Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 19, 1875, Page 9

THE SOUTH. Tho Situation in South Caratina Con- ciscly Set Forth by Gov. Chambertain, The Difficulties that Besot x;n Hon- est Carpet-Bagger in a Southern State. \iLat Gov. Chamberlain Mas Thus Far Accomplished—Reform of {he Justice Courts, Distribution of the State Funds Among Soveral Banking Institutions. Dofense of the State Treasury Against the * Bonanza Bill "’ and Other Plundering Bchemes, Belief of Politiclans Generally that Gov. Chinmberlain Is Too Honest to Do Re-elected. From Our Oun Correspondent, Coruxi, 8, C., June 13,—The situation in ‘South Carolina to-day is piculiar. Hero in = Btate in which the whito man's party hea besn for tho time being yirtuslly disbanded ; {o which the warmest supportors of n carpet-bag Gov- ornor are the native whita population; and in whicls the question is not of partics, but of sus- {aining TIHE CARPET-DAG GOVERKOR, CUANDERLAIN, a thoroughbred Yanhee, in his offorts to check the corruption of the Logialature clected on the ticket wita him, Here the wuative whito population bavo mrrived at tho canelusion that thera may bo honesty and patrotism enongh among tho negro voters to mako it worth whilo to apped] to that bonesty and patrlotism to Join with the whites in tho movomont against the corruption of tho nogro and carpot-bag Legis- | Intare. Last fall Gov. Chamberinin, who had been Attornoy-Goneral undor tho Moses Admin- fatration, with the infamous rascalities of which hio was rogarded as idontified, was nominated by the mtraight Ropublican Convontlon controlled by the carpet-baggers who had porpotrated thoso rnscalitios apd pocketed the proceeds, Dut, for the six yoars preceding, tho appropriations * for sttachea and incidental expenses” of tho Legislaturs hod aversgod $258,424 por seesion; tha contingont fund appro- printions for tho samo poriod (covering tho Bcott and Moses Administrations) had aggrogated £070,893; tho appropriations for publio printing (which wont to tho Ropublican Printiug Com- pauy, from which o majority of the State Sona- tors vecolved ‘'*dividonds"”) had avoraged $181,204 por annum; aud the avorage aunual doflciency for tho six years hed been $472,619. Thia rocord was too binre-facod evon for the-cou- stituency of tho carpet-baggers ; and, overcome by n realizing sense of that fact, the carpot-bag and negro potiticlans in thelr platform pledged the parly to TONTST? AND HETRENCIMEYT in tho Adminletration. They moant no more by it than did the Tammany politiclaus by their plodges of like sort in New York. The intelli- gent, honest votora of the Republican party of the Btate knew precisoly the value of these pro- feselons, sand—bolted. Thoy nominated, agatnst Chamberiatn, Judge Groan, a Ropublican, but a man of unimpoachabloe infegrity. (South Uaro- lius Republican candidatos of unimpegchable Integrity had boon unknown under tho party manazement of what in that State passed for Ropublicanism.) The Conucrvatives, muchin tho temper of voting for tho devil rathor than for the straight Republican nomtneo, and will- {ngnow to profit by a eplit in the Republican par- tr, in a bodysupported Green, and polled for him tho largost voto by tiom cast sloce the War. Batweon 5,000 and 10,000 negro votora percolvod tho distinction between Republicaninm and thievery, and joined tho bolt, After & sharp can- ‘vagg, Chamberlain wasclected by a msjority of only about 10,000—25,000 less than tho averago Republican mnjonity in the State. Upon his {nanguration Lo procoeded to astonfah both tho mon by whom Le bad becn nomiuated and thoue who hud opposed him' maat, by declaring bis purposo to make good those pledges of honesty and rotronchment, mnd by specifically onumorating the printlog atoal (in which the wo-called Republican Stato Senators wers eharers), the contlngent fund steal (which wus divided smong so-called Repablicans), . aud other steals (apportioned among Boath Caroliua Ropublican thieves), as steals, no lougor to be tolerated by tha Repub- lican Legislature, the mombers whorsof were THE QMNTRF THIRVES, Forthwith the party lesdors took lsaue with Lim. Uaving oapturod the booty, ax they supposed, by carrying the election, thoy wete not slow to denounce the tromson of him they hind cliogen to be thelr chiof of thieves for * peacling” iu such fashion; and the regu- lar Republican mombers of the Leginalature, aud the oflicials of Lis own Adminlstration elected on the ticlet with him, combined agalust Gorv. Chamborlain, The Consorvatives and tho bolt- ing Ropublicany, whilo astonished, wora yet in- credulous, sud waited for the broach botween thie Governor and thie party which elected bim to widen, Forn timoChamborlein falterod, After his outspokon denunciation of ‘the contingent fund ateal, inding blmsel? without s support, and evidontly entarialning the notion that hou- euty was the ruinous policy in Bouth Carolina roconatructed, ho spproved the contingent fund spprojiristion. UXYORMING TUX JUSTICR COURTE. Recavering biwwelf, ba cssayed small begin- ninga o tho way of reform, Tle began with at« tempting to weed out from among the. ** "Crisl Justices " (Justices of the Peace, many of whom wers biscku who could neithor read nor write, aud who as o body wore {bg worat lot of rascally Dogbotriea sver compassed within tho Limite of & Stata {n the Union) the more rascally and Incom- potect. Tho Conetitution exprensly provided for the dlection of Justices of the Peaco. But the carpet-baggers knew how ‘*to make a good thiug " out of patrouage, sud to evado the con- stitulousl provision, had pasaed no act relativo to tho election aud qualification of Juztices of the Paace, but instoad had esour- ed tha avango (prior to Chamberlain’s inaugur- ation) of an act creating tho oftice of Trial Jus- Uice, wnd venting in the Guvernor the power of supcdntmant of the Justices, 347 in numbor. Whon ba wet about the weadiog-out proacss, Gov. Chamberlatn found that he struex the Ho- publican fosdor in each county {n whicl ho re. woved a knavish and ignorant Trial Justice, and the opposition o the Republivsu Legislature tonard bim beoame mors pronounced, whils the Congervatives aud bolting Republicans begau to wpard him ms altoyother a mnmshhly houest carpet-baggor for a New Engloud wan and o former officer in the * Fedorul™ wrmy., As these sppointruents were not sub- Ject to confirmation by the Senats, Lo waw enabled to procoed with the ¢ weeding-ous’ procesa without let or hindrauce, < THE BEVENUE-HEAVICK DEFORM. Next Le sttempted to improve the Revenue Bervive of ths Hiate By tho like courwe as to Uonnty Treasurers and County Anditors, who, under the South Caroline Constitntion, are ap- pointed by the Qovemor wrh the approval of the Banate. The thfevery of theso oticials in the Btats had Leen open und notorious, &y foce unpunishod ; defalcations bad been wo requent and so enormous thst poople wers prowiog sccustomod Lo thetn, and It wes patural- nximwlo( & County ‘Tressurer that, with the tonoivanos of the Couuly Auditor, Ls would uteal, d‘m& the plunder with the Auditor. In this Gov, Chawbaeriain slruck in wmore sensitive m the so-called Kepublican lesders |n the Log- uro, Every removal excited the deepest Loalulity u the blicay Banate, and s nume Somtily todt mdjorty, § VALY 0L b atate nattonn of County Trassurera and Counte Andite ors wera rejectad. ‘Then followed his vatoes of mll.xlr‘y atealing appropriation bills, and the Dreach botweon tha Guvernor aud the leadera of tha newro itepublicans boeamn final, Moan- while, tho Conacrvativen and the bolting Ne. publicann camo to hin support, {nenisbing tho necessary one-third voto in the Loglnla- turo to prevent the pawsago of thowa bilis avar hin velo, Thoe measures which led to tho Lieach and to bis unanimous support by the Con- mervatives and bolters who opposed hin alaction, andl tho situation thus I:rnurhl About, weio uptly statod Lo ma by Gov, Chamberlnin In o conveisn- tion, which 1 reduced Lo writinie and subitted to him for correction, and which 1 give a4 cor- roctod by him. 1o said: GOY, CHAMBERTAIN DESCRINES THE HITUATION, **Tho corrption undor the Heott and Mosos Admintetrations lind exeited such deop indigna- tion that ita continuanca would have nrovoked tho averthrosw, Ly foren of artns, of auother snch Administeation, “Tha situation was such that both patties roalized tho abeoluto necossity of & reform, 'The Republicsn parts of tho Stato was Leinge disintoaratad by ila own corrupting Influence. Tho moral aentiment nf the country was againat it, and it conld not bo suetained withont purifieation. Tho Consorva- tives who, when toconstruction hoean, sald ' this thing can't last.” and had naintained an atti- tudo of discontont>d inaction, were exasperated to desporation, and wera resnived to do_some- thing. 1 wan nominated by the regular n(‘BII‘)- fican Couvention. receiving tho aupport of both honest and dishonest men in tha party,—tho Intter giving their suppart beeauno 1 wan hiold to ba the nvu!fi\bln candidato, and, having aiwaga been a mtrict party man, they belloved T wonld not overslaugh them in thelr schomes, In tho canvess I assurod tho people of tho State that the platforma meant what it rnid,—honest government ; and that,'if elected, 1 should carry out ity plodze, aud I was hstonod to with satisfaction, but {ncrodolity, by the Con- servativen. Thors was a section of Republicaus who nevertheloes put no confidenca in the plat- farm or mysolf, hecauss of-the charactor of a portion of my support In tha party. About two woeks after my nomination they held an Inde- pendont Republican Convention, aud numinated Judge Jobn T. Grecn, a Ropublican, and & man of unquestionod honeaty, ngainst me. The Consarvativen eupported Green, and, after & hot contost, I was olected by only 10,000 majority, in round numbvers, tho enlirs whito voting population, for the first timo sinte the War, coming out aud casting their full vots against me, When [ say tho entiro whito voting popu- Iatlon, I mean all but nboat 7,000 whito Reoub- licans, Green drew oft about 10,000 Ropublican votes, In my inaugural, I renowed my pledges of reform, and spocifically dirocted attontion to ABURES TO DE CONMECTED. Tho mogsago wag recelved wil vory great matis. faction by tho honest portion of the Republican puity, and with equal satisfaction by tho Con- porvatives gonerally. But tho dishonoest Repub- licanx. who moant notbiog by tho platform they bad adopted, at onca onenly pronouncod wy in- sugural impolitic, and tha courso marked out s one that would cut off ths party snpplies, and would, in their phraso, play into tho hands of the Consorvativos. In s word, at the autaot one-lalf of the Republican party of thoe Biate. through tho leadors and tho press, donounced my {eaugural, “ Tho Govornor in this Btate In invested with an immense appointing power. Without tho logislativo concurronce, bio appointa the wholo number of Triol Justices, or Juaticea of tho Peonco, as thoy oro called in tho Northorn States, Thoro are 347 of them iu all. Ho in like man- ner appoints tho courus-takors for each county. Doeiden, with the concurrenco of the Sopato, ho appointa the Treasirer sud Auditor for cach conuty. 'This pntronage bLad bLeen pnrcolod out smong the Reontors. and prostituted to adegresnover known elsewhers, nnlesa, posnibly, in Louisiana. Dishonesty and incompetonco in office was tho rula, not tuo exception. I began Dy attomptiug to tono up tho Trial Justices by removal of the worat and the appointment of hooest, capsble mien in tholr stead. This touched nearly ovory Republican politiclan in the Blate, and widenod the breach botwoen thom and mo. Noxt, Lattempted tho liko worl as to the Connty Audilora nund Troasurers. Wo had woll-nigh ~reached that peint in this Stato whero, ns n rule,- the county tax-officials dt- vided the {ax-roccipta among themsolves, The Legislature was then in #assion, aud in this 1 encountered renewad opposition from tho Re- publican side, and tho Senato rolected my nomi- ‘nntions, though the Consorvativn and honcst Ropublican mombers gave them their support, 'Ebie zoxalon was tha longest ever held in the Stato, During it all hardly av act was pasred to correot ons of tho ovils pointed out in tho in- augural, nor to carry out the honeaty in admin- istratlon promised 1o the platform, and as Gov- ommor 1 was ocoupied in vclnlnfi Lills to et monoy out of tho Trasenry, which wore simply PLUNDERIXG SCIHEMES. First'was ‘a bill to validato the outstanding orders ond_ evidences of indebtodness of tho County of Edgefiold,’ There was ovarv resson to beliove that the majority of thoso outstanding ovidonces of indebtodnoss wero fraudulont. A roceeding in equity was thon pending in wiich, Fn behalf of the tax-payers, contest was made of their validity, and a reforao had boon appoint- ed by the Court to invostigate the claims, which be was thon engaged fn doing. Tha bill pro- vided that tho outstanding ovidencos of inaebt- cdness whould bo conclusive asto the amouut due, thus defuating tho ault pending, and puttiog off any contest by tho tax. pavers of the county. Tho amount involved was, I bolleve, ju the neighborliood of $40,000. But Edgefleld io this regard represonted sbout two-thirds tho counties of tho State. That bill was simply tho first of the sort ; hiad it been ap- roved, others of like chinracter would liavo fol- rownd. and in all would have saddled upon the counties fraudalont and contorted dobts to tho amount of about a quartar of & million dollare. 1 votoad tho bill, and the veto was denouncod by tho Ropublican leaders in the Logislature. Tho honest Republicans approved tlo veto, as did tue Consorvative members, aud together thoy muatered the necessary oue-third to prevent the paseago of the bill over ths veto. *+ Naxt was passed a bill to rogulate the places | of DEPORTT OF TILE STATE FUNDS. When I came into offica I found that the entiro Troasury balaucos, ranging from 200,000 to #1,000,000, wora daposited in ope bank,—tho south Caroliua Bank and Trost Compnnr of thie city, bettor known as Hardy Bolomon's_bank, the capital of which {s but 8125000. I coa- ferred with the Treasurer as to tho impalicy of rislung tho entiro funds of the Htatoupon tha solveuey of a siugle concern, and we distribnted the doposits amone six banks,~thres hero (in- eluding Bolomon'’s) aod threa at Clarleston. Thia action excited the hostility of s powerful moneyed ioteraut, and the result was tho pas- wago, by & large majority in both Housea, of the bili which desiguated Holomon's bank and one other as the depositorios. I vetoed i, which oxcited » tremandotis opposition.” i Consarvatives ptand by you in ‘Thoy aid, and with them the honest Repub- licans, atid tho veto was sustainod. Next camo what {s bore known ay 3 YHY. BONANZA BILL, It provided forpayment of the tlosting indebted- nees of tho 8tato, By Hoating indebtoducss was iotendod what wae known 08 thio AMoses pay cer- tificates and tho Parkor . bills payable, 'I'he formor wore orders ou tho Treasury, lssucd by Bloksa while Speaker of the llouss, nominally for legislativo expsnses, Thoy amounted to be- twoen 600,000 and §700,000, "Thess certificates, undor the system in vogue hers, wore llmnly ordera on tlia Treasury, for which no voucher whatever was required, What coufidonce was felt in thom s 1ndicated by the fact that, after the fuud,piovided for their payment was o3 haustod, they deotined to 10 conts on tho dollar, ‘+‘Lhs *Parker bills payabla' were unpaid war- rants and ordors ou the Tressury, drawn from 1808 to 1874 which by Jolut rosclution of tho Legislature were cousolidatod iuto *bills pavae ble," and aggreguted betswoon §300,000 and 4400, 000, A large propoition of them were bollevod to be fraudulent. ‘The bill s originally drawn provided for the appointment by tho Uovernor of & Commission of thios Lo examine thess cluims, and that on those appravod 50 ceuts oo the dol- lar should ba paid. On third roading, the clauss suthorizing the Governor to appoint tha Comuissiooers was etrickon vut, tho oawmos of threo Commivsioners wers inserted, and tha tull wsa passed. Qoo of the Come wimionors named was reported a Lolder of sowe of theolatms to LY passoed upon, auather :‘l’d boliaved to bo luterested in beuall of otaim- olders, In facy, the Commission was not such tusted, and bosides the bitl provided for discountiny or repudiating 60 centd on the dollar of the claims that wera honest, ay some of theni wese, ‘That bill I also vetoed.” Tho voto oxeited tho most VILULLNT OFPOUITION OX THE DEFUBLICAN MIDE, aud was debatod tuthe House fors day, Lut tha Coussrvatives atood np (o the veio, ss did the honeat Republicans. Findiug the bill coulda't be pussed ovor the veto, tho point of order was wade thet the Wil hadn't Loen vetood within the thieo days after its Lranwnisslon to the Goy-~ ornor, av provided by the Conutitution. 'The bill was sont Lo mo va 'Thursday, sud both Louses thon sdjourved uutil Bondsy following, o casw of adjournment of the ~Loginlature, the Coustitution provides that the veto msy be transmitted within cwo days aftor tho romssoin- blivg. On the Monday in queshion there was no quorum, On Tuy u:( the “Legislsture resssems lod, and on Wedheads; telo. The pointwes Mhas b cauuhlt iy L ratorned the bill with udtisak THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1875.—TEN PAGES. — e ———————ee_,,———_s s, e e e — e ——————— ————m—m e provision as to tho roturn of a kil withvato within two dava after tho reassombhiog of tho Leginiatnro applied only tn caso of nn ndfonrnment gino dle, Eilintt, tho Bueakar of tha louso, suatained tho point, and fiald tha Dill praned and operative, A cass was mado in tho Unitad Btaten District Court to test the quon- tion, and tho Distriet Judgo granted ao injuncs tion againat procesdinns unier tho Lith a8 k law. Tho cas was carriod to tho Unitod Htates Cire cmt Conrt, endat the last term, o fow dars since, was arpued bhefors Clifof Juatico Waite, sittiog on the Cirenit bonch. ‘Then followed a bilk 1o declare the moaning and intent of THE CONRULIDATION ACT n¥ INTY, *That was the sat which provided for sealing tho bor.dad debt of the Stato 50 par cont, redue- ing it trom $12,000,000 tn £8,000,000. It alao provided for the sccurnulation of an interest fund to bo kept Inviolable for paymeut of jn- torozt on the $6.000,000 of new Londs, Tho bill todeclars tho meaning and intent of that act ropudiatad that contract with tho hondholaers (tho act of 1871 wan in lerms declared a confyact with tho purchiasors of the six million bonds) by providing for tho applicstion of (he iotorost fand s a winking fund for tho purchass and redomption of outatanding bonds of the State, 1 vetood the hill snd agan was nuatained by tho Couservativea audthe bolting wing Repub- lLican mombers. That bill wad sont mo on tho Iast day of thosckwion, 1 lad writlon my vety meneago in advance, and sont it in fortiuswith, killing tho bill, ‘At the same time, on tho last hour of the 158t dav of tho session, was sent mo_the Supply or Goneral Lovy and Anpropriation bill. I found it loadod down with riders,—tho worst of which an to pay a ‘balanco’ of $100,000 to tho Repub- tiean Printing Company. Tha entire $100,000 clsim was a frand. Ths hill was slso saddled with an appropriaiton ul boiweou $300,000 sad 400,000 to psy PASRED CLATMS, Tlheso *passed claims’ are pecullar fealures in South Carolina logislation, which requi ex- vianotion, Theso claima meant anything which snybody chose to e8t up against the Btate, Tio Conntitntion prohibits any increase of the public debt, But any ons who plaasod aot up his claim agninst tho State, and when tntroduced in the Legisiature it wan referred to the Claims Cowm- mittan, That Committes passod upon ft, and ir tho ciaim was approved ko reported to tho IHousa, The Houseadapted the report, tho Son- ata concarrad in the report, and tlio claim was thuy establisbod by & aingls vote in oach Iouso without dobate, without its belog resd or de- Dbated, without any oxplanation, aud was added to tho indcbtedneas of the Btato. Tho nppropri- ation was snddiod upon the Bupply bill to provido for paymont of theso *pessed ¢laims’' without audit, ‘1 bavo within two dags after tho ne- rembling of the next Legisiature to veto the bill, which [ abal do.” *‘The question which I want to ask,” maid I, i, whethor there is Intelligenco and virtuo onough amoug tho negro voters of Bouth Caro- lina to suatain you in your opposition to these steals, or whethor you will be defeated in your owa party by tho rising politicians 7" TIE PRECISE QUESTION, **You have put the quoation precisely,” re- lied Gov. Chamberlain, **‘Lhat 43 the question, beliove theto is intallizence and houesty enough in the States to sustain me." *“ You include the Consorvatives in that sup- port,” said I, “ Of coufso,” was the Governor's nnswer, “without the Conservatives I conld not bave succesded thus far. You munt bear in mind,” ho added,” that the negro votera aro not resched by the press, and have confidence in the men who Liave led thom.” With that, terminated tho conversation. Tho fact lu that, at tho endof the first six months of bis Administration, Gov. Chiamber- Jatu finda that opposition to teals has arrayed his party against lum, and that it is opoly possible for hum, with the aid of the Conservatives, to defeat further wtesly by veta. Ho i poworloss to carty out any nflie- mative poliey, and tho question iy, whether thore is honestv and iutelligeuce enough among tho nogro Republicans to defest the efforts of Whittemore, of cadstabip peddling infamy; Elliott, 8peaker of the Honse, whose oxtraor- dinary’ point-of-order rulmg in favor of the Hardy Bolomon bank ring is noted abovo ; Pat- terson, with the woight of tho Senatorial patron- sg80; Deverly Nash; Bowen, of bizamoos and murdorous notoriety, and the rest of thatlk, CHAMUEBLAIN'S POLITICAL DEATU-RNELL, * Chamberlsin Lias accomplishied something," #ald ox-Cougressman Cass Carpenter. ** But he bas kiliod bimself polltically,” eaid Baverly Nash, the slirewdeat vegto politictan in the Btate, and who enjoys the distinetion of boing couceded on nil sidos tho Jucer knavish a8 well, ** Wo sren't going to lot there bo any split in the party bo- cuuso of this Chamberiain wmatter; but I tell you," e ndded, *that whilo these psople are talking about Dowen (referring to tbo charge that Zfowon bad hired s inan to commit s wur- der), Bowou yst has influence enough to turn ten or eloven of the most y:opular const countios against Chomberlain or any other man they put up,” Io tho same conversation, Nash, who wid uon-commiltal e to Chambor- lnn, but vastly concerued for the fpaity, enid: “All wo waue of Gov. Chamberiain 18 that he puts tho party back where ho found it Now, Chamberlain found tho Republican party of_South Carolina in tha possession of thieves. To-dav Chamberlaiu fa the most popular man in the Btate with tho white tax-payers. ** Were Chamberlain nominatod for Gavormor to- morrow,” said & leading Democratio edicor, ** wo would 21l support bim, bu¢ Chamberlain would probably bo beatan.” Buch I found the common scutimant Loth ag to Clismberlsin and how Lo Las by six mouths of honost administration destroyed his political prospects. Baid to mo another Domocrat: *No maitor whay comea of s, wo nro goiug to stand by Chemberlain. Wo don't care s slraw sbout tho ‘cxposures’ tho New York BSun is gublifihlng about bim. nobody hore, unlesa it bo thie (Lieves in his own party whom be has fought, carca to go about hunting up ovidence to implicate Clsmberlain in joblery, He Las proved honeat in ofiice, Subatantiaily the same sentimont was exprossod by evory Conservative or Democrat I mecin the 8tate. The Charleston News and Courwer, tho leading Domocratio orgsn, is Lis staunchest stipporzer, and with it are joined the Demonratic vapers of the Btats, with but two or thres jusig- niticant oxceptions. TlLe Democratic minority in tho Legislaturo will continuo their support nifio, the eeling among all classes of whiles and honost, intolligunt blacks being that Chember- lain slous standa between the pluadorers sud the Trensury, CHAMBERLAIN A FORLORN HOPE. A prominent Demociat said to me: ** Wa oan got no reform hero with a pogro majority of 15,000 or 40,000, except out of the Iepublican parly, and we must help the honest wen in that party to get suytlnng,” Such, unmistakably, 18 tho proviihing feeling amouy the whito popula- tion wenerully, Chawberlsin Las yet olghteon months to serve, Iu that time ho will tiud hin support strengtheviog if he continues firm in lus present coureo, as those who know humn best aro thoroughly conviuced ho witl. Tho car- pot-bngeets aro just now disposed to bo vory reticent & to bim. They moan to Ret rid of him and of Iyssort at'the earliest period practicable. Dut their goorded tons to- ward Chamberlain aud his Admiuistration be- traye that oven they detect among tho bisoks themeslves tho dawilogof a publio sontinent, an yet searca perceptible, but which, liko publis seutiment everywhore, even when forried among tbe barbarous peoples, foilowing the inetincts of Luman paturo iself, luathies thievery and thioves, The situation in a cortain degroe pre- sonts A CRUCIAL TEaT of the intelligence, hionesty, nod fitnesa for clti- teokhip of tho freedmsn.” If those who up to this time Lave wanagoed the negro, and maui gu' 1ated the conventions, and who sro responsible for tha corruption and misruls which have cursed Bouth Carolins, triumph ovar the hocesty inau- gurated by Chamberlaia, it ean only ba through the negro” vote. « But should they triumph, sud that thoy may, must be reckonsd amoo the pos- mbilitied, perhaps tho probabilities, it will he a mistake to accopt the resuit as fin —as & domonstration of the ualitnais of th negroes for full citizenslup. The counditions that render it uncertain whetber honest admin. istration in South Carclins sball be defeated by negro yotes are attributable in oo emall degres to tho courss of tho whito votors thetnolvos, Untii now thelr’ attituds toward the blacke has been idontical with thac to-day of tha white- luers of Missisaippl toward the freedmon of that Hinte,—meuncing, tosay the least, Toeconclusion that “*the Degrocs as a clard aro thisves and the uatural allies of thievos ™ is uuwacrauted by the faots. It ia no elight proof of their {utelligsnca that they oarly datcoted the white intolerance of them ss voters haviug equal power in publio sf- fairs, 4o far s votes connt, mith an cqual nume ber of ¢ ve-owners and cotion lords, AITURUENSIONY OF TUEZ NEGROR. That tlioy may b exsggerated tho peril to thota of thiat sentimont smong thelr foymer mas- terw whiol would lead tho lstier to-day, if they ocould, to “Lift the megro cut of 'politics on the toss of their boots but uatural, Yet it may wol q ‘whstber the uegroos have grestly exagg tbat peril, It iy doubtful, too, whether the l-nh usion with which the nogroes contemplate ho -withdrawal by the Genorsl Government of the woro shadow S\vhich iu all that rormaius) of resirains nflan tho local auitiorities in their deal- fogs nith the blaoka s wholly unfounded, The N8GO VoLers, with vary rare exoepiions, do ot disunguish betwean wi ety e U g el of thanatlen.to which they owo their frecdom.thie bllot, and protection at the time whou without 1t fresdom and tho baltot would hava avalled themn nothing, Their gratittde toward and losalty to the Rtopublican party s unbounded, audin no event wiil thay balt the ntraight tickst. Thay vota it Juet an during the eritical poriod of the War did avary Ioyal man at ths North rolo the Republican ticket—without ton clese inqniry ay ta the ehatacter of tha eenidater, Whon thn whites have eontinued their prassnt courdo of wntalning horestyin tho Republican party untik Bambo Iy eonvinced that suppart in ot teeacher- ons, hn will not he deat Lo thate appeals 5 join with them in recuring hooest administration. Then the question of tho MATHTENANCE OF REDUDLICAY ASCENDANCY, without regard to the character of tho Adminis- tration, Lut as a ¥afegonrd for hin rights, will vo fonger bo the paramount consideration with the negro voler; aud, in time. tho colored voto will natnrally b divided botwesn tho two pare ties, Mamfeatly, not otherwino can the white ponulation of South Carolina ecuro hionenty and taform, Fortunstely for the Htale and for them- selves, Loy do no: regard thisasa great racri- fice, provided therely thoy secore an bonest Ad- miniutration, as, if they adhers to thelr preasnt viaw, they undoubtedly will, Hanuyra, e BUNKER AND BREED'S HILLS, To_the Kditor of The Chicao Tribune* Cutcaoo, Juno 15.—The battlo of Bunker Hill was fought upon Braed's Hill, as you state in an editorial to-day; and *The triumphal ehatt of granite, commomorative of the national glory,” In whera it shionld be, oo Drond's IMill. and not upon Bunker Hill, ad orroncouely atated, Bun- ker Il la within the corporate limits of Sowmer- ville, In & northwenterly direction, snd conne- quently waa nearer the forces at Cambridge. Broad's Hill, where the monument stands. 18 ahiout one-fonrth of & milo from the Navy Yard and Charlos Rivor. A stous near tho mony- ment boats tho lnseription: ‘‘Hera Warren foll ;" and near by in a fno atatno of Lim. A doscondaut of ono of the * Provincials' presont, who never aflerward sppearea ashamed of hisaction on that day, H. R. Litriesneen. Tolhe Edttor of The Chicago Tribune: Gpaxp Rarms, Mich., Juno 16.—Permit one who was born “under the shodow of Bunker Hill Mooument,” as the sayiug is, to correct a quite general and natural mistake which found place yestorday in Tux Tnincse's editorial article on tho battlo of Bunker Hill, as it bas in some more pretentious and fairly-historical accounts of tho battle and battle-ground. Tug Toinuye tella how it happened that tho battle was fougtit on Breod's Hill jnstead of Buu- ker Hill; and states correctly that Bresd's Hill is noarer to Cbsrles Niver, and thorefore wau more ezposed to the Lritish ssasult than Bunker's Hill, e it waa thon called. After dascribing tho battle, the rout, and tho desth of Warren, Tue TainURE says: As {lie Ansericans ran and the English chared, s feint attempt o rally tho former waa made on Bun- Xer's 1], whcre sume defensca had been hastily im- provisad, Thiswa s very disustrous veuture, A few Provincials were shot down, aud the rest ran faster than ever, This iuglorious eplvoda wan Lhe only part of tho battla thut took plice on tho site now giorified by the great granite monumeat, There lew tho mistako, The monnment fa on Breod's Hill, and an ioscription nmde of it says it atands npon the wpot where Warren fell, Every Charlestown or Boston person ksows weil enough whore Bunker Hill fs,—a short distance foland from the hill whereon the monument stands. And anv oue who has scen Charlestown will regollazt that 1t ia not over 60 rods from tho Lill where the moonumant stands to the wator, and that thora nover could have been auother bill in the Inferveniuy apace, liko that described in Tz Tuinvxc's and all othier sccounts of the lnndh&;f of the British troops, thoir advance up the hill, their rotreat to tho watar, ete, —_—— BUNKER HILL CENTENNIAL, JUNE 17, 1875, 000 inndred yoars proud Bankor's helgnt Hath fismed with deopeuing splendors bright,— Thme's glorious beacon, plllar, guids, “That tells where patriofs Kingn detied, Tho aun that on tirat morning ross Haw, era It set, & drama closa Grander than sges dreamed before Ou hemipherve of eltber sho Tisat doy of strife was embryo-vead, The Colonfos from tyrants freed, S:nt Vi tory's shout crention 'round, Mado proud Columbia ballowed ground, Twin thiere our fathers ook tbeir stand, Dared leods of prowost, glory rand, ‘Through whoss right arm, 'm! opes forlorn, Precom's great lieritago wus orn, Froud Tintory, charged with solemn trust, Eimlulis tholf Lero, martyr dust, Thelr memory watis through deepening time, Gatlands and crowns wilh fame sublime, Immortal day, 0o hard Luth sugg The frullage grand that thencs bath sprung; Wuat grustoning harvests, rich with bloom, Already shod thelr aweet perfumo ¥rom that derk hour of slanghter, strifs, Whiere frecmen gave to Freadon life, Aol thy proud talo of miltiony frea 2y, Bunker's light and attlo-deed | "Twas at that hiour of conflict dread The uncrowned centurios rushed aud wed, Baw in eternal unfon Lifabt 5 Dissolve the clouds of tyrant ulght, Leavew's bow of promtse arch and spaa For nations, long-rmbandaged w Great wrongs of sges para away At Freedom's daw, percubial day Tion nionarch-thrones presacd dovn s world; ‘Thou stays and strips, now high anfarled, Were batlied 1n blood,—theuice rose space To wave in Lriumph o'or the rece Na star eclipeed, Tull-orbed to shis, Darting proud Froedoin'a raye divine ‘Turough long succeeding uges dow, Teach (lory, pawer, man'’s high renown ! Ono budred Yours of glorous lifo Have passed slnce that momentows atrifo Wisen round proud Iunkar's solemu height, Naw Freodom's monut of sscred light, Thy n0ie of battla rose and curlod That broke the bondoge of » world, 8ous of thove bravo, tilustrious sires,* Whosa bosoms glow with Freedom's fires, Yy came, and catl boly yround, Wiiose * gun-shot * echioed earth tround, Turniog dark tyraots ehastly pale; Borna on the breeze, tho stiifeniog gale, Unapent atill Lasrs to despota doom, Wisila centuries roll 'mid deopentng bloam ! Tvere fiat,ou s auspicicus da, 0 tall 4f thoso who aped the fray, Of rapt dovotion to the canise Of human righis and equal lws, Wuo stood in peril's flory van For truth, for justics, fellow-man, Whio fearfear dured o monarchs rage, And Al with ght th? hlatorio page. “Twia Otls, sllver-tongued afame, The tocain'seized In Freedom's name, Biow that dread blast that ronsed the land, Te-ectioed frota Virkinin'e strand 1n thunderbolts of Henrys rs, Preluding perils, batlles dire, Qreat patriot avills, Upright und trive, Great Future's thickeniug worea [ view, “They warnod, besought, cloctrified, Till rocked the laud frois sids I Bid all o'er spurn the op) Tolruat 1a Mg, in Nt ure God, roak tho Luge yokes o Eithe s nows iaorial name 0¥ 12424 Yach patriot lieatt, & fossing vea, “Bnt upatrong erics for Liberty, old Hencock, Admus bravo aud strong, Urgs i dread hourof doom along, ‘Tho utgnal given by Paul Rovers, Grest (nth of deatiuy grows cloar, While Lexington, Cancord, sublitae, “Trace t0otprinta ot the saiids of Tims, Purform grand d lory, fatne, Wity waestoreh tght the Kiudling fime o1 twan from Guuker's Ruming crest Thetr ¢larion rung for mian oppressod § I couds and gloom the opentig Tho twllight flung Impeatling ray “here the snibattled farmer stood, ‘Trusting their firelocks, Trutb, tholr God; ALthe dread, boutile cann’s fouud, seell-ajmed volloys L eap the groand ; Thure Dutias wo LATORAN {anies Ouwp, There Warren, deathlc 1is soul & burning, mountin, 'Ta thoe dread minsiloa Lared s bire: aat, For Freedow, Victory, onvllnlrmnd, vl 11igh ou the runpart wounded full, Yoving W couutry but toa well= *Mid slaughter, strife, tears sa 100/ Vet 10 (he bevou of Lie (1od, ol Taasud from his country's dawn away 0 send through time quickeniog ray, Whilé ages truo sball spexk bis nams, Great hero of uyspotted fams, *Twae from that mlghiy sscrifice New epochs, erva, take thelr rlvo: Thst stresn 0, clear, erystal faws, Aud monarchs seo Uielr enipires closs, Yhale on you disiant sumunils beight, ¥hael reaks full-orl proud Freedom! lght, Myviada now preas tie grasey eod, Burar for {heiz country, Freedom, God ; Wiere Joyous caunon iinnderous pual, And ghiuts {n sunbestus Lero steel; Where gratarul tribute ow is pald! ‘o tLab proud bend in srina srrayed % Quo hundred years syo, who Lroks . ‘tyraunio chains, to being woko Al emyire grauder thau the sun hith sewu since Tune's great course beguoy— Let us proud tucain, clurion sound, Toll Kaal tliad Weat ia hallowed ground, Thiat North aud South aball e'er be 0, Qur eagle soaring Lo the sun, Dup cuilog loud Lo maigaty dsep, Tiie Union sacred e'er shall keop,~ A century 1are of glory bassed, e o B Saumcain,’ " Wo 8axD, *Tiie suthors grandiatbar, gt ' and paraipiied La. THE GOLD-HUNTERS. Advance of the Goversment Expedi- tion from Fort Laramie to the Black Hills, Camping on the Old Woman's Fork, the Cheyenne, and the Beaver Rivers, Classical Origin of the First- Mentioned Name...The Bloody Sioux. First Sight of the Promised Land- Progress Made in a Nine- Days' March. Make-Up of the Expedition---The Sclentific Gentlemen Un- der Prof, Jeny. Lesser Notabilities--=* California Joe,” * Tige,"” and * Calamity Jane "'— Their Curious Ante- cedents, Srecial Correspondence of The Chienao Tribune, Caxp Jexxy, Brack Hius, Juue 4.—Tho Black Rills Exploration Expedition lott Fort Laramis on 3ay 235, and aflter nine very short aod easy marches is encamped on the east branch of the cast fork of Beaver Creok, 1a the weat edgo of (he Black Hills, 120 miles north of Fort Laramis, and 2 to 5 milos east of tho 104th parallel of lonpitude ; latitude 44 deg., 46 min. Tuo Black Hills are thus shown to bo all in Dakota excopt the northwost spur of the mouuntains, Liout.-Col. Dodge, of the Twenty-third In- fantry, is iu command of the escort, which con- ©lstn of mix companios of cavalry and two com. pauies of infantry, busides a mountain howitzer and s Gatling gon, making up & foros that will resist all tio Indiane that oan get together st any time during the rummer, TIE BCIENTIFIC CORPS is composed of men sent out by the Department of tho Interior, with an officient corps of as. sistants and miners. The Chief is Prof. Walter I, Jenuy, geologist snd mining engincer (but Professor of what I nmpotableto say). The topographical ongineer {s Dr. B. T. McGilly- cuddy, of Dotroit, and tho astronomer Capt. Tuttle. Thess gentiemen bave, with tha excep- tion of Capt. Tuttle, tus assistance of practical miners and mountaincers. Desides these scien- tific meo, the War Dopartment haa ment out Maj. Burke, of tho Engineer Corps, and tho current talk is that Maj. Butke, Capt. Tuttls, aud Dr. McGillyeuddy mounopolize the braina and scientific ability of the whols stupendous mase of knowledgo which mokes up this ex- pedition. This is mers eurrent talk, and not relinble. Prof. Jeony is young man of about 28 years of ags, and has the appesrance of » man who bas never mized up much with tho world. He haa a quick and nervous stylo of apeskiug and an intelligent expression of coun- tenance. He I8 not tho Prof. Janney of Arizons iamond notoriaty, What he kuows about min- iug rewsius to Le seon. As one of the mining expiorts, we bave a son of old Joho Brown, who, instoad of following in the footsteps of his | #ather, is plonearing the Black Hills. Itin per- aape ea well, DIALY OF TilE XXPEDITION. The oxpedition has 0 far been successful, a8 itls now in & permanent camp withont an acci- dour, As before relatod, the expeditlon left Fort Laramle on 31sy 25, and made its campihat night on Rewhide Creck, small tributary of tho Nortls Flatte. Tho seccnd dey’s march was ap tho Rawhide to or uear the Rawhide Dustes, where the next. camp was made. ‘The third day’e march was made soross a high divido of table-land, tills, ravines, and small val- loys, until the hoad-springs of tho Niobrars, or *'L'ean que Court," were rexched. Camp was mado at this point for the night. Iere thero was uo fuel to be found but groon aage-brush. Now, dry asge-brush buras well enoughy, snd an- swors to cook a meal ortwo; but greon sago- brush is not tho best foel to burn. Add to thia, the discomfort of » heavy white frost that night, snd the necesaity of & protracted prayer-mocting the next day for the beneflt of recent converts can be imagined, . 'Fhe fourth day's march was from this eampto the “Old Womsn's Fork," This stresm is one of the southsrn tributaries of the Cheyenuo Tiver, and in rosching it the command had to climb a bigh range of Lills, from which burst bo- fors our oyea the | TFINAT SIONT OF THE PROMIBED LAND. Immediately about us were deep ravinea or canoni full of pines, gradually eloping down to tho nsrrow valley of the Old Woman's Fork, Then, directly Lolow us, wound this willow- fringed stresm, 5o crooked and #o tavgled that its courso could but with dificulty be deter- miued, On both sides of this narrow valloy rows atraggiing bluffa broken by deep cuts and backed by au tuteiminablo succession of still more ragged bills, Fifty miles northwerd s sombro elevation soomed to riso abrubtly from the plaiu, and, gradually falliug toward the soutbeast, atretch an inky tins as far as the eye could roach. Tho biack elovation was Bear Lodge, and the black line the Black Hills, Ir the scenery from the Lill-top was magnifi. ocsnt, croeaing and recrosaing THE OLD WOMAN'S FORK waa disagreeabls epough to dispell the former impression, A lenguid strosmof yellow alkaline wator, flowing, aatf almoat tired of existence, over & mmud aod sand bottom, mads many amule- whacker curse the day ho waa born, The wmont {facotious wliusions continue o bo mede aboat this stream, and many ioquiries sa to why and bow 1t received its name. The facts, as given by the ** Cut-throats,” or Slouy, are aa follows : 3any wnowe havo gone sinco the great Sloux nation camo to thi country from ths Bast. Thoy bsd beon driven from their homes by more warllke tribes, and they in turn drove before them tho lean numerons and unor- ganized bands who were then living in peace- fal enjoyment of buffalo, olk, and deer, The 8loux, finding that the country abounded in all kinds of game, followed up the advantages they hud gained xod made numeroua raids into the country of thoir wesker sueinies, stealing lielr hoes, burning t gen, braloing children with their hatc sud capturing women, These wotnen wer: reatod, beaton, and wede to do sll tho drudgery of thot captors, sud whenevor a Sioux warrior was killed Ly the eveloy, six of theso unfortunats captives were taken out sud tortured over a slow fire with ;pu:zon- of pitch-ping stuck in thetr quivering eal, whilo tho other captives wers to wearnify their amy to shoulder, and their legs to bigh, and cut gashes into thelr breasts. T hideouuly gaahicd aud bleeding creuturvs, drippiug with gmo. wore made, uuder penalty of watsat death, to form a cirole around tnoir burping sisters, and dance and -hqgu Joyouu war danoe until lifo In those charred bodies way extinct. Such was the wsportivencss of the ancient Bloux, and he rotaios it in sn usncor- ruptod degroa to this dsy. A last, ouo of the Chiafs of tho *msll bavds named Mrbatah col. lected a larze nawmber of warrivre and desconded upon & Tmlg of Bioux warriors and destroyed thewn sil. Then, with » new courago, he de- termioed to drive the invaders from hia country, Mabatal, with a large baud of 1, fell npou a large uuniber of Sioux ju s village on the Cheyeane River, and succeodsd In dnvlug them up the river, untll they took refuge witl eir women on the crest of s bigh callod #The Hill-whoero-the-witches-dance,” Here they madé a atand, bus belug Lotly preased by Msbatsht and biy warriors eager for toveuge aud ealply Lbey gave up Al hape of ascapa; and bi g ding the aquaws build fires, they procscded to nince ane-Lalf of tho captiva wamen in tortnro; snd, aftar hacking and mutilating the oiher Liatf, cauod them to ring war aongs, sud danco & war- danco aronnd thia burning women, Thus, amid tha yol's of the dying and wounded Sioux was lenad tho 1nddencd yetta of Mahatali and Ius met. who coold gazo” above and aes wires, daughters. and mothera suffering helliah agonios. aliatah, minddened by tba sight, ealled to i warsors to follow hum, -~ Ruehing forsard, they rando the ground 1ed with tho hlood of tha Fiouz. Beng thus hard pressed. the retrosting Rioux cu and atashod avery woman, even their owrn, that thov might not ta)l tnto the bands of the infurirted enems. \When the tap of the 1ilh wan reschied nothung but the siain godu:n of thu wonien wera to be snen, but away beiow, the rotrenting Sioux, emel even in defeat, a6t up 1 darision of their conquerora tho meiancholy wail of murdered women. Asthosun sank to rest Mahatah and his littie band stood upon the Inll, livid and bloeding, with theso dead hodics an the price of the victory. Evor mnca that time the htraam is ealled the Ol Woman's Fork, and the il called tho Iill-where-the-witchen-dance. The Indians tell how they hear the death-wail, aud at a distanco soo the witclien trip sbont, and thev remain tones no more. For it i ** Leap psd medicine,” Two camps were mado upon this stream, and IOF CHEYENSE RIVES wan roachied, A moro disgusting wtresm of wa. tet—moaro vollow snd dirty tban ap old China. wan's faco—uever waw ston. The mon dug atiallow wells and eettled tho water with ecactuv, which naveral times on this trip hny dono mim- flar god eervica. The whols of this country ts covered more or lexe with cactua andssgo-hrush, ‘flie valiey of the Chisyonno present Lo the eve & Lolt of scrub cottonwon about ona-quarter of mile wide, whiln this little vallov {2 almost lit- erally covered with drift wooa ehich haw been carried down by the high waters; and, thongh it Inoks & dulf, listleas, and filthy stresw, too Iazy to run, therg are mmple evidauces that st timies it 1sges, and fokins, and tears up troes, aud must be 1:nposaible to croes by mun or beast. ‘I'wo camps wero mads ucon tho Cheyenne. THIE BEAVER. The nezt stream north 11 the Beavor, an alks- line stream in which oniy one kind of nwmall white fiali was found. Tdon't think that other kinds of fleh could live o such naety water. Very faw drank water while encampsd on this strenm, Coffen tanted of it, and 1o good water coud bo found to dilute whisky with. Such are the privattons juedental to s pioneor life, 'The recond camp on tho Beaver waa broken an June 3, aud the prescat eatp established as a perma. nent carup uotil supplies aro brought from Fort Laramie. Maj. iert and Capt. Mouron, with their respeciivo commands, will escort the wag- on-train from and back to this plece. Thoy will start to-morrow, June 6. THL INDIANA. Up to this time tho Iudieus bave not shawn thomeelves, bat that Is nottemarzable, a5 at this sesson of tho year they are North huoting bufialo and steaiing vonies from the tribes who como down from the mountaius. Nothing intle way of mivorals hus been found, but beds of lisuile, about 3 icches thick, aud sowmo irou ore, wineh, owing to its location, will requite Lalf o dozen geuerstioas to dovelop it. Howevor, the hmfiutry of which I have written Is not the Black illa. THE HILLS a » distance sppesr Lisck au iuk, snd are cov- ored by & thick uronth of pined that gives thom the peculiar mppearance that wusgosted thelr namo. Weare now in a sandstone formation, which prectudes the possibility of finding salua- Lie metals bore, Ono bear bss baen kiliad, and l‘:&lh a namber of olk, deor, and antelope. As thio cawp was ouly establisted yeaierday, it hiny beon linposuible 10 learn ansthing definite sbout i the country. It is believed. however, that tho 1terior of the Hills miust be reached belore auy- thing vaiuable can be fouud. Biuce notiung cao bo said of gold, silver, and diamonds, let us see what we have in tha way of nou-oficial nctabilities, Firet, we wiil montion Moscs Milliner, kuown everywhero, from British Columbis to the City of Mexico, &8 OALI¥QLNIA JOE. Joo ssys that he waa vornin ** Kalutoek,” but that Lie bhea done right wwnatt ** -travelin'* since thit tme. Cuator, In bis * Lifo on the Plains,” teils onough abou this wan, so 1 will ooly men- tiou that about tireo wevks ago, while I was on a ucout alter hostle Clioyennee, Jue voluntecred, aud Capt, Uawler, tho comwanding oflicer, wc- ceptod bLis we: 4. Joe, a4 usual, praved a valuable man, and upou lis return got permis xion to accomyjany tho Black Hills Expedition. Theroupon, he became so joytul that bo ab- sorbed more ‘‘hell's delight™ then he was gauged for, and, being a littie lond, Lo was igna- tninlously dismirsed. But Joe kept eilent, sud on tho foarth day after the expedition left ho was ween following the train, aod finally camo up. Said I: ‘**How is this? how came you bere?" **1 know ity agiu orders,” said he, ** but, you see, 1'd sot my hears onto it.' It's all made up, and Joo has permtusion to ro- mxam wubject to oiders from the commanding officer, A sgular oxamplo of dog-like servility with groat tunacity of purpous is a8 Tague, which Is Lis proper name, was » grass- Lopper sufferer ou the Norto Loup, in Ne- brasks, and, Like huudreds of others, had noth- g to loso. Unfortunatoly for Tagus, ho was a xivglo man, aud could not drew rations, Ho therefuro had to job around for Post-Tradar Hallidey at Fort Hurtsoff, and do a httle work at Calumus, for s Iivelihood, Haviug heard big storios about **theso dizying,” he concluded to neo them, aod, without & cens of maouoy, *‘beat™ his way to Cheyenne sud then to Fort Laramio, and, fastoning bimwself liko s leach upon tho Pout Tsader, ho has succeeded jno making his way here. Maoy men with plenty of money bave triod to get out here, in no matter wuat cavacity, und Liave beeu uuable to doso; bat “Tige,” with no money, no ecducation, no friends, no nothing but his own purpoea to gaze upon tho Golden Hills, sand then die happy, 14 here, ‘We havo another rather remarkablo character, who truthfully exemphties tho well-kuown fact that the sparse populdtion of the West is made up of men and women from all walke of Jife, from lawyers sud doctors, whom Jobn Barley- corn has sous West to grow up with the country, to proachets sud wchiooimestern, All grades aro representod ; and it 1 not uncommo to tind & cattle-horder who will discuss Greek classics avnd wsLronowy, or & wule-whacker who will not hes- atate to grapplo with Euclid’s problems. Otficers who have worn two bars in their strepy, are found boro doing slmont auylhiuy for & living, all pitablo rosulta of insuborainativa and whis~ ky. lsisatallstrauge, then, that CALAMITY JANE thonld bs Liere. Calam i dresssd in a wnit of voldicts bluo, aud stinddles & mulo equal to any profesvional blacksuake swinger iu tho army. Calamity also jumps upon a troaper's borso and nides atoug iu tho Juvks, sud gives an_otticer » oulitary with #8 much siyle aa tho First Cor- paral lo o erack company, Calam is often taken for a trumpeler, or & bugler, but Calamity fsu't any such thwog, For Calawity Jauo, or rather Jane Canary, lu s fomalo, Well, how did #ho come hore ? Calamity was a fow yoard ago tho respect- ablo propriciress of & illinery storw in Omoba, L.‘Alnult{ was good looking, avd yieldiog to drink she soon bocame a homotesy outcast, sud as s natarsl result fonnd bLerself out ou ibe froutior, repeuting for n tew mouths, and linog out to do housowors, then bLeing found oul, returniug to her vicions lifo, uatll the next perivdical Ht of ropentanca came on. Hue bau beon all ovar tho froativr, and onacversl dangerous scouts, A yeor orso aro, while out with a scouting party in the Powder River coun- try, she strayed away from the eowmaud, aud oie of the men remarkod that i would boa great calamity If sus should bo cap- tured or kilied by the indisng, he saldiers thought = that the wurd “ Calamity," waa fioad, and thiv was tho oocssion of her rocuiving the sobriquet of Calamity Jave. Bhe wanted to sso tho Ililie ; 8o douning & wuit of blue, and taking Ler brother, a lud of 18, whom she supports, with ber, she got into a Uoverument wagou, and,with the hel, of drivers aud soldiers, horu sbe is. Hor sdventuros would msko s creditable novel of Ouldu’s style. Who says that & wowsn cannot enduro hardshipy oqual to man? Alany others s70 hore who might be mentioned, among whowm {8 Col. Bullock, of Laranue, Cal, Bultock 18 w0 woll kuown asa gentleman of storiiug worth and weaith that nothing wore need be said of him. 'l'o sum up, I will ay (hat thw expedition is now upou the grouud, read for woik ; and the noxt commubicativu will ta the story of gold or no gold in the Bisck Hills. PROM THE EPANISH OF CALDERON. Ananeient esge, onoe au u time, they aay, Who Lived rewate, away frow nio at, Suataiuod biv fesble lify us Leat Lo inlght With berbw and berrios gathoeed by the way, + Can avy othicr ouw,¥ uaid e, One day, + 8o poor, 80 destttiite, a8 1 Lo found 19 Aud wiive) be turned bls head 10100k uround 310 vaw tlio auwwer : crevpiug Slowly tlore Canie 3n old kg, who gathored up wity cere Tiuo herbe waich Lie had vast upon the ground, Conant in Lurper's Mayanine for July, Chunge i1 the Color of the Hair. ® It ll-B.ulul‘l fih;'l u.\;‘ lrnun:z&\al :zl“uu numg oyel Boclety, extanding ove 3, cant o Lnnnuglmum-l chnac’n thy coler —Hilen of the human hair,—s circumstanco regarded ad conclusive that no such change Thaa ever oc curred, for, had [t over been undoubtodly wit- neasod, it is oot likely that it would iave remain- od undescribed. The most etnmant medieal writers gonfass thomaelves anawaro that, irre- apoctively of rocorded evidence, anything tn support of the popular notion on this subjoct een ba sdduced ou phyatological gronnds. It is wail known that human hair caonot bo iujected. Usiug coloring fluid, anch as a sotution of nitrate of silver and o aolution of fodino, does not pro- duce any chango of eolor nxcopt in the portions actually immeorsed. Whetlier it owes ite color to a fixed oil, Lo n peculisr Arrangemoont of ita. con- etitati moloculas, ar to ok, it resists decay in & roarkable maunar; it roalste the action of acids and alkalies, axcept tho strongest, which diesolve [t; it reaisty macoration, and oven boling water unloss for a long time applied and undor pressure, when it suffors disintegration and decomposition. are to the snn will biesch hair, but this will not account for sny very sudden change of color. The popular notion, however, i in favor of the afiirmative of this quoestion, and sotae naturalists and phyasiolo- gints adduce what they regard as oredible in- stances of halr chavging to white or gray In tho caao of persons under sirong emotions of grief or terzor. e e = Sonthern s« Indopendence,?? Nateher Weekly Demeceat, lod H-\Ig‘, strangor, you scom to ba golng to TaAriot ? Yes, air, I am." hat are you carrying that plow slong Going to send it {o Piltsburg.” o Pittaburg, in Pennsylvania 2" You're mighty right; [am.” : What sra you going to send It there for?" *To get sharponod. s Allthe way to Pittaburg to got sharpen- o3 fo “You bet! We'vo starved our blscksmith out: Lo pulled op stakes the other day and wunt to Texas," **Well, that's & rather novel ides :{ friend— sending s plow so far to get slarpened.” **Not 80 noval a8 you heard it was, We do our milliog in §t. Louw." “Iy thatso " * Yau're right it is. We usod to baven mill at Punkiovine Creax, but tho ownor gou tao paor 1o koop it op, sud wo turned to getting our grinding done at 8t. Louis." * You dou't mean to say yonsend your griat all ths way to 8t. Louis by rail 2" +1 didu’t nay nothing sbout gris—wa hain't got no ris to send. But we got our flour and meal from Bt. Louis," * I weo vou Lave a iide on your wagon,"” “Yes; our old cow died Jast weok. March winds biowed the lifo out'n her. Sendin' hor tude to Boston to get it tanned.” **All tho way to Boston ? Is not that rather ;; ensive, my friend ? The freighta will eat tho ide up.” **That'n 8 fact—cleanor than the buzzards did tho old critter's carcasa. Ilut what's tho use beln! tazed tobnild roilroads "thout youn get the good of 'om? Used to bave a tanyard over at Lickaillott and a shosmaker, too. But thoy're kerflummuxed.” * Kerflummuxed—what's that 2 1t means, gone up a spout—and twixs yoa and e, that's mighty nigh the caso with our 1t is the same old, oid story. Btate ‘hen do you oxpoct Lo gt your lesther.” ¢ *Dou’s expect to git no leather at all—oxpeot Lxl)‘gnth oes, 20mo day, mado at Boaton or there- abouts. i ;~1§-wu s misforiune o loso a milk cow, my riend,” 3 ‘¢ Not ro much 8 misfortuno 8s you hesrd it wag. Manstrous sight of whnckin'and nubinin’ & cow, aud milkin' hor night and mornin’ and getn' only about 3 quarts a day.” +* What are you going to do tor milk 2 *Beud North for it," **Bond North for mulk #" . “Yeu; conceatratod mulk aod Goshea bmi- er. **Oh! I nses the point.” “Michte muuf-thing- theze rallroads—make thom Yanon fellers do all our jobs for us now— do our smitlun', and grindin',” and tannin', and mlkin', and churnin’,” 1 see you have & bale of cotton.” * Yos, wo go our battom nickol on cotton. Bendiu’ it up to Massachuseits to get it carded, spun, and wovo, Time'll come whoen wo'll send 1¢ thera to be ginned, then we'll be happy, 3an- strous sight af trouble running thesa gins,” *'Tlnt wonld ba rathor expeueire, sending cot- ton in seod.™ ** No mora 80 than them Western fellers pa; when they send corn aast _and got s dollar bushel and pay six bits freight., Besides as I waid, what is the use of pajing for milroads "thout we use the roads 2" «You seom ta apprecisto the advantages of T 8.’ L think we oughi—we pay enough for I rackon you fatten your own pork 2" *Weil, you reckon wrong, strauger. I get them Illinoy fellera to do that for mo. It's mighty convenient, too,—monstrons sight of trouble toting a big basketful of cora three times a day to Logs ua peu,-—aspocislly whon you haw't fioz nous to tata 1t to," ahould think ko," ‘hore's ono thing lacking though to make the bumness comploto,” ‘s that ? y ought to send them hogs ready cooked, Coolun', and proparin’ wood for cookmn' takes ur & hoap of tlwe that ort by rights to bo om- ployed in tho cotton pateh. ‘I was sayin’ to my old womnn the other day, if we Misaissippi folks got our cookin' and washin' done up North aod sout by expross, we'd Lo as hiappy as ofico-hold- er.” i **Your horss in tho lead there ssoms to boe ame, 3 **Yes, neods shoeln'. If ho wasn't the ooly horse {'vo got, and I can't spare him, 1'd send Lim up where thoy made the horse shoes and neils and get him ‘shiod. Cnn’tfw such & thing dnnn’ln our parts. DPerhaps 1 can at tno de- L. ** How do you mansga ta live in your parta, my old triend *\Why, we raise cotton. My road torna off bere, stranger. Geo, Dall, back Braudy, I'm glad I you stranger,” et Rweeny'a Wife, I7tica (N, ¥,) Obserter, Bweony—whoso direct conuection with tle Tiug of robberies Las just Leen brought tolight —is living jo Paris, neithor more nor less oome municative than bo was iu the old days, That Lie'was not Riven to confidences may ba infoired from the fact that fn 1871 Twooed didn't know thst his was murned—albeit he bad been mar- ried for soveral yosrs, Concorniug Bweony's wifa thoro ia & romauce which haa never baeu told fu pring, sud which we may briefly out- line in this conuection, Thove who saw hor in hor yooth fpromounced her tho band. somost woman In the world. Her homs was in Albany. Bhe traveled abroad, aud in Romo ste wet Page, the artist, who foll prs<? sionately in love with her aud pro- olsimed hor his wife—notwithutandiog tho fack that he had suother wife liviog, Bho deverted him after » time for the compsoy of an Itulian nobleman, who gevo ber a Lome which wai s palace, and lavishnd his woalth upon Ler, Hwacny, teavollog abroad, met her and won ber heart.” Thoy were marricd, and she rolurned to this country with him, but sho did not take up lior ahode in bis New York City rusideuce. Ho fitted up w hiouse for hor on_the Hudson (Lzke Malopso ?) end there occasionally ho invited his frieuds to a dioner-party. Bul poue amoog them suspected that thu fair Lostosa was his wife, Bho Lias proved more devoted to Bweeny in his misfortones than to her other lovers in thetr prosperity. But Worth makes hor dressea. aod ufa B:uu; exchisquer 18 not exhansted. P K M Lurgo Fomllies. The editor of the Brunawick (Me,) Telegraph has been investigatiog ilie matter of the sizo of somo of the Freuch Cauadiau families omployed in tho mills at that place, and gives o fon the factu bo bLas sscertained. lie ways “Thero i3 a family at woik in the cotton-mill which con- sints of tathar and mother and twenty-four chil+ dren, sll_the children large evough beiug at work, The woman ls the fourth wife. A brother of the busband Living with his fifth wife in Moo~ treul, Las twenty-five chlldren. Tiuoco families strivod hore Jast week, to go lo work fu the mill, aud thoy namber, all told, thirty-seven perso: A ladv friend of ours, a fow days siuco, wet Freuch wonian, who, lookin, the babe iu the said to our friend, *I have got fiftcen The ouly posaible reply of the with the one babe was, * Gracious!’ Ten, and twelve, and fifteen childreu are by uo means o~ common in the Fronch Cansdisn famillos, bus twauty-four is u littio above the aversge. Arctic Exploration, The Foglish Arctic expedition takes alos about 1,000 toos of provislous, enough to I for threa yours. Every thing which will tend to tho comfort of thocrows and euablo them to amuso themselves dul the lelwure Wour fu the long days and pixhts which they will wpend in tho northiorn reglons has been prot No oxpedition hixs ever beon so compietely tled out for an Arclo vosage of discovery, sdded to tho kuow! gaiued h{ Aterican upndl.& 1t ls balia will_suable the -Boe Lsh vmum- to seach tho Fols, and 00 B0ive - !houwnpmblun.