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Selected Poetry, fi LOOHABER NO MORE. th [Otr fellow-fftizens of Gwilo birth or de- St scent. will appreciate the 'ollowing lines, go( recently quoted at a Highland society din- h nor, in London, and asoribed to Dr. Charles MoKay. We copy them from the London sal Seotipan, whero they appear for the first oin tine in iprit:j to Farewell to Loohaber! Fiarewol fo:the glens, ap To the streams and the oorrics, the straths gil and the Bous; t,h "arewell,'oh,Threwell to thy beoutiful shore, - We'll may-be return to Lochabor no more. No longer mounts upwards the smoke of our W' fires, th No longer for 'fts are 'the homes of our sires; tic No bTead 'rom the winning comes -in az the co door Loohaber I Loohaber! farewell overmore ! Sc In the days that are gone, ta the ola happy w( titne, Brave men were the glory and went.h ofhe sa olime. But the grouse and the deep noed the kall- In yards of yore, iIt And we'll inny-bo return to Luhaber no tc more. Bight gladly we'd oling to the land of our N birth ! And fight for thee ! (ie for theo i pride of the SC Earth! tl But men without hope are as drift. on the ( short - Loolaber' Lochaber! favewell eveirnoro! l Varowell to Lochabor! ils -cloud -covered w Benls, Its clear wimplin' burnies, its bonnie green glens, The holy, the desolate, beautiful shore- h We return, we return to Loohaber no more. e Farewell, oh, farewell, and wherever we v roam, 0 Thy name shall be symbol and watchword 1 of home; The ocho of joys that no time shall restore, 0 Lost I lost I with Loehaberl lost ! lost I ever- O mote! Cnanas~ McKtay. y [n'om the 0harlRion CIw. C SEYMOUR AND BLAIR. r v The Ratification Mass Mooting-Speech I of Wade Hampton--- SpeachoR of Hon. t W. D. Porter, James B. Oampboll, i Ohms., H. imonton and Othirs--- A Grand Don .ntration---The D 3moora o Alivo-Ohoors f3r the' andidates--- 0 oitory for the Tiokot, &c., &o., &. t THE BrAND. t t The s6tand for the speakers were ( Preotec opposite the entrance to the , Chanrloston Hotl, and of itsol( constitu ted, from the beauty of its arrangoibent, , an attractive feature of the occasion. It, c was in tho shape of a paralellogram, above which was a transparency corres ponding With t.hree of its -ides. This j transparoncy boro upon its front the 1, legand "The Union and the Conistitil-i lion ; our beau ideals, S4eymo.ur and t .lair," while upon either end wvas writ ton the name of "Blair" and "Seymomt" in letters which could be read from one end of the street to tho other. Light was furnished by a row of gaiijets, which, a addod to the four brilliant reflecting t, lamps located on the four corners of the square, served to render the place almost f as brilliant as day. Tins transparoncv ; and stand were richly decorated with flags and the historic palnotto, and b above the whole was a fine portrait of the immortal Washington. f The oyes unused to such scenes, the r coup d'ei1 as vicwed from the stand vaf N at once uni<Ine, beautiful and imipressive. i Inunediately in front of the stiid th e inassivo shapo of the Charleston.1 jtol t loomed 11p% into 11, night. Every win. dowv a boquect of be'auty ; th upe por tico a denso dee'p frintce of animauted love- r liness, and its lower~ gallery thronged f with a crowdl of humanity in breeches. to move among which was a task not to f be courted. Between two of t,he large central pil. lars a huge transparency was fixed, Onil wvhich was pamited a large portrait of < the Presidential candidate. On either I side of the stand many of the stores were brilliantly illumitnated from basement, to I roof-t tee ; Chinese lanterns and it thouns and flickering lights brilliantly illumina-i ting the night, and bringing out in bold| reliet the most, attractive features of' the . scene-fair womenn and( brave mn, the c nngel of the hospital and the veteran s of the field. t No language can adequately do- a scribe the erowd. It was simply im-t mnenso. The lowest estimate miado, s and it was certainly within bounds, a for every standing plae was oceupied i by human beings for a distance of nearly two squares-was that fully eight thousand people hnos assembled s to grace the occasion. Whben we say people, we moan the best and most t respected citizens of Charl oston-th e v mechanic, the clerk, the solid man off[ business, and representativoes of al Id the professions. Added to which the o faco of every building in the vicinity v wa.s animated by the presenoo of a o bevy of ladies in almost its every win.. fi dow' 51PEECHI oP GENIERAL WADE HIAMPTONI. 01 The Grand Army of Democraey, LI assembled in Tammnany H-all, have 01 offeredl to uis honorable terms and a t' lasting peace.. [Applause.] T1 h e Radioals insist on our dishonor. The anake a declaration, and call it peace. t< Oan we hesitate between the two par- tl ties? Is thei-e one true man in the to South who would not prefer to meet in defeat on the. D)emocratio platform fut rather than to scuro sucOSs by pla.. am ig' himself en the platformi of the of Radicals ? [Cheering.] No Southm- al ern man can stand on the latter with- th ont dishonoring himslf aind dliirne. 01 ing the country which gave him Irth, yi .LookJ as the uther, and see how broad, at and just, and comprehensive are its b< primolples, and say if it is not such a pr platform as we can all stand upon with cht Mafety and with honor ? [Continued Lh applaus.) fr< As8 it w as my good fortune to be on pr the comnmitee whielt framed this inatru- wI ~2et, It aiay be.interesting to 'on, elh prhaps, to learn the details by w ?tich w< itar erfected, an h iw fthose A4 yott,are aware the Committee on 13h Resolutf ils onsisted of one mnemberi An frvtii each State. On aammhiling ih wa. nd that a very great difference of nion existed. Among other resolu. 1 as offered were some declaring that 1 iright 6t stuffrage belonged to the I ites, and this was annonnced to be a i )d Democratic doetrno. I agreed to I propositions, but at the same timA 3, that it seemed to me they had it.ted one very vital point, which was declare to what States the doctrine ilied. I thought it was necessary to ard andlimit the declaration, and to ond That. we might know at what to we coM go back and eay who ire the ciiizeiis of the States, I asked it they wouli declare that these quos. us belonged to the States under their istitutions up to the year 1845. mtlemen were there from North, uth, East and West, and by all we - ire met with extreme cordiality. They d they wore willing to give us every ng we desired ; but we of the South ist remember that they had a great ;ht to make, u-nd it would not be licy to place ufion ihaL platform that hich would engender prejudice at the orth. They, however, pledged then Ives to do all in their power to relieve o Southorn States, and restore us the nstitution as it had existed. As we ure met in such kindly spirit, I could >t but reciprocate it. I knew that I as representing the feelings of my peo. 10 when I did so, and I told them that would withdraw all the resolutions I ad qflered, and no doubt other South rn delegates would do the same, and lould accept the resolutions offered by e Hon. U. Bayard, the Senator from telaware, which declared that the right suffrage belonged to the States. I dd I woud take the resolutions it they ould allow me to add but three words, hich you will find embodi,.d in the latforn. I added this: "And we do. laro that the Reconstruction nets are )volutionary, unconstitutional and oid." [Iinmnse cheering.] When proposed that, every single member of 1o committo-and the warmest men in , were the men of the North-conmo )rward ind said they would carry it. tt to the end. Having thus pledged iemselvos, I feel nsssurad that when ho Democratic parly come to triumph iy will show us a remedy for our mis irtunes in their own good tinie, for 'hich I am perfectly willing to wait. Such is the history of our platform ad such were the motives which gov. rned the committee in its forma on1. As the representative of South Caro. n on that committee, I present that latformi to yotiu in t, earnest hope that will neet your ceordial approval. As my own share of th work pnrforiel i the committee, I can are my fel )w-citizenis that the only objects lor viich I laborcil wore to make it a Rtrong nId honest platform, one that would ecure the rights of the South and pro. oct the honor of my State. It is for ,ou to say low theso objocts have been ilfillod. [Long and repeated cheers )r Wade fampton.j Now, gentlemen, the platform en. odying the principles of the Democratiu arty has beeit givenI to the country. Jpon that platform we have place(I as ur candidates, for the Presidency and rice-Pre:.ideney, Horatio Seymour and 'rank P. Blair. [Great applause.] nd we accept the gage of battle oll'red y the Radticals. [Great cheerinlg. A oice-"And noe'll whiip emi too."'] What arc the issues involved in this iomentous struggle, I need not tell y on, >r you know they involve life or death. uccess will bring to y'ou deliverance -om a tyranny that galls and oppresses ou everywhere and at all times. It till drive from your borders, and con. gn to te infamy they so richly have arned, the base brood of' satraps who ave domnineeted over the South. TPhe men who dhegrado the profession of arms y waging war on uniarmned cit.wzens; ho disgrace their uniforms by becom ig the sicophiantic tools of a proscrip ye piolitical party, and who use the rbitrary power placed in their hands nily to humiliate the white race by eekinig to establish the supremacy of lie black. [Vociferous applaus.] rictory will bring even more than this ) us, for it will give us, along with con titutional liberty, the right to manage nid control our own State government accordlance with the time-honored rovisions of the Constitution of the Jnited States. TIhen may we hope to mo the restaration of honor and dleccncy ithe conduct of affairs ; we may hope see our rulers as of old, mntelligent., atriotic, native-born--and white. Great cheers.] In that blessmed day of eliveramnce we shall have no carpet-bmag rmnlitary governors ; the burean agents 'l miovo to more congenial climes than irs; our State L.egislators <qi aing the elds of political science, can find more >propriate if not more remunerative nploymont in the cotton a1nd rice fields iey have so recently abandoned ; and ir members of Congress, those p)a iota "Who, be It undersfood, Af their country for their countr'y's good," curse ours by their presence, can turn ei r attention as cevalice's d'industr'ic other more allurinig lands, or retiring disgust from the nmidst of an ungrate I people, can find Isuitablo occupation Ad accounmodation in the p)enitentiaries their own States. [Laughter and plauso.] The filth, greater thani at of the Augean stables, left on r soil by these vtultures, whbo for three are have been tearing at the heart of r bound and prostrate State, can then swept away along with thoe who sduced it. Our halls can tlien be ansed of the verin now infesting im, and once again, disenthralled and ,~ our State can stand as of yore, mu,as e/pares. God speed the day, on, lifting our hands from which the uekles have been strioken by Heaven, can exclainm with grateful hearts: my latul in ft'ee, un East to West, from North to Souith, garrisons borself, ~tyrants rule no more. [Overwhelming applause.J These, gentlemen, are the inestimable Plessings which follow vidtory. I i.are tot Contemplato the consequences of (l eat. I have said it will be death to us ; t, will be far worse than death; it will )e a living death, crushing ont, by slow mgering torture, the strength, the pros erity, the very hopes of our people. All ;hat we have been :aught to vale ,ruth, honor, virtue, manhood-will sink brever in the seething cesspool of Radi al -corruption, and in the grand and pa ,hetie language of Scriptetro, "Our Qun ihall go down while it is yet day;" and when that sun which shonld be shining n all its meridian splendo'r does go down 'n storm and darkiiie, there will be here, eternal night. Oonshtmiionnil lib r,y and .republican instutions will Ais %ppear forever in A m,rici, and this p16. ple will enter on that downward cart er whichli has led all former repimdic. Lhrough anareby. corruptio-., misrale and blood, to their graves. These are the broad and vital issues presented to you, aind you should meet them like men. The past is irrecug ble, and it does int, becomo brave men to weep idly over its buried hopes. A noble work, and I trust a higher dt-sti ny, are before us. Let us seize the op. portunity presented to us, and by cour age, perseverance and zeal, chain victo ry to our banners. I honestly believo hat we can do so. Let us determine that though 'ti not in mortal to command success, we'll do iore, weil deserve it. I conjure our people to dediatt all their energies to the work before us. Organize clubs in every localb.y ; send speakers through all the land to arouse the people. Try to convince the egro that we are his real friends; but if he will not be convinced, and is still joined to his idols) convince him, at. least, that lie must, look to those idols whom he serves as his gods to feed and cloth him. [Immensoclieer ing.] Agree among yourselves, aid act firtlly on this agreement, that you will not omploy any one who votes the Radical ticket. Use all the meons that are placed in yoar hands to con trol thi3 elenont by which the tadi cal party seek to degrade us while they seoure success, and we can turn their batteries against themselves. It will not do to say that the negro has no right to vote ; for right or wrong, lie will vote in the next lole tion, anIld his vote may turn the scale. Let us meet this as a practical qucs tion, and seek out of th is great evil thal has beln infileted 1pon ns, to work good for oursolves. Secure viotorv to the Democratic party, and we have an easy and prompt solut ion in that party of all questions which belong of right to the States thenm:elves, as does the question of suffrage, It ia not liiy purpose, however, to enter into a discussion of these topics of State policy at present, for I have had neither timo nor opportunity to propare myself for the task, My on ly object in coming here was to give an account of my stewardship to you, my follow oit-iens of Charleston, once more. And though this visit has awakoned sonic sad memories, it, has, 1 assure you, given ie far more of pleasure than of pain. It has offered an opportunity of thanking you for your repeated acts of kitnidness to me, of tclliing you how dtteply I appreciate themn, amid how earncstly I hope to prVovo myself wvorthiy of your regard. Vhat:over fortune's fate may have in store for me I shall always cherish in thme most grateful remembrance the many proofs which the people of-Caro ina have given me of their respect and esteem ; and wherever ni " future lot shall ho east-whether- kind for tune permits ime to spend the rest of my days in this fziir land 1Ini h- loved so well, or adverse fortune forces mc to wage the battle of litf0 undler other skies-wherever .1 may be, should this dear 01(1 miothier of ours call her sons together to defend her altars, if life and volition are left to me, none will respond mori c cheerfully and promptly than myself ; and at all timesc, under all. ci rcumstances, every where my prayer shall go up to Hea ven, invoking, as I do now, on my State and people the richest blessIngs that a merciful (God can bestow. [Long anid continued cheerIng,) W'ashumgton telegram to a New York Republican paper says there was much nmfavorable commurent amoiig leading Republican members of Congress on the cotton of the Southern miembiers, who got together in caucus onm Wednesday and resolved, among other thimigs, upon01 another attempt at impeachment. This attempt at dictating the work of C0:1. gross at this early day, especiially upon this subject, haa damnged thmo &>,rthern representatives iimmnselv. and thn fe'el inig on Thursday was decaidedly unipleas. ant. The writer adds that one reason whli leading Repnblicans tav'ored an early adjournment was the fear of the Lllmagimng effects of the condm(uct of their SoutLhern tools upon din prospects of the Radical party in thin Presidential elec tion. "Who lies down with hogs must get up'with.floas." W e rejoice that thg, 3arpet baggers are a thorni in*the side of their unaprinciphed masters. Coon CA?Im,.-The Nationa? In eW?lgencer, says that the now bill op ressing Virgin Ia, Texas, and Missis. ippi is worth fifty thousand votes to he Democratio ticket. And a writer n the Baltimore Gazett, says Thad ~toeens will shortly issue a letter ump mn the financial question that will be vorth thirty thousanid votes to Sey. nour. James ilaynes, of Orange, hias a borch-going horse, when loft by the cad-aide toseced on Sunday morning rill atart on a trot at the first bell broke, and tako bi. place in the meet. ig-honse nbad A Letter from Senator Ibolittle in Oppo sition to the Third Partf MoVtkent. WASHINGTON, July 18, 1868. C. . Oilran4er, Esq, Danville, Petn. sylvania: DicAi Sin: I am in receipt of yont letter of the 10th instant, in which, speaking for yourself and a number of other Conservative Republicans of your town, you etpress a "sense of disa'p. pointment and rpgret that no better names had been offered by the Detio cratic party to lead the conservative ind patriotic masses of the people to victory and the radical Repnblicai party to deserving and merited defent. As 1 goutleman and a statesman Mr. Sey moar holds our resptet, but as a peace Denorat we are indisposed to vote [or ili ;" and, you are ple.sed to say that, if my naie, among others, had been placed at, the heid of the ticket, "all would have gone well, and victory would have been certaifn." You desire my opinion upon the sitwation and "t,he prospects of a third pity." I thank you for te confidene thus repoted in me, and shall not shrink froft the-responsibihty of stating frankly my opinion. I do not think the organization of any third party is wise, or can work any practical good to the great cause in which we are engaged. In the very naturo of thig-l whe.n great principles are at stake, tiero are, and there can be, but two effective political parties. "He that is not for me, is against me," in politics .as well as in religion, is a truth tpon wi&h evelry wise man is compelled to att. What, then, is the great mnea para. mount issue ? What is that great and inpnrdonale wrong for whi.ch the radi, cal party is now arraigned and should be overthrown ? It is substantially this. In violation of the Constitution--iii violation of pledges made and often repeated, from tl first battle of Bull Run to the end oF the war; pledges to the North to get men and money ; pledges especially made to the Democracy to get their sup. port in the field and in t lie elections; pledges made to the South to induce them to lay down their arnis and to renew their allegiance; pledges to for. vyign poWt-rs to prevtnt Intervention-" in violition of all these solemn pledges, upon whinh we' invoked the blessings of Almighty God upon our cause, and by which almo we gained strength to mas. ter the rebellion-iin violation of the natural and innlie!nable right of the civ iliAed mn of every SEate to govern t.hmaielyes, and in violation of the clear provisions of the Constitution, which leaves to each State for itself the right to regulate suiffrago, this party has, without trial, by cx potfieto laws, disfranchi.4ed hundreds of thousands of the most intel. ligent or their citizens, and has foiced upon ten States and 6,000,000 of our own A nglo-Saxon race the universal and unqualified suftage of 700,000 ig. norant, and, in the main, half civilized llegrues This is the great wrong for which that. party is arraigned at the bar of pub. lie judgment, and for which it should be overthrown. To consimimato the great wrohg, they have abolished all civil governmnent and civil lierty even in these ten States they have e:stablished five military des potisms, wherein all rights to life, liberty and property are asubject to the will of one man ; they have kept the UJnion divided ; they have prevented the resto ration of industry ; they have kept down the credit of the Goverunent during three years of peace, to a point so low that, to the shame of every American, the six per~t er.nt, bonds of the United States sell for only seventy-three in gold, while the bonds of Brazil, bearing only four per cent. interest, bring over ninety in gold. They' have encroached upon the just r'ights of the Executive; they have threatened the independence of' the Supreme C )mrt; they have ttn Justly, and withaout cause, impeached and*'put upon trIal the President him self', and, by every species of denuncia. tioin, and even by threats of assassinna ion, have endeavored to force the 8en ate to convict him, in order to place in the IE.xecutive chair one wvho wyill use all Its power to consummate that gigan tic wvrong against the Constitution, against our plighted faith, against civihi zation, and against our own race and kindred, The Converrtion in N1ew York met for the purpose of organizing to over throw the party in power for this great wvrong, .aurcd to restore the Union and the Constitution, and the rights of the States under it. Now, I do not say the nominations made at New York are the very best that could have been made for that purpose.. Thle elements to be organised into a victorious army were four-fold, TJ.o use a military figure, there were four Array Corps to be or. ganized into our grand army: First The great D)emocratcf Corps. Second -T1ho War Democratic Corps. Third -The Conservative Republican Clorps. F13ourth-The Civilized Southern Corps. TIhe first, or Democratic Crops, wvas fully organized, with ranks we~I ll led, but not in sufficient nurmber to secure the victory. There was the .War Democratic Corps, which supported Lincoln in 1804; but which, in consed quenice of the great wrong, above.men tuoned, was ready to sever itself from the radical army under General Grant ; and there was the Conservative Repub lican Corps, of which you are pleased to speak of me as a leader, who1 for the same reasons, were ready to Join the grand army, and to do alf in their pow el to bring success to o.r.r cause, The two last are the reerniting corps. They hold the balance of power. As a mat ter of policy, hacd the flrst offie been given to a chief of the one or the other, it would have made onr 'tictory more' easy, if not more certain,d Everybody knows that the resak~ of this contest is to depend upon the imipor' tent qnest.ion, whethar we shall ho -able 1 'o -Oruit those two corps in sufilcient 111ambers, and carry 'thom 'to th hoa'rty suppd't of Mir. -Seymour. If we dg'j, victory is with us. If we cannot, victo. ry is against us. In my judgment, it is our duty to do so. The very life of the Constitution is involved, and with it, the rights 4'f the -States, and the liberties of the people. I cannot hegitate for one moment ; my judgment is for it , my whole heart is in itv. So far from relaxing, we bhould re double our -ffortg. Bear in mind that the War was ended thrde years ago, when a net ee'& was openC-d i 'pdlittal affairs; that Mr. Sey&oar is a ian of high character, of unquestioned patriot ilre, ofgrft ability and experience, wioliy wiLh us upun the living and paramotnt iWaLe; and ht, if elected, he will make a most able and dignified President; a'Wd certainly no Pennsylva nman1t will forget that, but. f6r his prompt. ness and energy in forwarding the forces of New York to Gettysburg, that gr6at battle might have been lost and Pei. sylvania over-run . while, in General Blair, we have a civilian and a soldier whose promptness and indomitable reso 4ition seized Camp Jackson. and saved Missouri frot secessiona, who always stood among the foremost of the War iepublicans, in council and in the field, while the war lasted, and when it was over, was among the first to demand that for which the war was prosecuted -the Ulnion )f the States under the Constitution, with their rig4ts, equality and digity utimpaired. Let us unite for a victory ! Lot us have peace-a peace which comes not (rom a violated Constitution and the despotism of the sword, but a peace which comes from a restored Union and the supremacy of constitutional law, by Vich alone [siberty is secured. Re spectfully yours, [From the Philadelphia Ago.] Ah Appehi to the Oo*ardioeofthe AxneMi ian People. Fellow-eitizens, we know you are a set of whito livered hucksters. We feel perflectly sure that although you were aware a great crime had been committed, you would refuae to hve anything to do with the righting of its victins, if somebody told you that there. by you might lose a dollar; and, there fore, we appeal to you, in perfect conlfi" dence, to support, its inl our crimes. it, is qtlite true that we have destroyed the fundamental principle of 'iir Govern ment, viz . a government founded oli the consent of the governed, because we have iniposed, against, their consent, a most hiatUful governmeiInt on a large portion of the country. 1-9Is niost trite that we havo passed laws coafesselly against the Constituiton ; we have done this opeIly Mnd -urnblushmngly, fin some instances we said~that the necessia ties of war required it; sometim2s that the ne-:essities of peace demanded It, and more frequently laughed at our oppo nents as "fools, clinging to the bi-oken spar of a wreck." W herever we have had the power we have thrust a brutal, i g n o r a n t race Into place and power, and put him over- 'vour white brethren. We have niade it so that ini an area of our country compris ing 058,658 square miles, no' honorable, intelligent., decent white man can assist, you in restoring our cottu'.ry to its for mer glory. We have created out, of the virtue', the worth and the edneated part of this section of the country a disaffect. ed class. By these meatts we have, through the Senate, secured for ouri par. ty absolute control of this Government, withi all of its 1-ich patronage, for at least fostr more yeares Now, we are'told that some of you who,are thus skinned, disapprove of seine of' our proceedings a that you are not in favor of Congress interfering with the right of suffrage in the States ithat you dislhke to have your Presidential election deoided by negro votes, and that you object to carpet-bag Senators. This may all very well be. But mark you. Th~ese things ure all dlone. 'Phe negro will upset or not as we decIde your votes for President, and the car pet-baggers and bogus Senators are ail ready warm and voting in their seats. They are Senatoi's de facto, even if they are not decjuie. Now, don't you se~e that if you should, -by any means, not permit these acts of ours to continue in force, that you are creating civil war, Because with the vast majority of Northern votes with you, and' all Southern white vote, there will be an immense army (of blacks and carpet. baggers) to oppose to you. Don't you see that these puppets of Senators, whom we have put ini plase, will brand' ishi their straw arms at you, and theit inmmenso constituenceis, which they have at their back, will rush to their do. f'ence. D~on't you see how, since onr crime has been successful, you will be in rebellion against the powers that be, and carn it bre possible you do not see the civl war you will create, Don't you see that if you allow the white populas tion ol the South to have a governmemt of their own choosing, and Senators and Rtepresentatives that are irr sympathy with them, that the same awful condttion of1 thingsi wilil exist as existed before the war, and in the dark ages of Washing ton and Adams, arrd Jefferson, and their successors. Would you, for so unim portant, a thing as the preservation of your feotin of goverftment, incut this danger? Is not the reotr of the Southern whites to a shre i'n the Otev. ernent too great a price to pa' for scc an obsolete and trivial dogma, as that governinents rest. on the consent of thw~ overned ? We appeal to you, there rore, to sanectionk ont' iniquities, rather han' incur the awful dangers of preserva *ng your Governmnewe, dotnd ustice and rearing God. REULIGAx PuRESSEa. ORATORS. N~othsing~ so adornw 'e tface as cheer ns;wen the heart is in flower, ita >looma and beauty nams te the fatsna Are Farmers Quaoks ? Gil Bias tells us that he ierWd s Vlet to Dr. Sangrado, who 'pi him iothing and -gave him very littlb W it, but encouraged to drink water Troe l'y. "Drink my son, drink; you need not be afraid of it ; whtor is the reatest puri fer and invit&thUr. y no Tneans neglect to drin a great deal of water." Gil Bias followed his directions with fidelity until he bddhme to *661c and' emaciated that he began to thiiik of a new muster and better cheer. But the doctor would not give up so 'docile a pupil, so he took him ab i partner in his practice, after having *taugh't hirn tho whole science of medicine in one single sentence: "Make your patient, drink a grent deal of water and be sure to bleed him freely. Blood-letting and water d'inkiug aro the whole of plharnaoy." There is no Yieed to paute o desce his career in assist ing his master in depopulating thio C It V... NoW, many farmers treat thoi- lAnah in precisely ithis fashion. They feed their lands very lightly or not at all, and -they rely upon water alone to male a crop. In th meantime, they blood as freely as possible at every harvest, and then apply leeches to the surface (in the shape of grazing stock) to extract the last possible drop of blood. After the the syst'em has been pursued for some time, 4-he faiWr is astonished to Ond himself poor, his lan 'oo'r, and his cattle poor. Now. this is quackery, to produce a disease by injudicious treat. ment, and then aggAvato it by continu ing the same. I would recommewd to this ilass of farniots t:o ttent 'thei- Jands by one of the rules of the 'Mhmpsohi'n practice, by which they -cwe a great many patients, despite of their lobelia and steam.; I mean good feeding aA good nursing. so that nature may do the rest. It is worthy of note that lands, vell mattled and well cultivated, sel dom fail to produce a good crop, while those left to the fruct,ifying inOuences of water (rain) alono,1 Ihil partially or to tally in four cases out of five. I do not undervalue the rains, and dews, and sunshine of heaven, but, for all that, I am not a waterture nan.-South-cht The ColUnibla wdr1espo*dnnt t th'o Charleston Mercury, says: Thi -def/cto goV erfitdeht of 16tith Caloliha 6s hothiht more than the original Freedten's ti rea, fith its auxiliaries, transfereed fifnI th nittro. polis to the capital, boasting the safie chibf andi the sarne sibOrdinates, with a stifficlnt admixture of sable ivards to give it a color of title, and grim array of Pederal bayonets in the back ground, supporting this usurpa, tion, and furnishing the *holo tribe or ad Vicnitrors with eonfidenee to risk the 0p6l flitt. The native whit element found in afilia tion with this bureau administration, is ex ceedingly small, and is of the scallie or s0alV ordt; Carried Into the dondern by an dmbition for dlice. With the negroes It is different. A member of the'llottse front the up-country, a genuitie blault man, iald yes terday: "I ain't well, i,nd I feel frightened all the time. I didn't want to come here, but they said I must come, and now I'm frighteneol all the time for fear I'll do sone thing *rodhg, because I don'tunderstand the businless, and I fear this Legislature may do something to tear up the s tate. 'I'm a shoe. maker, and have my shop in -, andh wish I was in it now. I'd rather be hard at work there than sitting hiere." This statement was unsolicited, and the sincerity of It was 'written in every line of his face. Many of the colored members are decidedly Conservativo In tone, and sensible In the tieWs tihey expresS. A sleeping coloiteI member came very near taking the floor, without, consulting the Spea1ker by an Involuntary plunge forward, but broughft tipl against a table, which arous ed him to a wakitig sensti of the high legisla tiid 'esponsibilities dI~ the hour. ils next friend and colleague, soon after leaned for ward, and resting his head on the table be fore him, quietly and gracefully resignet~ himself to sleep. Next, tolhi was a white member wiho BItting f'olt, upright closed his eyes, and fot' acme time Indulged. No mo tid was made to deduct the napping tisfue ffofti the pay of tifdse indthbserd, The San Francisco Blulletin says : At earthquake wave, which followed the recent eruption In the Sandwich Islands, was trans mitted td ti dudst, ad recor'ded on the dIovetfamont self-registering tide gauges, at San Francisco and Astoria, in about, five hours. On the 28d of September, 1854, a filmilar wave wag tfttinfitted fromn th'e coast of Japen to the Golden Gate in twelfo hofrra and thirty -eIght miantes. It will be recol lected that this earthquake wave caused the itrok cif the tusant frigate Diana, In the port dfi hrtrada, and gr'eat Yoss of itf. These facts which are derived from the best authority, convey a very Impressive Idea of the treujnidfdug pow*er required to disturb th8 Wholo body of an ocean, for a distaffoo of front titredi to five thousand mriles, bf a roofemeitt distinct from Its ordI fiary tMdal swing. It WIlt be seen that the revulsion of the great tidal wave at ifawaii feffchedh this coast, distant, over two thou. sand nriles, in five boafs, and was ol'cried along a stfetoh of shore O4er thirteen geo graphical degrees In length. 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