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ganwrons Department. AN OLD LADY PUZZLED. Ad old lady who had been reading about the great race between the celebrated horses, Longfellow and Harry Bassett, has written us the following letter, by which it appears that J she is laboring uuder an astonishing misapprehension. We will allow her to tell her own story: Editor Saturday Night?Sir:?I have read a good deal in the papers 'long back, 'bout a race between Longfeller and Harry Bassett. Now I don't know who Mister Bassett is, but I remember hearin' of Longfeller for years, and I have read a good deal of his po'try. I ?idn t know as he run races, though, and s'posed he was too old to run 'era now, anyhow, if he ever did. He must have cut a pretty figure down there at Long Branch, at his time of life, head white as snow, as I'm told, runnin' a race with Harry Bassett. I don't know whether it was young Harry or old Harry, but 'spect it was the latter, for I heard ray boy Jim, who is fond of racin', say, "It beat the old Harry, how Longfeller run." He run for money, too, I hear, which is almost as bad as runnin' for offis; though not quite. A great poick like Longfeller ought to be above money. My dead and gone husbon', who had a sole above shumakin', which was his trade, ritbushuls and bushels of po'try, and jest as good po'try, he used to say, as ever trod shoeleather?and he never got a sent for it! But I never knew ray husbon' to run but twice?once when he had a cold and run at the nose, a nuther time when he run for constabul wich finished him. Never shall I forgit that sorrowful mornin' i _ i i i ii _ ! >1. -A.; wnen a naoor Droi us me turns irora leeuou. My husbon' was abed from an overdose of delirium tremings. "Nuther county heerd from !" yelled husbon', who was delirryus, "wha's news ?" "You'r beet!" cried our nabur, bustin into tears, for he had bet on him. "Yes, ded beet!" groaned husbon', and he never spoke again. But I can't git it out of my head Longfeller's hoofin' it around a race track for the amusement of that Long Branch crowd. I can pictur him with coat and vest off, his galluses tied around his waist, his white hair streamin' out on the wind, and his long legs jest a puttin in for dear life. Couldn't they find any short feller to run in his place ? [My Jim, to whom I jest put this question, says there was plenty of fellers "short" enough when the race was over.] For my part, I can't reconcile this thing. Such no'trv as he has rit. It's a?in the natur of the man. Who that has read his "Sam of Life," where he speaks so touchiu'ly of "leavin' footprints in the sands of time," could think of Longfeller's leavin footprints in the sands of Long Branch race track ? The idea is preposterous. To cote his own lines? "Lives of great men all remind us We may make our lives sublime? And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints in the sands of time." But when great men like Longfeller takes to runnin' races, they remind us how we make our lives ridic'lous. Trew there air poicks who have run afore. David run to git away from the javelin of Saul; Homer run through a great many editions; Byron run after the wimmin;aDd hundreds of poicks have run to seed, as they do now, every day, but no truly grate poick I know ever run foot races afore. Oh! Longfeller! Longfeller! when your race is so nearly run, don't try to run any more races. Mother Quill. + ? ? "Say Amen to that, Brother."?In the south of New Jersey, some years ago, there traveled over some of the hardest counties, a good, faithful, hard-working brother, named .Tames Moore, or .Timmv Moore, as he was familliarly called. He was devoted to the itinerancy. A true, loyal Methodist, plain, pointed and sharp in all his preachings and exhortations. He had been laboring a year on one of his . circuits, and before leaving for his field, he gave his people, who dearly loved him, his farewell sermon. At its close, he said: "My dear brethren, this is my last address to you. I am going from you, and you may never hear the voice of James Moore again." "Amen!" came loudly from the seat before him. He looked at the man with a little surprise, but thinking it was a mistake, went on. "My days on earth will soon be numbered. I am an old man, and you may not only never hear the voice of James Moore, but never see his face again." "Amen!" was shouted from the seat more VlgUlVUOlJ bUOU U^iUiC* There was no mistaking the design now. The preacher looked at the man?he knew him to be a hard, grinding man?stingy and merciless to the poor. He continued his address?"May the Lord bles3 all of yon who have done your duty, who have honored him with you substance, who have been kind to the poor, and?" Pausing and looking the intruder straight in the eyes, and pointing to him with his finger? "May his curse rest on those who have cheated the Lord and ground the poor under their heels. Say amen to that, brother!" Tfc.e shot told. He was not interrupted again. ? ? A Family Trait.?Hark to the experience of Barrick Offutt, of New Orleans. He loved not wisely, but too well. He could not appreciate the loveliness of his fiance, if he did not compare it with that of others. He was walking up Charles street, a day or ? M _ A L 11 ? V 1 ? iwo ago wan a iair oauei gin, wnen ne was suddenly confronted by his dulcinea. He had talked to her of a pretty sister, and evidently she supposed this to be the person. She stopSxl, smiling, expecting an introduction, but arrick hesitated, loth to give it. "Your sister, I belive?" said the lady. "Ah, yes?no! Another person," said the sorely troubled swain. "Not his sister, I assure you, interrupted the ballet girl. "Indeed!" "No, ma'am} I'm the young man's?" "What?" coldly intervened the dulcenia. "Aunt!" hastily replied Barrick ; she's my aunt." "She's very young for such a relative." "Yes," said Barrick, "they are always young in my family." This settled the difficulty. There were no inquiries made. + ^ + Plain Sauce?an Interview with a Hotel Clerk.?To make a good jam?ask any horse-car conductor. To boil a tongue? drink scalding coffee. To make a good broil? leave a letter from one of your old sweethearts where your wife can find it. How to make an Indian loaf?give him a gallon of whisky. A plain loaf?a visit to the prairies. To "hnnft" a hirkpv?talrp it. whpn flip nrmltprpr is not looking. To corn beef?feed your cattle at a brewery. How to select a foul?ask the umpire of a baseball match. A plain stew?a trip in an old-fashioned street railway car on a warm day. How to dress beats?a horsewhip is a good thing to dress beats with, especially if he be a dead beat. # J?" A yankee passing along the street was Eainfully bitten by an ugly dog. A single low of a heavy stick, skillfully aimed, was sufficient to kill the animal instantly. But the enraged pedestrian still continued to pummel the corpse till little of the canine remained. At length he was accosted with : "What are you about ? that dog has been dead these ten minutes past." "I know it," was the reply, "but I want to give the beast a realizing sense that there is punishment after death." ? A little boy three years old gave a reason for his infant brother's good behavior as follows : "Baby doesn't cry tears because he doesn't drink apy water* and he can't cry milk!" Mdrett'si Uqiattment. TELLING FORTUNES. I'll tell yoti two fortunes, my fine little lad, For you to accept or refuse: The oiie of them bad, the other one good : Now hear them and say which you choose. I see by me gifts, within reach of your hand, A fortune right fair to behold; A house and a hundred good acres of land, With harvest fields yellow as gold. I see a great orchard, with boughs hanging down With apples, russets and red ; I see droves of cattle, some white and some brown, But all of them sleek and well fed. I see droves of swallows atxnit tbe barn door, See the fanning mill whirling so fast; I see them threshing wheat on the floor? I And now the bright picture is past. And I see rising dismally up in the place Of the beautiftil house and the land, A man with a fire-red nose on his face, And a little brown jug in his hand. Oh! if you beheld him, my lad, you would wish That he were less wretched to see ; For his boot toes they gap like the mouth of a fish, And his trowsers are out at the knee! i In walking he staggers, now this way, now that, And his eves they stand out like a bug's; And he wears an old coat and a battered-in-hat, And I think the fault is the jug's. For the text says the drunkard shall come to be poor, And that drowsiness clothes men with rags, And he does'nt look much like a man, I am sure, Who has honest hard cash in his bags. Now which will you have? To be thrifty and snug, And to be right side up with your dish ; Or go with your eyes like the eyes of a bug, And your shoes'like the mouth of a fish ? Alice Gary. ? > PROMISING. "How obliging Ed. Dayton is," said Martin Wells to Will Buchanan one day when they left the school-house together. "He says he will lend me any book he has, and he has so many nice ones. He promised to bring 'Carolina' to-morrow. I never could finish it, because I didn't get the magazine." "O vps. bp's verv cmorl ahout makinp v? J > ^ o promises!" said Will, dryly. "And he said he would get me a ticket to the Mercantile Library, or speak to his father?he's one of the managers. There's some arrangement by which they give tickets tn a certain number of boys. Wasn't it kind of him ?" Martin was a stranger in a strange place, with little money to spend, and Ed. Dayton's pleasant words and obliging offers had made a strong impression upon a mind naturally sensitive and grateful. "O, certainly, very kind of him," said Will, who knew pretty well the nature of Ed. Dayton's promises, but would not prejudice a stranger against a schoolmate. "So different from John Fitz Adam," continued Martin; "I wanted to see 'Atkinson's Siberia,' and I knew that he had it, and I did venture to ask him to lend it to me this week; and all he said was he 'couldn't promise.' It's the first time I ever asked a favor of any one in this school," said Martin, proudly ; "I guess it will the last." "It's not like John to be stingy," said Will, and then the boys parted. The next morning Ed. Dayton had forgotten to bring "Carolina," and then Martin, two days after, ventured to remind him of 1 1 - il _i il. . 1 1_ I ni3 promise, ne saia mai ine oook was nis sister's and that she did not like to lend her books. Seeing the state of the case, Martin said nothing about the library ticket, of which he heard nothing more, to his very great disappointment, for he dearly loved books. He was going home Friday night, feeling rather tired, homesick and lonesome, when John Fitz Adam came running after him with a book in his hand. "Here's Atkinson," he said, out of breath ; "I couldn't promise it the other day, because I didn't know whether father wanted to send it away to grandma or not, and it was lent to my cousin, but it came home last night, so it's at your service, and keep it as long as you like." "0, thank you!" said Martin, brightening, and regretting his hasty judgment, of John,, then the boys parted, and presently said Martin, "John, I'm sure you are very good and wasjoined by Ed. Dayton. "I think Fitz Adam is a regular mean fellow," said Ed. "I just asked him this morning to look out some references for me in some books I know he has at home, and he wouldn't promise to do it, because he said he thought his father wanted him this evening. I'd like to see the time when I couldn't promise to oblige a friend." "And I'd like to see the time when you'd keep your promise," thought Martin. "If people always keep their promises, they are generally rather careful how they make engagements. It don't co3t any one much to promise who never performs." BOYHOOD OF GALILEO. There was once a man named Galileo, who loved the stars, and found out much that was new and strange in the skies; and it was he who first made it known that the earth moves. He was born in Italy three hundred years ago. He was a poor boy. With his knife he made ships and men out of wood, and he would melt lead and run it into molds that he had made. He had such skill that he could mend the toys which the boys would break, and they would bring them to him, that he might make them whole and sound. When they would whip their tops, he would stand by and think what it was that made the tops move. He wished to come at the truth of all things he saw. But the dear friends in his home on the banks of the Arno were poor, and though they had hopes for the boy whom all tongues praised, they knew it would cost too much to send him to a good school away from home., So he was kept at home for a time, and taught there. His parents at first thought it would be a good thing if their son would learn to buy and sell, so that his gains would raise them up once more. But as the boy still loved his books they said "Let him go on with them ; we will try to send him to a great school as' soon as we can." His father raised some funds and sent him to Pisa, where a great school for young men was kept. It was hoped the boy would learn I to be a doctor, and know the use of drugs, and the way to bind up wounds and to cure the sick. But the boy did not like to be tied down to books that told of drugs, and the way to make sick folks well. It seemed to him like going round and round in a ring, as a mill horse does. He saw too that the men who ^ 1 i .1 l ?L taugnt ms uiass uiu nut nuuw iuucu. mcj | were as wise as any in that day, but he could see they were blind guides at the best. One day he was in the grand church in Pisa, where he saw the great lamp swing as it hung from the roof by a cord. From this he found out how things swing to and fro, and he ' gave to the world the law of the pendulum, I by which clock work is made to go right. When Galileo was forty-five years old he I was in Venice, and he heard there that a man in a Dutch town had made a tube with a piece oi glass in each end, which, when raised to the eye, made thiugs look larger. He went co work at once, and made a tube of lead and put in each end a piece of glass, such as you have seen in a pair of specs. With this tube, the things at which he looked seemed to be three times as large as before. By means of this tube, whiclT we call a telescope, the face of the moon was seen to be j made up of hills and vales, and plains, like our ! own earth. Jupiter was seen to have four 1 little moons. Venus looked like a moon with ' horns, and from this fact she was known to I be like a ball. And new stars were seen in I the sky. I Galileo Galileo?for that was his name in ; full?was one of the greatest men that have ever lived.? Young Folks! News. . ? ? *6?" Happy is the child who is suffered to be, and centent to be, what God meant it to be?a child while childhood lasts. leading fcr the JttHwfb. CONDUCTED BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN. JESUS CHRIST IS TRULY GOD. This great truth is abundantly taught in j many passages of Scripture. I will mention | only a few. Christ says (Matt. 11: 27,) "All thiugs are delivered to me of my Father." And again, (John 3: 35) "The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into his hands." Matt. 28: 11, "All power is given unto me in heaven and earth." In Eph. 1: 22. it is written that "the Father of glory hath set Him?Christ Jesus?at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this ? ' ? - " * l -1. 1 won a, ouc in mac wmcn is co vunit ; uuu nam put all things under his feet, and gave hira to be the Head overall things to the Church." And in Phil. 2: 9, "Wherefore, God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father." ] quote these passages of Scripture to show that, according to the Scriptures, Christ is at the head of the universe, controlling and governing all things by his own power. As this is certainly true, Jesus Christ must be truly God. To sway a sceptre over an universal empire must require an infinite mind. He who superintends the vast and complex machinery of nature, the worlds of light, the starry and planetary systems, myriads upon myriads of worlds ; who upholds them in being, preserves them from decay, a collision and disorder; guides each one in its destiued orbit, and causes them all to revolve around a common centre must be truly God. He who preserves in life the countless myriads of irrational beings which animate the universe; who protects them from evil and dangers, and supplies all their wants from day to day, must be divine. He, who in the midst of such a multiplicity and almost infinite variety of objects, carries forward one vast and unvarying plan, and causes all things, even the most minute, to promote one grand and glorious object; and who does all this, year after year and century after century, without weariness, without perplexity or confusion, must possess infinite perfections, must be the true and living God. And these are the facts of Scripture concerning Jesus Christ. According to the Scriptures, He presides in infinite majesty over all worlds and all created beings, upholding, controlling and guiding all things, even the least, in its appropriate sphere and to its destined end. Jesus Christ, then, iB truly God.?A. H. in Christian Observer. Model Obituaries.?Genesis 5 : 23-24: "And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years; and Enoch walked with God, and he was not; for God took him." Genesis 23: 1-2: "And Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years old ; and these were the years of the life of Sarah. And OttliUl UlUU 1U X\.iijtibii-ai ua , mo oaiuc. to xi.o~ bron in the land of Canaan ; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her." Genesis 25: 8: "Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people." Genesis 40: 33: "And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet in the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people." In the 34th chapter of Deuteronomy in seven short verses, the obituary of the illustrious law-giver, Moses, is written. The obituary of the patient man of Uz is given in two verses in the 42d chapter of Job. In I. King 2: 10-11, we have the obituary of the most illustrious of Israel's kings. - Tboso who write obituary notices ~wiH do well to take these as their iffodel. They do not parade before the world the grief of loved ones wnicn naiurany seeas reiueiueni , uui do they contain a word of fulsome eulogy or of unkind criticism, to which exception can justly be taken either by the friends or the enemies of the deceased. And in the eyes of editors, their brevity is not one of the least of their virtues.?Christian Observer. Remarks of John Newton.?A Christian should never plead spirituality for being a sloven; if he be but a shoe-cleaner, he should be the best in the town. My principal method of defeating heresy is by establishing truth. One proposes to fill a basket with tares. Now, if I can fill it first with wheat, I shall defy his attempts. There are critical times of danger. After great services, honors and consolations we shall stand upon our guard, Noah, Lot, David and Solomon fell in these circumstances. Satan is a foot-pad. A food-pad will not attack a man in going to the bank, but in returning with his pocket full of money. Christ has taken our nature into heaven to represent us. He has left us on earth with his nature to represent Him. If we were on the watch for improvement, the common news of the day would furnish it. The falling of the tower in Siloam and the slaughter of the Galileans were the news of the day which our Lord improved. Much depends on the way we come into trouble. Paul and Jonah were both in the storm, but under very ditterent circumstances. Hope in Death.?Mr. Owen visited Alexander Campbell, at Bethany, to make arrangements for their discussion on the evidences of Christianity. In one of their excursions about the farm, they came to Mr. ! Campbell's family burying ground, when Mr. I Owen stopped, and addressing himself to Mr. j Campbell, said: ! "There is one advantage I have over the | Christian ; I am not afraid to die. Most | Christians have fear in death ; but if some few items of my business were settled, 1 should be perfectly willing to die at any moment." "Well," answered Mr. Campbell, "you say you have no fear in death; have you any hope in death ?" After a solemn pause, "No," said Mr. Owen. "Then," rejoined Mr. Campbell, pointing j to an ox standing near, you are on a level with that brute. He has fed until he is sat! isfisd, and stands in the shade, whisking off the flies, and has neither hope nor fear in death." ? ? The Way to Keep a Pastor.?Pray for hit); love him ; attend his ministry?the j Su lday school; pay him his salary promptly ; ' defend him when assailed by the enemies of j the church and the truth; visit him when in j affliction, and esteem him highly in love for i his work's sake. If you want to get rid of a ! pastor, do not attend church; complain of I everything done at church meeting; be sure | j to complain when the expenses of the church ! . are to be met; refuse to pay him; treat him j roughly, coolly; magnify his faults; depreciJ ate his virtues; form a party to oppose him, j and if he be an independent man he will soon I leave the place. This plan generally works | well.?Baptist Record. ! How to Start a Prayer-Meeting.? j ! Let the few hearts that feel the need of it I I gather together, having first, each one, sought I the Lord in private. If a regular service j cannot be maintained at the church or vestry, i let neighbors meet in each other's houses. ! No matter how small the number, let the joint i pleading continue. Seize and hold the promi ise. Pray for that which lies nearest to you i first. Let judgment begin at the house of I God. Do not be so anxious to follow a par| ticular bill of fare that you shall ignore your j most conscious needs. Expect a blessing I when you pray. Take it when it comes, and I use it for Christ.?Presbyterian. V&* A knowledge of our own weakness creates in us charity for others. IpswWattMUS Reading. For llii' Yorkville En<|Hircr. CAROLINA NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD. A meeting of the stockholders of the Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company was held at Lincolnton, N. C., on the 27th ultimo. The meeting was called to order by Mr. 0. G. Ford, who reported the action of a former meeting, at Newton, North Carolina. A report of slock subscribed along the line of the road was asked for and resulted as follows, viz: Chester, South Carolina, 54 shares ; York, South Carolina, 26 shares; Gaston, North Carolina, 23 shares; Lincoln, North Carolina, 37 shares; Catawba, North Carolina, 35 shares. Total number of shares subscribed, 170. After the call of stock the convention was permanently organized by the election of Mr. 0. G, Ford, as Chairman, and John G. Justice, Secretary. On motion, the following gentlemen were appointed by the Chair to prepare business for the convention : W. M. Nicholson, Chester, S. C.; Joseph Herndon, York, S. C.; J. F. Smyre, Gaston, N. C.; D. Schenck, Lincoln, N. C.; Dr. Geo. Michael, Catawba, N. C. On motion, the following committee was appointed by the chair to verify proxies: Major Finger, B. S. Guion, W. H. McCorkle. Ou motion, the convention adjourned until half past two o'clock. AFTERNOON SESSION. At the appointed hour the chairman called the convention to order. The committee on proxies reported 86 shares represented in person and 63 by proxy, making a total of 149. On motion to elect a President, the convention proceeded to ballot. Dr. A. H. Davega, of Chester, receiving eighty-six votes, a majority of the stock present, was declared elected. On motion, it was ordered that one director be elected from each county. B. T. Wheeler, of York county, S. C.; 0. G. Ford, of Newfnn .T TT Smvro nf H-oaf nr> on/1 W 7T Motz, of Lincoln, N. C., were elected directors by acclamation. The chairman of the committee to prepare business for the convention, reported the following resolutions which were adopted : Your committee suggest the following resolutions bearing upon section 4 of the Charter, to wit: Resolved, That no call shall be made upon the subscribers for money until 2000 shares of bona fide, solvent stock shall be subscribed, in the mode and kind provided for in the charter. Resolved, That the president and directors of the company are hereby instructed to open negotiations with the King's Mountain Railroad Company, with the view of ascertaining the terms upon which said company is willing to surrender their road to the Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company. And in case any arrangement satisfactory to said president and directors can be made, the.presiaent is hereby directed to call a meeting of the stockholders of the company to consider and pass upon the same, as soon as practicable, after giving twenty days' notice. Resolved, That if it be found impracticable to make satisfactory arrangements with said company, then it shall be the duty of said president and directors to take the necessary steps to obtain a charter for a Narrow Gauge Railroad from the legislature of South Carolina, leading from the town of Chester to the town of Yorkville, and thence to the North Carolina State line, at the point where the Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad commences. On "motion, the following committee was appointed by the chair, to report a code of by-laws lor the company, and ordered to report at the next meeting: W. H. Brawley, W. H. McCorkle, Dr. Geo. Michael and B. S. Guion. On motion, the following resolution was passed: Resolved, That the president and directors proceed immediately to appoint Commissioners in each county, to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of the company, and to take measures to secure any necessary legislation ; and that as soon as in their judgment a sufficient amount is subscribed, that they do call a meeting of the stockholders of said company. There being no further business, the convention adjourned to meet at the call of the president. 0. G. FORD, Chairman. Jno. G. Justice, Secretary. ? From the Columbia Carolinian, 22nd ultimo. COMMUNICATION FROM MAJ. AYERY. Mr. Editor: Under the peculiar circumstances of the case, and for fear that a too protracted silence might be interpreted as some evidence of truth of certain reports, industriously and recklessly asserted by Gov__x as i j i : _n eminent omciais auu persuuai eiitsuues, alleging that "I was the chief of an extensive conspiracy of a political character to overthrow Radical Grantism and prevent the freedmen from voting, and that in pursuance of this conspiracy, divers persons of color were killed, many whipped, and innumerable schools broken upnow I make this communication to the public. Sir, the facts are, I never was a member or chief of any organization, club or conspiracy for such purposes and objects, either directly or indirectly, and I never have ordered, aided or abetted the killing or whipping of any one, (black or white) because of his politics, or for any other reason whatsoever. That I was the member of an organization in the winter and early spring of 1871, for self protection, especially agaiust fire, is most true. I then thought it absolutely essential? I think so atill?and for the following reason: Thirty thousand negroes had been armed with improved breach-loading rifles, and supplied with fixed ammunition ; the prejudices and passions of this armed mob were continually incited and inflamed against the native whites by Radical adventurers of the most dangerous, unscrupulous character. An influential Radical leader, (now a candidate for Governor,) in a public speech in Yorkville, urged his hearers to carry the next election "even if it was necessary to make the ashes so thick in York that the grass would not grow." The air was thick with the most alarming rumors. Acts of violence, incendiarism, &c., were of frequent recurrence, and there was serious danger of collision between the two races. Under the circumstances, I ? - . i i i ii i _ . thought it proper tor us to iook 10 toe protection of our families and our homes, and to defend them against any possible contingency. As to the so-called ku-klu raids, I had nothing to do with them, and am satisfied that I did far more to suppress them than Major Merrill, with all his troops, who came thundering down after the "war was all over," and makes a big blow of having stamped out the ku-klux, when the facts are, as is well known in York, that all parties were quietly settling down to work, and peace was dawning on the land, in spite of the lying dispatches sent to the government of continued outrages. But, "you broke up many colored schools." Well, I know something about that. I ma in favor of separate schools for the races, and advanced means to one teacher, who calculated to repay me from his salary; but when pay-day came there was no money for any not in the ring. In my business as a merchant, I have frequently been proffered the certified accounts of those poor free school teachers at from thirty to fifty cents on the dollar. The ku-klux "broke them up," did they? The thieving scallawag and carpet-bag officials stole the money. That's what's the matter. It will all come to light in time. But, if innocent, why did you leave? Because I was informed | from a reliable source that many thousands ! more troops were to be hurried to the upper j counties ; that the writ of habeas corpus would i be suspended and martial law declared, aud i that I was to be among the first to be arrested j by this armed force. If an impartial officer ! had been in command of the troops in Yorkville, I certainly should have remained ; but when a partizan like Major Merrill is placed in command, with absolute power, I object to the trial. But I hold myself at all times answerable to the people of my county and State, for all of my acts, and am willing to go before the regular court of York county, having jurisdiction, (where the characters of all parties are known,) whenever called. But I am not willing to go before a Loyal League jury and a partisan judge. The jury "is called to convict; the judge to sentence." J. W. Avery. ADDRESS OF THE ?TRUE> REPUBLICANS. To the People of Sontli Carolina: On the 16th day of October next, you will be called on to elect the various men who shall fill the various offices in the State government for the next official term. The condition of the affairs of the State at this time causes the gravest concern and most serious anxiety in the minds of all good citizens. Taxation unprecedented in amount in the history of this State weighs upon the people. No man but feels the burden; but however and by whatever channels the taxes reach the Treasury, they come finally, in great part, from those who till the soil, in the form of reduced wages, and the increased cost of food, clothing and other necessary expenses of a comfortable existence. The hard hand of toil largely pays the expenses of the State, though the money may be deposited in the Treasury by those who own the capital and the land. Let no man flatter himself, therefore, that his poverty renders this subject of taxation one of indifference to him. Besides the vast sums which have been drawn from the people by direct taxation, our rulers have been heaping other burdens upon us and our posterity, by enormous, and in many cases fraudulent, issues of bonds, the very interest upon which is a sum so large that it seems impossible to pay it. Concealment of the real state of our affairs has been practiced to a criminal extent; report after report, statement after statement, has been made by the financial officers of the State, making false exhibits of our public debt; and it was only when an outraged public opinion demanded and compelled an investigation, that our real situation was developed, and was found to justify the worst apprehensions which had been felt. The public mind is too familiar with the facts to require more to be said concerning the bond frauds; but it is worth while to consider here the question, what has become of the money so lavishly poured into the treasury? To what objects have we seen it appropriated by those who, under the law, are appointed to disburse it ? Have the rights of person and property, which it is the special function of food government to guard, been secured? lave the children of the people been furnished with the means of that education which alone can fit them worthily to perform the duties of citizenship ? Have the humane institutions in charge of the State been cared for? Have the resources of the State been developed ; its industries fostered; its present and future welfare provided for with reasonable prudence? The answers to these questions are in the mouths of all the people. We are ashamed to be compelled to confess that the State Government has failed to protect the citizens, not only in the enjoyment of those rights and privileges intended to be secured by tbe provisions of the State and National Constitutions, but even in those more limited rights which no respectable civilized government on earth allows to be violated in the persons of its subjects; and it has been the strong arm of the Federal government which has released thousands of men, women and children from a terror with which they could not fail to be filled, by countless outrages perpetrated upon their friends, relatives and neighbors, by conspirators, whose deeds the world reads of with horror. The public schools have been crippled in their work, and in many cases closed, because their teachers applied in vain at the State treasury for the small salaries justly due them and necessary to their daily support. The inmates of the Lunatic Asylum must have been turned loose upon the community, but for the humane efforts of its efficient Superintendent, who pledged his private credit to obtain food nobody would sell on that of this great State. The doors of the peniten tiary may De nung wiae open any aay, to allow the exit of a band of convicts, whom the warden cannot feed, because there is no money in the State treasury to purchase food. The judges of your courts have not been paid their salaries for many months, and are compelled, in most cases, to borrow money to supply the wants of themselves and their families, and to be subjected to the temptations too often placed by rich suitors before a judiciary irregularly or inadequately paid. It would be easy to continue at almost any length in enumerating what has been left undone, which ought to have been done. It is easier to say what has been done which ought to have been left undone. Jobs of every conceivable description have been undertaken, the interests of the State have been constantly and systematically set aside to enrich those who scrupled at no kind of bribery or corruption to secure such legislation as the jobbers required. Public money has been squandered for objects of no public moment The expenses of some branches of the Government have been so enormously increased as to astonish all who are not familiar with the character of many of those who fill important positions in the State Government. "Pay certificates," drawn by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, purporting for expenses of the late session, to the amount of over $1,000,000, have already appeared at the Treasury and been paid or exchanged for the notes of the Treasurer, and it is estimated by those in a position to judge wisely, that $250,000 in "pay certificates" is still afloat in the community, to be presented whenever there is any probability of their being allowed. This will make the expenses of a single session of the General Assembly over $1,250,000, or more than 4000 per cent, of the sum which was formerly considered sufficient to pay them. Enormous sums have been lavished in pretended support of an "armed force," which is non-existent. The most corrupt practices have obtained in the making of contracts by State officials. The contract with the Roberts and other arms companies of New York, under which there was drawn from the State Treasury over I $200,000, while said arms company received j less than $90,000, is a type of the manner in I tuViirtVi fkn Sfnte Treasure has hppn denleted. I The public are familiar with the enormous ! extent of the bills for State printing. For. nierly this item of expense for a session of the ! Legislature was not one-fiftieth, certainly not | one-fortieth, of what it has been during the ! year past. I}ut to cataloguerthe abuses exist' ing in the executive and legislative branches i of the State government, would not only weary j our patience and sicken your hearts, but one | who should attempt to characterize them would beggar the English language in looking for fit terras. You already know them in gross. You can hardly appreciate their enormity in detail till you exrmine the facts and figures. We allude to but a few of them as specimens of the kind of expenses that have j brought the credit of South Carolina so low that there is "none so poor to do it reverence," I and which have made the government of the State so odious to the people of the whole country. In this condition of affairs, what is the duty of the Republican party ? These wrongs are in no way the result of the action of its principles. They arise from the greed, and sel fishness, and corruption of those who have stolen the garb of Republicanism to cloak their evil deeds, and who should be cast out of the company of honest Republicans and honest men, as having degraded their high calling. Our plain duty points to this; our obvious interests demand* this; the interests of party j demand it; the interests of the State demand \ it; a decent regard for the opinions of mankind demand it. We must put forward for official position those, and those only, who are known as upright, true, and unstained men, whose Republicanism is as undoubted as their integrity, and their capacity to perform the functions of the offices for which they are , nominated. Within the lines of the Republican party our work lies. There are honest i hearts and wise heads enough in thai party to ! do our work. Every good citizen, whatever . his party affiliations may have been, owes it | to himself to work to purify and regenerate j our State Government; but the work espe-, cially belongs to us. We cannot abandon it to our political adversaries, until we have demonstrated our inability to do it ourselves. With this necessity upon us; in an emergency more exigent than has existed in the history of our party in South Carolina; with the eyes of the National Republican party upon us, and expecting us to rise to the demands of the occasion, like honest men, the Convention now in session in this city has placed in nomination, as a candidate for Governor, the one man whose official acts have brought upon the State and the official positions he has held, more disgrace than has attached to any other offices of the State Government. Mr. F. J. Moses, Jr., was the person who, as Adjutant and Inspector-General, made the contract with the Roberts Arms Company. We do not know that he received any part of the $114,000 which disappeared in its transit from the office of the Financial Agent of the State of South Carolina, in New York, to the office of the Roberts Arras Company ; but we do know that it disappeared. The Financial Agent's books show that it was paid ; the arms company's books show that they did not receive it. Mr. F. J. Moses, Jr., was the person who, as Speaker ot the nouse or .representatives, flooded the State with a shower of "pay certificates," and swelled the expenses of that House, for a single session, from 8145,000, (the highest possible figure to which they could amount legitimately, and this is based on most extravagant calculations,) to quite, or over, a million dollars. And this palpable violation of law, this direct filching from the treasury, is neither denied by him nor his friends, but is excused on the ground that he disposed of a large amount of these certificates in favor of the poor people who fled from the persecutions of the ku-klux klan. Was candidate ever before driven to straits like this ? A false certificate, a fraudulent and unlawful.draft of public money from the public treasury acknowledged, and the act defended on the ground that the money was disposed of in charity! Yet even this infamous excuse is wanting, when we know that not one per cent, of these unlawfully issued certificates was thus disposed of, and when we daily observe the style of living this candidate holds?a style befitting a profligate millionaire, but impossible to an honest man, with the legitimate income of a Speaker of the House and an Adjutant and Inspector General. We do not attempt to explain the entry of 811,000 against the "armed force" appropriation, paid to Mr. F. J. Moses, Jr.; but the known character of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and his career in that office, awaken a suspicion very well defined, which he has not only failed to clear up, but has allowed the matter to go unexplained, though for many days it has been commented on by the newspapers, and though it would seem to be all-important that he should explain it to those whose suffrage he was soliciting. i3* We are straight Republicans; none will go farther than we in any path of duty or honor, to serve the interests of the Republican party. The cause of the Republican party is dear, unspeakably dear, to us ; its principle of the equality of all men before the Jaw is that particular jewel which outshines, with us, every brilliant in its casket. But honesty in office, capacity in administration, fidelity to public trusts, are principles which cannot be ignored by true Republicans; and we cannot endorse the action of a Convention which ignored them all in its selection of a candidate for the highest State office, however "regular" that Convention may be. We have, therefore, joined in a movement for the nomination of an independent, true Republican ticket; a ticket containing the names of men whose fidelity to the dictates of honesty and duty is as well known as their zeal in the cause of true Republicanism. They are firm supporters of the nomina tion of Grant and Wilson, and of the great measures of the national Republican party which has placed them in nomination, while they add to their character for integrity, superior capacity and ardent patriotism. We appeal to the voters of the State of South Carolinato support them, knowing that their election will give us a wise, honest, energetic administration of the State Government, and that they will, regardless of their private interests, or the private interests of any set of men, make it their business to repair, to the extent of their ability, the injuries the body politic has suffered by waste, extravagance, fraud and incompetency. Now is the accepted time to rouse yourselves and throw off the incubus which has lain, worse than a night-mare, upon our State; and which will be ten-fold increased in its horrors should Mr. F.J. Moses, Jr., be seated in the executive chair. Refuse to avail yourselves of this opportunity, and ere many months have passed over our heads, dire disaster, without a parallel even in our disastrous experience, may be confidently anticiapated. JAMES L. ORR, President. Wm. E. Earle, Secretary. Columbians. C., August, 1872. AST* If every man had such a treasure of a wife as a Boston paper tells about, there would not be so many difficult figures to master in the problem of living on a moderate income. This woman's husband was comfortably well off, and gave her a moderate allowance of spending money. Quite a number of - AaliA aais) one rlaw years alter ineir nmumgc, sue oom wu? "Husband, why don't you buy a house ? It is so much nicer than to rent." "Ah," said the husband, "I can't afford it." "But," said the wife, "wouldnt you take one if any body would give you one." Certainly," says he, thinking that it would never come to pass. The wife then presented him with a sheet of paper, which proved to be nothing less than a deed of a nice house in the city, costing nearly 87000, which amount she had saved out of the money her husband had given her to spend. How Valuable is the Result of Labor.?A mass of iron ore, worthless at the mine, may be worth a few cents after taking it out, a few dimes after carrying it to the furnace, a dollar after being made into pig-iron, and five dollars after being puddled into wrought-iron ; when worked into horse-shoes, it is worth ten dollars; made into pen-knife blades, it is worth three hundred dollars; made into needles it is worth three thousand dollars; and made into balance springs for watches, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And so it is with everything; all values are the result of labor. Even when a town or city lot raises in value, it is the result of the labor of those who improve the neighboring land by which the owner of the lot is a gainer. The women of Carthage, Indiana, have abolished all liquor saloons in that town, and the thirsty Carthaginians will hereafter be compelled, to resort to the private bottle. 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