Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The French say "see l'aris ami die," nud the Georgia has very much tho same feeling about Atlanta. Whenever a man fails iu any enterprise elsewhere, he goes to Atlanta to retrieve his hope.", and if he succeeds he goes there to insure his success. All the roads converge to Atlanta; all the ideas converge toward Atlanta or originate there. You can hardly go through Georgia by a railroad without going through Atlanta ; and as . io seeing a man, woman or child in Georgia ^vho don't know all about Atlanta is utterly out the ijuestiou. Atlanta is the great cauldron in which stale politics and Federal politics are boilcdjup, for Georgia consumption. Atlanta, let Savannah, Macon, Augusta and Columbus say what they may?is the brain, sinew, steam locomotive power of the State. They can do things up there in a style unknown to provincial cities. They can gel up a bigger canard, the journalist can put icore red iu his brush and ily his kite higher and kcop it up longer than iu any given locality under the sun, moon and seven stars. Atlanta has been iu a fearful stew of late.? The state Democratic Convention of an out-audout Democratic State, mind you, has been iu session for some time and lias been unabic to nominate a Governor?not because of any political shortcomings of tho candidates, but for purely personal considerations. The most vindictive, relentless war has been waged against Gov. Colquitt by the combined clfoits of his opponents t ?for neither one of them alone could collect around his banner over a corporal's guard. They abused Colquitt because lie was a christian, because lie delivered lectures to Sunday Schools, because lie stood by his friends and would not curse his eucmies. They circulated handbills against him and accused him of negligence, favoritism bribery, corruption, et al: The very atmosphere of Atlanta is anti Colquitt. So much for being an out-and-out Democratic State, of which ludependeutism will be the fruit aud a bitter personal campaign, tending, pcthaps, in the rcsurection of the lladical l'arty. VIGIL. oi'iuiuk i.x wuken villi: i.oi'.nty.?t/oiumina, August 25.?John Trammel), cf Groenville County, attempted suicide 011 Friday night and is expected to die. Cause unknown. Nomination or tiie Hon. John S. Riciiaud60n.? Florence, August 'Jo.?The Hon. John S. Richardson was unanimously, renominated for Congress. George \V. Dargau, Esq., of Darlington, was nominated for solicitor oti the thirtysecond ballot. Imports or Specie.--New York, August 25.? Tlio following is a detailed statement of the amounts of specie which arrived at this port to-day: Steamer W'iscorisin, ?130,000; Steamer France, 180,000 ; steamer Jlotnriti, $ ">()(),000 ; steamer (1el/crt, ?1,(ISO,700. Total ?3,100,TOt), all gold coin except ? 130,000 gold bars. The Democrats or Kershaw.?Camden, August 25.?The Kershaw County Convention, held to-day, was the most harmonious ever held here. The congressional delegates chosen are three for Woodward, one for Krwin. Woodward's name was received with outbursts of applause whenever mentioned. The Judicial Convention cn dorsed Judge Leitner first, Col. .Mc.Master next for solicitor. ? . Mai. i'ttactick in Ciiicauo.?Chicago, August 2o.?The dead body of a young woman about 20 years of age, as yet unidentified, was found in llie hallway of a house on West Madison street this morning. On her linger was a ring bearing the initials E. A. C. She is supposed to have been the victim of criminal malprnctice on tiio part of a certain Dr. Marie, to whom circumstances point. Tile draining has recently been taken up with great industry by the Western States, its benefits to agriculture having been established. The drains are laid at an average depth of .'13 inches, and the cost of digging is about 15 to 20 cents per yard, equal to $25 to ?30 per acre, according to width of drains apart, but the increased yield of crops sometimes reaches 100 percent. In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa there arc now 1,1-10 tilo factories, instead of -100 iu 1S70, aud last year ! these turned out 175,000,000 tiles, equal to | 000 miles of drain, at a cost of $2,812,500. ) An Indian's Skat Kki'Artr.fi.-? Denver, Coi, August 20.?The commissioners have arrived the Southern Ulc Agency, and gone into camp. They arc delayed l?y the tardiness of the South. i ?.i??,i ,i.? ill..,.< 1........ ...!.??? dentil or recovery inueli depends. It is believed , the Southern Indians will be very slow nbout ! it. Chief Ignacio, on being requested to get iiis Indians together as soon as possible, replied that ! when he was in Washington the tongues of the I white men were us long as his nrm, but now they ! were no longer than the first joint of his fin- ! gcr. Tiib Work of tiik I'i.amks.?Philadelphia, August 2*>.?A fire broke out at an early liour this morning in the flour mill of Win. 15. Thomas & Co., corner of 1:1th an 1 Willow streets.? The 41anies spread rapidly and comuuimrated to ilirf stove and hollowworc foundry of Hinart & l'ctcrsoit, 'hen lo 'he large bwildingon 4lie corner of l.'Uli uuJ Hamilton streets, occupied by (jumport & brothers, manufacturers of xjigurs, The mill was soon ia ruin" a'"' tt" 'he walls fell in the streets. Tlio falling bricks crushed i.n tiu eastern end of Stuart & 1'ctO'"" son's foundry, end the Humes destroyed .nearly i all the puttcrur io the pattern room. Tlio loss 0!> the foundry js estimated at $75,000 and ot? tho mill ? 100,(JOQ. tjumport & Co., employed 150 hands, and had Jt' t.OOO loose cigars in slock. Their insurance $. ; ,OOO, and Ilia! will cover the loss. A number of small building* adjoining jvere also damaged l>^ the lire. ' jhe Future Possibilities of Cotton. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, with his woj- i ilnrfnL aIr 11 Sn il.n * *_ a . ? ? * ....... o.im iu me using 01 lacis 10 illustrate problems, shows, in a letter to the New York i IltraLI, that Cotton remains King of American i products iu a commercial point of view, lie i shows that the as yet undeveloped resources < of cotton will prohahahly turn out to he even ( greater than those which wc now know and use. ] lie says : "The true forces now in action in the i South are industrial forces ; the opportunities to | apply improvements and inventions, and for the I accumulation of widely diffused wealth by right- i ful methods. The true reconstruction and the . real union that are now being consummated are < by means of these industrial forces, and in this t work cotton has been and will be the most po- 1 tent force of all." Slavery, bo says, was ?con- / omically wasteful, and its remnants still tend to keep cottou culture iu a wasteful state. Yet there have been great improvements already, not due entirely to the abolition pi slavery of course^ _ but in a large measure to the fact that the gene* ' ral impoverishment of the people has forced 1 them to give greater nttoution to their crops in * order to secure the utmost possible yield. In * 'his way, from careful selection of seed and bet- * ter culture, the plant matures earlier and lias s been made more prolific, and a band can pick J much more iu a day and a season. Yet Mr. Atkinson thinks that what lias been done is but 1 a tithe of what remains : the present power of ^ King Cotton is but the shadow of the auhstanee yet to coinc." The value ot the seed, for in- c jj stance, is as yet an unknown quantity. If wo ^ make six million bales, the seed left otci- after j all has been saved that is needed far planting y amounts to three million font. In other words, ^ the seed outweighs the "lint" that is separated | frotu it in ore than two to one. If all this refuse ] were treated as a small part of it is at present a in cotton-seed oil mills we should annually have p 90,000,000 gillons of oil, 1,300,000 tons of oil u cake or meal, and 1,.300,000 tons of hulls, from t which it is supposed that 7">0,000 tons of paper v may be made. If the hulls cannot be made into f paper they can be ground up with the cake into y meal and fed to sheep, every ton being capable t in conjunction with the wild grasses of the South, t to keep five sheep during a year. Thus the waste ^ of the cotton fields will fatten sheep enough to ? supply our woolen factories, while the sheep " folded on the cottou fields would so fertilizo the 1 soil as to double the crop of cotton, and the mut- r ton could be sold abroad to the full extent of v any foreign demand. Vet the soil now in cotton a in the South is less than two per cent, of the a area of the Southern States, and the only limit 11 tl to the extension of its culture is the power of ^ picking cotton. The future of cotton, when it can be secured as readily by machinery as the wheat crop is now save 1 in Minnesota and California, is simply something incalculable. In this connection Mr. Atkinson truly says that "there never was so great a Geld suddenly opened lor (he introduction of new tools, new cotton \ gins, new presses and for every variety of impleinents and processes."' It is for this reason, among others, that Mr. Atkinson strongly urges i the setting on foot of a great exhibition exolu- J sivcly devoted to cotton, in order to probe tliorougltly "the secret of its kingship." What is e that secret, he asks. Is it because cotton or s: cotton fabrics "are almost a legal tender for all it the other commodities that tlio world yields or a needs?" Two hands, ritli their children, on go?I la id, will make and pick twenty bales a 11 year, and another hand's labor will gin, bale ll and move this cotton to mill, one operative will 1 convert it into 8,000 pounds of coarse cloth, fj enough to clothe 1,000 Chinese or 3,000 East Cl Indians for a year. Thus tlio work of four " hands per year on cotton supplies the clothing needs of four to eight hundred times as many '' people. These things can only be properly y shown by means of a great cotton exhibition, in lt which all the possibilities of the wonderful sta- P pic can be adequately displayed, and Mr. At- j kiuson calls upon the agricultural department, the cotton exchanges, the Northern associations j of manufacturers and the Southern associations of planters and farmers to co-operate in bringing about the much-needed exposition. There w lias as yet been no such exhibition anywhere. and one which should be adequately and prop- |i crly got up would nstonisli the world quite as j, much as it would benefit (lie wcrld's foremost ? industry. b ' * n North Wkstkr.n Corn Crop.?Chicago, August ^ 23.?The Commercial Hullctin has replies from ? correspondents fiom two hundred and fifty conn- a, tics in tlie Northwest, from August 10 to the r, present time, as to the condition and prospects 0 oi tnc corn T,l? rcs,,U is ,ho y < P that the stories of tlie drought have been much T cxntfirot'aled- anil llial tlm ..< ! CO ? ?"V aavv o 11 u i 11 .j UI I M the past few duy3 will doubtless remedy a great ! it part of the evil from drought. The crop will o ecrtainly be a largo average, the damage being g confined to narrow limits. In some districts I' tlie crops will be the largest on record. This is t' true of Iowa. The summary shows that twenty* 1! five counties report the condition as pool ; i?i c icport it fair; 1 OH good; 02 excellent. Illinois, v the largest corn State, reports five poor, 10 fair, 1"5 good and 7 excellent. ? - ? t Titr. Mexican IIaniu is.--San Francisco, August 2i.?A dispatch from Tucson, August 2"i.? A dispatch from Tucson, A. T., says: ShcrilV . lhltncr with a posse left hero last night to inter- '. cept and arrest the Mexican brigvnd Reyes, who with his band were reported to be in this vicin- j ily. ltntner met tliein about eight miles from ^ tow.i and a fight ensued in which about fifty shots were fired. The Mexicans tied, leaving several dead and wounded as well as their animal s ami weapons on the field. The shcrilf fol? lowed but soon loot their trail in the darkness. The bandits are supposed to number about fifty. A company of United Stn'cs troops is now in i ' pursuit of them. t 1 , A tj:lent Convention.?t incinnnti, August ' 2">.-.-Tho deaf mutes of America arc holding here to-day their first convention. There is a | fair attcidance from all parts of the United States and t'anada. Robert MeUregor, of t'incinnni." was rlcMod president. I A Wisb Movk.?The farmers of FdgedcH county have organized a Planters' I'rotcclivW Association, the object of which is to extirpate and stamp out the illogal and dishonest traffic in seed cotton. An executive committee, consisting of one member from each township, is canvassing for members, and will ofTer a reward of one hundred doliats for proof to convict any person or pcrsonsof violating the law regulating the sale of seed cotton. This is a wise move on Ihe part of the Edgefield farmers, and we would lie pleased to see similar organizations formed in other counties of the State. The (radio in teed cotton after night has been and is yet a ;rcal annoyance to the farming interests in many sections of tlic State, and by all means should Je stopped wherever practiced.?Anderson Inlel'i'jtnetr. REPUBLICAN EXTRAVAGANCE. Washington, Aug. 9, 1880. Tho Republican party has been wout lo tu&bJ Ihe Doditerul* ?nBJe of uldiinr enoriiinuslv to tho nulilio. hiinlon o ; J ?# ' I ^ ind vaunts itself upon its economy in public ixpcuditures. An investigation of the :luims of the Republican party may be of ionic interest as well as surprise to sonic of four readers. The war burJcucd the c ountry with an inoruious public debt and a grievous system >f taxation. These matters demanded at he bauds of faithful representatives in Congress, a rigid and ctlj)cuvc system of reform md retreuchuicut iu the public expeudi ure. With this immense debt overhangtig u.s and a burden of taxation that it was iluiost impossible to pay, tlte Republican tarty having the Executive, and control of ?otb Houses of Congress on the 3d of March 873, the act commonly known as the '"salty grab" Was passed, the saute being retorted by General GarGeld, then chairman >f the committee on appropriations, liy hn measure the salary of the' fresident vas increased from 525,000 to 550,000 icr annum. Cubiuct otliccrs to 510,000 a ear. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court o 810,500, aud the niue Associate Judges o 810,000 a year each, the salary of the speaker of the llouso of Representatives to >10,000, and that of each Senator and itctnbcr of the House to 87,500'?this upon he 3d day ot March 1873. Wliou Cou;ross was just expiring, the members of ^hicli had already served their two years, t a Gxod salary of 85,000 a year, this ct was made retroactive, and gave to each icuiber of Congress 85,000 extra for the wo years just served iu addition to the 5,000 stated salary. The unjust and unrarruutcd measure w >s enacted when the utiou was groaning under uu already euorious burden. The amount of this salary rub cau be summed up as follows : 5,000 additional to 300 members of Congress, m ...S,S3UJ100. Ldditiou to President's salary, 825,000 addition to the Judges of 8ucio rwwi jMV.'IilL' l/UUI V, ClU.UWU addition to Cabinet officers, 814,01)0 Inking a total of these salaries ?1,837,000 Resides this the salaries of all the employes of the House ami Senate were increased, .? as to aggregate 800.000. So tint the ierease in salaries made in 1871 and 1878 mounted in round numbers to 82,000,000. The compensation of the Senators and Lepresentativcs in Congress was formerly xed at ?3,00 per day and mileage. In 857 it was made 83,000 a year and inile^c. In 1SGG. both Houses and the Excutive being Republican, the compcusaon of Senators and members was increased >80,000 a year and utile ige. In 1873 ic compensation was raised to 87,500 a ear and mileage, but in 1874 it was res >red to 85,000, but only done so to apcase the howl of their tax ridden constitunts. For many years the salary of the udgos of the Supreme Court was 84 500, nd the chief Justice 85,000 per year, lu 8G7 this was iucrcased to 80,000 and 8G,00. l:i 1871 to 88,000 and 88,500, and t the same time nine Circuit Judgeships ere created at a salary of8G,000 each, ggrcgating 854,000. The salary of the 'resident was increased to 850,000, per year, ist at the expiration of Grant's first term, iving him the benefit of the increase on oth terms of 8200,000 in all. In the icanwhilc the expenses of the Executive Innsion under Republican rule from a lore nominal sum run to 875,000 a year, nd one year of Grant's administration they cached 870,000. This is Republican dfcpmy with a vcngcnce. The lTcsidt^M | meo cost tne country ?!20,(101' a year.? ] his together with the large donation, and i...:.i:?? lIU91U1L? lUtUlY VU UJi UIC a I L o 1U i. I /1 l?ll V II.I II, I i a linnnci il point of view, an enviable no. Not only have the expenses of our overnment been Really enlarged under tcpublicnn rule, but what is still worse lie pure and elevated bearing and patrioton that has formerly surrounded the Exeluivc Chair has given away to greed, fraud, ice and violence. The above is but one of the uiany expenivc luxuries of a Republican administraion.?CoRDWAlNBll, in Pickens Sentinel. ? ... . Potato Floor.?Potato flour, or the tried pulp of the potato, is attaining great niportanee in the arts. It is stated that in iuncashirc, England, 20,000 tons of it are old annually, and it brings at present in jiveipool about double as much iu the mar;et as wheat flour. It is used for sizing ind other manufacturing purposes, and \hen precipitated with acid is turned into itarcli. When calcined it is employed as a Iressing for s'lfay . Tlu: Keokuk date City wishes to know fa retired baggage-master can bo nppropriUcly referred to as the company's exjheckor. Many, a property owner is poor in purse but rich in deed. The civil engineer would like to bo nionH^>orail ho surveys. J" . I' ijMannn JO THE GREERBACXEBS. ' | \W; Ooi.uM^a, August ICth, 1S80. if, W /ftt/fniC'ti/, Esq, 1'resident I'ine Grove Greenback (Jlub, Ctimdcn, ?S'. ; My Dka u Snt?I am in receipt of yours of lGth inst., in which, on behull of your club, you inquire my views : First, upon the fence question, and secondly. Ifnthcr L believe in workingmcn controlling the government as well as supporting it. With regard to whether the crops or the live stock of the country shall be fenced, it is n questiou purely of cost and convenience to those interested, and to be answered by each locality for itself according to the cirI ( llmubncintllnl tilminul it r'., 0WI IUUUU IV. VUIIUIU V.UUU* (ics in ihe Slate and ccrtrin townships in other counties have adapted tho plan of fenciug the stock, and would not willingly recur to the old system. Other countries L prEStr furring ctf cropw inrm con venient aud least outdensome plan to them. This is done under the State law, giving the respective couuties and townships option in the matter. it appears to me that this optional feature of the law iscuiiuently wise and should not be changed. It is a matter for the electors in each locality to decide for themselves, aud the wishes of the majority must govern in this as in other matters under institutions such as ours. If it is the purpose of your questiou to inquire my views upon tho application of this law to your township or couuty, I have to say that having neither property or residence there it is not my busiuess, auu I have no opinion ou the subject. To your second question 1 reply that nowhere in the laws aud Constitution of this State are the people classed as working men or idle men, rich men or poor men, intelligent uicn or iguoraut men, or iu any other manner than as electors and non-elcctors. The qualifications of electors arc defined irrespective of class, aud the qualifications to hold 'fhcc is the same ag to vote. I do not believe in class legislation or class government, but in the government of tho people by the people and for the people. 1 have thus respectfully aud fully answered the questioos you have addressed me; but with your permission 1 will venture t) say a word more to the geutlemcu of your club, which I trust will be received in the spirit in which it is intended. The title, "Greeuback Club" implies views upon the currency. I'pon this subject different opinions prevail in the Democratic party it?elf. These difforeuccs the National party have subordinated to the vital issues at stake in this campaign, aud it behooves us of South Carolina still more to close our ranks. The Republican party will tindoiihLedlj make I'llft yfltf,,, and its success means with us this very class legislation and government. It means, as our experience lias taught us, the predominance of vice and ignorance in the State government, and the suppression of all that makes South Carolina fit for freemen to live in. The struggle for the life of that State will bo a hard one. Lot 1110 unplore you to postpone until the victory is won all of those minor questions up m which good cit lzeus may well differ. It will be a sad day for you and me wheu if can be said that through our differences and bickerings we have remanded ourselves and perhaps our children's children to the filth of Radical rule. Very truly your obedient servant, Joiinson IIaoood. Another Home Enterprise.?Eight years ago Thomas C. (lower, Otis P. Mills, Hiram I. McBrayer aud George Heldman associated themselves together under the firm name of Gowor, Mills & Co., and founded the West End Shoe Factory. They did not find the busiuess a profitable one, and in 1S78, the firm dissolved, and after some litigation, the establishment was sold, aud M cssrs. Mills & McBrayer, two of the original owners, became the purchasers. Natives of North Carolina, aud possessed in a large degree of the energy and thrift which characterises the sous of the Old North "State, they at once commenced to reorganize the factory, and place it on a paying basis. They employed skilled workmen, obtained new and improved machinery, and the business of the last year has beeu gratifying and profitable. The work they manufacture is considered of superior qualify, and although their rnaoufacturc docs not embrace the finer quality of sowed work yet they make eleven different styles and qualities of shoes for men's women's aud children's wear. Their goods arc eagerly sought after, and they supply as far as they can the growing demaud in nil the upper portion of this State and in Western North Carolina. Every shoe made last year was sold, and the demaud was greater thau the factory could supply. Like all other well conducted Greenville enterprises they have to increase and will enlarge their facilities so as to keep pace with the increasing trade. With improved machinery for pegging, and wax thread machines, for sewing and binding uppers, and auxiliary instruments of all kinds they turn out good, honest work, which is rapidly superseding the "shoddy" and paper soled work of Northern factories. The factory is in charge of W. C. Smith, as foreman, and every pair of shoes pass under his inspection before thoy are placed upon tho market. Ten workmen are employed, and tho daily product of tho factory is about sixty pairs of shoes of different kinds. The yoarly sales amount Co over ten thousand dollars, and with increasing demand will probably this year considerably overleap that amount. The leather used is tanucu in urecnviuo uounty, una ute rectory iii^r.dded much to the prosperity of the West End.? Greenville jVru>8. A woman isn't fit to have a baby who doesn't know how to hold it: and this is as true of a tongue as of a baby. THE MAilTTSirANCI^^OIlOU^^; King hoar, battling with the storm without, can think of nothing but tho greater storm within, And so he tears oft' his clothes. We aduiirc tho conception ; there is sublimity in it. All for honour, like all for love, makes a good heading for n play. Hut just below there is a single step, and if you take it the sublime will pass into the ridiculous. The followiug is an example : In the records of Chivalry there is a curious narrative of a company of knights and u?L. i? i .1 ? lumis WHU UOIIIII1 llieillSt'lVCS U?r lOVCOl each other to follow a particular code of usages, of which a part consisted of wearing thick clothes in suuiuier. and thin in winter, to show that the p wcr of their love rendered them insensible to the difference of seasons, a vow which was maintained with sueh perseverance that the greater part of the devoted company actually died ufcuMti** ' ? 1 | To ridicule Honour is bo part of reason. I am far cuough froui ridiculing it when I bring forward such a piece of extravagant lolly as that of the knights and ladies who dressed by a code. It is in advocacy and admiration of honour that this little chapter and some others yet to' follow will be written. The '-Code of honour" itself coutains some things to be admired. Only, iu view of some modern cases of men rendered insensible to moral differences, as the knights above mentioned were to the dincrcnce of scasous, it appears to be worth while to inquire, What is Honour? And I shall try to answer the qucstiou froui uiy favorite position?that of an independent moralist. There is "honour among thieves." So we aro assured hv that form of conimou sense, shaken down and settled, which men call the proverb. Speaking then, uot froui personal knowledge, iu this case it would bo hazardous, but speaking in the wisdom of mankind, let it bo repeated, for it is proverbially truo ; "Thero is honour auioug thieves." Is that "Honour Bright ?" Manifestly not, aud yet it is honour. How can *1.-4 l. y uiut uu : Dickens lets us into some of ibo secrets of thieves in Loudon ; and his renders will remember that one of the greatest crimes in thdr estimation wn* lttn tilnli " means to betray one anothar to the police or public. Faithi'uluess to one another, then, must be one form by which honour ninong thieves expresses itself. But this is Fidelity, and is closely related to Truth nnd Honour. Then, besides, there is a slang word iu our language?we know uot whether it comes from the thieves in London or not, bnt it probably does?and that word is "to crib." The "cribbing" of something is understood to mean the dishonest concealing ot it. Now, strange it is, but true, that npfflliflrj.trK.nl. flrimn anin.iw ifci?jM " >lla I concealing of ill gotten gains from one another. The commonwealth is the only wealth of their community ; plunder kept back from the general hoard is robbery. If a thief should steal from a thief in the same gang, ho sins agiinst honour. If he should steal only fioin an outsider, he is a man of honour; that is, as houour goes among thieves. . Once more, insubordination is a grout crime among such people, because they make laws and respect laws, even while they break laws. This curious fact was remarked upon years ago by one of the wisest men that ever lived. lie says : "It is a pleasant thing to consider that thorc arc certain people in the world who, having renounced all laws of God and Nature, have yet made souie for themselves, which they strictly obey, as for example, robbers, &c." The code which thieves make for themselves is of the nature of a compact. To disolcy, for instance, the orders of the prin VIJM1., ui iu uvv VUUinn > IU U1IU Ul tnuu unil I regulations, is to violate the compact; and I it is a compact of much greater realistic value thau that other of the old fashioned Socialists. To violate this compact is disgraceful. criminal, fatal; to observe it faithfully, is honourable conduct among thieves. And all this is Honour. Its presence and influence, such as it is, cannot bo denied. Where, then, lies the difficulty ? I answer: Everything depends upon who are the judges of Honour. Such honour as thieves make for thcui.s^pcs and such standards of right and wrong as they raise and follow will not do for honest people. Honour is not always "Hooour Bright." It may exist; it may be even a prominent feature iu the constitution of a society ; but if that society be not true to human society at large, if it be not true to human nature, to morality iu its entire round of duties and virtues, then ueithcr will its hon our be true ; it will bo imperfect, defaced, smirched, it will not be "Honour Bright." I would say then, that the only honour worthy of the name is to be looked for among honest people. And why not? Any schoolboy will tell us that honour nnd honesty couie from the same root in the Latin (Ohms, honor, honos, hon est us ) Some reader perchance, will think this is departing altogether from the subject, and may even be tempted to put down this paper with a shrug, or an ahem! of compassion, as much as to say, honesty, as we understand it now, is quite another thing; a thing of a certain socially distinct kind and description. Let honesty be looked for among good, average, honest people. We shall always look for honour among genthnicn. Ah ! my friend, not so fast. You and I ought not to differ or diverge here, for do (If (lAf L.vl Ii mail Lv. ? t f. 1 | nu ia\sv uuiii nm? vu uu miu iu vuuiiuuu | honest nnd gjntlemen f I shifll have something to say in another paper about the genticuicu. Hut, for the present, you will do well to hear a few words from one of my oldest authorities in morals, Cicero. He says : "The honest urn (literally the honest thing itself) is the icsult of, and inherent to, all tho virtues." "Whntever is good is commendable. Now. everything that is ' commendable is honest, therefore whatever i? good is honest." Good boeoincs com estimable, (or, as wo moderns sny, honbur* able) Whatever is honest is either virtue itself, or luo effect of virtue ; and when human life conforms itself in nil thoso respects, Hiid preserves n harmony with the virtues, then we are to look upon it as being upright, honest, faithful and agreeable to Nature." Plainly, the Latin identifies the holiest witii the honourable. and the Kuglish of u few centuries back almost did the same. It would ho vaiu to force the identity now upon modern usage, fur no doubt, it has its own reason for being as it is. "But, ut least, the close relationship between the two words should he remembered and maintained. The conclusion reached thus far would appear to he, that honour uiny exist, and even he fostered, within the lines of a close corporation, without ever realising its proper iikal, It dot* ufteajpifrl-gith the basest <t<y?tmr#tirc*. To p ruwJJH. our has bccu many a time dishonestly dealt with by its reputed friends. It could bo said of Honour,as it husbct-n said of Liberty: Alas ! how many crimes have bccu committed in thy name ! If then unon lookine around over all clas sos of society we should find men of honesty, fidelity and integrity, lot these bo our true uien of houour. But if we feo others having a reputation for honour among the men of their own circle, but rated as buying little reputation bcyoud that circlc-rknown to bo breakers of their bouds and words, reck'essly incurring largo debts to maintain a styIc of living beyond their means, lying to trades people and merchants, betraying sacred trusts and sacred tics of the home and the family?their honour being only of the class kind, should be esteemed uo better than that among thieves. It will not prove equal to that of tho old Stoics ; it will not bo "Honour Bright," or iu any sense worthy of tho name. In fiuc, the definition required by my owu terms is, that tho Maintcnauce of Honour means the maintaining of such a stnudnrd of moral priueipla in respect of law, order, justice, manhood, womanhood, truth, courage. purity, fair-dealing and decorum, as will alotio make tho individual worthy to bo esteemed bv himself, and to be held iu uood roputatiou by society at large. ClIAMl'ION. USES FOR STALE BREAD. 1 . Make dressing for meat : crumb it fine, turn hot broth over it, season, odd butter nnd a well-beaten egg, or nioro, according to quantity. 2. Make bread puddiug : soak two hours in sweet milk, tbcu beat eggs, sugar aud spices and bake. I sometimes add fruit. a l' Pill Hi ? qpWd?taagareea uiilk, mash fiuo with the hand, uiix in your biscuit for breakfast, adding snlt, lard and soda. They are better than without the stale bread. 4.. Make pan cakes or gems : soak over night in sour milk, add well beaten eggs, corn meal or graham flour to make a batter, nnd soda and salt, aud bake on a griddle or in gems pans. f). Crumb fine aud put then in tho next omelet you make. G. Toast your bread : seta pan of milk on the stove, but do not rctnovo the crcnui from it, add butter nnd salt, dip tho bread in this and scud to the tablo for supper or breakfast. 7. Crumb fine and put in your tomatoes when you are stewing them. 8. Pound fine, seasou, and roll oysters or fresh fish in them, and fry in nice lard. Mortgage.? In the whole range of sacred and profano literature, perhaps thore is uothing recorded which lius such staying properties as a good mortgage. A mortgage can ho depended upon to stick closer than n brother. It has a mission to perform whicli never lets up. Doy after day it is right there, nor does the slightest tendency to slumber impair its vigor in the night. Night and day, on tho Sabbath, and at holiday times, without ono moment's time for rest or recreation, the biting offspring of its existence?interest?goes on. The seasons may chango, days run into weeks, weeks into mouths, to be swallowed up in the gray man of advancing years, but the mortgage stands up in sleepless vigilance, with the interest a perennial stream, ? ceaselessly running on. Like a huge night- \u, marc eating out the sleep of nouio restless sluuibcrcr, the unpaid mortgage rears op its gaunt forui in perpctunl torment to the miserable wight who is hold within its pitiless clutch. It holds the poor victim iu the relentless grasp of a giant; not one hour of recreation ; not a moment's evasion of its hideous presence. A general savage of mollifying aspect while tho interest is paid; (he very devil of hopeless destjyetion when the payments fail. Florida is Democratic?Florida is not now Republican, and never was, when tho voice of its people could be heard. Under the armed heel of rcconsiruction the Stafe" of Tennessee was in llcpublicnu hands, ah' though it has a clear Democratic majority o! over DU.UUU. ?o with nil the Boothern States, and Florida was undjr the domination of the carpetbaggers, supported by the bayonets of tho nrmy, who grounded arins.in the very halls of the Stnte Capitol. It will be admitted that the clnim of Florida being Republican in 1870 must rest upou the superior numbers of tho blnck population. Look at the census of 1870 and balance it by this supposition, and it will be seen that in 1870 there were 96,057 white inhnbitunt? to 91,689 black, showing a majority of over 1,000 of tho white population, and uccoss?? *!?? n m I i t a ooto ra 111 j a uinjui njf wi niiuw IVIVIOI It has boeu proved that kindlinerhia firo a niifcr stuck n cork in wth nozzle of the bellows to save the little wind that wus loft in it. f