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; BY HOYT & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1876._VOL. XU -NO. 4. RATES OR SUBSCRIPTION.?Two Doixabs per annum-; and Osx Dolus for six months. Subscriptions are not taken for a less period than six months. v Liberal deductions made to clubs of ten or more subscribers. RATES OP ADVBRTISJNG.?One Dollar per square ol one inch, for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents per square for subsequent insertienslessthan three months. No advertisement counted less than a square. Liberal contracts will be made with those wishing to advertise for three, six or twelve months. Ad? vertising by contract must bo confined to the im? mediate business of the firm or individual contrac? ting. obituary Notices exceeding fivo lines, Tributes of Respect, and all personal communications or matters of individual interest, will be charged for ?tt advertising rates. Announcements of marriages and deaths, and notices of a religious character, are respectfully solicited, and will be inserted gratis. OUR CENTENNIAL LETTER. Education for the Million?O rject Teaching foe Young and Old Cool Weather?English and Ger? man?Art?Constant Meyer?Sir John Opie?Hannah Moore?Tur? ner?bomance of a prince of rus? sia. _ \ t Special Cormpondence of the Anderson Intelligencer. Philadelphia, August 4,1876. The more I contemplate the wonders of this Exhibition, the more it fills me with admiration, as it unfolds itself like a grand scroll upon whose wondrous pages are concentrated the universal wisdom and knowledge of the world. Art, science, philosophy, aesthetics, me? chanics, history, all are represented here; no such opportunity for education will occur again upon this continent in the life of .any living American; and when I say education, I mean education in its broadest and grandest sense. A man may read books for a lifetime and never be a scholar. He may have the musty lore of a hundred colleges stuffed into him, and have his pockets crammed with parchments. that testify to his being an. A.B., L.L.D., and A.S.S., and yet for all the practical purposes of life he may go through the world like a fool. But put an ordinary fool inside these centennial grounds, and yon would makea tolerably sensible man of him ux spite of;himself. The tiemometer at ;75?, splendid days and glorious nights bringing back the elasticity, and vitality of youth, and furn? ishing the critics of art with intellectual musclejto grapple-witiii.all the toughsub? jects in the exciting arena of aesthetics. I stand beneath the grand dome of the Art Gallery once more, and running the gauntlet of statuary and paintings, I hasten to a little room on the north side of the building which is filled with price? less and inestimable treasures. Don't rush in here as though you were going into a barn-yard, but step reverently and softly ; yes, and remove the sandals from your feet, for the ground is almost holy' that you tread upon. If it be possible that the associations of sacred relics can sanctify the dust whereon we stand, then is this place holy.' This is the collection of ancient gems and relics by Cbstillana, of Italy. Grand in past association, rich in historic lore; nothing before you is modern, everything, is covered with the mould, the dust a*nd grime of countless centuries. The record ends five hun? dred years after the birth of Christ, but its beginning runs back into the very twilight' of time. Here are rude stone rings and precious amulets, that might have been worn by mighty chieftains ere Tuba! Cain fashioned his first ornaments ? of brass. How many ages since these imperial signets carried the weight of the king's name to invading armies, respited or destroyed the. conquered legions of the enemy, and bore throughout their vast empires the power of life and death to millions? Here they are?Assyrian, Persian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman? yes, and relics of -nations whose very names are lost, and of whom history con? tains no authentic record. Marvellous, indeed, ns the skill exhibited in some of the precious gems carved into stone, which will endure as long as time shall last. Many of the faces are Assyrian, some are Persian, some are Egyptian, but by far the greater part are Greek and Roman. Many of the stones are cornelian, a few are agate, some are onyx, but all are marvels of art. There are human figures the eighth of an inch long, cut in the hardest cornelian, and yet with an anatomy as perfect as if sculptured by the chisel of Phidius.? Animal life is there in all its phases, wonderful in design, miraculous in exe? cution. The historic value of this gallery of faces can be scarcely estimated. The hat of Roman Emperors is nearly perfect, and encased in a rim of gold is the head/ of Julius, the veritable Casar who crossed the Rubicon, and who fell by the assas? sin's knife at the foot of Pompey's statue. Here are golden charms and bracelets that perchance Calphurnia might have worn when she wound her arms for the bast time around her Caesar's neck, just as he was departing for the capitol to his /death; and near it in another case is a necklace of precious stones that might have encircled the voluptuous neck of Cleopatra, while she reposed in the arms of her beloved Anthony. All the detail of their hidden life has been dragged from ont the earth and into the light of day after the sleep of centuries, and now we look with curious eyes into the little puff-pox from which Queen Sheba might have whitened her dusky cheeks to make her look more lovely in the eyes of the great Jewish king. Gold, silver, brass, copper and stone compose this* magnifi? cent collection. Would I could give it fifty pages instead of the brief notice which my space compels, but let me im? press upon those that visit.the Centennial not to forget the collection of Castillana. The German department is exceedingly rich in exquisite treasures of art. D?s? seldorf has had an overpowering influ? ence over the artists of Germany for the last quarter of a century, and the result is a fineness of finish and laboriousness of detail which leaves nothing to be de? sired. Strolling along the gallery, my attention was arrested by a picture by Constant Meyer. The subject is, "The Gossips." A. lot of village girls have gone together in the street and are re? galing each other with the news. The grouping is admirable, aud I need only to say in regard to its artistic merit, that in a gallery of art, such as we have sel? dom had the privilege of seeing, it has been awarded the principal premium. "Early Trials," by Boser, is a work of uncommon beauty; it is very simple, very quiet, but of rare artistic excellence. It is only the head of a female?nothing more; and yet few pictures in this vast collection are more worthy of considera tiou; a deep Rembrandt shade rests upon the face, which is sad beyond expression, but where the sunlight strikes the hair, you catch a glimpse of the genius which makes the canvas of the painter immor? tal. Look well into the face and see the shadows break away, the eyes which you scarcely noticed at first are looking into your own with an expression painfully human; if you look at it more intently, the lips seem to move, and the only won? der is that it does not start from the can? vas and speak. "The First Crime," by Jean Perre Alexander, deserves more than a passing notice; rich in .color and general effect, it bears the stamp of rare artistic worth. The scene is a gypsey camp, and a young boy, apparently about twelve years old, has returned with his first plunder; he has not escaped with? out a struggle, for the blood is streaming from his face and arms, his teeth are clenched, and the. whole expression of his face just such as you might expect from one whose legitimate end was the gallows. On the north side of the west wing, as you enter tho door in the British collec? tion, hangs a portrait that interested me beyond expression?it was a likeness of Hannah Moore, from the easel of Sir John Opie. Around it hang many price? less pictures from the galleries of the Royal Academy, and yet this simple and. unpretending canvas seemed to me more priceless than them all. There is something glorious in a noble life?a life that stands as a model for all time, and when time has passed away, that stands as a model for eternity. Such was the life of Hannah Moore?not without care, not without sorrow, not without suffering untold, yet chastened and beautified by the chastisement, till it became as near to the life of the angels as the Almighty has ever permitted to the sons and daugh? ters of men. There is an inexpressible sweetness' in every line of that noble face; it is in no sense what the world calls beautiful, but looking into those glorious eyes from which the very reflex of the soul shines out, I felt that there was a woman to trust in life or death. Near it hangs a picture by Turner, and if there is one thing that makes me more grateful to Turner than another, it is the fact that when he bequeathed his pictures to the Royal Academy, it was on condi? tion that a special room should be set apart for them. This, I am delighted to know, was done, and when I visit the Royal Academy, I shall certainly give that room the go-bye; Rusk in to the contrary notwithstanding. I know the traveler's club will exclaim booby; that the connoisseurs will vote me an ignora? mus, and the critics write me down an ass; I can't help it, for I don't like Tur? ner. And pow for a little bit of romance. About five weeks ago, a young man ap? plied for a position as one of the rolling chair conductors. He was dark com plexioned, very handsome, with a long end flowing moustache, his manners were easy and gracefhl, he spoke several lan? guages with the fluency of a native, and it was not long till his chair was in constant demand. As he wheeled his fair loads along, he descanted on passing objects with the eye of a conuoiseur and the acumen of a critic. Things went on smoothly for several weeks, the only thing peculiarly noticeable in the rolling chairman being that he in variably refused the gratuities offered him by grateful pa? trons. One day last week, a young Rus? sian princess had a chair cdlled into the main hall, and not deigning to cast a look on the humble chairman, she stepped into the seat. The chair rolled on till it reached the Russian department, near the grand exhibition of Malakite, when the Princess leaned forward to examine a beautiful work-box; the veil dropped off which had partially concealed her features. The chairman started forward and uttered a cry which brought the princess to her feet. She in turn gave a scream?recognizing, it is said, a long lost lover who had been banished to Siberia, several years ago and had es? caped. AH the parties have disap? peared ; the Russian commission refuse to speak of it, even the people about the Malakite exhibit deny that it occurred, and it is whispered that the chairman was a nobleman of high rank, who was connected with one of the royal princes in stealing some valuable government jewels. Cool weather has brought the receipts up again. A reduction has just been made which admits schools and teachers at twenty-five cents, and this, with the visits of military companies and organ? ized bodies, make things look more pros? perous than they have for the last three weeks. Yours truly, BROADBRIM. A Cow's Intelligence.?The Carson Appeal is responsible for the following "true story:" There is a young man residing here? about who became interested, recently, in a -discussion about animal instincts. He said he had been witness of several wonderful evidences of these instincts, one of which he had refrained from re? lating for fear he would not be believed. li:ick in one of the Eastern States, where he was born, he said, among his father's stock was one remarkable cow. She was a great pet, and would leave the rest of the herd for the society of all or any one of the family to whom she would listen as if she understood exactly what was said. His father sold the farm and bought an? other about three miles distant, and this cow would* listen to the story about it and their proposed removal to their new home at a certain time. This cow was expected to become a mother shortly, or about the time of their removal; but when the time came to remove, the cow could nowhere be found. So the family took their departure from their old home regretting the loss of their pet cow; but on arriving at their new home they were equally surprised and delighted to find that their old pet had preceded them three days, where she had taken up her home and given birth to a fine calf. THE HOME OF GOV. TILDEN. a sketch of the Eve rv-Day Lite of the Next President. Correspondence of lb* N. Y. Graphic, (Republican.) Albany, July 21.?Governor Tilden's house in Albany, wherein he holds his Executive residence, is perhaps the hand? somest dwelling in the city. It is sit? uated on Eagle street, beyond Madison Avenue, upon the summit of one of the three hills upon which Albany is built. It is a two-story building with a Mansard roof, elaborated upon the style of a Swiss cottage, with verandas upon both sides, a doorway in the middle, tanked by bay windows and an observatory tower on the roof. Two acres of lawn and grounds surround the house, and are filled with handsome flower beds and occasional shade trees. A carriageway leads through the lawn to the door, and en? circles the house on its return course to the gate A fancy-colored gas lantern hangs between the columns fronting the doorway. Two iron greyhounds, cou chant, guard the entrance. Inside a hall runs through the entire length of the house, intersected by another in the mid? dle. A parlor is upon the left hand side as you go in.- It is furnished beautifully, and contains pictures, books, and bric-a brac that could not have been the unas? sisted collection of a bachelor. An oil painting of Samuel J. Tilden himself stands upon an easel in one corner of the room. The table is covered with books that have evidently been opened and studied. Upon the table, also, is a huge album filled with portraits. the workshop. Upon the other side of the ball is an? other parlor, now transformed into the Governor's workshop. A" library desk stands in the centre, at which the Gov? ernor himself is very probably hard at work writing. A bookcase large is crammed with calf-bound books of law or reference. Newspaper files lay strewn about the floor. Every chair has an opened newspaper or two lying on it, and piles of them encumber the floor. The trash-baskets are filled with the yel? low wrappers in which they came. Into this work-a-day world the arts invade as in the parlor. Handsome busts of famous men look down upon the Presi? dential aspirant from the mantel and from, numerous brackets, five water-colors and engravings swing upon the walls, and the furniture here, as well as every? where else in the house, includes all the latter cunning devices of the furniture man to secure hitherto unknown comfort among his sofas and rockers. Beyond this room is a smaller one, and, crossing a wide hall, still another, all workrooms, where Col. Pel ton and his clerks carry on the business relegated to them by the Governor. The dining-room is on the same floor, and opens on an enchanting green-house. executive mansion. This dwelling belongs to Robert L. Johnson, and is rented to the Governor at $10,000 a year?a sum exactly the amount of his salary. The State allows yearly $4,000 for rent of the Governor's house. So that Governor Tilden pays out $6,000 to secure a mansion wherein the hospitalities of the Chief Magistrate of the Empire State may be fittingly dis? pensed. The charge that he was renting so fine a house at so high a rent alto? gether at the expense of the State which some journals have made thus falls to the ground. Access to the princely home of the Governor is very easy. A servant answers your ring at the bell, and in re? ply to your inquiry shows you into the parlor if the Governor is engaged, and if not lets you walk right into his presence in his work-room. The slight-built man at the table usually rises, and without a word extends his hand to you. He dis? cerns at once, probably by a study of your features, whether you have called upon business or curiosity, and whether that business is slight or important, and he disposes of you in an instant. ' If that business is slight he has one formula, "See Pelton," and he motions you possi? bly towards the inner work-room, where the colonel is engaged. If the business is something beyond the ordinary, he bids you sit down and devotes himself strenuously at once to your case. In all his talk with you there are several things noticeable at once. He looks you openly and frankly in the eye. There is no dodging your glance. He listens rather more than he talks. He appears anxious to hear whatever you may desire to say. And when you have said your say he soon sums up the importance of it and gives you an answer. He is able to say "No" upon reflection quite as readily as "Yes." If he were not his executive business would never have been kept so well in hand as it is. ' "madam, i cannot." Recently one of the most fascinating and gifku women in the State begged him for the one boon for the obtaining of which her whole life is devoted?the pardon of a loved one from a life-sen? tence. So strong and moving was her appeal that the Governor's private secre? tary, and the Lieutenant-Governor each joined their appeals with hers. With a tear in his eye, his hands clasped, and every muscle of his face betraying his emotion, the Governor said, "Madam, I cannot." This is the Governor during business hours. Socially, among a companionable few, he is pleasant and jovial as the best bon camerade, and is not incapable of smart and bright things. the lady of the white house. As there is no Mrs. Tilden, the sister of the Governor, Mrs. Pelton, would be the chief lady of the White House in case of the Governor's promotion. She is a few years younger than the Governor and has a decided resemblance to him, though her face is much fuller. There is a pink about the complexion and a freshness in the face that tell of youthful beauty well preserved. She is affable and sociable, and is considered among all who have been the recipients of her hos? pitalities to be a most charming hostess. Her daughter-in-law, Mrs. William T. Pelton, would assist her in dispensing the hospitalities of the White House if the Governor should win the race. She is also a charming woman, with a pleas? ant face and agreeable manners. A daughter of Ool. Pelton, twelve years of age, completes the feminine list. col. pelton. Col. Pelton, the chief of all work for the Governor, holds the position of mili? tary secretary and the rank of colonel and aide-de-camp on the Governor's staff. He is a nephew of the Governor, and is his De Witt Clinton. All the great en? terprises which the brain of Tilden has conceived have been pressed to a conclu? sion by Pelton. To his hands have been intrusted the business and political in? terests of the great manipulative capacity that the interests of the candidate were intrusted at Utica last spring and in St. Louis this summer. He is a man thirty seven or thirty-eight years of age, tall and erect; with something of a martial aspect in the manner of carrying his head, and a slight military air in bis way of continually pulling his moustache. He is dark-haired, dark-eyed and dark complexioned; somewhat abrupt in con? versation, possessing little of his uncle's suavity, but happily supplying the needs of that more oily composition even by his brusqueness. When interested in any one, however, he is said by friends to go any length to serve him. He will assume the place of private secretary if the Governor becomes a President. the household. The establishment of Governor Tilden is conducted upon a scale of munificence well worthy of so wealthy an official, and in a manner to reflect nigh credit upon the State. Dom Pedro, who passed through here at daybreak some weeks ago, and had the Governor's mansion pointed out to him, is said to have re? marked that he was the only official who seemed to have a palace worthy of him. The Governor maintains about twelve servants, one of them (the cook) having formerly been in the services of the same Dom Pedro. He has eight horses, two of which are his favorite saddle steeds. He rides nearly every evening ubon one of these through the beautiful Washing? ton Park, and nis graceful bearing, even upon a highly-mettled animal, is uni? versally conceded. He rides always un? attended except by personal friends, with whom he often tries a gallop on the roads outside the park. He maintains also seven carriages?a landau, brett, brough? am, dog-cart, clarence, and two buggies? and if occasion calls could treat the Albanians to a fine four-in-hand. An establishment so extensive requires a lavish expenditure, and his yearly ex? pense for the household alone is esti? mated at $15,000. This includes, also, receptions and dinners given in his capacity as Governor, for none of which the State pays, assertions to the contrary notwithstanding. A Backwoods Editor. For the benefit of those who have not heard it, or forgotten it, we will give the story of a backwoods editor: Years ago, when a certain Western State (which we shall not name) was a territory, and with few inhabitants, a young lawyer from one of the old States emigrated thither, and settled in the town of K-j? He succeeded admira? bly in his profession, and rose rapidly in {)opular favor. He had been there near y two years, when he induced a printer to print a weekly paper, of which he was editor and proprietor. Squire S. was much pleased for a while with editing a paper. He was a man of very low stature, but he used the editorial "we," as fre? quently as if there were a dozen of him, and each as big as Daniel Lambert. Strange to say, there were at that time men in office who were not a particle more honest than they should be; a thing which probably never happened before and never will again. Squire S. felt all the patriotism of a son of '76, and poured out grape and canister against public abuses. This soon stirred a hor? net's nest about his ears; but as there was no other paper in the territory, there was no reply, and he enjoyed his warlike propensities in security. At length he published an article more severe and cutting, against malfeasance in office, than had preceded it. In fact, though pointed at no one individual in particular, it was a "scorcher." Some three or four days afterwards he was sitting alone in his editorial office, which was about a quarter of a mile from the printing establishment; his pen was busy with a paragraph, when his door opened without much ceremony, and in stalked a man about six feet in his stock? ings. He asked, "Are you S., the pro Enetor of this paper?" Thinking he ad found a new patron, the little man. with one of his blandest smiles, answered in the affirmative. The stranger delib erately drew the last number of the paper from his pocket, and pointing to the arti? cle against rogues in office, told the af? frighted editor that it was intended for "him." It was in vain that S. protested he had never heard of him before.' The wrath of the visitor rose to fever heat, and from being so long restrained, boiled over with double fury., He gave the edi? tor his choice, either to publish a hum? ble, a very humble recantation, or take a flogging on the spot. Either alternative was-wormwood; but what could he do? The enraged office-holder was twice his size, and at one blow would qualify him for an obituary notice. He agreed to re ? tract; and as the visitor insisted upon writing the retraction himself, he sat down to his task. Squire S. made an excuse to walk to the printing office, with a promise that he would be back in sea? son to sign it as soon as it was finished. S. had hardly gone fifty rods, when he encountered a man who inquired where Squire S.'s office was, and if he was at home. Suspecting that he, too, was on the same errand as the other visitor, he pointed to the office, and told him he would fine the editor within, writing a most abusive article against office holders. This was enough. The eyes of the new comer flashing fire, he rushed into the office, and assailed the stranger with the epithets, "liar, scoundrel, coward;" and told him he would teach him how to write. The gentleman supposing it was some bully sent there by the editor, sprang to his feet and a fight epsusd. The table was upset and smashed into fire wood, the contents of a jug of ink stood in puddles on the floor, the chaire had their legs and backs broken beyond the skill of surgery to cure them. This seemed only to inspire the combatants with still greater fur. Blow followed blow with tho rapidity of lightning. First one was kicking on the floor, then the other, each taking it in turn pretty equally. The ink on the floor found its way to their faces, till both of them cut the most ludicrous figure imaginable. The noise and uproar were tremendous. The neighbors ran to the door, and ex? claimed with astonishment, that two ne froes were fighting in Squire S.'s office, 'one dared separate them. At length, completely exhausted, they ceased fight? ing. The circumstances of the case be? came known, and the next day, hardly able to sit on horseback, their heads bound up, they started homeward, con? vinced that they had attained very little satisfaction from the attempt. Simple Remedy for Three Dan? gerous Diseases.?An onion poultice of formidable proportion was applied to the stomach and bowels of a typhoid fever patient in thiscouuty, some months ago, who had not slept for fourteen days; had of course, become insane; and upon whom the prescriptions and treatment of physicians seem to have had no effect whatever. .In a very short time after ap? plying the poultice, the patient dropped into a profound sle^p and profuse perspi? ration ; slept for thirteen hours straight along; and speedily got well. The gen? tleman who gives us this information, and who, by the by, is one of the clever? est and most reliable citizens of this county, says that this "big onion poultice" is equally as efficacious in typhoid pneu? monia, if applied to the chest, and in pleurisy, if applied to the side. The doc? tors, he says, may growl a little at this simple remedy, but none of them can reasonably object to its employment when everything else fails to procure relief. GOVERNOR CHAMBERLAIN AND HIS claims AS A REFORMER. Southern Republicanism a Failure?Un? constitutional Exercise of Authority by President Grant?Mr. Chamber? lain's Administration Imbecile, and Republicanism on the Wane In South Carolina. Editors Columbia Register: South Carolina is in a deplorable con? dition, resultant upon the continued ex? istence of an imbecile Radical govern? ment, the present administration being no less so than its predecessors. No one doubts Mr.' Chamberlain's abilities and accomplishments, but many of us would like to know what semblance of a claim has he to be called a reform Governor ? What has he reformed? Has he re? formed the negro? If so, in what re? spect? Has he reformed the carpet-bag? ger? Where and how? Has he reform? ed our system of levies, whereby our taxes have been diminished? Our property is less valuable this than last year; our ability to pay taxes less this year than last, and yet the taxes are about the same or not perceptibly lower. Has he reformed the politics of the State. Or does he propose to reform them ex? cept to his way of thinking? And are his ways our ways? Has he reformed our financial status, whereby our State securities have appreciated? They are to-day purchasable at fifty cents in the dollar. Has he reformed his system of appointments, because he hunts up a Democratic Treasurer in Edgefield after searching in vain for a Radical with whom he could trust the county's funds ? Has he given the body politic a single symptom of reform, except by way of promises and intentions? And do we not know that good intentions are the devil's own ? ' 1 No, Messrs. Editors, Mr. Chamberlain's adminstration is as imbecile towards effecting good government as was the ad? ministration of Moses or Scott. As citi? zens, we feel no change; as looker's on in Vienna we may see less corruption. And so it will be to the end of time, until South Carolina is governed by an Executive of her own choosing. A Re? publican, as Republicanism now exists m Sooth Carolina or elsewhere in the South, can never give quiet and content? ment to this State. Republicanism all over the South is a failure, and no less so in South Carolina, simply because it sub? jects intelligence to muscle; capital to brute force; the white man to the negro. And in South Carolina it never proposes to do anthing else. Mr. Chamberlain himself does not in? tend that intelligence shall govern in South Carolina unless that intelligence shall be directed as he proposes, and not as the owners of South Carolina desire. He avows on all occasions his Republi? canism, and what does that mean in South Carolina but imbecile, corrupt and despicable government? Mr. Chamber? lain does not wish for any other kind of government, and his loud professions cannot be believed because his acts be? tray him, and acts speak louder than words. He would to-day subject the white citizens of South Carolina to the rigors of military surveillance and clan? destinely incarcerate our most prominent I men. If he would not, wherefore this j recent location of troops in Aiken County I without his knowledge or consent, as he foolishly asserts ? , ! According to Mr. Chamberlain, this is an exercise of authority on the part of President Grant, which, if practiced in Massachusetts?Mr. Chamberlain's own State?there would be an insurrection in twelve hours. Does any man of sense for a moment think that the Governor of Massachusetts would sit quietly with folded arms and express ignorance and surprise if President Grant were to quar? ter troops unexpectedly in one of his quiet little villages? What would Governor Hartranft have thought last summer if, while the miners were striking terror into the people of West Pennsylvania, and actually defying the powers of the State, President Grant had infested that territory with United States troops? And yet what are the facts in our case ? Mr. Chamberlain is suddenly sum? moned to Washington by the Secretary of War and the United States Attorney General. In an interview with them and the President, he depicts the horrors of the Hamburg erneute in exaggerated colors, and denounces the citizens of South Carolina as assassins and murder? ers, and perhaps worse, if possible. He returns home, and is interviewed by a correspondent of the Charleston Ncto* and Coicrier, to whom he reveals the as? tonishing fact that he did not ask for troops to be sent to .Aiken, did not know that they would be sent there, and when told that'an order to this effect had been issued and was now being executed, ex? presses entire, ignorance of its why or wherefores. If this be true, Messrs. Editors, we assert that Mr. Chamberlain's preroga tives have been assumed by the Presi? dent, and, in the name of peace and good government, demand that he ask that these troops be returned to their barracks. Let Mr. Chamberlain proceed as any other Governor would who is fit to rule over a free but abused people. Does riot or insurrection exist ? Then let him issue his proclamation and order the insurgents to disperse. Has murder been committed? Then let him offer a reward for the murderers. Have the laws been violated ? Then let him use the powers of his office to punish the offenders. Has he ever taken a single legitimate step to investigate the Ham? burg affair ? Not one, unless his sending his frightened Attorney General to inter? view that notoriously corrupt, ignorant, lying Trial Justice was such step. No, Messrs. Editors, the whole thing is a subterfuge resorted to for political purposes, because Mr. Chamberlain feels that his greatness in South Carolina is on the wane, and unless the Republican party can be emboldened and bolstered up in Aiken and Edgefield Counties by the presence of troops, that section is lost, irrevocably lost to the thieves. We cannot believe that President Grant would scatter troops over any State unless he were asked to do so by the Governor of that State, because it would be an infringement upon the rights of the people and an unconstitutional exer? cise of power, that would arouse the people of this government from end to end. The New York papers have told us for several days that an application for troops from Governor Chamberlain has been on file at Washington for some time. Who can doubt this fact ? And. yet Mr.! Chamberlain not only says he did not' ask for troops to be sent to Aiken, but that he knew nothing of their being sent there until after it was generally known they had been sent. Can any man of sense believe the half of this? The whole thing is a fraud, aud only goes to prove the weakness and growing weak? ness of the Republican party in South Catolina, whose continued existence is a blot upon the age. A Voter. Abbeville County, July 2g, 1876. ? Moving for a new trial?Courting a second wife. A Glorious Example to the State. We find in the Charleston Newt and Courier a letter from Mr. E. Means Davis, in which a most satisfactory account is Even of the state of organization in aureus County. We transfer it to Onr columns, being convinced that no better argument in favor of earnest and honest action bv the straight-out plan can be presented than this splendid example of a whole people thoroughly aroused and determined to rescue their county. We commend it heartily to all who may in? cline, to the policy of inaction or are dis? posed upon any other plea to shirk, the duty which is now. more than ever before incumbent upon them: Of all wide-awake people, those of Laurens are the widest. Kept down and harrassed, and trampled upon without mercy for years by Joe Crews and his followers, the people have arisen to a man for the liberation of Laurens. That there has been trouble in Laurens none can deny. The blame, however, rests not with the people, who are as law abiding and poace-loving as any in the State, but with the government, which has been venal, corrupt and tyrannical to the last degree. By a systematic coarse of ballot box stuffing, as witness the elec? tion two years ago when five hundred votes were registered at the Court House box during the first hour, the Radicals have perpetuated themselves in power and foisted into office as graceless a set as could be gathered together. Laurens is weary of this wrong. She can stand it no longer, and she will not. In the breasts of her citizens rests the fixed de? termination to be free, and a resolution just as unalterable to be free by lawful, measures and the peaceful instrumentali? ties of the ballot box. The voters are enrolled to a man, and the discipline so Eerfect that no excesses are to be appre ended. The corruption in politics reacted upon all the industries of the county.. At every cross-road small stores were erec? ted, many of them retailing mean whis? key in exchange for cotton stolen by the freedmen from neighboring plantations. Thousands of dollars were annually lost to the. planters by this pernicious prac? tice. In addition, labor was demoralized, contracts were openly and shamelessly violated by the employees, and crops were almost ruined. Decisive steps were necessary. They were taken. Anti cotton shop associations were formed in every township. Measures were inaugu? rated effectually to stop this illicit traffic and demoralization. Then labor reform associations were organized to protect the employer from faithless employees, and the employed from fraud by his employer. Every member of the labor reform.clubs, and their name is legion, is pledged not to employ a laborer who has violated a contract; and every planter is to be dis? countenanced who breaks his agreement. These measures were found to work ad? mirably. The formation of the Demo? cratic clubs was next in order. The work of agitation was tirelessly pursued, and now it is said that, every white man in the county belongs to one or all of these organizations. A gentleman reports that every man, woman and child is thorough? ly aroused. Never has such enthusiasm, such earnestness, such confidence of vic? tory ever existed. Each township meets every week or on alternate weeks, and almost every person attends. From 10 o'clock to 12 a meeting of the township Giange is held, from 12 to 2 the Anti Cotton Shop and Labor Beform Associa? tion is in session, and from 2 to 4 or later the Democratic Club is in consultation. Speeches by the score, short and to the point, are made, all breathing but one sentiment: ''Laurensshall be free." It is said to be only necessary to stand at any cross-road and call for a meeting, and in half an hour fifty or a hundred persons will have assembled. No inflam? matory speeches are made. The colored people are told to vote'just as they please. A gentleman informed me that he offered to provide his hands with a wagon to carry them to the polls if they wish it, even if they vote the Republican ticket A fair election is desired. The Demo? crats are sanguine of success, and they do not propose to have their glorious vic? tory snatched from them by accusation of fraud and intimidation before the Leg? islature or State Board of Canvassers. They have never enjoyed a free and fair election. They will have one this year. The most careful canvass of the county has been made, and the name and resi? dence of each voter, white and black, is registered in the county roster. The colored' majority is comparatively quite small, and can be easily overcome. A number of colored voters express their willingness to co-operate with the Demo? crats. The 'prospect of success in Lau? rens is, therefore, very bright. Indeed, Laurens can be unquestionably placed in the Democratic ranks. Such a compact, thorough body never knew defeat even in the face of much greater odds. The Democratic candidates have not yet been nominated. It is not known yet who they will be. Bnt the move? ment has been a spontaneous uprising of the people. They have gone right tor ward, and their accustomed leaders fol? low. Their nominees will be men fresh from the people. A prejudice, unfounded doubtless, but nevertheless strong, exists against electing lawyers to office. It is claimed that they have been sufficiently honored, and should give way to repre? sentatives of the other professions. At the same time the members of the bar of Laurens, in attending the meetings and nursing the unthusiasm of the people, are doing yoeman service in behalf of reform. Laurens is too much engrossed in county affairs to bestow much thought upon State politics. A straight ticket is doubtles preferred, but a number of voters, how many I have no means of judging, will consult the wishes of the rest of the State on this perplexing yet vital question. In conclusion, Laurens sets a glorious example to the other counties. She has been outraged and robbed. Her purest and most peaceful citizens have been dragged from their homes and incarcera? ted in prison by the grace of an uncon? stitutional law, to gratify the fiendish malice of corrupt scoundrels. Her treas? ury has been robbed. Her courts have denied Justice to her citizens. And yet, repressing anger, forbearing to commit violence, and spurning improper instru? mentalities, she has arisen to effect her redemption fairly and peacefully. And on the day of election the Radical ring will be hurled from power, bo that on the assembling of the next Legislature a Democratic Senator and three Democrat? ic members of the House will bo in their seats, proclaiming to all that the work is ended, and that Laurens is free. God speed the day! ? At a railway station two gentlemen belonging to the district were warming themselves in the waiting-room, when a son of the Emerald Isle, "rather out at elbows," entered the room. One of the gentlemen, characteristically humorous, said to him: "I'll be after giving you my chair to warm yourself for asixpence." "Will you?" was the reply. "I'll be after letting you keep it for a shilling; and it's meself that has much need of one just now." IS GRANT INSANE t Strange Rumors In Connection with the Condition of the President?Alleged Softening of the Brain?Strong Symp? toms of that Disorder Manifested. Wathington Cbrrttpondenet qf the New York Mercury. Ulysses, in the Greek poem hy Homer, feigned madness, and quite successfully, but there is every reason to believe our modern Ulysses is really becoming in* sane. History, of course, names many monarchs and rulers who became luna? tics, and indeed were so long before their ministen and confidante, discovered the full reality. There is now no doubt that George the Third was insane as early as the beginning of the revolution. Strange if the second hundredth year of our exis? tence should find us in 1876 with a crazy President; as 1776 found the colonies with a mad king. For several weeks past I have heard rumors of Grant's condition, but declined to refer to them because they were vague. However, during the past few days .these rumors have acquired the strength of positive reports. Representatives, Senators, and private citizens, who, since last Monday, have returned from interviews with the unfor? tunate President all have agreed and. publicly referred to it as a fact, that President Grant exhibits the most deci? ded indications of insanity. A Baltimore physician who met him last Wednesday avers that the President has every symp? tom of softening of the brain. This is a disorder, as even, laymen know, that, like Bright's disease of the kidneys, approaches slowly, and is often well seated before the earliest suspicion, is entertained of the horrible catastrophe which impends. General Grant, for some i time past has been observed to be unu? sually impatient of control, exceedingly restive under advice or even suggestion; then to be irritable and petulant in the minor affairs of life, and again to become desirous of silence and solitude, without even the company of his usual cigar or the excitement of stimulant, i He is known to be almost incessantly a victim to insomnia. He gives directions one moment to countermand them the next, and.is continually doing the most motive? less things. His appetite is vary capri? cious, and his eyes have assumed that look of suspicion and distrust which is always so marked in patients suspected of having, or known to hare, softening of the brain, and which is so distressing to his family and friends. It is said that Attorney General Pierre pont (who studied medicine in Ohio un? der the name of Munson?and his real one, by-the-by?for some years after leav? ing college) was the first to recognize the impending calamity. He therefore took the first opportunity of ratting from the ship and its commander to England. Otherwise, he undoubtedly would have had break upon him a- crazv spasm like the one which Bristow and Jewell en? countered. The first radical symptoms appeared during the whiskey ring trials at St Louis. Up to this time Grant had firmly believed in his third term. The I mania undoubtedly did much toward I keeping up his spirits. He was surroun? ded by men who flattered him and fed him on the sauce of vanity almost hourly. He reads very lew papers, and these were carefully selected by his household cabi? net But it was impossible for him not to perceive the howls and drift of public opinion. He would get up in the night and walk around Washington, believing himself incog.; but he was usually fol? lowed by two policemen, who hovered within safe protecting distance. For the first time in his life he began to be addic? ted to profanity. In one sense Secretary Fish has long been his keeper. Mr. and Mrs. Fish, indeed, have been for a time the familiar confidants of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Fish is adroit, and manipulates Grant without the latter perceiving it. Mrs. Fish cares for Mrs. Grant in the wav of entertainments, society persiflage, and the Harper Bazaar business. Fish also has great tact, born of his knowledge of society in New York, Europe , and Washington, while Grant was smelling tanning and oak bark, if not something stronger, at Galena, and Mrs. Grant was looking after the growing babies and visiting her numerous relatives. Fish it was who prevented Grant from a violent rupture with Bristow months ago, and when the phrase violent rupture is used, it is employed with care. Grant would scarcely speak civilly to Bristow after, the Babcock trial, and when he saw the vote at Cincinnati, and realized that the Ken? tucky traitor (as for some time previously he had called him) was likely to get the nomination and cheat hint out of the third term, his madness was something terrible. Fortunately, however, the very isolation of the White House makes it as safe a retreat for a violent patient as the Flushing Lunatic Asylum would be. The symptoms increased over the Belk nap affair, and intensified over the Robe son charges. His mania has been that all who are around him charged with offenses are victims of malice. "Was I not called a cotton thief when in Tennessee?" he would exclaim. "Has It not been said that even I sold appointments?" His peculiar idiosyncrasy, therefore, is to sympathize with Belknap, Babcock, Fish? er, Shepherd, Robeson, etc., and to be? lieve that all about him who are regarded as honest are the conspirators against himself and family. If Jewell would tell exactly what oc? curred between Grant and himself, there could be no doubt in the public mind that Gen. Grant ought not only to be under surveillance, but to be really ex? amined by competent physicians upon his daily increasing malady. In the Jewell matter the symptoms of madness and softening of the brain were very marked. One day he was friendly and polite to Jewell as he possibly could be. It was, however, only the cunning of craze. The next day he abruptly and even rudely demanded the resignation. When it was obtained he exulted over it as a Sioux would over a scalp. Objecting to a Jubyman.?"Are you satisfied with the jury, gentlemen ?" said Judge Noonan, this morning, after the jury had been impaneled. "We are," said the, lawyers in a chorus. A tall, gaunt figure rose up solemnly in the jury box and said impressively: "But I'm not" "What's your objection, Mr. Snooks?" inquired His Honor, blandly. "This youug man on my right, Your Honor, has been eating onion-." "Objection overruled; go on with the case," observed Judge Noonan, with a significant glance at tne Sheriff, and the tall mau sat down resignedly, and held a white hankercbief to his nose as a kind of signal of distress.?Elmira Gazette. Remedy fob Diakp.hcea.?A cor? respondent of the Country Gentleman pre Bents a remedy for diarrhoea which he never knew to fail in the past twenty-five years of use in his family. It is simply a dose of laudanum and oil (a table spoonful of caster oil with twenty drops of laudanum in it) The laudanum acts as an astringent, and the oil heals and carries off the effects of the disease. 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One of the most saddening and humili? ating exhibitions which human nature ever makes of itself, is in its greedy credulity touching all reports of the mis? demeanors of good men. If a man stand high as a moral force in the community; if he stand as the rebuker and denouncer of social and political sin: if he be looked up to by a considerable number of people as an example of virtue; if the whole power of his lue be in a .high and Sure direction; if his personality and in uence render any allegation against his character most improbable, then most readily does any such allegation find eager believers. It matters not from what source the slander may come. Multitudes will be influenced by a report against a good man's character from one who would not be believed under oath in any matter involving the pecuniary in? terest of fifty cents. The slanderer may be notoriously base?may be a panderer to the worst passions and the lowest vices ?may be a shameless sinner against social virtue?may be a notorious liar, a drunkard, a libertine, or a harlot?all this matters nothing. The engine that throws the mad is not regarded. The white object at which the fool discharges are aimed is only seen, and the delight of the bystanders and lookers-on is meas? ured by the? success of the stain sought to be inflicted, , As between the worldling and the man who professes tobe guided and controlled by Christian motives, all this is natural enough. The man bound up in his self? ish and sensual delights, who sees a Christian fall, or hears the report that he has fallen is naturally comforted that after all, men are alike?that no one of ? them, no matter how much he may pro? fess is better than another. It is quite essential to his .comfort that he cherish and fortify himself in this conviction. So, when .any great.. scandal arises in quarters where he ha*found himself and bos course of lifo condemned, he listens with ready ears and iannmiatakably glad. We. say this .is natural, however base and ~-.t it may be; but when people 1 to be Christians?shrug their virtuous shoulders and shake their feeble heads, while a foal scandal touches vitally the character of one of their own members, and menaces the extinction of an influence higher or humbler, by which the world is made better, we hang our heads with shame, or raise them with in? dignation. If such a thing as this is natural, it proves just one thing, viz, that these men are hypocrites. There is no man, Christian or Pagan, who can rejoice in the faintest degree over the fall of any other man from rectitude, without being a scamp at heart. All this readiness to believe evil of others, especially of those who have been reputed to be emi? nently good is an evidence of conscious proclivity to vice that finds comfort in eminent companionship. ' There is no better test of purity and goodness than reluctance to think evil of one's neighbor, and utter incapacity, to believe an evil report against good men except upon the. most trustworthy testi? mony. Alas, that this large and lovely character is so rare. Bat it is only with those who possess this charity that men accused of sins against society have an equal chance with those accused,'ander the forms of law. of crime. Every man brought to trial by crime is presumed to ? be innocent until he is proved guilty; bat with the world at Urge, every man slandered is presumed to be guilty until he proves himself innocent ana even then it takes the liberty of doubting the testimony... Every man who rejoices in a scandal thereby advertises the fact of his own untrustworthiness, and every man who is pained by it and refuses to be impressed by it unconsciously reveals his own purity, He cannot believe a bad thing done by one whom he regards as a good man, simply because he knows he would not do it himself. He gives credit to others for that , virtue which is unconsciously in his own possession, while the base men around him, whether Christian in name or not, withhold that credit because they cannot believe in the existence of a virtue which they con- ? sciouslv have not. When the Master uttered" the words, "Let him that is with- ' out sin among you cast a stone at her," he knew that none bat conscious de? linquents would have the disposition to do so; and when, ander this rebuke, every fierce accuser retired overwhelmed, he, the sinless, wrote the woman's crime in the sand for heavenly rains to efface. If he could do this in case of guilt not disputed, it certainly becomes his follow? ers to stand together around every one of their' number whom malice or revenge assails with, slander to which his or her . whole lifo gives the lie. In a world fall of influences and ten? dencies to evil, when every good force is needed and needs to be jealously cher? ished, and guarded, there is no choice treasure ana no more beneficient power than a sound character. This is not only the highest result of all the best forces of oar civilization, bat it is the builder of those forces in society and the State. Society cannot afford to have it wasted or destroyed; and its instinct of seif Ereservation demands that this shall not e suffered. There is nothing so sensi? tive and nothing so sacred as character: and every tender charity, and loyal friendship, and chivalrous affection and manly sentiment and impulse ought to intrench themselves around every true character in the community so thorough? ly that a breath of calumny shall be as harmless as the idle wind. If they can? not do this, then no man is safe who re? fuses to make terms with the devil, and he is at liberty to pick his victims where he will.?Scnbner'a Monthly. A Boy's Composition on Girls.? GWb are the most unaccountable things in the world?except women. Like the wicked fleas, when you have them, they aiu't there. I can cipher clear over to improper fractions, ana the teacher says I do it well, bat I never could cipher oat a girl, proper or improper, and yon can't , either. The only rule in arithmetic that hits their case is the doable rule of two. They are as full of the old Nick as their skins can hold, and they would die if they couldn't torment somebody. When they try to be mean, they are as mean as all git oat, though they are not as mean as they let on to .be, except sometimes, and then they are a great deal meaner. The only way to get along with a'girl when she comes with her nonsense is to give her tit for tat, and that will flum mux her: and when you get a girl flum muxed sue is as nice as a new pin. A girl can sow more wild oats in a day than a boy can in a year, but girls get their oats sowed after a while which boys never do, and then they settle down as calm and placid as a mnd puddle. But I like girls firstrate, and guess all boys do. I don't care how many tricks they play on me?and they don't care either. The hoity-toitiest girl in the world can't al? ways boil over like a glass of soda. By and by they will get into the traces with somebody they like, and pull as steady as an old stage horse. That is the beauty of them. So let them wave, I say; they will pay for it some day, sewing on but? tons and trying to make a decent man of some fellow they have spliced on to; and ten chances to one if they don't get the worst end of the bargain.