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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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/