The tri-weekly herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1865, 1865-04-11
have the honor to be, very respectfully, your
obedient servant, - -
Signed Il US. GRANT, Lieut.. Gen. a.
4 Remedy for ExtOrtiOn.
THE FRENCH SYSTEM.

articles essential to subsistence, &dmonishes
us that, unless remedy can be applied, evils
offearful magnitude will arise. sPeopleana5a4SSt
live, and things are fast approxlmatlng that
spoint where none. but the very wealthy, the
speculator and extortioner, can get bread.
The poorer casses-the families of soldiers IN
the FIELD, Of mechanics in the employ Of
government, and the widows and orphans Of
deceased soldiers, are even now being reduced
to painful straits for subsistence, Something
should be done, and that promptly, to cneck
this evil. ! ~ E..
The French Government, under a similarly
embarrassing state of affairs, resorted to an
,expedient, which nothing but the direst ne
cessity could justify, and yet it is one which
affected prejudicially onlypthose whose wealth
senabled them to buy up market supplies,
either for their own luxurious living or for
purposes of speculation. 1fit.operated harsh. :.
iivyit was but o comparatively small portion
eof the community that it injured. Under this
law, the Convention, through its agents, nu-
dertook to control provision supplies. and
issue them QUITO citizens in quantities com
menSurate with theis necessities. heads OF
families were required to register the number
.of.their families and to procure tickets en-
titling them to purchases given amount OF
provisions, regulated by the pumber to be
fed. All Jared alike and paid alike. The
rich could command no more for his wealth
than the poor for his pittance. Speculation
and extortion were checked, for these supplies
were seized, or Impressed, by authority of the
Convention, andBere paid Tor at a uniform
price, fixed BY that body, in government cur
reney. Any attempt to o@conceal them, or to
withhold them from market, was severely
punished. .-.'-5> >.,.s. r.. = r.,
( This measure, arbitrary as twas, and, JUS
tiiablsonly as one Of extreme necessity, sub
served, we. believe, the purpose for which it
was intended. It brought down the price OF
articles of prime necessity, senabled al to
i've, allayed discomfort among the multitude,
and restrained heaftless extortien. Whether
;twould operate. fagorably or prejudieially, as
applied to our own affairs, we, cannot say,
Perhaps it might furnIsh a hint upon which
to base some plan ofremedy for the dangers
which threaten to result from the enormously
increasing price Segery thing essential to
the naintepancez Of life. We give the his
torieal precedent for what tits worth neither
approving 7d1sapproying, but9simply de-
string that soaaetbiag should he done in relief
of the suffering poor of the countTy.-[LAt Macon
Journal O. Messenger. u. ~.
PERSEVERANCE,, -W hen with huttering heart
you make your few first struggling steps to-
ward the goal of your endeayors, which placed
far EDWARDS in tie dimness of futnrity, is only
illuminated bY the rays -oiected uponit by
the dark. lantern Of hope, while ever and anon
you stumble against the stones that bestreW
your path, or plunge into qnagmire OF dis
appointment-when you feel distressingly
conscious that you are alone, withno, friendly
hand to beckon you on, no guiding voice to
lead you safely past the dangerous by-paths
ca to the high-road of security amid all this,
and ten times worse, perseEsre What>a man
asks, that be shall have! what a man seeks,
that he shall find where he knocks, there
shall door be opened unto him-only he
must persevere! To alter, IN borrowing, a
well-kpown thought, the first requisite for
success is perseverance,, the second is perse-
.verance, and the third is still--perseyeraac
To persevere, is to defy the frowns. of fortune
aud the world, to subdue circumstances to our
will. to- conquer demons, to scale preclpices,
to remove mountains OH! that we could i'm
bue the young with this indomitable spirit
that we could cry with trumpet tongue to the
feeble, to the fainthearted, to the desponding,
to the world and o-oppressed -perseqerei :
This is the Beauty Of which Byron says:
ssShe was form Of Life and Light, =
t J.. That sun, become a partrof sight,
And rose, ,9whefeer turned my eye,
The Mornmgstar5 of Memory I"
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|. "a let of fellows, bantering a large and fat
companion, remarked, that if all flesh was
grass he must be load Of hay. 4 suspect
/ am" said the man, from the, way the asses
are nibblmg at me. - - r.. -
-. ~
'sgome, Charley, get up, it's the early bird
that catches the worms. -. Z