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0>~.t 9 9* *\ VOL.2. NO. 15.] BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1872, {&?r&,r.?S 35eauft>rt County ?kpubHran THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1872. " P. M. WHITMAN, WATCHMAKER & ENGRAVER, MAYO'S BUILDING, BAY ST. TiriLL GIVE HIS PERSONAL ATTEN V tlon to the repairing of of "Watche*. Clocks and Jewelry. Ornamental and plain Engraving done at short notice. Gentleman having fine watches can test them fttthis establishment by one of HOWARD it CO.'S $300 REGULATOR. febll ~H. M. STUART M7 D^~ BEAUFORT, S. C. Corner of Bay and Eighth Streets, DEALER in Drugs, Chemicals, valuable Family Med icines. Fancy and Toilet Articles, Stationery, Per ( fumery, Brushes, Ac.; together with many other articles too numerous to mention. All of which will lie sold at the lowest price for cash. Physicians prescriptions carefully compounded. feb 11 JJ G. JUDD, CLERK OF COURT d? REGISTER OF DEEDS and UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER, r CONVEYANCING. Office in the Court House. Oct. 2t*f A. S. HITCHCOCK, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Bounty, Pension and Claim Auent. beaufort, s. c. Dec lyr. M.POI, IJTZ ER, COTTON FACTOR and COMMISSI OX MERCHANT. BEAUFORT, S. C. Sept.4. JOHN CONAXT. . Dealer in fresh meats, vegetables an<l Ice. Which will be furnished in anv quantity. A pi. 22-tf. i i si r 11 L I IV1 t I L I IYI c:: The best brands stone lime constantly on hand and for sale at low prices for cash. G._WATK'MlorsE luV vt _L TOBACCO. fXlHE STANDARD BRANDS OF VIJ; GINIA PL CO A Tobacco, in Caddies, Cases, and Half-Bnx?-s?reeeiv. d J direct front the manufacturers' agents, for sale in quantities to suit the trade at lowest wholesale price. G. WATEKHOL'SK, Bay st. " ~HAYA.yjj oats. " A large lot just received by the schooner Altoona. For sale cheap while landing, for cash only. FIRMTRE AID WOODEI WARE. ! Chamber sets, Bedsteads, Chiirs, Tubs, Fails and Wrapping Paper. i G. WATERIIOUSE, 1 Dec. 7tf Bay St. SAITON H01SE7 BEAUFORT, S. C. 0*>9 ?O:0 "piIIS HOUSE SITUATED OX BAY St. commands a fine view of BEAUFORT RIVER, and many of the Sm Island*. The travelling public wilj find here a desirable and CONY E NIE N T HOME, and the invalid will find 110 better or no more healthfu climate on the SOUTHERN COAST to upend the waiter. The House is within five minutes walk of Steam Boat, and fifteen minutes walk of Bui Koad communication. A good LIVE R Y S T A B L E has just been added to the House. Western Union Telegraph Ottice on fii>t floor. M. 31. KINO MAX, Puopki ktor: QNE THOUSAND SWEET OKAXUE Trkks for sale, from one to three years old. Will be transplanted if desired. Applv to B. B. SAMS. Oct.26-8. Bay Street. S. MAYO, BAY STREET, BEAUFORT, S. C. D'&l &DD1D3, TINWARE, HARDWARE, AM) WOODEKWAKE. CIGARS ? TOBACCO, NET YARNS, FISH LINES, AND CORDAGE. G L ASS, ' PAINTS AND OILS, WHITE LKAD AM) Tl'ItPENTIXK. Special attention yicen to mixiny Paints, and </?ass vt to order at any size. ieb U J. APPLE JJEGS TO ANNOUNCE THAT HI Is constantly receiving the finest and best stock of DRY AND FANCY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, and CLOTHING ever offered in this market. Also a fine assortment < Kid Gloves. May.6-ly. FOR SALE. PER YARD READY MAD COTTON BAGS, and 5 yards per bag. These bags are well sewed an hummed at the mouth, and will be sold cheaper read made, than for what the bagging can be bought for i Charleston. Enquire at M. POLLITZER, Sept.l4-3m. Bay St., Beaufort; S. C. PORT ROYAL SAW MILL BEAUFORTS, C. D. C. WILSON & CO. Manufacturers ok and I)ealf.rs in YELLOW PINE AND CYPRESS; LUMBER AND SHINGLES Builders and Contractors, ORDERS FOR LUMBER AXD TIMBER BY Til CARGO PROMPTLY FILLED. TERMS CASH. D.C. WILSON. ?.JOHN BIC! jan 28 "CHARLESTON ADVERTISERS TdanJelIh. silcox! FURNITURE WAREROOMS 173, 177, 179 KING STREET, CHAIIXjE8TON,S. C Where can >>c found a large nH Wf 11 ' all kinds and grades to suit the tastes of all. An examination is respectfully solicited. March lS-lyr. SPECIAL NOTICE. MEN'S ROYS AND YULTJ1S READY MADE CLOTHING. AND ITRNISHING GOODS. GEO W. LITTLE & CO. XO. 2 1 3 Jl'JX G S T, CJJ A 11L EST 0 N 8. Would most respectfully inform his friends and th l>ul>lie generally, that they an- offering great inducemcn to those in want of ready made clothing suitable to tt season. Ourstnck has l>eon laid in at the lowest possible price Hid which we art' offering at prices to suit the times. All those in want of clothing and furnishing gone would do well to give us a call befure purchasing els where. GEORGE W. LITTLE, A CO. No- 213 King Street May 27-fim. Under Victoria Hotel. NACHMAN & CO. DKAI.KKS IS Dry Goods, Fancy Goods and Notions 150 MEETING STREET, V 11 A R L ES TO X S. C Apl 1. CHARLESTON HOTEL, CHARLESTON S. C. Mch 2-Vly. K. II. JACKSON. J. APPLE. 404 KIXG S TR EET CHA R L ES TOX S. f RAY STREET B E A I'FO R T. S.C. DEALER in Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats and Caps 1 toots and Shoes, Mav-ly and Fancy Notions J. A. Enslow & Co. COTTON i and COMMISSION MERCHANTS No. 141 EAST BAY, CHARLESTON, S. C. Liberal Advance* Made on Consingmenti J. A. Enslow, Jas. Salvo, J. A. Enslow, Jr. Dee. 7, Iv. William Gurney, CO T T 0 NFA and COMMISSION MERCHANT NO. 102 EAST BAY and NORTH ATLANTIC WHAIi. Charleston, S. C. Particular attention ?iven to the sale c and shipment of Sea Islaud and tlplan Cotton. Liberal advances made on Coi signmeuls. Dcc7 ly. 3 THE L05G AGO. BY B. F. TAYLOR. Oh! a wonderful stream is th?river Time As it glides through th? realms of tears, With a faultless and mystical rhyme, And a broader sweep and* surge sublimo. And blends with the ocean of years. ... . ... ... ? , How the winters are arming, use nasnes 01 suow, And the summer like buds between, And the year in the sheaf?so they come and they go And the river's breast, with its ebb and flow, ? As it glides through the shadow and sheen. There's a magical isle, up tip? river of Time, Where the softest airs saplaying-, There's a cloudless sky aau tropical clime ? ^ And a song as sweet as the vespers chime, y And the Junes with the roses are staying, n And the name of this Isle is the Long Ago, And we bury our treasures there; There are brows of beauty and bosom of snow? There are heaps of dust, but we love them so; There are trinkets and tresses of hair. There are fragments of song that nobody sings, ) And parts of an infani prayer, There's a lute unswept, and a harp without strings, There are broken vows and pieces of rings, And the garments that she used to wear. "There are hands that are waved when the fairy shore By the mirage is lifted in air, And we sometimes hear through the turbulent roar, Sweet voices we heard in the days gone before, \> hen the wind down the river is fair. Oh! remembered for aye be the blessed isle, All the day of our life till night? When the evening comes; with its beautiful smile, And our eyes are closing to slumber awhile, May our "Greenwood" of soul be in sight. E ? Southern ^People* The New York Tribune in answer to a letter from Hon. Montgomery Blair, says: 1 Mr. Blair's arraignment of what he terms the tyranny of "the negroes and carpet-baggers set over southern people by **. the north," is so partial and unjust that we are impelled to traverse it by the pre? eentation of certain undeniable facts, which follow: 1, Mr. Blair sees two rival interests or ' classes in the south: 1. "Our southern people," who are fearfully oppressed and J abused; 2. "The negrfces and carpet-bagers," who are their oppressors.?But why are not the negroes, a part of the "southern people?" They were born and have always lived there, as did their fathers before them. What have they done to pvnlndfl them from the designation of southern people?" Nay: why does not Mr. Blair see that their exclusion from that category, as though they were apes c or gorillas, is the one main cause of the ,e impotence and woes of the south? H Since the Rebel armies surrendered, we have done our utmost in behalf of the south?not of a class, a caste, a party, but of the whole people of that part of our country. "We have encountered obstacles from diverse and opposite quarters, but _ the most formidable among them was this stubborn refusal of those whom Mr. Blair calls ' 'the southern people" to recognize their humble neighbors and daily associates, whom God made black and the war for the Union made free. These southern blacks are four millions ?nearly if not quite equal in numbers to those whom Mr. Blair alone recognizes as "southern people." Most of them are poor and ignorant; but not through their own fault. They grow by much the larger portion of the southern crops; most ol them expect and mean to live by honest industry; they could not well be spared by Mr. Blair's 1 soutiicrn.people;77 tnej want to be on good terms with their white fellow-citizens; they are free, and thej vote; what sense, what reason, then, in excluding them from consideration as . "southern people?" II. The States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Kenr? tucky, Tennessee and Missouri (contain" ing a large majority of Mr. Blair's "southern people") are governed by Mr. Blair's friendS. "Negroes and carpet-baggers" ' have no chance to oppress or abuse any one in those States. North Carolina and Alabama were carried by Mr. Blairlg , "southern people" in their last State Elec tions; so was Texas; but she did not elect a new legislature, as the others did. So, you see, the area on which "negroes and carpet baggers" have power to oppress -> 4'the southern people" is restricted tc South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida; and Florida was all but carried by tffe Democrats last fall. Is not this reducing the area of oppression to very moderate limits? III. In the States where "the negroes ^ and carpet-baggers" bear sway, there is a continual effort by one class to depress ^ and oppress another; but "the southern 1 people" are not the victims. On the contrary, they say to their colored neighbors "You shall not send your children to any school attended by ours; you shall not ride in the same railroad car with us; and if we both travel on one steamboat, y ou must not enter the cabim" It is not by the victors in our late straggle, but by the vanquished?it is not by the dominant party in these States, but by the political minority?that these irritating distinctions and exclusions are insisted on. Why will not Mr. Blair raise his voice against them? ?"Ah! but there are unconquerable prejudices of race and color." No, there are not. That very negro whom you exclude from a steamboat cabin may enter as a white man's servant without a whisper of remonstrance. Nobody objects to negroes per se; it is their freedom, their legal equality, that has so rank a smell?not their bodies. IY. We are tempted to recapitulate some of the unjust, invidious legal distinctions and degradations founded on color hat were enacted into State laws by Mr. "Rloir'o "crmtViprn r?ennle'> when clothed with power by Andrew Johnson. We will not, however, since we trust Mr. Blair condemns them as heartily as we do. But consider the fact that Gov. Leslie of Kentucky (a State never ruled for an hour by either carpet-baggers or negroes) is constrained to urge his legislature, in this seventh year after Emancipation, to let the colored citizens of that State testify in their courts, and to call for stringent enactments for the suppression of "Lynchlaw" outrages?all of them, as we all know, having whites for their authors and blacks for their victims. And here comes Gov. Walker of Viginia?a genuine New Departure man, born in the North, and an honest advocate of legal equality, universal education, and all that, who nobly testifies to truths that Virginia was slow to learn. And yet Gov. Walker is forced by the prejudices of Mr. Blair's "Southern people" to stultify himself as follows: "The eolored people of our State are, equally with the white, clothed with the elective franchise. In order that they may intelligently exercise that right, the opportunity for education should, and under our Constitution must, be afforded them. This cannot, however, be accom plished by any system of mixed schools. Each race must be provided for separately. I have in years past, and under the most favorable circumstances, witnessed a fair and impartial trial of the experiment, and it proved an utterfailure. The true interests of the colored people them, selves demand that they should be proAA?\nwnf A TBALAAIQ )) Viueu VYiuu scpaiaw o^uwio. ?Now, we have not a shadow of objection to "separate schools" in cities and wherever a dense population renders their ; support practicable; but nine-tenths of the area of Virginia is unable, and must for a long period remain unable, to support two , sets of common schools. To require , "southern people" such counties as Giles, Bland, and forty more that have hardly , so many inhabitants as square miles, to , support adequate common schools for , white, and then another set for colored , children, who will not average ten to a large school district, is to require what they will not, cannot do; the cost would f be too great. Wc, then, having attended ; the same school with colored children, sat on the same bench, studied from the same - books, and recited in the same classes, , without receiving a particle of damage, r protest against the assumption that L schools must inexorably be separate, as i inhuman, unchristian, $ud a disgrace to the XlXth Century. It amounts in effect to this?a large portion of the poorer chil . dren, and especially 01 the DiacKs, snan . have no education at all. Mr. Blair! we want to help arrest and i punish the iniquities and robberies of i carpet-bag predominance at the South. It . is full of rottennes-t and rascality. But the inevitable first step to this end is peace be; tween the mansion and the cottage, The ; honest landholders and the honest cultivators of the South must strike hands in a candid, hearty union against rapacity and fra^d. You, Mr. Blair, ought not to , stand in the way of this; but you do. Tell , those you can intluence to make peace with the blacks?to denounce and exe( crate all Ku-Klux outrages, no longer affecting to discredit and deny them?in I Aui i'.ll 1 h ft a 4- *?nn f lb a Klanlra ^ SUUI t, ten L UC ? lULUO lu ucav onu uiatug as fellow-citizens and fellow christians, ( and the rule of dishonesty and disorder at the South will very soon have passed t away! 0. C. Jlowen, is in Washington trying ,: to secure his seat in the house. l udcr the Mistletoe. Dickens, in Pickwick Papers, gives us & most interesting description of a Christmas scene. What reader can take in the story as told below, without a cheer of enthusiasm over Christmas and its joys. Says the author: From the centre of the ceiling of tho kitchen, old Wardle had just suspended, with his own hands, a huge branch of mistletoe, and this same branch of mistletoe instantaneously gave rise to a scene of general and most delightful struggling and confusion; in the midst of which, Mr. Pickwick, with a gallantry that would have done honor to a descendant'of Lady Tollimglower herself, took the old lady by the handj '^d her beneath the mystid branch, and saluted her in all courtesy and decorum. The old lady submitted to this piece of practical politeness with all the dignity which befitted so important and serious a solemnity, but the younger ladies, not being so thoroughly imbued with a superstitious veneration for the custom; or imagining that the value of a salute is very much enhanced if it costa little trouble, to obtain it; screamed and struggled, and ran into corners, and threatened and remonstrated,'and did ev erything but leave the room, until some of the less adventurous gentlemen were on the point of desisting, when they all at once found it useless to resist any longer, and submitted to be kissed with a good grace. Mr. Winkle kissed the young lady with the black eyes, and Mr. Snodgrass kissed Emily, and Mr. Weller not being particular about the form of being under the mistletoe, kissed Emily and the other female servants, just as he caught them. As to the poor relations, they kissed everybody, not excepting the plainer portions of the young lady visitors, who in their confusion, ran right under the mistletoe, as soon as it was hung up, without knowing it; Wardle stood with his back to the fire, surveying the whole scene, with the utmost satisfaction; and the fat boy took the opportunity of appropriating to his own use, and summarily devouring, a particularly fine mince-pie, that had been carefully put by, for somebody else. Now, the screaming had subdued, and faces were in a glow, and curls in a tangle, and Mr. Pickwick, after kissing the old lady as before mentioned, was standing under the mistletoe, looking with a very pleased countenance on all that was passing around him, when the young lady with the black eyes, after a little whispering with the other young ladies, made a sudden dart forward, and putting her arm around Mr. Pickwick's neck, saluted hini affectionately on the left cheek; and before Mr. Pickwick knew what was the matter, he was surrounded by the whole hodv. and kissed bv everv one of them. J f It was a pleasant thing to see Mr. Pickwick in the centre of the group, now pulled this way, and then that, and first kissed on the chin, and then on the nose, and then on the spectacles; and to hear the peals oi laughter which were laisedon every side; but it was a still more pleasant thing to see Mr. Pickwick, blinded shortly afterward with a silk handkerchief, falling up against the wall, and scrambling into corners, and going through all the mysteries of blind man's buff, with the utmost relish for the game, until at last he caught one of the poor relations, and then had to evade the blindman himself, which we did with a nimbleness and agility that elicited the admiration and applause of all beholders. The poor relation caught the people who they 1 1 1 1 1 1 fi. L J ,1 1L - - tnougnt wouiu iiKe it, anu wnen me game llagged, got caught themselves. When they were all tired of blind-man's buff, there was a great game at snap-dragon, and when fingers enough were burned ' with that, and all the raisins were gone, they sat down by the huge fire of blazing 'logs to a substantial supper, and a mighty bowl of wassail, something smaller than an ordinary wash-house copper, in which the hot apples were hissing and bubbling with a rich look, and a jolly sound that were perfectly irresistible. "This," said Mr. Pickwick, looking round him, "this is indeed comfort." "Our invariable custom," replied Mr. Wardle. "Everybody sits down with U3 on Chistmas eve, as you see them now? servants and all; and here we wait, until the clock strikes twelve, to usher Christmas in, and beguile the time with forfeits | and old stories. Trundle, my boy rake up the tire." Up tlew the bright sparks in myriads as the logs were stirred. The deep red blaze sent forth a rich glow, ^iat penetrated iuto the furthest corners of the room, andI cast it cheerful tint on every face.