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C1IA1’. XXV.
I,
iLOK AM> BLOOD AFTEIl ALL.
, I 'nutillucd.')
® [^ners from borne came, one to Hiram
.., B tj s mother, reliving his inind from
jliieering anxiety
-r restored health.
"Ooe came to Winthrop, but who it was
ij or (that it said, we leave the reader
only that it was a pretty missive,
jl,; e5S lines, well rounded letters, and full
Irfsii manner of flowers and pretty things
Kiathrop kissed it a dozen times, and then
Prent straight to his mothers room, and
liiiint her to sit down close to him, he
aid the letter to her, and then he told her
lilt a prize, au angel, a joy, a bliss, he
tii found away down among the green
ii of South Carolina.
Oh mother, I cannot begin to paint her
ccelic beauty, here is her face, hut the
::iure is not a good one, it is horid and I
ai hardly endure it, only it does look a
icie like Viola. And he uncovered a little
HU ofau awbrotype and displayed a face
E-»eet. auu so pretty, that Mrs. Wiu-
'.::cp! swiuiing eyes were ready to start
r.:h delighted surprise.
■And mother, she is the sweetest little
eature in all the world, so full of life, so
terry, singing all the day like a happy
hid. and yet her heart is tender, aDd
no: arid true, the shallow ripples are all
a her eyes, her heart is an ocean of love,
-tenderness, and of feeliDg, and then
•jiler. she is so brave, and so sensible,
i:i when the emergency comes she can
he so earnest, and she is accomplished, sing-
:: like a mocking-bird, plays like an
catnre, dances like a fairy, paints not her
i:e.no paint there, the lillies and roses
re‘all life—like a—well I don’t know
flit—and—
dli that will do Robert, yon have ex-
raeil the language, and now do stop be
at you exhaust your breath ; enterupted
as fond mother.’
Tes I am nearly done, she can preside
.tor a household, make the tea, dish the
sffee. and cen cook the pastry, with as
:uch grace and dignity as you yourself my
■lar mother, he continued ;’ and now moth
s’, may 1 have her?
If she be only half that you paint her
Hobert. she is much too good ior you,’ his
t:ther answered tenderly.
Oh mother, I have not told the half of
ht perfections,’ he answered, his heart
using his mother for her assurance.
And what of her family,’ asked Mrs.
'finthrop.
dli her father is one of the best, the
noblest of men, a descendent of the revolu-
-cary Middletons, one of the best families
a the State, and her mother is an elegant
by. and no less proudly descended, being
| relative of the Rutleges and the Hugers
- is the Huger blood in Viola’s sweet
eeiliat gives it such a sparkling beauty.
: ii there mother, that laughing eye, that
raing cheek, the .budding lips, oh isn’t
• an angel,’ and for very ecstacy the fel-
• laughed.
Well, yes, if she is all this, she is an
c;el,’ answered his mother catching somc-
iiog of her son’s enthusiasm.
And mother 1 intend to speak to father
dent it,’ he said.
Yes it would be best that you should,
■‘■though you have already written to him
: your designs, but on the lady’s’—
-ay V iola mother, Jo not say lady, she
-‘no lady, she is an angel, interrupted the
•-•olish lover.
'Well Viola, does her parents know of
Jour attachment? again asked the lady.
Oh yes, I asked Mr. Mnggleton’s per-
itssinn to address Viola, and he said;’ well
-idler these are the very words he said.
A ait until you complete your education,
‘td then if you find that this is no boy-
i “ fancy, and yonr father aDd mother can
: -sent to receive my daughter into their
L],i e and their hearts, then I will bless
? a with my love, but until then you had
‘■■tet not think too seriousy about it; and
■ a® sure mother, that was all I
ask, answered Robert, coming down
“in his ecstatic perch, and looking like a
■““t mortal once more.
^ ts : that was enough, and that was well
Houghs said tlj e mother.
. ‘“t interview with his father was not
■■’imaginative as that with his mother, but
•e old gjgtieman had too much faith in
.yOuert s good scnse j 0 seriously question
- e judgement of his choice, and he answer-
I M jj? 1 i ™* 1 l * le same conditions that Mr.
^•“dleton Muggleton imposed, and there
. is, n all that Yankee land no happier nor
"-tor man than Robert Winthrop.
I ,; a l 0 weeks were to be spent, and then
I i, e “ 00 ^ s . and the lectures would have to
■ resumed. Robert did not see how he
} iola
■i® ai
Unless
'tuuld step in so tantingiy between
>t was projected with a special re
her it was sure to fail. The
V-etnt * r ‘ CIU * s was uncared lor, and
threw l- c . oa f tes y °f 1 common politeness
itsd ut - lm .’ n ' ts con tact, he passed through
laj t : les ln a half unconscious somnamhu-
c, jlt ’ J ro . n ^ er _’ n g what a chaDge had
vet, „ ver , 4t spirits that made them so
“J.verj dull.
wJg- I ,a 'l enticed into society by the
6 oer»i~ 8 r e .i lte f ? r excitement; until the
■“Ctritj. i' m ! nd ,!ou fd be again con-
hav e 6 „„, u ?°“ ,^* s studies, his spirits must
Persian u P on which to sieze for
- on and for employment, for the spirits
spirits of any other youog man, too active
to be wasted in gloomy regrets, and too
sympathetic to be shut in by a selfish sor
row. And in no society did he feel a more
grateful companionship than in that of
Miss Kate Walton. It was not so much
the charm of person, as the refinement
and elegance of her manner that attracted
him, and made him almost a daily visitor
at her fathers house. And with the hand
some and elegant young Southron Miss
Walton appeared equally well pleased, and
Winthrop as he watched and encouraged
the friendly intercourse was gratified with
the hope that in Miss Walton the withered
springs of Hiram’s young love might be
revived.
‘Well Hiram how do you propoxu toi
spend the afternoon,’ Winthrop asked as
they walked into the portico from the din
ner table.
•I have an engagement with Miss Wal
ton,’ he answered.
‘I am glad you find her society so attrac
tive, albeit we feel that she is monopoli
zing more than her share of yonrs - ’
‘Yes Miss Walton is a charming com
panion and it is a treat to be with her. If
she could only put on the air, she could
readily pass for a ‘blue stocking,’ her eru
dition is really wonderful; but she has
such a charming way of simplifying the
most abstruce subject that one does not at
all feel embarrassed by her knowledge;
there is not the least bit of pedantry about
her.’ Hiram said this in a tone that evinc
ed an active interest, and WiDthrop
caught it as a hopeful earnest.
‘Yes Lavender I have always esteemed
Kate to be a clever girl, fitted to shine in
any circle’ he answered.
And thus impressed with the cleverness
of Mis3 Walton, Hiram repeated his even-
; calls. The home of Miss Walton, was
home of luxurient elegance and re
finement. Books, paintings statuary, and
music gave it the air of an art muse
um, and its presiding divinity was as ole
gant, and refined as the atmosphere she
breathed.
No wonder then that in the charms of
this house, and under the tutelary smile
of its divinity, Hiram sought and found a
refreshing relief to the dreary void that
ached in his young life, and when he called
again, a few days later to bid her good bye
his lips hesitated, and his heart trembled
as he said.
‘The bright rifts of sunshine that your
society has thrown upon my life will be
gratefully remembered Miss Walton.’
Will they,’ she answered, ‘then they
will be as brightly reflected upon my own.’
The words were not displeasing to Hi
ram, but yet they stired a memory in his
heart that thr’lled with a pang.
Life without friendshq s would be a
desolate waste,’ he said as if to modify the
uneasy fluttering that disturbed his secret
depths.
Yes she answered a desert without an
oasis, a field without a flower. Have you
ever thought for a moment how wretched,
how pitiably wretched, that being must
be within whose life no rock is fonnd,
around which to twine, pleasant, hopeful,
friendships.
‘Oh yes, friendless is a terrible word,
the embodiment of all that can be wretched
in life,’ ho answered with a gathering
courage.
‘One only equal to it, aud that with a
qualification,’ she said in a voice sweetly in
sympathy with the subject.
And that is,’ he asked.
Unloved,’ she answered, and her voice
drooped almost to a whisper. It is not
always the loudest tones that reach the
fartherest, and the whisper of this word
reached down into the buried depths of
his heart, and like the colian sighingamong
the yew-boughs falling upon the senses of a
stricken mourner; it fell upon his senses,
and he trembled beneath its weight.’
Miss Walton perceived his agitation and
she quickly continued.
•I read a few days ago, a little waif, a
fugitive floating upon the leaves of a mag
azine entitled ‘Unloved,’ and the sweet
pathos of the title so appropriate to the
tender spirit of the article made such an
impression upon my mind that it has
pleasingly haunted me ever since. It was
written by a young Southron, of exquisite
taste, and fine promise, his nom deplume is
Edgar Gordon, bnt Mr. Clark informs me
that his name is Harris. He is an Ala-
bamian, do you know him?’
Of course, not personally, bnt I have
read with pleasure, many of his produc
tions, he is quite a young man, and al
though he has not yet accomplished aDy
elaborate or extended work, he has a splcn-
ded promise of ripening genius.’ This
Hiram answered with a Southron’s prido in
the promise of a brother Southron.
And the pride was a pardonable one. for
the promise of the young author, Edmond
Knox Harris, was one of which any South
ron might well be proud, but alas, the
bright promise was not to be ripened, the
bndding flower of a gcuius as rich, and as
bright, as a Poe’s was nipped by untimely
death. The active brain was stilled, and
the warm true heart was chilled, and all
that is now left of the sweet fair promise
that beamed npon the life of Ed Harris, is
the bright rememberance of that life,
which glows so kindly in tho hearts of
those who knowing him best—loved him
most.
I am glad that you are so appreciative
ofhis worth,’ replied Miss Walton, and
then she continued. ‘It was his little
sketch ‘Unloved,’ which so haunted my
imagination, that I could not bnt' couple
its dreary, wretched significance with your
idea of friendship. And yet to be friend
less would it seems to me be far more deso
late thau to be merely unloved.
‘I do not know,’ he answered, with a
thickening of the voice,’ ‘It is a fearful
thing to be unloved, bnt the grateful
amenities of friendship can sooth its sorrow
while the poor friendless wretch can have
no earthly solace ? yes let mo be unloved,
bnt give oh give me friends.
Miss Walton was surprised at his vehe
mence, and she answered with a shy difi-
dence. ! . ,9SW ,£ : v
‘Friendships, I believe, arc hardly so
selfish as love.’
‘And yon think love selfish?’ he asked,,
‘Yes selfish, there is bnt little disinter
ested love in the world, and but little that
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gard,’ she answered with a decisiveness of
tone that surprised him.
‘And yet,’ he answered, ‘it occurs to me
that it ought'to be one of the attributes of
a true love to ask nothing in return but
the joy of being loved,’he said with'# puz
zled air.
ask nothing but the poor privelege of lov
ing, without the selfish satisfaction of be
ing loved,’ she answered.
‘Then weighed by that standard, there
would be but very little love found in the
world,’ Hiram said. ‘ .
‘And that is why I remarked thatiove is
hardly so unselfish as friendship,’ replied
the lady. ‘Love is reflective, unless it
finds its reflex in the heart it worships, it
withers,and dies, while friendships are of
ten known to endure, even when repulsed
by the coldest ingratitude.’
‘I hope your dictum is the result more
of an ethicai analysis than actual experi
ence,’ Hiram answered.
‘It is not the result of actual or person
al experience, so much as observation. I
have seen love slighted and its subjects
would loose the light of their joys, and their
kindly virtues would curdle into a sour
misanthropism. Now iflove was not selfish
it would make no difference to its subject
whether it was requited or no, of itself it
would be joyous and glad,’ she answered
in a voice altogether too sweet to be pedan
tic.
‘Then I fear that there is but little love
to be found,’ he replied.
‘No the world is full of it, hearts are
briming with it, only love is not the angel
ic atribute that a successful lover re
joicing in all the fullness of its joys, wonld
imagine it to be.’
Hiram looked down into the beantiful
face that was upturned to his with a con
fused emotion. There was a something in
the splendid beauty of that face, a music in
that rich voice, a grace in that perfect
manner that suddenly reminded him of the
radient beauty of Emma’s face, the silvery
music of Emma’s voice, and the ineffable
grace of Emma’s air, and strangely thrilled
his soul. The rush of feeling suffused his
face, and he drew in his breath to give an
impulsive utterance to it, bnt at that in
stant the eye of Miss Walton dropped be
neath his gaze and in its loweringexpression
the sweet, sad image of Emma arose in
such a tender, pleading presence that the
warm feeling went rippling back to his
heart, with a music that could only find
a refrain in the name “Emma, Emma.’’
Foolish Hiram if you think with all your
selfish determination to crush out that im
age because it reflects not your love, that
you can turn up on the impulse of the mo
ment, and unbnry the heart that is yet
sepulchered in the beiog of Emma Eustace.
No no, bask as you may in the sunshine of
Miss Walton’s friendship, but dream not
ofa warmer expression,a brighter flame. That
love you so little understand, is completely
at varience with the selfish theory to which
yon have just listened, and so long as the
loving depths of woman’s eyes can recall
the image of Emma Eustace that heart of
yours, all crushed in disappointment as it
is, will only murmur the name of Emma
Eustace.
Hiram lowered his glance also and his
voice was softened as he answered.
‘I believe Miss Walton that you have
taught me a lesson.’
‘Ah, I hope it is a pleasant one,’she ro
plied looking up quickly.
‘It is not an ungrateful one, it is this,
that however selfish love may be it is yet
weak and can be true,’ he answered.
Miss Walton did not understand him
but the subject was one too delicately sen
sitive to be dwelt explicitly npon, and al
ready had it began to become embarrass
ing, for however much a woman may love
to hear an attractive gentleman talk upon
the tender subject, there are moments when
the feelings are not sufficiently defined to
listen eagerly to its impassioned breath
ings. Such a moment had now arrived
in the fate of Miss Walton; her feelings to
wards Hiram were not sufficiently defined
to her own heart, to respond to any utter
ance that he might make, and therefore she
turned au averted ear from his *oicc, and
hastened to change the subject by saying:
‘We were speaking of art, I have not
told you what a splendid addition your
exquisite contribution made to my collec
tion. It is the crowning attraction of the
jallery, and I have thanked you ever so
many times for it.’
‘And my friends were equally charmed
with the selection yon made for me,’ he
answered evasively.
‘Mr. Rembrandt Peale, whom I had the
honor of meeting in New York, paid it the
high compliment of his praise,’ continued
Miss Walton purposely parsing over his
evasive compiimcntj
‘That was flattering,’ rather awkwardly
answered Hiram.
‘Ohyei but my good fortune did not end
there. My admiration of the picturo so
recommended me to Mr. Peal that he insis
ted upon giving me the freedom of his
studio, and I ran over to Philadelphia
with him and spent one of the most deligot-
ful days of my life, amid its wonderous
beauties,’ Miss Walton continued.
‘I feel quite flattered that my offering
should have thus contributed to yonr pleas
ure,’ he said still with an awkward hesita
tion.
Yes but 1 prize it more because of the
offering,’ she said with her voice again
turning sweetly towards him.
But had it bcon the voice of a siren it
could not have recalled the warm blood to
his cheek, and it was a polite strain that
called forth his reply.
‘And that to me Miss Walton is worth
all else beside.
After this music wa3 suggested and Miss
Walton sang and played almost divinely.
But Hiram’s thoughts were still obstinate
ly cold, and he was actually glad when af
ter awhile the moment came for him to bid
her good bye.
•I shall think pleasantly of the moments
I have spent with yon Mis3 Walton,’ be
said as he offered his hand.
‘Thank you,’ she frankly said accepting
the friendly offer ‘and I shall esteem them
as pleasant too, and 1 need not assnre yon
that onr house is all ways open to yonr vis
its.’ -■ ■ - ■ .
And Hiram walked away wondering if
it was indeed possible that his foolish heart
could ever learn to trust another woman.
And together, they, Hiram and Winthrop
went back to Harvard, and together enter
ed upon the earnest study, and greatful
duties of the law student. Hiram with
the eager clntches of a discontented spirit
seeking a respite from its own restlessnes,
and loving its earnest difficulties because
they requiied all the concentrated energies
ofh&mind to combat them. Winthrop
with the gladness of a Pilgrim, treading
the harsh stones of his path, and enduring
its tortures, only because it lead to a
heaven ahead. And the letters of Viola, for
they mime almost every day, bright spark
ling letters, brimming full of rosy joys, and
can endure the test of an unrequited to- sta^ gladness, onl^ sorved^to stimnbte his
studies aDd to qnickon his intelligence.
He read them as he breathed the gladness
of a morning air,-they come as the whiff
of perfume comes into the dusty rooms,
fresh from its bed of living odors, and he
inhaled their fraeerance, not to wast his
thoughts in foolish longings to tread the
‘And that would be the highiat proof of bowers hut with a grateful sense of its
selfishness. It should be^Its attribute tiji Strengthening freshness. , -
... i— -i i—. i ‘ And again the -golden sun of;autumn
imparted its yellow tints to the summer
green of the .leaves; and the brighter crim
son of the forrest, hero and there fluttering
among flie brown, like flashes of fire-flies
amid’the dust of a southern twilight, told
that tfae : winter was preparing to come.
iAind when it came the college grates glow
ed as brightly as ever withiD, and the bleak
winds blew chilly, and the f dow fell white
and dreary without, and the cheer bright
ness of the grates within kept amuficaly
rhyme with the cheery brightness of Win-
throps’ heart, while the chilly wind and the
dreary snows without, were only typical of.
the dreary bleakness that froze the better
emotions of the heart of Hiram Lavender.
And the windy days glided by as rapidly
as the days of autumn, and the Christmas
trees were ready to be reared agaio, and
the Christmas lights were ready to blaze
out npon the hearts of the joyous little folks,
and onoe more Winthrop besonght Hiram
to again spend its festival at his home, and
Hiram was no ways loth toshare the kiodly
pleasures of that home.
And it was a merry Christmas they spent,
the sleighing was a# delightful to Hiram is
ever, and the cheery evenings spent in
doors were pleasant and greatful. But the
cheery evenings were not speut under the
Winthrop roof tree, bnt amid the splendid
reflections of the Walton balls, and Miss
Kate Walton was as queenly as ever, as af
fable as ever, and now that another six
months have softened the asperities of his
disappointment, and had lent their healing
balm to his wounded heart, she appeared
to Hiram’s eye more charming than ever.
Tho brightness of her beanty Was indeed
radient. The charm of her voice was soft
and sweet, and the dignity of her proud
intclect was condesendingly unbent, and
the euridite desertation gave place to laugh
ing nonsense.
Bnt it was in the light of the ball room
that she appeared before Hiram’s eyes as a
paragon of earthly grace and beauty.
It was beneath the brilliant light of Mrs.
Winthrop’s chandeliers that she stood in the
full lnstreofhcrbeauty, her glowing charms
bcwitehingly enhanced by the exquisite
tasto and elegance of her toilet, and her
lovely face all radient with the ripples of
her laughing heart. Hiram claimed, and
was smilingly accorded the honor of her
hand for the first set, and as he led her
forth a murmur of admiration went round
the hall, an involuntary tribnte of eclat to
the tall handsome Southron, and the
radient Northern belle. But Hiram’s head
was not turoed by the music of this ap.
plause, he had no ears, only for the sweet
music of Miss Walton’s voice. He did not
catch the admiring glance that fell irom a
hundred eyes, for the glance from the
lair brighter eyes of MissKateWalton filled
bis soul, and when the rnnsic struck up and
the dance begun, and with the fairy grace
ofa sylph lie saw her glide into the bewitch
ing, vortex floating as it were upon wings
of her own beanty, and grace, his heart
went buzzing through his brain, aDd his
soul came bubbling to his lips.
Now we greatly fear that some of onr
readers will be shocked at this drunken
inconstancy of poor Hiram, and we are loth
to record it. Had we been writing a fancy
sketch we would have been particularly
careful to have selected a more perfect
model of constancy, even though it be to a
‘dead issue’ than odc who would let the
waving graces of a ball room, thus npsot
his brain and unsteady his heart. But ours
is no fancy sketch, our hero is a genuine
fiesh and blood mortal, whose warm youDg
heart beats with the same ardent pulsations,
that beats from the hearts of ninty-nine
hundreths of warm hearted young men,
whose afflictions are like the vigor of the
forrest grape, clinging with close attach
ment and sheltering arms to the graceful
lyn, whose own fresh life quickens in re
sponse to its warmth, but tailing away in
drooping sadness from the sapless withering
trunk of the dead oak. There are a few
frog-hearted men in this world whose souls
are like a slimy chunk, with enough fire in
it to make one fire, and when after a care,
fnl and wearisome application of flint and
steel, or phosphorus, or brimstone, they are
at last lighted, they must be as carefuly
watched, as warmly nursed and as tenderly
fanned, else the pale flickering light will
expire, and the slimy soul relapse again in
to cold darkness, this time coldness and
darkness irremediable. From such
these we do not expect much sympathy
with the boistrious pitty-pat of Hiram’s
heart but from you young men whosehearts
are warm and fall of fire as a post oak
spunk knot, and ‘who knows how it is
yourselves,’ we expect better things and
shall rely upon your sympathio truth to
vindicate his apparent inconstancy.
Nor can we quite abandon him to the
phlegmatic coldness of the frog-hearted,
nor the terrible mercies of rigdly virtuous
aged females,
Whose mercies are
“Like human feinds in time of civil war.’’
without one plea. It is not altogether
man’s own volitions that control his aotioDS
or his destiny. Had the ride to tho old
mill been repeated the next day, as Hiram
and Yiola expected, had one more glance
been sounded in the depths of those loving
eyes, the heart of Hiram wonld havo sought
no higher, no more exquisite heaven, and the
sweet heart of Viola would not have had to
reach out to the strong brave breast of
Robert Winthrop for its happiest joy.
Bnt the ride was not repeated, the danger
ous bnt infatuating glance was not sonnded,
and the haven was not found. Had Hiram
resisted the promptings of politness, and
declined the invitation of Mrs. Eustace to
spend an evening dt the Eustace home, he
would have never had the deep waters of
his heart stirred as they were stirred by the
gentle influence of Emmas being, and after
they were thus stirrd, and the witchery of
love was wound so sweetly aronnd his life,
no loyal devotion of the cloisterd nan coaid
have been more true to its allegiance
than wonld have been the devotion of
Hiram, had not the evil destiny stalked
into the Wainsboro Post Office, and exploit
ed letter No. two. But Hiram did not
resist the promptings of politeness, he nn-
concisously ventured (into the charmed
circle, and as a natural consequence, his
heart was melted like gold in the crdcible,
and alas for the frog-hearted theory the
letter was exploited and the warm liquid
gold was emptied upon the cold, cold ground
to monld itself in oontorted ingots, hard and
cold. And yet because it did cool, it
was none the less gold, and yet becanse it
was .ready to melt again in the bright flame
of Miss Kate Walton’s eyes, and voice and
graces, it does not follow that it was a false,
a spurious gold.
And it did melt, the dizzy mazes of the
dance, the bright gleam of the chandelier,
the flatter of silks, the sparkling of eyes,
the wamth of gladness, and tho oharm of
beanty and grace, all conspired to kindle
again the warm blood in the heart, to melt
the gold, and to unloose the fountain of his
soul, and had destiny again stept in', and
provided a rose scented alcove into whioh
Hirapi could have led the radiant girl,
after the wavy sea of the dance bad
stilled, he. wonld .have' poured ont that
gold, a grateful gladsome offering at her
feet. Bnt destiny was not so propitnons.
Nothing bnt crowded drawing rooms could
he fonnd save in the equally crowded ball
room, and without the wind was blowing
ns cold as flngins, so the terbnlent soul had
to content itself with pouring out its sen
timent to melting glances of babbling
sweetness, glances warm and lucious; and
tolling npon eyes that drank them in as
gerly. ! v:
Soft eyes looked love to eye3, that >pake
again.'
But that was all, no tonguo told the tale,
and when the excitement was over the
company haddispersed and Hiram was diving
his head deep under the blankets he hard
ly knew whether to thank, or to reproach
his destiny for withhold the rose scented
alcove.
From the Jietr York Hearld.
The Ku-Klox and Suspension of the Writ
of Habeas Corpus.
A suspension of the writ of habeas corpus
by the federal government in any of the
States in a time of general peace wonld
have been regarded formerly as a very
serious matter. Both Americans and Eng
lish—'all people of the Anglo-Saxon raoe-^-
haveever carefully guarded their civil rights
as protected by the writ of habeas corpus,
and have taken alarm at the first step to
deprive them of these rights. The writ of
habeas corpns has been regarded as the
bulwark of liberty, and it is this which
more than anything else led to the freedom
that we eDjoy. Bat times have changed.
Our late civil war and the demoralization
which resulted from it have destroyed in a
measuie that watchfulness of the American
people over their liberties and jealousy of
the encroachment of arbitrary power. Now
the President of the United States suspends
the writ of habeas corpus in a section of
oar common country and little notice of it
is taken, as if it were a matter of ordinary
occurrence or of no importance—as if, no
great principle were involved. The proc
lamation of the President, dated Washing,
ton, October 17, 1871, which was publish
cd in our issue last Wednesday, plarcs the
counties of Spartanburg, York, Marion,
Chester, Laurence, Newbury, Fairfield,
Lancaster and Chesterfield, South Carolina,
under martial law, on the ground that com.
binations and conspiracies exist to obstruct
and hinder the execution of the civil law,
and chat the federal government is called
npon to suspend the writ of habeas corpns
and to govern by military authority, in ac
cordance with the act of Congress passed
last April. If the public mind were not so
demoralized aod so indifferent to this exer
cise of military an hority in time of general
peace there wonld be a more searching in.
qniry as to the causes for or neoessity of
this extraordinary action of the govern
ment.
Fortunately, the independent press of
this country is free to disouss the oondaot
of the government and to call public atten
tion to this important matter. The inde
pendent press, as Juntos said, is the palla
dium of onr civil and religions liberties.
Let us see, then, what foundation there was
for proclaiming martial law and creating
such 1 dangerous precedent for exercising
arbitrary power in this free republic. The
President tells ns in his proclamation that
combinations and conspiraces exist to the
conDties placed under martial which can
not be reached by the civil law, and these
he calls rebellious and insurrectionary. By
this he means what is generally known as
the Kn-Klnx. The changes are rang on
such expressions as conspiracies, organized
and armed combinations, violence, defiance
of the constituted authorities, and so on,
but there is no evidence of rebellion or in
surrection either in the sense generally
understood or of the constitution of the
Uoited States. The law of Congress on
which he bases his action may have given
a new interpretation to rebellion or insur
rection which was never meant in the con
stitution, and he may be acting strictly to
conformity with that. But the lawlessness
ofa few individuals, which at most only ex
tends to a sort of lynch law in pnnishing
obnoxious persons or those who are guilty
of crimes, cannot be construed into rebel
lion against the government. In fact, there
has been no snch rebellion or insnrrectioti
Nor have the proper oanstitated local
authorities called upon the federal govern
ment to suspend the civil law, as is required
by the constitution.
Governor Scott of South Carolina, when
asked less than three weeks ago if he were
opposed to martial law, replied, ‘Most
unequivocally I am, and those men who
arc so clamorous for martial law are pnrsu
ing a mistaken policy.’ He said, moreover,
that he had no ilea General Grant wonld
declare martial law, that he (the Governor)
was not to favor of it, and that he thought
the civil law was more efficient. What
better authority does the administration
want than the Governor of the State, who
is one of its own partisans t Then the
State bander radical government, and most
of the authorities to it arc opposed to martial
law. The clamor for snch an arbitrary
measure comes from only a few reckless
and corrupt disorganizers and aspirant# for
office; irom men who have little interest at
stake in the State beyond what they can
make ont of the offices or the disruption of
civil government. No doubt there have
been deplorable outrages npon individuals
by local bands, and probably the Civil
Rights bill of Congress may have been vio
lated in some cases. No good citizen wonld
attempt to justify these. Bnt snch crimes
are not peculiar to South Carolina. Crimes
as bid or more heinous ore committed to all
the States, and it wonld be easy enough to
attribute them to Kn-Klnx if it should suit
the federal government to do so for politi
cal ends. Indeed, there might be no limit
to federal interference in the local affairs
of the seveial States, or even in this city of
New York, if the proclamation of martial
law is to follow the commission of similar
crimes as thoao perpetrated in South Caro
lina. Should the clamor of a few partisan
politicians be heeded more than the princi
ples of local self-government, npon which
the fabric of onr institutions Tests, there
will be an end to civil liberty.
It is a enrious fact, showing the reck
lessness of the administration in the high
handed course it b pursuing, that one of
the mast quiet counties to the State, of
Sooth Carolina, that of Marion, b includ
ed to those plaoed under martial law,
while the worst Kn-Klnx county—Union,
b omitted. Thb Governor Scott, it b said
admits, though he says, in palliation of the
conduct ofthe administration, it most be a
clerical error. If it be necessary to j>ut
a portion of South Carolina under martial
law for crimes against individoab, what
shonld be done in North Carolina, where a
few baadits have successfully defied all (he
constituted authorities? Nothing has oo-
enrred in South Carolina since the war
comparable to the frightful depredations
and defiant conduct of these bandits iu tho
adjoining State, entrenched to the swamps
for months and committing the most
diabolical murders and other fearful crimes.
So we might refer to the hanging of the
negroes in Tennessee recently by the popn-
lace without law and in defiance of the
authorities for outrages committed on white
women, or to many other lawless sets both
to the South and North. Where, in fact,
would there not be fonnd a pretext for the
exercise of federal military authority if the
government shonld wbh to strain the law
for that purpose or had a political object
to accomplbh?
The President believes, perhaps, he b
doing his duty. We are not willtos to
think otherwise. But, unfortunately, he
is not a civilian, and has little opportunity
to study State affairs in the light of civil
aod constitutional law. His training has
been nilitary and his mind is imbued with
military ideas. No doubt be b a pa riot
and wishes well to the country, and believes,
probably, that he has intuitively the same
c: parity to govern in peace as he had to
command in war; but if he wonld have
hb name go down to posterity as a states
man he most leave the camp and drop the
sword, he most in time of peaco respect
above all thtogs the civil law and civil
liberty. And will be not hive some
gard for the anomalous and trying situa
tion of those poor Southerners, who, though
they aired, are a brave and high-spirited
people of our own race and blood? Can
he not see the humiliating position they
are placed in, particul irly in South Caro
lina, in being political slaves to their for
mer domestic slaves, an intelligent and
cultivated population put under the rale of
ignorant and semi-savage negroes and cor
rupt strangers, who have little or no in
terest to the State, except t.- rob it? Has
he no bowels of compassion for these un
fortunate people of our own blood nnder
snch trying circumstances ? We think, as
we said before, that he means well; but he
has been led, doubtless, to extreme meas
ures, which are cruel to the people of South
Carolina and dangerous to civil liberty, by
partisan and narrow-minded politicians,
wbo care only for their own immediate in
terests. The President should know that
he can make more political capital and wto
the good will of the generous American
icopls, both North and Sonth, more by a
cind and liberal policy to the Southerners
than by military coercion. “Let ns have
peace,” seems to be his favorite motto, and
he can have peace in the South, as well as
good will everywhere, by abandoning hb
military idea of government and making tlic
civil law supreme in every section of our
common country.
What the Ku-Klux Proclamation means.
To Destroy Bermuda Brass.
The Southern Cultivator says: “Break up
laud just deep enough to get under the grass,
and harrow it several times with the rotary
harrow. If convenient do this in the fall,
and harrow at intervals during the winter,
to let freezes act upon it. It may also be
done in hot, dry weather in summer, and
the land sowed in oats in early fall. In
early spring sow down in oats, and if the
land is not rich, dress it with 100 pounds of
guano, to make the oats grow well and get
the start of any grass that may be left. As
soon as the oats are harvested, sow down the
land in peas. If necessary, sow oats again
in the fall, and folio .v with peas. General
ly, however, one year’s treatment, as above,
is sufficient to subdue it, so that no farther
trouble need ensue. It the land is well
plowed and harrowed in the fall, it may be
planted the onsaing spring in cotton instead
of oats, and if the cotton is well worked, not
much grass will be left when the crop is
laid by. Enough however, will usually re
main to reset the land in grass again if it b
neglected.”
A Nice Point
It is said that some of the merchants of
Chieago may be heavy losers throogh their
anxiety and efforts to save their stocks, as
they remove! their goods to places supposed
to be secure, which were afterward de
stroyed by fire, or the merchandbe was
consumed in the streets after being removed
from a doomed building. As the goods
were insured in designated stores, the po
licies do not cover losses sustained on the
goods after they were removed. Thb b no
doubt a strictly legal costruction, bnt in
surance officers have paid losses nnder sim
ilar circnmstances, assuming that the owner
was aettog in their behailf to prevent losses
which would have occnren if tbe goods had
remained nnder the roof where they were
insured. It b to be hoped the insurance
oficers will take a liberal view of such in
stances.
Miscellaneous.
Long absence makes the heart grow fon
der—of someone else.
The cackling of geese saved Rome, and
the kick or a cow destroyed Chicago.
It b hardly credible that bat little over
twenty years ago San Francbco was a bar
ren waste, and to-day has 170,000 inhabi
tants, yet both are facts.
In Wacson, Michigan, reoently, forty
seven wicked yonng women charivaried an
unfortnnate youth of eighteen wbo bad
wedded a widow of forty-six.
It is said that a million and a half of the
inhabitants of Germany are able to read
English. Whether they can understand
what they read the account does not say.
A new style of ornaments for tbe hair
are large beetles and butterflies made of
gay-colored velvet with wing3 of spangled
mother of perl and jewelled eyes. The ef
fect by gaslight is very dazzling.
A Missouri hnsbaDd, whoso wife has ap
plied for a divorce, writes a protest to tbe
judge, in which he says: “This dam thing
call devorce has, in my opinion, parted
many a man and hb wife."
A man in Maine has been compelled to
lay 875 and oosts for allowing hb old white
lorae to be prowling on the highway at
night and frightening other horses so that
they run away and hart folks.
Wilton, Saratoga connty, New York, b
devastated by a squash vine, measuring
300 feet long, and still growing. The ter
rified population are preparing to move ont
of the way of thb vegetable tidal wave.
A set of paper car wheels, on one of the
Pullman oars raoning to Jersey City, have
ran over 100,000 miles of track, and worn
ont entirely one set of steel ties, which
have been replaced. The ordinary wheeb,
it b said, will only ran 60,000 miles.
Three Yale sophmores were fined by the
police coort at New Haven, last week,
twenty dollars and costs for “hazing,” A
very practical and sensible way of check
ing the evil.
The following b the latest in regard to
that historical little lamb:
Mary had a little lamb,
It cut op Iota of eapere,
And every thing the crittar did,
His got lute tho papers.
The following in explanation of the
meaning of Grant’s Proclamation inventing
for political purposes a “rebellion, in a large
porton of Sonth Carolina, appears in the
Baltimore Suit in the shape of a Washington
dispatch. There is an ominous hint at the
possible arrest of prominent Southern men.
We think this more than probable, if aoy
political advantages can be accomplished
by it We are constrained to believe that
the people ofthe United States have got to
be so lost to their own self-respect, and
majority of them have become so corrupt and
cowardly, that we shall only be surprised
at their abstaining from the wickedness sag-
gestedby the dis; atcl in question. Indeed,
ne are astonished that the Radical leaders
do not at cnee proceed formally to pnt an
end to tho shallow pretenses of the Re
public, and to proclaim the consolidation
of the Government They could quite re
asonably maintain that extreme popular ag.
itations consequent on farcical election, are
hurtfnl to the public peace, and calculated
to encourage future disorders. The radical
leaders are unnecessarily timid. They can
very justly claim that what was a conspiracy
against freedom and law in this country
has the popular endorsement and approval
at this time; and besides judging all the
usual indication of pnblic sentiment, there
is no character mors admired by the radical
populace that a vindictive and cowardly ty
rant, or more envied than a successful mil
lionaire thief in the Cabinet or Congress.
Thb is the dispatch from tbe Sun:
It is learned that the presidential proc
lamation under the Ku-klux acts means
more than its surface would indicate. It
b now known positively that for more than
six weeks past, or even since the Ka-klux
committee of Congress retained from tbe
South, the administrations ha3 had nnder
consideration a policy to be enforced not
only against the so called Ku-klnx organ'
izaton, bnt in the administration of federal
civil affairs in tbs South. There was no
substantial difference of opinion among the
President and the Cabinet, and the leading
republicans who favored this new order of
things, except as to the time when it shall
be enforced, and thb accounts for tbe delay
UDtil after the October election. The pro
clamation b, therefore, bnt the forerunner
of martial law and the suspension of the
habeas corpus, as piovibed by the fourth
section of the act of April 20th. Tbb says
that any Ku-klux organization or combi
nation “shall be deemed a rebellion against
the government, the limits of which shall
be prescribed by proclamation and abo by
commanding the insurgents to dbperse,”
before the privileges of the writ of habeas
corpus are supended. A prominent member
of tbe government aDd also leading repnb-
1 icansdeclared to-day that the arrangements
of the civi land military ior wholesale arrests
of the Ku-klux had been perfected,and that
country would be surpised, if the procla
matiou were not needed by the arrest of well-
known Southern men. Thb coarse has
been rendered imperative by the resalt of
the Texas election in favor of Democracy.
Grant was actually stunned by the an-
nouncement of 30,000 Democratic majority
in that State, and, despairing of carrying
the Southern States by fair means resolved
to carry them by aDy means. In a few
days tho Dew rebellion, thb time ofthe
Federal government against the South, will
be fairly begun.
Under the provisions of the so-called
Ku-klnx law than which a more dbgraceful
statute was never enacted—combining, as
it does, cowardice, brutality and tyranny in
equal proportion, there is not a State, or
Dbtrict, or county in the Sonth (or the
North as for that matter!) to which the
President of the United States may not
annonnee a “rebellion” at his pleasure.
There b no other people in the world sub
ject tosuch infamons tyranny.—Mont. Adv.
rauftkeep food always by vonr poultry,
because, if laying fowls, they arc made too
fat, and if fattening ones, not fat enongh.
To frtUapariti/,three times in twen-
ty-fmr hetw all thw will eat, and remove
all they.leave,- andtuyi will cat more titan
when cloyed and disgusted by the constant
presence of food.: To keep laytrsia;p
condition, feed twice or thrice doHy a n
ration, but not as much
Some say feed as long as ' 1
what you throw to them-, t ,
bat : i nuirfif ftirffiBi
unless they are
show eaL • , t
swallow, and will scramble' for
give them until to their rivi
and cram themselves week al
become a mass of fat, and vet they will
act at teeding time as if they were half-
starved. Feed your regular laying stock
moderately and be governed by their state of
flesh rather than by their greed. Take a
few fowls from the perch at night occasional :
ly to test their weight, and a little practice
will enable you to qnickly deride on the con- '
ditionofthe flock. Increase the ration as
they yield of eggs increase, aud so long os
tbe laying keeps pace with the diet you may
give rich and stimulating feed in any quan
tity. Feed the select breeding stock more
sparingly than the rest of the layers, so ns to
give only a moderate yieldol eggs for hatch
ing purposes, tor if yon promote great pro
lificness in the parents the result will be
weakness in the progcncy. Chickens, du
ring the period of their rapid growth, should
be led very often, with a variety, and' all
they will eat While they are growing,
there is no danger of overfeeding if they
are fed frequently and allowed perfect free
dom, so that they may take the exercise that
is indispensable to their thrift.—Hearth and
Home.
Mexico to be Annexed.
A New annexation sensation has come to
tbe surlacc. The report is, that a considera
ble number of onr people, to both North and
South, are enlisted in a scheme tor annexing
Mexico to the United States; that prominent
Federal end Confederate officers are at the
head of it, and that tbe project finds favor in
influential and even high official circles to
Mexico, l’bo following b a dispatch from
New York, Oct. 3d, to tbe Western Press:
Reliable information has been received
here that there exists a wide-spread organi
sation ol ex-Confederate officers, soldiers and
politicians, including, also, many persons who
served in the Federal army, whose purpose
is to bringabont tbe annexation of Mexico,
peacibly if they can, forcibly if they iqnst.
This organization expects to secure fhe annex
ation of Mexico' within five years. Joseph
E. Johnston, the famous Confederate General,
is chief of the organization; Rosencrans b to
sympathy with the movement, and John’ A.
Logan is also named as one of the prominent
members. It is believed that Jnarexhimself
b not friendly to the object sought. The de
mand for annexation b to begin in Mexico.
Newspapers advocating the cause will soon
be started' there, and thacoming winter will,
see tbe fruits of a movement long contemplated
but only now about to be sprung upon the
two republics.
Goes fob thz Pblsidext,—The New York
Sun, a Republican paper that advocates the
claims of Horace Greely for Presidentjsbows
op Grant’s generosity as follows:
WHO PAVS THIS MONEY?
The Washington Patriot makes some re
marks upon President Grant’s subscription
of one thousand dollars to the Chicago relief
fund, but it furnishes no information as to
tbe preseDt-giver from whom tbe money was
derived.
In September, 18G9, Gen. Grant subscrib
ed one thousand dollars—just the same sum
he has now subscribed for Chicago-—to the
fond for the family of his deceased friend and
faithful adviser, John A. Rawlins, the man
whose genius and character formed the real
foundation of Grant’s military success. That
thousand dollars, os has since been demon
strated by conclusive evidence, was paid by
Jay Gonld and James Fisk, Jr., with whom
Grant was then on terms of great intimacy.
They paid the money as present-givers; and
although Grant had the credit of the deed,
not one cent of the cash came from hb pock
et' What present giver, then, was it who
aid the thousand dollars on account of the
Ihicago Subscription ? Can the Patriot tell?
The Loss at Chicago.
The Spectator, an insurance paper of
good standing, expresses the opinion that
the losses] by the Chicago conflagration
have been over estimated. It remarks:
We cannot imagine that, after deducting
salvages, the actual loss by thb fire will
much exceed 835,000,000. ln the terrific
fire at Portland, iu the great ‘New York
fire’ of1835, to fact, to every other general
conflagration, the salvages foot np to very
large sums. Walk left standing, goods
nnburned in cellars, machinery intact, the
sale of damaged goods, and other items go
to mitigate what at first seems an irrepar
able disaster. The entire valuation of the
city was about 8205,000,000, more than
half of which was represented by the land.
Onc-half of the remainder must have been
to the two-thirds of tbe houses unburnt;
aud there must be deducted the “salvage”
in the bnrnt dbtrict.
The Theatre as a If oral Agent.
An Englbh magazine wri.er points ont
that while to England the state gives mon
ey for pictrus, statutes, furniture, schools,
churches, &c., a grant to a theatre is con
sidered to be outside the functions of the
state. He thinks that one day the fact will
be recognized, as the ancient Greece, that
fine playtog b one of the cheapest and
most effectual means of refining the masses
and turning their thoughts from low,coarse
idea to great and ennobling subjects. The
state subsidised theatres liberally to France
but the moral result was not particularly
satbfactory. It b very questionable weath
er theatres to which plays approved by
the Archbishop ofCantabury arc perform
ed wonld prove attractiveto theclass which
it b proposed to elevate. They would pro
bably prefer to pay fifteen cents and go to
here “Shoo Fly” or a tragedy swimming in
blood. If a government b to provide
amusement, fine music, grave and gay,
to the best direction its efforts can take.
What tbe heart of a loyal citizen (of
foreign extraction) said to* the Russian
Minister:
O, Eount Katljkaisj,
Why km at yez be aisj?
IF* the devil’s own thrable yor maikin.’
But the priaident’t bind’s up.
Bo jilt pack ysr dads op, !
And jersilf off to Basher be taikin.’
Coueage and Persevebance.—A re
markable instance of courage and presence
of mind b told of E. I. Tinkbam, of the
Second National Bank. On Monday morn
ing, before the fire had reached that build
ing, Mr. Tinkham went to the safe and
succeded in getting ont 8600,000. Thb
pile of greenbacks he packed into a com
mon trauk, and hired a colored man for
$1,00 to convey it to the Milwaukee de
pot. Fearing to be recognized in connec
tion with the precious load, Mr. Tinkham
followed the man for a time at some dis
tance, but soon lost sight of him. He was
then overtaken by the fire storm, and was
driven toward the lake on the South Side.
Hqfe, after passing through' several nar
row escapes from suffocation he succeeded
iq working hb way,'by some means to a
tug boat, and-got round to. the Milwaukee
depot -where he ftmnd the colored- m§B
waiting for him with the trunk, according
to prombe. Mr. Tinkbam paid the man
the $1,00 and started-with the trunk-for
Milwaukee. The money was safely deposi
ted in.-Marshall & Illbley’s bank' of that
city.—Chicago Tribune. .,
gauge i
road is contemplated and chartered from
Montgomery to Chattanooga.
The road, as designated by the charter, will
ran from the city of Montgomery to the State
line, where it crosses Broomtown Valley, at
ornear Alpine, Ga.,dose to the line of Cherokee
connty, in tbe direction of Chattanooga, and
will pass through Montgomery, Elmore^ Coosa.
Talladega, Calhonn (and perhaps St. Clair)
Etowah and Cherokee counties. From Mont
gomery the road will probably pass through
Wetumpka, Rockford, Talladega to Gadsden,
bat this will be more definitely regulated and
determined by the aid it will receive from
places along the route. From Gadsden it
will probably ran on the west side ofthe river
along the base of Lookout and Shinbone
Mountains to Ceder Bluff or Bine Pond to
close proximity to the famous Ronnd Moun
tain and Corn Wall Iron Works, thence to
the State line, where it crosses Broomtown
Valley to Cherokee county.—Chattanooga
limes-
Transporting Bees Bv Mail.—An ex
change says that a swarm of bees, enough
for seed, were recently sent by mail from
Lancaster,Pennsylvania to Washington. The
means employed for their transit consbted
of a bloek of wood about six inches to length,
four inehes wide and a taut an inch and a
quarter thick. Four boles about an inch to
circumference were bored through the block
with an auger, to each of which were confined,
a queen bee and some half dozen others, the
foundation for a colony or hive. Each end of
theanger hole was protected by a wire screen,
affording plenty of ventilation. Tbe postage'
amounted to only twenty-one cents.
The gold and silver annually produ
X n the Pacific coast approximates \
. Only a little more than twenty yearn
have elapsed since mining was began for
these metals, daring which time we have ex
tracted and pnt into circulation somethingover
$1,200,000,000ofthe precious metals.
Nine murderers were recntly executed at
Kiev, in Russia, by one hangman, who had
no assistants with him. He strangled them
one after another on a low gallows. The
dreadful scene lasted nearly two hoars. ' The
last man who was' executed, end who wit
nessed the execution pf the eight others,
fainted away before bis tarn came.
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It is stated that there is hardly a man in
Corsica who would not gladly giye his Iqst
Napoleon, whom they speak of as God-like
fellow-countryman, and the greatest ot sill
Corsican heroes.” J>-’ “ t'Weitts
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It is stated that tho practice. of brewing
beer from rice b rapidly coming intoUuSe in
Germany. Thb beer b said to be of ti-Wtryt ■
clear pale color, of asi extremely piquant,
mild taste, foaming strongly,, andyet jetain-
well its carbonic acid. Tie Chinese pre
pare a “drink from- rice, ■“Bam elm," widen id !
not. only intoxicating, but, like absynthe,
peculiarly mischievous to. its permanent
efforts. _T1Z --J
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The Kilboqrn City i
passed through town'last l
essences, with a span of ’
light rig, in which he carried fiifl.
We understand that thb man was,for several ,
years engaged'to carrying the United States- 1
mail from St. Panl to tbe Red river by mean*,
of these dogs, being able to. ther.rafer /to
make ninety miles a day. He has been of
fered $150 for one of hfs dogs, and toy# he
would not take$500 for.him.!’ ‘i *
Remedy roa Sice Fowls.—The.folio wing is
communicated by a friend wbo assures 1 4s-eif
it* efficacy: A»W. a M njlii saw oil
'If the fowl be overfed, or havtoe eaten
something deleterious, take one teaspoonful
powdered rhubarb, and mix It Witti two tea-
spoonfuls ground finx-seed; make six pills by -
tfiTylflitioa of a,
in the morning and two m the evening
to first day, and the remainder on the
ningof the second diy. In case of fever,, ,
ich will be known by tbe heated condi-
iu ofthe head,ono teaspoonful
mired with two teaspooi
are to be made into six ,
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