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APPLE BRANDY a speciality, ry our JOHN MCCULLOUGH CIGAR and BLUE JEANS TOBACCO. \:-?5crties in need of any goods iu our line will save money by giving us a call. REMEMBER THAT WE ?TJARANTEE SATISFACTION as to quality and price. i A?N STREET, one door North 3uOding-Sign of the Red AT LAST. BY JOHN GREENLEA? WHITTIER. When on my,day of life the night is falling, And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown, I hear far voices out of the darkness calling My feet to paths unknown, Thou who hast made my home of life so pleasant. Leave not its tenant when its walls decay, 0 Love divine, O helper ever present, Be thoa my strength and stay ! Be near me when all else is from me drifting, Earth, sky, home's pictures, days of shade and sbine, And kindly faces to my own uplifting The love which answers mine. 1 have bat Thee, O Father ! Let Thy spirit Be with me then to comfort and uphold ; No gate of pearl, branch of palm I merit, Nor street of shining gold. Suffice it if my good and ill unreckoned, And both forgiven through Thy abound? ing grace 1 find myself by hands familiar beckoned Unto my fitting place ; Some bumble door among Thy many man? sions, Some sheltering shade where sin and striv? ing cease, And flowers forever through heaven's green expansions The river of Thy peace. There from the music round about me steal tog, I fain would learn the new and holy song, And find, at last, beneath Thy trees of heal? ing, The life for which i long. -From the Atlantic. BILL ARP. His Opinion of Nasby, ? friend sends me the Toleda Blade and marks Nasby 's last deliverance on the Son th. My friend is very mad about it and uses langnage. Well, it is aggravating to have one of them fel? lers to come down here and be toaded and toasted by onr people, and then go back home and write a passel of Hes jnst to please his newspaper and the folks who read it. Bot I don't think we ought to take on about such things. They do us no harm. Let 'em have alt the Imigran ts if they want them. Nasby says that 'the South don't get emigrants because land owners don't work as a matter of course. The small farmer wont work because manual labor from time immemorial has been done by negroes only, and has been considered disreputable in a white man. These emigrants will not go to any country where labor is considered a degraadtion. They will not go to a coun? try where be who plows, sows or reaps is counted as nothing better than a 'd-d nigger. All this has to be changed before northern men or foreigners will go southward. I don't know Nasby. I don't know whether he is a knave or a fool, and I don't care. According to my peculiar views on immigration he basent done the south nor me an^ harm, but never? theless the lie is all the same, and if immigrants and northern men have been kept away from us because they believ? ed that our farmers dident work, and that labor was disreputable at the south, they must have been told so by just such plausible scribblers as Nasby. I walked ten miles last Thursday in plowed ground dropping corn, with a lame back and the jerking rheumatism in my shoulder, and when I got done I was all in a sweat of perspiration, and my neck bone was in a twist from look? ing one way so long ; but I never felt more respectable in my life than when I set down to my turnip greens and fried eggs for dinner, I have no idea that Nasby ever experienced or enjoy ed.such respectability in his life, and he oughtent to pretend to be familiar with such a subject. I can say em? phatically that lab^r is of all thiugs the most respectable thing among our people. We have several able-bodied individuals dowu here who don't like to work, but it is not because the don't respect it. It is because they are too lazy. They lack the inclination. 1 reckon there are some of the same sort everywhere, and they will resort to most any respectable dodge to keep from it. Even to writing lies for .jowspapers. The farmers of the south are her laborers. Nine-tenths of them work with their hands and work every day, and work hard. They are the bone and sinew of the land. Three fourths of the " men who fought our fa battles in the late war were working farmers, and their sons are working now, and there is not a considerate father in the south who would not rather bis daughter marry one of them than to wed the average young lawyer or doctor, or clerk of our towns and cities. I confess that -my curiosity is excited to know whether Nasby inherit? ed that idea honestly from his family almanac, or whether he made it up with malice aforethought, or whether he got it from some other fool and. like a fool believed it. But even if there was a foundation for the slander, I want to know who tells it to the foreigners away over in Germany, for Nasby says that one ship that be was on last spring had 1,300 of them all booked for Kansas and Nebraska. Ile says there was a rail? road president aboard? and he pointed to the emigrants with pride and said these are my wealth. They will buy our company's land and travel over our company's road, and raise grain for us to carry, and so will their children. I feel like I had a mortgage on them. That accounts for it. The railroad companies of the west have their paid agents and bureaus all over the old country and at Castle Garden, and the pressure is put upon the poor, ignorant foreigners and they go west. Our people just do nothing and let them go, and that is all there is in it or about it. It may be that they have a horror of the nigger, and don't want to mix with him or come iu contact or competition with him, but it is not be? cause they believe that labor is not re? spectable at the south. I dont believe a word of that, and Nasby dont believe it either, for he says in the same letter that if everybody in Chattanoaga was to wake up dead in thc morning the city's growth would not stop. A new population would come right in and take their places and go to work. His letter is full of praise for the laborers of Chattanooga and the industry and thrift of her peopfe. Nasby has re varnish ed the old fossilliferous idea that the north had of us before the war, that we all owned piggers and made them work and dident do any work ourselves. Bat the troth was not one man in twenty-five owned a nigger, and the masses of our population had to work or starve. There was a small slave hold* lng aristocracy and they dident work with their hands no more than the money aristocracy of the north worked. Rich folks dont do manual labor any? where, but the war broke up this aris? tocracy and levelved them down and the hard working men came to the front and took the lead in everything. The rich folks couldent stand adversity like the poor. They retired from the turf and common stock took thc track and have kept it. This is the logic of events, the swing of the pen? dulum. But there are some down south who don't care a cent whether immigrants come here or not. If they want to come we say come, and if they don't want to we say go somewhere else. We are sorter like an independent family that moves into a new settlement, if the nabors call, they are welcome and kind? ly treated. If they don't call nobody cries about it. In fact, we don't want them to come by the ship load. 1,800 at a time. I don't want any 1,300 to settle down by me. We just want them to come along slow and get acquainted and fall into line. Wc want the pick of the northern people and we are get? ting them. We want those who are* not afraid of us and don't believe we are barbarians. We had'enongh of the scum and the buzzards just after thc war, and that experience put us in the cautious state ; we dont want any theives nor tramps nor carpet-baggers uor slanderers of our people. We want to maintain our identity as a southern people, poor and proud and contented with our land and our homes ; we will people this country fast enough if let alone. Why, I see that Dr. Talniage has got alarmed and preached a sermon not long ago in which he said 'this thing of encouraging immigration has gone too'far ; we are in danger of losing our nationality ; we are import? ing communism and infidelity and anarchy and dynamite that will be heard of in due time.' Sometimes J think that Providence has a special regard for our people and is saving us from this invasion of pro? miscuous immigration. Th enegro suits us mighty well and if they keep the foreigners away it is all right, I dont want to swap. It is a carious thing to me what folks want with such a dense popula? tion. Of course we want enough to be social and have schools and ch arches, but there is a limit to its propriety, and I wouldent move away jtst because a man had come within five miles cf mc, neither do I want to live in the same house with another family, I would rather sec our farmers have a hundred acres apiece than ten or a thousand. I dont wanta naborso near that his folks can see and hear all that goes on at my house, and I dont want him so far off that he cant hear my horn when I blow it. We want a reasonable lati? tude and longitude. In short we want more of nature and happiness than we do of art and money. So we are con? tent for Mr. Nasby and his sort to stay at home, for he is too old in his habits to be converted to our ways and the truth now, and he might disturb the public peace and tranquility. Nasby's disease has become chronic and he can't be cured. He begun his slanders soon after the war in a series of letters dated from 'Confederate Cross X Roads,' and he has kept it up pretty well ever since. He was born hating us I reck? on and can't help it. I think we are doing pretty well down south and wc want the foreigners and the northern people to understand that if they come here they are welcome and if they dont come they are welcome. As Cobe says when he dont care wi:at happens, 'its all optionary with rae.' She Sailed Out The other morning a volcanic-looking matrou appeared in Judge Lawler's court, and demanded to be informed as to the very earliest' moment a divorce could be granted to a cash customer. 'Have you a complaint, madam?' said the Judge, soothingly. 'I should say I had. Judge,' snapped the applicant., 'I'll just tell what that brute Skinderson-^L aa? Mrs. Skinder son, more's the pity-what that brute Sanderson's been doing-. Flesh and blood can't stand it no longer.' 'Didn't beat you?' iuquired his Honor. " *I should like to see him try it,' said Mrs. S., with au iudignaot sniff. 'It's a heap worse than that, Mr. Court, a heap worse than that. This morning I was talking with the aggravating thing for over two hours just arguing with him, mind you, about a new paper for the parlor-when what do you sup? pose he did ?' 'Tried to shoot himself,' hazarded the Judge. .I ju?t wish the brute had. No, sir ; the mean wretch rang for a district telegraph messenger boy, and when lie came Skinderson lay down on the lounge and says, with one of those cold, tantalizing smiles of his'n, 'Martha. I'm worn out now, and I'm goiog to take a nap Just wrangle with this boy for an hour or two, and when I wake up I'll relieve him. If he gives out meanwhile, just ring up another.' 'Fm afraid you couldu't get a di? vorce on that,' said thc court, reflec? tively. 'Couldn't eh,' cried the victim of domestic infelicity in a rage. 'All right ; I'll go straight home, and if Skinderson hasn't woke up yet I'll dump some hot ashes on his head. I'll fix him yet/ with which consoling an? ticipation she sailed out. - - - - 'You're not looking well this morn? ing,' said Mrs. Yeast to her husband when ho came down to breakfast. 'No, cor am I feeling well, either,' was the gentleman's reply. .Headache?' inquired the lady cau? tiously 'No ; but I dreamed last night that I was out to a large dinner party, and I must have eat too much, for this morning I awoke with a violent attack of indigestion.' 'That's just like you !' exclaimed the unsympathetic woman. General Beauregard's His? tory. A Noble and Pathetic ?teeital. From the comments of thc leading papers and magazines of the country we judge Gen. Beauregard's book to be one of the most interesting and valua? ble histories of the war yet published. The New Orleans Picayune says: 'Not only to those who cherish with undying affection the traditions of Con? federate glory, but to all who with gen? erous curiosity seek after the truths of history, these volumes are invaluable. They present a noble and pathetic re? cital. Noble in that they convey a stately narrative of illustrious deeds; pathetic, in that they show how the high hopes of a people failed of their fruition.' The New York Sun says : 'Regarded both as a judicial appraisement of men or of eveuts and as a literary com? position, this book possesses higher merits than most of the writings ema? nating directly from persons who had occupied, on one side or the other, posts of eminence and power in the war of the rebellion.' The Boston Courier says: 'No work written on the Southern side can begiu to rival this in importance.' Harper's Monthly says: It is the most thorough and elaborate work of the kind that bas yet proceeded from the Confederate side, and one whose statements throughout are the most clearly sustained by the evidence that is adduced. No work that has yet appear? ed, on either the Union or the Con? federate side, is supported as lavishly as this by origual documentary evi? dence illustrative or corroborative of every step described io the text. It throws new and important light ou points that have been long and warmly controverted.' The Charleston Neics and Courier says : 'As a contribution to the litera? ture of the Confederate war, its worth cannot easily be over-estimated.' Re? ferring to the operations around Peters? burg in 4864, the News and Courier says : .No laurels can be too fresh and green for the soldier who conceived and executed the operations in and near Petersburg in May and June, 1876, Gen. Beauregard was quicker than Gen. Lee in diviuing the plans of the enemy, and, by bis wonderful sagacity and tenacity, secured the prolongation of the struggling existence of the Southern Confederacy, with all thc pos? sibilities and opportunities that crowd? ed that memorable period of decay aud gloom. Had Gen. Beauregard ach ie v- j ed little else, his deeds during those glorious days io May, days whose glory was shared in by our own Hagood j and Kershaw and many another valiant j Carolinian, would have sufficed to se- j cure to him the loving admiration of: his countrymen. Active, enterprising, j suggestive, fertile in resources, buoyant' and enthusiastic, he will always be | ranked among the foremost of the Gen- j erats on either side in the-warbetween i the States.' Gen Beauregard's History is sold only by subscription. Persons desiring copies of the book, or territory to can vas for it, should address Mr. Geo. P. ! McKagcn, Agent for Sumter County, j Women in the New Orleans ! Mint. Some five or six years ago, when it was known that women were to be employed in the Mint, those in au? thority were besieged by hundreds of j applications from all conditions of wo- | men. As a general thing the success- j ful oues were well chosen, both as to \ fitness for their work and their dire need for it. Indeed, it may be set down as a rule that when the average woman asks for work it is because she must have br?ad and fuel, and a home. The ladies employed in the Mint have, some of them, kept their positions steadily through all the five years; the changes have o;enera!ly been the result of some woiKer drop? ped oft* into matrimony and leaving a vacancy only too easily filled from the standing army of applicants. In New Orleans there are in the adjust? ing-room of the Mint thirty ladies at work. The salary is $1.75 a day. They go to work at S and stop at 4 in the afternoon. The work requires the strictest attention, and is of such a nature that it can never become purely mechanical. There are three long, high tables ranged down the room ; these are marble-topped and ! protected at the edges with bands of leather. The workers sit in high chairs with good, comfortable backs to them. The materials for work are a pair of scales for thc weighing of money, sets of tin bowls to put it in, and a file. The round pieces of un? stamped coins aro brought to the la? dies in wooden boxes. Each piece has to be weighed three times. A mistake in thc weight of one piece, of even almost infinitesimal proportion, may cause the worker to lose her po? sition, lt Rcldom, if ever, happens, j however, that one is discharged for j incompetency, or worse, carelessness, i An expert adjuster handles in a day j from 3,000 to 3,500 silver-dollar coins. Thc comdemned coins are sent back to be melted over ; some being only a trifle out of standard weight she can file down. For this she is provided with a leather apron to catch the pre? cious silver dust, the IOSP in which i can be and must bc measured by the grain. The water in which thc ladies 1 wash their hands when they are \ through filing is carefully preserved and filtered for the silver dust. Dur- ? ing warm weather it is stifling work in the ajusting department, since noun j of the windows can be allowed open, | this silver pollen being too precious to be caricd out by a thieving wind. During nine mouths of last year tho j ladies were required to do extra work j which kept them in their seats until | 6 o'clock. For the extra work they j were paid by the hour, and received j the small sum ol' twenty-one cents, j The ladies holding positions have ac- ; complished their tasks with unvaried success, and are not often disturbed by rumors regarding their dismissal. The work required of them is easily learned, but it is none the less sadly laborious. The eye tires of its fixed gaze at the delicate beam of the scale. There is no time for rest, no excuse for mistakes, and, after the fashion of women undertaking a work at which they are competent, they , bend to the task with patience that I never falters, and with a strength j that never gives out until the work is i finished.-New Orleans Picayune. j Some Curiosities of Govern? ment. j WASHINGTON, March 30.-Next to ? the President of the United States the I best-paid Federal official is the Clerk j of the Supreme Court, j Pennsylvania has a larger number j of Post Offices than any other State. Not a clerk in the Pension Office in I this city draws lees than $1,000 a ! year salary, the averaga for the 1,1 T3 I clerks being $1,294. Even the copy I ists get $900 a year. These clerks j have light labor and short hours. ! The average salary of the Railway \ Post Office clerks throughout the ! country is only $977 a year. These i men work hard, at the most trying la j bor, and have long hours. Eight years ago North Carolina 1 had as many representatives, in Con? gress as New York. North Carolina now has nine, or one less than she had in 1800, while New York has thirty-four. A number of the United States Senate's employees are put down on the records as 'skilled laborers,' and j draw pay at $1,000 a year, while those who are merely 'unskilled la? borers, get $840 a year. The distinc ? tion between thc two is in the kind of brooms they manipulate. The 'skilled' laborer uses a common broom to sweep stone flagging, while the 'unskilled7 laborer wields a coai*3e broom in sweeping carriage ways. During the past ten years the Gov? ernment has expended nearly $70, 000,000 in caring for the Indians. The total number of Indians attached to agencies is only 246,000, and of these 60,000 in Indian Territory, ( 7,700 in Wisconsin, and 5,000 in I New York are supposed to be at least partially self-supporting. Last year the Post Office Depart? ment used $11,000 worth of ink for stamping and cancelling letters. In the fiscal year ended June 30, the Government's disbursements for pensions reached a sum which ex? ceeds by six millions of dollars the disbursements for all purposes in the year 1860. There are in the railway mail ser? vice fifteen clerks who draw the sala? ry of $12 a year each. From the five States of New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts and Ohio, the Government derives one-half of all it? postal revenues. It costs $30,000 a year to light the Capitol and grounds. More than one-half of the internal revenue receipts of the Government comes from the four States of Illinois., New York, Ohio and Kentucky. . To wait upon the 76 Senators there are 242 emploj^ees, not count? ing police, watchmen and librarians. There are several Postofiices in the country at which the annual salary of tho Postmaster is only $1 Postal cards cost the Government 54 cents and 4 mills a thousand. 'Five hundred and eighty-nine dol? lars for wines, liquors and mineral waters for use of the Board of Visitors to Naval Academy," is an item in last year's expenditure of the Govern? ment. At the signal service training school, Arlington Heights, the stu deuts of meteorology, barometers and anemometers are compelled to leave their tables in thc exact center of the j room, their bunks in a certain posi ! tion in a certain corner, their coats , hung upon certain nails and their text I books piled up in a certain manner ! before retiring for the night, these I and a hundred more similar regula I lions being prescribed 'by order of the Chief Signal Officer.' Their Sunday dinner is coffee, bread and dried apples stewed. The Post Office Department uses $80,000 worth of wrapping twine a year. Among the expenditures of the Government last year was ani item : 'For manufacturing medals, $25,498. ? 23.' It costs the Government $187,000 a year to maintain lights and buoys on the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers. To supply thc public buildings throughout tiie country with fuel, light, and water requires an expendi? ture of $1,000 a day. Seven hundred and fifty persons are constantly employed by the two Houses of Congress (while in session) in and about the Capitol. In the last twenty years the Gov? ernment has paid for interest on the public debt the enormous sum of $2, 089,000,000, a sum which would de? fray all the expenses of thc Govern? ment, excepting interest on the pub? lic debt, for nearly nine years to come, at the present rate of expendi? ture ; and for nearly thirty live years if expenses could be limited to what they were in I860.-N. Y. Sun. --? ? ? ??. tm The New Silk Industry. At the annual Silk Culture Exhibi? tion in Philadelphia on thc 1st of May, premiums were awarded, amounting to ?500; for thc best silk cocoons raised in the United States during ISSo. Thc premiums were awarded on thc basis of thc quality and quantity of reeled silk yielded by each 100 cocoons. Thorn were seventy-seven entries from twenty States. The object of thc Women's Silk Culture Association is solely to establish on a permanent basis silk culture as an industry particularly adapted for women ; and it is a plea? sure to know that the association is doini* so much to attract attention to tho importance of the silk industry. The association has prepared a memo? rial to Congress endorsing the Act pro? viding for the creation of a silk Culture Bureau and establishing silk culture stations under the direction of thc National Government. .- -TT- -^mtm~---. The National Anti-Monopoly Con? vention iu Chicago, 111., has nominated Benjamin F. Butler for President. What Our Editors Say. Bayard to the Front. Kershaw Gazette. Thc latest forecasting of the Demo eratic nominee at Chicago presents growing setitiment in favor of Thos. F. Bayard. Whether this is a fact, or the personal predilection of some cor? respondent we canuut at this distance tell. But it would rejoice us beyond measure,if it should prove true and such a man could be nominated. We doubt it, for he is not a wire puller, and has so small a State to back him, that we do not believe as nominations are now made, he can command the support attributed to him. It docs us good, however, to think of it, and we will not despair of the Republic, if he, or some man like him is nominated. His ability is sufficient, while his char? acter is of the highest order. Ile has the courage of his convictions and would adorn this more exalted station. There is not a man now in public life who has less of political guile, or is freer from sordid ambition. He would be thc President of the whole country and administer its affairs with an eye single to its welfare. Advertising. Palmetto Yeoman. This is becoming to be rather an inter? esting subject io some quarters and among some people, especially mer? chants and editors, who are supposed to be more immediately interested. It is thought to be a very good thing for the former, and something of a bonauza for the latter, and the question as to which has the best of it bas never yet been satisfactorily settled. Wc are inclined to consider it a pretty good thing all round, when viewed from a proper standpoint; we mean the Dne of profit and loss, more especially profit. The merchant more than jets back his money thus expended ; in fact business men have given it as their opinion that it is the best investment he could make and a large majority of thc ?ditors aud publishers are of the same >piniou. Greenville Ncics. The nature of the copartnership be? reen the Grants aud Ward is evident. Ward was to do thc work of the con jern ; the Grant's contributed the tame and glory of Gen. Grant, in re ;urn for which they received an extrav igant interest on their money, being illowed to draw ?3,000 a mouth apiece. They must have known exactly what :hey were doing. They knew nothing ibout the business and did no work. The bargain was sim ply a sordid ex? change of fame and glory for so many lullars and wc can not sec that any of ,he parties to it merit sympathy. Gcu. Grant ought to be tolerably comfortable on the ?15,000 a year he .eccives from the trust fund of ?250, )00 contributed for him by thc public, which his creditors eau not touch. He s hopelessly in debt, and it is probable ;hat many of those who trusted him ffill suffer much more than he will. Is It? Neics and Courier. The Orangeburg Times and Demo irat has made a discovery. It says : 'All this claptrap about free trade re? ducing the cost of living is theoretical )uly, and would not stand the practical test of experience.' Is the Times and Democrat serious in making this asser? tion ? The tariff tax on imported goods iverages over 40 per ceut. ; and in that proportion, at least, the selling price of every imported article subject :o duty, and of every similar article of lomestie manufacture or production, is increased by the tariff. Docs the Times and Democrat mean to say that the fanners, who constitute thc great bulk of the population of Orangeburg Count}', would not be able Lo live more cheaply if they could get their clothing, their agricultural imple plemeuis and all the necessaries of life it one-third less than they now have to pay for them ? Thc farmer who goes to town and spends ?52 25 for cotton ind woollen goods, nails, and a few dishes and milk pans pays ?17 25 out Df thc ?52 25 as the tariff tax. This is the additional cost of thc articles re? duced by the tariff. Does the Times ind Democrat mean to say that it would be of no advantage to thc farmer :o obtain for ?35 thc articles which iow cost ?52 25 ? . We undertake to say there are scores of young Democrats in Orangc Durg wbn will be delighted to meet :he Times and Democrat on that issue, md who are fully capable of proving hat there is no claptrap in this Free radc talk, and that thc reduction in he cost of living consequent upon thc .eduction of the tariff taxes is about, as tactical and positive a thing as eau be bund in the whole field of human bought und action. Cui Bono ! Xcws and Courier. What is the object, of this sudden ?ry against public education V What i? he motive which stimulates the hopo j br thc defeat of tho Blair educational 1 jill and the crushing out of the public ichool system of the State? By thc ad nission of those who lead in thc agita- ? ion of this question, there is but one notive-opposition to negro cducatiou ; < jut one object-thc suppression of i icgro education. As a menus of sup- I pressing thc education of the negro in Eolith Carolina thc opponents of the Ulair bill and thc opponents of public schools arc willing to suppress thc edu? cation of thc whites, for it is known : hat in this State the public education )f thc two races is inseparably united. iVs long as the negro is a voter and a citizen, as long as tho amendments to ,h c Constitution endure, solong must ; he negro share in thc benefits of any system of public schools which may ex stiu South Carolina. Those who agitate br thc repeal of thc two-mill eonstitu ional tax work as well for thc eject? ment of 74,000 white children from :.he public schools as for thc dismis? sal 'of thc 98,000 colored children who now attend them. To prevent the negro from acquiring an education, it is proposed to leave th J whites in igno? rance. IQ order to strike the negro it is proposed to inflict a still Larder blow j upon the whites. Ts it worth while ? i Is it good policy and good principle ? j Will the effort, if successful, achieve i its purpose? No! It cannot and will j not. j The negro in the South is Dot depen- > dent on the white people of the South ; for his instruction. The opponents of Federal aid to education ignore this broad fact. Grant everything the op poneots of the Blair bill aod the public schools claim : that education decuoral- j izes the negro, that it makes him j vicious, that it unfits him for his sphere : in lite-and still it remains the truth j that it is wise and proper and just for j the State to maintain its free school system and to accept from the general Government such aid as will perfect it. Fifteen years ago there were few public schools in South Carolina, but a ? year before that time educated negroes 1 were controlling the legislation of the I State. How were they educated ? Not by the State, but by Northern Charity. I So it would be and so it would cou- j tinue, were the State to close to-day : the doors of all its public schools, j How many of the negro leaders in \ South Carolina have recieved educa- ! tion at our public schools ? Who can name j them ? It will be found a fact that the j most capable, active ana bitter of the : negro politicians in S"ith Carolina" j have been educated by Northern agen- ! cies, independently cf State effort. ****** Acceptiug jjro forma the arguments i of the opponents of State and Federal ; aid to negro education, the conclusion j must still be reached that it is better ; to maintain the public schools and ac- i cept for them Federal aid than to sup- ; press the one and decliue the other. 1. Because the negro is pretty sure j to be educated whether the white people ! of the State desire it aod aid it or net. i 2. Because, if Federal aid is ac* j cepted on the terms new offered, a ! large proportion of the money will go i tojwbite schools ; while if it ls bow refus- j ed, the aid will be extended later td ] the negro schools only. 3. Because to refuse to the negro education in the public schools is to j make him, uselessly, an enemy, and j probably a better educated enemy than he now can be. The iVetcs and Courier has before j shown the practical impossibility of j amending the Constitution so as to j get rid of the two-mill educational tax. i The agitation which is now being work- j ed up on the subject is profitless. It is j guided by prejudice and not by wis- j dom. Although it cannot result in ! legislation, the agitatiou does harm, j lt ought to stop. - - .???-?-?-' Gentlemen and "Blackguards, j -- This is rather a timely question, j though it comes from the centre of the j State, and not from the Union Club : j "A and B arc friends and are en- j gaged in a business conversation, when, i after some angry words, A calls B a \ liar. B knows that he is not a liar, j Now, what is it proper for B to do, j stand up and fight A or let it pass un- j noticed ? Ar? you considered a cow- j ard if youcKhi't fight? INQUIRER. ; Amsterdam, N. Y., March 29. I Of course, a man's natural impulse j is to resent such an afront with a blow ; j but if he yields to it he does not prove j himself courageous, and if he conquers i it he does not show himself a coward, j A very craven will oftentimes make i fight in his sudden anger, while a man j of courage and determination will not I allow himself to be upset, by an angry impulse, like a hot-headed boy. In fighting with a man who has be- I haved toward you like a blackguard j you treat him with too much respect j Ile is too contemptible to receive that ; amount of attention from you. If he j strikes you, of course you defend your sel If, but if he wantonly and outra- j geously insults you iu words only, you j lower your dignity by responding to ? him with physical blows. You put I yourself too much on his level. Besides, a gentleman gains norning by enga?iug in a rough-and-tumble j fight. When thc scrimmage is over j nothing is settled, so far as thc charge j which provoked the fight is concerned, j A disgraceful row has occurred, aud j that is all. If a man calls another, without rea- j son, a liar, and abuses the privileges of intimacy to insult his companion, he j simply proves himself an unfit associ- I ate for decent people. He may auk to J be* excused on the grouud that he spoke j in haste and heat, but men who are so ! lacking in self-control are not tolerable in refined society. They ought to be j left to seek companionship among black-1 guards who bandy insulting epithets j and now and then fall to blows iu con- ] sequence. You only dignify them by j exchanging words or blows with them. : They deserve nothing except contempt, j and are unworthy of notice. Gentlemen do not need to defend ; their veracity by resorting to tho meth? ods savages. Generally, too, their tastes and prejudices keep them apart from thc company of men who arc given to calling erich other by opprobrious epithets. If they chance to meet such a man, and he displays himself for what he is, they no more stop to enter into the quarrel he invites than they turn to reseut the vile language of a street drab. But men who choose blackguards for companions must stand the conse? quences, even if they have to give and take bloody noses.-A\ }". Sun. Calling Time. They were sitting in thc parlor, and she was getting sleepy. ?What time ls it?' she asked. lie looked at his watch, and replied that it lacked five minutes of ll, and then, being struck with an idea, he asked : ... ... .Why is my watch like you, my pet?' 'I don't know.' .Because it is very pretty,' he re? plied. 'And why is my watch like you ? she asked. 'I don't know, I'm sure. Why is your watch like trie, ?ny dear ?' 'Because it won't go,' she replied with a yawn. Then the young man went home. Let Us Hear Pi om You, We read the subjoined clipping with considerable interest, and can assure our readers that it contains some plaio practical, unadulterated truth. As we have said before, a newspaper is a private enterprise, but it is one upon which public prosperty in a great mea? sure depends, so we will say aa our Mar? ion neighbor, (The Index,) 'let us hear from you :' 'Write up your section. Let the people at home and abroad know what you ure doing. A great deal might be done in this way to encourage people to come among us, buy lands and help develop the country. A newspaper, like snow flakes, in one way and another enters every nook and corner of the laud. Ita contents generally are a fair index tc the county where it is pub? lished. Business men and capitalists appreciate this. When they pick up your county paper, see nothing -in fit from the different sections of your cot ty, see that it is filled up with gene reading matter, a few advertisei and locals, they at once conclude^ your county is not progressive, in' that it is dead. When you picj your county paper yourse'f you g! at the new advertisements to see if any? thing is advertised that you desire, by whom and at what prices. So with the capitalist who wishes to invest in lands, timber, or desires to locate in a good community con vienen t ?o schools, churches, etc. He picks up your couo ty newspaper, he sees any given section . described therein, its history, its health? fulness, its schools, churches, its agri? cultural and mechanical resources, ho natuurally iuclines to give that place a preference in his investment. The eyes of capitalists ic this State and out of it, have their eyes on this Pee Dee section and nothing but the failure of its peo? ple to push itt) superior advantages Be? fore the public causes it not to be filled with capitalists investing in its lands ind timber. The columns of the Index are open to you. Let us hear from you; ?ne Confederate Debt We are in receipt of a pamphlet en? titled *The Confederate debt and pri? vate Southern Debts,' by J. Barr Robertson, London. Thc author dis? cusses this barren topic in all its phases, and arrives at the following conclusions in reference to the claims held by Europeans against the Confede? rate States ? That the Confed?rete Stated hid dh\f belligerent and not international rights J that the Confedracy being an illegal corporation according to United States law could not issue Bonds vjhich would be valid against either the United States or the legal States Governments cf the South ; that therefore neither the Cotton Kocds ncr the Dollar Bonds have any validity whatever as Confed? erate Debt in the abseflC? of the Con? federacy ; that there is nothing in th? opinions and cases adduced in support of the Bonds which really conflicts with this view of their illegality in the United States ; that the equities arising out of the original controversy between' North and South, not being cognizable} by any Court, are reserved as subject matter for consideration by the United States, are therefore outside the scope of the present discussion ; and thal there is in the Dollar Bonds an omit? ted international claim against tho Uulted States for payment of private debts owed by Southern citizens to Europenos at the beginning of the wait, and which arc now represented by Dol? lar Bonds that were sent to them as the only means of remitttance from the Southern States, and that these debts, ind the claims of Southern citizens not engaged in the war, and of Europeans, for property taken by force and for which Confederate Bonds were compul? sorily tendered, are not in anyjway affect cd by tho Fourteenth Amendment, and therefore ought to be paid by the United States. --?- ? A Slim Chance. "Don't you believe that marriages ?re made in Heaven,1 asked Mr. Yeast jf Miss Prim the other day. ? . ; 41 most certainly dt>,' rep!iee} thc lady )f uncertain age, brighteuiug op ?I the pery suggestion of a proposal,' and throwing her head on one side iu her endeavor to look coquettish ; 'hat why lo )'"U ask ?* 'Well, ? thought you did,' was the young man's satisfied reply. .But why did you think I did?' per? sisted the antiquated maiden, almost swallowing her overskirt in ber at? tempts to appear captivating. ..Weil." responded thc heartless young man', ligHtTug a'cigaretto, .and jotting at a respectable distance .from bis antagonist: *it doesn't :??V as thoogh there was much chance cf your being mauicd before you reached there I' 'Clcminia,' said a sorrowful swain to bis heart's desire, 'this is the third time that your father has requested me to remove my person from these premises.' Heed him not,' sobbed the fair one,-*<do tiot go.' 'I must.' Just then the fath ?r's >teps echoed adown the ball way. 'You need not come in, old gentleman,' ?aid the departing lover; 'three removes ire as good as a fire,' and he clutched [?is sombrero and departed. It foll to the lot of au inebriated per? son to bc tarred a?d feathered by bis boon companions. Ile was prepared to new any freak of fortune with equani? mity, and after some hours he was ob? served to rise and survey himself ia ?he pier-glass. Did ho shriek with horror ? Oh dear, no ! Ile simply observed with complacent resignation : 'Become a bird, by Jove ? and then lapsed once more into slumber. A young mother traveling with Jier infant child, writes th? following letter to her husbaud at home ; *tv"e are all doing first rate, and enjoying ourselves very much. We are in fine health. Thc boy can crawl about on all fours. Hoping that the same may be said of you', I remain, 4c.; Fa'n'ny/