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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1880. VOLUME XVv -NO 4.7, J. C. CALHOUN'S 8UCCES8G3T. M. C. Butler, Gen. Wade Hampton, ?nd John J. Patterson. A?W Vor* Bun. The following letters, with one excep tion, were written by Senator John J. Patterson of South Carolina to Gen. H. O. Worthington, Collector of the Port of Charleston ander President ' Grant's administration, and formerly ? Republi can Congressman from Nevada : HONEST JOHN ROWING TO TUE STORM. UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBEE, WASHINGTON, June 10. 1877. DEAR GENERAL: Yours received. The action of tho Legislature in regard to my election waa telegraphed, and ap peared in the papers yesterday. I have written to find out, all I eau. I think Gen. Butler will not let it go too far. as he needs no in order to get his seat, out sar not a word about it. 1 do not think tl.ey can get anything that will do mo mach injury, but I dislike the newspaper howl that will be made about it, and also wish to avoid the expense and trou ble of such an investigation. The ob ject of this Commission [Legislative In* vestigating Committee] ls to go for all the leaders and drive them out of the State. We may as well all make up our minds to that. God only knows what is to become of us. It is loo late now to cry, and ?be only plan ia to meet the fu lure. I will do nil I can lo koop you in until December. I nm very sorry to hear you have not saved: anything as I bad hopes that you had laid up something for a "rainy day." Woll. we are young enough jret to start again. 1 will strike for: the1 West -when I leave the Senate. I see you have au election for members on 26th. What will our people do? Did they appoint a Repub Hean one of the Commissioners of Bloc tion? .Well lt is nearly all over, aud Chamberlain's reform hos ruined the party and all its members. I shall be glad to ceo you, and will bo here to meet you if you let me know when you are coming. Your friend. J. J. PATTERSON PIOUS RUTHERFORD WILL LIE. UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBEE, WARMINGTON, June 17.1877. DEAR GENERAL : Hayes told mo you shonid not be removed, except for cause, until December. Now, I think wo can ?rovent it until then, although ho will ie, aud Sherman controle him. It is a mistako about Butler getting up the fight against me.- It was John Cochran, because he was not appointed Collector. Bo careful what you Bay about either Cochran or Butler. The committee meets about middle of July. I think we can manige it so as not to give much trouble. Keep a sharp lookout upon it. Excuse haste. Yours truly, JNO. J. PATTERSON. THOSE TELL-TALE BOOKS OF PARKEB'S. UNITED STATES SENATE.?OHAMBEB, WASHINGTON,; July 17, ?877. DEAR GENERAL : Your letters receiv ed. I have also one from Bray ton saying that Dennis was mad at mo when he re turned, and was saying he Would tell what be knew. Now, ne don't know much, only that I talked to him about getting-Elliott ofi', but it was not done. Brayton says he shamed him out of it. Now he is mad because he was not np pointed Collector or Postmaster, but there ia no danger of him. He don't know m?chL and if told it'.would do no barm.* ' But if ho could on*;o his neck by telling on others he would do it. Tho Democrats are after kim more than mo. But do not say one word about it, as it will only exasperf. e hiu?. From what Judge Bacon writes me and all I'bear, I donut think they want lo injure me. I mean the Democrats. Some Republi cans might v/ant. j i'.o it to Bavo them selves.,, ^Hoge. rand . Bacon both bay Cochran is not so picked, against mo. . If Parker's bookb for 1871-1872 are gone they can find, oi't Very little. I-do not think either you ot I will have any. trou ble. My family is up at Moutory, n de lightful, cool place. I waa up there on Sunday. Rawlins was here yesterday. I hear nothing new about your place; and think JJ nyes and Sherman will keep their word to let you alone. By the way Carpenter has not goue home yet, and ia at New York. Well, he don't Beera to care for any one but himself. Early writes me that Trescott says McCrady will be appointed U. S. District Attor ney. Write to me often as I will stay here. . Yours truly, PATTERSON. HAMPTON CAN SAVE HONEST JOHN. COLUMBIA, 19th Jujy, '77. DEAR SIB ; Your lotter of the 13 th did not reach me until this raoruing, ? owing to my absence on professional bus jnr. 8. t ? : ?. Gen^Butler is fully aware of the Cor bin gome ?alluded to in your letter. I sincerely trust that-you will persevere in ?Muul ?ntAnt?nna *vf ...... i ? .... Gen.B. "Yct?r |iC"-*cc'*tsprs cciT?Co j^n *iCi j^r?!ly from your own party. This I know. Your avowed intentions to support Butler and the frank manner in which you spoke to tho President in my pres ence as to tho Elletlton riots, are appre ciated, but Cochran & Co., aro very aav- j age and to them you ot'o the present] pressure. Gen. B. will bo in Washington in al week oe so, and will advise with you ful ly as to Corbin's intentions. You are implicated before the commit tee in the $137,000 matter ; also in some thing else which I cannot discover. Scott, I think, is (screening himself by uefoiMJiig-iila funner friends and as sow ate*, j,ti? With my experience and efficiency and ntrong endorsement from ; the Southern Senators, Gov. Hampton, and the better portion of the S. C. Republicans, the mission to Italy and Brasil should be tendered to. me. Lot the President un * derstand that my' endorsers are in earn est, as they are. Yours truly, JOHN E, BACON, MODEL LETTBB FBOM A UNITED STATES. 8 KN ATO il. UN iTr.r> STATES SENATE CHAMBEE, \V>?mr'*rON, July 22,1877. DEAR G?NERAI.: Yours received and of couno gave me great anxiety. I have em ployed .Col. Cook, one of our shrewd est fi wy era, aind' he says they can only require metogivobail here and that lean demand a bearing,-and they munt prove their case, and that I can offer proof of my innocence, and if the Commissioner thinks proper uo can discharge me. He nay? I can resist oven if I ara indicted, which cannot be'until October. Judge Cartier would grant the requisition, and he is ail right. It will be so appa rent an effort to get mo out of the Senate that every ono will understand it, and make me friends und create aympathy for mo. I will keep a sharp lookout, but in no event shall I bo taken back to ] s.e. Dennis. Is staying here, and seems very uneasy. I have seen Scott to-day. He ls uucaey but pretends otherwise* I can't think they will attempt tosend for any of ua without an indictment. I will telegraph you if t'uey como for mo, and I may Deed your testimony iu my behalf, and you will understand if I telegraph you to come here. Now to pleasure : Ono day last week I saw a splendid looking girl in the Ninth street ear. I was bad struck. I saw her anotherday in a store. Ou Friday I wrote a note to your friend Miss Van Bureo to meet ms at Crosby's on Saturday, but sbe did.not come. I sent her a note that 'I would like to seo her, and she Bent me word io como and see ber at ber rooms yesterday at 4, and wber I went, found her to be my street car iady. She is gorgeous. She put on airs, and was very stiff, and I made an excuso that you wanted me to help her to get an office, and bad asked me to call, but I bad forgotten ber ad dress and had written you for it. She seemed afraid of me. was engaged last evening, said she would go away to-day for a few days. I asked ber. to let me know wheo she returned, and she only half promised. She said she was going to write you, and if she does, tell her I will befriend ber. We must not let that go ont of the family. Keep op heart ; keep me posted. , Your friend, PATTERSON. GOV. SCOTT AN OLD LI AB. UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBEE, WASHINGTON, July 22, 1877. I DEAR GENERAL: I enclose yonv letter from Judge Bacon. I.presume be refers to the Mooney &> Leggett orders, Ja cobs writes mo Scott ia an old liar, as ho often told him those orders were all right. I am to meet Jacobs on Wednes day evening, at'Philadelphia, and will fully post bim. We can easily clear our selves of that charge. I will coo Butler when.lia carnes. Dennis says Cochran told him the endorsement on ono of the orders was in my handwriting. This is all nonsense. Dennis is, like Cochran, very anxious to see everybody but him self involved. Old Scott ana Cass Car Jenter were hero, but I did not see them, have only seen Dennis onco. I will not run after bim, as bis conduct is in excusable! O wena is here, and is all right He says Cochran is bitter, but thinhr they may get him into trouble. It ie going further than he intended. Thej found warrants in bis favor. Strange Melton dou't respond. I .still do noi think they viii attack ns. Yours truly JNO. J. PATTERSON, TELL AS LITTLE AS ROS8IBLE. UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON, July 28, '78. DEAR GENERAL: Just returned ; havi Beeu Jake. He is all right, and will d< what is wanted. I have received you letters, and also your dispatch sayinj you are summoned. I would go and ra fuse to answer anything, especially oi the ground of your being co i sel foi Parkerand Scott and Moses, .'ou cai prove that by Jacobs and mc. 'i'ell then you only know of the Mooney and Leg gett warrants as counsel. The story o Moses about tho3o certificates is all stuf] If ever I bought any it was on tho street He can't substantiate this story end Ja cob andi know it iunottrue, but don't sa anything about it. Tell tho committee a little as possible. Ia regard to my electiot declino to answer on tuc ground that yoi were my counsel and acted os such, en nil you know-was obtained in that conf dence. They can't Gumnut you for con tempt until the Legislature meets, an by that time I think we can bave i stopped, or you out of their reach. Writ me after you testify. I send thia toColuu bia. Iatill do not think they will fin anything against you and me except i regard to my election, and I do not bt lieve they will press that. I still thin they will let you and lue alone, am anxiously looking for Butler. If h is in Columbia let me (know), and fin out when he is coming. I care nothin for what Moses may tell or say. I wi write you to-morrow again. I will kee Jake posted. Yours truly, J. J. PATTERSON. HAPPY AND DON'T CARE A DAMN. U. 8. BENATE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON, Sept. 16,1877. DEAR GENERAL : IL our letters all r ceived. The letters of Moses may 1 useful some day, but not very importa now. It is not tho merita of this malt I am now fighting, and hope never to j into them. Moses is not a witne against me in any of these charges. E has written me in behalf of Iteddin and I have given bim a lotter, as ho i quested, but' bf course, you know bett what to dp. I thought bis letters mea something. Well, I have not writt until I felt safe. It io certainly all rig here. I have bad a long interview wi Humphreys (a Judge of the District S ?romo Court aj pointed by, Preside Iraut), and he fully understands- ? case, and will do what is necessary, it were not for. the.fuss, I would prel they would send on a requisition.; would ?tump them badly to'bo beat* Butler wrote me none would bo eent.n so did Bacon, but that the Attorne General would notify me by letter of t finding of the i: lictmcnt, which he 1 done in a very respectful letter, and as mo to notify him by the 20th wbethei will appear voluntarily without requiri a requisition. I will reply on Mond very respectfully declining to go. and will then see whether ne will IBS Moiton was hero, eu route borne, Monday, and said he would find but about it when he got home. He te graphed rap last o?or.i..g that they wi afraid and never would sand for me. said ho would be sure before telegrai ing. The newspapers here insist tl they will, but of coarse they want tl I now feel perfectly easy and har nineo I saw Judge Humphreys yesterd and dona caro a damn. uapi. A-atien was authorised by Gov. Hnrtrnnft to i egraph me to go over there and.nil los* be safe. He writes me this morning t tho matter waa talked about at tho O vent?on among the leaders, Don (Cai ron), Kemble, Meckey, and others, i Baid I ought to go over, there and d Hampton and bis crow. So conic w may I am all safe, and will be Sent until 4th of March, 1879. Trescott e ho and Evarttt talked it over, ?ind t Evatts says they can't take roo, and t it was all wrong ; tbat be liked me, i would do anything he could for nu Sherman sent for me to bis house ia carriage, and talked about it, and sa must stand up, and that they would 1 me all they can, and hooted at tho i of tbeir taking aie on a requisition. ' feeling is certainly getting strong in favor, and I am satisfied now it will hurt rae, but will m:?ko roe u sc martyr. I am glad it is over, as I now cons lt is, ana I don't care bow soon tboy t on their requisition. Jacobs insistan telling tbat the Mooney & Leggett i rants were collected for you and me. has Leard from some one in S. C. you and Cochran fixed it up for yo swear ignorance of them, and tb 1 him indicted In order to shut bis mi in my behalf. Cochran tells that .wear you know nothing about tho ! rants, and had no inte?cst in them, cobs bas bean led to believe ycu got by putting him in. ' I have tried to vince him otherwise, but be baa ? friends araocg thc Democrats there, > ? - .. - : iii.'..'. can get Justice where we could not. I arr afraid he 'will go down voluntarily, os Tom Taylor and others have written him, offering to go his bail and help him any way. His case is a much better one than any of ours, and it is a mistake to offend him. He can't understand why you was not indicted along with us, as the books show the collections were for you and me, Unless you bargained with Cochran to swear out. I care nothing about lt, and am glad you are not indict ed, but be does, and may make trouble if nc goes down. They will believe him before either you or I. I will let you know if be goes. He promised me he would uot. Now, is there any way for me to got some help? In ?ill these matters you get as much as I did. and inserted nothing You bave baa as good and better office tban mine, and it cost you nothing, and yet I am to bear the brunt of the fight and all the expense. I must pay my counsel at least $500, and bow am I to do it 7 I think you should. My salary is no bet ter than tb?-t you and your employee* enjoy when all things are considered. Mr. Rawlins wanta to oe your successor, and let bim show bis willingness to help me in a tight place. If I get no help I must go to boarding and send my furni ture to bo sold to raise money and rent the house. I am keeping May away from school to cut down expenses, and suppose by this mesas I can raise the money, but think it pretty hard when those I have kept in place for four years will not help mo. Is there any way vo misc mo at least three hundred, and this is a small sum among so many. It would be a godsend. I know you would if you bad the money, and of? *??.rj* can't do what you would like for wa at cf ability. Do what you can, and let ne know. If you can let me draw upon you for $300 ut short date, and certain to bo paid. I could get along. I think Brayton would belp, and so would Wilder, but can'tsoy. Brayton may object, as he bas not been con firmed. Let me bear from you ou the subject, and would be delighted if you telegraph me to draw. Yours truly, J. J. PATTERSON. HAMPTON 18 VERY FRIENDLY. U. S. SENATE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON, Sept 30, 1877. DEAR G?NEBAL: Yours received. I havo your watch and drew on you for $60 -$49.50 for the watch, ou cents io iue bank, and $10 you owed me, as I need every dollar now I can raiso. This makes the $60. I dislike very much to go to a pawnbroker's, and hope you will not ask rae to again. Tho affidavits of Moses ?re very good, but could not ba used in a court. Judge Bacon is herc, and says he and Butler have arrangea matters with Hampton, and that I can rely upon it that no requisition will be sent. He says Hampton is very friendly. Of these things you must not speak. Northrop was appointed to please Hamp ton. Hayes asked me to make no oppo sition to it. I told him I would not. Dick Carpenter was here and terribly chopfallen. Well, I do not owe him any thing. All I want is to get out of this scrape and serve out my time. Rawlins wrote me to draw upon bim for $100, which I did. Jacobs says Cochran offers to give him immunity to go before the committee and testify, but I will uot let bim go unless they will r.ollc pro?, the in dictment against bim, and then bis testi mony would be very valuable. I am go ing to a wedding on Tuesday at Holla daysburg, Pa., and will not return until Satc'rlay. Will bo here when you come. Raise all the money you can. Yours truly, JNO. J. PATTERSON. A BAD YEAR FOR NEGROES. TJ. S. SENATE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON, Oct. 4,1877. DEAR GENERAL: Your toter re ceived. Of course you have my letter before thiB. Mackey and his committee got no encouragement from Hayes, as be told them no change would be mode now. They have all disappeared. I think the negroes found they did not make much impression. Thia is a bsd year for them. Your watch is safe sud ready for you upon your return'. Rawlins wrote me to draw upon him for .$100, which I did. Rerry and Hoffman each sent me $20. This is all I received. I am sorry to hear, of your trouble with Rawlins, and hope you will get it aU fixed up and have no fuss, aa it will do us all injury. Our hope ia' in. keeping things quiet. They caa'tjget an inaictment against you until court, fourth Monday in this month. I think you bad better get away and come here and thus be out of the State when the court meetB. By staying.there they might arrest yom I still think I can keep anything from being done against iou, Jacobs and myself at the next court, tetter bo here, and we can consult. I have another threatening letter from Gen. McIntyre, in which be refers ?to Menton. Ypu should tell Menton to be very careful' of what bo tells McIntyre He (Mc) writes from Brooklyn, N. ST., and s?ya he will return to Charleston in a week or two; i care nothing for his threats, only be might try tc get Warren into trouble. "lothing new here, as ver? few persons are hore. I Aid not go ??v*y as I* expected, thinking it betted to re main here. Better come hero. McCor mick will give you leave any time. Yours truly, PATTEBSON. REMARKS BY THE EDITOR. M. C. Butler, of South Carolina, and William Pitt Kellogg, of Louisiana, were admitted to seats In the Senate at the ssme season. Butler represented tbo Hampton Government of South Caro lina, which Hayes recognised, in pursu ance of the bargain by which the electo ral count was completed. Kellogg rep resented the Packard Government of toOWNiih?ji which nayes in iike manner bound himself to overthrow. The Com mittee on Privileges and Elections of tho Senate in the Forty-fi.rth Congress re ported that Hayes did wrong ir. both cases, and decided that Butler ought not to be Senator from South Carolina, and that Kellogg ought to be Senator from Louisiana. Tho Republican majority of the Senato sustained tho committee in the last instance, and on the merits of the case confirmed Kellogg's right to hi? scat. But in Butler's case two carpet bag Senators, Patterson and Conover, voted with tho Democrats and against tho Teport of the committee. Butler was continued Senator from Couth Carolina. It h ?ia ni ways been alleged that this result wa? reached in pursuance of an arrangement. It was charged by Sena .tor Edmunds at the time of the vote on Butler's case that Patterson was to have immunity in South Carolina in conside ration for bis services to Butler. At that timo Patterson was indicted in South Carolina for bribery. He denied that there was any such understanding, and so did Buller. Immunity for Patterson could only bo guaranteed . by Wade Hampton, then Governor of South Car olina. Tue friends of Kellogg have al ways insisted that Butler was not roted out of the-Senate becauso there was an agreement that the Democrats were not ???i^urh Sc'.iC?.?. li wai' "an honor able understanding" by which'the con tests in tbe'two cnaa wore disposed of. The other day Senator Hill, in hie speech defending the report of the Com mittee on Privileges and Elections re commending tile ejection of Kellogg ?nd the seating of Spofford, who waa elected by the Legislature which Hayes recog nised as the only legal one in Louisiana, referred to this talk about a bargain, agreement or understanding. Ho said that this talk had gone far enough to compromise the honor of South Carolina, and he took upon himself to deny that South Carolina would have purchased "her redemption from carpet-bag infa mies by agreeing to continue those infa mies upon Louisiana." To this Gen. Wade Hampton replied in a flowery speech. Avoiding tho issuo squarely presented, he talked about fol lowing South Carolina's palmetto flag on bloody heida that were "shot town and bladed thick with steel." and told hort Gen. Gordon, Hill's colleague, boro the colors of Georgia in the same way. Ho clanged Senator Hill with bravery in the time of peace, and announced that ho (Hampton) would voto against tho un seating of Kellogg. On Wednesday Senator Butler took his lura at Senator Hill. He denied that ho was admitted to the United 8tates Senate iu pursuance of a bargain, and an nounced his intention to vote for the re tention of Kellogg. Bead in the light of his denial, . x-Senator Patterson's Tet ters are refreshingly interesting. Gov. SEWARD'S ADVICE TO YOUNO MEN.-Mr. Seward, io a lotter to a young man, just published for the first time, said : I am glad to know y-u have got into lbs country. It is the best place Tor young men. Allow me to give you a word oi advice Just as soon as you can get out of public employment into some occupation by which you can sup? ?ort yourself, do it. end become an in ependent man. Salaries exhaust the euergies of all men, and very often cor rupt them. No greater calamity can befull a young man than to begin life in a public offlce. An easy clerkship, with a litoral salary, oftener injures than benefits the recip ient. As a rule, it unfits a young mau for tho rougher work of lifo, and by tak ing bim away from the stimulating in fluence of competition, provents him from acquiring tue mental and physical fibro indispensable to success. . And these coveted positions are all the inoro pernicious because they are so often merely temporary. It would not be so bad lithe young man who begins life in a rut were permitted to stay there. But theao easy clerkships have come to bo recognized as rewards for pa../ sorv?co rendered either by tho recipients or by their friends, and come and go with the rise and fall of parties. A dismissal clerk from a political office is about as pitiable an object as ono often meets with. During the '.wo or four or six years ho has been drawing a fair salary for little work, he has been forming habits which unfit him for sterner services, and ho is obliged to tako up tho thread of life where he dropped it to enter upon bis coveted clerkship, with fewer frionds, less nm vit ion, and .worse habits than when he left his original employment, where he had to work bard for little pay, to enter upon an. official position where there was little to do and big pay for doing it. Whoever hos aiy very protracted ex perience in political hie can call up scores of young men whose carly abilities inspired high hopes of usefulness and success, but who have sunk into obscuri ty, if not into eomething worse, under, the enervating influence of some petty office. Such a position may help hiss for a few years, ont tho chances are that it will spoil bim for life.-Albany Jour nal. CHINESE CHARITY.-Tho lates moils from Chiua bring intelligence that' the Chinese in Hong Kong have subscribed liberally to: the sufferers from the Irish famine. They decided st a public meet ing that a large amount of money should be promptly-for-^rded to .the Mayor of Cork for distrlbuuv.j among the distressed in that country. This sounds very much as if the Celestials at home were, after tho Scriptural injunction, heapir?? coals of fire cn those wno have certainly been, and are still their enemies. The Chinese have dono for tho Isiah what the Irish would not bo very likely to-do for them. The Irish in thia country hate the Chi nese most bitterly, and have lost no op portunity to harm them. Now, the Chi nese, instead of remembering and resent ing their wrongs, have literally returned good- for evil, and have set an example that both Europeans and Americana might follow with credit lo themselves. Within a few years there have been dire ful famines in China compared with which tho famine in Ireland is insignifi cant ; but not ono of the Western nations has made any effort to succor the star ving land. Thdre have been individ ual contributions, but euch a thing as a Chinese relief fund was nover known. Wo have reason to be amazed and morti fied that tho far Eastern people, whom many of us have regarded as an iefcrior and despicable race, should, be more sympathetic with, and charitable to, the inhabitants of a very distant island than the moat enlightened of ushavoevor been to them. The Irish ought, if they have any sensibility, to feel deeply ashamed of the high moral revenge which those who have nad abundant cause to be their enemies, and yet not, havo so magnan imously taken upon them. The Irish call themselves Christians; the Chinese aro pagans ; but in this case at least the pagans seem to have, in respect, to practical virtue, a conspicuous advantage over their Christian foes. AN ELOQUENT PASSAGE.-The fol le win"* \ was from the "en of O*"*- l^ Prentice : "It can not^bo that earth is man's abiding place. It can not bo that our life is a mere bubble cast up by eternity to float a moment on its waves and then sink into nothingness. Else why is it that the glorious aspirations which leap like angels from the temple of one's heart are forever wandering un satisfied ? Why is it that the stars that hold their festival around the midnight throne are set above the grasp of our limited faculties forever mocking us with their unapproachable glory ? And, fi? nally, wh * ia it that bright forms of hu man beauty presented to our view aro taken from us, leaving the thousand streams of affection to now back in AU (?ino torrents upon our hearts? There B a realm where the rainbow never fades; where the stars will be spread out . before us like the islands that slum ber in the ocean; and where tho beau tiful beings which pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence for ever." WOMAN'S WISDOM.-"She insists that it is more importance, that ber family shall be kept in full health, than that she should have all the fashionable dress es and ttylea of the times. Sho therefore seco to it, that each member of her fami ly is supplied with enough Hop Bitters, at the first appearance of any symptoms of ill health, to prevent a fit of sickness with its attendant expense, care and anx iety. All women should exercise their wisdom In this way."-New Haven Pal ladium. P. 1VI? BAYIB? PLATFORM. A lotter o? the Senator from Illinois tn Which MoJExpound* DJs X'oUUoal Opin ions on Topics of Pab?o Interest, WASHINGTON, May 28, 1880. The following correspondenco between O. H. Browning (formerly Secretary of the Interior) ana Senator Davis, of Illi nois, bas been, furnished for publication by Mr. James E. Harvey. Mr. Brown ing wroto as follows : QUINCY, IU., May 6, 1880. MY DEAR JODOK-The approaching close of the present session of Congress will, it 1? tr. be feared, leave questions unsettled which ?re of largo public lu torcst, and which materially affect tho peace and tho prosperity of the Union. Many of your friends in this State and throughout the West had hoped, and in deed bad expected, that au opportunity would have beep offered in the Senate by which your views on these matters could bave been made known to tho country. It unfortunately happens amid the dis tractions of party and the strifes of rival ambitions that the voice of statesman* rdiip ia hashed too often when wise.coun sei is moist needed. This was never more true than at the present time The country Is just emerging from a long pe riod of trial and suffering. The people seek rest from angry discords uvil desire to avoid a repetition cf the perils through which t'uv/ have passed. They oravo good government, stability and,perfect reconciliation between tho sections. The statesman who can achieve these great objects will be blessed os a public bene factor. I have ventured to embody in the form , of Inquiries appended to thle letter'some of the subjects upon which your opinions aro desired, if it bo agree able to you to comply with the request oi a large body of voters and friends, with out distinction of party. Truly youi friend, O. H. BROWNING. HON. DAVID DAVIB, U. S. Senate. The following is Judgo Davis' reply WADDINGTON, May 17.1880. MY DEAR ilia-I have bad tho pleas ure to receive your letter of the 6th inst As a constituent, a friend and an hon ored citir.cn of Illinois you have a per feet right to ask for my views on publl questions, and I have no hesitation ii expressing them, tabing Che inquiries ii tho order presented. ? Peace in the Union.-Permament pros perity and fraternal fellowship are onl; to be attained . by silencing sections strife. A faithful adheronce to tbe con Btilution and all the amendments, stric observance of the laws in con form it, therewith, and equal rights and equti protection for every citizen in every pal of tho Republic will soon end the dil cords that hkve too long vexed tbi coat try and injured its material welfar Tuc- people are weary of agitation an want peace. OaUtaHza?ion.-Tho constitution wisi ly. donnes tho respective limits of tl Federal and State governments nnder happy and-harmonious, system, where: each Is: independent in its appropria sphere and.both operate concurrently i protect thVintegrity and stability of ti Union. 'Any encroachment ot ono c the distinctive domain of tho other nece .sadly dislocates the machinery of tl constitution and involves danger to tl j whole body politic. 1 In fact, every d parturoirom the great charter of liner and law 1B attended with peril. Tbe d 'wand made by adherents of one of tl great parties for a strong govornme means substantially a centralized gover ment) destructivo of Lome rule in ti States, and tho very reverse of what ?J Lincoln r well described na a gever ment of the people by the people and f the jpebplo.1 Carried to its logical co fusion auch a change would finally o vt row theiRepublic; Th& Third yRrm.-An innovation upi tho 'sanctified traditions of tho Prei dency, first! established by the examr bf Washi?glon, iu urgently demanded a powerful interest in tho Republic Earty. If tho limitations of two tem eretofore'universally {accepted, bot strayed, tho way to a self-perpetuati Presidency will be opened by the use a abuse of the enormous public patrons] Break down this barrier and an ead tho experiment of republican govei ment looms up darkly v. tho'cost oi fatal concession. Great Corporations.-The rapid grov of corporate power, and the malign fluence which it exerts by comblnath on the National and State Lcgislatu ic a well grounded causa of alarm, straggle is impending in tho near ftiti between this overgrown power, with vast ramifications all over the Union c a bard grip on much of-the political r cbinery on the ono band, and the pee in au unorganized condition on tho ot for control of the government, It v be watched by every patriot with intel anxiety. (Xvii formet.-Neither laws nor c< mission created under them will off ually reform the many and glaring abt of the civil service Tho former h been constantly evaded, and the la arc powerless for good. An honest ccutivo, bent on real and not simula reform, hos abundant authority to m it effective everywhere, if he has capacity to see bis duty and tho com to perform it. ?Subsidia.-Experience has dem strafed that subsidies in any form sources -of corruption and Ought ic forbidden. Private enterprises that Kend for snccess on legislation proa y vtnal agencies do not deserve pu favor. Public lands.-Moro than a hunt and fiftv millions of acres of valu lands and more than $100,000,000, r -i-1 i_?_? I_i_i uipai auu IUWIUI?) **?.v? ww., .wu v Congress to railroad corporations, remaining lands should be sacredly served for cultivators of the soi), so the laboring man shall bave a coane imprcvo bis condition and to open t future for bis children away from Reductions of tho great cities. Revision pf the Thriff.-Ha?S pri cally means taxation, aud ali taxa not equitably adjusted is odious.. W tho interest on an oppressive public < the pensions earned with tho bloc* soldiers and sailors who fought fo; Union, and tho regular expenses of 3?ing on the government are to be uties oft imports must continue to nish ono of the sources of revenue, long au those duties are levied mani turora will be benefited according tc degree or the mode in which the d may be distributed. Tho existing is regarded as a confused mass of ic graities and monopolies creatsi special legislation and open to con fraud on the revenue. It taxes the sumer heavily on those articles espec that are most needed by the ta masses. It taxes every newspaper, < school book, every Bible and the ai tbe workingman with gross Injustice cause tho poor pretence of rovenno not exist to cover the ww*:?r% A i ion, therefore, which shari be at searching ana fair is demanded, should bo promptly and efficiently r The Publie Debt-Th* debt ol United States, in round numbers, h thousand jilllions, deducting the ho? coln in tbe Treasury. The interest it last yeer waa over one hundred mil lions. These aro appalling figures. Tb? rapid extinction or this dentis to be de sired, first because it diminishes present burdens, and for the additional reason that one of the effects of a person** na tional debt is io create a preferred class to live on incomes and free from taxes under our laws. Having the protection of tho government at home eua abroad, they would contribute nothing to its support. Economy.-It is -practicable by co-ope ration between tho Executive and Con gress to reduce the public expenditures many millions annually without impair ing the efficiency of the public service. Rc tren chm?-???; {? needed for the reduc tion of taxes, bnt it is also need ul be cause properly adminh .ered it weald be come a potent factor fi reforming the Civil Service. Election?.-The ballot box should bi the safeguard of the Republic, for it ll intended to express the free will of a. free people. Therefore, elections should bf exempt from the presence of any mena cing force, and to be free from the oon< lamination of corrupt returning boards No party deserves confidence that seeki ascendancy by striking down honest auf frages either by the use of troops, by fraud or by intimidation. It would nol be proper for mo to express any opiniot upon measures ponding or proposed ii Congress. My votes win speak tor thom solves st the utting timo. : Having thus freely auswered your in quirico, i may add in conclusion that rn; support will bo cheerfully elven to an< candidate for President who in goo< faith will strive to carry out this geuera line of policy, which, in my judgment, i Of far more importance than tho amul lion of any man, or even t?fS succoss c any party. As over your fi loud, DAVID DAVIS. j HON. O. H. BROWNING, Quincy, Il Gen? Johnston's Example. General Jo. Johnston objects to at other term of Congress, on tho groan that the necessary confinement preven for him that amount of out-door exerch nocossary for his health, and to whic he has always been accustomed. Gene il Johnston bears the tiuth of his mod cine with him, for ho is a first-class e; ampio of a healthy, vigorous old ag As much as we dislike preaching or nr manner of medical dogmatizing, it do become ni-ost a necessity hore to r mark that a very largo proportion of 01 fieople become emaciated, skinny, SE ow, bloodless, bent, rheumatic and pr ! maturely old, because they are prevent? j by their pursuits from exercising enoug I and exercising whero exercise will < thom good. One-half onr men of for could not keep pace with the rollickii boy of twelve or fifteen lot looso in tl fields. Yet forty is nr.t the time for sui Shysical decadence &nd inertia, and tl oy of fifteen, after a few years* con fi ri mont at the desk, the counter, or soi other sedentary pursuit, becomes inc averse to such exercise than when ! ran around barefooted. Walk a fi miles? How often to such propoalti does one hear ??-om young men of twenl five the refusal coupled, with the sn< at the idea Of walking.1 The reason! simple and the reason is good. Th sedentary six days pursuits deprive th? of the ability and pleasure of *valkh Yet it was not BO with the boy of fi.ftei Half tho excessive corpulence in t land is due to sheer leak of phys! exercise, and it is only physical oxerc which will abate it in a healthy fashli Begging humanity's pardon, the case proven in that of the hog. Tho ! w boar taa lithe, active animal. Tho < masticated swine is valuable only Mesh, as regards flesh abd nvoirdup< when in his highett state ' of artille Perfection scarce, ablo to waddle. Di ig swine long distances on tho road market docs not fatten them. Tura 1 Sog out i? a now country, allow h tero unpenned to perpetuate hie ti for a generation or two and the rotund Ipssens, tho legs shorten, the back arc and tho animal reverts to the condit ip which nature mode him. 1 Ho Is so well calculated for fat, but more speed, and probably if his own views the subject could be obtained, for get ni /oymont. The case .* precisely same between the Wild, ana tame gc and ducks. Imprisonment for a cert special purpose nos, from graceful aj creatures, converted them into dui waddlora. It ia precisely so with' i and women. We do fade as the lei long ore wo shtold from the necessity living, moving ard breathing* in domiciliary boxes or narrow, close di city nttcdts, never thoroughly pert'.ec by Che frosh pure air of tho fields hilltops. Gen. Joe. Johnston is om the few who values more his health t a ?eat in Congress.-7%? New ' ] Qraphio._ _ - ._ A QUAKER MABIUAQE-AN INI ESTiNo CEREMONY.-A marriage i Elace .at New Garden, Friends mee ouse, in this county on last Wedna uuiDvcu MOY. xv. x?. mug, tsi uJUCul Indiana, and -Miss Alice R. Carr Guilford county. As many of our r era have never witnessed such ccromr wo give an account)of their proccc ; It is known to most people that j Friends hold two religious services < ? week ; ono Sunday at or about S'clock, a. m., the other in midwee tte same time of day.: At these midi I meetings twice a month they transas business of their respectivo ihurc one is called "Preparativo Meet! which is held one week in advance o Other which is called "Monthly J ing_." XH^ ?.*.*%*? u vivas ? * an/- ptwvtn ms...iago inform tho Preparative 2k lng, of which the woman is amer which shall forward the propositic ?he ensuing Monthly Meeting, and ! obstruction appears, the parties arc at liberty to accomplish their roan according to the rules of the Sot This ali having been gone through last. Wednesday quite a> largo aud met to. witness the marriage. Me convened at the usual hour; the Hrs in front of where the Ministers and era usually sat was left vacant.- . 1 a very Impressive, sermon was deli' I by James Jones and the usual bou worship bad half expired, the bride groom and four attendants entere \ church and occupied the reserved sea ing the audience. After a few minni lenee, the overseer of the meeting nounoed that it was now the proper fpr the solemnization of the marris when *h* ?nnnla and their altan stood up and taking each other b right hand. Mr. King plainly ant tiDCtly said : "In the pr?sence ol Lord and before this assembly, I Alice R. Carr to be my wife ; prom I v*Hh Divine assistance, to be unto loving and faithful husband; until shall separate .ns.". Miss Car the pealed tho same, and all were.? The clerk of the monthly meeting arose and read the marriage certJi to which the brido and groom fl their names.' After tho close o meeting the near friends and rel signed tho certificate as witnes Ureemboro Patriot. ? Mr- Atp on tho Decent Sermon of Broth. . er Taliaage and other Sabject*. i Better Ute than nover, but it. does eoein to mo Brother Tel m age has been a i long 4lme finding out wc were s good peo* I pie down here. Fifteen years is about sufficient for a scholar to learn all about the whole world and. the rest of mankind, Jncludlag Asia and Africa sud the Zu l?os, but we've been living right here al most in sight of the tabernacle. Brother Talmage has been over to Snropo and comp back and Just now bogia* to take eome interest in us. I'm glad , of . it^ fife talks spondtdly andi enjoyed ii He ts doing us justice. Ono time there was. a man who had a wild boy, and obe cold night bo tedd him to go out to thewood pilo and bring in a log to put on tho fire. Tho boy. went,' but bo never came back in a burry. He took ship as a Bai lor and went allover the world and was gone fifteen yean, but he came home one cold night and looking through the window, saw tho old mau at prayers., ?p be bunted round tho wo?d-pllo and shoul dered a big stick, and whon prayers were over he walked lu, and says be, "Daddy, here'o that back log you sent rae, after." Brother Talmage bas brought in tho.bacfc log at last, but we might have froze, to death several times awaiting for him: pur northern brethreu aro very, poor scholars. Every year or so some, cr'em comes down to make a reccy isaacs ano1 they ga back and say we ah, all right rreatpeonle-^aplebold people, have been ilandercu awfully and so forth, nod wight straight we hold up our beads, and .wag mr. tails just Uko a dog when ho . gets a kind word from his master. Mr.' Beech-; er come down, and Pr. Vincent como down, and General Grant come down, and Seneral Sherman t .td several others, and hey go back and says, "Boys, chere's no harm in those fell.ors down couth -they ar? all right," but bless my soul no body believes them, and we have got tb enlighten them one at a time inst luce we did Brother Talmage, and itV gojng to take two or threo thousand years .to do Brother Talmage made the best talk for us.that's been made, and there's some: comfort in it, though I don't nee na hpvr> it's going to do us. any. particular good. Wo want eur rights. Wo want our criti ited sotdlers' widows pensioned just like hem on the other Bide, and I want Bomb rreatman like Dr. Talmage to get up eu' a stump and say it ought tb bo done,'. .!, said'it ooforo, I'm going.to keep saying it, thora alnt't agoing to be any real peace until we are put on an equality with 'ctn In every respect. When, an old maa. makes a will and outs out. some. of tho children it always breaks tip the, peace la thAfc family, and though they may Compromise like Bill Vandeibuilt did with Neil and his sisters, it don't restore! paternal harmony by nojraeans,. V'oa/fc sorter Uko the niggers in the AtU'ita con vention. We want our share of Unelo flam's property. They, can't put us off with a little long delayed praise; Mr. Talmagoaays tho nprth .has not done.us. ?istlce. Well, that's BO ;,but we want tb, now about wb?t timo they will db it.' There was a darkey in the calnbooso nim bo sent for Judgo Underwood end told ?bat fae was put io there for, and the udge replied: "Well, Jack, they can't put you in hero for that. It's' against tbehiw.'V "Ia dat so. Mas John Vr said Jack,, "It is BO,'Jaca*, said tho Judge.' '.'they can not put you in here for, that," "But I is in boro now." oayS Jack. '.'Mas John, oho aa you're born, I is ia hean right now." ! gomebo-1 csn'i help 'hinting of these things whether they fi t up exactly or not. Old mau Liam came to me the other day and wanted tb know when Congress was. going to db any thing for the colored 'man. He asid be had beca voting for 'em ever ?inco tbr var and they had. promised to lo some ing but they, didn't do nr.ry thing, bald he had done give up tfae molo and 40 acres Of land, but the white folks were getting garden eeeds from Washington and they hadn't sent any. to bini, I told bini the.darkeys had jurt as well quit expecting anything more than they bad already cot, for this was a white man's country and them white folki up ?ender was a fooling pf'em. . I told bice ow they doue that negro at West Point Arid advised him to let politics alone. When I ?sk?d him who ho wanted for presidont, be said some bf 'em > waa g wine to vote for General Grant and some, for General Sherman. I thought there was, Smebody fooling them.niggers in Atlan , making'believe that it waa, Ole To? cump that was Tunning. The way tho' radical party fools the darkeys remind? me of old John * edlin. Ho waa a sharp old ahoo make* ..ad loved whiskey, "aha had more ways of (retting a dram without {laying for it than anybddy. John's cred-' t was gone and his promises not worth a cent. There was a new grocery opened, in tua little town, and so John meander ed round, and seeing som o ginger f?? H on tho shelf, he priced 'em and said be would take one. Tho-feller laid .it down on the counter and John handled, it a while, and asked hiss how he sold whiskey. "Five cents a drink," said ho. So Johu asked him tb take hack the p?n gor cake and give bim some whiskey* which, of course, he did, and John drunk lt, andadera remark or two about.the weather, started oui When tho feller reminded bim that ho hadn't poid for tho liquor, Job x>ked at him like he was "Hut yon dian's pay tor tneginger-cake," ?aid too feller. "Why, you've got your ginger cakot" said John, "therelt is on ?our shelf right where yon put it," and , e walked out muttering something about 4 fool. I wcuder when them yankees will learn _-I_? ?1_1_- TV-1. .1 nujr .?Mn. ?w-v#>t w mo iiiggoi. A ru li 9 Mtv J know white folks are not going to mix with 'era. Haven't thoy tried it in betels and railroads and churches. Did they, not pass ail sorts of laws to make us mix and their own folks were tho first to break 'em? If they want to raak*. West Pointers and midshipmen out of'em why don't thoy establish branches of that bus iness and keep 'em separate. That's the way wa do down here. Tho nigger don't go to sbool with the white folks. They don't want to and wp wouldn't lat 'em If they did. Mr. Beecher may preach about the horrible outrogo till doomsday but he can't preach social equality'with the niggers a? West Point nor acy other paint. Mr. Beecher ain't tl; ,,man to reg ulato society nohow. He lives in a glass house. He may throw bis stones around bis own folks, but wo don't want him, to be slinging 'em down hore. Them con gressmen who ore making all that fuss! about Whitaker don't carpa cent about I Mm.' They aro just howling for voicb^- i fooling tho nigger again. Poor darkey; (be hasn't got hot one friend, and that's his old master. Thirteen thor^ftudernbs granta landed ia New York la?i wcokjuw til of 'om geno west-r-ostry ono como south-afraid of tho nigger-doh*? want to mix with hko. Some of ?cm got tired of the MUwosippl swamps ladt year and tried, to find boruca higher np, hut found no body to give'em, Welcome- nobody stand? iug st th? gate with an urabrel-no ph? ton at the depot^nor?cep'.*:. J committee -no notfaiug; end ?o what of'ora didn't perLih to der th come book, and reckon they will stay.' I don't caro whether they dp or not. I've learned to ch np my own wood and catch roy own boree, nod black my own, bool?, but when there len darkey about I make bim doit hut to keep bim reminded that I'm the noes of tho premise* and the color line ain't wiped out yet, law or po law. .Yours, HIM, AUV. ?. -? ' ? . mi,-a-Ui.iiM? A Hcart-EendlBg Accident. Corvapondence Greenville Newt. C?OKESD?ay. 8. 0., May 25,1880. Our town has fast been tho ?ceno of a Srest h?att-rend?ng tragedy. About (j 'clock this morning aa alarm of Uro tarUed our people, who mab ed from heir homes to carry aid wherever it might bo,heeded. Smoko was seen issu ing from the doors and windows of Mrs. floss* residence. A colored man. Henry wens, was the first to reach tho spot, e rushed into the house, threw open tho door of the room, from which the flames1 were bursting, and saw BJiss Lillie 1*1. Glass wrapt in flames, in hot mother's arms. With neroiofQiget?ujnesa of self, he tore tho young lady from her mother, Ejd wrapt her Yu a piece, of oil cloth bleb was lying near. Others cams in, ad the flames, were, extinguished, but not until tho unfortunate sufferer was fatally burned. During tho excitement arid horror im mediately sncceedins tho awful tragedy, no one waa able to discover the origm of the fire, but it was ascertained that alisa Lillie had coho into tho stovo roon (tho fervent being Bick? for the purpose of preparing the morning'meal, ana'while kindling the fire, took un the.'con'of kerpscno oil, and poured from it on the wood. Tho flames caught tho oil, and the burning fluid waa thrown over her clothing. She rushed into , her mother's room, covered with fire,' the flames leap ing high above her head. \ Uer sister, Miss Julia Glass, seised Uer {nd threw her on a feather bed and was ndeavoring to smother the flames, when Mrs. Glass, urged; to desperation by her daughter's erm, ?nd a mother's love, seised th? burning girl io her ?rms, and, regardless of the fiados which had al ready been communicated io her own clothing, and which were inflicting terr ilbte wounds on her own person, fought be devouring firo, until finding her of orts fruitless, slid threw her arms around 1er child, and < but for tho; timely arrival ?ind npb?T conduct of tho colored man mentioned above, she would undoubtedly nive received fatal injuries. ] Never has it been my lot-to witness ?uch b?orttrending scenes. Never hos ?ur, community been called, upon to wit ness 6ufiering so utterly.irideficrUiable. : The. ?nd misfortune is scarcely sur Siaeaed by the recent deplorable accident - n the Atlanta theatre. In a quiet town , widowed mother apel her two daugbt irs, without a moment's warning become tho victims of torturing flamea. While I writ? the mother He? quietcd*by chlo riform, or convulsed by suffering which : Cannot bs described; In another room ?ne daughter writhes in agony, while in pother ibe youngest daughter lies-dy ing." ( .'A deep feeling of Borrow pervades our ?hale community, and the stricken fam ily. Itave the heartfelt sympathy of all. Mrs. Glass hos, for yoars, beop principal of four Female School, "and hor daughter, Miss Lillie/ who is aged about 20 yeats, 5as her. assistant. All her know Mrs. lass loves her, and Miss Lill Io is a geu gd favorito, with.young and old alike, ?, ie an amiable and accomplished orig lady? and a consistent momber of thc Episeopai Church;: Her g?uUc. ?sdy Uko bearing hta endeared her to nil, cud we/eel deeply, ibr her io- thia dreadful affliction. . W. A. M. I\ LATEO,-Miss Lillie Glaaa died to-day at 11.?5 a. m. The injuries of Mra Julia sro not considered dangerous, though very painful. Mrs. Glass S still exceedingly Uh. . Her, injuries, though confined to tho .rroa. .ana,,-lower limbs, aro pronounced . very serious. Dr. P. F. Gary has been with the Bufferers ever since the accident occur red,: and will do whatever human qkilll can accomplish to alleviate their sufferings, . -'Sla?eay'tlte.inut.''^ j Tho historic Bulleringa of the block bolo at Calcutta arc paralleled In some what mitigated degree, if. wa may believe a correspondent pt tho Nev:. YorkHerald, In a department of tho United States mint at Philadelphia. The return of tho couutry to spetaV payments has vastly increased the : work: at th? mint, and a Democratic. Cpngress, with the faculty ifor'xh?csc-paring. whare it can bo least; endured, has 'cut down the running ex penses cf-the mint to a point: which works gr?ai injustice to many, uf the em ployees. This is particularly tho case with tho 70 or 80 women in the adjusting robin. From 8 o'clock in the morning ' till 0 al night these martyrs to hard rooney ply their task. It is net so much the long hours as the conditions of their labor which tell the more ; dl4a?stroasly ripon these women. In a room which no holiday vUltor ever enters; A wac and sickly company stand before delicately balanced scales.' Th?ogh their fingen pase every gr?ld ond silver coin, millions ? ripon millions of them altogether, which must be adjusted with the nicest accu racv to tho et?ndord weight So sensi tivo are these balancea for weighing coins that drafts of air affect them ; tho jrojd Susi, ino, of which ??v.vw worth a - J? ir i swept up in this room, ts iiabau lo trifling loss from the same cans?, and BO the windows of tho room are rarely or never opened. Even in the hottest of summer weather doors and windows are ?cpt inexorably closed. To augment the orrors of--tho' Stiuiuct atmosphere ara the leakage of foul odors and gases from adjacent water-closets. Under theao con ditions it ia co uncommon thing for wo men to drop fainting at their posts. The cruelties of the situation havo recently boen rurther aggravated by making ten ure of position depend on the riuuiber of coins a woman ia capable of adjusting. Men formerly did this.work? but failing in their demands to have it made moro wholesome they promptly struck, and women, with fewe* avenues of employ ment and pressed by competition, were found only too willingly and uncota pfalnlngly tc tako up the ?nhoalthf?l foil. The ITTrzld": harrowing tale ia coupled with tho plea that Congress in vestigate the matter; and right thin abuao to a company of overworked ard scantily paid bat faithful employee? of the government. - Ono of tho coaches on tho Great ta . -. X?. ii_? ic--J^~c? .h?? beer; painted* wlth ProfT'Bidroa?n'a luminous point? It is in appearance very littlo different from ordinary paint, but during the limo tho carriage is exposed to tho light the point israpidly\ absorbing tho dayllghfe. and wbes Becomes it throws Ont a mild r*di*ncor:>t has bseii em ployed on lifo, buov?, rendering them visible from a long dMaaca. - Iron Mountain, Mo., ia all that its narao implies, being r^voa-tenth* purp Iron. It fa nearly a ?Ile Jon*,- half *u brood, and several hundred! fto* Wgb. It io being carried, away tX tba rate of Sa lons a dey.