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JMMCain- ljfrra ' lewis m. grist, Proprietor, j ^ti Inbepenbeat jfamilj Jtefospaper: Jijr t{[e ^nrmofion of % HifisifiilJ: SotM> ^gnoillnral ani> Contmercfel Interests of % jSontjj. |tebms?$3.00 a yeah, in advance. "VOUi. 17. YORKYILLE, S. C., TEEXJHSDAY, APRIL 6, 1871. 1ST0.14. ' - --> : ' * * :? I ol<?11 Aanaa onniM ftf fTlft Hftmft to bd tfSltt* JU ?rigmal ? J> t#(g. Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. TEMPTATION. 1 BT IRS. % A. BEDELL. CHAPTER IX. Two yoong men met on the ruins of Pompeii The one fresh, ruddy and strong?jost come from the eternal city; the other, pale, gaunt and shadowy, with great hollow eyes that smouldered ominously in their cavernous depths. He, too, came from the suburbs of an eternal city, from within whose portal no traveler returns. They started. Then two hands were cordially extended? " Arrowly!" "Gasnardr "You here?" "As you see." "I am delighted?overwhelmed to meet you. You are the first American I have seen in six months?but what is the matter ? You look like one of the blessed saints indigenous in this climate." "I have been very ilL" "One of those dreadful malarial fevers, I presume; they are a thousand times worse here than in the swamps of Louisiana, and cut off a fellow's career as neatly as any blundering surgeon's knife you ever saw. You seem barely to have escaped with your life.7' "Yes; the physicians gave me up once or twice, but they finally brought me through? no thanks to them for it I sometimes wish they had let me alone." "Perhaps, in that case, you would not have had so tough a time." "I would certainly have died." "And you wish they had let you ?" "Yea." "Ah! that's another stage of the disease? the despondent period, that will soon wear off." "Perhaps," adding to himself, "was I going to be such a fool as to showmy heart to him." "Have yon heard from America lately ?" asked Gaspard. Arrowly shuddered. ' . "Not very." "I had a dispatch yesterday. We are likely to have stirring timed over there." "How?" "Yon know the state of the country ?" "No, I have not kept np with the current news." . " i "Shall I tell you? You look so shadowy, I am afraid you will go fainting away like a fine young lady, with ever so many delicate nerves." "Trust me for that," said Philip, smiling faintly ; "I don't think America holds any thing that can startle me now." * "We shall see. She holds a deal of startling matter I can tell you. Do you see that volcano up there?" "** "Yes." "Pan you tell ^hen the fires, will biy-st - .-out?^ r - "No; but I suppose there are scientific men who can. "They cannot, or -we would not now be standing upon the tomb of a buried city. -But to the point: the United States are like that mountain; the internal fires of revolution are raging and roaring, ready to burst out at any moment." f * ; "Pshaw! politicians have talked revolution so long, that they cannot make a speech without introducing a little of that pungent adjunct, to give a relish to their stale diatribes." "What do you think of. the seceded States ?" "I think they will soon be back in the Union." "Yes; they must be brought back, and it will take a mailed hand to do it" ? -ill- differjrom you. I think they will go back QitEenlBgTYgrr-w^fJhev do not whymust they be brought back ? Tunas^sroodthe north as saying to them?Go!" "I tell you, the north will not let them go." "Willshe coerce them Y* "Rather than let them go out of the Un?ion. "What does Mr. Seward mean by saying? "Only an imperial or despotic government could subjugate thoroughly, disaffected and v insurrectionary members of the State. This Federal Republican system of ours is, of all forms of government, the very one most unfitted for such a labor." v- "Mr. Seward was not speaking officially tnen, and if he were, he is not the nation, I say, the great northern nation will not permit the Union to be dismembered." "The South may be so irreverent as to dismember it without her gracious permission." "Do you jest, Arrowly ? I tell you this is a solemn hour." "And I tell you, Gaspard, if the North supposes she has the right to coerce the South, the Union, as you and I hold it, was destroyed long ago." "Well, the time of. trial draws near. The country?both north and south?will soon be calling for help." "I will be there." "Of course, you cannot fight under any flag but the Start and Stripes ?" "I would not like to; butl am a Virginian. The cloeg|irelation. I have on earth is with Virginia^nfther she sends me, I will go." "I, too, am a Virginian; but may my right Lhand perish in the day it draws a sword against the republic of my fathers." ' That is very melo-dramatic Gaspc< d, but you may safely say it; for the Republic of your fathers has long since ceased to exist. This monstrous usurpation at Washington, is N no more the Constitution of '76 than you and I are Saint Peter and Saint Paul "What do you mean by monstrous usurpation?" "I mean this overgrown central government that usurps the State functions, and incorporates them into its own. But don't let us quarrel; they seem to be doing that for us at home. Besides, by the time we reach America, President Davis and President Lincoln will doubtless be hob-nobbing together, either at Washington or Montgomery, one side having gone over to the other." "Let us hope it" The two men shook hands over the hope. "Come, get into this carriage and go home with me Arrowly; let me pat a little life into ft you. "Thank yoa; not to-day. I have been out long enough." "Nonsense. I have'nt seen the faoe of a countryman in so long, the sight of one .does me good. I cannot possibly let you off." A ? "Take me then ; I am too weak to raist; "I'll have that answer of yours fnme< and hung up for preservation." "Why?" "It is prophetic. It is what the South wil say to the North." "What the South may say to the North,. cannot tell; but if you and I, Richard Gas pard, ever meet on a battle field, such wil not be my answer there." "Tut I man?or rather, shadow of a mandon't fancy such things. A regiment of sue! looking fellows as you could whip the world? for who would fight against phantoms ? Bu here we are. Lean on me old fellow?let mi help you up these confounded stairs; they an enough to break down a strong, hearty fbllov like me, much less, one who could not be in duced to stop with his Chills and levers unti he got to death's very door." a Am- Phiiin ontfitW! Iir walked directly t( aiwa a umkjr vmw* ^ ^ the mirror, and removing his hat, lookec long and earnestly at his reflection. "That," said he, "is the first look'Thave ta ken of myself in three months, and to be can did with yon Qaspard, I have seen bettei looking men; but there is a good deal of vi tality in meyet" "Oh! no end of ft, my boy; Take a litth trip with me to Milan, and you'll come bad all right" "Hang Milan!" "Why should Milan suffer the extreme pen alty of the law?" "Let it live; but I don't want to go there The fact is, I don't want to go anywh'ere; 1 havn't the energy to have a desire." "We'll soon have yon out of that Be ij my mission to regenerate you. I have beei roaming about for months in search of a mis sion, audio! I accidentally stumble on on< amid the ruins of Pompeii?but here is thai fellow with another dispatch." "Your government must hold you in high estimation, to keep you so well advised." ~ 1 -- if* 1* "These dispatches are not omciai, uui. rem* ble, nevertheless. Permit me," said Gaspard breaking the seal. "Thunderation!" "What is it f "Those madmen have consummated then suicidal policy." "What madmen ? What policy ?" "Those crazy politicians over yonder. Wai is declared! Fort Sumter has fallen!" [ "What?" "I say hostilities have commenced ; thi South Carolina troops have taken Fort Sum ter." "Is that really true ?" "Yes; what folly! what madness! Whj they can't hold out three months." "We may differ on that point; but on thi other, flre && not It is madness." "Doyon hold to your declaration to go witl "Virginia?" "Certainly?I am Virginian before I an Albican." 'T do not see it in that light; I feel that ] am an American first of all." "If I felt even thus, my sympathy woiil( assuredly go with what I conceived to be jus tice. By what right does the United State government attempt to coerce free and inde pendent States ?" f "By a righf seldom questioned." "You mean by the right of might" "Yes." Philip's lip curled. "A brave people would scorn such a right' "You are too chivalric, my - noble friend.' "I come of a race who never took an unjasi advantage, even of a foe." "That may be so; but you will have to g< with the stronger party this time.'' "Why?" "Virginia has not seceded." "Do not deceive yourself. When her sister) take the field she will stand beside them." "We shall see." "Whendo you leave for America?" "I^g<j*with y^ ~??-T-? "My dear Arrowly, you are not. able U travel?you cannot possibly stand a voyage.' "Now that there is something to live foi, J will do nothing but improve." When they arrived in Paris the news wai flashing over the world tbqtthe border State had seceded. Arrowly was exultant; Gas pard gloomy. He went hack to his old say ing: "It is worse than madness, it will onlj prolong the struggle." "That will be some comfort," said Arrowlj grimly. They crossed over into England. Through out that country and France, the deepest in terest was manifested in the affairs of then country;?in some places it flared up into thi greatest excitement At Havre, where thej embarked for Southampton, one persevering little Frenchman ascertained that these tw< grand looking Americans were antagonists in principles, and were hurrying hQme U join opposing armies. "Begar! What iz zat?" he exclaimed "Zey go one, two, tree tousand mile to shootkill one nodaire, when zey might do it in u hotel?in ze stim car?in ze stim boat sair!' But instead of killing each other, they trav eled as amicably as sworn brothers. A Bristol they embarked for America, and af ter a pleasant voyage landed in New York. Gaspard once more essayed to draw hi friend over to the Federal side, but withou success. "Look at the country," he said; "see th enthusiasm of the people; see what you h&v to encounter; take a map and trace out th two sections; consider our advantages, an< ' * - ? ? ? ? ? ?- AA.AM/xvAA/1 HOW Can you nope wduwccu > "You have tremendous advantages, that i a fact; but we will trust in God and do ou best." "The Sooth is committing suicide." "Better death than dishonor." " Arrowly, can she be in earnest ? Will sh hold out to the bitter end ?" "Aye. She has set her life upon a cast, an she will stand the hazard of the die ?" "Here we part, then, to meet?where ?" "God knows. Perhaps in victory ??in d< feat??in prison??or we may sleep, feett feet, on some hard fought battle-field." "Wherever you go, may God be with yoc old fellow." "Thank you. I cannot pray for you cause," said Arrowly, taking his extende hand; but may Providence keep a kind ej on your individuality." So they parted, and Philip Arrowly went 1 his Virginia home. If the abolitionists could have heard tb glad cry?"Mas Philip's come! Mas Phi ip's come!" which went up from that Notti " way plantation, they, would have thought 1 their "occupation gone." One stalwart fellow, six feet high and black as a coal, pressing forward, offered his hand? 1 "I 'dare to Godi its him ! How is you Mas Philip? You looks bad." [ "I have not been well," said Philip, sha king hands heartily., "What is your name, 1 my man ? It has been so long since I have seen my people here, that I have forgotten j - many of your faces." i "HawI haw! ha-a-aw!" The man burst into an uncontrolable fit of t laughter. 3 "Bat is funny. Done forgot Tom I Why, 3 I beer^-'long to you ever sence you was a ? leettle, sucking baby." "So you have Tom; I must shake hands 1 again for old times. What a tall fellow you have grown to be." > "Not taller than you, sir. You're as high I as your pa, and look jist like mm." "Yon hush Tom," said an older one; "you don't 'member how old Maussa looked." "Hain't I seen his picter hanging np in de r big drawing room many er timet" asked - Tom triumphantly. All the negroes, whose shyness began to i wear off, came crowding around to shake ; hands?the older ones with that familiar affectionate address peculiar to their class: "Does you know me honey?.', Why I nursed yo^ pa, and knowed the very day you was born. Dese all my gran children, . Mas Philip; got a lot more down to de quar[ ter. Glad to see yon home, chile; hope you come for stay. Old place ain't like itself I no more. 'Deed, chile, it ain't All gwine i to rack." "Why," said Philip, shaking hands right ) and left. "All of you look well, and the overt seer writes me good accounts of you and the old place." i "Obereeer 1" with a sniff of their blunt iloses. "Well, you jist stay home, and see how dey'll 'prove. Oberseer 11 do well 'nuff, but , he ain't Mas Philip." "No, honey; dere's a mity long difference. But you's come to stay?ain't you t" "lam afraid not I will have to leave p again." "Do, Mass Philip, don't go. Make de old place shine again. I used to tear mammy r tell 'bout de fine company?de quality, who used to almos' lib here. Dat was in your pa's time. "Yes chile, lib here; dey here so much, j big house neber empty." "That whs a long time ago," said Philip; "there can't be many of you able to remember those times." .. . . t "We all 'members dem, Mas Philip," said a youngster, endeavoring to get into notice. 3 "You's a lie, Jake; you don't 'member nothin' 'bout it," said one of his seniors, coni temptuously; "all I kin do to member it, and I spec I'se 'bout a hundred years older dan i you." This ignorance shocked, while it amused. [ Philip, for travel had worn off many of his local prejudices, and it would have pleased { him to fine? his peopl^ . ?han they were. ;1 "Have I been derelict in my duty ?" he -j asked himself. "Ought they to have been better taughtHe added bitterly, "Ouibono f They are happy and I am miserable. No; fortune balances her favors. These are they to whom little is given; surely but little will be required of them." ' \ With gifts of small coins and invitations to ' come up to the house to see him again, he t dismissed the noisy crowd to their several cabins, retaining Tom for his especial service. > "I have just come home- from over the seas,'Tom," he remarked, "and T hear there is trouble in the country. Is it so ?" 'Yes, Mas Philip, I hearn a sight of talk 3 'bout de Yankees and Rebs, but I don't know nothin' 'bout it" "What do they say about the Yankees and Rebels?" "Bey talk all sorts of nonsense?say de Yankees is comin' down here to set us cullerd > pussons free." ' "Do you believe'it, Tom ?" [ "No, sir; I don't, dat." "Tom, listen to me: They are not going to s fight to free you, but the struggle is going to 9 be a tremendous one, and God, in His wisdom; - may so overrule events as to bring about your - freedom. The issue is in HiB hands, and if it t pleases Him to make you free, He can do it as well here as there. Don't you believe this, f Tom r "Yes, sir." "Well, this is what I want all of you to un. derstand. If circumstances set you free, I will r give you up without a word ; but until then; 3 as long as you are here on my place, you must r behave as you have always done." j "I'd like to ketch any of 'urn not 'having," } cried Tom, in righteous indignation; "I'd 3 show 'um." ) "Well, that is all right We understand each other. I am your master, and all of you are my servants until God severs the relation." "Tuby sure, we's your servants, Mas Philip; 3 I'd like to see any of dem fools 'sputin' dat ? Dey'd better be makin' tracks 'rom dese dig gins." t "I am going to the war, Tom?suppose I 1 wanted you men to go with me and fight, would you go?" s "Yes, indeed," replied Tom, confidently; t "we'd ruther do dat dan hoe tobacker." "It will be no child's play." e "Workm' in de Held, aint cnue e piay, e nuther." e "You will have to fight?perhaps be killed; J will the others stand fire when they get into battle?" s "I dunno," said Tom, doubtfully; "but if r you'll go before, Mas Philip, I reckon dey'll foller." "I don't ask anything better." Philip now went to work in earnest. He e raised and equipped two companies. He then summoned his servants to meet him on d the lawn. When they had assembled, he stood upon the step and addressed them in the following wojds: 5- "My men: I have called you together to o hear a matter of great importance. I want you to listen carefully, that you may be able i, to understand what I say. "God has giving certain portions of the it earth to certain peoples; this Southern cound try He has given to us, and He expects us to e keep it. You belong to me, but you have as much right in the country as I have. It feeds a and clothes you; it does no more for me. When any one threatens to do an injury to te Virginia, you are as much bound to help her 1- as I am.. i- "You have heard that the Yankees are raising great armies to fight against us. T think the colored people ought to coipe with us to drive them back. Some people have told you that they are fighting to free you; but they don't say so, and they are not They cannot do it, for they have not the power; but I promise (and you all know I keep my promises,) every man I own, if he will come out and" help us to obtain our freedom, then he shall be free also. The day the Southern Confederacy is declared a free and independent nation, he shall have his free papers put into his hand. What do you say, my friends ? Will you strike a blow for your master?your honft-?and freedom?" A yell of assent rent the air. "Step out then, that I may enroll you." One hundred and ten men came forward, AftJ mawa nomna pruuipujy auu gave buen i?i?ihvo? "This is grand," said Philip proudly; "if every slaveholder and every slave will do as we are doing, the country will be safe," Philip did not stop here. JECe went throngs! other sections arousing and inciting men ty action. A regiment of picked men were raised and equipped for war. When they elected their officers, Philip was chosen to be Colonel. But an unforseen difficulty arose. When he announced to his men that he intended taking into his command, a company of negroes off his own plantation, they raised such a storm as considerably shocked one liberal mindedColonel. "light with niggers?" "Impossible!" "Insulting!" "This is a white man's fight l" "Don't bring any of yotfrd?d niggers hare. ' We won't stand it" "Any man that talks that way, had better.. look oat for himself?that's all." "I'll tell you what," said a strapping fellow, "our Colonel's a mighty fine man?none more so ; bat he's beeq in them foreign parts so long he's sorter lost the distiction of color." "It won't be well for him to bring his new fended ideas here." said another. O <r "If he wants to associate with niggers,. he can do it; I was raised differently." "He had better not press the matter," said, a fierce looking Corporal, "if he wants to get back from this campaign. I always look pretty closely at a man who mixes himself up with niggers; my notion is, he is no better than the darned abolitionists." "Come I come," said one candid soldier ; "our Colonel is doing it all for the best, and I'm afraid we'll need all the help we can get before the war is over." "We don't want niggers, and what's more, we don't have 'em." "The Colonel is honest; at least, he takes his own people, mid don't ask other folks for theirs." "Don't you see if the precedent is once established, there wont be a nigger left to make bread for the soldiers, nor their families." "Of coarse there is something in that; I had not thought of it before." ^ot try that on with us." j Philip's action was thus boldly condemned' by the common soldiers, and it met with even less favor from the officers. "Never," said they, "will we command, fight with, or hold any military communication with negroes." It was all in vain for him-to argue ; they were resolute. He next communicated with the war department, offering his company and urging a similar policy on the government The officials, from the highest to the lowest were scandalized,'both by hia audacity and his policy. Place negroes in the field 1 and by the side of freemen ? Preposterous! Did not white men have the exclusive right to be shot? Certainly! Who dareddmitibitf The audacious colonel received ajfiintimation, if he did not want to see the inmde of^M flflflOQ vnnfiloftVH^ priSUUj lie uau UtlLVl VVUOV T VUVUffWiyfc dangerous ideas. . ^^jf He was silenced, but not convinced, "What confounded fools these people he said, recklessly and irreverently, to a&intimate friend ; "do they not see that they could, at once, draw out an overwhelming force and Crush; the enemy before he is prepared for such a blow? ' It is our only chance. He can fight on forever, with all the world to draw from ; but when he shuts us up in here, which he wOl do, we will soon perish from exhaustion. Why can't they see it?" "Hark you, Arrowly," said his friend; "if there be one crime above all others, it if for a subordinate to see farther than his superiors. Don't you foolishly commit that crime." ' "But it is ruin. "So it may be, but it is dangerous to tell them so." "Would that I could shout it in their ears, until they understood the peril of the position and set themselves at work earnestly to avert it" "You cannot?but don't trouble yourself \ these things correct themselves in time. We are expected to do our duty in the* sphere ^o which we are allotted, and leave the results in wiser hands than those of frail humanity." "Your advice isgOQd, becauie.it is afcspljifcfe| in its nature; but Jtfo n?t like it" ."No; we all have a desire to put our puny fingers into the great mundane pie; the world, however, does not turn aside for us, and we must be content" c But Philip was not Moody and desponding, be summoned his retainers and made known to them the result of his efforts in regard to their service. The netife was received with great discontent One huge fellow, a blacksmith, grumbled audibly. They h&d been promised their freedom, he said,, oil a condition which they were ready to fulfil, and he did not think they ought to be defrauded of it for no fault of theirs. "You are right" answered their master, "onrl T mvaolf tn IrAAn t.hftfc nmmisA tn every one wLo will stay at home and work hard to supply the soldiers with food to the end of the war. To labor peacefully in the field is no harder than to fight?perhaps not so hard; and each one of you can win his freedom yet. In fact, this is better for you, for the women and children can obtain its bepefits as well as you strong men. Don't you think it is better ? Do you agree to it ?" "Yes, we agree to it It is a heap better." "I want one of you to go with me, to be my body servant"?Tom quickly stepped to his Bide?"to be with me day and night in the camp, and on the battle field. Are you-willing to: go there, Tom ?" "Yes, Mas Philip; who else is gwine? Was'nt I your body servant when you was'nt so high ?" asked Tom, measuring about a foot from the floor. "Ter by sure, I'm gwine." And he went Through many campaigns, through dangers in camp and field, through winter's snow, and summer's heat, he was ever by his side, his tried and trusty friend. [to be continued next week.] [Coptei of the Emqpihr containing the previous chapters of this 8tory can be ftiruiibed to new subscribers.] IJiscpUiineonii fMfafl. LETTER FROM HON. C. W.'DUDLEY. .c^Benkettsville, 8. C., March 20,1871. Tothe Editor of the Charleston News: I So much has already been said, and is still Being said, in Congress and elsewhere, about die Ku-Klux being a political organization, $id the necessity of Congress passing laws for the protection of the "loyal" citizens of the South, that I deem it due to the justly indignant sufferers, who are thus stigmatized, to that "loyal" citizens need no protection, whatever, but are just as safe in their own TraBsefi here, in South Carolina, as General Qjfent can be in the White House, at Washington. But it is equally true that loyal "robbers" we not, and that die people here have borne, with the most astonishing patience, all that could be inflicted upon them by heavy taxation, in, the time of their extreme poverty, at the.hands tof shite and colored ^KS^ostly utter strangers to the country, wIiq were left here as the drift of the bloody current of the war, and who have taken the State and Federal offices into their hands, and deny to the natives of the State any participation in the administration of the governspent. These men haye introduced a reign of tenor amongst the colored voters, and. keep them so harnessed that only those the colored people vote for can be elected, in most of the counties; and these leaders see to it thafcin all thi caucuses, before the day of election, that (Key only Are to be nominated, and thus they have prepared for themselves to hold those positions in the State which will euable them (not tax-payers themselves, with a few excepJifijis,) to make those who are, pay. the most enormous taxes ; and then, by the iniqnitous the legislation, so squander the m oney and bury State so deep in debt that the people of South Carolina have lost all hope from all appeals they can make for redress in any of the usual iBltos. Just before the fall elections, public meetings were called all over the State, and earnest efforts were made to unite with the Republicans on a common platform, and this, too, without reference to color or previous condition. The best people of South Carolina, yielding to the pressure of the times, agreed, for the sake of peace and harmony, to accept the Republican platform in its spirit and unite with that party in. purifying the Slate. But the proposition was rudely rejected, and the colored voters were driven by every artful appeaUhat could be made not to trust the white people, and, consequently, the whole power of the State remaiued with these same leaders, and the people have nothiog before them but to be their hewers of wood and drawers of water just so long as the colored majority can be frightened or cajoled into casting their votes by order of a caucus. The people of South Carolina have suffered a great deal. Poverty and want are in the fcjgilies where formerly the most generous and ^Red hospitality held sway. The results of veryspainfti-lfto themyyetY T^EJC^onsented to unite in one common q^Ke to accept those results, and these men no$ ruling the State have thrown their honest pledges, with contempt, in the faces of honorable men. This course of proceedings has insultedpvery good man in the State, but, , wobderral to say, there bas been no exhibition of this feelincr. except in the upper counties, and there the straw has broken the overloaded camel's back. They have borne-im tilthey could bear no longer, and, when colored, militia were sent there to impose uppn them a cowardly silence, theBtifle^ames buret forth. - This is the whole trut)0Df the matter. It is the worm trying to tqrn under the heel of the carpet-bagger and the scalawag, and that istfefrttfTence and no other. ' 'Loyal" men, if they are honest, good citiwsap, will be met here , with open arms. The writer has only to refer to his own. personal 'ifltoiy, well known here for many years. He hgs.ever been an advocate for the preservation or the Union, a well known opponent of secession, and yet he has been nominated and yotgd for by these "dangerous" men as "their" representative in the Congress of the United 8tates,.but, under this caucus system, was defeated by over eight thousand votes, although he received the support of nearly every white man (not in office) in the district. Mere 'loyalty" attracts no enemies, nor any danger; the people, generally, desire to be loyal; they want peace and harmony to prevail?and more than all, they want an honest and intelligent administration of the State Government To get these, they placed on their ticket, at its ^eatL the name of a distinguished Republican, the Hon. R. B. Carpenter, in the hope that this would certainly satisfy the voters of that party that political issues were to be buried forever. And to prove this still further, thei^was not a single man on that ticket but was selected to prove that the natives of the State wished to be understood hereafter as bearing no weapon, but the olive branch, in thek hands. thaitiyr will Wr ^tnDeliverance wili^surely come; for South Carolina is one of the States of the Union?one of the stars in the constellation? and whatever may have been the feeling at the North at one time, very few can be found there now who are willing to see their breth* ren smothered by the corruption here existing, or insulted and rained by it in despite of all the promises they can make to be loyal citizens, and do all they cab to restore the prosj^gjip^p^e'whole country. In some way or other, this dark political cloud must pass away. Governor Scott has made a fair beginning; he has been brave enough to oppose the Ring thaPis fast carrying the State to destruction. He will find no opponents amongst the honest, intelligent voters of South Carolina if he 'W/iM" ihem. Tfc i? thev who want I "prdteeUon " and this" Governor Scott well knows.i It is simply nonsensical for any honest, well-meaning person in South Carolina to talk about wanting "protection." On the contrary, those who are now claiming it are the sole causes why the most perfect harmony does not exist throughout the whole State. They teach the harmless negro to hate the white man; to burn his bams and dwelling houses, and then insist that he whose house iff blazing with fire shall show no emotion, except a smile of satisfaction, that he and his ^ife and children have suddenly become beggars. .. 1 We have seen enongh of the colored man to know, that if not misled, he will be a good citizen. We have no fears of him whatever, When left to himself, but believe that kindness is the law of li25 heart. The relations be tween him and the resident whites would be mutally profitable and agreeable; bnt these State officials cannot get his vote unless a wide gulf be kept open between him and the white man,.and hence disorder, and crime, and "Ku-Kliu^" With no law. to protect them, they are attempting to protect themselves. My word for it, they will cease precisely at the moment they can see in the State government any hope.of peace for themselves. C. W. DUDLEY. "AN EDITOR IN HEAVEN." "Such is the caption of an article which has been going the rounds of the papers for some time, and which, appears to be something naar "nndor tka nun." Just as if editors were not in the habit of going to Heaven. f We'll venture to say that a greater proportion of them go to that home of those who have performed their mission of mercy on earth, than any other profession 01 calling that poor mortals fill. 1 ' "An editor in Heaven !" There's nothings strange about that, at all. It's almost a mois al as Well da-professional impossibility for them to go anywhere else. : 7 Once upon a time,- after the demise of a member of the "corpe editorial," he presented himself at the gate of the "HolyCity" and requested admission. The door-keeper asked him what had been his occupation on Terra Firma. He replied that he "was an editor." "Well," said the Watchman, "we have a crowd of your kind here how, and they all came in as'dead heads.'" If you can pay your passage you can come in ; - if not you must place yourself under the control of a a personage you "ruled" tyrannically down below (meaning the devil.) Not having the "wherewith" to go m, our brother of the "quill and scissors" posted Off and presented himself at the entrance of "Clootie's" dark domains. A very dark complexioned gentle- 1 man stood sentry, and asked in a gruff voice, "who comes?" "An ' humble disciple ;of Faust," was the calm reply. "Then hold on, you.can't be admitted," exclaimed the "Gentleman in Black," evincing considerable agitation, and fiercely scowling on him. "Why " JamanJiu) tlio " ahn Kamti tn AlUWj U^UiOUUbU VUV itjyrv) ww mm v wgww -w q-. some what "huffish" and looked around1 for a "sheep's foot" with which to force an entrance. "Well, sir*' replied his sable Majesty, "we let one of your profession in here many years ago and he kept up a continual 'row1 with his former delinqoentsubscriber^and aswe have more of that class Of persons here than any ether, we have passed a law prohibiting the admission of any editors, only those Who have advanced our interest in their papers on earth, j and even those we keep in a separate room by themselves. You have published many things that operated against us, and always blamed the "Devil" with every thing that went wrong, so you can't come in. We enforce this rule 'without respect to persons,' for our own peace and safety. You can just travel." Casting a droll leer at the outside sentinel, our typographical friend -started off .agaiffidpte^pinedJsgetin fup above*" This> time he took with him an old file of his paper and presenting it to the guardian of the Celestial City, requested that it might be carefully examined, and they would see whether he was entitled to a free ticket. In due course of time the conductor came along and took him in, telling him that he published many good things, and had been a martyr to the cause of human improvement, and that resolutions had been passed to admit all members of the "art preservati ve" whojiad abused the "Devil" while below* He added that as they were punished enough by their being with the "devil" all their lives, their future punishment was commuted. . . He further stated that not one .aelinquent hewBpaper subscriber could be found in Heaven. .... =1( Remedy foe Nervous Headache.?A well-known Kentucky minister, subject to severe spells of nervous headache, was in our office the other day, says an exchange, during one of these attach. Maj. Brown, of Mexico, was present, and proposed to relieve him in ( five minutes, which he did effectually. The following is the prescription: "Take a desert spoonful of common soda, such as is used in making bread, and dissolve it in a quart of cold water. With this shampoo the head for about' five minutes, scratching the skin of the head and the back of the neck well irith the finger nails. Then rinse thq head with clean cold water. Major Brown says that he has Used this remedy in perhaps a thousand cases since 1853, and never once failed to give relief in five or ten minutes. This remedy is for nervous headache, and is not for those afflictions of the head arising from deranged stomachs.?American Rural Home. Be Led by the Nose.?1The nose acts like a custom-house officer to the system. It is highly sensitive to the odor of the most poisonous substances. It readily detects hemlock, henbane, monkshood, and the plants containing prussic acid; it recognizes the fetid smells of drains, and warns us not to smell Aire puilflWa air. The noseis so sensitive that ' it distinguishes air containing the 200,000th part of a grain of otto of rose, or the 15,000,000th part of a grain of nraak, It/tells us in the morning that our bed-rooms are irnpfire^ and catches the fragrance of the morning air, and conveys to us the invitationof the flowers to go forth into the fields and inhale their sweet breath. To be led by the nose has hithlioAil ao a nliviion nfi Kilt CI \AJ UCCJLi UOCU MO M ^UlOCV VI AV|/iy?VU I w?? to have a good nose, and ta follow its guidance is one^of the shortest ways to the enjoyment of health.?Good Health. Resolution to be silent.-r-Madame Reginer, the wife of a law officer, at Versailles, while talking in the presence of a numerous party, dropped some remarks which,were out of place, though not very important. Her husband reprimanded her before the whole company,saying, "Silence, madam; you are a fool I" She lived twenty or thirty years afterward, and never attend a single word, even to her children. A pretended theft was committed in her presence, in; the hope of taking her by surprise, but without effect, and nothing could induce her to speak. When her consent was requisite for the marriage of any of her children, she bowed her head and signed the contract. The obstinate, pettish conduct of this woman proved her to be that which her husband said she was. ' m * 9&F A. Radical organ having stated that the principles of its party were founded on Holy Writ, a Democratic cotemporary responds : Just so. In that case .where the fellow sold out for thirty pieces of silver. ^rts 0f the OFFICIAL. JUT ACT 1 To amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish and maintain aaystemof Free Common Schools for the State of South Carolina." Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by authority of the same, That the State Board of Education shall consist of the several County School Commissioners and . the 8tate Superintendent of Education, who shall be ex officio Chairman of the Board, and who shall be entitled to vote oh all questions submitted to the Board. The Board may elect one of its members as Secretary. Sec. 2. That the State Board of Education shall hold its first meeting at the Capital of the State on the second Wednesday after the approval of this Act. and shall thereafter meet on the first Wednesday in October of every year at the Capital of the State, and at sack other times ana places as the State Superintendent of Education shall direct The members of the Board shall be entitled to receive a mileage at the rate of twelve cents per mile, going to apd retaining from the meetings of the Board, aforesaid, to be paid by the State Treasurer on presentation of a certificate signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Board. Sec. 3. That, for the purpose of procuring an uniform system of textbooks, to be used in the common and-public schools; throughout the State, there shall be a Commission of five appointed, to consist of His Excellency the Governor, who - shall be ex officio Chairman, the Chairman of the Committee on Educa^ tion of the Senate and House of Representatixea, and, for the purpose of selecting the other two members, the Senate shall, oy a majority of votes, appoint one, and the House ( of Representatives shall, in tike manner, re lect the other: Provided, That the Commie* < sion herein appointed, shall not have power to amend or change the list of text books al- ( ready in nse until the first of January, 1873, unless authority be granted to theCommissibn by Act of tbe General Assembly to amend the listaforeraid; And. provided, fierther, That ( the Commission ehaU decide upon a list of text ( books to be need in the common and public schools, throughout, the State, and shall furnish tbe same to' the Stale Board of Educa- ' tion at its first seanon. The meetings of the State Board of Education shall be held for the purpose of considering such matters as : map be deemed necessary, and of taking such action as map advance the cause of common school education in this State. See. 4. That the School Trustees of every School District shall make oat and forward to; >< the SchoolfJommissioner of thecountp wherein each School District is situated., a list of all { text-books needed by the persons attending ; school, which list, when properly certified to by said Trustees, the 'School Commissioner shall approve and forward to the State Super- | intendent of Education. Tbe 8tate Superin- . tendent of Education shall, as soon as piacti- , cable after the receipt of such list, forward the books therein required free of charge. And , the General Assemblv shall, bv aoDroDriation. provide for the payment of the dookb afore- 1 said. See. 5. That the State Board of Education ahaU takeand hoM^ trust, for the State,any quit of money, or other personal property, made to it for educational purposes, ana shall p? v into die State Treasury, for safe-keeping and investment, all moneys and incomes worn property so received. The State Treasurer shall, from lame to time, invest all such money in the name of the State, and shall pay to the State Board of Edcc ion, on the warrant of the Qove no?, the icco j6 or principal thereof, as It shall, from time to time, require ; Provided, That no disposition shall be made of any grant, devise, gift or bequest inconsistent with the conditions or terms thereof For ceived by the State Treasurer, Eesba^ be responsible, upon his bond, to the State, as for other funds received by him in his official capacity: Bmtided,however, That the Trustees of any School District of this State mavisk|B; and hold in. trust, fbr their parricular fiattboii District, any grant or devise of landa^orfany gift, or bequest,of money, and apply the same,: in the interest of the schools of fcneir District,; in such manner as. in their judgment seemsmost conducive to the welfare of the schools,. when not otherwise directed by terms Of the : said grant, or devise, gift or bequest: rind provided further, That before said Trustees; shall assume control of any speh grant, devise of bequest, they-shaU pve a'bdM, td be: approved by the School Commissioner of the County in which such grant, devise or beSuest is made, said bond to be depofitedjlritlp tie Clerk of,said County. . BTATE SUPERINTENDENT of education. . Sec. 6. That the present State Saperintepdr ent of Education shall contittfe in office tiritSl the election atfd qualification of hfttacceasofc j At the general election in 1872, and evivy four years thereafter, a State Superintendent : of Education shall be elected, in the" same manner as other State officers, who shaU enter upon the duties of his office (on. the first day oi January succeeding his election. See..7. That he shall, before entering upon the duties of bis office, give bond, for the use' , of the State of South Carolina, in-the penal | sum of five thousand (5,000) dollars, with good andsufficientsareties, to be approved, by ( the Governor, conditioned for the faithful and impartial performances of the duties of his office; and he shall, also, at the time of giving bond, take and subscribe the oath 'prescribed in Section 30 of Article II of the Constitution of the State, which oath shall be endorsed upon the back of said bond, and the bond shall be filed with, and preserved by, the Secretary of State. . Sec. '8. That the State Superintendent of EdnndrfftTTdrfTti-msivn, tirr rnmpcm?tion-for his services, thesum of two thousand five hundred (2,500) dollars per annum, together with Ids actual cast of transportation when-travelout of tSe State Treasury^ .'f , Sec. 9. That he shall have general supervision over all the common and public schools of the State, and it shall be hfe duty, to visit every County in the State, for the purpose of inspecting the schools, awakening ail interest favorable to the cause of bdubatron, and diffusing as widely as possible, Irf public ad- : dresses and personal communication with i school officers, teachers and parents,* knowlr 1 edge of existing defects, and desirable im- > provements in the government and instruction; of the schools. Sec. It). That he shall secure uniformity in the use of text books throughout the common * and public schools of the State, and shall fbr- < bid tne use of sectarian br partisan books and instruction in schools. : Sec. 11, That he shall prepare and transmit to the several County School Commission- i eas, school roisters, blank certificates, reports, and such' otner suitable blanks, forms and printed instructions as may be necessary to aid school officers and teachers in making their reports, and carrying into full effect the various provisions of the school laws of this Staie ; and shall cause the laws relating tp common schools, with such rules, regulations, forms and instructions as shall be prescribed by the Board of Education, to be printed, together with a suitable index, in pamphlet form, by the person authorized todo the State printing, at the expense of the State; and v . \ oimui vmase w^hw v? mitied to the several County School Commissioner for distribution. Sec. 12. That it shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of Education to collect in his office such school books, apparatus, maps and charts as can be obtained without expense to theJBtate^ and also to purchase^ at an expense not exceeding fifty dollars a year, rare and valuable works on education, for the benefit of teachers, authors and others, who may wish to consult them; and $he said sum is hereby annually appropriated for this purpose out of any moneys in the State Treasury Sec. 13. That^opies of all papers filed in the office of the State Superintendent of Education and .his official acts may be certified by him, and, when so certified shall be evidence equally and in. like manner as the original Sec!' 14 That the State Superintendent of Education shall submit, in his sUmusA report, a statement of his official visits daring die past year. See. 16. That he shall make a report, through die Governor, to the General Assembly, as each regular session thereof, showing: > 1st Thenumber of persons between the ages of six (6) andri3tteen (16) yea?,indnrive, reresiding in the Statemrtae first day of the last preceding October. 2d. The number of soch persons in each Goonty. 3d. Thennmber of each sex. 4th. The number of white. 5th. The number ofcolored. 6th. The whole number of-perrons that attended the ^-ee common schools nf the State ^ daring th* year ending the thirtieth day of the last preceding September, and the iramber in eachCounty that attended dnring the samepdKod. r n?th. The nnmber of whites of each sex that attended, and the number ofooloredof each ?x that attended the said schools. 8th. Thennmber of oommon schools in the State. 9th. The number of pupils that studied each jf the branches taught 10th. The average wages paid: to teachers t>f each sex. t4*th. The number of school houses erected iuriog.tbe.year, and the location, material and cost thereof 12th, The number nrevionslv erected, the mortal and value, and toe number with tbeir grounds ""S1The Counties in. which tcacberf'jburtitutes were held?ftn?Ltoe number that attended the County. 14th. Such other statistical information as be may de&n important, together "with such plans as he inay have matured, and the State BoaVd of Bducatidn may have recommended for toe inahagement and improvementof the school fund, and for the more perf^ o$Ri?ii zation and efficiency of the common schools. 15th. The number mid cost of theoooks furnished 46 each County School Commissioner. See. 16. That he shall have power to examine all persons who may make application to Win, as to their'Qualification for teaching school in this State;and that to all persons of good moral:Character who pass a satisfactory examination, he shall issue a certificate of qualification for teaching sohool in the State of South Carolina, which oeftfficate shall auwhiclf his or her services may be desired by foe Trustees of the school in which beer she may make application to teach, witoootany further evidendeof qualification. Said certificate shall he valid for toe term of (2>two years, unless sooner revoked. r ' day of November, or as soon el practicable thereafter, apportion the income or the State school fund, and /toe annual taxes; collected by "the State for the support of schools,- among toe several school districts of the State, in proportion to the respective numb er of pupils attending the public schools, and le shall certify such apportionment to toe Safe Treasurer and School Commissioner of t ich County the amount apportioned to their (Jounty, and he shall draw nis orders on the 8 ate'likiilirev of each-County for toe amount apportioned to said County., v;. O-'- flit- Tl.t rt.r,. ' -? -.'nil ,|J|| ,11 jtnat mere is nereny aMneenateo, nhaey_irth^State 1 reasurjrnot and dollar* ejwwdiy, to toe State Superintendent of-Education, for 4hei propose of . defraying the expenses of Clerk hire in toe&Aee of the said State Superintendent of EduoUior, said sum to be drawn quarterly by him, and to be disbursed by toe said StMSUmnte*dent,for the wrposeherqia named: Prcmded, office untiftbe next ensuing general election, when a person shall be electea to fill the unexpired term; and should jthe person so appointed fail to qualify witbrn the timespeci- ,, . Bed, such failure rfytll create p; vacancy.. COUNTY SCHOOL CO?OS8IONEB. Sec, 2L That Aft. present County School Commissioners continue in' offich until their suecessors are elected -and qualified. There shall be elected in each Coun^at the general election in October, A. D. 1872^ and at the.geuend election every two ywlW ? after, a Sehyul his offioe untjl, hia succffflor is elected and Qualified. He shall, before entering upon the h Co ?f h5? ?fi^hglT*b0lec^i f^edw* atiffifMnt TOeS^ to be .pprcved ,te ft# fla*. fl'jjawie i&iuuaianu ofjiisoffice. ;^,,-' ^.u .,/ Sec.23. .ThAi.onthefirstdayofJauaary next, ^ucoeeding the date of hia election, he scribed in Section 30, Article H, of the (Swstitution of this State, which oath be Khali file: in the office of the Clerk of the Court of the County in which he was jelected, and shall immediately enter upon the dttaharge of hiftdife: ties; and upo*, his failure so to do, or if &r shall continue in office until the ti aeprescrib* fid for fillinff offiw hv elsctir l. as lioWiin provided j and^ should the person appointed to i Q^i^ .witbin the time jj- cined, sueh &Uure shall create a vacancy. ? a 4116 dqtyof' ^OMOfy school Commissioner to visit ttch of-,the schools in his jurisdiction, at leas; three tunes a term, and to note fhe course and method of instruction, and the branches tjiu^it, and to give such recommendations insert of teaching and the method thereof imeaehschool as shall "be necessary and expedient^ ao that Uf^f. : [continued on the fourth page.] A