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HOYT & CO., Proprietors. ANDERSON C. H., S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1875. VOLUME X:?NO. 42. End of the Libel Trial. The libel case against the Charleston News rtnd Courier ended on Tuesday afternoon, 27th of April. The jury disagreed, and at one time eleven voted for an acquittal. Having failed to agree upon a verdict, Judge Reed ordered a mistrial, which is equivalent to an end of the great case. We copy the proceedings of Tues? day from the News and Courier : defying the court. On Monday night when the jury were sent to their room to deliberate upon the case, and when the bailiffs nominated by the sheriff to take charge of the jury for the night were sworn in, Gen. Conner asked that special bail? iffs be appointed by the Court on behalf of the defendant, to see that no communication should be had with the jurors. Judge Reed stated that he did not think it would be neces? sary to make appointments, but that the defen? dant would be allowed to place a guard in the neighborhood of the jury room for the purpose stated. The gentleman selected to act as such guard went at once to the door of the jury room, and very soon afterwards was told by Bowen's bailiffs that he could not be allowed to remain there. He was then arrested and taken before Bowen himself, who refused to allow him to remain there. Word was sent to Judge Reed, who at once issued an order to Sheriff Bowen and his deputies in the follow? ing words: "The defendant's counsel are permitted to have not exceeding two persons to remain near the door of the jury room on the outside, and see what transpires, and they must not be mo? lested. (Signed) J. P. Reed." This order was handed to Deputy Sheriff Ostendorff, who delivered it to Sheriff Bowen, who informed the two gentlemen, selected in accordance with the order, that it was not suf cient authority, and they were, accordingly, not allowed to remain. Recourse was again had to Judge Reed, whose subordinate, the Sheriff, had, for the second time, deliberately disobeyed his orders, and the Judge, at a late hour of the night, went in person to the Court House and appointed the two gentlemen se? lected by the defendant as special bailiffs, in the same way as those nominated by Bowen. The special bailiffs on the part of the defend? ant kept watch at the door of the jury-room all night, and one of them accompanied any juror who, for any purpose, left the jury-room. It was noticeable that, early on Tuesday morning, when thiB W. H. Ahrens left the jury-room, Bowen's bailiff, who had him in charge, en? deavored to persuade the special bailiff, who was with them, to leave them together. But this attempt to secure private communication with Ahrens was frustrated by the vigilance of the special bailiff. the jury hung. At nine o'clock yesterday morning Judge Steed arrived at the Court House and sent for the jury, who shortly afterwards came into Court. Upon being asked if they had agreed upon a verdict, the foreman, Mr. A. J. White, Jr., replied in the negative. He added that there was no prospect whatever of the jury ever coming to an agreement. Judge Reed replied, that he was sorry for that, but he saw no reason why they could not agree upon a verdict, unless there were some members of the jury who had gone into the box with a bias or a prejudice. He informed them, that if they wished to be informed upon any point of law, they could through their foreman ask the Court, who would be glad to explain any matter about which there was a contrary understanding. Mr. Corbin objected to the Court giving any further explanation. The Judge had charged the jury fully; in that charge he had told them they were 6ole judges of the la<$ and the fact. He thought further explanation unnecessary. If the jury could not agree, then the Court, af? ter using its discretion concerning the length of time that they should be kept out, would be compelled to order a mistrial. The foreman of the jury announced that after consultation the members of the jury had ?determined that they would ask no. questions. The Court then ordered breakfast to be sent to the jurymen, and instructed the foreman that he was in charge ?f the jury, and should en? force order. He also added that if anything wrong occurred, or if he had reason to believe that bad influences had been brought to bear upon any of the members ?f the jury, he should report it to the Court. "Gentlemen," the Judge continued, "you are the representa? tives of the County?of the State on the one hand, and of tbedefendant on the other. There is nothing in the case to prevent you from .agreeing. You must put away from your minds every thought of the actors in this case, their political or their social relations to each other. Your minds should be like a blank piece of paper, to receive the imprint of the truth as you believe it to have been presented here." Two bailiffs were then sworn in, one nomi? nated by the Sheriff and one by the defendant, and the jury were sent back to their room. no agreement. At half-past one o'clock a constable was sent to inquire. whether there was likely to be an agreement, and word was brought back that the foreman had said, there was not the slight? est possibility of their ever coming to an agree? ment. Upon which the Court adjourned until 8 o'clock p. m. 'the jury discharged. At 3 o'clock the Court again met and the jury were again sent for and conducted into the court-room. In reply to the question from the Court as to whether they had yet agreed ?upon a verdict, the foreman again replied in the negative, and added further, tfiat he didn't Jthink they ever would. Judge Keed asked if the Court could give them any assistance in the way of information ?as to the law of the case. The foreman replied that he thought not, hut that any member of the jury who desired it might ask. The Judge then read the Statutory provision in regard to the discharge of a jury in the event of their failing to agree upon a verdict. The foreman reiterated that it was as well ?settled then as it ever would be, that if they staid in their room for a month they would bo just where they were now. That it Beemed utterlv impossible for them to agree. a judicial hint. Judge Reed then told the jury that if they felt confident that they could not come to an agreement they would now be discharged. Be? fore discharging them, however, he would like to recount to them an incident of a jury trial that happened some years ago in Georgia. It was a trial for murder, in which the jury failed to agree upon a verdict. They were sent back to their room by the Court, but still there was no agreement. The panel was then questioned .as to the difficulty, and it was ascertained that. eleven of the jury were for acquittal and one for conviction. On being questioned as to his ! persistence, the solitary juror for conviction j ?declared that he had never met eleven such I contrary men in his life. Gentlemen, said | Judge Keed, I repeat this anecdote, because it J has boeu rumored that there is one man on your jury who is hanging your panel. This is the rumor ail over the Btreets. If it is the fact it must come out ;. you are not sworn to secrecy. You have all sworn that you had not made up your minds, and were not conscious of any bias or prejudice. If it is shown that any one man on that panel has been tampered with, or went into that box with his mind made up, I shall see that he is made an example of to all others, to show that they can't go into a jury box in this county with their minds made up without being dealt with as they deserve. My endeav? or has been and shall be to purify the jury box in my circuit, so far as I am able, and to ad? minister the law with justice and fairness to all. HOW THE JURY 8TOOIV The jury were then discharged, and a mis? trial was entered upon the back of the indict? ment. On Monday night, when the jury re? tired to consider the case, the opinion prevailed very generally in the community that there would be a mistrial?that the jury would not agree upon a verdict, and, singular to relate, public rumor had it that the jury would stand eleven for the acquittal of the defendant and one for conviction. It may also be stated that it was generally believed that W. H. Ahrens would be the juror who would "stick out for Bowen," (that being- the popular phrase.) Ahreos was generally spoken of as one of Bowen's well known henchmen, and it was predicted that he would never consent to a ver? dict of acquittal. When the jury were dis? charged, the Court having instructed them that they were not bound to secrecy as to what transpired in the jury room, it was ascertained that on the first vote on Monday night eleven of the jurymen voted for acquittal of the de? fendant, and one for his conviction, and that this W. H. Abrens was the juror who consti? tuted the minority. The case was then talked over for a long time, but a second vote was not taken until Tuesday morning, when Ahrens announced that two of the colored jurymen, Nat Barn well and Peter Brown, had come over to his side. Upon the secoud vote, on Tuesday morning, the two jurymen referred to voted with him for the conviction of the defendant. After this there was a dead-lock, and, as has been stated, there being no prospect of au agreement, the jury were discharged. It has also been ascertained that Nat. Barnwell and Peter Brown, the two jurymen who voted with Ahrens, took no part whatever in the discus? sion of the case in the jury-room, and did not seem to understand much about it. The result having been generally anticipated in the community, there was very.little surprise expressed when it was made known. From the Torkville Enquirer. Fences. The man that undertakes to break an indi? vidual from a long-formed habit, or to change the manners and customs of a people, engages in a difficult task. Success will only partially crown his efforts, arid he will most probably be hissed as a setter-forth of strange doctrines by those whom he will fail to reclaim from bad habits, and by those whose long-established customs he will not be able to change. A large number of every community are, with respect to their customs, as it was with the laws of the ancient Medes and Persians. Tiiey never change. They build their houses, cook their food, sit down and get up, eat and sleep, as did their fathers. The world moves forward, but they stand still. The theory that "circumstan? ces alter'cases" is, by this class of individuals, regarded as totally false in theory, and they feel at perfect liberty to treat it with absolute contempt in practice. The custom in this country?we mean in the State of South Carolina?for the past hundred years, has been to fence the crop and let the stock run at large. Now, the individual who intimates that he doubts the propriety of con? tinuing this practice, may expect to incur the censure of some persons?how many, depends upon circumstances. The question, however, like the "Impending Crisis" about which we all heard so much some years ago, must come. Circumstances which no single man can con? trol, will force the question upon the country. We predict that when the present fences which enclose the planted fields of South Carolina rot down, they will never be rebuilt. We have, we think, good and solid reasons for making this prediction. In some section there is not timber to fence the fields. Absolute necessity will force those residing in these sections to fence in their stock and turn their crops out. Partially, this is the case now. In some sparse? ly timbered sections of the State there are not enough rails on the farms to enclose one-tenth of the land cultivated. All the division fences have been removed, and so also have been the fences which separate the farms of different individuals. There is now only a turn-row, where, fifteen years ago, there was a fence. Again, the Legislature of adjoining States have partially passed what is known as a fence law. Some portions of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, have no fences around their crops. The farmers of those sections are de? lighted with the working of the system. They say it is cheaper and more advantageous in every respect. The system will gradually pass from one section to another until the fences will all be removed from around the planted field. It is clear that such are the circumstances of this country at present, that farmers must either entirely give up the practice of raising stock, or put their stock in enclosures. As stock-raising is carried on at present, a large per cent, of the stock bred dies of neglect. Of that raised, a large per cent, is stolen ; and the remainder, in a multitude of ways and from a multitude of sources, is ruinously abused. In this section, so well adapted to stock-raising, farming cannot be conducted profitably with? out raising stock sufficient for home consump? tion. The objectors to a change in the present sys? tem will be mainly those who have a cow or a pig which they contemplate raising out of either the cribs or the fields of their neighbors. They will claim that their cow and their pig have an inalienable right to root and browso wherever their instincts may direct them. These individuals will claim that their stock have rights guaranteed-to them by nature, and perpetuated to them by law, to go into every field that is not enclosed with a fence eight feet high, and so close that a ground-squirrel cannot crawl through the chinks. These indi? viduals will claim this privilege for their stock on the ground that the world owes them a liv? ing, and it does not matter how or from whom they get it. This theory must soon explode. The man who buys a forest is entitled to all its advan? tages. The grass and canes which spring up upon it are as much his as the trees. Ihey are as much his, and he has as much right to say how they shall be used, as the corn that grows in his cultivated fields. Change the present fence system, and the number ol stock will be reduced, but the quality greatly in? creased. Stock will then be regarded as prop? erty, and not as it now is?a nuisance. ? When a cat sings, does she not do it on purpuss? She simply does iL to a-mews herself. Ex-Senator Cnrl Schurz on the Tendency of American Politics* Hon. Carl Schurz, of Missouri, on the occa? sion of his approaching departure to Europe for a brief season, has been banquetted by dis? tinguished citizens of New York as a compli? ment to his eminent services in the United States Senate. Of course, speech-making was the order of the evening, and we herewith pre? sent the remarks of Mr. Wm. M. Evarts, who presided over the eutertainment, and the elo? quent response of Mr. Schurz: SPEECH OF WILLIAM M. EVARTS. At half-past nine o'clock the heavy work of the evening began, when Mr. Evarts, the chair? man, rose and spoke as follows : "I am very happy to be called upon to represent the im? portant elements of society in tendering this compliment to Carl Schurz. We all thank him for the eminent services which he has rendered to the nation. This occasion, Mr. Schurz, is entirely personal to yourself. It is personal to you as a.public man, and to mark our appre? ciation ox the share you have had in staying the tide of immorality, and in presenting to the American people amid evil surroundings the picture of a pure, exalted American states? man. You are not a native citizen of this country, but one who has done it the honor to make it a home. It is now some twenty-five years since you came to these shores, and there are few of our public men who have reflected more credit upon America. We come to honor I you as lovers of our country, who prefer to I honor purity rather than partisan politics. ! We should like to see competitions in public life in which the prosperity of the combat would depend rather upon actual superiority than tf?bn lesser defects. In this country, by the organism of our government, all power is in the hands of the people, but there may be an interest to seize this power and appropriate it to private parties for selfish ends. The ques? tion is not whether we can fight kings that do not exist, but enemies that are in our very front and have shown us their powers for evil. Now let me read a passage from the "Greville Memoirs." Mr. Evarts read the passage, say? ing that George IV hated the best men of all parties, and then went on to say that King Caucus hated the best men of all parties, and followed out the simile to the end of the para? graph referred to. Now, the great corporate organization that attempts to wrest the power from the people is that of placemen, and the government by placemen must always be the weakest. King Caucus always makes a con? test between placemen and those who wish to displace them to get their places. Hence our political life is reduced to a struggle between office-holders and office-seekers. The question is, 'Whom do the people prefer?' Well, the people don't prefer either of them. And what is our remedy ? Well, we have a few men like yourself, Mr. Schurz, great defenders of the nation's honor. If King Caucus has sent you to private life for the present he has yet not withdrawn from you the admiration and the hearts of the people. You lost your place by the placemen, and not by the people against the placemen. This people have been accustomed to see somewhere in the high places the champions of national honor; they have seen them in the Senate and expect to see them in the Senate. I remember the time when Massachusetts, Kentucky and South Carolina were the most important States iu the Union, but when Clay, Calhoun and Webster were dead, these States appeared no longer so all-important. Missouri has recently been a great State in the councils of the nation. Why ? Because it sent Carl Schurz to the Senate. How shall we impress upon the minds of young men that subservien? cy to the caucus is not the only road to Ameri? can statesmanship? This is the greatest prob? lem we have now to solve, and winch will make the next Presidential canvass not a race between two lame horses, bu compel all parties to fur? nish their beat and strongest competitors. There is a disposition among the people to make a demonstration at that election which will show that this government was worth founding. Freedom of thought, purity of character, inflexibility of purpose are the qualities which distinguish a great patriot from a caucus leader. Mr. Schurz is one of these, and he had the choice of being a great Senator or being re-elected by a caucus, and he chose well. And now, gentlemen, let us rise to drink the health of Carl Schurz, while we wish him a happy journey, a joyful summer and a safe return. SPEECH OF CARL SCHURZ. The hero of the evening then rose modestly and, in that beautiful English for which he is famous, said: To earn the praise of public-spirited and pure citizens like you is an ambition which I am not ashamed to own. I can certainly say oue thing, that I have, at least, tried to do my duty, and if you will be so indulgent in regard to the executiou of my intentious, I heartily promise you that my gratitude will not be a barren one. I co-operated with the republican party until its aims bad been secured against subversive purposes ; but when that point was reached I devoted myself to the other great problems of our national life. By a wise policy of conciliation, justice and honesty the South could be reconciled. It was necessary to return to sound constitutional principles, which were necessarily disregarded during the war, to drive away that rapacity which sapped the public power; to reform the civil service, which was su?ering from abuses unexampled all over the world ; to restore to the country a sound cur? rency once more, and to lighten the burdens resting upon the people by a wise and equitable system of revenue and taxation. I fondly hoped that the great party which had scut me to the Senate would take hold of these prob? lems, but you as well as 1 know that they are still unsolved, and that'in some respects even retrograde movements have been begun. I be? lieve that the majority of the republican party desire to solve them, but are in the meshes of politicians who regard their places more than the good of the people. Under these circum? stances the question presented itself whether we were to bo the tools of party or the repre? sentatives of the people, i am honestly con? vinced that the principles I have struggled for are shared by a large part of the republican as well as by the better portion of the democratic party. 1 did not go over to the latter for some of the same reasons which had separated me from the first. The reforms I desired seemed then to have as little to hope from the demo? crats as from the republicans, and there was fear lest an unalloyed democratic party might disturb certain settlements and strengthen the already too great tendency to centralization. Under these circumstances, nothing could be more natural than to ally myself with men who would march straight upon the solution of those problems. Such an attempt was made iti 1872. It failed sadly?why, you know as well as I do. Now what is the political position to-day? Here we have two parties, with some good and some bad principles, but neither of which sat? isfies the best interests of the nation. The Louisiana debate illustrated this fact very well. The democrats were told that they were estop ?ed from protesting-against the usurpation in ouisiana because they had been guilty of a similar outrage in Kansas. Well, if this is true, the republicans could not protest against a possible future democratic usurpation, be? cause they had done the same thing before. The pot calling the kettle black, and the kettle ruturning the compliment, and both being black to the last degree?this is the present state of things. Both parties, T shall certain? ly admit, can boast of some good men, but no? body will question when looking at the gen? erality of political contests, that the picture I have painted is a true one. Is it astonishing then that so many good citizens refrain from voting altogether and that from day to day the number of independent voters is increasing. So far the latter have been anxiously engaged in administering rebukes, but they can put their votes to much better use. I am convinced that they are to-day strong enough to give the victor)' to either party which they may deem worthy of success. It is their duty to prepare for more positive action in the future. The independent vote of this country should take such initiatory steps with regard to the next Presidential election as will result in a positive understanding. I shall be indeed nappy if this metting, assembled in my honor, will result in the taking of such initiatory steps. We shall then be able to tell either par? ty what we consider necessary for the coun? try's good, and leave to them the responsibility of rejecting our proposition. I think the best portion of both parties should hail with pleas? ure such an independent movement. Gentle? men, what a blessing it would be to have once more a full-grown statesman in the Presiden? tial chair. Next year we shall celebrate the Nation's centenary, and may the inspiration of the heroes of independence rouse us to a pow? er of freeing ourselves from the insidious influ? ences to which a republican government is ex? posed. And now, gentlemen, it only remains for me to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the great honor you have done me, and to assure you that it will only be an in? centive to me to deserve your confidence in the future. A Republican View of the Situation. It is very natural that the first steps toward reform in our State politics should be welcomed by a storm of mingled incredulity and wrath from the whole army of politicians whose of? fences have brought the Republican party to the verge of ruin, and who feel that reform means for them political exile in the future, and, perhaps, retribution for the past. Long impunity had put their fears asleep, and use in villainy had dulled their consciences, so that they doubted the existence in the people of a moral sense that they had lost themselves. But as they begiu to realize that the republican masses are aroused to a sense of the dangers which threaten the party, and are by no means disposed to allow the authors of its misfortunes to escape just punishment, anger has displaced doubt, and fierce denunciation of every repub? lican who raises a hand toward the exposure of their rascalities is now the order of the clay. The third stage is yet to come, when terror of the popular condemnation will overtake them, and "nest-hiding" and flight will be their only and last resource. Well may they fiar the wrath laid up for them in the hearts of the party which they have disgraced, and the peo? ple whose interests they have betrayed. They do not seem yet to appreciate the fact that the plunder of the public funds is not their only offense. It is for this that the dem? ocracy holds them to account, and, therefore, they heard in the first voices of the true and honest republicans who attacked them only dem? ocrats in disguise, and they were prompt to read out of the party every such man. One of their number said, after hearing Gov. Chamberlain's inaugural address, ''My God ! we might as well have elected a democrat!" They have indeed done their best to make republicanism synony? mous with villainy, and democracy the image and promise of honest government. They have injured every honest republican by mak? ing the very name'of the party a by-word and a reproach. So it is just here that the weight lies of the indictment which the republican party presents against unfaithful servants. They themselves have stabbed republicanism in the house of her friends. They have brought the blush of shame to the cheek of life-long republicans, who found themselves shunneu and doubted on account of what were said to be their political associations. They have well nigh brought to political ruin the masses of colored republicans who bear all the responsibility for their leaders' sins, and who see their rights in jeopardy. The growth of the party in numbers, which otherwise would have been rapid by secessions from the white population, especially in the upper part of the State, has been checked by this untimely frost of corruption. They have made it a dis? grace from one end of the country to the other to be a South Carolina republican. All these causes of oflcu.se, which, thus gen? erally stated, include a world of injuries, rankle in the hearts of the good republicans of this State, and are superadded to the burdens of taxation, the paralysis of business, tike flight of capital, and the whole sea of woes which assails them .in common with their democratic fellow-citizens. So surely as that the sun shines, for all these things those men shall be brought to judgment. They will be driven back to the dons of obscurity from which they came with ill-omened flight to do their evil work. But the republican party will survive long after their departure to bless the common? wealth with pure, honestJ?d equal government. ? Union-Herald. An Iowa Love Stouy.?The Cedar Falls Gazette tells this : A young lady living a few miles out of Cedar Falls took it into her head to go to Kansas to teach school, and a young fellow that had been keeping company with her went to Nebraska to make himself a home.? Well, the young lady thought she would come home, so she sent her side-saddle and some oth? er things on before she started, but by some accident she was taken to Sioux City, where she had to stay all night. In the meantime the young man had got up a house, and finding it lonesome work living alone, sent for his two sisters. He went to Sioux City to meet them on the same evening that the young lady ar? rived there. Looking through the register to find his sisters' names,, he came across the name of his former sweetheart, so, his sisters not ap? pearing, hunted up the young lady and talked business so well that they were married the same night, and started for his homo the next morning. Names?Hattie Raymond and Jean Emerson. ? "My husband was poetical," said the widow, "and often expressed a wish to die in the eternal solitudes, soothed by the rythmic melodies of nature's unutterable harmonics, and yet he was killed by the explosion of a can of kerosene." ? Isn't it. strange how circumstances aller cases? When the price of flour falls, the ba? kers don't hear of it for a week or ten days af- . terwards ; but when it rises, somehow or other j the news spreads in half an hour! Resignation of Attorney General Williams. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald explains the way in which the resignation of Attorney, General Williams was brought about: washington, April 23, 1875. When the official correspondence on the I subject is made public it will appear that need? ful attentions to his private affairs have left Attorney General Williams no other alterna? tive than a retirement from public life, and that it is with no common feelings of regret that he has thus been compelled to sever the pleasant official relations which, for several years past, have attached him to the President and his Cabinet, and so on. It will further appear that the President deeply regrets the resolution of Mr. Williams to retire from the office which he has filled so acceptably, and that in accepting his resignation he (the Presi? dent) cannot refrain from expression of his best wishes for' the success and prosperity of this able and faithful public servant in his withdrawal from the cares of State. All this on both sides is substantially true, but it is not the whole truth. The resignation of Mr. Williams, though proclaimed a volun? tary act, was forced upon him, and it came upon him as a surprise. Ever since his nomi? nation for Chief Justice, and particularly since the disclosure of certain facts connected with the withdrawal of his name for that high posi? tion, there has been more or less dissatisfaction in the Republican party with his continuance in the Cabinet, and frequent ugly hints and charges from republican sources have been made against him ; but until lateVy they were all to no purpose. The President paid no at? tention to these complaints of corruption in the Department of Justice until last Friday night a week ago, when he sent for Mr. Wil? liams and told him frankly that his presence in the Cabinet was embarrassing his adminis? tration and the party. To this stunning announcement Mr. Wil? liams, of course, could only reply that he would not stand a moment in the way of the admin? istration or the party, and that he would send in his resignation at once. But it was finally agreed that it should be withheld until the President's return from Boston, and that Mr. Williams should remain in his office till some time in May, to dispose of certain cases pend? ing in the Supreme Court. But whence this sudden overthrow of the President's late appa? rently unbounded confidence in this man ? It came from some treacherous leakages in the Department of Justice. For instance, a good natured frieud told the President that one of the Attorney General's subordinates had "blown on him ;" that the investigating committee ap? pointed to examiue those charges made against Mr. Williams when he was nominated for Chief Justice had reached a point where, for the good of all concerned, it was deemed expedient to stop the investigation and shut the books. Upon this broad hint, touching a matter of which he had before heard nothiug, the Presi? dent sent lor Mr. Williams and suggested the propriety of his resignation. At this time Mrs. Williams was in New York, and was little prepared for the startling dispatch which, on Saturday morning last a week ago, came to her from Washington, requesting her immediate return home. She left by the next train, and was no doubt greatly surprised and perplexed to find that the Attorney General who had de? clined the mission to Russia and the mission to Austria would soon be thrown back into the shades of private life. So fade away all the glories of this world. "Put not your trust in Princes" or Presidents, for you know not how soon you may be tripped up and brought to the ground. Now it is re? ported that Mr. Williams will return to Oregon and put himself there in training to take the place of Kelly (Democrat) in the Senate two years hence; but it is also given out that Ben. Holladay, the railway and steamship king of Oregon, and a large force of active republicans out there say that they have had enough of Williams, and that he will come to the Senate no more. Some of the Attorney General's de? cisions, good or bad, have fixed him in that quarter, and besides, the "cat is out of the bag" iu the Department of Justice, and Gen. Grant has had enough of Mr. Williams. Be it under? stood that Williams is an honest man as the world goes, but there have been influences be? hind him that have officially brought him down. Of Secretary Delano they say, that whereas he was poor and has become rich, and that whereas seven millions are expended yearly on account of the Indians where four millions ought to be enough, Delano will retire to escape the wrath to come from a Democratic commit? tee of investigation, which will surely walk into the Interior Department from the House of Representatives next winter. And shrewd political astrologers here say furthermore that the retirement of Williams aud Delano will soon be followed by a general breakup and re? construction of the Cabinet; that Pierrepont will take the place of Williams; that Fish will vacate the State Department, and that Ben Butler (preposterous as the idea may appear) may take his place ; that even the jolly Robe son will have to walk the plank, and that Belk nap, too, will go out. The Cabinet will be re? constructed to strengthen the administration and the party behind it, and if anybody can be found who has heard General Grant say that he is not in the field for another Presidential term, but wishes it to be understood that he has withdrawn from the course, let that man be produced. But why all these leakages and troubles in the Cabinet of late? They may be thus ex? plained. The President has the same dislike against newspapers that a turkeycock has against a red rag. He does not read the news? papers, he will not see newspaper men, as a rule, and all newspaper reports of corruptions in this or that department he denounces as "more newspaper lies." He is an honest, come-and-go-easy man. He likes money, for he has been very poor and knows how needful it is ; but he spends his money freely, and he is not rich. But the great trouble with him is that he will not read or listen to the newspa? pers, and hence he lives in the dark in regard to the corrupt doings around him, until some | glaring case, by some bold intruder, is thrust; under his nose. Then he acts, as in the case of Williams. But for his foolish aversion to newspapers he would be a shrewd politician. | As it is, he is most of the time blundering in | the dark, but he thinks it will all come out' right at last. a Lady's toilet.?a lady, in selecting her toilet, should always bear in mind that she must adorn herself in such a manner that when people look at her their attention, alter resting a moment on her dress, will become concen? trated on her person. In this manner the ele? gance and gracefulness of a lady's attire will cause people to admire the lady herself. How often have we heard it said, "We saw some magnificent dresses this afternoon." Now, if the clever dressmakers who fashioned those robes had exercised a little more ingenuity, the same people would have remarked,, "We saw some very pretty women this afternoon." ; A Tennessee Picture that will Answer for South (Jarolina. "H. V. It.," che traveling.correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, writes as follows I from Chattanooga concerning the dog law re } cently enacted by the Legislature of Tennes j see: The best act put on the books by the legisla ; ture is the dog law. .Dogs are taxed one dollar ; each, and the feminine branch of the dog fam j ily five dollars. Such a law has been long ; needed, but no previous legislature has had the spunk to put it on the books. The poverty of , the State to-day is due in no small degree to I the multitude cf worthless curs, which consume j as much as the hogs, cost as much as the i schools and produce nothing. In the rural districts there are nearly as J many dogs as people, showing of itself a state ; of civilization not the highest. Not long ago i a plaintive appeal was sent to Nashville from ; one hundred and forty-three colored people of , Rutherford County, saying that the last year's dry weather had cut off the crop, and that they I were in a starving condition. Some one went ? through the poverty-stricken districts of the ? County, and his business being to enumerate ; the population he enumerated the dogs also, I and found more dogs than people. What was j fed to the dogs would have fattened enough hogs to have furnished the population with a reasonable amount of meat. But instead of i raising enough meat for home consumption j they scrape up what few remaining dollars re i main in the country, from last year's cotton crop, and send it North for bacon. Curse the worthless dogs! Wherever you j find them in the greatest numbers you find* the people correspondingly poor and the country j wretched. I wish the tax was twenty-five dol I lars and the proceeds given to encourage the raising of sheep. Here is a great central State, adapted by nature to the production of wool, and wool, too, of such superior quality that it has taken the premium more than once at the world's fair, yet, on account of the myriads of worthless curs which prey upou the sheep', there is not one quarter enough wool produced for home consumption, and ? the country is drained of money to send to more civilized and prosperous communities to purchase wool and woolen clothing. And the People complain of being poor. Yes, they aretpwr, and how can they expect to be otherwise in a State where the dogs cost six times as much as the schools, and where there is nothing to sell and every? thing to buy. In twenty-seven counties of this State?av? erage counties?the dogs last year killed 11,469 sheep. In the one County of Giles they got away with 1,750. A Northern farmer who settled in Coffee County was telling me a few days ago of the fine location he had for shec^-raising as com? pared with the North. It cost only one-quarter as much to winter sheep here as it does in the North. The cold weather never killed his lambs, no matter what month of the year they were bom. But there was one drawback that spoiled all that was promising and fine. The worthless dogs killed his sheep aud destroyed all the profits of wool-growing. He was pow? erless to remedy the matter. The country was fairly alive with dogs, every family having from two to a dozen, the poorer and more ? wretched and ignorant and worthless the family the more dogs they kept. The other day I was reading a card from Asa Faulkner, one of the most useful citizens of Tennessee. His life has been spent in a war? fare against ignorance, idleness and dogs, (they all go together,) and in building up the manu? facturing interests of the State. He has a family worthy of the man. They take hold with their hands, and a county full of such would in a few years become worth a whole congressional district of the average popula? tion. He said that two of his sons had estab? lished a woolen factory in Warren County. They utilized the water-power, with which na? ture has so abundantly provided every section of the State, and gave work to fifteen hands? no small item where a very large per cent, of the population are without employment. This little woolen mill saved the county $25,000 annually ; that is, kept that amount of money at home, which would have been otherwise sent out of the country for woolen clothing. But the mill had to stop ; and why ? Because the worthless dogs?and there seems to be about a million in Warren County?killed the the sheep, and thus the supply of wool was cut off. All honor to the Tennessee Legislature for passing the dog law. It is an important step in the direction of progress aud civilization. Looking over into dog-cursed Georgia we find the wool interest prostrate from the same causes which operate here; but the Legislature have not got to the point of passing the dog law.. They will work up to it after a while, mean time buying their wool and woolen goods in other sections, and complaining daily that there is "no money in the country." No, there is no money in the country, but plenty of dogs. In twenty-one counties of Georgia, as shown by the late census, the negroes own and feed 4,211 dogs and but 265 sheep, or about 15 dogs to one sheep. Healthy condition of things! Vigorous community ! Great inducements to emigration. A Brave Speech.?There were several great speeches made at Lexington and Concord, and we must give Emerson and Curtis full credit for having done well their part, so far as beauty of diction, elegance of expression and loftiness of flight, if not of thought, go, if we cannot entire? ly commend the subject matter or sympathize with all the sentiments or opinions expressed in their finished orations. But the speech that pleased us most was a modest little effort by a modest but brave little man from Richmond, whom we are proud to number among our best citizens. We refer, of course, to General Bart lett, a gentleman who has been for some years a resident here, but who has made so little noise that we doubt if he would be known to half a hundred ot our people were they to meet him on the street. He was a general officer in the Federal army, which he entered as a pri? vate from Yale College at the age of 18 years, we believe, and rose from the ranks to a gener? alship, not through favoritism, but by gallant deeds. He lost a leg at the Crater, and so highly was he honored at the North that his co'lleire voted him the most deserving of the soldiers she had sent to the field. When such a man as General Uartlett speaks for the South, at such a time, and before such an audience, his words must find willing hearers and sink deep into the hearts of the people to whom they were addressed. We give his speech in full this morning, as we find it in the New York Times, and in the name of the maligned section, thank him for his noble words in our defence. We trust his address may he widely circulated both North and South, as it cannot fail of be? ing productive of the happiest effects.?Rich? mond Enquirer. ? The henpecked husband is happy enough if he*were only left alone; but he generally has some kind friend who is perpetually urg? ing him "not to stand it."