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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1875.
OUR JOB OFFICE. *
Our Job Office is still under the su
pervision of Mr. John M. Weigle, one
of the finest Job Printers in the State?
That Department has a complete mod
ern outfit, and from it work can be
turned out fully equal to New York,
aud we propose to do work. 10 per
cent, cheaper than the rates charged
by Coblies, Macy & Cos. We make
Bank and Railway Printing, Mer
chants’ Bill and Letter Heads, Check
Books and Cards a Specialty. We
would be glad to have a trial by our
Business Men who are in the habit of
sending their work away and getting it
executed in no better style, and at a
higher rate.
—i m i— ——
Paul Reveke’s Ride, the beautiful
poem by Prof. Henry W. Longfellow,
which we publish tb's morning, is
worthy of a place in every scrap book.
Longfellow is the prince of American
poets, and touches nothing in litera
ture that he does not adorn.
1 he Texas-Mexican border war seems
to have subsided. We hear nothing
of it lately, and doubt exceedingly that
if it is any worse now than it has been
for the last forty years. The country
needed a sensation, and a portion of
its press tried hard to make one out
of this, but so far the effort has been a
failure.
The Constitution and Herald, of At
lanta, are flinging postmaster’s certifi
cates at each other’s heads, to prove
superior circulation. The News slyly
insinuates that postmasters are doubt
less ignorant of the fact that informa
tion of the kind is not permitted by the
Department at Washington.
As an item of news, wo will state
that the Beecher trial is still going on
at Brooklyn—still filling the Northern
atmosphere with enough stench to
start a contagion of cholera. It is
suggested that before hot weather
comes a change of venue be made and
the case be taken to one of the guano
islands. The whole nation is utterly
sick and disgusted with it.
We publish additional details of the
destruction of crops by the late frost.
The Sea Island crop of cotton along
the South Atlantic coast, the corn and
tobacco of Kentucky, and the fruit
everywhere West have been either
wholly or partially ruined. The loss
in money is incalculable. The wheat
crop does not seem to have suffered as
much as the rest, though that is doubt
less very greatly damaged.
We mail The Constitutionalist this
morning to a great many of its old
patrons whose names have been drop
ped frofh the books because of their
failure to renew their subscriptions.
We would be glad to make their ac
quaintance again. We cannot, how
ever, relax the rule adopted to require
subscriptions to be paid in advance. It
is our intention not only to keep the
paper fully up to the standard of this
issue but to make it ten times more
interesting. The old Constitutionalist
is clasped to the people of Georgia with
hooks of steel, and we cannot help
thinking that every one of its old
friends will come back to it.
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Ex-Congressman Mclntyre has sent
his back pay to John Jones, State
Treasurer. He says: “Now, that the
clamor has subsided, I do with it as I
originally intended, and enclose to you
the $3,930.80, to bo deposited in the
State Treasury and disposed of as the
law-making power may direct. I have
but one regret about this matter, and
that is that I did not have the authori
ty at the time, by the sanction of a
law, to draw from the Federal Treasury
enough money to pay the entire debt
of the State of Georgia.” The “clam
or” has not exactly subsided, but if
there has not been a wonderful sub
siding of back-payers we are much
mistaken. They are passing to that
most dismal of tombs, whose epitaph
is “Great Men off Duty.”
The communication signed “A Poor
Man” is written upon a subject of vital
interest to the laboring population and
men living upon small salaries. Build
ing and Loan Associations are as yet
little understood in America, but in
Scotland, where they originated some
fifty or seventy-five years ago, and all
over the Continent of Europe, they
are as common as banking institutions
are among us. Nevertheless, they
have helped many a man to secure a
home for his family, which he never
would otherwise have got. Like all
things else in life, they sometimes fall
into the hands of unscrupulous men,
but not often. The stockholders are
generally persons who watch small
investments very closely, and make it
hot for the man who attempts to cheat
them. * t* § i y
Special to the Constitutionalist, by 8. & A.
Telegraph Cos.
THE NINTH DISTRICT.
Bell Men Offer Other Candidates, but
the Hill Men Stand Fast—No Nomi
nation-Bell and Hill to Put in an
Appearance.
Gainesville, April 21,1875.
yesterday’s proceedings.
President Simmons called the Con
vention to order, and ordered the three
hundred and seventy-eighth ballot. It
resulted : Hill 26, Bell 35. Three hun
dred and seventy-ninth and three hun
dred and eightieth, no change. Turn
bull stated that it had been said 999
times that something should be done
in the Convention. He was willing to
withdraw Bell if the Hill men would
withdraw Hill and take a third man.
If both sides were determined on their
same men, he moved a conference
committee, consisting of fourteen
seven on each side. Passed.
The Convention adjourned till 2p. m.
evening session, 2 p. M.
The Committee of Conference report
ed to Tho balloting then
commenced. C. J. Welborn was offer
ed. 382d ballot—Hill, 26; Wellborn, 35.
383d ballot—no change. J. N. Dorsey
was then offered. 385th—Hill,
Dorsey, 39386th ballot—Hill, 25>£;
Dorsey, 38>£; Gilmore county voting
for Hill. Billups, of Morgan, was in
troduced. Ballot 387—Hill, 28; Billups,
36. Notice given by Mr. Allred, of
Pickens, that on to-morrow he would'
move to suspend the two-thirds rule.
The convention adjourned until 8 p. m.
If the majority rule be established
to-morrow, Hill’s friends will issue an
address, calling upon Hill to take the
field and run the race.
NIGHT SESBION.
Mr. Allred withdrew his motion to
rescind the two-thirds rule. He had
been in 27 conventions, that always
nominated a candidate; therefore it
would be against Democratic usage to
suspend the rules.
The President ordered the 389th
ballot—Hill, 26; Bell, 35. 390, 391, 392
—no change. A motion to adjourn was
lost. 393, 394, 395, 39G—no change.
397, 398—Dorsey, 35; Hill, 26. 399, 400
—Hill, 25; Bell, 35. Turnbull, of Banks,
said the Bell party had shown a con
ventional spirit, had offered different
parties all |over the Ninth District.
He was willing to take any good man
that the Hill party would agree to.
401 ballot—Candler, 39)£; Hill,
402, 403—n0 change. 404—Langston,
37; Hill, 24.
The convention adjourned until 10:30
to-morrow. Considerable interest is
manifested. No nomination is likely
to be made. Hill speaks here Friday.
Bell will arrive to-morrow. N.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Rumored Cabinet Change.
Washington, April 21.—Postmaster
General Jewell returned to Washington
this morning. He states positively
that the report that the President has
requested Secretary Delano to resign
is not true. Gov. Jewell was in the
railroad car with the President affd
Mr. Delano when the published state
ment referred to was brought to their
attention, aud his assertion is based
upon what was then said by the par
ties directly concerned.
In the Matter of Gov. Bard.
Postmaster General Jewell has re
ceived several petitions, signed by al
most every Republican in Atlanta, Ga.,
endorsing the appointment of Conley
as Postmaster at that point, and pray
ing that he will not rescind his action
aud appoint Bard. Besides these pe
titions, a number of letters have been
received, warmly endorsing Conley’s
appointment.
FROM LOUISIANA.
The Trouble in the Legislature.
Message of the Governor. Impeach
ment of the Auditor.
New Orleans, April 21.—Governor
Kellogg to-day sent a special message
to both Houses of the General Assembly
calling attention to the fact that the
time for which the Assembly was con
vened is rapidly drawing to a close,
urging the passage of a bill for the relief
of the city of New Orleans and recom
mending an amendment to the funding
law. His Majesty closes as follows:
“Permit me to say that it is expected
of you under existing occurrences that
the great interests of the State and
city shall receive the preference in your
proceedings over the advancement of
party, and our financial condition ren
ders it very undesirable that the term
of this session should be extended, nor
can it be with justice to the tax payers
or the creditors of the State.”
The following telegrams explain
themselves:
New Orleans, April 20.
Hon. Wm. P. Frye, M. C., Lewiston,
Me.:
The Democrats unseated four Re
publican members to-day. Telegraph
me whether in your opinion the agree
ment signed by the Democrats were to
disturb more of the members of the
House except those mentioned in the
award to go out.
(Signed) S. B. Packard.
Lewiston, Me., April 21.
Hon. S. B. Packard, United States Mar
shal, New Orleans:
By the agreement and award the
status of your Legislature was to re
main as we left it. The Democrats
violate their good faith and plighted
honor in their outrageous attempt to
change it.
(Signed) W. P. Fbye.
The impeachment of Auditor Clinton
passed the House 73 to 21.
The Senate is in Executive session.
Railway News.
Omaha, April 21.—A1l East bound
trains that have been delayed at Rock
Springs i'or the past few days started
East at one o’clock this afternoon.
The W est bound trains that have been
lying at Rawlings have started West
for Green river. Telegraphic com
munication has been interrupted since
two o’clock by a storm. Nothing fur
ther is known of the situation. The
water, however, is falling, and every
thing looks well.
FOREIGN NEWS.
England.
London, April 21.—The Duchess of
Sutherland and the Duke and Duchess
of St. Albans were present to-day at
the revival services in the Hay Maket,
conducted by Moody and Sankey.
Gergmany.
It is rumored that Bismark has ad
dressed a note to Luxemburg similar
to those sent to Belgium.
AUGUSTA. GA- THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 22. 1875.
FROM NEW YORK.
A Civil Rights Case. The Papal En
voys.
New York, April 21—The treasurer
or Booth’s Theatre was arrested last
evening on a warrant issued from Com
missioner Davenport, based on an af
fidavit of a colored man named Smith,
that he and his lady were refused
seats In the parquette of the theatre.
The treasurer was bailed till to-day.
Count Marefaschi, Mar Roncetti and
Dr. Übaldi, Papal envoys, left for Bal
timore this morning, and will sojourn
with Archbishop Bay ley till that pre
late comes to New York to confer the
Beretta on Cardinal McClosky.
It is said three men, in clearing out
a cesspool at Staten Island, came upon
between $20,000 and $30,000 gold coin.
It seems the premises were formerly
owned by a city bank cashier, who
proved a defaulter to the amount of
$160,000.
Judge Blatchfosd rendered a decision
in the case of Charles A. Dana, arrested
upon attachment sued out of the Su
preme Court of the District of Colum
bia by United States Marshal Fiske.
J udge Blatchford discharged Mr. Dana
from the custody of the Marshal of this
District in a very lengthy opinion.
An order for the arrest of Tweed
was made under $3,000,000 bail, placed
in the hands of the warden of the
penitentiary. Should the decision of
the Court of Appeals favor Tweed he
will bo taken to Ludlow Street Jail, to
await the further action of the courts.
MINOR TELEGRAMS.
The nail operatives at Wheeling have
struck.
The extensive oil cloth factory at
Elizabeth, N. J., belonging to the East
ern Manufacturing Company, burned
this morning. Loss, $100,000; insur
ance, $25,000.
A Camden and Amboy train struck a
carriage on Eighth street, Philadel
phia. One killed and another dying.
The jury in the Bowen libel suit
against Riordan & Dawson, the pub
lishers of the Charleston News and
Courier, consists of six whites and six
blacks. The publications were ad
mitted by the defense. The admission
of proof of the truth of the alleged
libels corroborated every point by the
prosecution.
THE LATE FROST.
Total Destruction of Crops.
Charleston, April 21.—There has
been great damage to sea island cotton
and early fruits.
Cleveland, April 21. — Nearly all the
peaches have been killed ; apples have
suffered, but wheat is uninjured.
Louisville, April 21.—Reports from
all parts of tne State show great dam
age to fruits and tobacco plants. Other
crops have suffered triflingiy.
Cincinnati, April 21.—Reports from
60 Ohio and 31 Indiana towns indicate
a complete failure of peaches, and ap
ples slightly injured ; 24 towns report
wheat uninjured, 22 report half crops,
and 12 no crop. Reports from 20 towns
in Western Pennsylvania indicate half
a crop of wheat, and fruit reports from
Michigan indicate great damage to
wheat and destruction of peaches. Ap
ples promise well. Plentiful rains may
improve the peach crop.
Arrest of a South Carolina Ex-
Treasurer.
Columbia, April 21. — Ex-Treasurer
Parker was arrested to-day on a charge
of embezzling $28,000 of the sinking
fund money of the State. He has not
yet pfocured bail.
“A PETRIFIED BOURBON.”
[Rome Courier.]
We have endeavored to draw out the
Atlanta Herald in regard to its propos
ed policy in the next Presidential elec
tion. It pronounces us “a petrified
Bourbon,” but does not state what it
considers Bourbonism. We should like
to see a statement from it on these
points. Now, if to be a true Democrat
and opposed to Radical usurpations
and violations of the Constitution, and
in favor of the perpetuation of the
free institutions of this country as
established by our fathers, and the con
ciliation of the people of all sections
upon this line, constitute us “a petri
fied Democrat,” we accept the designa
tion with honest pride. If the love of
public liberty and free government,
which were so violently overthrown by
the reconstruction measures, and un
der which the iniquitous Federal legis
lation for the past ten years has been
enacted, but which the “Greeley
philosophy ” proposes to accept as
“ the results of the war,” and which
we deny ank most unequivocally con
demn , constitute “ a petrified Bour
bon,” we glory in our genuine Democ
racy. Will the Herald do us the dis
tinguished honor of telling us where
it stands, and what kind of meat it
proposes to feed on ? Will the Herald
answer ?
The Weather.
War Department, )
Office of Chief Signal Officer, v
Washington, April 22—1 a. m. )
Probabilities :
For the South Atlantic and Gulf
Slates and Tennessee, cooler and
generally cloudy weather, with north
to east winds, rising barometer and
ra.in from Mississippi, eastward to the
Atlantic coast. The Mississippi river
will fall slowly.
Report of the United States Signal
Service Bureau.
Augusta, April 21—4:16 P. M.
Augusta, 55 deg.—Light rain.
Buffalo, 31 deg.—Fair.
■Charleston, 56 deg.—Light rain.
New Orleans, 70 deg.—Cloudy.
New York, 44 deg—Clear.
Don Piatt has this Capital notice of
Spencer, the little fat sutler whom the
negroes of Alabama thrust into the
Senate to represent that State: “It re
quired a war that emancipated the
slaves and sunk us deep in debt, to say
nothing of the frightful carnage, to
produce such a Senator as Spencer. We
can comprehend the presenoe of an
ignorant negro in the Senate, for his
color is emblematic of the Republican
party—his very odor is characteristic
of its corrupt condition—but Spencer
ls^ on ® °f those evils that defy philoso-
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Railroad Consignees— April 21.
Pbb South Carolina Railroad.—M Col
<^ough; E W Barker; Barrett’ &L; Houston
§ & Cos; D L Fullerton. W I
Delph & Cos; E A (asm; Greene & R; M A
Burlingame; 8 Lemon 4 Oo;G T Jackson-
O’Donnell <fe B; Roberts & Cos; Simmons &r’
G D Connor ;JD4JW Butt; Calvin & Jones •
Derry 4L;BN Hotchkiss; [F); (R); D*Sttl-
Hng k Son; E T M A Ct : J O M&thewson.
F. K. Husks. Agent.
LOAN AND BUILDING ASSOCIA
TIONS.
Homes for Poor Men.
Mr. Editor : In your issue of the
16th you ask a question of vital im
portance to every one, and especially
to the poor man, to wit: Have Southern
Building Associations operated for the
general good or only for individual
benefit ? The question, if properly an
swered and thoroughly understood by
the masses, will tend more to the ad
vancement of the South than any one
thing else.
In every State where a homestead
law has been enacted and incompetent
officers are chosen, they have been
operated for individual benefit; but
where the State does not make by law
men dishonest who would otherwise be
honest; and where competent officers
are at their head, then building Associa
tions operate for the general good.
The principle of these Associations
will, if properly conducted, enable a
poor man to secure himself a home in
from five to six years for near the
same amount he would pay in rent.
To illustrate: Mr. A pays S2O per mouth
rent. In six years he will have paid
$1,440, or add 10 per cent, interest and
you have $1,584, which he has paid,
and he owns no more of the house than
ho did before entering it. Then add 5
per cent, for what he will put upon the
property for his own convenience. This
is so much dead loss. On the other
hand, Mr. A takes six chances in a
building. Also, at 50 cents per share,
each share representing a cash value
of $250, or $1,500 for the whole. If he
redeems his six shares and builds a
house he will pay sl2 per month on his
shares and sl2 for rental or interest,
making a total of $24 per month,
S2BB per year, and in six years the
sum of $1,728
Then deduct his
dividend of 5 per
cent of $86.40
Then deduct his
amount rent paid
of 1,584 00—1,670 40*
And he only pays the sum 0f... $57 60
for a house that is worth $1,500. The
5 per cent, for conveniences that he
will put upon rented property will pay
wear and tear aud insurance. Besides
all the repairs put upon the property
are his own. You often hear the re
mark, when a tenant makes an im
provement : “lam compelled to do it
the landlord will not.”
The poor man argues : “ I am unable
to go into the market and borrow
money at a high rate of interest, and
if I cannot pay the market rate, how
am I to pay the Building Association
rates ?” The answer to this argument
is an easy one. We will suppose the
market rate of interest is 10 per cent.,
and the Building Association is 10 (but
in fact the market rate is really from 3
to 5 per cent, more than the Building
Association.) But suppose they were
both the same. When a man goes in
to the market to borrow, say $1,500,
he must have sufficient collaterals to
secure the loan. The poor man has
none, and of course gets no money.
But suppose he could get it ? How is
he to pay the 10 per cent, interest ?
His income will not allow him. But
suppose he was in a Building Assoeia
tion, where each share-holder, both re
deemed and unredeemed, shared in the
dividends that are declared every six
months, those that had redeemed their
shares and taken a loan would receire
a dividend; and past experience has
shown that the dividends are five per
cent., so in the end he really pays only
five per cent, on the amount he has
borrowed. With these plain practical
figures before him, no poor man need
complain of not having a house of his
own. The great trouble with poor
men, and especially at the South, is
because they are too timid. They do
not enter as a mass into mutual asso
ciations for their general good.
Thanking you, sir, for asking the
important question above mentioned,
and hoping it may be the means of de
veloping and setting practically in
operation what ought to be justly call
ed the Poor Man’s Saving Building
Fund, and being satisfied that your
only object is the good of the many,
I am, respectfully,
A Poor Man.
Wonderful Surgical Operation.
(Shelbyvilie Commercial.)
On Monday, the 22d March, Dr. Sam
uel M. Thompson, assisted by Drs.
Lipscomb, Evans and Christopher, per
formed one of the most wonderful and
critical operations known to surgery,
upon the person of Mrs. Hendron, an
old lady of this city, who has, for sev
eral years past, suffered much from
dropsy, by removing from her an
ovarian tumor, which weighed about
one hundred pounds. He made an in
cision of about ten inches in length
from the naval down, through which
her intestines were taken out aud laid
on a table, and tho immense tumor
that had been growing for six years
was cut loose and extracted, the bowels
replaced and the cut stitched, which
has since entirely healed up, and Mrs.
Hendron has recovered.
This operation was performed at her
earnest solicitation. Dr. Thompson,
one of the best surgeons in this coun
try, preferred taking her to Dr. Eve,
of Nashville, but she insisted that he
should perform the operation. Mrs.
Hendren is an old lady, and was very
weak and much exhausted from long
suffering ; but being possessed of an
iron will and unbounded confidence in
the skill of Dr. Thompson as a sur
geon, she boldly stepped upon the
table preparatory to undergoing the
critical operation, and would not take
anything that would render her uncon
scious.
Dr. Thompson had several years’ ex
perience in surgery during the war,
when he had a great many difficult
cases of amputation to perform. In
this case he was but a few minutes in
extracting the tumor, replacing the in
testines and closing up the incision.
We look upon this case as one of the
most remarkable that has ever been
performed by any physician in the
State, and it will, no doubt, as it should,
add greatly to the reputation of Dr.
Thompson.
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It was night. A policeman was pac
ing his lonely beat, wondering if it
would ever be his luck to find a fat wal
let when no one was around. Through
the gloom and darkness a boy appear
ed, some bread and meat under one
arm, an old army blanket under the
other and a butcher knife in his belt.
“Whither?” growled the officer, as he
halted. And through the dark shad
ows which were hiding the boy from
sight came the answer, “Off for the
Black ’ills.”
Eighteen women in a Massachusetts
town recently cowhided a man for kick
ing his wife, and the job was so well
done that he hasn’t been able to split
wood for four weeks.
THE IRISH IN AMERICA.
The Old Know-Nothing Spirit Ram
pant.
(Baltimore Sun.)
The New York Commercial Adver
tiser, an extreme Republican journal,
seems to be troubled about the Irish
element In American politics. It sets
up a wail on the subject which is cow
ardly, and would befit the meanest
Know-Nothingism that ever disgraced
the country. The immediate occasion
of its trouble is that the Springfield
Republican has discovered that Gen.
Hawley, of Connecticut, was defeated
for Congress by the Irish vote in Hart
ford and New Britain. Whereupon the
Advertiser exclaims:
If the growler of the Republican and tho
unhappy maligners of the Administration
would put on their glasses and examine the
returns from the various districts of Con
necticut, they would learn that the Irish
vote is a power in tiie State. Take the Irish
vote out of the Democratic party and it
would be a skeleton without sinews or
brains. In this country Patrick is a ma
chine for turning out Democratic voter.
and transparent as the fact is to every man
who gives any attention to politics, most of
the organ grinders of the Republican par
ty are stone blind to it. The census shows
that Irish parents produce three voters to
one turned out by A merican born parents.
The Hibernian and his offspring are the
leaders in primary meetings ana on elec
tion day. Go to any polling district in this
city, or to any manufacturing district out
side of the city, and you will find four
Irishmen to one American guarding the
ballot box, inviting you to participate in
tiie glorious privileges of an American citi
zen. Where one Hibernian neglects to vote
bin Americans stay away from the polls.
Patrick is never afflicted with apathy on
election days. He is the sleepless sentinel
of Democracy, and hence the successor De
mocracy. * * * Where groggeries, vice
and crime predominate Democracy is pow
erful. Where churches and school houses
abound Republicanism is strong. Without
the Irish vote Democracy could never have
elected a President, a Governor, oi a Uni
ted States Senator.
Whether it is discreditable to the
Irish population that they have larger
families than American parents is a
question which depends, in some de
gree, upon the value which is attached
to the ideas of Malthu;. There are
many who will not be sorry to hear of
the Irish increase in the United States.
They make, in general, energetic and
useful citizens. If the Irish element
in elections is large, in the East
especially, it has also been large in
every war of the United States with
foreign powers, and in the construc
tion of its works of internal improve
ment and other battles of peace. Hence
the productiveness of Irish parents
should be a subject of congratulation.
“Take the Irish vote out of the Demo
cratic party,” says the Commercial,
“and it would be a skeleton without
sinews or brains.” And take the col
ored vote out of the Republican party
and “it would be a skeleton without
sinews,” at least, in a very important
portion of the country. If the freed
men are not “machines” for turning
out “Republican voters,” what are
they politically? A race which fur
nishes both “sinews and brains” is bet
ter worth having. If it be the fact
that “where one Hibernian neglects to
vote, ten Americans stay away from
the polls,” (they are all Americans,
however, according to our view,) so
much more 3hame for AmprUuna if
these “ten Americans” had always been
prompt and faithful in the performance
of their political duties we should
have a different state of things at
the capital of the Federal Govern
ment, the State capitals, and in the
great cities. The apathy of those
who have most interest in elec
tions has always been recognized as
one of the chief sources of our nation
al and municipal troubles. “Patrick”
has set a good example to his adopted
countrymen in this respect, and if he
had not been left to fight alone, like a
forlorn hope in political battles, the
state of public affairs in this country
would be in a more healthful and
hopeful condition. The assertion that
“without the Irish vote Democracy
could never have elected a President, a
Judge or a United States Senator,” is
about as accurate and truthful as the
other statements of the Advertiser.
Perhaps it will be able to prove the
Irish elected Jefferson President, or
possibly Jefferson was not a Democrat.
Nothing could well be more reckless
than the assertions that “where grog
geries, vice and crime predominate De
mocracy is powerful. Where churches
and school houses abound Republican
ism is strong.” The number of churches
and church members in the South is
larger in proportion to the population
than ii any other part of the country.
It is only the ignorant portion of the
population there that is opposed to
Democracy, or rather Conservatism,
which would save State and people
from Radical upturning and wreck.
Connecticut has as many churches and
school houses in proportion to popula
tion as any other Northern State, and
she’s not Republican. Why should in
telligent journals assail respectable
parties with such absurd and indis
criminate denunciation?
The masses of both the leading po
litical parties in this country are no
doubt equally sincere and patriotic, no
matter what their errors. The same
may be said of the various races which
make up our common nationality. The
Irish and German born, who compose
the mass of our adopted citizens, have
an equal interest in the common wel
fare with those who are “ to the man
ner born.” In becoming citizens of the
United States they become Americans,
and ought not to be the subject of in
vidious criticism and designations like
those employed by the Advertiser. —
Some of the ablest and most useful
men in our public service and in va
rious departments of trade and indus
try are of these races, and their imme
diate descendants in the land are so
innumerable and thoroughly Ameri
can as not to be distinguishable from
any others. There was no objection
to the services of those races in time
of war, and if they could be trusted
then why not now ?
Rather Late. —A petition is before
the Massachusetts Legislature praying
for a formal repeal of the sentence of
punishment pronounced against Roger
Williams by the General Court of Mas
sachusetts Bay in the year 1635. The
ground of the petition is “ that Roger
Williams was banished because of his
advocacy of the separation of Church
and State ; that that principle has since
been recognized as correct, and has
since been of great benefit, to the Uni
ted States, and, therefore, that Roger
Williams, its first advocate, ought to
be set right.” If Roger is hovering
about the rsgged edges of time as a
spook he will be compelled to admit
that posterity is disposed to do the
“ square thing.”
Olive Logan says that she would not
marry again if Sykes should die, and
Sykes winks a fearful wink and re
marks : “Lor’ help the feller if you
do 1”
LEXINGTON OR CONCORD.
Who Fired That First Shot.
(N. Y. Herald. 16.) ,
In view of the controversy that has
arisen among the several towns in
Massachusetts, more or less connected
with the honor of having “ fired the
first shot that was heard around the
world,” at the beginning of the Ameri
can Revolution, it may be interesting
to refer to contemporaneous history
touching upon the subject. For ex
ample, in Irving’s “ Life of Washing
ton,” vol. 1, pp. 430-431, we find
WASHINGTON IRVING’S ACCOUNT.
° n J; he night of the 18th of April,
h ro, Dr. W arren sent off two messen
gers, by different routes, to give the
alarm that the King’s troops were ac
tually sallying forth. The messengers
got out of 80-ton just before the order
of General G age went iuto effect to
prevent any one from leaving the
town. About the same time a lantern
was hung out of an upper window of
the North Church in the direction of
Chailestown. This was a preconcerted
signal to the patriots of that place, who
instantly dispatched swift messengers
to louse the countr. In the meantime
Col. Smith, the British commander, set
out on his nocturnal march from
Lechmero Point by an unfrequent
ed path across marshes where
at times tho troops had to wade
through water. He had proceeded
but a few miles when alarm guns,
booming through the night air, ami
the clang of village bells showed that
the news of iris approach was travel
ing before him and the people were
rising. He now sent back to Gen. Gage
for a reinforcement, while Maj. Pit
cairn was detached with six companies
to press forward and secure the bridge
at Concord. Pitcairn advanced rapidly
—capturing every one that he met or
overtook. Within a mile aud a half of
Lexington, however, a horseman was
too quick on the spur for him, and,
galloping to the village, gave tho alarm
that the redcoats were coming. Drums
were beaten, guns fired. Bv the time
that Pitcairn entered the village about
seventy or eighty of the yeomanry, in
military array, were mustered on the
green, near the church. It was a part
of the Constitutional army, pledged
to resist, by force, any open hostility
of British troops. Besides these there
were a number of lookers-on, armed
and unarmed. The sound of drum
and the array of men in arms indicated
a hostile demonstration. Pitcairn halt
ed his men within o short distance of
the church, and ordered them to prime
and load. They then advanced at
double-quick time, the Major riding
forward and ordering the rebels, as he
termed them, to disperse. Other offi
cers echoed his words as they ad
vanced : “ Disperse, villains! ”
“Lay down your rebels, and
disperse ! ” The orders- were disre
garded. A scene of confusion en
sued, with firing on both sides;
which party commenced it has been
a matter of dispute. Pitcairn
always maintained ihat, finding the
militia would not disperse, he turned
to order his men to draw out and sur
round them, when he saw a flash in the
pan from the gun of a countryman
poofecG bohind a wall, and almost in
stantly the report of two or throo
kets. These he supposed to be from
the Americans, as his horse was
wounded, as was also a soldier close
by him. His troops rushed on and a
promiscuous fire took place, though,
as he declared, he made repeated sig
nals with his sword for his men to for--
bear. The firing of the Americans was
irregular and without iSuch effect;
that of the British was more fatal.
Eight of the patriots were killed and
ten wounded, and the whole put to
flight. The victors formed on the com
mon, fired a volley, and gave three
cheers for one of the most inglorious
and disastrous triumphs ever achieved
by the British arms.
Bancroft’s account.
In Bancroft’s “History of the United
Slates,” vol. vii., pp. 202-203, the fol
lowing version of the same affair is
given:
The last stars were vanishing from
night when the foremost party, led by
Pitcairn, a major of marines, was dis
covered advancing quickly and in
silence. Alarm guns were fired, and
the drums beat, not a call to village
husbandmen only, but the reveille of
humanity. Less then seventy, perhaps
less than sixty, obeyed tiie summons,
and in sight of half as many boys and
unarmed men were paraded in two
ranks a few rods north of the meeting
house. * * * The British van,
hearing the drum and the alarm guns
halted to load; the remaining com
panies came up, and at half an hour
before sunrise the advance party hur
ried forward at double quick time and
almost upon a run, closely followed by
the Grenadiers. Pitcairn rode in front,
and when within five or six rods of the
minute man, cried out: “Disperse, yo
villains; ye rebels, disperse; lay down
your arms; why don’t you lay down
your arms and disperse !” The main
part of the countrymen stood motion
less in the ranks, witnesses against ag
gression, too few to resist, too brave to
fly. At this Pitcairn discharged a pis
tol, and with a loud voice cried: “Fire !”
The order was instantly followed, first
by a few guns, which did no execution,
and then by a heavy, close and deadly
discharge of musketry. In the dis
parity of numbers, the Common was a
field of murder, not of battle. Parker,
therefore, ordered his men to disperse.
Then and not till then, did a few of
them, on their own impulse, return the
British fire. These random shots of
fugitives or dying men did no harm,
except that Pitcairn’s horse was, per
haps, grazed, and a private in the
Tenth Light Infantry was touched
slightly in the leg.
Brutal Murder at Edgefield Court
House. —Mr. Marshall Glover, of Edge
field county, twenty-four years of age,
and whom we are advised was a very
estimable young man, was brutally
murdered about 12 o’clock yesterday
by two brothers, named Stephens. It
is reported by an eye-witness that the
murderers fired twelve shots at young
Glover, several shots being fired while
he was down and weltering in his
blood. Daring the affair both Ste
phenses were slightly wounded by
shots fired by young Glover. The
Stephenses were tenants of Mr. Glover,
and the difficulty originated in some
differences existing in relation to a set
tlement of affairs which they had met
to adjust. The murderers attempted
to escape, but were arrested and are
now in the Edgefield jail. Young Glover
leaves a wife and two children to
mourn his untimely end.
[ Columbia Union Herald.
“Shaughraun,” in Irish, means a
vagabond, a sort of Hibernian “Rip
Van Winkle,” with the long nap omit
ted.
HON. BENJAMIN H. HILL.
What He Thinks of the Deadlock in
Gainesville.
Thinking that the public would like
to hear from Mr. Benj. E. Hill on the
issues at stake in the Ninth District, a
Ilerakl representative called npon him
yesterday to get his views. The an
nexed conversation took place:
Reporter—The public would like to
know from yourself the real causes
which have produced the “dead-lock”
in the Convention at Gainesville.
Mr. Hill—While the Convention is in
session I am disinclined to say much on
the subject. When the Convention
shall have adjourned I may have some
thing very specific to say. I prefer to
say it to the people, and face to face
with those who may be involved in my
statements. lam very anxious for the
people to know the facts as they are,
and especially that the issue is not a
personal one. that I can control. If I
could honorably solve the issue by
withdrawal, it would have been done
long ago. If I -were dishonorable
enough to make a trade, I could solve
it at any time in fifteen minutes.
Reporter—Will you not let the pub
lic know the general facts of the case?
Mr. Hill—l \\ ill do that with the dis
tinct understanding that, at present,
my statements are not to have a per
sonal application. One of the most in
telligent and worthy members of the
convention states* the issue well in a
letter to me, in these words :
“ Your friends will never yield under
any combination of circumstances. We
are making the fight on principle, and
cannot honestly surrender. Your can
didacy was not the cause of the con
test. but simply the occasion for the
commencement of an inevitable strug
gle between the Demecracy of the 9th
District and a powerful clique of politi
cal traders.”
We have often heard of trading in
political offices. But this crime has
reached a point in the 9th District that
is absolutely startling. If it cannot be
broken up, politics in that district will
cease to be decent. Almost every of
fice, Federal, State and county, is be
ing now brought into these trades.
We have determined to break them up.
These trades are sought to be carried
out through combinations in conven
tion. We are trying to break up the
trades and still preserve the conven
tion, if possible to do so.
This very convention, now sitting,
has been manipulated expressly to de
feat me, and the desire to defeat me,
with the principal actors, is solely be
cause I refuse, on any terms and un
der any circumstances, to join the ring
and make a trade. There are men in
that convention now who got in under
the most solemn assurances of sup
porting me, intending at the same time
to defeat me unless trades could be
made. Trade after trade has been of
fered me since the convention has been
in session, and they have become so
unblushing in their offers that they
have offered to reduce the contracts pro
posed to writing! I am prepared to
furnish the people the witnesses to
prove this charge beyond all doubt.
There are twenty-seven men in that
convention who are honoring their
State and their generation. They would
repudiate me if I were to ask them to
LUll&v %jm tluUoj 1— and X TTTA ill <1 udiwtiv
them and withdraw my name from the
convention if they were to ask me to
entertain an offer to trade. They have
deliberately determined to make the
fight against this “powerful clique of
political traders,” and have chosen me
to make it with. I had rather prove
worthy of such men than have a life
lease to any office on earth. You now
have the whole secret, and the only
secret of the “dead lock” at Gaines
ville. We cannot take a third man,
because we can neither yield to, nor
compromise with, political traders. We
intend to break up political offi -e trad
ing in the Ninth District if the people
will sustain it.
Understand me distinctly; I say
there has not been an hour since the
Gainesville Convention met when I
could not have terminated its sittings
with a trade. I make the statement
and am ready to go before the people
of the district and sustain it.
Reporter—ls Mr. Bell a party to these
offers ?
Mr. Hill—l am not making any per
sonal charges. Mr. Bell has always
been e steemed by me as a man of in
tegrity. If I could see him I have
faith that he would repudiate those
who are seeking to use his name in
this way. I intend he shall know the
facts, and he shall either repudiate
them or shoulder them. My friend
ship for him requires this much. I
will not stand and see others disgrace
him without giving him warning of the
danger. We have always been warm
personal friends, and I will not injure
him myself nor allow others to injure
him if I can prevent it. We intend to
break up political trading —the crime.
We would avoid a personal war on in
dividuals, but if political traders force
it they shall have it. I have fought
power, prejudice and madness in every
form since I have been in politics, and
I am now ready to fight political tra
ders, beginning iu the Ninth District.
I shall deal unjustly with none, but
fearlessly with all. I will make no
charge which I have not witnesses to
prove.
The truth is, all the troubles that
have been brought upon the country ;
all the corruptions at Washington City;
even carpet-bagism itself, have sprung
from and been produced by office
trading and office greed as the primary
cause. I have long seen this, and wish
ed for an opportunity to mako war on
it. The opportunity is at hand, I be
lieve. If we cannot stop political trad
ing, we can never stop political corrup
tion, it is utterly useless to talk longer
about reforming abuses or restoring
healthy government anywhere.
Reporter—We are to understand,
then, that you will take the field in the
Ninth District.
Mr. Hill—That is exactly what I shall
do if the Gainesville Convention fail to
make a nomination, as it will do if I
am not nominated. My nomination
would defeat the traders at once. If
there is no nomination I shall offer the
traders battle before the people, and
meet any and all leaders they may
send against me. I only regret the
time is so short. I would like to go
into every county. One thing is set
tled beyond all possibilito of change. I
will never trade for an office nor accept
or hold an office which is the result of
a trade by others in my behalf. I will
die in a dungeon first. If the people of
Georgia do not sustain me on this line
they need not sustain me at all. I sin
cerely hope the next Legislature will
make office trading, or offers to trade
in office, either for money or one office
for another, a penitentiary offense. It
is certainly doing more damage to
society than any and all forms of theft.
The farmer’s surest speculations will
be in live stock fcnd plough-shares,
JNew Series—Voi. 3, ]st o 73
Dlt. HICKS.
“ An Open Letter.”
[Florida Uaion.l
My Deab Doctor Hicks : Let me sav
in the first place, that I know you 'a
great deal better than McCallum does
or than does D. H. Hill, who, by the
way, was generally regarded in the
Confederate Army as a fizzle and fail
ure of the largest possible magnitude.
In the second place, I can safely say
I have been as consistent and constant
a Democrat, and was as Taithful a Con
federate soldier, as any of the men
who have lately been attacking you
through the press.
~ Thi r< lly, Doctor, permit me to say
that your last “open letter” in the
Press was a trifle uudiguified and un
worthy of your discretion and your wit
lou should not have
“Set on wheels in motion, such &
To force up one poor nipper kin of water.”
In a contest such as certain newspa
pers have waged against you, bristling
with personalities and foreign to all
your modes of thought, a man of your
cosmopolitan experiences and self
control, should and would have best
kept quiet. An honest man thrown on
bis defense is at almost as great a
disadvantage as a guilty one.
Then, too, Doctor, your assailants
have weapons with whose dexterous
handling you are not and have never
been familiar, to-wit: Personal abuse*
sweeping denunciations and reckless,
irresponsible declarations; witness, par
example, the maudling ravings of that
wordy, addle-headed individual who
overflows the Savannah Advertiser with
nsnsense signed “ Veritas Sms Puer
or, remember the malignant and dirty
fling of the News about your being
drunk |on the streets of Tallahassee.
The extent and frequency of your
written and published denials of* the
offences your enemies have charged
you with, have not tended to add in
our minds to your reputation as an
astute politician, a sharp and powerful
writer and the true-hearted gentleman
we know you to be. “Silence” would
have been “golden” indeed in your
case, though your “speech” is so often
more than “silver.” You have troubled
yourself too much and have said too
much. Those who know you have
never doubted the purity and wisdom
of all your course in public life; and
you have been so much master of the
situation that you could afford to
“smile, and hold the ribbons loose,”
and let the “little dogs, Tray, Blanche
and Sweetheart” bark ad libitum.
Don’t do it again, Doctor. Don’t
write any more “open letters.” Tour
friends will try to take care of your
reputation after you shall play your
part well.
And the thousands that remember
all those splendid services you ren
dered Florida last Winter; that long,
weary labor for Christ’s sake, under
the burning sun of India ; those noble,
and glorious, and gracious works so
often done for the church ; the purity
and spotlessness of your private life ;
the brilliant and varied talents you
possess ; the thousands who remem
ber these things will not be apt to
question your motives, or for an in
stant doubt your honesty and patriot
ism. hut will hold nn vnnr hand* and
encourage you, and hope for much
usefulness from you in yoiir new
duties, for much good to Florida.
And we will continue to ascribe the
attacks made on you to envy or malice,
or mere personal* hostility or a desire
for revenges for your marring some
littlb private scheme or other.
But we don’t want any more “open
letters” from you, for we think they are
not calculated to do you any good.
Your friend, faithfully and disinter
estedly, State Rights.
Orange county, April 15th.
Sale of Stocks and Bonds.— Mr.
Samuel C. Black sold at auction yester
day the following stocks and 'bonds;
81,000 City of Charleston six per cent,
stock, payable April, 1868, at 64c.; nine
shares Stono Phosphate stock, at §9B;
81,000 City of Charleston seven per
cent, non-taxable bonds, at 79c.; 8320
City Charleston six per cent, stock,
long date, at 55c.; forty shares Bank
Charleston National Banking Associa
tion stock,
Darlington Railroad second mortgage
seven per cent, bonds, at fifty
one shares Loan and Trust Company
stock, at $69j4 to S7O; 83,500 North
eastern Railroad second mortgage
eight per cent, bonds, at 74c.; 84,000
South Carolina Railroad first mortgage
seven per cent, bonds, at 93)£e.; 82,000
South Carolina second mortgage seven
per cent, bonds, at 67c.; 8120 past due
city stock, at 75c.— Charleston Neics and
Courier, 21st.
Two Hundred Horses Killed by Buf
falo Gnats.— On last Sunday the buffa
lo gnats made their appearance in this
and Clayton counties, also in Dunklin
oounty, Mo., in such vast swarms as to
prove very destructive to stock. We
were at Clarkton, Mo., at the time they
made their appearance, and on our
way home the sight of dead horses and
mules along the road, and the report
of others off the road, was distressing
in the highest degree. We have made
an estimate as best we could from the
various reports we received on our
way home Tuesday, and think the
number of horses and mules that have
been destroyed within two miles of the
road leading to Chalk Bluff, from that
place to within eight, miles of Gaines
ville, will reach 175 or 200, while the
number in and around Gainesville will
add at least 25 or 30 more to the num
ber. We have no report from below,
but hope it is not so bad in that direc
tion. A great many farmers have lost
all their plow stock, while many others
have not enough left to cultivate their
farms.— Gainesville {Ark.) Times.
Mr. Willard Carpenter, of Evans
ville, Ind., hiis decided upon a step
which will place him among the great
philanthropists of the world. He an
nounces that he will give 81,000,000 to
found a free college for poor students,
clothing, tuition and food, to be fur
nished for nothing. Provision is maue
for the support of a faculty of instruc
tors, and the whole fund is to be placed
in the hands of ten trustees, five of
whom shall be residents of Indiana
and five of adjoining States. Mr. Car
penter has not quite completed his
plan, but he hopes to witness the be
ginning of the enterprise before his
death. This institution will be open to
the poor alone, and will not be con
nected with any religious sect. Mr.
Carpenter is 72 years of age, and is
said to resemble in appearance Horace
Greeley. He was born in Vermont,
and began life as a peddler,
over the New England States and New
York with a pack on his shoulder.' His
children have already had their share
of his estate., and there still remains
enough to carry his project to success