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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1879. NW? Of SUBSCRIPTION.?Ose Dollar * d Fifty Cents per auauin, in advance. Two Doluuu at end or year. Seventy-Five Csnts for six mo'iths. Subscriptions arc not taken for a leas period than six months. BATES OP ADVERTISING.?On* Dollar per 5'iua eoi one inch for the Oral insertion, and Fifty Co "is per square for subsequent insert Ions less that three months. No advertisements counted less than a square. I iberal contracts w il I be made with those wishing to advrrtise for three, six or twelve months. Ad verttdna: by contract mast be confined to the im mediate business of the firm or individual contrac? ting. 05:tuary Notices exceeding five lines, Tributes of Respect, and all personal communications or ?a xtters of individual interest, will be charged for at advertising ratca. Announcements of marriages and deaths, and notices of a religious character, are respectful!} solicited, and will be Inserted gratis. NIHILISM. The Movement More than Fifty Years Old. A correspondent of the Cologne Ga? zette writing from St. Petersburg just before the late attempt on tbe life ol the Czar, says: "It is just about a year since the Rus? sian Socialists first surprised their fellow countrymen with a display of tbeir plan of action. Within the past twelve months biils, placards, and pamphlets of h. revolution?r}* character hare bean de? livered at the doors of Ministers, now at the cottage of tbe laborer, witb an audac? ity for wbich we should have to travel far to find a parallel. How long the dismal confederacy has been in existence ?a confederacy whose members are abroad known as Nihilists, and inK ussia ns Socialists, but who call themselves the Revolutionary party?it is impossible to ascertain witb exactness. At uny rate . the movement has assumed a fixed shape only within the past year, and it is since that time that we have learned the san? guinary task which the terrorists have undertaken, and which they bare been executing with a precision that excites the utmost horror and astonishment. At first little importance was in general at? tached to the manifestos of the revolu? tionary party. The ptevailing convic? tion was that its principal elements con? sisted of eccentric, over-excited students who could uerer prove dangerous to the State or to society. To-day, the opinion has very much altered, at least in Rus? sia itself. Abroad people are still attri? buting the movement, wbich, in the meantime, has spread all orer Russia, tfe Nihilism; others are endeavoring to show tbe indentity of the Russian -evo? lutionists with tbe Internationale. This . view is, however, a false one, and be who is prepossessed by it has much to learn of Russia and its people. Possibly, the Internationale and the Russian rerolu ' tionaries have certain relations with one another, and it may be granted that there are many Nihilists among them; but taken generally, the Russian Socialists are pursuing paths of their own which differ toto crelo from those of the Inter? nationale, and have desperately little, in common even with Nihilism. To find tbe real commencement of present rev? olution we should have to go back as far as the accession of the Emperor Nicho? las. It was in 1825 that for the first time loud demand was made in Russia . for a Constitution, which it was also en? deavored to secure by violent means. ' This movement the energetic Czar quick? ly crushed. Under his. iron rule there may have been occasional ferment, but nothing to speak of came to the surface. " It was only under the mildet scepter of Alexander that the agitation first ven? tured to show itself agaiu. Since the ?year 1863, when serfdom was actually . abolished, it increased from day to day, and for fifteen years it has been increas - ing almost imperceptibly, and without n.-isumir 2 a fixed and definite shape. Bnt at length, last year it came forth firm, ' audacious, and in a terrible form. At that time there appeared in all tbe Eu . ropean cities of the Empire publications of an insurrectionary character, accusing the highest officials and dignitaries of dishonorable conduct, avarice, and bar? barous brutally. Their removal from tbe entourage of the Emperor was demanded failing which a sanguinary revenge was threatened. From the outset the Rus? sian Socialists declared that they did not intend any injury to the Czar. It was the Court Camarilla tbey were aiming at?that wall which separates the ruler from his people, and through which lay the only way to the monarch. This they declared must be broken down, if not in a peaceable way, then by force. They further demanded a Constitution, the suppression of his Majesty's private chan? cellery?commonly called tbe 'Third Di? vision'?tbe abolition of corporal pun? ishment with the stick in prisons, better treatment of political prisoners, reform " in the courts of justice, and changes in 'the procedure in preliminary examina? tions under the secret police. The pe.sons whose dismissal fron, the ranks of the government service was demanded were mentioned by name. They were not few; there were about 200 names on the list. Underneath these names were words to the following effect: 'Since we are unable to obtain any redress in a le? gal way, and that because in Russia, not the Czar, but those about the Czar really govern the country, we shall, unless at? tention is paid to our wishes, enter upon the illegal way, and we shall shoe t, stab, and murder, until our demands are sat? isfied and the Camarilla is swept ftorn the face of the earth.' According to the pro? gramme of the Socialists, or Revolution? ary party, the'Third Division' wr.s to be first done away witb. Tbe prirate chan? cellery of his Majesty, it was declared, was an institution utterly irreconcilable '.vith the spirit of the present?an insti? tution wbich, standing above and outside all law, could not be reached by any le? gal way. The Chief of the Third Divis? ion was threatened with murder or as? sassination, if he continued to torture prisoners into confession by subjecting ihem to the pangs of hunger, and thirst and the knout. A certain time was granted him within which to mend his ways. The authorities, upon receiving these intimations, employed every exer? tion to get a clue to the audacious au? thors and distributors of these publica? tions, but all without success. Hand bills and placards seemed over night to grow out of the earth. The army wasde luged with them; the laborer found them in his pocket in the morning. No? body knew whence they came, bit there they were, every day in increasing num? bers. Before long simple hand bills were not sufficient. Newspaper* began to appear, printed and published in regular form, some aboard, others in the capital itself. LAND AND WATER. "For some time the Storm Bell had In on published in London and the For Kurd in Geneva, when suddenly, in St. Petersburg, there appeared the chief or gaii of the Revolutionary party?a pa? per which, in foolhardiness, surpassed everything that had hitherto been known in the same line. It bears the name SemlaiScaboda, (Land and Liberty). In t hi a print we see unfolded a revolution? ary tanaticism and terrorism which recall the memory of the sanguinary years of the first French Revolution. The Semlai Soaboda passes judgment on life or death ; it warns, threatens, and pardons; it announces beforehand those w io have been condemned in the criminal courts n*i?l publishes earlier and more faithful accounts with respect to the condemned Ihan the journals of the capital are able to do. The- hawkers or distributors of the Semla i Sraboda must, it would seem, oil her t<> do their work in invisible gar? ments or the copies of the paper must fall from the skies They arc found everywhere, except when the police want to tlrop on them. They are found in the offices of the civil service, in manufacto? ries, in barracks, in restaurants, in the Ministry of the Interior, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Public Enlighten? ment, etc., in every place copies of the S-mJa i Sraboda Hiddenly crop up. The Councillor of State finds them between the leaves of his Conservative journal; the Sergeant finds them folded inside his orderly book. All search is in vain ; the secret way by which the paper comes is not to be discovered. The Semla i Svabo? da appears only once or twice a month. It costs six roubles a year lo annual sub? scribers?so, at least, we are informed by the announcement inviting new sub? scribers which is printed at the head of this strange periodical. Shall we call this audacity or banter? "The editors of the Land and Liberty quite coolly invite readers to subscribe to their paper, as though it was a mere matter of course. They further in.'orm tis what pamphlets have recently beeu republished, and what will shortly ap? pear; and to this announcement they add the intimation that 'these publica? tions are to be bought for' so much, 'at the well known places.' The form of the revolutionary newspaper itself very nearly resembles that of the Augsburg Allcg'emein Zeitung or the London Ga? zette. The printed matter is on coarse paper and clear, although evidently, at times, hurriedly put together. The text generally occupies from sixteen to twenty four pages. The assumption is that each of the confederates employed on the pa? per carries about with him a quantity of type; that on a fixed day he takes this to the secret printing office; that there the various articles are set up as rapidly as can be done, put together, and made ready for printing, so that in a few hours the whole business is over. OFFICIALS FOREWARNED. "Ou the day after that assination of Mesenzeff, the Chief of the St. Peters? burg Secret Division, the Santa i Svaboda appeared with an illustration. On the front page of the paper appeared the commencement of a grand proclamation of which the substance was as fol? lows : " 'Yesterday, in accordance with the sentence of the National Revolutionary Committee, there fell Gen. Mesenzeff, Chief of the 3d Division of the Secret Chancellery of His Majesty. He had trampled right under foot; he tortured his prisoners, persecuded the innocent and in his official capacity murdered partly by brutal ill treatment by hunger, thirst, and the rod, and partly by his minions, the following persons.' (Then follows a list of names with cause of their imprisonment and the circumstances of their death.) 'The measure of Mesen? zeff was full. We gave him warning which he disregarded.' "Thus the proclamation proceeds for some length, but it breaks off on the first page in order to make room for the illus? tration just mentioned, which is accom? panied by a revolutionary dirge. The picture represents the murdered Mesen? zeff lying on a catafalque. Around him bright tapers are burning. The poem tells the reasons for bis death, and re? lates how the Czar comes in to take a last farewell of his faithful servant. The Emperor enters, takes off his helmet, and kneels down at the foot of the coffin. Sott church music is then beard and the lights suddenly go out There is sound of thunder and of rushing wind in the air; the musicsuddenty stops, and into the chamber of death there dances a long line of shades of the murdered? hollow-eyed, covered in rags, and fetters rattling on their limbs. The ghostly company dance the dance of death round the Emperor and the corpse of Mesenzeff. They lift their arms in menacing fashion, pointing to the wounds which the assas? sinated Chief of the Police bad inflicted on them. Then suddenly ceasing from the dance, they join in a chorus, singing 'It is not he we pity, but ourselves, who were murdered for no crime; he only had what he deserved.' I refrain from reproducing the whole of the dirge; it is too frantically insame and fantastic. I only wish to give some illustration of the length to which the audacity of the Semla i Seaboda is carried. "After the assassination of Krapotkin another announcement of the secret tri? bunal was made in the revolutionary journal. A reward of 50,00 roubles had been offered for the discovery of they murderers of Mesenzeff, but nobody came forward toearn the reward. After the at temt ou Krapotkin the reward was dou? bled iu the hopeof tempting some one in the hostile camp to turn traitor. And this time a roan actually presented himself before the Chief of the Gendarmerie and betrayed the whereabouts of two secret printing offices in St. Petersburg. One of them waB in the office for shipping dues on the Gundujevski OstrofT, the other in the Imperial Cartridge Factory on the Vassili Ostroff. In the night both the printing office were visited and broken up; but beyond a couple of thousand copies of papers wi^J^had been smuggled into the country?copies of the Storm Bell and of Forwards?and a number of pla? cards, only a few hundred printing types were found. An expert was at once called in by the police and consul? ted as to where the type had come from, and it was found that the letters hud been brought together from a number of different printing offices in the city, most of them beiug from the firm of Wolf and from the Imperial State Printing Office. At the cartridge factory Col. Simoneff and five other officers were arrested, and in the office for shipping dues the first assistant to the Director was likewise placed under arrest. He was a man named Eichstedt, of German parentage, but born and brought up in Russia1. THE FATE OF A TRAITOR. "These prisoners are said to have been found guilty of complicity with the rev? olutionary movement but, after all, the discovery of these two printing offices has had no appreciable effect in checking the action of chiefs of the party, who still remain undiscovered. The types gave the police no clue to them, and the key to the secret was not found, though a large quantity of their papers fell into the bi'.nd of the detectives. The seat of the principal printing office still contin? ues a mystery. On the other hand three days had not elapsed after the betrayal of the two printing offices when the betrayer was found murdered in MamontofTs Hotel, in Moscow. On his breast^a card was pinned, bearing these words : 'Executed by command of the Committee of the Revolution. Death to the traitors!' No one in Mos? cow knew the name of the murdered man. He had traveled with a false passport from the new to the old capital. But the readers of the Semla i Svaboda were not long left in doubt as to the identity of the victim, for on theday after his assassination the revolutionary organ reported the case as follows: "On the 6th of March the traitor Reinstein was executed in MamontofTs Hotel, Moscow. Reinstein, a Polish Jew, had betrayed to the Third Division the whereabouts of two of our printing offices. On this account we put him to death. The government need not put it? self to unnecessary expense. In its dom? iciliary researches it has found nothing of importance. It is exceedingly inon venient to us that our editorial portfolio fell into the hands of the police who were sent in search, but, as we have put our names to our articles, nothing further can come of it. No money will tempt any one Mining us to turn traitor ; lor Reinstein was simply a news agent who distributed our papers. We have at command sums sufficient to keep I our people from giving way to the temp I tation of gold. The execution of Mesen zeff cost 6,000 roubles, and that of Krap j otkin about an equal sum, but, neverthe j less, we have at our disposal at any mo? ment, 400,000 roubles in hard cash, in order to enable us to carry through our work to its conclusion." Hints for "Beating It." Begin by borrowing a quarter which of course you need never return. The lender will consider it money well inves? ted. Always manage to smoke at somebody else's expense. You will be able to get behind unusually good cigars in this way ?much better than vou would buv your? self. If you notice anything in a show win? dow, order it up to the house regardless of the expense. The merchant is always anxious to work off his goods, and it is your bouuden duty to help him. Be especially careful never to return a book that a friend lends you. It will look a great deal better on your table than on his?if you are shrewd enough to tear out the tell-tale fly leaf. Send home a sewing machine on the "instalment" plan. You can make the first payment and sell the machine for cash before the agent calls again. This is a good investment. Engage the best horse in the livery every Sunday. "Money makes the mare go"?and if it is somebody else's money she'll go all tbe faster. II your salary's small, your dinners should of course be large. Patronize the markets liberally (on tick) and have everything good to eat in its season. You will grow sleek by this method, and your pocket-book will not suffer? the market man's will; but that's no matter. Your wife and daughters should dress in silks. Not that they can afford it, or that anybody expects ;hem to, but it is sort of distingue among strangers to wear good clothes. Recollect that you always promise to pay a bill "next Saturday"and go fishing all that day. Any suspicious looking person that comes around the corner may be a col? lector, and it would be well to cross the street. He will cross too, but you will gain time to invent a new lie about your financial circumstances. Doctor bills are never to pe paid. This is ou honor. "Folks that's rich can pay them fellows?they have a mighty easy time, and get their money without trouble." Twenty-five dollars to a lawyer to contest a suit for debt is a highly hon? orable and dignified way of getting rid of said debt. It will bring you before the courts, and your name will be in the papers. It is a great mistake to draw your own salary. Have a "friend" who does this for you. Then the firm that owes you will not owe you, and "garnisheeing," "facto.-izing," "trusteeing," and the like will not trouble you. Talk very loud about your "business" and tbe great things you are doing and your plaus for the future. People will gain an impression that your "capital" is employed, aud that you are an enter? prising, stirring sort of a man?which you are, in certain Hues. House rent is of no consequence to a landlord. If you occupy his house it will give it an "air of busiuess-like respecta? bility." You may get "warned out" after awhile, but you can always have the satisfaction of calling him a "mean, stingy old curmudgeon, that never kept the house in a condition fit for a hog to live in"?notwithstanding that you lived in it yourself as long as he would allow you. Subscribe for the daily papers?all of them. You will thus be kept informed of what is going on in the world, aud can talk intelligently on all subjects. Drop in occasionally and make a sug? gestion or two as to the course the paper ought to pursue. It will be considered an equivalent for tbe money in advance. About two years of this sort of proce? dure will serve to bring you out as a "man of mark" and a "dead beat" of the first water.?New Haven Register. Hog Cholera?A Cure.?I have read many articles in newspapers and journals, about hog cholera, and have waited to see if a remedy could be found wbich would prove satisfactory. I will relate briefly my experience, hoping it will prove of benefit to others. During the war just prior to the fall of New Orleans, I purchased from a Texas drover one hundred heavy meat hogs which av? erage two hundred pounds net. The weather being warm, I put them in a fattening pen and thought I would wait for a cold spell to kill them. Not more than a week elapsed when I noticed that several appeared sluggish aud sick, and in a very few days after I had to throw nineteen out dead. Others looked as though they were affected with the same disease. I had the whole lot^turned into a large wood pasture hoping that they might be benefited by a change, but the disease spread among the bogs I had raised, and at least one hundred pigs, shoats and sows died. At the suggestion of Mr. A. D. Woods, who was overseeing for me, I had a large 84-inch sugar kettle hauled to the pasture avid the stock minder was direc? ted to put six bushels of corn in the ear, to add one-half of unslacted lime and to fill the kettle with water, and to cook the corn about half done. This made a good thick whitewash, and with the lime all coated over the ears, it was thrown out to the hogs (abouc three hundred) and was greedily eaten by them; we contin? ued this for a week, feeding every even? ing, and I did not lose two hogs after the first feed. I did not know at the time what the disease was, but am satisfied by the description given by numerous wri? ters, that it was genuine -hog cholera. I have never been troubled with the dis? ease since. Planters on Bayou Breuf are preparing for cotton. Many have planted their corn, and there will be an increase in the acre? age of cotton over last year. The seed cane is not injured as much as it was feared it would be.?Lixx Tanner, [Chcnegville, La.) in Our Home Journal., ? A writer in the Weekly Tribune says that he hunted last year cabbage-worms till he nearly crippled his back. One day a neighbor's Wife came in and told him to use a tea made of cayenne pepper, to sprinkle the cabbages with twice a day. He applied it, and his cabbages and back were saved, lie watched the millers and they would not light on the plants which had the pepper on them. "Nosics Ha hey But They Smell Not!"?Among, .lie lower orders, bad smells are little heeded; in fact, "noses have they, but they smell not;" but to the refined and educated, a pleasant odor, emanating from a well-dressed pet>on, produces feelings of pleasure and delight. The fragrance of Dr. Trice's Unique 1 er fiimcs produces an influence that is tap tivaling and delightful. THE AZOR FOLKS IX LIBERIA. | How They ai-e Gelting On in the ''Land of I*romlse." Among the passengers on the New York steamer which arrived here on Sat? urday were Spencer Reeves and his two sons, colored emigrants who went to Li-1 bcria on the Azor. They are now on their way back to Milledgevillc, Georgia, which is their original home, although they had lived in Aiken County, in this State, lor several years prcce?ing their ocean voyage. The two sons are young men, one of them a mere youth, and neither bore any appearance of ill health, although the younger stated that he was by no means well. The old man looks just as he did when he left here a year ago, being evidently still as shrewd and practical as he was then, even in the height of the Libcriau craze. A few more gray hairs in his head and beard is the only change in his appearance. He does not seem to have been favorably im? pressed with Liberia, and expressed much satisfaction at being so uear home once more. When questioned as to his family, he stated that his wife had died of the Coast fever. His son "Pete," a most magnificent specimen of physical devel? opment, was also dead, having dropped down in his own door one morning, and died in a flash almost of some myste? rious blight. Floyd, the oldest and only married son, had been left behind in Li? beria, the old man not having means suf? ficient to bring him back, although he earnestly desired to come. Sl'ENGER REEVES' NARRATIVE of the experience of the immigrants is that they lingered about Monrovia for two months and two weeks after the white sails of the Azor had disappeared in the west. During this time some died, and all suffered with the fever. Reeves says his own belief is that Anthony Wil? liams, probably the Secretary of State, made away with many of the cfTects landed from the Azor. His own were sadly depleted by somebody. At the ex? piration of the time above named, the immigrants divided into three parties, the one to which he was attached going about 30 miles up the St. Paul's River to one of the extreme settlements, called, as well as could be gathered from the nar? rator's pronunciation, Pobama. Here they were allotted land, assisting the surveyor by carrying his chains, Ac So soon as their claims were marked out, the men went vigorously to work in a large gang, building log houses, shelter being obtained meanwhile in the dwell? ings of the few settlers already there, and thatch huts. The new habitations were soon completed and occupied, and the work of CLEARING AND PLANTING was immediately commenced. Reeves himself planted small patches of pota? toes, corn and peas, the others doing about the same. He says he made two patches of the former, one of corn and one of peas. His potatoes "made" in about three months. He had meat, for which he paid ?30 per hundred, having held on to his money and kept it by him. Those who had no money had no meat, unless they, could kill a stray deer or "pick up" a little somewhere. He plant? ed a patch of cassadas, and left them growing. During all this time they could hear no word of the Azor, nor learn anything of events on this side of the water. Reeves himself generally went to Monrovia on Saturday, and there met many of his fellow immigrants. The Liberian government had given a little help to a few. Perhaps the best idea of the status of the immigrants may be gathered from the old man's answers as the roll was called over to him. His account of the individual fortunes of his late compan? ions was as follows: CALLING THE ROLL. William Adams, Lancaster County, aged 26. Was well at last accounts. Had lost his child. Wanted to return. At Pobama. Scott Bailey, Lancaster, aged 29. Knows generally that he is faring badly and living poorly. Robert Manger, Lancaster, aged 38. Has lost a child. He and his people were compelled to sell nearly all their clothes to get a start, but are now doing tolerably well. Is at Pobama. Okra Adams, Ninety-Six, S. C, aged 42? He and his family are at Pobama, and are faring very badly; "sometimes they eat, and sometimes they don't." James Johnson, aged 26, Ninety-Six. Is at Pobama. Is a skilful hunter, and "makes out" tolerably well. Moses Mason, Ninety-Six, aged 49, has married a rich Liberian widow, and is comfortable and satisfied. Matt Matthews, Ninety-Six. Believed to be dead. Joshua Phillips, Ninety-Six, aged 38, carpenter, doing finely. Children all at school. Has lost one child. Abrain Robinson, Ninety-Six. Farm? ing at Pobama. Doing tolerably well, but suffering from an ulcer in his leg. Ned Wilson, Ninety-Six, aged 46, dead. Family fanning at Pobama, and "just breathin'." John Bell, Selma, Ala., aged 65, at Pobama. Has gone to stealing. Green Barr, Augusta, Ga., aged 34, is at Pobama, farming and doing well, and satisfied. Is a magistrate. Geo. Shaw, Augusta, Ga., aged 31, has lost a child. Getting along tolerably well and satisfied. Is making $1.50 a day in Monrovia working at his trade, (machinist.) Simon Ware, Augusta, Ga., aged 58. Wife dead. Is overseer for a planter at $8 per month, food and clothes, and "lookin' fine as a fiddle." Wm. Wilhite, Augusta, Ca., farming at Pobama. Doing tolerably well and satisfied. Allen Dural, Burke County, Ga., in? capacitated from labor by an ulcer on his Isbara Hughes. Burke County, is at Pobama and high sheriff of town. Rachael Williams, widow, Burke County, in Monrovia, refusing to leave there, and very anxious to get back. Thomas Williams, farmer, aged 47, Burke County, doing well and "cotin a widow woman." Simon Williams, farmer, Burke Coun? ty, aged 22, dead. Left two children. " Bcrrian Williams, Burke County, aged 14, became disgusted, stole a boat and ran oil' in it. Robert Williams, Ilurke County, aged 55, living with his family at Pobama. Faring very badly. William" Adams, Burke County, aged 55, died from an ulcer. John Young, aged 36, Burke County, incapacitated from work by an ulcer, and, with his family, "perishing." Ned Clark, aged 23, Clarendon Coun? ty, S. C, making out very badly. James Clark, same family, aged 70, died at Pobama. Jackson Clark, same family, (was di? rector of the L. E. A.) at Pobama. Says he would give his life to get back. Alexander Clark, same family, doing tolerably well at Puhama. Rufus Clark, same family, incapaci? tated from work by an ulcer. Moses Hilton, Clarendon County, dead. "Grieved himself to death waitin' to git back bvnic." Widow in Monrovia. Free] Robinson, Clarendon ; wife dead. Is about Monrovia doing odd jobs. Scott Daniels, aged 24, Barnwell Coun? ty, S. C. Is well, but complaining of scant eating. Lydia Johnson, agod 70, Barnwell, living at Pobama. Moss Stevens, Barnwell, aged 28, in Monrovia earning scanty living by work? ing by the day. Howeil Tyler, aged 50, Barnwell. Is living somewhere down the coast, and seems to be doing tolerably well, going to Monrovia by boat even' Saturday. Reeves says he has the Baptist Church's money and won't give it up. His son ran oil'with Berrian Williams. Abram Tyler, same family. Knocking around Monrovia. Rev. S. P. Flcgler, preaching. Doing tolerably well. Waiting for Azor to come back on. W. J. Moultrie, (missionary,) Charles? ton. Has parted with his wife; is clerk in a store. Thaddeus Middleton, aged GS, Charles- | ton County, living at l'obama. S. E. Gaillard, (ex-senator,) Charles- | ton County, working at his trade (ma-1 chinist) in Monrovia and doing fairly. Has lost a child. Wife crazy to get back. Clement Irons, aged 50. Charleston. Is doing well at his trade (millwright.) Hits lost a daughter. George Curtis, (M. D.,) has parted witb his wife. Is scraping a living as jeweller, and Reeves says, has a "sweet? heart." Boatswain Siegler, aged 57, Edgefield County, dead. Daughter "waitin' on rich niggers." Jackson Smallwood, Edgefield. Do? ing nothing. "Most dead." Cmsar White, Edgefield, wife dead. Alfred Hood, Charlotte, N. C, aged 39, dead. Left a large family. Of course this list only includes those heads of families of whom Reeves hap? pens to know. There arc many of whom he can tell nothing. He describes the mortality among the children as fearful. His estimate put the number of deaths al. over one-half the souls landed. This, however, may be an exaggeration, lie says the Williams family from Georgia lost twelve children. The proportion of deaths have certainly been very large. The climate, he says, gives rise to fearful ulcers. His general summing tip is that "over one-half is dead, plenty of others perish? ing to death almos', and heap would come back if they could. The land is very good, but the people unaccommo? dating and mean." He says he was robbed of almost everything but his money. He stopped here to attempt to realize upon some of his claims against the L. E. A., but learniug the futility of all such efforts, announced his intention of "goin' home to his people, goin' to work, aud rctirin' from all nigger busi? ness." He seems, on tbe whole, thoroughly and completely disgusted with Liberia, although he thinks a man with cither a trade, a very small family, or a large capital, would do well there.?Acic? and Courier. Is the Moox Ixhadited ??The ques? tion as to whether the moon is inhabited by organic beings?if not like those that live on our own globe, at least of a kind specially adapted by their structure and nature for existing under the very differ? ent physical conditions that obtain on our satellite?is one that has attracted attention for ages, aud one, too, that has been argued pro and con with great abil? ity by many learned and eminent men. The opinion of nearly all scientists of the present day, however, is that the moon is a "dead planet;" and that, inasmuch as she has but a slight and very rare atmos? phere, and that, as a consequence, no water exists on her surface, she is entire? ly unfitted to be the dwelling place of any organic beings whatever?at. least of any kinds that our minds can form any conception of. On the other baud, those who take the opposite view argue (to use the words of Dick) that "matter appears to have been created chiefly in subser? viency to mind ; and it is highly improb? able that the Creator would leave a globe containing a surface of 15,000,000 square miles altogether destitute of sensitive and intellectual beings, especially when we behold its surface diversified and adorned with such a vast assemblage of pic turesqe and sublime scenery, and when we consider that every department con? nected with our globe is peopled with sentient beings of every description. Al? though seas and rivers and a dense at? mosphere are not to be found connected with the lunar orb, and although some of its arrangements are different from those of the earth, yet these circumstances form no valid objection to the moon be? ing inhabited, for the Creator can in Jail cases adapt the inhabitant to the nature of the habitation provided for him, as he has adapted the birds for winging their flight through the air, the fishes for gliding in the water, and man and quad? rupeds for traveling the dry land." ?Col. Butler, State Fish Commissioner, placed one hundred and fifty thousand young shad in the Saluda River, at the crossing of the Air Line Railroad. It is said to require three years for any in? crease of these forced emigrants to out waters; that they will not ascend the stream any higher than the spot at which they are planted, but that their progeny will, each succeeding generation, go above its immediate ancestors and re? tain through its existence the territory first occupied by them, observing with nicety their imaginary territorial bound? aries. Faces. The human face is not only "the in? dex of the soul." Every bodily sensa? tion leaves its indelible trace upon the features. Every human face, if studied attentively, reveals the physical and mental history of its possessor. On the crowded street of the city what volumes of these histories arc open to all who would search them. The miser with his features drawn as tightly as the openings of his money bags; the de? bauchee with his sensual, semi-animal face ; the young man with the future fair and broad before him, every line of his countenance revealed energy and ambi? tion ; the maiden's face bright with in? nocent love ami hope,?each of these face-histories is as legible as the printed page before you. But there arc other faces in which we may read sad histories ?faces of work-weary women, to whom living has become an irksome task. The fatal alphabet of disease is writen in every line of their countenances. Why will these women suffer from debility and those painful disease and weaknesses peculiar to their sex, losing besides the charm and beauty of a bright, healthful face, when Dr. Tierce's Favorite In? scription is a sure and effectual remedy ? Ladies who have used it pronounce it to be woman's elixir of health. Sold by drug? gist- m To think clearly aud act quickly one must have good health. Indigestion is the foe of health and should at once be driven from the system by the regular use of Dr. Bull's Baltimore Tills. Trice 25 els. GRANT A3fD THE CHINESE. ltcmarkahlc Petition from Chinese Mcr i'liunts at lVnanir.?The General's Diplo? matie Ken {Minne ami Pro ?u,.?. London*, May G, 1879. The Herald correspondent accompany? ing General Grant writes from Singa? pore, under date of April ?, 1S79. and gives an account of the progress of the General and party through British Bur mah, the Malacca colonies and the Straits settlements. The General was sailing slowly along the cost of Southern Asia, stopping at points of interest. The first place he visited in the Straits settle? ment was the Island of Penang. Here he remained a day and held a reception in the Town Half. An address was pre? sented to the general as follows :? To Genera/ I'li/sscs S. Grant, ex-President of the United States of America:? Silt?We, the chairman and members of the Penang Chamber of Commerce, desire on this, the occasion of your visit to this distant portion of our Gracious Queen's dominions, to tender you a hearty welcome and to assure you that we have long been cognizant of and duly appreciated and admired the many ac? tions, public and private, which have so deservedly brought you praise and fame both at home and abroad. Entering of? fice after the much to be deplored assas? sination of the late President Lincoln, and when the passions aroused by the unfortu? nate civil war had not had time to calm, you, by your great tact and impartiality, soon convinced all parlies that it woulb be yout highest aim to smooth away all dif crences, and we noted with great satis? faction the happy results which followed. The steps you took when President to increase the trade existing between America and Great Britain attracted at the time our admiration, and the recep? tion lately accorded to you in all the leading cities of England, Ireland and Scotland amply testifies that time has in no way detracted from the favorable opinions formed years previously, or di? minished the estimate- in which you were held. Your efforts to bring Great Britain and America into the closest re? lationship were not, however, confined to trade alone, but extended in every direc? tion and were happily attended with the most successful results, for at no previ? ous period had England and America been politically more closely connected than at the time of your retirement from office. We feel deely gratified and hon? ored by the opportunity offered us of add? ing our simple quota of praise to the many and well deserved encomiums passed on you, and we beg to assure you that your future career will oe watched by us with the greatest interest. Should you, by God's Providence, again assume the reins of government we feel convinc? ed that the interests of America will not suffer in your hands, and that the bond of friendship now existing between your nation and ours will be cemented, if possible, more strongly than ever. We hope that the remainder of your tour will prove as successful as it has hitherto been, and we sincerely trust that your life may be long shared to your family and country. WALTER SCOTT (for self and members.) PENANG, March 29,1879. THE GENERAL'S REPLY. General Grant said, in response, that he was extremely obliged to the gentle? men of the Chamber of Commerce of Penang for their address and for the re? ception that had been accorded to him. This, however, was only in keeping with the cordiality and hospitality he had re? ceived in every ;;iart of the British Em? pire he had visited since his landing in Liverpool nearly two years ago. His re? ception in England was continued with unabated, he might say with increasing, kindness in the colonies of Gereat Brit? ain and throughout the vast Indian Em? pire which he had just visited. This was very grateful to him, not alone be? cause of the kind aud flattering words personal to himself with which these re? ceptions were always accompanied and to which he was far from being incensi ble, but because it opened a good feeling toward his own country. In that sense, more than any other, the kindness he had received in England and in English colonies was grateful because he believ? ed that the welfare of the Anglo-Saxon race?he might say of the world?de? pended more than upon any other cause upon the harmony and feeling of this one peoolc?one people in race and civ? ilization, although two nations. He did not think it was any disrespect to the other great civilized Powers of Europe he certainly did not so intend?when he said that the civilization which finds its home in England is better calculated than any other to bring the greatest good to mankind. Whenever he saw a new growth of this civilization, as in Penang, he felt that it would be in the end a great blessing to the people of all classes. PEACE WITH THE WHOLE WORLD. An allusion had been made in the ad? dress to his own efforts ?dien he was in office to bring about a settlement of the questions at issue between England and America at the close of our war. That policy, he wished to say, was simply car? rying out a conviction which he had en? tertained long before he held any office that the first thing to he considered in the for? eign policy of the United States was a good understanding with England. With this conviction he felt it as President his first duty to urge with all his influence the settlement of the question arising out of the war, and the removal of all fester? ing sores between the two countries. He regarded the existence of such ques? tions between nations like America and England as a scandal. He had no rea? son to feel dissatisfied with the results of those efforts, and his observations since he came abroad only confirmed him in that belief. The two nations were now as one nation in the development of their civilization, and he wished every effort of the English success, because the advancement of the common civilization of the two countries meant the happi? ness, the prosperity and the peace of the world. THE CHINESE MAKE AN ADDRESS. At the close of this speech a deputa? tion of Chinese merchants advauced and presented General Grant an address, beautifully illuminated in silk. A tran? slation of this was read in English by one of the deputation. The respouse of the General has made a great impression throughout the settlements on account of its reference to the Chinese emigra? tion, which seems to be a burning ques? tion in Asia, as it is in America. The following is the translation of the Chi? nese address:? The Hokicn and Cantonese merchant traders and other residents of this is? land have heard of the time when Your Excellency filled the most important of? fice of the President of the great Repub? lic of the United States of America so much to the benefit of that country and of the civilized world, so administering your government and executing good laws as to induce pcple of all nations to make America their home. Now that Your Excellency, In travelling around the world, has paid our island a visit, we take this opportunity of expressing our happiness in being able to make your ac? quaintance and to offer you a hearty welcome. We may add that it is the first time that a visit has been paid to Pcnang by so distinguished a representa? tive of the United States of America. We therefore avail ourselves of this oc? casion to bring to Your Excellency's no? tice that formerly no restrictions were placed on emigration from China, but latterly restrictions have been imposed, and we solicit Your Excellency's power? ful influence on our behalf to advocate the removal of these restrictions, and thus restore the intercourse between the two nations to its former fooling. Should Qour Excellency be instrumental in re? opening the ports of America to free em? igration from China Your Excellency's name will ever be held in grateful re? membrance. ' general grant's EBPLY. General Grant said it afforded him a special pleasure to receive the address which had just been read. He was about to visit China, having received a warm invitation to do so, and he was anxious to see with his own eyes the institutions and people ofthat country. To be met with a welcome from Chinamen in this colony, therefore, was gratifying. There was one point in the address in reference to the passage by Congress of a bill re? stricting the emigration of Chinamen to the United States. He knew nothing of such a bill except what he had read in the telegraphic despathes in the last English newspapers. He had been ab? sent from the United States for some time, and was imperfectly informed of the public sentiment which had support? ed its passage. In all questions like this there were demagogues who, in America as iu other countries, pander to prejudi? ces against race ar nationality, and favor any measure of oppression that might advance their political interests. A good deal of the antipathy toward peo? ple of other races in the United States, of which we heard so much, was dema gogery, and did not represent the better feeling of the country. In this question of Chinese emigration there was some? thing to be said iu favor of those advoca? ting a bill limiting emigration of the Chi? nese to America. In Iiis earlier years, when a young officer in the army, the General said he spent some time in Cal? ifornia and saw there something of the beginning of Chinese emigration to tbe United States, and he heard then objec? tions to that emigration on the part of good people. The settlement of Cali? fornia was the beginning of this whole agitation. He remembered very well the objections he then heard to the Chi? nese emigration. It was not to the Chi? naman coming to the United States, but to his coming in a conditiou of slavery. chinese and negro slavery. He hoped when he visited China to look into this question more closely, to see for himself the practical operations of the Chinese emigration to the United States, as it was a question on which he felt the deepest, affecting, as it must in? evitably do, the welfare of the nations. But the gentlemen who presented this address could well understand the objec? tions on tho part of the American peo? ple to receiving emigrants who came, not as citizens, but as slaves. On that point Americans would naturally feel strongly. It was in the order to free one race from slavery, to put an end to a condition of things that was degrading to both races, black and white, that we fought a long war, losing a great num? ber of lives, with an enormous waste of treasure. This was a terrible sacrifice ?he questioned if any nation ever made greater one. It was to suppress slavery. Having made these sacrifices to free tbe negro it could not be expected that tbe Americans would consent to the revival of another form of slavery in which the Chinaman and not the negro was the victim. the system OF IMMIGRATION*. As he understood this question of Chin? ese emigration the Chinese did not come to the United States as the people of other nations?of their own free will, to enjoy the benefits and the protection of the American government to have the benefit of their industry, and accept the responsibilities as well as the benefits of residence in America-but as dependants, slaves of companies who brought them as merchandise, held them in practical bon? dage and enjoyed the fruits of their labor. As a consequence the Chinaman in Amer? ica was not a member of our society, on the same footing with other races, entitled to all the benefits of our laws, with chances for improvement and prosperity but the slave of a company. He felt sure that the Chinese gentleman who had honored him with this address and who represented the flourishing Chinese community of Penaug would agree with him that emigration to the United States under those circumstances was not an advantage to us, and was a wrong to the people who came under such degrading conditions. america and china. This, in brief, said the General, with? out going further into the question, was the objection, to Chinese emigration on the part of Americans, who had none but the kindest feelings toward the Chi? nese people, and who would extend to them, if they chose to make their home with us, the welcome they extended to the rest of the world. He mentioned these views, not as bearing on the bill to which allusion had been made in the address, because he knew nothing about, it, but as giving in a general way the fellings of the American people toward the Chinese. He was only a citizens of the United States, without authority in the councils or the government of the country, and consequently the authors of the address have overrated his influ? ence in the settlement of the question. But it was one which, as an American citizen, interested him greatly, and he looked with pleasure to his visit to Chi? na as enabling him to look into it and make up his mind. He never doubted, and no oue could doubt that in the end no matter what agitation might for the time being effect at home, the American people would treat the Chinese with kind nesa and justice, and not deny to the free and deserving people of that coun? try the asylum they offer to the rest of the world. He begged again to thank the members of the Chinese commnnity for their address, the reception of which had given him an especial pleasure. Would Never Use TllEM.?If per? sons were aware of the injurious charac? ter of most baking powders, they would never use them. Ignorant persons know nothing about the chemical combina? tions necessary. The only good baking powder, prepared by a physician with special regard to its healthfulness, is Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder. ? A witty French lady, who was an "adopted" member of a famous military corps, when a cigar was lighted in her presence with the remark, "I suppose they smoke in your regiment?" said, "Yes, but not in my company." ? Blessed is the man who loveth his wife's relations; and not only blessed, I hut also scarce. 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A Detroiter who dresses well and has a reasonable share of good looks, had oc? casion last week to make a trip in the country, and one night he found himself at a farmhouse at which a party was to come off. He was invited to participate in the festivities, and after he had con? sented, the old farmer took him around the corner of the house and said : "The young folks are mighty fond of any game with kissing in it.? They'll get up something and fix it to make you kiss the handsomest gal in the room." "Well, I'll kiss her!" was the prompt reply. "Yes, but hold on a little," continued the old man. "There's my gal Emma. We think she's as purty as any of 'em ; certain folks around here kinder sniff at her 'cause her nose crooks a bit and her hair is a trifle high-colored. Now, I want you to kiss Em for the handsomest gal in the room. It'll do the old woman good, do Em good, and kinder set these sniffers back a little. I don't ask you to kiss her for nothing, but if j'ou'll do it I'll throw fifteen cents off'n your bill in the morning. What d'ye say ?" The young man said he'd do it, and the father continued: "That's the checker. Don't have any make-believe about it, but kiss her right pop out, so that we kin all hear the smack!" The game was played, the Detroiter was "fixed," and he kissed "Em" like the pop of a pistol. He felt all the happier for it that night, to see how greatly the old woman was pleased, but the next forenoon as he jogged along he had to run the gauntlet of a score of farmers' sons waiting in the fence corners to lick him because he passed their "gals" by for "Em." He was struck by thirteen stones, six clubs and about a bushel of potatoes before he got out of the neigh? borhood, and when he came to figure up he realized that fifteen cents was no in? ducement at all.?Detroit Free Press. A ?gro's Luck. Mel. D. McKissick settled on the Brazos,, near Rock Dam, some twenty five years ago. Mr. McKissick farmed, and when the war broke out was possess? ed of many slaves, herds, and fertile acres of land. A bachelor, he led a fru? gal life, and was known to possess con? siderable money. Tbe reputation of McKissick's wealth proved his death, for one night in 1865, just before the close of the war, he was murdered. Suspicion fell upon members of a battalion of roving cavalrymen, under command of one Col. Board, who were then quartered on tho Brazos, doing no good for the Confedera? cy or the country. In fact they were said to be in reality jayhawkers and thieves. How much money, if any, the murderers secured, was never known, but Mr. McKissick's slaves always insisted that the bulk of their master's wealth was not found. Mr. McKissick left a brother (Wm. McKissick) and a sister, who are now residing near Mt. Calm, in Limostoue County. Near Rock Dan stands a nold tumbled down *hut, that once belonged to McKissick, being on his land. It has not been used for years. Last Friday morning a colored man who cultivated a field near tbe Rock Dan concluded he would go to the river and fish. He entered the dilapidated floor less shanty, and began to dig in one cor? ner for earth worms, to use as bait. He presently unearther an iron pot, covered with a lid. The darkey was surprised. Taking the lid off his surprise was turn? ed to amazement, for there in the pot lay a heep of gold coin, American gold, in S10 and $20 gold pieces. The whole sum $8,065; all in gold. The negro secured the gold and next day went to Martin, were he got to drinking. His lavish ex? penditure of money excited suspicion. Whisky had loosened his tongue and the whole story leaked out.? Waco Texas Telephone. His "Recommend."?Some time siuce a Detroit merchant was iu want of a clerk, and he advertised the fact. Among the numerous applicants who sent in recommendations was a young man who had shortly before received a letter from the old man Blank, to the ef? fect that any further visits to his house on the part of tbe young man could not be permitted, and that "Mary's" future husband was already selected. In bis baste and excitement he forwarded this note in place of a recommendation from a mercantile house, and on discovering his mistake he called upon the merchant to secure the missive. "Ah !" said the merchant, as the young man entered, "you can begin here to? morrow. I was about to write you." "That?that letter-," began the young man, but the merchant interrup? ted : "Best recommend in the world. Old Blank and I have been enemies for forty six years. Any one he is down on I al? ways employ in order to aggravate bim. Come right along. I'll give you a posi? tion in the front of the store where the old curmudgeon must see you every time he passes, and if you want to make up faces at him I'll pay all costs." Thus arc we able to furnish another illustration that sunshine may come out of the depths of despair. The Fatal Glass.?Mr. Chica, of Lensburg, Le Sueur county, got on a spree last week, Monday, at Montgomery, and offered to wager that he could swal? low the glass contained in a whisky flask The wager was taken up by one of the party present, whereupon the drunken man proceeded to swallow the pulverized glass, and also a tallow candle. Strange to relate, that night he felt no ill effects caused by the rash deed, but next day the glass began to cut and grind his bow? els, compelling the man to writhe and scream in agony. This continued until Thursday morning, when the poor wretch was brought to New Prague in the delu? sive hope that a physician could save him from his inevitable and fast ap? proaching death. Of course no physi? cian's skill could now save or even pro? long the life which had been so delibe? rately though unknowingly taken. It was pitiful and heartrending to hear the poor mortal moan and scream in agony as tbe death dealing glass slowly out constantly cut its way into the vitals. This could not long continue, hov\?ver, and death kindly relieved tbe suffen;:g man Thursday afternoon. A post mor? tem examination was held and the man's stomach and intestines were found to be literally ground to pieces. A wife and nine children are left de? pendent by the foolishness of a man crazed by drink. This may prove a timely warning to those addicted to the excessive use of a substance as deadly in its final effects as that swallowed by the man ,who came to so untimely an end. Shakopee (Minn.) Argus. ? Governor Hubbard, of Texas, has retired from politics and gone to railroad building. Every mother-in-law should recom? mend Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup for her grand-children and thus keep peace iu the family.