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IM ?. > a ? i* iC i tun _ _ ...;..?<..; Vif." ?V >f . VOL. XXI Bvl i < 1 & j WEDNESDAY MORNING, S?PTEMBE? 7, 1870, IO >r*?ol^ IT Tl. I y I I TO LITERATUBJE, MORALITY AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. .lt: vV . ?s, *>? . .?j NO. 20. T he Sumter Watchman {ESTABLISHED IN 1850.) VERY VBOHM?Ar HOB?INfl| AT SUMTER. 8. O.? BY G1L. BE KT_ A FLOWERS, Terms. Uno year.,.*..?.? ?ix momba....A.... J 0? T?r?? month;.1. * ?0 A 1> V IC HT I.S KM 15 NT ts loaerted nt tho mt* "? ON li DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS per ...uar. for th? first, ONB DOLLAR for tko iccond, and FIFTY CENTS for ??eu sabaequent ?u*?ri?on, for any period leas than three months OBITUARIES, TRIBUTES OF HESFBCT and all communications, which eatbaorve private uioreata, will be paid tor na advertisements. ?1. E. SU ARES, SUMTER FURNITURE -AND Chair War e-Room.s IAS ON HAND A LAROE STOCK OF FUR SITU H E, for loss than can be .obtained ta any outhern market, saving both freight and risk of ?reakago by Railroad. With experience in this ? randi of businoss in the City of Charleaton, for wen ty-li vo years, and having th? advantages of hobest Manufacturers, he is offering Brat claas /ork of winch every article sold ia warranted, '.'bo stock constats of Sofas, Sido Board?. Rook Caeos, Wardrobe? Washstands, Rureaus, Cottage Setts, Whatnot? Extension Tables Mahogany, Caneand Wood Sett RookingChalrs Mahogany, Cane and Wood Seat Setting Chairs Cribs, Cradles Trundle Bedsteads and Oottago Bedsteads Every atylo Looking Olaaaoa nnd Mattraaso*. FIVE HUNDRED PAIR WINDOW SHADES ust received, together with a lot of WALL PA .ER AND BORDERING. l/?m Streetf opposite Express O?tce,\ UP STAIRS. J. E. Suares, Feb 23^tf_ NO. 3 GROCERIES. THE ONLY STRICTLY Grocery and Liquor House I IN TOWN THE UNDERSIGNED, bega leave lol cull tho attention of his friend j and the | public generally to bia NEW AND WELL SELECTED STOCK OF Heavy and Fancy Groceries Which ho offers lew for CASH ONLY. ^.Q, All articles warranted aa recommended | jJ5.tr* Puro Mod?olnal Liquors kept constantly on band. J. H. EBER II A RT. April 13 tf MARBLE YARD TUE undersigned would most respectfully announce to tho people of Sumter nnd eur .mailing country has ne have just recoived a j SPLENDID LOT OF !?:/_ arbl6) .iii N noir ur ?),an-1 to receive mid oxecuto or .' i?l >i kinds in bi.-? lino, with ncatnoss and J .I < "tl-il. IUON RAILING FURNISHED TO ORDER. W. P. SMITH, SUMTER, S. C. Nvp- 17_ tf C ?. MASON" WATCH MAKER AND JEWELEH. SUMTER, s. c. Una just recoived and keeps always on linoel j Kow ?nd Beautiful Styles of JEWELRY, F YE GLASSES, &C. WATCHES, CLOCKS and JEWELRY RE. PAIRED WITH DISPATCH. March 31_ O. F. HOYT,! SUCCESSOR TO I HOYT, so. CA. ?y^OULD respectfully inform his friends aud tho publio of Sumter, and adjoining countlos, that be has recently rccoivod u choico selec? tion of LADIES' AND OfiNTLEMENS' Wato Hes, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, SPECTACLES, &c, &c, His stock ombraoea all _tho latest styles, and will bc sold at reasonable rates. _Sopt 20_ IlM?RT BROUN, Architect, County Surveyor, -AND Mechanical Engineer. WILL ATTEND TO ANY BUSINESS EN tra -tel to bim with aocuraoy and despatch. Rcf?rs to FOES OR FRIRNDS. Address, Manohoster Juno 29-3m LOTHAIR, LUCK OF ROARINO CAMP, Curiosities of Literature, Old Curiosity Shop, Pickwick Papers, and all the late publications of the day to ba had at publiaher'a prices, ' At TUE SUMTER BOOK ST ORE. July 27 THE STATE CAJfV?pS. TT lil B aOMK OP KERSHAW RISING : FOB HKFORM. V ' ? Formation of ?a Union Republican ' wV > ****** .;. ;;; ~??C . iCpr-.Cbarloiton Newa.] CAMBEN, Aug. 20. Oar party reached this delightful tow o yesterday afternoon. We were tuleen In charge by a committee, and a portion of us quartered at the DeKalb Honso, and the others at the Kershaw House. The first named house, a com? fortable, first olass stopping place, ia kept by a well known Cbarlcstoniao, Mr. J. B. Washington. Camden, although nearly destroyed, by Sherman's torches, is rapidly regain ing its former position. It has several churches, numerous business, houses, and iabout two thousand inhabitants. Kirkwood, an extension of Camden, haa a large number of elegant residences and tastefully laid out grounds, and. ia very properly, the, pride sud boast of the people of this section. THE MEETINO to day, held in a grove near the Pres? byterian Churoh, waa most * successful, over four thousand persons being pres? ent. A police forco, numbering seventy five men, had been organized, and pre served excellent order. W. Z. Leitner, president of tho Central Reform Club of Kershaw County, called the meeting to order, and the excrcisos were com? menced with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Hayes, of the Presbyterian Church. Among those on the stand were Judge Carpenter, Generals Butler, Kershaw and Kennedy, Rev. Mr. Hayes, J. A. Chcsnut, colored, member of the last Legislature, Col. Wm. M. Shannon, Col DePass.D. L. DeSaussure and Wm. A. Anorum-the two last named being candidates on the Independent Union Republican ticket. She speakers to day were Judge Carpenter, Gen. Butler and Gen. Ker? shaw. We have often before given a synopsis of tho arguments of these goo? tlernen, and it is therefore needless to repeat them here ; but it is doubtful if their speeches ever beforo produced so great an effect as was witnessed upon tho audience to day, nod especially upon the colored portion of it. Their exposure of the Loyal Leagues, show? ing the colored people how they were cuslaved by tho oaths of the League had the effect of openiug the eyes of many who have clung to that organiza? tion us if it were their only safe guard, and many avowed their intention to leave it nt once. Henry Cardozo, "a "brown man," as he calls himself, a brother of Secretary of Stato Cardozo, and Uudical candidate for the Senate, interrupted General Butler several times ; but his questions were so clearly answered, and his in ten lions so thoroughly exposed by the General, that ho retreated amid tho jeers of his Radical friends. After thc speeches there was a grand barbecue, with food enough to' satisfy thc appetites of all present, and to allow u large quantity to ull who desired to take any away. POLITICS IN KERSHAW. This county is regarded by the Radi cals as ono of their strongholds, but there is every indication that in October next they will be routed, "horse, foot ?nd dragoons." The people of Kershaw have gone to work in earnest. Reform dubs have been organized, and meetings are held every few days. At tho last election tho Radicals wero largely in the majority, 6ut this year that majority will bc ovorcomo, and doubtless there will be as large a majority for Reform. Lust week tho' white aud colored citizens united and formed an Independent und Union Republican ticket, with Carpen? ter and Butler for Governor and Lieu tenant-Governor; Edward J. Conway, colored, for senator; John A. Chesnut, colored, Daniel L. DcSaussuro aud Wm. A. Ancrum for representatives. All of these nominees arc men who havo so cured tho rospect and confidence of ull classes aud will certainly be elected. IN GENERAL. After tho barbecue to day, several hundred Rofoimcrs paraded through the streets. Shortly afterwards thc Radicals secured a fifo and drum, and paraded with about thirty men and boys. When they halted, Mr. E. Conway, candidate for senator on tho Indepen? dent and Union Republican ticket, made thom a speech. Beforo ho concluded his audience numbered several hundred Ile urged his hearers not to trust the Radical leaders who had onoo deceived them, and proposed to do so again, but to give their support to the people of thc State who could bc trusted. To night, in front of the hotels, Mr. J. A. Moroso and Jonas Byrd made brief Reform speeohes to a large number of colored men. If the peuple of thu other counties of the State would go to work as earnestly as thc people of Kershaw have dono, there would not bo the least doubt of Scott being defeated by fifty thousand votes. HOME CH1WRFI M.NESS. Many a child goes astray, not because th ero is a want of prayer or virtuo at home, but simply because home lacks sunshine. A child needs smiles as much as flowers need sunboams. Chil? dren look little beyond the present mo? ment. If a thing pleases, they are apt to seek it, if it displeases, they are prone to avoid it. If home is tho pince where faoes aro sour, and words harsh, and fault-finding is ever in the ascendant, they will spend as many hours ns possi? ble elsowhere. Let every father and mother, then try to be happy. Lot them talk to their children, especially tho little ones, in suoh a way as to make them happy. ' [Coi*?#t*>n4?i i ?r MM ?ba?ieetoa Ho??;] ? A RADIC AL -BKTi: il. . . < Th? Be?ormer? Tanqttuh (De Pc?-rA, '..j JPlKkvc lor ?lie Loht/es ar** IfUfaea. Oo Saturday, 27th ?ostant, tho.Radi Cal party of Williamsburg County, to patoh a brcaoh made ip their walla, by th? resulta of previous meetings, called another at the Lower Bridge., One Re* formist was callenged to meet them there, who, oo taking up tho gauntlet, found upon making inquiry, a strong ourrent in favor of bearing him under by prescribing his priviligoB-a viola? tion of courtesy so oommon aa scare o ly to deserve a passing notice, because tho meeting was-Republican ! Many of the audienoe wero slow in gathering. Their ripeniug disgust for everything Radical seems to engender a d ^inclination to longer handle the un* clean thing Tho speaking waa opened by oolored men, who advocated the cause of Re? form (?) in an impressive and convino, ing manner. Anathemas and invec? tives were poured by those ignorant, but bonost men, with such relentless oontinuanoe as to make them wilt Uko Jonah'8 gourd at noonday. A few fee? ble efforts were made at roply by oolored men-so feeble as neither to benefit Radioals nor injure Reformists. They shouted the blood hov.:al and lash war ory. The lane straw of tho drowning man 1 They rather solioited pity for their bare feot (a sad commentary on Radical prosperity,) and tattered cloth, ing, than urged arguments in defenco of their cause. Towards its closo the meeting was ubly and eloquently addressod by Capt. S. \V. Maurice, whose ceaceless flood of denunciation so overwhelmed the mu? latto leaden of tho party as to drop t'.eir arrogant heads like peacock, when dis? robed of their tails. Ho set before the colored people a truth supported by facts and figures, that S. A. Swails, with Mel? vin J. Hirsch as an accomplice* one a senator, tho otbor clerk of tho oourt of this county, bad speculated, through the great laud commission scheme, on the State of South Carolina to the amount of fifteen hundred dollars. Swails closed the m ting with a re? newed exhibition Ot' his characteristic audacity-a long and loud bellowing over his innocence. Tho motley assem? bly of incongruous slang, squeezed into a nutshell, amounted simply to a reiter? ated protestation of innocence, corrobo-, ated by no facts or reason, savo the punnu plea, the pityfui declaration that had ho stolen the fifteen hundred dollars he would have been sont to tho peniten? tiary long ago ! He feigns to have lost sight ot the true economy ol Radicalism, whose grand fundamental principles aro first, to encourage vielaoy, and then ac? quit the thief. The rich, rare and racy time how? ever, did not blossom forth till thc shank of the evening. When hunger grappled with the inner man, and Kingstrec's Red Eye had armed his combatants, tho fun "grew fast and fu? rious." Thcro never was a farce to equal tho smallest scene of it. The echo of tho last plaintive whine of Senator Land Commission Swails, had scaroely died away amid tho histo? rio woods surrounding the Lower Bridge when a rush was made. Tho devil take the hindmost; for tho loaves and pigs, despite the protest of the ' venerable Cart-kecper, who, we understand, drew his dogger, and brandished it with such indifference as to results, that a bystan? der advocating his rights to the loaves severely out. There being boisterous friends on each side, the combat soon asBumod huge proportions, pvgnis ct calcibus. Muskets were dubbed, fences demolished, and a charge made by anti loaf men with rails. The loaf-men re? ceived no damage, savo the knocking down and the dragging out of a few of their number. It was a noticeable feature thut the disputants were principally, if not wholly, Radicals and Lcagucmcn. The signs of the times are most favor? able for Reform. Radicals are becom? ing shaky about the knees at the infec? tion in their ranks. Their bands are daily bursting asunder ; and ero long the dark shadows of n long and drcaiy night will have flown from the lucid rays of tho orient morn. "A little moro grape, captain, and thc day is ours." SPECTATOR. Kingstree, August 29, 1870. A I.AITIi: RADICAL ITIEETINO. THE ARGUMENTS OF REFORM PREVAIL "If clio tv hite? do their Duty. Bamber? 1* ao?c.? BAMBERG, August 29. I have thought that perhaps a line oi two from us at this place, to let yoi know bow wo aro getting along, politi? cally, would not bo amiss. On Satur? day last we were troated to a very lam? affair, in tho shape of a meeting iu th? interost of the Soott Riog. For ovci two weeks runners were going througr tho surrounding oountry, trying to go up something like enthusiasm. Bul thoy wero doomed to disappointment for io spito of all thoir efforts, only som? fifty or sixty of the colored populatioi wero out. The meeting was conducted undor tho leadership of one Marioi Jaokson, a bright mulatto, who, it i thought, has some aspirations towards i seat in the next Legislature, and-Whit a copper oolored indi vidual. Th uso spca kers regailed our ears with a tirado ol abuse against Carpenter, Butler and lb Reformers, and told the negroes to be? ware, as it was only a Democratic move raent in disguise. Our young townsman, Mr. C. P. Sanders replied in an caruest and eloqucn ' speech. He denied in emphatic lau guagei .that (hil .?ras a ^Democratic movement io disguise. Ho, explained to them the platform of Reform,, which ho Baid waa broad enough for all honest men to Btand upon, and strong enough io sustain both Dem?crata and. Repub? licans who wished an honest State Government. Ho told them of the frauds praoticed by the land commission, and denounced Orr in bold and unmeas? ured terms. During Mr. Sanders'? remarks, Jackson became,.quite uneasy, and went among the nogroos, urging them to leave ; but they paid no at? tention to him, and gave Mr. S. a quiet, and respectful hearing. As soon as Mr. ?. took his seat, White and Jaokson arose and tuado a few remarks, urging tho colored people to go away. A large minority, howover, remained, and ex? hibited an earnestness to know the truth, by asking tho whites who were present numerous questions explanatory of tho objects of Reform. My observations have lcd mc to con? clude that if the white men but do their duty, Bamberg and vioioity will present a handsome majority for Carpenter and Butler. [From tho Uaionvlllo Times.] WHAT A COLORED NAN SAYS" READ ir t GOSUEN HILL, August 2?, 1870. Mit EDITOR :-Will you allow mc spaoo in your columns to contradict a foul slander upon my oharaoter ? I hear it is reported that I belong to the Radical party and havo joiued the League... I cannot think of any report that would disgruco me more thau to say I belong to a party that has committed so many glaring acts of dishonesty, cor? ruption and deception to my raoc, as tho leaders of tho Radical party have. No, sir, I nover have and nover intend to belong to that party, and he who says I do simply tells a lie. I intend to set my voto agaiust Judgo J. L. Orrs*-he says he will voto for Scott and Ransier, I say I shall vote for Carpenter and Butler. I am a free colored man, bound to no party or mou, by oath, but feeling that my best friends aud tho beat friouds of the Stato aro tho nativo white men of South Carolina, I intend to stick to them. I have becu raised with them and know them; but I know nothing of carpet baggers who rule the State, ex? cept that they are getting very rich aud the poor people of tho State are getting pooror., I believe the native white Southern people aro tho friends of tho colored people, and I can provo it by their kind acts towards tho pcoplo of my race, wheuever and wherever thoy uro called on. I know many instances where Re? publican colored incu depend altogether upou their old white friends, for thc broad which they aud their family eat; and wheu thoy wanta friend thoy always go to thc Southern men for it ; but still the colored people will liston to men they don't know, ?vote against their friends and allow those bad strangers to teach them to hate thoso very friends. I wish all my colored friends would think seriously upon this state of things, und try to unite with tho whito peoplo in perfect harmony, to drive their emmes from offico, and if they do that they will drivo thom from thc State. Do you know of twenty white radicals in the State who is not an olfioe holder, or is not working with you for your votes to elect thora to an office? Yours, respectfully, BILL ROGERS THE WONDERS OF PRAYER, Abraham's sorvant prays-Rebekah appears. Jacob wrestles and pray.?, and prevails with Christ-Esau's mind is wonderfully turned from tho reven? geful purposes ho had harbored for twenty years. Moses prays-Amal?le is discomfited. Joshua prays-Samuel is born. David prays-Samuel is born. David prays-Ahithopel hangs himself. Asa prays-a victory is gained. Jeho? saphat criosunto God-God turns away his foes. Isaiah and Hezekiah pray ono hundred and eighty live thousand Assyrians arc dead iu twelvo hours.. Daniel prays-thc lions arc muzzled. Daniel prays tho seventy weeks arero vealed. Mordecai und Esther fast Haman is hanged on his own gallows in three days. Ezra prays at Ahava Gd answers. Nehemiah darts a pray? er-tho king's heart is softened in a minuto. Elijah prays-a drought of three yours suococds. Elijah prays rain descends apace. Elisha prays Jordan is divided. Elisha prays child's soul comes back, for prayor rcaohos etorniyt. The church prays ardently-Peter is dcliverod by an angel.-Rev. J. Ryland. THE UNIVERSALITY OF MASON? RY. Whcthor from Koglnnd or Scotland, or from ancient Egypt, Masonry origi? nated, it spread all over the globe, and now Musons can bo found among almost all thc nations of tho earth. Inasmuch as it teaches liberty, equality and fraternity, it is interacted iu Russin, Austria, Spain, and Portugal ; and in Hungary, a mau, if known to bo a Mason, would be imprisoned. Tho Chinese havo an organization closely allied to Masonry ; but instead of tho Bible, they use tho writings of Confucius who is claimed ns their spiritual guide. There ?re Masons among thc Mahomet? ans. Tho high degrees known among European Musons arc not practiced by tho Chinese or Asiatic Masons, but the extent of their Masonio knowledge is confined to that obtained in simbolio lodges. Thcvoforo if a Master Meson, made in this country or in Grout Britain or tho Continent of Europe, should visit tho Mongolians or other Asiatic nations, he would find that ho could readily j inako himself known, and would be rccoguiacd asa brother. ' - ' THU ItANP S WINDI. B h i > I J ;; ; i , ?v*, Wo have printed fro bj timo to ti ina the. particular* pf tho parcha sea vade by the Land Commission io diff?rant parts of the State. IQ every case we have given the qaalttios and the actual value, as well aa the price paid by the Land Commission ; and, generally, . we have been able to publish tho n?mes of the agents who were the representatives of the Ring. We now sum up, 'sis. follows, the instances iu which tho poo pie are known to hare Wen swindled, under the pre ton oe of giving homes to the homeless poor : 1. A traot of land iu Charleston County, for whioh the actual seller re? ?oives ?30,000, costs the Land Com? mission no less than $120,000. 2. In Coonee t?ouoty the Land Com? mission buy two thousand acres of land at an average priue of 86 an aore, whioh land, at au outside estimate, ia worth only 83 an acre. 8. In Williamsburg the Land Com? mission oharge 8-J000 for a traot of land whioh oosts $1500. 4. In Lanoaster County the Land Commission pay $3032 for a tract of land "known to bo utterly worthless/' Eighteen months ago this land could have boen readily bought at $1 50 an aore; thc Land Commission pay $8 an aore. 5. lo Beaufort County the Deputy Land Commissioner, oidod and assisted by Representativo W. J. Whipper, bought nineteen hundred acres of land, at $2 25 an nore, and made the seller sign titles at $5 an acre. 6. In Darlington County the Land Commission buy u parcel of lands for $5986, and the amount stated in the titlos as paid by tho Land Commission is $11,608. 7. In Anderson County the Land Commission buy fifteen tracts of land, aggregatiug 4285 aore?, for $21,180. These lands aro shown to be worth, at most, $7000. 8. In Chester County the Land Com* mission buy seven hundred and thirty acres of land at $8 50 ; their aotuai oost was not more than $5. 9. In Georgetown County tho Land Commission buy 5310 acres of laud at 83 50 an aore. That laud is dear at $1 un acre. 10. In Colleton County the Land Coin mission buy 2732 acres of land at 84 an acre, 300 acres at $3, aud 1040 acres at $2. A high price for the first tract would be 82 an acre. Tho second traot is worth less than 81 an aero. Tho third tract is worth nothing. - 11. lu Lexington tho Laud Commis? sion agent buy 2300 aores of land for 85000, and thc State pays for the same tract $8050. Thc loss to the State, or to the colored people who buy the lands, upon these eleven transactions, is as follows : 1. Charleston. $00,000 2. Oonoo.,. 0,000 3. Williamsburg. 1,500 4. Lancaster.; 8,032 5. llouufort. . 6,225 rt. Darlington. 5,617 7- Andorsoa. 14,000 8. Chobter. 2,555 9. Uoorgotown.-. 13,270 10. CollotOD. 7,104 11. Lexington. 3,0?0 Total.$156,353 This $156,851 represents tho loss to tho State, upon tho transactions of whioh we have knowledge. It cannot bo doubted that every purchaso made by tho Land lliug is of tho samo scanda? lous character. Wherever land has been bought, a large profit bas gono into the pockets of thc L-tnd Commissioner, tho Advisory Board, and thoir agents. Every tract of laod is hold nt far more than its value. But if tho Land Com? mission can carry out thoir plans, tho loss, which is their profit, will not fall upon the State. They hope to sell the lands to the colored people at what they cost the State- thut is, twice, thrice and four times their value. Io this way the colored people will, onoo moro, ami at their own expense, save tho Scott King from detection, and enable thom to di jest, at leisure, their ill-gotten plundor. Thc loss must fall upon the State, or upon the colored peoplo And if the colorod people buy the lauds offered them by the Ring, the loss will bc theirs alon e.- Charleston News. ? MUK, If you desire to got a largo yield of milk, give your cow, tinco times a day, water slightly salted, iu which brau has been stirred at thc ruto of one quart to two gallons of wator. You will find thut your oow will gain twenty five per cent, immediately under tho effects of it, and sho will bocome so attached to the diet as to refuse to drink clear water unless very thirsty, but this mess she will diTnk almost ut any time, nnd ask for moro. Tho amount of this drink is un ordinary water r..!' full at oaoh timo, morning, noon, > i night. Your animal will thcu do her best at discounting the lacteal. TUB SUPPLIES STOPPED.-"YOU have stopped thc supplies!" said a poor working man to a gentleman whom h? mot on the 8troct. ?'Why, how?", in? quired ho. 14Well, you soo, sir," MOOO my lillie girls) and boys have been going to your Sunday School, they- havo firomiscd to havo nothing to' do with iquor or tobacco, and I can't get them to go buy cither for. mo." "I um glud to hoar thnt," said tho friend; "but what will you do now?" "Why I hove thrown my pipo away ; and the children have coaxed ino so hard that I havo promised not to smoke or ohew nguiu, aud togivo up my daily drams." - - - . . Three girls aro hoeing corn iu the Michigan Agricultural College. [Fror? Chuabei'? Journil.] ' ' ?KT KCTT IT I? AS VUKY AtllS. Some who bavo read the highly spiced fiotions purporting to bo r?ui lui sconces of detectives may take lt for granted that a halo of romance o'erbang? the life of a professional, taker of thieves and murderers. But in aotual expert coco it is not so. C?ntrarywlse, the lite of suoh a mao is rather prosaic than Otherwise ; nor, iu nature, does the do* tectivo go about iu those wonderful dis? guises the books we have referred toso enlarge upon-disguises only to be met with on the stage and in novels. He is truly "a plain clothes mao," and is so spoken of by the^membera of the foroe, just as railroad people always speak of ooaohos sud not "carriages," as the outer world does. The veteran straight? forward assures me that he has never adopted what could be legitimately call? ed "a disguise" on any occasion. ''Why, said he, "I should not have got half way down the street, or past a soul I know, before one of the cove* would have twigged me." "Hollo !" he would have thought, "what's the Sergeant got thom togs on for ?" Aad then it would have been all up with my little game, for the "office" would at onoe have been given, and my bird flown. Not I ; I Dover used any disguise. I went out just as I was-plain olothes, of oourso. No; disguise is all bosh. When I wanted my man I always knew where to put my hand on him. In faot I had only to go to his houso or oall at a oertain limo, beckon him out, and he would come with me as quiet aa a lamb. Did I ever have any oases of resista&oo or assault ? Not many. If they were saucy I used to put tho handbolts on them ; and if I thought they intended a blow, I gave them ono for themselves first. I can give you an instance how I used to manage my obstropolous gents." I took one, not more than fifty miles from here, ir. a plaoe he was well known but not for the thiof he was. I order? ed* him to carry his box before me to tho station. He refused till I told him if he did not do as I told him I would hire a cab, chain him behind, hand bolted, put the box inside, aud walk leisurely on tho pavement behind him, giving all his townspeople who asked questions their full of answers. He know I would keep my word, and be trotted before me to tho terminus with his box on bis head, as quiet os-well, as a lamb, "I iuterrogate the Sergeant upon the matter of burglary, and he instanoes a representative case. A message arrives at the police office from Mr. Qroeno Jones saying his premises have been broken into and oertain moneys or pro? perties stolen. Tho ohief sends myself and another detective to tho plaoe. After a few moments survey wo glance at each other in a peculiar way, where? upon the proprietor of the stolen pro? perty looks uneasy and perturbed. 'Well, officers.^vhat do you mako of it ? The marks are plain enough, are tboy not ? My mate-you know Driver, sir? whistles und swings from one hand to the other tho polished holly stick he always curries with him. I kneel down, Driver having mudo his inspection first, and examine some marka ou the window Bill. 'That,' says Mr Jones, 'was cvidont ly dono with the ohiael found ia the gardcu." "I thought it was rathor too strong that he should talk to us who know what was what liko that, but determined to bo even with him bye and bye. So I went on asking a lot of tom fool questions. Aftor a bit he said : 'Well, what'll you take to drink ?' My mate said that bo thought a toothfo.il of rum -Driver is partial to rum-wouldn't poison him, while I gavo a name to brandy hot. I remember it quite well. He asked us into a little room behiud tho shop, ilis wife was there, nursing a young child-au infant in fact-aud sho looked, poor thing, awful down in tho mouth. Tiie husband hadn't been long in business, and we knew that business hud been queer with him for some timo. He had to send out for thu stuff, which he hid by a little slatternly servant girl. While lie was awuy talk? ing to the girl my mute was lcd to pump the missis ; but L stopped him, for I saw how the laud lay as clear us mud. She bogan, however-uneasily I could see to talk of it herself, saying it was strange they had heard no noise, that tho ser? vant had always slept at her mother's, and so on. When her husband return? ed followed ''oon after by the girl, ho had in hot water and mixed the grogs - stiff ones tliey were too, though it is was only about noon. Dy tho time we had ull three finished our second tumblers our mau got maudlin, first snivelled over his losses, and then talked big all io a breath, as the saying is. This was more than I could stomach, though I had had his grog; so when my mme and I went out, Driver hoing in Iront '1 suppose,' said he, 'you have an idea who did ibis ?' "I ouu give u shrowdish guess," said I." "Ay ? I hive heard you detectives aro ciovor chaps and know a man's Work, as you call it, by tho way ho goes about tho joh Now who do you sup? pose did this ?" "You," said I, looking him full iu (ho taco. You should have soeu his countenance chango, sir ; first us white as that pipe, then as read a? that bur curtain, and ull of a minuto. I uovcr saw such a thing. Had I wanted proof of tho truth ol what I hud suid, twas written there in red und whit?. "What!" he blurted out, trying tu gulp dowu u something that seemed to stick in his throat. "Mo? How dar?: you say such a thing?" "I dare say anything that I know i? true. You uskod me u plain question ana I gave you a plain answer." Calming down a bit when he s.tw 1 waa net cowed or taken abie* nt* nil, ha says : "do yon think I should bo mott a beru fool M to rob myself f "That's another plain question : x> ir voa want another plain answer, here it ie : not yourself exaotly but your cred? itors. That's abont the breadth of lt." Theo he began to bloater again. In the midst of which I left him and walked after Driver, who said : . What were a jawing with the Cove' about f 'Twas his own oraok." 'Hight you are/ said I; 'and what's more I told him so.0 . "Yonsee, sir," said the detective in explanation, "the marks on the window? sill were ali made from the inside." It will astonish the unsophisticated road or to learn that the proceeds of a robbery are ofton not recovered because it would not pay to rooover them. A detective is sent for the day following a burglary. He receives a description ci tho spoil. He knows by what ohannel -aa we shall presently show-intelli? gence may be conveyed to the present holder of the booty that the person robbed will give somnoh for the restora* tion of hi? valuables. But where not h ing is offered the plato goes to the limbo of the melting pot. With watches, the rogues melt the cases, and haviug erased name and uum ber on tho work?, put thom into fresh oases. Kings or braoelets they deuude of stones, whioh they dispose of on the continent, or even at home, except in some oases, when they send them as they are, if boaring no name, crest, or mark, to the richer colonies. Indeed, it is a well known fact that the wife of a vory high official had a bracelet offered to ber in one of the first shops in Mel? bourne that had been stolen from her house in Park Lane, London, but fifteen months before. Even bank notes, though stopped, can be got rid of ; and there is plenty of ma* ohinery for doing so. A stranger lost several Bank of England notes for fifty pounds each in a certain provincial town. ' Notice was given to the brauoh Bank of England in the same place of the loss, the number of the notes being also supplied to the distriot manager. Now, Bank of England notes, when onoe paid into Threadneedle street, are never reissued, even if they have only left the bank new the same day. No fear was felt of their getting abroad again if they once went "home"; so & duplicate list of the lost notes was forwarded more leisurely to town. In about six weeks news was sent down to thc provincial town to the efteot that the no tea Jiad roached home. The polioe noxt sot-about tracing the notes. They had boon paid by a bank in the provin? cial town to their city agents. The country bank had reoeived them from a professional gentleman, and they had been paid to him by a tradesman in a large way of business, who had been long suspected by the polioe of boiog a buyer of stolon notes. There the olue abruptly stopped, and could be pursued no further. Tho tradesmao said he oould not tell whom ho had tho note from. Invited by tho police to attcud boforo the magis trato he repeated the samo tale. Asked particularly by tho magistrates' clerk it he took so many fifty-pound notes in a day that he could not tell who nee they came, he replied, goner illy, that he often took fifty-pound notes without endorsing thom, and this must bo one ; and he positively oould not tell how the note had como into his hands, except that he knew it must have been in tho regular course of trade. And so it ended. Now, ii this had been a man in a small way of busiuess ho could not have got oft by such an excuse. The police were morally sure tho tradesman had bought tho fifty poaud note, but they oould uot prove it. Tho vastness of his business protected this mao ; whereus the petty trader, being unable to urge suoh a plea, would have huon caught and trounced. We easily forget, and yot how inex? cusably, our personal and constant de? pendence on God. We can soe wby tho poor widow, whose barrel of meul hud jailed, and whoso cruse ol'oil was spent, should and oould thus humbly and ur? gently ask for her daily bread ; but it aeolus strange to us at first that such a request .should be made as well by the rion-tho owner ol' houses and farms and bunk-stock-tho man whose gar? tiers contuiu iood that would supply brea J for myriads of m out hs besides his own, and this not for a day only, bit for years hence-the merchant, it may be, whoso warehouses would victual whole navies. Weean see how David might, naturally and most urgently, offer suoh a prayer as is our text, on tho day when he and his soldiers wore hungering, und the show bread was given thom; but why Solomon, hts son' should muko it, when his purveyors sent lum, month by month, auch pro? fuso supplies for his table and palucc scorns not so ea -y to bo understood Ami yet ibis vory language would ap ply equally to both-tho hunger bitten lather iii the day of his want, and the tho luxurious sou iu the ?euson of his ii?portal optilenoo. Job in his palmy day?, when ho was tho richest of ul ? thc inou of tho lijiist, and when his son? were feasting each in his own .house; and Jo-ioph, when opening tho grana? ries of Egypt, whore he had laid up the food of seven plenteous years, for an entire nation-each needed the spirit, if not tho fu'filltnont of this prayer; and wu doubt not that each, dependent and grateful, was wont to sit down to his weil-stored board in the temper whioh is inculcated by this very prayer - --.? . -- - Qruco nevor appears graoe until it nppoarsV) bo a sin. The deeper tho sense of I ho evil of sin is the deeper our apprehension of the free graoe of Qod in C?irid will bo. DliPBNDliNOljC. vf fm m - X - . M% . ?'s - ??fNv? ?t* - * SM*_'I III. ' 111 Jil^?'M'lVlW^'"''nggP?SW 1 JO? WORK M ir rt^KMi -.. i I EVERY DESCRIPTION , PROMPTLY KXliCUTED AT IHK OFFICE OF ; . r. ' ' ' ,? *; J>. * , ? The Sumter Watchman? I ?re-IN TUB Highest Style of the Aft. TUB ?KW YOttK THiUUNli Off* 1 WHITTKnoilK Tas MARTYtiBD MEMBER. . r >. .?\-w. ? Mr. B. F. Whittcojuro, member of 9 tho Ut? House of Kepreycututi vo<? from " the First ^Congressional District of South Carolina, waa foand guilty upou irre?. tragable eyideuco of official corruption, \ i. e., of selling s oadetahip at Weal Point. lie said that bo sold his ap~ poiotiug power and official, .'authority that ho wight give the money to his ' needy constituents. A more cxtraordi. nary plea never oamefrom a representa? tire-it was, in faot, the confession of a new crime. Finding himself io a tight place, W h (Memore saved himself from I expulsion by reaigoing; ho wens baot to nia constituents, and they, grateful, doubtless, for his pecuniary consolation, scot him back to tho same Congress ; the House not oaring to atupify itself, and being, by the provisious of the con* stitutioo, aole judge of the qualifications of its own members, returned him his credentials. His gratoful const i tuon ts showed signs of seodiug him still to the next Congress ; but Mt*. B. F. W., in a letter exhibiting tho virtuous exaltation of Mr. Pecksniff, and thinking it doubt ful whether tho next Houso would prove moro placable than the last, has de? clined iu a letter of mingled dignity, wrath, and sorrow. Ile recites his many services to the body politic; he declines modestly that for "fivo years un J nm -o he has been identified with South Carolina's destiny;" "I have tried," he says, "to do my duty wher? ever duty called ;" he suys, "I nave re? ceived," he declares, "generous majori? ties ;" "my acts," ho urges, "have been unselfish ; my motives for the geoerul weal ;" and here I am, he might have said as good as twioe kicked outoi Con* gress, ana with every prospect, should I be re elected, of being kicked out a third time ! And all through -'Logan tho willful deoeivor !" "1 am the victim "of aii unpreocdent and unconstitutional "act. Tho saored rights of electors "have been subverted f Magna Charta "has been despised ! ! Law, reason, "justice, precedents, have boon disgra "ced!!! AVe, the governed, have no "longer the prerogative to say who shall "govern us ! I !" And all through the assumptions of "Logan, tho willful de? oeivor." Verily, Mr. Logan ha? a groat deal to answer for. And so on, through Siuantities of what we must bo excused or calling tho very purest flabdood!o ! Hold hard Mr. B. F. Whittemore ! Stop moaning and groaning and Bighing and turning up the whites of your eyes for a moment ! Don't you see tho main question is whether or not you took the money ? You were either knavish or foolish, and, in either ease, you have proved yourself to be unfit for a seat ia the House of Representatives ! Whethn ar you be an ass or something morally worso, does not make the least difference, except to your own conscience. A man who, in perfect innocence, commits a penitentiary offence isn't fie person to assist in making.the laws of the Repub? lic. He may be a modle of mature piety, the most patriotic creature breath? ing, a very incarnation of benevolence, but the placo of honor and safety for bim is the private station. Yet we should not fail to express our admiration to Mr. Whittomorc's course in refusiog to bo again a candidate. Whatever oredit he is entitled to, let him, in the name of common humanity receive. He koeps off the course, he tells us, lest by permitting himself to bo re-elcotod he might "contuse his best and truest friends " His "friends'' will be grateful, or at least they should bc. We assure him that there ure very few Republicans in the country who will not be profoundly, thankful to him for the self sacrificing spirit whioh hs has exhibited. He reminds us, in some sort, of these gentlemen who, after a compulsory emigration to a ponai set? tlement, declared that they ''left their country for their couutry's good." G<?, Mr. Whittemore, if such aro your feel? ings-go, wherever you please (provi? ded tho officers don't nab you for the penitentiary), and muy you bo happy! As the pr. 1.to said to dil Rias, "Wo wish you all manner of prosperity aud a little moro sense !" Your misfortune is that you huve been found out. Un? doubtedly there were many members of the last, an there will bo many members of tho uext Congress, who arc not a bit better than tho unhappy Whittemore ; but they were or will be shrewd nnd ?harp fellows, knowing how to cover their tracts. Tho fact is, Mr, W. (if we muy credit his lotter) is altogether too good for Congress, and if ho should bc sent bick to Washington, he might be like the simple-minded glrlj who used to inform thc Justice of the i'oa^o that she "was ruined again." itrtnui?T?? Liva, Good counsel (rom a wife and in ?th? ur : "I will try to tinko myself nod all around mc agreeable. It will not do to ?eave a m ut to billin.if till he Collies to you; to take no pain.'? to attract him, or io appear before him with u Inusf favo. lt is not so difficult at you think, dear child, to behave to a husband ?o that ho shall remain forever a husband. I nm un old woman, but voa can still lo what you like ; a word from you ut the right limo will not. fail of its effect ; what neod have you to play (ho suffer-* ing virtuo? The tear of a lovely girl, says an old book, is liko a dc* drop on i rose ; but that on the chook of a wife is u drop ol pain lo her hush ind. Try io appear cheerful and COntontvd, uni! your husband will be so; nnd you hav? ing made him happy will como so your? self in reality. Nothing flatters a man so much as tho happiness of his stile ; he is always proud of himself us being the source of it. As aoon ns y m ur*, cheerful you will bo lively und alen., and ?rory moment will uff ?rd votan opportunity to lut tali an agreeable word. 0