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An Independent Family Journal?Devoted to Politics, Literature and General Intelligence. HOYT & CO., Proprietors. ANDERSON C. H., S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1870. VOLUME 6?NO. 1. "DEAD BROKE." "He is dead broke." "How much does he owe ?" "One week to-morrow over the month," said the clerk, examining the ledger. "Whew!" whistled the landlord. "Has he iio friends to pay for him ?" "Plenty of friends now, but let them find out that he is broke and they'll be off like a covey of birds." "I must see him;" and the hotel proprietor, walking out upon the piazza, approached a young man leaning against one of the front pillars. "Mr. Watson, your bill, I see, is in arrears one week after the settlement day. Why is it?" The young man flushed at first ,as if in an? ger; then a smile overspread his handsome face. "I know I am a delinquent, Major Snow, but I can't pay at present." "Do you expect money soon ?" "Well, really, I don't know who should send me anything from their surfeit of cash." "Then I am to understand that you are not only unable to pav, but do not expect to be able?" "Undoubtedly, Major." "Sorry, Watson, for you have been a favor? ite of the season, and I don't like to tum you nut before the break-up. Nor will I. If you can give up your suite of rooms and take up with one suited to .your circumstances, I will let you remain the season, trusting you to pay me in the future." "You are very good, Major, and I guess I'll have to consent." So the baggage of Robert Watson was lifted and borne from the elegant suit on the second floor to a little seven bv fourteen room on the fifth floor. How quickly it became known that the change had been made ! Every servant in the house betrayed the knowledge in the absence of the usual deference paid to the possessors of "parlors." At dinner, the "boy," who had been only too eager to anticipate Mr. Watson's wants, suddenly became oblivious to those wants, and only answered them after repeated orders. The cashier and register clerk, always so obsequious, grew dignified and indifferent. Only the urbaue Major preserved a kindly greeting for the guest too poor to pay his bill, and remaining by sufferance. "Queer," thought the hotel proprietor. "He certainly had money enough when he came, for he deposited a cool five thousand in the safe. He hasn't been fast, I am certain, and his habits have been so good that the young bloods have rather played off from him. But he has been a favorite. Not a belle in the room bnt would have dropped her best friend for his attendance. Hang me if I can under? stand it." Watson, bailing from Baltimore, had been a j reason guest at the cascade. Friends he had ! in plenty. He was courteous, well-bred, good- I looking, intelligent, and, apparently, rich? what more could be asked ? Among the ladies he had moved quite a prince; and many were the gossamer webs woven ar? toils to capture him, but to all lie proved a very incorrigible recusant?he would not be any one's prize. The exquisite charm of voice, manner and sen? timent, the beauty of person, the elegauce of attire?all were agreeable to him, deeply so, for he seemed to enjoy them all immensely ; but not the brillaint poo'.e<s, Miss Mountjoy, nor the coy and artless Miss Dumnin, nor the rattle-headed young Miss Lambert, nor the haughty, elegant aud exclusive Miss Percy, nor the very rich Miss Oromanes, appeared to command him. He was to all alike the agree? able companion, the candid friend, the shrewd resistant of all arts to lead him into love's labyrinthine mazes. How would all these beauties of the talon receive the announcement sure to be made of his "altered circumstances," as the Major ex? pressed it ? Evidently Mr. Watson was not indifferent. He still frequented the piazzas and parlors, giving even,- friend, male or female, ample op? portunity to "cut" his acquaintance, or other? wise to express themselves. It was somewhat furious to note the progress of his decline, not his fall, for Watson had that in his character construction which, even in poverty and trial, would preserve him from a sacrifice of person? al dignity and self-reliance. But that be wot on the decline became to him a sorrowful fact. Sorrowful, did we say ? That is, judging by the nsual standards of human felicity or mise? ry. To lose one's friends, to behold your posi? tion in society gradually slipping away; to realize that no longer you are held in coveted consideration by a chosen few, is, ordinarily, a ?ource of sorrow. But, in Watson's ea-e. it was difficult to determine how keenly the knife cut to the quick of his sensibilities; for, while every acquaintance was given full facili? ties for doing the disagreeable office of giving the "cold shoulder," the Baltimorcan appeared like an interested spectator, atid was as un? moved, when passed by a supposed friend with? out the slightest notice, as if he were a news? paper reporter, anxious to see the act and to note the fact. Into the parlni-3 during the evening be par? ticularly pressed his way. If a bevy of gay fellows surrounded Miss Mountjoy, he* worked his way to the circle, and, at last, received from that lady of Sappho-like lips his dis? charge. She did most gracefully and crushing ly turn her back upon him not three days after his removal from the second floor. Miss Dumain he sought, confident that one so artless certainly would be above the hollow hearted crowd, and still give him her kindly greeting. Vain conception .' The artless girl way coy indeed ; and when at length he cor? nered her, it was to his discomfiture. She suddenly turned and forced her way past him, without even one of her downcast glances. ()n the contrary, her eyes were fixed fully on his face, and plainly said, "Sir, we are strangers." Next he tried rattle-headed Miss Lambert, and she rattled on quite as usual; but Watson soon discovered that the rattle was not for him. Strangely enough, the proud and exclusive Miss Percy unbent somewhat from her lofty carriage, and gave him a welcome; but over it all was a shadow?a fear, apparently, which made Miss Percy shy rather than haughty ; and Watson began to catch glimpses of a char? acter beneath all that conventional veil which he had not expected to find. Of course the wealthy Miss Oromanes would scorn his further friendly relations. I ler rooms were near his own second floor apartments ; she daily, all the season, had encountered him in his walks through the long corridor, and must have been one of the first to learn of his fallen fortunes. Indeed, he half-surmised thai her dressing-maid had made special inquiry into his case, seeing her in conhdtntial confab with the floor-stewardess and room-girls. So Watson, with a reserve or pride not entertain? ed with others, kept apart from Miss Oromanes. On that third evening of his changed for? tunes, when the Sappho of the Cascades anni? hilated him, greatly to the pleasure of the "young bloods" around her, Watson wandered away at length upon the piazzas. then up through the long, deserted ball*, restless. thoughtful, digesting the notes which he had been taking of human nature, and trying to fix the relative value of a man without money. It was the crystaline truth he was learning? not the truth* in mere solution, sometimes opaque, but always thin, but the precipitated, bard, angular, clear-cut crystals of experience, mined in unexpected places. Had he remain? ed upon the second floor, never would he have obtained the gems; the mere solution only would have repaid his keenest search. But that migration to the upper spaces had given him a wondrous lens ; bis horizon was so im? measurably extended that, barring the fact that his bill was unpaid, he was the happier, because wiser for the upward reverse. Suddenly, in his solitary promenade, he con? fronted the heiress. She was walking arm-in? arm with young Evans, of her "set," in confi? dential communication it would appear, else why should they have been in that long ball alone? asked Watson, as, with a glance, he took in the situation. The meeting was a sur? prise to both parties, and the inclination of both men was to pass without recognition. Evans, indeed, frowned; Watson flushed in anger, and with bead erect bore down and passed his enemies, like a suspended or cash? iered officer of the line, conscious of his sol? dierly qualities, but equally conscious of bis "altered circumstances." Too high he held his head, in fact, for he caught no soft glance from the lady's eye, and trod so firmly upon the trail of her elegant evening dress as to cause a perceptible crack? ing of seams at the skirts plaits. Evans turn? ed with a shddcn anger. "Dolt!" he hissed. Watson passed on, staying to make no Apol? ogy, but he heard the lady say : - "Fie ! it is nothing;" and he was conscious, too, that she was looking at him wonderirfgly. An hour later Watson was down on the piazzas again, evidently on the quest for some person, and he found his man ere long. Evans was the gentleman wanted. Going up to him Watson said: "Mr. Evans, what was the word you used at | the time I trod on the trail of Miss Oroinanes'* dress ?" "I said dolt, sir ! and I say it again. We have hitherto supposed you to be a gentleman, and now learn that you cannot payyour bills;" an*d he laughed, half in scorn and half in hu? mor of the fact so opportunely given him to crush another. The hot blood flew to Watson's face; his bandsivere clenched as if to strike; but by a strong effort, he mastered his passion. "Evans, no gentleman ever would have ut? tered that sentence. Only a coward would fling another's poverty in his face. Miss Oro manes. educated as she has been to give virtue to wealth, might find in my inability to pay my hotel bill a justification for dropping my acquaintance; but I doubt if ever she would have countenanced incivility. I owe her an apology for my seeming rudeness, and will give it to her; but you I Isold in too supreme n,n tcmpt even to exchange more words with you. Hereafter do not speak- to me, for if you do I shall slap your face, even in the presence of the ladies." And the speaker wcnl his way to his attic room. This scene, overheard by several gentlemen aisd ladies, soon was the talk of the rooms. Evans being a recognized leader of a very aris tocaatic circle, soon convened others of the set, and Map Snow was ere long summoned to be informed that he "must clear out Wat? son"?Evans offering to pay the delinquent's bill. And the news fiew throughout the parlors and promenades that Major Snow was to give Mr. Robert Watson, of Baltimore, his walking papers in the morning. An observer of the scene between the two gen? tlemen on the piazza was Miss Oroinanes. Having at once retired to her room to repair the accident to her skirt, the lady donned another dress, and, to enjoy half an hour un? disturbed, stole out upon the pleasant open weather promenade. She thus was a witness of what transpired. She, too, retired, in evi? dent excitement, to her rooms; and when her maid, half an hour later, brought the house news that the Major was to clear Watson out in the morning, the heiress, with perfect de? liberation, but with brightened color in her cheeks, and a clear sparkle in her beautiful eyes, sat down to to her desk and indited the lollowing note: "Major Snow will please take no action in the matter of the difference between Mr. Wat? son and Mr. Evans. I overheard every word that passed between the gentlemen, and' I fully justify Mr. Watson. Were it not an insult to him, I would oll'er to become responsible for any amount which he may not be able to pay; but I know that he is a "thorough gentleman, and would equally scorn to wrong you or to leave your house at the dictation of others, "i am, sir, yours, "Helene Oromaxes." This the maid was instructed to place in the Major's hands at once. The maid had not far to go, for she met the proprietor advancing up the stairway. He glanced at the billet and laughed ; then paused and said : "So use of my trip up live pair of stairs. Mr. Robert Watson has the freedom of this house for the next five seasons." And down stairs he went again, while the open-eared maid, having lost not a word, re? turned to her mistress to find her absorbed in penning another note. This was written with great care and many pauses. It was finally finished, and read as follows: ".Mr. Watson will please excuse the boldness of this note; but, having been a witness to the meeting between yourself and Mr. Evans on the piazza, I feel it incumbent on mc to say that I fully justify your proceeding and your words. I ask no apology from you. Indeed, I will be pained to receive it. Relieve nie, I am exceedingly pained at the inference you have drawn, namely, that I could find a justification in dropping your acquaintance in the fact of your temporary embarrassment. Alas for my riches; if they compel me to bear such imputa? tions on my sense and motives! "I am, sir, yours very sincerely, "Helene Orom'anes." This missive the maid bore to the fifth story. It found the romantic Robert in bed ; but the letter was flung in over the door ventilator. "A letter lor Monsieur Watson from my lady," said a voice at the door; and Watson ?prang up as the envelope floated down to his feet. "A note from my lady !" What on earth did that mean? Another rumpus brewing, of course! Turning on the gas he read?astonish? ed, pleased, delighted, as the rich color mount? ing to his temples testified. And then, foolish man, he kissed the note. So very preposterous for a man in bis cir? cumstances ! Many were the guests who "turned out" fully two hours before their usual ten o'clock break? fast the next morning, in order to see Mr. Rob? ert Watson depart. To their surprise there was Watson, cheerful and content, promenading up and down the back piazza, arm-in-arm witn Mi33 Oroinanes, and Major Snow looking on ad? miringly. To Evans and his set it was a decla ration of war; but who would dare take up arms against the spirited heiresss to a million ? They all retired, resolved to let events take their course. And they did take their course?of course. I In three days' time a magnificent equipage drove to the stand, and Watson soon appeared with the beautiful Miss Oromanes for bis com? panion in the morning drive. "Whose equipage is that?" demanded Evans of the Major, who had escorted his guests to the carriage. "Oh, that's Watson's, to be sure !" was the re? ply. "Watson's be hanged I Say, Major, has he paid his bill ?" asked Evans, maliciously. "Paid his bill! Lord bless you, he is rich enough to buy out this whole concern, nnd to hire you and me for call-boys !" "Explain yourself, then, sir I" demanded Evans, irately. "Did you not inform the guests that he could not pay his bill, and that you had sent him up stairs out of his second floor suit ?" "Not I! Some of the clerks may have said something, to which others added more'; but I really thought too much of the gentleman to mention the matter any one. "Now, it tnrns out that it was all a little game of his own." "Little game ! What object could he have had in playing such hide-and-seek?" demanded Evans again, in tones peremptory. "Well, in part, I suppose, to test the value of friendship in general and the power of mon? ey in particular?both of which I have no doubt he has done to his entire satisfaction. Ha-ha-ha T What do you think about it, Mr. Evans?" "Think abdut it? Why, that it was-it was-" "What?" "Why, a very artful dodge?nothing less !'* "Capital dodge, that's a fact, seeing that, as a poor man, he won Miss Oromanes, and-" "Now, what do you mean ?" fairly shouted Evans, in his excitement. "Mean ? That before 10 o'clock on the morn? ing of the day when he was to have had his walking-papers, by your orders, he was dead in love with the heiress, and?" "And what, sir?" "And she dead in love with him !" "It's false, I know!" cried the man, now white in the face from some inexplicable emo? tion. "False, eh? Going off in that carriage to? gether to the preacher's looks like it, don't it?" "Good Heavens!" The Major's conjecture was premature as he well knew; but the shaft had struck Evans to the heart, and he fairly staggered to a seat. Evans had played a long and deep game to win the heiress. He had long been her recognized suitor?he had discounted her possessions in his gay life ; and the result was?he was dead broke '! He left the watering-place that day. The Lord's Prayer.?When the elder Booth was residing in Baltimore, a pious, ur? bane old gentleman of that city, hearing of his wonderful power of elocution, one day invited him to dinner, although always deprecating the stage and all theatrical performances. A large company sat down at the table, and, on returning to the drawing-rooirt, one of them asked Booth, as a special favor to them all, to repeat the Lord's Prayer. He signified his willingness to gratify them, and all eyes were fixed upon him. He slowly and reverently arose from his chair, trembling with the bur? den of two great conceptions. He had to real? ize the character, attributes and presence of the Almighty Being he was to address. He was to transform himself into a poor, sinning, stumbling, benighted, needy supplicant, offer? ing homage, asking bread, pardon, light and guidance. Says one of the company who was present, "It was wonderful to watch the play of emotions that convulsed his countenance. He became deathly pale, and his eyes, turned trembling upwards, were wet with tears. As yet he had not spoken. The silence could be felt; it had become absolutely painful, until at last the spell was broken as if by an electric shock, as his rich toned voice syllabled forth, 'Our Father, which art in Heaven,' etc., with a pa? thos and fervid solemnity which thrilled all hearts. lie finished ; the silence continued ; not a voice was heard nor muscle moved in his rapt audience, until from a remote corner of the room, a subdued sob was heard, and the old gentleman (the host) stepping forward with streaming eyes and tottering frame, seized Booth by the hand. 'Sir,' said he, in broken accent*, 'you have afforded mc a pleasure for which my whole future life will feel grateful. I am an old man, and every day, from boyhood to the present time, I have repeated the Lord's Prayer; but 1 never heard it lxd'ore, never!' 'You arc right,' replied Booth, 'to read that Prayer as it should be read caused mc the se? verest study and labor for thirty years, and I am far from satisfied with my rendering of that wonderful production. Hardly one person in ten thousand comprehends how much beauty, tenderness and grandeur can be condensed in a space so simple. That prayer itself suffi? ciently illustrates the truth of the Bible, and stamps upon it the seal of divinity.' " - - 4?.. Vocattw.?If we consider our various call? ings in life, we will find that many are ill chosen, and ill adapted to those who pursue them. We sec men whose everv look and movement betokens ignorance endeavoring to appear learned. We sec men, lacking all the necessary qualities of the "man of God," as? suming the solemn visage of the ministers as? cend the pulpit to convince the doubting, yet the most credulous hesitate to believe. Pos? sessing no knowledge but a scanty smattering of biblical lore, the candidate for theological distinction seeks the field of his labors, know? ing little about "the eternal fitness of things," save when his well thumbed bible comes to "the rescue. The law no less than the gospel is flooded by those whose natural endowments and educa? tional acquirements would have better fitted them for less scholastic pursuits. How often we see the judicial infant, whose conical pate is supposed to be crammed with the abundant lore of Coke and Blackstone, pleading loudly in bad English and unsound logic before a dignitary whose magisterial bearing is his principal and only attribute. The profession of medicine has become in our day an absolute nuisance, and there are few venders of cures for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," who cannot show a multitude of documents bearing testimony to the medicinal properties of some harmless pill, and certified to by many of the ministerial gentlemen of the period. "VV e fear that callings more naturally suited to corporal and mental capacity are often for? saken by those who now degrade instead of elevating the professions. It were nobler in pracLice and results to seek our field of useful? ness than to be as rubbish on the higher walks of life. It is not the magnitude ol gold that makes it valuable, but its usefulness.' Thus it | is with vocations, our adaptation to which be? ing in life our victory or disaster.?Sunday, Times. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte. The death of the "American Bonaparte" {took place in Baltimore yesterday morning, j An incurable disease, cancer in the throat, had j rendered this event possible at almost any time i within the past year. The romance that seems j to belong to the lives of nearly all the mem? bers of the most famous of modern families, was not wanting in that of Bonaparte of Balti? more. When Prince Jerome Bonaparte, the youngest brother of the Emperor Napo'eon L, visited this country, in 1803, as an officer of a French naval vessel, he met at Baltimore a young lady of great wealth, beauty and ac? complishments, Miss Elizabeth Patterson, daughter of William Patterson, Esq., a leading merchant. Miss Patterson was the reigning belle of a city always renowned for the per? sonal loveliness of its women, and it was not remarkable, therefore, that the susceptible young Frenchman lost bis heart. The lovers met for the first time at the races. Wearing her white wig, in accordance with the fashion of the time, and seated in her carriage with other ladies, Miss Patterson was introduced by Commodore Barney to Jerome, who was at once struck with admiration of the "Grecian beauty," as she was called, while a rival belle who afterwards married one of Jerome's suite, General Rubell, was known as the "Roman beauty." The same day General Smith, "the hero of Mudfort," gave a dinner to the French? men, at which Miss Patterson appeared, wear? ing her own hair, and completed her conquest on the spot. Jerome told her she was so much more beautiful whcriladorned by her natural tresses than she could possibly be in any wig, that she never again donned one of those mon? strosities. In the course of a few days young Bonaparte gave a grand ball, and Miss Patter? son waj. bis partner. In the dance he threw over her head a gold chain, to which was at? tached a miniature likeness of himself, set in diamonds, and the lady bore it off in triumph. Thus the engagement was made. Miss Patter? son's father, however, disapproved, and sent her away to what was termed the wilds of Vir? ginia. Jerome's love penetrated even to that secluded spot, and he succeeded in having let? ters carried to her. When Mr. Patterson dis? covered this he made no further violent oppo? sition, but brought his daughter home, and in a short time the marriage took place, according to the solemn rites of the Roman Catholic Church, the legal contract being drawn up by the Hon. Alexander J. Dallas, and witnessed by the most prominent citizens of Maryland. When the young couple were ready to go to Europe, Mr. Patterson, who was a ship-owner, fitted out one of his own vessels to convey his daughter in regal style to that France which she hoped to conquer by her beauty. She reached it only to find every port closed against her by reason of the Emperor's order. A message from Napoleon that his brother should come at once to Paris to consult with his Majesty was conveyed to the ship, and, hoping all tilings, the bridegroom departed, making sure he could win his sovereign's consent to his marriage in a personal interview. He never saw his wife again. The Emperor forbid his return to her, and she, after awaiting him in vain, was taken to London by her brother. She met Jerome once years afterward - in Florence, in a picture gallery. They recognized each other instantly; but the gentleman who had accompanied the deserted wife led her away at once, and the next morning Jerome Bonaparte left the city. Though the marriage was nnll and void in the French law, for want of the Emperor's appro? val, the ccc.ccir.stical power always held to its validity, and when, in 1807, Jerome married the Princess Frederica Catherine, daughter of the King of Wurteniburg, the Topi.' sternly re? fused to recognize the new alliance. In the contemplation of the Church, at least, Eliza? beth Patterson ws* the only legitimate wife of Jerome Bonaparte. Mrs. Patterson-Bonaparte gave birth to the son, who lias just died in Baltimore, on the 7th July, 1805. She was then at Camberwell, Eng? land. She returned to her father's home in 1811, and Juts since resided in Maryland. At the age of ninety years she survives both her husband and son. and is in possession of all her faculties and many traces of the beauty that fired the hearts of the gallants at the be? ginning of the century. The late Mr. Bona? parte received all the educational advantages that the large wealth of his mother's family could procure. He was educated at Harvard University, and graduated in lWtf.. He studied j law, but never practiced it. Soon alter leaving college he married Miss Susan 'Mary Williams, the daughter of Mr. Benjamin Williams, of Roxbury, Massachusetts. The lady was pos? sessed of a large property, which, united with his own, made Bonaparte in time one of the richest men in Maryland. On his extensive estates he passed most of his life. In the reign of Louis Phillippc he visited Fiance, and resided for a while in Paris. His extraor? dinary physical resemblance to the first Napo? leon gave some uneasiness to the police, and the King himself was frequently apprehensive of a popular outburst on account ot his trou- j blcsome visitor. When Louis Napoleon came into power, Mr. Bonaparte again went to ) France. He made some efforts to procure the I legitimatizing of his branch of the family, but j did not succeed. His cousin, the Emperor, j received biin cordially, however, at the Tuile ries, and in an informal way recognized the relationship. Mr. Bonaparte was an amiable and polished J^ntleman, and was possessed of first-rate abil? ities. Ambition never ruled him, though. Perhaps he felt tho injustice that had been done to his mother. At any rate, he seemed to prefer the quiet life of an American gentleman of means and culture to the splendors of a court. By his marriage with Miss Williams he had two sons?Jerome Napoleon and Charles Joseph. The latter is still n youth. The for? mer was educated at West Point, and served a few years in the United States army. Subse? quently he went to France, and received a commission in the army of his kinsman. He fought in the last Italian war, distinguished himself for gallantry, and now holds the rank of lieutenant-coronel. He is on the best of terms at the Tuileries and the Palais Royal. A few months ago he revisited his native coun? try to see his father for the last time. It is said that the imperious old lady in Baltimore has predicted that she will live to sec her grandson Emperor of the French. It is quite probable that the world will hear more of him before ho dies? N. Y. World, \%tk inst. ? A Missouri editor calls upon delinqueni subscribers in this harrowing way: "Oh I oh ! it's enough to sicken the soul, the heart, the gizzard of the stoutest and smutty nhizzed editor's devil. We ueed money to refit. We are poorer than Job's unfortunate turkey, whose bones rattled a castanet accompaniment when he gobbled. If whole grocery stores were selling for a blue postage stamp apiece, we could not buy an empty mackerel kit. Friend! good friend! Sweet, negligent friend; don't'lay this paper down and think wc mean ?omc other individual! It's only three dollars, but a thou-1 sand such trifles maJft $3,000; and that's a big thing for a newspaper, enough to put us firmly on our pegs again. Pay up! pay up!"' Eow Jeff. Davis came to be Elected Presl dcrt of tbe Confederate States. From advance sheets of Mr. Stephens' "War ; between ihe States," we make the following j interesting historical extract: Major Heister?Pray tell us, Mr. Stephens, if you have no objection, how this came about ?how Mr. Davis came President and you Vice President, under these circumstances? Mr. Stephens?I have no objection to giving you my opinion on the subject, as to how Mr. Davis came to be chosen under the circum? stances. It is, however, only an opinion. I was somewhat surprized myself at both results" as they occurred, but as I took only a very small part in the elections any way I cannot speak of my own knowledge as to but few facts connected with either. The conclusion I came to from all the facts I learned from others be? fore and afterwards, was that the selection of Mr. Davis grew out of a misapprehension on the part of the delegates of one or perhaps two or three of the States in their consultations of the night before as to the man that the Georgia delegation had determined to present. A ma? jority of the States, as I understood, and after? wards learned, were looking to Georgia for the President. Major Heister?Who was the man Georgia had determined to preseut? Mr. Stephens?Georgia at that time had not acted in the matter. Her delegation did not hold their consultation until next morning.? Mr. Toombs was the man whom they then unanimously agreed to present; at least there was perfect unanimity on tbe subject with all the delegates in attendance. Two, Mr. Hill and Mr. Wright, were absent. I now speak of my own knowledge. I was at this meeting of the Georgia delegation, and therein was acted the only part I took in the matter. That was by making the motion for Mr. Toomb's nomination to the convention, supposing that it would be unanimously acceptable to that body;, but in this meeting, it was stated after my motion was made, that two or three States in their consul? tations, which had been held the night before, had determined to present the name of Mr. Davis. The fact only, without any reason for it was stated. It was stated also, only as some? thing which had been heard, but not positively known. On this announcement, a committee of our delegation of which Mr. Crawford was chairman, or perhaps he alone, (I am not cer? tain whether any or now many more were uni? ted with him,) was appointed, to ascertain if what had been heard in relation to the actions of the other States referred to, was true; and if it was, it was understood, at the instance of Mr. Toombs, that his name was not to be pre? sented by Georgia, and that our delegation would vote for Mr. Davis, and no contest on the subject. In this meeting of our delegation after the announcement alluded to had been made, and the course in reference to it had been resolved upon. Mr. Kenan moved, that in case what had been staled as rumor should be found true, and the name of Mr. Toombs should not be pre? sented for the first office, then mine should be for the second.?This motion was cordially seconded by Mr. Nisbet, and was unanimously agreed to, after a distinct understanding ar? rived at, by what I said in reference to it, which was, that in no event was my name to be presented, unless it was first ascertained pos? itively that Mr. Davis' name was to go before the Convention, and not that of Mr. Toombs, and further that my name would be unanimous? ly acceptable to the States and their respective delegations. These points the committee of our delegation was instructed speedily to in? quire into and report. A Black Demosthenes.?The following is an jextntcl from ihe s]?eeeh of Henry Boyd, a col .red man, delivered at Carrolton, "Miss. He has been called "Black Demosthenes," and is evidently a negro, of g?cd hard sense : And now the carpet-baggers come here and tell us they are our friends and the Southern people our enemies. They tell us that they set us tree. Oh, yes: they've done it all, no doabt. They set us free about like they set the mules free; Ben Butler set the spoons free. [Im? mense laughter and applause] They d^n: it all to help the Yankee and to injure the South? ern man. They can't fool this nigger. I know who brought the nigger to this country in the first place. The Northern man brought us | hero, and when they began to lose money on the nigger they put the nigcrer in their pocket ?sold him down South, and then to keep the South in the Union, to make her pay faxes, they turn around and get the nigger nnd the mules and spoons free; and they would not have sei anything free (excepting the spoons), if they cotud have got the South back into the Union without it. They promise him the "forty acre? and !hc i mule.'' I know five niggers that starved plum to death waiting for that mule and forty acres. I Laughter. I I'd like to know where the carpet? bagger got his forty acres! You all know the devil took the Lord up into a high mountain and promised if he would fall down and serve him he'd give him the whole world, and the old scoundrel knew all the time he did'nt own a foot of laud on the continent. [Great laugh The carpet-bnggjrs ask me to cast my vote to keep the white folks down. Now all I ever wanted was to get on a level with the white man. I never wanted to get above him. They say that a nigger is better than a white man in Cincinnati. Well, that may be true?in Cin? cinnati, but it ain't true down here. It is my interest to stand by the Southern man, and it's my wish to. Whatever law is made to affect the white man's plantation also aiTects my little cotton patch in the same way. The three cent tax on cotton hurts me worse than it does the white man. But it puts money in the Yan? kee's pocket. They want to disfranchise the white man, and make the nigger put them irrto office, that they may have taxes and things their own way. They never would have passed a law allowing niggers to vote if they hadn't thought the nig? gers would vote the Republican ticket. Never! never! never! Who believes otherwise? Not this nigger, certain. The Yankee brought the nigger here from Africa for selfish purposes, set him free for selfish purposes ; and now they want to vote him for selfish purposes. - A Fish Story.?We met a boy on the street yesterday, and without the ceremony of asking our name, he exclaimed: "You just OTter been down to the river a while ago!" "Why?" we inquired. "Because, a nigger was in there swimming and a big cat-fish came up behind him and swallowed both his feet and went swimming along on the top of the water with him, and they came up behind another big fish, and the nigger swallowed his tail, and the two fish and the nigger went swimming about." "Well, then what ?" we asked. i ''Why, after a while the nigger swallowrd his fish, and the other fish swallowed the nigger, j and that's the last T saw of either of them." "Sonny," said we, with feelings r-.f alarm for the boy, "you are in a lair way to bucoiuu the editor of a Radical paper," and we leftbim. j ?Knoxvillo Press and Herald, Political Notes? The City Council of Petersburg, Va., can shew six negroes. Women dot? enjoy their own separate prison in Massachusetts. Tennessee has loaned her credit to railroad* until she h bankrupt. Only three Illinois papers oppose the ?dop? tion of the new constitution. The people of Nevada are soon to vote on the woman suffrage question. The statement is confirmed that Andrew Johnson will appear as a candidate for Con? gress. A report says that Senator Morton is build? ing an entire new platform for the Radical party. Geary is said to be thinking about running for the Presidency as a iaboring man's candi? date. The Wilmington, N. C.,' Pott, Radical, re? ports its party in that State to be "on the brink of ruin." Ben Wade says be is tired of public life, and wants his pipe, cider and easy-chair by the fire? side. Mr. Howes, of Rutland County, is the solita? ry Vermonter who wants the women of that State to vote. When Forney advocates any political meas? ure everybody falls to wondering how much printing is connected with it. "The White Element in Our Midst" wad the subject of a colored gentleman's discourse at Indianapolis the other day; The Texas Legislature "has before it a bill to provide pensions for the survivora of the old Texas revolutionary army. According to Dawes it has, in the last two years, cost the people S2C0,000 to turn regularly elected Democrats out of Congress. Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, appointed W. G. Henderson to a judgeship on the recom? mendation of a former slave of the aspirant. The time fixed for the adjournment of Con? gress is July 15, but it is expected that the Senate will endeavor to extend the time fifteen" days. The Cincinnati Chronicle predicts that the Ohio Democracy will name Senator Thurman as their preference for the Presidential race in 1872. Twenty-three of the twenty-four Represent? atives in Congress from Pennsylvania are can dinates for re-election this fall. Mr. Covodo is the odd man. In Italy, when a young man joins the brigands, his friends say he has gone into politics. Here they speak right out in such cases, and say he has joined the Radicals. A run of the newspaper exchanges shows these names as prominent Democratic Presi deutial candidates: Chase, English, Groesbeck, Hancock, Hendricks and Hoffmau. Hon. E. C. Marshall, of Woodford, Ky., has announced that he shall run for Congress in the Seventh District of that S:ate, in opposi* tion to any and all nomineei of conventions. Every Radical member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, with one exception, voted against a measure for inducing intelligent and well-to-do Northern men to come to the State. The Democratic Territorial Convention of Idaho was in session seven days, and took eighty-nine ballots to decide who should be their next delegate to Congress. Col. Samuel A. Merritt was finally selected. A call has been published in Pennsylvania for an informal convention of active Radicals for all the minority counties in the State, to meet in Philadelphia*, on the Fourth of July for consultation and co-operation. The Ohio Sialttman says that in the Tenth District of that State the Kev. A. L. M'Kinney is after Lawrence's seat in the House* and is itinerating through the district preaching on Sundays and electioneering on week days. Tin' Cincinnati Enquirer eays: Grant owns ?100,000 worth of United States bonds. A for? eign war, even with Spain, would greatly de? preciate their market value. Ia all public ope? rations he look; at pecuniary prof-t to himself and friend.-. Saylcs J. Bcwen, ex-mayor of Washington, is now out of office lor the first time in twenty live years. He begin as a department clerk, and has held many lucrative positions, including postmaster of Washington and financial elerk in the Senate. The papers in the inferior of Pennsylvania arc engaged in discussing the tariff as an issue in the next can?paign. The Democratic mem? bers of Congress who voted with the free traders during the present session have but lit? tle chance for renomination. A Providence paper says: "Wc understand that Gco-ge Francis Train intends to try a season at his \\ he's cottage near the 'sweating rock.' May Heaven avert the calamity that would overtake the Newporters should the rock and the irrepressible take to spouting sim? ultaneously." -* A Broken-Down and Neglected Feder? al General.?TLe New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial thus portrays the neglect and ingratitude of the Northern people towards one oi their prominent Generals: The cable- despatch from France, about the* dangerous illness of General Robert. Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, is almost tragical, in view of his physician's direction for a cuange of cli? mate as as the means of saving his lite. Gen? eral Andcraon was broken in health, if not in heart when he was compelled to leave New York a year ago. He was unable to pj y his very moderate expenses here out of the pe.ty income allowed him by Congress, af.ir h s re? tirement from the army; and he went abroad for the purpose of liviug as economically as possible, in some small town of Germany or France. He lost his property during the war, and though he tried hard to get seme remuner? ation for it from Congress he failed. He was greatly discouraged by this, and also at the way in which his pairio;ic" services at the opening of the war were slighted. Before leaving here, he offered his private library for sale, as a means of meeting the expenses of bis family ou their passage to Europe. There were in this. library many valuable books of a military and scientific kind, for which he hoped to obtain good prices. But though his friends of the press called attention to ihe sale, he realized very little from it, lew of the books bringing one-quarter their cost or value. He left here a poor man, shattered in constitution, and with an income so small that he had very hard work to cover the necessarry expenses of his family. He has been living for some time past in a hum? ble way, at the French town of Tours, from which we now receive the reports of his dan? gerous illness. It seems strange that some of the rich men of New York, who have lately raised large sums of money to keep the fami? lies of Stanton and Rawlias, after Sianton ar.J Rawlins were dead, have not made up apatrA tic fund in the name of Robert Anderson, wh j he is yet alive. There has been no secret about Ids poverty or about the insufficiency of his in? come, and the reasons for his going abroad have boon repeatedly published in the newspapers^ ? 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