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"TO THINK OWN 8KLP BE TRUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW. A8 THE ^ ^ HW KT THE DAY, THOU OA??'T NOT THEN BX VALSE TO ANY WAN.' T ' - -_l_;_ Al m- ' -'-g-?? --I-ULU-1-Li-J._l-1-LILL!-I-J-^JSJlllXJL^i&fm BY KEITH, HOYT & CO. ^ WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1872. VOLUME VII._NO. II. ' Professional Oa,rd.s. S. P. DENDY, Attorney and V o II II M V. 11 o r ?T.UW, AND ?oliortor' in EJqtii-ty-, ?\VilI practico In tho Courts of Law and Equity, in tho Eighth Judicial Circuit. OFFICE IN TUB CouRt HOUSE, Walhalla,-South Carolina. Nor. 1. 1870 3 ly T??OSTM. WILK?ST" ATTORNEY AT LAW *-AND Solicitor in Ecrui-ty. -ALSO, United States Commissioner, F?r tho Circuit and District Coures of the Uni ted Stuten for South Parolina. ffST" OFFICE ON TUE COURT HOUSE SQUARE, -'?it WALHALLA, S. 0. July 22, 1870 40 ly J. P. REED, I J W. C. KEITH, Anderson C. II. j i Walhalla. HEED & KEITH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW ANO Solicitors in EJcini-ty, Have renewed their Co-partnership in tho prnc tice nf Law, and extended it to all Civil and Criminal business io tho Counties of Oconcc ^j,Tid Picken?. ALSO, AM. ROSINESS IN TUC I) NI TI: 1) STATES COURTS. Office o? 4*?hit? Square, Walhalla, S. C. July 18. 1809. 41 tf 8. MoOOWAN, li- A. THOMPSON, Abbeville, S. ?. Wulhullu, S. C. MCGOWAN & THOMPSON, A?T?RNJ?YS AT LAW, WALHALLA, S. C., Will prompt attention tn nil business ? conned to them in tho Stale, County, uod iJoited Sutes Courts. OFFICE IN TUB COU UT HOUSE, Tho junior partner. MH THOMPSON, will abo practice in the Courts ol' Picken?, t? roon villa nod Anderson. January. 1870 tf J0SEW1 J. NORTON, Attorney at Law, WALHALLA, ?. ?. All business for Pickens County left with J. E. II AG 00 D, ESQ., PIC KENS C. HI., WILL BE P/iOMPTLV ATTEND JW TO Ootober 20, 1808 4 tf t. H. WU1TNER. WIIITNER SVMMEH. 'WMTNER I SYMMES, Attorneys at Law, WALHALLA, S. C. jjggr Oflico on the Public Square. "X?? February 1, 1870 ' ' ' 16 tf S. D. G00DLE?T, Attorney at Law AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY, HAS LOCATED AT THE NEW TOWN OF PICKENS, 8. 0. Nov. 10. 1808 7 tf WALHALLA HOTEL ! THE Proprietor would respectfully inform his cid patrons, and tho public generally, that hie doors are still inpen for the reception mid accommodation of Ouest s. In connection with the Hotel, ls a FIRST CLASS VAR ROOM, in which oan be found, *t ?H times, the best brands of BRANDIES. WHISKIES, WIEES, SEO A ns, &at ?a . y?sr No pains will be spared to render guests comfortable. D. DI EMA NN. PiomtMO*. ' Walh*lls, 8. 0., April 18, 1871 26 [BY RKQUKST] I From Hie Anderson Intelligencer. ' Town IOWN anti Town Council. MR EDITOR: About three months ago you announced iu your paper that the Town ! Council had adopted un ordinance against cattle going nt large in our streets, to vo into forcoon tho 15th of October. With ?thors, I have anxiously looked forward to tho timo I when this law should ho enforced; but it' it has ever bcou ador ted it has never been pub- 1 United, much less baa it gone into operation. ' After tho very general complaint about tho 1 nuisance this law was intel dod to remove, it ! is a little surprising that our municipal gov ernment hiive not shown more alacrity in adopting it; and that tho nuisance is u very great one, I think admita of little doubt. I do not know tho scope of tho ordinance*, if any, they proposed to adopt, but I have ! heard it was proposed simply to exclude cut- ' tie fromI tho public square, of the Town. I would take tho liberty of suggesting to tho Council that it be made to embrace cattle, hog*, gemts-indeed, every four fooled beast. . and extend to tho utmost limits of tho Town. Hogs and Cows arc our chief pests, it is true, and it is ut them I am striking; but make \ the law general in its subjects and extent, and it will furnish fewer grounds of com- * plaint One very great advantage to ho derived 1 from such an ordinance is the protection it ( would afford our trading community-t. e., friends from tho country-in frceiiiir them j from ii very serious annoyance. It is dis creditable, if not disgraceful, tho way these 1 rouuish town cows hang about thc public I | square and steal the forage from thc wagons | ntid onrriages of our country neighbors - They aro public plunderers, and it is much ' to bo regretted that soino one has not been ' fourni hold enough to kill a few of the rogues, particularly n certain red cow remarkable no llie dexterity and cutming of her depreda tionS And I should like to know who is responsible for this state of things hut our Town Council ? It won't d) for them to say that lt is the duty of tho owners of such cat tie to keep them up A S'dlSO of decency und propriety might, it is true, constrain thc owners to ?bato thc nuisance; hut. let Coun cil declare tho law and punish Offenders, und the grit vance will soon cease. Hut there is another ami, I think, greater benefit to bo derived from such a law. Ho quire tho owners of live stbiik to keep them enclosed, nod you protect pensons residing within thc corporate, limits from many a vex atious trespass upon their yards and grounds I know the law, UH it now stands, in ikes it thc duty of persons to protect their cultivated uroutid.H from hueli trespass by lawful fences Hut 1 undertake to Kay lt is one of thc most sou pelves li ws upon our st dine books-eor tu io ly for all this region of th? country. Ad opted in (hi-) State first about the yen- Iii!) I , when the whole country was nn.i vast wilder doss, grown up in wild grasses and na,ive pc -vimri, witJi K'tltni cuts and cultivated li?lds few and far between, and foi iniiiii. you tilay 8>y, 0110 vast cattle-range, this law has booti continued, with slight modifications and changes, down to the present day. nut with alluding tho cilantro in tho face of (lie eoiiti try. now thickly p?puhib d. shorn of its tim her and unfit fur cattlo-trruziilt; If there is nov one law upon our statute books wholly unadapted to our present condition, it. in this same fence law; mid it. is to be Imped the Le gitdature will not nllnw it to go unrepeated much longer, lt ought to have been repealed long ?go, ?nd it is certainly competent for our town authorities to effect a change within our corporate limits, not hy way of repealing a statute, but in enforcing police regulations; for make it unlawful for live stock to be found ut largo in our streets, and you relieve the landowner from thc necessity of keeping up his fences, it is a popular notion that such a law would operate harshly upon the poor, by compelling them to ?zivo up their hoes nud cow?*, us they can't keep them en closed and support them. I have no hesitan cy in saying that a mun who ts too poor to feed u cow or hog has no business with it, and he certainly hus no right to keep it at tho expenso of his neighbor, as he too often docs, if permitted to roam at large. Waiving actual trespasses to cultivated fields, I should like to know what reason or natural justino there is in requiring me to feed my neigh bor's cattle, oven off my unenclosed grounds. My lands aro my own, und because I om un able to keep them enclosed by a lawful fence, and cannot, therefore, punish my neighbor for allowing his cattle to browse upon and trump them, that gives him no right to pas turo them. The law gives me no remedy for this wrong, but that gives him no right to the privilege. The confusion of ideas on this subject is u little singular; and some people hove come to think that when you talk about keeping stock enclosed, you aro availing s very dear right of theirs, which, when ana lyzed, resolves itself into thc privilege of grazing thoir oattle upon their neighbor's lands, lt matters not if thoso lands arc com mons or unused, tho principle is tho '?arno. Hut you'll never find tho land owner com mitting this mistake, and it seems to mo they ore tho people mostly interested in the mat ter, -t The inequality of tho law, ns it now stands, is very decidedly against thin oluss, whilo I insist a chango would not bo detrimental to tho interests of tho poor man. Every man in tho community who onn hire or buy a house to livo in onn have his pntoh for his cow, of oan hire pasturage at a cheap rate. His cows would be all the better for the change, and it he is too thriftless to support it thus, then let him do without it. 1 have no sympathy with the doctrino that would teach him that bec auf o his neighbor is bet? 1er liff than lio. thii neighbor is not entitled to tho exclusivo uso of what is Iii? ??wu, but I must contribute of his nbuuduuoo to thu sup port of tho other's animals. But tnko into consideration tho dutungo Jone ?nd annoyance given by stock breaking into improved grounds und cultivated fields. [ rion ht if there is u lawful fenco in tho Coun ty, and if thoro is ouo within tho corporate limits, made of rails, I should like to know the proprietor, and by what art he keeps it up to the logal standard, especially in tho winter season, when rails become so popular is fuel. I'll wager it has to bo mudo anew ?Very spring. And how many of even our land owners have tho necessary timber with which to make these repairs. Very few or 30110 have ?I to spare for this purpose. Fire wood is very scarce and dear hero in cold weather, and to take from the very scant sup ply of forest timber wo have to make fences in the spring, to bc stolen md consumed tho next wiutcr, breaks tho camel's back indeed. And just show mc a mau who can go through this routine from year to year, who secs his fences disappear from day to duy, to replen ish sonic thriftless, idle vagabond's firo placo, ind his neighbor's ill fed, half-famished cattle md hogs breaking into his fields, destroying Iiis crops and injuring his lands, and if ho can refrain from swearing a little, I will'show you a tuan with tho clements'of Christianity1 mighty weil grounded in him. ?^j This is no overdrawn picture, but tho ac tual condition of every mun who has u foy ?ores under cultivation ; unless, perchance, ho has ti plunk fenco with tho nails dinched, an expenso ninny of us could not afford, und that none should bo subjected to with so Iii tlc mason. And yet it cannot bo changed, because those who own no lands or farina have nowhere for their stock to go and feed, ex-'1 cept on sonic one else's land. But I h ive said more than I intended. Much iliac 1 have said, und a great deal more than I have Still, would apply to the country nt largo, but it applies with gloater force, I think, to our country vilhutes, where the pi's tnrago is more scant mid tho expense of fen cing is the sam?) if not greater; und wo aro yearly subject*d to tho loss and ontioynnco of having our fences stolen und burnt. When our pcop|e como to seo, as every reflectini; man must, that it. is fur cheaper to keep up nur livestock than it is to fence in our grounds and fields, then l 'suppose wc may expect, u chango in the law I have seen it asserted in a recent periodical that the feneiuir in the United States costs nnuiilly 8100.000,000, and narrowing down the estimate to nur State borders it. Is rfu id tn greatly exceed tho taxes imposed by the State, oppressive ns they ?ire And yet because, it is i long established ?MIS tom, our people seem blind tu the necessit y of a uhtiUgo. As one old gentleman recently said to the writer, "he didn't believe truck w.Mild grow in his fields if he had no fences around them." STOCICOWNKR. SoMKriiINO AUOUr KK\OKS.-Thc fences nf the United States have cost more than the bouses, cities included ; more than ships, boats and vi -isels of every description which sail tho oceans lakes mid rivers ; more (bau our manufactures of all kinds, with their machinery ; moro than nny one class of property, aside fruin real es tit?, except it may be tho railroad of om country. lu mi article on this subject, thc l'coplc'? Journal says that the first cost of fonces in Nen' York between one hundred and fifty and two hundred millions of dollars. Assn in tug this to be approximately coricct, arid esti uiaiiug the first cost of fences in other States on thc sanie basis, wc have as tho total first oxpouso of thc fences of tho country tho vusl Hum of 81,208.000,000. This will rcquirt to bo renewed nt least, once in ten yours mid this gives nn annual oxpenso of $120, 600, with n very largo sum to be nd ded for repairs constantly uccded. Thii makes up a very formidabjjf aggregate. In Europe, whero very few fences nr< found, there is no inconvenience felt by tlx people. In France, Germany nnd Hollnnc fartnors hold their land in common, with onl} nur row paths betweon. There tho unnua tax our people have to submit to of 81.50 ot every aero of improved laud, tho oostof feno ing, is not known. Moro the fenco tax is i great doal moro t,b >n tho uggreguto of St>it< and local taxes In Missouri and (California, tho advocate: of a reform in fencing laws uro making vigor oun oxertions to accomplish their purposo und every day public opinion is growing stronger in favor of tho ohungo. lloro, when tho suggestions aro novel, and tho pcopb have not thought on tho question, tho pro positition may bo somewhat unpa.hte.nblo but thc timo will soon come when self inter ost will foroo a ohange in opinion and policy -Exchang >. WHY SOM B ARE POOR.-Croam ts allowei to mould and spoil. Silver spoons aro use? to scrape kettles. Tho scrubbing brush i left in the water. Nice handled knives or thrown into hot water. Brooms are neve hung up, and B"on nro spoiled Dishcloth aro thrown whero mico oan dos?roy thom. Tubs nod barrels aro loft tn thc sun to dr and fall apart. Cloths aro loft on the lino t whip to pieces in tho wind. Pio orust is lol to sour instand of milking a few tarts for ton Dried fruit is not taken oura of in souson. an becomes wormy. Vegetables are throw away that would warm for breakfast. Th cork is loft out of tho sugnr jnr, and tho flit take possession, Bits of mont are thrown ot that would niako hashed moat or hash. Go fee, tea, pepper, and spiers sro left to stun opepand fri?se their strength. Purk spni for the want of salt, tod hoof bcouuso tl brln* wt.nts scalding. Confession!!. ^Tn tho United States Court, at Columbia, on tho Sd instant, tho following proceedings rik placo, os wo learn from tho Phatnix { Mr. Chamberlain, for tho District Attor ney, requested that sentence might be passed ujpon Alexander Armstrong, convicted at the Abril term of tho court, 1871, of robbing tho iSgfo. Thc priwner was called to the fer?ff. WrVv' "*. ?nd afto> a ferr tooling remarks by Jftdgo bryan, touching his youth, his honest p 'frontage, and tho great temptations to w h ie li lie. bad been subjected, was sentenced to live years imbrisou nent io thc house of correction1 itt Now York. Wu?. Jolly, of Spurtanburg, pleaded guilty ti tho ohargo of violating the Ku Klux Act. I?0 stated that ho was a member of Horse Creek Klan, and lind been on ono raid. Jo sluh Vasscy was ohicf of tho klan. Robert Scruggs initiated him, and h< joined from fear of being whipped. Lowis Jolly, Tom iMco and Memory ilumphroys were with liini on thc rudd. '^Alfred Blackwell was next called, nnd also pleaded guilty. He-stated that he belonged ot Horse Creek Klan, nnd had been on one rind agaton 'Reuben Phillips, whom, tho jiri'soncr said, ho and his orowd brushed a y Judeo Bond-Why did you whip him? :i'j Witless-Well, he bad whipped another jftWs'steer to death and threw him iu thc "Branch. . ?J udgo Bond-How did you know he did ^Witness - Sam Sarrntt saw him do it. Hiillips was n colored man. I was forced into t'lto organization through fear of their whip ing mo ,?jvWin. F Hauisny next caine up and pleaded guilty Ile said : I belonged to thc Horse Creek Klan. There wcro some twenty or thirty men in tho klan. ? attended three un ctings*Tlierc was scarcely anything dono. Judgo Edwards, Mr. Cantrell, Mr. Tate, S(i?ball Scruugs and Mr. Pock were the ex echtivo coiniuittco. who met and ordered what. Was to be dono. Hi was on the ruid against lt oben Phillips ; that was tho only one. I joined from fear of being whipped if 1 et- y ed out. , Tjiamns J. Price next cameup and pleaded fie ?lid :'T nui tw?ri y nine yours [ old, alni live in Spartanburg County. I didn't belong to any klan. Gilbert Su mitt swore nie in. I was on two mids. It was no klan in particular-just, a picked up crowd. There was a cbiof ".long-Robert Seru<_"/s. Tho first raid was on a negro wo man; the second was on (Mi n ley Fernandez's family. Wo then went on to Jack Sarrnit's, and took his wife and son nud daughter, and ??ave them alight whipping. 1 joined from fear of being whipped, or some other harm being done me. I understood that Hanks Lylo was the ohicf of the Cuunty. I don't know him. Taylor Vassey was next called and pleaded guilty. Ile said lu: belonged to Horse Creek Klan, and had been on two raids. Thc first raid, nothing was effected Thc second was on James Gaffney. Ile was a black mun, a nd they whipped him for stealing. King Edwards next caine up and pleaded guilty. Ile. siid : I joined tho kluu in March last. I reckon I joined through ignorance Alfred Harris initiated me. I was on the raid on John Harris, a COIOPMI man Wo whipped him-gave him about sixty licks. We whipped Maj. Cash nnd By ou m Hum phreys. Wc whipped tho lust because of his whipping o white boy. Cbristcnburg Tate was next called up and pleaded guilty. Ile stated that ho was from Spartauburg, and had joined the klan in January, from fear, He had been on three or four raids. The first was on Richurd Roberts, fur sidling whiskey on tho Sabbath Day, near a church; then went in und whip ped a boy for not obeying his mother Jesse Tate next emus up nnd pleaded guil ty. He said he hud joined thc order in Jnn uary for self-proteotion; had never been on nny raids, but attended several meetings. There was nothing muoh done nt the meet ings. Homo new members were initiated, and thora wero consultations about what should bo dono whenever thero was nny wrong thing doDO in tho neighborhood. Th eic was one raid mndo in North Carolina. It was ordered by the oyolops, Banks Lyle; nt least, I huvo heard him culled that here. Tho fact is, I huvo heard moro about oyolops and such things since I have been in Columbia than I over heard while I waa in tho klan. Judge Bond ordered tl it tho Inst named prisoner bo released on a bond of (500, to ap pear at tho next term of tho court. Froderick Paris was next colled up, and plead guilty. Ho stated that ho livod in Sportanburg and joined tho klan on Mardi 28, 1871. Had bron on two raids; whipped Bynum Humprcys; didn't tulk to him any thing shout his politics; the next wo whipped was John Harris, then Mat. Soruggs, Muy Harris and James Uaffuoy. Wm. Robbins wns next called and plead guilty? He was a poor, half-witted fellow, and could not articulate intelligibly. His in j terpreter stated for him that ho was a poor man, who hired nbout for n living, ond had boen whipped by members of the Horse Creek Klan before he joined. Judge Bond stated that tho oourt would hold tho sontenoo of the prisoners under ad visetnont. Jt3F The best thing to give your onemj is forgiveness j to your opponent, tolerance i to a friend, your heart ; to your child, a good example; to a father, deforenco; to yout mother, conduct that will innke her prout of ber pun ; to y ousel f, respect; to all in en ( oherity \ to Ood, obedience. The Old-Fash lowed Mother. Th .uk God ! some of us havo an old fash ioned mother Not a wm.i of tho period, enameled and painted, willi her grout chig non, her ourls und bustle, whoso white, jew eled hands have never felt the clasp of bub/ fingers, bot a dear old fashioned, sweet voiced mother, with eyes in whose depths tho love light shone, and brows hair, t hreaded with .tyrer, lying? -emotAh upon her faded cheek. Those d?ar'hands,'worn wfth'toil, guided our tottering steps in childhood and smoothed our pillow in sickness, even reaching out to us in [yearning tenderness when her sweet spirit was baptized in tho pearly sproy of tho river. Messed is tho memory of an old fashioned mother, lt floats to us now, liko the beauti ful perfume of some woodland blossoms The music of other voices muy bo lost, but the en trancing memory of her will echoe in our Boals forever. Other faces will fade away and be forgotten, but hers will shine on until tho light from heaven's portals shall glorify our own When in tho fitful pauses of busy life our feet wander bnok to tho old homestead, and crossing thc well known threshold, stand once moro iu thc low, quaint room, so hollowed by her presence, how the feeling of childish In nocence and dependence comes over, us, uud wc kneel down in thc mellow sunshine,stream ing through tho western window-just where, long years ago, wo knelt by our mother's knee, lisping, "Our Father." How many times, when the tempter lures us on, has the memory of those sacred hours, thai mother's words, her fuith und prayers, saved us ftoui plunging into the abyss of sin ! Years have filled great rifts between her and us, hut they have not hidden from our sight the bright glory of her pure uud unselfish love. KlLLEl) IN COURT.-An unpleasant state of fotd?og has existed between General Reu ben Davis und S. M. Meek,both lawyers of Mis Mssippi, for some time buck. In last July or j August these gentlemen appcarel in Aber j deon, Mississippi, on opposite sides bf a kill ing case, which was in course of examination before the circuit court of that place. Tho person under trial wis C. Taylor Hill, who j wus charged with murder Davis was de ! fending the prisoner, and Meek was prossecu I tiinr. --lt is generally represented that Davis had what is forcibly called "a violent way" about, him ; whereas Mock was upon ordinary occasions among the mildest of n en, a mod est, unobstrusive gentleman; He was insult ed by Davis nt that time, und felt much ag grieved. After that they never spoke to each lither. On Friday last they again met on op posite sides ufa casein the court louise of Co lumbus, Mississippi, when Davis, us usual, indulged in violent and olfensivo language, (inti so irritated Meek that ho could bear it no longer, ile said : "Davis, I can't stand your brow beating any lunger. Defend your self." Meek jerked out-his pistol, and Davis proceeded to draw his weapon, but was too i slow, und was shot before he had his weapon j ready for uso. This was in the court house, ' in the presence of thc Judgo and a full court. Great excitement prevails throughout the town consequent upon thc shooting, Gonerai pa vis was a colonel of the Seoond Mi-lissippi Regiment during the Mexican war. Ile was a general of the sixty day Mississippi malitin in the late war Ile was before tho war a member of thc United States Congress from the Aberdeen District, Mississippi. Ile served two years. After that, he returned home und followed his pro fession of criminal lawyer, in which he achiev ed long ngo a fino reputation. Davis was about, fifty-eight or sixty years of ugo. S M. Meek is now perhaps forty years old, snd ?tanda at tba head of his profession.-Mem phi* Appeal. SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE.-This ecclesiastical body met in Spartunburg on Wednesday, 13th of December last. Bishop Paine, thc senior Bishop of thc M. E. Church South, presided over its deliberations, which losted for six day*. Tho cntiro session waa marked with pleasant intcreouso and Chris tain zen), ami tho various interests of the Methodist denomination within thc bounds of South Carolina Conference were thoroughly discussed. Tho next annual session of the Conference will be held nt Anderson in Do cembcr, 1872. Wo append a list of tho ap , pomtmcnta for this Boction of tho State, re gretting that it is not in our power to give tho complete list : GREENVILLE DISTRICT.-R P. Franks P. E.-Oreenvillo Station, E. J Meenardie, D. D. : Greenville Circuit, C. V. Barties j Buena Vista and Batesvillo, John Attuwuy j lteidvillo, John Watts ; Walhalla, D. J. Mc Millan; Pickensvillc, C. T. Harman; Wil liiimston, Samuel Lander, J. A. Wood, su ?ernumerary; Seneca, Olin L. Durant; Irushy Creek, A. B Stephens; Anderson, ft. Iii Harpor; Anderson Cirouit, D. D. Byor8, W. A. Hodges, supernumerary; PcR dletoo, J. B. Traywick. B?u Tho year just commenced is what if generally known SB Leap yenr, February hav ing twenty nine dujs. It if. olio of tho year.' \ in whioh tho calm, conservativo order ol i th i ii L'S is supposed to bo overturned verj violently, in whioh the ladies are supposed tr 1 loy asido their coquetry and tho privilege ol saying ..yes," and to assume tho delicately discriminating tusk of selecting their Oft! husbands. r -4-++ . 19* A French authoress says : 'A kisi ' gives moro satisfaction than anything else it r the world.' To thia an editor responds ' That writer evidently never experienced tin ? childish rapture of desconding tho Stain b; Kliding down th? banisters. NEW YORK, December 80.---The V[re^\* dent's organ in this city has opened ita guns ou Senator Schure. Nothing could so clearly mark thc wide divergence of the Administra tion and tlie Reformed Republicans thau tho acrimony which characterised the ?T?mc/ iir tide, lt showed that the President has no ln?gor any expectation that thc breach in Cy) Republican ranks can bo healed, and that ho la prepared . henohforth to trcj?t, Boliu? and.. " his 'companions in the Sonate 05' ?uem^?s, How thc senator can persist iq' regarding him self as insido tho party, when ho has been d<p libcrutoly put by its legitimate authorities, remains to bo seen. Ile certainly hos noth ing now in common with the Republican party of which Grant is thc chief, and very little in difference with the Democratic party. The insults which tho President'. organ tn New York heaps upon thegreit leader pf tlie Western Germans arc in cftcot, that hp '^i',a mere adventurer, a person pf iieithor cnp?plVy nor honesty, a failure as a general In tho, ww, a failure in diplomacy and statesmanship, a wordy, windy dcclaimer, anda "froud" gene ?illy. He is accused of having been an un conscionable seeker of government patronage, and an enemy of civil service reform, until thc President removed his brother-in-law from thc collcctorship of Chicago. To all of this tho senator will doubtless reply in thc Senate, .s soon os the recess is over ; and so tho way will go on. A curious letter, written by Mr. Gr??l?^, relative to tho next Presidency, has just KOCH tho light. The writer republishes it in h/s own paper with tho intimation that It was in tended to be private, but since tho recipient haS given it to thc publie, there is no veasoii to exclude it from the columns of tho Tribilrfe The letter cannot fail to exasperate the ad miuistrationists still further with Mr. Gree ley, for he un equi vocally expresses tho opin ion that if the Democrats will nominate Gratz Brown i Trumbull or ex Secretary; Cox for the Presidonccy against Grant, they can elect either, and that it would be better fpr the country if they should succeed. He Sii'yS that he believes thc Democrats could have sucoeded with Chief Justice Chase iu 18(h), and that aa the result, "trennine peace and thrift would have been promoted" This giving of ?id and comfort, in the shape of ad vice, to the opponents of the Republican ?ar ty", corfainly'looks like high treason, and it>? (ea|ly should subject tho offender to expulsion'. Where will the Tribune stand after Grant is nominated by the National Convention T WHY JEFFERSON DIED POOR.-It i? r? lated of Jefferson that he might have beoS ? rich and not? poor mun, as he was, but for the multitude of admiring visitors who throng ed Monticello from year's end to year's end, und literally ate him out of house and home. As many as fifty stranger- sometimes swarmed in upon him in a singlo afternoon They came on horseback mid in carriages, and dozens of them stayed all night, und many of them stayed for days and even weeks. No other man of whom we havo any record wat ever so overrun vi Uh visitors for so long ft period. They came from all lands and be longed tc almost every rank in life. It was not. possible to turn them away. Jefferson hud tot stand the punishment, and he stood it bravely, and with ut least outward serenity of spirit, although his inward struggled were terrible. He finally sold his library? perhaps thc best then in America, and tho choicest possessions he hud on earth. Ho also sold some of his land. A few friends, ond even tho Legislatures of a few States, tried tu help him. Hut these efforts were of no avail. His affairs growworseand worsey He finally petitioned the Legislature of Vir* ginia for permission to dispose of his estates by lottery; but before tho act was passed ho died, ned his estate was sold at duotion by his creditors, and his heirs were turned from their ancestral door forever. A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT.--A leeture wes delivered in Boston a few days sinco by Rev. Wm 1). Wight, and during his remarks he i beautifully said : Most of us remember the days which aro , set in the year of childhood as gems nre set i in rings. In later life those startling points, of time become effulgent days) rising li ko ? suns; flushing the household sky with genial tones, warming its gray with color. To un numbered millions Christmas has been suoh a day. To sad hen ns i t has brought gladness** lt , has stood.like a rook by tho sea. The dark waves como moaning against it, to be caught and tossed into silver spray and dash of rain bows. Though thc drops fall back again ?nd. ! are lost in tho joyous ocean, though Christ-. ! mas laughter soon softies into tho moan'of [ care, the next tide shall repeat the boncdio-j tion. For, when Christmas is gone Christ* inns is coming. Though the yale log biases but one a year, sparks of its saorsor ?ania shall lingor on the hearth end mingle with fires daily kindled where it has leia. Thc benign effect of a merry Christmas does not ca:os when thc topers aro extinguished. THE St ATE FAIR NEXT FAr.L.-?Colonel ' D. Wyatt Aiken, the Secretary of tho South ' Carolin? Agricultural and Mechanical So |. ciety, Invites tho corporation of oitiaena of the : State in oomploting the premium list for .the ( fair to bo-hold next Fill. Any suggestion? ?. of alterations or improvements sent to hint st Cokesbnry, S. 0-, Will meet with due con?.-, deration. Colonel Aiken, tlso requests -ibo Secretary of any agrienUt.??!.-. h*$tfcsHantl. or mechanical essooistion iq the State, to send him the names and poatofhoee of th? * officers of the association. ? 9ST Wonders will never oease. TheG?n-> ? ern! Tifket Aaont nf the South Caroline Rail? r road hts rooeivea $6 $6 sot wiopoe money fot en unpaid fare, " ; V '>;!.?S