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ll44M|lluV>l|l>4ll iMlilUHliMiHullwMl?!!'!, VOLUME XLIV. EDGEFIELD, ^| DECEMBER 19, 1878. fe f ? ? # ' I . J . 1 , < I, l*l,<- .l'!,",. - '."r^r FARTH'S li EST" FR I LIX DSU 1 F JS?fi LUTHER G. RIGGS. I count that friendship of but little wo That'hathjlot ever'au endearing word; That ne'er $r?h*hope. .hath other fe hearts stirred ; That ne'er to confidence hath given bir That friendship holds not many thii untold Of all the pains and pleasures of i earth; But it hath longings that no words c hold, And 'secret passions watting for n< birth. The truest friends speak ever soul to soi And clasp their brother with a uithi hand, And pledge through tearful trials tr to stand; And, though cold waves of grief shou o'r them roll, Still like the emblematic holly tree, Its flowers for bruised wounds bloo cons!antly. ?HB??TAL SHOT. [Dr. E. H. Bliss in Waverly.] A caravan consisting of a doze mule teams, paused just as the " : round and glowing with a smo te red, Batik down on the horizon of th level prairie. Around them on eithe side for many miles the grass grei tall and rank, interspersed here an there with a great variety of flowers There was not a tree to be seen,, ot ind> ed, a bush or twig. With a grea show of activity, the people unhitchei their teams and built a fire in thei portable stoves. " Y-a a-s, that's my opinion exact ly. This yar spot about* the cen te of the great prairie is just the love liest piece of natur in the world You can't find its equal this side o the Rockies." "I wasn't thinkin' about the bim grass of Illynoi, jedge, when I wen' for to assert that this ere was a fine pieter, with the sun over there turn^ ing every thing to crimson and yel low-perhaps there might be finei scenes than this, I repeat." "Wal, C "onel Quenten, wc will leave that io Lize. Here, you, gal, come here. What do you think ol that grass over there, lookin' as if it was a burnin' ?" "Think? I don't think nothin', Jedge Long; it's far away, and I had rather tend the bacon than listen to vsu+c-yarns. j nwtw^ "-TiikVci the ^ay^TTS^^lu^Ttl?lt gV?~; she ain't got so much sentiment as an outcast Indian.*" Never you mind, jedge, when it comes meal-time you won't forget to get your share of corn-pone or fried bacon and coffee either. Let alone your fine talk about the prairie ; that don't amount to much long Bide of a square meal. Now, does it?' "Quite right, Lize," said the judge. " Decidedly," gruffly responded tiie colonel. The girl went about her duties, preparing the evening meal for the two men and her father, who, by the way, was as blunt spoken and homely as his daughter. Colonel Quenten and Judge Long were quite original characters in their way. This was their first trip across the plains, which they undertook in the general excitement then reigning about the finding of gold. Falling in with Jonas Clark and his daugh ter, who were about to cress the plains, they made an agreement wuh them which, before the first, dozen of miles out from St. Louis he had nigh broken by proposing to squat. To fix matters morj satisfactorily to themselves, the two adventurers set tled the case by buying the entire team, mules and all, and taking the old man and his daughter along " ftr boo," as old Clark expressed it. They were now one of a dozen of similar teams, whose shadows locked like wigwams in the semi-dark ness that had now formed around them. After their repast the three men sat around the camp-stove and smok ed, and Lize did the dish-washing. "Wal, colonel, tte wear and tear of travel is a tellin' on ye mighty haid. How ye would like to be in 'Frisco, now, wouldn't ye, along with the nuggets ye are supposed to pick up on the way. There's no tellin' how long we'll , be in gettiu' thar, though," he added sorrowfully. The colonel had lived in the west from boyhood, and well knew what it was ti? share a comf ortable farmer's life, and sighed audibly at the for mer's remnrks. "Ye kin jest bet your bottom dol lar I wish I was thar, back in Illinois, where I come from. These here wastes around, without a shrub or tree, do not please me or Lize nary time, and I'm sure-" Whtt his next words would have been tne two men were never to know ir this world, for at the last word old Clark doubled himself up at their feet a corpse, while a thiu puff of smoke curled up and disap peared just around the corner of the wagon. "Who fired that shot!" exclaim ed the colonel, as both started to their feet and seized the rifles. There was not so much as a shadow I to be seen-nothing but the huge canvas of the wagon flapping now and then against the wheels. The moon shone brightly across the undu lating plain, bat gaze_j?j^hey_ would*,. not assign could they discover of the origin of the shot. Stranger still, the neighboring camps around them did not appear to be cognizant of the fact that a man had beeu killed. The men looked into the team where Lize was sleeping. "Wake up, gal, wake up? We want ye to hurry and get yer duds on, for something strange has hap pened." Old Clark lay where he had fallen, with a bullet through his forehead ; there was no mistaking that he was dead beyond a venture. When Lize beheld what had hap pened, she uttered a piercing scream and then fell down beaide him. "No use takin' the matt-r to heart, Lize ; what's did is past mending. Your father has been assassinated by : unknown hinds, and who has done it is what me and the jedge don't '. know ; but if there be vengeance, i gal, it shall surely overtake the scoun drel." i "Yes-you bet !" I A new voice uttered these words \ -a voice that came fron :he oppo- j site side of the wagon. Then the < stranger came out into full view-a i p eries t gi / n?paraed jflprH?SM to < foot in a su.t of buckskin. Ho bore ? in his hand a rifle, which he dropped i to the ground and leaned upon it. " What has happened-a man ] shot, with a gal a howlin' for him ! \ How do ye account for it, stran- E ger?" "Easy enough; the man has been f shot by some sneakin' toward who r knows well where to hide himself i from our bullets." i '.Ye don't mean to intimate that i I'm under suspicion of doin' tho deed, s do ye ? for if ye do, I can furnish 1 proof enough that there ain't so much s ground for that belief as there is that t I scalped a muskeeter with this yer s bowie-knife. No, Bill the Ranger is s made of different kind of stuff. That was a sneakin' act." E "We don't know who did the 1 leed," said the colonel, " but it's been t Jone, and what we want to know is who the individual is, that we < nay give him his justdeserts."? \ "Good ! I'm with ve., strangers, on that conclusion. I'm Bill the Ran ger, at your service. I just got here i Vom a little huffier expedition with f poor success, but that doesn't make c my difference. I kin tell by the 1 gal's grief that he was a kind father, t ind so I've got my mind on avengin' lim." t Hardly had he said these words \ before the sharp report of a rifle t broke on the night air, followed by \ :he whiz of a bullet, and tho colonel's inn dropped by his side like a lump t af lead. The ranger and the judge t were on the alert. Both saw the smoke \ is it rolled away-even Emelled the t [lowder, but, as before, not a hide or a hair of an enemy was visible. The ? ranv? ss back of the wagon flapped a \ few times, then the same deathlike f stillness that reigned before. I "Ghost or devil-there's death to ? the man that stays here long," said the ranger, taking a few strides to- ' ward the direction from whence the s?hot had come. The colonel drew his ' revolver and followed in the steps of the ranger. Carefully they searched | the whole space of ground for a con siderable distance. People from oth er camps came over to see what the trouble was, and when they learned what had happened great was the anxiety to see where the mysterious shots came from. But search as they j might nothing beyond a few buffalo bones, whitened and dried, rewarded them. The colonel's wound was not sobad ] but he could stand watch. The ran- , ger was to be awakened if there were signs of the enemy ; while Lize, af ter covering her fatht-r's body with a blanket, got into the team and sobbed herself to sleep. "Seen anything?" asked the ran ger, when the colonel shook him to let him know it was his turn to stand watch. " Nary a ghobt, but the hour of midnight is here, and time for such visits, and seein' as ye are to watch let's roui-e the judge and take a smoke. Perhaps there's more dan ger ahead." "Right; and if I don't get winged at short notice I'll let into somebody for certain." The three men filled their pipes, lighted them, and sat down with their rifles cocked, and watched the dim shadows around them. All was quiet as death, not a sound even from the muies broke the stillness of the midnight hour. "What is that I hear?" asked the judge, alter a long silence. "Foot steps are approaching." "Great Heavens! Look! look!" They all grasped their rifles with one accord, and arose and faced what seemed to them a terrible apparition. Not forty yards away, and coming toward them with gigantic strides, was the colossal figure of a man, or what seemed to be a mau, clad from head to foot in a long flowing white garment. It towered above them at least ten feet, while from the place supposed to be the mouth issued a sulphurous light. It carried no JEfl&pan. that was visible, but hardly had the three faced it when a shot rang out on the night air. "I'm shot!" exclaimed the ranger, clapping his hand upon his heart; but the consciousness of it 6ent a fero cious light into his eyes as he aimed at the figure. His first impulse was to fire high, but on second thought he lowered his rifle to the place where the feet were supposed to be, and fired. He missed, but now all the camps wert aroused, and, seeing the ghostly visitant, sent such a shower of leaden hail into it that, before another min ute, the mass of white was seen to waver and totter on its legs, then down it went. As it fell, the form of au Indian was seen to dart out from the cover ing and take to his legs. "Thar's the ghost himself; the vil lain is making away-at him boys!" ?houted the ranger, starting forward. On they went, until all of a sud Ion the figure disappeared, seeming :o enter the ground. The ranger ivas near enough to him as he disap peared to notice that a cf-rtain piece )f sod moved. Astonishing as it nay^wem^ he actually saw the Indian iisappear into the bowels of the earth, md the sods closed together for a noment to baffle him. "So that's hrs trick-the red devil! Ie has an underground abode. Well, ve'll rout him out of that in a jiffy," laid the judge. Suddenly, as the ranger placed his eet on a certain ?pot, the ground ?ave way, and he was precipitated ulo a pit some five feet deeper-right nto the mid?t ot five Indians. Drop ing his rifle, he drew a bowie-knife, ind then commenced a terrific eom >at at uneven odds; but he was not ilone, for nearly a score of rifles were >ointing right into the pit, ready to end death into their midst at a econd's warning. "Git back to the dide we ar?, ran ger," shouted the colonel, "so as we rio clean out the var mints without echin' you." The ran.-:, jiving t.- ' vounded J At the \ nto the p: aces and s lian to th?. Those rema, he hunters The range ' . ??iied two in hand o-hand conflict. He had received a vound near the^heart by a bullet >efore enteringthe f*fc? anc^ wa8 D0W rery nearlv/einan8(el. A heavjftr guard w*3 Poate^ a^ter hat around the ca;)P' wbile e?eB hat could not be oIo8e^ in sIeeP vatched the stars an^ ^stt?ne^ w*t? he keenest attentic-a ^or ^^er ounds that night. i?4e next day a ;rave was dug for the dead man, and, vith poor Eliza as the chief mourner, ind the corpse was buried in the nidet of the long grass and bright lowers of the prairie. PIHST IN WAR) FIRST IN PEACE ! IND FIRST IN TUE HEARTS OF A GRATEFUL PEOPLE. Unanimous Election of Gov. Hampton to the United States Senatoreliip Impressive Scenes in the General ABoembly-A Characteristic Letter from the Goveruor. Special Dispatch to the ATeif.va?d Owner. COLUMBIA, Thursday, December IO.-In the House of Representatives to-day, the hour of noon having ar rived, the Speaker announced that, under the act of Congress, the time bad come for the election of a Sena tor to the United States Senate, and that the House would proceed by a viva voce vote to declare its choice. A huBb. aa still as death fell upon the House, and every eye was turned to wards Gen. Samuel McGowan, who rose and said : Mr. Speaker, I rise to exercise a privilege whjeh belongs, in common, to every member on thia floor, but which on this occasion seems to me something more-a duty. We are about to perform an act which will honor a citizen with the highest office the State can bestow, but that con sid' ation sinks into insignificance in .ew of the fact that it involves, to a large extent, the peace, prosperity and happiness of the whole people of South Carolina. A Senator in Con gress has an exalted position from which he can do much for his people, and is regarded as the highest type and exponent of that people. South Carolina throughout her whole history, excepting a period in the recent past, has appreciated high virtues ana delighted to honor those of her sons who deserved well of the republic. She has alwaya put for ward her beat men, and trusted them in no narrow, jealou? spirit, but with the full measure of her confidence. She conceived that in honoring them abe honored heraelf. Nor did sha miacalculate. For although small in territory we can say-without touching upou anything doubtful that for many years she contributed as much of talent, of genius and of patrio iBm to the councils of the com mon country aa any State in the Un ion. The roll of her diBtinguished representatives ia too long to enume rate. They were truly representa tive men, who carried emblazon their bosoms and exhibited high bearing and proud crests all fidelity, high tone, self-reliance, trioti8m and honor of jfrotnl^ld. o?ina. For a period we were without n> resentativee in Congress. Foradil darker period we had none who wre truly the representatives of the prj> erty, intelligence and virtue of tis people. We have now in the'Sen^e" our distinguished citizen, the H'^ M. C. Butler, who has already ta his place on that illustrious old r and it is now our duty to elect other. For the last twenty years we h been acting history. Since whatjs known as the jeconatruction of Mi State government, I have alwtfs thought a double duty was imposai upon South Caro?na: first to reed er the State government from tie wrecking hands of the spoiler, an give to those who had the intelligente and property some voice in its C3K" trol, and ihen to consolidate ajV make perpetual that redemption $r* proving that we deserved it-by tfc habitual practice of high civic v^ tues-by giving, in the spirit of hj manity, just and equal laws to thjt part of the body politic lately ema* cipated and made citizens, and V cultivating good relations betweo. the sections lately embittered by waT I know of no other policy which cat' be taken with honor or relied upa to secure the permanent peace, proj ' perity and happiness of our peopli We all know who led us heroj^al ly, surely and successfully in thefirT great struggle to secure some vo'o in our own government, and thf alone would seem to point out tB. man who could most successfully ser? us in the present and no less inLj portant phase of our public affairs. Mr. Speaker, I have the honor - t!H nominate for the great office of Sena j tor from South Carolina one whoa past history marks with certainty hfe future course ; one who is in the trnV est sense the embodiment of the brave, just, conservative Democracy of the State, uue whose name hal been identified with that of SoutH Carolina for three* generations, and during the whole of that period ha/ been the exponent of her high culture^ chivalry and honor; one who has all ways been devoted to hio 3tate, .aai served her with equal fidelity in pros? perity and in adversity, in peaci. and in war. I need not name the man. No one can mistake to whpnt I allude. The people ~f S eve' 2ol. utiarles H. Simonton sec onded the nomination in the follow ing words : Mr. Speaker, I rise to second the nomination which has just been made, not only because I represent a con stituency which claims him with pride as a native of their city, not only as a member on this floor, but, sir, I feel that I speak the universal voice .of the State. In every part of South Carolina, from every fireside, our people are listening with anxiety for news from Columbia. Their hearts yearn with sympathy for our strick en Governor, and they melt with t n der affection when they think of him stretched on his bed of pain and suf fering. They long for an opportuni ty ot doing 6ome act by which they can demonstrate the deep love, affec tion and reverence which they have for Wade Fiampton. This opportu nity we have, and by our unanimous vote we can show that the bear's of the representatives of South Carolina beat in unison with the hearts of their people, and that we 'JUS invite h\c. .cceptance of the highest office in cur gift. Mr. CharleB Richardson Miles arose from his seat, and in a voice husky with emotion, said : Mr. Speaker, Governor Hampton, desiring that his position in respect to the office for which we are about to elect him should be clearly under stood, requested me to state it to the General Assembly. He yesterday dictated to me a few sentences which he desired me to read in this House. In view of what is transpiring while I sreak there will be peculiar weight and solemnity in these few words oi our stricken Governor. Mr. Miles then read the following LETTER FROM GOVERNOR HAMPTON Gentlcmeyi of the General Assem bly : Tho unfortunate accident whicl has deprived me of the opportunity of counseling with your honorable bodies, renders it proper that my po sition in respect to the United State? Seoator8hip should be distinctly sta ted and understood, and I therefor? venture to make these suggestions tc vou before the election: In the first place, I must not b< considered in any sense a candidat) for the office, which should neithej be sought or declined. And since mj name has been mentioned in connec tion with it, I have rigidly abstainec from expressing any opinions or wishe of my own upon the subject. If, in the judgment of the Genera Assembly, my transfer to anothe scene of action would best subserve the interests of the State, I need no say how cheerfully I will respond ti any call that is made upon me ; bu if, on the other hand, they deem tha the best interests of the State demanc that I shall remain in my present po sition, I will with exilai cheerfulnes accord with their desire. In whatev er position my service? are called for if it jilease God to prolong my lift those services shall be dedicated t the State in the future as they hav been in the past, inspired by the moa earnest patriotism and desire to prc mote her best interests. Thankin the members of the General Assem bly for their official and personal con aideration of me in my illness, an ?he I 1 - _r...=^ leaving the matter entirely to their j judgment. I am, respectfully and {sincerely, their friend and fellow-cit izen, WADE HAMPTON, AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE. The roll was then called, and, os each name was announced by the clerk, the member rose in his seat ?nd slowly and solemnly pronounced the nam? nC 117 juli; \ji tue election as fol lows : "Total number of votes cast 113, necessary to a choice 57, of which Governor Wade Hampton has re ceived 111, and E. W. M. Mackey 2. I therefore declare that Governor Wade Hampton, having received a majority of all the votes cast, is elec ted aa the choice of the House of Representatives to the office of Sena tor from the State of South Carolina, to fill the vacancy to be created by the expiration of the office of John J. Patterson. The proceedings will :i be ;-(.ad i'.i joint assembly to-morrow at 12 M., and the result by the joint assembly will then be declared." IN THE SENATE. As soon as the Senate assembled, Mr. Coker, of Darlington, moved that the Senate at once go into the election of United States Senator. This motion having prevailed, Presi dent Jeter said that nominations were in order. Mr. McCall, of Marlboro: "I have the honor to place in nomination a name that needs no tribute from me, a name that is indelibly impressed upon the hearts of all true sons of Carolina, the name of the true, tried and trusted Wade Hampton." Gen. Siegling, of Charleston: "I rise, Mr. President, to second the nomination which has just been made, and in BO doing I feel that the high est interests of South Carolina will be subserved by eecuring, as her repre sentative in the national councils, the distinguished patriot who was her defender in war and liberator in peace. I will not pause here to recall how during that condition of war he con tributed to make the name of South Carolina illustrious, or how in the discharge of the more difficult and not the less honorable duties of peace, he wrought the redemption of the State. Nor will I in this his native State, much less in this Senate Chamber, attempt to show how by the inherent power of his own absolute purity he restored the liberties of his people and brought to their firesides an endu ring peace. But I will say that wheresoever truth, good faith and fidelity to duty shall be recognized as the highest human virtue?, and wheresoever the story of a sorely oppressed people and their liberation by patriotic hands shall be told, there will the name of Hampton stand foremost. Mr. President, the General Assem bly believing he can thus best serve the State, will this day tender to him their highest gift, and in so doinp they will not only testify the appre^ ciation of his ability but of his groat heart which, in affliction as in health throbs alone for the honor, peace and welfare of South Carolina." Mr. Kinsler, of Richland, road thf same letter of Governor Hampton that was read by Mr. Miles in the House and it was unanimously agreed thal it be recorded upon the journal. The roll of the members was then called and the vote taken. Th< twenty-nine Senators present, inclu ding lien. Gary, cast their votes foi Hampton, thereby unanimously elect ing him. Rock Hill has been selected as thi next place of meeting for the Presby terian Synod of South Carolina. rI6HT L. M( Renowned El ?WIGHT L MOODY. ? Mr. D. L. Moody, the subject our sketch to day, was born in Nor field, Massachusetts, in 1837. 1 parents were Unitarians. On goi to Boston when eighteen years of a? he entered Dr. Kirk's Congregatioi k*je he was converted, a "^^united himself wi .54 he removed r' : ued a position store. Heat OE ork, and soon < ^arJk^y?alIM ??lone of the rn? .Jden portions ?:tv. ^u oucccBsful was he in 1 Christian enterprises that he gave i his situation, and since that peri he has devoted all his time ana 1 energy to Christian work. He h never asked for or received any sala for his work, trusting to the Lord f the supply ol his daily wants. During the war Mr. Moody w one of the most successful workers the Christian Commission in the fiel and for the most of the time w Chairman of the Chicago branch 1 that organization. After the war 1 j was elected Piesident of the Your j Men's Christian Association, and hi been ever since a prominent worki in that organization. To his ' effor the Young Men's Christian Associi tion of Chicago owed its building one of the first in the country. I 1S71 his hcuse, church and the Ass< ciation building as well as the hous< of most of those connected with h mission were destroyed in the gret fire. At once he went to work ri iieving the wants of the needy, and large sum of money was raised by hi effort, after the excitement all ove the country incident to the fire Lai subsided. Mr. Moody is a short and some what stout man, with a full beard rather small eyes, and an active, en ergctic, but not nervous habit. Hi manner is alert and prompt, but no graceful; his voice is unmusical, an< indeed harsh, his enunciation i?, ver clear, bat somewhat too rapid, ye can be heard and understood in ever part of the largest building in th country, as he has frequently spokei to a single audience of 7,000. ile gesticulates but little, and hi gestures are evidently unstudied His style ol speaking is entirely con ? versational. He is, evidently, by hi I pronunciation, a Yankee, clippinj . some of the minor words in his sen j tences, as the farmers in the interio ? of Massachusetts do, but he has ni "Yankee drawl." He speaks the lan ? guage of the people, and has th merit of using always the commones words; and that he had no early edu ! cational advantages, is plain from hi frequent use of "done" for "did," an< . other ungrammatical colloquialisms 1 In short, his appearance is notimpos , ing; his figure is not graceful, bu ! that of a farmer or hard-workinj ; laborer; his voice is not melodious ' nor has it a great range; his langU8g ^ is not choice. His externals, there , ; fore, are all against him. ?J j In spite of all of these disadvant > j ages he has succeeded in attractinj k j in England and elsewhere vast crowd day after day, who, at some of th ; meetings in the United States at least - were composed largely of cultivate! r people; he has, evidently, succeedec in interesting these crowds in wha he has had to say; for nothing is mon 3 : remarkable at the meetings than th? . absolute quiet and order, and the at titude of interested listeners, whicl Bgelist. have prevailed among the audience. He has so entirely controlled his audience that all noisy manifestations of religious feeling have been entirely suppressed; and at the same time no one who has sat in these meetings can have failed to see that Mr. Moody's manner of presenting his subject is to an extraordinary degree effective in moving the hearts of his hearers, in stirring devotional feelings, in pro ducing a profound impression upon them of the importance of the mes sage he has to deliver. Nor is this all. Not the least re markable evidence of the real and 'profound ' interest excited by Mr. Moody's exhortations is seen in what are happily called the " overflow meetings," composed of penons who could not gain admission to the regu lar meetings where Mr. Moody ex horts, and who adjourn to a neigh boring church to listen to some other preacher and to sing the songs which Moody and Sa key made familiar to them. If any considerable part of the crowds who go to the meetings were composed of the merely curious, these "overflow meetings" could not exist. Nor is even this all. Mr. Moody does not hesitate to advise people to stay away from his meetings. He lias repeatedly urged that his labors are for non-chuich-goer.-.; that he de sires room left for this class, and he has taken special means to exclude from some of hii meetings all who regularly attend a church-that is to say, he does not court his audiences, but the contrary. If you go to hear him it must be because you want to; if you go the second time it must be because he interested you the first. -- ?.? SENATOR HILL OX TUE SITUA TION, The Democratic Party Likened to thc Children of Israel in the Wilderness. Hon. B. H. Hill, Senator from Georgia, delivered a speech in Atlan ta lately, from which we extract the following : Fciloiv-Citizcns, Whatever opinion you hold on any question, abandon your feelings, your individual notions, and come with one heart and rally to the support of that party which will save this country from fraud and corruption-the Democratic party. I hear men say sometimes, " If this is going to be the case, if this thing or that thing is to bc, I am no longer a Democrat." And I am reminded sometimes of a passage in Exodus, and I commend it to your attention. When the children of Israel passed through the wilderness they should have reached Canaan ; they were for ty years in the wilderness ; and why ? Every now and then they rebelled, and God would turn them back in the wilderness as a punishment for their sin. They built a golden call and worshipped it, and God punished them for that. They were wiser than we, because we worshipped a papei calf. It has often come near putting us back in the wilderness. It came very near losing us the House of Rep resentatives the other day. You ask " Do you want a sound currency ?' I do. "Do you want a healthy cur rency ?" I do. "Do you want ? currency equally distributed over tin country ?" I do. " Do you want pros perity re\ived?" I do. "Do yoi want better transportation for tin products of the country?" I do. Al these things you can have, and hav< only through the Democratic party This country must be ruled, lt cai only be ruled fora generation to corni by either the Radical party or th Democratic party. If you weakei the Democratic party, i:' you den1 its standard in disdain, you will b turned back into the wilderness, am that party born of strife and wai and living only by blood, will coe inue to rule in sorrow. r Moses called, the -pdopI.tr pr together and told them filially tba God was going to let them into the Jand-of Canaan, not on account'ot' their own righteousness, bu t jtbe wiok edness of the people who dwelt ih'ere. .And so"I am afraid we will ??$ back the government, not on account- of '.our own ngliteousness, but the wick edness of the people that .had it. "We are goiug to get it back any way, but I would rather set it by our own righteousness than their wicked ness. I know we shall have trials^ and very great trials, but I shall go back to Washington, so far as I am hum bly concerned, fellow-citizens, with a heart not entirely free from anxiety; j bot I shall go, as far as ono so hum bie us I am concerned, ..'..?th a ii na purpose of restoring this'g.)Vornmenl to it's proper limitations and its tn tt<? rnd pruspeiity. 'They say we of the South mean resolution; that we of the Detaocrat icparty will revolutionize the conn try if we get control. YVs; I s i v, we do mean revolution. We intf-mi to have a revolution from fraud to lwJnesty, from extravagance toYcono my, (iota ruin to prosperity, from un constitutional Republicanism to con stitutional Democracy. "t'OXFK I ERATE ARCHIVES. The well informed special corres pondent, of the Baltimore Sun writes td-that jourhal'that ?ne Secretary of War will ask of Congress an appro priation for tho publication ol' the Confederate archives and records. The Secretary of War in July "last appointed as the editor and compiler of these records General Marcus Wright, of Tennessee. The Secreta ry considered that it would be best to appoint a Confer?ate officer for this work, not only because exception could not be taken to the work as be ing in an unfriendly or partial lund, but because many documents and bitter memoranda would bc furnished 'which otherwise would be unavailable.. Gen. Wright since entering on his duties has performed a great deal of labor. Ile has a1 ready completed, so far as may be, a connected history of the official Confederate operations for the first year of the war. He lias had placed at his disposal all the pa pers of the Southern Hist?rica' rfo-1 ciety, also the order and telegraph, books of most of the leading Confed erate chieftains. Hon. Jefferson Da vis bas also submitted for the use of General Wright such official papers in his^possession' as belonged to the executive office of the Confederacy. Gener:.! Wright has written to Mr. Judah P. Benjamin," at London, ask ing him to famish any documents -wMc?riT?r;IMY have" ashlie Confeder ate Secret arv of State; It is*design ed to make this publication of I he Confederate records as complete as those of the United States operations, if tho material can bi} obtained, and it is thought there will be no difficul ty in this. An exceedingly valuable contribution to history will tims be obtained. In connection with this subject it will ho of public interest to state that the los1 of the son of Mr. Davis by yellow lever, and the illness of ooth Mr. and Mrs. Davis, have caused some cleky in the preparation of the personal memoirs of the Pres ident of tkc Southern Confederacy. But it is thought that the work will be put to press some time in the Spring. So great is the public interest taken in these forthcoming momoirs that arrangements are in progress to print a London edition simultaneously with the New York edition, and it is prob able that a French edition will also be printed. Mr. and Mrs. Davis are now at their home, at Beauvoir, Mis sissippi. SO TIRED. So tired now! 1 fold my hand In a vague, voiceless way; But Ute dear *!'><.!, Ile understand*, Although I cannot pray. Thc little child that kneeling down When sleep c?rnea to bis breast-, Lisps in its spoken, baby tone, "Mother-i ?od knows the rest." .So would I lean, O Christ! on Hie?, Within Thine anus I'd fall, Darkness and weakness cover in . - Father, Thou knowest all! Bal stumbling, blind, and al a loss, How can I reach lo Thee? I clasp my arms around Thy cross That brings Thoo down lo me. Au Cnlncky Farmer? Down below Aurora, Indiana, some years ago, a man bought a firm. Had no money, but. was considered a good man; owner wanted tosell and wasn't anxious to get in his money so hing as it was safe, so be sold the farm on three year's time; one long note, se cured only by mortgage on the farm, interest payable annually or at ma turity of paper al buyer's option, li. was his sensible option not to pay anything he did not have to, so he never paid. Well, he raised throe good crops on the farm, did well, pa ! per fell due, and he was about, to 1 take it up, when the Ohio rive: reach i ed out and look in the furn. Didn't ' transfer it. to the Ken tucky sh or?, ; i just mizzled with ii ; soaked it up ; i flortte? it off in mud, took in the whole ? eighty. Just scooped it, you know. , Well buyer refused to pay for what he hadn't; seller brought suit, got ? judgment, and what could he do, i when he couldn't get his money, but i foreclose the mortgage? And what . i could he foreclose on wheo the land i which the mortgage* secured was i gone? Seller got mad ; kicked. Bny 1 j er told him to foreclose, had no mon? 3 j ey, couldn't pay, and didn't want ins . i old farm anyhow. And that after i he'd had three crops off it. Now a that's the kind of a snarl a man gets e into by having farms on the river 3 shore. But I knew a man, Aurora f i m.iD, who had a farm in a worse place e than on the river shore. Had one ;1 hundred and sixty acres on the river bottom. Fact. Cultivated, too. Rais i- ' ed whiskey in the ear.- Thc Hawk' ci/c Man.