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Freemen's Standard.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1868.
Savannah, June 8. 1868.
Alary Howard is requested to call at
office of Bureau A. F. & A. L. in this
city, with her children, Maria, ltacliael,
Ac.. Ac., and learn something much to
her interest concerning her husband,
Alfred A. Howard, of Washington,
I). C.
J. Murray 110 aa,
Bt Capt. U. S. A. &G. A. C.
Tiie doors of the National Demo
cratic Convention, to be held in New
York, trill be opened wide to receive
the Southern delegates, us were those
of the National Convention at Chicago.
Oil Lordy!—A woman diedsuddenly
in a town in Now Hampshire, and an
accomplished editor thus gives the
cause: “The autopsy revealed exten
sive coniine disease, hypertrophy com
plicated with aneurism of the aorta
just below its bifurcation.”
She died of heart disease.
The remains of upwards of two
hundred and fifty-live Union soldiers
exhumed in the South have arrived in
Brooklyn.
A Russian Ukase in Poland orders
the populace to salute the police, and
remain uncovered whileaddressing one
of that body, under a penalty of a fine
and imprisonment. Why not in Sa
vannah.
The Fortieth Anniversary of the
Nightingale Sock ty will be celebrated
by an excursion to Beaufort on Mon
day, loth.
Over twelve hundred million tons of
ice are stored in New York.
The Baltimore Common Council has
expelled three members for bribery.
Wm. M. Evakts, one of the Presi
dent’s counsel. is a grand son of Roger
Sherman of Prgv.cludoti'arv ■tame-.
WASHIimi.
Disturbances in the City Over
Hie Result of the Election.
[SPECIAL mSPATCIIES TO THE S. V. TIMES.]
Washington, June 3.
THE ELECTION DISTURBANCES.
The partisan papers both here and
elsewhere have attempted to make po
litical capital lor and against the Rad
icals by exaggerated representations
of tue numerous fracases which have
oceuired iti this city within tile past
lew days. Incident to the election ex
citement, on tlie one hand, it is repre
sented that a war of races has been
inaugurated, while, per contra, it is
stated that the election passed off
quietly. The truth-is, that on Monday
night, when the Conservatives sup
posed they had succeeded in electing
Mr. Given, their candidate lor Mayor,
the public thoroughrares and even the
stivet ears were g.ven up to their pos
session, and but lew colored Radicals
were teen out of doors after dark. Dur
ing the day the leehng of tlie over
whelming majority of the blacks
against tue few oi their color who vo
ted toe Conservative ticket was demon
strated in attempts at violence, which
were cheeked by the police, and con
sequently no Uisiurbauces of conse
quence occurred. At night even the
Conaervati ve colored voters were afraid
to venture out, and the city was illu
minated with bontires and fireworks.
Many of the returned rebel soldiers
who liad been allowed to vote for the
firs time, joined in the■ processions,
and a few of them cheered lustily tor
•Jell'. Davis, while other: - cheered for
President Johnson and Given.
About midnight, after Given had
made his speech, tnanking the crowd
for their supposed successful efforts in
his behal. and foreshadowing his poli
cy, the news got out ihat Bowen, the
Radical candidate, was elected by a
small majority. The natural chagrin
on the part of the Conservatives which
followed this information developed
itself n various ways, but did not cul
minate until last night, when the Radi
cals commenced their jubilations. It
is true that the latter were unusually
enthusiastic and greatly excited in
consequence of the unexpected turn of
a flails. Their joy over the election of
their fiist candidate for the Mayoralty
was greatly enhanced by the circum
stances, and they exhibited it in rush
ing to extremes. A few negioeswho
had been dosed with croton oil in
lemonade, which they bought from
restaurants on election day, revenged
themselves by gulling the establish
ments. (Several others got into alter
cations with white men, but it is as
certained that no serious difficulty oc
curred until about midnight, when
several parties of drunken rowdies ap
peared on the streets and the lighting
commenced in earnest. One man arm
ed with a billy attacked an unknown
negro on Pennsylvania Avenue and
received a wound on his right forearm
from a razor cut, from which lie bled
to death. Another was severely cut
with a similar weapon, and it is sup
posed that he will die; and another
was beaten seriously, but is slowly re
covering. It is certain that the piovo
cation for these attacks oi the negroes
on white men was either a blow or ex
ceedingly imen perate language. The
fact that the police have arrested only
one negro on any serious charge is ac
cepted as proof that they were not, as
a general rule, the aggressors.
Tiie Harmony Company of Colors
made 3,620,000 yards of cloth last
month.
John F. Cook was nominated for,
and elected Alderman in the First
Ward of Washington city.
The Pontiac Sentinel thinks the Con
vention, though they did not deliber
ate upon mining interests in connec
tion with the “1 latform,” had a deci
ded interest in coal—facts.
The wheieabouts of “Wash” have
nM been ascertained.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 13 , 1868.
HINTS FOE THE TIMES.
dVf.lling.
The tombstone of every victim of
the “cqJc of honor” should bear the
inscription, lib DIED AS TIIE
FOOL diet:.
Duelling is a . tniumt of barbarism.
It is considered vv some as the test of
courage. To evfry right mimlcd man
it is in every case proof positive of
weakness and cowardice. Men are
prompted to it by the desire for the
blood of an opponent —a murderous
spirit —or by fear of the opinion of
others, which, when it leads to acts
injurious to otlu sand to society, is
absolute cowardice. If a. man has
done wrong and inflicted an injury up
on another, it is Ids duty to make am
ple amends, which would avoid the
excuse for a dud, If he has not done
wrong, and his conscience justifies his
course, let him tnaufffiiy breast the
obloquy, and steadily ride out tlie
storm. By - sacrificing his sense of
right to propitiate a depraved public
opinion, he unmans himself, an i cow
ardly flinches when duty calls upon
him to STAND FIRM.
We Hold oui lives as a trust from
the Creator. Our duty is m all proper
ways to prolong; our lives, and we are
at liberty to surrender it only at the
call of Him who gave it, in the per
formance of some high duty, or when
the hpur of tm •■"•wA-athlins arrived.
Our honor never can rightly require
a duel, for d.ueliiug never relieves ho tor
of any stain. It cannot do it. If a man
is charged with being a liar, a thief, or
guilty of any other infamous crime,
the shed blood of his victim, or his
own cannot prove it otherwise, for
notwithstanding the duel, the charge
might still be true. Tiie duel convinces
nobody.
We say let the infamy thud clings to
the murderer be the heritage of every
duellist.
Colored men! Set to your more en
lightened and better trained fellow
citizens an example which will make
them ashamed oi duelling Let every
one of your race uiidcistand that the
duellist will receive no countenance
from you; that thc'man whose hands
are stained with a fellow-creature’s
[flood shall be regarded by you as a
dangerous member of society, ever to
be shunned and avoided.
STEMS.
A colored man near Baton Rouge,
who was bitten by a mad dog three
months ago, has been attackod with
hydrophobia.
The Sultan of Turkey has just or
dered to be manufaded in Paris a sil
ver table, the price of which will not
be less than three millions of francs.
The Milledgeville Recorder says
fourteen convicts were received at tlie
Penitentiary last week. Lt says there
are at present 209 in it, exciusi”e of
the 100 hired out.
Sir George Cartier, the first baronet
of Canada, is a deseendent of Cartier,
ilie first explorer of the St. Lawrenc.
There is a ‘•Fanny Kemble cuff”
oui; though Mr. Butler gives no testi
mony that Fanny Kemble is addicted
to cuffing.
Wendell Phillips is working for the
Republican cause by denouncing
Grant, Colfax and the whole party.
A number of persons in White
county, Arkansas, have been poisoned
by eatiug mulberries in which locusts
had deposited eggs; everal died.
The Mayor of Petersburg, Va., re
cently entered a complaint against
himself lor breach of the peace, was
tried, convicted, and sentenced to pay
a tine of 810 and costs, and bound over
in the sum o" 8500 to be a law-abiding
citizen for six months. Ila was the
only witness in' the case.
j C.TKEEL.AiS.
TXT. CONSOLi!>ATED AMERICAN BAITISt
MISSIONAREV CON V . rICN To THE
cm. koh :•:•>.
Rooms or •.un Coe. Sue., Ukooki.yx, N. Y.
Dear Brethren ; —Many of you un
aware that we lacked eighteen hun
dred (81,800) dollars id' being aid ■ 1c
pay off the missionary debts of the
Convention the pa-ay,.ar.
Although our faithful missionaries
did not receive the pay promised
them. Uiey staid on their fields of labor
suffering in some instances, and ma
king great sacrifices in others. 11 aving
confidence in your devotion to the
cause of our Lord Jc us Christ, thior.gh
whose atonement -wo have been re
deemed, we have sent these mission
aries back to their fields, promising
them that they should have every cent
of the small salaries promised them,
and founding our promise on our faith
in your ability and willingness to give
the necessary means We beseech yon,
therefore, in the name of our God. to
give us at least one dollar (SI) each,
that we may be enabled to pay our
last year's in .ebtedness u> these rffi -
sionaries. If you will give us your
mile, we can immediately pay every
dollar and thus gladder the hears i.iuu
have been so much saddened by abso
lute want, I make this appeal and
request by order oi' the Executive
Board at'a regular meeting. They
believe that every brother and sister
will respond, and then unite with us
in rejoicing over the blessed fruits that
will be reaped tiie present year; for
the encouragement of your gifts will
| double the efforts of ihe missionaries,
and produce a corresponding result.
If you cannot spare a dollar at one
time.give twenty-five cents every week
till the dollar is paid. That can be
done by every one. Let no one say
••I can’t. 5 ’
God sees and knows and remembers,
and will repay.
Money maybe paid to an} - of the
following persons :
Edk-r W I’ Brooks, Treasurer, 800
N Seventh street, St Louis, Mo; Elder
R Deßaptist, President, 224 Fourth
Avenue, Chicago. Ill: Elder N G Mer
ry, Tice President, Nashville, Tenn;
Elder H I: Simpson, Recording Secre
tary, 164 Richmond street, Cincinnati,
Ohio; Elder L A Grimes, Boston,
Mass, Elder G W Dupee, Paducah,
Kentucky; Elder D W Andersouj
Washington, D C, or to the Corres
ponding Secretary, Rev. Rufus L.
Perry, Box 602 Brooklyn, N Y.
Pastors are respectfully requested to
bring this subject beibie their respect
ive churches, and act as agents in the
collections.
When these brethren receive funds
they will remit to the Treasurer
through the Corresponding Secretary,
so that eveiy person may receive an
official acknowledgment of the amount
given.
Rufus L. Perry.
Corresponding Secretary C. A. B,
M. C.
THE CASH "SYSTEM.
The experience ol - newspapers, all the world
over, has proved tlie necessity of adopting and
adhering to the “cash system.” We have teen
compelled to resort to it, in this office, as the
oui v means of seif protection.
Tiie expenses of a newspaper are all cash ex
penses. Printers must be pain every week.
Tlie telegraph associations give no credit. Paper
is a “cash article.” So with all the principal
items of the expense incurred in "running a
newspaper.” The credit system in this matter
works all one way; there is bio reciprocity about
it.
Tlie only way to carry out such a system is
never to deviate irom it. There can then be no
olfenco given, to any oue; nor any exception
taken bv any reasonable man. In this office, ac
cordingly, orders have been issued, and an
nouncement has been made, tlint no subscription
v, ill be received, and no advertisement inserted,
unless paid for in advance.
The only exception is hi tiie case of regular ad
vertisers having m .nitty bills. As regards these,
it would be inconvenient and almost impractica
ble to require payment of every advertisement as
handed iu. Witii regard to occasional adverti
sers, however, there is no exception made. It
would be invidious to make any, while, by ad
hering to a uniform system, we avoid giving any
occasion for complaint. If an advertisement or
■ subscription is refused, it is not from any doubt
ofits payment by the o'ierer, but from the neces
s;tv ofuialcingthe rule absolutely uniform.
[Mobile tiegister.
We feel just as the editor of the
j Register does about this matter. We
are urged to an observance of this
system of doing business, from the
iact that we ate always asked lor the
cash when we purchase our stock.
We agree with him that credit is al
most equivalent to no pay, and re
spectfully eail the attention of the
. the readers of the Standard to .he
! fact. [INI.
MY 38,
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; mourn >. It mt » htic.#i impost a
Icy and death of ;h ■ -a-: had v fieri.- fl
ed mid elt”, u ie-I to It niou: ■;.■
in righteous indignation tbrtt :L• ..
she had so imp’ieifh u-i> .fid - kn\e l-.-'
trayod lu-r.
When Benedict Art. fl!8 J.i;h r*
j and jeaion: y tunp-.eu i.im to eir;.,
j his country, the nation mourned lii.n.
one so beloved and elevated siiould isl I
!so low. V,Tien tlie lanity and Mntq
tiou of Aaron Burr prompted him
1 treason, the nation again mown -d 8<
; parted greatne;... An m, and■: •
1 I'Teu:, : go 1-lfke I.si ■ 1 WeJ sier to
—-iimndeii and Ln -cfl upon tiie r«•< -
that i . aiiy, and o
1 again the (bn: a", <i:. ff o’er.--: :va
j the L;ud, a.nd tli-i i. r. hutvens v.v .
Tears of auguisii. ..lice passes:
! hopes and eontiJeni-v. of ;.ie ; eu:
J centered in Wm. 11. -wvard. Nev. i
i was man more Le’evm . v u e> mid;.,
i people; never more To--,
‘ betrayed. AmUd o,:, fa/oes, ion.” i....-'
: ferret], was too mi.;-h ibr tin- gr v oi
statesman. c.iA the cat.-tcoinb < : :
i to receive another vie;.mol luftfliifl. :
I and ape-.:; ..e n. p: i.a.',fle. Need
j speak of And rev Jokr.sou. Ltl i. w
! dark doi fl tfl oblßica envT - , ..n
m it? ibkk>, :ui4 let L:m
j down into cvcrlaT ; Ur : . ! ...
; unhonoren and imrci. - .
j And now, once again is Liu.- ' J
j heart of a great nation torn v\ iih ...
! Look at the array of names of .
noble men. at t.ho-berinnig of thi i •
tide. Ilc.v the peopk: have loved :■ a i
trusted and hon ored than. The h -
of a bleeditg dismantled cKumtry .-
tered in them. The prayers and ’ ;. «
of the loyal men and women of tflw
Bcuth have been poured out, that the- -,
men might prove faithful to ’hffir
trust, and save them from imp<
ruin. But, O. how have the nngh-.y
fallen. Their love of power and r< 1-
iion has oL:0 been their ruin. .‘Ln/
and Webster, Sewr.-rd ;md Join, .-a
lost all iu grasping tor'dm I’reai
cy. Trumbull and ins compters i.- ...
stranded on the roc!; of unbridled
bition, and they, 100, must In-hi m
the dark lecord of those of v. h-m • .
written, “pride pc'r.l f g;. .• a fail.
Toll the beli, Y, ji'ehrm..'.!
[Pc-n'mc S-rntiir...
Per souni.
Admiral Farragut ana the Uif -
States squadron have- left Lisbon \i
Antwerp.
General Grant expects to spent, ti. ;
summer upon his farm, near St n0...
Mo.
Carle!ta is still crazy. She via
to go to Miramar.
Randall wants to go to Florid.- *a .1
he elected 10 the Senate.
The Boston Journal calls Bur
game Bur-Lin-Game,« h Cltim.: . .
Gilmore Simms addressed agLflr
school at Charlotte, N. C . last wv
Augustus Waters, of New York flt
getting up a Republican Ciunp -
Songster.
Hills and Valleys: Thomas ILL.
Boston artist, is doing the Yo 8 A..
Valley.
Morocco’s complaint of its fl'm. ,r
is the sau e as A. Johnson's of
-
Dickens has received a legacy m
.22,000 from the late Rev. Cha
Hare Tov.nshend.
Henry C. Carey declines to run :m
Congress in the Second Disttfl -
Pennsylvania.
A string of small jingling bells
style of necklace worn by Miss A
Boyd, the adventuress.
“Lazy” Stanbery (according ti
- has concluded to accept the
toruey Generalship'from that -
gontletnan,