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arnronicle anfr Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY ....MAY 31, 187.
The Aoworth Advocate seconds the
nomination of Hon. Mark A. Cooper for
Governor.
Mb. Bayard does not find it neoessary
to publish any “quoted reading matter”
at twenty cents per line.”
The Rome Courier says that “General
Alfred Cummins is widely spoken of by
the people as one whom they would de
light to honor as State Senator.”
Wednesday was a good day for the
Man from Maine, in spite of bis bonds.
Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska and New
Hampshire, all declared for Blaine.
If the New* and Courier succeeds in
making the delegates from South Caro
lina vote for Tilden, how many electo
ral votes can it promise the nominee on
the part of South Carolina ?
“Gentleman Geobge” is a delegate
from the State of Ohio to St. Louis.
They say that he has got even with
Thurman, and that if occasion offers he
will remove the scalp of bis ancient
enemy, Hendricks.
The Cartersville Expre*s indignantly
denies the report that Gen. P. M. B.
Yocn<j is a candidate forthe Legislature.
It says General Youno will be sent to
Congress. There now. The Legisla
ture, indeed.
Bullock will be represented by a
number of the ablest lawyers in Geor
gia, if his case ever comes to trial. We
hope Gov. Smith will see to it that the
State is also represented by able coun
sel, if the case ever comes to trial.
Journals that are bewailing the de
feat of Thurman in Ohio as the defeat of
Hard Money seem to forget how little
difference there was between the plat
form presented by the Thurman men
and the platform adopted by the Allen
ites.
It is stated that General Pierce M. B.
Youno will be a candidate for the Legis
lature from Bartow county; that if
elected he will be a “ prominent candi
date ” for Speaken of the House, and
that he will enter the race for Speaker
with a “ strong following.”
The Edgefield Advertiser thinks it
out of taste to have Chamberlain fig
ure so prominently in the Fort Moultrie
Centennial. Is it not also out of taste
to have Carolinians clinging to the po
litical coat tails of the Reform Gov
ernor ?
The friends of the candidates for
Governor assert that Hersohel V. John
son will not accept a nomination. All
such statements are wholly unauthor
ized. Gov. Johnson is perfectly compe
tent to speak for himself. Let the peo
ple beware of false statements and snap
judgments.
Foster Blodoett seems to be the ac
credited agent of Senator Morton in the
South. He is introducing the bloody
shirt with great snccess at the different
Republican Conventions. Between the
Box and the incarnadined under-gar
ment our former fellow-citizen will
doubtless come in for something hand
some before long.
We publish in the Chronicle and
Sentinel this morning a full account of
the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon,
in Abbeville county, South Carolina,
near the Edgefield line. By reference to
our telegraphic dispatches it will be seen
that the six men who committed the
crime were taken from the Sheriff and
shot to death in the presence of over
three hundred spectators.
The recent appointments by the Pres
ident were a complete surprise to the
oountry. Mr. Pierrepont will doubt
less make a good Minister to Great Bri
tain, and Judge Taft, an honest and
able Attorney-General. Don Cameron,
the new Secretary of War, is a son of
Simon Cameron, and it is scarcely ne
cessary to say that he comes of dishonest
stock. We hope he may*not be dishon
est himself.
The Centennial will not prove a suc
cess pecuniarily. During the first week
the paying visitors numbered 131,000,
and of these 76,000 were present on the
opening day. During the remainder of
the week the daily attendance ranged
from 14,000 to 7,000. The receipts lor
the week were $65,000, an average of
nearly SII,OOO. Of course, the receipts
will be smaller each succeeding week.
• A proposed amendment to the Consti
tution of Connecticut requiring all mem
bers of the Legislature when taking the
oath of oflioe to swear that they have
neither direotly nor indirectly influenced
voters, and have neither paid for party
organization nor eleotion expenses, has
been introduced in the Legislature, and
as the mover is chairman of the commit
tee to which it was referred it will be re
ported favorably.
A Washington dispatch says: “Two
New York Democrats, ex-Congressmen
Creamer and Dorsheimer, have opened
Tilden stock yards at the Arlington,
where they will hold forth until the St.
Louis Convention, paying the highest
New York prices for delegates and in
fluence to support Sam Tilden for the
Democratic nomination.” Mr. Tilden’s
friends seem also to be using “quoted
reading matter” at so much per line
with great lavishness and some little ef
fect.
The Edgefield Advertiser is working
with commendable zeal to upset the
dough face scheme in South Carolina.
Commenting upon the course of the
News and Courier, it says: “Our cotem
porary takes a fling at straight out De
mocracy when it says that there will be
a hitch in Democratic organization ‘un
til the white citizens are satisfied that
such agitators as General Gary have no
influence with the party, and that the
policy and the conduct of the campaign
kre not to be shaped by two or three
newspapers in the up-country. ’ General
Gary can take care of himself; his po
litical record is unsmirched by any affi
liation with ring-streaked and striped
Republicanism, and his influence will be
felt in the oouncils of the Democratic
party in the future as in the past.—
Three-fourths of the people support the
straight out policy, and the News might
as well hang up its harp. Straight out
is the word, and agitators are in demand.
And such exceptions as the News but
prove the rule: Exceptiones probant re
gem."
Judge Peeples, of Atlanta, has made
a special charge to the grand jury on the
subject of vagrants, and the charge is
warmly praised in that virtuous city.
They are“thriftless,shiftless vagabonds,”
“ dependent upon trickery, begging,
sponging and stealing,” are morally de
based, wholly depraved and vicious,”
are “negro loafers and lazzaroni,” have
been “outlawed by the State,” and
“should be driven to the fields.” True,
Judge Peeples and good people of At
lanta. Drive the vagrants to the fields,
b v all means. But what are you going
to a ° with tbe “thrifty” vagabonds who
lived x'y “trickery and stealing;” who
were “morally debased, wholly depraved
and vicious;” who were political “laz
aaroni-” who foisted themselves upon
*be people by fraud and force; who
plundered the tax payers without shame
or atint; who corrupted citizens and de
bated the press; who have “been out
lawed by the SWte”— wbat shall be .done
•wit* these f Alaa,/d>ese are received by
ke .people of with open
arms; tfaaae find aoores of -'wealthy and
respectable .eitieeus” to go npou their
bonds and tew ibwiiwo prison; thie
are tendered receptions and ban
.quets; these it it impolitic ,to punish.
Drive the vagrant# to
4he robbers by the hand. „
COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
In compliance with a request of a
number of members of the committee,
the members of the Democratic Execu
tive Committee of Richmond county are
hereby notified to attend a meeting of
the committee, to be held at the Court
House, in Angusta, on Tuesday, the 6th
of June, proximo, at 12 o’clock, m.
,Gbo. T. Barnes,
Chairman Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Richmond county.
May 22, 1876.
DISTRICT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The members of the Executive Com
mittee of the Eighth Congressional Dis
trict are requested to meet at the City
Hall in Augusta, at 12 o'clock, m., on
Thursday, the Ist of June, for organi
zation, and for the transaction of other
business. The counties of Hart, John
son and Glascock, which were not rep
resented in the Greenesboro Convention,
are requested to choose, each, a member
of tbe Committee. Democratic papers
throughout the District are requested to
copy this call. R. H. May,
President of the Greenesboro Conven
ti°n. _
•STATE DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COM
MITTEE.
Maoon, May 17,1876.
The State Democratic Executive Com
mittee are requested to meet in Atlanta,
Wednesday, June 7th, for the purpose
of completing the delegation for the
State at large to the National Demo
cratic Convention, and for the trans
action of other important business. A
full attendance is necessary, and all
members, I hope, will be present at
said meeting.
Thos. Habdman, Jb.,
Chairman State Executive Committee.
THE FREKDMEN’S BANK INVESTIGA
TION.
The House committee investigating
the affairs of the Freedmen’s Bank have
made a report, in which they say that
the institution degenerated into a mon
strous swindle, and was almost from the
start merely a scheme of selfishness un
der the guise of philanthropy, and to
its confiding victims an incorporate
body of false pretenses. In addition to
speculating rings, the District of Co
lumbia government came in to hasten
and profit by the work of spoliation. Its
treasury was wholly unequal to the task
of sustaining the magnificent expendi
tures of the Board of Public Works,
presided over by H. D. Cooke and con
trolled by A. R. Shepherd. Some ex
chequer must be found to advance the
depreciated bonds and worthless Audi
tor’s certificates of the District, or the
contracts must fall, and the speculations
of Pool and Shepherd and his friends,
in out of the way and unimproved town
lots, come to grief. The actual proof of
improper conduct on the part of the of
ficers and agents of the bank shows that
the Washington cabal consisted of the
President of the bank, D. L. Eaton, the
Actuary., H. D. Cooke, the Chairman of
the Finance Committee, Wm. S. Hun
tington, the henchman of Cooke and
of the same committee, O. O. Howard,
honorary trustee Can office and position
unknown to the charter), Lewis Cle
phane, of the Finance Committee, and a
few moio, enough to make a quorum of
nine. A majority of that (five) held
high carnival over tjie freedmen’s hard
earned and sweat-stained earnings, which
in an evil hour they had been cajoled
into trusting them with for safe keeping
and profitable investment. The freed
men were swindled out of their money
for the benefit of strangers, while the
eanting hypocrites, who had deceived
them under spurious professions of re
gard for their race, and all who have un
doubtedly directly nr indirectly shared
iu the plunder, go unwhipped of justice.
Proofs of actual fraud and dishonesty
are not wanting. J. W. Vandenburg
was a pet of the District government as
a sort of protege and favorite, who se
cured the contract for grand public im
provements, planned and pat into exe
cution by the Board of Public Works.
The report says that the securities on
which Vandenburg borrowed money
from the-bank were not worth 4 cents a
bushel as salable securities or as evi
dence of debt. The actuary of the bank
himself, then D. L. Eaton, was persuad
ed to accept as a gratuity from Vanben
burg a half interest in a SIOO,OOO con
tract for sewer pipes. Eaton put in no
money of his own, incurred no risks or re
sponsibility, and had no trouble about it
except to sign receipts for his share of the
profits, but he used the influence of his
position to pass Vandenburg’s paper at
the bank counter, and the money thus
obtained was used to carry out the con
tract, in which he was interested as a
beneficiary. It may not be a steal, but
as Vandenburg still owes the bank, ac
cording to the exhibit made by the
books of that concern, $144,164, whioh,
however, he disputes on the ground that
some $50,000 of his securities have been
disposed of and no credit given him, the
rest being hardly worth a contest about,
the freedmen depositors have the conso
lation of knowing that they have been
fleeced by an irregularity, to use a po
lite and exculpatory phrase employed by
the present Commissioners when com
pelled to allude to the rascalities of
their. predecessors in the management
and control of the affairs of the bank.
The committee says that the Vanden
bero-Eaton irregularites is small in ac
tual oriminality oompared with the Sene
ca sand-stone swindle. This bubble was
a fancy stock gamble, got up by B. D.
Cooke, John L. Kjdwell and H. H.
Dodge, by which $62,000 of the freed
men’s good money were drawn out on
worthless securities. Every one of the
survivors in this gross fraud and conspi
racy, Henry D. Cookh, Lewis Clep
fane, Hallft Kilbourn and J. O.
Evans, should be indicted, tried and
punished to the extent of the law, while
those who are pecuniarily responsible
should be sued for the recovery of the
money or good securities, consisting in
part of two thousand first mortgage
bonds of Maryland Free Stone Mining
and Manufacturing Company of which
the bank was robbed by the conspirators.
George W. Stiokney, the assistant v
tuary, and after Eaton, the actuary of
the bank, is showed to have been not
only privy to the crooked transactions,
but the principal actor in others, of
which a fraudulent conversion of funds
to his own private use is one, and for
which he merits and should receive pun
ishment. Added to the steal perpetrated
on the bank by the officers and others
through the connivance of its officers,
the act of forgery, as in the case of the
Boston teller of the Washington branch,
the way the freedmen's* money went is
not difficult of comprehension. The re
port was signed by Messrs. Douglas,
Chairman, Bradford, Stbnoeb, Biddle,
Hooker and Rainey. Mr. Frost agreed
on all the main points, but dissented
from some of the arguments.
Too much canvassing has been done
by the aspirants for the honors of Chief
Magistrate, and too much bitter discus
sion for good taste and purity of our
political system. If we cannot electa
good man to the position without all
this wrangling, it is a sad commentary
upon us as a people. The character of
good and true men have been assailed
in an unbecoming manner, simply for
the purpose of defeating them before
the Convention. And if we ace not care
ful this antagonism will manifest itself
in the Convention, divide the party and
cause our defeat before the people. Let
ns be prepared to support any good man
put forwarded by the Convention,
whether he be our individual choice or
not— Catersville Express.
<Fjn New York Tribune has discover
ed General Hancock is to-be
pressed to the trqut with renewed vigor
as the Democratic c&upidste. and that
tie movement will probably „* rom
Washington.
The apples are reported short, and the
peach an entire fitilqre.
RINGS AND SNAP JUDGMENT*.
Messrs. Pug he and Ra s dall have
worked themselves into a white heat,
the state of the weather being consider
ed, over the failure of Major Barnes,
Chairman of the County Committee, to
publish in his call for a meeting of the
committee the full text of the letter
addressed him by several of the gentle
men composing the committee. The sub
stance of that letter, they say, was that
the committee should be called together
for the purpose of appointing a time for
the people of tbe several wards and
districts to select delegates to a county
convention to send delegates to repre
sent this county in the State Guberna
torial Convention. In other articles
Messrs. Pughe and Randall have added
the words “ as usual" to this request,
but they seem to have discovered that
they are not warranted by the facts
and hence omit them. We have nothing
to say in defense of Major Babnes’
course. That gentleman is abundantly
able to speak for himself and will doubt
less do so if he thinks such a step
necessary. We do not see that it makes
any difference how the call is
worded, so that it be issued. The word
ing of each notices is left to the discre
tion of the Chairman. It is not even
necessary that such a oall should be
published at all, and is only done to
save the chairman of a committee the
trouble of addressing a note to each
member of the committee. But with
the wording of the call we have nothing
to do. We care as little for it as do the
members of the committee and the pub
lic generally. If it affords Messrs. Pughe
and Randall any pleasure to fight about
nothing we shall not seek to deprive
them of what is certainly a very harm
less species of amusement.
We feel very well assured that when
the committee meets its members will
npt take any steps looking to the selec
tion of delegates to represent Richmond
county in the State Convention. The
reason for this is obvious: The State
Convention has not been called by .the
State Executive Committee nor the
counties been notified to select delegates.
It is an unheard of thing to select
delegates to a Convention when the
Convention itself has not been called. It
is well known that the State Conven
tion will not be held until, after the ad
journment of the National Convention.
It will then be held for the purpose of
selecting Presidential electors and a
candidate for Governor. The National
Convention will not meet until the 27th
of June and it is not at all probable that
the State Convention will be held before
the middle of July or the first of Au
gust. The last State Convention held
in Georgia assembled some time during
the month of August. It is obviously
improper, then, for the Executive Com
mittee to order the selection of
delegates in advance of any call
for the assembling of a State Con
vention. We feel very confident
that the gentlemen composing the
County Committee will not take action
in advance of the State Committee. We
feel confident also that the members of
the committee do not wish to have Rich
mond county committed to any candi
date at so early a day. Suppose a meet
ing should be held upw and Colquitt
delegates selected, and that afterwards
circumstances should cause Charles J.
Jenkins to oome into the field. In sfleh
an event the vote of the county would be
committed to a man not the choice of
the county. We know that the members
of the Executive Committee desire the
will of the people to be fairly ex
pressed in the State Convention, and
that they will not permit a snap
judgment to be taken in the in
terest of any man or any set of men.
We think we see through this extraordi
nary eagerness of Messrs. Puphe and
Randall for the election of delegates.
It is considered probable that Hersohel
V. Johnson will in a short time state
authoritatively whether he will or will
not permit his name to be used in the
approaching canvass for Governor. It
is known that an overwhelming majority
of the people of Richmond, appreciating
the purity of Governor Johnson’s pri
vate character, his commanding talents,
and the splendor of his public services,
would like to see him made Governor of
Georgia. If he comes into the field
Richmond county is certain to go for
him. The idea, then, is to get the
county committed and the people
pledged to General Colquitt in ad
vance of Governor Johnson’s appear
anoe. We have nothing to say against
General Colquitt or any other candi
date. It is for the people and not .the
newspapers to decide whom the county
will support ; but we protest against
having a convention packed in the in
terest of any candidate. We are quite
sure that General Colquitt would scorn
a nomination procured by such an un
worthy device, We are quite sure the
County Executive Committee will not
assist such a scheme. We are quite
sure that -the people would not hesitate
to repudiate it. We use plain language
because plain words are the best. The
Chronicle and Sentinel has not, as
yet, espoused the cause of any candi
date. We expect to support with all
our power the nominee of the State
Convention. But we shall not hesitate
to denounce anything that looks like un
fairness or trickery.
ELECTIONEERING AND ADVERTISING
FOR TILDEN.
On our first page we publish an ar
ticle from the Augusta Chboniclb with
tbe caption “Tilden’s Tactics—Subsi
dizing tbe Southern newspapers,” which
should serve to open the eyes of the
people to the means that are tping em
ployed to manufacture public opinion in
favor of Mr. Tilden’s Nomination at St.
Lonis. The exposure is humiliating is
the extreme, showing as it does not only
the unworthy methods to which politi
cians of the present day are capable of
resorting for the purpose of furthering
their own ambitions aims, but also the 1
low estimate in whieh the integrity of
the press of the country is held by them.
The same paragraphs having been sent
to us with the same offer of pecuniary l
compensation for their insertion in onr
reading columns, our mortification is
not a little relieved by the fact that the
Morning News waa not the only respect
able journal in Georgia to which the in
sulting proposition was made. Oar able
and worthy Augusta contemporary has
repelled the indignity of a proffered 1
bribe in the right spirit, and we com
mend and endorse every word of his ar
ticle. It may be that Governor Tilden j
had no direct agency in this barefaced
attempt to subsidize the press. Such
paltry bribery would be utterly incon
sistent with the high character ascribed
to him as a political reformer and hon
orable gentleman. But if it is a part of
the policy adopted by his personal
friends, it shows that his political asso
ciates are not such as should commend
him to the confidence and support of
those who seek in the coming election
the triumph of Democratic principles,
the overthrow of official corruption, and
the restoration of honest constitutional
government. — Savannah News.
Mb. Them low Weed does not believe
in allowing Jefferson Davis to lapse j
into oblivion. He told a Herald report
er that he thinks the ex-Frasident and
men of his stripe should be used for,
campaign purposes as much as possible,
that they may be thus made to do some
compensation for tic crimes they have
committed. Mr. Tkurlow Weed is also
the gentleman who, when he was trying
to defeat the in New York byt
them with the murder of Mor
gan, said of a corpse that ha 4 been
fowd, bat concerning the identity at
which he was uncertain, that “anyhow
it would do. It was a goad .enough
Morgan until after the election.” (
It is time now that newspapers drop
ped the word’ “ jug” and send an unfor-i
tunate chap to “the cooler.” “Jug”
is only a cold weather expression.
GEORGE H. PEXDLETON.
THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM EX
PLODED.
Jude*-Advocate-General Dunn Given Some
Telling Testimony— The Kentucky Central
Railroad Claims Regularly Pressed.
Washington, May 16.—The Commit
tee on Expenditures in the War Depart
ment to-day resumed their inquiry into
the matter of the Kentucky Central
Railroad claim. General W. H. Dunn,
Judge-Advocate-General of the Army,
testified that during the years 1870 and
1871, while Asaistant-Judge-Advocate-
General, he was on dnty as haw officer of
the War Department, and in the Fall of
1870 the claim was referred to him by
the Secretay of War in the ordinary
course of business for examination and
report ; tbe papers remained in his of
fice from some time in November until
the next May, and received a very care
ful and thorongh examination at his
hands; as the result of this examination
he was clearly satisfied that it was a just
claim, and therefore he made a favor
able report, yhich, being approved by
the Secretary of War, and afterwards by
the Third Auditor and Second Comp
troller of the Treasury, procured its
payment; no effort was made in any
quarter to influence his judgment; the
Secretary of War requested him when
he received tbe report of the Quarter
master-General on the subject to for
ward a copy of it to Mr. Pendleton, who
fo warded an argument in reply; Mr.
Pendleton never tried to influence him,
except by one brief oral statement and a
written argument; the matter was then
left to take its course; the witness had
served with Mr. Pendleton in Congress,
bat bis acquaintance with that gentle
man was limited; the Secretary of War
never sought to influence his judgment;
he did ask him when he would be ready
to report, as Mr. Pendleton was anxious
to go to Europe; this claim came to him
in the regnlar course of business, and re
ceived more consideration than others
because of the magnitude of the amount
involved; he had no reason now to
change his judgment as to this being a
just claim.
Q. Did you believe that any portion
of the money when paid would be ap
propriated to any improper nse or pur
pose by the person receiving it ? A. I
have no reason for any such belief.
In response to further questions Gen.
Dunn presented the following as the
chief points of his reports on the claim,
showing the considerations which con
trolled bis favorable action, and bring
ing out some faots regarding its history
that have not hitherto been published:
First: The Kentucky Central Railroad
Company was entitled under the Con
stitution to just compensation for ser
vices rendered the Government, and
what was just compensation was not a
matter to be determined arbitrarily by
the Quartermaster-General or any one
else. Second: The military rates, so
called, imposed upon said company
against its protest were not just compen
sation for the services rendered. Third:
The rates of compensation asked for and
finally allowed were no more than just
compensation for the service. Fourth:
The payments made to the company by
the Quartermaster’s Department having
been received under protest that they
were not the company was entitled
to receive* in no manner concluded the
company against demanding further
payment, and the Quartermaster-Gene
ral erred in holding the company con
cluded by the acceptance of such partial
payment and in representing to the Sec
retary of War that the services were
paid for and settled. Fifth: The Quar
termaster-Genbral recommended that the
rates asked for by the company (90 per
cent, of its regular tariff) be paid for
services after August 1, 1864, which
recommendation was approved. The
reasons given for that recommendation
apply more forcibly for the time such
rates were refused than for the time
they were allowed. Sixth: April 15,
1864, the recommendation of the Quar
master-General that this claim be re
jected was approved in this form: “By
order of the Secretary of War. C, A.
Dana, Assistant Secretary of War.” In
a few days thereafter, on the application
of Mr. Magraw, then the attorney in the
case, the Secretary of War, under his
own hand, ordered the Quartermaster-
General to call on Colonel Swords,
the Assistant Quartermaster - General,
on duty in Cincinnati, for a report on
the ease as then presented. Colonel
Swords made such a report, showing
fully that the payments for transporta
tion made to the railroad company had
been received under protest, and upon
the assurance of the Quartermaster mak
ing the payments that the company, by
receiving suoh payments, would not be
debarred from asserting its claim to 90
per cent, on its regular tariff rates.
Subsequently Mr. Stanton verbally, as
stated by the Solicitor of the War De
partment, William Whiting, and also
under his own hand, as appears by the
record, referred the report of Colonel
Swords, through the Quartermaster-
General’s Department, to Solicitor Whi
ting for a report. All these references
took place after the time it is stated that
the claim was rejected by the War De
partment, and certainly negative the
idea that Secretary Stanton considered
the claim rejected. The last reference
was seven months afterwards. The ref
erence of this report of Colonel Swords
is the last official act of Secretary Stan
ton of record in regard to this claim,
and, excepting a report by Solicitor
Whiting that the claim was still open
for settlement, no further action appears
to have been taken regarding it*until
the year 1870. Seventh: The Na
tional Railroad Convention whieh
was held in Washington on Feb
ruary 20, 1862, on whose recommend
ation the so-called military uates
were adopted, passed the following res
olution:
Resolved, That it is the opinion of
this Convention that the Secretary of
War should make such compensation as
will be equitable to those roads whose
expenses are enhanced by reason of their
being in or near the seat of war.
In pursuance of this resolution the
Quartermaster-General, under authority
of the Secretary of War, allowed to the
Baltimore and Ohio, the Louisville and
Nashville, the North Missouri and the
St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad
Companies more than the military rates
for the transportation of army supplies.
The Kentucky Central was entitled to
be placed in the same category as those
roads, the same reasons that justified
the payment of higher than the military
rates to those roads obtaining with
equal force in the case of the Kentucky
Central. Quartermaster-General Meigs,
who waa present, was asked by Mr.
Clvmer whether he desired to say any
thing in regard to the testimony of Gen.
Dunn. He replied that he did not think
it necessary to do so, as his official action
concerning the matter was fully set forth
in the record.
{New York World, Editorial.}
Mr. Pendleton Vindtiaiteh
It is, we hope, of good augury for the
work of the Democratic Convention
which assembles to-day in Cincinnati,
and whieh, it is reported, will call Mr.
Pendleton to preside over its delibera
tions, that by the dear, business-like
and unhesitating testimony of Judge
Advocate-General Dunn, of the United
States Army, yesterday given before the
House Committee on Military Expendi
tures, every imputation of wrong-doing
put upon Mr. Pendietop by his personal
and political enemies in connection with
a claim pressed by him in the name of
the Central Railroad of Kentucky upon
the War Department, has been finally
and completely made an end of. When
those imputations were first set afoot the
public mind was excited by the then recent
revelations of the misconduct of Secre
tary of War Belknap. Republican par
tisans were eager to catch at anything
which might be used to- break the
force of those staggering revelations as
against ttmir own party, by bringing
leading men of the opposition also into
dispute and discredit. The public in
general, demoralized by the disgrace of
a high Cabinet officer, were ready to
entertain charges of any kind against
anybody whioh would have been con
temptnonsly scouted at another time
Mr. Pendleton was the easy yiotim for a
time of these unfavorable circumstances,
the case against him being aggravated
in appearance by his own frank avowal
that he had personally received a very
large share of the award finally made in
favor ci the railway of which, when the
claim was pressed by him, he had been
the President. As to this part of the
story, he was some time ago completely
cleared of blame by the testimony of
those most nearly and most deeply con
cerned in the correctness of his con
duct. As to the rest of it, Judge-Ad
vocate-General Dunn yesterday blew
the whole body of the foy} vapors away
into thin air. It stands now of record
and upon authority which must be ac
cepted as final, if any authority can be
ever so accepted, that Mr. Pendleton’s
prosecution of the eiai of the Kentucky j
Central Railroad was above-board, j
straightforward and manly. Mr. JDjjnn
testified yesterday that the claim bad j
been pressed through all its stages in the ;
most open and regular manner; that no
effort waa made from any quarter to in
fluence his consideration and deoiaioh of
it an/airly; that he kept it under exami-t
nation hiGudf for more than six months,
from November, to May, 1871; that
be examined ft with ang#nal care be
cause ft was a claim of considerably im
portance, that with Mr. Pendleton per
sonally he had no relations of intimacy
qr special aqqnaintaqsqgftip whatever
jpegond .those which respited fapsp his
having served in the same Congress
withlr. PahdUton, and that fuTSual
verdict in favor of the claim was given
because be was perfectly .convinced that
l it was a just and reasonable claim, such
as bad been admitted and acquitted in
the case of several other railway com
panies, and fqnded upon intrinsic equity
and right. In' the course of the exami
nation yesterday it was shown that
Quartermaster-General Meigs, by whom
alone in the course of its official history
the claim had ever been seriously stayed
or checked, had himself indirectly recog
nized its justice by ordering that
from and after August 1, 1861, the
Kentucky Central Railroad should be
paid for transportation on Government
account at the increased rates to whioh
Mr. Pendleton claimed that it was en
titled, General Meigs’ reason for issuing
such an order at that date beingprecise
ly the reason on which Mr. Pendleton
based his claim, that the road shonld
be paid at these rates for its previous
services—the damage, namely, done to
the road by the enemy ! For it stands
in proof that the principal damage done
to the property and business of the
road by the war was sustained by it be
fore the month of August, 1864. Quar
termaster-General Meigs was present
during the examination yesterday, and
when called upon by the committee, had
nothing to say in contravention of the
testimony or of the conclusions of
Judge-Advocate-General Dunn. - We
should be sorry to believe that the bit
terest political antagonist of the distin
guished citizen and public man who has
thus by the manly testimony of a high
Republican official been relieved of an
intolerable imputation upon his integri
ty and his honor, can have any feelings
but those of sincere satisfaction at this
complete vindication of his self-respect
and of his right to the good opinion of
his fellow-countrymen.
HIGHWAYMEN IN TEXAS.
Robbery of a San Antonio Stage Coach—
Passengers Stripped of Thoir Valuables—
Heroic Conduct of a Young Lady.
[Columbus (Tex.) Cor. New York Herald .]
On the 9th inst. the United States
mail coach or stage from San Antonio to
Suling was captured and robbed by three
gentlemen of the road, who also de
prived the passengers of whatever val
uables they had about their persons.—
This is the second instance within a few
weeks in this State of the capture of
mail coaches by highwaymen and tbe
robbery of the passengers, the first oc
curring near the town of San Marcos,
about twenty miles west of Austin, the
State capital. I met to-day a passen
gers on the stage last robbed, and I
give the particulars as furnished by
him :
“We left San Antonio early on Tues
day last for Suling, the present terminus
of the Peirle Railroad of Sunset Route.
The stage was full of passengars. They
were: Dr. Herman, I. K. Eckrane and
W. H. Harris, of San Antonio; 0. 0.
McKinney, of Atascosa county; George
Hillard, a colored man, of Indianola ;
V. F. Moore, of Oalifornia ; Dr. A. ’P.
Chace, of Illinois ; D. E. Singleman, of
St. Louis; Miss Ogden, of San Anto
nio ; Miss McKinney, of Atascosa, and
some others whose names I do not re
member. When about twenty-five
miles from San Antonio, While the stage
was slowly ascending a long hill in the
prairie, a man on a fine gray horse rode
up to the stage from the front and asked
the driver if he had seen a horse on the
road dragging a rope. The driver told
him he had not. I noticed that this man
looked into the coach closely while talk
ing to the driver. He was a tall, pow
erful man, with light beard and hair,
rosy and healthy-looking, and was
about thirty-five years of age, I should
think. He immediately rode off ra
pidly, as if in pursuit of the horse
dragging the rope. As the stage moved
on, a few minutes later, this same man
was seen at the top of the hill with two
other men on the roadside, one of them
mounted on a sorrel horse and the other
on foot. As the stage approached the
man on the gray horse rode off into the
mesquite chaparral, which was here very
dense. When within a few yards of
them the man on foot stepped in front
of the stage, and, pointing a double
barreled shot-gun, both barrels cocked
and his fiuger on the trigger, at the dri
ver, ordered him to halt. The driver,
in amazement, obeyed. The other man
on horseback rode immediately up to
the coach and presented a six-shooter,
cocked, almost in the face of the pas
sengers, and said, “Raise an arm if you
dare !” or something of that sort. The
man on the gray horse came up at this
moment and also stuck his six-shooter at
the passengers. AH three of these men
wore masks on their faces at this time—
simply a handkerchief tied around their
laces.' with holes for their eyes. They
ordered us to get out of the stage. We
all obeyed. One of them proceeded to
search our pockets aDd other portions of
the clothiDg, while the other two stood
over us with the cocked weapons.
Miss Ogden, a handsome young la
dy, stoutly refused to be searched. She
told them'she had no money, and that
she would die before they should touch
her. One of the scoundrels threatened
to take her into the brush, but she still
refused, and they finally let her alone.
After getting through with the passen
gers they made the negro, George Hil
liard, rip open the mail bags. One of
them opened every letter and package,
and I saw that they got a good deal of
money out of them. Mr. Moore, of
California, had $420 in gold on his per
son, and some S4O or SSO in greenbacks,
all of which they took. The negro,
GeorgS Hilliard, had $lO4, which they
got too. The other passengers, except
Miss Ogden, had but small amounts of
money with them, but the highwaymen
got all they had. I think in all they
got about a thousand dollars. Miss Og
den had over S3OO on her, and she is the
only one of the passengers who came
out of the affair with a single cent. Dr.
Chace had a fine gold watch, which
they took. He appeared to feel this loss
very much, as he seemed to prize the
watoh for something outside of its mo
ney value. Some of the other passen
gers also had watohes, whieh were taken
from them. As for myself, I came out
easy, having only $8 or $lO about me at
the time.
Correspondent: Did none of you have
arms?
Passenger: There were two splendid
rifles in the company, and also one or
two pistols; but the thing occurred so
quickly and suddenly there was no
chance to draw them. If we had made
fight the highwaymen would certainly
have fired upon us, and some of the
ladies would no doubt have been killed.
But to resist under the circumstances
was out of the question.
Correspondent: Did they handle you
roughly ?
Passenger; No ; they were rather po
lite. So were we all, except Miss Ogden,
who showed them no complaisance. Had
we been otherwise, I suppose they
would have handled us pretty roughly.
The whole job was over in twenty min
utes or less. The robbers then rode off
and disappeared in the chaparral. We
proceeded on our journey and reached
SeguiP in an hour.
Correspondent; Did no one pass on
the road while this was going on ?
Passenger : No one. There were no
honses anywnere near, and the point
%ras a splendid one for the robbers to
make this attempt. From the top of
the bill they could see any one ap
proaching ftt a long distance.
This occurred a week ago and none
of these robbers have yet been captured
nor can I learn that any effort at all has
been made to ferret them out. The
State government is imbecile and dees
nothing. There is, therefore, little
probability that the highwaymen will
be caught. Those who robbed the
stage near San Marcos went scot free,
not even a detective haying been placed
on . their track. Encouraged by im
punity, they will no doubt soon attack
other stages in other parts of the State.
He who travels in these conveyances in
Texas should take little money with
him, and go prepared to.defend him
self at a moment’s notice. The high
waymen have not yet begun to attack
travelers on horseback, but if some
thing is not done to suppress these
freebooters they will no donbt make
Texas a most uncomfortable place to
the wayfarer in whatever style he may
’ . -
A HOPEFUL SIGN V? ’ AST.
The Ureal Sale of Cotton Goods in New York
—The Lots Disposed of Yesterday—Good
Prices Realized—Great Excitement.
New York, May 25.— The sale of the
dry goods of the Amoskeag Manufactur
ing Company, Naumakeg Steam Cotton
Company, Stark Mills and Langdon
Manufacturing Company, advertised to
take place this morning, attracted an
immense concomse of buyers. The first
lot of Amoskeag fancy shirtings was
knocked down at 1J cents. A lot, also
consisting of shirtings,
brought 11* cents, and lot No. 3 Amos
keag 3-$, blue stripes, quickly reached
9 t cents, and then went off in orders of
five ten and twenty cases. Tbe fourth
lot of Amoskeag fi 3, bine stripes, sold
for 10j. cents. Massabease 3-3, bine
stripes, brought 9 cents, and Massabesse,
6 3 bine stripes, easily commanded lOj
cents. Lot No. 7 Amoskeag A. C. A.
tickings started at ltj, at whieh price a
large order was taken, when the rest
welt off at 16* cents. The following lot,
also of Amoskeag ticking, was eagerly
received, and the bidding was very
spirited until 16J cents was realised,
yben it stopped, and, amid an pproar j
eq nailing anything ever beard in the
gt oc k Exchange, orders were poured in
upon the auctioneer too tfcipk and fast
jo be attended to properly.
Two mad dogs were killed in Charles
ton on Sunday.
FEARFUL RETRIBUTION.
THE EDGEFIELD HORROR.
The Harman Murder—The Whole Country
Aghast at the Fiendish Atrocity of the Deed.
[Edgefield Advertiser.]
A week to-day has elapsed since the
foal mnrder of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon.
The daily press has spread the horrible
news throughout the land. Meanwhile
we, who have known the hapless victims
all our lives are filled with horror, ex
citement and execration. The bloody
and pitiless atrocity of the deed is al
most unparalleled. The murder took
place on Wednesday night, the 17th
instaDt. John L. Harmon was a man
seventy-two years old. Mrs. Harmon,
we presume, some fifty years of age.
Before the war Mr. Harmon was a man
of wealth. And even since the war he
has been well off. In fact, he was an
eminently thrifty and money-making
man. Mrs. Harmon in her life had been
a gay and dashing woman. She always
dressed very handsomely, and generally
wore valuable jewelry. They had no
children. At their home, five miles be
yond Liberty Hill, and a half mile this
side of the Abbeville line, they lived
well—in fact in great abundauce—and
were decidedly hospitable. The dead
bodies were discovered .on Thursday
morning by a negro fellow who went for
the stable keys. After knocking at the
door for some time, and receiving no
answer, the door was broken open, and
the horrible spectacle of the dead
bodies of the husband and wife was dis
covered.
A large club was left on the floor in
the. room, near the dead bodies. A
hole was burnt through the floor of the
room, the villiains having undertaken to
cover up the murder by burning the
house over the dead bodies. Trial Jus
tice John A. Barker, living some miles
below the scene, held an inquest on
Thursday, adjourning the inquest until
a future day. The white people of the
neighborhood, both in Edgefield and
Abbeville, acted with promptness and
decision. On Saturday last, the Satur
day after the murder, certain citizens
brought to our jail a negro' man named
Stephen Lake. He had been in the em
ploy of Mr. Harmon. On the following
Sunday night, some ten or twelve gen
tlemen rode into our neighborhood, and
stopping at Mr. John Hollingsworth’s
announced that they were in search of a
certain negro man named Austin Davis
alias Sam Perry. Mr. Holliugsworth
had owned and raised this man. He
was a bad fellow, and escaped from
our jail some months ago, where he
was lodged for horse stealing. After
his escape he made his way up the
country, and for the last two months
has been hired by Mr. Harmon—feed
ing his stock, &e. A week before the
murder he had a settlement with Mr.
Harmon and left him. The Hollings
worths knowing that Austin’s wife lived
a mile in rear of them, on a plantation
of Mrs. Pickens, led or directed the
party thither. They found Austin hid
beneath the floor of the cabin and took
him in charge. They did not bring him
to jail, but departed with him to the
scene of the foul deed. On Sunday, be
fore they reached Liberty Hill, he con
fessed everything, implicating Stephen
Lake, then in jail, a negro preacher
named Lark Holloway and his wife, two
other negro men whose names we have
failed to learn, and Mr. Harmon’s color
ed cook. All these negroes are under
arrest, or rather in the hands of the citi
zens. Most of them are under guard in
Mr. Harmon’s house. Numbers of citi
zens from many sections of cur county
have rendezvoused to the scene, think
ing it wise to do so. Several gentlemen
from our town went up on Monday.
As we write, upon the eve of going to
press on Wednesday, the matter stands
thus : Mr. John Harrison, a Deputy
Sheriff, who had gone up on Monday,
returned on Tuesday at 3 o’clock, accom
panied by a half dozen reliable citizens,
to whom he delivered the prisoner,
Stephen Lake. He had an order from
Trial Justice Barker who, on Tuesday,
resumed the inquest to forward this man
as a witness. The hearing of testimony
was to be resumed to-day—Wednesday.
Messrs. Cothran & Perrin, of Abbeville,
and our townsman, Mr. Orlando Shep
pard, lawyers, are present. A large num
ber of white citizens are also present.
The confession of Austin Davis amounts
to this: The scheme had been concocted
a week or ten days before the perpetra
tion. Some dozen or more negroes were
in the secret. The actual perpetrators,
however, are the men now under arrest.
Stephen Lake struck Mr. Harmon the
first blow, on the head, with a stout
dogwood club—then a second blow,
which felled him. Mrs. Harmon shriek
ed. Another negro fellow struck her to
the floor, also with a dogwood club.
She fell face downwards, and was dead.
The negro preacher now enters, and,
lifting her body, cuts her throat from
ear to ear. The body drops again upon
its face—the hands so hidden that the
numerous costly rings were not taken off
them. Then the body of Mr. Harmon i-i
turned over. He is not quite dead, and
one of the fiends strikes him a terrible
blow upon the forehead, smashing it en
tirely in. And again the preacher wields
his knife. Mr. Harmon’s throat is also
cut from ear to ear. And now com
mences the saturnalia of plunder. The
negro women appear upon the scene and
there is a “general row” (Davis’ words)
over the booty. The women wrangle
over silk dresses and jewelry, while the
men ransack the whole house. They
strive to distribute the booty “ equita
bly.” Everything movable is carried off.
And now gallons of kerosene oil are
poured upon the bodies of the victims,
and the floor is saturated. Mrs. Har
mon’s body is so saturated that when
the clothes are taken off, the skin ad
heres to them. Then a negro woman
applies- the torch—and the murderers
depart. The blood, flowing in streams,
mixes with the oil and stays the flames !
The details are so numerous and so
shocking that it is impossible to record
them. Such devilish brutality was never
before heard of. We have waited until
the last moment, hoping to hear further
from the scene, but do one has returned.
The general impression is that, to-day,
after all the testimony shall have been
taken, and the guilt of these fiends es
tablished beyond all doubt, the ring
leaders will be lynched by the outraged
citizens. Of this, however, there is no
certainty. *We hope it may be so.
A citizen from the Harmon section
has just passed through town, bringing
the information that two more negro
men have been arrested, and that all
nine have made full confessions. These
confessions implicate other negroes still.
Further arrests will probably be made.
Otherwise the situation is precisely as
we have stated above. The investiga
tion is still going on. And the impres
sion still prevails that the ringleaders
will be lynched.
THE HARMON TRAGEDY HOW
THE SIX MURDERERS WERE
LYNCHED.
The Exeeution Follow* the Verdict Given at
the Inquest—How the Crowd Served the
Sheriff'—The Prisoners Expiate their Crime
Haifa Mile from the Scene of the Double
Murder-w Five Minute* Given the Doomed
Wretches to Pray.
[Special Dispatch to The. News and Courier . J
Abbeville, S. C., May 25.—From eye
■witnesses of the lynching of the murder
ers of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon, I gather
some further details that will be of in
terest to the readers of the News and
Courier. It seems that the lynching
was the direct result of the formal ver
dict of the jury of inquest upon the bod
ies of the murdered couple. The jury
found that the Harmons were deliberate
ly murdered by Stephen Lake, Larkin
Holloway, Marshall Perrin, Austin Da
vis, Jeff Settles, Jessie Lake, Bettie
Perrin, and Tilda Holloway, all negroes.
These parties had previously been ar
rested, and when the inquest closed
were delivered into the custody of Sher
iff Bichardson for commitment to jail.
But immediately the sheriff was seized
by the crowd, which numbered about
six hundred persons, his head was hast
ily covered with a bag, and he was car
ried off by force and confined. The
hopr of retribution for the fiends who
had so mercilessly butchered Mr. and
Mrs. Harmon had now arrived. All of
the prisoners were taken by the crowd,
which was composed of both black and
white citizens, and marched to a point
about a half mile from the scene of the
murder. There the six men who had
committed the crime were tied firmly to
gether in a row, and five minutes were
given to them to pray, at the expiration
of which time a volley of one hundred
shots were fired, and the six wretches
fell dead to the ground. About three
hundred men took part in the last act of
the lynching. They were variously
armed with rifles, shot-guns and pistols.
No masks were worn by anybody, and
there was no exhibition of excitement of
any kind, no loud talking and no whisky.
Previous to their execution Austin Da
vis and Stephen Lake had confessed that
the party had been concocting the mur
der for several weeks. Stephen first
knocked the victims on the head, Hollo
way turned the fiodjes oyer, and Steph
en cut their throats. After the murder
the house was gutted of everything val
uable, and a part M the goods were re
covered in the hands of Austin Davis.
The two women wer.e turned loose and
told to leave the county.
Another Account.
Columbia, Thursday Night, May 25.
From TIM. Tolbert, County Treasurer of
Edgefield, and from railroad officials
who arrived here this evening, the fol
lowing additional particulars of the
Edgefield lynching affair have been ob
tained: The scene of the lynching was at
or near the residence of the murdered
Harmons, a point about twenty- five
miles from Abbeville, and thirty from
Edgefield Court House. The diecovery
of the dogwood club and the confession
of one of the murderers led to the imme
diate arrest of five other men, whose
names you published to-day, and of
three women who were likewise impli
cated, one the wife of Holloway, one the
wife of Luke, and the other, Betsy Per
rin, the Harmons’ oook. The examina
tion by the coroner’s jury, of which J.
Callisou, a most prudent aud respected
citizen, was foreman, conclusively dem
onstrated the guilt of all six of the men,
all of whom, indeed, confessed to hav
ing participated in the murder and rob
bery. The examination being concluded,
the coroner formally delivered the pris
oners into the possession of Sheriff
Bichardson, who was present. He had
no sooner received them into his custody
than he was approached by a party of
men, who told him that they would re
lieve him of any further trouble, and at
once bound and blindfolded him. The
prisoners were then immediately formed
into line aud shot to death. Upwards
of five hundred people were present,
about fifty of these being colored. There
was no excitement, and the whole pro
ceeding was conducted with the utmost
deliberation. The reason assigned for
shooting instead of hanging the men
was that by this means the whole party
might share in the execution, while
hanging would have made a few of the
party the more prominent as ringlead
ers, which result it was desired to avoid.
The lynchers openly acknowledged their
participation in the affair afterwards,
and expressed their willingness to sub
mit to the action of any authorized tri
bunal. The feeling among the colored
people was as strong against the mur
derers as among the white people, and
they even said that if the whites did
nothing the colored people would take
the law into their hands. One white
man was supposed to have been concern
ed in the murder and would undoubted
ly have shared the fate of the others,
but no proof was found against him and
he was discharged, as was also another,
an old colored man. The prisoners tes
tified that the three women were pres
ent at the murder, but were not more di
rectly concerned in it. The lynchers
turned them loose, upon condition that
they le#ve the country forthwith. They
complied at once, and this accounts for
their alleged disappearance. It is de
nied that they were violently disposed
of. All the lynchers were from the
counties of Abbeville and Edgefield.
They listened quietly to remonstrances
of some of the older persens present,
but said they were fixed in their resolve,
Nine-tenths of those present, and at
least an equal proportion of the citizens
of the county, approved of the lynching.
What (xov. Chamberlain Says About the
Lynching.
Columbia, May 25.-—I called upon the
Governor this afternoon for official in
formation in regard to the lynching case.
He had' received no official information
on the subject, as yet. Neitner the cor
oner, nor the sheriff, nor any county of
ficer has been heard from. He has re
quested full information respecting the
reported lawlessness, and ifchen possess
ed of authentic information will proceed
as may seem advisable.
PROSPERITY RESTORED.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
We may not dispute facts ; they defy
criticism, and avail more to produce
conviction than a multitude of argu
ments. Having traveled over many
counties and through the press heard
from many more in the State, I propose
presenting a hopeful view of our imme
diate future, based on facts and infer
ences therefrom, which almost amount
to a demonstration. Asa general state
ment of facts, we say that, with a small
abatement as to rust, the grain crop, as
to quantity and probable yield, is pros
pectively superior to anything we have
had since the war. We will take the
county of Ogiethorpe as a basis for our
argument. We believe there are near
800 farms in this county, and we think,
from personal observation, these planta
tions will average of wheat and oats (the
latter mostly rust proof), 40 bushels
each more than they made last year.
From the increased acreage in corn
(some of which has been actually gu
anoed), we may reasonably anticipate,
with the usual climatic conditions of
sunshine and showers, 50 bushels more
to the farm than was housed last season.
This county, then, by this “old fogy”
mode of agriculture, will save the follow
ing amounts named below. We will put
the above into an argument of figures,
which usually have a great antipathy to
falsehood:
800 farms x 40 bushels oats, at 80c.,
yields $25,600
800 farms x 40 bushels wheat, at $1 50,
yields 48,000
800 farms x 50 bushels cora, at sl,
yields 40,000
Total sum $113,600
We do not include fn this estimate over
last year peas, potatoes, hay, fodder,
clover, etc., which will swell the amount
to the more grateful figures of $120,000.
Now, suppose there are only 70 counties
in the entire State which have pursued
the above anti-famine policy, and multi
plying by that number we have the
probable saving of near $9,000,000 in one
year. If this policy is persistently pur
sued for a few years, will not prosperity
and plenty be again restored to our be
loved “Old Commonwealth ?”
May 25th, 1876. , Oglethorpe.
UNDER THE LASH.
A Gala Day at Newcastle, Del.—Vindicating
the Majesty of Barbaric Law-Ten Prison
ers in tlic Stocks and the Cat-o’-nine-tails
Laid on Well.
Wilmington, Del.. May 21.— 0n Sat
urday the ponderous iron gates of the
New Castle jail, in this State, were
thrown open at 10 o’clock in the morn
ing, and a motley gathering of men,
women and children, black and white,
crowded in to witness the degrading
punishment of a lashing upon the bare
back that eleven thieves were to receive
in accordance with sentences of the
Court. It is a feature particularly char
acteristic of these exhibitions that the
audience is made up of the coarsest
phases of life in Newcastle and the sur
rounding country, who appear to take a
savage delight in the writhings of the
human body as they are tortured by the
descending lash as it strikes the flesh
with an unnatural sound. Coarse jests
and unfeeling remarks are indulged in,
and it is made with many of the farmers
a holiday occasion, whole families ar
riving in wagons to witness the perform
ance. When the gates were thrown open
on Saturday the first sight that met the
eye was that of two white nien,
Enoch’Bash and James Bradey, who
had been guilty of breaking into a store,
standing in the pillory, where they re
mained one hour each, and were taken
down greatly stiffened from this punish
ment. Robert Harris, a negro, was next
put into the pillory, where he remained
for the space of one hour. His offense
was assault and battery with intent to
kill. During this time the crowd had
greatly thinned out, but when the an
nouncement was made that the whip
ping would begin they gathered within
the yard again. Enoch Bash was the
name first called out by the sheriff, and
he came forth, a tall, muscular white
man, led by a deputy. He was bared to
the waist, and apparently still suffering
from the effects of his confinement in the
pillory, stood bravely up to the post
while his hands were fastened in the
iron clamps. The sheriff, armed with a
cat-o’-nine-tails, asked if all was ready
and commenced to rain on the blows,
thirty in number, which were counted
by a deputy as they fell. The quiver
ing flesh reddened at first, and finally
the blood found its way to the surface,
while the prisoner writhed in his agony
and his face was the very picture of suf
fering and despair. He was taken back
to his cell, stiff and sore. James Bradey,
who the accomplice of Bash in the
crime, was also hit thirty lashes by the
sheriff, but bore it with a great
deal more fortitude than the other,
and notwithstanding the blows fell
thick and fast not a muscle of his
face changed and he in no way gave evi
dence of the intense pain he must have
suffered. James Darah had stolen a
pocket-book containing SB, and for this
stood up to the whipping-post in a veey
defiant manner to receive twenty lashes,
which were put on with heavy strokes.
Charles Harrison, a negro, for larceny,
received ten lashes without a murmur.
Thomas Hyde was whipped with twenty
lashes for stealing a lot of old olothing.
Isaac Hoyden, a fine specimen of manly
form, had taken a beefsteak and a small
lot of scrappel from a farmer’s wagon,
and for this received twenty lashes with
intense suffering. The prisoner twisted
and almost fell upon his haunches in
hs endeavors to escape the blows.
His back was terribly scarred, and he
went back to his cell in great agony.
Thomas Davis, for rqbbery, was given
twenty lashes that burst toe flesh, and
Samuel Bush was given the same num
ber for participating in the theft. Wil
liam L. Cooper, a negro, had stolen a
buffalo-robe and received twenty lashes,
and David Beed, a negro, for larceny,
also received twenty lashes. In addition
to the whipping each of them has to un
dergo a term of imprisonment, pay
restitution money and wear a convict’s
jacket for six months after their release.
The sight was apparently much enjoyed
by the spectators. There was a large
batch shipped on the Saturday pre
vious, many of whom cried pijssously for
mercy and begged the sheriff to desist.
Josh Billings has written a play. The
principal part will be taken by the hind
legs of a male, and the dramatic move
ment will be hastened by the business
end of a hornet, skillfully introduced.
otm Barnwell LETTtrt.
Barnwell Court—The Harder Cawes—Hutto’s
Trial—Prison Experience—A Sad Life and
a Ruined Manhood—Pic-Nlc and Ball—A
Pleasant Occasion—The Ladies.
[imperial Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Barnwell 0. H., 8. C., May 22.
The motion for anew trial in the ease
of the negro Bradley, convicted of mur
der on the 18th iustant, and of which I
wrote you, has been withdrawn, and he
stands a convicied felon with but a few
days to live—baring Executive ole
mency. the negro murderer
who was tried Friday, was also convict
ed, and to-morrow our worthy Judge
will fix the day of execution for these
cold blooded fiends. These men were
tried by juries of their own color, and
for the murder of brother freedmen. In
the mystical long ago it used to be an
eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,
but in this Centennial year of American
humbugery, and in these special cases, it
is nigger for nigger, and no damage
done. The case of Win. Hutto, for the
killing of the Allendale marshal, some
time since, was heard on Saturday. The
Court House was packed, and sympathy
and prejudice for aud against the pri
soner ran high. Hutto is said by some
to be a very desperate man, while oth
ers claim that, when sober, he is very
agreeable and quiet. But the man has
cause to be desperate, whether he is or
not, and for this reason, as told to me :
It seems that, some time ago, while
living in the upper portion of this
State, he was arrested and convioted
of Ku-Kluxism and sent to Sing Sing.
Shortly after his incarceration his aged
father was also sent there as a member
of the same body. The father was aged
and infirm, and from the severe treat
ment he received while in prison lan
guished and died. This, indeed, was a
heavy blow for the son, but the curtain
has yet to raise—the darkest side of
the picture has yet to be presented.
While he lingered in prisou his wife
gave birth to a ohild, and under the ex
isting circumstances she too died, to
gether with her infant, |aud the bud
aud the blossom were buried in one
grave. This was the mournfully sad
and almost maddening ta e calmly
broken to Hutto on his return to where
he expected to find a home and loving
wife ; but where, alas 1 he fouud but
desolation and the grave of her he
loved. From that time forth he took to
drink, and during, or it seems, in coif
sequence of the great amount of liquor
he had drauk, aud was still drinkiug,
his miud was affected, and during this
derangement he committed the killing
of the negro in question, but his able
counsel, Messrs. Aldrich, Joseph Erwin
and O’Brien, clearly proved him
guiltless of murder, and after the ar
guments pro aud con were made, his
Honor Judge Maher charged the jury
at some length and expounded to them
the strict and simple law bearing on the
case. The case was then given to the
jury, who retired aud returned in some
thing less than fifteen minutes with a
verdict of “ not guilty.” On returning
to the room his Honor made a few
exceedingly touching remarks to the
prisoner, praying him to abstain from
intoxicating liquor, and, bidding him
farewell, discharged him from custody.
The excitement was very great, but all
passed off without injury to any one oc
curring. Hutto was presented with a
handsome bouquet on leaving the pris
oner’s dock, as a tribute of congratula
tion from some “fair one” of Barnwell.
He was soon with his many auxiousl.y
awaiting friends and on his way home
rejoicing.
The annual pic-nio and ball, of which
I wrote you, came off on the day set
apart, and was really and truly the big
gest and best thing of the kind that
Barnwell county has gotten up since the
war. , Everybody and his family and
friends for miles and miles around were
there; and everything big enough to car
ry a basket or bundle had one, and had
it just chock full of the nicest things to
eat that ever you, Messrs. Editors, with
all your strawberry festivals and Lady
Washington and Centennial parties, ever
looked at, and when the table was spread
aud your reporter was called up to look
at it, his mouth actually run water. You
should have been there to have seen with
your own ocular organs, for a descrip
tion by my pen is absolutely impossible.
Everybody was happy, and we especial
ly ; I say we, because I loaded a large
waiter with all the niceties, and retired
beneath the shade of a large oak, just at
the water’s edge, and there, with
one of the prettiest and sweetest damsels
that ever crushed the heart of man by
coolly “kicking” him, we sat down anil
ate and drank, but the sound of music re
minded us of the merry dance, and we
soon repaired to the Mill House, and in
the twinkling of an eye were lost in the
rhapsody af a charming waltz: In a
short time, at least before the next Cen
tennial year rolls round, I will let you
know who my enchantress was by send
ing you la slice of something good in a
silver box inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
This much of the affair is absolutely
sub-roßa, so don’t mention it. The ball
at night, at the Williston Masonic Hall,
was a brilliant affair, and among the
most facinating “fair ones” present
I mav mention the Misses L. W.,
•L. McC., A. 8., A. S., M. S., C. E., and
the Misses G., H. and W., from the Buns.
(The three latter were not at the ball,
but at the pic-nic.) There are many
others whom I would like to mention,
and many incidents occurred that I
would like to speak of, but as I have
made my letter longer already than is
my oustom, will have to pass them over
until some other time. To conclude,
then, I will simply add that the affair
was a grand success, and trust that in
the next Centennial year we, with our
children and our great-grand children’s
children, will all meet again at Mr.
Bryant Weathersbee’s Mill at just such
another glorious annual pic-nic.
Montez.
AN OCEAN TRAGEDY.
The Mutiny Aboard the Lennie—End of the
Trial of the CulpritM.
The London Standard , of May 5,
prints the following summary/ of the
trial of the mutineers of the Lennie:
The trial of the prisoners accused of the
murder of the captain, chief officer, and
s cond mate of the ship Lennie came to
an end yesterday evening, when four of
the eight prisoners were convicted and
sentenced to suffer the extreme penalty
of the law. So far as they were con
cerned the result was almost a foregone
conclusion. By the clearest possible
evidence they were shown to have taken
an active part in the perpetration of the
atrocities by which their unfortunate
victims lost their lives, perishing at
their posts in the vain endeavor to de
fend themselves against a set of despe
radoes who had planned a deep and
deadly sobeme for seizing the ship, af
ter making off with every portable and
marketable artiele on which they could
lay their hands. The story is indeed
remarkable, alike from the audaoity of
the attempt, the success by whioh it had
to all appearances been crowned, and
the singular manner in which the auth
ors of the scheme were eventually
brought within the reach of offended
justice. The entire narrative reads like
a modernized edition of the most sensa
tional of those “shipwrecks and disas
ters at sea” which form so large a part
of juvenile reading. Henceforth the
Lennie will rank with the Bounty, the
Flowery Land, and other vessels which
have earned an evil notoriety from their
connection with deeds of blood and vio
lence. With scarcely any, and certainly
with nothing like adequate, provocation
the mutineers set upon their officers,
stabbed, cut, and shot them down upon
their own deck. So sudden and unex
pected was the outrage that no one of
the murdered men was ahle to offer any
thing like effective resistance, and had
their seamanship been equal to their
audacity the murderers might now have
been enjoying their ill-gotten gains in
some country where no extradition treaty
is in force.
At a time when the public mind is so
largely exercised on the subject of un
seaworthy ships the evidence given in
the course of this inquiry will be read
with especial interest. The Leunie was
an English ship, owned by an English
firm, commanded by an English captain.
The first and second mates were also na
tives of this oountry, but the seamen
were a very mixed and motley lot,indeed.
Constant yon Heydoae, the steward,
tells us that he joined her on the 22d of
October, when there was no crew on
board. Two days later she started on
her voyage with a “scratch” crew, got
together in hot haste, and without much
regard to their fitness for the work they
had to do. Among them were Dutch
men, Frenchmen, Greeks, Turks, a
Dane, and an American. In short, they
were just such a collection of ne’er-do
weels of all nations as might be picked
up at random in low ’long-share lodging
houses in almastany European port, and
who, as every shipmaster knows, consti
tute most unpromising materials for any
captain to deal with. For about a week
all went on tolerably well. There was
no open rapture, bat, as Mr. Justice
Brett remarked, the master’s opinion of
his men was shown by his always keep
ing two loaded revolvers under his pil
low. At 4 o’clock on the morning of the
3fst of Qptober, and while the steward
was below, he heard a sending on deck.
The captain gaye an order, which was
not obeyed. He spoke a few words of
angry and tjje next moment
uttered a W wfeioh sounded as if his
throat was cut. The steward and his
boy tried to make their way to the deck,
but in vain. The companion door was
fastened, and they were prisoners, pow
erless to help, and fearful of being set
upon in tqrn. Ihey saw tbe men moy
ing about, and heard five shots fired in
rapid succession, as if from revolvers.
After two hours’ incarceration they were
allowed to come oh deck, when they
were told that the captain and mates
had been “finished” and thrown over
board. From the testimony of other
witnesses we now know that the captain
and mates were dispatched successfully
in cold blood by Lips, French Peter,
Big Harry, and Joe the oook, the four
prisoners who, were convicted. Not a
hand was raised by any other of the
crew on behalf of their officers. The
boatswain, when appealed to by the sec
ond mate to save his life, repulsed him
with brutal rudeness, and when the last
of the murders had been consummated,
those who had stood by during their
perpetration weighed the bodies with
chains and threw them overboard, wash
ing the blood-stained deck in as matter
of-faet a fashion as if nothing had oc
curred at all out of the routine of their
ordinary daily duty.
Up to this point the story is horrible
enough. Its concluding portion, how
ever, savors of the heroic and romantio.
Among the men who had been so ready
to stain their hands with blood there was
not one competent to navigate the vessel.
Iu their extremity they fell back upon
Von Haydone, the steward, who had no .
part in their crime, aud to whom they
promised the lion’s share of the booty if
he would carry the ship to some point
on the coast of Greece, where she might
be quietly scuttled, after her stores and
all other valuables had been landed.
Von Haydone feigned compliance, but
directed the ship towards the British
Channel. But this pious fraud was
speedily detected. One of the prisoners
told the others that tfie steward was sell
ing them, as he could see by the water
they were nearing England. Von Hay
done blustered, threatened, and gave up
the command for some days. But the
mutineers were again at fault, and were
compelled to put themselves once more
under his charge. He consented to re
sume his perilous post, but he had to
act a very difficult part. He was already
suspected by the villians who were un
willingly obeying him, and who *would
have been only too ready to wreak their
vengeanoe upon him if convinced that
he was playing them false. With admi
rable coolness auu address he contrived
to make much show but very littie way.
He kept at no great distance from the
coast, hoping to attract the attention of
passing ship-of-war. HetookTrousselot,
the French cabin boy, into his confi
dence, aud got him to write a number of
slips detailing what had occurred, and
begging for assistance. These slips
were corked up in empty bottles aud
dropped from the cabin windows into
the sea. By theso means the authorities
were made aware of the terrible tragedy.
N5 time was lost iu dispatching a man
of-war in quest of the Lennie, and as
Von Heydone had been beating abcyit
continually without moving far from one
spot, a capture was speedily effeoted.
The whole of the mutineers were at once
taken into custody and sent over to this
country to take their trial. After several
examinations at Bow street, three were
admitted to give evidence against the
others. The charge againgt one of the
remaining eight was withdrawn by the
Attorney-Geueral, with the approval of
the presiding Judge. Another, though
undoubtedly an accessory after the fact,
was perforce acquitted, that particular
offense not being included in the extra
dition treaty under whioh he had been
surrendered. Two others, against whom
the evidence was by no means weak,
were acquitted by the jury. The rest
were most righteously convicted and
sentenced to death, the presiding Judge
solemnly warning them to entertain no
hope of mercy. His Lordship comment
ed severely upon the conduot of those
who, though not the actual murderers,
stood by while the more active ruffians
did their deadly work, and observed
that three times within a few weeks he
had been compelled to try cases it whioh
it was proved that ship mates were com
pelled to keep revolvers in constant
readiness, a state of things not tt> be
contemplated without anxiety and alarm,
It is to be hoped, however, that the
punishment which has thus overtaken
these mutineers will have some effect in
repressing that growing tendency to in
subordination in the mercannilo marine
of whioh this is so startling an illustra
tion; while the rewasd of £SO awarded
to the man who did his duty under such
difficult circumstances will not be with
out its influence in inducing others to
follow his example.
| s CENTENNIAL MEMORIES,
y Georgia One Hundred aud Forty Years Ago.
and
Mr. George A. Oates, of this city, has
n in his possession a very interesting relic
e of the past, in the shape of a bound vol
a nmo of the "Gentleman’s Magazine and
_ Historical Ohronicle,” containing the
monthly numbers of the year 1736, pub
l_ lished by Sylv-mus Urban; Gent. On
a the'title page is the motto E “Pluribus
1 Unum.” In the April number we find
’ the following: “Extraot of a letter from
IL Savannah in Georgia, dated Feb. 14,
j 1735-6.” “We arrived here the 3d inst.,
a which for time is incredibly improved;
lt there are about 200 houses regularly
built, some of which lett at 30£, Sterl
ing a year. Mr. Oglethorpe went next
3 Day, thro’ very wet Weather, to see the
j‘ adjacent Settlements in which there are
’ several English like regular townships,
“ 'viz: Benaez, Thunderbolt, Farragile,
| Westhrook Ac., in a flo.isbiug condition
, e beyond any ColoDy ever known in so
is short a Time. Tho’ we had a long and
>r very stormy passage, yet we arrived
' without the loss of a Soul out of any of
■’ our ships, which were six in number
n and very large; Mr. Oglethorpe, during
the passage, was extremely careful both
> a of the Souls and Bodies under his cars;
but what surprises me beyond Ex
k pression, is his abstemious and hard
Living, for, tho’ even dainties are
plentiful, he makes the best Use of
them, and goes thro’ the Woods, wet or
dry, as actively as any Indian : his hu
manity so gains upon all here, that I
ie have not Words to express their Begard
and Esteem for him. He goes to-mor
row about 80 Miles further into the
Country, whero he is to settle a Town,
e near whioli, upon the river Altamaha, a
Fort with four Bastions is to be built,
e that is designed for the Barrier. The
(1 Country abounds with Fish, excellent
o Fruit and Venison.”
,f In an essay entitled “BeasoDS for Es
q tablishing the Colony of Georgia,” we
y find the following; “If, then, from the
[. Advantages which will accrne to our
e Trade, from the Ease which our
e Parishes and the Publick will gain by a
u right disposing of the Poor, th'e estab
e lishing suoh a Colony as Georgia, ap
e pears so consistent with Prudence; how
,t muoh more so is it, with that Humanity
we ought to have for our Fellow
creatures ? How many never gain a
j sufficient Settlement in the World?
Here they may be sure of one. How
j many, after they have gained it, fail by
j various Misfortunes ? Here they may
2 recover and forget them. How many
j may be saved hereby from begging and
2 perishing in our Streets by Want ? How
2 many from the Gallows, to which ueces
. sity and Idleness lead the way ? How
j many may flow live to be useful, who
1 are destroyed by their Parents at their
3 very Birth, lest they should be a Bur
. den too great for their Support, and
. whose Light is extinguished the very
/ Hour they receive it ? How many more
, would see the Light by the marriage of
, those who are prevented now by the
j Fear of Want ? And how many may be
. preserved from langnishing out a rniser
. able Life in Prison to the Loss of their
, Families and the Publick, and the Sean
, dal of a Country of Liberty? How
many, too, may be preserved from Self-
Murder into whioh they inconsiderately
plunge themselves to avoid the Infamy
of begging or the Horrors of a Dungeon ?
If a Man gives Alms to a Beggar in the
Street, it is undoubtedly a Proof of a
compassionate Temper, but is an ill
judged one, as it serves oDly to encour
age and confirm him in a Habit of Idle
ness. If. a Man* bestows a Sum upon
those miserable objects in Prison, it is a
temporary Belief in their misery; but
not a sufficient one from it, Every Pub
lick act of Insolvency is likewise an act
of Benevolence; but does not answer the
End purposed if it makes no Provision
for the Poor who are released. Such,
then, are right Benefactions as procure
not only immediate Belief for the unfor
tunate, but provide for their future
Happiness and use: For this benefioenfc
Design His Majesty haa given a large
tract of Land (called Georgia) near
Carolina, in Trust,”
A Gmxl .Sale ot Good Stock.
Chicago, May 26.—The Durham Lawn
herd of short horns, owned by Colonel
Bobert Holloway, of Alexis, Ills., sold
at auction yesterday at Dexter Park.
The buyers present were from all parts
of the United States and Canada. The
bidding was very spirited. Sixty-five
head were sold and a total of over $70,-
000 was realized. Average price of cows,
$1,136; bulls, $Bl4.
The Georgia Railroad.— The work of
patting up the new iron bridge across
the Oconee liver has been commenced.
This will be one of the best railway
bridges in the country when finished.
' The work on the bridge does not inter
fere with the passage of trains,
A force of laborers is at work laying
down new steel rails from Bel-Air in the
direction of Augurta, We understand
that these rails, the best made, were
purchased at a smaller oost than iron
rails cotfld have been bought for a com
paritavely short time ago.
The management of the road is de
termined that it shall be kept in the best
of order. For this they will certainly
receive the thanks of the stockholders
and the traveling public.
