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' ^ ' '' '''"''l/ !!!' TWO DOLLARS l'EU ANNUM, j. GOD _A_TS 3D OTJR ?SOUNTRY. ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. VOLUME 8. SATURDAY MORNING, JULY II, 1S7L NUMBER 23 Celebration of the Fourth of July by the Militia?The Campaign? Speeches, &c. Early on tho morning of (lie Fourth the members of the Militia Companies composing Col. T C Andrews' Rcgi . incut commenced to gather at the armory which is kept in one of the lower rooms of the County Jail. Lieut. Col. A F Rrowning was active in gating op a -good display, and succeeded re markably well. After the Regiment formed into lino, they inarched up and down ltussol street, beaded by the baud of music belonging to Capt. Abrain Dannerly, hud thence down Rrougbtcn strc :t to the grove in front of Mr. Rowc's, where the speak iug commenced. Lieut. Col. Browning was elected tl.nitnipn, and on n.otion appointed J Felder Meyers, Esq., Capts. Rufus "Whetstone and Aikcn, and Lieut's Craves and Jefferson as a committee on the selection of speakers. The follow ing gentlemen were recommended to ?address the meeting : Col. T C Andrews, Capt. Abrain Dnnncrly, Lieut. Col. A FFrowning,Gco. Holivor, John II Livingston, W N .Mount, JcfTerson Craves, Rufus WhoUtoui, J Felder Me3'ers, J F- M Fouros. Col. Andrews not being present, a commit tco was appointed to escort hi in to the meeting. Lieut Col. Rrowning made a strong and effective speech, ?showing clearly the noeosssity ot a thorough unity of action in the llepub lican party, und a faithful defense of.its principles. Coli Andrews was here intrjduKod :ninl said it was not his intention to it.tike a political discourse. In the ?course of a month or so the camp ti gu would be IiiMy upon and then be hoped no be able to enter into a full di.-quisi lion on tie status of the Statu (! overu ncnt. Advised those present to pre ] arc their minds lor n hard fight, for there were men in the p.irty who would ?do nil they could to break it up. Ol ?course vote for who you please , but you will do it upon your own responsibility The Democrats were preparing to make A despurate effort to get the State back into their bauds. They are organizing tax unions mid hope to trap some of the. Republicans. Bewarb of them ; they mean the destruction of the Republican party audits principles. After express ing a hope to meet his friends short!) under moic favorable auspriccs, Col. A ndrews retired amid pro'onged yells of applause. v ? The Rand gave the crowd a lively air. ?and then listened with patiuuee to Capt Abram Dannerly. He said Moses tvas a thief ; that he had fallen out with Senator Andrews because lie. Andrews, bad refused to be made a tool of; that Scott stolen a great deal of money from the State and what little was Jeft had been cleaned up by Moses. Said be would go for Chamber lain and any other honest Republican tiominatcdby bis party. Mr. J Hermann W?hlers having anived lrom Eranchvillc was requested to speak which he did for over un hour in n very impressive and instru :tive manner. "Wo make tho following extracts : * * * * "On the 4th day of July 177(5, just 98 years ago to-day, the principle was loid down that 'all men are created equal; that they arc endowed by their Creator with certain inalicuublo rights; that among these are life, liberty, and tho pcrsuit of happiness.' Upon this the friends of freedom commenced to think of liberty upon n larger and broader scale, until finally their eyoa were turned to the condition of Ameri can slavery and its evi's and oppression 'If,' they argued, 'men are created equal, und endowed with the right of enjoying the pursuit of happiness, (hen tho institution of slavery is radically wrong, because no man can bniiiol liberty whilo environed in the shackles of slavery.' Hcoco you will see, that thero is a strong and instructive les-on to bo gained from celebrations of this kind. ?First. They teach ua that our fore fathers felt the evil consequences of a subjection to otbors, and rosolvcd and did, throw off their yoke of oppression. Second. That in doing so they do dared (hot nil men were born free und equal and endowed with certain inalien able rights. Third. That in doing this they planted tho socds of a doctrino that was destined to become universal, and ultimately culminate in the liberation of more than Tour millions of slaves. Had this principle never been laid down by Jefferson, you, my Cello.v chi zciis, might- have been still the humble hewer.* of wood and drawers of water that you wore twenty years ago. What started in the breast of your white friends the idea of your eiuancipa liou from slavery ? I answer, it was the do trine laid down in the instru tncr.t that made your former masters free j the Declaration that liberated them from the galling tyranny hell over thciu by George the III. and his * * * * Parliament. But, the hand of God is in all things, and when Titos. Joffers >n declared that till men were born free and equal, it was ordained that that sentiment should never be smothered in I reo America. No creature of Gell earth should be permitted to look upon his lot and that of his children a an interminable bondage. The feel ing might sleep for awhile, the friends of liberty might forget the condition of their brother fellow man in their jubilees over their victory over Great Britain, but the eternal wheel of justice was moving, and, sooner or later the last vestige of slavery must bo blotted from American history forever. And in the breast of Charles Sumner, William Loyd Garrison and olhcis *vere planted the seeds o( a genuine love of th it liber ty. which when it should become ripe in alter years, would traverse this country from fc?d to end ; take form and body from the justice orits caino au 1 risi ? in the oars of every friend to liberty. Your cause was Hlill for along fime, but the spirit which had been ordained the guardian of )our liberties, was never sleeping. It was the intention of the founders id' this Government that you should be free, and none but interested ones doubted the final consummation of the full meaning of the Declaration of Independence. + * * * Let us now turn our attention to the present and future, and discourse of them, drawing what lessons we cm from the past, to assist us in our Calculations. We find then the Republican party occupying a very peculiar position, not only as to its standing throughout t!i j nation, but at home. Alter the war, when all men were free and equal, according to the true intent of the founders of our country, tho former slaveholders, instead of assisting the newly enfranchised blacks in reconstructing this State, th .iy hold themselves haughtily aloof fro n any communication with the m.ost protnin cut of the leaders of the new idea. What alternative was left to the colored voters then but to go upon thoiro.vn resources and take in such white men a s they could find willing to join them*? Their former masters had no use for them, and in many instances drove thorn from their places. In fact, many colored families had to emigrate t> other counties because they wore denied a shelter under the roof in which they had lived for many years, while work ing as a slave for their master. I say thou that che condition of the Republican party is a peculiar one ? first, because tho bitter porti >u of tho white men opposed, and still opposo an enlargement of the black mil's privi leges, second?bceamc of this Opposi tion they caused the debt of this State to he terribly in creased which neccssarl I}'brought about high taxation. It may be asked how arc tho white men responsible't I reply, that if they had come forward acknowledging them solves whipped and ofTerod to take, a part in the rccotntructi m of South Carolina, that wc would not have had one half the burdens of which wo now grumble and complain of. Our government would huvo been innre honest, and taxation a great deal lighter. Rut. no, they muH stand by such man as Jeff I) avis au d tho impractical Toombs of Georgia. They said the now order of things could not last long, the white man was born to rule this country, au 1 uot m my year-i would olnpse before tho negro would show himself entirely and absolutely unfit for self government. Those pre dictiouists were mistaken. More thau six years have transpire 1 s'kicj yi)ti took charge ol South Carolina,.an! eery year has been an improvement over the one which preceded it. Of course our party has mad.; great blunders, but 1 charge hern that we are not responsible lor them. You know yourselves that the men whom you first elected to office were too p ?or to buy a decent suit* ol clothes. If they made money, who is responsible for it, tho tempter or the tempted? My belieF is, that had the Democrats refrained from trying to buy our first Legislators the charge of corruption could never havo been laid at our doors. The members went to Columbia perfectly ignorant, not knowing b..w they would p iy their board, and least dreaming of bribes, and but lor Democratic villainy would hive been stainb' -s to day. 1 charge that for the corruption which exists to day the opposition is responsible. And what must we do to prove it up in them. I will tell you. We must go on in our course. We must stau 1 by our colors and elect none but Republicans to office whose honesty will redeem whatever ol* error has been committed by Our party heretofore. The advice of men in our own midst to make a compromise is unsound. None but cowards ever suggest such measures, lie who is couscious of the j uprightness of his own c iulrsc, ujvor .vunts any such thing. We were now about to entering upon another campaign', and need I say that the enemy is better prepared than ever. They have their tax unions where we used to have our Union Leagues, and every colored man they can decoy into them they will do so If be will not come willingly they will use fo.*ce as they did iu G')-7(). What must we do? Show ourselves firm and tin daunted. The threats of Democrat-!, the declarn tion that you mus-t do tho bidding of midnight workers must be disregarded and set at defiuanco. The Republican party has been trampled under foot long enough; its leaders must stand by its colors once again, the bone an 1 sinew of the country?you my fellow citizen? ? will not see its flag railed in the dust, ai.d we must say to the opposition once f:r nil, way with your compromises. Let each man stand by his party, and ere b ug these struggles of ours will be come u thing of the past, and letlhccol nrcd voters take courage and fight their buttle out. Let them remember that as f ir back as 1770 was sown the seeds of their liberty and tint to day they are enjoying the fruits thereof in n manner which skeptics never thought of. Cipt. Rufus Whetstone was next introduced, and made one of his strong and characteristic speeches. Ho was followed by Mr .lohn II Livingston who was listened to with marked at ten tion. Mr L told the colond people thai he thought emancipation day should be nearer their hearts than the Fourth of July; that from that period many of their race commenced to enjoy the sweets of liberty, and finally, all of them were endowed with its privileges, lie expected to address his friends more filly after a while, and closed by cougiatuluting them upon the success of their celebration. Mr \\ X Mount was the last speaker. Ho was proud to meet such a large crowed, but thought if it had not been for the Republican party n much larger one would have turned out Hentern bored the time whon n call from any body would summon hundreds of men to a meeting. Times had changed and it was now bard to got up a respectable number Told the colored people to watch their leaders more scrutuni/.iugly . He declared that he was disgu sted with many things that were carried o n in his party Had warned bis friends of the danger of electing Moses in 1872 ; his predictions bad booh verified. Moses had disgraced himself and almost ruined the party, and was the last man to try again to lead it out of the wilderness Thought; there were good men enough iu the Republican ranks to fill every ollice iu the State. At this stago of the proceedings a committee from the Comet Fire Engine Company arrived to escort Messrs Emvu ing, Andrews, Movers, Mount and others to partake of a eolation they h id prop ir cd, a full account of which will bo found on the inside of the News. The day passed off. quietly, and did credit to Col. Andrews, Lieut Col. Drowning and the various militia officers. The Kemblcs. ?j' _ The Gre*t Sidhoxs who Starred the potatoes?the g re at ii am let w;;o had Pains amp Aches ? a i \ e m a it ic a u i. k Family and all A uo?v Them. The marriage of President Gran't daughter lo Mr. Sartoris brings hi m and his ft milt in direct conncctio n with the Kembles. their fame as players, No faiiiily that has over .strutted its fretful hour of celebrity behind the foot lights has equalled in pre eminent his trionic ability that ot the Kemblcs. Mrs. Siddons, greatest of her raffe, and her brother, Jobu Philip Komble, shone as the brilliant particular star in the dramatic firmament of their da)*, and that day is regarded by grave stage au thorities as tho golden ago of the En glish f-.tagc. As Garriek, Rcttcrton, Peg Woflington and 31 rs. Abington went out, the great Sarah .Siddons Hash ed rui'thc world like a meteor and snuff cd out all minor recollections. Nor did her brother, tro^statoly John, take a much lower rank among men. He held the stage as the Hamlet par axcellencc and the representative of characters in the higher range of tho drama during Iiis continuance of the boards, and it j was not until the elder Kenn rushed be fore the people with his fierce natural ness-'-lhc very antipodes of Kcmblc's stiltr?'l dignity?that the world learned to kijjw the true distinction between j art aid nature. While this may be saidvof John Kemblo's peculiar style and multitudinous mannerisms, the charge docs not exist nor hts ever cxis ted his sister, and while at this distanoa of time we are unable personally to judge by how much or little the censure of unnatural stiffness was dessrbed, we know that in his time he stoo l without a rival i.i his profession. We als > know that to .lohn Kctublc the honor is jdue of introducing correct cos'.umo on the stage; that while David Garriek, the French English Roscius, played Mac beth, Caesar and the other heroes of Shakspcaru, classic and otherwise, in a court suit, silk stocking*, bag wig and diamond shoe buckles, Kc-mblc moun ted the Highland costume and the llo man to .':o, and by so much lent a gran dor completeness to the illusions of the .scene. Till'. first stack kemule. When Hoger Kcmbl? managed his little company of strolling "vagrants" so they were styled by the act of parlia mcul ? the profession of an actor in the provinces of England was not as it is now. Roger was said to have been *a j hair dresser before his vaulting ambi tion rctirtcd to the stage. He hosted of belonging to .1 good old Catholic fami lv, and some of the Kumblc biographers claim that one ancestor fought stoutly for the king at Worcester, and another, j a pricot went bravely to his death lor his religion. While thrre^is said tobe 110 direct proof of this, there is the in direct cvidencc~ofgentle blood?dl" we tuny admit of such a characteristic in a republican land?sin J)C severely el issie facial outline, majestic J'orm, imposing dignity and 'stately courtesy of every member through three full generations In the opinion ol many, these [talents of good birth will stand the test, without further warrant from the horald's col lege. roger kemule an j) sally ward* In 1752 Roger joined John Ward's company, at Coventry, and fell gin love with th*\ manager's daughter. Sally Ward was very handsome, and is said to Iiavc "once been tempted by a coro net. *'a conceit which though it may read well of tho future mother of ;the Kemblcs, is quite unlikely to have Joe currcd to the daughter of a f pour stroll ing manager, without acceptance. Ro gcr was bitterly opposed by John Ward ! ?a respectable Irish actor and man? j but when the father saw the further objection, was u-clcss, bo very judicious ly gave way ami they wcro married. Ward made the match the occasion of a joke against liin son in law. Ho had declared that Sally should never marry an actor, and in marrying her to Kern ble, be bad kept his word. They were married at Circnccslcr. Hoger was a Catholic and Mrs. Kcmble was a Pro testant, and the agreement was made that the girls were to be brought up in the nmthcr's faith and the boys in that of the father. In due course of time they bad a family. Four boys and tight girls. Sarah, afterwards Mrs. Siddons, was the eldest; John Philip came next, then Stephen, then six girls in succession and Charles the eleventh. Eight of these grew up. Sarah Kcmble I was born at JBrccknock in Wales, in 17.r)2,ata little tavern in the High street, knowu as tho "shoulder oi" mutton" It was a droves' house. John Philip Kcmble was born at Prescott in Lan casbire in 1757. Connected with the birth of Stephen there is an incident; Hoger and his company were still stroll ing, and at Kingston, Mrs. Kcmble had to play Anne Boleyn in Henry the V III during which the birth of Elizabeth is to take place. When she reachel her lodging that night Stephen saw the light which surrounds his birth with dramatic interest. SARAU ICEMIJLe's FIRST A PPEARANCE. Was as an infant plienomconon. She was led down by her mother to the ftj it lights to recite the fible el*' The Hoys and the Progs." Her first dramatic appearance is said to have been in a barn at the back of an old in. By some authorities the G reci.t 1 Daughter is named as the play, while by others Leonora in "The Padlock" is claimed. John Ketnble, being intended for thc pnesthood, was sent to Sedgly Park, a Catholic seminary, where ho remain cda four years, and then left for , the En gli.-di college :it Eouii, in order to per feet himself in theology by a regular divinity course. John had before this frequently appeared iu his fathers com pany, indeed although place 1 at school while the sompnny remained in town for a few weeks both Sarah and John were utillizod whenever the cast requir cd it, enter siddons. In the company was a young act>r named Siddons, to whom Sarai: bocams much attached. The father disapprov ed the mother grudingingly consented , but Siddons was paid off with a bjnefit, at which he sang four or five verses about a discacded lovor, and bad hts ears boxed by Mrs. Keinble when he came off. Then Sarah was sent to be ? lady's maid" to a Mrs. Grcathoad in Warwickshire, to gat If cr out oftlie way of Siddons, but he siw her fre]Uontly in her dependent position and they married Jut Coventry in 177J. Her first appearance as Lady Mebcth was at the age ol twenty, and she says that her terror was so great, in Iiot stu ly of he* part, that she threw herself on the bed without the power to unrobe or blow the candle out. TlIK LIFE OF ft STROLLER. J nil ti Komblc, while concluding his studies at Douial, discovered after six years of stu ly, that he had no vocation for the priesthood, aad rettirne 1 to En gland His father would not receive bsni. the company made up *a subscrip tion and he joined a strolling company. He did not slay long, but for several months led a vagrant, strolling life jbc iug turned out of lodgtng.s and reduced to very uiip'casant straits for living and clothing. Application was made to bis sister, at the time preparing for hor debut at Drury Lano theatre, and be joined the theatre at Liverpool. Sarah Siddons, went to London, and was a failure. Some say, and sho her self soys that sho .vas made the victim of Gar rick's jealousy. Sho returned to to tho provinces, and among other parts played Hamlet. In the year 1782 *sho returned to Dury Lane under the man agement of Sherdaia and in Isabella ro versed tho verdict by a brilliant tri umpb. CHARLES It km RLE AND MISS DE CAMP. David Gnrriek brought some dancers from Vienna, and iu the troupo was a Miss Do Camp. Tho daucors wero hiss cd /rom tho stage and returned to Fraccc or wherever they belonged but Miss DcGamp, who was Frcnob,rsmaia ed in England, learned tli3 "English lau guage, became a pleasing actress and also Mr3. Charles Kcmble. The issuo of this marriage wc* Frances Aone Kcmble, afterwards Mr3. Pierce Butler, and Adelaide Bemble, afterwards Mr3 Satoris and the mother of the young Sartoris who has just married our 'Prin ccrs Nellie. Charles Kemble *vas edu catcd at Douai, and was a ripe and ao complished scholar, imposing in ^figure, though without tho stilted dignity1 03 his brother John. He was the youn gent but one of tho family, and wa3 horn in 1771, the year of his- sister's first appearance at P/rury Lane. Iu 1792 3, he made bis first'appearanco, as Orlaudo, at Sheffield aud in 1795, through the influence oT bis brotheY, at Drury Lane as Malcotn in Mcbcth. His comedy was superior to bis tragedy, but bis brilliancy as an actor liqed with him until ^bc ioft tho stage in 1836. In IS 10 he reappeared for a few nights at Lovcnt Garden, which was then under the management of Mma, Vestris afterwards married to lindes Mit thews, still ^'living. He came to the United States iu 1832. On tno first ap pcarance of his daughter Juliet he was the Itomco, and her mother was tho nurse Mr barles Kemblo, oi his rj tirctnent, wa3 appoiotcd examiner of plays, in which position ho romiinei until his death in 1844. Mrs Fanny Kcmble was a grand suctess as a trugo diune and might have equalled her great aunt; but she married Mr Pierce Butler of Philadelphia and lert tho stage, from .whom Gnally sli3 w.t3 Bopa rated and divorced. She is still living, wc believe, cither in this country or with hersistcr, Mrs Sartoris, in England Miss Adelaide Kcmble received a throng musical education, and modo her first appearance at Drury Lane theatre, eith cr in SomiramiJe or Normn, Eiu nglish opera. Her success was stampod at once, but her career oa the lyric utaga was of brief duration- She mirried Mr Sartoris, left it immediately and has never returned. Of John Kemble nod Sarah Siddons it may be said that their lives were made up of a series of professional and social triumphs. The greatest in tho laud in arts and letters were their friend and associates. West has immortalized John Kcmble in his celebrated painting of Hamlet and Sir Josua Reynolds, in his portrait of MrsSiddoas as the Trag ie Muse, did her the honor to affix his name artistically in the embroidery of robe, the only picture except oOc to w hich he ever placed his name in all his lifetime MrsSiddous died iu 1831 at the ago of seventy six years. John Kcmble retired from the stage iu 1817, and died at LausAuno iu 1823,,a rain of learning, of elegant accomplishments and of unblemished honor. Take them all iu all, as a family distinguished for pre eminent ability, personal worth and personal attractions, the Kemblcs wcro as remarkable in their time as tluy ora remarkable to read oi" now. A company has recently been formed in London, w hich from the florid graudi loqueuco of its prospectus, might sup posed to have Montague Tigg, Esq , for president. Tho document states that the company has been formed "to supply a want which had long been felt by tha provisions of hearses and carriages of elegant construction and appropriate noss, with such symbolical adornments as were calculated to doprivo tho sur roundings of death of their ghastiy and repulsive features, and to assist in the i uspirat ion of bright hopes and elevating thoughts of the future" k The Brooklyn, N. Y., superintend cut of public schools having niado a report that iu his opinion the co-oduoa. t ion of the sexes in tho schools was dangerous and tended to immorality, the board of education, through a com mittcc, investigated tho matter, and at !heir last mcctiug discussed the whole subject. Tho committee reported that tho system is simply dangerous, and ro commended that he realtor the sexes bo separated. The report of the committee was fiually adopted by tho board, whioh made an order iu accordance with the recommendation of tho committee.