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FAIRFIELD HERALD ;.N, W IMHN BOBOs It. MEANS DAViS, Editor. Wdnst. )/bo nng July 71816 Iloweu-was-found4not-.guilty of the muio,r:of Q .W ,ite There,puto.no, tost y giq1l6tth%in.Oxr.'h that [of the alleged accoemP1.-3, Eli Orimes. The Nows and Courier however have been publishing a long list of Fiauds committed by Bow en, as Sheriff. It is to be hoped that he will be brought, to a striot account concerning thon. At l.at accoutits tho jury in the Brooklyn Soandiil ease had not yet agrood upon a verdict. Beecher lIhS gone to Peekcill, whore he will far the nonce occupy a "cave of gloom" (Iar p size); Tilton and his lawyets'aro Ii tho "ragged edge' of expectation while many of the jury, owing to the lin rations fur. nihed them, complein of "true in. wardness"-the most convenient, il :not strikingly 'appropriate phraRe they Oa find. The loecher jury have failed tc a,ree, and have been discharged. I is said that at firstthey stood nearl3 even, then stood as 8 to 4, and finally came to 9 for Beecher on'd .9 for Til. ton. Th-is wo believe to ho the re sult of,outside pressure, or of money, ]Tad a changs of,venue been obtain ed fild the trial Id iii any placo bul lrooklyn, the seat of Becebier's greal magneic* inlluence, t,bo evidence ad ducead rinst hhm, in our opinion would have convicted him. 'hI'li quostion will never now b< nettled. The guilt of Becoher wil ever Ie as problomatical as the au thr18iip,of Junius, the identity o h n i -the iron' ' sk, tlw open polar sea. Both Tiltoi and Boechier have becu seriously in Jurdd by the trial.' So has Plymout] Cliurob. The scandal is an offonsivi ulcer th4t hns containinated fort3 millions - of p6ople. No' good ha con from it. A ll its influences hav boon for evil. The sooner it can b buried the bottor. The rourth of July. Sunday was the Fourth of Jly At tho first glance there would seel to be no reason why tie Fourth o July should be more worthy of not than tho third, the fifth, or an other day of 'the month. No pci ceptible difference enn he detecte in the days themnselves. All hol all cloudy, all lon g and tedious, a] criually unfittod for the long maure of a lhu2o procession, or thne detent tions of artillery and the fizzingc pyotehnics. And yot forty mi lions of people, more or less, persie in raising this fourth of J uly aboy all t1-e other three hundred an sixty-fo'ur days of the year. It as much a pat f' lie'constitution a the. birthday of Washitngton or th thirteenth, four teenth and fiftoont amendments. As long as the star and stripes wove ov'er the land of th free and the home of the brave, a long.will the fourth of July be n gal dlay. And yet the observanco of thi d ny is not a foolish custom. Fo the f,ourth of July cooinmemorates th birthi of a new and great era. 0; that day, ninety-nine years aigo, th thirteen colonies shook elf the guar dianship of (}roat Britain and begal life indepen dently. Those colonie have gradually added other State to themselve-rmuntl noW thebre is no au finer emnpiro 'in theo world. I, Ninety-nine years thne United Statet hiav9 proressed as far as the oh eonitt thIatbhavo bioon in existonot thousands of years. IIor nmatorial prosperity ,is ~vondorini, and thn genius of her people is of the highiesi order. All these adlvantages ar< dlue:tli d odlaration $f ladopendanco But material prosperity is not th< only result of the declaration. Up to 1 776, republicanism wvai almost unknown. And when thc idea wals broached thAt ib .p)COh could govern themselves without the interposition of a mnonar.obm, divinely Runt from Ileaven, it was declaredl preposterous. and miet with severe denciuoditIu opm oneo hand 'and bitter ridfil6idn* e tr JItt ninety nine years of' experience has~ shmown that the tihing is possible, and that although Twvods .assi. flutlora and Grants aufd ''omn Mturphoys and B3ullooks ands Kol9ggs are fiOcessary fungous oeresences ona the .body politic, still tihe thinig is a ,success. han,pndnnn o crso pod.e indekendeioa of Intellect, and in conise hnfe, tb. greatest inventors' of thoigo *%o h$on reared in the 'orad iofibert.* ' or this, tn, n4at M;ibe g1jen-to,he punivero-' ry of Independence. It Is therefore peculiarly proper to observe the Four'h. For several years after the.surrender, the South feeling 'heiielf degraded by north orn tyranny refused to celebrate the day,rogarding it as a symbol of radi - oal oppression rather than of Ameri~ can liberty. .But necond thought rqimnds us thfat the fourth of July bolongs to us equally with all Atberl can citizens, that sons of the South drafted the declaration, fought for it and nobly carried it through to suoe, cess and that it is folly to let *the North have the solo credit of found - ng thi republic. The North recognizes the part we took in the revolution, and fraternizes with us in the centennial celebrations. We have but one year left of the first.hundred. The next fourth of July will Inaugurate a new ora. Let us then bury all diesappointmontq) all our bitterness during this year, and on the fourth of July 1876 once more apponr clad as full brethren at the centennial feast. No Place in the Picture. Under the above heading, the News and Courier contains a corros pondenoco between Judge Thomas J. Hackey and Maj. T. W. Woodward on the subject of the part to be taken by South Carolina in the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. Our readers are perhaps aware that the Centennial Commissioner for this State is G.n. William Gurney, a resident of Charleston and a fine ipooimon of the genus carpot-bagger. Judge Mackey states that lie is "in formo through sources entitled to ti highest respect, that the appoint mont of the prosent Centennial Com missioner for this State has given wido-spread dieatisfaction, and re pols from participation in the proposed exposition the very classes whose active co-operation it is esson. tial to secure." lie then endeavors to liow that "it is not material to the aooomplishment of the important end in view, who wers the title, 3 whether deservedly or undeservedly ) of Contentlial Com.nissioner of South 3 Caiolina." Maj. % ood ward replies with characteristic candor and man liness, in a letter from which we quoto :-"The appointment of com .u.issionor for this State renders it. impossible for tno to have any lot or f part in the Centennial celebration. - * * * The present commissioner y never shall and never can represent - mn or minA. Ie is the fit represa.n :1 tativo of South Carolina carpet- bag. ,gers, and not of the descendants of 1 South Carolina Revolutionary patri h , ots. * * I shall net, nor do : [think any true South Carolinians f will, take part in the Centennial -under the auspices of tihe present t commissioner. a We are of course unprepared to :1 say to what extent Maj WVoodward's a lotter omlbodies the views of the inl atolligenit people of South Carolina, a but we are free to say that there is ci .iound reason in what he asserts. s (Jon. Gurney settled here as a mere n fortune hunter, and he has identified r himself with thle worst elements in i the party that has wrought us so mluch irreparable injury. The a friend and advocate of F. J. Moaes, r and his constant coadjutor in his :s many infamous schemes, it is by no I means surprising thlat he should re a ceive this mark of executive favor - - for the appointment was made by Pros idlent U rant, at the suggestion of the a Govcrnor. The bitterest partisan will adrmit thlat a mere un3tting so L leetion could scarcely have been made, and that none could have been made that would have g;been better Icalculated to inspire the people of our State with supreme disgust at Grant's folly and with a determlination to take no part in the Exposition, except pure ly as individuals. It is to be greatly deplored that at this Limo when a spirit of reconciliation is rite in the entire Union, South. Carolina should be -furnished with so good a reason for doing nothing in furtherance of an 6nterprise which, while it will add lus. trously to our national fame, must likewise go far to the establishment of a closer union of North and South, and a surer foundation for future gPe"neRu, thlan now exists. We be. tieve we express the sentiment of the intelligoent people of South Carolina when we say thmat under the super vision of a comnmissioner .cntitled to represent theam and commanding their respeot, they would enter on theusiastieally into the groat national enterprise, and be fully represented at.Piinael,i- a I n 6 Wear ay be OonPIshe4 blthes tor citi e 1*49hool eetin 11sm. jd. aid?rm he eou ial ooeq0 eat 'tnPVe 18 odor di oussion, there are necessari. r many evils attondAnt Mpon the mi'ioVtiO.: It is PniXrqaljy ii ted that in niany, i in outh Carolinn,' the office of school )Mpiseoner is held by pe-sons who rt a miaoh fitted for the p6 sioin' .ey Aro for a- seat ,upon th,Aupro,mt LIe4 of the United States. The lcapacity of the co.mmisnioner it Iuit invariat4y attended with ti ke want o f ability in the trustees >r they are all his appoluteos.- Cor aption, being ' almost univor illy the ooilcomitant of igno. ine, it . is easy to perceive iat most periicious effects may fol nw the action of school trustees. 'hse evil resulit may be in a great kesure;provented by thq . 4igilance ad. firmness of the t.onhip meet. igs. Let an incompetent teaoh. r, d dorrupt bard or a' Worth Msa commissioner see tfiat.the, niotion f each is olosely watohe'd. by 'the in lligent taxpayere, and many improp r steps will be left untaken. The ioral effect of constant and in'telli - ent supervision cannot but be, felt y every publio officer, and be he over i bal1, he will soarcely have the ardihood to commit any flagrant iolation of the law nnder which he olds his pobition. It is idle for people to complain of vile before all means of correction ave been exhausted. That our pub. io schools have been disgracefully iismananged, no one can reAonably r honestly deny, and this furnishev he itrongest argument in favor of inited action to improve the school yst em, and to bring into full opera. ion all the excellent features it nust be admitted to contain. Our readers must pardon us if, in vhat we have said above, we have ouched upon points already consid d in theso columns. We have oo all a conception of the great impor ance, nay, the dire necessity of a . good system of public schools in oui Itate, that we feel that we can scarce ly say too mnuch f its advocacy. (POIMIUNICATED.1 If r. Editor : The first regular meeting of tb< lidgeway Library Aesociation woi told last Friday' ciening, and tA iumber of ladies and gentlemen pres mt gratified beyond exptession th ustigators of the soleme. Too query-"Does. man derive mos >leasure fr the works of nature, o .he works of art" was beautifutll; lisisussed by Masters Hasrry C. Davi id Juhnny Edunds, two younj gentlemaen who have had rocen cholastic privileges, and so ably ani sloquently did these embryo states nen saat1in their respective sides o beo quIestiou2, that the vote decidin1 die lihattui: stood as nine to elevcn, T1ho audience (some seventy i1 aunmber) were delighted with tho en urtainmeunt, which is a norel one ii >Ur recently created Town. _P.4X. P. 13. The following comnmunicatio iiached us several days ago but i irowded out: [coM MUN ICAT 0.] Ri Igeway Library Assoolation As y ou were so kind as to mentIo inl your paper that we had a litorar oiity at Ridgoway, will you exteni bhe courtesy to us by giving this corn mnunication a place in your eolumne I'ho liidgoway Library Associatio las for its principal object, the estab ishment of a ciroulating library fo hei use of its members, both male anm emalo. We have two classes o neetings-one each weekfor debate .:ad ing, recitations and litorar; :onlversations on the books that havi >ccn taken out of the library th< >receding wek-at or .near the ull of each moon. At this, the regu. ar bumsiness of the society Is transact d,a question diicussed, a lcetu'r ~iven or tin esay road. We propose to acquire a library my purchase, by donations, and by oan. -We have already the promise f the loan of from one hundred"t bree hundred volumes, and we are uite sanguine that we will get many shorR. At the proper time our EOx. eutive Committee will issue a elrcu ar, setting forth the objectsa of the I~ssociation, and asking for the loan r doniations of books. Your good loro' people will be respectfully ask. d to aid us. H'ere we willsasytat iembership is not 'limited to Ridge ray and vicinity, but is.open to all per >ns qualified under the -oonstitut'on. lure that sith participation woull, redound to the benfit'of our State t rariety of way Ouist our agrioultut" b lats .arisane audis hanioians wouk 3o te " eresi "nuh dedit. It Is but ustursl, therefore, that U Pre should regret- the circumstances l aMucoidemn tlio"Onaila spir, it which render. .it inpgsibleq fqq. jq! South Carolin' to be ropre6serite'd at" the National Centennial Exhibition. 8 Tho News r'nd Couricre sugAe14 cI tWo methods by whibh thediffiltes al in the-way may be be-met+. _.. -tl 'jst. That a request be made of b Georgia, Virginia or North a(r,lina it ito give South Carolina a part.. of a their space, which would be f-ee i from the balofql influence' Of the ff South Carolina commissioner." 2nd. That we "ignore .Commission. or Gurney altogether,' and -make r preparations through local commit- t] tees." Which, if either, of thesh 1 plans is.fossiblo,. we .are now un- ' prepared to say : our main purpose is.to show the utter folly of the op- it pointynent of a political adventuror to a position whiA . salbqd th old ' by none other than a true anA fully ! accredited representative . of . the 0 honest and-- intelligent people, of b South Carolina. We hope Gurney may yet resign. The School Meetines. . -- S We have more than once u-ged the b importance and -the, necessity of a v full and active participation by the h tax-payers in the township meetings held to con,idor the propriety of a special tax for school purposes. We N have have andeavore-d to show the advantages certain to fullow the es tablishmont and maintenanoe of a good system or common schools, and the consequent duty of all good citi zons to take an activo part in every measure calculated to earry out thoroughly the excellant designs of the school-laws. It is our present purpose to act forth some of the evils which must follow a non-participa tion of the best citizens of every neighborhood in the all-important works of putting into geital and oontinuonn* practice the provisions contained in the statutes. The first great duty is tn attend the township meetings hold for the purpose of otaisidering the expedi ency of a special tax.levy for school purposes. It is at those uiettings that the most important steps are taken and the defects of the school system, as at present conducted, art| most forcibly to bo realized. It i. I here that the citizens assembled de tormino what tax is to be levied on the community for the purpof* in hand. It is easy to sce that this is a nmost important power, and that its abuse may lead to most ro-ious re suIts. It is no diflioult matter, in, the ap)athy which has hither to char actorized the course of mo~st of our people in this regard, for the town ship meeting to lev-y a monstrously exorbitant tax,urged to this course by impur-e motives or by a lack of propem realization of the high resp)onsibility resting upon the cit izens in the exor cise of the power confoerrd upou him. As an instance of the extent of their poweor, we cite the ease of is township in Marion county, in which a special school tax of five mills has been agreed on. At this meeting the honest ,tax-payers wvt ro either represented or they were not.. If they were, it must be assumed that they acted4 under a die appreciation of their responsibility, and took this action aa the result of their deliberato judg.. ment-which would of itself furnishi a strong argument in favor of a gene-I rous support of' the public schools. If this levy was made by a few menI mostly not taxpayers-and this has generally boon the case-the action of the pretended representatives of the school district furnishes only another of the already numerous in stances of the imposition oi a burdeni upon the taxpayers without their knowledge or joonsont. WVe believe I it will be almost universally admit- f ted that a levy of ton milils is suffi- I eient for an honest admniistration of the entire state and county govern. mont, and that the imposit,ion of this by the legislature is the dxorcise of I the gravest responsibility devolving upon that body. Now much mouree serious, therefore, is the matter, when a tax of one -half of such a sum is or- c dered by the people of sub-division c of a county, and how much more e heavily does the burden fall upon I those from whose earnings .the tax 2 has to ho paid. We are.not inform. c ed as to the eharacter of the a-hove J mentioned meeting in Miariop, nor e are we yet cognizant of the oiroum-. z stances of the ease :and we simply ' mention the bare faot, as a striking a instance of the good or the evil ethat log'. -la 4) od! them, in f mn rnir. ave e na a of hi M is@ on r ar!) oflan ne l0darm b W er ,qe ur next meeting we hope f r,nany ig.6re. t We adopted a eonat utt a 'japs, eooqfqd qfiep ka.4 ~d a 'd b dtb' e fr u e tIng and requested Mr. Marshall to deliver a lecture or au. address. We t bad aOplessant, tine. f it"and te meeting: did-not- adj9urn.uijfter eleven o'olok, P. 1 . The. ladies again, and fvf-ver Gd' bles'1 them, t remained wifh ;9 to the adjournqaqen thus'oaOilg the w%ight tf 'therir i-t f4-eioo in favo&>f he oojedt weh in view. -- Through the generosity and kind. nesl of Mr. t. z. Dooportos, we have the use of a large' rouin, in Whiot to hold our wdekly id lunar I'e tings at, no expeAeoto'ue. The offidee'loted wore, Cl. 11. 0. 'DavIs, 7rendent.; Dr. .R,. Hi. Ed-6nds and Mr. W. D. Coleman, Vico-Presidents; Mr. S. '. P'inier, Sec. ;,&Ir. Herbert RufN, Trous. ; M'r. Charle Lowther, Orderly ; Messrs.. R. 8. )esportes, OlliAou Oloud and -~ ~ ~~ ".Dvs,ce o)l, Exaecttivo committee ; mri .13. .E. Elkin, . R. MarBh'all.und Dr. J. D '.j4uer, orities, or-oowturitteo 'o propose ques tious to be disousdod, pro'ure leo turus, seleft proper persons to read essayg, &0., &c. Mr. Harry U. Davis, Jr., and Mr. John E'diuuds will open the discus.. sion at out next meeting. A RIDGE%WARIAN. [CoMI.oAT O "Blythewood Female Seminary." Mr. Bditor: - If it is not to 1te, atnd as none, it seems, have taken in hand to write you concerning the exceedin ly in toresting exercises u hich have re oently taken place in our midst, allow me,, through your columns to Ongratulate tl-e faculty and 8tuden's' of "Blythewood" upon the very in teresting examinution witnessed there on the loth and I Ith inst., and, the citizens of Fairflold upon the ex. istence.of such an lostitution in their mids t. Blythewood roeoverod from the disasters of the late -war only five months sinoe, and 'though, it must be confessed, she slept. lou on her duties, when she did awakA, it was a thorough awakening. . In five months she has presented to. her patrons as thorough a tot of mindo and hearts as we have ever seen,. and held out a well deflued promise, to all lovers, of a glorious future. - Nor do we believe that- this prom. ise held to the ear to be broken to the heart. Yudging not only from the ability and: discretion which- in the past presided over her destiny, but from the deeper interest, . and obviously improved ability manifest in the recens examinations, 'we un hesitatingly say,-. hp pay: is patont, her course onward, and with the board of trustees, "heartily recoinm mend her to the support and patron.. ige of all who o~ esire good training an'd substantial education ,for their daughters." Bllythewood is pleaantly itulated near Doko on the C.O. &A . Ri. R . in a locality unsurpassed in our State, in heatlthiunessa, ease of an-oess--a calm ho'ue like influence, away alike from the0 dissipations - and attractions of towns and oitits. nnd I the mental inaotivities of the ounitry Zwhile the Sanctuary o f God, in her midst, throws its shadow almoslt upon the very 'walls 6f the Seminary. - Tfhough praise is sometimes fuil some, and comparisons often invidia oe, I cannot close' without a word of cbeer for the' noble corps of in. struotors on'necte'l with this school. N~ow )ri. B.; and Prof. D., dont open your ears thus--you've bad enough' of it-"d rafts tiat common millions I&c." Besides *e fe&r soiewhat easy npw that the efforts which have been made tolinduce you to take charge of IInatitutions in other States have failed. Be mannerly then gentle. men, and silent while modest worth receives her weed of praise. -We frankly confess-that the Cicero cla4s. delighted us, and the algebra and geometry olasses confounded us, and thie classes, in natural science'- and rhetorlo and logic encohanted us, but when Miss Budd's classes came out they rielted bas as her music' always charmed uis. A fatber's unibidden tear could noti be 'idmppre'sied 'when he saw the cherished hopes of years' ripening inito fruition in the gl'wing countenthees and thoughtful- faces of the161 oife's upturned to atoh the questions whfoh was not in a soliar instance bunsered Bunt, it, refusineod for. p%is Shnok in her scriptur.e teol taldus to tako' us quito away,-a's the i mmortal p*ineoi pie of truth potfred in their beauty as:d riobbess fronv'1veweb' lips -of youth befdre us; Sure'lys wb thoright tis plan of Miss. Nettle is origimal, and it is full of beauty 'to take thesee .young iternortMle daily by the. - batdy and lediVg thedt by the ttibs -and - aljadiso'ylagalo lithtroj %edtrot belt to "The G3rbt Palcoe now 'of Light, fr'om'whlch' alH other 8ane. iin' their gdideuan n dmrbL,- - CQ'UNIC Sohoo f t h Tow lir. Editor4 I In pu6;"4 he Trustees ata tiOng was held u Saturday V6thdsi., Dr. R. H. Inibide,eIst1Sfdid11o8s4a >ortes Secretary. The chairman requestbI . . Marshall to explain the object of be,rgqeting,.whi-h;be yery luidly lid, ot ngde . resionsibility of ilr. ilowell lCdmundp lnformed hpweeting id regard to the, Value if property. in 8th.twuship and that ho lat assesineut pruoed oly 052.11 f6ir 613 ahildren. IMr. . S; Detpurtes eipressed il.nself fav.orable to a luest tax foi 5e bool purposes, and,in urgilng . levy,reminded the meeting' that Lil our woo sprang frown the .degra. Wtion . consequent Upon the debasi ng influenoes of ignorance. On notion of W. R. Maishall E4sq., it is resolvdd that the Treasuidr be nitruotuvd to luvy a 109 il tax oi - h Tuwitt.1,10,of oio autt iuip hall Wiil.i for fraee schoo.l pur poses. 0. 111otiou of tho d.111e. gentlein it, was resolved That the chairman of Soh6ol Trui ,een be ihstruted to-c&use enly as nany schools to be opened as he nay in hi. judgment think bel. Oi -motion of the same gentlemen it was roeolved First. That the Trustees of this (80hi Township) be directed to make contriets with each Tpenoher of his Township for the per capita tuition of pupils : that the rohool4 be divided between the two races, in proportion to school popu. lation of eab;i and that schools be so located as to mot the cohvonience of pupils. econd. That the county school commissioner be roquestad to make frequent personal 'Asits, and that lie also see to it that the Trustees visit the school monthly as required by law, noting and reporting to him the progress, or miRmanagement of any school, to the end that irregulari. ties and frauds, so fr-equent in the past, may be corrected. Mr. R. S. Despq%tes stated, as In. formation, that the. sohool' house wbioh was built from: the proceeds ,f the Murdoc land, 'esheated to the State, had been reported to the fotondant as a nuivanoe, and he hoped as the chairman of the board of Ttus. tees of that property (8. M. Smart, &q.,) was present, simple mention would be all that was necessary to oorteot.the abuse, ridding th. In tendant thereby of a disagrecable duty. Mr. Smart was g'ad -the matter had been mentioned, -and said- he fIlt .e had done b's duty in lookingi the doors after the school closed,, and that the said doors had been foibl3 opened bv those'whuo bad dibtur bed the ponce. Ho bad visited the school house at midnight and mbadc frequent attempts to quell the .nois' without effect. It was then ou motion of W. 1B Marshall, Esq.,.,resolved. Tfhat the meiib era of the' General Assembly from this County be re. quested to propose and support a the,next meeting ain amendment tc an act entitled."An Act 'declaring ai tract of one h,uni'red acres of' land in th'e-County of Fairfld as esoheated to the State pnd to vest the title to thye same in the Trusteen of Ridge way Academn)" approved March 9th 1871. Said amend menut'allowing the Truistees name~d in the'Act. to trans. fer to school Truhteos of 8th Tlown' ship of thbis County, the school house and grounds in the Town of liidgs. Way? to be used as a Free School for colored ehildren. Adjourned 1#, I-. Ndmunds, Chairman. RL. S. Desportes .Secretary. Jonth Unarolna ait the Centennial. His Honor Judge Iblaokey ~las written anid published a letter to Major TI. W. Woodware., President of the South Carolina Agrieultural and Mechanical Sooiety, in reference to the representation of South Oalo. lina at the national oentennla), at Phil idolphin, on the 4th of July, 'I am informed, through sources 3utitled to the highest resea, :thbat he appointment of the present Cen' ~ennial.Commnissioner 'tot this state GOeu. W m Gurney, of 'Charleston, iominated by Go'vernor .Moses,) has pyven wide-spread dismatisfaction, Lud repels from-participation in .the n'oposed exposition the very olabses: --agrloulturists, tneehanles and p anufaotuteft..-whose active ed.ope' atlon' it is essential -to secure, ball not disouss the natiaes -of that lissatisfsotion-, ct the reasons ad duo d to jastify it, -but I propose to show hat it is not wat'erlal to the aeoonr. di) nse1t of.tlt Ihioitant end in *bd weard the titTe, wbethier a 4'"'or tndeor'vedly, ' o'f '(nte' .-doi1n'inioner* of. South f41i oent(R M'ai epotiobi t 0' lass of naei'e ri.it to ka L oess, will be beat undeiratood by rourrIng to the Act of Congress oreating it, approved March 8, 1871. Then follows the Act of Coogross refered to. tIe also asys : .There Is no provision of law, and I am not aware of any regulation adopted by tho porninisslon, that con. ge parties, d i u, h ingaby arytile at t& Vbt,ab .1 position, or that gives such Conamis. sioner any control over proposed ex. hibitor.9, 6r over 14 tilsniem isslon of such artioles as t6y. ay- ifitid .(q,,c,bjhi~g& iql ter ore, ute'p*611'U ~ we ii fo tieit' tention the expedieoq: your taking the initiative, R& a d" ;* days in the ,credti-b ;of al organi04in' wli4h ta be entitled '"Tli SoUth 0a'rb1i. na (enteapi.al Assooiatio9 o( 1876.'" Such orgauisatl, I am satitile.l, Of1 Olteat daIllfI 8oookyi lish 'thes 'ob.' jecta for which it is- designed. Ti.e assooaation tuay place itself in dirvot communioation with the National Cootonnial,Commisvion at Piiad'l phia , which, I have .t .doutjt,wii give its-cordial onoouragoment and a-operation to uny effort tending to insure that South Carolina al, bi creditably'rpr6ettied, and liar natual re-uurou and iodustri..l adhievenents ffully exemplified in the expudititn ot 1870.. * A11.a eoupiderlulet ftudd will 1,6 aoesiary to defray thi adat of tran). t)ttiog artialus intended lor ex Ibi. tion, tue-dollotiod and prelaattion of:specime oftho 'natural products of ae State, niueril 'and Vegeta ble the'printing of desuript ivo oat, logues &a., I feel assured th.t the (eneral0m Assem lily, whicb it 1.4 tow the fah.. ion to btrli 0'1o%t baislaly, and of-va most u1.j stly, will, if propely meumotialiNed, nake the requi,i!e a -propriation, say $5,000 or *10 UUO, to c;jrry out the ubjeut of the associar ion. Ills Exoellticy Gov ornor 0hamberlain, who is always ready to' ou operate no.,t earoestly in all efftirts to advance the subntin. tial pro,perity of South Carolina, or that reeaut hotor upon the St.sto assured me recently thrit su.h a menorial will receive his ooritat sanction and aotive .uppott. To thiti letter of Judge M -akv, from which we have quo:0d, Maj.r Woodward uiako. It following . ply : WIj\N-B no S. C., Jine 27. '75. Jodge T. J, Aack,41 -DEAR Sn: Y<,ur Ltter of the 14:h instost, a - dreased.t1 me as PreAd.otit of the State -gricultdral ald Mechantual Society, was tonly received by me two days ago. While I appreciate dot hwartily, the pa'riotio nolli. uetis ao happily expres..ed, which dq honor to- your , head And heatt still I uost- in Oan,br say that yout judioi'i po-ition enabes yol to take a di.-p-ssionato view of matters of which I ain utterly incapable. The appo'tmuent of Cummisrir-er for this State, to which )on refer, randers it impossib'e for u.e to hare any lot or part in the eeutennial celebrati -n. I regret this, but au it is. The prencit ComUWisiUne shall Ond est never represnet me or mine. le is the fit repreentative of South Carolina coarpet-.agge!r,, .1) h ot of thet deacondants of. 8 ,utn Carolinaa.revolutiornary pattri.ts. Whtile Gover.nor Muses is. to be blamed for the nominution, Gen. Grant, oannot be ennesed for mnak.ing the appointment without a remzon stranc. Why did he notad.n Governor Moa a note of the folIo a. log tot or: DE A R9ova:Nron . I aan forcod to i tur frttm your nou,tinlation that. vout mui.-o nstrue ihe punrpo..es of the CAn-* te'.nial Exhiasit i.,n. It is to, be a na4.nazl celebra tion in the fullest ac Leptatioan of the termat, untd hIa.- n-> politein, p arty or seoti anal signaiition. tion. You have int your State the lineal dereenidnuts oh t.e aignters of - thes deelarattiona of inidepend .n-e and of'r uvolutioniary patriots. No-uin..te one of tben. As a reprenf'lttaivle of ti,e late Uniio ry, I e-rn s-ty that no offence would be give.n ovetn were you to niominite a rebel do.. setndantof a rebel of 1770. Yours U.8S. GR ANr. H-ad be writtetn suich . a reponse as this, tlii~n heo avould )'aive exculpata e d himsnelf, and would have given oaae instanceot.. di-pute the assee tions of someo who de'larc that Grant is inoa. pablo of one~ unso1fish sentimaent, or of one masgnanimfous emoution, or that he a sufficiently well-bred . to cot,. sluet himself with-b even ordintry gentility when gentt.tmen cull on him. omojcally. Why, sir, have the signers of tha D)eelara,tion of ludependano. or' 1776O-Rutledge, . Iley ward, Lynoh and Aliddleton-no liy.ng rep re on t.ative 1 IH-ve the names of Hayn, Stimt or, Marion, H1amptoth KCer sha w, Uutler, anid'the sonas of tuany oth'er rovolutlonary paa,tiot~ I cutld name, all de parted fromo the State. Even in this event could no *nitrv, 6O0* citizen he fond to represenit Bouth Carolina1 one of the edg/ast ,The' insult, sir, a pointedj {t snist hav byer deGignied W0d rade, N.4 8l, libell'tint,'hor dol i "ik any tr$e 894btb ]atoHInIabs will take -Pn4 in the eentanIal) ender thn atspioes ot thec present - pmtnijssion er. &ome may be preey bultth *illbo iuere'loyoed on In Vienna. II The la-e nordliat grnct,ig given to 1the representatives,of South Carolina at th- I - ill, 'telebrationij makes mo te mi~ore regret that e ttt, wIiout unmanly hinfliht ion, meet tetrife men of. tbd Noutta & h 1 . pI~hit, andi there tnmeebet' teI oetbbr only1 that we arm all .~~jndapt of ,the heroie reb~els IAagvoukof of")?iO%,