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Announcements of marriages .nj ileaib?. and notices pf a- ellrl<\?s character, are *0.|.ectfullr solicited, and will bo inserted gratis rXOU.UU BEFORE THE COMMISSION. 4 Specimen of Nr. David Dudley Field's Argument. ?ii Iiis opening speech before the Elec toral Commission, Mr. David Dudley field wtiti : There lt no pretence that thc true nud lawful vote of the State of Florida was not given for 'thc Tilden Electora, but Uic r.ulo pretext, ia that the truth cannot lu- proved against the certificate of Hearns. That tmtb is rolled up and concealed in that "certificate, and Con ?ress, whether acting in separate houses or joint liouae, cannot consider any act which h certified by Stearns. You may ask, In the first place, upon what founda tion that as you arc told that you are to take that certificate as conc.Ciive evi dence against eve.ything that <'<Ht!d bo proved on the other side? By what rule of evidence-by what doctrine of law are you deprived of the right to examine into the truth? Is it not a uni versal rule that every judge is invested ex necessitate with power to take all pertinent evidence in respect to fa~*i upon which his judg ment is to be pronounced, unless there he some positive law declaring that certain certificates or other documentary evi dence shall be conclusive? "Snow me," (.nid Mr. Field, "the positive law which makes the certificate of Stearns evidenr j ag-inst truth ? Where is it?" It is not in thc Constitution, that is certain , it is not in the laws of the State ci Florida, that ?H certain. Is it in any law of.Con gress? The only law I know of bearing on it is the act of 1792, re-enacted in the Revised Statute?, which states that the Executive ol the State ohall deliver to the Electors ii certificate that they are Electors, but it does not state that it shall be thc truth. Suppose I offer to prove that a certificate is wholly false atm fab ricated for thc purpose of cheating. Take one of the oldest and proudest of States of this Union, the State of Massa chusetts,^ of trbich my friend Mr. Com missioner Abbott is PO worthy^* represen tative. Suppose -that the honored Gov ernor of that State should become so debased and fallen ns to certify that in thc recent election the Tibien and Hen ricks Electors had received a majority of the vote? of thc people of Massachusetts. Docs ap* pinn mean to tell me that you cannot prove that Certificate to bc falsi'? Where is the law to support ouch a state ment? Nav, more. If an act of Con gress lind declared that that certificate sbouid be conclusive, that act would be unconstitutional, and for litis reason, the Constitution declares or asserts that the person having the highest number of votes shall bc President.-not the person declared to have the highest number of votes. You cannot, therefore, manufac ture a certificate to take from the penum pctually having the highest number of voles such rights as he is entitled to by these votes, und if you were, by un act of Congress, to declare in the most positive terina that the certificate of the Govurnor should be conclusive against all proof, you would trunscend the limita of organ ic law. Yon cannot say that the certifi cate of the Governor of Massachusetts, for example, should override the votes of tl??' Electors of" Massachusetts. You neild i!"t do so if yon would, und lam. buityouj v^ntjld- hot ifiyoii ?otild. The lrtnthsge of. tho act of Congress is dot as strong as the language of State law gen erally as to tin* canvass of votes, lake t'ne case of Wisconsin, lhere tu /law of thc State had declared that the State can vassers should determine, certify, and declare the result-uhould declare who was Governor. A man got into the office of Governor upon such a certificate declar ing that he waa elected. A rival claim ant brought tap the ease upon a writ of quo warranio. The first party had his position and claims advocated by the ablest counsel of inc Stuic of Wisconsin. His argument was : You cannot inquire into the case, because tho certificate of, the State canvassers is conclusive. "No," says the Court, in an opinion which does them immortal honor, and wind; will re main a living mr?m?i?dnt of tho nntriot ism ol' that Court and its inflexible de termination of purpnae OR -long as thc re port shall last. "The title of the Gover nor depends upon the votes of thc people, upon those little ballots placed in ballot boxes declaring the supreme will of the people. It is not who shnll bc certified by a board of canvassers, but who iiave been voted/or by the people." The Court dec] ?ired that the claimant was entitled to the office, and it ejected the usurping Governor. "What is this commission to do? It is to declare whether any and what votes are votes provided by the Consti tution, not to declare what are those votes certified by Governor Stearne?. You arc to certify what are the lawful votes upon which a President of forty-five millions of ^ nie is to bo declared elected and to be iii- cted into oiSce. Is it not implied that n writ of quo'xearranto to try the title of the President of tht? United'States is within the purview of thc Constitution ? Can anybody. i|oubt it?, ^The .Constitu tion linsfdcemvfd that tht? person "having the -highett number bf votes? shall be Presjdent j not the^person certified to. It has not invested any triu?iiinl with exclu "vQifttirf fr?nnatter hew Uetm-mined hy.tt?rj pMiniinary. autlitfriiyf there still remains the right to enact'a law giving tue right to the exercise cr a writ of quo varranto. No such law exists, I am sor ry to say, and, if I might be permitted ? say so, it ought to exist I ought not to say, perhaps, hut I must say it in bulb, that it is no small reproach to statesmanship thai for one hundred years no law has beep .provided to meet the emergency with' which wo' are now Drought face to face. I know that one eminent member nf this commission (Senator Morton) hal labored assiduous* O' S???I zealously to have r.ueh a law passed, arni of all the titles to which he ^n lay claim for respect, I anr-ure that ii!." 11 uc. remembered hereafter to his ?n? micr me struggle ol tue Pacing hour hove closed, when the time * " c"'?o when men may look at his prave, they will not. remember him by .'') contest in which bc was engaged, but jat :?r that in the service of Ins corntry ne labored, although hitherto unavailing ly", ?"--hieve a b?n?ficiai result. But ?nether there bc <i law entitling to a *ri? o' qUo wnrranto or not in the case ?' ? I resident, I .tuiufc, all. parties will Wee that such a hiw would he conatitu '"'"?I ; and if a law to provide for a writ " quo warrnnto would he constitutional, '"en it is constitutional for any othei "bunn , sitting in the placo of a high nouiml under that writ, to investigate ti . iTi t ift ,0 RAy>if y?" cnn devolv? ?.at title upon nny tribunal which von ill '.cr,cntt,i "nd von have not 'created jn.ys?eh tribunal, von are here in lin Y uKitnino ?jourt: tn neiermine it niUHt po to,those duMes and perform ?Mi ru,nct,onB nhd receive that cvidenci ceiv TU Cmlrt wn,,t(1 Perform and re tn ?i!? ? V?Mf* another rrinaidcration a; ??#? l"??^^#?lrt**nJi?> evidence n,i that in, that fraud vi tintes all transao % I will not nrgue that thu judgmen ;mi.(;QU,rt of con,P??ent jurisdiction can bi ??g?erted col?nterally for fraud. If i r^JJteit wotild he against public poll t^gj^^tt'd bea eennrjnj t<; ipqnlrc in whn?.v">*?" oi "corruption of. a Ittdgi jurfg-o li MWrfgHi r?rtn the J*acfi. sud therefore fflmi motives of public policy it may be true that until the judge be impeached or removed you can not inquire into tho corruption of his act*. I venture to nay, however, that there it no document anywhere that you cannot impeach for fraud. There is not a ?Ingle transaction that I have ever heard which nhould lead us to the conclusion that you cannot inquire into tho falsity and fidelity ur truth ol a transaction, and I put it to the Court that, independent of the ques tion whether if a judge were mistaken, and it be shown that ucting in the ext' ciae of his judgment, and from a desire to d? justice, he had erroneously certified a thing tu he true (which I have no do6?i you could inquire into)-I submit that if you nhow that he corruptly acted, and that be was bribed or led astruy by his hunger for office, or thirst-for power, (not lesa than by thirst; for gold,) you can impeach his act?. Who is he whose acta we are asking to impeach ? lt is the then Governor ot Flurida, M. H. Stearns. Stearns is thc man who sent a telegram asking, "On what ground can w.- throw them out?" and who received foy answer, "Fraud or intimidation," or something else. Stearns is the man wiio controlled tho puppets of the canvasing board,'who were to decide whether or not he was to exerebe Lue office of Governor for thc ror,t term. Is it a correct proposition of luw that you cannot inquire whetherthat man has acted fraudulently? If it be true that the certificate cannot be gone behind, then it is equally true whether there was an election or not. Suppose I prove or offer to prove that on the 7th day of November there was no election whatever in the State of Florida, and that no man voted or cast a ballot, and a cer tificate should come here signed "M. H. Stearns," could you say that that shows that those four men were elected at that election? "To that complexion must I come at last." There is no middle ground. If you can inquire into the truth of that certificate you can inquire into every fretin relation to it. Such, Mr. Pres ident aml_ gcrttlemen of the Commission, isas brief a statement as I can make of the facts and law ns we understand them to-dny. Thc greatness of the question in respect to the dignity of the Presidential office and the enormous interests depend ing upon it are as nothing compared with the moral elements involved. True it is that thc person to whom you give your decision will be for four years thc Chief Magistrate of forty-five million people, will be commander-in-chief of your army and navy, the organ between you and all foreign States, the bestower of all offices, the fountain of honor and power, and executor of your laws; but that isas nothing compared with the greater ques tion, wliether qr not the American people stand powerless before a gigantic fraud. Herc is this certificate (holding it alon, in his hand ;) one feels almost reluctant to touch it. Hold it up to the light ; it is black ..with crime. Pass it around. Let every man 'see it, and then tell me whether or not that certificate gives a title to an office contrary to truths as we can prove it. One of. the greatest - poet* of the palm! J st day? of English literature, writing of the coming of our 3aviour, said : And ancient fraud shall fail. Returning Justice lift aloft nor scale. Ancient fraud 1Waa there'e'ver fraud like thia? In all previous ages fraud has succeeded only Decade it has been backed by the ?word, and protesting peo ple bave been powerless to resist the force of armed battalions. Never before now in the history of the world has a fraud succeeded against the conscience and will of a self-governing people. If it succeeds now let us cover our faces with shaine. Let us take down the statue on the dome of our Capitol, which every morning faces the coming light. Let ns clothe ourselves in sackcloth and sit in ashes fire ver. . TH? NEXT CONGRESS.-There will be very little difference in tho strength of thc parlies in the next Congress, and party lines hat? to be drawn very closely tu order tu pr? ve ti i tue House from re lapsing into Republicanism and to keep the Senate from becoming Democratic. Tile Democratic majority in the House, should the New Hampshire elections go against us and the Returning Board frauds in Louisiana and South Carolina stund! will nut h? more ?han six or seven votes. The defection of four men, or the sickness or absence of seven, would make the body Republican It will be absu i .i i...i.y necessary fnr every Democratic member to remain at his post dunn:; thc whole session, or ihe must mischievous consequences may Sow from his absence. Judging from tho votes of the present House it will be the strictest party ques tion only that will get a full party vote. There has also been a gr .nt change in the composition of tho Senate. Four years ago tho Republicans had a full two-tl) i rds majority in that branch of Congres?. Lust year they had forty-four Senators and the Democrats twenty-nine -a worktng m.|iuum:iiM .??hjosii.y ui ni teen. On the 4th of March next the Senate will stand : Republicans, thirty nine; Democrats, thirty-four; conlev.lod state, three. The contested "?eat? are from L<sufstarta< *M>d South "Carol??iT: With r?gard tn Soiitlr"Cartilina,*!W?w.it|k it may bermt fk\? assn ni ed that even if General M. C. Butler is not admitted a new election will be ordered, and this nsw election is certain to result in a Democratic Senator. Weare equally as firmly perruaded, says thc Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, that the seat* from Louisiana will be awarded to the Demo crat??. Such action would give the Re publicans a majority of two, and if any of the Liberuls leave them, ns they may do, ihe Democrat? will have a minority'. It will be a chao ?bare :n beth Hcuses ?if Congress. Too LATE.-A Washington corre Hptindeui oi tue r?ew xoric ?xpre*? mm touches up Senator Robertson : "Thc South Carolina .Senator, the nativ? Southron, 'to the manner born,' is iou late in the day with a defense oi his State and lier people; something be propos?e to make in a speech before he shuffles oil i forever the official coils he has worn foi sc vern I years. His day for this would have been when poor, down-trodden, tax ridden 8outh Carolina had no Hampton nt the front tn haiti* ?iih right sed '^ffi ; cinl power on his side as her chief execu , tivo and to work ?uccessfu'.ly for her . Smith Cand.ua owes nothing to Senatui i Kobe,hon. He han never, in all tin i long years he ha? '??en her representativi ! in the United 8tates 8enate, said a wort i from his seat in favor of the attempt tt i cast tint from her, like so many uucleai . sniri H, the devilish crew who have beet raiding upon her lor theft ninny uu?mpp; i venrs. lier star has waned. It lattin \ late. Feeble a* he ia, Robertson miffh - have at one time immortalized himsel ? by n vigorous, manly, determined nttacl . upon the carpet-bag crew who have not thrown him overboard-but not now, no t now. There are Democrat-in Congres ? from the South wno appreciitiG the cn t dilion of tho Palmetto State better ths - (his now repentant gentleman, and tlicl - enpoilKal CUihlJiiWAea AM .-?Von .sweeter t IL he.- friends;Jlbart anything this nativ r bVrn Rln?uMi?to*buji t?? bY : HAMPTON'S GOVERNMENT. A Colored Republican OD the Hltaatlen ia Huath Carolin?. Senator Robertson, of South Carolina, in the course of some remarks io tbc United States Senate favorable to the Stovern ment of Gen. Hampton, read the ollowing letter from Joseph D. Boston, of Newberry, a prominent colored man. Mr. Robertson stated that he waa person ally acquainted with Boston, and knew bim to be a man of good character, who enjoyed the confidence of the eutire com munity in which ho lives, irrespective of partv or race. We. commend thia letter to the malconteute who are seeking to create trouble betwen thc races : NEWJJEBBY, S. C., Jan. 27, 1877. Hon. T. J. Robertson, U. S. Senator: Sin-Permit me to occupy a small por tion of your valuable time with now, . suggestions on thc state of affaire, past and present, in the State of South Carolina. You know mc to bo a colored man, a Republican, and, as a member of tho House of Representatives of the Legis lature, of this State for four terms, an ardent supporter of Republican princi ples and institutions in all political con testa in thu State. It io therefore as a colored man and as a Republican that I make this appeal to you to make use of j your-personal and official prominence to set before the leading men of the nation the present unhappy situation of the col ored race, and to suggest to them the course which appears to me to promise the solution, and thc only solution, of our difficulties. The two governments which profess to exist in this State negative each other, and leave us without any certain govern ment at all. The wealth and intelligence of the Stato recognize that Hampton, ns indeed does thc majority of the whole people, just as undoubtedly as that ma jority voted for it. Tho great uproar made about thc acta of fraud and intimi dation alleged to have been perpetrated by Gen. Hampton and his followers is without foundation, as far as my knowl edge extends. Not being a candidate for office at the recent election, I watched both parties with the closest scrutiny, in order to be able to elect for myself what course to pursue then and thereafter, and in order to assist my own race in that] contest and in its cons?quence:;. But I saw no fraud, no intimidation, practiced by the party of Hampton. Ori thc con trary, the previous majority of tho Re publican party oi upwnd of J ,700 in this county was reduced to one of 565 by the honest, liberal and fair argumenta of I Democratic speakers, and by the kind j and frank dealing of the native white citizens. They appealed, not to our fears, but to our intelligence and our con sciences. No colored man waa threatened or cheated au far as I know, and I know that a fair discussion, a fair vote, and a fair count were the cardinal doctrines of Hampton's campaign. My former politi cal associations made me somewhat slow to appreciate that state of affairs, but as I did not close my eyes to the events oc curring before me I could not help weeing it. A change thc.Svpubli?au vote in ull the counties of the State equal to that just mentioned aa having taken place in this county, would alone have secured Hampton's election. And tbut there was un equal change in the other counties, on un average, there is scarcely room to doubt, for this county was Republican and a Chamberlain stronghold, without an equal except in the counties immedi ately on the coast and Richland and Or angeburg. The evidence presented be fore the Congressional Committee is enti tied to no consideration whatever, for it j consists, for the most part, of the state ments of ignorant, prejudiced men, hired, trained, duped, and, in all pniuabiHiy. forced by .ambitious politicians and office-: j seekers. Bul, whatever may be said in regard to 1 the conduct of the campaign and the j election, it b indisputably true, according to 'he admissions of all races and parties ] of men, that the colored people are in the moat wretched situation they have ever known since their emancipation, both us to their present condition and j future prospects. Not one of them in a hundred hos the means-owing to the bad crops of the past year and the ?ow price of cotton-to subsist himself for ; one month. They have, therefore, to de oend upon supplies to be furnished by the' whites. Scarcely one in a hundred own* a cabin to shelter bia bead, or even a foot of g.ound. Homes, therefore, and foodvhavc to be supplied by the whites to them, either as laborers or tenants. And the prospects of this beiug done, as things nr.tr stand, arc most gloomy. And this is not because of anything like ? general proscription of colored .nen as Republi cans. That threat was only a brutton ful m?n employed by a few excited Demo crats during the campaign. There ia no danger whatever of its being carried out. except perhaps against a very, very small number of colored men whom their neighbors may consider dangerous to the Scace and good order of the community. _ome of the most ardent colored Repub lican-) in the county now have, anti are secure of. the vcrv best situations filled by men of their qualifications. The whites are indisposed to hire or rent land to colored men, partly because they see no prospect of realizing anytning from it in tho present state of the State govern ment, but chiefly because they arc unable to do .so. They-live and: operate upon credit 'just ns we do. Their supplies are not sufficient for their own subsistcneer much lesa for the subsistence of another population more numerous than them selves. They arc unwilling to risk their small means upon any venture, in this stato of public disorder and distraction ; and if they f.-H "bat the impotent shadow of authority Known as the Chamberlain government were to be set up over UB as the government of thia State, they would refuse to hazard any outlay of money, ?unniie* or nrpriji . anti tnpv COU ld not bc blamed for their refusal. But thc white? cannot supply us, if they '-ould, out of their own storeR. They mr it have credit in thc towns, and the merchant must have credit with dealers out of the State. This credit is not to bc had while the deadly upas of the Chamberlain government blights tho land with its ruinous taxa tion, its wasteful expenditures, its dissen sion-sowing among thc people, its utter inability S icgh&ic ss cur necessities demand, and its contemptible impotence to enforce the laws even so lar as to pro tect tho lives of the people. SoJdjejH may gunrd that Executive in hirf?fpoVs they may hold tho j State Hfcase t?T[$\ self-styled legislature, they may terrify and silence the public voice, but all the armies cf America cannot give hopq to a robbed and ?wretched population, or HC Cure it that ere lit, at home or abroad, which is necessary for subsistence and the conduct of life's business. And thb all of us feel. And, on the other hand, we feel that the fair, firm, equal and hu mane administra lion M l?tapton would secure every man bis rights, would secure the enforceme*". of tho - laws as they non stand, would harmoniie men of all classes n at lei^^j^rjM/i^^r^ff^t0*!*!^^ r of bmdui;?,' voul'd save great suma o o money tn tbu/pcpplc, would jcapire hora e and eno^art?roo, would vastly atrength J cu ?Afr Out afiftM, and, ia set tu active and harmonious operation ? all thc now clogged and grating maebin- j ery of thia CommomveultTi. Ti1'-! I 8?*y, is the sertiruent of the colored man aa I well as of thc white man, and, if it could ! be put to thc vote, would be thc expres sion of nine-tenths Of our whole people. I beg that you will exert yourself to present these things properly before our friends at thc North. I know that there are incendiaries and office-seekers, who. having no real concern about us, will scoff at the appeal, but I am sure that, if the honest and true men of our party could know but half our unhappy condi tion and half the real feelings of our people, they would hasten to spurn from them Chamberlain and bis idle govern ment, and acknowledge Hampton thc Governor of S-.uth Carolina and the Governor of nil her citizens, without dis tinction. I have the honor to be very respect fully yours, JosEru D. BOSTON. GEN. G KANT OK THE FUTURE. A Reorganization of Parties Near at Bland-The Month to Divide as aoou as lt Becomes United. Washington '?i!'gram I? the AVu> i'trk Tribi-.ne. WASHINGTON, January Ul. The President while conversing on the Electoral bill to-day, branched off upon a discussion of? what he considers the present tendency of political parties in this country toward n complete reorgani zation. He said he ha* observed u move ment in thia direction for several years, and that he accepts thc reaction of 1874, known as the tidal wave, as an indispen sable evidence of it. He then said he thinks the Republican party will be able, in a great uieasu e, to recover its lost ground, aud possibly to maintain it through another Presidential term; but thc experience of 1870, though favorable to the Republicans in the local elections and to a great degree in the Congressional districts, proves to him that, on National questions, the time for reconstruction of political parties has come. He doe* not mean by this that he believes that the Democratic party will ccrtaiuly secure Eermanent control of thc government, ut simply that tho Republican partv, shattered as it is by internal dissension, will only bc able to rally its torces and harmonize ita diverse clements upon annie new question. He said that, of course, no one cnn know, until the result of the election is officially declared, which puny will securo control of the Executive branch of the government, with its ex tensive and potential patronage. But, whatever thc result of the present contest it will only postpone thc reorganization of which ne spok . The President recognizes the fact that the South now presents a united front when permitted to act unrestrained by the interposition of local constituted au- j thority to prevent the white people from ' resorting to illegal means of carrying the elections in these Suites. In those sec tions ot the North where the Democratic victories were gained contrary to former results the means by which they wmv ob tained may be considered exceptional. He thinks that before the end of thu next Presidential term an entire reorgan ization of parties will take place in the South at least, and that in tho contest of 1880 that section of the country will not again rote any more solidly for thc Dem ocratic candidates than the North for the Republican!* Tn the South, os political contests arc new carried OU( ibero is in his estimation neither a Democratic nor a Republican party. The struggle ia simply for political power between the white people on the one hued, who desire to ignore the blacka entirely, and the col ored people on thc other. The lan to the Republican party of all the Southern States, under these circumstances, he thought the natural outgrowth of the op position of thc party iu power before the war to thut which grew out of that great struggle. If Mr. Tilden is declared elec ted, , the President thinks that tho two States nominally yet held by the Repub licans will probably succumb. The mo ment this unaninvty is established, he believes that the people of the South will begin to discuss measures nf State policy, and that the result will be a division of political opinion which will crystalize into political organizations. This condi tion of affairs will be more wholesome. If nothing else caused a division, the jealousy of political leaders and the de sire to control ! offici?t patronage will cause a division where one party has en tire control. Then ho thinks both politi cal organizations will put forth their best efforts to eecure the negro vote, as the Democrats of the North have cajoled the Irish and the Republicans cultivated the Germans aud the Scandinavians. Speaking of Florida, North Carolina and West Virginia, the President said that he believes the introduction of Northern capital and the emigration of Northern meu will soon deprive them of their distinctive Southern peculiarities, and cause an ?rganizatien of parties on the same, principles os obtain in tho .VT..-.I, . . f 'UPC van DHUKKENKESS.-Those W'hp are in the habit of "taking a uip" now and then should try thc following cure tor drunkenness, which is recommended by a correspondent of the New York San ; unless, indeed, they are as much attached to the ardent as was tho confirmed ine briate who waa informed that the cure for bim lay in leaving off drinking, and replied if that was the cause he "didn't want to be cured." The remedy, if it ia a remedy, is simple, and costs nothing but a slight expenditure of moral force : "When a person finds that he must have a drink, let him tuko a drink of water-say two or three, swallows-aa ?rjfteii as thirst or craving manifests itself. Let him continue this practice. His old chums will laugh ; but let him persevere, and it will not be a week before tho ap petite for any kind of stimulant will disappear altogether and water will be taken bi quench thc natural thirst. If ut any time the victims should feel a crav ing, let him lake thc finit opportunity and obtain a swallow of water, aud he can pass and repasa all saloons. When he goes home nt night he will, fcol satis tied and be sober and havo money in his pocket." m r\-_""V- * * - - *_ gf *_ herat, Maas., formerly 8herifTof Hampton County, on starking one snowy winter* j many yeats ago to drive to Northampton I *? 0l**n Court, met a team and shinned ?j lo the driver, "Turn ?mit S am1'High Sheriff*nf the county." The man pullo* i ! his coat-collar up around his ears and rc i plied, "I don't care who you arc ; I r.m in no hurry." The result was that the , Genera! had tc unhitch and lead hiv i . bowe by, while the stranger went his i way. ' Meeting another team before , reaching Hadley, the Sheriff" tried the . aame'game with better success'''Haying, I "Turn nut! I am High Sheriff of the ; county. If you don't I li' serve you as I r did a fellow I met back here a* piece.'1 , The mau unhitched ina jiffy, put bb I sleipi . on tho bank, Hud let tho Sharif f pa**, and, jw he did so. called out to him ) ''What did yod do with that fellow bael . therat ".Oh*/' *?Idl. tho 'Oeheritl. "ht i 4 ?TOlan't turo tftit} ?J 1 tutrred dun" SOUTH CAROLINA'S RIDDLE. D. II. CHAMBERLAIN PREPARING TO STEP DOWN AND OUT-RESULTS OF GEN. RUGER'H EVIL WORK-COURTS AND STATE OFFICIALS IN A QUEER STATE OF UNCERTAINTY. Corre iponience ef the Sew, York Stn. CHARLESTON, 8 C., Feb. 1. The clewing hours of Chamberlain's cnreer in South Carolin?, hnve come. The sign which formerly told where u back-stair approach could be profession ally engaged to uny of tho departments of the carpet-bag government has come down. Chamberlain, Melton & Wingate have dissolved t'odr law firm, and the two latter are alone in the world. No longer doea tho Executive head of the State throw off the cares of public life and spend his evenings in counselling f?ri vate clients. He ts absorbed in mnk ng bis own affairs as nearly bomproof to law HS his fertile brain cnn engineer. He is even setting his house in order for an early departure. His fine mansion is for sale. It has been offered at a low fig ure several times during the lust week. It is of no use for Chamberlain and his tax gatherers to remain any longer in thc Suite, for they will get no money. At present these officials are sadly neglected, and their doors are never darkened by any of their former victims. Under Til den these doors will be closed forever. But if Huyes should bo declared elected, Chamberlain will probably he a shining light in the new Administration. His friends claim that he is to bc the Attor ney General In that event, and will here after be found in Washington, running the national machine. I suppose, upon the samo plan as that by which he has gutted South Carolina. Ibis is to bc his rewind of runrit for securing thc Electoral vote of his State. Tho rest of the fraternity are equally disturbed with their reticent chieftain. They, too, are like him, preparing to fold their tents und steal away. Even tho money changers, who have been reap ing the heavy agios between the face de mand of State [Kiper and its market value, are closing up their shaving shops, mid bidding their former friends farewell. State paper has lost its charms for them, notwithstanding it :s down to twenty cents on the dollin They were once lions. Hut circumstances bevond their control have intervened, and the real lion has come. They ore selling out whatever they have on lynd that is mer chantable. It is time these gentry were gone. Their presence only has served during the last two months to make thc anarchy they have instituted the more apparent. It lias encouraged the lawless negroes to violence and aggravation. Tiii-t has been, perhaps, moro conspicuously felt in this section than elsewhere in the State. H.TO the municipal government is in the hands of the Republicans, and is as yet unassailed in its strongholds of oppres sion. The Mackey .Cunningham city tax for this year is a quarter per cent, higher than before upon tbe stilted assess ments of last year ; while tor all thc good it doea, the municipality hud belter not exist. During the day the white ladies, and the chih'.ren going to and from school, aro constantly annoyed by the negroes. Insulting remarks, thetis from the person, and rude jostling r.pou the sidewalks r?.-e of every day occurrence At night the professional thieves ply their culling as regularly ns an industri ous mun goes to his daily labor. Almost every house in the city has been stripped ot ita lead piping and copper pumps. The police seldom if ever rest these offen ders. In several houses thc annoyance hus been so great that a nightly watch is kept up by one of the family, and in some instances thc burglur* have paid thc pen alty for their felony by carrying off a load of lead they had not bargained fur. The usual channels of correction for these abuses, the courts, are bad at best ; but now they are all in confusion. Judge Reed, who sits upon the lench here, has bis Beat contested by Whipper, thc negro Judge elect; the clerk, Mr. Wi Hi man, who sits at his desk, is litigating with J. H. Ostendorff, who waa elected iii No vember by 6,000 majority. The Trial Justices, who originally had jurisdiction over all criminal cases, ure duplicated as Hampton and Chamberlain appointees. The State Solicitor, Buttz, has abandoned his office to tako his seat among the ex treme Republicans in the National Con gress. Tno jurymen are twofold, and each drawn upon doubtful venires by a Democratic or a Republican Jury Com missioner. In fact, it would exhaust a term of court to decide who is to consti tute it, and then it could not bc assured of its own position. The State Supreme Court is busy try ing to unravel this tangled web. Its docket contains questions as to the tenure .of office of Governor, Licutenant-Gov eruor, every State office, half the Clerks, Sheriffs, Judges of Probate, all the Coun ty Treasurers and Auditors, Trial Jus tice:', and Jury Commissioners, aa well as of two of the Judges, with a possibility of thu whole Circuit Bench being evicted. As yet they have made little progress. The only caso decided was that ol" the Presidential electors, and that question went off on technicality, as improperly brought before the court. In the Circuit Courts, where some of these Issues have been decided, thc de crees of the Judge? have been nt variance. Judge Reed of Charleston has held that there was no legal election on Nov. 7 for Clerk, Sheriff and Judge of Probate, and that the old officers hold over, while Judges Townsend, of Marlboro, and Northrop, of Laurens, havo seated their newly elected officers. Judge Carpenter has decided there is no legal Governor, und that Chamberlain holds over as u tlc facto Governor, while Judge Mackey's decree declares lor Gov. Hamptons All this litigation is a bonanza for the lawyers. But the departure of Chamber lain win make a vast UHIerence in tbe condition. With him will depart all opposition to thoso wdio were legally elected, and the Stute will once more set tle down to peace ami the production ol cotton, rice and naval stores. VALUE OF THE OYSTER.-Gov. Kemp cr, of Virginia, in his recent messuge ad vises a lax on oysters, and to give un idea tif the value of thc fisheries he says: Thc c;l:.T..;!c nsroittfors }???ici-u -upon thc annual value of the oyster fisheries cannot bo successfully assailed. It hat ben ascertained that in the year 18011 s^x thousand five hundred and two vessels of all kinds and sizes, with an aggregate carrying Capacity of eighteen thousain eight hundred and seventy-six toils, wer* engaged in taking and transporting Hu ow.t?m of Virginia tn market. In 187. the f?cto Wficderived from local observa lion, and published, that five build rei i thousand bushels of oysters were mutual > ly snit to market from Chiucoteagm , inland alone; that they were ?old a . from sixtV'live to ninety cents per bush I el; and that the cost of planting, guttier ' lng'and marketing each bushel did tm t exceed " air average of thirty cent?. 1 J would b? a ?needres.-'. connu ti ulion of tim , to cite other (act? going ut ?how that th : annual valuWf al lt rm oyster fisheries ? i the State'!? not lita than twenty milH?n l*fitJ>JlhiW. THE GROWTH OF FREEMASONRY. M AUK KI) DEVELOPMENT OF THE CRAFT -TUE URANO LODGE OF ENGLAND TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED LODGES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM - WHY A WOMAN WAS "MADE A MA SON." From tht London Standard. ?t would acc::i that, financially, matters arc most flourish i og with tile Freemasons, not to say nothing ol provincial charities ami deeds of benevolence done by indi vidual lodges throughout the Kingdom to their members ami families wheu in need of assistance. The three great ceu tral charities, the Hoys' School, tho Girls' School, and the benevolent Institution, received during tho twelve months end ing the hist day of last year thc largest totals ever reached, thc aggregate hiing over ?311,000, and exceeding that of the year before by ?7,000. Thia financial prosperity of tue Masonic charities ia an index of thc increasing popularity aud rapid extension of Freoiuasoi.rv in this country. Hut even without this guide it must have been patent to all observers that during the last few years thc devel opment ot "the craft" has been most marked. It has made great progress all over thc civilized, and oven wnut wu cull the uncivilized world. It shows in creased vigor in India, in China and Japan, and even in Africa; while in the United Stales, in Canada, and all our colonies, it lia-- grown during thc lust quarter of u century, and particularly within the lust decade. Hut in no coun try has the progress of the fraternity been so marked a? in our own, from which what may be called "modern" Masonry, has spread into all other countries, or fruin which, at least, they have received very great assistance in their develop ment of it. The Grand Lodge ol' Eng land was established in 1717, and in 1813 existing diflcrences among English Ma sons as to certain points of ord . and ceremonial ware settled hy the acknowl edgement ol thc one common jurisdiction of the United Grund Lodge of Freema sons' Hall. From this hitter year thc grout progr?s of modern Masonry may be dated, out its greatest advancement is rather of the last ten or even five years. The English monarchs and princes from the reign of King Athelstane (A. D. 020) down to the present era, have from tii:.e to time given encouragement to the craft ur become actual members ol' it. The grca'cst impetus of all imparted to it was the installation ol'the Prince of Wales us Grand Master bf English Masons in thc ??pring of 187."), when the ceremony in the Albert Hall presented a most striking spectacle. Tuc number of lodges under the English Constitution 'lone ii now little short of 1.0UU, comprising well uigh 500,000 members, to say nothing ol Ma sons "unattached," while in Scotland and Ireland nearly nae thousand regularly constituted lodges are reckoned, aud hardly a w eek passes without a new one being consecrated in some part of the United Kingdom. During the hist two years the desire to become a Mason has amounted to a positive mania, and at thc present moment it hus been computed that nearly one out of cverv four or five men of thc upper ami middle classes is a Mason ; and thus Masonry may have al ready begun to lose some of its interest in thc eyes of "outsiders," who used to look on a Mason as a most mysterious being. Familiarity, if it docs not cxactlv breed contempt, is u sad detractor of charms of many kinds; but if from its increasing popularity, and its members outnumbering thc rest of the community, .Mason- loses some of its peculiar attrac tions, we ahull bc able lo console our selves with the thought .that thc spread of un institution founded, us it professes itself lo be, on the basis of uni versai charity, will promote both peace and happiness. Il may bu asked, what is the secret of this popularity of Frccmpsonry, und what is the special influence at work which makes il just now more popular than ever? A full auswer b< this would iu volve a long disquisition. Suffice it to say that thc first and chief attraction ot .Masonry is tho mystery with which it is surrounded, combined with an antiquity muru than respectable, and a universality greater than hus beou attained by any religion in tito world. Although tho fact hits been questioned, it is generally be lieved thut Masonry is of pre-Christian origin, and since its origin its principles have remained unchanged, aud one great central idea hus continued io run through nil its forms mid ceremonies, though they have received, from time to time, in dif ferent conn trie), certain modifications, additions and diminutions. Herc, then, we have the great fact that a world-wido institution has existed for au immense length of time, and that up to the present moment thc outside world is in absolute ignorance of thc specific forms and cere monies, thc aigua and puss-words connec ted with this wondrous fraternity ; its general principles, which it makes known itself, ard all that non-members know of it. This is in . itself enough io attract candidates fur admission, prompted, as they probably are in very many cases, by no higher fecliug. than that of curiosity. If, as some will have it, there are.no secret sign:, and ?.ords by which Masons can recognize one another, thc curiosity is none tho less to ascertain for a fact whether this he so or not; for it would bc equally na astounding a fact that the secret of ibero being no secret has been kept as that tho real secrets should have remained inviolable. lt was curiosity which lcd Hun. Mrs. Aldworth to secrete herself in a Ma-sonic lodge and discover the .secrets of thc craft, thc story of thc "lady in thc clock case" being by no mean-? apocryphal, aa even thc generality ol' the Masons themselves are inclined to j treat' it. It is simply an historical fact j that the Indy just mentioned did so secrete herself, and further, that when discovered she was at once "marin rx !kf?. son." o.,e continued to take an active interest in the Order throughout her life ; she founded thc Lublin Benevolent In stitution lor Orphan Daughters of Mu f sons, and her portrait still hangs in a principal lodge-room in Cork, and under it, in a glass case, the Musonio apron and jewel she used to wear. Whether curi osity will ever incite another lady to at I tempt to elude thc vigilance of tho "tiler^' ; remains to be seen ; out it may be taken i fiir granted th?* xr.zr., vrhn, perhaps, ??? r'really'as much creatures of curiosity as i those to whom they specially attribute , this weakness, will continue to bo Influ ' onced by it to join the mystic fraternity. ? That Masonry will continue to make I progress among us for a long timo to > come may bc taken as assured, for in ad ; muon to.thc attractions-m.* stied, senti > mental and social-already mentioned, . and- apart from tho "less wortny motives I which gain its adherents, it presents a - special ticld for charity which many pcr i sons of "cosmopolitan" views are most i ready ni embrace', and tho substantial - good it ls known to do ls a grout nttrnc - timi iii itself, ft is a mle of Masonry t that ita members should never "tout" for i converts or adherents hy proclaiming its o virtues. Stiii, its good deeds .cannot ro e main under a bushel. Thoy Docomo, as f lt v/^rei public property,, and.an atlvei s tittrhent in themselves.. Tb? 'mofa J?a ^?fttfy tfW?re if in *ftw woila tut) ?feftferi Though some few suspicious monarchs have discountenanced and (-ven perse cuted it, and though a jealous Church has excommunicated it, the wiser among mankind have recognised in ita powerful instrument for the advancement of peace and good-will among meo. The Scarlet Forer. It ia us unnecessary fer a child to die of scarlet fever, s?yo Good Health, as it is that il should be blind witti cataract. Let us see : At any l?itfe before the body has finished its ineffectual struggle we uro able to help it, not by wonderful medicines, but by the knowledge of anat omy and the application of common sense. We consult the sympathetic nerve, and do what it commands mi todo. We must give this child salt when it wauls it; we must give it acid when ii ha* fever-not vinegar, bul lemon juice, because the first coagulates albumen, and the latter does not on account of the sur plus of oxygen which it. contains. To imitate the soothing mucous in the in test ines, which is now wanting, and to give some respiratory food at the same time we add gum-arabic. To restore and relieve the injured nerve we apply moist warmth. 7n practice we can fulfill u'.l this with the billowing simple manipula tions: Undress the cln.d and bring it to bed nt tho first sign of sickness. Give il, if it bas already fever, nothing but warm, sourish lemonade, with some gum arabic in if. Then cover its abdomen with some dry flannel. Take a well folded bed-sheet and put it in boiling hut water ; wring it ?ml dry by means of dry towel-., and put this over the flannel on tho child's abdomen. Then cover the whole and wait. The hot cloths will perhaps require repeated healing. Ac cording to the severity of the case and its stage of progress, perspiration will com mence in thc child from ten minutes to two hours. The child then > isa ved ; it sunn falls to sleep. Soon after the child awakes it show- slight symptoms of re turning in linniiou fur food; help its bowels, if necessary, willi injections ot oil, soap, and water, and its recovery will be as steady ns tho growth of a green house plant, if well treated. Of course, if the child was already dying nothing could save it. or if it has effusion in the lining of thc heart or brain it is much better it should die. But ?filie above is applied under the eyes and direction of a coinpetv.it physician, I will guarantee that it?! ont in a hundred will ever die nf scarlet fever. I know this will startle some of my readers, especially those who have lost children already, but I shall pi still further. I maintain that a child will never get scarlet fever if properly treated. If a child has correctly mixed blood, it will not catch the disorder if put in bed with a sick child. This is still moro startling, but nothing is easier nf proof. GRENEUBB IN GRIEF. -WC are con vinced that the entire press of the Slate will sympathize most deeply wi h Col. Thomas F. Greneker of tho Newberry Harald in the crushing calamity that has come upon him. On Inst Saturday night week his chicken conservatory was en tered and three fine female chickens stolen. Such un outrage rarely occurs even lu these degenerate days, and in his paper last week the gray-haired, grief siricken old gentleman pours out his sor rows with an etoquence of utterance but rarely surpassed. Sympathy is a won drous cure for suffering souls und hence this lachrymal tribute-we mingle our tears with his and think of "the other heart that will ache" when its loss ls fully appreciated. We had hoped thnt at thu next meeting of the Presa Associa tion our good old friend would bc free from the bodily ills under which he has ..rntiVred for months but now a cloud has settled upon his lifo which the touch of time alone can dispel. Hear him as he soliloquizes about his "rooster's reverbe rating thunder" mid his "six lovely pul lets 1" The general public will not be sur prised at our ahow nf ay m pat hy when we say that Greneker ?oves fried chickens better than any other dish prepared by human bands, and that the robbery of his linn house has appealed directly to thc tcm?c?c?l p?fl ?if his tirari--hisatom neb. So greatly baa he been moved by his los-i that he has written a stanza to the three "lovely pullets" he will see no more forever. If his musa will ever sing at all it is when the chickens are waatiug away with choiera or when some impious hnnd robB his henroost. "Pity the ?or rows of a poor old man." Will Speights or Farley or Bacon please pass round thc hat ?-Abbeville Medium. GOOD ADVICE.-In the pocket-book of Hon. Stephen Allen, who was drowned when the Henry Clay was bumed on the Hudson several years since, was. found a printed slip, apparently cut from a news paper, of wljich the following is a copy.. It is worthy to be engraved on every y tiling man's heart: "Make few promises;: Always ?penk the truth. Never speak evit of any one. Keep good company or none. Live up to your eng-agemmit*. Never play a game of chance. Drink no kind of intoxicating liquors. Good character, is abovo all things else. Keep your owii secreta if you have any. Do not marry until you can support a wife. Never horror if you can help it. Keep yourself innocent if you would be happy. When you apeak to a person look into his face. Make no haste to be rich if you would prosper. Ever Wyo (misfortune j excepted) within your income. Save when you are young to spend wben you are old. Avoid temptation through fear yon may not withstand it. Never run into debt uuless you see a way to get ont again. Small and steady gain gives com petency with a tranquil mind. Good company and good conversation are the sinews of virtue. Your character cannot be essentially injured except byyourown acts. If any oue speak evil ol' you let your life be so that no ono will believe him. When you retire to bed think over what you have done during ?he day. Never be idle; if.your hands can't bu employed usefully attend to the cultiva tion of your mind. Bead tho above maxims carefully at least once a week." - Dr. J. C. Ayer, the great pill man, has been pronounced hopelessly insano by a number of physicians. - A Georgia couple,. who recently traveled fivo hundred mile* to get mar ried* have just se pa rs ted because the wife insisted on putting her. feet to. the same hut brick which the husband or dered her lo brit.g to bed for his use. - The Colored Baptist Convention of Alabama, takes a discouraging view of the religions condition nf its race in that State. Tho report of ono of its commit tees; siiys there is "a confused and be wildered state of things'* ftimjirtg tho min ister* and churches ; that there is "very li. ld spiritual, moral, and educational advancement, that the outlook for thc y pu ny is very dark"-that 'S.UeihperaVic*| immorality and ignorance.' a?eni? to ,be bonding the rac? in their ?lavish cbBlntt t" , .??fad Jacnt\??equenct> of faim? doctrine* Hen ; ftrnh froraJ^lplterarv^iW LhGAK A?VBRT?si/ta.-\1* ar?compelled to require caab payment? for advertising ordered by K-wtor?. *i~:;???r^tcr; ipi s^r tSac?srUs and herewith append' the' rcfe*f>r tba ordinary notices, which' will oalYaWti bwerted wbon th? IUUDO; coate* wirb ton omvr: Citation?, two Insertion.-, ...? $3.00 . BBjjaifcNotUc?,.threeiniertto**, .- ?.- ? 3JCS Final Kfttlement*. ?-?. insertion? - ?> *M TO CORP- BP O SD KM T?.-1? order ts rcccirs attention, co menial cit; oe s oatt be accouup? fited br the true name and addreea of the writer. Re jected manuscript* will not bo ?temed, onleaa lat? neoe***ry ?tarnpp are furnished to repay the pott**;? thereon. ?rs- We ara no. responsible for tn* views and opinions of our coi respond? nt?. All communication* should be addressed to "Ed itora Intelligencer," and ell meek?, draft*, money orders, Ac, should be made parable to thc order of 1JOYT & CO.. Andenos, 8. C. Substitutes for Coffee. To show how different men's minds naturally run in different channels on Might suggestions, ' o will repfat an amusing conversation we once heard be* 'tween an Episcopal preacher and a bon vivant. On thc occasion spoken if the Rev. Dr.-was thc guest of a r Ithy planter who had an elegant residence about two and a half miles south of South Florence, sud who was notoriously hos pitable in that hospitable section of peo ple. He always kept thc best of wines and liquors ttl hits cellar, and never failed to say "here goes it." It wes sn tho carly part of the great war, when the scarcity of coffee had put the people to trying various substitute*. Rev. D.-(stirring his cofiV',) "I gee. Mr. J., people are now drinking a good desi of rye." Mr. J.-"Yes, sir, rye is very good. I much prefer it to corn." Rev. D.-"Neither do I Uko the flavor of corn. I've tried that." Mr. J.--"Coiu does very well if it is old." Rev. D.-"Ah I does that make a dif ference ?" Mr. J.-"Why, yes; indeed, it is not fit to drink under three years old. I have taken ouitc a fancy of late for ap ple." Rev. D.-"Apple? why I never heard that it was made from apple, but I am told thal the potato makes a rich and palatable drink." Mr. J.-"And I never heard of that. It must bo Irish. I think I must try some. But after all there is nothing like amid peach sweetened with a little honey.*' Rev. Di-"With honey? why, that is remarkable. While I nm with you, if it is not too much tnmblc to have it pre pared, I would like to taste it." Mr. J.-"Oh, no trouble nt all. Wash, bring the peach and honey." The decanters were brought, when it was discovered that each party lind his mouth set for an entirely diff?rent bev erage, but mutual under.-landing Wt? reached, and Mr. J. tried tho peach, while the parson stuck tn the Brazilian berry. All Sorts of Paragraphs. - Missouri last year raised 40,000,000 pounds nf tobacco. - Next io a diary, the most difficult thine to keep is a cedar pencil. - Il is notorious thal a duck ?if a lover invariably becomes a goose of a husband. - The financial pressure is loosening. Even the days are not so "short" ns they were. - The Louisiana orange crop last year was worth about $200,000 on ihe trees. - Flowers nre too beautiful to be loaded down with scientific botanical names. - "Cleanliness ts next to Godliness," and that's thc reason the washing is dune the day after (sunday. - Slaverv is diminishing every year in Brazil. By the law of 1871, all the children nf negroes aro born free. - Mr. Jefferson Davis ls about to oc cupy n house nt Beauvier, near Missouri City, there to write tho reminiscences of his public career. - An editor's excuse for discontinu ing the publication of his paper was, that everybody else stopped the paper, and he thought ho would. - i robabililies : "When you see a man going home nt 2 o'clock in the morning, and know his wife is waiting for him, it is likely to be stormy." - If you are spoiling for a row, just ask a girl, who hus gotten a few years up in the twenties, if she don't think, this Winter is colder than that of Iwoif. - The New York grand jury has made out au indictment against tho officers of the Security Life Insurance Company, for affixing their names to false state mpiits. - Tho Portland Prest lins just paid one dollar to settle a $10,000 libel nuit, and the Rochester Democrat says that "con sidering tho hard times it was too much." - "Ma," said a little follow yesterday, while looking at a picture of Cupid in & valentine, "I should think that litt lo angel would rather have sonto clothes than those wings and a bow and arrow." - "I don't like dem goats, nohow," said one darkey tn another. "I kan steal a sheep or a hog. nnrj you'!! nobber o var V-M squall, but dem cussed goats bah any way you fix 'om. Niggers better leave 'em 'lone." - "Ladies and nnttamen," said, an Irish manager to his audience of tbreo, "as thero is nobody here, I'll dismisa you all. The performance ?? this night will not bo performed, but will be repeated ? to-morrow night." - A Rhode Island man has written e lecture, entitled, "Whom Shall I M?;rry ?" It is a fine work, but, so far as we aro able to see, holds tr. the old opinion that, after all, there is nothing better than a woman for a man to marry. - The commercial editor isa man who is ?unposed never to Indulge in humorous remarks, and yet once in ? while we read in his column that "whisky 1s strong and in great demand ;" orv again, that it is "dull with a downward tendency." - "Handsome i* that handsome does," quoted a Chicago man to bia wife, the other day. ''Ye?," replied ?he, in a win ning tone, aa she hold nut her hnnd. "For instance, a husband who is always ready to hand some money to bis wife." - "Second class in grammar stand np I" said the schoolmaster. " 'John ls a bad boy*-who does John correspond with ?" "I know," said a little boy at the font, holding up his hand, "if yon mean. John Smithers, he corresponds with my ?litter Susan ; here's a letter he just gi' me to carry home tn her." - "Grandma, do you know why I can see up in the&ky ao far?" asked Charlie, a little four-year-old, of the venerable Indy who sat on liv garden ?eat knitting. "No, my dear, why ia it?" "Because thero ls nothing in the way," replied the . young philosopher, resuming his astro nomical search, and grandma her knit- - ting. - A prominent CoonecUcut writer ie. noted for neglect in hi? personal appear ance. The night before Ch ristmas tl gen tleman spoke to a f riend of making tba author a pr?tent. "I want to get some thing that he would keep," observed the gnntlemnn. "In that case % would sug B*t n calc? 'of soap," remarked tho lend. - Buxton ?aid: Tho longer T live, the more I am certain that the great dif ference between mBn-~Dstween;fhft Pw$W.o and the powerful, the great and tue in significant, Is energy-invincible deter ruination--a purpose, once1 fixed, iand then, dertth ,ur victory I That quality will do anything that can be done tn thia world ; and no talents, no circumstance*, no onporiunitie*, will make A two-legged creature a man without lt. - .?'?'????' "~:.v BapplnfM ind pIl?pVMJ" ?3?|lfM 'to ft thrifjpsttfl>itr& (rom JI<|sr*ebW .Oroplh shquld try UK ffali'