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^ _ _ 4 \ _ j i, , lff ?,. ? '?*! ' ? *r - +~r*X* - ? ~~~ THE ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER, 1 , T * -? . ., ., ,> ..? ,. - , ^ ...... j. . r - . ?1 -. , -a ' _ r . I ' ' " L?1? ' ? L?- ? 1 1 1 1' " I - * I ' ' I " BY W. A. LEE AND HUGII WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. JUNE 3. 1870. . VOLUME XVIII?NO. ?. AMNESTY. SENATOR SAWYER'S VIEWS ON THE onoTcnoi UV1JVJUASA* A Powerful Speech. Tho Congressional Globo brings us tho full verbatim report of tho hot debate in the United States Senate, on Tuesday last, on the subject of Universal amnesty. "Wo take tho foilowing passages from the able speech delivered ou that occasion by Senator Sawyer: he is'nt afraid. After alluding to Senator Morton's denunciation of those who favored amnesty as sound .Republicans, Senator Sawyer said: X Vi VIIV J JL. II \J mull n rjgllb to road mc out of tho Republican parly until he shows that 1 stand on ground which is not Republican. Mere denunciation, mcro assertion that 1 am acting in tho interest of rebels or rebellion, has no cllect upon nie. I foci no particular anxiety to avoid pleasing the rebels if I do right and act as a Republican. I think it might Ifc moro wise and statesmanlike if somo senators, should romcinber that their chief mission is not to mako the rebels hate them. But there are some senators hero who seem to conccivc that consistency re- , quires them so to act that the rebels shall ontertain toward them now precisely the same opinion that they entertained when tho war was flagrant. Sir, that is not my position. When the war was flagrant I hated rebellion ; when tho war wob flagrant, to lliA fivtont. nf mv nnwnr f ro. bollion; but let mo say, Mr. PreBi- j dent, when the war was flagrant I did | not hato rebels, and I do not hate ro- j bels nor anj'body pise now. It is uot ^ the mission of the Republican party , to hate tho men who created and who \ carried on tho rebellion. It was the { inission of the Republican party to , suppress tho rebellion; and it has . teen and ioyet tho mission of tho Re- \ piblican party to ro-organize this , government on a lyore solid and endu- . ring basis than that upon which'it has J crer stood before. southern unanimity. But, Bir, lot mo tell the senator from j Indiana that tho foundation upon | vhioh he would re-organize this gov- ^ ernmont, tho foundation upon which , Id would,roeonstruct tho States latelv . it rebellion, is a foundation as unstalie an water. The rebellion took into is vortex tho whole Southern populilion, with exceptions absolutely insgniflcant in number. All classes Mere bound up in sympathy with it. ]very man, woman and child, w th, a. I 6aid, insignificant exceptions, had bt ono aspiration bo far as the polltic? situation was conccrned; and that wis that the Southern Confederacy au the cause of tho rebellion might trpnph. Here and there a man of goo rally very slight political or socit significance among his fellows w?, or professed, to be, a loyal man ; butho number Was so small that to cary on tho government in those Sties by their a2df and by their aid aloe, is a uronositiou nerfeet.lv n!>. eul to any man who knows tho poopl< what ouanT to be done. ican understand, too, that those t \vb could govern these States as sub- > jctfprovinces, who would continue to ( kep over them the Btrong arm of ? peer, who would destroy the vital 1 prjciple of the American Republic, t wish is local self-government, admin- t istition of local interests by local < ngite?I say I can understand how 1 tli?e who would upset all this princi-' < pldnd theory of government, who 1 weld destroy this chief clement of 1 strigth in the American system, i ehc|d advocate the> continuance of I lhasystem which "should hold the 1 gritipon the tliroats , of the great. .1 naarity of the' white; population. 1 ThHs ihe only theory ou which 1 i cuninderstand it;- but if our purpose ' is tcofget the war, if our purpose is i to cablish in the breasts oi' the Sou- < thci people a lovo j for the jnslitu- i tioriof the TJnftcd'States, if our pur- ] posts to strengthen the government in tise States, and to havo a real Un- < ion,re must take the people.of those : fttas witP an tneir mnraiities upon < thoi| wo must incorpdrate-tliem into tho ^dv politic of the United States, as o4al. constituent -raombors. Wo musk-ecollect that a man in South Canada-citizen of . tho - United Stud, - must be placed on precisely tbe (me platform, and covered by 'i tho kmapprotociion, ondowed with Die lipe political privileges, as a man in Mp^aohaaettff op Michigan. I Rjfc- JTOOLIiH POLICY. WWSron fthntjpnt any one largo scctiowrtho oonntrv from all aapi- ^ ratiorinoAarticipatlon in the public offlcesfrheVpoa tell thai largo class of tnoi that>hey; mtfst bave no part or lot p tbe \rajnistration of the affair* oj ine^^^pnment you bid them xo ooer iuiu iovw. say you cut off ; from RepubSn party on* of'-its great elements ofcr^ngthi,' When I. reflect that in add\n . to the third clau^ of the FourtXfh amendment jmpwing these disQflfcjea there still rests on the fitatnto^^^ tho . a<jt known as tho test oatqL^^j on the 2d of July, 1862, /wbicHLppg out of . Federal offices practieallVjOf M m? friend from Connecticut^^ eigiit hundred' thousand men, ; thousand of them, tyit a ni?* men at 1 etmt in the, SUte# Utely%eb4,V lionandiath? SUtes^that^mgoi nomhwttygO.toto rebtHfcmj^T reflect that all thoae boyg and jBL | men whcj nevet bad held an offiotiKr who had no political opinion* jW thoee that the/ b*d absorbed (Hn the atanritybere whirfh they had brefl thedali jfheir lg^jjje^gnt off Sotr Bc^^eof^k^^gt oath*oi Tfe ||rt^||^fo1manyI1^iutie6 ii i> * * V \f U ' the South, rcduccd to the necessity, i in order to get Federal appointments I fillod, of selecting them from ignora- 1 muses or rascals; and yet tho senator from Indiana tells us thnt wo onn i select where wo will?that tho fifty i thousand loyal men aro amply sufll- i cicnt to guide tho connsols of tho na lion in those States. Now, I-wish to J do all credit to tho men who wcro loyal to tho flag in tho Southern States?I wish to give them all tho praise which belongs to men who re- 1 sistcd a current that my friend from T-.i: i?i * - JLIIUIillllV I1UVV1 IlilU IV 1UK1M J. winn I to give thorn all the laurels that bo- i long to them. Far bo it from mo, : who saw their sufferings and their i sacrifices through that terrible con- < test, to takoono single leaf from the clmplet which should bind their brows. ' But, Mr. President, they were few in ] numbers; as a rule they were insig \ nificant in political and social consequence ; and if you attempt to cany 1 on the business of government in * those States b}' their agency and that of the race lately enfranchised alone, < you will certainly fail. < WHY HE BECAME A SENATOR. 1 And when any senator charges that <1.1 ? ii.:- A - <? ' mu |;uiiLiviit v-uuiou UII LUIS liuur <)I unothor senator would bo controlled * L>y the consideration ol tho question < of his rc-elcction, it is an aspersion < upon his integrity as a senator, and I an implication that ho will violate his < oath as such. When a senator allows 1 his official senatorial conduct hero to ? bo governed by such motives as those, I it is better that his placo should bo i filled by auother man ; and let mo say i that I do not hold the seat 1 occupy I here because I would liavo sought tho < placo which I do hold, nor would I ' liavo held it or have been a candidate t Tor it, but for tho fact that I desired I Lo keep out others who were oven t ees fit to be hero than mj-self, and I .hat I could seloct in my State manjr c ncn at that timo who, if it had not e ? J! jouii ikjl iucno wi-y uiHit uiuuuy linpos- [ id. by tho Fifteenth amendment, j ivould have stood on this floor much ? ibler advocates of tho principles of o Lho Republican party, much stronger a men for the State of South Carolina, }i md for tho United States, than 1 can ii sver hope to bo. a PROSCRIPTION PLAYED OUT. S But, Mr. President, I did not rise t :o 6pcak at any length on this bill. I d believe, as I said when I began, that *< Lho speech of the senator from Con- t aecticut but re-echoes tho sontiments Df the vast majority of tho people of t Lho Republican party; and 1 believe 0 mat the acutcnessof the senator from o Indiana Las in this instance failed 1< iiira, and that ho has not sufficiently v jtudiod the sentiment of tho party of h which he is so distinguished an orna- ? nent. I think that when the pcoplo c speak on this subject, he will find that v le represents not that majority which a night havo tho right to i*ead a minor- li ty out of its ranks, but that he stands- t n a minority which may rather ask b .0 bo admitted to tbo orthodox plat- b orm of tho party. 1< . The Famous Field of Manassas. J1, Correspondence of Charleston News. ii c Manassas, Ya., May 5. 0 Could one of Bonham's men stop 0 ?if 6 ?-u?j vii tiiu jjiaiiio ui jumiUMiiUtj, I1U Tould not rccognize tho old Bite of lf 3am p Pickeris, nor tho old baso of lupplies of tho Army of Virginia. * tVondcrfal changes have ocourrod in a ,he appearance of this region during " ,he past decade; lhctamprphoses with- *3 )ut parallel in American history. A traveller, just before tho war, spoakg ? )f the town as consisting of a low wooden depot, a diugy saloon, and a * half dozen of houses, on a broad and monotonous plain. When Gcnoral 1 Bonbjim came up this way in 1861, a bo saw tho strategic value Of the junc- a tion of tho raih'oads, and rested hero ? with his three South Carolina regi- ^ raents, while the flames of Secession were crackling nil over the South, and a thousands after thousands of recruits ^ eame flocking into tho nucleus-point of Camp Pickens. Men. came out from frightened Washington, three c hundred at ono time, to join the gath- 8 oring army, until finally tho Palmetto 8 Qag was exchanged for tho standard f of tho Confederacy, or carried eido j; by sido with it, just as tho opposing Pine-troe flag of Massachusetts was 8 hOrno with the other standard. There J was a great population suddenly transferred to theeo quiet fields, from city 8 and hamlet and farm-houae of tho Sonth, sternly and-patiently preparing for a coming day, how soon none could know, when the dread arbitration of war would decido tl^eir cause. When that day came, it was an exciting one in the hew city of canvas. Its guards and garrison Joined the eolumns retiring from Centreville, on the banks of Bull Bun, and all through that long, hot,Sabbath-of midsummer t)ie roar of cannon and the crash of musketry rolled across tho plains to the earS of the provost men, and the dumber of wounded jcame pouring thicker and faster from the field, until' all accommodations were fall. Then came that foarful moment when throe or four shattered regiments dame drifting through the fields and *oads in a great cloud of fugitives, broken ana disheartened; probable precursor of a general route. A trainStopped far above tho junction??.1 sey's men poor out of it?fbrm, and stareep across the fields; and the nfat is stayed, the tables are turned, and < o)d Camp Pickens, re-organixin? its i woarisd Cogitiyes, breaks into cboep- i ing and triumphal salvos from : cap* * For eight months thereafter tho dateot of snpplfes fbr the ariny, giro at : vj> abont i^, ^nd^ilea of ^ a the bi^^^^eomm^ddth?^ftS \ miration of tlic army?ami it woul liavo fared ill with u storming part who should" have tried eonelusior with those soldier tars. But Mana sas was demurely evacuated withoi % trial of artns, and served for Ion after as a depot for tho mngniloquei Pope?not as .liis headquarters, < qourse, for wo all remember that tin was "in tho saddle." Ho was tho gci tlcman who proposed to wallc rigl through Virginia, without being ei uumuureu wun "lines 01 retreat an bases of supply." So General Jacl 3011, doubting Tliomas that ho wn swung in behind him at Manassa und found as fine and costly a base ( supplies as tho Southern torch ha over dissipated. Meanwhile, thei was a merry little stampede hero b the horses of a Pennsylvania cavalr regiment, who persisted in carryin their six hundred riders away into tli Washington fortifications. Sagacioi horses! happy masters! Then tw Ohio infantry regiments, at Unio Mills, thought they would go up t Ihc junction and investigate a littl General Stuart persuaded them t matte u snort Biay una a Hpcouy exi \ day or two after, the First, Sccom rhird and Fourth regiments of Jersey thought that they would sho< ho Americans, Federal and Confe< :rate, what foreign troops could d? So thoy started from Alexandria t Ind out what was up at Manassas jut they stopped at Burke's Statioi ind in a few minutes became saddc md wiser Jerscymcn, under the iro idmonitions of tho Confederate flanl ng column there awaiting them. Th jrigado was "cut to pieces," as th >fllciaL report has it, but most of th 'picccs*' reached Alexandria, pullin lie biggest kind of a raw-head-ant jloody-bones panic after them. Meai imc the Army of tho Potomac wa >eing beaten in detail; Iiickct marcl: id into Manassas with his ragged vol irans of tho Cedar Mountain stair iodo, and united with King, who ha ust been thrashed at Bull Ilunnassing the two bewildered division ver tho track, and resting oh thei rms. Tho next day King formc< ine again, and at sunset moved dow; uto tlie battlo, only to sco his woar; nd disheartened men broken, after hort struggle, and in full retreat ove he fields. Tlifi rrrfiut, ineohftsivn nm liejointed army gave back that nighl ,nd tho plains and valleys settled ir o quietude once more. During this complication of coir tats Manassas reached her lowest cb if misfortune. It was a broad seen f smouldering destruction and desc ation. Dead horses . lay tliickl; phcre the cavalry and light batterie iad been engaged?half-buried corf es emitted horrid and pcstilentiu flluvia, shattered wagons and th irreck of retreat strewed tho roadt lid the only edifice visiblo was a rud ittl'e telegraph shanty, close by th rack, whoso rails wero torn' up o cut into all shapes by the great train urning upon thom. From this terrible wasto and ruii )t us turn to a fairer sight?the Ma assas of to-day. It is a pretty vil lge of over a hundred houses, group d about the depot, with broad street a good condition, lined with rcsidcn es,"stores, smithies, and all the office f a considerable population. Man; f these houses are neat and tasty omo aro even elegant, and the bote i a pleasant spacious ono indcedvliile queenly Religion has built he craplo on a grassy lawn at the end o , fine street. The inhabitants ar nostly from the North, a sturdy lard-working yeomanry, bringing own those habits of industry an* obricty which have nlade a garden ind of even cold and rocky Nov Cngland. Their principles aro also o he North, but this does not troubl he good Virginians who have settle* mong them, foy they are not making , political colony; they came dowi 'ii tlio borders of the Sunny Soutl o make homes for themselves, not t< iccome offloe-holders. 60 the fields ,8 far as tho eye can i*each, aro undc ultivation, tho young wheat is brca :ing through the ground, and all th may activities of the farm aro ii hecrful progress. Young trees ar lowly growing'up, to mitigate an* often the present bald aspect of th (lace?the germs of future garden >righten here and there in spots c loral brillianco and beauty?new lion es are rising on newly acquired os ates for the homes of futuro genera ions of thrifty Virginians, and mart little local paper dispenses th idings of the day, and indulges ii >ccasIonal strains of prophetic cnthv iasm. which would be worthv of Do uth or Omaha. Poussirt has a painting of a shal ind beautiful vale, with all the tcnde rraco of a pastoral Eden, a sparklin 'ill dimpling down through a velve ward, Tt>y iaiy flowers- and statel; recs. But. in the back-ground is a indent tomb, wit*h the inseriptio l?t in Areddia ego." Thus, thtoug ill the rural beauty and freshness t ,he fertilo plains, there rises a griml imbrasurea battery, glooming ove Ae western bounds with the same e lent significance?sole memorial < Lbe dread days when the grandest a aaies of a continent were surging i lestroying waves about and toward this pretty* action.- This is mow ment enough?the proud story is a told bjr this great hterogl^h^of^wa Tkft ifaKi I a QUJUhi? *v??vyo Nil when General JoeuJohissOn tnade h a ret .visit into Maryland, after tl surrender, ha Was aoeoited by an e: rited individual, .who pitched isl Congress 'genaraUjrv ana ejcafatfniet 'General fids thing 'Will not do p mutt be stopped, they will find ij *4r itf not^ver?? am. not- Whipped bare General Johnson interposed wfi the 4aei* "in. which army <*4 5* vheiHba waaJaUimpttft 04 ijrebwHh, Mr *fn4j*u* re*** &t;Ia*6 you are not WuMrtdf ''.v.v.vi. -}4 itoit d Work and Wages In Europe. 18 AN INTERESTING STATEMENT. 8 it g The Secretaries of Legation to tbo it various British Embassies in Contincnlnl Europe were some time ago xt directod by thoir government to investlgato and report upon tbo position of tbo artisan and industrial classes, n- moro especially in such matters as the l(l proportion which tbo number of thoso so employed bears to tho other classes, the description of houses or lodgs, jng3 generally occupied by them, tho >f naturo of their engagements with d employers, the ratos of wages rcceiv o ed by them, with any information as y to tho state of tho labor markets, oxy plaining wliothcr thoy present opener ings for tho introduction of labor 10 from without, or tho roverse. Thoso i<j reports have been made and submito ted, and thoy contain much intercstn ing and useful information upon the o comparative condition of tho Ia.bor u. market in the different countries of ,o Europe, though thoy are of courso t. made from an English point of view. According to theso reports, then, iv tho wages of a skilful artisan, such as iv a carpenter, joiner, plumber or smith, I. in Holland, may be reckoned, iu tho ). larger towns, at 16s., or about S3 50 a ^ nrnnlr ITa \irnnlra 4 ti??lhrvn y m vvu* jkA.v n VI I\i3 l)U ViVU UUUIO U U?IJ' t iii summer, and bis food is very mod)? eratc; yet ho is reported as being ! prosperous and happy. In Denmark, n a first-rate carpenter might contrive to earn 2Ca. a week, and a first-rato c bridk-laycr 30?. c Unfortunately, however, seldom is o tho l)ane proper tho person to earn <r the highest wages; for the Dane has 1- yet to learn tho meaning of tho word i- -work; of cndui'anco and thorough,8 ncss ho has seldom an adequate noi. tion. Hence tho Swedish artisan t- comas la and takes tlio bread from i- his mouth; the German enters, and d he gets on better than the Dano him self. s In Sweden matters ai-e better. The r agricultural laborers earns 20d. a day d irt summer, and lOd a day in'winter; n iron-founders earn Is. 8d. to 2s. 10d., y and we may tako it that skilled worka men earn 2s. to 3s. 6d. a day. But r there is not the slightest chance for a d foreign artisan to find work there, t, In Prussia the journc3*man artisan i- is generally an educated and well-todo man.- llo not only possesses a i- good technical education, but followb ing the excellent practice of travelling e or "wandering," and by visiting the i- manufactures of other States, ho acy quires ample ability for the business b ho intends, to pursue. ?- In Saxony wages are not high? il they average no moro than 9s. to 12s. o a week, but the Saxon workman i, knows how to keep himself and his o family on that sum, and frequently to o lay by somotliiiig which enables him r to purchase a small house, and a plot s of ground attached to it. In Wurtemburg-the condition of the laborer B is still better. IIo is able to indulge t. in meat as a daily articlo of food, and [. even tho poorest artisan cats sausages, )m it unablo to procure fresh meat. 9 White bread is still a luxury, and is soidom indulged in by tho working 8 classes, but black or rye bread, which ,, costs four kreutzers or ljd. per pound, * . forms their habitual consumption. \ Beor is cheap, and is very largely con_ sumed. And what is most commenr dablo is tho anxiety felt by the oporf atives to save up their earnings with 0 a view of establishing a trado for . themselves, or becoming small pronri t etors. In Austria the wnges of aYtiJ san6 must bo very small, ^f wo can . judgo by the fact that agricultural lov borers earn less than ?3 to ?A per anil num. Yet the workman in Austria 0 is usually well educated, and ho owcb j much of his'rofinemont to his capacity j T for innocent amusements, and the ^ abundance with which the means of ' ij it are provided for him by the habits a and instincts of the society of which , he forms a part. p In Bpusoela, a .good ordinary car- 1 pcntcr,..workib" for himself, and havq mg a few pounds of capital or credit, a can earn 4s to 6s. a day, and can get 0; plenty-of work. j In France the condition of tho e workman has greatly improved of late g years. A journeyman carpontcr who )f in 1853 earned 4s. a week, in 1869 [_ oarnod 4s. 9Jd.; a mason, who in 1853 j, earned 3s. 7id., in 1869 earned 4s. 43d per day; while the model lodgings a built to supply tho want caused by 0 tho cxtensivo .demolition of houses Q have proved.a great boon to tho Parisian laborer. L. In Switzerland tho picture is much shaded. In Zurich the wages of a ^ spinner is only 9s. per week, , and 5s. r lor children; yot tho working man in g. Switzerland is in a far more prosper* cub state than his co-laborer cngagod Y in the development of manufactures ? in other countries. ' . . TKa finriaa /^rvorofirrno Ia? Q AMt# M IIAM# V^VtHVIf VDj JVi VIIV *H UD1/ h part living in their own homos, sur,f rounded by their families, and cultii y vating their own lands, are less infln? enced-bv thoso-periodical storms and j_ fluctuations to whioh industry is eve* jf rywhere exposed. P. In Greece a carpenter earns 2s. Id. n to 3s. 6d. per day; a blaokamith, Is. [s 5d. to Is. 9|d<; a mason, Is. 8td. to r. 3s. 64d. per day; and the operatives 11 in the silk-factories, Is. 9ia. to 2s. r lid.; bat, owing to the cumber of church festivals, kept As strict holidays, leaving only ?65 working days In til A MMLitilA ftMnnnt r%f tvuna ?? nnally received is very small. ,, '8 Spain is tidt likely to tempt an em>?. Jgrant laborer, ana'in Russia wages K' are extremely low; so, taking all in ^ all, theye is really* only- one foreign E ^wWoh ^e wirtftiV eye It the laborer may be usefaliy directed, ? a%d that Jsfto United States Of Amer? fotf-~Tb(itf? 'ft*Sy&Mfcadb?-' SRhe % ?rtfv, J ;t V-1 it; 1.1 ?i\I r-/-71 Jtt: > 'There have been m*?y deftnltiom Mr 0# a geatlenMte) tmfcth*prettiest .and S ?dy J^8$ s*d!^*'wiUi ST8!ST <conrtgo^6^ THE GERMAN DICKENS. Auerbach Interviewed at Home. Edward King, in tho Boston Journal, thin gossips about tho most popular of German authors: Ono of my pleasantest visits in Berlin was with BertholU Auerbacli, tho distinguished author of "On tho Heights," and those beautiful lifo pictures, set in local frames brought from tho Black Forest or from mountain top, which liavo had such excellent success in America. Aucrbach is tho German Dickens, that is, no man else in Gorman land occupies a placo so near and dear to tho popular heart. For many years his name has been as a housohold word, and his Yolks Kulender and contributions to popular publications havo always been received with enthusiasm. It- was until tho ndvont. nf tiOn 4 Iw* * 1 - ..v.. v..v vy.? iiiv til lit I1U assumed the grout prominentia lio lins at present in the German literary world. Horo was a man with all the possibilities of a iiiclilcr, with a superb diction, matchless talent forgenro painting in words, and spirituality absolutely new to tho age. Thoro was something new and inspiring in tho history of Irma, .llanseo, ct al, in "On tho llei<jjhts," which has heretofore been lacdcing in European 01* rather Continental literature. It was Schiller's cold and pure spirit transfused with tho waruith and graco of genuine humanity. It had just philosophy enough in it to satisfy the German skeptical turn of mind, but oneo in"a while it broke tho bauds of doubt and fluttered up to heaven. As an artistic humane study of passion and repentance, "On tho Heights" lias no suporior in German fiction. Auerbach left Dresden somo thrco years ago and came to Berlin to livo. Tho city where ho had nestled so long among frionds liko that good one' Prof. Julies Ilubner, and oUicrs <]uitc as noted, bccamo gradually too small for him, and he was forced in tho Prussian capital. But he flics to the hills in summer. IIo livos in tho Konigen Auquata Strasso, ono of tho finest avenues in Berlin, and his homo is cheery, simple, and always crowded with frienus. Ho lives up three flights, in elegant, quiet rooms, whero ins wiie a may of mro accomplishments, makes ovory visitor at ease by the charms of her conversation. Tho rooms are filled with mementoes of the author's literary triumphs. Chief among them is a beantiful bouquet of the little Edelweiss flower, on which name Auerbach had buildcd such a beautiful romance. This bouquot came from tho Princcss Hobenzollern, who had them gatherod at groat oxpenso. The flower grows on tho highest tops of tho Tyrol, and sometimes tho adventurous hunter, who goes after it, is found dead at tho foot of tho cliffs, having venturod too far. I had my trophy to bring too, and singularly enough it was an "Edelweiss." Three j-ears ago, wliilo voyaging on Lake Como, a Gorman lady gavo mo a little musty white flowor, which came, she said from tho highest top in Germany. I carried it over the sea, and had brought it back again beforo I discovered that it was an '.'Edelweiss." 'I told the good author tho story, and ho said that ho had received over two hundred difforont Edelweiss bouquets sinco tho little ro UJUIl^O HUD wntiuu* Auerbaek, or Dr. Auerbach, aa ho is called for the Germans eall thus all who have obtained tho degiv o of doctor in philosophy, is a short man, with a rjund, jovial, kindly faco, and no ecccntricitics either of manner or speech Ho is perfectly unconstrained in his manners, and wo talked in his study for a long time. Ho is engaged on what his frionds consider a vory remarkable novel, which will, in courso of time bo announced, and will probably creato as great a sensation as did the story of Irma's life and death. Auerbach is much known and rcspected in Berlin, and contemplates at soino future time a visit to tho "great country." How is This for High? Tho Seott Iting deny that South Carolina is heavily taxed. Lot us BCO. The taxes lovied upon the people of the State last year were as follows: For poll tax $ 70,748 " State " 1,203,259 " County " ' 601,007 ?' . , Total ' $1,887,104 . The assessed value of the real and pessonal property in tho Stato is as follows: IVCBI propeyiy $12.\I71,088 Personal " . . , 88,861,201 Total $104,032,343 Tho Stato and County tax last year was more than ono nor cent, upon the asseiwod value of all the real and personal property in the State. Ton years ago the entire State taxation was 9867,000. This year tho taxation is moro than doable that amount. . The total expenditures of the State ^AvnlnntvA nf {ntarAat.t tooiw tIRl ftftfl in 1867, and are 1611,890 it) 1870. The General Assembly costs $145000 instead fit #43,000. TbesaWries (Of Soott & Co.) amount to *167,000, instead of $60,000. v The. expenditures for the-, < fiscal year, ending Ootobe^ 31; 1869,. wen estimated at 244,000, bat $363,000 was actually spent. - " i The current expenditures for State purposes in 1869, (the second year oi the QeottBi ngr) were iKMjW.JMW than in Vthe rnvi yoA? of tha SjJOtl IMnM 186&* 1 ; 3ahie debt of the^ State ie?*euppo? iag! w# wipe j out the<$4,(W)O0 oi Blue Bidge bond*1?at least four tods nlf millions mora than It wii'; ip l^gg ^ ~ ^ ^ Attempted Bribery. The report of tho solect Seniito committee on Bullock's briberies to p induce tho Senato to lmnd Georgia tl over to him and his harpies for the b two years after the expiration of their d f>rcsont term Bays: "As tbero is no qi aw for punishing such attempts, they \v must bo left, and perhaps it is best T thoy should* bo loft, to tho judgment bi of an enlightened and just public sen- tl timcnt, which will not fail to visit ei with its condemnation any attempt, tl b3r the uso of improper means, to in- ai liuonco the votes of a legislative bo- cc dy." ' w Wo cannot agreo with the commit- ra too. It is true, tlicro is no law to hj punish such attempts at bribery as ai havo been proven on this fellow; but gi that is bccauso tho fathers of tho ro- io public did not conccivo there would 01 ever arise the exigency -when mem- la bers of Congress would bo sold like T flesh in tho shambles, and becauso at ps later days the men who constituted a tho Senate-?tho Webstcrs, Calhouns, it: Clays, and so on?would havo thrown 03 a bribe at the tempter's head, oven if, cr being mostly largo men and of a hot n< temper, they bad not anointed liim -A with a stick; but times have changed ni latterly, as tbc loil never tire of toll- ci ing us. .a new era naa uawnca, uiey ic Bay; and wo can well bolicvo it, in ai view of tho detestable dishonesty tho cj reign of great moral ideas has brought w in its train. Tho committee to the y* contrary notwithstanding, there is ti needed a law to prevent or punish at- in tempts at bribery, and tho sooner it qi is onacted and put to work, especially hi on tho Senate, tho better. That body is stuffed with men who know llicy have no more just right there than any Patagonian; and men who will M thus knowingly receivo pay and por- ^ quisites to which they arc not entitled u are none too good to sell their votes. Ho who will reeeivo money under ni false pretences will take a bribe. Tho rf animns is tho same, and tho manifes- ^ tation a moro matter of indifferent 111 form. It adds to this view to know w that the only, members of tho commit- tc tec who sought to whitewash this P' pestilent trickster, and shamelessly sic declare that "Governor Bullock acted P1 honorably and fairly throughout the whole controvery," arc two surrepti- c' tious Senators of this very breed? ?' one as very an upstart and usurper as ^ tho pretended Governor of Georgia w himself, and the other sitting by vir- p ' tue of an impudont fraud that tho pcoplo will yet undo. 1 The genuine members of tho Sen- "i ate, ana tbeso number something over S A luilf?At. ]f>nHt. nnnnrrli trt nnvpir anr>)> tl a measure?should immediately set on its passage a law to prevent or punish attempts pf this kind. It is not worth while to be too virtuous, y and make tho law so stringent that it will not bo enforced; but give it a . good workable sanction, severe enough .. to well punish offenders, and not bo ^ rigid as to tempt undetected thieves a< to risk discovery rather than condemn ^ thoir loss fortunate cronies. The ^ State of Illinois has just, in tho con*- ^ stitution framod by, her eovoreign convention, insorted a stringent inter- , diet on bribery, and Congress is surely not so ineffatly pure that it cannot ? hoed the lesson taught by that action. P ?Ntio York World. Jjj C? Sodinm?Common Salt & (' Cf Prof. Rosoco, in lecturing on tho "Spectrum Analysis," presents eorn'o w things which will bo of interest cspecially to Buch of our roaders as aro of a scientific bent of mind: There is not a speck of dust, or a moto in the sunbeam, which docs not , contain chloride of sodium (tho scicnti- ? fic name for common salt). Sodium .is i hf\ nrAvnilmff olomnnf ' n "f Ka n 4 m rvo I W?W |?*w. ??? v?iv UUJUV/O- .-Jj phoro. "Wo are constantly breathing ^ in portions of this clomentary sub stanco together with the air which H we inhale. Two thirds of the earth's S51 surface is covered with salt wntor, r. and the fino spray which is being continnally carriod np into tho air evaporatos, leaving tho minute specks of salt which wo see dancing in tho sun* beam. If I clap my hands, or if I J? shake my coat, or if 1 knock *this Ty dusty book, I think that you will observe that this flamo bcconjcs yellow This is not bccauso it'is tho hand or . coat of a clicmist, but simply bocauso . tho dust which ovdrybody carries about with him is mixed with sodium compounds. If Iplnco in the color- *c loris flamo this piccoof platinum wire which has been lying on tho tablo for a few minutos since I heated it red ' hot, you see there Is sodiam in it; 01 there wo havo for on/o moment the y glimpse of a yollow flame. If I boat the wire in tho flame, the sodium salts will all volatilize, and the yellow jj flame will qutye disappear; but if I now draw this wire onoo through rh'y a| fingers, you observe the sodium flamo c will, on heatirig, again appear. If I jj beat it again, and draw it through ^ my mouth, it will be evident that the tj saliva contains a vorv . considerable ~] quantity of sodium salts. If I" leave ^ , the wire exposed here, tied around p this rod, so that this end does not touch anything for ten minutoa or a jj quarter of an hour, I shall obtain the ^ sodium reaction again ^ even if the ? wire be perfectly fi*e.' This is be- |j oauso sodium salts, pervade the at- w , mospher.e, and1, s^me particles of sodiurn oust) flying about in the fcir of ^ 1 .the room, settle on the wire, and show. 0] i (heir presence in the flamo; . * . i ', IfCri Shaftesbury Tecontir stated o: ' as the result of his personal forest!- n I; Ration, that ,fof all tho adult male u i criminals in London, ?ot. two itt,? a - hundred who llvo a lffe o? honesty, ,ij and iobrtety jbp to thd ago of mnte :*? t aibfir tipon i .?? 4) i criebo. and thai almoat all who enter U I The Norman Face. . Tho boanty of tho Norman's is a roblom all.over tho world. Nor has pi Fio universal admiration wliich has Sj ccn bestowed upon it in the slightest egree exaggerated its lofty and ex- f uisito character. The mon in their ay, are as handsome as tho women. ^ hoy have tho fine oval faco, sedate, (ari right oj'os, and clear complexion of 10 old raco; You look in vain for mlenco of thcic Toutoiiic descent in . 1 icso sculptured features, tlio skin id hair alone suggesting a rominissncc of their Saxon ancestry. The omen aro romarkablo for the natu- m: il dignity of their carriage, which to irmonizes Btrikingly with their tall to, id commanding figures, and tho avity and reserve of their cxprcssns. Like tho men, their faces are liii ml, with the slightly alquilino noso an rgo, flashing eyes, and curved lips. II< heir complexions aro poculialy trans- sli irent, tho chceks mantling over with blush rich in color, but delicato in 9 diffusion. A fcmile sits in their Sa ,'cs, but the most exquisito observer of in not detcet in thoir looks or man- of Irs iho slightest indication of levit}'. sweet seriousness is their predominant characteristic. It is strange 6,1 lough to enough to an Englishman Cl* > meet.groups of theso people, men vc id women, reproducing beforo his r'cs that famous Normau head with hich all are bo familiar. It carries &a4 ou back at once to tho eleventh ccn try. \v liorevor ho turns ho seos, as V' i a magic glass, William tho Coniicror moving up tho streets and igliways. Ti , m , cd da Tho Saturday Itoview, speaking of pC r. Bright's "Woman's Disabilities ill," says: "It is nonsenso to ring 10 changes on Florcnco Nightingalo lo1 id Harriot Martineau, when what is of icant is woman in tho consulting wi )om and dissecting-room, woman in arliament, woman in tho pulpit, vro- . icu at the bar, v. omen on the jury, omen free, not only to contract, but P? > dissolvo tho marriage lio as they 011 lease. And it is not so iriuch non snso^to say that because wo do not jn srmit women to go to tho polling30th, thcx-cforc, in England, wo only ch ass them with felons, idiots, lunatics nj| atlaws and minors. Mr. Jacob right has often avowed that ho auts to assimilato our sociastato to th tat happy land, tho home of froo st< >vo and tho Sorosis; but to assist this Ti lessed state of- things^ it is simply un ishonest for any one to say that JSn- ta lish women are now no hotter off hii mn she-Turks." ^ ici Gbatifyino Success op 'the Cau- tb [.ina Prima Donna.?Tho New Br orlc papers speak in high terms of a IO tiffin t in Ttolion r?nn?*? aP Afiftn Tn Oil w ?? AbM?*UU V|;Vl t* XJJL. OIJ J DO JLO- ' aella McCulloch, tho favorito Carotia vocalist. Tho Herald says, odi- iut >rially : "Isabella McCulloch, a rose- "j,a ;o flower from tho gardens of South ei. arolina, about whoso history there co' angs that charm of roraanco which m( slongs more to tho inner and domesc life of a girl studying and strug- ar ling for success than to tho more lare of stage fame, has mado an im, rcssion *on'the public that will not lai > forgotten. If ever -there was an is lustration of what industry an<V th irclul study, added to fino natural sir fta and inspirod by a noblo ambition It in accomplish, . tho perfection op hich Miss McCulloch has reached as to 1 artiste furnishes that example, ? 1*1 motr lta mianlff "?VM *-?*ww i? iovijr iv?uwyu ujr ,hor students of tho divino art." _ po r 801 Tho hill which passed the Senate; Sq Icr a.continuous session of eightcon jurs, to cnforco-ihe Fifteenth amendont, is of such a stringent character yc int it is not aceeptablo^to tho author -q * tho original measarO which passed 10 House, and when it is -taken up j icro a non-concarrcnco will bo moved ne] no of tho romarkablo featuuos of tho by 11 is contained in tho 8th scctioji, prj hich gives tho United States mar- wc ials tho power to call on tho land id naval forces of tho Unitod Statos j0I i assist them in caso t>f rosistanco. jjj ven Republican mombers of tho thl ouso declare that this provision is ji0 ich a palnablo violation of tho con- ox itution, that thov will not vote for - A modified bill, meroly imposing iinp and penalties, for preventing 331 >lored portions from voting, is likely "3/ > come out of this disagreement be- of voon tho two housoB. ' L Gratifying Success olr tii? Car- th ijna PhimA Donna.?-The New 75 ork papers speak in high terms of Jri le debut in Italian opera of Miss Iabolla McColloch, the favorite Carooa vocalist. The Herald says ... odi- Ri >rially: "Isabella McCulloch, a rose- foi to flower fxtorn the gardens of Sooth to Aroltaa, abont whose history there .eij angs that ebarm of romanco which av ilonga more to the.inner and domes* an plife of a girl studying and Strug- th ling fbr BUOCO88 than to the mere at ? ? P.. I--' -* -- " IUIu ui pwgo iuino, una mauy an lm- ri rossion on thopublio that will not &6 a forgotten. ,Xf evor there Was an lo lustration of what hicftutry. and er ireful study, added to. fine' natural y ifts and inspired by a noble ambi on, can accomplish. tho perfection -to hieh Kiss McOullooh has reached as 29 a orlitt* furnishes that example, ?* hioh may bo wisely followed by othfl W r students of the divine artv" - gj sobsertjWionof SCRAPS, The famous Chicago breach t. omise case, Amanda Craifg vs. l^Iieha. >ragtio, is to bo triod again. The poot Bryant is worth $500,000 Dngfollow, $200,000 ; Holmes, $100,>0 : Saxo, $70,000; Lowell, $40,000, id Whittier $30,000. Dennis Heart, Esq., the founder of o HilUboro' Recorder, diod in Hills>ro', N. C., last week at tho age of Tlits Now Orleans Ice Company ako from Bevonty to .sovonty-fivo ns of ice a day, and sell it at $13 a 11 at the manufactory. Tho President decides' to remove 3 family to Long Branch in June, d not wait, till Congress adjourn*, a will also go there, ?o remain* a ort time, next month. Much excitement still prevails in n Francisco about the silver mines Now Mexico,- which are said to bo the richest in the world. Dr. Paul F. Evo, tlio distinguished rgcon, late of St. Louis, has accepta professorship in tho Medical Uni rsity of Nashville. A Maino burglar in prison recently inod possession of a lioop skirt, and xde the steel springs into 8aw8,*witl. licli ho cut tho bars of his cell winw. Tho residence of N. O. Sykes. in ppah County, Mississippi, was burnon Saturday night last. Two ughtcrs, aged oight and thirteen, rished in tho flames. At an agricultural dinner, tho foliving.toast was given?"Tho game fortitudes-shuffle the cards asyou. II nnadnn will oUrnrmrin 11 _A. ..... ?...?r ...... A brother and siBtor in an Indian \vn weigh respectively 593 and 680 unds, and tho oldest is only twentyi'c years of ago. An exceedingly paternal man livg in Dennis Lake, Florida, aged ;hty-8even, is tho father of sixty ildrcn, tho youngest of whom is no months old. / ^ Tho Pall Mall Gozclle} in alluding to o case of Captain Eyre, of tho ;amer Bomba5,,iagre6S "with tho mes in tho proprioty of his condemtion, and doclaros that the/aots susin tho moBt unfavorable estimate of s conduct. ' "Don't you think," said a vain fcl?r "that I am fit to beK President of o United States, or &ing of Great itain?" "No; but you might mako dogo of Yonico, if tHe title wero ly curtailed by alot^fer#' Paper napkins for table use havo 3t boon introduced into the rostaunts of Germany. They answer ovV nurnOKO for nnn liRinnr hut. nf ' ' iV. o' ~~ urao will not stand washing any 3ro than paper collars. Three of cm cost less than a cent, and they 6 mado of all sizes. ? The following is a ^'Personal" in a ;o number of the Herald: "As God my Judge, I had no'iptQQt to injuro o Rev. Mr. Smyth by fciy advertiig in Veferenco to "giijt. and. milk." was bad enough to Jail,. John BishIIall without addir\g'another crime ray numerous and4 manifold sins. Thcuurectified. M'*1 The following announcement aparcd undor the marring ,, head in me of the New York ev^nfog pars on Wednesday: "At Pai|y April , at tho Mairio, aftcrwafd at tho inrch of Notre Dame. B'oradittht, jstavo Lafitte,' formerly of New >rk, to Kate, youngest daughter.' of. melius Yanderbilt, of this city/' Bonnoris rcportod to have spent irly $200,000 since ho was bit?6n mama lor "last ones " xtie ices paid for his most noted houses ire as follows: Pocahontas, $6$,000; ixter, 33,000; Brnno, $23,00Qi|: Ha Widfield, $20,000; Lantenfcrand ght, *10,000; Flatbush MaidfSe,600 o Auburn Horse, $13,000; Joe 3?1 tt, a colt now owned by hiri^and pocted to beat Boxter, cost $l<^00j0. Napoleon's expenses in the ba are given for the first time ifi the fomoir and Archives," 1809-lfttfi, tho treasurer there, M. lie Bafoa tyrussce, published last- year. The . ilitary expenses were .1,446,000 incs*; the civil oqly 145,000 franofl; ose of tho Emperor's household 0,000 fjranc&,, fl:om May The land salos of the TJoWra ulroad are now averaging pfarfy rty thousand dollars k?c^flu^*he tal Sales to date amoun^io ijibott jht hubdrgd thousand dmli^'^The eraire per acre Is abotit mlf' dqllara .1 _ i rni IU a IIHU. jLUUiv Mvwmvir" Huig o'restriction Conto ply to the lands of * the Northern road, o v ah'liI* A sp?tf*i deBpsioh'lo tVe Chariositky >Jp?j?zitii5?S3&r5?7 i>:." *; ' iA ^Janjoaf^Smith, ?onJf Ahig-man Sot?^: FeMBingkAn Awm."7u>fSZT3'l 11? IT ... J " IT - . .li