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POETRY. Why. BT IU. X. r. BUTTS. * Tell me, 0 orm! Hud," Said a Arsis of Cora oss day, M Why from tho golden sunshine Yoa bury m away t" Tho silence was relentless, Mo holpor earn* U aaro J Bat Ml oaro in the harvest A perfect aoawor gato. " Toll mo, 0 eraol Knife," Said a Roee-Tree overgrown, 44 Why all my waalih is stripped. And I am loft alono J" Tho qaostion was unhoodod. 44 In rain a Rose-Tree grows Ah ! doubter, leaves are little worth When you hare seen a roso" Tell me, Oerwcl Fate," Said a baffled, tempted Soul, " What is the good of life; Where is tho promised goal t" roe WTinj rorco orolring Sweet rosos and ripe corn Goes surely to its purpose, Oh ! Faithless and Foijorn. HUMOROUS. I fflli 1 A Patent Cat A member of the editorial staff of the Cleveland Leader, it iaaaid, has inveuted a sheet-iron cat with cylindrical attachment and steel claws and teeth. It is worked by clock work. A bellows inside, swells np the tail at will to a belligerent size, and by a tremolo attachment, causes the patent oat at the same timo to emit all the noises of wliicb the living cat is capable. When yotl Fant fun you wind your cat and place him on tho roof. Every cat within a half ?M*IA LAAWA Vl ? ?%* am !? ?< uiuu ucaio mm, guuo un mo armor and sallies forth. Frequently fifty or 6ixty cats attack him at once. No sooner does the patent cat feel the weight of an antagonist than his teeth and claws work with lightning rapidity. Adversaries within six feet ot him aro torn into 6hreds.? Fresh battalions come on to meet a similar fate, and in half an hoar nothing remains but several bushels of hair, toe nails, and fiddle strings, of the once cats. Durino a class meeting held several years sinco by the Methn ist brethren of a Southern village, Brother Jones went among the .colored portion of the congregation. Finding there an old man notorious for his endeavor to servo God on the Sabbath, and Satan the rest of the week, he said: " Well, brother Dick, I'm glad to see you here. Haven't 6tole any turkeys since I 6a\v you last?' " No, no, cruder Jones, no turkeys." " Nor any chickens, brother Dick ?" 14 N"n_ n<v hrnHnr .Tnnoa un I chickens." "Thank the Lord, brother Dick ! That is doing well my brother," said brother Jones, leaving broth er Dick, who immediately relieved his over burdened conscience by saying to a near neighbor, with an immense sigh of relief: " Ef he'd said dncks he'd had me!" A boy in Columbiana county courted a girl for a week. Knowing that procrastination was the thief of time, ho got a can of oysters and a license, invited the justice to the fair one's house at eight o'clock, and then went, pop ped the question, was accepted, pulled out his document, and in formed the maiden that the 'squire would be there at eight.? She pleaded delay ; he couldn't see it. ller silk dress wasn't made. Calico would do. There was no stove in the west parlor. Off coat, and in ten minutes there was a tiro roaring. The''squire came, the job was linshed and the new wile cooked the oysters. '"Stub; years ago a little five ?oo?. r.lH ;r, mv church, after sav V/C*E ViVI Ift* ?J j J inar his ?erenin^ prayer asked: u Mother., will father go to heaven when he dies!" (His hither was a large man, with a great huge, itratne ) 44 Yes, I hope ho will. I do not doubt he will; why do yon ask V* " Oh, I erdy wanted to iknow," and fox a time tlje subject seemed to have faded from the child's mind. But it soon cropped out again. " Are yon soda, mother, that father will go to heaven when he dies t" 44 Yes, wiy child, I do not doubt it; why do you ask ?" The little fellow was silent a moment and then burst oat with, fi Golly 1 what a whopping big angel he'll make !" " Hello. Ben!" 44 Hello, back again ! What d'ye want f" . 44 IIow's yer folks this morning r 44 J?nrty well. Mother's smart ps nsnal?Jim and Tom well?an' father died last night." 44 Yonr father died ?" ?* Yes; he kicked tho bucket 'bont 12 o'clock, and I've got his watch 1 8aj just going np to the prison to see qoubih Joe hung, will ye go?" Two men fired at an eagle at the 8ame time and killed him.? An Irishman observed : " They - - .t J might have savea tneir powaer and shot, for the tall would have Vdlod bin?," 4 Two Hibernians were passing ' a stable wbicb bat} argottor on it for a weathervane, when one ad ! dressed the other thus? M Pat, what's the reason they didn't pot aj fain np there Instead of a rooster I" MiAn' sure," repMed Fat* " that's aisy enough ; don't yon see it would be inconvenient to go for the w'" ; m , Two little soVopl girls were lately prattling together, and one of them said: 14 We keep four servants, and have six horses and lots of carriages How, what hllVA vnn rmt I" With ?- w JWW ^V? WW l?H \|MIW no much pride the other answered : 41 We dot a skunk under our barn." Mamma?44 Well, Johnny, I shall forgive you this time, and it's very pretty of you to write a letter to say you're sorry." Johnny?44 Yes, Ma; don't tear it up, please." Mamma?44 Why, Johnny ?" Johnny?44 Because it will do for next time." - ? Tommy was cautioned against eating too much luncheon, becanso ho would spoil bis appetite for dinner. But Tommy said he would rather have a good luncheon than a good appetite any time. Tor the Greenville EnterpriseMr. Eftitor?Tlic political situation of HT Stat* is a very peculiar ono at this time. The white people of our State bare been forced on by an uncontrollable destipy for the laat seren or eignt years; they bare'done tbo things that they did not intend to do. Tbo policy they havo generally pursued, has invariably resulted in mortifying failures and the opposito of what thoy did expect. Another opportunity is now presented to us to correct tho 1 abuses of tho State government; to harmonise with the colored race; by restoring political oonfldenoo with the natire-born citizens. The policy of tho Democracy of 1868, and tho vonal deception of the Reform party of 1870, will make this a more difficult job, and will demand tho greatest possible prudenco and wisuom in mo policy inai may do aaoptou by the white people of tho State in tho political revolution of 1872. Wo have two candidates for President presented to tho pcoplo for a choice, whoso political records and platforms are admitted by all parties to be, in substance tho same; and tho influcnco that tho white' people of the Stato may have in our govern* ment for good or evil, depends entirely in tho oboico of Greeley or Grant. If Greeley is endorsed by the Democarcy of tho State?if tho whito people encourage tho endorsement by their votes?then they "have agaiu repeated tbo folly of 1898, the stupidity of 1870 ; and all possible hope of political co-opcration, and peaccnblo prosperity of tho two races for the noxt four yoars, will again pass beyond our control. This may be considered by some as a broad statement, and so I will qualify it by giving my reasons: In tho first place, tho solid colored vote of the Stato willl bo cost for Grant. Tho vory manner in which Greeley has been endorsed by tbo Democracy of tbo State, would natu* rally ptoduco this result?notwithstanding they will readily admit that the individual claims of Greeley on their suffrage may bo equal to those of Grant; but tbo priuoiple involved is their rights and liberty that has been sccnrcd to them by the Republican party, cannot be safely committed to tho men that endorse Mr. Greeley. And it is not against Mr. Greeley that the colored vote of the State will bo cast, but against tho men that are seeking powor under his wing. Their sagacity has readily discovered the deception of tbo endorsement. It must have been made in a very different spirit, and doubtless would have been done, if it had been sincere. Grant's administration is denounced as autocratic, despotic, corrupt and extravagant; nnd yet, Mr. Groeley has endorsed every act of the Administration until the very moment that he yiold* cd to the delusive aspiration for tho Presi* uency. mo principal objection or tbo Greeley faction in this State to Orant is found in his enforcing the Ku Klux laws of Congress; and in all this American Union, no man endorsed thoso laws more zealously, or pressed their pas sago with more energy than Horace Greoley did?and hero the renal deception of his ea? , dorsement is exposed, in this inconsistent attempt to make ono man a vilo criminal for j what is glossed over as a virtuous and right* < eous act in another. And what man who will reason frora.tho right stand-point, who is a , friend to law and order, and desires tbo peace and prospcrty of his country, will be found denouncing Grant as an autocratic despot for ' doing his duty?his whole duty, in suppress- j ing a secret band of midnight muderers and ] robbers, by military force ? That such an or. ganization did exist, to such an extent, that 1 life, liberty and property wen insecure in our 1 State, no intelligent man will now deny or doubt, after the astounding developments by the confessions of those who plead guilty of the charges, and throwed their chances on the clemency of a magnanimous Government.? These developments are a reflection on the character and morals of our State, and by ( the fostering and countenance that such a relic of barbarism has received by some of our people, is conclusive proof that thA influences of religion, civilization and honor, r.ro lost nud , disregarded by a faction of our State; who would sacrifice the dearest interest and happiness of the Stato on the altar of their blind ambition to rule or ruin. What honest Dem- | erat or Ropublienn wonld affiliate with this ( faction and cherish the slightest hope of reformation by such an alliance if their chaoce ( for controlling the State ware possible? And | another ruoro important consideration for the ( whito people and Democracy of tho State, is, ( that if you do, from honest motives, as bon - ( omblo men, endorse Mr. Greeley and the Cincinnati platform, then you can, without a compromise of a single principle, and with the same consistency and honesty of intention, ( endorso Mr. Grant and the Philadelphia platform. Then the next point is, which of these two endorsements will giro to as the most influence in oar State government, and wonld produce the most harmonious, peaceable cooperation with the colored pooplo, for without this cooperation we are powerless in the Government? For if the solid white voto of the State was cast in opposition to Mr. Grant, itft conld not elect a Governor or a single Stat officer or member of Congress, or aaahe one electoral vote for Presldeat, for ;?h? colored vol# is about thirty thousand in tba majority, which will ha unanimous for Grant?not because they distrust Greeley, but because thojr fear tbo power that tbey must delegate to tho Ku Klux faction that he* endorsed Greeley frop dishonest mot ires. , J U ft willed poiat beyond dftftbt lb*l If boned Republicans or eiaoerftto ond^rec Mr. rftkUjii. ilft 8H?Vhfty iadir^y en#?nc^ad tiktf mm oTfonee wfth tbe eorlb* OoTeriMal Although theee lawleoe organisations bum bare bad eoee^plftueibU NtwM for reeistieg tb? corrupt!* n of ikff Ring tb*| ?|44nedf Mr LigWeture, yd Ibeir policy wnc abort elgbtcd nod visionary, and CaolbMlH , tat pvww m un mb|, wbMh la otu^uiil of man that htrt no regard for tha prluoK plat of any patty. Wise oaan u*? oorroot one aril by inflicting a greater. Wo have reached a point in oor State Government that we cannot afford to t(i|? with aa lia practicable policy. Common sens* and res-' eon demand something that la poaalbta that will be practical; This empty bowl of bit* , tar deaoneiattooa agaiaet the abaaea of oir State Government. and oppoaing every pol* iey that wofthjL work the leaat praotiCal benefit to tha la a battle-ory for office that has deceived the hoaeat men at all parties for Iba last time. Tha work of reforming the State Government is the work of the Republican party, and all outside attempts to take the job oat of our hands will only retard its progress. 'When political aspiranta boast that the heal of tho tyrant baa beea raised from five Countlea in the States and that martial law ocases to exist, not because it ie an evideoee that the neeeasity no longer exista for eo stringent means to pretest tha laws and liberties of tha people, but b*oause of the sympathy they have for the barbarous acts of the Kn Klux, and the Administration of Grant is cursed and denounced for doiojg just what every honest man and law-abidisg citizen of nil parlies wanted done, can suoh a policy be sopported by thinking, sensible men of either party f The effect of such a policy will be to force honest men of both parties to vote for men that are objectionable, sod prevent a co-operation with the colored people, without which ws can never take the first step towards rsforming our Slate Government. This unfortunate issue has been mads by this faotion of disappointed, preset ibed and corrupt office-seekers, and will never be supported by the people ?f lh? -v.--- M.I j? ? -? w-.-w ???v w ?u?j <mnj uuurniinau the question. One other point will show that we are not oppressed by taxation to support Ibe national Government. Not one man in every thousand pays a dollar of direct revenue tax in the Stale; in the upper Counties the amount is so small that all looal collectors have been abolished. In 18A8 the Batesville Manufacturing Company paid more taxes iwbne month than is now paid by the whole County in twelve months. The national debt has been also diminished, and tho cotton tax will be refunded. Docs this look as if we were oppressed by Grant's Administration with heavy taxes? If we could present the same record for our Stnte Government, we would shortly be a prosperous people. It is clear to common sense and reason that the white people of the State will gain nothing by toting for Mr. Greeley. Even if hie election was possible,lie would be powerless to do anything towards lessening the taxes a single dollar, or to prevent the reckless extravagance of the Legislature, or to punish bribery and corruption?these important measures that all honest men of all parties are so much interested about, and that will decide the prosperity of the Slato. Tl... ... 1 ? ?' J ? uc/ me lucm ijut'imunF, una nave nothing lo do directly with national politics, and should be considered isolate from Presidential issues. But the battle-cry of office seekers invariably tortures all issues into one iMue, and bitter and fruitless discussions follow on questions that do not in any way affect the interest of our State? receive more consideration than the local questions that every tax pay-er in the State is direetly interested in. This is the rock on which our State has been wrecked, ruin ed and spoiled of her glory by political pirates. The attacks of the ultra Democracy and the Ku Klux Sympathizers on Grant's Administration in this Slate have settled the point m far as the colored vote is concerned* Ko argument or appeal to Ahem by the friends of his Administration would have boen half so potent, or have done the work as effectually ; and so it is a fixed fact that all sensible men had just as well consider now at once before they throw up their hats for Greeley. If they desiro to have ao influence In the government of our State, and to use that influence to ferret out and correct its errors, they will decide to vote for Mr. Grant, and then co-operate with the colored citizens in securing good and honest men of either race or parly to govern the State. I made this same appeal to the white people of my State in 1968, but it was rejected with sgorn and derision. I now rapeat it, believing that the prudence and wisdom of the country will sustain it, and will not allow the waitings of political pirates to prevent a peaceable and harmonlous co-operation of the white and colored citizen* at the ballot box in October next, and then and lb era join bauds as political pquals, and sing the last funeral requiem of Ku Klux, and bnry beyond the b<?pe of resurreetion the ultra Democracy with their opposition to eivil rights and the equality of all men befoio the law. II ws neglect this OtlDMlHIiit* lk?n h< rn.o - -rr /' "" .--v.. > Eaint that will make reformation impossila, and posterity will cnrae oaf stupidity until the sea of oblivion bnries the present generation from the memory of man J. B. II. Congressman Clark, of Texas, is to be postmaster at Qalvcstoij, at a salary of four thouiand dollars a year, by appointment of the President. But littlo raoro than a month linee, Clark was unanimously expelled from seat in the House, on a unanimous rote of I committee that be held it by the grossest fraud. This is what Orant understands by Civil Here Use Reform. Wis hare received a copy of the Premium List of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society, for the fourth annual fair, to be held at Columbia, 8. C., beginning on the 4th and cloning on the evening of the M^Norember, 1872. Colonel G. was very and being a bankrupt) was met by one of his creditors with a 14 IIow do you do. Colonel 7" 44 Psetty well; yon see I. hold my ewrh yet." "Yes, said tbo other, " and mine too, to my ?orroi4F$flk V* Rhode Island was struck by lightning the other day, causing wide-spread devastation in adjoining States. H?nm Grwley'i Policy Advocated by Sim Seven Yevt Ago?Hit Opinion vi Let. Ad incident in Mr. Greelev's hi?tory, to ' creditable to Ki. keU .odheert yh.t it ought, long ego, to have been mad* public, hu jnet eon* to light, end we batten to plaoe it before the rendere of the Newt, ' HO* lean aa so ant,of justice fee Mr. Greeley than ' a matter of general interest to the oountry. The woodrr ie that this ineideot hhOMldao 1oa| Hj^dn been kept secret, dating baek aa it does seven years ago : Mtoasw JooveaK skid* rot osUlet. Soon after Johnson was iostalled as Pre# ident, be sent a gentlootan named Camp to New York tp eoliyH a? iplervlow with Uoraee Greeley. tfocble to iwrt thd capital. Greeley must oonie to him at once at the White House. Greeley promptly complied with the request. After the first formal civilities were over. Camp rose to leave, bat President Johoeon requested him iMP** reaie, sod he did to during the whole luterview. . | r* Johnson opened the osnvereatloo by say iog that be found himself in the most trying position. The nation woe convulsed with passion in eonsequtnce of Mr. Lincola's assassination ; the situation was new end embarrassing to him; he felt loader quale.to the task to which be bed so unexpectedly been called, and he felt the need, as he bad ngver before felt itj ot the counsel of some cool and aagaofelis man. Ho had therefore sent for Mr. Greeley. Whet course to pursue, how to stem the torrent of Norths ore trenay, how to manage the rein* of government in a crisis so awful, was a problem too deep for for him to solve. Placing himself in Mr. Greeleyh hands, he asked : WHAT MUST I DO ? Thanking biro for the confidence thus res posed in him, Mr. Greeley replied ihkt his heat course was to call to hie assistance a few of the wisest And best men in the coun- 1 try. They should be representative men from the two great sections. On the part of the North, he would suggest Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts; Gerrett Smith, of New York, and Judge Spalding, of OhioA like number of Southern gentlemen should be called ; they ehould be invited to 1 the White House its guests of the President, 1 thereto remain and deliberate as long as 1 they thought fit; and, having agreed upon 1 some poiicy, they should submit it to the President for his approval, and if approved ' by him, as Mr. Greeley donbled not it 1 would be, it ehould be faithfully and rigidly 1 pursued, despite the popular clamor whioh 1 might for a time ensue. Mt. Johnson thought well of tha sugges tion. " But what Southern men should I invite, Mr. Greeley, to meet the gentlemen 1 you have named from the North f" 1 " Firet and foremost," said Mr. Greeley, ' " Robert E. L?e, of Virginia." " Great heavens !" exclaimed Johnson ; 1 " ha is the very head and fiont of the re- 1 bellion." 1 " I know that," said Gieeley, " and for ' that very reason you should invite him. ' He knows, if any man does, the wants of the Southern people; lie of all men pos? ' eesses the confidcnoe of the entire South ; I he is upright and pure; he would not re- I commend a single action on }*our part which would not meet the approval of your ad- ' viaers from the North, and the result of the 1 deliberation* iu which Robert E Lee, Judge Campbell, of Alabama, and a third man 1 like them, from the South, took part, would 1 not only insure the approbation of the die* < affected State#, but, in the course of a few 1 months, would, I nm firmly persuaded, I bring to your support every right-minded i and right hearted man at the North. The < pacification of the e?trnnged sections, your I main difficulty, would (hue be solved, and your path made clear towards the solution t of minor difficulties. How are you to discover the true sentiment of the South nnd { the wants of the people if you do not con- t suit her representative men? And what t sort of restoration will that be in the plan ? of which the South has no part whatever? t It must of necessity be one sided, partial t and nnjust. Be persnnded, Mr. President, nnd call to your aid men of the standing, < position and temper I have suggested, and 1 by all means esll them from both sections." t In this strain Mr. Greeley continued un- 1 til be had ] FAIRLY WOS TJ\g ruESIDK.TT over to his way of thinking. The inter- ' view ended with the assurance from the 1 President that he would adopt the views 1 of Mr. Greeley, and follow them exactly, ' He would, however, make a single modifi- f cation?he would substitute Horace Oree* ' ley in the place of Oerrit Smith. "Very well," said Mr. G., " if you call me I will come gladly, and aid yon to the ' best of my ability." * They parted, and ten days afterwards Johnson threw Greeley's suggestions to Unwinds, adopted ' my policy " and pursued it; with what result the country is bnt teo sadly aware. < Thus it will be seen that tbe roll of ps cificntor js 1 , 1 nw Jin* UII.^U 1 with Mr. Greeley, but is only a pert which ho has systematically pursued ever since the close of the war. So, also, his confi* dence in the integrity and good sense of the Southern leaders, and his willingness to trust the Southern people is no new thing. What he is tosday he was years ago; and what belter guarantee do we want far the future? At a lime when the North was ^ wild with rage against the South, whso the execution ot every one ot her politleal and military chiefs, and the confiscation of the j entire property of her people would hsrdfy have atoned in Northern eyes lor Lincoln's ( assassination, then Greeley, with the wis* dom of the statesmen and the sympathy of a great heart, stood up for the South alone in his party, recommending a line of policy which ttould have brought peaee and happiness to the country, and exhibiting traits of oharacter which do credit to and com mend humanity. That an ooourranea to important should never before have been j divulged, if, I repeat, simply marvellous. arm k Mtonia without delay go to the country end to the world, should be not to much a duty at a pleasure. For I " Oe* feed deed dying tongueless, ? Slaughters a thouaand wailing on that." , And the preaa, which ever lores a pleasant 1 duty, will aee that it doe* go. Nkar 5,000 palmetto hata hare been man- ] n facta rod at Fcrnandina, Fla., and shipped I North this season. I i Tub Treasury Department iuaea the following oireular voder doth of Jaoo 6th, ?S. ttteotioo of oil parties in tested U particularly direoted to the following provisions of on Aet making appropriation# to huppfy defieieoeiee in the appropriations aerv'lee t>f the GoVdriiritnt fdV* the fiscal yeais ending Jane SO, 1876, end for former jeere, and for other porpoeae; ap proved May 18, 1873, and the regulation# tor carrying in? iimo into ?OMt: Bwttioji, 6, That the Secretary of the. Treasury be, and be'ia hereby, author iced aod olrecled to pay to the lawful owners, or tb*lrrapro?efetht(ve*df all cotton eeiaed after the SOth day of June, eighteen hundred and- sixty-fir^ bjt the ageote of the Oovernment, unlawfully, an& in \lolatioe of their liistructione, the netprooecda, without interest, of the ealee actually paid into the Treasury of the United States : Provided, That the receipts thereof shall be taken and reoeloed la foil satisfaction of all elaims against the United States for, or on aooount of. the seizure of said ebtton; and a sufficient sum for such payment is hdreby appropriated out of any money in tbe Treasury, net otherwise appropriated: And provided, further, "that the foregoing provisions shall not apply to any eauso ,now pending before the Court of Claims, nor to any olaim not filed in the Treasury Department wiihin six months after the passage of thiaAett and tbe son of twentv thon Mud dollars i< hereby appropriated for the neceesary expenses of defending the United States, in mpeet to olaiaie for sld; the proceed* to be expended under thedirection of the Seerotary of the Treasury. The following rules and regulations con* oerning claims for the proceeds of oerta'c cotton, under the foregoiog provisions of law, are hereby establlehed: First Every claim shall be stated io a petition, addressed to the Secretary, and signed and duly verified by the oath or affirmation of the claimant or claimant*. Second. The petition muet state first the full names of all the claimant*, their present residence, and their reeidenoe when their cotton was seized; second, who and where the owners of the cotton, who now are lawfully entitled to the proeeeds there* of, or interested therein, and when and upon what consideration the title successively passed. Third. The quantity of cotton alleged to have been seized or taken in bales and pounds, the kind aud quality, and the name*, marks, signs or devices, upon the bales at the time of such seizure ; the name or namqpof the person or persons by whom the seizure was made, and whether they were agents or officers of the Government ; the date and place oi seizure, and to what plaoea conveyed or transported, and all other material circumstances connected with thn seizure and disposition oi the cotton with as muoh particularity and exactness as can be done; and if any voucher, receipt or other writing was giveo therefor, >y the persons taking the same, it should oe attached to the petition. Fourth. Whether the claim has been here iofore presented to any officer, agent or department of the Government, or to Con* grees, or to any committee thereof, aud what decision or action, if any has been h..i i- ?--?i .1 * - - ..?? i^n'u 111 me rnme. in ceiling Sorth fuels in the petition, the claimant must always distinguish between tacts which he slates of his own knowledge and those up? cn information and belief; he mutt say at Lo the first that he avert them of his own Knowledge, and as to the last that he states .hem upon information and belief. There must be append*d to the petition the postaffioe address of claimants, and when represented by an attorney, proper letters of iftorney or other sufficient evidence of authority must be filed therewith. Fifth. When the claim is brought by a guardian, executor or other legal represen atives, the appointment of the repreaentaive or a copy of the letters testamentary >r administration granted to representa. ive duly authenticated, must be filed with he petition. Sixth. Each material averment of the petition should be corroborated by at least two oredible and disinterested witnesses, ind their sworn statements should be fil-d with the petition, or as soon thereaftef as [>os?ihle. Seventh. The claimant, upon completing the proofs relied on to sustain his claim, ihould so notify the Secretary of the Treainry in writing, and after the expiration of the six months allowed bv the Act of Con-* gresa for filing claims, the eases will he taken up and disposed of in the order in which such notifications hare been received, unless further delay is asked by the claimant, or demanded by the publio interests. (Signed) GEO a BOUT WELL, Secretary of the Treasury. Ocit Vice-Presidents.?Of our seventeen Vice-Presidents, but four have been re elect fd?John Adams, George Clinton, D. D. rompkios end John 0 Calheun. .Yet the ist has included many eminent, able and patriotic statesmen come of them quite -qua| in every high quality to the Presileata elected with them. Of our Presi* lent^^afhingto'i, Jefferson, Madison, Mooroe, Jackson and Lincoln?seven in all? lave been re-choaen?then, why not as nany Vice-Presidents? We cannot remember that any hot Mr. Colfax declined a e-election, aud he reconsidered his deter, nination, and eonsented to serve his party jy running again. Under the oew postal code, open eireuart, composed entirely of priuted matter, nay now be transmitted through the mails or one cent poslsge. Although these eard urculars mnst be printed they may be adlres*ed?o writing and posted in the usual way. Open written communications can, lowever, only bs sent on postal cards fur* .ished by the United States Govsroment.? The PostofBae Departtnsot will, In abont >ne month, bo prepared to famish poeul :ards at the rate of one cent each, including postage. Judge Rutland was the reciplsnt of a handM>me ebony oane from the members ot the ?ar of the Fonrth Circait. The bar also tenlered His Honor a series of highly oomplinentary resolutions on his retiring from the >eneb. The editor ef the Lexington Dirpateh offers lit n>mtr tnr nu n?r I- IIm -V- ?ill present him with tho Urgent watermelon between the firit July end the flrit September aext. j- . ? m Henry ,"^iUou'? Acceptance. . Wai?in?t?*. J?o? 14( llti 7b (A? Hon. Thomao Still* mud othort, Ptf ideni and Vicr>Pr**id*t*4* of tho Notional . j Rtfublican Convention, on th* Uh and $Ik of th* prtmnl month. 0DtTUKn: Your note of the iOth In teat, conveying to me the aetiee of the eoeventioa to placing my name <n nomine. non nr ins office or Ylce-Preaidant of the United States, le before ne. I need not give you the assurance of my grateful appafcoiatlon of the high hondr conferred upon me by thin notion of the Fifth Notional Convention of the Repobliean party. Sixteen years ago, in the name elty, wan held the drat meeting of the men who, amid the darknees and doubt#of thatnoor of alareholdiiig aaoendeney and aggression, had aaaemblod in national conventiea to eoafer with each other upon the exigencies into whleh that fearful domination had brought their country. After full oonfer*. ence, the higheet point of reeolv# they could reach, the moat they dared to reooromend, was t Jte avoweJ pnrpoae to prohibit the existence of slaves in the territories. Last waek the earae party mat by its reps reseotativee from, thirty seven States and ten territories at the name great centre of Wealth, intelligence and power, to review the past, take note of the present, and ins dioate Its line of action for the future. Ac typical facta?headlands of the nation's recent history?there *at' on its platfotm, takiog prominent nod honorable part in its proceedings ; Admitted on terms of perfect equality to the leading hotels of the sity ; not only the colored representatives of the race which were ten years before in abject slavery, bet one of the oldest and most prominent of the once de*pia?d abolitionists, to whom was aecorded. as to no other, the warmest demonstrations of popular regard and esteem?an ovation not to htm alone, but to the causa b? had so ably, and for so many years, represented, and to the mon and women, living ann dead, who had toil eJ through long years of obloquy and selfsacrifice for lha glorious fruitions of that hour. It hardly needed the brilliant summary of its platform to set forth its illustrious achievements The very presenoe of those men was alone significant of the victories abeady achieved, the progress al ready mad*, and the great distance which the nation had traveled between the years of 185(1 and 1872. But grand has been its record. The He publican party rests not on its past almic It looks to the future, an 1 grapples with itproblems of duty and danger It proposes ns objects of its immediate accomplishment "complete liberty and exact equality " I'-r all ; the enforcement of "the recent amendments "to the National Constitution; reforms in the " civil servioe the " national domain to be set apart for homes for the people;" the adjustment of duties on im ports so as to secure " remunerative wae-s to labor;" the extension ot bounties to all soldiers and sailors " who in the line ol duty became disabled ;" the continual and careful encouragement and protection of voluntary immigration, and the guarding " with jealona care the rights of adopted citizens;" the abolition of the franking piivilege, and "the speedy reduction of the rates of poetnge ;" the reduction of the natienal debt and the rates of interest, and "the resumption of specie payment;" the encouragement of American commerce and o^^ipbuiiding; the suppression of vin irnee, and " the protection of the ballot box." It also plated on record the ?pins ions and purposes of the party in favor of amneaty, against. all lorma of repndia'ion, and endorsed tin; humane and peaceful policy of the Administration io regard to the Indians But while clearly defining and distinctly announcing the policy of the Republican party on there questions of practical legisI lation and administration, the convention did not ignore the great social problems which are pressing their claims for volution, and whieh demand the most earefol study and wise consideration. Foremost stands the labor question?concerning ' the relations of capital and labor." The Republican party accepts the duty of "so shaping legislation as to secure the full pro'ec'ion 'and the amplest field for capital and for la bor. the creator of capital, the largest op. portunilies, and a just share of the nautual profile ol these two great servants of civilisation." To woman, too, and her demands, it extends the hand of grateful recognition, and proffers its most respectful inquiry. It r? cognises her nchie devotion to the country and freedom, welcomes her admission to " wider fields of usefulness," and commends her demands for " additional rights * to the calm and careful consider ition of the nation, ' To gnard well what has already heen ae cured, to work out faithfully and wisely whet is now in hand, and to consider the questions whieh are looming up to view but little way before as. the Reouhlicsn parly is to-day what it was in the gloomy years of alasory, rebellion an<l ri-eoostrues lion, a na ionai necessity. It appeals, therefore, fur snpport to the patriotic and libertyloving, to the just and humane, to all who would dignify labor, to all who would edneate, elevate and lighten the burdens of the sons and daughters of toil. With its great reeord, the work still to be done, under the lead of the groat soldier, whose historic renown and whose suo eeesful administration for the last throe Sears begat such popular confidence, the ,?puhlicati party may confidently, in the t language of the convention you represent, start upon a new march to victory." Having accepted thirty-six years ago the distlngnishing doclrinea o* the Republican ( party of to-day; having, during yeara of { ' that period, for their advancement subordinated all other iasnea, acting in and eo-ope rating with political organizations, with ' whose leading doctrines 1 sometimes had | neither sympathy nor belief; hsvinglatum ed incessantly for many years to fonnd and build up the Republioau party ; and having, during its existence, taken an humble | part in its grsod work, I gratefully aoeept the oominatioo thus tendered, and shall en, deavor, If it shall be ratified by the people, ) taithinily to perform the duties it imposes. 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DOWN. ucbto uiioiiMit 8 00 a m " Pcrryville 6 40 a m " Pendleton 7 25 a m " Anderson ........ 8 20 a m Arrive at Belton at 9 10am Connecting with down train from Green, vllle. UP. Leave Belton aL. 4 00 p m " Anderson 5 00 p m " Pendleton 8 00 p m " Pcrryville 6 45 p m Arrive at Walballa at 7 20 p na Accommodation Trains will be ran on Branch Roads on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. ABBEVILLE BRANCH. Leave Cokes?>nry tor Abbevillo at...11 15 a m " Abbeville for Cokesbnry 1 00 p in ANDERSON BRANCH. Leave Belton for Anderson at 10 10 a m " Anderson for Belton.. 2 00 p no THOMAS DODAMKAD, General Superintendent. M. T. BaaTLKTT, General Ticket Agent. May 8 1 tf Edmonds T. Brown, o u Q MM| > ^tswHI Fy b 48 HAYNE STREET, 0FP08ITE CHARLESTON HOTEL, CHA RLKSTOy, 8. C. D? 9 SI 1 y