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"-'-mmm-- * ?-lll2!2f!?!l!!!^ammmm!FZE?m,m?!m^^ BY E. B. MURRAY k GO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, 1879. VCnT^-wn ? General Ewing's Speech. General Ewing's speech delivered at I Lancaster, Ohio, is a very remarkable i effort. It is simple of utterance and clear as noonday, and if Ohio ia not air- ' ried on that showing it will be because the money power of tho country baa be come the people's master. General Ewing reviews Secretary j Sherman's claims as a financial bene- ! factor of tbo country and people, and if ! ever daw was mercilessly plucked of its plumes ono by one, thc political and financial Jcretuy-diddler is mont merci lessly stripped to the buff. Mr. Sherman claims that since he took charge of the treasury, first deducting tbs cash in thc treasury, the public debt bas been reduced fol,573,880. Mr. Sherman now baa 1249,080,000 locked up in tbo treasury, and tho government ?B paying interest on that much debt, which could be liquidated with this amount ; or, at (5 per cent., by keeping unused that much money in tho treasury, the country is sinking annually some $17,000,000. Thc public del I stands.$2,245,495,072 Less cash in the treasury. 2,490,080,000 Debt beyond treasury fund....$1,090,415,772 As to the boast of Republican econ omy, Mr. Ewing makes a bad she wing for tho great party of moral ideas and golden charms. General Ewing says : The Republican party enters thc can vass claiming to have administered the government economically, reduced tho 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 tho two great par ties is most entitled to credit for economy in public expenditures. The Democracy for four years past bas held the House of Representatives, and in that time the ap propriations for thc expenses of Cbc gov ernment, exclusivo o? interest on the public debt, have been $604,610,000. For the four years preceding, during which thc Republican parly controlled appropriations, tho same expenses amounted to $099,339,000 ; so that thc control of one branch of Congress by tho Democracy for theso four years hus wived thc people $84,720,000* being an average of over $21,000,000 a year, iii nee June 30, I860, tho 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, thc publia debt would have been reduced $345,000, 000 more, without imposing ono dollar of additional taxes on tho people. Tho $21,000/100 a year saved since 1875 by tho Democratic House have becu saved in spite of tho most vehement and de termined [resistance of tho administra tion and the Seuate. * * * ? * * The annual expenses of the Federal government in 3877, for all purposes ex cept public debt and pensions, were $111,000,000-nearly twice as great aa * >r tho year 1800, when they were but : 09,000,000. lt is truo the population of ..he country increased in that seventeen years nearly 50 por cent. ; but admitting (which is not tho fact) that lite expenses of the government must increase in the ratio of increase of population, those ex penses for 1877 were $27,000,000 greater titan they should have been in tho ratio of tho expenses in 1800, and this, too, after the Democratic Congress had made every reduction which tho heads of de partments could be driven to. * * * * s ?. Mr. Sherman claims great credit for having successfully funded $817,000,000 of the public debt into five, four and a half and four per cent, bonds sinco ? March 4th, 1877, reducing the interest paid by the government about $10,000,- , 000 a year, lt appears, however, by tho ; fm' .ice report, that tho interest on tho 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 on the debt has been paid than ? when Mr. Sherman took charge of tho ? funding operation. That largo sum is ; what the operation ccst. It ia made up of bonuses in the shape of double in terest, and of commissions paid to the ; syndycute. Meantime, Mr. Sherman has increased tho principal of the bonded debt $80,000,000. It will take the suv- i inga of iuterest by refunding for eight or ? ten years to pay off this increased bond ed debt and tho bonuses and double in terest, and got even ou tho 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, as follows : "It is because they arc practically six and a half per cent, bonds, being exempt from about two and a half per cent, of tuxou which other property pays, and be cause the industries of tho country have been so broken down that capital had better get six and a half per cent., as sured by thc government, than risk an investment in almost any industrial pur suit. TH it a great ar.hiovement to havo I industries perish ftr want of money, in order that it may go into untaxed gov ernment bonds? 1 admit tho desirabil ity of having our debt held at home, BO far as prosperous business leaves a aur plus for investment, but tho readiness with which hundreds of millions of money, heretofore employed in indus trial pursuits, has been turned into theso bonus, ia only a symptom ol tho indus trial congestion which has drawn Mio life bloodof business from thc extremi ties to tho heart, and refuses to Bend it back to give lifo nud strength .to the body. This is just what has been done nil over the United State?. Silent mills, fireless furnaces, scanty wages, want of work, swarms of tramps{ all attest the success of Mr. Sherman in so shrinking and diminishing tko business of tho countrv. tho wages of working men and the profits of capitalists engaged in pro ductivo industry, that money, accumu lating in bordea and fearful of all other investments, was eager to tako tho six and u half per ceut. of interest and ex emption offered by tho government, rather than embark on tho dead sea of industry. I venture to say that the peo ple of tho United States have lost in s-.ggrcnto wealth in tho past five years, through tho prostration of industries brought about ny the Republican finance policy, three or four hundred times moro than tho nominal annual Baving of in terest which Mr. Sherman will accom plish by bis boasted funding. Furthermore, fellow-eitiwmfi, I assert, and am ablo to prove, that after all of the forty-three hundred millions of taxes paid by the people since 1866 ; after tho nominal reduction of the public debt five hundred and twenty-oight millions ; nnd afi>r *bn rpfonding se far accom plished, tho public debt of tho United Sutes h>-dny is a far greater effective burden on tho people than it waa before the first dollar of it was paid. Measure il by tho things which have to be sold to {?av it-by pork, corn, wheat, beef, lorses, labor. It lakes fifty per cent, more of labor or laud or products to pay I the interest to-day than it took five years ago. How is thc 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 pny 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-motalic prices. General Ewing said : Fellow-citizens, when the Republican party started to lead the people by con traction to tho 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 thc 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 tho stealthy manipula tors of our currency to bring prices bo low the bi-metnlic level. Rut the de monetization of silver in Germany and the United States, and thc initial steps of demonetization by thc States ot the Latin Union, practically destroyed the chief part of tuc silver half of tho cur rency of the great nntious, and caused such increased demand for tho gold half that tho purchasing power of gold rose between 1874 and December 1878, a lit tle over 50 per cent, throughout the com mercial world. In other words, thc gold prices of land, labor and property throughout the world suuk over 34 per cent. Our people, therefore, were not lcd back by the resuniptionists to thc bi inetalic 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 mau 50 per cent, moro 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 ia, .r>0 per cent, was ad ded by the demonetization of s'lvcrto all the debts and all the taxes payable by the peoplo of the United States. I do not inako this statement nt random, but from tables of elaborately prepared each year by the "New York Public" the nighest authority iu thc United States on prices of commodities. I have made tho same statement twice on the floor of Con gress, and no man baa nuestioued its accuracy. Now, consider, follow citizens, tho ef fect of adding 50 per cent, to tho 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 itince 1874 and still remain unpaid amount to little lesa than $10, 000,000,000. This demonetization of silver and consequent enhancement of gold has added, therefore, in the neigh borhood of $5,000,000,000 to tho debt burdens of the people, and as our taxes for national and local governments amount to about $S00,000,000 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 ?3 in debt nt all, and every man who bas to pay taxes, groans under tho weight of these increased obligations? When you sell your pork at $2.25 a huudred, your labor nt ninety cents a day, and other things in like proportion to pay debts and taxes, you are enjoying thc blessings of silver demonetization. Finally, thc Republicana claim popu lar 'uidoraemcnt because of their avowed purpose to have no further change in tho finance legislation of thc country. They tell us to let tho finances alone, that agi tation will only produce mischief, and that everything is lovely na the laws now stand. Fellow-citizens, it is idlo to talk about either party letting the finance question alone. The Republican party does not inteud to do it. Did it favor tho present law providing for even a very limited coinage of tho old Bilver dollar? No, tho great mass of the party resisted it to tho utmost. Tho President vetoed it, und it was only carried through a per sistent popular agitation by tho Webern and Southern Democracy and tho Na tionals, before which a portion of tho Republican party weakened and votod for tho bill. Mr. Sherman anya in his lost anm.^l report that tho law providing for the coinage of two millions a month cannot jland without in time overthrowing tho exclusivo gold standard. Ho has pre vented thc result heretofore by boarding the coined silver as a resumption fund ; but ho knows there is a limit to tho amount of money which tho people will suffer to remain piled in thc treasury, and that tho day will come wdien thoy will demand that a very large proportion of that hoarded silver shall bo applied to the extinguishment of the bonded debt, aud in that way the country will be forced from the gold level of prices to a bi-metalic level. Theroforo he says that tho timo will aoon como when thia coinage of the old ?ilver dollar must ceaso. Neither ho nor his party has any intention to permit values to riso above tho low gold lovel. Hence tho question must yet bo settled whether we are te have and maintain tho gold standard only or restore the bi-metalic standurd by the unlimited coinage of silver. The two great parties are squarely al issue on this question. Tho Wnrncr bill which gave tho whole profits of coinagi to the government, but piovided foi nisei mr silver rvnfflw nn <i ???>?. ?vith gc!; ?n respect of unlimited coinage, anil o tiio issuo of certificates for Buver bullion passed the House after an intenso am protracted Btruggle, every Democrat bu acyen voting for the bill, and every Re Eubliean but four voting against it. Tba ill will pass thc Sennlo next Dcccmbe in spite of the opposition of a half dozei national bank and gold standard Demo crata. The almost completo unity of tin Republican party in the Senate am House against tue bill, with MT. Sher man's known hostility to it, assures : veto of that great measure of relief. Tb contemptible cowardice of tho Rcpubli can party of Ohio in failing to say 1 word on this great question is at once" a; evidence that tho people demand tho re lief, and that the Republican party ar determined not to grant it. If that measure were passed almost al thc product of our silver mines will 11 once bo poured into tho channels of cii dilation. Certificates of denomination of ten dollars and upwards, redccmnbl in coin and represented by tho silver dt posited, will enlarge our circulating mc diurn and cause a wholesome riso c prices, stimulating industry, increasin production, lightening the burden ( debts and taxes, and giving us a promr and generous impulse toward rcnewc prosperity. Tho substitution of treasury notes ft national bank notes is then discusser with tho following warning added : ClvG the Republican party ? new ?. dorsement, dominated and controlled J it is by the national banks, and you wi find that either through a contrived jud cial decision or directly by legislatio your greenbacks will bo wiped out, ac the money power will give you just 1 much or as liitlo paper money for yoi business us it pleases, and will regula tho values of your labor aud property to suit itself. Our experience has demonstrated thnt no matter how plentiful may ho the sup ply of gold and silver, tho greater part of the money actually current will always bo paper. On the volume of money actually current depends tho prices of labor aud commodities. As that volume rises prices go un, and aa it falls they go down. The whole volume of thc money current has rarely been over a fiftieth part of the aggregate value of tho property of tho country ; yet, when tho money in nctual circulation is reduced one hundred millions, that re duction shrinks tho %aluo of labor and property to fifty times the ?um of the currency reduction ; and, BO, when tho current money is increased a hundred millions, 'ii adds fifty times that sum to the aggregate selling value of other property. So, too, when th', volume of cur.eney diminishes and prices conse quently fall, all business becomes unpros per?us: while when thc currency is be ing increased, values rise and business becomes good again. The power to con trol the volume of currency, affecting :is 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 currcucy, to raise and lower tho values, to give prosperity or inflict distress, shall not be committed to tho hands of private individuals or corporations, aud least of all to corporations representing the hold ers of public and private debts whose wealth is increased by every fall of prices and is diminished by every rise. Asido from this reason against giving private corporations control over the ! volume of currcucy, it is to be horno in | mind that the substitution of legal ten der treasury notes for bank notes will, even since funding, savo to the people nt least ten millions of dollars per annum. With the treasury notes so issued in place of national bank notes, United Stales bonds can bo bought in the mar ket and cancelled and tho interest there by etopped, while the government will lose nothing whatever in taxes by such substitution, except only the ono per tent, tax on circulation, that being tba only tax which national bank? pay that is not paid by all other banks of deposits, discount and exchange. Had the Republican party desired to diminish as rapidly -s possible thc pub lic debt, it would, v hen tho war ended, have prohibited tho incorporation of nuy moro baukB of issue and gradually sub stituted treasury notes io. b:\nk notes-. the power to make auch substitution having been reserved in thc national bank law. If they had thus promptly inven tho people an exclusive govern ment currency in placo of bank notes, mr bonded debt would now bo at Iea*t seven hundred millions less than it ls. So reason which will bear a moment's jonsideration can be given why thia diing should not have been done. No body pretends that the greenback which redeems thc national bank noto is not metter than the thing it redeems. There is but one reason why it failed to thus reduce tho debt, and'that is thia: that dioso two thousand national banks wero needed by tho party aa a breakwater igniuat the people. Hence, sinco tho :loso of the war, tho people have been practically robbed of about soven hun dred millions of dollars to prevent them jxorcising their free choice of their own ?orvants. Thc question of free electors is then tearlessly and frankly discussed, and tho druggie in Congress touching this mat er ia fully and squarely set forth. The olluwing conclusion touching the rights >f the States and appeal to the opinions if his father, leave no doubt aa to the ?ewa of Thomas Ewing, and, aa wo con idently believe, of Ohio and the Union : Follow-citizens, I was not brought up n tho school of strictest construction of he constitution, and far less in tho tchoul known as "Stnto rights." My r-cneratod father, under and about who-o .oof you aro assembled to-night^ who ;avo a largo part of bia life to tho study )f our complex form of government, aught his sous to learn from the consti .uiion, UH expounded by the fathera and die courts, that the geneial government s supreme only within the scope of its. iinited aud defined powers, and tho states and th*? people thoreof also su n-erne in the exercises of all powers not ??ranted to thc Federal government. Ile aught them that it was equally tho duty >f the patriot to maintain in full vigor ill tho powers reserved to tho States re actively or to thc people ; so that our lual form of government might not bc oat through either tho centripetal or the :entrlfugnl forces of the system. He wil ingly saw his sons go forth to battle for he constitutional powers of the Federal government ; and now, were he ye'e among is, ho would, I behove, approve th?ir ot brt to resist, by peaceful 'methods, the itlempt to impair tho distinctive feature if our system of government on which lependa the perpetuation of popular lib erty._ PREPARE ron HAIID TIMES.-Tho Commissioner of Agriculture for thc state of Georgia has tho following to say o tho farmers of that ?tat? : In view of the probable failure of tho :orn crop in many B?erions < 'ho State, dio outlook ia somewhat my. Rut vith proper economy in t nae of pres :nt supplies, by utilizing all the resources )f Summer and Fall crops, und oowing ?arly and largely of small grain, tho ap prehended etuicity of next ?pring may JO anticipate*! and, in great mcasuro, if jot fully, mei. Il is not too late to sow peas in drills por forage, and farmers should avail .hemsclves of seasons to nut in large ireas for this purpose Peavino hay, hough somewhat difficult to eire prop erly, is highly nutritious. Rich lots lear tho farm houso or lot should bo lown in barley or ryo in August, and ivill furnish largo quantities of green food. Wo must rely chiefly on oats to sup plement the short corn crop next Spring, ind farmers are advised to sow early ana fertilize well, that the crop may bo se cured against Winter freezing and bo ivailablo ti3 earlv as possible next Spring. If August and" September should prove leasonnblc, as they probably will, sow ings of cat-tail millot and German mil let may still bo madu for soiling pur poses. Tho drafts on the corn crib and ("odder house should be relieved, as far vs practicable, by pasturing and soiling die mules and horses. Where tho corn tias failed to produco cars, tho Btalks, iladcs and nil, should bo cut and cured for forago. Ry prudent foresight and prompt action, much may bo done in tho vay of supplementing Biiort corn crop., ind providing against the ruinous exhe iient of relying on tho West for Bupplics Tor our ?tock. To PHYBICIAKH.-Wo deaire to call tho itienUon of medical men to Dr. Price's Floral Richea, aa being tho finest cologno veter made. In tbo sick room it ia re freshing to tho invalid, and a disinfectant. Physicians know that all pleasant odors iro healthful, whilo disagreeable smells invite disease. Dr. Price'a Unique Per ihmes richly deserve to bc called tho jest. aURDEHINi? A MOKMON. How iiinlWIiy Joseph S tami luff waa Killin! !>>. Ueorgtaua? About 10 o'clock, on the L'lst July, there occurred near Ringgold, Ga., a homicide which is deeply regretted by tho Community. The victim was Joseph Standing, a Mormon preacher and elder. About one week ago Standing and two ; other Mormons came to Catoosa County, i and went about proclaiming their doc I trines and trying to work up a colony to J . partake of thc wide freedom anu inatri j monia] liberty which p.-evailcd in Utah. ' Tho men wont down into Whitfield : County, and tried thero to arouse an in i tercst in their religion. They met with cold comfort all a-iund there, and were ; about giving up their project when tho ! fatal adair took ott ono ot them. Tho ? fact that these men were proclaiming the i doctrine of Marmonism boldly nut the ! men very much against them, and it was I proposed more than once to take them ! out, and after giving them a healthy lea I non to warn them not to linger in that do . lightful atmosphere. On thc 21st Stand j iug and ono ofilia companions were go ! iug along the road when they were met i by a dozen men. They stopped the Mor* I mons and told them they wanted to whip j them on the spot. The Mormons tried ! to argue thc point, and in the consulta j tion one of the party of regulators laid down his pistol. "Quick as thought Standing leaped forward and seized the weapou. Cocking it he turned toward the party and demanded that every man surrender. Just as bc said this ono of the party fired. The ball entered Stand ing's temple and he fell dead in Ibo road. His companion was not touched. Stand ing's remains wcro carried to liinggo'd and given in charge of his Monbon brother, who will carry them out to Salt Lako City to bc buried. T!?o other Mormons wiil leave at once. The Gov ernor baa been telegraphed to about the matter. The Atlanta Constitution, alluding lo the aflair, says : Thc dispatch that was published yes terday relative to thc killing of tho Mor mon elder who was engaged in au at tempt to get upa colony for Salt Lake City has a history back of it. For sev eral years the section of country adjacent to wnero this killing was done has been infested with Mormon apostles that bavo spread their infamous doctrino right and left. About two years ago two of these elders came ?::to Floyd County and Bpent some time about Floyd Springs and in lower Chattooga. They were au dacious and aggressive, and invaded household after household tor tho pur pose of preaching their polygamie creed. They made many converts, and, it is said, carried away n colony of fifteen or twen ty persons, many of them reputablo and well-to-do people. Ono man that wo happe : to know of made up his mind to go, and deter mined to Roll his farm. His wife declared that BIIO would go with him. They o fibred tho pince nt fl ,000 when it was clearly worth $2,500, and sold, wo believe, at even greater eacrifice than this. It appears that a sort of headquarters for theso travelling elders is established on or near Lookout Mouutain. Here they have a sort of Kettlement, from whence the elders issue for their tramps 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 issaiil that several squads, amounting lo several hundred in ail, have boen drained from tho Tennessee and North Georgia and Carolina country within tho past six or eight years. Ot course the greatest in dignation bas been felt by tho country people at tho work of these men. Dar ing, plausible and full of argument and persuasion, they underminded tho most stable characters and carried grief and consternation into .many a household. A sturdy larmer once said to us: "I would shoot a man just ns quick for talk ing polygamy to my wile or daughter as I would if he tried to seduce her I" This lfceling bas been shared by mauy, and it is realty a wonder that thero"baa not been trouble before. The arguments used by these apostles of Brigham have not been, as might bn supposed, on tho lino of sensuality or lust. They have, rather boen pleased to talk about tho fertile valleys of Utah, tho lavish fruits and tho luxurious crops, tho lino city of Salt Lake, in which every Mormon had port ownership-in short, thc pretty pastoral lifo wherein tho richest valley of earth, with little work and a peaceful and con tented life, was ol?cred to all comers. This picture won tho ?auey of mauy 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 tlieHo itinerants, which they have not tried to turn away by soft answers. Inspired by asortof fanaticism, they bavo 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 sido until they had exhaus ted ali peisuaiion or bau made a lull capture. It must not bo understood, however, that we have recited tho above for the purpose of excusing tho killing of Stand ing in Catoosa County the other day. That killing seems to have been almost with out excuse. The mob of ton or twelve Sien had UO ily'n' '? halt these men tor tho purpose of lipping them, and it will oe harJ to make it appear tl .t there waa any real need of killing ono man who had scratched up a ?fistol and "de manded the surrender" of twelve or fif teen armed nen. Ile could have been disarmed wit h.-ut being shot through tho hcxid. The killing wan done outside the law, and should bo punished. Governor Cohjuitt received a dispacth from a gentleman at Catoosa Springs yesterday announcing that tho killing was "a coldblooded murder," and asking that a reward bo oiTcrcd for tho perpe trators. It is said that the name? of the crowd who halted tho Mormons can bo easily obtained. Tho Governor bas not vet received fail enough particulars to justify him in this matter, but ho will probably offer a reward as soon as ho gets nccurato information as to too tin turo of tho killing, tho locality, &c. Wo understand that tho remains of the dead elder left yesterday for Salt Lako City. It is also said that thero wero several couverts, or almost converts to tho polygamie faith when shooting tho took place, and tho spoil of tho argument waa broken. Two MILLIONS OF BOTTLES.-Every one, no doubt, has heard of Dr. Price a Special Flavoring Extracts, but although upwards of two millions of bottles of them aro annually manufactured, thero aro yet housewives who know nothing of their excellence. Wo believe that tiioy are the pur<;si, alrongunt, and 8uesi flavoring extracts in the market. Warren IL. Mc.-hal, ex lTnitod Stitea Commissioner and Clerk lo tho District Attorney, has received thc ap ?ointment as Assistant United States ??strict Attorney for South Carolina. THE DEMOCRATIC .MARPLOT. rittln TrutliH for tho Turty Leaders at tito Nu rt h. fVoi/i the New Yurt. I/o nhl You can never be President of tb? United State?, Mr. Tilden ; ami with your clear bead and practical mind you ought to see this as everybody else secs it. You have doubtless a certain power in your party, for you eau probably ruin its chances, if you "want to, by forcing it to take Vou, or by leading a faction to defeat it if it refuses to submit to your demands. Either would be fatal to the Democrats next year, and the lirM, in our belief, even moro certainly so than tho last, You cannot be President, Mr. Tilden, but you can bo something else. You can resign your pretensions to the nomination, can publicly take leave of public life, and in this retirement you would discover, to your surprise, per haps, awl certainly to your gratification wo hope, that you possessed moro influ ence ovei your party, and were better able to turn it to those policies which you believe to be truly Democratic, and would havo a greater, or, at least to a man of ideas, a more desirable position than you havo ever had, or than the Presidency, if you Could achieve it. would be for you. You cannot be President, Mr. Tilden, for a number of reasons. Wo will not hero refer to certain disagreeable evoiilb in your career, becauso that would be unkind, and we aro now addressing you in the most friendly spirit. Wo will not allude to your unfortunate income tax suit, with ita painful adjuncts ; nor to tho still more unfortunate cipher dis patches ; to your sometime relations willi tho lato William M. Tweed , nor to your relations to certain shipwrecked "rail roads. It is far from our purpose to re vive in your own mind tho recollections of events which, nevertheless, arc fresh in thc public mind, and which, as all sensible Democrats very well kuow, their opponents would, if you should havo the ill-fortune to procuro yourself to bo nom inated, tako care to advertise abundantly to a public which, though it may not be squeamish in its own pursuit of fortune, is, pchaps for that reason, tho more rig idly particular about the character of its servants. It is not necessary to refer to these matters, Mr. Tild?n, for tho truth is thero are other reasons besides these to prevent you from over becoming Presi dent. You aro undoubtedly au able man, but your action in partisan politics is disastrous to tho party which you seek to control. You follow your own career with such unfaltering determination that you notoriously forget everything else, and a politician of whom i'. is generally suspected that bo means to either rule his party or ruin ii. 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 party, with wisc man agement, has a f ur chance of success next year. A grent many people begin to think that, on the whole, thc country would bo the better for a change of par ties. Tho Republican party has done much good work for tho country in its eighteen years of power ; but the people are a little disgusted at thc deadly tenacity with which Republican lenders cling to thc oilices ; it makes them BUS picious ; they think it wiso to hnve a change, if only for four years, and no doubt they are riyht. If tho Democrat.; should next year offer them a safe plat form and a lit mnn we believe the voters might accept them. Rut you ought to see that it is just here that you aro out of thc question. You are a Marplot in your party, which will not have you if it can hoi]) It; and if you should succeed in securing tho nomination the country -which will not change unless it can chango for the better-tho country, Mr. Tilden, would reject you: and, wc say itt in all kindness, it would bo right in do iug 30. 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 thc Presidency or any other oflico, and Kip others instead ol working for your self! Can you not sec that you would stand at once ou a higher plano of life? that you would riso very great!}* in the esteem of your party ? that could easily, and, iudced, would naturally becomo ono of its ""gea, its chief advisers? that liv ing in tho pleasant rarement of Gram ercy Park, your Louse would bo the Mecca of Democratic politicians, and you could influence platforms, inculcute sound principles, show tho younger mon how to secure tho confidence and the votes of tho people, as you cannot nov; do? Democratic principles, you havo al ways said, aro dear to you. It is tho too general conviction that yon want to use thom as a ladder for yourself, Mr. Til den, which has disabled you heretofore from maki.!g tho force of your reasoning and tho valuo of your policy folt by your follow Democrats. What the Herald proposes to vou; therefore, and what perhaps, you nave yourself almost resolved on, is to follow tho practice and sensible oxamploof Gen. Grant and retiro definitely from public life. Grant, emulating thc noblo exam ple of Washington, reti:c3 to Galona; ho remains abroad, it is understood, to avoid j hippodrome receptions, partisan ovations I and an undignified scrnmblo for the Presidential nomination ; he announces from far oil'Japan that on his return he will retire to Galena-as Washington re turned to Mount Vernon. Can you, Mr. Tilden, resist tho example ? Can you for got tho conr.so of your political prophet and groat exemplar, J.dl'er-oiW tlc was tho sage of Monticello ; bow fit that you should bo tho sage of Giatncrcy Park! Each party would then possosH an ad viser, a counsellor :.n all its difficulties, and while Republicana turned to Galena Democrats would hasten to your shady nook in Gramerey Park for the supplies of political wisdom r?L?ch they Would thero find awaiting them. You cannot bo President, Mr. Tilden, but you can sor vc your party by retir ing to private life Do that--and who knows? wo may havo a Democratic President yet. How TO TEM. A HORSE'S Aon.-Tho editor of tho Southern Planta- says : "Tho other day we met a gentleman from Al abama, who gave us a piece of informa tion as to ascertaining tho age of a horso after it bad passed tho ninth year, which was quite now to us, and will be, wo are sure, to most of our reuders. lt is this : Arter the horse is 0 yans old, a wrinklo comes in tho eyelid, at tho upper corner of tho lower lid, p..id every year thereaf ter he hos one well-defined wrinkle for each year of his ago over nine If, for instance, a horse has three wrinkles, ho in twelve: if four thirteen. Add tho number of wrinkles to nine, and you will always get at it. So says the gentleman, and ho is confident it will never fail." What a screamer! is a tr?bulo often Imid to a crying baby, but l>r. Hull's Ba >y Syrup by alleviating thc pains of tho littlo ono soon stops thc crying. How to Doa! ?Villi a Surly Neighbor. William Laud had a tino field of grai.i growing upon an out-farm, Bomodistanc j from his homestead; but whenever be rode by he saw his neighbor Pulsfords sheep in the field, destroying his hopc.i of u harvest. These sheep were of the gau'.L, ong-loggod kimi, active as span iels ; tiley cotilo spring over almost any fence. William Lada complained to his neighbor himself, au 1 also sent bim sev eral messages but all without avail. Per haps the sheep would bo kept out for a day or two; but tho leg? of thc intruders were long, and tho louder blades of wheat were more tempting than their own scanty pasture. Mr. Ladd rodo by again.'and again! bc found the trespassers trampling down his corn. What was to bo done? Natural ly enough the injured farmer felt ag grieved, and in tho fir.-t impulse of hil anger he told his men to net the dogs ou tho sheep, and if that did not keep them away, to shoot them. Hut farmer Ladd was a man of a thoughtful turo of mind, and not 0;>n to indulge feelings of wrath and malice. He was in the babil of reading tho Bible and he loved tho lessons he learned from that best of all books. In other words, thc farmer was a Christian. So when he reached his home, with bia anger cooled down, William Ladd began to think calmly. While ho thought of his own field of wheat trampled down and ruiued, his mind turned to his neighbor's sheep, torn and bleeding and dead. Neither picture was pleasant ; but of the two, tho latter was moro 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;" and "let not tho tun go down upon your wrath." At any rate, the more ho thought of what bad passed, tho more dissatisfied he was with himself, and the more his compassion and forbearance were stirred up in favor of bis neighbor. "Poor Pulstord," thought ho, "is not so much to blame, perhaps, after all. it may bo he cannot prevent his sheep from straying; and eveu if beean, what busi ness have 1 to lako his punishment into my own hands? He is a poor niau, too. and an injury inflicted upon him will increaso his poverty ; while Cod IIBB BO prospered mo, that even tho loss of tho entire crop of my hold will scarcely bc felt. Besides this, if I cannot forgivo a wrong, even il intentionally done, where is my Christianity ? And whero is it I am told that I am not lo render evil for evil, but contrariwise blessing ? It will not do ; I have gone thc wrong way to work with my poor neighbor. I will try another pinn." Mr. i'ulsford wa? an ugly-lcmjiored man, surly, and unwilling to obligo. This was his :iattir.'<] disposition, ana trouble had made bim more cross-grained. It seemed to him that everybody had a spite against him ; but ho had never, por hnps, thought that if a man would have friends, he must show himt.olf friendly. llewaRin a particularly ill-humor on one particular morning. He had beard of tho threats of his richer neighbor, and the direction ho had given about his poor sheep; while he waa not at al1 aware Mint the hasty order given to the men about dogs and gum; bad been Bet aside hour; belore. And no, fretting and fuming, ho set . ab nit chopping wood in his yard, and ' was giving vent to eome of his overtoil ing anger ir. this work wticn bo was stop ped by a pleasant voice close by. ::(_"<ood morning, neighbor." Pulsford looked up, and whom should ho seo facing him but Lndd, sitting quietly on his boroo, and smiling gootl hi/.norcdly. It was almost more than he could bear ; but bc boro it somohow, and without replying, went on chopping bia wood more furiously than before. S "Good morning, Mr. Pulaford," re peated the unwelcome visitor. I'ulsford grunted and growled, andfctill continued his labor. "I have como to ?co you again about th-,: o d.eep of yours," said Mr.' Ladd. This was too much for the angry man to endure silently. Ile threw down his axe, straightened his back, and looked his adversary full in the face. "You aro come to see mo about my sheep !" said ho, wrathfully ; "a pretty sort of neighbor you are, lo tell your men to kill my bheep! Yes, I have beard of it, I have-ll richman Uko you to go shoot ing a poor fellow's sheep!" "Well, 1 was wrong about that," said tho farmer mildly ; "and 1 dou't mind telling you I waa wrong. And since you know what 1 told my men, 1 may as well tell you now that your sheep aro safe from nny hann I ever intended thom. Ihn it won't do, you know," added he good-bui?ioredly, "to lot, your sheep eat all my corn ; srxl am just como over lo make you an oiler." "Uh an offer," .-.iii! surlily and gloomi ly. "Yes, neighbor ; I have been thinking, and I am come over to say Hint, if you like, I will take your sheep lo my homo? stead pastures, and put them along with mine. I think they will do better thero than here, porhaps; they won't bo likely to stray, because they will bo under my shepherd's care ; and they w ill not bo any further trouble to you through thc sum mer. Then after harvest you can bring them back again ; and, meanwhile, if any thing goes wrong with them, or you misa any ot them, you shall take your pick out of my flock." The r>,o>. ijjokc*' "??sru_' r.ttii eon founded. It seemed na though bis rich neighbor was in earnest, but lie was not sure ; so he said : "Do you mean what you say, sir?" "Certainly ldo," said Mr." Lndd; "it will be better for me to feed your sheep ! in my pasture on gra'4, than to feed them hero on corn ; and I see that your fence caunot keep them out." "They shall not trouble you any moro, Mr. Ladd," said tho other, in a subduod tono; "I'll take care that they don't got into your corn-field again. And if I do eot accept your oiler," he added, "I thank you for it all tho same. It is kind and neighborly , and when a man is neigh; bor.y I can bo '.ho mino." I'ulsford waa as good as his word , bis sheep never strayed again, by some means they wore kept" to their own ground. What is .still bettor, a kindness sprang up between tho prosperous farmer and his unsuccessful neighbor, which did not end in unkind words, though it began with them. "And friends," said Mr. Ladd, when bo once told this little history of his "re member that when you talk of injuring your neighbors, they will only talk anti think of injuring you. Un tho other band, love will beget love; kindness, kindness; forbearance, grutitude. 'Po I not ovcrcomo of evil, but overcomo evil with good :' thoro is no other way." I?IGU AUTHORITY.-Tho lato eminent chemist, Prof. Jus. V. Z. Blaney, saya, in his lotter of r?e.-or?ber 4,1874. "f?inco I bccanio satisfied, by my analysis, with tho purity of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder,of ils freedom from adulteration, the care taken in its preparation, I bavo bad itniK'd lt? my own houso." ?J- Virginia has so far refunded f1,000 0?0 of hor debt. TUE PLIGHT FROM MEMPHIS Rrtnlrttus Unrtinlln Acid Over tho ram -t, rrortv-A Fever Casu Discovered on Hoitwl. At Elizabeth town tho reporter met Dr. T. S. Bell, who expressed himself o* pleased with tho precautions ta icon hy tho officers. It was not long before tho Memphis train came along with ita floe ing passengers. Tho health officers and the acribo boarded this train, and soon thc work ol disinfecting began. There were not so many passenger* aboard as usual; nevertheless there were enough to furnish a picture of overy-i*ay occurrence on the railroad. Business men md young fellows just starting out in life, mothers, grandmothers, babies, young ladic i, were all fleeing to tho laud of ref uge. The toro enr was filled with baggage Into this Dr. Barnum and the scriuo crawled, and tho former threw down a bottle of prominn. Thc smell from this was so powerful that tho medicino and tho newspaper man had soon to beat a hurried retreat. Tboy then went into tho first passenger car, which was sot t port exclusively for Memphis people. Theso all seemed to bc moro or less tired, but there was not tho slightest indication of yellow fever about any of thom. Tho squirts lamps, however, wero turn ed on. These instruments aro not nt all the terrible tortures that they havo been pictured to bo. They emit a lino spray of carbolic acid, and are, of course, disa greeable to those persons who dislike tho smell that comes from that chemical. If thero is anything in disinfecting at all, tho refugees certainly get the benefit of it, for tho young men who turn on these lamps walk up and down the aisle? in a slow, delib?ralo way, unmindful of growls, sneers or satirical smiles of the passengers. A policeman on bia beat could not bo more imperturbable at a neighboring fight than aro theso disinfec tors ut thc disgust their instruments arouse. | Tho Cburicr-Journal reporter was capo- j chilly amused nt a fine-looking old South-1 ern gentleman, wdio regarded tho Bquirt lamp nt first with a sort of curiosity, which changed into disguat ns soon as lie experienced tho first wave of tho smel . His feelings were cvidont'y not ?mited for utterance; bo could only regard with ironical despair the unruffled young man who carried thc lamp. Sovcral young bodies in thc caro screamed, "Herc ho comes again," when ever thc young mun put in nn appear ance They BOOU, however, got libed to tho thing and found thc smell not disa greeable. It is ono of those temporary inconveniences winch should be submit ted to without demurring. In the second passenger car the OMI rkr-Jounml man noticed a young man who was very yellow in tho face, and whoso eyes had a kind of glaze in them. Ho was lying on II?B seat, curled up. Dr. Orendorf informed tho reporter that thiB wns the suspected caso on the train, and the only one His temperature was as certained, and this, with his general ap pearance, warranted tho officers in be lieving that thia was a genuine case The young inna said bis nnmo was D. S. Ledbetter. Ho graduated last year in th'..> eily at tho University of Louisville, where he had the reputation of being a good student. Ile waa, while bore study* i:nr, of a very delicate constitution, being subject to dyspepsia, ile has been en gaged in Hirmingtou in the drug dispen sary of the (Jitv Hospital, rind hu? been ' subjected to the cause" of yellow fever. He says it ha? been four days since he was iii Memphis, and ho did not think bc had tho fever, but bc wanted to bo taken to our hospital. The poor fellow's voice, however, was unstoady and belied his words, mid bia eyes had an appealing look in them which gained tho sympathy of every on?. Ho said there was not much of a fright in Memphis, thc gener al opinion being that tho plague woti'.l only touch thc city lightly. Capt. Rob inson, tho conductor on the train, notified tho officers promptly at Eli/abelhtown of tho suspicious caso aboard. Ho de served great credit for the caro and dis-1 cretion no baa shown, in which indeed, bu hus been os valuable ns a health offi cer. Dr. Orendorf took Dr. Ledbetter off tho train at thc Short Lino.) unction, and placed him in tho yellow fever hospital, where bo will bo kindly attended to. Thc young man got on the train at u lo cal station, and was not a through pas senger. He said that be had first gone to Alabama, but tho quarnutino thee B?ut him out, and after wandering around here and there, he had finally boarded thc train for Louisville from a local sta tion.- Louisville Courin- Journal. THI?CHINA TREE.-Rev. iL U. Gil lund, of Kingstrco, fe. C., writes to tho Home awl Farm aa follows, w hich ie wor thy of consideration and trial : In a few brief word J let mo mention somo tilinga concerning this tree which will bo valuable information to the whole South. Tho botanical namo of tho tree I do not know. It is ; -onie ti mea called Pridu of India. ID genera?, let mc say it is ono of thu most speedy worm and insect destroyers to be found in nature. I will give instances of its des' 'uctivo ef fects ot this kind in HO far as I have seen the experiments. Horses affected with worms may be cntiroly relieved by putting a handful of tho horries of this treo in their food three vinita a day, if it ia a severe ceso, give a pint of tho berries nt each feeding. If it is winter or early Bpring time, simply lot tho horses feed under tho trees. This remedy I havo scon tried often, and I have nevor known n failuro to cure Thc berries are very valuable for pro- j tecting dried fruits fro.n worms or bisects. A few of them scattered iii with tho fruit will drivo off any invaders of this kind. This has been tried with groat success, fruit being protected thus near other fruit which wero rendered useless by tho worm?. 1 havo heard others say that wheat, pea?, rice, &c, may bo saved from thc weevils in the same way. I have not yet seen this tried. Doubtless it is true Tho value of this tree to tho garden ia incalculable. The following experiment has been tried with perfect success by Mr. ?. S. Cooper, of Indiantown, S. C. His cabbage were about to bo destroyed by littlo worms. He simply took a bunch of tho leaves of this tree and spread it over CRC.1I plant. Every worm leit, ami tho cabbage headed beautifully. A tea mado of tho berries, or leaves, and sprinkled on tho plant, will have the snmo cft'oct. My knowledge of trials of this kind doc? not g*. farther ; but this is sufficient to show thc peculiar valuo of the tree, and to lead others to experiment for them selves. If they do, my purpose in writ ing is accomplished. The Americans learkiho world in ?ve ry thing and especially in fast eating : this has mado Dyspepsia our national disease, though now under perfect control by tho uso ot Dr. Bull's Baltimore Pill. Sold everywhere. Price 25 cents. - Tho Pallas limes is displeased be cause tho Texas legislators take tho floor iu their shirt sleeves. Federal Bummer*}* Chief Justice Warne -, of tho Georgia Supremo Court, is nw nearly eighty y oura of ugo ami in goori health. ' He was OOH? grossman and judge before thc war. How he fell into the bauds of Yankee bum mers is thus told by thc Augusta Chroni cle and Sentinel : In the spring of I860 (and after tho surrender of General Johnson, though that disaster was uot ollicinl'.y known in Georgia) Judge Warner was at bb: plan tation in luerriwether county, availing the approach of ono of Wilson's columns of Federal raiders, which was then pass ing through tho country. All tho whites on tho placo lied except Judge Wa-r.*jr and his married daughter. The latter had a child only a week old ; and as she could not be moved, tho father remained' with her. During the morning several detachments of cavalry had halted at tho house and mado themselves free with anything they desired in tho wny of "portablo property," but no violence was dono to thc inmates. About noon anoth er party arrived and stopped to feed their horses and to plunder. After satisfying their appetites thoy began to pillage, and tho Judge's silver and other valuables wero soon stowered away in tho capacious saddle bags. While they were robbing the amoke-house of hans and pickets and preserves the Judgo atood by in silence watching their proceedings. After tho building had been thoroughly pillaged, a revolver was suddenly presented at his head and ho was ordered to accompany the party. Midway between tho house nnd tho "negro quarter" was a body of woodland, and into this grove Judgo Warner was conducted by-his captors. Reaching a place secluded from observa tion, tho leader of the band, who wore tho uniform of a federal captain, took out his watch and said he would give him threo minutes to tell whero his gold was hid den. Judge Warron protested that ho had no gold, but to no avail. They had been informed along thoir Hue of march that ho had a secret hoard, and tho "d-d old 8ecassional?8t" muBtgivo it up. Tho prisoner urged that ho had been a strong Union man and that tho only money ho had was in Confederate curreucy and in Central Railroad bills. They robbed Dim of $f>,000 of the former and $15,000 of tho lotter, which they found upon bia person, but continued to insist that ho had cold nud mn?t produce it. At thu expiration of tho threo minutes the cap tain mado a signal, on? of the mon took from a horso a long leathern strap with a running noose at ono end, while the oth ers extemporized a gallows by bending down tho end of a atout sapling. With au onth, tho oiliccr mado them select a larger nud stronger tree, Judge Warner remaining silent, for tho sufficient reason that he had nothing to tell. One end of tho strap was adjusted around bia neck and the other fastened securoly to a treo. Tho sapling was gradually released until tho lino became taut, when it was turned loose and the Judge's body dangled in the air. When bo recovered conscious ness tho brutes still surrounded him, und he was again ordered to give up his gold under penalty of death. Ho could only reply as before, and again tho sapling wu released. This occurred about two o'clock. When bo rovived tho sun was nearly down. Ho lay at tho foot of tbo impromptu gallows, tho halter had boou removed from bia neck, and tho leaves, which covered tho ground several inches deep, were burning within a few feet of him. He thinks tho heat of tho flames restored him to consciousness and to life. Thc wretches had left him for dead and Bot fire to the woods to conceal the evi dence of their crime. Tho Judge was able to find bia way to tho bouso, where ho lay ill for many days. He finally re covered and now shows no signs of the violence to which he was subjected. Hois confident that the captain and soldiers who figured as amateur hangmen be longed to a regiment of Wisconsin caval ry, though he does not remember any of their names. Judgo Warner ?3 wont to say that he bas ts tiered all thc pangs oi dissolution and has been "na near dead as ho ever expects to bo." IN THE WRONG BERTH.--It was a Pullman "sleeper" between Albany ami B?llalo. Among tho passengers were a middle-aged couple, evidently on their first journey, ana a sour-faced old maid, rather desiccated in her general elfeet, who waa traveling alone. Tho couple had an upper berth, and tho "maiden well stricken in years" the upper beith in the adjoining section. In the same cur were a coupla of frolicsome youths, ready for any sort of mischief. Bed timo came, and ail hands retired. But tho husband could not sleep. Whether it was because tho motion of the cars, thc noise, or ?10 novelty of the BituaUon, ho could not tell, but try as ho would, he could not sleep. At length it occurred to him that ho was thirsty. The moro he thought of it tho moro thirsty he got. Soho called tho porter, who brought tho ladder and helped him down! Now, whilo he was gono for thc water ono of the "boys" stopped out of bed and shif ted the ladder sb that it rested against the berth in which tho ancient maiden was Bleeping, and thou returned to his bed to noto tho result. In a moment or two tho husband returned and cropt quietly up thc steps, anxious to make as little noise as possiblo so as not to waken his wife. Tho occupant of tho hnrth. thus rudely intruded unnn. nwoko with a start and screamed. Tho husband supposiug it to bo his easily frightened wife, tried to reassure her and said, "It's onlv me." "Only you, old scoundrel 1" said tho venerablo maiden ; "I'll teach vou alcsaon," and willi that alie seized him by tho hair of his head and screamed for help. Then ho howled with pain. Then his wife, awakened by tho noise, ?ls? covered wh'iro her husband was, and raised bor voice in lamentation, heaping reproaches upon her faithless spouse. Then tho passengers all got up, and dc -randed an explanation of the commo tion, and foremost among thom was tho wretch wh. caused it ail. Then the hus band, covered with confusion, and utter ly unable to account for what ho had done, climbed down from bia porch, and slunk away to bel, whero he was sound ly lectured for bia faithlossness. Alto gether it was t> most uncomfortable though a ii'dicrjus situation, and tho glances of defiance that woro exchanged botwoen the wife and tho old maid all through tho next day woro a study. Tho cause of all tho troublo loakod out but it never roached the ears of thoao chiofly affected by it.-Boston Transcript. - John Brown, Jr., writes from Kan sas, whero ho islookiug up the condition of tho colored refugees, thut Bevon thousand have reached thero since tho exodus bo gan, many of whom have found work iu different parla of the State. Thero Ia such an immense white movement to Kansas, however, timi ibo labor market ia overstocked, and at Topeka alono two hundred negroes aro dependent on publio charity, half of whom are sick and ?looniy enough. Tho State- Freedmen'? toliof Associ-Mon also has huudreda on its banda at aid?rent points and is nearly out of funds at that, and Brown thinks that thoro ia still a loud call for activo charity at tho East.