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THE ABBEVILLE = ^x-sssnip: uv W A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1872. VOLUME XX?NO. 6. V-<7: 'J - A- V - - 'iSv-i I #*. >Ol Ult ... , /.' v.- ? A PASSING OVER JORDAN. Hark! I hear the harps eternal, Ringing on the further shore, As I near those swollen waters, With their deep and solemn roar. 9 And my soul, though stained with sor row, Fading as the light of day, Passes swiftly o'er those waters, To the city far away. Souls have crossed before me, saintly, TV* Hurt land of nerfecfc rest. And I hear them singing faintly, In the mansions of the blest. Just beyond the river flasheth, Jebu-Salem of my God, Where the white wave, rising, splasheth On the shore by angels trod. Stop! I see the boatmen nearing; See, the snowy sail is set, And the oars are floating idly, And the sail is drifting wet. Call my fhther! Call my mother! Tell tbem^hat the boatmen's here; And another, O another I Unto whom my soul is dear. Call them quick, for I am passing _ Through the valley of the grave; 1 am passing wicn me wmuutui O'er the deen and sullen wave. Dream, Music, by F. B. Warren. HORACE AT HOME. The Great Nominee Among his Neigh bors. The village of Chappaqua is thirty two miles from the City Hall, on the Harlem Railroad. It is of the tradi tional r4ilroad village order. It has a dozen or two houses of white frame including the railway station, the poet office, the tavern, the store, the church and blacksmith shop. It is anrrnnnded bv -hiffh wfcoded hills, from the sides' of which peep the white country houses of a few city feotlemen. It is full of lusty sun rowned men, who go about all week days in their shirt sleeves, and of cherry-ripe faced buxom lasses, who take heartily to bright-colored Dolly Yardens. Hidy are all sociable. Every man, woman, youth, lassie and child in Chappaqua is anxious and willing to enlighten the stranger in their midst upon the subject of Mr. Greeley.* There is no other subject which the highly elated village cares *" * ? TO- ik. tO QIICQ^ JUIt UUW. bvcu tug uupo and weather are significant in com parison. THE CHIKF OP CHAPPAQUA. Mr, Greeley is almost a lord of the manor. ,His house on the roadside is only a stone's throw from the Chap paqu s Iltrtel and the railroad traok. i It sits on the side of the bill slightly elevated over its neighbors in the | village, and from its low-roofed porch or piazza the sage, when at home, can view the whole village over which, by reason of his great repute and his wide philanthropy, be exercises a sort [ of kindly dominion, similar to that -of * lnvimr lord of the feudal ages. A broad dirt road leads you up the windings of a bill to his other bouse in tbe woods, whence be has even a more commanding view of bis do main. 1' ' " CARING FOR AGED AND INFIRM SER - V ANTS. Beyond this is his stone barn, his row pasture1 wherein the old bovine that gave milk for his'^children is auflfereil to ehew her sweet cud in A.aiiumani 11 nppvaH hr I/ODUUrUIUIC I VVII ytllVU Vj WM ? v?KV?a J the milkmaid and undoomed to luughter, respected and revered by her master, pointed out to all comers eagerly by the rustic guides and 1 ta ken" with hearty appreciation by all the pictorial artists. The orchard whiclM?s?hr?f(?d all oyer with blos soming fruit, adjoins the pasture. The dark, swampy morass, which his masterly system o? drainage has re claimed to tfonae of agriculture, lies At the bott<n*-?f the hill, rich in the j blackness of its soil. THX OBEAT WOOD8, wherein the physical forces of the 3>hild?op%er rejuvenate themselves after the i ctellectoal excesses of his ?anctara, crown the hill. They are not the great primeval forests of his earlier days. Ouly here and there a great oak rears its head grandly. ThereVcaf"e that'a great Wes tern farmer would hardly take much prid* in. A COR* FOB TUTQAI6ITIVI5BS8. Bat they are large enough to tax the physical powers of hi9city friends who come to bit farm to question the phik*t pher on political subjects. He (as cjbnrfcecrasway of setting the interlocutor to axing trees while he would lain be axing questions. THE TZNCINO. Stone fences, neat and regularly buittA traverse the farm, ahutting out the woods froTn the swamp, the pas ture from the orchard and the barn* yard from the ploughed1 land. Wood ien-^oHnes serve for the garden and JbOaae fencing. THE WATER SUPPLY. A dosen springs give oat an inex haustible supply of pare living water. They are carefully enclosed, and one far up in a little glen, the peerless spring of crystal parity, which the philosopher calls the spring, is thick ly shaded and sheltered, and is as fW ?s Joe water at all stages of the Summer, Another, higher up the bill bubbles to view at a depth of twenty fee* m a chasm of the earth. To ibis a letfgo of twenty-nine stone rl ?)inao ova lot.l funm tkuoA BWpO w? v ? vim vmvvw springs Co the neighbors' booses in toe Tittle village, and tbence the whole hamlet obtains, free of water money &od without psrscV; ItsJall supply of drinking wa* ter. Nothing can illustrate Mr. Greer fay's abounding philanthropy more |han this. . ile is A WHOLE CROTOK BOARD fa himself, and furnishes parer water, at a cheaper rate and in more inex haustible supply to the little village of his friends than oar elaborate Commission, with all its accessories of Pitman' county lakes and the great qoednet, seems able to do. /??* WHLOSOPHBR'S BEVEBAOE. T* Spring Mr. Greeley turns bw steps eagerly the moment he to?es tot c?rs on his return to the farm. There he takes his ful draught of the sparkling liquid. Hii fovorite axe is brought to him by hii foreman, Mr. Gordon, and, without more ado than the selection of a tree for demolition, he commences to cut at the root of the tree with a lustj swing equal to the intellectual vigoi with which he cuts at the roots o. things generally. THE SAGE AT THE AXE. He cuts right and left like broads word combatants of the Bowery and it is sometimes awkward to gel too close to him. Since his nomina tion a number of friends have attend ed him during his short visits tc Chappaqua, and in all instances he Ko? invited them to trv their skill in the chopping lice. It is impossible to refuse. A TEST FOR WIRE PULLERS. Even the weakest muscled politi cian who ever wasted his physical energies in the dark atmosphere oI the court rooms thinks it poseible tc cut his way to the philosopher's re Igard by a dexterous handling of the !axe. He thinks it is at least as easy as wire pulling until he tries It. When his tender bands are blistered and his spinal cord is about breaking, and bis arms at the shoulder feels like a coil of rope, and he sees the hero of the pen and the axe calmly swinging away right and left, one up, one down with only one or two pearl drops of perspiration standing out upon his forehead, then he gives up that mode of ''working Lis wires" and retires, usually leaving a promising hemlock gashed into hopeless ruin. gbelley and washington. Mr. Greeley wears all his visitors out at this pastime. George Wash ington with his little hatchet lapses into imbecility beside him. He could never in his palmiest days have whacked big trees with the energy of the great Horace, nor given the "lie, you villain," with half his gustu. "take a drink." When his visitors are all worn out the great Horace ceases, and asks them blandly, "if it isn't tine, healthy exercise?" and then he usually shows them his barns, his cows, his orchard, his garden, bis evergreens, and enas up a tour of bis farm by inviting all hands to take a drink at the peerless spring. TIIE VILLAGERS INTERESTED. Unfortunately for Cbappaqua the Sage spends very littlo of bis* time there. He usually goes out on Sat urday morning and returns to town Saturday afternoon. It is very sel dom now that he spends a night there at all. Both bis houses are closed. His family is in Europe, and, except the foreman and the farm laborors, there id one to look afler bis hermi tage. All the villagers, however, keep an eye on it. If they see a stranger pulling at the crank which sounds the door bell of his roadside cottage they all volunteer to tell him that nobody lives there. 1 It's Mr. Greeley's place." they say, "but he's not at home, and the fore "???'? #?nf 5r? tho irnnHt). HONOR IN ONE'S OWN COUNTRY. Chappaqua indeed seems to be proud of her distinction, as the resi dence of so great a man. The keep er of the Chappaqua House has been debating whether be ought not swing out Mr. Greeley's head for a sign, and a lager beer saloon now in the course of erection, 53 to be called the Gree ley House. The bartenders even give n few five cent silver pieces in change as a testimonial to Mr. Greeley's views on the specie payment question. Every voter in the village, except possibly three, are determined to vote for him. One old toper, a type of the traditional village toper, said "he had voted the the staright democratic ticket" (no was men latsing ma wmo key straight) "for thirty years, but he'd vote for Mr. Greeley, and thought the diraocratic . kimraittee was {i dam fool to call another kin vention, anyhow." "Do you think he's any chance of election ?" "Chance? I should soy so," respon ded the toper. "Why, all Chappa* qua'll vote for him. To what extent the electoral votes of Chappaqua will influence the com ing election hud not heretofore dis turbed the questioner's mind; but this representative of the village evi dently considered that the balance of power rested within its precint+s. THE GRUMBLING CHAPPAQUAN8; The property holders of Chappa vna repine somewhat at Mr. Gree ley's too frequent absence from his coantry home. They feel that it is thoir nnwflr to creatlv aDDre ?v? t ? P ./ rt ciate their property. His continued residence at the village would be bel ter than a new railroad. Even as it property begins to look up. The tavern keeper of Chappaqua has had a number of handsome otters to sell out, but is holding off for better pri ces. But these might be so much better if Mr. Greeley would stay at home that the people will grumble. The storekeeper complains mourn fully that '-a great many people'd come here to see Mr. Greeley if ho'd only Btay here." The man who has wagons and hor? ?- -cava ? Manv ? npnnta in the BOB tu let nu.j u, . , , back country and toward the Hudson would be a driving in every day ii Mr. Greeley was here more'n a few hoar* a week. A DISAPPOINTMENT. On Saturday night a party from Pleasantville, two miles below, came up with torches and brass bands to serenade the Sage, but found, after all their expense and trouble, that he bad parsed their village a few hours be fore on their return to the city. ' Thare'd been a roaring time," says the barkeeper of the village, "if ht only stayed at home. With speechi fyingand music and torchlights and applejack drinking, old Ch&ppaquf would have woke up, an' it'd put money in our pockets too. GLO&IOUS TIMES TO COME. "If we are tqTbe in this 'ere cam paign," adds another village t}Tpe "we'd ougbtor have delegations i meeting hero, #nd big meetings ii Mr. Greeley's woods, and old.fash 1 ioned barbecues, and serenades and 3 pic-nics"?and then, as his hopes 3 were fanned by his imagination, he t continued?''and we will have 'imyet i Mr. Greeley aint a-going back on his t old neighbors." r PREPARATIONS. In consequence of the belief that f these sanguine rustics entertain re garding the forth-comfng treasures and excitements of the campaign, . movements are in progress for the f erection of a liberty pole and the for i mation of Greeley clubs and the . flaunting of Greeley banners, and the . bright, rosy-cheeked damsels of Chap ? naqua are already enjoj'ing thera ! selves in anticipation of fine times ? J uK?ono all f hrmirrh I iinu uuapo vx viijj wvwuw m*> ? . the summer. A PASSING VIEW. As one instance of the interest now . centering in Chappaqua it is worthy | of note that when the trains stop f through passengers Btep out on the i platform and inquire which is Farm . er Greeley's place; and on express i trains, which pass Chappaqua at the rate of twenty-hve miles an hour, anxious faces may be seen at tho win , dows eagerly searching among the i various frame houses in the hamlet for that particular house on the road ci/Ja r.f tirki/.ki llioir hnrfl Jill rflfld niuv v/i ?t iicv 11 viivj ????? v the homestead of Honest Horaoe. MOVEMENTS ON THE SAGE. On Saturday morning Mr. Greeley, accompanied by Mr. Alvin Johnson, his brother-in-law, and a number of gentlemen, went out to Chappaqua on tho twenty-five minutes to nin j train and remained until a quarter after four when he returned to the city. He passed the hours upon the farm mainty in cutting wood, his brother-in-law and the rest of the party taking a hand at the axe-han dle; then he snowed the visitors round the farm, took dinner a<. the House and returned. Whenever he appeared in the village he was warm ly greeted by the villagers, all o whom wished and prophesied his sue ** # "? J A .. _ 11 cess. He nau a nearly wora ior mi and remembered their names without the effort usual with so great a man to remember his poor neighbor*. Testerday morning he attended Dr. Capers' church and was at work in his office in the afternoon. Immigration to the South.?In a previous article, we indicated South ern Europo as the most likely field for the South to seek that immigration which is so imperatively needed for the restoration of her exhausted labor. But the South must do much more tban seek abroad in order to on courage a substantial immigration of a thrifty aud-useful class. She must offer adequate inducements at home, and these inducements must be such as will compete with the zealous, de termined and intelligent efforts made by the States of the North-west, their railroads and land agencies, to keep the tide of population flowing in their direction as it has hitherto done Land mu:t be cheapened to imn/t grants ;labor and good wages assured them ; and especially must they feel i .i in ii.i suro truu iney win enjoy mat* jjenuut social equality that is so large an cle raent in the inducements which ac tuate the European picletaire wbon he abandons his old home and ancient associations and customs for a new home in the untried West. If the planters of the Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia, instead of encouraging the appointment of politician "State emi gration agents," were to form them selves into ' homestead societies," subscribing land instead of money, ana guaranteeing u> lu-cuimug laum small farms at nominal prices, the houses which are to be built and paid for out of the wages of the emigrants, they would not only procare labor, but that very kind of permanent, set tled, domesticated labur which they themselves niost need, and which will be most useful in restoring the State to a healthy condition. Let it be known to the thrifty peasantry of the agricultural parts of Italy that a mar ried man, by going to the South, can obtain at once a farm of twentv 01 thirty acres of land, with a house upon it for bis immediate occupancy, all of which he can make his own free simple property by the labor of five years, aod an important immigration will be at once secured. The essence of the matter is, that the South must not invito a peasantry, nor a tenantry, but* yeoman class of small proprietors, who will identify themselves with the interests of the country, and become at once an indus trial resource, the back-bone ot con servatism and the bulwark of liberty. And all this the Southern people can do now, at once and efficiently, with out putting their hands in their pock ets for a dollar, and by their own in dividual, unaided personal efforts.? WathingIon (7.) Patriot. Seven months ago Chicago was al most obliterated from the face of the earth by one of the most terrible con flagrations of modern times; one who saw it then would hardly recognize it now. The rapidity with which it has been rebuilt is marvellous. The un sightly ruins made by the fire are | almost entirely replaced by fine blocks of buildings, more substantial and ' beautiful than those which once oc cupicd their sites, and the value ol property is rapidly rising in all parts of the city. On Wabash avenue and in Jackson, Adams, Monroe and Jef ferson streets the price of land ha? 1 advanced from one thousand dollars i per front foot to twelve hundred dol I lars, and in some instances to fifteen hundred dollars. The Grand Pacific Hotel is the finest and largest of the > new buildings, and has five hundred > rooms. It is rebuilding on its old site - and will cost.one million dollars. The I Kepablio Life Insurance building i which was badly damaged by the firt 1 is rebuilding with stone, iron anc brick, aud the many public edifices ir process of erection will make Chifiagc - a much finer and better city than ii , ever was before, As may readily b< i believed, in all buildings groat pre i cautions are taken against danger o - fire, Chicago being a "burnt child." Spirit of the State Press. THE NOMINATION OP HORACE GREELE [from the Greenville Enterprise.] Mr. Greeley has the confidence < the en tiro country, irrespective ' party or section, for his greut hones! and,his nomination was a wised oision of the Convention. That he a very strong candidate is beyor question. He will be the most acce table to the South. LET US PULL TOGETHER FOR GREELE [From the Greenville Mountaineer.] We trust for the good of the goc of the country, and the sake of thoi who desire a change in the adminif tratior. of its affairs, that no oppof tion will t>e tnrown in too way ui u Cincinnati nomination by the press < the South, but that there will be "strong, and a pull together," to s cure that change. NO MEDDLING IN FEDERAL POLITIC i [From the Chester Reporter.] "We cant tell, just yet, what part ' we are going to vote with, and w won't know till the Democratic part has acted finally in the matter. W dou't intend, though, no matter wli is nominated to fight any great dei on any side. In our judgment tli only wise policy for the white peop of this State is to ignoro Federal pol tics altogether during this year, an . to let the different parties at tn North fight it out among themselvc ADVICE TO TIIE DEMOCRACY. [From the YorkviUe Enquirer.] If the Democratic party is wise, Vi think its candidate is nominated. B uniting with the Liberal Republica Grant's defeat is not only poesibl but certain. "We hope the Democrat* will observe and heed the teaching of the crisis, and for one time misk such sacrafice of party ambition t will restore an era of good feeling an quiet prosperity in the land. THE CONVENTION A SUCCESS. [From the Keowee Courier.] The platform is brief, explicit, an under the new order of things, unol jectionable to' any section of the coui T? . ? * L ? ?n ? try. lb gives IU l>IIU UUUIU Ull rv could expect, and little less than w could ask. It robs the North < nothing. It leaves the question < protection with the people, where properly belongs, for there it must t decided, notwithstanding the persons views of any man or section. Th Convention,- we think, has been success, not only on the principh set forth in tho platform, but in tb men chosen to bear them to victor; AN ERA OF ritOSrERITY AT HAND. [f rom toe Lancaster meager.j If the Democrats at the .North wi now throw aside party hate and pe sonal motives, and continue to exhil it that statesmanship which hi marked their course up to the preser time. Grant will be remanded to thi obscurity for which he is so peculia ly fitted, and a new era of proaperit will dawn upon tho country, Tt nomination of Greeley, to the Sout should be especially acceptable. THE WORLD REPUDIATED. [From the Camden Journal."] In alluding to tho work the Ne York World editorially expresses su prise at the nominations, and declar< that they have cat off all hope of coi oert with the Democratic party. W are confident, however, that tl: World does not echo the sentimen of a majority of Democrats. [From the Georgetown Times."] "We hold it to be a high duty c the part of those who are oppresse and victimized by Grant and his mil ions, to adopt and support such cai 1 didates, as may bo available to driv him and his coadjutors and depent 1 .ents from place and power. To su ' ceed in this, we believe that the bei rwili/?v thfl nnrtv r<nn rwi tJW, vV J J sue sbouid bo either to make no non 1 ination, or iD case of a convention b ing called and held, tbal it will ii dorse and ratify the nominatior 1 made at Cincinnati. If such a court be pursued, Grant will be beaten t was Van Buren in 1840. It is a ma ter of life with the peoplo that Grar and his hirelings should be diveste of power, aud an opportunity lik that of the prosent should not t 1 thrown away, because we cannot g< ' exactly such men to rale the countr as our muiviuuai cnoice mignt eu^ gest. [From the Cheraio Democrat.] We are firmly convinced that it the duty of the Democratic party 1 fupport Greeley and Brown, not bi cause we think they will advance ih interests of the Democracy or put or - Democrat in office, but because w i think they are honest men, and it the only means of preventing the r< election of Grant and infliciiug fou - years more of plunder and peraeci i tion on the country. If the Dem< crats run a uckui 01 ineir own ine 11 dications are that tbo Liberal cand dates will be withdrawn, rather tha ullow the government to fall into th hands of the Democracy. As th only choice is between honest an dUnonest Republicans, we shall ce tainly support Greeley and Brown. Mb. Geeeley's Candor.?The di patches this morning tell us that M Greeley's assertion that he will retii if the Democrats make a straight-oi nomination is not taken in good pai h it (ha D<imfw?rnt.a in Prinirraoo , ^ j ? ? w '"O" *?* , there bo foundation for this repor 5 the Congressional Democrats in que r tion are no better than a huddle i i children, Ot course Mr. Greeley wi 1 retire, and oogbt to retire, if tl i Democrats make a separate nomin > tion. If the Democrats endorso il t Jjjberal ticket, Mr Greeley will 1 > elected; if they make a nominatic . of tbejr own, General Grant will 1 f elected. This is the long and tl short of it,?Louisville Courier*Journt Universal Life Insurance Company. A new cause of complaint against life insurance is beginning to find voice in the expressions of dissatisfaction heard on every side with regard to diminished dividends. These complaints are cer tainly not unfounded or unreasonable. Many of the companies which whilom ran a thriving business, as regards the issue of policies, on the strength of promised dividends from thirty to fifty per cent., are now compelled to confess their utter inability to declare any div idends ut all; while even the oldest and wealthiest mutual companies have been obliged to resort to new methods of di viding surplus, as a cloak to cover up their deficiency of means to make good their previous promises. What "dividends" have been grow ing small by degrees and disagreeably less of late years, is, we believe, ^suffi ciently notorious to leave little room for question. The helpless holders of nolicies in these companies have already learned the lesson 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 dence 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 cover of our present number. It is cer tainly a just cause for congratulation on the part of the management, that while with the great majorities of companies hn hnciiiAuu nf lft7l has fallen short of that of 1870, that of the Universal has r increased nearly fifty per ccnt.; nay ' more?its actual increase has been great- r erthan that of any other company in the country. This, however, is not the t only point of interest shown by the r statement in question. The company in its stability has moreT,han k?pt nace ' with its increase of business, one-third of its assets being a surplus over the " requirements for solvency under the a rigid exaction of a four and one-ba'.f per [ cent, valuation, as demanded by the r laws of New York. Since its organiza- n tion this company has issued nearly 1 fifteen thousand policies at rates vary- |" ing from twenty to thirty per cent, f lowej than the mutual companies; has r paid nearly seven hundred thousand ,, ii<?i in pa tn representatives of deceas- L 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-third more in premiums on a similar amount of business. Can there be 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 ^i?nor /if the nublic mind regarding the diminishing "dividends" byluutuai companies, and the consequent aistrust in the decreasing business of those com panies, that agents of ability and sound besiness views should be attracted to wards a company which presents such solid claims in its plans and manage ment for public recognition arid sup port. And such,- we are gratified to learn, is the case, and which we ven ture to predict will be abundantly ver ified at the close of the present year by c a satisfactory Increase in new business t over that of 1871; a gratifying earnest of j this result being already obtained in i the fact, that the business transacted during the first three months of the 1 present year is more than double that ' for the corresponding period of last a year. e The recent action of the company in t granting to the policyholders a share in r the Diohts of the business, is just what , might be expected fiom the character of the management, and entirely dissi pates 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 offspring of benevolence and duty, was not a fit subject for monetary speculation, and therefore should be supplied to the public without any pro fit to those engaged in the conduct of the business beyond a fair living salary. Although dissenting entirely from this view of the question ourselves, we are fully aware that it is pretty generally accepted as correct by the majority of insurers, and the manner of the univer sal certainly show stheir wisdom in meeting the question in the only way in which a prejudice is ever successful ly met?succumbing to it. In the method of division adopted by the company great fairness and liberal ity are shown toward the insured. Each policyholder is treated as a quasi stock holder to the amount of one annual premium 011 his policy, and on this amount he will receive of each profit dividend declared, the same share that a stockholder would receive on an equal amount of capital stock. These divi dends, in view of greatly reduced pre miums charged, must necessarily be small; but their chief value, in our opinion, lies in the fact that no profit can be received by the stockholders which is not participated in by the pol icy-holders, thus necessitating on the part of the management the greatest possible care and economy iu the con duct of the business. In conclusion, we will add that we know of no com pany that offers more attractive fea tures both to the agent and the intend ing insurer than that under review. Ita undeniable solvency, the rapidly in creasing popularity of its plans, its low rates of premium with participation in profits, and though last, not least, the waneing favor with which the so-called "mutual" system is regarded by the public, all combine to convince us that there is no other company which pre sents so many elements of success in the hands of Intelligent and energetic Agents as the Universal. To all sucii that apply to the managers, we can in sure courteous liberal treatment. JOHN C. CHILES, General Agent. Mill Way, 6. C.--tf The Tribune, publishes the following card: "The Tribune has ceased to be a party organ, but the unexpected;g nomination ot its editor at Cincinnati r feems to involve it in a new erabar-(j ra^sment. All must be aware that u the position of a journalist, who is at v the same time a candidate, is at best v irksome and difficult. That heisfct- ^ luruu in autiuu umu i coti aiu^u m ivi cism, by the knowleago that whatever he may say or do ie closely scanned by thousands, eager to find in it what may he bo interpreted as to annoy or perplex those who are supporting him as a candidate, and to whom his shackled condition will not permit him to be serviceable. The under signed, therefore, will withdraw abso lutely from the conduct of tho Tribune, and will henceforth, until further no tice, cxercise no control nor supervi sion over its columns." (Signed) "HORACE GREELEY " The editorial management of the Tribune will fall upon Whitelaw Reid. The Prospects and Policy of the Democracy in the Presi dential Campaign. [From the New York Herald.] The endorsement of Greeley and 3rown and the acceptance of the plat orm of the Cincinnati Convention?is ill that seems left for our Democratic nends. With these they can enter ipon the campaign with some pros >ect of success, and can probably, aise an amount of noisy enthusiasm i i <. i ...!i. a *i.? out uuu nul ueuu wibuunocu oiijcu 1110 lays of Tippecanoe. There will be lothing ihen to prevent tho establish. nent of old white hat clubs all over, he Union, and a revival of the wide iwake processions as a set-off against irant'a "Boys in Blue." The parti, an cant abont adverse principles and ife-long opposition is not worthy of :opsideration. Greeley is honest, traightforward, independent and :ind-heartcd, and will act squarely >y all wbgsupport him should he sue ieed in reaching the White House.? besides, the situation would compel a air treatment of the democracy by 'resident Greeley. A union upon the Presidential ticket means a union ipon State tickets and upon Congres ional candidates; the success of the Cincinnati nomincss wouia mean ino lection of a majority of Democrats ,nd Liberal Republicans to the House f Representatives. These Congress nen would form the administration >arty. and it would be vital to the ad ninistration to hold them together in initv, which could not be done unlesB ho democracy should be conceded a >roper share in the federal counsels ind a fair proportion of the federal poils. Democratic place hunters leed have no fear, therefore, of a dia nnnintmHri t. of their hones when | farmer Greeley moves his traps from )happaqna to the White House.? Fhey will fill tho Custom House, the >ost offices, the Internal Kevenue iureau and tho Washington depart nents before the new civil service ules go into operation, and wiil then ?e safe in their positions. They will f course bo compelled to divide with mngry liberal republicans; but they pill secure the half loaf, and this they rill find far bettor than no bread. While everything will thus be rose olored in regard to the spoils should Jnolo Horaco be elected by Demo rtic votes, the democracy will stand n u better position than they occupy o-day should Greeley be deleated pith the democratic endorsement.? L'he Republican party will theD be lopclessly divided, and a thorough mion of the democratic and Liberal epublican organizations would, no loubt, tako place in the next eam taign, under the name of the liberal lemocraey. As soon as the strength if Grant's name is taken from the egular republicans they inust bo left n a hopeless minority, and theo the iberal democratic party will become he party of the future, and will be ikely to hold powci for a quarter of l century. So that, whether present uccess or future safety bo considered, ho wisest policy the democracy can )ursue at Baltimore is to make a mammons and prompt union witn ho liberal republicans, endorse their landidates and their platform with inthusiasm and plunge into the con est with spirit and euergy. We de ire to see a fair fight between the wo tickets, and are willing to test ho issue between the soldier and the armer?the sword and the plough.? iVe believe Greeley to bo a strong andidaj,e, and for that reason bis en I .. 4- lit* Ka Ifl lil/olv IU roe 111 (3 lib UJ lliu u&inuviukj' lu iiuvii o have a healthy effect upon the ad ninistratiun and to compel 6orae re brms that ought to be made. Al eady the partisan supporters of Gen ral Grant are urging on the adminis ,ration Congressmen a more liberal ariff, a more honest civil service re brm, less land grant jobbery, and a oal "universal amnesty," for the Jouth. In addition, we warn the President that popular sentiment, eon I mns tho policy of Secretary Fish in egard to Cuba and Spain, as well as England, and wo urge him to request he resignation of that Cabinet off er, and to recall Mr. Washburne from 5aris to take his place. If General Jrant will make these concessions here will be little doubt of his re jection. The loj'alty and sound ense of the nation are with him, and ho commercial strength of the coun ry at his back. Hut the democracy nay yet have a chance of success if hey take shelter under the old white latofan honest man, and at least hey will have the satisfaction of ma :ing a good .fight and of laying up for hemselvcs a good store of ammuni ion for future battles. Tho Trustees of the Southern Bap ist Theological Seminary are in daily XT ession in xitucigu, v^t) uiowuaom^ ? he question of removing the pemi- b tuiy from Greenville S. C There h re several propositions before them : Kentucky offers8300,000 on condition ir hat it is. removed to that State, ana jouisville and Riisselville aro compe. ing for it; Tennessee offers $100,000 roni the State at largo. and all that an be raised at any location in the itate to which the seminary may be enioved nnderthia proposition ; Mem ihis offers $2o0,000 j Nashville $60,000, md the buildings of the State ITni 'ersity; and Chattanooga $150,000, vhieh has been actually put into gooa lands, Atlanta is a so competing, >ut her proposition is not yet in form. Yery Significant.?It is stated lpon good authority that Hon. James Brooks, of New York, and Uon. J. B. 3eck, of Kentucky are in favor of the Cincinnati nomination. One is a rep resentative rnr.n of tho old Whig and Democratic parties, now fused in the ipposition, nnd tho other is a repre lentative of tho Conservative Demo ratic party of tho South, they are 30th leading men. This is very sig nificant. No two men could more strongly represent the parties and lections'to which they belong. be Administration of Chloroform, Ni trous Oxide, eta The recent death from frighl i a dentist's chair in this city of ? oman to whom nitrous oxide 01 LUghing gas, had been imprudently jministered, has culled renewed at >ntion to the dangers that attend th( thalution of anaesthetics generally ; seems to be the opinion of the most sperienced medical men that no dan ar attends the operation if it is prop rly conducted. Dr. Curtis of Cincinnati holds thai lany surgeons aie too hasty in put ng persons under the anaesthetic; in nence. He himself determined tc ive chloroform very slowly,' and tc rge large inhalations of atmospheric r. As patients seem inclined to re iso full inspirations to avoid inhaling le chloroform, he gave it loosely trough a Bilk handkerchief, and so owly that from 15 to 30 minutes ere required to prepare the patient ?r operation, never giving it fast lough to diminish sensibly the force r volume of the pulse or to darken ie color of the surface. He never live more than was necessary to pre CilU ObllQUblUII) pillVIIIU^ bUV UUI lavv > learn when this was accomplished, id renewing the inhalation during peration only when he found sensa on returning. Soon after the intro action of chloroform into surgery, t osto'i surgeon, while operating on t atient under its Influence, discovered ?at the blood flow?d very freely but , was dark blood, ho concluded il a** venous, and would not periouslj ffect the subject. Soon he wa* larraed by the sinking of the patient 'ho was only restored by strong Limulants and friction. The ODeratoi ad given chloroform without the ad lixturo of a quantity of atmospheri< ir sufficient to purify the blood o: arbon; and hence, though he hac 'ounded an artery, as he discoverec y the irregular discharge, the bloot -as purple, instead of vermillion, as ii bould have been. Tbe cblorofom ad been given too fast, excluding th< xjgon of tbe atmosphere, as wai ciden t by tbo dark color of tbe blood je reduction of the force of the cir illation, and the purple hue or thi lrface generally. This is a point t< hich great attention should be pai( t the use of the anaesthetic agent. The inhalation of chloroform is onlj SDeedy method of making a persor lead drunk," and Dr. Curtis sooi i\v that if the anesthetic state wen rought od gradually, as intoxicatioi enerally is, and stopped as soon a inse and muscular motion are bj iking alcoholic liquors, it produce< o worse effect upon the system. It oth cases the patient often vomits oth when taking the narcotic an< 'hen getting rid of it; and in both isensibility to the severest operation iay bo produced. By taking propei are in reirard to these things. Dr O - o ' 'urtiss&ya that operations may safe!) e performed on very small childrer nd very old persons, on those whose ings or hearts are diseased, or whc re much reduced by chronic ailmontf f various kinds. A singular effect which chloroform as upon some persons is its dulling be brain and destroying the intellect til faculties for months after it hag een taken, and after physical health as been restored. One gentleman oi stive mind, a ready thinker aud fluenl Titer, might be named who has beon rider the influence of chloroform ireo or four times for sirgical pur oses, and after each time his intellect as been toipid for months, tboujtf is surgical recovery was rapid.? cieniijic American. The First Strasburg Clock. The old clock at Strasburg, in G-er lany according to a descriptior ritten three hundred years ago, hac beautiful golden cock upon it, whicb pon the arrival of every new hour apped its wings, stretched forth iti ock, and crowod twice. The hours were struck upon a bel y the figure of an angel. This an el first opened a door, gave saluta on to the figure of the Virgin Mary nd then proueded to strike the hours, 'he first quarter of the hour was an ouneed by a little child, who stepped ut and hit the bell with an apple, 'he half-hour came, and then appear j a youth who darted an arrow at , while at the third quarter a man >uched it with the tip of his staff, nd at the last quarter an old man ith his crutch. The day of the lonth was pointed out by a statue. tgave the motions of the 6un, moon, irth and planets. Alter two tan red years, this mechanism was re loved, and many changes made in it he present Strasburg clock is only it into full motion at noon-day. I was made by an artist of Stras urg, to replace the old one, which ad fallen into decay. There was an old clock at Venice 1 1663, in which th? hours were ;ruck by two Moors. "While they id their work, three kings entered om a door, bowed to tho figures of le Virgin and Child, and returned lrnnorh ?. Hnnr on the oonosite sido. v"b*" "" "" ? i i The word clock, as applied to a me-keeper that struck the honrs. as first used by Dante, who died in 321 . There is a legend of a mysterious ock said to have been a gift to harlemagne, 800 years after Christ, [t was madeof gilded bronze, around hich the course of the hours was isplayed; at the end of each hour, 10 number of brazen balls requisite > mark the hoar was thrown cut om above and let fall upon a cym al below, while a corresponding umber of horsemen issued from indows placed arouhd the dial." A Swede had his head brokon by j illing brick in Chicago the othei ay. One of the great advantages o cing boru a colored gentleman is thai ou then have a head which a brfcl ron't break. THE NEGRO POPULATION. The statistics contained in the re* l port of the United States eensos for i 1870 do not confirm the common - opinion that there is likely to be ft. r steady flow of the colored people to - this State. Time enough has not > elapsed to determine the law of their . movement; still it is interesting to l study the figdres, and to use them to check our theories. It is a current speculation that the n> groes^wui flock to the States where , they arq'iilready in the majority, and . South' Carolina, Florida' Mississippi and Louisiana are named as States which will probably become distinct ively negro States. How is this view ..AnAnmnH kr t.fiA rnnnna nf 1R7 fl?? V.V/U Ui IUVU vy vuy v . The gain in, Florida, was 46 -per cent.-; bat in the previous decade it was 66 per cent. Louisiana, which gamed.' 34 per cent, in I860, gains only 4. pet cent, in 1870; Mississippi, which, gained 41 per cent, in I860, gains only 41 per cent, in 1870, and South Carolina, which gained 5 per cent, in i 1860, gains only * per cenc. in ine next decade. * Florida was outside of tbc seat of active war, and afforded a > refage for the colored people. This , may account for her gain; but the ' ; gains of Louisiana, Mississippi *nd'' . South Carolina have fallen respective* . ly to 4, H and | per cent, although i the average increase of the entire ne? i gro population, for the same period, :< I was 12 per cent It is true that the , colored populations of the three Statea L last named suffered severely during r the war, and that the mortality -> i amongst them has leen heavy sinde' ; , the war; but, if there had bqen any . ' r considerable migration to those States "' ~ r during the ten years ending in 1870, { . the result would hive been very difc ; M i ferent, Hor does the census show . > f that there has been any considerable ; I movement from the North to the old ') 1 slave States. 1 In a general way, the statistics t prove that tbe movement of the negro i population has taken a Northern as 3 well as a Southern direction; bat it is b difficult t> say what changcs are even , now in progress. During the last - two years there has been, it is be* a lieved, a steady flow of colored people ) to Mississippi, and it is hardly to be i doubted that the next census will show that there has been considerable 1 uiuigi avivu tivui tiaio uwt?< vuv i great danger is that South .Carolina i may lag behind in the work of re 3 forming her government, in which i case the temptation to move in tbi? 3 direction may be stronger. than tho 7 attraction of higher wages farther 1 South. Even so, however, it is open ) for consideration whether the new i, coiners would not be the few aspiring 1 colored men who envy the Elliots and , Whippers wJio have obtained a prora i inent position here, rat'ier than the r laborers who depend upan the gene . rat prosperity of a {State for their rate rof wages and the security of their i earnings. A more imminent peril is > that the continuance of corrupt and > tyrannical government mar drive the i white people away; in which event the relative strength of the negroes , would be proportionately increased. - And tins resale - can only do avoiaea 1 by seizing every opportunity which i presents itself of making any change , for the better, however slight, in the f character of our public officers. This is as necessary to the well-beirrg of t the colored peoplo as that of the ! whites. If South Carolina were to" . lose her white population, it would be impossible foj* the colored labor , era to obtain even the comforts which . now are tbeirs, ana any improvement in their condidition would be oat of tbe question. . We do not pretend to say that tbe "" * statistics of tbe census of 1870 are ' conclusive. Thoy are, however, true -if as far as they go, and they show that. , from 1860 to 1870 the increase in the I colored population of this' State was' : | only} prr cent.^ while the average O ' -jain throughout. the United States,, ^ j was 12 per cent., aBd the natural in-', crease should be for the same period, about 15 per cent. Up to 1870, at all ' events, there was no movement of ' colored people to South Carolina and ' it is highly probable that thousands ' were lost by emigration to the far South.?Chyles ton Newt. How Judok Davj8 Became Eicn. ?Judge Davis, of Illinois, is ft ri<?^ man. The public may not know how be became wealthy. About thirty five years ago, when Judge Davis was a practicing lawyer in the West, he 1 waa employed by a Connecticut man to collect $800. Davis went to the place where the debtor lived, and I found hi m to be rich in landed posses moos, but without a spare dollar in . money. Ho finally settled the bill by % giving a deed for tbe tract of laud? aflat, moist and undesirable piece of land in appearance, lying close by a. sheet of water, and consisting perhaps of 60 acros. Davis subsequently met -r his Connecticut client iu St. Louis, when the latter (who seems not to u have possessed the usual uonnecucaB shrewdness) fell to and gave him a ' regular blowing up" for taking the land rather than insisting upon the . $800 in cash ; he didn't want any of 7 your western land, and he told Davis that having accepted it in payment for the debt, he had better keep it. himself, and pay over the money oat 1 of his own pocket. To this Davis ' agreed. Stepping into a friend's place nf business he borrowed $800, took the Connecticut man's receipt for tho land, and held the land for a rise.; That picce of land now forms pwt of one of the suburbs of Chicago. JuJge' Davis has sold two or three hundred thousand dollars worth of it, and has nearly a million dollars "worth of it lofV T< io n OTAmnlA nf what the possession of western property has done for its holders; and as the story has never before been printed, we thought it would be interesting enough to publish. About 200,000 Germans emigrate fVora the mother country annually.