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BT, JOSEPH JI. BBOWN. Whose name is that which sounds to save ^treOple'$ glory from the grave? tT&outraged virtue's champion's brave, ?Hampton's! diu) bap tm y- i Whose worth scorns, vice's shameless war, Whose spotless honor shines afar, dt&rplenaent as the morning star? ' art; *r.tU ' ?v Hampton's I ?9 i .Whose tvoiJ5e;pounds out, to right as mild As, She lisp'diprayer. of orphan'd child,..; But^s^rikis wrong's heart with terror .wild ? !uii Svd ' iHampton's! ["tU. ". Who ' mid his people long oppressed By viaoush'ate; SaUt-hkexonfess'd, Stands "headaud shoulders o'er- the rest ?" w . .?? * -. Hampton .IIa \y. :>ua ;? rn 1 Who, call'd by justice desperate, With trust in Heaven, holy and great, Comes forth to raise his "prostrate State ?" i -1 Hampton! ' j gainst;whsni is power's mahcious hand Unrear'd to crush from out the land, Who leads truth's feeble, struggling band ? ?Hampton ! Who hkeithe'lion brought to bay Darts like a wrath-bolt Lnnd the fray,' Scattering his foes in wild dismay ? Hampton ! Whose heart nejer knew the name of fear When vice assail'd; who speaks good cheer Unto his race, whelm'd in despair? 4 ; : Hampton! O matchless type of former days, '' "'? ?WheniairioVd honor's name to; praise, Heay'nicnwn thee e'er with glory's bays, y. ffam .? h laHfinptonr ?ir:a 111 ff 5?i . - .>?/ TOS. !? wi 0 speed the time when wrong shall flee, When %ht? now fettered, shall be free, And.all Fur Then compare wifhithee, Hampton! Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 23,1876. SOUTH CAROLINA'S WRONGS. What E^-Governor Randolph of New Jersey has learned. , C * ? Columbia, S. C/, October 29;' Since leaving New" Jersey, eight or ten days ago, I .?avetlargeJly.rOccupied my time with those districts of South Caro? lina declared by the President of the United States to be in an insurrectinary condition.. .. I. have also spent several days at this place. ' My object has been to obtain the facts,, as far as possible, and to this, end I have obtained interviews with the lead? ing men of both political parties. Among these persons I have seen and conversed with public men from Charles? ton, Columbia, Aiken, Camden and EdgefieloV* These places are centres of population alleged to be especially vio? lent and insurrectionary. Of them, one and all, I can. say that no village popula? tion of New Jersey is more quiet of peace? ful ; and, with a single exception, arising from causes non-poutical, none of these districts have been disturbed. Their civil officers, town and county, mostly .Republicans, assert that there has been no time within Gbv. Chamberlain's ad? ministration that they conld not execute the laws without assistance from without. ? Let me enforce this striking assertion. South Carolina: has thirty-two counties. All - of these Have Republican Sheriffs save six or seven. Immediately after the issuance of the Governor's proclamation, steps were taken to procure testimony from the civil officers of these counties as to' their insurrectionary conditions. I Jhave seen and read the sworn affidavits and attested letters coming from more than one-half of the Sheriffs of the coun? ties,.including the Sheriffs of Aiken and Bamweli?the only counties named in the proclamation as. ?being insurrec? tion?, ry? "32very one of-these?s\*orn state? ment in substance declares that within these counties there has been no resist? ance to judicial process, no unlawful ob? structions, combinations, or assemblages of persons contrary to law. The facts stated by these civil officers; the Governor's own deputies in the sev? eral- counties, have been repeatedly brought to his attention, but elicit no response or change of action. . In order to Afford to the Governor no pretext for mistaking the condition of affairs in the State, the testimony of the Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts of the State was had, and submitted to him. The Judges of the Supreme Court are three ; the Circuit Judges are eight in number j of these eleven officers ten are Republicans; with the exception of one Judge, who was absent, all these non political officers testified that they are acquainted with no cause that warranted the issuance of the Governor's proclama? tion, or that' of the President of the United States. In private, conversation with several of the Jndges-tfiey have assured me that the civil power, prior to the proclama? tion, had been full and ample in all the counties, and they branded the Govern? or's assertion to the contrary as a libel upon the State?a .motion of his own to secure his personal reflection to the Gov? ernorship, and thence to the United States Senate. Several of these Judges have been, until very recently, the warm personal and political friends of Mr. Chamberlain; they are all Hayes and Wheeler, men to? day ; they justly say that s?ice the in? troduction of Federal troops the civil arm of the State has been paralyzed; that men of both parties and races look to the United States troops to perform police duty, and that the action of the Governor has placed upon the President the whole responsibility of preserving the peace of the State. My observation sustains this opinion. Omitting all debate as to the original need of troops in South Carolina, the leading men of both parties are anx? ious for their retention and protecting care. Seeking information from civil officers of the Federal Government stationed in South Carolina, I conversed at great leugth with the Judge of the United States District Court for this State. He has been a Republican from the beginning, is now, and was appointed by the- Republican President, and until very recently has been a warm friend and adn)irer of Chamberlain. He said he had been astonished with the Governor's proclamation, and although his duties fed him to travel in and to know every county in South Carolina, he had not bpen made cognizant of any interruption of civil process, and bad not seen any violence/outrages or murders, nor heard of any save in the two or three instances conspicuously published to the country. As to these, the Governor had published some facts, and suppressed others vital to a just judgment. As an instance in point, the Governor had omitted to say that the Ellentorr affair had begun by the negroes endeavoring to outrage a de? fenceless white woman, and by the re? fusal of a body of negroes to surrender the culprits "to the constable's posse. Judge Bryan is now apprehensive as to the safety of the white families scattered .about the sparsely settled portions of the State He.fears that the tendency of the Governor's proclamation, and of the presence of Federal troops, will be, in the hundreds of townships where the troops will not be stationed, to give license to the base and brutal passions of the lower class of negroes. Both the Judge and myself have endorsed the urgent application of the citizens of Charleston and Beaufort to Gen. Ruger to put troops immediately in these out? lying districts. The troops are not asked for to protect voters, but defenceless women and children. ' My next interview was with Mr. Hagood, clerk of the United States Cir? cuit Court, an appointee of Judge Bond, and of course a Republican. He thought Gov. Chamberlain had not .been fairly treated by Democratic audiences and not respectfully listened to, and admitted that many prominent Republicans were now hostile to Chamberlain! He knew of no instance of recent outrage or mur? der iu all the northern tier of counties, where he resided, heretofore known as Ku. KIux counties, save those cited spe? cifically and already published. He knew Of no-reason why the civil law should not be executed at this time. Mr. Poinier, a Northern man and Re? publican United States Supervisor of Elections for South Carolina, thought Gov. Chamberlain had been badly treat? ed by the Democrats at meetings, and in? truded/ upon by them; that no personal violence had been offered, but strong E'ersohal epithets applied to him. These ad become so offensive as to cause him to practically leave the canvass. Mr. Poinier has two subordinate officers at wich polling precinct in the State. In no instance has he had request made of hinr for troops to sustain these United States officers.'" ' Aside from the disturbances conspicu? ously published heretofore, he did not know of any outrage, act of violence, or murder in the State. In addition to this concurring testimo? ny, gathered mainly from Republican sources, similar, affidavits and letters have been received from over fifty other coun? ty officials, many Trial Judges of coun? ties, clerks of countjies and of probate, and of prosecuting attorneys of couuties. I have purposely omitted a vast amount of testimony proffered by mer? chants, clergymen, lawyers, bankers and others, because it would be only repeat? ing evidence. It would be difficult to amass testimony more fully responsible and satisfactory than that now at hand and accumulating each day, showing the utter needlcssness of Gov. ChamberTain'? action and heartless disregard of facts. Touching the condition of the election I submit this statement: The Board of State Canvassers consists Of the Secretary of State, the Comp? troller-General, the Attorney-General, the Chairman of the Committee of Elec? tions of the House. Four of those offi? cers are Republicans. With them restsi the entire power of count. Of these six final canvassers four are candidates for re-election. In a word, the members of the State Board are absolutely and finally judges of their own election. The County Boards of Canvassers con? sist of three Commissioners of Election. They are appointed by the Governor. He has nominally selected two Commis? sioners from the Republican side and one from the Democracy. By public proclamation he invited the two" political committees to designate their choice. He also announced that no candidates for office would be appointed by him. The persons named by the Democratic committee have not general? ly been appointed. Of the Republican Commissioners, selected by the Governor, in nearly every instance the appointee is a Republican officeholder, or a candidate for election at the coming election ; thus they will canvass the returns of their own elections. It will be observed that the Governor appoints the Commissioners of the county, a majority Republican; they, in, turn, appoint three managers for each polling precinct, a majority Re? publican. These managers control the ballot box, count the votes, and make re? turns to the board appointing them. The reception of the votes, their count, their canvass by the County Board, and their final canvass by the State Board are al? ways and wholly within Republican con? trol. Of the power of the State, I ascer? tain as follows: Its militia is composed entirely of negroes. To them, and them alone, are State arms and ammunition given. Officers and men are Republi? cans, and Republicans only. The rifle clubs of the State are organi? zations dating far back of any political disturbances. Some of them nave exist? ed since the century began. Many of them are organized under legislative authority, and most of them have been : reviewed and personally complimented by the Governor. Though composed of I Democratic voters generally, they have not been decided political organizations. Under the order of Gov. Chamberlain, all these organizations have been disbanded though the colored troops with their arms remain in force. The State has pur? chased over half a million dollars worth of arms within seven years past. They are now wholly within the control of I negroes and their leaders. Regarding the omission of the Gov? ernor to comply with his duty to assemble the Legislature: In a great public emer? gency the Governor's power to assemble the Legislature has no restraint upon it. Republicans and Democrats admit that the members could have been convened j within three days' time, and could now. Indeed, Gov. Chamberlain himself sub? stantially admits this, but pleads that he had no money to pay the members with. Against this claim it is known that the Legislature had not convened for years except with a bankrupt treasury, and that any rate theirs would be the busi? ness of providing their own pay. It is claimed that his highest duty was to con? vene the representatives of the people, a vast majority of whom are Republicans, and that the evidence of insurrectionary measures, many state, could be best had through delegates from every legislative district; that he failed to do so because he would have had to confront the truth which debate would elicit, and that, in addition to the unfriendliness of the few Democratic members of the Legislature, he would have been met by the violent opposition of a large number of Republi? can members who are personally most hostile to him, and who threaten to ex? pose him for past questionable conduct. The Constitution of the State requires the registration of every voter. Gov. Chamberlain has been earnestly urged to execute this Constitutional provision. He has neglected to do so, and in many districts, especially in those where the colored voters are in absolute control, there is no limit to fraud. Because of this persistent refusal, the confidence of the better class of citizens of botli parties has been lost to him; ad? ded to this are other reasons for the rapid change of public sentiment in this State. During the first two years of his ad? ministration he made persistent effort to reform the Government of the State. He alienated Patterson, Bo wen and the class or' men who have disgraced the State. He had been publicly pronounced by them as a partner in their rascalities. Elliott in convention held to public view a letter whose contents, he claimed, would send the Governor to the State prison. The Governor, iu turn, de? nounced these men, and asserted his pur? pose to bring them to justice. Suddenly, without assigned reason, against the pro test of every leading Republican* in the State, he ceased his enmity to the1 men he had denounced, consented to be th'eir candidate for re-election, led a ticket with men whose infamy he had held up to public execration, and whose associa? tion he had spurned for years. Every Republican Judge , of the Su? preme Court of this State will endorse this statement. Some of them have given me this information. Why he made this remarkable change can only be left to conjecture?politicians say his reward is to be the'United States Sena? toren) p. Thus the man who had been praised by good men of all parties has been abandoned, not only by the Democrats, but by every Republican judicial officer, from the Chief Justice and the United States District Judge down. His influ? ence for good'is gone; he is despised by the best men of both parties; hated by those who use his past record for their own re-election, and is left to a miserable fate, whether elected or defeated.: His representations of affairs in this State are utterly partisan; he seeks information alone through his own creatures; re? fuses to them the evidence upon which hi? monstrous statements are made. One of the Judges of the Supreme Court told me to-day that he had been a warm friend and supporter of Gov. Chamber? lain, but had been forced to leave him since he had chosen to consort with thieves. A Republican ex-Gpvernor of the State told me Chamberlain had been a true re? former until recently, but was now lead? ing the worst ticket South Carolina ev'?rj had. The most recent evidence of the untruthfulness of Gov. Chamberlain is in his letter to Gen. DeSaussure and Gov. McGrath of this State, promptly tele? graphed to the Northern press by him. I write of what I; personally know. The appeal of the Charleston gentlemen, Messrs. McGrath and DeSaussure, was not for the protection of the polls, but for prompt protection to the defenceless families on the coast and islands near Charleston, daily enduring outrage from the half-civilized negroes of that region. The whites are being driven from their homes; women and children on the coast are living in terror, or suffering fates worse than death. The Governor had employed no means to protect them, and in this extremity a committee of Charles? ton.citizens came to Columbia requesting the Governor to join them in an appeal to Gun. Ruger for protection to the per? sons and lives of defenceless women and children. The Governor did not go with them to headquarters, made lame ex? cuses, and when he saw Gen. Ruger re? quested him to use his discretion in com? plying with their request. Levying upon the visit made by the Charleston com? mittee in behalf of humanity, when they had left, he wrote, published, and tele? graphed to the North a letter based upon misrepresentation of the object of their visit. He has basely tortured the pitiful appeal from the people he rules to an en? dorsement of his crime against their liberties. Theodore F. Randolph. Cut Food.?Every close observer has made the discovery that when solid grain is fed to stock, a large per cent, is not digested; but passes off in the excre meut. In some cases, portions of this undigested grain may be picked up by the pigs and domestic fowls about the lot, but the larger amount of it is a clear loss. This may be remedied by cutting up all the long forage designed for stock, and having the grain ground into meal, and sprinkled on the cut food. Before the meal i3 sprin? kled, the cut food should first be slightly wet. This causes the meal to stick to it and gives stock a relish for the cut food. It is useless to feed a cow on corn, be? cause very little of it is digested. The same is true with regard to meal; but meal sprinkled on cut straw or fodder, is fine food for any domestic animal. It is clear that when the food is thus prepared it will take much less to keep an animal in good condition, from the simple fact that all the food that is given it is in a digestible form. It is said by men who practice this, or a similar mode of feed? ing, that stock are less liable to colic and bots than those fed in the usual way.? Colic arises from a disordered condition of the stomach, and the stomach is dis? ordered by taking in food in improper quantities or in an improper, or indigest? ible state. There is little danger of a horse having colic so long as he digests his food thoroughly, and he may have colic at any moment when his stomach does not perform its functions.? York villc Enquirer. The Great Shipwreck in the Arctic Seas.?The effects of the dis? aster, says the New Bedford Standard of the 23d, will be to reduce the Arctic fleet next year to a very small number of ves? sels, the business being prosecuted only by the most enterprisng merchants who are willing aud able to run the great risk, as insurance offices will not care to take it. There are only two or three vessels now in port suitable to send to those seas. Two vessels are now on the tray out, and a merchantman on the way to San Fran? cisco from this port, is fitted to go north if it is deemed advisable, and with those which escaped may form the entire fleet. Some ships now at sea may also be ordered north. This disaster is only paralleled and ex? ceeded by that of 1871, the news of which reached this city on Sunday evening, November 5, 1871, announcing that of the Arctic fleet of forty-one vessels thirty two had been abandoned, only nine being saved. Of these vessels twenty-two be? longed to this port, valued at $1,097,000, mostly insured in local offices. The catch on board the abandoned vessels at that time was 965 barrels of sperm oil, 13,605 barrels whale oil and 100,000 pounds of bone. Two Sundays.?You know that, in crossing the Pacific it becomes necessary to alter the reckoning of the days to con? form to that of the Eastern or Western Hemisphere, according as a ship is sail? ing in one direction or the other. In going to Japan, when the 180th degree of longitude is reached (which is. just half way around the world from the royal ob? servatory at Greenwich, England, from which longitude is reckoned,) a day is dropped, and in returning one is added. We crossed that meridian on the 8th inst., and so two days were put down in the ship's calendar as the 8th of June. Now, as it happened that this was Sun? day, we had two Sabbaths succeeding each other?one of which was the Sab? bath in Japan and in all Asia, and the other the Sabbath in America and in Europe. Some of our ship's company were puzzled to know which to keep ; but I did not think it would do me any harm to keep them both, aud shall always remember with pleasure this double Sab? bath on the sea.?Dr. Field, in Evangel* ist, ? A bald man made merr}' at the ex? pense of another who covered his partial baldness with a wig, adding, as a clincher, "You see how bald I am, and I don't ,wcar a wig." "True," was the reply, "but an empty barn requires no thatch." A LETTER FROM EX-GOY. BROWN. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 1, 1876. James A. Jloyt, County Chairman, An? derson C. H., S. C: . Dear Sir?On my -return home, after a protracted absence, I find your kind let? ter inviting me, in the name of the Dem? ocratic Executive Committee of Ander? son County, to attend a mass meeting on the third day of this present month, and address the people at a barbacue to be given by all the Democratic Clubs of your County. I thank you very cordially for the in? vitation, and regret that I am not in con? dition to accept it. My trip West was taken with a view to the recuperation of my health, which has been much: im? proved, but I am not yet entirely relieved of a disease in my throat, and of a cough which prevents me from public speaking, and puts it out of my power to comply with your wish. I must, however, express my cordial sympathy with your movement, and my earnest wish for the success of General Hampton, your noble standard bearer, and of the Democratic party of your State, in the approaching election. Prob? ably no people on earth have had heavier burdens to bear, on account of bad gov? ernment and maladministration, than the people of South Carolina have en? dured for the last few years. Whether your people made a mistake, immediate? ly after the passage of the reconstruction act iu lying still, and giving up the con? trol of the State government to carpet? baggers, by allowing them to control the colored people of South Carolina, is not an appropriate subject for discussion at present. If any error of that character was committed, you have long since suf? fered its penalty, and the united and de? termined effort which the intelligent, high-toned, honorable citizens of your once noble State arc now making to throw off the yoke, gives promise, in my judgment, of an early deliverance. In this effort, you have the cordial sympathy and best: wishes "of all intelligeut, right minded people, both North and South, who are not controlled by partisan inter? est, or political malignity; and the prayer goes up from hundreds of thousands of hearth stones, all over the country, that you may be able to throw off the yoke, and substitute good government and an honest administration, for the bad gov? ernment and maladministration of past years. As a native of South Carolina, I feel the more keenly the wrongs inflicted upon her, and trust the more ardently that they may soon cease to exist. In General Hampton, your leader, you have a man who has the confidence and respect of .good people .everywhere, who has a national reputation for gallantry and ability, and a character untarnished by a breath of reproach, who is able, wise, prudent and sagacious, and who, if he should succeed to the position of Governor of your State, will; I have no doubt, see that the laws are faithfully and impar? tially administered, and that equal and exact justice is done alike to all persons, without regard to race, color or any oth? er condition in life. The colored people of South Carolina may well give to General Hampton a cordial and enthusiastic support. Some of them knew his ancestor before him. Many of them have known him all their lives, and they have never been deceived by a Hampton, or had reason to call in I question the humanity, integrity or sense of justice possessed by him who bears the Democratic standard. It is to me a matter of surprise that all intelligent col? ored people in your State do not see that their interest lies in common with the white people of the State, who were born upon her soil, who are identified with her interest, and who, at every stage of their existence, have been in some friend? ly relation connected with the colored race, and who have constantly shown themselves its best friends. Can it be that any sensible colored man who looks to his own interest, and the interest of his family in future, can believe that they would be better served by retaining in power carpet-bag officials who have piled upon the State an enormous debt, and burdened its population with a taxa? tion almost too grievous to be borne, than by electing such native men as Hampton and others who are before them for their suffrage, whose interest it will be to stop the accumulation of debt, and reduce in every possible way the taxation by which they arc burdened? Every colored man must see that his labor is burdened by the yearly taxation with which carpet? baggers have loaded the people of the State, and it would seem that the prompt? ings of self-interest and self-protection will naturally lead him to lend his aid to throw off this grievous burden. The carpet-bagger who makes a fortune by dishonest means, and leaves the tax? payers to raise the money to meet the burdens which have been imposed for his individual benefit, has no particular interest in remaining in your State long? er than he can continue to accumulate. When out of office he can return to the North, carrying his spoils with him. How does it benefit either the white citi? zen or the colored citizen to give his aid to the carpet-bagger, by placing him in power where he can enrich himself at their expense? Is it wise for any citizen i of South Carolina to vote to continue such men in office? Would it not be much wiser to vote for men who arc fully identified with you, whom you know well, whom you have known all your lives, whose property is with you, who are the owners of your soil, and who will live: and die with you, sharing whatever bur? dens the government of the State may impose upon the people? Is it not rea? sonable to suppose that those who are native born, and who expect to remain and make South Carolina their homes, will practice more rigid* economy, and make greater efforts to relieve the people of taxation and burdens? Does not every colored man as well as every white man see that it is his interest to place in authority those .whose motto shall be "Economy and Reform?" It seems to me the question cannot be a debatable one, and that every intelligent voter ought, without hesitation, to come to the conclusion in favor of a change from the desperate state of-things which has for years existed in the State, and the inau? guration of a new and better system; The conduct of your present Executive, in fomenting discord between the two races for personal aggrandizement, and for the purpose of perpetuating himself in office, deserves, as it receives, the con? demnation of all unbiased, intelligent, patriotic people. His appeal to the gov? ernment at Washington,,-to send troops to South Carolina, to disarm the white race, and awe them from the ballot box, Cannot be too severely condemned; imd the conduct of the President of the Uni? ted States, in sending troops to South Carolina to interfere in- the elections, with<a view to carrying the State for his own political party, under the pretext of suppressing insurrection or domestic vio? lence, when there were no armed organi? zations or uprisings by the people of any character, which made war upon the State, or threatened to subvert the gov? ernment of the State,' or to set aside its power and jurisdiction on any portion of the territory of the State, deserves and will receive the withering rebuke and bitterest condemnation of all unbiased, patriotic citizens North and South, who sincerely desire the perpetuation of our republican form of government.. I look upon this as the most danger,ous aggres? sion upon the liberties of the country, and the most unjustifiable usurpation of power by the general government, which have occurred since the close of the war. It is a precedent that must be rebuked by the overwhelming voice of an indignant people, and history must stamp ic as the foulest blot upon the present administra? tion of the Federal government. But enormous and unjustifiable as is the wrong which has been perpetrated upon the people of South Carolina, the sublime patience, forbearance and long suffering with which it has been endured, rather than give a pretext of truth to the false accusatious made against you, have excited the warmest admiration and the deepest sympathy of all good citizens. The election is near at hand, but let me admonish you to continue to be cautious and careful, aud on .the day of the election suffer any wrong or per? sonal indignity which may be offered you a3 individuals, rather than give an oppor? tunity to the adversary to gratify his vindictive spleen, or consummate his unholy purposes. Bear your wrongs patiently a little longer under the firm conviction that the day of deliverance is near at hand. The American people cannot afford to sanction a precedent by which the white race are disarmed, and placed at the mercy of the colored race, armed by the government, and incited to the commission of cruelty aud outrage upon the downtrodden and unprotected intelligence and worth of the State. If this outrage shall be sanctioned and this act shall be permitted to pass into his? tory, without the condemnation of the American people, we will probably never sec another Presidential election in this country where the bayonet will not be called in to control the ballot. Again expressing my earnest wish for the success of your cause, and the deliv? erance of my native State from the tyran? ny and oppression under which her good people have so long labored, I am, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, JOSEPH E. BROWN. The Indian Campaign.?General Crook being satisfied that the Red Cloud and Red Leafs bands of Sioux were about to depart with a view of joining the hostiles in the north, they having re? fused to comply with orders to come into the agency to receive rations, and stub? bornly remaining in their camp on Shad ron Creek, from whence it is positively known they were communicating with the northern Indians, and receiving into their camp such as came in, he, without \ waiting the arrival of General Mcrritt's troops, determined on disarming them, and, at daylight on the morning of the 23d inst., General McKensey, with eight companies of the Fourth Cavalry, one battalion of which was commanded by Major Gordon, and another by Captain Maulk, successfully surrounded these two bands, consisting of 300 lodges, and cap? tured bucks, squaws and ponies without firing a shot, and they were marched into the agency after having been disarmed and dismounted. Spotted Tail, who has evinced an unswerving loyalty to the ! whites, was made head chief, and Red Cloud deposed, and Spotted Tail, with Little Wound, have agreed to furnish General Crook with all the warriors he may need to co-operate with him in the coming campaign, which will be inaugu j rated at once. General Crook feels that 1 a great object has been attained in this I last movement, and that we shall now j I know our enemies from our friends. Another Horrible Murder.?We have to record another diabolical murder similar to that of the Harmon family. Two old country ladies, sisters, Mrs. Mary Broadack and Mrs. Martha Stoddard, living together near Durbin's Creek Church, in Laurens County, were brutal? ly murdered on the night of Wednesday, the 25th. At the time our informant left they were senseless aud in the agony of death. Mrs. Broadack (who has oeen a cripple for ten years) was cut across the face and head with an axe and left for dead. Mrs. Stoddard was struck across the face and forehead with some heavy instrument, and also left for dead. Win. Stewart, a neighbor living a half mile off, heard the screams, and when he reached the place he found Mrs. Stoddard lying iu a cotton patch, between the house and spring, and Mrs. Broadack in the kitchen, in the condition above named. The house was sacked and trunks taken out and broken open. These old ladies had sold a small piece of land, a short time ago and it is sup? posed the murderers were after the pro? ceeds of the sale, but the money had not been received, and we are informed that only some fifteen dollars, the proceeds of salo of cotton was known to have been in the house at the time. A PUNGENT CONTRAST. A Bit of Political Eloquence Worthy of Preservation?Hayes and Tilden Accurately Described.. i. ? Ex Gov. Austin Blair recently deliver? ed an eloquent speech at Detroit, from which the following extract is made, be? cause the racy description is worthy of preservation as a souvenir of theeatn paign, although the election is now.over: Politjcal platforms are. .delusive, de? ceitful;' made simply to catch votes. They are the-hook that is thrown to gulls, and there'are gulls in plenty who will bite. But nobody pays any heed to platforms after election. They are rolled lip and thrust into the waste basket, where they are soon forgotten.- Butflrien have character to maintain. Men are tangible, and Schurz and others tells us they have found in Gen. Hayes the man for the times. Where is the evidence that Rutherford B. Hayes has the nerve, ability and power to take these corrupt Republicans by the neck, and pitch them out of doors ? Who are the men who are to-day' managing his campaign? Zach. Chandler is the guiding hand, and don't you suppose that in the event of. Hayes' election Chandler will say, "I! am the boy that did it, Rutherford?" [A voice?"Of course he will. It's just like him."] Oliver P. Morton is a bad, powerful man?a man : of desperate energy, whom the people may well fear, and who has been going night and .day, with all his tremendous force, fighting the fight in Indiana. Can Hayes take such a man as that by the ear and walk him out ? I would; like to see him do it. Would not Morton say to him, if he at? tempted anything of the kind, "Who made you what you are ? We have put you here. You dare not rebel against the party. You cannot make your small? est appointment without our consent." It is too good a joke to talk about, this idea that Hayes will' riot be hampered, bound fast, hopelessly fettered^ by these unscrupulous managers of his party. It is true that he has been Governor of Ohio, but what has the Governor of that State to do? Once, when Sal? mon P. Chase was Governor' of Ohio; a friend asked him how he got along. "Oh," replied the Governor, "I am get? ting on swimmingly. Nothing to do but pardon criminals and sign commissions for notaries public." (Laughter;] The Governor of that State really ha3 nothing to do. He is deprived of the veto power and therefore can exert no influence over legislation and so his posi? tion is purely ornamental. Can any man here to-night remember any single notable thi^gfliutberford B. Hayes ever did, or any stand for opinion he ever made? Did anybody ever hear him say to his party "stop!" or hear of his kick? ing over the party traces, or of antago? nizing anybody or anything? In short, did you ever hear of him anywhere? When Grant sent Federal troops into Louisiana to trample out her State Gov? ernment and put his foot upon all decen? cy, Wm. M. Evartssaid to him: "You are doing that which you have no right to do. Ycu are outraging liberty. You have put in power a Legislature not elected by the people, and are destroying the only safeguards of American free? dom." Did Hayes lift up his voice against these outrageous tyrannies? Not that we ever heard of. But he has been in Congress (at least I hear so,) but though I was in the same Congress, I assure you, I never knew him, and have no recollec? tion of having ever seen him. A few days ago, I was talking with a friend in Ohio, an earnest Republican, who asked me if I did not remember Hayes, over at the right of the Speaker's desk in a por? tion of the house that was then called Sleepy Hollow? I was forced to confess my inability to recall him, but when my friend mention? ed him as the dispenser of bouquets fcr the ladies, it flashed upon me that I had seen such a person?a mild-faced,-candy whiskered, pleasant-mannered gentle? man. But that was all. At Saginaw, last uight, I stopped with my old friend John F. Driggsj.but he, though a member of the same Congress with Hayes, could not recall him as a member of that body. It is claimed by his supporters that no attack can be made on his record. I ad? mit it. Yqu cannot attack the incorpo? real air, and inasmuch as Hayes never had a sign of a record the assertion of his friends is true. I have here a copy of R. B. Hayes' record in the Thirty-ninth Congress. I did not compile. it myself, but a very careful friend did it for me; there is no donbt of its correctness, as it is taken from the Qmgfesuonal Globe. Here it is. He presented ten petitions, offered six joint resolutions, made four motions, introduced two bills, delivered two speeches, neither of them as long as this (holding up a short printed slip,) and made two reports, both verbal.? Such was Hayes' record at a time when Congress had to deal with the great question of reconstruction, and when Blaine, Thad. Stevens, and other leaders of the party, , were carrying on the im? portant party debates which distinguished that important session. I know that Ruthy Hayes is an agree? able gentleman, a luxurious, mild, easy going person, who will loll in a beautiful painted boat and float serenely down the stream until a storm overtakes him.? Then he will paddle hastily to the shore, tie his boat securely and lie under the protecting branches of a big tree until the calm and the suushine return. Neither Blaine, nor Morton, nor Conk ling, nor any of those ambitious mana? gers, has any idea that his administration could control them?they intend to con? trol the administration. Even Schurz, who is said to have inspired at least a portion of the letter of acceptance, will have to take a seat in the second row. Mr. Hayes was not nominated at the de? mand of any public sentiment, but, as he himself confessed,'by a mere acci? dent. On the other hand, what kind of a man is SamuelJ. Tilden? [Wildest cheers.] Ah 1 here is a man of another sort?a man of positive opinions, who grapples with an enemy (and he has plenty of them, as all aggressive men have.) He fights au open, square, earnest battle, and, I add, he always gets the victory; [Long-con? tinued applause.] He has never been an office-seeker, and, except a term in the State Legislature, he never held an office until he was sixty years of age. With a brain large enough to lead, and a power that made him a necessity, he took office at the demand of the people. He traced corruption to its source, and pur? sued Tweed mercilessly, never letting go until he had him on Blackwell's Island with the convict's stripes on bis back. There was the answer to the anxious question, can a man be raised up who will deliver us? and men of all parties gave Samuel J. Tilden the grandest ova tiou of public opinion received by any man of his generation. [Cheers and applause.] He was nomiuated for Gov? ernor and elected over John A. Dix by 44,000 majority. That, gentlemen, is a certificate of character I will put against all the lies Decoy Bliss has told. [Cheers, applause and waving of hats.] After his induction in office as Governor he continued his battle against thieves,; smashed the powerful Canal Rjug, and; made himself 5 feared .by corrupt (ipen everywhere:* W t ?l-U s i k v Public opinion said this is the man to. root out corruption in the national gov? ernment; and from all over the country went up the demand fpr his notnjrliiion for the Presidency. John Kelly tried to defeat it, but the people had spoken, and no power of the land could prevont the result of the .St. Louis Convention, ,1h 1872! othe Democrats met the LIB??ls magnanimously. In 1876 the Liberals of the country are coming to the Demo? crats, who, by their acceptance of Horace Greeley, threw- behind tlrem? Tdi Athe Botirbanism they ever 'had; and with j God's help, (and I believe he is helping; us,) we shall bear Samuel J. Tilden intof the Presidential chair on the 7th of No? vember. ?<.' . '? fl { At the close of the ;speech.the immense audience burst into a whirlwind of ap? plause, in which even the ladies joined with the utmost enthusiasm. The roar of voices ceased for an instant, and then, as if carried away by their recollections of the masterly effort, the whole crowd, with one accord, renewed the cheering, and kept it up until it became almost deafening. The persons on the platform crowded'around the gallan t old war horse, pouring congratulations upon" hirb, arid thanking him, with unmfstakablefeeli^g for his magnifiicent effort. ?*>?.* Bloody Threats. : ! ^ t Now that the election of Mr..Tilden is assured beyond any reasonable doubt,' the Republican managers, who cannot bear to loosen their grip on the'-Treasury]'Or to have exposed their still concealed-ras? calities ana robberies, begin to threaten resistance to his inauguration. They employ the language and breathe the fanatical and foolish spirit of the most violent class of the secessionists of 1861 iu regard to Mr. Lincoln. Blaine, in his speech , at Buffalo,.told, the people that if New York voted for Tilden he would certainly be elected, and' then asked: "Will you) allow him to be inaugurated in that event?" A promi? nent speaker, who had thoroughly can? vassed his State, recently went to Wash? ington and admitted that Tilden would carry it largely. But, said he, "before he shall he inaugurated the streets of this capital will rua with blood." The St. Louis Globe does not mince matters, in giving utterance to the pur? pose of those for whom it speaks, when it says: "No man elected by the process resor? ted to by the Democrats of South Caro? lina will ever be allowed to take his seat as President of the United States. This is our deliberate judgment." We advise these persons to keep cool and not to let their angry passions rise. It will be hard to resist the inevitable re? sult which is now foreshadowed. Samuel' J. Tilden will be elected President, and the four millions of voters, North and South, East and West, to whose suffrages he will be indebted for the offi66, will see to it that he is inaugurated on the 5th of March, 1877. The office holders, the rings, the job? bers, the thieves, the carpet-baggers, and the rogues, who have had fulfswing for^ more than fifteen years, and have run this Government like a close corporation for their own profit, leaving to the people the privilege of paying whatever taxes they imposed, will die hard, of course. But they had better not try a rebellion to retain possession, or threaten to break things because they are to be turned out. Some of the usages of Mexico cannot safely be tried in the United States. ' "' We are a law-abiding people, and Our habit is to submit to the decision of the ballot box, even when it is notoriously stuffed, as has been the Republican prac? tice for many years in Philadelphia'and all-over the South under carpet-bag rule." Nobody fears that Blaine would lead any resistance that he might incite. He is no more dangerous now to the reformers than:he was to the rebels during the war,' when he hired a substitute who finally brought up in jail, while Blaine .himself, expended his patriotism in the lobby,; and jobbery illustrated his sense of public^ duty. 1 When Calhoun threatened nullification^ and violent opposition to the execution, of the laws, G<*h. Jackson did not hesitate to say he would hang him as high as Hainan if an attempt was made to put these manaces into execution. Blame will take good care never to get his neck, in the halter if he can avoid it. Butj sorae of his deluded followers may get into an ugly scrape by this sort of vapor? ing, which is intended to intimidate the weak and ignorant. If they are wise at all, they will accept the admonition to keep cool, and be prepared to see our. Uncle Samuel inaugurated like all his Sredecessors in the Presidential office.? 1 Y. Sun. Looking foe a Job.?With the cer? tainty of defeat staring the Union-Herald in the face, which must result in the stoppage of that journal, induces ita publishers to cast about them _to see I where they can get employment.? With this object in view it has been enquiring: "Where do you buy your meat?" as much as to say that some of the party intends starting a butcher wag' on; and again, it asks: "Whosaws your wood?" thus showing that the establish 1 ment has parties connected with it who can turn their hand to more things than one, and that they are seeking employ-.. ment.y This is commendable?honest in? dustry is what is needed to restore this people and State to prosperity, and we kuow of no other den of corruption, the closing of which would tend so much to stop the flow of pollution and crime as that of the Union-Berald establishment. Let those connected with that sheet seek and obtain some useful employment, whereby they can earn an honest living, and they may again become respected members of society though they seem to understand full well that their con? nection with that paper has so degraded them in the eyes of honest people that they cannot hope to get anything but the most menial service to do. consequently they propose going into Ine meat ped? dling and wood sawing business. ? Suc? cess to them. We trust our people will treat them kindly, and that they may never be caught in such a scrape again. ?Columbia Phoenix. ? A California man was married in double-quick time the other day. Tak? ing his affianced with him, he drove in a buggy to the residence of a justice of the peace, where he halted. The justice then went on with the ceremony, order? ing the twain in the carriage to join hands, and in a minute from the time the buggy drew up to the justice's door, the newly married couple were off in their equipage again. ? He had slipped on his coat and hat and got as far as the gate when his wife overhauled him. "I want you to help, me take in the plants,:M"she cried after him; "there'll be a r frost to-night." "Let the plants go to pot," he snappishly responded with a darkening face. Then he gave her a startled, look, softly smiled, and she smiled, arid then he returned. 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Concern is'expressed in some quarters about themethod.of counting the votes ,for President andt;^ice-President, upon the idea that the election will be close and may be attended With possible danger.? This anxiety is misplaced, and these fears may be dismissed. In the first plac<vMr. Tilden's majority of States in the electo? ral college, and of the popular vote, too, will be so large as to furnish no 'pretext for dispute. In the second place, the Constitution provides? the only existing mode^ by .which the election, shall be formally verified ; for after'all, it' is nothing more than a verification of 'a result already deter? mined. That clause in the Constitution is explicit enough, when not broken into fragments. It says, Article II., Section 1: ' "The electors, shall meet in their re? spective; States,: and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same Slate with themselves. 'Arid they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they shall sign aud certify, and trans? mit sealed Jto the seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the Pres? ident of the Senate. The Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and .the votes shall be counted." ,.u ... The act of March 1,1792, was passed to carry this clause into effect. It pro? vides how the eteettfrs shall be chosen, when they shall meet, and to whom their certificates shall be sent. Also, that Congress sbafl.be in session on the second Wednesday in February "for the purpose of counting and declaring the vote."? The practice has been-for the two Houses to meet irt joint-session on that day, and for the Senate to appoint one teller and the House* two, to record the votes as read from the certificates of the electors, which had been previously "directed to the President of the Senate." j On the 6th of February, 1865, the Re? publican Congress adopted a joint rule, which placed it in the power of either House to raise objection to the counting of any vote, and declared "no vote ob? jected to shall be counted except by the concurrent votes of the two Houses. It is easy , to see that, with a Republican ' majority in the Senate aud a Democratic majority in the House, very serious diffi? culties might arise in high party times like the present. This joint rule is now dead, as the House at last session refused to readopt it, and with very good reason. So the count will take place under the constitu? tional .provision above cited, unless the two Houses should come to an agreement as to another mode, which is hardly probable. While no trouble is to be ap? prehended, the desperate Republican leaders who have control of the Senate will stop at no means within reach tore tain power. Hence it is desirable, not only to elect Mr. Tilden, but to elect him by so overwhelming a vote that the cor? rupt and wreckless managers at Wash? ington will be awed into submission and silence, and the Administration of Grant will go-down into disgrace, without the voice of a disturbing faction to distract public attention. How a Wife Was Restored to Health. An almost miraculous cure, says the Chicago Tribune, is reported from Shel? don street, the patient being the wife of a well-to-do citizen. She has for years been ailing, or thinking she was ailing, and recently took, her death-bed and kept her husband unhappy by lamenting that she was going to die. Yesterday her, husband went out and got a buxom young widow, who is her particular ab? horrence, to come in and look over the house. The dying woman heard him opening doors and explaining things,' and lay wracked with indignation and curiosity. Presently the buxom young widow departed and the husband re? turned to the sick-room. No sooner had he entered than she accosted him: (. "Peter Whitebead Hollingwortb, what have you' done ?" '.'Nothing, my. love, nothing. Don't .excite yourself. Be calm. Only as you were complaining that you couldn't get up to see after things, and that the house was going to wreck and ruin, I thought I'd ask Mrs. Dasher in to let me know what could be done to save you trouble and relieve your mind of anxiety." "Oh, you did?" she murmured with a deep inspiration. "Yes, I showed her all over the house." - "And the beds not made, and every? thing like a pig-sty!" "Never mind, my-love.- I'told her that she must excuse it, as you were sick, because you were a good housekeeper. Arid she said you must be." "Oh, she did?" "Yes, and said that if she had .her way she'd have a new set of parlor furniture in, and less vulgar wall paper, but that some people had no taste anyway, and? by the way, Maria, you and Mrs. Dasher are pretty much of a size, ain't you?" Then he fell into a trance that lasted for some minutes, then muttering, "Well, perhaps they'll fit; if not, they can be made over." When the husband weut home last night he was surprised to see his dying wife up and dressed, and bossing things with a metalic ring in her voice and a glitter in her eye such as he hadn't seen there for years, and when he innocently remarked, "Why, Maria, I had hardly ex? pected to see you up again," she said,-"! know it, you bald-headed old reprobate; but I'll live to bury you yet, 2nd if that paiuted Jazebel comes into this house again I'll tear her into cotton waste and jute strings." A Soldier's Confidence.?One day, when Napoleon I. was reviewing his troops in Paris, he let fall the reins of his horse from his hands upon the ani? mal's neck, when the proud charger gal? loped away. .Before, the rider could re? cover the bridle,, a . common, soldier ran out from the ranks and placed the bridle again in the . bands of the emperor. "Much obliged to. you, captain," said Na? poleon. The man immediately believed the chief, arid said: "Of what regiment, sir." Napoleon, delighted with his.quick perception and ready trust in his word, replied: "Of my guards I" and rode aw ay. As soon as the emperor left, the soldier laid down his gun, saying-: "He may take it who will, and instead of return? ing to the ranks whence he so suddenly issued, he started for the company of staff officers. They were amazed at his apparent rudeness arid disobedience of orders, and one of the generals contempt? uously said: "What does this fellow want here?" . "This fellow," replied the soldier, .proudly, "is a captain of the guard."' . "You! my poor friend; you are mad to say .so,", was the answer of the superior officer. "He said it," replied the soldier,, pointing to the emperor, still 'in sight.... "I ask your pardon, air," said the general, respectfully ; "I was not aware of it.".. .And so the. soldier camei. duly to his post as captain pf (jjapoleon'a guard._. . ...rirs.Y, .'? .'? ? ni!.'rV ,. ? "Stove lid currehcy" is'what they