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" -:- e-a -4(en--3ne DEVOTIM to POLICS, MORAIATY, DUAO7 J RAL INTENEST OF THE 00NT yL. VI. - PICKENS, S 04TLU SDAY DECEMBER 21 1876. Uc! A Chrs*i0s Dunpling. Some folk there are with hearts so dead To homely Joy*, they are not good in Old Father Christmas' jolly ways, And laugh to scorn his beef andLpuddin Poor souls they cannot sympathies.... So long are they, so frozen-hearted With Eatherings round the Christmas board Of Eindred who have been long parted; Some by more distance, some, alas! By anger, till these Christmas meetingi, WhenO friends long tundered meet again W4th all the season's hallowed greetings, Not thus, do Johnson and his wife, Who've rubbed along twelve years in ma ciege, With only now and then a tiff, Old Christmas and his ways disparage. Jack welcomes christmas as a friend, A dear old mate both stanch and jolly, And Mrs. Johnson, in like vein, Crowns him with mistletoe and holly. So being both of kindred mind, In worst of times they save a little, That Father Christmas ne'er may be Defrauded of his dues a tittle. 4 For pies and puddings she is famed, While none can set a table.neater, And at toeir christmas boara all find Warm welcome, which makes viands sweet Now Johnson is a merry grig, And at unseasonable season Will sometimes have, as goes the phrase, nis joke, with neither ryhme nor reason. To *ttp'on Christmas Day last year Helped by his eldest daughter, Polly, Who gladly joins in all his plans, - He, harum-scarum, schemed this folly. Around the well,served rable sat Good company. at least a dozen. All deep absorbed, absorbing too, Whom with mock hope he tried to cozon. Quoth he. "My friends, don't eat. s" fast.". - . His face the while with laughter oruuipin "The keen edge off your appetite, Wait till you see our Christimas Dumpling." Iere Mrs. J. crie-1 out. irnte, "For shamel You know all's ott the table Good people, take of what. you see, And eat and drink while you are able. "A bird in hand's worth two in bush, N0 goes a good old fas "oned saying I say, worth twenty; so be prompi. And let there be no more delaying; "For while my itushat,. silly n%int Ifis hungry gitests would faiti he fuoliing By giving hopes he knows are vain, The pies and puddings all are cooling." Admonish thus, each one resumed The pleasant work of knife and forking, Amid the cheeiful clink ot plates And pop of bottled beer unuorkiug. Bit all good things come to a close, And Christmas tare is sadly cloying; So. gradually t he guests relaxed, With dainties at their leisure toying. When reached this period Johnson cried, "Now, friends, prepare to own your folly In not accepting miy advice: Bring in our Christmas Dumpling Polly! She in an instant fluttered out, Soon with a heavy load returning; Not, as they all haif hoped, halt feared, With p,udding huge in brandy burning. High on her shoulder Baby sat, With rigorous clutch her smooth hair crum ling, An infant Beecoher, holly-crowned-. So this, then, was the Christmnas Dumplinj She bore him to the restive heard, Where, epite of Mrs. J.'s entreaties, They gorged theinfant prodigy, And quickly sickened him with sweeties. The guests all in merry mood, As after-dinner--ti ne. befitting, Sotn'e laughed until they fairly cried,* Some felt as .hough their sides were split Irn From which this moral may be drawn-.. 4teserve your quips and cranks hereafter Until your listeners have dined, When sorrest jokes will waken laughter. BAXPTON'S INAUGURAL ADDRES CoLMunrA, Dec. 14, 1876. The inauguration of Go,. Hamrpto took place in front of the Car olin Hall this evening. The sqtisarei front of the Hall was densely parke by people of both races, and the fron, of' the houses covered wit.h Rpecta tor At.8:30 G~overrnor Hasmpton was es corted to the stand samid demonstra ions of great e.nthauains,n. The mem n bers of the Ger.or'al Assembly ocetI pied the space immediately surronna. ing the stand with the ec o wd in th rear. GAove,rnor [fampton theo rotn his iminugural address, E)f which th following is an ext ra*t: Gentlemen of the &enate and of ti llotue of Representatives : rt is with feeling of the psrofourndes solicitude that I aissuame the atrdutol du.ties and gralve r'eMposlHiie of E thL bigh position to whirlh the per plo ( 4 South Carolina have or lied me. It i armidi events uniprecedentLed 'n this re nublib that I take the Chair s Chi. Magistrate;of.this State. In a tine fai of profound peace, when no legal off- Ph cer had been resisted in the proper L discharge of his 'functions, we;have int witnessed a spectacle abborent to ev- cui ery patriotic heart, and fatal to Re% publican institutions--Fedoral troops Vf used-to promote the success of a po, litical party. Undismayed, though o shocked, by this gross violation of the Ge Constitution of the country, our peo- tt pie, ,ith a determination that no force tiu could subdue, no fiaud could defeat, "l kept steadily and peacefully in the ti path of duty, resolved to assert their i rights as Amerigan freemen at the ter ballot box, that great Court of final tle resos t, befoire which must be tried the Sti grave questioi n of the supremacy of grt the Constitution and the stability of 'is our constituency-of our institutions, of W hat the edict of the peop,e of South wl Carolina has been, you need not be at all told. It, has resounded throughout o the State, and it comes back to us tom every land where liberty is vens er crated declaring in tt nes that cannot As be iistaken-that standing on the AS constitution of our country we prol!b pose to obey its laws to perfection as fr its in us l a its peace and honor, e and to carry out, in good faith the ec pledge made by ue for reform and col honest government; we intend to eB prove to the world I he sincerity of our est declarations that the sole motive et a which inspired the gr,tud contest we the have no s uecesfully 11 made was not the h4 paltry ambition for party suiremacy; tc but the sacred hope tf redeeming our 011( State But it was sought to wrest tie the fruits of this victory by a gigantic fiaud and a h.se conslpiracy when the I mernberrs elect of the Genoral Assem bly repair,d to their places to take seats wien the sol.6--ry of the Feder, 1al e(r.-erinment confronted thii aid ir tleir vertificatels of election were ex.. re anined aid passed upon byi a corpor, frl1 al of the guard. It was amid these diU appalliiX scenes that t he members of Co t hi Gineral Assembly were called oi st to austutme their duties ats the repre 4t sentamives of a free State, and that tili Statu ono of the original 13, which th, won our independence and framed CE.! 0ur conlstitutlion. Debarred the free t exer*cise of their rights by the pres- , ence of an armed force, a legal quorum of the lower .11(ou0se fter placing on. record a pro)test, quietly withdrew ,from thle Capitol and prloc.eededI to or, g-imize that branch of the General As-b sembly, you Faave seen a minority' of this II"use usurp the .powers of the at - whole body; you have seen the major, W. ity obstructed from their Hall by er p threats of force; you have seen per- inig sons having no shadow of claim as' me )Lmbers, admitted t< seats as repre, inie senitativi 8, by the vote of men, who civ themselves were acting in direct vio, .nj] hation of the Co nstitution, and you ri( have seen the last crownling act of in sa fa,my, by which a candidate for the ei o.fice of' Governor, def'eatt,e by tho gpopullair vole, had himself declared el-Se ect.ed by his co-conspirators. I. is diue s mh p i.i .os a. he Cihiet M'lagi-traate of the co'mmwa wealtih, t Ii 1sla e 'o rec -rd 'sy solemm and in-~mc .n gulant pr.to--t agaiis- acts, which ' e S e ui .er as sub1versive u of i i be-rr ' b tad de3b Isrc! tv 4i 01ur forim < f gov- ls eriimnt31. u A ..ral mask~ is befose thie conuser-.i n i vat-v pas t, of s his Stare. They3 en' ,ji dj .:er d ma c si 0ni ear with a phatlorm ms S a" uJi ato, s. str iog, *0oI lier, tha lt i1They rec 'gmi.-d anid aicce1 te w o d fatt I The,10 pleaged thiesels e,- I 'a w s k .efsrm, .e.d ta' es abl sh Leno I e p i n. I effee i v e sy ste mi of p ubl11ic ed- cr) n'Ii. anmd the dechased 8solemni, ai euzta'a -f Sen hi Cjarolina, oi bh raice. , not h).1 ,nr es, should be alln. ' t.slk pr tec:edl in the 4' J j , y .e I .a e' er, es inl l : ighi i.'ow *'.-4s s'ted- hsv I hem TIo. I he134v if phl'dl .ees eu st and c ma~ii h Ie; andi I, Se ie,*''te i aIvye .f tj., (3s,oe'r.. wi ,ai& sa . a .r-, hold mii eelf' bosuid by lib t every dictate uA Ak nor. and vi g....j LI th, to nue 6verytffort 'to ilku(1 4gts redoettd Wil ifd -Wdees I. t bW how to all them r it f1ie tr'e erest of bot r.aces can *a Ile S -ed by cultivaiJg peace and ")ro ,ting pensperitramoag all cla Mur fellow-citi;g,s, I rely firiply the support of the tigen4bers,of the ne a .Aseubly i my, efforts to aij thoe loudable ends, and I st that all branches of thegovernt nt will unite cordially in this . p >tic work. It so uilted qnd work wit h resolute will and earmest de minhtifon we may hope soon tq pe dawn of a brighter day for our, te. God, in Uio inintite merc, L11t that it may comie .pevdily-ad' y He shower the richest bleseings I)tace and11 hapiless 1por our 4le people." At the chtie of the addresa tAo h it office was adminbistered bf' Ige T. J. Mackay, to iathpton Govei ne"r, and to W. D. 'Simits'41n1 Lienttenant Governor. The cro d lidiig incovered m hile the cere ney wits being perfirmed. The Lit in which Gen. Hampton wa" ted was wrapped in the national ur8, ad lie was borne on iit m1lders of a dmets men to his httl, oried b% the entire crowd. Sev 1,pr,0tninim gentlemen addressed Iu11ltitide from the friont of the ei Tie Congressional Cumittee mpying at prominent position on ot ihe balconie,. After which crowd dis-,ersed. [cw this Country Follovs Rome. [t is ofteli said that "history reioeat.. df." If, t hec efore, we i6h to 1 4.k wa d and see where our political ubles will probably end, we ought t to review the record oot events ring similar c -1mmnotions in ot he' mtries in the past. And it is a I i ment ary otn the balel effcrts Rad,calismi that the mid Pf ughtful Americans now nre toP t cond(itio r) Ifst affaira which ac panied the decline ?of thle Rouman puhetl) and fo reaihadow~ed t he rise paraillel betw"een < r own presemti tati,fn a'nd that o.f tlie R,iaan peo at t he time referr. ed to is shit n the f dIlowinig hislorical extract. a reader who shoauld QmitL to look the title-L-rd a Old Riumaw >rld -c uld nout well decide wheth the wirt 'tas speaking of Wash tonl r ot R one. We quote: -The imiperial d~eptisen was an vitable vequetnce to the uaa eny ot il war-the strfL ot parties, great itary Seneresses, and the emny-u as of' society itselt. It tollawed nraPy the enhver'sion oft the Con utioni by military leaders, .toe .king uip oft tbe power of the ate, and the endae,aments of a iiantt pasrty nud its leaders, I, ceisleit tactios andi~ demnargon asae when conspiacies and pr"o ipii1ons and genieral securti y runi e i at atroger goveru' ena d'e-ira TIA, c muntry was to.. vast to, be rusted to the gutida ice oh coniflic: - parties. CTer e wau an a buch mii*., c,mta a, irr .pt oistible, irresis-. le p Wer in thie ha da .. a vt ,.le ni. Safety and peace see tned pire t Ie tea glory a du gein--. so t hi aple acqeicecea mi the c 'anges tecm we i 'an ,na; t n:ey had an.iia thm;thy eveea haited t hem withi i' jov. Pat ietIs gave theumselve, to dec.patr; butt nmost in n wuere asedi w iih. he re'v..in iinn T'I,. oh the whole coutry was for Lce, n.d peaci could b: ee a red y by the ascenadancy oh a einigle o t 11hn., with absalhate andi unre ed .ia ay." in much t..r the simtilarit be Wee,. pre-sent polhtical sai nat ion and~ t .'f R.nne julst be fore tie celmaing the Emphe . A few tmore ex. racuts I depict thme dire resualt, toih ert aes o.f Ithe pe 'pie tha't c, lowed fall of the Reubhe. W ehum. e A'l ishill still eontinue 4116iher similar results $ball be 6 in ur cou t ry--ia t question a to be decide, by the American p ple..'Awd they mut decide it proty ty, and in a manner too plain to sAisii,aderstood (or a moment by I ldical enapiratore. . If. Democ and patriotic Republicans hesitate speak -or, to act becaue of their d lerend to the former unconstitutioi law, or because ot their fear of d torbine the p6ace and jeopardizi the biltinel Interests of the counti let them look at the probable alt native. If hiatory repeate itself, It set loi t hi Meet sentences: 'Romlian liberty was prostrat foiever. Tyrants, armed with abi lute and irretponsible power, r ul over the.empire; nor could their I rainy end but with.their lives. Nol sentimients and aspirations were r bunked The usual jealom3y of tyrai was awakened to every emancipati n1n n the people. 1hey W4 a1nsed with shows and spectaci bdt could not make their voices hem regarding public injuries. Th were absolutely in the hands of ir masters. One man reigned supi-eu His will was law; tLe Senate wias or his servant. It was treason to fi fault wit h any puhlic acts, and rev was nadnees. The world never s a moru rapid retr,grade in uni rights, or a greater prostration libertet;. Taxes wete imposed cording to the caprice of the G,#vei ent. Proviional (iovernlorti becal im,re rapaicions an(d criel. Jadl feared to decide against the Gover mnent. A vile example was prese ed to the people in their rulers. 'I emperuro squandered immense km in their private pleasures, and public opinion at delai,ce. W. became debassed from the infduen Ia cori up( and unblush illg. court. All lIOV spirits were crushed, a patiotismi became an imlp')tisibility. Tile humilatinIg onvic:ion was a tened upon claseus that liberty w extiiinuhed an~d tha~t they weret slaves of an irresponsiele pouwer.'' A Baby Show in Texas. cHIARACTEleTIce OP THlE YOUTHE coMPETIToRS. The San Antonio Herald says: "T baby showi Look place aLt the Pag<: on the Fair Grounds, and in the si onad story of' it, which, by the wv reminds one of the hurricane deck < steamboat, anid the number and v lence of tbe squalls did not go far diapel t,he illusion. In order to 4 courago Mr. Samuel Bonnett,, i provided the prise perambulat about nineteen babies had put in th appearance. These said babies, in goodness of their hearts, bad ai brought their mothers along, i thetse ladies seemed to take asi mi interest in t,he show as the bat themseolves. We supposo the bat brosught their mothers along to ku them out of m.ischief. Besides babies and the youing mothers, th~ were quite a number of ladies z gent.lemen present, who were notI bies, and had not been babies for so time, who came because they oi had been 'abies, and wished to fi out if' the human race was not do rioratinog. There were various styles of bat there. There was the serene, c< templjative baby, that quietly devol ed the Inndscape with its eyes. WI that kind of a baby grows up he I comies a heavy taxpayer and accurr lates real estato, arid is regarded, a just,iy, too, as highly respcctable. Theni there Was the disorderly bal that punches its mother in the no and snatches everybody who con near' it baldhbeaded, and is as disordel as au cage full of wildcat.. In aft< lite that stylo of baby climbs the I der of famet as a poilitician or as a d p)eraldo. There we not.ieed, . too, smilling baby. It made friends w pertant strangers twenty yards e taunt. 10 would take an e,.arhu I- to stop tha st% e of child from crow q ig. Whev that kind ofchild grows s w up he becomes popuar, and is elected h 0- justice of the peace or United States Ipt Senator, like Governor Coke. Then, be too, there was the hungry infant that be called for the bill of fare. When that Mis kind of child becomca fully developed, to mentally and musically, it becomes h conteniplative, joins the ministry, and a becomes t terror to spring chickens. Pl There were several otl?er styles of baby, but we can't devote so much ng space to such small fry. We have not gi 7, mentioned how the female babies se r- would turn out on account of the un. tl is certainty of the sex. There was some difficulty in ob- sh ed taining judge to pids on the infants. lo o- Whenever a gentleman was requested w ed to act as a judge he was singularly s y unaidmous In refusing to bring dowii of de on himself the wrath of the babies who e- might not get the perambulator. As its it was absolutely certain that, thtire would not be less than seventeen of r those enraged clcrubs, we do not blame them so much, after all. Be I' sides, these insulted little cubs have th rd mothers, fathers and other relatives. a ey No wonder there was a certain un on willingness to intrude. iie. At last five heroic men were found as 11y to act as judges- 11 ad The mothers seated themselves in a hi ult circle, with their infants on their laps, oi aw the judges made the rounds on tremb PC an ling limbs, gazed falteringly at each 01 infant, and then with blan,hed faces, Le- consulted hurriedly together, caist their ballots, looking over their should ere at the determined faces of the mot.hers, and then hurried dovn the stairs and out of the pagoda, and are by this time doubtless safe in some tu - country that has no extradition treaty bewith the United States. It wats un derstood that the awards would not set be called until thejudges had ton min. a " utes start. ar s We would like to make some ex- m - tended suggestions on' this tubject, tu Iud but spave prohibits. I we were one le - of thjudges, no matter how rounded A C- the limds of an infnt might be; n as matter how many dimples it sported t he on its chin; it might smile lhke a lady I with a new set of false teeth, and might be able toglay one of Beetk hoven 's immort,al synmphlonies on a piano besides, it wonld n)ever get Qur Un vote uniless its f ather made adfldavit that, he had never walked it, about at he night, and it was regular and deco,. of da~ rous in its behavior toward all the thi ac. members of the fariPly. That us the tit sy, style of baby that ought, to be encour p >f a aged. That's the kind of baby that tr4 io- deserves perambulators and mugs and to kind words in the papers. 1I, may t ha ve red hbir and speckled complex ho ion, but it is nevcrtheless the only ~ or, style of baby that Is really a wvell cir spring of joy to its parents and a credit the to the community. b)l iso* f nd Popping the Question 81n ch The siihject is toiniteresting to be l 'ies introduced by any saige remark.- ~ 108 and yet it is imnportaint. Somnetimes, '' op ~ . ma0 l:ny timues, a mnan's hiappiniess de pends onl his maniner ot jipopjpinig the said "No," becauise the qhIestion~ was meso worded that aftirmativo did niot . ic cme tromu thle muont h natuiirally, and i jud tw lives that gravitated to each re .1ther wvith all their in ward force, have been throwni suddenly apart, .J ie becase the electric keys were not C m-- properly touched. Another writer M ar- corroborates the statement. "Olten- in en timues," says lhe, "a girl says "No," h< >e- to an offer, when it is as plain as the fhu nose on her face she mneansa "Yes."- inl nd 1'he~ best way to jnd(ge whether she is in earnest or nout, is to look straigh' ),into her eyes, and never nmnd her i e'noes." There are some people that rnever "pop the question" but once. 'r- Tey are Cautious; they love withl) .l their whole hearte before they ask m e hat all imuipor tant question, and they b~ heo never love augain Others go through ith lite "popping" to every girl they are his fortunate enough to be introduced to, *N Jke and to be treated ciilye by ,: ..~ ~ver at.swere .aMa td ye 1untly, 4Wlt you OMa"I, is no tiste in ItI"ot r%qt rer courting a- hfnce ori r' ps a New York'c a.ch .t, ,g4 anl who carriud t.ecwlqetineigplot doie starting to cellect, pirts md in his potkea,"Si0 &M1 n"u shilling, as lie "IppOed, ' ate, and then pas"ed it,lroundag o congregation, -whichiw jote any yourig and T*etty 'kirls. 'I1Ti ris as they looked at th'e iafo, emed astomihlied and anusied t e young iian, taking a:glAnce at e plate, found tha-, in pLIcO of a 1111I)g, he had plt .a,'stvemaiMho genge on the iAte', with Ti Wim, V ill yon marry rvi b, letters irring everybody im the face. None the young ladies,Ahowever, chMed th the offor. A yonug gentleruai iniliar with ihe Scriptures, hapft4 to sit in a pow Vdj"ling A ;ojbng iy flor whom he cwiocr*d asialdt achment, m1ade his proposal i ai is way:-He pulilMy handed' er Bible open, wi h a pin situck ti th lowing text: 2d Episilu to Joht 5-"And I beseech thee, lad* not though I wrote a new ,c4>n -U Dnt unto thee, but that whi.ch w, d from the beginiing, that we 'o 0, c another." 1hs rettiurned Jt inting to the second chapter 09 tth, verse 10:-"Then she -fell ' b ir tace and bowod, herself Ito,itbw onnd, arid said unto him, wily he tound grace in thino oyes, that'hiW onld'st take knowled:e of mb, 600% g that I am a stratigei l" ie' r6 rned the h .k, poit ij rig to the1df )rse of the Third Epile to Joln-2 [laving many thiniga to write Unto In I %%ould ~not write with pape. id ink, but I trust to come untoyo4 id speak faico to tacei that our .joy ay be fill." From the-alove .*, rview a m1arriHg, took plawe in tbi .Iii'g monut ii the, same 44urebot lady wants to know, if alireach oL o)mise suit can be instituted openw e follo.wi:g proposai, ini writing:i' 'Argel! beneath Vhose fulded w'ing M'.y soul would rent, Be ine I for lo ! I've bought the ring, And all ihe rest )f the house treasures siid etceteras, Which every one who trjis his state to B3etter has." It is certainly a breach ofprorrse p 'erry, if niothiig else. "PZypip. e q uestion" i n Per u, is yer y .roIpage: . The suitor appeeas on thea *p-r uited evening, with a giily-dreet nubatd,;r, under' the balcony of bi. iloved. Theo singer steps: beforeb e fi .wer-be3deckedf winldow,-and 3gs of her beauties in the naine of ar lover. [le comp jar'es her Bite to at of a palm tree, her lipis to b*o oshing rosebuds, sud' her wotanly rm to that of' the dove. With ai med hanrshuness the lady asks her ver, "W ho nire you Uand what do mn want?" [He ans,wersi w ith ardent, ;afdenace. "The love I do adorF! ;e stars live i:n the harmony of loyg d n by shoul1d niot we, too, love ch ot herT" Then the proud beauty ves herself away; she takes her 'wer wreath treitn hier hair, throwe. down to1 her lover, proiiing to be e forever. >hn W itherspoon, at Society 1:il1, 8, ,was entirely destr'oyed by fIre om ondaty naight last--the work of anh condiary. It is supposed that tho >use wats first plundered and thben -ed. It was8 an entireo 1ose, as nothi. g could be saivel. A man in Talbot ton County, Ga. is a hog ten months old that weighs ur huandre.d pounds. A President who can name his ccessor at the point of the bayonet ay be said to transmit his power sharp practico. A party of gentiomen from the orth purpose to *tarte A vinegar' r orv ait A ngusta. Georgia.