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^ 1^1 j| ^j|jj^ j^|n |^| ^ S^WM to ^j^nltor^" Ijoriiqulliirc, Domestic Oh'tinoniii, ^PolHi^and tlty (furrtnt ^(tffis of JJtt gag. ^ ' ' SPICY CONGRESSIONAL DEBATEMr. Sherman (Ohio) said he was surprised at tho objection to the decision of the electoral tribunal. It was constituted by the votes of the very gentlemen who now objected to its finding. The Senators objecting knew when they voted for the bill organizing the commission that these very questions of takiug evidence were to be submitted to it, and they were iu honor bouud by its decisions. These objcctious now from the other side of tho chamber wore insulting to the tribunal and insulting to those who sustained its decision. He further declared that the docisiou of the tribunal was right. A good deal had been 3*14- about fraud,-fraud, fraud and'perjury, t :< amf Republicans wufe looked .upon and pointed at as upholders of fraud. Suppose Congress could go behiud these returns, it would bud iraud, murder and violence ou the part of the Democrats. The Louisiana ^ returning bonrd might he imprisoned; the P members might be arrested; they might be driven to their graves, but they had simply obeyed the laws, aud Congress had no power, thank God, to revcrso the decision of the commission, aud ho asked if these pure and honorable men were to be assailed throughout the land by libellers and assassins? Mr. Wallace said: The Senator from Ohio (Mr. Sherman) says no lawyer asserted the right to go behind the returns, but the record shows that he himself said that ^hia bilKgave that right when he resisted its passage, and two of the commission? Messrs. Morton aud Garfield?in the debate opposed the bill because it gave that right. This ia sound law, aud the Republican party cannot now say the facts are not na wvn cfntn tliam f!rAcc nnil nolnnlilo fVimilu UO n V OCClll/ IIU'UI. VJ I VOC UIIU *a*?uv?w> on the people of Louisiana, and through them on the American people, have been given voice and power to proclaim a lie, to nullify truth, and to reverse the will of a majority of that people. The broad offer to prove falsehood and forgei-y in the destruction of 10,000 lawful votes was rejected, and bciug rejected, the truth of the facts alleged cannot be denied; and this brings us to face the astounding legal declaration that the equities whieh ought to accompany the povfer of the of the whole people-, the vitality ,wfci#Hr!?verj government possesses for i*a own preservationagainst force and fraud, and the morality whieh pertains to every just system of laws, are utterly wanting in ours. The people will uot respect a decision that refuses to hear the truth ; that endorses falsehood, sustains forgery and places the Federal government at the mercy of the base.? They will and they should agitate for its reversal. The result before us is fitly reached. It is the decree of party, wrung by party fealty 0 A. * I 1 1.. 1 ~ 1 irum ujuuiciai inuuuai upsu a pureij icgai question. May we never look upon its like again. If the returns certified by an executive whose only title to his place is the Federal bayonet are to be the couclu*ivo proof of the title to the Presidency, then a government of law is supplanted by one of force and fraud. Mr. Sargent (California) said frauds had been committed in Louisiana by the Democrats, and it was by such means that they expected to seize the Presidency. It was by such means that a few days ago au assassin attempted it^ the State House of Louisiana to take the lif" of the man whom more than one-half of the people of the State had elected Governor. [Laughter on the Democratic side.] Mr. Sargcnt(looking towards Mr. Withers, of Virginia,) said the Senator might laugh at that fact. Did the Senator laugh at the fact that one of his party papers in this city yesterday couuscled the assassination of Gov. Ilayes? Mr. Withers?No; I do not laugh at . ^ . that. Mr. Sargent?Docs the Senator laugh at the fact that his party is responsible for the assassination of President Lincoln ? Does ithe Senator dony that ? k Mr. Withers?Yes, sir ; I deny it fairly " and squarely. Mr. Sargent, resuming, said the Deino.cratic party was stained all over with the criiac of assassination. It had assassinated from the best man God had ever created, Abraham Lincoln, down to the poorest negro in Mississippi. Mr. Withers (Va.) said before replying to the tirade of the Senator from California i he desired to state that he supported tb*? bill for the creation of the electoral"'64tft* mission, in the hopo that the members drawn from the judicial department of the government would give the subject a fair judicial consideration, but lie was mistaken. This decision had demonstrated the fact that the members of tho Supreme Court, the highest tribunal in the land, would not riso above party any more than fcn/ninced politicians. This dcoisiou that Congress could not inquire into fraud in the electoral ote of a State, was asserting a doctrine of Stat# sovereignly never ndvocatcd by its wildest adherents, lie then alluded to the charges uiadc by the Senators froui California (Mr. Sargent) aud from Ohio (Mr. Sherman) that the Democratic party was responsible for all wrongs committed, nud said three-fourths of the violeuce in the South bad been iustigated aud brought about by the Republican party. Mr. Uoutwcll said he was disappointed that the judgment of eight nicu had not been taken as a better evideuce of the justice of the conclusion reached than the dissenting opinions of seven other men. He believed the people of this country would accept the judgment of tho commission, aud that the Supreme Court would lose nu prestige by the action of its members. Dissemination op Diseases at Funerals.?There is not wanting cases either iu this country or Europe to prove the duugcr of dissseminatiug contagious diseases at fuuerals. Not loug siucc the Suffolk District Medical Society made some inquiries in reference to this question of dissemination in connection with paticuts dying of dipchcria, aud elicited some very interesting aud suggestive facts. Tho result was the passage of a recommendation to the effect that funerals of persons who had died of that disease should be private. We are pleased to notice that the Health Board of this city have issued a circular not ouly advising against public or church fuuerals of persous dying of diptheria but of scarlet fever, measles aud whooping cough. There does not seem to be any good reason why our health authorities should not ouiy actually forbid such funerals to be held in such places, but that the family of the deceased should be compelled to publish, with the announcement of the death, the particular contagious disease of which the patieuf had died, so that there should be the least nnssihlo dimrpflr with ch-inllv nrivot.i I'linni-. i O" """ "v"v 1" * ' "VV- <uuv> als. We have iu mind a whole family of children which was sacrificed to acarlet fever by a ueglect of this precaution, besides many scattered cases. Such, however, arc so much more the rule than the excepting that it becomes almost criminal not to give a suitable warning in advance. In this connection it would be well to consider tho possibility of restricting the transportation of the budies of children dying of these diseases to hearses, rather than permitting the use of carriages for fchat purposp.?New York Medical Itecord. . Blackberry Jam.?Yesterday morning, while a little colored chimney-sweep was eugaged in sweeping ouc of the chimneys at the Citadel, iu the left wing, over the Battery Barracks, he became fastened in the chimney, aud found it impossible to extricate himself. The cries of the little fellow attracted the attention of the soldiers, who endeavored to- release him by means of ropes ; but, after several efforts, it was fouud impossible to move hiui from his perilous position cither by hauliug down or pulling up, aud, before the youngster was brought to light again, ten feet of the chimney had to be torn down. lie was almost suffocated when released from his iuiprisoumcnt, and has struck for higher wages ?News and Courier. Tub Electric Plant of Nicaragua. ?A plant, supposed to be new, has been found in .Nicaragua, which, if what is said of it be true, it is a great vegetable curiosity. It has been named "Phytolacca Klectrica." It is said to possess very pronounced electro-magnetic properties. The hand is sensibly benumbed upon touching the shrub, and the magnetic influence is felt at a distance of seven or eight feet. The uiaguetic needle is sensibly perturbated, bocouiing more and more so until it reaches the centre of the shrub, when the disturbance is transformed into a very rapid gyratory movement. The intei sity of the phcnouicuon varies with the hours of the day, and at night it is hardly perceptible. It attains its maximun about 2 P. M. In stormy weather tho energy of the action is augmented. No insects or birds havo been seen on the shrub. Cold Water on His Eloquence.? "Amelia, for tbcc?yes, at thy commatiic! I'd tear this eternal firmnncnt into a thousand fragments?I'd gather the stars ouc by one as they tumble from the regions of ethereal space and put them in uiy trowsors pockets: I'd pluck the sun?that oriental goa 01 any mat traverses the bluo arch ot hii^vca iu such majestic splendor?I'd tear him from the sky and quench its bright effuigonce in the fountain of my eternal love for thee I" Col. Sellers.? Raymond, the actor, is in Washington, playing to full houses, raking in several hundred dollars nightly.? Iu the lawsuit scene he has introduced a new thing. When asked if he knows the defendant, ho straightens himself up with an emphatic "I decline to answer." This brings down the house. The question is pressed, and he uppeals to the court, "Am I vassal or a peer i" ??>' , n,?n imagine the >1 scene.? WashLetter. THE HEEL OF THE DYIHO TYRANT Whcu the Potomac boats pass Ml. Vernon, even at this late day, when every vestige of el republican government and American liberty t< is gone, they toll a requiem to the memory ti of the immortal Washington; but it remains oi for the "drunken Galena tanner" to forbid it frceboru American citizens in South Caro- ft liua from au innocent display of their patri- w otism on the 22d of February, 1S77. Last p night the gallaut Col. Black, a gentleman k aud a patriot, who fought for "the old tl flag," nud who is here amoug us merely as b? a louKor cu lu Vienna, in au otnoial way, at received orders, dictated by the dying dog, ot and instigated by the carpet-bag pretender from Mnssach usctts, at present in our midst, hi whichM note to 'Japt. Hugh S. Thompson, of the a militia: ci Post op Columbia. w Columbia, S. C., February 20, 1877. fc Capt. Tiiovipsoii Columbia, S- C.?Dear in Sir : I have the houor to uotify you that lit I have this day been dirccted^by the liou- to orable Secretary of War to iuform you that bt his Excellency the President of the United tli States directs me to uotify you that the mem- ac bcrs of the so-called rifle clubs, who, under st his proclamation of the 17th of'October last, were instructed to disband, will not be bt permitted to make nny demonstration or so parade on the 22d instaut, as is said to be tli contemplated; and it is hoped you will give ,lj a cheerful obcdieuce to this order, and no- U tify the members of your club, or company, tit thereof, in order to prevent a parade tak- II iug place. My orders require me to see that no such fe parade takes place. o\ I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient ac servant, H. M. Black, Si Licuteuaut Colouel 18th Infantry, Com- w mandiug Post. * la The above is but a fittinsr seauel to the tli c wretched fraud which has been perpetrated la upou the American people within the last cc few days?a fraud which will go further to- e\ wards destroying the great republic, and J) all that there was gppd in it, than a thou- si sand rebellions (as they were termed) by tr the Southern people. si< In consequence of the above order Gov. fc Hampton has issued the following patriotic, 4A proclamation : at . State of South Carolina, fa ExecutiveCuamiikii, ca Columbia, Feb. 2u, 1877. Ilis Excellency the President of the ui United States having ordered that the white hi militia companies of this State should not ct parade on the 22d iustaut, to celebrate Si Washington's birthday; in deference to the cr office he holds, I hereby call upon these or- pi 'ganizations to postpone to some future day fa this manifestation of their respect to the if memory of that illustrious President, whess ui highest ambition it was us it was his chief pi glory, to observe the constitution and obey lc the laws of hir country. ol If the arbitrary commands of a Chief Executive, who has not sought to emulate fa the virtues of Washington, deprivo the w citizens of this State of t he privilege P? of joining publicly in paying reverence to that day, so sacred to every Auier- P' ican patriot, we can at least show by our ei obedience to constituted authority, however 4,i arbitrarily exercised, that we arc not un- h; worthy to be the couutryuicn of Washington. P' Wo must, therefore, remit to some auspi- to cious period, which I trust is not far distant, ji tho cxerciso of our right to commemorate ci the civic virtues of that unsullied character, v< who wielded his sword only to found and P1 perpetuato that American constitutional c< liberty which is now deuied to the citizens of South Carolina. it WADE HAMPTON, 8 . Governor. ?i Marrying for Money.?The Itcv Geo w C. Baldwin very truthfully says: "Gold a cannot buy happiness, and the parents who p compel their daughters to marry for money u or statiou, commit a grievous sin against humanity and God. And tho Woman who ' marries a churl for his wealth.- will 6nd si that she his made a terrible bargain, that u II .1- . ? ? an luc guttering 01 nearness grandeur arc h phosphoreaeentglitterings of heart wretched- ni ness ; that tier heart will be gilded uiisery, ai and her old age will be like a ctvg on tho s) bleak side of a desert mountain, where cold o' moon-benula sometimes glitter, but no birds gi sing, but wild storms howl and hoartc tbun- c< ders roar ; and though tho sweeping storms 01 shall be beard the stern voice of the gieat CJ God, saying, 'Your richca are corrupted, i<j jour garments are moth eaten, your gold o' nud silver wmkered, and the rest of them b shall be a witness against you, and eat at li yoor flesh aa if it were fire." g| Some pcoplo hare wondered all kiuds oft w things about the nature of the soul's exisfc S< ence aftef i^t leaves the body. The llev. tl Joseph C<Jbk, at whose feet sit all intellect- si ual Bostonians, says that "existeuco alter di death is but a postulate of-thc^psychologic- re al analysis of -^0 Bostonian It brave enough tdMJontroTeft this statement re "has as yet appeared. ' 'ot STOCK LAW. Effect on the West.?-The necessity of cnlosing with a fence is the baqc of Weairn farming. A uinn buys a quartor seeon, and is compelled to make either one r two miles offence?the quantity dependig on t-ho circumstance whether he "joins mcos" or uot. lie may wish to raise heat aud keep no stock ; but he is complied to ienco just the same, to defend imsclf against his neighbors' caitle. If icy have uot more tliau fifty head, it will a cheaper for him to go upon thnir farms id cncloso their pastures, than to build his k. 1~ 1' rr u uv/uiiumjr lt'Ut'C. The squatter finds to his auiazcuicut that is fence will cost live times as much as his m i lei^ ent to raise fifty to a hundred acres of heat, but not having money euough to i nee it, is driven to the alternative of rcntig of others, and letting his own rich land i idle. Farmers can about as well afford i pay ten dollars per acre for a farm, uud 5 obliged to leuce only euough to rcstraiu icir owu slock, as to pay five dollars per ire, and be compelled to fcucc against the ock of the State. , Many men rcut all their lives, who would i ly laud and pay for it, were it not for the ' rious expense of fencing. The writer iu 10 Illinois Report, already quoted, says: \bout three-fourths of all the 'sussiu' in liuois may be fairly charged to the pracce of fcuciug crops, rather than stock.? ad Illinois passed a law thirty, twenty, or 'en ten years since, that stock should be need, or otherwise takcu care of by its vners, I do not believe there would be an :rc of good prairie uncultivated in the tatc. 1 know this is a strong statement i hen we think how many acres of the best ud in the world are yet 'lying out,' but iosc who have lived in the State but the st ten years have seen miles of prairie tin A nmlnr itlnur ri?rV?f i ? ..0 'cu under the crop fencing incubus.? uring the wheat mania of a few years nee, a large portion of the prairies of cenal Illinois would have been turned bottom i ilc up, had it uot been for the expense of uciug. * * * We have spent niilius of dollars in Michigan pine to keep (r corn and wheat from going off our rms to prey on our neighbors' hogs and ittlc!" Undjr a uniform law compelling every an to take care of his stock, and insuring itn against harm from his neighbors, it is irtain that the population of the Western tates would have been some millions great than now, while their wealth would have roportionatcly increased. Moreover, the ruis would have been better cultivated, le houses better built, the barns larger and , ore comforable, and the average stock of Lirer breed and higher quality. Let every ' gislaturc say to every settler, ''Take care 'your own stock, and wc will sec that iur neighbor takes carc of bis," and two , rms will be opened along the frontier i here one now is. The West seems to be urvcrscly blind to its own interest in this attcr; but it will not much longer be "the j ?or man's asylum," unless it shall open its j ,'es, and, by relieving him of the onerous I feuce tax," place the virgin soil within is reach. , Injustice of the Present System.?Tho roof of the bad policy of our present sysim of fencing, has suggested, also, its inistice. To compel A to feuce against JJ's ittlc, is morally and socially wrong. Itinorts the relation of things. It takes prosrty from A without rendering to him an juivaleut. Corn, wheat, oats, fruit trees, egctubles, stay at homo quietly, trespassig on nobody, and interfering with nobody. we put the onus of fencing on stationry or on locomotive property? Shall we urdeu with the cost of fencing the man hostf'propcrty stays where it is put, and iu not got away '( or on the man whose roperty has legs, horns, and grinders, with grnuiverous ap; etite ? The writer in the Illinois Bcport asks : i Is there any good reason why oue man lould be compelled to build from one to >n miles ol fence to protect his crops from is neighbors' stock, when such neighbors light do it with one-tenth the fence ? Can ay one give uie a good reason why the law rould be that a uian shall stand guard per his one hundred and sixty acres of rain, rather t&an bis neighbor over his one >w ? Docs, Cr does it not, seem right that rery man shall take care of his own stock ? ?n this hinges the wholo question. My lea iathat every man shall take care of his wn stock ; and, as a corollary, that he shall s compelled to make only so muoh or so ttle fence as is necessary to do that thing." The Law of Fencing.?"Law,"says Blackone, "is a rule of society, aulhprir.ing hat i9right and forbidding what is wrong." o we shall not expect to find the law, in re present case, commanding what has been own to be flagrantly unjust. We aro not isappointed. The common law does not i^nirc any man to fence against stock.? 8 spirit is to make every owner of stock aponaiblo for all depredations that it shall I mam it.?Helping Hand. ? L .it ..... i?. L'.?lMLJU..mUy Mississippi, like the other reconstructed States that have eeoaped front tbo clutches of the carpet-baggers, is recovering from the effects of the spoliation to which it was Bubjected^'or a long time after the war.? The annual report of the lion. W. li. Gibbs, Auditor of Public Accounts, shows that under Dcuiodratic rule, though the taxes have boon materially reduced, the disburso f..- tu. ....... muiiife lur 1111: u .ufiiai's uk inu oiaii' ^ncniuicnt, up to Jauuary 1, wore so muoh below those^of the previous year that there was left an excess of receipts amounting to ovor $400,000, which is nearly equal to the estimated sum required for the total expenditures for the year 1877. Tho receipts from all sources (or tho fiscal year ending December 31, 1876, wore $1)81,373.25, while the disbursements byjwnrrants for the same period amounted to $518,709.03, against 81,430,192.82, for tho previous year.? Ftt? the y wCnf. tveeipU qt*cf expenditures, the Treasurer has retired outstanding certificates of indebtedness and paid bonds and interest amounting in the aggregate to $301,728, leaving still a surplus of $100,944, with about 8300,000 of the Stato tax of 1876 yet to be collected. The Auditor, in concluding his report, congratulates the Legislature upon the fact that uuder the new order of things complete harmony of action and a desire to promote the public weal hnvo been tho governing rule, nud that Mississippi has entered upon a career of substantial prosperity. Facts like these explain the extraordinary political changes that have taken pluce among the more intelligent of the colored voters in the South ?thoso who have sense enough to understand the extent of the robberies that have been perpetrated by the politicians who have represented Grant's administration in that part of the country ?JVcto York Sun. A New Motor.?-I'hiladelphians arc to i . i_* .r t f uc given u sigui oi a new inacmiic, invented by a clergyman in Maryland, wlii*h is called the Bradloy pronicther, and it is described at length by a correspondent of the Philadelphia Bulletin. The writer claims that "the motor employed in this invention is a well-known agent, and one that is beyond comparison powerful in action and easy of management. See< nd, that the mode of utilising it is marvellously simple, original and perfect. Third, that its economy ii marked, being as one to five, if not to six or eight, in comparison with steam. Fourth, that it is managed so as to be positively non-explosive aud without danger at any stage. Filth, that the machine is suitable for all mechanical purposes; and finally, it is unlike anything else in the world of uiechauics, and will excite an interest in economies and revolutionize the present mode of prnpulsiou in ovcry department of mechanical motion. The machine and its capacities arc not simply a great invention, they arc an inspiration, utilizing the forces of nature by the principles of natural laws, and confirming to the conceptions of man the perfections of the Divine intelligence in his works. lu a few weeks the public will have an opportunity of aeeiug in operation in Philadelphia a proine thcr of the power of fifty horses, which is now nearly ready for exhibition. " A Fi.ouipa Scandal.?Mrs. Harriet Beeeher Stowc, sister of 1 My mouth's pastor Knd author of the Byron story, has found a scandal down in Florida to expose. She writes as follows to the Christian Union: 'Two pairs of red birds have setup an establishment in our orchard, the males flaming and flaunting in the best Chinese vermilion coats, and the ladies more daintily attired in suits of reddish brown, with scarlet beaks and claws. Yesterday, as uiy gay lord and lady were making love iu the most approved style, another lady red bird alighted on a neighboring bough and began singing her little song of 'Birdie, birdie, birdie.' Instantly my lady number oue Hew at her like a little red hot fiend and drove her out of sight and hearing. I don't know that/ny lord red cardinal had cvor looked at the intruder ; it is possible he may have cast an indiscreet eye that way and remarked: 'What a sweet roico that lady has !' If he did, he was soon taught better than that. No free love nonscuse among birds!" An Amusing Incident.?A rather nuiusing incident is told as having occurcd recently at a church in Connecticut not many miles from Fairfield. The clergyman, it would appear, desired to call the attvutioD of his congregation to the fact that it being the last Sunday of the month he would administer the rite of baptism to children.? Previous to his having entered the pulpit he had received from one of his elders, who by the way was quite deaf, a notice to the effect that as the children would be present that p. m. and he had the new Sunday school books ready for distribution, he would have them there to sell to ull who desired them. After the teruion the clergyman began the notice of baptismal service, thus: All of those having children and desiring to have them baptized will bring them this afternoon." At this point the deaf elder, hearing the mention of children, supposed it was something in reference to his books, and rising, said : "All of those having none, and desiring thein, will be supplied by uie for the sum of twenty-five cents." The Boston Times, a sunday paper, insists that the irreverent Bostou boys sing a new version of "Hold the Port," like this; Hold the forks, the knives are coining, The plates are on tboir way; Shout tho chorus to your neighbor, Sling the hash this way. Huston must bo a very wicked place. Friendship and Civility.?He civil and obliging to nil, dutiful where Cod and nature command you ; but friend to one, and that friendship keep sacred, as the greatest tie upon earth, and be sure to ground it upon virtue; for no other is cither, happy or lasting. 1 I r ii ii T IT r * 1 " T A Qsm.?Siduey Smith cut the following from a newspaper, aud preserved it for himself: "When you rise in the morning, say th.-.t you will make the day blessed to a fellow creature. A lefl-off garment to the man that needs it; a kind word to the sorrowful j an encouraging expression to the dejected?trifles in themselves as light as air?will do at least for the twenty-four hours. And if you are young, depcud upon it, it will tell when you arc old; rest assured it will send you happily and gently down thestrcam of lime to eternity. Hy the most simple arithmetical sum, look at tho result. If you send oue person away happy through the day, that is threo hundred aud sixtyAve in the course of ayear, aud suppose you lire forty years only after you have commenced that eourse oi medicine, you havo made fourteen thousand six hundred persons happy?at all events for a time." WllFN AND HOW TO EAT F?U?4.-TJ When fruit does harm it is becauas it is eaten at improper times, in improper quantities, or beforo it is ripened aud fit for the human stomach. A 'distinguished physician has said that if his patients would make ft practice of eating a couple of good ornnges before break Taut, from February to J une, his practice would be gone. The principle evil is that we do uot cat enough of fruit; that we injure its finer qualities with sugar ; that we drown thsin in cream. W# ueed the medicinal action of the pure fruit acida in our system, and their cooliag, corrective influence.?Medical Journal. A fellow with side whiskers and a whito necktie called into the office and said : *'1 was a little late in getting my work in on the ground pig, but here is something on love which 1 presume is worth about 810." Then he recited through hie nose as follows: "A passionate waltz iu the ball room, A moonlight row on the river, An odor of pig's feet and onions And a paroxysmal shiver?" Uo was requested not to repeat tlio other seventeen verses, but to call around for a check next Christmas. Collapse of Republican Papers.? Three Republican papers have expired in Florida since the inauguration of Governor Drew?the Madison Recorder, Fernandina Observer and Gainesville Citizen. They derived their existence solely and entirely from official patronage, and when that prop was knocked from under them au immediate collapse was the result. Marshal's Portrait of Hampton. There are two distinct portraits of Gov. IIamitom. The one issued by the "Hampton Portrait Company," of Charleston, S. C., is engraved in line l?y Malum ALL, and will be of imposing appearance, and life-size. There is also a print out representing tlie Governor. We suggest that our people wait aniT see both pictures, before choosing which they will have. Marshall's famous engravings are attracting unusual attention. The superb large line engraving of Washington, from Stuart's celebrated oil portrait in the Boston Atheuieum?a plato valued at ten thousand dollars?when originally brought out about ten years ago, ut once placed Mr. Marshall in the very front rank of engravers, ancient or modern, meeting, both in Europe and America, the most extravagant encomiums of artists, critics, and mea of judgment. It was even selected (or exhibition at the French Academy of Design, an lienor accorded to none but the vary highest works of art. It is, moreoverthe best, indeed the only satisfactory, portrait of Washington that exists, and is the acknowledged standard "household engraving" of him. The late Edward Everett said of it: "The magnificent engraving of Stuart's head of Washington. It is truly a superb work." Bancroft, the historian, writes : "1 have been for some years a collector of tho many different engravings of the portraits of Washington. This is beyond comparison the best of them all?tho only one that is perfectly satisfactory." Mr. George 3. Uillard, the well known art critic, says: "Were it the head of some unknown person, a lover of art would be glad to have a copy of the engraving for its rare intrinsic merits, and every American should be reedy to make some sacrifice in other ways in order to possess so satisfactory a representation of Washington." Marshall s H. E. Lee, just out, is a wonderful work, and iu a few days his "Gov. Hampton" will go to the people of South Carolina and the country, a noble tribute to a great laader, who conquers by his high character and by peaceful means, not by the sword.?Newt and Couritr. And from the Columbia liegitltr the accompanying letter: Tub liAMrro* Portrait. ?Wc publish for the information of the people of the State the following extract from a letter received from Charleston, addressed to Mr. C. P. Pelhain : "Seme misapprehension exists as to the proprietorship in tiie Hampton Portrait Company. Permit mo to SAy that a majority of the investment is held hero. As one of the proprietors, I am attending to its afTairs until other and permanent airangements are concluded. I originated the project of a portrait of Governor Hampton in a high style of art, thinking it a worthy mnnner in which to recognize his Excellency's public services to the people of this Slate during the past six months. Those services entitle him to he presented to his couutrymen everywhere in a style equal to that in which Washington and Lee and other reresentative gentlemen of the country are shown.? Time was required for this great work, that care and skill should make it perfect. Its publication has been anticipated by another issue, of the merits of which the public can judge. In selecting an artist the gentlemen associated with me have given preference to Mr. Marshall.? Gustave Dore, the great artiat of France declares him to be 'the veritable master of art in Ainrnvi. ii we uo noi realise an our expectations in a pecuniary point of view by reason of a different publication, we must accept that fortune?the penalty of attempting to do Ikt but pottiblt 4 n art for our but man, we shall hope, nevertheless, to possess an ample reward in the production of a oiand ask imposing Posts a it, which will command an appreciative circulation if not so large as might have been under more propitious circumstances. In a very few days the publio ean judge for therosolvee, and can very well afford to wait a little, and make their choice with Maksium's vfkkpip work, ttsroaa turn. W.VI, A. COURTENAY." Charleston, 8. C., February .1, J877. * Client** Hand Mad? NIiom, A8PLEND1U ASSORTMENT Just receded, at GKK & HUMl'URlES' L Hotel Store. . f April 21, '"(J }6 If