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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, NOVEMBER 10, 1870. VOLUME 6?NO. 20. THE EUROPEAN WAR. From the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel. The Surrender of Hetz. The Imperial Generals of the defunct French Empire have certainly learned the art of sur? render. McMahon surrendered one hundred and twenty thousand at Sedan to a Prussian force not doubling their own in numbers ; and how Bazaine surrenders one hundred and fifty thousand, and one of the strongest fortified blaces in the world to a besieging force which fg estimated at two hund:ed thousand men. Such surrenders suggest a political necessity, frather than military exigencies, as the moving tause fbrihe action of the French command ws* jf?ong with the announcement of the ca? pitulation of Bazaine and the fortress of Metz their ifi?mea.a imrrible tale of dire extremity, doubtless to excite public sympathy and to .provide justification for tb e action of the Im? perial Marshal. It is reported that prior to the capitulation he had driven out of Metz ten thousand aged men, women and children, in a starving condition?and these helpless non-com? batants were ruthlessly and barbarously shot down by both of the contending armies. We hope and believe for tbe credit of a common humanity this is untrue. It would have been an -act of heroism that would have elicited nraise and sympathy, however bloody, had Marshal Bazaine placed himself at the head of j ,.a his columns, and endeavor?! to cut his way ' ?ugh the circle of the besieging force, 'he surrender of Metz, however, is supposed touSlgtoken au early peace. Consols and cotton risein^^bae in the. English markets, andbonds go up in NeTis^sri: while gold declines. It is believed thatiflfcfu.Qapitula:tion of the great stronghold of Northen?J?fiM2ge jives. Prussia \, a most important ascendancy intueprosecu taon of the war, and is calculated to modify her spirit and demands in negotiations for peace. The French lose not only their chief | fortress, but also an army of 150,000 of their ^est troops, and an immense amount of arms, cannon, and ammunition, which can be at once used against them. As, however, the troops have been shut up from active opera? tions, their loss cannot be regarded as dimin? ishing the present power of the French in the field; although it cuts off the hope of their ever becoming available for future defense. The Prussians, however, gain by the surrender the relief of the large investing army, for ac? tive operations elsewhere. The army of Prince Frederick Charles consists of seven corps, which, after allowing for recent losses by sor? ties and sickness, and apportioning 10)000 men for garrisoning Metz, must leave between 150, 000 and 200,000 men free to operate at other points. Probably part of the.se forces, with their siege guns, may be employed in strength? ening the attack un some of the minor north? ern fortresses which still hold out; but there can be little doubt that their destination will be mainly southward and westward, to strength? en the investment of Paris, to clear the line of j communication with Paris and to occupy the principal centres of the country. It is not easy to over-estimate tbe importance this ac? cession to the active forces of Prussians in em? barrassing the efforts of the French to recruit and organize new armies in the provinces. The raw armies of the French scattered through the country and said to be in process of organ? ization for attacking in the rear the Prussians before Paris and cutting off their communica? tions, will be hunted down and attacked in de? tail, rendering the relief of Paris impossible, and driving France to a hopeless, desultory, scattered warfare as the only possible means of j defence. jFrow the New York World. How Long Will Paris Hold Out I There is probably at no time more than a week's full supply of food in New York, and the break of the Erie Railroad would seriously diminish the supply of fresh meat. What, then, if by any extraordinary contingency all the railroads that convergeonNew York should be cut simultaneously at forty miles from the city t The million of New Yorkers would be immediately reduced to their stock on hand of flour and saltprovision. This is precisely the condition of Paris. Not only are railroads and canals blockaded, but the very supplies which might otherwise by extra exertions find their way to the city are carefully intercepted. The ordinary ration of food for an adult, Tanging between the close allowance of the prison or the workhouse to the more liberal quota of the emigrant or the soldier, may be placed at half a pound of meat, clear of bone, per diem, and one pound of bread, with an ad liquate ration of vegetables, either stored or desicated, salt, sugar, vinegar, and other sun? dries- Taking this as a rough average esti? mate, it would require ^0,000 barrels of flour, and 1,500 middling-sized beeves for the daily maintenance of the population of Paris in bread and meat. Multiply these quantities by 120 days, and we find that twelve hundred thousand barrels of flour, with onehuudred and eighty thousand oxen, are necessary for the four months' consumption in those articles alone. Not impossible quantities truly, but very large, when gathered together suddenly during the rapid advance of a triumphant en? emy, in the face of great difficulties of trans? port, and utter failure of public confidence. The animals, too, must be fed and their forage supplies in a period of general drought and wretched harvests, must have presented no or? dinary difficulty in collection, to say nothing of transit and storage. Totally cut off as they are from all outer aid, the Parisians have man? aged as yet not merely to subsist, but to keep np the mercurial spirit and confidence so dis? tinctive of the French people. But in the in? evitable progress of events a day must come when that supply will be exhausted. Bom? bardment may be politically inexpedient, since its horrors and its destruction would be the ex? ecration of mankind. But if Paris be not re? lieved, and the Germans persist in their invest? ment, the last rations must be reached some day. Count von Bismarck evidently antici? pates some such crisis, by the apologies of his recent proclamations, in which he anticipates condemnation but seeks to throw all the btame of destruction by bombardment, or the horrors of a starving city, on what he treats as the ob? stinacy of the Parisians, who will not surren? der. The suggested terms of capitulation also contain a clause for one day's supply to the straitened city. Stop that one day and the wail of starving millions goes up to heaven. It has been announced by Gen. Trocbjkand by M. Gambetta that the city has still a^Kr"sup plv for "long months" at the rate of about two fifths of a pound of bread per day. According to other reports, there is meat for five weeks at five and a half ounces per head per day; also, there are 100,000 horses within the walls, to fether with vast supplies of Irish bacon, ?read, if they have enough, and bacon, if they have enongh, would be good fighting allowance. Our men, on both sides in the war, had noth? ing better. But the nervous depression of a besieged city would require more stimulating and generous diet than the free - action in the epea air would demand. A very satisfactory and equitable procedure of the Paris government has been that of equalizing the distribution of food. There is no distinction of caste or privilege of person.. All fare alike. The price of meat and bread is fixed. The quantity served out to the deal? ers is also fixed. The French government has always been used in times of scarcity to lay down a tariff of prices, in order to avoid dis? content. The dealers are compensated by the government for the difference between the tar? iff price and the commercial value. Mean? while the industrial occupations of peace are at an end, carpenters and all dngaged m works of construction may indeed be made useful on the military works, but the production of arti? cles of luxury, for which Paris is renowned, is brought to a complete stand still. In Man? chester, during the cotton famine induced by the American war, the provision for the desti j tute weavers, the factory hands, and the starv? ing families taxed the energies of the local au? thorities, as also the Christian charity of the whole of Great Britain. What were these quarter of a million with full and free access and communication from without, to the condi? tion of the two millions in Paris ? The terri? ble starvation sieges of history, in which long Erotracted investment and constant harassment y the besiegers were distinctive features have always been of small cities. History has no investment of two millions of people within a vast enciente like that of Pans. Leyden, in? vested by the Spaniards, or Genoa by the Aus trians and British, when a rat was a pricebr;s luxury, were small populations. Iu such a congeries of human life as the great capital of France the suffering would bc^ppalling by its very immensity^Jhnu^^irc individual grief m it: 11 Mia^j?" m ore i n f e h ? c. ^.iberJerman leaders may well feel crubar IFassed in the tremendous catastrophe which their operations may be the means of precipi? tating. Military success may turn out to be political failure. Already the danger of republican sentiment seems to be felt in Berlin, and has induced a withdrawal of state of siege regulations, a permission of free discussion, and the promise of general suffrage. But whatever may happen?whether Paris shall free herself of the invader or whether she shall only ob? tain peace by submission?the present position will furnish some interesting matter to the sta? tist and the historical inquirtr. A Singular Story. The present European conflict, and indeed all wars, have been prolific in illustrations of the value of Free Masonry in dangerous emer? gencies, and the anecdotes are endless of the lives saved by its means. Among the cart loads of wounded of both nations whicn arrived from Sedan were two men whose consideration for each other was so marked as to occasion inquiry. They wore the Prussian and the French uniform respectively, and though neither could under? stand a word of the other's language, they shared their rations, and seemed to be inter? changing signals of amity all day long. Their story was a very simple one. The Prussian, who is an officer, aud a man of thirty-five or so, with a stern, grave face, and a heavy, over? hanging moustache, had met the Frenchman, who is at least a dozen years his junior, on the battle-field, the latter being supported by a cou? ple of comrades. Twice did the wave of the conflict bring these men in contact, and on the last occasion the Prussian, who was himself badly wounded in the chest, pressed the young Frenchman hard, and had indeed his sword uplifted to ad? minister the coup de grace, when the latter, who was faint from the loss of blood, made a hasty sign to his victor, which caused the lat? ter to stay his hand. Parly was impossible from the exigencies of language and the tur? moil of battle: and besides, both men lostcon sciousneas and fell at each other's side. It turned out that che young Frenchman had been made a Free Mason a few months before the outbreak of the war, and that he had in? stinctively made a sign by means of which members of the fraternity are taught to ask their brethren for help. The Prussian was an old Mason, who recognized it instantly, and who instinctively paused, and before there was time for consideration both men fainted away. When consciousness was restored they found themselves side by side, and with the dead and dying around them. By a strange coincidence, their wounds were such that each could give the other some slight relief, and the late enemies employed their weary hour, in which they lay disabled and un tended, in rendering little kindnesses to each other, and in thus cementing the friendship which had begun so strangely. When help came, they petitioned to be permitted to keep together, telling their story with considerable effusiveness to the doctor, who after some time came to them on the field. This gentleman, who was not a military surgeon, but a member of the blessed society which dates from Geneva, raised his hands in pleased astonishment at the tale he heard, and at once showed himself to be a Free Mason, too; so that three brethren of the mystic tie were to be seen wondering over the strange chance which had thrown them together. The wounded men are supremely satisfied at the result, and their story has given them quite a celebrity among their fellow snffercrs. At Iges, where the Irench prisoners were placed after the capitulation of Sedan, and where, it is too true, they were all but starving, some of their numbers contrived to make it known to their captors that they were Masons, and though this was ineffectual in many instances, the sturdy and.uninitiated Prussians laughing the Masonic gestures to scorn, wherever it suc? ceeded the men obtained little comforts which were priceless. A stout trooper was seen handing a warm frieze cost to one prisoner, and giving a part of his rations to another, and explained his conduct to an enquirer with a sheepish smile, which spoke volumes, "They are my brothers, though I have fought them, and they are hungry and cold, and most be helped. They would do it for me." These are mere typical cases. But it is impossible to mix nnfch with the troops, particularly after a battle, without hearing of these kindred instances of Masonic usefulness-. Wonderful Bridge.?The bridge now in process of erection across the Mississippi at St. Louis is one of the wonders of the age. It is to be a tubular, cast steel, arch bridge, suppor? ted by the abutments and two piers; the latter are 615 ft. apart, and 497 ft. each from its near? est abutment, making three spans of about 500 ft. each. Its greatest span is the same as that of the Kuilenberg Bridge over the Leek, an arm of the Khine, in Holland. Telford's sus? pension bridge across the Menai Straits bos a span of 870 ft. The Victoria tubular iron bridge of Montreal exceeds this greatly in length, being 6,600 ft. (2$ miles,) but it rests upon twenty-four piers, and its spans are main? ly only 575 ft. The suspension Dridge at Ni? agara spans 821 ft. and is 245 ft. above the wa? ter. The East River bridge will span 1,600 ft., at a height midway of 130 ft. ? The man who jumped, at a conclusion caught it. HOMELY HILTY. BY LOTTIE BROWN. "You may talk as much, as you please about freckles, Belle; it don't plague me a bit. I'm sure I have not thought of catching Mr. Ir? ving, and if you have, why I hope you will succeed." Hilty Glaymer went on sifting the fiour for her tea cakes, and sang merrily, and Belle turn? ed the page of the new magazine and glanced contemptuously at the busy little figure in the pantry. "There's no sense in quarreling, Hilty," said Mrs. Glaymer. "Of course, we all regret very much that you are not as pretty as Belle, or pretty at all, but surely it will be far worse if you persist in being so wicked and envious." Envious! Hilty gave the pitcher of cream which she held in her hand an energetic tip, and its foamy contents went with a splash into the bread-pan, and sent the light flour in a cloud. "And as for Belle trying to catch Mr. Irving, I'm sure I think she will find it no great trial, unless he is blind. A man who has traveled, as we know he has, and yet has said that his heart was so truly American that it could not receive a foreign love, will surely admire your beauti? ful sister. That purple grenadine, Belle, is the most becoming thing you ever wore. Bless me, there's Bob, now, with Irving. Do run up stairs, for it will look as though you were watching for him if you remain here. Come down very carelessly, dear." "Heigh-ho!" Hilty shook the flour from her white arms, and stood back. "It is a pity I'm so ugly. Dear me, I shall be glad when Belle is married, for upon my word, I believe that her beauty makes me look uglier. How! I'm not so very freckled. I don't believe anybody could see them a half inch away." No, she had but a few freckles, and those only stretched across the saucy nose, and she was by no means ugly. There was a wonder? ful lot of bronze hair wound in a smooth, shining coil around her, and her skin, but for the few freckles, was transparently fair. She hfid cheeks like the heart of a pomegranate, and bright sparkling eyes, both of which she found in the early morning, among the dewy grass and the fresh, pure air, when Belle was dream? ing of her brownstone front and drives in her own carriage; and last of all, she had a proud, perfect form, and hands that even Belie ad? mired. "Hilty, where are you?" called Bob, her brother, from the kitchen. "In the pantry," she said. "Come along, Guy. We expect to call you one of the family, so don't mind'taking a peep into the pantry. I often do, for here's where I find my pet. Hilty, my chum, Guy Irving." If Hilty, could have seen herself just then, with the blood stealing in rich flood over face, and her head turned shyly towards the door, she would have been well pleased with the sight. "I couldn't find ma or Belle, so I brought Guy here, Hilty. You needn't look hurt, for he don't mind." "Yes, I do! I like it. Miss Hilty, are those cakes for tea ?" "Yes, sir," she laughed. "I shall eat nothing else." The voice of Mrs. Glaymer took them away, and they entered the parlor to meet the lovely and languid Belle, to whom this college friend of her brother's was the rock on which she founded her matrimonial hopes. "Well, he is not proud, and that is a great comfort, I am sure," said Hilty, as she went out with the pan to the oven. "D?ar me! wouldn't it be charming to have the table out under the trees ?" suggested Belle, and she passed the supper room iu her walk with Mr. Irving along the piazza. "Yes; but I'd wait, Belle, until the caterpil lers go out of style, for they don't look nice in the butter, and another thing John has gone to the dentist's, and we should have no one to keep the flies away," said Hilty, from the inside. "I quite agree with her, Miss Glaymer. I do not admire romance as I do comfort." Hilty laughed, perhaps with a little triumph in her voice and glanced out at her stately sis? ter. "Pray don't mind Hilty, Mr. Irving," said Belle, by way of self-consolation; "she is shocking sometimes." "I assure you sho does not shock me," he said. The summer days flew swiftly, and making much of her time, Belle thumped the piano and read poetry; went sailing and botanizing with their guest, and kept Hilty forever at the ironing board with her collars and ruffled dresses. Guy Irving found time to look into the kitchen once and a while, and a half-hour was spent on the Btoop of the back door, shelling peas or sorting berries for the busy little kitchen girl who, at such times, was always at her post in the pantry, where he could plainly see her by turning his handsome head. "He will make Belle a splendid husband," she would say, as she watched the white hands so much whiter than her own. busy with his good-naturedly given work. It will be nice to call him brother. My, but I will kiss him, a? true as I live, the very moment they are married !" "Hilty," said he, one morning when they chanced to be quite alone?Miss Belle being in her chamber with her hair in curl papers, and Bob out in tho hay-field?"why don't your sis? ter help you, once and a while? Don't she know how ?" "Well?no! Belle is very sensitive, and ma never taught her. She has been away to school so much that she could not learn, as I have, and then she has no taste for it," Hilty answer? ed, with a flash. "I suppose you are not sensitive?" "No, I suppose not. But you know I am not so learned as Belle. She talks French beauti? fully, and used to write splendid French songs ?that is, I liked the tunes?of course I could not understand the Words." He became very silent, and Hilty heartily wished that she had said nothing, for he looked so grave that she was quite sure she had offen? ded him. "Hilty, dear, Belle is not able fco? come down to dinner, and she must have something light carried up to her," said her mother, looking in from the sitting-room door, with a gesture bid? ding to come to her. "The air is so moist that Belle says her hair won't curl before tea," she whispered, "and she wants a good dinner, for she is nearly starved. You must slip up stairs while we are at dinner, and don't let Irving see the dishes for all the world." Hilty went back to her labor, and when Mr. Irving had completed his work, he brought the well-filled pan into the pantry. "Hilty, I want you to take a little walk with me after dinner," he said. "Yes, when I've washed the dishe?." The dinner passed off, with the carrying up of a loaded tray to the invalid, and finally, in a spotless, light calico, and a straw hat on her brozen curls, Hilty went to walk with Guy Ir? ving. He wa* very silent for a long while, walking down the road, and turning away up a shady lane to a clump of wide spread maples. Then he paused and seated Hilty on the green turf, and sat down beside her. "Hilty 1" She gave a little jump, and answered: "Oh! Yes, sir I" "Do you think I am old enough to get mar? ried?" "Why, yes," she said, with a gay laugh. e "I am very much in love with a dear little girl, and want her to be my wife. What shall I do?" "Why, ask her to be." "Then, little Hilty?dear, true, busy, little woman?will you take me ?" "Me? Why, Mr, Irving!" "Yes, you. Now don't you dare to say no 1 I'll be very good and obcdiont, little girl." "But I thought?" "Yes, I know you thought me in love with Belle, but I am not. Bob knows it, and has given his consent." "Then I must." "Of course you must," and he slipped a shin? ing ring on her brown hand and kissed the sweet face. Belle came down with her hair in frizzes, and turned a sickly green when her mother drew her out to tell her the news; but I believe she is consoling herself with the prospect of a visit next winter to her sister in the city, where she will stand a fair chance of catching some rich noodle. -o Washington Society. a fast youno max hauled up before a jury of twenty-one women. A strange affair took place last Tuesday eve? ning in a certain house on Eighth street, near the uavy-yard. It was the trial of a young man before a jury of twenty-one women? more than the standard allowance in law?on the charge of talking naughtily to young and innocent maidens of the vicinity. The young man, Mr. B., is about as handsome and attrac? tive youth as there is east of the capitol. He is not alone fascinating in manners and appear? ance, but he holds a high place in the estima? tion of church-going people. He was passing along Eighth street Tuesday evening, whistling in a low key the popular air of "Love Among the Roses," when he heard his name called, and turning around observed a lady in a doorway beckoning to him to ap? proach. He gallantly responded, and ascend? ing the steps of the dwelling, soon found him? self within the hall. He was suddenly sur? rounded by half a dozen strong and vigorous females, who carried him, neck and heels, un? ceremoniously into a back parlor. Here were assembled over twenty ladiei?severe and strict? ly virtuous ladies, cold and impassive in their looks and deportment. The culprit was placed in the middle of the room, seated on an otto? man. Two elderly ladies sat on either sid 3, while in the rear were four young girls all in a row, the witnesses for the impending prosecu? tion. The jury were ranged around the room, directing a battery of indignant glances at the unfortunate victim in the center. The proceedings were opened by one of the elderly ladies, who, standing up and looking over her spectacles at the prisoner, demanded of him why he made use of certain expressions to her daughter, after returning from tne edify? ing services at the Methodist church, Sunday afternoon. The prisoner denied the charge, and called for the production of the accuser. Miss B. was motioned to step forward and relate the cir? cumstances of the case in which she was con? cerned. Her story was to the effect that after coming from service at the church, in company with Mr. B., she remained talking with him for some time in the parlor of her own house; that he, curious about structures of ladies' panniers and the conformation generally of ladies' dress? es, observed to her that a certain article in her raiment was differently constructed from what he noticed on Miss G. She replied that it was strange that he should be so intimately ac? quainted with such mysteries of a female's ward? robe as warranted him in drawing the compari? son. He responded by mentioning several oth? er ladies whose style differed from hers, and finally 6he arrived at the conclusion that the young man was paying tolerably close atten? tion to quite a number beside herself. Next day Miss B. told Miss G., and both young ladies finally informed their respective mothers. The latter, on being made aware of the subject which Mr. B. thought fit to bring up for conversation, grew extremely indignant, and suspected that any young man who would venture to engage a young lady's attention with such a matter ot discourse as the shape of an article in her wearing apparel would take j^eat er liberties if permitted. A consultation among the female plutocracy of the neighborhood re? sulted in a decision to hold a court of inquiry, and see if it was for the benefit of the church and of morality in general to allow this young man to come and go freely among their families. The three witnesses corroborated the'testimo ny of Miss B. by stating that tho prisoner in? dulged in much the same kind of talk when in their company, but they did not consider his offense was very heinous or demanding any punishment whatever. The jury retired for consultation, and returned with a verdict of " not guilty by malice aforctbonght," but with a caution to the prisoner that if lie ever again desecrate the Sabbath evening by making the subject of his conversation an analysis of ladies' I dresses, he will be treated to a correction to which tar and fcathere are but a circumstance. On being set at liberty he kissed two of the witnesses, and retired in. a very great hurry.? National Republican. A Capital Joke?And all the more pala? table because it is true, and can be vouched for, took place a few Sundays since, at one of the prominent Fourth street churches. It seems that a worthy deacon had been very in? dustrious in selling a new church book, cost 1 ing seventy-five cents. At tho services in I question the minister, just before dismissing 1 the congregation, rose and said, "All you who have children to baptize will please present them next Sabbath." The deacon, who by the way was a little deaf, and having an eye to selling the bookB, and supposing his pastor was referring to them, immediately jumped up and shouted, "And all you who haven't any, can get as many as you want by calling on "me, at seventy-five cents each." The preacher looked cross-eyed at the broth? ers, brothers looked at the clergyman; the au? dience punched the audience in the side, the bubble grew larger until it burst in a loud guffaw ; ladies colored up, crimsoned, blushed and thanked the Lord for the low price of peo? pling the earth. There was no benediction that morning worth speaking of. The deacon, after he had lotmrf out his mis? take, changed his pew from the front of the church to the third from the rear; and though he cannot hear the sermon he is consoled with the thought that the young people can't snick? er at him.?New Jersey Patriot. ? Few artiste can draw a pretty month; still fewer ?an draw a tooth. Lee Memorial Association. To the Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Con? federate Army. The last sad rites are over, and all that was mortal of our beloved and honored chieftain, General Kobert Edward Lee, has been commit? ted to the grave. It is now only left us to dis? charge the duty, so sacred to surviving affection, of building and decorating his tomb. Admira? tion of his great qualities and fame may prompt others to raise tbe lofty column and imposing statue ; but love for his person, reverence for his virtues, and regard for his memory, dictate to his comrades-in-arms, as their first care, to properly enshrine his remains. After General Lee assumed the Presidency of Washington College, his earliest work was the erection of a chapel on the College grounds. Beneath that chaste and massive structure, in the room designed for a library, and adjoining the office filled with mementoes of his last un? selfish, earnest labors, his ashes now repose. And there, in the temple reared by himself, at the home of his adoption, will be his fitting, and we believe, his enduring resting place. We hold this conviction because his remains now rest in the spot chosen by those who alone had a right to decide, because this spot would most likely have been approved by the illustrious dead himself had his self-forgetting mind ever dwelt for a moment on such a question; because it holds his memory aloof from the possible contaminations of party politics; because it accords with the custom observed by the great fathers and servants of the State, all of whom preferred unostentatious resting-places; and because his tomb here will be really more use? ful in connection with the last work of his ex? emplary life in perpetuating the good influence of the College of Washington andLce through? out the South. We therefore invite his brethren and followers in the momentous struggle, which has made his name and their own immortal, to unite in constructing here a mausoleum worthy the foremost man of all his time. On the day succeeding the death of General Lee, the Con? federate soldiers who escorted the body from his residence to the chapel met and resolved at once to form a Memorial Association; and at an adjourned meeting on tbe 15th of October, when the funeral obsequies were concluded, they adopted a plan of organization. An Ex? ecutive Committee, with a President and Vice Presidents, for the Southern States, have been appointed, and the Association will soon be regularly incorporated. In order that tbe poorest in our ranks may be enabled to join upon an equal footing with all others in the pious work in view, it has been determined that any Confederate soidier may become a member of the Association upon the payment of one dollar, and tbat the names of all the members shall be enrolled in suitable books to be pre? served in the Memorial Chapel. It is not pro? posed to limit subscriptions to the small sim already named, nor to confine them to soldiers; nor do our wishes and purposes stop with the mausoleum. Contributions will be gladly re? ceived from friends everywhere and of all classes, who will, under proper regulations, be inscribed as honorary members ,* and when a sufficient fund shall have been secured, it is ) contemplated to erect a special monument in connection with the tomb, j Fellow-citizens, we invoke you by the com ! mon memories of the past to be prompt and I earnest in the noble undertaking to which you ! are now invited. In the quiet church-yard of Lexington Lieutenant General "Stonewall" Jackson lies interred; and now his great com? mander sleeps near at band. What holier spot can there be to us than the common home of these grand representative men ? What more fitting monument for the great army itself of which Lee was the head, the pride and glory, than one raised here by its survivors, perpetua? ting alike the memory of his and their own great deeds, the enduring witness at once of their devotion and of his heroic qualities as a man, his virtues as a patriot, and his graces as a Christian ; the remembrance of which will indeed outlive the marble and bronze which human art may fashion in his honor. W. H. PENDLETON, Late Chief Artillery A. N. Va,, Chairman of Executive Com. The following officers have been selected and requested to act as President and Vice Presi? dents of this Associations i Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, late C. S. Secretary of War, President. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Vice President, at large. Gen. J. A. Early, Col. W, H. Taylor, Vice Presidents from Virginia. Gen. G. T. Beauregard, Vice President from Louisiana. Gen. D. H. Hilly Vice President from North Carolina. Gen. Wade Hampton, Vice President from South Carolina. Gen. John B. Gordon, Vice President from Georgia. Gen. W. J. Hardee, Vice President from Al? abama. Gen. 9. D. Lee, Vice President from Miss? issippi. Gen. B. S. Ewcll, Vice President from Ten? nessee. Gen. J. B. Hood, Vice President from Texas. Gen. Trimble, Vice President from Maryland. Gen. J. S. Marmaduke, Viec President from Missouri. Gen. Wm. Preston, Vice President from Ky. Gen. Tappan, Vice President from Arkansas. White axd Black.?The New York Com' mercial Advcrfiicr has somehow come to per cieve that somebody else is to blame for the riots in this State besides the white people. A recent number of that paper says: There is much in the present situation of affairs in South Carolina to make us afraid that she hasn't totally recovered from her late se? vere attack of political indigestion or States rights billiousness. Either that, or the imported white folks down there who have kindly con? sented to "run the machine," are not the sort of men they ought to be. At every election there is much bad blood manifested, tfjfcl the local authorties don't seem fit for anything more than to get up and "holler" for United States troops whenever a disturbance threatens. Thev have plenty of lungs; more than enough wina to run a balloon express, but no modera? tion, no tact, no judgment, no common sense. The white-and-black puzzle is too much for them. Grant that peppery South Carolinians are hard to manage; grant that emancipated blacks are ngly customers when stimulated to "feel their oats" by lightning whiskey oratori fas ; grant that the meeting of fiery Rhetts, inckneys and Lamars with jubilant Sambos, Gustavuses and Csesars is not a sight to en? counter the friends of universal peace; grant all this, and we have the strongest reason in the world for requiring that the men who "run the machine" in Sooth Carolina should bring to their work the coolest counsels, the very Dest practical judgment, the greatest decision of character, and the most perfect freedom from all political bias. That these qualifications are wanting, we have proof enougn in the scenes of violence and bloodshed that periodically disgrace the administration of affairs in the Palmetto State, Treatment of Disease?Yiews of a Sensible4 iftysicMi). v At the recent annual meeting of the British Medical Association, held at ISew-castle-upoh Tyne, Dr. Francis Sibson, of London, delivered an address which is worthy of remark. The strictly professional parts in relation to medi? cines ana pharmacy belong to the doctors; the best points of the address are those Which claim everybody's attention. Patient?, nurses and friends are alike interested. After alluding to the remedies of the pharmacopeia,, the doctor went on to say: "Side by side with the use of medicine, and not second to it, was the so-called hygienic treatment of disease, the study and regulation of the vital forces. The influence that every physician exercised upon the mind; and through the mind upon the body! the soothing or stimulating of their nervous power; the calming of exaltation or the stirring up of apathy; the quieting of the over-busy brain or the spurring of the flaccid will; the repose of over-used powers or the awakening of suspend? ed vital functions; the subduing of the over? sensitive skin or stimulating of it when wan, muddy and lifeless; the limiting of supplies to an over-fed frame, or the repair of the body, wasting by disease, by the proper kind of food and stimulants { the bridging into play, and so again into existence, muscle that had become wasted and paralyzed by disease?these were all among the aims that the physician sought to accomplish* And in accomplishing these aims, the influ? ence of nurses and of all friends who frequent the room of the invalid is as useful as the in? fluence of the physician. "Rest and ease," Dn Sibson says, arethe features of the treatment he had applied to acute diseases for many years, especially to rheumatism and gout. He sub? mits his patients to a "rigid system of absolute' rest, protection from internal injury; gentle pressure, equal warmth; and the removal of chiefly by treatment from without." It was formerly a favorite notion with physicians that the nature of the remedy should be concealed from the patient. Dr. S. favors the reverse of this. He "gives his patients no colored Or fla? vored liquid to make them think they were taking medicine when they were not doing so. because they did not think it quite .right; and did not find it needful to employ such a plan?gd system of fiction. If physicians did so they complicated their observations and deprived" themselves of the help that the patient could i give them, when he understood the aim of the method of treatment. Whatever might be the line of treatment adopted for disease the influ? ence of treatment on disease itself was less than the physician was apt to think. The great majority of diseases tended to get well. They had, so to speak, a lifetime of their ovm, Tilth its periods of growth; maturity and decline j I they were the passing tenants of the body . which they occupied, often with great injury, for a limited time. Treatment could not change their nature, could not expel them at once; could not quench them; could not materially shorten or prolong their existence'. But the treatment could Tessdn the sufferings of the body ocenpitd by the disease, shield it from other injury, repair its waste and support and reinforce its powers; while it could ward off those causes which tended to increase or re? awaken the disease, and lessen the intensity of its action, inflammatory or otherwise, especially upon the local structures. To watch, not, so td speak, the remedy and its immediate effects, but the disease itself, and its behavior daring a certain method of treatment." The remarks of this London physician are* ; not here quoted as indicating ? system of prac i tiee new or unknown in this country. Amc-ri - ! can physicians of eminence gave long proceed? ings upon. the same enlightened principles; But our chief object is to remind others than physiciane how much they may do in promoting recovery, or warding off dangerous disease, by cheerful and rational conduct in a sick' room; and by close attention to the personal comfort and the quiet of the patient. Fussy impatience., because no magical results seem to follow n ! doctor's prescription, often defeats the end which would be quietly accomplished-if the the patient were encouraged to hope, or were a' 1 least left alone. The nursing ana the general demeanor of friends and attendants are of o. much consequence to the patient as the skill Or the physician.?Philadelphia Ledgeri -?-? Saintly.?Brother Greeley, that sta?ncf* old republ ican, ia in a terrible way about some information which he has received from South Carolina. His entire moral system has been shocked by the reception of the news that brother Whittemore is to be sent to the United States Senate, and he administers the following in the columns of the Tribune .? ! "It is announced that the cadet-peddler Whittemore, who was driven from the canvass* for re-election to the House of .Representatives, i is now a candidate for the United States Sen? ate. Before the Legislature of South Carolina considers him in that light, it would be well ? I for it to remember that he is also a candi date for the penitentiary, under a plain law of Congress, the violation of which lie does not deny, and the penalties of which are explicit." Alas! poor Whittemore I How unjust is the world I How manifestly cruel that Greeley should endorse the party in this State ,of which you are the head and front; that he should laud your friend and compeer, R. K. Scott and' pat vour other friends on the back, while he singles you out to be abused. How trite is the old saying that Republics are ungrateful. Ana then, how extraordinarily inconsistent is the TiHbunc. It professes to endorse Gov. Scott's party in this State, the very platform of which was written by B. F. Whittemore, an*? of which IJhe saintly pedler is one of the shi? ning lights; but although Brother Whittemore ia good enough to hold office in South Carolina, . ho is not good enough to go to- the United States Senate, forsooth. It is a bad rule that wont work both ways, and if Scott and Whit? temore are good enough for office in South Car? olina, they are good enough for office in the United States Senate, and we hope that he'will be sent there by "his constituency.' He is as good as most of them, and fully equal in point of morality and respectability to anybody they might select. At the present the Reverend Cadet-Fedler is only a State Senator. We wish him a speedy promotion to the National Legist latnre. Come, Brother Greeley," don't go back, oo your own party.?Charleston Cburier.v - **> - ? Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. ? Truth requires plain words; she rejects all ambiguities and reserves. ? virtue shines, though cnnfemptibly clad, and is recognized and respected by noble minds, ? Love in afl its shapes- implies sacrifices. Much must be conceded, much endured, if we would lore. ? He submits himself to be seen through -i microscope who suffers himself to be caught itr a passion. ? Instead of regretting that we are some times deceived, we should rather lament that we are-u ndeceived. ?"Give me a bite of your apple," said one little boy to another, "and Til show you mf sore tot.1'