Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?SUKltlDAJN & SIMS, Proprietors. 3 SOiiScnirrioN. :0no-Yenr..,.SI 50 Six Months.1.00 Ministers of the-Oespel.J .00 A B V K KTIS KM KNTS. First Iustertion.?1.00 fl?ach Subsequent Insertion.*....50 Liberal contracts made for U month ?and ovur. JOX3 OFFICE IS 1'HKPAltKD TO DO ALL KINDS OF Grant -Speaks. ?Our persistent exposure of General ??Grant's umbiiious purpose to,convert ?Uns republican government into an . empire has at last, compelled Hie si lent man to speak. By implication be would seem to deny any such .pur pose. Who cares for Ids (Verbail denial ? His ae-tiuns.?ou.tiadict ids words. It was at -Carpenter's Hall, in Phil adelphis, Uiat General Grant deign ed to open bis hitherto scaled lips. "What he Raid, or undertook to say, in a most awkwuid and ungrammatt cal way, was that it is hoped, and ho thought we .had the assurance now thn,l qur republic will last as long as .time lasts. j ."Out- republic! What republic?" If Geneial Grant means the repub lican government that our fathers founded, that Washington fought for .and first administered, then wo have to say that this very man Giant is doing all he can lo destroy that same Republican government. In what do our republican inetilt: -lions consist? Hi our written Constitution, and ?hardly less in the time-honored cus toms obscived by Washington and ids long line of patriotic and illustri ous successors, until they have conic lo be regarded as constitutional tra ditions. The most sacred of these is litoil ing the lerni of one President lo eight years. Grant is doing his ut most to violate this liadilion, and thus lo overthrow our republican in stitutions as they have heretofore ex islcd. Many believe that General Giant means to go further and to establish an empire. We are among the num ber. We fully believe this. As to his enforced and long-deferred de claration in favor of the republic, we regard them as equally hollow and unmeaning as those which that most umbiiious and vihst of Etnpcrois, Louis Napoleon, made after his elec tion as President of the French Ke public. Aflci ly-iying taken 1.is sc4- j cmn oath to support the republic, be declared: '"I shall support it as n man of honor."* "Ciiizen-Keprt sent ulives," he continued, "we have a giand mission lo fulfill?to found a republic in the interest of all." We all know how the covp iVdut followed, when twenty thousand of the best; citizens of France were murdered or banished in a single night, and the liberties of the people trampled in blood and dus*. Grant never shuddered at the How of human b'ood, however large the stream. A patriot once, ambition in stead of love of country now seems tobe his animating spirit. He is the only American ever born since the ievolution who shows no reverence lor the name and example of Wash ington.?N. Y. Suit. ? Beating the Postoifice. Ever since the late order of the Postmaster General came out, a cer tain citizen of Detroit has been pon dering on how to get even with the old chap. Yesterday he struck the idea. He entered the postofHcc with a letler, or rather an envelope, con taining' only blank paper. He wrote the address on the upper left-hand corner, upset the envelope and wrote j the town, put the county on the lower left corner, and the State where the stamp goes. Then he stuck the stamp in the centre of the envelope, and below it requested to have ihe letter returned to him alter ten days. ltJt will come buck," he explained, "for there is no part}' there by this name. I'll have to pay three cents for send-1 ing it sixteen hundred miles, bull I Uncle Sam lias got lo blink his eyes all over this envelope and then return it free. When this old government gets ahead of mc I want to know it." .. ^;pailrda() Accident. A terrible accident occurred near Lencbars, on the (forth British Rail way ,;on the morning of the 28th, be fore duy> -.The bridge gave way, and a train with about three hundred passengers On board was precipitated into the river t^ghty-five feet below. It is said in a later dispatch that the loss of life was hot so great as at first supposed, but itop*>foarcd tin undcr csti?Qatc has bcenvhmde, and that very few ' peisoiiij escaped. The bridge, ay as; about two miles long, was a nev/,'struoturb,. and considered a triiiUHnV in engineering. The water of tlieVrver where the accident oc curred *is declared to be forty feet deep. ?L _ Now or Never. It is el most superfluous for the Herald to praise the opinions which Senator Hampton, of South Carolina, expresses lo our Washington corre spondent -concerning the financial policy of the Democratic party as righteous, expedient and patriotic? righteous in principle, expedient for success and patriotic by reason of the resulting certainty of obliterating sectionalism in National politics. It is the same general policy which wo long have been urging upon the Democratic leaders in our desire to stimulate both parties lo do their best for the country; Chcnmstauccs have combined to ofJer the Demo cratic party a sudden opportunity lo re instate itself in the confidence of consctvalivc Northern volets by sim ply rcsuu ing its lime-honored doc trines concerning finance and the currency. TenctQr Bayard fellows the solid path, and Senator Hampton ! summons the party to step into it out of the quagmire of "soft money/' business uncertainty and sectional mistrust in which it has been misera bly (louudcring too many years, sink ing deeper and diiiicr at evesy slop. Simultaneously with this sudden opportunity a contemptible hcsilat ion is displayed among, the Republicans to follow the lead of their own Presi dent and secretary of the treasury. The combination of chances and mo lives to pcrsaude Ihe Democrats into a sound policy is almost miraculous and wc cordially agree with Senator Hampton's declaration that they de serve defeat if they are not prepared to lake advantage of it. Every week's delay to marshal the Senators ard ' Iicptcscntulivcs under Senator Bay ard's wise and couiagcous leadership makes this cx-rauidinary opportunity shrink. The situation of the party jh precisely indicated in our head line?"Now, or Never."?X. Y. iL r aid. Old Friends. Don't lose your old friends, hut keep y our intercourse g.ccn with lit tie nets of kindness. Leave your business, or pleasure, or study, long j enough to step in and 6ec that dear old man and woman who used to give you spring apples and lilacs, when yon went visiting with your mother. I Bun in and enliven Ihe neighbors who have known \ du ever since you were j I born, with whose children you have often played before their little golden heads were laid Jow in their last sleep. Call upon 3our once merry school mate, now an invalid. Old-time friends arc to be specially esteemed. A nd make many friends. At.d don't bo loo exclusive and fastidious. True, it is your privilege to be particular in choosing your intimates, but there is a large number of people among those you know, with whom yon ought to j : be on so cordial terms as shall in j time change into the most friendly J relations, so that some you did not fancy at first may become your fast est friends, to the great benefit of both parties. Yon want many j friends, because so many arc remov ing resiliences and exchanging I worlds, and you want plenty lo en joy till these changes come to you in turn. As long as your body lives, you want a living, healthy heart in it. And in your timeb of trial, bow precious is human love and sympa thy. In the last two years the city of Memphis has buried 0,000 of her peo ple and lost nearly $8,01)0,000 in capital and business, through the yel low lever epidemics. The Appeal' asserts that filthy gutters, bail drain ago and accumulated garbage caused all this distress and ruin. That, pa per now demands all methods of purification by fire, drainage, fumiga tion, street paving and the most ri gorous enforcement of the y/ell-asecr tuincd laws of health us shall insure the city against a recurrence of the epidemic. Otherwise, Memphis is threatened with decay if not extinc tion. Some refuse lo believe Christianity hccaiiso they cannot comprehend ntid j understand its mysteries. They for- i get that when wc encounter the infin ite, whether in the spiritual or natur al world, wo encounter mystery. A God comprehended and understood by man, would be a strange kind of God. Ah well migljt a cup be ex pected tp bold lhe ocean, as for a liu itc mind to comprehend and under stand the infinite God. ? Vilham. The Bad Small Boy. Young gentlemen "paying address es" arc unfortunate if they have a case of "small brother" to deal wllu at the same time. The Kockland (JN. Y.) Courier relates one aggra vated case: It was Sunday afternoon, and young Mr. Stay laigut had stopped until they were forced lo ask him to lake supper. | The best china and tbe extra pieces of silver graced the ta ble, while one of tbe nicest napkins was placed by young Mr. Staylaight's plalc, for the family desired Io create all the impression possible upon his susceptible mind. His young lady was conducting herself with great credit, and the young man was more than ever in love with her, when the mother said, passing tbe cake for the second time : "Won't you have another piece, Mr. Stajluight?" 4*>To, thank you," said the young man in his politest totle, "not any more." "Oh, do have just one more," urged tlic mother, s.idling sweetly ; "you haven't eaten hardly anything." The younger brother, who sal oppo site, and who bad been instructed, much to bis disgust, not lo ask twice for that cake, saw his opportunity and shorted but with great malevo lence : "Huh! I shouldn't think be had! He's eaten four hunks o' tongue, fliicc biscuits, two plates o' sauce, two o' thcin tarts, an' both kinds o' cake? an', mother, Sis keeps kickiii' nu; un der the table."- Make her slop!" They brought young Mr. Ntaylaigl.t to by dashing ice-water in bis lace. I - . The Prosperity of Columbia. j So high have radicals ris.:n in the I estimation of these people that some ! letnales scut hoqncts lo Senator Tall I for his dibi ts in behalf of the meas ure. The brass band ncrciKulcd him and Clary and.AVylieSaturday night. This is fusion with a vengeance. Saturday night a baker's dozen ol thcaC'Canal boomcis willfclhe brass band got in the lobby of the Wheeler House and looted mid hlowcd away until (Jury came out on the steps, made some observations of Ihe grand prospects before this dead town and the advantages of the education ol j the masses. Being somewhat inclin ed to piety, since he made the lein I perancc speech a few nights ago, he < i u i L speaking live minutes after twelve o'clock Sabbath morning. Tlu small crowd which constantly decreas ed then went and hlowcd for Tuft and then for Senator W3 lie. Tbe Sab bulb was thus ushered in. The beggars of Coluinbiu feel jubilant now. They are taxable going lo have ?3,000,01)0 added to their property in a few years and they are going to get all this at the expense of the people of the Slatei?Medium. fax-Payers' League. The Cleveland, Ohio, tax-payers have organized a tax-league, for the purpose of reducing taxation to Ihe lowest limit. It appears from their statements that there has been for some time a falling oil' twenty-two million dollars a year in the valuation of property in Ohio and a steady in crease of expenses. The area of cul tivated laud has decreased two hun dred and twenty thousand acres in the last six years. Tbc Cleveland tax-payers propose lo get relief from taxation by enlarging the amount of taxable property. They propose to have the ten thousand liquor shops in Ohio taxed heavily, also t,hc hos pitals, monasteries, convents, school buildings and Churches/ In Cleve land the tax rate has gono up from one dollar and ninety-eight, cents lo two dollais and fifty-four cents since 1871. A showman was exhibiting in Gil iner county, Georgia, a monkey that had been taught to file a pistol. The showman handed the monkey a pis tol and lolil him tollt>hoot the ugliest man in the crowd.,: Some mischiev ous boy had put shot in the pidtol, and when the monkey picked out his man and 11 red, the shot took effect and slighlly wounded the ugly man who look out his knife, cut the mon key's throat and whipped the show man. The ugly man has been indict ed, and his trial is soon !< pome oil'. In South Carolina a statute pro vides that all persons having no rea sonable and lawful excnsD bhall at tend some religious service every Sunday. Christmas Treo. R?WKSVILLK, Dec. 30, 1879. Editor Orangeburg Democrat: Do you not think that a Christmas tree is the thing to revive a Sunday school and to bring out the children? At any rate, the good people ol* New Hope Church think so. They had a fine one last year, and on Christinas eve of this year they had another, which was certainly a credit to the church. It was n splendid success in every particular, satisfying the most sanguine expectations. The church was handsomely decorated by the la dies, Mrs. JilO. C. Whetstone taking an active port. Festoons weie hung over the windows and beautiful wreaths on the walls. The tree was a large evergreen, 1 most tastefully arranged in ihe altar, and was burdened with dozens ol magnificent presents for the young fuiks ; also a present for euch teacher, some of which were valuable. The committee on arrangements consisted ol Messrs. A. M. Cox, W. L. Wolfe, W. C. Criiih and A. F. Faiiey. So perfectly was the W.Olk done that all thought they were the right men in the right place. The school was addressed by I)r O. N. Bowman, who explained in a plain, pointed and eloquent manner why Christ was scut into the world, the origin of Christmas, and why it should be celebrated with rejoicings. Alter this address the tree was beau tifully illumine I with wax lights, and old Santa Claus, in the person of our esteemed Superintendent, was intro duced to the children. Ala began his part with a little speech, which was to the point: He distributed the presents singly to the children, ac companying each with words ol ad vice and humor. I do think (he children on thai I night appeared to gooyl advanlage. Their countenances wore such com placent smiles as to make all around them as happy as thoy were. The tree being relieved of burden, re fresh incuts . for 1 Vf8rwflBLinai1 wcro abundantly dealt out to the audience. The exercises weie interspersed with beautiful songs, lead by Mr. John Baxter. When the audience came out to go home they weie, for a short lime, entertained by some of the young men with fireworks. Kvciythiug went as merry as a marriage bell, and all went home sat isfied, and looking forward with plea sant anticipations to the lime when another should come. Notkedli. CoHapso of Grantism. Piiii.AOEi.ruiA, Dec. 23.?k,Jf 1 were lo publish all the letters sent to the Tims protesting against the ex travagant expeudituie of public funds for the entertainment of Gen. Grant, . it would overwhelm with mortification the personal friends of Grant, ami. would summarily end the third term [business," said Col. A. If. McClurc I to me a day or two ago. "11) whom are these letters written j?Republicans or Democrats ?" 1 I asked, engcily, and Col. McClurc re adied : "In every instance they are written by Republicans-!-men of high char acter, well known in business circles, and of that class who exert a quiet but tremendous influence upon the result of general elections." "You seem to think the third term business is on the down grade," said the well pleased interviewer. "In view of what has publicly taken place in the way of receiving Grant in this city during the past week," said Col. MeClure, "1 am as tonished ut the undercurrent that is already Suiting in against Grant for a third term." Massachusetts has abolished coro ners and their juries, and inquests in that Stale arc now conducted by medi cal men, under the instructions of the courts as to their legal fund ons. the results of the change thus far arc said to have been admirable. The jury is but a cumbersome institution in the case ol idqncsts, neither facilitating the inquiry nor rendering it more com plete, while it takod men away froth their business and causes loss and in convenience to them. The most nbscut-miuded man was not the man who limited for his pipe when ho had it between his teeth, nor the one who threw his hat out of Ihc window and tried to hang his cigar on a pog. No; but the man who put his umbrella to bed and went and stood behind the door. Saturday Night. How sweet the note to the man of toil, to the weary-hearted and sorrow stricken ! The little hubbies that have agitated during the week cense to annoy, the emotions of envy, pride, jealousy and malignity yield to sooth ing inllucnccs of the hour, for the night of rest has come that has its morrow of quiet and peace. The weekly plans of the honcbl, industri ous man have all been consummated, the little grains in trade garnered , the trials, double and feats ol life set aside, and now at pcaec with con science and all the world, reclining on his Couch, no king in purple is half so happy under 'he soothing inllucnccs of sleep. Saturday infill! standing on the brink of what will shortly be a por tion of Eternity, let us ask the solemn question, will the white light of the Great Morning dawn upon us ere an other week circled by ten thousand mercies shall close its record of life trial and duly? Thousands of cofiin lids have smothered down the hopes of happy households?thousands ol misery's children have pined in want and woe, and thousands liuvc^gronii [ eJ aWay life on couches ol' pain, whilst evciy moment of the ncw-llcd week has heaped upon us mercies that no intelligence can number.?Bullte morean. A Battle in Church. A most festive and hilarious moel i ing took place in the First Reformed J Presbyterian Church, of Piltsburg, Pa., Sunday evening. Several weeks j ago a pastor was elected by a vote ' 107 against 1 10 for the man. There is where the fun began. The defeat ed party accused tbe other of illegal voting. An appeal was taken to the Synod, Woudside, the parson elect, insisted on preaching pending the np i peal. The other aide said this coidd not 1?; done. Sunday morning the Woodriide party by strategy gained accession lo the church ami held it all day. The other party with their parson crowded in. One of the preachers tried lo mount the rostrum I lo preach the gospel of peace perhaps. He was jerked down. Then the fun began. Apostolic blows fell thick and fast; the hardest licks and black est eyes were in tbe neighborhood ol the roslium. Women screamed and fainted and lost their hair pins and j other loose personal properly. Hymn books, gas globes and pews were sca'.lcred in all directions. Police interfered and succeeded in getting an armistice. Great cxcilcmeu'. pie* : vailed Monday. It is said thai ihe riyal pastors fought nobly, likewise sonic of lire deacons and elders grati fied sonic old grudges they had been nursing for a lorg Lime. Twenty-fwa Rich Widows. Twenty-five rieb widows have join ed in a petition to Congress, repre ! scnling that they arc taxed to support the government, in the management of which they have no voice; that they are taxed to support pauperism Land crime, which are the direct re J suits of the liquor trallic, while they ?have no voice in making the laws nn j der which that trallic is permitted and ! regulated. They, therefore, ask to have their disabilities removed, and if not done, that they be relieved from j luxation. This is only one of thirty I seven thousand petitions which the women suffragists will send into Con gress Ibis SCSSion.? Cincinnati Com nurcial. i ?_ A Finger Post. Finger-posts are put at cross-roads to point out the way to the puzzled wayfarers and enable then to go 'straight to their destination. In South Carolina there is only one fork in the political road, To the right is Democracy, with economy and integ rity in affairs and peace and confidence everywhere. To the left is Radical ism, haunted with the ghosts ol Scott Leslie, Whiltcmoro am] Crews, and patrolled by Bo wen, Cunningham and Mackoy.? 2Tews and Courier. Dan Rice, the circus man, an nounced in St. Louis on the 20ih, that he had been converted, and would at once enter the field as an evangelist. Ho has had an interview j with Mr. Moody, who is holding meetings there, and will probably be I gin his new career by speaking at Mr. Moody's meetings, and then seek such fields as oller I ho best prospects of success in his new work. Too Many Girls. "Them girts*!-) be iho <lcalh of me,'' sighed Mr. Flug Ulis morning, as he came up Btroet. 41 Why* I thought they were nice girls," aaiil a sympa thizing friend. "So tboy ore, njce enough, but there's too many on 'em, an.' they arc too attractive," said the disconsolate patriarch. "Them three daughters of mine were enough in all conscience, but now my niece is up here from Huston, and it seems as if the old scratch had got into 'em. J don't object to young folks bavin' a good time, and girls bavin' beaux and all thai, but when it comes to bavin' sparkin' going on all over the place, damme its too bad," said Mr. l'lug, unconsciously quoting from TinaTore. "Last night Sue bad a feller courtin' her at the front gate, and Julia had her chap in the parlor. .*>nd when I got ready to go to bed, bless me i( Andromache (that's my niece from lloslon) didn't have young Slait spooning on the front slaws. She says that's Newport style. Cuss such nonsense! 1 couldn't get up stairs to gp to bed without clin.bin' over them. 1 thought I'd go out. to the barn and sleep on the buy, but dum my pictur if 1 didn't fall over Willy and some young snoozcr 'nulhcr set tin' in the barn door. This thing's got to stop before the cold weather, for I can't alfotd wood and kariysene for any such nonsense when it's too cold for out-door sparkin'." Causes of Duels. The old story of the Irishman who called a man out for expressing dis belief in his having seen anchovies growing on a tree, and when his op ponent lay wounded on the ground, repentantly owned to suddenly re membering it was capers he meant, muy be an invention, but duels have been fought for equally trivial reasons. One of the members of the body guard of Louis XVIII fought three in one day ; Iii si, with a gentleman who had offended by lookiug askew at him ; next, with one who had looked him hard in the face; and -thirdly, with a stranger who hud passed by without deigning to look at him at all.? Chambers' Journal. The Chinese Retiring. The Chinese in California scorn to understand that they must go, not withstanding the yoto ol the auli-Chin ese bill. A steamer recently took ?01 from San Francisco to lloug Kong, and while the Chinese who immigra ted during the year ending November 1, 187'J, numbered 0,128, the emi grants numbeicd 8,710, the excess of departures over arrivals being 2,018. It is estimated that there are now ou the Pacific coast about 00,000 China men, while at the beginning of the Chinese agitation there were over 100,000, and the total number of Chi nese arrivals in this country during the last twenty years is 137,000. Lebanon, Maine, is proud of pos sessing the stupidest man in the United Slates. He is a farm hand, and was engaged to plow a tcn-acrc lot. Wishing him to draw a straight furrow, his employer directed his at tention to a cow grazing right oppo site, telling him to drive directly to ward that cow. lie started his horses, and ? his employer's attention was drawn to some'hing elso; but in a short time, looking around, ho found that the cow had left her place, while the sagacious plowman was following her, drawing a zigzag furrow all over the fuld. Tin: Beaufort Crescent is in favor of a straight-out Democratic ticket in the South Ca olina election. Our able contemporary is right. Fusion ist s could more properly bo called coufusionists. Compromist tickets are unmitigated frauds. No man can compromise his honest principles without doing himself irreparable in jury ; and parties arc only aggrega tions of inch. When Democrats handle Radicalism, they should do it with long handled longs. [Sparta I slim ae lite.] T|IB New York canal ting is show ing aigns of great acrivity sinco the late election, and is hoping for agieat deal from Governor Cornell. If Howard Soule, who was defeated for Slate Fnginccr, is appointed' Super intendent of Public Works, as now seems to be contemplated, the old ring will have almost as much fun as it used lo have before Governor Til I den got his hands on it. The Fence Law. Editor Orangeburg Democrat: For the bene?t of XV and Ed is to, who pretended to answer an article wiittcn hy myself on the fence law, I Yf\\\ nimply hjiv if the advocates of the new law don't wish the stock of the poor to roam over their unen closed lands they ought for conscience sake, to enclose them, and let the old law he enforced. A man should be compelled to have his fences not leas than the law prescribes, for tr?ling fences make jumping slock. My opponents wish to know who owns cattle enough lo pay for Iiis fen cing? I will explain: Twenty head of cattle, penned every night on suf ficient litter, will pay not less than live dollars per head in the value of manure, in increase not less than six dollars per head, and in milk and butter not less than two dollars per head. Adding the above amounts to gether, he cun see how many rails it will give him every year at fifty cents per hundred. Besides, it is a pleas ure to own stock and to look at them roaming at large. Jf it was not for what man's eyes behold daily, the world would have but little attraction for hi in. My opponents also assert, like tlid prophets of old, that bacon and beef would not advance more than two cents per pound on present prices; but the most ignorant know better than that, for the greater the demand! for anything, the more must be paid for the article desired. As I staled before, this discussionv will take every column of Tue Dem ocrat for and against the fence law for the next twelve months, and the* gulf will be as broad then us it is now. The only way this question can be settled is lo leave it to a vote,, or nominate a double ticket for the Legislature, one for and the other agaicsL the fence law, and then the wants of the people can be properly; ascertained. A reference was also made to the up-country people being satisfied! with the law. Had the writer known what I do in regard to this matter,, he would not have mentioned it. I was told by a gentlemen that the poor people were so much opposed to its becoming a law, that, after its enactment, they swore they would not live in the country, and triad to sell their lands and slock; but fail ing to find purchasers, were forced to remain. The people in Orange bnrg don't inteud lo lake any such chances. Their eyes arc open. Watch. The Homestead, The action of the Legislature in adopting a joint resolution to amend the homestead provisions of the Con stitution will be hailed with delight all over the Stale. The resolution remedies the present defects in the law, and gives the head of every family, whether Ihe owner of ical es tate or not, the full benefit of the ex emptions. Before it can become a law the resolution will be voted upon at the. next general election, after which it will again pass both House* and then be embodied as a part of the Constitution." Nc living man, it may be remarked, can take an interest in politics and al the same time look out for a mule ; for of all practical topics the mule is tin most paramount and absorbing, and it requires all the natural und ac quired intellect of the average colored man to devote himself to the subject with any degree of personal safety or profit. An Kdinburg woman, whose hus band had beaten her 020 times m four years, bad him arrested and ho was sent to jail for threo days. The punishment was loo light. The hruto should have been sent to jail for a whole week. The next thing wo know he'll kill his wife, and thcu he'll get locked up for a month. 1,80S adults joined tho Methodist* ! Church in this State last year. Tho denomination has 407 Sunday 1 Schools, 8,044 teachers and 22,057 scholars within the bounds of tho South Carolina Conference, with. 167 traveling and 1?8 local preachers and a membership of 44,791. If tho Democrat who wants an of fice badly enough to combine with tho Radicals to get it, should ever stand in need of our vote to securo his elec tion, ho would most cerltpnly be ijv? foaled.