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ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1879. VOL. XIV-NO. 47. RA TBS OF SUBSCRIPTION.?Oy* Dollar and Flirr Ckcts per annum, in advance. Two Dollabs at end or year. Skvkstv-Fivk Cents for six months. Subscriptions are not taken for a less period than six months. BATBS OF ADVERTISING.?One Dollar per square ol one inch for the liratinsertion,and Fifty Cents per square forsubsequentlnsertionsless'that three months. No advertisement* counted less than a square. liberal con tract.?w il 1 bs made with tho?e wishing to advertise for three, six or twelve months. Ad? vertising by contract must be confined to the Im? mediate business of thr firm or individual contrac? ting. Ob'tuary Notices exceeding five lines, Tributes of Respect, and all personal communications or in Itters of Individual interest, will be charged for ?t advertising rates. Announcements of marriages Jind deaths, and notices of a religious character, are respectfully solicited, and will be inserted gratis. Senator Vance on the Situation. We feel we cannot do justice to our readers in withholding from them the very admirable speech of Senator Vance delivered with temper in his own inimi? table way. Hence we make the follow? ing extract containing the pith of the Senator's remarks: *#** * **# Coming briefly to the real questions, 1 ask why should the law authorizing the military to be used at the polls not be re? pealed,* and why should the law author? izing Federal supervision also be not re? pealed ? I take it to be indisputably es? tablished, without further argument, that the whole subject relating to the elective franchise is placed by the [constitution under the control of the States, and all that the Federal government can do is to see that the States, as such, do not dis? criminate against any ou account of race, color, or-previous conditiou of servitude. This is the whole duty and power of Congress as declared by the Supreme Court. When any Republican Senator has ventured for one moment to abandon the line of inflammatory appeal to the sectional feeling of the country, the ex? cuses given for the retention of this law upon the statute book are illogical almost to puerility. One Senator gravely argues that it ? ?should not be repealed because the great -bulk of the army is in the distant West, oi.Iy some few hundreds being east of the Rocky Mountains. He tells ns in the course of his enumeration that there are only about thirty in the State of North Carolina, and asks the Senators from that State if they are afraid of that number of soldiers. Passing over the obvious fact that within thirty days 10,000 could be sent there if desired, I answer that we do fear them, because they represent the power of the United States government and the enmity of the Republican party which'wields that power; we fear them as the Hollanders fears the first small leak in the dykes which bear back the waves of the ocean from deluging the meadows of his homestead; we fear them as the physician fears the first speck of gangrene in the system of his patient; we fear them as the sailor fears the piling up of the storm clouds upon the horizon, knowing that their deceptive beauty covers the fierce desolation of the tem? pest; we fear them as the shepherd of ?he mountains fears for his lambs at even the flitting of a shadow athwart his path, ifor he knows it to be the shadow of the ?eagle, the remorseless tyrant of the air; we fear them as Charlemagne feared the rude wooden ships of the Norse Vikings on their first appearance in the seas of his empire; we fear them aa all patriotic Romans feared the crossing of the Rubi? con by Caesar, the passage of which with arms in bis hands marked him as the enemy of Roman liberty. Even so we fear and believe that when an American Executive crosses the Rubi? con of his constitutional powers and ap? pears at the place of choosing our rulers, armed either with the sword or with ille? gal powers of arrest, he thereby proclaims himself the enemy of the liberties of our people. A flagrant illustration of the justice of this fear-is to be found in the various orders of the War Department directing the concentration of troops in the States of South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana on the occasion of the election of 1876. The excuse that these soldiers were not intended to interfere with electious or to be placed at the polls, but only to be sufficiently near to keep the peace, is not sustained by the facts of that reign of military violence, nor will it be if tried again. I quote from an or? der dated headquarters Department of the Sooth, Columbia, South Carolina, October 8, 18767 issued by General R?? gen "Should the barracks or camp in any case be so far from the place of voting ?that prompt assistance could not on oc? casion arising be rendered the civil offi? cers, the commanding officer will so place his command, or a sufficient part thereof, that such assistance, if required, may be promptly given. No troops, however, will be placed actually at any poll of elec? tion except upon requirement to thai effect by the tnarshal or hie deputy." So ii seems that the discretion as to whether the law should be violated or not was vested in a deputy marshal 1 In fact, they wore so illegally disposed and used in a hundred instances. The Presi? dent, as appears by the order of General Townsend to General Emory, dated Oc? tober 27, 1874, seemed anxious to have ' the troops placed at the polls without the appearance of doing so. In that order he propounds a physical problem or conundrum to General Emory, which that officer had to give up. He says: "Cannot points be selected near polls where attempts to overawe voters, likely to result in riots, may be made, and troops stationed there a day or two be? forehand ? It would not be desirable to have soldiers at or too near the polls, as all appearance of military interference, ex? cept to secure voters their rights to vote, should be avoided." Not to "keep the peace," mind you. but to secure voters their right to vote 1 Now, this was a hard problem?to place troops so far from the polls as to avoid all appearance of interference with the elections, and yet so near as to actually interfere by securing all men in their right to vote. Quod est demonstrandum. It was too much for General Emory?in fact, it was too much for common sense and common honesty. All these orders show a palpable and shameless determi? nation on the part of the Executive to control both the elections and the count? ing of the votes of Presidential electors, as well as the organization of State gov? ernments. The manner in which the troops were shifted about from one to the other of these three States, on which the Presidential election depended, exhibits the animus of this infamous transaction in a manner so plain that the wayfaring man, though a Republican, need not err therein. But the .President tells us in his veto message that there has been no interfer? ence during his administration, and promises that there shall be none. So Wf are to take his royal promise to re? spect the people's liberties and not to have them secured by law ? Here is the promise of one President of the United Si-.ti-?. and one who stands exceedingly iiisrii in Republican estimation, dated N 'vettiber 10, 1X7G. to General W. T. S . rn in. Washington, District of Co? in :.!..:? : "lurtnict OtMieril Auger, in Louisiana, sui-l 'r-.irr.ti Rn.'v., in Florida. In be vi^jiafi! with thf Jojv? ::t their command t-. tiruMTve pence und ^.1 order, and In rt-e thai tiie pr .n.r and legal boards of canvassers are unmolested in the per? formance of their duties. Should there !>.' any grounds of suspicion of fraudu? lent counting on either side, it should be reported and denounced at once. No man wortbj?>of the office of President would be willing t<> leid the office if (tonn? te I in, or placed liiere by fraud. Either party can afford to ho disappointed in ti.e result, but li.e country cannot aiiord t ? have" the nnu!t fainted by the suspi? cion of illegal or -n:.se returns. U. S. Gkant." On the same day the following .tele? gram is also forwarded to Gen. Sherman : "The President thinks, and I agree with him, that it will be well for you to give to the Associated Press his telegram and mine to you, referring to affairs now in the South. J. D. Cameron, Secretary of War." Of the vast open-jawed and cavernous bellied nature of this promise I have not the heart or the time to discourse. I shall content myself with imitating the discretion of Mr. Rodman, who, return? ing home one night full of tax-paid, and fearing that his speech would betray him to the many questions of his wife, for a long while maintained an obstinate si? lence, until at length, to end the matter, he solemnly remarked, "Mrs. Rodman, you know I am a man of few words, and now I am plumb done talking." That subject immediately became res adjudi cata. I am done talking on this subject 80 well calculated to make an American [ citizen blush. The arguments made by the opponents of these bills, especially those of the veto messages, strike me with a good deal j of amazement. To illustrate their ab? surdity, let us frame them into the sem? blance of mathematical propositions, thus: Proposition First: Theorem.?The I troops of the United States are two thou? sand miles away on the frontier and could not be used to control elections if they were wanted.?Senator from Maine. The troops could not be so used if they were here, as the law forbids it. I prom? ise not to use them.?The President. Hence it is revolutionary and danger? ous to liberty and the purity of elections to pass this bill forbidding such use of troops.?Q. E. D. Corollary first.?The necessity for troops at the polls to secure fair elections is in proportion to the squares of the dis? tance of their present location, i. e., the greater the distance the greater the ne? cessity. Corollary second.?The necessity for the presence of troops at the polls is also in proportion to the legal inability to use them if they were present, and if the President is determined not to use them at all to control elect ions, then the neces? sity becomes absolute. Corollary third.?The revolutionary and dangerous character of a law con? sists in the fact that it is useless, there being already in existence laws sufficient to effect the purpose. * Scholimn ?In the above it is assumed axiomatically that the terms "liberty" and "purity of elections" are synony? mous with the term "Republican party." [Prolonged laughter.] Proposition Second : Theorem.?The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on ac? count of race, color or previous condition of servitude. Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate leg? islation. The fifteenth amendment quoted by the President. The Supreme Court in the. United States against Croikshank, and in Myers vs. Happersett, have declared that the only right guaranteed by this amend? ment is the right that citizens shall not be discriminated against on account of race, color or previous condition of servi? tude. Hence "national legislation to provide safeguards for free and honest elections is necessary, as experience has shown, not only to secure the right to vote to the enfranchised race at the South, but also to prevent fraudulent voting in the large cities of the North." The President. Corollary first.?It follows that if John Smith gets drunk at an election in North Carolina and punches a negro's head, he immediately, by Presidential logic, be? comes the State of North Carolina em? bodied in the flesh, and he, or it, dis? criminates against the said negro within the meaning of the constitution, and the guarantee is called for at onc*> Corollary second.?If it be a white man whose head is punched by the embodied State-of-John-Smith-North Carolina it is a discrimination all the same, provided the said white man was about to vote or had voted the Republican ticket, that being the true meaning and interpreta? tion of the words "race, color or previous condition of servitude." ? Corollary third.?It follows necessarily that if a New York repeater vote the Democratic ticket five times in one day he becomes likewise the great State of New York (including the Senator), or, e convcrso, the great State of New York be? comes the repeater, and by so voting he discriminates (the Lord knows how) against the right of somebody (the Lord knows who) to vote on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude; and the only avenue opened up by which this guarantee can be enforced: is to send in the army und Johnny Davenport. [Laughter.J Scholium.?The "previous condition" referred to in the foregoing is that of Re? publicanism, and implies also present condition; that is, being a Republic:- . Scholium second.?Enforcing the rigat to vote by soldiers is not an "interference with elections." Scholium third.?This doctrine of "dis? crimination" does not apply to the State of Rhode Island, where a white man's right to vote may be freely abridged on account of his present condition of im pecuuiosity. Proposition third: Theorem.?"The practice of tacking to appropriation bills measures not pertinent to such bills did not prevail until more than forty years after the adoption of the constitution. It has become a common practice. All parties when in power have adopted it. The public welfare will be promoted in many ways by a return to the early prac? tice of the government; and the true prin? ciples of legislation."?The President. Hence the practice of tacking legisla? tion to appropriation bills having been practiced by all parties for more than fifty years, it should be immediately abandoned when disagreeable to the President or inconvenient to the party, its antiquity not being sufficient to justify it, though greater than the period of its non-use. Corollary first.?It follows, therefore, that the practice of using troops at the polls, which did not prevail for more than seventy-five years after the adop? tion of the constitution, should now be? come of general and indispensable use; fourteen years being amply sufficient time to legalize it, atid it being now abso? lutely necessary for the preservation of the Republican party. Scholium.?For the purpose of the next Presidential election fun/teen years of military interference arc equal to seven? ty-five years of free and unrestrained elections, on the well established princi? ple "that circumstances alter cases." (The Lawyer's Hull r*. the Farmer's Ox, 1 Webster's El. Spell.) i N. IL?It is said on high authority that ; the Secretary of War and the Secretary ' ol State once held the problem unsound, I but were coerced into assenting to it by party necessity. But quien sabe! : [Laugliter.J So much lor the absurd deductions i which may be logically drawn lrom the premises contained in the veto messages j and the arguments of Senatots. Now, Mr. President, why should not j the peace at the polls and the purity of elections be intrusted to the authority, the virtue and the patriotism of the States, where alone our fathers placed it ? Is it because the States are unable with . their civil machinery to preserve the peace? They have invariably proven j able in the past, except in casus of such ? unusual violence as is contemplated in the constitution, article 4, section 4. Are they unwilling? Surely they are willing to preserve their autonomy and perpetu? ate their own existence. Are they cor rapt? Surely, if their inhabitants, as i citizens of the States, are too corrupt for, self-government, it is not possible that their virtue should be improved and their corruptions cease the moment they are ' invested with authority by the United States. On the contrary, there is always found less of responsibility and more of corruption in aggregated than in sepa rate communities. How can a corrupt | State officer become an incorruptible Federal officer? To suppose that tho States are either unable, unwilliug or too corrupt to hold peaceful and honest elections is to de? clare unmistakably that the people there? of are incapable of self-government. "Let each Senator have written on his brow what he thinks of the republic," said the Senator from New York, quot? ing the old Roman. So say I. Let each Senator say for himself what he thinks of his State; are its people incapable of self-government; of choosing their rulers ?peaceably and honestly ? For one, I can say with unspeakable pride and with ab? solute truth that the people of the State of North Carolina, who sent me here, are able, willing and virtuous enough to ful? fil these and all the other high functions of free government; that they have ever done so since the keels of Raleigh's ships first grated upon the white sands of her shores, and, God helping them, they and their children will continue to do so, if not destroyed by centralization, until chaos shall come again. It is with ex? treme sadness that I bear any other Sen? ator intimate that it is not so with his people. ? Mr. President, did you ever consider for a moment the manifold and extraor- < dinary uses to which we are subjecting the soldiers ? And did you ever think that all this means, in fact, the failure of the civil authority, that our liberties are declining more and more as we employ , force ? Sir, in the uses to which we put | the soldiers I am reminded of what I read about the bamboo in Asiatic coun? tries. It is said that the natives do al? most everything with that wonderful ar? borescent grass. When young and ten- i der it is eaten and preserved; it is made ; into houses and boats, astronomical in- i struments, ornamental work, yards of j vessels, aqueducts, rain-cloaks, water- \ wheels, fence-ropei, chairs, tables, hats, | umbrellas, fans, pipes, cups, shields, tool handles, lamp-wicks, paper, shields, aud a hundred other things. In this way it seems to me we are forsaking the civil functions of our institutions and utilizing the soldier. In addition to their legitimate business as defenders of the country, we have i made of them Governors of States, legis? lators, organizers of Legislatures and judges of the election aud qualifications I of the members thereof, judges of law < and equity and of the criminal courts, policemen, sheriffs, marshals and deputy marshals, revenue officers and still-house i hunters, managers of railroads, controll? ers of churches and of schools, justices of the peace, supervisors of election, mathematicians to see a fair count, pro? tectors of witnesses, foster-fathers of re? turning boards, and, above all, as Re? publican propagandists. In the lan? guage of the sewing machine companies "no family should be without one," [laughter,] this Republican political bamboo. Is there not great danger? Does it not indicate the decay and the disuse of the civil arm of the law, which is the natural and only safe protector of our liberties ? Let us, sir, discard this miserable bamboo policy and cease to make the soldier our political maid of all work. Mr. President, it seems to me that the position of the Republican party in refer? ence to the use of soldiers aud super? visors at the polls, on the pretense of preserving the peace and securing free elections, is the most remarkable one that reasonable men ever assumed. It may be formulated thus: The elections shall be free if we have to surround the polls with bayonets ; the elections shall be ac? cording to the laws of the States if we have to overawe the civil magistrates and State officials by au exhibition of power; the elections shall be pure if it takes Davenport and all the convicted criminals and occupants of all the dens of infamy in our great cities to manage them ; the elections shall be unforced and without the appearance of violence if a battery of artillery has to be traiued on every ballot box in the land; and lastly, the election shall be fair if we have to arrest without warrant, and im? prison without bail, until the elections are over, every man who oilers to voto the Democratic ticket. The speeches of Republican Senators mean this, the vetoes of the President mean this, and they mean more than this, Mr. President. In effect they say that unless we can use the army at the polls we will let the army dissolve; we will leave our forts and arsenals ungarri soned; we will strip the frontiers of all protection, and let the men, women and children of that border country lie slaughtered and scalped, and the un? checked savage extend his barbarous sway over all that land of promise, once more remitted to its ancient wilderness. We will not only do this, but we will de? nounce the Democratic members of Con? gress, who offered us the money to sup? port this army, as the authors of this dis? aster. All these things will we dorather than lose our chances to count in the next President, and we will cover the facts and obscure the logic of the case by reinflamiug the bitter prejudices of the war in the hearts of our constituents! Can it be possible to do this? Is there to be no end to passion ; no restoration of reason ? We shall see. I confess that I do not believe these absurd methods of dealing with the American mind can much longer prevail. I regard them as the desperate efforts of a sinking party, and I believe the people will so regard them. I have been much touched by the affectionate warnings given us by the other side that we were ruining ourselves in trying to repeal these laws. The kind-hearted Senator from Michigan notified us frankly that if we persisted we would go down into the waters of oblivion to rise no more for? ever. He did not even j;ivc us a chance at the general resurrection. [Laughter.] It seemed to distress, and if I thought it was true prophecy, I would freely mingle my tears with his at the contemplation of so dire a calamity. Candor compels me, however, to acknowledge that I can? not reciprocate his charity. If I thought tho Republican party were standing upon the brink of a precipice, beneath which seethed those cold waters of oblivion, in? stead of warning them, I pledge you my word I would try to induce them to step over the edge?in fact, I might lend them a push. [Laughter.] At least I should I eel as indifferent about it as the lodger at au inn did, who was awakened in the night when the meteors were fall? ing, and told that the day of judgment had come. "Well, well," said he, testily, "tell the landlord about it; I am only a boarder." [Laughter.l And now, Mr. President, if the breath .was about to leave my body, and I was permitted to say but one word as to what my country most needed, that word should be, Best! Rest from strife, rest from sectional conflict, rest from section? al bitterness, rest from inflammatory ap? peals, rest from this constant, most un? wise and unprofitable agitation. Rest in all lauds and in all literature is used as the symbol of the most perfect state of felicity which mankind can attain in this world and the next. "And the land had rest," said the old Hebrew chroniclers in describing the reign of their good kings; "and his rest shall be glorious," says the prophet Isaiah in foretelling the coming of our Lord, when Ephraim should have ceased to envy Judah and Judah should have ceased to vex Ephraim. Heaven itself is described as rest?a place "where the weary are at rest." "There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God," saith the apostle. Can we not give this rest to our people? I know, Mr. President, that those from whom I come desire it above their chief joy. The excitement through which they have passed for the last twenty years, the suffering and the sorrow, the calamity, public and private, which they have un? dergone have filled their hearts with in? describable yearnings for national peace, for a complete moral as well as physical restoration of the Union. There is one policy, and but one, to effect this object, and that is the policy of conciliation, of restoration, so steadily pursued by the Democratic statesmen ana people of the North. It is the only true statesmanship for our condition, the only genuine rem? edy for the hard times with which we are afflicted. Nature everywhere teaches it, and her thousand agencies, silent and mysterious, constantly inculcate it, even as day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night showeth knowledge. Cross this noble river which flows by our capital and search for the battle fields of blood-watered Virginia. You scarce can find them. Dense forests of young sap? lings cover all the hills and plains that were so lately swept bare by marching and encamping armies. "For there is a hope of a tree if it be cut down that it will sprout again, and the tender branch thereof will not cease." Waving seas of wheat cover the open fields so lately plowed by the bursting shells while charging battalions met in deadly shock; and green grass has so covered the lines of intrenchment as to give them all the seeming of the cunning larmers' ditches. Restoration is nature's law. Let us imi? tate her. God of all mercy and grace, may not these gaping wounds of civil war be permitted to heal, if they will? Blackberry Wine. About a year ago we wrote a some? what lengthy article upon the manufacture of wine from tho native blackberry, or dewberry ^properly speaking, which article was extensively copied in all parts of the South. Many of our subscribers and ac? quaintances, taking our suggestions as a guide, made large and small quantities, with varying success. The season will Boon arrive and we urge the manufac? ture of a moderate quantity of this wholesome beverage, which in hot weather possesses also great medical virtues. It Is, par excellence, a poor man's wine. In the briefest possible manner we re? peat directions, which, if followed with reasonable exactness, will give a wine superior in quality to any imported or native grape product. Pick only ripe fruit, the riper the bet? ter. Remove all leaves, stems and other trash as if preparing the berries for the table. Take any large kettle (not an iron one, ; fill it half full of berries, adding water to <:over. Heat gradually to a gentle boil . Have a bag, made of coarse muslin aud a clean whisky barrel with one end out, or a large tub will answer. Pour the cooked berries and juice into the bag, piacing it in the barrel or tub. Squeeze by wringing till as much as pos? sible of the juice has been extracted. Return the juice to the kettle, add three or four pounds of sugar for each gallon of juice, heat the wholetojusta boil and clar? ify it as if it were syrup. Be careful not to scorch. When finished, empty into a clean, sweet whisky barrel, placed in the position it is to occupy during the fer? menting period, and repeat the forego? ing directions till the barrel is entirely full. Now take the "pomace" or pressed berries and cook them again, subjecting them to heavy pre-ssure while extracting the juice. Clarify as before and keep this in some convenient vessel to use for replacing tue wasty of fermentation. The barrel mus'; be kept full, the bung bciug left out for the escape of impurities. When fermentation has ceased, bung tightly, but having a small gimlet-hole in the bung, filled with a small plug, which should occasionally be removed for a short time for the escape of gas. Rack off and bottle on some clear, cool day in the winter and the work is douo. The spigot should be placed in the bar? rel before the juice is introduced and great care should be taken not to disturb or shake the barrel at any time, even, while drawing off. The wine will keep for an indefinite period, and will grow better wit j age.?Our Home Journal. Over Niagara Falls.?On Suuday, May 25th, a man by the name of "Pi" Walker, one of the best known charac? ters at Niagara Falls, ended his life by going over the cataract. He was the wonc for liquor, a failing to which he was frequently a victim, and left Port Day, some two miles above the falls, about four o'clock. He endeavored to pull over to the Canada side. He had ofteu braved the rapids in this reckless manner, and had he been himself would probably have accomplished the feat on this occasion. There were several hun? dred people on the banks of the river, two excursions having gone from Buffalo. Walker struck out boldly, but one of his oars caught a crab aud was whirled into the rapids. The boat darted around the curve above the American Falls and Walker splashed recklessly for a minute and fell backward across the seat. The boat was now at the complete mercy of the current and hurried downward until it reached a point about half a mile above the falls, when it struck a rock and swung wildly around, it was near the shore and hopes were entertained that Walker would be saved. It was only for a few seconds, however, for the boat soon went to pieces. The intoxicated man seemed to revive when he went into the water and threw up his arms and cried for help. He grasped for a piece of the boat, but tlie wild current overcame him and over the cataract he went. Walker was about thirty years old. He has saved ten or twelve lives around the falls. To think clearly and act quickly one must have good health. Indigestion is the foe of health and should at once be driven from the sytcm by the regularu.se of Dr. Hull's Baltimore Pills. Price 25 cts. BILL ARP'S SUNDAY CHAT. Hin Pensive Meditations by the MJU Toml. When a young man comes to our town on business, and has 1.0 go back on the next train, and has a little spare time, and hires a gray horse and buggy, and comes out to see us late in the evening and can't stay to supper, its a sign he is friendly. I'm sorter dull on emotions. They dont come quick to the surface and gush like some folks, but I was glad to I see him, shore. I never knew anything but good of him in my life. He's got discretion. If he likes anybody he shows it; but if he don't like 'em they never find it out. He attends strictly to busi? ness, except that he will take time enough to show his respect for every pretty girl within a day's journey. He cant help that ?there's a lump somewhere in his crani? um that propels him, and its got more power thau all the steam in a compress. He is always doing something to please era, and if it wosut against the law would marry half a dozen out of pure goodness of heart. My prediction is that he will finally take a poor young widow, who has seen better days, just to be a father to her orphan children. One time he went to see a pretty girl way down in Polk, and her pious old father had a family rule that every child should re? peat a verse of Scripture at the breakfast table in the place of grace, and he ex? pected his visitors to do the same, if they could. My young friend was taken some? what by surprise, but he oWlied just in time and said in his turn: "He that findcth a wife, findeth a good thing from the Lord," which was the only verse he could think of, and come up from the bottom of bis heart like inspiration. I wish he would make haste and consoli? date with some one of em, for he'd make her happy and work in the harness so gentle. You see my thoughts are running now in that direction, for I am lonesome. Its altogether possible for a man to be lone? some, with 8 or 10 in the family, if the bright particular star is gone. "Going to stay another week." I'm afeard I ain't as populous with her as I thought I was. Too much inertia about her, and maybe it will be hard to get her back home as it was to get her away from it. I reckon she's waiting for some love-let? ters, and a fresh string of promises, and she'll get cm, for I never was stubborn j about a thing of that sort. A long time ago I tried poutin, and experimented ; with her who could hold out the longest, but in two days I came to the conclusion I wasent at home, or was of no conse? quence, or was dead, and so I let up on poutin. The survival of the fittest was? ent in a circumstance compared with it. Yesterday I went to mill. Its a good place to go to when /your feelings are disturbed?when your uatural equilibri? um is out of balance. The sound of the falling water and the trembling hum of the mill house will soothe you into a calm serenity. Old men who lived here with the Indians say they always carried their lunatics to the falls and kept em there until they got well. Maybe if the white folks would build their asylums by a mill-dam, it might cure more folks of craziness than the doctors. I never saw a miller excited, or in anyways rambunc? tious. They are calm and sareen, and bother the world as little as possible. Folks tell a heap of tales about "em tak? ing loo much toll and their bom being always fat, but that's all slander. Its like the talk about preachers' sons, and tailors' cabbage, and shoemakers' wives going barefooted, and the grocer telling his son to sand the sugar and come into Erayers. Human nature is obliged to ave a story on everybody. But I dont think a miller's life is con ductive to make a great man of him. It will quiet a man down and reconcile him to misfortune and monotony, but it aint calculated to rouse the lion, if theres any in him. I never heard of one being anything but a miller. Andy Johnson was a tailor, and Henry Clay a mill-boy, and Joe Brown plowed a man-cow, and Judge Underwood broke hides and cur? ried leather, and Mr. Burritt was a black? smith, and when my good mother used to hear of these great men springin up from such humble callings, she would re? mind me that I rode the mail one of the hardest winters that ever froze a boy's toes off, and maybe something would come of it, but it dident. 1 used to go to mill, too, just like Henry Clay, "the mill-boy of the slashes," as they calla&bim, and I got a good many slashes myself for going in a washing and sometimes for getting back a litue too soon. If some other boy dident go with me I always found one to come back with, and we would leave the grist so as to run races all the way home and git to go back next day. Then it was such a glorious frolic to go in a washing, and swim around, which my careful mother dident approve of, and so she used to sew my shirt together at the collar; but then me and Bill Malthy used to carry along a needle and thread, kand after we came out I would lie down and let him sew up my collar, and then I would sew up hisen, and we could come mighty nigh making the stitches all the same as they was. That's mighty bad I know, but you see we was boys. That kind of fun is all over now, but its still a comfort when I am sad to hitch up the little wagon and take two or three of the bairns to mill, and as they rise the top of the hill that brings the big old wheel in sight, hear the little voices pipe up and sing? "Listen to tho water mill All the live-long day." Theres been so much poetry written about them and the big wheels, and the water falling over the dam, they've got to be almost as classic as an old well bucket. Then theres the fishing privi? leges which arc a sweet luxury to them who likes em, and Daniel Webster said that but two classes of people did like em?gentlemen and vagabonds. The middle class had uo fancy for it, which always satisfied me that I did not belong to that class. Fishiu is, however, a very deceivin business. A man expects more from it and realizes less than any busi? ness upon earth, exceptin a saw-mill. I do lovo to hear Dolph Ross tell how many big ones be drew up to the top of the water and they fell back again. Yours, v Bill Aiti?. Good Advice to Parents. Many parents labor under the mistak? en impression that their children must all pass through the ordeal known as children's diseases, and, as they sonic times express it, the sooner the better. A child is no more subject to disease (in facts less so) than an adult, if the proper precautions arc taken to regulate its diet and keep the system cleansed by appro? priate medicines. By this wc do not mean au habitual "dosing" with purga? tives. Such a practice would weaken the infant system so that it could not re? sist the attacks of disease, and would also prove ruinous to its physical constitution. But a moderate, or blood-purifier, would almost absolutely insure the child's sys? tem against disease, besides greatly pro? moting its vigor and strength. Dr. Price's Golden .Medical Discovery is un? excelled as an alterative, and will prove a very effectual preventive of those dis? eases. SOUTH CAROLINA GOLD MIXES. An Attempt on n. Liii-g?: Sral^ lo Mine in Um Upper l'iirt of tho State. Greenville, S. C, May 10. Tho much disputed question whether the deposits of gold known to exist in the upper portion of the State will re? compense the working of the mines is about to be settled by John Cochran, late chairman of the State Senate inves gating committee. Gold has been discov? ered in some of the "branches" (stream? lets) in the Southern portion of Oconee County, near the Anderson line, several years ago, but only within six months have steps been taken to utilize this knowledge to any extent. A recent visit to the mine opened by Mr. Cochran on a wooded eminence on his plantation, sit? uated about five miles from Seneca City, disclosed considerable activity in the line of "drifting" and hauling quartz and "pay dirt" to the surface. Workmen were also busily engaged in tho erection of a mill, wherein tue quartz will be pounded and ground. The mouth of the mine on the north side of the hill is reached by a circuitous path, and through it one enters a well ventilated tunnel or "level," about eight feet in height and ten feet wide. From it, in almost every direct'on, iead sever? al drifts connected with shafts, ranging from twenty to fifty feet in depth. The veins of p" rts being found to run in different directions and at different dis? tances from a starting point, different drifts are necessary. The shaf? are sunk lo search for a continuation of the gold-bearing quartz, which from "some natural cause, has been interrupted. Huge timbers, supported by substantial props, line the tops and walls of these passages. The veius of gold quartz run mostly east aud west, aud are claimed to be very rich. The material is ?brought to the mouth of the mines in wheelbar? rows; here the quartz and dirt are sepa? rated, the former is stored and the latter is conveyed in carts to the "washing troughs," which extends for about two hundred yards along the foot of the bill. Alrof the miners, twenty-eight in num? ber, are colored men. They seem to en joy the labor they are engaged in, and their voices can be heard all day chant? ing plantation hymns. Messrs. Hubbard and Mordecai, both practical miners, superintend the work. One great draw? back to Mr. Cochran's enterprise is a scarcity of water. The "branch" used for washing purposes, except in rainy seasons, does not furnish enough water Lo conduct operations on a desirable scale, and there seems to be no possibili? ty, except at an enormous expense, to remedy this defect. Coneross Creek, about five miles from the mine, could be made available only through very expensive machinery, as' the water would have to be lifted fully 200 feet to bring it on a level with the mine. It is claimed by the inhabitants that a pan of dirt taken from the beds Df the "branches" in this region will yield from fifty to seventy-five cents worth of gold. There are unmistakable signs of rich deposits, but until Mr. Cochran has thoroughly tested the ma? terial, about 600 tons now on hand, it will be impossible to form a correct es mate of their extent and value.?Cor. A". Y. Times. How the Battleground in the Wilder? ness Looks. I wcut over the Wilderness route, writes a correspondent of the Cincinnati Enqui? rer, in sight almost all the way of the leading roads on which Lee's army had moved out from behind the Rapidan to strike Grant in the line of March for Richmond. At that time no railroad existed through the Wilderness. A narrow-guage railroad of very rough qual? ity, about thirty-nine miles long, now reaches the whole distance from Orange to Fredericksburg, passing within sight of Chancellorsville, within a shoit dis? tance of the Wilderness Tavern and crossing Mine Run, where Meade lost so much time, on a high, frail trestle; the railroad also crosses the lines of march of Grant after he left his camps around Culpepper and crossed the Rapidan to Raccoon and Germania fords. The Wilderness at the present day has only changed as far as building small station-houses and incipient towns along the railroad goes. It is one of the poor? est pieces of country in Virgiuia, and originally dug over to find surface iron ore ; these ore-pits have been changed by the rains into gullies, which figured in the great battles thereabout. All the trees in sight are either a sickly oak or a stunted nine. There are few creeks of any kind running from the Wilderness proper until you come to the soucres of the Mattapouy, where the country grows more fertile. This region is a sort of hill land, be? tween the sources of various rivers, whose original soil of a clay mold was washed off by the heavy rains, and has long ago disappeared into the river bottoms. They were gcttitig out railroad ties at about every point we saw in the Wilder? ness, and also hoop staves?the former to go to Europe. All the bodies on Wild? erness, and Chancellorsville battlefields have been dug up and removed to ceme? teries at Spotsylvania and Fredericks burg?those beautiful cemeteries where almost all the dead are unknown, but which alone embellish this evil country, the deadly mud-hole of the world. The Great Leap.?Dispatches from Buffalo give additional particulars of the leap of H. P. Peer from tho new suspen? sion bridge at Niagara Falls into the river below, a distance of 1U2 feet. He had on a life preserver; his thighs were confined with an electric strap, and like? wise his feQt. Over his shoulders was a leather brace, with a ring in the centre, to which was attached a cable composed of 220 feet of No. 24 brass wire in six strands. This w;us called a balance, and was for the purpose of assisting to retain his position, particularly if the wind should be strong. It was recletl over a cylinder attached to the guard-rail of the bridge, and which was operated with a brake-handle, like that used upon old time wells, go that the man's speed as he descended could be controlled to a cer? tain extent. It was not fastened, and the final end followed the man into the water. When the word was given Peer went like a Hash, reaching the water in four seconds. lie passed under the water feet foremost, but soon reappeared and swam ashore, not at all worsted by the leap. Steele & Price.?For years the firm of Steele & l'rice have had the largest trade in Iheir specialties of any house in the United States. Their Dr. Price's Cream baking powder, Special Flavoring Extracts and Perfumes, have gained a reputation for excellence that no articles of their kind have ever yet acquired. ? William Lloyd Garrison, the great expounder of abolitionism in this coun? try, and we might say the father and in tigator of the sectional war that deluged the nation in blood, died in New York city on Saturday last. A Fool's Luck iu Leadville. I Among the Pittsburgers who yielded to the Leadville craze was one young fel? low who was always fond of a roving, reckless life, free from the restraint of social etiquette. lie belonged to a good family, but was poor. He went to Lead? ville and remained there quite a while, when he returned home on a visit the other day. He was talking about his Leadville life the other night, and among other stories he told the following: "After I'd been out around Leadville for several months I got to be tolerably prosperous. I had $SU0 in cash, a $300 horse, a gold watch and chain, a good pack mule, a rifle, two revolvers, a dog and a meerschaum pipe. One day 1 came into town and drew all my money in order to pay for a part of a claim which I wanted to buy. I met a couple of fellows I knew just after I got my cash and we resolved to have a quiet little game of poker. Well, sir, I never struck such a lead of bad luck sinco I was born as I did that afternoon. It was a square game, but if anybody won anything they naturally intended to keep it. Men don't have much pity for each other out in that country. Well, the first thing I done was to lose $500 on four queens. It was my deal. I gave another fellow four kings. In less than an hour I lost every cent I had, then I lost my horse, then my watch, then my mule, then my rifle, my revolvers and my dog. I didn't have money enough left to buy a cigar. I went our of the place and resolved to borrow a revolver and shoot myself. I walked off out of the edge of town, and without thinking of what I was doing I put my hand iu my hip pocket to take out my revolver. There was no revolver there, of course, but my meerschaum pipe was there looking like a piece of shining coal, it had been colored so prettily. As soon as I felt that pipe I gave a yell of delight and started off on a run for the house where the boys had won my money. They were still there. I got $20 on my pipe and sat down to play again. I won a little money and then I got my dog back, then my revolvers, then my rifle, my mule, my watch and my horse. It seemed as though there was a perfect revolution in my luck. At last I won $1,200 on one hand. The fellow who was betting against me bad an ace, king, queen, jack, eight and four-spot flush, and I had an ace, king, queen, jack ana five-spot ilush. When I got up from the table it was daylight in the morning and I bad $4,800 in cash, besides the money and things I started in with. I went down to the hotel, borrowed the land? lady's Bible, and swore I would never gamble again as long as I lived, and I never have since and never will.?nth burg Telegraph, The Use of Lemons. The lemon tree is a native of Asia, although it is cultivated in Italy, Portu? gal and in the south of France. In Eu? rope, however, it seldom exceeds dimen? sions of the smallest tree, while in its native state it grows to over sixty feet in height. Every part of this tree is val? uable in medicine, though we rarely em? ploy any of it but iu fruit?that is, the lemon itself; and every oue knows how to employ this, as in lemonade?to squeeze the juice into cold water; this is the shortest way; or to cut it in slices and let it soak in cold water, or to cut it I in slices and then boil it. Either way is good. Lemonade is one of the best and safest drinks for any person, whether in health or not. It is suitable to all stom? ach diseases, is excellent in sickness?in cases of jaundice, gravel, liver com? plaints, inflammation of the bowels and fevers. It is a specific against worms and skin complaints. The pippins crushed may also be used with water and sugar, and be used as a driuk. Lemon juice is the best anti-scorbutic remedy known; it not only cures this disease, but prevents it. Sailors make a daily use of it for this purpose. I advise every one to rub thir gums daily with lemon-juice to keep them in health. The hands and nails are also kept clean, white, soft and supplo by the daily use of lemon instead of soap. It also prevents chilblains. Lemon is used in intermittent fevers, mixed with strong, hot black coffee, without sugar. Neuralgia may be cured by rubbing the part affected with a cut lemon. It is valuable also to cure warts, and to destroy dandruff on the head by rubbing the roots of the hair with it. In fact its uses are manifold, and the more we employ it externally and internally the better"we shall find ourselves. Na? tural remedies arc the best, and nature is our best doctor, if we would only listen to it. Decidedly rub your hands, head and gums with lemon, and drink lemon? ade in preference to all other liquids. This is an old doctor's advice. "Old Hickory's" Thanks.?The Boston Transcripi says that not long alter General Jackson's retirement from the Presidency a rumor got abroad that he was bankrupt. This was too good a chance of banter for the Whigs, whose detestation of "Old Hickory" followed him to his retreat at the Hermitage, to neglect. A Whig firm in Cincinnati, taking ironical pity on the old hero, pasted two cards together, inserted two of the large, old-fashioned copper cents between them, and iuclosed them in an unprepaid letter to the ex-Prcsident, full of mock condolence. The postage on the letter was seventy-six cents, which General Jackson, not knowing what was within, promptly paid. He at once sat down and penned a characteristic reply, inclosing the two cents back to his would be persecutors. This reply they did not see lit to take out of the post office, and it found its way to the Dead Letter Office at Washington. The original is now in the possession of Mr. George M. Towle. It is full ol "Old Hickory's" gruff, sar? castic humor, as well as his bad spelling and grammar, as will be seen: Mermitace, May 11,1837. Gentlemen: Your kind letter, con veying your charity of two copper cents, which you forwarded on hearing that I was broke, and a bill drew by me for $G,000 had been returned protested, has been received; and, as you have been imposed upon by the vile falsehoods that are daily circulated by the Whiggs, your kind charity is herewith returned to you, that you may dispose of it, in charity, to such of the Whiggs that may have been employed in trading in stocks and land, . and iu swindling the poor. Have the foodness to inform all your friends that have not drawn a draft for any sum, on any one, for twenty years, nor have I any i use for your kind charity, having long j since learned to live within my own ! nieaus. Your charity is, therefore, re ! turned to you in the same envelope you ? sent it, supposing, from the material and great care taken, it is your only charity : repository, aud the object- of charity in \ your ckj \. :uld bo much injured if not ' returned to you. Your mo. obt. servt., till death, Andrew Jackson. I ? The Sioux Indians arc agaiu upon the war-path. Fennel tea is a simple remedy to quiet the baby, aud this innocent article is embodied iu Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup, which puts the baby to sleep without the evil use of opiates. Price 20 ceuts. LEGAL ADVERTISING.?VT t are compelled to require cash payments for advert ising ord-red by Executors, Administrators end other fiduciaries and herewith append the rates for the ordinary notices, which will only be inserted when the money comos with the orier: Citations, two Insertions, - SS.88 Estate Notices, three insertions, - - 2.0? Final Settlements, five insertions - - 3.0? TO CORRESPONDENTS.?In order to receive attention, communications must bo accompanied by tho true name and address of the writer. Ba jectcd manuscripts will not be returned, unless the necessary stamps are furnished to repay the postage thereon. We are not responsible for the riewsand opinions of our correspondents. All communications should be addressed ^"Ed? itors Intelligencer." and all checks, drafts, money orders, Ac, should be made parable to the order Of E. b. MURRAY A CO., Anderson, s.c. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? A Chinaman whose .?atch was slow told the jeweler: "Too much by'm bye." ? Some say that the quickest way to destroy weeds is to marry a widow. It is, no doubt, a most agreeable species of husbandry. ? For "it's a poor mule that won't work both ways," in yesterday's issue, please read, "it's a poor rule," etc., ex? plains on exchange. ? One of the saddest and most-vexa? tious trials that come to a girl when she marries is that she has to discharge her mother and depend upon a servant girl. ? Young ladies who wish to have small mouths are advised to repeat this , at frequent intervals during the day: "Fanny Finch fried five floundering frogs for Francis Fowler." ? A tiny spider dropped from the ceiling into a sleeping church member's mouth recently. It went down into the mammoth cavern and pulled its web in after it. Another warning against sleep? ing in church. ? On a recent wedding occasion we heard a young bachelor, while carrying some sugar plums around to the ladies, offer his kindness in a very questionable sentence, punctuated as be had it: "Will you take one, sugar plum?" ? They were out riding. Said Theo? dore, "What tree, Angelina, bears the most precious fruit ?" Angelina?"Oh ! Dory, I can't tell, unless it is a cherry tree." Theodore looks unutterable sweet? ness, as he gazes into Angelina's eyes and says, "The axle-tree, darling!" ? "How did you come to get* mar? ried ?" asked a man of a very homely friend. "Well, you see," he replied, "after I had vainly tried to win several girls that I wanted, I finally turned my attention to one who wanted me, and then it didn't take long to arrange mat? ters." ? Once upon an evening dismal I gave her a paroxysmal kiss, and called her name baptismal; precious name I loved of yore. Ah, she was a darling creature, pert of speech and fair of fea? ture; but, egad, you couldn't teach her, for she had been there before, and only murmured, "Buss me more." ? When I was a young man I was always in a hurry to hold the big end of the log and do all the lifting. Now that I am older I seize hold of the small end and do all the grunting. Wise men make the mistakes and fools the blun? ders, and this-is about all the difference between them.?Josh Billings. ? A citizen of Eureka having occa? sion to go home unexpectedly a night or two si nee, caught a gentleman acquaint? ance in the act of kissing bis wife. On relating the circumstance to a friend, he was asked if he punished the guilty couple, and replied: "No, not exactly ; but they must have seen from the way I slammed the door that I was not satis? fied!" ? Before marrying?"Oh, my little darling, your voice is as musical to me as the vesper bell whose tones fall softly on the perfumed evening air I Speak again and say those words, my beloved, for I could listen to your voice until the stars are extinguished in everlasting night!" After marriage?"I've had just enough of your clapper, old woman, and if you don t let up I'll leave the house!" ? A young lady from New York re? cently appeared at a bail in Nice with her dress decorated with radishes and artichoke leaves. When asked by her mother what she meant by such a caper, she answered, knowingly: "You hold on, mama; the fellows here are awfully backward. I must give them a hint that I'm in the market." Then she stuck a carrot in her hair, aid a cauliflower in her snowy breast, and looked Nice enough to eat. ? Wo often wondered why girls mar? ried. An Austin young lady, upon the subject says: "Well, no, I don't know as I'd marry for money alone, but if a man had plenty of money allied to a sweet disposition, and a moustache that curled at both ends, and nice blue eyes and a respectable profession, and his father was rich and his mother and Bisters aristocra? tic, and he wanted to marry me, and would promise to let me have my own way in everything, and keep me liberal? ly supplied with coin, and have a nice furnished house with a big piauo in it, and would give me two diamond rings, and pay my dry goods, milliner's and dressmaker's bills without grumbling, and I really and truly loved him?I wouldn't consider his money any draw? back to the match." Secrets of Masonry.?Old Zach Wheeler was quite a character in his time, being a clever, easy-going, confiding fian, who managed to let everybody .heat him out ot his inherited estates. Just as his last farm was about to slip out of his hands he succeeded in raising the money to lift the mortgage. Aaron Remer, a prominent Mason, accompanied him to the town. As they were riding on horse-back, Zach says to Aaron, in a confiding tone: "Now, Aaron, we are here alone, and I want you to tell me the secrets of Ma? sonry." "I can't Zach; they would kill me." :'Why, they won't know; they'll never find it out" "Yes, they will; You'll speak of it." "No, I swear I won't." "Well, if you'll ride close alongside of me, and put your hand upon my thigh, and take the oath I'll administer, I'll tell you the secrets of Masonry." Zack was not slow to comply, and a most powerful "iron-clad" oath was ad? ministered and taken. "Now for the secrets " exclaimed the impatient aud unsuspecting victim. "Well," said Aaion, with mock so? lemnity and secrecy, "in the first place, we Masons combine together to cheat everybody as much as we can. This is the first grand secret. The second is like unto it. When we can't find any body else to cheat, we cheat each other, but as little as we can." "Well," exclaimed Zach,."I swear I'll join. I wish I had done it twenty years ago. I might have been a rich man alore now.' ? The process of tanning a human skin has just been accomplished at a morocco factory at Lynn, Mass. Two skins, about one foot and a half square, of white and black ptrsous who were hanged, were furnished from a Boston dissecting room, and the process of tan? ning was remarkably successful, and the skin, as it now appears, resembles a piece of French kid. Token Of Respect.?Among the na? tions of antiquity, an offering of perfumes was regarded as a token of the most pro? found respect and homage. At the pres? ent time, a present of a box of Dr. Price's exquisite odors, would not only be re? garded as a token of respect, but enjoy? ed, to the last drop,, with the greatest pleasure. ? Mr. Frank M. and Mrs. M. L. Boze man, of Terrell county, Lave been mar? ried only twelve years, aud have nino childseii, six boys and three girls. Frank is 3'j years old; his wife 2S.