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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. -ANDERSON, S. O, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1884. VOLUME XX.?NO. 7. IN FOREIGN LANDS. Cmresimndence ofthe\ InttUiyenccr. The result of our deliberations at Lausanne was a slight change in our programme, we deciding to goon to Home at once, by way of Geneva, Genoa and Pisa, and to leave Mt. Blanc, Milan, Venice and Florence until our return from the Eternal City. The city of Lousanne has little to detain the tourist, but the attractions of the lake near which it is located are too great to be passed by without notice. "Lake Lemon wooes me with its crystal face," wrote Byron, and from the time of Caesar until now, it has charmed all who have visited its , shore*. It is about 50 miles in length with an extreme width of only nine miles and a depth of 1,S00 feet. Its j waters are a most lovely blue color, dif- 1 fering from the other Swi.<s lakes, which i have a greenish tinge. The cultivation j of the vine is the principal agricultural \ interest of the people rlong its shores and its giapcs and vines are famous and some of the vineyards along its Northern boundaries are valued at not less than SS,000 per acre. At the Eastern end of the lake is the Castle of Chillon ; whose ! stern wails, rising from the waters, were j immortalized by the genius of Byron. The steamer from Lausanne lands us at : Chillon and a walk of about a mile brings ; us'to the castle, which is built upon a rock in the lake and is reached by a 1 drawbridge. After a few moments delay j the attendant conducts us to the dimly i lighted dungeon, whose outer walls rise from below the water and whose inner wall is composed of the native rock. It is here we find ?'There are seven pillars of Gothic mould And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain." The column to which Bonnivard is said to have been chained has, like the rest, deep endentations worn iu the rock around it aud the massive ring to which his chain was attached is still seen. It is a gloomy spot. Among the rooms exhibited to visitors is one with a huge rock upon which condemued pmoners passed their last night. Adjoining this is the execution room which formerly had au opening into the lake, by which the bodies of the victims could bo easily disposed of. In one of the upper rooms is a wooden pillar to which prisoners were suspended and tortured by apply? ing fire to the soles of their feet. Another contains a deep well or opening loading down to the depths of the lake, through which prisoners were sometime* induced to try to escape, only to drown them? selves in the blue waters beiov. Larger rooms are fitted up for reception halls, council chambers, etc., and the eutirc building (which is now used as an arsenal,) is an excellent specimen of the castles of the early limes in which it was built, it having been originally erected more than 1,000 years ago, but strongly fortified by Peter of Savoy iu the thirteenth century. It arouses no pleasant memories however, and we were not unwilling to leave its damp, noisome dungeons aud its forbid? ding council chambers, with their foul and bloody history, and go out again into the broad light of the Summer sun aud the civilization of the nineteenth ?century. It is not true that Byron's "Prisoner" was the Bonnivard who was so loug imprisoned here, aud in fact we believe Byron himself speaks of his poem as "a fablebut in spite of this, as we go out over the drawbridge we find our self repeating, almost involuntarily, those familiar lines: "Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad Hour an alter?for twas trod Until his very steps have made a trace, Worn as if "thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivaru. Let none those marks efface; For they appeal from tyranny to God." Geneva, at the opposite end of the hike, is a flourishing city of over ?0,0?0 inhab? itants and is reached by rail from Laus? anne in about two hour-!. It is the larg? est nnd most prosperous city of Switzer? land and although possessing little of interest in itself, is associated with many distinguished names in history. Calviu, Rousseau, Madame de Stael, Sismondi d'Augbine and mauy others resided here. On Champel Hill, Michael Servetus, a j Spanish physician, was burned at the I stake by Calvin's order, fur having dared to write a treatise on the Trinity, iu which he differed from the bigoted reformer. The city is a favorite resort for Americans and in fact is quite cosmo? politan in its character, almost a!.' nations being represented on its streets. Early one moruiug we take train from Geneva for the Mt. Ceuis route into Italy. We pass through a raouutainous region, abounding iu lovely views aud wild .scenery and after riding 125 miles reach Modaue on the Italian frontier. Just beyond Modane we enter Mt. Cenis tun? nel, which was completed fourteen years ago after thirteen years of work, at a cost i Ol 815,000/WO. It is eight miles in length, 19 feet high, 20 feet wide and about 1,000 ' feet above the sea and 3.500 feet below i the summit of the mountain. < >ur train occupied just 27 minutes in passing I thruugh its gloomy depths. Beyond liie great tunnel, the wild, barren mountains | tower high above the narrow valley down which wc speed, and numerous spurs oi l tiie range necessitate dozens of smaller tunnels. We reach Turin late in the ? afternoon and after a row hours spent in j this modem Italian city, which was the | capital of Italy from 135? to 1>'J~?, we go on to Genoa, where we pass the night, j Genoa, "La Superba," is familiar; to every American school 'joy as the home of Columbus. It was an important city under the Romans, a strong com? mercial republic iu the middle ages and has now a population of 17,000. It is built on the seaward slope ol the hills, facing the harbor and from some points i of observation its marble palaces and superb location seem to merit i'.s title of '?'l ue Proud;*' but seen ('mm within, its narrow streets and crooked and devi-nn i ways are rather disappointing. Being willing to accept Mark Twain's stale ment that there are many school boys in America who can write better than even "ze great Christopher Colombo," we. do not hunt up the autograph oi the famous navigator, which is to be seen at the Palazzo del .Municipio, near the centre of the city. The churches of (Senoa are of no especial interest to the passing trav? eler, the cathedral, with i's facade of black and white marble being the most striking, aud San A nnun/.iata, the church of tin- Capuchins, note:! for its gorgeous interior decorations. Only a lew of the s'it? !s :ir< oi even tolerable width, and many can be passed ihr"!!.'!, oiiiyon foot; in ?<?;>?.<? i:j!<es the will's almost uo'joting tar above the heads of ihn passengers. But like many of th?j citi H of Italy, 1 whose ancient glories have laded, Genoa is making rapid strides toward recovering :i p ?iiion a! least of its form< r greatness. I"." in < Icnon to !'i-a the road lies I -r nearly 100 miles along the shore- of the Mediterranean, aud the delightful views of land and sea are only interrupted by tbe innumerable tunnels. We pass numerous and valuable marble quarries j and finally reach the city, the fame of whose "loaning tower" is world wide. In the Northwest corner of Pisa is "a j group of buildings without parallel." The Cathedral, the Campanile, or Hell Tower, usually known as the leaning i tower, tho Bptaistery and the Campo Santo, are all located here. The Cathe dral, built in the eleventh century, is of i white marble with most elaborate orna- > mentation in black and colors. Its into rior still contains the bronze chandelier 1 whose motion suggested to Galileo tho idea of a pendulum. In the rear of the cathedral, although nearly opposite tho 1 door by which entrance is usually made, is the famous leaning tower, from whose summit the bells of the Cathedral are souuded. The tower is 170 feet in height and incliucs nearly 14 feet from the per* j pemlicular. This being much less than its diameter, its stability is not affected I in the least. The cause of the inclina- I lion has Leen much discussed, but no 1 satisfactory explanation has ever been given. The fact that leaning towers are j found in other parts of Italy and that this has stood for over 700 years without reaching a dangerous point would seem to indicate something more than acci- j dental results; while the spongy nature' of the ground which has thrown many of; the lines of the Cathedral "out of plumb," together with the fact that the upper ? stories of the tower ha-e the columns on the lower side somewhat lengthened, as ! if to remedy the inequality caused by the inclination, would favor the theory that j the settlement had occurred after the building of the tower had been com- ' meuced. Whatever the cause, it is a ; wonderful structure and as we ascended its winding stair? and looked out over its inclined walls, we felt again the pleasure ! which comes from the realization of boy- > Uh anticipations. The Baptistery is is situated directly opposite the facade of the Cathedral, and is a circular marble I building of great architectural beauty, j The pulpit, by Nicolo Pisano, 120?, is most elaborately carved and its reliefs, 1 representing the nativity, the adoration, the crucifixion, etc., have been the sub-! ject of admiration for over six centuries. The echo of the Baptistery is one of the i most marvelously beautiful in the world, its circular form and dome shaped roof! repeating the sounds with a peculiar j sweetness. North of the Cathedral and : Baptistery is the Campo Santo, aa : inclosed orridor containing on its inner walls many quaint frescoes of the early schools. In the eye.'- of the faithful this is peculiarly "holy ground ;" as when the Crusaders finally abandoned Palestine in , 12dO they brought with them over fifty ship loads of earth from Ml. Calvary for this cemetery. Within the enclosure are ! monuments to many noted men of Bis;-, ! as well as several Creek and Roman sar? cophagi. Among tho frescoes, ibe : "Triumph of Death,'' of the fourteenth century, is of especial interest as show? ing the crude ideas of those early ages. At the base, the bodies of the dead lie in heaps, including kings and queens, princes and popes, the lowly and the proud; while their souls, represented by , nude infants, issue from their mouths or bodies. Above is a horde of demons, grotesque ami hideous forms, who seize the greater number of the souls and hurry them away to a furnace which appears 1 oo the summit of a hill in the distance. Angels too "are hovering near/' and occasionally select one, who is borne away to eternal bliss. Some are claimed by both augels and demons and the struggles are represented in a manner certainly not calculated to impress the modern beholder with the solemnly of the subject. From Bisa, the railway lies for a long distance along the old Roman road built by Scaur us more than 100 years before j Christ. We pass many places famous in j history and after 220 miles of travel j reach the Eternal City. Tl'.a velek. Distance to the Stars. Astronomers have ascertained the dis-! tance from the earth to many of the ! stars. If wc measure these spaces by miles, they amount to millions and mil- | lions, still multiplied by millions, and ? heuce convey no adequate idea to the : mind; therefore some other mode of measurement must be used, and the j velocity of light is considered the most convenient. It has been proved that light travels at the rate of 192,000 miles u second?that is, between the ticks of a watch a ray of light would move eight, times round the globe. It conies from the sun to us, a distance of 90,000,000 miles in eight minute-; thus the space covered over by a tay of light iti that time could not be travelled over by our express trains in less than 250 years. With this immense velocity it requires three und a half years lor the light of j the nearest star to reach our earth. It ? requires 4o years for light to reach us from the North Star, and to-night as wo [nokatjthe northern luminary, these very rays of light which make it visible to us, started out on their journey forty-six years ago. Tbe light from stars of the twelfth magnitude requires 3,500 years to reach the earth. Audit thai beauti? ful constellation of the Pleiades wetc ibis moment blotted out of existence, it would continue to be visible for 70U years, for such is the time required for ? light to travel from that group to us. If a -:ar of the twelfth magnitude were uow destroyed, it would continue to be visible for 0,500 years. Or if such a star wore now created, 2,600 years would elapse before it would be perceptible <o the inhabitants of the earth. And some of the more distant stars tire so far away that their light, moving with a velocity of I?2.0?U miles per second, requires 50," 000 years to reach our eyes. These great distances are not imaginary, but astrono? mers have ascertained the distance, motion- and sizes, and even the weight-, of the celestial orbs, with as much cer? tainly as they ban foretold eclipses. nac" i ? At Troy, ()., a few day.- ago an old man, aged ninety two year.-, was picked up sick and helpless in a coal yard on the outskirts of the city. Ho was recog? nized as a miser and beggar who was in the habit of begging eggs at farm houses until be b id collected a stillicieiit mini bor to dispose of at neighboring towns. When hi-, clothing was removed at the hospital it was found that he had sewed up in his p ickets packages containing ?'-l,0l)0 iti money, $1,000 in United Stales bonds and ?S,O00 i.i promissory note. The miser proved to be John Swim-, of Champaign County, <?., and the owner >>i real estate in several counties. ? A good wife is Heaven's last, best gift toman?an angel of mercy?-minis? ter of graces innumerable -his gem of many virtues- -his casket ? f jew< j- hei voice his sweeios! iijumc -her smiles Iiis brightest day her kis- the guardian e?f innocence her arms the place of his ' safety, the balm of his health, the balsam of his life -her it duslry his direst wealth ? her economy his safest steward her lips Iiis fail It fill . 11 ? i - i-? r li< r bosom lliv softe-;: pillow i ! Iiis cares -ami her prayers the able-: advocate of Heavou's iilev-ing ?>ri his head. HILL A UP. Tho Philosopher Tallin on Kvury Day Slll>jO(!t?. Atlnttt't VawtUutjitu. The crops arc 'aid by, hut there is no | rest for the thrifty farmer, ami it is ? blessed (hing that the thrifty farmer don't want any. A change of work is all the rest he wants. Some folks arc constitu? tionally lazy and work only when they are obliged, ami they are actually glad of any excuse to stop. They like to go to mill and they like to go town, but they don't like to work. I know a fanner who is a good, clever man and behaves him? self decently, but he loves to talk so well ' he can't work. 11c will talk about the weather for half an hour without stopping. He came to my house the otiier day to borrow a spade and said he was iu a powerful hurry to get back. Without thinking of the consequences I just asked him if the stonr damaged his corn any, and that started him. He told me about storms and hurricanes from away back to his boyhood, and how a man hung to a sapling and never got nary bruise, hut ;he wind blew his breath away and didn't give him time to draw another, and so he died for want of breath, just like a cow dies when she loses her cud. He couldn't work his bellows in such u wind. And he told how another storm blew an old cow head foremost against a poplar tree and stuck both her horns in it so deep they couldent pull her out by the tail, and bad to saw her horns off and leave 'ein in I lie tree, ami they arc there now. And so he kepi on and on until I told him 1 had to go, for I was in a hurry too. That mau has lost half his life talking. It always scares me to see him coming. But there is plenty to do between lay? ing by the crop and gathering time. August, is ihe best month to cut the winter's wood. Il will burn freer, and even the red oak, that sometime- bums black and goes cut, wiU burn well if cut dowu in August and seasoned a while. Pve got the boys cutting my winter's wood now and will haul il up and stack it. Two of the lire places waut wood iwo and a half feet long and the others will only chamber two foot sticks, so I have the wood cut four feet and five feet, and then we cut it in iwo as wo need it. Fifty cords will run us through a winter. Then there is the stove wood to get up, and that is a careful job for I never let my wile or tba girls have any cause of complaint about wood or water in the ki'.eheu. The wood must be dry and split up fine and not too long. 1 saw up hickory and ash with the cross cut and after splitting is up put it. away under shelter, and I haul up the chips from ihe woods to sprinkle in. It is not much trouble to prepare a frugai meal if every? thing is haudy. The boys catch the chickens and lix thorn all ready. I won't let my women f> >ks do that. Il is ma a sightly job, and nobody oi gut to have it to do bui uipirers nohow, con found'em. Bull beiieve in independence. I like tu see a family independent and self-reliant. I know families who are always alarmed for fear their cook will quit, and they don't know where they will get another. And the young mar? ried folks nowaday.- are in the same fix . about nurses fur their babies; well, nursing is hard w\nk, I know?nursing h fretful child is the hardest work I know of. Pve had a band in that business for thirty years and I wouldeut go through it again lor a house full of gold. Many a night have 1 walked the floor in my, long, white garment with a buby in my arms singing a little monotonous song, while I was so sleepy I could hardly walk straight. Mrs. ?rp had done her -hare over and over and when she had tried and tried to quiel the liilie thing, and worried over it, and patted it, and nursed il on bolii sides, and at last, in a lit of desperation, straightened up and said, "Here. William, take your child." 1 always understood her, and took tier advice promptly ; she always said "your child" on such occasions, but whenever I ventured to punish one of'em she looked indignant and said "my child." She : will let me own 'em sometimes. I am sorry fur these young folks who have about iwo on hand and are just begin? ning to get a fair taste of the consequen? ces of connubial Ijliss. 1 saw onu the I other night trying to quiet a little two : year-old and after long and patient efforts, ' he exclaimed iu mortal agony: ""Ob please, KoSa, do please stop cryinc fur the Lord's sake." 1 was sorry lor him, I wa-<, but I couldent keep from laughing lo save my life, und I wanted to exclaim: | "Stand up to the rack, my boy. fodder or no fodder, for its your child." There are invention- and invention., bin nursing children and raising ihcm has lo be done in ihe same (nil way, and happy are they who can go through it with a philosophic smile. Il is the great busi? ness of life and can't be dodged, and it has its comforts and its rewards?rewards ; thai are sweeter and purer and richer than any, for they come to a man when he is old and needs them. Good chil? dren who honor and love their parents j are treasures that gold cannot buy, and they make sweet and pleasant the way that, lends us to the grave. There is no prettier sight in :di nature than an aged couple who live iu harmony and have their children and grandchildren around them to give them comfort. Burns never wrote a tenderer verse than "Xnw we musi totter down. John - But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep togal.'icr at ihe fool, .lohn Ainleison. my Joe. Woman's rights and man's rights haw milliing to do with such partner.-. In fact, all human laws are dead letters to t!:>- good. They do not need them. Laws are made for the bad, and tin frail, and til-- envious, and the jealous. 1 was thinking about Iiis the other day iu your town when i paid i friendly visit I > a good man?a courteous gotUic'iitm away u:i in the third story where he kept i.is insurance i.ii'uc, so as v. have quiet and lime for work. Bui he can't dodge the callers and imp:.'! tuners even there. I never visit him but what somebody comes and wauls something, for ihey know that he is generous ami he is kind. There was a .strong minded woman there who bad come all the way from Chicago I with a petition for .voinaii's rights. She i tal!;ed pathetically about woman's insig iiilieaul condition b'd'or.- the law. She declarM that woman was a noneuui ty, a creature without a sou!, an incor? poreal thing, a sluve, a serf, a nothing, und she had prepared bill for the legis? lature, to pass for woman's relief and pro? tection. She talked about nonentity so much that the colonel stopped her for a moment and said, with emotion: "My good woman, that may all bo so up iu Chicago, bui i' is not so al my house by no in.?ans. My wife is an entity a veritable living, moving creature. She bus all the rights -he want-, ami I havu all I v..nr. We are a mutual protection society. It is my right and happy privi letie t" keep my wile in money, and it is in is in keep me in a state of sweet hu? mility and dev.v.ion. I'.-allv, madam, we do not m>ed your law, and yon must ? ? M ? M - ? ? lite." The stron ' iniiuli d woman didn't sub? side nor wi t. hut proceeded with her philantrophy with more vigor than evi r. and her black eyes Hushed as she e.vp.Ui ated upon her own unfortunate alliance with a preacher who imposed upon her I and had her put into the lunitic asylum. Finally the gallant colonel hinted that his time was precious and said he would take her pamphlet and refer it to his lawyer, and if his lawyer said sign it he would sign it. Then she turned her at? tention to me and asked mo to sign it and 1 .-aid I was away from home and didn't live in the country and never signed such papers until 1 got .Mrs. Arp's consent and so I look a pamphlet to look at when she opened her gripsack and pulled out two hooks on woman's rights and wanted to sell them at $1.50 apiece, hut we respectfully declined. I dident want to be buying Chicago books from a Chicago woman without consulting Mrs. Arp about it, for Chicago is n bad place for such literature to come from, and I was afraid that the bonk might work up a divorce in my family. Lastly, -hu asked us for a dime for lite pamphlets, and we gave her a dime and a blessing, and the colonel intimated that if she would depart those coasts she might lind more congenial victims. What a com tort it is that we have not got such women down South, nor such preachers to marry 'em. When J told her thai we did not need such laws in Georgia, thai our wives were all happy and contented, and when they did not have laws enough they made them at home, and when my wife wanted any? thing she simply said, "He it enacted," ami it was enacted straightway and forth? with. The woman looked astonished and siiid : ''It is t?:.t that way where I came from." Maybe it flint. As she seemed reluctant to go the beneficent colonel took an idea that site was tired and rick, and needed refresh? ment, and so he rung a Iii tie beil and ordered a punch for the philanthropic lady; but she respectfully declined by saying that .-die was by no means old enough to need a stimulant. She was smart, that woman was-and as reasonably gou.l looking as a Chicago woman can be. She would make a good wife for .lohn Jenkins, who said, "1 want a wife J old enough io have sense, and ugly enough to stay at home." But a Chicago woman won t stay at home. She is going to take the war path anvhow. Btu. A nr. HOW TO RULE MEN. A Lecture Id Women liy a Woman wlio hits Studied Mankind. If women only knew how sweet and lovely they are, and how much they can do wit!) men, they would pay more atten? tion to their personal cultivation than they do. Why, if :t woman only goes about it right she can do any thing with a man, and make him conform to her ideas in every particular. She bus tact, skill, talent, beauty, refinement, and, combine her intuition with her facimit ing powers, she can change his polities, reform his religious ideas, alter the whole course of Iiis life, and shape his career to suit herself. Rut she intisi not he a fool, I can tell you, nor must she forget for an instant the art and finesse by which she rules. Man is at best a brusque, -eili-h. im? pulsive creature, full of c mueil and vagaries, and anxious to rule and con? trol. Me has strength and be wants to use it ; he has creative faculties and lives to execute. But whatever he is bo looks to a woman for pleasures, and the one who can please him can rule him and do with him what she will. A woman is young until she is i:">, ami a man retains his youth ten years longer, but after that there is nothing to live for hut homo. Life has lost its zt^st, and there is no charm in the toys and amusements of yesterday. You must admit that a woman marries for convenience. She wants a home, protection, immunity from labor and the delights of compan? ionship. Now, if ;i man makes this home, if he stands between her and danger, if he contributes tin- best interests of his life for her main!- nance, he certainly is entitled to his reward. He wants his home beautified, filled with friends and good cheer; he wants to be pelted, admired, respected,encouraged and loved. He wants to be king, in short. Oh, yes, you may say pelting is all nonsense, but jusi let me lell you that you are mistaken, and il the husband cannot get loving affection at home ho will get it some place else. Caresses can be bought like every other luxury. A wife must be a sweetheart all her life. She must never get loo old to be charming. Sin; must cultivate a sweet temper and an affable manner, and her only anxiety must be a dread of offend? ing her husband. Another thing, sar? casm won't work ; it is an unpardonable offence in the home circle, and, no mat? ter how pertinent it may be, a woman cannot afford ever to say a harsh word to the man she loves. Beaulihil '.' No woman need be any 1 thing else. If she has a poor complexion, there are powders and cosmetics thai defy detection; she can have beautiful eyelashes and eyebrows ; no matter how poor and coarse her hair is, i! can be remarkably well kept and so becomingly arranged as to be admired ; the most irregular teeth can be polished like so many pearls, and clean leeth and a sweet : breath are not so common as to he despised: white hands and tapering, pol? ished nails will atone fora very ill shaped hand. What if the feel arc large, if they arc well shod V If the figure is poor.it can be so clean, so healthy-looking and so delicately perfumed that your presence . will be wholesome and refreshing, and, I loll you, clothes makes the refinement that belong- to a lady or gentleman. Indeed, the raiment is typical of much that is within. If nature has mengerly bestowed her charms, that is the very reason why a woman should have recourse to art. Ifshe cannot shine in music, painting or I ho sciences, she can become a pleasant if not a brilliant talker. She can read and observe and bo av authority on current literature, and if she will bill study the why and wherefore ? of things and the very host points in her friend-, she will make for herself a circle that will be the very envy of h<r pretti? es! competitor, -('hh'iujn Xof*. A Im ing Couple. j ' Mo-' married folks quarrels more or ? less," remarked l'iiol? Mose; "but I ' knows a man an' hi- wife what hasn'i i had a fuss fur de las' five yeahs." "Am dey libitt logedder?" ''Sartainly 1 Dey libs in de same house. She goes off every mawuiir and washes by do day." "But p'raps Ucy quarrels at night '.' ; How does you know dey don't '.'" "Hey don't hah a bit'o' (rubble, I tells y<r. She am out washin' all day. and ! her husband he am night watchman in a big sto'on Austin avenue. He goes ofl before she comes home, am! be don'l git back in tie. mawniir until she lias l" i'o out washin'. h it'.- been goin' on fur Ia>' live yeahs, and do fust cross word h.'i?u*t pas v ! between 'cm yit. Tew SUtili'l*. Among rome of the Afri an tribe biidcs on their wedding day have lln ii from teeth uxtraeledi The bridegrooms know a thing or (wo if I hey are savages AN APPEAL TO-THE COUNTRY; orover Cleveland's Letter of Acceptance. A Lit any, X. V.. August 19.?-The fol? lowing was rcceiveil to-day by Col. LiimmiL, the private secretary of Gover? nor Cleveland, who is at Upper Saranac Lake, with instructions to make it public on its receipt: Alhaxy, X. V., August IS, ISM. Gentlemen: I have received your com? munication dated .July 2S, ISSl, inform ii g me of my nomination to the otlice of President of the United States by the National Democratic Convention lately assembled at Chicago. I accept the nomination with grateful appreciation of the supreme honor conferred and a solemn sense of the responsibility which in its acceptance I assume. 1 have carefully considered the platform adopted by the Convention, and cordially approve the stune. Ho plain a statement of Demo? cratic faith, and the principles upon which that party appeals to the suffrages of the people, needs no supplement or explanation. Tin: tiAN?ii-:i: of thk nouu. ft should be remembered that the office of President is essentially executive in its nature. The laws enacted by the legislative branch of the Government the Chief Kxcculive is bound faithfully to enforce, and when the wisdom of the political party which selects one of its members as tlie nominee lor that office has outlined its policy and declared its principles, it scents lo me that limbing in the character of the olfice or the necessities of the case requires more from the candidate accepting such nomination than the suggestion of certain well known truths si) vital to the safety and welfare of the nation that they cannot be too often recalled or too seriously enforced. Wc proudly call ours a government by the people. It is not such when a class is tolerated which arrogates to itself the management of public affairs, seeking to control the people instead of represent? ing tlu-m. Parties arc necessarily the outgrowth of our institutions, but the Government is not by the people when one party fastens its control upon the country and perpetuates its power by cajoling and betraying the people instead of serving them. The Government is not by the people when the result, which should represent the intelligent will ol free and thinking men, is, or can he de? termined by the SIIAMRI.K?S ?vokkuptiox ? ? I- Til KM SL'F fkaok3 ; when an election to ollicc shall be the selection by the voters of one of llieir number to assume for the time a public trust, in-tead ol his dedication to the profession of politics; when the holders of the ballot, quickened by a -en-e of duty. =hall avenge truth betrayed and pledges broken, and when suffrage shall be altogether free and iinenrrt:p:< d, a full realization of government by the people will bo at hand ; and of the means to this t>m) not one would, in my judgment, he more effective than an amendment to ihe Constitution disqualifying the Presi? dent from re-election. When we consid? er the patronage of this urea: office, ihe allurements of power, ihe temptation lo retain public places once trained, and more than ail the availability a party finds in an incumbent whom the horde of office-holders, with zeal horn of benefits received ami fostered by hope of favors yet to come, stand ready to aid witii money and trained political service, we recognize in ihe eligibility id' the Presi? dent for re-election a most serious danger to that calm, deliberate ami intelligent political action which must characterize government by the people. ??'tlOX'Oi: MKSJ IN 1IOXEST ?lull.."' A true American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in ho.-, est toil, font en lid labor is an element of national prosperi? ty. Ability to work constitutes the cap? ital and the wages of labor the income of a vast number of mir population, aud this interest should be zealously protect? ed. Our workingmcn are not asking unreasonable indulgence, but as intelli? gent and manly citizens they seek the same consideration which those demand who have other interests at stake. They should receive their full share of care, aud the attention ol those who make and execute the laws, to the end that the wants and needs of employers ami em? ployed shall alike be subserved, and the prosperity of the country, the common heritage of both, be advanced. In rela? tion Oi this subject, while we should not discourage the immigration of those who come to acknowledge allegiance to nur Government and add to ourcilizeti popu? lation, yet as a means of I'JIOTWTIOX TO Oi l! WUf.KIXOMK.N a diiTerent rule should prevail concerning those who if they come or are brought to our land do not intend to become Americans, but will injuriously compete with those justly entitled to our field of labor. In my letter accepting the nomi? nation of the office of Governor nearly two year.- ago I made the following state? ment to winch I have steadily adhered : "The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected iu their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital, and all ihe statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the Stale lor honest toil and be framed w ith the view of improving the condition of the workingmcn, a proper regard for the welfare of the workiiigman being in? separably connected with the integrity our institutions. None of our citizens are more interested than they in guarding against any of the corrupting intluences which seek to pervert the beneficent pur? poses of our Government, and none should be more watchful of the artfu! machinations of those who aliurc them to seif-inllicled injury. In a free coun? try curtailment of the absolute rights of the individual should only he such as is essential to the peace and good rird? r of the community. The limit between the proper subjects of governmental control and those which can be morn fittingly left to the moral sense and self-imposetl re-train! oi' the citizen shoul I be careful ly kept in view. Thus, laws unnecessa? rily ititi rti ring with the habits and cus? toms of any of our ; e 'pic which are no! offensive to the moral sentiments of the civilized world, and which are inconsis? tent ivith good citizenship and public welfare, are unwise and vexatious. Till: IMIUKTAXfK OF ' ?.M.MKIK'li. The commerce of :i nation to a groat extent determines it- supremacy. Cheap and easy transportation should, therefore, be liberally fostered within the limit* of the Constitution. The General Govern? ment should so improve and protect its natural waterways as l<? enable tin; pro? ducers of ihe country to reach a profita? ble market. fin: pity of rt ni ir skkva-n r.?. The people pay (he w:iges . :' the pub? lic employees, and they are entitled to the fair and honed work which money ihus paid should command. P. is the duty of those iitsru-lod with the man? agement ? ?!' the- - affairs t.> see tha" siieh publii --ervici; is forthcoming. Theselt ? lion and retention of subordinates i:i ? I ivernuifiit employment should depend up"!' [hei'* ascertained fitness and the value of their work, and llicy should he ttciiher expected nor allowed to do ques? tionable party service. The interests of the people will he better protected, the estimate of public labor and duty will be immensely improved, the public employment will be open to all who can demonstrate their Illness to enter it. un? seemly scramble for place under the Government with the consequent impor? tunity which em'otters official life will cease, and the public departments will not be filled with those who conceive it to be their lir-t duty to aid tbe partv to which they owe their places instead of rendering patient and honest return to the people. Ttti: PTA TES? M A KS J111 ? T?ll IT.OJ'l.n iti; 1 believe thai the public temper is such thai tho voters of the land are pre? pared to support tiie party which gives the best promise of administering the Government in the honest, simple and plain manner which is. consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that mystery and concealment in tho management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and the vigi? lant protection of all their varied inter? ests. * if 1 should be called to the Chief Magistracy of the nation by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens I will assume the ! duties of that high ollice with the solemn j determination to dedicate every eifert to my country's good, and with an humble reliance upon the favor and support of the Supreme Being who I believe will .always bless honest human endeavor in the conscientious discharge of public duty. GltOVEIt Cl~.EVEI.AXD. To Col. Win. F. Vi las, chairman, and I >. P. Bestor and others, members of the Notification Committee of the Democrat? ic National Convention. The lid neat ion id' Girls. That girl has the best education who is the most thoroughly qualified to take care of herself in a hand to hand light with, the world, who has a basis ol* good judgment, practical knowledge, ami com? mon sense, in which to start in her self sustaining career, who is armed with the able weapon of ttade or profession with which she is familiar, and whose conduct is governed by exacting principles of natura; integrity. Such a girl possesses a fortune in her own riurht which no Hue tuations of business circles can depreci? ate and who will never become a drag upon opulent ami unwilling relatives. With health and strength and a fair start in the nice for life she will reach every mile stone of success; nor wear' out. or grow discouraged by the way : and not. infrequently she will ' tit run her vaunting brother, and i ven stop to lend him a helping hand. The properly-balanced, well educated girl is aware that she can do one thing well and she bends all her energies to? wards its accomplishment. She concen? trates her forces, instead of scattering them, and has something to show for it. She is the best accountant, or the clever o*t writer, or the most successful sales- ! woman, or the hardest worker of science ?music, physic, law?whatever her tal? ent destines her for. She studies with an , aim, and understands what sho learns. ' Her mind is a storehouse, not a seive, and she endeavors io absorb quality rath? er than quantity, and comprehends to her own enlightenment what she studies, i The wretched system of forced culture in ! which a girl learned a little French and Latin, a smattering of mathematics, a I glance into polite literature, and a great deal of poor piano playing, has been abandoned in favor of a more sensible curriculum commensurate with her value as a co-worker with her brothers. Sensible German parents have always brought up their daughters to be pro? ducers as well as consumers in the do? mestic economy. It is only the Ameri? can parent who made the kitchen unat? tractive to his daughter, and gave her no possibility of employing her talent, except in the few lady-like departments sanctioned by conservative custom. The time is coming, nay, has already come, when a sign reading '"Smith & Daughters,'' will merely indicate that all Mr. Smith's boys were girls, und ho had educated them as he would have done his boys. Ami '.he Smith girls instead of dawdiing around the paternal mansion until seme young men could be found for husbands, have wisely gone into business with their father, and have never found time to be discontented with themselves. When Kdison, genius and inventor as ho is, had given two weeks of his valua? ble lime to going up and down on the New Vork Elevated Kailroad, trying to discover what caused it* noise and a cure for it, he gave up the job. Then a little woman took it. She rode on the cars three days, was denied a place to stand on the rear platform, laughed nt for her curiosity and politely snubbed by con? ductors and passengers. But she dis? covered what caused the noise, invented a remedy, which was patented, and she was paid a sum of $10,000 and a royalty forever'.' Her name is Mrs. May Wal? ton, and she lives in New York City. This is what she says of her education : "My father had nc sons and- believed i in educating his daughters. He spared no i :ti:ss or expense to this end. My father's brother said to him. 'Why do you waste so much money on your girl- '." To which my father replied, 'My boys ? turned out to be all girls, and I am go? ing to give them so good an c-nducalioii ; that they may turn out to be as good as boys.' As good as boys arc here used in gen feral sense; as good as fouu boys would be a very pi or recommendation. Any , girl who understands her own capabili? ties will do her work as well as it is p s :-iblo M lie done. No boy can do bettor ? than that. Work is without -ex. Cor I tain departments id' labor are claimed 1 exclusively by hoys anil men because they have a legendary righ' in them. NU competition has entered tbe li*'.s . against them. If a woman can make a good horsi si:.he can open a forge and make shoes. No one has the right to say she -ball not. There are men who are I milliners, drc*smakcrs .".ml who -ell dry I goods, and they do those thine;* so weil i im one dispute tin ir right to them. The girl who has educated herself to , Iii! some niche in the mercantile world ! may marry ami never carry her knowl? edge any furl her I hail her own nursery. ' What theni' Sho i- gifted to teach her ov o sons ate', daughter- tho rudimi-ntsof I commercial knowledge, t'1 counsel and advise with her husband, and if left a willow. Io take cart of her own estate. ; Thor? i* no vaster heritage ol ignorance land uselessness that the array of thread j aiid-noedlo accomplishment? which for , generations has been considered Ihc cor? rect dower for lady-like young person, j Consider your gjrls as responsible fellow i citizens and educate them accordingly. Try am! not borrow youi neighbors paper: -uh < rib- !- i ii tout ell. Yet" i neigh I <>\ ?!? : n't iifcu ? ? 1 b .'.lieru! I with you, no nuttier hov. plcasaul hi I may seem. Tin1 South Carolina Xegro, Columbia, S. (.'., August 18.?-The speakers ai lIio recent Illaloe raiitieation meeting in this city attempted, as usual, to impress the netrro/s with the idea 'hat they were an oppressed aud dowu-trodden race, whose riidits were uHerly denied i and disregarded by the, Democratic party, j They were told that they were virtually | ' disfranchised, and so far as [?olilical tri i : ; legal right* are concerned were no better ! than slaves. of curse th y were in-j , formed thai the election laws in this , i State were enacted purposely t" defraud ; j the illiterate voter, and that they were ! j deprived of educational facilities, so that; they had no opportunity to become in I telligcnl voters. If any of their hearers j were made to believe these statements a few facts may undeceive them. I do not j j propose lo argue any of these charges j against lite Democratic party, hutsimply : ' to siate a few things in connection with : I them .is I thinlc that will be sullicient ; answer 10 the accusations. { First, as to their political rights. It is true thai there are several boxes into I which ballots must be placed, and if de | posited in the wrong box they are thrown I out and not count d. To illustrate: j There is a box for all votes given for Governor ami Licutenant-Governor, and another for the othi r State oliicers: n vote deposited in ihe Governor's box I with the names of the other Stato officers j on it would be void, :;:ii| so with a vote for Governor put in the Suite oliicers' I box. Rut in order that the voter may j not |>e misled there is painted or posted, in large Roman letters, on each box, the offices lo be tilled, and any one who can rend can certainly put his vole in the right box. This would amount to an educational test but for another provis? ion in the law which requires managers of elections, when so requested, to read to the voter the names ol the oliicers on the difl'ercot boxes, so that the most ig? norant voter is fully protected. In the last election a Greenbacker, in a public speech, said that his people could hardly read English, and that the Democrats had ordered Roman letters put on the boxes so tliiit they could not read them. This charge against the party in power was loudly applauded. So much for the political lights of the negro. Every lawyer in the State knows that when a negro is on trial he will always secure a white jury aud invariably dis? cards all jurors ot his own odor. This shows iu wdiom they trust when their legal rights are i:i danger, or their lives or liberty in jeopardy. The most unjust charge -and it is out? rageous?that the Republicans make against the Democrats in this State, is that the State does not furnish the ne? groes cducatioual advantages. This statement is known to be so Infamously false that it is hardly necessary to con? tradict it, and I will only say this much, that an appropriation is every year voted j for Clallin University lo give the negroes i the benefits of higher education, and there are many more negroes than w hites (1 haven't the figures before me) edu- | cated by the two-mill school tax and pol! i tax, ami the white mm and Democrats , of the State pay nearly the t-itiru two-j mill tax. This ought to be sufficient to | make even a S ?Ulli Carolina Radical j silent on this point. Coming down to otL? r matters bearing ! upon the condition of the negroes in this j State. I speak to the negroes, because , I they are supposed to constitute the Re? publican party in South Carolina. Iu i this city they have every consideration ; shown them that the whites have. The merchants treat them with just as much courtesy, they ride in the first-class hacks, : and sometimes ihey occupy the best seats in the opera house. I mention these things to show that tli-re is no discrimi lion against them on account of thei: j color, and a colored man who would ! leave Columbia lo go to any other place , in the world, expecting to enjoy any I more political, legal or business privi | leges than he does her-1, would be desti ; inte of common sense. There is no prej? udice whatever against a negro in South ' Carolina because he is a negro, but when he undertakes to revive the old Radical party in the State there is a slight ob j jection to him. and probably always will . be.?0>r. AwjuMa Chronicle. Man and His Miseries, Man that is born of woman is small potatoes and few in the hill. He riseth up today and tlotirisheth like a ragweed, and io-morrow or the day aftci the undertaker has him in the ice box. lie goeth forth in the morning warb? ling like a lark, and is knocked out iu i one round and two seconds. ; In the midst of life ho is in debt, and ? the tax collector pursueth him wherever he goes. j The banister of life is fuli of splinters, ! and he slideth down with considerable rapidity. ; Jlewalketh forth iu the bright sun? light to absorb ozone, and meeteth the bank teller with a sight draft for ?307. lie on.ill: home at eventide and meetctb the w heelbarrow in his path, and the wheelbarrow riseth up and smiteth . him to the earth, and falleth upon him, and runneth one of its legs .nto his ear. In the gentle spring-time he putteth i (ui his summer clothes, and a blizzard -triketh him far away from home, and Iii let h him with woe and rheumatism, lie layclh up riches in the bank, and ? the c.t.-hii r spcculatelh in margins and ? then goeth to Canada for his health. Iii the autumn he putteth on his winter trousers, and a wasp that abideth in them lillcth himself full of intense excitement. He sitteth up all night to get the re? turns from Ohio, and in the end learnclh ', that the other fellows have carried it. He buyeih a watch dog, .fid when he cometh home the wat h-dog tree!h him and sitteth ' eneath him until rosy mom. Me goeth t< the tr. t and bctteth his money on the brown i ire. and the bay gehling with a blaze face winneth. lie marrieth a red-headed heiress with a wart on her :\<><o. and the next day her paternal ancestor goeth under with few assets and great liabi'ities, an 1 cometh home to live with his beloved son in law. An Cilitor I.?Milted. Editors have to put up with all i: an her '.of: taunts and insults. Not so long ago, a! a social gathering, an An-tin ladv said to a young man who i- connected with a local paper: "Voii might to belong to a church choir.'" "Ilm I can't dug. What put the idea of my belonging in a church choir into ? your head ''Oh, nothing, except that I was read? ing the oilier day lh:il a Han Francisco church proposes to introduce harp music into '.lie choir, and there is not much difference, you know, between a harp ?: and n lyre, so j thought I'd just make the suggestion." Sifiinw. ? - Oirls. if you do wed, marry a strong i man. Jfi\-\ 'hink how niec il will he tu ? have a.hiisbatnlwho eo^'c; up from ihe ! cellar with ?< wash in! in each arm and 5 a piled ep scuttle ? it q-ended from his I teeth. Tlio Men With the Pig. ? ! ? A few day- ago two men, who wore j afterwards found to ho Detroiiers, arrived . in a town about fifty miles to the west of this, loading a pig. It was perhaps big enough and heavy, enough to be called a I li"g, but they termed it a pig and as they j turned it over to the care of the landlord at whose inn they proposed to rest for the nigh . one of the men explained : f "Be f.wful careful with that pig, he's a daisy?a new breed just from Scotland. We've rub! him to a farmer out here for $00, and we don't want anything to hap? pen to him." The landlord took the pig up, and then began to think and cogitate and suspect. When the strangers bad gone to bed ho called in some of the boys, and-aid : ''I've twigged the racket; them two fellows are sharpers and that's a guessing pig. To-morrow they will give you a chance to guess at his weight at ten cents a guess, and you'll he cleaned out?only you won't. As the fellows sleep we will weigh their pig and beat their game." Nobody slept until the pig was taken over to the scales and weighed. Ho pulled down 170 pound* to a hair, and the villagers went home and hunted up their nickels and dreamed of pigs nnd scales and sharpers through the remain? der of the night. Next morning the pig was led around in front, ami, before ?starting oil' on his journey, one of the owners remarked to the assembled crowd : "Gentlemen, I'm going to weigh this pig directly. .Maybe Home of you would like to ifticss on his weight? I'll take ail guesses at ten cents each, and whoev? er hits it gets fifty cents.'' This provoked a large and selected stock of winks and smiles, but no one walked up until the pig man uaid that any one person could guess as many limes as he cared to, provided a dime accompanied each guess. Then a rush set in. Three or four merchants put up fifty guesses each. A justice of the peace took thirty. A lawyer said about twenty would do for him. Before there was any let up in the guessing about 1)00 had been registered and paid for. livery sot;I of 'em guessed at 17" pounds. It was curious what unanimity there was in tht guessing, but the pig men didn't seem to notice it. When all had been given a chance the pig was led to the scales, and Io! his weight was exactly 17 1 pounds! ' Von see, gentlemen," explained tho spokesman, "white this animal only weighs 170 pounds along about II o'clock i-.t night, we feed him about live pounds of corn nual in the morning before weighing! You forgot to take this mat? ter into consideration 1" Then somebody kicked the landlord, and he kicked the justice, and the jus? tice kicked a v .-reliant and when the p;g men looked back from a distant hill ,'ic whole town was out kicking itself and throwing empty wallets into the river. -Detroit Free l'reta. Whit Death Does. It does not allect the moral character, it expends its force upon the body, but works no radical cr real change in the soul. It ha* no power whatever to revo? lutionize the moral nature?to make it belter or worse. In itself it can neither make a good man better nor a bad man worse. It. can transfer, but cannot trans? form, "lie that is righteous, let him In; righteous still. He thai is petty, let him be," at death and after, "petty still." Each person now living carries in him? self at ibis and every moment the essen? tial elements of either heaven or hell. By the essential elements we mean, in both cases, those moral qualities, those dispositions and affections of the soul, which tit it for the one or for the other. Were all at this moment snatched from time to eternity, such are their moral characters that they would instantly drop into their appropriate places. What a thin partition separates tho saint on earth from the saint in heaven?the sinner in time from the sinner in eternity. Death is but the doorkeeper. He lifts the latch and lets the Christian through into the bliss of the blissful. Death lops off the body and manumits the impris? on'.1 spirit. it dissolves the Christian from this sinful state and his sinful surroundings, takes him away from all the hindrances of earth, and supplies him with all tho helps of heaven. It delivers him from "this body of death.'' It is not the judge to acquit or condemn ; only the jailor to release. It puts the justified beyond the confines of sin and sense; gives them absence from the body and presence with the Lord, but has nothing more than it can do. It i* God's porter to lift up the "gates" at his bidding, and let the "son of glory" "come in." Why, then, should the Chri-tian fear the wing that trans? lates him from the state of the justified to that of the glorified? "Death is yours." Keen Disappointment* The "rural rooster*" of Arkansaw have an exelled conception of a Gov? ernor's magnitude. Some time ago a baroeeuc was held at Grand Point, and among other distinguished citizens the Governor agreed to attend. A large crowd assembled, and when it became known that the Governor had arrived, the people were much excited in their anyirty t?> behoid the august ruler. Old tarn Fellers, who hud walked fifteen miles to be present on the occasion, turned to a friend, after an unsatisfactory search, and said: " I las the < lovcrnor got here yit, Bill ?" "Yes, tbar be stan'-, talkin' t > ibe County .ledge." "What 1 th:sl feller with a red peck like turkey gobbler?" "That's the man." "W'y tl >g gone Ids ugly psctur', ho aim a- big as 1 am. Been waitin' to see a Guv'nor all my life, an' now this is the way I'm sarved. T'other day 1 wa? tuck down with a congestive chill, an' 1 was powerful ufcerd that I would die afore I had a chance to see the ruler o' the Slate, but now i II be blamed el I (b ut wish I had died. Look at him, will yer, rhawin' lei backer like a goat an' slubbcriu' like a grasshopper. I'm a gn at mind to jolt him all over ;hi* town fur givin' me such a di.-orp'intment. Wall.' 1 h'levc I'il go home." "Sam, better stay an1 git some o' the barhi cued shoat." No. that feller has tuck my appertite. I've come to the conclusion that the country is a fraud. Governor!" he said, contemptuously, and rolling up Iii- trous? ers preparatory loa long journey,depart? ed, and. without looking back, disap? peared in the wood*.:? Arkmiw Tr ? "There. Tommy, this i- the second time you l ave forgotten the bird 1" "Indeed, mot In r, it was -o greasy that i' slipped ulf my mind." ? "You can do anything if you have patience."' said an oi l uncle who bad made a fortune, to his nephew who had nearly spent ime. "Water may I c car? ried in a si? ve if yuii only wail." ' Hi w long?" asked the patient spendthrift. ' Till it freezes," was the coid reply.