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gg gg iB i???mag ?BHgai * ** THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD. \ The niutHed drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last taitoo ; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their sileut tents are spread. And Glory guards, with solemn round| The birouac of the dead. No rumor of the foo's advance Now swells upon the wind : _ No troubled thought at midnight haunts Of loved ones left behind ; No vision of the morrow's strife The warrior's dream alarms ; No braying horn, or sceauiing fife, At dawn shall call to arms. Their shivered swords are red with rust, Their plumed heads are bowod, Their haughty banner, trailed in dust, Is now their martini shroud ; And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow. And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. 1 lie neighing troop, ttie hashing uiaac, The bugle's stirring blast, The charge, the dreadful cannonade, The din and shout arc past ; Nor war's wild note, nor glory's peal, Shall thrill with (ierecc do'ight Those breasts thnt never more may feel The rapture of the fight. I,ike the fierce northern hurricane That sweeps his great plateau, Flushed with the triumph yet to gain, Came down the serried foe ; Who heard the thunder of the fray Break o'er the Geld beneath. Knew well the watchword of that day Was -Victory or Death ! Full many a norther's breath has swopt O'er Angostura's plain, And long the pitying sky has wept Above its mouldered slain. The raven's scream, or eagle's fight, Or shepherd's pensive lay, Alone now wake each solemn height That frowned o'er that dread fray. Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground ! Ye must not slumber there, Where stranger steps and tongues resound Along the heedless air. Your own proud land's heroic soil, Shall be your fitter grave ; She claims from war its richest spoil ? The ashes of her bravo. Thus, 'ncath their parent turf they rest, Far from the gory field ; liornc to a Spartan mother's breast On many a bloody shield. The sunshine of their native sky Smiles sadly on them hero, And kindred eyes and hearts watch by The heroes' sepulchre. Best on, embalmed and sainted dctd, Dear as the blood ye gave ! No impious foot-step here shall tread The herbage of your grave ; Nor shall your glory be forgot Whilo Fame her record keeps, Or Honor points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps. In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished year hath flown, The story how ye fell. Nor wrck, nor change, nor winter's blight, Nor Time's remorseless doom, Can dim one ray of holy light That gilds your glorious tomb. [ Theodore 0' Ifara. Oi.d l?Lb mm Kit's Buttons.?Old Bluuimer is tight-fisted. Several days ago he said to his wife, "Maria, I want you to look over that broadcloth vest of inine aud put new buttons on it, 'cause I'm goiug to a card-party to-night." "But, Ely," auswered Mrs. B., "I haven't any buttons to match that vest, and?" "Thunder !" broke in Hlmnmnr "ilio iile* of a woman keeping houso as long as you have, an' pretendin' to be out of buttons. By(i corge! I believe you'll ask mo for money to buy 'cm with next." That evening old Bluuimer hurried through his supper aud began arruying himself for tho card-party. Presently he called for the broadcloth vest, and Mrs. B., with marvelous promptitude, handed it to hiui. lie took it, hastily unfolded it, and then, as his eyes took in its complete appearance, he stood as one transfixed. It was a six-button vest, and there were six buttons on it, and the dazed optic of Blurnmer observed that the first, or top one, was a tiny pearl shirt-button, and that the next one was a brass army-overcoat button, with U. S. gleaming upon it, and that number three was an oxydized silver affair, and that number four was a horn button, evidently from the back of one of the Puritan fathers' coats ; and then came a suspender button, aud then, as the dazzling eye of old Blummcr reached the bottom button? n poker chip, found in Blummcr's pocket, with two holes punched through it?he gave a snort that made the chandelier jingle. There is, after all, n fine sense of humor about Blummcr, and he laughed till he cried. And thcro won't be any button money grudged in that house hereafter. ' ' ? Strangk Place ?or a Bird's Nest. ?An English paper gives an account of a pair of birds?Pied Wagtails?that last year built their nest on the uudcr side of a railroad car. This car made four short trips and returned each day, yet the birds hot only built their uest, but hatched their ^ohng. The account states thnt if tbo car went off while both old birds wore out hunting for food, they did not seem to mind it, but they would perch on the telegraph wires with the food in their beaks, and wait patiently until their traveling nest came back. The birds seemed to like the arrangement ho well, that thev camo back to th? ?smi> place this year, built another nest, and eggs were laid in it. A Grkat City.?London has more Roman Cntholics than Rome, more Jews than all Palestine, more liish than Belfast, more Scotch than Aberdeen, more Welsh than Cardiff; its beer and gin shops, placed one after another in a line, would reach sixtytwo miles, and one entire quarter of the city is inhabited by three hundred thousand of the most miserable wrctchca and worst thieves to be found on earth. LIVELY LITTLE SBM?I8CEftCl4. T'here wero Confederate Brigadier? rovolutiouists??in those days. .?r. Buchanan, a supposed Democrat, sat high enthroned at the White Houso. Kansas was bleeding. A Presidential election was impending. "The robollion loomed. The cty in Congress was, curb the Executive aud blunt the bayonets of the army. And a littlo jocky was trotted out and swung into the saddle as a rider on the army apptopri atioa bill, lno administration cried out that it was being starved and coerced. But the aruiy bill and its rider passed the Itouso with a hurrah. The President was not to be permitted to move the army nt his own sweet will. IIo was not to allow the use of troops as domestic police within the States or Territories. The army should perish rather than that this use should be made of it. The bill aud the rider went to the Senate. One Scnatpr rose aud said : , Since tlto House of Representatives lias power to pass such a bill (an appropriation bill, distinctly, it lias power also to place an' equivalent prohibition in any bill which it has constitutional power to pass. Aud so it has a constitutional right to place the prohibition in the anuual army appropriation bill. I grant that this mode of reaching the object proposed is in sonic respects an inconvenient one. It is not, therefore, however, an unconstitutional one,-nor even necessarily a wrong one. It is a right one, if it is necessary to efTcct the object desired, and if that object is ouo that is iu itself just and eminently important to the' peace and happiness of tin country, or to the security of the liberties of the* people. The Houso of Representatives, moreover, is entitled to judge and determine for itself whether the proceeding is thus necessary, and whether the object of it is thus important. This Senator was a Confederate Brigadier, a revolutionist of 1851). It was William II. Seward. Another Senator rose and said : "If the House Can refuse the supplies requisite for the support of government, it it possesses this complcto and effective weapon for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying iuto effect every just aud salutary m insure, the occasion surely demands the full exerciso of that power in the House, and in its firm exercise it will be sustained by the consciousness of being supported in its demands by right, by reason aud by the constitution." This revolutionist of 1850 was the Vice President of 1872, Brigadier Ilcury ?Vilson. Another Senator smote Hunter, of Virginia, hip and thigh, for charging revolution upon the advocates ol the rider, the cocrccrs of the administration. He said with much else that was forcible : "Tho power of supply, aud the power of annexing conditions of supply, have always gone together in parliamentary history; aud their joint exercise has never been denouueud as a case of revolution or tending to produce revolution in any shape or form whatever. It is a power csseutial to the preservation of our 1:1 ?: ?? uuunius. This brigadier of two decades gouo was Liucolu's Secretary of the Treasury, after Chase, William Pitt Fessenden. Another Senator rose iu his wrath and proclaimed : The Senator from Virginia tells us that I if the House attempts to interpose a condiJ tion to an appropriation hill which they make, it is revolution. Well, sir, if to resist iu any way measures like these is revolution, I say let revolution come. The prido of the American people, the principles of the American government, demand revolution if that be revolution. But is it revolution, Mr. President ? Must the people's House of Representatives sit with their arms folded nud, although the constitution of the Uuitcd States coufcrs emphatically upon them tho power to originate all rcvcuuo bills (which comprises the p >wcs to place these grants of money ou such condition as they see fit),, must they refraiu from exercising their authority io au emergency like this'( Is this the liberty of tho American citizen, that the people's House, where there really is a rep, rcscntation of tho people, where the wisdom of the lathers placed the taxing power, nre leading to revolution by annexing a condition to the appropriation of the people's money?a most wholesome restraint putting a curb in tho mouth of the traitor who sits in the Executive chair, now stimulating this country, as fast as ho can do it, to civil war ? This revolutionist of the dark and trying 1 ^.r '*ft i?_:?-i:-- n ? iuivo ui ?u nao Dii^iiuior \jtvncrai Diun Bon. Wade.? Chicago Times. "It surprises uie to see a young man like you here," siid Judge Bowkcr, at Reno, Nov., the other day to a fellow who had been whooping it over night. "You filled yourself up with an enemy to deprive you of brains," proceeded the court, rearranging its spectacles and gluring at tho culprit.? "Now, here you are, a young man of intelligence, with good clothes on, and doubtless you havo a mother uud sisters who think a good deal more of you than 1 do. You've been sent to school and taught how to make a good living. In return for all this yon go scrcamiug around tho strocts at midnight, tearing down signs and making a wild beast of yourself. Is that like the conduct of a reasonable creature ? No, of course it isn't. Now, I'm going to teach you a lesson, young inao. You needn't turn pale, for it won't nelp you any. Have you got any chcffing tobacco about you f? Thankee. Chew more and drink less, like I do. You're discharged. Next lime you're tempted to take a drink think of my kindness and weep, and refrain from the debna ing habit. Kli ? Well, I don't care if I do. AvcTy, come out and join me with this young jjbmilemim." 'She ladies sing "in tho sweet 'buy and 'buy' we must meet in that beautiful store," and wc certainly can raise no objcotlon. jssu/nai?vrAiam/0 m The twelfth annual meeting of the Geogia Press Association convened in Cartortvillo on the 14th of May, with a full representation. The welcoming words were spoken by Mujor C. H. Smith (Hill Arp) of the Atlanta Constitution stuff, as fbllows: "Ourtcrsville," ho said, "roceives you gladly. She feels magnified by your presence. Always hospitablo to tho humble as well as the groat, she nevertheless indulges a peculiar pride on this occasion, for while her pompous neighbors have been spreading wido their philactcries over conventions of teachers and preachers and loccbcra ana railroad intriguers, she ranks them all in tho quality of her quests. [Applause.}? The editorial brain is tho lever of Archimedes and the press is tho fulcrum... More than a million souls arc domiciled in our State, and tho power that moves them, trains them aud directs thorn is now before us. 1 ho press is par excellence the public educator. It gives moro incentive to study, more direction to thought and more food for mental digestion than all other powers combined. It establishes the convictions o? masses upon all subjects which they arc capable of comprehending. What a wonderful power! And yet how silently it works its mighty engine; how seemingly unconscious of its strength ; how uuassumiug.. As we look into your trank and open faces are almost ready to exclaim, 'How clHId-liko and bland V [Laughter.] "When the geucrous host meets his welcome guest upon the threshold their kindly greetings follow in quick succession, 'Is it well with thee, my friend ? Is it well with thy wife and child V Your prosence aud your serenity indicate that it. is Well, and now, in our tunc, we respond to your kind solicitude, and answer that it is also well with us. Our hearts bent happily and arc warm with that abounding hospitalitv which characterizes subqrbaq villages. Unpretending towns feel all the greater honor when visited by the giants and the notables of the land. Liko the country farmer's wife when visited by her city cousius, the first impulse is to kill every kid and lamb and turkey and fat shont iu the neighborhood. The cook-book is ransacked for somcthinc rich. SDicv and neeuliar. Lem 003. gelatine uud flavoring extracts arc laid iu storo. The good housewife fondly aspires to entertain her guests after her own princely fashion, nnd if furnished with their usual bill of fare wculd duplicate it if she could. It uiay be, however, that you will not object toaslight variation from your epicuriae diet, for the immortal Marccllus has demonstrated that even quail on toast is not acceptable as a daily dish [laughter], nnd your rural brethren can tell you exactly how long nn editor can live on bacon and greens without picking a quarrel with one or more of his contemporaries. [Laughter and applause.] But Curtersville has another reason foi feeliug specially honored ou this occasion, for, according to high authority, this is not a city of brotherly love, nor tho abode of angels, nor the gate of paradiso ; but is on the confines of the infernal regioaa?nigh unto the l'tutoninn shore?and the very air wc breathe is odorous of fire and brimstone. [Laughter.] All theso perils you have brcaved to visit us. Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of hell llodc the one hundred 1 [Laughter and applause.] The ex-Governor is with us now, and we arc told that when "honors aro easy" with him hia forgiveness begius. We hope so; nud that abetter feeling will soon be brought about between him and this little bantling of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. It I I * * was Doro 01 ner progress, ana grew up ns ouo of her - children. Her mothor?the good old town of Cnssville?died in giving her birth ; that good old town that nursed and cherished the lamented Aiken nud Trippo, and those other stars not yet gono out?Judgo Underwood, Judge Wright, Gen. Black, Gen Wofford, and the Demosthenes of the mountains, who is now professionally engaged in treating tho ragged edgo of Jenkins' ear. [Cheers and laughter.] When his Excellency Joe Brown first become our Governor, he become godfather to our little town, but she soon grew saucy and independent, and the old gentleman turned her adrift upon the cold Charities of a way station schedule. [Laughter.] Then Cartersville retaliated in a manner that whs unfilinl and unbocouiing, and the old gontleman quietly tojd her to go to?Pluto's home. [Laughter.] It seems now that he had thought she had done so, 93 he puts off all travelers here wuo are seek tug mat tropical region.? [Laughter. But she didn't go there, gen* tlouioo, and still lives to welcome her friends and defy her foes. If sho is a little too independent at times, we'll "nothing extenuate nor set down aught in malice." "And now, gentlemen, Christian gentle* men, good Samaritans, penoe-makers, aftor the sAd recital of our alienutioo, we invoke your good offices to make reconciliation between tho father and his ohild. I will not detain you further with this unpleasantness, but once more bid you welcome, and when you return to cooler latitudes may you bo able to say, "We found no indication of a high temperature at Cartersville, saving warmncss of their hearts to a welcome a. #? guuui,. Hatks'h False Pretences.?Mr. Coukling and Mr. Edmunds both quote the acts of 1792/1795, and 1807, and Mr. Hays ropeata the assertion, alleging that they rest upon tbe same foundation as the act of Fobuary, 1865, which'authorises the use of the army at elections, at tho discretion of the Executive. Nothing could be further from the truth than this allegation is. Here is the provision of the act of 1792 : "Whenever tho laws of the United States' shall be opposed, or jthe execution thereof obstructed, iu any State, by combinations too powerful to be supprcssod by thw ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the dowers vested in the marshals by this act, the sauio being notified to tho President of the United States by an Associate a Justico or the District Judge, it shall be lawful for the President to call forth the militia of such State to suppress such com- ] binations and to cause the laws to be executed." Tho act of 1795 re-enacted that of 1792, and for the first time denied tho condition upon which force could be used by the Executive in these words: "And in case of an insurrection in any Stato against the Qovernment thereof, it shall be lawful for tho President of the United States, on application of the .Legislature of such State, or of the Exccutivo (when the Legislature cannot be convened,) to call forth such number of the militia of any State or States, as may be appliod for, js ho may judge sufficient to suppress such insurrection." ] Then followed the net of 1807, which declared that iusteadof the militia, "it shall be lawful for the President to employ, for the *amo purposes, such part of the land or naval force ot tho United States as shall be judgedfUeee;?afy, haviugyirst observed all the prerequisites of the law in this respect." That is to say, having 6rst received a call from tho Governor or the Legislature. By these acts the President was not permitted to cuter a State with the militia or 1 the regular land or naval forces, to suppress insurrection, or to execute any law, without first having the request and consent of the Lcgslaturc or Governor. The lines between tho State and national powor were thus distinctly defined aud preserved; whereas, under the partisan act of 1865, for the first time in our history, aud ugainst all the tradi/.ious of frocdom, tho Executive may, in advaucc of an election, quarter an army in this or any other city, and, under protcnce of preserving peaco at the polls, may control the ballot box absolutely. Yet Mr. Conkling, Mr. Edmunds, and their creature, Mr. Hayes, aro bold enough to say that these o.t.1 1 .1. - ? . 1.? ?s? ? uiu amis u*ju lliu UIIJUIIL'l liiw Ut'l DIUlliar? N. Y. Sun. An Extraordinary but well-authenticated fish story comes from Memphis. A gentleman in that city, who has a small pond stocked with fish, has recently noticed a mysterious disappearance of some of bin finest specimens. At last he and several frionds sat up one night to watch. About 10 o'clock they saw tho house cat steal to the edge of the pond and scratch in the ground until she caught a Worm. She then camo to the water's edge, and holding the worm iu one paw dabbled in the water with it. The fish were soon attracted to the spot, and rising to secure the bait they were dexterously caught by the other claw of cunning puss, drawn ashore and devoured. James H. Rodger ?DEALER IN? GROCERIES, HARDWARE, HOOTS AND NIIOEM. MANUFACTURER OF iin it .tnr/) niiMii i itTi A.m nncbl 1U0X PAX8. HOOFING, GUTTERING AND REPAIRING l)OXK AT SHORT NOTICE. ro: I II AVE just received a large lot of Groceries, consisting of S'jgars, Coffee, Tea, Molasses and Syrups, Bacon, Lard and Salt, Flour, Rice and Grists, i Cheese and Canned Goods. AI^O A COMPLETE STOCK OF BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS. HARDWARE. Iu lliii line 1 hare everything you may want, from a Cambric Needle to a Broad Axe. Cooking and Heating Stoves. NEVER SO CHEAP BEFORE. 1 invite an examination nf mv Sln.V knnar. log that I can please in quality, quantity and price. Do You Want Tin Ware? I manufacture ray own Tin Ware, Store Pipe and Sheet Iron Pans, which I warrant to be of the eery beat quality, ROOFING, GUTTERING and REPAIRING DONE PROMPTLY AND WELL. Castings for Stores furnished at the Shortest Notice. DON T NEGLECT TO CALL ON J. IT. RODGERt , Nor 20 48 If Ladles' and Genl"a S^O?E ALL the leading styles. An uHiishally good line of Ladies' Philadelphia ttiaje fine shoes. . Ladiee' Kid Slippers and N?%ports in large rarlety. RICE k McLURE. vMay 2 *8 If ftf S.W.Porter's * NEW STOCK! I -3? 1 LOW I PRICES, * AS O QUICK HALES. I OR CA8H ONLY. ?.0,? J TTITT^ rtTI? A T>T?aT JL JLJLJLJ VXXJJ1U JUIJJI DRY GOODS, i NOTIONS, GENT'S HATS, READY-MADE CLOTHING, B00T8 AND 8H0E8, hardWARJB ?AND? GROCERRIES, Can be had at S. W. roftcr's Chcuf 8loft|-?/nr CASH ONLY. ricftsc don't nsk for mdlt,l hs it is yerj unpleasant to refbse It | but sell too cheap to ?llow a dny's credit to my best frieuds. . S.W. PORTER. Sept 27 3D if TIME TABLE OF THE Spartanburg & Asheville R, R. AND S . V. sfc C. RAILROAD. To cro into Effect, Monday, April 7, 1879. "DOWN TRAIN. I UP TRAIN?" i i r T Arlve. J I,****?. | STATIONS. j Arlve. J Leave. I 3 00 p lu't'oleniaii* 10 30 ~ 3 20 Saluda *9 40am 10 00 3 40 Mclrotc 9 2t 4 10pm 4 20 Tryon City 8 4.1 4 40 LaDdrtimx A 21 3 00 (.'ampoholla 7 5ft 3 30 lnnmn 7 32 5 30 [Campion 7 22 6 23 Air-Lino Jtinc'n 6 50 6 30 7 00am Spartanbu>L ft 33 ft 30km 7 40 l*aeolet i 6 10 8 00* Jnncavllle ' 5 27 *8 40 a in 8 50 Union 4 31 p m 4 11 . 9 20 Santuc 3 55 9 41 'Kith Dam 3 33 10 07 Shelton 3 10 10 20 LyleaKord 2 50 10 40 Strother* 2 23 II 30 Altlon Ifl 45pin * lircnkfaat. f Dinner. Train* on S. A A. Kind will he run by A. L, Timo J AS. ANDERSOlf, Superintendent. April 11 15 tf Greenville and Columbia R. R. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. liiAmH Passenger Trains run daily, Sundays excepted, connecting with Night Trains on Seulh Carolina Railroad up anil down. On and after MONDAY, May 20th, the- following will be the schedule: cr. I.care Columbia al 7.45 a m Leave Alston 0.30 a m Leave Newberry 10.5O a nv Leave Cokcabury 2.17 p m Leave ltclton 4.00 p m Arrive at Greenville .... 5.85 p m DOWN. i.cave urecnviue at 8.05 a m Leave Delton 9.56 a n? Leave Cokeabury 11.33 a n? Leave Newberry 2.40 p ro Leave Alaton 4.20 p n. Arrive at Columbia 6.56 p m ANDERSON BRANCH AND BLUE RIDGE DIVISION. ix>wi*. or. Leave lYalSal]a....G.l? a nt Arrive 7.15 p hi Leave Perryville...7.00 a m Arrive 5.40 p in Leave Pendleton...7.50 a m Arrive 6.00 p m Leave Anderson...8.50 a m Arrive 5.00 p m Arrive at Belton...9.40 a m Leave 4.00 p m THOMAS DODAMEAD, General Superintendent. .1abex NonTo.v, Jr., General Ticket Agent. June 9, 1876. 23 tf^ Pioneer Paper Mannfactnrlnr Company. Manufacturers of Book, News and wrapping PATER. John W Nicholson, Agent, Athens, Oi> For sample of News, see this sheet. Nov 22 45 if J. c. wallaceT" ATTORNEY AT LAW AND TRIAL JUSTICE, iTvrnv n ir a~ n. \j, 11 | ou. v u. WILL practice in all Courts of tbia State.? Prompt attention to business. Trial Justice business transacted without delay. Office opposite Hotel, in II. L. Gobs' new building. April 18 10 8m ?. ?. ~?ulpr ATTORNEY AT LAW. OFFICE OVER Nil AND A MONRO. Will practice in the Cirouit and Supreme Courts of the State. Jan 8 6ms.* OAMUHiL, 8. STOKES, Till A JL. JUS TICK, Union , If., 8, C. All business in ths Jurisdiction of a Trial Jos* tice attended to with promptness. Office over Steedmsn A IUwIs' law office. Jan 3 1 tf david/oWson. in., ATTORNEY AND COUNHBLLEtt, Will practice in the Supreme and Cireu i Courts of the State, also in United States Cour t for the District of South Carolina. Dee 13 50 Am Parasol*-' FROM a Calico to the finest Silk, at thn very lowest prices, at S. W. PORTER'S - Cheap Store. M?y 9 19 tf v. e