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tiff Ui f oifT . f.'.h iaiii '' I^PW Proprietors. fJ?-f?flti^?^ i jitoto, $pit?tt?? g ANDERSON C, H., S. G , THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1874. VOLUME X.--NO. 19. (Inbtr?W <i-miofjW*SBHaJQTON,;N<>vemben7. The President, since the results ofthe; elec .^on* p?Tuesday have, become kpor?fj??ni versed freely, with a number of his intimate friends as tp'tbe ca?seYwhfc$ produced such1 a Tworotion'Hiriii unpopular1 verdict'.'1 :Sorae 'of ^?reVidtos' ?presseta'by' ^h^Freaident be ^ver>-witboGfany violation.bf confidonce.1 He j of'tbe,opinirm -that the Bernocrats were as ; anud^urprisad-by:the ^ove^wbeltamgapccesses j of their party ,as._,w-ere<tb.e: Ra&calu, and, he.ua- j reMrywUy .admits , that^aj though, he fully, ex-r j J^eed'wpub'ilca'n'ioss Prepared j TortfitfrjrffiHm^^efe?P^nlcTi h?s? come'IipOn ???hfe'pTtf^C? Herbes bot %r dne^rilomfe?tfsancj ?tien-'tho'idea tfeit hispolfcy or his personal acts .have contributed in any degree to the.parcy.de ??&flti>ii?Q'J&i:-as,Lou&iana is concerned, he says that . he. took,.a course .\shkh be believed was ?mMZ-to&tifr^h ?it? v*yipe>alled the attention of Congress to affairs in that State, and requested that body to indicate its opinion '4w 'itf'the^rdper* course' to'" pursue.- ' Congress ?failed to- ex press any opinion,. Jind'.there I was : ho alternative but for him to adhere to the line :$? action be had ^initiated. < ... . c The President thinks.that at the door of. a (i3^pu,bjicap Congress aloie.may be laid the'def 'feat ?f tne'f?pn^Lcan" party. lie 'does hqt .lay 'ihu?b' sti-e'ss'upon ,tn'e! neglect bF Cfengress" at \t$. 'Jastf,:8e^sibn '-to:!*bn3sedt' a "iBnanciaT Measure ?"whieli would restore 'confidence'andrevive de; elining trade',' for in the nature of things this ? was.next to an impossibility. A properadjnstf ! ment of finances-. wa3 not a matter susceptible of party control, as the'different sections of Dmitry had diVeree'intereJts'and drvereei views', '?tiperior ta1androverpow?ring'all-mere1 party* claims and al^mere? party considerations. The ? Presrdeniithinks that the" great element of dis ; cord .in the, party was rather the unwise attempt ? . -to force.upon the American peop 1 e th e,iniprac , tkabie.apd U.topian theories of Senator. Sum;-> ^erjp embodied .inV'tiie'Cjiyil" Rights Bill last epring.* It was a?th?ratiyely''stated In' these ''ilitjragfc Mttbe" President didnVfavbT thfe. 'Civri Rights'Bill.'' It can'now be said that rn| views in'opposition to it have become much stronger by the .recent elections. He is firmly con-vi n ced -tha 11 h e .Civil Bights Bill! h ad mo re to do with the defeat of bis par'y than all other . .causes combjned,:aud.he has e^cre-ssed.himself. in such; a manner,, as .to leave no doubt upon ' itbe jenin^s oi t'bQse withwhom he had coOvers'ep'. that 'if the bill shall be passed at the next ses _ sjon he will interpose his veto. '' ' : "' ' ' : ] luerresidenris not'despondenir Me givey j his friends to'understand tbat-he is not by any means utterly cast down by the recent elections, j He believes that the Republican party has yet ..before it.a glorious future, and that it may, re? trieve, the errors bf.fbejj.ast. in time.' .to march. to the mui^bf triumbji in'1872. ' He *believep that the Republican Congress, which comes to? gether in four weeks from this time, can, in the three months of life which is ^eft'to ft,' so' act., as to heal all 'dissensions within the party ana ?'td'win bark the confidence of the people at larger ^fe, not impossible that in ,hjs jness?ge1 to CongVeas'' in December, the PresfdenfPwi U set forth some of the Views herein given. He , has no^ so far, in any conversation on elections,. . ind Lcated that he considered the t h i rd .term agi-. tation has anything .to do with the result. ' After Cabinet meeting, the' elections were dis? cussed. " In the-bourse the convereatiori; the ;;lPfeident'expTessed brmself more on the third tei^m thitn'lie has condescended to" do hereto? fore. Without renouncing any such idea on ? his own part, ho said that a careful exam i ina- i tion of the -returns from the different .-States ; showed,-conclusively, that the people, in ren , tiering tfc?r tetdicfc, were; ;not influenced ^by wild and senseless cries- on this subject whien . , had filled the air for months past He poi n ted 1 ? to what %$ considered/two uotic^ble. instauces j ' in/prw^pf''iiis assArtion-' wZTh^r South Carolina] . Ho publican Convention had emphatically pro nouBced for him for.a third term, and its.canf - -didate??? for Governor had been triumphantly elected'in the face of the enormous odds agaiqat him.A LOa thei other hand,', in the IJtica District, ' fy?faip?>^pu'blican8.'had', always, an over ' whelming, preponderance, Jfr. Roberts insisted ? upon tbe?CongressionaL Convention) wbicb nom? inated him pronouncingiagainst a third term, -?nd'Mr. Roberte was defeated. ' r: ; 'WA5Hlh*Gt?K, Novi 10,18741 j : Governor HendricK,'tJf Indiana, who is here for a few daj-s oh professional; business, called; . on the:-Preaideot to-day to pay ..hia - respects. .typ.^retuj^nt,.good-naturedly al 1 udexJ:JA,tbp recent democratic tidal wave which bad swept" weit and ea?t or Indiana, tbe Atlantic and Par' eifieOceans alone arresting its progress. ; - 'But.f - aaid'the'President, "we' snall be ready for you in lo7?." t Secretary Fish philosophically, said i the next'Presidential election was no further x>ff,tban the last, implying that the power of recuperation was still ieit to the republican party. :r K Governor Hendricks declined to be inter-, viewed. His opinion of the cause of the over whelming succcess :of the democratic party wonld not change.the result, and individual explanations were of little consequence when . the men of the country .voted right. The Gov? ernor w?l.not.under any circumstances accept ? the position of United States Senator from In? diana. . Washington, November 11. From letters received here from leading Re? publican Congressmen it is learned that it is in contemplation to have a party conference, as near as possible about the time of the meet? ing of Congress.-~The purpose of the confer? ence will be. to lay down a-definite line of policy - to be pursued during the coming session. The - President in his views, as set forth in these. ? dispatches,. Jays the blame of the'recent defeat on* Congress, while the' Republicans in that body ascribe the disasters to his.action. They say that-the President has made his adminis? tration too-miich personal and too little party. IE is'proposed at the approaching couference to have a plaitUalk.with the,Executive. Some of the Republican, members'.argue that they would prefer that he should act with the oppo sition than that he should continue to claim fellowship with the Republican party and re? fuse to. listen to the advice of its most trusted leaders. Among other things which they think absolutely necessary for the President to do is,' to remove the inefficient and obnoxious ufiice . holders, such;as Packard and Casey and the. like, and replace them with proper and capable' men, and'that he surround himself with men of a higher calibre. What they want, and what they say'they intend shall be laid, down, is-tbat if the President will nbt act with'Congpess that some of the same medicine which was applied to Andrew Johnson shall be used in his case. ? %hey-wtH-hardly be-e?ly enough^however, to try the impeachment dodge. It has been the custom of the war department' to loan to responsible parties a battery for tbe purpose of firing salutes which are not. always of apolitical character. Yesterday some lead? ing Democrats called on the secretary of war to get his consent to a loan of ordinance, and were informed that he had adopted a new rule, and should refuse the request. The only harm the' visitors wished the secretary was that he should remain in office long enough to be able to refuse a similar request two years hcucc. A battery ^wiil arriy.e. ^-inorrow 'froro Bal tlm ore, 'And* the salute iri'^'Orior'^f'tlie^vic'tof^'.wlfl'beared suf ficieotTyhear,the White' Hou^e 'to remind' the ' President of what Bad: recently' happened *to Caiiarism 'arid the :m"auagers sky they" will not Jjjj bneP^ither.; "" [IreTfegTO Eights 'MtMl^wS^i ffl. !i ?.The'Democratic<party is.ao evidently en the >high road.to nuUonal .succ^ that tbe friends of"the colored race, will Jeel -some, anxiety ant) 'misgivings as' to: the..security of their newly ?acquired rights.*. Pedl^tp .$he.:negroes wifci be the chief, topic of inflammatory-.-appeal by.?ie ?BepuhJjcaris in^.thjeic.a^temnt^.to stem ^thetide !pf De^o^ratici ffitgrg?flu^mg.t^e. ensuing two years....This topic .jmiy jhe urged .wjLth great plausibility,.but probably with no great^suc ;cef?,, '?ears of this. tmo;.wiU he BJ.mulate^jby M^itjicians-wbo -dp,jnot ij^el themlThe Eepub lican.,.b^^rs .;pannot, sp underestimate fbe shrewdness of their .democratic" opponents as to believe they will' attempt t? deprive 'the ne? groes of either their freedom^ their civil Rights or the elective franchise. It would be impos? sible to conceal stich ' a'purpose if it were eh teVtained, and nothing would So certainly ar Test the political revojution. now in progress as a Relief that tbe'Bohibern negroes would be remandeff by.'thV Democratic party to; their former^ condition.'-1 ??>'?? *? ' M -!' We have no"''doubt that the rights of the negroes will" be more secure in Democratic ,tban in Republican hands. It is the tendency and effect' Of the Republican policy" to array .the negroes in hostility to the best classes of | the S?.?ihern!p?p?latK)n, and thereby obstruct tbj^cendancyi.of ififteriigence, character and property fh Sontherti ''politics. Negftj Suffrage has proved to be a great evil, chiefly on accoUnt dTfh^TrTv?Tce" effected "in~the' 'SolitlrbeWefen ?u'tifo6Ylt at^'Tn^Higeticer'r,.' Xh^rfiontiwrn lacWrhffve beedfoTrflett intdn^polrtica! p^artv under" outside guidance and control?a party which had a set of interests,' or supposed in -tecgatsyfleparate from the general interests .of the .Southern, community, in a healthy state of politics there is a "solidarity" of feeling between the prosperous and the poorer classes, and although there may be 'two parties?as there" always are in free cbuntries-^-they are [composed on - both ? sides of:the rich and the poor, the intelligent* and the ignorant. It is tbe prerogative of ;intelligence to control igno jimce, .and the chief evil of Southern politics sjncej tjbe war.has consisted in such an organi? zation of the blacks as has arrayed them in opposition to the enlightened local feeling of the corpmuuities with which their lot is cast. But as soon'as Federal influence shall cease to control the negro mind, intelligence arid car pacity wiil reassert their Bway,- and negro voting in the South will be as. saf'o as tbe im migrant' vote has , always, been in tbe North Th"? Democratic party will have no temptation to deprive the negroes of the.right of suffrage, because it will have no difficulty in controlling ' the negro' mind when the potent Federal influ ejrice co-Operates.with local intelligence instead of frustrating and defeating it. ' Even under the great disadvantage of hav? ing the Federal influence opposed to them the Southern Democrats have made some headway in controlling the-negro vote. In tbe recent election in Louisiana quite.a proportion of the negro citizens acted with the Democratic party As soon as Democratic ascendancy is establish? ed in Washington, Democratic negroes will be as common in the South as Republican ne? groes, and the negro question' will then cease to' be an element of disturbance. The true interests of the negroes are identical with the true -interests of Southern whites. The ne? groes-cannot prosper when the community in which . they live- is impoverished. They can find remunerative,, employment pnly when the, wheels of Jbusiness are in full activity. If cap? ital yields'no profits, labor cannot expect con? stant employment or good wages; and' the most important .lesson the Southern negroes have yet to learn'is that they cannot thrive on the depression and ruin of the owners, of prop? erty. Their credulity has been too long abu? sed and their simplicity deceived by interlo? ping demagogues, whp havc inculcated the idea that they have a separate'interest from their w'.i'te fellow citizens. 1 This state of things is likely to continue so long as the negro mind is led by the Republican-party; but within a year or two after it is -left to local control, a majority of the negroes will be- steady Demo? cratic voters, and tbe negro problem will dis? appear from 'our politic?. ''',"' The Democratic 'politicians, both of the ?North and the-Sooth, have always ^displayed i remarkable capacity for controlling ignorant voters. There .has always been a large class of | .uneducated whites in the Southern States, but there^was no section of tlje country whose polr itics, previPus to the war, were so completely controlled by its intelligent classes. ? It has I been in former times the active party in ex? tending the suffrage; it hf? always been fore? most in defending the political rights of citi? zens of foreign birth; it, has always felt the most undoubting confidence in its ability to afray: the most despised orders of the corhmu nity on its own side in politics, and make them its faithful allies. The Democratic party has a genius for managing such classes of voters, and it would belie its antecedents and tenden cies if.it should attempt to disfranchise the Southern negroes instead of attempting to manage theta. Its past opposition to negro suffrage is ? transient phase of politics which has been further prolonged than it would have been if tbe Freedmen's Bureau and the carpet? bag influence had not got so decided a start in the control of the negro miud. Had the South been left to itself after the elective franchise was conferred on' the blacks, the Southern State governments would have fallen as com? pletely under the influence of the old govern? ing classes as they were when the same classes so successfully managed the uneducated whites. Nothing is more certain than that the mass of the negroes will never act independently in poli? tics. It is their destiny to be led. They have thu3 far been led by the Republican party, and arrayed by it against the enlightened public sentiment of the Southern communities; but from the moment the Democratic party gains .control of the Federal Government the Repub? licans will have no advantages for acting on the negro mind, which will then fall under the control of local opinion. A war of races can in no way be so surely averted as by giving the intelligent classes of the South an opportunity to exert their natural ascendancy over the ne? gro mind, and subordinate it to the ideas and public sentiment of their section. A war of races would be, sooner or later, inevitable, if a distant outside influence were kept perpetually acting on the negro mfnd, and rnoiilding it into jealous hostility to the white population. ?New 'York Herald. ? All the girls, says Jennie June, now wear their hair combed back plain and tied in a Chinese pig-tail, or old-fashioned queue, at the back. This is a revolution so complete, after the puffs and braids and chignons and water? falls, that it detracts much from their appear? ance en manse, and makes all women appear suddenly to have grown smaller aud plaiucr. Trathfol Description of. the Carpct-Baggcri ;Senator Norwood, of Georgia, in a masterly .speech, recently delivered at Savannah, drew a graphic and truthful description of that modern monstrosity, the carpet-bagger, which will en? tertain our readers none the less because the '?specle? will become extinct within the next ,two years: 1 ..The reconsftTUction acts' have Iwrought im ,measurable- ev^s, but perhaps the greatest of al}; is rthe production : or. the carpet-bagger, j 11 have great admiration, for the genius who first ? used, the word carpet-bagger J . What cah. be' .more expressive His like the world has. never i .seen, from the. days ?f Cain, or of the Forty Thieves in the fabled time, of Ali Bab?. Like .the wind, he blows,.and we hear the souud . thereof,, but no man knoweth whence be corneth or whither he gbeth. Natural historians, will be in .doubt bow to class him. Ornithologists will claim him, be? muse in mauy respects he is a bird .of prey. .He lives only on corruption, and takes his flight as soon as the carcass is picked. In other particulars he resembles the migratory crane; for when driven by the. frigidity of social ostracism from the North, he flies, with marvelous instinct, to the torrid, and unctious embrace of. his African "mates and peers, amoug the swamps of our Southern shore. As the crane fills his craw, so this creature fills his bag, for the flight. And as'the crane, when the days grow hot, flaps his wiugs and, scream? ing through, the air, returns to the North; so this ill omened biped, when times become warm in the South, gathers up his legs, and, flying wjth screams and shrieks away, perches on. the wooden head .pf the figure of justice, commonly known as the. Attorney General, and drowns the air with croakiugs about Southern ,outrage and wrong. In' the other respects he is like the marsupial, family of quadrupeds, for as.they are named from' the'pouch or bag in which they carry their young, so he derives his name from the bag he carries, and in which are stored all hia earthly possessions.' The opossum is of the marsupial family, and the carpet-bagger, like that animal, does all bis travelinghy night. Solomon" was a wise man, but he did not know everything. He was wrong in saying, "There is nothing new under the sun." The world has swung on for 'thousands of years through' wars and pestilence, through famine and pleagues, has been visited by tempests and earthquakes, frogs and flies, murrian and lice, and grasshoppers; but never until the year of our Lord 1867 was any portion of the globe afflicted by a carpet-bagger. Solomon did not know him, nor did David or Jeremiah conceive of such a calamity. If. they had, the songs of Dayid and the book of Jeremiah would have been lost to mankind, for they would have fled the face df man at the bare conception of such a woe. ? Though he sprung into existence soon; after the war, the carpet-bagger is no offspring of that martial coition. The time was not gravis Marie when he was hatched or littered. There is ho book of Mars, but there is infinite specu? lation, in his eyes. A reward as large as that offered by the Roman emperor for a uew and savory dish could not tempt the most aban? doned, perjured negro to swear that he has ever known a carpet-bagger to stand the* fire which he has so often drawn by his incendiary work. His courage oozes out.at his departing heels. During any "little unpleasantness" this phfaisee becomes, as by magic, a publican, for he takes his stand "afar off." He is no product of the war. He is "the canker of a calm world" and of a peace which is despotism en? forced by bayonets. His valor is discretion ; his industry perpetual strife, and his eloquence "the parcel of reckoning" of chances as he smells out a path which may lend from the white house to a custom house, a postoffice, the Internal Revenue bureaus, or, perchance, to either wing of the federal capitol. His shib? boleth is "the republican party." From that party he sprung as raturally as maggots from putrefaction. Iiis relation.to that party is that of pimp to a bawd, for, his meretricious service is rewarded in proportion to the number of innocent negro victims he inveigles to gratify its lust for power. Like Wamba, and Gerth, he never travels without wearing bis master's collar; and he is equally content whether turned loose to chase like a sleuth-bound the monarch of southern soil, or called by-asnap of the fingers to eat the garbage of his party. His collar is his passport to roam at large, and it matters not with what persistence he may break into a southern gentleman's clo?ct, his master will not" permit htm to be muzzled, for he is "the ox that treadeth out the corn" as well as "the ass that kuoweth his master's crib." Wherever two or three or more negroes are gathered together in the name of Grant, he, like a leprous spot, is seen, and his cry, like the daughter of the horse leech, is always "give?give"?me office. Without office he is a pest and public nuisance. Out of office he is a beggar; in office he grows rich till his eyes stick out with fatness. Out of office he is, hat in hand, the outside ornament of every negro cabin, a plantation loafer and the nation's laz arcne; in office he is an adept in "addition, division and silence." Out of office he is the orphan ward of the administration and the general sign post of penury ; in office he is the complaining suppliant for social equality with Southeru gentlemen. Advice to Democrats.?The interest we take in the welfare of the Democracy prompts us to give them a word of advice in this very trying hour. The hour is critical because it is an hour of victory?no mere fragment of victo? ry, but a dclugiug, sweeping triumph. The Democracy have proved that they can bear defeat with oaken fortitude ; it is success that tries them most scvc/cly. Success in the past has been fatal to them by provoking them into excesses which foreited the popular confidence and brought on defeat. Mr. Benton used to re? strain the savage and dangerous ardor of his party in the midst of their triumphs by warn? ing them in bis slow measured way, that "mod oration is the ornament of victory." The Dem? ocracy will do well remind themselves of the Bcntonian maxim. The supreme duty of the victorious party in the crisis is to keep a level head. The contest fought on Tuesday was very important, but it was a skirmish. It was the"prelude to the real battle for national pow? er in'1876. Victory in that battle seems at this moment to be within the easy reach of the Democracy. Nothing but an exhibition of that inexplicable and inexcusable folly which the party have a habit of manifesting at the most inopportune times cau forfeit it. What they need is patience, self-control and a wear? ing of their honors with becoming meekness.? Si. Louis Republican. ? Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jackson Simmer, who were separated during tho war by conflic? ting loyal emotions, in Tennessee, came togeth? er the other day in Waco, Texas, and after shaking hands across the bloody chasm, agreed to simmer down again to the quiet joys of re? constructed connubialtty. The Danger of the Democracy. The democratic leaders will make a woeful mistake if they construe their overwhelming successes in tbe fall electious as due to the re? cord, the practice, or the professions of their party. A woeful mistake from a partisan point J of view, as, if we may trust history, it would lead them into such recklessness and excesses as would destroy public confidence arid "prove fatal to their hopes for- the future;. woeful for the country,,inasmuch;as, it,would go far to prove the futility of all movements for p?liti- j cal, reform.. It ba9 happened heretofore so fn- ^ variably as - to- became-almost a proverb, that J the democratic party lias been ruined by par? tial-successes. It has shown np. capacity for self-possession or moderation. Engrossed "in the pettiness of dividing the spoils or yielding to the passion for'revenge'1 over' the griefs and hatreds which tbe. years of its fierce, vain struggles have engendered, it has not under? taken, in any broad sense to administer govern? ment, to grasp or even to look out upon the future in a manly fashion, and with a clear, honest vision. '? . There are indications that it has learned something from the experience of disasters which in past years have followed so close upon the neels of temporary successes. Tbe I character i of the candidates presented is of a [ much higher average than heretofore, and there is. an apparently increased sense of responsi? bility on the part of those who are considered leaders. This fact has enco?raged many to vote with them who are not by any means democrats, and who may never vote the demo? cratic ticket again. Thousands of republicans in the States which have held elections this autubin have vuceu for democrats as the only fit expression of their disgust for the sins and follies of the .Grant administration. Demo? cratic leaders will be very unwise to count these or any of them as hew recruits.. They have signed no enlistment papers, hare neither abandoned the old party nor given up the old name. . They are Hepublioans, and so count themselves, however much the custom house patriots miay call'them traitors and denounce theni as renegades. These are the men who have given to the democratic party in the re? cent elections whatever of hope, it has of con? tinued successes.. The judgment that leaves out of the consideration this 'very important factor, or treats it as of slight moment, will bcfatally blind and stupid. The democratic party has been, not restored to^ public confidence, but used, by voters who would not dare trust it utterly, as an instru? ment for discipline. It is on trial, and will be for the next two years. Audits opportunity is to show that it Aas learned something; that ?it has forgotten the things which may be wisely forgotten, and that it is entitled to some larger use in politics than merely that of a check and restraint upon the recklessness of the party in power. Dangers beset it on every hand. Its managing men are very hungry, and mauy of them uot over scrupulous. The disposition to go into a general debauch over the encouraging prospects of the party will be quite general, and it is an open question whether there is wisdom enough or sober sense enough to resist it. On the other hand, it will be well enough to remember that the same causes which have heretofore produced demoralization among the democrats have often taught their opponents wisdom and discretien, and that under the dis? cipline of reverses they have corrected their errors and regained the confidence of the peo? ple. What has happened before may happen again. The democratic party has been admit? ted a little.way into public confidence. It is not strange'that those interested in its success should be jubilant over the results of the recent elections. But if must temper somewhat the joy of the thoughtful citizen to think that the whole meaning of it is comprised in tbe state? ment that it was a choice of evils. We are not of those who have full confidence in the ultimate success of the democracy. The strength of the party has been in its name and traditions, and iu tbe unquestioning allegiance and hide-bound partisanship of its rank and file. The day for all that has passed, at least so far as present organizations are concerned. The period of reaffirming and poiutiug with f>ride is very much over. The Yoter of to-day ooks further down than the top of his ticket, and considers the record of the candidate as of more importance than tbe platform of the party. The people have been voting lately without much regard to party names, aud we suggest to our democratic friends that this is a victory which should rather steady them dowu with a sense of great responsibility than, drive them wild with exultation. It is worth their re? membering that this is only the half-way post to a presidential election, and that both parties are to be for two - years certain ou their very best behavior. Well worth their while, too, not to forget that the people looking ou are in the judicial mood, and not much biased by partisanship.?New York Tribune. Journalism as a Business.?In commen? ting upon the failure of a newspaper manager, the St. Lonis Globe tells a plain truth in the following words: "The business of journalism will continue to be an inviting field for experi? ments to those who have a large amount of mon? ey and a large amountof egotism. A man who, having edited a newspaper until he was forty, should suddenly announce himself a lawyer, would be regarded as a fool by the legal profes? sion ; and yet wo often hear of lawyers of for? ty making" sudden pretensions to journalism. There is an idea that the business of editing requires no apprenticeship; that editors come forth from law offices and colleges fully armed for the profession, like Pallas from the brow of Jove. It is a mistake ; there in not in America to-day asinglejournal of national reputation who has not devoted more time and more hard work to his profession than, with equal fitness and ap? plication would have made him a great lawyer or a good doctor. And yet ninety out of ev? ery men you meet on the street will hesitate, about carrying a hod or making a pair of shoes, whereas there will probably not be one in the hundred who can't, according to his own judgment, edit any newspaper In the country betcr than it is edited, no matter in what man? ner or by whom." ? History has been ransacked for the. times when Massachusetts went democratic. The memory of living men was not equal to the task. It seems that the state voted for Thom? as Jefferson for president at his second election 1804. A long gap then intervenes. In 1S39 Marcus Morton was elected governor by a ma? jority of?two votes, and afterwards re-elected by the legislature. He was a democrat, but he owed bis election to a liquor issue. There is another gap error until we come to Gaston's election on the top of the unexampled tidal wave of 74, unless the coalition of 18A0 which elected Boutwell governor, and Sumncr, sena? tor, be considered an exception. Jefferson, Morton and Gaston are in truth the only dem? ocrats who have carried the state since the origin of the government. ? A New Jersey clergyman says there are i about twenty different kinds of religion, but a I I man who won't wash and shave and put on a ' ' clean shirt can't enjoy any of them. Paralyzed Industries of the South. The fo1 "'ing letter was written by Hon. E. D. Standiioid, member of Congresi from the Louisville (Ky.) District, to a prominent bant? er in New York, and presents clearly aud forci? bly the business view of the effects of misrule in the South, with practical suggestions as to the help and sympathy which business men of the North should extend to their brethren in distress: The people of the South are being.governed by a class of men who have no interest in the prosperity of their adopted States, and. indeed do not expect to remain there .-after- theirilease of power expires. Their object is to make money by plundering the people. You can understand what the effect of the cxercise'qf arbitrary power in such hands necessarily musjt have upou business generally. Capitalists will not invest their money where there is no assur? ance of protection under the law, or where'the powers that be may come without notice at any time and seize everything, disarrange business, and destroy credit. There is uo security under the present administration of affairs in. the South, for permanence of investment. What appears to be stable and settled now, may, at the next turn of the political wheel, prove to be utterly without foundation, and so we have business interests depeuding upou the even varying wind of politics, and as its owu legiti? mate consequence without permanence or pros? perity. I am not speaking now of Kentucky. Here we are established and have nothimr to fear either from our courts or the executive, nor do the questions of politics disturb our business affairs in the least. This condition of affairs is owing wholly to the way in which we have managed our affairs. withoutputside interference, but this unsettled state of affairs among our nearest neighbors injures us materially, and although it may not now be felt in the East, unless it is stopped it will ultimately reach you. I am not speaking of those things as a partisan of any sort, but as a business man interested iu the business prosperity of the South. I think that most of these evils have been brought about by the useless and injudicious interference by the General Government iu State affairs. The real intelligent people of the South?the ones upon whom we must depend to bring about a return to commercial prosperity?are the ones unfortunately against whom Federal interfer? ence has been mostly directed, and the officers whom this interference has kept in power have come to consider that their constituency is not the people of the State, but the administration at Washington, and act accordingly. Can not something be done to put a stop to this ? Will not the Northern business man extend to his Southern confrere at least the moral support of sympathy against the use of those arbitrary measures for which he has no redress? The present condition of affairs has crippled the railroad interest, nearly destroyed manufac? tures and demoralized all kinds of business. What the South needs to restore her to posi? tion in the commercial world is a sense of sta? bility in reference to her establishments. We cannot expect this from politics or politicians ?I mean in the general sense. Of course much depends upon the Southern men them? selves ; they will have to work out their own salvation ; but you, gentlemen of the East, can do incalculable good by your advice and sym? pathy, and more still by opposing the acts of oppression under which the business of the South is crushed, and which are fast closing up the North's best market. This is not a political view of the matter; it is the view business men take of it. Who would feel any safety in making investments in business that iu a week, a month, or a year might be taxed out of existence, or seized upon any provocation, without any adequate remedy provided in the way of damages ? The Eastern capitalists who, iu good faith, have invested their money in railroad and other securities of the South, are being continually robbed by the plunderers who control the affairs of the ex? treme Southern States. The importance of a change in the condition of affairs here can be better comprehended when we consider that our National debt and the interest on it must be paid by the products of the West and the South. The whole country is vitally interested in our prosperity. Legends ofthe Apple.?The apple, which, as we know, is the first fruit mentioned in the Bible, has been the occasion of various legends and superstitions. In Arabia it is believed to charm away disease, and produce health and prosperity. In some countries the custom re? mains of placing a rosy apple in the hands of the dead that they may find it when they en? ter Paradise. The Greeks use it- as a symbol of wealth and large possessions, thus attesting their esteem for the fullness arid richness of its qualities. In northern mythology the apple is said to produce rejuvenating power. Ger? many, France, and Switzerland have numerous legends regarding this fruit. In some it is celebrated as the harbinger of good fortune cau? sing one's most earnest desires to be fulfilled ; in others its beautiful properties are shown forth as bringing death and destruction; oth? ers again speak of it as an oracle in love affairs; this is especially the case with the Germans, not only in their numerous tales, but in some surviving customs. In England, as well as in our own country, is known among schools girls the popular use ofthe apple seeds in divining one's sweetheart. The peeling is also used as a test in this delicate matter. Statesmanlike Views.?At the late rous? ing torch-light procession iu Atlanta, Gen. Gordon was one of the orators. He concluded his speech at the great jubilee by an appeal for continued prudence and forbearance which, he said, were the Christianity of all politics. He said : ''One boon I ask in this hour of your deliverance. I ask you to commission me, in your name, to pledge upon the floor of the Sen? ate, your fidelity to the Union under the con? stitution, your acquiescence in the laws passed in accordance with the constitution, good and bad, until such laws be fully repealed; your support of all rightful authority; your cordial friendship for every man and all men ofall sec? tions, who will aid in restoring peace to the citizens, purity to all departments ofthe Gov? ernment and the constitution to its supremacy over Presidents, Congress and parties and peo? ple. [Loud cheers.] i thank you, my country? men, for that response. You are as temperate in triumph as you were great in adversity. You cherish malice to none and arc hostile only to thieves, usurpers and tyrants." ? In bridging a stream engineers often car? ry over a single thread. With that stretch a wire across. Then stands are added until a foundation is laid for planks; then the bold engineer finds safe footing?walks from side to side. So God takes from us some golden threaded pleasure, and stretches it hence into heaven. Now he takes a child, then a friend. Thus he bridges death, and teaches the! most timid to find their way hither and thither between the two spheres. ? Why Is It? It is well nigh universally admitted that the South is poor when compared with the North. By the South is meant the cotton-growing States; and-by the North is-meant-?U the States mote, especially engaged in raising stock and grain, and in manufacturing./ It is hum? bling to one's pride to Con (ess that the spot that gave him birth is not in every respect the best place on which the sun ahines. The Esqui? maux thinks there is no place like his frozen region: and the manbofn in Ecuador,beneath a vereide sun, thinks his is the best country ! in the World. Evidently the temperate tones, and especially the north temperate zone, pos? sesses advantages which cannot be claimfed' for extreme latitudes.. The location -of South' Car? olina, North Carolina and northern Georgia' is as favorable for the accumulation' of "weal Ith' as any section on the globe. The* soil is fertile and well watered;, the ..climate' is healthy and adapted to.a variety of staple products. Now such being'the facts in the case, it may be asked, "why have hot the people of the territory em? braced id the States mentioned increased in wealth in the same ratio, as some other sectious of the country?" For this state 'of things? that is, for the general poverty of the South or cotton-growing States?there are many reasons. For a period of seventy-five or eighty years the results of the labor of the cotton-growing States were invested ina kind of property which nev? er was profitable. It had a uorainal value only. The accumulations of near a century .were swept away in oue moment. The stroke of a pen cancelled it forever. We mean the institu? tion of slavery. Every Southern man knows that the mass of the property of the South con? sisted mainly in slaves. No other kind of property was regarded as of much .importance. The abolution of the institition of slavery, whilst it did not make the slaves rich, made the masters poor. This, in part,' accounts for the fact that there are so many men in the South really poor.? Another reason why the southern people are so poor is, that for the last seventy-five years very little improvement has been made, com? pared with what has been' made at the North and in the North-west. The aoil in those sec? tions has grown richer yearly, whilst the fields of the South have been so neglected that many of them are irredeemably ruined. The im? provements ou land in the South, until very recently, were regarded as nothing. A planta? tion in the woods would sell for more than one that bad been settled for a number of.years. Another reason why the southern people are poorer 'than those in the northern and north? western sections of the United States is, because the southern people do not work as hard, nbr to as good advantage as the . people of those sections do. Time drags heavily on the hands of more than half of the inhabitants of oursdh ny'Sonth. Statistics show that mOre than bne half of those who are able to labor, are really nothing but gentlemen' loafers, without any visible means of making a living. They secure a living from the laboring class as a tick gets a living off a cow. It may safely be set down in round numbers that one-Tialfof the southern people do nothing. They loaf with a ven? geance, nd the other half do not work like the people of some other sections. A northern man is always busy, and always in a hurry. 'He drives from day light to dark and the tools with which he works are of the best kind. " There is another reason for the comparative !>overty of the Southern people. The exceeding fertility of our soil has a tendency to make our people prodigal?prodigal not only of time, but also of the productions of the soil. We depend far more upon the spontaneous productions of the soil than the inhabi :ants of almost any other civilized section of the globe. The last, but by no means the least, reason for southern poverty is. found in tbe fact that the South is exclusively an agricultural coun? try ; that is, the people of the South are devoted exclusively to agricultural pursuits. Thisfsim ple fact, of itself, will keep the South poor for all time. A people engaged in agriculture, and in nothing else, never can keep pace with a people who are engaged both in agriculture and manufacturing. Such a people will always be rowing against both wind and tide.? YorkvilU Enquirer. . . I All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? "Leaves have their time to fall," and this is their time, and they are attending to their bus? iness. ? The Cleveland Herald puts it thus: "Another dam disaster in Massachusetts. .See election returns." ? The salary of $40,000 per annum paid to President .Tewett of the Erie Railway is Hfce largest paid to any railroad officer in the Uni? ted States, and it is believed larger than.any paid to any railroad officer in the world. . ? ? It was a neck-and-neck contest between the Democracy of Ohio and Indiana as to which would give the largest majority on the State ticket. The official count shows that Ohio won bv a few votes: Ohio, 17,202; Indi? ana, 17,097." ? Habit uniformly and constantly strength? ens all our active exertions; whatever we do often, we become more and more apt to do. A suuff-taker begins with a pinch of snuff per day, and ends with a pound or two every month. Swearing.begins in anger; it ends by mingling itself with ordinary conversation. Such like instances are of too common notorie? ty to need that they be adduced. ? An exchange gets off the following on de? linquent subscribers: "Looking over an old ledger, we see a long array of names of former subscribers who are indebted to us. Some of them have moved away and are lost to sight, although to memory clear. Others are carrying the contribution boxes in our most respectable churches, and others again have died and are angels in heaven, but they owe us just the same. ? A physician calling one day on a gentle? man who had been severely afflicted with gout, found to his surprise the disease gone, and the gentleman rejoicing in his recovery over a bot? tle of wine. "Come along, doctor," exclaimed the valetudinarian ; "you are just in time to taste this bottle of Madeira. It is the first bf a pipe that has just been broached." "Ah!" re? plied the doctor, "these pipes of Madeira will never do. They are the cause of all your suff? ering." "Well, then," rejoined the gay incur? able, "fill your glass; for now that we have found out the cause, the sooner we get rid of it the better." ? It is impossible to estimate the blessed effect produced upon a nation's health and happiness, when, on the return of each Sunday, millions are thus set free from toil; wheu tbo ledger is closed on the desk ; when the ham? mer rests upon the anvil, and the wheel of the factory is silent; when the mine sends forth its crowds into the light and glory of the new? born day; and when men cau rest their wea rid frames, or tread the green earth or hoary mountain and breathe the fresh air, and look calmly upon the blue sky overheard, or listen to the sounding stream or beating sea wave, and when the very dumb cattle partake of tbe universal bles-dngs.