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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-15
Chamberlain's Defeat Foregone Conclusion.

The white voting population of the State of
South Carolina, according to the State census
of 1869, was 59,301; and according to the Uni
ted States census of 1870, was 62,547. 1t
must, therefore, stand to-day at about 5,0O0
The colored voting population of the State
of South Carolina according to the State CEN
sus of 1869, was 80 ,4l5 and, according to the
United States census of 1870, was S5,475. 1t
is doubtful whether it stands to-day, allowing
for excessive mortality and emigration, at over
81, ,OO0 In no case can it exceed $4,000.
The number of white votes usually cast tor
Republican candidates is not usually believed
to exceed the number Of colored votes cast for
Conservative candidates. 1t may therefore, be
assumed that the nominal Republican majority
in South Carolina with a full and free vote
and fair count, does not exceed $4,000. A
change of 12,500 votes from the Republican
side to the Conservative side is sufficient to
place the two parties on par, and a change OF
$4,000 votes will give the Conservatives ma
jority of 1000.
The Democratic vote, in the Presidential
election of 1868, was 45, 1877, and for Carpenter,
in 1870, was s., ,537.
The Republican vote for Grant, in 1868, was
$4,000; was, in 1870, for Scott, 85071, and was,
in 1872, for Grant, 1920.
The Republican ma ority in 1868 was II 1853,
and in 1870 was 49, ,534.
The leading Republican papers in the State
claim a majority of only 10000. The popula-
ton, by races, shows majority of only q, 5,OOO
Scott with the mighty frauds of 1870, had a
majority of 1854. 1t is safe to say that, un-
der no circumstances can the Republican nor
NAL majority exceed 10000. That is an out
side estimate.
More than ten thousand white voters alb
stained from voting when Judge Carpenter ran
on the Conservative ticket for Governor. Car
penter was Republican, as Judge Green is;
but Judge Green is South Carolinian, and, in
every way, a better man than Carpenter. AS
suming that only as many Conservatives vote
for Judge Green as voted for Carpenter, it will
require that the Independent Republican ticket
secure fifteen thousand Republican votes to in
sure the election of Judge Green.
Of the fifteen thousand Republican votes
required to defeat Chamberlain and elect Green,
at least thirteen thousand votes can to-day be
relied on in the four counties of Charleston,
Georgetown, Sumter and Kershaw. And we
believe that the rest of the State, before the
canvass even opens, can be relied on for ten
thousand more.
The deduction is, that Chamberlan's defeat
is foregone conclusion, provided that Green
receives as many Conservative votes as were
cast for Carpenter four years ago. Charleston
NeUS and Courier.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-15

DON'T BRIGHTEN THE CH1LpREN.-It is an
old warming, but as treated anew in iScri6ner's
JLaqa=ine may not be without effect: Never
frighten children; don't shut them up in dark
rooms never let them comprehend what light
ming is, or thunder, or take any notice OF either
in their presence. 1t is one of the most painful
things in the world to see q child run to hide
itself from thunderstorm, and in nearly all
cases where it does so, some one has blundercd.
Never attempt to control child by making it
1sys that satag t. terrible 6s will baeR hsRpsn
will come for it, or some terrible spectre or
other will haunt it. Those children who have
been shut in dark rooms as punishment fire.
ouently feel the effects ofsuch torture until late
in life 1t is strange how these terrors cling to
the person i'll after life-become, as it were
engrafted into them, and so firmly fixed that
reason can not dislodge them. A mother;
therefore, that will use such means to compel
obedience is weak, cruel and unwise; a nurse
who employs them is simply unfit for her posi-
ton,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-15
A Warming Against the Pursuit Of Office.seek
ing hy Young Men.

Hon. Albert G. Brown, of Mississippi, recent
y wrote letter to young friend, in which he
aments that he ever made political speech or
held an office. Ex-Governor Brown was for
thirty-three years, previous to 1865, continually
in high official and political station, and would,
therefore, seem to have had as extensive and
favorable an experience as any of his contem.
poraries and associates. We quote as fol-
lows:
"True, as you say, have held many Offices.
Indeed, may say that 1 never knew defeat in
any of my aspirations and it is just because
had success which people call wonderful, that
feel competent to administer word OF eau
ton to the young men ofthis generation:
"My young friend, do not be deceived by the
glitter of office. | am now past the three-score
years, and am fast travelling into the ten. L
have held almost every office i'll the gift of the
people, and can truly say, with the preacher,
it is all vanity and vexation of spirit
Looking back overa long and hope not
unsuccessful life, / can say, with clear con-
science, my greatest regret is that l ever
made political speech or held an oihce.
men, but be assured, my young friend, it is the
fascination of serpent, or, to change the figure,
it is the ignis fatuus which coaXes you on to
inevitable ruin.
"I speak of that which know. Ifmy young
friends will be governed by my advice, 1 have
this to say, after all my success as public man,
now, when my head is blossoming for the grave,
| feel that it would have been better for me if
had followed the occupation of my father, and
been q farmer.
"The mechanic arts are all honorable. To
be blacksmith, carpenter, or an artisan OF
any sort is no discredit to any man. Better
that than be a jack-leg lawyer, quack doctor,
a counter-hopper, or, worse still, wretched
seeker after office.
"Of all pursuits in life that of farmer is the
most respectable. 1t may have its trials and
disappontments, so do all others. The me-
chanic may lose the wages of his labor, the
professional man his fees, the editor may weep
over delinquent subscribers, but the honest, in
dustrious farmer is morally certain of fair re-
turn for his labor.
"True, Paul may plant, and Appollos water,
but God must give the increase But where is
the faithful cuItvator of the soil, Gods heritage
to man, who ever yet suffered for bread.
"Allow me again to caution my young
friends against the bcguilng influence of office
and to advise them most earnestly to stick to
mother earth"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-15

FAIRS AND INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITIONS.-
This is the season for Agricultural and Mech
anical Fairs and Industrial Expositions. 1t IS
to be hoped that they will be generally we'll
managed and patronised.
In this fast age, with our vast facilities for
transportation and travel, the easiest and
cheapest methods of familiarizing the indus
trial population with the improvements being
being made in all the arts and pursuits that
tend to increase wealth, to provide for human
necessities, and promote a taste for the elegant
and beautiful, should be adopted, as part of
the necessary educational facilities that must
be embraced by all who would not be left behind
the race of life. Agricultural fairs and in
dustrial expositions, are valuable museums OF
agriculture and art, wherein, in the brief space
of one or two weeks are brought together IN
teresting and valuable specimens of animated
nature and inanimate material, crude or man
ufactured, without which the masses of the peo--
pie would be deprived of the opportunity of
Studying and observing the triumphs of human
genius skill and industry.
Men are never so stimulated to efforts as
after they have seen what man can do, and has
done. A majority of our race would make no
progress socially, morally or in duslria!ly, were
thew all the time removed from contact with
the more active and enterprisng. Hence the
necessity nee of gatherings of the people in gen
erous and earnest competition and rivalry in
business
All should patronize the great fairs at central
localities who are able to do so; but none
should've should neglect the social reunions offered at
the county and neighborhood fairs, for if right;
lay conducted, they tend to promote good
neighborship. As they are near to home, the
cost of attendance is not so great as to forbid
the presence of the humblest of the population
-GreenvilLe Daily Ne,Os.
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VOLUME X.---NO. II.

GEN. KERsHAw DECLARES FOR GREEN
Some days ago Ex-Governor Perry, of Green.
vile, wrote letter to express his views as to
the proper course the Conservatives should
pursue in the present crisis, and strenuously
urged that the Conservatives unite on Judge
Green and Maj. Delaney, as candidates for
Governor and Liut. Governor, and that Gen.
Kershaw be nominated for, and elected to, Con-
gress from the Fourth District. The letter was
eminently prudent and patriotic, and evoked
from Gen. Kershaw the following reply:
CAMDEN, S. G., September 80.
My dear Governor i: avail myself of an ear.
ly opportunity of thanking you, as a citizen,
for your eminently wise, judicious, well-timed
and patriotic letter, and personally for your
very kind and hattering references to myself
The sentiments you express, coming from one
whose public life has been so eminent and
pure, must have great influence upon the pub
tic mind at this time, VIXEN wise counsel is so
battle for all that is now possible of attainment
through political action. confess the de-
mands of some of our own high-spirited and
patriotic young men, counselled, too, by some
of mature years, make my heart very sad. But
your words of wisdom cannot fall unheeded,
and thank you for them, and take new cour-
age If we shall fail to elect Green, it will be
the fault of the conservatives but I hope for
better things.
greatly regret that you will probably not
be in Columbia at the Convention, and espec-
tally that an imperfect state Of health is the
cause. Should l be nominated for Congress, I
shall probably, quite soon thereafter, be in
Greenvile. It will be both duty and pleas
ure to pay my respects to you on such an occa-
sion.
am, my dear sir, very respectfully and truly
yours, J. B. KERsHAW.
Hon. B. F. Perry, Greenville, S. c.
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"A good way to clean black gloves that are
soiled. turned white and otherwise injured is to
take teaspoonful of salad oil, drop few
drops of ink into it, and rub it over the gloves
with the end of feather; then let them dry
in the sun. Black kid boots and slippers can
be restored to their original gloss by this meth
cd.
"A clergyman, advocating corporal pun
ishment for children, said, "The child, when
onco started in a course of evil conduct, is like
a locomotive on the wrong track-it takes the
switch to get it off,
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-"And now," said political orator, warm
ing up as he approached the climax of his
speech, "let us conduct this campaign, fellow
citizens, upon the principle enunciated by the
immortal Lincoln, with malice toward all,
and charity to nonc.'"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-15

Next in point of meanness, to doing a
man an injury, is to do him a favor, and every
now aud then remind him OF 1t.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-15
A Beautiful Story.

Extract from speech of Gen. Cullen A. Battle, at Tus'
-NO- cumbia Alabama
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-08
BIedon Items.

MEssEs. EDITORs:
Our town people are actively al
work for the NJ. f. District high
school. As'yet very little money has
been subscribed, but every citizen OF
town and vicinity are unanimous for
[ the school. Rev. W. T. Harris will
address the good people of this vicini-
ty on the 11th:of August in the.inter-
est of the school.
Our place, SO usually. dull at this
/ season, is now doing a thriving bust
ness The farmers all have quite
finished UP their: .crops-hence the
I Improvement
Messrs. Harrison Bro. s are rapidly
pushing their buildings forward to
completion, and in a short time the
whistle of their engine viii be heard.
DR.. NJ. is now busily counting the
cost Of baildIng. He has declared
his intention of buying a lot of D.
Lacy, Esq, and building Immediate
". The DIR. is doing a very healthy
practice, aud is scattering himself
profusely over the county and reports
crops better in this immediate neigh
borhood than in any part of the coun-
ty.
The gas-hOase- abvut- yrlsfels -zeta+
wrote so much IS still looking up.
Some secondhand shingles for the
building were received Saturday, and
more are looked for soon. Two of
our burghers left this morning for the
piny mills, and are expected back
soon with large loads of lumber.
NJ Groom, Esq. and John A. Dean .
IRE building neat residences; Geo. w.
Brown is putting his old tannery in 1
irst class order. These gentlemen
ire all men of means and are able to i
,uild regardless of short crops. II
Rev. J. R. Graves, of Memphis, is a
preaching a series of sermons in this q
ectiOn, to large and intelligent au-
.iences.
Rev. W. L. Harris is holding a J
rotracted meeting at Shady Grove, 4
Nth good results. Rev. Jos. Pope y
commenced his usual August meeting d
Mount Tabor, Saturday last. Il
Mr.. Thomas Lacy left for his home "
l the Lone Star State on Monday. Il
inch to the regret of many friends b
nd relatives: DUB. b
Medon, July 29th, 1874. u
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-08
THE LADY CLATRE's SECRET.

THE LADY CLAIRE'S SECRET.
| The Lady Claire died yesternight;
! Indeed il was a sorry sight
To see her look so pale;
Her face 50 paIlid, yet 50 fair,
Aud all her wealth OF golden hair
Glittering meath her veil.
What killed hen We'll, we dare not tell !;
Il was a sudden, mystic spell
That turned her roses white
The bright pink roses in her face.
That daily lost their tinted grace,
Until they faded quite.
Her glidsome step grew sad and slow,
Her laughter lost its silyery flow,
Her eyes were full Of tears;
And yet she never let them fall,
But still smiled sEeetly on US AL
Despite her crushing fears.
Alb. me- it was 4 sorry thing
The way she dropped her snowy wing,
Our dove with pinions white;
She might have scared to realms Of bliss.
Made strong by loves divinest kiss,
And reached heaven bright.
Dear generous soul, she gave her all,
And only asked pittance snail.
Just Tor her hunger's sake;
The heavenly mama never fell,
She starved for love; all well, alb. well.
fear ner heart did break.
We must not speak Of this too loud.
Nor tell it 10 the gaping crowd,
For women strive TO hide
These mournful secrets in their breast.
Scarce even TO themselves confessed:
For such is woman's pride
And if we spoke this matter loud
think she'd move within her shroud.
And blush for very shame;
These women are such foolish things,
lust as if hopeless love e'er brings
Clouds on woman's fame.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-08
Queer Little Yankee Woman tn
the Paris Galleries.

PARIS , Letter from Lucy Hooper in the PhiIa-
The funniest person / have seen
for "a loug time was a chubby little
old maid from Connecticut, who
hearing me speak English, intro
duced herself to me at the Salon
few days ago. She had come over
TO Europe all alone, she told me.
and what she came for was n mar
vel to me, for a more ignorant lit
tie parsonage it has seldom been
my lot to encounter, and whatever
induced her TO come so far to see a
country of which she had heard so
little, was a perfect riddle. She
knew nothing of history, had new
or even heard of such place as
Versailles, aud as TO the pictures.
her delight ut finding somebody
who would tell her what they were
all about, was extreme. But when
l attempted TO explain their sub /
jects to her, l found the task one
Of considerable difficulty, for she |
knew nothing ABOUT the subjects /
themselves. She never had sheard I
lell OF such a woman as Cleopatra,
The NEUROLOGICAL subjects puzzled |
her dreadfuily, the historical ones
we're no better, and only the scrip
.ural ones seemed to awaken some
amiliar idea IN her mind. At last
Se came TO Bertrand's lovely pic
ure OF Romeo and Juliet. sAre
hey dead, or are they asleep, and
Who are they!' she asked all in a
'reath. / informed her that the
,icture represented Romeo and Ju-
let lying dead before the gate OF
uliet's tomb. 'Ah-h-h" she eiacu-
lted, backing off 10 take better
lew of the figures. Then, after a
ing scrutiny, she turned to me u
ain: French people, weren't
leyF she asked. | could bear no
'ore. fled precipitately in the
pposite direction, and astonished
10 sober guardian of the Architec- !.
lral Department by indulging in
lid shrieks Of laughter before a
age drawing of Grecian temple. v
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-08
NUMBER SO

SEA-BIRDs.-Tbe sea-birds show
best of all flashing white on green
wave and azure sky, and so repeat
ing the brilliant accents of the
foam, flake and the cloud. -The
common sea-gull, though he boasts
no charm of voice, holds q far more
important rank in pictorial nature
than the nightingale or the lark
And there are places on the wild
coasts where the sea-foWl can no
more be omitted BY the painter
than mankind IN the streets of CT
ties. Their cities are the inacces- /
slble cliffs whose grandeur gains 7.
enormously by their tumultaous
clouds Of wings. No mist-wreath
on alpine precipice has the majesty
OF those unnumbered multitudes.
no song in Southern woodland has
the poetry of their discordant cries
Behind them the iron-bound coast.
where their nests are made; below
them-a Thousand feet below them
the restless, pitiless breakers that
cast the weoek against the rock; in
front OF them the unquiet plain of
waters, storm swept, iuhospitable.
without one friendly bough, or any
sheltering caves. TrGly these crea-
lures have stern and drear cxis-
tence, and there is a watchful gray
ity in their aspect altogether differ
oat-trOm tbe Observation-Disclosures Of
the sylvan songsters. They are not
happy as chirping sparrOws are
happy, but have something of the ,
oceans melancholy, and the grave {
bearing of hard-living fisherm en-. q
the tOilers of the sea. I
Sea-gulls are beautiful when the /
sky Is clear and blue, and the bright i,
sunshine brings out the purity of $
their forms, yet l like them better '
against darkly lowering clouds, and a
best of all when the black tempest c
s brewing, and they have their a
part IN the increasing anxiety and o.
lgitatIon OF nature At such a time M
Is that, when the watchiul mariner n
eets hls sails and looks to every "
ope and spar with Iedoubled eau OF
ion, the gulls are blown across the in
arkenIng heaven and the floating h,
ivers are tossed on the rising Ia
7aYes. Then the little petrol runs iii
own the trough of the sea, and No
he sailor iRwardly prayeth. These di
'lid birds are safer than he is; be
hey can rest on their wings like 4
alloon in the tranquil heart of the
urricane. Only when they touch
ne water need they know that a Ia
orm is raging.
1 think, Of all the travelling that fo,
done upon the planet, the travel. oil,
g ofsomc great sea bird, such as he
lie albatross, for instance, is the du
ost sublime. Think of him leav fe,
g some barren rock in the Aus IN
al Ocean, and without further pre- an
lration than the unfolding of his We
lightly wings, setting forth on a tie
'yage OF two or three hundred m,
agues. The qualities of selEreli- inS
ice and self-heip, which we are co,
Id that We ought TO acquire, be liz,
ng much more decidedly to the Ln
Oatross than to any human being ar
ho ever existed. -Hammertou's We
lapters on Animals. be,
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-08

A correspondent Of the Cincip.
natl Commercial, a paper that has
no sympathy with the Democracy
thus speaks of the condition of AZ
fairs in South Carolina:
The Legislature is a den Of
thieves, and ignorant, stupid, bigot.
ed black thieves at that. Take the
eonvicts in the Ohio Penitentiary.
organize them into a body, call IL
the Legislature, and you have a
better body of men than any Leg
isiature South Carolina has had
since 1865. And further, statistics
viii show that the Ohio convicts
are better educated than the South
Carolina lawmakers, and better
qualified to perform the duties of
ONCE. More of them eau read.
more OF them can write, more of
them know the difference between
Watts hymns and the Constitution
OF the United States. If the most
intelligent men in the penitentiary
had been selected in 1868 as legis.
.ators for South.Carolina, andSeon-
in Office until to-day, l have
no hesitaney in saying that the con- /
iliion OF affairs here would now be
peter.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-08

4 bit OF impudence that occurred III
the store of New Orleans merchant.
a few days ago, Is thus described BY
the Picayune: "a ragged, forlorn
looking individual entered the store,
and addressing the merchant, Pitecus-
ly asked a nickel to get nv mother q
loaf OF bread please sir a iOviai
nelgbor, also a merchant, with q slight
twinkle IL his eye, thinking TO have q
joke with the boy, produced q nickel.
and said: Ny son, this nickel 1
worked for; now what will you do for
i? Quick as thought the boy went
down into clothes, and producing q
nickel, exclaimed: I'll match yOu,
siTr'
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-08

The newspapers Of the countr,
are re-publishing the following line.
written by Theodore Tnton several
years ago.
NY CREED
As other men have creeds. 80 have mine:
keep the holy faith in God. in msn,
And in the angels miuisteriHg brtwecn:
/ hold 20 one true church u all true sous.
Whose ehurchly seal is neither bread nor
wine,
Nor laying ON of hsHds, nor holy oil.
But only the amounting Of coos grace.
Ihate allkings, and caste. and rank Of birth:
For ail The sens ofman are sous OF God.
Nor imps 5eggar but j. noble born.
Nor wears slave yoke, 4 ear a crown.
That makes him ls-~ OF more than man.
love nv county and her righie0Ls a-.ss.g.,
s0-dare l not KEEP silent Of her sins
And AFTER freedom may her bell. ring peace.
love one woman with a holy hrr.
=" HON revere - priesiess Of my house;
stand with wondering awe before nv
babe,
iiil they rebuke me 70 4 noble life;
keep q faithful friendship with my friend.
y HON loyalty 1 serve before myself;
lock my lips too close 20 speak a lie:
wash my hands too white 20 touch a brii.e:
owe no man debt I can not pay,
ave only OF the love men ought 20 owe.
'ithai, each day, before the blessed heaven
open wide the chambers Of my soul,
md pray the Holy Ghost 10 enter rim.
Hat reads the fair confession Of my faith,
o. crossed with contradictions Of my life,
hat now may God forgive the written lie;
et still by help Of Him who heIpeth men.
Lee two worlds and fear not life nor
death
Father, lead me by the hand. Amen.
THEODORE TILruN.
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