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DEVOTRD TO POLITIO8, MOXALITY, BDUCATION AND T0 THE GENERAL INTEBEST OF THE OUNTRT. V,1 iLPICKENS, S. ., THURSDAY, APIL 12 17N. 6;_ N oL. -a I. -Tr SNTINEL is P R RH D ZV " At THURSDAY. Bi !). V. BRADLEt & CO. Te*M .f Subscription. One yeat . $1 60 six Monts............... 75 Advertising Rates. Advertletnents-Inserted at the rate of $1 00 per square, of (9) nine'lines, On Mess, for the iest lnettion, and 50 cents for each subse quent insertion. Centtaots inade for TItE, sIx or TWELVN moilths, on favorable terms. Advertisements not having the number of insertiopa iitrkiA on !peln, Will be published until foibild ind oharged iecordingly. These terms are so simple any child may understand them. Nine, lines is a square one ine'. In every instance we charge by the space occupied, as eight or ten lines can be made to occupy four or five squares, as the advertiser may wish, and is charged by the space. . " Advertisers will please state the num ber of.squares they wish their advertisements to make. Business men who advertise to be benefitted, will bear in mind that the SENTINEL has a large and increasing cir culation, and is taken by the very class of persons whose trade they desiie. Renewal of Gov. Hampton's Pledges. WASHINGTON, March 31. lo the President: Sir: The result of the conference to which you did me the honor to invite me has boon to leavo on my mind the conviction that you sincerely desiro to see a peaceful and just settlemont of the questions which aro distracting 4 our people and injuring so seriously the material interests of our Stato and I trust that you aro equally con vinced of my earnest wish to aid in ac complishing this happy ond. As I may not havo the pleasuro of seeing you again on this subject, it may bo proper to put before you, in tho fullest 4 and most definite form, the assurances given to you verbally. I repeat, therefore, that if the Federal troops are withdrawn from the State IIouso there shall be, on my part or that of my friends, no resort to violence to assertour lolaims, but that we shall look for their maintenance solely to such peaceful remedies as the con StItution and laws of the Stato pro. vide. I shall use all my authority to s repress the use or the exhib'ition of' force in the settlement of all disputed questions, and this authority shall be exercised in such a mavner that the peace shall be preserved. We only desire the establishment in our State of a government which will secure to every citizen, the lowest as well as the highest, black as well as white, full and equal prot4oction in the enjoyment of all h.is rights~ under the constitution of' the United States, No one can he more deeply impressed than myself with the imperative necessity of es, tablishing cordial relations bet ween tall classes and both races in South Carolina, for it is only by those moans that the true.and enduring welfare of the State can be secured; with the re cognition of the perfect equality of every eltizen before the law; with a just and impartial administration of the law; with a practical, secure ex. ercise of the right of suffrage; with a system of public education which will open the sources of knowledge to all clasipp, we may hope to see our State soo a ho oi'tion to which she is en titled. It was the patriotic hope to aid in the accomplishiment of those high aims that called me from my re.. tirement to become a candidate for the office of Governor of South Caro lina. It was through the confidence ci the people of that State that I would honestly and faithfully carry out, all these purposes that .L was ecd their Chief Magistrate, and I feel profound-. ly that peace can be surely preserved there-and prosperity- restored by as, suring our people that the right of "locaul self gcvern ment,'90o promi n the whole country, in~ to be promptly cArriod'ent as-the rule of your admin-. lstr,tilon, I ainticlpato the ready ful fillment of- the just anid reasonable hopes inspired by the annonement of the policy. you have unfolde<d-.. policy which found a responsivo echo in every patriotic heart as indicating apanpenn to admini;te. te gvr ment in the true spirit of the consti' tution. In conclusion, permit me to assure you that I feel the strongest confidence that the wise and patriotle policy announced in your inaugural will 0 soon as it takes shape in an tion, produce such fruits that the whole country will enjoy the bless ings of peace, prosperity and har mony. Thanking you, sir, for the courtesy you have extended to me, with my best wishes, I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, WADE HAMPTON, Governor of South Carolina. President Hayes' Order for the Re, moval of the Troops. WASHINGTON, April 3. Sir; Prior to my entering upon the duties of the Presidency, there bad been stationed, by order of my pre decessor, in the State House at Co lumbia, S. C., a detach inent of United States infantry. Finding them in that place, I have thought proper to delay a decision of the question of their removal until I could consider and determine whether the condition of affairs in that State is now such as to either require or justify the continued military occupation of the State House. In my opinion, there does not now exist in that State such domestic violence as is contemplated by tho constitution as the ground tipon which tihe military po% er of the national government may be in, voked for the defense of the S:ate. There arc, it is true, grave and so rions disputes as to the rights of certain claimants to the chief execu tive office of that. State, but thC3e are to be Bettled and determined not by the Executive of' the United States, but by such orderly and peaceable means ae may be provided by the colibi ution and laws ol the State. I feel assured that it) resort to vio lece is contemplated in any quarter, but that, on the contrarv, the (is putes in qiuest Ion are to be settled solely by such peaceful remedies as the constitutin1 and the laws of the State provide. Under these circum. stances, in thiis conifidesce, I deem it proper to take agtion in accordance with the p)riniciples announced when I entered upon the duties of the Pro sidenicy. You are, therefore, dir'ect.. ed to see that the proper' orders are issued for the removal of said troops fr'om t he State lluuse to their pre, viotus pIlace of encampment. R B. H AYES. To ion. GEo. W. MOCRAUa, Se~ cretary of War. W AR DEPARTM ENT, W ashington, D. C., A pril 3. Gen. WV. T. Sherman, Commandmng the United States Army. General: I en close herewith a copy of' a communication from the Pr'esi dent of the United States,. in whaich he directa that the detachiment of troops now stationed in the State House at CIolubia, S. C., be with drawn, and returned to their pre vious barracks or camnping groud. You are herebhy charged with the execution of this or'der', and wvill cause t he *vithdrawal of the tr'oops on Tuesday n'ot, the 10th of April, at 12 o'clock M. Very respccftlhly, Yo,ur obedlient se' vant, GEO. W. MlcCLtARIY, Secretary of War. Governor IIampJton has sent this letter to a little girl in Louisville, who wrote to ask him for his p boto graph: CoLUMBIA, Miarch 10, 1877. My Dear Little Fr'iend: It gives me pleasure to comply with your request, and you will find the photo graph enclosed. You ought to have sent me one of yourself, so that I could know the appearance of my correspondent, and I hope that you will do so yet. Very truly yours, wAm. rr fOi, HRLEN'S B&BIES. It was an enticing invitation from my only married sister, Helen Law-. rence, that moved me, Harry Burton salesman of white goods, bachelor, aged twenty eigLt, to spend my fort. night's vacation at Hillcrest. Tom Lawrence's cigars and claret and horses, a splendid flower garden, plenty of handsome girls, and unlim ited liesure for reading-these were the inducements offreed me. Inci dentally, as Tom and Helen were to be absent on a visit, I was just to keep an eye on the children who, I was assured, would not give me "the slightest trouble." Remembering Budge, the elder, as a boy of five, with a serious noble face and great, pure penetrating eyes, and Toddie as a happy little know*' nothing of three summers with a head of tangled yellow hair, I set out for Hillcrest without apprehension of im pending woe. At the end of the trip I hired -a hackman to drive me to Tom's. On the way our horses shied violently, and the driver exclaimed: "That was one of the 'imps'- Lat 'ittle cuss that scared the hoss,3. There he comes runnin'. Woader where t'other is We call 'em the 'imps,' cause they're so uncommon likely 'at mischief!" The offending youth was Budge in a very dirty sailor suit, and the other 'imp,' who bore down on us in a cloud raised by thursting a branch into the dust of the road was Toddie. 'They're my nephewsl' I gasped. The recognition wis mutual. 'You're uncle Harry,' said Budge, 'did you bring us anything?' 'Bring us anything?' echoed Tod die. 'I wish I could have brought you some big whippings,' said I severely. Get into this carriage.' In they climbed, each with a very dirty towel, knotted in the center. 'They're not towels,' explained Budige, 'they're dollies; we don't like buyed dollies; these is lovely.' 'I want to shee yours watch,' re plied Toddie, rolling mnto my lap, fol% lowed by Budge. Obediently I showed them the dial of my three hundred dollar time keeper. 'Want to shee wheels go wound,' said Toddie. .'No,' said I, fearful of dust. 'Want to shee wheels go wound,' repeated Todd ie, 'want to she wheels go wound.' 'I tell you I can't, Toddie; dust spoils watches.' . 'Want to shee the wheels go wound,' murmured Toddie again. A bruptly I pocketed the watch. rod die's jaws dropped; and he cried: the wheels-go wou-ound! 'Stop that noise this instant!' 'Yes-oo-----oo.--want to ahee-' 'Toddie, I've got some candy in' 'Wheels go woundi Ah-h-hl' 'Toddije, dear, don't cry so. Thee are some ladies.coming in a car riage." 'A h-h-h -h. Wan ts to shee Madly I snatched my watch from my pocket, opened the case, and ex. posed the works to VIGw. The pas sing carriage stopped; my name was called, and, looking up, I saw bright eyed, fair faced and smiling Miss Alice Mayton, a lady whom for about a year I had ad'>red from afar! The ease with which she greeted me, praised-actually praised! those dreadful, children; and let mec discov er that a bouquet from the Lawrence garden would be an acceptable ofier ing, coveted my confusion into de light. When .the carriage started again Toddie murmured: 'Uncken Hlawwy, does you love that lady?' '.No.,Toddie. of course not.' 'Then you's baddy man an'de Lord won't let you go to heaven if you don't love peoples.' You may believe I was glad to get those cbildren home and turn them over to the girl. At dinner they found fault with my blessing, and taught me the one their papa says.-. Then they condemned my version of Jonal, and Budge gave one certainly much more graphic. And finally, after requiring me to say my prayers first, that performance, too, was boldly criticised. Budge prayed with a face fit for an angel, and then Toddie closed his eyes, wriggled, breathed hard and at last began: 'Dee Lord not make me sho bad, an' besh mamma, an papa, an' Bud. gie, an' doppity (grandfather), an' both boggles (grandmothers), an' a' good people in dish house, an' every body else, an' my dolly. A-a-ment' 'Now give us candy,' said Budge, echoed by Toddie. I gave them the candy and escaped at last to the parlor, where I passed a delicious evening with my books. That night Toddie howled for his dolly like a young demon, and made me get up and find it for him; and next morning, before he wa6 fairly awake, I was appalled to hear him murmnri: "Want-to-sshee--wheolse--go -- wound.' At breakfast he remarkod: 'Uncken I1awwy, daysh an awfoo funny cLunt up taire-awfoo big chunt. I show it you after bepspup.' 'Toddie's a silly little boy,' said Budge 'he always says bepspup for brekbus (breakfast).' 'Ohl what does he mean by chunt, Budgu?' 'I guess he means truuk.' A direful thought struck mne. 1 rushed up stairs. Yes, he did mean trunk-myitrunk-open! emptied. A blacking box in my dress hat, and rolled up tightly in my dress coat, one of those dolls. But worse was to come. I made an exquisite bouquet for Miss Mayton and put it in a box which I sent to her by tihe coachman. To my surprise lie brought it back, and Toddie, shrieking with delight, snatched it and exclaimed: 'Oh, darsh my dolly's kadlet Some body put nasty ole flowers in it; I froed 'em out.' Opening the box he displayed that infernal doll. I viewed him so stern ly that he took refuge in sobs, wept plentifully on my shirt front, and murmured: 'I wantsh to love yon, and wantelh you to love me.' Who could resist? I petted and kissed him till he was consoled, and resumed hIls sovereignty, with the nfantile command. 'Kish my dolly' too.' I obeyed, but cl sed the interview abruptly, and wrote the best apology [ could frame to Miss Mayton. The next day was Sunday. In the morning those boys invaded my bed to 'fwolic' and 'wide horsie backen,' and I sadly learned how it was that my brother in law had grown so flat ehested. Ini the afternoon we tried the stories again, and Toddie told, with the moest spirited gestures, bow 'Dave, let ze sling go bang be gueen Bliaff's eyes, an' knocked him down dead, an Dave took Bliaff's sword an sworded Bhiaff's head off, Fau made it all bloggy, an Bliaff run a~way.' 'Then Toddie 'run away,' and got himself stung by a hornet, and rush ed in, sobbing: 'Want to be wocked. Want shing 'Toddie boy, one day.'' And I had to rock him and sing, line after 11ine, after Budge, some ab su red littte doggered about a basket, beginning: 'Where is my little bastik gone?' Said Tode boy, one day. When ho was nothnad,6. th anchl dren beguiled me out to a treacher% one muddy brookside, In search of 'jacks in the pulpit;' Toddie tumbled in, and so did Budge, and in pulling them out I was most horribly spat.. tered. Hurrying home, a carriage overtook as with ladies In it. Could It bet-of course It wasl-Miss May ton hersell 'You seem to have been having a real good time together,'said she as the carriage passed. 'Remember you are all going to call on me to morrow afternoon.' And we did, Toddie bearing an expiatory bouquet. The children raced off to watch a grasseutter, and I sat down to a delightful chat with Miss Mayton. Men were scarce among the summer boarders at Hill crest, and somehow the piazagradu ally filled with the ladies of the house Suddenly a shriek arose from the lawn; Toddie had pinched his fingers in the little wheels of the cuttergrass, and rushed np to me sobbing: 'Sing Toddie, boy, one day.' My blood seemed to freeze, but when Budge explained that 'he al ways wants that song when lie's hurt, all the ladies urged me and I wrath fully picked Toddie tip and hummed the detested air. But the little ty rant was not satisfied, and sucessively required me to 'sit in a wockin chair' to 'sling the words,' and to 'sing loud er,' till at last, before that audience and her, I was obliged to sing that dreadful doggered, line for line, as Budge repeated it. My teeth were set, my brow grew clammy. At last I heard some one whisper: 'See how he loves himl Poor man, he's in perfect agony over the little fellow.' But the agony was a preludo to a most unexpected rapture. An ap. prehensively accepted invitation to dinner, where Toddie tilted his soup over Miss Mayton's dress, led to a twilight tete-a--tete, which Budge in, terrupted by informing the lady; 'Uncle Harry spects yon Miss Mayton This little rascal had, that very morning, demanded to know whether| I didn't 'love' Miss May ton, and ac cepted with Baspicion my assurance that I 'respected' her very highly. Now, before I could stop him, he continued: 'Oily what he calls spect, I calls love.' 23 There was an awkward pause-| something must be done. t 'Miss Mayton,' said I, 'Budge is a I marplot, but a truthful interpreter.|I 'Whben I loves anybody,' observed|I Budge, 'I kisses them." Miss May ton gave a start. She did not speak; she was not angry. Could | it be that? I acted on Budges sug-| gestion, once, twice. Sheiraised her head and I saw that Alice Mayton e had surrendered at discretion. Then | Budge and Toddie camne in for a share |I of the kisses; two or three ladies ap.. p)eared, and I calmly said:| 'Come, boys. Then I'll calh with | the carriage at three to morrow,|t Mies Mayton. Good evening. I shall not tell you what I thought| or did during that interval, except 1 that I bought my angelic nephews| everything they wanted, beginnuing< with candy and eniding with a goat and goat carriage. No'-r shall I say a word about my ride with Miss Mayton, except that it was interrup)t. ed by a runaway goat and two boo% hooing boys; and that night Budge pray ed: 'Dear Lord, bless just lots that lovely, lovely lady thbat comforted me after the goat was had to me. The next daiy was wet and those child ren led me a terrible life. Their only real comfort was Jonah, or rath er the'whay-al,' a picture ot which IT1oddie tenderly carressed, mururing: 'Dee old whay%al, I loves you. I finks twas weal mean in Djanah to get froed up when you badn't.,nofflvr else to eat, poor old whay-al., And Toddie amused himself for some time with a big box for a wha4 and a dead mouse for a Jonah, till a mishap occurred when he mournfaty announced by sayings 'Djonah bwoke he toy-sl? The next morning I got a letter from Helen, inclosing one to her from Alice Mayton, from which I learned that I might attribute the sudden success of my suit to Miss Mayton's 'seeing that a man who could be se lovable with thoughtlesw nand unreas. onable children must be perfectly adorable to the woman he loved.' I have not time to tell you how Budge revealed to stately Mrs. Mays ton the relations substituting between ber 'little girl' and his 'Uncle Harry' )r how that awful Toddie disclosed Dur secret to the ladies of Miss May. ton's acquaintance by solemnly de ,lariig some 'lines to Alice' he had heard me rehear'sing in the garden, :r how the same Toddie swallowed a whole bottoo full' of paragorid, and was hurried to the apothecary's witi uch wholesome results that he re, p)orted to his brother: 'Btidgie, down to the villiage I was a whay-al. I didn't froe up Djonah but I froed tip a whole floor full of tivver flings.' Tom and Helen camhome in due time, and at lunch that day toasts were drunk to 'Her' and to 'the make .rs up of the match--Budge and Toddiel' And Alice insists that when a certain ceremony takes plAce they shall officiate as grooinsmen, nor have I the slightest doubt that she will carry Ler point. WASHINGTON, March 80.-Through the whole of to day, crowds of men stood around the pavement in tront of Willaid't waiting to cateh a glimpse of Governor Hampton. Chambore lain, who has been here all the week, ,omos and goes without any one knowing or oaring who he is. The sontrast between the respect and at.. ention paid to the two is very mark' ad. The instant that Gov. Hampton Ippears in public people rush up and surround him. Two of the most en erprising livery stable keepers of Washington sent to the hotel to day hbe handsomest turn outs in their istablishments, and placed them at lovernor ilampton's disposal.. Gov. Elampton could not ride in both oaw. -iages at once, and the rivalry om ho subject between the two stable teepers as to who should have him >ecaIme so intense that it ended in Isticuffs, which were only suspended >y the interference of the police. Among those who have miet yromi nently r.epresented Governor Elamnpton and his cause at the nation dl capital, Judge T. J. Mackey itands p)re-emninent. A Republican, uialterably, in his political faith, and iolding his alliance sacred with the ational Republican party, as repre ~ented by President Ib'yes, as the lecessary agent to lift his people up - o a highier plane of civilation, he ikv ocates H ampton and borne role witLh a zeal and sagacity which have nade the cause of Governor Hanp. on a household word throughout the :ountry.-National Repulican. The soldiers at the United States Arsenal, Summerville, bad a pet monkey. It concluded to fire a sa.. late with one of the cannon, and touched fire to the fuse of a loaded ano. It didn't go off immediately, aund it rani and peeped into the mouth to see what was the matter. At this juncture it went off-so did the monkey. Fornado Wood wants it nnder stood'that he is not a candidate for, Speaker, and he thinks Mr-, Randall will be chosen without much diflieuh tv.