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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C.. THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOPER 21 1 MMT VOLUME XVI.-NO. 1.1 WHY THEY DID IT. The New York Senators State their Ken son* for Resigning. ALBANY, N. Y., May IC. The following ia the letter of resigna tion of Senators Conkling and Platt : WASHINGTON, May 14, J 881. SIR-Transmitting as we do our resig nations respectively of tho great trusta with which New York has honore 1 us, it . ia fit that wo acquaint you, and through j you the legislature and pocplo of tito ' otate, with tho reasons which in otir judgment make such ti step respectful and r/ecesfcary. Some weeks ago tho President sent to tiio'Senato in a group the nominations of several persons for public offices already filled. Otto ot those offices is the collectcrahip for thc port of New York, now held by General Merritt, an other is the consul-generahhip at Lon don, now held by General Bndeau, another is that of charge d'afluiies to Denmark, held by Mr. Cramer, another is the mission to Switzerland, held by Mr. Fish, a son pf the former distin guished Secretary of State. Mr. Fish had, in deference to an ancient practice, placed his position at the disposal ot the new administration, but like thc other persons named ho was to remain at his post if permitted to do so. "All of these officers, save only Mr. Cramer, are citi zens of New York. Jt is proposed to displaco thom all, not for any alleged failure or any alleged need or advantngo of tho public service, but in order io give tho great office of collector at tho port of ?Now York to Mr. William H. Robertson, as the reward of certain acts of his said to bavo aided in making tho nomination nf Mr. Garfield possible. "bo chain of rewards thus proposed i- iiroken by General Badeau's prompt ly i .lining the acceptance of the offico to which he wes to bo sent. These nominations summoned every member of the Senate to say whether ho advised such a transaction. The move ment, waa mor? than a surprise. We had been told only a few boura before that no removals in tho New York offices were socs to be made, or even considered, and had been requested to withhold pa pera and suggestions bearing on the sub ject which nra been sent to us for pre sentation alu uid the occasion arise, un til we bad nntico from the President of his readiness to receive them. Hearing that tho Vice President was equally sur prised, and hud beeu equally misled, wc went to Mr. James, the Cabinet officer from our State, and learned that though ho had spent some time with the Presi dent on the morning of the.day the nom \ ?nations were sent in, no disclosure of any intention to send tbent had been ' made to him, and that ho first knew of I the matter by heresay, following the event. After earnest reflection and cou . sultatioi), we believed the proceedings unwise and wrong, whether considered , wholly in relation, to the preservation and integrity of the public service and the public example to bo set, or in relation ? to tho integrity of the Republican party. No public utterance of comment or cen sure was made by either of us in the Senate or elsewhere. On the contrary, we thought the President would recon sider the sudden and hasty step, and would, at least, adopt less'hurtful and objectionable modes of requiting per sonal or individual service, in this hope the following paper waa prepared and signed and presented by Mr. James to tho President, who was subsequently in formed that you had authorized your name to be added also : To the President : We beg leave to ro inoustrat? against the change in the Col lectorship of New York by tho removal o?Hr. Merritt and tho appointment of M Robertson. The proposal waa vholly a i-orisa. Wo beard of it only when HCYS?-1 nominations involved in the plan wa jounced in tho Senate. Wo had ou.1 to days before this been informed fro:., yon that a change in the customs offico at New York was not contemplated and quite ignorant of a purpose to take any action pew, we had no opportunity, until after tho nominations, to make the suggestions we present. We do not believe that the interest of tho public service will bo promoted by ; removing the present collector nud put ting Mr. Robertson in his stead. Our opinion is quito tho reverse, anr' wo be lie vo no political advantage can bc gam ed for either thc Republican party or ita Erinciples, believing that no individual as claims or obligations which should be liquidated in such a mode. Wo earnest ly and respectfully ask that tho nomina tion of Mr. Robertson bo withdrawn. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. J. C. PLATT. THOMAS L. JAMES. ROSCOE CONREINO. This paper was presented to Mr. Jomes on Monday, tho 20th dav of March. Knowing the frequency with which every Y one of tho twenty Presidents of tho re public, and markedly thc present incum bent, had withdrawn nominations on lesa ,\erioua representations, we did not ap i "jrehend auch suggestions would be treated as au iutrusiou or an evasion of I the prerogative of tho uominnting pow?r. Immediately tho public press, especially in articles and dispatches, written by those in' close and constant association with tho President and with an influen tial member of the Cabinet, teemed with violent denunciations of the Senators from New York for "opposing tho ad ministration" and "dictating to thePrcs idont." Persons who visited tho Kxccu tivo Mansion reported the President as resentful and impatient of hesitation "to S advise and consent" to what he proposed. : Wc had made, wo liavo marlo, no assault ? upon anybody. We have at all times re fused to answer questions by tho repre sentatives of the press, or to make com plaint or comment cr denial of many truthless charges against us by officious champion: of the administration. ? Indeed, beyond confidential consultations Bwith brother Senator? nnd officials, wo Ti baye said nothing until now on tho sub ?fject, nor have we, or either of na, pro :'.tooted tho deadlock in the Senate in order to prevent or infiueuce nction on ;?ny domination. Nor bavo wc so stat ;'(#d. Immediately after the nominations were made, Republican letters i< d tele ?;raroa carne from cvory part of the State rom ita leading citizens protesting against the proposed changes and con demning them on many grounds. Several thousands of leading mercantile firma of New York, constituting, weare informed, a majority of eve: y branch of trade, sent fe us remonstrances ; sixty of the eighty ouo Republican members of Assembly, by lotter or menti.rial, roado objection; Representatives iu Congress, State offi* c?ala, business men, professional men, > commercial, industrial and political asso v elations are among tho remonstrants, and they speak from every section of tho State. Besides the nominations already ro il forred to there nero waiting tho nction T'-iof tho Senate several citizona of New ?if'York named for offi cea connected with ^Couria, District Attorneys and Mar??ala. PrTbeee were all reappointments, most of them had been originally commia?ioned V*by Mr. Hayes. They were certified by ? Judges of Court and many other smf #&ient persons who attested tho faithful ness nn? merits of their services aud recommended their continuance. They were not presented by us. We bavo not attempted to dictate nor have wo asked the nomination of ono person to any offico in tbe State. Indeed with tho soie exception of the written request set forth above we have neror exprcsfci an opin ion to the I resident iu any case unk - s questioned in regard to it. Some days ago tho President ubruptly withdrew in one and the same act the names of General Woodford and Mr. Tenny tho two Marshals. This unnrcce dented proceedings, whether permissible by law or not, was gravely significant. Tho President bad nominated these offi cers after they had been woighed in tho balance. Their official records nero befuro him and had been fully scruti nized and approved. It must be pre sumed that bc thought tho nominations fit to be nindo nud that it was his duty to make .nein. There ia no allegation that be discovered unfitness in them afterwnrda. It could hardly bo that ho had discovered unfitness in all of them alike. What then was tho menning and purpose of this peremptory step? It tva? immediately stated, us if by au thority nod seems lo be admitted, thal tho purpose waa to coerce Sonaten to vote ns they would not vote if left- freo from executive interference with the de signs of Senators touching matters com mitted by tho Constitution to the Senate exclusively. It had been suggested in addition that by recalling those nomina tions and holding them in his own hands thc President might, in tho event of the failure of another nomination, URO them to comp?nsate that failure. If it can bo supposed that al! these public trusts aro to be or would in any event be made per sonal perquisies, tobe handled nnd dis posed not only to punish independence of Senatorial votes or action, but to Hau!? dato personal obligations of any indi viona: however high in station, tho conditions are equally vicious nnd degrading, and their acceptance would compel represen tativo of btates to fling down their oath and report for duty at tho footstool of executive power. Following this strict and sweeping executive act carno ominous avowals that dissent or faillite to consent would be held an act of offeuse, exposing all Senators from whatever State to executive dis pleasure. Thus wo find ourselves con fronted by the question whether we shall surreudor to the plain right aud sworn duty of Senators by consenting to what wo believe to be vicious and hurtful, or b? assigned th? position of disloyalty to an administration which we helped to bring in, mid the success of which we earnestly wished for. Every reason and motive which can enter into the case we know. No theory adopted by any party requires such submission ns is now exacted. Although party service may be fairly considered in making ??lections of public officer, it can hardly be main tained that the Senate is bound to remove without cause incumbents merely to make places for those whom any indi vidual, even the President or a member of his Cabinet, wishes to repay for being recreant tu others or serviceable to him. Only about two years ago the Senate advised that General Merritt be app Dinted Collector at New York. It ?B understood that among the Senators who so .ivised was Mr. Windom, now Secretary cf the Treasury and head of the department whose (subordinate General Merritt is. Another Souator known to have >/.ven this advice was Mr. Kirkwood, now Sec retary of tho Interior. It is said that, like the Postmaster General, from our own State, these Cabinet officers were not taken into consultation touching the removal of General Merritt but their sworn and official actions as Senators ie none the less instructive. That the Secretary of the Treasury of tho late administration, up to its expiration, less than the ten weeks ago, approved Gene ral Merritt as an officer, is well known. It ia nowhere suggested that citizens had petitioned for bis removal, or that any official delinquency on his part is the reason of it. In place of an experienced officer in tho midst of his term, fixed by law, it is proposed to put a man who has no training for tho position, and who caunot be said to have any special ti tnt'ss for its official duties. In tbe inaugural of Presideiit Garfield, delivered on March -1, stand these words : "The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regula ted by tho law tor tho good of tho service itself, for the protection of those who are interested with tho appointing power against waste of time and obstruction to public business, caused by inordim-.te pressure for place, aud of incumbents against intrigue and wrong. I shall, at tho proper time, ask Congress to fix the term of minor offices of the several ex ecutive departments, and prescribe thc grounds upon which incumbents shall be appointed." How good ibo distinction which makes major offices a prey to "intrigue" and wrong aud shields minor officials from Uko havoc, and whether the collectorship of tho country should belong to the exposed or to the protected class need not be decided ber. Assum ing General Merritt to bo an officer of average fitness and honesty it might he reasonably argued that all Senators should with alacrity advise his displace ment by a man of obvious superiority. Probably lt might bo said that all should advice the selection in General Mcrrilt'e place of a man who without superioj fitness had rendered bis country or oven his party conspicuous and exalted ser vice. The case in hand docs not belong to either of those two classes. The voca tion of Mr. Robertson and his legisla tivo and professional experiences and surroundings do not denoto superiority in tbe qualities, tho knowledge, the busi ness habits aud tho familiarity with the revenue laws and system of the United States which might make him more com petent than General Merritt to collect the vast revenue? and administer tbe veal business pertaining to the pert of Nov. York. Certainly be cannot iu ibis re spect he held an exception to the rulei of right and consistency on which the constitution and laws have placed thc public service. We know of no perenna! or political service rendered by Mr. Rob ertson ao transcendent that the collector ship of New York should be taken in thc midst of a term and given to him as i recompense. Mr. Robertson is reported by the Nevi York Iribune lo have declared that hil nomination was a "reward"-a "reward' for bia action ns a delegate to the Nation al Covention. If Mr. Robertson in hil action was influenced by a sense of duty it he voted and acted his honest convie lions, it ia difficult to seo what claim hi has for any reward, uot to speak of a< great a reward. The action Of which at estimate is thus invited ia surmised ti bo this : Robertson and slxty-nino othe ; men accepted from a State Convention i a curtain treat. They Bought and ac . cepted the position of agenta or detegate I to the National Convention. Th State Convention declared a plaint; ? stated judgment and policy to b 1 observed and supported by those whom i j commissioned. To thia declaration at , selected delegates gave implied consent but rc? eini of them in addition made moat specific personal pledge and en ?;agcmeut to exert themselves in fgood -ii111 throughout to secure the nomina tion of General Grant. They made thia pledge as a means of obtaining their own appointment as delegates and they did, as we both personally knew, obtain their seats in the National Conreution upon the faith of their personal state incuts of their earnestness and fidelity. The obligations thus assumed wore un derstood to involve integrity, as the obligation of ono who receives the proxy of a btockholder in a corporation on the pledge and promise to vote as his princi pal would voto. Whether Mr. Robertson was or waa not himself bound not only by honor and implication, but by ex pressly giving his word, becomes quito immateral in view of the claims made for him. It is insisted that ho organized the vote, or, as it has boen sometimes stutcd, "he was the leader of the vote." That is to Kuy that he invited, persuaded, iuduccd ether.-} whom he knew had given their word aud obtained their seat by so doing to violate their word and betray not only the Republicans assembled in the State Convention, but tbs Republi cans of their district as well who bad trusted in their honor. W "?ver coun sels and procures another to do a dishon est or dishonorable net must share with that other tho guilt and should share j the odium justly attaching to it. Weare thcrfore wholly unable, upon whatever ground we nut it, to see juetiGcation for ourselves should wo become parties to using public trusts which belong to the people to require such service to euch modes. j But tho appliances employed to elle et, these results set up new staudards of responsibility, and invade, as we believe, the truths and principles on which sepa rate and co-ordinate branches of tho government stand. ? Senator has bia own responsibility. He is amenable to his Slate aud to tho body of which he is H member. He is bound by his oath to "advice und consent," on his conscience a.. J judgement before God, whatever or whoever else may constrain him. Ho is io be exempt from executive menace or disfa' T on the one baud, or executive favor . i the other. Long standing on the orders of tho House of Commons has been a declaration that a member shall h titrer expulsion who even reports the wishes of tho executhe head of thu government to influence tho votes of members. The British Costitution is not more jealous than oura in this regard. To give advise, and honest, independent advice os to an appointment proposed, is as much thc right and duty of a Sena tor as it is tho right or duty of the Tret-i dea t to propose the name. Be his Ad vice one way or the other it is no more au act of disrespect or treason to the nominating power than the verdict of a juror or the decision of a Judge. The idea that the Scuute is .limply to lind out what is wanted and then to do it, we cnunot believe safe or admissible, and thus far no party has dared or descended to set such a test of party fidelity or alle giance. In this instance such promi nence hos been given to the subject and such distrust has been expressed of the correctness of our positions, that we think it right and dutiful to submit the matter to the power to which we aro alone bound and ever ready to bow. The Legislature is in Eession. It ?B Republican in majority, and New York abounds in sons quite as able as we to bear her message nnd commission in the Senate of the United States. With a profound sense of the obligation we ow?, we. with devotion to th?? Republi can party and its creed of liberty and right, with renewed attachment io the great State whose interest and honor aro dear to Ua, we hold it respectful and becoming to make room for those vho may correct ull error? und interpret aright all duties v.-hLn wo havo miscon ceived. We therefore enclose our resignations, but hold fast our privilege as citizens and Republicans to stand for the constitutional -igbt of all, and of all representatives, whether of the.States, the nation or the people. We have the honor to bo, very respect fully, your obedient sevants, ROSCOE CONKLIXO, THOMAS C. PLATT. To his Excellency Governor Cornell. Registered. Fi . young men, clerks aud students, while on a summer vacation tramp through Northern New England, engag ed for a guide to a certain romantic forest waterfall, a boy named Forrest Graves. Forrest was a Gne, athletic fellow, who could outwalk and out climb auy ama teur in the mountains, and his moral courage was quite equal to his physical health and strength. After he bad guided the yoting men to the waterfall, and they had satisfied them selves with sight-seeing, they invited him to lunch with them. "Thank you, I have roy own lunch ;;' and the boy went away by himself. Later, when full justice had been done : to their repast, add a flask of brandy had I furnished each of tho young men with a stimulating draught, Graves was colled. "You must drink with us, if you will not eat with us," now, said tho owner of the flask, and the most reckless of thu party. "No, sir. thank you," was the boy'? courteous tvioonse. j "But I shall insist upon it." "You can do-as you please, and 1 shall do as I please." The young mun sprang to his feet, and with a bound stood beside tho boy, too . much absorbed in bis own purpose to 1 heed tho quivering lips and flashing eyes of another. "Now you are bound to try my braudy. I always rule." "You can't rule me." These words were scarcely uttered when tho flask was seized and hurled into a stream, where thc clinking of glass betrayed its utter destruction. Then a clear, defiant tone rang out : _ "I did it in self defense. You had no right to tempt me. My father was once a rich and honorablo man, but d?ed a miserable drunkard, any my mother came here to live to keep me away from liquor till I should be old enough to take caro of myself. I have promised ber a hun dred times I wouldn't taste it, and I'd die before I'd break my promise." "Bravely said. Forgive me, and let us shako hands. My mother would be a happy woman if I was os brave as you. I wouldn't tempt you to do wrong. I .ball never forget you nor the lesson you have taught ms." Tits most reckless was the : mst gener ous and Bceing his error apologized frankly. How many boys need to bo kept from strong drink ; and, alas, how many men aud women I Who dares tempt them ? Let it not bo you and I.- Youth's Com panion. - A negro boy, aged eighteen, at Ho mer's, La., who admitted that ho bad outraged a negro girl aged eight, and afterwards murdered her in the. moat brutal manner, was Laken from Bern ville parish jail, al Sparta, on Saturday night, . 14th inst., and ?hot to death by a party ' of fifty men, mostly colored. LETTER FROM DIXIE. Mis? frauda K. Willan). President of Ute National Terooerauoe Villon, Gives a Northern Journal an Account el ker Lec turing Tour lu the bouth. DEAR INDEPENDEN r :-It ia uow about two mouths ainco I hf.d tl c good fortune to begiu a Southern fr>5, ordained by our National Union, at it' annual meeting in Boston. Maryland nnd the Diatrict of Columbia were left behind soon altor the ?ireaeutatiou of Mw. Hayes's Testimonial 'ortrait at tho Wi.ito House. Cleat bends aud hearts are busy in both locali ties, moving forward tho home protection cause. My associate, Mn. Georgia H?lse McLeod, of Baltimore, a nativo of Flori da, a life-long teacher ?nd whilom cou triutilor to The Allant'':, had opened tho way by means of letters to tho press and to leading ladies rurther South Appeals had been made for money to help defray expenses, for, if successful, this embassy of a stranger must bo free from all pecu niary taint. Letters of introduction were kindly furnished by leading clergyman (South) of all denominations. Prayers were o tic red by our local unions from one cud of the country to the other for success of this effort *o plant the "W. C. T. U." in Southern soil, und without misgivings the attempt was made. Many gor 1 and thoughtful people had predicted vnat this would prove a fool's erraud" uumbertwo. A letter from ono leading .-'outhem city had declared that thc triple disadvantage of (1) sending n woman ! (2) u temperance woman ! (3) a Northern temperanco woman ! stamped the embassy a failure from the start. (Bu'., please observe, this letter was from a Northern man.) But, bless God aud theit kind hearts, the Southern people have received mo as a Bister beloved for thc work's sake. Already some of tho chief towna bavo been visited in every Southern state save Texas, Arkausas, and Teunesseo (from all of which except tho first earnest invitations have como and engagements aro alrrady r..ade for their acceptance). And what is the report? i Just the samo that it would have been ii un equal number of Northern states bud been visited-viz., tho utmostkiud ? ness from the friends of temperance, cor ! dial co-operation from tho 'most liberal ? minded of tho clergy, and independent ol 1 tho press, and on the part of women e j sisterly welcome that crowns Frienship'e ! casket full of choicest jewels. Indeed, i tho South is fur more like the North than : in my ignorance, I had supposed : "They're juBt like our folks" was my con slant mental ejaculation, the almost eu ! tire absence of a foreign population lend ing colori? the home-like illusion. Il : had been said that tho opposition to hear ; ing ladies speak was d?ep and resolute ; Thia is not so. Churches were opener. : as n rule, no less freely than at tho North I Ministers of different denominations con j ducted the devotional exerciaes, and Un audiences were large and to the last do j grccsympalhetic and kind. When mern I bera were called for mid papers circulatei I with the pledge for m M ti aud women, tin response was much more general thai with us. It is true that on tho Snbbatl pastora do not yield their pulpits, pre fering an afternoon hour for tho temper ance rncettng : it is also true that, as i rule, wo have spoken from the chancel and iu a singlo instance no pastor wa present; but this baa sometimes hap pened ut the North, and Sunday is wit ministers a busy day. It bad been said that tho expectatio of securing associated effort on tho terr perance lino from Southern women w? quite Utopian ; but, instead of this, tho have been uniformly earnest and respor sive, beyond what is usual at the Nortl True, they have given immediate notic that they could not speak in publi Miicu is the smallest part of the wotk bu*, at the same time, have entered wit the utmost intelligence and heartinei into Qjr plans for securing pledges, S. ? and juvenile ao,,? Mies, the" circulation < leaflets, lending out of temperance book planning ?hr public meetings, to be a< dressed by gentlemen, etc. But when I have noticed tho marveloi facility of utterance, the varied vocab; lary, the delicacy of appreciation, ar rare insight of these ladies, I have fe that in it all wns a prophecy of sut achievement in the art of public ns we ns private persuasion as would dim tl laurels of their Northern sisters, if sacred emulation did not rescuo us. could namo women in all tho chief citi of the South who are no less v/ortby be the leaders of a people than was D borah of old. They feel the (-.lin ings benignant power ; tho mother heart thom reaches out with a wide blcssi? for humanity. Even from their point of view-co corning which we have lively spoken the war was not nn unmixed evil, helped to individualizo each womat character ; it taught the stern, but roy lesson of self-help ; and, with the upi ri t gentleness aud docility which aro a eu sign of the highest breeding, many these women, who had hardly over wa ed upon themselves in the smallest pt ticular, took up difficult toaks, to wbi they brought no training, but in wbi tiley ha -'c grandly Miccceucd. Some ? teachers, some journalist*, some artia abd not n few take boarders or kc hotels. The unwritten annals of tin heroism, often whispered in my ear ; friends, have dignified my cstimato human nature. Nor do I find the Lilt ness toward the North which waa < dared to bo so characteristic of the v men who loved "Thc I-ost Cause." Th ! approached this wholo question of t ? war from a standpoint altogether difi ent from our own. They beliovcd in t inalienable right of a Stato to secede fri ; the Union. They had never been taug as wo had, from pulpit, press, and pl form, to spell nation with a big N. But, whatever may have been tho c in earlier years, sober second thought I softened either them or us-or-botb, p haps ; BO that we eau agree to "press f ward to tho things that aro before." w bands clasped in loving sympathy, had been said, "You must not speak the colored people;" but in almostovi city we have done so, with the free c< sent of tho Southern friends ander wb auspices we came. It is truo tba* BOC ostracism of the noblo men nnd won who came South to tench and preach tho freedmen ia not yet at an end ; I its features arc greatly modified, and larger towns and more enlightened those "to the manner born" exhibit le of thia narrow spirit and charac Prejudico (pro-judgment) is not a 6 tiona! growth. Both North and Sou it is the parasite of a certain clans mind. Ita objects differ, but ita anic ia everywhere tho same. Of Southern manhood it ia needless nay more than that the auppotiitiona c lifetime as to their courtesy waa realii "Sir Charles Grandison" bas been host, and "Gol. Newcome" bas introdu me to my audieuce-leading me get forward, aa is the custom here, and i ing more kind tbinga than I shall m in a thousand years. Gov. Colquitt Georgia, welcomed me in his own (Mi dist) .Church ono Sabbath ovening i waa never welcomed anywhere, ana I .' Bon Capers, rector of the Eplsci ? Church, Greenville S. C. ; Bishop Wi| man and Stevens, of Charleston ; Dre. Vodder, of the Hugenot, and Chatnbliss, of the Baptist Church there; Dr. Hay good, of Emory College ; Col. Price William*, of Mobile; Mrs. Judge Sharkiey, of Jackson, Miss, ; and a host of others have lent their influonce and aid with a cordiality neve" to bo forgot ten. The temperance questiou will win in the South earlier than with us, if we are not on the alert. They are not handi capped with a foreign population. Thc colored people are well disposed and teachable. Their legislatures have out ranked ours in tho gains of the last ses sion. Ministers are mote outspoken and the press less timidly mindful of "our Gorman frie*ids." Tho trip 1 hare do scribed will extend over two months, and forty towns or moro in fourteen states, leaving a W. O.T. U. in every placo whore none bud yet been organized. Another time I wish to write of Sidnoy Lanier, Joel Chandler Harris (author of "Uncle Remue") Randall (author of "My Mary land",, Mrs. Sallie F. Chaplin (author of a Secession novel), Mrs. Augusta Evana Wilson (author of "Beulah"), Father Ryan (author of tho "The Sword of Leo"), Geo. C. Cable, Atti is Hay good, and other gifted Southerners. If this sketch seems rose-colored, remember that "we only know what we havo lived." If it flaunts not tho ruby flag, reflect that it was not written by a Uuitcd Slates senAtor. Surely, the day hastens when, joined in the splendid light against a common foe which is the scourge of all our bornes, the daughters of the North and South will smiliugsay, ench to the other, what then the sons will joyfully repeat, " With all thy faults, 1 tore thee still." Montgomciij, Ala., April 21?/, ISSI. A St. Louis doctor factory reeeutly turned out a dozen female doctoro. As long as the female doctors wore confined to one or two in tho whole country, and those were only experimental, wo held our peace and did not complain, but now that thc colleges are engaecd in produ cing female doctors as a business we must protest, and in so doing will give a few reasons why femaie doctors will not prove a paying branch of industry. In the first place, if they doctor any body it must bo women, and three fourths of tho women would rather havo a male doctor. Suppose those colleges turn out female doctors until there are as many of them as thero aro male doctors, what have they got to practico on ? A man, if thero was nothing tba matter with him, might call in a female doctor, but if he was sick as a boree (if a man in sick he is sick as a horse), tho last thing bo would have would be a female doctor. And why? Because wbcu a man has a female fumbling around him ho wauts to feel well. He don't want to feel hiliouu or feverish, with his mouth tasting like cheese and his eyes bloodshot when the female is looking over him and taking account of stock. Of course these female doctors ?rp all young and good looking, and if one of thom came into a sick room where a mau was in bed, and ho had chills and waa cold os a wedge, and she should sit np close to the side of the bod and take hold of his hand, his pulse would rna up to 160, and she would prescribe for a fever j when ho had chilblains. Oh, you can't ' fool us on female doctors. A man who j has been sick and bad male doctors knows just how much he would like to havo a fomalo doctor como tripping in and throw hor fur-lined cloak over a chair, take off her hat and gloves and throw them on a lounge, and come up to thu bed with a pair of marino blue eyes, with a twinkle in the corner, and look at him in tho wild, changeable eyes, and ask him to run out his tongue. Supposa he knew his tongue was coat ed so it looked like tho yellow Turkish towel, do you suppose he would want to run out over five or B?X iuches of the lower part of it, and let that tztatXh doc tor put her finger on it to kco how furred it was? Not much. Ho would put that tongue up into his cheek nnd wouldn't let her seo it for 25 cents admission. We have all seen doctoro put their hands un der the bed clothes and feel of a man's feet to see if they were cold. If a female doctor were to do that it would give a man cramp in the legs. A in .-.lo doctor can put his hand on a man's stomach and liver and lungs, and ask bim if ho feels any pain there ; but if a female doctor should do the same thing it would make a man cicle, and he would want to get up and kick himself for employing a female ! doctor. Oh, there is no tme talking ; it would kill a man. Now, suppose a mau hos heart disease, and a female doctor should went to listen to thc beating of ino heart. Sbo would lay ber left ear on his left breast, so her eyes and rosebud mou? h would be looking right io his face, and her wavy hair would bo scattered all around there, get ting tangled in tho buttons of bis shirt. Don't you suppose his heart would get in about twenty extra beats to the minuto? You bet ! And she would smile-wo will bet $20 sho would smile-and show her pearly teetl'. and the ripe lips would bo working as though she wera counting thc beats, and he would think sho was trying to whisper to him, and- Well, what would ho bc doing all this time ? If he was not dead yot, which would be a wonder, his left band would brush the bair away from her temple and kind of stay there to keep the hair away, and his right hand would get sort of nervous and move round to thc back of her head, and when she had counted tho beats a few minutes and was raising her bead he would draw the head up to him and kiss her once for luck, if he was aa bilious as a Jersey ?wamp angel, and bnve her charge it in tho bill. And then a reac tion would set in, aud he would be as weak as a cat. and she would have to fan bim and mb his head until he got over being nervous, and then make out his prescription after he gol asleep. No ! all of a man's symptoms change when a female doctor is practicing on him, and sho would kill him.-Peck s Sun. - Tho discipline of the military or ganizations that attended tho Galveston Mardi Grass was very rigid, and was main tained during their stay in Galveston. One of the privates, somehow or other, got under the influence of strong bevera ges and was parading Galveston avenue when be saw bis superior officer ap proaching. The soldier fled into an alley and hid behind an ash barrel. The officer passed on, but next day he called the soldier to appear beforo him, and asked : "How did I como to seo you hiding behind an ash barrel?" "How did you come to see me ? You happened to see me because 1 was bigger than the barrel. If the barrel had been bigger you would never bad seen me." "When you get home I will have 7011 court mar ti alcd, sir, and shot. Yes, sir, shot to death with musketry." "If yon do, I'll bc damed if I don't resign and bust up the company. Now yon >?at draw out your musketry." - Johnny, who has been soaked by the rain the day before : "I told you the rain would make me grow ; these clothes aro too small for mo." Lady Physicians. TUE NEURO REPUBLIC. Some Plain and Startling Statements About Afluir* In IJbcria. from the Cincinnati Commercial. Slr. George R. Stetson of Boston, has written 8orao queer chapter's about th? Republic cf Liberia, on the West coast ot Africa. It was founded by philanthrop ist:; iu the Unite' States, some fifty years ago. It was ;o be a speck of para dise for freed slaves from America. Good pcoplo were to scud them thero, sot them up in n republic on their own hook, and then put the whole Dark Continent into a ferment of Christian civilization. In thc period of their enthusiasm, the American Colonization Society spent roil liona of money on the freedmen's para dise As far back as 1851) they pent 10, OOO A meneau negroes thero nt an expense of $180 per bena. About half of thom went to a paradies by a shorter route than even tho Colonization Society dreamed of. They died. In boating tho American bush for emi grants to Liberia, tuneful ageuts harped mm h on thu extraordinary richness of African soil. It hud only to bc ticklod with a wooden hoc to smile back n luxuri ant harvest. Fruits, grain, and vegeta blea, all that made ijlad thc human stom ach, grew in unlimited profusion. This was ono side of tho story. The silver tongued agents told that aide. Tho other part was that every foreigner who touches tho coast of Liberia, though ho remain no longer than a week, is stricken down with a horrible miasmatic sickuess called tho "acclimating fever." Tho blistering sun, alternating witli heavy rains, and tho rank vegetation I rom that very soil whoso richness tho ngents exalted, aro thc cause of tho terriblo malaria. Aguo gets the better of civilization. It kills every white man who rcminna thero a few years. Tho savage African aboriginea do not appear to suffer from tho malaria. Like tho Florida Indians, who arc proof against mosquito bites, they appear to bo soaked so full of poison that it does uot hurt them. But the American-born ne gro Buffer* nearly as much as tho white mau. Tho mortality of tho fever may bo judged from some facts given by Mr. Stetson. On ono occasion a coasting vessel inado a trip to tho delta of tho Niger. She had a crew of fifty-five per sons. Of these, twenty-five died. Another vessel was sent to tho namo place willi a crew of twenty mon. Ten of them died within four weeks. It will bo remembered thnt a passion for emigration to Liberia suddenly seized tho colored people of Georgia and tho Corolinoa three years ago. They sailed thither by hundreds. Oue ahip, the Azor, took 25G emigrants from Charleston at ono load. It was flue fun-the starting. All shared tho devout belief that they wero coing direct to tho promise Inna, but all their hopes turned to thc bitterest disappointment. The disgusted pilgrims died off like sheep in a Colorado blizzard. In many coses of negroes emigrating to Liberia from Americn whole families died, not ono being left alive. One fam ily of ten persons from Georgia sailed io tho Azor. Threo died on shipboard and two at Monrovia. Tho other five begged mony and fled back to Georgia before tho acclimating fever took them, too. Many others of tho colonists who sailed within a few years to Africa are sending for money to brine them homo. Liberia, the country of fertile soil and beautiful landscape, ia BO sickly that the very horses una mules die that aro taken there. Concerning other aspects of lifo iu the model negro Republic-educational, in dustrial, social, and political-the testi mony is no less emphatic. Tho term "lazy African" is probnbly only under stood in ita truest sense in Africa. Undei tho schorching sun the laziness strikes in. ?'he climat J effects even the industrious freedman from Americn. In time he too, gives up the struggle and censes tc work. He turua to politics os au easier way ol getting a living. He seoks "them 'o--; offices" with enthusiasm. Thus ho, al lenat, shows his capacity for the highesl civilization. Liberian elections are quite as loud and lively and as frequent as ir tho great "nioddfe" Republic of the Uni ted States, which thc little African om was pntterned after. Liberian exports have been steadily declining for n number of years. A bart subsistence is not hurd to obtain amon?. the naked aborigines. What ?B tho goo? of working when ono is not obliged to di it? It is not agreeable to record the fae that slavery oxisls throughout tho negri Republic. Ita horrors down South neve aurpa8scd the like horrors among thesi Liberians, whoae slaves are of their owt and kindred. In other respecta thc Africans wh< rulo Liberia have shown their ability ti acquire a high civilization-the ver; highest indeed. They bave got a bondel debt. It is so largo a ono that thero i no prospect whatever they will ever pn; it. Moreover, it is ull owned in London every ponny. Putting the two facts to get her, and connecting them by n link o reasoning with a well-known pcculiarit; of Iho nome British nature, it is not bari to make a prophecy concerning tho futur of this, the ono black Republic on th face of the earth. Some very singular facts bavo been dt veloped in tho history of Liberia. Nc body was more enthusiastic in thc eau? of African colonization from thia count? than the churches and tho religious com uiunily. Missionaries went thero by th hundred, labored among tho black sav ages, and deid martyrs to their Christin devotion. Who docs not remember fo years "Afric'a Bunny fouutiaus" as th objeclivo pointa of missionary work i America? What bas come of all this work, of th ?aerifico of all these unselfish lives Christians everywhere expected th Cbristianizationof all Africa os confideni ly as the Second Adventists locked fe tho eod of tho world. Tho happy resu never followed. Ono of thc wild uegr tribes that joined tho Liberian Goverr meat was Mohammedan in religioi There are forty wild negro tribes in th wbolo country. Instead of these nake heathens coming nndor tba gentle ir fluonce of the Biblo, the one Mlmnmmi dan tribe among them is converting thci to tho faith of the Turk with amazin rapidity. There ia actually a proapoi that at no distant day a majority of th inhabitants of Li bo ra will be followers c tho crescent and the Koran. Such ia stated fo bo tho present corni tion of Liberia. Instead of civilizing tl. native negroes, thero really seems ralbi to bo danger tbat the civilized negro? who went; there will relapse into barbi risra. They are tho merest h a nd fi ampug so many. They Buffer horrib1 from tho climate, and aro growing poon and poorer. Meantime an insiduoi British influence grows stronger ac stronger, English men-of-war crul along their coast and lie at anchor i their ports. English goods go into thc country in larger and larger quantiti every year, and they are inveigled mo and more into debt to Great Britai The certain end does not seem mar years off. Under tho circumstance:!, Mr. Stetson, of Boston, considers it high tinto some body publicly and emphatically give tho numerous American negroes who think of migrating to Liberia tho advice Punch gave those about to mnrry-Don't. Weary Women. Nothing is more reprehensible and thoroughly wrong than the idea that a woman fulfils her duty hy doing an amount of work that is far beyond her strength. Sho not only does not fulfil her duty, but she most signally fails iu it, and the failure is truly deplorable. There can be no sadder sight than that nf a h.ulren down, over worked wife and mother-a woman who is tired all of her life through. If the work of tho house hold cannot be accomplis-d by order, system and moderato work, without tho neccs8it j of wearying, heart-breaking toil -toil thnt is never ended and never be gun, without making u lifo a treadmill of labor, thou for the sako of humanity let the work go. Better to live in the midst of disorder than that order should be purchased at so high a price-the cost of health, strength, happiness, all that makes existence endurable. The woinau that spends her lifo in un necessary labor i*. by this very labor, unfitted for tho nighest duties. She should be the haven of rest to which both husband and children turn for peace and refreshment. Sho should bo the careful, intelligent adviser and guide of tho one, tho tender confidant and helpmate of the other. How is it possible for a woman exhausted iu body, as a natural conso quenco in mind also, to perform either of these offices? No. it is not im possible. Thcconstantftraln is too great. nature gives way to it. She loues health and spirits and hopefulness, and more than all, her youth, the last thing a wo man should allow to slip from her ; for, no matter how old she ia in years, tshe should bo young in heart and feeling, for tho youth of ago is sometimes more attractive than youth itself. To the overworked woman this green old ago is out of thc question ; old agc comes on her, scro and yellow, before its time. Her disposition is ruined, her temper is soured, her very nature ia changed by the burdell which, too heavy to carry, is dragged about as long as wenried feet nnd tired hands can do thoii part. Even her affections aro blunted, and sho becomes merely a machine-ri woman without thc timo to bc womanly, a mother without the timo to train and guide her children as only a mother can a wife without tho timo to sympathize with und cheer hor husband, a woman sc over worked during tho dav that when night comes her solo thought and mosi intense longing is for the rest and sleet that very probably will not come; bul even if it should, that ?he is too tired tc enjoy. Better by fur let every ting gc unfinished to live us bestshe can, than t< entail on herself and family the curse ol ovorwork.- The Housekeeper. BABIES IN BACJH.-All thc old uursesii town are laughing at a certain uow mothe because she ties down her babie's loni clothes when ?he sends birr, out on tin Htrcct on a cold or wiudr day ; but tb idea is as sensihlo as it is original. Th long clothes of a young baby, no matte how carefully it is handled, have a ten dency to crawl up to the little chin, o get into u hunch under tho little amit causing much discomfort and leaving th tender little feet bnro and cold. Now string or a pretty ribbon, that can alway be bid by a cloak, tied around the lon skirm juRt bolow tho little feet, preven! the baby from getting into u bunglin bundle, keeps the dainty skirts smoot and gracefully arranged, and the littl one from taking cold. Why not put tb baby in a bag at once, and he don with it? Well, why not / We aro sui that tho helpless little creatures woul feel far more comfortable tied up in bat than they do now done up in tho awl ward bundles known as "baby clothes Tho "bag" should bo roomy, of coun with a drawstring at the top aad anothi at the bottom. No embroidery, no runic and no sleeve ? Ves, just as much cn broidery and just ns many rufhes RS ye please, but no sleeves, unicss tho bag made to open behind. Tho fashion dislocating; a baby's shoulder by bendir back the little arm, to forco it iuto tl sleeve of a garment made to open in fro is both useless nud cruel. No wond the little things scream and kick win they are being dressed. Talk about Dress Reform Association for womel It is reform in baby clothes that is mc needed, and if a fashionable mother cou be found brave enough to tie up her bal iu dainty bags during the Winter monti all tho mothers in tho land would riso i and ci M her n silly noose. But th would follow tho fashion ! There wou be another advantage in dressing I hies in bags, which wiso mammas wou not be slow to discover-nursing wou be mndo cosy for papa. Meu do ma so many excuses when they are asked "hold baby a minute ;" but tho most pi valent oxcuso of all, "Oh, I'll get 1 clothes all mussed up," would bo out order if they would carry the baby in bag. Tho baby could not "get out of it neither could pupa.-New Orleans Pi\ y une.' A BEA UTI FOL SENTI M ENT.--The fol lo ing may have been in print before, bul is nevertheless beautiful and worthy reproduction : A man without some sort of religion at best, a poor reprobate, thc football destiny ; with no tio linking him to finity, and to the wonderous eternity tl is within him ; but a woman withoul is even worse-a flame without heat rainbow without color, a flower witht perfume. A man may in some sort tic his fi hopes and hours with weak, ubi fling, prc t ickle, to his business of tho world ; I a woman without ihut anchor which ti call faith is a drift and a wreck. A tr may clumsily continue a kind of resp? H i bi li ty or motive, but can find no be in any other system of right action tl that of spiritual faith. A man may cr his thoughts and his brains to such ht tago as fame and reputation may stre before him ; but a woman-where can i put her hope in storms, if not in heave And that sweet truthfulness-that ab ing love, that endearing hope, molle ing every scone of life, lighting them w tho pleasant radiance ; when the worl colt! storms break Uko an army w Brooking cannon-wbat can bestow lt but a holy soul-tie to what ia stron than an army with cannon? Who t has enjoyed tho lovo of a God-lov mother but will echo tho thought n energy and hallow it with a tear? - Tho alarming statement is r made, on tho authority of a New Y physician of more tuan forty ye Eradico, that for the first time in (story of that city true spotted typ fever, which only originates where gi filth abounds, bus inado its appears without being traced to importation tho shape of ship fever. This is an nomm?ment which is well calculated intensify the excitement regarding terrible filth of tho otrects of the bopolls. News and Gossip. - Crop prospect? ovt-r tbe wliolo of Te-tas ino reported most promising. - Locusts have made their appoa .uee in 'Toward county, Arkansas, by the million. - The prospect is good for harvesting the largest crop of oats ever produced in Chester county, - Robert Lincoln, Secretary of War. ia being put in training aa a presidential candidate for 1884. - Arkansas is crowded with men buy ing up the timber lauds. Thousnnds of acres are sold weekly. - The acreage in cotton in Kershaw county is said to be tho largest ever known to have been planted. - The wool trade in Corpus Christi, Texns, in twenty-three venrs ha? grown from 5,000 to 700,000 pounds. - Almost every county in Tennessee has taken steps for the improvement of the public roads, under the new law. - Tho negroes of weat Tennessee have again taken thc Kansas fever, and are leaving by the hundreds almost daily. - 1 he Petersburg (Va.) Butter-dish factory gives employment to forty-one hands nnd turns out 25,000 dishes every day. - The end of tho Texas and Pacific railway tn. ck has been pushed over thir ty miles to the westward of the Colorado river. - A Delaware editor, who ia also a physician, offers aa an inducement to nev. Bubscribera to vaccinate every one who will take his paper. - Thero are 340,000 orango trees in Putuam county, Florida, and about 40, 000 are now bearing, tho product from which last Benson was 0,500,000. - Tho new Czar lends a very ampio life. He rises early and breakfasts with his family, and then puts on bis boiler iron overcoat and takes a walk in tho back yard. - Scene at the White House: Enter messenger -" Conkling has. resigned 1" Filter second messengei--"Platt baa re signed I" Proaident Gnrfield-"Well, I nm resigned." - An agricultural paper advises farm ers to "never milk whilo tho cow is eat ing." But it is whilo the cctv ia drinking, evidently, thnt tho city milkman gener ally does his milking. - Redmond, who is confined in thc Asheville ?S. C.) jail, is still suffering very much from bis wounds. Three , balls that tho physicians could not ex tract are still troubling him. - It ia aaid that if red na!: ?.r,;k is kept in the chickon trough at all times it ts a sure euro for chicken cholera. As llie disease is very prevalent nt present its efficacy can bo easily tested. - It ia reported that three of tho sub Boribers to the Grant testimonial fund, namely, Mr. Thomas Barbour, Mr. John Hoey and Mr. E. S. Sanford, have thus far declined to pay up aud that the fund is thus ?15,000 short of the promised $250,000. - After thc ovideuco was in, a Gal veston J migo asked the accused, who was charged with stealing u watch, if ii hnd anything more to offer. "I did hn.o an old watch to offer you, Judge, but roy lawyer borrowed it and hasn't brought ft back yet." - A gentleman recently provoked a one-armed organ grinder by asking him if ho was a survivor of the late war. "Why, you fool !" exclaimed tho irate musician, "don't you see that I sur vived? Do I act as though I was killed in the war?" - If any person will inventa machine for implicating a California jury that will return a verdict of murder in ibo firat degree where tho victim ia worth $100,000 we will guarantee thnt the in ventor is likely to go down to posterity without ever seeing the machine put to a test. - Recently a number of Italian work men were repairing the track near tho Manhattan Beach Hotel, when a few drops of rain fell, attended with a single flash of lightning. The men ut tho time were walking along with theil shovels over their shoulders. At tho flash the last ouo io tho line fell dead, aud tho one in advance shrieked with fear and rolled over. He was scorched and stunned, but not seriously hurt. - Judge Robertson is a mau above tho medium size, with a full head of grayish-white hair, and a large tuft of goateo upon his chin. Ho has bluish eyes, regular features, and ia a man of considerate, attentive, respectful and re markable power of thinking on his feet. Ho does not carry a soul crammed with hostilities. Tho great mass of questions that may arise before him, he will have to decido as they present themselves to his reason. - St simmering, according to M. A. Chemin, generally originates iu a sud den nervous shock which the victim of the affection has received in childhood; sometimes it is a habit which has been acquired by the practice of imitating other persons who stammer, or by con stant association with stammering mem bers of the family. Professor Ckervin resorts to singing, or tho use of tho ca dence for preventing stammering, and has been very successful. Whipping has sometimes been resorted to. - When n jury was being ii jpaneled to try a liquor caso at Troy, Kanons, last week, tho" attorney for tho prosecution promptly objected to a certain juryman. "What in the world did you challenge that man for?" asked enc who was inter ested in thc prosecution. "Why," ro r'.'.od the lawyer, "a man with such a faco and noso will never bring in a verdict against a man for selling whiskey." "Well," replied the other, "you have put off one of tho strictest church members and most radical temperance men in tho county !" - A remarkable case of abstinence from food is reported at Battle Creek, Mich. Last October, Mrs. Henry In 5lum bad some teeth pulled, and this rought on nausea at the stomach and inability to retain food. The woman is is still alive, having eaten or drank noth ing since October. She is nourished by being bathed in beef tea, milk, etc., which acts by absorption, the quantity absorbed from tbeao baths being nearly a quart n day. She feels a sort of hunger, which is soon allayed by a bath, after which she feels os if she had eaten. ? bath of water will quench her thirst Her stomach is said to be totally paral yzed. - Tho President, us has been men tioned, ?B determined to uso to the ut most all lav. ful moans at his command to suppress tho institution of polygamy in Utah Territory. Oue of the most im portant aims in th's connection mil oe to stop tba continued large immigration of Mormon proselytes from Europa. Tho Mormon apostles and agent? are constantly at work among certain cusses of tho peasantry of Europe, and U is through recruits drawn from thcu<? ttal tho Mormous aro principally ablo tc keep up their strength. The Secretary of 8tate, by request of the President, will take this subject into consideration, with ? a view to ascertain whothsraome method cannot be devised to remedy tho evil.