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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XIIL WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1877. No. 14. Papa went on without making s any reply. i "When the little girls came to c< the pit the older one cried out: la 'Oh ! look at that old toad sitting N in the water !' b< "'Let us throw dirt at him !' el said the smaller. '-So both little girls threw dirt n; and sticks at the toad, which i1 raised such waves around him at that he was in danger of being g washed off. "'Oh, dear,' said the toad, 'who SI would have thought that those w little girls would be so cruel?' cr Just then a big piece of dirt struck h: the poor toad upon the head, and ni laid him sprawling on his back in bi the water. fr "When the toad had recovered hi from the blow, and had crawled h back to his resting-place, he no- p< ticed a man with a hoe on his w shoulder, approaching the pit. w 'Oh, dear!' said the toad; 'here pi comes a great rough man ; now I w shall certainly be killed.' pi "But the man put his hoe under ui the toad, lifted him carefully out at of the pit, and laid him on the m dry grass. A "'Well, I never !" said the toad. ti 'Who could have thought it ? One gi can't always judge by appear- pi ances.'" di Here Emma hung her head, and sc Mary giggled nervously. tc "Do you know what little girls to these were ?" asked papa. "I didn't know the toad felt so at bad when I frew at him," said di Emma, the tears starting in her 1f eyes. TJ "No," said papa ; "but you will sc be more thoughtful the next time, b I am sure." This was papa's true b story.-Hursery. b T15ttIENUtDUS. ct [From the N. Y. Sun.) al A MODEL STATESMAN. Ii THE RECOED OF A PUBLIC CAREER. b Kings die, and whien all the c conditions are favorable, their crowns descend peacefully to the d eads of their children. Rich men die, and their possessions go down subject to contest of the L last testament, the caprice of sur- t rogates, and the policy of the law,k a bich is unfriendly to great es- k tates. But Simon Cameron re-k signs his seat in the American Senate, and hands it over to his son .vithout question.- He reasons, no doubt, that inasmuch as it was a originally bought with his money, b it should be numbered with his a other goods and chattels, and fol low the same law of descent. Thbe Legislature of Pennsylvania being L of the same opinion, the transac- e tion has been happily completed, Ia and the young chief of the Win- a nebagoes stands in the moccasins! of his father, although he has yet ti Ito sit in his seat. At all events, St we may for the present regard' the public record of Simon Camn eron as closed, and review his Ib career as one that belongs to his ~tory. h Mr. Benton, one of Mr. Came-1 ron's contemporaries, has left be- b hind him an enduring monumentr in the form of his Thirty Years in the United States Senate, which contains a vast deal of Mr. Benton and nothing~ at all of Si mon Cameron. The letters and a speeches of Webster, and Clay,c and Calhoun adorn our libraries,c and he who seeks to know whatd they were and what they did, will d turn to the books in which they 1 yet live and speak. But of Mr. d Cameron we have no literary re mains. He has witnessed the in-t tellectual encounters of an assem-e blage of eloquent statesmen com parable only to Pitt and Burke a and Fox, and has heard orations I fo w w hose lofty periods roll down the centuries ; but if he caught a spark of inspiration, he never ut tered a word that lived beyond the hour. .indeed, notwithstand-a ing his long association with ment of genius, be seems to have heart ily despised the whole race of them, and only the other day he is said to have given vent to his feelings in a profane malediction upon "all them damned literary j I fellmrs" On the whole, it may be L. THE HERALD [i; PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORlNING, It t fewberry, S. C. BY THOR. P. GRRNKKRt Editor and Proprietor. Terms, $2.50 per Jinnumz, Invariably in Advance. **The paper is stopped at the expiration of time for which it is paid. C70- The }.4 mark denotes expiration of sub crion. HER ANSWER. All day long she held my question In her heart; Shunned my eyes that craved an answer, Moved apart; Touched my hand in good-night greeting, Rosier grew "Should I leave to-mo rrow ?--early? Then adieu!" Bent her head in farewell courteous, Onward passed, While a cold hand gripped my heart strings, Held them fast. Still I waited, still I listened; - All my soul Trembled in the eyes that watched her As she stole Up the stairs with measured footsteps. But she turned Where a lamp in braizen bracket Brightly burned, Showed me all the glinting ripples Of her hair, Veiled her eyes in violet shadows, Glimmered where' Curved her mouth in soft compliance As she bent Toward me from the dnsky railing Where she leant Ab, my love!- One white hand wanders To her hair, Slowly lifts the rose that nestles Lfoly said that except in the ilky reports of investigating >mmittees-they were always rge where he was concerned r. Cameron will not survive in )Oks of his own or anybody se's making. Nor do we find Mr. Cameron's tme associated otherwise than the list of yeas and nays with y great measure for the public )od. Mr. Clay bad his American ,stem, Mr. Van Buren had his ib-Treasury, Mr. Chase, Mr. Se ard, Mr. Hale, their anti-slavery usade, and even Pig-Iron Kelley .s his double-back action brand w patent interconvertible bonds; it Mr. Cameron, so far as heard om, has only had Bill Calder and s horse contractors. Although i has joined successively every )Htical organization of his time, henever it was about to obtain a orking majority of the American sople, he was never identified ith the rise of any party, the -ogress of any idea, or the tri npb of any principle. Who then, id what was this remarkable an who went in and out of the merican Senate for more than a ird of a century, who held a -eat commonwealth as an ap tnage, and who now startles this owsy world by beckoning his n to his place, as he wraps his ga about him and withdraws in ock majesty from the stage ? Simon Cameron's first appear ice beyond the Congressional strict in which he lived, was in 338, when he was appointed iaited States Commissioner to ttie certain claims of the Winne igo Indians. He took one Broad :ad into partnership with him, >ght up the claims for next to )tbing, paying in notes of the iddletown Bank of n bich he as the cashier, and then, in his Lpacity of Commissioner, gravely lowed these identical claims. 1 this operation Simon and his rtner would have raked in a fine ~rvest but for the fact that Major fterwar'd ajor-General) Hitch. >ck, military disbursing agent at . Louis, dishonored Simon's rafts, and reported to thbe depart ent the monstrous and cruel vindle in all its shocking details. was by this commercial opera on that he acquired his best nown title, that of the Winne igo Chief; and a little volumie nown in Pennsylvania as the rinnebago Pamphlet, and con ~ining all of Major Hitchcock's avarnished letters, together with uch other interesting material, s, from time to time, given him good deal of trouble. Every w years somebody, on mischief tent, would get out a new edi on, and Mr. Camreron would be >mpelled to hun t up all the copies, ad burn them, over and over ;an. In 1845 he secured his first elec on to the Senate under circum ances t be reverse of creditable. 1e wvas then pretending to act ith the Democratic party, but a was universally distrusted as i essentially corrupt man, and is apostasy was anticipated. In 355 he was again a candidate, t was defeated by bolters who ifused to be bound by the nomi a.tion of a purchased caucus. Ask us not," they said in a pam blet which they published, "to rport a nomination brought bout, as we believe, by the con ntrated and cohesive power of ublic plunder, and the superad ed element of shameless and rolesale private bribery." In B57 he was the Republican can idate for Senator against John . Forney, who was understood be the choice of' the President lect, James Buchanan. The Leg ;lature was about evenly divided, nd Cameron bought three memn ers-Lebo, Maneer, and Wagon ller-who have long since sunk >to their graves, while their ames live in perpetual infamy mong the people of the State. r. Cameron was successful, and be three wretches who took his ribe lived and died with marks f the leper's touch on their fore eads. There was no subsequent ontest with regard to this elec ion, because it was found that 'orney could not afford it much etnee than Cameron. in 1860 Mr. Cameron managed to get himself named by the Penn sylvania Republicans as their choice for President. This was done to enable him to trade with the successful candidate. Accord ingly, at the nick of time, the friends of Mr. Lincoln were ap proached, and a bargain was made with David Davis, Leonard Swett, and Judge Logan, that if Came ron's men would go for Lincoln, Cameron should have a Cabinet office. Mr. Lincoln knew nothing of this questionable bargain, and when the pen .lty came to be ex acted he struggled hard to escape. But Cameron was appointed, and within a year Congress directed a committee, under the chairman ship of Henry L. Dawes, to in quire into the wholesale charges of corruption in the War Depart ment. After a thorough investi gation, the committee made such a report as induced the Republican House of, Representatives to pass a solemn resolution of censure up on the Secretary. Thereupon Mr. Lincoln unceremoniously turned him out. Cameron was in Col. Scott's room when he received the curt note of dismissal, where his supplications moved even Col. McClure to pity for his fallen ene my; and these gentlemen, with the assistance of Mr. Chase, got Mr. Lincoln to agree to an ante dated resignation and "a kind let ter of acceptance." By way of consolation, Mr. Cameron was sent to Russia for a few months, but soon returned to look after the Legislature at Harrisburg. In 1863 the Democrats had a majority of one only in the Legis lature, and Mr. Cameron thought he -saw .bis opportunity. Be conveyed a bribe to Thomas Jef ferson Boyer, member from Clear field, and got the Republican nom ination upon assurances that he could obtain a Democratic vote, which nobody else could. He felt sure of his game. Boyer had his price in his pocket, but when the balloting came on, indignant Democrats with clubs in their hands and pistols about them, crowded the ball, and Boyer voted for Buckalew. An investigating committee went to the bottom of this transaction and unearthed one Brobst, and Joh n J. Patterson, now a Republican Senator from South Carolina, as Cameron's prin cipal agents. Upon the records of that Legislature stands yet the following, passed on the 14th of April, 1863: "Resolved, Thbat the Governor be instructed to direct the Attorney-General to institute criminal proceedings against Si mon Cameron, John J. Patterson, William Brobst, and Henry Thom as." In his later elections Mr. Cam eron had little trouble, and is not supposed to have used a great deal of money. Thbe famous Treasury Ring was organized. It domina ted the Republican party more ab solutely than T weed ever domina ted his party in this city, and kept its chief in place without apprecia ble opposition, while it paid ex penses with money taken from the State Treasury. It is to the power of this corrupt combination of public plunderers that Simon Cam. eron's despotic sway is to be at tributed. When his order came to have his son chosen to succeed him in the Senate, the banditti swarmed into Harrisburg under Kemble, Mackey, Rutan, Quay, Magee, Hartranft, and Stokeley, and the Legislature was awed into instant obedience. They admit, however, that if but a single day had intervened in whbich to hear from the press and people, even the Ring Legislature would have esitated over this last and most impudent of Cameron's demands. But the thing is done, and the people who have allowed a request from the grand inquest of the State for the criminal prosecution of Simon Cameron for one of hif manifold offences to pass unheeded by the Governor, must be content to put up with his son until some great Ring breaker like Samuel J. Tilden shall arise in Pennsylvania to deliver them. Telegraphic puzzles--Crooked~ stoes ent byh a straight wire. FOR THE HERALD. BROADBRIM'S NEW YORK LETTER. No. 10. Metropolitan Museum-Ancient Gems of Art 1 Grand Statuary and Paintings-The Cas tellani and Cisnola Collections-&n Af ternoon with Tintoretto, Rubens, Hogarth, Sir .oshua Reynolds and Teniers-Miracles of An cientPottery-Ivory Carv ings--The Fashions and the Weather. At last New York is making a square honest effort to have a free art collection which shall be worthy of the great metropolis of the United States. Foreigners visiting our shores for the first time, are amazed at the perfection of our railway system, at the magnitude of our domain, the beauty of our steamers, the conven iences of our hotels ; but when they ask for our grand art collections, we are compelled to point them to the abominations of Union Square, and the infamies of Central Park, which exposed as they are to the public gaze in all their hideous deformity, make one think "that some of nature's jour neymen had made men and not made them well, they imitate humanity so abominably." But at last after long travail and much disappointment and care, arising from expectations un realized and promises unfulfilled, it seems as if success was about to crown the efforts of the friends of this noble institution. Several earnest men and women have taken the work in hand, and from the admirable manner in which their intentions have been car ried out it really looks as if we should have not only a metropolitan, but a truly national museum of art. The gift of Sir Hans Sloane, which laid the foundation of the British Museum, one hundred and twenty years ago, was infinitely smaller than :he exquisite collection in the Metro politan Museum of Art. It is just such schools as these that build up the character of a nation, for I defy any man (I don't care how ignorant or brutalized he may be,) to pass through the various halls filled with this mag nificent collection, and not come out wiser and better than he went in. This is true education ; not the theo-] retical learning of books, but good, hard, solid, substantial knowledge, reared on the steadfast rock of stub born facts living before you in the material substance and enduring as long as life remains. As you enter the door you are greeted with Rine hardts magnificent group of Latona and her children. She is reclining on a couch in the most perfect ease and repose, and, in her lap are the infants Apollo and Diana. No mere descrip tion can convey even a remote idea of the sweetness of these sleeping inno cents, they must be seen to be appre ciated, for the marble lives and breathes under the magic chisel of this inspired prophet of art. Turn where you will and your feet are immeshed as if in a web. In one room is a lovely collection of ancient Greek glass, glittering with rainbow hues which modern genius struggles in vain to imitate, for the secret of making this beautiful enamel has been lost for ages, and is now keeping company in the Alchemist's crucible of the past along with the philoso pher's stone.' In another room is a rare collection of ancient carvings, arms and armor, such as can scarcely be found outside of some of the oldest nations in Eu rope. You are not overpowered by magnitude as you are in the Tower of London, yet it would be difficult to1 find a collection in any land, at once, so interesting and complete. The long, keen, bright Andrew Ferrara hangs side by side with the trusty clay more that Argyle might have used when he dashed in among the mailed halberdiers of the Protector, on the bloody heights of Dunbar. . The glit tering scymetar of the Saracen is1 crossed with the blade of Toledo whose icebrook temper made its name famous throughout the world. Mur derous looking daggers and mailed gloves are mingled with fierce looking battle-axes and huge two-handed swords, and hanging against the walls are mighty iron maces, knobbed and pointed and bristling with death, such as Charles the Second of France might I have wielded under the walls of Poc tiers, where he smote the Saracen ranks and earned for himself the im-1 mortal name of Martel. Rare car ving from ancient cathedrals area The Spring fashions are upon us in all their glory, and every other man you meet looks like an Englishman, an Irishman or a Scotchman; what with English diagonals, Scotch Tweeds and Irish Ulsters, we are about as thoroughly denationalized as it is pos sible for a nation to be. A few years ago and we dressed like a nation of undertakers-everybody was cased in black. All that is changed now; greys, browns and drabs are all the go, and .the only distinguishing mark of a minister of the gospel at the present time is his red necktie, speck led vest, bob-tailed coat and pearl-col ored pants. American cassimeres and cloths are driving foreign goods clean out of the market. 'Elegant suits can now be bought for fifteen or twenty dollars-the only difficulty is how to raise the dollars. Hoping that the new secretary of the treasury may be able to solve this problem to the sat isfaction of the boys, I am Yours, BROADBBIM. SUPERSTITION. A panacea, or "cure-all," is one of the myths of the age of super stition. Dr. R. V. Pierce does not recommend any one or even his whole list of standard remedies as adequate to cure every disease. For severe lingering coughs, bron chial, throat, and chronic lung dis eases, he believes his Golden- Med ical Discovery is unsurpassed, - but it will not cure you if your lungs are half wasted by consumptien. The Discovery not only exercises a potent influence. over pulmonary affections, by r ason of its pectoral properties, but- possesses also the most valuable alterative, or blood cleansing properties, and is there fore a sovereign remedy in blood and skin affeetions. But while it will cure scrofulous and other ul cers or sores, blotches, pimples, and eruptions, it will not cure can cer, nor does its manufacturer claim any such merit for it as is done by proprietors of other blood-cleans ing medicines, who dishonestly try to deceive the afflicted into the be lief that their preparations will ac complish impossibilities. By rea son of its real intrinsic merit it has a sale surpassing that of any other blood and cough medicine. A FRENCH SToBY-One day, on the Boulevard Pereire, Paris, a mad dog started in pursuit of a veloci pede, mounted by a boy of four teen, named Dupraty, living in the Boulevard, No. 16. The chase was] a terrible one, and ended in the fall of the boy. Happily it was in the iron of the velocipede wheel that the teeth of the mad bulldog closed. * * * There ended the first act of the drama. The second follows. In an impulse of passion ate joy at seeing her son saved from so great a danger, Mine. Du praty pressed her lips to the wheel of the velocipede. Some hydro phobic virus had remained on the iron, and after an agony of a fort night the poor mother died, raging A lady who was suffering under s slight indisposition told her hus band that it was with the greatest difficulty she could breathe, and the4 effort distressed her exceedingly. "I wouldn't try, my dear," sooth ingly responded the husband. From July 1 to Dec. 31, 1876, eighty-nine millions of postal cards were sold in the post-offices of the United States, or fifteen millions more than for the same period -of 1875. Postal cards were introduced in this country only four years ago.4 A Western clergyman's wife re ceived thirty-six sugar spoons from different persons as donation pres ents. They hadnt a pound of su gar in the house as she counted up the spoons. German educational statistics show that in Saxony one out of 1,194 of the total male population is in actual attendance upon a urni versity, while in Prussig the pro portion is one to 1,328. It is claimed that the oldest house of worship in the United c States is the large adobe Mission Church at Santa Fe, N. M., which was ereted in 1543 ADVERTISINC RATES. AdvertiaQments inserted at the nl of 4l.Q0 per square--one inch-for first insertim, snid 75c. for each subsequent insertion. Donilo column advertisements ternper cent on above Notices of meetings,obitnaries and tLibtst a ofrespect, same rates per square as ordiewf advertisements. Special notices in local column 15 cernts perline. Advertisements not marked with the nunm ber of insertions wi!i be kept in till forbid anzd charged accordingly. Special contracts made with large adver u sers, with liberal deductions on above rates Jos PiviffAAP Done with Neatness and Dispateg Terms Cash. HO0W THE INSURANCE PEES. IDENTS ARE PAID. The communication presented by Acting Commissioner Smythe, f the insurance department, to. lay, in reply to the Senate resolu iion asking for a detailed statement ilaowing the amount paid offcers : salaries, fees, compensations, or lonations by the various life insur lnce companies of the State during he year 1876, gives the following ;tatistics : The North American Life Insur unce CompanyTay their president, aenry J. Faber, $12,00 salary ; ,he vice-president, $6,000; the sec 'etary, $6,000, and other offcers ind clerks, $52,226.20. The New York Life Insurme and Trust Company pay their )resident $12,000 salary, and other )fficers an aggregate of $24,950. The Home Life Insurance Coin ?any pay their president, George P. Ripley, $10,000 per annum, the ;ecretary, $8,000, and the .other )fficers the balance to make up the The very shortest answer a lady an give to a proposal is NO, for it here, confessionals, pulpits, and shrines rich with benediction and sacred with papal blessing. In the halls above ire wonderful ivory carvings, not only Bgures and groups, but whole land capes of the most exquisite and beau tiful art. Nowhere in America can ;o-fine a collection of pictures be seen in so small a space as at the museum >n 14th Street. How can we suffi :iently thank those noble men and women who, with a self-sacrifice rare is it is commendable, have, for the benefit of the public, stripped their >wn galleries and drawing-rooms of Driceless treasures of art, such as gold would scarcely buy unless offered at he rate of a king's ransom. Guido, Vurillo, Teniers, Benjamin West, Rubens, Vandyke, Hogarth, and a iost of others equally famous, add to ;he glory of this Euperb and valuable collection. In the different cases are ich collections of coins of gold, silver, :opper and bronze, some of them )right and shining as when dropped 'rom the mint three thousand years go ; others are old and rusted, cov ;red with the mold and grime of >uried ages. Three of the silver Dieces were coined in the reign of Augustus, the same Cosar who ruled [mperial Rome when Jesus of Naza reth was born, and as I stood looking it them to-day I thought that possi bly among the number might be one )f the thirty pieces, the price of his LIaster's blood, that Iscariot flung iway in the bitterness of his soul when he went out and hanged him self. The Castellani collection is in a separate room by. itself, and those who read my .centennial letters will loubtless remember the admiration nd enthusiasm which this admirable ollection excited. - It is not only a marvel of persistent industry, but a lasting monument of taste and genius, such as few men in this world are permitted to rear for themselves. Standing among these gems and jew. ls, rare ornaments and works of art, space vanishes, time seems annihila ed, and you are transported hack >ver a thousand years in an instant. Iassive signet rings are bere, ancient is those which Pharaoh might have placed upon the finger of Joseph when de clad him with purple and fine inen, raised him to imperial power nd.proclaimed before the assembled people "only in the throne will I be ~reater than thou." Necklaces are dere which have doubtless glittered >n the bosoms of some of Egypt's lusky queens, and drinking cups that night have graced the tables of Bel shazzar when the hand-writing blazed )ut upon the wall. Let no man or woman having an hour's leisure visit Sew York without seeing this admir ble collection. It is free on Mon lays and Thursdays, and the fee on >ther days is only a trifle. I am in nopes that William H. Vanderbilt vill give it a million before he crosses he styx, and that Judge Hilton, Mr. Stewart's lucky heir, and Mr. Astor nay be induced to throw in a million >r two more; and if they do we will >uy out the British Museum, have it >oxed up and sent over. The week that is just passed has >ot been very eventful ; everybody eems to be taking a rest after the Presidential fight. Another half mil ion has been offered as a holocaust to he god of fire, making nearly two nillions and a half in two weeks. ['weed is enjoying his otiunm cumn dig titate in Eldridge Street Jail. The world seems to have forgotten him, md even irrepressible interviewers let aim alone. The weather has been iserable during the week. St. Pat ick is greeted with one of the worst mow storms of the season. The an ~ient order of Hibernians and the riendly Sons of St. Patrick, or the St. Patrick's Alliance, are at logger eads about the procession, and it ould not surprise me at all to see ~he sprigs of shillalah flying around he shamrock so green. Long Island as not done much for us this week. [ am sorry to say that the place so isually prolific of interesting items ynly gives us this week one paltry >arricide, and there is nothing extra >dinarily interesting or horrible bout it. The son denies that he ~illed his dad; but one thing is cer am, and that is that the old man is ead as several door nails. Poor William Windust, of whose amous old-time restaurant. I wrote a ew weeks ago, was carried to Green vood last Wednesda