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THE FREE CITIZEN.' PUBLISHED AT ORANCEBURC, 3. C. S. A. WEBSTER, - - - Editor. A. WEBSTER, PUBLISHER. TERMS : OKS COPT, ONE YEAR, ? - - 8 2 00 Invariably in Advance. EB 1 Ami I will come near to you to Judgement; and I-Trill bc a swift witness agnind thu soro.or .rs, and against thc nrtulierorH, and against false swearers, arni against those thnt np preis thc hireling in hi? wages, the willow auU the fath?rle?a. and that turn ?side the stranger from his right, and fear not inc, saith the Lord of Hosts.-MALACHI, III, 5. NOTICE- I We nra not responsible for th? views ff out- i Correspondents. Advertisements to he inserted in the ClTtetN inuit be received by Thursday evening. Advertisements inserted at One Dollar per Ineh, for the first Insertion. Further terms can bo had on application to thc Editor or Publisher. Communications on matters of State or Local Interest, respectfully solicited. All orders for Job Printing left at this office will receive prompt attention. Agents and Correspondents wanted in alt Towns of tba County. SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1875. If O INTEREST IN" THE BLACK Itt AH. A recent dispatch from Washing ton says : "A meeting was held here for the purpose of taking measures towards establishing a weekly journal in Washington, to be managed exclu sively by colored men, and devoted to the interest of the colored people. Frederick Douglas, Professors Lang ston and Wilson, and other promi nent men of that race, earnestly sec onded the views of the Rev. George W. Williams, of Boston, who came here to establish such a journal, the general sentiment being that this was Absolutely necessary, as thc while TD an no longer took an interest in the black man. Various sums of money were subscribed to aid in the enterprise." It is just as well for colored men to publish a paper as anybody else. But we have come to a strange pass in our history, if no one can vindi cate the interest of our common hu manity, but must simply represent kia ovm complexion. Wc should like to know what there is of color in the declaration of independence "that all men arc born free and equal," and what is thc use to say it was or was not a colored man who wrote it? It is a great fundamental truth of equal interest to ali complexions, and de manding thc boon of freedom alike for aii. It is an infamous slander on the philanthropy and Christianity of the white man to say that he is no longer interested for Iiis colored brother. How many have sacrificed to give him freedom and aid him to maintain it? How many are doing all in their power to give to all, without refer ence to complexion, the means of ed ucation? Some are still endeavor ing, amid the deserts and malaria of Africa to point the benighted to the lamb of God, that taketh away thc Birs of the world. A. Cox would not abandon bis purpose of being a mis sionary to Africa, not for the cling ing embrace of a mother's, love, or the fond endearments of home and country. But he waa a white man and represents thousands who have the same devotion to the interest? of our common humanity. We ask these stioklers for race distinction to pause ere they enter the contest for a war of races. The white man bas thc 8ame rights to make race combi nations and enter upon race conflicts and distinctions as the colored mac, but cither in doing it arc fighting against God and humanity. We are of one blood, and are living together in America under thc same form of government, with mutual rights and privileges. Thc conflicts for which we should feel a common interest are those for the triumphs of great prin ciples of truth and righteousness, whieh. vindicate the rights of all, and will elevate ami bless all who are governed by them. This sel?Bhncsu ot man is in conflict with God, and thc peace and prosperity of the great fittnily of raftii. Do Right Every Where. There is always honor ami profil in right doing. Many of the slanders heaped upon us result from dichones ty, and thc lack of stern integrity. Man's only safety is in doing right at all times and under all circum stances. Il is Satan's trick lo make our doings right depend on times and seasons, on persons and places. He who does wrong because no one will know it will be terribly disappointed when his sins shall find him out. He ?boceases to be watchful and circum spect in thc presence of his friends, will find that those friends in whom he thus confided in an unguarded hour will betray his confidence and become his foes-will rebuke what they before justified, and accuse him of thc very acts which they aided and encouraged him in. Do right every-where. There is no safety in sin. Confide in no one ; presume upon nothing suffciently to do that which ia wrong. Thc watch ing eye of God is upon us, and when we depart from him he has ten thous I and rods with wbi.-h to chasten us and correct our faults. Trust not in friends ; trust not in secrecy ; trust not in lies-do right every-where, and trust in God to give victory and rest. Do not follow the multitude to do evil. Do not bc a time-server nor a tool. Stand boldly up for truth and righteousness, and ever live with a solemn consciousness of dircctaud personal responsibility to God. Make no compromise with error, sin, and wrong ; strike no bargains with Sa tan, every thing which he proposes is a trap, ever}' thing that he suggests is a delusion and a snare. Man is weak, Satan wily-only God is true. Trust in him ; do right every-where, aud he shall protect, direct, and save you at thc end. The Freedom of tho Pres*. REVERDT JOHNSON ON THE BALTI MORE LIBEL SUIT. BALTIMORE, July 19.-The suits instituted in the Courts of Common Pleas on Friday last by the governor of Maryland, thc Slate comptroller and thc Slate treasurer respectively, composing the board of public works, against the Baltimore American for libel, tbs damages claimed being 03-5 000 in each case, are likely to become adjudicated, In ruling the cases to day, Reverdy Johnson tendered his professional services to the propre tors of the American, which having been accepted, Mr. Johnson's appear ance was entered in each case as their attorney. In his letter volunteering his services, Mr. J? hnson says : "My motive for making this offer was this, that from the ground on which I un derstood the suits have been brought, 1 thought that thc public interest was concerned and lhat the freedom and usefulness of the public press were involved. This being my impression, I cannot agree to receive any pecuni ary compensation. Owing to the high official and equally high social ch anio 1er and reputation of thc plain tiffs there can be no likelihood of compromise or settlement short of a decision of a legal tribunal ;. the offi cial conduct of these gentlemen being involved on the one pait in these cases, and the extent of the right and liberty of the press to criticise and charge corruption to public officers on thc other." The suits have al ready attracted attention throughout tho State, both parties being repre oented by thc ablest couottel lb Mary land. DON'T SCOLD.-For tho sake of your children, don't do it. It is a great misfortune to have children reared in the presence and under the influence of a scold. Tho effect of thc everlasting fault finding of persons is to make the young who bear it unamiable, malicious, callous hearted : and they often learn to take pleasure in doing the very things for which they receive such tongue lash ings. As they arc always getting the blame of wrong-doing, whether they deserve it or not, they think thoy might as well do wrong as right. 'Uhoy lose all ambition to sleive for thc favorable opinion of tho fault finder, since they sec they alway a strivo in vain. Thus ? ecold innot >nly a nuiscnce, but a destroyer of .he morals of children. If these un- I loved, dreaded people could oui)' jee themselves as others sec them, .hey would flee to the tnountnius in tharne. R. R. EXCURSION TO OKAKOEBUIIQ. -Thc Ceutral Club of South Caroli na, have arranged au excursion to ?rangeburg, for the purpoae of a celebration of emancipation in thc West India Islands. Fred Douglas und other distinguished speakers of this, and other states expected. The meeting to be on the Second of Aug. on the grounds of the Clallin Univer sity. Four bands of music are ad vertised to be present. A good time is expected. Thc Committee! of Arrangements say tickets for the round trip eau be procured at the following places, for the annexed places : Charleston to Ornngeburg and return $1,50- John M. Freemrn. Greenville to Orangeburg 81,50 Wilson Cook. Columbia to Orange .urg and return, 81,00-Cooper & Taylor. A Clean Apron. A lady wanted a trusty little maid to come and help her to take charge of a baby. Nobody could recommend one, and she hardly knew where to look for thc right kind of girl. One day she was passing through a by lane, and saw a little girl with a clean apron holding a baby in the doorway of a small house. ''There is the maid for me," said the lady. She stopped and asked fer her mother. "Mother has gone out to work," answered the girl ; "father is dead, and now mother lias to do every thing." "Should you not like to come and live with me?" asked the lady. "I should like to help mother somehow," said the little maid. The lady, more pleased than ever with the tidy looks of tuc girl, went to bee her mother after she came home ; and the end of it was the lady took the maid to live with her, and she found-?hat indeed she expected to find-that the neat ap pearance of her person showed thc] neat and orderly bent of her mind. She had no careless habits, she was no friend to dirt ; hut everything she had to do with was folded np ami put away, and kept carefully. Thc lady finds great comfort in her, ami helps ber mother, whole ha ia not now so hard as it was. She smiles when she says, "Sally's recommendation was her clean apron ;" and who will say it was not a gooa oue?-Obser ver. A Boy's Idea of Head?. H ead H arc of di li?rent shapes and size. They are full of notions. Large beads do not. always hold the most. Some persns can tell what a man is by the shape of his bead. High heads are the best kind. Very knowing peo pie are called long-headed. A fellow that wont slop for any thing or any hotly is called hot-headed, if he is not quite so bright he is called soft-head ed. If he wont be coaxed nor turned they call him pig-headed. Animals have very small heads. The heads of fools slant back. When your head is cut oft' you are he-headed. Our heads are covered with hair, except bald-heads. There are barrel-heads head-of sermons-and some ministers used to have fifteen heads to one ser mon-pin-heads, heads-of-eattie, as the farmer calls his cows and oxen ; head- winds, drum-heads, cabbage heads, logger-heads, come-to-a-head heads- of-chapters, hcad-him-otf, head of-ol'-the family, and go-a-head-but first be sure you are right ; but the thc worst of all heads are dead-heads, who hang round aa editor for Ieee tickets to a show. Home. A man went out to India to live there. Ile hud a very pleasant house, with a large garden, and he and his wife and children lived very happily. At last, as the children grew up, the heat made them ill, and they became thin and weak, so that one day the doctor said, "If you wish your child ren to live, you must seud them to England." The poor man could not leave his work in India, so he was obliged to. jend- hw wife and children away hy themselves, and he was left alone, rite day after they had gone away n rriend calLed upo? bim and 'mit!, "What a pleasant house you have!" Yes," said tuc poor man, "but ii WHS a home yesterday ; now it is nothing but a IIOUBC. My home is where my wife and children are.*' Home is not bricks and mortar, nor stone, but a place where our best friends are. Heaven is our home, because Jesus, our best friend, and God our Fa'.her, arc there. God wUiji.es all men to think that heaven is their home, and so he sends for our parents and our friends, and takes them away from our home on earth, that we may be obliged to look up to heaven and sa}*, "My best friends arc there." Our best friends are our best treas ure, and Jesus tells us, ''Where our treasure is, there will our hearlu be also." Hospitality. One day Tommy rushed into the kitchen crying out. "Motlier, mother there is an old woman down in the road sitting on n log ; shall I set Pompey on ber?"' "Set Pompey on her !" said the sis ter, "what for?" "O ! because," answered Tommy, looking a little ashamed, "because perhaps she is a thief." "Go out, Esther, sud sec if the poor woman wants any thing. Per haps she's tired with a hard day's travel among the mountains," said the mother. Esiher ran down the green, and, peeping Ihrough the gate, saw the woman resting under thc shade of the old oak-tree. "Should you like any thing?" ask Eslber. "Thank you," said the old woman ; "I should bs vnry thankful for a drink of waler." Esiher scampered back to thc house, and soon procured some cold water from the well, and hastened with it to the poor traveler. "I thank you," said alter drinking. "It iaslc8 very good. Do 3on know what the Loi d Jesus said once a bu ut a cup of cold w ater ?" 1 Esther was nilent. "J will tell you. He said Whoso ever shall give to one of his people a sup of cold water 01 ly, in the name of a disciple, he shall in no wise lose bin reward. May the Lord himself bless you, lillie girl, as 1 am sure I do." And a happy feeling stole into the ci.ild's bosom at the old woman's words for the blessing of thc poor upou her.-Children's Friend. Publisher's Notices. -Rev. Mr. Blakely Is an authorized agent for tili? paper. -A. W. Pinckney. of Branchville, ls an autnorized agent for this paper. NOTT OE |;S IIEKEBY GIVEN that application' ?J has been made, in accordance willi ? he suilute hi stich case made und pro vided, tu the Clerk of the County for the hicorpoiution of the Congregational Church iii Orangeburg. I!. S. DICKSON, JOHN 'fun.MT SON, A UK A M HAHKISON. Trustees. July 10, 48-3 WANTED, TWENTY GOOD HANDS, TO CUT WOOD. COCD PRICES-CASH, J. L. LIVINGSTON. CANV SSERS wanted for two imperil wnrks nf French art. "Little Bull away and lier Pets." and th? pretty pail" "The Dinner, and the Nap." 'These o'er ure? are \joi>rlhy of a piara in costly home* and inerpeinnve enough for the simplest. Selling rapidly, and TAKE ON SIGHT. *Ve guarantee ready sales, good profits, am! quick return?. Any active ?ievHoii who will take Itold- eau make a isudsome income. Send for our beet terms at once. J. B. FORD ?fc Co.. 27 Park Place, New York. Wm. M. BIRD & CO., ! M PORTERS ANO N AMJFA?.HIRERS OF 0?k White Lead. Zinc. Colors W indoVY-Glasfcc. ?ZOI East Bay, CHARLES i ON, so. Ca. Ju?y 1 *. -15 -5 .'A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure and Instruction." Harper's Bazar. I LUSTRATEP. Notices of inc Frets. Thc BAZAR ls edited with a contribu tion of tact and talent that wc seldom flint hi nny journal; and thc journal it self is the organ of the great world ot fashion.-llostott Traveller. The BAZAR commends itself to every member of the household-to the child ren by the droll and pretty pictures, to the young ladies by its fashion-plates in iMidless variety, to the provident matron hy its patterns for the children's clothes, to paterfamilias by its tasteful designs for embroidered slippers and luxurious dress ing-gowns. But the reading matter of thu Bazar is uniformly of great excel lence. The paper has acquired a wide popularity for the fireside enjoyment ii affords.--JV. 1*. Evening Pott. T E it 31 8 : Postage free to oil Subscribers in the United Stutcs. HARrER's BAZAR, one year.t*,'0 ?f 4.011 induite? prepnymcut of U. S. pottage by the publishers. S'-bhcriplion* to Harper's Magazine, Weekly, ami Ilnzar, to one address for one year, *l>-.0o; or, two of Hat pcr's Periodicals, to one addreis for one year, $7 00 ; postage free. An Extra Copy ol either the Magazine, Week: ly, or Bazar will bc sup) '.ietl gratia for every t'hib of Five Subscribers at M.00 each, in one remittance ; or, Six Copies for ?20.00, without extra copy : postage free. Back Numbers can be supplied nt any time. Thc ec ven vo'umes ol Hat per'* Batar, for the year? ISO?, ?6?. , 72, '73. '74. elegantly bound in green i.iorocco cloth, will be tent by eipren? ireight prepaid, lor t-7.?H) each. Newspapers arc not to copy this advertise ment without the express orders ot HAKI-KK A UKOTHKKS. Audre**: HARPER & BROTHERS,New York. 0, K?i??@WW CONTINUES to sen his LIQUORS and S KG A RS J^T COST, He keeps on hand and is rcciving daily, fresh supplies of DRY GOODS, CROCERIES, TIN WARE, CROCKERY, And a general supply of merchandise. O ALL BEFORE BUYING. C. 1>. KOTJOHN, - S. ll WILSON. J. T. WILSON SAM'L fl. WILSON & BRO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers mm o>mmmmt TEAS. WINES. ! ALES, AND IMPORTED SE GARS. 306 King St., Charleston, S. C. May 15-tf J~^R. A. c. DUKr.S, Dealer in all kinds of Drugs and Medicines. Dr Dukes bas liad Nine Years Experi ence in Drugs and Medicines and fhorouh ly understands his business. He keeps constantly on a large supply of Goods usually found in a First-class Drug Store, 5g?*-f'areful attention paid to the com pounding of Prescriptions and ali orders promptly attended lo. Call on him at his Popular Drug Store. Orangeburg. Feb. 13.1873. Rare Bargains -AT KOM'S. T. Kill? BRO., Having removed to their New Brick Store, are now better prepared to meet the wants of their cus.omers j than ever. Their elegant stock of SPRING AND SUMMER OLOTHLVG cannot he sur prised airy wnere,. Cai! ui thu o d n uno1.. , Theodore Kohn & Bra A DVERT1SEME NTS. MISCKI.LANKOUS. ^1 RAND OPESISU I I will open this morning a lot of th* Finest r_. eas, ever offered in this market, conaia t ? UNCOLORED JAPAN OOLONGS, SOUCHONGS, YOUNG HYSONS, and Uli ZirKt fl L/?>Ai7, And in order to cultivate a trade ter these fine grade? I will sell them V E It, Y LOW. 1 have also received this morning another carload of Solomon's Fancy Flour Fresh ground and il ado especially for nie from the FineiBt Selected WI* o nt, I have never had a complaint of this brand of flour. IMPORTANT NOTICK ! Inferior KEROSENE OIL ia so dan geiousund so many accidents hive oc curred from its use, I have been induced, ut the repeated solicitation of my custo mers, to purchase a supply of pure Oil for their use. I havo just receive ten har rel s ol PURE WHITE KEROSENE Of 121 fire test. I will sell this Pure Oil cheaper than the same grade of Oil can be sold at in tins city. Families use ing this Oil arc safe. The use of the common Oils now FLOODING THE MARKET is equivalent to bringing Into the family destruction and death ! I have also received: 10 Tierces Fresh Cured Davis' Haran, 10 Boxes Cream Cheese, direct from the Dairy, 25 Firkins Goshen Butter,direct from the Dairy, which has all the freshness and flavor of the flow ers. ? Tierces of Baltimore Sugar-Cured Strips, 10 Barrels of Extra Mess Mackerel, averaging twenty ounces. 25 Sacks Laguayra Coffee, equal to Java. 50 Sacks of assorted Rio, by last Rio steamer. With s full supply of CHOICE GROCERIES, Fresh and i ? ? J-, My stock is full, with prices low aad good times coming. Thanking the public for their very llb ?ral patronage, and- soliciting its contln |u. . ce. I will, do my best to merit th? . ii.* HARDY (?OliOMO?, Columbia, So. Ca.