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BY E. B. MUEEAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, 1879._VOLUME XV.?NO. 20. BUTLER ON POLITICS. Tilden and tho Democracy?How the "Sontfcern Ppalanx Will Be Broken?The -Xtepabllcan Party's Advantage. Interview in New York Herald. What docs the result of the vote on "Tuesday signify in the politics of the State?" "It signifies that my election was sup? posed by the Faneuil Hall Domocrats to injnre M~r. Tilden's chances for the nomi? nation for the Presidency, and hence the action of that class of so-called Democrats who look to Mr. Tilden to give them na? tional office. That bubble, however, is burst, and Mr. Tilden, in my judgment, stands less cbance for being elected President than be does by being struck by lightning in the coming Winter.? The Democracy will hardly push the choice of a man for the Presidency the second time who bad not the courage and ability to take his seat when elected to it. In my younger days it was not accus? tomed to such leadership. The election in New York has settled that, if nothing else." "Is the Democratic party nationally stronger or weaker for the defeat of Mr. Tilden in New York?" "Stronger, because he represented ?nothing that wasn't equally represented by the Republican party. He represent? ed the wealth, the monopolies, the spe? cial privileges, the banking and currency interests of Wall street. Ou that class of questions the Republican party can beat him and give him six to ten in tbe game, for they have become, from necessity of administration during the war and since the chosen guardians of all that class of interests. The Democratic party North and West of Albany in New York, and west of the Alleganies in the country, are in an entirely different way of thinkiog from-Mr. Tilden, and they never will vote for him again, even if be were nom? inated." "Do yon agree with the opinion which has been so generally expressed that the Democratic party has no chance next year in view of the results in Maine, Massachusetts, Ohio, California and New York?" "I agree that the Democratic party, under its present leadership, going in tbe same direction hasn't any chance. It has no chance, because I fail to find any distinctive difference in the principles held unanimously by the members of tbe Democratic party from those of the lead? ers of the Republican party, for whose candidate the lieutenants ana captains of the Democratic party in Massachusetts voted, and whom they have attempted to elect in the past two years. If you say tbe tariff, then the Democratic lead? ers in Pennsylvania are tariff men ; if you say the finance question, both par? ties are split in two upon that question by the backbone of the Alleganies; if you say on the question of protection of cit? izens in their rights by tbe General Gov? ernment, tbe Democratic party doubts whether it ought to be done. Most of the Democratic leaders are afraid to say that it ought to be done, and Hayes' administration is afraid to do it. If you speak of foreign policy, there is no ques? tion between the Democrats and Re? publicans upon that. It took them four months in the special session of Gongress to get np an issue last Summer on which they could divide, and that was the ques of putting troops at the polls when there were no troops to put there, and it was wholly an immaterial question; and, further than that, neither party claimed that the presence of troops at the polls had ever influenced one thousand votes. If you say universal suffrage, the Democ? racy are against it in the South and the Republicans are in favor of it in the South and against it in the North. On the question of internal improvements, the Democrats are as anxious to vote im? provements for their rivers and harbors as are the Republicans for theirs. Upon the granting of special privileges, so that you make yourself rich by watering stocks of railroads, a charge has been made by Mr. Field that our last Demo? cratic Presidential candidate watered the stock of the elevated railroad to a worse extent than any such performance has ever been carried in the United States ; but Mr. Tilden returns the charge upon Mr. Field, and I believe them both." "You think, then, any party which will place itself in line with tho people will succeed ?" "The whole history of the country has shown iL ^ The Democratic party was ruined by its support of the institution of slavery, which institution was not in con? sonance with tbe feelings, the.wisbes, the belief or tbe sense of justice of tbe peo? ple, and was only sustained so many years because of the Constitutional obli? gation to do so. That is now out of the way, and very soon all of the evils grow? ing out of it will fade away, and when that is done nobody doubts that true Democracy will resume its sway in our Government except those who believe in imperialism." Southern Feeling. "Do yon believe that the people of the South, as a people, are to-day disloyal or in favor either of secession or in the res? toration of slavery ?" "I don't believe that the people of the South are in favor of the restoration of slavery, for they have seen by free labor a greater amount of product of cotton, tobacco and sugar than ever under the system of slavery. They see now what the North learned early that slave labor was not profitable and was wholly incon? sistent with Republican institutions.? Nor do I believe that there is any con? siderable body of men in the South that desire secession. I think all reflecting men agree that that question is settled in this country, certainly forcible seces? sion." "Is there, then, any advantage to be gained by keeping alive the spirit of sec? tionalism which has existed in this coun? try since the war?" "A great advantage to the party which Crtn keep in power by so doing, without disadvantage to the country.^ No man deprecates and deplores more Wan I do the spirit of lawlessness, the disregard of human life, whether of white or of black, the resort to force in conducting civil controversies, which have shown them? selves in some parts of the South, and no one would go further t""~'n I would to bring such mob violence to an end." "How much longer is this condition of sectionalism in political life going to la*t?" ?'It will vanish after the election of 1880, and if the Democracy of the North are wise it will cease to be an element before them. There are many causes working to that end. One very strong one is that the state of lawlessness is in? juring the business interestsof the South. It is preventing the influx of capital there and entirely stopping the flow of emigration except in the single State of Texas, where there has been less of it, in fact than in any other, and where emi? gration is equal to that of any agricultu? ral sectiou of the West or North. I mean to give no ex cathedra opinion when I say that it will end in 1881. My reason for so believing is that the census of 1880 will show that political power has passed j from the East and South to the West.? I Many of the Western States will double their ratio of representation as well in the Electoral College as in the House. New York and the seaboard will lose in like ratio. The South will lose, so that instead of having 138 out of 369 electoral votes it will hardly have the proportion of one-third, if more than one-quarter, the only gain being in Texas, which is not substantially different in popular composition from Kansas, bo that the South will cease to be so large a factor for one side, and the divisions in politics hereafter between parties will be ques? tions upon which the South will divide alike with the North." Hampton and the Republicans. When a Republican editor of Chicago invited General Hampton to send a con? gratulatory dispatch to the "American King," the latter simply replied: "Thanks for your politeness, but I must decline the invitation." The reply was exactly what it should have been. He had no congratulations to offer General Grant, and he civilly declined to play the hypocrite. The Chicago editor dis? played very bad taste in sending his "in? vitations" to Southern men, and General Hampton gave him just the answer he the misfortune to witness the methods of Grantism in two Southern States?Mis? sissippi and Louisana?and the spectacle was hardly calculated to make him an enthusiastic admirer of the man from whom the tyranny took its name. He had seen rotten State Governments up? held by Grant's bayonets, in spite of the judgment pronounced against them by a large majority of the voters at the ballot box. He had seen United States troops take possession of a State capitol, by Grant's direction, and deny entrance to the legally elected representatives of the people. He has seen the writ of habeas corpus suspended, by Grant's order, under a law passed at Grant's dictation, and the citizens of whole counties treated as rob? bers and murderers. It is not surprising, then, that be should not have forgotten these acts of outrage and oppression, and that he should not feel inclined to send any words of congratulation to their author. But, of course, the Republicans profess to feel great astonishment and in? dignation at General Hampton's conduct. If lie had telegraphed a message of gush? ing welcome he would have been abused as a monster of deceit and hypocrisy. Because he did not do this he is roundly denounced as an unrepentant and ma? lignant rebel. There is nothing surpris? ing in this, but the sublimity of cheek? no other word in our language will con? vey the idea?is attained when the Wash? ington correspondent of the Philadelphia Telegraph states that "much comment is made in Administration circles at the re? fusal of Senator Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, to unite in an expression of welcome to General Grant upon his reception at Chicago by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee." It would seem from this correspondent's dispatch that General Hampton's telegram has been made the subject of a Cabinet con? sultation, at which the Carolina Senator's character was handled with a freedom that savors very strongly of impertinence. It was mentioned that us long as General Hampton was permitted to use the Fed? eral patronage to serve his own purposes he ostensibly endeavored to carry out his promises, but the extremity to which he carried his demands made it necessary for the Administration to exercise some discrimination in the appointments made in the South. "Upon this General Hampton immediately turned his back on all his promises and became more in? tolerant even than those of his fellow citizens whom he had previously cen? sured." In other words, because Mr. Hayes discharged his constitutional duty in removing the bayonets that supported Chamberlain's fraudulent and corrupt government and afterwards appointed a few decent men to office, on General Hampton's suggestion, the latter surren? dered all independence of thought and action and became the bond slave of the Administration. Now that General Hampton chooses to act as a freeman and declines to kiss the hand of him who scourged his people so wantonly and so cruelly the President and his Cabinet see fit to express their surprise and indigna? tion. It is hardly necessary to say that if Mr. Hayes supposed that by doing his sworn duty he was purchasing General Hampton he made a capital mistake. General Hampton is a man who will do that which he belives to be right, regard? less of the "comments of Administration circles."?Augusta Chronicle and Consti? tutionalist. The Texas-Pacific. Colonel Scott, President of the Penn? sylvania Railroad, in an interview with a reporter, said of the Texas-Pacific that last month it did the largest business that was ever done by that line, showing its ability to take care of all its obliga? tions, and he expected when he got home to close a contract to complete the line 750 miles west from Fort Worth to the western boundary of New Mexico, and they expect to connect with the South? ern Pacific on its way eastward from the Pacific coast, thereby forming another great trans-continental route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. He ex? pected to meet the Southern Pacific somewhere near the western boundary of New Mexico. It would open up an im? mense agricultural and mineral region. There line will be pretty direct from Fort Worth to El Paso, and from there to the western border of New Mexico it would follow along close to the boundary of Old Mexico, and develop all the vast mineral wealth of that region. He con? templates having the road completed in two years from Fort Worth, and by the time they get to the western boundary of New Mexico the Southern Pacific will have arrived at the same point, thereby making a route 100 miles shorter than the old line, and passing lowest summits, which are entirely free from snow the year around, with no blockades to inter? rupt constant travel. The Texas-Pacific at its eastern termi us connects with the Iron Mountain at Texarkann. It also connects with the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Road, there? by forming connections with St. Louis. The average cost of the entiro line will be about $30,000 per mile. It will also give New Orleans, Vicksburg and Mem hpis a route across the continent by the construction of short lines. He said there was an erroneous impression that the Pennsylvaoia Railway Company con? trols or operates the Texas-Pacific Road. This was a mistake; the Pennsylvania company has nothing to do with it. Col? onel Scott said that he, in connection with some other gentlemen, run the Tex? as and Pacific Road.?St. Louis Republi? can, November 11. ? Corn is cheaper in Iowa this fall than in any other place on the globe, .-elling at 18 and 20 cents at the depots, and 10 and 15 cents at places distant from the railroads. It is reported to be verv ripe, sound and sweet, and there will be 150,000,000 to 200,000,000 bush? els, not one-sixth of which can be ship? ped out of the State. deserved. General LEE AND JACKSON. Their Last Meeting; In this World. Fiizhugh Lee's Army N. Ya. Oration. Referring to the last meeting of Lee and Jackson, the speaker said: Ah, what an earnest talk Lee and Jackson had on the night of May the 1st. At suuset they took their seats on a log, on the right or north side of the plank-road, and a little distance in the woods. Col. Marshall, the well known aide-de-camp of Gen. Lee, was the only other person present, having been ordered to come to the spot for the purpose of writing a let? ter to Mr. Davis, to bo dictated by Gen. Lee. Marshall sat on the end of a fallen tree within three feet of the two Generals, and heard every word that passed be? tween them, and this is what he tells me Lee and Jackson talked about on that eventful night. Jackson spoke to Gen. Lee about what he bad seen and beard during the advance, and commented upon the promptness with which the enemy had appeared to abandon his movement towards Fredricksburg when opposed, and the ease with which he had been driven back to Chancellors ville, and con? cluded by expressing the opinion very decidedly, and repeating it more than once, that the enemy would recross the Rappahannock before morning. He said, in substance, "By to-morrow morn? ing there will not be any of them this side of the river." Gen. Lee expressed the hope that Gen. Jackson's expectations might be realized, but said he aid not look for such a re? sult; that he did not believe the enemy would abandon his attempt so easily, and expressed his conviction that the main body of Gen. Hooker's army was in bis front, and that THE REAL MOVE was to be made from this direction, and not from Fredricksburg. On this point there was a great difference of opinion among our higher officers, and Gen. Lee was the only one who seemed to have the absolute conviction that the real movement of the Federal army was the one he was then meeting. In this belief he never wavered from the first. After telling Gen. Jackson that he hoped his opinion might be proved to be cor? rect, Gen. Lee added: "But, General, we must get ready to attack the enemy if we should find him here to-morrow; and you must make all arrangements to move around his right flank." Gen, Lee then took up the map and pointed out to Jackson the general direction of his route by the Furnace and Brock roads. Some conversation took place as to the importance of endeavoring to conceal the movement from the enemy, and as to the existence of roads further to the ene? my's right, by which Gen. Jackson might pass so as not to be exposed to observa? tion or attack. The general line of Jack? son's route was pointed out, and the neces? sity of celerity and secrecy was enjoined upon him. The conversation was a lengthy one, and at the conclusion of it GEN. LEE SAID TO JACKSON that "before he moved in the morning, if he should have any doubt as to whether the enemy was still in position, he could send a couple of guns to a spot close by, and open fire on the enemy's position, which would speedily settle the ques? tion." From the spot referred to two of our guns had to be withdrawn that af? ternoon, as the infantry were suffering from the fire they were drawing from the enemy. Gen. Jackson then withdrew, and Gen. Lee dictated to Col. Marshall a long letter to President Davis, giving him fully the situation. In it he regret? ted he would not have the assistance of Pickett's and Hood's divisions, but ex? pressed his confidence in the good judg? ment that had withdrawn and kept them from him, and closed with the hope that, notwithstanding all our dangers and dis? advantages, Providence would bless the efforts which he was sure his brave army would make to deserve success. I give all this in detail to show the er? rors writers upon Chancellorsville fell into in respect to the origin of Jackson's famous flank movement. In a little pine thicket, close by this conference, Gen. Lee and staff bivouacked that night. During the evening reports reached him from Early that all was quiet along the Rappahannock. Wilcox was ordered back to Bauksford in consequence of other rumors. Lee's orders had been is? sued ; his plans digested; his trusty lieu? tenants were to carry them out; the chieftain slept. Hooker at Chancellors? ville, one and a half miles away, was, however, awake, for at 1.55 on the morn? ing of the 2d of May he dispatched to Butterfield to order the pontoon bridges taken up below Fredricksburg, and Rey? nold's corps to march at once to his headquarters. The morning of May the 2d, 1863 broke clear. Gen. Lee emerged from the little thick? et and stood on its edge at sunrise, erect and soldierly to see Jackson's troops file by. They had bivouacked on his right, and were now commencing the flank movement. About half hour after sunrise Jackson himself came riding along. When oppo? site to Gen. Lee he drew rein, and the two conversed for a few moments.? Jackson then started forward, pointing in the direction his troops were moving. His face was a little flushed, Col. Mar? shall says, as it was turned back towards Gen. Lee, who nodded approval to what he had said. The sun rose unclouded and brilliant, gilding the hilltops and penetrating the vapors of the valley. Rising as gorgeous as did the "sun of Austerlitz," which produced such an im? pression upon the imagination of Napo? leon, it should be remembered by the people of the South, for its rays fell upon the last meeting in this world of Lee and JackBon. The Duke of Wellington said a man of refined Christain sensibilities is totally unfit for the profession of a sol? dier, but here were two devoted Chris? tians who faithfully performed all their duties, and so they parted. A Girl Turtle?There is a little negro girl about five years old in this county oearing in many respects a strik? ing resemblance to a loggerhead turtle. The nose is hardly more than an idea, while the eyes have that peculiar and unintelligible stare, as if looking every? where and seeing nothing. From the back of the neck* downward an impres? sion is easily distinguishable resembling the breast bone of a turtle. All the limbs are deformed, ending in web footed claws, as if drawn up by an application of hot water. This monstrosity, strange as it may seom, possesses the power of speech, and shows a degree of intelli? gence entire at variance with all hereto? fore preconceived ideas of an intelligent countenance. With an appetite which is insatiable in its demands, and a fond? ness for raw meat, especially fish; a courage, or rather an utter incapacity to [appreciate danger; a love for aquatic sports, and wild joy in the water, render ? tliis negro girl, if such she may be called, j a phenomenon unequalled in this or I other country.?Kaufman (Texas) Times. ? Governor Simpson upon his recent visit to Philadelphia was mistaken for President Hayes. THE HIDDEN BRIGADIER. : A Confederate General's Lifo as a Recluse, and Ills Discovery by Iiis Relatives. A Confederate General has been dis l covered living isolated in a little stone house, and by himself, about a mile and a half from Montgomery, between that village and Remington, near the Mariet? ta Railroad. The name of this singular individual is Gen. W. W. Metcalfe, who served honorably in the Confederate service during the late war, and lost all his prop? erty, which was located in the South, dur? ing the war. He was quite wealthy, but the war swept away what property he had, and he was left at the age of 38 without a son. All that he had left was his honor and his family. His wife died shortly after the close of the war, and he had two daughters left him, who are now married and live in Virginia in good cir? cumstances. About four years ago General Metcalfe came to Cincinnati to be cured of dia? betes, a complaint that had troubled him since his retirement from the army serv? ice. He found Dr. W. W. Dawson, and intrusted his case to him. The Doctor expressed surprise at meeting him in an impecunious condition, as he had known him several years previous. The Gener? al said he would like to get away from all of his associates. He had lost every? thing during the war, and he wanted to settle down somewhere as a recluse and be forgotten for the time by all who knew him. The Doctor owned a farm near Montgomery, and told him he could go out and live on the farm and cultivate it for him. This was in 1875. The Gen? eral accepted both the treatment for his disease and the proposition to cultivate the Doctor's farm. Here he lived for some time as a common farm hand, un? der an assumed name, the Doctor never letting out the secret. General Metcalfe made friends by his unostentatious and urbane manners among the neighbors, and labored early and late. After sever? al months he went to work for another farmer in the neighborhood named Kel? ler and managed to conceal his indentity all that time. He then went into the employ ot W. H. Willis, near by, in the cultivation and management of his farm. He occupied a little stone hut away off in a field by himself. Here ho cooked and ate his meals and was unknown to almost every one around him. The house he now occupies was formerly used as a milk house. It is only about twelve feet high from the ground, and has only one room with a garret above, with the roof projecting in front at the gable end, and which is in a very dilapidated con? dition. The farm house connected with it was burned to the ground some time ago. His identity was discovered about three weeks ago in a singular manner. From what can be learned from the peo? ple who have conversed with him since his identity was made known, it appears that the General was born in Bardstown, Ky., and was educated at Danville, Ky. He claims that he graduated in mathe? matics at Lexington, Va., under Stone? wall Jackson. About a month ago a professor in the Danville College went to Montgomery to visit Rev. Mr. Cortelyou, the Presbyterian minister at that place, and while there, received the information that Gen. Matcalfe, a graduate of Dan? ville, was living as a recluse on a farm near the village. Upon his return to Danville the professor informed Gen. Metcalfe's brother, who is a merchant in Danville, that he had discovered the whereabouts of his brother, and gave him the name of Montgomery, Hamilton County, Ohio, near which place the Gen? eral resided. Accordingly, not long afterward, a let? ter was received by the Greneral from his brother, whom he had not seen for sever? al years, and soon thereafter the General was hunted up by one of his married daughters, who lives in Virginia. Since then he has showed no disposition to conceal himself, and he visits Montgom? ery almost every day and converses with friends connected with the Mason? ic order. He is a member of the Knights Templar, und has unbosomed himself freely to Mr. Foster Todd, a gro? cer and dry goods merchant of Mont? gomery. He has expressed a desire to tell him about his past life. Thus far Mr. Todd has not availed himself of the Erivilege of visiting the General at his ermit-like retreat on the Will is farm, sev? eral miles from nowhere; but he says the General is a genetleman of intelligence, and converses fluently upon all the cur? rent topics of the day. He has evident? ly kept himself well posted upon the Eolitical topics of the day, and he shows y his conversation that he is not behind the times. One of his neighbors is Mr. Hampton, the agricultural implement dealer in this city, who lives about three fourths of a mile away. On Sunday the General made a short call upon Mr. Hampton as ho was passing by, and expressed a desire to have him call over and see him. Mr. Hamp? ton told the General that he must call and see him first and let him know where he lived. The General replied that he would come over and see him and have a long talk with him. He wanted to tell him what a big rebel he was, and give him the story of his ad? ventures before, during and since the war. He said he was the biggest rebel that ever lived, and he expressed a desire to sit down and tell all he knew. Mr. Hampton has not yet had the opportuni? ty to call on the military hermit, late of the Confederate Army, C. S. A. A representative of the Commercial drove out yestcrday'to find this singular man and have a conversation with him. After much research aud driving over twenty miles of roads he found where the recluse lived, all by himself. It was about 7.30 when the reporter drove up to the little lonely house, away off in the fields, potato patches and a few scattered apple trees, by itself. A small light, emitted by n little coal oil lamp, was seen dimly through a diminutive un? washed window. The name of the Gen? eral was called, but nobody responded. The premises were thoroughly scoured and Uin straw barn ransacked, but no one was found. Nothing in the vicinity in? dicated there was a living soul around. The bed in the little room was undis? turbed, as the occupant had gone off to return later in the evening.?Cincinnati Conmcrcial._ ? The Rural New Vorher is loud in praise of emasculated.cats. They grow to twice the size of other cats, catch more rats, arc cleaner, and altogether exem? plary in their conduct. ? Dr. W. A. W. Spotswood, of Mobile, Ala., owns the sword Washington used during the Revolution. The Father of his Country converted one edge ol the sword into a pruning-knife after the war, and finally gave it to the grandfather of its present owner a year before he died. ? A Southern Representative in Con? gress, whose name is not given, but who is described as a staunch Democrat, told a reporter last Saturday that the Demo? crats will have all they want to do in keeping the South "soiid" at the next election, and that if the Democratic dis? sensions in New York Stute continue the South will look out lor itself. Mrs. Potts, the Pedcstrienne. The telegeaph briefly reported, on the 13th, that Mrs. Potts, the pedestrienne, attempted to commit suicide in Phila? delphia, on the night of the 12th instant. The Philadelphia Times of the 14th con? tains the following account of the affair, with some other information regarding the tramp the woman recently made through the country: "On October 12," a spry little woman skipped into the Times reportorial rooms and announced herself as Mrs. Mattio Potts, who had just completed a walk to New Orleans and return, 2,600 miles, for a wager of $5,000. The task had been executed between May 13th and October 12tb, over the rough cross-ties and road? beds of the railroads south of Washing? ton. She said a number of gentlemen had raised the purse, but declined to give their names, which created the im? pression in the mind of the reporter of her experience that these gentlemen were like FalstafFs men in buck-ram, or the mythical Mrs. Harris, the friend of Mrs. Gamp. Mrs. Potts said she had notes of her journey, was going to issue a book about it, and would endeavor to en? list people to back her up in a long or short-distance walk. But, unfortunately, the pedestrian fever in this community had "petered out," and she soon found that there was aroused. She walked awhile for $10 a week in a Sansom street saloon, in a halo of cigar smoke and beer fume. This venture also went up in smoke a week ago. She claims to have been negotia? ting to walk at Pittsburg. She was left stranded high and dry, with not a cent to liquidate her board bills. She tried va? rious avenues of employment, among others, she avers, the Women's Christian Association, a Seventh street intelligence office, meeting the cold shoulder at the former place when her antecedents as a pedestrian became known. She was one week in arrears for her board at the Alleghany House, and things looked des Ecrate and dismal. The dollar she had een given by a lady melted away in paying for lodgings and meals at the Women's Christian Association, and on Wednesday she was penniless. a resolution to die. She walked out near the Gerraantown Junction and sat down and wrote a note with a lead pencil, addressed to the Bal? timore American, the Philadelphia Times, New York Herald, Charlotte (N. C.) Observer, Atlanta Constitution and New Orleans Times, in which she explained who she was, told all about her ineffect? ual efforts to obtain employment, how her "backers" had failed to keep their promises about the ?5,000 stake, and her resolution to lay her head upon the rail? road track, on Tuesday night, to be run over. She declared that she was perfect? ly sane, but had no relatives and nothing to live for. The body was to be given to the medical students. The note said that the writer had a valise at the American Hotel, Baltimore, with her notes of the Southern tramp, a trunk at 204 East Twenty-seventh, New York, and some other articles at the Alleghany House Whether her intention to destroy herself under one of the lightning trains on the New York Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad was sincere or not, it is certain that about 5* o'clock on Wednesday night, Policeman Egolf, of the Twenty second district, who was on duty at Ger mantown Junction, saw a woman who was walking to and fro, iu apparent agi? tation, near the station. She told him she was Mrs. Mattie Potts, the pedes? trian ; that she was homeless and penni less and meant to destroy herself under a train. She told him she bad her death warrant with her and was tired of life. She was taken to the Twenty-second dis? trict police station, and the letter men? tioned above, addressed to the newspa? pers, was found upon her. During the night, whenever the long, shrill whistle of the trains speeding by near the police station were heard, the woman started up and begged to be let out that she might go and throw herself under the locomo? tive. was she playing a game? The turnkey and others who heard her, concluded that she was cranky, or was playing a dodge of some kind. Yester? day afternoon the woman, who is known as the Widow Potts, apparently about forty-five years of age, of slight figure, clad in comfortable garments and having about the jaw and eyes the indications of resolution, was arraigned before Magis? trate Pole. When asked her name and residence she said she was a native of North Carolina, and bad resided in New York for nine years past. Policeman Egolf told about finding her, and the let? ter was produced. Mrs. Potts, in response to the magis? trate's question, stood up and said that the policeman's statement was true, and that she did not want to go to the house of correction, but wanted a home and employment. She said Bhe was willing to go to work at anything, and had tried to get a situation. She was told that her case would be held under advisement. There is a law against attempted suicide which has been once or twice enforced, but this cannot be applied to the pedes? trian's case, as, beyond her own declara? tion of the intention, nothing has been shown indicating her real purpose. She afterwards was found down in Turnkey Holloway's department, eating ginger? bread and marching up and down, with none of the appearance of a lunatic or a suicide. She was very much disinclined to converse. "Now that 3*ou say the men who prom? ised to give you the purse of $5,000 for the New Orleans walk have gone back on their word, suppose you give their names for publication," a visitor said. something about herself. "No," came from the sturdy jaws that had munched peanuts, ice, lemons, and other luxuries on the weary tramp through the South last summer; "no, I am bound by an oath not to reveal that and I won't, even though they have be? trayed rnc in that matter. I had a simi? lar experience in Baltimore and over in New York. Here I walked for $10 a week, but I got my money. I tried every day to get honest employment, but failed. I once thought of throwingmysclf oil'the Wilmington train, but the boys on the P. W. and B. trains treated me so well on my long walk by supplying me with lemons, oranges, ice ana other delicacies, that I thought it ingratitude to spoil their track or engines. When I was found at New York Junction I just was desperate enough to do what I said I would. I was going to take off my hat and coat. I didn't want them spoiled. I'm a widow, honest, and was born at Eatonville, Chowan County, North Car? olina, where I was raised. I then went to New York. I have complete notes of my walk, and some other notes which I sent to a New York paper." Here she broke off and resumed her walk up and down the reserve drill room. "I can say this," she said again, "a gentleman was here this afternoon who told me that he wculd see that I didn't want for any? thing." The idea that she really intend? ed suicido did not find a lodgment in the minds of the spectators at the hearing, the conclusion being that she wanted to create sympathy. enthusiasm in legs to be Justice to the South. The American Missionary Association recently held its annual meeting in Chi ted divine of New York, and one of the j founders of the Oberlin College, corres i ponding secretary of the assaciotion, de I livered himself of a very sensible ad ; dress on the subject of the Southern ne i gro, in which ho took occasion to ad j minister a very dignified but severe re ! b?ke to the stalwart abuse of the South? ern people. The American Missionary Association makes it a special work to inquire into the condition of the freed men and devise methods for their eleva? tion to a better state of citizenship, and when one of its members speaks his ut? terances are probably entitled to more than ordinary consideration. The Rev. Mr. Strieby says: But I show you another picture. It carries us back a few years. The Legis? lature of South Carolinais in session. Its members are mostly black men. They have generally no property and pay no taxes, yet they have taxed that impover? ished State to the verge of destruction, not for public improvement, but to lav? ish it upon themselves in suppers, wines, personal perquisites, in jobs and in rail? road ehernes. No more scandalous or reckless plundering of a public treasury has ever been practiced in America, and that is saying a great deal. Why is this little handful of mock legislators allowed to do this ? Why do not the people rush upon the and hurl them from the places they dishonor? Why? simply because there stands as a guard a file of United States soldiers?not themselves snflicient in numbers to be formidable, but repre? senting the national government and its authority, and to touch them is to touch it. The South is indignant, determined, and do you wonder? The troops are now gone, the black legislators dispersed and white taxpayers are in their places; and rising above all other considerations is the purpose of those taxpayers that at whatever cost, and by whatever needed methods, those irresponsible plunderers shall never come back again into power. You blame them, but I fear you would do the same yourselves under like pro? vocations. If the general government, by means of a bloody war, should subdue the Western States, and then enfranchise in any one State enough Indians to out? vote the whites, and those Indians should re-enact the plundering of the Columbia Legislature, how long would the West bear it? I suspect it would not be long till every Indian would be converted into a good Indian, but it would be in the Western sense; he would be a dead In? dian. Brethren of the North, make the case your own. Put yourself in your Southern brother's place, and judge him by your own impulses. What, then, is the true remedy for this great evil ? To answer this we must honestly consider what the real evil is. These South Car? olina taxpayers don't crush these black voters because they are black. They would do the same to the "poor whites" it they, having the numerical force, should enact the same wrongs. Nor is it because they are Republicans. The trouble, therefore, is not with the man's color or party, but with the man himself ?with his ignoranco, his degradation and his facility in being used as the tool of designing men. The remedy, theu, is uot to change his color or party, but his character. All other remedies are delusive; and it is a national folly and crime to tamper longer with them. * * * It is a shame and a grievous wrong to leave matters as they are. It is a wrong to the blacks to compel them to suffer in the South or flee to Kansas;. It is unfair to the South to put them to the dreadful alternative of suffering or doing such great wrongs. It is a shame for an en? lightened nation to keep itself thus em? broiled, to the hindrance of its prosperi? ty and the jeopardy of it3 peace. Compliment to Senator Butler. Small farms and a diversified labor are the great needs of the South. Our sec? tion will become more thrifty and pros? perous as soon as the huge plantations are divided into small farms, owned and occupied by industrious laborers, who become more substantial, law-abiding citizens as soon as they become owners of the soil. Our attention has beeD called to this subject by a recent address delivered by Senator M. C. Butler, of South Carolina, before the Chester Agri? cultural Fair. The address of Senator Butler is very interestiug. His views on political economy are sound and philo? sophical. He showed most conclusively the importance of subdividing the lands into small parcels for the purpose of diversifying the industries of the State, and attracting immigration. By facts and figures he demonstrated that, in all countries and in all agC3, those States have prospered and developed in mate? rial wealth more abundantly where lands have been subdivided into small parcels. France owes her wonderful recuperative powers and her marvellous wealth and prosperity to this one fact more than any other. England is no exception to the rule, for while her lands are owned by a few tbey are subdivided into small farms and leased to tenants for almost indefi? nite periods, the landlord receiving rent and retaining the fee simple title only. Rome, in her palmiest and most prospe? rous days, allowed an allotment of but six acres to her agricultural citizen. Senator Butler showed that South Caro? lina, with her small area of territory, had more large farms than the largest of the Northern States, and that the prosperity of the North is attributed to small farms. In comprring the material prosperity of the South with the North the disparity was most unfavorable to our section. But there wus something to be proud of in other comparisons. The figures which Senator Butler adduces show that South Carolina, with a population of 705,OUG, had in 1S7S 2,34:5 paupers, supported at au annual cost of ?224,805, while Massa? chusetts, with a population of 1,458,350, about twice the population of South Car? olina, had at the same period 8,036 pau? pers, about four times as many as South Carolina. On the 1st of June, 1870, South Carolina had 732 persons in prison, and Massachusetts had 2,520, more than three limes as many as South Carolina, yet she had but twice the population. Continuing the comparison, we will find that in 1870 Massachusetts had 2,062 in? sane persons, while South Carolina had but 333, eight times as many with twice the population, or four times as many with the same population. Of the 732 prisoners in South Carolina, only 130 were native white, and 5S4 colored and 18 foreign born, and of 2,520 prisoners in Massachusetts there were 1,152 native white, 130 colored and 1,235 foreign born. This comparison will show simi? lar results when made with any of the other Northern States, and it is proper to be made to correct misapprehensions at home as well as abroad.?Memphis Appeal. ? A negro named Mcrt was elected Circuit Court Clerk of Bolivnr County, Miss., over two white competitors, many whites votiug for him on accouut of his superior qualification. The Rev. Mr. Strieby, a celebra The Lancaster Horror?Additional Par? ticulars. From gentlemen who came over from Lancaster last week, we gathered the following particulars of the tragedy of Saturday night, the 8th instant,'in ad? dition to those already published. It is alleged by our informant, a gentleman living very near the scene of the tragedy, that the five children of Mrs. James Ad? ams were not killed with a knife, nor was the mother content with the mere cutting of the juglar veins of the children. A sharp hatchet was found in the cradle, from which the blood had evidently been washed, and with this hatch it is reason? ably believed the deed was committed. The cuts on the throats were in most instances directly across and nearly through. The infant had a terrible bruise on one of its shoulders, which was made, it is now thought, by a misslick of the hatchet, when the child must have awakened, and, having moved its head, another blow was struck, cutting deeply into the jaw, and another directly across the throat. The head of this child was nearly severed from its body. It is now thought that the children were killed on a pallet in front of the fire, and this the? ory is supported by the fact that pools of blood were found under that part of the floor immediately in front of the hearth. It is believed that the mother washed the blood from the floor with a quilt, parts of which were found, the day following, in the ashes on the hearth, saturated with blood. The children had, undoubtedly, been arranged in bed after the killing by Mrs. Adams. An additional incident is that a bottle of strychnine was found in the house on Sunday, and on a table was discovered a cup which contained water which was very bitter to the taste. It is thought the woman had taken a dose of this, which failed to produce death, when she set fire to her clothes. Be this as it may, it is alleged by Mr. Adams that fully a tablespoonful of the strychnine had dis? appeared from the bottle. The bodies of the mother and her five children were all buried on Monday following the tragedy, in a box 5$ by 6 feet, the mother being placed in one end, the baby next, and so on up to the eld? est. Our informant says that in all his experience in war and elsewhere he never witnessed such a horribly sad picture as that presented in the mother, burned to a crisp, and her five little children, with their throats cut lying in that box together.? Chester Bulletin. Words Bravely Spoken.?A corres? pondent of the Philadelphia Times has had a long interview with Mr. Bayard, and sounded him upon all the sailient qustions of the day. The replies of the Senator 'are frank and explicit. He makes uo attempt at evasion, but square? ly delivers himself upon every issue. There is a grandeur and broad statesman? ship in every utterance of this worthy patriot that should command the respect and challenge the admiration of the whole country. When the question was propounded to him, "What does the South need?" the following was the un? daunted reply of this truly great man : "The South does not need legislation; the South needs sympathy and respect. In my judgment what they need is a realiz? ing sense they are safely and securely within the Union, bound up in its des? tinies, in which they are to share the blessings as well as the burdens; but that they are not to be in the Union except upon terms thoroughly consistent with their self-respect. Everything is gained by appealing to all that is higher and better among them, and to cease the spirit of domination and constant ex? pressions of self-con9cious superiority, sending men down there to 9ee that the trials are conducted as they think they ought to be, telling tbcuj they are on tri? al, and all that sort of thing. No such spirit ought to exist, and I would not treat this Uniou as an experiment. I would treat it as a fixed fact that they are in the Union and are going to stay there; that they are going to be part of the government, and not only expect them to sustain and help it, but make that part of the country a source of strength to the whole. I want the people of the South to feel that they are a respected and essential portion of this Union and they cannot be any? thing else. Now, in order to do that, we must make their position in the Union one of boner in the first place, and then if they fall away from that it must be their own disgrace; but the honorable recog? nition must precede the other, and that they have not had yet at the hands of the Republican party. The people of tbe Northern States, whose representatives want to make a solid North, if they are wise, must see that the South must be to them one of two things?a source of weakness or a source of strength; but their present course and their present feeling is calculated to make the South a second Ireland." Two White Boys and a Negro Roasted Alive in a Cotton Press.? Ellenton, November 14.?Mr. L. A. Ash? ley, who resides about seveu miles from Ellenton, just across the Barnwell County line, lost by fire on yesterday his steam saw mill, grist mill, and gin. The gin alone was running at the time, and it is supposed that a match in the cotton was the cause of the conflagration. The press for bailing the cotton was situated in the lint room. At the time the fire occurred Teague and Jesse Owens, two white boys about 14 and 1G years of age, employed by Mr. Ashley, were in the press, and a young negro named Isaiah was working in the lint room. In a minute after the cry of fire was raised the parties in the lint room found themselves enveloped in flames and all means of escape cut off. The poor boys in the press could not get out, as the doors of the press box fas? tened from the outside. Mr. Ashley and Mr. J. M. Darlington with others who were iu the gin house at the time the fire broke out rushed to the rescue of the unfortunates, who were now in a den of fire. With axes they soon burst through the walls of the house and knocked down the doors of the press, when they dragged out the half-dead boys and negro, to find their cloth? ing all burned from their bodies and their persons fearfully burned. A physician was summoned and did all in his power to lessen their suf? fering. Jesse Owens died iu a few hours after the accident, his injuries being more severe than those of the others, who are still living, but whose final recovery is considered doubtful. In the rescue Mr. Ashley and Mr. Darlington had their hands painfully burned. The Owens boys were the only support of a widowed mother.?Neics aiid Courier. ? Cream of tartar rubbed upon soiled white kid gloves cleans them very much. ? Governor Croswell has appointed ex-Gov. H. P. Baldwin United States Senator, to fill the unexpircd term of the late Senator Chandler. ? The largest church in the United States is the First African Baptist Church, of Richmond, Va. It has 3,300 members. On one Sunday its pastor baptized 598 persons, and added nearly 900 to the church. The Great West. It is great in extent of territory, great in fertility of soil, great in excellence of climate, great in industrial activity and progress; and the most promising era of prosperity for the West has just dawned. In view of the wonderful development witnessed during the last ten years, what are we to expect in the next decade? Who will pretend to estimate the future growth of a region which, despite all ad? verse circumstances (and they have been numerous), has risen in population and wealth so rapidly in the past? The financial panic and consequent pe? riod of business depression were felt se? verely by Western farmers, but their pluck, energy and enterprise were still manifest, and even in the darkest days they made some progress. The result of this marvelous prosperity has becu a large emigration of late to Iowa. Minne? sota, Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota and other States and Territories?a constant stream of people from the East and from foreign lands pouring Westward and set? tling on those vast and fertile plains. It is said that during the year 1878 30,000, 000 acres of land were taken under tho homestead laws and by purchase, in the four States and one Territory above men? tioned, and that the population of these localities was increased over 500,000. Doubtless the present year will make a showing still more wonderful. Foreign immigration has never been as great, and a large proportion of immigrants seek homes in the West, where land is cheap. But the record for 1878 is astonishing. It is almost beyond belief that such an extensive area of land was purchased and pre-empted, and either put under cultivation or prepared for actual settle? ment in the future. Look at the facts. The six States of Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska contain not far from 225,000,000 acres, exclusive of the plains of Kansas and Nebraska. More than 30,000,000 acres more taken last year, mostly by settlers?or nearly one-seventh of this entire territory. The aggregate of productions and the accu? mulation of wealth swell with the in? crease of population. If the tide of im? migration should continue at its present stage, the growth of these States in com? ing years will be simply incalculable. There is now a population of 8,000,000, where in 1840 it was less than 1,000,000. Where in 1840 there was not a mile of railroad, there are now over 20,000 miles. When, during a period of almost unpar allelled depression throughout the coun? try, there has been a great accumulation of wealth, what will the sturdy farmers of the Western prairies accomplish in prosperous times with their number rapidly increasing and with constantly improving facilities??Cincinnati Times. Slightly Scared.?After the war ended, where once was a beautiful woods lot, was now an unsightly waste through which meandered a small creek, and when the spring came the blue grass grew as luxuriantly upon it as ever. It was about a mile from town, and Major Billy was in the habit of riding out of an evening to graze his horse. One even? ing, to his surprise, he saw fifteen or twenty large yellow suckers lying on a sandbar in the creek. He rode back home, got a minnow net, and soon land? ed them. Running after the fish had heated him considerably, as the weather was warm; he pulled off his coat, unbut? toned his collar, and, wrapping the halter around bis right hand, lay down in the shade of a bush to cool off. While lying on his back and looking up at the clouds passing slowly over him, his thoughts re? verted to the time when the Federals evacuated Tennessee and the box of cartridges he fished up out of the creek, and how he and his son William, after taking off the balls, put the powder in a large iron pot and set it by the fire to dry?the fire popped, a coal described a segment of a circle and dropped in the powder. "Fall back, William, fall back," says the Major. William had "done fell" out of the door. While ruminating on such pleasant reminis? cences, the Major fell asleep. He can tell the balance. He said: "My friend, God bless you, something crawling over my face waked me. I thought at first it was the halter, but there was a cold, slick feeling about the thing that made my flesh crawl. I opened my eyes. There was a large water-moocasin, his head raised about six inches above my nose, one glittering eye looking straight into mine, his tongue playing in and out of his mouth like sheet lightning during a hurricane. "My friend, God bless you, I expect I hollered, for the snake tucked bis head, and, seeing my shirt collar open, and thinking it a safe hiding place, glided down into my bosom. Stranger, I have had the cholera, the small-pox, shot at by the Yankees, been blown up with gunpowder, but that was the worst scrape I ever got into. That snake was squirm? ing about the pit of my stomach, his head on one side, his tail on the other, just a tickling me on the short ribs. How I got out of that shirt I don't know. The first thing I recollect was seeing that snake's tail disappear under a pile of brush in the creek." "Major, was you scared ?" "Well, slightly, stranger; God bless you, slightlv. Yes, sir, slightly."?Mer rilton (Ark.) State. How to Get Along.?Don't stop to tell stories in business hours. If you have a place of busiuess be found there when wanted. No man can get rich by sitting around stores and saloons. Never fool in business matters. Have order, system, regularity, and also promptness. Do not meddle with business you know nothing of. Do not kick every one in your path. More miles can be made in one day by going steadily then by stopping. Pay as you go. A man of honor respects his word as he does his bond. Help others when you can, but never give what you cannot afford because it is fashionable. Learn to say no. No necessity of snapping it out dog fashion, but say it firmly and respectfully. Use your brains rather than those of others. Keep ahead rather than behind the times. Learn to think and act for yourself. ? There are 17 murderers under sen teuce of death in Texas. ? A good constitution is like a money box?its full value is never knowu till it is broken. ? A beautiful young Austrian damsel traveled all the way from Vienna to Fort Worth, Texas, to marry her sweet? heart. ? You might as well back a mule up against a beehive and tell him not to kick, as to tell a woman about a wedding and not set her under jaw in motion. D. G. Owens, Druggist, Altoona, Pa., writes: "Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup has a wonderful reputation, the demand for it is really astonishing. Mothers will have no other. It is destined to supersede all other Soothing Syrups."