The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, April 19, 1876, Image 3

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The Press and Banner. ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wednesday, April 19, 1876. The Oglethorpe Echo. We have never had as much trouble to get our paper to any ottice as to the sanctum of tUe Oglethorpe Echo. Two yeara ago it tirst made its appearance nt this nffioe. and we nroniDtlv DUt down cm our books," Echo, Oglethorpe, Ga," and sent it for several months puffed it at first, and afterwards as it did not come accused it of being dead. A few weeks ago the editor of that paper was here, as our readers will remember who read the notice, and from him we learned that we had di rected our paper to the wrong office, it should nave been directed to the J'jvho, at "Crawfordville, Ga.," and not to Oglethorpe, but in putting it in type the last time, It was set up "Crawford," and the paper was seut; to Crawford uutil this week, we re-1 ceived a letter from the postmaster at j Crawford, informing us that there1 was no \Echo at that place, and sug-, mxiMncr thftt r?erhaDS we intended to> uo. auu sou antl the Echo coming. We send it to "Crawfordville, Ga." We now send it to "Crawfordville, Ga.," with the hope of better success. Friend Gantt, you ought to chauge the name of that paper. There isn't j <t deputy sheriff in the State of South Carolina or in the commonwealth of Georgia who could find the liO(jle-\ ihorpe Echo." We have given the1 editor and the paper several good no-1 tices, buc they have all been wasted,: fts our paper has heretofore been sent; to the wrong ofHee, and the notices were never read by the eyes for whom they were intended. Trial Justice Court. During the past week detective John B. Hubbard has made things quite lively about town, and has called down the imprecations and anathemas of many of tlie negroes and colored ]>eople about town, for the arrests; which hare been made, it is also, said that before Hubbard leaves town he will have eouie white men about! the village in. the meshes of the law. them be white or black we hope; that he will "let no guilty man es cape," and especially no guilty white J man. The arrests so far have been; made under charge of burglary in ta-l king Parker & Perrin's safe from their | store and in attempting to break thej same open to rifle it of its treasure, as follows with warrants issued by Trial Justice Hughes: Shefton Freeman, is not a free man, he si now in jail in default|of bail. He knew too much about Parker & Per rin's safe. Where ignorance is bliss,! 'tis folly to be wise. William McCaw, assistant town| tnarshall, released by D. B. Smith,! Calvin Grant, and William Evans, be-J coming his bondsmen. Alfred EHisou, chief of police, was requested to explain how a certain crow bar, said to belong to him, was found in Parker & Perriu's next morn ing* after the robbery. Cooke will investigate the matter at Court. .Re leased. K. E. Hill aud L. H. Kussell, bondsmen. Harry Calhoun, in default of bail, takes his meals at the Guffin House. George Speer didn't like to bother his friends with signing his bond. He is now in the lock-up, a man of trouble and acquainted with grief. W. A. Palmer, white, was arrested at Hodges yesterday because of his knowledge of the hours of the dayj , by reference to the face of G lymph's chronometer. Willis Patterson is iu jail. He will ex plain how he came by the pork when i)i8 Honor Judge Cooke arrives. Trial j Justice Rogers furnished him a ticket of admission to tlieGutfin House. It is said among them that William McCaw does not know why he was arrested. He will probably not go to the Centennial. As far as we know the negroes and colored people think these arrests of i their most respectable brethren as a ! great outrage upon the dignity of our ruler?, antl M Hubbard was to go be fore a nominating convention for of fice he couldn't get a single vote. Tbe Sirlada Rifles. A Rifle Club of 120 members by the name of Saluda Rifles was organized at Hodges' Depot on Saturday last, the loth inst, by the citizens of Hodges', Cokeabuiy and surrounding eoun ty. Tlie officers are: X'aptain?M G Zeigler. Lieutenants?G. M. Hodges, A. B. Ellis, R. H. Hughes. Sergeants?J. F. Hodges, Win. Ri ley, J. D. Pace, \V. P. Mcllwaine, Ed win D. Connor. Corporals?B. D. Glymph, G. L.. Dantzler, J P Anderson, Boswell Graham, Henry Arnold. Surgeons?Dr. F. F. Gary, Dr. G. L. Connor, Dr. M. C. Hi vers, Dr. G. C. Finley. Chaplains?Revs. R. D. Smart, and W. It. Buchanan. Advisory Board?B. Z. Herndon, Chairman; Andrew Stephenson, F. A. Connor. J. X. Cochran, Hobfc. Dunn, H. E. urayden, J. H. Vance, A. .0. Watson, J. A. Loniax, J. R. Jones, C. Ij. Smith, W.'L. Hodtjes, J. T. J lardy, F. M. Uodbold, W. Z. Mc (ibee, W. A. Moore, J. F. Treutland, J. Frank Hodges, (i. Whit. Connor, William Moore, ltobt. Buchanan, George Jones, J3. C. Hart, L. 1). Con nor. Umpire Target Practice?J. M. Moseley, M. A. Cason, J. M. Miller, J. M. Calvert. A Worthy Black Man. James R. Wharton, a black man, need 72 years, called at our office on Monday last to get a copy of the Press *and Banner, and from him we learn that he bought his freedom some forty years ago from James C. Wharton of tins uounty. nis wue men oeiougeu to John Johnson who about 1830 left this county for Alabama, and carried his wife and children with him. Mr. \Vbarton not being willing that they should be separated allowed James to buy his freedom for SoOO, he paying one-half cash, money which lie had saved while be was a slave. The bal ance he paid in twelve months. When he was about to start West in search of hU wife who had been gone some two years, owing to the laws in reference to free person* of color, hi? friends advised him not to go, and after remainiug single for ten years lie married agaiu. He has a good farm and all necessary stock for a small farm, and since the war he has given a lien but one year for provisions. We are sorry that there are not more ? -r * I ? / ? ..t? ... I. /, ?mit; men ui uie farm as well as James It. Wharton. Wharton is a member of the church and an honest mau who pays all his debts. + 4^ + Easter Sunday. Sunday was Easter Day, and a large congregation iolned in the inspiring services of the occasion at Trinity church. The church was beautifully! decorated, and festoons and wreaths of: flowers and evergreens, with crowns and crosses, and other appropriate em blems formed the holidav attire of the chureh-buiidiug ou thfs the joyous festival of the Resurrection. The church music and the other services partook of the same inspiring charac ter, arid whilst the choir sung with great "effect the beautiful anthems ap propriate to the day, the sermons of the Rector were characterized by more than usual earnestness and force. Jn the morning Mr. Kershaw preach ed from 1 Corinthians, xv: 10, and his Kerinon furnished a forcible exposition of the great truths of the Resurrection, as forming the only basis of Christian life and the only foundation of Chris tian hope. The afternoon sermoi preached before a large congregation from enforced the great doctrines of man's sinfulness, and estrangement from God, and the necessity of reconciliation and atone ment tnrough the great sacrifice of Christ. "All hail the power ?of Jesus name" was the closing anthem which was finely rendered by the choir. Cor... J. T. Robertson sold the re mainder of the assigned merchandise of Messis. DuPre, Gatnbrell & Co., on Friday last, at auction, for fair prices, [ Let us Publish a History of Abbe ville County. An esteemed citizen has promise to give us some historical facts in re; erence to the early settlement of th Savannah sido of the County, whic will no doubt be read with great intei [ est. As there has never been ail)' hie I tory of Abbeville County publishe I we think the centennial year a goo | time to put all historical matters o ; record, and any oue in possession c : matters of interest will confer a favt j on the County by hauding them to th | Presa and Banner for publication. J the old people of each portion of th county would contribute somethiu we would be enabled to publish an iu teresting history of our county, an possibly at a future day we may pul lish it in dook lorm, tnat tne nisior of our county and the personal remit iscences of our old people might nevt he lost. Facts and circumstances r( lating to the lives of our old and hoi: ored citizens would be treasured b the present and future generations. The Reminiscences of Abbeville b a former resident are, as far as w know, remarkably correct and ar read with much interest. Let every one contribute some thin by putting on record the facts tha may be known to each. tf The Dorn Gold Mine. Mr. Wm. B. Dorn, our fainoua gol mine man, was in town on last weel; and speaks hopefully of the ne> veins of the precious ore which hav been brought to light. The ore is ric butjhe thinks that the main vein i yet to be discovered. With prope machinery, the ore already taken u "'>?M ho tn viplrt riflh results. W/U I V* w " v W J - - ? The old mine was opened in 1841 and its productiveness may be judge from the fact that its yield in 18o2 wa nearly $200,000. Mr. *Dorn has prom ised us some interesting facts in it past history as well as some informa tioa as to the present gold minin; prospects. In confimation of what wesaid witl regard to the high integrity of Di Hearst as shown iu the sale of th mine, Mr. Dorn says that before th titles were made, Dr. Hearst informei him that he had been applied to b parties who wanted to purchase at price somewhat equal to the enhance* value of the land since the discover; of the mine, but that he told then that he would not for all the lands ii Abbeville county refuse to carry ou the contract with Mr. Dorn. Her was a man of whom Abbeville migh well be proud. In His Old Quarters. Jerry Coleman was by the Ruprem Court in Columbia refused a new tria for the murder of Adam Hackett, an< Guffin brought him back on Frida; last and lodged him in his old cell ii the jail at Abbeville, in full view o the scaffold upon which he saw Banks his fellow-prisoner some two }*ear ago, suffer the extreme penalty of th< law for an offence similar to the oiv of which he now* stands convicted If Shakspeare Find* tongues In trees, books in the run ning brooks. Sermons in stones, and good in everything,1 may not Jerry finds something in tin scaffold which stands before his eye as a silent and constant reminder o the doom which, in all probability Hiui at uu 1V?J . Easter Monday Elections. At a meeting of the congregation o Trinity church on Easter Monday, tin following officers were elected for tin ensuing year: Wardens?W. H. Parker and B. S Barn well. Vestry?Arwistead Burt, J. T. Ro bertson, W. A. Lee, Hugh Wilson anc D. B. Smith. Delegates to the Convention?Arm istead Burt, VV. H. Parker, B. S. Barn well and Hugh Wileou. I)elegates to Convocation?W. H Parker aud W. A~ Lee. Armistoad Burt was re-elected chair ruan of Vestry and J. T. Robertson Secretary and'Treasurer. Led in a Way They Knew Not, and in Paths in which They had not Been. The Royal Arch Masons at Cokes bury had a high old time one day week before last, and by a dispensa tion from the Grand High Priest held a meeting extraordinary, when the chapter degrees were conferred on brethren Arnold, George L. Dantzler John Gilkerson, George Reid, Rev R. D. Smart and Rev. Mauniuj Brown. M. E. Grand King DuPre'and Com panions Revs. Clark and Wightmai were present from Abbeville, and as sisted at the interesting ceremonies o We had the pleasure of receiving i call on Monday from Col. John It. R Pope, of Greenville, who is now on f visit with his family to relatives^ ir Abbeville. Col. Pope has for severa years been connected with the press o the State as the correspondent and as sociate editor of various journals. H< is a gentleman of culture and intelli gence, and wields a vigorous ant graceful pen. Demorest Magazine.?We l?av< received the March number of thii beautiful magazine, accompanied bj the superb chromo premium. W< years ago had the pleasure of monthly visits from this handsome fashioi magazine, and if the proprietor nov means to send it to us we shall b< shall be pleased. This is one of th< very best magazines published. Truth Stranger than Fiction ?In another column we present ai exceedingly interesting account of tin TT 1 ?1 I.>?. A KKn neuucnuna, wuu uuvc nvcu ui nuvt ville. Every one should read an< learn something of these persons win were so well known to our peopli many years ago. The story is a woij derful one indeed, and in it as in eve ry other article which he writes, th< ex-Abbevilliau wields a graphic pen The Long Cane Grange is going in' to competition at the next fcair wid a givat deal of interest and will hav< all manner of Held crops on exhibj tion. Thep propose to ehow thei stock of every description and invit| others to come forward with thei/ horses, mules, oxen, &c., &c. Tin: annual sale of papers and peri odicals belonging to the Abbevilli Literary Society cameofF on Thursday .ast at Parker & I'errin's store, am as the attendance was small au< money scarce, the va'lous articles wer sold at low rates. major Auurev Small was the auctioneer. Passing Away.?During the pas week Miss l'olly Ann Wilson and he brother Mr. Charles Hervey Wilsoi died at their residence about thre miles from the village, aged abou fifty years. They were buried at Lonj Cane. Rev. Mr. Pratt preached tli< funeral sermons. Stbayed.?We learn that Maste Julius Ligon ran away from his fath er, Mr. J. H. Ligon, of Lebanon, or Thursday last. The dewberry JlcraU will please take care of him if hi * n?T-I. conies mat way. jwBwipnuu? was a good little boy when he left. Godey's Lady's Book, the pretti est and best ladies magazine in tlx world is here for May. Every lad^ should take it. Bend $3.1# to L. A Godey, Philadelphia, or if you are i subscriber call at this office and get i at a reduced price. Our neighbor of the Ninety-Si: Herald says we missed it as to win edited that paper. Well, then, broth er Eiseman, who does edit it? Cai the editor keep the best hotel In Amer ica? Charles B. Reynolds, at Whit< Hall, one of the three white mer composing the late Badical pow-wov at Abbeville, has renounced his faitl in what he terms "the corrupt crew,' and says he is no longer witn them.' Swing lira on a gate i?. a favorit* amusement at Abbeville, which bring: to miud the lines about "Nine Jitth Indians," &c., &c. Every subscriber of the Frets an< Banner should read the .speech o Governor Chamberlain to be found ii another column. Notable Persons. r- MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE IN e HIGH LIFE. J- The Last Man who Lost Ills Life in the Revolution. If REMINISCENCES OF ABBEVILLE >r BY AN EX-ABBEVILLIAN of e [f e THE HENDERSONS. l~ e e A u OVER FORTY YEARS. Any reminiscences ui mine ui ,vu beville of old would be grossly imper fect and partial, that omitted" tlie two Hendersons, Francis senior and Fran cis junior?father and son. My ac count of the former is, that he was born in Scotland, and made his way to London when a young man, whether with or without family prestigel know not. He became, however, an officer in the Bank of England, and must have occupied a fine social position to have met there, on a visit to her rela tives, the beautiful, accomplished and wealthy Miss Laurens, of Charleston, S. C. She was the only child and heir of Col. John Laurens, who fell (a historical fact,) in a skirmish in South Carolina at the close of the rev olutionary war. Col. John was the only surviving child and heir of his father, Col. Henry Laurens, and was the aid and special friend of Gen. Washing Tho r>Mpr Laurens durintr the Colonial government obtained from the Crown a large and select grant of land on the Reedy Branches, which must have embraced twenty thousand acres, as my understanding of it was, that in going from Abbeville to Edge field you entered it a few hundred yards below Cedar Spring Church, and left it near John Ruff's the best body of land in the District. The estate also embraced nearly, if not quite, all of the Charleston Neck, above Boundary street, seventy years ago, with perhaps some houses in the city. The property whs left in trust, or as better understood, was "entailed j property." If slaves had ever been a I part of the estate they had passed out. i The marriage afterwards referred to d was one of those concordant uiscon y cordancies, anomalies, or freaks of ii Venus that occur once in a while, and i) I never think of it without being re t minded of the remark of the eccen e trie Judge Dooly, of Georgia, who t once said, that "if there were any two things God did not foreknow, they were, whoa woman would mar ry, and what would be the verdict of a petty jury in Georgia." This remark e fell out just after a petty jury had ren 1; dered a verdict of manslaughter for j I stealing a hatchet. I have heard fur y I ther that the former was impressed l j upon him by the action many years f before of a pretty and sensible girl i, "kicking" the speaker, and taking in s stead a stupid vagabond. However, e I mean to cast no personal reflections e upon Francis, sr., except upon his per . sonal appearance. He was certainly the ugliest man in Abbeville or else . where, live feet four inches high, shaped like a barrel, with nota feature I to plead in extenuation. Jtie was noi ?i even intelligent in general or special si ly; and if he was a business man lie f jhad the poorest way of showing it in i his own transactions; if he had ever known much, lie had forgotten it in less time than any man I ever knew. He had but little confidence in any body and less in himself. He was a j lawyer's client, and never moved with out him; wouldn't sign a receipt for ten cents without the inspection and advice of his attorney. He was the ! most polite man ever seen, and it was j a sore inlliction to be in close and con i stant proximity to liim. Meeting him in the morning you had to shake I hands and tell him how you were, and I at every encounter during the same | day you had to stop and teli him how you were "-by this time." I never knew but one to get rid of him, (and I only a deduction,) and that was young Adolphus Williams, who boarded in the same house, and who thought liisj afflictions beyond any other, as he had to shake hands and explain at every! roeal. On one occasion he replied:! "Mr. Henderson, I thank you tor your solicitude, aud am happy to inform you that I am in excellent health, and It" you will take it forgranted until fur ' the r notified, I promise to report the " slightest change to the contrary." ' He esc.iped afterwards with three tips ( I of the braver each day. 1 But the p.Mnt to reach is, that Miss Laurens, >vi(b fortune, fameand rank ! at her feet, waved them off and mar ?j ried little a.efly Frank Henderson. This must have occurred about the " year 1800. Thev l?ved together about 1 a year, during" which time young ' Frank was born. TI suppose he was ' born in Loudon and it was so under stood in Abbeville, as I several times heard him say his vote \?as challeng i ed at Cedar Springs in '30 or '32 for . evid^ce that he was "civilized."J >1 Thp inishaiid and wife soeftt the sec t end year or a part of it, in Faris, and i; quarrelled and filed bills and cross f j bills for divorce, with evidences that -1 looked ugly for both. I do not 1 whether the battle was in Engla.nd, - France or South Carolina; no disso 11 lution of the marriage tie wasgrauted, but the child was awarded to the fath er, and also the trusteeship of 2 the estate, the wife being allowed an * annuity of $1800, and the balance of income divided between father and * son. My understanding is, that the ' father placed his son in Scotland with 1 his relatives and came himself to the [ United States to manage the estate, s making his residence at Newport, 3 It. I., where he again married and raised a family, spending the winter . in Charleston ana Abbeville, leasing i and renting the property. The wife remained in England and was livingl at an advnnced age 20 or 28 years ago. i Frank, junior, was graduated at Edin burg College and afterwards went through and graduated also at one of, the first German colleges, and travel-' ) ed a year or two. He then came to^ &J Charleston and read law with Jas. L. Pettigrew, or another, and was ad mitted after a most brilliant examina tion and the highest hopes entertain ed of him. (This I lety'ied fr0m the lipsof one who studied and was admit ted with him.) But just at that seem iugly propitious period, he learned of the existence of his mother, whom he >upposed had died at his hirth, and vith the message there came too much or him; his proud heart broke, and hough caring not for the bowl he nought refuge iu it from thence un ^il the grave closed over him. When I first saw him in 1834 he appeared to be between 30 and 35 years of age, andi had reached his quart per day; in 1840 he could "run" it, and to the end! there was no difficulty in disposing of] it. He made Abbeville his home and never left it but three times that I re member?twice he spent the summers at Flat Rock, X. C., and about 1830 he ?TTio foflinr wtio | Weill IU U OOlUli^lwiU xiio iwi,iiv? ? ? trying to get reimbursed for a large ejsurn expended by tlie elder Laurens in aid of the first "rebellion," and sup posed his presence would aid it. Du ring his stay he was the guest of Pres ident Jackson at the White House. Frank, jr., boarded with the McLaren family, (sis also his father during his stay,) and was as regular in his habits as David Lewis Wardlaw, but they were unfortunately, not so well order ed. He arose at 9 o'clock A. M., took a cup of strong coffee, a hot roll and butter, boiled Mackerel, ham and eggs or steak, (he caied not for chicken.) Then he would sit or. walk until 11 o'clock A. M.f and then took his seat near a table, and after having filled a /glass half with spirits and half with water (never used sugar) he would read and sip an hour and repeat, which! carried him to dinner time, when hej would go in on nearly a bee-line and make a hearty meal; then at 4 o'clock i P. M. he would read and repeat the morning potations until supper, eat-/ * " ? 1 " n ft or nri'uinff ciinnpr lllg ogam , men ?.v?. e>* '"b w?rr~ y one hour, he would read and ruiV down a pint by bed time, which would leave him in a condition requiring a little aid (alwayH at hand among the well-paid servants,) in getting rid of ! his bonis, &c. This statement ex plains hira from 1834 to about 1842. Afterwards he weakened rapidly and required aid at the end of day sittings, ana on the "quarter stretch" he had to read and drink mostly in bed. He went under in 1847. How a man could drink so much, so persistently, and so long, is a puzzle. My explana tion is this: he in the first place inher I ited a perfect physical development^ J strengthened by the school and college discipline in Europe, and he was free I from all irregularities or habits taxing' ; the system until perhaps 27 years of age with the basis of a good constitu tion established; again he always ate his meals and slept; aud drank only^ the purest spirits, and never before breakfast 011 au empty stomach. He usually purchased by the bottle or demijohn, and whoever had the best "Otard" or "Dupuy" found a good customer* He drank mostly in his room, but sometimes with Robert Cochran whom he liked, and his seat was at a table in the back room. He was polite and courteous and ap piwauuauii; iui ?% jn i/|;vi viujuuj, uub accessible only to a few. I remember to have heard at the time of his being accosted on his way into Cochran's by an impertinent fellow who mistook him, from his heat dress and having seen him standing iti a tailor shop, for a "jour," and addressed him as such, which cost him a horizontal position and a bleeding head from a lance wood cane. He always dressed in fine taste, of the finest material, amL had 110 use for cotton. He would inl his better days have passed for hand-, some, but for his projecting eye-ballsy the most so I ever witnessed. Not-y withstanding his habits he kept up^ with the current literature of the day,; and was as nearly an Encyclopedia off walking library as ever came within] my reach. He was familiar with all! the great authors and their writings, except Pollock, whose "Course of ! Time" he had never read throuch. nor found any others who had. He had visited all the great cities and points in Europe, and had seen, or was fa miliar with, all the potentates, politics and leaders of the day in Europe. He knew but little on this side of the water, and cared less. His Araericau politics were a friend to Jaclvton. He took a fancy to me early as a boy, and I to him as a man, and his room was open to me at any hour. I avail ed myself of him often, and am in debted to him formany facts and ex planations I might not have known without him. He was one of the finest readers I ever listened to. On one occasion I found him reading Itichard III and he repeated some passages which may be excelled, but how I cannot imagine. At other times he read selected Psalms iu a manner that seemed to give a meaning far more reaching than my own to me. He was a man of fine moral and religious sentiment, without the practice, as understood by rule or prescription. No one had a higher respect for the clergy and those who followed in sin cerity their teachings. He seemed to be a fated man under a cloud and car ried onward by a power and circum stances beyond his control. And may it not be true that, Who made the heart 'tis He alone Decidedly can try uk, He knows each chord?its various tone, Each spring its various bias: Then at its balance let's be mute, \Vc rtfcver can adjust It; What's done we partly may compute, But Jcnow not what's renittetL * * * Note [by the Editor. ? Henry Laurens was President of the Conti nental Congress, and a merchant of Charleston and one of the most dis tinguished citizens of South Carolina, and being sent by the Revolutionary authorities on amission to Holland was captured on the high seas by the Bris isli and was required to spend a long time (four years) in the Tower of Lon don , where he wrote his famousjournal. Before the .Revolutionary war broke out, lie had sent his son John Laurens to London to complete his educa tion. His father, Henry Laurens, had a partner in business in London by the name of Manuing, with whom i his son John lived whilst in London. ! An intimacy grew up between John 'and the daughter of Mr. Manning, which resulted in his marrying Tier, and as fame reports it, he never saw 1118 WIIC UilCi lUC iUUUia^g tvivutuuj, but embarked that very day for Paris, where he was staying when the Rev olutionary war broke out. As his father was being carried a captive to the Tower of London, John passed him at sea on his way to Join the rebel army* He arrived and became an "aid cle camp" of Washington, and afterwards Lieutenant Colonel of Lee's Legion, after the resignation of Light Horse Harry, and in endeavor ing to check a foraging party on tli? Cumbahee river in this State was killed?the very lout man who fell in the Revolutionary war; and it has always been said that lie sought his death. He was accomplished and gal lant and for him our neighboring County, "Laurens," was named. In the mean time, the wife he had left, before she doffed the bridal attire, was delivered of a daughter, Frances Eleanor Laurens, who had a career as remarkable as any lady i ^>f-in romance or story. We will not puiiLuh ail we have heard of hef, but] ife-eatmecta with our-aubjcct, ano-^ive j she fell heir, during her life, to the famous Laurens Lands in Ab-j beville County, under the will of lierj distinguished " grandfather, Henry! Laurens, of which Dr. Iiamsay, the historian, was executor. She married one Francis Hender son, a Scotchman, then living in Lon don, and said to have been a clerk in the JJank of England. They had one son, i?rancis Henderson, junior. The marriage was unhappy. We have heard jn.ich of one Sir Harry Vane Temple in this connection, but this deponent knows nothing of his own knowledge and therefore forbears to state any more. Suffice it to say that Fraucis Henderson, senior,,and his wife Frances Eleanor were divorced in London and by the articles of^separa tion, the quondam nnsDana .rrancis /Henderson, had securcd to him dur Ying his roifc^s life, the usufruct of the "aurens lands in Abbeville County and the Hampstead marches near harleston. Toe life of Mrs. Hender son was much prolonged?she lived to quite an old age?said to be near a hundred?and died within the last ew years. In Order to look after ese lands and collect his rents, Mr. enderson came to Abbeville and ived with a Scotchman then here, olin McLaren. Afterwards lie had is son Francis Henderson, junior, ith him, and these are the people of hom our friend, the ex-Abbevillian, writes t?o pleasantly. The Arrest of Foster Blodgett. ?11 <i,:? I X* U31UI J>iuugeit ? U5 uucaicu m tmo /city Sunday morning and returned to Atlanta, under arrest, Sunday night. Blodgett fled the State in November, 1871, and lias not been in Georgia since. He has been living most of the time in Newberry, South Caroli na, but, so far as we can learn, no ef fort has been made to bring him back to Georgia. There are no less than Ave indictments pending ngainst him in Fulton Superior Court: two for embezzlement; one for felony; one for cheating and swindling, and one for larceny after a trust delegated. These indictments were found in 1872, and since that time Blodgett has been living within easy reach of the Courts of Georgia. In addition to these pro ceedings on the criminal side of the fVuivt o nlvll enit wriu hrnmrlif hw fit. VMSllt Vf v* ? mm.v 'J ? ? I tachment against lilodgctt to make him refund nfty thousand dollars that lie had unlawfully taken from tWe State. Blodgett seems to fear no evil, says he has Governor Conley's pardon in his pocket, and that he has been willing to return to Georgia at any time aurmg me past lour years. n>r ourselves, we do not think that lilod feett lias anything to fear. We have always believed, and believe now, that! 'there are prominent Democrats in Georgia interested in screening him from trial and punishment.?Chroni cle and Sentinel. He has been released on bail. The Presidents Salary. A bill has passed both Houses of Congress, reducing the Presidents sal ary from $50,000 to 25,000, to take ef fect at the commencement of the next term It is not subject to the constitu tional objection which applied to the former bill raising the Presidents sal ary, a hundred per cent during the term. It is a measure which has not met the concurrence of both parties, and it remains to be seen whether the i President will approve the bill. A. T. Stewart. A Sketch of the Career of the Dead merchant Frincc. . A. T. Stewart the merchant prince {of New York died at his residence in xhat city on the 10th inst from inilam 'ination of the bowels. Alexauder Turney Stewart was born in the neighborhood of Belfast, Ireland, about 1803, was educated at rinity College, Dublin, and came to New York in 1823, at the age of twen ty. He taught school for a short time, and then opened a small dry goods store on the west side of Broadway, opposite the Park. At that time John Jacob Astor was already worth mil lions, while Cornelius Vanberbilt, a? Captain for Thomas Gibbons, had been some six years in the steamboat busi ness. Stewart was the last of the three to entor the race for wealth, but he had over his two competitors the HtlVUllUl^U Ui U uuncgi; cuuvuhuu. His wonderful executive and adminis trative talent, combined with excep tional commercial sagacity aud sleep less activity, soon placed him at the head of the dry goods trade in New York. In 1848 he built the large mar Tble store at Broadway and Chambers street, on the side of the "Washing ton Hotel," which will be remember ed by old New Yorkers as a fashiona ble resort some forty years ago, where the young bloods of the day used to meet, drink, talk, smoke, dine and wine> and which in fact served all the purposes of a club, before those useful institutions came in vogue in Gotham. ] Stewart's dry goods palace, as it was called, was the marvel of the time, it acted as an advertisement through ?ie length and breadth of the land. From 1848 his business grew rapidly, And assumed the most colossal pro portions. In some branches of the /business he had almost a monopoly. [Buying in large quantities, and al 'ways for cash, nc enjoyed great advan tages in his foNMgn purchases, and for a long time the English, French and Herman Manufacturers made to him concessions which no other American .house could obtain. He foresaw and prepared for the uptown moveraeut by buying tl>e land bounded by Niutn and Tenth streets, Broadway and Fourth avenue, On these lots, cover ing an area of about two and one-quar ter acres, he erected the six-story iron building which now occupies it. The j total investment, land and buildings, may be roughly estimated at $2,750, 000. To this establishment, in 1862, Mr. Stewart removed his retail busi ness, and from that time the down town store was devoted entirely to wholesale trade. Stewart's Tenth street store is the largest establishment of the kind in X. ,J ml {,. ftf <hn itiu wuriu. xncie ia iiuunuh v? kuv sort iu London or Paris which at all approaches it. There are eight floors? two below and six above ground, each covering an area of two and one quar ter acres?thus making a total of eighteen acres, devoted to retail dry goods purposes. It reouires -520 horse power to heat the building, run the el evators, and work the sewing ma chines, which are placed in a row on the fourth floor. There are about two thousand employees under pay. The disbursements for running expenses are over a million of dollars per an num. The wholesale and retail estab lishments combined have sold as high as $50,000,000 in one year. At pres ent they probably run in the neigh borhood of 33,000,000 per annum. During a successful business career of fifty years Mr. Stewart has been a constant buyer ot real estate in New York City, Lis holdings of real estate property being only surpassed by those of the Astor family. Previous to the death of the late Win. B. Astor, in the fall of 1875, A. T. Stewart was the second largest holder of New York City property. He owned the Grand Union, the largest summer hotel at Saratoga. Hebuiltupa city of his own on Long Island, "known as Gar don City, aud connccted it with New York by a railroad running to Hun ter's Point Ferry, Ea9t River. This Garden City was one of his pet schemes; it is increasing in size and importance every day. At Glenham, near Fishkili, lie owned large mill properties, which he was about to im prove and develop on an enormous scale, for general manufacturing pur poses. He had conceived the ictea of substituting domestic fabrics for a large line of foreign goods now neces sarily imported, and expected to be enabled to ofFer to the American pub lic a cheaper, better and more endur ing American fabric than any im ported article of the same description now sold in this market. We will not undertake to gi"e the current rumors nnncprTiino- Mr. Stewart's vast wealth. I suffice it to say that Cornelius Vander i bilt's wealth is estimated at from $75, 000,COO to $80,000,000, and Mr. Stewart is said to have been the richer man of the two. We very much doubt if there are to day ten other men in the world who could match *him in wealth. Mr. Stewart was a liberal patron of the fino arts. His picture gallery is one of the finest in America. His latest acquisition was the famous new painting of Meissonier, called the "Charge des Cuirassiers." represent ingabody of cavalry charging past Napoleon and his staff, who recognize the involuntary burst of enthusiasm from the men. The pai'nting is the largest that has been sent from the studio of this artist. It cost in France $00,000 gold, and with duties, expens es, gold premium, &c., <tc., cost Mr. Stewart $75,000. Meissonier looks up on this picture?"1807," as he styles it ?as his chie/ tVccuvrc. The great merchant died childless, and until the provisions of his will are j i made Known, mere win ue uiuuu sim ulation as to how he has disposed of his enormous fortune. He was not a man that inspired affec tion. The cold and stern though in flexibly just traits of his character, which helped to make him rich*, also made him feared and disliked. His business principles were sound and simple?to have but one price, and that as low as he thought ,he could af ford to sell his goods; to make no mis representation in regard to goods; to deal with all customers alike; to ad vertise liberally and constantly; and to buy only for cash. He has been the giver of sotne munificent charities, as when lie sent a ship load of provisions costing $30,000 to the sufferers by the Irish Famine of 1847, or as when he gave $100,000 to the Chicago Fire Re lief Fund. Yet, in his private rela tions, Mr. Stewart was not accounted a kind man. He never held any pub lic nosition. President Grant, it will be remembered, wanted to make liim secretary of the treasury; but his bu siness relations as an importer disqual ified him for the place under existing laws, and Congress refused to pass a special act in his favor. The ramifica tions of his trade were so enormous and far-reaching that It would be hard to name a man whose death would have caused a greater sensation throughout the Western Hemisphere than that of A. T. Stewart. By the will of Stewart, with the exception of a bequest of $1,00U,000 to Judge Hilton and various pecuniary legacies amounting pruuuui^ lu ib omit- | I lar sum, the whole property is left to I Mrs. Stewart, to be controlled and dis | posed of as she thinks proper. I About Your Tulsr.?Every per ison should know how to ascertain the (state of the pulse in health ; then, by [ comparing it with what it is when he is ailing, he may have some idea of the urgency of his case. Parents should know the healthy pulse of his child, since now and then a person is "* - 1: - -1 a r> fo af Dorn wiin a peuuuuii.y pulse, ami the very case in hand ruay be of such peculiarty. An infants pnlse is 140; a child of 7 about SO, and faom 20 to GO it Is 70 beats to the min ute, declining to 00 at four score. A healthful grown person beats 70 times in a minute^ declining to 00 at four score. At 00 if the pulse always exceeds 70 there i3 a disease; the machine working itself out; there Is a fever or inflammation somewhere, and the bntly Is feeding on itself, as in consumption when the pulse is quick. The two New York stores of A. T. Stewart were closed only during the week. The busines will be carried on as before. THE LIGHT OF AN OLD JOB. Burglary, Pcrjnry and Most Villain ous Conspiracy. Washington, April. 9.?The sto ry of the safe burglary conspir acy, which, taken altogether, is probably one of the most remarkable in the annals of crime, is soon to be laid before the public in all its details. The confessions of Whitely and Net tleship, two of the principal agents employed by the original conspirators, fastens the toil3around Babcock and Harrington, arid despite the almost superhuman exertions which will be made by the District King to save them, their doom is certainly sealed. But will these two miscreants have to expiate the sins of the others and perhaps guiltier men who stood behind them? This is the inquiry thai ad dresses nsen iuuveij jhuh uv ., the story as it lias now been unfolded tl bytwooftne principal actors. It is e so plain that neither of them could J c possibly have any motive to originate a such a conspiracy. Neither is it like- h, ly that Babaock and Harrington were s alone the originators of the plot that u "NVhitelyand Nettleship undertook to [ execute. Doubtless both Harrington p aud Babcock had sufficient malice to | ^ lead them to conspire the ruin of one b or two correspondents who had shed a s flood of light on their dark and devi- f, ous ways. But is it possible that they < alone deliberately planned the de- e struction of half a score of eminent v gentlemen, whose only offence to <j them was the petitioning of Congress c for an investigation into the aflairs of t the District government. f THE STOKY OF THE PLOT, e as read in tlie light of the develop- t ments of the last few days, is as fol- 0 I/Miru . Wlipn n nnmrnittce Of Coil- f. gress began some years ago to investi gate the frauds and thefts of the Washington Improvement Ring, the influential persons concerned, whom a discovery would have ruined, stop ped at nothing to prevent it. The committee had, fortunately, help from some of the honest aud influential cit izens of Washington, chief among whom was Mr Columbus Alexander, a gentleman who has shown remarka ble pertinacity and ability in his long pursuit of the Ring. It was at Mr. Alexander's snggestion that the com mittee required the leading men of the Ring to produce the books in which the course and cost of the city im provements were set down, and who pointed out, when a set of books were produced, that these were false and that theg^nuine books were still con cealed. Thereupon it occurred to some of the lting to endeavor TO GET UID OF MR. ALEXANDER, by implicating him in what would have the appearance of a criminal act. A spy was sent to Mr. Alexander Who told him that the real books were in.a safe in the office of the district attor ney, and that if he would pay a cer tain sum of money the office could be entered, the safe broken open and the books handed over to him. Mr. Alex ander replied that he would have nothing to do with such a transaction, and this litttle plot failed. The plan of entrapping him, however, had been formed, and was not so easily abandoned. The burglars had been hired, and other preparations had beou made, and so the spy was again sent to Mr. Alexander with a simpler proposition?that on a certain night the books would be brought to him ; and it was determined by the conspir ators to post well instructed policemen in such a way as to seize Mr. Alexan der while he was in the act of accept ing the books. All the arrangements were, therefore, made for a given night. The police who usually guard ed the district attorney's office were dismissed or sent to a distance; two professional burglars kired for the pur nose by agents of the Ring, and brought down from New York, were introduced into the building, and po licemen in the confidence of the Ring were stationed outside for the double purpose of preventing interruption and of following the burglars to Mr. Alexander's house when they should have obtained the books. The safe was blown oppn, a sham set of books taken out, and with these the burglars proceeded towards Mr. Alexander's house, followed at a short distance by the policemen, ready to pounce upon Mr. Alexander at the critical moment, and to conveniently suffer the burglars to escape after having identified them. A DROLL INCIDENT happened on the way. The time was 1 o'clock at night. The burglars, car rying the sham books, had forgotten the number of Mr. Alexander's house; and after wandering past it, and when about to ring the bell of the wrong U/v annnnooil fn ill IJUMSt?) 111U puliLV j i3U^[Jugvu vv ww vigorous pursuit of theui, had actually to call them and direct them to tberight house! Arrived there they rang the bell, but in vain. Mr. Alexander, thinking little or nothing of the pro posed delivery of the books, and at any rate determined to take no notice of irregular proceedings with which lie would have nothing to do, had gone to bed at his usual hour. The bell wakened no one in the house. The burglars and the sham police were both perplexed; the area bell was rung with no better success ; and, finally, after consultatiou between the ? ?1 ? IKa u'ViaIo nnrfu UUrglUlB uuu in;iivv, nib ii uuiv |/?. decamped. The next day Washington was excited by the report that a most daring burglary had been committed and the safe blown up in District At torney Harrington's office, and all means were used to show that the persecutors of the Ring had been guil ty of this crime. But after a while THE TRUE STORY LEAKED OUT, and several of the actors in it were prosecuted ; but always nnsuccessful Jy. And no wonder, the chiefs in this conspiracy had very powerful friends, and moreover the conspiracy had been very shrewdly mauaged to conceai the chiefs from the knowledge of the subordinates in such a way that i but two confidential agents knew whoj were the real authors of the plot. Ati loof- hrtwuvor hv t.h#? nersistent efforts I of Mr. Alexander and others, Har rington, the district attorney, a par ticular friend of Shepherd and Bab cock, and an intimate at the White House, was indicted and brought to trial. The case against him had been confided to Mr. A. G. Riddle as assist ant attorney-general; and Mr. Riddle, who had received his appointment be, cause he was known to be the person al friend of some of the Ring, but who happened to be an honest and incor ruptible lawyer, was about to convict Harrington, when the public was as tounded first to see Harrington, then under trial ior ieioiiy ami a pnsuuei on bail, conspicuously INVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE, where he appeared as a welcome and favored guest, arid second, Mr. Kiddle suddenly, and for no reason, removed from his post of prosecuting attorney. Thereupon the trial broke down, but the general conviction of Harring ton's guilt was so strong that the Ring, who had used this weak young man, now found it necessary to drop him, and he drifted back to his home in Delaware and into obscurity. The prosecution, long baffled, was not dropped ; but convenient prosecuting attorneys doctored grand juries, and during last summer a sham and false lv nprannatpfl huil-crivor delavcd and frustrated the diftereut attempts to bring this scandalous crime to light. At last, it seems, an investigating com mittee of the present House has got at j tho key to the mystery, and it is to be j #? hoped that the patient efforts of Mr. Proctor Knott and his feilow-commit teemen will succed in dragging the au thors to the light and to punishment. A Centennial Document.?Mr. W. F. Herring, of this city, has in his possession an interesting document in the shape of letters, patent granted to jv| Hodgen Holmes, a citizen of Georgia, I "' on the 12th, May, 179(5 for"newhiaehi-|sr nery called the the cotton gin." This ?{ was three years after the invention ofI "j the first gin by Whitney. The docu-Li ment bears the autograph signature of P| George Washington, President; Timo- $ thy Pickering, Secretary of State, and Chas. Lee, Attorney-General. The signature of Holmes is attested by Seaborn Jones and W. Urquhart. The letters were signed by the author ities at Philadelphia iu the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and j iii ninety-six, and of the independence 'll of the United States the twentieth.? {" Chrnni<'lr and Sentinel. ' c? hi Speech of Ion. D. H. Chamberlain, n Reply to Judge It. B, Carpenter, Delegate from Edgefield, in the Re publican Convention, Thursday iTlorning, Aprilj 13, between 3 and 4 o'clock. fr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention : Frequent allusion has been made uring the sessions of this convention 3 a characteristic which I am reputed 3 possess of coAness. "While I seme imes fail to re<jognize the pictures hat are djawn of jne by others, when am pronounced a peculiarly cool ian, I sometimes feel that nothing ould be further from the truth than ! Iiat statement respecting me. But J ! m happy to say that as I stand here anight in the midst of my old Re r\f Sismtli flnrnlinn I UW1IUUI1 1 1 JtJIU.l v? , !ie touch of wJiose elbow I have nev r failed to feel since 1SU8, I feel as ool and as calm as a May morning, nd as ready to meet the charges that ave been brought against me, as I hall be to meet the sweet kisses of ny wife and children this morning. Immense applause.] It has been ironounced here that the issue is of iarty fealty. The charge is brought iy one whose lips ought forever to be ealed against the charge of parly salty against any man that lives in south Carolina. If I had been charg d by my good friend from Reaufort, /ho nominated rae, with want of li elity to the Republican party, I ould have bowed with humility to he hand of chastisement of even my riends in whose eyes I now look, be ause the record of those men shows hat no matter what difference of pinion there may.be, they have still Dught within the lines of the Repub ican party and uuder the banner of qual rights to all men. [Appiause.] I am reminded to-night of the only ther occasion when I have had the ?leasure of measuring swords with lim who now assails me. I remem er that in 1870, when the Republican lartywas assailed, when the strong j nd vigorous hand was clutched at the hroat of the Repulican party, I was omtnissioned by the Republican par y to go to Chester, in this State, and no if T with mv frinrwla antiln tin oose the dcathgr'.p which he had fus- [] ened upon it. I went to Chester I, n act there, as the chosen leader of the fi )emocracy of Sonth Carolina, cover- " ng with words that have never yet j oiled my lips, and with invective and n pithets which no reporter has ever [j et been skillful enough to take down ; a overing, I say, the Republican party ft rtth reproaches and curses too deep.to ? e repeated here; I say I found there t, erforming that'task for the Republi- p an party of South Carolina the gen- ? leman who now comes into a Repub ican|couvention of South Carolina for lie firdt time in his life and calls me to Jj ccount for my party fealty. There ti re other incidents which should have ? iught the gentleman from Edgefield jj a make his attack upon me at anoth- p r than party fealty. He went *' hrough the Democratic campaign of 870, and what was the result of that i ampaign ? The Republican party n numphed ever all its enemies, out j; long the track of those upper coun- r ries. Was it not so, gentlemen from t' rork, and Chester, and Lancaster, ? nd Fairfield, and Union, and Spar- i< xnburg, that the gentleman from <l ]dgefleld sowed in that campaign ? !iose dragon teeth that sprang up in- ? ) the armed and masked Ku Klux at r< ight? I For eight long months succeeding that tmpaign the torpid arm of the govern-11! lent waited to bring help to the people f, hose cabins lighted up the heavens at tl lldniglit and whoso cold bodies weltered I 11 the earth beneath the stab and bullet f f the Ku Klux. When at last relief imo. and when in this very building the v orpetrators of these great wrongs at last {] tood face to facc with justice, it was mv c rividege and honor to appear in behafl' ? f the government in the prosecution of $ lesc great criminals against the civiliza- t on that had sprung up from the teach- S igs of the genticman from Edgefield * nd those who were with him in that fimpaign. I represented the govern- ], icnt and I well remember that when in t he midst of one of the most critical tri- I Is, the first that was to establish the J ucstion whether we could prove enough :> bring those red handed asasins to jus- < ice, among the witnesses called from t far, brought here to give testimony that ? hould save from punishment the Ku : r* !- TI?? Tj D Am/1 L Liu\, IS LI 1U iiuu. x\. X>. v.-ui j/vjiiuji iXitu ^ ere, fellow-Republicans, hero in South o 'arolina, is the record of tlie man who n ills us to-night that if wo trust those J" ;ho have never yet betrayed us, if wo do , ot follow lii.s teachings, desert our old s riends and leadors, God help us. God o clp us, fellow-Republicans, God help us, fi r wo aro not yet sufficiently grown to ? lanhood and the estate of man to bo able ? 3 understand that nothing but motives ji rhich have littlo to ilo with the prosper!- n y of the Republican party animate the roast of him who uttors such teachings 'J ere to-night. K Party fealty! Oh, I have sometimes p )lt that I was the veriest of slaves on the jl ice of tho earth. I liavo sometimes felt J.! Iiat if physical fetters M'ere upon mo, be- tl nuse 1 was brought up at my father's a neo and tcachor's siuo to love those p rinciples which I Jiave worn until tney 1 soniecl to bo fetters and great bonds of ? rinciples that bound mo forever to the tl Republican party. I have feared and h lirunk from the effects of long usage and ? evotion to party from asserting my lanhood even above the dictates of any arthly party. Yet I wear these fetters h s my other "Republican friends who have c >ny been in the party do wear them still, eoauso we love them ; because, neither J 1 1808, nor 1870, nor 1872, nor 1874, nor c S76, was there earthly inducement great u nough to lead us to stop one foot bej'ond fi lio limits of tho great circles that 'hold b nd protect tho Republican millions of t outn Carolina ana the United States, t 'liero I stand, and I might quote Lu- t bcr's great words and say "hero I stand." J] cannot do otherwise than stand with [' iiose who aro within tho great circle of ? iio Republican party. [Applause.] t I scorn, I put the foot of ray utter scorn and n iin tempt upoh any charge from mortal lips c lat I have swerved in my devotion to the li topubUean party, or that a wish or thought v as ever been found in this heart, or gone j lj >rlb from these Hds. that do not breathe I V core, and harmony, and fidelity, arid honor. Id nd perpetuity forever to the principles and j C 10 organization of the Republican party, r, As to my administration, I wish that, in a hat I may have to say, I maybe clothed In e iic bcantlfnl garments of modesty and hu- V llllty. I feel like the least of the humblest 11 f all my fellow-Republicans. I trust I Shave k ime of that spirit which says he that will be v rttitest among you let him be the servant of tl II." I wish sincerely to speak with becoming e lodes^v of what I must, for the sake of mod- n ;ty of what I must, Jor the sake of brevity, ti ill my administration. Let me go back to v le last campaign. After a Ions struggle, I j p ood at last on t he very spot where you now e t, the recipient of the suttrages of a conven- t< on similar to this J'or the highest office in a i estate. y I cannot help calling to mind for a single tl loment, as I stepped dow n from that plat-' It irm that night, to be the standard-bearer ofjli 10 Republican party, the feeling that upon p ly comparatively young shouI?.*rs I had a I n renter burden than, I had over before ci iken up. I remember well that I was inetici pon the step by the gentleman whom 1 now C nve in my eye, the gentleman from Chains-1 ti >n. the present Comptroller-General oftueid tate. Jie saidt "General Chamberlain, 11k a mgrntulate you personally, but, understand ! si lc, nothing more. I can't make myself a | irty to the election of any mau who is sur-1 h >untled by such men as you have around j n ju." I was surrounded by my friends Mr. Ir owen, Mr. Patterson and others. I sup-Ik >se It Is an open secret, fcllow-Kcpubllcans, I n tat the gentleman from Edgefield is now ni 'aining with the gentleman from Charles- I ?n. And he has been puc forward with that | si iarp tongue and that recklessness of state- If lent which would spoil the profoundest ar- si uncut in the world. He has been put for-1 n ard by the band that is (now attacking my t<; irty fealty. Well, my friends, I took up st lose surroundings. tl Mr. Patterson?\Ve took you up. in Mr. Chamberlain?Well, if you got mo up, ct took you along with me. I sun not. refer- j 01 ng to you. My duty is with the gentleman rt oin Eogefleld. . j dl I was nominated. But let me go bnek to! m ie moment when I was standing where you | w iw sit, and what was my language? Ap- pi auded to the echo, as I shall not be to-night: ai iplanded by every man, woman and child? pi said, first, last and all the time, that the ens of the Republican party must be steadi- fr rorwiiril and unward towards reform and w Jtter government. You nut that banner inlgl v hand. I grasped it with an arm though hi 1 too weak, ami hore it in llic contllet where w ic side wn.s headed by the gentleman from ai iiarleston, who had tendered me his support the foot of those steps. I bore It at last to tr etory. (Applause.] when that victory was vl on. 1 stood again, on tiie threshold of my tl Iministrntion, wiiere you now sit, and I c( >oke again the words that met the npproval r< " the united Republican party of Soutn Car- et Ina. I was pledged in honor, pledged in tf laraeter, pledged in languiqre, deep, sucred ' m id irrcvoeable, to lift uft tne Republican i l>; irty above the calumnies of the campaign I tl 1S70. or the calumnies of the campaign of|ai 74 led by the gentleman from Charleston. Well, it is said that I have used the whip id (lie spur from that time on. I wish I was l>r:iVL* UN lllllllH Vlt'CUl. luc Ijiiiiivumu dii? Edgefield says I am. I know that I am child compared with him. Then*have been lomcutsiu my administration tiiat, but lor le who is dearer to me than this heart's ood, the wifo of my bosom, I should have liered. I would lay down my life sooner inn tarnish the character which would in re the dear wife and children asleep at line. Vet, poor coward as 1 ain, I must Hue here to uiglK, foree my weary steins to ome here, take up tlrls now crow of crucifix >n, to hear myself assailed and taunted b ne who covers with the gloss of praise th agger that he would plunge to ray hearl lore I may say to-night that I have Jacke Isdoin. Oli! now often I hayc done thins tiat have seemed .to others to be d?neln van jnness of power towards them, I know tliu i kinder moments, Jn kinder phases of hi fe. before he was led astray, In his caLnu* nd better moments, the gentleman fron klgefleld has said to me, -"Chamberlain, yoi re right; I am with you; I wish you wouli ea little more communicative with you lends," mid I have accepted It as the tru dvlec of a friend. I have tried. It hut I an eady to face any Republican who shall brin lat charge against me. That I have some mes fulled to talk over matters with m, lends as fully asl might, I admit. 1 couli 'Ish that my nature was different in this res eet; but I say to-night, with the utmost, sin L-rity of my heart, that if a lighted windov )tilil be placed in this bosom, ami you couli e the purposes and desires towards the He uI>1 lean party which I have entertained ii tils long and painful struggle, you wouli now 1 here was not a moment when a klm ford or look would not have sti'cngthenei uisnrniand warmed tnisueari, una in . ladder and better man than I liave been \ pjllllUKl*.] Hut, going beyond tills paltry mutter, 1c to analyze the attack on my administration lien it is said that the reform of my admin itration is all a sham reform. I come to tha oint now to which I referred when I had 111 enllvmuu from Kduelleld in my eye, when ?id he was so characteristically guilty c ecklessness of his statement as to utterl aralyze the force of his argument. He say i7,WM have been saved from the contlngen ynd, and challenges me to show any othe t?f<ym. I am not here to claim the credit < ny good act which the Legislature lias al eady worked, I have tried to do my work t Is not my glory or my fame; but it is th uno of the ltep.ublicuu party of the state ?. ottth Carolina. I appear individually to those around ra< d every gent leman hfcre, whether tlieadmiri itration in .South Onrolinu slncc 1K71 has nc i the eyes of the whole -world lifted Sou t 'arolinn above nine-tenths oi'lier old rc roaeli. ?27,000 contingent ftind saved lllll IS me UUNJW ui WIU itrKU/uvriik. .. ??j K)k with me Tor one moment. I ^fer to I -1th the utmost kindness to those who dlffo ith me. The Legislature that adjourned i ie Spring of W7 > levied a tax bill of no le* ;i;m fourteen mlllf<. The Governor dec Mac > sign it, differing, of course, with the Ger ml Assembly. The result wan that the Genei 1 Assembly reconsidered Junction ut theregv ir session of lK75-7fl, and reduced the taxthrc rhoie mills, including the entire tax of whn ; known us the little and big bonanza. I) ou know how much It saves to the peopje ( outh Carolina? Not the paltry sum r J7,0U0 contingent fund, but $175,000 or the hard urned money of the people #t home, whor ou represent around me to-night. J5Ig l)C anza and little bonanza! I-wonder at th jmcrity of the gentleman from Edgeflel lien lie spoke or the ''little bonunpv' an big bonanza." I felt, when I heard these words that if th entlcman from Edgeflel ,1 had been soekin ith his spear to And an entrance betwee lie Joints of the harness, he would have use tint spear, and that, instead of striking rut e would have plunged it Into the hearts ( nose who had passed the act. TM little an ig bonanzas, as the gentleman knowv, wet o bantlings of mine. Where is my frien - - - ? 2--ii/r?ir?, ...w? .... ights pleading with me to allow th ig bonanza to go through in such shape tlu cotild possibly sign the bill? Whore 1h li ow? KJjJitlng under the plume of the gee cmnn from ??lgefleld. Well, my friend: lis is a thrice-told Lnle. That bill was passe nd wont to the Governor. Tlio Governo ;lt that the conditions upon which that bl! ad passed,upon which he had given assui ncos that it would command his approva nd not been observed; that tlio Htate was n<] ropcrlyprotected ; and tho Goneml Aescm ly reconsidered .Us action and passed It li 11 other form. I say to-night that the bonanza bill lsagoo< 111. But the gentleman from .Edgefield say t (adds $J7o,000.to the doht of tne ytatc. J so' Uioes not add a twentieth part of one far nuiK wj Liie ubuiui nicouuv, juvviy gc-iiue uui knows tlmt the Mg bonanza, at one fel woop took away one-naif of that floatlni ebt and stretched the remaining half over i erlod of four years. Is the little bonanza "i ham reform?" Tho HtUe bonanza In ever; ?ature of It, did not command my apprava hen It became a feature of tho supulv -bill found It Incorporated In the supply3ml,am 0 one oftener spoftc to me or .was more ur ent in Ms persuasions for the passage of tha 1 ensure than the gentleman from Edgefield wild to him and those interested, that i liosc Items that now constltnte the littl onnnza wero distributed over a term of tw< r threo years, you will not find mo an; inger opposed to it. Let us bo rid of tliii ebt, fastened upon us by the extra vagunc< f former administrations. This Is a coin lete answer to the reckless charges of th< entlemnn from Edgefield; that Instead of i mrtecn mill tax, we liuve a tax of but olev 11 mills, including both bonanzas, and thon < a direct saving of SiT/i,000. It is not the credit of the administration ; goes to the crodlt of the Republican warty :ut If I wore to confine myself to conlfngen mds, In this respect the charge of the gen eman from Edgefield Is no. less inaccamtc have compiled a statement of the eontln put funds of tho year preceding this adniinis ration. I find that the entire npproprtatloi ?r legislative expenses for the last fisca Xjieuses. i ne milium utciugc uAjivuuiiurc otweon lfifiXand 1870 had been no less thai { .24,1)00, and the flint year of this adminlstru Ion was lesx than Sl<50,000, Thoro Is not onl; .7,000 from the contingent fund, but ?170,0<l olid money saved In the single item of Login atlve expenses. Let us go upon the ground that the gentle inn from Edgefield has chosen. I want t Like this doughty warrior on his own grount want this McGregor put upon Ills natlv icath. lie says wo have saved the paltr um of 827.0u0 from the contingent func sow, the contingent fund for the year pre edlng last year were $?7,0tXl and S?,000, or otalof37?,000. In thclastycarof Governor^Ic cs'administration the contingent fund W? 79,000 and last year for all purposes :the coil lngent fund.was 82S,200; making a saving c 51,000 of the contingent fund In the first yea f this admlnlstratfon. Well, now ,my friend uust suffer me to appeal from those courts li r hlch I love to practice. I wish this scene c olltieal turmoil could be banished forevei nd the calm hours of the civil courts breath wectly over me again. There I would go t ne who comes to slay mo with the hand of rlcnd. I would appeal from those courts, li I sense, but say to his statements, one and ai fatxits in uno; faUtut in omnibiu." And le ne translate: ''false In one tiling; liilse li 11." My friends a?c coming round mc wltl lilts here, and I know how I could keep am rorry tills audience. lu the turmoil nn< triiKRlcs of the legislative and executive de artmenls, I dare appeal, notwithstnhdln lie taunts of the gentleman from Edgefield n yon gniy-hcadcd Democrat, [referring ti hancellor Johnson,] once the ornament c lie Judicial bench or South Carolina, and' skhim if holsnot conscious that at ever; olnt this administration has husbanded th< csources of the people and protected thel ropcrty from the exactions of the tax gath rer. I will get an answer from the hearts o he people I have served. But I have onl; nlf served tbem. I wish X had been an brav s Julius Ciesar, that I might have led then ip to the great mountains of peace and pros ortty up which we seem so slowly bu /nrtVillv Mlmlilnr Rut. no tcft r?llm)i nni iiive already half ascended the summit, i reature clutches us from the rear, and we l>e mid the famed Democratic warrior fron Idpcfleld. God help me and the Republican if Month Carolina working to shake off thl lop that Is now fastened on us, and, workln; p that mount, grant that our Ifeet shall neve ill or weary until the sunlight of victor; inthes our brpws on Its peaceful top. But I must pause a moment to notice one c hose reek less statements. "Rumors are a hick as blackberries In June," and nmon hern, I venture, my friend has heard that iave written a letter to Washington, ankln; ->r the withdrawal of the United State roops. 1 am a Yankee, and I venture th uess that if the gentleman from Edgefield, 1] his attack upon me, had thought there wa , letter at the War Department, or any oth r department, he would have a copy her< nstcad of picking up a floating rumor. Yoi rould have had a copy of the letter writtci iv Governor Chamberlain to the Secretary c var. No such letter has been written o rafted, or hoard or thonght of by the prescn Iovernor of South Carolina. On the contra v, i urn iiuic id say mni wnen me irouui rose in the County of Edgefield last year nd this year In the County of Laurens, I ask d, through the Attorney-General's office a Washington, for troops to command the pub !c peace. My first application, as everybody nows, was answered favorably, and troop :ere sent to Edgefield until It was reporter licre was no further need of them. In refer nee to Laurens, the answer was, "Unfortu ately we are In the midst of the Mississipp rouble, and If It should become known tna e had aided South Carolina when Mlsslsslp 1 hud been refused aid, we should be Justlj harged with partiality, unless you are abb i certify as Governor that there is such ai l ined force moving through that county thn ou cannot protect the lives and property o lie citizens. If my friend wants to see tha T 11.(11 clmm If tn V. I? i my oflicc. Why, fellow-citizens, I go fo rotcction for every man; even thi leanest man that assaults its politica ourse. I say it is the first duty of every gov rmnent to protect its citizens. When Soutl arolinn cannot protect the lives and liber esofher citizens, I consider it the highes uty of the government of the United 8tntei > give protection, and my highest dufcyam viffftst pleasure to invoke that aid. I am charged with something more thai uniiti}, something more than divine forgive ess towards my enemies. Weil, I am grow ig weary and I must not detain you inuc) mger. But if tiiere is one sweet drop in thi jp of satisfaction that I drink, in review o ly administration, it Is this: that, althougl was covered with wounds, although tht learsmen and the swordsmen hunted .ini ke a stair upon tlie mountains, yot nevei nee my feet stood upon the spot where yot uw sit?I nlory in it. write it upon mj nil), toil It to my children?that, notwith amling the terrors and barbed arrows o incanirtaicn. mv lins have never to thii rmr been opined to one Imprecation oron( irse upon those who then fought ine. Bloi it everything else, butjlet It remain as i ward iiiul sweet, recompense that I neve: id, as Governor of Month Carolina, reproacl iy enemies by a single harsh, vltuperatlvi ord. I will do my duty. But It is not tin irt of the duty of a man to use his lntellcc id capacities to nssall, with bitter words,: ?ople who may differ with him In politics. 1 nave spoken In answer to the gentlcinai om Kdgctleld. There was one word tha cne to my heart. It was that word, for veness of my enemies. If I do not get thi leasing of (he gentleman from Edgefield, 111 get the blessing of my wife and chlldrei id the blessing of God Almighty. One word more, and then I leave His con oversy; I will trust to the test of lime ti Indicate my course in the administration o ic government of Month Carolina, and wll mtinue in the same pathway of reform an< )od government upon which we have enter 1. 1 shall keep my eye steadily fixed up"' le polar star of political reform, will straii lyself more zealously at the oars|untiI our ark, with all our aspirations, Is wafted InU ie calm, gracious sea of political e<iuallli id administrative reform. The floral decorations at A. T. Stew rt's funeral cost over $10,000. Tlx iflln was of oak covered with eosth el vet and lined with silk, with solic r#ld plate and and handles without Foster lllod^ctt who was arrested ii: eorgia, has been released on hail. Tin: Xindy-Six Il< ruhl is nieelv rinted. . ---- ^9 A correspondent of the Anderson Journal makes a handsome notice of the ex-AbbevUlian's article in the 1'. <t* JJ.., on the Key. James Donnelly, atuJ lijuinelf adds souie interesting dots about that famous old man, which we lay iaside for. the purposeof copying jnto tlic J*ren and Banner. The South-Carolina Medical Society met in (;olumbia last week. l)r. Max j well, of Greenwood, represented Ab i bcville, and was elected lia Vice-Pres ident Wonderful Success-: Tt is reported tlirrt Boscitkf.'h Gctimax Syrup has, sinoe Its introduction in the Umted States, readied the immense sale of '40,000 doxen per year. Over '6,000 Druprgist have ordered this Medicine di ! rect from tlie Fartory, at "Woodbury X. J., and not -one have reported a single fail ure, but every letter speaks of its aston ,t i lKlilllg 8UfC4??i IM raring Htrvere conjrns, i,! ("olds settled on the Breast, Consumption, - i or anv disease of Throat and Lungs. We 1 j advise anv person that has anv predispo 9; to weak I^ungs, to go to ttiefr Druggist, ,r W. T. Penney, and get this Medicine, or y | inquire ahmit it. Regular Size 75 cento: *1 sample bottle, 10 cents. Two doses will ' |: relieve any case. Don't neglect your if cough. tf j;I HOTEL~ ARRIVALS. I Al^rufl iivuoiiu V> iiamilt'f, VY II i mington; W G MoClellan. Atlanta; G M j Anderson, Charlotte; J J Cadot, Clnrfn nnti; W W Mars, f'alhoun's Mills; John Patterson, Lone Cano; J L Shumate, R A Turner, Ninety-Six; L Smith anil Lady, Hodges. < ' _ Wiers Hotel.?Captain E Cowan, Widemans; H M Kinard, Ninety-Six; WalterS Fisher, Charleston; Dr J W Wideman, Long Cane; John Lyon, Lit tle Mountain; B Freeman. Baltimore; Prof C Ilouser, Lineolnton; Dr S Anjrel Charlotto; E S Pegram, Charlottrvifle. *COtfSlGNEES. Express.?S S Baker. D J Jordan. IIA Bell, Qnarles <fc Perrin, It D Bruce, D II White, It B Cade, S S Perrin, E McCon nell. Fbeioht.?S M Ca&oun, S H Boxdoll Bradley. W T Anderson, 8 A Miller,'H W Lawson, W P Widemwi. T Baker, W J Smith. W H Parker, G Mathews, M D d | Pronnan, A T Wideinan, J E Brown lee, J V.Shroeder, d I ' OBITUAHV. TvTTJTA i-** WW o xcaiuuuct? ill mis County, on Tuasday .morning, April lltb, MIss AGNES MJ COOK, daughter of Mr. Fredric Cook, aged thirty-one years. Tho deceased was ill but a abort time, and though the sum mous jvas tbns sud den, she left the cheering assurance that she was prepared to go tbo way of all the earth. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." The family and relation* hare the sympathy of &ANY FRIEND& DIED, on Sabbath morning, the 16th inst., Mrs. JANE H. BRADLEY, wife of Gen'l P.. U. Bradlev. aged 65. Mrs. Bradley was sorely afflicted, for 10 long months she was confined to her room, and-most of the tirae.to.her bed, but bore it all with Christian .resignation. She was-a good woman, from early life had been a devoted Christian, .a member of Cedar Spring church?was aU?o a "Good Templar." She leaves a husband and iour uuiiuruii, a uruuieriuiu ni.ttur, .turn a largo circle of relatives and friends to mourn her loss. She was buried on Monday in the cemetery at .Cedar Wpringa aflor an impressive discourse by her Pas tor. "I heard H?yoice twyintc writs bless ed are tbc dead that die in the Lord." ft .MARKET REPORTS* CORKECTKD BY Barnwell & Co., Cotton Brokers and Dealers in (General Merchandise. FACTORY GOODS. I Fish Cotton Yarn&41.15al.30 Mackerel....$1.75a2.ri0 Osimburgs _... 12a I# Cod, per IB. 10a Irt %Sblrtlng..?.. JOB 12\ White " 10a 13 1-1 Sheeting 12a 15;Sa)l, per saclc 2JXhi&25 PROVISION*. Tobacco,? Flour, per 4a 5 Cbewlng^... 75uL00 Corn, per bo90a 1.00 Smoking HOal.OO Meal, " .... UOaUSOi .AJtAitfklTION. Grist, per lb... HUa 5 Powdcrjperlb 40a 50 Peas, " ..... lO0al.25',Shot. " 12a 15 Onts, u ? l.OOILead, " 10a 12 Bacon, Sldes_ Ma la'Otfw.per'box 10a -Ul Sh'drs. 11a 12 LIQUORS. Hams. Via 20l ?rr?whl.skcy?2.0flaG.a) Tjinl bui 20IKreneh br'dv. .tfthiTm IrLili Potatoes. 1.75o2jOO, Holland gin. 5.0Uh8.0u Hwcct " ... [Amesi'n ?in_ .XOOsiO.tJO Eggs J* ?lB'rtwxr*&l'y S.WW.OU ~ " Wine# a00ft0.00 HARDWARE. Iron, Hv?des. 8a 10 " Knglinh 7a 10 Xalls 5a 8 Cotton cards. 30a 00 Horse shoes... U) " noils 35 LEATHER. Hemlock .9 '35 Chickens 20a 25 Turkeys l.OOal//) Butter - 20a 25 GROCERIES. Suirar, crush "d8 Ma 10 7 A 12ir 15 ' B 12a 15 " V 12a 15 " Brown 10a 12 Coflee, Rlo..._ 25a 33 " Lagu'aa Java 2Xa 33 Hole leather... K?a 50 37a 40|Up'r leather. 00a 75 Tea J 1.00aL50|Har>8 " 40a 85 fiyrup, cane... 75al.00 Calf skins 5.00a6.(W 40a 451 Kip skins 4.fi0ftfl.00 40a 60jUry bides ?a 10 20a 25,Green hides... 5a 6 20a Js|T> BAGGING, Ac. Molasses, s. h. Candles, ep'm " ndra't Cheese UltlUUO, jJU UU mWI/logging, J'Jr'U IUtt 19 Starch 12a lolTics .... 7a 8 Tnllow Ula 12Rope, cotton, 40a fio Rice, pcrlb.... 10a 12! Rope, gru^s... 2Q Abbevii.lk, April 19,?Cotton ll@lli. NEW YOltK, April 17.?Cotton qnl?t;.*alc* lOfl bales?uplands W/A ; Orleans 13 7-ty. tl J?. iL?Cotton quiet,;.sales 483 bales, at Vfyi 0137-W. BALTIMORE, April 17.-Cotton-middling 12%: sales 230. NEW ORLEANS, April 17.-Cotton quiet middling 12UI; low middling 11% sales 3;M). CHARLESTON, April 17.-Cotttfu stendy mtddllng sales 500. -AUGUSTA, April 17.?Cotton duJf and nominal?mltUllLntf J2U; net receipts 1UK; sales 134. XADIES SHOES. AN elegant lino in CLOTH, MOROC CO and CALF SKIN, from best manufacturers, cheaper than ever offered. Just reeciyoti, at the JEMFOJUUM OF FASHION. April 19, 1879. To Wheat and Oat Thresheu. to contract xor tne inresnmg of the small grain which may be pro duced ou .a form of about two hundred and twenty-Ave acres of good land. Bids will also be reoeived for baling the straw. Apply early to HUGH WILSON. Abbeville, April 18, '70, tt - Emporium of Fashion. SPRING, 1876 Tiie ladien will find our .-stock of MILLINERY, Dress Goods, White Goods, Embroidery, KID, SILK AND LISLE GLOVES. SCARFS, RVFFLINGS, NECK RIBBONS. CORSETS, J'ARASOLS, FANS, TRIMMINGS, i Domestic Goods, Pretty Calicoes, FANCY GOODS, and everything in their line now com plete in even* department and all we ask ' t'o#is inspection, to convince our custo mers that we are .offering all good at tho Sfl*nples sent by mail, and express paid on all bills amounting to Ten Dol lars and upwards. Respectfully., Jas. A. Bowie, Ag't, Emporium of Fashion. Anril 10 >>.tf 1 Black Hills ? GOTjD FITCI/Df " Apply to W. P. JOHNSON, Oon'l Pa*s. Ag't. 1 I. (*. K. K. Chicago, or to I. K. KANDOIJ'H, J Traveling Agt, I. C. R. R., Indianapolis, Ind. COUNTY CONVENTION. rpiIK DEMOCRATIC CLUBS of tlio i X County arc requested to send dele " unites to the County Convention which |\rill meet at Abbeville Court llouse on ' \VEI>NKSI)AY, the 20th hist., for tlio -^ 1 I purpose of sending delegates to the State . Convention which will meet in Columbia on Thursday, the 4th of May next. Kaeh club will be entitled hi this meeting to ono : vote. April 12, 1-SYJ. J. S. < OTHKAX, County Chairman.