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She ItfcjDnSfie gonial W ,'i jgg&All,} L - : ** 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. [Communicated. ] 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. praters, Xooli to JJonr Interests! 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