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BY HOYT & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1877. VOL. XII-NO. 41. ;-r 1 - ? -.-_??*? . - RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.-Two Dollars per annum, and O.ve Dolla f. for six months. Subscriptions' are not taken for a less period .(?nan six months. Liberal deductions made to clubs of ten or ?awre subscriber*. 1 RATES OF ADVERTISING.?One Dollar per square ol one inch for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents per square for subsequent insertions less than ?throe month*. No advertisements counte less than a square. Liberal contracts will be made with those wishing ~o advertise for three, six or twelve months. -Ad? vertising by contract must bo cenfined to the im? mediate business of the firm or individual contrac? ting. Obituary Notices exceeding five lines, Tributes of Respect, and all personal communications or matters of Individual interest, will be charged for at advertising rates. Announcements of marriages and deaths, and notices of a religious character, are 'respectfully solicited, and will be inserted gratis A POLICY FOB THE SLACKS. LETTER TO A COLORED MISSIS SIPPIAJT. The President's Policy Discussed by a ' Radical Republican?Duty of the Col? ored People?Why the Blacks should Join the Democratic Party. , Washington, April 14,1877. ? Dear' Sir?You ask me what I think of President Hayes, and his policy^ and what the colored voters of your State, and the other Gulf States, should do, if the National Administration abandons tbern? : I shall answer you fully and frankly; and, as these questions are constantly ?sked, I shall print my reply, and grant yon the liberty to use it in any way you please. "President Hayes is the wisest and ablest statesman of the day"?that 19, his partisans and the office seekers say so. They hare unanimously voted that he is a great statesman, an American Richelieu or a second Bismarck; provi? dentially sent to recement the Union? with the milk of human kindness. His? tory shows that God has veto power over all such verdicts, and that his ancient (servant, Time, always records His opin? ion and not that of the voice of the par? asites. And Time, I think, will write it down that Hayes was a man of good in? tentions, as it has already recorded that "Hell is paved with good intentions;" that he was a man of moderate intellec? tual capacity, with just firmness enough, and brains enough, to commit political paricide -to destroy the party that in? vented him; that his vanity was so great and his grasp of contemporary tenden? cies so feeble that he founded his policy inot on social facts and organized forces but on air-woven sentiments and peda? gogical theories?unlike the epoch-mak? ing men of history who first diligently sought the truth without regard to their own wishes, and then directed the com? plex elements existing around them. -Hayes is honest enough and he means well. .But, as Buckle has shown, the greatest ills that have come to man, through Governments, have been inflic? ted by conscientious rulers?men of ex? cellent intentions; like good little Hayes. " As Lincoln will be known as the lib? erator of the slaves, and Grant as the preserver of the Union, so Hayes will be remembered as the betrayer of the South? ern Republicans. Lincoln freed, Grant conquered, Hayes surrendered. Do you forget that it was to "save Ohio"?that is, to elect Hayes as Governor?that Grant was induced, against his own judg? ment, to refuse the call of Ames for troops to protect the Republicans of Mis? sissippi? That was the inauguration of Haves' Southern policy. He is acting to-day in entire consistency with his history in preferring the bandit chieftain, Hampton, and the Ku Klux cyclops, Nicholls, to the lawfully elected repre? sentatives of the Republican voters of South Carolina and Louisiana. One word, constantly in Hayes' mouth, reveals his character. That word is JWicy. That word is the shibboleth of his motley horde of scamp-followers. Once, the inspiration of the Republicans ?was Principle. The party was a warrior of the Lord then, with alight from God's Throne on its forehead. As far as Hayes represents it, the party, now, is a leprous Lazarus, whining for the votes that fall from the Southern Democratic table. . Open your eyes, my friend, and dare to see the truth, even if it makes fba sick at heart. For the truth will set you free from partisan bondage?a great boon even if the price be so great. I have given too much of my life to this grand old party?asking nothing from it but the delight oi serving it?not, now, to have grieved over its unhonored and dis? honored grave. How luminous its path? way has been since a little band of us, Northern men and boys, called it into being by confronting the armed emissa? ries of South Carolina and Mississippi on the unsullied soil of Kansas! First, resisting slavery as aggressor; then, smitiug slavery as traitor; theu, making of chattels black men, and of black men American citizens?its record is a shin? ing trail of glory. Its battle-cry was equal rights, and it was a noble defender of the faith. And now ? Hayes surren? ders the brave leaders who saved to us South Carolina and Louisiana in order to conciliate the assassins whose triumph in November would have been his defeat. He is President to-day by the votes of the Sooth Carolina and Louisiana ne? groes. By their unreasoning self-sacri? fice, by their sublime devotion to the party that freed them, they "saved the Eearl of liberty to the family of freedom." o I Hayes has pawned it to their perse? cutors ! All the perfumes of Arabia will never sweeten this perfidy most foul. All the pleading tongues of men and of office-holders will never keep down this spectral Banquo-truth: That Packard, andv Chamberlain, and Hayes are each and all'and equally, the .rightful or the fraudulent rulers of the people who elec? ted them by the same vote *on the same day and by the same party. \ Don't be deceived by what Hayes says. Rulers are men of deeds. His acts speak for him. He appointed a colored man to an office, and then made haste to aban? don a colored State. Frederick Douglass gets a post worth $5,000 a year, and the fact is trumpeted as if it were a decisive proof of Hayes' friendship for the negro ?as if it were a "new departure." Why, Grant appointed Bassett?a colored man ?to a $10,000 mission?to Hayti; an? other to the lucrative post of Liberia; and still another to a consulate in Spain, besides giving black men throughout the South honorable positions by the score. Hayes says, or is reported to have said, "that if the rebels do not act in good faith he will soon change his policy." This is boy's talk, or worse. How can he change his policy after he yields his Eower? As soon as South Carolina and lOuhtiana are abandoned, Hayes is as powerless to help the Republicans a3 any private citizen. "Who will care for Lo ?an," then? The Republican platform eclares that the United States is a na? tion, not a league; but the Democrats adopted that article when they insisted that Congress should go behind the Flor? ida returns, thereby abandoning their theory of State Rights; and Hayes adopts the cast-off Democratic theory and repu? diates the Republican doctrine when he declares, both by his words and acts, that he has no right to interpose the arm of the nation between the negro and his persecutors. As far as the Gulf States go, the President of the United States is not Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House, but a decrepid old man, wasted and worn in body, but still vigilant and acute in mind, who lies on his sick bed in a Committee Room at the Capitol, Alexander H. Stephens. Stephen? dic? tates; Hayes executes. You ask, won't the "old Republicans" rally and protect the blacks ? How can they do it? A surrender admits of no rally. My friend, don't be blind to the truth. Look at the facts and see how hopeless is your hope. Hayes' policy is partly a good one. I think he aid right in putting a Southern Democrat in his Cabinet. But he ought also to have put a Southern native white Bepublicon there. A great roan, a real conciliator, with principles and courage both, would have put Key, and Aleorn or Settle and Frederick Douglass?all three of them?in the Cabinet, even if he should have been forced to enlarge the body of his councilors to do so. That would have meant equal rights, justice and conciliation. Like all weak men, Hayes went just far enough to lose and not far enough to win. It was an insult to the Southern white Republicans in every Southern State to leave them un? represented. The organs of the Presi? dent have heaped fresh insults on this conspicuous insult by sneering at them as unworthy of honor and trust?they, the most sincere and the most trustworthy Republicans in all this nation. As far I ana as fast as Hayes shall turn out of j office in the South the political birds of 'prejp- from whatever State they may "hail"?giving to the citizens of the j Southern States all the Federal offices in those States; as far and as fast as he shall weed out, without pity or exception, I I every ffioce-holder in the Departments here who is "credited" to a Southern I ' State without being a citizen of the State | . thus taxed; as fast and as far as he shall show by word and act that the crime of I I rebellion is absolutely and forever con- J doned, the President should receive the j cordial co-operation of every patriot, and J [ especially of every friend of the blacks. I Nobody but demagogues have ever de sired to keep alive the memories of the war, excepting so far as they serve to convict the rebels of to-day. General Chalmers, openly defying the Constitn-1 tion in the "Whip-Cord. District" of Mississippi, calls up by his own act the black spectres of Fort Pillow; as Gen. j Hampton, by his arrogance, uncovered*! the graves of the national soldiers whose I dead bodies were exposed in the streets I of Charleston with a derisive placard on their bullet-riddled breasts. \ It was not with the rebels against the I country that we had any quarrel, because that contest had come to an end. It I was only with the rebels against the con- J stitutional guarantees of equal rights that were the ripest and best fruits of the war. I But even that fight is over now. It is j idle to-day to denounce Hayes or to op-1 Sose his policy of abdication of Presi-1 ential prerogatives to the Democratic j banditti. We made him our leader, and j he has surrendered, and we are bound by j j his act I was one of the Radical Re-1 publicans who advised Go v. Chamberlain | to make no useless contest, and I sincere- j lv trust that Gov. Packard will not delay the inevitable hour in which force shall J triumph in Louisiana. It is better fori j the sake of the blacks that the surrender j should be made quietly and quickly. The office-holders say that "we should give Hayes* policy a fair trial." What part of his policy ? No one op-1 Soses conciliation. Every decent maul esires it. That is part the first of Hayes' j j policy. But part the second is surrender. I ' It means the acquiescence of the Nation-1 I al Governmet in the rule of the majority I by the minority,' because that minorityI of citizens has a majority of property, in- j telligence and military power. Now that policy has been tried in this planet of j oars for ages upon aeons; for six thou sand years by the briefest and least seien- j tific computation; and it has always, in I every clime and among every race, resul ted in the oppression of the ignorant and I the poor. It has had trial enough in this I world. Republicanism means not the j rule of respectability but the rule of the I majority; and Hayes' Gulf State policy I is the suicide of republicanism. Now, then, for your question, Whatl should the blacks do? First of all, they should be taught that I they can now freely and honorably choose their political associations without refer-1 ence to the past history of their race. j They should be taught that the men j who fought for their freedom are now in I a helpless minority in the Republican j party; that the blacks owe it no allegi-1 ance whatever now; and that its recog-1 nized leaders, who wield the power of the I Government, are to-day the recreants I who advocate and defend and decree their J abandonment. It is true the Democratic party resisted j their enfranchisement, but it is equally I true that the Republican party refuses to I protect them in the exercise of the fran-1 chise that they gave. There is absolute-1 ly no difference whatever, now, between j the Democratic party and the Republican j party, (as represented by Hayes,) on the question of the rights and condition of the negro, excepting in one important j particular. That exception is a vital one. I It points out the path of safety to the j black voter. It points out, also, the path of duty. We owe allegiance where we I receive protection. The Democrats pro tect the Democratic negro; the Eepubli- J cans abandon the Republican negro. For myself, being a white man, and a J Northern man, I propose to remain in j the Republican party to do my part to j purge it from the thieves on the one hand I and the pedagogues on the other hand who now infest it; but if I were a negro and in the South, I should join the Dem- j ocratic party at once, and vote for its candidates whenever they were reputable men. Whenever they were bandits I should refuse to vote at all. I was a member of the first Republican National Committee, and I have always been a radical Republican in my political action. But I was more than that?a "Kansas j Republican," a "John Brown abolition- j ist;" and through good report and evil report, I have never wavered in advocat- j ing the rights of the negro. There is no man so black that I am ashamed to look in his face. I feel that I have done my J whole duty to the black race. And with j this.record, unbroken by a single word or act conservative, I should urge the black men of the South, if my voice could reach them, to join the Democratic par? ty. I If they were to do so in a body, what would be the result? Absolute protec j tion, to begin with, in their rights of life and property. They would not be driven from their homes by the thousands as they were driven into the highways of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisi? ana, because of their loyalty to the Re? publican party. The Democratic negro is the safest male creature that I know of in the Gulf States. All other males must fight for themselves. For him only every white shot gun is ready to do bat? tle to the death! The exodus of the blacks to the Dem? ocratic party would make that powerful organization the champion of negro rights. There is a movement growing rapidly in the Republican party that seeks to limit the franchise to the educa? ted class and to the holders of property. The sentiment has sprung out of the cor? ruptions of shillelah rule in New York and other Northern cities that are con? trolled by the Irish vote. The Demo 1 crats will resist this measure on behalf both of the Irish and the blacks, because the negro vote gives the South 39 mem? bers of Congress, which the Democrats have now gained forever in consequence of Hayes'Southern policy. It will make no difference to the friends of the negro in the North whether he votes for the Democrats, (and thereby se? cure safety and justice for himself and his family in other ways,) or whether he persists in solidly voting for the dema? gogues who use him (as Hayes has done) as a mere ladder to political power, to be kicked aside as soon as he is used. If the black m n does vote for the Repub? licans, his vote will not be counted, and he will gain the ill will of his white Southern neighbors without aiding his friends in th i Northern States. If there are colored men who cannot vote for Democratic candidates let them refuse to vote at all. It is a wickedness to try to keep up a Republican party in the South excepting on the basis of a large native white vote. It will end only in still further troubles to the poor and misled and too-grateful blacks. The best thing that every black man can do in the South is to consult his own individual interest, without regard to party platforms, (as President Hayes has done,) in making up his mind for I whom he shall vote in all future elec? tions. The allies of the administration will I urge your people to repudiate my advice and appeal to them to be "loyal" to the I Republican organization. Let them turn [ a deaf ear to these deluding demagogues, or ask them, at least, before listening to them, Whether they hold an office or are seeking an office ? It would be a great triumph to the Administration party if the blacks should continue to be true to the President who has betrayed them. But let the colored people seriously ask themselves, Whether it will be a good thing for their race ? and let them act as they shall honestly answer this question. I care nothing for political parties, but I do most profoundly sympathize with de? fenceless classes; and, familiar as I am with the history of the last campaign in South Carolina and Louisiana, I should refuse to believe that God governs this world if the dastardly treachery of this Administration to the blacks is not visi? ted with the destruction of the party that shall sustain it. The Republican party, if it submits to the leadership of Hayes, will not be fit to live, because it will thereby abandon both its principle and its saviors: the principle of the govern? ment of the people for the people by the people which Lincoln announced: and the negroes of South Carolina and Loui? siana who, when the roads were picketed with armed men, crawled, at peril of their lives, through the swamps and mo? rasses and thick woods, in order to reach the county seats, where the presence of the boys in blue made it safe or even possible for them to vote. It was this silent heroism, this sublime devotion of the blacks to the party of their liberators that elected Hayes President of the Uni? ted States; that gave him the chance to betray these men. I am not alone among the old friends of the freedrnen in believing that they now owe no allegiance to the Republican : party. I asked Wendell Phillips the other week, after saying that I should advise my colored friends to ioin the Democratic party in the South, if he would blame fsem for refusing to remain in the Republican party and joining the Democratic party. "Certainly not," was his prompt reply. I asked Senator Bruce why he did not urge the blacks to desert the Republicans who had deserted them ? I tola him that I would like bo 6ign with him a letter urging them to do so. He said that as a Republican Senator he could not public? ly advocate this policy, but that he had advised all his fnends?meaning colored political leaders?to make the best terms they could make with the Democracy; to "look out for themselves." What Senator Bruce does and Wendell Phillips approves connot be a false policy for the Souther a blacks as a class. But if I could lead the blacks, I should say to them still further?pay less atten? tion to politics and seek power through business. Become the Jews of America. There are two great policies both for men and races?force and conciliation. The Anglo-Saxon race fights. The Jewish race conciliates. Both have become great powers by policies entirely opposite. The black race cannot fight. It would be ex? terminated if it tried that policy. It must win power by the arts of peace. Let the blacks adopt Iago's advice: "Put money in thy pnise." Work 1 Buy land! Own your homestead and patch or gar? den I Go to school I Get rich! If one county persecutes you, go to another. If a State refuses you protection leave it and seek a homo elsewhere. Above all, ask for schools for your children, and leave the State if they are not built and kept up for you. Cease to array yourselves against the whites in politics, but, at the same time, quietly and everywhere and always insist on the right of securing an education for your children. Securing that right, your children will secure all others, by and bye. Fraternally yours, James Redpath. To Mr. M. Howard, Ex-Sheriff Jefferson County, Mississippi. South Carolina's Friend?The New York Herald?The citizens of Columbia did a graceful and becoming act in presenting to Mr. Eccles Cuthbert, the correspondent of the New York Her? ald, a handsome gold watch as an evi? dence of their recognition of the candor, impartiality and ability with which he has chronicled events at the State Capi? tal, since the nomination of Hampton last autumn. New that the political re? demption of South Carolina is accom Elished, Mr. Cutfibert returns to his old eadquarters at Richmond, bearing with him the good-will and good-wishes of thousands to whom he is personally un? known, but who realize acutely how much South Carolina owes to him and the great newspaper of which he is a representa? tive. The success which has attended South Carolina in her struggle for deliverance is due, in large measure, to the support given her, and the aid rendered her, by a few journals in the North. Their words reached ears which were closed to South? ern speakers, and found readers where Southern newspapers are rarely seen. Foremost, stauncnest and most influen? tial rfmong such journals was the New York Herald. Month after month, with? out hesitation, the Herald pleaded the cause of good government in South Car? olina, mingling its appeals for justice with wise counsel and cheering words to the agonized people of the State. For once, the heart of the mighty journal seemed touched, and, in behalf of South Caroli? na, every resource of rhetoric, sarcasm and invective was exhausted. The whole value, to South Carolina, of the Herald's work may never be known, but enough is known to command for the Herald the respect, confidence and gratitude of a redeemed people. And if aught were wanting to fill to overflowing the cup of our thankfulness, it is found in the fact that the Herald is toiling for Louisiana, our suffering sisier, as it labored for South Carolina, and will not turn aside until, in the Gulf, a victory is won as brilliant as thaj which perched on our standards in the once Prostrate State.?Hews and Courier. ? A new paper in Texas starts out with the announcement that "in religion we are conservative, and we intend to ad? here to the cash system,*! A CARPET-BAGGER STORY. JOHN PATTERSON, SENATOR, SO CALLED, FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. A Brief Chronicle of His Theft, Uet?, Perjury and Idiocy ?A Specimen Car? pet-Bag Statesmau. Special Correspondence New Orleans Democrat. Washington, April 12,1877. After all the woes of South Carolina, and at the close of her long season of horrors, there was an element of the lu? dicrous injected into the final chapter of her deliverance, which cannot be suffered to go unremarked without, as Burke used to say, "eclipsing some part of the gayety of nations." I refer to the antics of that peculiar individual, John Patter? son, who, as if the institutions of carpet baggery required a finishing touch of dis? repute to make it the most utterly hate? ful abortion of ;deformity that ever dragged out miserable existence upon the lace of the earth, is known'as "Sen? ator," and credited to "South Carolina." It is not my present purpose to speak harshly of John. To speak harshly of him at this time would be to waste kicks upon the carcass of a dead dog, with no other result than to infect the surround? ing atmosphere with bad odors, which may be avoided by simply leaving the aforesaid carcass to decompose in peace. The current supposition respecting John is, that he is simply vile in every impulse of his nature and simply vicious in every fibre of his being. But this estimate is one-sided. His character presents some variety of traits, and is therefore not altogether uninteresting. His career to the merely casual ob? server undoubtedly presents the aspect of a low, dull monotony of perfectly level baseness; but the close observer soon ascertains that this seeming monot? ony of baseness is diversified by occasion? al chasms of idiocy which, while they may not despoil the landscape of its gen? eral hideousness, at least relieve its same? ness. Thus the good-natured observer of John's career is kept perpetually in doubt as to whether his acts should be rated crimes and ascribed to depravity of soul, or errors, and charged up to feeble? ness of mind; and while there may be , no doubt as to the advisability of his im? mediate incarceration, there is a most perplexing question as to whether his place of confinement ought in justice to be a penitentiary or, in mercy and chari? ty, an asylum for idiots. It should be remarked, however, that while John's viciousness of soul has been clearly apparent these many years, his feebleness of mind has been strikingly developed only of late. You see, it does not require a powerful mind for the ope ! ration of picking a pocket so long as the victim is securely held down by able bodied pals of the thief. Thus, while Grant or those who operated in his name, held South Carolina pinned to the earth, John was enabled to pick her pockets without betraying any feebleness of in? tellect. It was an avocation requiring, under the circumstances, neither adroit? ness, skill nor courage; nothing was re? quired, in fact, but mere greea and sim Sle vacuity of morals, with both of which ohn is endowed to the extent of genius. However, any trained monkey, or, per? haps, an educated hog, could have per? formed the operation with the same suc? cess under the same circumstances. But the general public, looking on from a distance, and intent only upon the manipulations of the pickpocket, lost sight of the military garroters, who were real? ly the chief contributors to the success of the operation, imagined that John was doing an artistic job of light-fingered work, and straightway dignified him with the reputation of a great, bold and skill? ful thief. Now the institution of carpet-baggery has, indeed, furnished forth some rare specimens of the genius thief. Running over the list?too long to recapitulate? t we discover many names deserving of real eminence as thieves; mostly sneak thieves, it is true, but still eminent as to their kind. But Patterson is not one of them. He lacks even that low order of intellectual development requisite to : greatness in the science of theft, and he [ could never have obtained the reputation j he has for the peculiar circumstances 1 which have aided him, and which would have enabled even an idiot or a dumb brute to steal as much as he has, and with as little effort of mind or body. As to the other phases of John's reputation ?for example, his reputation as a liar. They rest upon an equally precarious basis. His lies are, like his larcenies, I bungling and maladroit, and usually be? tray the insanity of the mind that pro? mulgated them much more strikingly j than turpitude of the soul that gave them birth. He puts himself on paper one I day and then calls himself a liar the next by way of recantation, with a sang froid that is too amusing to admit of the dis? gust usually excited by such perform? ances. His earlier exploits as a forger and perjurer were characterized by the same crudeness. On one occasion, in a civil j suit where Aleck McClure was his attor? ney, John won the case and got a verdict by perjury and subordination thereof. J Then, when the Clerk of the Court was making up the judgment, John was so elated with the result that he couldn't j keep to himself the baseness by which it haa been brought about. To his feeble mind the winning of that suit by perjury and subordination of the same was some? thing to boast of, and so he boasted of it to McClure, his attorney. The latter heard him through and then told him he must go to the Judge, ask permission to waive judgment and offer to settle or compromise the case without reference to the verdict of the jury. Johu demurred to this advice. "Well then," said McClure, "you d?d scoundrel, if you will not do that, I will go into open Court as your attorney, waive 'judgment myself, and state the methods by which you obtained a verdict in your favor; and then, having washed my hands out of your case, I will present you to the grand jury 1" This threat brought John to his senses and he obeyed McClure's command. Now then, when it is further stated that it was one of his own relatives whom John thus sought to defraud through perjury, and the success of which opera? tion he deemed a matter for exultation, you can form some idea of the quaint combination of villiany aud idiocy which serves him in lieu of a character. But odd aud ludicrous as his earlier es? capades have been, they fall far short of his late political exploits during the last two weeks. It will be remembered that when John first began to get through his thick skull the idea that Chamberlain was goingr to be left to his fate by Hayes, he immediately sought to make his peace with Hampton. The latter consented to an interview with Patterson more out of a sense of grim humor than from any other motive, and when Patterson came Hampton enjoyed the scene in its ludi? crous aspects as keenly as did any of the lookers-on. Patterson made pledges of fealty, to which Hampton listened suave? ly, and which he accepted with a queer sort of half-amused, half-pitiful expres? sion upon his good-natured face?much as he might have accepted assurances of distinguished consideration from a burg? lar who had been captured in his house, and who was now in the custody of the police on his way to jail. John was anx? ious to make his peace with Hampton complete, and it occurred to his feeble mind that it would help him in Hamp? ton's estimation to denounce his late as? sociate, Chamberlain, which he forthwith proceeded to do. The Star, that after? noon, speaking of it. remarked with a grave humor peculiarly its own, that "the interview was very cordial on both sides, and lasted as much as fifteen minutes." According to the best information that I can obtain, John's "fealty to Hamp? ton" lasted about twenty-four hours; but ?as that is longer than he was ever before 1 known to meditate an honest association, | we should give him due credit for it. But the next day he got among his old associates?Kellogg, Bill Chandler, a fellow named Painter, who is to journal? ism what John is to politics, and the balance of that crew?and they told John that he had acted the d?n fool. John didn't know but he had. How? ever, it amounted to nothing, because he had made no pledges that he could not easily go back on. Then these fellows told John that he had been too fast; that the whole situa? tion had changed; that Chamberlain had gone to New York to make arrangements to raise funds for the purpose of resisting Hampton to the bitter end, and that the sympathies of the whole North would be with Chamberlain! Thereupon, as soon as Chamberlain re? turned from New York, John hastened to assure him that he must take no notice of what had passed between himself and Hampton, and that he (John) had never had the remotest idea of deserting him (Chamberlain.) I presume Chamberlain ?who at least knows what constitutes manhood, and who, whatever he may be, is not an idiot like John?received the latter'8 ''pledges of fealty" -in much the same spirit as Hampton had done a few days earlier. In the meantime, however, the younger Patterson, whose name is "Si," and who is currently supposed to be a son of John, had been going about among the news? paper correspondents, stating that he had the original of an address to the people of the United States, signed by Hampton, Butler, Couner and one or two other con? servatives, and by his father, John, C. C. I Bowen and others, on the part of the "Republicans" of South Carolina. "Si" came to me Saturday night and told me he had a man at work copying that letter and would be ablo to furnish copies to the various news bureaux the next day. But -it did not come to hand. I don't know that there is any such letter in ex? istence, or that there ever was one; for I have nothing but Si Patterson's word for it, which is not generally considered legal tender for a fact. But if the letter ever did exist, and if Hampton entrusted it to young Patterson for publication, as the latter told me, then it was suppressed here at the instance of John, who, be? tween the signing and the copying of it, had effected one of bis lightning changes of political base. But, if it had been published, John would not have been embarrassed, because he could easily have announced to-day that he was a liar yes? terday and had a new set of views for to-morrow?and everybody would have believed him, so far as yesterday was con? cerned. Thus, having suppress that letter? supposing for the sake of argument that Si Patterson's word for it indicated its existence?John set out to aid the nigger Elliott in his scheme to raise funds to enable the "Republicans of South Caro? lina" to "resist the tax-payers'rebellion." By the way, notice as you go along how admirably that phase of Elliott's chimes in with the rest of the comedy?this roaring farce entitled "The Carpet-bag ?ers' Last Fraud, or the Deliverance of outh Carolina." The Bill Chandler and Painter afore? said now put into John's wooden head the brilliant notion that it would be a cute thing to go up to the White House and solicit a contribution to that fund of Elliott's from Hayes himself. So John immediately went out upon the street and told everybody he met?or at least every? body who would permit him to speak to them in public?how he intended to go up to tne White House and bulldoze Hayes. Of course Hayes was apprised of it, and so when John went up to the Execu? tive Mansion the next day, the President was "very busy," and declined to see him. At last 12 o'clock came, and with it the news that Chamberlain's proposed "resistance" had flashed in the pan and that the "tax-payers' rebellion" was a success. John glanced hurriedly over the afternoon paper which contained the news, and then underwent another me? tamorphosis. "Chamberlain was a d?d sneak. His courage had all oozed out of him as soon as he got to Columbia. Hayes had sold out the men who elected him and was a G-d d-d-. And he (John) would live to dance on his (Hayes) grave. He would vote to admit Butler to the Senate. He would do all he could to give the Senate to the Democrats"? except resign; he was not quite mad enough for that. And so on for quantity. But the theme is tiresome. One's sides get sore between laughing at John's buf? foonery and cursing his baseness. I should suppose that Calhoun would turn in his tomb and kick his coffin all to pieces at the degradation of his succes? sion. But John will soon vanish. Noth? ing is left of him but a bad smell now, and the atmosphere will soon absorb that. A. C. Buell. Anecdote of Mr. Lincoln.?A new story of Mr. Lincoln is related by a cor? respondent of Harper's Magazine. This gentleman called upon Mr. Lincoln soon after he was installed, and while await? ing the President's leisure in walked sev? eral officers of the Spanish navy to pay a visit of courtesy to the American ruler. They mistook the visitor for the Presi? dent, and while they made their pleasant speeches to the former, the latter shook with laughter, and motioned to his caller to go on with the farce. The correspon? dent concludes: "I thought how I had paved the way to win the position I had come to ask. I made up my miud toad dress the President in a new way, and thus add to the hold I already had upon him. So, when my time came, I stepped up to Mr. L. and said: 'Sir, I have seen the annoyance to which you are subjected by so many and often-repeated requests for innumerable positions, etc. Now if you will permit me to shake hands, I will try and smother ray desire for a cer? tain position which I had come to ask from you.' Mr. L. jumped up, and grasping my hand said: 'Sir, you are one man in a thousand. I am doubly indebted to you. You have been the means of conveying to those Spanish of? ficers that the President of the United States is a very handsome man, then you do ?not even ask an office. But,' he added, 'hurry home. You may re? pent.' " ? It is pleasant to shake hauds with a girl whose fingers are covered with dia? monds, for you feel that you have a for? tune within your grasp. A LURID GLARE UPON THE SEA. Burning of the Steamship Leo and Two Lady Passengers?Twenty-two Others Supposed to be Lost. The Savannah Morning Newa, publishes the following details of the appalling dis? aster to the Leo, a brief account of which has appeared in our telegraphic columns: Mr. C. C. Wildman, the purser of the Leo, reached the city on Saturday night, about half past 10 o'clock, with some of the survivors of the ill-fated vessel, on I the pilot boat Neca, from Tybee, to which they had been transferred by the bark that rescued them. The steamship Leo left Savannah on Thursday, the 12th, at 3 o'clock p. m., for Nassau. On Friday morning, about 3 o'clock, whilst a terrific sea was rolling, it was discovered that some of the freight between decks had got loose and was pitching about. The hatches were opened for the purpose of securing the freight, when to the horror of the crew angry forked tongues of fire shot out, en? circled with volumes of smoke. The hose was at once brought into requisition, but the fierceness of the gale, fanning the flames, which had already obtained con? siderable headway, rendered unavailing their most strenuous efforts, and Capt. James Daniels, who, with his officers, was active, ordered the lifeboats to be lowered. It was apparent that the fire was not only in the hold, but had forced itself amidships and between decks, and the ship was doomed. The captain, with several of the offi? cers, hurried to the forward deck for the purpose of securing the life-raft, which was on the captain's cabin, and dis? patched aft another gang under the com? mand of the chief engineer, to assist in lowering the boats. The fire had in? creased fearfully, and breaking out fierce? ly amidships, entirely cut off communi? cation between the two gangs. It was now apparent to all that only the inter? position of Providence could save them from the terrible fate of being burned to death, or being drowned. In the cabiu were two middle aged la? dies, the Misses Farrington, natives of Nassau, and members of a wealthy and prominent family in that province, who were on their way home after a visit to the North and Savannah. They were both in feeble health, and efforts were made to get them out, but owing to the fearful rolling of the ship and the rapid? ity with which the flames spread, the efforts were unavailing, and it is almost certain that they perished in the flames. The only other passenger was a Mr. Pa? pendiek, of New York, who, it is sup? posed, aroused by the commotion on deck, came up, and thus got into one of the life boats; but whether he was saved or not, is a matter of doubt. Capt. Daniels with his party, who were forward, managed to lower the life raft, when thirteen succeeded in getting on board of it. The stewardess who was on deck was called to jump to the raft, and in attempting to do this fell into the sea, and despite every effort to secure her, was drowned. She disappeared beneath the waves, and was seen no more. The par? ties on the raft were huddled together in a cramped position, nearly naked, cold and shivering, and their situation was extremely perilous, the unpleasant con? viction being that their tenure of life was very uncertain. For a time they were buffetted about in a terrible manner. One heavy sea completely capsized the fragile raft, throwing the hapless occu? pants into the sea; they frantically scrambled upon it again, but one unfor? tunate man, Martin McQuade, belonging to the crew was washed overboard ana lost, it being utterly impossible for the crouching, trembling, shivering men on the raft to do anything to save him. After a most horrible time, drifting hither and thither at the mercy of the waves, the despairing men were cheered by the sight of a vessel bearing down upon them, which in a short time reached their craft and rescued them. This ves? sel proved to be the Russian bark Hop pett, Capt. Fredrickssen, bound from London to Bull River South Carolina. The captain discovered the smoke from the burning steamship Leo, bore towards her to ascertain the cause and thus ran fortunately upon the hapless party. They were taken on board in an ex? hausted condition, but the lively sympa? thies of Capt. Fredrickssen and his men were elicited, and in a short time the rescued men were made as comfortable as possible. Owing to the darkness and the terrible surrouudings the rescued party saw nothing of those who got into the life? boats, but the supposition is that they must have been driven off in another di? rection, and it is feared were all lost, as they were not seen the next day. There is a possibility, however, that they may all have been rescued, or at least a por? tion of them, as the disaster occurred di? rectly in the course of vessels coming to Savannah or Doboy from foreign ports, being about eighty miles south of Tybee. A bark which was sighted in the wake of the Hoppett, immedately after the rescue of the parties from the little raft, arrived at Tybee yesterday afternoon, and re? ported that she bad seen nothing of the missing boats. The following is a list of those who were picked up by the Russian-Finn bark Hoppett, Capt. Frederick Olo Fredricks? sen : Capt. James Daniels, Purser C. C. Wildman, G. W. Olsen, first officer, legs badly burned; N. Lindman, second offi? cer ; W. J. Gray, seaman, face and hands very badly burned; Robert Rankin, sea? man ; John H. Leonard, first assistant engineer; John Walsh, oiler; Pierce Rower, fireman ; Felix Shalvey, fireman ; D. W. Sylvera, steward; James Ferrow, waiter; Thomas Hugbes, waiter. The following persons left the ship in the two boats and are supposed to be lost, as nothing has been heard of them and a fearful see was running: Mr. Papendiek, passenger; P. McDonell, chief engineer; Thos. F. Hennessy, carpenter; Jas. Mc Laughliu, oiler; Dan Ryan, Christopher Lee, Patrick McGough, firemen; Samuel Hurst, Peter Olopson, James Murray, seamen ; Wellington Mitchell, cook, col? ored ; Henry Harris, second cook, color? ed ; name unknown, assistant cook, col? ored; Richard Gething, porter; Plato Johnson, pantryman, colored; Joseph Canen, messman, colored; Robt.Gibson, waiter, colered; Henry O'Keefe, John Savage, waiters. The Leo had a complement of thirty three officers and crew. She was nine hundred and twenty-three tons, and was built in New York in 1865 by Messrs. C. & P. Poillon, and belonged to Messrs. Murray, Ferriss & Co., of that city, her agents in Savannah being Messrs. Hunter & Gammell. Wc are unable at present to ascertain her value or the amount of insurance upon her. ? An old negro woman gives her views on raising cotton thusly: "De way de use to make cotton in my day waswid plenty ob hick'ry. Dey didn't need no juanner den. An if you'll gib me a few niggers and a good "hick'ry now, I kin make any ob dis land about heah fotch good cotton, dat will beat any ob yer juanner I" A CARPET-BAG EXODUS. "The Most Unkhidest Cut of All." It is reported that certain Senators aud thirteen Representatives, of the variety called carpet-baggers, have signed an agreement to withdraw from the Repub? lican party. They promise to give the Democratic party control of both houses of Congress, but, if even that advantage could be gained, it would be purchased too dearly by affiliation with these per? sons. The Republican party has been carrying them long enough to know what leader, Mr. Butler, wish to do that party the greatest service in their power, we trust they will "stand not upon the order of their going, but go at once." That they do not mean to do the Republican party this favor, and will not go at all if they can help it, we are fully con? vinced. The fact is that the Republican party has been running a political poorhouse too long. The one fatal defect of its poli? cy since the war has been that it gave opportunity for adventurers, who were utterly without standing or consideration in any Northern community, and who, if not propped up by United States bayo? nets, could not have been elected to any office by colored men of the South, to fasten themselves upon the party and the country as the representative Republi? cans of reconstructed States. Good men as well as bad men have gone from the North to take part in Southern politics. But it is an unhappy consequence of the peculiar influence which worthless men attained under Grant's Administration that the most worthies of all the genera? tion of carpet-baggers seemed to have, in the fullest degree, the sympathy and sup? port of that Administration, were enabled to elect officials who would serve them, were thus recommended to the Republi? can voters of the South as the men of all others who were trusted at Washington by official leaders of the party at home by means of this influence. We all know how decent men have been repelled by this prominence of unscrupulous persons. All other blunders put together have not cost the Republican party as many votes as the single fact that it was represented and controlled in reconstructed States by unworthy men. To get rid of this incubus has been the one thing needful. Unhappily, it has also been of all things the most difficult. For these schemers have been cunning to represent that their cause was the cause of the colored people; they have made many Northern men believe that all op? position to them was hostility to Repub? lican principles and to colored suffrage; they have filched for themselves whatever sympathy the loyal people had for "the wards of the nation;" and they have not been restrained bv gratitude, conscience, decency or humanity from fomenting bloody strife between whites and blacks at the South whenever it suited them <o revive Northern memories of the war. These men have made the Southern prob? lem a hard one. Months ago we said that the Republican party could solve that problem only by dropping the car? pet-bag politicians who have disgraced that party by managing it at the South. But to this day they have stuck tighter than leeches. It has been impossible to drop them, or to shake them off, or to get rid of them on any terms. If this set of corrupt politicians will transfer themselves to the Democratic party, they will render the country a great service. Next to the advantage of gaining men who strengthen a party is the advantage of losing men who weaken it. As their unwholesome influence has made more powerful every bad element in the Republican party, so they are cer? tain, if they go to the Democrats at all, to contribute all their own unscrupulous recklessness to its most dangerous ele? ments. Thereby the more decent and patriotic Democrats will be repelled, even as they will be drawn to the Republican party by the expulsion of its most odious men. A real reconstruction of parties, a bringing together the best and worthiest men of both political organizations, would be the natural result if the remnant of carpet-bag plunderers would be good enough to transfer themselves to the Democratic camp. Bat the news is too good to be true. The scamps know that the Democracy would only use them for a day, and then drop them forever. They know that they have made themselves offensive in the last degree to the property-owning and substantial citizens of the South. They do not like the liberal policy of President Hayes, but it is not possible for them to be ostracised more complete? ly than they would be within a year after alliance with Democrats. They thirst for revenge, but they hunger for the fleshpots. Reform is a bitter word to them. But they can turn reformers, and pretend to be zealous adherents of the new policy, and hope even yet to get some place and retain some influence.? The danger is not that they will go, but that they will stay. The Administration would gain many supporters, not from substantial citizens at the South, but from the independent class at the North, for every vote it may lose by a departure of political paupers. But the danger is that the paupers will not secede from the poorhouse as long as there is the faintest possibility of- victuals.?New York Tribune. Sulpho-Carbolate op Soda in Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Etc.? Dr. G. D. Beebe, of Chicago, in a com? munication to the Tribune of that city, maintains that scarlet fever, diphtheria, erysipelas, and certain other forms of epidemic or contagious diseases, owe their malignity to septic germs or living or? ganisms in the blood. He says that he came to this conclusion with regard to diphtheria more than ten years ago, and accordingly tried the internal adminis? tration of carbolic acid to destroy the germs. The results were satisfactory, many desperate cases recovering rapidly under this treatment. He was subse? quently led to regard erysipelas as of septic origin, and the certainty with which the disease is arrested by the in? ternal use of an efficient antiseptic seems to him a complete demonstration of this view. Fully eight years ago he predicted that scarlet fever would some time be proved to be as clearly of septic charac? ter as diphtheria, but it is only within the past two years that he considers this to have been demonstrated. In closing, Dr. Beebe earnestly com? mends the sulpho-carbolate of soda to the attention of the boards of health in our cities and "of the true physician every? where." He adds this practical sugges? tion: I cannot dismiss this subject without a warning to those who pretend to make use of this agent, but use so small a quantity as to De utterly valueless. I do not know that this agent possesses auy other therapeutic properties than as an antiseptic; and, to be useful as such, it must be given in quantity sufficient to disinfect the blood, otherwise it will be as useless in the face of these diseases as the spray of an atomizer in extinguishing a conflagration.?Boston Journal of Chemistry. 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Stewart, a man who in fifty years amassed more than fifty millions of dollars: "I consider honesty and truth as great aids in the gaining of fortune." If such a man, with such wealth, should gp still further, and make good will to his fellow men the leading motive of his life, wha* a power he might be? come, and what a halo of glory would crown his name! Ah, my boys, what a world it would be, if this spirit prevailed in it?if on every side we met those ready to help and cheer, instead of being compelled aiways to be on our guard against selfishness and fraud! Now, every, one can do bis share toward making his own little world such a world. I have known a single brave, manly, generous bov to influence a whole school, so that it became noted for its good manners and good morals. I have also seen a vicious boy taint a whole com? munity of boys with his bad habits, and set them to robbing orchards and birds' nests, torturing younger children and dumb animals, using bad language and tobacco, and doing a hundred other things which they foolishly mistake for fun. Good-will should begin at home. How quickly you can tell what sort of spirit reigns among the boys or in the families you visit! In some houses there is con? stant warfare; at any time of day,, you hear loud voices and angry disputes. "You snatched my apple and eat it up 1" "Touch that trap ag'in, Tom Orcutt, and I'll give ye somethin' ye can't buy to the 'pothecary's 1" "Ma! sha'n't Sam stop pullin' my hair? He's pulled out six great hancf fuls already!" "He lies! I ha'nt touched his hair!" "Who's been stealin' by but'nuts?" "Pete shot my arrow into the well? and now sha'n't he make me another?" Then go into a house where you find peace instead of war, innocentand happy sports instead of rude, practical jokes? and, oh, what a difference! You may always tell a boy's disposi? tion by noticing his treatment of his sis? ters. A mean and cruel boy delights in tvranizing over smaller children; but in the presence of stronger boys, he can be civil, and even cringing. A cowardly fellow like that is pretty sure to exercise his ill-nature upon the girls at home. Now, I know that many of the boys I am talking to bave far more good-will than they ever show. Their disagreeable ways are the result of long habit and want of thought. The spoiled child is pretty sure to form such ways. He is accus tomed to think only of himself, and to have others think 'chiefly of him. That is the trouble, I suspect, with Orson.? Will he, when he reads this, resolve to break up the old, bad habit, and cultivate the better spirit that is in him ? By good-will I do not mean simply good-nature. Good-nature may sit still and grim. But good-will is active, earn? est, cheering, helpful. Ah, my boys, I have told you many stories?and I have no doubt some of you wish I had made this a story instead of a talk. But the real motive of all my sto? ries?the lesson I have always wished to teach in them, but which I am afraid some of you have overlooked?has been this which I am trying to impress upon you now. If I were to write as many more, the hidden moral lurking in every one of them would be the same. Or if I were now to take leave of you forever, and sum up all I have to say to you in one last word of love and counsel, that ? one word should be?good-will.?St. Nicholas for April. Cats and Snakes. It is not often that we hear any credit rendered to the cat for either intelligence or affection; and it is therefore pleasing to be able to record two instances in which one, if not both, of these qualities is shown in a remarkable manner in this animal. A gentleman writing from India to a friend in England, a few months ago, says of a pet Persian cat: "I was lolling on the sofa, drowsily peru? sing the newspaper, a few mornings ago, when Tom came and stood near me mew? ing in a plaintive way, as if to attract at? tention. Not wishing to be disturbed, I waved him off. He, however, returned in a minute or so, and this time jnmped on to the sofa, and, looking me in the face, renewed his noise more vigorously. Losing patience, I roughly drove him away. He then went to the door of the I adjoining room, and stood there mewing ^most piteously. Fully aroused, I got up and went towards him. As I approached, he made for the farther corner of the room, and began to show fight bristling up and flourishing his tail. It at once struck me that there was an unwelcome visitor in the room, which Tom wished to get rid of; and sure enough, in look? ing towards the corner, I discovered a cobra coiled up behind a boot-shelf under a dressing table. The noise made by our approach aroused the snake, and he at? tempted to make off; but I dispatched him with my gun, which was ready loaded close by. You should have seen Tom's satisfaction. He ran between my legs, rubbing himself against them caress? ingly, as if to say, 'Well done master!' The snake measured five feet seven inches in length." The friend to whom this incident is related, after reading it to me, went on to say, that some vears ago, when in India with her father, the family were gathered after tea, one rainy evening, listening to one of their number who was reading an interesting story. While thus engaged, a cat of which her father was very fond jumped on his knee, and, mov? ing about in a restless manner, began to mew in a louder key than usual. The old gentleman, as was his wont, com? menced to caress the cat, expecting there? by to quiet it; but to no purpose. It showed signs of impatience, i)y jumping down and up again, mewing vigorously the whole time. Not wishing to be in? terrupted in what was going on, he called for a servant to put the cat out of the room; but Puss would not tamely submit to an indignant turn-out, and commenced clawing at the old man's feet. This he thought was going too far, he rose to chastise the cat, but, ere he had time to do so, he discovered that it was nothing less than a timely warning which Puss had given him, for not far from where he sat there was under the table, a small, venomous snake, which probably would have bitten him had he molested or trampled on it. The reptile was imme? diately killed; and Puss ceased her mew? ing? Chamber's Journal. ? "It is well to leave something for those after us," as a man said when he threw a barrel in the way of a constable who was chasing him. ?- The Missouri Legislature has passed a bill offering a bounty of five cents for every rat that is killed. No man suffer? ing from delirium tremens need apply. Hot drinks should be avoided in day time during cold weather, as they have a tendency to weaken the lungs and affect the throat. Take Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup for all cases of coughs, colds ana hoarse? ness.