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The following letter was written to the New York Herald from London under date of December 24,1878: Punch appears this week with a sug? gestive cartoon. The background of the picture is a snowy, sombre atmosphere, with dark, shifting clouds. Th<3 ground is covered with snow. Father Christmas carries a lantern. His beard is white and flowing. Around his head is twined a wreath of holly. At his side is Mr. - JPtuich, in the warmest combination of ..garments?a heavy muffler around his throat, his hands deep in his pockets, his eyes shivering and anxious: The dog Toby is also warmly clad. On the back? ground are the words "War," "Failures," ?Commercial Depression," "Distress." This is the legend of the picture: "An Arduous Quest." Mr. Punch?"What are you looking for, father ?" Father Christmas?"Peace on earth and good will to men." There are some verses upon it, from which allow one .quota? tion : "Peace and good will!" Oar yuletide mirth Is marred by sounds of wrath and sorrow, - While War and Hate divide the earth. And Ruin measures the morrow. ' Yet sober Sense must ply its task, And Charity its sacred mission; And Wit shall strive to tear the mask From each fresh face of Superstition Hearing the words that echo still, ' 'i'eacc and good will!" This is a sorry welcome from the most .genial of newspapers?the journal whose mission is to find nothing but merriment in the world?to see only the sunny side of every clond. But Mr. Punch only speaks the voice of England, and there is tic voice bat what teils' of sorrow and want and pain. Here are the morning journals, which are supposed to mirror the day whose events they record. You read of Arctic London. The editor wart s his readers that this is not the time for luxury and feasting, and arges a Christmas of "wise, considerate ana far seeing charity" as a.fitting conclusion of a disastrous year, as tending?and mark the significance of all here implied?"to lay the foundation of a better under? standing between various classes when the good times come around again." The 7arions classes, it seems, then, are I not on the best relations?the class which bean not quite comprehending the class which is borne. Is there nothi ng omin? ous in this? DISTRESS IK THE WORKING DI vTRICTo. One' passes to another newspaper and reads a news report. The heading is sad ?enough, "Distress in the Country Mark you, it is the country; not teem? ing, grimy, snow-bound, over-populated London. In Nantwich the shoe trade is in a allocking condition. Shoemaking is the industry of Naotwich, and the man? ufacturers nave reduced wages a penny a pair. On the London and Northwestern Railway, one of the great corporations, 5,000 workmen have been givei an en? forced holiday of ten days. And at Christmas, too, when workmen' poll up and try to get ahead and have" enough for a good turkey and a gown for the "missis." In Chester, able-bodied men shovel snow for bread, so that even snow is a blessing. Meetings are held in Southampton to devise methods of find? ing bread. Birmingham is a great indus? trial centre, .one of the most interesting ' towns in England, where labor has at? tained a high intelligence, where politi? cal forces are more active and more pro? gressive than in any part of the King? dom. In Birmingham we learn that the distress is greater than has been known for many years. In Diversion the iron trade has stopped and soup kitchens are opened. J In Chard there is a qua rrel be? tween lacemakers and the masters. The masters insist that the workmen shall not belong to the trade onion, and be? cause their wish is not respected they give no more work. In Exeter able bodied workmen crave bread; they have no means of earning bread. At Tun stall the colliers have been reduced 10 per cent. All through the Trent region, in Staffordshire, where the lowest form of industry Nourishes, there is such a de Sression as has not been known for years, ben the canal is frozen, and this adds to the distress. At Leeds there has been a large failure, the boatmen are utterly destitute?"nothing for themselves or their homes." God help as! The silk Hands are all idle. Who would buy silk this dreary, dismal year? And if people will not buy silk workmen cannot spin ? and weave it. There are soup kitchens, which are largely patronized. In Wol verhamptor bread and oatmeal are dis? tributed, and a committee has been named to make a searching inquiry into the cause of the distress. It will be a com? fort to know the result of this inquiry, but in the meantime let there be abund? ance of bread and meal. Among the fishermen there is unusual want, many of them selling their furniture to buy food and coal. One day last week 300 gallons of soup were given ont. In. Ashton-under-Lvne, where cotton indus? tries flourish, there is no cotton trade. Furnaces are blowing out their fires. In the Dewsbury iron district a strike has taken place. The men will not submit to the reduction of two shillings a week. In Warrington the wire trade suffers, and "over two hundred able-bodied workmen are breaking stones at from 18 to 32 cents a day." And, to crown all, comes the appalling rumor that 100,000 colliers are I on the verge of a strike. Can you im? agine what that means? They say in France the cold is so severe that wolves are seeking food at the gates of Metz. And in England-? SORROW IN MANCHESTER. Here, for instance, is Manchester, the centre of one of the richest, most popu? lous and most industrious sections in England. "Over the whole of the vast area." says one authority, "the trade de? pression, and as a consequence poverty and distress, hangs like a cloud." Before me is a long narrative of the special forms a Bumed by this distress. The better classes, clerks and skilled workmen, feel it. Furniture goes to tbe pawnbrokers. These men are intelligent and have the pride of intelligence, and before they beg or complain seud away the piano and the sewing machine. A tailor is seen who, in good times, with the aid of his wife, earus $4.50 a week. Now he lives in a room fourteen feet by eight, his wife and children crouching around the fire, and no furniture but a mattress. A clerk is visited who had been a commercial trav? eler. Six months ago he was told there whs no longer any commerce which could be coaxed by traveling. Now, watch, furniture and all havegoue, because two baby boys had to be fed, and there was not a chair or a table in the room. An? other was that of a xmall draper. All hit furniture gone, onlv a lot of coal, which some kind friend's had sent the morning my informant called. Seam? stresses were found in actual starvation. Men who earned $1,000 or $2,000 ? year have fallen into penury. 11 is difficult tn relieve such people. They do not want to go to the soup ki.chen or the. worifbuu!"?, and you find advertisements of thi:-- diameter in the Manchester ps? per?: 'Fimilies whose position makes them unwilling to make personal appli? cation for relief are invited to state their cases by letter only, addressed to box 162 postoffice, Manchester. All applications must be accompanied by reference to last employer and one or two respectable householders." You can imagine how widely spread is want in Manchester when you learn that on last Friday, at one agency alone, relief was asked for 10.S00 souls. In Kent the farmers have resolved to turn out of their cottages laborers who refuse to submit to a reduc? tion of wages and to withdraw from the laborers' union. The laborers have held a meeting and resolved to emigrate to New Zelacd unless the farmers "stopped playing their pranks." Why New Zel aad ? Is not America much nearer ? THREATENED STRIKE OP THE COLLIERS. But the one hundred thousand colliers on a strike! That is a momentous fact? more to be considered than the glorious Afghan news, with which all England should be thrilling in patriotic ardor, bat about which no one seems to care. Who can rejoice over a beaten and fugitive Ameer, with bread so hard to earn and one's piano and sewing machine and sa? cred wedding ring going to the pawn? broker's shop ? Here is a leading news? paper article, calm and well considered, ou the hundred thousand colliers. Their wages have been pared down and down until they can hardly keep shoes on their feet. Remember this distress has been coming slowly for a long time, and these proposed Christmas reductions are only a step in a series of reductions. Now the colliers are asked to come down twelve per* cent. The good times which were promised as every clipping came off their former pittance?the radiant, sunny times when every Englishman would earn enough to insure him- at least a warm dinner, with beef and baked potatoes? where are they? As far off as ever, and still a greater cutting down. The colli-' ere argue that while all trades have suf? fered their trade has been the least affec? ted ; that people must have coals, whether poor or rich, and that they are pinched/ not because the masters suffer, but be? cause they wish to take advantage of the Fmeral distress to increase their profits, am afraid this argument has holes in it and will not carry water. In a time of such unexampled misery every industry will suffer alike, and one feels quite cer? tain that nothing but a necessity which could not be surmounted leads to the measure which has summoned the colli? ers to arms. If the government can find a way to avert this strike it will avoid a serious difficulty. One hundred thousand men out of employment, and angry be? cause they feel that their idleness is a grievance enforced upon them, what may not result? The argument of the work? men, as I quote it from an authority fa? vorable to the masters, a paper entirely in the Troy capitalists interests, is this: "The workmen say that the masters promised that no reduction should be carried further than the removal of all the addition to wages made since the be? ginning of that extraordinary expansion of trade which a few years ago so en? riched colliery proprietors and their hands at the expense of the consamer? that is to say, of nearly all trades, and of every family in the country." The mas? ters deny that any such promise was made. No reasonable business man would promise, because be bad a success? ful series of years and had put away large profits, that in years to come he would pay more for wages than he earned and use his profits in the future to meet bad times. In all such quarrels, where the point at issue is a matter of^ersonal ad? vantage, there are right and wrong on both sides. The masters pressed their advantage when times were bright with? out considering the workmen?now the workmen meati to press their sheer force against the masters without making al? lowance for the distress. It is hard to spend the profits of 1875 in supporting workmen in 1878. It is also very, very hard to keep body and soul together and have children around you on the wretched wages paid to a collier, more especially if twelve per cent, is to be taken from them. One cannot well see how the problem is to be solved; and the impend? ing strike of a hundred thousand colliers, which appears to be accepted as inevita? ble, seems to me the gravest fact in the present history of England. AMERICAN INFLUENCES CAUSING DIS? TRESS. You have heard that a committee is at ?work distributing bread and meat, and also making a searching inquiry into the causes of the distress. Many reasons are assigned?the main reasons, the prosperi? ty of the United States. Nothing seems clearer than this, that England is falling back simply because America is advanc? ing. Peace, it is written, hath her victo? ries no less renowned than war. How wise it was in those who governed Amer? ica to be content with a peaceful contro? versy with England. I am not writing in any spirit of exultation because I never have seen cause for rejoicing in any war, peaceful or otherwise, and I believe if the relations between the fami? ly of nations were adjusted on a sound basis you would not see what pains one so much?the auffering of nations like Germany and England, and the prosper? ity of nations like France and America. One cannot help feeling that, having had our day of sorrow, it is sweet once more to see the sun. But, sooner or later, the distress here must affect the most pros? perous of nations. If you look for the causes of this trouble what do you find? There is the distress in the iron trade. Well, in ten years America has added twelvefold to her iron production. Every ton of ore produced is.so much taken from England. We can make iron even in Tennessee and Alabama cheaper than it can be made in England, and as a con? sequence the export trade of English iron, once the largest item of onr imports, is confined to the Atlantic coast. Very soon it will be driven out and we shall be sending our manufactured iron to this market. This makes an immense chasm in the profits of English labor. Th^eis distress in the cotton trade. Not long since England had a virtual monopoly of cotton manufacture. Sbe purchased our raw cotton and sent it back to us in cloth, and the industry assumed prodigious pro Sortions. Sbe bad a market in India and bina. I am afraid even to hazard a I guess as to the amount of money England has mavis in the last half century out of her cotton trade with India, China and the United States. What do you see now ? The United States makes her own cotton into cloth and begins to supply England. In China our cloths are so much better thau the English that we are taking the market. I hear of some English mills imitating our American trade marks so as to secure a Chinese market. I read warning articles in the newspapers, telling cotton manufacturers that unless they stop cheating the Chinese by putting too much sizing in their cotton cfoths they will lose their whole trade, the Chinaman being a thoughtful, pru? dent person, and not caring to buy his sizing by the yard. In India, where England has a monopoly of the cotton trade, and where local regulations would forbid any serious competition on our part, the people are building cotton mills and making their own cloth. Labor is so cheap in India and cotton grows there in such profusion that this competition must be effective. So you see that three great markets, in which England has Heretofore been supreme, are taken from her, and the cotton trade dies, and the men who work in cotton must go to the relief association and crave bread and meat. WILL EMIGRATION 1)0 ANY GOOD? So I might continue and show you how in industry after industry we have de? feated England. Our conquests have .only begun. The victims are the poor starving workmen in Lincolnshire and the Trent Valley. What is the remedy ? Some speak of a revisal of commercial treaties, or that America will give Eng? land a chance. This means that having thrived under a protective tariff we should try and revive England by one made to suit her markets. You see that Prince Bismarck has some such scheme for Ger? many. There is no hope that any treaty revising commercial relations will ever be made between England and America to the disadvantage of America. Eng? land has never given any other country an advantage in commerce which she could reserve,, and she cannot expect us to do differently. Another remedy is emigration. I should not be surprised to see the emigration from England larger in the coming years than ever before. It will be the emigration of the better class; men of property or of bus son, with portions for the daughters, con? sider that the best career for the other boys is in the colonies or the States. Strong efforts are used by .he govern? ment and private enterprise to direct this emigration to Canada and Australia. But Canada is so cold and Australia is so far away, and the burden of it will go to the United States. A wise policy on the part of the .United States, the Western State governments and the railways would add to our population hundreds of thou? sands of the best men in England?men of sense and character?whose addition to our civilization would be of as great a value as the Cavaliers who settled Vir? ginia or the Puritans who made for us New England. Once a State Always a State. The Washington correspondent of the Tribune furnishes the substance of the most important and interesting decision made by the Supreme Court of the Uni? ted States since the war came to a close. The case on which this decision was made was of a somewhat peculiar charac? ter. It seems that the Bank of Tennes? see waa organized in 1838, with a provis? ion in its charter that the State should receive all its isjues of circulating notes for the payment of taxes. A constitution? al amendment adopted in 1865 made the issues of the bank during the insurrec? tionary period void, and forbade their receipt fur taxes. There was no evidence in the record that the notes offered in payment of taxes by the plaintiff were is? sued in aid of the rebellion, or for any consideration forbidden by the constitu? tion or laws of the United States, and the court held that no such presumption could arise from anything of which it could take judicial notice. Upon this state of facts the opinion of the majority of the Supreme Court was very clear and decisive, that the State of Tennessee maintained its existence, individuality, and political entity during the whole of the rebellion, and the court holds that there has never been but one political society in existence as an organized State of Tennessee from the day of its admission in the Union, in 1696, to the present lime. The majority opinion says: . "The'po litical society which, in 1796, became a State of the Union, by the name of the State of Tennessee, says the court, is the same which is now represented as one of these States in the Congress of the United States. Not only is it the same body politic now, but it has always been the same. There has been perpetual succession and perpetual identity. There always has been from that time a State of Tennessee, and the same State of Ten? nessee. Its executive, it legislative, its judicial departments have continued without interruption, and in regular or? der. It has changed, modified and re? constructed its organic law, or State con? stitution, more than once. It bas done this before the rebellion and since the rebellion, and it was always done by the collective authority and in the name of the same body of people constituting the political society known as the State of Tennessee. ? This political body has not only been all this time a Stale, and the same State, but it has always been one of the United States, a State of the Union. Under the constitution of the Uuited States, by virtue of which Tennesee was born into the family of States, she had no lawful power to depart from that Un? ion. The effort which she made to do so, if it had been successful, would have been so in spite of the constitution, and by reason of that force which in many other instances establishes for itself a status which must be recognized as a fact without reference to any question of right, and which in this case would have been to the extent of its success a destruction. Failing to do this, the State remained a State of the Union. She never escaped the obligations of that constitution, though for awhile she may have evaded their enforcement." UGH I CATARRH!! STAND OFF !!! Keep the breath of the room between us while we ask you a few questions. Are you a Christian? Christianity teaches that "cleanliness is next to god? liness." and certainly you can fiud no Christian excuse for having that filthy disease, when Dr. Sage's Catarrh Rem? edy it a remedy for it even in its worst forms. Are you a brain-worker? A general impairment of the intellectual powers (notably a loss of memory is an invariable sequence of catarrh. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy is the only relia? ble remedy for this disease. It is no "dry-up" (expelling the disease from the nasal passages only to send it to the lungs), nor unpleasant and unwholesome "furaigator." It is simple, safe, and sure. Are you married ? Besides being most disagreeably offensive to your "bet er half," do you not know that the dis? ease is liable to be entailed upon your children, in the same or some other form? Dr. Stage's Catarrh Remedy ha3 cured thousands of cases that had been pro pronounced incurable. Are you unmar? ried? Be assured you will remain so, while you have that loathsome disease, forcupid will smell it afar off. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy has cured cases of catarrh of many years' standing. ? The Empress Eugenia is described as leading the quietest aud most monotonous of lives at Chiselhurst. She prays, she drives, she embroiders; sometimes she plays whist in the evening; one day is almost exactly like another. Her food is sinple, and she talks little at table, but always looks pleasant and interest? ed. She is still handsome, her beauti? ful golden hair shining royally aboye ineu who have about ;h for an eldest her plain black drees. RAISING OLD CAIN. The Rad? Futtlng the Democrats of the State on Trial?Northrop Sends his Secret Messages to the Radical Leaders. From the Abbeville Preu and Banner, 22d intt. Ab Titus, the Radical Cou.ity Chair? man, is now in Charleston, and it is sup? posed is entertaining L. C. Northrop, Esq., (he used to be Judge,) with some delightful tales. Alfred Buttz was tele? graphed for last Sunday, but didn't find it convenient to go on account of a sick wife and scarcity of money. It was said that he made an earnest effort last Mon? day to get the wherewithal. The following letters will, perhaps, ex? plain the important business these col? ored men have with the Radical head? lights in Charleston: autograph letter. Office U. S. District Attorney for Soura Carolina, Charleston, S. C, Jan. 13,1879. Sir: Enclosed I have the honor to hand you a number of communications to the supervisors in your county. Please have them delivered without any delay, and oblige. Respectfully, L. C. Northrop, U. S. Attorney. printed letter, with name and location written in blanks left for that purpose. The italics are his own: Office United States Attorney, Charleston, January 13,1879. To Wm. Pressly, Esq., United States Su? pervisor, Abbeville C. H., S. C. Sir: Please send me forthwith the names and post office address of such persons as you may know who can give material testimony, such as can be used in court, concerning the conduct of the re? cent Congressional election in your Dis? trict. If any unlawfu l means, violence, intimidation or fraud were used to effect the result of the election, or in the poll? ing or the refusal to poll or count the votes of those entitled to vote, you will please send me the names of witnesses to prove the facts. Of personal knowledge, what facts have you ? Give me a brief statement of what particular facts each witness can testify. Please reply at once, and be explicit. Respectfully, L. 0. Northrop, U. S. Attorney for S. C. pressly's answer. Abbeville C. H., S. C, January 20,1879. L. C. Northrop, Esq., United States Dis? trict Attorney for South Carolina. Sir: I received your communication, addressed to me as United States Super? visor. There must be some mistake. I am a Republican, and Ab. Titus, the County Chairman, notified me that I was to have a commission as United States Supervisor at the election in Abbeville, but the commission never came, and I was not a supervisor. I don't know if any supervisors were qualified in the county. I was at the polls at Abbeville Court House on the day of election, and I can testify that there was no unlawful means, violence, intimidation or fraud used to effect the result of the election, to my knowledge, in the polling, count? ing or refusal to poll or count the votes of those entitled to vote, and what I say is, as far as I know, the facts. You asked me if I have any facts of my own personal knowledge. I have no facts ex? cept that the election was the quietest election I ever did see. I voted myself, and nobody tried to atop me or ask me how I voted. When I voted, there were only two or three people at the polls. There was no need for any intimidation, fraud or violence, because the Republi? can party in the county had no ticket in the field for the county officers or for the Legislature or for Congress. No tickets were put into the hands of the Republi? can voters by the County Chairman. In fact, be never had any. ? You ask me to give a brief statement1 of what particular facts each witness can testify. I have no witness to testify to any intimidation or violence, for I have heard no complaint by any Republican in the county that he was not treated fair. All the Republicans that voted voted the Democratic ticket, and a great many never voted. I would state that the Republican par? ty in this county was not organized for the election. A meeting was called a few days before the election and a very few delegates attended?not more than sixteen. They made up a ticket com fiosed of part Democrats and part Republ? icans, and all the Democrats declined the nomination. We had not much money, but some was made up, and an order was sent-to General Smalls at Beaufort to have 4,000 tickets printed. The convention was held on the 26th Oc? tober, 1878, and the order for tickets was sent a few days later, and a dispatch came to the County Chairman the Satur? day before the election informing him that the order was too late, and they did not have time to print the tickets. We made no effort, after that, to get tickets. It was too late, and so it happened that the election day came and we had no tickets for our party. I have the communications which you sent to me and asked me to deliver them to the supervisors in the county. I know of no commissioned Republican super? visor, or any one who acted as such. I received your communications for W. M. Holland, B. H. Wimms, Harvey Jones, B. F. Strother, Cupid Middleton, H. A. Wideman, J. L. Adaras, W. W. F.-aser, Thomas Jones, William Hollo way, W. H. Mance, B. F. Donaldson, and will deliver them. 1 have tried to give you all the facts, as you desired. Veiy respectfully, William M. Pressly. .wimms also replies. Abbeville, January 20,1879. L. C. Northrop, Esq., United States Attor? ney for South Carolina. Sib: I have received from W. M. Pressly a communication from you dated January 13, 1879, asking me to give you material testimony about the election. I am a Republican, but was not a super? visor. You ask me for facts of my own personal knowledge about violenco, un? lawful means, intimidation or fraud in the election. AU I have to say is this: I voted myself, and nobody hurt me, and I know of no one who was treated bad. It was a quiet and peaceable election. The Republicans had no ticket and voted Democratic. Respectfully, B. H. Wimms. statement by general m'gowan. We are authorized by General Mc Gowan, the Democratic County Chair? man, to say that bo never heard a word of the effort to manufacture testimony against the Democracy of Abbeville County, until Monday night, when we showed him the above circular of Dis? trict Attorney Northrop. The General says he invites the examining committee to come to Abbeville. He wishes they would come; that we can prove by a cloud of witnesses?all colored, if they prefer?that the late election in Abbe? ville was the most quiet and peaceable election that was ever held in the coun? ty ; that no man was bulldozed ; no man was intimidated; no man was denied the right, but, on the contrary, all were' in vited to vote. That all the people of this county, white and black, are tired of Radical rule, of violence, peculation and robbery. Our people have turned their attention to their private affairs, and are content with Democratic rule, which gives short sessions of the Legislature, good schools, low taxes and exact and equal justice to all. Our acts demonstrate that all pledges have been kept, and our colored people would be singular indeed if they did not prefer that their schools should be kept open six months instend of two, and that their taxes should be nine mills instead of twenty-one. JUDGE BLUR'S PREDICTIONS. The Contest In 1880 One Between Tilden and Grunt. Hon. Montgomery Blair has written the following letter to Mr. Samuel M. Shaw, editor of the Freeman's Journal. It cannot fail to be read with interest: "My Dear Sir : I have been ill ever since your letter of the 11th ult. came to hand, and only read it day before yes? terday. I am not well yet, but the subject so presses upon me that I must attempt a brief reply. The most obvious fact in the political history of our generation is that our con? tests have been struggles for sectional su? premacy, in which the Democratic or? ganization has been regarded and treated by the people of the North as the in? strument of Southern dominion over them. It was jealousy of power?as natural to communities as to individuals ?and not sympathy for the slave, which solidified the North to install and main? tain the Republican party in power. The abolitionists were not a corporal's guard till, by the use of the slave question, the South had been consolidated, and, by its control of the Democratic organization, made the governing power of the Union. Then it was that the staunchest Demo? crats in the North broke away from the national organization, and the strongest Democratic districts and counties of New York and Pennsylvania, and other great Northern Democratic States, became the strongest Republican districts and coun? ties, and made the North solidly Repub? lican. This was the assertion for the people of the North by the then recognized leaders of the Democratic party there, of the great Democratic principle of the right of self-government, and this it was which vitalized the Republican party. By the Wilmofc proviso they sought to prevent our accession of territory from aggrandizing the political power of the Sou th; and when that power was strength? ened by the addition of the vast territory of Texas, they were the men who pressed on the war for the acquisition of Cali? fornia "and other free territory to uphold the power of the North; and they sepa? rated themselves from the Democratic party in 1848, carrying with them in New York a great majority of it, and de? feated it in the election of that year, to prevent the South from dictating the settlement of the territorial question iu the interest of its power. Believing that the question had been finally settled, and the rights of the North secured by the act of 1850, ad? mitting California as a free State into the Union, the great majority of these men returned to the party and restored it to power in 1852. The renewal of the struggle by the repeal of the Missouri compromise, the Dred Scott decision, and other measures, carried the greater part of them again into opposition. Those who remained with the party when the war came on were war Demo? crats, and rendered inestimable service to the Union by preventing the alliance of the party with the rebellion. Of these Tilden was the chief, and, having stood by the North in the war, as well as in the antecedent struggle under Yan Bu? ren and Wright and Preston King against Southerns uprcmacy, his nomina? tion in 1876 enabled us so far to with? stand the pressure of the sectional issue as to carry four of the Northern States. The politicians of the Southern school haviug allowed his election to be set aside, and making no secret since of their preference for Hayes, we have lo?t three of those States aud will lose the other in 18S0 if Southern ascendancy (as the abandonment of Tilden will unmistaka? bly indicate to be the purpose) is again to be the watchword of the parly. No one, indeed, can conceal from him? self the fact that our success depends al? together upon the question whether the politicians who obtained position iu the party while it was dominated in the interest of the South shall continue to control its nominations and policy. Their persistence in attempting to do so will only show tiint they prefer personal power to party success. But I take pleas? ure in saying that this is not true of this class of politicians generally. They are, for the most part, patriotic men, and it was Governor Seymour, their recognized leader, who led the way to the nomina? tion of Tilden. He understood so well the irresistible power of the sectional is? sue against his class of public men that he was able to foresee its effect even in his own case, and was, therefore, sincere? ly disinclined to accept the nomination thrust upon him in 1868. And it is far more honorable for Governor Seymour j to have comprehended the necessity of yielding the leadership of the parly to the head of the opposing faction, so as to secure its triumph, and to have had the magnanimity to make the surrender, than to have been himself elected to the Presidency. The people are utterly indifferent to the dissensions of our party chiefs grow? ing out of their rivalry. What the peo? ple of the North are concerned about is whethertbe men who have stood up for the rights of the Northern States and the power of the citizens of those States in the control of the national government., shall be proscribed by the party organi? zation. That concerns their own rights, and the rights and dignity of the com? munity to which they belong. Tilden belonged to the dominant wing of the Northern Democracy when that parly, by its control of the great Northern States, was essentially a national party. The overthrow of that wing of the party by the South, through its control of the national organization, lost the party all power in the North and made it essenti? ally a Southern sectional party. It is manifest that it can ouly become na? tional again by reinstating as its leaders the school of statesmeu who gave it that character. This is the feeling of the great mass of the party North and South, and the nomination of Tilden was made in ac? cordance with that feeling. By adhe? rence to this wise and patriotic policy we can eliminate sectionalism from our politics and restore efficient and honest administration. Otherwise, Grant will be re-elected and Radicalism perpetua? ted. Yours truly, Montgomery Blair. Never Better.?Unquestionably, in purity and hnallhfulness, Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder takes the lend of any other in the United States. Messrs. Steele & Price, the manufacturers, believe that all articles used iu food should be strictly pare and wholesome. THE BI?E AND THE GREY. The Assembling of Northern Scttlere In the Mouth?Southern Hospitality?Truth from Those who Know Beut. In response to the call issued by N. Dumont, of Charlotte, N. C, some sixty or seventy delegates from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida met in that city on Wednesday last, to give expression to their views touching the statements in the newspa? pers that Northern men could not dwell in security in the South, or express their political opinions in safety. The greater portion of the delegates had seen service under the stars and stripes in the "late unpleasantness." The following were elected permanent officers: N. Dumont, Charlotte, President. Vice Presidents?W. B. Middaugh, Danville, Va.; A. J. Curtis, San Mateo, Fla.; F. F. Lawshe, Gainesville, Ga.; H. Coykendalo, Black's Station, S. C. Secretaries?R. E. McDonald, Char? lotte ; T. J. Conger, Conger's, N. C.; J. E. Woodhttuse, Concord, N. C. The following were appointed a com? mittee on business: Rev. S. Mattoon, D. D., Charlotte; A. J. Curtis, Florida; H. Coy Kendall, South Carolina; W. B. Middaugh, Virginia; Major H. D. In? gersoll, Georgia. The committee on business submitted an elaborate and ably-prepared paper completely controverting in all points the asseverations of the Northern press regarding the treatment of Northern people in the South, and the bull-dozing of Republican voters. Language could not be more explicit than that of the paper, and the members of the conven? tion, in attestation of the truth of their statements, signed their names and States to the document. It was a frank ex? pression of their experience in the South, and totally divested of political bias, as Democrats and Republicans alike joined in it. No Southern man was allowed to participate in it, and it is emphatically the work of Northern men. Its truth? fulness cannot be gain-said without at? tacking the veracity of Northern men. The paper sets forth, in proper language, the capacities and advantages of the South. It was adopted, and 10,000 copies of the proceedings are to he pub? lished. The meeting adjourned to meet again in Charlotte on July 4, 1879. In the meantime, Northern settlers in the South are requested to meet in their respective counties on February l?th to select dele Stes to a State convention to meet arch 1. State conventions elect ten delegates to the general convention July 4. The following is a summary of the ad? dress prepared by the meeting: To the People of the Several Common ?wealths Composing the United States of America : We, the representatives of Northern setters in the Southern States, and being ourselves immigrants from localities in the Northern States to the respective States following our individual signa? tures, iD convention assembled, do call your attention to the following, feeling assured that cool judgment upon the facts shown will set in Bow the currents of reason, and action follow reasoning without prejudice. We prefer to make findings specfically and at length, and we find: I. That in the States of our former homes there exists an active prejudice against the South and its peopie; that this prejudice is mighty in its influence for evil on the nation; that by it and through it the conditions of the country are largely disquieted ; that it is ferment? ed and kept alive for purposes ulterior I to the common weal; that the real in? terests of the country are kept out of sight in keeping alive this prejudice; that much of this prejudice, if not all of it, is due mainly to wrong information concerning (and partial and total igno? rance of) the facts existing in a large portion of the South. 2. That in the portions of the South in which we reside, the right of any man, from no mutter where, to express public? ly as well as privately his opinion upon any subject and of every nature is no? where and in no manner restrained. That all laws are well administered and as truly enforced against the wrong-doer as in any part of any State of the Union. 3. That any man who has so conducted himself at his former home as to win the regard of honest men and decent people, by pursuing the same course of life iu the South, does gain and keep the regard and respect of all people, regardless of any question of politics or religious faith; and we further find that being a North? ern man is certainly no disadvantage. 4. That every citizen recognizes that he is amenable to the law, and that local self-government is as much required and encroachments upon these as much de? plored as in auy State North, East or West. 5. We find, too, that persons foisted themselves upon the policy of the South, and by their conduct cast discredit upon the Northern name. 6. Those of us who were in the army of the Union never for a moment pre? tended to think of denying our uniform or the old cause. The Confederate sol dier has always evinced the true soldier instinct in the grasp of those who were his enemies in war. 7. That considering reputed outrages, if these were carefully sifted it will be found that the complainants for like acts would have suffered at the hands of any people under like provocation. 8. We find that in business relations the ex-Confederate is willing to sell his land on time to Northern men, even to people who could uot get the same ac? commodations at the North, East or West. We find, too, that in the ramifi? cations of business they endorse our notes and bank papers, and are not over-anx? ious or inquisitive on questions of exten? sion, and they frequently say, "It is as much our interest as yours that you should succeed, and by your success help fill the country with thrifty people." 9. That as neighbors they visit our firesides and welcome us to the privileges of public worship, and sympathize in our sorrows and afflictions; that they admire sturdy integrity and real princi? ple; that their definition of what these things are corresponds with the idea of the same our neighbors in the North held in common with us. We find that we are not tabooed nor subjected to any kind of persecution for proper conduct of good Northern ideas or principles, and though differing from many of our Southern neighbors on many essential questions in politics and otherwise, we have lived and prospered here among them, they knowing these differences. Dr. Price's Special Flavoring Ex tcatrs.?Vanilla, Lemon, and all extracts used in flavoring ice-cream, jellies, cakes, etc., are acknowledged, by the best housekeepers in the land, to be the finest Savors made. Strange that persons will use worthless extracts, when such natu? ral flavors as Dr. Price's are to be had. ? Ninety-Six murderers expiated their crimes ou the gallows in the United States last year. Eight of these were hanged in this State. In the total was not a single woman. AN UNRECORDED BIT OF HISTORY, Benedict Arnold's Narrow Escape from Death at the Hands of a 'Woman. Xew York Times. The recent death of Mrs. Ann Hinman Kellogg, of Fairfield, Connecticut, in the ninety-third year of her age, recalls an unrecorded incident of the* war of the revolution. Mrs. Kellogg was the daugh? ter of Captain Elisha Hinman, of the United States navy, and her mother was the only American who remained in New London when the town was de? stroyed by the traitor Benedict Arnold, in 1781. At that time Captain Hinman's ship was hourly expected to arrive at New London, and it was hoped that he might come in time to save the town. Mrs. Hiuman was well acquainted with Arnold, as he had often dined at her house, and had been a friend of her hus? band. Induced by anxietv for her hus? band's safety, she remained after all others had fled, and watched the entry of the British from the doorway of her house. As Arnold rode up he saw and saluted her, and said that if she would point out her own property it should be spared. She pointed out the houses of several of her neighbors as her own, and thus saved them from destruction. Ar? nold remained on horseback near her house nearly all day, noting the battle that was raging at Fort Griswold, on the Groton side of the river, where the tall monument commemorating the event now stands. Three times were the British driven down the bill by the deadly fire from the fort. Then the ammunition of its de? fenders became exhausted, and they were obliged to surrender. The British officer in command of the storming party was so enraged at the desperate defense of the fort that, as he entered it, he asked: "Who commands here?" Col. Ledyard replied: "I did, but you do now," at the same time surrendering his sword. The officer received the sword and instantly plunged it into the heart of the gallant colonel. An American officer, standing beside his colonel, snatched his own sword from its scabbard, and, in a moment, the cowardly Briton lay dead beside his vic? tim. An indiscriminate massacre of all within the fort followed, and thirty of the wounded Americans were piled into a wagon, that was rolled down a steep hill? side to the bottom, where it was dashed in pieces against a tree. Then hurried preparations were made to evacuate their {josltion by the British, Arnold having earned of the expected arrival of Capt. Hinman. Mrs. Hinman, having witnessed these outrages from her housetop, became so incensed against the traitor that she hur? riedly descended from the roof, took a musket from the closet, where it had been left the day before by an American sol? dier, and leveled it at Arnold as he sat on his horse in front of the house. Tak? ing a long, steady aim, she pulled the trigger, but the piece missed fire. Hear? ing the snap of the lock, Arnold turned and asked her what that noise was. With great presence of mind, she had dropped the gun so that he did not see it, ana she answered that it was the breaking of a chair. This incident formed the subject of a painting by Huntington, the artist, whose wife is a grand niece of Mrs. Hinman. This painting is now in the possession of Mr. Thomas Day, of Bergen Point, N. J. In it Mrs. Hinman is represented as lev? eling a musket at Arnold from a window in her house, and the burning town is seen in the background. The remains of both Captain and Mrs. Hinman now lie in the Cedar Grove cemetry at New Lon? don, where their monument is one of the finest to be seen._ How Congressman Taylor Won His Election and Wife.?Hon. Robt. Taylor, Congressman elect from the First district of Tennessee, was united in mar? riage last week, at Ashvillc, N. C, with Miss Sallie Baird,, a niece of Governor Vance, of North Carolina. The marri? age is the conclusion of a very romantic story. When Taylor was nominated by the Democrats as their candidate for Congress, Miss Baird promised him that, if elected, she would marry him ; if de? feated, it would be an indefinite time before their union. The district con? tains some of the strongest Republican counties in the State, and has always given a Republican majority if 2.200 or 2,300. The prospect for Taylor attain? ing his desires were, therefore, not at all promising. Besides, be had as an op? ponent Pettibone, one of the Republican chieftains of the State, an emigrant from Michigan, possessed of unusual shrewdness. In the Republican conven? tion Taylor's brother, a very pronounced Republican, was the principal candidate for the nomination ngainat Pettibone; but the latter, after a bitter fight, secured the honor. Republican Taylor's friends were all angry, and the Democrats conceived that it would be a good thing to nom? inate his Democratic brother, who would probably draw votes from the Republi? can ranks. The plan was carried out. Taylor was only twenty-eight years old, and in that region had made consider? able reputation and popularity as a fid? dler. At the frequent gatherings for dancing he was a most welcome guest. His nomination seemed to fire the young men with enthusiasm. Pettibone looked down on him with contempt, and in the opening speech merely alluded to him as the "beardless boy who fiddles." When it came to Taylor's rejoinder, be ap Croached the table with a fiddle in one and and a carpet-bag in the other. He commenced with the statement that the serious charge had been made against him that he was a fiddler. Then, laying the fiddle and carpet-bag side by side on the table, he asked the crowd to choose between them. The point was taken up and carried from one end of the district to the other, and Taylor was elec? ted by fifteen hundred majority. ? For whooping cough : Twenty grains salt tartar, ten grains cochineal mixed in a gill of water and sweeten with honey. For a child, one teaspoon - ful three times a day, or oftener if the case is bad. ? The Boston Post can see no objec? tion to Secretary Evarts' aspirations for the Presidency except that, if elected, he would hardly get through with bis in? augural address before it would be time for the 1884 election. ? When Prof. Watson, or some other professor, discovers a new star, it is tele? graphed all over the country. But when an unscientific gent steps on the slippery side of a pool of frozen water, caresses the pavement with the back of his head, and sees millions of new meteors travel? ing at the rate of two million miles a second, and a whole firmament of new stars shooting hither and thither, he keeps the wonderful discovery a secret. He doesn't hanker for newspaper noto? riety.?Norristoum Herald. Sweeter, Cleaner, Purer.?Refin? ed and intelligent ladies use Dr. Price's Unique Perfumes, Alista Bouquet or Pet Rose. Such ladies have tastes for the beautiful, prove affectionate companions, and will keep well-ordered households. To the lower orders all smells are alike; it is the sweeter, cleaner, purer, that en? joy D>. Price's rich odors. 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Greensburg is a beautiful little city of four thousand inhabitants, located in southeastern Indiana. It is the county seat of Dccatur County, and both city and county were settled mostly by per? sons bailing from Pennsylvania and the blue grass regions of Kentucky. The name Greensburg was given when the site was located by Mrs. Thomas Hen dricks, aunt of Hon. Thomas Hend ricks, late candidate for Vice President, in memory of her native place, Greensburg, Pennsylvania. There were several con petitors for the honor of giving the name, but the matter was decided by a vote. As Mrs. Hendricks bad several comely grown daughters, and as such were scarce in the new settlement, her wishes carried the day. Time passed, and the county, having passed through its stage of log and brick court house, must needs have one to cor? respond with the intelligent and wealthy population to which it had attained, so the Commissioners went to work, and in 1862 completed a temple of justice which was at that time the finest and most cost- ' ly in the State. It occupies the "public square" in the centre of t'ae city, and is surrounded by a grove of beautiful forest - trees, inclosed with an iron fence. The principal front of the building is cast, and from that point there springs a tower which reaches a height of one hundred and forty feet. One hundred and five feet from the ground is the water-sh jet of the tower, and above that it is covered with dressed stone, made to fit closely in slabs two by five feet, inclining at an angle of about thirty degrees from upright In the summer of 1870 a citizen of the place was examining the tower with a glass when he observed, .springing from \ the third crevice about the water-sheet ?> on the east side of the tower, 110 feet, from the ground, a little twig. But lit? tle was thought of it, and it was scarcely - discernible with the naked eye. The next spring some interest was exhibited to know if the miniature tree in its strange and exposed position bad sur? vived the wintry blast. It had survived, and when sun and spring showers came on, put out its leaves plentifully and grew luxuriantly all the season. By this time it was easily seen with the eye, but as it could not be approached in any' ordinary manner nearer than from the roofs of buildings on the opposite side of the street, its species could not. be as? certained. The third spring it put forth again with renewed life, vigor and size. Instead of dwindling and drooping from the effects of the winter's cold or thesum mer's heat and drouth, the atmosphere, of justice from below seemed to cause it to flourish extraordinarily. This sea? son it was decided to be a silver maple, sprung, no doubt, from a seed carried by a bird or whirlwind, and lodged in that exalted place. By this time the tree had become fa? mous. Accounts of it had appeared in the papers, but the story was not gen? erally believed. But, nevertheless, the tree lived and grew. Itwas there, and ? no mistake. And so it has continued until this day. It is now more than twelve feet high, and it is thought to be three inches in diameter.* The top is quite bushy, and, in the summer sea- ? son, the leaves are numerous and lux- ' uriant. It can be seen for many miles around, and the stranger approaching first sees the tower, and then this strange phenomenon beckoning him over. Pas? sengers passing on the train, who have heard of the wonderful tree, ask fre-1 quently concerning it, and trains have even been stopped by accommodating conductors until the skeptical could be convinced. The rapid growth of the tree is forcing the stone apart This can readily be seen with a glass. Ere long the ambitious maple will have to be brought lower, or damage to the building follow. The Sheriff has al? ready had several applications from ex? pert climbers to take it down, but the people will not permit their tree to be' removed yet. An artist representing a New York illustrated paper called to sketch the curiosity, but the leaves were off, and be postponed it until a more fa? vorable time. Persons approaching the place from Cincinnati get a good view of it by looking from tue north windows as they draw near Greensburg. Of course it appears to much greater advan? tage when in full leaf, and at such a time it is indeed a strange curiosity.? Chicago Timet Orcauburg Letter. He Meant Well but Got a Flog? ging.?An elderly good man in the First Ward, a prominent citizen, had an expe? rience Friday night which showed the kindliness of his heart, though he did get a beating for it The affair has two \ sides?serious and humorous. It was about 9 o'clock when Mr. Citizen was disturbed by a racket at his front fence; he went out and found a horse plunging against the fence, while in the cutter was an up-town citizen too drunk to direct. the horse aright Our First-Warder kindly concluded to take the rig and the man to the hitter's borne, and so jumped into the cutter and drove for up-town, taking Second street Just above Fill more street he stopped at a grocery to see if he couldn't get somebody else to ren? der the drunken man the service, as he didn't like the footing it away back to his home so lateat night While he was arranging with a man to perform the service, the drunken fellow gathered the reins up and drove off, and as he did bo another rig, with a young man and his sister in the cutter, drove np to the place. The young man jumped out and went into the grocery. The First Warder and his young man stepped out of the door, and the latter went up to the cutter to step into it He suddenly turned to his elderly friend with: "What are you giving me? It's a woman in this cutter 1" "A woman!" was the response. "I'll show you what kind of a woman it is?it's Blank; he's got upon the seat and wrapped himself up. I say, here, get? ting sober, eh ?" and he took hold of the party on the seat to give him a shake. Immediatdly a woman screamed: "Let. me be I Brother, brother, come here !" The brother was opening the door when he heard the scream, and he dashed at the First-Warder and gave him a most severe beating, knocking him right and left and down, never waiting for an ex? planation till after he was through; and then he didn't, for he bounded into the cutter and drove off. While the matter was pretty serious for the victim, it bad such a ludicrous side to it that be him? self couldu't help laughing when be was in the store washing the blood off his face and clothing.?Davenport [loica) Gazette, Dec 80. _ ? Certain newspapers are parading be? fore the public the statement that "canni? bals" will not eat the flesh of smokers because it tastes of tobacco." It is shame ful that there are editors who can be bribed, and bribed by tobacco dealers to entice from his new-year resolutions the praiseworthy young man who has "sworn off" from smoking. Our advice to the young reformer is that be let not the shallow argument trouble or move him.