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VOLUME XXXVI.
A IMkETEHK* (iRAVK.
BY BoBttilT UCCHIN.S.
I'mler licr gentle seeing.
In her delicate link* !i?n l.
They placed the IJook of 1' itig
To read and understand.
The Book was mighty and olden.
Yea. worn and eaten with age:
{'hough the letters looked great and golden,
She could not read u page.
Tii?* letters fluttered before her.
And all looked sweetly wild :
Death saw her, and Ircnt o*' r her.
As she pouted her lips and smiled.
And weary a little with tracing
The Ijix.k. she looked aside.
Ami lightly smiling, ami plac ng
A flower in i's leaves, site died.
ONLY A DAISY.
I purple to relate an incident in the
biography of honest Ned Smith, tin
highly respectable banker, who married
u:y cousin Jane, the last time he was a
widower. 'J he worthy gentleman told
it t<? me himself, after n hunt dinner at
Combe, d.i\rn at his place in the country;
and I went away early on the following
day with increased veneration
for our young princes and our old institution^
I forget the precise language
in which Smith related the adventure,
I merely remember the sense he convv\c
d, and some of the nice h.-rsoy tern s
which lent grace to his narrative. It is
r ally a capital worM to live in if one
knows how to get on in if, and is earclul
to t to ? fiend tin* dec tit pr-jn-Jicitof
society? good useful prejudices they
are too, by jiugo.
it was midwinter when I paid tin
last visit to Smith, who is a deputy lieutennut
a magistrate of his county?a
capi'al hunting county by the way. and
C ..Ilk il? nil let1 t silfi.lt hilt that I*
nothing to the purpose. He had got, I
firmly belt -ve about ihn-o bottles ol burgundy
on board when he began to talk
of Wvuicn. and lie thus related to inc,
with infinite complacency, the story of
u trumpery little gitl whom he appeared
to hav<- known in his youth. Tim.", or
to this r fiber. sj> ike our mutual friend :
"She was"?said Smith, thickly, and
with a moist side-glance at a decanter?
"an insignificant little thing who had
no relatives wh' in site could count upon, j
though she had goodish antecedents^'br I
all wo know to the contrary, up at the
hall. The parson of the parish, though
he buried hiu self amongst (J re. k roots
every day but Sundry, used to say. when
lie talk- d in an ah-cut uinnn r about his
flock, thiit she supported lor grandac.
thcr, and very likely sln-d d 'I li?? gill
trail a natural instinct U r making herself
useful, and seemed to p s-uss fury
fingers. She took In r work much more
cheerfully than my pony, who had p rhap.?,
however, rather too muih of it,
especially after my attention had been
caught by Lucy llawk. It was a str.mgc
name for the girl, and no one knew
clearly how she came by it. Her grand
mother's name was Lclhbridgo, and tinstones
at out the countryside would have
it that she came of a stock who had long
ago owned all the lani \ c could see
from the highest of the haft viudows,
and that was more land than w?- had ;
for Lord Fitzursc's proper! j cut s'raight
into our best grass farm mar Fallow
field Mills. All we knew of the girl '
down at our village of !lar.Lbrook was
that about fifteen y< a is before Kate
Lcthbridgc, who liad, 1 fancy, gone
>r*.x,,.r nn In.in,i nirnii, with a child
" i""rJ 1HU,V ,,,v *>' in
her arms. aud said it it u.-t be called
Lucy llawkc. She did not say many
words more, for she vrn-i quite broken
down, our whipper-in told mo Mother
Lethbridgc-?wc call lmr (1 runny Lctl.- |
bridge now?got a bit of ground cut of
my uncle who helped l.er to make belli
en-is meet. It was my mother who began
first to talk about Lucy, and she
used to vow when she was vexed with
her servants that (jninny Lctiibridge's
butter was better than wins, and that
Lucy was handier than any one of our
three dairy maids. Sim wanted Lucy
to take service with us, but she courtcsied
in a pretty, bobbing way site bad,
an i s.id, 'No, thank you. if you please,
my lady. I be wanted at home, '"or
granny's growing feeble like.' I take
it my mother was secretly displeased
with this auswrr. f<?r she had ratio r
high Ways when ruffled, and did not
like to see Iter proffer'<1 hem-lit* re
fused. Lut though there was a subacid
flavor in her remarks about Lucy
alt-r this date, I am sure that -he meant
well by llie little wench, and would have
been sorry to sec any barm happen to
her.
I must have teen ab- ut nineteen
years old when I fairly loll in love with
Lucy, and this is liow it 1 appenod : ?
The llnzdbrook titceplcchnse for pen tleuicn
riders was poinp on. and I won
it easily on my hay u are i.advbird.
The mare tin.!; all her fctu-s kindly,
and never weighed an ounce on the bit
when she iieaied the water, while most
of the other loos s rushed at their jumps
and charpid the brook ! ke n ad thinps.
It was a tidy leap, mra-urinp Something
like two and-twenty feet across, with a
flij?p> ry tank on each side of it, so that
, tin re wt iv a pood many awkward falls
there, and tie st of the farmeis and their
t .iniliis took np tlo ir places by the
brook -ide !o see the fun. A tablecloth
inipl t have coven d us all as wo
eaine within twenty yards of the water,
hilt then tin- co-k-tads h -pan to -w ove;
and lurninp round in my saddle, I saw
I was ] adinp a li> Id of only three. Kepinald
Kitzmse. lo ikiiippmri a- death, was
poundinp alonp within i lenpili of iii?
on the near side; and Johnny Neville,
the county member's son, who broke
his heck ut CJIitlteuliani, was rantiiip
[upuua itar-guiicg brutxj witbiu tluco
ca:
tiic Ik s ?>I my oft k!ieo. As I. is bi^ h r.-e
bucked with (he clumsy ft idle lo ad lie
had <<n his Ik a<l, lie s'ruck the bunting
clop I rallied to steer with smack out
o.'" my hand, and it went spinning like a
mill wheel into a pollard oak c.Ve by.
"1 lunl given two pound ten l??r the
stick. and never expected to see it more*
though it turned up ngah. and hangs in
my paddle room now somewhere. When !
I lu?ik> c; around, as I was telling y< u, j
it u| pcircd not unlikely that we three
lellows should cannon into each other !
as we jumped, and go to kingdom come |
that way; but neither of them had their i
horses in hand, while I knew that Lidybird
would answer reins quite sweet- j
I ly. Taking stock of my position, quick ;
as thought, therefore, I drew sharp on ,
the snaffle to let Filzursc and Neville
thunder by. and bang they went head i j
over heels, floundering about like wild j:
duck- who arc badly winged, a minute
afterwards, Then 1 wheeled and made i :
a stuiieirile to get the brook well under j :
my mare's nose, andovtr she sprung i
like a b:rd. Just then 1 became eon- j i
scious that Lucy Hawk's eyes had been , '
tixed upon me, first with an expression 1
of fear as I rode at the brook in which 1
Jack and Reginald were splashing after l
their tumbling; subsequently with a::
glance of irrepressible joy wheu I cleared | (
the big jump of the day and was booked t
to win the race. As soon as it. was all j i
over in the afternoon as I was canter- i
ing home up^n uiy pony, you may be i I
sure L looked out i"*r Lucy, ami I found ; i
her, as I expected that 1 should easily ' t
enough, for I had kept mv eyes upon 1 '
> i - - -i. - 1 * . . i <
tier, ami Knew which ?ay me wuum
in to Lc ready for milking time. Hesides.
she had a trick ofgatheiing flowers
while waiting for her cow, which
Farmer Lougmead's buy drove home for
her every evening from the common ;
antl I had o!t<-n watched h?'r stooping
auioog the cowslips and wild lavender ,
when I went out fishing. She was there !
as usual wh-u I pulled up my pony,
who had been pattering along the hard
road to the tune of'potatoes and apples;' |
then I looked over the licdgo and \vhis- .
tied, but Lucy did not move, and 1 |
think now that she must have been ;
blushing, for she stooped lower and
lower, and looked like a tiuiid little blue
shadow among the fitwers, as the shrill
notes of my whistling went over copse
and meadow and < ied away along the
river. A startled hare sprang across
my path, I recollect, then dashed into
the tall ferns of our park and sat listening
in her form. The hare, too, reminds
me of Lucy. It was a very silent
afternoon. For miles and miles
the fields and woodlands seemed ail
adcep, and nothing awake hut 1 and
Lucy 1 have never known how it happened,
but by-atid by she and I were j
walking together, the pony following u* [
with his bridle slung idly over n.y left i
arm, while my right was round Lucy's '
waist, and her talk was ns the cooing ol
the wild dove in spring. I wonder even
now what we said to each other ; she j'
was such an empty creature, so frail, so ' I
lair; 1 flash fiotu a grammar .shout, JI
st vn^r as an ox and brown asa berry She j
must have known nothing, \ct we that-' :
ted on, and 1 sat beside her as she milked
the old c<>w, though my father was
Lord of lite Manor. It was ijuite night'
al.cti 1 said good-by to Lucy at lu:t. !
and (he moon was rising over a era vol j
{.it which had been just opened on the i
outskirts of our estate. The gravel
looked like gold us the moonbeams fell
upon i', though it was hut poor siufT, ,
j as we lound out when we conic to dig
deeper. 1 had got one font in the
slitrup though 1 still held Lucy's
hand, when 1 noticed a flower near my
pony's hoofs, and stooping down, I
picked it up and gave it to Lucy ?
She stooped down and picked another '
bios* im. and as she did so our lip- met 1
for the first time. I took Ik r flower away
from her, and gave her mine We were !
a very shy and shame faced pair of
lovers
' "Lis only a daisy now. Master Kdward,
I do declare !" said the girl, blush
ing. and counting with arch simplicity
the leaves on the wee flower. /".< a !
ilaisy. though, and daisies tell secrets.'
Her arithmetic 1 am sure was satisfactory,
for she smiled suddenly ai.d put
her hand with a spontaneous gesture
! back into mine before wv parted.
- > - c. .. I ..iv..
'"I lurjict now lill'Il W IIH.". ill IV.I
' that, but 1 believe my mother got wind
of oui d ings through her French uiaid,
! about throe month* from the race day.;
I and gave me a proper scolding. and
made me promise to be a good boy.?
She said it was bad enough tor Lucy's '
mother to have run oil with a Xotting1
ham pawnbroker who had marrird and
I deserted lur, without tny biinging
true, bio on the girl licrstdf. I do not
know how my mother found out that
Lucy's father was a Nottingham man
i and a pawnbroker, hut she knew every1
thing that wis talked about in tin*
' country, though she kept such a still
; tongue in her head, except where I was!
eoiiesrnco. I bad no end <d hot her in
pelt ins; out of evenings to si e Lury after
this, for my mother secme 1 to have eyes
all over the paik ; and the manner in
which ahe u.-cd at this time to say, 'Kd- !
ward! I aiu ashamed of you!' was a
caution Indeed, 1 was so watched and 1
l addered that I got rather sick of the j
j whole thin*;, and began to cast about |
1 for a decent pretext to lie oft from my 1
bargain. though I might havo let things
1 cone on. if the old lady hadn't slang- d
Uie s . and kept Die out < t a scrape. At
last, when 'lie j rotiiLcd to buy me a ,
second favorite for tin Chc-ter Lup.
which Ncvdlc had for sale, il I wotlid
give Up Lucy llawkt altogether and go
salumn fishing a season in Norway at
her expense. I was not rurry to get out
of wliut was be^iuaiuy to h>ok like ft
/
MDEN, S. C., JANUAR
bad bu*:tils< mi such profitable terms.'
Of coursa I told Lucy that 1 would
Meter forget h< r, and she said she:
would never forcet me. We w -re sit-J
ting together at our usual nieeiingplucc
beside the brook wi cre first I had j
learned to p ad the language of her eyes, j
as we pave each other these promises, i
and it was the very evening before 1 j
went away to fish lor salmon in i\or-i
way, 4 Whenever you tonic back, be,
it night or day, Summer or Winter,!
you will always lind me lo re, Master j
I'M ward?Aeir, oh my darling!' she
said, with a (|uiot voice and ail cijircs- j
sion that 1 shall never forget.
'I was nearly two years away, and
had capital sport. When the season
was over in Norway, Neville, who had
been hard hit at Kpsoni, a-ked nic tu
go gazelle hunting with hint in Algeria,
ind we raw lots of b;g game round Orao.
i'hcu we went yachting in the Euxine,
ind tnmbled into the in?crior of Asij
is far as the waterfall marshes of Krz-room,
where we bagged whole flocks of
5o!o:i geese, I was just thinking of
he wild ass hunt in the Caucasus with
Bariatindcy and some Russian nubs I j
sad met, when my mother wro'o for,
lie to come, home, because my father !
md old Neville had u.ade up their j
juarrel on condition th it I should marry [;
ny first wife, who was then the Honor-,
tble Dorothy. We found money, which !
itc got from our bank and Government!
justness; the Nevilles found blood, and j
liy father was promised the baronetcy. J
which lie got in another way through
?aiu Huckster ten yo-nrs afterwards j>
"row Lord St1}'mouth. It was one af moon
in July?for the Nevilles werej
ilways glad to pet away from London *!
tarly?that I saw Lucy again. as theii
Honorable Dorothy and I were taking i
i ride down that very Panic lane where
[ had i'<?und the girl gathering wild i
lowers after the steeplechase. I thought
lie looked thinner, and I could tint get
id of an uneasy impression I felt that j'
.he might have been watching us and j
tavo overheard what 1 said to the Hon- i
irablc Dorothy. I had been coming it '
nthcr strong, too. if the troth mu-t be
,o!d. and had read her a copy of verses j
vhieh I hud cut out of a song-book, in 1
lie first instance, for Lucy; and I knew
hat she had learned them by iieart. J
she used to sing them to some sort of
nusic of her ow n, which was pretty in
ts way, for she used to lead the choir
it church when I firs?t knew her. I
icknowh dged to myself that this was
lot acting on the square by my old
lame, and began to think {of it; and
wor Loos wistful glance as we passed
i<r fidgeted me a little. When the
Honorable Dorothy was gone home,
therefore, I put spurs t?a long-reaching1
jliestnut, which 1 was breaking for my!
lather, and cantered down to Granny '
Lcthbiigc's cottage near the gravel-pit, j
ivhiih was no longer worked. I could
not get speech with Lucy, fbr Doctor!
l'ougood's ramshackle on -horse chaise j
ivas at the cottage-door, and the doctor!
bad never been frieuds with me since I
took up with her.
'1 made sigus, however, which the
girl understood well enough. and while I
I pretended to lie worrying the doctor's j
vixenish Scotch terrier 1 contrived t<>
make :ni assignation with Lucy for Iwilight
that very evening. 'Leave that'
dog alone, young liuiitli, and he olf. j
You have no honest business here,' i
roared that Itadical beggar of a doctor
as he came out, in hot wrath; hut 1
only grinned at his red lace and ill-humor,
though he hates me to this day.
'1 look care to be in time to meet
Lucy, for 1 could not but own that.
pale and Wan us she had looked that
day. she contrasted advantageously
with the honorable Dorothy, who was
rather heavy in the shoulder and deep
in the girth ft i mv taste; besides I
% * '
did not seem to care so much about |
breaking ofF Lucy us 1 had done when
1 was younger and more inexperienced.
1 >at down on il;o stile near the big
brook, which was angry unci swollen [
with recent rains, for the Spring and
early Summer had been unusualiy wet;
and 1 whiMh-d 'Where arc you going1
to, my j rctty maid?'just as 1 had done!
two years b fore wlicu I was waiting
h?r her. Iiut she was generally first I
before 1 went on my tiials, and now.
when I looked at the handsome watch
my uncle had given me. 1 was nettled:
to see that 1 had been l> ft to cool my
heels ten minutes, and Lucy appealed!
lo have I'owtt. n il.at my governor was ;
her landlord. I lit a cigar, and promised
to give tlic jade a piece of my
mind wlicn she coim; but she did not
come, and at lust I got nervous and
anxious about her. 1 half think I
would have given up the Honorable
Porothy ju-t then for Iter. Kvcry leal'
that stirred, every sound that came
IVoUl the distant fields an 1 hills, tlie
gurgling noise of the brook as it eddied
and hurried alone, the flutter of the
bat, the call of the owls, had a magnetic
influence upon me. Perhaps i ha I
smoked ten much, and 1 walked backwards
and forwards between the stile
and the water, taking deep draughts of
air. and net knowing that they were
sigh-, or not confessing it lo myself,
for 1 was half troubled half angry. At
length my eje fell upon something
stuck upright in the soft ground, and
tied to it was a scrap of white stuff
which fluttered on the night's wind, now
rising faM. l>y <ieorg-\ sir, it was tire
hunting-crop I had lost at the steeplechase,
when Jack Neville flashed
by lite, and to it was attached a morsel
of paper on which was scrawled, in
j a childish, straying Itat.d, 'I told you
that you would always find mo here.
Perhaps you have passed by without
seeing mo as you did to-day. Look
owe litcie beneath tire water. You
Y 8, 1878.
have given over loving me, Master Edward,
and 'tis better so. God forgive
me sir?and you. Something fell to
llic ground as I unfolded the paper on
which these words were traced. 'It
was only a daisy.'
'I did not sec how 1 could have ac
ted otherwise than I did. Lucy Ilawkc
was buried by the parish or by Dr. T >0
good; I forget which of tlieui did it, but
lb'? blanked Iladical was always poking
his D'\se into things which did not concern
him. For my part, I burnt the!
letter for frarofthe coroner's questions, j
an i cur family have always hushed up I
t r ? I
tnc stuiv. 1 nave never spoKcn 10 any
one of it before during all ilu .se years,'
and I don't remember* how the subject
came up betwoi n us two this evening. [
Have some inure wine, Littleton?the !
night is wet and cold.'
'Ah, so was Lucy,' I remarked, with
my usual l.aappiness of thought; but
Sir Jviward Smith, baronet, banker,
sportsman, landlord and churchwarden,
did not hear what I said, because he
was giving a hospitable order to his
chief butler to warm some claret and
bring up deviled bones. I thought
that my moneyed friend had commanded
a suggestive supper; but I had no
appetite for it. and I left his admirably
appointed establishment by the express
train next morning.
Tho Work of tho Year.
There are years of promise. Such
was the year 1S7U. Anil ihere are
veari of uerfurmuueo. Such, in Soatn
Carolina, was tlic year 1877.
When the last moments of 1S70
were fleeting fast, the people, calm and
resolute, looked back upon tw.-lve 1
months of mingled dread and eiul'a|
tion, crowned at the close by an abiding
conviction that the dawn was nigh, 1
and the suu about to rise on a free and
puiiGed commonwealth. There was a
reason and judgment in that conviction. 1
The usurpers were evidently losing
ground. They had been beaten in
every issue of law they had made.
This, however, was not the greatest
weakness of the Republicans, nor the
greatest strength of the Democrats.
The power of the Democrats lay in the
pregnant fact that the people, high and
low, paid no heed whatever to the orders
of .Mr. Chamberlain or the acts of
his sham Legislature* Ry such opposition
as this, continued, systematic and
universal, the strongest government- in :
the world could have been broken down, i
How surely must it topp'e over the |
Chamberlain fabric, already so insecure.
The opening of the New Year was
signalized by the making of arrangements
in the different counties for the
payment of such taxes as were required
j'or the support of the Hampton governniet.
it had been the vaunt of the
Republicans that the D-'uiocrais might
be willing to talk far Hampton, am]
even to light for him, but they would
uevcr give his government practical
recognition by paying taxes which no
Legislature had levied, and for which
no public oflicer could be officially re
sponsible. The event proved that the I
taxes called for by Governor Hampton
were paiJ more freely mil tuny tnan ,
any tax regularly levied by any govern- ,
incut in (his .State since lrfliti. And if i
we remind the people that Charleston j
struck tiie key note; tliat Charleston |
was lirst to declare that her citizens |
would pay taxes to Governor llauipton, |
and would recognize him. and none ;
other, as Governor; that Charleston by
the hands of the bank which worthily
bears her honored name, advanced what
money was required by Governor
Hampton before the voluntary tax could
be collected; that Charleston poured
out money like water to aid the Hampton
cause, before and during and after
the election, we have no other purpose
than to remind the State at large that
Charleston, as full as any other county,
did what she might and could. As the
money flowed into the Hampton treasury,
tlie last hopes ul the Republicans
oozed away. Now cams recognition of
Ilamptou as Governor by .Judge after
Judge. The Electoral Commission did
its work. Mr. Hayes was inaugurated.
Then came the visit of Hampton to I
Washington, and we p'Cill witti picas- j
ure the fact that President Hayes nei- '
titer invited not suggested any com promis-*.
The platform of Governor
Hampton, declared on his way to
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Washington, was tiiat no uemunucu uir
Soulli Carolina tho right of 8t If-gov-.
eminent, to which every State is onti- j
ilcJ under the Constitution. lie asked !
nothing more, and would accept nothing
lens. Side by side with (lovernor j
Hampton was a committee of Charles- I
ton merchants, sustaining him by their 1
presence, their counsel, and their rep- j
rcsentaiion of the woes unnumbered
that would spring from any effort to j
thwart 1 ho clearly expressed wish and
determination of the people. Souu
came the glad tidings that a bloodless
victory was won ; that the troops were
to Le withdrawn. As the clock struck
twelve on April 10, the I'niteJ Stales
soldiers marched out of the State ilou-o.
Mr. Chamberlain surrendered at discretion.
The Legislature was convened,
ami the Democratic Stato officers uict
with no further opposition. A won*
drous revolution had been accomplished.
This was more than six months ago.
l'or more than half a year the Democrat
ie government has held undisputed
sway in South C.irolino. To what purpose
'! Tho record shows.
The mills of the gods have ground exceedingly
small. Of the hand of robbers
and sharpers who have degraded
and plundciod South Carolina, none
have escaped ignominy and public
sh nic. Some, like Lee, Corwin and
, Swailt*) wvid ullvwcJ to rcsigu. Other*,
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[ like Woodruff and Nash, made partial
restitution of the yioncy they had stolen.
Whittemorc and Kiinpton are
fugitives from justice. Smalls, tried
and convicted, avoids the common jail
by seeking a new trial. Cardozo and
Carpenter aud Parker are in jail. ExGovernor
Moses is threatened by a Republican
Judge with arrest- as a vagrant.
Upon the shoulder of Mr.
Chamberlain the hand of the officer
has not yet been laid. The Committee
on Frauds have made report concerning
him. Mackey's occupation is gone.
Howcn. however, is sheriff of Charleston.
Of Patterson we could speak
more freely if he were further from the
grave. United States Senator as he is,
he dare not plant his foot on 'lie soil of
South Carolina. Scott is in Ohio. For
Corbin tlie doors of the jail yawn.
Itnl 1? f!ii:ii-lpsfnii hv
his presence. Like a crushed egg-shell
is the handiwork of Scott, Moses and
Chamberlain. Hut the past year is not
memorable for this alone. Side by side
with the work of tearing down the false
and base, goes on the work of building
up the honorable and true.
Upon the ruius of the Supreme
Court of the days when everything had
its price, is raised the Supreme Court
of to day, where Mclver and Haskell
sit on either side of Willard, whose
acumen and devotion to right were the
bulwarks of the Democratic cause,
when, on the bench with hito, were i
Chief" Justice Moses and the stupid and
venal Wright. While the appellate tribunal
lias bc< n restored to a high place
in dignity, ability and purity, there has
been a marked improvement in the
character of the lower courts. Judges
Kershaw and Wallace now sit on the
Circuit liencli. And when the terms
of the of the other Circuit Judges ex - i
pire, or their sea's arc declared vacant,1
the place of every Judge who is iu-:
competent or untrustworthy will be I
lillcd by a jurist of the stamp of those- j
whom the present Legislature has a!- j
ready elected to similar positions.
Meantime, those Judges who are least!
likely to be retained are keenest in the j
pursuit of offenders. These judicial i
brooms sweep more cleanly now than :
when they were new.
The Legislature met in extra sessioD
in April, and the regular session began
in November. Little practical
work has been done, but what is com* ;
pleted. good or bad, is in accordance i
with the demands of the people. The
repeal of the lien law, and the enactment
of the usury law. will render it
more than ever difficult for small farm.,
c-rs to continue their operations. These
measures, however, were loudly called
for, and experience alone will satisfy
the people of their un.wisdom. The
ii .i. . r._. ?e . t._
u isiiL'u.nULiicaiuiu ui mu uuu.uw iu
the Legislature is the apparent willing* '
ncss of the members to carry out blind- I
ly the wishes of their constituents, even
wheu they can see that harui is likely '
to come of it. This is not peculiar to
South Carolina. The member of the
Legislature is expected to lave more
knowledge auil experience than the bulk
of bis constituents and it is his duty
to give them the benefit of superior information,
and to serve them to the
best of his, and not their ability. South ,
Carolina heretofore has not been wanting
in independence of .spirit. Would
that there were more publb men in the
State to-day who dare to be unpopular.
The present General A-s.-mb'.y is overwhelmingly
Democratic, and we shall
not complaiu if the members make
haste slowly. It is difficult to determine
at this moment how much of the
public troubles are due to defective laws
and how much to maladministration of
the laws. This is a reason fur testing
the working of tho present Constitution,
with honest and intelligent administration,
bef >re setting to work to recast
the organic laws of the State.
The llepublican party in South Carolina
shows few signs of life, but is uot
dead- There are still some 70,001) or
80,000 colored voters in South Carolina,
and they will vote at the next election,
if the issues are important to i
them, and their votes will be counted
as cast. The Democrats did not obtain
control of the govcruuicr.t of South
Carolina by counting in, and they will
retain it by counting out. There will
be no difficulty in carrying the State
noxt year, if the Democracy are united.
The elections in Heaufort and:
Sumter show that the colored vote is;
solid, when the white vote is scattered.:
Oue man in South Carolina is un-j
changing and unchanged, the same now |
as during the triumphal marches of the !
summer of 1871>. as during the dangers i
and anxieties of last winter, as duriug!
the joy and gladness of the succeeding
summer. The simple faith and truth j
of Wade llauipton knows no change oft
adversity or prosperity. To him, until
tin? light he made was won. the people
looked up with a reverence that approached
to the dignity of worship.
And their own is as sincere as ever.
I Only in the eye or on the l:p of the
politician is there any suspicion of tailing
confidence, and there it is due to envy,
or to jealousy, or to a failure to understand
and app cciate the grand nobility
of Wade Hampton's character. He
grows upon those who knew him well
I Never has lie been, never will he bo,
1 faithless to himself; and while be is
' (.lovernor, no lino in violation of the
| pledges given by him and ratified by
j the people, before his election, wid blot
the Statute Book ir. this State, l'or
long, long months his word was law, all
the law wo had, in South Carolina.
Weil will it be for the State, if the
members of the General Assembly,
upou their return to the capitol, counsel
f.-ocly witli Governor Hampton, tti they
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have not hitherto done, and familiar ire
themselves with the views and opinions
of one whose judgement is hsiJ in high
respect from one end of the Union to
the other.
The future is not all bright. Sou'h
Carolina is poor. The advent of honesty
and intelligence keeps the handful if
pence in the purges Of the people; it #
docs not restore to them the millions of
money t hat have been filched and
squandered- It is a tedious w -rk, thin
process of reconstruction rid restoration.
The seasons cannot be lurried
in their course, and by the operation nf
the seasons, by the produces of tie
land, in i heir raw and manafietur.il
state. South Carolina must live. Any
influx of laborers, multiplying iho
means of production, will hastcu the
revival of prosperity. Capital from
abroad, supplementing that wnich is
slowly aud painfully accomplished by
our own effort, will give fre;4i vigor to
every department of business. Souih
Carolina, therefore, must either so demean
herself as to attract both the utufcc!c
and the money she requires, or she
mast endure the tedious processes to
which people are condemned who rely
inclusively on themselves, ond have
none to help them.
They who have not lost heart when
each day plunged South Carolina
in the slough, will not fail now that her
t>ack is turned to the dismal pis', end
tier face is set towards the heights
where rrign plcntoousness and :>cucc.
I'lie one we have-, the other will cor^c. ^"
I'nat it may couie so)n, even sooner
;han the most sanguine expect, is the
greeting wo give, in wishing all our
eaJers, A Happy New Year!
C/curletion Xeics and Courier.
An Important Ente:-prls3.
It is stated that a company is ab.nt
a Aintitniiikil iILwfnn I'lr iho nnr.
i\J UC Ul ^Ulllbvu in 'vuiun vi - ./ ?! >030
of furnishing homes in the South
md West to iudustrious immigrants
who arc unable to purchase f'ot (hern-,
lelves. The plan propose.! is to purthaso
lands in large quantities in delirablc
localities, to assist colonists to
remove to thcin and to furnish them
with necessary supplies for a limited
:imc. (Certain portions of ibese lands
will be reserved by the comnauiea, unj
inch colonist will receive a bonJ for
titles to the lands occupies by hiuisslf,
titles to be executed when the advances
ire repaid. The profit of tne company
will be derived from the enhanced
ralue of the lands reserved. Such an
enterprise would be beneficial in vh.ee
respects; it woulJ enable the peopbrf
the North and East to provide for
their surplus population, it would help
the South to build up her waste places,
in J we arc confident that it would
prove immensely profitable to the company.
We are prepared to w.'lc uie
warmly all actual settlers, who come to
cast their lot with u.s for better or
for worse.?Greenville (6*. C.) fleic?.
Why I Married Her.
Where did you meet with your wife:*
I said to a friend of mine who hud invited
mc to his wedding.
Ilis reply was: 'A year ago I was
one of a large dinnerparty of ladies and
gentlemen, at which a young lady was
noticed notto'drink any wine Our
host observed it. 'A glass of wine will
you miss?'
'Excuse m?f sir,' said she.
What excuse? Are you utc. jtiler?
What! have we a teetotaler acre ! llu
ha ! a teetotaler! Why, do yo i never
drink wine ?'
Never, sir.'
'Why not ?'
'From principle.'
'Nothing more was said. Her decision
of character deeply impressed ait.
I sought an introduction, satisfied tint
one of such principles would nuke mo
a good companion. I became a teetotaler
myself, and now she is ny wift.
That's why I marrrcd her.'
As yon pass along the street you ruce t
with a familiar face?say good morning
as though you felt happy, and it- will
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WOlK BUOliniUiy III iuc mum VI jvui
neighbor. I'leasuro is ehcip?who will
not bestow it liberally? Lf there are
smiles and sunshine all about us, lot us
out grasp them with a miset's fist, and
lock them up iu our hearts. 'Vther
let us take them and scatter them about
us.
Tiik Fastidious Caksiiuls.?M.
Du Chaillu concluded his lecture with
a description of how the cannibals
cooked human flesh. He said they
preferred to eat women of about 16 to
24 years of age, and in variably roasted
that delicacy, but people over fifty were
generally boiled.
'I will not learn a trade!' exclaimed
a young Chicago blood to his father.
I Hut this business of learning a umJ; is
only a matter of time, for ri'Iiin a year
that young man was studying hrrnosa
making in a Stato prison.
The poor are only thoce who feel
I poor, and poverty consists iu ledi"g
poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and
j among them the very rich, in a ti?
' search would be found very indigent and
ragged.
It is as liuo of newspapers ns of tho
churches?those who coot to :,;act
to their support criticise and And the
most fault with their mana^em-nt.
When a young lady offer* to l.ctn a
cambric haudkerdhief for u ii"h bncke*
i lor, depend upon it she tuc.ms to acw id
order sbo may reap.