VOLUME XX?NO. 5, ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MAY 15. 1S72 AND HUGH WILSON m BY W. A. LEE A Wife's Appeal Come' rouse thee, dearest?:'tis not well j To let the spirit brood Thus darkly o'er the cares that swell Life's current to a Hood ; As brooks, and torrents, rivers, all, Increase the gulf in which they full, Such thoughts, by gathering up the rills Of lesser griefs, spread real ills ; And with their gloomy shades conceal The landmarks hope Vfould else reveui. Como, ?Ouse thee now?I know thy mind, And would its strength awaken ; Proud, gifted, noble, ardent, kind Strange thou should'st be thus shaken! But rouse afresh eaeh energy And be what Heaven intended thee; Throw from thoughts this wearying ?1. 4. weigm, And prove thy snirit firmly great, I would not see tliee bend below The angry storms of earthly woe. Full well I know the generous soul Which warms thee into life; Each spring which can its powers con trol Familiar to thy wife; Fordeem'st thou she could stoop to bind? The eagle-like ambition nursed From childhood in her heart had first Consumed with its Promethean flame The shrine, than sank her so to shame. Thon rouse thee, dearest! from the dream, That falters now thy powers ; Shake off this gloom?Hope sheds a beam, aIam rl mliinh lATUOrQ 1U ^iiu cavn viuuu 7tii.vu iwfvt* , And though at present seenas so far The goal, the guiding star, "NVith peaceful ray would light thee on, Until its utmost bounds be won : That quenchlcss ray thoul't ever prove, In fond, undying wedded love ! The Press on Greiley. {From the Xew York Herald of Satur day.] The fact that a body of men, coming from every section of the country and animated'by purposes so unique anuj contradictory, should resolve to enter), upon a canvass for the Presidency "with j Horace Greeley as the candidate, is the |c most striking event, in some respects,'. ever known in oar political history. 1 It shdws pre-eminently the effect of per sonal character and devotion to duty upon the general mind of the country ; for whatever criticisms may be madeje upon the public career of Greeley, no ^ one denies his honesty of purpose, his; zeal in the public service, his devotion je to the people's welfare, his almost senti- j j5 mental devotion to every scheme that } promised well to mankind. Greeley's! enemies have regarded hira as a fanatic a and a dreamer. His friends have wor- v shipped him with a devotion almost P jOriental as an apostle of progress and humanity. No man is as well known J in the country as Horace Greeley, unless, 1 perhaps, it is General Grant. It will, 1 therefore, not be a canvass of false pre tences. It will be a personal canvass, a question or mere men ; xor ueyuau me i name of Horace Greeley, what principle! do we bee in this platform ? The name 1 of Horace Greeley and the restlessness { of the country under our foreign policy, and the desire for change which belongs) to our easy tempered people, aud'nothiug i more ! There are conditions of the pub- j lie temper when considerations as super- 1 ficialund evanescent as these will con- 1 trol a canvass and name a President. This we saw when Harrison and Pierce 1 were elected. Are we to have these * conditions now, aud with similar results? Are our people tired of Grant? Does l) the absence of any special enthusiasm [ for Grant at this time show that our peo pie are weary? These are questions c ?imt n?nvHs* will devolon. In the 0 meantime, we welcome Horace Greeley 11 juto the campaign as a man whom the, ? American people will always respect anil L honor. Whether we shall support or1' oppose him must be decided by himself. 0 He has received this nomination, and if'(l Jie avoids certain fallacies that have em-!1 bar.asseu uie Useiuinesi: oi nits career, Jc we shall support him. Butiu this we J ^ shall await the developments of the ( canvass, and the attitude in which the jiomineos of the conventions will stand a before the people. [From the New York World.] a "With so unexpected and surprising a s caudidate as Mr. Greeley, we have no n - j?? _ ? rm,n liaf{/u,. auviue IU unci. IIIC in.uiui.iaui. uuiiuu ui committee will meet in this city next jyeek, audjssue the regular ct 11 lor the usual convention. We think .t expedi- t ent, on all grounds, that the convention r should be held early, especially after 1< this extraordinary result at Cincinnati, h But the convention cannot very well be b Jield before the latter part of June, and i i paeanwhile there will be opportunity a for a free expression of Democratic opin- e jon. Under existing circumstances we t do not aspire to guide Democratic senti- rl lUpnt, but prefer to watch and follow it. 1< SVe will frankly say, however, that Mr. 1: Greeley is not our choice, and that we v regret his nomination. If, as seems a likely, the Democratic Convention li should ignore the Cincinnati ticket and li rtominate a new one of its own, we shall li give that new ticket our zealous support. fi inevitable, but the strange action at (Jin- i ciunati has fallen on us so suddenly that [ li we deem it prudent to await the sponta-1 h neons expression of Democratic opinion j 1 before proffering counsel in circum-jo stances so extraordinary. Our present I impression is, that the Democratic Xa-'t' tional Convention will ignore Cinctnnati; i entirely and nominate a new ticket?a i i course in which it may count upon the' 1 hearty support of the World. We will j be guided' by the National Convention, 11 and submit to its judgment in any event; ? but we do not at present see any possi-1 a bility in the future as the endorsement of Mr. Greeley by the Democratic party.1 i We grudge him none of the Republican jc '"tiinli V.icr nonniinl nnnilhiritV i r Vvill draw away from Grant. We have;c po doubt that, inside the Republican:? party, he will make a strong canvass.; | lie is popular enough to make a great ,i pad formidable split in the Republican r puks; find the assured Republican pchism gives Democrats a splendid op- t portunlty, such as we have not before I v had'since the outbreak of the civil war. j i "We think tlijs ig the view which will be 1 taken by the Democratic National Con- I ventiou when it assembles. We take it t for granted that Air, Greeley will stand i by his guns and qot retire from the can- t vass. rtix or eight weeks hence, when t our convention assembles, it will be ap- i parent what his strength really is ; and j a meanwhile we can afford to wait and ji watch the development of the schism! ill kilt) ivcpuuiiuau uuu w it is likely to amount to. What the effect of running three ticKets may be is a topic which we reserve for early dis^ cui^iou. [From the Journal of Commerce.] There were two courses open to tliia' convention of disaffected Republicans., One, which was generally expected, was] to nominate a candidate of high chrfrac-, terandof modeiate views, who ba(' a good standing among men of all parties, and who, by securing a subsequent' Democratic endorsement, might fairly hope to be elected. The other was to Doiuinatv a well-known partisan Repub lican, who should stand well with and fairly represent the views of those as-i sembled, and be likely to draw out their strength in the canvass, but who could not expect a Democratic endorsement, and would thus compel the regular Re publican convention to endorse him or to throw the election into the hands of their opponents. Whether wisely or not, the convention has chosen the lat ter of these alternatives, and has put forward for the Presidency the name of Horace Greeley. He is too well known throughout the United States to need any description at our hands. Nor is he, with all his idiosyncracles, a candi date to be despised. He has a following in New York strong enough to render the success of any other Republican can didate in this State quite hopeless while he keeps the field ; and if those repre sented at Cincinnati cling to his fortunes he will turn the scale also in many an scfofn iii.w r?i>!;ntipi] jib iirobnblv Republican. This will place a grave responsibility upon the regular Repub lican Convention, to meet in Philadel phia. If the nomination is then con firmed by that body, and he is elected, it will throw the whole patronage of, the General Government into the hands; if those who have heretofore been in a! iisalfected minority. If his claims are ivholly ignored, and Grant is renominat ed, the running of two such Republi can candidates would almost certainly jring the Democrats once more into lower. If this nomination is heartily iccepted by all who were represented id Cincinnati, it'will prove to be the hard est problem the party has been called o solve since it first came into power. [From the New York Suu.] fironloir \irna VOlifprdflV NilTVli nuiacu ^ vs/?v.??v Kited for President by the convention it Cincinnati. lie is the grandson of an Irishman, tnd will be likely to carry the Irish rote.. By birth, by education, and by senti nent. he is an out-and-out American. The Germans seem to be for him en husiasticaliy. The tSoutii is for him, both colored md white. The North is for him. The Liberal Republicans are for him, heart and soul,! md the Democrats appear to be for him dso. The East is for him. The West is for him. We have done our duty in bringing urn iorwaru auu inimiu^ uuu ?, v.muu. late. It only remains for the people to do heirs and elect him. [From the New York Times.] Nobody in his senses believes that so. mineutly shrewd and practical a people s this would ever place such a man as lorace Greeley at the head of their gove rnment. If any one man could send a :reat nation to the dogs, that man is Mr. Jrecley. There is no department of wain ess which he wonld not disorganize nd unsettle; there is no wild "ism" i llicit lie WUUIU UMl U1IVIVU>UI %*, iiivwi lorate into the framework of our gov rnment; there is no foreign country pith which he would not embroil us; here is no crude illusion which he would lot eagerly pursue. [From the Baltimore Gazette.] If, through patriotic and prudential notives, there has beeu in the past any .imposition shown by a portion of the, Jemocracy of the Union to yield to the; ressure of events and accept the action ; f the Liberal Republicans, the course! f the Cincinnati (Jouvention has put hut question beyond all discussion.! t is now, we rejoice to say, among the I lungs that were. It was and still is I ur earnest desire to have'a Democratic: andidate, an honored and well tried I talesman, from our ranks, ami not bei (impelled, uy tne rorceoi eircumsiaueesi t unwise Democratic intermeddling,! o fight under any other banner. From.' his hour, henceforth, the Democratic olumn will move on unbroken. Its rganization, once threatened withdis-j nenibernieut, will now be stronger than ver. There will be no faltering?not tack ward steps. In the wild chaos that! xists in the Radical ranks, the election if the Democratic candidates for Presi lent and Vice President is as certain as he coming of election day,- if the Dem icratic National Convention only exer ises in its deliberations an ordinary legree of wisdom and^ discretion. Tiiei lay for entangling alliances has past,! ,nd happily for the party and the ountry, there is but one path left for, he Democracy to triad, and that is,; dhesion to its own principles, and the ' election of wise, pureand honest states*! Jen as its candidates. [From the Springfield Republican.] J What can we say of Horace Greeley j hat will not be a twice-told tale to eve-j y reader? He is probably the best iiown man in the country. For the tetter part of two generations he has' een one of the most prominent figures! 11 the pub'i3 eye, until both his features! nd his foi. 'eshave become public prop-' rtv. And vis hardly too much to say1 hat he is ao widely liked as known, j it*11n 1 *infrlt nt him nffpnost, and rudest generally have a warm ^pot for J iim in their hearts. Ho has peculiar I weaknesses as a candidate, but he has! lso peculiar strength. He has been in! lis time a thorough partisan, a good' later, and a lierce lighter. Politics! iave often given him strange bed-j allows. He has not been so choice as le should have been in his company, lis charitable and unsuspicious nature ias sometimes betrayed him into the lands of bad men, who have abused' lis confidence and used him for their j onlfiult nnnirwM Then his ultra I ligh tariff notions are undoubtedly an lement of weakness in his candidacy. Jut of lute Mr. Greeley lias been grow ng and broadening and ripening. Years lave brought to him something of the >hilosophie mind. He has got out of he narrow rut of partisanship. And ,11 the while that he 1m* been growing tway from liis old enmities and preju lices and ''crotchets" he has been grow ng into the respect and affection of his ouutrymen. Few men can be found low?outside the Grant newspaper dices?who will question the honesty md nobility of his character. The ad ninistration party should not deceive tself on this point. Mr. Greeley's jopularity. is no myth. He is as strong vith the ex-slaveholders as with the x-slavcs; with tl.e Irish laborers as vith the native born farmers who have lever voted a democratic ticket in tneir ivf>s. He may be beaten, but those wno ancy the job an easy one, will one of bene days see cause to alter their opin 011. If the Philadelphia people conclude o undertake this job, it behooves them o build a stouter platform than thea tre now thinking of, and to find a itronger man thau Grant to put on it ,yhen built. Tfom the Nashville, Tenn., Union and American.] The nomination of Horace Greelay for the Presidency and Governor 13. Uratz Brown for the Vice Presidency makes, in our opinion, the strongest ticket which the Liberal Republicans it Cincinnati could have nominated ex cept one?the exception is Brown and Greeley?not that we would intimate that the present is a Kangaroo ticket. But there are points in Mr. Greeley's record which will be attacked While be occupies the first position that would not have been subject to criticism if he had been a candidate for the Vice iJresi ileucy. * * * Its election depends sole ly upon the action of the Democracy. Whatever they shall conclude is best to be done for the highest interests of the j country will be done cheerfully. They will preserve their organization intact 'and act as a body. With the lights j before us we do not doubt that when in National Convention assembled they will take such action as will lead to the I defeat of Urunt and the election of the !ticket presented at Cincinnati. As 'between Grant and Wi.son, of Massa chusetts, and Greeley and Brown, there icau be for the Democracy but one choice. THE SO'JfHERN PRESS ON THE CIN CINNATI NOMINATION. The Wilmington, North Carolina Slar says: There can bo no question as to the choice of the Conservative elements of the country as between Horace Greeley and U. S. Grant. Especially is this true of the down trodden, persecuted people of the South, who see in the great reform movement the silver lining to the cloud of their alllictions. And equally certain is it tnat 111c nom ination ot'a regular .Democratic ticket in this campaign will result in the re-elec tion of the yij'icd Grant. These two propositions being accepted as true, we do not hesitate to declare that present indications point unerring ly to the conclusion that the only hope of the country is in the election of Gree ley and Brown. The Augusta, Ga., Chroniclc and Sen tinel says: * As yet we have only a telegraphic summary of the Cincinnati platform, but meagre as this is, we confess that the Reform Repuiicans have displayed a liberality for which we were not whol ly prepared, and an earnestness in tiie direction of restoring peace to the coun try altogether beyond the deceptive, equivocating, mendacious, oracular phrase so prayerfully uttered by our present Republican President?"Let us have peace'as the promise of policy, but which has beeil so shamelessly bro ken by Ku-Klux enactments that have been cruelly and unnecessarily enforced by military authority in despotic admin The Richmond, Va., Enquirer, says: "We know not what the future may have in store, what combinations may be made, or what party alliliations en tered into in the coming canvass; but of this we feel assured, and from our knowledge of the sympathies of the Southern people, we do not hesitate to proclaim it: if the battle is to be fought with Grant and Radicalism on one side, and Greeley and Reform on the other, the entire conservative vote of this sec tion will be cast for the latter. But this is a contest as yet confined to the Re publican family. It has not yet reached that point where a more explicit expres sion of opinion is demanded, either from us or from our' people. "Under which king, Bezonian?speak, or die 1" is not our nresent status. Wt call afford to wait. We have too much at stake to act hastily and without due deliberation ; therefore, we pause to take counsel?not of our fears, but of our hopes. The Richmond, Va., ]Vhiy says: The two names of Horace Greeley and Gratz JJrown are inseparably associated with the Liberal movement, and to gether they make a powerful ticket? strong in the West, strong in the South, strong in the Central and Eastern States and strong with the colored race. We incline to think that the combination is the strongest that could luive Dcen made. We eannot imagine that the Democ racy will hesitate a moment about sup porting this ticket?a ticket that will strike the Administration with terror and cause prescriptive and malignant .Radicalism to tremble. We, of Virginia, who availed our selves of Liberalism in our memorable .Slate canvass of cannot, with any show of consistency, refuse our sancntion to it in the coming Presidential canvass. I t saved our Commonwealth?let it now save the nation. The Savannah, Ga., Republican says: Taking the nomination as a Republi can one, it is far superior to that of 1SUS ?Grant and Colfax. Should General Grant'he nominated j by the .Radical Republicans, he will have no easy task before him to defeat tlie Liberals, for we do not see how his party can improve upon the Liberal platform, without giving a lie direct to their past actions. We take no hand in this fight so far. The Democratic Convention is to meet mjuiy?peniaps n may ui-suunur. m that we look, and by that will we be guided.?That is the political Hag we ex pect to light under. The Richmond Enquirer says: We believe Greeley and Brown would be as good instruments lor our redemp tion as any.that could be .selected, but they seem so distasteful to the Northern Democracy that we fear there will be great dillieulty in rendering them ac-j rentable by that party. A reaction may J take place, but we cannot conceal our apprehensions that what we look upon as the very strongest ticket for the i South is likely to prove the weakest at I." 111,. ? ...*],nil lhv; inyji in* i i\'j>in5 ivi i/nv i/wv m v. | await the action of the Conservative party of Virginia, and be governed en tirely by its decision. The Columbia J'/nenix says : It will be gratifying to the friends'of reconciliation, reunion and reform throughout the land lo learn that the grand consultation at Cincinnati has ended in the nomination of Horace Gree ley for President. To the South it will be especially pleasing, for he has been the steadfast champion of our oppressed section ever since the war; and if there be one Northern man more than any other who has eudt-ared himself to our people, it is he. Mr. Greeley has, too, every element of success in iiiin, and is possessed of the high qualities of head and heart that belit a man for the lofty position of chief magistrate of a groat people. He is a man of earnest convic tions and well defined principles, and is honest, consistent and unvarvimr in act ing up to them. He is, too, the father of freedom to the colored race. For years and yiars before Grant was ever heard of he did battle in their behalf, and, and, next to Mr. Simmer, there is no one probably that could succeed so well as he in dividing the black vote with Grant. The platform appears to embrace every principle that any true Conservative patriot, whatever his past party alliliations may have been can de mand. We believe the Democratic party will sustain the nomination and the platform almost unanimously. The-.Liberal Republicans have by the popular support which they have shown Uiey have in their own party, by the acceptable platform they have an nounced, and by the strength and worth of their nominations, fully entitled themselves to that Democratic support which lias indirectly been promised them. We are free to say that we hope they will receive it. To the South, in our judgment, the Liberal Republicans oiler an opportunity of a reconciliation more widespread and enduring than could be accomplished by the restoration of the pemocraiic party to power, and we therefore hope that no Democratic Convention will be call oil, but that the party will tacitly fall into line and sup port the Liberal Republicans, who rep resent all their essential political doc trines, . The Columbia South Carolinian says : "Whatever be the chances of success foi the Cinuati nominees ? whether the ! nominations made be wise or not?< this at least we are fully satisfied, that I deserves the respect and sympathy < l the outraged South. Certain it is thi I with Mr. Greeley as President, the co | rupt officials who have brought, sue | disasters upon the South would reeeh do comfort from Washington. Nojou nal in the country has denounced tl State plunderers more pointedly than ti Tribune. Says the Charleston Courier: The convention has shown itselfL its nominations to be a living, earne power. There will, as in all cases, 1 wide differences of opinion as to its s lections. There can be none that bot Messrs. Greeley and Brown stand firml placed in hostility to the "rule or ruin wing of the party, of which Goner, Grant is the head, and to that policy b which the constitution lias neon wan only violated and the Status of the So.ut converted into subject provinces, The Georgetown Times says': So far as the South is concerned v man could'possibly be nominated wh would not be preferable to the vulgi man who. now occupies the Wiii House. As there seems to be no chan< for the election of a Democrat, the nej best tiling for the Democrats to do is I support the candidate of the Liberal R< : publicans, even if the candidate be Ho ace Greeley. The Columbia Union, (Grants orgai says: The great mass-meeting at Cincinna has doubtless surprised nearly even body. Horace Greeley has been noin nated for President, and Gratz Brow for Vice President. Protection and Fr( i Trade join, hands, and everything lovely. In our opinion, Genernl Grant has la to fear from the opposition of Mr. Gre< ley as a candidate for President, tha j from Mr. Greeley as editor of the Tr bune. One columbiad is spiked by th nomination, anil the possibility of tli Democrats endorsing the Cincinna nominee is thrown entirely out of tli question. Let the Republican colum push straight on, and although there no cause far questioning Mr. Greeley Republicanism, there may be man dillicult questions propounded to li friends as to the need of making till split in the party to gratify the ambitio of any man. - ? Aokicultuua'l Coxaress.?This ir fluential body of agricultural and indui trial friends of progress which meets i St. Louis promises to be of a most in teresting character for the future (level opementof Southern resources. I* will be the third session of abl men not influenced by Selfish motives but striving to promote the welfare c our people. The organization evidem ly sprung from the "Immigration Cor vention" which was held in this cit, two years ago this day. I take leave to submit the extract c a letter from the Secretary of the Con gross, recently received by me, and ret pectfully to suggest to the Executiv officers (>f the Agricultural and Median ical Societies throughout the State, t send representatives who will attem the meeting. Tyrannized over, persecuted, and tra I duced as we are in South Carolina b, tho party, who are the worst enemies c Republican principles, law and justicc as well as civil liberty, the greater th necessity for us to mingle and bo in as sncintiou with good and true men eve ! rvwhere. "' Permit me to inform you that th prospects for a large attendance and ai | interesting meeting on the 27th of Ma; are most Hattering. Delegates are be j ing appointed from one end of the coun try to (lie other, and a wide-spread in terest is manifested. 1 shall hope to meet you personal!; again, and to have your influence ii securing full representative;! from SoutJ Carolina. I have the honor to be. your mos obedient, C. W. GREEN, Sec'y." Wm. M. Lawtox, Vice-President Agricultural Congres for South Carolina. ? BRIGIIAM AXD HIS 1MUGIITERS. Brigham luis us children, about 40 o \vh'?m are female. They are of all ayes him three years to thirty. He is th father of a good deal of talent, and son) of the children will be heard of in th world hereafter. Last night, at th theatre, I was particularly struck witl the good, I might say superb, acting <; a young looking lady, and learned tha she was a daughter of Brigham and on of the five wives of li. B. Clawsor The latter being a man of wealth am stand.ng, and a devoted Mormon, ha married two of Brigham's daughters : 1 -1:?t Jll aUUIlKMI IU IJia \MIIV4 UHVC WIVC! Isn't that a curious way to do? It cei tainly is to us Gentiles; but to th Mormons it is ail perfectly correct am proper. In several of the States a mai is prohibited from marn lug liis deai wife's sister, but here in Utah it is mucl the style to marry two sisters at onci besides having several other wives Many of Briglmm's children are hand some and loveable. These by one of hi wives, Mrs. Decker, nrc particularly sc He provides well for his numerous sons in-law, and takes great pleasure in see ing his children well married oft'am happy, if there can be any happiness it the Mormon married state, which doubt. A marriage takes place in hi family now very often, as his numerou tloek are rapidly maturing. One of hi daughters married last Saturday, hear of one who hail run away to marrv Brigham being opposed to the mntcJ because the young man who loved hi (Iclll^nitT ill*U JU VCU ui:ci. X>ll?llUIj tried to break off the match and kee his daughter at home, but his home ha so many door.s to it that he could no watch at them all at once, anil she gn away. If this teaches any moral at all it is to have fewer daughters or fewe doors. Views of tub Organ of the Demo cuitrs in Coxukk-jS.?Tiie Itepublicai organization has alrevly been shatterei to tho c^n re by the Cincinnati move tneiit, and this nomination wiil com ! ulete the work of destruction. For i long time editor of tlio leading Republl cunjourual, and editing it with a powei vigor and intreepidity such as umie d his party associates could pretend t in a ten, Mr. Greeley's name has becom a household word among the Repubji cans. He built up in a great nieasqr the party of whom General Grant is noi the beneficiary. His admitted integrity outspoken frankness, habits of indt nendence, and moral courage, and eve his little personal peculiarities, howevt curious have given him an individut popularity such as General Grant neve: even in his palmy days, possessed. Tb nomination bodes no good, therefore t the Ring candidate at the Philadelphi Convention. The Democratic National commltk will meet in New York on "Wednesda next to determine upon the time a? place of holding the National Demc cratic Convention. This conventio j will bo Composed of the wisest, ablen ; best and most patriotic men of the part j from all States and sections of the coui ! try, and will authoritatively speak tl l wish of the great Democratic heart. I : first duty will be to present to the pe< I pie such candidates as will com man , j the respect and secure the support of tl ,'good and true men of the country, an i rally to the standard they bear the gre, body of those who regard the promotif of the best interests of the nation as tl 'I paramount duty of the patriotic cilize, s ? Wanking ton Patriot, Universal Life Insnrance Company. A new cause of complaint against life insurance is beginning to find voice in .ie eApiesaioiin ui Ui? ausfaution heard n every side with regard to diminished lividends. These complaints are cer ainly not unfounded or unreasonable, dany of the companies which whilom an a thriving business, as regards the ssue or policies, on the strength oi ,>romised dividends from thirty to fifty i^cr cent., are now compelled to confess .heir utter inability to declare any div idends at all: while even the oldest jind wealthiest mutual companies have been obliged to resort to new methods of di viding suntlus. as a cloak to cover un their deficiency of means to make good tlieir previous promises. What "dividends" have been grow ing small by degrees and disagreeab y Jess of la'.e years, is, we believe, sulH ciently notorious to leave little room for question, The helpless holders of J policies in these companies have already earned the les$op of their' disappoint ment; and taking counsel of their fears are in a maze of wonder and alarm as they compare the present with the past, and begin to realize the wreck of their hopes as to the future. The best evi deuee of this is to be found in the enor mous and unprecedented number of "lapses" shown in the report of the companies for the past year (1871,) and in the increased amount of new business transacted. A very notable exception to this gen eral rule is to be found in the statement of the Universal Life Insurance compa ny, published on the last page of the (uivpr nf our nresent number. It is cer tainly a just cause for congratulation ou the partof the management, that while with the great majorities of companies the business of 1871 lias fallen short of that of 1870, that of the Universal has increased nearly fijly per cent.; nay more?its actual increase has been great er tban tiiat of any other company in the country. This, however, is not the ouly; point of interest shown by the statement in question. The company in its stability has more than kept pace with its increase of business, one-third of its assets being a surplus over the 9 requirements for solvency under the rigid exaction of a four and one-half per cent, valuation, as demanded by the j Jaws of New York. Since its organiza tion this company has issued nearly lifteen thousand policies at rutes vary ing from twenty to thirty per cent, lowej than the mutual companies; has paid nearly seven hundred thousand dollars to the representatives of deceas ed policyholders, and yet stands to-day as regards all the elements of strength and solvency in a far better condition than very many mutual companies of its own or a greater age, which have re ceived one-tliird more in premiums on tv similar amount of business. Can there he a better certificate than this of the excellence of its plans, or the spirit and Integrity of its management? Surely it is natural that in the present temper of the public mind regarding the diminishing "dividends" by mutual companies, aud the consequent uistrust in the decreasing business of those com panies, that agents of ability and sound oesiness views should he attracted to wards a company which presents such solid claims in its plans and manage ment for public recognition and sup port. And' iii'eh, we are gratified to l"??n *" mm mul wliinli we ven lure to pljfdict. will be abundantly ver ified ut the close of the present year by a satisfactory increase in new business over 111tit of 1871; u gratifying earnest of this result being already obtained.,in the fact, that the business transacted during the first three months of the present year is more than double that for. the corresponding period of last year. The recent action of the company in granting to the policyholders a share in the profits of the business, is just what might be expected fioin the character of the management, and entirely dissi j.a:es the only argument ever urged of any weight against the stock plan, namely, that life insurance, being en tirely unselfish in its nature and objects, and the oflspring of benevolence and! duty, was not a fit subject for monetary speculation, and therefore should be supplied to the public without any pro lit to those eimaged in the conduct of the business beyond a fair living salary. Although dissenting entirely Irom this vipw nf'thtt ouestiou ourselves, wfi are e fully aware that it is pretty generally i. [accepted as correct hy the majority of ii insurers, and the manner of the univer s sal certainly show stheir wisdom in i, meeting the question in the only way t. in which a prejudice is ever successfui - ly met?succumbing to it. ? In the method of division adopted by the company grert fairness and liberal 11 ity are shown toward the insured. Each [1 iiolicyholder is treated as a quasi stock 11 holder to the amount of one annual -'?! premium on his policy, and on tins ' | amount he will receive of each profit jdividend declared, tne Mime snare uuu s,a stockholder would receive on an equal ' amount of capital stock. These divi dends, in view of greatly reduced pie -1 miuins charged, must necessarily he 11small; but their chief value, in our 11opinion, lies in the fact that no profit I [can be received hy the stockholders gj which is not participated in by the pol 8 j icy-holders, thus necessitating on the 8jpart of the management the greatest I; possible care and economy in the con . duct of the business. In conclusion, II we will add that we know of no corn el pany that offers more attractive lea 1 jtures both to the agent ami the intend* Jiing insurer than that under review. >' j Its undeniable solvency, the rapidly iri t[creasing popularity of its plans, its low L rates of premium with participation in ) profits, and though last, not least, the i* waneing f'avor with which the so-called "mutual" system is regarueu uy me public, all combine to convince us that - there is no other company which pre >|sents so many elements of success in] J j the hands of intelligent and energetie' Agents as the Universal. To all such that apply to the managers, we can in sure courteous liberal treatment. JOHN 0. CHILES, General Agent. Mill Way, S. C'.-tf Unaccountable Piienomaxa at a ?j Party.?The following story is told of a * (voting ladv and a gentleman at a fash r.: ionable pt;rfy jn Kasliyille : J-j The young man was handsome and 11 happy, the young lady arrayed in lav bender, rose, &c., with gold powdered " hair flowing over her swan-like npek. Finding the heat of the room too much for them, they sought the cool shade of an arbor, where they might listen to the fountain's fall. The music rose and fell, time flew on silver pinions, and after an absence of at least an hour, our yi young friends re-entered the brilliantly dj illuminated parlors. The lady passed Hon in the dance, but the young man n I was slightly taken aback by his next k; neighbor informing him that round his y neck was the unmistakeable print of - two arms in chalk and diamond dust, on i? one shoulder a large pile of yellow pow tier, and on his upper lip and elieok 0-!diamond dust, bloom of youth, and yel d low powder mixed up generally. The lady's hair was observed to be several id tiliades paler. at I m i " le Books that you may carry to the fire u, and hold readily in yuui iittud, a u the I most useful after all.?L'Sam Johnson. The Platform. The following are the resolution full: "We, the Liberal Republioans oi United States, in national couver assembled at Cincinnati, proclaim following principles as essential to a government: First. We recognize the equalit all men before the law, and hold tin is the duty of the government, ii dealings with the people, to mete equal and exact justice to all, of ty ever nativity, race, color or persuasi religious or political. Second. We pledge ourselves to n tain the union of these States, em: pation and enfranchisement, and to pose any reopening of the que.<1 settled by the thirteenth, fourteenth fifteenth amendments of the cons tion. [ Third. *\Ve demand the absolute r< val of nil disabilities imposed onafec of the rebellion, which was finally lined seven year* ago, believing universal amnesty w'rjl result iu complete pacification of All the country. Fourth. Local self-governmenb;^ impartial suffrage, will guard the rJ of all citizens more securely than centralized Jpwer. The public we required the supremacy of the civil the military authority, and the free of person under the protection 01 habeas corpus. We demand lor the dividual the largest liberty consi: with public order, for the States government, and for the nation a re to the methods of peace and the constitutional limitation of power. Fifth. The civil service of the eminent has become a mere instrui of partisan tyranny and personal a tion, and an object of selfish greed is a scandnl and reproach upon our institutions,-and breeds ademoralizi dangerous to the perpetuity of lie lican government. YVe, therefore gard a thorough reform of the civil vice as one of the most pressing nee ties of the hour ; that honesty, cap) and fidelity constitute the "only 1 claims to public employment; that officers of the government cease to matter of arbitrary favoriteism patronage, and that public stations come again posts of honor. To this it is imperatively required that no J ident shall>be a candidate for re-elec Sixth. We demand a system of eral taxation which shall not unnec< lilv interfere with the industry ot people, and which shall provide m net/es.-ary to pay the expend ol government, , economically adminisU pensions, the interest on the public and a moderate reduction, annually the principal thereof, and recogni that there are in our midst honest irreconcilable differences of opii with regard to the respective pysten protection and free trade, we remit cussion of the subject to the peopl their congressional districts, and to decision of Congress thereon, wb free of executive interference or di tion. Seventh. Tne public credit must sacredly maintained, and .we denoi repudiation in every form ana gi Eighth. .A speedy return to sp payments is demanded alike by highest considerations of comrhei morality and honest government. Ninth. We remember with gratit the heroism and sacrifices of the sold and sailors of the republic, and no of ours shall ever, detract from t justly earned fame or the full rewari their patriotism. Tenth. We arc opposed to the furl grants of lands to railroads or other poratious. The public domain she he liehi sacred to actual settlers. Eleventh. We hold that it is the ty of the Government in its intercoi with foreign nations to cultivate friendships of peace by treating v all on fair and equal terms, regardin alike dishonorable either to dem what is not right or to submit to win wrong. Twelfth. For the promotion and i cess of these vital principals, and support ol tlse eancnuaies nomm.-uei this convention, we invite and cord ly welcome the co-operation of all p; otic citizens without regara to previ political affiliation. ? A South Wind Longing. Here is something timely and c cious from Warner's "Black-log i dies," iti the April number of fcscribm Perhaps the influence of ihe 1 great winds on character is only a vied one; but it is evident on temp ruent, which is not altogether a msi o:' tempe a lire, al hou<.h the good deacon used to . ay, in Ins humuie, t pie way, that his ihiid wife was a \ gooil woman, bill iter "temperature very difl'ercnt from that of the ol two." The north wind is full of c< age, and puts the stamina of endura into a mail, and it probably would i a woman too if there were a series resolutions passed to that effect. west wind is hopeful; it lias prot: ami adventure in it, and is, excep Atlantic voyagers America-bound, best wind that ever blew. The wind is peevishness ; it is montal rl niatisni and grumbling' and curls up in the chimney corner like a And if the chimney ever smoke .smokes when the wind sits in tliatq ter. The South wind is full of lonj and unrest, of effeminate suggestion.1 luxurious ease, and perhaps we m say of modem poetry,?at any r modern poetry needs a change of I am not sure but the South is the r powerful of the winds, because of sweet persuasiveness. Nothing so >. the blood in sping, when it cornea out of the tropical latitude; it nn men "longeu logon 011 pilgrimages I did intend to insert here a 1 poem (as it is quite proper to do s< in an essay J on the south wind, com 0(1 oy i ue loung xiuiij- oiujjuy > Us, beginning : Out of a drifting southern cloud My soul heard the night-bird c hut it never got any further than 1 The young lady said it -was exceedii difficult to write the next two ii I because not only rhyme but nieai had to be procured. And this is ti |anybody can write first lines, and is probably the reason we have so ni poems which seem to have been be in just this way, that in, with a so wind-longing without any though it., and it is very fortunate wheu tl is not wind enough to finish tii This emotional poem, If I may so it, was begun after Herbert went a\ I liked it, and thought it was whu called "suggestivealthough I did understand it, especially what the n night-bird was; and I am afraid I the young Judy's reelings oy a.*King If she meant Herbert by the "ni bird" ?absurd suggestion about two sentimental people. She said, 4,i sensebut she afterwards told mistress that there were emoth ns I one could never put into words wit! I the danger of being ridiculous a found truth. . And yet I should not ; to say that there is not a tender 1 jsomen ess in love that can get con but of a night bird in a cloud, if t be such a thing. Analysis is the 'J of sentiment. I never; knew any man in my life could not bear another's misfort 'perfectly like a Christain.?[Pope. Sketch of Hon. Horace Greeley. Horace Greeley was born at Amhers New Hampshire, February 3d, 181] was the sou of a poor farmer, wh removed to Vermont in 1821. He ai tended a common school; evinced gres fondness for reading, and Jearned th art of printing at Poultney, Verraon In 1826?'30. Alter he had vorked a fe months as a printer in Erie, Pennnylv; iiia, he went to New York city in 183 where he worked at his trade. In 183 in company with Fraucis Story, he con menced the Morning Pont, the fir penny daily ever established, and whic was soon discontinued. In March, 183 he'founded the New Yorker, a literal weekly, neutral in politics, of .which 1 was editor. This, his earliest literal venture, lived seven years, but was fi from being a pecuniary success. It Wi succeeded by the Jetf'ersonian, whic iu-184owas changed to the Log Cabii bunt LatfU became the Whig organ in Ne sub'] York of the great Harrison and Tyl< campaign. The ability with which h conducted this paper gave him the geri of his reputation as apolitical write wiiictt lias grown and increased unt now he's tan as at the head of the politic! press of the country; its acknowledge chief. The New York Tribune was Mr. Gre ley's next undertaking, and its sucues has been the crowning glory of respec able journalism in the United State Mr. Greeley in the Tribune advocate Clay's election in 1844; and of coun opposed the admission of Texas, 011 tL ground that it would' extend the area < slavery. After the defeat of Clay, 1 assumed a more decidedly hostile attituc to slavery, and wap soon ranked by tl South with the abolitionists, althoug he never admitted anything more thu the frec-sojl principles of that growir faction. Asa member of Congress i 1848?49, he opposed the abuses of tl mileage system. Still a consistei Whig, though of the sternest free-sc proclivities, he supported General Wii Held Scott in 1852. This was the la xi*?a. liii ...^j icuv /alici the he a and i be end ? res lion. Fed-. the cans ! the jred, debt r. of zing bill Dion 18 Of dis e in the oily icta ; be ince euori liiu oiu vying iijuuc as party. In 1856 he became almost tl father of the IlepuDlican party by heir one of the earliest advocates' of the ele tion of John C. Fremont. In 1860 he led flff'for Abraham Lii coin, and was instrumental in his nom nation at Chicago and thefdefeatof Wn H. Seward. His-biograpner, in the Di tlonary of Great Men, closes his sketc of Mr. Greeley's career as follows: "E favored universal amnesty and univers; suffrage at the eud of the civil war, au offered himself as bail for Mr. Jeflerso Davis In May, 1867." Pie has gained special distinction b Ills efforts towards the emancipation < labor, endeavoring to free it from ign< ranca, vice, servitude and poverty. Fi is a zealous champion of protection, an is always first in the front rank of socia industrial, and political reformer Amoing the best known works he ht published under his^wn name are hi ' Jdistoiy of the Great Conflict," a ver fair narrative of the late war; "Bern nixcences of a Busy Life," being hJ own strange,, eventful story; a very val uable work upon agriculture, and an use. other upon political economy. Hi fcie industry and energy are untiring,: am the iiia honesty altogether incorruptible an< cial above suspicion.?Hic/nnond Enquire) Asylum in Columbia, in which thcr Lher were two hundred and ninety-fivi coTj patients at the date of the last report ,u was absolutely without provisions du- aii'l the superintendent was indeb'iet use to the charity of a private citizen fo tide liers act heir 1 of Unto this Last < > Two days ago the State Lanati the moans ot feeding tho amictec creatures under his charge. Tlx Legislature appropriated, at its las session, a sum of eighty thousanc dollars for the support of the Asylum and the taxes levied, last year, wen sufficient to pay every honest clain against the State. A State tax o seven mills on the dollar, amounting to over & million dollars, fell duo or ?he 15th of January last; and wai promptly paid, and sinco that tim< a large sum has been obtained, undei the operation of the license law. Ye there is not a dollar in the Stat< Treasury for the public institution: whii h have the strongest claims upoi thj people. The Lunatic Asylum i: without credit and without supplies The State Penitentiary is so hare pressed that the Rnpcnntendent liai applied for a writ of mandamus t< compel the State Treasurer to pa] the drafts made noon him. The Dea and Dumb Asylum is about to hi closed. Nearly all the free schools ir the State suspended operations 01 May Day. Although three or fou million dollars were wrung from th< people in a little more than twek' months, and although millions havi heen added to the capital jof the puh lie debt, the treasury is empty, an< not a cent can bo extracted from it however urgent the demand. It i idle to attribute this to Democrati misrepresentation. The people knov in the North as well as the SoutL that the financial aspyhxia is the rc suit of Ihe extravagance and corrup lion of the Snott administration. Charleston JYews. Jenkins in Tex as.?Married, severs days since, at the shanty of the bride Miss Emily Norton, free woman of coloi to Mr. Edward Rickett, "plain"?th service being performed by the Rev Mr. Haywood, colored. rIHie beautiful and accomplished brid is fair, fat and fifty?about the color of side of tole-leather painted will tallow, and is one of the best washer and ironers on Acquia street. The gal lant groom Is a pure Caucasian, ai American-born gentle?drives a govern ment team with great ease. The only bridesmaid on the folicitou /Jil A md iVfoli'n/lo TTowbinc ? in wife of old Uncle Isaac, sometime k.t. ! called Dr. Isaac. Being taken by sur f ! *!prise, Aunt Malinda left her wash-tul I ' and proceeded directly to the altar. Sli mi was dressed sons stockings, sans on p 'jj shoe, with a rope tied around her hip ^ ' which held her skirts high above th door?she was the admired of all ad ,'t miters. The ceremony was quite a pri j(r]lt vate and family affair. Iiurt And very little change was noticed i her the household; in fact, the parties ha ght-i been just as intimate as could be for "un-1 long time, but the bride was not happv lion- sleep came not to her eyelids, her meal the! were pot enjoyed, and Mthinkin' ovt that! the way she was doiii'," used more soa lioui '<> the dozen than she got for the wast pro- ing. The sympathetic Rickctt, who i like i about thirty-five years of age, and an one-jspectable-loolving white man, coul ifort stand those sighs no more, so getting h here papers and Parson Ilay wood, hecar.ie eatli the war into Africa in" a legitimate wa; Mr. It. seems very happy?he dips ti pure water from the d tjh, stirs the hot cake in the spider, pokes up the chunk who and acts as "universal wringer" to h unes washerwoman brid^.? San Anion {Texas) Ilerald. FARMHOUSE NU'flfiS. M Remedy fob Cutwobm in Co? The Pra( tioal Farmer tays"After the _ corn is diopped and covered, and before it is up, apply on the surface of each Jbill( ' * about one tablespoonful of ground salt. Unless it is carbolic acid, nothing makes worms squirm like salt." r Results of Selecting Corn.?Hen- at ry Kliperd, Clinton Co., Ohio, sends to Mural New Yorker a few kernels of what - * he calls "mammoth yellow corn;1' The editor says: "These kernels are, cejr tainly. splendid. He obtained It, he says, by planting large kinds of .corn mixed together; then seleeted the finest ears to plant for a number of years, until *? he has what he asserts to be "A No. J. . r variety of variety of corn." "He selects ' fUA viauf /lorn ottH' tV?a rrroltio /\nf a/ ' ? LUC ucnt taic, anu vuv wow ^joiuo vuvvi the middle of these best ears for. plant" 'log. . > : i- .. Foot-Rot in Sheep.?I hare tried --r this with succesfl"WhenieVer tbeidteri J ease appears let the feet be washed apd,,.., the hoof pared off as much as poaaibla ,',. (and not Cause it to bleed,) and let tfce ' . >,f' sheep stand upon a dry stable sprinkled with lime fourhOtlre, After thto; keep them in a. dry pasture, and there . Will be no further danger. Or, after the foot has been pared; apply spirits of tuiP "iU< pentineand blue vitriol,rfn: equal patts hind a cloth over the foot, ana let ft re- - c? :? c OU?.vn +K~4- JU Li J re8a in to, mould or small cups, and ;? , if desired to be kept for six weeks, cove/r ', the tops-with. melted 'butter so thickly, " that 'no meat' is seen. -Wet1 tbev moulds or cups with watery and the beef Will tut ii U U I 1U1UIU1. r/r V^btled Bread.?Every housekeeper " nnmn iiq/>1acq f The flour is sifted in in a wasteftd e manner, and the bread-pan left with the , dough sticking to it. Vinegar is drawn in a tin basin and allowed to stand until both basin and r vinegar are spoiled. e Gold puddings are considered good for e nothing, when often they can be steam e ed for the next day. .] Improvement ix Farmers. ? The Mark Lane Express in an article on far ' mers associations, says: "There is fi nothing more noticeable when review e ing the progress of Agriculture during v the last quarter of a century than the improvement which has characterized '' the conduct of our public meetings or !* social gatherings. There was a time i- vhen the long clay pipe, the somewhat hoiutnrruia ctfivo niwl t.ho "Jinf. sfnnnJnir" were regarded as the chief inducements for getting farmers together. But these days have gradually passed away, and | with some experience of other large as semblies, wo are iuclined to think that nowhere will men as a rule keep closer to the point or carry themselves more .becomingly than occupiers of land when they draw into a focus at a Society's show or a Club's discussion. More in formation has been disseminated, more intelligence developed by such a means than through any other cause which could be spoken to'. Bv the further aid of a good reliable report this system of a mutual advantage comes to be almost infinitely extended. Many a man who would light shy of a regular essay, al though he found the pages ready "cut" to his hand, will eagerly turn to see what his next door neighbor had to say, or a famous agriculturist to offer on toe merits of the principle under considera tion. . . Free Tea and Coffee.?The bill alJIl ishingthc duty on tea and coffee has become a law. It goes into effect July 1, and makes all tea and coffee in bond fit mill cuueuu iree. inuu^u me reuucuon in the cost of tea and coffee which must follow taking oft* the duty will be ac ceptable to the whole community, for every uses these articles, it will not go far to cheapen living. This is but a short step in the way of neoessary rev enue reform. There are many duties and taxes that pres9 more heavily upon the people and the industry of the country that ought to be removed. As tea and coffee are foreign productions entirely, there was no Protectionist opposition to abolishing the duty. In deed, the Protectionist favored the bill because a reduction in th revenue from these articles, involving a yearly loss of ?19,000,000 to the treasury, would give thorn an argument for maintaining io | high duties on others in order to raise a sullicieut income for the government.