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HOYT & CO., Proprietors. ANDERSON C. H, S. C? THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1871. VOLUME m?NO. 10. Republicanism at the North aud Radicalism at the Suuth. A great many complaints are daily made by the Northern press that the Southern white people contumaciously reject all political asso? ciation with the great national Republican {>arty. This party incorporates within itself argely the wealth, cultivation and integrity of the North. It is the party of many of the most respectable classes of that locality. These are honest in their convictions that it is a party of great ideas and of a progress suitable to this advancing age. They are convinced that it has done great works of good, and is capable of continuing the same in the future. To such, it seems wonderful that no respectable, disinter? ested white man can be found at the South wil? ling to attach himself to a political organiza? tion so fairly constituted and offering such promise of future good. Our consistent rejec? tion of both the principles and association of the national Republican party is set down by these honest enthusiasts to a sullen, rebellious feeling against the government of the United States, aud is viewed by them with great ill humor. Apart from the fact that a large majority of the people of the South have been educated to think the principles of the Republican party wrong and subversive of good republican gov? ernment, there aro other considerations which have brought about this result. It is believed at the South that the Republican party had its origin in an intention on the part of the popu? lar majority of tho country to govern every? thing by ita own overpowering will, and, to this end, to go outside of the constitution and break up all its checks and balances. It was believed that the rights of the States were to be entirely j ignored and subverted, and in its place to be inaugurated a powerful central government. However much such schemes are disapproved by a laige majority of the Southern people, yet there has always been a respectable minori? ty (perhaps not so much iu numbers as in posi? tion and influence,) who favored a strong gov? ernment and who would have acted politically with any party which, in its creed, opposed (as they believed it to be) the foolish dogma of the right of secession. But meu of this latter style of thought and political opinion are no more to be found in the ranks of the Republican party to-day than the most zealous secessionist fol? lower of Rhett or Yaucey. And why is this ? Because Republicanism at the North and Radicalism at the South are two entirely different thiugs. It is very well for the pious and respectable anti-slavery peo? ple of the North to cast up their eyes and thank God for the abolition of slavery, and to take no little credit to themselves for having accom? plished this end. They may also go further, and.complaceutiy lejcice, that besides the mere liberation from the chains of slavery, they have invested- the former bondmen with all the rights of freemen, and given them the opportu? nity to take part in this glorious government. It is a cheap sort of philanthropy which can feed on a sentiment, and cau find its fields of labor not a home but at a distance. This is not an uncommon propensity of human nature. We have known a .great many good religious people who would rather busy themselves with the Hindoo or Chiaese than see the glaring de? pravity and ungodliness every day practiced around them. The good people of the North have for many long years been so much absorb? ed with the sins of their Southern brethren as to be entirely blind to the fact that sin most heinous can exist iu their own communities. If they were brought face to face with the hide? ous spectacle exhibited by the development of their great principles of universal suffrage and progressive republicanism at the South, it would cause a revulsion as sudden as violent. Move ten thousand thorough anti-slavery abo? litionists of the Wendell Phillips school into South Carolina to-morrow, and not one in a hundred of them would vote the Republican State ticket at the election in 1872. Radicalism at the South has presented itself in a very different guise. It is here not simply a matter of fanatical sentiment, indulged in by wild enthusiasts and fostered by societies of zealous propagandists; it is a sad reality, ac? companied by every imaginable horror. Every sentiment of propriety and decency is violated, and ignorance and vice are elevated to the po? sitions once accorded to education and virtue. It was inaugurated by the bayonet, in the hands of such worthy instruments as Daniel E. Sickles. It has had as its apostles the camp followers of the army of occupation. These, combining with ignorant and turbulent ne? groes, have brought the Southern States to ruin, and, what is worse, the most complete political degradation. These States, to-day, or at least such as are governed in the interests of Radi? calism, are simply festering sores of corruption. Every imposition which a depraved ingenuity could invent has been practiced ou these suffer? ing people. History presents no instances at all parallel of a brave, virtuous and indepen? dent people being placed under the heel of brutal ignorance and despoiled by so greedy a banditti. No ruler, however despotic, in an? cient or modern times, ean be found who has practiced a revenge so barbarous, so slow and continuing, and one so well calculated to pro? duce a sullen despair. But it is in the practical working of this ^arty of progress at our own homes aud fire ' sides that we see its most hideous form. For instance, in our own county, we have been ab? solutely ruled over for two years by au impu? dent, debased, turbulent and cowardly mulatto. Ho has every vice incident to his mongrel coudition, yet his voice was more potent at Washingtou aud Columbia than that of the most moderate and virtuous citizen of South Carolina. He had his bowling followers al? ways at his heels, procuring all the discord and violence possible by day and making night hideous in their Leagues. By his influence, acting with all the power and authority of the Radical {'arty, he plated in office the most ignorant, turbulent and vicious of the negroes; ami, to culminate, he and two most villainous foreign white mcu, put arms in the hands of those they had excited to frenzy, and into whose hearts they had infused the most deadly hatred against the whites. It seems like a horrible dream to revert to a year back and remember the feeling of utter despair in which our peo? ple, were sunk by the overwhelming degrada? tion of that time. It has passed, thank heav? en ! or at least the actual personal debase? ment?when courage had, perforce, to succumb to cowardice, and virtue to vice. It ended, as such distorted conditions of society usually end?in blood. It was Radicalism carried to its legitimate results, and thus it appears to the people of the South. Is it strange, then, that any decent or respec? table white man at the .South should refuse an association so vile ? We do uot believe that there is a single man, civilian or with the uniform of the government, who has had any lot or part in fastening these horrors upon us but must hang his head with shame. Who could assist in so oppressing and degrading | their brethren of the name race and colors aud fed aught else ?? Chaster Reporter. ? it has just hern discovered that nothing will make ;i woman so mad as looking lor her night cap alter the lamp is out. The Platform of the Wisconsin Democracy. The representatives of the Democratic party of Wisconsin, in State convention assembled,, hereby affirm : First?That we point with pride to the eco? nomical administration and limited amount of taxation that prevailed in the State under Democratic rule, as contrasted with the enor? mous body of taxation and profligate expendi? tures of the succeeding Republican State ad? ministration ; and that the Democratic party if restored to power will observe economy and re? trenchment and reform in every department of the State government. Second?That wise resolutions enacted in the tenth amendment to the national Constitution reserving to the States respectively and to the Seople all powers not delegated to the United states, is one of the strongest safeguards of popular freedom ; that the acts of Congress and of the Federal administration usurping powers not delegated by the Constitution, and the breaking down of the distinctions between the powers of the State government and those of the general government, arc destructive to con? stitutional liberty and threaten the overthrow of our existing form of local and Federal gov? ernment; and lead to the establishment of a permanent centralized despotism in Congress and the national Executivej and that we de ' nouncc as a vicious offshoot of the centralizing tendencies of the general government the fre? quent attempts of the agents of the Federal administration to interfere in local political affairs. Third?That we arc in favor of a tariff for revenue; that, under the pretext of the raising of a revenue within the last ten years, the na? tional Congress has established and continues that enormous roberry of the mass and for the enrichment of the few known as the protective tariff system, which has swept our commerce from the seas and fettered and oppressed every agricultural pursuit;?a system of which the convention of the Republican party equivo? cally and haltingly speak in their platforms, but which that party perpetuates in Congress, and from which the people may hope for no re? lief but by the restoration of Democratic rule. Fourth?That by corruption and profligacy the present administration have squandered large portions of the national domain, and enor? mous sums from the national treasury ; that it is no answer to this complaint that they have paid some proportion of the national debt. If a wise and economical use of the immense rev? enues which mi unprecedented taxation has given had been made, a much greater reduction in the debt would.have been accomplished, but the Democratic party opposes oppressive taxa? tion for the mere sake of a speedy payment of the debt, believing that with wisdom and jus? tice in the adjustment of taxes, and economy in expenditure, the national debt may be paid with sufficient rapidity with a light burden upon the industry and resources of the people ; and at the same time, we are opposed to all forms of national repudiation, either of the debt or the pensions and bounties of soldiers. Fifth?That as the late amendments to the Constitution have been declared by the proper? ly constituted authority to be part of the fun? damental law of the land, they are binding up? on the people; that the Democratic party now as in the past, know no higher law than the Constitution ; that the time-honored principle of strict construction, applied by its framers, and accepted.by the wisest statesmen and jurists I of the country, should be observed in all legis? lation by Congress relative to the Constitution and its amendments; that the Democratic par? ty are opposed to the withdrawal of civil and political rights from any class of the people; and that we demand the removal of all political disqualifications. Sixth?That the defalcation, embezzlements, and corruptions of the national administration, and the prostitution of legislation to the de? mands oi unscrupulous lobyists and greedy mo? nopolists are a national scandal and disgrace, a most dangerous blow to the public credit, and an intolerable outrage upon the tax-payers of I the country. Seventh?That as the representatives of a con? stitution-loving and law-abiding party we de 1>recate and denounce every outbreak of law essness and violence, whether committed at I the North or South ; and that acts of Congress which authorize the employment of a standing army to garrison the place where elections are I to be held; and to constitute a local police in the States, and which empower the officers of the Federal administration to interpose mili tary force for the purpose of overawing the political conventions oi the people, aresubver-1 sivc of free government and a perpetual menace I to public liberty. Eighth?That while the people of this coun? try hope the time may come when they may extend, the blessings of our form of government over the entire continent, the course pursued by the administration in its efforts to annex Santo Domingo, was an unjustifiable usurpa? tion, and a wicked attempt to lay hold of the faith of this people in their high destiny, to serve the unworthy purpose of personal gain. Cumulative Voting.?The Camdc.n Jour- j nal proposes a preferable alternative for cumu- | lativc voting. This is for the Democratic party to raise the standard of the "new departure," and under its just recognition of the rights of the colored man, sock the aid of the most intel? ligent portion of that race to help us on to vic? tory. In this way, it believes, we could carry the State at the next election. The late suc? cess in Charleston has doubtl<~3 aided our co- I temporary in reaching this conclusion. Grant? ing we could carry every county in the State, would the rejection of cumulative voting*be ad? visable or for the best interests of all ? Free? dom from error is not a characteristic of any race or party. We approximate truth and jus? tice only by a thorough discussion and silting of all sides of a question.,. When all at a coun? cil are of a party, they arc apt to be of the same opinion, and by such a body the greatest errors arc often committed from prejudice or oversight. An opposing clement, though a minority, might provoke discussion and expo? sure of the error,,and prevent a grievous wrong. Resides, minorities have rights which should be respected, and the best means to secure such respect is to give them proportional representa? tion. It is but fair and just. The majority would still rule, enjoying the counsel and cau? tion of the minority. The latter would act like brakes to a train of cars, checking the speed when there was danger ahead. We are willing to raise the standard of the "new de? parture," but we also say, let us keep up and unfurled the standard of proportional represen? tation ; and if we should win the race, let us extend to the defeated the right of minority representation now claimed by us. It is both wisdom and justice.?Keowee Courier. ? "You here, Jenkins ! How the deuce did you find your way out?" "Find my way out! (>ut of where ? What do you mean'!" "Why, the last I saw of you you were lost?in slumber]" "Oh?ah ; well, I rode out on a nightmare 1" ? The rural portion of Rhode Island com? plains that Providence has too much power in their Legislature. It is a complaint never made by any other State in the Union, From the Charleston Republican. About Our Courts. Some one has said that "no two Americans can get together without making speeches at i each otheri This is only an exaggerated statement of a well-kuown American charac? teristic. A pretext for this speech-making is commonly found in the introduction by some? body of a set of resolutions thanking somebody else for something which they have not done, or for something which it is the business of their life to do, and the doiug of which entitles them to no special thank? from any oue. It is not putting it too strong to say that this indiscriminate speech-making and resolution business have their root in a spirit of ingrained toadyism, which is inconsistent with our insti? tutions, and is disgusting to any well regulated mind. It is a habit bad enough in the ordina? ry affairs of life, but when it takes possession of our courts of justice, it is not only ridiculous, but dangerous to the interests of those whose rights are to be adjudicated by such courts.? Our attention has been freshly called to this matter by the publication ol some resolutions recently adopted by the Beaufort Bar, thank? ing Judge Thomas, &c, &c. What we have to say has reference to the habit under criticism, and not to this special occasion of its exercise. We suppose that Judge Thomas deserves the thanks of the Bar as entirely as any other Judge does; and that it is just as proper to adopt resolutions thanking him for his "impar? tial and faithful," Ac, &c, as it would be in the case of any other Judge. But if our idea is correct this whole practice is wrong and in the worst possible taste, and ought to cease at once. If the duties of the judicial office were vol? untary duties, and could be done or left undone according to the caprice of the Judge, or if the decisions rendered properly depended upon the officer's own sweet will, and not upon the law and the testimony in the case, we could under? stand how members of the bar, overpowered by a sense of favors received, or hopeful of favors yet to come, should seek to control, either by resolutions of thanks, or by more substantial considerations, the favor of the J udge. A Judge, however, is supposed to administer the law, without reference to the individual be? fore him, or to the character of the lawyer who may happen to appear in the case. This is what he is appointed to do, and is paid by the community for doing, and to suppose that he could do anything else while sitting on the bench, ought to be the greatest insult that could be offered him. And when the bar orga? nizes itself into a town meeting, with the Judge as presiding officer, and proceeds to thank him for the performance of this simple and unavoidable duty of obedience to law, it is unpleasantly suggestive of a lurking suspicion in their own minds that he is not as honest as he might be, or that he is weak euough to be cajoled by flattery *>nd toadyism. In either case, the act is in violation of the dignity of the Court, and unworthy of the legal frater? nity. In almost every Circuit in this State it ia the custom to close the terra by this conventional vote of thanks to the Judge. We have noticed this particularly in the Cir? cuit of our friend Judge Orr. We know and everybody else knows that he is not only an able, but a perfectly upright Judge; but we submit that it is not in good taste for the Bar every time he holds Court to tell him so. We think it would have a good effect if the uext time the Greenville Bar for example offers its customary resolutions, he would harden his heart and say, "Gentlemen, I know you mean well, but I think the dignity of this Court would be better maintained by leaving this spread-eagle business" to the town-meeting. The speeches and resolutions which follow a Judge who is so unfortunate as to die, arc bad enough, but he cannot be pained by the stupid? ity, or cajoled by the flattery of his brethren of the Bar. But the living Judge, what pro? tection is there for him, except he set his face like a flint against the whole business? And this, we submit, very respectfully, it is his duty to do. To some this may all seem a small business; to us it seems important. The line between bad manners and had morals is often nearly imperceptible, and in our Courts the very appearance of evil should be avoided, while there, if anywhere, whatever savors of impro? priety or bad taste, must have an evil tendency, and should be rigidly excluded. So we say "reform it altogether." Death of a Noted Publisher.?Mr. Chas. Scribner, the head of tho well-known publish? ing house of Scribner & Co., New York, died at Lucerne, Switzerland, on the 26th of Au? gust. Mr. Scribner went abroad in May last in impaired health. He made a tour of Ireland and stayed for several weeks at St. Moritz, in Switzerland, and letters received from him iuti mated that he had substantially improved in health and spirits. It seems, however, that he was attacked by typhoid fever at Lucerne and died after a few days' illness. Ho was atten? ded in his last hours by his brother, Rev. Wil? liam Scribner, and his brother-in-law, Clarence Mitchell, Esq., who had been his traveling com? panions. Scribner was born in this city in 1821, and was therefore fifty years old at the time of his death. Ho was a graduate of Princeton Colledge, upon leaving which he de? voted himself to the study of the law, but after three years' application he was satisfied that his delicate health would forbid the confine? ment exacted by a laborious profession. An opportunity affording to go into the publishing business, he associated himself in 184G with Mr. Isaac 1). Baker, under the firm name of Baker & Scribner, and began business in the old Brick Church. In 1850 Mr. Baker died, aud Mr. Scribner continued the business alone until 1857, when he tonkas a partner Mr. Charles Welford, and Iwught out tue large English im? porting business of Messrs. Bangs, Mervin & Co. Under Mr. Scriuner's intelligent and en? ergetic management the house has grown to be one of the largest in the publishing and book importing businesses in the country. The news of the death of its founder will be received with sincere regret in the Community where he has been for so many years honored and trust? ed. ? An exchange Bays : "We often hear of colored men, but very rarely do we bear any llung of negro men. From a mistaken delica? cy, or from ignorance as to its true meaning, the word is falling into disuse. This would-bo euphemism ; if properly considered, is an in? sult to the race. Tue word negro is Spanish, and means black, it is descriptive, ana not a word of reproach. When, therefore, we speak of a negro man, we only mean to say that he is a black man , and it carries with it no more of insult than does the word white when ap? plied to white men." ? An old farmer said to his sons: "Boys don't you ever spceerlatc, or wait for summit to turn up. You might jest as well go an' sit on a stone in the middle of n luedder, with a pail atwist your lugs, an' wait for a cow to back up to you to bo milked," An English Tribute- to Gen. Robert E. Lee Under the head of "American Literature,' in The Saturday Review, wo find the followin notice of Mr, J. E. Cooke's Life of Gen. Lee in which the critic takes occasion to pay a no bio tribute to the character of out immortal countryman, Gen. Robert E. Lee: The most interesting Work on our list for this month, beyond all comparison, ia the life of Gen. Lee, by Mr. J. E. Cooke, who, though he assumes no military title, appears, by inter? nal evidence, and by one or two direct referen? ces to his personal presence on certain occa? sions, to have been an officer in the Confede? rate army of Northern Virginia, and, weshould fancy, temporarily at least, a member of the stall' of its revered chief. The work is in many respects defective, especially from the fact that the writer appears to have been unauthorized and unassisted by the General's family, and ia consequently almost without information as to the early life of his hero. Indeed, probably from the want of material, lie has confined his narrative almost exclusively to the Confede? rate War of Independence, passing over with a slight and cursory mention the previous ser? vices which had led Gen. Scott to recognize Leo as incomparably the ablest ollicer in the Federal army, and his own fitting successor. This is a remarkable and unquestioned fact, and it leads directly to an inference which ought to silence the offensive and very ungen? erous language in which certain Northern and English politicians have been wont to speak of the "wicked rebellion" of the South. The leading officers of the Confederacy were the men who, if they had chosen to remain in the Federal service, would have commanded the army of the Union. Albert Sidney Johnston was Lee's immediate senior, and Lee himself and his comrades of the Second Cavalry were marked as the picked men of the army. Two of Lee's subordinates in that regiment were among the ablest and most distinguished of Grant's Lieutenants, and no one can doubt that their seniors in rank and equals or superiors in ability might havo at once commanded the forces of the Union if they had qhoscn to do so. The temptation to adhere to their colors must have been very strong, yet almost every Southern officer threw in his lot with his State. I Only the fanaticism of faction would dare to ascribe unworthy motives to any of them?to Lee himself the most violent of English Radi? cals never ventured to impute anything of the sort; all sordid considerations tended the other way; all of them were men of high honor and virtue; many, like Lee and Jackson, of pure and deep religion; many of them did not ap? prove of secession ; yetoneand allthrcwuptheir commissions, and fought and suffered for the Southern cause. We needed no biography of Gen. Lee to assure us that he was one of the best men and truest Christians, as well as one of the noblest soldiers and greatest Generals, of whom history bears witness ; but it is im? possible to read this story of his life without finding our admiration of hia character deep? ened and strengthened. His fellow-citizens evidently had, from he first, profound and entire confidence in him ; a confidence which mnst have been due as much to the force of personal character as to his long past services in the Mexican war, when he?a Captain of Engineers?was one of the interior military council of the Commandcr-in-Chief, and one of those to whom the latter chiefly was not successful in his first operations?a fact which his biographer explains, or explains away?yet he was as thoroughly trusted as ever by Virginia, and was selected by the Confeder? ate Government to replace Gen.* J. E. Johnston in the command of the principal army in the South. From that time his history is the history of the Virginia army; and his personality im Sresses itself on the character of that army. To atrocities on the part of the enemy, bitterly as he felt them, could movo him to anger or provoke him to rcvengo. After his native State had been ravaged and his own home de? stroyed in wanton spite, by the direct orders of the Federal Government and its favorite gen? erals, ho refused to retaliate, or even to exer? cise the common rights of an invader, in Penn? sylvania ; and in its self-restraint, as in its he? roic courage, the army imitated the example of its chief. His relations with a man like Jack? son, vbom no ordinary chief could have kept in steady co-operation and dne subordination, and of whom any ordinary chief would have been jealous, but who regarded Lee with abso? lute veneration, and was treated by him "as his own right hand," testified in no common manner to the real greatness of the man. We find, from Mr. Cooke's narrative, that Leo was equally successful with the utterly dif? ferent character of Stuart, the representative Cavalier, as Jackson was the typical Puritan. Even when Stuart's misconception of orders took the cavalry out of reach of the main army, and contributed in no small degree to the loss of Gettysburg, Lcc appears to have spoken no word of complaint. To all under him he was ever ready to give credit; on himself he was ever ready to take responsibility and blame; and those under him requited him in kind. Mr. Cooke's account of the temper of the army as it fell back from the fatal heights of Gettys? burg, thinned, bathed, exhausted, but still shouting aloud its unshaked confidence in "Un? cle Robert," has its fitting pendant in Lee's own words?"It is 1 who lost the battle ; you must help me out." It was perhaps as much this wonderful power over his men as his admirable genius for war that enabled him to face three? fold numbers, and never, save at Gettysburg, to be beaten in the field. Mr. Cooke shows that, except on theChicka hominy and at Gettysburg, where he took the offensive, Lee was always outnumbered by near? ly two to one; and at Chancelloravillc, where he divided his army and attacked the enemy at once in front and flank, he had not more than one to three. Of course this inferiority of force exposed him to be worn out by sheer loss of men ; and this Grant saw. lie ''could afford to lose, ten men for one"?and he actual? ly does seem to have lost three or four for one even in the campaign which ended in the sur? render at Appomattox Court House. After that event Lee's life was one of silence and re? tirement?it could not be a life of obscurity? and finally, while still far from old age, and of robust frame, ho died, really, if not literally, from a broken heart. Hut painful as his latter years were, they wore full of such honor as is rarely paid to a fallen leader; he was still the idol, tho guide, the counsellor of hi.s people; still the object of reluctant reverence from the conquerors, of deep respect from those who had fought against him, of admiration from the world, of passionate affection from his country? men ; and, warm as was the sympathy felt for the Southern people, a large part of the respect paid to them in their misfortunes must be as? cribed to the profound impression made in the world by the character of General Leo. Wc trust ere long to have some bettor and more authorized biography of him than this. In the meantime this is acceptable as the only one wc have ; and, despite some deficiency of literary aptitude on the writer's part, it is not a wholly unworthy monument to the memory of one of the greatest Boldicvs aud uublcst gentle ascribed the ?leteness of the victory. II man that ever spoke the common mother tongue of England and America. Our Situation. A few years ago, a large portion of South Carolina was desolated by the results of the civil war, and now we arc experiencing all the [ evils of a partizan government, administered with a view to the accomplishment of partizan purposes. Our cities were plundered and burned: our land was made desolate, and our people reduced to poverty. To-day, strangers rule over usi and to heighten our "misery and rivet the chains of our bondage, we are in many particulars, dependent upon others for every luxury and most of the necessaries of life. We have always been accustomed to abuse the North for the manner in which it treated us. At the present time we villify and abuse the people of the North because they cheat us in their manufactured goods. Who has not heard the North stigmatized as the land of wooden nutmegs and paper-soled shoes ? It is une of the first things that we learned, that a Yankee was a cheat?that he lived to make money. Still we patronize these cheats. We buy their calicoes, their paper-sold shoes and their Irish linen made out of South Carolina cotton, their blue-buekets made out of cypress timber which grew on South Carolina or North Carolina swamps. We are content to send those villians?as we arc wont to call them?our raw materials of all kinds, and permit them to make for us the eon veniences of life. We are highly in favor of a diversity of labor, but this is a diversity which has resulted in povc ty and dependence to us. Cut off communication to-day with the North and shirting will advance to a fabulous price. We are far from believing that the South is not capable of existing without the North; but we are persuaded that at present, and at no period in her past history, could the South live, as she has always lived, enjoying the luxuries and nec? essaries of life, without the North. However harsh and unpleasant these statements may sound, they are simply true, as every man knows. What is our interest? More than this, what is our duty? We reply, iustead of wearing paper-soled* shoes, let those who have the capi? tal go to work and make and sell to the South? ern people leather-soled shoes. If a single in? dividual cannot do it, let a company be formed for the purpose. The natural resources of South Carolina will never be fully developed until the capitalists of the State engage exten? sively in manufacturing. The heel of the do? minating party of the country will never be raised off our necks until we put ourselves in a condition to compete, to some extent, with Northern manufacturers. Nothing can be more absurd than for us to expect that Yan? kees, or any one else, will, in the course of time, come amongst us and build up our broken down country. To say nothing else about such an expectation, it is a manifestation of a want of love for the laud of our birth, and betrays a dependent spirit which is almost ignoble. The last thing that we should hope for isthat the resources of our country be developed by others. This ought to be the last resort. It is just as absurd to suppose that we will ever be a thriving people, so long as we ship all our raw material to other regions, there to be manufac? tured and re-shipped to us. As things now are, it is useless to boast of the inexhaustible re? sources of the State of South Carolina. The truth is, our country is undergoing an exhaust? ing process. A system of drainage has .Leen inaugurated which will, if continued, sap the fertility of the soil and the energy of the peo? ple. It is madness to urge people to enrich their soil when they know, by sad cxperieuce, that others are to enjoy the net profits. If any system can be put into operation that will stop this drainage and retain the products of the soil of South Carolina at home, then the peo plo will go to work iu earnest.? Yorkvillc En? quirer, Frightful Explosion in Mobile Bay. The Mobile Register has the following ac? count of the disaster of the river steamer Ocean Wave: The steamer Ocean Wave (low pressure) left the city on Sunday morning, with about two hundred persons on board, for an excursion to Fish River, about twenty miles from the city. On the return trip the boat reached Point Clear at 5 p. m., and was made fast. The band and part of the passengers went ashore; and, after the lapse of half an hour, the whistle was blown and all returned to the boat. They had just got on board when the boiler exploded with great force, followed by a rumbling, hiss? ing sound, and fragments of the timbers of the boat and metal of the boiler were blown in ev? ery direction. The forward part of the cabin was carried away and the chimney fell upon the after cabin and crushed it. The boat al? most immediately sunk, and hor bow is now submerged. About sixty or seventy pcreoriB wero killed or injured by the explosion. So far the bodies of nineteen dead, eight of whom are ladies, have been recovered. Twenty-eight wounded persons have been brought to the city, and one of them, a girl, has since died. The scene was appalling, terrific and heartrending. Wilder scenes of grief were seldom witnessed. The frantic cries of the survivors, in lamentation for their lost wives, children, parents, brothers and sisters, were agonizing to all who had hu? man .sympathies. Many of the passengers were little children, and little hats and bonnctsj came ashore to tell of the little victims beneath the waves. The captain, Wm. Eaton, swam for some time with both logs broken. A boat reached him just too late, and he went down. The two pilots were killed. The lircmen were all killed, and the engineer and his wife severe injured. It is impossible to correctly estimate the loss of lives. By some it is supposed that at least thirty or fouy persons are still buried in the debris of the wreck or at the bottom of the bay. A diver has gone to the scene of the disaster. The accident has cast a gloom over the whole city, and universal sadness prevails. Streets are crowded with people, and the excitement and feeling is intense. The Ocean Wave has been for some time considered an unsafe boat, and luis always been an unlucky one. .1 crim? inal responsibility rests somewhere, and it should be visited upon those to whose recklessness and incapacity the disaster is attributable. The appearance of the boiler indicated that it had yielded through rottenness, as it had been torn apart in a long seam. Had it exploded with greater violence the destruction would have been more general. The force of the explosion was directed upward and forward. ? A little boy, after watching the burning \ of the school house until the novelty of the I thing had ceased, started down street, saying:! "Golly ! I's glad the old thing's burned ; didn't j have my jogfry lesson nohow!" ? At a recent Sabbath School concert a lit? tle boy stood up to say his "piece," and forget' ting the words of the text,hesitated a moment, then with all the assurance possible, said:? "Blessed arc the shoemakers," A Graphic Account of the Frightful Railway" Accident in Massachusetts. Boston, Aug. 27; A fearful accident occurred last night on the Eastern railroad at Revere, seven miles from Boston. The Bangor lightning express train, which left Boston at 8 vo'clock, overtook ana ran into the Beverly accommodation train fif? teen minutes later. Two of the Beverly coach? es were demolished, and the slaughter of pas? sengers was terrible. Twenty-one persons were killed outright, including three ladies, and forty or fifty wounded. _ At the time of the collision the accommoda? tion for Beverly had its red signal lights be? hind, and the red signal was hoisted at the mast head of the signal post or the express to hold up, which it did at Everett, but subsequently proceeded, and was under full headway when near the Revere station, the engineer evidently not being aware of the proximity of the Bever? ly train until perhaps within sixty rods of it. lie then whistled "down brakes," but not soon enough to arrest the calamity. Some of the passengers in the rear portion of the accommodation train heard the ominous whistle, but too late to escape. On came the express train at great velocity, and then the engine struck the rearm' * car full in the cen? tre, and forced its way in telescopic manner two-thirds the length of the car. The smoke [ stack was instantly knocked ofi*, and the boiler j penetrated all of the distance named into the rear car, the rear part of the latter being smashed into a thousand splinters, throwing the debris out on cither 6idc of the engine ten* der. Of the rear half of the car not a frag? ment as big as a house window could be found. The fore part of the engine was utterly demol* ished, its pistons bent and its rods broken. The car was crowded with people, every seat being occupied, and many standing in the aisles* In among these the locomotive rushed, quick as a flash, just as the Beverly train had started, mangling and killing in the mast frightful man? ner. But this was not the only, and perhaps not the worst, visitor the unfortunate passen? gers had. Simultaneously with the collision, the head cap of the boiler was broken, and in an instant the wretched sufferers were shrouded in a cloud of hissing steam, and deluged with boiling water, which brought death instantly to many of the wounded, and will prove fatal to others who had probably not been otherwise seriously injured. The lamps spilled their con? tents, but the fire, if any, was undoubtedly ex* tinguished by the water and steam. Although the Beverly train was just moving when the collision took place, its motion did not prevent injury to the cars in front of the last. The coupling between the two rear cars broke, and the platforms of all of them were jammed up together, with the smoking car overlapping the baggage car, and rods and timbers were inextricably mixed and inter? woven. Fortunately the entanglement was not so great but that the passengers succeeded in getting out quite speedily, aud happily was it for them they did so, for the kerosene lamps were upset and the contents spilled upon the .floor, and in an instant the smoking car was in a blaze. The flames traveled with great speed from one to another until three of them were enveloped. These were subsequently moved op the track a half dozen rods, and allowed to burn until there was nothing left for the fire to feed upon. An effort was at first made to put out the fire/ but this was prevented and the names were use* l'ul in lighting up the dreadful scene in the rear and facilitated services for the wounded. The work of rescuing the victims was at once be? gun, assistance being soon furnished from Chelsea, Charlestown and at a later hour from Boston. The Frost Hose Company, just re? turned from an excursion to Providence, were promptly on the ground, having seen the fire burning* Dozens of poor creatures were jammed within the wood and iron work, and could not get out. The axe wte applied vigor* ously, and soon a rope was applied to the sides of the car and all the remaining framework was pulled asunder. The dead and mangled bodies Were taken out carefully and speedily, and placed o? the plat? form or in tho depot. Some were pinned with splinters, some had arms and legs broken, while others were mangled beyond recognition.? Most of the dead were apparently free from bruises, but the peeling skin and deathly pallor which overspread the flesh told plainly that the steam and scalding water caused death. Public sentiment throws the fearful respon* sibility upon the conductor aud engineer of the express train. The engineer escaped with a few bruises by jumping from the train. The accommodation train was three quarters of ail hour late, ?vhich fact, it is said, was known to the managers of the express train. The ap? palling railroad accident caused intense excite? ment here, and to-day large crowds visited the scene. The railroad officials have cleared away the debris and ruins, and the road is in run? ning ordor again. Bathing Under Difficulties.?Out in Ohio, some time since, twenty Baptist clergy?? men, who were attending a convention, went down to a secluded spot on the river bank in the afternoon for the purpose of taking a swim, These score of brethren removed their clothing and placed it upon the railroad track close at hand, because the grass was wet. Then they entered the water and enjoyed themselves.?> Presently an express train came around the curve at'the rate of forty miles an hour, and before any of the swimmers could reach dry land all their undershirts and socks aud things were fluttering from the cow-catcher and speed? ing onward toward Kansas. It was painful for the brethren?exceedingly painful?because all the clothing that could be found, after a careful search, was a sun umbrella and a pair of eye glasses. And they do say that when those twenty inarched home by the refulgent light of the* moon that evening, in single file and keeping close together, the most familiar acquaintance with the Zouave drill, on the part of the man at the head with the umbrella, still hardly sufficed to cover them completely. They said they loll conspicuous somehow ; and the situation was all the more embarrassing, because all the Dorcas societies and woman s rights conventions, and the pupils at the female boarding schools, seemed to be prancing around the stnets and running across the route of the parade. ? The tournaments of the young men of the South lind a ready defender in the Richmond Enquirer, which says: "They are much better than horse racing, and quite as Useful in train* ing young men for warlike purposes. To ride well is certainly the first of soldierly accomplish? ments, and one that is very handy to have ifS case of war. There is danger of becoming entire? ly too utilitarian. The only question is, shall \ we foster and encourage dexterity and fearless-' ' ncss in feats of horsemanship, and cultivato gentle manners and a courteous bearing, or bring all that is manly, except horse racing and prize fighting, into disuse and disrepute ; meriy because some people choose to ridicule it? We think it a very good school of train ing for our youth, and it cau certainly do th?B? I no harm."