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"Vol. II. :No. 41. Blaine Disgusted. T?e grand Republican campaign ?demonstration in Philadelphia reocn - ly was very lively in some respects The torchlight procession was really taagnifiocnt, and the Tun began in the ?crown of 18,000 when Rlnine was in troduced. According to an accouut in a local paper the plumed knight oaid : "If it were possible to elect Gen. Hancock President, bis success would mean not merely a change of admin istration, but a change of dynasty. It would be a political revolution of this government of the most startling character, for to place the rebels of the South in command of the nation is quite as radical a change as would b? occasioned in England by unseat ing the House of Hanover and re storing the House of Stuart." At this moment the crowd before the speaker swayed violently in the di rection of the platform and the police had gre.st trouble to prevent the ropes from being overthrown. The agita tion was so great that the speaker did not resume for about two min utes. "My old friend, Colonel For* ncy," continued Senator Blnine, anfid groans and some cheers, "desires to use General Hancock, who aided in J8C3 to keep them out of the govern ment, to bring the rebels back in J880." (Loud and lurnultuons cheers for Hancock on the right of the I stand.) "All honor to Hancock for his couduct in 18G3, say I."' Here followed a prolonged intcrruprion and wild shouts for Hancock, at the end of which Senator Blaine said: "This, audience is too vast for any one man's voice to reach even a small part thereof. The election between Generals Hancock and GarQcld is also too vast." Here the speaker was again interruptod, and ceased talking for nearly one minute. "So far as the candidates arc concerned," resumed the Senator from Maine, "more than mere confidence in the two men are demanded, for both are individually honorable. If it were a mere eouflict between Gnrflcld and Hancock, to use an old English ex pression, I should not care a iocs up which man was chosen. So far as tho country's interests are concern ed." (Shouts for Garficld and for Hancock.) "If we cannot cr.rry Una discussion beyond personal friendship there is little to be said." (Wild cheers for Hancock.) Mr. Blaine turned from the audi ence depairingly, with an "aside" to the League ollicials: "I never saw anything like this boforo in all my speech making experience." "Go on," was the reply, "Go on for the newspapers." Mr. Blaine continued"; "Cheer for him as a military man and I am with you, but I say to you as Pennsyvan ians that the great question for you to consider is whether the industrial system of the United States shall be tampered with by new and untried bauds, who get their inspiration from (he same enemies to this land who built and launched the Alabama. I do not say it of my own knowledge, but I am assured that British free trade ideas are being pushed in Ibis land with all the might of British gold. Now my fellow-citizens, the only thought that I have traveled 500 miles to impress on the minds of the people of Pensylvania, in whom I have pride and honor of birthright, is that the election of Hancock is a me nanco, if not the destruction of the great commerce of their magnificent commonwealth. With Ibis idea in your mind you will give a large ma jority for Garfield in November. (Cries of "Go on," "Tell us about Maine," "How did it happen?" &c.) J will now retire, realizing the inade quacy of my voice." Mr. Blaine was followed by TliQB. M- Marshal, of Pittaburg, but his speech was only heard by the report* ers and was very brief. B. Stockei t Matthews next tried to address the surging and screaming Crowd of human being in front of the stand. He atarted out to show that "the reason tho De me rut a chose Hancock was .not because his white Nnvarrc4iko plume was seen on every battle field, but that despite his pure personal character, they recognized in him one who would be subservient to their wishes." "Three cheers for Hancock 1" was shouted near the stand and respond ed to by hundreds. "You'd better take out your cheers for Hancock," shouted Hie speaker, ouly to get a response in the charac ter of renewed cheers for Hancock, without any counteraction from Re publican throats. "Suppose you hurrah now for JefF Davis," Mr. Matthews sarcastically suggest, when the Hancock cheering had subsided. This was followed by roars of laughter?"or Robert B. JLice," continued the speaker, in the same strain. "Me was a soldier and as good a oue as Hancock." The crowd laughed again, and then the cheers for Hancock were renswed as if in defiance, although the people seemed good naturcd. Finally Gar field's name was shouted by sumo one near the League Building, and three hearty cheers were given. "Bad manners," resumed Mr. Mat thews, in undisguised disgust, "can always gel ahead of me, and this is more than I can stand. The men who made those call5 for Hancock, if they had the power, would sweep you Republicans out of the streets. Jt is cowardly I" shouted Mr. Matthews, and as he was about to speak further cheers for Hancock were started again taken up for n distance of half n square. "I had supposed," resumed the speaker, "that in Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, free speech would be tolerated. Now, with your permis sion, I will go on." "Go on. go on;" shouted the crowd. Mr. Matthews attempted to do so, but finally gave up the efifort in de spair. Tin: Republican party feels that it is now fighting in the last ditch. When men are pressed to the very wall they will make desperate efforts for safety. It is now suggested by some leading papers that the Rcpub. licans carry the campaign into the South. Their last hope is based on carrying Virginia, South Carolina and Louisiana. Before the middle of October it would not suprise us to see the negroes of this Stale rallied by the party cry to the court houses and churches, and canvassers sent from the North to harrangue them. This policy has been urged lime nnd again. Forewarned is forearmed. We should go to* work and prepare to meet such a stale ofallairs. ThiB can be done by earnest, enthusiastic work. If any campaign is waged by the Republi cans it will be done the last twenty days preceding the election. It will be too late for us to organize and meet such an effort then. Now is the time to prepare for it.? Carolina Spartan. Tiik Georgia Republicans have de termined to shut up shop and retire from business. The hopelessness of further efforts has at last besome ap parent to them, and they have wisely concluded to save their lungs and money from further campaign duty. At the late convention tho colored chairman formally announced the j dissolution of tho party in Georgia, and after congratulating himself that he had the honor to preside over the j last Republican convention that ever j would he held in the State, he declar :cd it adjourned forever. I The Washington Post is full of mysterious conundrums. It now ! wants to know why "is it that James ! B. Weaver, the alleged Greenback : candidate for the Presidency, finds it necessary evory time he comes thero to have a threo hours' interview with t.Ir. Iliibboll, the principal manager j of the Republican Congressional Com Itnittcc?" It further wants to know why they go into back rqpmsand lock . U\C dour. I Women Who Endorse Wiokedness. It is probable that women think as litl?c as do men of the responsibilities imposed upon them by mero exist ence. This responsibility in the wo man is very much increased when sho happens to be particularly handsome or otherwise attractive; and whereas the man if bad can only extend his evil influence through u very limited circle, a woman can go through life inflicting evil on nearly every man she meets and, by an exquisite sar ensm of results, promote sin by obey ing the pure impulse of her tender, womanly heart. From this very im pulse comes partially the toleration and the active sympathy for wicked ness, which is a tremendous power of its encouragement. We say "par tially," for it is a fact too patent for dispute, that the piquant flavor of sin in men ia exceedingly enjoyed by some women. Whichever of the two may be the cause in individual cases, it is certain liiut with the vast majority of women, a man with the "spice of 'he Devil in him," is greatly prefera ble to him who diligently lives up to the ten commandments, and walks in the narrow path prescribed in the New Testament. This is practically an oncourugemen to tho acquiring of the "spice" referred to, and invites the callow youth to seek the reputa tion for "wildness" that will secure him the favor, or pity that amounts to the same of the other sex. The true meaning of these tcims, "spice of the devil," and "wildness," it is not dilllcult to define. But when the de finition is given it should remove the romance and attraction most effectu ally. No man can possess eithei quality without doing things that are repugnant to morality, and abhorrent to respectable people. But this re pugnance and abhorrence are not shown to shame tho evil doer. Many a young man is at some pains to let it.be known-among his lady friends that ho ia an adept in draw poker, a wise discriminator of mixed drinks, and even occasional antagonist of the delusive nnd destructive "tiger," because he knows by experience nud observation thut the worst conse quences to ensue will be a confiden tial, imploring little talk?and few things are moro pleaBant nnd tickling to a man's vanity than a lengthy moral lecture from a handsome wo man. This evil is practical, and its consequences horribly so. Many a man has sought "wildness" under the brilliant light and amid the spark ling decanters and roaring good fel lowship of the saloon, and the luxuri ous surroundings of the gambling room, and only csenped from it in the darkness and desolation of a dishon ored grave. Seeking it to gain smiles from fresh, sweet lips, and pitying tenderness from bright eyes, he finds ruin, and horrors that no writing can tell of. The remedy is less charity for sin. With all His superhuman tenderness and love, tho Saviour of men lashed the open violators of de cency and morality from the temple. The profane, the lewd, the gamulers and the incipient or developed drunk ards should be drivon from parlors, consecrated by the presence of daugh ters, wives and sisters. We ndvocate the most unwearied effort to reclaim the erring and redeem the lost, but young women are not the proper ones to do that work except by the dis couragement of evil. That is the utmost limit to which they can go without accomplishing far moro harm than good. When they let it be un derstood that a reputation for "wild ness" secures banishment from their presence nnd loss of their favor men will lack a temptation now existing to stray away in the vulgarly broad path in which Prince ami plowman walk together, and there will be a vast diminution in the number of broken hearts, ruined lives and lost souls.r?Greenville News. The Marl borough Democracy gave a cordial greeting to tho State canvas sers, and turned out 0,000 strong. Tho mounted procession was nearly a mile long. Speeches were mada by Hagood, Kennedy, Sims, J. S. Rich ardson and G. W. Dargan, The Southern Census. Washington, September 26? When the ccQSUG enumeration had progressed far enough in South Caro lina to show that there would be a startling increase over the census enumera'ion of 1870, thero was a simultaneous assault made ou the cor rectness of the South Carolina census for political effect. It was charged that there must be fraud, as it could not be prctended that there was an increase of nearly forty pel cent, in a State that bad no manufacturing or other catmes to multiply population beyond the ordinary increase. Superintendent Walker and Secre tary Schurz give the matter careful attention. They did not heed the partisan elicits, but they were in earnest to have the census taken as nearly correct as possible. They de cided not to take any public cogniz ance of the political complaints against the State, but to attain the most careful verification of the re turns. They did not formally sus pend any of the Southern returns, but as they could not pay all the enumerators for some weeks they bavc paid in their order such as had no complaints of any kind against the work and delayed numerous returns from both the South and the North for exhaustive inquiry. -That inquiry has been progressing most thoroughly while the undisputed returns were being paid for, and the work in South Carol nn has been vig orously prosecuted by going back to the actual field ot the enumerators and subjecting their returns to various tests which will prove their accuracy or expose their errors or frauds. Superintendent Walker has had j this work of examination done in the most thorough manner, and although not yet entirely complete, enough is known at the Census Bureau to prove that the census enumeration an 1870 was grossly-defective by rea son of corrupt or ignorant enumera tors, and that the most critical revis ion of the bona fide population of South Carolina will make it about what the Times reported several weeks ago. When the work shall have been comp'eted the decision of the Census Bureau will be made pub" lie, and there is now no doubt that the carefully revised enumeration will give South Carolina close to 50,000 inhabitants.?New York Times. A 3'ourig mau whose nfllanced went back on him and broke off the engage ment received a note from her asking him to return the lock of hair which he had. He looked over his trank, collected a heap of tresses culled from various sources during his love making career, and forwarded thorn in a buddle to bis late ?ady love, in closing a note to the effect that ho had forgotten which wao hers, but she n ight select it from those for warded, and return the rest at her earliest convenience. The story got out, and the neighborhood felt so warm for her that she went on a pro longed visit to her oountry cousins. John W. Forney telegraphed on Saturday from Pittshnrg the Gibraltar of Pennsylvania Radicalism, that the largest mass-meeting in Western Pennsylvania since 1840 was then as sembled for Hancock. Ben. Butler wns speaking and be was to follow, The chairman was Mai shall Swartz welder, oho of the most influential Republicans in the West, and ihcre were one hundred and thirty Repub lican vice-presidents. According to Forney, Western Pennsylvania is ablaze fur conciliation and Hancock. "What are we here for, but to get office?" said Flanagan, of Texas, in the Cbicago-Garlicld Convention. It begins to look very much like Mr. Flanagan and his colleaguos were in the wrong markot, Now is the timo for a young man who has been traveling, and is finan cially reduced, to have bis linen dus ter dyed black, ornamented with a fur collar and prepare for the overcoat season. Mart Gary to the Front. j The old Bald Eagle of Edgefieid won't take any Independent nomina tion- Some party in Charleston made up a ticket some time ago which has been running regularly in the columns of the Charleston Mer cury, with General Gary's name at the head as an Independent candi date for Governor. Hear tho old straigidout: Oakley Park. September 25,1860. Editor of the Clurrleston Mercury. Dear Sir : I returned on yesterday from the While Sulphur Springs, of West, Virginia. A friend lias just shown inc a copy of your paper, in which is my nomination as an Inde pendent candidate for the office of Governor of this Stute. My position in regard to the mode and manner of the nomination of the present Demo* cratic State ticket is a matter of re cord. Also my determination not to run as an Independent Democrat un der any circumstances. I therefore rcspectfuly decline the nomination. I am the same blraightout Democrat I have always been, and each day confn ms me more and more in the cor rectness of my position. Your obedient servant, M. W Gary. A Girl's Fatal Infatuation. Three weeks ago Anna Chaplin a daughter of a director of the First Na tional Bank at Warsaw, Ind., presen ted a check for $8,000, sighed by her lather, which was paid. Ho discov ered it was a forgery and put his daugeter in jail, refusing to bail her out. In three days she confessed that the real forger was G. L. Smith, a sewing-machine agent. Smith was also arrested but was admitted to ball. On Wednesday afternoon Smith cal led at the jail and was' allowed to walk with Miss Chaplin in the back yard. They had not been there long before four pistol shots were heard, and when the Jailer's family reached the yard the dead bodies of Miss Chaplin and Smith were discovered lying side by side, the revolver smoking, still remaining in Smith's hand. Smith had a wife and two chil dren, and had been trying to procure a divorce. Five Radical Candidates. The Republican Congressional Convention of tho Fourth District was held in Chester on Friday last, and Absalom Blythe, the Greenville soalawag, was nominated by acclama tion. This completes the set. In the First District, they have nom inated Sam Lee, the Sumter, the mulatto; in the Second, E. W. M. Mackey ; in the Third, the carpet bag ger Stolbrand ; in the Fourth, Blythe; in tho Fifth, the negro Smalls. Therefore, Democrats, be on your guard. Sec to it that you secure the Electoral Vole of South Carolina for Hancock, and allow no Radical mem ber to creep into Congress from our State. There have been misapprehensions and mistakes concerning the date of tho election to be held in Colorado, Most of the politcal manuals for 1880 announce that the State officers and members of Congress are to be chosen on October C. Doubt having arose in regard to the matter, Chairman ! Barnum, of the Democratic National Committee, telegraphed to Mr. J. F. j Wclborn, Chairman of the Deinocrat | ic Slate Central Committee of Colora do, who responded, "We havo no election in October. It is November 2." So Georgia will be Urn first Slate to vote in October, the State election there taking place on the Gth of that month. Senator Rhone accounts for tho vo snlt in Maine by charging that after he had got things fixed, by the use of $100,000, more or less, of campaign funds, the wicked Democrats slipped in behind him and bought up six or seven hundred voles with about 830, 000. What a nice lot Iho average Maine Republican voters must be if this chargo is true \ WordtioThjt?Of. Work ia no dishonor, and nodis credit to any one. It I? good to have good wages; but half pay lb better than nothing and working for nothing is belter then idleness and vj^o. There is no true manhood without independence. He whose individual* ity 16 swallowed up by fashion, folly* or society, has lost that which be may never regain, and without which Ilia life must be a vain one. He who re* strains himself from luxury may help others in necessity. He who helps others may look to God to help fata. Difficulties are placed ia aw tkvjp that we may overcome them and patt through conflicts to victories, and from victories to triumphs. Pride goea before destruction, bat honor and nobleness and independence of soul are approved of God, and are profitable to man. "Six Shot Bull Dozer." We notice au advertizmcnt in the A. li. Presbyterian which rather as tonishes us: "A six shot bull dozer only sixty cents. Boye no* hi year chance to own ? splendid revolver/* That is the way it reads. Mow we don't mean to say that the low-price is astonishing but that the advertise ment in such a paper published ia such a moral community, is astonish ing. We had no Idea that the boys up there were indulging in each a dangerous practice at carrying ?'ball doxers and six shots.*" We remem* ber very distinctly that we got about six stripes for borrowing an old -pep per box and shooting it with pesler matches, during the war. A fair proporiioo of the ladies of America are intelligent, and some of them evince mach spirit,' hat ia Ike affairs of fashion they snbmit unccfn plaingly to a tyranny of the most heartless character. Those sr&oee sesae of propriety would induce Utejo to resist the arrogance of French manufacturers, dressmakers and sail* liners, have not the courage to Eefose. to accept the "latest style*/* If Paris says a lady mast carry a "tfwef garden or an aviary upon her bead no* one will dare to refuse obedience to* her command. Old Ben Butler has coma oa t for Hancock? and the parity of hit mo tives are qoorftoasjd. It fa wseefted that he has some aelflstf object in view. His case Is somewhat similar to that of the old darkey who was caught in a stable at midnight oaty* ing a horse. He raised up hl? hand land ejaculated: ?Ts* dona S?st my jbet. I bet Brudder Gardiner die heah boss was a roan, and now I sees he is a bay.** All Batiar wants It to examine the horses. The - Boston Post, alluding to' the census returns, adds:' The booth has been shewn to have prospered and increased to much faster ander Democratic rule than Ohio and Wis consin have ander Republican sale, that the radicals dsnhnno* the Sos*g? made by their own appointees' as a fraud; and desire to.recount and count out the southern Inhabitants, as they did southern electors when they stole the Presidency in 1876. Tiik New York New* gives the fol lowing reasons for thinking that Han - cock will bo eleated President: 44Wa don't hear of one man who voted for Tilden that will not voto for Han cock. We hear of thousands who did not vote for Tilden that will vote for Hancock. And Tilden was fairly elected. It does not take mach of an arithmetician to come to a conclusion as to the roBiilt." A Republican organ says that "it is onrrenton Wall street that tho head of a well known metcofitilehotiaa of New York has subscribed flay thousand dollars to the Hancock fund,** and that a very Urge 'ftaftxp cratlo fund has been raised from'ban kers. This seems" to indicate that business and capital are* not vary much alarmed with the prospect of Hancock's success,