The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, March 15, 1877, Image 1

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*m*mi^*m*m*m*mmKJmam*?imm*m m-w*??-?-.?w,?,?? n? ?i?u??j?.w?i.?-?? i?- u II unwin imi.imi i IIIIHIIWHIIIWIIW rr--1--r---rn- ~ ---~---. ?.. ? ... . --n T II --*""* - ^.iinlM?t2lttt Vflt^ltiilPlir im i mil i : M i; (f v.- ' ! ?mm ;? ;t "jITV '? L'_ i Iii . Ai'. BY HOYT 4c CO. ANDERSON. S. C., THURSDAY. MARCH 15, 1877. VOL. XH-'-?m 35. i R i rta or gusscsiptioy.-^tyto ivnxaja* 1v-r?naaro.?ndOBKl)oi.u?.?for ?ix month*. ' sateiiptiuni ?o? tak? for ? ten period i hin ?i* ir?or:thf. liberal deductions mad* to club? of Vea or !3*!*e&Zef?-- ? - . ?J?TSS 'f?r '.- ? ...-wv ye. .quire ol ono Inph fer tao flret(paerttorr,aad Fflljr Cent! i"?r?quar* OTatebc^amtfasaitlonsIoaethan . ...1- mnnlbi. ita ad ?cr ?l?rm ont* Mani*4 UM ? t, vu a lauare. Libers! eon! n^j^Jll b? wad? wltjj ty?*? ?"?1?'Vrt^^^t^lc^fn^t^ Im mediate DuitaeM of Ut? flrn ox lodi T (dual coat? aa .1 adrertUlDg ratea. Announcement* of nrxrrUfaa und de?.lhf, aaa ncllcc* ?fa rclUrtow character,are r. -|.<-itrullv solicited, and wMl^laaerttd abat?a WM. M. EVARTC, ?ECRBTARY OF ?TA??-. William Maxwell Evarts, wbomPrcAi-1 dent Hayes has chosen to bc his Secretary of State, is, like bis predecessor in that office, a resident of Second avenue in this city, and is the peer in every way, and in legal learning and ability mora tban thr peer, of his distinguished neighbor. It is little more than a quarter of a cen tury since Mr. Evarts came to thin city, ami was admitted to practico in thy courts of this State, but in that time, .mort as it is, ho has earned the first place, net only at the Bar of New Yor? but of tho country. He was born in lloston, February 6, 18L8, his father, Jeremiah Evarls, being a lawyer of fair practice and gc jd ability. Ho entered Yale Collcee at an carly ago and waa graduated In 1837. Subsequently he studied for two years at the Harvard: Law School, and in 1841 he came to this city, where no immcdiuicly entered upon the practico of his profession. In a few yean Iiis industry and ndelity, aa well aa bia ability os an advento, gained him a large clientage, and before he was thirty years of age he held a high position in his pre fission. In 1851 he waa appointed Uni ted States District Attorney for this dis*' trict, and the samo year ho was also one of tbe commissioners of the Almshouse, now known sa the Commissioners ! of Charities and Correction. He waa perm anently urged for United States Senator in 1861, but was defeated by Ira Harris, who wai made the compromise candidate. From July 15,18C8, until tho close of esident Johnson's administration he ,as Attorney General of the . United States, and in 18711 he was selected by President Grant as the leading counsel of tho United States at the Geneva arbi tration. Last 'year he was prominently advocated for the, Pepublican. nomination for Governor of this State, but tho snme ?pirit of compromise which defeated him for the Unf?^ StatesSenate?n f ^con tributed lo deprive nim of tho nomina tion for Governor in 1876. These arc tho only public positions which he hos. ever held, or to which he was supposed to as pire, and it is at the Bar where he gained ins most conspicuous and distinguished honors. When Mr. Evnrts retired from thc District Attorney's office in 1853 was formed thc law firm of Butler, Evarts & Southmayd, now known as Evarts, South umyd & Choate, and it was as a member of this Cnn that he gained his high place as a lawyer and publicist. While he was United States District Attorney his moat prominent case was that which grew out of the Cuban pr Cleopatra, expedition. Early in'185l an expedition waa fitted nut by John I. Sullivan, a well known journalist, which was to sail in thc Cleo patra to aid in an insurrection to be begun ni Cuba, Warrants of arrest were issued to prevent the Bailing of the expedition, ana were served when the Cleopatra had steam up ready to Gail. The trial of the' filibusterers lasted a month, but the jury failed to agree. ? Mr. Evarts' next famous case was the celebrated Lcmmon slave case, in 1853. A vessel containing slaves belonging to Mr. Lcmmon was dnven by a storm into this harbor, and thereupon writs of habeas corpus were obtained to have cause shown why. tho slaves should not bc released,' being in a irce State. Mr. Evarts appeared to represent the State of Now York, and the caso was carried to tho Supreme Court of the United States, where ho finally succeeded in obtaining a verdict against the claim ant. He was counsel in the great Parish trill case,in Traich aa attempt was rssde to break the will of Henry Parish on the ground of the mental incapacity of the testator. A still later caso in which Mr. Evarts was engaged was one in which the will of Mrs, Gardner., the mother of the widow of ex-President Tyler, was contes ted on the ground of undue influence on the part of Mrs. Tyler to obtain the mak ing of tho will. Although a Staten Is land jury found against the will Mr. Evarts Anally gained . his case before the Court of Appeals. When articles of .im peachment were brought by thc Houso of Representatives against tho late Presi dent Johnson Mr. Evarts was called to Washington os counsel for 'he defence, and his effort on that occasion is almost as fresh in. ?tho mirths of the people as his arguments in the Tilton-Beecher case two years ago. For his legal champion ship of Presid?nt Johnson he was re warded with a place in the Cabinet, as bis recent championship pf Hayes before thc electoral tribunal gives him the first placo in tho Cu1,1 net of the new Presi dent. In person Mr. Evarts is tall and slender; he is fragile almost to attenua tion, and so far from suggesting' the idea of a vehement orator, ne impresses one as a man of retired scholarly tastes, gen tle manners and academic belongings. Tall, thin, angular, long headed, with a square and prominent forehead, dork haired and darksklmled, with a face per fectly smooth but thin, cadaverous, shrunken, deep-set gray eyes, a promi nent nose, and a square, decisive, finely chiselled, chip-such i? Wm. M. Evarts, the new Secretary of State. In none of h?B ways has ho the magnetism of a great speaker. He hos a clear, sharp, ringing voice, though .it-is BO?HM^F&V pr -musi cal. Hi?!a?ti?nis ?pat?ngl-buS elective. In making his points he ia lucid, precise and cogent, seldom, rhetorical or orna mental. He lias an easy, colloquial way ; he is never in haste ana never hesitates. His style is. classic Jin its correctness. His sentences oro long and faultless, and freighted with words which' show that profound thought is selecting felicitous vocabulary as it goes along. He baa ? fine humor, but it is tho hnmor of culti vation, not the coarse fun of the vulgar. His appeals to tho intelligence of juries ?re the highest in their1 tone, tho broad est in their scope and the deepest in their power of any mudo in modern times. Yt cbster fcas not moro logical,- Story was not a more thorough lawyer, Choate not J more billiant verbalist, nor Sumner a firmer believer in pure moral power, ms argument in behalf of the election ^Jaayca was the strongest in the late '"|~pa;gr., nu?! iu Lia subUety of intellect, "is strength of character and hh firmness and rectitude of purpose will the new administration owe much of whatever s?ccc5s it attains. JOHN SHERMAN, 9EC!>i?rARY OF THE TREASURY. t J^^wroanl ?qr/mTt**2[ot - "~~U> j , 11CU urjcu 1?? ?JBlij yea.? "iei chairman of tho Senate Committee ?n Finance, and is, perhaps, more familiar than any of oar public men with nnanclal history Of tho country since the .>egtrij,?ug of ?no "greenback"*' ero. He ootn at Lancaster, Ohio, May 10, J?A his father, Jndge Sherman, being. MLA?? tho Pioneers of Central Ohio, who ^ j?J829, leaving a large ramil/^nd Rr7 *<?*>? property, ilia brother, Gcu. wcT?>/ secured ike advantages of a west Point education, but John waa lesa wturtsto. For him only the schools of ms natlrc county were open, and he quit "icm nt fourteen years of age to begin tho "tpicst work of lifo. For somo years he *as attached to tho engineer corps of the 'inskingum improvement. Ho afler Znv r?,moved'to Mnnsfleld. whore he h {o? aw nnd admitted to thc Bar n 1844. Ho soon won a lucrative prac ?ve, and attained, whilo quito a yourig num. a leading position* both at the Bar end in politice. In 1848 and 1852 he ?nu .". delegate to tho Whig National conven tions, and was a warm supporter of both General Taylor and General Scott for the Presidency. During tho political excite ment of 1864 which followed tho repeal of the Missouri Compromise he became a candidate for Congress from the Thir teenth Ohio district, and he was elected in a district which had previously been democratic by the aid of whigs, demo crats and freesoilers. He was subse quently re-elected to tho Thirty-fifth, xhirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Con gresses, and in 1859-60 he was the rn ?ublicau candidate for Speaker of the [ouse of Representatives. The contest was a memorable one. For nearly six weeks the House spent day after day in yoting for a presiding officer, the repub licans iu soiid body saying bis name over and over again wheo the ballot was called, untifit was said that you could not ask a republican member even what he would have for breakfast without his shoutiog, "Johu Sherman 1" lu the end, however, Mr. Pennington, of New Jersey, was chosen as a compromise, Sherman lacking only ono or two votes to secure hi? election. During the Thirty-sixth Congress he was chairman of the Com mittee of Ways and Means, then a more powerful committee than now. Previous ly be had served on the committees on naval and foreign affairs, and gained dis tinction in each. It was claimed for him that his defence of Commodore Paul ding's course at San Juan was conclusive against the reflections of the Navy De Eartment, and during the Kansas-Ne raska troubles he gained great distinc Uon as a bold and skilful partisan. In 1861, when Senator Chase resigned to accept a place in President Lincoln's Cabinet, Mr. Sherman was chosen to suc ceed him, and be has remained in the Senate ever since, serving os chairman of the Finance Committee and os a member ?i those1 on the Pacific'Railroad and thc udiciary. Although an active partisan he hus never allowed himself to bo misled by party, and he has generally been re Sided as one of the fair-minded men of e Senate. As a sneaker Mr. Sherman ?B chiefly remarkable for* his calmness, lucidity, quiet vigor and manliness o? statements, his rhetoric possessing no or namentation and his real power resting in the good judgment and good sense oi bis utterances. He is very toll, very thin, lymphatic in temperament, with brown nair turning to gray, blue eyes, s fair complexion and a thin beard ol Bandy gray hair, only shaved on the uppoi lip. Ile is cola ana reserved in manner, but his friends say that he is cordial ano hearty, and his experience in the Senate certainly fits him for the now duties tx Which he has been called. CARL BCHURZ, SECRETARY OF THE IN TERIOR. Carl Schurs, the new Secretary of the In terior, is a German by birth, having beer born at Siblnr, near Cologne, March 2 1829. He was educated at the Gym nasium of Cologne and the University ol Bonn. His early life was soraewha varied, and he figured successfully aa i wildier, newspap*i correspondent, editor lawyer, ?bc. He joined in the r?volu tionary outbreak in 1848 and assiste? General Kinkel in the publication of i liberal newspaper, but oiler the unsuc ccssful attempt at revolution at Bonn ii the spring of 1849 both were compellei to flee. As adjutant he participated ii the defence of Rastadt, and on its sui render made his wsy to Switzerland. Ii 1850 he rescued ??akel /rom the forties of Sp?ndau, and then took passage in i schooler for Leith. In 1851 he wa Paris correspondent of some Germai newspapers, and in 1852 a teacher ii London. In tho latter year he marrie and came to this country, first residing for three years, in Philadelphia. K afterward settled at Madison, Wis. I 1856, during the Fremont campaign, h became noted as a German politic: orator, and delivered his first Englis speech in 1858, at the time of tho famoc contest between Lincoln and Douglas fe the United States Scnatorship. For Bom time he practised law at Milwaukee, an in 1858-60 he gained considerble dfcitim tion ss a lecturer. In thc Republics National Convention of 1860 ho exercise great influence, and his political servies were recognized by President Lincoln i 1861 by his appointment as Minister 1 Spain. There was no opposition to hil in the Spanish Cabinet owing to his re1 olutionary antecedents and lie resigne to accept a commission as brigadier goi of volunteers. He rose to be a maj< general, and distinguished himself in tl battles of Bull Run, Fredericksbure ar Gettysburg. In 1865-6 ho was the Wosl ington correspondent of a New Yoi paper, and in 1867 he assumed the edito ship of the Westliche Post at St. Loni His report as a Commissioner to ex ai inc into tho condition of tho South at especially on the Freedman's Burel was exceedingly distasteful to Preside Johnson. General Schons was a rnemb of the Nautional Republican Conventii of 1868, of which he was tempory cha: roan. He labored zealously tn the Co vention for the nomination of Genet grant and subsequently was one of t rersost advocates of his election. _ January, 1869, he was chosen a Unit States Senator from Missouri, and BO Sincd high distinction in that bod e became alienated from the admin traticn, however, and with Senator Sui uer was violon? in his opposition to t San Domingo scheme, and led in t famous attack in the Senate on t French arms chargea in 1872. He al assisted in the organization of the ?be Republican party in that year, and p sided over the Convention at Cincinn which nomin ?cd Mr. Greely for 1 'Presidency. His arraignment of Gen al Grant and his administration duri that campain was the most scathing a bitter of all the violent attacks whi were made in tho last eight years ut til? nun uilin tua inst cn .'.Ar! tr? \\n Vrt dent of the United 8t*?es. In 1875 visited Europe, where ho was reoeh with great personal distinction, and both England ?nd Germany he \ treated with such marked courtesy ? kindness as had been shown only to si eminent Americans as Mr. Evarts i Mr. Sumner. In the spring of 1876,1 Schurs returned to this country, and once took part in the canvass, support the election of Hayes with all his t?me T?ROF lit tbs csssc cf the Ecpu can party. In person, Mr. Schure spare but not thin, his face is stro. marked and his full beard and pierc eyo give him somewhat of a raephi phelean aspect. Few Americans hotter informed as to the real needi the country, and after all it ia not i prising that tho German revolutio should be asked to take care of the Hi Department in an American adminii tion. QEO. W. iTcRAfcY, SECRETARY OF M George W. McCrary, the new Beere of War, ia a native of Indiana, when wss boru August 27,1835. Hb earl] ucfttional advantages were not great, ho studied law and carno to the ht Keokuk, Iowa, in 1856. In 1857 he elected lo thc State Legislature, an 5861 ho was chosen State Senator. 868 he was first elected a Represent! in Congress from lows, and he has since been re-elected to each succeeding Con ?;ress. Mr. McCrary is a mi.et, method cal worker, and since 18/0 he bas held the position of Chairman of the Commit tee ou Elections while his party was in tho majority in the House. DAVID M. KEY, POSTMASTER GENERAL. David M. Key, the Southern member of the Cabinet, and the cow Postmaster General., is a native of Tennessee, having been boro in Greene county, in that State, January 27, 1824. He worked on his father's farm until he was twenty-one years of age, after which ho enterca Hi wass? College, from which he was grad uated in 1850. He subsequently studied law and practiced bis profession at Chat tanooga. Bofore the war he held no po litical office further than to servo as a Ti_: J_?t_i _i_._:_ (OM T-v.. . that contest he was a colonel in thc Con federate service, but he was one of thc first to resume his citizenship when thc war was over. In 18G9 he was a member of the Tennessee Constitutional Conven tion, and he was elected Chancellor of the State io 1870. In August, 1875, be was appointed a Senator in Congress to succeed his old friend, Andrew Johnson, and distinguished himself for bis conserv ative course while he was in the Senate, but was not olectcd to become his own successor.--iV. Y. Herald. RICHARD THOMPSON, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, Of Terre Haute, Indians, was an Old Line Whig. He was b rn in Culpeper, Vs., in 1809, and wen? to Kentucky in i the days of Daniel Boone, before he was \ twenty-one, and settled in Louisville in 1831 as clerk. He removed to Indiana, and was admitted to the bar in 1834. Ho i was soveral times elected to the Legisla- i ture, and acted as President of the Senate : and Lieutenante Governor. In 1840, aa \ Clay elector, he stumped the State and i wrote articles in Clay's interest. Ho < served two terms iu Congress between i 1837 and 1845. He then refused re-elec- ; tion. Last year i e headed tho Indiana . delegation at Cincinnati, and made n ; speech in support of Morton for Presi- ? dent. He ia said to be ?social, popular \ and of tho better sort of politicians. *| JUDGE CHARLES DEV EKB, ATTORNEY GENERAL, Now occupies a seal upon tho Supreme 1 Bench of Massachusetts, and is regarded 1 os one of the ablest of the reform ele- ' ment of the Republican party. At thc 1 beginning of the war, being then a prom ising young lawyer ^e entered tho Fed- 1 eral army, and sorv? d as a general officer in the army of th i Potomac, where he ! lost a limb. Bccat ? jf his judicial posi tion ho has not bien active in politics, but is said to be a pc .shed gentleman of ' high character and social position, and of great popularity and learning. Ho. affiliated with the anti-Butler wing of Massachusetts Republicans. THE DEMOCRATIC HOUSE. A Body tbat Compared Favorably with its Republican Predecessors. ;.Vo.= tk* IfatisB, ??sreA 1. Next week the present Congress will , have ceased to exist. Whatever eharnc- , ter it has had hos been given it by the House, and looking back at what the House has done, it must be said that it , compares favorably with its predecessors. : Elected as it was by a sudden ' and uncx- , pected surge of popular hostility to thc administration, by a party which had ex- , pected its candidates to be defeated, it , was hardly likely to contain a large body , of distinguished representatives, and, in , fact, being mada up to a great extent of j raw and unknown men, was exactly thc sort of House of which it would have , been fair to expect ignorant legislation , and extreme venality. Containing, too, ? an enormous, body of "ex-rebels, men , only lately disfranchised for having taken , part in war against the government, it ' might have been expected to show a great deal of blind partisanship. Yet it hos j passed fe> :er jobs than any Congress since . tho war, and hos mode the first attempt since that period to curta" tho asknowl- , edged extravagance of the government, , while the Southern wing of the House , has displayed more moderation and calm- < ness than any other part of it. It has , brought forward two Speakers, the first , of whom was chiefly remarkable for the ? purity of his character and his fairness ; ? and the second of whom, having before j his selection a doubtful repute os a poli tician, has manifested thus far au impar tiality which has at least placed him above the suspicion of offering his rulings for sale. Much fault has been found with the investigations instituted by tho House, but they have certainly differed from most inquiries which preceded them in resulting, in a few of the most impor tant cases, in unanimous non-partisan reports, and if they have revealed a shocking amount of jobbery, they have also given the reformers of thc future hitherto unattainable information os to tho nature and extent of the disease they are called upon to cure. Finally, thc pr?tent House has produced n considera ble number of able men, whose modera tion and love of justice aa displayed in their preparation of the Electoral hill, and whose good faith, not only in sub mitting themselves, but in forcing their followers to submit, to the decisions of the tribunal, alter a contest which all of their own party and a large, part of the other believed to have been decided by fraud, will entitle them to the gratitudo of the country as loug as it lasts. OLD FAMILIES.-A very searching in vestigation was carried on a few years ago in the North of England by two fani familfea who were searching up their re spectivo ancestry. The strife was g"V\t between them, each one determining to look back into antiquity further than the other. Ono of the families, whoso name was Spencer, employed an artist to_ paint. an historio scene, representing thc build ing of tho ark and tho loading Up of tho ?hip by Nosh and his sons with its mul tifarious and various cargo. On the gang-plank lading,to the deck of the ark two men were seen rolling up^ a largo box, on ono sido cf which was painted m large letters, "Relics, insignia belonging to the Spencer family." This was con sidered a cou j? tVciat bart! to beat; but the other family, determined not' to be outdone in the antediluvian pr?tons** ?f their name, prepared at great cost and, research a record of the'r antiquity. In describing the exploits of one of their ancestors at a very early day, who was represented as a mau of seme authority, this remarkable passage occurred, "Dur ing this year Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradise." - ''Is the moon made *)f green cueeee, youngster?" "No sir, certainly not." "How do you prove that?" "Oh, easy the moon was made before the cows." . - Two Hibernians were passing a sta ble which had ? rooster on lt for a weath er-vane, when one addressed the other thus : "Pat, what's the rason they didn't put a hin up there, instid of a rooster ?" ''An sure? replied Pat, "that's aisy o..oug'u. Don't ye seo i; would bo i neon vanient to go up for tho ty ?*?" ?TUE FORLORN HOPE." ?peech of Jeremiah ?. Black before the Electoral Tribunal, on Tuesday. Feb. fe?. From Hi* Qsngrtuionol Record. MB. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN : I had not, and have not now, nny intention to argue this case. J never heard the objections, nor knew what they were, until they were read in your presence this morning. It would bo prcauunii'uu in mc to attempt au argument before * tribunal like this on such a case aa thia, having had no previous opportunity to consider it which might put me in a con dition better than the judges themselves.. You have heard as much of this case and know as much about it as I do. My idea of tue duty which a counsel= lor owes to a court or to any other tribu nal, judicial or quasi-judicial, is that he should never open his mouth except for thc purpose of assisting the judges in coming to a correct conclusion ; sad if he is not in a situation to do that, he ought lo keep silence. Besides tlmt{ I am, I suppose, the very last man in this whole nation who should be called upon to speak here and now. Everybody has su??red more or lees by events aim proceedings of the recent past. some by wear and tear of conscience ana some by a deep sense of oppression and wrong. But perhaps I, more than moat others, have felt thc consciousness that I have lost the dignity of an American cit i.' U. I, in common with tho rest, am degraded and humiliated. This nation has got her great big foot in a trap. It Li vain to struggle for her extrication. I am so fallen from the proud estate of a. free citizen, you have sa abjected me that I am fit for nothing on earth but to represent thu poor, defrauded, broken hearted Democracy. And because I mtier more, they think mo more good for nothing ?han tho rest, and conclude to send mo out on this forlorn hope, judging, no doubt truly, that it matters nothing what becomes of me. I ought to go gladly if anything which I can do or say might have tho effect, of mitigating the horrible calamity with which the coun try is threatened : a President deriving his title from a shameless (swindle, not merely a fraud, but a fraud detected and exposed. I know not how I would feel if called upon to suffer death,for my. coun try, I am no' the stuff that martyrs are made of, but it my life could redeem this nation from the infamy with which she is clothed, I ought to go to the grave os freely os I ever went to bed. I seo, how over, no practical g\ ?1 that I can do, and it is mere weakness to complain. We have certain objections to the counting of this Hayes vote from South Carolina which look to me insuperable, b'it I cannot hope that they will wear that appearance* in other men's eyes. Perhaps the feeling which I in common with millions of others entertain on thia subject, presenta us from seeing this thing in its true light. But you are wise; you ore calm. You can look all through this awful business with a learned spirit: no passionate hatred of thia great fraud can cloud your mental vision or shake tho even balance of your judgment. You do not think it any wrong that a nation should be cheated by false election re turns. On the contrary, it is rather a blessing which heaven has sent ns in this strange disguise. When the omnipotent lie shall be throned and sceptered and crowned, you think wo ought all of us to fall down and worship it as the hope oi our political salvation. Yon will teach us and perhaps wo will learn (perhaps not) that under such a rule we are better Dil" than if truth had prevailed and justice been triumphant. Give, then, your cool consideration to these objections, .and try them by the standard of the law. I mean the law aa it was before the organization of this commission. I admit that since then a great revolut'on has taken place in the law. It is i."t now what it used to be, All our notions of public right and pub' lie wrong have suffered a complete boule versement. Tho question submitted to you it whether the persons who gave these vote. were "duly appointed." Duly, of course means according to law. What law i Tho Constitution of the United States the acts of Congress passed in pursuance thereof, the Constitution of South Caro iiua, and ino authorized acts of her Lc? islature-these taken altogether, consti tate the law of the caso before yon. By these laws the right, duty ant power of appointing electors is given t< the people of South Carolina ; that is u say, tho citizens of tho State qualified u vote at general elections. Who an they ? By the Constitution of tho Stat in order to qualify them as voters tho; must bo registered. The registry of ? native, citizen is a sine qua non to hi right of voting as much as the naturaliza tion of a foreigner. Now, tho L?gislature uever passed ah; law for the registration of voters, and n registration of them was ever made. N doubt has been or can be en tort aine that tho object and purpose of this om? sion was fraudulent and dishonest; fe the Legislature as well aa the Executiv Department of that Government has bee in tho hands of the most rederaptionief rogues on the'face of the earth. Br whatever may have been tho motive, nt body can doubt that the legal effect c this omission is to make the election ills gal. .< ? . s That ia hardly the worst of it. Th election itself, emancipated from all la and all authority, was no better than riot, a mob, a general saturnalia, i which the soldiers of tho United Stab army cut the principal es well as the di centcst figure. Wo offer to prove--tl offbr will go upon record, and there will standT forever-that every poll \ Charleston county, where they rusht into the ballot box 7,000 majority, wi in possessio!? of tho soldiers. A'Government whose elections nro coi trolled by military force cannot be r fublican in form or substance. For th cito the authority of Luther vs. Borde if perchance the old-time law has y any influence. Do you not seo thc bid ous depth of national degradation in which you will plunge na if you sandi this mode of making a President? Bru up your historical memory and think it for a moment. The man whom yi elect in thia way is os purely the creata sf thc military ?rOnci aa Caligula Domitian, for whom the pretoriaa guar controlled tho hustings and counted t votes. But then wc cannot get behind thc i turns, forsooth 1 Not we I You will c let us. We cannot get behind the No. That is tho law, of course. V may struggle for justice; we may cry l mercy ; we may go down on oar kue and beg. and woo ios iome little ?recog? tion pf our rights as American citizcr but wo might ns well put up ou~ pray to Jupiter, or Mars, as bring fz\t ia t court where Rhaunmanthus presid There is not a god on Olympus tl would not lisien to us with moro fer than wc shall bc heard by our adver r?es. Wc uro at their mercy : lt is ot to Ihet.i that we can appeal, because j gentlemen unfortunately cannot help You aro bound by the new law wh you havo made, You aro of course dieted like other people to onr vice of consistency, end what is done once most be done over r-rais. In the Louisiana eise the peopio ap polo led electors in favor of Tilden, re corded their act, finished it, and left their work in such a state that nobody could misunderstand it. But other persons. who? had no power to appoint, falsifica the record of the actual appointment, partly by piala forgnry ana partly by waua which waa as corrupt in morals and as reid in law as any forgery could bo. Yon thought it right and legal and just to say that you would not look at tho re cord which the people had made ; tho forgery, tho fraud, and the corruption were too sacred to be interfered with; the truth must not bo allowed to como in conflict with the imposture, lest the con eii/winn might be ?CB8ftg?Bfc This precedent mont bo followed. It is new law, to be sure, but we must give it duo welcome ; and the new lords that it brings into power must be regarded as our "very noble and approved good mas ters." Having decided that electors wore duly appointed in Louisiana who were known not to be appointed, we can not expect you to take notice of any fact similar or kindred to it in South Car olina. Then, again, the question of "duly ap pointed" was decided ia tho case of Levi see, an elector who was an officer of thc United Staates Government at the timo he was appointed, and continued to be after ward. ~ The Federal Constitution says that no man shall be appointed who is in that relation to the Federal Government. But yon held, according to law mind you, that ho was a lawful elector and his vote a good vote. In other words, a thing is perfectly constitutional although it is known to be in tho very teeth of a con stitutional interdict. Now you nee why we aro hopeless. Tile present state ot tho law is sadly against as. The friends of honest elec tions and honest government are in deep despair. We once thought that the ver ifying power of the two Houses of Con gress ought to bc brought always into requisition for the purpose of seeing whether the thing that isrirought here is a forgery and a fraud on the ono hand, or whether it is a genuine and true certifi cate on the other. But while we cannot ask you to go back behind this certificate, will you just nlcase to go to it-only to it-not step behind. If yoa do, you will find that it is no certificate at ail such as is required by law. The electors must vote by bal lot, and they are required to be on oath before they vote. Tent certificate docs not show that either of thoso require ments was met, and where a party is ex ercising a special authority like this they must keep strictly within lt, and you are not to presumo anything except what ap pears on the face of their act to bo done. If anybody will cast back his mind a little into the history of Presidential elec tions or look ot the debates of less than u Sear nco, he will remember that Mr. cffers?n was charged when he was Vice President of the United States with hav ing elected himself by means of, not a fraudulent, but a merely informal vote sent up from Georgia. The informality was not in the certificate inside of tho env?leme, bat In the outside verification. Mr. Matthew L. Davis, in 1887, got up that story. It was not true, but it was believed for a whilo, and it cast great odium on Mr. Jefferson's memory. It was not an informality that was nenrlv as important as this, nothing like it. But one of the Sanatore now 02 this bench re ferred to it in a debate only a short timo ago, and denounced Mr. Jefferson as having elected himself by fraud, because he did not ca!l the attention of the Sen ate and House of Representatives to that fact. If Mr. Jefferson's memory ought to be sent down to posterity covered with in famy because he ia his own case allowed a vote to be counted which was slightly informal on the outside of tho envelope, I should be glad to know what ought to be done to those who would count this vote which has neither form nor sub stance, which leaves out all the essential particulars that they arc required to cer tify? This great nation still struggles for jus tice ; a million majority of white people send up their cry, and a majority of more than a quarter of a million bf all colors demand it But we cannot complain ; I want you to understand that we do not complain. Usually it is said that "the fowler sctteth not forth his net in sight ol the bird," but this fowler set the net ir Bight of the birds that went into it. It is largely our own fault that wo were caught.' We are promised-and hopo the proim ise will be kept-that we shall have i good government, fraudulent though ii be ; that the rights of the States shall b< respected and individual liberty bo pro tooted. We arc promised the same re formation which tho Turkish Govern ment ls now proposing to its people The Sultan promises that if he is sustain ed in his present contest, ho will es tab! is? an aet upon certain princio?es. First, the work of deceutralixatioi aii??l commence immediately oed i-he au tonomy of tho provinces snail be care f??y looked after. Secondly, the p?opl shall be governed by their natural judges they will not send Mohammedans no Christian renegades from Constantanopl down on them, but they shall be govern ed by people of their own faith. Thirdly, no subordinate officer, whe he commits an illegal act, shall bo pei milted to plead in justification.the oraei of his superior. Hoi? much we need ea actly that kind of reform in this country and how glad we ought to be that ot Government is going to bo as good her? ofter as the Tarka' 1 They ofter us everything how. The denounce negro supremacy and carpe bag thieves. Their pet policy for tl South is to be abandoned. They offer t everything bat one ; but on that subjei their tips are closely sealed, 'iney reta: to say that they will not cheat us her after in the elections. If they weal only agree to that, if they would only r pent of their election frauds, and mal restitution of tho Votes they have stole the circle of our felicities would be fbi If this thing stands accepted and tl law you have made for this occasion shs be the law for all occasions, we can nev expect such a thing as an honest electit *"*^?T?. ?? *? T?S?t to V?A?? ?hn ?rill 1 President ?y a future election, do not i quire how the people of the States a going to vote. You need only to kne vrbatTtind of scoundrels constitute tl Returning Boards, and how much it w take to buy them. Bat I think that even that will ci soma dey. At present you have as dov and under your feet, Never had you better right to rejoice. Weil may y say, "We have made a covenant wi death, and with hell we are at agu meat; when the overflowing scour shall bass through, it sha!) not come ur us: for we have mado iles our ref"< and undor falsehood hate wo hid o? selves." But nevertheless wait a lit while. The waters of truth will r Sadually, and slowly but surely, a en look out for tho overflowing ecourj "Tho refuge of lies shall bo swept aw and tho biding piece of falsehood sh be uncovered." This mighty and puis sant nation will yet raiso herself up like a strong nu?.n after sloop, and shako her invincible locks in a fashion you little think of now. Wait, retribution will como in duo time. Justice travels with a leaden heel hut strikes with an iron hand. God's mill grinds slow but dread fully fine. Wait till the floodgate is lifted and a full head of water comes rushing on. Wait, and you will seo fine grinding then A COLORED HAN'S PLATFORM. OPEN LETTER OP REPRESENTATIVE HAM ILTON TO MR. SPEAKER WALLACE. BEAUFORT, March 1, 1877. 7b the lion. IK. //. Wallace, Speaker of iht House of Repr?sent?t ives : DEAR SIR-? regret not being present at the hour of adjournment to congratu late you by resolution for tho able man ner in which vou presided over the Con stitutional House of Representatives. And you seem to have nothing in view but to sustain tho laws and constitution of our country. I would not wish to vote you a grf.'.uity of a thousand dollars, as tho Bayonet House voted their Speaker, but to vote you tho well-done of a good and faithful leader. I see that the Dem ocrats in Washington aro disturbed by the news 'oat Mr. Sherman brought from Mr. Hayes, but tho supporters of the Hampton Government between Beau fort and Col loton aro not nt all alarmed ; they are paying their ten per cent, tax cheerfully, and are willing to pay tho whole if called for. My advice to those who are paying their taxes to thc Hamp ton Government isthat, as we have rights that our enemies must respect, and that wo will maintain, to say to the American people that wc will not pay our taxes to or obey any other government but Hamp ton's; that tho Congress of the United States may ignore tho laws and Constitu tion of the United States, bat wc in South Carolina are determined to sustain tho laws and Constitution of our State, oven though we bc exterminated by tho United States army; that we have resolved in this soction not to allow tho Chamberlain trial justices to execute a warrant, or to allow any of tho constables to arrest any [>f our bauds ; nor will wo pay any tax to his government; nnd if our employees sustain Chamberlain they will bo prompt ly discharged. This mode of procedure is stronger than force, and will wear out ntl tho United States armies. You will notice that when tho memori al to Congress was on its passage in the House I spoke and voted against it. I i'd so because I do not depend upon the National Government for our support; but I rely entirely upon tho good peoplo of South Carolina that they will not al low any Congress or uny President to chango tho verdict that was given by the peoplo on the 7lu of November, or to ignoro tho Constitution of tho State, without exterminating over a hundred thousand native South Carolinians of bpth races, who aro willing to give them- j selves up to tho cause. Somo of our pRop?c are worried about the inauguration of Mr. Hayes, but I am not at ail uneasy, because I believe that he is one of those with too much integ rity, who loves his reputation, and, if he docs, ho cannot recognise any other gov ment in thc State but that of Hampton. Ho cannot afford to count in a govern ment which died at the ballot-box of its own rottenness. He knows that no party can live for any length of timo when the representatives ci ?he peoplo with salarie* of six hundred dollars per year, with no otl it employment, loso in ono night over fifty thousand dollars playing Seven-up. He knowa that no country can prosper with a Legislature that would pleugo the faith and credit of tho State, ns they have done in this State, for the amount of four million dollars in the case of tho Blue Ridge Railroad, knowing at the timo that tho security they had from tho rail road was not worth tho paper it was writ ten upon. Mr. Hayes ought to know that thu sup porters of tho Hampton government aro tho tax-paying citizens. And, above all, we do not ask anybody to support Gover nor Hampton, but we ask them to sup port the Constitution and laws of the state, and then ho is Governor. We de sire to say to Mr. Hayes that we ask nothing but to allow us to support and sustain tho laws and constitution of our country, and we intend to take nothing less. In my judgment the contest be tween Governor Hampton and Mr. Cham berlain was settled on tho 7th of 'Novem ber by thc highest cpurt in the land,, and that is the peoplo, and it has also peen ratified by them by the prompt payment of their taxes to the Hampton Govern ment. In my judgment no Court, no Congress or no President eau revoke this decision. As you know I was once a strong sup porter of Mr. Chamberlain. In that I was actuated by numerous reasons, and tho greatest of all was that he recognized thc wealth and intelligence of my State, and because he shut tho door of the treas ury on the political thieves at that time. When ho went back on these principles the conservatives, men of both colors, dropped him, which they had- a right to do, because hu was opposed then by tho same men who arc supporting him now. Now' let us say to Mr. Hayes, in an unquestionable manner, that we will have Hampton and his government, peaceably if wo*can, but forcibly if wo must, and if we find any judge or any jury trying to take away our rights, v. o will be com pelled U> tako for our (?aida the fith chapter of St. Matthew, commencing nt the 29th verso, which says : "And if thy right eye o fie nd theo, pluck it out, and cast it from thee ; for it is profitable for thee that ono of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should bo cast into hell." In other words, ic will bc better for thc.peoplo of South Carolina to have no Jury and no judge than to allow them to ignore thc laws and constitution of tho State. Let. this policy bo firmly followed in our State, and our governm.nt must live. Yours respectfully, T. HAMILTON. - A man cannot expect half a loaf when he loafs all the lime. - "There, that explains where my clothes lice went toi" exclaimed a Yankee woman, aa ?hfi fi??ad her hus band hanging in tho barn. - - Two rural constituents were talking of the new member of the legislature from their county. One of them asked : "Is ho talented?" "Well," said the other, "I should say he might set a house on fire by rnbbing his nose against the door poet." -Boy (explaining Ins geography leeson to his iittio sister)- iou seo, sis, tho in habitant* of South Africa don't r^ed any clothes to keep them warr., because they're Hottentots. But tho vCoolies aro a different kind of folks, and so aro tho Ohili people. Don't you ace ?" - "Going into partnership with Jones ! I should have thought you'd had enough of partnerships, after Brown." "Ah, you ?icc, when we nr?t became part ners, Brown had ali tho experience, and I all the money. Now, Jones lias all tho money, and I've nil tho experlonce," Chief Justice Hoses. Chief Justice Moses, who was stricken with paralysis in Columbia on the 22nd ult., died at that place yesterday, io the 73rd year of bis ago. . A similar attack prostrated him earlier in tho winter, and ft is thought that hie anxiety to return to the Bench, in order that the decision of the great publie question' before the Supreme Court might not be delayed, caused him to resume the discharge of thc duties of his office much sooner than was prudent. The general belief is that his senro of the magnitude of tho issues to be determined by the Court, and their varied social and political importance, provoked his fatal illness. Judge Franklin J. Moses was boro in Charleston in 1804. His father, Capt. Isaiah Moses, lived in Smith's Range in Meeting street, next to the Court House. Capt. Moses commanded a cavalry com pany in the State Militia, and was sin cerely respected by the community. F. J. Moses, his son, was a boy of promise, and at an early ugo was sent to tho South Carolina College, where ho was graduated when only 17 years old, dividing tho third honor with the Hon. Qborgo Buist. Tho Hon, W. F. Coloock took tho first honer, and Robert Spencer the second honor. The graduating cia* was a largo one, but disturbances in the College caused the expulsion of a considerable number of students. Tho faculty passed ten young gentlemen to their degree, but four of them forfeited their diploma by declining to pcrfo.m their exercise, and tho gradu ating class was reduced to six. After leaving College Mr. Mos.*?* com menced the study of haw, and was admit ted to the Bar in 1825, when he was of age. Having fixed upon no placo where to practice, Judge Moses took a trip through the State. In tho pinelands of Clarendon he mot with Judge Richard son. There were no hotels, but the door of overy house was open. Following the custom of the time and country, Judge Richardson invited Mr. Moses to spend the night at his house. The invitation was accepted, and Judge Richardson was so much struck by tbe manners and force of ch ii rac ter of the young visitor that he persuaded him to stay several days, and finally advised him to settle at Sumter, at that time the shire-town of the District of Sumter, which included the Counties of Sumter, Salem and Clarendon. Judge Richardson and his brothers introduced Mr. Moses into society, and gave him a helping hand. Very soon ho made his mark, and acquired a lucrative practice, extending to tho neighboring Circuits ot Kershaw, Darlington and Williamsburg. Tho opportunities giveu him facilitated bim in nis career, but his shrewdness and ability would Infallibly have brought him to the front, even without tho aid of in fluential friends. Soon after attaining a prominent posi tion at the Sumter ?arho was chosen a member of the Legislature, and before 1842 was elected to the State Senate, whero he ?erved until 1862. During the greater part of his term of service ai Senator, ne was Chairman of the Judici ary Committee. This was a groot honor and a signal proot cf his capacity,' foi among hw ?. jlleagues were gentlemen o: distinguished ability. . Judge Moses married Miss McClenahan of Chesterfield County, who was in al respects a most worthy and estimable lady The offspring of this union were thre< child ren, F. J, Moses, Jr., already suffi ciehtly known to fame, ana two daughters ono of whom married the late Gen. Baker and the other Capt. Mikcll, of Edisb Island. In td i the private relations o lifo Judge Moses exhibited a kindly am genial nature. Asa public man Senator Moses . wa remarkable for his carefulness, watchful ness, thorough preparation and attention and for his fidelity to the interests of hi constituents. Nor did ho move in a nar row cirri?. To all that was occurring ii tho world nround bit?, he was keenl; alive ; and no man of ?is day was botte acquainted with th? working of publi affairs, and the course of our politics history. A close observer, he allowe no fact of importance to escapo him au it was the haJ^ of his mind to oscertaii by close questioning, tho bottom facts c any subject that interested him. Wht may bo called an enlightened inquisitive ness, far removed from vulgar curiosity was a prominent trait Of his ch?mete" It is not surprising, then, that he shoul have been successful in his professioi and in tho political arena. Nor was tb solid reward wanting. At the time of tl breaking out of tho war between tl States he had already acquired cousidc able wealth. Even in his college days' Judge Mos confidently looked forward to the tin when ho should hold high public poa tions iu tho State, and the promote which awaited him after tho war on seemed the realization of his destiny. . 1 December, 1865, he was elected a Ls Judge; under the old Constitution, by tl State Legislature assembled under tl proclamation of President Johnson. Judges Aldrich and Johnson and Cha cellors Lesesne and Carroll wcro elect at the samo time. As a Circuit Jud he displayed tho rarely combined qua ties of fairness and quickness, and'ga constant evidence of nis thorough knov edge of the precedents and practice common law. The promptitude wi which ho dispatched business was espe ally noticeable. Under tho Reconstruction Acts a n< Constitution was framed and adopte tho whole judicial system of the Sti was rooted up. The new Supreme Coi of the State was to consist of a Ch Justice and two Asv.-ciate Justices, n Judge Moses was elected Chief Justi Th is election took placo on July 28,18 tho term of office being rix years. Jiu Moses, on the first ballot, in Joint Assc bly, received 58 votes, his only serii competitor being Mr. Corbin, who ceived 53 votes. Ou the third bal Judge Moses was elected. Upon the n?rar.?nn nf h ta first: tarni hn varna rO-?* 25 without opposition. Tho only other o? ho has bela since Reconstruction h? t of Professor of Law in the South Ca lina University, in which he . succeed tho.late C. D. Melton. It will bo roon bored that it was suggested that tho ceptnnce of this office, nader the Con tufton, operated to disqualify him the office of Chief Justice ; but tho pc was never seriously pressed. Would that ?r? Cvm?? upuak of iue years of the public lifo of Judge M< os we could have done had he remai in retir?me lt since 18681 Up to 1 time he b ?> been in sympathy with people, and had seen with them mau season of joy and tribulation. By no ting the omeo of Chief Justice at hands of tho first Legislature which under the new Constitution, he sepan himself from bia Hfo-lon?c compan and associate?, and nando himself a | of a political organization wherein ignorant negro was master and tho w roan the shave. The wounds were fresh. Thero had been no time for sion to subside.' What ra?gbthnvc see reasonable and right ia 1874 was a r at rous outrage, upon the vast hiajorit tho white citizens of tho State, when < nix years before. The purest par] tho most clovated motives, could no that dark hour, excuso desertion h exultant enemy, especially the desci BsSMsSs?sa?sSBBS>a?BMSsSae^^ LBQ?L AHV?BriaiNQr-Vtc iii compelled itt r?qg* re?sah ps^sicsts fc? wJ-7.-i.UiDg ordered bj and herowjth Kmfi??Ith* mSe*losAoCrUiary notice?. wMefcrSftll onlr.b*. Uiertwl ?han ak* money comes with tho ordir!" ' CtUtlon?. two Insertions, . - - ff.*t Jcctcd manuscript? will not b? returned, unless the secern ry lUmjc zzz firsi?hed to repay tho postage t lie roon. astr We are not responsiblo for ibo views na*. opinions of our correspondent*. Ail cotamonlceUcz- -hou.'.i be aidretsett to "Ed. Kora Intelligencer," and ali enocks, drafts, money, I order?, Ac., should bo made payants to tim order f TrZeon^C. ?if Ruell aa were bound, .by gratitude-'.it east, to respect thn prejudices and few-: inga of those who, for decades, had be?tv orcd them.with positions of public true*. Thc conduct of Judge Moses was a be*TJ",. blow ; hut they who wero coolest and saw farthest, knowing his sagacity and ability, were confident that his conduct on thu Bench would vindicate hi a? from reproach, I and prove that his only desire, even iu his apparent defiance of their wishes, wa? to servo the interests of tho people. Bo might time have brought him its revenge! Has it done so? We write of one who is dead. Over his faults, whether of heart or head we draw tho mantle of charity ! It ia better so. There is ono act, and one act only, of his publie Ufo during the past ven yean i on which we care to dwell. Tho broad path chosen by Judge Monea sud tue narrow path trodden, in travail, by the Dcoplo came together, for an instant, last rall when, in the town which had wit nessed his earliest successes, Judge Moses announced bia adhesion to the grand cause of which Wado Hampton is tho champion. And it is pleasant, as the se ?uenoo of (his, to remember that, in the upremo Court., during the hearing of tho causes involving the recognition of Wade Hampton as our Governor, Judge Moses waa unmistakably convinced that Wado Hampton was elected, and was in stalled, and is Governor of the State. It ie pleasantest to know that the lost words spoken by Judge Moses, prior to his fatal illness, conveyed an intimation that when the Supreme Court should rc-assomblo. after Washington's birthday, he would deliver an opinion in favor of Wade Hampton, in which opinion Judge Wil lard was known to concur. This it was not permitted hint to do. The act that would have blotted out tho past, he was not, in God's Providence, allowed to per form. From tho heights, like the He brew lawgiver, lie might look down upon tho lana where reigned plenteousness and peace; but he had not kept.the faith, and in tho flesh he might not enter in.-New* and Courier, 7th inst. Tho Army In Polities. The closing hours of the Forty -fourth Congress will poss into history os memo rable for tho vindication of tho right of tho people's Repr?sentatives to hold the purao airings of the nation, and ' in the exercise of that right tc check Executive encroachments. After a prolonged and angry struggle over the Presidential question, which had seemingly divided tho Democratic party during the last days of the contest into two winga, they were ro'nited. in nu instant and welded togcthei in a aolid mass when thia great principle was assailed. The Army bill reported by thecommit tee of tho House contained two leading elements. First, a reduction of the force from twenty-fivo thousand to seventeen thousand men ; and secondly, a prohibi tion against tho President using any part of tho money or the troops thus granted, in sustaining illegal - governments nia . South Carolina ana Loui 'ma. Twenty v?ara ago th O Il?pub?ica? the?t ? i?HJor ?ty in tho House, tache"*, on a similar condition to the Army bill, making it applicable to Kansas. When free speech, and free immigra tion into that Territory were to be de fended, the Republicans of that day. in the freshness of their youth and in their fidelity to the principio which called that ?arty into existence, demanded that a lemocratic President should.not use tho army to ahl or abet IR th? extension of slavery. They were right theni, Now, when it is proposed to curb the Execu tive and to defend. tho rights . of the States againat oppression, to ^ro'.eo1 Hb erty and to put down tyranny and fraud, some of tho same men and the sam? par ty, grown corrupt, and loose, and demor alized, turn around and renounce the very principle which gave them the only - claim to popular confidence and sup port. Tho Senate, led by Blaine and seconded by all tbo extremists, would neither ac cept the reduction of the army nor yield to the clause prohibiting the use of troops ta maintain Packard and Chamberlain. . Nor would they even submit to any diminution of the great pay emoluments now received by our imporfluoua Gener als and their magnificent staffs. Repent ed conf?re, ces'were in vain. The revo lutionary leaders who are now striving for the possession of Hayes, and aro inimical to o'- ^ry suggestion of a concil iatory policy, determined to, force this issue, and thus to drive the moro moder ate wing of tho Republican party into line. The House of Representatives stood up bravely and faithfully to ila duty, ana insisted upon maintaining its position ; and the Army bill was lost by. tho obsti nacy of Hayes' professed friends in tho Senate. No injury will be in'?ietcd on the service or on the country by this miahap. Wo rejoice at tho failure, be causo publi* attention will now bo drawn to the huge military establishment which tho people are required to Ruppert by oppressive taxation, and to the. disgrace ful abuses which have grown tip under it. The money for - the army is already nppopriated for the current fiscal year to the Suth of Juno, or iou? mouths ahead. Ti MO is abundant time for re flection, and if an, extraordinary session of Congress be required, why, lot it como. Meantime, the Fraudulent President will have shown his hand by .acts,: and his intentions for the futuro can be betti r gauged than is now possible. During the lost eight years, the army has been used os a gry** machine to pail down honest and Bet upsfraudulent gov-, . ernments in . tho South ; or in other words, to'uphold one party and to defeat another. The epectfcle recently pre sented in South Carolina; Forida, arid Louisiana, was not only a humiliation to American character, which has submit ted tamcly; to these repeated scandals under Grant, bat wai an outrage upon the name or ireo- institutions, i lotep' by step we have been following In tho beaten paths which lead to military des potism. Now, when a Fraudulent President has been installed in office, who sooner or later moat fait into the bauds of the meet desperate leaders, and who ia al ready ruled by the corrupt counsels of John Sherman and his Ring, the House nf RftnrfttahtntiveB. sneaking and acting for tho people, will take no cheap pro fessions and canting phrases for guaran tees. They have locked the doors of the Treasury after the lst.of July, and Hayes cannot repeat tho burglary by which be entered the White House, without being confronted with penalties that he is not anxioua to seek. If ho and his friends mean what of lalo they pretend, what need is there of this greac standing army with nu exp?uuuuro of moro than forty millions a year?-New York Sun. - A olorgyr* J n waa preparing his dis course for Sunday, stopping occasionally to review what ne had written, and to erase that which he waa disposed to dis approve, when ho was accosted by his littlo son, who numbered but five aunt ! mera : "Father, does God tell yon what to preach?" "Certainly, my child." "Then what make? yu? ficratca it out?"