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G -~ . -I., -.,.I. A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agrkdtur kc. Vol. XTL WEDNESDAY MORNING, iULY 26, 1876. No. 30 IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORMING, A&t Newberry.% S. C. BY TFH9. -F, IMEKER, EdioranPrp-etor. nop- -ime or is utoped tteeprUno T3hIex,=aAzdenota emphsatI11 of =ub 3W'M0FRA 3EARCIAN. atadm,ofttbA *Mmed coz are spread I.k the barn bigh; OWfuionlm3trusoverhead MWl fantasy Tbvb* oWjhiek*fIkaftg hints of Aght 1ctabIn tSe dark Iit b1odmtcg girls Oathine.the butqrtis and make briglkt - With thedr blonde cerls. Thf htW"-rsomefes'find an ear Of bright red comn Miaclj of the harvest year, A stra"ger borns The. bwUthrood d-tgolen maiz e poei&look in.scorn 6n "6,e-w,e.,aic w~ays Among the corn. BazllU the boys do 8eaWch for this Red pirate ear; egifl,*ho draws it mnust a kiss Give her love dear. In%,cheftfulseM=kb for one eau red - ThscoMlPanY Theiong bright,burziished ears. outspread A sight.to see. Amd- so, In fun,and ceheerfal talk.9 -. Ve eii g gos;c,-. . ~marry ~ ~f ~ had never seen A. ~*,~eiil-face at2hadb~erz ~ pr~ekse~to the closed * b of the oom where this conversation P ~ ,ilon~ we.n liftpd herA for ~ inn The listener slunk around the corner of the house, and sped away. But the visitor entered the cottage, and greeted uncle and niece. A tall, handsome man, with .a very frank expressi on. Though Uncle John growled and fumed, Margaret was the very dar ling of his heart, and he could never seriously oppcse any wish of hers. So,:while the evil-faced man who had listened at the window sped over the fields, Harry Craige press ed his suit till John Hammersley was won to give his consent to a marriage that was really a worldly advantage to his niece. Consent once gained,Harry plead ad hard for a speedy wedding. So fhe bans were published, and the gutsts invited. Mark Halstead, a second cousin >f Margaret's, and with a disap ?ointed heart, consented to be roomsman, but Hall kept aloof, hough he met Harry often, and are. him. a grudging civility. The wedding day came, and the ottage was decorated for the fes ivities after th' marriage. Marga -et's wedding-dress was already onned. The bride was waiting, )ut Harry did not come. Mark Halstead, after a whispered onsultation with Mr. Hammersley, vent to where Harry had boarded. Iere he.was informed that on the revious evening a note had been tanded in for Mr. Craige - and im ediately afterwards he had driven iway. That was all Mark could nd out that night. The guests dispersed, Margaret efusing all companionship but that if her uncle. XWhen they were alone together,-.1 he trept-intothe strong arms that -i ad been her protection Pnd shelter I E-om childhood, and lay there, white I s the bridal dress she wore, shiver- I ig and 1ealeg- And, looking af er m pry, John Hammersley . sti-ained the torrent of indignant rords t-rewnl-ing upon his tongue, adsoothe&her as if she had been < n infant. "He is siek or hurt," the old'man lid. In his heart he added, "And if i afe false villain is deceiving my i, I will -shoot him like a dog." 4t he bad no opportunity to keep ae unspoken threat. A letter was written to the firm, nd one of the senior partners came] > Brashaw. It was some. comfort to heart- 2 roken Margaret to hear of the high I steem in which Harry was held, ad see the evident sorrow -of the ] Iderly gentleman who spoke so ~armly of his partner. "It is absurd to suppose he has1 in away," said his partner ; "he is man of influence in business~, and is social standing is of the best, i ad"-here he turned to Margaret -"his love was pure, honorable and tcere. I, who have known him I -om a boy, know that he was a man ho would scorn to play with any c -oman's heart." - 1 Only a piteous cry- of, "Where i m he be t' burst from the girl's i hite lips. "Had he any enemies here ?" was c ie next stern question. No one knew of any. The frank; t right nature had .won friends all bout him Even Hall had been a sen in friendly conversation with 1e missing man on the day of his c isappearanice. Every inquiry resulted in the Lie disappointment, till the nine ys' wonder died out, and the nmys. ary was unsolved. . The faithful heart that loved arry kept his image ever closely >ded, grieving silently and in soli ide, and wearily resuming the rou ne of life. Every duty of her hum- ~ le, quiet life Margaret fulfilled with tient care; but her step was slow ~ ad weary, her face pale, and her yes heavy with weeping. But her ele, who loved her fondly, missed I er rippling laugh, her sweet song. ad it was a delicate tribute he a aid Margaret's sorrow that he s ever once hinted to her that there f ight be some dishonorable expla- I ation of her lover's disappearance. c 'his idea haunted him. Since the i eparture of the senior partner of a be firm there was no one to speak a f Harry in terms of comroendation, y ud speculations were numerous ini be age. A wife secretly hidden 1 1away, who threatened exposure, was a favorite theory. Debt was another. Escape from punishment for some crime was a third. But all these theories were kept from Margaret. Winter set in. Hall came often to the cottage. His face was one that could mask an evil heart with an assumption of rough frankness, and seldom had any one seen it as it revealed itself when he listened at the cottage window. He had left the vessel, of which he was first mate and part owner, to go upon a long cruise without him, and he employed all his time in a vigorous pursuit of his courtship. As deep ly as he could love any one he loved. Margaret ; and he felt secure of jher favor until Harry Craige came. John Hammersley favored the sail or's suit heartily, and after Marga ret had given her grief its full sway for three months, she was bidden to "mope" no longer, but cheer up, as there was just as good fish in the sea as ever were caught. So, with her sorrow as deep as at first, her heart true as steel, the girl had to be present when Hall came to the cottage, and listen to his rough wooing. Again and again she re fused his presents, his compliments, his offers to escort her here or there. But the man would not be driven away. Encouraged by the ncle's liking, he persisted, in spite] :>f argaret's coolness. It was not in the girl's nature to be discourt uoor unkind, an.Ihergentleman aer was accepted as a far~ greater ancouragement than she ever in ended it to be. The winter was I long agony to her. Her uncle irged Hall's claims at every avail ible .opportunity, and the sailor Aimself was persistent in his atten ions. - And while. her days were i );y,r her evening's wearily spent i n: uncongenial iMyj- -aiant's* j iights were restless and memory I launted. Where was her'lover hid- 1 len? Where was the dark story I f rime writteag tha4 carried:him a rom ber? She never doubted him, E ind she kept his memory bright in t ier heart. She did not hope ever o meet him on earth again, for she f wa.sure that if he lived he would eturn to her, but no other love ~ ~hould ever obliterate his from her e ieart. A whole year wore away, and i Kall had urged his suit vehemently 1 n the preceding days, and Marga- t -et realized, with asad heart, that a er steady refusal of his suit was a hienatng her uncle's affections. s le could not understand this con- I itancy. Why should Margaret live i Jone because one man was false or mfortunate ? So he urged, as they e lat in the parlor of the little cottage, t md Margaret listened with droop- t ng head, and hands folded wearily. z "I cannot marry, uncle," she said, r rently but firmly ; "I cannot forget a he only man I ever loved."( The garden gate clanged, a step j runched the gravel, and, without r :nocking, a man in a rough sailor's e ress, bearded and bronzed, stood i a the doorway. One look, and i vith a cry Margaret sped to the e ipen arms of Harry Craige.c John Hammersley only stared, ill a cheery voice said: c "You see I am a sailor-a man j sfter your own heart." "Bless my eyes ! where did you , :ome from ?"t "Off the Sea Gull."a "Whaling ?" "Yes." "But what possessed you to go d >ff in that way ?" "I will tell you. Sit here beside t ne, Margaret. I was shanghaied. t )o you know what that means, my t >earl? Your uncle does. I was i [rugged, carried aboard the Sea e lull, and recovered my senses when a ye were out of sight of land, bound r or a year's whaling cruise." "But who-" began John Ham- E nersley. t "William Hall," was the stern ,nswer. "He told me, Margaret, a reek before our wedding-day, of a 1 riend of his, acaptain of an East ~ uadian vessel, who had some curi isities that would please you, and I are shawls and fabrics to show me p ,lso. I never thought Qf treachery, y and when he sent mue a note to y reet his friend in the village, I a Iroe oner. Half-way on my trip I d drove to a small tavern, and while we waited I drank a glass of wine with Hall. A numbness soon seiz ed me, my head grew dizzy, and I knew no more until I awoke on board a whaling vessel in the dress of a common sailor." "The scoundrel!" mattered John Hammersley. "I raised a pretty fuss at first," Harry continued, "but it was use less. Nobody believed I could pay the sum I~offered if they would car ry me to Brashaw, and I concluded I must make the best of the situa tion. So, -Mr. Hammersley, I ap plied my energies to seamanship, and they tell me aboard the Sea Gull that I make a very tidy sailor." "You are a brave lad," was the warm reply, "and Im heartily glad you are back; and I'm heartily glad of another thing-and that is, that Margaret's true love has baffled Eall's little game. - Old as Tam, he had better keep out of reach of my Apparently the baffled schemer bhought so himself, for he was never rnore seen in -Brashaw. Two there were who little cared . The two were married a few weeks later, and Uncle John threatened to find a wife himsflf; but at the'st ac 5ounts he had failed to do so, pre !erring t6 wait till Margaret's eld st daughter is old enough to take ier mother's place- as housekeeper n the cottage. MHE DEMOCRATIC PLAT. FORK ADOPTED AT ST., LOUIS, JUNE 28,1876. We, the delegates of the Demo ratic party of the United States, ) a National Conention assemibled, lo' hereby declare the admiitrasi ion offI: Feieral Governmnento A win'urgent need of immediate re. orm; we do hereby enjoin upon he nominees of this Convention ad of the Democratic party in each state a zealous effort and co-opera ion to this end, and do hereby ap eal to our fellow-citizens of every ormer political connection to un ertake with us this first and most< yressin patriotic duty of the Dem-' 2 >cracy of the whole country. We do hereby reaffirm our faith ra the permanercey of the Federal Inion,'our devotion to the Consti-< ution of the United States with its]I amendments uiniversally accepted as 4 .final settlement of the controver- I ies that'engendered civil war,and do ere record our steadfast confidence I ra the perpetuity of republican self- e ~overnment, in absolute acquies- ( ence to the will of the majority- I he vital principle of republics--in t he supremacy of the civic over the I rilitary authority in the total sepa- I ation of church and state for the 1 ake alike of civil and religious free- ' om, in the equality of all citizens ( sefore just laws of their own enact- 1 aent, in the liberty of individual i onductunvexed by sumptuary laws, t ai the faithful education of the ris rig generation, that they may pre- ( erve, enjoy and transmit these best ? onditions of human happiness. I But, while upholding the bond of f 'ur Union and great charter of ' hese our rights, it behooves a free I eople to practice also that eternal I igilance which is the price of liber- I y. Reform is necessary to rebuild 6 nd establish in the hearts of the C rhole people of the Union, eleven I -ears ago happily rescued from the e anger of a secession of States, buit C LOW to be saved from a corrupt cen- a ralism which, after inflicting upon ( en States the rapacity of carpet iag tyrannies, has honey-combed I he offices of the Federal Govern- 1a 2ent itself with incapacity, waste t nd fraud, infected States and mu- 1 icipalities with the contagion of a isrtle and locked fast the pros- c erity of an industrious people in I he paralysis of hard times.d Reform is necessary to establish sound currency, restore the pub- t ec credit and maintain the national ( onor. t We denounce the failure for the I ast eleven years to make good the I romise of the legal tender notes, e rhich are a changing standard of c sluie in the hands of the people, ' nd the non-paym~ent of which is a e iseard of the plighted faith of x We denounce the improvidence which in eleven years of peace bas taken from the people in Federal taxes thirteen times the whole amount of the legal tender notes, and squandered four times this sum in useless expense, without accumu lating any reserve for their redemp tion. We denounce the financial imbe cility and immorality of that party which, during eleven years of peace, has made no advance toward re sumption; which, instead, has ob structed resumption by wasting our resources and exhausting all our surplus income, and, while ann&ily professing to intend a speedy return to specie payments, has annually enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As such a hindrance, we denounce the resumption clause of the act of 1875, and we hereby demand its re peal. We demand a judicious sys tem of preparation by public econo mies, by official retrenchments and by wise finance, which shall enable the nation soon to assure the whole world of its perfect ability and its perfect readiness to meet any of its promises at the call of the creditors entitlea. to payment We believe such a system, well devised and %bo4e all intrnsted to competent hands for execution, creating at no ime an artifcial scarcity of curren cy and at no time alarming the pub lie mind into a withdrawal of that vaster machinery of credit by which 1 D5 per cent. of all business transac- 1 Lions are performed, a systeni open, 1 public and inspiring general confi- i ienCe, 'would from the day of its idoption bring healing on its wings bo.Oll our harassed industry, and ;et in motion the wheels of com nerce, manufactures and the me- I bIhn ical arts, restore employment o labor and renew in all its na iga resources the piosperity of I ~he people.1 Reform is necessary in the sum i md mode of Federal taxation, to he end that capita may be eet free I rom distrust and la&)r lightly bur- 1 lened. - We denounce the present tariff e evied upon nearly 4,000 articles, i ~s a masterpiece of injustice, ine- a inality and false pretense. It yields I dwindling, not a yearly rising i 'evenue. It has impoverished many C ridustries to subsidize a few. It >rohibits imports that might pur- i: ~hase the products of American s abor. It has degraded American ii ~ommerce from the first to an in- ( erior rank on the high seas. It has il aut -down the sale of American ' nanufactures at home and abroad ' nd depleted the returns of Ameri- t an agriculture-an industry fol- I owed by half our people. It costs s he people five times more than it E roduces to the Treasury, obstructs a he processes of production and p vastes the fruits of labor. It pro- E notes fraud and fosters smuggling, 1a unrches dishonest officials and 1< >ankrupts honest merchants. We I Lemand that all Custom House il axation shall be only for revenue. 'J Reform is necessary in the scale p if public expenses, Federal, State ( nd municipal. Our Federal taxa- fl ion has swelled from $60,000,000, r rold, in 1860, to $450,~000,000, cur- e ency, in 1870 ; or, in a decade, e rom less than $5 per head to more A han $18 per head. Since the peace is he people have paid to their tax- i atherers more than thrice the sum 1; i the national debt, and more than if wice the sum for the Federal Gov- t onment alone. We demand a vig- p irous frugality in every department fi ad from every officer of the Gov- s rnment. s Reform is necessary to put a stop P o the profligate waste of public a ands, and their diversion from ac' e ual settlers by the party in power, 1 rhich has squandered 200,000,000 C cres.upon railroads alone, and out E if more than thrice that aggregate if Las disposed of less than a sixth a irectly to tillers of the soil. y Reform is necessary to correct I he omissions of the Republican bongress and the errors of our reaties and our diplomacy, which ave stripped our fellow-citizens of nreign birth and kindred race re - rossing the Atlantic of the shield h, f American citizenship, and have I sposed our brethren of the Pacific oast to the incursions of a race tot sprung from the sarge great, g parnt ainck and in fact nowrby c law denied citizenship through naturalization as being neither ac customed to the traditions of a progressive civilization nor exer-. cised in liberty under equal laws. We denounce the policy which thus discards the libe-ty-loving German and tolerates the revival of the coolie trade in Mongolian women imported for immoral purposes, and Mongolian men hired to per form servile labor contracts, and demand such modification of the treaty with the Chinese Empire, or such legislation by Congress, with a constitutional limitation, as shall prevent the further importation or immigration of the Mongolian race. Reform is necessary, and can nevei- be effected but by making it the controlling issue of the elections and lifting it above the two false issues with which the office hold ing class and the party in power seek to smother it-the false issue with which they would enkindle sectional strife in respect to the public schools, of which the estab lishment and support belongs exclu sively to the several States, and which the Democratic party has cherished from their foundation, md -resolved to maintain without partiality or.preference for any 3lass, sect, or creed, -and withoiit 3ontribution from the Treasury to my of them;"and the false issue by which they seek to light anew bhe dying embers of sectional bate between kindred peoples once eg ranged but now reunited in the ndivisible republic and a common 1estiny. Reform is necessary in the civil ;ervice. Experience proves that afficient, economical conduct of the 3rovernmental business is not pos ible if its civil service be subject so change at every election, be a rize fought' or at the ballot box, >e a brief reward of. party zeal, in iteaa of posts of honor assigned for >roved competency,' and held for idelity in the public employ; that he dispensing of patronage should ieither be a tax upon the time of Mf our public men nor the instru nent of their ambition. Here gain professions falsified 'in the ~erformance attest that .the party nl power can work out no practical >r salutary reform. Beform is necessary even more ai the higher grades of the public ervice. President, Vice-President, 'udges, Senators, Representatives, sabinet officers, these and all others ci authority are the people's ser ants. Their offices are not a pri ate perquisite, they are a public rust. When the annals of this re >ublic show the disgrace and cen ure of a Vice-President, a late ipeaker of the House of Represent tives marketing his rulings asa 1 iresiding officer, three Senators irofiting secretly by their votes as sw makers, fivo~ Chairmen of the ~ sading committees of the late ~ [ouse of Representatives exposed ~ a jobbery, a late Secretary of the ~ 'reasury forcing balances in the ' sublic accounts, a late Attorney.. ieneral miisappropriating public ' ainds, a Secretary of the Navy en iched or enriching friends by per ~ entages levied off the profits .of ~ ontractors with his department, an anbassador to England censured a a -dishonorable speculation, the 'resident's Private Secretary bare y escaping 'conviction upon trial yr guilty complicity in frauds upon1 h~e revenue, a Secretary of War im eached for high crimes and con assed misdemeanors, the demon tration is complete that the first iep in reform must be the peo le's choice of honest men from nothier party lest the disease of ne political organization infest the ody politic, and lest by making no hange of men or party we can get o change of measures and no re >rm. All these abuses, wrongs nad crimes-the product of sixteen ears ascendency of th-e Republican arty-create a necessity for re- , >rm expressed by Republicans i demselves, but their reformers are oted down in convention and dis laced from the Cabinet. The par- a r's mass of honest. voters are pow dless to resist the 80,000 office olders, its leaders and guides. ~eform can only be had by a peace- ~ il civic revolution. We demand a change of system, change of aministrtion, a change b F partiesi, thjat we may have a bauge of measures. and of men STORY OF A MINISTER'S WIFE. How the times have altered since I was married, ifty years ago! My husband's parish was then in the northern part'of New York, and our people were mainly simple, homespun Scotch folk. I shall never forget the first wedding Iwitnessed among them. It took place in the substantial farmhouse of the bride's father. The bride was young, and had the bright, ruddy complexion so universal with the girls on those hills, living active, useful lives as they did. She was dressed in some soft material of worsted and silk; the short sleeves and four inch bodice were dashed with Une, and she wore a blue sash, and blue mo rocco shoes- with high heels. The groom was a stalwart, broad-shoul dered young fellqw, fine in lome spun clothes -and brass buttons. The marriage ceremony was short and simple: - Then followed much kissing and many jokes, - some not so remarkable foi wit as for a cer tain coarseness that passed for it Supper followed, and great was the merriment when :the - bridesmaid drew the ring that-had been ut in the wedding-cake! After supp there ensued a successign.of romp inggames,inwhich brideand groom joined-mith righ good will." I, as the minister's wife, couldnot assisf in their sports, but would have done so gladly, for I was young myself. Well, . that was fifty years ago Last week, my husband'fd, I, now two gray-haired old people, were invited to'attend a fashionable wedding in New York. The bride was the grand-daughter of the young woman who was married LhAt ight, fifty years ago. What a contrast there was in the weddings, and in the brides! This young girl, i her trailing Mtin ress, white as sheeted snow, -er point D'Alendon fAounces, and wreath of real orange blossoms, wasaspaleasalily, and hr waist was so slender that I wondered;how she had strength to carry the weight >f her train. No roses save white mes. bloomed on her cheeks. No wonder ! She -never milked the sweet-breathed kine; she never sarded wool and flax, and spun and wove, as her handsome grandmother lid. The wedding was exceedingly ~rand. There were six bridesmaids Lnd groomsmen, and many gayly Iressed people. Then at the house here was a great display of flowers, hnd the bride and groom, surround dI by their attendants, stood in itate for hours, and received their riends; and wines and ices and !onderful confections were served; and after the guests had left, the >ridal party went in a special train mn their wedding tour. I suppose t is I who am wrong, and that these ihanges are but necessary concomi ants to the advance of wealth and alture, but it does seem to me hat there was more heartiness, nore .realness, in the old than in he new. Wouldn't our girls have nore red roses in their cheeks, aore vigor in their, frames, if we ould go back to the simpler life of orty-five years ago? Would not we 11 be better and happier ? An Americanized citizen was call KI on as a witness in a case before mne of the justices lately, and when he oath was administered he raised othhands andsaid: "I[shall spoke Loddings what ain't drew, if I ever hope to die so quick as a minute." A -negro was scalded to death rom a bailer explasion in New Or eans lately, and on his tombstone hey chisselled deeply, "Sacred to he memory of our 'steamed friend." Prefer diligence before idleness, miess ymiesteem rust above bright Less. If h'isbands were always lovers, fives would .be the dearest min stering angels. We are all poor just as we want, lore, and rich as we want less. The only way to be permanently afe is to be habitually honest. If countlifebe hetht to the Qdy, it is no less so to the mind. The grat pTayer is patience. ADVERTISINC RATESS Advertisements inserted at the raft of $1.00 per square-one inch-forfirst insertim, and 75c. for each subsequent insertion. Double column advertisements tenper cent on above. Notices of meetings.,obitnaries and tribus of respect, samerates per squaM, as ornmgT advertisements. Special notices in -local columny 15 fenis per line, Advertisements ntwe **e=smb ber-of insertionswMl -be kep h lktbid tiseis,withliberal d Done with- Neatness and Dlspatch_: Terms Gash. A RICH MAN ON RICE The following 'story,,. says in"e WaYs*~e istiold of Jacob Ridge-,' Way, a wealthy Citime of PhAAAA-, P.hl-8, who died many. years ego,. leaving a fortune of five or siX'ml lion dollars (91jr. Ridewa, aid a young. man with whom the irnli_mnan as conversing, "you are too:-,be more envied than any gItlmalnoww "WhY so ?9? respnded.1dr..Bdg~ way, 91 am not~ aware of any cp for which Ishould be prticularly: envied." "WaI Sir"eclmetieyug man in 'astonish~t yon not a mlinie ik~h thousands your ineame br- s o. every, month!"- - ""Well what of that,".rpidM~ Bigway; "alIgtotfiu my victals and c1othe*&XCix_1 eat.mre than one maensaoan~. or wear *but'one stt e' jm~ time. Pray, c0a't yo*u do-as nif"' of the hundredis of finhos O)