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"Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Alms't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." 'SS TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, SUMTER, S. C.,' TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1883. JSm Series-YoL HT. So. s. c. . annum-in advaoce. fi?n'kxn^TS.. >1 00 irate rand notices ofV 5SK iio?>: of the Manning terwwi at the re? ce^of same fib-i Wak *. jlawer, ? ^^^Seerr?yeat-- j year. "5 ??enr-. n.. 5" - Bverjyear--. tow?rit, le?reetfountains ; Every yeer Every y i,we*M barn it, Bvery?year-, fl ||g?p^xveiu, % ?train, . %r. \ ; . Beery, year, lengthen fkst, siies are more n cr cast <ta Henry, ^ipy ftr Statesman of the Rtvdtdion f ' J-:^^M?^r^f^^Ty ~ *~ Orator. ^B???? ? ^ Ckrtelan Herald j t^HB^;?oae <i?pe in the year I856;j ^.?^^ring article eotkled -Mr j ^^y^Scjc^?B?7 vas originally a bar' ^pfcii?fl* ?nn marritti very yoong ' jj?BQilHi? ?nt? some b asi ness, 00 ht |?^?ttV ^ a bankrupt befar :: ^jPKmont. When! was abocl 3 'Si^Jp-of ?fceen, I' thc echo J ? tjti ffty fir tho m?lrrr at William J ^^^T? t?^ooonty of Lonisa. Tbej ^li^sm^ia^twcnnie acquainted will itp^^^1^^^ Some question anJ ^a^nnl nf??inmtr-? ri?h that iostitotiof :'ljS?mf?ekj9? my svdmtssioo about! t^?K^^ '^ **'. ?n^ Heory^? '^I^^Wiftf' ~ - ' fh nr?mn" nf ray meetiog Jm ^^^?em' There were four es a rain JSt F Wjf^?r Pos?ietofi, Peyton Rao&th ??*id JoTw> Randolph. Wytke %? ^%?4ftdieton si eeo? rejected bis nj?i. iSfe. ?3tot-?w* Randolphs, by itc Lr. f ?jte^f? ^iWe prevailed opon to sig J a I^Jfotstjg4tnd^ bavi?g obtained theirJ^g. ? i?fct^tV^* ?f^?ed again to Pend? JQD, ^Tllj ImwT mrnrh entreaty and tXDy ^^^br^igbt htm Into notice sf ft ^^Titiliijtiil Mention, io wbieb bjap *""F^W** cooDsel before a eomrjttee ^'.m^^^?q?tB. of Burgesses H?8ec_ o?d im? the Parson canoe, P^fa?fiK^- ?lieae and similar Jgbrts jjCi^M*1"1 ft'11 otm so mach jjfcota ^^aj?^^tb? time* as any mail eV?r ^^^^^^^^ far before all j^^ain^ waa di?Sit, when he bad spoken, to tell what e ha&said, yet, while be j was speing, it always seemed di [rectlfJ the point. When he had spoken |opposition, it bad^ produced a great efit and I aasked myself, when be ceased-j What the de fri bas he said?" I co aid. iver answer the inquiry. His person ts of fall sise, his manner and ?olee f| and manly. His utterance neither^ry fast nor Very slow. H?3 spcechegeoerally short, from a .qtfar ter ta ?lf an hoar. His prona Dela? tion w* vulgar and viscious, bat it foritten while he was speaking. He *? a man. of very little , kn o wi? ly sort ; he read nothing, 'and noi>oks. Returning one November bemarle coarfc^he borrowed of me Hire's Essays, in two volumes, saying e should have leisure in winter for rea og. In the spring be returned them; fed declared be bad bot teen [able Ufo farther than twenty or thirty the first volume. He wrote I almosfaothi??-he could not write. Cations of 1775, which have iribed to him, have by many >posed to have been written by inson, who acted as his second occasion ; bet if they were iby Henry himself, they are not I snob I to prove any power of com po sitiocI Neither in politics nor in bis profesen was be a man pf business: be [was I man for debate only. His bi? ographer says that be read,.. Plutarch everwear. I doubt whether he ever read.ivolurae of it in his life. His $emp| was excellent, and be generally obsened decorum in debate. On one j or ttf occasions I have seen bim angry, anger was terrible; those who it were not disposed, to rouse In bis-' opinions, be was and practicable, and not dis [to differ* from bis friends. In conversation be wai agreeable ?tions, and while in genteel so appeare<rro understand all toe ?es and proprieties of it; bat, in bp? bart, be preferred iow society, aod so? it it as often aa possible. j? i would hunt ta the pine woods of Fib una with overseers and people of tbi1 ?escriptio?, living in camp for a ?git at a time without a change of int. I have often been astonished at ?s command of proper language. Hoi be attained a knowledge of it I con ld find oat, as he read so and conversed so little with ed? mon. After all i ? mast be al that be was our leader io the re of the Revolution in Virginia, tt respect more was* doe to bim any other person. ?If we bad not hal bim we should probably have got on prity wik], as yea did, by a number o finen of nearly equal talents, bat be lef us far behind. His biographer sent sheets of bis work tome as they printed, and at the end asked me my opinion. I told bim it would a question "hereafter, whether :*bis rk should be placed OD the shelf of or of panegyric, lt is a poor >k, written in bad teste, abd gives (imperfect an idea of Patrick Henry, it.seems intended to show off thc ir more than tfce ?abject of the rk. * Bare Coins. }?cer Dollars t?tat Bring $500 and Copper Cents that arc Worth ?5. In conversing on the value of rare Slited States pieces a numismatist ve the following information : The hurest United States coin is the doa lej3*?gfiftrf 1849^ of which there is ??ry one in existence, belonging to e United States mint Cabinet. The ext in rarity to it is the half eagle f 1815, for one of which it is said the king of ?weeden, to complete bis pollectiou of United States coins, paid the enormous price of $2,000/ Daly five known specimens of this half eagle are in existence. Auother rare coin is the silver dollar of 1804. There are but ten genuine pieces, all of wbicb are now held by collectors. Several restrikes have been made, but to obtain a -fine one from the original die would cost at least 1,000. The half dollars of 1796 and 1T97 if in fine condition bring $40 ; of the two the 1796 is the rarer and usually Bells at a still higher rate. The quarter dollars of 1823 and 1*827, if in good condition sell readily at $30 each ; but if in strictly fine preservation double th'at sum is cheerfully paid. O? the dimes there are none of extreme rarity ; still among the rare coins of the denomina? tion Ibat of 1804 is the rarest, and if in a good condition it can be bought at from $5 to $10, but a real iiue specimen would bring a good deal more. Among the half dimes that of 1802 is ?he rarest and a very tine piece with that date sells readily at $100. There are other United States coins wbicb are much sought after, and yet pass from band to band oMy for their face value. The condition of the piece is essential to an under? standing of the premium value of any coin of rarity The age of coin is not always a guarantee of premium above face value. ? coin, brilliant as if fresh from the coining press, is considered and known as "proof," while one which is free from the oses and abuses of circulated money ts known as "uncirculated," and and ranks second to "proof1 in pre? mium value. The following prices are offered by any numismatis on receipt of. the co i ns in good condition. None of any otber dates tban those mentioned are rare : United States silver dollars of 1804, $500 ; 1838, 1839, 1851, 1852, each $20; 1858, $19; 1798, small eagle, fifteen stare, $6 ; 1798, small eagle, $8; 1836, $3.50; 1799, five stars feeing $2; 1854, 1855, 1856, $2; 1795, im, 1797, 1801, 1802, 1803, $1.50 eacb. Trade dollars of 1879, 1880 and 1881 are very rare, as only a lew hundred of each, as proofs for collectors, were struck, and com? mand a premium. * Balfdollar-?794, $3:. 1796, $25; 1801, $12; 1802, 3; 1815, o ejected: -or - unlettered K*V-*wan t> over ; 1852, if in good con dition, $2; 1853, without sun around eagle or arrows near date, $10. Quarter-dollars-r-1823 and 1827, $20 each; 1853, without sun rays back of eagle and no* arrows near date,4 $4; 1796, and 1804, $2. each. Dimes of 1804 are worth $5 each; those of 1T96,1798,1800,1801, 1802, 1803 and 1822. if in good condition, are worth $2 each; those of 1805, 1807, 1809, 1811 and 1846, if in good condition, are worth fifty to seventy-five cents each. ' Half-dimes-1802 are worth, if in good condition, $50 each; 1794, 1796, 1797, 1800,1801, 1803 and 1805, if in good coudition, are worth from $1 to $2 each, 1795, 1846 and 1838, without stars, if in good condition, are worth from fifty cents to ?1 each. Small three cent silver coins, all the issues of three-cent silver coins from 1863 to 1873 inclusive, if in fine coudition, from fifteen cents to twenty-five cents each. A fine specimen two-cent copper coin of 1873 is worth fifty cents. Of the copper cents the rarest are those issued in 1793, 1796 and 1804. Pro? vided they are in good condition they bring from $3 to $5 apiece; but ii fine they sell at higher prices. The copper cent of 1809, if in a good state of preservation, is worth fifty cents each. The cents with the fol? lowing dates: 1794,1&5, 1796, 1797, 1800,1805, 1806, 1808, 1811, 1813, and 1823, provided they are in good condition, bring a slight premium, but when in a poor, or even only fair condition they are only worth their face value. The nickel cent of 1856 is worth $1. "Of the half cents the issue pf 1796 is worth ?5; those 1793, $1; while those of 1794, 1795? 1797, 1802 and 1811 are worth' from twenty-five cents to fifty cents each, provided they are in good state of preserva? tion; 183?, 1836, 1840 to 1848 inclu? sive, 1849 very small date, 1852, $3 50 each. . <> The Bad Boy Quits Work. *Wny are you not working at the livery stable V the grocery man asked the bad boy. 'You haven't been discharged have you?' And the grocery roan laid a little lump of con? centrated lye that looked like maple sugar, on a cake of * sugar that bad been broken, knowing the boy would nibble it. 'No, sir; I was not discharged, but when a livery man lends me a kick iug horse to take my girl out riding, that settles it. 1 asked the 'boss if I couldn't; have a quiet horse that would drive bisj-elf if I wound the lines around the whip, and he let me have one he said would go all . day without driving. ' You know how it is, when.a fellow "takes a girl out riding he don't want his mind occu? pied holding lines. Well, I got my girl in, and we went ont on the Whitefish Bay road, and it was just before dark, and we rode along under the trees, and I wound the lines around the whip, and put one arm around my girl, and patted her under the chin with my. other hand, and her mouth looked so good, her blue eyes looked up at me and twinkled as much as to dare me to kiss her, and I was all of a tremble, and then my band wandered around by her ear and I drew her bead up to me and gaye ber a smack. Say, tbat was lio kind of a horse to give to a young fellow to take a girl out riding. Just as 1 smacked fcer I felt as though the bug? gy had been struck with a pile driver, and when 1 looked at the horse be was running away and kicking the buggy, and the lines were dragging ! on the ground. 1 was scared, 1 toll you. 1 wanted to jnmp out, but my girl threw lier arms arouui ray neck and screamed and said we would die together, and just as we were going to die, the buggy struck a fence and j the horse broke loose and went off, leaving us in the hnggy, tumbled down by the dashboaid, but we were not hurt. The old horse stopped and went to chewing grass, and he looked up at me as though he wanted to say 'philopene.' 1 tried to catch him, but he wouldn't catch, and then we wait? ed till dark and walked home, and 1 told^the livery man what 1 thought of such treatment, and he said if 1 had attended to my driving and not kissed the girl I would have been all right. He said 1 ought to have told him I wanted a horse that would not shy at kissing, but how did I know I was going to get up courage to kiss her ? A livery man ought to take it for! granted that wjieu a young fellow j foes ont wit'^^girl he is going to j iss l^er, and'give him a horse ac-j cording. But I quit him at once, i 1 won't work for a man that hasn't j got sense. Gosh! What kind of j maple sugar is that ? Jerusalem ! I Whew, give me some.waler. Oh, j my, it is taking the 6kin off my j mouth.7 The grocery man got him some wa ter and seemed sorry that the boy j had taken the lump of concentrated j lye by mistake, and when the boy ! went out the grocery man pounded I his hands on bis knees and laughed, j and presently he went out in front of j the store and found a sign, 'Fresh j leti8, been picked moren month, ; tuffer'n tripe.'-Pech99 Sun. A New Game. We are indebted to the New York Times for an explantion of the game of 'fly loo.' It is called a seaside game for rainy days, but it may be interest? ing anywhere. This is the ' game : 'Each player obtains a lump of sugar and places it on his or her knee upon a nickel, or a dime, or a quarter, or on $100, if they feel so disposed. Then they gather in a circle, and the player Upon whose lump the first fly alights takes all the money from the others.' The charm of this game is that it requires no mental effort, lt exactly meets the requirements of dudes and dudesses of the summer resorts. -- iii mm We have just seen a pamphlet from Belgium in which it is stated that the Yorktown c?l?bration of 1881 was io f ? honor of the one hundredth year of the existence of that town.-Richmond (tr ; ? The Negro Convention. There is nothing very remarkable about the proceedings of the negro convention held in Columbia last week. Their declarations were ill advised and ill-digested, to put it mildly, but there was a sufficient j amount of intelligence included among the delegates to warrant stronger language in commenting upon such an assertion as that "the Southern negro is not protected by law in the collection of money due him." The real iact, as known ?and appreciated by every one, is that nineteen out of every twenty negroes manage in one way or another to col? lect more than the wages due by se? curing advance payments and refusing to work it out, and the employer is not protected by law in forcing the negro to work out the wages already paid him. Again, they say, "In most parts of the country the negro does, not have a fair show in the schools," which ouly proclaims their ingratitude to the white people for burdening themselves with a heavy school tax and dividing equally with the negroes, who pay the merest pit? tance of school money. They "wish the American people to understand and be informed that we are cursed with the most damnable form of State Government to which a free people were ever subjected," in that con? victed felons and penitentiary gradu? ates are not allowed to vote in the choice of law-making and tax-levying officials. All their complaints are of the same type, and we opine that they would hardly be fully satisfied with anything short of a tax upon the white people sufficient to sup? port the entire negro race, with the privilege of ali going to free schools from six to sixty 3Tears, with board and clothes furnished, and all over that age to be pensioned and allowed to select whatever offices they would like to have. This plan would of course prove impracticable, for obvi? ous reasons, and hence, since we can? not fully satisfy the negro in the line of his desires, the next best thing is to fully impress-him with the weight of responsibility that rests on him as a citizen. One of the ra?st important of these is the responsibility., of citi? zens in supporting public institutions. The public schools constitute our most expensive public institution, and although the tax is very heavy, we have been unable to run them more than half as long as desired. To lengthen the term of sessions would suit both whites and blacks, but to double the present rate of taxation would not please the whites near as well a's it would the blacks. Now we make a proposition that the school fund hereafter be applied as far as it will go in proportion to the private fund raised to supplement it in run? ning" the schools, dollar for dollar, so that; for instance, a negro school that is now run four months -on ?150 of public money eau only get that ?150 by the patrons supplimenting it with an equal amount, making a suffi? cient sum to run the same school eight mouths. Ol course we would have the same rule apply to both whites and blacks, that both races might have equal privileges and the advantages of lengthened school terms, and we feel assured that the negroes would realize in a few years what a boon they have contemned in the public school privileges that this 'damnable State government' has heretofore vouchsafed them. We are heartily tired of this coaxiug along with the negro, and shall endorse any reasonable measure looking to requir? ing their paying the piper while they dance along with our people. The plan adopted by the trustees of the great Peabody fund, in making dona? tions for the support of schools only as supplementary to equal amounts from other sources, should now be adopted with modifications in appro? priating the public school fund in South Carolina, thus doubling its effi? ciency and applying it where it will do the most good.-Anderson Jour? nal. Why Grant Was Not Asssassi nated. "The darkest day of my life," said the General, "was the day I heard of Lincoln's assassination. I did not know what it meant. Here was the rebel? lion put down in the field and startiog up in the gutters; we had found it as war, now we had to fight it as assassina? tion. Lincoln was killed on thc evening of the 14th of April. I was busy sending outorders to stop recruiting, the purchase of supplies, and to muster out the army. Lincoln had promised to go to the theatre, and wanted me to go with him. While 1 was with the President, a note came from Mrs. Grant saying she must leave Washington that night. She wanted to go to Burlington to soe her children. Some incident of a trifling nature had made her resolve to leave that evening. I was glad to have it so, as I did not want to go to the theatre. So I made my excuse to Lincoln, and at the proper hour we started for tho train. As wc were driving along Pennsylvania avenue, a horseman drove past us on a gallop, and back again around our carriage, looking into it. Mrs. Grant said, j 4'There is the man wlio sat near us at lunch to-day, with some other men, and tried to overhear our conversation, j He was so rude that wc left thc dirin<r- ! ! roora. Here he is now riding-after us." | I thought it was only curiosity, but j learned afterward that the horseman ? I was Booth, lt seemed 1 was to have I been attaeked, and Mrs. Grant's sud I den resolve to leave deranged the plan. I A few days after I received an anuony mous letter from a man saying that he ? had been detailed to kill me, that he j rode on my train as far as Harve de ! Grace, and as my car was locked he j failed to get in He thanked God he j had failed. I remembered the con I ductor locked our car, but how true the letter was, I caunot say. I learned of the assination as I was passing through Philadelphia. I turned around, took a special train, and came OTT to_A?iish ington. It was the gloomiest day of my life." Key. Mr. Jasper on the Si The Kev. Dr. Ludlow, of Bron!, recently attended the church of Kev. Jonu Jasper, to hear a repot of his famous sermon on "De Sue move,' The church was crowded 1 uncomfortable degree. Jasper is six feet in height, and is a p( among the negroes of Virginia, text was Exodus xv.. 3 : "The I is a roan of war.' What this h ac do with the movement of the sun, Ludlow could not imagine. But ? per explained ; aod Dr. Ludlow g an account of the sermon in the h pendent. The text being annoum Jasper said : "Sich bein' de ease, we orter mighty wary how we deny de word de Lor'.' Then he severely denoun the Kev. Mr. Wells, who had deri his "sun he do move" sermon aod c eluded by challenging Mr. Well: this way: "Dat Rebcrend Wells link arms me an' we'll go up to dc judgem seat ob de Lor', an' say : 'Lou'l ; jus' 'cide 'twix us.' An' if I'see wn de good Lor'he say : 'John, you 1 made a mistake.' A' if dat ud clergyman is wrong, de Lor' say to 4i 'Dick Wells, you 'botuinable liar! down thar to yar owu place !' Tears started down black faces wh with a voice trembling with emotion, described Father Abraham "a-lok?n lubbingly into the turued-up face Isaac, dat mighty ADC boy wat de g( Lor' who wouldn't broke his promi scot him when be was an ole ma The scene on Moriah was super! acted ; the preacher's long ann v raised, bis eye was frenzied as in I act of sacrifice, until relieved by wi dat noise a-crackin' through the bra dar? Sure enuf de ram ob' de Lo One's fiesb "crawled' as he descrit the plagues of Egypt, perhaps kcepi nearer to the experience of some ot' 1 hearers than to the Bible account. T boys' emotions were audible when talked of "locustees ; not de jar fi which lef dar shucks on de* trees i filled de a'r wid creakin', but a inigh army of'em bigger dan Virginy bc per-grasses, which come an4 eat chery ting until dey were blown aw by a mighty vehement wind." **B de awfulest plague was de las,' Angel ob de Lor' what destroyed s slaughtered till de Lor' gib him noti to quit an' got no furder.' "So PL roan couidu't staud it no longer. 1 was mad wheo he saw all the ole slav agoin' free dat he went down into wilderness to hab a row wid de Lo Ah,, children, wouldn't yar eyes started to see de magoniticence o' Ph roah's army a makin' de invashun o o' Egypt ! Chariots biggeru de eire band goes a-ridin' in an, a migh smart colouel a driviu' eb'ry one ob *e an' all de cavalry a-mouuted on ho.' back, whild de infautry, kos there w no horses fur 'em, all a-walkin" on foe "De word Moses means dreien, k he was -drewn ont o'de water when boy ; au' de kos o'de Lor' was a-dre by Moses for forty years,' etc. The discussion proper consist? chiefly of comments on passages Scripture, such as the following : "From the ribing of the sun un the going down of the same, the Lord name is to b? praised/ But if som body says de sun don't rise au' f down, he robs de Lor' ob his prais* like all dis yer blasphcmin' science.' 'The sun hasteth to his place whet he arose ; but w!at a fool to t'uk de su could be a hurry in' up to get ready I rise if de sun couldn't move V ' 'The sun returned ten degrees, b which degree it was goue down.' If c 8uu didn't move, poor Hezekiah woul nebber got well, au' had no more hop iu uame of the Lor' dan dese moder scientifikiug fellows what are goin' t be sunk deeper dan de Jehovah-fat Val ley for dar awful lyiu ' Brother Jasper's indignation was ci pecially fiery agaiust &uch men as 'da yar Mister Copper-nicus and Miste Snewtous what tells us dat dc arth at roun' an floatin' on uuffin, when de Bi ble says its got foundations. Gue? Fze bin as near de bottom ob de art! as any ob dcm folkses; sebeu huuuc an, fifty feet iu a mine shaft an' gib m word ob honor, dar was no sign o gittiu' through it; nota wink ob day light from de udder side. ?, d irreb'riuce ob sayin, de arth am rouu when de Lor' say in Keberlation da am four angels a-stannin' ou de fou corners ob de arth a holdin' on to d four winds 1 Dcse scientifikiug mei eau lie so as to make black white ; bu de cau't inakc*what's four corners ont? it roun ; dey canU square de circle ii dis yer respeck.' 'Now Ise goin, to make one ?1 lowance. Though de arth don't tuov< a wink from ber eternal foundation, d< day am a-comin' when she a-gwiue tei move, busted wi' fire, an all de sk\ a-rollin' away like a buruin uewspapei in de wind. Oh, deu you sinuers, yei better be a movin, too. Shake bauds wi' heaven to-day, so's you won't bi cali ni, un de mountains to fall on to yei souls in de day of de Lor.' Kos why 1 Kos as de text say, 'De Lor' am a mau of war.' Fashion Changes. Says the New York Sun in its so? ciety column : "A complete revolu? tion in the fashions of iadies' dresses and figure is about to take place, ami many (juitc startling innovations will probably be observed at tho watering places th'is summer, aK.ough the new style? are not likely to be established before next winter. Bones, angles and length without breadth are out. Knutid ness, curves and amplitude are coming in. Anglicism in costume, including manisbness of appearance and attire arc decidedly on the wane, and the flowing skirts, paniers and graceful draperies, in which the soul of the French dress? maker doth delight, are increased in favor every day. Hair is to have an upward tendency, and the classical knot in the nape of the neek is to bc superseded by puffs and rolls on the head, in shorL everything-to bc exactly as it has not been: and great are thc lamentations ofnftno and the rejoicing of others at the change that is certain to take place. Caterpillar-green and i strawberry-red arc the rather uniuviting I titles of thc newest shades of color. Tno Swindlers' Kelie? j It is now estimated that there will i be something between sixty and a j hundred million surplus revenue for ! the financial year. The probability is j that there will be nearer a hundred ? million, if not more than that amount, j This estimate ia based upon carrying I the same enormous pension charged I as is now wrung from the honest : labor of the country. ! To show the supremacy of the j swindlers and protectionists in the conduct of our governmental affairs, now little better than a huge piracti cal job, the proposition is freely dis? cussed of dividing out the surplus revenue among the States. The Columbia Register comments j as follows upon how this will work: New England, with over four million inhabitants, would draw eight out of ninety-six million surplus revenue, after having received by the protec i tive policy not less than 20 per" cent. ?on her ?l,X0i,37S,103 of mamifac-1 ? tures ; or $220,302,620 in bounties. The Northern Middle States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with 10,496,878 population, would get over a fifth ol' the surplus, or twenty out of a hundred million of j surplus revenue, whilst these same States enjoy a protective bountv on their $2,079,000,000 of manufactures, j amounting at 20 per cent, average j enhancement of prices to over four j hundred million dollor?. These two j groups of manufacturing States, get ? ting protection to the amount of over j six hundred million from the people j of the rest of the (Inion, would get I from the surplus revenue fund ?30, I 000,000 a year ; and this in order to i maintain the very system that con? tributed to their protected industries S by six hundred million a year, i lt ia true these exact figures may i not hold, but the broad facts are ? alongside of our statement. This is the condition of things by ! which one section it? rolling in wealth, j concentrated in the hands of a certain enormously rich class, whilst the people of other sections and the hum? ble classes everywhere are hampered by the rich villians of the North who make their corners on food and raiment and stocks whilst refusing their ein I ployees their honest dues. Who cares ? Even at the South what do our 'trusted representatives' care who hob nob with the rich and powerful cor? rupt ionists, and so long as they swim care not who sink. ? This thing will all come to account j some day! The villainy on the> one j hand and heartless insincerity on the other will not always go unwhipped of justice. The people of a great free country like ours, dwelling on the broad surface of tho most fruitful land of the world, will at some day rise up in their own strength and throw off the vile bondage uuder which they have groaned. No people dwelling as ours do, in the broad fields, can be caught and reduced to abject submission. At some time society will awaken to its trust and privileges and find its hon? ored instruments in representatives who will not shake hands with wrong j doers, manipulators and spoilers^ cith I er socially or politically. The people of this country have a new declaration of independence to write ; and let no mau doubt that it will be written-written in.blood and ashes if it be necessary. They will find 'when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to re? duce them' to abject servitude, that 'it is their right, it is their duty to to throw off,' the rule of the rascal 'and to provide new guards for their future security.' But this patriotic standpoint, this enobling status of citizenship and high manhood cannot be -reached with social dawdlers in the lead. What the people want in their representative men are men sworn to social and personal rectitude, who will neither give nor ask terms lo or from the robbers or their abettors ; men whoTvill sternly stand across the path of wrong and injustice, and re? fuse countenance, association, aid or comfort of any sort to those who are the instruments* of wrong, however dignified by place or position. In no other way can the prowess of a free? man or the dignity of a citizen find itself expressed, assured and vindi? cated. We, in the demoralization growing out of a military period and thc dominance of men of military tastes and uotions, have lost sight of the dignity and grandeur of individ? ual and political liberty ; but it will not always be so, and those who can consult their own free-born instincts for that which should bc in truth and ! in justice, through good and through . evil report, may find there the moni? tion of what free-born Americans of i all classes and sections will yet de ! maud in the name of righteousness j and truth and honor and fair dealing I between man and man. lie \vho will ? consent to take less than this has re ? ceived his price or is a whipped j slave. Ile who asks for more is a j plunderer and a villain, though he j rolls in wealth or sits in the King's j gate. No great country can be ruied I by a swindle and not fall down, j Honesty i? not only an ornament in i human affairs, it is the grand ueces I sity of Luman success and human I advancement. If it be otherwise, ' then common robbery is statesman ; ship, and statesmanship an idle story | of the past. . Tho Republican papers of the North ! have manifested "rcat interest about the I trial of Polk, the defaulting*'J reasurcr i of Tennessee. This would be very coui ! tu cud able if it were not a uotorious fact I that many of those journalists, now so ' ffushitiir about Polk's defalcation, are of j D '. . . . that very class who are painfully, reti ; cent when the whisky ring thieves, i star routers and other Republican ! rouges, were undergoing a pretended I trial. We justify no man in a dishon ! est act, but thc Southern peoplo arc . perfectly competent to deal with their ' own affairs. Let the Northern Repub? licans stop robbing tho national gOVCTU j ment before they preach honesty. All I we have to say to these Northern Puri I tans is to 'shin on y our side' Tne Jjabor Question. I We see the politicians and planters i busied themselves with the discussion j of the labor question a: thc Marion j meeting of the agriculturists, Grangers and politicians. The discussion comes as near doing a nothing as it. is possible for a sensible man to conceive. There has been a great deal of com? plaint this season about die inefficiency of labor in many quarters of the State, and wc have no doubt on good grounds. The position of Senator Butler that 'we could spare two hundred thousand of the negro laborers goes to the root of the matter, it would seem. With a colored population of 650,000, by the old slave rule of one-third field hands to whole, this- would give us something like 218,000 field laborers. The Sena? tor's proposition, therefore, would clean out colored labor out of the drive iu toto. How this is to be done wc are not told, and what will take its place we are not told. If Col. Duncan and the farmers are right,'the negro is a success asa la? borer but a failure as a tenant ' We doubt if this positiou is true without ! grave exceptions. We believe . that j one-half the colored labor now employed j i don't pay the farmer a cent and is a dead drag on the other half, which is reasonably oficient. That .the negro, as a tenant, puts the land to death is true almoat without exception. What are we to do about it? This thing of a negro tenantry has grown out ot the lien law system. Thc whole breadth of area worked by these colored lieuers is just so much labor, not only wasted, but employed to put to death the soil on which they are engaged. There are exceptions, of course ; but we bave looked over many such fields, and a more weoful condition of things than they presented it is hard to realize. What thou ? Cut up the lien law by the roots, which guts the colored farmer to the last cent, who in turn guts the land to its Inst productive capacity. The planters must look this thing fiat in the face for themselves. Conveu, tions and policitians and their discus? sions are worse than nothing. Make up yonr minds for yourselves in your owu neighborhood consultations and stand by what your common sense dic 'tates. The truth is, inefficient labor is a misslick every time. Yon may deludcyourselws with getting some? thing out of it, but nothing wiil come it. There is nothing that renders col? ored lador so inefficient as 'be idea of 'bossing' himself on his own rented patch. The negro is not 'king of the cotton patch' or anywhere else. He can thrive and be happy under good, merciful and liberal control, one that will pay him honesty for what he does and not a cent for what he don't do. Thc planters want more nerve io the conduct of their affairs; and they must not only put this in practice in what they do with their lands so as not to suffer themselves to be bulldozed by ignorant labor, but they must make that nerve evident to those who come here to represent them but represent [ the lienholders. We want the colored man to do well, butjye have no idea of nursing up a system which is deliberately ?iviug up our birthright for a mess of pottage. Clean out the lien law as thc first step, farmers, and then show that you eau act together like men for the common good. Without this, y*m may continue to grumble, and things will grow worse as thc years roll round.-Columbia. Register. The Trial of Treasurer Polk Public attention ought not to be di? verted from the case of Marsh T. Polk, who stole ?400,000 to ?500,000 from the Treasury of Tennessee and attempt? ed to escape to Mexico when his crime was detected. Prominent in his State, politically and socially, being a nephew of a president of the United States, a Graduate of West Point and an officer of the defunct Confederate, he has power? ful friends who are endeavoring to de? liver him from thc penalty of his crimes. It is shown that be had been robbing the State for five years, and bis effron? tery was most brazen when be refused to pay the interest on the new Tennessee bonds, for which purpose ?600,000 had been raised by taxation. Not only did he steal the greater part of the money, but he corrupted the officers sent to ar? rest him in his flight, and would have escaped to Mexico had not a second squad of detectives spurned his bribes. A more disastrous failure of justice than his escape from rigorous punishment is hardly to be conceived. In addition to powerful social influence, the aid of public offi?ers whose misdeeds he cad expose is enlisted iu his behalf, and the public eye must b* vigilaut if the pen? alty is to be inflicted up<m him which may deter other public servants from the betrayal of their trusts. . The Singing Boy. I once heard a boy going down the street singing at the top of his lungs, 'Dare to be right, dare to be true!' singing it so loud that he woke up ali the babies on the Mock and set every last dog iti the ward to barking, and as he sang he smashed a window in the parsonage, broke a chicken's leg, with a stone, 'sassed' a market wo? man, shot a fanner in the eye with a beau-shooter, hit a dug a crack with a shinny-club that made poor Carlo howl lill his back ached, pulled a 1 picket oil* a fence, slapped a little boy and took his cooky away from him. Ile disappeared inside the school? room, and above all other voices I could hear his soulful shriek in the morning song, 'Uh, how I love my teacher dear!' And before prayers were over he inked a boy's nose, put two bent pins where they would do the most harm, salted a claim of shoemaker's wax on the teacher's chair, scratched his name on his desk with a pin, ate an apple, and fired the core into th? ear of the good boy with a thin neck, who was never absent or tardy.-?. J. Burdette. ---MMMH**HV>*T-rg? A floating cathedral to navigate. j South American streams is to be build 1 by thc Hornau Catholic Bishop of Paris and Amazonas. News and Gossip. It is said that the Prohibition part is preparing to nominate a Presiden? tial ticket in 1884. It is claimed that, the movement has acquired considera- , ble headway in Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, ' Alabama, Maine and other States. The Baltimore Day has now a cir? culation of more than 15.000 daily, it is an able, decided Democratic paper? that stands squarely by tariff reform and the tax on lux aries especially apon whiskey beer and tobacco. The Philadelphia Press says : Presi? dent Arthur's civil appointment'of a son of Senator Yance, of North Caro? lina, to a lieutenancy in the army, in? dicates that the work of reconciliation between the sections ts making about as much headway as aoybody could ex? pect in this kind of weather. Tiie telephone line between Balti? more and Washington was completed on Saturday, and a test was made. The trial is said to have been very satisfactory. The bell could not be. used, the trees along the line taking off too much of the carrent. When the limbs which interfere are lopped off, the managers think the cities will be able to call up each other witbtut diffi? culty. The last report we have "about Mr. Tilden is that a particular friend of his stated, as if by authority, to a reporter of the New York Times, which pab lishes the interview, that Mr. Tilden "will obey the willoi the people,w'and accept the nomination if the old ticket be nominated, and furthermore . that John Kelly will wash off bis war paint, hang up his tomahawk, and work for Uncle Samuel like a brother. One of the time locks of the safes in the Interior Department got oat of order last week, and after all the me? chanics and lock-smiths in Washington had tried their hands at it an expert * was tent from Rochester. A reporter asked, the expert, bow long it took him to unlock the vault. He said : 'In twenty minutes from the time I com? menced I had the safe unlocked and the lock off. The time part of it had been overwound, and when they came to un? lock it it would not work right and the hammering got it out of gear.' 'Could you unlock any combination lock?' *Yes, sir. I can go into the Treasury Department and unlock any vault in it inside of five minutes.' It is lucky that this man is honest. It was the dream ot Gen. Bolivar, thc centennial anniversary of whose birth Latin America celebrated recently, to establish the United States of Sooth America, aud had be accomplished it the prosperity of the Spanish American republics might have been more nearly like that of the Anglo-Saxon Union of States which constitutes our glorious^^ republic. He demonstrated that thev^ Spanish Americans aro capable of self government, but when taunted with a desire to play the role of Napoleon' he retired in indignation, and when he again assumed power it was too late to v-cmeut the South American State, into a uni^n as a great nation. Had the States of the North American Union remained separate, their strifes might have been as destructive of prosperity as have been those of the Spanish Ame? rican States, and had the latter united, a nation second in importance only to our own republic might have been esta? blished. However, 25,000,000 mixed Inca, African and Hidalgo population and 4,000,000 whites make altogether1 different material from that which com? poses this nation. The New York Herald, apeak in g of the .duty of thc telegraph companies touching the strike of its operators, says : 'In other words, it is bound to make the strike short, and this dnty is doubly imperative in view of the fact that it had at least a week's notice of the strike. It cannot now, without a ? flagrant violation of its obligations and duties to thc public and without incur? r? ns the most serious legal liabilities, entail upon the community the evils of a long strike. No public corporation has any legal or moral right to paralyze the business of the country in the at? tempt to succeed in a dispute with its employees about wages. The Western Union, as the Herald has heretofore shown, is responsible to the public for an efficient and uninterrupted telegragh service. This is an obligation which the law imposes upon it and one which it cannot escape or evade .--^Strike or no strike, it is bound to keep up ita ? service. Its obligations to the public are paramount to all other considera- <? tions, and the public will hold itrespon-" sible for any failure or general neglect of its duties.* Many interesting subjects are to bo discussed in the Congress of American? ists, to be he'd cn the 21st of August next in Bogota, the capital of the De? partment of Cuudinamarca, in the United States of Columbia. Among those relating to history", geology, or archaeology are the discovery of North America by European sailors, thc de? termination of the real nature of the deluge and other geological phenomena related by American traditions, the military condition of Mexico and Peru before thc discovery of thc New World,-., a comparison between the three kio&^L^ doms of Cuzco, Trujillo, aud QuitS^^ which formed thc Empire of thc Incas ; thc ethnological movements of the Caribbean race, the sacred signs en? countered in America, the religious and f emblematic value of thc different types of idols, statues, aud figures found in Peruvian graves, and a classification by centuries of the architectonical monu? ments in Peru. The sections of ethno? graphy, anthropology, paleography, and lingustics will busy themselves with the ? nomenclature of the peoples of America ! before its discovery, together with a j map of thc territory occupied by each of j them ; the sites and limits of the Gib?la? Quirira, and Tiguayo kingdoms in North America, thc ethnological classi? fications of thc natives of New Granada and the Isthmus of Panama, tie analo? gies between the peoples of English America and those of North Asia, tue ? differences between the Esquimaux 1 language aud the other languages ol j North\\merica ?s?w?U as between the j languages of the coasts anithose of the 1 mountains of South America?