Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Treatment of the South. It has long been apparent to every practical mind that the prescriptive policy pursued to? ward the Southern States since the close of the war must necessarily result in vast injury to the material interests of the country at large. The prosperity and resources of twelve millions of people, accustomed to produce the staples most in demand abroad, and which furnished the basis of a large part of the foreign ex? changes, could not be struck down without a very serious reaction. .. .The effects of that harsh policy have been felt throughout the crisis of the last twelve months, and may be said to have added greatly to its intensity. The Southern States have not only been crushed down by the weight of some two hundred millions of debt, created by car? pet-bag Governments, from which there is no hope of relief except through repudiation, but they are kept impoverished by the successors of these thieves, who appropriate to their own use all the revenues derived from the extremest forms of ruinous taxation. Instead, therefore, of contributing a just proportion to the general burdens, and of adding to the national wealth, these rich States have become almost bankrupt, and are wholly tenable to furnish the markets they once did for Northern manufacturers and Western pro? duce. As a necessary consequence these inter? ests have greatly suffered from this cause, and they in their turn have involved others, thus heightening greatly the present derangement of all business. It was in the power of the President and his Administration to have at once reconciled the South to its true relations to the Union, and at least partially restored the former condition of prosperity without compromising any of the great results which had been achieved through the stern arbitrament of the sword. All they asked was to be let alone, to be allowed to re 5air the wastes of the war, and to accoramo ate themselves to the changed condition of things Drought about by the amendments to the Constitution. They had had enough of bloody, strife, political contention, and folly. This was the sentiment of the masses of the people, and it was natural after their bitter experience. Instead of conciliation, a perverse ingenuity was exercised tjp make odious and oppressive laws, and to place their execution in the bauds of adventurers, rogues, and robbers, who made them doubly offensive by outrage and oppres? sion. If the President had turned L:s face away from the carpei-baggers and their con? federates, exacted anything like justice, and required accountability, the whole system would have fallen into disgrace and disolution. It was maintained solely by the support re? ceived at Washington and by the confidence in an impunity for any and every crime. The plundered people appealed in vain for relief. They were answered with Federal bay? onets, to sustain charges made by their oppres? sors. The party wanted Senators and Repre sentativos to carry special legislation and to offset the opposition that might threaten its success; and those States were therefore con? verted into rotton boroughs for the Claytons, Spencers, Pattersons, Sawyers, Pools, Kelloggs, Caseys, and the like, who have been white slaves of the President for the last five years, and the pillars of the Republican faith. Like the Bourbons, the Administration and its supporters have forgotton none of their ma? lignity, and learned nothing by this long and costly experience. Look at the situation of Louisiana to-day, with all her natural wealth, and ability to be among the foremost of the Southern States. New Orleans, instead of be? ing the mart of commerce and the centre of a vast trade that it was until this blight fell upon it, lies prostrate under the heel of a vulgar usurper, with decay visible everywhere. Hardly a voice of remonstrance was raised during the session of seven months against this infamous usurpation which, without even the# pretext of a doubtful vote to excuse it, is maintained by the connivance of the President and the patronage which he has corruptly dis? pensed. Louisiana thus enslaved, depopulated and rained, the great West has been deprived of one of its best customers. The people of South Carolina, driven to de? spair by anarchy, robbery, and persecution, invoked Congress to investigate its condition and .to carry out the guarantee of the Consti? tution by giving to tbem a republican form of government, in place of the caricature and fraud which is now forced upon them by Fed? eral power. No heed was taken of that proper appeal, and Congress by its failure tacitly ap? proved the enormities" of Moses arid his crew of outlaws, who are now ravaging what may be left of that afflicted community.. rBut the very men who contemptuously spurned.the petition of the intelligence, vir? tue, public spirit, and worth of South Carolina* rushed forward under the lead of Mr. Poland to send a special committee of the House of Representatives to Arkansas at the demand of Clayton, Dorsey, and the other carpet-baggers who were recently defeated in an iniquitous scheme to issue more bonds and thus cram their pockets with more plunder. The time has at last come when these crimes must be atoned for. After nine years of so called peace, the country is in a worse situa? tion, all things: considered, than when the last gun of the rebellion was fired. Reckless par? tisanship, corruption in public life, official ?dishonesty and demoralization have brought it to. the verge of ruin. Unless there is a halt cried and a reform begun which shall sweep every vestige of Grantism from power, a terri? ble explosion is inevitable.?New York Sun. Edwaed F. Stokes.?We learn from the Greenville News that Edward F. Stokes, who was committed to the Greenville County jail six months ago for contempt.of court, is now in so feeble * condition that it is doubtful whether he can live through the summer months. It is suggested that the offence has been fully atoned for by the sufferings and de? gradation of his long imprisonment, and that no good can be accomplished by prolonging his confinement, to be ended soon, it is feared, in death. We cordially^ second the suggestion that he be released without delay. He is a pe? culiar man, tenacious of his opinious, unyield? ing in his principles, and, as we have under? stood, with a high sense of honor and unswer? ving personaHntegrity. Such a mi<a is entitled to consideration, even if he be crotchety and obstinate. Judge Cooke will do a proper thing in having him promptly released and restored to his friends.?Phcenix. ? The other day a young lady in Philadel? phia became 30 much embarrassed by a pro? posal from her lover, that, in her agitation, she swallowed a needle. Young men cannot be too .cautious about such things. They should never make such propositions to girls until they have thoroughly examined their mouths to see whether they have any needles in them or not. ? "Dear George," said an Indinapolis young woman, "I am willing to marry you if we have to live on bread and water." "Well," said the enthusiastic George, "you furnish the bread and PJI skirmish round and find the water." i President Grant and the Third Term. A representative of the Atlanta Herald on the 1st inst. interviewed Senator Gordon, who had reached home from Washington, and as a part of the interview relates to the President's aspi? rations for are-election we make some extracts. In response to the query whether he believed a third election was desired by the President, General Gordon is reported as saying:? I certainly do. I think that Presidont Grant is exceedingly anxious to run again and is very apt to do so. I am very intimate with him; as much so as almost any one, and he is always very cordial with me. 1 think he certainly in? tends to run again. When asked whethor he would receive the republican nomination, the Senator said :? I don't think General Grant desires a party nomination at their hands. His ambition is to run as the people's candidate; not as a demo? cratic or a republican candidate, but as a can? didate of the people of the United States?as a candidate of a great Grant party, if you please. Evidences of this ambition are evinced daily. His absolute independence of all republican leaders ; the indifference with which he incurs the enmity of Morton, Logan or Butler, and, above all, the evident pains ho takes to show the South that ho is not her enemy. A man cannot be with Grant any length of time before he catches his kindly drift in favor of the South? ern people. His idea seems to be be to show our people that he is President, not of one sec? tion, but of the Republic, and that he shall deal to them just such judgments as to those who followed the Stars and Stripes. Still, if Grant wants tho nomination of tho republican party he will get it. Not that they prefer him to any other candidate. Not at all. For with the tra? dition of the Republic, and the spirit of our in? stitutions so decidedly against such a course, they will be timid about offering a third term candidate. They will nominate him, though, because they will be afraid not to do it. For two reasons:?First, they believe lie is tho only man who can hold the republican party to vic? tory. And (they are right in this) that he is much stronger than his party. Second, they fear that if they leave him out'he will be picked up by some middlo party or even by tho demo? cratic party and run against them. Hence, if he wants the nomination, in my opinion, ho will get it without any trouble. In the event of Grant not running tho Sena? tor believes thatElihu B. Washburne would bo the prominent republican canidate. The Sena? tor, however, thinks that the democracy will have a certain victory for the foUowing rea? sons :? I First?Grant cannot be elected on his finan? cial platform. The great mass of the people are opposed to the speedy return to specie pay? ments that he advocates, because they believe it will bring panics ten times worso than the one we arojust recovering from, and ruin the country. They all believe in hard money as a fact, and love to talk of it as a boast, but they don:t believe in wading through ruin and bankruptcy to resumption. Grant, on his veto platform or his policy set forth in his memo? randum to Senator Jones, can't, in my opinion, carry a single Western or Southern Slate, and I don't think he can tcarry Pennsylvania. Second?It would be almost impossible for any man to enter the White House for a third term. Tho whole spirit of tho Republic is against it. It would be esteemed an audacious grasp at a dictatorship. The people who revere the Republic and its traditions will riso to put it down. And yet with this terrific inlluenco against him Grant is the strongest man his par? ty can run. Morton and Logan are both aspi? rants, but neither can bring the same spirit and influence and enthusiasm to tho canvas that Grant can. So that I think, if tho party runs Grant, the alarm of the people at the approach of absolutism will entail defeat. If it throws Grant overboard there is no other man in its ranks that is strong enough to lead the party through another victorious campaign. Another strong reason why the Senator ar? rives at these conclusions is the corruption and rottenness of the republican part}'. Ho re? marks :? It cannot stagger along much longer under its load of infamies. Tho Sauborn contracts, the Credit MoJiiiier,'the moiety system, tho Dis? trict of Cole "bia jobs, and above all the carpet? bag scoundr'elisms in the Southern States; all these arrayed against the party will kill it. Why, sir, the accumulated villainies perpetra? ted upon tho State of Lousiana, or of South Carolina alone, by the radical party, will damn it in the eyes of the people. Moses and Durell! With these two names only tho democracy might go before the country and demand tho expulsion from power of the party that had el? evated or even tolerated them. It is natural for tho people in the time of panic and stringency to put tho eauso of the trouble at the door of the party in power, espec? ially in a country where the currency is so ab? solutely controlled by the government as in ours. Add to this tendency tho fact that the ruling party, time and again, havo been detect? ed in thieving and jobbery, and I think you have a pretty strong case. Of the prominent democratic candidates tho Senator remarked :?? Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, is at presont by j far the most.prominent candidate. His splen? did campaign in Ohio last year, carrying it for the democracy, for the first time in many, many years, gives him a splendid start. You see Ohio at one time polled 42,000 radical major? ity. To have whipped this down and then car? ried the State is no small victory. Pendloton is a leading candidate, on his currency platform, and General G. W. Morgan, of Ohio, is also spoken ably of by his friends. Thus you see, Ohio offers throeeandidates. Next to Thurman I should placo Hendricks, of Indiana, and Hancock, of Pennsylvania. Of those two I think Hendricks is probably the strongest, from the fact that the West must fur? nish the candidate. I think that either of these candidates, with a good platform, could carry New Hampshire, Connecticut, of tho New En? gland States, New York, Now Jersey, Dolawarc, and probably Pennsylvania, of the Middle States, aU of tho Southern States except South Carolina, Mississippi and Lousiana, and Ohio, Indiana, California, Oregon, Nevada, of the Western States. Ax Inquisitive Customer.?Amiable shop kcopers doscrve to bo cannonized. Hero is an illustration of the trials to which they aro con? stantly subjected. One midsummor day, when ASolus slept, and tho thormometer stood in tho nineties, a lady entered a store in Atlanta, Geor? gia, and inquired for parasols. Tho obliging proprietor spread out boforo her samples of a large and varied stock. ?'Have yon any of this shade a size larger?" said tho lady. Tho size larger was produced. "I think, on the whole, I prefer tho size smaller." The size smaller was presented. "Have you any of this sizo a lighter f ade of blue?" The required shade was brought out. "Haven't you any of this kind with a crooked handle?" The shade with the crooked handle appear? ed. "Have you any with the crooked handle not quite so heavy?" said thelady, and so continued iier inquiries for every conceivabloshade size, and weight possible in the lino of palasols. After nearly an hour had been thus consumed, the fair shopper gathered up her handkerchief and gloves, and moved for the door. "Can't I sell you a parasol?" inquired tho exhausted proprietor. "Oh, doar no," replied thelady, "I was mere? ly inquiring tho prices. I am going in mourn? ing myself, and havo one for sale." ?"My wife," said a critic, "is the most even tempered person in tho world?she's always mad." Improving the Navigation of the Savannah River. To the Editors of the Augusta CJironicle and Sentinel : The proceedings of the Directors of the Au? gusta Cotton Exchange, a few days since, in the passage of certain resolutions looking to making this city a port of entry, and the open? ing of the Savannah river to steamboat navi? gation will, we feel assured, excite a most live? ly interest in the minds of all our people in this portion of Georgia and South Carolina. We trust the committee appointed will faith? fully aud untiringly perform their duty. The public have a high opinion of the good, sound judgment and wise foresight of President Her? ring, and will expect much from him in the accomplishment of the ends sought for, aided as he will be by a sensible and working com? mittee. To effect these measures very much must be done. A matter that strikes us of the most vital importance is the selecction of our next representative in Congress, and also the se? lection of members in our State Legislature. We should be sure that we send men to represent us who are in earnest sympathy with our wishes and desires, and who will not fritter away our time and money in voting salary grabs, or apologizing for those who do. It is to our interest to have representatives who are young, vigorous, energetic, capable and houest. The suggestion, therefore, in your columns of the name of Hon. Charles Estes, or such as he, as a fit and proper person as representative from this district in Congress was eminently proper. The writer has no personal predilec? tions in this matter, but is alive and fully so to the importance of haviug an active business man as the representative of active live busi? ness. Our object in this communication is principally to try to awaken an interest in the feasibility and practicability of opening the upper Savannah river to steamboat navigation by an appropriation by the General Govern? ment of a sum of money sufficient for that purpose. The policy of this Government is well established, and at each session of Con? gress large sums are appropriated all over the country for this purpose. Within the memory of man not one dollar has ever been asked for, much less received for the purpose of improv? ing the navigation of our majestic aud beauti? ful Savannah above this city. It is at present, and has been for years, in a sort of reckless way navigated by what is known as Petersburg boats, and on this river about as daugerous navigation as is known to man, and withal ex? ceedingly uncertain. The country on each side of the river is dependent ou the river to bring their produce to market and carry back supplies for these people. Many boats are an? nually lost with their valuable cargoes by causes incident to the dangerous and difficult navigation of this stream. The obstructions can be easily removed. They consist of shoals and rapids. Of course the enterprise will be attended with heavy expense, but not so large as anticipated by many. This improvement will be of a permanent character and is for all time. These people are entitled to as much consideration we are sure, as the importers of Atlanta or the farmers of Oostanaula, and the only reason that they have bad no appropria? tions to improve the navigation of their noble rivers, is simply from the fact that they have j not agitated the subject. Let them agitate and continue to agitate. These people contribute their full share of the burdens of taxation,! their country is as lovely, their daughters as fair, and their sons as true as that of any other section of this wonderful country. The fact is, no one that we are aware of has ever asked for any thing; now is the time for prompt, united action, let the people along the line of the river assemble iu the different neighbor? hoods and appoint committee to act conjointly with the committee appointed by the Cotton Exchange ; let petitions and memorials be cir? culated and signed, asking the Congress for this appropriation. Do not be discouraged by ' a dozen failures, but continue to petition and memorialize; give the go by to political ab-j stractionists, and let it be known of all men j that the man or the men who obtains your suf- ' frage shall be heart and soul imbued with the same spirit as yourselves. This is the way others have succeeded, and this is the way you may succeed. Water transportation is, as is well known, cheaper than any other. You people of the upper Savaunah have a heritage in land unsurpassed in advantages by any un? der the sun. All you want is cheap, safe aud expeditious transportations. Make the river safe and sure for steamboat navigation, and you will enhance the value of your possessions five fold, perhaps more. The writer appre? ciates the wants and necessities of this people, feels that they have been neglected, knows to what trouble, vexation and serious loss they have been subjected, is willing, to the extent of his humble ability, to aid them. Will they aid themselves? Will they move in this mat? ter of such vital importance to themselves? Can they not give a little or a portiou of their time to sotting this ball in motion? Will not such men as Eli Lockhart, T. H. Remsan, W. H. Mattox, C. E. Heard, Dr. J. A. Turner, A. M. Holland, C. T. Latimcr, and Dr. J. A. Gil? bert move in this enterprise? The General Government is fully committed to the policy of improving rivers and harbors! Their means are as limited as the seas. Petersburg. Proper Time to Manube Trees.?People often argue whether it is better to manure trees in the fall or in the spring, but we think that any one who tries it will find that the summer is as good a time as any. It was only a few years ago that it was discovered that plants arc like animals in this?that they, while a||pearing to be expending their daily nourishment on continuous growth, are really at the same time laying up food for to morrow. Those who have' examined vegetable cellular structure with a microscope tell us that the formation is exactly like that of a honeycomb, the cells lying together of a hexagonal shape, as if made by bees. But it proves that this structure is more like the illustration thau those that used it suspected, in this?that as in the honeycomb honey is stored up for use at a future time, so matter is stored up in these little plant cells for the future use of the plant. There are in almost all plants two growths du? ring the season. The first growth is formed almost wholly from the matter stored up in the cell of the previous year. After midsum? mer, especially in the apple-tree, the whole of the force derived from the past year is expen? ded, and it stores up a little for a new growth, which is soon after made. As the season progresses the latter or secondary growth also in turn lays up matter in its cells for the next season, as the past season has done. Trees always like fresh food as well as an? imals ; and thus it is with this explanation that one can readily understand how it is that a top dressing of good manure put under the trees soon after midsummer, when the second growth is about to take place, produces the marked good results wc have before recorded, j ? A bill that everybody is anxious should not be brought before the house this summer? the mosquito's. To Wed Or Not to Wed ??Celibacy and Matrimony. As the world well knows, but as the world may not take the trouble to dwell upon very often in the meditative way, there be weddings and weddings. The common excuse of the young man of the period, when asked why he does not marry, and why he prefers to live a bachelor and questionable moral life, is that he cannot afford to take a wife, thereby suggesting that matrimony is one of the exponsivc luxu? ries of this life, and, therefore, one to be avoided if possible. In the abstract, matrimony is what the heart of humanity yearns for, or at least an association of the sexes which shall approximate the legalized condition, even if it does not carry the responsibility or the ex? pense. It is here that much of the false mor? ality of the day takes its rise, and much of the prejudice against following out the divine com? mand to unite has its origin. There is a tenden? cy on the part of young men to remain in bache? lorhood until, at least, they can offer some as? piring and mercenary young lady, together with their heart, a handsome fortune, or at least, the foundation for one. * * The result of this is that marriages arc not as numerous in what may be termed the leading circles as among the plain and fustian-clad la? borers who live lives of houest poverty, marry young, rear children and cannot afford to be anything else than people of sturdy morality, be? cause, for one rcasou, they cannot afford to be anything else. The young people of metropo? litan cities, like Chicago, who have been out somewhat in society, don't care to be married unless they can approach, to a degree, the ele? gance of surroundings attending the nuptials of parties in affluent circumsiauces, and the at? tempt to imitate such in point of wealth or the social station not only acts with telling effect upon them in a mauner which they keenly feel, but is also liable to stamp them as preten? tious shoddyites. It would be much better did the several classes of this world's society feel content to live upon their individual plane and act according to their station and their means. It is a pleasing conceit of many of the old heads of to-day that married life of the present has few of the characteristics of the unions of their time. Fathers who, in the years agone, with an honest dollar in their pocket and a few acres of stony land, took to their hearts some rustic country lass with a handsome dowry of one cow and a wealth of homespun frocks and woolen stockings, wonder why it is that now-a days, as their maturing sons and daughters be? gin to cast about for life partners, they find the matter based almost entirely upon financial considerations. The old man's son looks for an alliance with a plethoric purse, willing to accept some young girl into the bargain for convenience, while the old man's daughter is wooed by some other ambitious rogue with false representatious as to wealth and a keen eye upon her prospective ducats. Suspicion begets suspicion; falsity caters to falsity; mis? representation fattens upon misrepresentation; dishonesty breeds dishonesty. Pretentious pov? erty courts worthy opulence; wealth is often deceived by glittering sham. Alliances of this character are crying evils of the day, and are 1 responsible for much that tends to throw an odium upon society and make humanity doubt whether there is any genuine constancy or af? fection among those who number themselves with the leading classes. There is too great a desire on the part of young married people for display, too great a longing after conditions which they cannot always supply. Failure in this, allied to cold-blooded marital relations, tends to destroy the happiness that should re? sult from a sincerity of unison. This is the prevailing sentiment and frequent result, no matter whether it is the rule or not. For the honor of mankind, the lookers-on upon the social drama are in duty bound to believe the instances that are almost daily cited are the noteworthy exceptions. There are weddings, and weddings?the din? ner of herbs and coutentment therewith and the stalled ox with bitterness and strife.? Unious with small means and genuine affec? tion outlive these which bring only unrealized wealth and jealous bickerings. Petter the happiness and plain, homely life of the for? mer generation than the deceits and misrep? resentations of many who make up the present circle of society. Want of means, joined with suspicious distrust of the sex, a general desire to assume a degree of style which cannot be reached, keep many of the young men of the day from entering the matrimonial slate. It is just ns well, perhaps, that such should remain single, for the result of such unions is, as above stated, one of unquestionable benefit to either party. Yonng men and young women will be hap? pier when they come to the sensible conclusion that wealth and position arc not the only goal to reach through the avenue of matrimony. They will pass plcasanter lives and know more of the felicity of sexual relations when they strip themselves of the garb of deceit and practice that which is honest and sincere. There will then he fewer of tho single brotherhood who spend their substance upon women of question? able repute simply because they havo not the means to support a fashionable wife, and more sensible women with tho single aim of econom? ical unions to deserving men. Could the greed for display be eradicated from the heart, there might be a more eminent degree of meritorious alliances, which would reflect the utmost credit upon the social world and reflect greatly upon individual worth.? Chicago Times. ? The other day, on a Michigan Central train coming East, was an old lady who had ncver'travcled a great deal. She wasn't used to the ways of the book-agents, the peanut ' boys, and the prize-package nuisances who ! pass through the train every few minutes. When the peanut boy came along and dropped a big African peanut into her lap, she shucked it, opened her mouth, and dropped the kernel down, instead of regarding it with silent con? tempt, or pitching it out of the window. The book agent came along and dropped a book in? to her lap. She said, she was ''much obleeged," and she carefully locked it up in her valise. The prize-package boy came along and dropped a sample, and she wondered how the road could afford to give away so much. When he re? turned she had opened it, and was wee ring tho breastpin aud eating tho gum-drops. The book agent came back and wanted his book, and before she would give it up she called the conductor to see if it was all right. The card boy wanted pay, and she appealed to the pas? sengers. When she understood that he was right, she handed him over twenty-five cents, with the remark, "Well, of I haiut all-fired turned round. I wish I'd stayed tu hum." ? Spikins, who has been the rounds of the college commencements this year, says that altogether the most sensible and pleasing re? marks he has heard anywhere were those of the pupils at the Iustitution for the Deaf and Dumb. ? Although our financial editor says there is plenty of money in the city, everybody is anxious to get; into tke country for a little change. The Remedy in South Carolina. Evidence continues to come in that our ex? posures of the rascalities of the State officials in South Carolina is bearing fruit. The guilty officials themselves early begau to wince, and some of them undertook to defend themselves by calling names at those who had given in? formation to our correspoudeut. To these we have paid and shall pay little attention. We do not vouch for the character of all or of any of the meu from whom our very trusty and diligent corresponded has sought to get the truth. He leavWus under no obligation to do so, because the evidence he has furnished de? pends on tho veracity of no one witness. It is supported by the testimony of many, and by a large number of facts which are publicly known. If the men whom these facts accuse expect to clear their skirts, they must do it in some other way than by bringing charges against their associates. Another item of proof, of no little value, in showing that our exposures are doing good, is the fact that the county officials all over the State are being indicted by the grand juries of their counties. The list already embraces the following: Three in Edgefield County, four in Clarendon, three in Williamsburg, besides the county treasurer and the sheriff; three in Georgetown County, and the clerk of the court as well. The offences charged are various. Iu one county the commissioners, of whom two are colored, are indicted for issuing illegal checks with fraudulent intent. In other cases fraud, corruption, malfeasance, purjury, defal? cation aud misappropriation of funds are charged, and the clerk of the court mentioned above is indicted for being "unfit and incom? petent for the discharge of his duties.''' In every instance these indictments have been brought by grand juries uiade up in part, and iu several instances in major part, of colored men. These facts are very significant. We do not know that the indictments will stand; it is probable that there is enough in? fluence to be brought to bear on the courts, and enough ingenuity to be employed in evad? ing the law, to enable some of the rogues to escape. But here are nearly a score of them in different parts of the State brought to book in a way that shows that the people are ready to use all the means in their power to rid them? selves of their oppressors and plunderers. In South Carolina, if we mistake not, county com? missioners and couuty treasurers hold their offices by appointment from the Governor. In any case, these indictments are the first blows in a fight against that chief of the thieves which bids fair to be a determined one. If it is so, it will be successful. Nothing could be better for the State of South Carolina than for its people to cast out the traugrcssors by means of the instruments their laws place in their hands. That would be not only a great imme? diate gain, but it would be a warrant for future safety. A community where the courts work, iu the long run, against evil doers, however great the powers these may be, a State where justice is not cheated of its due, aud where the honest man gets his rights, can never be held long under the yoke of corrupt men. The Constitution of South Carolina gives the Gov? ernor a great deal more power than can safely be left in the hands of any one man, unless it be in a community exceptionally intelligent and watchful, which, certainly, South Carolina is tiot. But even with all his enormous power, Moses would regard as a very threatening oc? currence the conviction and imprisonment for crime of a score of his tools in tho counties. It is to be hoped, therefore, that every legal means will be taken to bring these dishonest officials to justice. Beyond that, the last resort is at the polls. And here we wish again to urge on the decent Republicans of South Carolina that it is their especial duty to lead in the political conflict. They now have evidence enough before them. Moses announces his intention of seeking the Governor's office again, as a "vindication" of his official career. He thus makes his own conduct, aud that of* the thieves with whom he is associated, the main issue in the fall election. The challenge should be accepted. We have now given facts enough to ruin any politician up for office before a people thoroughly in? formed of these facts. It is iu the power of the honest Republicans in South Carolina to fortify our statements, and to make the case as strong as may be required. They have a splendid opportunity to serve their State, and, indeed, to serve the whole country, which de? sires to see the nest of robbers so long sheltered by the profession of Republicanism broken up. ?New York Times. Depressed Spirits.?A distinguished lexi? cographer, after defining blue?"one of the seven original colors" gives a second defini? tion, to wit: "low spirits; contracted from blue-devils?a cant phrase for objection." Now blue is the color of gladness, and one would sup? pose that the melancholy mind would naturally "be of the darkest color," and yet the associa? tion is quite in keeping, for the men who feel the "blues" deepest and suffer the most from low spirits are naturally the most joyful and humorous people. They have a keen sense of the ludicrous, aud the natural accompaniment thereof is a quick sensibility to the sorrowful. "Tears and laughter closely are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." This is the law of compensation, the swing of the pendulum; the higher you ascend in your joy, the lower you are cast down in your sorrow. Perhaps the reason why persous of great humor and excessive lightness of heart are saddened and oppressed by periods of gloom?have "fits of the blues"?is that other? wise they would have no proper pity or sym? pathy for their less fortunate and suffering neighbors, and could not, indeed, understand the sad side of human nature, for the eye nev? er sees so clearly as when dimmed by a tear. Many arc the causes which produce low spirits." Primarily, ill health will eat away the brightness of a man's spirit as well aud as sure? ly as the strength of his body; suffering and mental gloominess are old acquaintances?they hunt in couples. Bitter memorials of old sins, feelings of remorse for broken ties, and rash follies, often fill the mind with foreboding. Failures in business, loss of property, hard times, or the fear of them?these bring on the dark days, and there is sure to come with them their uupleasant shadow, "the blues." Unre? quited love; we sometimes laugh at the woe begone appearance of a youth who, "having all the world before him," yet goes about sigh? ing like a furnace. It seems very ridiculous, very absurd and laughable ; but it is no laugh ing matter Lo the victim. Let us remember, that "lamentations awake not the dead," and whatever the cause be, whether amusing as that of the disappointed lover, or more serious, earnest and real, as the loss of reputation, friends or prosperity, we are all, to a greater or less extent, victims of "the blues," and should strive to keep off low spirits and an overpow? ering sadness, remembering that there arc those who love us, and that this beautiful world is not all desolate. ? If you want to make a bustle in the world, take five or six newspapers and a piece of tape. Presidents of the United States. The following list of Presidents of the Uni? ted States, from Washington down, their date of birth and death, will be of general interest: 1. George Washington, of Virginia, bora February 22, 1735; elected commander-in chief of the Continental armv in 1775; first inaugurated, as President, in the city of New ? ' ^P\? 30' 1789 > second inauguration, in l/9o; died December 14,1799, aged 68 years. 2. John Adams, of Massachusetts, born in l/3o; inaugurated March 4, 1797: died July 4,1826, aged 90 years. V 3. Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, born in 1743; first inaugurated in Washington, in 1801; second inauguration in 1805; died July 4, 1826, aged 82 years. 3 4. James Madison, of Virginia, born in 1751 ; first inaugurated in 1809; second inauguration in 1813 ; died in 1837, aged 85 years. 5. James Monroe, of Virginia, born in 1759; first inaugurated in 1817; second inauguration in 1821; died in 1831, aged 72 years. 6. John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, born in 1767; inaugurated in 1825; died in 1S48, aged 80 years. 7. Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee, born 1797 ; first inaugurated in 1829; second inauguration in 1833; died in 1S45, aged 78 years. 8. Martiu Van Buren, of New York, born in 1782; inaugurated in 1837: died in 1862, aged 80 years. 9. William Henry Harrison, of Ohio, born in 1773; inaugurated in 1841; died in oflice, April, 1841, aged 68 years. 10. John Tyler, of Virginia, born in 1790 ; elected Vicc-President, and inaugurated as President in April, 1S41; died in 1862, aged 72 years. 11. James K. Polk, of Tennessee, born in 1795 ; inaugurated in 1815; died in 1849, aged 54 years. 12. Zachary Taylor, of Louisiana, born in 1784; inaugurated in 1849; died in office in 1S50, aged 66 years. 13. Millard Fillmore, of New York, born in 1S00; elected Vice-President in 1S48, and in? augurated as President on the death of General Taylor, in 1S50; died March 8, 1374, aged 74 years. 14. Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, born in 1804; inaugurated in 1S53; died in 1869, aged 65 years." 15. James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, born 1791; inaugurated iu 1857; died in 1868, aged 77 years. 16. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, born in 1809; inaugurated in 1861; second inaugura? tion iu IS65; assassinated April 14, 1865. "?.ged 56 years. 17. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, born iu 180S ; elected Vice-Prosident, and inaugurated as President in April, 1865. 18. Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois, born in 1822 ; first inaugurated in 1869; second iuaugu tion in 1873; term expires 4th of March, 1877. Daniel Webster's Most Important Thought. There is doubtless some foundation for the following statement, which was somewhat wide? ly circulated soon after the death of the great statesman, though there may possibly be some embellishment to the narrative. It is, at any rate, an instructive theme ; for how great k the responsibility of every man to God! Would chat the life of the great statesman had always been influenced by this most important thought! Would that all our rulers might rea'.i/e their individual responsibility to God! When Mr. Webster was Secretary of State, he wrote to one of the proprietors of the Astor House in New York, saying that he would reach that house on such a day, and begged that some of his friends should be invited to dine with him the same eveniug. There were about twenty or so at the table, and Mr. Webster seemed wearied by the travel, aud, spcakiug but little, if at all, plunged into a darksome sort of a reverie, not well calcula? ted to enliven his friends. This at length be? came so apparent, and the situation of all so unpleasant, that one of the company urged upon a very distinguished man present;?a very warm friend of Mr. Webster?to get him into conversation. He only needed to be jogged to become as lively as they wished. The friend consented, and spoke alcud to Mr. Webster, asking him some question, that, in ordinary men, would have led to conversa? tion, but it failed in the present case. The dark Secretary of State merely raised his head aud answered simply, aud crept into his cave again. Again the gentleman, frightened by his fail? ure, was urged to renew the attempt to draw him out. He summoned courage, and said: "Mr. Webster," (Mr. Webster looked up out of his cave,) "Webster, I want you to tell me what was the most important thought, thatcer occupied your mind?" Here was a thumper for him, and so every body thought at the ta? ble. Mr. Webster slowly passed his hand over his forehead, and, in a low tone, said to a friend near him, "Is there any one here who does not know me ?" "No, sir; they all know you?all are your friends." Then he looked over the table, and you may imagine how the tones of his voice would be on such occasion, giving answer to such a question. "The most impor? tant thought that ever occupied wy mind," said he, "was that of my individual responsibility to God;" upon which, for twenty minutes, he spoke to them there, and when he had finished, he got up from the table and retired to his room, and they, without a word, went into an adjacent parlor; and when they had gathered to? gether, there, some of thera exclaimed: "Who ever heard anything like that!" What Mr. Webster said in advocacy of his sublime thought I do not know?no one has ever repeated it, and I presume no one can. The Best Gift of God.?The best gift of God to nations is the gift of upright men?es? pecially' upright men for magistrates, states? men and rulers. How bountiful soever the heavens may be; how rich the earth may be in harvests ; though every wind of heaven waffc prosperity to its ports till the land is crowded with ware-houses stuffed to repletion with treasure, that country is noor who^c citizens are not noble, and that republic is poor which is not governed by noble men selected by its citi? zens. The signs of decay in the life of a nation show themselves as soon as anywhere else in the character of the men who are called to gov? ern it. When they seek their owu ends, and not the public weal; when they abandon prin? ciples, and administer according to the person? al interests of cliques, when they forsake righte? ousness and call upon insatiable selfishuess for counsel; and when the laws and framework of the government are but so many instruments of oppression and of wrong, then the nation caunot be far from decadence. When God means to do well by a nation that has back? slidden, among the earliest tokens of his bene? ficent intent is the restoration of men of integ? rity?men who live for their fellows, and not for themselves. ? Brigham Young has been making his will, and has left his friends from five to ten chil? dren apiece