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TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS if HE [ fl I ra .J O Kl? \ i NIGHT THE OAY, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY* MAN BY KEITI?, SMITH & CO. . WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER IO, 1878. VOLUME XIII.-NO. 47. 1'IL A ra AB*Ol?TflSB> IS Y 'i'BBB'] Cornily ?joiiveiiiioai ibr C ow U ur ii DH ft' thc B?i'iniiiB*y Election in Ocoiiec County ill 1878. Resolved 1st. Timi nn election bo hold at tho laoos horoinnflci' designated on Friday, thc 8th day of-Ootobor, 1878, for tho purpose of nominating candidates for the following offices, to wit: Two moinbors of tho Ilonac of Repre sentatives, Probate J migo, School Oommiaaioncr, Coroner, and thrco County Commissioners. Resolved f!d. That no candidato shall bc Voted for la said cleoMon. and, if voted for, such Votes ehall not bc counted, unless such candidato Shall, at tho limo of tho election, bo a nionihcr of somo club in county and pledge himself to Support tho nomin?os. Resolved 3d. That tho candidate or candidates, to tho number e?giblo to auy of said ofliccs, rc Cciving the highest number of Yotcs for such ellice, shall bc deemed and decinrod thc Demo tiratio nominee oi' nominees, as thc ease may be, for snob office Resolved 4th. For Ibo purposo of holding Buoh election tho various clubs shall meet at or near their regular place of meeting aud proceed to receive votes for candidates as proposed for tho various offices designated, tho club having previously elected three mentborg^wlio shall act ns managers of tho cleotion, and who shall luke an oath or obligation to conduct the election fairly to thc best of their ability, and that they bo authorized to administer tho obligation or oath to enoh other, aud shall keep a poll list of all porsons voting. Resolved 6th. That votes shall bc received from 8 o'clock A. M., until 4 o'clock P. M., When tho managers shall proceed to count tho votos and make a certificate of thc result. Resolved Gib. That ono of Ibo managers of tho cleotion nt each club or polling pince, chosen by tho other managers for that purpose, Bliall constitute thc county board of managers, and they shall meet on ?alnrday, tho 19th ?lay of Octobor? la tho court house at Wulhnlla, nt. 10 o'olook A, M., ami proceed to aggregate tho votes cast for tho various candidates at all tho polling planes in tho county and certify and publish thc result in thc county paper, and shall proceed to declare tho candidate or candidates, as tho oase may be, receiving tho highest number of votes Ibo Dcmocratio nominee tor such ollieo. Resolved 7th. That tho managers appointed to constitute thc county board of managers at Walhalla shall bring with them thc poll lists of tho votes cast at their polling places respect ively and deposit thom with tho President ol' thc county convention, to be by him filed with tho Secretary. Resolved 8lh. That all members of tho various clubs iii tho county shall volo nt thc primary election; and thc secretary of each club shall bavo tho roll of bis club at thc place of holding tho election, and all persons, not club members, upon joining thc clubs on thc dny of election, ehall bo allowed to vote Resolved 9th That, in case any club be here after organized in this county, and shall adopt tho constitution proscribed by thc .Slato Execu tive Committee, such club shall bc permitted to appoint managers and hold nu election under tho foregoing resolutions, sending up the result as herein prescribed. Resolved 10th. Thal in caso nny (wo candi dates for tho samo otlicc shall receive tho samo and highest number of votes at tho primary election for nny ollieo. thou another election id i ul I bo hold on tho Thursday following tho cleotion herein ordered to determine which of thc two shall receive the nomination for such office, under tho Kamo provisions as liercinboforo proscribod: Provided, That if either of the candidates so receiving thc sante and tho highest number of votes shall withdraw in favor of hi? opponent, thou no second election shall bc held. Resolved Wth. That in tho primary elections Ibis full, in addition lo thoofRoors to bc tilled by oleotion, as provided by law. thc Democratic voters of tho County shall vote for one person for tho offieo of Treasurer and ono person for ibn ofTioo of Auditor of tho County, and Ibo persons receiving thc highest number of votes for llicso olfices respectively shall bo thc nomi nees of the Democratic party of thisCounly for ?aid offices, ami shall be recommended accord ingly to the next Governor for appointment, Resolved Milt. That al tho primary election to bo held for Hie oilicca hereinbefore referred lo, tho voters of each of thc eight Townships shall oast their votes for ono person for Trial Justice of their respectivo Townships, and tho person receiving tho highest number of voles in bis Township for said oflioo shall bc entitled to n recommendation for such appointment to thc noxt Governor ns thc nominee ol' thc Democratic party for said olucc. -- . .. About Priutor?, I wish I wos a printor, I really do, indeed; It noctlis to me that printers Get overything they need . (Kxcepl inonoy.) They get tho largest and tho best Of everything that grows, Arjd get freo into circuses And othor kind of shows (Ry giving an equivalent.) Tho biggest bugs will speak to thom, No matter how thoy dress; A shabby coat is nothing, Jf thoy own n printing press (Polioy.) At ludios' fairs thoy'ro almost hugged, By protty girls, you know, That they will ornok up everything Tho ladies hovo to show (Bully.) And thus they got a blow out free, At evory porty feed, And tho reason is becnuso they write And othor peoplo rend (That's what's tho matter.) Thom RN Hamilton'* Sticccli at Jlnriiwoil. RE JIELATES HIS EXPERIENCE AS A RAD ICAL AND DEMOCRAT. ? ? Thomas Tlomilton, tho first colored man who identified himself with tho Wallace Hou80,wos, by8pooial invitation, on tho spea kers' stand, and ot the conclusion of Senator . Lipscomb's address, was loudly oallod for not only by the white portion of tho audi ence, but tho colored os well, and was iUrFoduepd by Pr. J>rtjguo os tho next spoakor. Iii? prcscnco? wu? greeted with tho most enthusiastic) applause. Ho began by soying tpat ho, too, wns n farmer, nod ho would, toercforo, direct his remarks especially to tho colored pcoplo, thc most of whom wer? engsged in thia occupation, ns ho was su)o they could better understand eaoh othor. He roforod to tho (nany efforts whioh; had been mado to hotter tho condition or* South Carolina by compromiso with tho 'Radical party, and said ho attended tho convention whioh nominated Tomlinson, ind did all lie could to eloot him, but without avail. Ho was also a member ol lim convention which nomiuatcd Green', nijd ho soconded his nomination in that body and .strove for his olection, butti second defeat followed, and at last ho carno to tho, conclusion that this was not tho court?o lo pursue, wheu ho joined tho Dcmooratio party, and ho was glad that ho now fouujl himself itt thc right boat, among friends. Ho stood here to day U3 a representativo of tho colored Democracy of South Carolioa -^froo to think, ppealr and act as he pleased -a blessing bestowed upou him by thc Domooratio party. Ln his county, Itu said, thc colored pcoplo had been deluded by base und destkniug men. The carpet bogers and scalu vags who oneo were wont to load them, knew thnt their only chance of success was by Stuffing thom with lies, and ho wag sorry to say that they had thus allowed themselves to bo imposed upon. They had been told they would bo put bank into slavery by tho Democrats. Thin was a lie. Thc men who told thom such things wcro liars and tho truth was not in thom. Thc colored pcoplo must make friends with the white pcoplo of thc South. They ntc our only friends, he said-friends in July, friends in August, friends in December, and will bo our friends until wc die. Tho Yankees wero only friends to thc black people when they had u voto to cast and would cast, it for them. Vi'li en thc colored people eenie to do this, tho Yankees will have no further uso for them and will do everything in their power to degrado them, lie was with thc Soulh ern men first, Inst und all thc time, because they hove stttok to him. Tho speaker hore took a silver goblet in one hand and u glass (umbh.r in thc other, held up thc goblet and said that in Wash ington, thc great centro of Radicalism, tho white Republican drank out of a silvoi oup like this, but if tho "nigger" got anything to drink ut all, ho drank it from a com mon glass, Uko tho one ho held in his hand. This waB thc equality they were to rcecivo from tho men who chimed lo have freed thom. "Freed tho colored people! What a lie! My friends, don't you liston to such stufJf ns that again." Ho said that after nil the colored people had dono for Hayes, he would not give them a rcprcsonUtivc in his Cabinet. And why? he asked. Because my friends, ho answered, Hayes don't consider you hio equals-never did and never will! Therefore, my friends, if any of you aro expecting to bc recognized by tho white Radicals os their equals, I tell you now, ouco for all, that you will be disappointed. My colored friends, he continued, 1 want every one of 'jou who is present herc to day to go home, recognizing tho faot that this country does not belong to you, that y<)U did liol fight for it ns did the white people, and bo satisfied thnt you havo equal rights before thc law. Bo oontont with this. If you will not, and want more, you will have to go to Africa for it; and when you get there you will lind flour S24 a barrol. Rut my opinion is that tho best pince for you is South Carolina, and thc best thing you can do is to stick to tho Domooratio party and tho white pcoplo of thc South, who are the only ones that will do to tia to. In roply to tho earnest request of several colored men, he spoke ot coutndcrnblo length nbout tho Wallace llonso. It was patriot ism that lcd him to join this body, duty to his Slato and his pcoplo. Thc Mackey If ouse said it wanted no compromiso with tho Democrats, so long as tho Yankee sol diers woro guarding it, and wiicn it was suggested that they compromise on half Democrats and half Republicans, thc Radi cals said they couldn't do tho necessary and usual emount of stonling with only haifa house. Rut, my friends, nio?d. of tho old ofoW havo loft u3 now, and it is not likoly they will como among us again soon. After giving a history of somo of thc crimes of whioh theso fellows havo boon tried and convicted, tho speaker said that Smalls was ono old soto Btill loft on tho, body poli tic, but ho stood no ohanoc whatever exoept in his own county, and vory little in that. If I, lin said liko Smalls, had boon convicted of a base orimo by n jury of my oountrymon, and six of that jury, too, colored men, I would not havo tho brass in my faco to go boforo tho pooplo and ask them to give mo tho highest olllco in their gift. Rut bia impudence known no bounds. My fiiends, in all probability you will not fcoo ino again in two years, but you will seo such mon as General Ilagood, Judge Aldrich and others of thnt class, and 1 beseech you to follow thom. They will look out for all your interests, and suffer none of your libortica to bo abridgod. Tnlk nbout suoh men whipping you, why haven't they overy chance to do so if they wished? Yes, thoy havo, but you know they don't want to do any such thing. Don't you listen to suoh men as Leslio, Fred Nix and others of their ilk. My friends, tho speak er exclaimed, talk about freedom, why if Governor Hampton himsolf wore ?Jo go to roy oountry (Afrioa") ho oould not ovon voto, imioli loss hold offioo, if ho did uot warry a colored woman. (Great applouso.) Hut hero you can voto, hold oflioo nod accumu late property without boihg disturbed. My friends, lie said, you may think I'm talking pretty plainly, and maybe sumo of you think I nm promised something for what I nm saying-but this is not so. I am tolling thc truth, and wish you to distinctly understand thut I am speaking from princi ple, uothitig else lint I want to ask you right boro whut hnvo any of you received from Leslie and Nix for supporting thom. (Gries of ?'nothiog!") Ah, my friends' you have answored correctly, and, my word for it, you will never receive anything from them, cither. j Tho speaker waa here interrupted by a colored man with tho query, us lo how much majority ho wanted tho colored pooplo of Barnwell Comity to givo Mr. Tillman. Ho replied that they must givo him every i vote in tho county, mid if they were not suilloiout to olcot him, thoy must briog in thc votes of 03 many other counties os possible. This remark was received with shouts ot "Wo'll do ii! We'll do it!" and the air was vent with deafening applause. With refcronoo to thc platforms of thc two parties in this Stnto, ho said that tho Republican platform did not contain a single principio which was not written in tho .Democratic platform, and that tho Re publicans had about as much intention of carrying out their plodgcs of honesty and reform ns ho bud of flying. It lins been said, my friends, that tho white pcoplo of South Carolina do not put us on au equal footing willi them. Well, now, I want to ask you how near the Yan kees have ever como to rcco?>nizing you OB their equ-ilo? Why, so far from it, thnt 1 know of Yankees who do not think n "nig ger" good enough to wait on their tables, much lesa taking him hy the hand. Hamilton hore inndu tho remarkable statement, that, in his opinion, Jefferson Davis was os much an instrument in freeing thc slaves ns Abraham Lincoln, und it was with tho greatest delight, ho Said, that ho gave utterance lo this opinion, for Davis was a Democrat of tho deepest dye, mid he wanted his raco to know what tho groat Dcuiocratio lenders had dono for them. Tho Yankees arc beginning to lind out that tho negroes will no longer bo duped by thom, and they arc afraid of tho power which is ihus placed in thc hands of thc South. And, my word for it, you will sec that they will bc tho first to try to tsko thc right to vote from you. Will yon nllow tbs'.' ("No! Nol" from a hundred or moro voices.) No, my friends, yon will not, I am Kure. But how can you prevent them? Tho only way is-and I speak it with sincerity-for us to clcot our host Southern white men to Congress, and they will guard us against any attempt to io en slave us or to lake ono parti?lo of tho liberty from us which wo now enjoy. If wc fail to do thin, junt as surely os tho sun rises the Yankees mill disfranchise you. 1 have only ouo objection to Governor Hampton, ho said, and thal is ho hus par doned so many Radical scoundrels, like Swails, Smalls, Oarpontor and G loaves, some of whom have gone down into his county and arc giving him moro trouble than all tho rest of the people in it. My friendo, I huvo boen read out of (ho Radical party for doing what 1 considered to ho my duty, nnd I rejoice that I have been removed from thc plague which threat ened to ruin mc, and plnecd in a ''land which flows with milk and honey." All I want is nu honent and cupablo government, und I will be sn'isfied without office. In conclusion, my fiionds, I. eartiostly urge you to tic yourselves to tho whito people, willi whom you have been raised, who know your needs, have all your interests at heart, will administer to nil your neces sities, and give you every ri?ht and privi lege to which you aro entitled. Hamilton then took his sent in the midst of cheers which could have been heard for moro than a mile, and received tho congrat ulation of many white and colored friends for his admirable effort. Another ol' thc Martyrs. How Du. TAYLOR, OP NBW YORK, MET UKATII IN NBW ORLEANS, A little over a tiiontli ogo, br. .T. Thous Taylor, a well to do and prosperous physi cian of this oity, but a native of'tho South, determined to offer his services to tho Howard A8sooiotion of Louisiana. Tho offor was noooptcd os promptly ns it was mado, and Dr. Toylor at onoo started for New Orleans. Sundoy afternoon, as an nounced in yesterday's dispatches, li0 fell a victim to tho yellow fevor. As did Dr. Kibbo, who died of the samo fevor only a few days beforo him, Dr. Taylor was a mar tyr to his sonso of duty. Hts lifo has been a singularly adventu rous one. Ho was a descendant of tho pioneer settlor in South Carolina, and tho first liou8o built in that Stato WUH emoted by his ancestor. It still stnnds, and is owned by a lady now visiting Now York. Sixty three yoara ago Dr. Taylor was born in Columbia, S. C., whero his father owned a large plantation, and gavo to his son an ndmirablo eduontioh. Whou ho was only 20 years of ago tho young man married a daughter of Major Morant, but his wife died soon after their marriage, leaving him ohildloss. From his homo iii South Carolina Dr. Taylor went to Philadelphia, whore hfl graduated with high honors ns a physician, When tho Seminole war broke out in Flori da his adventurous spirit lod him to thc field- Ho W(t8 attached it) a medical gapaoi ly to a cavalry regiment, cuni so high was 1 tho opinion entertained by hi? superiors of < Iiis professional ability, that after tho battle < ot Mansfield ho was placed in 0 li argo of all t tho wounded numbering probably 3,000 men, Tho confidence in his drill was not 1 tuisplaocd, mid ho acquitted himself so < efficiently as to win general and marked \ approval. i Not content with tho knowlogo of modi- r oioo gained in American sohools, and in 1 this aotivo practice, ho seized tho earliest r opportunity of visiting Europe, and lubored c Btcodily for some time iu the schools of I Englnud, France nnd Germany, "lie j .walked tho hospitals of Paris and London," > a brother physician, who knew him from t his boyhood, said, "as perseveringly as t though ho was hut u beginner instead of a man well advanced in Iiis profession. To i one of his high spirit ?nd restless tempera t mont suoh work was inexpressibly irksome, I but, with indomitable energy that always t distinguished him, ho laborod on and at length returned to his native land aphysioian u of rare skill, and a oulturcd, polished gen- ( tleman." ll o settled down upon the estate 1 that he had inherited from his fathor, and ? praotioed his profession Buocessfully. But t tho eombitivo and adventurous spirit that t had carried him into the Semin?lo contest 1 was still strong within him. Those wore c tho days when few gentleman, in the South, t nt all events, wero opposed to duelling, and i several timos tho young Dootor exehunged c shots on the "field of houor." By ono of 1 these contests, it is said, ho won hi? second t wife, thc beautiful Miss Hamilton, who wa3 1 horn in London, England, of Amerionn pareutfi. She was a celebrated belle in '! those days, and ot* a notable family. Of ? her two sisters, ono married Edward and 1 tho other Matthew Morgan, bankers iu thu t city. g Froui South Carolina Br. Taylor moved to Alabama, and then to Louisiana, whore he pntcticcd his profencion for some time, and purchased an estate. Ile had two children, n eon end dnughtcr, but when tho war of thc rebellion broke out, his patriot ? ism proved stronger than his homo tien, and he was one of the first medical men who offered their serviocs to the Confederate ' authorities. Ho pnssed honorably through t his socoud wir, and waa appoiuted Mcdioal Direotorof thc trans-Mississippi Department, on tho Staff of Gon. Kirby Smiih. When tho South, hard prosscd for places j to send ita sick and wounded to, turned thc State Seminary at Alexandria into a hospital, it was called Taylor Hospital, in honor of . the Doctor. At the opening of the war Dr. Taylor wns one of the richest mon in tho Southorn i States. Thc o)o3e of thc oontest found him, | like ninny thousands of his compatriots, utterly ruined. Ho was not, however, dispirited. There pcemcd no present hope t for tho South, so, philosophically accepting thc situation, he started for New York with v his wife and two children. He. hired an office in the. Now York Hotel and began to pruottoo. Business came to Min sdowly, but ?ic worked on bravely. Right years after he moved to Forty-seventh street, and t by that time his practice was targe. His j son ia at present studying medicine in New , York, nnd his daughter, a beautiful girl is , in Europe willi her mother. Two years ?go, when the yellow fever ^ was raging in S-?vaun;ih, Dr. Taylor offered ^ his services, but tho Relief Committee there waa fully cquippod, and thero was no need for him to go. r About five wooka ugo he called upon an intimate friend in this city und said: "I * think my duty lies cloarly before mo. I j om well acquainted with yellow fever, and it seems to me thnt I ought to go down to Now Orleans nnd do what I oan for the ' nick. Other doctors aro going, and their lives aro surely ns valuable to them ns mino [ is to mc. They have not enough physicians ^ down thero, and I oan givo them help. What should Ido?'' J' His friend, s strong minded mnn, placed , the groat danger of tho course ho pro posed strongly beforo him, but did not wholly try to dissuade him from carrying it out. Dr. Taylor had many years ago recovered from an attack of yellow fever, but F his friend cautioned him that this would not necessarily save him from contagion. u "Of course I know that," thc Doctor ~ said, "but I nm not afraid to die if I eau bc J of any sorvico, as I tniuk 1 can. It is not thc place, but tho m inner of my death that affects me, and if I must dio of yellow fever, contracted while trying to help others who nro nfiliotcd, 1 shall not shrink from it." His friend had nothing moro to say, but othors tried to persuade him not to go; thoy 8 dopictod tho horrors of New Orleans, and 1 othor plaguo stricken cities ol' tho South. ' Ile replied: ' "All plaoca that, tho oyo of heaven doth u visit aro to tho wiso mau ports and happy * havens." ' Ho had resolvod upon his course, and J despite all remonstrances ho quietly tundo | his preparations for departure. His wifo J1 nnd daughter were going to Europe, and it '.' was arranged that if tho Dootor Ciionped tho i' fever ho wos lo join thom in Paris ns soon ns possible. Ho Btortod from Now York for Now Orl -nna about four weeks ngo, paying v bia own faro and all expenses while thero. y His wifo and daughter sailed for Europo n two wooka later. ? Arrivod in Now Orloans, Dr. Taylor was sent nt, onoo lo Morgan City, und afterward 0 to Lngonda plantation. Ho was, ns usual, unremitting in his exertions to aid tho siok ond eufforing, but hu wes not permitted to sorvo them long. While nt Lagonda plan- j tfltion, ho wa..? himself .stricken down. His c fenner experience of tho disease warned t lim of Iiis danger, and Ito returned nt moo to New Orleans, whero ho arrived in Wednesday evening Inst utterly pros rated. His poworful oonstitutiou onablod him to ight off tho discaso for a short time, but he lid not writo to his family to say that ho vas Bick, and his 0011 was first opprinod of t by a paragraph in ono of tho New York ?cwspapors. flo nt once telegraphed to his "other asking if ho might go to New Orleans md nurse him. Tho reply, promptly ro icived, affords sumo iudtoatiou of tho man's ?eroio spirit: "I am recovering," ho telo ;raphcd. "I forbid you to como." That vos all; and those were thc last words that he son ever received from thc gallant gen loman. Ho was not recovoriug, and nono know t better than himself, but bia lim unsellish bought was that if his son hastened to his )edaidc he, too, might fall a viotiui to tho .erriblo disease. Tho dying mau rcccivod, of oourao, orory itteution from the medical faculty of New hinaus, and Urs. Choppin and JD. Warren ?riokell attended him unceasingly. On Sunday his eon, in New York, received a elcgram from Dr. Briokell, to tho offcot hat his father's CIRO was hopolosn, but that 10 was ontiroly conscious. Later in the ivoning the young mau received tho nows hat his fathor had died at il o'olook. At tl most preoisely the sumo hour thc steam ihlp that oarriod Mrs. and Miss Taylor to Europe lauded thom at Hnvre, where hey wore ot 01100 notified of tho doath of Dr. Taylor. Boforo going away from Now York, Dr. Taylor boarded nt tho Kitsoll House, 8!) md 91 Fifth avenue. His remains wore luried in Now Orleans yesterday, but when ho pestilence release!? that city from its ?rasp they aro to bc removed North. [New York Sun. 4wOV. J&.CC tO GtOY. iSURBiptOB). BOSTON, Octobor 2.-Gov. Rios declines 0 put Gov. Hampton's lotter, relativo to he K.i.upton matter, upon thc fi loa of thc Cxooutive Department, nud has forwarded he following communication: COMMON WE A HU OK MASSACHUSETTS, EXKCUTI VK DEPARTMENT, HOSTON, October 2, 1878. Iis Esoelleney Wado Hampton, Columbia, s. 0. ?IR: I reoeived, on Saturday lost, nn ox rr.ordiuary ofiicial communication addressed 0 mo, over your signature, thc conto?of rhioh I had rend tn tho newspapers thr&'j Iny3 before. 1 beg to remind your Excol enoy thnt any attempted rebuke of Mussn husetts by South Onrolina for non-observ noo of constitutional or statutory oblign ious is tho refinement of Baroosm, which enders any otlwr defence of tho former itnto unnecessary. The treatment^:J the use of ll ir? m H. Kimpton by the 'iv;, tho? ities of this Commonwealth waa uninflu noed by any personal or political corisido ittions. MnssaohusotlS hod no quarrel with ioUth Onrolina and no friendship for vinipton, but was bound t-> extend to each heir respective rights under the laws, livery courtesy, official and persona), was ?tended to tho representatives of South hirolina. Unusual care was best on cd upon heir investigation nod consideration of thc ase, and its decision was reached upon ?rounds of perfect impartiality, in accord noo with thc low and foots and with coll idions of public duty. In communicating the decision to your Oxcellriioy, my statement that thc object of ho requisitions did not appear tobo for thc ?urposo of trying Kimpton for ? crime barged ngninst him, but for 0 different .urposo, was a simple recital of facts co:i ainod in tho report bf tho Attorney loncrnl-a oopy of which was furnished rith my letter to you, and in his opinion nd mino clearly established hy the evi once. Your Excellency's letter req'Pires no rgutnent in reply. It is ?ufiiciont to say hat it contains stutomonts to mislead thc ublio whero thc faotn arc unknown. Its inguogo and untimely publication arc ffon&lVO Und Unjustifiable. I decline to cccpt it or permit it to be placed upon tho ICH of the Kxeeutivo Department of this lonunonwoalth. It ia herewith returned. Your oho lient ?ervaut, ALEXANDER H. RICE, Governor. WASHINGTON, October 1.-Coin mis loner Kaum bas received tho following rom ltovonuc agent Chapman, dated Stoles illo, N. C., September 80: "Captain A. C. Iryan Ins just roturncd from a raid in louth Mountain, where bc oapturcd and eourcd twonty-so-on packages of about ,000 gallons of whiskoy and brandy, two tillo, three caps, three still worms and ten mshcls of malt, and tl est royd -1,000 gal ona of mash and beer, and 100 gallons of JW winos. Ho waa fired upon and had ?pcoial Deputy Long'B horte killed. --. -. A clergyman was onco neut for in tho niddlo of tho hight by a lady tn his con ?rogntion. "Well, my good woman, so you TO very ill and require tho consolation of oligion?" said ho. "No," said tho old Indy} .I'm norvous and onn't sleep, and you il wayo put mo to sloop so nicely whon I go 0 ohuroh that I wont you to prcnoh to mo." Charity covers n multitudo of sins. If rouhavo nothing to givo a bunary man, you ian et least tell him how to mako n capital loofstcak pto. [Prow tho Atlanta (Qa.) Constitution, Oct. 8.] Tile Blague lia tlic Tulley. Before thc terrible Cover in driven from tiic land by tho aotion ot froat, tho mortality will doubtless exceed that of auy opidomio in thc cntiro hirtory of the country. Tho death list already exceeds eight thousand, nod n hot October would carry it to appalling ligures. Nor is this ni!. Tho area covered by tho disease is immense, cmbraciog somo of thc most productive and fuirent portions of tho country. But groat as tho mortality already it, and largo as the urea covered by the disoase is, the Mississippi valley embracos it nil. iSuoh utter desolation wns never be fore known in this country us now exists in neatly everytown from Cairo to Port Ends. A f?ense of insecurity, nn extromo dogroo o? nervous tension pmvails from us high up os Pittsburg down tu tho jetties nt tho river's mouth. Prom Cairo downwards com morco is prostrated, and from Unit o upwnrds it is partially pu ru ly zed. All are waiting for tho only thing that oan destroy the tropical poison, nod restoro health and prosperity to the valley-frost. Wo giro below on approxituato list of tho deaths that hud occulted up to last Tues day night. We give it to show how closely tho Gcourgo, widespread and virulent as it is, han olutig to tho great central volloy. With tho solo exception of A few straggling oases ut Mobile, not au indigenous oaeo bas ocjurrod outside of it. This is an astonish ing fact, ns tho following tablo plainly shows: Now Orleans, 2,810 Tangipahoa, La, 18 Memphis, 2,i'.l8 Osyka. Miss, 10 # Vicksburg, 701 Springville, Ky, 3 drenada, 279 Terry, Miss, 20 Port Gibson, ) 12 Erin, '?cnn, 2 Holly Springs, l?'5 Chattanooga, 26 . Greenville, 800 Near Patterson ville, Canton, Of) La, 18 Plnquomino, I.a, G? Decatur, Ala, 6 Brownsville, Tenn, 72 Summit, Miss, 2 Ocean Springs, Miss ?51 Tuscaloosa, Ala, 2 Hickman, Ky, 111 Helena, Ark, 1. Uaton Rouge, 40 Pittsburg, 1 St. Louis, 28 Murfroosboro, 1 Louisville, 38 Jackson, Miss, 8 Port Ends, 10 Mobile, Ala, ll Hake, Miss, 45 Blue Hidgc ?Springs, 1 Gallipolis und vioiu- Collierville, Tenn, 1 ity.v 19 Goodrich Landing, 1 isenatobia, Miss, 7 Heechlund, Miss, 7 Cincinnati, l l Holton, Miss, 1 Delhi, Ln, 23 Chicago, 1 Morgan City, La, 80 Howling Green, 2 Pilot Town, La, 4 Mason, Tenu, 1 Grand Juuotion, Ten 31 Cairo, 4 Labadicville, 80 Danville, Ky, 1 Hiloxi, Miss 1 Waler Vallcy.Miss, 16 Carmantown, Tonn, 12 Pass Christian, Miss 4 Washington, D C, fi Hay St Louis. Miss, 18 Nashville, ? Pn^cngouln, Miss, 1 Milan, Tenn, 2 Hopefield, Ark, 3 ['arts, Tenn, 13 Louisiana scattering 24 South Pass, 7 Marlin, Tenn, 10 Mississippi City, 2 . ? I'hilbodonux, Li, 13 Total, 7,1)7? I9onor to "IV ii vat ?i?diioi' is Due. rnK TKUE STOIIV or THE "Byt.t.ET?SiyWN OAK OF THE BLOODY ANUI.T.." Thc Abbeville Press and Manner, in noti slng (ion. McGowan's report of the battles of ;ho Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court llooso, says: Of all tho fierce struggles of tho war, fruit ul in glory and (earful in bloodshed, tliOSO kittles arc unsurpassed. "Th? Bloody An^le" then described hy lines of dcnth-doal ng fire stands out a unibuo picture in tho ?itflory of war, We arc informed that thc stump of the treo :ut down by 1115ria."rn ol'musket balls, refer rod to by Oen. McGowan, hus been uprooted, .cinoved to Washington, and is now on oxhi Ditton there at tho war department, lt was Unplayed nt thf Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia n-? a remnrknhlo evidence of bra? ?cry and endurance Of ooldiors in biittlo, It 5orlninly affords thc highost evidence possible >f tho intensity and duration of a musketry ire, and of tho devotion of tho soldiers who jould stand sholl 11 fire. But it must not ho forgotten that it was not tho Federals, but ho Confed?rate soldiers who received that ire. Tho tree stood within "tho Bloody Anglo," a few stops in tho rear of thc Oon 'OdoratOtrenches, and every ball which streck 16 was discharged from a Federal H?0, and pissed over tho "boys in gray" and struck bc tree in their roar. Ooh A. P. Buller, now tho h?nornhlo Sona :or from Aiken Oounty, Ihori commanded tho First South Carolina l?ogimonr, wns very icar tho Ir^c. witnessed tho whole process of "sealing," and sow it when ii fell upon nnd injured Borne cd' his men. The diameter of tho tree was measured by tho sword of Gen. Wilcox nnd found to ho twenty inches. Tho incident- is perfectly weil authenticated and is Liertuinly ono of tho most interesting in tho trin?is ol'war. There are many famous trees, but not ono that wo wot of-not tho Koral L>ak of England, nor tho Charter Oak of A morion, cnn vio in historical interest with tho bullet-sawn oak of thu Blondy Anglo. Let tho leodora! govornniotit give it an hort-? )rablo place among the spoils of that bloody ivar; lot it be preserved as proof of tho ter riflie power mid concentration of tho firing of thc Aorthorn soldiers. But it would lo a itrango rovoreion of the titlo to glory if tho jiorO?d and jagged stem of that snored treo diould bo regarded ns redounding to tho louor of tho Fodornls, instead of a signal iroof of Confed?ralo biVivory unmatched in .vnt-Hko story. Knowledge docs not compriso oil thut is sontaiiied in tho largo term of education. PhO footings aro to bo dioiplioed; tho poa lions oro to he restrained; truo and worthy notivos uro to ho inspired; a profound relL >ious feeling to bo instilled, and puro mor- / ?> ility inculcated under oil circumstances. x All this is comprised in education. - -??--.- ? - Ono pound of corn is equal, as food, to fuur pounds of potntoes, nod moro than tqual to cighf*pouiids of oabbngo, or twolvo ind a half pounds of turnip. Meat is not fattoning, bat muscle yiolding mid stvougth . ouiiig. Groins aro futtouing.