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E. B. MURRAY, Editor. THURSDAY K0RN1N6. JULY 3,1679. The Stalwarts of New Hampshire have declared in favor of Grant for a third term, and, it is asserted with confidence by his friends, that nothing can prevent bis nomination by the Republican party, except his refusal to accept. Those who know Grant will, therefore, put him down as the candidate, if these statements are true, for he has never, that we remember, refused to accept anything that was offer? ed to him in the shape of nu office or a present. The whole of the Democratic party will be "last ditchers" on the question of J appropriating money to be used in pay- j ing United States marshals for services rendered in election work. Not only this, the whole country Will sustain this' attitude, for it now bsconws a question ms to whether the representatives of the people are to have any influence in the government, or are to be coerced into the passage of obnoxious legislation by the sovereign will of an usurping President The House has passed the bill admit? ting quinine free of import duty, which will probably become a law, as the Presi? dent will scarcely think this a matter demanding a veto. It is a proper meas? ure, for there should be no restriction upon the introduction of standard medi? cines which have to be used by all classes of our citizens for the purpose of retain? ing their health. When the abolition of duty goes into effect it should produce a reduction of at least one-third in the price of quinine. Mr. Hayes is evidently spoiling for a political fight, and now that he has forced the whole Democratic party into the "last ditch" on the question of using United States marshals at the polls, he will probably have his hands full. He has usurped the place to which Mr. Til den was elected, and is now trying to usurp the whole functions of Congress in addition. The question is now pre? sented squarely to the country. Shall the will of the people rule, or is one man to shape the legislation and execute the laws of the land according to his own wishes? _ Thurlow Weed, who has always been an orthodox Republican and hard money man, now admits that the resumption of specie payments could not have been brought about without the remonetization of silver. It will also be found that unless the silver dollar is coined to a sufficient extent to supply the demands of ex? change, the specie payment, cannot be continued without the most ruinous con? sequences to the masses of the people of the whole country. The Warner silver bill, or some similar measure of relief, should be adopted to secure the necessary supply of silver. In the beginning of the present differ? ences between the President and Con? gress, Mr. Hayes contended that Con? gress was trying to ignore his right to veto bills by putting them as riders on appropriation bills?that is, he conted ed for his right to veto because: the meas? ures contained more than he thought they should contain. Now be vetoes because the bills do not contain enough to suit him. The Congressmen and the coun? try, however, begin to see th3t Mr. Hayes' idea of the veto power is, that it gives him the right to make Congress pass such laws as he wishes. There is not a monarchial government in Europe that would approximate a despotism so com? plete as will exist in this republic in less than ten years, if this monstrous perver? sion of the theory of our government is allowed to prevail. The people of Ohio have the credit in history of starting the most popular and irresistible campaign ensign La ever pre? sented in an American canvass, which consisted of the log-cabin and keg of hard cider, formed into transparencies, or built in miniature, and used in pro? cessions during the presidential canvass of 1840, in consequence of which the Whigs elected Harrison and Tyler by an overwhelming majority. The Democrats of the Buckeye State have hit upon a similarly unique and striking ensign for the gubernatorial canvass of the present year, which is to foreshadow the cam? paign of 1880. The Democratic ensign for this canvass is a ballot-box transfixed by a bayonet, and upheld by a musket, which mutely, but forcibly, presents to the popular mind the great question of liberty or despotism which is to be de- i terrained by the result of the coming struggle. There are thousands of voters who will not trouble themselves to con? sider the arguments advanced by the different speakers, but will take in the issues as typified by the ballot-box regu? lated by the bayonet. This campaign in Ohio will probably be the most in? tensely interesting struggle of the com? ing fight. It is the skirmish for position before the battle, and each party will do its uttermost to secure the first advantage. The Republicans begin the fight with all the odds in their favor. They have the national patronage, they have an abund? ance of money, and a stock of shrewd and uuprincipled leaders. The Demo? crats, however, have so far overmatched them in the arrangements of the cam? paign. The Radicals fight tinder Foster and Hoenlooper, who were never in the war, and rendered their country no ser? vice, except in ample security, for which they have always been well paid. The Democrats are led by Ewing and Rice, both of whom fought for the Union, and achieved a reputation for patriotic brave? ry which has popularized them before the people of the State. It is a fight of the people agaiust usurpation, and fraud, and monopoly, and the prospects are that right will triumph over the strength of the enemies of the country, and the victory to be won in Ohio will symbolize a greater one for the Democracy in 1880. Death of Col. Maueice.?A special dispatch to the News and Courier, dated June 24, says: Hon. S. W. Maurice, State Senator for Williamsburg County, died at his residence in this place, this morning, at twenty minutes to 5 o'clock. He had been confined to his bed for three months, and was a great but patient suf? ferer. THE SPARTANR?RG GRAND JURY. TheGrand Jury oFSpartanburg justify the lynching of Moore for the murder of Miss Beaton, and if the rearotttng Only had application tx? Moore's case, we would not take issue with it, for W? be? lieve, like them, that he fully deserved the speedy doom he met; but the trouble Is, that there is always a tendency in human nature to take the law into one's own hands which cannot be sanctioned or permitted in a civilized and law-abiding State. Where mob law reigns there is most frequently a large amount of preju? dice and passion, and always too much haste for the action of sober judgment. In one case the ends of justice may be accomplished, but when this summary mode of punishing wrong-doers prevails, innocent victims will frequently suffer the penalty of other men's crimes. For instance, had a lynching occurred in the case of the murder of Mrs. Hull in New York, her innocent and grief stricken husband is the man the populace would have hung for the deed committed by the negro Chastaine Gdx. The detection of murderers very frequently requires the coolest judgment and the most unbiased minds, which can never be secured in the case of a mob. Except in the most outrageous cases, as the one in Spartan burg, those who join a mob* are endan? gering the civilisation of the State) the safety of life and property, and are teaching the masses a remedy for crime which, in the hands of excited or mis? guided crowds, is worse than the evils it attempts to correct. Even in extreme cases, as the Spartanbuig lynching, there should be no exultation over the matter; and while upholding it under its unpamllelled and fearful provocation, the principle of lynch-law as a punish? ment for crime should be unmistakably condemned. The fact that courts fre? quently allow guilty men to escape is no justification whatever, for public opinion is responsible for this laxity in judicial tribunals. It is a verdict of twelvo men from different parts of the County which lets a murderer escape, and when people generally feel that the law should be vindicated, and act up to their belief, then the over-leniency to criminals will cease. If the courts do not perform their duty properly, they should be remodeled and made to accomplish the purpose for which they have been organized. The people control the courts, and where de? fects are detected in their workings, these defects should be properly reme? died. The correction does not lie in taking the redress of grievances into private hands. The fact that guilty men sometimes escape is. no justification whatever, for if there is not proof enough to justify twelve men upon their oaths to find a verdict of guilty, the case does not warrant private citizens in assuming to sit in judgment upon a fellow-being, and of their own accord to take the responsi? bility of his blood upon their bands. There can only be excuse made for lynch law where it is called in to inflict speedy and condigu punishment upon some felon who has committed a most fiendish and atrocious outrage upon law and society. Then where the guilt is clearly established, as the offense is unparal lelled in gravity and infamy, a speedy and unusual punishment may be justi? fied?not as the act of an excited and wild mob, but as the exhibition of tbe burning indignation and fearful wrath of the peaceful and law-abiding citizens of the land. In this view, and in no other, can the Spartanburg lynching be justi? fied, according to our opinion ; and from its sanction no license should in future be taken by those who have grievances for which the law affords ample punish? ment to the guilty. Lynch-law has been rare in South Carolina, and will not be countenanced in any other than cases of exceptional atrocity. President Hayes has sent in his fifth veto of Congressional appropriation bills during the present extra session of Con? gress. His last is on the bill appropria? ting funds to pay the salaries and ex? penses of marshals with a proviso that none of the funds so appropriated shall be used for paying the salaries or ex? penses of marshals while engaged in po? licing elections. The President vetoes the bill because, he contends, that it de? prives him of the power to execute the law.5 of the government which he is sworn to do; but his real objection to it is that the appropriation as passed deprives him of the means to control elections in the interest of his political party. The issue is now squarely presented to the country. Shall the government become a despot? ism to be ruled by one man, or shall the representatives of tbe people have a voice in legislation ? According to Mr. Hayes' position Congress has no right to think or act for itself, but is confined to obeying the wishes of the President. It is as it were so many persons assembled to put measures into the shape so far as form is concerned to suit the wishes of the auto? cratical President, but without the right to exercise any independence of judg? ment whatever. Through all of the Pres? ident's veto message it is clearly commu? nicated to Congress that it must, do as the sovereign wishes it to do upon the ques? tion of appropiations, and that body is threatened in case of disobedience to the will of the self constituted despot with a perpetual session as a punish? ment for its presumption. This is but another step in the direction of a mon? archy. One encroachment upon the right of the people to rule has been fol? lowed by another until, indeed, very little of the original structure remains. This is now a republic only in name and form, but with all the odious and dis? tinctive features of an oligarchy. The conventions and elections are manipula? ted by foul combinations, and now the laws are sought to be framed by the one man who represents the success of these desperate conspirators. The end is drawing nigb. Either the men who have thus usurped and abused power must be driven from place, or the last vestige of Republican goverument will pass away in the United States and be numbered with the things that were. Darlington Southerner: On Monday, the 23d, a colored boy about ten years old while playing with some of bis com? panions brought out his father's gun, and pointing it at a little fellow about five years old pulled the trigger, discharging the contents of the gun into his forehead shattering it terribly. After the lad disj covered the awful result of his reckless conduct he ran into tbe woods and has not been seen since. The Democrats in Congress have re* pea'tedly tried (t? ?:o?tdli?le Mr. Hayes, by trimming lift' the appropriation bills lo suit his fastidious taste, but have ap? parently gained nothing in return for their manifest amiability, except a con? tinued Vetoing' of the measures which Wel'e not framed as the administration wished them. Home time ago those who advocated fighting the President received the appellation of "last ditchers," and now after a month of wasted time, it seems that Congress has worked to no purpose, so far as carrying out the reforms which the Democracy started out to secure; and, after yielding every other point except the use of United States marshals, it looks like there was to be a fight between tho President and Congress oh this issue as sharp and decided as any that could have ttriseh in the beginning of the ses? sion. Mr. Hayes is not only dissatisfied, because the majority in Congress have not allowed bim to spend money for the expenses of United States marshals to assist in controlling elections, but is de? termined to make that body appropriate money for this purpose, or to keep a per? petual session of that body. In view of this evident desire for a fight, it is said that Congress will accommodate him, and that all of the Democratic party have become "lust ditchers" Upon this issue. It may tnf? out after all that Mr. Hayes' hardheaded policy will infuse into the Democracy a little of that quality of backbone which Chandler & Co. gave to him in the beginning of the fight. The issue as presented by the President is one which will unite tho Democratic party, and, if it does not fall into some unpar? donable blunder,, will rescue it from de? feat in 1880. The Grantites are very much disgusted with the open manner in which the gov? ernment is being manipulated in the in? terest of Secretary Sherman's nomination for President. Honest John is accused of giving position to such men as Smalls, Rainey and other defunct politicians from the Southern States on an agreement with them that he is to have the vote of these States in the nominating convention. Thus, the Radicals are about to find the solid South as great an incubus on their party as it is on the Democratic, for it is the solid Republican South which will control the nomination of their can? didate for President; and thus it begins to be seen that no matter which party wins the solid South will have a large voice in the selection of the next Presi? dent. The only question, therefore, for the country to decide is, whether it pre? fers being controlled by the solid igno? rant and corrupt portion of the South which is in the Republican party, or by the solid intelligent and patriotic portion of the South which is in the Democratic party ? This analysis of the question is beginning to cause the thinking portion of the country to realize that there is no merit in the partisan issues presented by the Radicals, for the South is a part of the Union and has a voice in the trans? action of its affairs. The question then is, Do the people of the whole country wish to be under the influence of the solid bad elements of this section which unite with the Republicans, or of the solid good influence of this section which unites with the Democrats? The prefer? ence for the latter is fast gaining ground everywhere. THE PLANS OF THE PARTY. Views of Senator Hampton and CongrcHs men LA Ins, Richardson and Alken. Dispatch to the Nan and Courier. Washington, June 24. There is no disposition whatever on the part of the Democrats, to yield an inch of their position, in regard to withholding appropriations for the payment of deputy marshals. The con? servative element are steadlastly oppos? ed to any proposition looking to an ad? journment before all the legitimate ex? penses of the judiciary department have been fully provided for, but even the most conservative are unwilling to include the payment of the obnoxious marshals in such appropriations. Governor Hampton says: "The true policy of the majority now is to eliminate the political riders from the vetoed bill, and send it back to the President with the clause repealing the Jurors' Test Oath incorporated in it. The President has not made any objection to this measure in any of his veto messages, and I take it for granted that he will sign such a bill, and the Democrats would thereby have accomplished both the prohibition of the army at the polls and the repeal of the Test Oath, two of the great points they have been fighting for. The next step would be to send back to him a sep? arate bill providing for the payment of the regular marshals but containing the prohibitory clause in regard to deputy marshals for elections. He would veto this, and the party could go to the country upon the issues. I do not think," he said in conclusion, "that the Democrats will yield the poiut as to the election marshals under any circumstances." Congressman Evius believes the Dem? ocrats are solidly opposed to providing for the marshals in question, and that they will maintain their present position at all hazards. "We take the ground," he said, "that the law authorizing the U3e of these men is utterly unconstitu? tional, and we cannot consistently or con? scientiously appropriate a cent for their support. This is the most vital issue of all, and I am in favor of fighting it to the end." Congressman Richardson is in full ac? cord with this view, and regarding this issue as the one most important to the South, is willing to stay here as long as the Republicans force us to do so, rather than yield a step. Congressman Aiken coincides in the foregoing views, and tersely adds that, "While no one wants to go home more than he does, he will stay here until Ga? briel blows his horn before he will vote one dollar lor the deputy marshals." I have not been able to see our other representatives, but these are their senti? ments and of all the Democrats in both houses as well. No plan of action has been formally agreed upon as yet, but the one indicated above will very proba? bly be agreed upon, and the party prom? ises to freeze to it. C. MeK. Orangeburg Times: The residence of Mr. F. A. Brickie, of the Fork, was en? tirely destroyed by fire about 12 o'clock on Sunday night. June 22. He cmly managed to save a very few articles. No insurance.As to the first man killed at Secessionville there are old soldiers here who claim the honor for Mr. John Jones, of our town, a private in Capt. Humbert's company. It is believed to be susceptible of proof that he was killed before Mr. Baggot, of Barnwell.Sev? eral of the colored girls recently sent on North by Rev. W. L. Johnson of the col? ored Presbyterian Church to obtain situ? ations as housemaids, have come back to Orangeburg. They hired out for awhile, but as soon as they could get the means to defray their expenses came home. They have no desire to return North. I Ot)R FLORIDA CORRESPONDENCE. Alafia, Fla., Juue 20,187P. Editor AntbttiM fr.tcHtyencer: tri lite long ilgo days of Spanish ro? mance, tradition tells us that a certain Knight (Ponce do Leon) who had become rich in honors and high in commn.nOi bill to whom had Hi'.cc??:dCtl also gray hairs, lured by the talcs of his mistress of a spring on the coast of the great Mexican Gulf, "whose waters would bring back the fires of youth and renew his wasted years," set sail in search of this fountain, and landed among the mangrovo bowers and painted birds of tho Western Coast on "Easter Day," or day of flowers, somewhere about tho year 1512, and bap? tized the newly discovered land by the namo of Florida! And tho legend of those seas isi "Ilaving IHllhil thd long sought fountain of perpetual youth the Knight with his followers still lives, wandering where tho coral bowers make forests of beauty ; where lbb flarlds arc strewed with jems and the summer never wanes'." This is a pretty picture, well calculated in that age of romance and discovery to excite the adventurer, and while I have never met with any of these gentry, thoro is enough of beauty hero to make ono doubt If Hans Anderson's pictures of "fairy land" are wholly Imaginary. In seeking a country, however, tho emigraht, unlike the adventurer, gives little thought or caro to tho ideal, but re? gards things really as they exist; nnd from this standpoint I will endeavor to fulfil tho promise made to some of the readers of tho Intkllioksceii to glvo them some description of this country, or moro properly this section of it, its advantages and disadvantages, what may be accomplished here In the way of a living, and what inducements it offers to the settler. In attempting this I can only hope to give a very imporfect idea, as I have been hero but little over a year, and while I shall speak from my own expe? rience and observation in that time, I shall have to draw from what I havo heard from others, who have been hore longer and are consequently not only better informed, but bettor able to give practical demonstration by their mir roundings of what has been accomplished here, and wo are generally agreed that what has been done onco can bo done again; provided, always, that the same operative forces are brought to bear for its accomplishment. That Florida has been considerably written up by tourists I am well aware, and tho views of oppo sito extremists have grossly misrepresen? ted the State; diverting, too, it is to note, how different the impressions made upon minds too contracted to take in more than one thing at a time. Thus, one viewing everything through a rose-colored glass, will draw you a picture all of sunshine and flowers; and bis imagination run? ning wild with him at the sight of an orange or banana grove pendr.nt with golden fruit, or perhaps fragrant with beautiful flowers; or tho lake scenery or bay view; the earth covered with its va? riegated carpeting, and the waters spark? ling with miriads of fish, cries out in his fullness, "Eureka!" Another, seeing through the glass darkly, will toll you that this is a land of alligators, snakes, musquitoos, sand flies, dec., und even these can hardly live here in any enjoy? ment of health and comfort. I say these are narrow and contracted views, be? cause they do not represent the general condition of things. Thoro are sections horo whore, from a well regulated flower garden, ono may obtain a fresh and beautiful bouquet of flowers as well at Christmas as on the 4th of July, and whero fish can bo bad in abundance all the year round ; and there are sections whero ono may count fifty alligators at ono time, some of them 12 or 15 feet long, and tho country has the appearance of being so unhealthful "tbat a respectable tadpolo could not livo and enjoy good health all the year." But these are isolated spots, such as may be found in tho swamps of South Carolina, and furnish no criterion from which to judge a country. Health being paramount to every thing else, it may bo appropriate in this con? nection for me to say, and I speak, of course, of Hillsboro county, as my ob? servation has been confined principally to its limits, that the endemic diseases of tho county, while of a malarial tj-pc, are mild and quite remedial to treatment. Indeed, a congestivo typo of remittent fever is not known hero, and my practical experience and observation will justify me in saying that the only endemic dis? ease of this county is intermittent fever. Since I havo been here I havo met some sporadic cases of disease other than in tormittents, but fow that arc not of that typo. It is an accepted fact now that typhoid fever and diphtheria, that are much dreaded whero they have been known, aro infectious diseases, and as the tide of emigration flows in, they may bo introduced; so with tho eruptive fovors?measles, scarlet fever and small pox, none of which have come under my experience since I havo been here, but aro common to all sections where mate? rial exists. Pneumonia is said, by resi? dent physicians, to be oxtrcmely rare, and bowel affections, whon they exist, are generally tho result of improprieties in diet, and rarely of a malignant charac? ter. 1 have met some hero who claim that when they camo hero thoy were physical wrecks from pulmonary dis? ease, but are now halo and hearty and could not livo elsewhere. There is some? thing so painful in the terrible march of this disease, snatching away in tho very prime of life tho most cherished objects of human affection, that I should liko to bo ablo to write that I had found in this climate, so delightful in many respects, a panacea for the most incurable of all diseases, pulmonary tubercle. But not so. Many come here cherishing this vain hope; but, alas! to die. And while some have had their health restored hero my impression is that wo have too high a dew point with tho tern pern Ui re to war? rant me in recommending this climate and section to consumptives. Yet, withal, I consider Hillsboro count}' from a gen? eral standpoint as perhaps tho most healthful in the State, and believe it will boar favorable comparison with that in any other State. Wo are about sixteen miles a little cast of south from Tampa, with tho Alafia river in two miles of us and Hillsboro bay within three. These furnish our communication by boat with Tampa, our county seat and principal market, in the belt of variable winds and between tho great belts of tho tornadoes. Tho thermometer seldom goes much above 90?, and from 9 o'clock in tho morning, lasting all day, wo havo the most de? lightful sea breezes, fanning our cheeks and making tolerable the othorwiso burning sun. It is only of late years that Florida has begun to attract the attention of emi? grants, and somo lands that ton j-cars ago could bo bought for ?o per aero can not now bo bought for 9100. Those who came hero then and set them out oiango groves, and had nerve and determination about them to endure for a season, aro now independent. Laud situated anywhere near to traLS portation is rapidly advancing in price, nnd emigrants continue to come in every year. Intime tho whUtlo of tho "iron horse" will be heard all around us, for as settlers come in railroads arc being talked of, and already tho contract is let for a road from Tampa to tho Upper flt, ;Tolut*si and ? tihihier granted for another from Gainesvillo by Ocala, Tampa and-to Charlott's Harbor. These facilities for quick transportation will develop our resources and enhance the value of prop? erty. This is not as good a country for farm? ing as many others I have scon. Good lands (hummock) will bring from twenty to thirty bushels of corn to the acre, worth $1 per bushol. Rye and oats do toloi ably well, and while some wheat is grown in North Florida, 1 believe none so far south as this. A crop of Irish and sweet pota? toes may be grown on the satilc land. I believe it will bo no exaggeration for mc to say that 150 bushels of swcot potatoes is not a big yield per aero, and 500 bush? els have been made. Irish potatoes, with a littlo more preparation, will do quite as well as sweet potatoes. (I would like for some of my friends in Anderson who liko to have "truck" growing around them to have some of the seed of theso Florida sweet potatoes, and would send them if I thought they would be willing to pay the freight on them?about $2 per barrel. What says my old friend, Capt. Broylcs, neighbors Barr and Friorson, and you, Mr. Editor? If togethoryou think them worth the freight?without extra charge, of course?I will take pleasure in send? ing you two or three barrels. But littlo bettor crop than peas can be raised on any farm. The vines make fino forago and as a manurial crop for turning under green It is second only to clover. Three crops of these can bo raised in one year at a yield of ton bushels por aero. Chufas, that woro beginning to bo planted by a good many in Anderson be foro I left, yield abundantly here, and many contend that a bushel of chufas is worth rj) much as a bushol of corn to fat? ten hogs. "Gubers" (peanuts) and pin dars are also good for hogs, and I suppose will do well. I havo about an aero of each planted, and they look promising. Melons, when planted once, scarcely need replanting, as they spring up voluntarily the next year all over the fiold whore they havo been. Vegetables of all kinds can be raised in abundance, and scarcely a week that something cannot bo planted, though December and January aro tho months most suitable for gardening. Casava, which grows finely here, makes a very nutritious and palatable diet, and is said to be tho richest in starch of any vegetable wo havo. Parties in Tampa are investigating tho best modes of man? ufacturing starch with a view to going into tho business, which, if done, will encouiago raising casava and arrow root, and make them both a source of profit. Ginger and many other plants of a trop? ical nature that I do not recall arc grown horo. Sugar cane grows well on good land, ratooning for several years, and is one of the principal crops. So also docs rice. Tho above will givo you an idea of those products of the soil which will cn ablo ono to livo while he is preparing for and awaiting the result of tho greater source of profit ho is to reap from tho culture of tho citrous family, more par? ticularly tho sweet orange and lemon. I believe in no branch of agriculture or horticulture will there arise greater profit than from the cultivation and raising of theso two. Somo como hero appearing, from, their actions, to think that the orange is a spontaneous growth, and that a for tuno is to bo mado out of It in three or four years without work; and henco, if able to get away, go off dissatisfied and disgusted. There never was but one Eden, and when from that tho command came, "by the sweat of thy face shall ye eat bread," it had no restriction. Money will como nearer growing on trees hero than anywhere clso, but it takes timo and labor, sprinkled with a good deal of endurance, to effect it. To thoso who have never seen an or? ange grove, and know nothing of the profits that result from it, any descrip? tion would be useless, for it would not be belioved. I would expect to bo asked, "Would you believe it if you hadn't seen it?" I will say, however, that a well cultivated grovo ten years old will bear from 1000 to 1200 oranges to the tree, worth from a cent to a cent and a quarter at tho troo each. I rode np under a clump of sixteen trees last year that40,000 oranges had been sold off of. and there is one tree not very far from hero that tho owner claims to havo gathered 10,000 oranges from last year. How is that for high? The good sense of your readers, Mr. Editor, will tell them that theso results cannot be looked for the first three or four years; but if a man will buy him forty or fifty acres of land convenient to transportation, 6Ct him out a grove and livo hard for a few years, his patience will not go unrewarded, in my opinion. Theso facts considered, I havo no hesi? tancy in saying that I believe South Florida to be the best poor man's coun? try in tho universe, provided he is in? dustrious, frugal and patient. In other words, if he will make up his mind to livo hard for a few years, by manage? ment and industry ho will sooner reap a rich harvest for his labor that will secure his future independence than any where olso. Tho most of the public hinds that aro near to transportation havo been taken up, though there are somo in tho interior that arc as good as any, but a good ways from any shipping point. Some who have moro land than they really need, in order to induce emigration, and to enable them to get moans to improve the rest, will sell a part quite cheap, and this is perhaps tho best way to scenro a con? venient location. South Florida is a great cattle country, and many invest their money in cattle, the increase paying them a better inter? est, they think, than anything else. Some stock-owners have fifteen or twen t3' thousand head, and mark over a thousand calves a year. They havo dif? ferent shipping points, and always lind a ready sale for them in tho Cuba mar? kets. So much por head anil graded ac? cording to ago is the way they aro sold, prices ranging from twelvo to fourteen dollars per head?not much idea is had of gross weight, and somo stock-owners never saw a live steer w cighod. i have already occupied too mud) of your space, and have been trying to lind a stopping point, but there is so much to write about that it is hard to do. I believe, though, I havo given the principal points of interest to tho sottler. At another dime I may give you an account of some of tho pleasures that beguile us from our labors occasionally. G. II. S. ? Johnson C. Whittaker, of South Carolina, the present colored cadet of the Military Academy, got along very well last year as a third class cadet. A year ago he was found deficient, and required to go over the third class course again. In mathematics he stands now No. 52 among sixty-four members, in French No. 43, and in drawing he stands at the foot of the class. He is very light, with rather handsome curly hair, ana on pa? rade it is very difficult to pick him out among his white classmates. He has a room to himself, and is thrown entirely on his own private resources for fellow? ship and entertainment.?X. Y. Tribune. "FIGHTING DICK" ANDERSON. Tin; Hero old Handrail Battle* Luid In l?s Grftvc? Xeief and Courier. Beaufort, S. C, June SC. Our community has just been" painfully shocked by the death of Gen. R. H. An? derson, who expired about 5 o'clock this afternoon, of apoplexy. There is univer? sal sorrow an gloom over the sad event, for the General was a favorite with all. Beaufort, S. C, June 27. As the last rays of thesettingsun glinted on the waters of the bay and gilded the tree tops, the body of fighting Dick An? derson was laid in its last resting place in the Cemetery of St. Helena Church, Beaufort. During his short stay in this place Gen. Anderson had won the good-will and esteem of all the people of the sea eoast, to many of whom he was a compar? ative stranger, and although his death was sudden, almost the entire population of the city turned out to pay the last tri? bute of respect to his memory. The funeral services took place this af? ternoon at 9 o'clock. A half hour previ? ous to that time the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery, Capt. H. M. Stuart command? ing, marched up to the residence of the deceased. The company turned out about forty, rank and file, and paraded in full uniform as infantry, leaving two gun detachments at the armory incharge of the battery to fire the salute in honor of the dead hero. The body was borne from the house to the hearse by the following pall-bearers: Col. Wm. Elliott, Judge Hudson, Col. Paul Hamilton, Col. F. Gantt, Messrs. John G. Barn well, Carlos Tracy, R. B. Fuller, James W. Moore and W. J. Ver dier. The funeral cortege was formed in the following order: First, drum corps; second, Beaufort Artillery; third, hearse; fourth, pall-bearers; fifth, citizens in carriages and on foot. Marching to the sound of muffled drums, the cortege reached the church, where the Artillery opened ranks and presented arms, the pall-bearers carrying in the casket and depositing it in front of the chancel. The church was filled by the ladies of Beaufort. After the casket had been de? posited in front of the chancel the artillery marched into the central aisle, faced in? wards, rested on their arms and stood thus through the services. After the ser? vices iu the church had been concluded the remains were borne to tbe cemetery adjoining the church, where they were laid to rest beside the last resting place of John Barnwell, better known in the early history of South Carolina as Tus carora John, for bis Indian fighting. As the coffin was lowered into the grave a salute of three guns was fired from the arsenal and the bells of the church were tolled. In tho funeral cortege Dr. R. R. Sams, the color bearer of the Beaufort Artille? ry, carried the sword presented to Gen. Anderson by the State of South Carolina for his services in the Mexican war. It is a splendid blade, encased in a gold scabbard, the hilt surmounted by a gold bust of Calhoun. The scabbard bears the following inscription : "South Carolina to Capt. Richard Herron Anderson, as a memorial of gallant conduct in services at Vera Cruz, Cherabusco, Mol i no Del Ray, Mexico." It is a duplicate of the sword presented by the State to the late Gen. Shields. It is a noteworthy coincidence that Gen. Anderson was buried on the eve of Carolina day, and it is a significant fact that a large number of the Carolina sol? diery, who paid the last tribute of res? pect to his memory, were Northern citi? zens who have settled in the State since the close of the late war. The following editorial from the News and Courier gives and interesting sketch of the life and services of the departed hero: Ex-Lieut. Gen. R. H. Anderson died suddenly at Beaufort, S. C, on Thursday last. The blow is as severe as sharp. South Carolina had not a son who did more for her fame, in the Confederate struggle, than was achieved by him who has fought his last battle, and who knew, in peace, pains and troubles hard? er to bear than the dangers and priva? tions of war. Sadly enough he had only held for a few months an appointment which gave him comparative ease, and it was in contemplation to nominate him, next year, for a public office, which should mark conclusively the estimation in which he was held by the people of tho State. Gen. Anderson, was the son of Dr. W. W. Anderson, of Sumter District, and was in the 62d year of his age. He was educated at Edge Hill Academy, aud being appointed a cadet at West Point he went there, while extremely young, graduating about 1840, and being assign? ed to duty in the famous Second Dra? goons. In that regiment he saw much bard service on the frontier and iu the Florida war. In the Mexican war he so distinguished himself that the State of South Carolina presented him a Sword of Honor. At the time that South Caroli? na seceded from the Union he held the rank of Captain. He instantly resigned his commission, came to Charleston, and was appointed Colonel of the First Regiment of Infantry, succeeding Gen. Barnard E. Bee. After the fall of Sumter, he was transferred to Gen. Bragg's command at Pensacola, and commanded the Confed? erate forces at the attack on Santa Rosa Island, where the enemy were dispersed, and the commanding officer, Gen \ ogdes, was captured. On July 19, 18^1 he was appointed Brigadier-General, his bri? gade being composed of the First Louisi? ana Regulars, lirst Florida, Fifth Geor? gia, the Seventh and Eighth Mississippi and Tyler's battalion of marines. Af? terwards he took command of the brigade composed of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth South Carolina Volunteers, and the Sec? ond South Carolina Rifles. This brigade formed part of Longstreet's Corps. From the time that he became its commander, the military record of Geu. Anderson is part of the glorious history of the Army of Northern Virginia. On July 14,1862, Gen. Anderson was appointed Major Gen? eral the division being composed of the brigades of Mahone, Wright, Armistead and Martin, to which were afterwards added the brigades of Posey, Wilcox and Pryor. At the battle of Fredericl s'mrg, Anderson's Division was composed of the brigades of Pprry, Featherstone, Wright, Wilcox and Mahone. Upon the wound? ing of Gen. Longstreet at the Battle of the Wilderness, Gen. Anderson was placed in command of the First Corps. This was done at the especial request of Gen. Longstreet, although Gen. Ander? son's division belonged to the third Corps. A more signal mark of confidence could not have been given. On June 1, 1864, he was appointed Lieutenant-General, and upon the return of Gen. Longstreet to duty in the fall of the year, Gen. An? derson took command of the force which had been commanded by Gen. Beaure gard in front Petersburg, consisting of the divisions of Bushrod Johnson and Hokc. To this command the division of Pickctt was added not long before the evacuation of the "Cockade City." Gen. Anderson left Petersburg in command of what remained of the Fourth Corps. The day before the surrender, Gen. An? derson's command having been reduced to less than five hundred muskets, he was relieved from duty with the Army of Northern Virginia, by Gen. Lee, in order that he might be free to make his way to Johnston's army and give that distinguished officer the benefit of his eminent ability as a soldier. Before he could reach Gen. Johnston, having to make a long detour, the capitulation of Johnston's army had taken place, and Gen. Anderson went sadly to his old home near Statcsburg in this State. How shall we speak of Gen. Anderson as a soldier ? His valiant deeds speak for him ! At the battle of Williamsburg, he commanded Longstreet's Division, his brother, who was his aide-de-camp, being killed at his side. In the battles around Richmond he won new fame, making the last and successful charge at Guines's Mill, and winning his promotion to the rank of Major-General. At Sharpsburg he was wounded in the thigh, but re? mained in command of his division until lie fell fainting from his horse. AtChan cellorsvillc, with a line of battle ho stronger than a picket line, he held the Confederate centre while Jackson execu? ted his famous flank movement. The men of Anderson's Division were ten paces, or more, apart. Only the thick woods, concealing their weakness, deter? red the enemy from making a crushing attack. Gen. Lee sent him thrice the order to press the enemy, being unaware of his critical condition. At last he rode in person to the spot where Gen. Ander son was. Two attacks had been repell? ed ; the third was about to be made. Jackson's guns opened at the critical mo? ment and created a diversion. Seeing for himself the position of affairs, Gen. Lee, usually so reserved and self-contained, clasped Gen. Anderson by the hand and said : "My noble old soldier, I thank you from the bottom of my heart." After the march through the burning woods to Spotsylvania, and his successful repulse of the enemy, Gen. Lee wrote him and his command a warm letter of thanks. So much of it as related to himself he suppressed. The rest he published to the corps. Three times he was person? ally thanked by letter by Gen. Lee, and to few of even those nearest to him was it known that such letters had been writ? ten. Brave as a Paladin of old ; gentle and modest as a woman! At Cold Har? bor, Gen. Lee sent to ask how he was get? ting on. The answer was: u Give my com? pliments to Gen. Lee, and tell him that I have just repulsed the enemy's thirteenth charge.'" lo the latest hour of the Army of Northern Virginia he was in the thick of the contest. What shows the charac? ter of the man better than his terse ad? vise to a superior officer, who saw the enemy closing in upon them with over? whelming force, an army against two divisions! When asked what could be done, his words were, "Fight, to be sure\" Worthy commander was he of Ander? son's Division, which never turned its back upon the enemy, save at Gettsyburg, and there the men, disregarding the or? der to retire, were almost dragged to the rear. "Fighting Dick" Auderson! Equal to any emergency; ready in every place; fit for every responsibility; doing loyal service wherever he was placed; free from resentment when slighted, as Presi? dent Davis chose to slight him, and giv? ing to those whom he should have com? manded cheerfulest aid and readiest obe? dience ! South Carolina had cause to be proud of him, to love him, and to honor him. Yet was he almost a stranger amongst his own people! The planting in which he engaged, af? ter the close of hostilities, was unprofita? ble. President Magrath, of the South Carolina Railroad, rescued him from an almost hopeless condition, by finding employment for him in his own office and, afterwards, as agent at Camden. When removed from this post, upon the road passing into the hands of a Receiver, he was appointed by Govornor Simpson Special Phosphate Ageut, which office he held at the time of his death. It is too late to speak of what might have been, and should have been. There will be profound regret now that more was not done, by the State, for one to whom so heavy a debt was due. For few positions, in civil life, was he qualified. But he was well read, and possessed of large in? formation. It was not in him to take part in s scramble for preferment, and they who pushed themselves to the front left no room for Lieut. Gen. Anderson, the ranking officer in the Confederate service from South Carolina. It is past. The sweet, loving spirit is at rest. Carolina's noble soldier sleeps in the bosom of the Mother he loved so i devotedly. Those who kneiv him as he was, and who live after him, have in his life a model of Christian forbearance and humility, and knightly courtesy and truth. So tender and so true! God bless the memory of "Fighting Dick" Ander? son. Sanguinary Riot at Chicago. Chicago, June 22. One of the companies which, under a recent act of the Legislature, must short? ly cease to exist, became involved in a fight with some unarmed people this after? noon, which resulted in thedeathof sev? eral of the latter. The Bohemian Sharp? shooters, an association composed of some twenty individuals, held a pic-nic to-day at Silver Leaf Grove, at the corner of Og den and Western avenues. During a dance one of the Sharpshooters engaged in a quarrel with Volney Clark, a visitor, and alter beating him severely, had him ejected from the grounds. Clark stated his grievances to a crowd outside the gates, and gaining some sympathy there, inaugurated an indiscriminate throwing of sticks and stones into the inclosure where the pic-nic was being held. The lieutenant of the company, Frank Ladweic, ordered the long roll sounded and bayonets fixed. A charge was immediately made toward the gate, and the crowd was bayoneted and sabred until they fell back. The company reformed outside of the gate in single line, facing the street, and, loading their guns, fired a volley into the crowd. They immediately re? loaded and again fired, each Sharpshooter picking his man. It is stated that three or four volleys were fired. Tie weapons used were muzzle-loading Springfield muskets, and the cartridges contained nine buckshot each. As soon as the affair became known, two squads of police repaired to the scene and arrested the whole company, which formed in march? ing order under the American flag and proceeded to West Madison Street Sta? tion, where they are now incarcerated on the charge of murder, and guarded by a heavy detachment of police. The cap? tain of the company was not present du? ring the affray. It is rumored that an attempt will be made by the Lehr and Wehr Verein to rescue the prisoners to? night. Later?The Lehr and Wehr Verein, which has been holding a pic-nic out? side of the city to-day, made no effort on their return to release the prisoners. It appears that the pic-nic was given by a Bohemian Sunday school, and that a numerous gang of drunken roughs had all along given considerable trouble, until finally those in charge of matters sent for the Sharpshooters for protection. They arrived about three o'clock, and shortly afterward the trouble began, as above re? lated. The lieutenant to-night denies that he gave the order to fire, but says that after he had cleared the grounds by a bayonet charge there was such a rain of stones and bricks that his men began a desultory fire without orders. The mem? bers of the company all refuse to talk about the affair. Seventeen are detained, the others having been released. The arrival of the police to conduct them to the station probably saved the Sharpshooters from personal violence, as they were surrounded by an excited mob of about 2,000 persons. The following is believed to be a complete list of casual? ties: Valentine E. Clarke, severely wounded by blows on the head; D. H. Wilkie, a bayonet wound three inches in length (/ti left temple; John Dotiohue, left side of jawbone shattered and shot through the body, said to have died; Henry Williams shot in body and neck ; Albert Jenkins, shot in right shoulder ; Daniel McCarthy, bayonet wound. A little hoy, name unknown, was cut with a bayonet. Laurciisville//<rm/(/.- Mrs.SallieGossett, now living at Thomas Crowder's,on Cane Creek, iu this county, from the best infor? mation is IUI years of age. She is well, able to walk about, and retains good con? trol of her mind. She was horn in Frank? lin County, N. C, but has lived in this county for over fifty years. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. GIvniiliigM from our State Kxchange*. Aiken Courier-Journal: During the spring season just closed there were 1,794 guests in Aiken.The Granitc ville factory stopped operations for one day last week. The cause assigned was the scarcity of water. A heavy rainfall Tuesday night remedied the difficulty by filling the ponds. Edgefield Advertiser : In the old case of the negro Joe Stevens, for the murder of another negro, on the Ridge, the de? fendant was again found guilty of mur? der. Stevens was convicted before Judge Aldrich, last June, of murder, and Mr. Bettis carried his case to the Supreme Court, and succeeded in getting him a new trial upon some technical irregular? ity in the drawing and empanelling the jury. He has again been convicted, and Mr. Bettis, in a legal argument of great force, made a motion in arrest of judg? ment, but Judge Wallace overruled the motion, and sentenced the prisoner to be hanged on the first Friday in August next.On Thursday morning last, the gin-house, gin, &c, of our honored towns? man, Dr. M. W. Abney, on his farm at old Pottersville were destroyed by fire. Yorkvillc News: Cut worms are de? stroying corn in parts of York County. .Another fatal accident on the rail occurred Sunday morning at a point about five miles below Chester, between that point and Woodward's Station. The victim on this occasion was Bob Miller, a colored train hand, whose home is in Charlotte, and who was run over by a freight train and cut to pieces. Spartanburg Spartan: Mr. Thos. P, Storey, near Glenn Springs, has a rifle which was used at the battle of King's Mountain by his uncle Anthony Storey, with which he shot from a hollow chest? nut tree six or seven of the British. Walhalla Courier: Mr. Robert Kelly, who resides near Walhalla, was bitten by a poisonous snake on Thursday last. Liquor was used freely and the young man is out of danger.Judge A. J. Willard and wife are registered at Bie mann's Hotel. They are no doubt on their way to their summer retreat in the mountains.Mr. J. B. Baldwin has been appointed depot agent of the Air Line Railroad at Seneca City, and has entered upon the discharge of his duties. .A special excursion train for whites will be run on the Air Line Railroad from Charlotte to Atlanta, on the 7th of July. This will give excursionists a day in Atlanta. Fare from Seneca and West? minster and return about two dollars. Charleston News and Courier: As the excursion train from Columbia reached a point about two miles above Summer ville last night the engineer discovered just ahead of the engine a man lying on the track. Brakes were put down and the locomotive was reversed, but the train was going at such speed that it was im? possible to stop before the locomotive and several of the cars had passed over the unfortunate man, cutting him almost in two and killing him instantly. The de? ceased was a white man, well dressed, is unknown, and it is supposed that he was lying on the track in a state of intoxica? tion. The remains were left at Summer ville. Beaufort News: Thursday of last week a colored woman, Eliza Mikel, left her home on the Wallace place, St. Helena, to attend a meeting at the Brick Church. During her abscence her aged mother, who was blind and decrepid, set fire to the house and was burned to death with the destruction of the building. No in? quest was held. Gen. Grant's Aspirations. ? Ex Secretary Boric, who has just reached home, left Gen. Grant and party on the 21st of May in Shanghai, and at that time the distinguished travellers were in excellent health and spirits. Gen. Grant then expected to start homeward on Sep? tember 10, aboard the steamship City of Tokio. Speaking of Gen. Grant's Presi? dential aspirations, Mr. Boriesaid: "It appears to me as though he were going to be the next nominee of the Republican party, and the next President of the United States. Wherever he went that was the opinion held by every one. I had made up my mind to ask him to de clinu the honor positively, but I lacked the courage. My friends have said there was no use in my making the experiment, and even Democrats coincided with them. The General himself does not allow the matter to bother him. He never alludes to it in any way. If the nomination was urged upon him as a necessity, however, I do not think he would refuse it." NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Persons having claims against the Estate of William Allen, deceased, arc hereby notified to present the same, proper? ly attested, to either of the undersigned within the time prescribed by law. Also, persons indebted to said Estate lire request? ed to make payment at once. SARAH M. ALLEN, Ex'x. A. F. ELROD, Ex'r. July 3, 1870_51_3*_ MEDICAL CARD. HAVING associated with me Dr. Sain'l. M. Orr, we will hereafter practice Medicine and Surgerv under the name and style of NARDIN &ORR. Office in Centennial House, one door East of Orr <fc Tribblc's Law Office. W. H. NARDIN, M. D. July 1, 1S70_51_ BEST GIN MADE. Willia.mstox, S. C, June 30,1S79. Messrs. Br.kcki.irr, Brown & Co., Agents, Anderson, S. C. Gentlemen: The ?Met t A Good? rich Cotton Gin bought of you some three or four years ago was, and is, the best Cotton Gin, to my mind, that is sold in this section of country. I have been a cotton producer and buyer of some experience, and can safely testify that the lint from the Keblett & Goodrich Gin, with a corres? ponding yield, is as fine .as that of anv other Gin sohl in this section, with a decided dif? ference in its favor with respect to its sim? plicity of construction, durability, price and light running features. I ginned six thousand pounds of seed cotton with this Gin in one day with horse-power on a forty-saw Gin. In other words, four live hundred pound bales of cotton. J. W. DACUS. I fully concur with Mr. Dacus in the above as to the quality of this Gin, and can say that it will do all that is recommended for it. S. WHARTON, Motliittsville, S. C. The above Gins are for sale by BLECK LEY. BROWN & CO., Agents, at Ander? son, S. C. Call and examine specimen. July 3. 1870 51 THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, VOVXTY OF AXDICIUOX. COURT OF PROBATE. To LYDIA A. M. VAN WYCK, Execu? trix of Win. Van Wyck. deceased : IT having been made to appear to my satisfa:tion that you have moved from and beyond the limits of this State, and have been absent therefrom for ten consec? utive months last p.osscd, You are hereby ordered and required to account before me in person on the 10th day of August next as Executrix of the last Uill ami Testament of Wm. Van \\ yek, deceased. W. W. HUMPHREYS, , .. . _ Judge of Probate June 3?, 187J 50 4 aw*rnie^.c. | Andes'V C0THRAN & SCUDDAY, Attorneys at Law, AM>KUSO\, - _ s (, ILL practice in all the Courts of this State,and in the IT. S. Courts. i-Ki. K-Nortlnvest Corner Benson Hons W1 Building. Jan Hi, IST'J -27 .