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HOYT & CO., Proprietors. ANDERSON C. H., S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1872. VOLUME VHT.^-NO. 10. Eloquent Speech of Gen. John B. Gordon. J Georgia's peerless soldier and civilian, Gen. John B. Gordon, recently delivered a speech in Atlanta, counselling harmony and unity in the support of Horace Greeley for the Presi? dency, and setting forth the grounds upon which every true Democrat in the South ought to stand in the present contest. Our space will hot permit the publication of the entire speech, but we cannot forego the pleasure of present? ing a few extract* to our readers: Now, as to platforms. I'm not going to de? tain you to talk much about platforms. I am trying to give briefly and honestly my reasons for preferring Greeley to Grant, and the rea? sons which I think ought to influence every Southern man to prefer him; and I want you to keep steadily in view the fact that Grant or Greeley is to be President inevitably. There are some things in Mr. Greeley's platform which I cannot indorse. There are some things in it that are good?many that are Democratic. It pledges an honest administration. Well, It is true we are not so much interested in honest administrations as we once were, for they have not left much amongst us to steal. [Laughter.] But we prefer honesty as a sentiment, and Jef? ferson said "the whole art of government con? sists in the art of being honest," and Jefferson is good authority. Everybody says Horace Greeley is honest, and Georgians are likely to appreciate that. Another plank is the demand that the Fed? eral power snail be restrained within the bounds of the Constitution. Old Carroll, of Carroll ton, said "in a free government the exercise of arbitrary power by the Executive must not and will not De endured." We have endured it under Grant and lost our liberties. We could not, the Northern people would not resist, and liberty, as our fathers understood liberty, is lost. Arbitrary power by an Executive and liberty cannot live in the same atmosphere. Old Carroll saw this?our fathers 3aw this?and at.last some of the wisest and most patriotic of Grant's former supporters see it, and they sound the. alarm?they break the chains that bound them to this Executive and the party which sustained him, and they demand, with old Carroll, that "arbitrary power" shall no longer be endured. I love liberty; I hate tyranny; I shall strike with anybody for the former; I shall strike with anybody to put down the latter. The "restraints" are what we want?the restraints of the Constitution. Webster said "the Constitu? tion is the sheet anchor of our liberties." Old Hickory said "it is our defense in war, and the source of our prosperity in peace." I under? stand the men who made Greeley's platform to propose to restore this "sheet "anchor" to the drifting ship, or at least a part of it. Grant and his party have broken it and thrown it away. I am for those who would restore it. Whoever will restore the constitution is for vour rights. Whoever he or they may have been, if now for the Constitution, they are your friends. And if by reason of former hos? tility to you, ard association with these break? ers of the Constitution they can now wage a more successful war against them, don't let that former hostility prevent our supporting them in the effort. But I can't stop to talk about this. I'm only trying to show that this is better than Grant's platform. ?Now, what i.3 Grant's ? I shall not tax you to .read it What matters it to you or the country what platform he stands upon ? Were it ever so unobjectionable it could not restrain him or his supporters. An Executive and a party who cannot be restrained by the platform on which this government rests?the platform of the Constitution?which he and they were sworn to observe and p."otect, can scarcely be restrained by one, which he is not sworn to observe. Suffice it to say that both he and his platform tell us that his future is to be as his past ; and from such a future, (I presume we can all join iu the prayer) "Good Lord deliver us." We all know what that past has been? we all have seen it?we all have felt it Have you forgotten it? Ask South Carolina what it was?what it still is? Ohl that it were the past with her! Ask the thousands of her sons, scattered at this hour from one end of this country to the other, driven by bayonets from home and employment. Ask the grave and reverened professor, arrested by soldiers at the head of his classes, upon the affidavit of a no gro and in defiance of the sworn statements, contradicting it, of forty of South Carolina's most virtuous daughters, arrested and dragged to prison and denied the sacred right of habeas corpus, guaranteed to every citizen, whether guilty or innocent. But I will not narrow up your feelings by a recital of these horrors?the depth of whose infamy no tongue could de? scribe.. I will not insult you by supposing that any Georgian can vote to perpetuate such a reign in a sister State. For one I shall neither vote to sustain it directly nor indirectly. If such a reign is to be perpetuated, I shall not so act as to have the bitter reflection, weighing by night and by day upon my mind and my heart, that I refused to co-operate with the only movement against it, which has the remo? test possibility of success. Whether I like or dislike the leaders of that movement, I shall not refuse to strike a blow for the relief of my suffering countrymen, nor will I ioin in some other movement, which can only bring confu? sion to our ranks and defeat to our efforts. I shall keep steadily in view the goal of deliver? ance. I shall allow nothing to divert me. Perish pride of opinion; perish hatred of former enemies, who strike for liberty now; perish prejudice and all considerations of per? sonal preferences or personal comfort; let all be subordinated to the higher and holier, and braver determination to lock shields for this final charge, with any men and all men, who will move upon this Despotic Power, which has subverted the government, and made the name of the republic a reproach. I know you do not wish to perpetuate this despotism.? None who have ever tasted the sweets of free? dom ; none but slaves can refuse to strike it down. ?St 4fr *5r -3* ?< # $r We may not change our principles, but we may change the methods of securing them. Principle, both moral and political, is eternal and unchangeable, but in the case of religious principle both the principle and the manner of setting it up arc fixed by unerring wisdom and recorded iu Holy writ. Neither, therefore, can be changed. In case of political principles, the method of setting them up, or what men call policy, is the result of human reason, and, therefore, falible, and may be changed accord? ing to circumstances. In statesmanship, in politics as in war, results may be attained by strategy, if it is honorable strategy. The changing a line of policy to secure the triumph of a principle is not an abandonment of that principle. During the war Gen. Lee held a principle. It was the right of self-government?whatever else was involved in that contest, this was in? volved. He held it, and during the war you applauded. Hut before superior numbers he s irrendered and you applauded then bis course. Was it that he had abandoned principle that you applauded? Oh no: it was simply thej I abandonment of the policy of its defense by bullets. We are to-day as much bouud to de fend this principle in the conflicts of peace as in those of war. Are any here who were with Jackson at Chancellorsville in 1803 ? If so, you will remember the change in the pro? gramme there. I do not give words, but the substance. General Jackson, after one of his swift gallops along the enemy's front, would ride up to General Lee and say : "General, this is a mistake to move in here. There is this difficulty and that in the way." "Well, General Jackson, I cannot be every? where on the whole line at the same time. I must trust something to my subordinates, and my engineers tell me this is the line to ap? proach upon." "Your engineers are mistaken, sir." W'Well, then, General Jackson, what we Wnt is to win the battle. You see the enemy upon the heights. You see his entrenchments. We must carry them. If you can suggest a better plan to carry out our purpose, I shall be glad to hear it. What do you propose ?" "You must go to the flank, sir?you must strike them in the rear," and soon Jackson's ragged lines dragged not their slow, but swift length along, through chincquepin and pine, of that now historic Wilderness. Soon, far off on the enemy's flank, is heared the wild shout of the Confederate charge. Look! They scale the heights, and the red cross of battle waves in triumph from the enemy's works. Fellow-citizens, the enemies of liberty; the enemies of the Constitution; the enemies of good government arc entrenched upon the heights at Washington. Hosts are marshaling; yea, the battle is already begun. Why stand we here quarrelling because this man has not been chosen leader, or that route has not been selected for the approach ? Into line and for? ward. Most of us have been soldiers. Have we forgotten in what the might of armies con? sists ? I counsel concord. I plead for unity. I bear the Olive branch, and beg that dissen? sions cease in our ranks. Co-operation and secession in 1860 brought division. Co-opera? tion and union charged secession with the ex? treme of rashness; but all were brethren, and the minority bowed to the majority, and in 1861 we had unity. In 1872 the Liberal move? ment and the "straight" movement bring divis? ion?not now the charge of rashness; but the straight movement charges the extreme of cau? tion. Let us, in the interests of unity and in the spirit of conciliation, go with the majority of our people. Our aims are one. Let us not divide as to means. Let us move into line, and forward, my countrymen, to the frowning battlements. If we secure nothing more, let us secure the heights and hold them forever, we hope, in the interest of the Constitution, of Law, of Liberty and of Peace. An Ohio White Girl Elopes with a Negro. The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch says: That portion of this world's society living in this county, and in the immediate vicinity of Dub? lin, has been shaken to its foundation, and the vibration has not yet ceased. The cause of this remarkable condition of things is the elopement of Miss Mary Everett, a member of one of the oldest and most respectably connected families in the county, with Frank Thompson, one of the most ill-shaped negroes in the country. The blow is a very painful one to the family and relatives, and everything is being done to save the infatuated girl from a life of misery and degradation. Detectives are on their track, and they will be hunted to the death. Frank Thompson, who has induced the young lady to share nis fortunes, is a blink-eyed, round shoul? dered negro, with a purely African counte? nance. He has been working on the Everett iarm for about three years, and has conducted himself, generally speaking, in a manner in consonance with the position of a hired man. No one ever entertained a thought, or a shadow of suspicion, that there existed between the negro and the girl any state of feeling calculated to lead to the present unfortunate state of affairs. The Everett family is connected by marriage with some of our prominent citizens, and the mortification is keenly felt. Miss Mary Ever? ett is a young lady about 19 years of age, and, although not pronounced handsome, was en? dowed with certain qualities popular to her sex that endeared her in the hearts of all who knew her. How she ever became infatuated with, or was brought about to leave home, friends and society, for Thompson, is one of those inexpli? cable circumstances that has bothered the wisest heads since the world began. The fa? ther of the girl died last year, ana the property has just been divided, Miss Mary's share amounting to fifty or Bixty acres of good land, which, if in the market, would bring a very good price. The runaways last Friday made application to Judge Pugh, of the Probate Court, for a license to marry, but it was refused. Since that time their whereabouts is unknown. The unfortunate girl was the only unmarried daugh? ter, and the step she has taken has cast upon her people a disgrace of the most painful char? acter. Why We Should Wear Beards.?There are more solid inducements for wearing the beard than the mere improvements of a man's personal appearance, and the cultivation of such an aid to tho every day diplomacy of life. The hair of the moustache not only absorbs the moisture and miasma of the fogs, but it strains the air from dust and soot of our great smoky cities. It acts also in the most scientific manner, by taking heat from the warm breath as it leaves the chest, and supplying it to the cold air taken in. It is not only a respirator, but with a beard entire we are supplied with a comforter as well, and these are not left at I home like the umbrella and all such applian j ccs when they arc wanted. Moffatt and Liv? ingstone, the explorers, and many other travel? ers, say that at night no wrapper can equal the beard. A remarkable fact is, too, that the beard, like the hair of the head, protects against the heat of the sun ; it acts like the thatch docs in the ice-house ; hut, more than j this, it becomes moist with perspiration, and I then by evaporation, cools lue skin. A man who accepts the protection of nature, may < face the rudest storm and the hardest win l ter. lie may go from the hottest room iinto the coldest air without dread ; and we verily believe he might sleep in a morass with impu? nity ; at least his chance of escaping the terri? ble fever would be better than his beardless companions. ? Mrs. Agnes Bullock, a Virginia lady, re? cently cut a new set of teeth, though she is ninety-six years old. She was splitting kind? ling wood, when the teeth?which were worth sixty dollars?fell out of her mouth, and the ax dropped on them. Her husband nays it will bo a great many years before she gets another set to cut. ? The statistician of an Eastern paper avers that flies arc so good natu red this season that a well-organized one will allow himself to be brushed off one's nose cighty-bcvcu timco and not show any temper. From the Southern Farm and Home. Raising Our Own Dogs. This valuable branch of plantation economy receives, in every section of the country, a de? gree of attention fully adequate to its impor? tance. White and black, young and old, free? men and freedmen, alike, we all, of all condi? tions, ages and sexes and sects, habitually "raise our own dogs." Unlike other departments of useful production, this has no ebbs and flows; but at all periods of our history as a people, in peace and war, prosperity and adversity, we nave never been known to flag in this great ob? ject of national pursuit?the ample supply of dogs. In the production of articles of food and of animals for labor or consumption?we often? times fail. Some sections import mules at high prices. We buy beef cattle and bacon; we buy mutton or do without it. But while nei? ther pigs nor poultry, sheep, goats or swine of low degree may be visible on a plantation, go where you may, ample demonstration will greet eye and ear, that at all hazards "we raise our own dogs." This invaluable animal, which has formed the "primal, eldest," theme of all school boys' composition through all the ages, is none the less appreciated in later life. Such is the uni? versality of "dog culture," that not infrequently the most thriftless men possess and support the largest number of them. Faithful dogs yelp around them?repay their affection through all the night season, and assist them by day to con? sume the superfluous fruits of the earth. And the wayfaring man encounters many a whelp, whithersoever he may go?sometimes almost too lazy to bark, but quite too mean not to bark at him by the way?baying, half recumbent, to bless him on his journey, with all the mean? ness he can afford to expend. The general interest which the human race takes in the canine, encourages the presentation of some views on the hackneyed subject, with an exposition of the services rendered by the dog, and some suggestions on the proper treat? ment of an animal so geuerally "raised." Perhaps the principal end served by the dog is that he keeps the country from being infes? ted with sheep. This noxious creature would increase beyond bounds, were it not for the fun the dog has in keeping him under. Not that tho dog eats sheep, this timid quadruped. It is mere playfulness, encouraged by the fact that the sheep docs not resist, but only runs from him. The sheep won't fight, so the dog has it all his own way, arid all the more fun. It is perfectly plain sailing?his method with the sheep. The most remarkable fact connected with this habit is, that the sheep killing dog seems never to be domesticated. We never knew a man to own one. The habit is confined to a wild species of the animal. Men's dogs have often been believed, in a neighborhood, to ren? der this public service, but their owners never claim it on their behalf. On the contrary, they usually dispute it with apparent surprise and indignation of injured innocence. The sheep killing variety is not the tame dog. Another feature of canine nature fits him for what is called tho yard dog. It is the feature expressed with equal truth and poetry in the words following, viz: that "dogs delight To bark and bite," and it is faithfully enjoined on us in the same stanza to "let 'em"?an injunction generally followed, and, indeed one which it would be somewhat difficult to disobey. This favorite attribute is often indulged at the expense of both the brute creation and the human, without proper discrimination. The dog will bite the best friend of his master, un? less personally introduced. He stands on eti? quette. A man in dishabile stands a bad chance with a dog. He admires full dress. The indiscrimination of the dog in this re? gard was once the subject of comment by a friend of mine, who remarked that in a half century of experience he had only once known a dog to bite the right man. This really looked as if there was discrimination on the dog's part, but on mistaken grounds of evidence* He gen? erally bites the wrong man. Dog-owners and raisers labor under many ,hallucinations. One is that their dogs will not bite you. They know you so well, they are confident, in their own mind, that their dog3 must know you, too?can't help knowing you. I am repeatedly reminded of the story of two gentlemen entering a yard. Says A: "Brother B, please call this dog*." B.?"Oh Brother A, he won't bite you." A. "But he has done bit me." Such is the mistaken confidence men havo in their own dogs. Never trust them.? Keep the dog-raiser between you and them at all times?conscientiously?or you are iu dan ecr Freedmen arc very successful in dog-raising. Those who have no visible means of support are usually the most so. A frecdraan will not I sell his dog for any price. There is a sort of superstitious notion entertained by him of the fatal consequences. The law of cause and ef? fect, it is known, has not much weight on the judgment of the freedmen. Our generation has been accused of being thriftless and wearing out the country?con? verting the goodly land of our ancestors into a wilderness. They have not neglected, howev? er, to add to its charms that peculiar one of being a "howling wilderness." Night is made hideous, and day dangerous, by these vigilant substitutes for fences and locks. In order to I the full development of our resources in this I line, to which so many persons arc peculiarly devoted, ought we not to import Chinamen, or I some other citizens who are fond of dogs ? and i by this means create a dog market ? Fancy a heathen Chinese haggling with a frccdwoman on a hind-quarter of hound. Instead of New York middling and low grades of Liverpool, of Surats and Brazilian cotton, of Eric bonds and Pennsylvania Central, let the inquiry be : How is m.ostill'this morning? What's the ruling price of cur? And let Ma'am Venus praise her grey hound venison and juvenile Cuffco shout "Here's your fine fat lice I" The census taker should have a list of ques? tions: Do you raise your own dogs? What number? value? In what docs their value consist ? We once knew the owner of a fancy Italian grey-hound, thorough-bred, to declare his dog worth $f>00. He was asked the question last propounded: "What is he worth it for-"? Rather staggered, he at length retorted, "Why, what is any dog worth it for." The inquirer could not sec in that light. The cow kind is valued according to several qualities : for work, for beef, for milk, for hide. The dog differs from the cow in these regards. Questions arise concerning sheep for wool, sheep for mutton, hardy sheep, etc., but each man is likely to think well of his own breed of dogs. Even the ladies expend their affection on poodles, and behave towards them in a way which, to say the lea*t of it, is very wasteful of the raw material. However, in such cases we are not envious. We would not share these fond caresses either with the dog or after him. Seeing, then, the high appreciation in which j he i.s held, lot us, one and all, cry, "Hurrah for I the dog!" and with full pride add. "We raise our own." No providential product is the dog* His cultivation is Universal. There is no need of importation, for we can raise our own. No chance for exportation?he can't he spared. Every people, every section, county, district, neighborhood, family, raises his, her, their, its, your, own dogs. The whole range of posses? sive pronouns is scarcely adequate to express the numerous relations borne to the dogs we raise and ''possess." As a people, we possess so many, and so many sorts of people possess them. Huzzah, huzzah, huzzah for the dog! Down with the sheep ! Away with the quiet of night and the sleep of the restless ! What business have folks to get sick and restless. Let the wilderness "howl." "Let dogs delight to bark and bite"?good reason, "for 'tis their nature to." Give them room. Occasionally a little child is torn and horrified, but what of that? Our theme is evidently beginning to explode an our hands. Our emotion has reached the stage which can be expressed only in music? wild and operatic music?with chorus to wind up with a long drawn-out as the tones of the animal we describe, when his night accents are prolonged and have no "dying fall"?albeit we wish the animal himselt could have one or more of the self-same, whether dying or dead. This affectionate tribute to the dog we wished dead (the dog is not dead yet, but discourseth in linked sweetness long drawn out,) is paid for in advance by a Lover of Muttox. Touching Story of Love and Constancy. The Omaha Tribune gives the following story connected with the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J.JJolmes at Prairie City, Iowa. The gentleman is one of the early settlers of Cali? fornia : Eighteen ycare ago, after the usual court? ship, the couple bocame engaged, the young lady agreeing to wait until such time as her lover's financial c-cumstances should justify the performance of the marriage ceremonies. At that time Mr. Holmes was on a visit to his people, and returned shortly to California in the hope that his second visit to the Golden State might be more prosperous than the first one. His return was frequently promised du? ring the succeeding five or six years, but the fickle dame fortune always played false. Aban? doning the miniug fields, the young man gave his time to other and surer industries, and in two years had accumulated a neat little sum of money. During all this time not a word of complaint came to him from his betrothed. .She rcmaiued constant. After getting his money together, Mr. Holmes visited Iowa for the purpose of making the sweetheart a wife. A girl who had proved so true to a lover could not well be false to auy one, and when one of her brothers was pro? nounced consumptive, she was not long in an? nouncing her determination to stay by him and minister to his wants. Mr. Holmes told him of the wonderful air of California, and used all his means to induce him to go there, but with? out avail. The tailing man was determined upon never leaving the old homestead, under whose roof his father and mother passed from earth. The sister's duty was plain and she met it as a true woman would. The pledges of constancy were renewed, the lover returned to California, feeling keenly the truth of the sentiment: "Hope deferred ma kcth the heart sick." He gave his undivided attention to business* meetiug with good suc? cess iu all his undertakings, and to-day is worth over a hundred thousand dollars. In the meantime the separated lovers corres? ponded regularly. The invalid brother at times was thought to be on the high road to health, and at others, very near death's door. Put for many months he had steadily declined, and when the last springtime ushered iu the green leaves and the singing birds, he was laid to rest. A few weeks ago Mr. Holmes made another visit to Iowa, when the hopes of years were realized, the faithful pair heiug united in mar? riage last Sabbath evening. Iu appearance, the lovers have been sadly changed by tiino and care and sorrow, but that their hearts are as young as ever, is its certain as that "purity remaineth bright forever."? They looked yesterday more like people who had been married for twenty years than like a newly wedded couple, the husband being 43 add the wife 39. A Novel in Oxe Chapter.?A romantic marriage took place at the Gamo House, Wyaudottc City, on Saturday last. The cir? cumstances are'these : A Miss Moshicr, Hying iu Freeport, Stevenson county, 111., became en? gaged to a young man named Morrison, of the same place. Business being dull there in 1SG5, the time our story commences; he concluded to try his fortunes in California. He departed, promising to write regularly, and cither come or send fur her as sooti as fortune smiled upon hiru. Two weary years rolled by, and she re? ceived no letters from him, and nothing was heard by his or her friends of his whereabouts. A report about this time was circulated by a young man named Shipman, postmaster of Freeport, that Morrison was married. Although hardly credited by Miss Moshicr, still his long silence, together with the report of his marri? age, made her come to the conclusion that she Avas forgotten. Shipman now became very as? siduous in his attentions to her, and after a short courtship asked her to become his wife. She, stung with the treatment of her first love, consented, and they were married, and conclu? ded to make their home out West, removing from Freeport to Kansas City. Here everything went on smoothly for a time, but in an un? guarded moment her husband told her he had intercepted Morrison's letters to her, and that he had written repeatedly, but as soon as they came into his hands they were destroyed. In? stead of forgiveness, as he expected, she up? braided him for his perfidy, and, in short, led him such a life that he deserted her. After a time she commenced action for a divorce, which was granted on the ground of abandon? ment She still remained in Kansas City, do? ing the best she could to obtain a livelihood. Morrison, after waiting two years and heuring nothing from the object of his affections, grew restless, but still worked on until news came of her marriage. On hearing this he immedi? ately packed up with the intention of return? ing homo to ascertain the truth of the report. On his way home he determined to stop at Kansas City, and upon his arrival here almost the first person he met was his long-lost love. Mutual explanations took place, and she being free agaiu, a speedy marriage took place, and j thus, after seven years, two loving hearts be- J came one. The newly-wedded couple leave here fur a short tour West, from whence they return to their future home in Albion, Mich.? Kansas City Bulletin. ? Porfr;/ is the flour of literature ; prose the corn, potatoes and meat ; satire the aquafortis ; wit. the spice ; love-letters the honey and sugar, and letters containing remittances from delin? quents are the apple-dumplings. Let us have some oi the applc-duraplixigsI Fur the Anderson Intelligencer. Lebanon School Examination. Address by Larhin Newton, Esq.?Speech on the Subject of "Heading"?Debate. Mr. Editor: It is my purpose to give you a short account of the interesting exercises held at New Lebanon School House on Friday, Au? gust 30th. The programme consisted of a school exami !on, an address by one of the trustees on the importance of education, a speech on the subject of readiug, and, lastly, a debate. At an early hour quite a number of the peo? ple of the neighborhood and surrounding coun? try was assembled, and soon the examination of the school was commenced, which reflected much credit upon the teacher?Mr. James P. Smith?as well as upon his pupils. The next thing in order was a speech by Larkin Newton, Esq., one of the trustees of Garvin School District, to the pupils of the school, on the great importance of a thorough education. He said at no time, in the history of our country, was there such a necessity of the rising generation being educated, as the present. He said there was no excuse for the young growing up in ignorance, when the country was flooded with school-books. He cited many instances of the great men of our country who educated themselves at night, by pinc-kuot fires, at the plow-handles and at the anvil. He warned the young people that it was only by learning and sagacity that we can ever hope to redeem ourselves from the politi? cal gloom which overshadows our land. His remarks were received with marked attention by all present. At the close of Mr. Newton's address, W. T. McElroy entertained the audience, for a con? siderable length of time, on the subject of "Reading." His subject was divided off into three gcueral heads, as follows: 1st, A proper choice of books; 2nd, How to read them ; 3rd, The importance of making a diligent use of this means of intellectual and moral improve? ment. It would afford mc much pleasure to give your readers a detailed report of this high? ly important address, but time will not permit me to do so. Suffice it to say, that his speech was well-timed?showing conclusively that he had not merely skimmed the surface, but that! he had gone far into the metaphysical and his? torical world. After the conclusion of Mr. McElroy's speech, an iutermission was taken for dinner. A table having been erected in the grove near the school house, it was soon filled from the baskets of the citizens with all that would tempt the eye and please the taste. It ap? peared as the assembling of one family around one common table. All seemed to enjoy the bountiful repast spread out before them, and no one went away unsatisfied. It was a sight worthy of the artist's pen to behold these tillers of the soil assembled upon an occasion like this. Every eye seemed animated, and con? geniality of feeling was the predominating featurd At the appointed hour the congregation re? paired again to the church to listen to a dis? cussion upon the following subject: "Which has the greater influence over the mind of man, the love of woman or the love of money?" There were only two debaters?Mn Jauies P. Smith, on the affirmative side of the question, and Mr. Commodore Moore, on the uegative. Mr. Smith, in A clear, forcible and intelligible manner, presented his views, contending that woman did have tho greater influence; whilst Mr. Moore, in a pertinent, logical and compre? hensive style, brought forward his proofs to the contrary. At the conclusion of lengthy argu? ments by both of these young men, tho judges retired, and after due consideration of tho ar? gument* advanced by both disputants, rendered a decision in favor of Mr. Moore. Right here permit mc to say that these two young men deserve high commendation for their ingenuity* in the discussion of this subject; They are self-edUcated, and I predict at some future day their voices will be heard in the Councils of the nation. Thus, Mr. Editor, ended a most plcasaut day, long to be remembered by all present. Tun Sweetest Moment in Love-MAkINB. ?"Perhaps there is no period," says Anthony Trollope, "so pleasant among all the pleasant periods of love-making as that in which tho intimacy between lovers is so assured, and the coming event so near, as to produce and endure conversation about the ordinary little matters of life; what can be done with the limited: means at their disposal; how that life shall be begun which they shall lead together; what idea each has of the other's duties ; what each can do for the other. There was a true sense of the delight of intimacy in the girl who de? clared that she never loved her lover so well as when she told him how many pairs of stockings she had got. It is very sweet to gaze at the stars, and it is sweet to sit out among the hay? cocks. The reading of poetry together, out of j the same hook, with brows all close, and arms i all mingled, is very sweet; the pouring out of i whole hearts in writing words, which the writ- | er knows would he held to be ridiculous to anybody but the dear one to whom they are sent, is very sweet; but for the girl who has made a shirt for the man she loves, there has come a moment in the last stitch of it sweeter than any stars, haycock, poeti/, or superlative epithets have produced." ? The story of a Roston merchant that a stalwart countryman applied to him for a situ? ation, and was informed that if he would shoulder a sack of coffee that was pointed out to him, and carry it across the store twice, and never lay it down, he would be hired for a year at $100 a month. The stranger accented, and after making the two trips, quietly filing the sack on a large hook, fastened to the wall, re? marking, "There now, it may hang there now till doomsday; T shan't never lay it down. What shall I go about mister ? Just give mc plenty to do and $100 per month, and its all right." He was given the situation, and is to? day a partner of the firm. ? An insane Pennsylvania editor '! himself a mule. The insanity consists in as-1 Burning that he is half horse, J To the People of South Carolina. Columbia, S. G, Aug. 28, 1872. I have known that for sonic time rumors have been rife throughout the State charging me with having issued, as speaker of the House of Representatives, false and fraudulent "pay cer? tificates ;" and that I have received a certain 6um of money from the "armed force" fund of the State, and appropriated it to my own use and benefit. In accordance with the rule of conduct observed by men in public position, I have not felt myself called upon to make an? swer to these charge1?. But in the manifesto issued by a so-called Convention recently held in this city, signed by the Hon. James L. Orr, these charges have been formally presented, and from such a source as enables me, with something of self-respect, to respond to them. This I now crave leave to do, by denouncing' the charges, in part and iu whole, false. And I hereby challenge, in reference to them, such thorough and complete investigation as will avail to vindicate the truth. Very respectful I v, * F. J. MOSES, Jr. Reply of Win. E. Earlc, Esq. Editor of (he Greenville Enterprise: I have seen the card of Gen. Moses, giving a general denial of the charges made against him, and I will be obliged to you for the use of your col? umns for a brief reply. On the floor of the Moses Convention, his friends freely admitted his over-issue of "pay certificates," but alleged by way of commenda? tion as well as apology that they were issued to refugees from the Ku Klux. Can it be that when Gen. .Moses was a member of that Con? vention and a prominent candidate before it, that he was not aware of the grouud taken for him by those who represented his interest on its floor? Doubtless Gen. Moses is the ouly man on earth who can make out a list of those to whom these certificates have been issued, and if he had done this and shown that only real employees and Ku Klux sufferers received them, the apology would have been sustaiued so fas as it amounts to anything. Gen. Moses will hardly say that there were any Ku Klux sufferers in Anderson, Beaufort, Edgefield or Richland Counties, nor that the numerous "pay certificates" hawked through the banks and brokers' offices of Columbia and Charleston were issued either to this unfortunate class of people or to employees. Col. Merrill fixes the date of the last Act of violence as the 9th of September, 1871. At this time the General Assembly had not met, and the certificates generally bear date in February and March and later in 1S72?had they been issued a year sooner there would have been less contradic? tion of Gen. Moses' apology. The Gen. may not be fully accredited as a witness in this mat? ter, but his statements against himself are com? petent. He admitted to Judge Orr, a "little extravagance" iu the issue of "pay certificates," and did not protend to have done so for the Ku Klux sufferers, but told the Judge by way of apology that he (Moses) was fighting the Gov? ernor who had the bonds, and the Treasurer who had the Treasury at his backt Now, here are two confessions, each good; but is the avoid? ance worth anything? Suppose it were all tr?e that the "pay certifi? cates" over drawn were really issued to Ku Klux sufferers, we may accept that as a confes? sion of fraud in the public officer^ and ask by what law the State Treasury became the chari? ty fund of the Speaker of the House of Repre? sentatives? The apology simply demonstrates the shaiulcssnesa of the apologist. When most of these nay-certificates were is? sued, as is alleged, for tue benefit of K. K. of? ferers, the General Assembly was in session, and it was the proper power to make appropri? ations for their relief, but very bad for Gen. Mo? ses. A year previous was the time that the noor people needed help, and during that year help came from another source thau his pay-certifi? cates, his expensive arms of his "Arms Force Fund." F. J. Moses, Jr., has not yet, I be'.icve, at? tempted to explain the teu thousand dollars drawn by him from the armed force fund, as shown by the sworn statement of Treasurer1 Parker. The real consideration of this little sum must remain a secret in the sacred breasts of the Speaker of the House, the Governor, and the Treasurer, unless they cho?e to reveal it; but the facts which arc known indicate strong? ly that its revelation will not be creditable. Let us look at them. It was drawn on the 24th of January and 2d of February, 1872, just after the failure, after a bitter struggle, of the im? peachment movement in that branch of the General Assembly over which Gen. Moses pre? sided. It was drawn, too, at a time when the ,Treasurer had placarded, on the railing of his desk, "No Moxky ;" at a time when there were no funds to pay the General Assembly ; no funds to pay the Solicitors and Judges of the State. It was drawn from the "armed force fund" when no such organization existed, and none such had existed for more than a year. I shall not stop to inquire who Mooncyand Leg gett are, or what branch of the armed force they represented ; but if it is not anti-Rrpubli can to make such inquiries, I would like to know, for the curiosity of the thing, what was the consideration of those ten thousand dollars. Speaker Moses' hand writing is well known, and there arc gentlemen of character who have seen his receipt for ouo thousand dollars, for services rendered in the passage of the Valida? ting Bill of the Greenville and Columbia Kail road. Mr. Speaker Muses will hardly have the temerity to deny receiving this money, and that he subsequently received ten thousand dollars more, from the same road, for his valuable aid in the passage of this Act to promote the con? solidation of the Blue Ridge and Greenville & Columbia Railroads. If he wants the proofs, and wants them legally produced, the Courts are open to him, at the expense of the State ; and this proposition has been publicly made since June last. I have looked with interest for some explana? tion of the Roberts' arms transaction. Gen. Mo.-es, Gov. Scott and Trcas. Parker can doubt? less explain how something over one hundred thousand dollars were lost on the way to tho "Roberts' Arm Company." Tho last two arc not candidates, but every true Republican will await with interest the General's explanation I am, very respectfully, WM. E. EARLE. ? An Indiana editor lays down his shears for a few minutes to write a double-leaded edi? torial, in which he plaintively remarks: "We are the recipient of half a peck of nice onions, two water-melons and a bottle of ginger beer from one of our subscribers. The gifts were like the shadow of a rock iu a weary land. Wc are glad some one remembered us in the midst of our labors and cares, and evinced that remembrance in so delicate a manner. We dote on onions and love melons dearly; and so long as the fragrance of the former and the gripes of the latter linger about us, we I shall hold the kind donor in affectionate rc i. ' . These little acts inspire us to I renewed exertions, but our subscription price l will remain the same."