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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets &c. Vol. Xli. WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1877. N. 17. THEHERALD IS PtBLISIIED .~F4Y WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry, S. C. BY THOS, F, ORKNHKR, Editor and Proprietor. Terms, S2.05 per wn-Inn, Invariably in Advance. :C~ The paper is stopped at the expiration of tizae for which it is paid. 7~ The mark denotes expiration of sub scription. [FROM THE WASHINGTON CAPITAL] HOLY RUTHERFORD HAYES. A GOOD WAY AFTER BURNS. 0, thou, who-lioldest in thy band This earth and guides our good land, Upon thy fiziger-tips I stand, A creature weak, By power of tby creature Chand Ler's brazen cheek. From off the perch I nearly fell; But, Lord, the crafty brood of hell Had grown rampant thou knowest well By constant nursing; So up I rose to sound their knell And bide a cursing. I bless and praise thy matchless might, When Tilden thou hast left in night, That I, whatever is, is right, Can humbly sary: I take the yoke since thou dost light My humble way. I know my claim seemeth unfair; But, Lord, my baseness endeth there, And unto thee I wing a prayer For christian strength; And I, thy servant, willdeclare The truth at length. "Them that works must expect to be tired." "Yes, that is true. I am often very tired. Can you work for me to-morrow ?" 'I can, and be glad to do it. It's hard times for poor folks, and work gittin' dull." "I hope your husband finds work." "Well, a job now and then, ma'am. But men don't thir k of home the same as women. Tom means well, I'm sure, but-" She did not complete the sen tence, and I would not urge her to speak more freely. The next morning she came to my house, bringing her child with her, as I had desired. One side of her face was severely bruised, caused by a fall received the pre vious evening. She did not com plain of her husband, but I knew full well that she was suffering from the effects of a blow he had inflicted. She insisted upon re maining through the day, working slowly and painfully until night. Then she went home. Home, did I say? There was shelter and food so long as she could provide them, but home is a place for love and mutual forbearance and happiness. In this poor tenement, where for bearance was but slavish fear, there could be no happiness. "The husband was a brute !" some reader may say. Yes, he was a brute, and rum made him so. * * * * * * A street of a large city was crowded with vehicles of every description, while on the side walk the hurrying throng jostled each other in their eager haste for busi ness or pleasure. Two gentlemen attiacted my at tention, both young and both fault lessly dressed. They were evident ly men of leisure. They had the air of easy independence which characterizes those who are sure of their position. A carriage, elegant in all its ap pointments, and drawn by finely matched horses, was passing, when, at a signal from its occupant, it stopped. "Mrs. Morris stops for me, and I1 must speak to her," said one of the gentlemen to his companion. "Then farewell for the day ; I shall see no more of you. She will take you away with her." "You will see. The time has gone by for that. Wait for me. 1 propose to enjoy myself in bachelor fashion for awhile." He raised his hat as he addressed the beautiful woman he was proud to call his wife. He smiled while uttering his regrets that he could not accompany her home. She seemed to urge her request, when a frown overspread his handsome face. He bowed, raised his hat again, and smiled. She leaned back in her carriage, and, at a word from him, the horses moved on. "Morris has gone back to his old habits," remarked a lady standing near me. "Yes, what a pity !" replied an other. "His friends hoped his mar riage or his wife would reform him, but they will find themselves mis taken. T've no doubt she asked him to go honie with her just now, and you saw how coolly he refused. He has gone to Watts', and she will see no more of him until late at night or to morrow morning. Si e has a sad life before her. While Morris has money she can spend it as she pleases, but money will not buy happiness, although everybody says she has a delightful home." Was it a delightful home ? There were specious rooms luxu riously furnished ; there were books and pictures and rare works of art. The mistress of the mansion had but to wave her jewelled hand, and servants obeyed her behest. She waited long that night for her husband's return, hoping, fear ing, and at last despairing, as the terrible truth that she was a drunk ard's wife forced itself upon her. She was proud, too proud to sub mit tamely to insult, even from her husband.. When he came she turned from him with loathing, and in his drunken anger he struck her to the floor. He, too, was a brute, and wine a4jlae him so. MisellatI.us. THE WASHINGTON CAPITAL ON GOVERNOR WADE HIAMPTON. Washington is not much of a place for lionizing. Ordinarily the statesman comes and goes about Washington, and is not noticed, save by housekeepers with rooms to let or by fellows with jobs in hand. However lofty or imposing the statesman may seem to deni zens of the rural districts and the provincial towns, who know him only as they see his name in the special dispatches, and who never see him except in campaign times, when he comes, with brass band in front, a torchlight procession in his rear, and a committee of highl3 respectable citizens carrying his overcoat and umbrella, he certainly dwindles in the perspective of Washington to proportions all the way from ordinary to insignificant in some cases all the way from corn monplace to contemptible. Henry Clay, colossal as he was in the eyes of the Old Line Whigs, who, as to the North, believed in free soil, and, as to the South, maintained the divine right of every gentleman to wallop his own nigger, and whose only common ground of be lief was the American system and the infallibility of Clay-gigantic as Clay was in the eyes of these, it is of record that the small boys of Washington were wont to have fun with him, and on more than one occasion pinned placards upon his profound coat-tails as he sauntered, in statesmanlike reverie, along those cow-paths, which used to be termed "streets" prior to the ad vent of our Shepherd. At great distances from the Capitol, in benighted provinces, like Iowa, where the people all be long to the Methodist church and read the Inter- Ocean, I have even heard the name of Spencer men tioned with respect. In Maine, where a number twelve boot is con sidered an indication of a small foot, where the diet is composed of sawdust and North wind, and where pork and beans are a luxury, Blane is regarded as a great man, and occasionally you will find a log hut in the pine woods, whose occu pants think him also honest an~d sincere. And I have found in the Western Reserve of Ohio Darwin ian links between the Connecticut clock peddler and the chimpanzee, who considered Garfield a states man and John Sherman a patriot and a financier- But in Washing ton, where the statesman is seen face to face; where daily intercourse with him dispels illusion, promotes the discovery that what was sup posed to be loftiness of soul is mere length of legs, and developes the fact that what seemed profun dity of intellect is nothing but so lemnity of countenance, we learn to set the statesman down at his true value-which is frequently reck oned higher in the dollars and cents of the lobby than in the re spect and esteem of the commu nity. In view of these sad facts, the statesman who is received with demonstrations of honor by the populace of Washington may be regarded as having won the most exalted tribute that can be paid by the American people. During the week just passed there has been in our midst a man who, until within six months, has been best known as a Confederate cavalry officer, and as the lineal descendant of a revolutionary hero-Wade Hamp ton. It is safe to say that no man, coming to Washington as the gov ernor of a State simply, ever re ceived so many personal tributes or encountered such unreserved demonstrations of respect and ad miration as have been accorded to this gentleman- We need not look far to find the logic of these facts Personally General Hampton is simply a cultivated and courteous gentleman, no more so than hun dreds of others to be found in his and other States ; he is in no sense of the word a genius, and, beyond the square, straightforward dis charge of whatsoever duties may devolve upon him, makes no pre + e4miow to grentnes It is not because of any pre-eminent quali ties of his own that General Hamp ton has been singled out and made the object of the most flattering round of popular demonstrations that have been accorded to any in dividual by this community for many years. It is because he comes here as the representative of a sen timent and the embodiment of an idea which, together, form the nearest approach to true patriotism t has animated the American bosom since the debauchery of the little men and mean souls who fol lowed the war made patriotism a jibe and turned "loyalty" into a synonym for lust, larceny, bribery,' brutality and all the other crimes and curses that. have made the late regime monstrous in its day and hideous in history. Wade Hampton comes here to represent that last appeal of wrong ed manhood from the court of offi cial oppression to the majesty of popular might. He comes to utter in the deaf ears of debauched power and to whisper to the numb souls of trifiers and tyrants those mutter ings of popular wrath which even firmer seated despots than ours have seldom heard without quaking. He comes to tell a shirking Presi dent and to say to a compromising Cabinet that rapine and fraud and plunder and niggerism and carpet baggery have reached the end of their tether, and that the next rope's end they reach will be tied with a slipping-noose. He comes, in short, to give voice to those sentiments which are seething in the depths of the popular heart, and to give ex pression to those fierce resolves that are already fixed in the great soul of the people. This country has had enough of returning boards and Chamberlains and Packards. Mr. Hayes may not comprehend the great fact that the public ac quiescence in his rape of the presi dency is due, not to the count of J. Madison Wells or the perjury of the Infamous Eight, but to the pro mises of his inaugural and the as surances of his friends. If he la bors under any mistake on this score, perhaps it would be well for him to reinforce the garrisons at Columbia and New Orleans, and pile rIackard and Chamberlain as last straws upon the back of the people's patience. Then he will be in a position to find out the signifi cance of the demonstrations that this cynical city has made over Wade Hampton. Then his eyes will open to the momentous truth that Jim Blaine does not represent the conscience of the United States and that the furtive adroitness which possessed itself of the Mulli gan letters-including the "mnimo randy"-will prove a weak support to lean upon when the pillars of the temple are crashing about his ears. His eyes may, indeed, open to these tremendous facts amid the baleful dancing blue-lights of hell, but they will open wide for all that. Blaine may be the Banquo that haunts the Cabinet table, and his balefulv.:sage may disturb the dreams of our Fraudulent President when he sleeps with his Southern Policy under his pillow and his copy of The Capital under guard. But there is a time coming, not many days off, when compromises will no longer compromise and when adjustments will no longer adjust. The day is approaching when there can be no more treaties between patient Right and impu dent Fraud. Had Wade Hampton come here as a representative of Right still patient, agreeing to a joint discussion with Chamberlain representing Fraud still impudent, he would not have encountered the welcome and the honors that met him. But he came with words upon his lips and with an earnest in his manner of Right losing its patience, and hence his stay has been an ova tion at the hands of that vast and daily growing majority of the popu lace who would like to see Fraud abate something of its impudence. If Mr. Hayes is wise in time he will take hint. He and his advisers may not think it time to "tolerate Tur got," as was said of the besotted Bourbons of France, but, if so, it is only a question of time when they will be "forced to endure Robes pierre." To my mind the excep +tinanr that have been ac corded to Wade Hampton are signs' of returning health in the body and; reviving sense of manhood in the soul of the people. Some driveling idiot, writing in a reeking organ of jobs and black mail, says that Hampton's tone is "too defiant," and that the old war feeling in the North will be aroused at the spectacle of a Confederate General dictating terms to a Re publican President. This immeas urable ass should be taken by one t ear and fanned with the slack of ] the other till his fevered intellect i cools off. The time has come when t ny honest gentleman, Confederate t or otherwise, can dictate terms to . % returning board President, and t these red-mouthed Radicals who a get rich off Government contracts i nd are made respectable through t the social influence of stolen for- t tunes, will soon find it out. a "Terms" may yet be "dictated" to N this crew from the business end of a . Winchester rifle, and they may t yet find that a system of theft I which begins with an appropria- t Lion and stops with a Presidency, 3 can be brought to the grief of jus- a Lice the same as the larceny of a < dollar bill or a suit of clothes. There are torches smoldering and i smoking in South Carolina and Louisiana which Mr. Hayes can < quench, or which he can kindle in- < to flames whose glare will be seen i and whose roar heard upon the I shores of the St. Lawrence before i they are subdued. And he will aot have many days in which to I decide between the quenching and I thekindling. 1 ,TITANS AND MEN. * "Blessed are the meek," exclaims the voice of inspiration, but can a 1 man be meek with the conscious aess that a dreaded monster is .onsuLning is vitals ? We are not ] a race of Titans. A Prometheus e might stand chained to the tortur- 1 ing rock with a vulture perpetually I gnawing his liver, and his face ever< wear an expression of heroic and a even meek endurance. But Pro metheus has left no descendants. I With vultures (disease) consuming his liver, the modern man makes t himself and every one around him < miserable. Fretful, gloomy, hypo-< hondriacal, he sees the world and ife all on the wrong side-the( dark side-and whoever dares to i assert that there is a sunny side, hee regards as an enemy, or at best ae mocker of his imaginary woes. Un- i like the mythical Titan, the victim of a disease is not succorless. There is I mn arm to rescue-a balm to cleanse mnd heal. As remedies for this e most depressing of all diseases,-t "Liver Complaint,"-none are more I efficient or popular than Dr. Pierce's I &olden Medical Discovery and i Pleasant Purgative Pellets. The Pellets effectually remove the effete e mnd poisonous matter, while the c Eedical Discovery imparts strength i mnd health to the entire system. 3 They are sold by druggists. t A Wienn Im>osmTo.-At eigh- a been years of age this lady married ' i wealthy old fellow of sixty, with ' ne foot in the grave. Could any prospect have seemed more de lightful? One foot in the grave, recollect ! Ah, but mark my story's a sequel. At eighteen, say they, she ~ was a lovely creature, but when I 1 made her acquaintance she was c passe and wvorn ; while he-he c ught to have been ashamed of I imself, but was not--was a hale a young thing of eighty-eight, and t evidently good enough for another r half-dozen years to come. You see t he iad married, as I twice before S remarked, viith one foot in the i grave ; but no earthly consideration i would induce him to pop in the I other-the abandoned old ruffian ! e Think how that woman was de- e Erided.-San Francisco Chronicle. I "Woman," said the fat man on i he cracker barrel, reflectively, "wo- f man is like a boil. When another S man has her we laugh at him ; I when we have her ourself we cher- t sh and protect her." "To Greece we give our shining a blades," said the fellow at the I oarding-house, plunging his knife a intn o h utr dih. FOR THE HERALD. t BROADBRII'S NEW YORK a LETTER. iu In No. 13. --i .he Feast of the Passover-The Easter Cele- h bration in the Christian Churches-Black Friday No. 2 on Wall Street-Suicide and Murder-Boller Skating, etc. d tl The world still moves, I mentally t< xclaimed as I stood on the steps of cI he Jewish Temple Emanu-El on the g ,ifth Avenue, while the great organ p oiled out a flood of melody celebrating u he holy feast of the Passover, one of s< he most sacred landmarks in all the tl rewish calendar. "Walk in," said s< he attendant usher, kindly and softly, s he led the way to a luxurious seat it n the center of the most magnificent E emple in the great American me- G ropolis. The service was somewhat ti dvanced when I entered; the Rabbi 1 as holding the Toro in his hands, nd chanting the same sweet psalms tl hat have been the consolation of G ,srael's sons and daughters in desola- 'r ion and exile for thirty-five hundred e ears. It is a long time since 1 stood g Pithin a Jewish synagogue, and I ri ould not but notice the alteration. E hen, the men and women were sepa- a ated; in this temple they sit together it ,s they do in almost all Christian hurches. Then, all the men were a: overed, and most of them wore a c vhite scarf upon their shoulders. a lere, all heads were bare, and there ti vas nothing to distinguish them from a .n ordinary Christian assembly ; aed J he order of service was substantially he same as it is in every well-regu- o ated church. The building is grand, g n everything that can appeal to the ti ympathies or senses; the style is d noresque, and the rich frescoes of C )urple and gold are admirably softened 1 )y the beautiful window3 of stained o ;lass, which blend the whole into soft C .nd delightful harmony. The Rabbi a )r. Gotthiel is one of the most erudite O cholars in America,-a gentleman C vho, by his advanced and liberal views, C as earned not only the love and rev rence of his own people, but the uni- ti ersal respect of every Christian con-t ~regation in the city. The feast of " he Passover has been celebrated this e~ rear with rare and exceptional services, h he music being the finest that I have V ver heard, except, possibly, in some si f the great cathedrals of Europe. t( he service is mixed, being part in ~ rerman and part in English-and the ls egular service in Hebrew, as it is in " very Jewish congregation. If I ever C ntertained a thought about the nar 'ow bigotry of the Jewish faith, it g ras thoroughly dispelled, for I never heard more liberal sentiments from ' ,ny Christian pulpit; and the prayer g t the close of the service was one of gi he noblest, and I may say the sub- ~ imest, petitions that I ever heard from tl Luan lips-breathing universal char- g. ty and love to all the children of meni. 0] The Catholic and Episcopal church- o~ s, of course, led the way in the gran- r~ eur of the Easter observances. The a' tisplay of flowers was something mar elous, and pious votaries, instead of ax he spotless dove and time-honored C aschal lamb, brought to the altar rareP ifts of beautiful flowers, the savor of h rhich must have been as sweet to the ti ostrils of the Lord as the smoke of s he burnt offering from the ancient * ewish altar.w On Easter Sunday it really seemed s if New York and Brooklyn were uddenly awakened to a sense of their t st condition. The churches of every enomination were thronged to suffo- it ation, and publicans and sinners by undreds and thousands wandered 01 round from church to church unable fi o obtain admission; and I fear they w eceived but little spiritual consolation, tc bough under the very eaves of the P~ anctuary, for the chill air of the open og April day seemed to roll right tr own from the mausoleum of Sir John ti ~ranklin and other adventurous Arctic 01 xplorers, making seal-skin sacks and ax ar-muffs not merely a convenience, ut an absolute necessity. B The week has been an eventful one b a stocks, and for t wenty-four hours, st om Tuesday to Wednesday, Wall b~ treet seemed covered with the pall of fo ~lack Friday. The struggle between ri he bulls and the bears which has been m oing on for four months past culmi- fi ated on Tuesday last, when Panama nd Pacific Mail suddenly went by the ti oard-Panama dropping in less than b< n hour from 120 to 80 ; Pacific Mail F ren down in the rush, carrying in r( ie whirlpool lots of collateral stocks, lying bulls and bears such a shaking p as they have not experienced for iany a day. Just before the board osed the news dropped into the crowd ke a bombshell that John Pondir ad suspended. Nitro glycerine and iant powder were nothing to it. Old ohn was regarded as the Gibraltar of ie street, and when he went the bot >m had dropped out, sure. Then )mmenced a wild race to meet mar ins on which countless millions de ended, and every one was trying to aload. No pack saddles were ready, each one had to carry his own bur ien, and the sun went down on a ene of ruin and defeat. The warriors who led the contend g hosts were Treanor Park, of Little mma fame, on the one side, and Jay ovld, Jim Fisk's old partner, on ie other. The story goes that ark sold Pacific Mail short some onths ago, and sent Jay Gould to ie wall for over a million and a half. ould watched his chance, and on uesday last he caughf the little Ver onter on the hip,-and sent him to rass, from which he was not able to sa at the call of time. There were heels within wheels which brought >out this result, and this is part of s unwritten history of the street. About sixty days ago, a gentleman >peared upon Wall street, whose free anners and slashing air marked him game for the hunters who keep cir preserves between Exchange alley 1d Nassau street. This man was i Keene.-the Jupiter Tonans of [ontgomery street, and the cynosure all eyes in that enterprising city aarded by the Golden Gate. For iree years past he has played battle are and shuttlecock with Gould and urry, Consolidated, Mexican Crown oint, Belcher, Yellow Jacket, and all the rich stocks that lie along the omstoclc lode. He is one of the few en to whom Flood and O'Brien take f their hats, while in the Bank of alifornia his check is as good as harley Crocker's or Alvinse Hay ard's. - When Jim Keene took the ack, all small fry usually got out of ie way, as they would from a loco totive or a mad bull. But San Fran sco got too small for Jim Keene, so e thought he would try his gaffs in all street. There were many head iakes and prognostics as he stripped Sthe buff and entered the arena here so many fine fellows have been id out. At first he naturally sided ith those who respresented the old alifornia traditions, and he and Park -both old men-acted unitedly to >ther. You may judge of the excite ent and consternation on the street hen it was rumored that Keene had 2ne over to Gould, and left Park to > down among the breakers; but hoever supposed that Park was at e end of his rope, was most egre ously and certainly mistaken ; for 1Wednesday morning, bright and ~rly, Park was up and dressed, and ady for the fight again, showing no gns of the previous day's punish. ent, signing checks for hundreds id thousands, as though he had the ansolidated mine in his breeches >ket, and the Bank of Nevada for a backer. After a suspension of just renty.four hours, John Pondir re med, paying dollar for dollar to ~ery demand, and now the boys are iting for that pickled rod which ey say is in store for Jay Gould. Tweed's breeches are fifteen inches o big for him since his return, and a hardly know whether to attribute to poor board or anxiety. An innocent policeman was stopped the highway and basely robbed of ty dollars by a couple of females, ho, I am happy to state, were sent State Prison. Our police must be otected. The past Winter has been disas ous to our steamship interests ree magnificent ocean steamers lying the beach between Long Branch d Cape May. On last Sunday, Talmage at the rooklyn Tabernacle baptized thirty bies, and one sacrilegious wretch ggested that the motto over the ptismal font should be "Look. out rsqualls." If that man ever expe nces a change of heart it will be a iracle as great as the loaves and hes. I am sorry to say that I have not is week a solitary murder or rob ry worth mentioning. Even the lton Bank in Brooklyn, which was ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rate of S1.00 per square (one inch) for first Insertion, aind 75 cents for each subaequent;insertion. Double column advertisements ten per cent. on above. Notices of meetings, obituaries and tributes of respect, sanmc rates per square as ordinary advertisements. Special Notices in Local column 15 cents per line. Advertisemcn"; not imarkeci -with the num ber of insertions will be kept in till fbrbid, and charged accordingly. Special contracts made with large adver tisers, with liberal deduc;.ons on above rates. JOll PR1*VTI.1M DONE WITH -NEATNESS AND DISPATCH. TERMS CASH. thousand dollars, has got it back and does not lose a dollar after alL When I heard itl never was so mad in my life. Just think ! A fellow getting off with a hundred and sixty thousand and then coming back of his own ac cord. I should not be surprised to see Oakey Hall turn up on 'the top of Banker Hill Monument after that. The Chili:ren's Carnival at the Academy of Music was one of the grandest affairs of the season. Roller skating is all the ragesix rinks in Brooklyn and over twenty in New York. The city is all excitement this morning over the Jewett tragedy, and it seems to be generally -conceded that Orville Jewett was insane when he threw the hand grenade upon the floor which destroyed his own life and that of his uncle. The firm is one of the oldest and most respectable in the city, and the grief at their terrible calamity is unfeigned and universal. Spring hats for ladies are now to be seen everywhere. I thought, I would try to describe them,. ba. I whispering or note-writing; they ~re silly and rude if not sinful Don't think when you have gone