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Year: 1869

IMMIGRATION INTO SOUTH CARoLINA.-The New
berry (S C) Herald Of February "a says:-Since our
last issue some twenty or more immigrants arrived
here the most OF them being engaged on farms near
town. while Others are on t1e way and VIII be here
during the course Of the week. We are pleased to
see this evidence OF progress on the part Of the
farmers, and look forward to the day, which we
firmly believe is not far distant when these indus
trious people will be scattered broadcast over the
whole district and State
Year: 1869

Ex.Congressman Pile, Of Mo- is having
some trouble getting bis outfit as Minister
to Brazil. A Washington dispatch Gays
strong efforts are making to either induce
Grant to withdraw his name or to effect the
defeat Of his confirmation in the Senate.
The grounds Of the opposition are not stated.
Year: 1869

A GENTLEMAN was informed by the Prssi-
deIt Saturday, that he would tolerate no idiers
in any department OF the Government, and
that The people were too poor to pay salaries
as a mere bonus to profess ioual politicians.
Year: 1869

Readings, deciama1ions, pantomI-
mes, simple games, actings and Re
hersals, are all innocent amusementss
and can be enjoyed at home with far
less expense than to 90 abroad for
them. This course viii give you the
love and confidence of your children,
which you must have to serve them
well, and to make them feel that
home is the best place in theWOrld.


1t IS the course that will save yeuF
sons from the hauntsOf vile conpan-
ions, and your daughters from being
enticed, through the hope of pleasure,
into rude and forbidden ways For
your children will seek pleasing as
sOciateS; if they can't have them at
home they will abrosd. Your young
folks will have fun and frolic, and if
you make them leave it outside of
your dwelling, they will go out to
find it and enjoy it. Home, then is
The safest and most profitable place
for amusement. Here bring your
music, your gambols, and carols;


here let the merry voices ring in so
ciaI merriment, while you,, if you
have cares and sorrows to weigh down
your heart durIng the day, lay them
apart from yourself for the titney and
put on glad spirit and live owe.
again your gay and happy hours.
It's no use to carry a sad face always,
and it ia not right to cloud the sun
shine of thesyoung hears it should


have its spring time and harvest. A
child without a childhood, q youth
without youth, is a sad picture for
thetWorld to look upon rs.eIt
Year: 1869

GREELEY don't mince matters
about corrupt scalawags in the Re-
publican ranks. In a recent editorial
he says: r.r.


On the other hand, were men in
the last Senate who could save more
out of So per day than others could
have done out of $50; and these seem
the most anxious for reelection. IT
is marvellous how man who says he
is pOOr-and who cert0inly was poor
WheR first sent 10 OAlbany-can atforj
10 work year after year for So per day
in q place where we have to pay 81
per day for board and lodging
,sSueh knowledge is too high for


ne, says one of old, and we give 1t
up. -..


We do not mean to be dragged in
to personal controversy IN the prem>
iseS. We tell the People not To elect
corrupt or doubtful men to office
there are enough who are honest,
and whom nobody su pects, what
ever they may say, of being other:
wise. This Is the sort to choose
there is no .eXeuse for taking any
other, yOu are under 40 obligation TO
;VOte for a scamp because u bigger
scamp is running against him-vOte
plump against them both! DON'T
stay sullCily at home because a bad
man is running; there is nc. value,
because no positive meaning, in that
sort of protest; other men stay at
home on very different grounds
often from sheer Incidence and lack
OI patriotism. Go to the polls in
good time on election day, and vote
for an honest, fit man for Senator,
though this should censtrain you to
vote alone. as


There are men working hard fer
Republican nomination whose odOr
is SO rank that they will be beaten II
nominated. That we cannot help,
and would not five could. Yet 1t
will not be our fault--it will be theirs
t-if disaster should result. They


have no right to be thieves; and, If


they will be, they have no right to
| aspire tO;Omce. asr ESQ.,.
Year: 1869

Having formed a copartnership for the
practice of medine will give particular at
tention to surgery and the treatment OF
chronic diseases. Office over Citizens bank
opposite town hall, where one or both may
be consulted on Wednesday and Saturday
of each week
Year: 1869

The Kiowas, Arapahoes and Comanches are
preparing their war paint again. Little Nose,
Peaked Eyes and Stick Your Heel-in-the
Mud are gathering their ''big Injuns" for a
grand dash On the white settlers. This time
they are determined to teach the government
such lesson as will convince the Indian phi
lanthropists that each ragged and filthy savage
should be furnished one thousand dollars per
year for keeping the peace.


We have no doubt that the intention of the
government in appointing Quakers to manage
our Indian affairs has proceeded from the best
motives. These amiable, unsuspecting and kind
hearted individuals, when appointed, will pro-
ceed to the Indian country, expand their eyes
with their hearts, take in the glorious propor-
tions Of the noble savage, treat with the
Hiawathas, smile sweetly upon the Minne-
hahas, and make report to the government
which will draw treasure even from the strong
box of missionary society. In the meantime
these Quaker guns will be worked to great
advantage by the present Indian rings who
already scent the game and are preparing for
It, We will wager all the Indian scalps our
regular army has taken in the last ten years
not very heavy bet, to be sure-that
before the Quaker managers reach their desti-
nations there will not be a single member
of any Indian ring or trader upou our
frontier who will not have on a broad
brimmed hat and q snuff-colored coat In
fact those who are fattening off of Indian
appropriations are already beginning to say
thee and ''thou." We suspect also that there
will be a great demand for shadbellied coats
and broad-brimmed hats among the principal
Indian magnatcs. The Quaker commission
will probably be greeted by Bloody Scalp,
Greasy Back, Bottle Eye and Chaw- Your-En-
trails, in full Quaker costume, with pipes of
peace In their hatbands and scalping knives
in their Wristbands. We are informed that
the Humanitarian Society of New York has
despatched an agent to visit the various tribes
and see what more the white man can do for
them. We hope that he took the precaution
to shave all the hair off of his head before he
started.


II Is time we ended this Indian burnbuU.
Congress should apply the existing criminal
laws to the Indians and cease disgracing the
United States by making treaties with people
living upon our own territory If the Indians
disobey the laws, lot the punishment come
Year: 1869

One of our latest cable dispatches shows
that all the benev olent schemes and plans
which the British government can devise or
execute are little likely ever TO satisfy people
who are resolved never to be satisfied. We
have never refused to admit that Ireland had
been wronged, that she had just cause of COM
plant, and that years of wise and concliatory
treatment would be necessary before Ireland
could be induced to forget the wrongs she has
endured. II has, at the same time, always
been our conviction that Ireland has nursed
all real and imaginary wrongs until she learned
to like them and to regard them as a kind of
blessed prerogativc. An Irishman-what would
he be without grievance? An Irishman who
can entertain kindly thought Of the British
government Is discarded by his countrymen.
This deep-rooted feeling of dislike has found
fresh illustration in the city Of Cork. Two
Fenian prisoners, whose heads might in all
justice have been claimed, were pardoned and
set at liberty on condition that they should
forthwith leave the country. In place Of their
Year: 1869

PREsoRrpTIoNs.-A physician regrets that
the law does not prevent an apothecary from
preparing for second or third time the med
icine directed in prescription. We think his
view erroneous. If the apothecary were
authorized to refuse the customer could
demand the written prescription, which is his
property, in fact, and take it to another apoth-
ecary. The case is cited of the prescription
for chloroform that was prepared every other
day by an apothecary till death was caused
How can the means to kill be kept from those
determined to have them? With the simple
penknife that is everywhere any man ''inay
his quietus make"
Year: 1869

Every person compulsoriy vaccinated by
the Health Officer at Quarantine suffered an
assault for which that staggering bully could
be made to respond in damages, if the travel
ling public could be stopped on its way to en-
ploy such remedy. But as it cannot, as men
from foreign countries will go hastily on to
their homes or pursue the business that
brought them here, it is for the public to in
quire whether there is not power somewhere
to limit the outrage, insult and Interference
with which people are met at the entrance of
this city. Compulsory vaccination is a thing
that wise men hesitate to recommend and
that only the most imminent danger to the
public can justify. Many believe that this
contamination of the system by the introduc-
ton of disease from the animal kingdom is
an evil not balanced by the immunity it gives
from another disease. Shall, they then be
forced to accept it when the other disease
does not menace them The utmost ncety of
care in the discrimination of vaccine matter
is necessary, as the most loathsome of all
human diseases are frequently communicated
by this process. Shall people, then, be forced
to submit to it at the hands of an official whose
discrimination is seen in the fact that he goes
through shipload of passengers in the style
in which markers go through shipload of
cattle? No greater outrage has been perpe-
trated in a long while that at all equals in its
disregard Of the rights of persons this whole
sale slashing and daubing of vaccination,
having no other reason than the greed of the
four hundred dollars charged for it.
Year: 1869




the President.


We publish to-day some interesting articles
from our exchanges in regard to the hostility
of disappointed office-seekers about appoint
ments by the administration and combinations
by the Senate 1t will be observed that we
should almost be entitled to the stigma of being
a nation Of Office seekers were it not for the
fact that the present intestine political commo-
tion exists and expands principally among the
partisans and ofice-seekers who helped to ele =
is, in fact, bigger row than prevailed among
the radicals when ex-President johnson held
the reins of government, with one bride
snapped, when impeachment, disfranchise-
ment and utter humiliation of political ex-
istence were threatened against the unfor-
tunate Andy. Now, where would have been
these malcontents and revolutionists had they
not succeeded in entrapping General Grant
into the meshes Of some of their radical notions
and carrying him upon the surge of his per-
sonal military popularity to the Presidential
chair? They would have been nowhere
The democrats either would have taken
him up, or their own man, even
Horatio Seymour, been elevated to the po
sition Grant now occupies. Instead Of
scrambling and quarrelling about Office and
charging one of their chief leaders, an init
mate and confidential friend of their candidate,
with the grossest and most abominable prac-
tices-after the commission of which no gen.
tleman could with honor to himself recognize
the alleged perpetrator as entitled to the cour-
tesies of social intercourse-they would have
been left out in the bitter cold and the anathe-
matized copperheads been now tasting the
sweets and gathering the crumbs of official
position. Instead, therefore, the disappointed
radicals treating President Grant as ''charity
boy, as one Of these Westerns organs does,
he should treat them with contempt and by
allowing to pass by, as he would the idle wind,
their threats, their contumelY, the evidences
of their ingratitude, proceed to initiate the
organization of an entirely new party upon q
splendid national basis where the reasonable
men of the North, as well as the South and
West, can unite and restore harmony to our
now almost distracted country.


The office-seekers' war against the Presi-
dent will have one good effect if none other
it will clear the political atmosphere and
enable the powers that be to look abroad and
see what effect war of another sort will have
upon American liberal institutions
Year: 1869

THE CoNNEoTIouT REVOLUTION. They had
sort of political jubilee in Hartford on
Wednesday last, in which both parties joined,
over the Inauguration Of Governor Jewell,
with Legislature to back him on the fifteenth
amendment, providing for equal suffrage to
men of all colors. When q great revolution
gets under full headway 1t must run its course.
and then look out for another revolution. The
great law of the universe is revolution. Moth
ing is fixed in all creation.
Year: 1869

THE CUBAN REVOLUTION AND AID TO THe
CUBANs. We are informed by telegram from
Key West that British steamship sailed from
that port on Wednesday night freighted with
Cuban sympathizers, and, it is to be pre-
sumed, material aid. She cleared for st.
Thomas by way of Nassau-favorite routes
for rebellious recruits-and is said to do duty
in connection with an expedition of liberation
from one of the Gulf ports. If this be true
Spain cannot endure it much longer. She
must relax her hold or call in some friendly
aid. We wait the result.
Year: 1869




The administration will do well to observe
the popular instinct That the public mind is
in active and full sympathy with the Cubans,
who are struggling to throw off the yoke OF
Spain, and to annex that fertile island to our
political Union, no man who can read the
signs Of the times will doubt The thronged
public meetings which have been witnessed in
many of our larger cities to express sympathy
with the cause, the avidity with which intel
ligence from the island is sought for, and the
prominent discussion which the leading jour-
mails in all parts of the country give to tho
question and its affiliating issues, all indicate
that there is something more than passing
sentiment at work among the people. It is
the unfailing indication that for Cuba the full
ness Of time is approaching when she must
follow her destiny, no matter what courts or
cabinets may think or wish. In all questions
of national development the people are always
in advance of their rulers, and these are ever
compelled to follow, not to guide, the national
will


The little germ which less than one hundred





pendence Hall at Philadelphia has now grown
to a stalwart nationality, abundantly capable
to defend the principles Of its life, as well as
to provide for its own safety. In one shape or
another, by violent or by peaceful means, the
colonial system which marked the early age Of
American growth has given way before its de-
velopment until at the present day but small
remnant of colonial rule is left in the New
World. A few islands in the American Medi-
terranean and two or three insignificant COM
munities around the delta of the Orinoco COM
prise the extent Of European government in
America. These stand more as picket posts
than as valuable possessions along the coast Of
North America, from which American growth
may be watched, and II need be may be
checked or resisted in It's advance.


1t is this fact which the popular instinct is
keen TO appreciate and to destroy. However
much the government may be bound by diplo-
macy or by treaties and their consequent legis-
lation to respect the existing status of colonial
rule, the public mind of America can never
forget that our nationality was born in war
against that system, and that our growth has
ever been in opposition TO II. Hence the feel
ing which our fathers exhibited in behalf Of
the Spanish American republics, and that
which is now found animating our people in
favor of Cuba. When we were younger as a
nation, and before our strength had fairly har-
dened into the bone and sinew, II was well for
government to be prudent in its proclamation Of
principles and cautious In Its defence of rights.
Therefore we have no fault to find with Presi-
dent Adams because when the Cuban question
first came up in 1926 he hesitated to proclaim
the true principle Of American growth. The
Holy Alliance had but recently suppressed the
liberties Of Naples, Piedmont and Spain, and
the time was not propitious. II was our for
then, which gave to Spanish gov
ernment in Cuba new lease of life.


That lease she has cancelled by her own
acts. Obstinately refusing TO recognize the
growing spirit Of the age, she has consolidated
Year: 1869

HoFFMAS's VEToEs.-The Governor gives
another veto. He has given us great many
Of these articles this winter, and has shown
that this comparatively neglected power may
be most efficiently used to guard the best
interests of the public. In the venality, as
well as recklessness and ignorance of our
legislators, the veto is more than ever neces :
sary to prevent the statute book becoming
ridiculous as well as villanous
Year: 1869

leaving the country quietly they courted ana
won notoriety. A large meeting was held In
their honor in the city Of Cork, the Mayor pre-
siding. The proceedings at this meeting, If
not outrageous, were at least unwise. Not
only did the Mayor tolerate seditious speeches
on the part of others, but he delivered an
openly and unqualiAedly seditious speech him
self.


Much as we complain Of Great Britain, we
are lovers OF fair play and OF common
sense. The British government is making
an honest effort to redress Irish wrongs. 1t
is not wise, to say the least, for mayors of
Irish cities to make sedtiOus speeches while
such an effort is being made. Fenians, too,
are still locked up in British prisons. 1t is
not kind-it it not considerate On the part of
those who have been liberated, or on the part
Of the Irish people generally, to forget those
who have been less fortunate. If Ireland
desires to make martyrs it is well enough so
to act. If, however, she wishes to enlist in
her favor the good opinion and sympathy
Of mankind she makes q mistake. If the
government removes the Mayor of Cork and
disqualiies him henceforth from holding the
magsterial Office no lover of good order
and common sense conduct will regret. And
after all why should Ireland complain? If
she is poor at home she is rich abroad
What is there in New York city which the
Irishman cannot call his own?
Year: 1869

quickly and surely. Properly the management
OF the Indians comes under the jurisdiction OF
the States or Territories where the tribes
exist. The whole matter is simply kept in
the hands of the general government because
it offers a splendid field for the spoliation Of
the United States Treasury.
Year: 1869

The VERDICT IN THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD
MURDER.-At length we can CHRONICLES An ex-
ception to the usual verdict in cases of rail-
road saughter-'Nobody to blame" A con-
scientious jury, after thorough investigation
into the causes of the death of six victims of
the recent Long Island Railroad horror, have
deliberately come to the conclusion that this
fatal result was in consequence of car being
thrown from the track by defective rail, and
that the Long Island Railroad Company is to
be held responsible for the accident on account
of neglecting their duty to keep their track in
proper order. This verdict at once brings
the case within the direct cognizance of the
Grand Jury, and is the requisite preliminary
to prosecutions on the part of the friends of
the victims, with view to exemplary damages.
It morally convicts the company Of completely
in this latest railroad murder, and renders it
liable to swinging damages in each individual
instance of injury and death. We cannot but
regard this decision as favorable indication
of growing resistance in favor of personal
rights and safety against selfish, arrogant and
soulless railroad monopolies.
Year: 1869

YELLOW JACK AND BLUE JACKET.-The
Cnbans say they intend to initiate their gran d
activity against the Spaniards when the sickly
season begins, which they can stand and the
foreigners cannot. How do the fllibusters
like this notion?
Year: 1869

South Germany, the Count seems to think, will
be better bulwark to the North if moi
too closely pressed into union. Any attempt
to Prussianise Germany or to force q
general union would produce discomfort in the
South, and discomfort In the South would
beckon France to the Rhine. This conclusion
of the Count is no doubt largely the result Of
conviction on his part that war with France is
a probability. How best to unite Germany
against France in the event of probable attack
is Bismarcks present policy.


This conclusion of the Prussian Prime Min
lister is already known in Paris. and NJ. de
la Valette has alluded to it as a reason for be-
lief in the continuance of peace. Much, how
ever, will depend on the result of the elections.
France may become arrogant and aggressive,
and she may not 1t is certain that Prussia
will no. be the attacking party. The danger
is that the belief may grow that Prussia has
sustained check in Germany, and that the
idea Of German unity has been abandoned.
Such belief becoming general in France
might act as q spur to the aggressive tenden-
cies of the French people. So long as ''the
fowery banks of the Rhine tempt French Gu
pidty, and so long as it is necessary for the
Emperor to humor French vanity, 80 long, we
fear, must peace or war be an open question.
We cannot tell what day or an hour may
bring forth.
Year: 1869

EVEN IN THAT CLIMATE. Let the Cana
dian barbarians no longer hoot at us because
life is somewhat insecure this side the line,
inasmuch as we do not always hang those who
shoot men. Young Chaloner, who shot in
public place the seducer of his sister, has Just
been pronounced not guilty on his trisl for
murder.
Year: 1869

The Pacific Rnilroad-BOnds of Iron and


Gold.


The last rail of the Pacific Railroad, the
greatest undertaking Of modern days, will be
laid tomorrow, Saturday, when the Atlantic
and Pacific will be united for purposes of
trade and travel not only by bonds of iron,
but of iron laid most appropriately on a tie
of polished laurel and spiked with gold.
This is as it should be; the laurel worthiy
belongs to the people who by their persever-
ing energy and spirited outlay of capital carried
to successful completion such vast undertak-
ing, while the gold will gravitate toward
our citizens at large by the commercial revolu-
ton which will be effected through the agency of
the line, when the great trade of the East will
be diverted to our shores and San Francisco
and New York be made the receiving and dis
tributing centres of the rich produce of the
hoary lands of Asia. Celebrations of rejoic-
ing in honor of the event have been already
arranged in some of the cities of the Union.
Let all unite and join in the movement, and
thus pay respect and tribute to native genius
and the grand resources of our country.