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AIa A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c Vol. XIII. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY *2, 1877. No. 18. TH.E HERALD 19 PUBLISHED) (' EFRRY WE ?\NESDAY MORNING, At Newbe ry, S. C. BY THOS. F. GRKNHKRB, Editor and Proprietor. Terms, $2.00 per e1nnum, Invariably in Advanice. *yThe paper is stopped at the expiration of time for which it is paid. U;~r The M mark denotes expiration of snb scription. MATIN SONG. BY BAYA1tD TAYLOR. I let the dearest dream depart That night to love revealed, Some eager spirit in my heart My sleeping eyes resealed. Yet still 'twas love that led me here And bids my feet delay. Arise, and light the dawn. my dear! Look forth, anid bring the day. As out of darkness yonder star Of whitest ray is born, As birds and blossoms feel afar The coming of the morn, So thou bast dawn'd, and now art near, To brighten and to stay; My being dies in thine, my dear! As daybreak dies in day!I [Atlantic Monthly. HIT lUTLL STRIEET BIB. A CONY?ICT'S STORY. -0 quiet, for I don't care to have m, employers know it, and in thl second place, you must post m< up, so I shall know exactly wha we're about." "All right !" said he; "that' easily managed. And as you pu in the funds I'll be satisfied witi one quarter of what we make and if you should lose, which ii impossible, however, I'll stau< half the loss." By this time we had reache< my lodgings and, going in togeth er, I gave him a check for $1,00i on the bank where my small pat rimony was deposited. A memo randum of our agreement as t< the division of the certain profit! and impossible losses which w< anticipated was then drawn up and my mere acquaintance gayls took his leave, saying : "Mark my prediction ! Thorn ton & Co. will corner the street yet." I smiled at this, but I did nol realize its absurdity so clearly aE I have since. By far the most in teresting part of the newspapei the next morning was the finan cial article, and 1 bought the .firsi edition of the Evening Post to se( the stock quotations. I could noi leave my desk during businesf hours, but I dined with Thorntor and found him in a high state o excitement. He urged me to in vest another thousand but I re fused, though greatly tempted b3 his representations. The nexi night he made a prodigious effort to look cool and unconcerned aE he laid before me a package o: greenbacks amounting to $1,750 "There," said he, "I doublec your thousand in- two days, and J could have done the same if ii had been two thousand or ter thousand. You might have made $1,500 as easy as $750." I looked grave as 1 reflectec that this was undoubtedly the fact. "What have you done with youi $250 ?" I inquired. "Bought Erie, of course. I'l treble it, sure." I cross-questioned him closely went over the newspaper reporti once- more, and then took my res olution. Calling for pen and inli I filled up a blank check and said anding him the package of green backs:. "Here is $1,750 in cash, ani ere is a check for $4,700. Go ir and win." Thornton jumped up and grasp ed my band, exclaiming : "You're a man of n'erve ! Yoi deserve to be rich !" "Well," said I, "it depends good deal on you. See that yoi make no mistake." "N ever fear," said he, "you'.] be worth $20,000 before you knov~ it." After some further conversatior we parted, my occasional misgiv ings being speedily dispelled b: delightful visions of sudden wealth You will see that I bad put in to Thornton's hands the whole o my little inheritance togethe: with two years' interest, which: ad allowed to accumulate, m: salary for the last two years hav ing been amply sufficient for mn3 wants. I am satisfied that i would have been a lucky thing fo: me if I had lost every cent of it But, as it happened, Thornton' instinct was not at fault ; he solt out at just the right moment, an< I found myself as he had predict ed, worth $20,000, besides severa odd hundreds, with which I in dulged in ebampagne, game sup pers, and some other expensivi luxuries which I had hitherto en tirely avoided. I had self-control enough to de posit my money in bank, kee' my secret, and attend steadily t my regular business. Thorntor too, kept his affairs from his emr plyers, but continued to specu late with his share of the profit made off my capital, and witl such success that in a few month he was worth as much as 1L. M: resolution to be satisfied witi what I ha'd made, and tempt for tune no more, gradually vanishei as I noted his continued prosper iy, and when he came to me witl secret information of a projecte< mnvemnent in leading stoc*k, whic] promised results of the most f1at e tering character,and told me be had a invested every cent in that stock, t I readily agreed to do the same. At first everything went well. s The stock began to rise slowly, t and at one time we might have i made four or five thousand apiece by selling, though neither of us 3 thought of that for a moment. 1 Then there came a lull, and then, without a moment's warning, the i stock tumbled with such frightful - rapidity that, before we realized ) it, our little fortunes were swept - away. Thornton made haste to - sell, but we found ourselves each > $2,000 in debt, and with no conso 3 lation except that some dozens of i fellow-speculators had been clean ed out in the same style as our selves. I s.hall not soon forget our - meeting after this disaster. I could not reproach Thornton, for his losses were as heavy as mine, i and it was he who rescued us from the dilemma of having to pay $4,000 between us at once - without funds, or have our trans actions exposed to our respective employers. "I have a friend," said he, "who will shave our joint note for a fair 3 discount, and before it comes due, we shall have time to get on our E feet again." I cannot say I liked the sugges - tion, but there was no alternative. Thornton introduced me to his friend, the note shaver, a Mr. Jackson, a cunning, oily man, with a disagreeable expression of E countenance, though his manner was singularly polite, considering that we could furnish no security. However, we had to give him a note for $5,000, payable in six months, with interest, in order to get the $4,000 we needed. This transaction completed, we I breathed more freely, feeling i that we had at least a six months' reprieve. -The misery I endured during these six months I cannot it I tempt to describe. I hardly saw T bornton, who studiously avoided ,me. until one evening toward the i end of the fifth month, he called -me into Mouquin's, and showed Sme a release, signed by Jackson, ,from all obligation under our joint - note. "What does this mean ?" I Igasped. "It means that I have paid my -half with interest," said Thorn - ton. "And where did you get the Smoney ?" I cried, amazed. "Specula.ting in stocks," was the cool reply. "Why don't you ? I suppose Wilson, Carter & Co. would lend you enough to begin 1with. At any rate you can bor row it of them, even if they don't lend it." With these words Thornton -turned and abruptly walked away. I suppose he meant to do me a! service by this infernal sugges tion, but he might better have thrust a dagger into my heart. I cannot tell how I brooded that night over what he said, or how the next day I tremblingly acted upon it, employing ayoung broker, to whom Thornton had introduced me, to invest the purloined funds. I had spime delusive successes, but the day the note came due I pos sessed not a cent to meet my share of it, and was $1,500 behind in my accounts with my employers. Mustering up all my courage I called on Jackson, told him I had not been so fortunate as my friend Thornton, and ventured to pro pose that he accept my note for -$3,000 in.settlement of my present obligation. "1 will do so readily,'' said he, "upon one condition, and that is, that you have a good name at the back of it." "But I hardly know to whom I .could apply," I1 said. "I would a much rather give you a greater 2 discount on my own promissory a note-in fact, any discount you ,choose to demand." i "And tbat's the very reason, -my dear fellow," said Jackson, "I I will not do it, unless I have a good name at the back. On that a condition I have no objection to I make it a year, so as to allow you a sfir.ient time to 10oon about you and pay the money comfortably Now, think well if there is an' person .to whom you could apply You are very thick with the jun ior partner in your firm; why no get him to put his name to it At any rate you can but ask him and the thing may be done to morrow. Now take my advici and try the experiment." I left Jackson, hardly knowint what to do. True, I was on ver3 friendly terms with the juniol partner, son of the senior partner and I believe he bore me grea good will. Still, it was a very dan gerous experiment to try, for i he should refuse and require int< my accounts he would find me defaulter to the amount of $1,500 And here I must hurry over the particulars of the crime 1 commit ed, so painful are they to thinli Df. Suffice it to say, instead o: >btaining his signature I wa: guilty of forging it. My rene ec note was accepted, but it woulc be impossible to describe the ter rible state of my mind. The only method I had of relieving mysel: from the penalty of my crim< would be by perpetrating others and this, I felt convinced, woulc only be to prolong for a shor1 time the misery I was in. A feel ing of recklessness then came on and I resolved to let things taki their course. Just before the of ice was about to close, one day Jackson entered and told one o the junior clerks he wished t< ;peak with the senior partner Although he remained in mi room during the time the youtl went with the message, he tool not the slightest notice of me, but with perfect command of counte nance, looked about him till hi; %ye fell on me, when he showec no more appearance--reOgnIoD LhAn if I bad been a total stran ger. He was soon after usheret into the senior partner's office and I, closing my desk, put on ml bat, and, in a state of terror i would be impossible to describe returned home. The state of my mind that night would baffle a! lescription. I tried to sleep, i only to close my eyes for a shor time to the danger I was in. Al was useless ; and I turned over ii my mind innumerable schemes o the vaguest description by whiel to save -myself. When I thin! over them now, and can estimat< their utter worthlessoess and ab surdity; I can easily under.stand: was in the condition of the drown ing man who catches at a straw. The next morning, entirely for getting my breakfast, in a fit o recklessness I dressed, and wen to the office. Shortly after i arrival, the senior partner entered and in passing through the offic< be looked steadily at me for som< moments, and then went on. 2 few minutes later a messenge: eam~e to mc and told me the senio: partner wished to speak with me At that moment a powerful, re spectably attired, common-looking man entered the office, bearing letter for the firm. He glanced a me as I went out of the room, an< [ shuddered as I looked at him for I felt persuaded he was a de tective officer. On entering tb< senior partner's office, he raiset bis eyes from the desk, and lookec steadily at me. I was surprise< to find there was no sternness noi indignation in his countenance. "J-," he said, in a kind tone "you do not look at all well thi: morning. Is there anything th< matter with you ?" I caught at the idea, and said had not felt usell for the last fev days. "'I thought not,'' he said ; "'an< only sent for you to say, if it wer< the case, you had better returi home and take a day or two's rest You will then be better, and we can do very well without you fo: that time." A reception .so different fron what I had expected, made suc! an impression on me that the teari came to my eyes, and 1 felt hal inclined to confess the whole truth The senior partner, however, put ting out his hand, and shaking mine warmly, said : "Now go home, and keep u] your spirits, and you will do ver' well" At that moment one of the p clerks entered the room, and I left .. it and proceeded homewards, the - man whom I had imagined to be t a detective being no longer there. For what purpose Jackson visited the office the evening before I - know not. Certainly it was not 3 connected with my business. It will be too painful for me to go further into the matter. I r plunged deeper and deeper into r crime. I attempted to conjure up a reckless frame of mind, and in t the daytime to a considerable ex - tent succeeded. But then the f nights-how can I describe their > misery ? I could not sleep with t out opium, and the more I took of; the drug the greater the quantity I required, till at length I was obliged to take each evening as much as would have killed any or F i dinary man. It had also its effect 3 on my countenance, which assum I ed the pallid hue of the regular I opium eater. At last the forgery - was discovered, Jack6on having sold my note ; I was arrested, my t defalcations came to light, and a soon after I found myself here. One word more, in justice to I myself. I heard that in the news t paper report of the trial it was - stated that when, after my sen tence, I left the bar, it was with a 3 jaunty step and indifferent expres. sion of countenance. Never was there a truer remark. If, indeed, f any objection can be taken to it, > it is that it did not go far.enough, for the imprisonment to which I was!condemned, and the utter ruin of my prospects in life, were but a :feather in the balance, when com pared with the weight of horrible - mental torture and doubt I had 3 been laboring under for months I before thter mination ofmyx a - rrer of crime. - "Where is Thornton, you ask ?" I He occupies the cell adjoining mine.-lilustrated Weekly. [ From the Enterprise and Mountaineer.] GOV. PERRY'S ANSWER TO MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S AD SDRESS TO THE REPUB LICANS OF THE STATE. Hon. D. H. Chamberlain : ISma-Your farewell address "To Sthe Republicans of Sagth Carolina," Scalls for the execration of every -honorable man in the State. It is Sunequaled in audacity, falsehood and hypocrisy. . When forced by the indignation of the people and a sense of justice on the part of the President to abandon your fraudu Slent usurpation of power in South SCarolina, you seek, by the most in siduous teachings, to stir up the a deepest malignant hostility and re Svenge between the races. It would seem from the language of your raddress that your fell purpose is to rurge the ignorant and' credulous people whom you have so long -duped, to riots, insurrections and massacres ! You are indeed, sir, an enigma in morals and politics. SAfter libelling President Hayes, by Scharging him with a cowardly aban donment and betrayal of his friends, and with being false to the Consti Stution which he had sworn to sup port, you conclude your hypocriti cal address by saying his "motives and purposes are unquestionably honorable and patriotic." Was there ever such glaring inconsistency be fore in so short an article ? sMoreover, after slandering the people of South Carolina with the most atrocious falsehoods, and try ing to sow amongst.them the seeds of hatred and revenge, which are to ripen into murder and a blaze of Sincendiarism all over the State, you Shave the daring hypocrisy to say Sthat you "devoutly pray that peace, -justice, freedom and prosperity may Shereafter be the portion of every 'citizen of South Carolina !" Do you suppose, sir, that any one who 1 reads your address will be fool 'enough to be deceived by your cant s ing hypocrisy ? You have the repu f' tation, with all your meanness and -treachery, of being a man of talents and culture, and it is amazing that i youi fiendish feelings should have betrayed you into such inconsisten Scy ! But your actions have been in r the- past as inconsistent as your words. It is well known that you were elected Governor of the State two or three years ago, by the most corrupt wing of your party, and in opposition to the wishes and exer tions of all the respectable men of both parties. In the course of a few short months you denounced these corrupt partisans in unmeas ured terms. You declared yourself a Reformer, and said that your for mer friends and supporters were too corrupt to hold public offices. You spoke of the imminent danger to the civilization of the Huguenot and Puritan, the Round Head and Cavilier. Many good men were deceived by your artful hypocrisy. You declared that you would not accept a nomination for re-election by this corrupt wing of the Radical party. But as soon as the Demo ,ratic party had made their nomi aation for governor, you said to Judge Cooke, as he testified before the Congressional Committee, that you would see to it that Corbin's dia bolical scheme of having thirty or forty negroes killed to stop the en thusiasm in favor of Hampton, should be carried out ! Such an ex pression of fiendish treachery would have done credit to the darkest days of the Spanish inquisition, or the bloodiest leaders of Saint Bartholo mew's massacre ! You then ap pealed to the corrupt leaders of your party, whom you had so scorn fully denounced for their support, and was renominated by them! You commence your address by the utterance of a truth, a disgrace ful truth to the people of South Carolina, and the only truth which it contains. You were "by the will of the Republican party made Gov ernor of the State in 1874." The next sentence that you were elected - a a e office again last Fall, is a most notisuu inibt:uvuu, luuwnL to be such by every one, so declared by the Supreme Court of the State and every Circuit Judge on the Bench. The President of the United States and his entire Cabinet have tacitly admitted it to be false, and the whole Press and American peo ple believe it to be false. The votes returned by the managers of elec tion, after all the frauds and repeat ing of your voters, show that Gov ernor Hampton was elected by a majority of ten or twelve hundred votes, ten or fifteen thousand of the most respectable of your own party voting for him. And yet you have the audacity to say, in the face of all these facts, that you were re elected, and when driven from the office by the scorn and contempt of the people and the decree of the courts, you still sign your name, "D. H. Chamberlain, Governor of South Carolina." In the language of the arraign ment of a murderer and traitor, none but one "devoid of all social duty, and with a heart fatally bent on mischief," could have uttered such atrocious falsehoods as you have done in the following senten es: "From authentic evidence it is shown that not less than one hundred of your number were mur dered because they were faithful to their principles, and exercised rights solemnly granted to them by the nation ! You were driven from your homes, denied employment, robbed of the earnings of your honest industry, hunted for your lives like wild beasts, your families outraged and scattered for no of fence, except yoiur peaceful and firm determination to exercise your po litical rights-" These monstrous falsehoods you have published in the face of the concurrent testimony of the milita ry authorities of the United States in South Carolina, and all honest, truthful men of both parties that the election was orderly, quiet and peaceful. There was no violence or outbreak at any poll in the State, nor was there the slightest disturb ance after the election. It is true that in pursuance of your wicked and damnable designs disclosed to Judge Cooke, there were riots and bloodshed before the election at Hamburg, Aiken, Combahee, Char leston and Cainhoy, in which your wn partisans were the aggressors in every instance. Instead of at tempting to suppress these riots you ran off and left the State. But in order to unfurl the bloody shirt on th ev of the Presidential elec ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements Inserted at the rate of S1.00 per square (one inch) for first insertion, and 75 cents for each sabsequent'insertion. Double column advertisements ten per cer t. on above. Notices of meetings, obituaries and tributes of respect, same rates per square as ordinary advertisements. Special Notices in Local column 15 cents per line. Advertiseic+t. nar) m^r-ke4 with the num ber of Insertions will be kept in till forbid, and charged un(cordingly. Special contracts made w!th 1:1rge adver tisers, with lihwral deduct ions~ on above rates. JOB PR.1VTIXG DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH. TERMS. CASH. AN 0OM1ELETTE MATINEE, An "omelette matinee," says,the New York Herald, was the great attraction at the cooking school at No. 8 St. Mark's place, recently. The matinee was attended ,by about fifteen or eighteen. women, evidently belonging to the most intelligent class of New York matrons and housekeepers. While the fashionable ladies were pro mnenading on Broadway in the joyous sunshine these conscientious wives were glad to bear the con finement of -a kitchen in order to improve their husband's-'dinners. The bill of fare consisted of mock turtle soup, boiled bass, al a. maitre d'hotel, with potatoes, roamt quail stuffed, and omelettes (tam oyster, Parmesan cheese, mushrooms,'fine herbs and preserves). Very often there were colloquial interruption. One of the auditors, for instance, desired to know whether a small or a large calf's head _made the best mock turtle soup, to0 which the cook curtly replied, "small are tion, and give notoriety to these riots, you ordered several hundred of the most respectable gentlemen in the State to be arrested. When they came forward and demanded a trial in open court, it was refused by your minions, and in all proba bility never will be accorded to them. In the Cainhoy massacre, where the negroes suddenly fell upon the white people and killed eight or ten of them, you never bad one of them arrested ! The gravomen of your insidious complaint against the President is that he will not keep a large por tion of the United States army in South Carolina, to maintain you in your usurpation of the Executive authority of the State ! and save harmless the roguish carpet bag gers and scalawags in plundering and robbing the people ! oppress ing and tyrannizing over them! You know well enough the Presi dent has no power to decide who is the governor of a sovereign State, or interfere with its Legislature. This power might belong to a mil itary despot in the government of his provinces, but cannot be exer cised in a federal republic, where all power is vested in the people. You deny, sir, the right of a Democratic House of Representa tives in Congress to withhold ap propriations for the army when they see that army kept up for the purpose of trampling on the rights of the State and crushing out all the republican principles of our government ! The House of Rep resentatives would be the assasains of Liberty if they made an appro priation for such a purpose. I will not notice further your most extraordinary address, which embodies the basest and most ma lignant feelings of your nature, and prvs you Lo 5e a Lu Leaneu aUu dangerous man. In Rome you might have been a Cataline, in France you might have figured in the last century as Robespierre ; but in South Carolina you may yet be conspicuous in the penitentiary, if all that is said of you by your former associates and partisans be true. Yours, &c., B. F. PERRY. "WHAT EVERY BODY SAYS MUST BE TRUE." The incontrovertible testimony offered by those who have used Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription induced the doctor to sell it under a positive guarantee. Many la dies have refrained from using it on account of a general feeling of prejudice against advertised med icines. Let me ask a question. 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She suffered almost intolerably before using yoor medicine, and I bad tried the skill of several physicians but to no purpose. Finally, I thought I would givo the Favorite Pre-1 scription a trial. and she is now sound and well. Very gratefully yours, D. A. HUNTER. A Scranton hotel is advertised as "kept by the widow of Mr. Brown, who died last summer on a new and improved plan."