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CHAPTER XL
"Oh I 'tis one scone of parting here,
Love's watchword Is?farewell!"
~"?hhie~St'." Julien, with her mother's
pure, ethereal beauty, had also inherited
1 her* delicate constitution. In the sad
aud unlooked-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 aud sweet anticipa
tkflfi, .jgtr.ahe..sorrowed deeply to leaye.
her beloved.father tamourn his "broken
idol," ancFhrith Christian heroism and
patience- she struggled bravely to throw
off -the" Insidious* -disease which slowbyj
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,
blue .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, .but 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 aud womanly tact. -
Upon their first arrival in what they
would feign have believed a Land of
Promise, D/.-'St. 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
return 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 outside 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
deliriously soft and balmy, laden ed With
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 - them 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.
'5Ah!" thought Jessie, bitterly, "it is
the'story of another Poland; we have
been conquered by numbers, and our
enemies seem t^.be> alike destitute of
generosity and chivalry, for surely, sure?
ly a victor can a|rjrd to ^magnanimous,
and not.moclr. a fallen foel"
Dr. St ilijUren and hii -niece agreed to
conceal from Annie the mournful tidings
from their wronged. and crushed? land.
They would not add another drop of-sor?
row toithe fa|l.cai).of the patient stffferer.
As Jessie'sat-*i?i 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^iushihg so swiftly
and gayly to perform its mission, and 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 !
searchingtyorr her fathers' face: "You
have had 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 mc the sad tidings from our
sweet, sweet home! I know it all; in
my slumber an' angel broke it to me 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 assuranc? 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 tho
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
?Birdie' lingers here, your ears will hear
no music but the 'Birdie's' song, and the
Saviour'! 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 playfully
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 the
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 back wearily on her pillows and
softly murmured: "Now I am done with
earth?-earth's sorrows, earth's cares.
Nothing more to do but
"Lie still, clinging to my Father's breast,
In periect rest."
A few days more of patient suffering
and the cherished friend and idolized
child was 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 spot, 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
tauces in Florence. One, a French no?
bleman, Uomte 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 the 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
chere amie! why do you weep?" ex?
claimed the Comte who, unperccived by
the young girl, had followed her to claim
her attention for a singular flower he had
gathered among the stones and rubbish
of those wonderful ruins.
The spell was broken 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 tbc 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 these
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?an,
me, it was a brother's!"
"Gentle lady, lovely enthousiaste, pray
do not weepl Voyez la France, and
take courage. 0, what can equal the
terrors of La Revolution Francaise?
Blood 1 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 be 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-d?y 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
fieri", but sticks resolutely to his duty,
t was my experience, and 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 arc thrown so that
their fragments seatter 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 Minicball 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
ccr 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 some 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 ? Ate 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 aud 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 lie 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 sec:
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 himself 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
Ci use 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
cpt 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. To-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
f>cnse to support the usurper Baez, and
evied 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
Summer from the chairmanship of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a
post which^ 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,
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 snite 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, anefceaused 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 Ring, but who was his own in?
timate.
15. He appointed and long kept in the
important 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 subservicut
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,
in order to put him out of place and
power, the President had the indecency
to renominatc him at oucc as the head
of the new government?a nomination so
scandalous that the Senate immediately
Rnd 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 sense 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 rigntful 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, andthatscver.il
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 he 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, and?did 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 used the powerful influence of
the administration to cause the passage
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 him
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
neat 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 dictator.
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 peo?
ple by accepting, the moment it was ten?
dered, and "with regret," the resignation
of Mr. Belknan, whose crime had been
already made known to him.
What Shall be Expected of
Wives??Some 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 an 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 be expected from wives in
the way of true, economy if they arc
only silent partners in the matrimonial
copartnership? In 1S57 a large jewelry
firm sold a costly sot of jewels to n lady.
The firm knew that her husband was in
a failing condition, but the lady had been
n 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 n 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.
All Important Decision.
The following is the opinion of the Su?
preme Court of this State in the ease 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?
1S75.
Homestead Building and Loan Associa?
tion, vs. J. A. Enslow, Respondent, and
C. B. L. Association, et. ah, 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 preveut 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 dominiou 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 attempted.
The Statutes (Gen. Statutes 474) mere?
ly provides specific means for accomplish?
ing 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 embraced 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 ofthat 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 may be 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, for that 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. 238.)
The sale for foreclosure was not forbid?
den by the Constitution as it regards the
homestead in question and 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 Saulsbtiry 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 lie 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 lie
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?
"0, she's a splendid teacher. She don't
care whether we know our lessons or
COTTON IN THE SOUTH.
the way IN which the GRANGES CAN
best help PLANTERS.
From the Shrcrrjmrt 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 trie, 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 only 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
ies this would allow 4,000,000 of acres
. re 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
home supplies to invite emigrants thero
to ; a country so destitute of provisions
is looked on with suspicion and doubt.
A chauge, a radical change, must take
place in Southern planting before she re?
covers, and when it is done, and provis?
ions are plenty all over the land, immi?
gration will flow into it; your lands'will
enhance in 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 aloue 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
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 consent and ap?
proval of the policy to plant only 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 Granges 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 the 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 in his life,
and, 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, aud when en?
gaged at his work if there is a call at the
shop his wife goes to the anvil and will
shoo a horse, brace a plough, upset an
:ixe, or perform any other job in the
line with us much skill as her husband.
? Frank Beard, the artist, while at
dinner recently, was told of a man in
Nassau street with three bauds. "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 Belknap 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."
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."The Democrats Praise 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 are 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 wc pro?
pose to dissect; and, in doingso, we candid?
ly confess that wc 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 an 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 Republicanparty threaten?
ing to "unload" 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 wc
fail to see in it anything commanding
praise and admiration. In this Mr.
Chamberlain only did his duty. He
simply acted the part of an honest man
and no more, aud we cannot see that it is
deserving of praise. If so, then there are
hundreds of citizens in South Carolinax
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,"he 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 lost and 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 victor}'. 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?
Wc mean since the election.
In all that we have said, we have no
deoire 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.?iMurensvillc Herald.
Graxtism.?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 Grantism, 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; Robeson
steals $93,000 for Sccor, 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; Cres
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, and is
made Minister to the German empire;
Secretary Fish has 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 down. 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.?N. Y. Sun.