The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-09-08

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Carondelet. He says: Il wished to
notice simply your reference to the
| revised statutes and one or two other
points in brief way. | will do so
| yet, but not to-day as | an house
hunting. The proposition for the
joint commission insures a peaceful
solution. of the Presidential question
if it becomes a law, and in my opinion
gives to Gen. Hayes chances he did
not have before. | have considered
that Mr.. Iilien's chances were i'm
pregnable, not so Mr.. Hendricks.
Now 1t seems to me that Governor
Hayes has something more than an
equal chance, but definite results can.
not be foreshadowed. Fortunately
trouble need not be provided against
by the use of the army should the bill
become law. If the bill passes and
Gen. Grant vetoes it Mr.. Tilden's
chances will be stronger than before,
certainly if he and his friends sup
ported The measure. Public opinion
will strengthen his position. The
danger in compromising the question
or a joint commission is chat the
defeated candidate might appeal to
the Supreme Court on the grounds Of
an illegal (uOconstitutionaD decision.
l am, very truly yours,
WHITFIELD S. HANCOCK"
Gen. Sherman writes the closing
letter Of the correspondence as pub
lished. ct is dated Washington, Jan
uary 29th.) He says: "The passage
of the bill for counting the electoral
vote being approved by the President
ends, ip my judgment, all possible
danger Of confusion or disorder In
connection with the Presidential i'm
broglio. I feel ceatain that the dual
governments in South Carolina and
louisiana will be decided by the same
means which determines who is to be
the next President of the United
States. I therefore, with the con-
sent and approval Of the secretary of
war now absent, want to return the
troops temporarily detached as soon as
possible to the posts occupied before
the election, with this exception, that
twelve companies (uoW thirteen or
the equivalent of a regiment, remain
here in Washington for time"
The remainder of the letter relates
to the disposition of troops to be or
dered back from the South.
Sometimes, when | look back
over my life, says Burdetto, l am
amazed to see now the pages. Of
it's record are dotted with hair
breadth escapes. I escaped the
dangers and hardships oftbe Rev
olutionary war by waiting until
the war had been over about six
ty years before l got born. When
the Brooklyn Theatre burned I
was in Burlington. When the
yellow fever broke out in New
Orleans l was in Minnesota, and
Immediately skipped out for Can
ada. When l was a boy in school
one day all the boys in school
were fogged all round for robbing
an apple orchard, and the fog
ging didn't do a bit Of good, for
every beggar Of them had the
cholera morbus all that night, just
the same. And /? l was attend
ing another school, twenty-three
miles distant. When all of my
brothers and sisters were down
with the scarlet fever, | was down
South in the army, and when I
read the letters from home l
laughed alond to think of my
great good fortune, and that |
would only have to be shot at
once or twice 4 week, instead of
having to take medicine three
times day. When a man comes
to the Office with 4 little bill, nine
times out of ten | an out. And
if, by some astonishing blunder, l
am in, then, indeed, l am more
unfortunate, but the man is in no
better luck than before.
To tell falsehood is like the
cut Of a sabre; for though the