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St. Matthews,
Editor Orangehurg Democrat:
We were your country cousins
once, hut now claim to be your sister,
und I wouldn't be surprised if soon
we don't become your father, not }'our
first father of course, but your sec
ond ; and it's always those }'ou know
who give the children particular jessy
(if you'll excuse the phrase). But
very peaceably do wo always hope to
live by our respected sister, and in
the langnage of Mr. Dick Swivellcri
"May the wings of friendship never
moult a feather."
As you have generously hinted to
us that a word or two occasionally
of our welfare here in St. Matthews,
will be acceptable to you, and as we
have not as yet, classed a newspaper
organ among our other improvements,
(we do not purpose having one until
we can fill it with something besides
personalities), we greatfully have re
course to your kindly medium as a
means of making ourselves known
to the outside world, or in other
words to blow our trumpet. Invaria
bly the first remark of visitors to us
of late, is to note the improvements
that have been and arc almost con
stantly acceptably being -made in our
prospering little town of Lcwisville.
Ah, no ! no improvements in old Lew
isviilc ; she, poor thing, is a momorj*
of the past with us now. It was with
her, the foundation of our prosperity
was laid ; but like many fashionable
children of the present da)', the plain
old parent who gave them birth is
thrown aside, and now we arc elevat
ed to the more striking appellation of
St. Matthews. Probably our worthy
legislators entertain the opinion that
as our little worlds of wickedness
grow larger, so stand we more in
need of saintly names to cover what
the rich man covers with his money.
Well it strikes mo that if we arc to
bo represented by the good Saint
Matthew, Heaven only knows who
will represent some of our big sisters,,
unless it be the Deity Himself. There
being another Lcwisville in South
Carolina, I believe caused the change.
Agricultural matters, it is to bo
presumed, occupy a most important
position at present in the minds of
both countrymen and citizens; poli
tics, so far, having but slightly taint
ed our public atmosphere. That our
farmers are hopeful and laying exten
sive foundations for the year's growth,
is evident from the quantities of fer
tilizers being brought into our mar-j
kct. That our merchantmen arc like
wise hopeful, is very evident from the
decided manner in which they are
Urning towards those foundations. I j
am pleased to note that preparations
for corn as well as cotton, nie being
made, though coUon certainly prom
ises to be the crop. That the fiend,
crime, is-^ot unknown among us, is
apparent from the crowds that almost
daily surrouud our Trial Justice's
ofiice,a majority of cases fighting and
stealing, a few breeches of contract.
Business in that department is
somewhat subsiding now, for when
tho darkey's money gives out he is
more tractable, kinder civilized, we
may say, until flush times come again.
That we arc a decidedly healthy peo
ple here, is quite evident from the
scarcity of gentlemen in the medical
profession. We are rather a contra
ry set of people, sometimes I irnng-^
inc ; one of us can't propose a single
new project, or make a single propo
sition but what sonic ambitions Solo
mon is bound to oppose. There is
but one subject under my contemplu
tion at present, to which there is no
opposition and that is the subject of
doctors?it wouldn't pay. That we are
an industrious people here, our young
men in particular) is evident from the
number of new and tasteful dwellings
which arc beginning to appear in our
midst. That said dwellings arc evi
dences, not only of the industrial,
but of the domestic tendencies of said
young men, is apparent from the
number of smiling Benedicts who
greet us at their doors, and the rapid
diminishment in the number of our
gentler sex. Indeed, to such an
alarming extent have the domestic
tendences been carried of late, that
marriageable fair ones promise soon
to bo ns raro with us as they were in
the far West in its early settlement,
and fair visitors need not be astonish
ed if on our streets they arc greeted
with open mouth wonder by our gay
and worthy young gallants, who, in
something of the phraseology of the
Western miner of Mark Twain re
membrance, exclaim : Well, if it ain't
a young lady ! But I must not pre
sume too fur upon you kind attention
for this the first lime, or I may weary
you. With respect, 1 am yours,
LEI8URE IIOLUS.
Appeal for Democratic Union.
A meeting of prominent Democrats
of the city and State was held in New
York Thursday evening, to discuss
the political outlook and give expres
sion In regard to the election of any
man to the Presidency for a third
term, with or without nn intermediate
terra of retirement. Tho meeting,
which was largely attended, was pre
sided over by Judge Josiah Souther
land. An address was adopted de
nouncing the third term scheme and
appealing to all true men of Demo
cratic faith to scenic union for the
sake of union, and a union, first of
all, of the Democrats in the Empire
Stale, "so that its benign influence
may go forth from this great centre
as light and warmth from the sun,
giving piotnise of healthy life at home
and assuring vitality and victory to
the great Democratic party of the
whole Union." lion. KraslusBrooks
then addressed the meeting, and
strongly advocated the necessity of
union among all Democrats. Lieut.
Governor Doislicimer also addressed
the meeting, and expressed himself
strongly against the thiid-lcrm move
ment. He said it was the grea* est
peril that ever nsailcd the government
of this country, and the only way out
of the difficulty was for Democrats
to unite. He bad no doubt but what
they would unite. He would be very
sony to be a man to stand in the
way of such a union. If they would
unite he felt certain that a victory
would take place in New York. The
ey# of the whole country, be said,
was looking toward New York and
awaiting a union of all Demo
crats.?X. Y. Exchange.
The Last Legislature.
The last legislature has passed in
to history as the weakest and most
extravagant body thai has assembled
in Columbia for many years. The
time was consumed in devising and
furthering new schemes for the im
poverishment of tho people. In ad
dition to the current expenses of the
government, ?191,000 was voted to
agricultural college; $200,000 in
work and S10.000,000 in water power
to the Columbia Canal; Sl?,000 to
the Cliarleston Canal; 83,000 on the
Blair estate in York county was given
up ; thousands of dollars of back taxes
on the Blue Kidge Road were remit
ted ; the Catawba Canal was given a
wny ; the tax bill improperly passed
at an cxpence to the State of twenty
thousand dollars in round numbers
and so from the opening to Hie close
of its career the Legislature of 1871)-'
SO stumbled along. All of these er
rors have been the result of a desire
to make fair weather with the voting
masses and to gain the applause of
an unthinking press.?Abbeville Me
(Hum.
The Right ot an Officer to Kill.
The Albany Law Journal has the
following, which will be of great im
portance to otlicers in the discharge
of their duties, especially in Hie mat
ter of escaping prisoners. The Jour-\
nal says: "While defendant (in a
case in the Tennessee Supreme
Court,) a constable, was conveying a
prisoner to jail who had been convict
ed of assault and battery, the prison
er attempted to escape. To prevent
the escape, defendant, after giving
the prisoner notice to halt, shot and
hilled him. The court held that the
homicide was not justifiable. In cases
where the person slain is ancsted or
held in custody for a misde
meanor, and he lly or at'empt to es
cape, it will be murder in the otllcer
to kill him, although be cannot be
otherwise overtaken. Yet under sonic
circumstances it may be only nian
slaghtcr, as if it appears death was
not in'cnded. It is considered better
to allow one guilty only of a misde
meanor to escape altogether than to
take his life."
Church Fairs.
In Augusta, Ga., recently, at the
Sunday school room of the First Pres
byterian Church, tho question was
discussed in the presence of a large
assembly of how far a Sunday school
or church could go in holding fairs
and kindred entertainments without
doing harm. Dr. Irvine, Kev. air.
Goclchius, and prominent members
of the church, participated in the dis
cussion, and tbc unanimous conclu
sion arrived at was that a church or
ganization as a body, should not al
low such entertainments, nor admit
any that would bring the church into
disrepute before the public.
Struck Dead.
One of the most terrible instances of
a scoffer struck down in the moment
of his blasphemy was revealed before
Mr. Carter at the Kose and Crown
Tavern, Fast street, Lambeth walk,
recently. The deceased was an en
gineer named Thomas Hudson, aged
67, who resided nt 24 Sounders street
Lambeth, and had been employed nt
Messrs. Mandaluy'a for twenty-live
years. He returned home at a quar
ter-past 5 o'clock on Thursday even
ing, and asked his daughter-in-law to
get him an egg from the fowl-house.
On proceeding into the yard he be
came excited, and after using a
frightful oath in reference to his
death, he ran into the parlor, vomited
blood, and fell dead in the arms of a
female who had been nursing his
daughter. Mrs. Fall stated that de
ceased did not say, "God strike me
dead," but he used word of a similar
character. The jury found a verdict
of "Death from excitement," and the
Coroner's experience enabled him to
narrate a parallel case. A number
of persons had assembled in a tavern
at Putney, when a man charged an
other with taking from him twopence.
Tire man after b ing accused, said,
"May God strike me dead if I did
it," and he immediately after fell
dead. On being picked up, the miss
ing twopence was found llrmly clutch
cd in the deceased's right band. He
would strongly advise men against
taking such wicked oaths.?Lloyd's
Xeics.
The Grant Boom.
It is slated on reliable authority,
says the Charlotte Obs>rvn\ that for
sonic time past there has been a ne
gro going the rounds of the cabins in
Richmond County, X. C, and repre
senting that he is Grant's imperial
agent. lie goes to an isolated house
in the country and tells the inmates
that the election of Grant is certain,
and that as soon as he is elected he
will be made emperor, and then there
will be a glorious division of the
lands, goods and chattels, and that a
sum anywhere between ten cents and
a quarter ot a dollar entrusted to him
will secure the contributor a hand
some share of the spoils when the
good time comes. Those who do not
contribute, he is instructed to say,
will be cast into outer darkuess. lie
has succeeded in raising n considera
ble sum out of the deluded negroes in
this matter.
A Gracelui Tribute.
The Columbia Hrgister has an cdi
loriul on the present administration,
in which, while fully recognizing the
weak points, it also commends the
general course of Mr. Hayes' policy,
and winds up with this graceful trib
ute to the wife of the President:
"What true Southron is there who
has been bred to revere and honor no
ble and genuine womanhood who is
not prepared to lift his hat and bow
low admiration i/thc present mistress
of the White IToi .se, Mrs. Rutherford
B. Hayes? We ca e not what others
may say, we would recognize no man
as a true South Carolinian whose
cheek did not warm with admiration
at the mention of the name of her,
whose gentle, graceful, conscientious,
womanly deportment shall go down
to history as an honor to the whulc
country, so long as it shall be known
and honored amongst men."
Droppod Dead.
"William Bell, a negro shoemaker
who had a shop on the east end of j
Tryon street, near the Lutheran
Church, yesterday morning dropped j
from his bench and in a few moments 1
died. Two men were in the shop at'
the time and Hell showed no signs of!
anything being
Liberty JflpPWrrvW.,found a
half-starved lamb. She raised it and
took care of it. From that beginning
she now has eighty sheep, and
has, from time to time, sold thirty
head. If this is not a good dividend
from such n smnll investment, we
would rise to a point of order and
ask what is?
Reaction of the Sexes.
The kitchen is woman's kingdom.
Here she works her will?baking,
boiling, slewing, frying, j mopping,
washing, ironing ; einphalicplly ruling
the roast. For ages she bits reigned
and wrought unassisted and unques
tioned, save by some meddlesome,
tasting Soyer, or cadaverous bran
and-wnter-eating Giaham. (Naturally
bating any innovation, she has been
content to do everything just as bor
motber used to. Il is only within a
generation or two thai science ami
invention have secured a place on Ihe
heailh-stone ; but no sooner there,
than the hearlb-sloue is abolished,
the lire-place walled up, and fire in
closed in an iron box. Clumsy and
awkward as the boxes doubtless were
at first, it would have been long be
fore women, if left, lo themselves,
would have ventured to improve the
pattern ; yet the secret history of the
j patent ranges, patent ovens, ami the
thousand and one neat contrivances
that adorn tho kitchen ol to-day,
would show that woman's wit, not
less than man's wisdom, lies at the
bottom of the change. .Steam at last
lends its magic lingers lo her toil.
Monday morning has lost half its ter
rors; for now, instead of the tub, the
corrugated board and the bended
back, the sole agencies used by our
forcinothcrs, a crank is turned, and
lo ! the scrubbing is finished ; another
crank, the clot lies are wrung ; while
anolber returns them ironed. Leave
the kitchen ami ascend the parlor.
One of its neatest pieces is the sew
ing machine. The days of never
done, eyes-aching, se.ving, extending
from motber Eve lo Elias Howe, are
|ovjr at last. A buzz of wheels, a
j rattle of the shuttle, and a yard of
scam is done. Women probably in
I vented sewing by band ; men taught
j them lo sew by foot. One can easily
i believe that woman first learned ol
j the angels to sing ; men made Ihe
beautiful piano to accompany her.
: Now let U3 just take one glance
at the other side. Visit some fac
tory or machine-shop^ where Womeji
never go. Crease, dirt, and disorder
are Ihe leading features. Man, how
ever he may be an ingenious animal,
is, not an over neat one ; and here
his deficiency becomes patent. If
men know their true interest they
will open every door for the advanee
I incut of woman lo equal knowledge
; and skill with themselves, and in eve
ry department will profit by her keen
j instinct, as much as by their own
I vaunted science.
Gambling.
The Abbeville Medium says that
gambling is on Ihe inerease in that
community and suggests that strin
gent measures be taken to crush out
the growing evil. It truly stys:
"Gambling is very demoralizing.
It teaches cxlravaganec, puls an im
proper value upon money,encourages
lawlessness and oftentimes ends in
bloodshed and murder. It brings out
the worst passions of the human
heart and is one of the most destruc
tive agencies of the devil to ruin and
degrade mankind. Cock fighting may
be elevating and refining but it is not
gcueially re aided as a very high
moral accomplishment. It should be
stopped at oncj ami we hope with all
good citizens Ihe proper steps will be
taken for its instant suppression.''
Murder Cases.
The accounts received from the
Courts in the various circuits show
that there is Hille danger in slaying
a fellow-man in any of the counties,
except Barnwcll, where the juries did
their duties. Osborn, who shot Mrs.
Campion as he rode by her door, at
Fair l'tay, has just been convicted of
luuwislaughter, and the Moores have
Bflt been acquitted on the charge of
Sling Bryco. In other counties the
Hies have been equally generous to
Hose who have killed a fellow-man,
Hit the poor negro who may be charg
Bl with the stealing of a little corn or
H>tlon is generally railroaded off lo
Hie penitentiary.?Press and Banner.
Inconsistent.
I The Now Orleans Picayune ex
Presses the opinion that the negroes
of the South consume in value per
head yearly twice as much sugar-cur
ed hams, lobsters, sardines, tobacco
and whiskey as the miners, fac'.ory
[operatives and poor needle-women of
the larger cities of the North. And
yet the aforesaid operative ate taught
to regard the colored brother, as a
poor, down trodden, starved wretch.
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New Ideals of Marriage.
It is indubitable that the giiTa
I ideal of marriage has of late years
greatly changed ; and the ehrtnge.has
been produced in part by what she
sees, and in part by what she reads.
We entertain no doubt that the fe
male novelists who have followed in
the wake of the late George Laurence j
have materially modified the ideal of
a suitable lover as entertained by
many of their sex. "Onidu," Miss
Brougblon, Miss Annie Thomas, and
others, have accustomed themselves
to ferocious lovers?but we will not
waste our time in repca'ing a descrip
tion of physical peculiarities of the
Adonis of the Period-according to the
standard of the female three-volume
novel. Everybody knows the sort of
hero, half Ajax, half Paris, of their
monotonous pages. Grown-np peo
ple may smile on such absurdities,
but gills are very impressionable, and
when once they have adopted such an
ideal, it is not easy to expel it from
their minds. The person hardly ex
ists in real life ; the nearest approach
to it being any or every unprincipled
man who is prepared to make "fierce
love" to any fool he meets. Obv?ious
I ly this is not a condition of things fa
i vorable to marriage; for while it
makes girls more prompt, and indeed
eager, to Hi it, it indisposes them to
appreciate attentions of a more deli
cate but more practical kind. So
much for the change produced in the
ideals of women by what they rend.
The transformation is completed by
what they see. While silly novels
tell them that a lover, to be worth j
anything, must rail against heaven
and bite the grass with his teeth, the
whole arrangements of society keep
daily telling them that a husband is
no good at all unless be has a great
deal of money.
Only a Camp Rumor.
Among the stories of Confederate
army life, is one recently given to
the public as follows: There were
two men in a Mississippi regiment
discussing the Scriptures. One of
the men contended that the Scrip
tures were of divine origin, ami the
other said they were of human inven
tion, and asked his opponent, in one
of the arguments which they were
continually having, if he believed the
story of Jonah and the whale, tp
which the other replied, "Yes." "Do
you believe that the three Hebrews
passed through the fiery furnace
without feeling the heat?" persisted
the infidel. "Yes," came the answer
again. "Do you believe," came short
ly, "that Samson slew all iho-e thou
sands of Philistines with the jawbone
of an ass?" If was just after the bat
tle of Shiloh, and the believer in the
inspiration of the Bible had just bad
some tough experience in the difficul
ty of ?gh?ng only four to one.
''Well," he answered hesitatingly to
the last homclhrust, "I always re
garded that story as a :i:ere camp ru
mor."
The Chinese Emperor's Plight.
Pity the sorrows of the Emperor of
China. He is still a very young man
yet he has to maintain seventy women
in his establishment in various capaci
ties, and of course the prodigious duty
of clothing them devolves upon the
unhappy monarch. This would not
be so very formidable a task were the
almond-eyed ladies economically in
clined, but the truth is they are the
very reverse, and their extravagance
is said to exceed all bounds. Two
hundred and fifty thousand taels,
which is more than half of the land
tax of the empire, were expended last
year in silks, gauze, satin, velvet,
pearls, red and gilt paper. But the
emperor deserves no sympathy. Were
he half a man and really the brother
of the sun and moon, as he is called,
he would retrench by means of the in
troduction of the di ess reform, and
behead all those who demurred, even
at the risk of being accused of a lack
of gallantry.
The First Candidates.
This week we have the honor to
announce two of our citizens as can
didates for the ollice of Sheriff. And
bv-the-by, the woid candidates is dc-j
rived from the latin candidates ? from ,
Candidus, white?because those who
sought ollice in Home were oblged to
wear white gowns?symbolical of
purity. This is a little sermon of
ours! And our two friends, an
nounced this week, have begun their
race clothed in while, inasmuch ns
they have promptly paid their an
nouncement fee. ?Alive rtiscy.
Conkling's Littleness.
A letter from "A Woman in Wash
ington" to the Springfield Republican
says: "Conkling looks exactly like
Nasl's picture of him as 'Jackdaw
Conkling.' His face is handsome in
a certain wa}', but mean, bad and
cynical?be looks like a man who, all
sweetness in society, would be selllsii,
snarling and snappish at home?in
short, like what he has proved him
self, a coward ; a man capable of
compromising a woman, and then?
running away. From the curl on his
forehead to the tip of his aristocratic
boot, he looks all this?but is no
longer 'the blonde Mepbistophcles of
the Senate," for be is growing gray
fast, and looks as if be baled it.
Here is a story typical of tho vain na
ture of the man : A hotel keeper in
Washington who went to school with
him, hadn't met him for years. One
day Conkling went to his hotel to En
gage rooms, and stood in the office
talking to the clerk. The proprietor
came down stairs, and stepped up
and held out his hanil, saying, 'Ros
coc, how arc you?' Conkling took
no notice of the proffered hand, and
drew himself up, and said, 'I am
Senator Conkling, sir.' *Yoti arc a
damned fool, that's what you are,"
was the rcsponc. Conkling turned
majestically to the clerk, and said,
'Can I have rooms here?' 'No, sir,'
shouted the irate proprietor, 'not in
my bouse, nor upon any terms.' "
A Land Without Elopements.
Elopements are not believed in
Lapland, for if a man marries it maid
without her parents' consent the pen
alty is death. When a' young man
has formed an attachment lo a female
the fashion is to appoint their friends
to meet, to behold the young parties
run u race together. The maid is al
lowed in starting the advantage of a
third part of the race, so that It is im
possible except willing of herself,
that she should be overtaken. If a
maid overruns her suitor the matter
is ended ; be must never have her, it
being penal for the mau to renew the
motion for marriage. But if the vir
gin has an affection for him, though
at fi st she runs hard to try the truth
of his love, she will (without At.an
ta's golden balls to retard her speed)
pretend to meet some casualties, and
volunlatily halt before she comes to
the mark or end of the race. Thus,,
none are compelled to marry agaiust
their wishes, and Ibis is the cause iu
this poor country this the married peo
ple are richer in their contentments
that in other lands, wero^o many for
ced matches make feigned love and
cause real nnhappinecss.
The One Friend.
To every woman who holds the
honored name of wife her husband
must be her friend. Between lhem
no one else can come, without a sad
alienation. We once knew a good,
but young and thoughtless, woman
entertain an old friend with a laugh
ing commentary on her husband's
peculiar weaknesses. He overheard
her, and, being a man of strong fecl
ingsand fervid sensitiveness, it prov
ed tho beginning of a life of utter
wretchedness for both. We cannot
believe that wives can have no female
friends, for we know better; but long
experience has taught u3 tnat the wo
man who exalts one of her own sex
above her husband is on the sure road
to domestic infelicity. '-Hide one
another's latilts and bear each other's
burdens," is a golden text, that
ought to be found upon the walls of
every house. And "My husband is
my fust and dearest friend," ought
to be the language of every married
woman.
Three Classes of Men.
"Men," said one of Theodore Win
throps character*, "arc divided into
three classes?them as grabs their
chances, them as chucks away their
chances, and them as lets their
chances slide ;" and he might have
added that each of the last two large
ly outnumbers the first. Boys are
throwing away their chances in life
every day by shirking and lazing and
twndling and deceiving ; and they arc I
"letting them slide," through hced
lessncss, inattention, and a fatal
don't care-ativeness. "I don't care,"
is one of the worst mottoes a boy, or
a man cither, can have. It is the
boys and men who do care, and care
rightly, who win. In every day,
practical, material affairs, as truly as
in spiritual things, and it is they who
nro faithful over a few who are made
rulers over many.
Bill Arp on the Press.
Your paper is a great comfort to
me: in ever number I timl something
to put away in mind and memory;
something that I did not know before,
and which will be of advantage to me
in time to come. If a man can read
he can get a good education by tak
ing one good paper ; he can keep up
with the world, and make himself an
entertaining member of society; he
can talk up a little on most an}* sub
ject. Book learning is a very guod
thing, but I know a man who has a
power of that, but he never reads the
paper, and he passes for a fool in his
neighborhood. Some papers are not
much account to appearances, but I
never took one that did't pay me in
some way a good deal mote than i
paid it. One time an old friend star
ted a little paper away down in South
western Georgia and sent it to me,
and I subscribed just to* encourage
him, and so after a while it published
a notice that an administrator, had an
order to sell several lots of land at
out cry, and one of 'he lots was in my
country. So I inquired about the
lots, and wrote down to my friend to
attend the sale, and run it to fifty dol
lars. He did so, and bid oft* the lot
for me at thirty dollars, and I sold it
in a mouth to the man it joined for a
hundred, and so I mude sixty-eight
dollors clear by taking that paper.
My father told me that when he was
a young man he saw a notice in a pa
per that a school teacher was wan
ted away olf in a distant county,
and he went down there and got the
situation, aud a little girl was sent to
him, and after a while she grew up
mighty sweet and pretty, and he fell
in love with her and married her.
Now if he hadn't took that paper,
what do you reckon would have be
come of me? Wouldn't I be some
other feller, or may be not "ba at all?
?Dixie Farni'V.
A Mistaken Woman.
Among the young ladies who sat
at the receipt of customs in a Wes
tern church fair, aud retailed kisses
at. the nominal value of ten cents
each, was a vinegnr-visaged old maid,
who had crowded herself in on the
gauzy pretence that she felt it her
duly to do her share toward helping
along the good cause. When it came
time for closing, the young ladies
turned over to the church treasury
from $5 to ?10 apiece, while the an
cient female handed in n solitary
dime, the value of one kiss that sho
received from a blind man whoso
taste was so vitiated by tobacco
chewing that he was unable to detect
the imposition.?Kansas City Times,
Old Bob.
Gen. Robert Tombs has lately been
visited, at his Georgia village home,
by a coricspondcnt of a Boston paper,
who describes him as "a man worn
out with years anil a passionate ex
istence, but glorying in the fact that
he is not a citizen of the United
States ; that his political disabilities
have not been removed, and that lie
is tho only and unrepentant rebel."
He was the guiding mind of the Geor
gia Constitutional Convention of
1877, but that is the only public of
fice he has held since the war. His
closest friend is Alexander II. Ste?
phens, with whom he discusses poli
tics by the da)*.
The Grant Boom
The prominent representative mon
of the Republican party in Illinois
have recently held a conference at;
Chicago on the subject of the opening
campaign, which evidenced the fact)
that the tido of public sentiment
which has swept over New York and
Pennsylvania aud has led them to de
clare unequivocally for Grunt, baa
reachd, aud is acting upon the politi
cal elements of that state. The meet
ing gave marked evidence that tho
Republicans of Illinois do not pro
pose to desert her eminent citizen,
but to cast their votes solidly for
Ulysses S. Grant at the national Con
vention?
?St. Luke tells us that Zaceheus
sought to see the Master, but "could
not because of the press." Wo sus
pect however, that these people who
had secured all the front sea^s wcro no
legitimate members of the press at all
but a fow of that innumerable army
of dead beast who give the press a bad
name by crowding into any and all
places where something can be got fur
nothing, and whose only contribu
tions to tho press arc to the prc?s
wastc-baskct.
