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The Baltimore. Sun of Saturday last says
that Congress will probably adjourn to-day?Thursday.
Gobs and Whittemore, representatives in I
Congress from South Carolina, have been admitted
to seats.
The next general election occurs in Ken- ,
tucky, August 9, for the State officers and members
of Congress.
?- It is stated that Mr. Joseph us Woodruff, a
cigar inspector in the Charleston Customhouse, has
resigned that position in order to attend to his
other duies as Clerk of the carpet-bag Senate.
The Chicago T'rma says General Blair is a
teetotaller, and has been for years. He does not
drink a drop of intoxicating liquor. So much for
an atrocious Radical calumny.
The New York Board of Health report more ;
than two hundred and fifty cases of deatn in that ;
city from the effects of excessive heat within the i
past three or four days.
The Batesville (Ark.) Times reports the caterpillara
are so numerous in that region that an in*
dustrious man with a shovel could fill a wagon with 1
them in ten minutes.
Taxation without representation used to be (
thought bad enough, but in the Southern Legislatures
we now have representation without taxa- :
tioil.
Birmingham, England, employs three hundred
and eighty men and two thousand women and 1
girls in the manufacture of steel pens. The weekly
product is ninety-eight thousand gross.
A railway on a novel plan is building in the <
neighborhood of Paris. There is but one rail; on <
this tbe driving-wheel of the locomotive rests, the
two other wheels rest on the oommon road. 1
?? New York has the promise of a female bar- i
a. ci
ber shop, id tbe rutn avenue, me arusis w uc :
exclusively women, and the customers exclusively ;
men.
Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins, have
decided upon visiting Paris soon, to submit to a ,
surgical operation for the purpose of dissevering
the wonderful link that has so long bound them j
together. They are now fifty-nine years of age. 1
?? Of all the Popes since St Peter, only three !
have ruled so longas Pius IX. If he lives one *
year longer, only Pius VI will have had a loDger $
reign, in two years he will have outdone all but \
St Peter, and in three years St Peter himself. (
-United States District Attorney Fitch, of
Georgia, Democratic delegate to New York, is the |
candidate of his party for United States senator.
It is said that $25,000 has been raised in New
York to enable him to secure his election. 1
Hie war pressure has been so great in Bra- *
til that the Emperor and the Empress have con- ,
tributed a quarter of their income to help the public
purse, and the other members of the Imperial
family one-fifth of theirs. (
> A special dispatch received at New Orleans J
from Austin, says that the Convention of Texas I
disclaims any authority to divide the State under i
the Reconstruction acts, and refuses to consider the (
matter unless by direct authority from Congress. f
Before a West Point cadet can get leave of (
absence, he must take a pledge that he will keep i
sober for three days immediately succeeding his departure,
and three days immediately preceding his [
return. J
The Utica Herald says that the weather re- 1
cord kept by a gentleman of that city, shows Satthe4th
of July, to have been the warmest I
experienced in Utica for twelve years. The c
M Mmnnometer stood in the shade at 102 degrees and t
sun at 140 degrees.
HHHPIk?A process has recently been patented in ];
WB^^England by which the bran of flour, after being j
separated, is ground into an impalpable powder, .
and then again mixed with the flour. In this way 1
' -w %11 the nutritious ingredients are preserved, while 3
?tbt fineness of the flour is not affected. c
MmfcrAt one thaJitttels in Selma, Ala., the 8
^S^HHlord said to here, >^J3aker,
^^^^ffechambermaidtotraj^^^^B^nJhyour^oefl^Uns
long hajr in^g^flEt^W^^^H^^^^it did not
miles east from SacrameDtcflQit^l^^ve^^ft J
miles from Salt Lake. TheH$pnw>any have 9000
men at work, and intend to lawwenty miles of
track weekly from the Big Bena eastward. c
It was observed of an old citizen that he was I
the most regular man in his attendance at church, S
and no man in the country was more punctual in i
his prayers. 'He has a very good reason for it,' j
replied John Wilkes; 'for as he never gave a shil j
ling, did a kindness, nor conferred a favor on any
man living, no one would pray for hi to.' *
Asphaltum, dissolved in benzine or petro- J
leum, is recommended as a most excellent sub- '
stance for marking boxes, casks, etc., as it makes c
a fine black, dries very quickly, and is not affected c
by water. It may also be used to advantage for c
coating iron, leather, etc., for protection against t
the weather. (
General Meade has issued an order declar- t
ing Colonel J. H. Christy, the Democratic candi- r
date for Congress from the sixth district of Geor- J
gia, duly elected. Georgia, so far, has done better
than any of the other "reconstructed" States? ]
four out of her seven Congressmen being Demo- <
crats. ,
At a late convention at Burkeville, Va., of <
the farmers representing twelve Virginia and sev- (
eral North Carolina counties, a resolution was a- ,
dopted expressing a willingness to sell lands to '
purchasers from any section of the United States, (
and also recommending the formation of com pa- '
nies in each county to sell lands to foreigners.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,
says that the circulation of the London Times is
about 60,000 daily, that of the Telegraph 120,000
to 140,000, of the Standard not far from 100,000, i
the Star 25,000, the Post 4000, the Advertiser \
5000, the Pill Mall Gazette 12,000. The Daily ,
News began its circulation as a penny paperat 50,000,
and is increasing rapidly. The Saturday Re- :
view has a sale of less than 10,000, and the Spec- '
tator averages 7000. 1
General H. U. Grant arrived in Cincinnati *
* * TTT . 1 3 A _1 .1 | i .
last yy eanesaay aiiernoon, ana was aosoiuieiy un- '
noticed in that city. There was no enthusiastic
crowd to cheer him ; no committee called on him;
he was not serenaded; no accidental Wetmore
presented a bouquet; he was permitted to "cross
the river to visit his parents," with no one to molest
him or make him afraid, even that he might
be asked to?say something. There is more than
a mere lack of "enthusiasmit is an indication
that where Grant is best known he is least honored.
For a candidate who is running on his popularity,
this new absence of any manifestations in
his favor in his own section of the country is iudeed
significant.?N. 1' World
A colored man in Richmond. Virginia, John
Dabney, by name, purchased his freedom from
his mistress, which was to be paid by instalments.
Daring the pendency of the struggle he paid about i
one half of it in Confederate currency, which was (
at last so depreciated in value that his late mis- ,
tress requested him to discontinue the payments '
until the close of the conflict. When slavery was
abolished the debt was, of course, no longer due; (
but, notwithstanding he was advised against such j
a course, John Dabney lately transmitted to his i
old mistress, now in indigent circumstances, $600 (
in greenbacks, being the balance of the two thousand
dollars he had contracted to pay.
Governor Seymour is not to be beaten by be- j
ing called a Copperhead, or Frank Blair to be dis- (
tanced in the race because he is a revolutionist?
Ridicule Sevmour as some Republican journals '
may, he is the most popular man in the Democrat- 1
ic party. The man who in 1864, with the record >
AnninnY l???? n/1 and nntk thn a/Jah
ugt&iuai. iiiili bimb ucjuivui uau, uiiu niiu iuc uuui i
of the New York riots clinging to him and offending
the nostrils of every loyal man in the State, to
barelv escape an election in a poll of over seven
hundred thousand votes, is a candidate not to be
sneered at The man. we repeat, who, under the
intense pressure of disloyalty brought against him,
could poll three hundred and sixty thousand votes,
is more to be feared now than he was in 1864. Internal
vigilance is necessary to elect Grant?A7! Y.
Commercial (Republican.)
The bill to reduce and fix the military peace
establishment of the United States, now under the
consideration of the House of Representatives, has
been amended to read that, after March 31st,
1869, there shall only be three Major-Generals and
six Brigadier-Generals in the army. The President
is required, within ten days preceding March
31st, 1869, to designate, without regard to seniority,
the best officers of the respective grades, who
shall remain in commission, aud the others are to be
mustered out within ten days. According to the
last Army Register, the Major-Generals from a
mong whom this selection is to be made are: Henry
W. Halleck, George G. Meade, Philip H. Sheridan,
George H. Thomas, and Winfield S. Hancock.
The Brigadier-Generals are: Irvin McDowell,
Philip St George Cooke, John Pope, Joseph
Hooker, John M. Schofield, Oliver 0. Howard,
Alfred H. Terry, Edward 0. C. Ord, Edward R.
S. Canby, and Lovell H. Rousseau.
A Northern Convention correspondent
sketches Wade Hampton. "Directly in front,
just behind the Massachusetts delegation, sits another
man of mark. He is a tall man, muscular
and compact, with black eyes, black whiskers and
black hair. His face is dark, as though it were familiar
with the sun, and he wears dark clothing.
His name is Wade Hampton, and his fame has
gone over the world. Hampton's head is one to
study. It is medium in size, but splendidly formed.
A glance at the head and face shows }'ou that
there is will and intellectual resource there, and
nature above all petty things. Hampton has
proved himself a gallant soldier. He has the
abilities of a statesman, too, and they have been
recognized. He does not appear to take any part
in the proceedings, but sits quietly in his place
while the chairman of his delegation announces the
vote of South Carolina. Did he choose to stand
up and speak, no man on the iloor would be more
attentively heard."
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YORKVILLE, S. C.s
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 23,1868.
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that the time paid for has expired.
WEATHER AND CROPS.
Six weeks of drought, and unprecedentedly hot
[feather, had, up to Sunday last, rendered the crop
prospects in York, anything but promising. On
Sunday, showers began to fall in various sections,
md continued on Monday and Tuesday. Nearly
>very farm has, within the week, been visited by
ihowers, which if not sufficient to insure a.crop,
vill at least delay the parching process which the
jorn blades have been undergoing.
The past week has brought the hottest weather
cnown for several years. The thermometer (Fahrenheit,
in metalic case) has ranged as high as
102? in the shade. The actual temperature, a perfect
instrument would have shown to be about 98?.
rHE YORKVILLE FEMALE COLLEGE.
Attention is called to the advertisement, in an)ther
column, of the Female College at this place,
[t will be seen that two additional instructors have
jeen provided for the approaching session?Rev^
IV. W. Carothers and Mr. J. R. Schorb. Both
)f these gentlemen have large experience as teach;rs,
and are as thoroughly qualified for the duties
>f the place, as any that can be found. It will also ,
>e observed that the price of boarding has been
educed from $17 to $13 per month. This is, we ,
>elieve, a lower rate than is offered by any other ,
nstitution.
The excellent matron, Mrs. N. W. Thornwcll, ,
>roposes, we learn, to add something in the way ,
if recreation for boarders, next session. A recepion
will be provided for semi-monthly, and musical (
oireesand other amusements afforded to the young
adies, calculated to relieve the tedium of a board- ,
ng school. We might mention several other facts ,
n showing the spirit of progress alive in this in- ,
titution; but enough is given to the public to .
onvince it of the fact that the College promises ,
oon to become a live and flourishing establishment (
worthy of its support.
THE CHARLESTON DAILY NEWS. ,
We invite attention to the peculiar advantages
if the Charleston Daily and Tri-Weekly News as
)emocratic campaign, and family papers for coun- }
ry circulation. Great care is taken to give all the ,
atest intelligence by mail and telegraph, so that i
lach paper is a fresh and attractive, complete and i
ompact record of current events in the world of 1
relitics, literature, society, religion and trade.
Special telegrams keep the readers of the News
nformed upon all important points of State and
STational interest The Tri-Weekly Noes is pubished
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
tnd embraces all the reading matter contained in '
he Daily News, and all the latest intelligence pubished
in the daily paper of the same date. The
1-1. rp?- 1.1.. AT I
:tuu rules iur llie lll-n CCM^ ii(.u/o ait. rue
:opies, to one address, $13; ten copies, to one ad- !
lresa,#25; fifteen copies, to one address, $3G; '
wenty-five copies, to one address, $55; fifty copies,
;o one address, $100. Clubs may be formed for
,he Daily Ncics at double the rates named for the
fri-Weekly edition.
The proprietors, however, being determined to
jut a sterling Democratic paper within the reach
>f every juan during the campaign for Seymour
md Blair, have adopted the following unprecedent;d
low rates for subscribers for four months: Five
jopies Daily News, to one address, four months,
S8 50; five copies Tri-Weekly Nacs, to one adiress,
four months, $4 25; ten copies Daily Neics,
:o one address, four months, $15 ; ten copies TriWeekly
Aeics, to one address, four months, $7 50.
WORK FOR ALL.
One of the great wants of the South is practical
ndustry. Her people can compete successfully
vith those of any other section in politeness, mo ality,
good breeding, learning and general intelligence
; but we are forced to admit that they are
azy. Whether this is the result of climatic inluence,
or whether it arises from the habits and
training of the young men of the South, it is, nevertheless,
true that her people give less importance
ind dignity to labor than they should. "To ride
the horse, to shoot the bow, and to speak the truth,''
is an old Arabic precept, that has been well nurtured
among us; but that equally commendable
md more practicable maxim of the Apostle, "Be
liligent in your several callings," or the olderscrip:ural
precept, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to
In. do it with thy might," seems to have impressid
themselves with less force upon our training
than the former.
We have not elevated labor to the dignified and
honorable position it deserves to hold in our social
fabric. It has been too much the habit of people
nr?V?^v di/1 <-knn>ooliroo 4a nriro tko aa1/1
shoulder to the laboring man, however worthy of
character, simply because of his calling. There
are but few persons that will fail to admit the absurdity,
(to use no harsher expression) of such a
doctrine ; yet to some extent the vice of this false
opinion still retains its hold upon a few, and is doing
mischief among those who respect the prejudices
of age, in everj community.
There is nothing more ennobling, virtuous or
manly than work ; be it in the work-shop, at the
plow-handles, delving in mines, or filling assiduously
the highest official positions?work makes the
character, and should be the passport of its votary
imong honorable men everywhere. Lazy men are
not only useless ornaments to society, but a tax
upon the resources of a community. The producer
has to work the harder to support the idle consumer,
while if every person of sufficient physical
strength would employ himself about some useful
calling, the burdens would fall less heavily upon
ihe few.
It is often tho response of many young men to
such homilies as this, that they can find no work
;o do. Perhaps employment of the most desirable
cind, cannot always be found ; but, nevertheless,
;here is always something everybody can do and be
ecompensed for it. If a young man cannot obtain
me dollar per day for his services, he had better
take the tenth of that amount than to remain in
idleness. If he cannot become a clerk, salesman
3r book-keeper in some fancy establishment, he
had better drive a juck-plane in a carpenter's shop
xs an apprentice to a useful and manly occupation,
)r hire himself to help till the soil, than to sport in
dleness about the country. i
Oar country needs a new generation of independent
workers. The brawn aud brain of our young
men must extricate us from the follies of the past,
and start us upon a new career of enterprise that
ultimately leads to prosperity and happiness.?
Have our young men the nerve to battle with these
old and half dead prejudices against manual labor,
and to go to work at something useful and profitable
? The next few years must answer the question.
Our destiny as a people anxiously awaits an
affirmative answer. Our character, at home and
abroad, demands a manly response from this, the
only class from whom we can hope for great results.
AGRICULTURAL fTEMS.
? California is producing strawljerries weighing
five to the pound.
? The drought in North Carolina is said to be
excessive, and the crops and gardens are generally
parched up.
? It is estimated that the people of Texas will
this year realize $5,000,000 from their cotton crop
and cattle.
? Mrs.-Richardson, of Newbern, North Carolina,
has a cucumber vine which has produced 200
cucumbers this season.
? During the last seventeen years Franklin
county, Vermont, has shipped 38,941,000 pounds
of butter and 18,435,000 pounds of cheese.
? Two Germans last year bought eighty acres of
land in Southern Tennessee, and jwid for their lot
with the proceeds of the first year's crop ot tour
acres of strawberries set out last fall.
?The cotton caterpillar has made its appearance
on the islands in the vicinity of Charleston, and serious
apprehensions are excited as to the successful
raising of a crop of long-staple cotton.
?The agriculturists in Europe are complaining
bitterly of the drought which prevails there. No
rain has fallen in England for seven weeks, the
ground is parched, and the springs are becoming
dry. On the Continent the drought is more terrible.
POLITICAL .NEW8.
?The first "straw" of the campaign is that
Grant badges don't sell well in New York.
?The Legislature of North Carolina is opposed
to mixed schools and mixed militia.
? A wildly enthusiastic meeting was held in
Memphis when the Democratic nominations were
announced, and a similar meeting was held in
Nashville.
? The Democratic nominations have been received
everywhere with great favor. Our ex- .
changes bring us accounts of joyous demonstrations
from all points, North, South and West
? The Washington Star of Saturday says :?
"J. H. G08S, member of Congress from the fourth i
district of South Carolina, has arrived here, and
his credentials were to-day referred to the House
Committee on Elections."
?The IN. I. Uaily Advertiser tmnics u win require
some exertion to defeat Seymour; and the
New York Tribune says Grant and Colfax can be
elected "only by hard steady work." Greeley is
not going a fishing, then.
? It has been suggested to Mr. Suinner that, ,
as he is very anxious to have a negro chosen Uni- ,
ted States Senator, he should recommend one as
his successor; but probably he thinks life own re- ,
election will amount to the same thing. {
? The morning after the nomination of Sey- <
tnour and Blair by the New York Convention, i
some scamp tied crape to the door of Chief Justice
Chase's residence, which, before it was removed,
caused some uneasiness among the friends of
that gentleman until it was understood to have ;
anly a political significance.
? The German. Democratic Union, of New
York, held a large and enthusiactic meeting on
Tuesday of last week, at which the following resolution
was adopted:
"Resolved, That we heartily endorse the nomi- '
nations of the Democratic National Convention, '
and that we shall do all in our power to secure the .
flection of Horatio Seymour, the farcmost man in
the ranks of the Democracy of the Empire State,'
and of Francis Preston Blair, the brave and gifted
warrior of the Union." i
? The Legislature of Alabama assembled on
Monday of last week. Of the members, about i
thirty are negroes. The Senate doorkeeper is a
negro, and the door-keeper, the Sergeant-at-Arms
and the chaplain of the House are also negroes.?
On Tuesday, Governor Smith was inaugurated in i
the presence of the two houses. He sent in a
message which in the main was more conservative
than was expected; he recommends in strong i
language the removal of all disabilities from the
people of Alabama, and bitterly opposes any disfranchisement
except for crime. <
ELECTION OF SENATORS.
During the past week, the "so-called" Legislature,
now sitting in Columbia, has elected two
persons as Senators, to represent South Carolina
in the seats once occupied by Calhoun and MeDuffie.
Thomas J. Robertson, of Columbia, has
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been elected tor tne snort term, wmcn expires in
1871; and Frederick A.Sawyer, of Charleston,
Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second District
of South Carolina, for the "long term," which
expires in 1873.
Robertson is a renegade native, who during the
latter part of the war was a wood-contractor on the
South Carolina Railroad, and at the close embraced
negroism and radicalism, for the purpose of
being rewarded for his "loil" sacrifices. We do
not envy him his honors!
Sawyer is a native of Massachusetts. For some
years previous to, and until the latter part of the
war, he was the Principal, of the State Normal
School in Charleston. A* few months previous
to the close of the war he was permitted by the
military authorities at Richmond, to leave Charleston
for the North. At the close of the war he
returned to Charleston and secured the appointment
of Collector of Internal Revenue. While in
Charleston, it was very well understood that he
did not sympathize with the Confederate cause, but
in consequence of his prudence and gentlemanly
conduct, he retained the esteem of many persons
who differed with him in opinion.
For the "short terra" there was no contest, and
Robertson was elected without any serious opposition.
For the "long term" there were three candidates?Dr.
A. G. Mackey, Collector of Customs
at Charleston, F. A. Sawyer, and Rev. Mansfield
French, a Northern "carpet-bagger," whose profession,
according to a correspondent of the Charleston
News, "cannot be accurately ascertained."
Three joint ballots were taken, with the following
result:
First ballot?Mackey, 59; Sawyer 51; French,
27; Campbell, 16. J. wtopper tnen wituarew
the name of Parson Mansfield French. Second
ballot?IVJackey 68; Sawyer. 65; Campbell, 15;
French 1. Third ballot?wliole number voting,
149; necessary to a choice, 75?Sawyer, 76; Mackey,
68; Campbell, 5.
Sawyer having received the requisite number of
votes was declared duly elected, amidst the cheers
of members and spectators, and as a choice of
evils, to the gratification of the country generally.
The democrats for a time voted for Campbell
and Perry, but a number of them, on the last ballot
voted for Sawyer, which secured his election.
The contest between the Mackey and SawyeJ
parties has been conducted with extreme bitterness
on each side, rendering it altogether the dirtiest
and most disagraceful election ever held in the
State. Mackey was furious in consequence of his
defeat, and immediately dispatched a messenger
to Washington to protest against Sawyer being
allowed to take his seat The protest is based upon
a charge that Sawyer was engaged in blockaderunning
during the war.
The following, from a correspondent of the Charleston
Neics furnishes a graphic picture of the
scenes, preceding the election:
"A spectacle is now on exhibition in Columbia,
such as never has been witnessed in South Carolina?a
spectacle, every phase of which typifies
the utterly unprincipled character of the Republican
party, and illustrates the frightful depth of i
demoralization to which men must descend to secure
respect as its "trooly loij" members. Inthe
language of a Northern tourist, who lingers here
for a day or two to enjoy the senatorial fight as a
looker on, "it is the uiost infamous political contest
that ever disgraced a free couutry; if this be
the beginning of the end, God help the people of
South Carolina."
Here is a Legislature composed of one hundred
and twenty-four members of the House of Representatives,
and thirty-three members of the Senate.
Of the former, forty-eight only are white,
of the lutter nine are colored. Of democrats there
are, in the House fourteen, and in the Senate
seven; making an aggregate of seventy-two white
and eighty-five colored legislators of South Carolina.
'1 he grave duty devolved upon these bodies
is the choice of two United States Senators. One
has already been elected with a degree of unanimty
which indicated preconcert of action and a mutual
understanding. The other is yet to be chosen,
and it is the wicked, unparalleled and unprincipled
means employed to secure this result that
has disgusted Radicals themselves, and alarmed
them for the safety of their party. Bribery and
corruption are in the ascendant -No member can
predict the hour when he may not be called upon
with the offer of a douceur varying in value from
two dollars and a half to an indefinite amount of
promise, for his vote. While I write the bids are
going on, and as if to magnetize the sense of hearing,
the chink of eounted gold rings through the
corridors of the hotel; from a certain room wherein
I recognize only the face of the carpet-bagger and
stranger. -u
The singular issue is made against Mr. Sawyer
that because he is a gentleman, recognized as such,
and the recipient of 6ome kind attentions from
those who do not agree with him politically, he
must necessarily be a wretched Democrat. On the
other, hand, Dr. Mackey has a host of enemies
who declare that he belongs to the '"Customhouse
ring" of Charleston; that he and his family rule
the Republican party of the State, and have obsorbed
the best of its fat offices; that he is arbitrary,
dictatorial, passionate, and a somewhat extensive
demagogue: that he has Dot the abiding love
of all the Radicals, and has "suffered" so profitably
as to have uiado enough to retire to the peace- '
ful shades of private life; consequently that he will
not be acceptable to the majority. The Rev. Mr.
F., on the other hand, is looked upon with distrust;
first, because his chief supporters are Northern
men; secondly, because he is too sanctimonious;
third, because he has not sufficient elocutionary
ability to represent even the ghost of McDuffie;
and fourth, because not being adrinkiugor a smoking
man himself, he has let the job out on contract,
whicht you must know, is a terrible draw
back to success under the present circumstances.
Everything like distinction of race or color is
practically ignored. The colored man who owns a
vote is treated to and demands consideration, and
it is paid to him as to a white man. Office seekers,
those who are anxious to fill the places of
judge, solicitor, &c., hobnob kindly with their ebon
brother at the public bar, and do their best to create
a pleasant impression. In short, the white
has stepped aside from his level. Some who are
here would sell their souls for the mean dross of
office. I can put iny finger on two boys to-night,
mere beardless youths, little beyond the voting
affe. who asnire to the best and most responsible
positions in the gift of the government In all
probability they will get what they want, because
they are?Radical."
?
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Hot Weather.
Thursday last was probably the hottest day
that has been experienced in this section of country
in a number of years. At Wilmington, N. C.,
the thermometer, in the shade, in different localities,
marked from 97 to 101?; at Washington, 92
to 94?; New York, 95 to 100?; Philadelphia, 91 to
93?; Richmond, 100 to 107?; Augu9ta, 98 to 100?;
Charleston, 92 to 94?.
"Troubles never come Singly."
Dr. A. fr. Mftckey having been defeated as
a candidate for United States Senator, it is now
rumored that he will very probably be deposed as
Collector of the Port of Charleston. An agent of
the Treasury Department has been investigating
the affairs of the Custom House, and the revelations
are said to be such as will warrant his ejection,
together with the lesser lights of radicalism
by whom he is surrounded.
A Third Party.
Rumors were current in Washington last
week, of the formation of a third parti'. The
movement is said to have had its origin among the
partisans of Judge Chase, and disappointed politicians
belonging to the Republican and Democratic
parties. Chase was approached on the subject,
but the latest advices indicate that he has given
the movement the cold shoulder and the scheme
is a failure.
Civil Law Restored.
On Saturday last, the 19th instant, in accordance
with the requirements of the Omnibus
Admission Bill, the President issued a Proclamation,
announcing the ratification by the Legislature
of South Carolina, of the fourteenth article of the
Constitution. Expressions doubting the legality
of the Legislature and the authenticity of the ratification,
characterize this, as well as former proclamations.
The effect of this is to entirely restore
the State to civil rule.
The State Treasurer's Bond.
A few days ago, it was announced that Niles
? ? i rv? . rn i , i _i
(jr. Murker, trie ?tate treasurer eiect, naa executed
a bond for ninety thousand dollars, with the
necessary sureties. It turns out that the bondsmen
of Parker are Dr. Mackey, of Charleston ;
Camp, of Spartanburg; Crews, of Laurens; and
a number of other irresponsible scalawags, and that
out of the whole batch, one thousand dollars could
not be recovered in case of necessity. Governor
Scott, who is reported to be a holder of State bonds
to the amount of $50,000, having ascertained this
fact to his entire satisfaction, ordered the bond to
be cancelled, and Mr. Hood, the old Treasurer, to
retain possession of the office until a good bond
has been substituted. The truly 'loil' are greatly
incensed against Governor Scott, and Rutland has
introduced a resolution in the Senate to enquire
into the expediency of reducing the amount of the
required bond..
Position of Chief Justice Chase.
The Washington correspondents are speculating
as to the position of Chief Justice Chase,
with reference to the Presidential nominees. It
seems to be pretty well settled, however, that he
is not in full accord with the Republican party.?
The Ileralit8 Washington correspondent furnishes
the following paragraph on the subject, which may
be taken for what it is worth:
"Chief Justice Chase declared to-day to a Western
friend that while hecould not personally accord
with the resolutions against the Reconstruction
Acts, and believed that the present Constitutions
South ought to stand till changed by the people of
each State, all voting, yet he was a Democrat, a
State Rights Democrat, and in full sympathy with
the Democratic party."
The Chances.
As is usual, immediately preceding a Presidential
election, the political newspapers are busy
in irofhnrr ?rw tnl.lac chcwinC fV"inr>lllsi Vf?] V tbnt. tVlPir
Ill ?\sVblll? Up lUk/JWUi'vu.-.Q w..v?v..vV v..ww ?..v?
respective favorites are certain to be elected. The
Worlds which is the leading Democratic newspaper
in New York, makes a showing for Seymour
and Blair, and puts down the following as the result
:
Connecticut, G; New York, 33; New Jersey, 7;
Pennsylvania, 2G; Ohio, 21; Indiana, 13; Oregon,
3; Nevada, 3; California, 5; Delaware, 3; Kentucky,
11; Missouri, 11 ; Kansas, 3; Wisconsin,
8; Maryland, 7. Total, 1G0.
One hundred and fifty-nine votes, says the World,
arc all that is necessary for election, and in the abovc
tables there are one hundred and sixty electoral
votes without counting one of the Southern
States engaged in the rebellion. In the list of
States given, every one, save three, in which a State
election has been held in the last eighteen months,
has gone Democratic. In all, the local elections
have exhibited great Democratic gains, sufficient
to insure the States for the Democracy this fall.?
We have not counted Illinois in the list, but the
delegates to the Convention declared that there
was no doubt but Pendleton could carry the State.
If it would be certain for Pendleton, then it can-be
safely counted for Seymour and Blair. In addition
to this, the States of Alabama, Georgia and
Mississippi are certain to give a Democratic majority
with any fair chance for voting; this will give
24 more electoral votes and swell the Democratic
column to 184. But the Republicans are laboring
to exclude the votes of the States of Virginia, Texas
and Mississippi, by.legislation in Congress. H
the electoral votes of these States are not counted,
then there will be in the electoral college 294 votes
and 148 will be all that will be necessary to elect.
The Democracy can then lose Ohio and still secure
a majority of the Electoral College, without counting
any from Jhe South, or by carrying Ohio they
can lose Missouri, Wisconsin and Kansas, and still
elect their ticket without receiving a vote from the
South. There is, therefore, every reason for encouragement
to the Democracy, and the election of
Seymour and Blair may be put down as a certainty.
On the other hand, the Tnlmne, which is the
leading Radical paper in New York, says:
"The only States that weT.consider morally certain
to vote for Seymour and Blair are Kentucky,
Maryland and Delaware: and even Delaware might
be carried for Grant if his friends were as active
and zealous as they should be. Kentucky will give
the Republican ticket over sixty thousand votes:
but, as her rebels all vote, while every colored
man?including even those who fought to put down
tl. A ^AUAIIiam AALIAA J VMM <4A nA^ AVMA/it
mic reuciuuu?ib uiaintuuuiacu, *rcuu nutcajicvi hj
carry her. Were either the rebels disfranchised
or the blacks enfranchised, she would. vote foi
Grant; and so with Marylaud.
We shall not carry all the remaining States ; but
we shall zealously contest them all, and hope to
carry at least three-fourths of their Electoral Votes.
A good many -of them are beyond doubt. Vermont
will give Grant three to one for Seymour;
Massachusetts at least two to one ; Tennessee at
least as much; and we shall be disappointed if
Maine, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Kansas and Michigan, do not each give Grant
more than 10,000 majority."
"Diversified Products."
Previous to the war, the assertion was frequently
made that "Cotton is King!" This idea
was soon exploded, and it was recognized immediately
after the commencement of the war, that
corn and wheat shared the honors. In the recent
message of Governor Scott, to the Legislature of
South Carolina, a paragraph is devoted to the subject
of agriculture, and it contains so much of interest
to our fanners, and shows so clearly that
there are other means of accumulating money besides
raising cotton, that we print the paragraph
entire, and commend it to consideration:
"The concentration of labor and capital upon
one product, and that too extremely liable to the
varying hazards of the seasons and the worth, has
retarded the agricultural prosperity of South Carolina,
and of the entire South. The true safety of
the farmer lies in the cultivation of several products,
so that although the season may be unpropitiouB
for one, he may preserve the other. He
should not imitate the unwise merchant, who embarks
his all, though uninsured, in a single ship.
The impolicy of concentrating so large a portion of
labor upon cotton, instead of dividing it amonjj
mixed crops or corn, wnuui, puuuira, ato., auu
the products of the dairy, is best illustrated by the
following facts drawn from the census of I860, and
the report of the United States Commissioner of
Agriculture for 18CG. The cotton crop of Georgia,
the Empire State of the South, in I860 was 701,840
bales, yielding little fnorc than thirty millions
($80,000,000) of dollars; while the butter of New
York in 18G5, one of several products of the dairy,
was estimated at sixty millions ($60,000,000) oi
dollars. Yet the census gives to New York but
470,914 farmers and farm laborers, and to Georgia,
including white farmers and farm laborers, ana
only the males of the slaves, 316,478 persons engaged
in agriculture. Should the female slaves be
included, Georgia would have actually had a larger
number of farm laborers than the State of New
York. Besides the other dairy products, milk and
cheese, and the smaller products of the farm, the
principal crops make in value an astounding aggregate.
Thus, in 1864, the corn crop of New
York was estimated at $38,000,000, the wheat at
$25,000,000, the oats at $30,000,000, potatoes at
$19,000,000, and hay at $90,000,000. Including
the minor cereals, the products of orchards anu
gardens, the production of beef and mutton from
pasturage, and a great variety of miscellaneous
products, the currency value of the agricultural
productions of this one State, in that year, was
far greater than the money returns of any cotton
crop ever produced in this country ; and the gold
value of such products would be greater than the
fjold value of half the cotton crop of 1860, the
argest ever made in the United States. The
grand results are not due to any superiority of soil
or climate above our own, but a properly directed
and diversified system of labor and to superior agricultural
implements and farm economy. The
aggregate product of varied agricultural labors
must always exceed in value the yield of any one
staple, however vast and well organized may be
the system of labor applied to it, for marked success
in the production of that one, will lessen its
price by an undue increase of the supply over the
demand."
v NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
R. B. Anderson?Strayed or Stolen.
Thomas O'Farrell?Five Cents Reward.
T. W. C'lawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?In
the Matter of H. H. Miles, W.
F. Lawson,Elijah R. Huff, D. D. Moore.
J. H. Clawson, Special Messenger?In Bankruptcy?In
the Matter of Samuel L. Reid.
John 5fay?Lands, Land.s?For Sale?Wanted?
On Consignment?Wanted.
F. C. Harris, O. Y. 1).?Citation?J. Ed. Jefferys,
A M.OS/mnf?Trtinnu P JnfVorvn
A|J|JI1UUH wmilVP *
Yorkville Female College.
R. W. Barnwell?University of South Carolina.
Rev. 11. Burwell A Son?Charlotte Female Institute.
H. Keller?New Boot and Shoe Shop.
JohnC. Kuykendal?York Drug Store?Calisaya
Bark?White Lead?Arrow Root. Ac.?Bath
Sponges?Plasters?Extract Bucnu, Ac.
MERE-MENTION.
At the late commencement of the University of
Mississippi, at Oxford, the honorary title of Doc
tor of Law was conferred upon Rev. 0. Wilson
McPhail, D. D., President of Davidson College,
North Carolina. An onion, in Mississippi, it
said to measure three feet seven inches in circumference.
Dunn, a negro as black as the ace ol
spades, has been in auguruted as Lt-Governor ol
Louisiana. It is said that $100,000,000 are
annually stolen by the revenue thieves. The
new tax bill, adopted by Congress, dispenses wit!
about 1,700 inspectors. J. P. Alexander
the "Cattle King" of Illinois, owns from 50,001
to 75,000 head of cattle, and is buying and selling
large numbers weekly. Paris has 50,00C
houses and 2,000,000 inhabitants. London has
360,000 houses and 3,000,000 inhabitants. Il
appears from the statistics of the army that Americans
are taller than foreigners, and Western men
taller than Eastern. The Elizabeth furnace,
near Stanton, Va., is now turning out six tons ol
steel per day, made directly from brown hematite
iron ore. The production of cotton cloth ir
1860 averaged forty-six and a half yards for eacli
individual in the United States. An old ladj
of seventy years, out in Iowa, surprised hersell
and everybody else by producing a nine pound
baby the other day. New Orleans has artificial
ice works, which are a great curiosity. The
ice sells for three-fourths of a cent a pound.
The resignation of Brigadier-General R. K.
Scott, as an officer of the United States army, has
t i? aI_. T) :J A
Dcen accepted uy tue jrreaiueiu. me viiium
nati Enquirer, the great organ of Pendleton and ol
the greenback policy, comes out strongly for Sey
niour and Blair. The gross earnings of all the
railroads of the United States the past year amounted
to $340,000,000, or equaling twenty one
per cent, of the total cost. This sum averages $1C
per head for the entire population. The genera!
average rates of expenses to earnings is seventy pei
cent. John Pool has been elected U. S. Senator
from North Carolina, for the long term, and
J. C. Abbott for the short term. There if
less sickness in Arkansas this season than has been
known for several years. Mr. Albert Johnson,
at one time Superintendent of the Raleigh
and Gaston Railroad, has been elected Superintendent
of the North Carolina Railroad, vice Jas.
Anderson, Esq., deposed. They have a bridge
over Broadway, of which it is said that while the
ladies step up the stairs, the gentlemen stare up
the steps. The Charleston papers announce
the death, in New York, from sun-stroke, on Wednesday
of last week, of Mr. John Hogan, well
known to the citizens of York County, as a cattledealer.
A lady died in Williamsburg County,
recently, at the advanced age of 140 years.
Secretary Seward reports that twenty-three
States have ratified the fourteenth amendment,
from which Ohio and New Jersey have receded.
He also reports that Arkansas, North Carolina and
Florida have given notice of ratification by "the
alleged Legislature* of those States.
. COLUMBIA CONTRIBUTORIAL
_ ? ... \
MY JA8. WOOD DAVIDSON.*%
COLUMBIA, SOUTH OLROUVl, 20TH JUlfc 1868,
The Daddies*
The High Daddy that has been held in Janney's
Hall for the past week, has been higher than usuaL
The elections for U. S. Senators have been rich,
beyond all precedent, in scenes of the lowest and
moat doggish character^ ..i-.ii
The short term was filled at the first ballot?T.
J. Robertson (scalawag) seemed to have had all
the ropes ready. His election was almost unaoi.
mous; which arose probably from the fact that he
i is so perfectly a representative man?that he oomi
bines in himself the elements of radicalism that
make the Daddies such a gay and festive set of
worthies.
( But the long term was a prize for which there
was a sweet contest F. A. Sawyer (a Charleston
1 Yankee) won in the race; and South Carolina may
be eternally grateful that she has thus escaped
; that prince of scalawags?A. G. Mackey.
In this squabble the Democrats gave their votea
merely as a compliment?for there was no hope of
electing either?for J. B. Campbell and B. F. Per1.1
it . .1 n .1 .i __i
ry; out tne grana Dame ior me Henawremp waa
' among Sawyer, Mackey, and M. French.
Sawyer is a Massachusetts man who came to
Charleston a dozen years ago to be principal of the
Normal School; and served acceptably in that capacity.
He was received with much favor by the
people of that city; and is said to be a gentleman
1 and a scholar. He is a radical, however, and that
tells all. It is just to add that he isaconserva'
tive man, and perhaps the nearest man in the par,
ty to the interests and feelings of the white race.
He is the least bad of all his party.
Mackey is, or should be, known as one of the
most hateful men, to the white race, in our whole
' State. In his public speeches he has violated all
the principles of moderation, truth, and decency,
in his vituperative madness of hate towards the
white people of this State. There is probably not
| a man in the South who has so cursed everything
t respectable, decent, and noble among us; and
who has siezed with such avidity, upon the basest
' passions of the lowest negroes, in his frantic efforts
after office and money.
Mansfield French is a preacher; was chaplain of
a negro regiment in this State during the war;
and is a carpet-bagger of the sanctimonious style.
* Two years ago we heard this fellow French, speak;
ing to negroes, tell them that while slaves they
1 might lie and steal, and indeed could not be blamed
for so doing; but now that they were free they
should fcSl above such things. This struck lis as
rather liberal morality for a reverend gentleman?
to justify lying and stealing on the ground of sla1
very, and to recommend truth and honesty as based
upon pride. The correspondent of the Charleston
? News very broadly intimates that French has been
; buying votes with money in this senatorial canvass,
giving the prices as varying from $50 to $300 each.
I We have no evidence in the case ourself; but from
our own personal observation we do know that this
1 fellow French carries about with him one of the
meanest faces that we ever saw. To call him a dog
would be an insult to?the dog.
(7nnnn infprnnlln*
J. liCOC bill WU nVIUIiVO whu j v? ?i?vt v w... y
primus) Mackey and French, had a good time in
the three daya of election. Sawyer used the ordi;
nary means of canvass?favors, promises, liquor,
cigars, and hand-shakings. French kept close but
! treated by proxy; and where promises would uot
) do, is said to have given something more tangible.
| He used prayer and tears and talked of temperance
(to them drinking in his room), of honesty,
of truth, and of God (meaning money). He
hobnobbed with the dirtiest negro in the legislature
; button-holed him; and smiled sanctimoniously
close in his face. He was, upon the whole,
! a sweet chip of sanctimony. But Mackey!?Never
before have such stump harangues been heard.
His foul-mouthed abuse of Sawyer and French
i has been stupendous?railery, scurrility, curses,
slanders, back-biting, indecency, brutal malignity,
1 bluster, and Billingsgate, poured from his vile lips
in voluble rapidity upon all occasions. In failing
to elect Mackey to the Senate, the Daddies have
saved South Carolina from the lowest depth of
humiliation and shame. They had the power to
inflict this last damning curse upon her, and have
not Feeling, no doubt, that in sending Robertson
they had done enough in the way of humiliation
already, they shrank from the responsibility
of putting upon us such another monster as Mackey.
Dieti merci!
These elections is all that the Daddies have done
in one week?it cost only $12,000?cheap as dirt
and forty times as nasty.
THE NOMINATIONS ACCEPTED.
On the Friday night after the Democratic nominations
were made, a large and enthusiastic meeting
was held in New York, at which both of
the nominees were present The opportunity was
improved to tender the nominations in a formal
, manner, which were accepted at once. Governor
Seymour responded as follows :
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Commit1
tee: I thank you for the courteous terms in which
iou have communicated to me the action of the
)emocratic National Convention. [Cheers.] I
, have no words adequate to express my gratitude
t for the good-will and kindness which that body has
f shown to me. Its nomination was unsought and
unexpected. It was my ambition to take an ac'
tive part, from which I am now excluded, in the
! great struggle going on for the restoration of good
! government, of peace and prosperity to our country.
[Great cheering. 1 But I have been caught
. up by the whelming tide that is bearing us on to
a great political change, and I find myself unable
' to resist its pressure. [Loud cheers. ] You have
> also given to me a copy of the resolutions put forth
i by the Convention, showing its position on the
; great questions which now agitate the county.?
As the presiding officer of that Convention, I am
familiar with their scope and import, and as one of
1 its members I am a party to their terms; they are
in accord with my views, and I stand upon them
f in the contest upon which we are now entering;
> and I shall strive to cary them out in future wher,
ever I may be placed, in public or private life.
[Cheers.] I congratulate you, and all conserva1
tivc men, who seek to restore order, peace, prosperity,
and good government to our land, upon the
f evidences eveiywhere shown, that we are to triI
umph at the next election. [Prolonged cheering.]
. Those who are politically opposed to us flattered
, themselves there would be discord in our councils;
they mistook the uncertainties of our views as to
the best methods of carrying out our purposes for
difference of opinion with regard to those purposes,
s They mistook an intense anxiety to do no act which
. should not be wise and judicious, for a spirit of
p discord; but during the lengthened proceedings and
earnest discussions of the Convention, there has
| prevailed an entire harmony of intercourse, a pa!
tient forbearance, and a self-sacrificing spirit, which
' are the sure tokens of a coming victory. Accept
i for yourselves, gentlemen, my wishes for your fu)
turc welfare and happiness. [Cheers.] In a few
I days I will answer the communication you have
inaf hnnrM me hv letter, as is the customarv form.
[Tremendous and long-continued cheering. J
| After the cheering had subsided, General Blair
arose and said:
1 Mr. Chairman?I accept the platform of reso1
lution9 passed by the late Democratic Convention,
and I accept their nomination [Great cheering.]
i with feelings of profound gratitude, and, sir, 1
. thank you ior the very kind manner in which you
have already conveyed to me the decision of the
Democratic Convention. I accept the nomination
! with the conviction that your Domination for the
1 Presidency is one which will carry us to certain
1 victory. [Applause.] And because I believe that
i the nomination is the roost proper nomination that
could be made by the Democratic party. [Ap:
plause.J The contest which we wage is for the
restoration of Constitutional government, [Cheers]
and it is proper that we should make this contest
under the lead of one who has given his life to the
maintenance of constitutional government. [Applause.]
We are to make the contest for the res:
toration of those great principles of government
which belong to our race. [Great applause.] And.
my fellow cititens. it is most proper that we should
,, select for our leader a man not from military life,
: nut one who has devoted himself to civil pursuits;
who has given himself to the study and the under
standing of the Constitution and its maintenance
with all the force of leason and judgment. [Applause.
1 My fellow atizcns, I have said that the
contest Defore us was one for the restoration of our
gftranment; it is also&nfor the restoration of our
race. [Applause, long continued. 1 It is to prevent
the people of our jaeefroui being exiled from
their homes?[chee?3^-?dfcd from the gbrrti*ment
which they formed and erected for themselves
and for their children, and to prevent them from,
being driven out of the oountiy or trodden under
foot by an inferior and seng-barbarous race. [Applause.]
In this country we will have tho sympathy
of every man tfhd'feHorthy to "belong to the
white raoe. [Applause.] r What civilised people
on earth would refuse to suoakie with themselves
in all the rights and honors and dignity of their
country such men as Lee and Johnson? What
civilized country on earth would fail to do honor
to those, who, fighting for an erroneous cause, yet
distinguished themselves by gallantry in that service?
[Applause.] - In that contest for which
they are sought to he disfranchised and to be exiled
from their homes?in that contest they have
proved themselves Worthy to be our peers. [Applause.
] My fellow citizens, it is not my purpose
to make any long-address?[cries of "go on"]?
but simply to express my gratitude for the great . and
distinguished honor which has been oonfened
upon me.
A voice?"Yon are worthy of it"
General Blair?And from my heart to reiterate
the words of thanks that fell from my lips when I
at uoii
(Renewed cheering, during which General Blair
retired)
? * -? ' * i
For the YorkvlJIe Ewjuim. , i
i DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
Pursuant to public notice, a meeting of the Democratic
citizens of Yorkvifle, was held in the Court
House, on Thursday evening, xthe 16th instant
On motion of Dr. A. I. Barron, the meeting
was organized by calling Col R. G. McCaw to the
Chair, and requesting J. H. Fayssoux to act as
Secretary. % ','/ *
The object of the meeting was explainedt>y the
Chair, to be the ratification and endorsement of
the nominations recently made at New York, ' of
candidates for President and Vice President, by
the National Democratic Convention. Also, to organize
a Democratic Club.
On motion of Capt J. F. 'Hart, it was
Resolved, That we do heartily concur in the nominations
for President and Yioe-President made by
the late National Democratic Convention in New
York, and that we do pledge ourselves to support
the same and to do our utmost for the success of
the ticket
On motion, it was
Resolved, That we do now organize a Democratic
Club.
The Chair appointed the following named citizens
to drafl a constitution and by-laws for the
Club, viz: Maj. J. P. Hart, Dr. A. L Barrou,
Maj. B. F. Briggs, Dr. J. F. Lindsay, and Rev.
R. La than.
On motion, the Chairman was added to the
Committee.
TKa fnllrMBi'nfy Pnmmitton tareo Amwvinfp/1 fn HA.
lect Officers for the Club, vis; CoL W. H. MoCorkle,
8. 8v 8mith, R K McCaffrey, Edward
Erwin, R. H. Glenn, D. C. Williams and P. C.
Harris, who retired for that purpose, and after a
short absence, made the following report:
, For President?Col. R. G. McCaw.
* For Vict Presidents?Col. W. A. 8towe, Capt.
L D. Wrtherspoon.
For Hoarding Secretary?J. H. Fayssoux.
For Corresponding Secretary?B. P. Boyd.
For Treasurer?A. F. McConnelL
who were duly elected by the Clnb. *
On motion, the Corresponding Secretary was
instructed to confer with Governor Vance, Genera!
Hampton, and Col. J. P. Thomas, and invite
them to address, at their convenience, a meeting
of the citizens of this county, on the principles
and issues of the approaching election.
Also, that the Corresponding Secretary be further
instructed to notify the several Conservative
Clubs, of this county, of our change of organization,
and request them to make, corresponding
changes in their organizations, if advisable.
At the suggestion of the Chair, all who wished
to become members of the Club were requested to
hand in their names to the Secretary. Thirtythree
whitesand three colored enrolled their names. "
On motion, Resolved, That the proceedings of
this meeting be published in the Yorkville Enquirer.
On motion, adjourned, subject to the call of the
President.
J. H. FAYSSOUX, Recording Secretary.
the democratic nominees. ?
In a Northern exchange we find the subjoined
sketches of Hon. Horatio Seymour and General
Francis P. Blair, the democratic nominees for
President and Vice-President of the United
States:
Horatio Seymour is a native of the State of
New York, haviug been born in Onondaga county
some tune during tne year mil. tie is consequently
fifty-seven years of age at the present writing.
His lather being a gentleman of wealth, Mr.
Seymour received an excellent education, and after
his graduation engaged in the study of the law.
Upon being admitted to the bar heoommenced the
practice of his profession in the town of Utica,
Oneida county, and soon became a popular lawEer.
He did not long pursue this occupation,
owever. The death of nis father made him sue- r
cessor to a large and valuable estate, attention to
the interest of which compelled him to abandon all
professional and public labors. He never after
resumed practice.
Mr. Seymour's political predilections were, it
may be said, inherited from his ancestors, all or
nearly all of whom were and had been Democrats
from the first formation of the party. To this political
organization the subject of this sketch gave
in his adhesion, and has ever since adherred to and
been a prominent member of it. He first appeared
before the public as a candidate for the suffrages %
of his fellow citizens as the Democratic nominee
for the office of mayor of the city, of Utica. Although
that city had been one of the firmest Whig
strongholds, he was elected by a fair majority, as
much owing, though, to the feeling of dissatisfaction
with the opposing candidate as to his personal
popularity. This election took plaoe in 1842,
betore he had quite attained his thirty-first year.
Daring the same year he was elected to the lower
house of the State Legislature, and served until
1845, when he declined a re-election.
From 1845 to 1850 Mr. Seymour does not appear
to have held any political office, although he
took an active part in politics, stumping the State
for other candidates and doing all that ne could to
further fhe interests and insure the success of the
Democracy. During the latter year, however, he
had attained lo sufficient prominence to warrant '
his nomination for the office of Governor. His opponent
was Washington Hunt, and after a -very
exciting contest Mr. Hunt waselectedby a majority
of 262, in a total of 428,966 votes cast The
balance of the Democratic ticket was elected, and
this fact had the effect of temporarily obscuring
Mr. Sevmour's prospects. Still he soon recovered
from this reverse of fortune, and in 1852 was renominated
for the same office. As before his com
petitor was Mr. Hunt, whom he defeated; after an
exciting canvass, bv a majority of 24,385 in a total j
vote of 603,857. This victory added considerably 1
to his popularity, as it was believed to presage a
long lease of power to the,Deraocratic party. His
administration was distinguished by his veto of the
Maine Liquor Law bill, which had passed both
Houses of the Legislature, and which action on the
part of the Governor was regarded at the time as
a bold stroke of policy. But it was not fated that
the Democratic party should longer remain in power.
In 1854 four candidates for gubernatorial honors
appeared in the field?Horatio Seymour, regular
Democrat; G. C. Bronson. hard shell Democrat;
Myron H. Clark, Republican, and D. Ullman,
Know Nothing. The split in the Democratic
party resulted in its defeat by a remarkably small
majority. Nearly half a million votes were cast,
of which Mr. Clark and Mr. Semour received the
highest, the former being elected by 309 majority.
After this defeat Mr. Seymour returned to private
life, nor was his name mentioned again in connection
with public ofiices until 1856, when he was
spoken of as one of the possible candidates of the
Demooracy for the Presidency. The movmept,
however, came to nothing. He still took an active
part in politics, so far as a vigorous support of all
Democratic candidates was concerned. When the
rebellion broke out Mr. Seymour took an active
part in furthering its suppression, and servecbas
chairman of the War Committee in his oounty, !
aiding in forwarding troops to the seat of war. Ia,
1862 he was onoe more nominated by the Demo