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? ?**** A tar mm aanajr amttas ud Ultw Iwn To aiagtojtenaffc tt* tptfoty loviag ysaia; A tar wn walk* Uatda Um *1W ahoia, To lutth Um ilaatai hlaaara Maoda go btta. A tar Mora tkroad* to man la Uk'i atraaga ?*<*? . A tar mors tidal wars* to It* sal akkj And than to fold oar kaada apoa oar kraaat, A little longer to aopport the crow? A row mom days ipes Ufa's us to tow, To oooat the WMti sot against oar name, Bra Bo who Ibnwd as shall decide oar hlaaao. This is ao Uses to hate oar brother asaa? To spook oold words to thooo boooath the ban ; There is ao time to sit with idle hands While God's ripe harvest gladdens all the lands. HUMOROUS. ' A Printer * Misfortune. Somo year* ago, when the writer was a reporter upon an Eastern paper, it devolved upon him to write for the same edition an account of the presentation of a gold-beaded cane to the Rev. Dr. Mudge, the clergyman of the place, and the description of a patent bogkilling and sausage machino, that had just been put in operation at the factory. Now, what made Dr. Mndge inad was this. The inc nsiderate buccaneer who made up the forms got the two locals mixed up in a frightful manner, and when we weut to press, something like this was the appalling result: " Several of the Iiev. Dr. Mudge's friends called upon him yes terday, and after a brief conversation the unsuspecting hog was seized by the bind legs and slid along a beam, nntil he reached the hot water tauk. His friends ex- j plained the object of their visit, and presented him with a very handsome gold-headed butcher, who grabbed "him bv the tail swung him round, cut his throat ??? ? ? ? ? .n 1 nnn f hart A jrum car iu car, anu in icoo hj?u a minnte the carcass was in the water. Thereupon he came forward and said there were timc9 when the feelings overpowered one, and for that reason he would not attempt to do more than thank these around him for the manner in which so huge an animal was cut into 60 many fragments was sim ply astonishing. The doctor concluded his remaiks, when the machine siezed him, and in less time thau it takes to write it the hog was cut into fragments and work ed up into delicious sausage. The occasion will long be remembered by the doctor's friends as one of the most delightful ot their lives. The beet pieces can bo obtained for fifteen cents a pound, and we are 6tire that those who have sat 60 long under his ministry will rejoice that he has been so hand somely treated." Mad ? Well, about nine o'clock next morning the office had been abandoned by every man but the advertising clerk, and he ascended to the roof and robed himself in boiler iron, so that he could watch the venerable clergyman tearing round down there in the street with his congregation, all wearing the banobly of war, and | carrying butcuer knives and things. The next day we explained and apologized, but the doctor stopped ins subscription and began to take the rivul paper." [Exchange. An Upsetting Sin.?Dr. M'Cosh, President ot Princeton College, tells the story o! a negro who prayed earnestly that he and his colored brethren might be pre served from what he called their 4* npsettin " sins. 44 Brndder,'.' eaid one of his friends, at the close of the meeting, 44 you ain't got do hang ot dat ar word : it's 4 tasettin',' not 4 upsettin'." 44 Brndder," replied the other, 44 if dat's so, it's so. But I was a-prayin' de Lord to save us from, de sin of intoxication, and if dat ain't a npsettin' sin, I dunno what am !" An old bachelor, who had be come melaucholy and poetical, wrote some verses for the village paper, in which he expressed the nope that the time would come when he should? " Rest calmly in a shroud, With a weeping willow by my side " But to his inexpressible horror it came out in print: " Wbeo I shall rest calmly in a shawl. With whopping widow by my sido '* ? An editor out West who thought the wages demanded by compositors was imposition, discharged his hands and intends doing his own typesetting in future. lie says : " owi'nG To tqe oXoabiTanj Wtioes dEma^deD br pjinierRs 1 wE haae ConOludoQ To do onR 1 own typo sEjting IN The fu- I m i iuive; ; anu aLTi(ouou wc, ne.ter i; (Earned The frusinaes( mo dO ' Nfot Sea twy gReat misTelly in 1 tUe aRj." ' A nkw style of coffee-pots baa a 1 little steam whistle attached, J which warns the folks when the ' coffee is ready. J JU # w " Comb out here and Til lick the * whole of you," said a news b?y to i some sticks ot peppermint in a r confectioner's window. < \ A?moPMWUt? >n> a>?ii qaifcii7 " Clsta* I (Bower I v# > i A friend said to me recently, 44 In Iimeetotie countries clover is sewn to enrich lend ; throughout the Cotton States we have to enrich the land beforo we can grow clover." My experience teaches that this is a great mistake. I am con* vinced that nowhere on this continent can clover be grown at lees expense and with greater remuneration than on clay lands of the Sooth, at least as far South as the latitude of the City of Columbia. S. G. A detail of a few ex peri* menu may not be uninteresting to our readers. In November, 1867, I sowed eigbt acres of old red land in bar ley and clover, manured with two hundred pounds ot Soluble Pacific Guano per acre. In June, 1868, I reaped one bnndred and torty five bushels of barley, and secureo a beautiful stand of clover on about five acres. In May, 1869, twen-three heavy two-horse loads of clover bay were boused. The fall ot 1869 was so dry the crop was pastnred off" by cattle and sheep.. The spring of 1870, though uncommonly dry, produced a fair crop ot clover ; the fall crop was again grazed off.? Last May I mowed a beautiful crop of bay, and in July a second cutting was housed for winter feeding of sheep. In February, lt?69, tho patch wa3 broadcast with a mixture of eight bags of Waudo and six hundred pounds plaster. Last January I turned over, t with a two-horse Monitor plough, i all of this twenty five acre field, ' but the five acres well set in clover, I | and in April planted it in sorghum. The three acres, upon ( which there was a scattering stand ] of clover, has had, irom its first i appearance above ground, infiu- i itely the beet sorghum in the i field. And why ? Because the ? dead clover, the young clover, and 1 >i.. ?. c -1 - mo routs 01 ciover turned under ' in January have manured the ' land. 1 Another experiment. In 1857, I sowed a cow penned patch ot one and a half acre in barley and clover, and reported upon this patch in October and November j months, 1869, of the Rural. In May, 1870, a verv poor crop was taken from the patch, and in Oc tober last the young clover was pastured off by sheep till scarcely a vestige was appai entlv left.? Immediately alter the land was turned over with a two-horse Brinley, followed by a two horse Murfee in the tame furrow, and sown in wheat. Tnis land, which three years ago was a clay bank seemed now a rich, friable, black soil, which I telt sure would produce a wheat crop; but I feared the clover was gone. So alter harrowing I sowed the surface with orchard grass seed. The wheat and grass seemed choked out by afejuxuriant a growth ol < clover as I ever 6aw. Where the seed came from I can't tell, but the crop is there to show for itself. Third experiment. I have stated above that the crop of the fall of 1869 was pastured. During this time the cattle and sheep were housed every night, and their droppings sheltered until March, 1870, when they were hauled out and thrown in furrows upon which beds were made, and the land planted iu cotton. This last spring, almost every one of those beds, for several inches on either aide of the row of cotton stalks i was covered with a thick growth < of clover. Those beds were reversed, and the land again plant. , ed in cotton. At every working 1 of the crop during the 6ummer a J young growth ot clover had to be l destroyed. Fourth experiment. In April, ' 1870. I selected a half acre of * good grey land, so thickly cover- i ed with nut grass that the ground J could not be seen, for a sweet po- j tato patch, to test the power of t vines in eradicating nut grass by e their 6hade. The land was laid fl off in five teet spaces, and heavily r manured in the drill with manure n from the cow house, and bedded c upon. In May the slips were set 1 out. First of July the vines could ' not be seen for the not grass.? * The patch was then thorough I v ploughed and hoed, and by *l>ep- " ternber a most luxuriant growth of ? vines and nui grass covered the c land. Last November the vines , were cut and carried off; the po- ? tatoes dag; the land ploughed and e cross ploughed, and about three g pecks of barley harrowed in until e the land was perfectly smooth.? b Last Juno a lair crop of barley o was harvested, and the stubble on at least half the patch was, in a * few days, perfectly hid by a coin- h plete growth of clover, whicn all u the summer kept the not grass so 0 iu chock mil mere is not a Deal v hy stalk of the peat to be seen.? d Hie first crop of clover boa died, '* ind the second crop ie springing ip beautifully. What effect the a lucceeding growth of clover will K iave upon Uie not grass lime cl done can tell. The experiment, towever. Is well worth pushing to t, i further test, tor if clover can be U| nade instruiaental in destroying nit grass, its value will be increas- n< jd tenfold. di The onljr difficulty with clover is securing s stand. I have sown it in November in aM kinds of fraiii, and secured a perfect stand, have* at other times, with the very same practice, beeu disaprtinted by a must perfect failure, have sown it in February and never secured a perfect stand.? Good authority saya it should be sown on well-prepared, clean land in March, and allowed to battle with weeds aud grasa tor twelve months without being trod upon. lido, and ono of the great reasons why I think Lhat my countrymen, in my own section of the United States, thoso who in former times, oefore the war, were associated with me in political life, should sustain him, is this, (and I aave borne that testimony upon all occasions >f bim, from the beginning of the war to the md,) that while ho made a gallant and finally i successful soldier, in all bis intercourse w :ho armies of the rebel Stotes be never oii^ forgot the duties of tho soldier or of the gen* '.Ionian. [Wild applause.] I believe mysell thai his re-election is a necessity to preserve peace in the country in>l peace abroad, and if he has tailed, 1 ike such failures as he has given us within he last lour years. [Renewed applause ] There is no sea that our flag does noi float .riumplinnily upon. There is not a Court tpon the face of the earth where the G??vsrnm-nt of the United States is not respected more thsn it has ever been before, k'our public debt is being reduced, your jublio expenses are being reduced, and four taxation is being reduced. What mire could a government do to make the >eople contented and happy, and induce hem to give to those who are carrying it >ut their support and their votes? [Great ipplsuse.] I come, gentlemen of the Convention, rom the Kn Klux region, and I desired >nd intended to hava availed myself of the occasion some time whilst in Philadelphia o presc.it to you some statistics which ..nU - U ll-L, t UIIIU priliapa Illlljnicu y uu in mpwi to he outcry which hoc been raised by the )etnoeralic party in the Southern States, >nd in the North and West alec, about the utrsges that hare beeo committed. In louth Carolina, as yon are aware, in nine ountiee the right of habsat eorpu* has been uspeoded?a little orer one-fourth of the Itale. The suspension embraced those ounties where it was insisted that the tats government was unable?it is nnneeesary for me to discuss why?it was una>le to give protection to men there whose 1 nly offence was their polities I sentiments. TTiey were colored men and white men, nd when they went to sleep at night they ad no guarantee that they woold not be iken out of their beds at the dead hour of 1 ight; taken out and scourged, or else balls 1 ut through their bodies. President Grant ' id oot set in thai manner until lb* Lagistlura of South Carolioa paiatd raaolutlons tiling upon him to a*od the for*** of lb* 'olted Slates Government there to gi?e two proteetion. Wi:h reference to this j Klnx lav, Preeideat Grant has to est* it* the lev. It eu In the statute booh, id be wee ealled upon to eseente It by tet tribunal whfth hadUhe right to eell poo him. He didn't pM the lev. How dvl it eoeae to be passed t Wee It ' >t the thunders of the New York Trlbone. 5 iy after d-y and week nfter week, rung I t My jnUgoieut ia a fall sowiug on clear laud, say in September or October, will eucure quite as good a stand, and so occupy the ground b) spring, tbat a contest with weeds and grass will uot be necessary. At any rale, a staud of clover once obtained need never be lost, and is worth more annually than a crop of cotton, could the latter be grown without work. D. WYATi A1KKN. Address of Governor Orr at the Philadelphia Convention. The Philadelphia Press of the 6th instant, contains the following synopsis of the address of ex-Governor Orr, delivered before the PhilsMlelphia Convention, on the 5th instant. Judge Orr said: Genllnntn of (Ac Convention : I feel that the call which has been made with so much enthusiasm by this body, is more of a compliment to tho section from which I come than from any personal compliment intended for me. [Cries of " No, no."] W# are here for the purpose of nom nating candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the United States ; for the Republican party to fill these offices for four years more; and I suppose that whatever controversy and contest you may have in other States, with the assistance of our colored friends in South Carolina, you may be well assured that that State will give a cordial and unanimons and an overwhelming vote lor the nominees of this convention. [Great applause.] I have felt more than ordinary solicitude, which has induced me to attend this convention, growing out of the many assaults which [ have seen made on the President of the United States. If there was a contest here, it would perhaps be inappropriate to discus! the nerits of any of these men who are to be prelented ; but the evidences are unmistakable tiere that the voice of the convention simply register the instructions which we have re* ceived respectively from onr constituents?I mean the unanimous nomination of President Graut for re-eleotion. [Applause.] I know that he has been arraigned?he has been maligned?ho has been traduced. Has ho been traduced or maligned more than Gen. Wash* ington ? Was there ever a man who has Ailed the Presidential ehair in tho history of this Government who was subject to more assaults than Washington? He survived them, and those people that he oarried through the bloody scenes of tho Revolution re-elected him for lour years, and when he served eight years, be retired voluntarily. Tho next great military hero that the country produced was General Jackson. At the end or before the expiration of this four years he was maligned all over the land and traduced, and yet the memory of the services which be had rendered to bis countrymen in tho war of 1312 carried him triumphantly n second time into the Presidential chair. Are the American people now, with the full recollection of the services rendered by Gonenral Grant in behalf of the Union, when they are enjoying the full fruition of those services, prepared to reverse the rule which was adopted with rcferenoe to those two illustrious heroes, his predecessors, and cast him aside ? I don't believe it. [Great applause and cries of 'No, no, no! They won't."] It is said that be has failed, failed morally, failed financially, failed in every respect as a President. Well, it may be that he has failed. That be has bis faults, I have no doubt; but Jeneral Grant is not the man to fail. [Cheers.] IVben did ho fail? Where did he fail? On what field did he fail? I was unon the other nto tk? ears H Congress, demssdinft i?|| liny should pefa some soeh .lew to give groUelloB to tbeog^ Aa!i no#. w$#S the lew is passed, Sod hns Wo sfcseutsd io mereyi sod firmness, how stands car old friend Greeley f He hot toroed round now, and dsoouoees Grant end the Ku Klux lew for its enormities. Judge Bond who has been discharging hie dalles with great fidelity there, has adnsMistered this law firmly and mercifully, sod although you bear so mush slasaor of ps^>li beiagisast into prison for their not being sble to Droenra hail what U tli* reeelfr 4 lb? trials that bar* takao place f Then bare htto abo?t acre* trials only at th* two ooarts: one an acquittal, oae a mi*Ntrialf and fir* con violioos. Those ars th* results, and yst to show the extent of it, aad how ?on?lwlr? the proof wee, this was not mad* up of manufaoturod testimony. testimony of suborned witnesses Mors than sixty of these nnfortunat* twopie who hare been indicted have rolonta rily some forward and pleaded guilty to the cbrges preferred against thsm. Now. when the foots some to be understood, I should suppose that, so far from being an element of weakness sgelnst ihs President, it would be an element of strength. 1 thsnk you for the atteniiou yon hare given me. I shall not detain yon any farther. I trust tbst the prooeedinge of this body.will ba harmonious. 1 hare no doubt that they will, but 1 hope that wheo wa adjourn, and go forth to our respective homes, we will leave this plaoe determined to fight a good fight and win the hauls. In less than thirty days t?n thousand voices will he raised on every hill and in every valley, upon the broad expanse of thie | | great country in favor of the nominees of j this convention, and in November, when ^ the \otes are counted. I have no doubt i whatever thet Oen Grant and his aseooi i ates will be re-elected, end that the Republican party and principles will be estah lished for th* next four years. God grant it may be so. [Applause. | from the Laurentville Herald. Tn IK, Vr>?,? * ? ? ? _ ? v.va v> UDUigua VKJDDir. Dkar Hsfald:?Aa another important event in the history of our country is about to transpire, it behooves every good citizen to eon-ider well his duty to himself and his State, and thus wield his power tor the greatest public good. I refer to the fall election. In the first place I will allude to one or two controlling facta First, that we, the voters of Laurens, are in a great degree fixed here, and are destined to remaio bei?. Why then quarrel and contend one with i another f The blacks as well as the whites I are ehiefly an agricultural people, and ohsnge our location far lets readily than other populations Our publio interests are in common The white* should regard the blacks as dt facto eitixens, and a part of the eaiablished population of our common country. In shori, we should nil act in concert, and ti this harmony cannot be perlecl, let it be as perfect as porsi?le. Our welfare an a people depend* upon it. Let every oitisen strive to bring shout this reconciliation. '* United we stsud, divided we fall." Our sufferings and rejoicings as a body politic should be alike, for arhat ops eraies upon one part of a community has its effect upon the whole. We should guard, then, our great public interests with zealous care, lu our present divided state, this cannot be done The sooner we appreciate this, the better for us We should look coolly at our condition, and regard it in the logic of common sense, so that there will be lea* antagonism and lesa repulsion between the two races thsn formerly. Although partisan anneal* maw hi ma.la ami may influence the minds of ninny, and thus keep up this bitter strife, yet let us guard against it. and >urn a deal ear to these angry appeals, for they mean ruin to you, and eveiy voter in Laurens. I trust our white people will live like meD, live equal to the times, and the day isclose At hand when the poliiieal eqdality of the black man will not only be lully recognized, but acted upon in good faith Thus will we disarm those who are overwhelming our >tate with ruin. In plain terms?although the difference of rare is so marked and signal that commingling 90s cially nerd ppt b? thought o>, yet their common rights as citizens should be carried into practical effect, as this is the only way in which wa can bring aboot quiet, and that tubetantial national prosperity which is so desirable to our people Mr. Editor, does it not seem that we live to little purpose, unless we een grapple with the events of our day and turn them to good account? 8ad indeed is the condition of our country. All caused by divisions among ourselves?three divisions pers mining every designing person to fill the offices of publio trust, and thus drag us down to common ruin. Can we not briog about a reconciliation ? Let us offer the olive branch, and if not accepted by those who can briog about a better state of things, then we will hold Ihem retponribl*. Let us earnestly hope for be* ter things. We confidently believe that there ia purity, honesty and patriotism enough to unite upon one common platform, and retrieve our elves Id this derk hour of oor country, j Who will be the honored instrument in uniting these elementsT Who is it thst esn ?ay?we hsve one Stste that we love, one wish for its prosperity, end shall no longer be governed hy self-interest or by partisan malice, but devote himself to the present welflare of his State and country ? Recollect that party spirit is now the great evil of out country. The voter is blinded by party seal. We hear men exclaim, " While the great party proves true I shall sustaio it, let other duties and obligations be as they may." " Let us have reform, bot it rouel be within nur own party." Oh party I what ia not dona in thy name f And shall it still be that oar people will exult ia tha triumph of party aod taction, and not nee the frsa thought of an inda> pendent aod enlightened people f Let oe spen our ayaa to our situation and dnty 1?. * ?k!. ?1 k- t- ? " >u?f inveri vhii pianR ru 0 COfDIVIOD plAtfOril) upon which *11 o?n otnnd Ibot Is, honttt nen for offic* But how is this to bs tffieUd f We s<u iwsr Ihst in osr preront condition ibsro Is >nly one woy. The present hltternsM Ihst ntlete between the two reeee forbids the so , joieoeenee of the block', wW sdfired , >nd counseled so to do bf one wt. hsr , i ere to lore been Identified with them, s. -I i n whom tbej 'till hero confidence. Tbst i hey, too, ore tired of the ignoble rale in I or 8t*te<a*d will muin ?ot prfpfr mod< f relief, we ee* nofeog er-depotx |e no* is?ls that U i*,Tbi? iluty W pnt g^pd < honest roan in T#e fa|h {go tbi or j of reform was aaot through their reeks hut the result of this rtfoTm, oonfined U one party, is sedly told by e ruioad SUM Fellow voters, oo longer be led by party bat let every one meet upon one cornaoi ground end oaweult for ear best interest end my word for it, our people, fer the firs time lo six years, will have mode step ii the direction of peeee end prosperity. We desire to proscribe no one on soeoan of rsee or polities. We propose to ke#| oar people in profound quiet. We with el free from party eorieioo and terrorism We wieh the freedom ol the eUisee, b think and Tula without dictation or inter lereoee Freely openly and dispassionate ly disenae all mettera of publie interest, no in the spirit of i partiaan. but of an en lightened patriotism. Upon thia platforn all good eitiseoa tan stand, and is this" way and thia alone, ean good result to opr proa Irate Slate. Mr. Editor, we offer our erode remark in good faith. We offer them as the oiivi branch of grnninc reconciliation, mod one ask our voters to give them their earnes consideration, and if approved, receive them. CLINTON. June 8, 1878. Death of the Elephant Borneo. Chicago, on Friday, June 7tfa, was the scent of an event, the occurrence of which will ex. cite intcrost in almoat every city, town, or vilt lage in America, being no less than tha death of the celebrated performing elephant, " Romeo," the largest and must valuable of hit species ever brought to this country, and mort famous than any who have gona before him. Without an slsphant tha moat extensive of menageries would be regarded aa a total fail ure, and in tba possession of " Romeo," Adam Forepaugh has for years been envied among showmen. The animal had been ailing for everal weeks, the disease being located in bis fore feet, wbieh f?r some unknown oauae, had become affected with inflammation, resulting in acu e pain, and which bad been noticed by rapid wasting of tesh. On Tusaday last ita was determined to have an operation per formed upon " Romeo's " feet, and Dr. Boyd, of the Chicago Medical College, was entrusted with the undertaking. An examination developed the fact that numerous small bones of the feet had become broken, detached and dead, aad accordingly these bones were out out, the prooess be ing accompanied by the loss of several gallons ot blood. No danger on this account was anticipated, and it is believed that the death of the patient was not hastened from thia oause, as tc an elephant the loss of a couple of buckets ol blood would be about equivalent to an ordinary attack of the note- bleed on tho part of on< of the human kind. It was observed thai " Romeo" was suffering the most acute pain, and it also beoame apparent that the inflammation waa rapidly extending upward toward the breast. For the first time in two weeki he laid down on Thursday night, his symptoms of distress being so marked as to oon< vince Mr. Forepaugh that he was about tc lose the most valuable feature of his show. Early on Friday morning the proprietor visited the menagerio tent, and found " Romeo 'i lying in the same "position, hie colossal flunk." heaving with quick, short gasps, his eyes fixed and filming, and the further extremity of the trunk cold and pulseless. The sonnd of Mr. Forepaugh's voice oalting him by name was recognised by the dying mastodon, and he attempted to raise his head in response to the touch of his owner's hand, but his strength was departod, bis life was ebbing fast, bis head dropped back upon the ground, and after a few weak, convulsive struggles, be had ceased to breathe, and all that remained ot " Romeo " was a monstrous heap of inanimate flesh. The circumstance occasioned a profound sensation among the attaches of the show, who gathered about the spot and sorrowfully surveyed the huge carcass. Aside from the great financial loss?estimated at $50,000?he had sustained, Mr. Forepangh was deeply moved by the catastrophe, as he regarded " Romeo " as the most valuable elephant in existence, attributing to him a degree of inteiligenee almost human. lie bad made a study of the animal's peculiarities of disposition, and had succeeded in establishing the most affectionate relations with him. " Wby, dash It," said the great showman, with a curious quiver of the voico and a suspicious aversion of the head, " ho knew more than any trained horse I ever owned, lie knew be wasn't right these last lew weeks, and when I'd go up to him and say, ' How do you get along, old fellow,' he'd reach out his trunk and take my hand and put it on his forelegs, as much as to say, 'There's where it hurt's me; can't you do something to help it?"' And then the disconsolate proprietor went on to enumerate " Romeo's" shining qualities; hew be would do any conceivable trick in the ring?stand on his forelegs or bindings, turn on a pivot, waits, go lame, kneel dewa, walk over bis keeper's body, taking the nieest care not to tcuoh a shred of his clothing with his ponderous toot?in short, do anything whieh you could posaibly think ofaakiogan elephant to do; how, when the wegona would get stock in the mud, old " Romeo," with the power of a hundred horses, would get behind and push them along with the greatest of ease; bow when he was aulky and savage, and they had thrown him down upon his aide, he would lay there a day or two befora he would give up, but finally would weaken, and with bis pleads lug eyes fairly beg to be released?and so on with a volume of interesting reninieeenoes. " Romeo" has an eventful biatory, having* killed five keepers since bis advent in America, besides destroying any num'tr of fences, barns, garden patebes, cornfields, oroberds, ete. He was purchased by an agent of J. Mable, in Calcutta, about twenty-five years ago, having been taken fron a brick-yard, where he was being need in grinding elsy. The price paid for him was $10,000 in gold, and he was brought to Aoaerioa along with nine others. In 1851. while ?n?th *.< Orleans, be killed hie keeper, known U " Long John," wboee aaoceaaor, " Frenoby W illiame," ehered Ike tame fete neer Houiton, Texas, in 1866; e third. Stewart Craven, wm killed in 1880 neer Coder Repido, Iowe j the fourth, Bill WUIiame, wee newt te hie I eat ee> count in Pbiledelpble in 1887, end the fifth, named McDevitt, in Ohio, 1888, oompletea the Hat of " Romeo'a " riotlme. In the winter of 1883 be made htaaaelf dtaagreeeblj eonapienona In Cbieego, ty leering to pleeeO the building in which be w?a oontned, on the lite of the preeent City (ell, end wen railing dot on the atreet In e reokleaa mentor, greatly to the alarm of An IwhaW lento, w*e brwnght owl e oennon with whleb te oope with the form Id able nqpolor, >nt be woo reoepiured before farther damage wea done. Similar drpredotiooa have bran commit, ted bj bitn !o rarioua placet, and bio grim JUH-SJ?BL. I III .11 .. i hide *H? bHM the Mtnof aumeroua b?) r let* ud r?d bat Inu a*ed to hMo? bio. I lb left eye ?M shot oat in IMC, odor | i Philadelphia. *m bought lo IMS by , Adam For?p*agh et eo auction mTo of Me >' biee If ranger!*, $10,000 being the prtoe paid. . He we* hi Id to b* worth at lea*t twlee that , i?a, Mr. Forepaugb having bran offered < i $10,000 a year for tba na* of himBee year*. , Hie weight, wheo la fall fl**h, waa 10,1M ' I pound*, and be etood 11 f*tt *| inohee high, i He waa enppo*ed by eompeteot elepbatlne ehrooologial* to be aboot one hundred t year* old. > The body ha* been donated by Mr. Fnre. I paugh to th* Chicago Medical College, . where the m*unt?d ekeieton and etuffed ' > akin w'll be plaeed In the anatoroiea) . moaeom. Seared j had " Rmto " breathed , hie laat yesterday morning when Mr Fores I paogh, with characteristic energy, aent a 1 . telegram to hia agent la New York author i islng him to draw upon Jay Cooke A Co , to the anaoent el $80,000. and directing . blm to proceed at once by the fret ateamcr to London and purchase the wild and f#ro? II clone elephant eaged in the Britieh Zoo'ogi ioal Gardens, preferring an untamed apeeir men because, aa be qu?-#rly expr*eeee, lie t will be " leaa etopid and more ambit iuoua" t i than one whioli baa been thoroughly cub- I dued. From tk* Abbeville Medium. Good Men in Office > The redemption of oar State haa been placed ' on a great many ehoaldera, and It eeema that, with ao much help, the day of our delireranoe ia near at band. There ia a oriminal amount ! of diacordant patriotiam in our land, and no i good oan ooma ao long aa conceit of action ia wanting. One act of men advocate the continuance of old ofleials ia power, urging aa a plea their being conversant with tba duties of oflfoe, and' in the future, their willingness to do better. 1 I Poor logic ! moat assuredly. Just aa well aay : that a Cbriatian would have hia ideas oonflrtni | cd by mingling constantly with idolaters: that ' a man's morals would be Improved by assooi- I ting with rice; that one's huuger would be I appeased by looking at the richest edibles, or \ that a rogue would acquire honesty by being surrounded by stores of gold and silver.? Honest men are the glory of a nation, and ( honest officials contribute materially to a people's prosperity?but the glory of our nation 4a oversbadowod by a thick cloud of venality and corruption. Surely there are some good Don in the present party ie power, and why does it not send relief ? If there are no good f men in the Republican party, let it be disbanded and let the good men of our land experience some ol the benefits accruing to them > from a form of government said to he for (Ac ; peopU. Tbe amount of iniquity and dishonesty i which has for the last few years existed among t tbe officials of our State Government is enor, mous; and instead of strengthening the party to which these dishonest men belong, has ( | weakened its resources, and closely circumi scribed the extent of its power. A \ few more such years will not only effectually put , an end to the Republican party in this State? i but, saddest of thoughts?will undoubtedly secure the demise of South Carolina from among the independent 8 tates of the American , Union. A few more years of such reckless 1 i extravagance of money aDd morals ; of such wasteless expenditures of tho public funds, ' i will cast a blight upon the fair fame of the I old " Palmetto State," and will make South i Carolina?a State which has always met every requirement of duty, honor and patriotism firmly and prondly?a monument to wicked- , ness and fraud, a waste and howling wilder- , i ness. Tbe picture is not overdrawn, and un- ( less some speedy and effectual remedy is adopt* ^ ed, we are lost, irritrievahly lost. Another set of men advocate their claims. Before the war?in the piping times of peace, they bad the confidence ol tbe people, were lords of all they surveyed. They were very good men, but their political hearings have been changed, and they are now without political power or adherents. These old fossils I are constantly putting their elalms for office < L-S roioro mi propie, ana are constantly engen- I dering bad blood. The honesty of tbeir mo- ] lives, in a great many instance*, cannot he < doubted, hot their egotiem il ludicrous. They 1 own no sovereign, but their wills sees to think I they are alone capable of doing great and | noble actions. Political ideas, like all things else, die. Political parties are changed, and 1 with these changes come new men and new 1 measures. 1 In oar present condition, many things of a disagreeable nature exist. The teal of party has eaten up ail notions of right and practi' I cability, but a change has to be made. Old ' issues are dead?lot them be buried. Wo 1 want honest men in nflloe. We care not where < they come from?what their political affiliations are. VTe must suppress every feeling, < every emotion, every preference, every love, if < necessary, for the cause of right, of truth, of < I free conscience and free action. Let us bury < our petty predilections for this or that poiiti- < cal party, our personal asteem, onr ill-defined Jealousies, and let ns bnry them beyond the hope of resurrection. Don't adhere blindly ( to the dictate* of any man or party?politl- ( eiane sometimes gat sadly demented. The hope of tbia country rest* with the ( young men. They have given in their adhe- ( renee to no politioal party, they are bound by i no aolemn leagues and covananta, and their j way ts clear. They are unobjectionable to ( either elaas of onr voter*, and 3an, by aarnaat , effort, secure the suffrages of the whole people, ( Borne men Ulk of "aot deserting tbeir ( mm, or ~ aundlng to prlnciplea," without ( having any vary wall defined ideaa of what , thiy mean or intend. At thia Juncture in our , ! affaire, " old prinelplea" are of Httlo moment , We had Jnat aa well talk about what tha Conati-too-tion aajra. We need men of honeaty, integrity and intelligence. Let na give no heed to theae old and falae ideaa of eonalaten* j ' ay. Let their be ao Bourbon* amoag ae. 1 Vote lor boneat and intelligent men, aad good 4 reaulta will shortly follow. I Nora two haa o ailed forth aaeh aa aeknowl- 1 meat of departed greatneea from the preee ae ' the death of James Gordon Be? att, aad the 1 New York Jearnala that have aeh eved aaeoeea ' by following la the path ke beat for them, hare 1 been prompt to ehroaleie aad oredit the greet beaefcetiona left behind by the dead Joeraaliat. Mr. Beaaett'a feet boare were eminently , quiet end peaoeffcl Be knew wkat wae to { ootoe, aad apoke of it with inalgaation, tkoegh he regretted the akeeaoe of kte fkaiHy. * General Ulrioh, who wee to eeverly eeaaared ( by Ae Comnaiaaion oe Capitalationa, ia their report oa the aarreader of 8tratbarg, haa been | _ raitaraa iron Mtlw aarrloa hi Ik Franab . A Inly la 0?tpappar, TfrglaU, raoaotly pra- | Mated bar baabaad witb tbraa flna boyi, ud . namad oaa after Oaaaral l*a, on* after Oaaeral Btaaniwd aad on* after Qaaaral Jtek? on. ? 0 ^ *** Traaaorer, baa addraaeed tba following eard to tba Bebool Cot&tniaaionere of tki Mftnl eoaoilea to lb* IU(? t ' Omen or Stay* Tduinn, ) Colombia, 8. C , Juo? 1874. J Dkab Bib I am aware, and have been for aome lima peat, that, to aoroa extent, lha taipreealoo baa prevailed that I am la am* ** roanonaibl* for ll* alna! >? of iK. public schools throoghoat lbs Stele; that I hs?? the fund* la lha Treasury, and n* foe# la pay them orer; ?ikall Ufl used lk?n la mmbs manner aootrary to law. Ia fool. I b?r? the most positive informslloa that reports of this kind have beeo pat io oireulatioD by lateroetsd parties, whether from polities! or aeeresnery motives, 1 am oot prepared to say. lo view of these facia, I am therefore eoastraised, in selfdefease, to address you. No eos eaa regret more than I do tb*t there are ee fends la the 9tats Treasury to pey the orders of lha,8l*te Superintendent of Education. By reference to the set of the lart General Assembly you will observe that the General Appropriation Bill fur the flees I year 1874, in which wee embreeedl the amount of $800,000 for eehool purposes,, did not bteotns e law uotll the day of ad* | ournmsut, Marsh IS, 1874. Prior to that date, no lew existed under which payments could be made. The Superintendent of Education could not apportion the money nor araw any orders, until ha knew the amount to b* apfMM tioned. The aam? ia trua of lha apportionment for tba Penitentiary, Lunalie Asylum, Stale Orphan Asylum. Deaf and Dumli Asylum, Stale University, aalariea of ofieera, Ac At the time of the adjournment of the Legislature there ware no funds remsiniog in the Treasury, as the whole amount of taxes received to that time had been exhausted in paying the various appropria. lions of the Legislature while in session, and amounts due on appropriations of the previous year. Since the adjournment of the Legislature, the amount of currency received into the State Treasury would aoaiealy suffice to pay the apportionment of the smallest county in the State. The fact that appropriations are made, does not put the money so appropristed into the Treasury; it simply directs how much, and for what purposes, money may be paid. It is not owing alone to the large expenditures Id the past that the present emhars rassed condi'ion of the Treasury exists, but I- It. 1 It-. j??? -l - ,v >u< >mt ?? ?, uunng in< iui luur years, Dot more than two-thirds of the taxes lev-, ied have been collected ; while the rate of taxation has sonually been inadequate to meet the expenses of the Guv-mraeut. Should the collection of the past due taxes, during the present summer. aggro gate any considerable amount, I shall endeavor (while every branch of the Government have equal demands on money collected) to pay over to the school fund a fair proportion of the same. For the first time in lour years, the Legislature has levied a specific lax for school purposes, thus oreatiog a fund to meet the appropriation, and one that cannot be diverted to any other purpose. This is as it should be Had it been done in the past, the educational interests of the State would now be on a firm and substantial basis, with means ample for all purposes. I trust thsl you can make some arrangement by which the schools may he kept open until vacation, and re-optoed therea'ter, assuring you that all claims shall bs promptly mtt as soon as the taxes are collected in tbe fall. Very respeetfolly, (Signed.) NILE* G. PARKER, 8tate Treasurer. ? 8omk Facts About tbb Cottow Sbisbd at Bavakhab.?The New Orlesns Times has received from s Iriend at Washington a brief history of the sales of cotton seised at various points i n the Southern States, near and after the close of the war, by the Federal sutuorities. With reference to that seised at Savannah, this statement shows tbst 2,044,673 pounds of sea island cotton, worth at the time ?24th of Dootmber, 1864?$2 50 per pound, was reported as sold for $1,657,231.77, when it was worth $5,111,682.50. showing an unexplained loss to the Government of $3,454,454.93. For the upland eotton seised at Savannah? 16,034,415 pounds?worth from $1 to $1.24 per pound, the Government received only 36.418,600.36, showing an unexplained loss of 39,615,614.64, the real value helog, at the above minimum rate per ponod, $16,034,415. Who pocketed this diffsrsnoe is not known, ixsctly, bnt it went into, of coarse, loyal poeksts, and enabled the loval robbers to x>t -- millionairei, and divert attention from their tbetts by bowling for blood and confiscation against " rebels" and " traitors." Bctlip in Troubli.?Among tbe cases sailed on tbe 29th alt., In the United States Circuit Court, Judge Blatcbford sitting, In New York, was that of Henry A. Tilden against Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, wbieb is set iown for June 10. Tbe complaint is, that Mr. Bntler, in New Orleans, in September, 1863, took possession of a vessel, the property >f complainant, for the United States Qorernnent, and paid bins only one-half its value, 139,069. Mr. Bntler, it is alledged, subee< ^neatly, sold the vessel to his brother, Anirew Jackson Butler, who chartered her te tbe Government at the rate of $900 per day, vhich charter complainant was willing to tfiect at $80 per day. T*? Btatu Bos no in N*w Yobk.?The Stow York H?rtM, of Wodoooday, la Its ro>ort of Mm (took Bsartot tor tko proofing Uy, aaya: M Advisor from Colombia oMort tho >rowpt ooliosttoa of taooo la thai State, pro* iMisary to tko rosamptlon of latasast paynoots oa tko bonds. Tho printed list of salos mLow will show transactions la soma of tho tow Imbos of fontk Carollaa bonds, itgallsod ?y tho lata Legislator*, among thorn tho Mroa sot ooats of IMS, which told at SSI," Tbb polltUal stato of affairs Hi Loolsiaaa a doplorahlo. Thoro or* (oor d lot hoot parios: Tho Domooratto, tho National Grant) Ropoblioao, th* Jjiboral (Oroo)ey) iopobliooa, and th* Rotortn party. Bboold too Domooratlo and Li bora I port to* join la*, oroota Im tko oomlag Stats stoat i 00% thoy oay oloot. Bot Ttnohbook, tho ooadidato or Uostoaaot^orornor, Is o Oraot Itodts lot, whilo Warmotk. madid ate for Goror? mt op tko aaaso ttokot, is o Qroofoolm. A ieelj (UU #/ iff lira owy be appcehttdael >efore the station ia concluded whara aath oudiet in parties eiista.