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VOL. 111. i
[From the Savannah Morning News.]
Letter From Burke Couuty.
No. 10, Central Railroad, Ga., )
May Bth, 1878. ’ J
Editors Morning News :
In your Weekly News of the 3d iust.,
see over the signature of “Pierce Coun
ty,” a communication, the object of
which ia to procure some legislative
protection for wool growers against the
ravages of dogs.
The complaint of the writer is by no
means unfounded or unjust.
I am inclined to think that farmers
receive about as little protection, do
more hard work and get less pay for it
thau any other class of people living ——
While extravagance in some cases re
duce them to want,there seems t be
another power iu the “dim distance”
which is ever oppressing them. Undue
or class legislation has a tendency to
make some people poor and to keep
them so. Aud our Northern friends —
I suppose they have entered into some
calculation as to the amount of cotton,
&c., farmers are to make this season,
and, however, that calculation may be
incorrect, it nevertheless will bo suf
ficient to assist them in swindling the
tillers of the soil cut of a fair price for
their products.
Unfortunately for farmers they are
very often self conceited, which arises
from want of proper culture.
It.is next to impossible to have them
unite on matters of great importance to
themselves. They can to-day be num
bered by millions, and if united prop
erly could wield an influence which
would be more than sufficient to pro
tect against any power in the
land; and yet wo hear one of them
complaining for want of a little protec
tion for sheep.
The grand telegraphic scheme of
Professor Morse, when submitted to
Congress with the hope of receiving aid,
was treated with ridicule by some of
the members, because they did not un
derstand it. But I am a little suprised
that the “dog law” of Oapt. Hunter
should have been so unceremoniously
dismissed by our Legislature.
It would be a sourCo of revenue if
the Legislature of the State would pass
a law taxing dogs to a certain extent,
and its effect would be seen jn the death
of a great many of them, which are at
this time infesting the State and barely
getting sufficient food to sustain the life
in them.
The stay here of many of the canine
race is evidently one of suffering, and
that means by which it can bo cut short,
and keep other from entering the world
to share the same fate, would not only
give us more eggs and better mutton,
but also would be an act of humanity
towards them.
I have known cases where men have
had more than one dog in a poverty
stricken condition, sitting on their tails
watching with eagerness their masters
as they quietly eat tho meat from and
throw them the bone,and yet those
same men were desirous of getting more
puppies to perish.
Such people do not seem to know
their true interest, and hence the ne
cessity for a law to teach it to them, or
make them, while having their whistle,
pay for it.
In the absence, however, of any law
to protect them, I will make a sugges
tion to the wool growers of the State,
which, perhaps, may be of some interest
to a portion of them.
It is this: If the dogs cannot be
otherwise) caught and punished, it might
be a good idea to pen their flocks in
some safe place wheu next they are at
tacked. Thon see that all the dead
sheep are removed except one or two,
and let those that are lefe be made suffi
ciently palitable, well sprinkled with
strychnine and placed where the dogs
will meet with but little difficulty m
finding them. , .
In the absence of the live sheep, it is
quite likely the dogs will feast on tne
dead ones that have Icon prepared for
them, and will soon • thereafter fall to
sleep when the flocks will he loft to
graze unmolested for a season.
Burke*
“SA LU S P OPULI BUP R E Ts/L A. I. 33 2C B S T.O . ”
WAYNESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1873.
State of Affairs iu Louisiana
Previous to the Collision In
(draut Parish.
The Postmaster of Colfax makes the
following statement:
I am a National Republican, and al
ways have been one. I was a member
of the Republican Legislature from
1868 to 1872, and was, and am now, a
United States postmaster at Colfaxi
Grant parish, having supported Gen.
Grant and Gov. Kellogg in the last
campaign. Previous to this I was a
member of the Constitutional Conven
tion in 1808.
I was quietly pursuing my vocation
as postmaster at Colfax, and was told
repeatedly, from the sth of April, by
the rioters that I should bo killed, and
on the 10th of April was oompelled to
leave, they stating that they would
shoot ino if I stayed, unless I took up
arms with them. On the morning of
the 10th I went up to receive the mail,
and I was met by an armed mob of
negroes, who told me to get on my
horse and leave, ehe I would be killed.
They also threatened the life of my
brother and a colored man named Buck
McKinney; also Ralph Mkrons.
I then left, and came to Alexandria
to receive instructions.. I, expected to
see a deputy marshal, to perserve
peace; but finding none,l was told by
Mr. Suris, the mail contractor,to bring
the mail here, which I did. I made a
requisition on Daniel Shaw, supposed
to bo acting sheriff, as follows:
To D. W. Shaw, Sheriff Grant Par
ish Louisiana —Sir • I demand of you
in the name of the State, protection for
the postmaster at Colfax, Louisiana,
and also to protect Government prop
erty. Very respectfully.
S. E. Cuny,
United States Postmaster.
Mr. Shaw sent two Alien, but a col
ored man named Leo Allen,came down
and said Shaw had no authority to do
so, aud that ho was commanding offi
cer.
I then made a similar requisition on
him as commanding officer, in writing,
the same as the above. He replied
the Government property must take
care of itself, that he wanted the men
himself, and took them away. This
was about the sth of April, and the
threats were made after this. My ob
ject was to protect the United States
Government property, and I remained
until my life was threatened.
S. E. Cony.
United States Postmaster, Colfa*,
Grant parish.
Executed at Alexandria, Louisiana,
Monday, April 27, 1873.
Witnesses: llarrik Wilde,
A. COCKERILLK,
C. T. Hooper,
To these statements nothing need be
added. They are conclusive as to
where the blame rightfully rests.—
“Depend upon it,” says a correspondent
of the New Orleans Picayune“the white
population hero had to meet the issue
made by the riotous negroes and give
them a severe check, or leave the coun
try. Nothing else was left to do.”
Now the bad men, both white and
Black, who led these negroes into this
riotous resistance to the lawful author
ity, are the men to be punished severe
ly. If their dupes had been white men
resisting the authority of Republican
offioials, they would have been arrested
long since and been in the penitentiary
before now. Here we have a specimen
of Republican justice toward the South
ern people.
A Piteous Spectacle. —The Health
Department reports finding at 37 Essex
Street to day, Mrs. Cassidy in bed
dead, from small-pox. An infant was
beside the body crying pitiously from
hunger, while on the floor, in a drunken
stupor, lay tho husband and father.—
Dispatch from New York,
[From the Hearth end Home ]
A Very He markable Story.
There lived in Brooklyn, not Ion?
ago, a man possed of a devil. He had
inherited the devil from his father, in
the first place, and had nursed it until
it grew so strong it took the entire pos
session of him. The devil was a very
familiar one, and its namo was Rum.--
The man had many noble instincts,and,
better than all these, he had a loving,
faithful and brave wife, who made skil
ful war upou the demon, her husband’s
master. Recognizing the fact that her
husband was under an overpowering
impulse, that he longed and struggled
manfully to free himself from the pas
sion of drink, she bent all the euergies
of her woman-nature to the task of
helping him. She loved, and suffered,
and toiled, until at last the loving, and
suffering, and toiling accomplished
their purpose. She took her husband
by the hand and shared with him all of
his struggles,until after a year of labor,
she overcame his devil, and saw him a
free man again. Iler battle with Rum
had a fierce one, taxing and wast
ing her strength sorely, but she was
conqueror at last. Her husband stood
upon manly feet, atid showed no signs
of falling again. Several years passed
away, and this reformed man fell ill of
consumption.
The distinguished physician, from
whose lips we have .the story,prescribed
alcoholic stimulants as the only means
possible of prolonging his life. The
poor wife was in terror, and begged the
physician to recall the prescription. She
told him of her long straggle and vic
tory, and said she preferred that her
husband should die then, a sober man,
than he should fill a drunkards grave a
yoar. later. But the freed spirit of the
man was strong, and he undertook to
take alcoholic liquors as a medicine,and
to confine himself absolutely to such
times and measures in the matter as
the physician should prescribe. This
he did, and during the months thus ad
ded to his life, be never once drank a
drop more than the prescription called
for, and he died at last a sober manias
the wife had so earnestly prayed that
he might. But the end was not yet.—
When the loving and patient woman
laid him in his grave, and saw her long
labor thus euded in the victory ior
which she had toiled so hard aud suf
fered so bitterly, she turned in grief to
the brandy which had beeu left in the
house, and drinking it, she fell herself
into the power of the devil which she
had fought so heroically. And that
woman died, not many months later, a
hopeless, helpless drunkard.
A Boston Preacher's Compliments
to Ben Butler.— Louisville , May 6.
The following card appears in the Cowr
ier-Journaho-morrovi from Rev. Jas,Free
man Clarke, of Boston:
A little paragraph is going the rounds,
saying that I proposed B. F. Butler as
Governor of Massachusetts. I have
only once referred to him, and that was
in a sermon preached in Boston on fast
day on of Massachu
getts, in which I spoko of the disgraig
which came upon Massachusetts from
her treatment of Summer, the connec
tion of her members of Congress with
the Credit Mobilier scandal and their
complicity witlf the salary grab. I then
added that it was understood that the
member from Massachusetts headed that
foray on the Treasury, and announced
his intention of being tho next Govern
or of Massachusetts. If ho succeeded
in this I said I hoped he would omit
the word “humiliation” in his proclama
tion, for certainly Massachusetts would
never he more humiliated than by such
an event. His friends regard this as a
nomination. They are welcome to it.
I ask that this statement be copied.
Jas. Freeman Clarke.
.— • ♦-
A fool and bis money are soon parted.
Wearing: the Ermine—Modern
Federalists-
Ekskink, with his infamous jury or
der, might properly appear in the cata
logue of the following distinguished
Federal Jurists, who will leave a wake
of infamy that will be noticeable long
after they have passed by. The Wil
mington, N. C., Journal says: .
There is a nice lot of people on the
bench of the United States Courts just
now. From the North and from the
South, from the East and from the far
West, eome the cries of the people
against the men into whose bar.-.ls has
been committed the administration ot
the laws iu our Federal Courts. If the
people themselves be not corrupt the
word Federal will ere long become a
stench in their nostrils.
Federal Judge Hugh L. Bond stands
first alphabetically, at least, on the list
of those to whom we shall refer this
morning. Of him it was publicly de
clared ou the floor of the United States
Senate that it would be preferable for
an innocent man to run the gauntlet of
the bullets- of a squadron of cavalry
rather than to be tried before his court.
Next in order comes Federal Judge
Delflhay, of Kansas, who was formally
impeached by the late United States
House of Representatives for incapacity
because of drunkenoss. He bad the
habit sometimes of preferring the gutter
to the bench. In extenuation of bis
conduct it was urged, we believed, and
without contradiction, that ho had never
stolen anything 1
Federal Judge Durell, of Louisiana,
is next upon the list of judicial worthies.
This man is the pliant tool who inaugu
rated the difficulties that have so long
afflicted the people of Louisiana. This
is the man who, according to the report
of the Committee of the United States
Senate, organized a Legislature by an
order of court, in a suit to perpetuate
testimony! He is the man of whom
even Radical Senator Morton says his
conduct “cannot be justified,” He
“grossly exceeded his jurisdiction,"and
was guilty “of gross usurpation.” This
is the man whose edicts the President
supports at tho point ot the bayonet.
This man, as well as Delahay and Bond,
wears the judicial ermine.
Next comes Federal Judge Sherman,
of Ohio. This inan belongs to tho
bluest of blue Puritan blood. He is a
decendant of any number of Shermans
of former times. lie is no "poor buckra”
or “cracker” or “poor white trash.” He
belongs to the top of the pot of the
Northern aristocracy. His father was
a Judge before him. He is a brother
of United States Senator John Sher
man, Chairman of Senate Committee on
Finance. He is also brother of the Gen.
of the armies of the United States,
Win. Tccumseh Sherman, who recently
issued the infamous order about the
utter extermination of a band of sava
ges, without regard to guilt or innocence,
age of sex. This is tho man who claim
ed ten thousands dollars from parties
in New York for influencing his brother,
the Senator, in behalf of certain legisla
tion favorable to them.
This is the man that the resolutic"’
proposed in the Bar Asso;,a. u
Cleveland, Ohio, call upon to resign,
for the reason that he has evinced such
a wan t of integrity and such a moral
turpitude as to destroy all confidence
in his judicial administration and regime,
that he should at once resign and relieve
the Federal Court from the embarrass
moot consequent upon his continued oc
cupaucy of the Judgeship. But we
must not omit to mention another dis
tinguished member of the Sherman fami
ly. We refer to Federal General
Miles, who. if we mistake not, married
a daughter of this eminent judicial
lobbyist, Gen. Milos is the hem who
put manacles upon Jefferson Davis. A
nice family, that I
Last upon our list stands Federal
RULES FOR LEGAL ADVERTISING::
Salts of. land, e/e., by Administrators, Executors,
or Guardians are required, by lata to.be held on the
first Tuesday in the month, hettreen the hours qf ten
in the forenoon anti three in the afternoon, at the
court house in the county in which the property is
situated. Notices of these sales must be given tn a
public gazette in the. county where the land lies, if
there be any. Notices for the sate of personal property
must be. given in like manner ten days previous to
sale day. Notices to Debtors and Creditors qf an
estate riiust he jtublished forty days. Notice that m
ptiratioii will be made to the Court of Ordinary for
leave, to sell land, etc., must be published once a week
for four weeks. Citatietns for Letters of Adminis
tration, Guardianship, etc., must be published thirty
days. For disn. ission from Administration and Ex
ecutorship three, months—Dismission from Guard
ianship, forty days Rules for Foreclosure qf Mort
gage must be fmhtished monthly for four months.
For establishing tost papers, for the full space of
three months. For nimpetling titles from Adminis
trators or Executors, where bond has been given by
deceased, throe months. Application for Homestead
must be published twice Publications will always
be continued according to these requirements unless
otherwise ordered Wkf One inch, or about eighty
words, is a square; fractions counted as full equates.
5N0.38
.Judge Underwood, of Virginia. This
man who once from the bench took oc
casion to make sport and jest of the
sufferings President Davis was then un- t
dergoing nt Fortress Monroe.
th man whose conduct, at a later day,
the Supreme Court of the United States
declared to be “a blot upon our
jurisprudence and civilisation,” and the
Supremo Court of Appeals of Virginia
declared to bo enough to. shock the
moral sense of every honest man.
These are the men who administered
justice in Federal Courts !
Fellow countrymon, what do you
think of them ?
[From the New York Sun.]
Novel Proceedings in Snath
Carolina—The “Equities’' in the .
Courts.
Legal proceedings of a very unusual
character, instituted by well-known
bankers of this city, are now in pro
gress in the Supreme Court of South
Carolina. On April 30, Messrs. Mor
ton, Bliss & Cos. filed a petition pray
ing for a writ of mandamus to issue
against the Comptroller of South Caro
lina, commanding him to obey a levy
of a tax, to pay interest of certain bonds
held by the petitioners. The Court
granted an order requiring tho Comp
troller to make a return there to-day.
There aro five classos of bonds embrac
ed in the petition, uone of which were
issued before 1868. In regard to the
old debt of the State—that incurred
before the negroes and carpet-baggers
came into power—there has never been
any question so far as its validity is
concerned, though the corrupt State
Government has been too busily en
gaged in stealing to make provision for
the payment of cither principal or in
terest. Of the bonds issued since 1868,
however, there is a large portion that
the citizens of South Carolina say were
fraudulently put forth without authori
ty of law in defiance of constitutional
restrictions, and as they contend, these
bonds are worthless.
The public debt of South Carolina,
according lo the report of tho late
Treasurer, Parker, is about $16,000,-
000, though it is very likely that it will
be found to greatly exceed that sum, as
the thieves who have been in power there
have scattered the State obligations to
pay money in all directions with tho
utmost recklessness. Of this amount
about $4,000,000 was authorized by
acts passed prior to 1868. Of the re
mainder about $7,000,000 of bonds
were designed to be exchanged for out
standing bonds and stocks; but .nearly
all of this issue, instead of being U9ed
according to Jaw, wero sold or hypothe
cated ; while many of the old bonds
which really were exchanged for the
conversion bonds, instead of being can
celled were illegally re-issued! Pro
bably $7,000,000 of the public debt of
South Carolina is fraudulent, and the
questions now to be settled are whe
ther innooent foreign holders shall ,
suffer from the knavery of State officers
and also whether private individuals
have the power to obtain relief through
tbs courts against a State Government. ‘
Some exceedingly interesting legal r
questions are involved in this case.. The
Charleston Chamber of Commerce have
retained the Hon. W. D. Porter and
the Hon. C. G. Memminger to repre
nt the tax-payers and a lively fight
may be expected over the points at
issue. Morton, Bliss & Cos., have re
tained upon their side ex-Attorney
Gen. Chamberlain, who is the law part
ner of the present Attorney General of
the state. There is a rumor in Colum
bia that the suit of Morton Bliss & C*.
is favored by some of the most promi
nent State officials, aud that these men
have recently invested largely in State
bonds in the belief that the desired ac
tion would be taken by the court. The
action taken by tbo Charleston Chamber
of Commerce in securing private coun
sel to oppose the petitioners’ request
may, however,interfere with the accom
plishment of theso expectations. It is
probable that tho legal proceedings in
this suit, whatever course they take,
will lead to some very interesting de
velopments in relation to the financial
operations of th State authorities.