The Newberry herald. (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, July 04, 1866, Image 4
Yasa meeng of Rdgefield and Lsington
On Thursday,,of week before last, a laroge
meeting of.the citizen&aof Edgefield aud Lex
ingtor,;was held t Bethel Church. Object
f muaeting"'o, consider the debt, qiestion2'
Nev. Abner W. Asbell,.a. promient eititen
of the Ridge4 was called to the Chair;: and
Messrs..Robert W. Cannon and James T. Ba
eon'l were requested to act as Secretaries.
A Committee of Twenty-One was,. on- m
tion, appointed~to prepare business. for the
meetIng, and retired for consultation.. The
Chairman of this Committee was' Uor John
Ruiet- of our town ; a prominent member was
Gen. Paul Quattlebain ofLexington.
After a couple of, hours consultation and
discussion, the Committee of Twenty-One re
ported-the following Preamble and. Resolu
tions ; which were read to the meeting atlarge .
and then.unanimously adopted:
WHEREAs, The Courts iave been thrown
open to creditors, and the debtors of the State
suddenly placed in a condition. of immMent
peril ;:And-Whereas,. The prospective wide
spread ruin and' desolation which. must surely
and inevitably result therefrom, so terrifie arid
alarming to the people, call most loudly for
them to rise up and speak in theii own behalf,
as the only means left them of averting. the
direst calamity that ever befell any -portion of
tfie human race; And Whereas, The debtor
eI,sses are about to be sacrificed most unjust
lv and ungenerously fo. that- which within it
self is no crime-Indebtedness. Be it there
fore .
Resolved, That it is unwise, impolitfic, an
reasonable and grossly subversive of the best
interests of the country, to maintain that the
great upheaving of property and revulsion of
finances which the country has experienced,
silouDIenot be a most powerful argument in
faVor of the rights of debtors against claims'
that were predicated on slave property,. now
swept away as by the besom of destruction, an
event which. could neither be foreseen nor
avoiTd'd.
Resolved, That debtors have rights as well
asmoreditors, an~d that while the former are
not disposed to deprive the latter of a reason
able satisfaction for their .favor of the past,
they mnost eanestly and -urgently protest
against having thejir rights ignored, and js
tie tramnpled upon ; whbich must inevitably be
the.result, unlass the imnpendihg evR be avert-.
ed by an organic law of the laud.
Resolved, That the Chairman of.this meet
ing be nequested to appoint a. Commission' of
three of our citizens,, to wait 'upon has IAcel
lency the Governor at an early day, and. urge
upon himAto.assemble the Legislature as soon
as possibre, to th nd tat r4easures may. be
adopted to avert the ruin - and. distress now
threatening to fail upon us.
Resolved,. That our fellow-citizens through
on.t the State,. be requested~ to co-opera4e wih'
-us in. urging the justice of our cause..
Resolved', That the thanks of; this meetimg
are eminently due, and are here'oy tendered,
to thle LLon. A. P. Aldrich, for his able,.manly
and independent effort on the Bench to stay
the disasters of which we have spoken in the
preceding' Preamble and Resolutions.
The Committee appointed under the third
Resolution consists of Major Joseph: Abney,
Col. John Huiet~ andiJames T.. Bacon, Esq..
MNaj Joseph Abney addressed the metmtrg
at length-in eloquent terms.-~dgefield Adver
tiser..
Miss Ann Dickenson remarked, in a public
speech a few days since, that 'the raation
wants a man"-which is perhaps a modest
way of saying. that Miss Aina consulrs her-~
&elf the nation..
SHOCKING ACCIDENT-Two YOUG LAms
DROWNED IN A VAULT.-An accident of a dis
tressing nature shocked the community in th
lower end. of the city last evening., A party
of! friends and visitors had. assewbIed at: the
house of Mr.. W. E. Brown, on Madison-street,
between E venth and .Twelfth, yesterday
afternoon, and among thenr a Miss SkTlie
Hart,.a young lady froni the country,'just come
inN on a visit- to-her friend Miss Jennie Brown,
daughter of Mr. W.. E. Brown spoken of, at
whose houge the accident whibh- we are about
to relate occurred..
Miss Hart was engaged' to Be fritivd ih a
few weeks, ind perha-ps wihing. to tell. Miss
Jenni about. it, the young ladies repaired to
the water closet at the-end! of the yard,. .and
about seventy-five feet from the house. They
were not missed for nearly an hou-r, when Mrs.
Brown, finding them absent,. said to one of
her lady friends, "Let usa. go and see where
the girls are." Not fihding.them in the-house,
they went to the yard, and upon opening the
dbor discovered their ffite. They had entered
the water closet. the floor had given way..and
they were precipitated into the water several
feet below.
The abarm was given at once and assistance
procured. The-bodies were hooked up from
the water, after a great deal of difficulty, and
examined, but -life was found. to be entirely
extinet in both of them. The accident occur
red at about half-past three o'clock, ad they
were notr discovered until half-past four.
MiNs. Brwn was about seventeen years of
age, and Miss Hart nineteen ; both beautiful
and accomplished' Their untimely death
easta gloom over the community in that part
of the cityl ii which they were w.ell known.
The accident seemed to be the result off a
careless neglect of repairs of the privy
building.-Louisville Courier, 19th inst.
irFATICIDE.-The Keowee (S. C.) Courier,.
of Saturday,. records the follow ingpiece of de
pravity :
A horrible case of' infantibide occurred in
theDistrict last week. Mrs. Sarah Calhoun
has been arrested and committed to jail on
the charge of drowning her own child, which
was only3 some seven or eight days old. A
feedman, Floyd,, was.arrested on a charge of4
compliity in the etime ;-but he was either re
eased by or carried off by the garrison recent
ly on duty at Walhalla. The head of the
child, had been "scalped" or disfiguired to pre
vent, if possible, its cokor from being identiy
fed.. Good citizens believe that Floyd is gmilty
of complicity in the crime, and that he should
not be alloweb} to, escape merited punish
ment.
- An inqjuest was held on the- body of the
child,. but no, ret.drn of the proceedings therein
has been made .
Mrs. Moseley, of Syracuse. N. Y., - took
poison on Tuesday afternoon, laid' down on
he lounge, asked'her husband to read to .her
when ha came home, laughed h-eartily at what
he read, and then tarned over as if to go. to
sleep. An hour afterwards,, when he went to
wake her up, he found-her in a dying condition.
Subquently a letter was found,. in. which sihe
acknowedged that her husband. hadf alMays
treated her kindly,. bat said sh-e was tired- of
living, anqd wanted-to prove that-she was not
afraid to'die.. The letter was written partly
Kbefore and partly after she had~ teken thbe
poison, ands was very cheerful throughout.
Mrs.. M. was a very benevolent lady, and on
thxday of her death she had been' engaged in
Isoliciting subscriptions t.o buy a sewing
machine for a poor widow.
An ex.,slaxe .4Beauaegard's is said to have
married a Ned ngland sch-oolmi*arm She
mus 1i-hosan her .Beaa-regardless of eor.
IsoNS u o M . DAvIs.-Dre CrMem
that when "twelv.e ongmen"hibybr
force, riveted heavy shackles upon MrBavs,
after:' brief period of insensibility the noble
martyr:permitted his manacled feet -. reat
upowthe floor of the cell, and:w.hen-he heard
the elanking of the fetters he buied hiis fa
between his hiands sobbed audibtj and exp
claimed,, -"Oh, the shame r the' shame!" But
the "shamie'says thb RiehmondTimes- wa&,
that of the great natiel, which permito@ thi
vile act to pass unpwiished. The, fetters no;
more degraded President Davis than the
Grucii-ion- did' the. Saviour of manind, or
the off4r of a. reward. for the bead of George
Washington made him a traitor.'
There was no "shame," thank God, for the
poor, wasted prisoner,:hurled down and boundt
by a d'ozen men.-no "shame""upon the-btave,.
nobleA eople whose late President was thds
outra"ed-but a "shame" as enduring as- nrsZ
tory, red;.burning and scorchig as the light--.
ning ofteaven upon those who thus brutally
abused te power'fta giant.
That dbid of infamy wililive ii history like,
the black crime of Judas,.,-and the- "goodly
company" ofitorturers, tyrants,. mercillessjailr
ors and brutaP conquerors,' whom Dante des
cribes in-his "Inferno," will have in due sea*.
s6n appropriate additions to their "a'rdenteir
cle," as, the participants in that.fout deed meet
their fiery rewardir.-Carolinian.
HAT WOMEN CIN Do.-Two young lidies
residing in Martinsburg, West Virginia, who
were left utterly destitute and: homeless by
reason of the ravages of the latb- war, have set
themselves to work since the cesstion of bo
tilities and nearly restored'their proporty to.
its normal condition. One of thein-personally
plowed. and p1hnted, manytccres of lnd. Their
neighbor4 built then 1-Iog,-Muse to live -im
and ettemporized -a sort of barr.
Horses were loatted to them, and the gfrts
with their own hands raised a profitable crop
of eorn,; with the proceeed ofiwbich -they -are~
buying .agricultural -implements at Philadels
phia.. In the place.of' the log.house they have
a comfortable dwelling and substantial barni -
and making such improvements upon the proh.
perty they own as- to render it more valuable,
to day than before the torch of conflicting:
armies reduced its biidinogs to ashes.
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hIn one of William Wert's letters to his daugh
ter,~ oceurs this beau,tifu.l passage "on the small;.
sweet.courtes3ies of life."~ "h want to, tell you a
secret. The way to' make yourself pleasing to.
others is to show -them attention. 'The whole
world is'like the miller at Mfansfield, 'who cared;
for nobody, no, not he, because nobody-.dared
for him.' And the- whole world, would serve you&
so, if you gave them -the same'causes, Let every
one,. therefore ai that you do care for themn, by
showing them what' Sterne so- happily called ther
small courtesies;-in whch there is' no parade,.
whose voice is too still-to tease, and which mam
fst themnselves by te~ndei' and affectionate looksq
and- little acts' ef.affection, giving other- the-pre
ference in every little~ enjoymlent, at the table, in;
the field, walking, sitting or standing."
. Ew.rs na N.zw YoGR.-The New York-fimest'
*says that a very wholesome Ieaetion has set
in ii that city with respect twents.. Numberse
of houses can- now be obtained at rates much
lower than those' that were cur'rent in May.
Evry where throughout the city placards are
up stating that floors an~d parts of hodsg can
now be had on a pplicatiOn wi{hmL.. A wonder--i
fl. change;~ too, has come over the rea? estate'
aents. They trea& pei-sonis now with the
utmost polienes some of them.even approch
ing' subserviency.
ja -nnhap that the. same en M8herljde& saic