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An Independent Family Journal?Devoted to Politics. Literature and General Intelligence. VOL. 3. ANDERSON, S. 0., WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1888. NO. 47. BY HOYT & WALTERS. TERMS: TWO DOLLARS AND A HALF PER ANNUM, IN UXITED STATUS CCUREXCr. RATES OF ADVERTISING. .Advertisements inserted .it thc rutes of One Dol? lar per -square of twelve lines for the first insertion and Fifty Cents for each subsequent insertion. Liberal deductions made to those who advertise by I he. year. tg$" For announcing a candidate, Five Dollars tn advance. Washington News. ? Washington, May 4. ; . In thc iiouse, a Committee of ?even, frith power to send tor perrotts and papers, wa? appointed it! the Donnelley and Wash burne case. A; motion to expanse Saturday's pro? ceedings from the record canned tillich excitement, but was withdrawn after Don? nelley and Washbiune had withdrawn their offensive remarks. Pending the motion to adjourn, Donnel? ley asked leave that Wash bu nie atid he should imitate Thomas ami Stanton and take a drink. Wash burne proclaimed him? self a temperance man. t Honse then adjourned. lu the Impeachment Court, Mr. Bingham ; disavowed partisan prejudices. Ile was j there as a representative of th? people, j Ile applied the term hired frequently to the President's counsel, and said that j Evart's speech had more latin than law, j more rhetoric than logie^ and more intel? lectual-pyrotechnics than either. Ile ar? gued thal the President had no right to construe laws, and that the Supreme Court had no possible jurisdiction in the ease, j He narrated Lincoln's assassination ami incidents from fugitive slave laws opera? tions. Ile said that the gentleman who opened this case claimed that the President iiiay judicially consfiie the Comtittllion tor.himself, and may judicially determine whether your laws are passed under the j Constitution, and whether he shall execute | them. Mr. 15. repeated this that it might Le.buried into the heart of the Senators. I The laws were only tc; be executed if it j pleased his highness, Andrew Johnson, ! first King of tl'.e United otates. If the j ? President can ?So this, as is insisted by Iiis j advocates, Mr. B. insisted that the Consti- j talion which we had been taught to revere as the bulwark of our liberties is a Consti? tution which invites violation of the law, not obedience lo it ; and he insists further, that if the Senators, by their judgment, should countenance th's plea, they would be the architects of their country's ruin ; they.would give over this land to endless chaos and auachy. No matter what dem? agogues may say about it, (Mit of this j chamber the issue is anarchy in this land, j and the .recording angel of history is ready j to trace it?that is ail of it. lt is the head and front bf Atidiew Johnson's of ; fending, that he has assumed to himself the'perogati ve of interpret iii-.- the Const i i tion and deciding upon the laws fir him? self In s?.?te "?' all tiie lawyers' tricks? ! in spite of al! tile lerhntcalitie.s?:i:?< -va* it. With ail respect to Senators, ai.d t>> th?? | able counsel, alter the weeks and weeks of "tU>oussiou <>u thi-; case, if lhere is om- maa j who does not understand this simple prop- j position, then God, in His infinit? wisdom, | has denied him reason. Washington*, May 5. Tn the Court nf impeachment, Bingham ; argued that evil intent was not uc(*essiry I to conviction, and the counsels' argument j on this subject was puerile and liol lit for the ears of thc Senate. Ile maintained the j oneness of the appointing and removal ! power, the undue weight given to the debates of'9?, maintained that mal admin istration was impeachable. Sherman's re? marks regarding Cabinet officers were not applicable, because when the biil was passed, the malignity and danger of thc President's action was nol developed, ile defended Stanton as a calumniated and slandered officer, who had proved faithful among the faithless, and who had m ail the qualities which adorn and ennoble hu? man nature was unexcelled in any age or country?characterized the quo wandillo arguments as mere babble in the ears of Senators. He regarded the constitutional? ity of the Tenure of oflice act as a closed question?after voting on it three times, the Senators who questioned its coustitti nality were themselves impeachable.? Bingham concludes to morrow. The Reconstruction Committee met, bul did nothing. Is is stated that Fessenden, Henderson and Grimes have each prepared opinions looking to acquittal. This is improbable, but betters on conviction are holding oil. Nothing has transpired regarding the rou? tine to-morrow, after Bingham close*. This evening's Express says the feeling to-day among the Radicals as well as the Democrats is that the chunches are decid edly in favor of thc acquittal of the Presi? dent This evening's Star says the bears ? have it in the impeachment stock market, ! bet two to one for acquittal, atid u hy no? body knows. It is stated that the majority of the. Reconstruction Committee favor the ad j mission of the Arkansas delegation on the completion of impeachment. The President transmitted the South \ Carolina and Arkansas Constitutions lo j the House. They were referred tu the Reconstruction Commit de. In the House, the Speaker named Banks, Thomas, Griswold, Blair, Woodward and Beck a committee to investigate YV"a>h burne's charges against Don ne! ley. I b ooks' charge that Brooks made Butler disgorge sixty thousand dollars which Butler hail stolen in New Orleans, was referred lo the same committee. Thc question from Boyer whether gold covered plate and spoons was answered by thc speaker neg? atively, and a proposition that the com? mittee extend their investigation over Butler's entire administration at New Orleans was rejected. Carey movrd the withdrawal of the tenth article as untena? ble under the House proceedings ol'Satur? day. The Speaker decided it a privileged question, and, pending the vote on its re? ception the House adjourned. Washington, May 6. In the House, Stevens was called to or? der by tlib Speaker, in his Alta Vela ex? planation, aud withdrew it. All that was read was very caustic on Nelson. Carey's resolution, withdrawing th? tenth article, was not entertained, by a strict party vote. Tilts House then went into Committee < the Whole, with the understanding th; tile speakers would avoid disclosing pr ceedings. Donnelley says he was misunderstoc in the Iiouse. He neither desired, m does he desire, reconciliation with Was! burne. His proposition to take a drin meant nothing of that kind. The Impeachment Court wns donsol crowded. Bingham concluded in elfect ? follows: --Shallit be said in history her after, that through the defection of th American Senate, tile fair fabric af Amer can liberty crumbled into ?lust, and tli na ne of our Republic fa:'ed away befor the nations? It is the spirit of justice, < liberty, of equality, that makesour Const tut ion respected everywhere. It gives th people the right to make their own laws and it is this righi which is challenged b your recreant President. He claims th power to make the laws, to be dictatoi If he is allowed lo do so, it will be by iii voice of the Senate, not by the free wi of the American people, or through an neglect of their representatives. Will th Senate set him above their Conslitntior which he has violated, and which heswor to obey? Perhaps he was saying to much, but he asked Senators to renie m be that he was speaking to day in behalf el violated Constitution and laws; of tin rights of a free people ; that he was speak ing in the name of half a million of braves who slept in death to day?w ho had die? that th.e nation might live. Il only rt unlined for him to thank the Senate li; their attention,"and to demand, in tin name of the House of Representatives, o a free people, the eon viet ion of this accus ed President, who stands guilty be foti God and man ol' high crimes and misde meanors of which he stands impeached.' Applause followed, w hen (.'hase nnliTe?' tile galleries cleared. The doors were thei closed, and a resolution to admit otlicia reporters was lost. Sumner's resolutioi discussed to adjournment. Grant sent a message to Congress, eov criag a communication from Can by, detail inc: tiie evil e?Teet ol' compelling Stall officers in Non h and Sont h Carolina takim the test oath. Many good men act in* with the Union party can't lake it, an? other good i ? i? -11 w ho could, d?mine, takln?, it, feeling that ni: wurt hy motivo will he attributed to them. Grant, expresses m opinion on the stdiject, and mere ly trans ?ni?s Can hy's lei ter. The protest nf the wi ile people n South Carcdiua against the Constitution was referred lo the Reconstruction Coin millee. Washington, May 7. The Sou! h Carolina i 'nmmit tee?Mt ss rs j. P. Thomas, !.. i). Childs and j. <; Gibbes?willi the protest against the Con siltation, will appear before tho Recmj s'.ruction Committee. These remon>tran ces and personal repr?sent?t ioiir re?? a rd in-j the situation, attract the attention ol th?, conservai ive Republicans. The [mpeaehiueiit Court opened, bul immediately closed doors ??nd wein inti secret-session. A Massachusetts membei nf Congress to day remarked, in alluding to the impeachers, that their friends were much disturbed. The House is in session but doing liol liing. Gen. Gillern has made a roporl to Gen. Grant, stating lhal incomplete tables show a majority of over 1,200 for the ratiiicatioii of the Constitution of Arkansas, il hi> order had been complied with, the result would have been indisputable, but lhere are in the conni i es of Pulaski and .Jefferson 1,000 votes, which cannot be accredited ld be either for or against the Constitution. Where these irregularities occur, each party charges the other with frauds. A delegation, with the North ( andina Constitution, and several members of the Congressional delegation have arrived. The impeachment court had a prolonged secret session, which resulted in the adop lion of the following: That the corni ad? journ to Monday, ?lt ll o'clock, when it will consider rules and vole on iheseveral articles. The vole shall be taken at noon, Tuesday, without debate. Speeches shall be limited to fifteen minutes, on the entire subject, and not nu each ai tide. Members may Hie written opinions within two days aller the vole on articles, to be published with the proceedings. Motions regarding the form in which the Chief Justice shall pul the question io Senators, were tabled, it is stated that the adjournment to Mon? da}' was at the instance of Chase, who desires time lo reflect on the proper man? ner of putting questions and other details. The current cd' public feeling is not changed bv today's proceedings. Washington. May S. The South Carolina Committee will prc - test against the Constitution before the Reconstruction Committee. Stevens re? ceived them with a chilling remark, that wdiat the protest claimed as ?rrievauees, lihey regan led virtues. Col. Thomas ad j dressed the Committee, ma ic ing the points, I that while the people would no! patiently I submit to negro supremacy,am) thal while j they would lie compelled to sitbitiil lo ihe j yc:ke, then- could be no real peace until it was removed. The question cd' taxation I seemed to impress the Committee seriously. Stevens suggest i'd the plan of allowing i the property holders to lix taxation ? , Many Southerners were- present in the j Committee-room and the Committee ?tie j hopeful ol'some good, .-uni the rejection oj j the most objectionable feat un s nf the ( nn j si it ut hm. 'I lu- Committee are lavorably j reeeived, and their views are fully eli ? dorset! by representative men l>ere nf the Northern Democracy. In the House, private bills were consid? ered. Stevens reported a bill admitting Arkansas. He considers the Constitution unexceptionable, and did not desire lo debate the bill. Several members com i plained that they had never seen the Con ? stitutton. Baker, though favoring the I provisions, doubted thc constitutionally of the power io enforce stipulations regar ing salttrage. Business of this kind show not he ?hine hurriedly, nor should the b pass until the Constitution was examine Stevens said there was not a clause in tl Constitution objectionable to a man wi favored freedom. Beck stated that time were given him. he could demonstra that the Constitution nevei received vote- of the majority of the people of A hausa?. A few days would prove thi therefore they rushed this bill throng Beck .-aid the franchise and education dailies ww\'particularly obnoxious. .'Jl bill filially passed?110 to :V2. Shanks i trod need a resolution, declaring the office recently elected in South Carolina lo i the provisional go\ eminent of that.Stall referred to the Reconstruction Committc Paine reported, a bill admitting Sont Carolina; w hich was ordered tobe printei Adjourned to Monday. Remonstrance Against the Coi stitution. The Slate Central Executive Committc of the Democratic party has addressed "Respectful Remonstrance, on behalf < the White People of South Carolin! against tho Constitution of tho late Coi volition of that Stale, now submitted I Congress fur ratification.'' This prot?t is addressed "to the Honorable tho Senat and House of Representatives of th United States, in Congress assembled. It begins as follows : '?The undersigned respectfully showell that a Constitution I ra light with evil to iii Stale, and lo ai! classes ol thu people then of, is about ?o he submitted to your ll on on Clo body for ratification. Before your hoi oral?!?! folly shall set upon that inslni mont ihe seal of your approval, and Uri consummate upon a proud and failhfi people a great a nd irreparahlo wrong, w respect fu I ly ask a bearing at your lini.d> whilst with a due sense of oar respousi bi I i ly to Cod ami to truth, we submit fo your consideration thc grave objection that may be urged against the propose liindameiital law for this Slate. Am first, permit us to lay befoioyour honora hie. body ihe following a lui lysis of th .-aid Constitution, prepared by the lion Ii. F. Perry, of this Slate?a pure muli au ahle lawyer, and a life-lung, bold am (.?ii spoken Unionist. As a mai. who n| ; ose?I nuiiiiieatiuM and Secession you will perhaps, liol regan! him as one whos< views on the Constitution are apt tob pervaded by that disunion spirit, whirl inanV members of your honor:.ole bod1 might deem sufficient lo pr?judice an* paper eiuenating from South Carolina Air. Per cry thus sl.-.lus the most prom i ueiti objections lo bc urged against lin Coiistilulioii ol thy lieCoiiblruclioli Cun vent ion of i his State." The analysis prepared by Gov. Perri having already been published in ihesi columns, it ?s unnecessary to re-produci the same. This analysis is followed bj the com men ts of Hon. A. Burt uporrthi Constiiuiion, and which also appeared ii this paper at tho time. The address eon cl mies in ibo following language: "We have thus suggested to your hon ora bi o body some of ihe prominent ob pelions lo your adoption ol this Conslilii tum. We waive all argument upon tin ?subject of its validity. It is a C'onstilu lion (Je facto, and thal is thu ground upoi -which we approach your honorable body in the spirit, of earnest remonstrance That Constitution was the work of North ern adventurers, Southern renegades am. ignorant negroes. Not one per ecntuu ol (he wiiite population (d' the Stale ap proves it. and not two per centum of lb? ! negroes who voled for it* adoption know jany mine than a dog. horse, or cat, what his net id'voting implied. That Constitu ; ii'.ii enfranchises every male negro ovei the age ol twenly-one, and disfranchise.* \ many of the purest and best, white men ; of the Stale. The neuro being in a large ? ii ii inercia 1 majori ly, as compared with the j whites, the offed is thal ihe new Consti I tut ion establishes in this State negro su j preuiacy, willi all ?ls train ol' counties? ' evils. A superior race?a portion, Sena? tors and Representatives, of tho samo ' proud race lo which il is your pride In j bolong?is put under the rule of an infe? rior race?tho abject slaves of yesterday, the flushed freedmen of to day. And think you that lhere can bu any just, lasting reconstruction on ibis basis'/ Thc ; Committee respectfully reply, in bchall 'ot their while fellow-citizens, that this cannot be. We do not mean lo threaten resist a nee hy arms. Bul Ibo while peo? ple nf our ?State xviii never (juicily submit lo negro rule. Wu may have to pass uiuler tho yoke you have authorized, bul by moral agencies, hy political organiza? tion, by every peaceful means left us, we Will keep Up ibis colile-l Ulli il WO IlilVC regained the heritage ot political control handed down lo us by an honored ances? try. This is a ?iul.y we owo lo the laud that is ours, lo I he grav?.?s thal it contains, and to the race ol' which you and we are alike members?tho proud Caucasian race, whose sovereignty "ii earth God lias or? dained, and they ihemseivcs have illus? trated on the most brilliant pages of the wen l i's history. Nor. Senators and Kcprcsen la lives, does thc Slat?' of South Carolina merit, at you r hands, the political treatment that has boen met efl out lo her without stint. Il is true. Smith Carolina took the field prom jilly, in tho hito war between the Slates. Her pe?plo embarked their all in 11? ?j straggle, heenn-u the sovereignty of Ihe Slate demanded this of thom. But when the war ended, and tho arbitrament to which they resorted was.adverso to ; their ea use,-no jieoplo over yielded-more I gracefully to the decree of Providence. Quietly they laid down their anns, u in peace, they became law-abiding, as, war, they bad been faithful lo their ll 'J hey accepted the legitimate rom. I ti thc war. They were ready to abane the claim of the right ol their State peaceably secede Mom tho Union, a they assented, in Convention assen)bl to the emancipation of their slaves. A now, were tho Slate admitted into t Union, on a just and reasonable basis, hesitate not to declaro thal again woi our people greet the starry banner oft Union, and unite with their fcllow-ei zens of the whole country in the elfo rt promote the ?flory, wealth and prosperi of our common land. In our relation, as proposed by us, wi the black people of this State, we are ri disposed to exact anything that just in may deny or Heaven disapprove. When South Cand?na assented to t act of Federal emancipation, we hold th the freed people became members of t body politic, and, ad such, entitled lo i the civil rights that aro enjoyed alike 1 all classes of tho people. They becai entitled to "life, liberty and the pursuit happiness1'?lo all that the Declaration American Independence and the Engli Magna Charta claim for man as his in: ionublo rights. Butas it regards s u f frat wo hold that this is not a political rig nor a civil ono for man. either white black, but it is a trust, a delicate trust, be conferred by ibo Slate upon the poop there'd, according to Considerations expedient*}*, and agreeably to the soul political doctrine ot the greatest good the greatest nu in ber. Willi respect, now, to thc extension this trust lo the colored people, we belie' nine-tenths of our people aro willing concede it to I lu-in, duly qualified. \\ cannot admit universal sulfrage, beean the great body of thc colored people a utterly ll n fi tied lo the exercise it willi i lelligeneo and discretion; and because would make the negro dominant,and tin br'iig about a falal antagonism betwci the races. We cannot deny it aliogetln to tho black man, because that would I neither right nor politic. Hence tl policy of the mean between the two e: tremes which has met with general lave ?li ibis Slate. The conserva i i ve party < South Carolina now stands and gai hoi strength, day afier day, upo.n this propi sitio? : "liesokrd, That under tho yet ion of tl: Slate ot South Carolina, heretofore takei we leeognizo the colored population r the Stale as an au integial element of lb boily politic; and. as such, in person an property, entitled to a lull and equal pn te? lion under the Slate Conslilinion au laws. And that as "ii ?zens cf South Can lina, wo declare our willingness, when v> have tho power, lo grant them, undi ! proper qualifications as Inproperly an intelligence, t^gg-right ol suffrage.'' In behalt at least, ol the Democrat i parly of South (.'andina, which embrace I nearly every white inhabitant, and mair rd' the colored people, the Committee di (dare that this policy represents the polit: cal sentiment of ihe Stale. We ofter lld in good fail h. as lite basis of a inn-, a gen nine and lasting reconstruction; Th h we earnestly believe, is ibo peaceful sohl lion of ibo great question (d' while mai and black man in thc South. This sol ii lion we otter to tho conservatism of th country, as ono alike advantageous ti both races. Lot this be accepted ; Iel tin vexed question of thc black man be rc moved from the high court of the land and let all of our peopio North, South Ka>t and West, be permitted harmonious ly and earnestly to address themselves to the great work nf individual improve ment and national yggradizement?lliei again may we expect a return of tho bet ter days ol' the Republic, and a rest ora lion ol the Union in fact, as well tis in name WADE HAMPTON. john P. THOMAS, josh BI I DAM KB pope, F. w. M i M A ST EU. samuel Mcgowan, W. M. SHANNON, State Central Executive Committee. a Sor.DiKu's Own Joke.?During thc late fruitless war for independence, lhere was in the -Military Department of South western Virginia a battalion of Cavalry, the members of which weir much joked at by the Infantry as rather unwilling to ex? pose themselves. a Railroad coach full of soldiers had just stopped at the Bristol Depot, and thc crowd was in one of those frames of mind so peculiar to tho times; though hungry, dirty, and many sick and sore, yet of a reckless, merry mond, ready to burst ont at any broad joke into such roars of laugh? ter as" only soldiers can give. One nf the Infantry rose from his seat, carried his gun lo a window near the fur? ther end of ihe coach, contrived to catch the attention of every ono as he moved, pointed his gun through tho windew, ami suddenly drawing it back, turned and said loudly : "I say ! Is there any of Dunn's Battalion in this car?" This question, twice repeated, drew a r?ponse from ono man, that hr was one of Dunn's Battalion. The wag turned to him with a benevolent look, and said: "Don't you bo skecred, stranger. My old niuskit's gottheteich hole stopped up. Don't yon be skeercd ! I'm just gwine to pop a cap!"?Native Virginian. ? a Kentucky editor advertises as fol j lows : "Wanted, at this otiiue, a bull dog, j of anv color, of respectable size, snub nose, cmpped cars, abbreviated continuation ? I who can come when called with a beef steak, and will take his pound nf ll.-:i from the man who squirts tobacco juice u thc stove and steals the exchange.-." -?-?It may be a fair question whether a man can be said to be wedded to celibacy. Tozas Eloquence. Legislative oratory is sure to gusli the occasion of thu decease ol some mc ber of the Legislativo budy, though t speeches, as By iou says, may be caid present "A fine snmpie, on thc whole, Of rhetoric, which tim lenru'? cali -rigmarole. As a superior specimen ol this "smdi impropriety ol' speech," we have be< favored by a Irictid with tho fbllowii tribute to the lnemoiy ol the late Colon Yell, ol Texas, delivered by a distinguid ed colleague from one ol the border ? tri?is of that State. For freedom ai brou?th ol style it can hardly be sui passe u31r. Speaker.?Jl becomes my mela eholurly duty to announce to the mei hors of this yer body that Andrew Jut? son Yell, of Yell ville, a member of th house, is no more, lie has loll a viet: to the grim and destroying tyrant, Deal who yesterday evening put an end to h mortal career ; and he now bes lifeless tho pleasant boarding-house O: Mrs. Join, on tho hill, where be and many Olin members of this vcr House has board? session after session?and whore, throng out his lengthy and consequently pr traded typhus-fever, hu received evei care and attention which that ar kin hearted woman and her numerous au attentive help could bestow. But, ala: all her care and kindness was of no aval Colonel Yell is gone from among us, an it has become my mclunchorly duty 1 oller tho cttstomory resol nt ions on th occasion, which 1 hov taken the. opport niiy to draft out last night, while .-elli up with tiic body, il ain't with no or'nal feel.n's of grief, Mr. Speaker, that 1 mai' this yer communication to ibis yerbo; 0 ra ble body; for I knowed thu decca si in particular. Mr. Speaker, and knowe bim clean through. 1 might say. froi Aiphy lo Iz/.aid. There may be nie mean enough lo come forward, now he gone from among us. and allude to h faults td' kerricter?lor. like ab olin, men, he bad his faults, and who ain't g< 'em? There may be men in this ye body mean enough, I say, out of pul cussedness, to fetch up the ladin's of ih desea sed, but I, at ?east, ain't a goiii' t be one of 'em. I know lhere was som things that might be unrated agin hin lie m y hov ben slightly addicted t whisky; bul limn, Mr. Speaker, there others in this House thal could drink I.ii blind drunk alore breakfast, and ihe know it. Hu may hov been quick to i.s his shootin1 tools, hui he never draw'd weapon ona mau if'he wasn't mad ! Thc may say ho didn't pay his debts?who i Texas dots. .Mr. Speaker? And. a^it they" may tell you thal ho frolicked cot. St'dtrable. Well, all I hov to say a bon that is. who in-don't. Mr. Speaker 1 put it t<> you. Sir, and lo this au?iis boily lo answer that pinl. Whoever ii this House, at least, is without a limit ii ibis respect, lot him, as the Scriptor ob serves, be the first lo shy a considera bb sized rock on lo his memory?or word: lo that effect ; I don't reek I oct the pro eise- terms of Ino passage. Among hi many virloos. Mr. Speaker, our dopa rt ci friend was a devoted admirer of that no bb: animil the boss,conscient?ousiy alead in' every race-track within forty miles o this yer place, and huckin' his opinioi onto oncerliu events, in ibo future to tin extent of bis ability, and sometimes be youd it. in thc extensivost and most gen tlemnnly manner! He was also an nc live member of the Engine Company and often good at fires. In short, he wa: a ?rood citizen, an honest man. and a per feet gentleman. In bis meloneholy de sease. society bas lost one of its bright es ornaments, and a gloom is cast over om whole community, but more especial h over the domestic circle of Mrs. Jones': boardinghouse, where tho eligible roon which ho occupied, and in which. I saitl before, be received every care and atleti lion from that estimable lady, is now tilas! vacant for the balance of the sea son-" ?'Mr. Speaker (a member of tho opposi. tion hero interrupts,) I rise to a p'int ol order." The Speaker requested Mr. Sinken to state his p'int. ??I want to know. Mr. Speaker, if it is in order fur any member of this yer House, in bis speech onto the memory of a dead man. to ring in a honrdin' house, kop' hy his aunt, and furnished hy himself, on sheers? It may be parliamentary and all right, but I don't see it !" The Speaker, v.iih a withering glance at Sinken, decided the p'int to be not well taken. '?Ah ! this is too sollum a occasion, Mr. Speaker, for me to take notice (d'any sieb imperdeiice and hide rcmatks as that air! I tully expected some infamous hyena would bo out here lo dav. howlin' round ibo grave of our departed friend, foatuiu' tit tho mouth, gnashing his loot bless jaws, ami droolin' out his ineffectual and impo? tent rage. Willi Ins bide covered all over with welts, all sore and disgust ia' from tho lash and thu hot poker torewth, wh'ch his insolence has brought upon bim pretty much every ?lay dunn' this session, ho rolls over and over, and bites and tears and soils himself, till he becomes justly ! offensive to every eye in this Mouse. I'll see that his goose is cooked for him here? after, suitable, and that not on no melon ; eholy occasion author. To resume the de? scosed : Whatever kin bo said of bim by friends or enemies, no man at least kit? ! deny that be wasn't a patriot. Look j back at his political record. Mr. Speaker, land see what's thar! for. as tho peet I Wail- feelingly remarks, ;By their record si ll!! ve k:i- w mo.' M'l S; .-. i. ?;?'. : that ic- oi-.-i ; t- ? ? (. \ <. i i.oiio iii ino ?Vorni mn wnai ino man ! that done it was barked and yelped alter I by Homebody'. But the deceased, iutroneli j Thc ?utc?ligcnecr Job (lillee? Having recently made considerable additions to tliis department, wc are prepared to execute ! ?HEB WiDSE ci ?ix ?silbes : In thc neatest styl?? and on :bc most reasonable ; terms. Legal blanks, Uni ri'.-ads, Pasters, C'irdSj , Handbills. Paniplilets, Luhe.*, :.ad in fact every '? styli} of work usually doue iu u co i-a fry Printing I Office. ? Kg?* ?*i nil cases, the money will he required j upon delirery of ihe v.-or!:. Orders, accompanied ' with il?? cash, will receive prompt attention. cd in the galoriotis arjr.br of patriotism, willi bis bund on Lids yer record, cou!? look the Amerikin eagie proudly iii ike eye, and defy chain-lightning in any shape or fi*om wini lever quarter it might come; and when prostrate and emaciated, he died at last on his prostrate bcd at thc pleasant boa rd in' house ol' -Mrs. Jones, on the hill, the thoughts of this 'ere armor, and of that ar record of bis'n, come to his wounded sensibilities like a heavenly an? gel, and even Death himself couldn't eel bim half a turu back. I (dose this afflict? ?rig duty. Mr. Speaker, by moving that a committee (d' this House bc appointed to report these resolutions on the deseased, ami to atend his funeral, and that Leon dias Bl iza rd. of Athens, be the chairman of said committee; at the samo time re? marking that the gorgeous beavens has now opened to receive his mortal spirit, and that Iiisoarthly remains will be buried at three o'clock to-morrow afternoon, sharp, from the pleasant boarding house of Mrs. Jones, on thc hill, where, under the late rulin' bf the Speaker, I doom it eminently proper for me to remark, and I do it emphatic (no mali er whose corns is trod on.) that the eligible room which he occupied is now unfortunately vacant, and will doubtless be Jet to any other member of this House, very reasonable, for the balance of the ensuing season.-? Peace be to his ashes." Let Xis Eat Peaches and. I)ic. W'nilu tho Impeachment trial is raging and abounding in Washington; and tho Radic?is are running rough-shod over tho South; and tho English are triumphing in Abyss'nia; and the Fenians arc still trou? bling the royal Victoria; and the Ritual? ists are hankering after the "scarlet wo? man," and the Low-Church party, after Methodism ; and Russia is blotting out the last trace ?d' vestige of Poland; and tho beautiful Empress Eugenie is growing coi paient ; and Brazil and Unenos Ayres are about to play the Kilkenny cat game; and Dr. Li\ing.-tone still roams in life; and Victor Immanuel of italy manies oil his eldest son; and Louis Napoleon and bismark are grinning at each other willi charming sincerity and good feeling; and tho Northern Methodists want to ruthless? ly gobble up ino Southern Methodists; and the great Pacific liai ?road stretches fu-tift-r and further U.:>l ami West, and will soon me t in the middiu; and tho Loyal Leagues are lloarisl ing, and ds\el? oping: day by day lue Presbyterian trait of total depra\ itv ; and the Ka Klux Ivan, Uko every thing oise purely Southern, is fast dying oil! : and lue Kadicais are mak? ing ready for their Presidential pow-wow in Chicago, and the Democrats for theirs in New York; and money among Southern people is growing small by degrees and beautifully Uss; while ali those wonderful, stat codons, admirable, laaiei table tilinga are going on in i he world, wc have the pleasure to inform the said world that in Edgeficld th?Tc is to be, this season, An Abundance of Fruit ! Y>.,r years we have not witnrsFed such an inundation of peaches; they are hum? bly young and fuzzy, to be sure, bat safely beyond the malice of Jack Frost, ??nd full of promise. Season aller season, ever since we eau' remember, there has been universal grumbling over the niggardly supply of peaches; and now nature, evi? dently confessing thc "soft im/MV/c/inifcrit,*11 seems anxious, by ber present prodigality, io at? ne for former remissness. Alas! we have been guilty of a sort of pun, and we intuitively look around for the fool killer ! But back to the fruit ! And not only an inundation of peaches, but of plums, and apples, and berries. Before long, we shall al! devour peaches with a most perfect audi delightful loose? ness. Lawyers will listen to their clients with peaches in their I amis; the broker on tho street will conclude a bargain with a mouthful; the pieacher will mount the pulpit a ?lit a pocketful; while millions of peripatetics \\ ?il eat, as they walk, from morning til! nigh*. The atmosph?re will be redolent with a peachy fragrance, while peach si om: and rinds will mar nod disfig? ure: .the face ?d' mother earth. And, oh! what magnificent specimens will.through? out the seas? n, jrice the editor's table! Wc totter willi delight as we think of it! Tho only people discontented willi the profusion will be the growers, w ho cnn scarcely give a>ray their fruit. Let us offer them our condolence at least, inasmuch as they sutler for the public good. We Southern people are not used to favors. Lei us be profoundly thankful for tiie smallest. And if we can do no better, (and certainly the prospect is had), let us eat peaches and die !?Edtpfieid Ad? vertiser. ? 'Twas Sunday night. Tho morn shone bright, and ail was cool and shady, when a gav young gent, down mainstreet* went a walking with a.lndy. Tho y talked of love; he called lier dove, he told ot'bis affection. She hemed a sigh and turned ber eye in an opposite direction; Hut why that start that chills the heart as if with ice incrusted? Ah, do not blame ?weet Sarah Jane, to hair pins she bas trusted, but bear her shriek or rather speak, "My waterfall lins busted !"' ? The dearest word in our l.mgunge is Love. The greatest ?s God. The word expressing thc shortest time is Now.? The three make the sweetest duty of man. _']np cheerful are ihe busy. When trouble knocks at your door, or wries the bell 1 e wi:! generally ret be if y? semi lum word von arc < imaged. _ -?:* 11 :?:?(?'?--" r ':'.:'.. ' i-,. ' ? ?O _lien"- to ioter-.a: ' a.p".<<?. cmcn-.s, as our devil said when be swallowed a ?oso of :-a!ts.