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"On the li? brary wall of one of the most famous writers/of America"?I use the words of one of the most famous writers of Eng? land?"there hang two crossed swords which his relatives wore in the great war of independence; the one sword was gallantly drawn in the service of the king, the other was the weapon of a brave and honored republican soldier." The noble service has been given ns to cross in the everlasting peace of death swords that were crossed in the death struggle, proud of the undoubting spirit which carried them in life; proud of the fortitude and courage which sustained them to the end; proud still, though sor? rowful, of the tragedy which made them flash the prowess of .our era, our country and onr race throughout the world. The day will come when the picture of the soldier who wore the gray will hang side by side with thatof the soldier who wore the bine, and be pointed to with a glow of honest love and pride by a common progeny. The day has already come when the animosities of war, growing less and less distinct as the years have passed, should disappear altogether from the hearts of brave men and good women. I can truly say that each soldier who laid down his life for his opinions was my comrade, no matter where he fought: We are assembled, my countrymen, to commemorate the patriotism and valor of the brave men who died to save the Union. We stand upon consecrated ground. In the deep seclusion of this allowed spot there is nothing to disturb the mind or inflame tho heart. The sea? son brings its tribute to the scene; pays its homage to the dead; inspires the living. There are images of tranquilly all about us: in the calm sunshine upon the ridges; in the tender shadows that creep along the streams; in the waving grass and grain that mark God's love and bounty; in the flowers that bloom over the many, many graves. There is peace everywhere iu this land to-day. "Peace in the quiet dales, Made rankly fertile by the blood of men; Peace in the woodland and the lonely glen; Peace in the peopled vales, Peace in the open seas, In all our sheltered hays and ample streams, Peace where'er our starry banner gleams, And peace in every breeze." The war is over. It is for us to bury its passions with its dead; to bury them beneath a monument raised by the Amer? ican people to American manhood and the American system, in order that "the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth." There is no one of us, wore he the one cloth or the other, come he from the granite hills of New England or the orange groves of the Mississippi valley, who has not an interest for him? self and for his children in the preserva? tion and perpetuation of our republican system. ? It is a reciprocal, as well as a joint interest; and, relating to the great? est of human affairs, it ought to be a sa? cred interest. The most obstinate of par? tisans, the most untraveled of provincials cannot efface or obscure, still less dispute, the story of heroism in war, of modera? tion in peace, which, written in letters of living light, will blaze forever upon our national tablets. The occasion that brings us here has this significance: it is illus? trative ; it tells ur that we have come to understand that the.e could be no lasting peace, nor real republicanism, whilst any freemen's rights was abridged, or any patriot's grave unhonored. The freedom of each aud every State, of each and ev? ery citizen, is at length assured; and there remains no longer so much as a Eretext why the glory of the past, marked y the graves of all who fell in the battle, should not be the common property of the whole people. The old feudal ideas of treason do not belong to our institu? tions of our epoch. Their influence in public affairs, has been hostile to our na? tional unity and peace. Our future is to be secured by generous concessions, for ours was a war of mistakes, not of dis? graces. There was an organic question left fa? tally open by the authors of our consti? tution. There was a property interest madly entangled with the moral nature of the time. There was no tribunal hav? ing power to determine the issue. It is, perhaps, little to say that, bad the people foreseen all the consequences, they would not have resorted to arms; but recent ex? perience shows us that they would have 'made supreme sacrifices for the sake of peace. History teaches us that wars are more or less the subjects of misconcep? tion and mischance. It is rare indeed, if ever, when all the right is on the one side and all the wrong on the other. In our case, and I take leave to speak for both sides, we have much to deplore, nothing to make us ashamed. Assured? ly, the world has never seen terras so lib? eral extended to soldiers beaten in civil broil; or known such abstinence from sanguinary revenges during the progress of the strife. It is necessary to remind no oue of the conduct of Grant and Sherman in the moment of their triumph. The conflicts of this present hour cannot shut out from the hearts of grateful men the spectacle of that dismal day, when, rising above the passions of victory and the ruins of conquests, the chiefs of the armies of the North remembered not mere? ly that they were soldiers and men of houor, but that they were Ameri? cans. It was our Lee who paid the honors of war to your Kearney. When the body of Morgan was borne to its last resting-place, soldiers of the Uuion as? sembled by chance on the public square in Nashville, stood, soldier-like, uncov? ered as their fallen adversary passed. When McPherson fell a thrill of sorrow went along the whole confederate line. I believe, to-day, that the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is lamented in the South hardly less than in the North. I know, ray friends, that narrow minded and embittered partisans will say there is nothing in all this. I know that theorists will declare that great results are not reached through the affections. I am ready to admit the caprice as well as the insubstantiality which belong to in? fluences of the sentimental sort. Butevery line of understanding must have some bond of feeling; and I maintain that those touches of manhood, of nature, of sorrow, of pride, of generosity and pity, which make the whole world kin, tell us specifically and with emphasis that we are of one family, and should be of one household forever. It is uot a matter of j faith aud hope, but of experience and ob? servation, wtth me, proclaimed on all occa? sions these dozen years and more, that the people of the North and South are one people, thoroughly homogeneous, differing only in those externals which, all the earth over, distinguish several communities. That which is wanting in us is less of self-love aud more of love for our country; a deeper, sincerer devo? tion to the principles of civil liberty which are bound up in the system under which we live; a self-sacrificing spirit where the honor of the nation is at stake. To sectionalism and partyism we owe our undoing. We shall owe our restoration to nationalism, and to nationalism alone. The man who was a confederate, and is a nationalist, must feel when treading the floor of Faneuil hall that he is at home. In every part of the South the starry en? sign of the republic must be not only a symbol of protection, but the source and resource of popular enthusiasm. Above all, the cabin of the poor man, whatever his color, race or opinions, must be a freeman's castle. In the North, consti? tutional traditions must revive; in the South, the old inspirations of the Union. I declare here to-day that the South, more especially the young manhood of the South, yearns for national fellowship. It stretches out its arms to the national government beseechingly; it entreats the North not to build up a national spirit which shall in word or thought proscribe it, or those who are to come after it. The present generation of Southern men is in no wise responsible for the acts of the last. It has no antecedents except those which illustrated its sincerity and its valor on the battle-field; its fidelity to its beliefs; its fidelity to its leaders; its fidelity to itself. These are but so many hostages to the nation at large. Instead of stigmatizing it, the victor in the fight should throw over the South the flag of the republic; should place in front of it the emblematic eagles of the State; should fold it round from the dark and the light with the instinct of maternity, tendered of its crippled offspring. To the young men of the South the country must look for the resurrection of the South. They should carry no dead weights either in their hearts or on their backs. The work of physical liberation, which is happily ended, is to be followed by a greater, a grander work?the work of moral emancipation. A sagacious statesmanship, even more than a generous magnanimity, points to this as the hope of the white man and the black man; the real restoration of the Union; the true solution of the problems of life and labor raised up by the mighty vicissitudes of the last fifteen years. It is not my purpose to speak of current political issues, except those which are always current, which are above all par? ties?our whole country, our whole people?the glory of the one, the integrity of the other. Those of us who stood in front of the battle, who suffered and endured, settled the account between ourselves long ago. We may quarrel never so much, as honest men will and as honest men ought, about the things of to-day. That .is republicanism which gives each man the right, as it imposes upon each the duty, to speak his mind out freely, to make his wants known? subject neither to bayonet nor ban? limited only by the injunctions set by God upon the sincerity, no less than the courage, of all men's conviction. In the party sense, we may quarrel to-day and fraternize to-morrow; what boots it? There is no one of U3 who does not know in the core of his heart that, as matters of fact and truth, such quarrels have no bottom to them. They make us angry, abusive, ungenerous. As a rule, the warmest and truest natures are, for the moment, most intolerant. The most charitable, the most magnanimous of men, believing themselves in the right, believing all who do not agree with them in the wrong, become unyielding, and even bitter. It is an attribute of simple earnestness. Those who possess.it should prize it, and, after the event, weigh its conclusions with discrimination. Let a counter-interest come between, let a common grief, and lo! the mist rises. Those who worship the same God, who kneel at the same shrine, who breathe to Heaven the same prayers, who sing the same songs, in whose mouths the inspira? tions of holy writ and the precepts of Anglo-Saxon freedom are as familiar as household words, can afford no impassa? ble gulfs,' cannot seriously aud perma? nently be estranged. The dead who lie here; the dead of all the battle-fields, the dead of the South and the North, comrades at last in the immortality of the soul, can leave us, do leave us, this lesson only: That we are Americans ; that we are republicans; that we are blessed in our conditon; that we should cherish it and one another, for God's sake and for the honor of the flag! The poet put it inversely when he wrote: "I think in the lives of most women and men There's a time when all might go smooth and even, If only the dead could find out when To come back and be forgiven." Alas, it is the living who must go to the dead for instructions. The brave hearts that lie about us here have nothing to ask of us. They are everlasting, now. They know all. They are moved no longer by the fever, the worry and the fret, the error and the folly, the laughter and the tears of this poor world. They need seek the forgiveness of none of us. They earned their title of the ever-living God on the field of battle. I would put upon their graves the* inscription which marks the resting-place of two brothers in Virginia, who fell on opposing sides, "Which was right, God knows?" I care not to know. I do know that all of us thought we were right; and, feeling as I do, I would vLiit, and revisit, these burial places, not to illumine the torches of the past, but, by humiliation and prayer, to draw from those mystic forces of faith, which move us we know not how, some token, some guiding light, for the future. I hope, my friends, tba.. though speak? ing in the general, and making no effort I at display, I put the case with plainness. All of us here are neighbors. We know each other fairly, well; we are moved by the every-day promptings of our lot; some good, some ill. We on~ht not to desire a ceremony like this to be impos? ing, or grand, or in any way ostentatious, He would be a poor maker of phrases who could not turn it to account. I come to you, come back to you, who went hence a boy, but who has preserved the instincts, with the traditions, of a youth which, as you will remember, can? not be brought to contradict what, in my mature manhood, I have tried to say. I hoped, when you called me hither, that I might contribute a little to the era of good-will, conceiving that its only value would be its sincerity ; for I need but re? peat myself?ever .since you knew me? to do honor to the patriotism and valor of those who died to save the Union, gratitude and respect to those who have lived to save it. War or no war, we are all countrymen, fellow-citizens; and it is no mawkish sentiment or idle rhapsody which seeks to bring us nearer together. The day of the sectionalism is over. The day of the nationalist has come. It has coine, and it will grow brighter and brighter, dotting the land, not with bat tie-fields, but with school-houses in which our children, instructed better than ourselves, will learn to discern the shallow arts of the self-seeking dema? gogue, who would thrive by playing upon men's ignorance and passion. We have seen withiu the last few weeks how a little generosity in the fountains of our political existence has warmed the hearts .of men and elevated (he tone of public affairs. This tells us simply but truly that parly lines are not, and ought not to be, lines of battle, separating men committed to deadly strife. It tells us that we, the people?acting as a nation? should be sufficiently independent, be? cause sufficiently enlightened, to detect the true from the false in our leaders and in our system. There are few of us who do not know instinctive'/ the truth. We are constantly deceiving ourselves, con? stantly and consciously allowing our? selves to be deceived, by circumstance and special pleading. I shall not pre? tend that it is possible for us to escape this infirmity of human nature. That which I plead for, which I have pleaded for all my life, is that we shall oe gov? erned in our public interests by the same fair-minded and self-respecting principles of conduct which good men bring to their private walks and ways. Fellow-soldiers of the Union: I cannot close without thanking you for the op? portunity your generosity has given me to speak in this place, and on my native soil, for your country and my country, for your flag and my* flag. The Union is indeed restored, when the hands that pulled that flag dowii come willingly, and with full hearts, to put it up again. I come with a full heart and a steady hand to salute the flag that floats above me?my flag and your flag?the flag of the Uniou?the flag of the free heart's hope and home?the star-spangled ban? ner of our fathers?the flag that, uplifted triumphantly over a few brave men, has never been obscured, destined by God and nature to waft on its ample fold the eternal song of manhood freedom to all the world, the emblem of the power on earth that is to exceed that on which it was said the sun never went down. I had it in my mind to say that it is for us, the living, to decide whether the hun? dreds of thousands who fell on both sides during the battle were blessed martyrs to an end, shaped by a wisdom greater than ours, or whether they died in vain. I shall not admit the thought. They did not die in vain. The power, the divine power, which furrowed the land by battle? fields, sowing it deep and broadcast with sorrow, will reap thence for us, and for the ages, a nation truly divine; a nation of freedom and of freemen; jrhose toler? ance shall walk hand in hand with reli? gion, whilst civilization points out to Eatriotism the many open highways to unran right and glory. The Astor Family. Speaking of the dissipation of our first families, it is to be noticed that an ex? ception is found in the Astors. This house has never had a fast young man. The special weakness in this family is found in its idiotic character. Wm. B Astor's youngest son, Henry, was recent? ly mulcted in $20,000 for an assault on a child. Henry is partially idiotic. He was kept at the farm at Rhinebeck, but contrived to get away, and married into a queer family. He was in the habit of "preaching" in the kitchen, and on one occasion a child laughed at him, where? upon he struck her in a violent manner. The result was an action for assault, and the jury, in view of ?be wealth of the family, gave a verdict of $20,000. This is the heaviest damage:, on record for such an offence in thi? country. The Astors at first, as it is said, determined not to pay it, but on second thought they reached a different conclusion, and the judgment was satisfied. The great Astor estate is now in the hands of William's other sons, John Jacob and William. The former is a leading proprietor and director of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, which is the heaviest of our coal corporations. It is now in great trouble, its stock having declined $63 (per share of $100) since last March. As a director Astor has to bear part of this difficulty, and the decline in the market value of his stock is estimated at nearly a million. The company is now threat? ened with bankruptcy. John Jacob's brother William has been spending the winter in Florida, but will return as soon as the Northern climate is sufficiently mild. He has improved his Southern opportunities by joining a Ma? sonic lodge at Jacksonville. In doing this he follows the example of his grand? father, (the original John Jacob,) who was in his day a noted member of the fraternity. Old John Jacob was of a social turn, and was fond of both billiards and theatricals. He lovod to attend the Park theatre, of which he was the owner. His brother Henry, the noted butcher, owned the Bowery, and thus the sole theatrical establishments of that day were in the hands of this pair.. John Jacob's son William differed in these points from the old man. He was not social, and I never heard of his giving even a dinner party. He was not a the? atre goer, while, far from joining a lodge, it may be said he never joined anything except the ranks of married life. He never was a member of a political party, nor of a club, nor of a lodge of any kind. He never joined a fire company nor a church. He never was a director in a bank or insurance company; never was in the militia: never did jury duty, and never had any marked friendships. The fact is he was the most striking negation this city ever produced. All he did was to collect rents and invest his money. Only as tenants could mankind become of any value to him. As a matter of family pride, he added to the endowment of the library, and his sons are now (as another matter of family pride) erecting a grand altar in Trinity Church to his me m o ry.?Cm ein nati Gazette. Keep Your. Promise.?A boy bor? rowed a tool from a carpenter, prom? ising to return it at nigh';. Before even? ing he was sent away on an errand and did not return until late. Before going he was told that his brother should see that the article was returned. After he had come home he inquired and found that the tool had not been sent to its owner. He was much distressed to think his promise had not been kept, but was persuaded to go to sle.?p and rise early and carry it home the next morning. By daylight he was up, and nowhere was the tool to be found. After a long and fruitless search he set off for his neigh? bor's in great distress to acknowledgehis fault. But how great was his surprise to find the tool on his neighbor's doorstoue. And then it appeared, from the prints of his little bare feet in the mud that the lad had got up in his sleep and carried the tool home, and gone to bed again without knowing it. Of course a boy who was prompt in his sleep was prompt when awake. Respected while he lived, he had the confidence of his neighbors, and was placed in many offices of trust and profit. If all grown persons felt as this boy did there would be a good many tracks of bare feet found some of these bright mornings, and what piles of books and tools would be found at their own? ers' doors! Scene in the Northern Presbyterian Assembly. On Tuesday last, when the subject of the restoration of friendly relations with the Southern Presbyterian Church was under consideration in Chicago, in the General Assembly, of the Northern Pres? byterian Church, the following scene oc? curred. The Chicago Times is the paint? er : Rev. Dr. Van Dyke, in the course of a speech against making any further con? cessions, though he said in substance that he was opposed to the late war, al? luded to a statement which had been made in the city to the effect that a dele? gate was in Chicago from the Southern General Assembly, and that this Gen? eral Assembly had refused to receive him. This was not true; but a distinguished divine of South Carolina was visiting the city, a man whom he had loved as his own soul, and he moved that the Rev. Dr. Plumer be invited to address the General Assembly upon the subject of re-union. To the discredit of the mem? bers the motion was not unanimously carried. The invitation so churlishly accorded procured a response which must be characterized as extraordinary. All eyes were turned toward a cyno? sure under the gallery, near the main entrance. A little gentle clapping of hands in that direction disseminated no infection beyond the narrow immediate circle. Slowly the group separated, and through the friendly breach thus formed strode a majestic figure. As the grand vision dawned upon the upturned faces of the Assembly resistance to its charms was impossible; generous impulse over? came the heat of prejudice and courtesy paid voluntary tribute to the highest type of manliness. The applause arose and swelled, and waned again; then Avaxed higher and more fervent as the royal form went on down the aisle; and as the gallery caught the first glimpse of his advancing figure, ladies and gentlemen rose en masse and cheered and cheered again, while the pent-up emotion of the scene found vent here and there in un? checked tears. This man might have sat for Michael Angelo's Moses. In Italy, some of the landscapes are admired because they so remind the beholder of Claude Loraine's pictures. Dr. Plumer is a living sculp? ture of heroic mold. As he stood there facing the Assembly, calm and rigid, one could not resist the fancy that the statue of a patriarch or a prophet, a Moses or Elijah, would have such a personification. Above the average height, symmetrical in proportion, straight and firm, he pre? sented the rare and beautiful spectacle of perfect old age. His hair and beard are white as the purest snow; the latter waved about upon his breast like a flow? ing vestment. His hair lies thick and undulating, in lines of statuosque grace. His eyes are bright, as with a conscious? ness of being near enough the Gate of Light to catch a reflection of the glory from within. His features, aspect, stature, expression, gesture?for already his curving arm commanded a thrilling silence?all spoke a man of power, strength, and grace. At first, his voice was low but not indistinct. The volume increased with the increasing unction of his thought, and as he proceeded all eyes were rapt upon his, for brief as was his speech the Assembly recognized the first true orator who had stood before it. What he said must be read in full. How he said, that pen would be indeed pre? sumptuous which would attempt to de? scribe. The spectacle was one never to be forgotten by those who saw it?as,a spectacle of the grandeur of age, with no trace of its weakness; of the tenderness of age, without imbecility; of the elo? quence of age, with undiminished fervor; delivered over a register of cadence mel? lowed by a tremor in harmony with the snow upon his head, but vivified by a dynamic power in harmony with the ;valor and sanctity of his aspect. Let not any reader omit the perusal of what he said. He pleaded, as Paul in old age would have pleaded, for charity, love, and brotherly good-will. He pleaded that the present might be used to brighten the future and hide the past. "By what this Assembly docs to-day," he ex? claimed, "Christ will be greatly honored ?or dishonored." He had been told of one who had so excellent a memory that he never forgot anything. "I have read of one who had a still better memory? Archbishop Cranmer, who never forgot anything but injuries. May God in His mercy give us all such memories." But the appeal was iu vain. WHAT DR. VAN DYKE SAID OF DR. PLUMPER. There is a venerable father belonging to that branch of the Presbyterian Church in this city?a man whom I love as I love my own soul?and it has been reported iu this city, I was confronted with it at a dinner table only three days ago, that he came here as a delegate from the Southern Assembly and we would not receive him. Sir, I take it upon myself to say it, and if I am wrong let the brethren correct me, if the vene? rable Dr. Plumer?God bless his white head?if he had come to us with papers or without papers and said: "Brethren, I am authorized to represent the South? ern Assembly in this body," we would have received him with open arms?[ap? plause; "that's so, ']?with unanimous acclamations; and his face, as he would have sat here upon this platform, would have been to us like the face of ah angel, shining, as the face of Moses shone when he came down from communion with God upon the holy mount. And now. sir, I pledge myself, if Dr. Plumer will come forward and say he is authorized to take his seat as a corresponding delegate from the Southern Assembly in this body, he would be received. [Ap? plause.] DR. PLUMER'S SPEECH. Rev. Dr. Plumer: No, sir. Sound as? cends, not descends. I shall be heard. I wish to say, first of all, why I am in Chicago. I am here entirely on social accounts, and would have been here if this Assembly had met in San Francisco. I am not here to-day to do anything touching this business, or any other busi? ness, except to preach Christ's gospel, and see some of my friends before 1 go hence. The second remark I wish to make is, sir, that I fully and cordially estimate the embarrassing condition in which I am placed. If I say anything I say it solely for myself aud on my own account. I am not deputed here by anybody, by letter or otherwise. And, thirdly, I wish to say that in my heart I do glory in the truth conveyed to me in his last letter by one of my old teachers now in heaven. It is this: "I would not give one hour of brotherly love for a whole eternity of contention." [Applause.] That is my sentiment. God in His mercy grant that we may all reach that conclusion. One hour of brotherly love is worth a whole eternity of strife and bickering. Now, sir, God iu His providence?a providence that no man on earth claims to understand?has raised up Presbyte? rian churches North and South. The Southern Church covers a vast area of territory, and has great interests of im? mortal souls?4,000,000 people who are not dying out; it was said that the col ored race would die out; it is not dying out. The last census shows an increase, including the decade during the war, of ten per cent. It is going to live; we have great interests there; we need help. The Southern Church, through its As? sembly, has invited all the world to come and work in the field and do good. Can't we do something that shall profit these people? Sir, if getting on my knees, if lying on this floor and allowing all men to trample on my body, would be the means of saving the soul of one poor black man or black woman, when any other course pursued would jeopar? dize the interests of that soul, I would lie down on the floor. [Applause.] I ask brethren to think this matter care? fully over. You say you can do some? thing ; you have done something. God be praised for what you have done; but can't you do more ? Suppose you were to treat the Southern Church as three honored brethren in your church have urged?one in Baltimore, one in Phila? delphia and one in New York?that you should treat it the way you treated the Waldenses; give them funds, give them means, and ask them to employ these means in building up the cause of Christ; and for every dollar they expended there would be good results, blessed results. We honor your missionaries and servants there; we love them. Dr. Mattoon was the companion of my own nephew, who bore my own name in the mission in Siam; he is my friend; books that I have written are""class books in that in? stitution. Can't you help us in this thing? Suppose, brethren, by the grace of God, you were enabled to say what will at once forever silence all contests and bitterness, can't you say it? I would give anything if you could. And vet you must judge for yourselves. We have workers there. Why there is a gen? tleman here from Tennessee who knows how all these things work. He is on the committee who reported the resolutions ?he knows how it works. I see a brother here who-lives thirty-six miles from me, in South Carolina. He knows how it works. Cannot something be done? One brother says the time is not yet. Mr. Moderator, did you ever know an old wound or an old sore to get well by letting it alone ? It is never done. I know not what the vote of this house shall be; but one thing is certain?Jesus Christ will this day be greatly honored or dishonored by this body; and this body must judge whether its action is to honor or dishonor the Saviour, and not I. Another thing I wish to say is that this body will candidly, I have no doubt, to? day vote as it has done hitherto?candid? ly vote what it wishes to say. It will be understood; it will be settled. I would love to see these hindrances removed in my time; but there will be a good many things done after my head goes down to the grave. And if God denies me that privilege, be it so. Can't you do it? There is not a man in the Southern coun? try who does not desire fraternal rela? tions on terms equal and honorable. [Applause.] There is not a man in the Southern country who wishes this body to humble itself or abuse itself before anybody. But this is true: If I have stated, Mr. Moderator, that you are not a gentlemau, it is due to me?it is more due than it is to you?that I should say that I ought not to have used these words. ]Applause.] We ask no regrets in the sense of repentances; nobody asks that. There is not a man in the South that would esteem any man more if he were to humiliate himself. That is not it. But, sir, I might say if Dr. Dixon had said of the Moderator something un? handsome, I might .truly say to Dr: Dixon, "I am very sorry, Dr. Dixon, that you said that of the Moderator; I regret it?I do not repent it." Can't you say that ? One thing is clear; If the resolutions reported by your commit? tee are rejected, it will be understood everywhere, North and South, and it will be a finality on this whole subject. Now, sir, I heard a conversation day before yes? terday about memories. Some one said that a man had an excellent memory? that he never forgot anything. I had read of a better memory than that; it was the memory of Lord Archbishop Cranmer, of whom it is said he never for? got anything but injuries. [Applause.] Oh, what a memory that must be, to cherish everything that is endearing, and forget and forgive. ? God in mercy give us all such memories. [Applause.] Bonn Piatt on Morton. Donn Piatt, in his Washington Capi? tal, gives a racy description of one of the very worst of men in the United States. His name is Morton. Donn says: "God might make a worse man than 0. P. Morton?but he never did. "Tbe combination of sycophancy, sin and demagogism has never been equalled and cannot be surpassed. "He began life a Democrat, and all that, he says of that organization is the only sort of Democrat he developed. He joined the party of progressive humani? tarian ideas when that party showed it? self to be in the asceudant, and his belief in human progress is measured by majori? ties at the ballot box. He has no faith in God, man nor Morton. He has abili? ty enough to know, but not pride enough to despise himself. He is one of those monstrosities created at long intervals, for some unknown purpose, that goes about torturing humanity. A few more demons of that sort would make the hu? man ?ace, like the devil-possessed swine, rush down steep places and perish through general suicide. "Nature put a warning mark upon his countenance. Looking upon it, scientists are startled with the fear, that, coming from the monkey, we might yet, with all our brain, return to the brute. His jaw is that of a bull-dog; his mouth recalls the sculptured satyr of the Greeks when the eager sensualism of the goat was made human; his noze is a muzzle, while his eyes have the treacherous glare of a beast of prey. "He is one no woman can love, no man can trust, no child can reverence. "His associates are thieves, his friends are demagogues, his political support are negroes. "He is a sycophant and a flatterer with? out being weak. He has a brain of un? usual power, that without culture is put to the meanest uses. Possessed of the highest courage, he intrigues with the skill of a coward. When Grant was in power he fawned like a spaniel and flat terred like a courtier. And now that a gentleman occupies the Executive Man? sion and holds the patronage upon which Morton lives, he bullies and whines by turns. "If any result would reconcile one to the terrible blow struck at the conscience of the nation, the confidence of the people in the ballot, by the counting in of a Presidential candidate defeated at the polls, it is to see so despicable. a dema? gogue as 0. P. Morton disconcerted and grieved by his own act. It is a retribu? tion that shows that the laws of God cannot be violated with impunity." ? When a father discovers that his boy has been using his razor to sharpen a slate pencil, his faith that he is to be the father of a President is temporarily eclipsed by his anxiety to find the boy and a lath. SOUTH CAROLINA'S CAPITAL. Its Past Glories and Present Sccdiness. Correspondence of the Springfield Republican. ;? Columbia, S. C, May 18,1877. South Carolina has sinned deeply and suffered terribly. That remark may be rather trite, but to auy stroller over this unfortunate town it speaks with fearful force. Before the war Columbia was one of the most tasteful and charming inland cities in the Union, with broad streets, fine old shade trees, and imposing build? ings. Its people were cultured, high toned and aristocratic, with all the graces and faults of Southern chivalry. The State Capital, intended to be the finest building of the kind on the continent, lacked only a fraction of its cost to com? plete it; the State College was in the full tide of prosperity, and was the beat educational institution in the South, while the wealth and pride of the State centered here for its home. When Sher? man's army marched northward from Savannah, the soldiers could not spare Columbia. I do not blame them ; it was part of the punishment of the State for forcing on the war, and the city was to? tally destroyed. A few of the public buildings, notably the capitol and college, were spared; but the business blocks and nearly all the private dwellings were con? sumed. It is a curious fact that among the few residences saved was the old family mansion of Wade Hampton, who is now trying so hard as Governor to re? deem the State. Hence to-day there is very little that is attractive about the town. It is a fair-sized village, very cheaply and plainly built up, with here and there a modern-looking block of stone upon its main thoroughfare. A listless, sleepy, apathetic air pervades the streets, and there seems to be little or no business save what is connected with the Legislature, which is now in session. I went up to the Capitol this for&noon, and strolled all over it. Tho architectu? ral plan is decidedly imposing; but owing to the war and subsequent misfortunes it is in a pitiable condition. The main building was raised, ready for the roof, and then the work was stopped. A cheap, unsightly roof of unplaned boards, cov? ered with tin, has been put on it, and the legislative chambers have been fitted up, and are now used. The material is a light, fine-grained granite, and the grounds are filled with huge blocks of stone, hewn and unhewn, columns, cop? ings, etc. I counted 24 huge monolithic pillars, nearly all fluted ana finished, and ready to be set up. The Secretary of State, Col. Sims, told me that at the time of the burning of the city there were over $1,600,000 worth of Tennessee and statuary marbles all ready to be put in place upon the building that were en? tirely destroyed! They were packed to? gether in wooden structures upon the grounds, and when the soldiers burnt the sheds the marbles became so calcined as to be utterly worthless. As an example of the unreasoning, foolish methods of the negroes when in power, I give a sin? gle instance. The architect had secured, of course at great expense, a single block of unhewn stone that was over 60 feet long, intending to have it dressed for a column. His ambition was to have one monolith in the building that was longer than the obelisk of Luxor in the Place dc la Concorde in Paris. It lay in the yard with the others, and some members of the negro Legislature, desiring to pro? cure a cemetery monument for one of their fellow-members who was dead, se? cured the gift of that stone, and when they had obtained it were obliged to break it into three pieces to get it away I Scores of stones of the size they reduced it to were scattered over the yard, but no, they must destroy the valuable mon? olith rather than take what was suitable for their purpose. When Gov. Hampton took possession at the breaking up of the negro Legislature, the building was in such an unwholesome and horrid condi? tion that he was obliged to employ a gang of men to clean away the filth. I attended the session of the Legisla? ture to-day, and wish I could photograph for your readers all I saw. The South? erners must be like the Greeks in their admiration for fine physiques, for most of their officials are splendid-looking men. The speaker, Gen. Wallace, is a tall, portly man, with a smooth, full, resonant voice and a strong, courageous face, soft? ened by a very pleasant smile. The left side of the chamber (looking from the speaker's chair) is composed of negroes, some of them nearly white, but many.as black as though just from the Congo. The right side is occupied by the whites, most of them serious, earnest-faced men,. with no signs of ugliness or dissipation anywhere about them. The question before the body was on appropriating money to pay the interest upon tne large consolidated" debt, and I witnessed the closing of the debate. I was surprised at the fine voices and easy oratory and correct English of the negroes, and equally surprised at the lack of pith and logic in what they had to say. They did most of the talking, jumping up and airiug their elocution continually, but the weight of thought was all with the whites. The resolve, I am glad to say, passed by a large majority. This finan? cial question is an exceedingly difficult one here. The debt of the State has been, within a few years, piled up to something like a dozen millions, with nothing whatever to show for it; they have been robbed and skinned by the carpet-baggers and their minions; but their credit always ranked so high before the war that the old State pride makes them anxious to pay every honest claim that is held against them. At 1 o'clock the Senate filed in to unite with the House in electing an As? sociate Justice of the Supreme Court. It proved to be a season of fraternization, for the Democratic candidate, Mclver, received every vote. In the nominating speeches I heard Hamilton, the negro, who, though a radical, came over early from the Chamberlain Legislature, and has remained ever since. He is a full blooded black, with a square, strong, heavy-jawed, unintellectual face, and is evidently very proud of his will and his independence. He spoke with greater defects of grammar and more of a plan? tation accent thau the other negroes, but there was a kind of bull-dog grip to his sentences that closely held the House. Gen. Gary of Confederate cavalry fame made quite a brilliant little eulogy of the candidate, containing some very daintily cut and deftly put sentences. Later I called on Gov. Hampton, being introduced by the Secretary of State. I found him emphatically a large man. He has a large frame, a large head, and talked as though he was a man of large heart. I expected to detect a little of that Southern vanity of manner which his speeches during his recent trip to Washington would lead one to infer he had, but confess I did not see a trace of it. In early manhood he must have been strikingly handsome, and still retains much of it in spite of the frosty hair and deep care lines which thickly intersect each other over his face. He began by apologizing for keeping me waiting, and said: "I have of late been represented at Washington as refusing to see the ne? groes, and hence, when there is any doubt ! (a committee of colored men went in just before me) I always give them the prece? dence." He talked very freely about the condition of affairs in the State, and it seemed to me very sensibly. He said it was bad policy as well as bad principle to intimidate or oppress the negro in any way. The only true course was to con? ciliate him. On the question of educa? tion, he favored equal appropriations for both races; because, as he alledged, they were too evenly divided in the State to make co-education practical?neither race wanted it;?and because they were not upon the same intellectual plane, and could not study together to advantage in the same classes. He thinks the young negroes are more precocious than the whites, but as they grapple with advanced studies they have, as the jockeys say, no staying power. He has no objection to negroes occupying any position for which they are fitted; mit thinks the North must be convinced that as legislators in South Carolina they are more than a failure. He said that he knew them through and through, had always been their friend, and they knew it; and. while they made excellent laborers ana skillful mechanics, he had yet to see the first negro who ever originated or inven? ted anything. He expressed his appre? ciation of the kindness of conservative Republicans in Massachusetts toward him, and especially of the Republican. Toward evening I visited his family man? sion, referred to above, a very large edi? fice of cut stone, occupying a whole square, and tastefully, rather elaborately, laid out. The Governor lost his slaves by the war, his lands and home by debts and high taxes, and is poor. The people of the State tried to make up a purse to buy back his homestead, but he forbade it. He is certainly trying to do right, and we shall all watch his course with great interest. The old State University, the pride of the whole South, is, at present, practical? ly a high school for negroes, and its buildings and grounds are in a sadly dilapidated condition. The negro Legis? lature have actually paid?covering it up as a beneficiary fund-r-$20 a month to the negroes to induce them to attend the school, and got only about 50 to avail themselves of its privileges. Yesterday they elected a new set of trustees, and it is hoped that under different manage? ment it may regain something of its old prestige. No man can forecast the future of this State. The problems they have to face here are gigantic, almost terrible, and have become so marred and tangled by party hate and race hate that it will take' wise and cool heads to solve them; but at present "hands off' should be the demand of every fair and sensible man. The best elements from both races are coming to the front, and, as long as they are honest and fair, they must be encour? aged in their work. I have written the above just as it has come to me to-day, and, I believe, with-, out any prejudice whatever. I am glad to testify to the courtesy which I have everywhere received. Though coming uncredited, and as a Massachusetts Re? publican, I have been welcomed with a cordiality and interest that we bustling Northerners rarely take time to bestow. ? _RH. M. Beutal Murder and Swift Justice. ?Last Friday morning before daybreak Mrs.*C. C. Chambliss, of Stewart county, Ga., was murdered by three negroes. They first fired the fences and drew her husband away from the house, and then proceeded to the house to rob it, and were met by Mrs. Chambliss, a beautiful woman, aged 18, armed with a gun. One of the negroes, Jerry Snead, took the Sun from her, and lodged its contents in er head, causing death instantly. The negroes burned the corn-crib and fled, but were pursued aud captured. Jerry admitted the deed, and implicated his companions, Stephen Ab ram and Wm. Booth. They were brought to Ghambliss's house that afternoon, and. it was unani? mously decided by about 300 whites and blacks present that they should be hanged, i A gallows was erected, and the murderers hanged with trace chains. I The colored participants in the lynching threw the lifeless bodies into a field to rot, and with, great difficulty the whites persuaded them to permit their burial. The culprits: met their fate jeeringly, -fdorying in . the deed; and taunting their executioners. A cotton rope was first used on Stephen Abrams, but it broke, and he asked the crowd to get a stronger one. No other rope could oo found, however, and trace chains were used. Fbance.?The issue of; a circular by the new De Broglie ministry, explaining to the prosecuting attorneys throughout France that Marshal MacMahon has "in? tervened to arrest the progress of radical theories incompatible with the peace of society," sufficiently shows the thorough? ly reactionary purpose of the new cabi? net. Of course, a government which feels called upon to arrest the spread of theo? ries will not long hesitate as to the means by which to carry its ends. It is a genu-. ine triumph of military despotism, and the peace of France is not worth a sou at 30, 60 or 90 days. Under these cir-; cumstances, the French exhibition" of 1878 will proceed with great' difficulty.' The American preparations for paiticir. pation will certainly receive a decided check, and perhaps had be.tter.be given up entirely. The fact now coming clear? ly to the surface, that the Bonapartists are. likely to get more good out of the revolution than the royalists, does not improve the prospect of peace. Mac? Mahon has, without a warning, precipi? tated a prosperous country into revolu? tion, and necessitated.a not far distant and probably more violent counter-revo? lution._ _ _ The Turk and American.?Mr. Roebuck, M. P., wanted to know in the House of Commons the other night "whether American conduct to the red men had not been as; 'atrocious as any? thing of which the Turk had been guil? ty?" "Our godly ancestors, who left England for freedom's sake, the moment they got to America drove before them the poor red man, slaughtering him with their muskets, running him through with their swords, burning his wigwam, and actually starving him to death. Have the Turks done more? [Cheers.] And are we going in our crusade of humanity to address the American Government ana say, 'Your conduct to the red man is such as we humane people cannot in any way permit, and we intend to go to war with you because you have been inhuman?'" Grasshoppers?One dollar per bush? el is what the Minnesota law allows for grasshopppers caught in that State pre I vious to the 2?th of May; 50 centeper I bushel from the 25th of May until the 10th of June; 25 cents per bushel from the 10th of June until the 1st of Jnly; and 20 cents per bushel from the 1st of July to the 1st of October. There will also be paid by the State in the same manner the sum of 50 cents per gallon for any and all grasshopper eggs taken and destroyed by any person. The Gov? ernor will appoint a suitable person in each township, a resident, to perform the duty of measuring and paying all boun? ties. LEGAL ADVERTISING.-Wc are compelled to require cash- payments for advertising ordered by Executors, Administrators and other fiduciaries and herewith .append ,tbe rates.for the ordinary notices;"-which will only' be Inserted when the money comes with the order: Citations, two insertions, - 83.00 Estate Notices, three insertions,- - - ??? 2.00 Final Settlements, five insertions - - 3.00 ? TO CORRESPONDENTS.?In order-to Tcceive attention, communications must be accompanied by the true- name and address of the writer. Be Jccted manuscripts will not be returned, unless the necessary stamps are furnished to repay the postage thereon. 4Sg* We are not responsible for the views and opinions of our correspondents. All communications should be addressed to"Ed itors Intelligencer " and all checks, drafts, money orders, Sc., should be made payable to the order of E. B. MUBBAY k CO., Anderson, S. C. General News Summary. ? According to Senator Dawes, the Republican party is so sick that it must either change its medicine or buy a coffin. ? Niles G. Parker, ex-State Treasurer of South Carolina under the carpet-bag administration, is now manager of a metal house in New York. His qualifi? cation probably was familiarity with brass. ? Gov. Robinson, of New York, may safely be set down as the champion vetoer of the century. He refused his signature to no less than 50 of the bills passed by the recent Legislature, and will very likely treat a good share of the hundred or more left on his hands at adjourn? ment in the same way. ? The Robert E. Lee Monumental Association, of New Orleans, has suc? ceeded in obtaining funds nearly suffi? cient to erect a monument in that city to the memory of that illustrious general. It is proposed to erect the monument in Tivoli Circle, which is the centre of the city, and the most prominent and con? spicuous place. ? Miss Hadlock, of Newport, Vt., met in the street a man who had circula? ted derogatory stories about her. She had prepared herself for the occasion. First, she took pepper from a pocket and threw it in his eyes. Secondly, she took a rawhide from her bustle and struck him several times with it. Thirdly, she took a rotten egg from a band bag and smashed it in his face. ? The Philadelphia Times says: "Gov. Wade Hampton is expected to visit Auburn, N. Y., on the 20th of this month, to attend a reunion of the Shields Guards of that city, a military organiza? tion named after General Shields, who commanded the New York Volunteers and the South Carolina Palmettoes in the Mexican war, aud who was an inti? mate friend of Gov. Hampton's father." ? They used to talk about Grant's in? numerable kinfolks?the Dents, the Ca seys, the Kramers, the Corbins, and the so-forths," said a disappointed Kentucky j office-seeker the other day, "but he couldn't have been as bad off in that respect as Hayes, whom, to judge from his list of appointments, you would nat? urally supp?se to be kin to every d?d one-horse Republican in the State of Ohio. ?- Ben. Butler, it is said, has resolved to take himself and his fortunes to Col? orado. New England is by far too small and too inconsiderable a place for a man of his wide embracing sympathies. In hfs new home in the Centennial State he will devote himself to the pastoral occu? pation of sheep shearing, abandoning for the nonce the political warpath. It would not, however, be astonishing to see the gentle Ben B. turn up in Washington a full fledged Senator. ? The Indianopolis Sentinel, sneering at Grant's European reception, says: "The living present knows that Grant consorted with thieves, that he. was the defender and supporter of conspirators, that he girdled the Louisiana Returning Board scoundrels with bayonets, while the perjured crew was plotting frauds with which to reverse the will of the American people. The Atlantic ocean, were its waters soapsuds, could not in a thousand centuries wash out the stains from Grant's record. His friends should let him rest and rust." ? The Mormons double once in six years. They now number 150,000. They. have thirty incorporated cities, three million dollars' worth of irrigating ca? nals, 358 school houses, 12 newspapers, missionaries in every nation in the world, 20,000 militia, 6 cotton and woolen fac? tories, 500 miles of railroads, telegraphs all over the Territory, and temples built and being built enough for all their peo? ple to worship in. Besides, missionaries send, them 3,000 emigrants every year, and their elders baptize many hundred native Indians and receive them into the Mormon church. . ???: ? Whittemore, ex-cadet peddler and larcenous carpet-bag legislator of South Carolina, has marched without impedi? ment into the bowels of Massachusetts, and Massachusetts feels very sick. But Massachusetts ought not to be discour? aged. She got rid of Whittemore once before, when he had been caught swind? ling/by making him chaplain of a regi mmt during the war. Why not ordain him now as-a missionary, and let him steal awhile away to Kemper County, or any other place where a good article of preaching is needed, and where there isn't much lying around that he could pick up ??N. Y. Tribune. ? The first big gun has just been cast at the South Boston Foundry, a twelve inch rifle gun, being the first one made for the government of the United States. The weight of this piece of ordnance when finished will be about 90,000 pounds, and.it will carry a projectile weighing about 700 pounds. The ordi? nary charge of powder in firing it will be from 110 to 140 pounds, with which the projectile will pierce a solid mass of iron from twelve to fifteen inches thick, at a distance" of 1,000 yards. The gun will be made of cast iron, liued with a wrought iron cored tube, and when fin? ished will be sent to the proving ground at Sandy Hook, to be tested, and if found to be satisfactory, will be mounted in one of the fortifications in New York harbor. Gen. Benet, Chief of the Bu? reau of Ordnance; Col. Brispin, the ordnance constructor, and other pomi nent ordnance officers, will witness the casting on Wednesday. This gun will be made on a system which has been thoroughly tested in this country on guns of smaller calibre, which have been found to equal any gun made abroad. The work upon it was commenced nearly a year ago, and the greatest care has been taken to select proper metal to be used in its construction. ? The Eoglish countryman cannot vote for member of Parliament unless his rent is taxed at ?12 a year, which Eractically means that he must occupy a ouse worth ?16 a year1, or $80 rent. This disfranchises not only laborers, but small tradesmen, the curate or clergy? man, the school-teacher, the dissenting minister, and almost everybody but own? ers of farms and the wealthier profes? sional class, who altogether constitute a very small part of the English rural pop? ulation. The movement to extend the suffrage or enlarge the county franchise, as the English express it, is constantly gaining force, and probably will come to its result within this generation; A large meeting was recently held at Lon? don of delegates sent up from these country districts by the disfranchised classes?an unprecedented assembly of laborers' delegates, 2,500 in number, con? vened at the expense and on the motion of their own constituencies. John Bright addressed them, and a score of eminent members of Parliament sat on the plat? form. Mr. Bright's speech was of course unanswerable in favor of the extension of the suffrage to the fifteen or twenty millions of people now disfranchised, which includes not mere rural districts, but many towns of from 10,000 to 20,000 inhabitants. This question is intimately related to that of local government re? form, which must be guided by popular suffrage when the suffrage once becomes popular.