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Pass Under the Rod.
A BDY MRS. DANA.
I a *hngbiide, in her beauty.and pride,
Bedecked in her snowy array;
And the bright flush of joy mantled high on
hir 6heok,
And te future looked blooming and gay,
A1d w4lh woman's devotion she laid her fond
heart
'te thrine of Idolatrous love,
And she anchored her hopes to this perishing
earth,
By tho chain. which her tentlerness wove.
but I saw when those heartitrings were
bleeding and torn,
AnA (1echan had lbetin severed in two,
Sho had chauged her iaite robes for the
sables of grief,
And her.blooms for the paleness of woo!
But, the Healer wee there, pouring balm on
her heart,
Aud wiping the tears from hur eyos;
Ile strengthened the ohain he lad broken in
twain,
And fastened it firm to the okles!
There had whispered a voice-'twas the voice
of her God
'1 love thee, I love thee-pass under the rod!'
I saw Ayoung mother in tenderness bend
O'er*4o couch of her slumbering boy;
And she kissed the soft lips as they murmur
ed her name,
While the dreamer lay smiling in joy.
Oh! sweet as the rosebud encircled with dew,
When it8 fragrance is fiung on the air,
8o freeh ,and so bright to that mother ho
As he lay in his inndcence there.
Bunt I saw, when she gazed on the same lovely,
form,
Pale as marble, and silent and eold;
But parler and colder her beautiful boy;
And the'tale of her sorrow was told!
But the Healer was there, who had stricken
her heart,
And taken her treasure away;
.To allure her to heaven, he has placed it
on high,
And the mourner will sweetly obey.
The&s Kad *'ispered a voice-'twas the voice
Sof~ her God
'I love theep love ths*-pass under the rod!'
I saw a father and mother who leaned
On the arm of af4eag gifted son,
And the star in the Me~ro grow brjght to
their gaze,
As they saw the, proud plaeo he hadl won.
And. thg fest pig. evente of life promi8ed
fair,
And .jts gatJiWay grew smooth to their feet,
And th% hglt9o lbyd glimitiordd bright at the
thought,
And thew whispers of fancy were sweet.
And! s W themi again bending low o'er the
WIosAe their hearte' dearest hopes had been
lajd,
And-the star had gone down in the darkest
of night,
And the joy from their bosoms had fled.
But Lhd Healer was there, anud his arms were
around,
And he led them with tenderest care;
And'ha showed them a star in the bright
g,per world
; 'was their star shining brilliantly there!
Theyked eac,h heard a voice-'twas the voice
lof their G od-.
'I love t g I lo"uthoc--pass under the rod!'
0 ,cluo hats boon obtained rogard
iagtbo whereatbouts of the robbers of
tl?$,rain ot! the Union and Paciflo
U ealloo Ttesday last. Of the
n$aef dtioIeri,' 40,000 was consigned
t o1sli.argo & Co., Now York,
and420;OO to the Now York Nation
al.~ ,( Corgmgree. Ie money
at en riom the passeongoe Rg reg
t.e nnarly 22 OOOg
Daniel R. Chamberlain.
The New York Sun says that ex
Governor Chamberlain speaks the
truth when he says that the confession
of Niles G. Parker contains no now
charge of importance against him.
Parker's story of the transactions by
which a ring of rascals loaded South
Carolina with a fraudulent debt of
more than twenty million dollars has
a certain value, however, for ic cor
roborates the charges made before
he was Governor, and repeated with
some persistency during a period
covering several years. I1o had as
sumed the ro'c of a reformer, and
standing forth in a mantle of fraud
nlent honesty, he had the audacity
to to denounce the ring of carpet bag
thieves of -which he had been and'
still was the master spirit.
Like the other carpet baggers con
cerned in the wholesale -robbery of
the State, Daniel II. Chamberlain
lacked both money and principles
when he went a needy adventurer
from the North. Unliko his pals, lie
was a shrewd, clear headed and far
sighted man, with the manners of a
gentleman and the intellectual habits
of a scholar. Being incomparably
the ablest of the lot, he was by far the
most dangerous. ie soon mastei ed
the vulgar thieves around him, and
became the acknowledged brains of
the ring. W hen the history of events
in South Carolina for the ten years
tollowing the war is adequately
writton, the jluck, i Per'everaneo and
executive force of the New England
lawyer will command a certain kind
of admiration. cotwithstanding the
base uses to which he applied these
qualities.
It is not uf:cn that a man of Chain
berlain's brains writes himself down
a thief, even in confidlential commun
nications With his confederates, and
yet the following letter, Written by
him to Niles G. Parker during the
progi ces of the great bond steal un
der Scott's administration, fastens
this conclusion upon0! him:
"Sw.;r. 23, 1370.
"DCAn P.: Your's of the 21st caine
to me this evening. I was glad, in
deed, to hear from you, and especial
ly that the finances now promise to
weather the storm. I have no doubt
it was well to defer the 'statement'
until October.
"There is no special newvs her.
For a few days we have had fear's of
an outbreak in Laurens and Now,
berry, but we hear, yesterday, that
the danger is over.
"About the United States Seniator
ship, I don't know what to say. I.
know very well that it is, in every
way, better for mnc to remain wher'e
I am for' the rest of my term. Still,
I amn called a candidate alr'eady, and
my) position is just this: If' my friends
wish me to become a candidate, for
the sake of keeping the p)arty fromi
going over to negropholism, I will
stand; but, if no such need exists, I
should prefer to remain where I am.
What the chances are I have no
means of guessing now. I will serve
my fr'iends in any way in my power,
and especially you.
"Do the commnissions foot up) pre't,
t.y well? Ehl!!! ReI~gards to K
Youris faithfully, CH AMBERILAIN.
This is the famous document wich
Elliott produced in the R~epublicanm
Convention last year, and read that
port ion r'elating to "negropholismn,"
hoping to excito the negro moe'ubers
against the renomxination of Chamn
berlain, and by means of which lhe
forced Chlamberlalin to permit D)unn
andl himself to have places on the
ticket. Par'ker says that lhe sold thuis
letr and two others to Daun for'
$4,000. 'The "K." referred to just
after' the exulting alluiion to tile di
visiotn of spoils is Kim pton, Chiam
berlain's classmate ini college, anid
subsegnoently the agent chosen by
hiim tvosell and Lvuothecain in the
New York market the fraudulent
bonds issued by the million by the
Confederates at Columbia.
The Sun claims to have in its por:
sessiou a letter written by Chamber
lain to Kimpton im the early part of
the same year, and which affords
still stronger ovidonco of his guilt.
beveral of the thieves now under in
dictment for othor rimes had devis,
ed a colassal schemo for stealing tho
entire railroad svstetn of South Car-,
olhina. The handle which presented
itself most conveni0ntly was the
Greenville and Columbia R1ailroad.
While the details ot the jobs wore
under dis3cusasioi Clhaiberlain wroto
as followe to Kimpton in New York:
-'OFFICIC OF TI ATTORNEY GENERAL,
OLUTAS, C., January 5, 1870.
"My DEAR KIMrToN: Parker ar
rived last evening, and spoke of the
G. & 0. matter, &c. I told h im that
I had just written you fully on that
matter, and also about the old .B'k
Bill@.
"Do you understand fully the plan
of th e G. & C. cnterprise? It is pro.
posed to buy $350,000 worth of the
1. ,ith the *:433,
G. & 0. stock. This, wit Sthe $433,
000 of stock held by thd-St41o-vil
give entire control to us. The Lau
rens Branch will be sold in February
by decree of court, and will cost not
more than $50,000, and probably not
mor than $40,000. The Spartan
burg and Union can also be gut
without difficilty. We shall thlen
lave in G. & C. 168 miles, in Lau
Iens 31, and in S. & U. 70 miles-in
all 269 miles--equippod and runs
ing. Put a first mortgage of $20,
(00 on th is, sell the boids at Z0 or
90, and the balance ofter paying all
outlays for cost and repairs is ini
imnso, over $2,0000,000. There is i
mint of money in this-r01 I am a fool.
"iThen wo will soon compel the S.
(. R, R. to fall into our hands aid
complete the connection to Asheville,
N. C.
"TIhere is an indefinite verge for
expansion of power* before us.
"Writo me fully and tell mec of
anything you want doune. My last
lotter was very full.
"IIarrison shall be attended to at
once.
"I don't think iNeaglo will muake
any tronblo. Parker hates Neagle
and magnifies bis intentions.
Yours truly,
"D. HI. CHIAMBERULAIN."
That a shrewd man and a lawyer
permitted himself to put uplOnl paper
so clear a confession of villiany would
be almost incredible had we not that
confession in his own bandwriting.
Here is the Attorney General of the
State, paid to p)rotect the State's in
torost and to prosecute offenders
against the State's laws, conspirinig
to rob stockholders of their pr'operty,
(efraud the State of its dues, and en
ricb huimself and his confederates at
the expense of the taixpatyCr.Th
enormity of the proposition is shiowni
b)y the sequel. The "G-. &.(J." part
of thle "en terpriso" was subsequently
carried out. WV ith'out paying a1 dol
lar out of their own p)ocko&, K imp
ton, (representing Chamnberlaini) Car.
dozo, Niles G: P~arkei-,' Waterman,
Scott's brother- in-law, Hlonest John
Patteison, J. L. Neagle, ex-Comup
tiroller General, anid the notorious
Tim Hurley, got po5sCssson of the
p)roperty, and thien sold out to their
own great profit. It is a little cu-.
rio)us that Parker, who is now anxious
to turn Slate's evidence, fignres in,
this~ letter as3 applrehensivc that Nea
gle might turn traitor and betray the
prIecious crowv.
Two mon wore riding in the cars
the other morning, when one asked
the other if ho had a pleasanit place
of residence. 'Yos,' was the roply;
'we havo seven nice large rooms over
a store.' 'Over a store! I shouldn't
think that would be a quiet plaeo.'
'Oh! it is quiet enough. The folks
don't adventie.
Hayes and Morten.
CINCINKATI, Sept. 13.-The inter.
view at Richmond to day betweer
President Hayee and Sonator Mor,
ton was very affecting. When the
President and party arrived several
of the Senator's immediate house
hold wore in his room, conversing
and reading 'to him. After a short
interval the President alone was ad
mitted to the sick room. Upon his
entering Mrs. Morton and Governor
J3urbank retired, leaving the two to
converso in the presence of Dr.
Thompson alone. Tho President bo
came at onco deeply affected, and
advancing to tho beside tuok the
Sonator's hand in his and addressing
him in affectionate terms stooped
over and kiseed him on the forehead.
Mr. Morton addressed the President
by name and spoke his gratification
at seeing him there. The President
replied that not only had he been
very anxious for th1 Senator'a wel
fare during his ilinass, but he had
on Umd the feeling general throughout
tho country. Governor Morton said
he had indeed been near death's
door, but he now felt better, and be
lieved that he was on Ithe way to
recovery. "I now Oxpect," said ho,
"to take my teat in Congress in Do
cember next, and to warmly and
earnostly support your adminidtra
tion." The President seemed deeply
affected by this. Mr. Moiton con
tinud speaking in a hopeful strain,
referring to the condition of the
country at large. To the Presi.
dent's account of the cordial greet
ings lie bad received in bis recent
travels in New Eigland and the vi,
dences of returning prosperity tha
ho had seen, ho li;tened with e%i
dent interest. Thie Senator grow so
interested in the convorcation and
showed such signs of growing excIto
ment that Dr. Thompson osked thi-at
the interview be brought to a Close.
"Yes," replied the Presidunt, "it iN
better that I should go, and go at
once," and taking the Senator's hnand
he again kissed him and bowed him-,
self out of the room. The interview
lasted about fifteen minutes, and Dr.
Thompson, from whom the' ab)ove
account is gathered, says it was ex
tremnely sympathe:ic and cordial.
TLhie President remarked su bsequnmen t
ly that he had not expected to find
the Senator looking 6o well. 'I feel,'
said he, 'as though he will certainly
reeover and tako his placo in tihe
Senate.' After the departure of the
President's party Senator Morton
feil into a quiet sleep, nid it is be
lieve44 he will expecrience no ill offect
from the interview.
Lr'NDoN, S(ept. 20.-The T~imes,
ed(itor'ialy commenting on President
IIaye's Southern, tour, says: "in lit
tle more than half a year the Presi
dlent hnas enccoede in beating dlown
a comnpact mnass of pi-ejmd ices an d in
allay ing a host of confIlicting passions.
The visible triumph of his Iicy is
n1ow. being~ aLsured. Hoe he hasi this
week begun a jou riney through the
Southern States, wie b islinended to
shmow that the wyork of paific&Ljon is
not far from comlehtion. The V%de.
rail Giovern mont has no i ntentlion of
interfering in thne local adoministra
tion of the Southerni States; thme
Southern States have no deosiro to
disturb the groat achievowments of
the civil war wvhieb~ have been, eim
bodied in the~ constitutional amnend(
monuta. Th1e reumoval of the objects~
of contention mnakes it easy to re-es
tablish fr ienmdly r0 Otins between
people who respect each other, and
tihe sy mi thetice meet iin g of tihe lPro
sident andl General Ibannytonm is anm
otmen of the comning timio whenm the
North ahndl Sutth will uo lo~niger beu
1eparated by thme lines of (ilvision
which the civii wvar had traced."
"All trute educational cul ture is
reliugious3 cultue.-Josephm Alden
D.D..
[From'the NinetySi'x Quardian.]
The Last An64tnpIment.
In tho month of April, 1865, when
the closinst scones of tha great drama
of our civil war were being-onactod;
and the nation which- had known
snch a brief but beilliannt life was in
its death throes, Colonel Thomas, nlow
of the Carolina Mfilitary In1stitutu,
Professor Sams, now of the Spartatns
burg Iligh School, Professir Norris
flow practicilg law at Edgefield, (.
U., and Professor Patrick, n.v of
Greenvillo Hiohl School, were in
command of the cadets of the State
Military School, who, together wilt
a Company of recruits, had been
muolered into tho service of the 0on
federafo States, and were encamped
in Greenville.
Some time during the latter part
of the month, If wo aro rightly inl
formed, this conm-nand of one lin
dred and twonty youthful soldiers
struck tents and started for a hasty
march dowvn tho railroad toward
Columbita. Tho upper pai t of the
State wNs then beginnling to swarm11
with United States soldiers, and
when Coloi,el Thomas' command
reached the neighborhood of Wil
liarnston, while taking a rest of a few
minutes by the roadside, they were
charged upon and fired into by a
party of the enemy's cavalry. Taken
completely by surprise, and aroused
suddenly from sleep, it is nut to be
wondered that the boys vero thrown
into contusion, but a goodly number
of them quickly rallied and returned
the fire, unseating some of tho'horse.
men and repulsing the charge. They
then pressed on, marching at the
rate of about thirty milei a day, until
they reachod Ninety-Six. Oin arriv
ing hero, Some fellow, with a little
more temicrity than t4e rest, gave
expression to the Universal feeling
among them, that to contino luntrer
as an organized Confederate com.
mand wits not only uaeles$, but dan,
gerous. by,calling out from the ranks:
"Como, boys, let's go home;" wvhere-.
luon Coul. Thlomas gavo a sovere re
buke in the form of a stirring, patri
otic speech, and called upont all who
were willing to remain with him to
stop to the front, with the assuranico
that any w ho did not come forward
wvould be permitted to go home.
Unlike GideonU's army, they all, to a~
man, stood the test and stepped for.,
ward. Coul. Thomnas then) matched
them inito the woods on the south
sido0 of thte Kate F'owler' brancht, and
went into camp, on the very spot
whero the writor now livos, within
the incorporato limits of Nin ety-Six.
So far as wo know, this was the
last cencampmnent of organ ized C<m
federate soldiers this side of the Mis.
sissipi. .if so, to thte Stato Cadets and
the recruits connected with them bo0
longa the honor of having been the
hist co'nmad of t he Confederacy,
amnd to INinety Six was granted thte
privilege of furniishintg the last camnps
ng grounrd for this-9 gall mtt little
)a.nd.
Several of the citizensi urged (Cul.
Thomaflis to dlisbahnd the comn and anid
senid thoem htome, as it was 7medlss
task for hum n to continneti to hol thIem
together; but, soldier like, he waited
for orders. F ially, some t ime in1
May, perhaps a~ umnth idr more after
Genieral Lee's5 surrundor, Colonel
lThomtas became satisfied that all the
Conf'eeato au Ithtorit ies were either
capu tred or* across; t he M iss;is ii nd
that it was uitterly vini to wait longetr
for ord ers, Imarchecd hiis little com
uiandc t INew berry, and there dis
banded t hem.
.If any who many rendt inese lines
shuld hu :ow any fuInrthIter facts con
niected with t his suibject, or any facts
contradictory of' the stat emetnts here
in made, we would be very glhad to
have themn.
Sinice the above was written, we
learnt that Coul. TVhua di i e
tormino to disband until lie reachO
Newborry, and that he remained
there a day or two before doing so.
L. B.
OURATNESS IN A HOVL.-Gornoy
Studen is a wretched village it a
few huId red inhabitants, says the
London Times, the Turkish quarter
being on One hill and the Bulgarian
on the oppoijito height. The former
is deserted by its proprietors and the
houses havo been unroofud by sol
dicrs to get at the wooden rafters,
fuel being scaircO in northern BUl
garia. The only building remaining
in this part of tho village is occ11
pied by the Emperor of All the Ris,
sias. It is built of unburnt clay
bricks, and its low roof covered with'
rough tiles.. Cre inl this hovel the
Autocrat passes his days and nights,
aixiuwly awaiting ne%ws ficm his
various armies in the field. There is
no pomp surrounding this humble
JaL perial res{doce; two Ciras4ians
of the (u:trd with drawn sabres
were when I irst saw it all that stood
between thoCzar and the outsido
world. A sihort distance from the
houso is a large tent, where tiho Emi
perior dines at six with his staff and
invited guests. On the opposite side
of the little street or road is the tent
of Gen. Ignatieff.
The Louisville Courier Journal,
describing the manner in which the
appearance of Gov. Hampton was
greeted in that city, says: "The Pre
sident, as has been his custom, intro
duced most of the speakera himself,
and next brought forward Governor
Wado Hampton, whom he referred
to as a noble patriotic man. The
cnthusiaimn on Hampton's appear
aice was most intenso. It might be
said to have reached fover heat. It
was fearfully contagious. To the
observer it looked as if the crowd
intonded to keoli chooring him for
an honr. Oheer-aftor cheer rent tho
air', and again and again was it re
pecated. Until finally the crowd
must have become exhausted and
was compelled to quit. The gallant'
South Carolina Governor was over
whelmed by the exhibition of kind
ncss and even devation to hium. At
last ho was6 given, an opplortunity to
One of the gentloemon who wvelcomi%
ed the President to Chattanooga was
a colored clergyman who mado a
specch which contained mixed mieta
phors of a vo:y Burpriising c:haracter.
Mr. M~iilton), the preacher in question,
said: "Our country has gone through
long yours of anxiety, porplexity and
unrest, causing the groat body of the
nation, as it wore, to bleed at every
p)oro, her great hoart at timos to nears
ly suspend its pulsation, and the body
to dispair of life; but 'the stone which
the builders rejectod has become the
head of the corner.' T1hat stone, p.oI
ishe2d with divine exellence, took the
shape of an American su,n, andi roso
on the 4th of March last as the Chief
Executiuo of the nation, and began,
while yet just above the horizon, to
shed its rays over this vast domain.'"
A T1arboro (N. C.) negro. unde'r
trial for larcony, mado the following
argument in his own) defee: "Mister
Judge, I char 'fore God I never stole
not hi i' in my life, 'ceptoni' a pig-tail
at hog-killn' time from my ole muis
sia, when I was a boy, and Mister
JudAge, I shall never forgit my puust1
ishiment. She sowed dat pig tail to
my b)reecches behind, and wvhen comn
j)uny wVouIld comol she would make
mne come out and shako myself so
dat tail would switch, and Mister
Judge, I f elt so mnean and got so tired
of dat pig tail dat I unevor stolo nothin
sense. Dat's a fac." Hie got three
years in the State prison.
A St. Louis reviewer wroto ain ar
ticeo entitled "Martin Luther--,iet ot
Wrms,")57 and the compositor et it up,
"Martin Luthor died of wormn.