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- SP Sf THS WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. Consolidatedlug;2,1881.1 fr. f kBe Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's. THE TRUE S?UTBKOX, Established ?di?*; 186?. SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 13,.1885. Kew Series-toi. It. to. 24. rsfi?slL?d ?roy Tuwdlay, " . -?Y TBS-? Watchman and Southron PuUisJting ~ Company, SUMTER, S. a : TKRM.'i : v: Two Dollars per annum-in advance. 0?e Square. first insertion..................$l 00 Bvery subs?quent insertion. 50 ; . . "Contracts for three months, or longer wilt be made at reduced rates.. . ; " V?i?B communications Vh?ch subserve private ?nteres^wi?^charged for as ad vertisements. . Obituaries and tribales af respect will be charged fe*. Marriage notices and notices of deaths pub? lished free. For job "work or contracts for advertising address Watchntan and Southron, or apply at the Oftwe,to H. G. C3TSBN, ' Business Manager. mmm Mmm ?Agent* -DEALER E? TOILET SOAPS, PEBFUMERT. AND ALL KISjJS OP Druggist's Sundries USUALLY KEPTINrA FIR.ST-CLASSJE>RU<3 , STORE. ?obaec?, Snuff and Segars, f?ARMN SEEDS/&C>5 Physician's Prescriptions carefully .x?nipoaiided, and orders answered with caf? and dispatch. The* public will find my stock of Medicines ^orop?ete, warranted jenn? ine, and of the best quality. Call an?-a?ft for yourselves. TRA DC MARK" - REGtSTENED A KEW TREATMENT For VonzumtioH* Astltma. Bronchitis, Dyspepsia,, Catarrh. Headache, Debili? ty. Rheumatism, Neuralgia, and all 4Jkronic and Nervous Disorders, Wc, the undersigned, having received great ?id penrane?t: benefit.'.(rom the use of "COM F(^N!> OXYGEN," prepared and adaiinis tered ?y.Das.STAUEST/'* P?ior, of Ph il adel phia, ?nd bei oe salb?ed that it isa new dis ?sorery io medic*! science, and all that is claimed for it, consider it a dory-' which we ?ve to ihe' many thousands who are suffering from dtroo?c-and so-called "incurable" dis? eases todo all tb*t we can to make its virtues known and to inspire the public with confi? dence. We have personal knowledge of Drs. Star xeyA Palea. They are educated, intelligent, and conscientious physicians, who will not, .wea?sure, makeauy statement, which they do not know or believe to ?*e true,_aor pub? lish an vf testimonials or reports of cases which are not genuine." WM. D. KELLY, Maate of Congress from Philadelphia. T^S- ARTHUR, Editor end Publisher "Arthur's Home ^ -'. Magazine/' Philadelphia. V. L. CONRAD Editor' of "Lutheran Observer," . Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, PA., JUS S 1, 1882.. Tn order to meeta natural inquiry in re :gard to our professional and persona! stand* ing, and to gi ve .increased confidence tn our ' statements and in the geouiness of our testi tnonisls-and reports of cases, we print the above-card from gentlemen well and widely known and of the hiebest personal character. Oar "Treatise on Compound Oxygen,"? con? taining a history of the discovery of and mode of action of this remarkable curative agent, and a large record of surprising cures in Consumption,. Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchi? tis, Asthma, etc., and a wide range of Chron? ic diseases, will be sent fret. Address Drs. STARKEY & PALEN: 1109 k lill Girard Street, Philadelphia., Pa. P. H. Folaoxo, . I*. W. Folsom. -ESTAB'D 186S.-: F. H. FOLSOM & BRO. Practical Watchmakers and Jewelers, Main-Street, opposite John Reid's, SUMTER, S. ??, s W?ITHAM *3 tr G> td o o tar s? ct* o -i Oocks. Silzericare, Jewelry. Spectacles. Cutlery, Fishing Taclde. Violin Strings, Machine Needles, Oils, &c. Repairing of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry promptly done and satisfaction guaranteed. CHINA HALL. COLUMBIA, S. C., J. C. STANLEY & BRO, China, Glass, Crockery, Eonss-Fur nisMrtj Goods, &c, Larger Stock shan for raaay years. W: Ae RECK LI JV, : ARTIST, 110* 3CAZ2T STREET, COLUMBIA, 8. C. PORTRAITS; PHOTOGRAPHS. ; Stereoscopes, &c, Old Pictures C-.pied and Enlarged. Nov II_ v BONGAREE NURSERIES. SRAFU VINES -AND SMALL FRUITS IN GREAT VARIETY For cale at lowest prices. Address R. M. SIMS,. COLUMBIA, 8,0: IST YODE BAMA PODER TO-DAY! Brands advertised as Absolutely par? COWTAI3V M THE TEST: Place a can top down on a hot store anti! heated,the? remove the co vor and smell. A chemist will not be re quired, to detect the presence o? ammonia. BOES SOT CONTAIN AMMONIA. ta HKAITHFCLSE8S IUS NEVER BSD QI fcSTHJ.VKD. In & million homes for a quarter of a century it has stood th a consumers' reliable test. 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For constitutional or scrofulous Catarrh, Pl TP DDL! AYER'S SARSAPARILLA is tho lift! ftlmtl true remedy, lt has cured numberless cases. It viii stop thc nauseous catarrhal discharges, and reiaovo thc sickeit ing odor of the breath, which are indications of scrofulous origin. - Iii MBMIC "Hatto, Tes,Sept.2S,l$$2. ULvCftUUO ?At the ajreof two years one of CnpEQ my children was terribly atfiicted ?UnCO with ulcerous running sores ou its face and neck. . At. the same t\me its eyes were swollen, much inflamed, and very sore. Cf? DC PVCO Pb>^<?an*t?t? us that ? pow uiittC Ll Cv erf ul alterative medicine must be employed. They united in recommending AYER'S SARSAPARILLA. A few doses pro? duced a perceptible improvement, which, by an adherence to your directions, was contin? ued to a complete and permaueut cure. No evidence has since appeared of thc existence of any scrofulous tendencies; and no treat? ment cf any disorder was ever attended by more prompt or effectual results. Yours truly, E. F. Joacxsox." PREPARE BY Or. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Druggists; $1, six bottles for $5. THE CONTINENTAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. T^HE UNDERSIGNED represents tbe above \ Company, and is prepared to insure ?lores, goods, dwellings, furniture, barns, tod stables. The Continental is one among be best in the Country, and its rates the ?ame as the other first-class companies. He ?Hsespecial attention lo its five-year instnll nent plan. W. F. RHAME. March 4 _tf_ RUBBER STAMPS NAME STAMPS FOR* MARKING CLOTHING vira indelible ink, or for printing visiting ?ards, and STAMPS OF ANY KIND or stamping BUSINESS CARDS, ENVEL )PES or anything else. Specimens of various ityles on hand, which will Ce shown with pleas ?re. The LOWEST PRICES possible, and >rders filled promptly. Call on C. P. OSTEEN, At the Watchman nnd Sou thron Office. PRESENTS ! PRESENTS ! CHRISTMAS is now only a few weeks off and it is getting time to look up PRESENTS. If one is wanted for a young Indy, Jewelry is Always Appropriate. Tor those who are older and keeping house, a HANDSOME CLOCK, or something in STERLING 3r a nice piece of SILVER-PLATED WARE Is very suitable. For all who are MATRIMONIALLY INCLINED, Dr for those who have an ''invite" to the j wedding, our line of suitable presents is i very complete. ' Write to us for ful? ler information on this poiut. Write to ns for ANYTHING YOU NEED IN OUR LINE, j Prices as low as anywhere. ?SF- Repairing a specialty. Awarded a ?ilver medal for fine watch-work. P. H. LAGHiCOTTE & CO., ? MAIN ST., COLUMBIA, S. C Nov ll_v GEO. A. SHIELDS, MANUFACTURER OF tan Esps, Bote, Sat Mills, GEIST MILLS, CANE MILLS, COTTON PRESSES, &C. RON ANO BRASS CASTINGS MADE TO ORDER. PALMETTO IRONWORKS, COLUMBIA, S. C. Oct 21_v_ - foster's "Tres Bon" Kew Hook j Real French Kid Gloires. -books, $1.50 ; 7-books, Si.75; 10-hooksf ?2.00 per pair. FANCY GOODS, CHRISTMAS CARDS, TATIONERY and a variety of articles for Christmas Presents. STAMPING AND EMBROIDERY od a foll assortment of all necessary mate-! als. Lessons io Embroidery at reasonable j ites. Batterick's Fashionable Dress F. t- | ros at PHIL. SCH?CKMANN, 3& Kiss: si., CHARLESTON; S. I [For the Watchman and Southron.] A CONUNDRUM. To wed, or not to wed, that is the question ; Whether 'tis better for ns young folks to suffer The stings and arrows of a single life, Or to take up the cross of matrimony, And thus end them ? To fall in love, to marry Some one ; and by a marriage to say we end The heartache, and the thousand little wounds j That we are heir to-'tis a consummation J Devoutly to be wished. To love-to be loved To marry ! perchance to dream !-aye, there's the rub ; For in that state of wedded bliss, what dreams may come, " When we have shuffled off this single state Must give us pause. There's the consid?ra? tion That makes calamity of married life; For who would bear the whips and scourge of woman's tongue, The butcher's bill, the milliner's account ; Or when in course of time there comes a being For whom you must give up each husband's joy. 0, Holy Moses ! Give os patience and sub? missiveness To pace the floor at hours of night, And stop the midnight melody of the young lord At whose behest we miserable men must bend the knee. ***** * Yet midst the griefs and pinching things of married life At times we feel that we are happy and well blest. OSCAR. BILL ARR Tiaining a Soy Gets in College. It is right, I know, for a man to be conservative and tolerant and respect? fully considerate of other peoples' opin? ions, but how can a man be so and take the papers. When he reads the non? sense of men claiming to be educators, he gets disgusted with fools, and when he reads the venomous lies and slanders of politicians, he is equally disgusted with knaves, and so between the two their utterances in the public press keep him vexed about half the time. Nevertheless, it ta the duty of a good citizen to keep np with the age in which bc lives, for he can do something, and it is bis doty to read and be prepared for coming events and raise his voice on the right ?\?e. It has been a great d:awbackcrfti the South that her people did not read enongh and were too con? tented with their ignorance ; bat they are waking1 up now, and you can hard? ly find a family in this region that does not take some paper. I mix with the common people a good deal and I know families who take a paper for their chil? dren to road, although the parents can? not. ' This ts all right and it is encour? aging. After a poor farmer boy has learned to read and write and cipher, he can get a right good edncation from the papers, and he can get it cheaper than in any other way. I would rather my boys would depend on three or four good papers, that would not cost more than ten dollars a year, than on fifty dollars worth of Latin and Greek and algebra and geometry. They will be of more benefit to him in the practical business of life. Of course, if he is to be a professional man, he must study the sciences and go to college, bnt it is a hazard-a great hazard-to send a. boy to college, and the reason is plain. Four years at school and four more at college takes eight of the best years of a boy's life, say from 12 to 20, the very years that his physical system needs physical exercise and physical training; the very years when his habits of life and for life are fixed ; the very years when he -should mix labor with study and let his brain and his muscle all work along together and sustain each other. College habits are habits of physical indolence. A college boy has no education to work anything bat his brain when he comes away, and looks around for business. His physi? cal nature abhors work-he can't stand it. His habits are fixed and habits are as binding as fetters, and he sees no agreeable opening except the law or medicine or politics, and so the laud is full of quacks and pettifoggers and small politicians who afflict the people and do no good for themselves. These small lawyers sit around town and watch for strife among nabors like a buzzard watches for a carcass. They nurse and encourage all sorts of petty litigation. The doctors gallop off to see a sick patient and keep him sick until it takes hts little crop to pay the bill. The politicians get up a rumpus in the newspapers and slander one an? other until the people don't know who to vote for. aud they don't care And so it goes, and it would have beeu better, far better, for the whole batch to have stay? ed upon the farm and married clever country girls and gone to raising chil? dren and chickens in an honest and honorable way. Now if, I say if, the college "boys would go to farming 1 would rejoice to see the boys go to col? lege, for the higher the education the more refined is the happiness that knowledge gives and the better farmers they would make, but they will not. And for like reasons I have never fa? vored the higher education of the negro. rr . . Iiis race is physically ordained for labor, muscular labor, and he likes it. A college life is his utter ruin as a man and a citizen, and lie conies out a gen? teel African vagabond. 1 received a letter from one of t?icm in Atlanta the other day that was full of profane abuse and blasphemy for the views expressed in one of my letters and he demanded the name of that Boston traitor as he called him who said he pitied us when he stw the ignorant horde that had been entrusted with the ballot. Well, that darkey bas been to college and is now an educated vagabond. The trouble with Mr. George W. Cable is that he does not consider the negro as ai race bu* lets his large philantrophy consider them individually. He finds i case where a negro became an expert from -having the advantage of a high degree of culture, and he makes bim a type of the race, and puts a de Hand upon us for a like civilization to lill It reminds me of the educated jog that, a, few years ago, was. exbibi fcd, over tho. Scuttb, and- could play cards, and tell the truie of day upon ? watch, but I don't think it follows thai we should, therefore, educate al the bogs in the country. The ex ceptions always prove the rule. Nc negroes have made any progress ic arts, or science, or politics, or the pulpit except those who had Caucasian blood in their veins. The cross does well foi a ti ruc, but it is nature's last effort, foi nature abhors it, and from the unnatu? ral union cooes a feeble posterity 01 none, after the first generation. Some of the noblest colored people I ever knew were of this kind. Fred Doug? las and Senator Bruce and all the color? ed men of note are among them. The barbers of the South are of them, and almost without exception they arc a law-abidiog, intelligent and well-man? nered class of citizens. I have great respect for them, for they attend well to their business, and are entitled to more respect thao some of their customers. Mr. Cable seems to think that justice to the negro requires we should mix with them on equal terms iu our churches and schools and cars and hotels and theaters, and this shows his utter igno? rance of the race as a race, for they will tell bim almost uniformly that they do not want to mix. They want equal privileges, but they do not like to mix. The race instinct is agaiust it. Your recent editorial on this subject was most admirable and most true, and this reminds me to say that no philosopher or philanthropist understands the negro like those who were born and bred with them, and tho negro knows it. He bas to-day more respect for the old masters than for his so called northern friends. When he feeip fully assured that Dem? ocracy docs not mean slavery or oppres? sion, but rather an enlarged freedom and protection he will no longer rely upon northern politics or northern promises, and will quietly affiliate with his own people. We are getting along very weil together now, and. I think some of our abstractionists are attach? ing too much importance to the race problem. It is premature. It may become a serious problem for our chil? dren and my faith is they will be pre? pared for it. It is said they are in? creasing more rapidly than the whites. I have never believed it and I put no trust in the census that reports it. The birth rate may be as great, but the death rate is at least three to one. Our city records prove it annually. They do not marry like they used to, nor do they take as good care of their children. But suppose they are increasing more rapidly. It'does not follow that they ever will or ever can control the ,coan try or its government. A few men control it uow. Not the many-money and property control it, and always will. Mooey controls us all, whciher we know it or not. Money is the lever of Archimedes and thc negro will never have it because he does not want it. It is not his nature to accumulate. He lives and toils for his present good. A few do acquire property, but- only a few, and that proves the rule by the exception. He cannot accumulate if he would, because be bas no fitness fr. thc arts and the tricks of trade by which most of our race get rich. The negro rarely cheats or deseives any one in a trade. Ile is frank and open and does not know how to plot a fraud or conceal it. lu all this I admire him, for he is unlike the white man. Solomon says 'a lie sticketh close on the joints between the buyer and the seller,' but he meant it for a Jew, and it is true of the Gentile, bat not of the negro. The negro will steal, for that is an instinct of his race and be cannot help it, but he will not steal much. His inclination that way is limited, but when a white man steals, the more he gets the better satisfied be is. Well races are races, and we must study them. This study will teach us that the African, the black negro, was by nature and nature's Ged created and fitted for labor rather than for college or the theater or the fioc arts. But let the experiment of high education go on. Let us try it for another twenty years, and perhaps the problem will be solved. In the meantime let Mr. Cable possess his soul in patience and I hope the New York Tribune will learn in due time why it was that one million of the nation's wards failed to vote for Blaine in the last election. The editor of that pacific journal has put that conundrum at us very frequently of late and seem9 impatient for an answer. Well, we give it up. Why don't he ask the wards ? As the Scriptures say, 'He is of age, ask him.' I told John Thomas, the other dry, that one of his Yankee friends up North wanted to know why he dident vote for Blaine, and he stop? ped short and looked surprised, and said : 'Well, boss, what's he got to do wid it?' And then I asked another dar? key, and he said, 'Gosbamity ! boss, I didn't knaw he v. a s ruonin.' BILL ARP. Squeezin' Times. On a train going West the other evening were two residents of the city, who were canvassing the general situa? tion as to business, and both agreed that it was a iiine when every business man should pare his apples very close. Behind them was a farmer and his son, and, as the gentleman finally ceased talking, the old man observed : 'William Henry, did you hear what they said ?' 'Yes, dad.' " ''Bout iron furnaces bustiu' up, and rollin' mills shuttin' down V 'Yes.' 'Hullsale houses goin' to thc wall, and coner groceries beiu' knocked high- j er'u Gildroy's kite?' .Yes, I heard it all; and what of , it?' I 'What of it!' echoed the old man, as J he half-wheeled io his scat. 'Why. you ? infernal, thick-headed idiot, it means that i'm goin' to git ready fur squeezin' j times, and if you don't pay me them $7 you owe me by next week Thursday, . I'll cover my shorts by g?vin' you the all-firedest lickin' a William Henry J ever fooled with.'-Wall Street Kens. - mm m - 'Mamma,' said a little boy to his ( mother, the other day, 'let me see you 1 break Maud S's record ; will you V i 'What do you mean ?' asked the moth- J er. 'Why,' said the boy, innocently, ?Bapa says you can talk faster than a J horse can trot.*; ' *" rJ :,?'; "j What Our Editors Say. Greenville Netcs. New York City, which is a center of civilization, has a municipal govern meat which is as corrupt, unscrupulous and imbecile as any of the burlesque State governments of the Sooth during the reconstruction period. Fortunately the Democratic party is not fully re? sponsible for this condition of affairs as the Republican aldermen are quick and unanimous to form thievish combina* tlons with so-called Democrats. All parties are one in the wild rush for 'boodle.' As far as we can judge by the newspaper reports, there is not one of the eDtire twenty-one city fathers who bas even a faint resemblance to a gentleman. South Carolina may have to teach the respectability of the me? tropolis bow to effect a political revolu? tion some of these days. Newberry Herald. 'An Ohio business mab who bas been traveling through the South says : Mississippi and Alabama are covered with mortgages from one end to the other, and they are both practically owned by the merchants of New Orleans. The planters of those States have a cns* tom of mortgaging their crops before they are grown. The crops fail, and they secare their notes by a mortgage on their plantations. They grow deep? er and deeper in debt, and the resnlt is that their estates have fallen into the hands of their New Orleans brokers. Land is very cheap in Alabama and Mississippi now. Some good timbered property can be gotten as low as 50 cents an acre.' We fear that the above has much of the truth in it, and that it is more or less true of other places. How we long for the day when our people at large shall find their way out of the ruts of poverty, and when the fillet-crowned seasons, well-directed labor and wise economies, may yield them the amonnt of prosperity so essential to their peace and happiness. The Senate Ignores and Violates the Constitution. Edgefitld Advertiser. The .Senate by a vote of 18 to 15, defeated the House bill to provide for taking the census of the State this year. Senator Talbert, on the ground of econ? omy, voted for striking out the enacting words of the bill, although the new cen? sus-as shown by the census of 1880 would have eutitlcd Edgefield to one more Representative. The defeat of the bill will save thc State at least fifty thousand dollars ; but it is in plain violation of the Constitution to neglect taking the census this year. Some of our most distinguished Senators, how? ever, were among those who voted against the bill. As regards Senator Talbert's vote, he was at least con? sistent, inasmuch as he persistently voted against every form of expendi tur, save the ?14,000 for the militia. In our opinion Senator Talbert pushed economy too far. It is not well to try to make people believe they are so ut? terly and hopelessly poor. In the long run, they will be willing to pay nothing, and the State may go to the dogs. When one considers that property in South Carolina is returned at far less than its real value, ail this frantic and unremitting talk about onerous taxation is in a great degree bosh. We earnest? ly hope our people will not fall into the error of thinking they are so wretchedly poor, as to forget all State pride and State dignity. Mr. Cleveland's Letter. New York Times, Rep. The reception given to Mr. Cleve? land's letter is hardly less noteworthy. i than the letter itself. In the first place, I there is scarcely a perceptible dissent i from the doctrines it lays down or the spirit it expresses from any Democratic < source, nor is there any attempt among : the Democrats to explain away its sig- J nificance. On the contrary, many Democrats indorse it emphatically and cry out, as Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, loes, *He will trample out this accursed spoils system.' Only among a few of , the Democratic Senators is there found i i disapproval of the letter on the ground i )f expediency. On the other hand, . the letter is received with unexpected j cordiality by the Republican press. Many papers that were extremely severe ? toward Mr. Cleveland during the cam- ( paign frankly recognize the manliness, ; the sincerity, and the strength of his present position. i It is reserved for the more violent ind more intimate Blaine organs, such , is the Tribune, of this city, and the Utica Herald, to throw doubts on Mr. j Cleveland's good faith, and to try to ? extract from bis clear and simple utter- . inces some double meaniug that will i jive an opportunity for sneers and a ; pretense for calumny. i Gov. Cleveland's Hesigation. New York World, Jan. G. 1 Grover Cleveland retires to-day from : ,be office of Governor of the State which ic bas'filled so well. Who shall say i bat Republics are ungrateful when the < acople take the faithful Governor by the 1 land and lift bim into the higher and 1 jrouder position of President of the ' United States? ? It is seedless to review Grover i Cleveland's acts as Governor when they J lave jost received so signally the ap- ' )roval of the nation. It is sufiicicut to * iay that the qualities he displayed as ? Executive of the State-his steadfast J1 idherence to the public interests, his 1 contempt of the arts of the demagogue, < lis fearless championship of popular '< .ights, his unyielding incorruptibility, i lis plain truthfulness, and withal his s ?terling Democracy-were his pass-ports 1 o the favor of the people all over the [Inion, 1 It is an encouraging fact, especially i br young men, that the seed of honesty ind sincerity planted in New York bore ts fruit in every State and won foi the t rood husbandman the richest harvest \ hat can be reaped by an American. ? The President-elect carries with him < mt of the Empire State a record which < sill remain clean and bright io the larg- i .r sphere of usefulness to which its fu- f ure pages will be devoted. i It is fortunate that in retiring from [ I be Governor's office the President-elect I ' eave's the unfinished year of his term ' < in the bands of a gentleman who will carry on the good work of efficient, honest government with a firm and ca pable band. Gov. Hill will make a worthy successor of Gov. Cleveland. The Chicago Advocates of Murder. New York Sun. We read with pain and shame the re? ports of the speeches at the socialistic meeting in Chicago on Sunday. Men and women stood up before hundreds of people and announced their desire, if not their purpose, to become cowardly murderers. The capitalists, said one of the speak? ers, named Griffin, most take the non capitalists into partnership, 'or else, with the assistance of dynamite, leave the world.' AoGtber bloodthirsty ora? tor advocated murder as a remedy for social ills, and took no pains to guajrd his words. Even women applauded these diabolical sentiments, and, more than that, went further than the men in de? claring murderous impulses. Miss Lee said that she was ready to shoulder a musket to kill 'a mean, dirty, awful capitalist.' Mrs. Parsons said that she was as able as her husband to throw dynamite effectively, and she advised ministers of the gentle and loving Gos? pel to tell their parishioners to 'trust in dynamite, instead of 'to trust in God.' Such bloodthirstiness and such blas? phemy are unspeakably shocking, espe? cially when they are uttered by women. But the language used was that of insanity, and for the time, at least, the speakers were downright lunatics. Yet we are glad that the meeting was allow? ed to go on undisturbed, for the frantic orators blew off steam, and so were less dangerous characters in a civilized com? munity. Besides, it is well for the people to know just what are the feel? ings of these crazy monsters who arc so much enamored of blood and murder. The horror excited by such boastfully proclaimed sentiments will be almost universal among those they would con? vert to their criminal creed ; and labor will be spared the fearful injury the advocates of assassination would inflict on it. Meantime, in hundreds of savings banks many thousands of capitalists are accumulating the money which, accord? ing to this creed, should doom them to brutal assassination. Every prudent and hard-working man is doing bis best to make himself a capitalist, and the effort renders him a better citizen and a more self-respectful being. It encour? ages thrift, sobriety, and order, and saves the man from many temptations. But because of bis self-control and wise foresight these Chicago lunatics would put dynamite in his path to blow him up It is capital and the organization of, capital which give him work and bring within his reach the best fruits of civili? zation ; yet these bloodthirsty scoundrels ask him to kill the capitalists and drive the money from the land. All that thc world has gained by centuries of peace? ful industry they would destroy witb dynamite, turning society into a pande? monium. They would change the workman from an honorable American citizen, who has the ballot with which to right his wrongs and express his sentiments, into a dastardly midnight assassin. And what do they want to bring about ? They do not know themselves. They are ignorant of the philosophy of the socialism of which they prate. Meantime, true and desirable socialism is quietly, but surely, advancing in every enlightened country. Russia aside, political freedom bas been won throughout Europe, and it has always been the foundation of this republic. Now, we see very clearly that, instead of the contest for political rights which has occupied this century, the twentieth century will witness a prolonged effort for social advancement and social eman? cipation ; and in that struggle capital ?ind labor will find themselves allies, ind not antagonists. Steamboat Invention. Chronicle and ConetUutionalitt, The steamboat question, as to priority of discovery, is assuming lively propor? tions. Our esteemed contemporary, the Wilmington Star, has contributed very valuable information on the sub ject, led thereto by an extract in our Washington correspondence, which stated that Senator Platt, of Connecti? cut, was about to make an elaborate investigation of the whole matter, and would try to fix the real credit of this momentous invention. Senator Platt is chairman of the Pat? ents Committee, and has unusual oppor? tunities for throwing all the light possible on the matter. He is a just man and may not insist npon the North's exclusive claim in this particular, al? though it is sometimes the habit of the New Englander to 'want the earth.' Our brother of the Star is in error when calling the Connecticut Senator 'Me Too.' That was Conkling's colleague, DOW in retirement. Platt, of Connec? ticut, plays second fiddle to no man. Now our Wilmington contemporary insists that we were in error when as? cribing to John Fitch the glory that bas been given to Fulton, and declares that James Rumsey, of Maryland, was the individual to whom the laurel of right belongs. The documentary proof is very strong ; but Fitch fought back md made out a strong case, if not a' ca lid one. Until better advised, we .hall, as a patriot, be content to believe, is the Star docs, that Rumsey, of Maryland, has the better claim, al? though an expert writer in Appleton's" Cyclopedia distinctly states that 'an ex imination of thc evidence leaves no reason to doubt that the first practical success in steam navigation was made ay Fitch.' Let us hope that Senator Platt will Snally be able ?o decide the proper jtatus of Rumsey, Fitch and Fulton. Mr. Pulitzer, wife of Joseph Pulitzer, :he editor of the New York World, in? cited 110 boys and the same number of ?jirls, ranging from three to tee years >f age, to Florence Hall, in that city, >n Christmas, and distributed $1,500 worth of overcoats, shawls, toys and sugar-plums among them. They were ill children of poor parents, living in ihe Tenth, Eleventh and Seventeenth Wards, on the East side of New York By The Pire, Ehe sat and mused by the drift-wood Ure, As tho leaping flames flashed high ?ad higher? And the phantoms o? youth, as fair and bright. Grew for her gaze in the ruddy light The blossoms she gathered in life's young days Wreathed and waved in the flickering blaze; And ?he laughed through a sunny milt o? tears That rose at the dream of her April yean; And ever and aye the sudden rain Flashed on the glittering window-pane. Sobered and saddened the pictures that showed r As the driftwood logs to a red core glowed, And the fancied figures of older time Passed with the steadied step of their prime; The daisiea and snowdrops bloomed and died, Red roses and lilies stood side by side, While richer and fuller and deeper grew The lines of the pictures August drew; And ever rmi aye the falling rain Streamed frick and fast on the windowpane. Tho drift-wood died down into feath*?ry ash, Where faintly and fitfully shone the flash; Blowly and sadly her pulses beat. And soft-was the fall as of vanishing feet; And lush and groin a< from guarded grave She saw thc grass of the valiey wave; And like echoe* in ruins seemed to sigh. The "wet west wii.d" that went wandering by. ,. And caught the sweep of the f?llen rain, And dashed it against the windowpane. -All the Year Bound. D??? CT DISEASE What a Medical Mani Says on the Subject. In considering the question of fool suitable for a diseased body, one must remember that tho whole body is debil? itated in illness, and that the stomach partakes of the general -weakness, even if, as frequently the case, it does Hot suffer specially. As the stomach 4s* of? ten our mainstay in cases of prolonged disease, it is very important- that ever^ attention should he given it, so that it may be kept as efficient as possible and may not fail ns in the hour of our ne? cessity. It wonld strike any one as ob? vious that the very lightest of foods should be taken at these times, and that the stomach should not simply not oe overburdened, but should be placed as much at rest as thc physical require* ments of thc patient will allow. But this is not always understood. For in? stance, I had been impressing on a pa? tient suffering from intense stomach ir? ritation the necessity for light, very light, food, and she soon afterward asked me if she might not have a little roast pork! She was otherwise sane enough, though one can scarcely cred? it it Food must be light and tempting, or an invalid can not take it at all, and it is well known that if yon tell the pa? tient what you are preparing for him beforehand his unstable fancy grows sick at the food before he has so much as tasted it Make it and bring it just ready for eating. By arousing the fan? cy thus nourishment may be taken and - much good gained before tho mind has wearied of the food. Milk, again, is our grand resource in disease, containing, as it does, all the elements of food that the body requires in a form that is easily assimilated, and it is, besides, a food that can be pre? pared in many tasty ways. If there be irritation of stomach, and plain milk is rejected, mix it with one-third of lime water, or half as much fresh soda water, and it will answer better. In any disturbance of the stomach, food should bo given in small quantities, frequently repeated-even teaspoonful doses-of soda water, or soda water and milk in acute cases; while if the vomiting continues, koumiss may check it Beef tea, chicken broth, and similar foods are very nourishing, but patients soon tire of them, and can with diffi? culty be induced lo take them after a little while. Indeed, it is very wiso to change your diet as much as possible, and tempt the languid stomach with variety. Oysters arc highly nutritious, and can be prepared in various ways, making excellent dishes. In many cases white fish can be eaten with ad? vantage, and invalids still nearer re? cover}' can tako boiled mutton, or an underdone chop. But meat should bo. taken with caution, and the lighter kinds adhered to until the stomach regains vigor. Mutton, fowl, white fish, etc., must bc taken in preference to heavier foods, and five meals a day of a light nature aro to be preferred to three heavier ones, when suffering from debility, while in worse cases food must bc taken every hour or two, or much more frequently still if required. Never neglect-yourpatientfs food-have something always at hand ready to be taken when needed. Make your foods fresh, and do not keep "warming them, up"-warmed up foods are unpalata? ble in health and unbearable in sick? ness. Booths and soups may be strengthened with lentils or pearl bar? ley-the latter depriving beef tea of its purging tendencies. Patients are often thirsty, and in gratifying that thirst take care the food is nourishing. B.irley water is very nice, as are black currant tea, lemon tea-with the pips removed to prevent its being bitter-and a few drops of dilute hydrochloric acid in sweetened water makes a good drink. Lemonade may sometimes oe taken; and in vomiting, which produces at times the most distressing thirst, the sucking-of small fragments of ice is very agreeable, and tends to .soothe the stomach also. Jellies and blanc mange contain much nourishment and are digested easily; rice,, milk, sago gruel and simi? lar things are of service; and if there is, during convalescence, a dislike for food, a 6mall quantity of wine or bran? dy before a meal acts as a whip and sets up a temporary appetite, which is often of tho highest benefit to the suf? ferer. These remarks will indicate the lines on which we should work * feeding invalids; there are endless varieties of food and methods of administering them, and these ?~e often our only re? sources. It wonld be well, then, to learn how 'o prepare .tasty and whole? some dishes, so that when sickness does come, we may be ready to meet it at all points, -Leeds' Mercury. The Conntry Editor. . ~t .;. - The country editor lives nearer to his readcrs.than thc city editor doe?. The country editor knows by sight and by name a goodly ji'roporiion ai his subscribers, and to a large extent he is familiar with their family history. He personally congratulates them upon, the birth of a child, and sympathizes with them when death takes a loved one from thc family circle. Ile attends the funerals, thc weddings, the anniversa? ries, and all other sorts of gaxherings. Ho joins their societies, religious and otherwise, acts as President or Secreta? ry or as a private member, discusses questions with them, writes essaysand delivers speeches. He is a trustee of all sorts of local enterprises,, and tries to make himself generally "useful as well as ornamental.-Danville Advert?* ter. A Baltimore paper says that city alone put up thc past season 14,400, 000 cans of peaches, 2.000,000 cans of peas, 300,000 cans of string beans, 100, 000 cans of pears, 3,000,000 cans of to? matoes, 1,000,000 cans of fruit and oth? er vegetables. . _ _ Kassian Cruelties The fi??h?flb?id (Ky.). Her&d prints the following readable letter from Gen? eral C.,Jt Clay, ia defense of Kassia and the, Russians! r .... In your journal of a recent date ls a paper whicli is a type of the malignant calumnies of tfte ami-Russian press tor a century or more.* . ? lived in St Pet? ersburg for near nine years, and made Russian life a study, mingling with all classes for that purpose. I dined with, the Emperor and imperial family? and took cabbage and soup and black bread with the woodmen who came from the interior on boats and rafts. Perhaps there is no American, living or dead? who can speak with more authority, than I can On thc real character of Russia. I believe there is no more : charitable or humane nation on earth than Russia. I give the proofs. There are no deaths by absolute poverty- ia Russia, as in the great cities of Paris, London, New York and other European . cities. Besides the charitable associa?1 " tions established! by law; tile first nobles in Russia, men and, women, yearly, by organized societies;, collect funds by r; needle work,' add other methods, clothes,- . soup-houses .and oread, which are distribtited all winter in Str Petersburg; and such methods are pur* sued in other cities. The infants that are drowned and thrown into sewers itt-. Europe and America, are taken at ? day old, if need be/ and brought np at the public expens? in St Petejsbur&i. Moscow, and other cities/ These child re nj when grown up to a suitable age* ar? pct to, service, ."and maymake, a generous Hving: Russia liberated her slaves, not by ivar, and! gave them : lands. America did neither. ~ - I dmed.with the nephew of Prince Dolgorouky, Governor General of Mos? cow (Viceroy), and a liberated serf or slave was at the tabl? as a guest and ?. : made the best dinner speech on the oc? casion. The f?issisi? /ojkfi, all^j^ieij: pleasure-jrrounds* beside t??^ubBe, Earks to tue whole people." . they never ... ar the gates and close the doors' against the .'rabble," as. in J3hgla?i??? and America. In somm'er^-th^.vsj^j^. are open and the wind?ws ...^fapot., blinds, that the humblest n^asarit ma$ see and hear the music On aftvir?? ' occasions of a private nature au tJie. poor are feasted or otherwise^ enter* tuined by suitable means. In England; ? and America even house- servants -??bi l f treated with contempt, and ?ny owji. family remonstrated on ?y return b?"t ., cause I said good morning, as was my. - habit in Russia, to them. The Russian ., > noblemen speak kindly always to their inferiors; the Englishmen and Amen- ' cans out of thc south rarely ever. The Russian Empire is large and sparsely^ populated, so that tiic means of sub? sistence do not at all press trpon the,* increase of population.'. In the largei. cities, as I said, no absolute suffering for the necessaries of life is possible. ?1 Now, as to prisons. There was at. ' %~ no time while I was in Russia, so far as I know and believe, one equal in its infamy to the Kentucky Penitentiary; ~; And Governor Blackburn deserves hot- : denunciation, but eternal honor/ for^ . ? his manhood and philanthropy,- against the barbarian clamors of the press;' - for his reform. } When I was in Sk\ - ^ Petersburg the elf olera . was several, ', times in that city of ???.0?0, and there;; - ^ was no moro sensation than if the; measles or whooping-cough prevailed;* - Every subject of the disease was t^eh ^ at once to Wholesome hospitals, well* attended, and then,- when eonvales-. cent, returned without charge* to their homes. ";. The streets of Sr. Petcnbtrrg were s>' hundred times cleaner than the streets,' alleys and bock-yards of Richmond.. They nevr burned down the pest-. . houses in Russia, as they did the other! day in Madison county, when small-, pox prevailed. As to" prisons and Sf*L beria, I am glad to have an opportuni? ty to refute some of the world-wide, calumnies of the anti-Russian presa.; Siberia is not so vile ja country as ta* French penal colony of Cayenne, no? * , the original Australia of England: Three Siberian-born ladies " married. "J . nobles in St Petersburg one " th*v?->-? Prince Suwarrow, the grandson of tho Prince Suwarrow of Napoleon's times;. the other sisters married well, one an - T officer on the stan* of the Empewfc" X * have heard them spealc'of^^ land" as would a German. And these' were the descendante of Siberian exiles?, 1 do not hesitate to say that of. all the{ people I ever knew" 'the Russians are*, the most genial and hospitable. It "s. true the ranks in Russia are verydj*y tirict and .marked, bot tho hnmafie spirit of Russia thaws all coldness,* breaks all conventional barriers, and fuses the whole into one national fee!-! mg as in no other land. That is the. reason of the invincible courage of the Russian army. What calumniators^ call "stolidity" is unshaken and heroic^ patriotism I could lill a book of aimfc tar proof, but I hold: "Ob, wad som? power thc glftie gie tui To eoe ouwel's as lt ber? sceus?"* * ? m., .m < I ? -- Phillips Brooks on tho "Drummer.* The Rev. Phillips Brooks, in tbe\. course of his remarks at the New En-, gland commercial travelers1 dinner nt* Boston said that commercial travelers' should be proud of their missioa in this most exciting and interesting nine-,. tecnth century. This is certainly the greatest commercial century that theV world has seen. One cannot go any? where to-day but he meets, the com? mercial traveler. The speaker ^ad. seen a caravan coming into the, jute's. of Damascus* and vhose^in. tf??i cara*-,. van, he said, w^reessenltfally commer? cial travelers, thongh perhaps some-. what different in aspect from the . gea-. tie men' about .tke table before him.. Every age has had its characteristic, men, and they were generally travel? i?g men. One age had its mediseval,. knights, another its roaming Grecian scholars, another its German mechanic who went about from point to point iri: Europe. In ourage the . commercial traveler is distinctive. He sets clearly, the standard of the t?m?C But he can-, - not accept the privileges without a?se? taking on himself, .thc responsibilities, of his calling. ?a him depend tho standards of peace and morals of our, time. This world is. going to increase, or decrease injntegrity.. charity and in, th? spirit Of freedom .and fewc^t/fr^ cording to Xbe spirit of oui commercial m?n. In Venice there was.pnce a law. that no ship should go to the East with-, out bringing hack to Venice some por-., tion of the magnificent ruins there to' put into the structure. bf St Marks**> There is a certain poetical value in this-^ law, he averred^ evcnsfor our own t!me? rio man and no ship .bWaright to go* ont in .th?se &odcra\-times without, bringing back- something to" enrich the> humanities of* the age." Great men of . old despised commerce. . Virgil fer*-? Ibid that, with the golden age/ would' come a cessation of trade.- The best 4 and keenest spirits* ?? . the R?dern." age?, look to commerce as the most ; pctontf factor in the humanizing of the worl<p>* Tennyson, in his noble verse, discards * tho conception of Virgil and sings ?hr ode to the glories of commerce. :The speaker believed that thc best interests of the race were safe in the hands cf* commerce and commercial men..