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VOL XXIII. SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 81, 1866. NO. 18
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Eloquent Tribute to Mr. Davis.
The Fon du Lac (Wisconsin) Press, an
able and distinguished conservative journal,
pays the following tribute to the illustrious
statesman and uncomplaing prisoner
nI T?nrlr?? Mnnrnn nnrl mnlrna <1 dnmnnrl
for his release on the purest grounds ol
reason. It rays:
"Wo haro always regarded it as a fixed
fact that sooner or later Jefferson Davis
would be released, without being brought
to trial, unless, indeed, his captors succeeded
in their evident design to murder him,
by the slow torturo of rigorous confinement
to which he has been subjected.
It would be impossible to convict him as
a traitor before any court, except, indeed,
a military commission, composed of suoh
creatures as the men who pronounced the
death sentence upon Mrs. Surratt, whose
memories will be execrated through all
ooming time.
Not only did Jefferson Davis commit no
act of treason, but we believe that first,
last and always, his acts were governed by
motives of the purest and most disinterest
cd patriotism. He betrayed no sacred
trust, he made no effort to elevate himself
to positions of honor and power, like a selfish
aspiring politician; but of all tho brilliant
array of Southern talent, eloquence
and genius assembled in the Senate ohamber
at Washington, he was tho acknowledged
leader and superior of all. When
the people of the State ho represented
called upon him, as their Representative,
to withdraw from Congress, he promptly
responded; and of all tho Southern members
who bowed their haughty farewell to
tne Senate, be made tbe moat polished and
courtlj adieu.
At the timo the government of the Confederacy
was formed, his vast experience
and utiequaled abilities as a statesman made
him emphatically the leader of the South,
while his pleasing address and intellectual
superiority over all tho other distinguished
men of the South made him the idol of the
Southern people, lie accepted tho position
of President, not with any design of
building up for himself a splendid fortune
and enduring fame, but because he was
chosen to fill that position by the unanimous
voice of eight millions of people, and
because he deemed it his sacred duty as a
Eatriot to remain true to the South in her
our of peril.
How far he erred in making this final
decision, which cast his fortunes with
those of the Southern people, it is idle now
to inquire; to-day, as a trairor, though he
is brandod, we honor and respect him,
while we despise such vile, base creatures
as Bolts and Brownlow, and can truly believe
that Washington was not more admired
and beloved by the patriots of the
Revolution than Jefferson Davis is by tho
Southern people to-day. History fails to
point us an example of more entiro unanimity?we
aoarcb tho records in vain to
find an instance surpassing the lovo and
devotedneas they have exhibited for him.
It is tho very superiority of Jefferson
Davis which has caused all this persecution
and suffering. Tho Abolition fiends well
know that he was no ordinary man, whose
splendid genius was so loug the brightest
ttar in the Senate?they know it was no
weak, common mortal, who for four years,
controlled the destinies of oight millions of
people, and they fear tho influence which
his giant intellect and matchless eloquence
would exert in moulding the future destiny
of America. Knowing that it is impossible
to eonviot him of treason, they hope to
dispose of hiln bv the lln* tnrtnrr> nf nr.n
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fincmcnt and privation.
But time and affliction have failed to
bow his lofly spirit?insults, chains and
dungeons can never wholly destroy tlmt
superiority, eloquenoo and genius with
whioh God has endowed him. To-day,
emaciated with long months of confinement
in a dreary fortress, guarded by bayonets,
and surrounded by Yankeo spies and informers,
we recognizo the some oalm, state
ly, superior being who figured so grandly
in the recent terrible drama of American
history?who crushed the Northern Senators
by a humiliating consciousness of their
own inferiority, when he made his hightoned
adieu to the Senate.
For Jefferson Davis, wo ask no Kzecutivo
olemency, for he has committed no
treason. For him wo implore no par Ion,
for ho is no traitor; all wo ask, all wo dosire,
is that he shall reooive a fair, impartial
trial, and his guilt or innoccnco be dooided
by a jury of his own countrymon.
But this, of all things, his enemies are de.
terminod he shall not have?for they know
in this event, he wonld come forth with ??
tain upon his character?no tarnish upon
his honor.
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Probst Makes a fall Confession.
ITS KILLED TITE EIQXIT MEMBERS 07 TBS
DEAtUKO FAMILY.
Phtladblbia, M?y, 7,18G8.
Anthon Probst has confessed. Yesterday
afternoon, in the presence of his spiritual
adviser, the pastor of St. Alphonsos
Catholic Church, Mr. Perkins, tho superintendent
of the prison, Anton Probst made
a free, voluntary and open confession?
such a confession as stamps him to bo the
most bloodthirsty wretch known iu the annals
of history. Lie killed all the memllPPfl
aP Mia TlAnrin?
W* ?uv ji/vuina^ lauiilji
Probst, after the lapse of a few minutes,
proceeded to make the following statement
by way of a
CONFESSION,
lie stated that lie had no accomplice,
and conceived the horrible crimo unaided
and alono. The theory of the murder as
{iroduecd on the trial, aud the one general*
y ncccpted by the public, is entirely true
in its main parte, lie states that he conceived
the murder on HFriday, and that
night he slept with the boy whom he intended
to make hia first victim, namely,
Cornelius Carey.
lie knew that Carey was near the hayrick,
and ho proceoded there with the large
axe, but his heart failed him three times
before he could induce himself to strike
the unsuspecting boy the fatal blow. At
lrst ho mustered sufficient courage, and
went at his fiendish work, killing Carey
just in the manner ho frequently described.
The sight of the blood of tho boy, Probst
states, produced in him a devilish and
blood thirsty feeling, and he determined at
once to murder the entire family. IIo disposed
of the body of the boy as described
before so often, and then deliberately walked
ovor to tho house. Ho entered, and
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Willie, who was absent, that he wanted <
him to help him do some work in the barn.
The little fellow followed him, and as soon
as he got him inside the barn door, he dispatched
him with the small axe he had secured.
lie then went back to the house and
told Mrs. Dcaring that somethiag was the
matter with one of tho cows, and he wanted
her to conic to tho barn. Sho went, and
he followed, and as soon ns she entered, h<j
struck her oa the head and killed lur.
Ho then went back to the house and
waited the arrival of Mr. Hearing, not expecting
Misa Dolan would accompany him.
As soon as Mr. Hearing arrived in the carriage,
he (Hearing) got, and Probst told
him that something was wrong with one of
the cows, and asked him to go over to the
barn with him. Hearing went along with
him, and Miss Dolan went into the house,
up stairs, and took off her bennct and furs.
Mr. Dcaring did not even take off bis gloves
before going to tho barn, but proceeded
there at once, followed by Probst, wfto had
the nxc concealed ready for use. As soon
as Mr. Dcaring entered the barn door,
Probst states that he struck hiui in tin
head, and felled him to the earth, and then
chopped at his neck with the edge of the
axe.
Miss Dolan was the next and last victim.
She proceeded to the barn after coming
down stairs, not finding any of the family
in the house, and Probst, who was in wait 1
ing, treated her as he had the rest of the '
family., '
Aflor laying out the bodies and covering
them up with hay, the murderer went into 1
the house and commenced searching for 1
valuables, but he states he got no monoy, 1
but expected to secure a considerable 1
amount. Jle states that Miss Dolan's pock.i
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cv uuuk uau very nine iu 11, ana lie said '
nothing whatever of the two $50 compound
interest notes, and the $20 bill of the same I 1
character. lie remained about the house 1
for some time, picked up the articles found j 1
in the black valise, and loft about dark, i 1
11 is further movements were pretty much i '
as brought out on the trial, and whioh are
patent to the minds of the whole comma '
nity.
LATKR. 1
The confession of Probst is phonograph- 1
ioally reported by the Inquirer. The facts 1
agree mainly with the above report. lie '
suys he had no thought of committing the 1
murder at the time of hiring with Hearing 1
but calculated on robbing him of the
money which he had seen him counting.
He bad never said anything about it to any 1
ouc. lie came to this country in 18G3, <
in tho Columbus, from Bremen, and never i
did anything wrong in Germany. Ilis 1
father and mother wore still living nt 15a- , '
den. He is 24 years old. He enlisted <
twice anil ilninrtiul fitof Ir? (1>a ft ?? *
New York and then in tho fith cavalry. <
ilo planned every day to get Dearing's <
money but never had a ohanco. | 1
" My first plan was to kill him and get 1
the money. 1 could not get the money in f
any other way. I thought of killing them <
at the house as they enmo down in the {
morning. I got tho axe somctimca ready j
for them when thoy came down evenings.
1 got some good chances, but my heart 1
failed me," I t
After describing the manner of murder
ing Cornelius Carey and Mjb. Dearing
and her ohildrcn, he ^ives the following
explanation of the killing of the infants :
"Then I went over to the house and
took Annie and told her that her mothci
wanted to sec her in the stable. She did
not say a word. Then I took the little
baby?t took it on my arm. The little
girl walked alongside of me. I left the
little baby on the first coracr as you gc
into the stable, playing in tho hay. Then
I went to the same place where I killed
tho others. She looked around liko for her
mother, who was in tho hay. She did not
say anything. I knocked her down at the
first blow, and cut her throat satno as the
omera. Then 1 went back and got the
little baby, and struck it on the head in
the same place there. I hauled them into
the same place."
After describing the killyig of Dearing
and Miss Dolan, the fiend says he took out
Mr. Hearing's pocket book, but only got
seventeen dollars, including a counterfeit
three-dollar note. He saw nothing in Miss
Dolan's pocket book, but postage stamps.
He was not lying now. IIo thought they
had much money. After securing othci
articles, revolvers, etc., (afterwards found
in his possession,) he washed and dressed
himself, putting Mr. Hearing's eloths on
and then oat some bread and butter.
The scoundrel frcquontly laughed while
detailing his confession of these horrible
crimes.
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Chinese PnovEans.?What cannot be
told had better not be done. Carelessness
gives temptation to dishonesty. Eggs are
close things, but tho ohickcns come out al
last. (Murder will out.) Swim with one
toot ou the ground. (A safe and prudcnl
character.) Better be a dog in peace than
a man in anarchy. Nevor add feet to s
snake. (A hint to speakers when the sub
jeet is exhausted.) A diligent pen supplies
memory and thought. Pour not wa
ter on a duck's back. (Fruitless counsel
or advice.) In litigation, men often win o
cat and lose a cow. To stop tho hand i.<
the way to stop the mouth. (If a mar
will not work, neither shall he cat) lie
who toils with pain will cat with pleasure
Kindness is more binding than a loan. Il
families have no sons at to letters
whence arc flic governors of the people t(
come? (Necessity for general education.'
flight should be preferred to kindred. (In
patronage.) Parents' affection is best shown
by teaching their children industry and
self-denial. Something is learned ever}
time a book is opened. The more talents
are exercised the more they will be devel
oped. Unless the laws be executed even
on the imperial kindred, they will not be
obeyed. Early preferment makes a la*}
genius. The best thing in governing is
example ; tho next, impartial rigor. The
ways of superiors arc generally carried b}
inferiors to excess. A rash man is fond of
provoking trouble, but when the trouble
cou.es he is no match lor it; a elevrr man
turns great troubles into little ones, and
little ones into none at all.
Mutual Affection.?If there is n
single Llisslul moment, like a star sparkling
in tho shadowy firmament of life, it is that
which discovered a long-nourished affection
to be mutual. The moon as she ride?
on in tho infinity of space, has not a greater
influence upon tho ocean tide, than the
passion of love upon the tido of human
thought?now permitting it to settle down
iu a state of temporary tranquility?and
uow bidding it heave and swell r?y the
magic of its viewless power. Without it
what would be tho world ? As a creation
without light. Yet possessing it as we do,
liow does it discompose tho soberest plans
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ui reason?now inc lomcsi nuiwnrks ot
stern philosophy bow down ar.d disappear
before the fragrance of his breath ! It is
poetry of thought when reason slumbers
Dii her stately throne, or wonders nway in
happy drcaius. It is scarcoly to be feigned,
for it appears in a halo of sofl witching
light, which dazzles while it fascinates the
miud's eye. It is to the spirit what sunihino
is to the flowers, luring the fragrance
Iroiu its young nnture, or as the hand ot
beauty to the slumbering lute, passing over
the silent cords till it dotli "discourse most
eloquent music."
Politeness in the Household.?The
laws of politeness should be observed not
enly betwocn intimate friends, hut between
members of the same family, and those
households are most peaceful and happy
whore the courtesies of good society arc
jbsorved. There need not and ought not
to be formality; but little attentions between
brothers and sisters, marking mutual
esteem, prevent that carelessness and hardless
which is so apt to creep into tho famiy,
and which grow out of intimacy. It is
*ood manners, and consideration for each
)thcr's foelings, that prevent familiarity
rendering contempt.
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Never despise humble services; when
arge ships run aground, little boats pull
hem off.
A Senatorial Rebuke.
! In tho debate upon the Civil Rights Bill
' in the Senate, Mr. Wado, of Ohio, oppoa,
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is a constitutional officer, clothed with high
' power, and clothed with tho very power
i which he has czercisod in this instanoc,
and those who couferrcd upon him those
powers were men such as Madison, and
i Hamilton, and Morris, and Washington,
and a host of worthies, men who, I think,
knew as much about, the laws of the Govcrnmcnt,
and how they should be rightly
i balanced, as any of the wisest who now sit
here in council. It is the duty of the
President of the United States to stand as
defender of the Constitution in his place,
as the conservator of the rights of the peo
pie, as tribune of tho people, as it was in
old Home, when the people did choose
their tribunes to go into tho Senate Chamber
among the aristocracy of Komo, and
when they passed laws injurious to the
Roman Deonle. to stand and ?av_ " I fnr.
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bid it"
That is tho veto power, incorporated
wisely by our fathers in the Constitution,
conferred upon the President of the United
States, aud to be treated with consider ation,
and no appeal of the Senator to his
(iod can change the Constitution or tho
rights of the President of the United
States, or can prevent a just consideration
of the dignity of this Senate by persons
who have just consideration, who feel that
they arc Senators.
It is a strange thing, an exceedingly
strange thing, that when a few Senators in
; the City of Washington, ill at their houses,
} give assurance that they can be here to aet
upon a great public question on the day
; following this, we should hear a piece of
declamation, the Sonator Appealing to his
God, and saying with an Jo triamphe air,
" Well or ill, God boa made them ill,"?
Sir, the god of desolation, the god of darkness,
the god of evil is his god. I never
expected to hear such objections raised (
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among honorable men; and men to be
Senator* should be honorable teen. I
never expected to beer such things in this
Hall; and I rose simply to say tut such
sentiments were to be condemned, and
mast receive my condemnation, now and
here, and if it amounts to a rebuke, I trust
it may be a rebuke.
The Wealth ani Poverty ofenr
Btateauen.
Jefferson died comparatively poor. In*
deed, if Congress had not purchased his
library and given for it five times its value,
he would with difficulty have kept the wolf
from his door.
Madison raved money, and was comparatively
rich. To add to his fortune, however,
or rather that of his widow, Congress
purcha.<*ed his manuscript papers, and paid
$80,000 for them.
James Mooroe, the sixth President of
the United States, died so poor that his
remains found s rosting place through the
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vuauiijr ui viio ui uia ineous. XD6J remain
in a cemetery in Soheol street) bat
no raonament marks the spot where they
repose.
John Quincy Adams left some $50,000,
the result ol his industry, prudence and
inheritance. He was a man of method and
economy.
Martin Van Burcni died very rich.
Throughout his politieal lite he studiously
looked out for his own interest It is not
believed that he ever spent thirty shillings
in politics His party shook the bush and
he caught the bird.
Henry Clay left a vary handsome estate.
It probably exceeded $100,000. He was
a prudent manager and a scrupulously honest
man.
James K. Polk left about $150,000?
fifty thousand of which he saved from his
Presidency of four years.
Daniel Webster squandered some millions
in his life time, the produot of his
Erofessional speculation. He died leaving
is property to his children and hia debts
to his friends. The former sold for less
than $20,000; the latter exoeeded $550,000.
John Tyler left $50,000. Before he was
President he was bankrupt. In offioe he
husbanded his means, and then married a
rich wife.
Zachary Taylor left $150,000.
Millard Fillmore is a wealthy man, and
keeps his money in a strong box. It will
not be squandered in speculation and vioo.
Frank Pierce saved some $50,000 from
his term of service.
Wanted.?One of the splinters from
n sunbeam.
One of the drawers of tho "Freedmen's
Bureau."
A piece of yarn from one of u Job's
oomforters."
The points of the daggers that Hamlet
spake to his mother.
A nail from tho " finger of soorn."
One of tho pillars of the " temple of
fame."
A few drops of oil from the "lamp of
lifo."
One of the members of the association
of ideas.
Some Bcaweod from the depths of thought
One of the wheels of Phoebus' ear.
A feather from the " wings of imsgtnation."
A lock of hair from one of the heads of
Department.
The legs of a seat of government,
A nosegay gathered from the flowers of
fancy.
A few grains of sand frsm the desert of
life.
One of the links from the chain of
thought
The items in a humming-bird's bill.
The roots of a stump speech.
Multum in Parvo.?Keep good company
or none?Never be idle?If your
nauds cannot be usefully employed, attend
to the cultivation of your mind?Always
speak the truth?Make few promisesKeep
those you do make?Live up to your
engagements?Keep your own secrets, if
you have any?When you speak to a per*
son, look him in the taoe?Good company
and good conversation are the very sinews
of virtue?Good charaoter is above every
thing else?Your character cannot be essentially
injured, exoept by your own nets
?If any ono speaks evil of you, let your
life bo such that none will believe him?
l>rink no kind of intoxicating liquors?
Ever live, misfortune excepted, within
your income?Whon you retire to bed
think over what you have been doing during
tho day?Make no haste to be rich if
you would prosper?Small and steady gains
give oompctency with tranquility of mind
i ?Never play at any game of ohanoe??
Avoid temptation through fear you may
not withstand it?Earn money before yew
spend it.
A site has been fixed upon for n national
burial ground at Seven Plane, on the
i chidhuib, ana me war*.men ?re uuw engaged
in laying it out
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asked for in ordor to enable the Senators
L who were ill to be in attendance when the
1 vote should be taken, and said :
, I am very frank to say that when gen>
tlemcn tell us that if wc persist here with
, all tho physical power the Almighty has
[ put into our hands, wc may probably pre
vail, it is not an argument against my slaying
here, standing by the Constitution,
i standing by these powers that tbo Consti,
tution has armed mo with, and which I
have no right or authority to give up. No
Senator on this floor has any right to suri
render the authority wi th whioh we are
clothed. Tho moment a President can
^ rise and interpose his interference with a
, question purely congressional and legisla
, tivc, your Constitution is not worth the pa
per upon which it is written. That is the
i reason that I urge and beg ot my friends
, on this floor to take every advantage that
the Almighty has put into your bands to
maintain, uphold and sustain that Constii
tution that wo have sworn we will support.
Mr. MoDougall, of California, adminis,
tcrcd the following severe and dignified
rebuke to his brother Senator.
> Mr. McDougall,?Mr. President, tho
i Senator from Ohio is in the habit of appealing
to his God in vindication of his
judgment and conduct; it is a common
1 thing for him to do so; hut, in view of the
' present demonstration, it uiay be well to
ask who and what is his God. In the old
t Persian mythology there was an Ormasdes
and an Ahriman?a god of light and beau
' ty, and r god of darkness and death. The
> god of light sent the sun to shine and geni
tic showers to fructify the fields, the god
- oi aartcncss sent the tornado and the tern
pest and the thunder, scathing with pesti
lcncc the nations. And in old CliAldean
I times inen came to worship Ahriman, the
i god of darkness, the god of pestilence and
) famine; and his priests became moAtitudi>
nous?they swarmed the laud?and when
s men prayed then, their offerings were,
. "We will not sow a Geld of grain; wo will
I not ditc a well; we will not plant a tree."
, Thwoc were the offerings to the dark spirit
> of evil until a prophet came who redeem
I cd that ancient land, but he did it after
i crucifixion, like our great muster.
> The followers of Ahriman always appcalI
cd to the same spirit manifested by the
' Senator from Ohio. Death is to be one
i of his angels now to redeem the Constitution
and the laws, and to establish liberty.
i Sickness, suffering, evil, arc to be his ani
gels; and he tluinks the Almighty, his Almighty,
that sickness, danger and evil are
i about! It uiay be a good Cod lor him in
! this world; but if there is any truth in
' what we lcara about the orders of rolig'on
t in this Christian world, his faith will not
i help him when ho shall osceud up and ask
i entrance at the crystal door. If there can
I be evii expressed in high places that communicates
evil thoughts, that communicates
evil teachings, that demoralizes the youth
1 who receive impressions as docs the wax,
; it is by such lessons as the Senator from
Ohio now teaches by word of mouth as
Senator in this Senate Hall,
i Sir, the President of the United States