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BY E; B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, 1879._VOL. XT-NO. 4. General Ewing's Speech. General Ewing's speech delivered at Lancaster, Ohio, is a very remarkable effort. It is simple of utterance and clear as noonday, and if Ohio is not car? ried on that showing it will be because the money power of the country has be? come the people's master. General Ewing reviews Secretary Sherman's claims as a financial bene? factor of the country and people, and if ever daw was mercilessly plucked of its lumes one by one, the political and nancial Jeremy-diddler is most merci? lessly stripped to the buff. Mr. Sherman claims that since he took charge of the treasury, first deducting the cash in the treasury, the public debt has been reduced $61,573,SS6. Mr. Sherman now has $249,080,000 locked up in the treasury, and the government is paying interest on that much debt, which could be liquidated with this amount; or, at 6 per cent., by keeping unused that much money in the treasury, the country ia sinking annually some $17,000,000. The public debt Stands?.$2,245,495,072 Less cash, in the treasury-. 2,490,0S0,000 Debt beyond treasury fund....$1,996,415,772 As to the boast of Republican econ? omy, Mr. Ewing makes a bad showing . for the great party of moral ideas and golden charms. General Ewing says: The Republican party enters the can? vass claiming to have administered the government economically, reduced the interest on the public debt, and estab? lished specie payments, and confidently ' demands a new lease of power as a pub? lic benefactor. . ^ Let us see which of the two great par? ties is most entitled to credit for economy in public expenditures. The Democracy for four years past has held the House of Representatives, and in that time the ap? propriations for the expenses of the gov? ernment, exclusive of interest on the public debt, have been $604,619,000. For the four years preceding, during which the Republican party controlled appropriations, the same expenses amounted to $699,339,000; so that the control of one branch of Congress by the Democracy for these four years has aaved the -people $84,720,000, being an average of over $21,000,000 a year. Since June 30, 1866, the people have paid $4,311,000,000 in Federal taxes, and out of that vast sum but $528,000,000 have been applied to the principal of the public debt. If the Republicans had been as economical during the nine years preceding 1875 as the Democrats have forced them to be since then, the public debt would have been reduced $345,000, 000 more, without imposing one dollar of additional taxes on the people. The $21,000,000 a year saved since 1875 by the Democratic House have been saved in spite of the most vehement and de? termined (resistance of the administra? tion and the Senate. * *' * * * * The annual expenses of the Federal government in 1877, for all purposes ex? cept public debt and pensions, were $114,000,000?nearly twice as great as for the year 1860, when they were but $59,000,000. It is true the population of the country increased in that seventeen years nearly 50 per cent.; but admitting (which is not the fact) that the expenses of the government must increase in the ratio ot' increase of population, those ex? penses for 1877 were $27,000,000 greater than they should have been in the ratio of the expenses in 1860, and this, too, after the Democratic Congress had made every reduction which the heads of de? partments could be driven to. * * *- * * * Mr. Sherman claims great credit for having successfully funded $847,000,000 of the public debt into five, four and a half and four per cent, bonds since March 4th, 1877, reducing the interest paid by the government about $10,000, 000 a year. It appears, however, by the finance report, that the interest on the public debt paid in 1877 was $97,124,000, and last year $102,500,000, and this year $105,000,000. In other words, in 1878 and 1879 over thirteen millions more of interest ou tbe debt has been paid than when Mr. Sherman took charge of the funding operation. That large sum is what the operation cost. It is made up of bonuses in the shape of double in? terest, and of commissions paid to the syndycate. Meantime, Mr. Sherman has increased the principal of the bonded debt $86,000,000. It will take the sav? ings of interest by refunding for eight or ten years to pay off this increased bond? ed debt and tbe bonuses and double in? terest, and get even on the entire opera? tion. General Ewing then goes on to show why it is that American capitalists have been willing to invest in four per cents. 83 follows: "It is because they are practically six and a half per cent, bonds, being exempt from about two and a half per cent, of taxes which other property pays, and be? cause the industries of the country have been so broken down that capital had better get six and a half per cent, as? sured by the government, than risk an investment in almost any industrial pur? suit. Is it a great achievement to have industries perish for want of money, in order that it may go into untaxed gov? ernment bonds? 1 admit the desirabil? ity of having our debt held at home, so far as prosperous business leaves a sur? plus for investment, but the readiness with which hundreds of millions of money, heretofore employed in indus? trial pursuits, has been turned into these bonds, is only a symptom of the indus? trial congestion which has drawn the life blood of business from tbe extremi? ties to the heart, and refuses to seud it back to give life and strength io the body. * * * * ? * This is just what has been done all over the United States. Silent mills, fireless furnaces, scanty wages, want of work, swarms of tramps, all attest the success of Mr. Sherman in so shrinking and diminishing tbe business of the country, tbe wages of working men and the profits of capitalists engaged in pro? ductive industry, that money, accumu? lating in hordes" and fearful of all other investments, was eager to take the six and a half per cent, of interest and ex? emption offered by the government, rather than embark on the dead sea of industry. I venture to say that the peo? ple of the United States have lost in aggreate wealth in the past five years, through tbo prostration of industries brought about By the Republican finance policy, three or four hundred times more than the nominal annual saving of in? terest which Mr. Shermau will accora-.. plish by his boasted funding. Furthermore, fellow-citizens, I assert, and am able to prove, that after all of the forty-three hundred millions of taxes paid by the people since 1866; after the nominal reduction of the public debt five hundred and twenty-eight millions; and after the refunding so far accom? plished, the public debt of the United States to-day is a far greater effective burden on the people than it was before the first dollar of it was paid. Measure it by the things which have to be sold to pay" it?by pork, corn, wheat, beef, horses, labor. It takes fifty per cent, more of labor or land or products to pay the interest to-day than it took five years ago. How is the country benefited by a nom? inal reduction of ten millions of inter? est, when the reduction has been accom? plished only by adding fifty per cent, to the amount of labor or property which it takes to pay it ? The effect of gold prices for labor is then discussed with much force and clear? ness, and it was shown that gold prices reduced the price of labor one-third on that of bi-metalic prices. General Ewing said: Fellow-citizens, when the Republican party started to lead the people by con? traction to the promised land of specie payments it never talked about gold prices and resumption, but only of "spe? cie payments," which meant resumption in silver and gold?each equally the dol? lar, the unit, the full legal tender. Con? traction of currency and shrinkage of values were not thought by anybody to be intended by the stealthy manipula? tors of our currency to bring prices bo low the bi-metalic level. But the de? monetization of silver in Germany and the United States, and the initial steps of denionetizat:on by the States of the Latin Union, practically destroyed the chief part of the silver half of the cur? rency of the great nations, and caused euch increased demand for the gold half that the purchasing power of fold rose between 1874 and Decemher 1878, a lit? tle over 50 per cent, throughout the com? mercial world. In other words, the gold prices of laud, labor and property throughout the world sunk over 34 per cent Our people, therefore, were not led back by the resumptionists to the bi metalic level of prices, but in place of the double standard the single gold stan? dard was set up, and that so increased in value that it cost any man 50 per cent, more in land for labor or products to pay in gold a debt of a hundred dollars in December, 1878, than it would have cost in 1874. That is, 50 per cent, was ad? ded by the demonetization of silver to all the debts and all the taxes payable by the people of the United States. I do not make this statement at random, but from tables of elaborately prepared each year by the "New York Public" the highes!; authority in the United States on prices of commodities. I have made the same siiatement twice on the floor of Con? gress, and no man hrs questioned its accuracy. Now, coosider, fellow citizens, the ef? fect of adding 50 per cent, to the bur? den of all the debts and taxes in the United States. I have shown in a speech made in Congress on the 22d of Februa? ry last that the public and private debts of the United States which have been carried ever since 1874 and still remain uupaid amount to little less than $10, 000,000,000. This demonetization of silver and consequent enhancement of fold has added, therefore, in the neigh orhood of $5,000,000,000 to the debt burdens of the people, and as our taxes for national and local governments amount to about $SOO,000,000 a year, it has also added $400,000,000 a year, in practical effect, to the tax burdens of the people. Do you wonder that every man who is in debt at all, and every man who has to pay taxes, groans under the weight of these increased obligations ? When you sell your pork at ?2.25 a hundred, your labor at ninety cents a day, and other things in like proportion to pay debts and taxes, you are enjoying the blessings of silver demonetization. Finally, the Republicans claim popu? lar endorsement because of their avowed Eurpose to have no further change in the nance legislation of the country. They tell us to let the finances alone, that agi? tation will only produce mischief, and that everything is lovely as the laws now stand. Fellow-citizens, it is idle to talk about either party letting the finance question alone. The Republican party does not intend to do it. Did it favor the present law providing for even a very limited coinage of the old silver dollar? No, the great mass of the party resisted it to the utmost. The President vetoed it, and it was only carried through a per? sistent popular agitation by the Western and Southern Democracy and the Na? tionals, before which a portion of the Republican party weakened and voted for the bill. Mr. Sherman says in his last annual report that the law providing for the coinage of two millions a month cannot stand without in time overthrowing tho exclusive gold standard. He has pre? vented the result heretofore by hoarding the coined silver as a resumption fund ; but he knows there is a limit to the amount of money which the people will suffer to remain piled in the treasury, and that the day will come when they will demand that a very large proportion of that hoarded silver shall be applied to the extinguishment of the bonded debt, and in that way the country will be forced from the gold level of prices to a bi-metalic level. Therefore he says that the time will soon come when this coinage of the old silver dollar must cease. Neither he nor his party has any intention to permit values to rise above the low gold level. Hence the question must yet be settled whether we are to have and maintain the gold standard only or restore the bi-metalic standard by the unlimited coinage of silver. The two great parties are squarely at issue on this question. The Warner bill, which gave the whole profits of coinage to the government, but provided for placing silver exactly on a par with gold in respect of unlimited coinage, and of the issue of certificates for silver bullion, passed the House after an intense and protracted struggle, every Democrat but seyen voting for the bill, and every Re Eublican but four voting against it. That ill will pass the senate next December in spite of the opposition of a half dozen national bank and gold standard Demo? crats. The almost complete unity of tho Republican party in the Senate and House against the bill, with Mr. Shor man's known hostility to it, assures a veto of that great measure of relief. The contemptible cowardice of tho Republi? can party of Ohio in failing to say a word on this great question is at once an evidence that the people demand the re? lief, and that the Republican party are determined not to grant it. If that measure were passed almost all the product of our silver mines will at onco bo poured into the channels of cir? culation. Certificates of denominations of ten dollars and upwards, redeemable in coin and represented by the silver de? posited, will enlarge our circulating me? dium and cause a wholesome rise of j>rices, stimulating industry, increasing production, lightening the burden of debts and taxes, and giving us a prompt and generous impulse toward rene^gjd prosperity. The substitution of treasury notes for national bank notes is then discussed, with the following warning added: Give the Republican party a new en? dorsement, dominated and controlled as it is by the national banks, and you will lind that either through a contrived judi? cial decision or directly by legislation your greenbacks will be wiped out, and the money power will give you just as much or as little paper money for your buiincss as it pleases, and will regulato I the values of your labor and property to suit itself. Our experience has demonstrated that no matter how plentiful may be the sup? ply of gold and silver, the greater part of the money actually current will always be paper. On the volume of money actually current depends the prices of labor and commodities. As that volume rises prices go up, and as it falls they go down. The whole volume of the money current has rarely been over a fiftieth part of the aggregate value of the property of die country; yet, when the money in actual circulation is reduced one hundred millions, that re? duction shrinks the valuo of labor and property to fifty times the sura of the currency reduction; and, so, when the current money is increased a hundred millions, it adds fifty times that sum to the aggregate selling value of other property. So, too, when the volume of cur.ency diminishes and prices conse? quently fall, all business becomes unpros pcrous; while when the currency is be? ing increased, values rise and business becomes good again. The power to con? trol the volume of currency, affecting as it does so profoundly the general pros? perity, is in its nature a sovereign power. The welfare of the people demands that this power to expand or contract the currency, to raise and lower the values, to give prosperity or inflict distress, shall not be committed to the hands of private individuals or corporations, and least of all to corporations representing the hold? ers of public and private debts whose wealth ia increased by every fall of prices and is diminished by every rise. Aside from this reason against giving private corporations control over the volume of currency, it is to be borne in mind that the substitution of legal ten? der treasury notes for bank notes will, even since funding, save to the people at least ten millions of dollars per annum. With the treasury notes so issued in place of national bank notes, United States bonds can bo bought in the mar? ket and cancelled and the interest there? by stopped, while the government will lose nothing whatever in taxe3 by such substitution, except ouly the one per cent, tax on circulation, that being tbe only tax which national banks pay that is not paid by all other banks of deposits, discount and exchange. Had the Republican party desired to diminish as rapidly as possible tbe pub? lic debt, it would, when the war ended, have prohibited the incorporation of any more banks of issue ai d gradually sub? stituted treasury notes xor bank notes? the power to make such substitution having been reserved in the national haul: law. if they had thus promptly given the people an exclusive govern? ment currency in place of ban:* notes, our bonded debt would now be at lea^t seven hundred millions less thp.n it is. No reason which will bear a moment's consideration can be given why this thing should not have been done. No? body pretends that the greenback which redeems the national bank note is not better than the thing it redeems. There is but one reason why it failed to thus reduce the debt, andthac is this: that these two thousand national banks were needed by the party as a breakwater against the people. Hence, since the close of the war, the people have been Sractically robbed of about seven hun red millions of dollars to prevent them exorcising their free choice of their own servants. The question of free electors is then fearlessly and frankly discussed, and the struggle in Congress touching this mat? ter is fully and squarely set forth. The following conclusion touching the rights of the States and appeal to the opinions of his father, leave no doubt as to the views of Thomas Ewing, and, as wo con? fidently believe, of Ohio and the Union: Follow-citizens, I was not brought up in the school of strictest construction of the constitution, and far less in the school known as "State rights." My venerated father, under and about whose roof you are assembled to-nigh^ who gave a large part of his life to the study of our complex form of government, taught his sons to learn from tbe consti? tution, as expounded by the fathers and the courts, that the general government is supreme culy within the scope of its limited and defined powers, and tho States and ihe people thereof also su? preme in the exercises of all powers not granted to the Federal government. Ho taught them that it was equally the duty of the patriot to maintain in full vigor all tho powers reserved to the States re? spectively or to the people; so that our dual form of government might not be lost through either the centripetal or the centrifugal forces of the system. He wil? lingly saw his sons go forth to battle for the constitutional powers of the Federal government; and now, were he yet among us, he would, I believe, approve their ef? fort to resist, by peaceful methods, the attempt to impair the distinctive feature of our system of government on which depends the perpetuation of popular lib? erty. _ Prepare for Hard Times.?The Commissioner of Agriculture for the State of Georgia has the following to say to the farmers of that State : In view of the probable failure of the corn crop in many sections of the State, the outlook is somewhat gloomy. But with proper economy iu the use of pres? ent supplies, by utilizing all the resources of Summer and Fall crops, und sowing early and largely of small grain, tho ap? prehended scarcity of next Spring may be anticipated, and, in great mcasuro, if not fully, met. It is not too late to sow peas in drills for forage, and farmers should avail themselves of scasoiis to put in large areas for this purpose, rcavino bay, though somewhat dilficult to dire prop? erly, is highly nutritious. Rich lots near the farm house or lot should be sown in barley or rye in August, and will furnish large quantities of green food. We must rely chiefly on oats to sup? plement the short corn crop next Spring, and farmers are advised to sow early and fertilize well, that the crop may be He cured against Winter freezing and be available as early as possible next Spring. If August and September should prove seasonable, as they probably will, sow? ings of cat-tail millet and German mil? let may still bo made for soiling pur? poses. The drafts on the com crib and fodder house should be relieved, as far as practicable, by pasturing and soiling the mules and horses. Where the corn has failed to produce cars, the stalks, blades and all, should be cut and cured for forage. By prudent foresight and prompt action, much may be done in the way of supplementing short corn crops, and providing against the ruinous cr/ic dicnt of relying on the West for supplies for our stock. To Physicians.?Wc desire to call tho attention of medical men to Dr. Price's Floral Riches, as being tbe finest cologue water made. In tho sick room it is re? freshing to the invalid, and a disinfectant. Physicians know that all pleasant odors arc"healthful, while disagreeable smells invite disease. Dr. Trice's Unique Per? fumes richly deserve to be called the best. XUBDEBING A MORMON. IIow and Why Joseph Standing was Killed by Georginns. About 10 o'clock, on the 21st July, there occurred near Ringgold, Ga., a homicide which is deeply regretted by the community. The victim was Joseph Standing, a Mormon preacher and elder. About one week aco Standing and two other Mormons came to Catoosa County, and went about proclaiming their doc? trines and trying to work up a colony to partake of the wide freedom and matri? monial liberty which prevailed in Utah. The men wont down into V)bitfield County, and tried thero to arouse an in? terest in their religion. They met with cold comfort all around there, and were about giving up their project when tho fatal alfair took off one bt them. The fact that these men were proclaiming the doctrine of Marmonism boldly nut the men very much against them, and it was proposed" more than once to take them out, and after giving them a healthy les? son to warn them not to linger in that de? lightful atmosphere. On the 21st Stand? ing and one ofhis companions were go? ing along the road when they were met by a dozen men. They stopped the Mor? mons and told them they wanted to whip them on the spot. The Mormons tried to argue the point, and in the consulta? tion one of the party of regulators laid down his pistol. Quick as thought Standing leaped forward and seized the weapon. Cocking it he turned toward the party and demanded that every man surrender. Just as he said this one of the party fired. The ball entered Stand? ing's temple and he fell dead in the road. His companion was not touched. Stand? ing's remains were carried to Binggold and given in charge of his Mormon brother, who will carry them out to Salt Lake City to be buried. Tho other Mormons will leave at once. The Gov? ernor has been telegraphed to about the matter. The Atlanta Constitution, alluding to the aflair, says: The dispatch that was published yes? terday relative to the killing of the Mor? mon elder who was engaged in an at? tempt to get up a colony for Salt Lake City has a history back of it. For sev? eral years the section of country adjacent to where this killing was done has been infested with Mormon apostles that have spread their infamous doctrine right and left. About two years ago two of these elders eame into Floyd County and spent some time about Floyd Springs and in lower Chattooga. The}' were au? dacious and aggressive, ana invaded household after ncusehold tor tbc pur? pose of preaching their polygamic creed. They made many converts, and, it is said, carried away a colony of fifteen or twen? ty persons, many of them reputable and well-to-do people. One man that we happeu to know of made up his mind to go, and determined to sell his farm. His wife declared that she would go with him. They offered the place at $1,000 when it was clearly worth ?2,500, and sold, we believe, at even greater sacrifice than this. It appears that a sort of headquarters for these travelling elders is established on or near Lookout Mountain. Here they have a sort of settlement, from whence the elders issue for their tramp3 through the rural dis? tricts, to which all the converts, male and female, are sent until a crowd of twenty or thirty is collected when they are sent on to Salt Lake City. It i? said that several squads, amounting to several hundred in all, have been drained from the Tennessee and North Georgia and Carolina country within the past six or eight years. Of course the greatest in? dignation has been felt by the country people at the work of these men. Dar? ing, plausible and full of argument and persuasion, they undcrminded the most stable characters and carried grief and consternation into .many a household. A sturdy farmer once said to us: "I would shoot a man just as quick for talk? ing polygamy to my wife or daughter as I would if he tried to seduce her I" This ifceling has been shared by many, and it is really a wonder that there has not been trouble before. The arguments used by these apostles of Brigham have not been, a3 might bn supposed, on the lino of sensuality or iur.t.' They have rather been pleased to talk about tho fertile valleys of Utah, tho lavish fruit? and tho luxurious crops, tho liuo city of Salt Lake, in which every Mormon had part ownership?in short, the pretty pastoral life wherein tho richest valley of earth, with little work and a peaceful and con? tented life, was offered to all comers. This picture won tho faucy of many a poor farmer who had scratched for years in the scanty soil of our hills at home, and could hardly keep body and soul to? gether, and of many a woman young and old. Thero have been many threats made against these itinerants, which they have not tried to turn away by soft answers. Inspired by asort of fanaticism, they have been without personal fear, and have been careless of threats or as? sault. When they once set themselves on a possible convert, nothing could turn them to one side until they had exhaus? ted all persuation or had made a full capture. It must not be understood, however, that we have recited the above for the purpose of excusing the killing of Stand? ing inCatoosaCuunty the other day. That killing seems to have been almost with? out excuse. The mob of ten or twelve men had no right to halt those men for tho purpose of whipping them, and it will be hard to make it appear that there was any real need of killing ono mau who had scratched up a pistol and "de? manded the surrender' of twelve or fif? teen iiriuod ticn. tie nouid have beeil disarmed without being shot through tho he*.d. The killing xtas iloix outside the lav.-, and should be punished. Governor Colquitt received a dispacth from a gentleman at Catoosa Springs yesterday announcing that the killing was "a coldblooded murder," and asking that a reward be offered for tho perpe? trators. It is said that the names of tho crowd who halted ihc Mormons can be easily obtained. Tue Governor has not yet received full enough particulars to justify him in this matter, but ho will probably offer a reward as soon as he gets accurate information as to tue na? ture of the killing, tho locality, &c. We understand that tho remains of the dead elder left yesterday for Salt Lake City. It is al.'jo said that there were several converts, or almost converts to tho polygamic faith when shooting tho look place, and tho spell of the argument was broken. Two Millions ok Bottles.?Every one, no doubt, has heard of Dr. Price's Special Flavoring Extracts, but although upwards of two millions of bottles of them an; annually manufactured, there arc yet housewives who know nothing of their excellence. We believe that they arc tho purest, strongest, and finest flavoring extracts in the ..ia;ket. ? Warren It. Marshal, ex United States Commissioner and Clerk to the District Attorney, has received the ap? pointment as Assistant United Stales Dijtrict Attorney for h'outh Carolina. THE DEMOCRATIC MARPLOT. riuin Truths for the Tarty Loaders at the North. From the Sew York Had'! You can never be President of tbe United States, Mr. Tilden ; and with your clear head and practical mind you ought to sec this as everybody else sees it. You have doubtless a certain power in your party, for you can probably ruin its chances, if you want to, by forcing it to take you, or by leading a faction to defeat it if it refuses to submit to your demands. Either would be fatal to tho Democrats next year, and tbe first, in our belief, even more certainly so than the last. You cannot be President, Mr. Tilden, but you can be something else. You can resign your pretensions to the nomination, can publicly take leave of public life, and iu this retirement you would discover, to your surprise, per? haps, and certainly to your gratification wc hope, tho.t you possessed more influ? ence over your party, and were better able to turn it to those policies which you believe to be truly Democratic, and would have a greater, or, at least to a man of ideas, a more desirable position than you have ever had, or than the Presidency, if you could achieve it, would be for you. You cannot be Prcrideut, .Mr. Tilden, for a number of reasons. We will not here refer to certain disagreeable events in your career, because that would be unkiud, and we are now addressing you in tbe most friendly spirit. We will not allude to your unfortunate income tax suit, with its painful adjuncts; nor to the still more unfortunate cipher dis? patches ; to your sometime relations with the late William M. Tweed, uor to your relations to certain shipwrecked rail? roads. It is far from our purpose to re? vive in your own mind the recollections of events which, nevertheless, are fresh in the public mind, and which, as all sensible Democrats very well know, their opponents would, if you should have the ill-fortune to procure yourself to be nom? inated, take care to advertise abundantly to a public which, though it may not be squeamish in its own pursuit of fortune, is, perhaps for that reason, the more rig? idly particular about the character of its servants. It is not necessary to refer to these matters, Mr. Tilden, for the truth is there are other reasons besides these to prevent you from ever becoming Presi? dent. You arc undoubtedly au able man, but your action in partisan politics is disastrous to the party which you seek to control. You follow your own career with such unfaltering determination that you notoriously forget every tiling else, and a politician of whom it is gncrally suspected that he means to oithcr rule his party or ruin it cannot expect a long continued success. You succeeded once! You became Governor of New York. You ought to have seen that this was properly tho end of your career as an officeholder. The Democratic parly, with wise man? agement, has a lair ctmnce of success next year. A great many peoph begin to think that, on the whole, the country would be the better for a change of par? ties. The Republican party has done much good work for the countiy in its eighteen years of power ; but tbe people are a little disgusted at the deadly tenacity with which Republican leaders cling to the offices; it makes them sus? picious; they think it wise to have a change, if only for four years, and no doubt they are right. If the Democrats should next year offer them a safe plat? form and a fit man we believe the voters might accept them. But you ought to ?ee that it is just here that you arc out of the question. You are a Marplot in your party, which will not have you if it can help it; and if you should succeed in securing the nomination the country ?which will not change unless it can change for the better?tho country, Mr. Tilden, would reject you: and, wc say it in all kindness, it would be right in do? ing so. Suppose, Mr. Tilden, that putting aside that over-cautions hesitation, which is one of your besotting sins?suppose you should to-morrow openly and entirely ?strike out of your life every thought of the Presidency or any other offico, and j help others instead of working for your? self! Can you not sec that you would stand at once on r. higher plane of life? that you would rise very greatly iu the esteem of your party ? that could easily, and, indeed, would naturally become one of its sages, its chief advisers ? that liv? ing in the pleasant retirement of Gram ercy Park, your house would be the Mecca of Democratic politicians, and you could influence platforms, inculcutc sound principles, show the youugcr men how to secure tho confidence and the votes of tho people, as you cannot now do ? Democratic principles, you have al? ways said, are dear to you. It is the too general conviction that yon want to use them as a ladder for yourself, Mr. Til den, which has disabled you heretofore from makiug the force of your reasoning and the value of your policy felt by your fellow Democrats. What the Herald proposes to you, therefore, and what perhaps, you have yourself almost resolved on, i3 to follow the practice and sensible example of Gen. Grant and retire definitely from public life. Grant, emulating the noble exam? ple of Washington, retires to Galena; he remains abroad, it is understood, to avoid hippodrome receptions, partisan ovations and an undignified scramble for tho Presidential nomination : ho announces from far off Japan that on his return he will retire to Galcua?as Washington tc tumcd to Mount Vernon. Car. you, Mr. Tilden, resi?t the example 1 Can you for? get the course of your political prophet and great exemplar, Joflerson 1 I; c w^Sj the sago ofMo?ticello; how ill chat you should be the sage of Gramercy Park : Each parly would then possess an ad? viser, a counsellor in all its difficulties, i and while Pepiibiicans turned to Galena Democrats would hasten to your shady nook in Gramercy Park for the supplies of political wisdom which they would there find awaiting them. You cannot be President, Mr. Tilden, Lul you can serve your paity b> retir? ing to private life. Do that?and who knows? wo may have a Democratic President yet. How to Tell a Horse's Age.?Tho editor of the Southern Planter guys: "The other day wc met a gentleman from AI-1 abama, who gave us a piece of inform:;- \ tiou as to ascertaining the age of a horse | alter it had passed the ninth year, which i was quite now to us, and will be, wc ere sure, to most of our readers. It is this: After the horse is '.) years old, a wrinkle comes in tho eyelid, at the upper corner of the lower Jid, and every year thereaf? ter ho has one well-defined wrinkle lor each year of his age over nine. If, for instance, a horse has three wrinkles, he is twelve; if four thirteen. Add the number of wrinkles to nine, and you will always get at it. So says the gentleman, and ho is ceufalcut it will never fail." What a screamer! is a tribute often paid to a crying baby, but Dr. Bull's !':i by Syrup by alleviating the pains of the littlo one soou stops the cryit);-.. j IIow to Deal With a Surly Neighbor. William Ladd had a Hue field of gran crowing upon an out-farm, some distance from his homestead; but whenever in roue by he saw his neighbor Pulsford'.i sheep in the Hold, destroying his hope, of a harvest. These sheep were of the gaunt, long-legged kind, active as span? iels ; they coulo spring over almost any fence. William Ladd complained to his neighbor himself and also sent him sev? eral messages but all without avail. Per? haps the sheep would be kept out for a day or two; but tho legs of the intruders were long, and the tender blades of wheat were more tempting than their own scanty pasture. Mr. Ladd rode by again,land again! he found the trespassers trampling down his corn. What was to be done? Natural? ly enough the injured farmer felt ag? grieved, and in the first impulse of his anger he told his men to set the dogs on the sheep, and if that did not keep them away, to shoot them. But farmer Ladd was a man of a thoughtful turn of mind, and not one to indulge feelings of wrath and malice. He was in the habit of reading the Bible and he loved the lessons he learned from that best of all hooks. In other words, the farmer was a Christian. So when he reached his home, with bis anger cooled down, William Ladd began to think calmly. While he thought of his own field of wheat trampled down and ruined, his mind turned to his neighbor's sheep, torn and bleeding and dead. Neither picture was pleasant; but of the two, tho latter was more painful to him. The farmer's better feelings began to prevail. He knew where it is written, The discretion of a man defcrreth his anger;" aud "let not the sun go down up:.n your wrath." At any rate, the more he thought of what had passed, the more dissatisfied he was with himself, and the more his compassion and forbearance were stirred up in favor of his neighbor. "Poor Pulsford," thought he, "is not so much to blame, perhaps, after all. It may be he cannot prevent his sheep from straying; and even if he can, what busi? ness have I to take his punishment into my own hands? lie is a poor man, too, and an injury inflicted upon him will increase his poverty ; while God has so prospered me, that even the loss of the entire crop of my field will scarcely be felt. Besides this, if I cannot forgive a wrong, even it intentionally done, where is my Christianity ? And where is it I am told that I am not to render evil for evil, but contrariwise blessing? It will not do; I have gone the wrong way to work with my poor neighbor. I will try another plan." Mr. Pulsford was nn ugly-tempered man, surly, aud unwilling to oblige. This was hi = natural disposition, and trouble had made him more cross-grained. It seemed to him that overybody had a spite against him; but he had never, per hnp?, thought that if a man would have friends, he mustshow himself friendly. Y!c was in a particularly Ll-humor on one particular inoraiug. He had heard of tho threats of hi.-? richer neighbor, and the direction he had given about his poor sheep: while he w&a not at all aware that the hasty order givou to the men about dogs and guns had been set aside hour; ? before. And so, fretting and fuming, he net ? sbcut chopping wood in h:s yard, and was giving vent to some cf his overboil? ing anger in this work when he was stop? ped by a pleasant voice close by. "Good morning, neighbor." Pulsford looked up, aud whom should he see facing him but Ladd, sitting quietly on his horse, and smiling good numoredly. It was almost more than he could bear; but he bore it somehow, and without replying, went on chopping his wood more furiously than before. "Good morning, Mr. Pulsford," re? peated the unweicome visitor. Pulsford grunted and growled, and still continued his labor. ''I have come to =eo you again about thoLc sheep of yours," said Mr. Ladd. This was too auch for the angry man to endure silently, ne threw down his axe, straightened his back, aud looked his adversary full in the face. "Ycu are come to ace mc about my sheep!" said he, wrathfully; "a pretty ?ort of neighbor you are, to tell your men to kill my sheep! Yes. I have heard of it, I have?a rich man like you to go sboot iug a poor fellow's sheep!" "Wall, I was wrong about that," said tho farmer mildly; "and I don't mind telling you I was wrong. Aud since you know what I told my men, I may as well tell you now that your obeep are safe from any harm I ever intended thcui. But it won't do, you know," added he gcod-b.umorcdly, "to let you: sheep eat all my corn: so.! am just come over to make you an oner." "Uh an offer," still surlily and gloom! ?y "Yes, neighbor; I have been thinking, and I am come over to say that, if you like, I will take your sheep to my home? stead pastures, and put them along with mine. I think they will do better there than here, perhaps; they won't be likely to stray, because they will be uudcr my shepherd's care; and they will not be any further trouble to you through the sum? mer. Theu after harvest you can briug them back again ; and, meanwhile, if any? thing goes wrong with them, or you miss i any of them, you shall take your pick out ol my llock." The man looked confused and con? founded. It socmcd as though hi? rich neighbor was in earnest, but no was not sure ; so he said: "Do vou mean what you s.w, sir?" "Certainly I do," said Mr." Ladd, "it will be better for mc to feed your sheep in my pasture on grass, than to feed their, hero ou corn; and I see that your fence cannot /.cep them out."' "They skull not troubloyou any mere, Mr. Ladd," said the other, in a subdued tone; "I'll take care that they don't get into your corn-field again. And if I do uot accept your offer," he added, "1 thank you foi it all the same. It is kind and neighborly; and when a man is uvigh; bcr.y lean be In. eh me." Pulsford was as good as his word, his sheep iieversirayud again, by some means they were kept to their own ground. What is Still bettor, u kindness sprang lip between tho prosperous tanner and his unsuccessful neighbor, which did uot end in unkind words, though '.i began with them. "And friends," said .Mr. Ladd, when huoucetold this little history of his "re? member that when you ialk of injuring your neighbors, they will only talk and "think of injuring you. On the other hand, love will beget love; kindness, kindness; forbearance, gratitude. 'Bo not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good:' tbcro is no other way." High Authority.?The late eminent chemist, Prof. .'a.s. V. Z. Blaney, says, in his leiicr of December 4, IS74: "Since I became satisfied, by my analysis, with tho purity of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder, of its freedom from adulteration, tit: ra-.-e taken in its ; reparation, I have bad ii used in my own boti.-e " ^? Virginia has so frr refunded $1,000 O'jO oi her debt. THE ~TT(iIIT FK03I HOHUS. S'jnSrtir.s Cn?bo!fa Acid Over tho PniMPti irei*?A Fever Ciiso Discovered on Board. At Elizabeth to wa tho reporter met Dr. T. S. Bell, who expressed himself n pieascd with the precautions taken by tbe officers. It was not long before tho Memphis train came along with its flee? ing passengers. The health ofiicers and the scribe uoarded this train, and soon the work of disinfecting began. There were not so many passengers aboard as usual; nevertheless there were enough to furnish a picture of every-day occurrence on the railroad. Business men and young fellows just starting out in life, mothers, grandmothers, babies, young ladies, were all fleeing to the land of ref? uge. The lore car was filled with baggage. Into this Dr. Barnum and the scribe crawled, and the former threw down o bottle of promina. The smell from this was so powerful that the medicine and the newspaper man had soon to beat a hurried retreat. They then went into tho first passenger car, which was set apart exclusively for Memphis people. These all seemed to be more or less tired, but there was not tho slightest indication of yellow fever about any of them. The squirts lamps, however, were turn? ed on. These instruments are not at all the terrible tortures that they have been pictured to be. They emit a fine spray of carbolic acid, and are, of course, disa? greeable to those persons who disPke the smel) that comes from thatchemi. al. If there is anything in disinfecting at all, the refugees certainly get the benefit of it, for the young men who turn on these lamps walk up and down the aisles in a slow, deliberate way, unmindful of growls, sneers or satirical smiles of the passengers. A policeman on his beat could not be more imperturbable at a neighboring fight than arc thesodisinfec tors at the disgust their instruments arouse. Tho Co uricr- Journal reporter was espe? cially amused at a fiue-looking old South? ern gentleman, who regarded tbe squirt lamp at first with a sort of curiosity, which changed into disgust as soon as he experienced the first wave of the smell. His feelings were evidently not suited for utterance; he could only regard with ironical despair the unruflled young man who carried the lamp. Several youiig luuies in the curs screamed, "Here he comes again," when? ever the young man put iu an appear anco. They soon, however, got used to the thing and found the smell not disa? greeable. It i; one of th<;so tomporary inconveniences which should be submit? ted to without demurring. Iu the second passenger car the Con rier-Jovmul man noticed a young man who was very yellow in the face, and whose eyes had a kind of glaze in them. He was lying on his seat, curled up. Dr. Oreudorf informed tho reporter that this was the suspected eise on the train, and the only one. His temperature was as? certained, aud this, with bis general ap? pearance, warranted tho officers in be? lieving that this was a genuine case. The young inau said his name was D. S. Lcdbetter. He graduated last year in this city at ihe University of Louisville, j where he had the reputation of being a good student. lie was, while here study- j ia?r, of a very delicate constitution, being bUbject to dyspepsia. Ho lias been en? gaged iu Birmingtou in the drug dispen? sary of the City Hospital, and has been "subjected to the cause" of yellow fever. He says il has been four days since he was iu Memphis, and he did not think he had the fever, but be wanted to be taken to our hospital. The poor fellow's voice, however, was unsteady and belied his words, and Iiis eyes had an appealing look in them which gained the sympathy of every one. He said there was not much of a fright in Memphis, tbe gener? al opinion being that the plague would only touch the city lightly. Capt. Rob? inson, the conductor on the train, notified tho officers promptly at Elizabethtown of the suspicious case aboard. He de? served great credit for the care and dis- i cretion lie has shown, in which indeed, j ho has been as valuable as a health offi- j cer. Dr. Urendorf took Dr. Ledbetter off the train at the Short Line Junction, and placed him in the yellow fcvor hospital, where he will be kindly attended to. The young man got on the train at a lo? cal station, and was not a through pas? senger, lie said that he had first gone to Alabama, but the quarantine there shut him out, and after wandering around hero and there, he had finally boarded the train for Louisville from a local Bta tion.? LouiavUle Courier-Journal. Tub China Tkee.?Rev. II. U. Gil luud, of Kingstree, S. C, writes to the jj'?nc and Firm as follows, which is wor? thy of consideration and trial: In a few brief words let mo mention some things concerning tiiis trco which will be valuable information to the whole South. The botanical name of the tree I do not know. It is sometimes called Pride of India. Iu general, let me say it is one of tho most speedy worm and insect destroyers to be lound in nature. I will give instances of its des' uctive ef? fects 01 this kind iu so fur as I have seen the experiments. Horses affected with worms may be entirely relieved by putting a handful of the berries of this tree in their food three times a day. If it is a severe case, give a pint of the berries at each feeding. If it is winter or early spring time, simply let the horses feed under the trees. This remedy I have seen tried often, and I have never known a failure tu cure. The berries are very valuable for pro ! tecting dried fruits from wo.-..is or insects. A few of them scattered in with the fruit j will drive ort' any invaders of this kind. This has been tried with great success, fruit being protected thus near other fruit which were rendered useless by tho norms. I have heard others say that wheat, peas, rice, etc., may be saved frotr. the weevils in the same way. I have not yet seen this tried. Doubtless it is truo. The value of this tree to the gardon is incalculable. The following experiment has been tried with perfect success by Mr. G. S. Cooper, of ludiantown, S. C. His cabbage were about to be destroyed by ii'.'^e worms He simply took a bunch of the leaves of this tree and spread it over each plant. Kvery worm left, and the cabbage headed beautifully. A tcs made of the berries, or loaves, and sprinkled cn the plant, will have the same cficet. My knowledge of trials of this kind does nc4 go further; but this is sufficient to show tue peculiar value of the tree, and to lead othm to experiment for them? selves. If they do. my purpose in writ? ing is accomplished. Tbc Americans lcartybc world in eve? ry tiling and especially in fast eating; this has made Dyspepsia our national disease, thoutrh now under perfect control by the use ot Dr. Bull's Ikiltimoro Pill. Sold everywhere. Price 25 cents. ? The Dallas Time, is displeased be? cause the Texas legislators take the floor iu their shirt sleeves. Federal Bummers. Chief Justico Warner, of the Georgia ! Supreme Cour!. is now noarly eighty years ; of age and in good .health. "Hewas'Con ' -. x! wan andj ^idge before the war. I low !:u fell into tho hands of Yankee bum? mers is thus told by the Augusta Chroni? cle and Sentinel: In the spriug of lSCr> (and after the surrender of General Johnson, though that disaster was not ollicially knofi n in I Georgia) Judge Warner was at his plan? tation in Mcrriwether county, awaiting the approach of one of Wilson's columus of Federal raiders, which was then pass? ing through the country. All the whites on the place lied except Judge Warner and his married daughter. The latter had a child only a week old; and as she could not be moved, the father remained with her. During the morning several detachments of cavalry had halted at the house and made themselves free with anything they desired in the way of "portable property," but no violence was done to the inmates. About noon anoth? er party arrived and stopped to feed their horses "and to plunder. After satisfying their appetites they began to pillage, aud tho Judge's silver and other valuables were soon stowered away in the capacious saddle bags. While they were robbing the smoke-house of hams and pickels and preserves the Judge stood by in silence watching their proceedings. After the building had been thoroughly pillaged, a revolver was suddenly presented at his head and ho was ordered to accompany the party. Midway between the house and the "negro quarter" was a body of woodland, and into this grove Judge Warner was conducted by bis captors. Reaching a place secluded from observa? tion, the leader of the band, who wore the uniform of a federal captain, took out his watch and said he would give him three minutes to tell where his gold was hid? den. Judge Warren protested that ho had no gold, but to no avail. They had been informed along their line of march that he had a secret hoard, and the "d?d old seccssionalist" must give it up. Tho prisoner urged that he had been a strong Uuiou man and that the only money he had was in Confederate currency and in Central Railroad bills. They robbed nim of Sf)?00 of the former and $15,000 of the latter, which they found upon his person, but continued to insist that he had gold aud must produce it. At the expiration of the three minutes the cap? tain made a signal, one of the men took from a horse a long leathern strap with a running noose '% one end, while the oth? ers extemporised a gallows by bending down the end of a stout sapling. With au oath, the otiicer made them select a lnrger aud stronger tree, Judge Warner remaining silent, for the sufficient reason that he had nothing to tell. One end of the strap was adjusted around his neck and the other fastened securely to a tree. The sapling was gradually released until the line became taut, when it was turned loose and the Judge's body dangled in the air. When be recovered conscious? ness the brutes still surrounded him, and he was again ordered to give up his gold under penalty of death. He could only reply as before, and again the sapling wa-i released. This occurred about two o clock. When bo revived the sun was nearly down. He lay at the fool of the impromptu gallows, the halter had been removed from h's neck, and the leaves, which covered the ground several inches deep, were burning within a few feet of him. He thinks the heat of the flames restored him to consciousness and to life. The wretches had left him for dead aud set fire to the woods to conceal the evi? dence of their crime. The Judge wai abie to find his way to the bouse, where lie lay ill for many days. He finally re? covered aud now show? no signs of the violence to which he was subjected. He is confident that the captain aud soldiers who figured as amateur hangmen be? longed to a regiment of Wisconsin caval? ry, though he does not remember any of their names. Judge Warner i3 wont to say that he has surfered all the pangs of dissolution and hris bcor. "as near dead as he ever expects to be." Is the W?oxg Berth.?It was a Pullman "sleeper" between Albauy and Buffalo. Among the passengers were a miduie-aged couple, evidently on their first journey, aud a sour-faced old maid, rather desiccated iu her general effect, who was traveling alone. The couple had an upper berth, and the "maiden well stricken in years" the upper be-th in the adjoining section. In the same car were a couple of frolicsome youths, ready for any sort of mischief. Bed time came, and all hands retired. But ihc husband could not sleep. Whether it was because the motion of the cars, the noise, or the novelty of the situation, he could not tell, bul try as he would, he could not sleep. At length it occurred to him that be was thirsty. The more he thoueht of it the more thirsty he got. So he called the porter, who brought the ladder ar.d helped him down. Now, while he was gone for tho water one of the "boys" stepped out of bed and shif? ted the ladder so that it rested ngaiusi the berth in which the ancient maiden was sleeping, aud then returned to his bed to note the result, lu a moment or two the husband returned and crept quietly up the steps, anxious to make as little noise as possible so as not to waken his wife. The occupant of tho berth, thus rudely intruded upon, awoke with a start and screamed. The husband suj posiug it to be Iiis easily frightened wife, tried to reassure her and said, "It's only mo." "Ouly you, old scouudrel i': said the venerable maiden; "I'll teach you a lesson." aud with thatshe seized him by the hair of his head and screamed for help. Then he howled with pain. Then his wife, awakened by the noise, dis? covered where her husband was, aud raised her voice in lamentation, heaping reproaches upon her faithless spouse. Then the passengers all got up, and de? manded an explanation of the commo? tion, and foremost among them was tho wretch who caused it all. Then the hus? band, covered with contusion, and utter? ly unable to account ibr what he had done, climbed down from his perch, and slunk away to bod, whe re .he was sound? ly iectured for his faithlessness. Alto? gether it was a most uncomfortable Diough v ludicrous situation, aud tho glances oi defiance that were exchanged between the wife and tho old maid all through i'le next day were a study. Tho cause ot all the trouble leaked out bul it never reached the ears of these chiefly affected by it.?Boston Trxuuotijtt. ? Joan Brown, Jr., writes from Kan? sas, where he i* looking up the condition of '.ho colored refugees, that seven thousand have leached there since the exodus be? gun, many of whom have found work in different parts of the Slate. There is Tiich an immense white movement to Kansas, however, that tho labor market is overstocked, and at Topcka alone two hundred negroes arc dependent on public charity, half of whom are sick and gloomy enough. The State Freedmen's Relief Association also has hundreds on us hands at different points and is nearly out of funds at that, ar.d Browu thinks that there is still a loud call fcr active charity at the Ea^t.