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OUR CENTENNIAL LETTER.
Agricultural Hall?The Kind of Ex?
hibits to be Fouud In It?Great
Britain, Japan, Holland and Brazil
Described?Centennial Notes?Oar
Correspondent Disappointed.
Special Corretpondence of the Anderson Intelligencer.
Philadelphia, June 15,1876.
For the past four weeks we have been
wandering about through the Main Hall,
- crammed to repletion with all sorts of
indescribable beauties and .wonders,
' gathered from the four quarters of the
earth and the scattered islands of the sea.
S Marvelous indeed are they?wonders
such as few Of us can expect to see again
?but here is an exhibition of over three
hundred buildings, many of them worlds
in themselves, containing vast stores of
wealth, and grand contributions of genius
which must be seen Sat cannot be de?
scribed. Buildings whose names afford
not the slightest indication of the treas?
ures they possess, or the uses to which
they .are applied, and the character I
here give, applies particularly to the
Agricultural Department, a department
too little appreciated and too little known,
and .the ...treasures: of which-have been
neglected by the great mass of Centen?
nial visitors, many of whom pass whole
days in the Main Hall and Art Gallery,
admiring pitchers and vases, meerschaum
pipes, silverware, statues and paintings
?things entirely beyond their reach, and
which they can never hope to possess.
The building itself, when seen from'
the distance, looks like some old abbey,
being in the form of a cross, and all of its
cupolas, steeples and turrets are sur?
mounted by crosses, which give it quite
a religions and respectable appearance.
.The building is about eight hundred and
twenty-six feet on .each of its sides, and
contains within its walls as mach of in?
terest as any other building on the
grounds. It is a positive relief to get
away from the glittering gewgaws and
things that surround yon in the Main
Hall. There everything is suggestive of
the most extravagant luxury, wealth and
ease, the-surest index of a nation's ruin.
The richest of silverware, the costliest of
carpets, the rarest works of art, laces and
jewels are around ,you on every side.
Everything about yon tells of wealth and
ostentation, but the moment yon step
into Agricultural Hall you are in another
world. Tour eyes are no longer tortured
by visions of wealth away beyond your
reach and unpleasantly reminding you of
the multitude of grades above you, for
while" there is wealth untold within this
mighty building, you feel that it is
among the possibilities, that part of it
may one day be yours. Here are no
jewels, no gold, no silver, no diamonds,
' - but .the square products of hard and hon?
est top, the fundamental elements of indi-'
vidual success and the primary sources
of a nation's wealth and greatness.
When most people think of Agricultu?
ral Hall, who have not visited it, visions
of huge purupkins, gigantic cabbages,
enormous beets and extraordinary pota?
toes immediately float before their dis
ored imaginations, and you will be some
what surprised to learn, no doubt, that
there is not one of the articles I have
named, to be found within the Agricul?
tural Building, if I except a half dozen
dishes of potatoes left there by some am?
bitions amateur about two weeks ago.
It is not only the products of agriculture
in tne way of cereals and seeds, bat by
what may seem a strange misnomer of
classification, many things are so remote
in their relationships, that it requires
sometimes pretty acute knowledge of
logic to observe its particular bearing on
the business of agriculture. In one por?
tion of the hall is a gigantic staffed
giraffe. Two countrymen, the, other day,
went up to examine him. One said,
"Joe, I don't see what that thar critter
has got to do with agriculture.'' "You
don't," replied his friend, "Why any fool
could see that that beast was an agricul?
tural production. Now ain't grass an
agricultural production, en don't he eat
grass and yarbs and cocoannts, and ain't
them agricultural productions; and ain't
he staffed with hay, and ain't that an
. agricultural production; in coarse it is."
And so he walked away. Locke himself
never arrived at as logical a sequence.
As you eater the south door, you realize
the difference between the building you
are in, and all you have seen before. On
the left-hand, as if guarding the portals,
is the wine exhibit of Sohnlien of
Rhiems. Monster bottles crown the
gates, such as the Titans might have
used millions of years before the present
pigmy race was thought of. What
mighty draughts these ponderous bottles
suggest?down throats like rolling rivers,
and into stomachs like boundless seas?
they seem to tell of exbaustless plenty
which laughs to scorn all thoughts of
economy or thrift, and cries out, "Drink
again, drink again, and keep on drinking
till doomsday rings. You can never,
never, drink me dry," and reminding
you of the old drinking song,
"Oh that a Dutchman's draught might be,
Deep as the rolling Zurder Zee."
That there may be no partiality in the
way of drinks, while the left portal is
guarded by Rhenish wine, the right is
flanked by good old Irish whisky?where \
it stands a wholesome warning to all cru?
saders, and a fountain of delight to all
lovers of mountain dew. Usquabaugh
and all those delectable compounds,
against which Father Matthew launched
the Anathema Marinatha. Passing un?
scathed between this Scylia and Charyb
dis, you find yourself confronted by a!
number of cases suggestive of temperance
and good cheer. You have eluded the
god of wine, and the demon of whisky,
and here you are gazing into cases of
chocolate, and cocoa, and extract of
coffee, and all sorts of pleasant drinks
which che^r but not inebriate. But here
is a case that demands something more
than a passing notice?not because it is
so pretentious, but because it represents
a firm of whom I may say, as I said last
week of Great Britain, with a alight dif?
ference, of course?on whose pickles the
sun never sets, and whose preserved
meats are known around tho world.
This is the case of Crosse and Blackwell,
the great picklers and preservers of Lon?
don. I say great, using the term in the
sense that kings and queens are great,
for they are kings, queens, emperors,
autocrats in the universal empire of
pickles and preserves. How dainty and
how toothsome those bottles and packages
look, and now, as the attendant opens
the door to display some article of goods,
catch the rich fragrance of the vinegar,
which is equal in perfume to the rose of
Sharon or the lily of the valley. It
would be impossible to describe the num?
ber of articles exhibited in their ex?
quisite case, or to speak in too high'com?
mendation of their excellent arrange?
ment It is a splendid exhibit worthy of
the great house it represents, and
especially fortunate in its representative,
Mr. Bell, who ably sustains the credit
and honor of the firm of Crosse and
Blackwell. A little to the left, after run?
ning the gauntlet of bottles, kegs and
demijohns, we come to a very fine ex?
hibit of varied industries from Japan,
and here let me say, that two Nations
loom up in this Exhibition in a manner
that will give them a status before the
world which they never occupied 'before,
and of which the world never deemed
them capable.
The countries I particularly speak of
are Brazil and Japan. Both of these
empires have covered themselves with
glory. What astonishes you most is the
magnitude and splendor of their contri
butions. Japan particular excels in the
ornamental arm, and in the ability of
turning the simplest things into articles
of utility and taste. The Japanese have
never used leather for shoes, and yet
some of the finest tanning I have ever
seen is to be found in their exhibition in
Agricultural Hall. Tho leather is soft
as silk and tough as iron. All kinds oft
skins are tanned; not only the skins of
animals, but the skins of fishes?the
shark, in particular, furnishing a material
which I imagine wouli be exceedingly
wholesome for bath-gloves. I refer to
those which bathers use to scrub them
selves with. I will promise any one who
will try the experiment a very lively sen?
sation. I tried it, by way of experiment,
on the end of my nose, and removed
enough of the bark in half a second to
make it look like a ripe strawberry. I can
imagine a bather using a pair of those
gloves in a manner that might make a I
rocking-chair uncomfortable for two
weeks at least. ?
"Great people, these Japanesel" I
mentally exclaimed, as I thought of it,
and then fell to admiring the dainty little
things made of bamboo, which is the all
in all to the Japanese and Chinaman.
"Wonderful bamboo I" I said to myself.
It covers his head and his. feet; it
furnishes his house, and it supplies every?
thing in it. He weaves the fibre into
cloths; it gives him the finest and silkiest
of paper; the chopsticks he eats with are
made of it; the coffin he finally reposes
in is composed of it, and his spirit is
wafted off to glory by burning little
sticks of it; and if he was to be cremated,
undoubtedly bamboo would be the mate?
rial in which he would invest his final
Urnings. Delicate little baskets,?things
that look very much like plates,?chairs,
sofas, divans, hats, walking-sticks, and a
multitude of useful things, are composed
of it. In the preservation of meats and
fish, Japan does not appear to be quite as
successful as the people of Cincinnati or
Cape Cod. They have some dried cod?
fish there. I don't know whether codfish
thus preserved can be considered very
healthy food. One thing is certain, it is
exceedingly strong food. I would quietly
remark to my country friends, when you
go to examine the Japanese dried fish
and meats, take along a bottle of Cologne,
and if you are naturally inclined to in?
temperance, I would suggest that a littleJ
whisky might not be out of place?of]
course under medical advice. Next to
Japan comes Holland?square and solid
as a Dutch galliot. Now, I confess I
like the Dutch, but if you examine their
exhibit here, a man would be inclined to
think that the descendants of William
the Silent and the great Von Tromp bad
devoted the entire national energy to the
business of drinking and smoking.?
Drinks, drinks, drinks, schnapps,
schnapps, schnapps, kirshwasser, dingle
wein, obenfloto and tobacco?all the
figures represented on her labels are men
with bellies like bass drums, and all of
them holding mugs of beer or bottles of
gyi. Two figures are at the entrance to
her exhibition?a man and a woman.
The man sits astride a barrel of gin, and
the woman has a big mug of beer; in
fact it would seem as if drinking gin and
beer was the exclusive business of Hoi ?
land.
A step further on, and we are within
the exhibits of Brazil. You will recollect
that in my hist two letters I spoke of the
beauty of the Brazilian exhibits in the
Main Hall; but all she has there?and
she has much?fades into insignificance
alongside of her agricultural exhibition.
Nothing within the grounds will at all
compare with it, if we except Great
Britain and her colonies. Such stores of
national wealth, I feel justified in saying,
were never exhibited by a single nation
since the world began. I will just men?
tion a few of the staples she has on exhi?
bition, and will include in them some
articles she has in other departments,
just for the sake of grouping them to?
gether, that you may understand the
sources of her wealth. She has gold,
silver, diamonds, cotton, coffee, sugar,
dyewoods, medicinal roots, tobacco,
cocoa, silk, flax, jute and other textiles,
fruits innumerable, wines of many quali?
ties, wheat, ornamental woods of various
kinds and of wondrous beauty; in fact,
as you go through the numerous aisles,
you feel that, with all her varied and I
abundant blessings, the Brazilians ought
to be, and doubtless are, a prosperous
and happy people.
During the week we have been favored
with the presence of many of the greatest
generals of the late war. Generals Sher?
man, Sheridan, Hancock, and a host of
others. The occasion of their coming
being the reunion of the armies of the
James and the Potomac, and also of the
calvary corps. A grand ball wound up
the festivities, which was largely attended
by the elite of the city.
Fifty thousand dollars was voted by
the Council of the city of Philadelphia.
to enable the Mayor to receive distin?
guished guests from abroad?in other
words to give them a blow-out. I was
anxious to see the thing go. I will not
state my reasons therefor, but just in the
nick of time some miserable, parsimo?
nious wretch served an injunction on his
honor, and this got his honorable back
up, and now he swears that he won't
touch a penny of it, even if they were to
shove it in his pocket, and he says they
may injunct and be-blessed. I am
disappointed, sadly disappointed.
The row has at last culminated between
the Centennial Commission and the
Board of Finance, and the financiers
have called to their aid some of the first I
legal talent in the land. Their lawyers j
have decided that the United States Cen?
tennial Commission have nothing to do
with the funds. That Gen. Hawley's
ten thousand dollar salary is a myth, and
that the host of Commissioners from the
various States, ovho swooped down on the
Centennial treasury "like a wolf on the
fold," are not entitled to enough to pay
their whisky bills, much less to roast
chickens and eight dollars a day. How
some of them will get back home mercy
only knows. Here is a chance for the
charitably inclined. Send in your sub?
scriptions, gents, I'll take charge of
them.
The weather has been fine, and the at?
tendance exceedingly good, and as the
exhibits in the various departments are
almost complete, I exclaim with Fitz
jamss, "Come one, come all."
BROADBRIM.
PATRIOTIC SENTIMENTS.
An Elqonent Appeal to the Love of
Country and Pride of State.
We make the following extract from the
inaugural address of Lieutenant Governor j
Riebard B. Hub bard, of Texas, delivered]
on the 18th of April last:
Recognizing, in its full force, the
changed relation of these States, and of
this State to the Federal Government,
and remitting to the tribunal of history
the causes which led in bitterness and
strife to these changes; and believing as
we do, that the political faith we espouse
has been handed down from the fathers;
that it recognizes in a broad and national
spirit the Constitution as it is, fidelity to
the Union, and obedience to its laws em?
bracing alike 40,000,000 of people, na?
tive or foreign born, rich or poor, as our
common countrymen, wherever floats, on
land or wave, the flag of our country; in
this spirit to day we invite the earnest
co-operation of all parties and of all ra?
ces in our common purpose to . develope
our resources, build up the shattered for?
tunes, reclaim the waste places, and to
prepare the way for the coming of that
period in her history when Texas shall
take her place the peer, if not peerless,
among all the sisterhood of States. Our
children will live to see that day, as their
fathers even now catch a glimpse of its
splendid dawning. We have but to be
true to our vows upon her altars to real?
ize this rich fruition ere this generation
is "gathered to their fathers." Forty
years ago scarcely fifty thousand .popula?
tion, poor and friendless, constituted her
houshold, while to-day nearly two million
people are standing sentinel within her
gates. Then she had no commerce; only
now and then some strange sail of the
sea found its way into her waters. Now
she stands more than six hundred thou?
sand bales of cotton to the world's "'mar?
kets, and receives in return millions of
treasure; she sends wheat and all the
other cereals even to Kansas and Missouri
and the great Northwest, and supplies in
her cattle trade ten millions of meat-stuffs
in value; she has now growing cities of
the inland and marts on the sea, at whose
wharves ships of foreign nations ride at
anchor, and our own richly-laden argo?
sies; wealth and enterprise have built
and are building thousands of miles ox'
railway connecting us with distant States;
digging ship channels even now to inland
ports through which ocean steamships
will come and go. A taxable property
of three hundred millions of value?a
right royal heritage of eighty millions of
public lands, with untold mineral wealth
sleeping in their bosom, and a soil , as
generous as ever'rewarded the husband
man for hi: toil?with this and pictures
such as these of our real life, why should
we, on a day and a year like this, not re?
joice at the splendid strikes we have thus
far made, while only yet in the manhood
of our years ? Such a heritage and such
a prospect impose grave responsibilities
upon each department of the Govern?
ment. Material wealth alone consti?
tutes but a small element of the great?
ness of a State. Let us, therefore, con?
tinue to iucalcu!ate,as a government, the
widest dissemination of intelligence
among the people, respect for public and
private virtue, and faithful obedience to
the laws. The executive, legislative and
judicial departments of the State govern?
ment are utterly powerless in ther exe?
cution of the laws for the preservation of
the public order and the punishment of
crime unless fearlessly supported in their
high places. Codes and courts, laws and
law-makers, are but things of straw be?
fore the breath of the mob unless ? sus?
tained by the virtue and iron heroism of J
a free people.
Onions with Suoak.?"Wyncoop,"
in the New York Tribnne, says that the
majority of people like onions as food,
ana but for the perfume, many would eat
them who now do not. That they are
anti-scorbutic as well as antiseptic is also
admitted, and this is the way I prepare
them. A few moments before they are to
be eaten, they should be sliced quite thin
and sprinkled plentifully with sugar; the
juice of the onion will dissolve the sugar,
and you have a palatable relish which
will not rise on the stomach or produce
a heart-burn. A trial will afford proof.
? This kind of weather makes a man
feel energetic and kindly, and he gets up
betimes in the morning, eats a hearty
breakfast, looks over his garden patch,
takes his hoe and spade and?puts 'era in
the shade and goes down town to see a
THE C1HCINNA7II CONVENTION.
First Day's Froceedings--Organization
of the Convention--Speech of Gov.
Hayes, of Ohio.
Cincinnati, June 14.
The National Republican Convention
assembled to-day in the Exposition
building. About five thousand persons
were present. The Convention was
called to order at 12 p. m., by Governor
Morgan, of New York, who nominated
Thomas F. Pomeroy for temporary chair?
man. The chairman, addressing the
Convention, gave an elaborate history of
the achievements of the Republican
party, and urged an adherence to honest
money. The roll of the States was then
called, omitting the States having con?
testing delegations.
A motion that when the Convention
adjourn it be to 11 o'clock to-morrow,
when the nominations shall begin with
two speeches of ten or one of twenty
minutes for each nomination, was re?
ferred.
.The Address of the Republican Re?
form Club was read by G. W. Curtis.
The allusion in the address to specie
payments was cheered.
A motion was adopted that all ad?
dresses, resolutions and memorials he re?
ferred without debate.
Gen. Logan then addressed the Con?
vention, lie said the attitude of the
opponents of the Republican party
showed that the time had come again
when every patriot should buckle on his
armor.
The speeches made were of the usual
character, with some strong points in
favor of hard money and civil service re?
form, which were applauded. The great?
est demonstration was over Curtis and
.his reform club resolutions. The allu?
sions to the "late war' as "freeing four
millions" and f ints of that kind were
tamely-received. -The orators made no
special allusion to the individual candi?
dates.
In forming the committees the States
and Territories with contesting delega?
tions were omitted. -
When Curtis read his address of June
6th, already published in the papers, the
allusion to a return to specie payments*
the broken promises of the President ana
Congress, the - proposition to put the
Elitical power of the country into the
nds of the Democratic party, unless'
the Convention, by its nominations, ex?
presses a determination to reform things
fenerally, were received, with applause.
Fpon retiring from the platform, Mr.
Curtis was followed to his seat by a storm
of chee rs.
A delegate from Missouri said: "I
move that the document just read by the
gentleman be referred to the committee
on resolutions without debate."
A delegate from Montana said: "I de?
sire to amend that motion. I move that
the address be adopted as the sense of
this Convention." Cries of "No, no."
The chairman. "It is referred to the
committee on resolutions, without de?
bate."
Mr. Loring, from the committee on
permanent organization, reported as fol?
lows:
For. president, Edward McPherson, of
Pennsylvania, (the. late clerk of the
House, and a Elaine man.) For secre?
tary, .Irving M. Bean, of Mississippi.
Also a long list of vice-presidents. Mr.
McPherson on taking the chair made a
brief speech. The committee on rules
stated that they were not ready to report,
and the Convention adjourned to 10
o'clock to-morrow.v?;
Governor Hayes, la the Convention to?
day, opened his speech as follows:
"Mr. President and Gentlemen: I wish
to believe as my gallant and eloquent'
friend Logan has said, that the Republi?
can party has but to nominate and go
home and elect. I should be glad to be?
lieve this, expressed in so strong language
as any sanguine temperament could de?
vise ; but I am not so sure it is precisely
so. There has been growing up for some
time' in the country a widespread and
serious dissatisfaction. It is simple com?
mon sense to recognize it. [Applause.]
I An officer going into battle understand?
ing his ground and the power of his
enemies, [applause] is well on his way to
victory. Now, gentlemen, when you
have nominated your candidate and laid
down your platform, if your platform ex?
presses, defines and propounds sound
Republican doctrines, and your candi?
date be an able, honorable and true Re?
publican, I shall go to work with all my
heart and strength to elect him. But
now is the time; this afternoon, this
night, to-morrow, are precious hours for
you to decide."
The Rev. Highland Garnett said :
"Mr. Preaideniir Try,^yoar^elrberB
tions, to put in a Little p'lank that will
S'vo securityrto the freedmen of the
iuth, that the sufferings which they
endure in consequence of the rascality
and villainy Of the managers OflKe Freed
man's Savings Bank shall be set aright.
[Applause.] - Don't, forget- to see that
you do it, and you will have the grati?
tude, love and respect of that much in?
jured people."
Governor Hayes, of Ohio, in the course
of his speech, said: "As to the candidate
of this Convention, we of Ohio ask only
this. We fight nobody. We assail no
man's reputation. Who ever you nomi?
nate we will try and help to elect him.
] Applause.] All we want is a man in
the first place who is honest. [Cheers.]
In the second place, we want a man' of
comprehension enough to know what is
right and what is wrong. [Applause.]
And in the third place we want a man of
intelligence, who is brave enough and
strong enough to carry out his convic?
tions. [Cheers.] Give us a man of great
purity of private life and an unexception
' able public record, and count on Ohio
next November. [Great cheering.] I
enter into no particulars, but you know,
all of you, there is not a man in this
Convention who does not know, that you
can so conduct yourselves within the
next forty-eight hours that the three or
four months work before us will be una?
vailing." [Applause.]
Second Day's Proceedings?Adoption of
the Platform?Nomination of Candi?
dates.
Cincinnati, June 15.
The committee on credentials had con?
siderable discussion.before excluding the
Spencer delegation, from Alabama. The
vote was 24 to 17. Bristow's friends are
rejoicing over this gain of twenty votes.
The convention is engaged with commit?
tee reports. No balloting till evening,
possibly not till to-morrow. The com?
mittee on rules are debating a proposal
to reconsider the vote on the rule against
changing votes once recorded.
Half the seats in the spectators' por?
tion of the hall are vacant.
Geo. T. Hoar, of Massachusetts, pre?
sented the memorial of the National
Woman's Suffrage Association. It was
moved and adopted that Mrs. Sayler J.
Spencer be heard ten minutes. [Ap?
plause.] At the conclusion of her speech,
the committee on rules reported.
The following rules were adopted: The
I States will be called alphabetically, next
[ Territories, and the District of Columbia.
The Territories will have two votes. The
votes of each delegation will be reported
by its chairman. The report on creden
tials shall be disposed of before the plat?
form committee reports. The platform
and resolutions shall be disposed of be?
fore the nomination of candidates.?
When any State has announced its vote,
it shall so stand until the ballot is an?
nounced, unless in case of numerical
error. Ten minutes' speech allowed on
each nomination.
There was a minority report in the
Alabama contest. The vote on the adop?
tion of the minority report was yeas, 354;
nays, 375.
Hawley, of Connecticut, from the com?
mittee on resolutions, reported. The re?
port opened with congratulations on the
part of the Republican party since, under
Providence, it was called upon to purge
the country of slavery and establish a
government by the people for the people,
and declared the United States is a
national league, and the Republican
party is the defender of popular govern?
ment The report proceeded to state in
detail the duties of the party in the pro?
tection .of our citizens everywhere, to
steady progress and to specie payment.
[Applause.j Senators and Representa?
tives should not dictate appointments;
fitness and capacity to be passports to
office and its maintenance; unfaithful
officers to be swiftly punished; recom?
mends a constitutional amendment
against appropriations for schools under
sectarian control; [great applause, and
re-read in response to loud calls, and
cheers renewed;] reaffirms opposition, to
I further grants of lands for railroad pur?
poses ; asserts the duty of the govern
| ment to protect immigration; suggested
resolution relative to inquiry into effect
I of Mongolian immigration on moral and
politirjal grounds; favored respectful con?
sideration of woman's claims to partici?
pation in government; reaffirmed duty
of suppressing polygamy; duties to sol
diers recognized; deprecates sectional
strife; arraigned the Democratic party
as the same m character and policy now j
as when sympathized with and allied to
treason, and accused it of being unworthy
' and incapable; Grant deserves the con?
tinued gratitude of the people for his
patriotism and services.
The question was next stated to be on
the financial resolution.
Davis, of Texas, from the minority of
the committee on resolutions, reported a
substitute resolution, declaring distinctly
there shall be no further postponement
of specie resumption beyond the date
already fixed by law for such resumption.
He thought the resolution of the com?
mittee too indefinite, and in effect only
remitted the question involved to the
domain of promise.
Hawley replied that he thought that
in declanng the principles to govern a J
great party during four years, it was bet?
ter to confine ourselves to defining the
fundamental principles without.ticing to
the details, but leaving the latter to be
adjusted in accordance with events.?
[Applause.] When he said resumption
at the earliest practicable moment, he
meant it. [Applause.]
The substitute was voted down. The
resolution reported was adopted, and the
whole platform was also adopted.
The chair announced that the nextj
business was nominations. Motions to
adjourn were voted down.
Kellogg, of Connecticut, nominated
Marshall Jewell, and briefly stated his |
record.
R. W. Thompson, of Indiana, nomi?
nated Oliver P. Morton, gave a fine re?
cord for him, and denied his physical un
fitness for President. [Great applause.]
Pinchback seconded the nomination.
General Harlan nominated Bristow.
[Great applause.] Judge Poland, of j
Vermont, seconded the nomination.? {
Richard H. Dana, of Massachusetts, also
seconded the nomination. He knew no
one so sure to carry Massachusetts. [Ap?
plause and hisses.]
Maine was called upon, when a scene
of the wildest enthusiasm ensued; dele?
gates and spectators rising to their feet
and waving hats and fans, and cheering
long and loud, dying away only to be re?
newed, and closing with three cheers for
Blaine.
Mr. Ingersoll, of Illinois, took the
platform. He said he, too, was satisfied
with the loyalty of Mr. Bristow, but if I
Massachusetts can't carry any nominee [
of this convention, he was not satisfied
with the loyalty of Massachusetts. If I
they can't carry it by 75,000, they had f
better sell out Fanuiel Hall for a Demo?
cratic hall [applause], and remove the ]
monument from Bunker Hill. He urged
that the demand now was for a President
of political and statesman experience
[applause]; a man of integrity; one who
knows enough to know that the national;
debt must be paid through the prosperity of
the American people; that money must [
be made not by law but by labor. Noth?
ing could be more effective and impressive
than the speaker's statement of the re?
quirements of the people and the Repub?
lican party, growing out of the necessi?
ties of the hour. Each sentence was
forcibly epigrammatic, and elicited its
round of applause, especially when he
said the party demands a candidate of
spotless purity, but does not demand that
he shall present a certificate of character |
from the Confederate Congress.
Frye followed in support of the nomina?
tion of Maine's idol son.
Mr. Woodford, amid great applause,
Sresented the honored name of Roscoe
'onkling. He said he was broad in cul?
ture, eloquent in debate, wise in council,
fearless in leadership, as true to the old
Republican party as the needle to the
pole ; he needs neither defense or eulo?
gy ; he is a positive quantity in the body
politic.
After the nominations the convention
adjourned until to-morrow.
The convention hall cannot be lighted.
A Southern Wedding.?The Char?
lotte (N. C.) Observer of Friday hist,
says: "Few more brilliant marriages j
take place than the one witnessed last i
I evening in this city at the residence of
Gen. D. H. Hill, the bride's father.?
The bride, Miss Eugenia Hill, was one of j
the most cultivated and accomplished
young ladies in this section of the State.
Her cordial manner, modest demeanor,
and natural kindness of heart had ren?
dered her universally popular wherever
knowD, and besides being connected with
the largest and most influential family
in the State, the wedding was attended
with more than usual interest upon such
occasions. The groom, Mr. Thomas J.
Arnold, a nephew of the lamented Stone?
wall Jackson, is a young lawyer of talent
from West Virginia, and we not only
congratulate him upon the prize he has
secured, but the people of his State upon
this new and charming addition to their
society. One the daughter of the brave
and daring Hill, the other the nephew of |
the immortal Jackson, conspicuous offi?
cers in the Confederate cause, it is not
surprising that quite a number of admi?
ring relatives and friends assembled to
give their smiles and.encouragement to
the happy couple upon this most impor?
tant event of their lives 1"
? In these hard times, when borrowing
is bo difficult, we'd like to know whether
distance still keeps up its time-honored
habit of leading enchantment to the view.
? The man who gets into prison will
be more guarded in future.
THE BATTLE OF FOBT MOULTRIE.
June 38th, 1TT6.
BY A SOUTH CAROLINIAN.
That was a proud array of the British
Navy, when the combined fleets or Sir
Henry Clinton and Slir Peter Parker
darkened the horizon, in the offing of
Charleston harbor.
Sullivan's Island is directly in the
mouth of this harbor, and commands all
the channels leading into it. Here a
small fort of palmetto logs had been has?
tily fitted up to check the advance of the
fleet. Its garrison consisted of 400 men,
mostly "backwoodsmen," under the com*
mand of Col. Moultrie. Gen. Lee, but
recently assigned to tho command of the
Southern department, had inspected this
fort, and advised Gev. Butledge to recall
the garrison, "as it was nothing but a
slaughter-pen !" Gov. Butledge prompt?
ly replied that he would "sooner cut off
his nght arm than sign any such order."
j There were some of what we now call
"sharp-shooters," under Col. Thompson,
scattered over the Island, and screened
by sand mounds, blown up by the wind,
and by mystle bushes. These were to
give their attention to any land attack..
The British sent a reconnoiteriug party
in boats to Long Island, lying just to the
north of Sullivan's and separated from it
by a very narrow inlet, not more than
twelve yards wide. They visited this
inlet at low tide, and reported it favora?
ble. Sir Henry then embarked with
2,500 men in his boats, and landed on
the beach of Long Island, with much
parade. But the tide had risen some six
feet in the meantime, and when they
reached the inlet, it was impassable.
They made no effort to bridge this nar?
row pass, either with their boats or other?
wise, but promptly re-embarked for their
ships. Col. Thompson's men peppered
them pretty briskly with their deer-kill?
ing rifles, and they may have thought
that this, his whole force, was a mere
skirmish line.
While this was going on, the bombard?
ment of the fort had begun most furious?
ly. Those of us who are now grey-headed
can well remember how our pulse quick?
ened, and how our breath came thick and
short when our sires described the inces?
sant roar of those English guns of heavi?
est calibre, from that lowering semi-circle
of their choicest "men of war." Their
curved line of battle was in "point-blank
range" of the low sandy beach of Sulli?
van s Island; and the elevation of Fort
Moultrie was very little above the hulls
of their own vessels.
The garrison numbered 400 men, all
told, the great majority of whom had
never seen a cannon before they went
there. It was a terribly hot day?this
28th of June, 1776?and they retained
but little of their clothing. But while
the balls were railing upon this devoted
"pen," these grim countrymen were ply?
ing their 26 guns without intermission.
Col. Moultrie was leaning upon a spare
palmetto log, hut a little above his force,
watching the effects of his guns. He,
too, wss in his shirt-sleeves, and gave* his
orders, still holding his short tobacco-pipe
between his teeth. One of the gunners,
aiming his piece, as he would have aimed
his rifle, made no allowance for the swell?
ing of the breech, but ."drew a bead"
along the upper surface. This ball struck
the water a little more than half way,
and ricocheting in a direct line, it struck
one of the largest vessels "amid-ships"
and for a time silence her guns.
"That's the lick, boys I" exclaimed
Moultrie, "send some more of those
bouncing balls, they make the splinters
fly!"
But their ammunition began to fail,
and he was compelled, reluctantly, to
slacken his fire. The British, thinking
this an evidence of the terrible effect of
their incessant shower of balls, only
poured in more rapid broad-sides.
There was no retreat open for this little
force, as Sullivan's Island was separated
from the main land by a channel naviga-.
ble for schooners; yet Moultrie had no
thought of surrender. The fight could
only be continued by his having a fresh
supply of ammunition, and this could
only be obtained from the city, some five
miles distant. Without hesitation, he
manned a boat with a volunteer crew, who
rowed there and back in safety through
the balls flying all around them; aud
these brought a goodly supply. With a
"yell," which the Confederates would
have recognized as ancestral, they re?
sumed then: rapid firing, and' kept their
guns as hot as prudence would permit.
They were getting hungry, too, for they
had been called to their guns after a
very early breakfast?the actual fight
began at 11 a. m.?and now the sun was
fast sinking behind the city; The tough,
yet spongy, fibre of the famous palmetto
logs, had really been strengthened by the
well-aimed shots, but the constant jarring
affected their nerves, as only they appre?
ciate who have realized something like
it. These eight hours of hard fighting
had affected all their senses as they never
had been before. Their ears were ring?
ing from the constant and unaccustomed
explosions; their eyes were almost bleared
by the quick returning flashes of the guns;
their olfactories oppressed with "villain?
ous salt-petre," ana called for more oxy?
gen ; and their taste was languished for
the longed-for "bacon and greens." But
their hearts were unshaken, and many a
rough joke beguiled this long protracted
trial of fortitude as well as of bravery.
There was an interlude, enabling some
of their number to fight the enemy, for a
little while, on his own element. The
British had detached three of their ves?
sels to pass into the harbor, and, if possi?
ble, to reach the rear of the Fort But
they all stuck fast on the "middle
ground," and soon their most earnest
efforts was to return to the front. After
much trouble, two of them succeeded in
getting off, but the third was abandoned
by her crew. Her flags were left flying,
all her guns heavily shotted, but flam
were seen beginning to burst out near h.
stern. These old patriots could not stand
the temptation, and, encouraged by the
safe passage' of the powder boat to and
from the city, they asked and obtained
leave to pay her a flying visit. Soon
three boats, well manned, boarded her.
fired her guns at her own people, hauled
down all the flags, and with these and
such selected stores as their boats could
accommodate, they made good their es?
cape, before the bursting of her maga?
zine.
Their second supply of powder- was
well nigh gone, when, to their inexpres?
sible relief, they saw signs of the enemy's
"hauling off." Their guns became sud?
denly mute; they flung their canvass to
the breeze, and grimly they turned their
bows to the sea, and their sterns to the
battered Fort. The last charge of pow?
der was in one of the pieces, and the
gunner was sighting, again and again at
the flag-ship as she receded slowly in the
distance, looking up imploringly for the
word to fire. "Give them the parting
kicil" rang from Moultrie's lips, and
bang went the last charge of powder
from the exulting old Fort! It may be
apochryphal, but tradition pays that the
last shot entered one of the stern lights
of this flag-ship and took off the head of
an officer who was bowing to a compli?
mentary toast, just uttered by another,
Over their glasses of brandy..
It is hardly possible to overestimate
the influence of this Southern American
victory on the whole revolution?r' strug?
gle. If this combined fleet had succeed?
ed in the capture of Charleston?which
at that time held front rank with the
other cities of the colonies?and had, so
early in the contest, secured so important
a foothold in the Southern colonies, there
is no knowing the consequences which
might have ensued.
Tradition says that their watch-word
for the day was "Die in your tracks," and
these meant what they said. The three
hundred at Thermopylae left as their epi?
taph, "Tell it at Lacedaemon, that we
died in obedience to her laws,"' and suc?
cessive generations, all down the centu?
ries, have admired and extolled their
devoted patriotism. These tour hundred
were under the same inspiration; but
because they were not killed, but gradu
I ally drove back the combined fleets of j
the "mistress of the seas," they have been
allowed to sink to.the level of daring
partisans, and must stand aside to listen
to the paeans in honor of other exploits
far less heroic in character, and mnch
less imposing in results.
South Carolina in the days of her pros?
perity , should have imitated Massachu?
setts, in erecting an enduring monument
to mark the spot. Posterity looks upon
a magnificent column, thirty feet square
at the base, and two hundred and twenty
feet high, all "Quincy granite," to mark
the spot of the first Northern American
battle in the war of the Revolution, while
the very site of this, the first and greatest
of Southern American victories, has well
nigh disappeared from the map of the
country. It required petitions to more
than one Congress, before a break-water
was constructed to stay the encroach?
ments of old ocean on thifi historic
Island; and then it was .built of rocks
from Portland, Maine.
In contrasting this battle with that of |
Bunker Hill there are analogies and re?
flections which may be edifying to the
student of history.
In the first place they were the first
battles in their respective colonies, and
both were fought before the Declaration
of Independence. In both the fighting
was done by natives of the soil, in repre?
sentative colonies of the two sections ;
for, even in these primitive days, men
talked of the "North'erd" and "South'
erd."
At Bunker Hill it was first shown that
the soldiers of Great Britain could be
repulsed and killed, too.
At Fort Moultne it was shown that
her proud navy, her greatest boast, could
be whipped ana driven back.
Massachusetts could boast that her sons
would "stand to their arms," when a
royal army was marshalled against them,
"with all the pomp and circumstance of j
glorious war."
South Carolina ceuld respond by point?
ing to her sons standing to their guns,
with the proudest fleet of all the world
arrayed against them, and under one of
the fiercest bombardments then on re?
cord.
Like th* "foolish virgins" about their
oil, in both there was a deficiency of am?
munition ; bat South Carolina had time
to "send to those that had," and to cor?
rect the fatal mistake.
At very close range, Banker Hill wit?
nessed the death of 226 British.
At very long range, Fort Moultrie
caused 225 dead bodies of the enemy to
be consigned to old ocean.
In those days of the "olden time,"
Massachusetts rejoiced over Fort Moul?
trie, and South Carolina was proud of |
Bunker Hill. .
That generation of large hearted pa?
triots has long since passed off the stage;
but the scenes of their triumphs are with
us, and we enjoy the rich fruits of all
their toils and sacrifices and blood.
The associations of this centennial
year tend to a lasting revival of feelings
and sentiments long smothered and well
nigh extinct.
Why will politicians persist in obstruc?
ting any return to this primitive fraterni?
ty?
The centennial of this great battle is
to be celebrated on the 28th of June,
1876. South Carolina and her metropo?
lis, in their present desolation, will do
their1 best; but neither of them is ins
condition to exhibit much pageantry to
the world. The hearts of their sons will
be in it, and there only can any monu?
ment to these .Revolutionary sires be
found.
In the hottest of the fight, Sergeant
Jasper leaped down- from the parapet of
the Fort, rescued the flag which had been
shot own and nailed it to its staff,1 with
the memorable words, "Beys, don't let us
fight without a flag 1'? '
Sooth Carolina has invited her ancient
ally, Massachusetts, to participate in the
approaching celebration, and to claim
her undivided share in the glorious mem?
ories of the day. Pointing to the flag?
staff on the identical spot where Jasper
stood, she will say?and oh, that her
words could resound through the length
and breadth of this great Republic?
"The 'old flag* is now safer and safe for?
ever ! Let ns have peace 1"
More Education Among Farmers.
?It is a fact shown before the British
Parliament, that "while the rental of
land in Ireland had doubled during the
givious hundred years,- and that of
gland tripled, the rental of Scotland
had sextupled itself in the 'same time."
This is attributed mainly to the vastly su?
perior school system which Scotland has
possessed, and the skill and enterprise it
has fostered among the people. It is a
fact that a truck-farmer within a dozen
miles of any of our huge cities will get
a clean profit of two or three hundred
dollars from an acre, while - the average
old-style farmer hardly gets that amount
of profit from his hundred acres or more.
These facts are worth studying by the large
class who do not see the use of agricul?
tural papers and teaching, etc., and think
nuscle is the main thing in successful
farming. The truck-farmer studies bis
market, knows what .is wanted, learns
how to raise it, when and where to sell it,
believes in manure, buys it, believes in
knowing all about his business, takes
his paper, reads and thinks, don't kick at
facts because they are printed, keeps his
eyes open and drinks in knowledge from
men and books. He keeps learning and
succeeds in his business. There is still
a large class of oar farming population
completely stereotyped. Many take no
agricultural paper, attend no fairs; far?
mers'club, try no experiments, have no
faith in improved tools and stock, and
are hardly able to tell at the end of the
year whether they lose or gain in their
business. Success in cultivating the soil
is already, and is to be more and more,
dependent upon brains. Men who read
and think most, plan most wisely and ex?
ecute skillfully, will succeed best. We
need all the help we can get from the
teachings of science, from journals, from
fairs and clubs as well as from the daily
experience of the fields.?American Agri?
culturist.
? An original poem is never too long.
A considerable income in some newspa?
per offices is derived from the sale ofj
waste paper.
? The cheapest route to the Centenni?
al?the dirt road.
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DEMOCRATIC DEEDS.
What the Present House of Represen?
tatives Has Done.
What has the present House of Repre?
sentatives done for the country? The
organs of the administration which are
edited by the government advertising;
the ring Republican politicians who have
not yet been locked up in the penitentia?
ries; the conventions of office-holders,
whose only purpose in life is to keep
their hold upon the public treasury, and
one or two newspapers like the New
York Tribune, which are on the fence,
with one leg down on the Republican
side, solemnly assure us that it has done
nothing. They tell us that the House
has forfeited public confidence, and
proved by its deeds that the majority in
it ought at the next election to be swept
away, and the benches it occupies filled
by men "who were true to the country in
its hour of peril," and who, when the
hour of peril passed, robbed it upon the
right band and the left; who turned
every one of its departments into a den
of infamy; used its highest offices for
the purpose of making money; plunged
the whole country into financial panic,
from which it has not yet recovered;
turned by its vicious legislation millions
of men into the streets to beg; filled the
workhonses and jails, and brought dis?
grace and shame upon republican insti?
tutions at home and abroad. The men
who did all this, so-called independent
journals like the Tribune are asking the
country to again place in power and give
to them again the opportunity to contin?
ue their work of destruction, and drag
the Nation to still lower depths of finan?
cial and political ruin. Let us see what
the present House has and has not done:
First It has not elected a Speaker like
Schuyler Colfax, who used hin nigh office
to enrich himself; who was bribed and
bought by every band of adventurers and
swindlers who came to Washington du?
ring his term of office; who was caught
in the credit mobilier iniquity; who was
detected in stationery frauds in the House
and exposed as a broker, receiving regu?
lar commissions from a New York paper
establishment. It has not elected a
Speaker like James 6. Blaine, who used
his position to influence legislation in
favor" of railroad subsidies; who acted as
the agent of a fire-arms company; who
sold rulings and legislation for so much
cash down in the shape of railroad
bonds.
Second. Since it met last December it
has not been devising ways and means,
day after day, to get money out of the
treasury. On the contrary, it has cut
down the extravagant estimates of the
departments, and if the Senate will pass
its bills, has reduced the running expen?
ses of tne government nearly forty mil?
lions of dollars per annum. Instead of
making places for the creatures of the
administration, creating offices formen
to live in idleness at the expanse of the
sorely-taxed people, it has abolished
every office that was not absolutely nec?
essary, and, so far as it could do so,
stopped the leaks in the public treasury.
Third. It has not legislated a ft cedman's
bank into existence, and placed it in the
power of a lot of men to steal the earn?
ings and savings of the poor colored men
of the South amounting to millions of
dollars. On the contrary, it has taken
the robbers and swindlers who did that
infamous work-by the throat, exposed
their rascality and directed the officers of
the government to send their names be?
fore the grand juries.
Fourth. It has gone into President
Grant's Cabinet and dragged out of it
one of his trusted advisers, who abused
his high place; who robbed the dead
veterans of the war; who aided in cheat?
ing the living soldiers on the plains; who
demanded money for every appointment
he made, and brought him to trial for
his many crimes!
Fifth. It has shown how the funds of
the so-called department of justice have
been used for the purpose of controlling
elections in the South and in the North;
how the President put his hand into the
public treasury and took out money to
aid in his own re-election. It has ex?
posed the villainy of Willisms, the ras?
cality of Davenport and the general cor-'
ruption of that entire branch of the
public service.
Sixth. It has stretched its hand across
the water to London and saved the honor
of the country by collaring the minister
and embaasador extraordinary, who was
using his influence as our representative
to ''null" a worthless mining stock and
rob the English people. It compelled
the President to accept his resignation
and send Robert C. Schenck into an ob?
scurity from which he will never again
come.
Seventh. It has shattered the District
of Columbia ring into a thousand atoms;
indicted Babcock for complicity with
safe burglars; made Harringtoa a fugi?
tive from justice, and exposed the rotten?
ness and corruption of the present com?
missioners.
Eighth. It has instituted a rigid scruti?
ny into the management of the Navy
Department, exposed the corrupt opera?
tions of the Cattells and other plunder-,
era, and before the investigation closes
will expose whatever is rotten and cor?
rupt in the service.
Ninth. It has laid bare the straw-bid
system in the Postoffice Department, and
Ero red that the country has been annual
/ robbed of hundreds of thousands of
dollars for carrying letters which were
never written over routes that never had
an existence.
Tenth. It has exposed the infamies of
the Indian ring, shown how the Indians
are driven on the war path that army
contractors may be enriched and the
treasury bled.
Eleventh. It has substituted silver for
the wretched fractional currency as a
step toward specie payment; matured a
tariff bill which, if the Senate would
agree to it, would do more to start our
idle mills and furnaces and factories, and
restore prosperity to all classes than any
measure which could be devised. It has
taken the control of our Indian affairs
out of the hands of the thieves who had
charge of them so long, and placed them
where they belong?in the War Depart?
ment It has re-organized the army and
closed a thousand avenues of fraud and'
corruption in every department
Twelfth. It has taken Jas. G. Blaine,
Speaker of the last Congress, the fore?
most corruptionist of the legislative de?
partment of the government, and the
leading Republican candidate for the
Presidency, and proven him to be a lob?
byist, a trafficker in legislation, the asso?
ciate and business partner of men who
have been growing rich at the expense
of the people.
These are some of the rascalities and
acts of corruption the present House has
exposed; - the reforms it has instituted;
the bad men it has punished; the great
services it has performed for the country; '
Done nothing f No House for a quarter
of a century nas done one-tenth, as much
or deserves better at the hands of the
people.?Baltimore Gazette.
"4X$i:--:?
? "Thdy cm&ti?te," said Artemus
Ward of the Puritans,' "that they might
worship in their own way and prevent
other people worshipping in therein." ,