Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Hotel Accommodation in Texas. * One of tbe exhibitors at a Texas State )?ajf ^ Houston, gave vdn amusing aooount of lu? experience at a hotel, which illustrates the crowded condition of the. laverna at that time. " Wheu I go! thor^ J. jWj ?a}<?> 4??l>tai?>^ wrote you about etx weeks ago to save me a room ; I hope yon have done so.1 Certairily I have ^ waiter, show the gentleman to No. 91.* I'm blesetd if there wasn't forty others besides myself id mac same apariinem; auu wueu they went to undress at night the room looked like an arsenal, for every man had a knife and a sixshooter or two. My partner bad an immense pistol, whiob he coolly took off and placed in bed between us. 4 Say, stranger, says I; if I had to carry a thing like that blamed if I wouldn't pot it on wheels.'? 4 Guess if I choose to wear it its nobody's business,' he replied.? 4 Well,' says I, is all this artillery, company in this room!' About half tlio occupants were changed every day, and I could tell every now arrival the number oi bis room as soon as I set ray eyes on him. 4 Ilello, Colonel, just fgot in?' I would say. 4 Yes?just in, and lncky enough to get a room.' 4 What's your number?' I would ask. 4 Ninety-one,' was sure to be the reply." An Irishman named Paddy Doolan, a ready witted wag, who always bad a word for everybody, let it hit ever way it might, went into a grocery store one day to buy eggs. 14 How are eggs to day ?" he asked ot the clerk, wuo was or those over3mart fellows, by the way. " Eggs are eggs to day, Paddy," replied the clerk, looking qnite triumphantly upon two or three young lady customers who happened to be in the store. 44 Faith, I'm glad to hear yea say eo," replied Paddy, 44 for the last ones I got hero were chick* eus," : r A lawteq' built him an office in the form ot a hexagon or 6ix square. The novelty of the structure attracted the attention ot some Irishmen who were passing by. They made a full stop and viewed the building very critically. The lawyer, somewhat d is** gnsted at the curiosity, raised the window, put his bead out, and addressed them? .44 What do you stand there for like a pack of blockheads, gazing at my office ? Do you take it for a church ?" 41 Faix," answered one ot them, 44 I was thinking so, till I saw the divil poke his head out of the windy." A few days since one of our popular attorneys called upon another member of the profession and asked his opinion upon a certain point of law. The lawyer to whom the question was addressed drew himself up and said 411 gen erally get paid for telling what 1 know." The questioner drew a half dollar 44 fractional " from his pocket, handed it to the other, and coolly remarked : 44 Tell me all you know and give me the change." There is coldness between the parties now. Catching.?44 Johnny, where is your pa?" 44 Gone fishing, sir." 44 He was fishing yesterday, was he not ?" " Yes sir." 44 What did he catch ?" 44 One catfish, the rheumatism, two eels, the toothache, and some little ones." t A Madison (Tnd.) bridegroom fainted the other day, while standing up to be married. On being rallied about it by his frionds afterward, be naively said: 44 Well, yon see it suddenly occur red to me that owing to our divorce laws my wife might give mo the slip before I'd secured her property." ? + ? ? , . A laugh once raised over this : Mr. Kennard, rubbing his hands in fatherly pride and satisfaction, remarked, 44 My wife has presented me a fine boy." Grinning from ear to ear, his friend De Jones retorted, 441 guess it's a Kennard." ? ?? A country girl coming from a morning wftlk, was told that she looked as fresh as a daisy kissed by the dew, to which she innocently replied, 44 You've got my name right, Daisy ; but his leu t Dew." f t " Old age it coming upon me rapidly," as the nrchfn said when lie was stealing apples from an old man's garden, and saw the owner coming up, whip in hand. ? ? ? Donas thinks he could sing " Way Down on the Old Tar River," if he could get the pitch. Wiife-N does a man have to keep liis word ? When no one will , take it. ? imi?- ? "Doctor, is tight lacing inj ri- i ous ?" "Of corset it, Madam.' % "J1 If' 11 ? 1 I 11 V JL J IL'-j L _ J., -g-^7 For tie Greenville B nterpriw. JCr. Editorj la y?mr laat weak'a piper there appeared a priticiim by M. on my forjfter ankle. Several, landing qaeetioaa ara pronaanded, whiak invite dieouaaion, and whfch I now propoee to aniwer aa briefly at poMiblo ; and aa V. eomblalnad of not ???<>t- - r? hiderstandlng ns^forier .rtkit, ifcflt ?- ' ?t*w tki dtattM i|tlt iMghtly. The practical benefit arising turn. anaciaal neossaity lor the Democracy of Booth Carolina to undone Grant seems to be a point that Is too obscure (br the mental vision of my eritieleev, > I edvieed the endoreement of Grant beoauM there la no other practical plan that can aov ha adopted to harmonise poliUoally with the colored race ; and without thla eo-ope#m lion we cannot take thb first atep In reforming o*nr State Government, lie aakn the question, who prevented thin harmony end reconciliation of the raoea, and answers by oharping the Leagues with the political distrust that now exists between the white end colored ciu bene. In thie be Is egregiensly mistaken. The o?eot of the League bas boon eon turn mated, and has passed away as a matter of hie- > tory. The political confidence of the onee master and (brmer slave would also long ago have been oonfirmed bad it not been for the obstinate opposition of< the Demooraov, which is composed of a large rasjoiflly of tne white people of our 8tate. The political and olvU rights of the colored people have been admit* ted ee a settled point, and unalterable since the election of 18ft8, by the Democraoy, in words, but ignored in pr&etioe, hy encouraging the organisation of Ku Klux Klans: and the Democraoy U to-day responsible for every political murder committed in the State; (or the suneriag of the ignorant Ku Klux, who now IaagUh in Northern prisons, and for their dopredations on sooiety; and for the snfforing of widows and orphans bereaved by those murder? ; for paralysing the business of 9 Counties in the State ; and for the sufferings of hundreds of exiles, who dare not return to their native homes; and thuj (be innocent and guilty blood be upoivlheta, and "thus they ere responsible for this Wide-sptOad distrust and utter want of political oonfldinoe between the races. I will not attempt to reiterate the political record of the Democracy on the deed I issues of the pest, but rather lot the dead pust bury its dead, and address ourselves to the ! living and practioal questions of to-day ; and ; the principal motive I had in writing my for* i met article was to impress on the white peo- j pie of the State the practioal necessity and 1 the importance of the opportunity that was ; now presont to secure this harmonious recon* . oiliation of the rsoes, by giving them the pro per evidence of our sincority in according to j them equal political and civil rights before tho law, by unanimously endorsing Grant and bis administration ; and this every honest Democrat in tho State, who is not a Ku Klux ally, can do without compromising a singlo principle that he has not already compromised in the endorsing of Greeley. I again ropeat, the people of South Carolina aro not oppressed by taxation to support the National Gov emment, and the charges against Grant are 1 of that weak, frivolous character that do not in any way affect our interest or prosperity. They are made for political effect North, and is a matter of very little importance to us, whether they be true or no. As I have said before, the two plattorms are in sabstanoe thq same ; and why is it that M. thinks that if tho Democracy go over in a mass to Grant that the colored people will havo no confidence in them, and they will have no influenco in the councils of the Government ? It is true, if they were to ondorso Grant iu tho same spirit that they havo Grooloy, tho colored vo ur wouiu nave no conniicnco in mum, Mil no certainly could not bo blutned by reasonable men, for you h&vo traduced and nbused Grant for carrying out tbe very principle* contained in the Greeley platform. You denounce tbe Grant administration, and tbon turn right round and endorse a man for President who has supported and sustained tho administration in all its acts up to tho very hour ho yioldod to tho delusivo aspirations for the Presidency; a man who has done more to mako political capital North out of tho h'u Klux outrages than any other man in the American Union, and if thoso outrages of tho K. K. have ever been over-reached by any Journal in America, it hns been done by Mr. Greeley in tho New York Tribune ; and in his endorsement by the Democracy bo is robbed of tho Ku Klux laurels that are his just dues, and thoy arc all given to Grant, and with it ho is given the solid colored vote of South Carolina ; and M. gives ono of tho principle masons for this, and that is that tho masses of tho colored people arc moro interested in their politicnl and oivil rights than they aie in tho taxes nnd finances of the State ; and you cannot expect to reform or correct the oppressive taxation, or tho corrupt management ol the finance, while you keep up a continual war of direct and indirect opposition to the political und civil rights of the colored pooplc, who can protect themselves by a majority of thirty thousand voters. I think it is clear to common sense and reason that from tho present politicnl sta? tua or our State, no sane man can hare a shadow of hope to reform our State Government by supporting Grcoley. M. wants to know if we will divide tho offices with Democrats, if they wore to adopt the policy I havo ind cated. Certainly, if they vote for Grant, and ignore the Ku Klux faction thai has endorsed Greeley, their chnnces are just as good for office as any old lino Radical ; but if office is the only consideration that will indueo them to endoi so Grant, wo cannot aeeoiumodate enough of them to ho of any service to us in reforming our State Government. A man who joins a party for office is a traitor to bis country, and a curse to the party he joins j but what honest Democrat or Republican will stop at this hour of the battle to divide out tho offices while this corrupt Ring, known as tho Forty Thieves, that has controlled our Legislature, are so strongly fortified in our State with millions of dollars tbey havo stolen from the people? Their emissaries are in every County in the State, using every power, exerting every possible means to turn every stone that gold can turn, to manipulate our County Conventions in the interest of this Ring, and to secure the re-eloction of some of the very men who have voted for the vorv measures that have made taxes oppressive in our State and created a debt of twenty millions ; and if they are successful, and should again be returned to tbe Senate or the House, they will again repeat the same record of infamous corruption ; and befote another four years will have pnssed away, we will faoe a debt of forty or fifty millions of dollars, and wc will be forced to submit to the confiscation of our property by taxation. But all this can and will be averted if the white peoplo of the State will only harmonize with the colored people in the endorsement of Grant and breuk up tbe Ring; and would it not be manly and honorable in the white people, who are the more intelligent race, to make this ooocession to the colored people, and not allow a Presidential issnc, which is of so little importance to them, to prevent the reformation of our State Government, which every tax payer is so vitally interested in ? M. again interrogates mo to know if my party is responsible for ail this corruption. I answer, emphatically, no. Not any more than the National Democratic party is responsible for the corruption of the Great Demoeratio Tammany Ring that has robbed New York of hundreds of millions annually, while the Democratic party controlled the State. Neither ia tbe National Republican party responsible for the corruption of our State Ring. They are a stench in the nostrils of tbe administration ; and it has sent out such men in our State as Judge Orr, Judge Mackey, Hon. D. T. Corbin, to expose thoir corruption and, if poseible, to prevent their ro-election. Also, we have tbe co-operation of such colored men as Gen. W. W. Whipper, Hon. F. L. Cardoso end Senator Cain, of Charleston. Tbey have broken with this infamous Ring, and have burnt their bridges behind thein, and eannot and will not go haok ort the present-policy to reform the State Gov? aromoni, m. cnargcs ma with wanting to carry tba County for my party. To tbisrbtirge I I plead guilty, bat not In the Interests of the j Ring or any of It* depraved and vicious tools. I think by this time that M , and all other Intelligent men, know that there will be two (Irani tickets run generally throughout the State?one io the interest of the lt'ng, and on# in opposition and in favor of Reform, and tho repudiation of the 20,000,000 of fraudulent bonded debt, and in favor of the constitutional amendment, which will forever hereafter prevent the farther increase of the bonded debt of the Slate, without submitting it to a vote of tba people; and if this amendment ie adopted this fall by the people, then we weut Grant Republicans in tiie House of llepreeentalives and Lbe Senate, who can exert an influence, to tecure its ratiflcatiou, so that hereafter dishonest men who now seek this plaoe to make money, will have no disposition to seek after Legislative honors, because tliev cannot then steal without the consent and approval of their constituents. lo our propose toput up a Ring Tkad, bow ara wa (o discriminate between Grant Republican and who balonga to the Ring, to one that W not? We anawer, nofid the journals.of the House and Senate HI give it so plain that the wayfaring man. iriougu a kioj. cannot err therein, from the bank bill of 186$ to the validating of the six millions o* HhfpH bond*. tbwbig swindle of 1878. So that so intelligent man can hare the least shadow of excuae to vote for a member of the Ring, without sacrificing hie honor and- eodortiqg all lb*\r corruption, and making himself a party to their crimes. I think, Mr. Editor, that 1 hare aat?r enough to oonvioee M., or any other intelligent man, that by endorsing Grant and the National Administration, that we do not intend to be understood to eodorss the corruption of our Stste government.? But M. thinks that ralhar thso take the policy 1 have indicated, that he would bear another four year,* of oppression, which the endorsement of Greeley will be sure to bring. This is the seme spirit that rscons oiliaiiou mat with in 1868 by the Democraay. They then sowed to the wind, .and reaped the whirlwind. Aud such hae ever been the policy of this rule-or-ruin party of our State. But, if those who pay the fiddler eau stand tha storm, certainly those who dance need not be frightened by ile thunder*. Respectfully, yours, J. B. H. Tribute of Beipeot. At a regular meeting of the Greenville Oity Club, held thie evening, the following resolution# were reported and unanimously adopted : Wiirrkas, We, the members of the Green, vitle Oity Club, have heard with profound sorrow of the death of Geo. W. K. EASLEY, one of the original members and founders of our Club, which- occurred after a very brief illness, on Thursday the 11th Instant, in the oity of Atlanta, Ga.; and whereas, we submit in humble resignation to this painful dispensation of Providence, wo regard It eminently fit and proper that we should give some expression, feeble though it be, to our grief in view of this sad event, and to our admiration and esteem for our deceased friend, and for the many virtues which adorned his character, aud so greatly endeared Iiim to us whilst living ; therefore, Re&olwed, That In the death of General WK. Easley, this Club has lost one of its most accomplished and valued members, and the community one of its most patriotic aud self-sacrificing citizens. Retolvrd, That our sympathy and condolence are hereby tendered to his afflicted and sorrowing family. lif?olved, That a page of our Minute Book be dedicated to the memory of Gen. W. K. Easley ; and that hia name, together with the date of hia birth and death, be inscribed thereon. Ilttolvtd, That the Secretary of the Club be instructed to furnish a copy of these res> olutions to the city pnpere for publication, and to send a copy to the family of the decoaaed. A. ISAACS, F B. McBER, SAM'L MaULDIN. Committee. W. L. Maulpin, Secretary. Greenville, July 18th, 1872. For the Greenvillo EnterpriseJuly -29th, 1872. Mr. Editor: Will you please give this a place in yot r paper! Notwithstanding we have many difficulties to contend with, and great evils in high places and in public offices, let me tell you that there ate evils at our own doors which should be attended to as soon as possible. Therefore, fellows citizens, come to the help of the weak against the mighty. As Scott says, put on the tax. it will not hurt any worse to out the head than it did the limbs So let us cut these evils off at the first lick, and not do as the boy did the monkey's tail. Well, how was that? There was a gentleman who got a monkey for his aon. After awhile the monkey got to climbing upon the aideboard, and using and breaking the glasses as it had seen other monkeys do. The fa% tlier says to the boy : "You must cut the monkey's tail off." And at It he went, cutting it inch by inoh ; and the monkey would squeal every lick. The father said to the boy: "Whatare you doing, Johnny ?" "Cut ting the monkey's tail off." "it by not out it off at one lick P "O, pspa, I thought it would hurt too bad 1" So let us cut oft these evils at the first, and not let them grow upon us sny longer. me nrst evil that 1 shall mention is that of treedmen passing and taking near cuts through our plantations. One will pull off a rail, and a second one another; and eo on until we find our fences down and the slock devouring the crops. The second evil is that of breaking the Sabbath day, by hunting and shooting on that day ; also the cut ting of wood. Before freedom it was a very unoommon thing to hear the report of a gun on Sabbath day ; but now it is com* mon to hear them all limes of the day,close to your houses. The third evil is that of our town or city oouncils letting so maDy idle perrons loaf about their streets, who should be out in the country at work. If you would do eo yon. the Counoil, perhaps both parties, would sleep sounder at night. The fourth evil is that of our merchants trading with freed men for any and every thing they carry to them, whether it be vugs 10 uiem or not. Jo?t so long as this thing is allowed to he, we may expect our freedmen more and mora demoralized, and theft and rognery, and our houses the more and more broken and robbed, and our pros perty stolen by night and by day. Now for the remedies. Let each Township have a meeting of the citizens, and let them pass acts or by-laws that would reach those evils. Tf I had the tongue of every farmer in my head, I would say for the first evil, of laying down tbo fenoes, that all caught so doing be fined not less then ten dollars nor more than fifty for each and every trespass. For the seeond evil, that is, the breaking of the Sabbath day by hunting and shootiog and chopping wood, I would say let every one keep so eye out, and whoever they find so doing let them be fined five dollars for chopping wood, and confiscate their arms for shootiog anil huntinff nn iWwl The third evil?for this I would persuade our Counoih to drive out ever/ idler or loafer in their city, and let them go to work, for there if plenty to do to keep every peraon iinployed at aouething. The fourth and liiat, but not Icaat, evil ia that of our morobanta trading with freeduien without an order. For this, let them be poti tionod, praying tbcui not to trade frith any i a i' ?nnr n M nil itm mi a, tUMit or hireling fbr anything exoept broom a or coilare, without no order boa the employs er. ft would ho bo disgrace to either party ; and if they wlU not oomply with thoee terms, let then be Ined not lui than twenty dollar* or more than ftfty for eaeh and every time found trading without an order. If any one he* bettor remedies, please any to, and that quick. ~ J. D. W. . i-u! Judge W. K Thomas Sapports Horace Greeley. The annexed aomniunioatioo la copied from the Fairfield Htfid: Ybdx, 8. C., 80th July, 1872. Jfr. Editor: In your not* of the 2*ih ult., you ask me If I favor the liberal move mem, and it X will be e candidate for Con* greee." In 1868, believing that the lata freed men war* ineo, I conscientiously supported their rights to suffrage, and with it Qan. Oram for PraaidauL Since than I hare found that the moat of the party who voted with rue, instead of voting from "high moral idea*," were devoted to the* principles of "addition, division and silence," and that their associations ware no place for me. Aa one exa pressed it to another, "the Judge ie a good Republican, hut ha don't act with tha party." In 1872, I find what I predicted in 1868 haa come to pars, that the ialelligenoa of tha Slate has coma up to the Ropubliean platform. I never knew this people to knowingly do a mean, dishonest or deceitful act, they are under the leadership of iuou ui "Dign iou moral iJiaa," Greeley < and Brown. I therefore cast my lot with 1 my people. ' 24. In 18(18 the slogan was a "white ' man's government," I was opposed to it. In 1 1872 it is practically a colored man's gov 1 ernment, and I am apposed to it. 8d. In 1808 I voted for a constitutional ^ government as contradistinguished from one " revolutionary, null and void." In ' 1872 1 do the samo as contra-diaiinguished, under my own personal observation, from a military 'despotism. |j 4th. In 1808 I voted to accopt the situation \ and join bands across the " bloody chasm." ' In 1872 I shall do tho su-io, I will not change. ' 5th. In 1868 I voted to avoid a war of races. 1 With less confidence, but with the same view, ' I shall vote in 1872 (or the party of roconoilU ation. As to my being a candidate for Congress, it | is a matter for the Congressional Distriot. I have never aspired to be a politician, but if I can do better and higher for my fellow-citizens, I am at their service. Very truly your obodiont servant, WM. M. T110.M \S. We Itave had the pleasure of seeing the " Conquered Banner," design for one of the bns relief of the proposed monument to the Confederate dead of South Carolina The eoncepliou is touchiugly beautiful and well carried out in all its parts. In the foreground stand all the emblems of warfare I devised and broken, over which droops in mournful waves a tattered Confederate flag. Below is the shield of the Confederacy, draped with a funeral pall, while by its side lies tha voicdess harp of the South. The design refleols great credit on the genius and taste o f the young artist, Charles David, Esq , of Greenville, a young man who has jml graduated with distineI tion at Woflord College. We learn that Mr. David's artistic talent is entirely self-trained, but we hope he will use the means to cnltivate this rare gift. If he does, we predict that he will one day become an artist whom his native State will claim with just pride. The picture is in the possession of the Recording Secretary of the Monnment Association. ^nassi ^ Tue Greenville and Columbia Railroad Bondholders' Meeting.?Tho Bondholders in the Greenville and Columbia Railroad, were called to meet, Thursday, at No 64 Wall XT V U I- .? * - > uii uiim, inn iiirn, uul ouiy iwo uen side ihe proprietor of the office where the meeting was held appeared. The trio held a secret meeting, and although five reporters waited in an adjoiniog room for information, none was given thein. It is undetsiood that the object of the movers in this conference is to take some measures to secure the part interest on the bonds, and a guarantee that the bonds will be redeemed. | It is charged that the South Carolina carpet-bag ring purchased the (lock of tbia road for $200,000 or thereabouts, ron the road a short time, and then sold it out to the South Carolina Railroad Company, at a large profit, and that the old Bondholders are likely to lose all they have invested.? So says the New York Herald. ? still Attorn Kit Slatk.?A well attended meeting of the " Progressive Republicans " | was held at Howard's llall, last Monday evening, with M. R. Delnny presiding, and J. B. [ Mushington, Jr., Secretary, at which the following ticket was put in nomination: For Oovernor, A. J. Willard ; for Licutenant-Governor. J. Bruce Howard, colored ; for Seoreta| ry of State, E. J. Adams, colored ; for Attorney-General, C. D. Melton ; for Adjutant and Inspector. General, J. N. Hayne, colored ; for State Treasurer, F. L. Cardoso, eol.; for Comproller-General, R. Tomlinson; for Superintendent of Education, M. A. Warren, colored. [CkarUiton Neun, 7th. Tub Nkw Prksident ov Mexico?The , new Preddent of Mexico is Lerdo de Tejads, who ba> been, any time these last ten years, intriguing for (he place to which he i now peaceably succeeds. He lied heen for a long time Minister of Foreign Relations j in the Cabinet of Juarez. Last year he be- ] came a candidate for the Presidency, and 1 took the positio i of Chief Justice of (ho Su~ j preme Court, the holder of which succeed* < to the Presidency on the death or abeenoe 1 from any cause ol the Chief Magistrate. He entered into a eoaiitlon with the oppoai* tion, and several revolutionary attempts, which he did not discountenance, were made during the year in hie favor. The new Constitutional President is. therefore, in sympathy with armed conspirators sgainst the Constitution. Consequently it oan hardly .be that the change will be ae> ecptable to the country. VAvnmhar OA ia Ia ha >?v?* i? %v vv vviwwintvu ujr mo | Presbyterians m the three hundredth anoi- 1 versary of the formation of the first Presby- < tery in Zogland. ' Gorrit Smith's son and nophow repudiate , Grant and support Greeley. / by n*qr?tt. Judge Tboma* In reply to n Mt of oompllmentory reiolu- ( lone offered by tbe York te upon porting with Judge Toau, the Judge eoid : GtnlUmtn of Uu TorkfUU Bmr i I thonk < iron tut your eon plimentery reeoletione.? V " HDVug J?u x>m para live stranger, junior to many of jot n tho legal profession, and of a different political principle, yet I barn never known anything from you except tLe kindest consideration, and the most oourteous attention. Our intercourse has bean so pleasant, I leave you prith regret. While this is so, my term of >ffioe has not passed without having to enoounter a series of simoons, which made shipwreck )f my career. First came the organisation known as the Ku Klux, against whom our jourt was impotent. You will all bear me out that I did my part, as Judge, in the Court ilouie, and as a oitisen in private communl. jettons, to suppress the outrages. But, neglected by the State government, though I and jour Sheriff bad callod for assistance from them, our efforts were unavailing. In this emergency the United States troops arrived on the stage of actioir. But instead of upholding the law, under misrepresentations of recent outrages being committed after the Investigating Committee were here, and under the illiberal denunolatlon that every white man was a Ku Klux, they rode down the lawf organised a military campaign against a peaoesble and defenseless people, and turned this temple of Justice into a faroe. I tried to restrain it, holding that the military waa subordinate to the oivil authority, and that tho State court should have jurisdiction over the troubles in the oounty. For this action of min% tho soma military, by an unjustifiable interference with tho Legislature, succeeded n making ma the first martyr to those prinoisles which I conscientiously held, and whtoh low riso in the North as the polar star, for .ho emancipation of the white man of Carolina. While therefore I regret to part with you aroause of our pleaaant intercourse ; my re gret ceases when I see the cause or our pert ing. like en sogel epirlt tapping upon ere* ry Northern heart end pleading for justice, ' reconciliatioa, peace "and the constitution. [I then, in after daye, in recalling the mem ories of the present, I, solitary and alone 1 during the storm, can be identified in your minds in aught with this angelic spirit, my ' regret will turn to joy, and my retirement result in a great victory. For try own shortcomings 1 ask your for* 1 giveness. Collectively and individually, 1 you havo my kindest regards?I bid you good-bye. I Applying thc Platform.?Hon. John B. ( Baldwin, of \ irginia, in hia speech in the j convention at Richmond, gave an amusing ( illustration of the way in which lie applied t the Cincinnati platfoim and Mr. Greeley's history, to answer the objections of those who are opposed to his acceptance by the i Southern people. I Mr. Baldwin said he had lately been in , New York, and had met there several of that class of gentlemen, one of whom had approached him with a very determined resolution to persuade him to drop the Chsppaqna farmer by eome means or other. 1 'Now, can you Southern men aupport ' Greeley ?" said tbis anxious patriot. "Don't you remember what he has said and writ ten about you years agot" "Ah, well," said Mr Baldwin, "we have Ifronted him a general amneety for that." i "But," continued he, "you must reniem- ( bor his coiifee duiing the war. it ia impus , sible you can support him after that." "So it would O'? llo?? A-' dienbilitiea." * "But, my dear sir, be cannot possibly be ( elected, and you are putting yourself in a bad position by eupporting a man who will 1 surely be beaten." I "Well, we do not know bow thai may f turn out,'' woond up Mr, Baldwin, "but anyhow tee have gone on hie bond." Aui the solicitor decamped. ? - I A Perilous Season Glorious and delightful as the summer I weather is, its tropical heat is a severe tri al to the vital powers. Even the strongest are sometimes prostrated by lis off.eta.? I The common phrase applied to this Condi* 1 tioo of the body is "general debility." Now, general debility arises from, and includes a < variety of ailments. The liver is more or less effected, the bowels are either constipated or too much relaxed, the stomach but i half performs the work of digestion, the appetite is poor, and the spirits depressed. ' This is what is called general debility. It 1 is a general disarrangement of all the phy- I steal functions, and requires ss a remedy a | medicine that will regulate them all. Hostetter'e Sti much Bitters is specially adapt rd to this purpose. Its general operation I is not. confined (o a single organ. If the ( liver is affected, it restores its tone. If the ( stomach is torpid, it regenerates it. If the nerves are tremulous and weak, it braces * and reinforeea them. If the mind, which ( ever sympathises with the body, is gloomy and despondent, it relieves the difficulty, and soon brings the whole mechanism of 4 the body into harmony with the laws of i health. , There Is oo civilised nation in the West- ( ern Hemisphere in which the utility of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a tonie, cor- 1 rectivs and anti-bilious medicine, is not known and npprcciatsd. Throughout the ( Tropics it is considered, both by the people and the profession, the standard specific.? ' While it is a medicine for all seasons and ( all climates, it is especially suited to the ( complaints generated by the weather, bee ^ ing the purest aod best vegetable stimulant in I lie world. Beware nf 11>a Riito** >?*^* ' ? 1 v..w ./.I.vi p I.in.io VI nuriU UIHI dangerous material!, which unscrupulous parties are endeavoring to foist upon the people. Their name is legion, and the publio has no guarantee that they are not Eoisoaous Adhere to the tried remedy, iostetter'a Bitters, sold only in glass, and never in kegs or barrels. Tetter, Rait Rheum and all Skin Disease) cured by Dr. Pieroe'a Golden Medioal Diseov ery. The People's Stamp or Valde.?The Government endorsement, wbieb legalises tbs ale of Plantation Bitters, is not the only stamp affixed to that famous Vegetable Tonio. It bears, In addition to thai, official sanction, the still more valuable stamp of public appro* ballon. This inestimable voucher of its rere properties as a Tonle, Corrective and Alterative is of much earlier date than the Government credential; for millions of sick persons bad pronounced It the grand specific of the tge long before Congress thought of taxing proprietary medicines. It is unnecessary to repeat, in dcUil, ths properties of this wonderful Vegetable Invlgorant. The best refersnce that can be offered to those who desire the full particulars of its virtues is the Gene, ral Public. Ask those who have tried it as a remedy for dyspepsia, constipation, bilioua> 'icss, intermittent foyers, nervous dobilitr. rheumatism, Ma sickness, low spirits, or Iom , ?f vital power, what Plantation Bitter* baa lone for htm, and be governed by the responee 8 they make to yoar inquiries. a ... 0 The Government buy* $2,000,000 of I bonds on the first end third Wednesdays, I iml $1,000,000 on the second and fourth 1 Wednesdays of August; and sells $1,000," E >00 of gold on the first, third and fifth o Thursdays, and $2,000,000 on the Moond F tnd fourth Thursdays. The transactions C will aggregate $6,000,000 bonds and $7,a C )00,000 gold. V LATK CLIPPINGS. Jobn Williams has been eleeled polloeA eolorad worn Jin 4m reoently killed la Jeaxku by lifting. Richmond haa a saw itean roller for n?a> ladamWng tbo streets. General Banks baa eotaalnded to support Jraeley Ibr the Presidency. The postofllee at Edgefield Court Houae iss bean made a money-order office A eaaa of aonatroka ooeurred In Marion a 'aw daya ainaa, whioh the pbyaioiaoa thiojt will prove fatal. June Bowlea, aurveyor of tba port of 8aranoah, baa tendered bla resignation. Ha will aupport Greeley. Gen. Jamea Longstreet, one of tbe Oonfed*> iraey's moat gallant aoldlera, annOnneaa ilmaalf for Greeley. Mr*. Lincoln and Mr. Robert Lincoln are ixpected in Parta, where It ia aaid Mrs Linloin lntenda to raaide. The debt statement decrease for Jnly la 18,600,000; coin In treasury, $09,838,000; :urrency, f16.000.000. Jam** Zaehary, formerly a County Con*, mtssiooer of Oeooee, diod recently ia Abs bevllle. The Lexington Diepateh announces the capture of a large wild oat at Long Branch in that county on the 20lh inet. Her, W. Watkine Hicks, the eloquent Methodist divine, la announeed aa Editorn-Chief of the Macon Enterpriee. A State official paid Charleston a vielt a lay or eo ago, and while there purchased a J4.900 set of jewelry. Come easy, go easy. Gen. J. B. Hood has consented to deliver he oVstion before the Association in No, rember next, in Columbia, during the Fair werk. It is reported that J. Wood Davidson, lormerly of Columbia, later a eleik in one >f the departments of Washington, has been nppuime'i vo a poBiuon in japan. D. F. Worcheeter, is in receipt of a letter from Chief Justice Chase, in which he says: If 1 live and nm able to go to Cincinnati in November, 1 shall vote for Horace Oresley." On the 22d tilt., the residence of a Mr Moore, on the premise of the late Ricl^rd Pres?ley, abont eight miles northeast mf Yorkville, was accidentally destroyed by Hie. Mr. Greeley has engaged quarters tor the teason at East Hampton, Long Island. He Is to deliver the annual address before the iuffulk County Agricultural Society next week. T'is first two bal?s of new cotton were received in Savannah, on the 81st ult., one trom Florida, by Saunders, Goodwyn A Muller, and one from Bainbridge, Ga., by W. H. Woods <L Co. Senator Thurman thinks that Greeley snd Brown will receive at least two hunI red electoral votes, lie eays that Judge Van Trump, of Ohio, will work earnestly for Greeley and Brown. Rosa Mitchell, alias Carter, a colored woman, was struck by lightning on the 17th ult., sud killed immediately. She lived ou Turkey Creek, in the Mulberry neighbor hood, Abbeville oounly. The crops, both corn and cotton, have been badly damaged, almost ruined, within the past ten days, in a portion of Marion County. It is confined to a belt of some six or seven miles wide. A colored man, employed on the AirLine Railroad, near Spartanburg, was kill* ed s few days ago, by Mr. Jttmes Shannon, who was one of the overseers on the contract of Mr. Malone. Both were drinking. Gov. Scott offers $200 reward for the aps prehension and lodgment in any jail in thin State, with proof to convict, of Wm. Ford, who murdered Goo. Croswell, at Chester, Sunday night. There is authority for the statement that there ia complete harmony in the Board of Arbitration upon the Alabama Claims, at Seneva, and speedy settlement of all qncslioos before the tribunal is expeoted in a ew weeks. The Governor offers a reward of |200 for he apprehension and delivery in any jail >f this State, with proof to coDviet, of Shad sch Harris, who murdered Charles Crain, >n the 16th Of July last, to the eastern part >f Fairfield County. The Savannah Republican has a Florida sorreepondent who writes "that the Indians n the everglades refuse to free their slaves, tod swear that Sheridan will have to ' ride he tail off every horso in the army before ,hcy will give up a single nigger/ " Mr. A. T. Stewart, of New York, sent his iheok for twenty-five thousand dollars to don. Ethan Allen on Saturday last, and uu horized him to draw for seventy five thouand dollars more, if necessary, to aid in he election of Grteley and Brown, From our exchanges we learn that the taterpillar baa appeared among the eett*n ;rop in various portions of the Sooth. We tear of It In Texas, Florida, Alabama, Lout Una and Mississippi, In our own State he crop promise* wall, and oheeriog sc. lounts are generally given. Boll and army worms are ruining the irop* to Alabama. One plantation whioh vould have made one hundred bales, will tow only make fifty. There it great degression among planters, many of *hom onslder themselves ruined. Two and a islf million bales la now the outside estinil. .1 ?l? HWW vi mtj crop. Now that the holer* hai found lodgment no near Germany, the Baltimore Amir, sao think* it may 5* expected that ere many weeka have elapaed it will find ita ray into New York, and irom thonoe to ar> oity id the Uoited State*; It U, thereore, neoeaaary that meaenre* ahonld be t*? :en to auceeeefully meet the impending langer. The terme of twenty-four Senator* will .nl.<. ? ?-" "l " ' .r?, ?u nu wi maron next, M follows: Ipancar of Alabama, Rice of Arkaoaaa, Cola f California. Ferry of Conneatlant, Oaborn f Florida, Hill of Qoorgla, Trumbull of IIiooia, Morton of Indiana, ilarlao of Iowa, 'omaroy of Kodom, Davie of Keutoaky, tellogg of Louisiana, Viekars of Maryland, lUlr of Miaaoori, Nye of Nevada, Patleraon f Naw Hampahlra, Conklingof New York, 'ool of North Carolina, Tharman of Ohio, tameron of Pennsylvania, Sawyar of South i Vrolina, Morrill of Vermont, and llowe of I'iseonsio. I 1 i ^xr OZ-aOOBJB, GOLD ABD SHYER Y JUTOJKS 8 BEST GRADES OF SILVER ANO SILVER-PLATED WARE* TABLE CUTLERY, mn FANCY GOODS. A LARGE ASSORTMENT OP Gold, Silver, Steel ft Plated Framed SPECTACLES. > ALSO GENUINE IPBMUjIE SraCTAtDILIES. B. Webrle. Oct 11 23 tf 1. B. MULLIGAN, COTTON FACTOR AND GENERAL COMMISSIBI UERCHAHT. ACCOMMODATION WHARF? CHARLESTON, S. C, I will also, when placel in funds i purchase and forward all kinds of Merchandise, Ma chineri/, Agricultural Implements^ Fertilizers, dko. Oct 25 25 ty Johnston, Crews & Co., IMPORTERS And Wholesale Dealers in STAPIB AND FANCY DRY GOODS, NOTIONS AN& ?MAtLL WAOtKG. 41 HAYNE STREET, OSIASlUESMMr, S. ?. Dec 11 &2 )y JOHN C. SEEGERS MAWimER, WHOLESALE and RETAIL Liquor Dealer, LAGER BEER BREWER. SI COLUMBIA, S. C. Oct 18 24 1 r WILLIAM SLOAN E, Lithographic, Copper-plate, AND GENERAL JOB PRINTER, IP&AIITJ OT1EI8OT, COLUMBIA, S, C. BOOKS, p?mphl?lf, P?8teia,llnnd-Biil!?, Card*. Circular*, Bill H*-ad?, Fao Similes, Maps, Plana. Chalk and Line Drawings Liquor Labels, Druggists' Prescript lions, etc, Executed with NEATNESS AND DESPATCH, AMD ON Til* Most Reasonable Terms. Oct 25 25 8m* j Edmonds T. Brown, 48 HAYNE STREET, OPPOSITE CHARLESTON HOTtl. CHARLESTON, S. C. D?c 9 < 81 ly J B. HENRY, WHOLESALE M AND RETAIL 8MCIR, VT A TW HTPJPPT \y . 3 Greenville, S. C. \| ootjntry proDtroa I BOUGHT AND SOLD. I 0EDEE8 FOE COEH SOLICITED April 17 40 ly J. ?, BLACK DEALERS la Walchea, Clock*, Jewelry, Spectacle*, Fancy Good* end Qiooe- . riea. CoofeetionerWe, Notion*, Lamp* and -4 Fixture*, Noo explo?Ue AU*ehin*nu, Olaea- I ware, 8egar*, Snuff, Smoking and Chewing *jj Tobacco, Dry Good*, liat*. Shoe*, and a > J great variety of other article*. All are in* | vited (and might do well) to call on them Jfl before purchasing tW Special attention 9 given to Repairing Timepiece*, Ac. ? Mar 18 48 tf 1 Drs- W. B A J. H. Harrison, ] nKfiPmrrifiii / v OFFER their PROFESSIONAL 8ERVI- 9 CK8 to U>? pabtio. Will !>< found at ' the Reeidcnoa of John H. Harrieon, Keq., 1 fifteen miles below Greenville. I May 39 4 3m J