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V - - . ' no i ? - M B " - -1 - ii wfmmtaam^ ? voi.pmbxxiv. 1 s~a^in.s. 0.. f&paym&bwngtliiichmsw. number 36. J. T HERSHMAN?EditorHates for Advertising: Kor one Square?ten lines or less?ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS for the first s insertion and ONE DOLLAR for each subt sequent. Obituary Noi-ofs, exceeding one square charged at advertising rates. Trannsient Advertisements and Job Work MUST BE PAID FOR IN APYV A NCR. No .deduction made, except to our regular wdverlshir patrons. Terms of subscriplion for one year iJk-l.'K) in advance; if not paid wiiliin three months from the time of subscribing, $4,00. HMerrvg??ia?wmmmm????? [FKOiTTlIE CIJARLRSTOX DAILY NEWS.] A FEEBLE TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF OUR HONOR. / 5ED GEN STEPHEN ELLIOTT. BY MRS. C A. BALI.. Not where the war-steed thundered o'er the r plain; Not where the aarth drank in the blood of my rinds slain ; Not 'mid the cannon's roar, the trumpet's clang; Not where, 'mid flashing steel, the Southern war cry rang; Not there, our hero died. Gently and peacefully lie sank to rest, "While loved ones in the parting hour around him prost. Afar fiom all the scenes of earthly strife, Calmly the Christian hero yielded up his life, A ltd passed from hence Rjvny. His epitaph is graved on each true heart, His menu vy is of each Southern soul a part, I Ilis own loved Carolinn mourns her son, And crowned with glory, by his valor won, | "Weeps o'er her hero, dead. I And never, while the walls of Sumter stand, Shall we forget him, who with liis brave hand By day and night (our country's hope and stay), Gnarded the city's gates, aDd kept the foe at bay, Our warr ior, now dead No more the battle cry rings through our land; Cru-hed is each Southern heart, and powerless each hand; Yet while one pulse can thrill to deeds^f f.hie, "A household word" will be brave Elliott's name, ^ And ever honored dead Weep, C.roiiua, weep. tWonpli tears are vain. Our stir has set, never ro rise again : j Yot amiil grief rejoice, for he wc mourn lias jius-cd from hence unto that bicssed bourne, i "Where there is no more death, j ClIAKl.ESTOX, March C. BillArp Returns to the Eternal City and Meets his Friend Big J ohn. M? Edilur Melerpolilan liclcord : Mit. EDiTiTt, Suit: I hav not up to litis tune made any remarks in publik about the trials and tribulations, the losses and the crosses, the buzzards and tied hoses seen 011 our journey home to the eternal sitty. I shall not nllood to it now, only to remark that our eomin l.!>r*k worn not so hnstv as our leavin. It was in tlic dead of winter, through ; snow and sleet, over creeks without bridges and bridges without floors, Ihrough a deserted and desolate land, where no rooster was left to crow, no , pig to squeal, no dog to baric; where the ruins of happy homes adorned the ?. way, and ghostly chimneys stood up like Sherman's sentinels a guard in the ruins he had made. A little one lioss consern contained the higlith of my worldly possession, consistin of ray numerous and lovely wife and children, and a shuck basket full of some second class vittels. Countin our offspring, there was about ten of us in and about and around that wngin, thus illustratin what the poet has sed: "One glorious hour of crowded life is worth an age without a name," though the glory were hard to persevo on sich okkashuns. Mrs. Arp are of the opinyun that her posterity were never as hungry before ! in their life as on that distressin journey, and she once remarked that there want nary rod of the road that dident hear some of em a hollerin for vittels. My wife's husband is troobled bekaus they aint broke of it yet, and it do ihni 1AWMI T /vi4- A rrt ava * btjuj-u uiai i<xxo jjwici jl ^lu uiuxv devourin they become, and of winch will end in sumthin or other if sumthin dont't happen. We finally arrived within the pre sinkts of our lovely home. The doors - creaked welcome on their hinges, the hoppin-bug chorruped on the hearth, rand the whistlin wind was singin the . same old tune around the bed-room - corner. We were about as happy as we had been miserable, and when I remarked that Gen. Vandiver, who okkupied our house, must be a gentleman for not burning it, Mrs. Arp replied. "I wonder what he dono with my soing masheen." "He didont cut down our shade trees," sed I. "My buroes and carpets and crockay are all gone," sed she. % "It may be possibul," sed I, "that the Genrul " "And my barrel of soap," sed she. "It may be possibul," sod I, "that the Genrnl moved off our things to take keer of em for us. I reckon we'll get em all back atter while." "Alter while said Mrs. Arp, like an echo, and ever since then when I allood to our Northern brethren she only replies, "AtUr while." By and by the shattered wanderers begun to drop in under the welcum shades of our sorrowful citty. It wero a delightful enjoyment to greet em home, and listen to the history of their sufferings and misfortunes. Misery loves company, and after the misery is past there's a power of comfort in talking it over and fixin up as big a tale as any body. I wer standin one day upon the banks of the Injun river, a wonderin in my mind who would come next to gladden our hearts, when I nf nti /Vl-vioL- fln-rlrinin SUW UK? SAltlUlAfA UA (AAA M MJ ^ av -a.. .. tlie sunlit bank. It wcr not a load of hay nor a elefant, but sure enuf it wer my frond Big John, a movin slowly, but surely, to the dug out landin on the opposite side. His big round face assoomed more lattitood wlien he saw me, and without waitin for remarks he sung out in a voice some two staves deeper than the Southern Harmony? "There came to the bead' a Poor exiie of Krin." "Make bimsed I,/ and you'll fill the bill." Prouder to see him than a monkey show, I paddled the dug out over in double quick and bid him wolenm in the name of the eternal citty and its humble inhabitants. I soon got him afloat in the little canoo, and before I was awaro of it the water was sloshing over tlie-gunnels at every wabble. "Lay down, my fiend," sed I, and he laid, which was all that saved us from a watry grave, and the naboorin farms from inundation. VHien safely lauded I found him wedged in so tight that ho couldeut rise, so I relieved him by a prize with the eend of the paddle. As his foot touched the sakred soil lie gently seperated countenance and sung with feelin melody, "Home again?home again?from a furrin shore, The Yanks may come nml I ho devil too, but I'll noi run any more." llecolloktin some skraps of blank verse myself, I sed with much absent, "Tell me thou swift of foot?thou mod 1 1 AVI A 11 ...1 ? cm .vsanoi?1'J1 TOli J11C HJICJU is uy chariot and steer ? AVI tore didst thou go when I did see thee driving like Jehu as we did lice lor life." "J'11 toll you aiy'-iiied ho,-?"I want my fronds to know it. I'm now a. man of war, Bill, and I'm glad of it. I've done the state some servis and she knows it. I've handled guns?yes, guns?weepins of death. I've slept on my arms since I seed you?night after night have I slept on my arms, with hundreds of deadly weepins all around me. Ah Bill, patriotism is a big tiling. When you once break the ice, great sluices of glory as big as your arm will jest spring up like mushrooms in your buzzum ; and make you feel like throwin yourself clean away-f'or your country. Let me sot down and I'll tell you all I know, Bill, but as the feller said in the theater, when you in your letters these unlucky deeds relate, speak of mc as I am?nothing expatiate nor set down hot in malice." "Jest so," sedl, "exaaktly?oxaaktly Proseed my hero." <i-rr-.il '-JL - " * v en j u u sue, urn? lugjit in tux vuu passed mo, my steer got away. Hang the decievin beast! I hunted smartly for him the next mornin, but I hunted more forrcds than backwards. Lcavin my wagon with a widow woman, I took it afoot across tlio country by a settlement road called the 'cut off.' Devil of a cut off it was to me. I broke down in sight of a little log cabin, and never moved a foot farther that day. The old man had a chunk of a nag that worked in a slide, I perswaded him to ha\il mo to the eend^of the cut off, and I know he done it for fear I'd eat up his smoke house. Every now and then he'd look at the old oman, and she'd look at the smoke-house and then look at-me. But that slidin bisness were the most orfullest travellin that I ever hav had. Exery time tho pony'd look back he'd ston. and when he'd start agin lie giv such, a jerk that my contents were in danger. My holt broke on one okkasliun, a goin down a liill full of gullies. I rolled somo twenty feet into the edge of the woods, and cotch up agin an old pine stump that was full of yaller jackets. Three of the dingd things stung mo before I could rise, hut I got through the cut off, and fell in with some empty wagins that was stampedin my way. "Gittin on to Atlanty, a fool Irishman stoped mo right at the edge of the town and demanded my papers. I didn't hav no papers. Nobody had ever axed me for any papers, but he woulnent hear an argytfient. As Quarles would say, he wouldcnt jino issliue, but inarched me to an oflis, and I did'nt stay there ton minutes. I wer sent off to Dekatur with somo fifty conskripts who were all in mournin, oxcepin their clothes. I never seed sech a pitiful set in my life. I tallied with em all, and thar was ,nary one but what he had tlie dyspepsy or the swinny or the rumatics or the blind staggers or the heaves or the humps or sumthin. Well, there want none of us discharged, for there was bran new orders callin for every body for thirty days to go to the ditches. As I couldent walk that fur, I was ordored to Andersonville to guard tho prisoners. At Makon I met an old acwaintance, who was a powerful big officer, and he had me transferred to his department and put in charge of his ordinance. Ther's where I handled guns, Bill, and slept on my arms. Whole boxes of muskets was around me, and I did'nt no more mind takin a ? - 1 snooze on a gunuux uian ix xd jiuu ucch a couch of feathery down. Its all in gittin used to it, Bill?all in the use. "Jest so," sed I, "that's the way I see it?exactly so, my frend. Proseed." "It's blamed lucky, Bill, that I dident go to Andersonville. They would have had me alongside of Wirz, either as principle or witness or sumthin, and some lyin Yank would liav had a swear or two at me about sliootin him on the dead line. Before this, my carkass would nnve been eat up by worms or cut up by dokturs, and my pikter spred all over a whole side of Harpers Weekly as monster of detli. "Well, I kept liandlin guns and bayonets and dangerous weepins, until one day I got a furlo to go to Borne. Sherman was playin base around about Atlanta, and so I had to circumference around by the way of Sehna, and the very day I got there, everlastin blast em, the Wilson raiders gut there too. I wasont no more loolrin foT them Yankees in Selma than I were lookin for old Beelzebub, and both of them was all the same to mo. Blamd if they wasont sliootin at me before I knowd they was in the State. How in the dickens the missed me dont know, for their minny balls sung yank}' doodle^all around me and over me and under me and betwixt me. "I tell you, Bill, I run like a mad turkel, lookin ahead of me at every -fi??r1 . nnov flint.rt +n -foil it'll fvn T IV/ AJUU (4 VttOJ JdUCU IV 1IU* i? ??*. ?? ? was pluged. An old woman overtook mo, and I uxod her to take my watch and 111 v moimy. She took them iu a hurry and put thom in lier boozom. "Well, 1 found a gully at hist, and rolled in kerslosh, for it was about two ^or tliree feet deep in mud and water. The, internals found mo there jest at night and got me out at the pint of the baynet. They marched mo to the wolf pen and there I stayed till the fuss was over. "Bight here, Bill, I want to make"an observation. There was a feller with me when I was cotch'd, and I seed 'im mako a sorter of a sign to the captain, and they turned him loose in two minits, and he jest went about anywhere as nateral as a king, wiiilo I had a cross-eyed dutchman standin over mo with a baynet grinuin from mornin till night Thero was some Free Masonry about that: Bill, and if another one of these fool wars come along, I'll jine em if thcy'l let m<\ "But I'm at home now for good. I'm gwine to stay here like a sine die. I'm agin all wars and fightins. I'm opposed to all rows and rumpusscs and riots. I dont keer nigh as much about a dog fight as I used to. Now if one could always see the eend of a thing in advance, and the caul teas all riff lit, I wouldent mind a big fuss, but then you know a man's foresights aint as good as his hindsights. If they was, this war., wouldent have broke out, and I wouldent hav lost my steer, nor my watch. I never seed that woman before nor since, and I wouldent know her from any other woman that walks the yearth ?blamd if" I'm certain whether she is white or black. Bill, how is your offsprings ?" "Hungry as usual, I thank you, my friend," scd I. "How's Mrs. Arp ?" "Rebellious, John, very; but I think she'l be harmonized?aticr while?atter while." Mr. Editur, I -will not relate further of these trying adventures at this time. Big John are now entirely harmonious, 1 and I supposo his future career will be all screen. Yours as' ever. BILL ARP. ; P. S.?Mrs Arp wants you to git back j the letters I writ her when she were sweet sixteen. Them officors have got em, and I suppose have lauglied all the funny part away by this time. They contained some fool things that boys will write when they fall in love, aud i my wife sometimes used em upon me as reminders of broken promises. She says, if they! send cm, she'l try and forgive em?atler while. I)ont trouble yourself much, Mr. Editur and it will be all the same to me. ' . B. A. An urgent pressure is being made to induce the President to issue an order restoring the Arli^toh 'estate to Mrs. Gen. Lee. The Southern Newspal per Press. A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal, discourses as follows on the mission ol the press: j "The press of the South hat a great responsibility resting upon' it at this present time. If ever there was a period irftbe history of the country when it mjDnhJcd puUlic opinion, that period is tH? present, The people, whatever may b<jt their .political opinions, look to the ptfrss of - the country for alVice as well is'information. This is the time in which it/can do incalculable good for the cause of civilization and humanity. Wisdom, moderation and kindness should mark its course. Denunciation and vitupation cannot do good to any cause. I regret to see so muck vitupation in some of the Southern press against individuals. It cannot do any good, but really does no harm. A candid mind though it may differ from a writer, can read his productions with pleasure when he discusses subjects with candor, dignity and moderation, and does Dot descend from the considerations of measures to the denunciation of individuals; hut vitupation and bitter aspersions are disgusting, and always damage him who deals in them more than they do his adversary." Another Surrender Reported. The Radicals cannot do without the Executive patronage. According to a Washington dispatch in a Philadelphia paper, "Thaddeus Stephens has buried the hatchet, and in future will work more in harmony with the President. His.first act of repentance was to forward to the President a letter soliciting the appointment of postmaster in Pennsylvania for a friend whom he (Stephens) indorsed in full, and which the President received in bis u?ual gracious manner, granting the favor asked for within an hour." I 4 ry ... ri to precipitate hostilities??Boston Commercial. The following characteristic case of arristocracy is recorded as having come off at Stanton, Va.: "One of the Northern 'school marms' who is there employed in teaching the 'freedmen,' told a sprightly negro girl that she must not call the woman with whom she lived mistress; that she was just as good as anybody. Pretty soon the girl asked her teacher what business she followed before coming South to teach. 'I was a bonnet-maker,' was the reply. 'Well,' said the girl, (^gathering up her books and making for the door, 'I'm not going to sociate wid yon any lougor; you say I is ckel to my mistress, and she don't sociate wid bonnet makers.'" Wo read in an exchange paper the following "tale of woe." "I clasped her tiny hand in mine, I el isped her beante-' ous form; I vowed to shield her from the wind, and from the world's cold storm.? She set her benutous eyes on me, the tears did wildly flow, and with her little lips she said, 'Confound you, let me go.' " There are $30,000,000 of the fractional currency in circulation. * The President has given Stephens and Co. something to smoke: thus dues the pipe of peace go round.?JV\ Y. A'cws of the 3d. ? A Severe Rebuke. .The disgusting blasphemy of Mr* Snm? tier, i:i likening the typical negro to Him who was God on the C'ioss, befuie the Senate of a chr'siiau nation, was but impc'fcetly rebuk-d by Mr. Fessctiden thus: Did the House as charged by Mr. Sumnr.-, place themselves in the situation of Puntious Pjlatc, with the negro for the Saviour :of the world, and the people of the United States for Uarrabas? Why. sir. I expected him [Mr. Smnncr] to go faith or, and in tlic next breath to say that what with the Constitution of the States, the negro had been crucified between two thieves, and that now, by this proposed amendment, the stone had hcen roiled away from the door of the sepulchre, and he had ascended to sit on the throne of the Almighty and judge the world.? National Intelligencer. ? , k Good Report.?Gen. Richardson, writing from Darlington, S. C., to the Cincinnati Commercial, says : "The quiet and orderly conduct of the people, both white and colored, deprived as they are of the customary restrain'. of civil law, is really surprising. I traveled retently nearly two hundred miles in an open carriage, without a guard and with out arms, through nnfrequentcd parts of the country, and I found trie road, by mght or day, as secure as in Ohio." WriAT Does it Meak??We understand that Hon. Mr. Boutwell, who is at home for a short period, said on Saturday^fct, in conversation with a trjend, that the situation is so perilous we'j need not ho surprised if hostilities were ito break out anew within the next two months." Has Mr. Boutwcll any information which the public do not possess? He is on the " Committee of Fifteen " Docs it form nart of the nroerammo of that committee A Letter from General Forrest. M. G. Galloway, Editor Memphis Aia lachc: On my arrival in Memphis, n few days since, from my plantation, a copy of the j Avalanche-was shown rae in which J was represented as having fled the country. I thank you for the kind manner in which you vindicated my name from misrepresentation. Owing to the relations you occupied towards me during the last three [ years, I know of no one belter calculated to do me justice than yourself. Your re: presentation of certain incidnts in my caI reer are true, and will be corronovated by every man iu my command and by most | the colored troops, some of whom are men in my employ. But in defending me, I regret that you shook! suppose for a mement thaf.l could be induced to leave the country. Certainly no act or expression of mine conkl have furnished gronhd for such a supposition. In 6iir rendering my command in April last, in a public address to my troops, 1 urged them to return home?to be true to their obligations and us tlicy had made good law iki^InrrQ nifi7nna M/i cnlfliAr nf mu AAm " ? "'J mand has been false to bis pledges. I have certainly been true to mine, for since the surrender, I have been silent and unobtrusive, quietly laboring upon my farm, and I regret my seclusion is 90 often distributed by reports in the newspers, which are as unjust to the Government as tbey are to my own cliarater. I have never committed an act, uttered a word, or entertained a sentiment not in strict accordance with the most humanizing miliary usages, and fear no investigation into my conduct, I certainly do not intend to leave tb.e country, for my destiny is now with the great American Union, and I shall contribute all my in-* fluence towards strenghening the Government, sustaiuing its credit, uniting the people once more in the indissoluble bonds of peace and affection. As ever. NTruly your friend, N. B. FORREST. Extract of a Letter from Gen. RichardsonGen. W.-P. Richardson, commandant at Durlington, S. C., writes a letter to the Cincinnatti (Jonivicrciof, in which occurs the following passage: " My district is composed of nine Conntie', (or Districts, as they are called here,) in the North-eastern part of the State, and a most liopclul state of affairs exists.? The frecdmen are all employed at fair wgI ges, and are working, according to the statements of planters themselves, much better than there was, for a while, any reason to anticipate. I. have labored dil igently to restore relations of mutual con fidonce between the planters and thefreedmen, on the principle that, as diese people I were compelled to live togetheT, the interests of both parties would be promoted by the relations between them being barmo -_.l T t l?J II10US, anu X Uttvu CUUWUUl'U uuyuuu luy expectations. Planters exhibit their confidence in the freedmen by plauting to the full of their ability, and the freedmen, by their good conduct and industry, seem determined to convince every one that they may be relied upon in their new con* \ dition." The yearly mortality of the Globe is 33,333,333 persons. This is at the rate j of 91,554 per day, 3,730 per hour, COper minute. So each pulsation of our heart marks the decease of some human creatnre. The average of human life is 33 years. Three-tenths of the population die at or oeforc the age of 4 years?onehalf at or before 41 years. Among 1,000 persons, who arrives at the age of 100 years, onc#in 100 attains the age of 90, and one in 5 lives to the age of 73 Married men live longer than single ones. In 1,000 persons, 65 marry, and more marriages occur in June and December tban in any oilier months. Professions exercise a great influence on longevity. In 1,000 individuals who arrive at the ago of 70 ycai*', 4'2 arc priests, orators or public sneuk(<rs 40 are aorricultnrists. 33 arc I | "1 -V 7 +, .. workmen, 32 soldiers or military employecs, 29 advocates or engineers, 27 profes* sors and 24 doctors. Those who devote their lives to the prolongation of that ol others, die the soonest. Mr. Pollard writes: If General Grant has the power to stop the liberty of speech in the press, lie also has the power to muzzle the freedom of speech in Congress. He speaks of the newspapers alienatiug both sections of the country. We beg leave to state that in the halls of Congress there is more sedition and disaffection ventilated there, and disseminated all over the country, electrically, in one hour, than in one year by all the newspapers in the South. Can't lie suppress those fomenters of discord, Sum nor and Stc vens ? A young lady out West who lately eol* lided with an ice-hound sidewalk, remarked as she assumed a perpendicular position, "I'll liav a man to hang on to before another winter." A oolonv of ox-Confed< rale.- arc about | to settle at Mazatlan. Mexico. The President Sustained* Tlic postponement of yesterday fn tbe House of Representatives, by an immetfee majority, of the proposed amendment^ the Constitution, is looked upon as an ad?mission on tbe part of tbe Radieals that a direct light with the President is hot in order. In addition to this, we are assured from good authority that the Cabinet is nearly or quite unanimous in rapport of the President^ policy. We also print a strong speech cn the same side, made last night in Richmond by Mr. Conway^ formerly Representative from Kansas, ana then the very Ajat of Radicalism. Mr. Conway.is in Virginia, has seen and heard for himself, and is able to speak with authority to his Con^ gressional friends. Taming eastward, we find at New Haven, last evening, ?great gathering of the first citizens of Connect* icut to uphold the President's hands, at which Senator Doolittlo, of Wisconsin, made a strong speech; and, whatiamore noteworthy, was followed in the same vein by Reverend Leonard Bacon, D. D., the widely-known and beloved head of his church in New Encrland, and formerlv editor of the " Independent," in this city* The work goes bravely on.. ,, ; New Yort Fi<riesi March 1st. The Smfc-Pox. A gentleman who arrived in this cityyesterday from a tour through the Southern States says it is hardly possible to imagine the extent to which the small-pox prevails throughout the section. All the large cities are more or less infected. In some places the freedmen only are the victims, while in others the white population are among the suffererd. Little at? tention is paid to discretion in medical " treatment. Those who have the disease walk through the streets in the most indifferent and unconcerned manner. No one bids them remain within doors. In two or three places through which he passed .one house in every three had the red symbol displayed. Charleston, we all know, is greviously afflicted with smaU pox. In this respect, however, our friend assures us we ore far better off than our neighbors in the Gnlf States. There he hod been accustomed to See dozens of oases on the sireet every day; herehelneete ~ c?Voi* miv?? ^mi MI | - the 6th. ? < ** Religious Persecution In Ohio. { A Mr. Houston, of Mercer coanty, Ohio a member of the Mahoning congregation of the United Presbyterian Cbarch, was lately cited to appear before the Preflby tery to answer to the charge Qt having voted for Vallandigham as (Jovefoor of Ohio?"a man notorious for disloyalty, and under sentence of banishment by the Government." A majority ofth^ Presbytery being radical Abolitionist, he was found guilty and suspended from tue privileges of the Church. From thiB decision be appealed to the Synod at- its recent session, which sustained the tctica of tho Presbytery; and so Mr. Houston, for .. being a democrat, must submit to be excommunicated/ t The Proclamation. '' The Washington correspondent of tho New York News writes: I have it from good authority that the ? . President in a few days will issue an offi- ' social proclamation that peace has faeea ^ firmly established at the South. The States will then be left to govern themselves under the Constitution of the United States, and State and local laws, without military interference, except in relax tion to the freedmen's bureau. This institution will continue one year after the forthcoming proclamation. A Sharp Girl. A few yeara ago, among the reigning belles in New Orleans was a young lady from up the river, who was universally known by the not very femine soubri-' quct "The Creat Western." Our fair heroine was ah remarkable for her witty and cultivated conversation as she was for her very great personal attractions. One evening when she was in a ballroom, surrounded by a bevy of admiring beaux, an impertinent scion of chivalry, dom (to speak a la Willis) asked her very adruptly, "Pray Miss r, why are you called the 'The Great Western?'" "Really sir," was the ready and caustic reply, l4I cannot tell, unless its because I bave so many flat6 in tow It is needless to sav that the inquiring .1 .1 t L.*i. L. voutn was hoc die oniy vjuwm uit uy . . this well-aimed revolver. Upon another occasion, the same ladymet at the foot of the stairs, as she was returning from a walk, a person who had just been to call upon her, and whom, as it happened, she by no means affected, "Oh, Mies !" he exclaimed, "I regret so much that I did not fiud you at home?I left my card however." "It will do just as well, sir," was the very unexpected answer which he receiV' od. Artcraus Ward said in Charleston S. 0., that Brighani Voting has probably more tdlvcr plate than any man living? except (.Jen. Butler.