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About Gallaher's independent. (Quitman, Ga.) 1874-1875 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1874)
GALLAHER'S INDEPENDENT, JTi USIIED EVKItV HATVBDAY AT QUITMAN, CiA., uy J. C. G A L L A H E R. TURNS OF STBSCKIPTIOW I TWO DOLLARS }ter Annmtt in Adrnnca, [From t!.t- N. V. :-undzj Mercury.) THAT AWFUL NIGHT. 11Y KARL DXUUtY. I am naturally what ia called a very nor- 1 vuua person indeed. Under certain cir- 1 cumstaucca of a good, encouraging descrip tion, I dou’t know tint what nervousness: (wUicli is so often another name for down right cowurdiCt) would win mo into an üb- i solute idiot, of the real old gibbering anil chattering kind. Xam perpotu.-Uy scent-1 ing drugor, end very often afterwards find j that it has existed iu my imagination j clone. Never alir’l I forgot tho tlmlliug diacom- ; forts of a certain experience which Xam j now about to relate. Xt happened in my early years, before tho great discovery of oU-.e* had given its present iiapetm to travel and swept away the last traces of tho horrid, lumbering j btage-eoaoh. I was a very young girl (not over seventeen,) and I was going ou a visit to Aunt Unity Briggs, who lived in the centra! pert of the State. Uncle Anthony Field, a brother of my father, had volun teered to hike charge of mo during the to- j dious stage-coach journey, wlrca lartedf l by tho bye, four mortal days, aud was 1 about as utterly uucom'oimolo rsmay well be imagined. At tho close of tho second day’s journey I felt very weary, and said to my uncle os wo finally stopped at our terminus for that one day at least: “You can’t think how tired I feel, Ido hope this stopping place has comfortable bedrooms.” A little later, after ho had descended, Undo Anthony shook his gray head aud observed w ith smiling sympathy: “Comfortable bedrooms don’t look as though they wero a very eomuion articlo hero; do they, Celia?” Of a truth, they did not. Tho inn at which we found ourselves was of miserably shabby exterior, rid of bruited d'uicn sioits. Inside, matters looked even more unpromising. Wo wero ushered into a very tavern-like apartment, with sanded lloor, cheap decorations, and several men at a largo, round "table—becr-bibbiug ex wine bibbing, X felt too disheartened to cere about deciding which. Tho hour was then about half pest six o'clock it* tho evening. The meal with which we were soon serv ed iu a moil, dingy, adjoining room would liave offered little inducement to anything except a travel-w hutted ap;>etito. A f tor its completion my uuclo bugs'* d> cussing with tho ilt-favuied, buriuy i ndtord of the establishment the question of sleeping ac commodation. XXis remarks wero caused ou in a low voice, and I was merely made u.waro of tho result of his investigations. Several travelers arrived from tho Noith a few hours previously, cud all but two rooms in tho house wero then occupied. Ouo was somewhere among the attiedo rnrius, the other was a chamber opening directly off from the one iu which we then 1 out. Tho first my uncle would liave to oc cupy. The nest must belong to mo for tho night. I know ibat my couuteusnoo fell r-s this mtcllig. nco was lining itu, arteil, and whether or no Lhiehi Anthony r marked these sj mptoms of dishcirtenmont, an ina bi’ity to leaoen then* prevented him from making any comment whatever. Necessi ty’s iron law woo iu operation. I must sleep hero on tho ground floor of tho inn, with my protector hustled away into some obscuro comer of too house. lining naturally of the nervous turn and havo mentioned, my dread was excessive. But I mastered tho showing of it by any pronounced signs What earthly advan tage would there bo, indeed, iu my making my uuclo uncomfortable by tho suggestion of difficulties, which the poor geulleman was utterly powerless to remedy ? Aud so, being shown iuto my uninviting little bed-chamber, I bade my uncle good night with a bravo outward appearance, at least, and actually went so for in this sort of found heroism as to perpetrate some thing vaguely iiko a cheerful ..mile before leaving him. Just an X was about closing tho door, ' however, my terror suggested au idea to : me. “By the bye,” I exclaimed, “don't you } think, Uuclo Anthony, that it would be ; just rs well for me to know where your room is situated ? I mean, you know, iu case I should bo sick iu the night, or need cuytl.iug.” “Just as you please,” he readily acquies ced; and before long I followed Uncle An thony and tho burly landlord up two nar row flights of stairs into the dingiest and most meagre cubby-hole of a room imagi nable. Pity for my uncle in these wretch ed accommodations for a while mastered my fear of .sleeping where I was forced to sloop. But as soon as J was alone within 1 my own bed-room ag.hu, that fear return ed. Aud to increase it, I discovered, when about to retire, that my door could not bo fastened, its key being nonest, aud its rus ty bolt hopelessly broken. The room on ly contained onu window, and this, I du spainfully discovered was not more than three feet from mother earth. There was an atom or so of consolation, however, in , finding out that 1 could fasten it, more or ' loss securely, ou the inside. And now, with a beating heart, I blow out my candle. Tho darkness at first was 1 almost maddening to my excited nerves. ; Every 1 bought flitted across my mind, > through a succeeding interval of perhaps J five minutes, that could possibly bear up on the two harrowing subjects of robbery and "lie 1. t .Uf the stora..- of tuis nu-. VOL. 11. tr.ro which I had over heard or read seem ed to uuvoll their reminiscences before me in ono rapid and frightful catalogue. But sleep soon couqucrod oven this morbid terror. I suddenly passed over that shadowy boundary lino which divides wakefulness from dumber. Aud when I thus fell asleep it must have been no later than half-past seven o'clock. Possibly it was about an hour and a half afterward that I abruptly woke again. What had wakeuod mo I did not at fir: t kuow, but os a sense of n y real situation br-st upon mo with Ml tho force of a Lato .Vt r collection. 1 simultaneously heard rather loudly raised voices that Boomed to como from a room not for d ; strut. With throbbing her'il ' stencil. A wo mru was spiv Mug. And those wero the first woelsthftt dissect jr, met u>y car, iu tonus w" loh I hr’i recognized as lltouo of the landlord’s wife. “Nov, is the tuna to k’H her, Bill, aud you kuow it well enough. 1 never saw such annul sy .a are. i don't know what would bcooma of you if it wasn't for me. You’re a'ways undecided about everything. You never c.rei make up your mind to do the .’dug that ought to bo done.” Iw. is a cold sweat n in head to foot as these words ended, li 'i her. O, Heav en s! to Link that, rftor . ’!, my veiy worst feevu vrera corroborated 1 X we-t going to bo grossly butchered by these people, for j tier .r-o of what my turn', contained. O, ; it was too dreadful. And now the man spoke, iu a reflective, quiet, though perfectly audible tone: “The other one’s k : llol, Nancy, it’s true. But why be so quick -u doing tho same to her ? You ere always fur pnsldug matters so,you were.” The other ouc—Uncle Anthony, of comie. I’oor Undo Anthony, I told my self, with chattering teeth, was now up stairs weltcriug in 1' i gore 1 O, horriblo ! horrible ! Aud it would soon bo my turn next. The woman's voice again; “Kill her, Bill, aud get rid of her at once, I nay. No good comes of delnylug these matters, and you kuow it." I sprang from the bed at this, I ooulil endure my agony no longer, lloaveu fcnly knows wk-t wild thought of interceding with those wretches" fur my own life gave strength to my horror-weakened frame. 1 only kuow that 1 tore open my bred-room dpor, sped r.erote tho narrow intervening room, nid foeud myself, a second 1 iter, at the feet of a very astonished-lookiug man nil equally amazed woman. “O, don't k :, l rue !” i moaned, wildly, clutching with both hands t’ne landlady's calico apron. “I will give you everything my Uauk contains—all tho jewelry and ever.) drug. And, O, do you really menu that yoU’vo murdered poor Unde Antho ny ? O, have mercy ou me ! I am. j youug to be cut offl'ko tire-, -I—l And there I stopped, foiling heavily or. the a; nd.il floor bi the deadt.A of dead swoons. W'rroa coi- riou ureas returned, the first ti lugs my eyes lighted upon was tire m'ld, solicitous face of Uncle Anthony, bending over the hjir-cluilr sofa on which i lay. “Js it you, really?” I murmured, too weak to ilo more. “Then—Then —they must have 1 '"edyoit too, linele,and —aud it's lieavcu, you kuow.” “Avery sorry son of Paradise, this” my uuclo laughed, with a voice that I could not help feeling was closely similar to its last mundane toues. Aud then ho went on, stroking my hair tenderly with one hand aud pressing tho palm of tho other against my own. “Do year know, (Jeoi'ia, you have been very foolish to get yourself in this wild stale of alarm for nothing?” “Nothing!” I returned, with a sense of personal injustice! done by my uncle, mix ing itself strangely amid a wild feeling of gratitude that rll was not so bail as I Lad expected. “Littcrclly noth tug,” responded Uuclo Anthony. My dear Celia, these good peo ple Lave cxplrucd to me how it tur'si have hoppeud. T’.oy were talking about the massacre of apc T of pigs, male and fe male, which are portion of this valuable osiate. Tire male was slaughtered yester day, cud the landlord’s wife wished that his companion should immediately follow bis cad fate. But for certain agricultural reasons of Lis own, tho proprietor demur red and objected. That was all, inydear. You overboard this bucolic conversation, and magnified it. doubtless, into something very horrible. lain sorry for you, my child, but—” 1 burst iuto tears just then, and prob ably interrupted the giving of a little gon tie advice on Undo Anthony's part. But they were tears only L If of shame; the other half vvrs iateuso aud blissful relief. The rest of the night I was very kindly ands; urpatheticrlly guarded by our laud -1 ,dy, who turned out to be tho most harm less, motherly, aud unmurilcrous of bciugs, aud on the following day resumed my journey with Uncle Anthony iu a con dition which, owing to last night’s fright, must be defined as somewhat shaky. Doubtless tho reader thinks that my ludicrous i xperiouco ought to have per manently cured rue of “nerves” forever more. But the old adage about “what is bred iu tho bone,” etc., lias proved strik ingly true iu my own ea-ro. Though taught a very wholesome lesson, and per haps much benefited by its wliolcsomness. I regret to say that I have never reached a condition when the possession of actual bravery could be a subject’ for boasting, aud the experience which 1 havo just nar rated Li still stamped upon my recollection luoe. vividly, uniim no ieis scnca.ti.nui a title than Taut Awful Night. QUITMAN, G Y., SATUKDVY, AUGUST 1, 1874. LETTS !l TO MAJOR WIUTELEY FRO:,I JEER’S AND Ji ROT HER. B.UNiirsrDOE, Oa., I July 20, 1874. f Hon. R. 11. Whitelri/, M. C., Sir; —In presuming to address you this communi cation, wo are actuated by tho most patri otic of mot ives. Wo bog of you, therefore, to let. the righteousness of o::v iuleuMous be an acceptable excuse, as it is tho only one wo havo to offer, for tho baldness oi ouv intrusion. Your recent return to this community from \> r. hingtou, where you have been so tinseb.hhly aiding iu logi.k'.iiug for tho good of tho ItepubUe, j Ill's attracted toward you that quota of lho ' attention of tho public, to which, you have, by virtue of your maritotknis con-: duct, a jimt and tunl reputed title. Thai' there J uni Id havo b oneemp) hits utter, and agriubt you is natural, “for to complain j ia the right of tho lni.v. redfla.” Wo j r..y . you, that from ilia height of vour end- j iii'iice, you will h ud eh your gracious ear : while wc attempt to r. lit-Cv.- to you the sentiments of a five, patriotic . u.l civiliza-, lion-loving people. Tho exigencies of tho day imperiously 'dcm.md candor in the statement of facts, and the duties of the hoar require silicon-; iy in tho expression of opinion. And liile wo sluill observe towards you t:.i.t I respect iluo to your high : 1 hm.urabie j •.atioii in life we tool it '•'.oiniiboni upon us ' to observe such polnteduoss ns our owu self-respect may coll form re; • .-whig your course us a public mull, of w! ioh, however much you may he proud, the v.iiito por tion of tho ciiizcns of tho 1 ,: .tiel iou mi. represent, may led that they arc : ushu'.iotl; cud ueh a prepoinlcrtmco of testimony, which is only as cm whelming ns ’tis the more cnlighleiiod, is sufficient: to establish tho chavector of the j-nmo iu j any unprejudiood mind. That you should have fallen into seemingly lilfle iuaccura cies, in Hie discharge of those-arduous “ud I responsible duties, that yon, so patrioti cally, at the cell of your country, encum bered yourself with, . ud for so lilt’. remun eration, it i ) not, whan viewed in the light of history, rjt til bin piling; and though you have even fallen “from a proud ,1 iva tion of re-speot ntid honor to a bottomless abyss of contempt,” we i-vo not oslonish cd. An angel has been knowa to do worse. “II iw can mail, tli. n, 1 ope to csoapt?” Wo, though, sir, eve h. ’ucn and suscep tible to alt the emotions <;f that nature ’ which links us, though in many ii it.mces, an probably in this, agai )Vt ouv will, to the great family chain of existence, aud thus harboring nil of tho distinguishing eharaeteristics of men, while w, she.! a tear of commisseratiun for yon, in your proscut inglorious hiatus, your hardness of heart and reprobacy of mind, wo can not fail t j make the means of that debase ment the object) of ouv most unqualified w prcheniXjn. Slight not this r. prehen sion be justly eiitorLdu.d by that portion of your constituents, of your own raoc, if you havo failed to persuade and con vince them, by your eloquence, so often expended for that purposo, that they ove the inferiors of that race whom you more particularly represent, and whom you feel by Clod commissioned and Heaven de creed, to exalt, contrary to the “eternal fitness of tilings,” above that small eleva tion as igued them by nature iu tho illimi table wisdom of her arrangements ? Tho magnanimity with which you are filled iu executing this trust of omnipotcuoo to you iu charge given, tho entire absence in you of nil sordid motives iu thus obeying tho behests of heaven, rs well n the disposi tion on your part to contiuue iu the hard and diCieult office of executor of the trust, w ill very readily appear from a reflection as to the minuteness and inadequacy of the pecuniary compensation you receive, being only tho iur.igni(leant cud trifling sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars por anuutn, besides the other little and un mentionable emoluments of tho : xccutor ship. Verily it is with us, as ’tv,as with im perial Borne, our “best riches consist iu the pnrtiotii-.m of our sous.” But then, the glory gained by you in the upright and principled discharge of your duties as God Almighty’s agent, doubtless moro than doubly repaid you for tho feebleness of monied charm attaching to tiro honorable position, that you more than dishonorably flllod. And the immortality that you ac quired by the support of broad, generous, and unpartisan, will doubtless to no small c xtout rob even death of its otiug. We have heard of one’s beiug “dummied to immortality.” And you are uot the first individual whom the world’s history will ; speak of, neither will you be the last, if your senior legitimate offspring, whose gi gantic aud luminous mind seems to be bent in the same direction in which your own is so happily and peculiarly turned, should be so ill-fated as lo see tho diversi fied drama of your villauies terminate in life’s last scene, who Have gotten notoriety by their evil deeds, who have perpetuated their memories, by tho oollossal monu mental structure of their own slanderous aud nefarious acts. "And feme not moro survives from good than evil deeds, The aspiring youth who fired tho Ephesian dome, Outlives ia story, tho pious fool who roared it.” And while it is in verity and truth, a misfortune to be thus noted, ns you are it is likewise one of thoso fortunes which can only be roached through tho instrumen tality of orime. AVflcu God in his eternal council first I conceived iLe idea of the creative of the negroes iu Decatur County, ho called unto him tho three ministers w ho wait constantly upon tiio throne—Justice, Truth and Mercy, and thus addressed them: “Shall wo make negroes for Decatur County ? Thou said Justice, “Oh God make them uot for without someone to bo the conser vator of their actions, they will Uample upon thy laws. Truth, made answer also: “Oh, God, mi.kc them not, for without a toaciicr to morals iu theory anil practice, they will pollute thy sanctuary; but Mercy dropping ou her knees, looking up through her tears, exclaimed: “Oh, God make them, and thou ovate Major \\ hitc lay to govern them, lead them, and receive their votes; for ho will v.del* over them with care through all tile dark p. ths they have lo live 1 and will char :e nothing for it. except seven thousand five hundred ,Li la.., per >e. r with stealage, and tho privi lege of not beiug restrained iu his efforts to degrade his own race.” Tln-n God made tne my.iws of Decatur Bounty, aud said unto them: “Ye are the children of Mercy, and the property of Mr. White lev, go thou mid do as ho shall direct." Much, si-*, would seem to be your idea oi tho source and circumstances attending the cornering upon you of your divine ri O L. to govern the colored men of this loan ; colored men of Decatur yo lire .....v. ~ sliuoh to the .iibitnu-y will of tl.i. Selfish mipUiXcinl onu uiq rinciplod political poltroon, Know you then, air, that you eve omen s’do to ih:.t powe r f ii which you derive your auihority and before that Judge whom no king can cm. apt you must one d-y appear, to ni-swer for tho dc..! done in Ilia ! ody. Yvh.at uu.wer v.ifi you then make foi Laving i-rovid a reneg lo to your faith, preferment and personal aggrandizement ? What answer will you tnen make, for subjected tho wife of your bosom whom you ha 1 sworn to love and honor, and the children of your household, to whom it was at least, your duty to leave tho legacy j of a purity of purpose oud an unsullied el.:-”, cter; What answer, 1 ask, will you make ior Lav -g subjected :ud L... in; br.-aght upon thorn by your iniquitous uniionn co.n-so of nelion, coatempt and infamy nil, all, tor policy’s sake? What u w.-r : 1 you then make for having m L-1 11.0 ua; go, tho object if youi bpici. 1 g airdUiiii-liip, mei'-.ly that you might receive l-’s a.ippoit ? What answer will you then make for being instruiiH-ntal iu bringing upon the ooiuinnidly in which you litre, ridicule a ..if ahamo, for the nchievnii nt cf your own selfish mid ! dajcrcdUa.hlo ends ? Vuat nnswei- will you Lavo to ifiaho for having aided in the malicious and despotic peruccufion of r. fallen and down troddai though, t’aaul- God proud and one. ..irai loving people? Methiuhs in tho bright i gions of lloaveu’* , serenity and purity lh it t,..r!ow and Cobb might have wopt when dr y beheld Geor gia iu mourning it rough the tyrannical maohinatior.s of her protended representa livcs. Bluulcs of tho immortal Calhoun, witness our Carolina supplicating for mercy at liic foot of her legislative oppres sors. We invoke the spirits of tho depar ted brave, before that dreaded tribunal from which your authority to flow. What answer will you make for having before tho altars of tiio living God, taken volru tarily upon yourself tho obligations of a Christian and afterwards knowingly and wilfully continued in ihc practice of those principles which are the very reverse of all morality and religion, either ancient or modern, and for having consecrated all tho energies of your mind, big ns it is with wickedness and ailful iu originating schemes of coDuivntioii, to the political damnation oi a race whom you are too bane and perfidious to servo, and of which you arc too inhuman to boa member? What answer have you to make for hav in'; licentiously aiul lustfully violated the most sacred of fi obligations, by having betrayed the tu ding and implicit, though misplaced confidence of an alihetiouate wifo who is, in every particular, your; superior ? Iu the name of God aud truth, answer. But, sir, wo do not propose to play the roil of casin' ;is, wo merely have to deal with you ns an agent of tho public, and while we do not propone to bo tho ceimor of your morals wo thought, it proper in the statement of what you would have us be lievo to be your virtues to record vvl.at re port, which has some show of authenticity teaches us to regard as your crimes. Sir, these ora delicate and important | matters, and the enunciation of them is imperatively demanded by the duty— I duty the sublimest word in our language ! —of the present, which is the only excuse necessary for their being brought to the attention of a moral, chaste and discrimi nating commuuinty. You will perceive that they aro presented in a plain and ungarnished manner. The cause of truth and principle ever demand, that all vice and peri illy should be stripped of its oiu bellihbmeuts. Immorality should always be held up in all its glaring deformity, and depravity, of heart, should bo pictured only as it in reab’ty exists, for then, in general, and in your case, iu particular, tis, more thau horrid and hideous enough to shock aud convulse humanity, “Filthy slime from a penny sheet,” indeed, such has always been the character of the response made by those, who havo been charged with malversation and perfidy m oJlice, when they dared not, iu the face of public records and private knowledge, dispute the truth of an aiuaatiuu against thorn. “It is tho grace undoubtedly, of a virtuous, firm mind often to despise com mon vulgar calumny, but ii there ever is an occasion when it docs uot become such a mind to despise it, it is in tho cr- o of being charged in high ofllco with uu abuse and tyrauicul exercise of power, perfidy mid peculation, mid a misrepresent,nlion of those whom Wo are bound by the rules of duty and honor to serve, and whoso interests it is incumbent iqioii us to ml vanoe,” This, Sir, ia but a brief extract from the history of your crimes, both public and private, mid hero wo shad rest on our arms for a season. Wo pause, however, with reluctance, for there is always some thing to be learned in a contemplation of tho characters of tiio great, it cither excites in us a desire to emulate th.ir virtues and patriotism, or it speaks to us ill thunder tones to shun ami condemn those vices which render them notorious; and in the contemplation of your clial-actor compounded, as it is, of all tho constituent elements of infamy, we are from its very nature inevitably udmon shed to pursue the latter naan ,1 course, for tiio reasons therein set forth. It woo'd bo cntieily iu keeping with our own inclinations, even at this time, were it possible in ouo lung communica tion, to niediiatu upon tho recorded sum of your entire infamies, but h-i they “fatigue indignation,” we will bo com pelled to let it rest. Upon taking leave of you at this place, w o respectfully crave tho privilege of being again allowed to approach your exo, Honey, upon tho sub jects heroin manly referred to fraught as they are with questions on vital interest to ev. ,y parted tils section of country, aud as wo havo unlimited confidence iu hi.,: professions of ardent patriotism, we do uot believe that you will or cun have any, even the slightest objection to a con tinuance of a correspondence, one sided though ii, may ho, the whole idea and intent of which is to promote tho welfare of that country to which by your unex ampled acts, jo.i i, vo shown yourself to -j, so idoiatrausly devoted. Lu our next communication wc sla.il take great pleus are iu calling attention not lo tne marks of your übilty mid tne scii.uliations of ),.iu' unsurpassed genii s as evidence by , our n. incious nml uxuanstivc speeches, it,i, lo that which iu of Lie g.vulest honor ji, u, your remark i'-J-: wisdom, j -..dice and pat.iolL.ni, as ihov.ii by a record oi your v.-.ics sine,i this Disir.et has laid the honor jon laprcscnla.ion in flic nss mbJy Oi til. nation. <■ UNllSi & BliO. GO 4. HER DRIVES, INDIANA. In bis adJrers to the Juliana D. uio e. ic f.invention, Gov. Ilaii.lvick-sits pre - officer, hud his to X. y ..oo.lt the j “dend D.-uu Vi'ucy”: T,U- ■ curie.nan who ■r. 1 id. .1 over the K ri,.l.c;ui Coiivcntiou .cit it Lis 0., yto , two y- so. ico i. had pi'oeii.itusd I alii of -riiu Democrniio p. • iy. Ob, 1 .in J > Lad aid that wo tain our backs i ;i .n the pint, and shuid in the present, look fo.-v.ar-1 to U.e great tuli.r.; that !,- • fit. t.iv ii-jiiri, w.d that in it tiio pce ■ o.ri.t in vo ta.-.L f. 1 in an ue 1 pro .per..; a. and Lapp:, i '■ 'Liif is m tirert- pone! s.-au a. 'J ho dcad > isßnos of too p Ldj lu.t i mu.u out' t-ti'luaf’-ig sent linen ts. Ino prineipb .joffree;;'. vern iiiuiit and tlie uss.-'i jc: sciiti.d t-v piuscivc litany are of thepresem, as of the pah, and mu it be of luc future. It is inter -sit ing to hear their iraioi'S assuring their followers that the Democratic party is dead. it e.-ilablishos one’s genius for origiialily. it ins not be n repented mare [lam one lni'iioii times, and each time tin f. L 1.,... rs. lui,"li and cheer. Ti. y are so g’ad tile Democracy is dead. T.iey w *sli it, but-feel that it is not S“. 'J'iie laugh a. I cheer are hollow and without joj-. If they v ' lo bin'o of it, tie y would ;■ y kind .... 1 generous tilings of so glut i-iel pow erful an organization. It, is not bravo or uoldo to strike even n ii* 'd lion. JliiL n few y* ms since tJis y boasted that tlic Dcm oerabi kad no Governor i-i tiio Nortlicin Ml .lies r.’l.i but fc-W in the M'iu!!i; but now tliere svo Dcwoeralio Governors in New ifaiiipsiiiio, Connecticut, Delaware, Muiy l.uid, Onio.i sa : "Yv'tscoiibi. - , (ire. Oil, Kentucky, kiis o .rs, Teiine.',.,. Virgin: , Georgia au l '.l "X ‘s. Arkau:.: , may now bo ( 'id '•’! io the list of D un-eratie States, for the bands, wtio corrupted ris e bid'ot box are broken and scattered. Organiza tions may bo br-vkr-n'aud pa a away, but Democracy eunnnot die. ii is endowed with tins iiiimoitidily of truth mil right. Wherever, ill ill lands, men aspire to higher, freer, better governments, and purer liberty; wic.rcverihc.ro is tho senti ment riiat govorujnen.t.is umdo for man and not m n for govt runiein, there is the ap rit of Dcmo.r. ,y tiul v.ril endure oud v -t aeh.cve man's euiranchascmcnt and elcvatiuU. - - CutAstNO 1.0 Gi.ovns.—During the win in wi urin-r kid gloves ore easily soiled, particularly us tho prevailing colors are quite light; an Ins it costs some time and money to have them cleaned at the dyer’s, wo give our readers the seen t of cleaning them at homo, which can bo done as well as if paid for outside. Take a little sweet milk atida piece of w hite or brown son]). Fold a clean towel three or four times, spread it over your dress, and spread out tho glove smoothly upon it,. Take a large piece of white flannel, dip it into the milk, then rub it upon the soap, and rub the glove downward toward tiro lin gers, holding the wrist of it by the left hand. Continuo this process until the glove, if w hite looks of a dingy yellow but if colored, looks dork and entirely spoiled. Now let it dry, aud thou put it ou your hand, and it will be soft, smooth, glossy and clean. Take care, however, to omit no part of tho glove in rubbing it, and see that all soiled parts are thoroughly clean ed. This process applies only to white and colored kid gloves that are soiled, turned white and otherwise injured, take a teaspoon fill of salad oil, drop a lew drops of ink into it, and rub it all over tho gloves with the tip of a feather; then let them dry in the sun. White kid boots and slippcru can also bo cleaned by the first process to look “as poo l as new,” and black kid bools and slippers call be res tored to their pristine gloss by the latter method, MR. HEIN TIER'S STATEMENT. i do not propose at ties lime a detailed exaiiiinetioii of the remarkable ufutcnnml ot Mr. Theodore Tilton, nmdo before llie committee of investigation, and which upper.red in tho Brooklyn Anjun of July 21, 1874. J recognize tho nn-ty rea: oils w hies make it of fransooudi nt iuijKutiinee tomv -elf, the Cnureii, and the onuso of public, tuor.riil.v, that I sliid 1 give a fu 1 * m awer to Co- charges a;s ust me. But hav mg rcq.ii. .:*i :he committee of hives, is,. .;ii.... ;o s. sell this mutter to thobot li in, ri is .u them that I must look for my viuiiieal: si. But I e,imiot del. v for an hour to de fend the reputation of Alia. E.izabeili K. Tibou, upon wlio.'.o inline, in connection with min.', her husband h. s attempted to pour shame. One less deserving of Midi disgruco 1 nor■ r knew. From cl idkoo-l slid has be,si under my eye, i i..i since reaching w *iiiiitiiiiooil .--lie has ii.i.l my sincere nthni la.ion mid affection. J cherish for her .. pure feeling, biicii as a gentleman might honorablj off. r to n Ciiristiun woman, ..ml wrin-li she might receive and reeipi'oenii wii nout nioi'id sertipic. I reject wiih iu di,'siiiiiuii eve!j impsti liou wiiicli reflects upon her honor or luy ow n. My is g ,rd for Mrs. Tilton was perfectly | we.ia.inwn to my family. When surious | difiiei.lries sprung up in her household it was lo my wife that bile si-si ited furooun-j sel; amt nuli, of ua, i.eling lunu symputhy, i and, as it sabs qiieiiliy appeared, v,iUmut fell a.novi, dge, gave Unadvised counsel wsuvli lelided to harm. i have no doubt tlmt Mr. Tilton found that his wire’s confidence and is liai.ee agon my judgment had g reatly increased, "..ilo i,.i l. ltilcneu had diiniuished, in co : ...co of a miu aed change ill hi) j i iLyons and social views widen was l tci.i: place daring those veari. ller luiud was greatly cxc-i'ek.rd lest her eJ.il dl'eli blioiiid be imriucil l>y viiws widen she deemed vitally i.dsu and dauguro.cj. i wussudiloi: iy ami rudely aroused to the j re. lity of impending'diiugei' by Eio dis closure of domestic distress, of sickness, i per. tups unto doffli, of the likelihood of sc pi- nlion and trio scattering of a ianrily, ! cvny member of which i had tenderly i loved. 'Tire eiT et tipi.n me of tho di icuv 01'J of tiio state of Mr. Tiiton’s fur lings' . .and lire eouditiou of his family stivp, s,,t'.d j i■ i Burrow ami exeirmieiiL lu.-yruiug that i I aad ever expr-rii need in n.yiife. Tirat iny J presenoc, iulluenco end euuu 1 ln.d! brought to a beloved family sorrow i,..d luierauiun gave, in my in,.. state ol mind, a poignancy to my suffer> g r.rdeu i iiopr no otner man nuiy ever led. Even to be suspected of bavin;: offered, under '...e pi.vi Ages ol a* peer ,n;y sacred relation, . im.ecurom lo u wife and niotin r emud n,l fiat deeply wound any ! use win- is ~c. strive to mo horror ut v.o-. Ilian rOUrl. There were peculiar r, . tors for slum j iu li“s ease on other grounds, inasmuch u s j t 1,. . tlivu UL-j et U cert, ai nudijfiiiiu. j re-noi's, in l a flagn-ut o. i.rn-.k inlnh.| f, ii.-!y would bring upon them nr i Iri : ii j. , dri .vcrl from li.r .0 &rri.mc.c,<s j Briicvliif' ai tl.:- time that my preaenco I . id counsel': '.uni tended, however nneoi: , cion fly, to produce a : oc.,d eaia .trireae, I rep.v .elds ri . a,in', :, i guvo expre-u | Lon to i.iy f., :ii,, i ill biterviow will; a. mutual frn nd, u..c in cold rml ea.'liousj s-. n-d .■f-.'i.duig -' ■, *, -I en rliy t.:. s-g j . laei" iqnn la*;.. e.ii . pi., ling- out my! heart to my r nI -n t c !r ug-st In guu",e, I'V i .11 I wifi trie txi-f .jorn-1 lions of- ij'. o 'i oiriov. ii..d l been j tiio evil jui.o Mr. ’ll f.. now represents I | sijoe'd I vo been cab ut and lnoro jiru di-nl. it was my Loir, rof fee evil iiupu-1 te i that lib i in, with morbid intensity at I the very a;.adow of it. Not only was iny friend affcoted gener ously, bat he assured mo t..at sue': cx iiresaions, if conveyed ;') Mr. Tilton, would sootlio wounded feeling, allay anger and heal the whole trouble; tie. took down sentences ami fragments of what 1 had been saying, to use them rm medita tor. A ii 1 1 statement of the eirci.in '.tuners un I T which this meinore ndum was made X shall give to the invcuiig.diiig commit tee. That these apologies were more than rmjile to nuct the case is evident, iu t : at tliey were ace pt -l,tii..t „ur intcrcaur.ie rc- j M-nied its friendliness, that Mr. Tilton | subnequently ruliffed i,. iuwi-rtiug and that i he hasl'Dinintn and for hull' years and e..til I within two wo Iss to liv witn l.i v.ri'e. Js it conceivable, ii iff.: ori; in. 1 charge had been wliat is now alleged, that he wo dd iinv, C" lone i the olf iioe, list only with the liiotii i' of iii - children, hat with him whom he holier and to have wronged j them ? Tho absurdity .w.d. sth a i-, ty of this story is a; ;> rent, whin it is cm-! m,lured that Mr. Ti. ton now nil g'-s tii L , lie eaiJii and tliis v .:! f y c "ret of Ire, y.". s| infidelity for :;ix uu eths 1 i- r 1u; in iu.s I o.vn l.ni.st, end liir.t then he d'.vslge litto j me wi!', t. ,t tiieiv ..! . I !) • a r-. e- aieitia-1 ion nj'ii, ne ! Mr. ( -u !u> iin • is >-v< ty fsi'in of Inn;-,a.i) and to a m Hi; nit i ...In,. ■ , o - re, in written iriaieinuiits i in i>, , .1 ilo.e meats, d*.ch.reri his! f' 1 ore s w ri',. | L . , 1 A'... re. r.coi ■ ion of Mr. T'llon' wi'L me ev . . eon . j ."ii of propriety in and minor and :u. ::,li and ti.id ! m family trou-1 til-, should b - i<- ; . ill that seeln i.e:i which iii ei die nil, h . nave a 1., u to ck in ;re a! s. lei a. ry. m,u in 1 .L "e.'irei ;il was tic-1 ter mined * art ii sinitdd Ire eonfim'd. I,V. ry line and word of my privet pud ,-.,ii bl‘ n!red |. tiers wrliioll i.nvo bc-oupn* • lis. idis in hsuninny witii f.e s.atcineat) which I now muko. My published ooires poiidceeo <m lu.s subject comprises but two elements -lie! expression of my grief anil tlmt of inv and ire to she Id the honor of a pure and innocent woman. I do not purpose to analyze mid contest at this time the extraordinary pajierof Mr. Tilton; but tln-ivuro two allegations which I cannot peumt to pass without spe did notice. They refer io the onlv two inci dents which Mr. '1 ilton pretends to have witmSM-d personally —the one an alleged scene in my house while tool'Tig over en gravings, and Die other a chamber scene iu his own house. Ills statements con cerning these pro absolutely false. Noth ing of thekiud ever occurred nor any sem blance of any such things. They arc now brought to my notion for the first time. To every statement which connects me dishonorably with Mrs. Elizabeth K. Til ton, or which iu any wise would impugn the honor and purity of this beloved Chris tian woman, I give the most explicit, com. preheusivo aud solemn denial. Hi::.uy YV.uai Bffiscim:. Brooklyn, July 22, 1871, MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. It is nsflorled that if tiio comet, hits Glri .igo 1,100 divorces will be blasted iu tho bud. Tho last letter that should be writeil about the Boochor busiuusu Better B. I‘h ft tide'i'hi u Herald. A Maino husband wanted to bet his wife that she could not whip n panther but sho saw tho joke and refuse to try. A guileless Danbury man saw h eroiin) advertised “00,” sunt on the money, unit received the jack of clubs. Two cliaraoteiiitios of Mamba) Mae.- Mahon are said to belli.* love for children and fond ness for good cigars. 11 is predict iu A'kansas tlmt Baxter will Ihi tiio next Governor of tho state liy iIO.IKW majority. Ife’i.’.aj' school teacher “ Anna wliat mu., one do in order (o ho forgiven ?” Anna lie must sir !” By tho way but never mind. Doctor Mary W. Mut lias as much right touiiiml pockot ia i 'iy of us. Detroit Free Fre. Tho fog wns ao great at Bong Branch last v.r-.k Hint people I bought Grant, Wuh th. ro talking polities.- II tisltingUm Hrrukl The report reaches us that there is an honest conductor on tho l'emisylvai-.ia rail road, with thirty-0110 hired detectives look ing for kirn. Matrimony is oblivion personified .No body amounts to anybody after splicifictv iron. Identity ia lust. J’luiality becaiU(. estublisbed We have before us a l’liiladelphia paper with liothiiqj iu it about tho Centennial. .Stay I It wi, printed iu 1812.— Ror'testo* Dt /tltti rat and Sentinel. At a social gniiieringiii Chicago recently, it wa.3 ascertained tout not one of tho ; thirty-: oven persons present could recite the turd’s prayer. Iu the w hole eoutroversy on the woman ! question nothing truer lias been su'd than tho renn vk of Mark Twain that “Woman is uurival’od us a well nurse.” A Lisbon eo:re spondent, writing of tho Kin. of I'.iringul, real nut wisli'ug to iiei hi i by flattery says lie is uu ugly r.',(,n,...,s ofchunk of beeswax. The Id. st telegram states that Mexico in nt p- ace. Tho dispatch was dated ut 1) o’clock n m. Conuidcrabto anxiety io mav.if 'sied to kuow thooondirion of affairo at hulf-pust nine. —DruoUja Atyus. Bly mouth opened horlaat service for tho season with tho hymn beginning: “Satan limv vent his sharpest spite, And ull his legions mu'.” Kuthor jioiuted. A Ke.k nsi'ioo JudgO went to n neigh bor.' town to si e a man, oud tolograplieil back to l.i: wife; won’t be homo in a week. When iho des]); tell l :,elied her it read, “Hav.- found :,i !, and won’t bo homo iu it week.” Hero lota draw a Voil. T ANARUS! ) lion. Joseph 11. Sloss in a candidate for reel clion to Congress from the Sixth C0n",...;.,e0n, I J i,strict of Ata cama. Ho is the i..dividual wkoneently are ta, . uig uui:i named Bong, charged v.itu slendering his daughter. Let ti:o v. ''ids end waves of adversity blow;.,id chi Ii i wad you, if they will; be Leap ou tree path of roolitudo, and you will be us firm rj a lock, l’iaut your se’f upon priueipL', and bid deflanfco te ii) "jiOL uUliO. A wicked iirtl.i hoy iu Denver Sunday school was esi. ri. 'ey Ida teacher if ho laid learned :> tl..i:g the 'ilff tiio past week, 1 “Oil yen arid “Uk.at is ii. you havo I leai nod?” "i-riv.'i' to lead n dcuco when you’ve got su ace back oi it,” was the re ! ply; AC’ ,icr ;,o gcntlcmau recently sent te | Tree .•.aor Spinner a smell quntityof pa per p. ]i with a note stating that it was ' the remains of a ten-nontstamp which his lilt! boy chewed up, Olid which lie Cou j l.ilmted “to help pay tho public debt.” 'i'lic following gem of bbitiimy poetry j from tiio Sue! 1 , it >ck / '.du priee, Vl( B|K- t ' i'.illy eoir’scndcd to tho laureate of tiio Hi 'iadclpbia Ledjer: On : )il:.''is of far lowa, \V l, <’ ■ the • .a/, no i.uujhomwavo, i im'.it. - I- i.vy.vs non'nix;lt low a l)i it.) YU l|tj 1,1. I’.tuililH f'lavc Tiio <*iitiro iHilico force of JellVrsofi Tt*x ;n, were fl' .a : yii and boforo tiio Mayor re cently on ilio el :"'yo of vagmucy. Tho eimrjye Wius pref iri oil ‘■y tiio families of tiio pob 'ci ien, tvlio stated tlmt the parties tiriiier charge had no visiblo means of sup [x.i i., es they had received but twelve dol i rs from the city iu the last live months. The C/tor! etna Ne.ns remarks; “In only uineti ■ a of the thirty-tw o counties in South Oaroliuu, one lire re 'vdand forty-six square mi 1 :of hind have been sold for State and county taxes,am! five, hundred and tlrirty sc . ii square l i 'es of land have been for ! felted lo tire State at lax sales during tho eurtcnl year.” An renpoi'Lvilinw of the last session of ! t he Miu a.iehe Us i icgislatiue, which goes iu te effect oil the 30lh iiisknuiuets that all per.,ons b. coming parl ies to promissory not. . [inyuUo on time by a signature in blairi. oji (lie back thereof, ohnlllM)entitled to notic j of uoa-pnymeut thereof tho same as endorsers. Tho French Government has decided to erect a monument near the Swiss fron tier in commemoration of tho generous corse of conduct which was adopt, i by | S-.. it • <d toward Uio [n-ixoners of Bonr '(. ~'. : .uy. Tlic mojiumeiit- will' repre sent-, Exhausted Franco coull ting tier ere IrL'cu to Switz. rkmd. At roccnt prayer mooting of colored jpaop’oi, Erie, '.he decency and g.,od or- I inv ut rite m 1 reg being disturbed by a ■I ' M mine ( l'-re 'in whose prajersinpub lic v. u'.'oiilv incol -rentravings the pastor •uqu red: “YVliat fuel i;i;;ga’s dat pray.u rirewu dar nca’ do do ?” A dozenpeoph !'c ,re . . wi:h one voice: “ltani Burdcrßrov n, . Li.” “Den, ” ie; 4 ed tire pastor, “Bruddor Brown Hiib..ide, and let some ouo pray del’s iletter 'quanted aid do Lord.” A copper piece, nffccling to bo of ten centimes, has got into a certain circulation in France of which a note may he fitlingi made. It hems the head of Napoleon til. iua i’russian helmet. Around tho neck a dog’s collar with a i ng. Upon it. is ii scribed “Sedan.” The circular leg end is “Napoleon Iff., to Miserable; 80,000 pi isomiircs.” On the reverse an owl perched on u cannon; around “Vampiiro Franca '.so, 2 Deo., 1851 September,lß7o. Hr.ad Tins Gnu s. One young country girl, Miss Annie Kirk, of Bethel, Fa., is entitled to tie) praise of being the best lady poultry Ist ou record. In 1872 she cleared s’l3o, after paying for ail the feed, freight, Ac. Stic commenced with eighty fowls—Bochin Chinas, Brahmas and ether varieties--anti found tiio Cochin and I ffah ma.4 the most profitable, being healthier and of speedier growth for tiio market. An example was given last year of a lady at Concord, Mass., who raised a gross value of 8350 worth from Dominiques and common breeds; but this was exceeded by Miss Kiik, whose profits alone were 8330 m. is.
