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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, /). ('., April 13, 187G.
FEARFUL RESULT OK GRANTISM.
We have all become so accustomed to
the vitiated political and social atmos?
phere we have been inhaling since Grant
has been at the head of government, that
we have got to be indifferent to it. This
is, perhaps, the most fearful symptom of
the dangerous disease which now afflicts
the American body politic. The time
was when an officer of the U. S. Govern?
ment could not hold his place a single
day, in the face of imputations upon his
honesty, unless they were met and dis?
proved at once. And no man, in those
days, would have dared to wantonly and
loosely accuse an official of corruption.
When Andrew Jackson became Presi?
dent, it was discovered that Tobia Wat
kins, 3rd Auditor of the Treasury for
many years, had, by a systematic altera?
tion of accounts, succeeded in embezzling
$3,000 of Government money. He was
at once arrested and sent to prison like
any other man accused of felony. Instead
of the power of the Government being
used to defend him, it was used to con?
vict him. To this mode of dealing with
official criminals we must return. It is
becoming more certain, every day, that
the next Presidential contest will be
fought solely on the issue of an honest
Administration, and that the party which
neglects to nominate a man unmistaka?
bly identified with Administrative Re?
form will be defeated. Nor can any man
be elected who fails to carry the States of
Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.
All over the country, the Democrats are
discussing these questions with reference
to their bearing on the presidential nom?
ination, with great seriousness; involv?
ing, as they (the questions) do, the aban?
donment of all sectional differences in
order to attain success.
GRAXT OX THE RAGGED EDGE.
The Washington organ of the White
House Ring, the National Republican, is
very much disgusted at the disclosures
made by Col. Whitley, implicating Gen.
Babcock in the safe burglary plot, by
which an innocent man was to have been
sent to State prison, and coolly remarks,
this morning, that the investigations now
going on are 'irksome and monotonous."
It is to be hoped they will become more
and more so for the scoundrels whom the
Republican defends, until the investiga?
tions get to be "really unbearable, you
know." Grant is on the "ragged edge"
now. These things arc getting a little
too close; and it is rumored that he
begins to fear impeachment, unless he
takes steps to clear himself from all re?
sponsibility for the conduct of Babcock
and Porter. These two distinguished
warriors and statesmen have literally run
the government. It is a fact well known
here that Grant is sometimes drunk, or
stupefied with liquor, for days together,
and that, at such times, it has been his
habit to sign papers brought to him by
Babcock or Porter, without knowing
their contents, and to issue orders of
which he did not know the purport, at
the instigation of the above named
worthies. It can be proven that persons
here have been offered, for certain sums
of money, appointments to various offices
which it was understood were to be ob?
tained in this way, and in this way only,
from the President, while he was under
the influence of liquor.
senator mokton's Wilmington pil?
grimage
It has been published extensively that
in compliance with a request from the
ex-Union soldiers, and loyalists generally,
residing at Wilmington, North Carolina,
Senator Morton has consented to pro?
nounce the oration there on decoration
day, May 30th. This niistatement might
as well be corrected at the outset. The
invitation in question came from Gen.
Allen Rutherford who was recently dis?
missed from his position as Third Audi?
tor of the Treasury, for gross carelessness,
or something worse, in allowing a fraudu?
lent claim. For some time past, Ruther?
ford has been engaged in 'Vetting up the
pins' for his Mercurial Highness, the
Senator from Indiana, in order that the
latter may obtain the vote of the South?
ern delegates to the Cincinnati conven?
tion, it does not appear, from Ruther?
ford's letter, that lie writes in behalf of
any body but himself. It simply states
that ho, Gen. R., would be pleased if the
Senator would consent to deliver the ora?
tion on Decoration Day, but omits to
mention that anyone else but himself lias
expressed the same desire. It is almost
unnecessary to say that the invitation
was eagerly accepted, and that the Presi?
dential aspirant from Indiana will deliver
such an oration as will be calculated to
intensify the affection which he imagines
is borne him by the colored people of the
South. lie will never have a better
opportunity to air his famous blood
besinared under garment than at Wil?
mington, on the 30th prox.; and it is
safe to predict that he will improve it.
ABSENTEEISM IX CONGRESS,
inspection of the various votes
taken in Congress shows that, usually at
least, one-third of the Representatives
and Senators are absent from their seats.
There arc 202 members of the House
when every Congressional district is rep?
resented; which is not the case at pres?
ent, since several vacancies caused by
death remain unfilled. It is safe to say,
however, that at least 280 out of the 292
Representatives ought to be in their
seats, prepared to vote on every measure
before the House. The votes seldom
aggregate over 220 ; leaving 60 absent, or
not voting. In the Senate, a few days
since, the vote on Senator Morion's bill
to regulate the counting of tin; vote for
President and Vice President aggregated
onlv?x; fifteen members being absent,
or not votinjr. On the ?Solution to
admit Pinchback to a seat in the Senate,
only fil Senators voted; showing the
number of absentees to be 12. Again,
only 46 Senators recorded their votes on
the bill
REDUCING THE SALARY OK THE PRESI?
DENT
after March 4 next; twenty-seven being
absent, or prcfering not to vote. On
Monday last, the Senate refused to con?
sider its previous action, the vote stand?
ing, yeas 25, nays 31; so that now the
bill goes to the House, which will un?
doubtedly pass it. The matter was not
made a party question by the Senate.
Senator Thurman voted in favor of the
reduction, while Senator Bayard voted
against it. When, subsequently, an ac=.
quaintancc alluded to his vote, Senator
Bayard said : "When the bill increasing
the President's salary was before tho
Senate, several years ago, I voted for it,
honestly believing that ",$20,000 was in?
adequate to the social requirements of
the position. Since then, I have not
changed my opinion; consequently, I
voted against the reduction." There is
nothing of the demagogue about Mr.
Bayard; and, when it is remembered
that he is a possible candidate for the
Presidency, his action will appear all the
more praiseworthy, as the honest convic?
tion of an honest man. And, by the
way, speaking of Mr. Bayard, who is al?
ways calm and unimpassioned in his
utterances, and who is studiously careful
not to give an affront to his brother Sen
tors, it was something of a surpise to his
friends, when, goaded on by "Hole-in
tbe-sky" Boutwell, the hot blood of in?
dignation mounted to his face, and he
hurled back, as wickedly false, the impu?
tation that he had ever, in thought or
deed, been untrue to his country. Under
tbe circumstances, however, his indigna?
tion was wholly justifiable, and was so
regarded by the thronged galleries, which
loudly applauded his response to the
Massachusetts Senator.
Plant Cotton.
Plant plenty of cotton, of course; it
always brings "the money, and with it you
will be enabled to pay for your guano
that valuable and indispensable article,
without which it would be very foolish
for any man to try to make a crop. It is
more easily applied, and so much better
than stable manure, and so little trouble
to procure. A ride to town or the depot,
and the simple signing of your name to a
slip of paper will be the means of ob?
taining for you all you may desire. Stable
manure and cotton seed are too bulky,
and require so much more labor to apply,
that by many their use is utterly ignored,
and the fashionable, cheap, valuable
and concentrated guano has taken the
place of these old-fashioned manures.
Plant largely of cotton. It sounds big
to talk about" your crop of cotton. It
serves to make you interested in the
money market and the price of the staple
both in this country and in Europe. It
seems to quicken the perceptive faculties,
and cause you to calculate how much
guano you can buy for so much cotton,
for by many this is the purpose for which
it is raised ; or, it not, it is the only pur?
pose to which the money received for it
cah be applied.
Plant largely of cotton and neglect
your corn crop, because if you make cot?
ton you can purchase corn (on a credit,
and meat, too) but if you raise corn and
a plenty of it, you will have fat horses,
fat cattle, fat hogs, and money in hand,
and then you will be deprived of the
exquisite pleasure of asking for credit,
anil being sometimes refused. This
luxury will have to be dispensed with.
And do you not desire this?ofcousc not,
for it. is such a delightful feeling to owe
your factors, to be indebted to your
met chants, to know that almost every
man you meet has your note in his
pocket, past due, and to be button-holed
and dunned a dozen times a day; it adds
so much to a man's popularity; it is so
soothing to your nerves, so tranquilizing
to your whole system; gives you such an
excellent appetite,, and produces such
quiet and refreshing slumbers, that you
cannot afford to dispense with it. Being
in debt is such a glorious feeling, so con?
ducive to health and happiness, that you
feel it to be your duty to yourself, to
your family, and to your friends, to
owe, and to do this plant plenty of cot?
ton, for it will be sure to keep you in
debt, and if this will make you con?
tented, you will be happy indeed. You
can, in your leisure moments, sympathize
with your neighbor who has a smoke?
house full of bacon, of his own raising;
a corn-crib well rilled with large ears of
the golden grain, who has plenty of
money and is troubled about seeking a
safe and secure investment for his surplus.
Go and see him; you can relieve him of
his trouble; your plantation lies adjoining
his. and as a friend, assist him in invest?
ing his money by borrowing it, and give
him a mortgage on your place. What a
satisfaction this will bo to you, to
know you have done your neighbor good,
and to know that in a few years he will
have control of all your premises, and
you be relieved entirely from the cares
and responsibilities of ownership. What
a joke it will be to tell how you have
succeeded in making your neighbor with
his corn and his meat pay the taxes now,
formerly paid by you. But then he de?
serves to be punished in this way, be?
cause he never was much of a planter;
he only made a few bales of cotton, and
was hardly known out of his district;
but you are a big planter?you
make your hundred bags, and arc
known in Savannah as a gentleman
who is always in debt, whose cotton crop
never realizes a sufficient amount to pay
your expenses for the current year. This
is your reputation ; do you enjoy it? If
you do, plant largely of cotton. If you
do not like the picture, change your
course, and try to live at home; make
your plantation self-sustaining; plant
corn, raise meat, and let your cotton crop
bo restricted to a surplus only, first rais?
ing everything else you need in prefer?
ence to the snowy staple. When you do I
this, then a change will come; you will !
soon he your own master, and not be as j
you are now, and as you have, been for |
years?the slave of the cotton factor and
the commission merchant. Take advice
while there is time ; profit by the admo?
nition before it is too late, and plant
more com.?fiiwlrrxriffr. {flu.) Mc**rwjcr.
? A life insurance man dropped dead
in Koch ester the either day. The worst
of it was that he hadn't previously
swapped policies with an agent of the
other branch of the profession, absolutely
going off without any fire insurance.?
There is a big warning lor insurance
men in this thing.
? Lighting struck a tree in Macon un?
der which a colored man had taken ref?
uge the other day, but the hitler escaped
unhurt. It requires the tact and diplo?
macy of an able bodied mule to catch up
with a negro.
From the Abbeville Medium.
PEN PICTURES OF THE PRESS.
SAMUEL W. MAURICE.
Samuel W. Maurice is. perhaps, one of
the most widely known men connected
with the South Carolina Tress, and one
of the most deserving. He was born in
Williamsburg county, South Carolina,
on October 29, 1833, and is now in the
forty-third year of his age. He was the
youngest of fourteen children on the
paternal and of seven on tbe maternal
.side, both father and mother having been
twice married. At the time of his birth
his father was sixty and his mother
thirty-nine years of age. Their posses?
sions were small, and it required the
greatest exercise of economy to "make
both ends meet." Even in those old
fashioned days, when there was a dignity
about labor, when the cut and texture of
a man's garments was not taken as an in?
dication of merit, but when real worth
was the most valuable stock in trade, it
was something of a burden to fill the
mouths and cover the backs of so nume?
rous a progeny. The country was sparse?
ly settled, the modes of travel primitive
and burdensome, and the opportunities
for education limited. School houses
were located at wide distances apart, and
it required the outlay of a greater amount
of money than most families could afford
to put the youthful mind un^er proper
cultivation. The subject of this sketch
was under the restraint common to all,
and when fifteen years of age could bare?
ly write his name ; but" "merit will
mount," and making the most of his ad?
vantages young Maurice studied hard,
read everything he could get his hands
on, and acquired a rich and varied fund
of information. We may be pardoned
just here for saying that, perhaps, the
greatest benefit bestowed upon the world
by the establishment of this "best gov?
ernment the sun ever shone on" is the
principle that every man is the architect
of his own fortune, and that wealth, posi?
tion and refinement do not depend upon
any accident of birth or station. The
freatest glory of this nation and her best
critage to succeeding generations is the
long list of self-made men who have
risen out of poverty and obscurity, and
given a quickening, undying impulse to
American civilization. But we digress.
When eighteen years of age, young
Maurice assumed the role of pedagogue
and wielded the birch with all the digni?
ty and grace common to that period. He
had a good school and taught with un?
varying success. His manner of teach?
ing was comprehensive and thorough,
and under his control and guidance his
pupils made rapid progress. After teach?
ing for several years he relinquished his
school, and gathering together his sav?
ings, with a part of the money derived
from the sale of the old family home?
stead, he repaired to the University of
Virginia, where he matriculated as a
student of law, the means at his com?
mand not allowing him to take the regu?
lar collegiate course of study. This was
in October, 1854. In July, 1855, after
nine months of the most assiduous appli?
cation, Mr. Maurice returned to his
home, and in the fall of 1850 entered the
law office of Messrs. DeSaussure & Son,
(H. A. and Wilmot G.) in Charleston,
S. C, to complete his study of the law,
and to prepare himself for admission to
practice. In May, 1857, he received a
most flattering certificate to stand his ex?
amination before the Court of Appeals.
This examination came off in May, and
through the whole of it Mr. Maurice
passed with the greatest credit, without
having seen the questions to he pro?
pounded and without any private "gerry?
mandering." Maxcy Gregg, at that time
one of the foremost lawyers in this State,
and afterwards one of the most gallant
generals in the Confederate service,
directed the examination on pleading
and practice, which was rigid and exact?
ing, and, although it required considera?
ble nerve to stand before such a court as
that, Maurice passed through the ordeal
with flying colors, and was admitted to
practice law in the courts of this State.
Immediately after his admission to the
bar, Mr. Maurice went to Kingstrce, the
county seat of Williamsburg county, and
there hung out his shingle. When he
landed at Kingstrce his prospects were
not particularly bright or encouraging.
He was young and without experience.
He found some eight or ten lawyers of
established practice and reputation with
whom to contend, and had to make good
his claims to public favor before he could
hope to achieve any lasting success in his
chosen profession. Five dollars in
money, a heart full of "futures" and an
undying determination to succeed made
up the foundation upon which he estab?
lished himself. He took board at twenty
dollars per month, and in less than a
week got a ten dollar case, and thus
began his career. In the management of
this case the stronger points of his
character were brought to the surface, his
ability was made manifest and the hit so
decidud that his office began to he filled
with clients and his desk with briefs. In
partnership with Wilmot G. DeSaussure,
Esq., of Charleston, under the firm name
of DeSaussure & Maurice, he practiced
his profession until the breaking out of
the war, when he threw aside the peace?
ful toga of his profession and made com?
mon cause with his country against the
outrageous usurpations of the Feilend
Government. He believed that the con?
stitution of the fathers had been rudely
trampled upon and violated, and with
patriotic devotion sustained the action of
ins State in her formal act of secession.
On January 4, 1801, he entered the
service of the State as first lieutenant of
the "Wee Nee Volunteers," John G.
Pressly captain commanding, under Col?
onel Maxcy Crcgg at Sullivan's Island,
in Charleston Harbor, lie took part in
the siege of Fort Sumtcr, which was gar?
risoned by a company of United States
Regulars under command of Major Rob?
ert Anderson. After the capture of this
important fortification, Mr. Maurice re?
turned to his home and organized a com?
pany, of which he was unanimously
elected captain. This company was
known as the "Wee Nee Riflemen," and
did duty at Georgetown with what was
known as the Harllcc Legion. After the
disorganization of this command Mr.
.Maurice applied for an appointment in
the Ordnance Department, and stood his
examination at Mobile, Alabama.?
There were fifty applications for appoint?
ments in this Department at that lime,
and of the fifty applicants only eight got
through, and of this eight Mr. Maurice,
who stood second on the list. He was
assigned to duty at Mobile under Gen?
eral Imckner, with the rank of captain,
who assigned him to Colonel Smith at
Fort Gaities in the Gulf of Mexico.
After serving there for nine months (Jap
tain Maurice was ordered to report to
(ienerul I Jean regard at Charleston, who
assigned him to duty with ("eiicral Clerg
mati'oii Sullivan's Island, with whom he
served for four or five months. At the j
end of this time he was transferred to J
General Kiplcy, and finally to General
It. II. Robertson, at Green Pond, Adam's
Knn, etc., with whom he served until tho
capture of Charleston and close of the
war. Captain Maurice was a good sol?
dier ami devoted to duty. He obeyed all
commands without complaining, and took
infinite pride in serving his country in
whatsoever capacity he was placed. He
was calm and collected under fire, kind
and considerate to his men, aud always
at his post.
After the surrender he settled down to
j the prac tice of his profession to which he
is devoted. He has had no partner in
his legal business since the war, and by
strict fidelity to the interests of his
clients, a clear and comprehensive under?
standing of tne law, ready and gifted
eloquence, a firm adherence to the line
of duty, he has secured a large, lucrative
and extended practice. Of the eight or
ten lawyers at the Kingstrec bar when
Mr. Maurice first began practice, there is
not now a single one left. Three law?
yers, admitted to practice under the new
regime, alone contest the ground with
him, and it is a fact worthy of mention
that iic has one side of almost every case
that comes into court. He has been uni?
formly successful in all of his business
ventures, and has amassed quite a snug
little fortune by his patient and perse?
vering efforts. As an instance of the
prosperity that has attended him, wc
may mention that even before the war,
when his profession was not paying any
heavy dividends, he planned and built a
house at a cost of four thousand dollars
without aid from any one, and that with
the subsequent improvements the same
dwelling is now worth more than five
thousand dollars.
Although he has never held any civil
office but that of Magistrate, Mr. Mau
[ rice has taken a prominent part in the
j politics of his county and State both be?
fore and since the war. He has been
and still is on the right side, and cher?
ishes deadly enmity to that class of poli?
ticians who have brought the people into
such deep and dire distress. His views
are strongly conservative, but his faith
in the foundation principles of democ?
racy none the less marked. He is op?
posed to violence no less than fraud, has
accepted the situation" superinduced by
the war and its results, and is extremely
anxious that the Government should be
administered for the good of the whole
people. He was a member of the con?
vention of 1860 which met in Columbia,
after the Charleston convention, which
sent delegates to Baltimore to nominate
candidates for President and Vice Presi?
dent, which latter convention nominated
Brcckcnridgc and Lane. He has also
been a member of all the Taxpayers'
conventions which have met in Columbia
since the war, and in all their delibera?
tions took an active and influential part.
He is a member of the State Tax Union,
and one of its executive committee He
was appointed by the State Executive
Democratic Committee at its late meet?
ing in Columbia to organize the democ?
racy in Williauisburg county, and has
taken the work in hand with vigorous
and zealous determination. His address
to the people of that county and his
earnest appeals through the columns of
his newspaper must carry weight with
them.
Mr. Maurice has been a frequent con?
tributor to the press of the State under
fictitious names, and has always exhi?
bited great fondness for such work. Of
these fugitive compositions he has col?
lected sufficient to make a volume of
more than one thousand pages. His let?
ters from Saratoga, Kingstrec and Co?
lumbia, under the ?o? de plume of "S. A.
M.," have always been very readable
productions. His closer union with the
press of the State occurred in October,
1S74, when he purchased the office and
good will of the Kingstrec Shu; and as
editor and sole proprietor of that paper
has ever since been closely identified with
the journalism of this State. He is a
ready, graceful and polished writer, a
fair critic, and devoted to the growth
and expansion of country journalism.
He readily supported the call for a State
press convention last year, and at the
organization of the State Press Associa?
tion in May, 1875, was elected third Vice
President of that body, which office he
now fills with zeal and ability.
Mr. Maurice is a married man. He
was married to Miss Louisa I. Xclson,
who was born in Charleston, raised in
Kingstrec atid educated at Columbus,
Mississippi, on January 20, 1860. The
fruit of this marriage has been two chil?
dren?a son born in July, 1861, who died
in 1862, and a daughter born in 1863,
who still lives.
To sum tin, Mr. Maurice is a pleasant,
perfect gentleman, of fully developed in?
tellect, genial disposition and consuming
love for country. In the social circle he
is the attractive centre of many smiling
groups?tantjKW el sans rcproche.
Disappearance of Georgia Lakes.
?A third lake in Lowndes county has
been emptied of its waters by subterra?
nean passages during the last six
months. What is the matter? The
Times has several times alluded to the
fact that Lowndes county had within its
borders numbers of lakes from ten to five
hundred (and several beyond a thousand)
acres in size, and can it be that these
lakes are all connected with a grand un?
derground water course? it seems so.?
In September last one dried up or run
off, ami left bushels upon bushels of fish
in holes of water about upon the bottom
of the lake, in January another, about
live miles from this, did the same thing;
and now Grassy pond, a lake covering
about five hundred acres, just between
the two just mentioned, has left its mil?
lions of fishes out of water. About three
weeks ago it was reported that the waters
of this lake were sinking below low water
mark, and every day or two wc would
hear that it was still going down.
Last Friday a report spread all over
the country like wildfire that Grassy
pond was low enough to rake the fish out
with nets, and by sun down more than
one hundred people had collected at the
place, some had dip nets, some cast nets,
and there was one seine in the party.
The. first haul with the seine caught
enough trout, jack, beam and speckled
perch to make a "mess" for every one
present. During the night all the water
disappeared and there were millions of
fish left dead upon dry land. Saturday,
next day, the planters hitched up their
wagon and hauled load after load and
scattered them in their fields for manure,
and thousands were left at the mercy of
buzzards, hogs and other creatures of
prey. Such quantities of lish and such
destruction has never been known in the
history of Lowndes county. No one ever
dreamed that there was half that quanti?
ty offish in Grassy pond, though it was
celebrated for its lino fishing grounds in
the spring of the year. The other two
lakes above mentioned did not run thus
completely dry, and the fish that were
not caught were saved by the water re?
turning in a few days from its hidden
retreat in the bosom of the carlh. Wc
learn that Orassy pond is lilliiifr up
j again, but it is loo late to save ihn fumy
j tribe. These statements are not at all
' exaggerated, and can be testified to by
I several hundred people living in this
I county, though it is marvellous to all.?
VnMaxin [da.) Time*.
? Rabbits have so increased in Ken?
tucky that hunting them down has be?
come an absolute necessity.
Hod. Montgomery Blair's Loiter on the
Presidency.
Washington, March 18,187G. |
Dea? Sin: I have your letter request- j
ing for publication the views expressed j
by me in a recent conversation with re- j
spect to the pending Presidential contest. ,
Ihe sum of them was that we ought to
continue the contest as we began in 1872, j
when wc agreed to forego all other issues
save that of reform in the administration
of the government. The adversary then
struggled and still strives, with the help
of the Hon. Ben. Hill, to keep alive the
issues of the war for the purpose of pro- j
longing abuses which, however great, go
unchecked while sectional strife holds the
public mind. Wc did not carry the elec?
tions in 1872, because wc were" not fully
successful in making the issue of reform.
Put we made such a beginning that the
victory of our adversaries has proved a
barren one. We so far succeeded that a
show of investigation had to be made.
The Credit Mobilicr fraud, which, though
well known before to all public men,
could not command public attention, now
absorbs it. Spoliation was checked. Jay
Coolcc Si Co., who had largely advanced
the money to carry the elections, could
not be reimbursed by Congressional in?
dorsement of the Northern Pacific bonds,
and therefore failed. The so-called in?
vestigating committees, organized not to
convict, were experts in finding out how
not to do it, and the departments helped
them assiduously; but the Independent
Press did the work so effectually that a
large Democratic majority was returned
to the present House of Representatives.
Unfortunately, this tide of success, which
assured the reformers of the government,
this year has been arrested and turned
back by the intrusion into the canvass
last fall of another issue, of which the
Radicals have eagerly and successfully
availed themselves. And their effort is
to hold on to that issue, and make the
Presidential election turn on the question
of resumption, upon which they have
won, instead of upon the question of re?
form, upon which they have lost the day.
If they succeed in this, the result will
[ iuvariably be unfortunate for us. Our
friends having been beaten on this issue
hist fall in the States where anti-resump?
tion was strongest, our vote in New York,
even (without which success for us would
be hopeless,) having been largely affected
by the attitude of our friends in those
States, no rational mind can fail to sec
that such an issue would defeat us.
It is plain, from this brief statement
of the situation, that our success depends
upon our ability to reinstate the issue of
reform as the issue of the canvass; and
it is equally plain that this is not to be
done by resolution, but by such action as
will not only proclaim it, but will of
itself verify it as the issue to all men.
The nomination of Tilden will of itself
force this issue, and make the election
turn upon it. The friends of other can?
didates object to the nomination of a
citizen of New York and claim the nom?
ination for the West. Put Jackson was
not selected because he was a citizen of
Tennessee, or Jefferson because he was a
citizen of Virginia, or Grant because he
was for a short time in Illinois. Selec?
tion on such ground has no political sig?
nificance, and ignores altogether the only
consideration upon which a candidate
ought to be selected, viz.: as the repre?
sentative of the idea sought to be ad?
vanced. My preference for Tilden is
only because his nomination would of
itself force on the issue of reform, which
is our sure card in the pending canvass.
I do not doubt that the other gentlemen
spoken of would prove vigorous reform?
ers, and I have no personal preference
for Tilden over any one of them; but
neither of them is so identified with
"reform" in the public mind as Tilden.
They have either not had the opportuni?
ty, or not availed themselves of it, to
manifest the resolute purpose he has
shown to purge the State of fraud and
jobbing. They have not joined hands
with political adversaries to overthrow
and arraign and convict as criminals the
master spirits of their own'party whilst
they seemed to be imprcgnably intrench?
ed in the control of its organization, and
have not by such conduct been lifted into
power by the support of large bodies of
fiolitical opponents, even against a republ?
ican whose integrity was not questioned,
but who had not manifested the same
zeal in the cause of reform. Nor have
! they, after reaching power, so signalized
their administration by unsparing war on
jobbery.
Py this course Tilden has made him?
self, more than any other man of our
day, the representative man of the idea
to which the Democratic party so em?
phatically pledged itself in 1872, and his
nomination would be accepted, not only
by the Liberal Republicans, who then
acted with us, but by thousands who then
held back, as a sure guarantee that the
pledge would be faithfully redeemed;
and his war record and his financial views
would effectually prevent diversion by
false issues.
The active enmity which Tilden has
provoked in his own party serves only to
attest his fitness for the occasion. No
man ever drove more men out of the
Democratic party than Jackson; but no
man ever recruited it so rapidly from the
true men in the ranks of his opponents
at the same time. And this vitalizing
process must be renewed. The curse of
the Democratic party has been its Tweeds.
The strength of its opponents, who use
the government for class aggrandizement,
is derived from vast expenditure, by cor?
rupting the people in one form or another
with their own money, and by misleading
them with false issues. Mut Old Bullion
never said anything more true than that
"the Democratic party, to be strong,
must be clean."
Tilden is the type of the men who
were honored by the party in the days of
its strength ; and his nomination being a
sure bond for a return to their policy,
will insure its return to power.
Yours truly,
MONTGOMERY BLAIR.
Samuki. M. Shaw,
Editor FnrnniirtJour., Coojw*town, .V. )'.
An Amusing Incimkxt.?A few days
since a well known lawyer of this city
was defending a client, charged with as?
sault ami battery, in a Magistrate's Court.
The lawyer contended that the accused
on the occasion set forth in the affidavit
was really acting as a peacemaker, and
did not intend to violate the law. "May
it please tin- Court," said he, "my client
stands before you in the character of a
peacemaker. God himself, amid the
thunders and lightnings of Mount Sinai,
has said, ''Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall see < 'od.' " Here someone
remarked that Ihe quotation was wrong.
It was, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for
they shall be called thechildreii of Hod.''
The speaker listened and then continued, j
"Ye*, Your Honor, 1 was mistaken there.
('od thundered from Ml. Sinai, 'Blessed
are peace-makers for they shall be called j
the children of (!od.'" dust here some
one else suggested that the words were ;
i spoken by the Saviour in his sermon on i
the Mount, and not from Mount Sinai to
.Moses hundreds of years before. The
lawyer was non-plussed for a moment, |
but quickly replied, "Well, I knew it!
was spoken somewhere."
Wanted to be an Editor.
"Have yon had any experience in the
business ?" wc asked of a verdant looking
youth who applied for an editorial posi?
tion the other day.
"Havn't I though?" he replied as he
shoved one foot under his chair to hide
the unskillful patching of a backswoods
cobbler. "I should say I'd had some ex?
perience?havn't I corresponded for six
weeks with the Pvmpkbiville Screamer f
Hain't that experience enough ?"
"That will do very well," we replied,
"but when we take young men on our
editorial staff, we generally put them
through an examination. How much
arc twelve limes one?"
"Twelve ! why anv little boy ought to
an-"
"Hold on, please?don't be too fast?
who discovered America?"
"Kulumbus! Pshaw, them questions
are just as easy as?"
"Who was the first man?"
"Adam ! why Mister, I know all?"
"What was his other name?"
"His other name? why he didn't have
none."
"Yes, he did. You see that's where
we've got you. His other name was Eb
enezcr?Ebenezer Adam, Esq., late of
Paradise. Nobody knows this but
editors, and see to it that you don't tell
anybody ?"
He said he wouldn't.
"How many bones arc there in the
human body?"
"Well, I forgot now, but I did know
wunst."
"What! don't you kuowthat? Why
there's 7,482,921,444 bones in an ordinary
man. A man that snores has one bone
more than other people."
"What bone is that?"
"The trombone. It is situated some?
where in the nose. You won't forget
that, will you?"
He said he wouldn't.
"How long would it take a mudturtle
to cross the desert of Sahara with a small
orphan boy to touch him up behind with
a red-hot poker?"
"Well, look here, Mister, if I had a
slate and pencil I could figger that out,
but dog my skin if I'm much on mental
rithmctic."
"Slate and pencil! Did you ever see
a slate and pencil about a sanctum?
Well, we'll let that question slip. Have
vou got a good constitution ?"
"Putty tolerable."
"How long do you suppose you could
live on raw corn and faith, and do the
work of a domesticated elephant?"
"Lord! I don't believe I could live
mor'n a week."
"Well, that's about as long as you'd
want to live if you got an editorial posi?
tion on this paper. You appear to be
pretty well posted ; wc shall ask you one
more question, and if you prove equal to
it you can take off vour coat aud sail
in."
"Let's have 'crs'quire. I didn't cor?
respond for the Pumpiiucilfe So earner six
weeks for nothin'. Let'cr come?I'm ou
deck, I am."
"Well, sir, if two diametrical circles
with octagonal peripheries should collide
with a centrifugal idiosyncrasy, or, to
put it plainer, we'll say a disenfranchised
nonentity, what effect would the catastro?
phe exert on a crystalized cod fish sus?
pended by the tail from the homogeneous
rafters of the empyrean ?"
As the full force of this ponderous
problem broke upon his bewildered brain,
he slowly dragged his inartistically
cobbled shoe from under his chair, and
started from the room. We heard him
descend the stairs, go out, and close the
door. We then placidly resumed our
duties, regretting that so promising a
youth should have been weighed in the
balance and found wanting.?Franklin
Patriot.
The Rabun Gap Railroad.
Ever since 1836 meetings have been
held, companies organized and subscrip?
tions for stock started to build a railroad
from Kuoxville to the sea via llabun Gap.
And yet the road is unbuilt. But the
agitation has never ceased, aud such per?
sistency is sure to win in the lung run.?
Only last week a Convention, composed
of Delegates from the four interested
Slates was held at Anderson in South
Carolina, to devise means for building
the much-needed road. The first Con?
vention of the present series was held
last January in Kuoxville. It adjourned
to meet in March at Anderson, and now
it is to meet at Charleston May 25. The
object of the next Convention is to arouse
the low country to the importance of
aiding the project.
The Anderson Convention was well
attended, South Carolina and Tennessee
being strongly represented. Rabun
county in this State sent Messrs. Cannon,
Blccklcy, Duncan and R. A. Cannon.
Business reports from each State were
read, and a telegram was received from
the Kuoxville and Charleston railroad
company to the effect that they would
commence the survey of their road to the
Stale line this month, and would surely
complete it if they could have a guaran?
tee of a connection at the Tennessee
line.
All depends upon what Charleston and
Charleston's railroad companies arc wil?
ling lo do towards promoting the enter?
prise. Charleston and East Tennessee
are to be the chief beneficiaries. The
first wants cheap freights to and fro n
the Northwest. She wants to tap the
mountain regions of Tennessee, that ex?
port just what the low country has to
import. East Tennessee wants a new
market fur her surplus agricultural pro?
ducts and a competing through line to
the sea. These two sections must build
the road, if it is built at all, and both
seem to be fully awake to the importance
of pushing it to completion. While they
have slumbered three routes have been
built through or around the Blue Ridge,
and Charleston at least begins to sec that
she must build the fourth or lag iu the
race for commercial supremacy.
Georgia is also interested in the con?
struction of the Blue Ridge road, al?
though not to the extent that Tennessee
or South Carolina is. Its construction
would make the extension of the North?
eastern road to Clayton a necessity, and
an easy probability. This would give us
another route to kuoxville, to the coal
fields, ami to the mineral and agricultu?
ral wealth of a section that would deal
largely with us if an iron track were the
convenient connecting link.?Atlanta
(bn*fifntion.
? Thev were sitting together, he and
she, and he was arduously thinking what
In say. finally he burst out with : "In
this iaud of noble achievements aud un?
living glory, why is it that women do
nut come more to Ilm front : why is it
they do not climb the ladder of lame?"
"I suppose." said she, pulling her linger
in her mouth, "it is all on account of
their piillbacks." And then she sighed
aud lie sighed side by side.
? Wo hope the next President of the
United States will have very few rela?
tives. In fact, if he should happen to!
be a man who was picked upon a doorstep
it would be a tremendous point in his
favor.
About Beds.
As we snuggle between the sheets, and
lay our heads on a soft pillow some cold
winter's night, it sometimes seems as if
nothing but a luxurious couch of this
sort could be worth calling a bed. Yet a
large part of the world enjoy no such ar?
rangements for sleeping and could not
enjoy it if they had it. Our own ances?
tors reposed in much less luxurious fash?
ion. In Eastern countries people com?
monly spread a net on the flat roof of
their house, and make that their bed.?
In Russia the lop of the stove is the bed?
stead. In both cases the sleepers do not
undress themselves.
In ancient Egypt?as still in China
and Japan?wooden pillows were in
vogue, hollowed out to fit the shape of
the head. But the ancient Egyptians,
while, on account of the heat and ver?
min, they preferred hard pillows, and are
said to have considered their comfort at
night in the invention of spring mat?
tresses. They were made of slips of
bamboo crossed over each other, and
must have been as cool, if not quite as
soft and yielding, as the webbing of twine
stretched over a frame, on which the na?
tives of India rest.
The Israelites used sheep and goat?
skins stuffed for pillows, and in early
times the same for bedding, but their
bedsteads at a later period, at least, must
have been very costly. The prophet
Amos speaks of couches of ivory.
Among the Assyrians, and afterwards
among the Romans, couches of gold and
silver were possessed by the rich. The
reason for this splendor was partly that
the beds were not kept in separate rooms,
but in the same room occupied by day,
and were used for sitting on, and reclining
on at meals. At Roman feasts the guests
all reclined, and sometimes each person
occupied a separate couch.
The Anglo Saxon ancestors were not
at all refined in their sleeping arrange?
ments. Their beds consisted of wooden
boxes, filled with a bag of straw. In an
old illustrated manuscript there is a pic?
ture of a king going to bed. He has a
crown on his head (a very uncomfortable
night cap,) but has no nightdress.
King Henry VIII, of England, is said
to have slept upon a straw-bed, while his
servants lay upon rushes strewn on the
floor of the royal kitchen. The king's
bed was not what we should call luxu?
rious; but so much ceremony was used
in going to it that seven chamberlains
were employed in undressing the royal
personage, turning down the bed clothes,
etc., etc. One indispensable practice was
to thrust a sword into the straw to see
that no person was concealed in it.
When feather beds came into use in
England they were regarded as articles of
great value, and it seems comical to us
to find them so often mentioned in wills.
The person to whom a feather-bed was
bequeathed did not usually receive any?
thing else; his comfort by night was
provided for, if not his welfare by day.
It may be mentioned in conclusion
with beds, that a strange superstition
was once common in the South of Eng?
land, in a belief that a person cannot die
while lying on pigeon's feathers. A dy?
ing person has often been removed from
a feather-bed to the bare floor, under the
notion that the death-struggle was pro?
longed owing to the presence in the bed
of a few pigeon feathers. In England
it is still customary to surround the bed
with curtains. Americans have adopted
the more sensible French fashion of" al?
lowing a free circulation of air about the
sleeper.?Baltimore Sunday Telegraph.
True Love Gone out of Fashion.
?The country never possessed so many
beautiful marriageable young women as
it docs at the present time. And why do
we not have more marriages? Wc
answer, because marriage for love is the
exception and not the rule. The young
people of this age have gone fashion ana
money mad. It the dandy bank clerk
who pays one half of his income for board
and the" other half for clothes cannot im?
prove his condition he will not marry. The
shop girl who earns good wages and can?
not be distinguished by her dress from
the banker's daughter certainly will not
plunge into matrimony unless she can
belter her condition in life. If a man is
fortunate enough to possess money, it
matters not how old or ugly he may be,
hundreds of intelligent, handsome young
women can be found only too willing to
become his wife. Love is an after con?
sideration. They marry to be supported
and dressed extravagantly. How often
do wc hear the remark. "Better to be
an old man's darling than a poor man's
slave." Alas! too many of them are not
satisfied to be darlings. They will per?
sist in loving other men after they arc
married.
It cannot be denied that a great num?
ber of the unmarried men ?ve adventu?
rers looking for wives who can keep them
without working for a living. The peace
and contentmcut of a happy home are
not taken into consideration. They are
willing to suffer a hell upon earth if they
can be kept in idleness. If our young
people do not abandon this extravagance
of dress and greed for money our coun?
try will be filled with old bachelors and
old maids. Wc must have more genuine
courtships and marriages to have pros?
perity and happiness in this world. Too
many marry for money only to be disap?
pointed and unhappy the rest of their
I i ves. ?. 1 Iban y.! rgm.
Too Muni Noise fok the Size.?
After a most ridiculous and extrava?
gant plea by a young lawyer, in a trivial
case, an older lawyer, who had a way of
saying quaint thiugs, remarked, in open?
ing the opposing side of the case, that this
young friend's elaborate plea reminded
him of the experience of a neighbor of
his who was once engaged in breaking a
colt, and the story lie told of it was in
substance like this:
The colt breaker made, his young son
hide in the bush, while he himself wasto
mount the animal and put him at his top
speed to the hiding place, and then the
boy was to rush suddenly out and shout
"Boo !" the idea being to prove how well
the colt would stand the scare.
Everything was done according to pru
gramtue, but the result was altogether too
much of a scare for the colt, who kicked
up his heels and put down his head and
the old man was thrown over it far into
the road on his head.
Clearing the dust from his loosened
teeth he made for the boy with the switch
he had cut to drive the colt, and with
rage began to dress the astonished young
man down, shouting. "What did you
do that for? What did vou do that
for?"
'"But, father," said the crying boy,
"you told me to holler "boo !' "
"Ves,'' said the old man. "but. dang it,
il was altogether too big a 'boo' for so
small a coll."'
It was in a New Jersey Sunday
school. The Superintendent approached
a youth of color who was present for the
first time, and inquired his name for the
purpose of placing it on the roll. The
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Anderson, s. c.
Earn Your Own Living:.
There was a time not so long ago when
it was considered a disgrace lor one who
had the feelings and culture of a gentle?
man to earn his own living. Hut a new
spirit has arisen. Prophets have spoken
their words of praise in honor of work,
and their voices have abashed into silence
and flippant scorn. "The modern majes?
ty consists in work," says Mr. Carlylc.
"What a man can do is his highest orna?
ment, and he always consults his dignity
by doing it."
No doubt in the hard stress of duty it
is difficult to believe that labor is both
honorable, and, in every good sense, help?
ful. When wc see people born into lux?
ury and case, commanding, by a word,
advantages, which, after life long efforts,
we cannot compass, it is not surprising if
a feeling of dissatisfaction should, un?
consciously, creep into the heart, and a
dim conviction spring up that somcliow
justice is at fault. Yet, if we took a
larger view wc should speedily perceive
that all the advantages arc not on their
side. In a complaining mood wc may
speak of our "unfortunate lot," which
compels us to drudge on through the
dreary days, never spending a penny
which we had not first earned: but a
wiser outlook would often teach us con?
tentment. Now in laboring even in the
humblest occupations, we are not only
obeying a Divine law, and adding to the
welfare of the world, but we arc increas?
ing our own capacity as men and women,
developing qualities that are born by a
wrestling with hardship. It is true that
some persons- in spite of their wealth and
circumstances of comfort, do display a
nobility of spirit, a strength of virtuous
manhood and womanhood unsurpassed in
any sphere of life; but it is because they
are not content to remain idle, but throw
their energies into some service for hu?
manity which evokes and trains those
very qualities which distinguish them,
and* that always does enlist the admira?
tion of the world. All honor to such! Yet
the temptation is to many, should I be
uncharitable if I said to most, all the
other way? To be satisfied with those
surroundings in which they are born, to
let themselves be ministered unto and do
no ministering, to put forth no particular
exertion for any desired object, every one
can see what will become of a life like
that. It cannot be developed into any?
thing true and noble, 'it must remain
dwarfed, stunted and selfish. But those
who are cast upon their resources, those
who have to think, to labor with hands
or brains, or both, or those who find
every step onwjrd a conflict, and every
step "backward a loss, are in a position to
acquire some of the grandest virtues that
can adorn human character. Independ?
ence, self-sacrifice, calm endurance, pa?
tient waiting?these arc the natural fruits
of a life of labor, and they are worth
more than all the wealth on which men's
hearts set their ambition. Remember,
too, that it is not the kind of work that a
man does that is honorable, but the spirit
which he carries into it, the way in which
he docs it. It is not the work that makes
the man honorable or not, but the man
that imparts character to the work. The
day laborer carrying his hod honestly
and industriously, giving a fair day's
work for his wages, has a more honorable
occupation than the stock exchange
swindler, who "bears" the market and
speculates to the people's ruin. The
worker is everything, not, may be, in the
estimation of society, but in an essential
reality of things which exist behind these
temporary arrangements and condition of
human affairs.
Ax Essay ox Fish.?Fish, according
to the Detroit Free Press, may be divided
into classes?codfish and fresh fish.
The propriety of dividing them into
classes will be at once appareut when wc
reflect that they are usually fouud in
schools.
The mackerel is not exactly a codfish,
but he comes so much nearer being a cod?
fish than a fresh fish, that he is for the
present classed with the former.
The jelly fish is, perhaps, the best un?
derstood of all the finny tribe, because,
being translucent, it is easy to see through
him.
The greatest number of fish arc eaten
on Friday, and the next greatest number
on Saturday, because those that arc left
over are warmed up for Saturday's break?
fast.
The herring is not absolutely a fish;
he is a suggestion of departed fish. But
the strongest suggestions of departed fish
are smelt. The herring sustains the
same relation to the finny tribe as the
Egyptian mummy to the humau race.
Fish are caught by measure and sold
by weight?that is, tbey are caught by
the gill and sold by the pound. But they
are sometimes caught by weight?wait
till you get a bite.
The mermaid and fishwoman may also
be mentioned in this connection. The
former is a good illustration of what is
meant by the ideal, and the latter as fitly
represents the real.
Many land animals are reproduced in
the sea. Thus we have the dog-fish, the
cat-fish, sea-lions and sea-horses, but no
sea-mules. None of the above have hind
logs, and any manner of mule without
hind legs would be a :onspicuous failure.
The codfish is the great source of all
salt. The saline qualities of codfish
permeate and percolate the vasty deep,
and make the ocean as salt as himself.
Weighed in his own scales he is found
wanting?wauting considerable freshen?
ing. He is by nature quite social, his
principal recreation being balls?fish
balls.
The codfish was worshipped by the
Greeks; but he is only half as well treat?
ed by the inhabitants of Cape Cod?he is
simply shipped. Hence the difference
between the Greeks and the inhabitants
of Cape Cod.
There are many interesting rumors
about fish which might be mentioned,
but the foregoing facts maybe considered
as oT-fish-al.
A Most Singular Centennial
year.?This Centennial year has been
phenomenal in many remarkable partic?
ulars. The season lias been of the most
unusual character. The warmest winter
known for a century. The most terrific
stormsof wind, tornadoes, hurricanes, and
typhoons, in all quarters of the globe.
The most wonderful rain falls within the
memory of living man ; causing the over?
flow of rivers throughout all Kurope, at?
tended by the destruction of even whole
cities along the Danube, and immense loss
of human life. And now comes a snow
storm of unexampled extent, covering
nearly all of both the American and Eu?
ropean continents, involving indeed near?
ly all the northern hemisphere, in its
white winding sheet; and which, if
sudden thaw ensues, must again swell the
rivers of the globe to dangerous dimen?
sions. What yet remains for the year lo
bring forth beyond our great Centennial
exposition and the Presidential election
time alone can reveal.?CinriuMrfi Sfar.
? Somebody wants to know who in?
vented whiskey. Mis name appears to
have been forgotten. This country is
prone to neglect some of its brightest and
greatest men.