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Wednesday, March 20, Wl%
A notd Bobntpy.
On Saturday la*t our rjuiet an<l peaceful Urttn
Was shocked and startled by the report that a moat
daring and shameful robbery lia<l been committed
the preceding night on Jesaco Evans, an old
and very respectable citizen of this county, resid
ing near Huffs Bridge on Briar Creek- ahont thir
teen miles distant from this place. Three men,
well armed and diagtaned, visited Mr. Evans’
house about 2 o’clock in the night, and nearly
kicking the door from its fastenings despite the
old man’s (he is 78 years of efforts to hold it
shut, and in a peremptory manner demanded ad
mittance. Gaining accession to the house, two of
the men presented their pistols at the head of Mr.
Evans, and the other at the person of Mrs. Evans,
threatening instant death if the least out-cry or re
sistance was made, demanded liis money in true
knigh t-of-thc-road Style—compelling the old man
to produce ail his hard aarimd savings, amounting
t*» some four hundred dollars, tn specie and green*
backs. After accomplishing their hellish purpose
they boat a htwty retreat, leaving the old inni
moneyless.
While engaged in the robbery, fortunately the
mask of one of those cold-blooded miscreants drop
ped from bis face, revealing liis features, and was
instantly recognized by Mr. Evan’s little son,
lying on a bod in the room—the bravo little fellow
appreciating the dangerous situation of affairs, had
the prosence of mind to show no signs of the re
cognition, and the party left thinking themselves
entirely unknown, and, perhaps, that their story,
that they were South Carolina Ku-Khix, fleeing
from that State, and were only taking the money
to travel on, whs believed. This recognition, to
gether with tlie lavish use uml exhibition of con
siderable sums of money, iiually led to the discov
ery and arrest of several of the gaug.
After information received, our citizens com
menced cautiously to investigate the matter, and
link by link rapidly developed the testimony, un
til suspicion plainly pointed to the guilty parties.
Late on Hnturday evening, warrants were issued
charging Gapt. (3. V. Hamilton, John Ramsay and
Thomas Willis as the guilty parlies—Willis being j
the person recognized from the accidental dropping !
of his mask the night before.
Hamilton and Willis were immediately arrested,
and an effort made to apprehend Ramsay, but by
some means gaining information of the proceedings
of the authorities, ho fled and at. this writing, (Mon
day evening), is still at large.
During Saturday night, Willis mado a full con
fession of his guilt, and this confession led to the
arrest of two other parties, viz : Howard Long and
Adolphus Honey the latter also making a full
confession, corroborating Willis’s statements in
every important particular. Ramsay, wo learn,
has confessed to some of his friends since the act
was committed, corroborative of the statements
of Willis and Roney, and loafing not the shadow
of a doubt on the mind of the public of tlio guilt of
rlVthv parties. j
iThe parties confessing state that tills gang)lias
niflSch several robbing excursions over into South
Carolina; imd that there exists a regularly organ
ized band, similar to the Murrel Clan, headed and
controlled by Gapt. 0. V. Hamilton, who concocted
and perpetrated just snob diabolical, cold-blooded
deeds upon the community as the one above reci
ted.
It seems that several raids wore made into South
Carolina to rob a man who was supposed to have a
large amount of money,and the elan actually visited
the residence of one Littleton Smith, of Edgefield
county, used violence upon his person, gagging
him and taking from his house what money thoy
could And.
The three persons cofessing, Willis, Roney and
Ramsay, were the parties who nibbed old man
Evaus, and state that Hamilton sent them thoro for
that purpose ; ami that Long was also to have ac
companied them, but failed on account of not
being able to procure a coveyunee.
Googe Tutt, a young man living near this place,
was arrested on the affidavit of Willis charging him
with the South Carolina robbery
Joseph Musgrove, of this county, stands charged
With the same offense, and a warrant has beeu is
sued for him, but up to tlio present time ho has
succeeded in evading every effort of the officers of
of the law.
On Sunday and Monday preliminary procod
ings were ha l before Justieoos Johnson and Hobbs,
and all those who had been arrested were commit
ted to await their trial at the next term of the Su
perior court. Tutt, however, having committed
the offence alledged against him in the State of
South Carolina, is held in custody for the issuing
of an Executive warrant from the Governor.
There being no jail in our county, the prisoners
were sent on Monday evening to Augusta for safe
keeping.
Our citizens are indignant at the perpetration of
a crime of such magnitude and with so much bold
ness in their very midst, and without distinction
exhibited the greatest activity in ferreting-out and
bringing these offenders to justice. We cannot too
highly commend the manner in which our sheriff,
Mr. John T. Stovall, baliff J. TANARUS, Landsdalo, and
our town marshal. Simeon Morris performed the
important and arduous duties that devolved upon
them in this trying affair.
Borne sympathy was entertained for Roney, n
mere boy in age, and for Willis, as it was suppos
ed that they were persuaded into the Clan by its
hardened and daring le.idc r.
We trust that every member of the organization
will be discovered and brought to justice.
Whisky in the Blood. — A man died
the other day from habitual drunken
ness. A post-mortem examination of
his internal organs showed that his
olood was largely mixed with alcohol.
Hie coroner testified that the heart
smelled as though it had been steeped
n alcohol. People who are in the hah
t of keeping themselves saturated with
he vile compound under the name of
um, gin, bourbon, etc., should take
warning fr in such an examble. W e
a-y talk of soft hearts, noble hearts,
and rue hearts, but how can a herat
steeped in alcohol’ he any of these?
Home lias organized a shooting-club.
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A Htray I.< sit' from tlie Port
folio of Ji Traveler.
[Editors MoDltfik Journal:—l
send you the enclosed manuscript. It
was picked up in the public highway,
and hence is given [o you as public
property. I team that On the, duy this;
was found a solitaryT sTrattge-looking,]
and absent-minded man was seen with
Iris carpet hag in hand wending his
way—whither no one knows—and hut
few of us care, it was supposed that a
hole in his carpetbag, caused by excess
ive use, gave exit to the little morceau I
herewith send you. It was enclosed in
an euvelope addressed to the Chronicle,
Washington City, D. C.
Countryman.]
Way Down South in Dixie, )
March f>, 1872. £
Fnend Chronicle :
I send you the following colloquy, as
jottings or penciling?, by the way-side
in my political peregrinations ‘down
South,’ the ‘land of cotton,’ etc. 1 will
thus in this colloquy give you the result
of my genera! coulioreucu with ti e
Rebels, hut will not personate—letting
the locations speak each for itself. But
I must say, ah initio, that Johnny Itch
is not near so rebellious as he‘used to
was’—hut he still stands upon his dig
nity—true to first principles. Rut to
the diulogue.
Northman. —Who is the most gifted
President that ever occupied the Presi
dential Chair?
Soutiiman. —The present incumbent
—U. S. Grant—by long odds,
N.—Well raihj, do you think so ? Is
it your honest opinion that our Ulyses,
the son of Jesse, is the most intellectual
man that ever had his ‘Head-Quarters’
in the big chair at the White House?
S.—(ln no soto voice.) I said noth
ing of either ‘head-quarters or hind
quarters,’ much less of ‘intellect.’ You
spoke of‘gifts’—and I do say, without
i mental reservation or equivocation, that
when you come to ‘gilts,’ Ulyses, the
sou of Jessie, is a head and shoulders
ahead of any them—yea, above all of
them combined?
N.— I now ‘stand under’ you. You
mean that he lias received more gifts
than all the Presidents, from Washing
ton down to his accidental promotion.
S.—That is according to my read
ir.g.
N.— (Soto voice.) I admit the soft
impeachment. Gen. Grant is ‘heavy’
on gifts; they please him, and strike
pleasurably away down his pocket, and
between you and me an I the gate-post,
that is a sure roud to his favor. He
loves to ho complimented with these,,
presents, it is an indication to him of
your appreciation. So just ‘[die on,’
not the agony—but (lie gifts : and, to
make ‘assurance doubly sure,’ swear
eternal hostility to Democracy, or good,
honest, constitutional government, and
lasting nflection for Ulyses, the soil
o( Jesse, and a profound reverence fur
liis numerous relatives and you may
rest assured that he will not only drink
with you (at your expense), hut lie will
smoke your Havannas, as many as you
will furnish to him and,d n the cost
Do you know his favorite beverage ?
S.— Yos ‘whisky straight,’ is that
correct ?
N.—Well, yes; hut the General’s not
so very particular. lie would not kick
up if you were tosendliinigin, rum, or
brandy.—in fact anything except a copy
of the Ten Commandments, lie loves
a ‘2.10’ horse, and by the sea-side at
Long Branch, I e can find out which he
likes the best, il it takes him ‘all sum
mer,’mil my private opinion is—though
f would not for the world and the bal
ance of mankind have you tell him that
1 said it, but it is worthless my opinion,
based upon an intimate acquaintance
with him since liis sudden, and to him
most unexpected exaltation, that he will
like you the better for the variety; lie
is rather fond of varieties. But, sir, to
come to the essence of this little confab,
will you vote for this ‘gifted’ President
if he is nominated tor re-election ?
Now this is a catagorieal question, and
I want a catagorieal answer.
S.— Well, sir, l say most emplirtical
ly 1 will not, l will be catamompus if 1
do. All the arms you now have, added
to those sold to France—but mum’s the
word, I suppose, with you all at Wash
ington on this point—can not f >rce us
into a vote for the little tyrant. My
private opinion, publicly expressed, is
that a permanent residence in the Cot
tage hv the Sea—one of the gifts, you
know—would suit him ; better for him,
and far better for tlio country.
N. Under no circumstances will you
vote for Grant ?
S. ‘No, not for Joe.’
N. Well, now, let me ask you one
other question; will you answer it
pon honor?
8. Yes, provided you will give me
jyour affidavit that you are not ‘inter
j viewing’ me.
N. You do not seem to like the word
| •interview.’
S. Cannot say that I do. There is
a tell-taleism in it that is not manly ; a
1 sneaking way of probing into a mau’s
j secrets in order to use and abuse them ;
jin fact, the word is quite funky. But
j then, I have no concealments to make
of my position or principles. But, ‘in-
terviewing’ is 3 long and big word
very expressive. Now Ido not object
to a fine view of some things, so it ain’t
that view that some of your folks gave
to our folks when they carried them to
tin* top of that highmouritain. To view
is one thing.to interview is another, and
quite a different tjhittg; I.ain like the
man who said the word nullify A A not
portend much ; but just put the lion, to
it, make it nullification , Jemime, Gener
al Jackson and South Carolina!!! But
T am not scared ; so cut away with your
question.
N. Well, how do you stand on
Platforms, and what i3 your role in the
coining campaign ?
S. I atn sound on the platform and
on the man, hut stronger ori the platform
than the nominee. I am vs. Empire,
and for a Constitutional Government.
Just such a one as the Radical party
overturned ; thg government of the old
Patriarchs of Washington, Jefferson,
Madison and Monroe; a Union of the
States witli their reserved rights sacred,
not to be disturbed, while also recog
nized several express powers guaranteed
to, the Fedora! Mead.
N. What Jo you think of ‘SewJe
purturism ?’
S. Oh, that is a ‘dead issue,’ and
please do not try to frighten me witli
ghosts; do not Ku-Klux me with that
bares/reletot). Ido not hold commun
ion witli ‘departed spirits.’ But if 1 must
speak, I would say that 1 regarded it at
first as a spawn from Tammany Hull,
old Tammany that for lo ! these many
years has been unsound on Principles,
a fungus growth, a cantankerous eniina
tion from that corrupt and poiuted
cesspool. True, it did at first impose
upon and take captive with its vile in
fection that great and good man, Clem
ent C. Vullundigliutn , hut it was ephem
eral, and posed away as a noxious vapor
before the effulgent rays of the Sun of
Liberty Hall. Tammany Hail with its
‘NewdepartuiUm’ was‘nowhere’ against
Liberty liall, with the Constitution.
Even tlio solidity of Mantle Marble
could not make it stand, no, not for the
'World:
N.~—l take it, then, that you were
not humbugged with this heresy.
S.—You ‘bet your head is level’ on
that point.
N.—Well, what dj you say ol Pas
siveism, or Possumism, so called? will
that dish suit your dainty palate ?
S.—Speaking ol dishes, 1 once heard
of a celebrated cook who cold serve up
possum in pumpkin, so that the most as-
tute epicure could not tell which was
the animal and which was the vegeta
ble. Now, Ido not like that dish at
all ;A likoA(jLji,now vvluxt X am eating,
or what I am-voting for or subscribing
to. In this ; possumism, the political
cooks have so served up the dish that
one cannot tell whether he is going
North or coining South: too much Van
Burenism in that.
N.—And wjiut think you of the La
bor Movement ?
S.—Mr. Davis is a good and true
man, and so if Parker, and I must con
fess that they and their platform are
great improvements on the others you
have mentioned. While we have no
war to wage Against them, 1 think there
is something a little better in store than
that, it is a step in the right direction,
and if they will keep on, they will soon
find themselves landed on the only good
and true platform, which is long enough,
broad enough, and strong enough for
all good men and true to stand upon,
all who are on the Liberty Constitu
tional Government vs. Tyranny, vs. a
Consolidated, Centralized: Despotism,
N.—What is the meaning of this late
move, (i say move, perhaps I am too
fast.it may not have moved at all.)
Well, 1 will call it nil ‘attempt,’ in At
lanta, the revival of tlio ol 1 Whig party ?
Is there anything in it ?
S.—Not the size of a grain of must
ard seel. It is all an up-//;//business.
As I said before, 1 am opposed to ex
huming ‘dead issues.’ Talk about re
sussitating the scattered bones of tiie
Henry Clay Whig Party! You might
as well attempt to gather up ashes with
a fork around Vesuvius while from its
crater is b<*iu*~poured fire and lava.
This is a ghost business, too, that I do
not take-to. I was once a gr> at admi
rer of the great and eh quent man from
Kentucky, lie was my political Gam
aleil when first I studied Political Eeon
| omy ; hut fie is gone, and the true
j Whig Party died with him, and upon its
i grave anew, green political organiza
tion sprang up, and here it was ‘our
Ben’ made famous. This ran
sacking grave-yards for political and
selfish ends is a small business. The
bait does not -cover the hook. Ben,
ought to let the good and great dead
sleep ; Henry Clay’s grave should he
j sacred from him—touch not a single
j leaf in his life with your leprous hands,
j Falstaff’s regiment was legions coin
paired to the number that will follow
j this ignis fatuujfFthis phosphoreasic em
ulation from the grave of the old
j Whig party. Better own up, Ben,
j and let the New Era show you no longer
I the Janus-faced. You cannot serve
j two master; tile problem is as difficult
as your attempt to ‘explain your exp la
i nation of your political status.
X.—l see you are uo admirer of Ben
| Hill.
S. Not, ‘if the Court know herself,
ami it think it do.’
X. I hope you will not consider me
impertinent for asking, hut I would like
to know who is your man for President ?
What sort of a platform will you build
for him ?
S. We have no platform to build.
Ours is as old as Dt mocracy itself;
there have been some departures from
it, but the materials an; sound to-day.;
sound to the heart; and any good and
true man at the North that will stand
squarely upon these principles, and if
needs be fight for them, lie is our man.
General Hancock would suit. He
fought us manfully in the late unpleas
antness : that was his right, and, per
haps, his duty. lie was a soldier then,
but when he laid aside his sword, he
became the civilian, in whom there was
found no political guile; but wisdom,
justice and moderation have been the
blazes that have guided Ids walk. If
Grant is the nominee of the Radical
party, and Hancock the nominee of the
Democrats, it will be the swo;d vs. the
sword, liut, Mr. Northman, ‘it looks
to a man Up a free,’ and it looks to us
| here, ‘a way down South in Dixi that
you people of the North have long
enough reveled in anarchy and riot, in
justice and illegalities, which have
marked the administration of Grant, and
it is quite time to quit this fooiisness,
and no longer endanger the government
of the people by putting so much pow
er in the hands of one man, and that
too, without any regard to fitness or
competency.
If the Republican party has any re
gard for the perpetuity of this govern,-
i merit in the form it was originally in
[ tended by its framers, it is time for it
| to begin to mend its ways, and take the
Constitution for its guide. Cease to
play the rote of mere party hacks and
j tricksters, and turn their attention to
! what is law, and who is mentally and
1 morally able to expound and enforce it.
N. Bir, you are now becoming a
moralist and a statesman, and my inter
view must end, as I have evidently
waked up the wrong passenger.
S. Farewell. You can leave me a
lock of your hair iu the first stream you
cross.
Note. (Soliloquizing.) Well, now
after all is said, that fellow is more than
half right, t hough I must not say so
where he can hear it. The fact is, these
peopte have been badly treated, both
!oy the General and tire Stategovern
i ments, and if it was not for the large
| money for the little work there is in it,
j 1 would come square out against all
I the reconstruction measures, and re
eoinmen 1 an immediate return to the
government ns it was before the
seeds of discord were sown by the self
ish intermeddlers from Exter Hall. But
in tire honesty of my heart, I hope and
believe that the early ieiiverance of the
Southern States is a matter in the provi
dence ot God, soon to be realized.
Claims OHlieul; v.
It is regarded as a controversy between
the North and England. Tiio Con
federates could hardly be expected to
get up very belligerent feelings against
England because she assisted them iu
the war. At the same time, they feel
under no obligations to her, for her
actions in the premises was purely sel
fish, and she cruelly disappointed them
in the matter of national recognition.—
They used to believe during the late
years of the war that the whole world
was practically fighting against them,
and, therefore, they owe the world
nothing. If a war should follow the
rejection of our case at Geneva, 1 think
the South, as a section, would not eon
sid r itself involved. Doubtless thou
sands of young men and oiler veterans
would volunteer in the United States
Army for the love of adventure, but
other thousands having had enough of
lightingjn tire past, would quietly stay
at home. The idea that an English
army landing on the eoast of Carolina
or Georgia would receive any assis
tance is ridiculous.
There is absolutely no disposition in
the South 0f1572 to revive the Confeti
.eracy, re-establish slaverrv, or give aid
|and comfort to the enemies of the Uni
ted States. The question of the Union
has been settled by the sword. Nobody
of consequence cares to reopen it. At
present the prevailing feeling in the
South in case of a war with England
would be that of indifference. North
ern voters have it in their power to
change that lukewarmness into active
sympathy and generous support. —
Charleston (S. C.) Correspondent of the
N, Y. World.
The New Hampshire election takes
place on Tuesday next, and both par
ties are straining every nerve for victo
ry—both claiming that the chances aie
in their favor. The last election was
carried by tiie Democrats by a small
majority. The Legislature to be elect
ed will have to choose a United States
Senator in place of Mr. Patterson, Re
publican, whose term expires with the
present Congress.
South Carolina News Items. —Col.
Dudley, of Marlboro, has allied himself
with "the Republican party. — Chester
Reporter.
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