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BENSON & McGHL. Editors.
A. G. McCURRY. Associate Editor.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
KldTOlta Sin : We Inter omniilnrt with a number
of prominent pentonit of unity, ami think .t. I‘.
fRAKT will !■ \ery nullable ami acceptable mini
to reprem.Ht Hart County in the next Irt-gialature.
We are aim. nurtured that if it in Out wUh of our peo
ple, that lie will permit hi* name fo lie used in tliin
connect lon We therefore nominate him, unking the
entire County to Htipport him.
Very reapertfully,
May 841 h, lrteo. VOTKUrt.
A COMNTH'I nOAAL AIMJIMIKXT.
We have recently received and road with
deep intercKt the great speech delivered in
the Senate of the United Mates by Sena
tor Benjamin H. Hill on the Spotford-
Kellogg contested election case. We have
hitherto presented the leading features of
the case to our readers, and also adverted
to the labors of Senator Hill in connection
therewith. A perusal of this grand effort
of Georgia's great statesman carries ns
back to the better days of the Republic—
to the days when a Calhoun so ably de
fended constitutional principles, and the
sag* of Marshfield poured forth the grand
est eloquence that ever enraptured Ameri
can auditories. The distinguished Senator
bases his argument against the validity of
Mr. Kellogg's election upon three grounds :
First, the body of persons that elected Kel
logg was not the Legislature of Louisiana ;
Secondly, that, conceding for tiio sake of
argument, that the body that elected Mr.
Kellogg was the Legislature of Louisiana,
yet under the evidence taken, a quorum
was not present when lie was elected ; and
lastly, assuming both of the former posi
tions not sustained, still the seat is wrong
fully occupied, because Mr. Kellogg se
cured bis election by bribery.
In the discussion of this question, Mr.
Hill argues as a great constitutional law
yer and carries conviction home to the
unbiased with ttiat power that has given
him so many grand triumphs before the
juries of the land. Georgia may not boast
of a Senator who would crook the preg
nant hinges that thrift may follow fawning
—that will stoop to kiss the rod that smites
us. Yet Georgia is proud of a Senator
that towers aloft as the proud summit of
the mountains, and to use his own elo-
quent epithet as applied to another dis
tinguished Georgian, proves himself the
Agamemnon of Southern statesmanship.
Senator Hill is perfectly at home -in the
discussion of constitutional questions, and
although forsooth may receive taunts and
aspersions for advocating with zeal nnd
power the cause he has espoused, lie does
not have to apologize to the Senate for not
being able to discuss the questions involv
ed in a lawyer like way, as some others do
whose powers when matched against Sen
ator Hill are like spray from flic wild
breakers thrown, or cobwebs before the
dashing tempest. The truth is, the solu
tion of the whole question depends upon
the legal principles involved, and it is from
a legal stand point Mr. Hill frames his
constitutional argument, and demonstrates
the correctness of his position by no less
eminent constitutional authority than that
of Chief Justice Marshall and Mr. Web
ster.
Much comment has been made about
Senator Hill's allusion to South Carolina,
at which the Senators from that gallant
State took umbrage. After alluding to
whisperings that had been heralded over
the country in regard to bargains and
agreements and parties thereby seeking to
soil the fair fame of that State, Senator
Hill uses the following eloquent language :
While 1 have never been a disciple of
that peculiar school of polities known as
the South Carolina school, 1 have always
regarded that State as the proudest in the
Union. The charge that anybody on this
side is to he influenced by any other than
proper motives is false, but when applied
to that gallant State I deny it with scorn
and indignation, for i tell you to-day that
that sense of honor which distinguished
that State in the days that are past and
gone is still instinct with life above the
ashes of so many other dead hopes and
ambitions, and it will continue so. What!
South Carolina purchase her redemption
from carpet-bag infamies by agreeing to
continue those infamies upon Louisiana?
If that were possible, no pelican bird could
ever afterward fold its weary wings in the
shade of the palmetto without finding it a
death-exhaling upas. Away with all these
charges; they are not true. Meet the
question upon the law, upon the evidence,
the Constitution, and upon the right,
'lo do right can never be a precedent for
wrong. I'o do right can never be a reason
fcr thinking there is danger. There is
always safety in right; there is always
danger in wrong.
It will be readily seen that the above is
a high compliment to the l*almetto State
on the part of our distinguished Senator.
The speech covers forty-eight pages and is
full of interest and replete with grand,
logical and statesmanlike argument from
first to last.
Gordon's resignation and Brown's ap
pointment supplies a fund for argument.
_ ..
Anderson Intelligencer : Annie Taylor,
formerly a slave of Col. Joseph Taylor,
died last Saturday night, aged about one
hundred years. She bail been manumitted
upon the death of Mrs. Taylor, on account
of her faithfulness. Site had lived to sec
five of her generations, and had been a
member of the Catholic Church for over a
quarter of a century. She was purchased
in Washington. 1)! C., and remembered
well the funeral of Washington and the
inauguration of Jefferson.
I’OI.HKAI. IK*KAVITV.
One of the strongest indications of po
l litical depravity is illustrated by the (lings
and abuse that are showered upon Senator
Gordon on nccoimt of his resignation of
the high trust of United States Senator.
We very well understand that it is quite a
usual practice to hurl the shafts of malice
and vituperation against those who are
seeking office, no matter how pure they
may be, or however honorable means they
may employ. But it appears very singu
lar indeed to find a hue and cry raised
against a distinguished official simply for
retiring from office, as wild nnd funnticnl
ns the inad cry of “ Crucify him ! crucify
him !” raised by a frenzied mob hundreds
of years ago, against a character who had
faithfully performed his great mission and
had failed to neglect a single duty.
We have no sympathy with officials who
either by violation of duty or through
neglect of duty bring the high offices which
they hold under reproach and suspicion,
and wc are as quick as any to condemn
such occurrences nnd to stand upon it until
such officials are hurled from trusts the
exigencies of which they fail to meet. But
while this is true, wc have equally as little
sympathy with the most cruel crusade that
is being made upon Senator Gordon for re
tiring from public office. He returns
with a reputation as pure and spotfess as
the driven snow. Be has risen to the very
acme of fame. We have watched the
grand career of this most noble type of
Southern manhood and Southern chivalry
from the moment lie first entered the Uni
ted States Senate amidst the joyous ac
clamations of his friends until the moment
he retired amidst the regret of even his po
litical foes, and if ttierc lias been a time
during that long and varied career when lie
failed to stand true to the great principles
of his party and the people he represented,
wc have utterly failed to observe it.
Always foremost in striving to reconcil
intc the sections, in fanning out of exist
ence the raging flames of sectional discord,
in bearing aloft the olive branch of peace
and good will; but indeed the last to sur
render a single principle, or betray a single
trust. Such being the record of the man,
our faith in him is unshaken.
Others may have schemed nnd made
combinations to further their own political
aggrandizement; others may, bv some
kind of neglect, or infatuation, or blind
ness, or whatever soft-soldering name it
may he termed, suffered their offices to
become gravely suspected, hut this should
not, and does not, sully the brilliant lau
rels of Senator Gordon, for indeed “ this
was to those as Hyperion to a satyr.’’
Free Shade. Middlesex Cos. Ya.
Having used Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup in
my family with the greatest degree of sat
isfaction, 1 unhesitatingly recommend it as
thu best remedy that 1 know of for chil
dren. Thomas y. lawson.
LECTURE BY R. G. IXGERSOLL.
.1 Flci'ct 1 Onliiiis£lit on
Nitrc'iimn and Itidiculo flic Wo|mhin—
The frcnl—A Vaffiie ami
Indefinite Xew f-ospel.
We publish the following report of the
lecture of Col. llobt. lngersoll, the great
tnlidel, which was delivered in Baltimore,
on *• What must 1 Do to be Saved?'' and
which we clip from the Baltimore Suu.
There are many who take no other paper
than ours, and we want to keep our read
ers posted on what is going on in the world.
We don't subscribe to a great many arti
cles wo publish. Wc like a fair investiga
tion of anything, lngersoll makes some
heavy hits at the four leading denomina
tions of the world, some of which are not
true, of course, for his own people stole
and sold the negroes to tho> South, and the
Methodists have never been half so strong
advocates of slavery ns some denomoua
tions. But that is settled now, and set
tled eternally, so far as this country is con
cerned. The real cause of his dislike to
the Methodists is that almost every able
bodied Methodist preacher of the South
was in the war on the side of their own
Sunny Land, and the denomination was
celebrated for doing all they could for the
glorious cause now lost forever. We like
bis views of honest men nnd loving women.
Of course no preacher or anyone else can
go to heaven who don't pay their honest
debts, if it is possible for them to do so.
and wc believe hundreds of the streets of
hell are paved with just such defaulters :
Col. Robert G. lngersoll lectured last
night at the Academy of Music on *• What
Must l Do to be Saved?” From 700 to
800 people wore present, many of them be
ing ladies. The lecturer's fervid style of
oratory, magnetic manner, iconolastic
treatment of sacred things, and sledge
hammer blows at Christianity are well
known. 110 was careful, however,
throughout to impress upon his hearers
that the God in whom he did not believe
was the God of the Bible, and that his op
position was to the creeds and dogmas of
modern theology, and not to the pure
teachings and self-sacrificing life of the
founder of Christianity. lie spoke up
wards of two hours, and the principal
points made by him can only 7, therefore,
be but briefly summarized. Fear, he
said, is the dungeon of the mind, and su
perstition the dagger with which hypoc
racy has assassinated the soul. For thous
ands of years men have been afraid to
think, and yet 1 do not believe that God
gave man reason and then punished him
with eternal tire for his exercise of it. God
has no objection to any one understanding
him. The history of the world shows that
the lightning is just as likely to strike the
philanthropist as the pirate : that a ship
sinks in the storm just as readily if freight
ed with women and children as if loaded
with erimiuals, and that the fire is equally
ns liable to burn a saint here as a sinner
hereafter. Wc arc not of so much impor
tance in the universe after all. If there
was not not a human being on tbe earth it
would still go round ; there would still lie
April rains, May llowors, blue skies and
| sunny valleys. If wc want anything we
must get it for ourselves. aid if tbo world
is to be fed and clothed, men must do it
for themselves, fifeat Britain is par excel
lence the seat of the Christian system, and
yet there is no country where greater bru
tality exists, or where more people die in
prisons, in hospitals or penitentiaries. In
our country, which has also this system,
we have Indians, hut we kill them. Mis
sionaries to the east, muskets to the west.
Bibles for China, whisky for the plains is
our motto. Keligion has reduced Spain to
a guitar. Italy to a hand organ, Ireland to
exile and Portugal to nothing. France,
the only country in Europe thoroughly in
fidel. is to-day free and splendid ; she gain
ed her liberty by defeat, Germany lost her
liberty by victory. Ido not want to goto
heaven on the virtues of any one else. The
atonement saves the wrong man. No mat
ter how many homes a man may have des
troyed. how many people he may have cov
ered with the leprosy of slander, if begets
religion at the last, lie is, according to the
doctrine, to he saved, while others, no
matter how good they may have been or
how much joy they have brought to earth,
are to go down to eternal fire. My doc
trine is that the good person stands as good
a chance as any other, tliut there is no royal
road to heaven, and that to get in there von
must pay every rent on the dollar. You
cannot sin ngainst (lod, for you cannot hurt
Him. You can sin against man, because
you can decrease his happiness. God can
not nflord to give a man h little hell in the
next world who has built up a little hea
ven here. The atonement, we arc told,
can reach the murderer, hut the white
hand of God’s mercy cannot be stretched
through the smoke and flame of hell and
save the murdered. I have no right to
change a figure from unconscious metal
and pulseless bronze into breathing, throb
bing life, and then doom it to eternal mis
ery. 1 believe in the man Jesus Christ.
Whenever mail lias died for men, the
ground is holy ; whenever lie has labored
for his fellows, we owe him our admira
tion and our tears. Men read the Bible
to-day witli the cowl of fear over the brain
and the bandage of faith over their eyes.
The forgiveness which Jesus taught is the
doctrine I stand by—that God will forgive
the forgiving, be merciful to the merciful,
gentle to the gentle, and loving to the lov
ing. The doctripe that man will be re
warded according to his works is splendid,
is sensible.
The Church has always been willing to
swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
[Laughter.] We are told it is as easy for
camel to go through the eye of a needle as
for a rich man to get into heaven, but we
never find a millionaire unloading because
of this fact, he is always ready to believe
that somehow or other the camel will
squeeze through at last. [Laughter.]
Tnroughout the whole gospel of St Math
ew there is not one word about believing,
but all about doing. The doctrine that lie
that believeth shall not be damned built,
up the inquisition. Every word was a
dungeon, every letter a chain, and it has
turned the splendid religion of deed and
duty into the infamous belief of supersti
tion and cruelty. God cannot afford to
trample down under the fire of his wrath
the smallest and whitest blossom of pity
that ever bloomed in the human breast.
[Applause.]
The lecturer then paid his respects to
the churches. The Catholic Church, he
said, was the mother of all the others, and
Protestants were no safer than he was. It
will give von a through ticket, while the
others will not even tell you what train
to get on, and it will take charge of „vour
baggage—all of it. ITie PteShyutrians
abolished purgatory and substituted the
Sabbath. [Laughter.] The Episcopalians
have persecuted also, but they have not de
spised architecture nor hated music, and
lie loved them better than the others be
cause they had less religion and more
sense. The founders of Methodism believ
ed in slavery as a humanizing influence.
They thought it would lie a gflod thing for
the slaves to have the society ami example
of the gentlemen who stole them. [Laugh
ter.] The Methodists had. Jiowever. done
more preaching for less money than any
others. The creed of eternal suffering
seemed to him to have been passed by a
convention of hyenas, with an anaconda
for a chairman. God dare not punish the
innocent, for above God. poised eternal,
serene and calm, is justice, to which even
God must bow.
The lecturer next came to his own gos
pel. 1 would, he said, put cheerfulness in
the place of modern religion. I believe in
good fellowship, good companionship and
laughter. 1 believe in the doctrine and
gospel of good health. When wc are once
properly educated it will be a crime to fill
the world with disease and with insanity.
The time will come when men. instead of
raising food for the gallows, will do some
thing towards putting llowors in the foot
steps of every man. 1 believe in the re
ligion of justice, in the gospel of liberty
and intelligence. There is no cross for
the man who docs right. If he lives in the
line of his dfttv, the cross on T.is shoulder
will become wings, and bear him upward
and onward. 1 would not take one star
from the horizon of hope. But if there be
no God. if death ends all. remember that
the eyes over which has fallen the veil of
eternal calm will never again weep burn
ing tears ; that the lips on which has fall-
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softs In tii-j fc-nda of even Uio most lnexperlen-tu persons.
PERRY BAW PAIN SUfl
u recommended by Physician!, Ministers, Missionaries, Hampers of Fartoeir*. Workshop', ami
Plantations ,Vurs* fit Hospitals—ln short, by Everybody ever ./where who lias ever given it a trial
IT HAS STOOD THE TEST Ox FORTY YEARS TRIAL.
m nrtFW W ■V'ITFTS should have a place in ever)' factory, machine-shop.
V* Bh 5 PU 5 B . 8 ■ I*_• rfc and mill, on every farm and plantation, and lc every
householaTready to r linineumte use not only for accidents, cuts, bruises, sores, etc., but in
of sudden slcjcnessof any kind weU . ulp(l anrt trustort tl1en(l of aU , rho want
1-J Iru K I lil.ri K. a ure and safe mrdteiue which can be freely
SedTrAe^allror ?Tff7uall> without fear of harm and with certainty of relief.
Itt prtcebttogß It within the reach of all; and It will annually save many times Us cost
IB doctors’ blllalor sale by all druggists at gac. 50c. and Si-00 per bottle.
PERRY DAVIS & SON, Proprietors, Providence, K I.
liriswa
Waite, Esler £ Cos.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Chesapeake Cylinder, Neutralia Spindle, Extra
Fine Engine, Golden Machine
O I lu S.
.Vd SOUTH CHARLES STREET, BALTIMORE, MIL
188 Our Royal Safety Oil for sale by L. B. BENSON.' \ CO. IPO
en the touch of eternal silence will never
again bo heard to utter their grief; that
hearts of dust do not break, and that on
the shadowy ahores of pulseless death
there beats uo wave of pain or sorrow.
The honest man nnd the loving woman
have nothing to fear for the future. Hod
will be merciful to the merciful. Upon
this rock I stand.
The Census.
The census enumerators will soon be
around to take down the statistics of the
county. It is desirable that the people be
prepared to answer questions promptly
and correctly and we therefore give the!
substance in brief, of the act of Congress
under which the Census is to be taken.
Schedule one shall contain inquiries as to
the relation of each person enumerated to
the head of the family, whether wife, sou,
daughter, servant, boarder or other ; as to
the civil conditions of each person enu
merated, whether inatried or widowed or
single ; as to the place of birth of the pa
rent of each person enumerated, of to all
foreign horn, whether alien or naturalised
person, and as to the physical and natural
health of each person enumerated, wheth
er active or disabled, maimed, crippled,
bedridden, deaf, dumb, blind, insane or
idiotic, and whether employed or unem
ployed, and if unemployed, during what
portion of the year. t ,
Schedule number three shall contain in
quiries respecting the kind and amount of
power employed in the establishment of
productive industry, and the kind and
number of machines in use, together with
the maximum capacity of such establish
ment. where the superintendent of the cen
sus shall deem such inquiry appropriate,
and the said superintendent may, when he
shall regard it expedient, prepare special
blank forms for separate industries.
Schedule number four shall contain in
quiries relating to the public indebtedness
of cities, counties, incorporated villages,
towns and school districts, and of the own
ership of the public debt of the United
States, by whom owned and the respec
tive amounts; and such additional inqui
ries respecting the same, as well as re
specting the paupers and criminals, as the
superintendent of census shall deem nec
essary to secure full information respect
ing the number and condition ef these
classes.
Scctiod 14 says: That each and cvcrj'
person more than twenty years of ape be
longin': to any family residing in any enu
meration district, and in case of the
absence of the beads and other
members of any such family, then any
agent of such family, shall he. and each of
them hereby is required if thereto request
ed by the superintendent, supervisor or
enumerator, to render a true account to
the best of his or her knowledge of every
person belonging to such family in the va
rious particulars required by law ; and
whoever shall willfully fail or refuse shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con
viction thereof, shall forfeit and pay a sum
not exceeding a hundred dollars. And
every president, treasurer, secretary, gen
eral agent or managing director of every
corporation from which answers to any of
the schedules provided for bv this act are
herein required, who shall, if thereto re
quested by the superintendent, supervisor
or enumerator, willfully neglect or refuse
to give true and complete answers to any
inquiries authorized by this act, such offi
cer shall forfeit and pay a sum not less
than life hundred dollars, uor .more than
ten thousand dollars, to be recovered in an
action of debt in any court of competent
jurisdiction in the name and to the use of
the United States, and in
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on
conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned for
a term not exceeding one year.
The pronounced opinion of the ablest
physicians all over the country indicates
that Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup is the best
remedy for all tbe sufferings of little chil
dren caused by wind Colic. Dysentery, Di
arrhoea or Summer Complaint. Price 25c.
At Yorkville, S. C.. a dealer, while dis
tributing some guano, found in it two
joints of a human finger, on which was a
gutta-percha ring.
Baby Prime*. £OO.
An eminent banker's wife of X. Y..
has induced the proprietors of that great
medicine, Hop Bitters, to offer SOOO in
prizes to the youngest'child that says llop
Bitters plainly, in anv language, between
May 1, 1880, and July 4. 1881. This is a
liberal and interesting offer and everybody
and his wife should send* two cent stamp
to the Hop Bitters Mfg. Cos., Rochester.
N. Y., U. S. A., for circular, giving full
particulars, and begin at once to teach the
children to sav Hop Bitters and secure the
prize.
( -I KORGIA—HART GOVN'TY.
\ I "Whereas. Louisa M. Linder applies to me for
letters of administration on the estate ofl.ee Lin
tier, late of said county, deceased ; These are there
fore to cite and admonish all concerned to show cause,
if any they have, at my office on or before the first
Monday in June next why said letters should not he
•rranteii. (liven under mV hand at office, this April
IRO. Y. C. STEPHENSON, Ordinary.
FOR GOVERNOR!
GO TO THE
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GOVERNORS OF LOW TRICES.
We have in stock and are receiving daily a Large and carefully selected Stock
of Goods, bought direct from Manufacturers by our Eastern buyer. > c have
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A large variety of other Dress Goods, such as French \V orsteds, 1 arisian Suitings,
DeLaiues, Mohairs, Cashmeres, Alapacas, etc., etc.
DT©tlon. IDepaitraent.
10,000 Pairs of Ladies’ Hose, white and striped, from 5c., up.
Gents’ Half Hose, from 3c., up.
Needles, 21c. per paper.
Handkerchiefs, silk and linen, from 3c. up.
Suspenders 10c. per pair, up.
Buttons to suit everybody from the cheapest to the best.
A beautiful liue of Hamburg Edging, and various other kinds of trimming
from lc. per yard, up.
Ladies’ and Gents’ Kid and Lisle Gloves from 10c., up.
Ladies’ Ties, from oc., up.
And a vast assortment of other article, too numerous to mention-
OlotlxirLg' Department.
In this department we can suit Sons. Fathers and Grandfathers—in all the
latest and most fashionable styles at the
. LOWEST CITY PRICES.
White vests from C>sc„ up to the finest Marseilles goods. No trouble to show
goods—come aud satisfy yourself.
HATS, HATS, HATS.
We have a large and magnificent assortment of Hats for Men, Youths aud
Boys, in the nobbiest and latest styles.
BOOTS, SHOES, SAX DELS.
For the Spring season wo have a full line of Ladies’ first-class makes in Pebble,
Goat, Morocco aud Calf. We are agents for Ladies’ hand-sewed French Kid
Button Shoes, which we sell below city prices. Also, have a full line of Gents’
Boots aud Shoes, from the cheapest to fine hand-made at astonishingly low prices.
We Guarantee Every Pair of Slices we sell!
Piece G-oods ZDepa.rtna.erc.t-
Linens, Cottonades, American and French Cassimeres, cheaper than the
cheapest.
GENTS' FURNBSHiNG GOODS.
White Shirts from 50c., up. Gauze and Summer Merino Undershirt# —in fact
everything to he imagined belonging to this department. *
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Millinery Department I
A full line of Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Straw Hats,in all the latest stylos
and shapes, trimmed in the latest style by a lady artist for this market.
THE UNPARALELLED SUCCESS
WEED WEED
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FAVORITE ■Ufjß FAVORITE
Sewing; Mm Hewing MaciiL
Has induced us to present it to the people of Hart County. A record of popu
larity proves it to be the Lightest Ruuuiug, Best Satisfying Machine in the world.
We will sell it cheaper than any first-class machine in the market, and guarantee
full satisfaction. Come and inspect them. *
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