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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. *
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