it was equally convenient, in the cars advertised and set apart for colored people. Baltimore Democracy sank into spasms again. Was this to be tolerated? Were whites to be permitted to ride with niggers ? " No, by St. Bride of Bothwell," and by a good many other more familiar objurgations, no? Mr. Duvall, in majestic wrath, introduced a resolution into the intensely Democratic Common Council of that city, forbidding any white man from riding in cars open to colored persons, under heavy penalty, and demanded that the foundations of moral, social and civil order should be preserved from immediate and fatal upheaval by the instantaneous adoption of the resolution. Just as it was to be passed unanimously, one member asked this question: " If we enact this law cannot some aggravating 1 cuss; of a white Republican bring a case under the Civil bill on the flronnrt. that lift hn^bftfn refused admission to the cars on account or 0 inrl 1 r oti/?K o noon ia Will Ilia LU1U1 1 AUU 11 OUVM ? VIMV> ?w .. ... not the court decide that a white man has a constitutional right to ride, if he wants to, in the same car with a nigger ? Of course it will." The startled body saw the point, and, leaning back in their seats, with one voice of ioleful despair, moaned: " Oh, it, what i fix. we are in now." Tho rank, the philanthropic directors, their complacency shockingly inverted, dismally echoed: " Oh, t, what a fix we are in now." The rank ?rowd of Democracy, gnashing their teeth, lowled: "Oh, it to , what a fix we ire in now!!" Latest dispatches indicate that the turbid md turbid commotion is subsiding. The 0 ______ ? ; ebullient" Democrats have decided to drop ;he matter. The rights of white men under he Civil Rights bill are "too many" for hem. Imagine their intense agony, their minted disgust and despair, all the more excrudating because hopeless, and then weep if rou can, laugh if you must. We don't believe in hanging; but if any ihould be hung, Daniel McFarland is of the lumber. And yet the following is recorded: "Just before the retirement of the jury, Mr. Fohn Graham, senior counsel of the accused, revested the Court to charge the jury that ' if the msoDer committed the act io a moment of frenzy le cannot be convicted of murder in the first defree. I not only charge that proposition, but if lis mind was in that condition he cannot be convicted of any offence.' [2 Keyes, 63G.] " The Court. I so charge you, gentlemen." To show the wretched absurdity of such a (harorA wa wnnld state that we know of cer-1 ain people who begin to have symptoms of rrenzy at such an outrage on common sense is is bound up in that charge, and, no knowng, the frenzy may increase so much that hey may knock that Court into eternity, a la !). McFarland. The succeeding Court would, n such a case, have more healthy views of his matter of frenzy, we'll warrant. Every nurderer can now plead frenzy! The Charleston Nexcs, in its petty way, wtsvrt 1*o aP aii? /iipaIo rtf pCrtXkO VI VUl llAJUl WU VI* Viv v? ? vwwvao* Will the News join with us in making to he public a sworn statement of circulation, ncluding the weekly editions ? If our circle of readers is so very small, as he jealous News would have its readers beieve, why was the News goaded into atacking Col. D. "Wyatt Aiken for his speech in immigration ? Everybody knows it would lot have attacked him but for its fear of the nfluence of The Republican*. The News irtually condemns its own statements conerning us. TUE INTERESTS OF NAVIGATION^ 1 AND COMMERCE. The next subject of vital importance likely ' to call out discussion in Congress is that of the restoration of our commercial marine, i1 There are those who oppose all legislation, 1 and insist that matters take their own course. But the majority believe it of vital importance to take wise and adequate measures to protect and encourage the building of American lines of ocean steamers. They urge these measures both to build up our commerce and to nurse to a goodly size a marine which, in case of war, shall be quickly and ( '? /1atat>nn vrtf cneapiy avuunuie iui imuuuai viucuw. v? another ship-of-war, they say, but first-class merchant steamers, which can be quickly transformed into swift war vessels. The discussion on this subject was opened by Mr. Lynch, of Maine, in one of the ablest speeches of the session, followed by Mr. Neg|py, nf .j]. iiill i, In iiiriiii^ iifuiiinMnt f.n- one of the proposed lines of ocean steamers ?the Mediterranean and Oriental Steamship Company. Mr. Lynch proposes a rebate of all duties on materials which are used in ship building, and all articles to be actually used in navigating such ships; also an annual bounty on American sailing ships of$l.50 per ton, and on steamers of $4.00 per ton, together with a special tax on foreign tonnage thirty cents per ton, these privileges to continue for ten years. The bill will probably pass without the special tat on foreign tonnage. That is a game two can play at, and had better not be commenced. Following this general bill are a dozen special bills asking subsidies in money for various lines of steamships nearly all over the world. There is a disposition to give all sound companies every aid consistent with other interests and the state of the public Treasury. It is not probable that cash subsides will be voted. It is probable that lands will be given, and the total proceeds from carrying the mails on any route. For the companies which propose to bring emigrants for a part of return 'cargoes, the lands will be given only as they put settlers on them. That is, they are allowed simply to pre-empt lands for the settlers whom they bring from abroad. It is quite probable that the proposed South Carolina steamship company could, by proper management, obtain considerable aid in their project to establish a line for direct trade. Probably the company will not be sufficiently Hfoll nvnranirAd to annlv before next Winter. -J " v" ? rrv That will be in time if the policy is this session established. We should like to see a general bill for the aid of all lines which may be started with adequate capital. Probably the most popular project is the Mediterranean and Oriental Steamship Company, which proposes direct lines from several Southern ports to European ports, chiefly wi Mm ence to the transportation of immigrants. The company asks only receipts from mails and lands on which to settle its immigrants. These lands can be given by the national Government, the State, by railroad companies, or by individuals. If the plan is carried out, the South Carolina Road can give its lands and this company will put immigrants on it. Or if the proposed line from Charleston be established, a similar and a lucrative arrangement can doubtless be made with that company. These schemes are all practical and practicable. They are adapted to meet in the best way the most pressing want of our State. In stating, not the wisdom of, but the national necessity of prompt and liberal legislation to encourage particularly the establishment oflines of ocean steamers, Mr. Negley, of Pennsylvania, convincingly says : "From all these glaring faots It becomes manifest that it would be^axardous to hope and imprudent to expect from private enterprise alone a speedy and substantial improvement in our commercial conveyances and shipping facilities. Encouragement and substantial aid from the part of the Government are not only desirable but absolutely necessary. "By the policy of liberal subsidies, the steam marine of England has increased 417 per cent. ; that of France 613 per cent.; and that of Austria 637 per cent.; during the past twenty years, while our steam marine, in consequence of our adverse nnlinir nnlr 1 10 n#?p rinrincr th? j.uuvj, ?j ? r? o ? same period. ******* 'The highest public, social, and political considerrations are at stake, and I cannot but think that this Government is ready to perform its part in the patriotic work of rc-eatahlifhinjf tl?? cy of our flag on the sea, and of recovering all our just commercial advantages. "It is alarming to observe that since 1864 our tonnage is steadily decreasing, so that its decline in the single year from 186.8 to 1869 reached the formidable figure of more than 200,000 tons. * * * * * "That we should sustain only 19,000 American ships, carrying not quite seven millions of tons, and employing not more than two hundred thousand American sailors, in our foreign trade, while we actually hire 87,000 foreign vessels, carrying nearly eleven millions of tows, and supporting over four hundred thousand alien seamen, seems utterly incredible to me;and yet it is a stubborn faot attested by official statistics. "Nor is this all; to-day there is not a single steamer running between the United States and Europe which wears the American colors ; whereas there are twelve foreign lines, comprising 117 steamers, with an aggregate tonnage of 268,437 tons." Tn? fThnrlfistnn. News recently crave an V??W. V O " article entitled, " Cheating the People out of their Schools/' In this it attacks the administration of Gov. Scott in its usual classical-and-brimstone way, charging that they have not done what they should for the education of the people. That, too, from au organ of a party which has ever opposed the education of the people! < The administration of Gov. Scott has done much for the work of education, and will do ! much more; but the Democratic party, what i ias it done ? It refused to educate the poor whites; it would not allow the colored people to obtain the rudiments of an education! Does the JVc*ca think its own readers are fools when it puts forth to them the statements it does ? Does it not know that its own party has stood right in the way of every advance of the people ? If it has forgotten all about these matters let it go back a little way?only a very little way?and it will find a time when Democrats tarred and feathered men for even teaching slaves to read the blessed Bible ! What a precious set of hypocrites that Democratic party contains ! Pretty people they are to read lectures to the Republican party on the education of the people! If some of our political opponents only *l?/v ntiilnonntiir TV A nASBPM IWP 1TP fLIIU YY IUO puilUCVpuj nv ^/wwv?rv ? ?obliged to speak rather complacently in this ome), it <wenLtia na_they would essay a somewhat different style of warfare from that in which they now engage. For we may-as well tell them tnat we only laugh at a good many of their bitterest shafts. It's a way we have. We can no more help it than we can help eating our dinner when a-hungry. Mark Tapley wasn't more jolly out in "Eden" than we are in reading some of these "pepperand-vinegar" editorials of our contemporaries. For instance, the following, from some bloodthirsty gentleman down in Florida, only made us laugh. It is from the Southern Messengerf published at Madison C. H., Florida. The immediate cause of this ebnl- * lition of temper was an article in this journal on certain affairs in Tennessee : "It is useless for us to prolong our remarks. Suffice it to say that we trust the editor of the Republican will not risk his precious body down in Florida, for fear of the Ku Klux Klan, for if they were to 'make daylight shine through him' instead of negroes, as he charges, no one but his Maker would regret his hasty departure from this earth; and He only would regret it on account of his went of preparation?swapping a hotter for a worse country. "We dislike to bring any Radical sheet before the attention of our readers, but cannot and will not allow such slanderous paragraphs as the one we bavo copied, pass unnoticed. "We notice, in conclusion, that the Tallahassee Sentinel (Radical) swallowed the paragraph down, and even more, with an endorsement." Petroleum V. Nasby. in the Toledo Blade* makes announcement of the death of his particular friend, Patsy McGroggin, and gives a tender obituary. As Patsy seems tohave been a devoted and perhaps somewhat distinguished Democrat, we give below a few lines from the touching narrative, which is dated from ((IIarp uv Erin 'Shoon, Sixth Ward, Noo York, April 28, 1870 "A blite hex fallen onto the Sixth ward! Last nite at precisely 6 o'clock this morning, ex near ez wo kin learn, Patsy McGroggin departed his life. Dimocrisy hez lost a piller?my bar a oonstaot and prompt payin customer, and Father McGrath a parishner which never refoozed his mite for religious purposes when his' finansiiel operashens bed E roved successful. Patsy McGroggin is gone! [e met his fate in attemptin to get out uv the area window uv the house uv a bloatid aristocrat ir "he Winn wmmt r ii Pflf?y and- a friend uv bizzen known ez Jfingusp Jflin wuFTn the UbtDe, when owing to alarm wich wcx made they become aware that they wuz considered in the lite of iatrooders. They bad* gathered together a pocket book, some gold watcnes, sure piaie ana swn, ana wuz attemptin to lefve the boose quietly, when Patsy wuz seised by the injudishux proprietor thereof. Patsy, in self-defence, knoekt him down with a billy, when the wretch levelled a pistil at him and shot him dead. And not content With this, he procoored the arrest nr English Bill ou the charge ur burglary! Thus two ur my customers is cut off at one stroke! * ? _ "Peace to his ashes ! It is perhaps ex well that he went hentx. The Fifteenth Amendment is a reality, and bed he stayed he mite her been compelled to affilyate with niggers instid of bastin nr em, and I doubt whether his nacher cood hf r endoored so sadden and serere a strain. It is perhaps well for him that he died when he did, pertickerly ez he had jist paid bis bill at my bar. He coodent her gone at a better time." A great deal was said at the meeting in Hibernian Hall about taxation. The speakers grumbled at taxation in a way as if they had never heard of such a thing till lately. Which suggests, among others, these thoughts: 1. The rate of our taxation ? misrepresented, exaggerated. Some other States are taxed far above oars. Of Southern States, Louisiana, for instance, is, we believe, taxed about one-quarter per cent, higher than South Carolina. t 2. Much of the taxation comes to meet the obligations contracted by former corrupt and incompetent administrations. 3. Taxation has its evils, and men are easily made gnmhlor* , awl y<4 -dww is some compensatory good in it, for, though it may not be pleasant to say it, some of our people, we believe, have been thereby atimulated to efforts which they might not otherwise have put forth, and those efforts quite naturally reach beyond the mere providing for the payment of taxes. The Anderson Intclligmcer goeth after the June Convention and throweth cold wetter on ye "Citizens," as follows: "The Columbia Pkaenie and the <Tkarleiton Newt dissent from the views expressed by ut a fortnight sinee. We bav^ carefully weighed the ? * ?? .i i 1. .. ?).. aMnn'. reasons assigned oj iuuac jvuiush M w p.?.. ety of organizing a State tiiket in the approaching canvass, and hare not been conrinced tbat there is a hope of success in the programme of oar eotemporaries. To oar mind there are overwhelming reasons to the contrary." IIow some Delaware white men tried and " fizzled " is amusingly told in an article from the Wilmington Commercial, which we print in another column. This is the ignominious end of the last " white man*s party " in the United States.. It marks the complete discouragement of the Democratic party in Delaware. It is an unmistakable omen of Republican triumph in that State. The erring sisters keep returning to better ways.