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HON. BEN HILL.
whns He Thinks os sl.e Lato Election.
WAsuINaroS. Nnremher II

WASHINGTON, November 10.
The New York Tribune, to-day, con
tains private letter from Senator Hill
of Georgia, TO Hon. j. b. Chittenden, o.
Brooklyn, furnished by the latter 70,
publication, with Senator Hills consent
The following arc the most aiguificanl
ports Of tho letter:
"We.l, my friend, tho most anxious
event in our history has become fact
a solid North against solid South. Nc
language can express to you the view ]
take of this event for evil. It can have
no logic, IL continued, but disruption into
several lnonarchies or absolute consolida.
tion OF all States into one empire. In
either event our constitutional system
will fail. In my opinion tho time has come
when the great question for real Rates.
men to consider is how to speedily break
up this sectional solidity and organize
parties altogether on other issues. The
Democratic party is hated at the North
and, therefore, it ought to be disbanded.
The Republican party is hated ut the
South and, therefore. It ought to be dis.
banded. Whether this hatred is just or
not. makes no difference. would be
glad to see great National Union party
organized, for believe that the Govern.
ment formed by the Constitution is n
Nation; true, it is limited Nation, but
within the powers delegated to it by the
Constitution, it is as much a Nation as
any on the globe. | really like Garfield.
l sincerely hope he will have success.
iui administration. He has ability for q
crisis. Ho must feel keenly the fact that
he is elected solely by Northern votcs.
But he has great opportunity, and he
can, If he will, easily and consistently
destroy all sectional enimosity and so.
lidties, and be chosen for second term
by majority of the States, North and
South. This opportunity is far greater
than the Office itself, and, if utilized, will
give the fame which the office could not
give him and which no previous Presi
dent attained. But will he do it? /
greatly hope he will, and l greatly fear
he will not. see movement to make
an issue on the result in New York. with
a view to defeat Garfield in the count by
Congress. There would be great danger
OF this but for one fact, and that one fact is
the South will not countenance it. The
poor, divided and abused South, if neces-
sary, will once more save the country
from revolution, and, az before, will
get no credit for it. The Republican par
ty will take the Presidency peaceably,
because the South wills it. and at tho
next election the leaders of that party
will tell the people from every stump
and pulpit in the North that the South
must not be trusted. Nevertheless, we
shall avert all revolutions to win
Republican praise, or TO avoid Republi.
can abuse, for either is impossible; but
solely because it is right, and we are de-
termined to preserve tho peace of the
country. How long human nature can
bear this do not know. 1t is injustice
unparalleled, and wrong that ought to
cover the North with blushes."
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II is atated IN mosl rol;oh,o o,,,h

= It is stated on most reliable author
ity that Gen. Hancock on Saturday ad-
dressed a letter to Chairman Barnum in
which he said that he had been consulted
by several committees with reference to
O proposed revision Of the vote cast on
last Tuesday, with view to contesting
the election in New York State IN his
interest. He had also seen the saG.e
course commended in certain Democratic
newspapers. He wished to say that the
movement did not meet his approval, as
it appeared to be based upon unprovable
assertions and inadequate grounds, and
further, because the movement, so far as
it concerned him personally, was open to
the insuperable objection that, under no
circumstances would he consent to be g
technical President.
- 1t Is proposed to establish near St.
Louis National Colore1 Home for nnor
and feeble old negroes of both sexes.
This enterprise has grown out Of SYM
pathetic recognition of the fact that
emancipation left without homes and
with very scanty opportunities to earn
their living q large number of colored
persons, many of whom are now old and
feeble and without means of support.
The association has been Incorporated by
the State of Missouri, and has secured
about fifty acres of good land, with suit
able buildings, ut coss Of $1,000, of
which 81 1000 has BEEN pledged in Mis-
souri. on condition that the rest is OBJ
tainei elsewhere. The object is ap-
proved by many persons of national rep
utation.
- California has some very rich es.
tates. In San Francisco Leland Stanford
is assessed at $l9,7l9O00. Chas. Crocker
Sl9,lS7 900, Mark Hopkins widow ST.
21l,000, James @. Flood $10,600, 600. J.
w. Mackay $l0.600,000 Senator Sharon
$4,470 900, and James G.. Fair 1920. 900.
The Nevada Bank is assessed at 81, ,6OO.-
600, and the Bank of California $6,900,-
600. There are dozen or 80 of estates
which range between two and three mill.
ions each, and twenty that are one mill.
ion and upwards. This accumulation OF
great wealth in few hands, however, is
attended with corresponding great nov.
erty among the laboring classes, and this
is the secret of the discomfort of the Cal.
ifornia workingmen and the ill.regulated
political notions they cherish.
- One of the steel works at Pittsburg
Pa, has just cast the largest anvil block
ever made in this country. It is eleven
feet high and eight by ten wide, and
weighs 160 tons. 1t took seven hours to
run the metal into the mold, and it gill
be four months before the metal Is cool
enough to move.
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Duration OF Eternity.

Various illustrations have been sug-
gested to convey to the mind some ides
ofillimitable duration. 1t has been said,
suppose that Que drop of ocean should
be dried up every thousand years, how
long would it be ere the last drop would
disappear and the oceans bed be Left dry
and ruety7 Far onward as that would
be in the coming ages, eternity would
but have just commenced. 1t has been
said, suppose this vast qlobe upon which
we tread we're composed If particles of
Il I, finest sand, and that one particle
should disappear Mt tie termination of
each million of years, oh how inconciev-
ably immense would be the period which
must elapse before the last particle would
be gone! And yet, eternity would be i'm
its morning twilight. 1t has been said,
suppose some little insect so small rs to
be imperceptible to the bare eye. we're to
carry this world by its tiny mouthfuls to
the most distant star in the heavens.
Hundreds of millions of years would be
required for the single journey. The in
sect commences on the leaf of O tree and
takes its little load, 80 small that even
the microscope cannot discover that it is
gone, and sets out on an almost endless
Journey After millions and millions of
years have rolled away it arrives bacE for
its second load. Oh, what interminnble
ages would elapse before the tree would
be removed When would the forest be
gone? And the globe? Even then,
eternity would but have commenced.
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sLct Us Ali Hang Together"

The future is by no means so dark and
hopeless as many eeem to think. 1t is
only necessary for the solid South 10 pur-
sue pacific course and hang together
with greater tenacity than ever, and her
redemption from Radical rule is certain
at no distant day. Who can tell what
political changes will be brought during
tic next four years? The single question
of the tariff is moro than likely to prove @
most distractipg element of division be-
tween the agriculturists Of the West and
the intolerant protectionists Of the East.
But this issue will make no impression
upon the united South. Here, the advo-
Gates of high protective tariff are a mere
handful in number, and likely to contin-
ne so for many years. Financial ques.
tions, also, may prove disturbing agen-
cies, to say nothing of railroad complica.
tiops and the commercial rivalries
between the two sections. If, through
all these agitations, the South remains
true to itself and rs solid as ever, who
can reasonably doubt that she will hold
the balance of power and regain her pres
tige and rights in tks Union?
Again, if tto Democratic ascendancy
in the Senste las is most probable) should
be contin ed, the gratifying fact remains
that Gar6eld's election will be powerless
to do us harm. That conservative body
will edectually block the chariot wheels
of Radical progress. On the whole,
therefore, though smarting under defeat
and greatly disappointed at the results
of the late general elections, our people
should not despond, but, thankful for the
blessings of local government, hopefully
reman in their lots and await with pa
tiencc the issues of coming events
Macon Telegraph d I Messenger.
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: An upstart-A mushroom.

- The grub makes the butterfly when
the grup is hot biscuit.
- Philadelphia has mendicant who
begs in seven languages.
- Theyoung man of the period is one
whose career has come to n flll stop.
- Ten thousand Cinnamon are prepar-
ing to go to the Louisiana sugar fields.
: And now physician says that long
walks before breakfast bring on dyspep.
sia.
How to turn peoples Heads-come
to concert late in pair of squeaking
boots.
s. = The Prince of Wales life is insured
for 100000. His annual premium on
this sum is $4,000.
- Senator Chaffee has presented his
son-in-law, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., $780,
GG0 in Government bonds.
- There ia romance sin figures. A
young man met girl, Ter, married her,
and took her on q wedding Der.
= Gen. Garfield, President elect, vas
chief of staff to Gen. Rosecrans, lust
elected Representative in Congress from
California.
- John Terrence found the body of
his newly buried wife in the dissecting
room.oT tine IA, 1sas City, MO-, Medical
College the other day, and one Of the
faculty kindly oApiaiuv1 tnuI they did
not usually take the bodies of those bav.
ing friends or relatives in the city.
= A St. Louis family named Boogher
claim Baltimore property worth $50, ,000,-
600, and are going to law to get hold Of
1t. The Booghers are descendants OF
William Richardson, one Of Penn's COM
panions, who formerly owned $50 acres
where Baltimore has been built, and, as
the 90.years' lease of the property has
expired, they propose to get hold of their
own.
- Mary Pyatt rejected John X. Ar
nold's offers of marriage for long time,
at Kimberly, Pa, but he was persistent,
and at length she consented. There was
q great wedding, and the couple went off
on tour. After week tho bride re-
turned-to her home, declaring that she
had no recollection of anything between
her last refusal of Acnold and her
awakening to find, to her great surprise
and displcasure, that she was his wife.
She insists that she was out of her mind
during the interval, and declines to even
see her husband.
- A miner bad wonderful ride in
tin pan in Colorado. Being at the top of
mountain, and desiring TO get to the
| bottom of the valley, he knew that
| tedious and circuitous walk of fifteen
miles was necessary by the ordinary
route while the distance straight down
| the snow-covered incline was only three.
| He had such q pan as miners use in
washing out gold. Squatting down in
this. away he went, faster aud faster
! until the solder of the vehicle was meltod
nneLv aca over Of apS us mi.ban sns snd
t6e passenger now declares that he en-.
Ioyedit
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HOratiO Seymour on National Prosper.
itY.

Ex-Governor Seymour, of New York,
in recent conversation on political top
les, expressed himselfas being anxious to
dispel the illusion that national prosper
ity was due to the acts of any party or
administration, and not to the indus.
tries of the whole people. Any such be.
lief, he held, was not only untrue in bus.
iness, but false in morals. If it were true
we ought to look to government clone
and not to labor and intelligence for the
rewards Of business. But the argument
was false, and wuch more familiar in des-
potisms like that of Russia than in coun-
tries like ours. We sell more than we
buy; we are growing rich, not because
OF things done or left undone in Wash
ington, but because our iabors have yield
ed mc.e than we need TO consume. Our
previous distresses came from the false
notion that men could get rich by
schemes and speculation in place of hon
est industry. But the panic exploded
these; we bave learned economy and
wisdom, and thus prosperity was brought
back. Before the Presidential canvass
began there was no thought OF attributing
this to the effect of political measures.
Industry had revived and the activity of
one branch oftrade helped another from
the slough, The farmers and !heir crops
restored the railroads, the increasing re-
ceipts of these in turn revived the stock
markets aHca ca. :syTt;gn exports ga7o ;th tho
people with which to buy the prod
ucts Of manufactures. AS the ex-
Governor said: The money paid to our
farmers for grain and provisions has been
expended by them for merchandise, for
the improvement of their buildings or
other objects necessary to their comfort,
or in facilities for cultivating their land,
The cost of these has been paid out
to other classes and has given activity
to mechanical and manufacturing
pursuits" Here is complete
circle of mutual helpful industries,
in which politics plays no parts at
all, and in which the prime factor in
promoting the revival of prosperity, agri-
culture, is just the one which has least
concern for or interest in the mainten-
ance OF special legislation, 4 of veryhhigh
and prohibitive tariffs especially, Great
ing "a .ation beyond the necessities either
of Wholesome production or of revenues.
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CENSUS MEDITATIoNs.-South Carroll.
ma has long been relatively decadent
State. During the ten years ending with
1860, the increase in its population was
only 5.25 per cent, while the gain for
the whole United States was 554 pei cent.
During the decade ending with 1870, the
increase was strictly nominal, being only
about one-quarter Of one per cent, while
the increase for the Union was 2263 per
cent, the rate Of progress having been
seriously interlerrcd with by the war;
Within the last ten years, however, pop
ulation within this State has taken a
bound that will be generally Gregarded
as surprising. From total of 705-
COG in 1870, the number has risen
to 955.306 in 1880, an increase at
the rate of 1905 per cent, or con-
siderably larger than the average rate
for the whole country is likely to
prove. Ofethis increase, iii, ,404 mas
arisen in the white population, and 1885,
42l in the colored, or, to state the facts
in the percentages, the increase in the
white has been 35 per cent. and in the
colored 1881 per cent.
These figures aro the moro remarkable
because South Carolina during much the
better halfofthe last decade has been rep.
resented as in an intensely suffering con
ditlon, Its land and property owners half
bankruptcd by excessive taxation, and its
colored population driven &C c.L;111 States States
to save themselves from starvation. It
has also been freely represented that the
negroes were subject to political op-
preston, which had driven large numbers
to seek refuge outside the borders of the
State. The fact, however, appears to be
that during this period the class that
might be expected to suffer most severly
from these influences has increased its
| numbers by nearly one-half
During the decade ending with 1860,
the white race in that State was increas.
ing more rapidly than the colored, the
gain in the former being 6.06 per cent,
and in the latter 4.66., whereas, during
the last ten years the comparison is re-
versed, the colored having gained very
considerably upon the white. I: is impos-
siDle to evade the conclusion to be drawn
from these facts as to the effects of the
abrogation of slavery. Instead Of the
colored race proving to bo unable to take
care of themselves and decaying in the
absence of the supervision of white
ownership, their emancipation has been
followed, by amazing development of
fecundity and growth, suggestive of new
| reflections as to the possible destiny
and importance Of the negro race on
this continet.-N y Commercial Adver-
tiser
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Sufficient returnsbave bccn rece;v,

= Sufficient returns have been received
to show that the Constitutional amend.
ment prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of liquors in Kansas has been adopt.
ed by at least 10000 majority. The
friends Of temperance madespecial efforts
in favor of the amendment on election
day, that being the principal question in
most localities. In ell the cities, and
many small towns, the ladies' election.
eered for the cause of temperance, and
had tempting lunches spread in the
vicinity Of the polls, which voters par
took Of freely, the only consideration
being promise 10 vote for the amend
ment. Tho opponents OF the measure
made no effort TO defeat it, and will con-
tent themselves with devising means to
evade its operation and surmount it with
5ac!i legislative cnsctas en!s az will render
it Of no effect. The amendment will 90
into effect when the vote is scanvassed aud
published by authority Of the State
Board, and in tho opinion of many law
yers this will abrogate oil licenses hereto.
fore granted by any municipal law. It
also virtually repeals the present dram
shop act of the State relating to the
granting of licenses. The other provis-
ions of the act prohibiting penalties for
sale without authority of law remain in
full force end eGacE ]! is not known
how the Legislature-elect stands on the
questions growing out of the amendment,
and strong fight will be made by the
two factions.
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. Mr.. Love was married the other day

: Mr.. Love was married the other day
at Ithaca, N. Y, at the age of eighty
rec. 1t was an old Love affair.
= No display Of strength WAS made by
the Greenbackers in Charleston County
at the late election. Major Blair. the
candidate for Governor, received just %
votes, out of IL, ,499.
= Matthews, Of Mowryville, Iowa,
rises early every morning, and rings big
bell at s O'Clock to awaken his workmeri.
Pinney, who lives close by, likes to sleep
late, and he begged Matthews In vain not
to sound the bell. He never goes to bed
until II o'clock, and now at midnight he
fires q cannon to disturb the slumber of
Matthews. Between the midnight gun
and the o'clock bell the Inhabitants Of
Mowryville curse both Pinney and Mat
thews.
= Blessed is the man who knows
enough to keep his mouth shut. Some
people live sixty years without learning
the art. Indeed, the older they grow,
the wider their mouths open. A man or
woman who is q gabbler at forty five is q
dreadful affection to house, or church,
or community. There are two things
this age needs to ieafn-when to say
nothing, and when it says anything to
say it we'll. "If any man among you
seem to be religious, and bridleth not his
tongue, this mans religion Is in vain."-
Murray.
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The suicide of Rober, Low. at Yves

= The suicide of Robert Low, at West
Albany, Mimi, was the upshot of long
struggle between good and bad nature ia
the man. He was from bis boyhood of q
peculiarly morose and vindictive dispo-
sition. As a man, he quarreled and
fought with his neighbor5, was cruel to
dumb animals, and became an object of
general aversion. The community was
astonished whom Mrs. Gray, an amiable
and pious widow, consented to become
his wife. She was strongly advised
against the step; but she was certain that
Low loved her sincerely, and believed
that she could reform him. For awhile
after the marriage he WAS a different
man, and it was thought that lin wifes
influence was powerful enough 20 keep
him in good behavior. But at length he
fell back into his old ways of violence.
She parted from him, and began proceed
ings for divorce. He went to her resi-
dence, and begged her to give him an
other trial. He protested that he wanted
to be kind husband, and felt sure that
he could conquer his temper. She re-
pulsed him decisiyely. He had struck
her and her son. and she considered him
incorrieible. Thereupon he shot her
through the heart, killed the son and
then himself.
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ALMOST A MILLION. Exa
GThe omclnl Census of South Carolina.

The following official statement of the
population of South Carolina has just
been published by the Census Bureau.
The county with tho largest population
is, Of course, Charleston, with I02,S25
inhabitants, aud Edgefeld is next, with
1886. Pickens has the smallest popu-
lation, l4,39l, and Horry.thc nextsmall.
est, 1874. Outside Of Charleston the
largest white population is in Spartan.
burg, 26,S7O The smallest white popu.
lItion is ir aufort, only 2,43S to 81, ,752
colored. The largest coiored population
outside of Charleston is in Edgefeld,
29,825 to 1921 whites. Edgefield, Barn.
well. Colleton and Horry have each few
more males.thun females, all the rest
have feminine majority. The greatest
disparity between the sexes is in Charles.
ton, where the feminine majority mounts
up to 1921. The statistics published do
not enable us 10 state in wi .ch race this
disparity chiefly exists. The following
are the official figures:
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RIOT IN CHARLESTON CoUNTY.-A
special dispatch to the Neps aud Courier,
dated Summerville, November 10, says !:
Information of serious riot, which
occurred at Cooper's Store precinct,
Charleston County, few days after the
election, has just been received nere.
Isaac Finkly, colored Democrat, was
brought here late this evening by an
armed guard of fifteen white men and
delivered up to Trial Justice r. w.
Perry. His statement is that on the
morning after the election on returning
home he found his house occupied by an
armed band of colored Republicans and
was immediately attacked. In the fight
which ensued he shot down one Hamp
Williams and made good his escape.
Since the occurrence his house has been
hesieged, obliging him to take to the
woods to elude pursuit. Every possible
avenue OF escape was closely guarded,
end when rescned hv n marty Of whiia
men yesterday he was found in a state of
absolute physical exhaustion. His state
ment has been verified by the accompa-
nying guard, who say that the outrage
has thrown their neighborhood into q
state of violent excitement. Fifteen
warrants have been issued, end the par
tics will be probably brought to justice" !"
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= The oldest house in the United
States is supposed to be at Pembroke,
Mass. In 1922 Mr.. Peleg Barke.s
ancestors built fort of stone and mortar
as defense against the Indians, and it
has been used rs dining-room for years.
The mair building is only ten years
younger.
= President Hayes was asked by re-
porter Of the Washington Post what inn
pressions of Washington life he would
carry away. He replied: "In the main,
very pleasant. The first two years were
hard, as hard, perhaps, as any year OF
Lincoln's administration. 1 have said
this frequently before, and still think
so. The last two years have been rs easy
and pleasant MS perhaps any President
has enjoyed. In my case the sunshine
has followed the storm and Clouds"
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~1ncluding, in Abbcvillc County, In
dians; i'll Aiken County, Indians; in
Beaufort County, Indian: in Charleston
County, Chinese and Indian in Chester
County, Indian; in Colleton County, 10
Indians; in Georgetown County, Indian;
in Greenville County, Indians in Hamp-
ty, IL Indians; in Lexington County, In
dian; in Marlboro County, Indian; in
Spartanburg County, 2 Indians; in Union
County, 3 Indians; in York County. GO In
dians.