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-l EKLY IV WINNSBORO. S. C.. SATUm A V Nt) VV'1i 'n 1 WSaCONTRYT AMQONG 2HR E PE1OPL. Fraud and Low Prices Two Causes Cipher Despatches will not Believe It. Prof. Perry, of Williams College. poke before the Free-Trade League last week .on "The Causes of Politi Cal Discontent." The first cause n1Med by hin was the dissatisfac.. tion of the people with the Republi. can party, which is responsible for the ongoing of national forces in this country for the last eighteen years. He spoke not as a partisan, although he believed that Mr. Til den was honestly elected President of the United States. The Repub lican party, lie thought, had created dissatisfaction by its identity with the old Whig party on the subjects of contraizing power in the hands of the Federal Govern ment, the nation. atl paper money, the protective tariff and internal inprovenents or nub i sidies. The most glaring illustra tions of centralization were the facts that we were obliged to wait for a so-called President to determine who was elected governor of a Southern State, and that the army of the nation had been used to be present at and control State elecI tions. Our tariff, lie said, is the most complicated, cumbersome and. obnoxious that any peoplo ever limposed upon itself. Thc granting of subsidies, and the consequen)t corruption by Credit Mobilier frLuds have been fruitful causes of discontent. The principal discon tnt has come in the case of the Presidential election. The people have been unable to see how the States of South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana could have gone both ways at the same election ; and people have been discontented when they called to mind the fact that the present incumbent of the Presidential chair recognized at the 1 outset of his present career that the r governors of those States were Democratic, while he claimed to a have been elected at the same elec- b tion by Republican vote:. At the i same time, the so -called President rewardel every man that seemed to be concerned in the counting of r those States for him. If those men simply performed their duty, why ( and pick them up one by one to re ward them with office ? If the :1 count was intended as an honest 6 count, why did President Grant's f visiting statesmen refuse to co-ope-- r rate with the Dimocratic delegates 0 on the same mission ? For his t work in that regard, General Gar- j field had caused every true friend to r regret that he ever went to Louisi- A ana. It was a suspicious thing that 6 the day after the election Zach ) Chandler sent out a despatch that 1 Hayes was probably elected by one vote, and had also said that "Lou isiana and Florida would be counted I fjr H Lyes anyhow." It seemed that the Republican party must have lost its eyes not to see that the people are discontented with the Electoral Commission and what Judge Strong called "the great wrong of the Louisiana Returning Board." Among the economic causes of dissatisfaction the Professor named that which arises from the shrinkage of prices, which necessarily is most: disastrous to labor and real estate. Even farm products have felt the ruinously lowv prices, as shown by the rate of sterling exchange. There is much discontent at the enforced economy which must necessarily be practised by the people. In regard to the prospects of resumption, he believed no one could now tell -whether Sherman is going to resume in gold or silver, and that there would be less discontent if we could know that resumption in January next would be on the basis of the gold Idollar instead of the silver dollar.. He said that as civilization progresses the government has less power over the money of the people, and instanced the persistent refusal of the people of California to accept the greenback as a standard of value as proof that if the whole people choose to refuse the silver dollar as a basis of value they may do so in spite of government enactments. Speaking of the protective tariff as a cause of discontent, he said that we have been experiencing for fifteen years the penalties of being prohibited by the government from' selling because w'e have been sub stantially prohibited from buying. He-said that New England is now swinging toward the free trade. The cipher despatches elicited some cQnclu4'ng words from the Profesdo1. fe said : "The ~ worst that these cipher despatche ca~n poBsibly ~ i s . the truth. The wore6 cou1tieto,i that ean possibly be pg gg t e o is the truth. am going to make the suppositio that Mr. Tilden know about these despatches-those that were signed and those that were received i that he agreed deliberately to pay $50, 000 for the vote of the State of Florida. I am going to suppose, even, that Mr. Manton Marble, al though he denies it, attempted to bribe the Hayes Returning Board in Florida. Ynt, supposing such to be the fact, aid tho) hoar me wyhen I say all that is pcoved is attempted bribery-attmipteld bribery. How innocent. how potty and even inno cent does attempted bribery soem in the presence of consummated bribery ! How petty in contrast with accomplished bribery and tri uniphant fraud I But evea this at tempted bribery, it is not contra vened, was not to porpetulte a fraud. . If these men were to be bribed, it was to tell the truth and' to do justice. But, admitting oven.. that when a man is bribed to tell the trith-how petty, trivial and comparatively innocent it is to bribe a man to toll the truth, in contrast with a bribe to tell a lie, and to do a lie I No, gentlemen, these cipher I despatches are not going to relieve the discontent that is felt in this country with the Republican party. I They don't go dowli dep enough, f hhey don't touch the roots of trou t ble-ever putting tho worst possible j 3onstruction upon them."-New i Yor'k ,Yun. f AMKERICAN BA7. UTY IN FRAYCP. B.dtinmwre Gazlle, P.ris Leller] If one's eyes are dtzzled at any of n ho official balls at Paris by a sud a len Vision of loveliness, be sure that t' he vision aforesaid has come c traight across the Atlantic. Now t mir girls at home are prettier than s inks and peaches, but once let I hem come to Paris, and let their d atural taste in dress receive the h nishing touches of Parisian style, i nd the result is-well, it is just b< ewildering. And it is really amus ig, if sometimes a little annoying, i : note sensation that one of our hi %,diant damsels will create in any a lace of public resort. A lady h 'iend of mine, with her husband, )ok a little American beauty to tr Ipera Comique, a few nights ago. 'he young lady whs quietly though e< bylishly dressed and was a per- h 3ctly wel1l-hred and modest-man- " ered girl, but when the party went ut to promenade in the foyer be- "I ween the acts, as is the custom n ore, the people literally walked ound and round the dazzling little Lmericaine, gazing at her in open, d yed astonishment and admiration. et she was simply a very pretty I ittle brunette, with a complexion 7hose cream and roses owed none f their lustrue to pearl-powder or b irint. So if a suggestion of mine, 8: iiade before the exhibition was a opened, had been carried out, name- h h y, that each of our cities should end a collection of portraits of its amous belles, I trow that that Ox iibit would have proved the most >op)ular one inl tile Camp de Mars. r is it is, there are scarcely any >ortraits ever shown there of our atir dames and damsels. There is ' ndeed one of Miss Howe (the I~ laughter of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, ~ Ihe poetess) in tihe American art lepartment, but the painting hardly lees justice, to the loveliness of the >riginal. In the Italian art depart nont the portrait of Miss Emilie Behaumburg, of Philadelphia, by she most celebrated of living Italian I portrait painters, Signor Bompiani,% mns attracted much attention. The irtist has admirably reproduced the singular grace and refinement of the original-no light task, by the way, to judge from the difficulty that even the greatest of the French artists seem to experience in that respect, as witnesses, Carolus Duran. The picture is a thlree-quarters length, the body being represented in a white satin ball dress, embroid-1 ered with white jet. The coloring is at once delicate and vivid, and the picture is a striking work of art, as well as an admirable likeness of a beautif hi woman. At Houston, Texas, atan' early hour' last Thursday morning, a man on. horseback reo to the residence of, Adolph Schachtrupp, and shot him dead with a shot gunx. A nephew of the dceoased, recognized the assassin. as Willian Coward. Schachtrupp waar a witneso against Coward, chat!ged with steialing Schachtrupp's mule. A. B,. Malony, M.L D., Philade} phia, Pa., says: "I find Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup excellent, having aa ready sale and rendering more satisfaotion,than any Ooiygh, Syrup have er sod. FARNCI EXECU'oN8. How the GuIllotine Does Its Terrible Work at La Roquette. The date of a French execution is never known before hand. The processes which follow upon son tence of death take from three to six weeks, but all is done in privato, and the convict only hears that his appeals havo boen rejected, when the governor of the prison wakes himi up on the morning of the exe Cution. Executions constitute one of the sights of Paris, which fast living tourists aro expected to witness. The waiters at Brobant's and the Caife Anglais inform joyous young roystorers that the guillotine i to he at work at daybreak. and ) pera hats, dust coats, and the rumes. >f Cuban cigars will be found iingling with blouses, flat caps, uld the smoke of clay pipes on the L'Iace do lia Roquette at the fatal liour. La Roquotto is the Nowgate of Paris. It has only become so since [852, for of old, mon were taken romn the Bicetre to be executed on ho Place do Ctrove (now Placo do Hotel de Ville) at 2 o'olock in the fternoon, to the groat hindrance of iblic business. Subsequently the ?laco St. Jacques was usel for the Spiurposo, :md the hour of execu ion fixed at 10 ; now the headman lerforns his wor k at live in summer, nd at about seven in winter Five agstones fixed in the roadway, at ome twenty paces from the )risoi oor, mark the spot where the uillotine rises. Its tall posts are o longer red, but a dark green, nd there i, no scaffold )litform, so i tL the c)nvi(t has no stO)p to limb. ein he has pissel irough the inneriost line of >Llirs, '1who ailrroun111d the instru ont of death, he finds himself suid mly opposit0 the basculo. The )a(mdU'8 three assistants seiz In und push him against thiA )ard, which forthwith )ivots and sumnes a horizontal position. At is moment the doomed man, who a been taken, in some sense, by rprise, invariably struggles, and Ls to be forced forward by the oulders and hair till his neck pro- i Ludes through a semicircular r I knife. Being nnot offer oOtI.z ap4kn l might roll off the bR 411 .an ust e held with an iron grip Itil a second semicircle closs )on the first, and imprisons his N ,ek. The instant this is done Roch touches a spring, and the -oad triangular knife, weighted ith fifty pounds of lead, glides ' >wn the grooves like a carriage indow, silces the head from the ,link, and rebounds with a dull Iud on two India rubber cushions. no assistant, who has held the sad by the hair, drops it into a nall wicker basket, half full of 1 iw-dust; the two others seize the oadless body, from which blood is owing in torrents, and which kicks nervous convulsions, and fling into a longer basket. Then both -ceptacles are hoisted into a close earse, which trots off to the lemetery of Clamiart, attended by mounted police escort, and fol wed by the prison chaplain in a ab ; after whbich the executioner's snistants begin washing dowvn the 'his de justice" with mops and ailfuls of water. Within a couple if minutes from the time when the onvict shows himself under the rchway of La Roqnette, the wvhole merformance is ended. Now what preparation have !rench convicts to meet their fate i n England it is considered just to et a man know the (late of his exe ion, in order that he may purify uis soul to meet his Maker ; in T'rance the mistaken kindness is uhown of allowing a convict to hope >n till the very end. lHe spends all ais time in a cell with two other prisoners and two wardens, and nay smoke or play cards to the, t.op >f his -bent. How can the minis trations of a chaplain have any serious influence under such condi tions?i The sight of aces and knaves, the company of prisoners under sentence for sonae piece of rognery, the fumes of tobacco, and the buoyant talk of wvardene, who, are expressly bidden to say every thing that may encourage the criminal to believe that he will be respited. These are not incentives to true repentance, It is much to be feared that too tuany French convicts go to their doom wholly iinpenitent. The hasty shift which they make on the morning of see cutloli canot ount fpr nieh, be. cause they are half insane from terror ighen they mslke it rew mesi can stand with com posure t3e a.wfpl anouncemez4, 1 J6 JL- -kA.B.JS X-P X J X%C 4C (I7 coming at a moment when they are quito unprepared for it : "Your ap peals have been rejected, and you are to bo executed, now at once." Now at once I Thero is no delay 'from that moment. Tho man who has gone to bed hopi)g, awakens to be told that death is waiting out side his cell door. A glass of brandy, a hasty prayor on the knees in cold sweat and trombling, a pauso for a tnomont undert a white washed vault, where the convict' back hair and shirt collar are cut ofr, and then through the portals of the prison, suddenly swtung back, a sight of tile guillotine, with its knife gloaming in the gray daw'i light of morning. All this takes twenty minutes at most, but theso minutes are the only ones during which the French coIviCt is allowed to fool for certain that lio is going to meet his God. AFORGOTTEN PaAUnArH.-Yester day afternoon a boy about twelve years of ago called at the postoffice and desired to securo a lotter whith his mother had postod np hour be fore. He describad tho envelope and direction, but it had already been sent away in the bag. The lad somned so anxious about the missivo that the clerk finally asked him if it was a wItter of life or death. "That's exactly w1hat it is," replied the boy as ho turned a shade paler ; -you see, ma writ to her sister and Forgot to put down : P. S.-Wo tro all well ; and so my aunt won't mow but what half the family are lead and the other half dying !" "I canl write that on a postal and1 end it along after the letter," sug- Y ested the clerk. "I gness you'd better," replied the boy as he tendered a penny, "'caume , long as we ain't (ead there's no Igo in worrying my aunt about it. Iu Write .jnst like ma does, if you can, mnd don't get it S. P. instead of P. ,."--'ee Press. "VEGETENE," ( IY-s a Boston phys!cian, "has no equal as a on lpitiIler. laig of IeA r inany w-i Ontuller I irei nt"r aill oth.r re n ul fw1 l led, I vist (Ithe LIb-lrat,Ory, nIII' convinced iysielf of i venuinle mnnrit. It is proeli'e-. from barks ot anti lerb., Micht or whileh is highly efre. ve, antd they tre comipotiotii III 'ii-i a nia. Sr as to prou1ce astonishing resht." - Vegretie Vegetine ili cure the worst case of Hcrofula. Veretine recommended by physicians ar( opotheca rios. Vegetine [as effected some marvellous cures in cases of Cancer. Vegetine joets with wonderful suce3s in Mc cadia eases. Vegetine Vin eradicate salt 1thIcum from th. system. Vegetine temoved P'imples and Humors from the face. Vege tine Jures Constipation and regulates the Bowels. Vege tine [s a valuable remedy for Headache. Vegetine WVill cure Dyspepsia. Vegetinie Restores the entire system to a healty condi (10on. Vege tine Removes the cause of Dizziness. Vegetine Relieves Faintness Of the Stomach. Vegetine Cures Pains in the Back. Ve getine Effectually cures Kidney Comnplaint.1 Vege tine Is effective in its cure of Female WVeakness. Vegetine Is tIl6 great remedy for General Debility. Vegetine Is acknowtledged .by all classor -t thO people to be the best. and most relial.. blood purifier inat,h world. Preptred by H. R. 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