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HOYT & 00., Proprietors ANDERSON 0. H., S. 0? THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1874. VOLUME IX.?NO. 36.
titen. Gary's Speech on the Tax-Payers' Con
. Tentten*
We make the annexed extract from the
speech of Gen. M. W. Gary, of Edgefield,
upon the report of the Committee on Immi?
gration, in which be discusses the various
modes of relief suggested for the amelioration
of our political condition. His remarks on
the subject of immigration will prove interest?
ing to our readers:
The third, and only feasible one, is the ques?
tion of introducing white Immigration into
this State. The facts set forth in the report,
Show that there is a growing spirit on the part
of the citizens of this State to offer the greatest
inducements to the immigrant We have now
thirty-three Counties, ten of which have white
majorities; and there are twelve others that
will soon have white majorities by the intro?
duction of white immigrants. And in this way
we will get control of the County and then of
the State Government. I believe that South
Carolina is the best State in the Union. I do
not say so from any provincial pride, bot I have
come to this conclusion after visiting most of
the States. We have the best soil and the
finest climate; our people are the descendants
of the Huguenots and Cavaliers, and have no
equal, save in the State of Virginia; and our
market crops are the most remunerative that
are known in the commercial world. I have
never despaired of the ultimate redemption of
our State. It is unmanly to despair. A coun?
try that has been so blessed by nature can
never continue under the control of the corrupt
and profligate. The material development of
this State, even under her present baa govern?
ment, is equal to any other State. When the
late panic came, the verdict of the business
men of South Carolina was the best in the
United States.
I believe the emancipation of our slaves was
a blessing-in disguise. I expressed this opin?
ion in 1868 in a speech at Edgefield Court
House. I then contended that slavery was a
constitutional curse to the entire South. At
the commencement of the war the South owned
four million slaves, and at an average value of
five hundred dollars each, they were worth two
billions of dollars. This then was the amount
that we had invested in perishable property.
A generation only lives about thirty years; so
you see that the people of the South, at the
expiration of about every thirty years, boxed
up their national wealth,* to the amount of two
billions of dollars, in a pine coffin, painted it
black, and buried it six feet beneath the sod.
Such was the short-sighted system of the South,
which was in violation of every maxim of
Political Economy that looks to national wealth
and prosperity. The people of the free States
invested their capital in real estate, railroads,
shipping, banks, manufactories, and in fact
everything that was not perishable property.
Hence it was, before the war, that the inhospi?
table climate and sterile soil of Massachusetts
had made its citizens richer than the genial
climate and prolific soil of South Carolina.
You already see the effects of the liberation of
capital that arises from the sale of your crops,
which was formerly invested in negroes; you
now invest it in improvements upon your real
estate, reducing the number of acres cultivated
and increasing the yield of your crops, by the
use of the best fertilizers, and labor-saving im?
plements, and in the adornment and beautify?
ing of your recently desolated homes.
Each immigrant that you Introduce, as com?
puted by political economists, will be worth
one thousand dollars to the State; so if you
are actuated by no other motive than adding
to the productive wealth of the State, you must
aid in their introduction.
The chronic discontent and constant whin?
ing which characterizes a great many of our
citizens, will never bring back your lost for?
tunes or relieve the State from its present bad
government.
"To mourn a mischief that Is past ana gone
Is the next way to draw new mischief on."
Let each citizen set himself seriously sad
patiently to work to overcome our difficulties,
and my word for it, we will be bound to succeed.
Quit harping on the past, and only look to the
glorious future.
The completion of the various Railroads
throughout the State, and the projection of
others, is an evidence that the true spirit of
enterprise and progress has not been extin?
guished. The Air Line Railroad and the Col?
umbia and Augusta Railroad perfect the direct
communication between New York and New
Orleans. The projected Road which is to put
Charleston and Port Royal in direct communi?
cation with' Chicago, and other great cities of
the North .West, will add greatly to onr mate?
rial development. The completion of the
Railroad from Augusta to Port Royal gives us
the benefit of the best harbor on the Atlantic,
deep enough to float the largest ships that
traverse the ocean. And the recent establish?
ment of a line of Steamers from Port Royal
to Europe foreshadows the prosperity of this
new city. When these various Roads are com?
pleted, our State will be geographically superi?
or to any in the Union, for we will have two of
the largest railroad routes intersecting each
other in this State, and the probability is that
they will be completed in a few years.
I do not advocate the introduction of white
immigrants from any unkind feeling towards
the negro. I remember with a proper sense of
gratitude, the many faithful acts they perform?
ed during the war, and it is true they have
been misled by the adventurers from the North
and our native scalawags. I am willing for
them to remain here, but not as the dominant
or controlling race. This country was discov?
ered by the white race, it has been settled by
the" white race, and there are in the United
States thirty millions of whites to four millions
of negroes. The white man's natural sympa?
thies go with his race. It is the instinct of
race that God has placed in the breast of every
Caucasian. In order to effect the change we
desire, we must have but one idea, tlie intro?
duction of good white immigrants, such as will
make honest and law abiding citizens, such as
will not seek to plunder us under the forms of
law. The Romans had emblazoned on their
flags "Carthage must be destroyedit was the
Srand idea of the army and the people. The
ream of Alexander the Great was to conquer
the world, and he accomplished it; of Napo?
leon to dismember and conquar all Europe.
Napoleon the Third's leading idea was to
become the Emperor of the French, and he
succeeded.
BiBmark's life has been devoted to the Unifi?
cation of Germany; it is now an accomplished
fact.
Yon, gentlemen, must address your energies
to overcome the present negro majority. You
must do so, or prove yourselves unworthy mem?
bers of the Caucasian race, unworthy of the
past record of South Carolina.
? The ladies' question?what is the next
spring fashion ?
? It is almost worthy of Artemus Ward,
that heroic declaration of Brigham Young's
that "if necessary to the building up of the
kingdom, I could bury all my wives without a
eigh or a tear."
Interesting and Suggestive Ideas of the Sit
j nation,
j We publish the following editorial from the
Springfield Republican as very significant of
the signs of the times:
It is now some two or three years since the
ablest of Southern newspapers first broached a
rather startling idea?viz., thatGeneral Grant's
second term, if he got it, would be very likely
to witness the birth and growth of a new ad?
ministration party at the South?a party of
white men who had owned niggers and worn
the grey?a party of a sort never before seen
in our politics. The elements of such a party
were all there it said. Of the military men
who took part in the rebellion, many bad lost
their prooerty, many had lost their old belief
in republican institutions, many had lost both.
There was a wide-spread feeling that the battle
of the Constitution, of State rights, of the old
American ideas, had been fought and lost;
that centralization was an accomplished fact,
and the downfall of the republic only a ques?
tion of f me. There was a wide-spread dispo?
sition to accept the situation in the fullest sense
of the words, and to sacrifice everything else
to the achievement, if possible, of a material
prosperity. General Grant was net personally
unpopular with the Southern soldiers. He bad
not been identified with abolitionism like Mr.
Greeley; his ante bellum politics, so far as he
had any, were known to have been of the or?
thodox Southern and pro-slavery type. He
had shown magnanimity at Appomattox, and,
later, when the civilians at Washington were
for bringing the Southern Generals to account.
If re-electea, he would be in a position to be
of great help or hindrance to the South in its
struggle to recover itself Given almost uni?
versal poverty, despondency, recklessness, what
more natural than that a large percentage of
the ex-rebels should see in a fresh surrender to
Grant the best thing left to them, if not the
one chance for mending the evils of the pres?
ent, and even, in time, retrieving material los?
ses of the past ?
There are some grounds for suspecting that
the Louisville Oourier-Joumal knew what it
was talking about. Predictions that had a
rather wild and improbable look in 1872 read
Suite differently by the light of 1874. We
on't say that they are fully accomplished, or
in visible process of accomplishment But we
do say that a number of things have happened,
and are happening, which are in the direct
line of :i>e Courier-Journals vindication.
It is a fact, we believe, that of the military
leaders of the South, the greater number either
voted for General Grant at the last Presidential
election or did not vote at all. Also that, since
the election, quite a number of them have
taken occasion to publicly vindicate a friendly
feeling toward him. Also, that influential
Southern journals, heretofore Democratic in
politics, have altered their tone in speaking of
him personally or of his administration.
It will be remembered, further, that the
Conservative or'"white man's" party of Vir?
ginia, at its last State Convention, went a little
out of its way to disclaim hostility to this ad?
ministration. Mr. Mosby, quondam guerrilla,
but now an intimate friend and confidential
adviser of the President, has informed the
country that this disclaimer was his idea, and
that the Virginia Conservatives are now all
"Grant men," or in a fair way to become so.
Some of our readers know?others may like?
ly have overlooked or forgotten the item?that
Mr. Kemper, ex-General C. S. A., now Govern?
or of Virginia, lately paid the President a visit.
Since his return to "Richmond, he has had a
good deal to say about this visit. He tells
everybody that the President is all right, has
sound ideas, and is a friend to the?white and
Couservative?South. We quote a couple of
sentences from the Bichmond Dispatch:
"Gov. Kemper, it is said, told Gen. Grant
that he thought the current of public opinion
in the country generally seemed opposed to
extreme Republican measures. The President
concurred with Gen. Kemper's views, and said
that he did not mean in the future to lend his
influence to any but liberal measures to the
Southern country, and especially to Virginia."
In his latest message, the President said a
good word?several of them, in fact?for cer?
tain pet Southern projects looking toward a
grand carnival of ditch-digging ana mountain
tunneling, at the expense of the national treas?
ury. If he had been desirous to cultivate
popularity in that section, this was a very ob?
vious stroke of policy.
It is generally understood and believed that
he regrets his share in the Louisiana blunder,
and that he was recently on the point of asking
Congress to order a new election there. He
succumbed, for the time being, to the adverse
pressure brought to bear by Senator Morton
and other gentlemen who had committed them?
selves too far to admit of a graceful retreat.
But, according to late special dispatches of the
New York Herald, he has since told Southern
Congressmen in conversation that he thinks
the carpet-bag element in their section has
done the party more harm than good, and that
he means to be shy of it in future in making
his appointments.
We are not disposed to attach to these straws
an exaggerated importance ; still less, to turn
alarmists. We are not at all in that line. But
we find them rather interesting and suggestive.
Information to Newspaper Subscribers.
?There a great many people who do not un?
derstand their obligations to newspapers.?
Numbers of them think they can take a paper
as long as they desire on a credit and have it
discontinued at will and without settling for it.
In this they are greatly mistakeu. We give
the law upon the subject as follows:
Subscribers who do not give express notice
to the contrary, are considered wishing to con?
tinue their subscription.
If subscribers order the discontinuance of
their periodicals the publishers may continue
to send them until all arrearages are paid.
If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their
periodicals from the office to which they are
directed they are held responsible until they
have settled their bills, and ordered them dis?
continued.
If subscribers move to other places without in?
forming publishers, and the papers are sent to
the former direction, thev are held responsible.
The Courts have decided that "refusing to
take periodicals from the office, or removing
and leaving them uncalled for is prima facie
evidence of intentional fraud."
Any person who receives a newspaper and
makes use of it, whether he has ordered it or
not, is held in law to be a subscriber. ?
If subscribers pay in advance, they are bound
to give notice to the publisher, at the end of
their time, if they do not wish to continue I
taking it; otherwise the publisher is authorized
to send it on, and the subscribers will be re?
sponsible until an express notice, with pay?
ment of all arrears, is sent to the publisher.
Subscribers should also remember that in
ordering the direction of their paper changed '
from one post office to another, they should be
very particular to state the name of the post
office the paper is sent to as well as the one j
they desire it changed to. '
Fernando Wood Arraigns the Republican
Party.
Hon. Fernando Wood, of New York, recent?
ly delivered an able and exhaustive speech in
Congress, in which he arraigned the Republi?
can party for its corruption, mismanagement
and extravagance. He concluded with an
array of specifications against the government,
which is contained in the following extract:
I have thus briefly presented some of the
errors for which the Republican party are re?
sponsible. Were I to give them all a day's
time would be consumed in the enumeration.
To that party and the Congress and adminis?
tration it nas created may be charged all the
public evils of the times as well as the general
Erivate destitution and paralysis of trade. It
as diffused throughout the nation erroneous
and pernicious ideas of the nature of our gov?
ernment and taught the rising generation that
extravagance and not economy is the road to
wealth and happiness. It has depreciated
public morals, and taught that by a pretext of
philanthropy, Christianity and temperance,
the greatest public crimes could be committed
and receive condonement in consequence. By
its policy our great national resources have not
been developed on a sound principle of pro?
duction.
Extravagance, profligacy, demoralization and
general instability prevade the whole body
politic. Everything is artificial and uncertain.
Nothing is stable in property. We have neith?
er permanency nor safety. The earnings of a
life of probity and purity offer no security as
against the avarice of the officials it has placed
in office. To satisfy its thirst for gain and to
continue its partisan dominancy all men and
all things must fall, if necessary, the great
leading objects being power and plunder.?
These two words comprise the motto on its
banner under which it fights, and by which it
expects to maintain power.
In conclusion I present a series of allega?
tions implicating this party. I defy contradic?
tion as to the accuracy and truth of every one
of them :
First?Throngh the government of its crea?
tion it has maintained a large standing army
at great expense during a time of peace.
Second?It has issued and continued a de?
preciated, irredeemable paper currency called
legal tenders, without taking one step toward
redemption.
Third?It has usurped by force the State
authority in several States, producing anarchy
and despotism and repudiation of their mon?
eyed obligations.
Fourth?It has increased the civil list from
44,500 persons in 1860 to 86,660 persons in
1878.
Fifth?It has instituted a system of espion?
age and oppression in the execution of the
revenue laws which has resulted in enriching
Custom House and other officials without aid?
ing the public treasury.
Sixth?It has created and"maintained direct
taxation which, until its advent to power, has
been unknown in this country since the close
of the American Revolution.
Seventh?It has stealthily absorbed the whole
government power of the country at the federal
capital, until all State interests are made sub?
servient and dependent upon its will.
Eighth?It has driven from circulation gold
and silver, the only constitutional medium, and
notwithstanding its large receipts in coin from
customs, duties and mines does nothing toward
its restoration.
Ninth?In disregard of the policy adopted
by other leading nations, it has permitted the
export to foreign countries of about Si ,000,000,
000 of the precious metals, instead of retaining
it here for its necessities and the restoration of
a sound currency.
Tenth?-It has increased the salaries of all
officials, including that of the President, which
it still maintains, though industries are op?
pressed and poverty goes starving through our
streets.
Eleventh?It has maintained a protective
tariff in the interest of a class, to the detri?
ment of the whole people.
Twelfth?It has, since 1869, anticipated the
public debt not due for tweuty years, and paid
$40,000,000 for the privilege of doing so, al?
though the immediate obligations of the gov?
ernment were dishonored and the Treasury is
now exhausted.
Thirteenth?It has inaugurated a fatal policy
in its treatment of the Indians?part peace and
part war?by dealing out moral suasion to the
most war-like and certain death to the most
peaceful, thus adding to the difficulties and
expenses of a proper settlement of this serious
question.
Fourteenth?To divert public attention from
the extent of the profligacy and extravagance
of its horde of officials it pretends the estab?
lishment of a rule of civil service reform,
which it applies altogether to a few clerks in
Washington, where there are no votes to be
had, but ignores elsewhere where party service
as a reward for office is required.
Fifteenth?It has diffused erroneous ideas of
the nature of our government to the youthful
and uninformed, and taught by example a
general looseness of public and private morali?
ty which tends to subvert the permanency of
our institutions and loosens the foundation
stones of social order and public well being.
Col. Richard Lathers.?The Augusta
Constitutionalist says: "The people of South
Caroliua, and more particularly the people of
Charleston, are under great obligations to Col.
Richard Lathers. He has inadu, by long odds,
the most powerful, practical, and, we may add,
eloquent appeals for the salvation of the civil?
ization oi the Palmetto State. His public
career has been, since the war, one untiring
effort to lift the incubus from that Common?
wealth, and, we have reason to know, his en?
deavors have made great and important con?
quests of enlightened Northern opinion in
South Carolina. In private life he is the most
useful of citizens. A man of culture, wealth
and refinement?surrounded, too, by a most i
interesting family?his splendid hospitality to
all who come to Charleston and get within his
magic circle is something to be remembered.
We do not wonder that the distinguished j
Northern visitors now journeying through the!
South were received at his elegaut mansion in
a style worthy of the ancient renown of Caro?
lina, and that they should have been pleasantly
impressed with the noble Charleston merchants
and professional men gathered together, in his
own inimitable and royal way. Such a man as
this is a public benefactor. Would that every |
Southern city could boast of a Lathers, who
knows so well how to dispense, for the common
?ood, the bountiful gifts bestowed by Provi
ence and won by his superior talent and
energy."
? A solid old farmer talks thus about his i
boys: From sixteen to twenty, they knew
more than he did; at twenty-five, they knew
as much; at thirty, they were* willing to hear
what he had to say; at thirty-five, they asked
his advice; and he thinks when they get to be
forty, that they will actually acknowledge that
the old man does know something. 1
The Worst Government in the World.
The South Carolina Government is the worst
in the world. In knavery and corruption, it is
as bad as the Tweed regime, and it suporadds a
density of ignorance to which the old New
York ring was a stranger. Tweed's men could
read and write, but those are arts to which
many of the South Carolina legislators have
not attained. This ignorance is especiallv dan?
gerous in a public officer clothed with power
over his fellow-men, for it renders him an easy
dupe of the intelligent villains; and manifests
itself, first of all, in the narrowest and most
persecuting spirit toward the political minority.
The Tweedf gang robbed us, but in a jolly, un
malicious way; they never selected a special
olass for plunder and oppression. But the
thieves in South Carolina have a fiendish hate
of the land-owners?a hate born of ignorance
and prejudice, and kept red hot by calculating
scoundrels who lead the negro legislators.
Whenever a negro member hesitates to pile on
fresh taxes, by way of providing new stealings,
ho is toid by the white Mephistophles at his
ear, "Keep up the taxes, and force these land?
owning aristocrats to sell their lands." This
olicy of revenge and plunder conjoined has
riven up the annual taxes to one half of the
gross income of average plantations in South
Carolina. Very many owners have been una?
ble to raise the money to pay these monstrous
charges, and the State has sold their lands and
turned them out, with barbarous haste. In
1872, L68,523 acres were declared forfeited to the
State by the non-payment of taxes ; and over
this sequestration of estates and their promised
division among the idle and dissolute of both
colors, there is great rejoicing at Columbia.
We trust that all persons at the North have
read, or will not fail to read, the strong and
sensible remonstrances adoptod by the Tax
Payers' Convention now assembled at the
South Carolina capital. That body is composed
of Republicans and Democrats, white and col?
ored, rich and poor, ex-Con federates and
staunch original Unionists?having but one
common bond between them, ana that one,
honesty; and the accuracy and sincerity of
their statements deliberately made and put
forth cannot be impeached. They say, in brief,
that a majority of the legislature, who impose
the taxes, own no property whatever, and that
those who pay the taxes have no voice in the
government; the annual State expenses have
increased from $-100,000 before the war to ?2,000,
000 at the present time, the public debt has ad?
vanced in six years from ?5,000,000 to ?16,000,
000, and that, too, without improving the pub?
lic works or adding a dollar to the pulttic prop?
erty ; legislative committees make large sums
in bribes for passing private bills ; Judges livo
in fear of removal by the Legislature, and do
not dare to violate their wishes; juries are
packed by the three State officials, who are
tools of the Governor; offices are bartered away
in the Executive Department; elections are
conducted by persons appointed in the inter?
ests of State office-holders, and the returns are
under their absolute control, and, therefore, it
might be added, are doctored to suit necessi?
ties. This is a bare outline of the terrible in?
dictment presented by the Tax-Payers' Con?
vention to the earnest consideration of Con?
gress and of the whole people. Proofs, in facts
and figures, accompany it. There is no gain?
saying its truth. Honest men, here and there,
who have been elected to office, under the false
impression that their sympathies were with the
thieving majority, denounce the State Govern?
ment in the strongest terms. Congressman
Elliot, (colored,) in a speech at Columbia, the
other day, did not mince words, ilo boldly
attacked the infamous abuses of all legislative
trusts, and called upon his friends (particularly
the colored ones) to abandon their plunder?
ing, persecuting, agrarian schemes. He made
thase forcible remarks: "If the wealthy man
sutlers, the laborer sutlers tenfold ; if Iiis taxes
bring burdens, ho makes them up from his
laborers." This shoufd be the key-note of re?
form in South Carolina. The politico-econom?
ical truths should be made clear?and we see
that the tax-payers have not omitted them
from their able memorial?that the cost of liv?
ing is r aised by the addition of the taxes to
the price of commodities, and that the poor are
made poorer every day and more nopeless of
rising above the condition of mere laborers.
The rogues in the Legislature, while ostensibly
conducting their war against land-owners and
those who are supposed to have money that can
be squeezed out of them in taxes, are still more
than enemies of the poor. The humblest
blacks and whites stiller from the wolves of
Columbia, and should gladly join forces with
the tax-payers to exterminate them politically.
It does seem to us, that if these truths?show?
ing the identity of suffering of tho rich and
poor, in consequence of legislative tyranny
and robbery?could be made known by good
public speakers, white and colored, through
tho length and breadth of South Carolina, the
State could be redeemed at last from the most
hideous of rings. It is most true, as the me?
morialists say, that Congress virtually estab?
lished tho government under which Carolina
groans, and, therefore, that Congress ought to
relieve her somehow. But wo think the job of
purgation would be clearer and more satisfac?
tory and stay longer done, if it could be wrought
out by the tempestuous and irresistible upris?
ing of South Carolinians themselves.?New
York Journal of Commerce.
Disgraceful Scenes.?The General As?
sembly of South Carolina is on the eve of clos?
ing its arduous duties. (?) Its protracted
sessions (extra and regular) have been eventful
in measures as varied as the contents of Pan?
dora's box ; many being of questionable char?
acter, as many more of useless expense, and
but few fruitful with good to the State. There
have been scenes, too, that presented the hu?
morous and ridiculous character of the Solons ;
but "the last scene of all, which closes this
strange, eventful history," was the shameful
and indecorous proceedings at the session last
evening.
A bill to amend the Act relative to the pay
of members was being discussed, when a col?
ored member from Orangcburg?Abram Dan
J nsrlv?who was, apparently, very much under
the influence of liquor, obtained the floor, and
used such improper language as to force the
Speaker repeatedly to call him to order. This
excited Dannerly's ire, and increased his foul
and harsh language; when the Speaker was
compelled to order the Sergeant-at-Arms to re?
move the offending member. That officer be?
ing absent, Assistant Simons attempted to per?
form that duty, but was resisted?Dannerly
even drawing a weapon. Here arose a scene
of confusion. Henry Riley, another colored
member, from Orangeburg, went to the assis?
tance of Dannerly, and a row at once ensued.
Members crowded around, desks and chairs
were upset, oaths and loud foul-mouthed ex?
pressions were to be heard, and finally a mus?
cular member pushed forward, seized one of
the offending members, and bore him by main
force out of the hall. Quiet was then restored.
Resolutions of censure and expulsion were then
introduced, the offenders were brought before
the bar of the House, and finally expelled?
Kiley by a vote of 66 to 41, and Dannerly 71
to 18. Mr. Crittenden, one of the Conserva?
tive members, attempted to excuse Dannerly I
on the score of intoxication?stating that he
was usually a verv quiet and peaceable man,
but that the whiskey demon had possession of
him. The House, however, felt that the indig?
nity was too great, and acted as above recorded.
?Phoenix, \Uh inst.
_The game law of Missouri forbids the de- j
stroying of birds' nests, but has no proteotion
for the birds. Such wisdom is worthy of Con-1
gress. I
? A Cincinnati editor suggests that as
Chang and Eng's other name was Bunker, they |
ought to be buried on Buuker Hill. There's
a monument already there. i
What an Office-Holder Thinks of South Car?
olina.
The subjoined extracts are taken from a let?
ter lately written by Dr. J. F. Ensor, Superin?
tendent of the State Lunatic Asylum, to the
New York Tribune. The Doctor's advice is
sound and seasonable:
The colored people are beginning to have
more confidence in their former masters; and
the prejudices that once existed against persons
who happened to be born outside of the geo
raphical boundaries of South Carolina are fast
ying out. Some of the best friends that
Northern men have are to be found among the
"old citizens." The New York Tribune, a pa?
per whose presence in any family in the South
a few years ago would have been considered a
death-knell, now numbers among its warmest
friends and strongest advocates hundreds of
men who have always been heretofore the most
bitter enemies both of itself and the doctrines
it has taught. I believe that the Southern
people are not only willing but anxious that
Northern men, regardless of politics or creed,
should settle among them, and by their perse?
verance, their enterprise, and their capital,
strive to devekp the wealth and promote the
material interests of their much-loved coun?
try.
I would advise you, as I would every one
who is looking for a new field for operations,
to come South. We have all the advantages
of a new country, with the addition of many
others which constitute the civilization, refine?
ment and culture of the most populous, wealthy
communities in the world. And in this latter
respect I do not believe that there is any part
of the South that has any advantage over South
Carolina. In a letter like this I caunot, of
course, enter into details, but must speak in
general terms. There are here a thousand and
one ways in which an enterprising man may
apply his industry and direct his energies, and
with as gratifying results as in any other part
of the globe. Besides, we have as sweet a
climate as the sun ever brightened. ' All that
the South needs is an honest, enterprising, in?
dustrious and intelligent population to make it
the richest and fairest spot on earth. And,
now that slavery no longer spreads her dark
pall over the land, there is no reason why she
should not rapidly approach that high state of
wealth, power and happiness that nature's
God basso richly endowed her with the means
of attaining to.
Now, should you determine to cast your lot
amongst us, let me advise you to eschew the
idea thrown out in your letter of obtaining
office. The public service has become so cor?
rupt that it is almost impossible for a man to
serve the State and maintain an unblemished
character. Moreover, if strict honesty be ob?
served, office-holding is the most unprofitable
business a man can pos3ibly engage in. My
own experience, at least, shows that to be the
fact. Three years and a half ago 1 accepted
office under the State Government. At that
time I had considerable property, and owed no
man a dollar. To-day I am $10,000 in debt,
my property is under mortgage, and I do not
own a dollar's worth of property of any kiud
that I did not own when I came into office.
The tax books will show that I really own less,
and I know I have lived as economically as was
consistent with the dignity of my position. It
is true there are others who have been more
fortunate. Perhaps they are better managers
than I am. But, be that as it may, the South
doesn't ne?d office-holders. It needs honesty,
industry, enterprise and capital, and any man
who will come here armed with any or all these
qualifications will find his labors as richly re?
warded here as in any other part of the coun?
try, and as pleasant a home and as sincere
friends.
Methodist General Conference.
The Louisville Commercial has this to say
with reference to the General Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to be
held in Louisville, Ky., the first of May :
It will be composed of nearly five hundred
members, half of them the most distinguished
ministers of the denomination, and half its
most prominent lay members. The assemblage
of the Conference will attract besides many
hundreds of visitors interested, in its delibera?
tions, and anxious to see its members. The
whole South will send representatives to Louib
ville, and our city is not likely again in a long
time to have an opportunity to form and ce?
ment so many valuable friendships as this
meeting will give opportunity for. The Gen?
eral Conference is notlikeiy to meet here again
for a generation. Its sessions are held only
once in four years. The convention which
?framed the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, at the time when the great division in
the Methodist Episcopal Church took place,
met here in 1344, thirty years ago. Consider?
ing the rapid growth of the country, it is
likely that it will be more than thirty years
before it again becomes Louisville's turn to
entertain another General Conference.
The meeting of the General Conference will
be especially interesting, because it will be the
first at which accredited representatives from
the Methodist Episcopal Church will be pres?
ent, the last General Conference of that body,
held at Brooklyn, having provided, for such
representatives. It would be a gratifying coin?
cidence if Louisville, which was the place
where the division in this great religious body
took definite and prominent form, should be
the place where a movement for re-union was
inaugurated.
As we said abovo, the Conference will con?
tinue in session for a month. During its con?
tinuance a daily paper, under the editorial
management of Rev. Dr. T. 0. Summers, of
the Nashville Advocate, will be published for
the purpose of furnishing a full official report
of its proceedings.
How Long to Sleep.?The fact is that as
life becomes concentrated, and its pursuits
more eager, short sleep and early rising become
impossible. We take more sleep than our an?
cestors, and we take more because we want
more. Six hours sleep will do very well for a
mason or bricklayer, or any other man who has
no exhaustion but that produced by manual la?
bor ; the sooner he takes it after his labor is over
the better. But for the man whose labor is
mental, the stress of work is on his brain and
nervous system, and for him who is tired in
the evening with a day of mental application
neither "early to bed" nor "early to rise" is
wholesome. He keens letting down to the
level of repose. The longer the interval be
i tween the active use of the brain and his re?
tirement to bed, the better his chance for sleep
and refreshment. To him an hour after mid?
night is probably as good as two hours before it,
and even then his sleep will not so completely
and quickly restore him as it will his neighbor
who is physically tired. He must not only go to
bed later, but lie longer. His best sleep prob?
ably lies in the early morning hours, when all
the nervous excitement has passed away, and
he is in absolute rest.
? A Philadelphia gentleman advertises a
soap that is destined to wipe out the National
debt. There is probably some "Jyc" about it.
Narrow-Gange Bail ways.
The friends of the narrow*gauge system of
railways in this country have been actively
though quietly at work during the past two or
three years, with practical results which will
surprise those who have hot closely observed
the progress making in this new and important
movement. There are at this time in the dif?
ferent States and Territories no less than thir?
ty-eight different narrow-gauge roads either
completed or in the course of construction,
and all of them in actual operation, having an
aggregate of 989 miles of track already laid,
and which, if finished according to the plans
on which they have been begun, will give an
aggregate of 3,751 miles of narrow-gauge road.
In a late number of the American Manujactu
rers' Journal we find a mass of interesting sta?
tistics on this subject showing more clearly
than anything which has hitherto appeared the
progress of the narrow-gauge system, especially
in the South and the far West. Of the thirty
eight roads referred to above the longest is the
Denver and Rio Grande, which has 159 miles
of completed track, and is to be extended to a
total length of 870 miles; the Cairo and St.
Louis Road, which is to be 150 miles in length,
144 miles of track being already laid; the
Utah Northern Road of 160 miles, with 70
miles completed; and the Kansas Central
Road, 560 miles long, 65 miles of which have
been completed. Besides the roads in the
United States, there are in the British posses?
sions of North America five narrow-gauge rail?
ways having an aggregate of 456 miles of com?
pleted road, and which when finished will
make an aggregate of 811 miles. In addition
to the roads partially or wholly built which are
in actual operation in the United States, there
are a large number of others already in con?
struction. The Manufacturers' Journal gives
the names of twenty-two of these which are to
be from 10 to 950 miles in length, eight of them
being over 200 miles long. It also gives the
names of thirty other companies organized to
build narrow-gauge roads. So far as reports
have been made concerning the practical work?
ing of the narrow-gange system its results have
been highly encouraging. The Denver and
Rio Grande road for the first ten months of
1873 showed net traffic earnings amounting to
nearly 49 per cent, of the gross receipts. The
Torronto, Grey and Bruce road in Canada for
the year ending June 30, 1873, reports net
traffic earnings of 34 per cent., and the Toron?
to and Nipissing for the same year of 39? per
cent, on the gross. Th^ Arkansas Central
Road, for its short line of 64 miles completed,
showed net earnings at the rate of $2,000 per
mile per year. We do not know what this
road cost, but the first division of the Denver
and Rio Grande Road cost only $13,500 per
mile, with its equipment, while the Canada
roads are said to have averaged $15,000 per
mile.
Whatever opinion railroad men may unite
on in respect to narrow-gauge tracks for the
great established thoroughfares of traffic, there
can be no doubt that their introduction will
tions of the country where railroad: facilities
are required, but where the capital is wanting
to build roads on the expensive plan, in gener?
al use.
Speakikg Out.?At a recent serenade in
Charleston, Congressman Ransier delivered
himself in substance as follows:
Among other things, he said that rumors of
misrule and rascality in South Carolina were
presenting themselves from every side; that
these reports were not confined to Democratic
sources, but that denunciations had been and
were still being made by members of the Re?
publican party. That there was truth in these
rumors, he would not attempt to deny; that
there was corruption in the judiciary, and that
the party had elected to office men who, to use
no harsher terms, were unmitigated scoundrels,
every one knew too well; but the course to re?
dress these wrongs was not by public denun?
ciations, but rather by caucus and party con?
vention. Let each man, he said, act as if by
his simple vote he could wipe out the stain
which rests upon the party, and the evils which
so grievously afflict us. Let each man feel
that upon him individually rests the work of
reform; that for every dollar of the public
money fraudulently used, for every school
house closed?in short, for every wrong forced
upon the people, the community at large would
I hold him responsible. This was the way to
demonstrate that reconstruction was not a
failure, and that the colored man was fitted in
! every respect to assist in the government of the
country. Ee warned the colored people and
the Republican party at large against treating
with indifference the rights of others. The
best and only way to keep themselves in power,
and to keep unfringed the rights and privi?
leges which they now enjoyed, was by a recog?
nition of the universality of these rights.
Moke Reading Farmers.?One thing is
certain, and that is there has never been a
papers as now. Notwithstanding the hard
times, they will read. They think the news?
papers are as necessary for the mind, as food is
for the body?that one should be stinted no
more than the other. So far as the agricul?
tural papers in the West are concerned, the
number of readers within a twelve-month has
been doubled, and newspapers generally have
largely increased their patronage. It may be
owing to the Grange excitement; but any
excitement which causes farmers to read more,
and think more, and talk more, is beneficial.
The very association of farmers in the Grange
awakens their minds and leads them to desire
to know what is going on in the world. What
folks have got to say about them, and all that
sort ofthing. They want to hear both sides
of the question, and patronize papers that they
may find out all about the stir they are crea?
ting. They feel more important, and that
they may be able to defend themselves from
opposition. The farmers' brain in the aggre?
gate overbalance the brains of all other classes
combined. Now, if they can be made as sharp
and active, and effective, they are all right
They seem to appreciate the importance of this,
aud are posting up. They think that perhaps
it will be as well to use the brains a little more
and the muscle a little less?that it will pay
them as well to cultivate less cotton and more
brains. We are glad farmers are feeling this
way, and feel certain it will redound to their
material, intellectual and moral interests.?
Exchange.
Very Significant.?The last number of
Harper's Weekly contains a caricature by Nast
representing the disgraceful condition of that
negro mob called the South Carolina Legisla?
ture. Two black legislators are engaged in a
personal altercation, while the goddess Colum?
bia, in the Speaker's chair, warns the gentle?
men from Dahomey and the gentlemen from
Ashantee that if th?y do not behave themselves
more properiy they will be relegated to hack
seats. When Harper leaves off caricaturing
white men, and turns Nast loose upon political
negroes, it is a pretty big straw showing the
way of the wind in certain quarters.
be of immense value iu develop!
time when the farmers