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VOLUME IX.?NO. 29.
ii Lively financial Debate in the United
States Senate.
Washington, January, 21.
Merrimon, of North Carolina, addressed the
Senate to-day. He said our country enjoyed
the confidence of its people more than any
country on the face of the earth, yet our cur?
rency had been less valued than gold by twenty
per cent. He urged that it was impossible to
make a paper currency equal to gold. It was
idle and criminal for Congress to undertake to
bring greenbacks up to the standard of gold.
We must put ourselves on a level with the
commercial nations of the earth; and to do
this, we must have a gold and silver currency.
Uniil we establish a medium of exchange
based upon gold and silver, we can never have
the advantages of commerce. He advocated
an Immediate resumption of specie payment.
The people of the United States had lost twenty
per cent, in all their exchanges from the time
the greenback system began in 1861, till now. If
the greenback system continues, depreciation
will continue; and it is the duty of Congress
to rid the country of this. He was surprised
that not a single definite plan by which we
could get back to specie payment had been
proposed. The 4th of July, 1876, would be
the centennial of our independence, and he
trusted that glorious events would transpire on
that day. Let one of them be a return to
specie payment ^ Let gold accumulate in the
treasury over and above the amount necessary
to pay interest on the public debt If that
would not be sufficient, put a five per cent,
bond on the market, which would bring gold at
Sar, and on the 4th day of July, 1876, let every
ollar of greenbacks be redeemed in coin. In
the meantime, let the volume of currency be
increased. He computed our present circula?
tion at ?760,000,000, which was not enough, by
at least $100,000,000. The panic was not over
anywhere in the country. New York and New
England were credit States, and had debts
due them from all sections of the country.
Money could be obtained in New York ; there
was plenty of it there; but to obtain it collat?
eral securicy equal to the money itself must be
put up. He spoke of the unequal distribution
of the currency, and the pressing needs of the
South on account thereof.
Sherman said the Comptroller of the Curren?
cy had authority now to withdraw $25,000,000
from New England and give it to the South !
and West or States which have not their prop- I
er proportion.
? Edmunds?How long would it stay there?
Shermon?That is another question.
Merriman said, in reply to the Senator from
Vermont, (Edmunds,) that if the money was
down there, it would go back very slowly, if
the banks of New York and New England did
not offer iuterest for it. As these States pay
interest, the money goes there. He deemed
that the currency was redundant as compared
with the circulation of France aud England.
Those countries were densely populated, aud
the exchange was small. Another hundred
million dollars put ia circulation would revive
the business of the country. Our greenback
system which might be termed bloated, had
many debts contracted uuder it. The argu?
ments were that these debts should be liquida?
ted in greenbacks. Now it is proposed to con?
tract the currency, which would compel their
payment in a more precious medium than the
one under which they were created. He would
postpone the time for specie resumption till
July 4,1876, on account of the business of the
country being based on this bloated currency;
but by putting it off till that time, the people,
seeing a monetary system devised by Congress,
would regulate business to that end, so that it
would adjust itself to the new system of cur?
rency. He was opposed to the national banking
system, and thought it was a vast mouopoly,
founded wholly upon credit, and essentially a
credit currency, and, therefore, twenty per
cent, less valuable than gold. In the next
place, every dollar of the capital stock was in
the United States treasury, and the banks
receive five per cent from the Government on
bonds deposited in the treasury. He next
spoke of the rates of interest, and said he put
it to the Senate?he put it to the world?to
answer, if industry could prosper and pay such
per centage for money. He maintained that
the volume of currency could not be fixed by
law, it could not be controlled by politicians
and statesmen; and Congress should not,
therefore, undertake to regulate it. The mer?
chants and business men of the nation would
fix it. The banks should belong to the people,
and not to the Government. He would like to
see Congress graut a charter for a great na?
tional bank. Let the shares be at $25 each, so
the whole people could have stock in it. Let
the capital stock be $100,000,000, and the direc?
tors be in every State. In time of war, such a
bank would come to the relief of the Govern?
ment, and be of essential benefit Sectional
interests had once come near destroying the
Government, and unless Congress does some?
thing to produce an equilibrium in industries,
more trouble would be the result.
Edmunds inquired if the gentleman believed
Congress could produce ?iis equilibrium.?
Could it say how many factories there should
be, where located, &c. ?
Merrim.cn said Congress could improve the
harbors and rivers of the West, open up the
natural advantages, encourage ship building,
and thousands of other things could be done
to produce such equilibrium ; but not while
we go on with this sectional legislation?Cali?
fornia with one interest, New England with
another, and the South with another. When
they come in contact, it will result in the clash
of arms. They did it once, and would do It
again.
Edmunds said he did not rise for the purpose
of continuing this debate, but he thought the
natural tendency of money was to the pockets
of those having the right to it. He knew of
no contrivance by which Congress could keep
money in any section, uuless the circumstances
of the people in such section should eutitle
them to keep the money. Every citizen has
the right to put his money where he thinks he
can make the most out of it Congress, nor
any other power, could interfere with this right
of the people. Money is always flowing where
it has the right to rest Granting that $50,000,
000 more be given to the South and West, it
would go to the pockets of those entitled to it.
He did not believe there was a dollar more in
Vermont now than there would be if every
bank in the State was removed to Louisiana.
Every man entitled to money would have it in
his pocket, and no contrivance or legislation
could force money to remain in the West or
South, until, by industry and economy, the
people would entitle themselves to become tne
owners of it New England could not keep
money which she owed to the West. She must
send it where it belongs; and the same if she
owed the South. If the South owes New Eng?
land, the money must come there. To provide,
therefore, by law, any policy which would
compel tho circulating medium to remain in
one section rather than another, was an im?
possibility.
Merrimon said the Senator from Vermont
(Edmunds) went upon the principle that the
commercial interests of the country were in a
normal condition. There were circumstances
which have forced the money from the Weit
and South. The South produced 8350,000,000
worth of eotton annually, and the money to
pay for it should be at the South. What, in
the natural course of things, took it away?
There was something wrong somewhere; some
false basis. If the people of the South had
the capital, they would build up cities and
towns, construct railroads, open mines, and
W?ll street, instead of being in New York,
would be in Charleston, Savannah or New Or?
leans. Our induscrial affairs are not in their
normal state.
Edmunds said the Senator spoke of the peo?
ple of the South having capacity to develop re?
sources, if they had the capital. How were
they to get that capital ?
Merrimon?We wish your people to come
there.
Edmunds?Well, Mr. President, to that I say
amen. But how are they to go there? Will
they find equal justice in the courts? Will
they find honest labor respected ? If the South
desires capital, she must show calm and delib?
erate justice for all administered in every State,
so th?L life and property will be as safe as in
New England. Then the capital of New Eug
land will go there, and the resources of the
country will be developed; but not until then
will the people invest their hard earnings under
uncertainties. Let the South do all she can to
promote equal justice; have peace and order
everywhere; then Northern capital would go
there.
Merrimon said he hoped they would cease to
hear that a man's life was not safe in the
South. The war is over, and those statements
should be of the past. He would assure the
gentleman that anybody from New England or
California was just as safe in his State, (North
Carolina,) or anywhere in the South, as if he
were in Vermont or anywhere in New Eng
latid. Take the statistics of ctime, and the
ratio of crime and outrage were in favor of the
South two to one.
Edmunds said he had been told, on good au-'
tbority, that a man who went to the city of
Newbern, iu the gentleman's own State, and
established business, was entirely ignored. He
had committed no crime, yet no one noticed
him; and the only reason for such treatment
was that he was a Yankee. New England men
had been taught to believe in the honesty of |
labor. He did not make this statement as a
reproach to North Carolina, or to his friend
from that State; but he would say that, until
it became respectable for a man from New
Eoglaud to engage in commercial pursuits in
North Carolina, just so long would the South
wither aud cry for more money, which she can
uot get.
Merrimon said, in the case in Newbern re?
ferred to by the gentleman, there were some
circumstances connected with the man which
deprived him of that society he sought to en?
ter. A few days ago, the Treasurer of the
United States stopped at Charlotte. A grand
reception was tendered him, and so well was
he pleased, that he remained there several days.
The statements whispered in the ears of his
honored friend (Edmunds) were not true. Re
spectable people were welcome in the South,
no matter where from. With a man Keeking
society in the South, it was just the same
seeking it in New Englaud. If he was worthy,
he could go into society.
Edmunds said he was glad to know these
statements in regard to ill-treatment of people
iu the South were not true now; but, until re?
cently, they were true. As a rule, no oilicer of
the United States army sent to any port or
station was received into society. He (Ed?
munds) had visited the South, and had been
told that the only people who associated with
army officers were those termed scalawags by
those of their own section.
Merriman?Will my friend allow me to state
that I know that is not true in my own State?
j Edmunds said he was glad to hear that times
had changed since he was in the South in 18G7.
He had received his information from army
officers, and he had high respect for them, as
they had been taught to tell the truth as well
to work it out sometimes, with their own good
swords. Edmunds, then, at 3.15, moved that
the Senate proceed to the consideration of ex?
ecutive business, which motion prevailed.
Inconsistent of the Republican Sex
ate.?The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald hits the United States Sen?
ate a good lick in the followiug paragraph:
The confirmation of Mr. Hughes as United
States Judge for the Eastern district of Vir?
ginia excites very considerable comment in con?
nection with the fierce opposition to Mr. Cush
ing for Chief Justice on account of his political
record. It is true that Mr. Hughes was the
late nominee of the republican party for the
Governorship for Virginia, but in spite of this
recent endorsement his political record will not
bear scrutiny. It is well known that he was
an original secessionist and did all in his power
to take Virginia out of the Union. It was only
after the war was over that he thought it the
better policy to join the Republican party.
While yet fresh in his new allegiance he ran
for Congress, but was badly beaten. In his
contest against General Kemper for Governor
he ran a good way behind the strength of his
party, because many Virginians who were
Unionists during the war thought it an outrage
to be asked to vote for an original secessionist.
Yet he was cou?nned, and Mr. Cushing, because
of the writing of a friendly letter of introduc?
tion to Jefferson Davis, was bitterly opposed,
and would have been, if not withdrawn, in all
probability rejected. Thus an imprudent act
was made to weigh more heavily than actual
overt acts. It is thought here that to have
been consistent the Senate should have either
rejected or confirmed both nominations. It is
looked upon as a strange proceeding, this put?
ting the seal of condemnation on the lighter
offence and permitting the graver offence to go
unrebuked. In his canvass for Governor Mr.
Hughes took open ground against the Civil
Rights bill, and lost thereby a large portion of
the colored vote of his State.
The Republican Party Over-Loaded.?
According to President Grant, the Republican .
party has been made to carry too heavy a load
for some time past, and he thinks it time to re
relieve the burden. The most signiciant speech
Grant ever made of a political nature was ad
dressed recently to some prominent Republicans
who willed upon him at the White House. The
President said: "I begin to think that it is
time for the Republican party to unload. j
There has been too much dead weight carried
by it. The success of our arms during the
rebellion, and the confidence that the Repub?
lican party was strong enough to hold up any
burden, have imposed all the disaffection in
the Gulf States on the Administration. I am
tired of this nonsense. Let Louisiana take
care of herself, as Texas will have to do. I
don't want any quarrel about Mississippi State
matters to be referred to me. This nursing of
monstrosities has nearly exhausted the life of
the party. I am done with them, and they
will have to take care of themselves."
? A man is said to be absent minded when
he thinks he has left his watch at home, and
takes it out of his pocket to see if he has time
to return home to get it.
Death of the Celebrated Siamese Twins.
A correspondent of the New York Herald
furnishes the following particulars of the recent
death of Chang and Eng, the famous Siamese
Twins, which will be found exceedingly inter?
esting :
Richmond, Va., Jan. 19, 1874.
A despatch from Greonsboro, N. C, gives the
startling announcement of the sudden death
of the celebrated Siamese Twins on Saturday
morning last, the 17th inst., which occurred at
their residence at Mount Airy, Surry county,
N. C.
There are no details of this sad event further
than the fact that Chang was partially paralyzed
last fall, since which time he had been fretful,
very much debilitated and strongly addicted to
drinking liquor as a means of alleviating his
suffering. He had been quite feeble for several
days?indeed so much so as to confine both the
brothers to bed, but the illness was not so gre?t
as to cause any anticipation of the catastrophe
that was to follow. On Friday night they re?
tired to bed as usual, but during the night
Chang became worse, and to the utter dismay
of all his friends, expired suddenly about four
o'clock on Saturday morning.
As soon as it was discovered that his spirit
had left its earthly tenement, and that death
had claimed him for his own, Eng became so
terribly shocked that he raved wildly for a
while, at times exhibiting signs of great men?
tal aberration. This attack was followed by
what seemed to be a deadly stupor, and all now
watched eagerly the fate of the surviving twin,
so long and inseparably united to his now dead
brother. In two hours, it is supposed, from
the death of Chang, Eng breathed his last, and
in dea-n, as in life, the souls, as well as the
bodies, of the celebrated twins were once more
reunited.
The wives and families of the twins are in
the deepest grief?the children, many of whom
are deaf mutes, expressing their sorrow and
bereavement in the most pitiful manner.
Greexsroro, N. C, Jan. 20, 1S74.
There is little additional intelligence from
Mount Airy, the late home of the deceased
Siamese Twins. That village is distant from
this point about eighty miles, and there is
neither telegraphic nor mail communication
with it. Reports that have reached here con?
firm the information given in the despatch^
from Richmond yesterday. A late arrival here
from Mount Airy states "that it was about six
o'clock in the morning on Saturday when ono
of the sons of the Twins, who slept up stairs,
heard a cry or call of alarm. The boy at once
repaired to the sleeping room of the Twins,
where he found Eng in a ver3T perturbed and
excited condition, the cause being the death of
his brother. After this, and as soon as the
death becamo generally known among the
members of the family, Eng grew worse until
dissolution followed, his only remark being,
"I suppose I must die, too."" In exactly two
hours his fears proved only too correct, and he
had departed this life. It is not known whether
the funeral has yet taken place, but tho suppo?
sition is that it has not. One report says that
it was to have taken place yesterday ; but this I
is not regarded as authentic. |
It is stated that the family physician and oth?
er medical men who were present soon after I
the demise of the brothers, desired to dissever
the ligature or membrane that so effectually I
united them while living, for the purpose of as?
certaining if the death of Eng had beon pro?
duced by some vital artery passing through it,
but to this the family strongly objected : It is
also reported that there is a provision in the
wills of the deceased twins against such uu
operation. Notwithstanding this, however, it
is hoped that in the interest of surgical science
and tor the benefit of the human race a post?
mortem examination will be held with a view
to solve the problem so long a mystery, which
is, had the ligature been operated upon during
life to separate the brothers would that opera?
tion have been followed by fatal results? In
their several tours through Europe the twins
wero examined by all tho leading surgeons at
each capital, none of whom ever attempted to
perform an operation upon this singular con?
nection.
Sketch of the Siamese Twins.
The Siamese Twins, Eng and Chang, lately
residing in North Carolina, were afflicted with
illness in the year 1871. They were born at a
small village on the coast of Siam, in the year
1811. Their parents got their living by fishing,
and until 1*29, when Eng and Chang were
brought to tho United States, the}' made their
living by selling shellfish. Their mother bore
seventeen children. At one time she gave
birth to three and never less than two. But
none of these children were deformed. The
Twins wero united at. the anterior part of the
chest by a prolongation of a kind of fleshy
band the size of tho hand. This band of flesh
is about two inches broad and four inches thick.
The whole mass is tough and capable of being
considerably extended. One could whisper in
the car of one of them without the other hear?
ing ; while volatile salts applied to the nostrils
of ono had no effect on the other; and while
pinching the arm of one excited no sensation
in tho other, still, if you but stick a pin in the
exact vertical centre of this connecting link
both would flinch from the hurt. The Twins
wero seldom observed to converse with each
other. They played a good game of draughts,
made pretty much tho same moves, and at the
same time,"and frequently played against each
other.
After attracting a vast amount of attention
among scientists and physiologists in the old
world, they married two sisters, and settled
down near Salisbury, N. C, on a well-stocked
plantation. In addition they had at ono poriod
ample funds invested through their agent in
New York. During the war they continued to
reside on their plantation and lived in the same
quiet and harmony as ever, until some few
years afterwards. Of course, no ono ever
ibought of drafting them and their negroes
prospered, except when out of temper from
any cause, it was apt to work itself ofl" in
striking tho first ono that came to hand, from
which the best escape was to keep or.i of tho
way. The brothers probably never w ould have
had any difficulty, but that their v, ives, though
sisters, turned away their hearts, and children
wero the cause of this estrangement. Up to
the poriod that each had five children all pros
pored well enough, but one of them had a
sixth, and this awoke envy and jealousy to
such a degree that tho twin sisters, not being
bound together like the twin brothers, would
no longer live under the same roof.
The brothers could turn back to back or faco
to face, but that is as far as tho remarkablo
bond that united thorn permitted. A few years
since they corresponded with some of the lead?
ing surgical operators in London, as to the
possibility of the umbilicus being cut, so that
in case of the death of ono, the lile of tho other
might be saved. At the request of the London
surgeon they visited that city, and many expe?
riments were tried to determine tho safety of
such an oporation. Among other things a liga?
ture was tied firmly a few minutes around tho
connection between thorn, so as to prevent tho
circulation of blood through tho artory. But
it seemed as if each would expire if this were
persisted in. Tho smaller of the two fainted
away and lost all consciousness, and there
were symptoms that tho same effect would fol?
low to'the other, but the process could not bo
continued long enough without endangering
the lifo of him who was the first to faint. Since
the breaking out of the rebellion the twins
both dressed in tho Confederate gray, and both
were members of the same churoh.having united
with a small Baptist Church in their neighbor?
hood, of which they were considered very
worthy members, though born Siamese.
? A man in Evansville, Indiana, recently
had the pleasure of attending the wedding of
his own parents. They had been divorced
thirty years; but the number of times each
had been married in the interval is not stated.
? Mr. Josh Billings philosophically remarks
that "We laff at sheep bckauso when one of
them leads the way the rest follow, however
ridik-ilua it may be; and I suppose the sheep
lah? when they see us do the very same thing."
A Jh autifnl Work of Art.
A correspondent of the Louisville (Ky.)
Ledger mentions as follows a picture which' is
being executed by Capt. W. P. Hix, of Colum?
bia, the figures in which will bo life size:
"The sudden death of Mr. Wearn will not de
tor Capt. Hix, the surviving partner, and one
of the finest and most famous portrait and land?
scape painters in the South, from carrying out
his announced determination to undertake the
execution of a great national work, based on a
heroic incidont which took place at the fierce
battle of Fredericksburg. The incident is this :
After the gallant charge of the National Irish
Brigade upon the stone fence behind which a
portion of Gon. Kershaw's division of South
Carolinians were posted, the ground was cov?
ered with the dead and dying Unionists, who,
on the rcpulso and reif eat, were left to suffer
the untold agonies of a battle field. It is de?
clared that the Irishmen made as heroic a
charge as it had been hopeless and fatal; and
when they had retreated, both armies kept up
a murderous sharp-shootitig upon each other.
So fatal was this cruel sport that the Federal
reports declare that 150 Unionists fell in their
rille pits from the fire behind the stone wall.
On the Confederate side, the moment a hand or
head was raised above the wall, it was sure to
bo perforated with a Unionist's bullet. Ser?
geant Kirkland, ono of the sharp-shooters, sta?
tioned behind the stone wall, is the hero of the
incident. He was afterwards, we mourn to
say, killed in the battle. He belonged to the
Second South Carolina Infantry. The groans
of the wounded Federalists lying just over the
wall pierced his humane heart, and his kindly,
humane nature rebelled against the cruelty of
their sufferings. Thev cried for water, and
there was no friendly hand to bring it. Kirk?
land resolved to make the attempt to relieve
the wants of the dying, and with that moral
and physical heroism which surmounts all ob?
stacles, and dares death for the good of others,
he ropaired to Gen. Kershaw's headquarters
and asked the privilege of jumping over the
wall and carrying water to the lips of the
wounded enemy At first the General would
not think of such folly. He told Kirkland that
sure death awaited the man who mounted the
wall, for the fire was incessant and fatal. Kirk?
land declared that ho could not bear to hear the
groans of anguish which greeted his ears, and
ho would make the attempt to relieve them if
the general would give his consent. The ap?
peal was too strong to be resisted by the mag?
nanimous Kershaw, and he reluctantly gave
his permission; whereupon the gallant ser?
geant departed on his more than perilous mis?
sion, assuring his friends that ho did not be?
lieve he would be killed. A bound, and he
[ was over the wall. But he had not touched
the opposite turf before a volley of bullets,
fired from a hundred concealed "points, wel?
comed him on his mission of mercy. But mi?
raculously, he was unharmed. He knelt down,
the object of a murderous fire, put his can?
teen, like a blessed Samaritan, to the lips of a
dying soldier, and arranged his knapsack for a
pillow. The Federals were mistaken. They
thought, reasonable enough, his purpose to be
the rilling of the dead, but they discovered his
noble mission, and the firing upon him slack?
ened and ceased, and his work went on as it
had, oblivious of the cruel shafts hurled at his
charmed life. From ono to another ho passed
in his loving work, and two great and hostile
armies forget their animosities in wondering
observation and admiration of the hero who
braved*almost certain death to do a kind act to
suffering men. This painting will do much to?
ward the total destruction of the still smoking
embers of sectional animosity.
A Card.?It was a Mr. Simmons' deal. I
was the oldest man, and the blind was three?
calls seven. 'Ike Haggles saw it; then it was
risen by Jones to fifteen for to play. Brown
came in, and also the dealer stayed. Then it
took me twelve to make it good, which I put
up, aud I remarked to the society that it would
cost ouly twenty-five more for to draw. Every
last gentleman stayed, but it was not risen any
higher. Then the dealer says to me, "How
many will you take?" Says I, "A card." I
had aces and kings, and got an ace in the
draw. Ike took three and Jones two, but
Brown had enough, and told the dealer to help
hisself, which he took ouly five. There was
now about 160 chips on the board. Ike bet
one; Jones went ten better, and Brown raised
it to twenty?because he stood pat. The dealer
said that his'n was valued at twenty more.
Then said I, "How many docs it take me ?"
Some one said "forty chips," which I invested
likewise, with sixty better. Then all passed
up to Brown, and I wanted him bad to stay
with his steal, but his 6?nd gave out, and he
Sassed. Says the dealer to me, "How many
id you draw?" Says I, "A card." "Well,"
says he, "I don't want to lay down this hand;
I will bet sixty more than you!" Now the
dealer was a stranger like to our party. He
was from the country, and didn't know much
about d. p. So I thought it was my charitable
duty to let him down easy, and I only called
him. "What have you got?" said I, "Xwo
pairs!" said the Mr. Simmons. Then it was
my time to be sorry that I had an ace full on
kings. "But," says the genial Mr. Simmons,
"mine is two pairs of jacks!" Then I said
"0!" and put on my hat and went down in the
street to look for Christinas. As I went out
the door, Brown asked me "How many I took?"
But Brown always was a person which will
kick a man when he is down.
A Better Investment.?Last winter the
General Assembly instructed the clerks of the
two houses, the "bosses" of the Republican
Printing Company, to prepare, or have pre?
pared, what are termed immigration reports
from the various counties in the State. The
ostensible object was to have trustworthy sta?
tistics furnished of the climate, soil, mineral re?
sources and the temper of the people, to be
published as an aid to immigration. No re?
port has yet been printed, save from Charleston
County. An appropriation, however, has been
made of $75,000 to meet expenses. It occurs
to us that if the government really has any
sincere desire to promote immigration, the best
thing to do would be to stop any further ex?
penditures in the line originally indicated, and
devote the balance of the appropriation to the
establishment of a depot for the reception of
the immigrants, under the management of
trustworthy commissioners.
This scheme might not be so lucrative for
the Credit Mobilier Printing Company, but it
would certainly be a more efficient means of
securing immigrants.?News and Courier.
Facts for Parents.?A number of physi-1
cians, practicing in New York and Brooklyn,
having "compared notes," have come to the
conclusion that one leading cause of the mor-1
taHty among children arises from their being
left too much to the care of servants. It has
been observed that children who are taken care
of by their parents, undresned and put to bed
by them, and by them dressed in the morning, 1
and kept under a loving mother's eye during
the day, are, as a general thing, far more healthy,
good-tempered, and intelligent, than such as are
left almost exclusively to the care of aervantB.
In addition to this, it must be remembered that
most of the accidents which happen to children,
whereby they are seriously injured, and some?
times crippled, maimed and rendered idiotic,
occur through the negligence of those in whose
care they aro left by unthinking or unloving
parents.
? Book-keeping may be taught in a single
lesson of threo words: Never lend them.
(tali. Grant and Governor Davis.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser has here?
tofore fired aa much newspaper hot shot into
lien. Grant as any journal in the country. But
the enlightened editor of that paper, though
a man of vigorous prejudices or convictions
which take a strong individual bias, is likewise
a chivalric gentleman, and is as prompt to
recognize a handsome act in an enemy as he is
to deal him a masculine blow in debate.?
Touching the President's cool and deliberate
snuffing out of Gov. Davis, of Texas, the Ad?
vertiser says :
"We cannot commend the action of the
President in this matter too highly. It affords
us unusual satisfaction to be able to warmly
support the Executive authority of the United
States Government in this matter. He will
receive the unanimous approval of the whole
Conservative sentiment of the whole country,
while the more reasonable portion of the Rad?
ical party itself cannot fail to appreciate the
wisdom and justice and the respect for Repub?
lican institutions he has exhibited in this mat?
ter. This is the way to establish reconciliation
and peace on a basis of Law, Right and Reason,
and to renew a feeling of honest American
nationality."
These are honorable and truthful senti?
ments. They will be endorsed by an over?
whelming majority even of the people of the
South. They are just such as we have our?
selves expressed, and we are pleased to hear
them repeated by so able a contemporary.
It is the part of wisdom, especially for the
South, to cease a merely personal attack upon
Gen. Grant. His prompt interference in the
Texas embroglio was one of the most impor?
tant events, since the war, and did more to
cheer the hearts of those who have not yet
"despaired of the Republic" than any of recent
occurrence. We have given this act a gener?
ous and manly approval and recognize in the
Virginia Platform, so ably re-enunciated by
Gov. Kemper, the proper stand for our people
to take. It is perfectly justifiable for the South
to support all measures of the Administration
that are right in themselves and oppose only
such as are mischievous and wrong. We are
matter by whom administered. All personal
attacks upon the President are only hurtful to
ourselves. And when he does something really
liberal and patriotic, the very chivalry we
boast demands that he should be applauded for
it. Grant is a far better friend of the South
than his party. We believe the future will
manifest the truth of this opinion more and
more.?Augusta Constitutionalist.
An Unwelcome Guest.?Our young friend
Parker went round the other eve rung to visit
the two Miss Smiths. After conversing with
them awhile, Miss Susan excused herself for a
while, and went up stairs. Presently Parker
thought he heard her coming, and slipped be?
hind the door, and suggested that the other
Miss Smith should telfMiss Susan he had gc?-ie.
But it wasn't Susan ; it was old Mr. Smith in
his slippers. As he entered he looked around
and said to his daughter:
"Ah, ha! So Parker's gone. Good riddance.
I was just comin' down to keep my eye on him.
I hope he hasn't proposed to you. I didn't
want any such lantern-jawed, red-headed idiot
around here. He hasn't got the sense of a
ruta-baga turnip, or money enough to buy a
clean shirt. He gets none of my daughters.
I'll shake the life out of him if I catch him
here again, mind me."
Just as he concluded, Susan came down, and
not perceiving Parker, she said :
"Thank goodness, he's gone. That man is
enough to provoke a saint. I was awfully
afraid he was going to stay and spend the even?
ing. Mary Jane, 1 hope you didn't ask him to
come again ?"
Then Parker didn't know whether to stay
there or bolt, while Mary Jane looked as if she
would like to drop into the cellar. But Parker
finally walked out, and rushed to the entry,
seized his hat, shot down the front steps, and
went home meditating upon the emptiness of
human happiness, and the uncertainty of
Smiths. He has not called since, and his life
thus far has been unmolested by the head of
the Smith family.
Marriage.?There! We know we have
secured attention by a single word. Marriage
is the theme. The ladies will agree that the
times are slow in "marrying and giving in mar?
riage." This is the fault of both sexes, and
conies from the habit of both in keeping up
"style." Young ladies set their hearts too
much on costly dressing, and young men arc
too prone to Sybaritism. This keeps the sexes
from matrimony. Few women can look upon
marriage as involving mutual obligations;
hence we see too few wives who are truly help?
mates? too few young men who are disposed
to marry and accept the true, noble life of the
husband. While ladies maintain costly habits
of dress, they must be rich themselves or mar?
ry rich ; and* too many young men look upon
marriage as only possible in case they can form
a wealthy alliance. A young lady had better
marry an intelligent mechanic?a young man
with a positive capital in his trade?than a
young man who has a few thousands, which a
single year's disasters may sweep away. "Will
you accept my hand in the next dance?" asked
a young mechanic of Massachusetts of an aris?
tocratic Boston lady. "I never dance with
mechanics," was the sneering reply. The
young man lived to be Governor of Iiis State;
the young lady married a merchant, and lived
to take in plain sewing for a living.
Swindling as a Business.?The New York
Daily Graphic has been examining the doings
of the swindling firms which infest that city.
It is singular what an amount of credulity
these rogues find to live upon. It is a capital
that is apparently inexhaustible. What kind
of a mind the rural Western man has who ex?
pects to get a watch worth twenty dollars for
an expenditure of two dollars it is difficult to
discern. The fish bite, however, at the naked
cst bait, and the result is a perpetual catch.
Either the same persons write again after hav?
ing been once swindled, or the crop of imbe?
ciles is amazing. In one month ten thousand
letters have passed through the New York post
office, containing on an average one dollar each.
The sawdust swindle, the five-dollar sewing
machine, the lottery schemes, the counterfeit
money dodge, and a hundred others, recieve
their proportion. The police have a "black
list" of seven hundred names and aliases of
swindling firms, and nearly every day adds to
it. Some of these rascals are as hard to hold j
as so many eels, and have been traced for
months without avail.
? A schoolmaster delivered an address to his
scholars, of which the following passage is an '
example: "You boys ought to be kind to your j
little sister. I once knew a bad buy who j
struck his little sister a bl^w over the eye.
Although she didn't fade and die in the ?arly
Summer time, when the June roses were;
blooming with the sweet words of forgiveness on
her pallid lips, 6he rose up and hit him over
the head with a rolling pin, so that he couldn't
go to school for more than a month, on ac-1
1 count of not being able to put his hat on." '
striving, all of us, for good
The South?Her Dntj and Her Destiny.
For nearly fifteen years, the South?a coun?
try endowed with natural capabilities unsur
assed by any other in the world, has rested
eneath a cloud. For the first four years, she
was desolated by a terrible war, which was
followed for bitter years by an unquiet peace.
But her glorious land is left her. Tears and
regrets are unavailing and despondency is un?
becoming a people whose valor is historic. A
great work is to be done, and it must be begun
soon, or the generation which has beheld the
country in her sorrows, will pass away without
beholding her glory.
The crisis in her history is past; but her
people have not reached the fruition of their
sufferings. They possess a fair and a goodly
heritage; but it is practically a desolation.
What is a paradise without a bird !
Where there are tens there should be thou?
sands, and where there are thousands there
should be millions of prosperous and happy
people. The grass must grow, the grains must
spring up, the vine must be planted, the cotton
must bloom, the mines must give up their
treasures, the forests must bow down, and the
joyful noise of the artisan must be heard in
all the land.
All this is the fruit of work, and work is the
result of will. Resolve and the transformation
is begun ; abide and it is accomplished. Do
not wait to discuss results. Causes are first iu
order. The torrent does not debate its passage,
but arraying its forces, makes its pathway
through the mountain.
With an admiration for our noble country
exceeded only by our love of her people, we
invoke you to forget the past, and from this
hour to arise and build up her waste places.
A radiant future awaits you. You hold the
seat of an empire which, in the future years,
shall surpass the wealth and splendor of orien?
tal story. Begin the great work, and you shall
soon see the dawn of a millennium for our
beauteous and cherished land, which your
sacrifices in her? behalf shall fit you to enjoy.?
The South.
From the Sumter Watchman.
Make Bread to Eat Instead of Cotton.
Mr. Editor : The time of the year has
come when farmers should make their arrange?
ments for labor, and also their calculations for
setting their crops. In so doing we should take
into consideration the wants of non-producers
in our midst. It is a shame that they should
have to send hundreds of miles away to pur?
chase the necessaries of life when they could
be made so easily at home by those of us who
claim to be farmers. They cannot eat our cot?
ton as we do ourselves, for the re?son that they
hav'nt it to eat, and if they could get it they
would look much leaner than those of us who
have been accustomed to it so long.
I think that ice have tried the experiment
quite too long, and should now begin to make
bread and meat to eat, and keep our cotton to
sell. It is expected that the doctors, lawyers,
mechauics and merchants, should buy meat
and bread for themselves and families, but who
ever heard or read of a farmer having to do so?
Well, Jacob of old did, aud I suppose we are
no better than he was?many would say hardly
as good. I do not pretend to know the precise
nature of the sin that caused the vengeance of
God to be visited upon him and his people in
the shape of a famine, but for aught I know
they too planted too much cotton, and msde,
or tried to make, too little bread. At all
events, we are doing precisely as he did in one
respect; that is, we are eating bread that was
grown a long distance from us. If with proper
industry and energy we should fail to make
our provisions, we would be deserving of pity;
but where we do not plant to make enough, or
give the necessary attention, need we be sur?
prised that the just indignation of heaven
should again be visited upon us, and we be com?
pelled to eat cotton again, through the long,
long year of 1874.
OLD FOGY.
Cool.?A man sauntered into an apothecary
shop, in Portland, Me., the other morning, and
after spending a few moments looking into the
showcases, and turning a piece of tooth-pick
several times in his mouth, startled the clerk
with the question: "What's good to cure poi?
soning?" "What kind of poisoning?" asked
the clerk. "Well, laudanum poisoning," says
the stranger. "You see, the old woman took a
couple of Jtcaspoonsful of laudanum, and I
kinder thought I'd better drop into a pill shop
and see what's good for her." (All this in a
drawling voice.) "Here, John," shouted the
clerk, "put up a strong emetic as quick as you
can, and you, sir, take it home, give it to your
wife, follow it up with strong coffee, and call a
doctor." "A doctor !" says the man, taking the
medicine, "she don't waste money on doctors,
not if I know it."?Portland [Me.) Adverti?
ser.
? Josh Billings says, I have often been told
that the best way is to take a bull by the horns;
but I think in many instances I should prefer
the tail hold.
? Why do men show the ugliest features
when called upon to bestow a charity? God
loves a cheerful giver, and unto bim who gives
much will be given in return. Oh! that
Btingincss could be worked out of mankind.
? A young man who had just returned from
a sequestered village to the city, declared that
it was so still at night in the country tavern
where he lodged that you could hear a bed
tick.
? The first negro who ever held office in
Virginia, E. D. Rutlin, colored Sheiff of Alex?
andria, has been indicted by the grand jury of
his bailiwick for perjury and illegal voting.
? A schoolboy's composition on tobacco:
"This noxious weed was invented by a dis?
tinguished man named Walter Raleigh. When
the people first saw him smoking they thought
he was a steamboat, and as they had never
heard of such a thing as a steamboat, they
were frightened."
? A Titusvillo paper says a man called at
one of our shoe stores yesterday, and vainly
essayed to get on either Nos. 11, 12 or 13
Bhoes. The storekeeper then suggested that
he should put on a thinner pair of stockings
and try on the box.
? Missouri was fortunate in escaping the
curse of Reconstruction, although she fur?
nished a little army to the Confederacy, and
her progress since the war has been wonderful.
Her population has nearly doubled, her taxes
are light, and she began 1874 with ajbalance of
$831,598 in her treasury.
? "I don't like these shoes," said a lady cus?
tomer, "because the soles are so thick." "Is
that the onlv objection!" blandy asked the
Balesman. "Yes," was the reply. "Then,
madam, if you take the shoes, I can assure you
the objection will gradually wear away."
? The youngest man in the United. States
House of Representatives is Lyn eh, the colored
member from Mississippi. He was a slave at
Natchez until the Union army entered that
town, and had no education thei. He is but
twenty-sis years old.