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(Npwl Jforf. BERKLEY HALL BY "LA CAROLINE." CHAPTER XI. "Oh 1 'tis one scone of parting here, .; x Love's watchword is?farewell f "'XntueTSt' Julien, with her mother's pure, ethereal beauty, had also inherited her' delicate constitution. In the sad and tinlooked-for death of her betrothed, her nervous system had received a shock from which it neverrecovered. Although life had lost its brightness in the blight of-her <fond hopes and sweet anticipa tfoflV Yf En she_.sorrowed deeply to leave, her beloveifather to.mourn his "broken idol," antPfwkh Christian heroism and patience-she-struggled bravely to throw off the" "insidious disease which slowly, but surely took a firmer hold each day of its victim. Poor Doctor St. Julien! In anguish of soul he watched and tended his darling child, and when every effort to cure seemed vain and fruitless, he took advantage of the first opportunity which offered to leave Charleston, and with anxious solicitude bore his precious in? valid across the broad Atlantic to far famed Italy, trusting^ beneath her soft, bine.-, skies to find a balm to cure the wasting frame and the wounded heart. - , Jessie Ferguson accompanied her uncle and cousin. To Annie she became a de? voted and untiring nurse, and to Dr. St. Julien a: watchful and sympathizing friend In her wild, romping, girlish days, poor Jessie had often offended her kind uncle's nice sense of polished pro? priety, !hut love and sorrow had so tamed her exhuberant gaiety that the rattle? brain girl had become the thoughtful, self-sacrificing woman on whom Doctor St. Julien learned to rely for good judg? ment and womanly tact. '?? Upon their first arrival in what they would feign have believed a Land of Promise^ Df. Si. Julien went from place to place, lingering wherever the carna? tion deepened on the cheek of his child, dreaming the so oft deceiving dream that it was surely the rosehue of health. At last, when too weak and weary to travel^, the sufferer begged they might rest in "Beautiful Florence" until permitted to retard to loved .Carolina, and their find her last resting place under the shadow of old St Michael's walls. Thus in a pretty, unpretending villa just oatside of the city, we find the Doc? tor's family pleasantly located with an agreeable English family. It was one of the very loveliest of May afternoons? the air came through the open windows deliciously soft and balmy, ladenedvdth the perfumed breath of myriads of flow? ers. But the charming weather and the music of the sweet-singing birds failed to please, our American friends. It had been", to then: a day of anxious sorrow and suspense. Throughout the whole of the previous night, and that long, sad morning, Jheir sweet Annie seemed to be dying. About noon she became easier, and had fallen into a broken slumber. Added to the grief they felt for their loved one's approaching departure from them, Dr. St. Julien and his niece had been tortured for more than a week by rumors of the surrender of the Confeder? ate forces. That day, alas, they had been confirmed! An American mail had brought one letter from Marion, written when the Federals were in C-?, and forwarded by Col. Gray; but of course their only accounts of the surrender were the malignant and triumphant reports of Yankee newspapers. "Ah!" thought Jessie, bitterly, "itis the^st?ry of another Poland; we have been conquered by numbers, and our enemies seem to- be alike destitute of generosity and chivalry, for surely, sure? ly a victor can afford to be magnanimous, and not.mock a fallen foe I" Dr. St; Julien and his niece agreed to conceal; firr?n ;^.nnie the piournful tidings from their wronged"; and' crushed land. They would Bot add.spottier drop qfpBor row toihe futLcup of the patient s??erer. As Je?ie^sAf?in the darkened chamber, sad and depressed in heart, but with a face as calm and still as the face which nature wears after a storm, the low. tones of Annie's voice sounding clearer than it had done for weeks, broke the quiet of the sick room: "Jessie, dearest, where are you ? Please draw back the curtain, and let me look once more upon the sparkling waters of the romantic 'Arno^fushlng so swiftly and gayly to perform its mission, aud in smiling glances of grateful joy giving back every, ray of sunlight that brightens its silvery current ere it reaches the sea, the deep, deep bosom, where it gladly empties, loses itself and is at rest! But," she said, snddenly changing her flow of thought, and fixing her bright, soft eyes searchingryoiTher fathers" face: "You have bid news from home, have you not, papa?" "My 'Birdie' has been very sick, and must not talk much this afternoon. Let me smooth the pillows for this poor little aching head," said the Doctor, evasively. "Please, dear papa, excuse me, but I must talk just a little, and this afternoon, too, for I cannot stay with you much longer. Ydur 'Birdie's' wings will soon be plumed for her upward flight to realms of celestial light and glory. You seek to hide from me the sad tidings from our sweet, sweet home! I know it all; in my slumber an angel broke it to mc so gently! oh, so gently! I did not weep. I do not weep now, although in my dream our proud battle-flag, with its hard-won victories inscribed upon those dear banner folds, was trailing in the dust! Gazing upon that sacred memo? rial of heroic patriotism stood our noble Generals and their war-worn soldiers. All faces told the tale of hopeless grief, and I read the mournful story, oh, too truly! But, papa, lo! that dark, dark cloud had its silver lining, too, for spark? ling in the refulgence of noontide glory above the whole sad picture, I read with quiet assurance the words: 'Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth,' and then I felt so still and peaceful." After a short pause, as if for rest, the dying girl spoke again: "I give you back this precious book you gave me, mamma's Bible. It has been my charter and chart to the glorious home where I will soon be with mamma and Walter, in the presence of our Saviour. There, in that home of eternal joy, we will watch to give you glad welcome, my darling papa! Do not grieve 'too much when I am gone; oh! believe me, it is best! If your cBirdic' lingers here, your ears will bear no music but the 'Birdie's' song, and the Saviour's gentle bidding, 'Come unto me' will fall unheeded; the Crown must ; rest upon the Cross." Addressing her cousin she said: "Jes? sie, please .hand me my ecrin. I would like to send a keepsake to all the loved ones at home." To each friend and old servant a souvenir was sent; then, lifting a diamond and pearl set from its soft bed of rose colored cotton, (the same costly set which had adorned her own pure and delicate beauty on the eventful night of her betrothal,) she handed it to her cous? in : "Take these jewels, Jessie, keep and wear them as tokens of Annie's grateful love; wear, them on your bridal night, darling?nay, little coz,- do not blush so brightly; it is no crime to love, and I guess of a boy in gray who thinks often of Jessie's bright eyes," she p. lyfully whispered, as Jessie stooped to kiss her thanks. ?This miniature in medallion of Wal? ter, take to Marion. I well know how she will prize it. This ring"?and for be first time there was a tremulous under? tone of sadness in the sweet voice, and the little thin hand trembled as she drew off her engagement ring?"take it to Wal? ter's gentle mother with a daughter's love." One glittering tear-drop hung on the dark lashes of the still beautiful girl, as she sank hjack wearily on her pillows and softly murmured: "Now I am done with earth?-earth's sorrows, earfh's cares. Nothing more to do but "Lie still, clinging to mj Father's breast, In perfect rast." A few days more of patient suffering and the cherished friend and idolized child ws5 numbered with the dead. Her wish to rest beside her mother "within the hallowed bounds" of the old church yard, where are heard the chimes of St. Michael's bells, was not granted the gen? tle girl. In a quiet Bpot, shaded by beau? tiful laurels, close by the shining river she so loved to gaze upon, a simple slab of white marble marks the-grave of sweet Annie St. Julien. Doctor St. Julien did not think it ad? visable to return home before autumn, and feeling unwilling that his niece should lose the only opportunity she would perhaps ever again enjoy of travel and sight-seeing in the Old World, he determined to devote the summer and early fall months to that purpose. They had made a few very pleasant acquain? tances in Florence. One, a French no? bleman, Comte de R-, had became a frequent visitor at the villa. ' His family, he said, claimed with pride their descent from the Protestants of Navarre, and he was sure he could prove the Doctor and his fascinating niece to be of his kindred. When Comte de R-learned that the Docter intended traveling on the conti? nent, and making a hurried tour through England and Scotland, he eagerly pre? ferred a request that he would be permit? ted to make one of their party. Doctor St. Julien expressed himself pleased, and Jessie was gratefully glad that her nncle had secured a companion so gentlemanly, so genial and so well informed as Comte de R-; one whose intelligent and ani? mated conversation she trusted would while away many an hour, which would else be devoted to the sad retrospection of lost happiness. The Doctor could not forget his lost darling. In those beauti? ful lands, the birthplaces of painters, sculptors and poets, everything recalled his fair and gifted child, whose apprecia? tive mind would have revelled in the wonders and beauties which surrounded them. Although suffering bitter grief, Dr. St. Julien, with noble unselfishness, sought to hide within his heart, to bury from human ken in its deepest recesses, his unavailing regrets. Fearing their sad bereavement would destroy the en? joyment of Jessie, he bent all of the faculties of his finely cultivated mind to instruct and amuse her; and well did she reward his generous efforts by her ardent appreciation as well as her tender and delicate sympathy in his affliction. Jessie threw herself with enthusiastic delight into tho magical world of nature, art and romance which was opened to her bewildered gaze and her ardent im? agination. The works of the inspired artists, the creations of Raphael, Guido, Angelo and others, she contemplated with tender reverence and unalloyed delight. But amid the ruins of mon? archies and cities, musing over the de? cline and fall of the great powers of the past, she was awed and gloomy. Within the crumbling walls of the Coliseum, overpowered by a mysterious sadness, she stole away from her party, and leaning against a stone pillar burst into tears. "Mademoiselle, gentle Mademoiselle chcre amie! why do you weep?" ex? claimed the Comte who, unperccived by the young girl, had followed her to claim her attention for a 3iugular flower he had gathered among the stones and rubbish of those wonderful ruins. The spell was hroken by the tones o:' his familiar voice, and smiling, though sadly, through her tears, Jessie said: "I am silly, very silly! but indeed I could not help it! Surrounded by this huge wall, and gazing upon these mighty ruins, I felt so very small and so strange? ly desolate, I could not forbear weeping. For a moment I lived in the past; the dead and sorrowful past! Before mc in long line stood the captive workmen of these gigantic walls?the poor Jews; those so sadly described by the sweet poet as the people of a 'hopeless faith, a homeless race.' I thought of their dark and mournful faces, and of the bitter, bitter tears cemented with those stones, when they 'remembered Zion and wept.' Then followed the 'noble army of martyrs radiant with celestial grace,' their sufferings and tortures furnishing the holiday pastimes of bloody Rome. How mysterious are the providences of our God! 'His ways past finding out.' Then memory recalled our own sweet home, in the far, far West, beyond the blue waters of the broad Atlantic; that home the once proud land of liberty?a shelter and refuge for exiled patriotism! but now so changed?conquered, tram? pled Upon, crushed?and, oh! how fallen! 'And every hand that dealt a blow?ah, me, it was a brother's!" "Gentle lady, lovely enthousiaste, pray do not weep I Voyez la France, and take courage. 0, what can equal the terrors of La Revolution Francaisc? Blood I blood ! the blood of our noblest and best, was poured out like water! The whole country was one vast slaugh? ter pen, and our people the butchers! But Voyez, Voyez, Mademoiselle, she is still 'La belle France!' glorious France! Then weep not, gentle lady, fate may still have great things in store for your loved country! Remember that even in Pandora's Box hope was found!" "Yes, Monsieur," said Jessie, gently, "but not on fate must we rely. Wc may indeed woo and cherish bright, fond hope, the friend even of the unfortu? nate; and, oh! Monsieur, ours?the Christian's hope?is not like the heath? en's fabled hope found amid the unclean rubbish of Pandora's Box; our hope is the offspring of love, and faith's twin sister. 0, yes, we have a sure and pre? cious hope, built upon the word of Jeho? vah, that he will even in judgment re? member mercy. 'Let thy judgment help me' must be the cry which each heart in our stricken land shall echo, until it teaches and receives an answer of peace in heavenly courts!" Comte de R-gazed with admiration on the enthusiastic girl. Her vivacity, her guileless enthusiasm and her girlish simplicity had irresistibly drawn him to the little Southern girl; but he could not comprehend the child-like trust in, and the humble acceptance of, God's will which appeared more conspicuous in one naturally so highly mettled and impetuous as was our Jessie. The Comte sighed, for he felt that the girl he loved and himself were not one in heart. Time will not permit us to follow our pleasant friends in their wanderings through places made eloquent by nations and men; men of whom it may justly be said, "they were giants" in those day. Neither may we linger over the tender and sad farewell of Comte de R-with his Carolina friends, which took place in November, at Liverpool, where Dr. St. Julien and his fascinating niece secured passage in the steamer-for New York on their way home. The admired and wealthy Adolphe Comte de R-felt it to Le a great and painful disappointment, when Harry's little Chicora blossom gently and sorrow? fully, but firmly refused his proffered hand and heart; and with them his fine estates and romantic old chateau in France. "Alas! alas!" mused Jessie, her large black eyes filling with tears as she caught the last glimpse of the city which con? tained their pleasant and warmly appre? ciated friend, "why is it we poor girls can't have a nice gentleman friend, but just as soon as we learn to value the pleasant friendship, he spoils it all by talking of love, hymen, and such like nonsense. Ah, well-a-day this is a silly world?this world in which wc live!" to be continued. Experiences in Battle.?I believe, writes a veteran, no two good soldiers will widely disagree as to their sensations during a battle. I take it to be a piece of bravado in any man to assert that he had no fear during the progress of a long and severe engagement. A battle is a veritable hell upon earth; not to be in serious apprehension while it lasts is to be either drunk, crazy, or insensible. The highest type of bravery is that of the man who realizes the full extent of the peril, but sticks resolutely to his duty. It was my experience, aud that of all those about me, repeated a dozen times, that shell firing is not ordinarily nearly so demoralizing as that of musketry. It is not often that shells are thrown so that their fragments scatter death and wounds, and their loud humming overhead does not cause that nervous tingling which al? ways follow the sharp zip of the rifle bullet. The peculiar cutting of the air made by half a dozen of these at once is apt to give the soldier the idea that the whole air is filled with them, and that he is certain to be struck by one of them. All I believe, will agree as to the sensa? tion first caused by the impact of a bul? let. It is a stunning, numbing feeling, which for a long time overpowers the local pain of the wound. In my experi? ence, a single buckshot near the hip knocked me flat, and for two days after gave mc such acute pains and such mus? cular disturbance from knee to shoulder that I could not stand erect. Soldiers have frequently been prostrated by spent balls. A curious effect of shell wounds is that they do not bleed ; the hot frag? ment sears the torn blood vessels and stops the effusion. A Minie ball extract? ed from the human body presents a re? markable sight. I have seen them where the resistance of the flesh had turned back the pointed end on all sides with such regularity that the ball resembles a sau? cer of a flower. ? There is a large share of com? mon sense in the world's average judg? ment, after all. If it sees a man with the ten commandments on his lips, and some thing quite different written all over his life it will be apt to point to the discrep? ancy and utter sonic harsh criticisms, but who can blame it? Is It a Personal Government ? Ought the President of the United States to be the servant or the master of the nation ? Are the powers of govern? ment intrusted to him to be exercised for the general use and good, or are they conferred upon him as a reward for pre? vious services and to be used by him for his own pleasure and the advantage of his favorites ? Is the Presidency a trust, of is it a prize which he who wins it may rightly regard and use as a piece of per? sonal property ? These questions, says the New York Herald, asked at any time in our history before/the accession of General Grant, would have been absurd; but they arc so no longer, for it is demonstrable that not even the third Napoleon was more pos? sessed than he of the idea that the gov? ernment is for his personal use and pleas? ure. Let us see: 1. One of his very first acts as Presi? dent showed a singular contempt for law and regard for his own will or desire alone. He nominated Mr. A. T. Stewart to be Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Stewart, undoubtedly a capable man, could not disengage himselt from his vast commercial interests, and a law which had stood for almost three-quarters of a century on our statute books, and whose wisdom was unquestioned, forbade his taking the office under the circum? stances. What happened ? General Grant coolly asked Congress to repeal the act. It refused, as was its duty, and the President sulked. 2. Next Grant drove General Cox out of the Cabinet because he refused to ap? point corrupt and inefficient friends of the President to office in the Indian Bu? reau and elsewhere, in violation of civil service rules and honest government. 3. He drove Joseph Wilson, the honest Land Commissioner, into retirement be? cause he decided a Missouri land claim of the Dent family adversely to their in? terest. 4. He appointed a poker-playing Con fressman as Minister to England, and ept him there until he was threatened with arrest, a public disgrace and scandal, in spite of his notorious connection with the Emma mine fraud. 5. He attempted, against the will of Congress and the country, to annex St. Domingo, and sent out his own private agent, General Babcock, to negotiate a treaty in violation of the constitution; and he was so contemptuous toward the laws that he actually sent to the Senate a secret agreement made and signed with Baez by this unauthorized private agent, under pretence that it was a treaty; and only withdrew it when the Senate private? ly informed him that the constitution re? quired treaties to be made and signed by agents publicly nominated and confirmed by the Senate. 6. Tc consummate the annexation, in which he had involved himself with a number of men notoriously engaged in a land speculation, he kept vessels of war on the coast of the island at a great ex? pense to support the usurper Baez, and levied war on the Haytian .Republic, in violation of the constitution, which re? serves the power of declaring and making war to Congress. 7. He caused the expulsion of Charles Suraner from the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a post whichj he had held for many years and in which his services to the country were of peculiar importance, because he would not support the St. Domingo scheme. 8. He afterward tried to bribe Sumner to acquiescence in the St. Domingo plot by the offer of the mission to England. This was when he saw that against Sum ner's opposition the St. Domingo treaty must fail. 9. He appointed his brother-in-law; Cramer, to a high diplomatic position, I although this person had already shown himself notoriously unfit while holding an obscure consulship. .10. He appointed another brother-in law, Casey, to be Collector of New Or? leans, and there maintains him, *in spite of his proved incapacity and corruption and his open violations of law. 11. When public opinion, outraged be? yond endurance at Casey's misconduct, demanded his removal, he apparently submitted by requiring and ostensibly ac? cepting Casey's resignation, "to take effect on the appointment of his suc? cessor;" but he has never appointed a successor, and thus Casey remains Collec? tor in suite of the public demand for his removal. 12. He removed a collector of internal revenue at Chicago because this officer refused to join Orville Grant, the Presi? dent's brother, in a whiskey fraud. 13. Later, in violation of law, he gave to this same brother Orville the monopo? ly of trading with certain tribes of In? dians, anc^caused the exclusion of other traders, certified to be respectable men. This is the first time in our history when a President's brother has become an In? dian trader, or has received a monoply, contrary to an express law, from his brother. 14. He gave the federal appointments in the city of New York to a ward poli? tician, said to be connected with the Tammany King, but who was his own in? timate. 15. He appointed and long kept in the ! importaut office of Attorney Goneral.of the United States a man openly charged with frauds, known to be ignorant of law, unfit by character and acquirements for the place, but notoriously a subscrvicut tool of his own. 16. He tried to promote this incapable Attorney General to the Chief Justice? ship of the Supreme Court, a public scandal which was prevented only with the utmost difficulty. 17. He took away the custody of gov? ernment funds from the solid house of the Barings, who had held it since the foundation of the government, and in ? trusted the public moneys to Clews & Habicht, as a reward for notorious parti? san services and in spite of warnings that this house was not trustworthy or of good standing. The firm has since become bankrupt, but the public docs not yet know how much the Treasury lost by its failure. 18. He gave to one of his former mili? tary aids, Lcct, a monopoly of certain Custom House warehousing, aud main? tained him in it until the outraged mer? chants became too clamorous at the injus? tice they were compelled to suffer. 19. He has accepted costly gifts and repeatedly rewarded the givers with pub? lic places for themselves or for their friends. 20. He permitted and defended the moiety frauds, by which the revenues of the country were fanned out to low poli? ticians, with the known design of secu? ring the political fortunes of some of his favorites and adherents. 21. He was and is the intimate of Alexander Shepherd, a man openly and generally accused of corruption in Wash? ington, and 22. When Congress, compelled by a rigid investigation, destroyed the District government which Shepherd controlled, m order to put him out of place and power, the President had the indecency to renominatc him at once as the head of the new government?a nomination so scandalous that the Senate immediately and unanimously rejected it. 23. In spite of this he still retains Shepherd in favor as one of his most in? timate associates. 24. He shocked the public seuse of propriety by inviting to the White House, on a public occasion, Harrington, the confederate of Shepherd, a person then undergoing trial for felony, and never acquitted of the charge. 25. He consorts constantly with men of doubtful character, and still has among his intimates both Shepherd and Har? rington. 26. In their defence he even went so far as in an annual Message to understate by several millions the debt of the Dis? trict of Columbia; a gross attempt to de? ceive the public which was immedi diatcly exposed in Congress. 27. He was a party to an intrigue whereby his own salary was doubled, and caused it to be privately understood in Congress that the bill raising Congress? ional salaries would not receive his signa? ture unless his own salary was doubled. 28. He was for months engaged in an attempt, at last successful, to make one of his intimates, Rufus Ingalls, Quarter? master General of the Army, and held vacant the Russian mission as a tempta? tion to General Meigs,- who stood in the way of this scheme. 29. He supported Kellogg as Governor of Louisiana without authority from Con? gress, confessing that he did not know who was the rightful Governor, and on his own will alone; and he has used the army for many months to hold Louisiana down for this favorite. 30. He did not scruple last year to grossly misrepresent to Congress and the country the condition of Louisiana and other Southern States, in order that he might thereby support his corrupt per? sonal followers there. 31. While a Congressional committee was in New Orleans investigating the condition of Louisiana he violently took matters in his own hands and in their presence dispersed the Legitimate As? sembly of the State by means of the army. 32. He ordered his Secretary of War to send the approval of the whole Cabi? net to Sheridan for the dispersion of the Legislature and his banditti despatch, though it is known that he did not take the trouble to consult any member of the ! Cabinet in the matter, and that several members did strongly disapprove of these measures. 33. He refused to see or hear the com? mittee which Congress had sent to New Orleans, and sent a message to Congress founded on assertions which the report of that committee of Congress showed to be false and groundless. 34. Thus be first insulted his Cabinet and then Congress in order to carry out his personal aims, and sought, by artful misrepresentations and false statements, made when the truth was at his call and unofficially known to him, to justify a dangerous usurpation of power by the military and.the prostration of civil rule. 35. He endeavored to intimidate a Congressional committee into making a report on the condition of Arkansas, to subserve his own views; summoned them before him, told them what they ought to report, andtdid not even take the trouble to ask them what facts they had found in their investigation. Fortunate? ly, they were too independent to submit to his dictation. 36. One member of that committee, who made a minority report in accord? ance with his wishes, he rewarded with the post of District Attorney at Chicago, an office from 'which he was lately dis? missed for incapacity. 37. He us3d the powerful influence of the administration to cause the pnssage of the habeas corpus and force bill, a measure flagrantly unconstitutional, and, as subsequent events have shown, without the excuse of necessity or expediency. 38. He insulted the public sense of honor and decency by . retaining Mr. Delano in office long after the grossest , scandals had been proved against him and his subordinates in the management of Indian affairs; and when at last com? pelled by the dread of losing an impor? tant election to dismiss him, he gave aim a strong testimonial of character and ex? pressed his regret at parting with him. 39. In the prosecution of the whiskey thieves he gave his countenance not to the honest officials doing their duty, but to the political gamblers and personal adherents whose crimes were threatened with discovery. 40. When an honest but overzcalous proscsuting officer uttered words in the heat of argument at which the President chose to take offence, instead of pardon? ing his words on the score of his honest zeal for the public interest he ordered his dismissal. 41. He kept near him in the most inti? mate official relations two men, Babcock and Luckcy, when both were under grave suspicion of complicity in revenue frauds. 42. He restored Babcock to his place after a trial which did not in the general opinion clear his character of the gravest suspicions of infidelity to public trusts, and when the President in his own ex? amination was compelled to admit that important papers had been concealed from him by his Secretary. 43. In his sworn testimony in defence of General Babcock he had the insolence to say that he revoked the order of Mr. Bristow changing the supervisors at his own will, without consulting the Secre? tary, and as thougl^he was dict.'itor. 44. Unawed by public indignation, re? gardless of public decency, uurhoved by the fact that State after State has been lost by the party which elected him," be? cause of his misconduct, he only a few days ago flung a new defiance at the pco Sle by accepting, the moment it was ten ercd, and "with regret," the resignation of Mr. Belknan, whose crime had been already made known to him. What Shall be Expected of Wives??Sonic husbands do not make their financial affairs a topic at home, and some better halves know less of their own husbands' affairs than they do of their neighbors.' Some weeks since a lady was informed of her husband's sus? pension by reading ail announcement in a paper which she accidentally took up in a store while waiting to have an order filled. Whether it was pride or fear that prompted the sccrcsy cannot be stated, but what can bo expected from wives in the way of true economy if they are. only silent partners in the matrimonial copartnership? In 1857 a large jewelry firm sold a costly sot of jewels to a lady. The firm knew that her husband was in a failing condition, but the lady had been a long and profitable customer. When the partner ordered his clerk not to charge the set which had been de? livered, but. to make a memoran? dum on the blotter, he paid the lady's integrity a high compliment When her husband failed the jewelry came back with a note couched in such terms that the dealer only regretted that a gift of the set would be construed as an insult.? Boston Journal. An important Decision. The following is the opinion of the Su? preme Court of this State in the case of the Homestead Building and Loan Asso? ciation vs. Enslow, in which it was held that a party could not claim a Home? stead exemption as against a mortgage: Supreme Coukt?November Term? 1875. Homestead Building and Loan Associa? tion, vs. J. A. Enslow, Respondent, and C B. L. Association, et. al., Appel? lants.?Opinion?Willard, A. J. The defendant Enslow, the head of a family, residing within this State, mort? gaged" in 1871 the premises on which he resided with his family. The premises appear to be such as might be considered a family homestead within the sense of the Constitution allowing exemption from certain process, as against premises so held and occupied. These premises have been sold under a decree foreclosing such mortgage, and a portion of the purchase money arising from such sale is held under a decree of the Circuit Court ascertaining that the defendant Enslow is entitled to the same in right of his claim to homestead exemption as against his mortgage of said premises. The appeal is from that decree, and alleges that the homestead right cannot be asserted as against the mortgage made by Enslow. There is no doubt but that Enslow could make a valid mortgage. A home? stead had never been actually set apart. The homestead provisions do not in terms prevent the owner of lands from mortgaging them. Such an intent can? not be enforced as against the common law right of dominion unless it is found to be essential to the operation of the homestead provisions as it regards the specific object of these provisions. All that the Constitution seeks to ac? complish is to prevent premises so held and occupied from being subjected to process for the purposes of enforcing ob? ligations of a certain character. Art. 2, Sec. 32. The right of dominion of the owner of lands, including the power to alien or incumber is not, either directly or indi? rectly, the subject of this provision. The whole force of the constitutional provis? ion is expended in preventing interfer? ence in certain cases with that provision. The Statutes, in pursuance of this clause of the Constitution, do not enlarge the nature or operation of the homestead provision of the Constitution. Whether the Legislature had not the right to ex? tend the measure of relief afforded to the heads of families by the section above cited, under a mere general grant of Leg? islative authority conferred by Sec. 20, Art. 1st of the Constitution need not be considered at this time, for no such exer? cise of authority beyond the terms of Sec. 32, Art. 2, has been allempted. The Statutes (Gen. Statutes 474) mere? ly provides specific means for accomplish iug that which constituted the end and purpose of the Constitution as contained in Sec. 32, Art. 2. Had the mortgagee obtained posses? sion of the mortgaged premises otherwise than by proceedings for their sale, either under authority conferred by law or the contract of the parties, on the mortgagee, no question under the Constitution af? fecting the rightfulncssof that possession could have arisen. It remains then, only, to consider whether a judicial sale for the foreclosure of the mortgage is embrnced under this description "attachment, levy or sale on any mesne or final process issued from any court" contained in Sec. 32, Art. 2. The portion of that section involved in the present construction is as follows: "The family homestead of the head of each family residing in this State, such homestead consisting of dwelling house, out buildings and lands appurtenant, not to exceed the value of one thousand dol? lars, and yearly product thereof, shall be exempt from attachment, levy or sale on any mesne or final process issued from any Court." It is obvious that process issued to en? force a judgment or decree for the pay? ment of money, and which maybe en? forced against the whole estate of the judgment debtor is here intended. To extend the sense of the Constitution as demanded by the respondent Enslow would be equivalent to holding that no judgment nor order of any Court could bind such a homestead so as to disturb the possession of the occupant. This is manifestly beyond the intention of the Constitution. It is noticeable that the exemption conferred by the Constitution is not lim? ited in terms to the head of a family homestead by rightful title. Nor can this be regarded as an intentional omis? sion, if the object of the Constitution was merely to shield the possession of the fam? ily homestead against creditors having only a general right to subject the lands of their debtors to their judgments; for as against judgment creditors at large there is as much reason for protecting a homestead held by a defective title as one held by good title. But the whole sense of the Constitution would have to be changed, if we are to suppose that no judgment or order of any Court could be? come the means of ousting the possession of the head of the family, forthat con? struction would necessarily include a judgment recovered by one having good title to the premises against one holding under a defective title. If we attempt to meet this difficulty by interpolating words in the Constitution, confining the right of exemption to cases where the person claiming such exemp? tion holds by rightful title, then we dis? turb the provisions and deprive them of their obvious fitness, as they stand, to! provide protection againstjudgment cred? itors having no other right to the land than that arising from the operation of process issued to enforce a money judg? ment or decree. The view just presented is conformable to what was said by this Court in Shelor vs. Mason (2 S. C. 23S.) The sale for foreclosure was not forbid? den by the Constitution as it regards the homestead in question aud the mortgagor has no right to claim any part of the pro? ceeds of sale, by reason of the alleged occupation of the mortgaged premises as a family homestead. The judgment below must be modified accordingly. The opinion concurred in by Chief Justice Moses and Associate Justice Wright. ? The following story is told in Wash? ington of the late Senator Saulsbury of Delaware. The Senator had the repu? tation during the late years of his Sena? torial term of imbibing very freely, and it is told of him that he was accustomed to have two cocktails carried to his room in the morning before he rose, and when asked by a friend why he had two cock? tails, he replied that after taking one ho felt like another man, and thought it would be mean not to treat that other man. ? Mother?"Charlotte, how do you like your new teacher. ?" Charlotte? "O, she's a splendid teacher, fcfhc don't care whether we know our lessons or COTTON IN THE SOUTH. the way in which the granges can rest help planters. From the Shrcvrjmrt Times. Wc invite the grave attention of our planting friends to the following Advice which is tendered them by a man of sound practical sense, and who has no personal interest iu the matter. We are well aware how little regard is paid by planters to such suggestions, and es? pecially if they come from editors, but it would seem that this year's experience should force upon them a radical change in their mode of farming. Cotton has sold this season as low as three and a half cents, and this is the result of an over crop in two ways. In the first place, the market is glutted, and, in the second place, the hands could not gather it be? fore the staple had been almost ruined by trash and dirt. Neither result would have occurred if a smaller area had been planted in cotton?this is a self-evident proposition. The Grange could accom? plish much good in this direction, and also in organizing a system regulating the price of labor. It occurs to us that these two points are of more vital importance to the interests of planters than anything besides to which their energies can be devoted. Unfortunately, however, if the plan proposed were agreed to, a large proportion of the planters might conclude that as every body else was planting they would increase their cotton crop; and thus it might result that a larger crop would be planted than if nothing had been said about it: Editor Times: Allow me, if you please, a space in your widely circulated paper to address a short letter to the planters of the Cotton States. Being an invalid, I have visited the South in October and re? turned North and East in May for the last five years, aud have been a close ob? server of the various interests of the South in the different States. I hope it will not be an intrusion if I offer a few remarks. I am decided in my opinion that the American cotton belt of country is une qualed by any part of the globe. Its cli? mate, forests, water, fruit and variety of productions place it in a commanding position to rapidly recover from the late misfortunes of wan But I have discov? ered the error into which the planters have fallen. From one end of the coun? try to the other they seem to think that the soil will produce nothing but cotton, while wheat, oats, peas, potatoes, peanuts, fruits, vegetables, grapes, and vine crops are neglected, as though they could not be raised in this belt. Consequently they have swelled the cotton production to 4,000,000 of bales, thereby reducing the price, until it is producing a fearful panic amongst them. They see the wrong, but still pursue it. If they would reduce the cotton crop and ouly produce 2,000,000 bales, it would bring 20 to 25 cents per pound, and thereby furnish as much money as 4,000,000 bales does now. Be? sides this would allow 4,000,000 of acres more to go into provision crops, which would fill every barn and smoke-house with supplies, and the money, at$100 per bale, would be kept at home, rather than sent abroad at heavy cost and high prices for provisions. You talk of emigration. You will not succeed until you have borne supplies to invite emigrants there? to j a country so destitute of provisions is looked on with suspicion and doubt. A change, a radical change, must take place in Southern planting before she re? covers, aud when it is done, and provis? ions are plenty all over the land, immi? gration will flow into it; your lands will enhance iu value, and your fortunes will be as in former years. It is estimated that 8,000,000 of acres are cultivated to get 4,000,000 bales of cotton, when 4,000,000 acres would give you the 2,000,000 bales and leave you 4,000,000 acres for other crops, besides that which is already in use for your pro? vision purposes. With the addition of the 4,000,000 acres, one crop alone would relieve you. The granges seem to be in? dustriously seeking to reduce expenses, buy and transport cheap, and still they fail to strike the key-note to success.? They may get cotton transported, stored and sold free of cost, and grow poorer every year, while they toil in cotton fields only and neglect their provision crop. This change of Southern farming will be gratifying to the Southern merchants who are annually pressed to afford supplies for a people who could easily produce them. It may be said that it affords a profit to merchants. Not so. Produce is sold at a nominal profit, and often at cost, owing to fluctuation in prices. Still the merchant groans under it, and finally both suffer more or less. Would it not please the cotton factor to handle one bale of cotton worth $100 rather than two bales for $50 each ? His profit or commission would be the same on the one bale as on the two, with half the labor. Again, would it not give cheerfulness to the manufacturer who would have their large stocks of goods depleted? In a word, this change of Southern planting would relieve the i money panic as soon as it was certainly known that the policy was adopted. Sir, this can be effected only through the Grangers. They have societies in every neighborhood iu the United States. Let each society appoint a committee to confer with his neighbor who is not a Granger, and get his conseut and ap? proval of the policy to plant ouly one half the usual crop. They can handle the one-half crop better, producing a good quality, and place American cottons where they of right belong?the best in the world. Now, sir, put the ball in motion, keep it before the people and let all the papers throughout the United States write, pub? lish and cry aloud to redeem the land.? Let State Grnuges with all their subordi? nate Granges come forward in the cause. Let the merchants and the politicians ex? hort the people to save themselves from further ruin. I hope you may induce your contemporaries to keep tho subject before the people uutil the object is ac? complished. Traveller. ? There is a man living in Wilson, N. O, fifty-four years of age, who never owed a cent to a living soul iu his life, und, as the records will show, was the first man for the past thirty years to pay Iiis taxes to the sheriff. Though a black? smith and plough maker by trade, he cuts and makes his clothing, and when en? gaged at his work if there is a call at the shop his wife goes to the anvil and will shoe-a horse, brace a plough, upset an axe, or perform any other job in the line with as much skill as her husband. ? Frank Beard, the artist, while at dinner recently, was told of a man in Nassau street with three hands. "How is that ?" asked Beard. "He's got a little behind-hand," was the reply. "You are a more extraordinary, man," was the re? ply, "for you have two heads; you have a head of your own, and you've got a-hcad of mc." ? It was Bel knap who sent to Sheri? dan, when he took military possession of the State government of Louisiana, that memorable telegram: "The President and all of us approve your course." LEGAL ADVERTISING.?We are compelled to require cash payments for advertising ordered by Executors, Administrators and other fiduciaries, and herewith append the rates for the ordinasjr notices, which will only be inserted when tho money Comca with the order: Citations, two insertions, - $3.00 Estate Notices, three Insertions, - - 2.C0 Final .Settlements, five insertions - - 300 TO CORRESPONDENTS.-In order to receive attention, communications must be accompanied by the true name and address of the writer. Re? jected manuscripts will not lie returned, unless tho necessary stamps are fu rnixhed to repay the postage thereon. irir We nrn not responsible for the views and opinions of our correspondents. All commnnications shosMd be addressed to "Ed? itors Intelligencer," and all checks, drafts, money orders, Ac, should be mode payable to the order of ilOYT & CO., Anderson, S. C. "Tho Democrats Traisc Me." Such was the refrain of Gov. Chamber? lain in his letter to Senator Morton.? What has his Excellency done that com? mands the admiration of the Democrats, and induces them to swell the paeans of his triumph ? There arc some things in the public record of Mr. Chamberlain that shrink from the light of reason and shun the light of day. With these, how? ever, at present we have nothing to do. It is his record as Governor that we pro? pose to dissect; and,in doingso, wecandid ly confess that we nowhere find grounds for Democratic praise. That he is a bet? ter man than Moses or Scott we readily admit and believe, but it by no means follows that he is the head centre of many virtues. We grant that Governor Cham? berlain has attempted the reduction of our taxes. But let us consider the past and present only for a moment. In other days when South Carolina was wealthy and prosperous, her citizens were called upon for taxes to an amount less than half a million of dollars. When Mr. Chamberlain reached the gubernatorial chair, what did he find? am found the State impoverished and her poverty stricken citizens paying au annual tax of two millions of dollars. He found that his own immediate political party, stag? gering beneath the weight of many of? fenses, had become a stench in the nos? trils of every decent man; and he found the National Eepublican party threaten? ing to "uuload" South Carolina. Such were the existing facts when Mr. Cham? berlain was elected Governor, and sub? mitted his proposition for the reduction of our taxes. Knowing, as he did, that a large amount of the two million dollars, paid in by the people, was applied to cor? rupt and illegal purposes, could he, as an honest man, have acted otherwise than he did ? We give Mr. Chamberlain the credit of honesty in this matter, but we fail to see in it anything commanding Sraise and admiration. In this Mr. hambcrlain only did his duty. He simply acted the part of an honest man and no more, and we cannot see that it is deserving of praise. If so, then there are hundreds of citizens in South Carolina v who come fully up to the standard, but who live wholly unconscious that they have done anything big with merit. In addition, Governor Chamberlain re? commends that the election of Justices of the Peace be given to the people, and that there be a registration of voters.? Now, we may be very stupid, but really we cannot see anything in these recom? mendations deserving of praise. In ma? king them he only proposes to enforce certain provisions plainly provided for in the Constitution of the State. " Could he do less and observe fully his oath of office? In so doing, we readily grant that he shews a willingness to meet the duties of his position and the require? ments of the Constitution, but we never heard, until recently, that the simple dis? charge of duties willingly assumed, was a just ground for praise and commendation. In so doing.Tie shews himself superior to Moses and Scott, his predecessors: supe? rior to the brilliant legislators who form the majority in our General Assembly, and who, in throttling the plain provis? ions of the Constitution, are morally guilty of perjury. But we cannot see that this secures anything of praise, while to question it certainly ensures disgrace. But it was in refusing to commission Moses and Whipper that Gov. Chamber? lain brought down the Democratic house. In the election for judges, if we have been correctly informed, Governor Cham? berlain had his favorites in opposition to Moses and Whipper, and exerted all his power and influence to secure their suc? cess. But the bugles sang truce, and he left Columbia to take part in the Greek Exercises at Greenville. The enemy, however, proved faithless, and the Gov? ernor returned to Columbia to find the field lostand his forces routed. With the rapidity of a commander fertile in re? sources, he quickly threw himself behind the ramparts of the Constitution, and, in refusing to commission the worthy leaders of the conquering cohorts, he robbed them of their victory. Now, it strikes us as strange that Governor Chamberlain should know so little just before, and know so much just after the election. It does seem a little strange to us that Gov? ernor Chamberlain, the day before the election, was in utter ignorance that the Constitution provided that judges should always be elected for a term of four years and that the decisions of the Supreme Court were in harmony with this view, and that the day after it should all pre? sent itself to his mind in a light so clear a? to admit of no mistake. We say it was a little strange. Only this and noth? ing more. If the election of Moses and Whipper was illegal, could Governor Chamberlain have done less than he has done? If it was unconstitutional could he have pursued a course of policy differ? ent from that which he has pursued? We mean since the election. In all that we have said, we have no desire to lessen the just rewards due to the Governor. Our only aim is, if possi? ble, to convince certain Democrats that they have been making much ado about nothing.?Laurensville Herald. Giiaxtism.?It must not be supposed that Belknap is any worse than the others because he gets justice first. He has done nothing but what they have done be fore him. In its essential character there is no difference between his act and that of Gen. Grant in appointing men to the Cabinet because they had given him presents. There is" no essential difference between Mr. Bclknap's ap? pointing a post trader because the man offers to give his wife ?6,000 a year, and President Grant's appointing a worthless character like Jim Casey Collector of New Orleans because he is his brother-in law. It is the system now- universally known as Grantisiu, which is dishonest, larcenous, destructive alike of public and private morality. Grant engages in the Black Friday gold conspiracy, and $25, 000 is sent to the White House out of the profits; Babcock conspires with the whiskey thieves in St. Louis, and Grant and Shepherd aid in his defence and welcome him back to Washington ; Mrs. Belknap is paid $6,000 a year, for tho appointment of a post trader; Robcson steals $93,000 for Secor, induced thereto by "a present to a lady," and prostitutes the navy to enrich the Cattell Ring; At? torney-General Williams steals the mon? ey to pay for his wife's carriage and to pay the wages of his servants: Delano and Smith rob the Indians by wholesale, and Grant looks on and approves; Crcs well robs in the Post Office Department by means of straw-bid frauds; Bancroft Davis is proved to be a bribe taker by the Legislature of Massachusetts, ana is made Minister to the Germau empire; Secretary Fish h.is his son-in-law em? ployed at a large salary as the agent of Spain, while he gives a pro-Spanish character to the policy of the Adminis? tration toward Cuba. It is the same thing in every department from the President dawn. Bribe-taking, plunder, larceny, Grantism is the rule everywhere. The only really honest man is Bristow, whom Grant has just been violently threatening to kick out, but has not" dared do it.?iV. Y. Sun.