Worthless Medicines. At tho recent meeting of the South Carolina State Board of Health the sub committee on the "Sale of Drugs and Medicines/' of Which committee Dr. P. A. Wilhite- of Anderson, ia Chairman, made the following report : It it) my duty, os Chairman of the Standing Committee on the Sale of Drugs and Medicines, to investigate, and pro cure such information nnu facts on tho -subject, a* I might bc able to obtain, nnu report to this Board. I find in the few upper counties in which my investigations nave been prin cipally made, that the country generally is Hooded with the most worthless nos trums of every description, from tin electric button, suspended from the neck, to the infant's vilest soothing syrup. A portion of theao medicines", however, arc not brought into the count y by drug gists, or other merchants, but by a herd of peddlers, who are prowling over every neighborhood, distributing their trncta, circulars, almanacs, etc.-just such trash as. is most calculated to deceive tho igno rant and credulous. These persons also make agencies for their so-called medi cines, at any house, nod with any ono that will take them for sale. It is this class of nostrums which drug houses consider too worthless to deal in, which is thrown into tho country in this way. It does really seem that a great portion of our people are, to a certain exleut, demoralized on patent medicines. For instance, it is with surprise that wc KOO meu and women of refinement mid intel ligence, with a peco of brass and zinc suspended from their necks, by a silk cord, which is sold by these agents, and believed to ho a perfect panacea for all thc ills to which human flesh is heir. Thc introduction of injurious nostrums is, in my humble opinion, one of the greatest evils which could be visited upon a people. It is equal in many re spects to an epidemic. Its vengeance is slow, sure and continuous. We vacci nate aguinst small pox, and quarantine against yellow fever, and yet I know of no subject of moro importance to us as sanitarians than this, unprovided against. We should, I think, in this protect our citizens. \V*c should therefore endeavor to have our State establish restrictions against thia injurious trahie. This cnn be done by legislative enactments. Yet I do not intend to assert that all proprie tary medicines are hurtful ; Bomo of them we know are very useful, but those should bo selected and Reid by proper parties. I ani well satisfied from my ex perience und observation, that there is no cause which so completely under mines the constitution, deranges thc di gestion, and prepares the general system to become easy food for endemic and epidemic diseases, as the indiscrimute and daily dosing with unknown patent medicines. Slate medicine, or preventive medi cine, I regard to he that brauch of knowl edge which treats of the general means to bo employed under public authority, for the preservation of the public health. Public hygiene will never have reached ita full development, until the social sta tistician (by means of returns which oin braco diseases and causes of disease, as well as death and causes of death), clearly pointa out how remote events in ilucucc and modify disease, and how these may be removed. This, I well know, ia a vast field, aud it requires a broad grasp of mind to embrace all the terms of HO complex n problem. There was a bill before our last Legis lature, which was unfortunately defeated, the features of which were to prohibit the introduction and sale of pater: med icines in the State. I um informed that had the Bill been iutroduced in a proper form, it would have passed, without doubt, and would have become a law. I think something of that 'kind would bo very proper now, at least, somo law which will restrict the salo of medicines to regularly licensed druggists. Thc law, os it now stands, requires every merchant who expects to engage in thc anio of drugs and medicines, or in other words, every druggist to go before a hoard created by the ??tate, and under go a thorough examination in chemistry und pharmacy. If the examination prove satisfactory, he receives a license as a druggist, ile is then required to keep a book, and register the names ai all persons who buy drugs regarded as poisons, and also to keep poison-labels, with their antidotes printed on them. And an act passed in 1871-72 eays: "Any person wno shall hereafter curry on and conduct the husiticss of said oc cupation, without auch license, shall be liahlc to indictment tor a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, to a fino not exceed ing i?o00, or to imprisonment not exceed ing six months." In the answers I have received to let? I rs addressed to parties in nearly every county in the "Vito, making inquiries on this subject, t'jw names of such illicit dealers aro mentioned ; but it is stated thal it is customary for merchants, gen erally, to keep an assortment of drugs and medicines, regardless of what is re quired by thc statutes of the Stnt?. I have thus briefly mcutinnod somo of tiic evils which this Board may attempt to correct, so as to promote the public health, and to discharge tho obligation laid upon it. When ihe law decreed that the Stat-, Board of Health should have thc general supervision of tho interest of thc health r.nd lives of tho citizens, no iiinro solemn charge was ever laid upon a body of men by our Legislature. And our Board, I Irust, will not bo unmindful of what thc State demands at its hands. .- a?n - FAILURE KOT A FAII.UIIE.-Tho so orct of happiness is to make thc best of _ti.:__ vr"_.... .... -. . . \ i . . .... *1 . - " UM.M-JI ii iiiii tlitp-JCUa to annoy, ret it nil glide along as easily and with as few words of complaint and fault-finding as posible. Little incon veniences will intrude upon the most for tunate people, so tho only way to be master of every situation is to make up your mind not lo notice smnll annoy ances. People may keep themselves ina " constant broil over what amount* to nothing, and which, without accomplish ing thc least good, may ruin the |>cao3 and quiet ohi household. We cannot have everything just as we wont it in this world, and the sooner a person under stands that fact, tho sooner ho may bavo a truo basia for happiness. It is tho greatest folly to set tho heart upon uncertainties, and then, if disap pointed, ref&so to be comforted or recon ciled. Do tho very best you can, and then take things as they come. If a man strives with his best knowledge, energy and untiring labor lo accomplish a curtain object, working with skill and patience, ho is a success, whether tho scheme fails or succeeds, and ho ought to reconcile himself to failure if it wns in evitable. If his labors have been of brain and hand, he is belter fitted to succeed in other undertaking*. And the ques tion of success or failure is not nettled lill this lifo ends-no, not till tho lite to como sholl re.eal ita grand rrsultx. Christian Tr arxiry. -* - Cold green tea, well sweetened and put Into saucers, will destroy flies. Specimen Radical Campaign Document. Thc following paper .rna hnuded ono of our ruerchans while he was in New York City recently by a lady employed in a largo clothing boase, which wo pub i li.sh ns a specimen of tho Radical cam ' paigu documents with which the whole country, and especially the North, is ? r.joded every election year : 1 WHY t WILL NOT VOTE TUB DEMO CRATIC ?ICKET.' I am opposed to thc Democratic party, ' and I will tell you why. Every State . that seceded from tho United States was ' a Democratic State. Every ordinance of secession that was drawn was drawn by a ! Democrat. Every mun that endeavored to tear the old Hag from the heaven that j it enriches was a Democrat. Every I enemy this great Republic bas had for tweuty years has been a Democrat, j Every man that shot Union soldiers was n Democrat. Every man that starved j Union soldiers and refused them in thc i extremity of death a crust was a Demo crat. Every man chat tried *o destroy ! this nation was a Democrat. Every man I that loved slavery better than liberty was ' a Democrat. The man that assassinated Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat. I Every man that sympathized Yt', Ja the I assasin-every mnn glad that thc noblest President ever elected was nssassi lated I was a Democrat. Every ma? that im paired t?e credit of tho United States ; every man that swore we would nevar pay the bonds; every mon tbatswo.v wo would never redeem tbe greenbacks was a Democrat. Every mau that resist ed the draft was n Democrat. Every man that wept over the corpse of slavery was a Dcmocrnt. Every man that cursed Lincoln because bc issued the Proclama tion of Emancipation-tho grandest paper since the Declaration of Indepen dence-every one of them was a Demo crat. Every man that wanted an up rising in tho North, that wanted to re ! lease the rebel prisoners, that they might j burn down the homes of Union soldiers above tho heads of their wives and chil dren, while the bravo husbands, the bef roic fathers, wore in the front fighting for the honor of tho old flog, overy one of them was a Democrat. Every roan that believed this glorious nation of ours is only a confederacy, every man that be lieved the old banner, carried by our fathers through tho Revolution, through tho war of 1812, carried by our brothers over thc fields of the Rebellion, simply stood for a contract, simply stood for an agreement, was a Democrat. Every'man wno believed that any State could go out of the Union nt its pleasure; every mau that believed the grand fabric of the American Government could be made to crumble instantly into dust at the touch of treason was a Democrat. Soldiers 1 Every scar you have got on your heroic bodies-was given you by a Democrat. Every scar, every arm that is lacking, every limb that is gone, every scar is a souvenir of a Democrat. WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS NOT DONE. The Republicans have done some no ble things-things that will be remem bered as long as thero is history. But there are some tilings they did not do. They did not use an army to" force slavery into Kansas. They did not fire upon Fort Sumter. They did not attempt secession. They did not plunder the nation of its arms. They did not inaugurate rebellion. They did not drive American com merce from thc seas. They did not "huzza" over Union dis asters. They did not ''huzza" over Rebel vic tories. They did not mourn over Rebel de feats. They did not oppose enlistments in tho Union army. They were not draft rioters. They were not "Knights of tho Golden Circle"" They did not commit the attrocitiea of Libby, Helle Isle, Salisbury and Ander Bonville? They did not oppose emancipation. They were not "Ku-Klux." They did not commit tho Butchery at Fort Pillow. They did not commit tho horrible mas sacre ut New Orleans. They did not murder Dixon. They did not butchei the Cbisolm family. - . They did not massacro black men at Hamburg. They did not scourge, nnd'hang, and Bhoot, aud murder men tor opinion's sake. They did not organize the Louisiana white leaguo or tho South Carolina rifle clubs. They did not drench tho Soutb with tho blood of inoffensive cojored men. They did nut invont tho "Missi^ippi plan." They did not use tissuo bnllois. They are not "moonshiners." They do not resist the national nu thority. They ?lo not net up their States above the nation. They did not try io destroy thu Na tion's credit. i They do not try to pauperize tho Amer ican mechanic. They have not been an impediment to nationnl growth. They have not been a hindrance to the peoples's prosperity. Can !he De:;.coralie part" and all Democrats say ns much? The people can trust a party that lins not done these things, but they cannot trust a party that in whole or in pat t did do them A NOVEL FIGHT BETWEEN TWO CHI CAGO WORKMEN AND ITO HORRIBLE RE BUTS.- Chicago, September 12.-One of the most novel fights, "with most horrible re sultS) that has over been brought to the notice of the police, occurred hore at 12 o'clock thia morning at the Union Iron and Steel Foundry dock near the corner of Thirty-second street and Ashland av enue. A gang of workmen where en gaged In unloading iron oro when two of them, William Doylo and Timothy Con nell, engaged in a quarrel. Alter talking loudly tor a moment or two they clinched and fought for tho mastery, which neither of them could gain. Finally, apparently with a inutunl understanding, they let go, separated and began to look about for weapons. Suddenly each seized a kero sene bracket-lamp and with a crush hurled it at tbe other. Each lamp struck its mark and the dull thud was followed by two bright explosions and tho horrified workmen beheld their comrades wrapped in (lames. It was some moments boforo they wore able to put out tho fire, and when they had extinguished them it was only to find tho men unconscious nnd most horribly roasted. Each was con veyed to his house. The physicians who are attending them say that Doyle will in all probability die aud that Connell, although very badly injured, may recov er. .Tho chances aro against the recovery or both, however, and should boto dio it will create no surprise. Both men aro pastmiddio life and aro married, with families.-Special diimtch to thc New Vori World. A BOYAL BIRTH-"TPS A til KL.? Spain'? Welcome to the Dear tittle Uuby It'rlnccs?. The correspondent of thc Herald tele graphing from Madrid says : On Friday night, during a small reunion of the royal family tu tho palace, Queen Chris tina became somewhat indisposed. From that hour her condition grew more and more serious, and it was thought that at last the supreme hour was approaching. There bad been so many disappointments and miscalculations, however, that it was uot until about G o'clock on the after noon of Saturday Hint tho Austrian phy sician iu attendance positively gave his opinion that the condition of her Majesty was n certain indication of her approach ing confinement. Tho intelligence was of course in c short time communicated to nearly the whoio city, and aa the wel come news spread it was only natural that the populace should have been at tracted to the palace. Peoulo ol all classes stayed in the Piara del Oriento under the palace windows all day, and tho crowd slowly increased until the afternoon, when it was knowu that the (mince messenger had been ordered oil'at ?alf-past 4 to summon ministers. Hours passed and the crowd increased as the intelligence went ab/oad, until by night fall the environs of the palace preseutcd n very animated scene. Directly Queen Christina felt tho first symptoms of tra vail her Austrian physician advised tho Duke of Sexto, the Lord Chamberlain, who immediately ordered the command ing officer of tho Halberdiers of the Guard to send eighty messages to request thc instant attendance at tho palace of the ministers, tho diplomatic corps and thc native personages named by royal order to bo present at the birth. Before their arrival King Alfonso, ex-Queen Isabella, the Princess of Asturias, tho Archduchess Isabella and tho ladies of thc royal household had assembled in tho bedchamber of tho Queen, with tho Aus trian physician. In another room, closo by, were tho two wet nurses from San tander, in their pretty costumes of velvet skirts and bodices, braided with gold and si I vor. The interior of thc pnlaco was a scene of great animation. Tho guards came to occupy the gates and lino tho staircase and nnte-chamber. Then carno the ?grandees, chamberlains and military lousebolds, who, in fine uniforms, filled the galleries, /.nxious expectation was on every countenance. As carriage af ter carriage arrived with personages, natives and foreign, all appearing in l ill uni form, except the United States at d South American representatives, the Lord Chamberlain conducted them to tho ante chamber noxt to tho chamber of the Queen. It was n brilliant assemblage of the Sower of '.be Spanish nobility. Mar shals and generals, knights of noble and military orders in mediaeval cloaks and rich costumes, judges, prelates, civil and military authorities, the Mayor and the Aldermen of Madrid, forming a striking contrast with Senators and Dep uties, in plain evening dress amid tho splendid ceremonial that revived ail tho gorgeous etiquette of tbo House of Bourbon in the eighteenth century. Motionlest as statues in the doorway stood the halberdier, and musketeers in gala costume of the time of -L-uia XV. Busy curiosity reigned in tbe brilliant gathering, ano tho most intense anxiety ' was felt for tho royal sufferer in tho bed chamber, until tho Austrian physician was nt lost able to' inform King Alfonso that tho Queen was happily delivered. Tbe ancient usages of the monarchy required that directly after tho birth tho doora of the bedchamber should be thrown open to let the King present bis child to ?lie assembly in the ante-cham ber; and Alfonso strictly conformed to this practice. A few minutes after the lord chamberlain bad announced the event to the distinguished personages tho King entered, bearing himself, on a fine fold tray, his child, and while all eagerly ent forward to gaze, tho veil that cov ered the royal infant was raised and every one looked at the child-a j strong, healthy baby princess. King Alfonso received hearty congratulations, j especially from the foreign envoys and ministers. Before any one departed the minister of grace und justice prepared a deed recording the birth, and it was signed by many witnesses according to prominence. Then a solemn To Denn? ior tho happy recovery of tho Queen was sung in tho chapel of tho palace by thc Cardinal Primato and the Patriarch of the IndieB, in the presence of a numer ous attendance of the nobility. All classes are highly elated at an event so fortunate for the dynasty. Directly after the presentation of tho child tho Duchess Medina de la Torres, tho chief governess, conveyed her to apartments which had been prepared in tho story below the royal bedchamber, and consisting of an ante-chamber, saloon and bed 'oom for two wet nurses, together with r. bcd room for Sonora do Tacon, who had also acted as governess to King Alfonso twenty three years ago. Tho bedchamber of the Princess is largo and furnished very simply with cretonne curtains and sofas. Iii the wardrobe immense chests are ii i lcd \.iih magnificent ?ace, mndo in Madrid and abroad from patterns pro scribed by Qucei' Isabella and the Arch duchess Elisabeth, the mother of Queen Chislina. The baptism ceremony is to take place in tho chape! within tho palace on tho 14th inst., when the Patriarch of the In j :_ n_i !.... i T>_JJ_ _iii i-. :_ uivo, vaiuiuui JjuiJUYSUca, nu. uajm ..v. ber with water brought from the River Jordan in Palestine for this special pur pose in Juno last. At tho christening the Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo will represent the Pope. The font to bo used for this orrnawjn ts the same that served centuries ago for Santo Domingo, and was brought down from a celebrated con vent in Asturias. When the crowd out side tbo palace saw the flag and light showing tho birth of a princess, or In fanta, as she is styled in Spain, some demonstrations of loyalty took place. Her name will bo Mercedes Teresa, nnd her godmother Queen Isar?*.!'.!. MADRID, September 16.-The Princess has been baptised Maria Mercedes Isa bella. The Archbishop of Toledo offi ciated, and Queen Isabella was sponsor. - At tho recent term of the Court in Chesterfield County the Qrand Juiy re peat their former recommendation that our representatives in the Qeueral As sembly introduce a bill at the noxt ses sion of tho Legislature, authorizing the County Commissioners either to issue bonds of auch denomination and to ouch amount as may bo required for the pur pose* of rebuilding the Court House, or to levy a tax for said purpose," tho samo to bo "submitted to tho voters of tho county for their approval or rejection.** - California has hopes of ranking among the Cotton States and talks of building factories atonco to work up the crop. Tho Merced cotton fields have show . ?. hat square miles of similar soil could do, and Kern county, further south, is now irrigating 100 acres of cot ton to provo that she nos 100,000 acres more only waiting to be watered to make good cotton fields. Tho Chief Ouray-??? Story of tho Uto Brave's Life. Io the death of Ouray one of tho his torical characters uf Colorado passes away. He hus figured for many years as thc greatest Indian of his lime, and dur ing his life hos figured quito ns promi nently before thc country as has any white man in tho Rocky Mountain?. It is, therefore, meet and proper that on tim occasion of his death Iiis life should bo remembered. Th* record of his deeds is one of slmplo parts, yet bo baa pvc-ven himself elevated so far above other men of bis race and time that his acta stand out in bold relief. Ouray is in many respects-indeed, we may say in all res pects-a remarkable Indian; n man of puro instinct, of keen perceptions, and apparently possesses v?.-y proper ideas of justice mid right, the friend of the whito man ami the protector of the Indian,over boldly asserting thc right of his tribe, and as continually doing nil in hi* power to create favor for the w hile mau with tho Indiana. Ouray, in telling thc story of his life, says that he was born in the Toa* Valley near Mexico, near the Pueblo villi age of that name, in 1830. His tribe of Utes were in tho habit of spending much of their time in the Toas Valley and San Luis Park, and along tho Sangre dc Cristo Mountains. Down iu this region they were accustomed to meet the Apa ches, who came from the North. It is a very common thing for tho womeu of n tribe of Indians to marry out of their tribe. Ouray's father married nu Apache woman; h ncc thc epithet which is KO often sneeringly applied to Ouray by those of the Indians who disliked him of being an "Apache papoose." Thc In diana became no -.ecu stonie d to ns'sociate with the Mexicans that some of them bc?an to adopt the customs of this people, and when Ouray's father and mother carno to the conclusion that they wanted to bc married they quietly marched up to thc little adobe church, which stands on the hill in tho villiage nt Red River Crossing, and had tho priest perform the ceremony. Ouray has long been a chief among tho Ute?, but is more renowed for Iiis wisdom than his bravery. During his young manhood, however, ho was accustomed to lead the Utes braves to battle, and was a very brave as well as successful fighter. He generally planned well nnd fought bravely. During these times tho Utes were engaged in a deadly encounter with the Arrapahoes, Cheyennes, and Sioux. It was a war between tho plains Indians and the mountain tribes. Ouray entered into the spirit which characterized his race with u will, and ?onn became ?? re nowned warrior. He soon was fimed for wisdom, and his counsel was nought by the Utes far and near. When tho white men first begnu to settle in what is now Colorado they found Ouray chief of tho 1 Tabrquacho or Uncompnngro tribe, tho largest band of thc tribe, and in great favor with the members of other tribes, so that, while he was not head chief, he was a man of the greatest influence and power among hij people. He was alsodispo cd to be friendly toward the whito set tlers, nud Roon became known as a medi ator between the two races, ne contin tinucd increasing his authority and in fluence among his people until, os bo expresses it, "tho year after Lincoln's death he waa recognized as head chief by tho Indians." In 1873 he acted as inter preter, nnd in recognition of his eerviccB at that time and in the pnst thc govern ment settled an annuity of $1,000 upon him, which ho has .since continued to draw regularly Tho Utes have had five wars with tho Arrapahoes, and Ouray states that during some of these ho led ns many as seven hundred warriors to the battle field. .Thc second war occurred about 1358, and some of the battles were fought just nbove where Denver stands. Ouray had but thirty meu with him, while tho Arrapa hoes numbered seven hundred. They came upon the Utes in thc morning, just before daylight, and took the mountain Indians completely by surprise. How ever, Ouray rallied his few warriors, and they hurriedly formed in a square, after retreating a short distance, and after a long fight repulsed the Arrapahoes. It was during this fight that Ouray lost his little boy-thc only son that kati been born to him. He saya that when he Baw the Arrapahoes coming ho threw water in the face of the child, then six years old, for the purpose of awakening him, but failing in tins he threw covering over him and left bim to go and fight thc in vaders of the camp. But the entire day nassed before he could extricate himself from the entanglements involving him, and when ho did get away and have an opportunity to return to bia tepee his boy bad disappeared and has never since been seen by his father. This incident ia still vividly remembered by Ouray, and he never refers to it without manifesting tho greatest Borrow over it. He professes to believe his boy ia dead, though ho knowe he is not. Ho is still with the' Arrapahoes, and as Ouray heartily de spises thc Arrapahoes bc would prefer tho death of his Ron to the disgraco implied in being an Arrupahoc. Ouray lives in good atyle. He owns a farm, which is a real garden Bpot. 300 acre. Of thia he cultivates about 100 acres, raising^ all kinds of cereal? and vegetables. He lives in a newly-built and commodious adobe house, built for him hy the government, and neatly fur nished and carpeted. He owns great numbers of horses and a good mnny ent ile und sheep, and when he goes cut rides in a carriage which was a present from ox-Governor McCook. Ho hires labor- j era from amonc^ thc Mexicans and In dians, and also expects his wife to do her aliare of tho farm work. Ouray's pres ent wife, Chopota, is kind-hearted and very much like Ouray in her nnttire, be ing kind and well disposed towards tbe whites. Tho chief hos become very much attached to Iiis present manner of living, and, it is said, was disposed to remain on his farm and surrender the reigns of government to some young man. Speak ing beforo the commission, of which ho was a member, recently in session nt Loa Pinos, on the 10th of November of thc past year, ho snid : "I do not want to bo chief. I grow old and tottering. Lei some young man with tho fire of youth in his veins take my place. I have my farm, which I would rather cultivate and watch the Rp.rd nlnnted by mo grow up to maturity than ' ) be tho head chief. They all come to mo with their troubles. I know everything, and have all their burdens to bear. Washington no wants me to givo up my position ; wanta mc to stay and govern Utes. I want only to bo known as Oaray, tho friend of the whito man.*' So far as tho late difficulty, resulting in tho White River massacre and the Milk Creek fight was concerned, Ouray continued from first to last friendly to thc white?, and an advocate of peace. As soon ns ho learned of the Thornburgh fight he Rent runners to white River, or dering that hostilities cease. Ho also did everything in his power to secure tho surrender of the captive women, nnd when there waa a prospect ol' Southern Utes breaking out, ho sent timely warning to tho white settlers near.-Denver Tribune. Republican Platform. Tho following ia tho platform of tho Republican perty in South Carolina : Ul. The Republican party of South Carolina, in convention assembled, ho llering that the principles of equal civil and political rights are vital to tho inter est of good government, and they can on ly bo enforced by tho party which bas engrafted them upon the State and Na tional Constitutions, beroby express their earnest approval of the platform and principles adopted by tho National Con vention at Chicago on the 2d day of June, 1880, aud we cordially endorse and ratify tho nominations made by that Convention of James A Garfield "and Cuestor A. Authur for President and Vice Presi dent. 2d. Believing that tho right to a fieo ballot is a right preservativo of all rights, wo denounce the Democratic party of South Carolina for the outrageous system of froud which they inaugurated for the purpose ol suppressing that right, and wo assert that it IR only by preventing a full vote, by denying a free ballot and by ro fusing a fair count thr.t the Dcmocruts can have any hope whatever of carrying South Carolina. 3d. That wo denounce tho actions of tho Democratic Govornor of thc State in refusing to allow the Republicans in many counties of tho State any representation whatever on the board of commissioners of election recently appointed, mid tho denial of such representation gives good ground for the belief that in such cases the commissioners of election wcro ap pointed for thc purposo of defrauding the popular will by an unscrupulous exercise of tho largo powers which tho election laws of tho State confer upon them. .Uh. In the appointment of managers of election by tho commissioners of elec tions, wo demand that a Republican manager bo appointed at each poll, and in making this demand wo call attention to the fact that when the Republicans controlled the appointment of election officers representation wea allowed nt every election to ?ho Democrats on every board of commissioners and every board nf manager?. 5th. That wc empHatic'd'y dony tho assertion mndo by WY.da Hampton that forty-five thousand Republicans voted for bini as tho D?mocratie candidate for Governor al thc general el *.tion of 1878, and wo believe that tbe . portion was mnde to account for tbe thousands of tissuo ballots stuffed in tho ballot boxes by Wade Hampton's election officers nt that election. 0th. We charge the Democratic party with being unfaithful to thc many pledges nnrl promise? mndn tn this neoplo of this State, as demonstrated by their reckless disregard of the rights of citizens, and especially their attempts to disfranchise a largo portion of tho voters by unconsti tutional enactments. 7th. That wc arraign tho Democratic party for their bad management of tho State Penitentiary and the brutal treat ment of tho convicts in that institution, tho sickening details of which send n thrill of horror to the hearts of nil hu mano people and make a blot on tho civ ilization of the agc. Taft siid that as all the business of the Convention had been finished, nothing elso remained but for bim to give a few parting words of advice to tho delegates who were about to go to their homes. He told thom ?hat the Republican party had before then, one of the most imposant campaigns in tho history of the party ; that upon the success of this canvass all the hopes ol' Republicans baug : that tho campaign is fraught with great dangers, and that nil tho Republicans must de termine to ?J home and work unremit tingly for the success of tho cause. Ho admonished each delegate to divest him self of all bitter feeling that might have been engendered by this meeting, and to return homo with tbo determination to work with a will. Rcmnrkablo Discovery of a Murder. Tho following account of a murder, which was committed in Bermuda in tho ! autumn of 1878, is taken /rom a letter writtenjjto Gen. Sir J. Lefroy, late Gov ernor of these islands. In tue autumn of 1878 a man committed a terrible crimo in Somerset, which was for some timo involved in deep mystery. His wife, a handsome mulatto woman, disappeared suddenly, after going home from church on Sunday, October 20th. Suspicion immediately fell upon tho husband, a clever young fellow of about SO, but no trace of tho missing wompi was left be bind, and there seemed a strong proba bility that tho crime aouid remain un detected. On Sunday, however, October 27th, a week after the worran had disap peared, some Somerville loatmeu, look ing out toward thc sea, as is their custom, were struck by observing in the Long Bay channel, tho surface of which was ru til ed by a slight breeze, a long streak of j calm, such as, to use their own illustra tion, a caak of oil usually diffuses around it when in thc water. I Tho feverish anxiety about tho missing woman suggested some strange connec tion between this singular calm and tho mode of her disappearance. Two or three days after (why not sooner 1 can not tell you) her brother and three other men went out to the spot whoro it was observed, and from which it had not dis appealed nineo Sunday, and with a se ries of fish-hooks ranged along a long line dragged the bottom of the channel, but at first without success. Shifting tho ponltioii of tho boat, they dragged a lit tle further to windward and presently tho lino waa caught. With r. lUsr-glasses the men discovered that it had caught in a skeleton, which was held down by some heavy weicht. They nulled nn thr? lin? j something-suddenly ?ave way, and up came the skeleton of the trunk, pelvis and legs of a human body, from which almost every vestige of flesh had disap peared. Tho husband was a fisherman, and Long Bay channel was a favorito fish'ng ground, and be calculated truly enough that the fish wonld very soon destroy tho means of identification, but it never en tered into hts head that as they did so their ravages, combined with the process of decomposition, would set freo the traces of bis crime on tbo surface of the water. The case seems an exceedingly interesting one. The calm ls not mentioned in any book on medical jurisprudence that I bnvo, and tho doc tore seem not to havo had experience of such an occurrence. A diver found a stone with a rope attached, by which the body bnd been held down, and also portions of tho scalp and of the skin of the solo of tho foot, and of tho clothing, by means of which tho body was identi fied. The husband was found guilty and executed. BEAUTIFIEHB.-Ladies, you cannot make fair skin, rosy chocks and sparkling eyes with all tho cosmetics of France, or beautifiers 'of the world, while in poor health, and nothing will give yon auch good health, strength, buoyant spirits and beauty as Hop Bitters, A trial is certain proof. Seo another column. Thlegrop:.. - Cl am.iagno is made of tomatoes. Mrs. Graut? An Interesting Clint With tho H's-fres! dont'? Amlablo Wife. Dttwer Tribune. Mrs. Grant was found to bo delightfully off-hand mid pleasaut. She talked righi and loft, and to manyat a lime, laughma aud chatting without cessation nnd appa rently without tiring. "This will bo your first visit to Den ver?" Borne ono suggested, inquiringly to ber. "No, indeed ; I hnve been herc twice I before." "You nro almost as great a traveler as tho General ?" j . "Yes; I generally go with him." ! "Were you with him during tho war?" j "I was part of the timo with him, but ' not as tho papers have represented. I ' had a paper sent me tho other day with ? an article marked, in which I wns repre ; rented as being much better than I nm, : and ns doing many tbi'.r-s which Were j impossible. For instance it was stated that after a battle in which the General j was engaged I invariably hurried to tho from to be of wbnt service I might. Now that waa not true at all. The Genend would not have put up with ital all. Ile [ would havo been very augry if I linc. , appeared at such a time, and I know , "It mm also atated that I lind busied myself in hunting out poor people upon , whom to bestow alms. This was also in correct. Enough of Buch people alwnys [ found me; I did tiot have to see' them ' out. "Then I waa reported na busying my ' self in seeking positions for wor'.by young I ladies in thc Treasury Department, and j for other applicants in other places. Now, my husband would not allow theoplo tbnt sha was reminded of her mme folks. Tho Prince led her to the dressing-room, and tho Princesa folded '.er shawl about her aa tenderly ns her mother could ha.'O done. But of tho placos viBited alio enjoyed none bettor tuan Japt.n. Tho people thero were anxious to leam tf the Amer icans, and were really prbgVes?v'ti, ?uc to tell all she saw and enjoyed thero would require too much space. The visita to Mexico and Now Mexico were referred to with evidently delightful recollections. She snoko of tho Aztec pottery aa a grent curiosity. Had abe met Gen. Low Wallace ? No ; but she had read his novel, "Tho Fair God," and had beon very much enter tained by it. Turning to ber listeners she asked had they read Judge Tourgcr'a "A Fools's Errand?" Nearly all had. That elie thought an excellent thing. Tho General had also read it, and pronounced ita very correct picture of tho lifo repre sented. In reply to questions, Mrs. Grant stated that they expected to reside nt Galona for the present. She would like very well to live in Colorado, but if she could have her preference gratified she would prefer Washington to auy other place, principally because of the great number of acquaintances there. Did she not tire of making new acquaintances and seeing new faces ? No ; neither did the Goncrnl. They havo been living auch a lifo for the past twenty years, and they had become used to it. Hero the train drew up to thc depot. The General's "Jap" brought in tho Generara silk hat, aud, without consul ting the General, took the slouch from his head and put tho silk in its place and retired. Shrincr's Indian Vermifuge is perfect ly safe and easily administered. It is cheap and will give satisfaction. Try it. - iue work thai is to toil in heaven must bo tbnt which ia done on purpose for hoavou. Tho work that in done for earth goes down with UH to tho grave. - A little daughter of Mrs. E. C. Vin cent, two and a half years old, fell from ber mother's nrma in Union County on the 13th inst., and striking her head against a revving machine, was almost instantly killed. - When tho 8nnnish proverb says, "There ia no anch thing as a trifio in the world," it speaks a mast profound truth. Nothing can bo little, whoso conse quences are great ; and tho lightest word or deed records itself in lifo and char acter. - A meeting of whites and Indians was held by a missionary on Puget Sound. Tho Indian women who came, bringing their babies, as usual, were amazed tosco the whito men carrying their babies. At tho next mooting the Indian men carried theirs. Good ox ample fells. - A-student of Augustana College has just made a missionary tour among tba Swedes in the neighborhood of Lead I ville, Col. Ho traveled over ono hun , dn I and fifty miles over the mountains on foot, ana held in Kokomo, twelve thousand feet above of the sea, "the first Swedish service ever held in so high a city." Ho had about ono hundred Scan i dinavian hearers. The first man he j called on at Leadville told him that be , was not wanted thero; but ho said bo Ihad boen sent, and would stay and preach, and he took np his abode in that man's house. HAYED FROM THE YERA CRUZ. Tin Illing Ac?omits of tlio Struggle for Ufe by tbe Saved Faascngeri, Mr. Odnvious Pacheo Silva, one of the rescued passengers of the "Vera Cruz," has reached St. Augustine, and furnishes many additional details of the awful struggle that preceded and fol'owed the sinking of ;he-wreck. The Walsh fami ly, consisting of tho husband, wifo and little girl, all perished. Tho name of hi? f'utily has been ascertained to be v*ah ., und not Welsh, by tho hotel reg ion at Philadelphia, wher. they stop ped before going lo New York to lase the steamer. Mr. Valcb did his utmost to consol? the Indies, and gave brandy tn some that were suffon.ig from tho cold and wet. Mn?. Valch v/na greatly dis tn --cd about her little girl. All th passengers had life preservers on, and they "Appeared calm and collected. Mr. Sit"> kelped overboard just before tho steamer sunk, and was carried down in tho vortex, hut on regaining tho surface he says : "Tho sea was covered with a miscellaneous assortment of boxec, bar rels, plunk*, sticks, ?pars, &c., all bcntkig among tho struggling crowd of men and women, crushing somo out of sight. I kept changing boards and planks nt each wave for about two boure, when I at last found a part of the steamer's deck, about four feet wide by fifteen long. This had two-largo rings and bolts lu it. Deform I could get pu it tho ship's baker joined me, and we took possession of it. AR I was trying to drag myself upon it 1 felt something nulling at my duster, mid looking around I saw a lady with no clothing on her, not even a lifo preserver. Sho begged me to save her. "I told her to let go of mo so that I could got on the raft, nud then I would pull her upon it. She would not do so, and I was compell ed by force to open her bands and tear my duster from ncr grasp. I climbed on thc raft, holding her hand, and, willi tho assistance of tho bnkor, we gol ber on .he raft with us. The lady waa very weak, but wo managed to keep her on tho raft with ns little exertion to herself us was possible. The next wave brought tn us Air. Rafael Antic. He had lost lils lifo preserver and was naked. I noticed that nearly nil tho passengers were nearly or quito nuked in the water. Mr. Arruo said that ho bad lost bis wife, and that to swim with her ns long ns bo did bo found lt necessary to tear her clotho off. Tic next-tremendous sos tore us nil from thc raft, and it seemed that I would never come up. When I did I was near thc raft, and swam to it. The baker soon followed, but Mr. Arruo was some distante off. Ho soon came to us, and s?.?d bo suw tho lad*7 sud shs tried tc grasp him, but bc, having no life-pre server, shoved bia piece of hoard to her and tnado for us. This was tho last of tho poor lady. In tho afternoon wo ran across a sailor who was on another piece of the steamer. We almost struck one another. He said: "Hello, boys! How nro you making out?" Wo re plied : "Pretty weil under tho circum stance?." Tho next minuto wo wcro whirling through the air and water, and us we came up the sailor wns laughing at us for thc wave had not broken until it parsed bim. We kept together until dork, fighting for life. At about 7 o'clock n heavy sea knocked us off our raft and I saw no moro of it. I shouted and called to tho others, but no reply enme. I was nlr.r.e with nothing but my llfo-preserver. I was tossed about for fivo or six hours, when I noticed a change in tho wavcu. I felt for bottom and found it. My God, how glad I was ! It was dark as pitch, and ono timo I struck into deep water again. The re ceding water puzzled mo, and it was two hours before I could tell which way to fo. Then I wits dashed upon the beach, tried Ui stand up, but felt weak, and staggered to tho sandhills, and laid there the rest of the night." Tho next morning bo walked for a milo or two on the bench, when ho meta colored man, who took him to his houso and ministered to lils comforts; While there a Mr. Cook came in company with a sa>!or who had bcou saved, aodon reach ing tho house ho found Mr. Corrie there in n weak condition. Ho bad wondered on tho beach two days und two nights, with nothing to eat out two raw crabs. Tho party stayed for a week at tho house of Mr. Lo wet, who, with bis wifo, was j very kind. Tho point where they wero washed ashore was thre? miles below Mosquito Inlet, nearly two hundred miles from where the other Burvivots landed. Senor Arruo ?ayo that ho loft tho wreck with his wife on his back. After swimming two hours ho was com Eoiled to tear hor clothes off as they had ecomo heavy with sea water. At last sho seized a board, and a Bea separated thom. He found bei again in a very weak coudition. Ho again took her on his back only to seo nor washed away from him again, to be seen no more. After that ho met tho raft to which Mr. Silva mid tho man and the lady were clinging. They continued together un til separated by a heavy sea, and ho nev er saw any of thom until he met Mr. Silva on Bnoro. - The new tobacco crop will bo the smallest for many years in Virginia. Worms and heavy rains at a critical time ars among tho causes. - Senator Bayard has responded to an invitation of tho Wilmington, N. C., Democrats, with a promlso to speak there during October. - About Wnrshaw, N. C., they have ceased to hopo for more than two-thirds of a cottou crop. Corn and rico also suf fer greatly from drought - An Indiana Judge bas granted an injunction commanding a newspaper not to go into debt until further order. A similar injunction against its subscribers would bo more effect. - Nobody can bo found to fill tho of fice of coroner in Pickens County, S. C. We knew tho law against carrying con cealed weapons would havo its bad ns its good effects.-Boston Post. - Speaking of the "solid South," tho Now York Herald, pleased at its solidity, and congratulating tho New York mer ' chants on tho fact, says : It would not bo extravagant to say that their people are on tho whole more prosperous than thoso in most parts of the North. Un doubtedly the conditions of living aro easier in the South than in the North. But the change for tho netter io tho lost four years la very remarkable. Every where we read of new industries starting into lifo ; manufncturcsofvariouskinds aro rapidly increasing and give employment to increasing numbera of tho poor whites, to whom factory life is a distinct advanco in tho seal of prosperity. Tho business of market gardening for Northern con sumption has been found so proStablo > tbat vegetable and small fruit gardens and orchards are found in all the States from Virginia to Louisiana, lt is absurd to chsrge that a region thus healthfully ?rosperous is lawless or idle. The oulh produced last year the largest col ton crop in its history? and this year's crop will bo even greater. But, over and above tho cotton, il is producing a multi tude of other things which Wore totally unknown in the South before the war," Borne Instructive Figures. The reports of the Commissioner of Intern:.! Revenue^to Secretary Sherman, as tc the collection to the revenue taxe?, and condition of the service, shows that during the post fiscal year, which ended on Juno 30 last, $123,981.910 10 of inter nal revenue taxes were collected and paid into the Treasury. During the past'four fiscal yenre tho total collections littra amounted to $407,080,885 10, at an ex pense to the Government, including the salaries and expenses of the Bureau, of about $10,929,000, or a tittle more than three and a half per cent, upon tho amount collected. The total receipts from thc collection amounted during the pnst year to $110,848,219 80,and the cash receipts from the sale of adhesive stamps to $7,133,090 30. Tho collections in tho Southern States wero as follows : Mary land, $2,393,957 01 ; Virginia, $5,781, 409 68 ; West Virginia, $370,072 15; North Carolinn, $2,354,900 71; South Carolina, $ill,9C0 78; Georgia, ?322, 074 18; Alabama, $135,890 38; Florie!?, $204,590 53 ; Mississippi, $81,233 50 ; Tennessee, $1.115,090 04 ; Arkac?as,$12G 089 12; Louisiaua, $712,04905; Texas, $213,100 55; Kentucky, $9,835,044 90; Missouri, $5,449,074 08 ; ranking n grand total of $28,288,055 70 taxes paid, to the United States Government by "tho States lately in rebellion," or in sympathy with i ebel H. Tho repel of the Secrclnry of tho Treasury for 1879, which wo have already published, shows that thero are 155,850 retail and 4,252 wholenalo liquor dealers in tho United Stales, besides 1,053 recti fiers. In Massachusct's there is ono li qour shop to every two hundred and cigh Inhnbilants, in Connecticut one to every two hundred aud twenty inhabitants, and in Ohio ono to every two hundred and fifty inhabitants. In Texas there ia onlv ono barroom to every four hundred and fifty inhabitants, and in Georgia ono to every five hundred. In Alabama, Ar kansas, Mississippi, Virginia and South Carolina thero is one liquor saloon to every six hundred people, and in North Carolina there is only one to every eight hundred inhabitants. The general aver age in tho Northern Sfntes is one dram ?hop to every two hundred people. Th is ia ) a bad showine for tho God-and-morality shriekers of "tho great Christian North/' who can beat their Southern neighbors drinking whitey if they aro not attie to i keep up with us in the matter of census returns and good sound Democatic ma jorities. A striking contrast between tho tempor?neo and morality of the two sec tiona of tho Union ia afforded by theao figures of tho revenue department. A noteworthy ?cu?urc of thc report ia the statement that "frauds in most of tho districts have been reduced to :\ i-.iini mum" and that "it ia gratifying to bo ablo to state that tho frauds upon tho revenue have been greatly reduced, end that violent resistance to law has prac tically ceased in all of the Southern dis tricts of Georgia." The Commissioners also says that "violation;; of law and tho spirit of resistance have not been volun tarily adandoned," but have been sur presaed and subdued by tho enforcement of thu lawa after the loss of a number of lives of those engaged in tho service of the government. The bald fact stands out, however, that thero is now no vio lant resistance to Federal authority in Southern States, and that tho collection of taxes ia not in any way impeded. This condition of things is tho result, as wo all very woll know in South Carolina, of n chango in the administration of the local governments of tho Southern States. As long as tho Republicans wero in au thority thero was lawlessness and outra ges Committed upon tho revenue officers of the government, not b?causo they wero in tho Federal service, but be cana c they wero actively aiding and abetting tho rascality of our robber rulers. Since tho Democrats gained control of our State Governments there hos been almost ab solute peace and good order. The offi cial statement of Mr. Green B. Raum, that peace reigns in the South ia,indeed, a significant as well ai gratifying admis sion-.-Charleston Kew and Courier. Text from Gen. Hancock's Letters. When fraud, violence, or incompe tence control, tbo noblest Constitution and wisest laws are useless. The bayonet is not a fit instrument for collecting tho i >tes of freemen. It is only by a full vote, free ballot, aud fair count, that tho pcoplo can rulo in fact, as required by tho theory of our government. Toko this function away and tho wholo structure falls. Tho great principles of American lib ? erty aro still tho rightful inheritance of i thin iioonl??, nnd'over should bc. The right of trial by jury, tho habeas corpus, tho liberty of tho press, the free dom of speech, tho natural rights of prop erty must bo preserved. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fif teenth amendments to tho Constitution of the United States, embodying tho re- . suits of tho war for thoUuion, aro invio lable. If called to tho Presidency I should deem it my duty to resist, with all my pow er, any attempt tb impair or evado tho full forco and effect of tho Constitution, which, in every article, section and amendment, ia tho supr?me law of tho land. Thia Union, comprising a general Gov ernment with general powers for pur poses local to tho State, isa polity the. foundations of which were laid in tho profoundest wisdom. This is the Union which our fathers made, and which lins been so respected i abroad and so beneficent at borne. The nar for tho Union war success fully closed moro tbnn fifteen years ago. All classes of our people must shara alike the blessings of the Union, and aro equally concerned in ita perpetuity, and in tho proper administration of public affairs. Wo aro in a stato of profound peace. Henceforth let it be our purpose to culti vate sentiments of friendship, and not of animosity, among our follow citizens. As ono people, wc have common in ter?s ta. A sedulous and scrupulous caro of tho public credit, together with a wise (.nd economical management of our govern mental expenditure?, should bo maintain ed, in order that labor may be lightly burdened and that all persons may be protected in their rights to tho fruits of their industry. - Millions of Concord grapo cuttings havo been sent to France from tins country to serve as stocks on which to graft dioico French varieties. - The Irish correspondent of tho Lon don limes writes : "The potato crop is simply magnificent. What few men can recollect seeing, is now seen on all hands -fields beginning to wither naturally without a sign of disease. This is chief ly owing to tho chango cf seed, tho "Champions" being planted on all bauds from east to west, and fully bearing out the good things spoken of them. The firict of oats and cattlo bas doubled since ast year, that of pigs more than doubted. Oats aro a good crop, and turnips and mangolds have never looked better."