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Teln Years Ago.
BY VANMLU.
Ten years %go datue fortune smiles,
. Were linked throughout our land;
And massive weulth in golden.pjles,
Was moved from hand to hand.
Ten years ago contentment reigned,
In every dwelling spot;
Till Southern pride with wrath disdair ed,
To bear oppressions lot.
Since tlicit how deep, how dark a cloud,
lath o'er our spirits hung,
Since grim misfortune wove her shrou'd,
And 'round our nation flung.
But now the darkest hour is past,
Ai sunshine beanis once more,
Otr'cOunity's lot may yet he cast,
Where countle a blessings pour.
Those da-s when peace uno'ouded shone,
A nd cast tile blisrul spell,
As good old tinies forever gone,
Will be remembered well.
Yet deep witbin each Sot.thern head,
Will swell an angry tide;
For every arm thalt bore a part,
On dire oppressionts side.
Loter from B. F. Perry.
On aasvt1.t.E, S. C., March 13, 1871.
To his Excellency Gov. Sco .
Sin I undersitand that you are
ponsulting yo-ur political opponents,
in every section of the State, as to
the best tuens of preserving order,
peace and the enforcement oft the
laws in South Carolina. You have
invited prominent gentlemen through
out the State to meet you in Colum
bin for this laudable and, patriotic
ptrpose. I believe, sir, tb.t yoM. are
110w sincere in this purpose,. notwiVit
staiding yor " Wtuchhsttr riw.e
a. *-iahingto t, .eur or tw.,
011 ou fieL.dishly 'o
ti al this intstri' ts'ent of doAth
qi i .hans.of tho te groe-4of Souti
C '. i n , as the :,o t eff cct 'e
. it n inast:aiizg order atnd quit i.
no . S. t.. .. retjvt'e to fiiad that a
btge has ' .nit over tibe spirit of
y ur h oitl.I i.n i.,ctioun ; and 1,
,or olta :n wadalnd willing. with all
the sood p., p:- of ., St ate, to a.
tuiin you in yar mwnt course. Tle
.tono a4ad t;tnper of yotif recefit nics
sage to thb L..gisinturo is evidence of
your sincerity.
Permit te to say to you, sir, in nll
candor and sincerity, that the signs
of the times indicate, unmistakably
to my mind, that we aro on .the, ove
of a. bloody turmaultuous.commotion,
unlesa something is done to .quiet
pub)o 9pii,9Ah, The iracetdiary de
struction of property qy'ery.tgight, and
the roguery of the . Legislature ,It
their.. appropriations and.. taxation,
amounting ultilnately to . confileastiop
of all real and persqnal. phtte,. caH4
not be borne much longer. There is a
point beyond .which hunan endur
;ttec catmnot go, let the consetjuences
2 be what they may. . , ,. . - .*
I1 know it -is nut in y'our- power to
reform the Legislature, or stay of
feetually their corruption, bribery,
prpdlrigalti and raguery. . But. there
are two things which you cant do-,ad
athould, do, the .sooner the better
disarm gour militia and appoitnt good
and i:ntelligent tmen to ofiee. ,A
the lawlessness and -violetnse. which
ea ve disgraced the State have been
owing to those two sources of mis
* hief. Never was there a more fatal
mistake, or a more diabolical wrong
eomnmitted,, than 'when you orgapa
ized colored -troops throughout the
S tate and put arms into their a hands,
* powder and ball, and denied the satn
to the white peeple It wa ptrn
cious. She bloody tragedy at Lan
reuas was owing to this, and nothing
else. The .marder ,of Stevens and
Athier whi~te men at Union by ope of
* your negro companies, and the subsni
* quent execution of ten colored pris.
crners was ow.ing~to the lame cause.
Sbe fearful killing and, murder of a
,number of nien at Chester was like.
wiso owing to .)our..-color~e4 mnilitia.
The violence and lailessness at
'orkville originated 19 one of your
worthless appointmrents. Heretofore,
Sour appointments have been mostly
made of ignorant and corrupt meOn
wvho cannot enforce the laws and pre.
servo the peaee.
The colored people of South Care.
hoa behaved well during our civil
war ; and would have done so, but
for the unprincipled carpet-bagget
who came amongsethern and stirred
op hatr-ed to the white face by ths
mostartfmml and devilish appeals t(
their fears and bad pasons. Olp
p rincipled,w ite use~n living amongs1
us, -seeleg ~a opportnAy .of. oflos
~tand plunder, joilned the carpetbaggers
j' These two elatses united in porsuad
ing the negroes that they would be
put back in slavery, uand that they
mus6 apply to; the torch to redte.l
their supposed wrongs I It is 'nc
tigrprising t~M. a people so ignora
-ad oreAnlans as the narras mra
iould tjus have beit . legl astray. 11
They wore told that .lands 'would be
!givonitihein and tbeir children educa.
;Ad.' Iundreda of thousands of dolA
.iars have beon aipIroprialod 'for thii
purpose, and all squanrdored and 8
stolen by their pretended friends ! r
A multiplicity of offices have been I
creatsed to,.reward political partisans ; 11
salarios ha. d boon increa.ed, and the 1
most extravagant, -wAsto of public 0
moneys in every way I The publio I
,offioers and thu members of the Logis 1.
lature are charged with the tost 9
shtmelebs corruption, bribery and I
roguery. It is impussible for the in- t
#u.try of the State t.o pay the taxes.
'There is no security for property ! s
It is iinpo.sible for this thing togo on .,
and preserve order in the State. t
The Staq bonds will not be paid. t
I earnestly desire the peace and fl
prosperity of my State. I did all
thxtLcould,.t prevent the.. secesa.ion a
of South Carolina and th'e civil war a
which ensued. My predictions of all a
the evils which have, enued were h
int'ed *th. hoori nbd. contempt.
,Those in power at the present .ti r
imlay not beed my predictions. again ; n
,but the da.y ipfast approaching when ti
you will realie all that I have said I.
unles some change takts place. g
Yours, &e, B. Fo. PBRRY.
. *. . 1' - . , ;. * tf
, addy Cain's Last Blast. I
Parson Cuin who is an ex-senator,
and one of the 'originul Jacobs" of 4
the Radical .iurty in the State, thus g
savagely reviews. the action of his -
forner cue lueagtes in an article pub
lished in the last number of the Mis
sionary Record :
Tile present t-csAon has cost the
Stuto .2*60,OO actual outlaw in two
appiopriations fur per diom nid
utileuge 'i4. attaches of tho two
houbses had4ei the printing and
Statehouse swindle, and all the other t
rabcalitics wbich are perp-trated on
a limited scale. There has been aev
eral free fights, and some threatening a
which did not cost the State iudha
bonor. The pasejo. of a n'imhe r of
!lyi of ,inipt) in poitance, wa b a
iarge.~narrer of ..matil pe~su biml
(e.. .ra (4. lie .un. totz. of L-O wo'rk
i a d
<(io C. Th-, o.e.; h.a b,-n rai-ed to -
it. ils, an( thls. F" are" t est throw n
away by, thei :J idacen bill .ft
railao-.ds, utalig theim to 'Fell aw
t
o n inte e i at wha ever p ice a
th 'y pl..s l-,f ish i . r..O . .t' t'e.)
wp- sul li. It Eo'oh if they choose
At ,JI events, .hu cuiupau', Ias the
a n.ili--:- of bun:!. wah ihe'Statt'sei
d 10 menT.,, at, rce ei fron the
.b igatia o: ,e iig the b.,nds "dol.
har for.d1l i, u r can sell at. s.uh
prices ar. ;hey can get and apply the .
motvy, UV tor y deo. 1:, .
V.;a ai,4db ad utn ed 'on ' ucsiday
night at low twelve. Afrer a long
".etting" they have hatched more
fraud sad.perfected more cortuptUon '
in. thq.t briefIfimie than the first wem- a
boro pe rpotratod inetwo years. Tney
returned hono to their constituents t
more ,bitterly denounced than any
clags oftmen who ever sat in the Gen- P
era 4senbly. The people are fast a
learning wvhaj are politis, nd a few b
mnote years will bring them up stand.
ing-'..-ti
Fighting beyond the Last Ditch. 10
*4 rather~singular incident occurred
ttithe Ienatgo tk e 4th of M aroh.
Et-Senator Sziu abury, of Delaware, .a
whose term had expired on that day e
and who bappened to be in his old .
seat .after the new Senate da et-gan-. Ia
ized, upon the readingf of a lying pro-.
test against the seating Judge Goldth- '
waite,.of Alabama, rose and comn
mened.todenduooe the mnfawno-zs doeu- I
ment, when ho was politely informed I
by a mornber that lhe was no longer .a1
Sensator I Embarrassed by his post-l
tion he -plead ,forget~fulness, akdI
pardon for theo intrunon and reird
Senator or not, though, "he had his
say," and it contained an tinwelcome
truth.
Agriculturai Education in Germany, t
J. M. Gregory, Regent of the Il
linois Industrial University, writingJ a
from Paris, In August, -1 869 states
that in a personal interview he in
quired of 1Baron Liebig if agrioultu
raleducation . In Germany has been I
successful thus far, taking the results
as a whole. The reply was that the
success had been very, groat. In
Hlesse, for instapoe,Ahp ialus.dcf ther
land bad ltiefeatled 30 0 per cent. . uae.
der the improved methods of eculture
introduced by the diffusion of agri
cultural science. This increase h as
got come throug~h enlargement .of
poptatin, b byactsa...improee
ment in the productiboero of the.
soil. ,..
TeA Thick-Li pped Member.
TeWashington correspondent of
the Blaltimore Gazette, speaking of,
the swesaring in of the new talemtbers
of congress, saya..: "The Appearane
~of the new comieru-who goite enceura
ging Th best face I saw amoog the
lo ftefew remaalog scalawag.
and carpet-baggers, was that of .the
negro.,w hose lips covered the whQo
surfaca of, the lid of the onorktous
Bible which he kissed with great
'ferior."
L Kid gloae nae maid to be dyed Wi6h
econsiruction a. failurc--More Troops
Need ed.
Governor Scott has called upon the
'resideint for United States troops to
aippress outiangesi ,-he Counties. of
Iuotn and York in South South Care.
tna,, where he report-i that men tare
mi:-Jred or driven from! their homes
iglhtl%, hecauso of their politial
pinion. Gov. Scott inlforurs the
resident that there is no suficient.
armed and equipped militia to
ive the neteded prutection, and tha't
le did have at himi disposal a compe
)tit militia fp.rco, there are no fuuda
j the 8thtte Treasury to transport. and
Absit them. Hi says that it is not
ist or rea-ouable in the Government
) expect him, with the limited nili,
try rebourebs of.the.State, to success.
illy meet in the field the trained
>ldiers who held the United States
b bay for four years, and often
ulieved signal triumphs over its beat
rmiices ;and that to expect this of
iml is to imitate the Egyptiaq system
ith a ruost grevious improve wont,
,quiring the making of bricks with
Aither straw nor clay. le state s
tat the Ku Klux, that were former
thought to be a more political
boul,a b1oodv spectre, conjured up
ar party purposes, is now a terrible
,ot, an armed orgatnization, thorough
equiped, having its field, staff and
n- oflicers, .Qnd ,qstabJisied lines of
Iimmu ient. He says that if Con
ress will pa.s an act guaranteeing the
tate a full reiwbursemnctt for
otneys expended in tiuppres.ing do
estic violence South Carolina can
Iotn obtain the necessary credit to
obilize lir militia , 'nuid then sustain
em inl the field. Nthintg but a
Prmanent glarrison in the disaffected
*etions will give the protection to the
en who are threatened with murder
exile, solely bk*-cause of their fideli,
to thie principles of government.
,i ani eviteice 4f the condition of
fairs tii South Carolinla, the facts
'e stattd, tiit, oi last. Monday., a
impany tl' Uuited States troopsi, that
it G(..lua.bia for York, had the
.atlnoi d tea' 1 tp i' tteir frotut by a
edyo' ar.. , l t n. d o e ,h;iged
t hsaly t ttoe ro d. Ou Fritiay
si, v 1t . Il Rep .icn 1iemJit er of atho
g 91 Laur., vo., t.a, paid elinti W
che tle , oad I ao infg I rom the capi.
I haea,4 ie oi welil g- oantlaei te .rs of
Kit K aix raid tpon their body.
>,). :ijte of tureo mtlembefs ef tht.
v-ho.lane of SutIth Caolioa will
rlve ie in Ia 1 d.y or t A-to t I ilay I th
.d tiltini .(fla a ,s i. Soi ,h Ca(o:i1.
ilk , ta- [Oe.(di g conserVat ivo
-mb1 a of l 8 ,'1. Carulinaa Legit.
aire i, one .1' the cuapaani' te.
Te mnovw t.xir:,e! A0 dip from thai
-oamang'an (o1 [a. dan of iha
t w Yvrk"Tr iueia The ed.to-r ip.
'oV e. l t II 1 ati ttat ot Gov.
ad expr sse the blp tbi:at the Fde
-al .; nuri ntit will fur.-iAh the r..
tisites farce to fl ret out and fpiiai.h
i fr.rmid ble Kit Klx cits wh osci
-etended acts have given Gov. Scott
iuch alarm.
TJ is application of Scott., approved
y Greeley, a promiitia loader of the
adioal party, is a virtual cortfession
tat "raeonsta notion" bus utterly fail-.
1. South Carolina was quick to no.
tpt the situation, and acknzaaindprd~
e *ighti'ulntes of reconstruornon.
ndeed, she was, if not the first,
mnong the ir4t of the 'Souther-n
tates whot yielded to the "march of
vents," and gave tip the government
uid traditions of tehe fathpre of the,
nuttry. And noaw Souitl Carolinab,
fter anD experience of fh e years of ah
aluto Radical rule, is again to be paut
aider the tut-ltago of the Federal
toyernment. With negro saupremaecy
i every bratieh of the - govern ment
ogre sooial equality enforodd ..in
laces of atmusement, on railroad cars
nd ..steatmboats, in ohurobes antd
ihool,- house--with a full and
atdreinhly equiipped negro militia,
lie (Governor .of the State confesses
bat a few disordely white pefsons in
we of the.Oountes are too powerful to
e overcome by the State authorities
ad plaintively begs assistance from
trant.
if negro.,reoonstruotion, after five
ears of F'ederal support, and five
oars practice in the arts of govern.
tent, cantnot protect its ergatnism in
outh Carolina, where the blacks are
umrericall~y much Ahe st rongest, what
iuaat~be'thd wveaktiees of the misera
lIe RadIcal bantilrng in those States
thoro the whito's have a majority ?
)ees not the condition of affairs in
louth Carolina, if they really exist as
lov.,8eott states, furnilh strong con,
letuination of the whole v.He- thinag
alled reconstruction'1' H-ow long
nill the Upited States be able to keop
ap and support a military establish
nonut strong enough to furnish each of
he Botithern States with a nuniber of
moldiera sufiliently large to overome
pposition which the entire ..tate
nilitia Is unable to acoomplish, and
Iaow long will the people of the
United St ates be twilling to be taxed
for this purpose I
There is no use tioing words- or
lIis iluestIon.- W~e desire to 1b
rrank and explicit. The "peopleo
the North ought to understand on:
yiews and with all candor thanktW~his
peole f te South will never adbmi
e et armo.They a a fo
a time, aqiO;W inl a .3onditionj wlhich
they feel they have tio power to over
throw, but as 00n as their hani1d4 art
united and their limbs unfettet ed,
they will assort thir manhood. Thi
Southern States cannot be mado over
to negroes and oarpet-baggers until tie
ontire white population io destroyed.
Thore is no desire to platce hiin baok ic:
slavery. There is no feeling of re
vengo against him to be gratifled.
Thero is no wish to deprive l.jiii vf
hit full civil rights -no dispe-ition to
wrong or harass him ih the full asser.
tion of those rights. But further
'than this the white race of the
south cannot-will not go. Grant
may send a large number of soldierm
into South Carolina. The -people
there will not. resist the soldiery.
Thero will be quiet--a hollow truce
as long as the soldiers remain. No.
gro supremacy enforeed by Federal
bayonota will be aoquiesccd in.for the
tiue. , But the soldiers can't stay
always. When the soldiers leave,
the white men will rise as naturally
as a cork will riab to the surface when
relieved from the lead which held it
under the water. ThoreOis but one
way to perpetuate negro sipremacy
it) the Southern States. The white
race must be utterly de4roye.d be
fore this consummation, so devoutly
wished for by the Radioals, can be
accoinplished.-Augusta Chronicle a
Sentinei.
Soulh Carolina In Wall Street.
The New Yosk Herald of Friday,
in its money article, alluding to the
Umarked rise in South Caitolina secn
rities in that market hince the adjourn
ment of the Legislaturei says :
The Southern list, .ycsterday, was
generally firtu, thed vi) ius issues of
South Carolina being particularly
firm. In the last nenitoned, quite
an upward ,mi'ovement has taken
place on the anuotmncuonnt that the
Legislature had adjoui ned, thus end
iig the application for Stute aid
from several railroads which were
')end ing during the sesion. A till
pirased to uathorize a sterli g loan
of X1 .20,)000, which is to be strictly
appli".. 14o1 the a afunadinig of the pres
ent debt as fast as it matmne.-., while
in order that the lo-m may go to
Euitope on favornble acrns, the ,ange
law en.ets that no loan 1. rI.ecd
in tILe 'ut nite without I he stalc'lon of
a t wo-thir di vdvto of t he poeple. Thr
last ae.-tionl unakes th13 limi-ari.oni f
tho steriling loan a contraict, atad
he'uc- the ki cannot be repealed by
tIi y : . 14 L-isldatur-, fair th, rea on
Iai '-- am airm-ni it i a ti(tit
Wila b - uoit.tl'i al ion al. Tio ne w
baa roll a 661 for aih A pril is
en1, w ih Calr, ..L AhreC P. cent.
06'1p1ih p 'S lCi- C it ulll o th l.I t,
of niet aaaaonth.
The Propusfd Fmnch Tax on law Cotton.
We have tha report. frini Par41
that the French governnent in:,-nds
to.levy a dulty . uliol imp11ort d law
m aerial.,, aind espal th. ra.w ita.
terilal of tex;ile f brlie, and that it
is expected that the tax oi cot toll
altne will ield a yearly rovenuti of
sixty to eighty' miliaons of franies.
Foreign manufacturud articlesa an to
be taxed proportiornate)y.- No doubt
poor Fraaace, unader the heavy flhiu
sial burduta~ of this war, will be com
pelled to tax to the utmost every.
thaing that will yield any revenue;
but the proposed..ta4 pp1on raw cotton
will be a great mista~e. It will cer
tainly operate not only to the advan
tage of the~ English cotton factories
in cheapening their goods as compar
ead with the increased prices of the
French goods of the same qualities,
but will operate to drive many of
the French manufacturers over -to
England4 or the United States. Sio
k&ris iwe are concerned, we say hot
them come and welcome. There is
a great field here for those Freneh,
manufactoriesa of fine gotton goods;
but the true.. politej dfth e French
govefliment is not that taxation poli
cy which will drive its manufacturing
interests out of France.-New York
Hecrald.
Agricultural Education In BavarIa.
In Bavaria every district school has
twoe or mor'e acres of land rattached to
it, and teachers are required 'to be
competent to instruct the youths in
the rudiments of agriculture as well
as -arithmetic or grammar. This
would be a good system to introduce
into our school systeum here. Au bour
each day devoted to the cultivation
of the soil would not only be a
healthful recreation to the young, but
woulud, lf* under proper direction
leave impressions in the mind that
would not hae easily effaced. We
should like to see this system of th<
Bavarnians .initiated bore. It couha
not fail if properly directed to b
productive of good results.
To Do liung.
Taylor Palmer and Henry Cannor
colored, at the session of the Cirocti
Court for l~onion County, were conivio
ted of the murder of Mr. M;8tevens
~aind were sbutenced to be hung on th
thlid Friday in 'A pril.
1A bill -for 'an- appropriation "4
$1,000 to purohsef a piano for aMrs
t. G6verioy filoorn waaidefeated Is 9)
r MiIspin House the other day.
The Value ofa Ho1op Skirt.
An .iiident so roiatitie and nun
sual, and with a denouemont so plem.
ing, occurred noar here one day ie
.eently, that I Rend the particulars t(
you. Lako Champlain, on which thit
place is -tituated. is one of the wos.
bo:.tifutl sbeets of water, probably, it
A mericu, and Cumberland Bav.
where one of -the most brilliant nava
etigavoments of the war of 1814 was
Yought and won by Commodore Mo
Donough, of the Ainerican fleet.
against the British, under Comamo
dore Downie, (unniics one of the
grandeat skating parks or ponds one
Could WWI to see. It is tho favorite
re.,rt of the young ladies and gentle
men of this vicinity on mnoonlighit
evenings. One evening, a ahort tiee
sinoe, a young lady and gentlemana
of this viLlage,. who 41ai- freltlantly:
been skating upon the bay before,
went out upon the bay, but believing
in the old exiom that "two is com
party," went to an unfrequented part
where they could eojoy the skating
and cacti otor's society unmolested.
After skating for some little time
near the shore the gentleman propos
ed that they should go further out,
where the ice was smoother, to which
shoicotansened,'auil 'they accordingly
ventured out about two miles. licro
they fund the ice in beautiful con
di ion, and the gyntletan ,was pro
eeding to the gtapo;ine; ,forivard
and backward roll, together with
many other fancy figures only known
to aboomplished katers, when suddin
ly the ice gabo waiy. bekeath him, and
in a moment lie found hinitelf btrug
gliag in the water and unable to ex
triento himselt, the ice breaki g as
fast us he itteipted to raise hilosolf oi
its edge. The 'young' lady, true to her
wounanly intiincts, began to oercan
at the top of her voice, but the priva
oy they had sought had taken them
beond the hearing of all who coil id
h::ve been of ericu to them. He
bcn.ought hoc ,.to .go to Ohe shore and
cueiavor to proeure- dsistaNe ; but
shewell knew he must perish before
al-t.*ould get back, even if she f'.und
. .ificult ' y in procuring -maistanco.
IThen an idea camo into her head, and
she immediately put it into exceu
tion. .
She: frut. took off her jacket and
edc;, and, tying them together, un
dertook to reach him with one end
but it was too short., as the yielding
ice wtrued her when shte moved to
w.ard him, and enleavored to thr ,w
him one end. What more could she
dto, i Biou Lmitated a moment ; thwn
0iipA. a[g . ti tier gaitera, hot li ntockings
were snon tied ite tje grnd ofthe dr. as
awt! ja 'et, irind yet ttlas tot) 4o. t.
Meiimeii t you n tg m an wu rapid13
be.minig exhlmustei, and if I: was
to saVe b11n fi, ttime wasu to ho Io-t.
- . inoin nt. 1tr ha ils di.-appeared
:In t draci-y aiat her waiat, ail
there tomn-hiig fell on the ice iabout
her teet-iu wai h, r hoop.stkirt. Thim
wtasqi.ckly hevered into half a dozen
piece and added to th. jactket, Ires.,
and astckingn and, to her great de
light, this made the lie long enough
to reath him. Bra% ely she tugged at
or.% end, of it., while he clutched the
other with th grip of a man whoknew
that that, was all which stood between
him and eternity. In a few miinutea she
lann~ed him safely on the solid ice,
and thon the red jacket and dress were
wrapped about her as boat they could
be, and the t wo started for bomne,
whero tiuey arrived wtithout being no
ticed by any one. Few wore the
words spoken on the journey home ;
but they must have been to the pur
pose, as the wedding suita are ordier
ed, and .ibefore- th ice shall dishup
pear .,from our beautiful lake this
snpring they will be mnarried.-Cor
respoindence of the New York Sun.
Democratic Gains 1n New York.
TFhe -No'r Tork World'says-:
' "The result of the mniipa'l eleo.
tions in the interior of the Stato yes
torday is generally favorable to the
Democracy. The gains are hand
some, and Troy-leads off with 2,000
iuajority for the Demnooratio eandidat e
for Mayor-a gain of over 1,000 over
Governer Hoffman's majority last
This does not look like-taking any
step backward in the groat Empire
8tate, which may now be regarded as
irretrievably- lost to the Radioal
party. One more success will enable
the D~emoorats of thme State 'to 'retire
the Hion. Roaooe Conikling, one of the
most Radical Senators in Con
gress. ..
The Wild flunt for 0fike,
The WVashington P1atriot' Aajs tfml
scramble for toilce was never before
Iso disgraceful as at tt e present timeO,
and rueat r'rdent seekers aftei' place
areolSenators and Represenrjaflves
.whose terms expired on tl(e. 4tb'in
sat. There is qitito a lst.1of Ahoso
gentlemen, nearly all of whda eaot
tA th'Presidept to provide for fIe.
NMost..of thet~j.eantiois to g olwed
, nd de ~ Cy f 4onse*1q vetee swrd 4lle
u of person* now dee~nrk -&hemsves
eurqyare espefe.. eh fs'ot 'that
thiese-perns have I een repudiated 'at
If horne doey 'not seemi te ha., auny
a tweight, or ffiest. * .
Files arc baglnmine bther.
An Ingenious IintentL
The following account. of an attempt
at highway robbery in Calcuti a shows
Jhat the ingenuity of rasoals is not yet
.-xhausted:
"Onl the afternoon of January 13th
the daily remittunce from the enstom.
house to the Bank of-Bongal at Cal
outta, was carried as usual in a
money obest on a wheelbarrow, drawn
by some coolies and accompanied by
a clio.kidar of police und a cUStm.il
hiinse sirear. Whon the party had
reaoced within a shot distanee of tho
baik-, on the- Strand roaid, a dar
ing feat was attempted. A man,
se0emi ngly an Eu ropean, with -is face
ma,ked, and mounted on a powerful
hu se, came up to the chest, suddenly
producing from under his clothes a
small piece of bamboo, wikth P, hook
itttaohed to one end itnd a knife to
the othei.
"The bamboo -itself 'was attached
to his wIist with a long picco of rope.
lie threw it on the chest, and the
hook catehing the iron handle of tle
box, he lifted it up by means of the
*ropo and commenced riding along at
a rapid pace. The whole of the pro.
ceedings, which did not occupy more
than a few :cco19bl, staggered t'ho
party in charg of the box, and the
man might have successfully matdo
away with the money had it not
baon for its weight, which broke the
handle u the box. 'Tlo box fell to
the grontid, ind tihe man rodo away
out of sight before any eno attempted
to seize -him'. The box contained
30,000 rupees, 7,000 rupees being inl
silver, a d the ;rest inl cheeks and
notes. 'ho phiice have not. yet suc
Dceded in gettihg any trace of the man
who thus, in the mihile of it day and
in a Clowdod thoroighf. . oteleavored
A) Comm it oine of ilthe III at daring rob
borios heird of fur t long (ine."'
Smnll Pox in New York.
The New Yorkl Democi at, in its is..
itue'of Motilay labst, says -
The simall pox still continues to anl
Ltlarming extent, and every intlica.
ion points to a heavy mtotAlity
Last week there were eighteen deatha
reported, and there are now onto hun
:ired and thirty-fiva cases of the dis.
Ouse in the city. Of thesie Otno hunit
dred and twenty-niuto are at thte l)s
pital ont l1aukwell'i islatid. /Timj
greatly increased number paelfed into
.t has caused a great deal of com
)laint. The majori~y of cases were
tioovered beween Twenty-ninth and
iixty-seond streets, qast of Third
Avenue, but the disorder became
icattered ll erer the (it y. Fifth
Avenon ein s contribtied two cabos,
Ind Madison Av.une ono
A Ilutytur itit Ilahe.
The St. L.i s Ht-publiean han ta
siecial frot l -ver, dai-d the 21st.,
which says it box ntt;itkedt F. C. Cross,
N-wtont oners, 3;.:. ., was left at
Wolls & Co 's express ollie ltat night
to geCntsL by the -K-.'s A Paciflo
train. uspicions were in some way
tiosed and oi examiation, F. C.
cross himself (a young ian who has
resided bure for some 8ome0 time) was -
round inside. le had a pistol and
ools with him, and the box litd a
.rap-door. A heavy shipment of gold
was to go east by- the same traint.
?)ross was arrested and placed in
jail.
A Dreadful Punishnient,
t1he age of mniraolett evidently has
sot eonsed. A mati won t into a rc
rival meeting in Liyorvil, Ill.,- a
ihort time sintee, annd was ivhakiung fun
sf the penitents, whtn ho fell on the
flook', and was carried out in an inisen
tiblho condition. A few days after he
sttemupted to renew his sport in the
same place, when he was stricken
down with paralysis, and at last aoe
eaounts, he had no usO of tongue or
limbs.
Another New Ilampsh ire Earthenake.
A tohographio dispateh from Boston
states that a shock of an earthquako
was felt about six o'clock Sunday
eveonitng in Now Ilamnpatire, and as
no particular localityja given, it; is
to be intferred that th Oafakce up 'was'
general in the state. This is the third
or fourth tibno en vthqutakes have oo
ouirred in Now .farifpahiro just -be
fore eletions, but they do not Boom
to do any good.
'- hie'illdi.mu athin Iriali h,
Dann Piatt, the Washinigton cort e
pandent of that itifluential Radical
journal, the Cincinnati Commercial,
writes that paper as follows :Every
one knows ifh' lie nows anything, thdt
we Republ.cans hate the Irish, and
-wdere4d be ety glad -te have a good lot
di thtemi hung (Tom tM arplay), while the
Irishi bate us, and would be delight
od to have the samo favor extendo-l t'o
the entire organization. An Irish.
man's Demooracy-ts like hi. religion
a matter of faith.
Bills Falled.
Xtuaopg $ie billa which <failea to
pass the House during tlie late sea.
eioni was one trotn thue -Senate relev
irig between 5,000 and 0,000 Southern
oi tisene, (nntioned by nmom) from
tho legal and poltical disibltios
mttposed by the fourteenth amend
ns to 'the.- Cojstitution of the
United State.
Another War Brewing.
The Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel
seems apprehensive of a war betweed
that city and the town of Ham burg,
as will appear by the fo!!o ving article
Iaken from that paper. The Chroui
Olc ays:
Now that the Franco-Prussian war
has ended to the satiaAction of
one of tho-pArties, if--not . the other
and the interest which dur. otitizeus
took in the combat hias ubsidodIt'here
comes a rumor of another war whiell
will tonch us wore nearly-one in
which the 'people of this city will take
a part. On ydmterday rumors were
rife that hostilities between Augusti
and Hamburg will soon be proclAim.
ed unless the govermnmnt of the lat
tqr place shall abandon the belliger.
ett attitude wbioh it has. sarnmed.-.
Before the war the nost cordial feel.
ing oxisted betwoon the two goveru
inents, but since the Africanizatiori
of Harnburg, this good feeling has
dwappeared, and each city has main
ta'med a throatenin g attitude. At
an election held in ll1atnburg a few
days ago, the sable veteran Prinoe
Rivers-the obony Murat of the
Carolina fores-and other notorioub
wai menj were elected to offoo by an
overwhelming majority. This itself
was a bad sign; but, as with the
avowed purpose of bringing matters
to a crisis, our own City Counoil, just
about that time, had the temerity to
pass an ordinance requiring foot pas.
songers across the city bridge to pay
toll. This at once precipitated mat.
ters. A largo proposition of the foot
passmfigers across the briege are im.
pecunious colored vagabonds from
Hamburg, and, as may be Imagined,
it mnade the hot blood of chivalrous
Africana boil with indignation to
think that when they wished to reach
the gin-tnills of Augusta they would
eitlier have to swim the raging Savan'
ah, or elso pay to a rebel city gov
rrntnent the nieklo won by honest in
lustry at draw.-poker or the string
uuame. They at onoe determined upon
r-iprisals, axvd on yesterday Prince
RiVers'issued a dreadful edict, and
postted it on'the Hamburg side of the
bridge, to the effect that any Augusta
oow which iwandered into his domin
ions would be arrested and not roleasd
3d until-a tiibuto of flvo dollars was
merdored. It is also said that they
breaten to levy toll on their side of
.ho bridge, and mulot overy Ku Klux
hat passes. Affairs seem rapidly ap
proacihing a crisis, and we had better
)egin to prepare for war. P. G.
3ani furnish a navy. and the other
wards an army, widoh, we think, will
be more than sufficient to crush the
haughty Rivers in the event that he
proclaims hostilities. If war does
!0omie, we- never will stop until the.
I., Inburg government is overthrownt
and our victorious forces have entered
the encmy's cupital in triumph, and
then we will annex the little burg
and keep it straight.
Washington News.
Elliott, of South Carolina (colored),
nad a strong appeal to the Repub.
iolons not to consent to an adjourn
nent until a bill was passod to pun
8lh the Ku Klux and protect the oiti.
tens of the South.
Morton's bill miak ing 'outrages
uinondable to -the Federal Courts;
and exacting iron-ohad oaths from
hI'oderal jurors, will be presented on
Monday.
The New York Tribune and Ifer:
old both predict disaster to the Red
publican party owing to the removal'
of Sumner from the chairma.nship
of the Committee on Foreign A ffairs.
The Heorald says ."Until yesterd,a~
the Republicans felt confident of darJ
rying New H~ampshire by at leap '700
majority, but thme !'ew of lbf dition
of the Senate ocans ffipbited to
denco. Whether if will gihe the'
State to the Democrats is. not certaitr
but it is evidbnt that the <juarr'el be
twqen.(hantt and Sum:Nt'is destined'
to produod''wpr of, factions in the
ranks of their party, at least, in New
Negro Testimony in Kentncky,
The confiet between the State and'
lederdt law in tK6Ytnbhy, on the sub
ject of negro testimony,'is' b ining.
to bear its legitimate fruit, and $h#
State has recently been the scene of
masked violence in ita very capital.
So long as the Statd laWn tomnain as
they are there can be no pelfeful so
lotion of the difficulty. ~The neo'
ocoupies anu anomalons 1dpstion. He'
can give evitleno' fin a- Ilederal. but'
not In a State ourt. He is a oltisen
of the United States and of the Stato
ats far as sulrfage gooes, but the right
of gidfsg bvldence, in whioh ho is'
proteatedbty the Federal Courts, Is
denied him by the State.' Courts.*
The result of this hybrid status it
antagonism between the State and
Federal law.
The usual cry In prqelaliin~ the
hour when on sentry duty, is "1 Itl
past ten o'clock and all's well I but~
the Dutchman who was on duty liade
forgoitteni the precise wor'ds, Adt rang:
out at the to p of his voiuel 4"Mo'
..ph den oloc k, a.nd all ish botter iN
g~oet 1'