The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, November 27, 1879, Image 1

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BY E. B. MURKAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, 1879. VOT.TTTVf 17 Ytr _ , '-Krr\ SRJ?LEK ON POLITICS. Tilde? ?ad th? ?>.;mocrucy-How tb? ??otrtfcorn 1'paUax Will Me Itrukcu-Tito -Itea*abUcan Party's Advantage. Interview in New York Herald. What docs tbo result of the vote on 'Tuesday signify in tho politics of the State ?" "It signifies that my election was sup posed by the Faneuil Hull Democrats to injure Mr. 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 . _L burst, and Mr. Tilden, in mjr judgment. stands less chance for being elected * President than he does by being struck by lightning in the coming Winter. The Democracy will hardly push tho choice of a man for tho Presidency the second time who had not tho courage and ability to take his seat when elected to it. In my younger days it was not accus tomed to such leadership. Tho election in New York has settled that, if nothing else." "Is tho Democratic party nationally stronger or weaker for the defeat of Mr. Tilden in New York?" "Stronger, because bo represented nothing that wasu't equally represented by the Repoblican party. He represent ed the wealth, the monopolies, tho spe cial privileges, the banking and currency interests of Wall street. On thatclassoi questions the Republican party can beat him and give bim six to ten in the game, for they have become, from necessity ol administration during tho war and since the Chosen guardians of all that class o) interests. Tho Democratic party Nortli and West of Albany in New York, and west of the Al legumes in the country, arc in nn entirely different way of thinking from Mr. Tilden, and they nnver wil vote for him again, even if he wero norn inated." "Do you agree with the opinion whicl has been so generally oxpressed that th< Democratic party has no chnnce nex year in view of the results in Maine Massachusetts, Ohio, California and Nev York ?" "I agree that tho Democratic party under its present leadership, going in thc samo direction hasn't nny chance I has no chanco, because I fail to find an; distinctive difference in the principle' held unanimously by the members of th? Democratic party from thoso of tho lead ers of the Republican party, for whoa candidato the lieutenants and captains o the Democratic party in Massacbusett voted, and whom they have attempts to elect in the past two years. If yoi aay the tariff, then the Democratic lead era in Pennsylvania are tariff men ; i you say tho finance question, both pat tic:* aro split in two upon that queslio: by the backbone of the Alleganies ; if yoi say on tho question of protection of cit izens in their rights by tho General QO? eminent, the Democratic pnrty donbl whether it ought to be done. Most c the Democratic leaders are afraid to sa that it ought to bo done, and Uayci administration is afraid to do it. If yo ?peak of foreign policy, there is no ques tum between the Democrats am1 Rc publicans upon that. It took the iou months in the special Bession of Gcngrei to get up an issue last Summet on wnic ? they could divide, and that was the quei > of putting troops at tho polls when tnei were no troops to put there, and it wt wholly an immaterial question ; am further than that, neither party clnime that the presence of troops at the polis bs ever influenced one thousand votes. ] you say universal suffrage, the Demoi racy are against it in the South and tl Republicans are in favor of it in ti South and against it in the North. O the question of internal improvement the Democrats areas anxious > vote in provements for their rivers au? narbo as aro the Republicans for theirs. Upo the granting of special privileges, so th you make younolf rich by waterii stocks of railroads, a charge has bei made by Mr. Field that our last Dem eratic Presidential candidate watered tl stock of the elevated railroad to a wor extent thau any such performance b ever been carried in tho United State but Mr. Tilden roturas tho charge upi Mr. Field, and I believe them both." "You think, then, any party whii will place itsolf in linc with tho peor, will succeed ?" . "The whole history of the country h shown it. The Democratic party_ w ruined by its support of the institution slavery, which institution was not in cc 1 Honnnce with tho feelings, tha.wishes, t belief or tho sonso of justice of the pi pie, and was only sustained so mn years becanso of tho Constitutional ol gation to do so. That is now out of t way, and very soon all of the evils gre ing out of it will fade away, and wli that ia done nobody doubts that ti Democracy will reanmo ita sway in < Government except thoso who believe imperialism." Southern Feeling. "Do yon boliovo that the people of I South, as a people, are to-day disloyal in favor either of secession or in the r toration of slavery ?" "I don't believe that the people of South are in favor of the restoration Blatery, for they have seen by freo la a greater amount of product of cott tobacco and sugar than ever under system of slavery. They see now w the North learned early that slave la was not profitable and was wholly inc ?latent with Republican institution) Nor do I believe that there is any c siderablo body of men in thoSouth t .'"'rc SCCCCT'O?. I l?iiuk ail ?eu?ci men agree that that question is settle this country, certainly forciblo se? Ufc, sion." "Is there, then, any advantage to gained by keeping alive the spirit of i tionnliara which has existed in this co try since the war?" "A great advantage to the party wi can keep in power by so doing, witl disadvantage to the country. No i deprecates and deplores more "than I the spirit of lawlessness, the disregau human life, whether of whito or of bli the resort to force in tvmritifttlng ? controversies, which have shown th selves in some parts of the South, an? one 'would go further than I woul bring Such mob violence to an end." "How much longer is this conditic sectionalism in political life going last?" "It will vanish after tho electior 1880, and if the Democracy of the N are wise it viii cease to bo an eleu before them. There are many ca working to bat end. One v. rv st one is that the state of lawlessness it hiring the business intcrestsof the St lt ia preventing tho influx of ca there and entirely stopping-the flo emigration except in the ningle Sta Texas, where there has been lesa of i fact than-in any other, and where gration is equal to that of any agrie ral section cf tito West, or North. 11 * lo give no ex exdhodra nplcioji ni fuXy ;h?t it will end fn tool. My ri for so believing is that the eenuin of wilt show that political power has p from tho East and South to tho W< Many of the Western States will double their ratio of representation as well in the Electoral College as in the House. New York and tbe seaboard Will loee in like ratio. Tbe Soutb will IOHO, co that instead of having 183' ont of 309 electoral votes it will hardly nave tho proportion of one-third, if moro than one-quarter, the only gain being in Texas, which is not substantially different in popular composition from Kansas, so that the South will cease to be BO largo 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 : "Thauks for your politeness, out I muBt decline tho invitation." The reply was exactly what it should have been. He had no congratulations to offer Qoneral Qrant, and he civilly declined to play the hypocrite. The Chicago^ editor dis played very bad taste in sending his "in vitations" to Southern men, ana General Hampton gave him just the answer he deserved. General Hampton has bad the misfortune to witness the methods of GrantiBm 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 ita name. He had seen rotten State Governments up held by Grant's bayonets, in ppite of the judgment pronounced against them by a large majority of the voters at the ballot box. He had seer. United States troops take possession of a State capitol, by Grant s direction, and deny entrance to the legally elected representatives of the peoDlc. Ho has Hoen the writ of habeas corpus suspended, by Grant's order, under a law passed at Grant's dictation, arid 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 Bend any words of congratulation to their author. But, of course, the Republicans profess to feel great astonishment end in dignation at General Hampton's conduct. If he had telegraphed a message of gush ing welcomo he would have been abused ns a monster of deceit and hypocrisy. Because he did not do this he is roundly denouueed as an unrepentant and ma lignant rebel. There is nothing surpris ing in thin, but the sublimity of cheek no other word in our language will con vey the idea-is attained wheu tbe 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 tho 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 bandied with a freedom that savors very strongly of impertinence. It was mentioned that us long ns Genend Hampton was permitted lo use the Fed eral patronage to servo 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 tho Soutb. "Upon this General Hampton immediately turned his back on all bis 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 iu removing the bayonets that supported Chamber!:-.';:;';; fraudulent and corrupt government and afterwards appointed a few decent men to office, on General Hampton's suggestion, tho latter surren dered^ all independence of thought and action and became the bond slave of tho Administration. New that General Hampton chooses to act as a freeman and declines to kiss the hand of bim who scourged his people BO wantonly and so cruelly the President and bis Cabinet see fit to express their surprise and indigna tion. It is hardly necessary to say that if Mr. Hayes supposed that by doing bb sworn duty he was purchasing General Hampton he made a capital mistake. General Hampton is a man who will do that which he bclives to be right, regard less of tho "comments of Administration circles."-Augusta Chronicle and Coned tutionalist. Tho Tcxas.Paciflc. Colonel Scett, President of the Penn sylvania Railroad, in an interview with a re po. Ur. said of tho Texas-Pacific that last month it did tho largest business that was ever done by that line, showing its ability to take caro of all its obliga-, tious, and he expected when he got homo to close a contract to complete the line 750 miles weat 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 1 Atlantic to the JPaclfic Ocean. . He ex pected to meet tho Southern Pacific somewhere near the western boundary of New Mexico. It would open np an im mense agricultural and mineral region. There line will bo pretty direct from Fort Worth to El Paso, and from there to the western border of New Mexico it would follow alona close to the boundary of uia Mexico, and develop all the vast mineral wealth of that region. He con templates having ile rosa 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 mites shorter than the old lino, and passing lowest summits, which are entirely free from snow the year around, with no blockiwes to inter nint constant travel. The Texas-Pacific at its eastern tcrroi us connects with tho Iron Mountain at Texarkana. * It also connects mik toe Missouri, Kansas and Texas Road, there by forming connections with St. Lonis. The average cost of the en tiro lino 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 aa erroneous i'^ression that the Pennsylvania Ra?vay Company con trols or operates the Vexas-Pacific Road. This was a mistake; Ute Pennsylvania company has.nothing to do with iL Col onel Scott .said 'that he, in connection with some o'thcr gentlemen, run the Tex as and Pacifie Road.-St. Louis Itepubli' ' oem, November ll. - Corn is .cheaper in Iowa this fall than in any other place on the globe, selling at 18 and 20 cents nt the depots, and 10 and 15 cents at places distant from the railroads. It ie reported to be very ripe, sound and sweet, and there 1 will be 160,000,000 to 200,000,000 bnsh I pta. not one-sixth of which can bo ship ped out of tho State. LEE AMD JACKSON. Their Lagt Meeting- in tills World. FiUhiigh Lt*'* Army N. Va. Oration. Referring to the last meeting of Lee and Jackson, the speaker said : Ah, what an earnest talk Lee and Jackson had on tho night of May the 1st. At sunset they took their eeata on a log, on the right or north side of tho plank-road, ?nd a little distance in the woods. Col. Marshall, the well known aide-de-camp of Gen. Lea, was the only other person present, having boon ordered to como to tho spot for the purpose of 'writing a let ter to Mr. Davis, to be 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 no tells me Lee and Jackson talked about on that eventful night. Jackson spoke to Gen. Lee about what ho had seen and beard during the advance, and commented upon the promptness with which the enemy had nppeared to abandon his movement towards Fredricksburg when opposed, and the ease with which he had been driven back to Chancellorsville, and con cluded by expressing the opinion very decidedly, and repeating it more than once, that the enemy would recross the Rappabannock before morning. Ue said, in substance, "By to-morrow morn ing tbero will not be any of them this side of the river." Gen. Leo expressed the hope that Gen. Jackson's expectations might bo realized, but said he aid not look for such a re sult; that ho did not believe the enemy would abandon 'his attempt so easily, and expressed hui conviction that the main body of Gen. Hooker's army was in his front, and that THE BEAI< MOVE was to be made from this direction, ?nd not from Fredricksburg. On this point there was a great diff?rence of opinion amoDg our higher officers, and Gen. Lee was the only ono who seemed to have the absolute conviction that the real movement of the Federal army was tho one he was then meeting. In this j belief he never, wavered from tho first. After telling Gen. Jackson that he hopeO ; his opinion might be proved to bo cor rect, Gen. Lee added : "But, General, wo must get ready to attack the enemy if we should find him hero 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 tho enemy, and us to the existence of roads further to the ene ma's right, by which Gen. Jackson might pass so ns not to bo exposed to observa tion or attack. The general lino 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 nt the conclusion of it GEN. LEE SAID TO JACK.E0N that "before he moved in the morning, if he Bhould have any doubt as to whether ibo enemy was still m 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 gnus bad to bo withdrawn that af ternoon, as the infantry were suffering from the Pro they were drawing from the enemy Gen. Jackson then withdrew, and Gen. .Lee dictated to Col. Marshall a long'. ?tter *,o President Davis, giving him fully tho situation. In it ho regret ted be would not have the assistance of Pickett's and Hood's divisions, but ex pressed his confidence in the good judg ment "nat bad withdrawn and kept them from him, and closed with the hopo that, notwithstanding all our dangers and dis advantages, Providence would bless the efforts which he waa sure his brave army would ranko to deserve success. I give all this in detail to show the er rors writers upon Chancellorsville fell into in respect to thc origin of Jackson's famous flank movement. In a little pine thicket, close by this conference, Gen. Leo and staff bivouacked that night. Durin? the evening reports reached him from Early that all was quiet along the Rappabannock. Wilcox was. ordered back to Bauksford in consequence of other rumors. Lee's ord'-rs had been is sued ; his plana digested; his trusty lieu tenants were to carry them out ; the chieftain slept. Hooker at Chancellors ville, ono nod a half miles away, was, however, awake, for at 1.60 on the morn ing of the 2d of May ho dispatched to Butterfield to order the pontoon bridges taken up below Fredricksburg, and Rey nold's corpr to march at once to his headquarter*;. The morning of May the 2d, 1863 broke clear. Gen. Lee emerged from the little thick et and stood on ita edge at sunrise, erect and soldierly to sea Jackson'*! troops file by. They had bivouacked on his right, and were now commencing the flank movement. About half hour after sonriso Jackson himself came riding along. When oppo site to Gen. Lee he drew rein, and the two conversed for a few moments. Jackson ther. started forward, pointing in the direction his troops ?ere moving. His face was a little flushed, Col. Mar shall says, as it waa turned back towards Gen. Lee, who nodded approval to what he had said. The sun rose unclouded and brilliant, gilding the hilltops and Senetrating the vapors of the valley, .{sing as gorgeous as did the "sun of Austerlitz," which produced such an im I precies rp?s lbs i?Ti?.?'.?.?l?uu of Napo I leon, it should be remembered by the people of the South, for ita rays fell upon the last meeting in this world of Lee and Jackson. The Duke of Wellington said a man of refined Christain sensibilities ts 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 TUKTLE.-There is a little negro girl about five years old in this county nearing in many respects a strik ing semblance to a loggerhead turtle. T".? jose is hardly moro than an idea, whilo the eyes have that peculiar ana unintelligible stare, as if looking every where and seeing nothing. From tho back of tho neck* downward an impres sion is easily distinguishable resembling the breast bono 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, strango LS it may seem, possesses the power of speech, and shows a degree of intelli gence estire a? Valiance with ail hereto fore preconceived Ideta of an intelligent courtenanceC With nn appetite which is insatiable Sn its demands, anfl a fond ness for raw meat, especially fish ; a courage, or rather an utter incapacity to appreciate danger ; a love for aquatic sports, and* wildjoy in the water, render this negro girl, if such she may bo called, a phenomenon unequalled in this or other country.-Kaufman. tTkrtt?) Time?. - Governor Simpson upon his recent visit to Philadelphia was mistaken for President Hajen. THE HIDDEN BRIGADIER. A Conic tlerato General's Ufo M m Re cl uto? and Ul? Discovery by His Relatives. ? Confederate General has been dis* covered living isolated in a little stone house, And by himself, about a mile and a half from Montgomery, between that villsge and Bemington, near the Mariet ta Railroad. The name of this singular individual is Gen. W. W. Metcalfe, who served honorably in tho Confederate service during the late war, and lost all his prop erty, which was located in the South, dar ing the war. Ile was quite wealthy, but tho war swept away what property he had, and ho was left at the age of 88 without a son. All that bo had left was his honor and his family. His wife died shortly after tho clono of the war, and he had two daughters left him, who are now married and livo 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 bira since his retirement from tho army serv ice, lie found Dr. W. W. Dawson, and intrusted his cone to him. The Doctor expressed sorpriso at meeting him in an impecunious condition, as be had known bim several years previous. The Gener al said he would like to get away from all of his associates. He had lost every thing duriug tho war, and he wanted te settle down somewhere os a recluse and be forgotten for the time by all who knew him. The Doctor owned a farra near Montgomery, and told him ho could go out and live on tho farm and cultivate it for him. This was in 1875. The Gen eral accepted both tho treatment for bil disease and tbe proposition to cultiv?t* the Doctor's farm. Here ho lived Co some time aa a common farm hand, un der an assumed uame, the uoctor neve letting out the secret. General Metcalf made friends by bis unostentatious am urbano manners among the neighbors and labored early and late. After sever al months ho went to work for anothe farmer in the neighborhood named Kel 1er and managed to conceal bin indent.l all that time. He then went into th employ ot W. H. Willis, near by, in th cultivation und management of his farn Ho occupied a little stone hut away o in a field 'by himself. Here ho cooke and ate bis meals and was unknown t almost every one around him. Th house he now occupies was formerly use as a milk house. It is only about trrelv feet high from tho ground, and has onl ono room with a garret ab'.vo, with th roof projecting in front at the gable en? and which is in a very dilapidated coi dition. Tho ferr .?ouso connected wit it was burned tn t JO grouud some tin ago. His identity was discovered aboi three weeks ago in a singular manne From what cac be learned from the pe Ele who have conversed with him sim is identity was made known, it appen that the General was born in Bardntow Ky., and was educated at Danville, K He claims that he graduated in math matics at Lexington, Va., under Sion wall Jackson. About a month ago professor in tbe Danville College went Montgomery to visit Rev. Mr. Cortelvc the Presbyterian minister at that pim and while there received tho inform?t! that Gen. Matcalfe, a graduate of Di ville, was living as a recluse on A fa near the village. Upon his return Danville the professor informed Gi Metcalfe's brother, who is a merchant Danville, tl. at he had discovered 1 whereabouts of his brother, and gt him tho name of Montgomery, Hamil! County, Ohio, near which place the G eral resided. Accordingly, not long afterward, a 1 ter was received by tho Greneral from brother, whom he bad not seen for se? al years, and soon thereafter the Gene was hunted up by one of his marr daughters, who lives in Virginia. Si then he hos showed no disposition conceal himself, and he visita Montg< cry almost every day and converses v. friends connected with the Maa ic order. He is a member of Knights Templar, and has unbosoi himself freely to Mr. Foster Todd, a { cor and dry goods merchant of Mi gomery. He hos expressed a d?sir? tell bim about bis past life. Thus Mr. Todd bas not availed himself of Eriviiego of visiting the General at ermi t-like retreat on the Willis farm, oral miles from nowhere; but he eays General is a genetleman of intellige and converses fluently upon all the ren* topics of tho day. Ho has evid ly 'rcpt himself well posted upon .political topics of the dav, and ho si ny his conversation that he is not bel the times. One of his neighbors is Hampton, the agricultural implei dealer in this city, who lives about tl Ifourths of a mile away. Gu Sunday General made a short call unon Hr opton BS bo was passing by, expressed a desire to have him over and Bee bim. Mr. Hi ton told the. General that he i call and BOO him first and let him 1 where he lived. The Gener. i re] that he would como over and see and have a long talk with him. wanted to tell bim what a big rebi was. and jdv? bim tbe ?tory cf hit vcntui;3 .afore, during and since war. Ho Bald ho, was tho biggest that ever lived, and ho expressed a ? to Bit down and tell all bo knew. Hampton has not yet had the oppot ty to call on tho military hermit, Ia the Confederate Army, C. S. A. A representativo of tho Comm .1_"?_.?_J__?.-/?_ i .li. ...V..O VU? J WJIVIUUJ W HU A il. ?O OiU man aud have a conversation with After much research ann driving twerty miles of roads he found whci recluse lived, al), by himself, lt about 7.80 when tho reporter drove tho little lonely house, away off i fields, potato patches and a few seal apple trees., by itself. A small emitted by' a little coal oil lamp seen dimly through a diminutive washed window. The name of tho eral was called, but nobody respo The premises wero thoroughly sc and tho straw barn ransacked, but r was found. Nothing In the viciait dicated there was a living soul ai Tho bcd in the little roora waa i turned, as the occupant bad gono return later in tho evening.-Clin Commercial, _^ - Tho Bural New Yorker is 1? praise of emasculated.cats. The* to twice tho size of other cats, catel rats, aro cleaner, and altogether plary ii. 'heir conduct. _Dr. W. A. W Rjvr>*"??oed, of H. j Ala., owns tho sword Wnshingtoi during the Revolution. Tho Fat his Country converted one edge ?word Into a pruning-knife after tl and finally gave it to tho grandin! ito present owner a year before hi - A. Southam Representative it ?ress, whose name is not given, bi i described as a staunch Dorn ocra a reporter hut Saturday that the erato v??? uara ail they want te keeping tho South "solid" at th . election, and that if the Democrai tensions in New York State couth I South will look out fdr itself. ?.?IMI-MII-fll ni mini. ?Trs. Potts, the Fedestrlenue. The telegeaph briefly reported, on the 13th, that Mrs. Potts, the pedestriennc, attempted to commit suicide in Phila delphia, on the night of the 12th instant. The Philadelphia Time* pf the 1 iih con i tains the following account of tho affair, with some other information regarding the'tramp the woman recently made through the country : "Oa October 12, a spry little woman skipped into the Tim??'reportorial rooms and announced herself as Hrs. Mattie Potts, who had just completed n walk to New Orleans and return, 2,600 miles, for a wager of 90,000 The task had been executed between M^y 18th and October 12tb, over the rough cross-ties and road beds of tho railroads south of Washing ton. She said a number of gentlemen bad raised tho purse, but declined to give their names, which created the itu Ei c: ion in the mind of the reporter of er experience that these gentlemen were like Falstaff's men in bucle-rain, or the mythical Mrs. Harris, tho friend of Mrs. Gamp. Mrs. Potts said sho had notes of her journey, was going to issue a book about it, and wonld 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 thora was no longer any enthusiasm in legs to be aroused. She walked awhile for $10 a week in a Sansom street saloon, in a halo of cigar smoke aud beor fume. Thia venture als ? ?--ont up in smoko a week ago. Sho cbdnu to have been negotia ting to walk it Pittsburg. She was left stranded high and dry, with not a cent to liquidate her board bills. 3he tried va rious avenues of employment, among others, she avers, the Women's Christinn Association, a Seventh street intelligence office, meeting the cold shoulder at the former place when her antecedents as e pedestrian became known. Sho was ont week in arrears for her board at thc Alleghany HouBe, and things looked des' Cerate and dismnl. The dollar sho had cen given by a lady molted away iii ?aying for lodgings and meals at the /omen's Christian Association, and or Wednesday she was penniless. A RESOLUTION TO DIE. She walked out near the Germantowr Junction and sat down and wrote a nott with a lead pencil, addressed to tho Bal tlmore American, the Philadelphia Times New York Herald, Charlotte (N. C. Observer, Atlanta Constitution and Nev Orleans Thr.ie, in which she explainei who she was, told all about her inoffect uni efforts to obtain employment, ho\ her "backers" had failed to keep tbei promises about tho $5,000 stake, and he resolution to lay her head upon the rail road track, on Tuesday Dight, to be rai over. Sho declared that sue was perfect ly sane, but had no relatives and nothin? to live for. The body was to bc given t the medical students. Tho note said tho tho writer had a valise at the America Hotel, Baltimore, with her notes of th Southern tramp, a trunk at 201 Eat Twenty-seventh, New York, and som othor cxicles at the Alleghany HOUBI Whether her intention to destroy horse' under ono of the lightning trains on th New York Division of tho Pennsylvani Railroad was sincere or not, it ht certai that about 5} o'clock on Wedneeda night, Policeman Egolf, of the Twent; second district, who was on duty at Ge mantown Junction, saw a woman wt waa walking to and fro, in apparent ag tatton, near the station. She told hi she was Mrs. Mattie Potts, the pede trian ; that she was homeless and penn less and moant to destroy herself under train. Rho told him she had her deal warrant with her and was tired of lil Sho waa taken to the Twcoty-aecond di trict police station, and tho letter me tionea above, addressed to tho newsp pera, was found upon her. During tl night, whouever the long, shrill whist of the trains speeding by near the poli station woro hoard, tho woman started i aod begged to bo let nut that she mig go and throw herself under the locom tive. WAS SHE PLAYING A GAHE? The turnkey and others who heard ii concluded that she was cranky, or R playing a dodge of some kind. Yest day afternoon tba woman, who is knot as the Widow Potts, apparently abc forty-five years of age, of slight Agu elna in comfortable garments and havi about the jaw and eyes the indications resolution, was arraigned before Mag trate Pole. When asked her name a residence she said she was a native North Carolina, aod had resided in N York for nine years past. Poilee&i Egolf told about Soding her, and thol ter was produced. Mrs. Potts, in response to the msc trato's question, stood up and enid tl thc policeman's statement wai true, a that she did not want to go to the ho of correction, but wanted a home s employment. She said ?ho was will: to go to work at anything; aod had tr to get a situation. She was told that ! case would bo held under advisemc There ia a law against attempted suic which has been once or twice cuforc but this cannot be applied to the pee Irian's case, as, beyond her own dccln tion of tho intention; nothing has b shown indicating her real purpose, i afterwards was found down in Tumi Holloway's department, eating gin; bread and marching up and down, v, nono of the appearance of a lunntic o suicide. She was very much disraeli to convene. "Now that you say the men who pri Lied to p;l va von the nu ree of ?5.Q0? the New Orleans walk have gone b on their vord, supposo you givo tl names for Lublication," a visitor said KO M KCIII NO ABOUT HERSELF. "No," came from the sturdy jaws I hou munched peanuts, ice, lemons* other luxuries on the weary tn through tho South last summer; "ni am bound by an oath not to reveal ,j and f won't- even ih^ngh they havo trayed mo in that matter. I had a si lar experience in Baltimore and ovei New York. Hera I. walked for 91 week, but I got my money. I tried e^ day to get honest roployment, but fal I once thought of throwing myself oil Wilmington train, bu? the boys on P. W. and P. trains treated me so oh my long walk by supplying me i lemons, oranges, ice aaa other dclica that 1 thought it iogratitude to t their track or engines. When I found at New York Junction I jost desperate enough to do what 1 sal would. I was going to take off my and coat. I didn't want th.ji spo I'm a widow, iicneat, and WHS bor Eatenville, Chowan County, North olina, where I waa raised. I then i to New York. I have complete not?; my walk, and some other notes whit sent to a New York paper." Hero broke off aod m umed bet- walk up down the reserve drill room. "I car this," nbe said again, "a gentleman boro this afternoon who told me tha wculd see that I didn't want for thing." Tho icha that she really int ed suicide did not fiud a lodgment ii minds of the spectators at the hen the conclusion being that che want? create sympathy. ? Mill . ' ? Justice to tho South. The American Missionary Association recent?y held its annual meeting in Chi cago. The Kev. Mr. Strleby, a~ celebra? j ted divino of New York, and one of the founders of the Oberlin College, corres? ponding secretary of the assaclotion, de livered himself of a very sensible ad dress on tbe subject of the Soutborn ne gro, in which no took occasion to ad' minister a very dignified but severe re buke to tbe stalwart abuse of the South ern people. The American Missionary Association makes is a special work to inquire into the condition of the freed men and devise methods for their eleva tion to a better state of oitirenship, and when one of its members sneaks his ut terances are probably entitled to more than ordinary consideration. The Rev. Mr. Strieby says : But I snow you another picture. It carries us back a few years. The Legis lature of South Carolina is 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 ch?mes. No more scandalous or reckless plundering of a public treasury hos 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 os a guard a file of United Statte soldiers-uot themselves snfilcient in numbers to bo formidable, but repre sooting tho national government and its authority, aud to touch them is to touch it. Tho South is indignant, determined, ?nd do yen wonder? The Uoups are now gone, tho black legislators dispersed and white taxpayers aro in their places; and rising above all other considerations is the purpose of those taxpayers that at whatever coat, and by whatever needed methods, those irresponsible plunderers shall never como back again into power. You blame thom, but I fcav you would do tho same yourselves under like pro vocations. If tho general government, by means of a bloody war. snould subdue the Western States, and then enfranchise in any one State enough Indians to out vote tho whites, t \ thoso Indians should ro-cnact the plundering of the Columbia Legislature, how long would the West bear it? I suspect it would not bo long j till every Indian would be converted into a good Indian, but it would be in tho Western sense ; ho would bo a dead In dian. Brethren of tho North, mako tho case your own. tut yourself in your Southern brother's place, and judge him by your own impulses. What, then, is tho 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 tbese black voters because they ore black. They would do tho same to the "poor whites" it they, having tho numerical force, should enact tho samo wrongs. Nor is it because they aro Republicana. The 1 trouble, therefore, is not with tho man's color or party, but with tho man himself -with his ignorance, his degradation and bis facility in being used as tbe tool of designing mon. The remedy, then, is uot tc chango 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 ?eave matters as they are. It is a wrong to the blacks tc compel them to suffer in tho South or flee to Kansas. It is unfair to the South to put them to the droadful alternative of suffering or doing such great wrongs. It is a shame for an cn lightened nation to keep itself thus em* bro. 1, to the hindrance pf its prosperi ty and the jeopardy of its peace. Compliment to ^jnator Butler. Small farms and a diversified labor ere tho great uceds of the South. Our sec tion will become more thrifty and pros porous as soon as the hugo plantations are divided into small farms, owned and occupied by industrious laborers, who become moro substantial, law-abiding citizens as soon as they becomo owners of tbe soil. Oar attention has been 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 intcrestiug. His views on political economy aro sound and philo sophical. He showed most conclusively the importance of subdividing the lands into small parcels for tho purpose of diversifying tho industries of the State, and attracting immigration. By fr and figures he demonstrated that, tu countries and in all ages, thoso States havo prospered and developed in mate rial wealth moro abundantly where lands havo been subdivided into small parcels. France owes her wonderful recuperativo powers and her marvellous wealth and prosperity to this one fact more than any other. England is no exception to tho rule, for while her lands are owned by a few they are subdivided into small farms and leased to tenants fur almost indefi nite periods, tho landlord receiving rent and retaining tho fee simple titlo only. Rome, in her palmiest and most prospe rous days, allowed an allotmcut of but six acres to her agricultural citizen Senator Butler showed that South Caro lina, with her small area of territory, bad j more large farms than the largest of the Northern States, and that tho prosperity ol' tho North is attributed to Btna? terms. In comprriug tho material prosperity of the South with the North the disparity was most unfavorable to our section. But lhere was something to be proud of in other comparisons. The figures which Senator Butler adduces show that South Carolina, with a population of 705,606, had ia 1878 2,343 paupers, supported at au annual cost of $224,805, while Massa* chusetts, with a population of 1,458,350, about twice tbe population of South Car olina, had at the samo period 8,036 pau pers, about four times as many as South Caroiit-a, On tho ?st ot June, 1870, South Carolina had 782 persons in prison, and Massachusetts bsd 2.526, more than three times os many as South Carolina, yet she had but twice the population. Continuing the comparison, we will find that iu 1870 Massachusetts bad 2.662 in sane persons, while South Carolina had but 333, eight times as many with twice tho population, or four times as manyi with the samo population. Of the 782 prisoners in South Carolina, only 130 j were satire ?rhSis, and 551 colored as? 13 foreign born, and of 2,526 prisoners in ! Massachusetts there were 1,152 native white, 189 colored and 1.285 foreign! bern. This comparison will show simi lar results when made with any of the other Northern States, and it w proper to be reade to correct misapprehensions at homo as wdl as ahmad.-Memphis Appeal. - A negro n?raed Mert waa elected Circuit Court Clerk of Bolivar County, Misa., over two white competitors, many whites voting for htm on account of his superior qualification. Too Lancaster Horror--Additional Par? tlcoiarf. From gentlemen who came over from Lancaster last week, we gather*, tho following particulars of tho txngedy of Saturday night, the 8th instant; in ad dition to those already published. It io alleged by our informant, a gentleman living very near the scene of tho tragedy, that the five children of Mrs. James Ad ams were not killed with % knife; nor waa the mother content with the mere cnUiug 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 batch it is reason? ably believed the deed was committed. The cots on the throats wore in most instances directly across and nearly through. The infant had ft terrible bruise on one of ita shoulders, which, was mado, it is now thought, by a missllck of the hatchet, when the child must have awakened, and, having moved ita 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 tho children were killed on a pallet in front of the fire, and thia the* ory is supported by the fact that pooh of blood were found under that port 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 tho ashes on tho hearth, saturated with blood. The children had, undoubtedly, been arranged in bed after the killing by Mrs. Adams. An additional incident is that a boltlo of strychnine was found in the house on Sunday, and on r- ?able waa discovered a cup which contained water which waa very bitter to the taste. It ls thought the woman had taken a dose of this, which failed to produce death, whoa she wt fire to her clothes. Be this as it may, vt ls alleged by Mr. Adams that folly R tablespoonful of tho strychnine had dis appeared from the bottle. The bodies of the mother and ber five ' children were all buried on Monday following tho tragedy, in a box 5} by 6 feet, tho mother hoing placed in one end, tho baby next, and so on np to the old? est. Our informant says that in all his experience in war and elsewhere he never witnessed such a horribly ead picture a. that presented in the mother,- burned to a crisp, and her fivo littlo children, with their throats cut lying in that box together.-Chester Bulletin. WORDS BRAVELY SPOKEN.-A corres* pendent of the Philadelphia Times has lind n long interview with Mr. Bayard, and Bounded him upon all the Baillent ?ustions of the day. The replies of the ..enator 'aro frank and explicit. He makes no attempt at evasion, but square ly delivers himself upon every Issue. There is a grandeur ana broad statesman ship in every utterance of this worthy patriot that should command the respect and challenge tho admiration of the whole country. When the question waa Bropounded to him. "What' does the outh need?" the following was the un daunted reply of this truly great man : "Thc South does not noca legislation; tho 8outh noeds sympathy and respect. In ray judgment what they need is a realiz ing Bense they are safely and securely within tho Union, bound up in its des tinies, in which they are to share the blessings aa well as the burdons ; 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 ot domination and constant ex pressions of self-conscious superiority, Bending men down there to see that the trials are conducted as they think they ought to be, telling them they aro on tri al, and all that sort of thing. No such spirit ought to exist, and I would not treat thia Union as an experiment. I would treat it as a fixed faot that they are in the Union and are going to stay there; that they are going to be part of tho government, and not only expect ?hem to sustain and *"dp it, but make '.bri part of tho 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 oe any thing else.. Now, in order to do that, wo must make their position in the Union one of boner in the first place, and then if they fall sway from that it must be iholr own disgrace ; but tho honorable recog nition must precede tho --ther, and that they have not had yot at me hands of tho Republican party. Tho people of tho Northern States, whose repr?sentative! want to make a solid North, if they are wisc, must see that tho South most be to them one of two things- a source of weakness or ' ? source of strength ; but their present course and their present feeling ls calculated to Stake tho South a second Ireland.'' Two WHITE BOYS ANO A NEGRO ROASTED ALIVE IN A COTTON PRESS. - Ellenton, November 14:--Mr. L. A. Ash ley, who resides aboat seven miles from Ellenton, just across tho Barnwell County line, lost by tire on yesterday his steem saw mill, grist mill, and gin, The gin alone was running at the time, and lt 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 16 years of age, employed by Mr. Ashley, were in tho press, and a young negro named Isaiah was v >rting in the lint room, in a minute arter inks cry of fire was raised the parties in tho lint room found themselves enveloped in flames and all means of escape cat off. Tho poor boy., in the press could not get out, as the doors of tho press box fas tened from thc outside. Mr. Ashley and Mr. J. M. Darlington with others who wore in \\J gin house at the time tho uro broke o.t rushed to tho rescue of the un fortuna . ?, who were ! now In a den of fire. 'v,th axes they soon burnt through tho wv*' ' of tho house end knocked dcm th's doors of ino press, when they dragged ont the half-dead boys and negro, to find their cloth ing all burned, from their bodies and their persons fearfully burned. A physician waa summoned and did all In his. power to lessen their suf fering. Jesse Owens died in a few hourn after the accident, his injuries being more severe than those of the others, who are still living, bat whose final recovery is considered doubtful. In the rese?e Mr. Ashley, and. Mr. Dallington had their bands painfully burned. Tho Owens boys wore tho only support of s. "Adored mother.-Airtes and Ocuricr. - Cream offrit? rubbed upon soiled white kid glovM cleans them very much. - Governor Cromwell bar appointed ex-Gov. H. P. Baldwin Unite* Statct Senator, to fill the unexpired term of thc late Senator Chandler. - The largest church in the United Stetes to the First African Baptist Church, of Richmond, Va. It nos 3,80Q members. On one Sunday its pastor bop ti ted r>98 pertuns, and added nearly 900 to tho church. Tue Great Weit. It ia great in exieut of territory, .weat la fertility ot soil, great in excellence of climste, great in industrial activity and progress ; and ' .VJ inoet promising era of ?rcoperlty for the West Las just dawned, a view of the wonderful development witnessed during the last ten years, what ara wo to expect in the nest decade? Who will pretend to estimate th-, future growth of a region which, despite all ad verse circumstances (and they havo been numerous), has risen ia population and wealth ito rapidly iu *be past? ? Tho fit. social pyudc ana consequent pe riod of business depression were felt se verely by Westerr farmers, but their pluck; energy and enterase were still manliest, and even ir. the darkest days . they made some progress. Tho result of this marvelous prosperity has been a large emigration of late io Iowa, Minne sota, Kansas, Nebraska. Dakota and other States and Territories-a constant stream of people from tho East and from foreign lands pouring Westward and set tling on those vast tad fertile plains. It ul ?aid that danna the year 1878 80,000, 000 acres of lana were taken under tho homestead fews and by purchase, in the four States and one Territory above men tioned, and that the population of these localities was increased over 600,000. Doubtless tho present year will make a showing e?ll more wonderful. Foreign immigration baa never been as great, and W : a largo proportion of immigrants seek homes in tho West, where land is cheap. But the record for 1878 LB astonishing. It ls almost biifond belief that such au extensive arcu of land was purchased and pre-empted, and either put auder cultivation or prepared for actual settle msntin the future. Look at the facts. Tho ?Ix States of Iowa. Mlaaonrl. lilian^ Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska contain not far from 225.000,000 *crea, exclusive of tho plains of Kansas and' Nebraska. Mora than 80,000,000 acres more taken last year, mostly, by settlers-or nearly onosovonth of tbJa entire territory. The aggregate of productions and tho accu mulation of wealth swell with the in crease of population. If tho tide of ira- . migration should continue at ita present stage, the growth of these States in com ing years will be simply incaleuiable. There ls now a population of 8,000,000, where in 1840 it waa lesa than 1,000,000. Where in 1840 there was net a mile of railroad, there are nov/ over 20,000 miles. When, during a period of almost unpar allelled depression throughout the coun try, there has been a great nceurauVttion of wealth, what will tho sturdy farmers of tho Western prairies accomplish in prosperous times , with their number rapidly increasing and'with constantly improvirg facilities?-Cincinnati limes. SLIGHTLY SCABED.-After tho war ended, where ?ned was a beautiful woods lot, was now an unsightly w?ste through which meandered a small creek, and when the spring came the blue grass grew as luxuriantly.upou it na ever. It was about a mile from town., and Major Billy was in tho habit of riding out of an evening to graze his horse. "One even ing', to his surprise, he saw fifteen or twenty largo youow suckers lying on a sandbar in the cwk. He rode back home, got a minnow net, and soon land* ed them. Bunning after tho flab, had heated him considerably, as the weather was warm ; he pulled off his coat, unbut toned bis collar, and, wrapping the balser around his right hand, lay down in tho shade bf a bush to cool off. While ly ing on hui back and looking up at the clouds pasting slowly over him, bis th?nebts re verted to the time when the Foder*Ts. evacuated Tennessee and the box cartridges he fished up out of tho creen:, and how bo ?nd his eon William, after Itaking 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 circlo ?nd dropped in the powder. "Fail back, William, fall back," says the Major. William had "done f?H" ou.t of tho -.door. Whfls ruminating on such pleasant remmts* . conces, the Major .ell asleep. He can toll the balance. He said : ^My. friend, God b'eas yon. something crawling over my face waked me. I thought at firat it was the halter, but there was a cold, slick feeling about tho thing that made my flesb crawl. I opened my eyes. There was a large wator-moocasin, his head raised about six inches above my nose, Ione glittering eye looking straight into mine, his tongue playing in and out of his mouth Uke6hcet lightning buring a hurricane. "My friehdtGod bless yon, I expect I hollered, for Ute snake tucked his head, and, seeing my shirt collar open, and thinking it a safe hiding place, glided down into my bosom; Strenger,. I have had the cholera, tho small-pox, shot at by the Yankees; been blown up with gunpowder, bat that waa tho worct scrape 1 ever got into.. Tba? snake waa wj?u-ni lng about the nit of my stomach, his head on ono slue, his tail on tho other, ju8t a tickling ine on the Bhort ribs. How I got ont of that ehirt I don't know. The first thing: I recollect was seeing that snake's tail disappear under a pile of brush in tho creek." "Majorv*?as von scared ?" "Well.'slightly, stranger; God bless you, slightly. Yes, sir, sUgh?y.'^-Jj?r^ ? r?t?on (Irk.) .State. ^ _ How TO GKT Ai/me-Don't Btop to tell stories in business hours. If yon have ft piece of business be fonnd there when wanted. No man cu get rich bj sitting around stores and saloons. M_I j\_1_t-.- - . Morvn .w. .M w .M I ll OOO DIBMOn). ' Have order, system, regularity, and also promptness. Do not meddle with busineis you knew nothing of. Do not kick every ono In your path. H ^ Moro miles can bo mado in one day by going steadily then by stopping. Pay asyou go. A man of honor respects his word as bo , does his bond. , Holp others whoa yoa can, bot never , give what you cannot afford bemuse it ia sw? o -.0 tl n o t Co Learn to say no. ..No. necessity of ! snapping it out dog fashion, but say it ; firmly ard rospectfiilly. Use your brains rather than those of others. Keep ahead rather than behind the i times. . . . " , .. Learn to think and not for yourself. ! _There are 17 murderers under ecu i tcuce of death in Texas. Ll. '-. A Bood contt? tatton ia Lia a monav i box-ita fall value ia never known till I it is broken. ... - A beautiful young Austrian damsel traveled all ?ho way from Vienna to Fott Worth, Texas, to marry her sweet heart. ' ? . _ You might aa well back o mute up , against a beehive and tell him not to kick, na to tftll a woman abont a wedding and not set ber under jaw in mellor), ? D. G. Owens, Druggist, Altoona, Bi., ; writes: "Dr. Billi's Baby Syrap bas a svdcdcrful reputation, the demand fer it U really astonishing. Mothers will have bo ether. It is de-?!r.r.d to snpertcde sil other Soothing Syrups."