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Vol. VI. WEDNESDA ;"rORNG~, JULY 13, 1870O. - THE HERALD Is rrDLISRED EVERY WEDNESDAY MOINNG, At #ewberry C. IL, By Thos. F. & R. H. Grneker, Editors and ?roprietors. Invariably in Advance. '- Thb paper is stopped at the expiration o ime for wnich it is paid. - The % mark denotes expiration of sub Cription. (From the Charleston News.) THE BALL OPENED. FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT CELEBRI TION IN EDGEFIELD. AN IMMENSE GATHERING. Speeches by .udge Carpenter, General But ler, Congressman Hoge, Elliott, Delaney and others. TIHE BARBECUE. A JOLLY TIME. THE GOOD CAUSE PROSPERS! oDGEFIF.LD C. I., Saturday July 2. This town has to-day been the scene of the largest gathering of people ever assembled within its limits. True, the chief object of the occasion was to celebrate, in a suitable manner, the adoption of' the Fifteenth amendment; but the announcement that Judge R. B. Carpenter, the gubernatorial can didate of the Union Reform par ty, General AL C. Butler, the nom inee for Lieutenant-Governor, and others would address the meeting, lent to it additional interest, and attracted a crowd, the equal of which cannot be recalled in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. As early as 2 o'clock this morning the colored citizens were wending their way hither from points even twenty-five miles distant, and by 9 o'clock every road leading to Edgefield was emptying its streams of humar.ity into the heart of the town. Men, women and children came plodding in, covered with dust and perspiration-as motley and yet as pertinacionsiy enthusi -astic a throng as you ever saw in -.your life-while a Special train of 'cars from Augusta and Aiken brought three or fbnr colored miii tary companies,weil armed, tbought -'otherwise got up with a reckless! disregard of tactics and uniform. A large niumber of white citi -zens were also- present from the neighborhood, curious nio doubt to witness the inauguration of the *newv era in the polities of the -State, which was to be marked on this occasionf by the appearance upon the speaker's p)latform of mon w ho heretofore have been denied a public hearing by the 01) :position. Until a few hours preedring the meeting, it was believedl that the1 R1epublier ~s would refuse permis sion to MesArs. Carpenter and But icr to address the multitide, and, ipdeed, to this end a strong effort 'was made by certain white Radi 'edts; but to the credit of the mass 'of colored men, be it said, they insisted that the courtesy of a hearing shou!d be exte.nded to the -candidates. The) whites conceded .so far as to limit the iReform .speakers to half an hour each. -The utmost good feeling ap peared to prevail after the settle -nmnt of this ':exed question, and thc presence of a brig~ade of po ]icemen cou'd not have addied an iota to the order and harmony ,e vervwhere observable. So~on after 12 o'clock, M., a pro eession of say one thousand col -ed men, preceded by a band of ~inusie.formed and marched through -the town toapleasant locality, known as the Academy Grove. Hlere a platform had been erectedl for the speakers, and no far -away -se-veral lines of long tables prom ised in due season to bestow on hungry st.omachis the blessings of a barbecue. Unfortunately ashower of rain -deloyed the proceedings for half an om-ormore ; but when the unshone out again there were at least four thousand persons on the ground. The meeting was called to order by Mr. P. A. Eichelberger, the coroner of the county, who intro d-uced as thc fir-st speaker, accord. ing to the p)rogr-amme adopted, R1ev. B. F. Jackson, a member of~ the Legislature. Mr. Jackson, in the main, avoid 5 dthe discussion of the polities of the day, temperately confining -himself to a review of the history * of the Republican movement, and a consideration of its results as they are embodied in the Fifteenth amendment. Chief among these1 * blessings, he said, was the estab lishmen t of a governmen t in wh ich all people, irrespective of race,1 condition or color, had a voice and a vote, and it was a government which commended itself to the support of every true man. For those who were to follow him, who had heretofore stood on the; other side, he asked a courteous and respectful hearing, without prejudice. He believed in the ut terance and the influence of tr-uth, and lhe desired that truth to be weighed in the light of presenti events. The r-emarks of Mr. Jackson1 evidently struck the key-note of sympathy which was pr-evailing in the audience, and they were weil received. - Mr !. .Fiehiberer thenin troduced Major John E. Bacon, of Edgefield, taking occasion to say that he was '"a Democrat," er phasizing the epithet in a horrid sort of way, as if he thought it was synonymous with the iniquity which is supposed to attach to his Satanic majesty. Major &cou said that the re marks of the preceding speaker (Rev. Mr. Jackson) met with his hearty approval. It was imma terial to him whether a man was born in Massachusetts or South Carolina, when, in the language of patriotism, he stood before the public and uttered sentiments to which every true citizen of the country could say "Amen." There could be no difference of opinion on this subject, for his his heart and the heart of his peo ple now beat as loyal to the flag of the Union as it did ten years ago. iIe would not undertake to discuss the questions of right or wromg involved in the recent con test. "It was enough," said Mr. Bacon, "that the God of battles was against us, and when that de cision was made, we gave you our pledge that the Union was ours, if you would allow us to come back to you. In that resolve we have been honest. What I said in 1865, I repeat to-day, namely, that the United States Government had made us all equal, without refer ence to race, condition or color, and while we live in this country we are bound to obey its laws." It was in this spirit that he could congratulate his audience upon those blessings which had been secured to them by the Fif teenth amendment. Progress was the watchword of the civilized world. When in Russia, he had witnessed its results there in the general emancipation of the serfs. In Germany, the great Bismarek had likewise introduced reforms; in France, the Emperor had yield ed to the behests of the people; while England had even antici pated their demands. The spirit of the age was moving, and so far as principle was concerned. Gov crnor Scott was no more Radical than hinself. The reason was apparent. It was because wh,eth cr we will or not, we are pledged as citizens to obey the laws of the rountry, and to accord to the col ored man the equal and exact jus tice which is his right. le de sired to see the benefits of an hon est administratiou of the govern ment on this basis. For himself, he would enlarge the opportuni ties of the colored man for self improvement. Taxes on the pro ducts of the soil should be reduced, educational facilitiessbould be en larged. and every means at the command of the State employed to advance the interests of a race identitied by birth and association with the b>est .interests of the State. The remarks of Judge Bacon were received with applause. He was followed- by rIoN. s. L. lroot, M. c. Mr. Hoege, af ter congratulating the audience that they- were as sembledl not as white or black men, but as American citizens, urgecd his hearers not to forget those who, from 1861 to 1865, had stood by the 'cold flag." He like wise expressedl h-is satisfaction with the ear-nest words of the pre eeding speaker, who, once a Demo erat, now acknowledged the Fif teth amendment as the law of the land. Speaking of ear-pet-bag ger-s, he said he was on.e of those 'w'ho came into the State with his uniform of blue, and congratulated the Union Reform party (which he persistently sty led Democratic,) npon the choice of a man for their leader who, like himself, h a d served in the Feder-al army. It was a sign of progress and im provement. His idea of Reform was to get the thieves out of his >wn party by the employment of the machinery of the party itself and not to employ another organi .ation for the purpose. Honest men could be found, and it was the duty of the Republican party to elect them to fill the places of the rogues. It was all important that the Republicans should con tifnue to stand by those who had ought the battles of freedom, and not seek aid from the Reformers. [I denied that the offices had not een fairly distributed, and cit-ed the fact that two-thirds of thie Legislature wero- colored men ; ,hre of the principal postmasters n his Congressional district were ~olored, and one of his appointees o West Point was a colored boy. [e then proceeded to open battery >l General Butler, and discuss undrv events in his career. In ~reply, Gen. Butler said he was present not as a Democrat. mot as a Radical, but as a citizen >f South Carolina. staniding upon broad platform which challenged :he scrutiny of every lover of his ountry. And he thanked God hat an opportunity had at last een afforded him of paying his -espects to Mr. Congressman Hoge. [hereupon the general proceeded :o apply the scalpel, skilfully lay tleman aforesaid, until ho stood bare and exposed to the good natured crowd. ie wanted to know what he was doing away: from his post of duty, drawing his salary from a people he (lid not serve, while Congress was in session. He charged him with having appointed a blind colored i bov to the academy at West Point, because he knew he would be re jected. Finally, he arraigned Ir. lIoge on the charge of having'aid, in 1865, that he wished he had all the niggers in South Carolina in a ten acre lot, and a couple of how itzers with which to blow them to a very wicked place. It is needless to say that this announcement produced a singular 1 expression upon the faces of the multitude, or that there was an enlargement of eyes, and a sol emn dropping o- suudry lower jaws. In conclusion, General Butler. said he rejoiced that the colored man had been set free, and in taking the position upon the plat form adopted by the Columbia Convention, he did so because lie believed the Fifteenth amendment to be the climax of reconstruction -a measure calculated to set at rest forever the question of suf frage. And if the Republican party would exclude from its councils such firebrauds .and fire caters as the gentleman who had just spoken, peace and harmouy would prevail everywhere. Let him go home to his own State of Ohio, and there administer his re bukes because the people refuse to do justice to the colored race. He would find sufficient employment for his energy in such a purpose, and we could then judge of his faith by his works. As regards the present political movement, it could not be complained of by any right thinking man. It meant an honest administration of justice. It meant obedience to the law of the land, and that the dead past should bury its dead. Mr. loge denied the allegations made concerning the ten acre lot businesR. Mr. R. B. Elliott, Assistant Ad iutant-Gencral of the State, fol lowed, and made a calm, dignified end excellent speech, in which he announced himself as a candidate for nomiuatig as a member of Congress from this Congressional district. His remarks were long, but listened to with attention, arid frequeutly interrupted with ap plause, especially when in his strong, peculiar way, the speaker emphasized the idea that there must be reform in the administra tion of the affairs of the govern ment, and a general turning-out of those who have pluddered the State. He deprecated strife in the approaching political contest, and hoped that t.he spirit man ifes tedl on the present occasion would be exhibited elsewhere. In con clusion, while conceding the hon esty and purity of the motives and character ol the leaders of the Reform party, he urged bisfriends, and his race especially, to stand by the cause of Republicanism, as they had known it in the past. H lon. R.B. Carpenter was then introduced by Mr. Eichclberger as "a Democrat, and the candidate of the Union Reform party." Judge C. said he (did not come here to discuss political questions, but rather to join in the celebra tion of that event which had Ie g ally accured to the colored race the blessings of civil and political liberty-the Fifteenth amend ment. He then briefly "let out" on "Captain Eichclberger, late of the Confederate army," for calling him a Democrat, whereat the cap tain turned very red, very white, and perspired copiously, at being the eyes ofhsheretofore faithful constituents, that they absolutely laughed and jeered at .himn. The colored people say they never had an idea that he was such a mean man before, while the captain says that he intenj,s to name his next boy after the judge, so that h e wont forget him in a hurry. The general impression produced on the opposition speakers, judg ing from the guarded and cour teous way in which they alluded to the candidate, evidently is that they would rather be chased by a wild Camanche than cress swords with him in anything but legiti mate argument. After finishing fhis side-play, the Judge remarked that he re garded the Fifteenth amendment as the grand culmination of the war, the statutory pacification of the country. But with universalI suffrage there onght to be univer sal amnesty. [Colonel Delaney, interrnptng : We agree on that: noint perfectly.] The Fifteent' amendment secured for all time the right of'eitizens to vote with out regard to race, color or con Jition,~and without fear that the piieewould be abridged by any State. Itcnerdpolitical freedom upon the colored man; but it was not freedom when his ai.t .,nd oncer.nm.e is r.ntrolrs by those who seek to use his vote for their own aggrandizement and ambition. "Do you ask (said the speaker) what will put you on the platform with me? I answer, a determination to vote as you please ! For there is no freedom in being dragged by a chain to the polls, to have tickets thrust into your hands which your own consciences tell you will elevate bad men to power. Who has au thorized this man or that to ad minister an oath that puts a fet ter upon your hands and your hearts and makes you the slaves of a tyranny that debases your manhood, by compelling you to vote A, B or C, because your par ty says so? Nobody! And the first duty you owe to yourselves as men, and as citizens, is to cut loose- these shackles and stand forth unrestrained, in that true liberty which is. thank God, now the birthright of every American!" [Cheers.] - Your freedom, your citizenship is a fixed and accomplished fact, and cannot be disturbed. Talk about the Republican party pro tecting it, or the Democratic par ty, as it has been called, destroy ing it. Why you might as welli talk of compressing the ocean in to a drop, or eternity into an hour glass. It is the keystone of our immortal constitutional arch, and forty millions of people are pled ged to sustain it. [Cheers.] One point more, for this is not a speech ; it is only a brief talk. Is it not true that a certain class of persons, who mingle in the pol itics of the State, have tried to keep you apart from the white people of the country-have tried to induce you to prevent our speaking, to shut your cars to truth and fact-ever since the meeting of the convention in Co lumbia ? I leave your consciences to answer the question. Let me say to you, then, that it is your prime duty to harmonize prompt ly with the white race. There are but four millions of colored people in the United States, and if; from one <isturbing cause or another, you permit yourselves to be used for the partisan purposes of those who seek to array you in opposition to what is just and right, you will find a weight of thirty-five millions of white peo ple upon you. Such a result, how ever, only can follow from yield ing blind obedience to those who, taking advantage of your igno rance, are even now trapping you with their oaths, putting chains upon your conscieuce, and, instead of true men, making of you mere machines. [Cheers.] Colonel Delaney, a colored of ficer of the Governor's staff, made the next speech. He said he was one of those who never denied his principles. Hie would say, there fore, for himself, not for his party, that he was in favor of universal amnesty-the removal of disabili ty from every Southerner in the land. But bce wanted something in return, lie wanted a conces sion from every Southerner of the rights of his race. General Butler. We are all in favor of~ that. ' Then, said Colonel D., the great point is gained, and I welcome you into this great temple-the door is wide open. A bystander. Put a new pas tor in your Church first. [Laugh ter.] Colonel Delancy. Then'I pledge myself that when the old pastor has served out the time for which he may be chosen, we will put one in suit.ed to all our. wants. My principle is to bring in new memi bers. Just as we welcomed General Moses and his father, the Chief Justice, and other Republicans, we will ni'~come others, for I wish it to be understood that we have no prejudice against Southerners. and don't go back upon our friends. The speaker continued hit.re marks for twenty or thirty min utes, and was followed by Gene ral Worthington, an ex-member of Congress from .Nevada, and late a minister to the Argentine Repub le. He is the la~w partner of lion. S. L. lioge. This gentleman closed the dis ussion. lie has a clear, ringing voice, admirably adapted to pub-I lie speaking in the open air, and is withall a pleasing orator. lie reviewed the situation, endeav ored to impress the lessons of the hour upon his bearers, and fur nished seome excellent advice on the subject of moral and political duties, from a Republican stand point. The lateness of the hour; prevents a moro extended notice. By this timec it w a nearly6 o'clock P. 31. Three thousand hungry stomachs had waited pa-I tiently since daylight for some thing wherewith they could be filled. For hours a phalanx of men, women and children had lin gered around the barbecuing sheep and:ecn, following, with hungry eyes, the manipulations of the cooks, and listening to the musie ofthe roat At lt the work was complete and the tables spread. Suddenly a little fellow managed to work his way behind one of the gaurds, seize a piece of lamb, and get his mouth fairly in operation. The crowd saw it. It was too much for mortal appetite, whetttled to its juiciest verge, to bear. They gave one wild yell; There was a surge forward; the sentinels were lost in a iabyrinth of crinoline ; the tables went down like a house of cards, and the diu nor disappeared. There were remnants saved, and a few mortals supplied, but I have it from excellent authority that the Republican party lost tivehun dred votes--first, from the want of proper pabulum for' the diges tive machinery of the multitude ; secondly, because it is alleged that the colored soldiers unnecessarily punched holes in the backs of sun dry voters while retreating from their foragiug expeditiou ; and thirdly, and finally, because, for the first time in their lives, the colored citizens of Edge field have had an opportunity of hearing both sides of a question intelli gItly discussed, and have already formed their judgment according ly. The speeches of Judge Carpen tors Gen. Butler and Judge Bacon .ha unquestionably been of im m , service in tearing down the old barriers of prejudice which kept the coloreu people aloof; and if the example is followed olso where, and atteuded with the same exhibition of kind spirit, it will not be difficu!t to foretell re sults. W. T. Gary, Esq., has boen nom iuated for Cougress from this Cou gressional District. Making up a Squaw. The Washington correspondent of the Buffalo "Express" says: At the President's reception I had the honor of an introduction to Spotted Tail, by a lady, who beau tif;ily illustrated the exquisite modesty, not to say prudery, of the fashionable American female, by addressing him as Mr. Varie gated Appendage. Alluding to the striking protuberance whieb :ouderod so prominent the parier of each lady's dress, he remarked to me, "Rlow 1" ("ilow" is the favorite remark of your Sioux.) After reflecting on the subject a little, I replied, "You bet !" Tak ing up the topic where I had left it, he observed, "Great deal hump back squaw, I see. Were they born so ?" I explained to him brief ly the mysteries of the feminine toilet and fashionable anatomy, as fir as they had been revealed to my modest investigation, touching coyly upon the items of false hair, teeth, enamel, rouge, dyes, ong matic pads, etc. lie manifestedl a lvely interest in the details, and tho next day 1 met him coming out of the establishment of a fash ionable "modiste" -with a largo box packed full of such materials as I had described to him at the reception. "What's up now, Spot, my boy ?" inquired I. '-When I get home I'll put these things to gether and make a white squaw, I guess, mcbbe !" replied he. Hie was rather ehagr-ined when I ex plained that even with all our practical skill, we yet found it noe eessar-y to have something of a framework upon which to con struct a fashionable woman ; but his serenity was restored by the refletion that he could experi .mnt with one of his toughest old squaws, and if she should break down under the ordeal of a fash inale toilet, be would lose only the frame, which, I told him, our people reg2rd as of trifling value, without the paraphernalia. SINNING AOAISsT tEALTU The following is from Lau-s of Life: More quarrels arise between brothers, between sisters, between hired girls, between school girls, between clerks in stores, between apprentices, betwvecn hired men, between husbands and wives, ow ing to electrical changes through which their nervous systems go, by lodging together night after night under the samet bed clothes, than by any other disturbing ase. There is nothing which will so derange the nervous sys tem of a person who is eliminative in nervous force, as to lie ailnight in bed with another person who is absor-bent in nervous force. The absorber will go to sleep and rest all night, while the eliminator will be tumbling and tossing, rest less and nervous, and wake up in the morning fretful. peevish, fault fnding and discouraged. No two persons, no matter who they are, should habi tually sleep together. One will thrive and the other will iose. This is the law; and in marred life it is defied almost uni versally. Take two letters froem money, and there will be but one left.-Ex change. We once heard of a fellow who took money from two letters, and there wasn't any left.--'icksburg A Story -%ith a Moral. The following is copied from the New York World: The paragraph in your paper of this morning, from a Greenfield 1journal,which recites the shock ing circumstances attendant upon a recent railway disaster on the Rutland road harly does full jus tice to tue subject. Permit me to state on the best authority sun dry facts which put in a still clearer relief the inhumanity and the ignorance of the region in which this calamity occurred. The gentleman killed, Mr. Al fred Field, was one of the first en gineors in New England, a man holding several positious of great responsibility. The wife of Mr. Field went at once to the scene ut the accident, and it is from a gen tleian who was present when she arrived that I have my infor mation as to the state in which she found her unfortunate bus band. It was then the second day after the accident. Absolute ly nothing had been done for the sufierers. The railroad company Lad provided neither surgical aid iior coniforts nor succor of a ay kind. Those whom the c-reless ness of its servants had struck down it left to die wheit they lay like dogs. The place whore the disaster occurred is near to populous towns and well-to-do communities. These sent forth crowds of curious and inquisitive spectators to the scene of blood, but not one charitable soul. The people caine from miles to gaze on the exciting show of human agony, but they brought with thei nei.thor oil nor balm to heal the wounds of the sufferers. When Mr. Fields lay dying a man had to be stationed before his door to keep these people from' prdssing in to stare and gape about his couch. And this in mo ral and pious Now England, the home of 31rs. Stowe, who gropes in dead men's graves to surprise some guilty secret in their hidden lives; the home of Wendell Phil lips and of Sumner, who could not sloop in their beds till slavery -had been stamped out in blood! I, who listened to this shameful tory, could not but remember the very different -secene of which I was an eye-witness, last February, in the "rebel" State of Mississippi. I was traveling on the Mississippi Central Railroad, to New Orleans. Near Oxford, in Mississippi, the train just preceding ours had run off the track and plunged through the trestle of th9 road. Some twenty persons had been killed or wounded. The district was poor enough. It had never, I suppose, been rich, but it had been thor oughly harried by the soldiers of Grant and Sherman, and it is none the better, as you may suppose, for their visitations. The nearest house was several miles away. But in a fewv hours after the acci dent occurred the woods w ere alive with people, hastening, not to stare, but to save. I saw wag ons, with miattresses, and beds enough to move twie the num ber hurt, sent up) tso car-ry the suf ferers to the homeus of the neai-est planters. Wines, spirits and fooed were sent in quantities. The next morning, the railroad company had a fresh train brought up from a distance of nearly 100 miles; and when we i-eached a station where food was obtainable, the detained passengers wore fe2d at the cost of the company. Now, that it is still the fashion in some quarters to rov,ile our Southern fellow-citizens as the most bard-hearted and inhuman of mor-tals, I think it may possi bly do good to lay before the pub lic this simple but ex pressive eon trast between the Ph arisees anid the Samaritans. Bishop CGriswold, of Massachusetts. once said to a cloryman who askedl him why he was so often silent, when he had so much to say t.at was worth saying: "I talkced as much as any body when I was young. and I said a great many foolish things that I have been sorry for ; I have never been sorry for anything that I never said." It may not be amiss to say, for the benefit of parties who have outlived all love, and who desire to get away from here, that one of the nearest andl cheapest routes out of the world lies throngh an at tempt to kindle a fire with kero sene. June-bug soup is actually a new dish just out in Germany. It is said to be really superior to cr-ab soup which gourmandls consider delicious. Bug~s have been seen in broth on this side of thle ocean, but not "by the advice and consent of the Senate." An advertisement was sent to the Cleveland Heora-l. in which! occurs the words, "The Christian's The blundering comnpositor made it read, "The Christian's Dream: John Chinaman as a Farmer. An article oi "The Chinese as Agriculturists," in the June Over land _fonthly, contains a new and interesting chapter in the social economy of the Celestials: The rural reader way learn something from the following: CIIINESE AGRICULTURAL HINTS. 1. Rules for gather'ig seed among tie standing grain.-IIaving se lected the choice and bright heads of grain, pluck and suspend them in a dry place till the next seed ing-time, then shell and wash the seed; put it into hot water, when the heavy kernels will sink and the light will rise to the surface, and may be skimmed off and east away. 2,rIn the twelfth month place the seed in a large earthen vessel, till it with pure water of melted snow, and cover the same with earth. When the seed has sprout ed, sow. broadcast or in drills; thus you will avoid the breeding of w oryns. 3. To determine whether the coming year will be good or bad. take one measure ot' seed in the beginning of the winter season and neasure it carefully ; then place it in an earthen vessels and put it in a dark slace-aud'keep it there for fifty days. then measure it :ain. If then it fills the measure fuller than before, the. season will, be good; if less than before, the season w.ill be bad. 4. Trcatwent of new land.-First, burn the grass, (in order to destroy both the seeds and the roots of grass and weeds) plow, then sow to'sesamun (an oily grain) for one year.. This is for the purpose of destroying mcre thoroughly the roots of the wild grassts. 5. In the neighborhood of good flowers and good grains, sesamun must not be planted, for it will destroy their roots also.' The pro cess by which it does this is, by the dew or rain falling upon it, run ning down the leaves an-d stalks, thus carrying a poison with it into the ground, to affect the roots of whatever plant it may come in contact with. 6. Seeds or flowers and fruits must in like manner, be selected from the best trees, and from those which are free from all disease. Let these seed be carefully cleans. ed, dried, and stored iniglass or se cure vessels, and laid up high from the ground, in dry places, so as to avoid damp and mold. . They should be accurately laboled and dated, so as to avoid the mixing of fruits and flowers, and, also, so as to avoid the liability of planting seed which is more than a year old. 7. In planting the seeds of flow ers and fruits, let there be no fear of too high ground, nor fear of too much hoeing and spading. But observe the season for planting which is prescribed in the approv ed treatises on the subject. In planting, put the fruit stbes in the ground the right side up Some seed needs to be soaked be fore planting-someonot. in sow ing seed, observe that some, which are large, will bear a considerable depth of' earth, while small seeds must not be buried deep. They may be ceored with a mixuro of ashes and earth, so as to kill tihe wOrms. After the sprouts have appeared, some may be watered and some not ; you must discrimi nato. If. after three or five days, there is no rain, they must be ar tiicially watered but with dis cretion. The VirginIa Cadet. GREELEY's coM~MENT oN( HIS MANLY AND sTRAIGHFoRwARD COURSE. A Washington dispatch of Sun day to the Neow York Tribune says: - . A case of much interest to the boys of the South was decided by the Secretary of the Navy yester day. A yonth named Baldwin Al exander.~from Pulaski County, Va., was appointed a cndet at the naval academy by the Hion. Mr. Gibsen, of tho eighith district of Virginia. Alexander, who is not yet 17 years of age, underwent a thorough ex aination, and passedl at every point, Hie made a favorable imn pression up~on tihe board of cxami ners. as well as the Secretary of' the Navy, and his appointment was confirmed. But when the iron-clad, or test oathI was put to him, he declined to take it, asser ting that, although he was a mere child at the commencement of the war, and but 12 years of age at its close, yet his associatio-ns, sur roundings, &c., had created a sym pathy in his mind and heart for those around him, and to swear that he had not sympathized with or count.enanced the rebellion would be base perjury, and he could not do so. His honesty and candor elicited enco,miums from the naval authorities and Senator Johnson. of Virginia, took the matter in hand, and tried to have the youth admitted by his taking the pr,per cnstatinl oath. ADVERTISINC RATS Atverti-zements inserted at the rate of $I. lefr rae-one inc--forBirst insQertion, and ufrecQequent insert n Double 'umrnn ad. veniernents ten percent onaboe; otices of meetings, obitaries andftrfb r iir, same. rates per square as ordinary ber of inserti ll n= cnw and charged a Special contracts made ' thear tisers, with liberal deductions o Arbid Dono with \estness and Dispstc] Terms Casl. The law on the subject;, however; seems to be imperative, and the Secretary of the Navy.. to-dg 'f - formcd Senator Johnson thdt Al exander could not be adn'i$ted Xd the Academy as a cadet, unless subscribed to the iron-clad oath. Senator Johnson will a-k speciat Congressional legislation in "his case, and reprosentative Pfatt, a prominent Virginia Pepublies member, has also stated ihil -hd would ask the rermova~of his dis abilities by the house, and tbat he be allowed to enter the Acadenyv without taking the iron-clad odtl. The Tribune remarks ed.toridIy. -We sincerely trust tho youg Virginian who is debarred fromtti admission to the Naval- Acadcy because he declines to swear- t1a he had no sympathy in th'e r6 lion in which his family ieartify enlisted, will not be any onger proscribed. The test oath which boys are called upon .to take be foro admission to the natioer! schools are*a disgrace to on_s : ute books. The more oath-takn' J the more lying there will be,' and the more we proscribe cbildeft' tor the rebellion of their pareb* the more that rebellion will bd respected. The administration of the test oath to a boy who a only twelve years old when the war closed, and who is ;till a mi nor, is an nturdity which_ ought to secure the repeal of the stati Immigration to. t h e itrd States. TheNationalBurewri ofStatis'tes gives us the returinb of immigra tion to the United States for the last quarter of 1869. The total for the quarter is'- e 938. which at the same rate won1 be 307,752 a year-not far from a thousand a day. Of the 76,938, thero were 71,47 who entered Northern ports, and 5,464 Southern. - Of these 54G4, there were6M wh$ entered South Carolina ports. That is to say. ov-er ninety-two per cen t. of the immigration goes - to the North, and less than eight comes to the South. And of tbus eight per cent. that comes 'to' the South, South Carolina -recitd.. a i.te over one per cent. Of the 76,938 the city of New York received 49,732; Hlnaf?n Michigan, 10,406; Boston, 6,933; New Orleans, 2,309; San Francisco, 2.227; Baltimore, 1,761; Poitland, 1,029 ; Texas city, 901 ;' t Charleston, 68. This, however, it must be' re membered, does not indicate ac eurately the actual results of uim nmigration to South Carolitia;' b cause 'the 500 brought in m%atly during that quarter came mainly from New York overland. In immigrants males are largely in excess of the females. Of the' 7.938 mentioned above 43,811 were males and 33,128 femiale&' This excess may account for-the singular facts in statistics of gdp ulation, that the United States has an excess of males desidedly .be- - yond all other -countries; and. of tho other countries ninetenth have more females than males~ TRUE CHARur.-Night kid the young rose, and it bent softly~ to sieep. Stars shonies and inr deCw-drops5 hung upon its bosom, and watched its sweet slumbers; Morning cameo.witl its, dancidg breezes, and they whispered to~the young rose, and it awoke joyous and smiling. Lightly it danced. to and fro in all thbe lovelinese vf1 health and .youthfu alnnocene. Then came the ardent sun gd sweeping from the East, and bd smote the young rose with lii scorching rays, and it fainted.' Deserted and almost heart-broken, it drooped to the dust in its lone liness and despair. Now the gen tie breeze, which bad beeni giff boling over the sea, pushing on the home-boud bark, swedpinlg over hill and( dale-by the neat cottage and still- brook--turning the old mill. fanning the br~oi or disease, and frisking the curls of innocent childhood-eamedipin along on her errands of mnercy and love; and when'she saw th;. young rose she' bastenid to liissit, and fondly bathed its forehead in cool, refreshing showers, adtClia young rose rejived and looked up and smiled in gratitude td th.e kind breeze ; but she hurriedMiiek ly away; her generous task was performed, but not without re ward ; for she soon perceived that' a delicious fragrance had been poured on her wingsb o h grate ful rose ; and the kind breeze was glad in heart, and went away singing through the trees. Thus, true Charity, like the breeze, gathers fragrance from the drey ing flowers it rdfreshes, and u consciously reaps.a reward- ja io performances of itj offices of kind.. ness, which steals on. thie heart lie ti rich perfume, to bless and to cheer.-Tompsona. Two young'girls were recentiy four d dead in a narrow sluiceway-near Indian aj ois. It was discovered that the elder. b:. an om,ameda nd J ur.n.nderod