The New York Herald Newspaper, June 13, 1871, Page 15

THE CAROLINAS. Pointed Pen Pictures from the Old North and Pal- metto States. Debt the Gordian Knot of the South—Cut It With a Ploughshare; the Sword Not Wanted, Social and Political Economy of a Caro- linian Backwoods County. The Colored Semiramis of the South. “Major” Lottie Rotlin’s Views on State Government. The Gentle Cutthroat Ku Kluxes and the Guilty Grabbing Carpet-Baggers. North Carolina Bonds—Repudia- tion Talked Of ; The Beggared Chivalry Suiky but Industei- ous—Poor Whites Miseegenating and Robbing Hen Roosis—Rich Nig- gers Running Legislatures. PAUPER LABOR AND SULLEN IGNORANCE, PORTH CsRoLiwa. RUTUPRFORDTON, N, C., June 5, 1871. y When De Tocqueville came to this country, forty years ogo, @ thoughttul young Freach aristocrat, for the purpose of studying a class of institutions opposed to his every prejudice, but which he clearly saw were in full and healthy harmony with the Spirit of the time, and were instinct with the vigor of youthtul strength, he hit upon a plan of observa- tion which has conferred immortality upon his labors, In place of dissipating nis mental energies in a cursory view of avast whole, he examined first a single part, He took a township, dissected {ts Organic political members, watched their functional Play, and, aided by an intellect, at tho same time broad in its grasp and fine and keen and delicate in ils power of minute analysis, he detected the main- spring of American political civilization, Ie then ascended to the study of the grand and complete Jabric of our istivutions as an integral whole, with @ precious foreglance of the meaning they en- shrined. Thus assisted, it is not wonderful that he wrote his “Democracy in America’-—a work still, alter half a century of life, as iresh and exhaustive and instructive a review of the genius and working | of American institutions as when tie leaves of its | rst edition were damp with printers’ ink. Ivis a dangerous precedent, perhaps, to follow; ‘but I cannot help thinking that in order to reach a correct Knowledge of the present state of Southern soclety—a society groaning in the after-agony of ater. rible war, scarcely convalescent as yet from a well nigh fatal sickness, with every check and baiance upon which its order and well-being depended shaken and disturbed, and im many cases forever destroyed—a similar method is the only thing itkely to lead to success, I Nave sojourned for a time in @ little backwoods North Carolinian village, and hope that @ plain account of its life and condi may do something towards enlightening » readers as to the true and real cause of Southern troubles, RUTHERFORDTON 4s Just thirty-six miles from a ratiroad and eighty from a telegraph station, A backwoods village, indeed, you will say! But you must not suppose that icts a mushroom settlement of a few rude plo- neers, such as may be found in abundance in the far West, On the contrary, it is quite an ancient town, and 18 rich in several historic associations, Only two miles from here still stands a weather- beaten little log house, which—then the principal structure in the county town of Gilberton—was the Briush headquarters in the Revolution; and ina corner of one of its rooms are some anil, dark, indistinct stains, the blackened vestiges of the ebbing Mfe-blood of onc of bis Majesty's oficers, Major Dunlap, who had been bushwhacked in the hills, A few miles off is King’s Mountain, the scene of asiight but, according to some historians, critl- cal engagement in that same War of Independence, At Buraot Chimneys, also, only #1x miles away, in a little triangular field condemned to a sorrowiul immortality, Was dried the first confederate regi- ment raised in the South, It is a pleasant little town, lylog oa one slope of a | Winding valley. You come upon it suddenly after wearily cumbing up and down endless li nls, over which roads of bright red earth crookediy crawl between patciies of pine and oak and biack- jack, occasionally interspersed with a little fenced clearing. gilmpse of the Blue Ridge, its outiines dimly toommg through a faint azure haze. Just as you expect soon | to pass away for good into the unpeopied wilder. ness—or rather, perhaps, just as you are dreaming of encountering @ trive of Cherokees—you come in view of the town itsel{—a single street, tall a mile in length, dark and cool even n the flercest summer heats, witn the snade of rows of thick-foliaged trees, One or two buildings stand out prominently—the Court House, with huge Grecian pillars, and the jail, with dreary, unadorned wails of red brick. The rest are ordiuary well-buiit Southern houses, with large verandahs and Mite front gardens. You notice that the fences are decayed" and broken, that the paint on the houses is dirty and faded, and that the plice breathes forth a gene- ral alr of dilapidation, It is a town, you say at once, that has seen better days. And Yankee stranger though you be, you lave bit upon a truth which every man in the country will echo, At will not take you long Oe ty TO Gki atguatnrED with everybody im the place, to make friends with the dogs and negroes and children, ani even to pecognize at sight the scores of pigs which wander on endless foraging excurstons up and down the gutters, now and then pausing for a wallow anda nap in some convenient mudhole, And a very pleasant medley of living creatures you will find the settiement to be, Sit in the rocking chatr on the verandah of your boarding house in the cool of early morning and the antunate life of the town will pass belore your eyes in a procession of cu- tlou:ly sharp-defined contrasts of color and of type. A group of ragged negro children, quiet and docile, as negro children mostly ave, on their way to school; acouple of Judge Logan's eleven olive branches, noisy and impudent after the fashion of white adolescents, seated together, aud one of thom facing the tall, on the bare back of their papa’s gray mare; a village belle, 0 simple mustin, with @& | fresh rose tn her breast; your favorite pig, with black patches, grunting wtih content, and elegantly attired in a fresh coat of wet, brown mud; three or four more pigs; he democratic editor, Who just about makes a living; the repuviican editor, lean In h, but fat witht the spots of oMce; a barefooted, hea coume of Tue teams; hvo or three horsemen; a darky on Uie traump, tricked out in hits best clotnes—a white, long tated Hinen coal, « flowered White ‘vest, homespun — pants, | wn enormous, many-folded 1 ceremef ant an old siraw hat Strang. indecd, does Uils moving panoyvama seem to the eye ol a Now Yorker, When you come to know the plac enougit you Will ‘nd t contams about 409. p tour or five lawyers. four doctor, a idee. four Now and then, but rarely, you catcha | . | nuly Pressed negro girl, with a big basket on | ;a NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNH 13, 1871—QUADRUPLE SHEET, churches, eight or nine stores, two hotels, three or four groceries and a ge of gaming houses. Yes, gaming bouses! and they are among the worst evils of the place. They are not, however, gilded saloons, sacred to faro—merely little dark, wooden houses, which you enter through the back door of a grocery, and where you can play poger and old sledge. Such is the county sext of Rutherford, which has a population of about 16,000 people, who are, with scarcely an exception, farmers aud planters. Refore the war Rutherfordton was, lor 1s size, Very wealthy, but itis now UITERLY IMPOVERISHED, In as‘sing the cause of Its present poverty you will stumbie upon the first crying evil in Its body poittic, “tow 18 1%" you will inquire, “that you haven't yet pecuniarily recovered from the war?" Various replies will be made, Some wil! assign politics as the principal cause, but the most common and the truest aud most sensible response will be that the war drained the country of all its capital of every kind—le!t it almost entirely without money or cattle, or even provisions, Worse than this, it dnan- cially leit every promiuent man—every man wo had prevyionsiy conducted tne industry of the coun- try—in a state far below insolvency. Every man had lost whatever he had, except the acres of fertile earth that the rebel officials could not impound nor the Yankees carry away, We all remember how largely Southern Dnsiness was formerly done upon credit, The traders gave long bills to the wholesale merchants in the orth, and planters, with morigages upoa the: niggers, and of extiavagant personal habits, ran headlong into debt to the storekeepers. Estates have decimed to a third of thei former value; the negroes have been spirited away by the dull but meamng verbiage of the Proclamation of Emancipae tion; the stock of the storekeeper was carried off by a couple of armies. The mortgages and debts, hows ever, still remain and hang like nancial iuilistoaes round the necks of all unfortunate debtors, Lest they should be wiped out, special legislation has tlrely driven off the poor whites to the sterile belts of country where slave labor, waich can only pay on the best laud, Was impossible, By skilful mane agement the poor wiites were la incod sill Lo politt- Cally side with them; but, at soime time ia the not remote future, the PATRICIAN AND PLERFIAN agrarian quarret in ancieat Rome wonld have been the grand problem that would have distracted An independent South, Here would have been a Jana with exactly the same framework of society as its Lattin prototype. First of all, a servile class; and above tt patrician nobles—its Jei? Davises and Wade Hamptons ana Howell Cobvs—and ils plebeian yeo- men, doomed to a sorrowful and unaiterable indt- gence. History would have repeatou itself, The Same conflict that raged for ages in the Seven-Iiflied City would have been revived beneath an American sky. Now that the war is over, this inevitavle struggle between the two casts of the South is uneasily sleep- ing, but it turns over now and then in its slumber and gives a sign of latent power, and is ready at any moment to break forth intu an active contest, Iu this county the traces oi 1t3 existence are very plain. This isa district in which there were but comparatively few negroes—only tiweaty-five per cent of the populatioa—aud yet it 1s strongly and decidedly republican, A strange tact, you say! Not atall., The wiite republican majority is made up exclusively of poor whites, ‘There is NOP A LEADING WHITE GENTLEMAN who belongs to it—not a single lawyer, nor a single Physician, ner @ stugle clergyman even, 1 first hit ou the truth by a question I happened to put toa poor white man in the court room during one of the Ku Klux examinations. The only republican law- erin the county is a shyster—a “twenty dollar” lawyer—a man, that is, Who was admitied to the bar under an act of the State which provided that, though @ man might know nothing of law, he might, nevertheless, practise it, If he pada twenty dollar license, He nad been retaine : py the government, taken ont the years of the war trom uuder the in- fluence oO! the statute of limitation. UNIVERSAL, THOUGH LATENT, BANKRUPTCY is the result, with universal lawsuits as an almost equally necessary consequence, No sooner does & man make a little cash than he is set upon by &@ dozen of bis neighbors, who hold his paper ot er haps ten years back, and they again empty his pockets to be themselves despoiled in turn in the same way, By pee consent men are rarely sold up, atact which speaks well for the humanity as well as the honesty of the people; but for five long years all the ready money in the country has been making the rounds between the pockets of the debtors anG creditors of the days be/ore the war, pausing generally, by the way, al the Court House, and wasting in bulk by legal manipulation. This Slate of ailatrs has been aggravated by a custom wiuch was formerly very common at the South, a8 11s iM all Countriés Where loug credits are an e3- tablished usage, the custom of a man geting lis Iviends to be SECURITY FOR THR PAYMENT of bis debts. In old times, wien every one was making money, it was but rarely that any oue was called upon to make good the guarantees he thus mad Merchants in good standing carelessly scratched their names on the back of thelr cus tomers’ paper, as though it cost them nothing, in+ volved no risk and was a simple form of friendship, Ynere are plenty of men here who have no idea at all of the sums for which they are thus possibly re- sponsible. Only a couple of days ago a gentleman told me that a claim of this character for several hundred doliars Was presented to him, which had been incurred ten years ago, He had supposed the dent loug ago cancelled, for it had been made before the war, but now, just as he was hoping soon to get straight and wanted this particular sum sorely to oarry on a rail road contract he had undertaken, tt came to the front to once more embarrass him, Never be- fore, | should Imagine, was a community so hope- lessly taugied up in a pecuniary Gordian knot. No- body knows what he is really worth, and if debtors’ lands and real estate were sold at their current value most people would be found to be worth a good deal less than nothing. A majority of the promivent citizens nave for five years been thus py figntng im the teeth of tnsolvyency—rolling, ike Sisyphus, their stone of debt up the hil untit tiey nave nearly reached the summit of freedom, and then been knocked dowa to the bottom again by some newly discovered obligation, Many of thea Have toid me that it they had had any tdea thi their lands would so long have remamed at a noml- pal figure they would at the close of tue war have abandoned ali they bad to their creditors and begun the world afresh, Thave dwelt thus long upon thia GENERAL FINANCIAL MUDDLE in which the district 18 enveloped, because I have no doubt the same evil prevails all over the South, and it explains the fact that these uniortunate States, in spite of the manly way in which many of their citizens ave met tuelr didiculiies, aud in spite, Lov, oO! the Money that has beed poured Into them for cotion and produce, are recovering s0 slowly fromm the ruin or the war, This is one of the troubles of tLe south, that, though \ar more press ing than the Ku Klux gnestion or negro sutlirage, has never falrly been kept before Northern eyes. Ji is, however, + trouvle which you hear of peate when you know a Southern man well enougia to tal to im about something else than politics, And it Will press upon you all the more sadly and foretbly wheu you further remember how honorably Soati- ern traders have endeavored to clear oif ely scores to Northern firms, Until Lihus understood the situation Iwas guilty of a very natural injustice to Southern mea. Tae fivat thing a Yankee hears, as s0.n as he crosses Mason and Dixon's llue, wherever his fect may stray, 1s, “We want MEN OF CAPITAL down here to develop the country; we can never rise alo va generation from the destitution mto which We have been plunged.?? ‘Men of capital,’ you reply, with Northern spirit; ‘nonsense! They me ail very well in their way— very useful and necessary, no doubt—but you have brains to plan and hands to work, Why don’t you do as the people in the new Siates in the West have done—why don’t you manuiacture your own mil. lionnaires? Energy and industry are the only foua- tains of wealth. There are towns in the Wesi, now rich and prosperous, which never had a singie set- tler with a thousand doliars to his pame, . Put your shoulder to the wheei and you will soon thrive.” When you have made some such speech as this your Southern friend will shake his head and re- main sient. But “Good Heavens!’ he will say to Dimseli, “haven't lworked hard? Haven L racked my brains to make every dollar that my lund could produce? Haven't | lived poorly, and my wife and my daughters and myself worn old clothes, aud my ns Kept home at work instead of going to school and college? Aud yet here 1 am, in just avout as pitiable a PHOUNIARY DILEMMA as Twas at the surrender.” Perhaps, too, he may Add, with a good deil of reason also, x00 voc-— “Th ge infernal Yankees sent down their blue coats to ruin us, and now they despise us because we are oor”? ie ‘The true reason, therefore, why the South docs not prosper {s that she 13 groauing under an iacnbus of debt which seems almost immovable, and which, at | any rate, 1t will take years and years to roll away, espectaily in the face of the heartiess and wickea pe+ cunlary oppression ot the harpies mto Whose hands Congres: has cofinded the State governments, Just now, When economy ought to be the primary object of humane routers, the taxes are, as a rule, three or | four times what they were before the war. The more you study the question the more will this pecuniary | aspect of Southern duiicuities grow upon you. Only | yesterday I fairly shuddercd as L heard that three | percent per month for small amounts is the com. | mon interest on good collateral out tn tils district, ! and even five per cent is occasionally offered, Men | of Wali sticet—you who paid a half per centa day | for three terribic days last December—you at ienst know weli that forty to sixty per cent per aanum means | GENERAL RUIN. |, Just realize the terrible strait of a man who is | forced to thus commit hari-kart and Ginanctaily d | embowwel himself or else consent to see his lands— | the last straw to which he clings in the nope of | brighter days—sold away from him for taxes, It | would not have taken yery much to have provoked sober business men in New York to Ku Klux, witt | the ard of a Lamppost the hall adozen greedy mul- | Honnaires who last Christinas locked up money in | the vaults of the banks. And I scarcely think it | would be puiittc for the men who, for their own ad- | yantage, added millions to the public debt of North | Sarolina aud buried het beneath & load of oblura- | tions heavier than she can bear; who dispensed her bonds in New York houses of ul-fame and swamped | the street with them at twenty-five cents on the | dollar—f do not think it would be poiliic or prudent for them to come out here in the backwoods, The Ku Klux have now disbanded, Lam told, but some means of ven- egnce might stili be found, evea by LBL pe ag 80 Sraderiy And peaceable and goor-natured as the people of North Carolina, to make them rue their crimes. Oppression becomes intolerable in any country when it takes the last dollar out of te pocket, the last acre of the hereditaiy domain. Tn this same connection I have some rather start- ling intelligence for the holders of NORTH CAROLINA BONDS, 1 have seen most of the leading men in this county, and they ail profess theinsolves in favor of moditied repudiation. They say it 13 Luposstile for the Suite ti fil the obligations which she has recently in- curred, Her old debt of something under twenty nuliions was mostiy held against raliroads, ana per: Naps its holders would consent to take the interest ‘of the State im these railroads in ‘full payment, The fifteen = miilions of — debt — incurred | wince th war has not ylelded the Staie prooably more than thirty per cent of its nom- inal amount, This, it Js proposed openly, should be repudiated, or at least compromtsod on some rea- | sonable basis. ‘rhe men who talk thus are person- ally ax honorable American gentlemen ag can bo | found the Unton. They de: fend the policy they | advocate on the ground that the state is bankrupt, | and that you cannot get blood out of a stone. Living here a thoaght(ul maa soon discovers | ANOTHRE SOUKCR OF TROUB! : which has not been brought out sufficiently In North. ern criticisms on the South, We have wisely learned now that the war of the rebellion was @ struggle be- | tween two opposite forms of civilization, The south, | Ulanks to its heritage of cavalier blood, aud aided by the accident of slavery, Was endeavoring to rear up | a poriect system of aristocratic government oa the | model of the ancient siave republics of Greece North, trae to ite backbone of Puritan ancestry, Was still Roundhead and | domocratic in its Instinete, We know, too, that Tho South, even tf had gained its indepeadence, would have ineviteoly, sooner or later, been es 3 jointed in ita purpose, As is happening to-day in | 4 das must infailioly happen under every stocratic form of government, all the wealth pro- | duced by {8 labor and all its lauds would have year by year beon concentrated tn fewer and fewer hands, Ther provess had alrearly been carried very far woen tue war broke out A smail mingeity of jarge pianters were constantly adding tract atter tract of land to tielr estates, aud had Almost ea- and Rome, Toe And was grossly misinanaging the cause, “If you wait @ conviction,” said I, “why don’t you hire a good lawyer? ‘The case hus got no slow with an ignoramus like that.’ The man turved and satd in reply, with a bitter- ness I shall not eastiy forget, “We don't want a con- Viction if we can’t get it without the help of tiis legal aristocracy, I'd jast as soon be Ku Kluxed as put a stop to it by neip like that"! After that I talked to every poor white [ met, and T questioned the landed leaders of the district about this seme unortunate ciass. It needs but ilttia acuteness to discuver how wide 1s the gulf between the two, The “POOR WIITES” make up fifty per cent of tie population of the South, ‘Thanks to siavery, they teil 1uto a heart rending state of poverty and misery and degrada- tion, moral and social, in which they are still steeped to the lips, With a few exceptions, no lien Of kindness binds them to Lhetr luckier neighbors, thougu In districts where the negroes are in the ma+ Jority, or nearly so, a common hatred of a black skin and woolly hair brings about a temporary union, Where the negroes ure in the minority the “poor white” reiuses so unnacural aa ailiance, and turns repuvlican for mere spite, as has liappened In this county of Rutherford. Aud who can biame him? ‘fhe rich white says. that his poorer brother has lost ail self-respect, that his women take up with negroes (which is a sadiy frequent fact, at least out here), and that he is & Worthicss scoundrel, who, although he fought des+ perately and well for the Lone star flag, now lives yy stealing chickens, A Nortuern visitor will, per- haps, say t & man witia white skim ts pever beyond hope of redemption. ‘Redemption” will ve the answer, “It will take centuries to redeem SUCH TRIFLING TRASH as that, Why? very decent negro man despises him, and he knows it’ The poor white, when questioned, has very little to say for himself. He is too devased to have more than a sort of blind in- stinct about his own wrongs, aud if you 100K like a respectable inan—as, for instance, & HERALD cor- respondent—he aistrusts you too much to tell hits real sentiments, even if he were able to do so. When I heard that aasweri the dingy court room { fancted—and, knowmg what I do now, L sconrgings, and now and then even by the summary and cruel ve! auce of an impromptu gallows? Besides, the men-who thus live in unholy bonds of Aiheit pleasure are aimiost always the same men who do most of the chicken stealing. Interest as well as virtuous indignation conspire to rouse tie Southern blood to the whipping point. r. ‘There is also anoiter side cause for the POPULARITY OP KU KLUXISM among the Southern better classes, Kvery one who as been South and who has watched the tustincts of the people knows their childish love for the ro- manic and the terrible, This feeing speaks out Plainly tn the frequency of the mimte tournaments, with their Old World mummeries, which stir now and then the puise of every Southern town. It speaks no less plainly in the Kaightiy imagery of the speeches On the memorial day of tue rebel dead, And it 1s also one great inspiration of the Ku Kiux, Dress out @ Southern youth in the disguise of Herne the Hunter, fire his’ imagiation with the mystic ceremonials of the Rosy Cross or the ancient Vehinegericht, and you have made him capable of doing anything at alt with a pickory stick, and per- baps even of murder, Bright and tierce and fekle {4 the South, sings Tennyson, Lead the poor boy forward by sole captivating Will-o’ the wisp such as 1 have Suggested, aud tor the moment his heart wtil be stirred to its innermost depois; he will burn with the desire to do something desperate and horrible. Luckily, however, this is & weakness which, like these avsurd tournament displays, could be laughed: out of him by a dose or two of Northern ridicule, But how about the a) INTOLERANCE OF NORTHERN MEN? Well, so far as intolerance of mea, simply because they are “Yankeos,” gues, it has no existence; but 8 uthern men are themselves divided into two oppo site social camps by politics, and a Northern man, if he comes down here, will have aiso to socially mingle only with those tioliing is own opinions, ‘In 8 few very small towns North we have almost the same Uuing; politics and religion are the onty intellectual pursuits of the population, and separate them into Opposing cliques. Lu tue South religicn is for the nonce in a state of peacelul repose, and politics reigns supreme. But perhaps the reader will say, “How 1s that? you have already said that papiic spirit is dead.” So ib is; but politics in the South now Means on one site a struggle ior a new lease of dinancia! planter, Aud on the otner permission to reiupse into the quiet of peaceful industry. It is, however, a great misiortune that politics thus holds such supreme sWay over the Southern mind; and it 1s hard to say how it cua be avolled until the State is again weil governed. Perhaps a great religions revival might do a great deal in this respect, and the Gospel would share the power, If 1t did not de- stroy altogether, the reign of politics over the South- ern mind, A Northern radical, if he comes South, must herd wiih-radicals and radicals oniy; just as an atheist or a Papist 1a a New England village in old tunes would have been condemned to social ostra- cism by all who clung to the Shorter Catechism and the doctrines of the Keformation. [ant sure, how- ever, that there ts no special hatred of Northern Men in the South, nor evea of Northern habits of thought, Any Northern man who does not mix in polities and Who wishes to lead a reputable life will 2 welcomed With the traditional wospitality of & Southern sk. That might be the case even if he were only a “moderate” republican, But the mo- ment he became a yiolent radical, and, after tne fasion of vioicat radicals, talked incendiarism to the darkles and lived with a couple or more negro con- cubines he would be “seut to Coventry.) ‘That ts about all the oft-charged ostracisim of joyal North- ern meu amounts to, Only “TE ETERNAL NIGGER’ is now left to close up tiis already lengthy letier, aud [think I will discusshim at length on a future occasion, All [will say about hun vere is that, 1D my judgment, he is by 10 means s0 great an evil as he ts represented. Perhaps the number of vicious: poor Wlites 1s quite as great as Ue muuber of vicious niggers, aud the primary cause of mischief in bota cases ts ignorance aud poverty and the loss of sell-respect that follows in thew train. The nigger, u leit Lareeneg A to iimseif, would do very litte harm, and as a laborer, though he fails far below thiax 16 was no idle fancy—that I heard an echo of tho same spit that has filled the gutters of Paris With blood, and strewn corpses upon its tro! ‘3 and destroyed its palaces—the same spirit whose incarnated spectre ha ants the dreams of every king and noble, and priest and millionnaire in Euro) the same spirit that spoke through the lips of Wen- eu Phtilips only the other day, when he unfurled he banner of anew issue in American politics, Here, on our own soil, restieasly waitlng to break into activity, we Lave the spirit of the Communes, When it does break out it will very probably attack these same ir IMMENSE LANDED ESTATES, to which the Soucnera upper c' 23 still citng so tenaciously, pouthern men say they would like to sell-their iands, but there is no to buy them even at abgurdly depreciated prises. In some cases this is No doubt trae, Lut the superstition—for it is nothing short of a superstiiion—in favor of pro- perty in real estate still unhealtiily lurks.in ine reasts of tite larger majority of the oid noblesse. And as tings are at present there can be no doubt that these vig estates are a terrible evil, The mea Who told them, for reasons that I have already plat |, have no capital to Lop thety resour and rich soil, taat woud break forth into smiling elds of plenty under the hands of a small owner, lie idie and silent In the gioom of the primeval forest, wile a paten of sandy, sterile land near by— the only tand he has been able to buy or get—oarely rew: ti aseanty living the labor of the Waite, The proprietors of Uns county have largely adopted THE RENTING PRINCIPLE, common in the South of France, and known there 3 Lie “inessenger” tenmve—that ts, they tet a maa have land on condition of receiving a hail hid o! the harvest, according to lis value, But some- how or Other this system does not seem to be very popular wick the poor wattes, We, wao live Norch, Know tho reason why; but Southern men don’t, and complain of it ag a great nardship. It 13, of course, the same prejudice against the rental system, which will always be the rule in @ democratic country, and which, if our lustitutions are to be permanent, wiil ever exist in the mint of an American freeman, Surely a question such as this—how to farm all the good soil ta the South before taking to tae poorer parcels—a question so closely touching the material Prosperity of the country, ought to be deepiy studied, If the men who own good land cannot cultivate tt, some plan ought to be adopted to throw it into productive Rands. In Ireland the Briush government passed the “Encumbered Estates act” for a similar purpose, ght not the State buy the lands irom their present owners at @ fair appraised vaiue and sell them in smail farms to settlers, taking payment for them in a term of years, and requiring the soll to be im- proved to & certain value? ‘There ts another evil that springs from the pecu- liarly impoverished condition of the country—ine LOW PRICE OF LABOR. You can hire a white man here for eight or ten dollars a month and his board and a negro for a couple of doliars less, Some negroes, indeed, get very much less, ney hire onc out very fre- quently on a rather origina prinelye—so “many bashels of corn a year, ‘the best of them get a hundred, the rest “trom seventy all the way up. Now, corn this year is worth at the farm avout sixty-five cents the busi so, at that rate, the laborer 1s a good deat ‘worse off than at a fixed rate of wages, especiaily as he has to board himsef, A Southern man wiil tell you, When congratulated on these favorable terius jor help, that itis sach poor heip that It 1s dear atthe price. Bat when was low pr ever reatly cheap? Low priced lah however, and the low standard of living of Which it Is the cause, cannot fail to work the greatest mischief in apy community where It ¢: dhe workman becomes, 1u the absence of material comfort and refinement, a mere beast of burden, and he passes into crime by a terribly easy transition. Perhaps the reader bogins to wonder whether I sha'l ever come to the troubles about Which he has heard most—the enconqnered rebel spirit ot tie Southern people, their ntolerance of Nortuern emi- gration, the eternal nigger and the Ku Kiux ques. tie Weill, they are about the only things lel to speak about, and so I will attack them tu tara, Speaking for this district, | can youch for tue LOYALLY OF THE PUPULATION. « They vory largely went ito the last war reluct- anily—at least a masorily of them—aud have not got the slightest idea of ever going ito anotier, They are sorry Uiey did not succeed, but is It reasonabie Wo ask that they should not be? All (hat is neces- sary to require 18 Obedience to and respect for the government. Love tor the fag Is a flower of silent aud slow growth—one, Coo, that cannot be forced as anexouc. So far irom wishing again to rebel, there 13 in many of the people a total indispostiion to make any sacrifice of any kind tor any public op- ject. The sontimeat of pasrlotism has died out; the people simply ask to be alowed to live in quiet and peace, Lam speaking now, oficourse, of the better class of whites—the imen who made the war, Here and there may ve found & hot-beaded fool who airs his undying devotion tothe “lost cause,’ but he is a rare exception. It 1s wu curions fact, however, that all the people still cherish respect and affection for the bestof We Southern leaders. Jef Davis 18 still a liagic Name, and the memory of Lee is worshipped. Bul tits springs more from the feliowship of mis- ery and the fecling that these men and their kind are the representatives of their caste than from any- thiug else. It does not mean, and never could grow into meaning, a revival of tue rebellion, ‘As to the Ku Kinx question in this district, all the ontrages that L ‘¢ mvescugated, as | have a.ready stated in previons letters, have been caurely non- political. I have already alluded to the d ded condition of the poor whties, and I can only say about the negroes that, while a majority of them ave orderly and industrious, there {8 @ victous mi- nority who are the very curse of the community, who steal fora living and rape and murder for ainusenent, Misery, poverty, tho lowness of wages and aa intellectual darkness, both among poor Waites and blacks, that to a New Yorker with o proper respect tor the memory of De Witt Clinton 18 Stimply terrible, are responsible for this sad demor- alization. One specially horrible fact among these classes now ts the Widespread practice of ifantl- cide, Miseegeuation and every form of LOOSR MORALS a heard very common. From what T have heard — and oF costae apersonal examination of se ques tion Would be tedious and unpleasant—there are far more horses of ti fame in tus county, ta propor- tion to ita population, than im the clly of New York. Tn a society Such as this the better classes of whales have been, and are, at their wits’ end to Know how to keep order, The local anthorities have byt one iea—to Keep np tie republican majority toa decent level. It is of no purpose, therejore, apply to thems ana what_retuge Is there excedt in tne rude, Wild fustice of Judge Lyach, Under Whatever name he may be incarnate’, whether Ku Kiux or the White brotherhood ‘The spagraclo ot aa unMatiral And open commerce boiweep & White and a negegrd as reyoiting to the eyes Of & well bred Southerner as 2 the Caucasian standard, he is very useful. Alreauy the hold ot the rep; ans upon him is wanlog, oud it will be @ great blessing Lf It decays altogetier, sion I met him by chance at the hotel which was Tuled over by a gentleman whose breath, being naturally offensive from the use of stimul ood pelled hin to use raw onions as a counter trrttant, T sald, “Sam, have you brought me an answer from Miss Rotlin?? Lazy and stupid youth Fore God, massa, I tink T lose my mem’ry, shuan, yessa'day dat you was to come at your own kun- Venens and pleasha; and she say dat you must ’xcuse her for not sending a note ‘cos she would ixplain when you come. Beg pardon, sah, got berry bad mem’ry, ‘fore God, I hab’? Findtag such exquisite politeness on the part of these young ladics, I deemed it proper to take @ in Columbia, the bottom having almost rotted away with hard usage, and the horses being of that breed which ts known to the marines as the “Nonesuch.” Back of the uncompleted pile of granite which is known as the South Carolina State House is a flac street, very wide and shaded with spreading oaks, Whose branches at this time of the year are laden with green foliage. Crossing this street 1s another still as wide and less shaded, buco lined with white frame cottages, all having pleasant verandas. It was the evening hour, before dinner, and here and there some few of the scions of the oid South Carolina families were to be seea riding on blooded horses, the only chattels left to the once proud Southern houses to remind them of their former Wealth and station. Occasionally a weaithy carpet-bagger rode by behind a dashing team, the harness, fresh from New York and = = Boston, and gilttering with garish splendor, Lt was significant to notice the glance of contempt and impassible indimerence vouchsufed by the proud and poor South Carolinian, tn his old, Dbroken-down equipage, to the magnificent carpet- bagger’s, and then to see the stolid, straight ahead Stare of the South Carolina lady as she passed her Northern sister more fortunate than herself in a worlaly point of view, Icalied to the driver as he dashed throngh the streets, and the bottom nearly fell out of the car- riage. Isaid:— “Are you sure you can find the residence of the Misses Rollin ?”” The darky grinned and shouted back through the dust and din created by the wheels, while the perspiration poured down his f: “Ob, yes, sah. Here we am now, Dts yer white house,’ pointing with his whip to a respectable looking irame residence, shaded by trees, sur- rounded by a railing in good preservation and ha ing the inevitable plazza in fron, The hour had come. 1 pulled on a pair of fragtie white kids and jumped our, telling the driver to wait for me, as 1 Jooked like a storin, The clouds were gathering in great banks over the Lexington hills the sun Was setting in the bed of the Congaree, and the skies, which were heated ali day in the briliancy of jasper and purple aud gold, had now an angry look. Pulling back the wicket I entered an eaclosure and made my way up « flight on steps to the hall door of the Rollin nfansion aad pulled at the bell handle, Ina few moments I heard light footsteps tripping through the jail and the door was opened to ie by a beautiful girl in a graceful, coot white robe. I thought of the old Scotch baliad as 1 looked upon this gurl— Ob, she’s fatr and she fs rara, And she is wondrous bounte, There's nane wi’ hor that can compare, Llove her best of ony. ‘The girl was about fifteen yeara of age, having a figure moulded in the best outiines. Her face was the negro 1s coutent to accept a subordi- nate position, though no doubt he may be egged on by designing men lico forming, a5 has happened in the eastern part of tus State and in South carolina, & “black man’s party.” There 18 stl 1a a majority of cases a tle of aficction between the ex-slaves and the ex-musters; and atthe 1ast election here an old nigger, Who is respected by all the district, weat to his democratic master and begged @ gack of corn and then voted the republican tcke, Nothing was satd vevwveen them abvat politics; the master kuew how he was going to vote and did not attempt to stop him; and yet tue asked for aid was given. Tue ne- groes have, however, got it into thei’ WOOLLY, EMPYY HEADS that if they don’t vote the republican ticket they wiil again ve made slaves, and they don’t wish that, thouga they still love the men’ whose corn aud bacon have for the mosi part made the flesh and blood aud bones they are even now wearing, No doubt ths airican question Is one of the priaetpal problems of the South, but, I betteve, if the country again becaine orderiy and prosperous, it would fade Jaurther and fariner away into tie baskground aud Would find its own solution. And now, having read over what T have written, Tam conscions taat | have given but an incomplese picture of tue state of aiairs, even in this Mitie microcosmic representative of the South, F can ouly hope that I have brought fairly imto view, though imperfectly, what 1 em sure are the grand sources of trouble—tue pov ud aemoralization of the people, Social, not politcal, duficulties now drag tie South down and keep iti its present de- ploravle condition, and if this is suficiently recog- mized we siall svon cease apviying acis of Congress aud legisiative “ioyal” swindiers as the appropriate remedy. 1t wil take &@ generauion or two to raise the South to tho Nortnern level of comfort and order, and we can best lead up to so happy @ resuit by patienuy letting universal education and that Jove of prosperity which is common alike to whites and blacks bring tt about, We caunot retard it more tian by treating the South as we do now—as @ political lasue, a something to keep the machinery of parties in active working order. Good and nobie men ought at once |) (denounce such wicked trifling with the happiness of nuilions of their brethren and Kinsmen as ag ungenerous, Shameful and iniquitous cruelty. SOUTM CAROLIAA, CoLumBta, S. C., June 7, 1871, Dulaure, somewhere in his memoirs of the trou- blous times of France before the Revolution of °89, telia the story of Mme. Marechate, who, upon being informed by her confessor that all created beings haying immortal souls were responsible, whether serf or noble, to the Alumghty for thelr doings, and would be punished alike, answered wittily In de- tence of her order, “Depend upon it, sir, God thinks twice before damning one of our quailty.” Andeleven years ago had some individual, with @ preaching fervor upon him, entered the hall in South Carolina where the ordinance of secession Was about to be passed and told the signers of that famous paper tbat the fil (hat they were doing would live aiter them, aud that 1y one way or another those of tieir biood and kindred would suffer for Secession, and that a new and to them aneaer order of things would arise to confound and— prise them, they would perhaps have laughed and auswered in the spirit of the Lady Maréchaie. And strange things have come to pass in the Pal- metto State, such that if the McDuiies, Calhouns, Pinekneys, Khetts and others of the bygone plantation noblesse could be permitted to rise from their graves would send them back to the shades with thir cere- ments folded around thelr facesia horror aud dis- bellet of their possibility, Most wondrous of all the changes in South Caro- lina since the close of the civil war is the influence that women have gained tu poiftics and the airection said the lady. i [ i have tdat honoy Mademoiselie,” Tansyeered. of the negroes, who du nincteen-twentieths of the voting of the repubitcan party in this unbappy State. In periods of transition and chaos, as, for Instance, during the French and our own Revolutions, and as in the case of the late Paris Commune and in the wars of the Fronde, women of tact, piuck, education and experience haye always governed masses of men. France had her Madame de Tencin, Madame du Defand, Madame de Genlis, her Theresa Cabarrus and her Madame Roland, The War of Independence produced such women as Mra, Robert Morris and the herote soil Pitcher, These ladies won their reputation m the salons, the closets of diplomacy. and amid the charging cheers of battle. And South Carolina is not to-day without her fem- intne celebrities, albert they may not be of the ortho- dox and Caucasian shade of skin. South Carolina rejoices in two sisiers, giffed alike in the manage~ ment of a pilabie Senate and House of Kepresentie#! ourtain correspondent tat tives—I refer to the Mademosselles Katiartu Euphrosyne and Charlodte Rolin, These two ladie: for ladies tiey are in manner and education—are ; aiso of the Gallic race, but of the mixed Haytien branch, Which produced Christopher Dessatiaes and ‘Toussaint l'Ouvertiure. 1 had oiten heard of these famous sisters, but doxing my sojourn In Youth Carolia, had never scen them. Hearing of their power and influcnce among the black andAvnite legislators, and having their names dinned lay after day in my ears, I reit {t incumbent, as apart of the dutics of the HRaLn Commis-ioner 4m the South, to call upon trem. Accordingly I “penned the following note te, Miss Lottie Rollin, While in Columbia, and awayed pa- Uontly tor an answer:— To Miss Lottie Ronin. RSV. P, ‘The negro youth whom LMespatchea with the mis- it would be In the eyes oL Dr, Darwin, Itis somotuing Worse than incest; hanks fo bie plane of heattalty. Cau jou wouder tant he resents te bY “madatehe sive,like all negro youths that f have metin the South, with but few exeenitous, was both lazy and stuotd. 4a. | Moses, the Adjutant General of the State, askiug | al someihing we may bave said, and tis of that peculiar hue which comes from the admix- ture of pure white blood with the mniatto, and results in the quadroon. Her eyes were alinond- shaped, lusirous as moonlight; her teeth were white and shapely; a warm red blush mantied in her olive cheeks, and @ smile played around the diapte ip her ehio, ‘Tats was Miss ‘97, Touise Rollin, the youngest but one of four sisters. I stated the purpose of my call anu faa aoa *he " young lady my card, which she took with a pleasant | smile aud satd:— “Oh, you are Mr. of the Hiprato? My sis- ter Lotile expected you and will see you presently, Please step into the parior aud give me your hat and 1 will rest it? 1 walked in, and, while my hat was betng properly hung on tie rack, entered a parior on the Lett of the hail whieh had an open window looking out ou a garden in Which chickens, hens and pigeons, as wall aga few pet canarics, were disporting them- selves. And in the garden I saw a fountain, whose waters were plashing musically in the dying sunset. ‘The younger Miss Koilin moved abouc in the room Wile waiting for her sister to appear, arranging the music on a fine prano, Which occupied a corner of the room. ‘The centre table was covered with hooks and magazines. A copy of Byron lay half open on the table, and a number of the Atianic, With a volume of Gail Hamuty works and another of Miss Louisa Alcow'a, were In clove and loving contiguity, ‘The secne Was a pleasant one, such as is only met with under the Southera Gross, The chirping of the cricke!, the bloating of the harmiess bullfrog and the singing of the pet canaries, all combined to influence the HERALD Commissioner, as the greenish and wooded heights of the hills began one, by one to fade into obscurity. "Tye night. ‘The shaile of keep Obseurely dance on silver s And on the wavo the wacder’s Ia checkering the moonlight beam, Fades slow therr light; the east fs grey ; he weary warder joa is tower; Steeds snort, unconpled staghounde And merry hunters quit the bower. Lheard the rustle of a trailing dress, and, looking toward the entrance of the parlor in the fast- gathering dusk, saw a female form entering. “This 18 my sister Lotite, Mr. —,” sid Miss Marie Louise Roilin, and boi ladies bowed, Miss Maria Louise passing out of tne parlor at the same inoment, s And now I was face to face with the Madame de Tencin of South Carolina, Whose power of persua- sion ta the lobby of a Legislature fully eqnals that of the redoubtable Barber, of Albany fame. ‘The figure of Miss Lotue, though not so correct in outie as that of Marie Louise, was yet not devoid of grace and suppleness. Miss Lottte’s hair was just a lutie and but avery hittle kinky; the hatr of Marie Louise ripple Miss Lottie had the skim of a mulatto, aud lv was-sightly trecktod. Trose from my chair aud made a profound hor, which was returned with equal profundity, aad Miss Lottle took a seat near the Wiudowv. ‘ou are Mr, ———, of the HEALD, | presume and spire ny You speak Freneh, perhaps?” sail Miss Lot “Buc siignuly.” ott 14a chasminafianguage. te Janguage of grace | and of poetry. Yoo wil pardon ioe for not returnin, awritten answey to your very courteous note, have reasons for At—not having the pleasure of your acqnaininace. ‘My confidence nas been abasea by one newspaper ‘man, | was interviewed, without my permission or authority, and L aim ‘thereiore compelled top 4 careful. ‘ emols jie,” answered the AERATD Commi: I she Ji not abuse your confidence, and it supposed to stoner, only because yourgelf and sister are a t the legfsiatave destinies of the State of South Carolina thag 1 yenwure at all to call upou you in any case." case. a ou ‘iatter fine and my famils, sir,” said Miss Lotiie, With a‘yapld glance at the wYiter, and a sight and NOt @npieasing sinte. ‘The sky a¥0¥e became suddenly darkened, and the siorm.deseg aded from the hulls, The deafenin, discharges. @.° heaven's urtiliery came fast anc tiiek, craso4w,; in our ears, and the forked light- ning flashed 9 ividly, while the rain descended in tor- rents. ‘ “[ do noq like the lightning—I am yery much afraid of t= fet us go im the other parlor,” sald Miss Lotue, riesiig from her seat with an unduiatin curve, Wa crossed tac hall and entered another parior, WM ch was hung with choive pictures and engraving s A well-stored bookcase filled one cor- ner of th room, and some six or eight portraits of aman od twenty-eight or twenty-nine years of age, with ey ight inustacke, @ dorned the walls, Obsery- ing mev.o regard the various portrais of this ind!- vidual, Miss Lottie langhingly remarked, "That Is Seuaty » Melntyre, @ White gentleman from Colleton oy Whom the newspupers will have it, 1s ea- gage¢, to me to be married. 1 think it 1s outrageous twat! newspapers should pry tato such matters Lt is uy ny opinion but a very small business, and i we ‘were white ladies—tiough [ believe the best biotd of South Caroltua fows in our velns—1 do not Aly ak that such an outrage could be permitted, bo ¥¢.a think so, sirt”? * “1 believe it to be very bad taste to mention such Ai tel Miss Lottie,” 1 answered, feeling it be nevessary that I should now and then get ma word edgeways. “it was reported that we had written a letter to a he showd not men- had written & letter to Mr. Frauk /tion that we him for his good oices to ‘fix a claim’ of $1,300 for school epee | I think that such scandalous pro- ceedings should not be tolerated.”” “Did you or your sister write the letter tn qaes- tion?’ T ventared to. ask, “NO, SU show or identify such a@ letter In our pandwritag.” “But was the lecter written at all”? “IC it was written It was forged by Frank Moses and General Jona Dennis. Tucy were possibly mad ropabie Twenty-four hours after I had sont hivi on his ais: | Missy Rollam tole me | carriage of the sorry sort which 1s to be procured | Tt world pe impossible for any man to | 15 although I think him to be very mean and treachere ons now—and he used to write us anumoer of hotes (with @ slight langh), Here 1s one whien L Will show you, togive youan idea of lis fecliuga. | He ws of J | the first rebel ag on Gov- error Pickens? privat Ww, of course, | he ta changed, | _ Miss Lottie then showed ti stoner the fol! times having Henao Commis- Wiig letters, wich, afier a family ousuitation, subsequently ho was allowed to copy MY Dran Miss Lorrre at ploawurs | totorward you your appsial | have gotton for you a large: anlar Thad read the letter aloud tus on | Louite remarced, Baythe res = “On, he!s ve | Englisn. He ti I comtinued:~ but falled, | T trast, howover, ‘ peciinr ant old-tasiioned in his MDKS 1S 30 Odd; and Leo's so eau.’ that you may a ‘onnt the post. toa with even this pay. Ik'is very picasint to ue to no at ¥ auslstange to you, both on your own account and ae the Lerin-law of # inan whoa frondsiiy Cesteea # Ligh y. “He means General Waipper, 0 brigadier general of State militia, tf | og~ toa, and married my sister, 5 % Sho is tue oldest of the girls and ay amt Wrote the Ife of Major Duc thin’ book, aud dou’t amount to much,’ rupted. Ll again rea May I ask that you witl be kind enongh to report to tthe earliest moment practtervie, ant thu moat reapeotfuly and aldoare:y, Kd. MO3c8, r agula Luter ‘You notice what strange and oddly fashioned Eng.ish Frank Moses uses, do you net? And here Js Mus letier of recommendation of ue to the Gover- RO a @ noble yentemun, and my candidate for the Presideac: To His EXon..excy im Govrevor:— commend that the payof Miss Rollin, eased to, 1M per month, Most ¥ LOSES, Jt. ath Caroliua A'Yutant and Laspector General il May, 17, y Approved—R. K, Born, “You see how friendly jp was In those times. Now Iwill show you the letter of Governor Seott, the noblest of t 1 all, APpoLMte a2. i read a letter, of Which, as in the other oases, E give a fatihiul copy :— Srarr or QUTIVE DEPARTMENT Miss CHARLOLTE Rou! Ux Charie im You are hereby appointed to tawe charge of the enrolment TH OAROLINA WEA, June 5, 1269. fi Of the milliia under the orders of the Adjutant and Inspector General, aud will at once, on the receipt of tis order, report 4 officer for duty, You a in the offlee not to 4 those invol at sevent 18 hereby tix appropriation nd now 1 will show you the letter from which Kate came by the tile of *inajor,’ albhoagh it was F Wito Had the oMe2, Still we were both in the ment office.” Miss Lotue then allowed me too the tollowing Lett jeneral’s Do, ment, is li lered to report fav duty at ouce to Minton, Untet Clerk A.'and [, G, O- kB, ELLIOT, Col. and Aas, Adj. Gen, 8, Ce “You may see what a burry Hitioit was In, and you may be sure he ig. as mean’ as Mosea. In ‘Tact, our family never condesceuded to nottce Such smalh people as Kibout or Watpper, ailaough Why per mai our. sister bes ded Miss Lottie, “They are botit negr and our family 19 French, We do nol, however, clata ‘any Kindved, a3 has been stated, with either Ledtu Rollin or Kollta the histurian, Our family has been misreprented most atrociously by carpet- baggers and evil-utmded negroes, and men of owe own Colo! race, for whom we have labored, spoken and written, bave never come forward to deicad us as they should have don We ail believe in Woman’ rigits and have had the assistance of the bestand pare » GHA Hyt the noisiest of our sex, Let tt be sufiicieat to show you, sir, a letter fiom Miss Lucy stone, a good aad bonorable lady to us. Tt is Impossivle thata Woutan of her cuaracter should pond With our iauuly if we Were What imean ag White ine v bels and treach- erous and tagrat ius.’? and her cheeks DEAR am very g dave Unferta&en the formation of ans, Oy State soc! todo your beet to help women. We wilt publish your cali and send you copt the Wows Jow~ ve for distibution at your Convention. We will aso send you ‘of which you will find aform of con of ser toe It you should it you form wauciety make ft “ausiliary to tke American Wo- thin ie indpsrguap. und may eave tore ‘any Of peeaul LOWS 1O ony OWat present. We aro 80 overworked that we do not know Row to take an aided ounce. Do now be at iraged by small beginnings, aur by opposition. ‘Remember. that 8 tries to against you I wy to his anoual mcasege; 80 all tl ood. E will come down at bome tutuce tiv With cordial sympaliy Lremain yours tor the women's: Causey LUO rt STONE. “What's your opinion of the lave Taxpayers’ Con- vention, Which Wis held to setde the adais of the Stace m this city? Laske s Miss Lotte, ly a quarrel between tie ins and the outs, old rebet leaders mereiy trying to gain power again, bat the colored me caanot trust them any more. y have been too erael to nem. ‘These rebels are jist ad Weacherous as they ean pe. They are not to we Lrusied and Wil tell ties, yet tuey pretend to be of supe © and blood.’ ‘There was anotaer rastie of silk at th thia tune entered atail and sieader young | attired in biack suk, with large black eyes and jong straight air bealad, which rippled at the forehead very prevtily. “Allow me, Mr, ——, to introduce you to my sister, Miles Kate Eaphrosyae Koilin, Whomyou have heard of by the nousensical Utle of Catharine de Meuicls Rolin, Mr, ——, of the HERALD.” 34 Kate bowed deeply, and throwing her rica dress into @ Wave with the back of her laud, sat down Near me quite gracelully. Miss Kate 1s about twenty-four years of age; Miss Lottie is about iwenty-two, “Miss Lotue wore biue and white, and Miss Kate, being more of @ brunette, wore a scarlet bow at the tittoat and scarlet creepers in her hair. Preseatly catue in Miss Marie Loutse, ing as sweet as a young fawn, and last of all another sister, eth p i +4 name, aged thirteen, who was exceedingly pretty. Miss Lowe introduced Miss. Loatse and Miss Florence, aud the HERALD Commissioner again bowed his very best to the new.cowers, The ladies now gathered around and drought their chairs to- gether wattl they fortned a circle around tae HERALD Coumissioner, placmg bim,in an Interesting but quite euarrassing: position, “/ have just com from Goveraor Scott's, and haa avery p unt time tere; he is a great iriend of ours, aid We hope to see hun resident oc the United Siaics yet. He ts anoble imam, indeed,” said Miss Kate, With a fervent unction, “this Is my tleket,”’ said @ftss Lottie, opening the fiyleaf of a book, Wich sho look from the table and showing it to me, with ths following luscrip- thon, ta her own haadwriting:— td RULE LOLOL OUE OLE TELI BOLE IPLOLEEEIOLELEDEDE DE a orenee ranco fee Woucl CHARLOPEE ROLLIN PEDODE ERED TEL DOLS CEE ETEEEEELE PELEUETE REEL EEO ERD There wasa smile alt round the circle at tho name menuioned for Vice Presideot, with tie ex~ ception of Miss Lotte, who prese:yed her gravily demurety, Vhat do you think of Miss Susan B. Anthony In the woman's rights quesuen /’? Lasked of Mizs Kate Rollin, | “Ido not think much of her, She Is too fussy ana froiny. Wid you see the po-celain vortrate of Sema- | tor McIntyre that T patuted ?’) inquired Miss Kate. “Thats Miss Kate's beau,” laughingly seplied Miss Florence, and Marie Louise also showed her lute regular teeth, | “hiss down a portrait of Senator Me- Miss aU Ony Tatyre and satty ‘Littie girls should be seon, not heard, Fiorry,’? and showea the portrait of her flancé. She also showed an album, in Which there were six pictures ative person in different attitudes. \ Louse. “Lou kuow, Rate, that ‘3 slated that Mr. Melatyre was appeared on the lps of i some of ae b agaged to Lo! en moliined sin f and an angry glance sone in Kate's dark eyes. was dangerous ground and | took water, “1 suppose the papers wish to see if they can’t compel Mr. McIntyre to back out, because he 18 & whiie man, and [ am not of his race,” with a toss of her dark head. ¥ “Are you fond of poctry, Mr. ? asked Miss. Lowe Uae. Nero een . “Yes, Marm,” I answered. “ re passionately foud of Byron. Whata dear reckless fellow he was. to be sure. His *Corsal’ and his ‘Uhtide Harold’ are so beautijul.’” “What uo you tak of the ‘on Juan?’ f in- quired. ‘Tho girls hesitated for a moment, and then Miss Kate answered, “Think 16 13 «“Llove Miss Browning above all the poeis and [ like Victor Hugo. But Whittier Ladore. He is tie evar human Liberty and the rights of manklud, How rand is the finde of his Song of the Freel? 33 Lottie recited the verse:— ecullar.’? And F et St}il be the tones of truth Louder and firmer, Storting the baugnty South With the deep murmer God and our oharter's tights ‘Thore was a sight murmur of applause among the sisters, of this” Sroucersul family as Miss Lotte ceased, her eyes kimditag wiih pattiouc fire, and the that they took that method against two delencciess gurls of Le their revenge. On, some of tile car- pet-baggers To this State are too mean for any- Wing, So thoy are, The vest Of the colured legis jators 18 Mr. Hayne, and L think he ts divine think he {4 perfection,” “pid your sister, Mias Kate, hold at ang time the position of a ma, on Wie stat of General Moses, aud did she recetve a salary for services 1) per formed by ber?” said the HeraLo Commiasioner. “On, tat Was some absurd joke of = « yet r 0 SAYS Me mm Mr. Eliott, wi You see,’ sald Miss Lotue, Was Ugifo and becoming quite Interested, "it 18 tn Us Way that iny sister, Miss This Mr. butott, Kate, has been called thy {fajor.’ rom Bton College,’ the man who had onarg Of the enrolment of Lae colored militia, and General | Frank Mosed Was thea ow very iatinae fiend RALD Comiutssioner held Nis breath as Miss Kate toe up @ volume of Miss Browning's poews aud sald: 4) peanriful and fall of golden thoughts ts ‘aurora Leh Theve is @ mune of gold in that woman, and site fs always for the woak against the strong. Listen,’ said Miss Kate, and she pointed with her finger to tie passage: Dear Marian, of one ciay God made ms all, And though mea pus and poke aud paddie in'ty t fashioning dirt pies) name of (asia, privite; | Asaumin 8°, | When alts pial Pie bie to It at Last ¢ ‘Tho first grave digger proves it with a spade, Aud patsit all even. | Seed wo wait Cor this, You, Maria, and I, Rouvney ? “Where were you educated, ladies?” I asked, after an interval, rather astonisaed ab the knowledge of the poets displayed by these young girls, who are ee Se