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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1880. VOLUME XV.-NO. M. UUH. UAUK'S I'UMTIOS. Ills Speech lie io re the Kdgeflold Demo-' era tl o Convention* Mr. President and Gentlemen af the Con' vention : I am at all times ready to re spond to any call from the Democracy of thia State. The ties that should hind us together are greater and should be stronger than those of ordinary party as sociations.. With on it is not only a Con test for the enactment of a favorite meas ure or the adoption or a particular prin cipio, but it is a struggle to preserve the civilization of our race. It waa from such an appreciation of tbn Democracy of this State that I. in obedience to the unanimous voice cf the Convention and from a sense of duty that I owed to the county and State, accepted the leadership of the Democracy of thia county io the campaign of 1876. Before that year our party had been invariably defeated, but after our exciting and brilliautcampaign we won a grand victory. As your State Senator I have advo cated the policy of white supremacy, and the principles of Straigbtont Dprnocracy, ns received from Jefferson, Madison and Jackeon, the great leaders of tho party. I opposed the secession of the Demo cratic Senators from the Senate, against the wishes of the leaden of the party, on the ground that such a step would be in violation of the Constitution of tho Stato, would be revolutionary, and would be in effect to throw away the fruits of our splendid victory at tho ballot-box. Time has vindicated tho wisdom of those ol us who refused to recede, and thereby paved the Stato from lapsing again undei Radical rule. I favored a restoration of the usury laws in order to protect the poor and needy from the unlimited usury of the money lenders. I opposed the amend ment to the Constitution which levied annually not less than two mills on thc dollar for educational purposes, ss being without precedent, in conflict with othci portions of the Stato Constitution, and ugainst tho spirit and letter of the Coir stitution of tho United States, and foi tho further reason that this iniquitoui measure WOB conceived by the leaders o: the Radical party. I strenuously opposed the education o tho children of the whiles and blacks ir tho samo schools and colleges. I favorer! the passage of the act that prohibited th< intermarriage of the whites and blacks I approved tho passage of the act thu gave to the Governor tho right to nol pros, indictments found against Radica violators of the law. I was in favor o "putting into the bands of every hones man a whip to lash the rascals nake< through the world." a I opposed the pay of either the prin cipal or interest of the fraudulent bond issued during tho eight years of Radica rule ia this State. I favored retrench ment and reform in all the offices of tb State. I advocated the election of nev judges, and the throwing ont of office al judges who bold office under a Radica administration. I advocated the reduc tion of county and State taxes within fiv mills on the dollar. I am satisfied tba a prudent and economical administratioi of the finances of the State will reduc our present enormous taxes, which ar about one per cent, on $120,651.624, tb amount of the present taxable propert of the State. Before the war the aggr< tate taxable property of the Stato wc 532,530,552. Our taxes then for Stat am. county purposes were from three t four mills on the dollar. Tho valuatio of property under the present Radio; system ia an unjust, unequal and a fict: tious ono ; the valuo given to propert by the auditor; ia not upon the preset standard of the value of the propert; but it is referred back to what it *i worth before the war, and is usually va ued at twice the amount it will sell for i open market.at tho pr ?nt time. TL practical operation of this system is 1 cause the taxpayers of tho State to pr about twenty-four mills on the dollar ii stead of eleven and three-quarter mill tho amount of the tax imposed for tl county by the last G?nerai Assembl The system hos driven capital out cf ti State, and bas prevented capital fro coining into the State. Thia is a drea ful and oppressive evil upon thc po taxpayer, for the last analysis of tax .unk? those who cultivate the soil pi the taxes of tho Government. This hi den and insidious system of taxation c: but alarm all who aro acquainted wi tho laws that should regulate taxes, i they can but see that it will absorb tl Iiroperty of the taxpayers and ruin eve nterest of the State. Within tho h three years the shrinkage in the value the taxable property of the Stnta h been about fifteen millions of dolla Unless a proper and wise remedy is n plied, it will continue to decrease in tl .unprecedented manner. Instead of pi ting men who cannot manage their o\ small finances successfully in charge the finances of tho Stato, you must ph practical, level-headed men in the G< eral Assembly, who will be able to sol this vexed and important question of ti atiba;:1 If aman cannot manage his o business successfully, you may rest sal A_a .1_*. l- - - .-, - "I..-1 . ,. ,, UCU IliaU WO VCUIKIU UUIU|MVUVUU vJi lill ago tho aggregate business of tho peo; of this State. In my capacity as State Senator I lu labored for all these measures, ant have met with opposition in tho pa and out of lt. Sonia of the measu that I have opposed were the pct mc urea of the Radical party, and thoy w wi MU i j ?uu onjjvu.jr tuiiuviareu vj ?" - men, who are known as tba. Fus alAmont in the Democratic party. The question. of Stralghlout Dem racy is to be fought again in this co paign; the battle of 1876 is to bo uewod. It will bo the great issue of canvass. If the Straight-out policy i ?tarty should fail, the civilization of I State will be again imperilled, peaco i prosperity will bo ununown, the gi agricultural aud commercial industi wu! become paralysed, and a gloom \ again sbttlo upon us, and tho d bhmlow of misfortune will ?nvclope entire State. The Iliad of woes that1 flow from it cannot be enumerated or Urinated ; our women and men again bemoan the Radical rule that ' ruin and desolate tho country. The names of some of the Fusion U era of 1876 have coen put forward by Press of tho State for the highest oil of the State, and the choice will ai have to be.made in the convention ot Earty or by the primariea.of ?be ? (toreen thn advocates of Stralgh Democracy and Fusion Democracy, tho AugURt convention of 1876 Straightoac party, arter defeating Fusionisls bofore tho convention, i ?pint of fairneea and generosity ead ored to divide equally tbs Slits o? boUvi.cn tho two wings of the pari Tho result haa-been that, although State was in 1876 aud in 1878 in fav< the Straightout policy by a large roi Hy of theolectors, we have had du ail that time a Fusion Administra and these same men who were read run ou Chamberlain'* ticket In 1876, did run on the Democratic ticket in 1 1878, arc again eager for a third ten ?jffloe io 1880. Do they wont ? office ? Ie there not some way cf t fying their greed for office? Was one of them ever known to decline any office? In placing them in power the Straight out leaders made a great mistake, for there is no gratitude in politics. It is said that Gen. Jackson, the greatest of Democratic leaders, applied to party sue? cess the military maxim, "To the victor belongs the spoils." If we had followed this maxim the State would have been in better condition, and ibero would have been greater nutty and harmony in the party. Parties aro organized by voluntary as sociation of the members for the purpose of carrying out certain measures and principles. They are not organized for VES SSTSRCS??SEV lu vuiv/v v.* luuiiiuuan or certain families. Tho door must bo left wide open to all, and not shut in the fnco of tho most humble and obscuro. It must not become the tbeatro for tho gmt fication of personal likes or dislikes. The true test should be usefulness and. fidelity to the party. We uro now on the very eve of a great State and National campaign ; ono that will test the great question of self-gov ernment, and will put to the test the wis dom, the energy and the pluck of the National Democracy. Are we prepared for the contest? There is no disguising the fact that there is not that harmony in the party as to State and National ?-olitics that should exist amongst our caders. The action of certain leaders has been to declare that they and not tho people should rule the party. They ns I sert the spirit of autocracy, and tho peo-, pie reassert tho principles of Democracy.' The autocratic and aristocratic leaders will bo driven to the wall whenever the issue is made up between them and the. masses of the people. They will then find out that this is a Government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The rule of tho aristocratic oligarchy who governed this State for the last ono hundred years ia at an end. The parish system of representation has been abol ished. The Bank of the State, the great fiscal agent through which the taxpayers of the State were robbed by these aristo cratic leaders before the war, is an insti tution of tho past. The South Carolina College has been or will be opened upon a different basis; it will no longer lo supported by taxing the poor man to ed ucate the rich man's sons; it will be open alike- to the rich and poor white youths, free of cha measures and principles of these ''rule or ruin" leaders will never be fastened again upon the people of thia State. Look, by way of contrast, at the or ganization of the Republican party, with a well defined platform, in which the principles of the party are clearly enun ciated, with no fusion plank in it, no ad mixture of Democratic and Republican Ericciples, with a well defined policy on nance, with harmony amongst the lead ers, and with a touch of tho elbqgy of the rank and file of the party, with a great captain foreshadowed as their loader, with the right to send United States mar shals to every election precinct, backed by tho United States troops, with the re cent decision of tho Supremo Court of the United States, which declares that judges, commissioner^ and managers of election, where candidates for National offices are voted for, aro subject to indict ment and tri..I in the United States Courts where partisan Radical judges preside and prostitute the law for party purposes. This is all done despite thc tenets of tho Democratic party, despite the theory of local self-government 01 the doctrine of Stato rights. It is e oartv with the puree ?pd sword in theil hands, and a party who aro avowedly ready to use one or both to secure, main? tain and perpetuate their party in power Thia startling picture of power and the sinews of party should cause oui most wreckless autocratic leaders tc pause and consider their line of action and our most selfish office-seekers to in quire, Are thora not others as well quail ned as themselves to hold office? In my four years' service in tho S ta ti Senate I have had to expose those wh< were high in office, who bad banded to pether to rob the taxpayers by compel? mg them to recognize and pay thi $3,608,717 of those bonds that wen fraudulent. I havo had to point to tb "bond rings" organized to secure pay ment, dollar for dollar, for fraudulen bonds bought at ten cents on the dollar to break up, as far as I could, their, ros cally schemes to rob the people of thei scanty sustenance. I haye had to oppos the placing upon the Bench of . mei charged with bribery and corruption, t tho exclusion of some of the ablest an< purest lawyers of our State. I have hm to oppose the turning loose upon our sc ciety the thieves and robbers who de spoiled our State. The fallacious maxie that universal amnesty was the highes statesmanship is demonstrated to nav been not only an. error, "But a crinum mistake-a grievous wrong to our pcoph It is said that two-thirds of tho merabei of tho recent Radical Convention whic met in Columbia were men who had bee granted an amnesty-pardon, or who ha ugured prominently >n tho reports of tb i committee on frauds. To compound felony is against tho ancient common la' of the land. If these guilty men ha beon consigned to tho Stato Penitential*; where they properly belonged, tbei .would not nave been a corporal's guai of tho Radical party left in this State. My unrelenting opposition to profc ?ional and unscrupulous politicians bi naturally caused them to antagonize u i in every possible manner in tho party. I waa gagged in 1H78, for fear that 1 won j tell what I knew of their bribery ar Ou?i??i?iOTi. JL v?c? OUij7 lOOak U> luo jVii? f atriotic and raauly element of the Dec ocratic masses to sustain my courso ar to vindicate my record. During tl whole term of my service as Senator have from time to time been the subie of harsh criticism and unblushing ola dara. I have borne the criticism wi i ntl i fie reu co, and refuted again and aga their lying and malicious slanders, i ono time I was charged as being about join t l?o Radical party, and .-this vi slander was at once echoed in this coon by those who-have nursed their person animosities to keep them warm, and wi under cover of political opposition faa 5?ven currency to such unfounded ela era. Recently they have charged t with having declared that I intended run as an Independent candidate A Governor. Thi9 slander is in kcepi with the -"i that I intended to join t Republican party. It is as false.aa t rest. I have never announced myself as candidate for the office of Governor, have said that it was an office thal would not seek, and that I had rather politically light than to be Governor tho State; av>d I repeat again this sen ment. I ban) always recognised the f: that tho majority should rule as being part of tho Democratic creed, and apr. cable alike to the action of convenlic and tho result of Democratic primar! and I ptedgo myself to abide their actii Thc recent statement that I was tho i thor or in any way connected with 1 race for the municipal offices of t town, which turned upon *ti o question whiskey licenses, U also utterly and < Uroly false. I have hitherto annonni that I was willing to retire at any tl from public life, if by so doing I could secure the success of tho Democratic Earty, and I am ready to do KO to-day. have never served the party for tho sake of office. I trust that X shall never descend to so low a plane of action. lu conclusion, fellow-cititen?, I avail myself of this opportunity to make a formal avonal that I will under no cir cumstances become a candidate for re election to tho office- of State Senator. My plan of lifo, roy personal interests and my professional duUo* alike forbid ray becoming a professional politician. I thank you aa the' representatives of the Democratic party, and through you all of itH members, for the past honor? ll* A >mrlu li OM AAniAfvA.'! tinAn IMA *..<-? *ja*W I Ml ?J ?- ***** v*v^?*.v^?. w \ . v.j'ist-. ka AA XI highest I'rat the county could give. I have endeavored u> show my appreciation of this mark of your high trust, by a bold, conscientious and consistent advo cacy of those measures and principle? which I believed would be for tho best I interest of the people of this county and of the State of South Carolina. I trust in the coming campaign that the Straigbtout banner of Democracy will be again' unfurled, that tho Red Shirt mee to a man will fall into lino and rally under the old flag, and' that by a conservative and united effort you will excel your proud records in the cam paigns of 1876 and 1878, and that when the campaign of 1880 shall close, that the plume of old Edgefield will be waving again in the van, and that her Bister counties v, iii with one accord proclaim her Primut inier Pare?. Another Teto. WASHINGTON, May 4. Tho President to-day signed the Army Appropriation bill and returned tho De ficiency bill to tho House with tho fol lowing veto message : Tb the House of Jtcpretentativa : After mature consideration of the bill entitled "an Act making appropriations to supply certain deficiencies in appro priations for the service of the Govern ment for the fiscal year ending Jone 80, 1880, and for other purposes," I return it to the House of Representatives in which it originated, with my objections to its passage. Tho bill appropriates about eight millions of dollars.. Over Biz hun dred thousand dollars is for fees of United States Marshals and of general and ape cial deputy marshals, earned during the current fiscal year, and their incidental expenses. The appropriations made in tho bill aro needed to carry 'jn the oper ations of the Government, and to fulfill its obligations for the payment of money lone Bin co due to its officers, for services ano expenses essential to the execution of their duties under the laws of the United States. The necessity for these appro Enations is so urgent, and they have eon airear*/ BO long delayed, that if the bill before me contained no permanent or general legislation unconnected with these appropriations it would receive my prompt approval, lt contains, however, a provision which materially changes and, by implication, defeates the impor tant parts of the laws for the regulation of United States elections. These laws have for several years past been tho sub ject of vehement political controversy, and have been denounced as unnecessary, oppressive and unconstitutional. On the other hand, it hos been maintained with equal zeal and earnestness that the election laws are indispensable to fair and lawful elections, ana clearly warran ted by the Constitution. Under these ciFC?i??uiiices, to attempt in an appro priation bill, a modification or repeal of these laws, is to annex the condition to tho passage of needed and proper appro priation, which tends to deprive the Ex ecutive of that equal and independent exercise of discretion and judgment, which the Constitution contemplated. The objection to tho ?"11, therefore, to which 1 respectfully tsk your attention, is that it gives a marked and deliberate sanction, attended by no circumstances of pressing necessity to a questionable, ana as I am clearly of tho opinion, dan gerous practice of tacking upon appro Knation bills general and perpanent leg dation. This practice opens wide the door to hasty, inconsiderate and sinister legisla tion. It invites attacks upon indepen dent and constitutional powers of the Executive, by providing an easy and ef fective way of constraing executive dis cretion. Although of late this practice has been resorted to by all political par ties, when clothed' with power, it did not prevail until forty years after the adoption of tho Constitution, and it is confidently believed that it is condemned by tbe enlightened judgment cf tho country. The-States which have adopted new constitutions during the last quarter of a century have generally provided reme d' ^8 for this evil. Many of them have enacted that no law shall contain more than one subject which shall be plainly expressed in its title. The Constitutions ot more than half of the States contain substantially this provision orsotoe other of like intent and meaning. The public welfare will be promoted in many ways hv a retOrn tn th? Anr]y practice of the Government, and to the true role of leg islation which is that every.measure should Bland upon its own .merits. I am firmly convinced that appropriation billa ought not to contain any legislation not relative to the application or expenditure of money thereby appropriated, and that by strict adherence to" this principle, important and much needed reform will bo accomplished. Placing my objection to the bill on this feature of ita framing, I forbear any comment upun iLo impor tant, general and permanent legislation, which it contains, as matters fdr specific and independent consideration. [Signed], RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. Executive Mansion, May 4th, 1880. WHY GRANT VOTED FOR BUCHANAN. -I never was a Democrat. My father was an old line Whig-he spoke and wroto a good deal on Duties-and I had enough confidence ?o' his judgment to adopt his views when I w.>s young, and I never felt like joining the Democratic party. But 1 did vote for Buchanan, Not because I was a Democrat or because I believed in Buchanan, but to vote against Fremont. I saw the war coming at that time-it seemed to ino it was bound to come, and I did not believe Fremont would bo equal to tho occasion.' ThlsiB tho way I looked at it-if Buchan an should be elected the South wouldn't have any ?aaon to break loose drring his term, and when the four years a'?uld pass the right' man might bo found to meet the emergency. R eame ont very much as l thought it would. I think if Fremont had been, elected, the trouble would h tve come sooner, and he would have been the wrong mau to meet it. ?o I voted, for Buchanan. That was the first vote I ever cast for Presiden!, aud the last. When Lincoln ran the first time I hadn't boco ia Illinois long enough to vote, and when he ran the second timo I went for I/ee. . - Senator Beck, cx-Chfcf Justice Lindsey, Governor Blackburn, ant1 -?ther prominent Kentuckians, are opposed to the nomination of Mr. Tilden. TWO MEN ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. Mr. ThoLaas P. Hiter, of Hart ("canty, Qa.. ' Lone? Hl> Ur? by a Falling Timber. lian cell {(Ja.) Sun. On Sunday morning last our commu nity was much saddened hy the intelli gence that Mr. Thomas P. Tiller had died on the prev'oua night from Injuries re ceived tho preceding afternoon. Tho particulars ot the sad occurrence, I so far ss we are ahle to learn, are about j as follows : On Saturday afternoon st 6 o'clock, Mr. Tiller was on tho premises of Mr. J. W. Reynolds, about 4 miles south of th's place, assisting in the erection of au outhouse. H** teether with the other workmen, was endeavoring to raise a plato. 22 feet in length and made of j green pine timber, to its proper placo on the building, when by accident it fell, striking him heavily in the breast and knocking bim violently backward to the ground. The plate struck him first in the breast, then ranging downward, in flicting, il is supposed, some internal in juries. Medical aid was immediately sum moned, but nothing could bo done for him. that would alToviate bis oufierlnr, and at thirty minutes of one o'clock on Suuday morning, May 2d, ho breathed his last. During the interval between the accident and his death ho ec-emed I conscious of all that was going on, but his faculties were so benumbed that he I'spoke but few words. Mr. Tiller was in tho 65th year of his age, and leaves a wife and five children to mourn an irre parable loss. A COLORED MAN HAS HIS HEAD CRUSHED AND NECK DISLOCATED BY A FALLING TREE, UT HARTWELL. Creal consternation and excitement was caused in our town on lost Saturday, about noon, by a shocking and fatal ac cident, in the Bobo House yard. Mr. Bobo; with several hands, among whom was Sing Mantz, colored, was engaged in digging up a largo mulberry tree, which stood on tho proposed site of the new j hotol. They had dug about a foot deep, 'cutting the surface roots, and'had pre pared skids with which to prize tho tree over. A very large dug-out trough lay immediately across the ground whero they wished to throw the tree. This Mr. Bobo did nos wish broken. So all bands took hold of tho trough, with their backs io the tree, and commenced rolling it. J nat at this juncture, without any premo nition, the tree noiselessly hut swiftly fell, coming down upon poor Sing Mantz a head, crushing it into a mangled mass upon the trough. One of the large limbs bruised Mr. Bobo slightly, but It waa a miraculous escapo as he stood between the narrow fork of two hugo limbs, and shoulder to shoulder with Sing Mantz. Mr. Bobo yelled out at onr? for assistance, and only live men under the intenso ex citement lifted the tree from the unfortu nate colored man. We doubt if ton men could have lifted it under ordinary cir cumstances. But Sing Mantz's spirit had fied, arid thus in the twinkling of an eye was a soul ushered into eternity. No blame can t-_ attached to anybody. It wai? an accident that no ono could foresee. They thought they had but fairly commenced the job', but the tree had no sign of ? tap root, which W?? I contrary to all reasonable expectation, I and consequently when tho surfaco roots were cut, the lap being large and full of foliage, it required but a breath o.- air to throw it over. Much sympathy was ex Siressed by our good people for the un brtunato man and his family. A strange fatality seems to havo pursued Singla j connection with trees, as he was badly I crippled by one before the war. He leaves a wife and six children. A Settler's Thrilling Escapo from In dians. Just below Eenawha Falls, in West Virginia, writes a correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal, is an over hanging rock of immense sizo jutting out about ono hundred feet over tho seething whirlpool, and about tho same height above. This was once the scene of a re- ' mr.rkr.blo adventure Tho Indians wero in hot pursuit of a man named Van Bib ber, a settler and a irmn of distinction ia -those early times. He waa hard pressed, and all access to the river below and above being cut du'he was driven to' this I I jutting rock, which proved to be the j jumping off place for him. He ?icod on tho rock in full view of th J enemy above end below, who yelled like de mons nt tho certainty of his speedy can tu re. He stood up boldly, and with his rifle kept them at bay. As he stood there bo looked across the river-saw bis frioDils-his wife with her babe in her arms, all helpless tc render him assistance. They . stood : os if petrified with terror and amazement. She cried nt tho top of her voice: "Leap into the river ana meet me 1" Laying her babo on the grass, she seized tho oars and sprang; into tho skiff alone. As sho neared tho middle of the river, her hus band saw tho Indiana coming in full forco and yelling Uko demons. "Wife, wife," ho screamed, "I'm__comlng.; drop down a little lower." with this, ho sprang from his crag and descended Uko cn arrow into the water, feet foremost. The wife rested on her oars a moment to see him rise to tho surface, thc little canoe floating like a cork, bobbing ?bout on tho boiling flood. It was an awful moment; it seemed like an ego to her; would be ever rise ? Her earnest gaze _U_J .-.- ?_ .t-_ J_ COC'IIICM |?CIJCl.mvTi Clio vtv|'v..a V? V..W water, and she darted her boat farther down the stream. Ho rose near^her.^ lu a momen? the canoe was. aiongsiuo o? him, and she helped, him to scramble into it amid ? shower of arrows and shot that tho baffled Indians poured into them. The daring wife did not speak a word; her husband was more dead than alive, and all depended on ber strength . being maintained till they could reach the bank. Thia they dla, jest where she bsd started, right where the babe was still lying, crowing and laughing. Tho men pulled tho skiff high vip on the sand, and the wife slowly arose and helped to lift Van Bibber to his feet. He could not walk, but she laid him down beside his babo. and then, seating herself, she wept wildly, jost, as soy other woman would have done un der tho circumstances. Tho babe is now a grandfather, and that rock ia called "Van Bibber's Rock" to this day. TIMELY CAUTION.-Genuine Hop Bitters are put np in,square pantiled, amber-colored bottles, with white label on one aido printed in black letters, and green hop ciusier. and ou the other side yellow paper with red letters ; revenue stamp over the cork. This is the only forra in which genuine Hep Sitters arc put up, and the solo right to make, sell and use them is granted to the Hop Bit ters MTg Co., of R?enoste/ N. Y., and Toronto, Oat., by patents, copyright and trade mark. All others pat op in any other way or by any one else, claiming to bo like it or pretending to contain hips, by whatever names they may be called, aro bogus and unfit for noe,. and .only put up to soil and cheat tho people on the credit and popularity of Hop let ters. The Whittaker Mystery. Seme contradictions in Cadet Whitta ker's account of tho West Point "oat rage" are worthy of note. Whittaker said on tho next.day after tho outrage that he waa awaked by a man "jumping right on" bim in his bed; ho looked sharp and taw three men, two tall and one short, and all masked ; he fought, but was choked until "almost Huflboated" (no marka on his throat) ile was struck .'a heavy.blow on th? left tomplo" (no marks there); also "on tho nose" (no physical evidence of it), with "something hard," presumably the same thing for both blows; and tue man who hit him "shouted" thut they would kill him if he made a noise. Then they cut his ears with what he thought was a knife." Then they tied h'a feet. AU this had happened on tho btd in tito first narra tive. "Then thoy tied my feet and my hands with strips of white crossbelts and laid me on the floor with my feet toward the bed in the little alcove you see there and my head toward the wall. Next they tied my feet to the iron bedstead." Ho asked them to put a pillow under his head. They did this and went away quietly, and when they were gone he tried to gnaw the etraps from his hands, but could not (were the hands marked with teeth?): snouted, hut not very loud, and tbeu laid down and remained three hoars "in a stupor from blows reoivsd," His stupor was thin at both ends. He heard his tormentors when they wont away, for ho says bo was afraid to . ill out last they should return, and ne heard Cadet Burnett in the morning and did not answer, because hethougbttt was turu of bis tormentors. It seems odd that though he heard Burnett's voico he did not hear the reveille. To Dr. Alex ander Whittaker said that one of the i'tr,.T "hit him with that Indian club," and that he was also hit on the nose, and "I knew nothing more until you found me." He received by this account two blows, ono on tho noso and ons on the left temple, in ono account "with some thing bard," in another with the club, In his testily jny four dnya Inter bo said ho was hit on the head with a looking !;la*a, and tho looking glass is in fact bund broken; also that be wau bit "with a fist." He says, "I was struck twice j tho first blow was ai. my forehead ; ] think it was the blow of a fist, but it maj have been au instrument." He explic itly states on each occasion that ho wai struck twice. In his testimony he sayi the blow ou his forehead was with a fiai or club, and this may be the same blov? that he refers to elsewheie as delivered on the "left templo" though the I oil temple is not tho forehead. Consequent ly tue blow on bis nose mus th ave been th? ono given with tko looking glass, tbougL ho Bays explicitly in his testimony thai they hit him "on the head" with tho look' lng. gla~v3. Perhaps an intelligent eade may confound his forehead with his lefl templo, but not to know his noso from hil head would be a great reproach to tin instruction given at West Point, and no to be able to distinguish between a blov from a fist and a blow from on Jndiat club is at least creditable to the fist But fromeomo one of these two blows delivered in about four places with a least three weapons, ho became uncon Rcious and "know no more" till next day It could hardly have been the blow wit! tho looking glass that did this if be ha the natural cranium of his race. Ye whatever other hurt he received wa ft von before the ears were cut, before th air was out. before he was put on th floor, before his feet were tied--for al that timo he says he fought. It i strange that Whittaker was not able t untie 'te bands on his feet. There i hot a vig?reos human creature (fat mei expected) who, with only his c jklcs am his wrists tied, and ho on his back, coull not so bond bis body as to have nearl; the full use of bis hands for operation ol knots tied at bis ankles ; and Whittake had a light. It is unfortunate also ths he boa the details of his story a littl mixed; that he gives the order of th incidents differently in his testimony an in his first narrativo ; because any con fusion liko this clouds tho operations c investigators, and it would be a gres shame to the government uorvice if all it authorities together, including the Ext cutive and a grand jury, tail to diaceve tho real culprit or culprits.-Neto Yor Herald. _ AU About tho Big City. - Very fow people have a very definil idea O? tho size of New York city. ? Th homo of 1,250,000 persons-tho probabl population of to-day-is rather a larg place. Tho city is sixteen miles lon and four and a half miles broad at tl broadest point. Tho area is forty-ot and ahab square miles; or 20,660 acre Of this, a little moro than half is o Manhattan Island ; that is, the Islac measures twenty-two square miles, a li over 14,000 acres. There are somo 15,0( colored people, mostly mixed. Tho eil baa about 400 churches, with seating ct 5adi ty of about 250,000 i n tho nggrcga t 'boro aro about _ fifteen public park fourteen public libraries T.nd twcniy-ioi theatres. Central Park Is tho large? and contains 840 acres, within whit have been ; planted somo 500,000 tret shrubs and vines. There are statutes < bueta of Sbckspeoro, Slr Walter, 8coi Schiller',' Humboldt, ' Mazzini, More Webster and Hallcck ; and . that, of Cc umbus is in keeping in tho arsenal hui! ing within tho park. There are thr lines of elevated railroad munit through tho city, tho main direction ??hich i?i?O'tb. sod ?f?uth. The' fare ten cent?, except for two hours in tl evening, when it is half that. There a twenty-four lines.of horso cara and eig branches, making thirty-two routes; which twenty-one are up and down tow The fares are three, five, six Sud etg cents ; all except three being five. The are four, lines'of omnibuses; fare fl cents; Eating houses are almost Inn momble os to number and Infinite as variety. Thoy rango from Delmonico which is high-toned, up to tho verge Sriccely extravagance,. down to t Ithiest free lunch counter in "Nigs Town," on Thompson street; and t tween ' theso there are restaurai cafes,' chop houses, oyster saloons, pt nyfrostaurants, fifteen cent restauran dairies, coffee and cake saloons, Euro] au plan dining rooms, hash houses, a BO on > id so on, down till memory fa to recall the names and ono's gorge ri? at the nauseous recollection. Beer very much drunk.. Two years ago i local breweries tnrned out 3,000,000 bi reit, a vear, and do mora now. while! quantity consumed is largely In excess that manufactured. Probably 6,000,C barrels of lager bear are consumed yea ia this city o* G?Ui??j. Tue pri?? ia i cents a glass everywhere. Bock bier is season at this time, and will bo on ha for a week or two. - The custom Is u versal of ?ervin, this fora short peri every spring.-?Uor$airt ia' Columbia ? cury. _ - "Silence lu tho court 1" thunders tudicial Dogberry tho other morning; lolf-dozen moa bare been convie already without tho Court's baying bi able to bear a word of tho testimony 1' 3?8?op IttrpBon and ?lie South. Tho genere! impressions which 1 ;e ceived upon this trip were ol a pleasant and favorable character. 1. I am satisfied that the South is grad ually but surely improving financially ; business is reviving, and every indica tion points to a period .of financial ease and comfort. This revival of business has tended to soften aud smooth some of the asperities which have heretofore ex ist od. Tho people arc more contended and more happy. The commercial in tercourse between the North and the Sout?, const' . Uy increasing, people know each ? -er better, and find less CAUKQ far nnWInrjnn** and COmD?ttint. 2. While political difficulties havo ex isted, and do still exist, lt ia evident to me that a day of greater safety and ? of more expression of opinion is rapidly approaching. I conversed freely with our intelligent colored ministers, and I did not hear from any one of them any expression of apLvehfcaion of danger in his work. The only fears whkifc. I think, need to be entertained aro by those whose influence is supposed io be exerted in political direction?. Our white minis ters are greatly disliked hy some because they are supposed to exercise a strong infiueuce over a portion of tho colored population. Those who are unscrupu lous towards the colored people-as some there are in every community, either mal treating them r/orsonally, or defrauding them of the wages for ?h dr labor-re gard our ministers with, aversion, as ho ing tho friends and protectors of the col ored race. In South Carolina the color ed population is largely in excess of the whites, and were elections conducted fairly, their vols would always out num ber the votes of tho whites; but, by various processes, tho most of which aio under color of law, this volo isso counted that tho colored influence is greatly di minished, if fnot destroyed. But as timo wears away, as sectional differences shall cease, as focal issues shall rise on' which the colored people, as well as the whito peoplo, shall oe divided, there will probably be an opportunity given for a faller and freer expression of senti ment at tho polls. While I deploro all wrong-doing, and while I sympathizo deeply with those who havo suffered, yet I can not but think it is almost a miracle that even so much of quiet, good order, and kindly feeling prevails so soon after the total revolution which occurred in Southern society. Anti-slavery as I always was from carly youth, had my friend asked me twenty years ago to express my ut most wish for the colorea people, I should not have dared to ask for as much advancement.os hos been made. That a race, comprising four millions, should bo changed nt once from claves to citi zens, and Bhould ho granted, out only tho right to vote, but also to sit as repre sentatives in tho State Legislatures and in Congress, and yet dwell in tho midst of their former masters, I should havo thought would occasion convulsions of the most terrible kind. To ms it is a matter of surprise that, at this compara tively early day after ouch a revolution, so littlo friction exists. It would have been impossible but foi the general Christain sentiment of the peoplo. and for the influence of tho calming and con trolling power of tho Gospel of Jesus Christ. To-day there is more enmity between the landholders and ruling por tion of Ireland and its peasantry, though so many years have passed away ?inco the union with the Britt h crown, than there is between the.fon * jr slaveholders and the emancipated slaves. While I write thus, however, I see there is great room still for improvement, and years will probably poss before there is that pro tection of individual rights, and that scru pulous regard for tho interests of the colored people which ought to prevail. SKINS, MONEY.-How wore the men to be brought together who wanted each other's articles? How was the farmer to And a tailor who would give him a coat in exchange for a. sheep or a sack of corn ? How was ho to get furniture from an upholsterer with a calf or a load of hay? The progress of human lifo would have been brought to a dead-lock. Vil lage life oh a petty scale, upon tho sys tem of things made to order, would have been the inevitable fate ol' human beings. Some contrivance was imperiously called for to clear away the difficulty, and thu* ! it happened that money was invented. It made its appearance at tho very origin of the human race;, savages bethought themselves of furs or skins to maka trade, the exchange of gooda possible. Their instinct revealed ta them the principle of money, the principle of all instruments of exchange. They saw that the only . way to get over the perplexity waa to se lect scmo article which every ono should bo willing *o take in exchange fo.' the goods .which he had to sell, and then with it to buy those particular things which he required for the supply of his wants. The path for trade was instantly cleared ,for the whole human race. Money was found forever in tho form of that primitivo period-skins. Its essence and action were discovered for all time. Furs acted os aa interposed commodity, as a go-between-between what a seller parted with and what ho obtained in re turn-and this has been the nature of all money , down to this very hour. Tho skins so employed wero instrumenta for exchanging goods and nothing else ; and so are sovereigns and dollars and every form of money. The mighty machinery of division or employments was ai once i brought within the reach of the human | race. Progreat in civilization was made j possible, 'ibo hatter and the shoemaker could make hats and shoes for the whole tovta. The grocer could pile np stores in his shop for all. The manufacturer could weave doth fer tho whole community. They all relied, and their confidence was not deceived, oh their goods being bought with money, whatever that money hap pened to be, and on their being able in return to procuro with whatever they required. And h?re it was that consent came in for monoy, and still continues to come in. All the hunters took skins ' ? their money by agreement; no law or force compelled them. Tho skins came naturally into use as convenient fdr nil. And oo it ls now. No law forces any shopkeeper to sell his goods for coin. He may prefer barter. Ho may affix a leg of mutton as tho price of ono article, a psir of boots .? of ano^h?r Bus he consents to take sovereigns and shill ings, and what he does every ono else does too. So, also, does the government of tho nation. ' It selects its form of money at its owu pleasure, and every la borer and merchant adopts it, - "M? friend's," said the political BTvoaircif^ ' "?t?i the burst cf Ingcsucss e?oqaenu, "I will he basest-" Thore were a large number of neighbors pres ent, and the terrific outburst of applause wfrjch followed thia remark entirely up set the point which the orator waa abont to introduce. - A writer on style says ; i "it ia the fashion in France for ladles to tako tea ia their bonnets and gloves." One ob jection to this ia that some of the bonnets do not bold much more than a'small j lump of sugar. How a Harried Woman Goes to Sleep. There Ia an article going the rcnnds en titled, "How Girl? Go to Sleep." The manner in which they go to sleep, accord ing to the article, cau't hold a candle to the war a married woraan goes to sleep. Instead of thinking cf what abo ehould have attended to before going to bed, che thinks of lt afterward. < Whit* abo' is re volving these matters la her mind, and while snugly tucked iu 'jed, the ?ld mar is scratching his iegs in front of the firo aid wondering how he will pay tho nazi month's rent. Suddenly she says : "James, did you lock the door?" "Which door?" "Tue cellar door." SAYS she. "No," saya Janes. "Well, yoo'd better go down and loci it, 5or I heard some one in the back yore last night." Accordingly, James paddles down stain and locks the dcor. About '.ho Um< James returns and is going to got Into bod she remarks: "Did you shut the stair doo??" "No," says James. "Well, If it ls not shut the cat will ge up int? the bed-room." "Let her como up, then," says James ill-naturedly "Mygoodness, not" returns the wife "she'd suck tho baby's breath I" Then James paddles down stairs again and steps on a tack, and closes Ute sta! door, and curses the cat, and returns t tho bed-room. Justas he begins to cilml into bis couch his wife observes : "I forgot to bring up: soma wntei Suppose you bring somo in the bi] And so James, with a muttered cars? goes down Into tho dark kitchen, au Falls over a chair, and rasps all the tlc ware off the wall, in seaton of the "big tin, and then ho jerked the stair doc open and howls : "Where tho deuce aro the matches? Siio gives him minute directions wher to find the matches, and adds that oh would rather go and get the water hoi self than haye tho neighborhood raise about it. After which James finds th matches, procures the water, comes' u stairs, and plunges into bed. Present? his wife says : "James, lot's havo an underatandin about money"raaUors. Now, next wee I've got to pay" ? *; "I don't know what you've got to pa; and ? don't care," shouts James, as I lurches around and jams bis face again the wall: "all I want la to goto, sleep "That's all very well for you," ooa? his wife, as she Dulls the covers viciou ly, "you never think of tho worry at trouble I bav?. And there's Arament who I believe is taking tho measles." "Let her toko 'em, says Janies, stic lng his legs out as straight as two ra: rods. "It Becrns to me you have no sense n feeling," whines his wife, "and if yt had any respect for mo you wouldn't c onions before you coma to bed.. Tho s mospbore of the room from the smell .? onions is horrid." "Woll, go down and sleep in the kite en, then, and let me alone," says Jami Hereupon she begins to cry softly, fa about tho time James Is falling into gentle doze sho punches him in the ri with her elbow, and cays : "Did you bear that scandal about M1 Jonca?" "What Jones?" says James, sleepi "Why, Mrs. Jones." "Where?" inquires James. "I declare," says his wife, "you i getting more stupid eve?y -dny. Y know Mrs. Jones that lives at No Well, day before yesterday, Susan Sm told Mrs. Thompson that Sam Bal had said that Mrs. Jo1>es bad" Here she pauses and'listens. Jae ts snoring in profound slumber. Witl sort cf rogo sue pulls all tho covers him. wrap9 herself up in them and I li awake until 2 a. m., thinking hoff bai abused she is.. And that ia the wa; married woman goes to sleep. A NEOBO'S ELOQUENCE.-Tho Dal (Texas) Times recites the d?tails o case that certainly presents eomo of most remarkable features known in history of jurisprudence ib this couti! This occurred at Waxahachie during last terra of tho'Ellis County Dist Court. A colored man was indicted entering lntoa conspiracy to murder, waa brought on trial, the'er'dence ' strong, and, in Bpite of tho good fi made iu bis defeuce by bib attorney was convicted. A motion for a nowt waa made, and tbs Judge, seeing thal error of law was made, and believing 'evidence sufficient, promptly averil tho motion. Whoa tho prisoners v brought in to bo sentenced, this nc was among them. Whon asked if ho anything.to say why ?ojtonco abt ino! bo passed opon him, he said he ki anything he might say would have weight with the court, as ali tho fo of law had been complied, with, sid must go to the Penitentiary, but tjat had something to say for the benof his colored friends, and, with the. mission of the court, ho would, mal few remarks. The court toid him he would listen. Tho nogro start** slowly and deliberately, reviewing testimony, showing tao incouslstepch witnesses' statements, and then, cr.i away with* tho idoa of the wrong; < him, he burst forth in a strain of quenco seldom heard. When ho down the Judge said; "Sain, X tho rou guilty : I don't baliava na narr. will aet ?side tho judgment ' ?ve'rrt your motion for s new. trial and give aM?aU_W jj..-IJ CJ_ ]MJZiLRu*iX ? negro presented his case thattba Oo Attorney dismissed tho case, and prisoner walko? out of the court roc free mau. This Is the first'caso io T< at loan, where a man .brought up t sentenced was over turned loose. ? persou present says that the effort the finest ono ever heard. Tho neg uneducated and a common fi?ld^ban To OUR GIRLS.-Now that yon being courted, you think, of course, i all very well, and that it will be. when you get married. But it v. Ho thinks he's going to keep on high pitch of love all the timi. Bi won't He doesn't know' ' hirasel yon don't know bim. Mt can't las must cool down.. When he coos y< many times a day ,t? ha ??nr> ti may bo more, when h* sees your done np regularly every morning li papers ana the bloom is all oif thc when your home contains ? good d wash tub, cradle and cook-stove won't stand for ono hour In front iq house out in the cold watching the in your Window. He'll bo thl rather, of orntUnc nut nf ihn woman, protect this courtship as h you can. Let well enough alon courtship id hand is worth two mar in tito bush. Don't marry till Chri after next-iv". Y. GrapAic, - "You just bet your boots. * cultured crowd," I? what a C??c belle Mid to ber mal? friend ia re his Interrogatory tasottion that "tl much refinement and culturo in j city, I hava observed." Barana L-cpm. A matter which, ?rom ita peculiar hor ror. I am not likely readily to forgo** was a visit made to the Hospital de fian Laz aro, i\i Havana, tho home of tho lepers. This Ancient and terrible disease finds many victims, among .tho low-cade.Cu bans and the poverty-stricken Chinese, though it reaches its gnuot fingers into better aocioty soraeiin*: Leprosy is either inherited or irdUced by poor food, and especially by Voe eating of stalo fish . . It seems to bV> a fish-eaters disease; in fact, seldom prevailing at any great dis tance from the sea. Leprosy, as seen ls the West Indies, is eircply a dry rot. Tho heul of'a' roan 1% f?3nriso2ed is his body long after he is, to all intenta and purposes, dead, and, with all his mental faculties intact, ho must endure tho gradual falling apart of his earthly tene ment, awaiting with what philosophy he may the hour when tho canceraos agent shall touch a vital poiut. Thia may no. occur for many yea.s ; it may happen on tho morrow. The traditions of (he hos pital do not point to any individual casa of euro whereby the patient may gain ever so faint a hope. It might well be Inscribed over tho portal : "'Let those who enter here leavo all hopo behind." /.' . There wera five of us In the party which drove out through the hot streets towards the forbidding suburb faring tho sea-Dr. Burgess, an American resident physician and United States ?anita?* ? ' officer; an.invalid doctor from Hartford, and thrco journalists. San Lazaro is located just where, in a moro modern city, we might look for a big and prospe rous hoi?!. It looks out across a Tow low house* upoc the fair prosr set of the har bors mouth, and tho sea sends its unfet tered waves straight in from the north . ward, dashing np tho sp /ay almost to its walls. Tho place wee founded by a phi lanthropic Spaniard within a trifle of 200 {cars ago, and was restored in 1878. A iboral bequest of ScighvOrhig pioperty H has always afforded an ample revonuo for itssupport, tut within, a short time tho {;ovornment has converted a portion of tt property, and, aa one of tho officials of tho institution remarked, matters.-' were "hot HO good." In form the hospital isa large quadrangle, centering upon a chanel. A high wall dividen tho wards of tho men and the women. Wo entered the male deoart'-vent flisL Tho Inadine peculiarity of the first patients met ?bi? crfng in the corridors wis a clay-lik* ap pearanco of tho skin and a depression or caving in of tho nasal portion of the face. . The losttils and lobes of tho. car were globular ond botes wera formed over tho eyebrows. Th? voices of the w?n wera nearie alf changad, sounding indistinct and '".raful. Patients were bidden to appr?u :i, who hobbled to us upon ;tho stumps of limbs long since robbed by the process of disease/ ot feet and ankies, and they held out for our inspection mis erablo remnants of arms, shriveled, warped and decayed, and yet th wo arms found cunning enough to grasp and re move bats from matted heads of hair when we tendered a few bits of Spanish currency. . Wo saw in these, lower ec'.rldors per haps forty men. fffimp wero hew comers, upon whom the disease liad put but few marks 3 yet. Others were ulmost ready to go to the hopeless ward above, where we presently climbed. Here, upon beda in a double row, were tho vestiges of wir?*, had once bacn mec-^corpses which breathed in speechless agony through the iong week, and'which yet clung to life as thx.r.gh ove? under these conditions it waa sweat to ejiist. Tattered draping? hung from thee o breathing Bfeclcioiw. whoso ovcry poso was tho attitude of de spair. No picture of Doio'a illustrative of the Inferno could overdraw a scwtio like this. Enough of this. It was with great relief that, wo walked across a pleasant garden, planted with, bananas and figs, and entered tho woman's ward, under tbs guidance of a fat devout mother superior. All respect to her and her staffer nuns, who labor hero -among tho boneless, pointing ?heir fainting stops upward and slaving through the heat of year;, to alleviate the sufferings o? those with whom they are appointed to live. Too scenes amid tho women wera but a repetition of those across the rectangle. A few ??ora telling .their beads, soaio sewed,' ?nd ali were heat in person and ttsrrouudings to ino last degree. - A bright" little boy ran toward Us with nu orango in either hand. He: was the pet of ,tho hospital. His mGther wes an inmate far geno with tho disease. He was not yet cid enough to know tho fato that awaits /: > him. What a pity this bright little chap Sa not taken aa a subject for sciehlifio ex periment.' Can it not be that there exists some means of driving*out the venom and b?ndig up' tbe ayetem of tho un happy progeny of lepers with healthy thanes ?-Jfavana Lttltt io the Neut- : York Timct. "' _ ;'? ? . ; ? i r How TO BE MISERABLE.-Sit by ti, ?window and look over the'way to your neighbor's ?xcellcut mansion which ho recently built, and paid for, and pit ted out, saying : "Oh thai I waa a V?cb mani" . Get sn?Ty with your neighbor,-s??d thh?c youliave hot a friend in tho world. .''Shed a tear or two, and take a walk iirit tho burial ground, continually say ing to yourself: "When shall I be buried here?'' Sign a note for ? friend, and never for get yohr kindness, and every hour in tho day whisper to yourself : "I wonder if ho will ever psythafc note V j; jLu?i?k vw?Yvv?j moans'io cheiit you. Closely examine every bill ye?, taite, and doubfc its being gftnuioo nntU y?u havo put the owner to ?. gresx ccai oi iroum-r. Put confidence in nobody, and bollevo avory'hne you trade with to ba a rogue. Never axcommodato if you eau tty help it. Never visit the sick br af fl&ted, and never givo a farthing, to assist the poor. i ."Buy a? cheap as you cnn?: and screw down to tho lo?aat sent. Grind i'.-; anti hearts of tho Unfortunate. Brood over y?hr misfortunes, your lack of talents, and believe at no distan?, day yon will como to want. Leo tho Work house bb over id your mind, vd th all the horrors of distress and poverty. Follow theed respes" strictly, and you wilibe miserable to your heart's content -if wo ra ty sd Bpsak-?lok ?jthesrtand nt I variance with the; world. Kolbing will j Oheer OT encourage you-nothing throw a Hlwl?Btc of p?na!blt}c or a rav of warru t Hiti t'i your heart. A WoitAir osr i'iiK ftrtji?p;-Ia the recent, election in.. England . soaio la dles took part in tho canvass. At Herc ferd, Lady Elisabeth Biddulph addressed ' ab immense audience as follows : "Gen tlemen,these are election times, and un common; times, and "?ra ara at pressai *i lowed to do things wa don't cfo at other times ; so I will msko that wy exensev for'addressing voa, and wiH make joh a U*t?a ?peecbu Mr. BiddaKph^u1 sat hu hert/ io-day, hut;;j|attti>ere aa lila wife and ropreson?ail're>find ? task you|*o pst ? -him at tho bead bf tho-poll, and ranko ? Jdtu & happy ?nan>na m^happy Hb hos your ?nterost? aiBe?rt, au?- rn body lp<?sa th?-cwsilrj inoro thw?i Mr. I^ddu?nh, I declare? t?^o.V , Kev lady