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fi flulu i 'f t WILLI r Vis Proprietors.] A Family Papsr, Devoted to Science Art, Inquy, ndust andM WINNS130R, V.Vt.bNESD MONING, lAI -o ---- ' ,A Ill11 1' 0 IT lRl i I 0 nL.tsiiE VWEK'1LY BY W 1 1, L I A ls A V I S. 7.'rnai!-1410 IITIh'eA/LD ih published Week y in ( Town of Witastior, at *3.0fj nt jariaoy in advance. All IrtnRien. advertisements to bt FA!f N .i VA NCE. Obit tary Notious and Tribuies $1.00 por iquatre. W6810110tun NeWs. s%j'Il'INGT0oN, Moy 7, The folloiing interesting and in, portant letter was sent out to.day TiHKABUICY Di-rj.%TlIJKNT. OimFIC .I INAL RULV.:NUH, \Vashiugton, May 6. Gt:n:Iic---.I have r'eceived your letter of tho.98th1 ult., ,i:losing', for approval of this oflice, the centre pa t of a strip, arid being' a portion of WIIt seems t, I iVC )eern intended to boua lenmbla.ce to t an importait 61amp requirod by law to be affixed -to1all ciairs . im orte(l from foreign 4ouuntriC, refen i"g to the CUtom house, and desirind to be informed whjat you can jut upon dumestic tiga rs. In reply, I hav's to say ihat 3ou ure uniaprp that the law, (tmo oeotion p39-'gl ekiNed smatutes fou bids tiat any person shill afix to any box e($ptaining 10igars a stan,p in the fAlilituJo or liketo ces of ay staimlp rt uio twt used. 'Tle liws of the U ited Sts' whther the law be a tom or ieri I revenuu stainp, .dtelui.'ag as a feloly ad. iWpo.ilig a le' t ' les tL.hau otte liun red do ar no r 'nto rre auone t hous,an d dc ails s ion.imaa~itimnt for iot 1c:s than S .11,111tis Ilor illor! tian thteo Nears;.- i ase -ilvo'v. ing the right of cig.ar 'maiiufaetures to use upln cigar b. xe, stam1ps inl the siai.itude of 'the stailps put upon inporled eigars at thie cu.iom house receitly tried before hii hii honor J udgo letiediot, of the Uuited States circuit court, of New York city, the J udgo is reported to have instructed tIh jq, y that such Strips to ,e in the siaimiitudo or likeness,did not require that the repectivo -tamps should be all i.e,'I>nt thii~t tllre should be some resemblance between them. This view of the case is precisely in aceord With that which this offiec u i wa ys his and does st ill entertaiin in rulat..o to this matter. Ar ,erhavine oIL, rt at proper intern al reveitie i-tatup for the tops of cigar boxe, and anid'''I a utioni niotice- with such othtr.u,arli., uands, etc., as the 'aw r eqroattho' maniufa turt r of domes, ti.',irlti mlay afli' such Tather labels IA his own,' coutaining those or such atter as he aces lit, provided is are riot so fixed as to con t r f91iterato the matter printed, o % tvise, %uhtiehi the law iequires to a lpearvn, tie box. - The manufac. turer's private labels cannot .legally "so imad in form,-lesign "Und style of isch subjet mautter as to give them the similitude or lik ness of it gov ornent cigar stamp, either of ens tojns o'r internal revenue.'Var.ous samplIts of imuitatioi stamps' have, froum timaie to timne, beOu Preselited to this office for approval, or, their use by diffrent persons coimpllained of. The'bre can ho l1itt oime t bjdet in view *in aflixing to borge of domoe ceigars labols so they can be made up in the form lud style, anid bearing in all caee rceenblapoo-something to .zniportedi eigar. .stamnps. .JThey are iutatdod unueIisStinably to convey to the iminds of' th-e inexperieneed that the elis, having 'suoh stamps or *labels affixeid aro really biported cigars ; .oalherwise, why arotmanufac tUues.persisteht ,in urging~ their uso. WhVly the various exparimients tg sqe how,clonely in form, design, style and matter these strip stamps or .I leh inpy be nu~do ad used without vidt,iu a'thsit. 'Thisidea of utin t1ation6,situjp, howevor slhght the' imitation,or. a taiap bearinga * imiude or likenmeas, o1, iii the laii *'.o uf Judge .Inuedict," some1 re - soiuiblane, to th~e s. imported cigar stuamip must.beo given up to this ollico, We Will neitheor approve inor acquiesce .J tifLunue of tab stamp label or atrip bearmng oven the samle resemnbl.anCe to the governmenit stamp, though such risemiblan0e m"uy be too remote to ros an ad vanitageouis description. lelloil of.the Presidet andi Vice-Presi - dent. .ieports.come from Washington of i lorenslhng coqlmss bet,ween Presi do& Granit and V'ico-Presidenat WVil mion. The New' Yoik Tribuino says: "Pbia will odotiston no surprise to thdso who have boon 'at all famiiliar - il thle iptorior polities of WVashiing. ton for the past two years. It is woll havni that the Vice-President has diffored widely with the President up)oi nmany qjuestionls ol' policy since the beginning of the present term, anid opposed a third term.'' Son.e adminiristration journals in the West are a.lso speaking of' Vice-President WV ilson as a presidential oanididatte. A lively urchin accosted a drug afore nman the other dity. "MiBI'a, -. ,stiek of licorice; your Swindling Ific Ind(ons. The Pies- has raised a storm about the eara of the Departme4t of the Interior on the abject of the In dian Agents. It has been shown that the redskius are swindled right and left, with shain offee Ul flour, study oyga,r ani lean a buund c-attle. The A werioa.n rpoiaf is not a olden or a genta vagq. 'here is nothing Cooperes U ' him in this Veitr of grae, it difficult, to *io what good puipose he serves, but.a prottiso 'tdo to hiqp is as binding as a promit..e m-ide itt Cuffee or John Ohinatnan, and whop lie is cheated and abused ho -is les patient than the white citizens were during the reign of the first.of CaT pet-1-aggers. . A little soapling, and roasting, and maiming, and 'killing generally are the diversions of tWe Rod Indian when poor p.rovender and short weight last too long, and there must be L radical change in the way of managing Indian affairs, if the Governawent has any desire to be just to the Indians and does not d6sire eternal war with the redskins. The simplest and shortest way i' to thil over the whole pension business jo the line and staff officers of tWe regular army on duty on the froatie. There will be no stealing -there, a $ the Indians will get .teglarly a d loWptly whatever the Givernwe t allows them. This is not the Quaker policy, 'but itis the shortosti' way *0 (iet and peace. Unless somethitg of that sort be done, there will bela deajaud tor a war of exterminati 'u oi kthe ground hat the Indians wol t ko . 1f eir- 'promiscs when Gre t. Fil.r Grant does not keep his ! Alow to 31ahtke lics Profitable. In a second letter to the Marlboro Times, upon inprovod bee keopink, Mr. J J. BAton, of Beauty Spot, insists upon the indisp3nabletiosa 6f movAble comb-hives and of strict aid careful attention to them. 1f left go chance, they are tio better than fopr bauiels (-f tobacco boxes. If thq bee. licepee wi.hes to increase hisstock of bees, lie t.hould swarm artificially, Oy whi :h process lie can, with safety, in. crease the number live or six fold. If yield of boney is most de.ired, tKe ,tucks should be kept strong in utn bors and prevented from uwarmii)g. This is done by cutting away the queen in embryo and removing the surplus honey as rast as iG, is stor6d. May is the best honey month. ir. B. says that his best hives gave the largest yield in May of last year, fiiliig the ixirplus receptable twic ' twenty-'even dayp, fifty p9unds p hive and the honcy in the brocir chmniber left undisturbed. He in. tends to put in practical operation this spring a honey extractor, by the use of which a largb yield of clear honey is obtained, and the frames of corab retuned to the hive and !the labor of bees in building of co(Pb ecoioiised. There is no king b!e. Theli queen is the mother as well as the ruler of the entire colony. There appears at last to be uil - stantial proof of a reviv d of b usiness in New York. Tie New York Post of WelnesdAy, in its financial artic e, says that "merchants report ecalleoa tions as exceptionIally goo'd,- and while trado is not as active as it might be, and while trade is not as active as it might be, -the volume nevert,hcloss is enerally above, last season, notwit hstanding the backward weather. The prospect. now is that we shall break abruptly from winter to summer. If we have good crops the comning sea'on there is no reinon apparent, assuming that we have a comfortable money market, why next autumn's bu?iniess should not be large and satisfactory. So far as soundness is concerned, busineba could never be mere satisfactory than this season, for it isoconspiciously thes rule that no mnore goods are ho ight. than be paid for ; and, a's not ett; collections wore never better." In the Southern Baptist Canyen. Lion. in Charleston, on Saturday, a large number of reporta of commint tees were submitted. Among them one proposing the publication of a Southern Baptist Review. It was decided that the next session of the Convention be held at Rich mond,Va., at the First B3aptiit k huroh on Thurs (diy b. fore thme second Sunday in May 187'6, at It0 e'clock A . M., Rev. I. T. Tichenor, of Alabama, to deliver the convention sermon, and Rev. W, HI. \Vhitsett, of South Carolina, alter nate. TVhe linancial condition and the missionary work was reported as successful beyond expoof,ion.. . If Mr. Kelloy goes on improving, he may in the course oif time be iin. duced to express regret for his voto's in favor of a depreciated currency and a protcetivo tariff. Hie is very sorry about his force bill vote. A corresondent of the San Franois. 00 Chronicle informs the world that Sl>aoknasty James, once an active ar.sistant to thu late unlamented U:pdas Juok, is an Ihiman by des cent. The iname1 originally was . WIt "ad i mor The greatest dihoovory *4 PompO is that of a woman wating,.a fire i a cook stove Jhile:fer husband is I tied and asleep. She was a nobI woman.-Boston Journat, It is ail .t'av nothIn,wsill cure poet's affection for his idol sooti than to catch her at the di er tabl excavating the kernel ofr hiokot y baiin.- y A A widow was weeping bitterly a Jhe loss of her husband, and the pag son tried to console-her. 'No, no, iaid 1he ; "let til have my, cry ou and thou I shan't care anything mo about it." "Drunkenness, unlike Pome othe evils which iffliot us," says the Mi waukee Sentinel, "secums iuheren In our aturo." That's what wo'v suslceted all along.-Courier Joui "See," said a soriowing' wife, "hoi peaceful the cat and dog are." "Yes, said the petulant husband, "but jus tie them together, and thou see hov the fur will fly." "Now let us talk about your busi ness affairs," said a Connectiout gir to a young follow after ho, had pro Posd narringe to her in a long ad diess filled with expressions of pas sionate-love., An old colored woman, resiting her "'peernce," said she had beat to heaven. "Did you see any of d colored ladies dar I" aikod a young er si.ter. "Oih, yotd git out ; yo 'sposo I went in do kitheun when wad dar ?" ."Thojn )ou wont lend me that dim novel, eh ?" inquired one boy o anotht r in the pot offee on Saturday "No, I won't." "All right then next time our chimney burns out yoi han't coie into the yard and holler.' Mrs. Evarte said to Mar Evarts yes icrda'y morning : "Get up and,opeu the danspers William ;'' and Air Evarts said absently, turning over fo another nap, "Your li.or will pleasa note my exot'ptiun." There tire 1101OC8 in peace as wel '.uin.war, and the gyod.6peds of boti desere iecord. lu lie'ember lat the haik Mendoto sailed from Javz for 'ew loik with a valuable cargo Tb e.,sel had barely atarted when thi captain and one. ailor were taket with Javan fever, and the comnmand developed on first mate. Soon th< only other iaite, t-hc cook and stew ard were teized with thet lever, ant then it extended through the crew until ultinately but fivo net were nie to wotk tile ves.cl. The secoad mato died, but the captain lingeret a.d then the chief mate, the con mander, wits Leized with fever But, though sick, lie haid tile spiri within him which never yields, ant this enabled lhin to bnflie the fever le crawled out of the cabin otn hi hands iitd cnes '1to get tile sun,' erawled to the chronometer to ge the time, and then woi ced out the ship's position. For severul days with every part, of the vestsel reckinq with fever, this brave man worke< the ship, never turnIng her asitde te peek a friendly port for aiid ; bu lt he ..nd his sma'al ore tV finally bec ame St weak that they had to tiller hei course, and they stood for St. helena Six days af erwvard they reachet there, aned a hospital surgeon sent oi board described the misery in which the crew and their brave commnande were found. Thlii voyage the mate describes as the "toughest,'' he eve experienced, and it will go upon re cord, on account of the heroism dim i layed, among the famous voyages o the time. An English VIew, The London Standard of the 9t1 inst., has an editorial artiole of moir thian a column devoted to the lat civil war in this country, whieb be gins withl thle following ttibute t Confed erate valor: "It is exactly ten years+'his morn ing since the surretnder of A ppomat tox Coutt terminated the splendie defence of Virginia against the mos fearful odds w.iith which, withici th niemory of mall soldierly courage ane mnilitalry genius have ever had to con tnd, and brought the exi,tone o tile Conifederate States to a close Never was a more glorious nlat.ona history crowned inlto a iv years never wais a more brilliant record ii the annals of war than that of th, vanq'tislbed army." Thes Standard then refers to the disposition for reconciliation which prevailed in both armies at tIhe close o,f the war, and the malign politica influences whtieh mucceedetd, and whiel have sown seeds of bitterness which it apprehends will net soon I.e eradi catod. At the same time it regard eonservativ.e triumphs at late electioi in the United States as inIdicative o the return of a happier era. A sharp talking lady was reprove< by her hiusband, who requested he to keep her tongue in her mouth "My des r,'' she said, "it's again: the law to carry concalod weanons. state News. The young men, of Edgefield villyge have orgonized"a ho.-k and 19dder company-. The annual diocesan conve'nion e'f tile lpi6cooal church will be held at St. . jUip'e churo-Ur Charleston, on Thrad.y, he--I164intant. aunual celebration of Calhouq litear w take 1 0 on the rthe valediotorian. The wife of Anth4ny Gardener, colored, of Ker8o1w county, gave birth on Saturday night last"to three children -two dons and a daughter. Ground was broken Tuesday on the Ashley river railr,ad at the point where the Dorclester roa i crosses the Northeastern railroad track. The work will be pushed' forward rapidly. o British sahip Mary Stewart wqs cleared in Charleston on Saturday last by Mr. lunry Card for London, via Bull river, S. C., with 930 tons phoophato rock,., Senator Ilooth, of California, dq livered i lecture on Charles Jamna Fx, at Tcrre Haute, Indiana recent ly, and in the course of i, wfit'e speaking of the deel-ne of piriamei taiy untl coigrtegotnal oratdry, sa d "Another reason "Is that the publio opinion "vs formd by the debates of Parliimerlt' and'13ongress ; now logi lative aOLI"n is guided by pub lie opiniou, and the journalist his ao.uiroe the irthnoe and cons?J idnae w hI,ektor has lost, T1rd fi h bAtakqu Marquis of Cholnondelp -and the E'arl of Cavan occupy a pulpit rt t L;eorge's Hall) London ; Lord-. Ra 5tock bar gone to Ru,sin, wih fie ias zliuaen as hi. field for the pres nt ; Lord Carrick is preaching in :,asclo-Coner 'find' other towns In Ireland ; and a son of Lord Chicher, 1er is holding mueeting in the villages* Af Sucx, of w1ich couoty his fUther is Lord Lieutenant. The dy-fixed for the opening of the C entennial,exhibitiou -is May- 10, 1876-jt..one ypar off. Th4 buili. ings Wllbeready og 'the receptibaV Af goods by the closo of 1875. ivhen, by cotrWt? .q' the .buildiis iuxt be 006 Rp d tq..he rosp-ots )f hel dees fta V)hibitiln have brightened visibly. Some of thet European governments, that at. filst. hung back, are now actively enlisted in Ppe iitt,er; aud,,ia the case of C atf (Bfltal -:-J-bo request has 1alpr space fo her goods aN t t~ first bez illutted. The Mexican Congress has approv. ed the constituction of sundry nailin ro; do, in one or more of which; is view of recent events, it is presuma ble parties in the Uiited States are in.ter.gstqd. 'I'lle Pacific uail stena i ers Jave sopped toneix tig a't Mexi. man ports on the Pacific, becaus-- the Government does not pay what it I tOem, t T)i .revolu. ion in MVhbh 'as, ty%bd' business in 'hat State. Ri-els at Qtieretaro have captured a convoy of arms and merchandise, and at Arroy o Seco, uitdr a Aharp fight, t'obbed a diligence and murdered one of the passengers. The Lautrensville Herald suggest to Judge M. Moses,that if lie wiuld pay more attention to the transae:ioni of general hiusiness of Court brought bofore him, and desist in at tempting to persecute honest mzen en political grouni's, he might at least give satis faction to the people whom he is paid to serve, and there wouldl not be such good ground for complaint against him for inellieieniy. Life is too short to be annoyed with suech a judi clal imbecile as Judge Mo es. A coptem~porrry askp "Is tmumps ugijjuarior %rd they ,phlura[.?'' Both. When you get mumpSo 6bhoth sides of your face they e plural, but they mnake a. pers.or1loblk singular. Brooklyn Argue., f.his 18 begging the-questo . Let's hear from the Dispatch. . Until then we are mum o a the ,mumps- Charlot tesville Chronicle. "Noutn plural." Who d enies it?- 1?ielsprend .Dispatchr. V e have ho pes of Massachusetts. Mr. Wendell Phillips is hurling his nitro-glycet.ine rhetoric at IIarvard College beoause the men there had, and still bv -asortof contempt, for Charles Sumner and his theories. The breaking of Snmner's statue, the other day, merely a'nte.dates the ruini of his reputation a.s a statesman, ithe nqar ftte. A had little boy, upon being prom ised,five cotnts)py is no her if lie wbttld tAko ii d6se Uf 'ossoi1 dil ob tained the ikdnby, and then told his pasrent that she gnighlt eastor oil in the street, HIe.will1 makre a humor one newspaper parographist one of these days.--Boston Cour.py, A MI'ssissippi mani puts it tbus: "At the es*nest solleit,atioun of those to whom I owe money I have consent to- become a candidate for county treasurer. The Blue and too Qrpy i The speeAl of 'n! " arti"tt,.0 0 M41c1hufetts. atha Lexit6n een n tential'bitiquot, in beoalt.". 6f Jea'i c j ad union, has eliciteditb 8hiluwAI re%pooee frekt 1' Fi's.hugha e who 'wa a distingui,hed boyfedpyAt r cavalry 0ommander Ou;ripgo- tio,"at, 6, wir : , , ." ;1" - ReItOM, VA., ApAl 7, .181570. IV. F. B-trt1it- %Iy DEAU $jlt ,ln Voimmon.with pPny o tl fCon federate .soldjerj, wi''h . ig II e pleanure have I ieWd NW Wh600kW d oohtly maWdeby ydu 'the"'bIdIt!g ton-6neord :elab'a,ioui -,J;t.b-vuo soldierly eentiati4e, g1udy. feli and exprssed,1w.ill.40p9p '% %,4rie1 space of tine tcawarW restorlog r feeliog, irathity il' df'ell p . tween thb two ebotidnkof ,% bolLniqt t country than all! :tbe reo-#n,truatiola e eloquence of pol.itiial partisags. d6. livered during these Fagot ets Iye,ara -a period which Xou, io truly .'ean should have been'sub liedu juetuho, Your wor'ds in '6ferefd6No 'il;d al soldMors are equally applicable to 4 i Confederate: 4d4iervo, t9r s e "h4v? a preju4io ig fskvor, of poAaetlj and tuoi agree with you, thai abe. tween tho doldiitli of -the two'kres I sectiotis of tii great eatintry frAter. nal relations wdre establishod log ago," an4. we, f0eluthat, if' p a felicitop o P oP ship d senti ment oouid haV"f4n 1 '4 ing place in the hearts of otlWdlis&ai bi people, the' 'ebabillvationD of t$e South 'ould loog sine mured. Its ppee.dy IpPAIMn (om poverty and desolation w,"uld ke followed,'and once nor6ki Pb tar ago', the N6tt- would haV& "had Vth active co-opatitlonof-the 'South. in . working out a glorious des'iuy. for r the republio. The science of govern ment has been but little .undefitood by those who, holding the reIns of powe sitice the war, havd :edoridb64 publie prosperity to vniaintain . party sulremuey. By careful fostering thq . ospiel men who for whom power is poly . a r synonym for plu'der," oboau6, hay iug abandoned priticiple --for expa. diency, they could be idded to party atrength ; by cou4selling harsh, I measures towards :prostrate citizens to gratify an unworthy vengonlne by refusing to listen to the Vol6b ql a1 an impoverished pe-,p!o, acocepting,the result of a trial of arms and naking to retuce a condition 'of pe..o awjd, i subordination to the law., our ruler have retarded the material progrp of all sectious of the country und ali classes of its citizen. -- As in the human body the sound.q ness or decay of A limb will in time exLend to and correspondingly affect the whole person, Ro mjust the politi cal body be touched and moved by the condition of its component parts. Therefore, when we hear such utter. uces full from the lips of one who so bravely bore himself as a Federal toldier, we begin to look -fofward with a new hope and confidence to the day when the American flag, which now floats over the blue and the grey, sh.11 in truth be embla. ed with the emblem "Peace oh earth, good will to men." Then, indeed, will fraternal ; feeling be everywhere restored; then, indeed, wall trade and commerrce he revived betweon all portions of the country ; thaen, indeed, will thaere exist in the hlearts of tlae people thaut mocre perfect uni n which the founaders of the republic Iinatended, and to which we, the de E oendents, now renew an affection ate allegiance. With high respect, I h bave thec honor to be your obedlent sa rvant, F"ITZHIUGH LEE r Extraordinary Freak of Naiure. Ona WednaesdJay nigbht laat, a cir cumastanoe occurred at one of the p?asses of thec Mississippi Itiver, illus tratinag the uncertain cond.tion -of those outlets, It wa:s at tPass a . l'Outre, and near the channel. , During that night, an' Island, comn prisinag an grca of about eight acres, rose up out of the deep, and now li fully eight feet high above the aurA I rounding Water. The previous day, t whaere now the islanad is, was an una a broken surface of water, without a I sign of the event whaich transpired during the night. The ciroumstatace r las awakened mnuch speculation as to .thec cause whijh produced ithis truly Iremarkable result, atad yesterday a number of g6ntlemaen went dewn to theo Pass, eta the revenue cutter John A. Dix, to see thec island. The suddon appearance of what are known as mu d lumps in the passes of athe river, Is no unusual occurend, but we have no recolleotion of any on so large a scale as this-oue.-Nelo O:lcansi Times. The next contest for thae Presidon cy begins already to throw itself into ashape. You never meet a stranger now thast lhe doesn't ak you the tirut thing ."Well, sir, whao ist going to be our next candidate for the 1'rea,i I denoy T' We, of course, know who that candidate is going to be, buti we .wou1d see such questioners hanged a t, dozon times before we would mention >his name so fa - in advanen. r WASIINGTW IMy 1 l.-Tho besi . plankWd,and wQot'4fu*1fy. .xeputed .aIlpalg.n over ma ihe gdVorn monI t~, Ip M apt WYie' i&f6'y inigM)MIti. na'Id efeT4dy nI' *tIt 'uevre oI r Imore than>tbirVy of the! larg"O. -.is I tj piesasnd r o4fy' f q uI 1 g u, a0 wau#k 0. The value,of T tety -se'6d lihddete'ouval u1oLaunting up ;don. I' s1ig'an, frogi tho aliln4ighegise, nd .a , g .ro se:ged. Il gry se zurei tiai loe kdiMY '0h,116inti, 0., ad -i &het ; 11(dleaprotary to. day diveoted, thatlogeltqps bMaken *%hpplyer.oda ajd at riqsta n madd wpre.the' e denee 'i uffl16ie6 io ify iieW "I THU ""'ffiditils-h*lko, 'Iltl iip dtorlij4tdthat great 4uatli ties o( tbigi1lleplwtiaIe,y Ay,. blion .isk#qd fbrppghop , e',ooPtry, ,epooMly in th c$outh ut' th form df the. p' e ai] bil it 'm oHgi many instanbeb,.and,it lila Idow.. be -impossible to AoteQkt.a.ol. o.jt. j SEr. 00adtY radIe r J:. P F . Carp Was arrst1l. o Aqn4aY in Ppartap,burg, phqrgqd. with frad and embe,zle 'Ipnt Ili Wqs relidred in' 'tht'stA '1 o 6 0 , In "defAlilt 'of which he wis comimittoOll, to j:Lil. IIn spt nthese.ropeated jiidicationas, Ar arGe th49q~ aa, ong us who ipso r to' ocognize the Yaot thaftripes .l14a9 ohanged. InAtoamd of tiheibotintostRpi. 'nd4plan fqOi't refura.to i tltqAlpecvy aud:'practioo of 1870 and 1872.' Some rep.blyijcana look with -ro proach. uppu pso ..who. are instru. ulental iu thus. -l -inging ' to justi'oO t1fosdrio,' hov b,eg the trusts e0olmmitited txoAuk. bm:4h. :party. IWere to,l tha,to do,_so is to.fur. food to our oppo%ents,.a.ilo.justify i.tc thiing~hoin-aAortiqus: am~i.predIiq "'tiOnS Qf.thO XttPfJ-4ijrojo(,,.,he .ro.. pubiioin Pat$ A. givo gq9d,goverr. lpent: 'toltho -peopll..; Tbi,ine of argaetit la tingiug Abie; oart before bote.1 It isO:th .Jion Ai.ty, ot pf0fo 'given-tolraheAls:Whigo. .bas;,proy,O to omany v libord,: And i friondly. y9tors that thj.ro-i-: :fasl tp1hapaoity An ou paty to do justice., to. th people. .!,very politioal organixatio., ,has its unfaithful- and dishonest public s3r. ivants, and such will always be tho, .6;-so as long as solfishnoso is a char teristic of human nature. Therefore the exist.ence of a honest official in not an argunent against the pjtrty to -which be belongo-kri 0less .ie is il fostered and protected by it after he is discovered. Wo assert . that the greatest encimies to reoublicanism iu South Carolina a're those who sbreen and defend the men who by their misconduet haveabroughb it ito dis repute.- Union lit)4. A St. liDous Family Extinct by the Loss of the Schiller. The loss of thi stoamor Sohiller off the Seilly Isles, in the English Channol, has brouglit mournip into many families df two coitindnts. Among the two' hundred passengr reported drowned. wore seven of eight from St. Louis. ;Mrs. Ridge.. way and her two little grandchildren jand her bon-in law,' Mr. C. W. Walter, were on board, and are be. lieved to be among thme lost. Mrs. Ridgoway.was welhl known in this pity, where her husband was engag.. ed in business manmy years ; he died about five years ago. Within a perlod of two monthe Mrs. Rtidgoway saw her husband and two daughters pass away, and. now sho and her two grandchildren have .found a watery grave. They were .th.s only survivors of the' family, and no re latiotis are -left:-a-8t. Loju I)cmo Crat. A Now York letter says it is only when the estate of sonme deceased mierohant or millionaire is broughat to the hammenr that one tiocerta ins the en-orimous priced at which the stocks of certain;' banks and insurane companies in that city arc held. For example, fa)o the following, which were sold at auction as p art of the property left b~y the late Jobhn B. Calhoun, of the fir m of -Calh oun & Rtobbins : lifty shares Inporters' and Trradere' National Bank, par value $h60'oeh, $200 and $200}; fifty ,.hasfs t'emplea Fire Insurance Company, *$50 each, $1'70 ; 100 shares l'coples Banjk, $25 each, $144 :forty.gig shares 11arlem Gas Light Comap.ny, $50 oehm, $120 1[4 150 abarca l'eter~ Cooper Fire Imusur' ana. Company, $20 eacb, .$210, and smo on. . AL pro.uincent i)Ctroit JUniversalist some imnths ago, maIlrric(d a red-bead ed widow with foufr children, sndl last, week remarked to a friend: "I was blind when I believed tltore is no bell. I see now." ro) you ktnofw wo I etm," askod a poliememn of a fellow whoma ho had seized by the thrat. '-Not exactly sir; int I fany you are the mal.ianmt ClarI ' The Mecklenburg Ccneni.l. Theocelebtation .of the MrOklAnberg Jeu.teqniali which i to ta Ifooat ChargI~e aN C., on the 9 ' t 1bids taWtho al e t'o tio al NWfflefe.! 'The 'seeptils'--it regi4d tofthe g6in4in",ess10bh Deelar4siou 0(in104PU4d0910, ji9k:eh8 ,qlqgQ0,to have taken place therq,dq ret, y gm to be on the tqppv 'sid*1e, and n a 4Ojpbovili4virb.te . ud q,j the e n y ? .r 1d to ljdtheir rosnno at" n4I hila to '041 SoNdb$f*bubdhVi6n. 'helktWodanocpredtedl ias been goAp4ppP4 gfthe 1wp have.pgea filaraa6log every nerTe to meet 'le Alr Ip h their' lA it. 0il 'lo&'&dVih maer'WdaMt1W11yJ "The buggntitt is .made by. the Prei t of thaSt SMAt shalt ,e be-1 9e14i89enorat 2idahU ot4ii orti9arlhpa. Uo. osej . Ju 6sto' W It' be Chief Marshall, and Hon. Joh Korr, one.of the bpt Ap'Oke jn th. St ate, oratot of the day ,to 'Ch'r.rl tte 6olbrdtion Id to'be a patriott -air 61, 1 eYonts, atd -the Old N6rth State has tuary valuable traditions and, interesting souvenirs to givo Wg. stig ths occasion. Whon the Coonty,a.ldigb sees the South as well as ti6' N'6,tli colobrating the evento of their conJinouorigiD, the spectacle ought to,eAAb.Nish, 1o oon. Vio(ion Oyylgr,e:tig t thlj inter ets apd purposc0 are ie'iid'idiit t,ieal to-dIag.--ewvs snd Corer Solib. Srojilla POelaItAssoolRtlon. Tihs body has boen in se'slon dev erI 4ag, ig ~C i a, ,"'Thp .4l1ow. Ing arq the 6 oars oleiied for the eobtiitg'yftt -' I'-, . . ii, t. * G>S.- 'If. Wright, - Volinmbia, Pdsident; Oro i W., 19wod, (,ronv.ille, .vioo-Plresi4eg . DrN H. I ToggO, A iken, id viop- 1osident - br. . 8' Thompeon, 1b0ville dor fbiponding Seoretav'y; Drj V F. Choupin;i Charleston papenmanent 1Ro cbrding SOrtary I .Dr, T,W. J3o1 ohin,: Qheraw, TreasnFer. Death. of a YoUng Confederate. 4 potipo . A9Qter aglumn an n,114s 1o Oaiter :Ooau n6nt Clalsbi Al. 'At" the early ago of sixteen,- he volutitebred i the H-: pton Legon, and served gallant. 4y. during-the entire war, and, i4 was from disease then contracted that his death was caused. le leaves a widow, an aged fathet and m6ther and many friends and relatives to lament his deceage.-Phtvnix. A young man with a speoulative opi called at an insuranOO office ink 1!udianapolla the other day, and asked what a policy on his mother's life for $2,000 would oost. He explain ed that he had bought some real estate, and that as future payments would crowd him some, 'he thought to realizo eiough on the old lady's death,*ns she could not live long, t holp him out. The insuraboa - man advised him not to stp at any pnas urea, but to scouro tho old lady's UkelQton as well L.nd dispose of 'it to one of the biedfeal colleges. A party from dpartanburg wont to Edneyville, N. U., in searoh of some1 parties supposedl to have rob. bed a store in the form'6r 'town. Tihey name up with their gamej but met with. a desperate resistance, one of thoem gett,ing his head opened with an axe. .Ope of the robbers, i rfree. ing hilnialf, shiot a buille hole in his leg, and was afterwards shot in the body. One of the pursued party, Rufus Lewis, was brought back safe ly. The flyNer o't know that it Ie May. WVhy should they muspedt any. thing of the aort ? T1h'y are just now in the prime of the,aezobllenee. Still, there are plenty of. fools who know more about tho "pnonths with an'r' in themi" than they do about the weather.-N. Y.' Irn.'i Mail. Tfhe prospctls for winter wheqat are very discouragin5 in Illinois. Where large arena are usually" sowtu, there will not ibe over half a crop.: Many wheat fields. are being pAo.wod for cqin- .$pring wheat an .oats are damaged, also rye and barley, Fruit aire generally destroyed. Thbe Chester lieporter ban *entered upon its 5th volunie, andgwe cannot consoientiously let the occasien pass without iaying that it, is the' hand somiest weekly pnper published in the Sta'to, It Is editeod with indus. try and ability, inxd' presents evidences of prospom ity.' -Ebo0g ma~y it, wvave.-.'.e. I A 'exas 'woman hans Warp.edI to use tbo Iaes so defti y;that Mhe er.q stand in the door amrn haul 'the hat off the lightningifed psddler while he is unfastouing the gate. A buighar in North Caroitba was found and upon being shot by a far. omer into wheae huseo lie had;broken proved to bet : womano in manx's dress. Self m..dt meu are y aryi~r pt