Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Herr America?A Noble Letter. Whenever the generous and lofty sen? timents which animate the writer of the subjoined noblo letter shall be the rule of private thought and t1.^ guido of pub? lic action, the clays of bitterness and un? rest will be numbered in the laud : 89 St. James Place, ) Brooklyn, N. Y.. V December 6, 1880.) To the Editor of tht.News and Courier : Will you kindly receive a friendly word from a Northerner and Republican, but one who loves the whole country better than any part of it, and who will aban? don the'Republican party whenever it ceases, in his judgment, to represent the interests of ail the land. I am greatly impressed by the manly and very sensible words with which your journal and many others at the South received the result of the election. I wish I could tell you what an earnest re? sponse they awakened in my own heart and in thousands of others at the North. We rejoiced at the manly words of the Southern press accepting the situation. "Once more [you seemed to say] we have been beaten?th s time without room for question as to the fact. We confess our disappointment; we believe the North has made a mistake, and that the era of peace and thorough reunion would have come sooner under Hancock. But we accept the result, and, with whatever misgivings, will honorably give the new man a chance." What real obstacle is now left between us? Slavery, the root of all our aliena? tions, is dead, never to revive. Different parts of the country will doubtless con? tinue to differ for a time at leapt on economic questions; but why should these give rise to bad blood between sec? tions, any more than between individ? uals? If the one side has bad griev? ances, real or fancied, so also has the other. Wo Republicans acknowledge now the wrongs of the carpet-bag regime, and if we realized them at the time, {and I assure you that the great body of t? did not,) we were blinded to them by the re? ports of outrages at the South, which seemed, by the virtual restoration of slavery, to be taking from us the only result of the war. we had beeu so reluct? antly drawn into, wbich could in any degree compensate us for it. We were blinded aud made too careless ? to the measures by which to right those wrongs. Our belief in those outrages was as sin? cere as the South's present or recent be? lief-thatthe Republican party hates the South. If the former was an error so also is the latter. This is the key to the whole trouble. Orer and over again the South repeats the cbaige that the Republicans hate the South, and again and again we deoy it and disclaim any such feeling. East and West, wherever I have been, in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New iork, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin; I have heard scarcely any but the kindest expressions towards the South ?unless under some momentary excite? ment created by such reports as I have referred to. Again and again have I heard the earnest longiug expressed that the South would only do what was best for its own interests?provide for the education of all its people, put all its people of whatever race or color on an equal footing before the law, accept all the amendments, crush cveiy suggestion of repudiation aud hold sacred the ballot box I No doubt this, in some of its do tails, .was asking a good deal, and more pftau we at the North have yet achieved in every community. I mention it only to show that our attitude was one of kindly and not bitter feeling. The great body of the Republican party to-day stands ready to pour in capital, abiding immigrants, everything the South so much needs fur its development, as soon as. it is convinced that these will be acceptable, and especially thai those who thus change their latitude will not be leaving behind them some of their most dearly prized possessions?the right (within decent limits) of free speech on all subjects and of a pure ballot-box. What real difference or obstacle is there now between us? No doubt it would be easy enough on both sides to call up exasperating things out of the grave of the past; (two or three words and memories are even now on the tip of my pen;) but why do it? Why not set our faces bravely and manfully toward the future and let the dead past bury its dead? No doubt there will be room enough, at the best, for forbearance on both sides, und generous allowance and interpretation. Old sores are not healed in a day. New economic conditions are not conformed to in a day. We of the North must not be unreasonable. We will look on with sympathetic eyes (if you would rather do without our help) while you work out, slowly, as it needs must be, but I doubt not successfully, at la<t, the trying problem slavery left you. We hear with astonishment of the material progress you have already made since the war, and especially of the ma? terial and other improvements of the blacks. If you could only believe what ' joy this gives us! Not a selfish satisfac? tion merely, though the South'* pros? perity must, of course, benefit us; we rejoice for your joy. We long to give you a brother's hand and say: As wc could feel a sympathetic sorrow for you over the saddest desolation of the war? not the material ones, since wc hardly knew, by comparison, what these were, but the blood, and the tears, and .the brokep household?so to-day you cannot see the tokens of returning prosperity and happiness, but the news of it shall fill our hearts, too, with gladness. Time is the great consoler after all and the great peacemaker. We, our genera? tion on either side, who felt the fever heat of the war and of reconstruction, can never, perhaps, entirely forget, how? ever sincerely we may have forgiven, the past. It is for the nexo generation, who knew nothing, or next to nothing, of the past or its bitterness, aud whose laces are turned with a glad light toward the new and better day?it is for these fresh hands to clasp from either side and these young hearts to thrcb in happy unison, in a noble effort for a New America. It is little perhaps that we, older ones, can do positively, save to discourage every unkind-word or act. We must "learn to labor and to wait." We cannot hope to see things in the same way, the war or any of its fruits, but we will not for that reason quarrel any more nor cease the effort to see with each other's eyes, trying to believe the best aud not the worst of each. Let us be gentle, forbearing and hopeful, cherishing that sweet charity which sufi'ereth. long and is kind and is not easily provoked, which beareth all things, believeth ail things good. Let us be patient to wait, if the twilight lingers still. It cannot long delay tho dawn. I see the coming of a glad new day when a fairer America than Washington or Jefferson ever conceived will b-'gin its career. May we have the faith and the courage to hasten and not stay its com? ing. ? Begging you to believe that these kind and hopeful expressions are not merely an individual utterance, but truly repre? sent the views and feelings of the North j everywhere, I remain, with all good wishes, both for yourself personally and for your fair portion of our common land, your friend and countryman, H. D. Catli.v. Mr. Gnth'u understands, as few men do, the limits of the possible. During the life-time of those who were in the thick of the fight which knit the Union together and rent the people asunder, there will, indeed, be room for forbear? ance on both sides. This generation cannot, and should not, entirely forget the past, however completely the real or fancied wrongs of North and South may he forgotten. We cannot hope to see things as our former opponents see them. Nor can they put themselves completely in our place. There must be st;me fric tion and disagreement. But if wc de? termine to try to think the best of each other, and to put the best construction possible on the acts of each other, a better understanding of each other will follow. This is one great family. The bond of union cannot be broken. For our happiness, for our safety, we should strive to know and value each other, so that no superficial irritation, no carnal offence, sbali blind us to tho sterling qualities, the manliness, the fortitude and the invincible love of liberty which are the heritage of the whole people. And not alone as between North and South. The same charitableness is needed to cement the union between the States themselves in their relations as States. It is needed to prevent jarring and discord between one part of a State and another, and even between up town and down-town in the cities. Hardest of course it is to look with indulgent eyes upon those at whose hands we suffered sorely. But we should remember that blood was poured out like water in the North as in the South. It was not in the South alone that children were made orphans, that wives were made widows, and that loving fathers and tender mothers were robbed by war of the lusty sons who were the stay of their declining years. Exactly alike the North and South will perhaps never be. It is not necessary that they should. They can be alike in difference, and one in dissim? ilarity. No two members of a family are absolutely the same in temperameut and aim. Yet they live in harmony. So can it be with the family of States, and with the families within the States. It needs only that such thoughts as our Brooklyn friend utters to-day shall be free to assert themselves. They exist more generally than is supposed. They are stronger than we know. We hope it, and believe it! Would that our "fricud and country? man" in Brooklyn could visit the South, and bring with him others of the same stamp. They would then understand, even better than they now do, the per? plexities which have made us seem to embrace that which in our souls we abhor. Would that Southern men, as large minded and big-hearted as Mr. Catlin and his friends, could tarry awhile in the North and enter into the spirit of its broad and busy life. . They would tbeu understand how it is that the more elevated and liberal the Northerner is, the sterner is his resolve never to deny the faith for which he fought, and the less disposed is he to demand or insist that we of the South shall be false to the faith that was ours. The brave and the true on either Bide respect most those who respect themselves. We thank Mr. Catlin for his letter. We wish it could be read under every roof-tree from the Canada line to the Gulf and from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. In the South, we know, thou? sands of hearts will beat in response to its fervent prayer, and legions who "wore the gray" will stand ready, as they have stood these ten years or more, to do as they are done by, and give ungrudgingly confidence for confidence and trust for trust. From the stronger to the weaker the overture fitly comes. It is only nat? ural that rebuffs should not be courted by the S<iuth. The Southern States are in the Union because the victorious armies of the North put them there. Under the Constitution, one State is equal to another. The American who fought witbgjjLee is, under the law, the equal of theamerican who fought with Grant. This is the theory, it is not the practice. Not until the Slates in the South are in all thiugs dealt with as other Slates are, not until Americaus in the South are spoken of and spoken to as other Americans are, can the Southern States, as a whole, feel the weight of their responsibilities, and live up to them. As long as the white people of the South are chained to the benches ol the Na? tional galley, as felons unworthy of trust, they cannot be expected to feel it a duly to maintain discipline among themselves. While tbey are regarded by the National Government as pardoned convicts or prisoners on parole, they cannot, with their traditions and pride of race, have the public aspirations or public obliga? tions which were theirs when they were recognized, in all things, as free and equal citizens of the Republic.?Xeica and Courier. The Charleston Jetties.?Charles? ton is built upon a narrow strip of land, surrounded on all sides by deep water, and its possible extent of wharfage is practically unlimited. The sea is but a few miles away, and the only thing that places the city at a disadvantage com? pared with Northern ports is the bar at the mouth of the harbor, which limits access to vessels drawing not over seven? teen feet of wa.er. The two jetties which are being constructed by the gov? ernment are expected to remove th's dif? ficulty. The North jetty, which w;II be 11,00U feet in length, has been com;>!etid to a height of about seven feet for two thirds of the distance, and the South jetty, which will have a total length of 8, U00 feet, has received the first courses of stone for about one-third that distance. The work is under the direction of Capt. J. C. Post, United States army, who is hopeful that when completed it will give a channel at least twenty-six feet across the harbor. So far, over ?500,000 have been appropriated for the work, and, if no delay occurs in future appropriations, the entire work can be finished within the next two years, and at a cost of something less than the original esti? mate of $1,800,000. The Difficulties of an Editor.?j The London Sporting 'Times pithily states the difficulties under which editore labor: I "If an editor omits anything he is lazy, j If he speaks of things as they are people I get angry. If he glosses over or smooths down the rough points he is bribed. If he calls things by their proper names he is unfit for (he position of an editor. If he does not furnish readers with jokes he is an idiot. If he does he is a rattle head, lacking stability. If he condemns the wrong he is a good fellow but lacks discre? tion. If he lets wrongs and injuries go un men tinned he is a coward. If ho ex? poses a public man he does it to gratify spite, is the tool of a clique, or belongs to the 'outs.' If he indulges in personal? ities he is a black guard. If he docs not his paper is dull and insipid." ? The first American city to licht its streets wholly by electricity is Ogden, Utah. THE LAND OF SHOT-GUNS. < Sonth Carolina as Seen by a Western Jour? nalist?Another Budget of Lies. We make the following extracts from a letter to the Chicago Times written by a special correspondent from Columbia, under dato of December 8th : * * * The little hamlets along the line [of the South Carolina Railroad] are smothered, so to speak, in pine trees, and the traveler is puzzled to explain how human beings can content themselves all their lives in such a wilderness. Yet they do, and appear to think that they belong to one of the choicest portions of the universe. It is the land of shot guns. At every station men get on, armed with these weapons, and women look envious because it has not yet become fashiona? ble for them to carry them. It is a coun? try of small game, and this explains why the shot-gun is preferred before the rifle. In fighting niggers it is invaluable, be- j cause it terrorizes by its noise, and is notj quite as fatal as the army firearm, espe- i cially at anything approaching long | range. Besides, it either kills outright, or wounds in such a manner that the victim does not lose a limb and become a burden to the county. When buckshot is used, the effects are very deadly, but that style of lead has not been popular since the rather too violent onslaught on the Senegambiau militia at Hamburg. That escapade wr*s a little too rough for decency, and brought too much scandal on men of blue blood and chivalric ante? cedents. But it wiped out the obstinacy of the negro, and to-day he is one of the most docile beings, at least in South Car? olina, that could be desired. He has recognized the logic of buckshot, and it has in many instances, converted him to Democratic principles. I have no doubt that Forster, Chief Secretary of Ireland, borrowed his buckshot philanthropy, in dealing with Parnell's followers at Dun gannon, and a few other places, from "Hamburg" Butier's fire-eaters. Where should humane and civilized England look for a high example of humanity and progress if not to tender-hearted and Christiau South Carolina ? The Mayor of Charleston did not hes? itate to say to me, in the spirit of a choice between two evils: "It is better to count the nigger out than to kill him !" That is fine morality whereon to found "the supreme demands of our civiliza? tion." I firmly believe that if South Carolina dared she would willingly turn again her cannon on Fort Sumter?if there was anything Federal there to fire on?rather than to count the negro bal? lot fairly and squarely. She always must have something to kick about. It used to be emancipation. It is now negro suffrage. In that slumbers another civil war?desultory in character, mayhap?or else the connivance of the national gov? ernment at the clegradatiou and oblitera? tion of a Constitutional amendment which, whether or not it was wise in adopting at first, represent-., as it stands, the will of a vast majority of the Ameri? can nation. I can see no amicable way to solve tho difficulty. Either the gov? ernment must consent to be defied, or South Carolina and her sisters in offend? ing must again be placed under the iron heel of Federal coercion. I do not believe, personally, that the negro is fit to govern. 1 believe that materially and morally he is better < fT out of politics entirely, but, as a journal? ist, I state the facts as they preseut them- j selves. There is no freedom of suffrage j in South Carolina for the colored voter, j and she does not stand alone in her re-1 sistance to the workings of the fifteenth j amendment. Out of the mouths of her 1 own public servants the Palmetto State stands condemned, as well as by the re? sult of her elections. Her rulers must feel that they are in power only by trampling ou the amended Constitution. And these people feel that they are wise and patriotic in cheating the "nig? ger" out of his vote. That is the most hopeless aspect of the case. "The South," in her own eyes, is always right, whether she fights for slavery or against universal suffrage. When I, or any of the Northern men, protest against the dishonesty of the transaction, the South? erner shrugs his shoulders with a very grand air of disdain, and answers: "You buy white votes at the North; we buy nigger votes her; wherc's the difference ? Put yourselves in cur place." Unfortunately, there is some truth and no poetry whatever in this kind of logic. It was bitterly cold this afternoon when I called on the Governor of South Carolina at the State House. That tra? ditionally thirsty personage was very I busy, or, at least, appeared to be so, but he granted me an audience with as little delay as possible. Ushered into the great | man's presence, I had leisure to take him j in, or "size him up," to use an inelegant j terra. Governor Hagood is a man of middle age, with a handsome, somewhat delicate face, and hair that has begun to bleach. There is nothing of the cavalier in his appearance. You can meet fifty men on the main thoroughfare of any American city, any da? in the week, that might pass lor Governor Hagood. He looked so dry and so weary that, remem? bering the ancient peculiarities of 'his predecessors, I was about to suggest "it is a long time between drinks," but I re? membered that I had not yet been elected Governor of North Carolina. The po? tentate of the Palmetto State looked at | me sharply and said: "Ah, you have been making a tour, throtgh this country?" "Yes." "Well, I hope you like it," he said carefully. "I have come to talk with you about public matters; that i? my business here, Governor." "Really, if vou came to talk-politics, I-" "Not necessarily politics," I inter? rupted. "Oh, very well then. I'll be happy to afford you any information in my power otherwise." "How is the State doing financially and commercially ?" "Really, 1 fear I must refer you to the reports of the Comptroller and the Com? missioner of Agriculture. I am very busy. Besides, you will find it all in my inaugural. We are going ahead fast, I have no doubt. We have increased won? derfully in spite of misfortunes. I have been a planter all my life, and can say that the cotton crop has surpassed the most sanguine expectations." "Iiut the people at the North say you count out the niggers," said I desper? ately. "The people at the North misjudge us and the uigger," said the Governor, for? getting his interdiction of politics. "The people of the North forget that the nigger is a man, sir?yes, sir, a man," and the Governor put in a solemn and philan? thropic look, as though he had made a gieat discovery. "I'm not aware that the North ever doubted the African's title to manhood," was the remark. "But they do?they did?they will. Thev consider him a mere animal?with? out affections, principles, attachments. There are negroes here who knew me as nn infant and who love me. We grew up on the same plantation." At this point the Governor's voice grew husky, and I thought he would break out with 'Way down upon de Swauneo ribber, Far, far away, but he recovered himself and proceeded: "These negroes?they love us, bound to us by so many ties. They know their interests are identical with ours. If they are sick they come to us for aid. If they want credit they come to us. They come j to us for everything. Some of them vote I the Democratic ticket for j pure love 01-' us. ' From my County (Barnwell) there is a colored Democratic Representative, and we have six or eight in the House and two in the Senate." "But still, Governor, it is charged that you count out the colored vote," I per? sisted. He called the colored janitor or order? ly: "Tell Colonel Manning I want him." Tnc Colonel, his private secretary, came, a young looking man of blonde comeliness. "Give this gentleman all the docu? ments he needs," commanded the Gov? ernor. "Now, sir," turning to me, "I should be happy to talk politics to you, but business is pressing, and (with a pause) besides I was a candidate, and, to speak honestly, do not choose to be placed on the defensive." "Good-day, Governor, and thanks," said I, and I left the potentate in the hands of a legislative mob who were after him for favors. * -:<? ?-? ?:<? s a ? Apart from her cities, she does not know how to cook, wash, run a hotel, or diet her people so as to prevent them from having either the colic or the jaun? dice, or both together. Her trains are seldom if ever on time. Her hotels?I speak of the country inns and railroad atrocities?are a libel on civilization. Dyspepsia sits cntroned at the heads of their tables, and the traveler who reposes within their gates rides the nightmare during the hours when nn easy digestion of decently-cooked food woidd enable him to sleep. It is odious. It is unbear? able. No other people but the inhabi? tants of "the South" would tolerate such a state of things. Many of them know better, but the devil of inertia is upon them, and they go with the crowd. The keepers of country hotels are not of the best class of the inhabitants, and know little of human comfort. Their houses are as cold as barns; rats run riot in their rooms. Cockroaches sire thicker than blue flies in the dog days; the niggers lie in wait to blackmail the traveler. You cannot get a negro employed around a Southern hotel, in ciiy or country, who will wait upon you decently without be? ing feed. This system has been imported from England, and has become a positive abuse. Woe to the man who carries much baggage while traveling South? ward? He is sure to be swindled by the grinning sou of Africa, who smells his victim out as accurately as a carrion crow docs a dead horse. The fee system has become an unbearable tax, and traveling meu by the score have complained of it to me. My individual experience, allied with theirs, enables me to say that North? ern travelers do not leave the South with a favorable impression. The nigger has been so demoralized by bribery that he has become a tlyng of terror to the way? farer. He fawns upon you for a fee until he becomes absolutely disgusting. The exceptions are so few that I do not wonder at the failure of the fifteenth amendmeut to breathe a soul into this people. The average Southern hotel nigger would, I verily believe, agree to serve a limited apprenticeship to the devil for a quarter. I may say for the Southern whites that as a rule, I have not found them either mean or mercenary, except the rural hotel keepers, and they, in many instances, can beat the sharpest kind of a "Yankee" boarding-mistress all hollow. Aud that would be all right if they oidy gave you any kind of decent value for the money. They charge, for example, half a dollar for a log fire in a country where to have the wood out of their way is doing them a genuine service. I don't know that I ever was accused of being miserly. I care as little for "the yellow dross" as most people, I believe, but there is a limit to all things, and I voice the indig? nation of hundreds of Northern travel? ers that I have met in the foregoing ex? plosion. "More abuse of the South," will, no doubt, be the comment of such residents of Dixie ns may happen to read my remarks. A Plain Declaration.?There has been much talk regarding Senator Hamp? ton's famous letter to John Sherman, which has been construed as an invitation to a challenge by unthinking persons un? acquainted with such matters. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Howe addressed a letter of enquiry to the Senator on this subject, and the reply is published as follows : duscassry, Miss., Dec.-5, 1880: My DearSir?Your kind letter was for? warded from Columbia, and reached me only yesterday. I am very much obliged to you for the interest you have shown in my behalf, and you were entirely right in the construction you placed upon my note to Mr. Sherman. That was written as I passed through Charlottesville, and I naturally gave my address. It never occurred to me for a moment that any one would construe my language as giv? ing or inviting a challenge. Mr. Sher? man forgot the propriety of his official position, as well as of mine, when he made the scandalous charge against me in a public speech. I called his at? tention to the language that he was re? ported to have used in a courteous letter, thus giving him an opportunity to dis? claim or explain his utterance. In re? ply, he not only reiterated his charge, but took that/ipportuuity to villi f y not only the people whom I represented, but those of the whole South. I could not condescend to notice his slanderous attack upon the South, and I simply denounced his charge connecting me with ku-klux as false. I could do no less than this, lor there nev? er was a falser charge made, nor have I ever known a grosser violation of person? al courtesy than that of which he was guilty. It has been my good fortune never to have been involved in an affair of honor in any way1 save as a peacemaker, and it is a source of deep gratification tome to know that I have been instrumental in settling many difficulties amicably, but I write merely to assure you that yc.udo me only justice in the view you timk of my lan? guage, and to thank you for the kindness you have shown. I hope, therefore, that you will not misconstrue my meaning when I tell you that, "my address" will be Washington after the 10th. With my best wishes, I am very res? pectfully and truly yours. Wade Hampton. I Rt. Rev. Bishop Howe. ? Sarah Bernhardt aud her managers have ndundautreason to be satistied with the financial result of her engagement in New Yurk. The total receipts during her four weeks' performances were in round figures $1)0,000, making an average of about $25,000, per wc?k. A MERRY MOURNER, His^Oration] Over tlie Bnrlnl."or Demo cratic Hopes. Tho Republicans of Clarinda, Page countv, Iowa, had a jollification meeting on Friday night, the5th inst. After sev? eral Republican orators had given vent to their feelings with spread eagle speech? es, the crowd called loudly for Lou B. Cake. Cake is a Democrat aud he look? ed too depressed to speak, but the crowd wouldn't be put off, so he'mounted a box and made the following unique speech : Fellow-citizens: A man usually at? tends his own funeral, but it is not cx neeted that he should talk a great deal. [Laughter.] I knew the funeral ceremr ? ny would go on without me.'so I conclu? ded I hnd' better bring in the body. [Lsughter.] But it takes a great deal of grace to sustain a man who helps furnish the corpse for an occasion like this. [Lnuehter.] Nobody but a Democrat could do it. [Applause.] It is certain that no one save the Democrats have had a chance to try it for thejast twenty years. [Shouts of applause.] Disap? pointment is the modern Democrat's hirthright. and mourning his normal con? dition. They took out a patent on disas? ter twenty years ago and it has never hpen infringed. The patent run out in 187? and they hove just got it renewed. Looking over the landscape of the last twenty ypar? I behold acres of busted hopes, cords aud cordsnf disgruntled am? bitions, barrels and barrels of unavailing tears, oceans and oceans strewn with the wrecks of phantom ships once) burdened with Democratic delusions. [Great ap? plause.] Disappointment is an anchor to the Democratic soul, both sure and stead? fast. Leaves have their time to'fall, And flowers to wither at tho north wind's breath, And stars to set; but all. Oh, Democnit, Thou hast all times for thine own death I might say with Shylock, ''Sufferance ?yea, .w/fer-ance is the badge of our i tribe." 1 could give you 329 reasons for this. [Laughter.] A lawyer offered a Judge sixteen reasons why his client was not present in court. First, he was dead. The Judge told him thathemightomitthe other fifteen. The first reason of the 329 is, we lacked the voters. You will allow me to omit the other 328. [Applausive consent.] But I could give you more than 329 reasons. Then? 'Tis the South that can supply, Solid comforts while we die. * In some States the Greenback parly fell through a crack in their platform and crippled us. [Laughter.] But Democ? racy still lives. [Great applause.] It's like the mule?it never dies. But unfor? tunately, like the mule, while it lives it is forever throwing its riders. It bucked Greeley off and killed him in 1872. Tilden stuck on till he passed under the wire. [Applause.] But there was so much daylight between him and this Democratic quadruped the Judges counted him off, although he had his foot iu the stirrups. This year we got a splendid send off, and might have won, but tiic donkey was stricken down in In? diana with (g) Landers. [Applause.] We close this chapter of history with the hope the story will not be continued in our next. [Cheers.] We accept de? feat the more cheerfully because of the magnanimous manner with which you take the victory. We take it every lour years. It is a standing prescription. It might well be called the quadrennial ipe? cac. [Groans.] It works up before the election and work down when the returns come in. We thauk you for the mag? nanimous way in which you have turned eut to our funeral. [Applause.] We congratulate you on the magnificent and imposing character of the obsequies. [Here the speaker's feelings overcame him, and he retired amid encouraging earthquakes aud applausive avalanches.] The Negro Rule at the South, A. K. McClure, the editor of the Phil? adelphia Times, writing to his paper from Columbia, says: "None know better than the masses of the colored voters of South Carolina that their attempt at self-rule has been a terri? ble failure, and they are now distrustful of all colored leaders, while they have uothing but curses for the desperate white adventurers who impoverished both races while assuming to elevate and benefit the negro. It was this feeling thai made the election of Hampton possible in 1876, and the sceptre oucc wrested from such a race will not soon be regained. They saw the State robbed of lands fir negro homes and the propeity stolen by those who claimed to be the Iriend of the negro. They saw taxes wrung from property to educate tho negro, and large portion stolen outright and the schools made merely a mockery of education. Now they see seventy-five thousand colored children in free schools, aud nearly twelve hundred colored teachers instruct? ing them under the beneficience of the State. They see, also, an amendment of the constitution adopted making fixed aud irrevocable appropriations lor free and equal education, and the Governor of the State declaring for still greater in? crease in the facilities for instructing both whites and blacks. They see busi? ness and confidence revive; they have more labor and better pay; they are stead? ily increasing their friendly relations with the whites by leases of lands and many of them are becoming small proprietors since they have ceased no neglect indus? try to follow the commands of selfish leaders, and a large proportion of the more thrifty class have openly taken their po lilicaf stand with the whites, while thou? sands of others, especially in minority Counties, refuse to take any part in pol? itic-'. They have a majority of from 20, 000 to 30,000 in the State on a strict culor line division, but there will never be an? other solid negro vote cast in this State. Superior intelligence and will must rule here as iu all other places in the world, and both whites and blacks understand it. There will be unjustifiable methods here to repress such negro Counties as Beaufort and Charleston, and they will need the correcting hand of justice; but until all the laws of human nature and of interest shall be reversed, the white man wili rule the inferior race, aud he will do it better in the South at this time than the negro can rule himself. This is not the sentimental view of the race issue in the South, but it is the truth." ? Dr. Wilbur F. Sanford, of L;)i)g Island, sacrificed his life a few days ago in his efforts to save the life of a patient, a child suffering from diphtheria. The terrible disease had developed itself in the throat of the child in the most ma? lignant form, and tho physician pro? longed its life several hours by making an opening in the wiudpipe, into which he inserted a small rubber tube and with his own mouth drew out the poisonous fluid. The poison soon after inoculated Dr. Sanford's blood, and although he had tho unremitting attention of the best physicians, his death occurred a few days aft?r. Although only thirty-six years of ag\ Dr. Sanford had attained to an emi? nent rank in the medical profession, and his death under such circumstances is peculiarly distressing. EVICTING A WHOLE VILLAGF. flow a Landlord in Donegal Revenged tbc ."Murder of His Steward. A Dublin correspondent of the tit, James' Gazette says: In the Daily Express summary of news there are two consecutive paragraphs well worth noticing together: ''Land meetings were also held in va? rious other parts of the country, and hints were thrown out at them t' if the prosecution of the Land Leagues should end in imprisonment, the peasantry would resort to assassination of landlords by way of repeal. "Mr. J. G. Adair went, 0:1 Saturday, from Mountraellick, Queens County, to his estate at Graigue, to collect his rents. He was accompanied by two armed constables, and it is stated that other constables were stationed at intervals ! along the road. The tenants demanded j an abatement, which was refused, and then they paid in full." Mr. Adair refused to grant an abate I ment, and the rest was paid in full. Now, to enable you to understand the signifi? cance of this last paragraph, I will relate a little slory. Mr. Adair is a gentleman owning property in several Counties in Ireland. Just and honorable in his deal? ings and a keen man of business, he re? fuses obedience to the wishes of the Land League. And that he has courage is well known to his tenants, who do not forget under what circumstances he evic? ted an entire village. In 1S58 Mr. Adair purchased the property of Glenveigh, a lonely mountain tract in Donegal. Having restricted the liberty hitherto en? joyed by the tenants of grazing their cat? tle and sheep over the mountains as com? monage, difficulties arose. A Scotch steward was either murdered or grievously wounded (I forget which) near the vil? lage of Derry veigh. The people who did the wrong were known, but, as is usual in such cases, no evidence was forthcom ;ng. Another steward, James Murray, was found with sufficient hardihood to take the place of the first, but he thought it advisable to carry a revolver. On the morning of the 13th of November, 1860, James Murray left his house. On the loth his body was found on the mountain, his brains dashed out by a stone. Beside him was his revolver, the stock broken upon hi? skull. One barrel had been discharged. The bullet had slipped so far out of the next chamber that it would not revolve. Mr. Adair visited the spot with the resident magistrate. Near the top of the bare mountain could be seen clearly marked in the peat, on which no heather grew, the tracks of men who had evidently approached Murray where he stood. The whole story was written on the mountain-side. There was the place where the tracks repeated themselves?there the men stood while Murray stuck bis stick in the peal where it was found standing. He had evidently done so to free his right hand, with which he took out his pistol and fired one shot?probably over their heads to frighten them ; possibly with erring aim at one or other. Then, his weapon failing him, he turned and fled with great strides down the mountain side. Step by step the tracks could be clearly seen to the spot where he slipped, and fell to rise no more. Step by step could also be traced?the booted pursuer on one side, the barefooted on the other?to the spot where they broke his skull and battered his brains out as he lay. But more than that; step by step Mr. Adair followed these tracks until they mingled with foot? marks in the village of Derryveigh, and there and then he declared that if within one month the murderers of his steward were not handed over to justice he would evict every man in the village, and would not leave one stone upon another. At this time the people of the village were under notice to quit, as a prelimina? ry to squaring their farms, which were hitherto held in separate patches, and re? instating each oue us tenant on a consol? idated holding. But the threat was un? availing ; the murderers of James Murray dwelt safe in the valley. Possibly the people thought the threat would never be carried out. But Mr. Adair was as good as his word. On the 8th, 9th and 10th of April, every tenant in Derryveigh had to leave the place and the houses were leveled. This was, indeed, a terri? ble act of retribution?so terrible that nothing but extreme necessity could jus? tify it. But no steward was murdered on the property afterwards. Not a Good Joke After All. Life in Leadville is full of excitement even for a barber. The other day a citi? zen named PIugg strolled into a barber's establishment where there were two chairs, both full, and fourteen men wait? ing. If there is on" thing that Plug despises it is waiting A while a lot of other fellows get shaved. He figured on how to avoid it, and espying a friend in one of the chairs lie stepped up to him and spoke a few words in a low tone. Suddenly he became excited. Address? ing his friend he cried: "You third rate mule-whacker, I'll have your gore!" And the frkn 1 yelled back, "You greaser, I'll shoot you full of holes!" "I can shoot first," yelled the Plug, drawing his revolver. "I'll let you sec you can't," roared the friend, leaping from the chair. By this time a scene of wild excitement was taking place in the shop. The whole fourteen waiting customers were wildly struggling to get out before the shooting began. The man in the other chair, without stuping to wipe the lather from his face or remove the apron about him, I leaped from the window upon the head of a policeman, who at once arrested him for a madman. One of the barbers had bumped his head terribly and got his mouth lull of dust, crawling under a sofa, and the other barber was promptly con-j cealed behind a barrel in the closet. As soon as the shop was cleared the two friends censed threatening each other, put up their pistols and a hearty laugh coaxed the barbers to come out aud shave them. Plug tried to explain to the head barber that it was all a joke. "But," said the barber, "you're a fighting man." "No," said Plug, "I am a regular coward aud couldn't lick a flea." "Then, by tunket," yelled the barber, "you've driven over ?5 worth of trade away from me and I'll take the value out of your hide!" And he got several lusty blows on Plug before the latter could offer to settle. And, i somehow, Plug doesn't think it was such j a good joke after all. A Surprising Kicvolution.?In the j summer of 1S08 Governor Joseph E.! Brown was a candidate before the Geor-1 gia Legislature for C. S. Senate, and af ter a prolonged and bitter contest was defeated, the Democrats and Conserva-1 tive6 opposing him. The result was re-j ceived with cheers, and at night many stores and residences were illuminated in honor of the occasion. Impromptu meet-1 ings were held, and eloquent speakers harangued the crowds. Twelve years have elapsed, and the luckv ex-Governor, then bafned, defeated and disappointed, is again a candidate before a Democratic Legislature for a high position and is chosen over a gallant soldier, a brilliant orator, lawyer and statesman. Such are the surprising revolutions and vascillat [ ing changes in public sentiment. Heitfing his Wife. The story was all over town. Every? body was talking about it. It was too bad, they said. What was too bad? Why the new minister had been heating his wife! Was it possible? Yes; there could be no doubt about it. Mrs. S., who lives next door, heard a shriek about ten o'clock last night?a woman's shriek?from a chamber in the parsonage. She looked across, and through the curtain she could see thai a man and a woman were running about the room in gtcat excitement. He was flourishing a stick and striking with it. The blows could be plainly heard. And as he struck, she screamed. Mrs. S. could hardly slepp that night, she was so excited by what she had seen. She was up early next morning. She hurried through her breakfast, and then started out?to see the poor abused min? ister's wife, and comfort her? Not a bit of it. She went to elder A's, found the family at the table, and told the news. Then she footed on to Elder B's and Deacon C's, and over half the town. The half that she had not time to call on soon heard it from the other half, and be? fore noon there was a great excitement in Ballville. The church otlicers discussed the mat? ter with heavy hearts. Such disgraceful conduct could not be endured. Some? thing must be done. But what ? Call at once on the minister and his wife and inquire into the matter? Oh, no; that would not be dignified and official. Be? sides, there could be no doubt about it. Did not Mrs. S. see the beating with her own eyes? So they called a meeting of the session, and summoned tho minister and his wife. He to answer to a charge of unministerial conduct, and she to tes? tify in the case. They came, greatly puzzled and sur? prised. The case was gravely stated by the senior elder, when the culprit and j witness burst into a laugh. Checking themselves, when they saw how serious and sad the session looked, they ex? plained. The minister's wife, though an excel? lent woman who loved everybody, and especially her husband, did not love rats. But the house having been vacant for some time, the rats had taken possession. When they went to their chamber, a huge lodent rat ran under the bed. The wife screamed. Tho husband caught up a stick and tried to kill the intruder. Every lime he struck at and missed the rat the lady screamed again.. How could she help it? I: was an exciting scene, and must have looked very funny to their neighbors who were watching through the curtained window. They laughed heartily when-it was all over and the rat dead; aud they could not help laughing whenever they thought about it. The session were in a fix. They were down on Mrs. S. for making fools ol them. They asked her, "Why didn't you go over to the minister's, and make sure about the matter before you reported it?" And she retorted, "Why didn't you go und inquire into it before you called a meeting?" And all the town thattalked yesterday about how the minister abused his wife, is talking to-day about what an awful gossip Mrs. S. is, and how she fool? ed the elders of our church. I am mortified and disgusted. Is there any way to cure these mischief making gossips? Would it be right to hang them ? It seems to me that passage in the third chapter of James about the tongue ought to be printed in big letters on a card, and hung up in all of our churches. Don't you think so??The Occident, _ "Luck" in Agriculture. In all agricultural communities we find a certain classof men who are uusuc ful in all they undertake. Their lands are as good as their neighbor's, they have the same markets, the same facilities for obtaining supplies, the samo sun shines upon them, and the same rain refreshes, but they have no luck. Of course the apology, as it may be called, for nou success caunot be accep? ted. Theie is a reason for their continu? ous failure. Luck is a word applicable only to games of chance, where reason has no place or where the want of it pre? dominates. If we investigate the subject, we inva? riably find that these luckless tillers of thes'dl are men of little stability of char? acter. They are men who do not think, who do not study. They are weather? cocks, who change with every changing wind. They cannot "stick" to a plan long enough for its development. They planta crop, and fail to cultivate it They do not consider whether a certain crop is suited to a given portion of land or not. They apply fertilizers, (if they use them at all,) without regard to their adapta? bility to the soil to be enriched or the crop to be grown. In gambling parlance, "they go it blind." As a necessary consequence, such men arc "unlucky"?a word synonymous with unsuccessful, in their opinion. But there is no luck about it. Anybody could have foretold what would result from such ac? tion. The consequences follow the cause with unerring certainty. The earth brings forth liberally when properly dealt with, but she refuses accustomed yield to the idle, shiftless, and ignorant. It is in accordance with the eternal fitness of things that thrift should follow industry and intelligence ; that poverty be the result of idleness and ignorance. In this progressive age the man who is not fully alive to everything that pertains to his vocation, no matter what it may be, soon finds himself far behind his fellows in every way. If he neglects to improve Iiis stock by judicious crossing, he awakes, some day, to realize that his scrub herd aud flock are next to worthless, while his neighbor's are eagerly sought for at renumerativc prices. If he uses the antiquated tools of the last century, he finds that he, cannot grow cotton, cane, corn, or anything else, at a profit, while his neighbor, who uses all the im? provements of the age, gets rich at the same business. We have too many "unlucky" tillers of the soil. We have too few progressive There should be a general movement looking to a reformation in this direction. Books and papers should be multiplied and studied, and the character of the soil and the requirements of the several crops also. The most ignorant man can do much by using his reason and experience if he will only concentrate them upon the subject to be treated. Much, very much, may be done without the aid of modern helps?as books aud papers; but the man who persistently ignores these has a "hard road to travel." ? Mr. Robert Barton, one of the Pa ; cific coast millionaires, has picked up bed J and baggage and left San Francisco in | j disgust. He announces that he is going ' \ to dispose of every dollars' worth of prop- j ! ty owned by him in California and "take J the money to some place where rich men l are not made the target for Sand-lot dem lagigues and legislative robbers." He' I p.oposes to take up his residence in New I'ork. ? It is thru .hi that t.ic prosecution of the Ir'sh Lt.n l Leaguers will cost over I $500,0CO. |A BoolC-Agent Tackles a Boarding <? House Keeper. Yesterday morning a man with' the aspect of a book agent walked swiftly uj Magazine street'until be came opposite a liouse where a red-headed woman with u long nose and her*slecvesjrolled: up', wav washing the windows. "Is this a boarding-house, madam,?1' he said, gently, as he leaned ,his )elbows on the fence and looked over in the yard. "Yea sir!" replies the woman. "Can I obtain desirable board here at a reasonabie.rate?" "Yes, sir: there is no bettcr^house'in the city?" "Can 1 see the landlady ?" "I am the lady, sir." "Ah ! indeed." I have often heard of the beauty and industry of the/vomenol New Orleans, but now I have an occular demonstration of the fact." "Do you wish to secure board here?" inquired the woman, blushing and look? ing pleaded. "Well, I reckon I do. Have you any old maids inline house who wear gimlet curls and have pet parrots that talk all night aud worry the life out of people? Are there any babies here who are always having the colic aud howling enough to make a man run crazy .' Madam, I am very particular where I board, us the last place I stopped at my room was situated between that of a young woman who had a pair of twin babies and a musician who played on the flute and walked with a crutch, and when the babies became quiet on one side the infernal cuss on the other would either be thumping over the floor or playing on the flute, until at last I could stand it no longer. Are any of the<e boarding-house pests stopping with you?" "No, sir; none but quiet, single men board here." "Ah, that is surely a line recommenda? tion, but do you set a fine table?" "Yes, of course I do," replied the wo? man, getting angry, "what else do 3*011 want to know ?" "What prompted me to ask you the question was the fact that every board? ing-house falls into the error of giving its boarders tough liver for breakfast, which is something I detest. When a man gels up in the morning he doesn't feel like trying to eat a spring mattress, conse? quently I made it a point to hunt up a liouse where the boarders are not so cursed. A man can stand codfish balls very well, but human nature, madam, i3 far from being equal to tough liver three times a day. If you recollect, I said be? fore, I am very particular where I board. Madam, are you a married woman ?" "Yes, I am, and I'm tired of answering your questions. If you don't want board here just get away," and the excited land? lady slushed the soap-suds over the win? dow pane-., and made her brush fly like a gin saw. The man still leaned- on the fence and gazed at her steadily. "Madam, I see you have a temper," he remarked, when she turned around to see if he hhd gone; "and a temper, when it is not controlled, often creates a great deal of misery and no end of divorce suits. I've no doubt that when irritated by household duties aud cares, that you often give your husband a sound rebuk? ing, and if he is a prematurely bald headed man, its your own fault; yet you are not to blame for that which nature endowed you with. But this trouble can be obviated. I have here, madam," and he dived into a square-shaped box, "a valuable work entitled, 'Home Made Happy, or The Domestic Guide/ This excellent volume I will sell you for the sum of fifty cents. As I previously re? marked, you cannot be blamed for your temper. Every red-headed woman with a long nose and a brown wart under her left eye, has a sour temper, but if you will only follow the suggestions laid down in the book, your home will be a paradise, and-" "If you don'tj leave here,|k"you impu? dent nuppv. I'll call the police. I want you to-" "Bear in mind, madam, that no matter how ugly you are, a good disposition makes any woman angelic, and-" "Ain't you going to leave, you despi? cable villain, you bandy-legged-" "Although you are shaped like a lop? sided triangle and have freckles on your face as large as a ginger snap-" The next instant a shriek was heard and the book agent was stretched flat on the pavement with a bucket of soap-suds on tne top of him and a small dog snap? ping at his heels.?New Orleans Time*. ? Senator Hampton is not expected in Washington until after tie holidays as he is in Mississippi settling up the estate of his son, who died recently. ? The correspondent of the Philadel? phia ledger, writing from New York on the 10th instant, says that the ousting of Kelly was the joint work of Samuel J. Tilden and Roscoe Conkling. ? Four colored vagrants were put up and their services sold for a limited time by public auction near Liberty, Va., on the 14th instant, under an old vagrant act. The men brought four dollars apiece. ? Yellow Jack may prove to have been the best friend Memphis ever had. That the city is now one of the best drained on the continent is the opinion of many sanitarians. This thorough sanitary rev? olution will decrease the mortality rate, aud the city may get the reputation of being not only the cleanest but the healthiest inutile country. ? Mr. S. J. Fell, Immigration Agent representing North Carolina in England, writes to the Italeigh News-Observer on the 20th ult.: "On the 11th of December a ship sails which will bring to North Carolina fromjjthirty to forty souls, all of the solid, practical, working farmer class. Some from Lincolnshire, strong, hardy, intelligent men and women, who know how to work, and know also a good deal of the refinements of life." ? Lord Lansdowne, a prominent Eng? lish nobleman, has achieved unenviable notoriety in connection with Irish affaire. It has come out that he exercised the most complete feudal supervision over his tenants. His despotism forbade mar? riage; it forbade his tenants to harbor peasants who set at defiance his claims to say when they should mate; it punished those under him who even sheltered in an outhouse nn unhappy couple. He pleaded that in thus wielding a master? ship which was, if not illegal, beyond all that law ever contemplates, he was be? nevolent. He was preventing improvi? dent matches, which arc the curse of Ireland, and providing against the settle? ment of too many people on estates which cannot bear additional burden. But it comes out that while thus taking care that the tenancies shall not be over? burdened, additional weight upon them, in the shape of increased rents, has been his object. Three times in a quarter of a century have his rents been raised once by 25 per cent, at a leap, and this J at the very time when he was trying, as he says, to prevent poverty by preventing 1 undue multiplication. Furthermore, it [ appears that he has re-let to} his tenants at 5 per cent, the money loaned at 3? per cent, by the government to landlords for the improvement of their lands. He ? thus makes money out of a benevolence.