The Newberry herald. (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, August 29, 1877, Image 2
From the Charleston News and Courier.]
What Gave Those Senators
Jolly Red Noses.
CoLuMBIrA, August 21.-The fol
lowing "aeounrts have been handed
me. as SI ecimnsI of Some1 frauds
which have come under the notice (f
the investigating committee. Sen
ator Cochran, the chairman, states
that these properly belong to the
class of petty thieveries which have
been unearthed, and that they sink
into insi,gnificance by the side of
other transactions which have been
discovered. but which considerations
of prudence require to withhold froci
the public for the present. These
accounts are exact copies of the orig.
inals, which were handed inc by Mr.
Cochran, and were taken by him at.
random from a heap of similar docu
ments, turned over to the committee
by Mr. Woodruff, clerk of the Sen
ate, as his vouchers for payments un
der the head of Legislative Expenses
All of these "vouchers," it must
be remembered, passed the Senate in
their present fortm, and were approved
and ordered to be paid. The mode
of procedure in such cases, as I at
informed, was-as follows : When the
reports of comiittees were called for
in the Senate the chairman of the
committee on accounts would rise in
his turn with a bundle of papers in
his hand, and, selecting some one
bona fide claim of few items and
small amount, would read aloud such
claim only, and "respectfully beg to
be allowed to submit it and others."
Another honorable senator, in inter
est and in the secret, would at once
"move that they be ordered to be
paid," which comprehensive and eon
venient motion was always carried
without further ceremony.
'It remains only to be said, by way
of comment, that these examples re
late only to the transactions of the
honorable senators, and are but as a
drop in the bucket of the whole amount
which might be obtained. The House
has also its records of a similar nature,
and as it was the larger body it is safe
to assume that its proceedings of a
similar character were conducted on a
scale duly proportioned to its size, and
generally conceded lower standard of
respectability and honesty. It must
also be said that, notwithstanding the
truly formidable mass of such eviden
ces which have been preserved, by far
the greater part has been either de
stroyed or rescued from the place of
deposit by the persons most interested
in having them "lost or mislaid."
The largest claim, given below, is
for $1,125, and was drawn in favor of
"L. C. Jennings." This gentleman,
it may be remarked, was without body
and bones of his own, and is supposed
to have had his purely nebulous being
impartially distributed throughout the
persons of a half dozen bibulous sena
tors, who acted as his attorneys, and
received and disbursed his fuuds for
him to their own great gain and satis
faction.
COLUMBIA, S. C., February 15) 1873.
Mr. J. WOODRUFF, for Senate, bought of
Geoi-ge Symmers.
Jan. 29. 1 gal whiskey, 57; 1 case
-champagne, $45.........S 52 00
1 P Acheese, S3 50; 4doz qts
leger, $28.. ... ........31 50
30. 1 box cigars,S10; 1 case wine,
$45.................... 5500
31. 4 doz Bass' ale,$14; matches,
50c.................. 14 50
Feb. 1. 6 boxes cigars, $60; cheese,
$1 25; crackers, $1 25.. 62 50
1ldoz ale. $3 50; 1ldoz por
ter, $3 50; 1ijar ginger, 83;
(Green)................ 10 00
a gal C whiskey, $1 50; 1 hot
~wine, $2; (Hollinshead). 3 50
.3 bots wine, $6; 1ibox cigars,
$9; (Robertson).......... 15 00
4. 4 doz ale, S14; 1 gal C whis
key, $3................ 17 00
Matches, 40c; 1 gal C whis
key, $3.........-..... 3 40
5. 1 pineapple cheese, $2 50; 5
lbs crackers, $1 25........ 3 75
3 boxes cigars, S30; I gal
whiskey, $7..... ....... 37 00
6. 1 pineapple cheese, $2 50; 6
hxs sardines, $1 80....... 4 30
2 boxes cigars............. 20 00
7. Bill rndse to Lee.......... 284 39
1 gal whiskey, $7; 1 gal C
whiskey,$3; 1 cheese, 52 50 12 50
2 bots champagne.........7 00
8. 1 box St candles, S2 40; 1 gal
C whiskey, 3............ 5 40
1 pineapple cbeese, $1.75; 5
lbs crackers, $1 25........ 3 00
1 box cigars, $10; 3 doz ale,
610 50................205
10. 3 gals whiskey, $21; 2 gals
sherry, $14.............. 35 00
.2 boxes cigars, $20; 1 gal
whiskey, S7............. 27 00
.11. 1 gal whiskey, $7; G W
cheese,S1 63 ;crackers,$1 25 9 88
2 doz porter,S7; 3 bots Maras
chino, $12; (Robertson).... 19 00
3 bots Curacoa, S12; 1 case
champagne, $45;- (Robert
son)................... 57 00
12. 1 gal whiskey, $7; 1 doz
mnatches, 40c............. 7 40
1 cask,8 doz, porter, at $3 50
(Lee).................. 28 00
13. 1'gg i C whiskey, $3; 10 lbs
cra&ctr, 82 50............ 5 50
6 boxes sardines, $1 80; 6 lbs
cheese, a1 50. ........ 3 30
3 lbs Switze.r cheese, S1 20; 1
gal whiskey, '67.......... 8 20
Total...........-. --..... $861 52
Received payment by order on State treas
arer. GEORGE SYMMERs,
Per Wmi. Roy.
NOTE.-HlollinShe2ad was the Senator from
Abbeville; Green was the Senator from
Orangeburg; Lee was Senator from Chester;
Robertson was the member of the H-ouse who
was expelled last session.
F?ollowing this are accounts of J.
M. Allen. L. Wibou.sh and A. J.
Ransier for cigars, champagne and
whiskey, to the amount of 8403. 58,
and C. P. Leslie and C. D). Haynie,
for furniture and dry goods, amount
inig to 61,061.20.
'The next and last is simple and
brief. It reads as follows:
"CotL-MBA, S. C., December 9, 1873.
Sear:e, to L. C. Jennings, . Dr.
To sundries and transportation. ... $1,125 00
{)rdercd paid. .J- W-"
VicK.-The Fourth Number of Vick's
F!oral Guiide for 1S77 has come. In its spe
cial line it exceis all1 other publications. Ai!
who love flowers shouald have the Floral
Guide.
The publisher will isstie, begtnning in No
vember, a mont:hly, in addition to his pres
ent publica:ions, to be ea!!ed Vick's Illus
trated Monthly Magazine, the price of which
will be $1.25 a year. Address James Vick,
locehester, N. T.
SOUTHEts FARMER AND STocx Join
xAL.-Tis favorite journal for September is
r~eeive(:. ~zii as usual. COe~VIR~ ~ in
The .Pen nsvlvania 1emocratic
Convention met at Ilarrisburg
the 22nd. Ion. Mr. Steuger is
permanent Chairman. He said:
"Gentlemen of the Convention.
accept my sincere thank for the
honor of being:; selected to preside
over your deliberations. I con
gratulate you that we meet with
a full representation from every
district in the- State. There is
one striking fact about the Demo
cratic party. It never dies. Others
rise and fall-corme and go with
the ideas that called them into ex
istence, but the Democratic party I
lives on amid all vicissitudes, be
cause its piinciples are those of
the Constitution. It has been
defeated-laid out for dead--de
frauded, (wild applause,) but it
still lives, and our opponents may
as well take notice from its vital
ity, that while earth lasts, like
the seed time and harvest, Demo
cratic Conventions shall not cease.
Defrauded I say, because I am
not unmindful of the fact., that
while I speak, the chair of Wash
in(gton and Jefferson is filled by a
man rejected by a quarter of a
million majority of the American
people, and a decided majority of
the electoral votes of the States.
The wisdom of the recent Demo
cratic policy is being vindicated
by the Hayes administration in
two points. Especially in 187., a
Democratic majority elected to
the lower House of Congress, in
stituted a plan for the adjustment
of public difficulties, by applying
the policy of economy, retrench
ment and reform, They stead
fastly adhered to it, and sixty
millions of dollars were thereby
saved to the nation. Every Re
publican paper said the Demo
cratic House was crippling the
Government, and was cruel to its
employees. But a few days ago,
the financial Secretary of the
Hayes administration goes to
Ohio and claims credit for his
party, because it has recently dis
missed a thousand employees. It
was compelled to do so by the
Deiiocrat.ic House. and now credit
is claimed by the-Hayes adminis
tration. The Dem-cratic party
urged the removal of the army
from the South. It was felt that
peace and prosperity would come
to the Southern States only in
this event., and that business de
rangements only then would
cease. The House stood firm as
a stone wall against the proposi
tion to pay the troops unless it
was expressly stipulated that it
should not be used to sustain the
bogus State governments. It was
a unit for the bill with t?his, against
it unless it was included, anid now
Sherman is pressing Hayes be
cause he adopted the Democratic,
policy. Another instance of econ
omy, comnpelled by the Democrat
ic policy, credit for. which is
claimed by the Hayes administra
tion. I do not propose to detain
this Convention with an extended
speech, but to follow the experi
ence of my predecessors venera
ble in Democ:-acy, if not in years,
you are competent to discharge
your duty, and in that way I in
voke harmony. But why har
mony ? We are the party of law
and order, and in all history there
was no grander spectacle than
that of this great party quietly
submitting for the sake of law
and order and the perpetuity of
our free institutions to the most
monstrous political fraud of any
age, for the act of the Electoral
Commission was a foul stain upon
our national honor, wvhich all the
rains in the sweet heavens cannot
wash out."
The speech was very frequently
interrupted by applause, and ev
ery allusion to the act of the
Eector-al Com mission was loudly
cheered.
WAsHINGTON, Aug. 22.--They
continue to talk in New England.
General Devens said a few years ago
the church of which you are a part,
here represented, was torn and cut
asunder by the gre-at confiet of arms
between liberty and slavery. Cer
tainly now that the great questions
revealed in that contest are settled,
there is great reason to rejoice. The
members of the church North and
South arc again united.
The President then said it is not
best for one .bred to the law to at
tempt to quote Scripture, but there is
something like this, "there is more
joy over the repenting one than over
a hundred that liave not gone astray."
We have with us a friend who was
for years against us, and more recent
ly made- the mistake of voting against
me, but now on the question of the
integrity and maintenance of the
Union, and on the question of free
onm and equality to all men-no man
is before.
.Judge Key, the Postmaster Gcue
re, spokce as follows: It would not be
spected that I should appear here
without embarrassment-it is not with
out feelings of sadness that I view this
scene. I am carried back to my boy
hood days, when in that far South,
my sunny home. 1 attended meetings
like this, for the MIethodist ar-e found
in that part of the union, and my fe.
thr was an honored minister in your
chureb. I Ie has been gene now ten
years, end you have heard how I, his
own son, haye wandered. I will not
attempt to quote ept4.re, for I migh t
fail more significantly tiumi sis.e Presi
dent, but I havxe heard an old byng
that reads: "While the lamp lds
ou to ben the vilest sinner may r
turn" The fact that Gen. Devens
and I are here together, shows that
the principles of religion htave hold in
th an if at throughout the
their good behavior, and I am sure
they will keep their faith. 'I thank
you sincerely for this grecting. 1 ae
cept it-not as a compliment to ily
self, but as a mark of feeling you have
for the South.
The Hlerald.
THOS. F. GRENEKER, EITORS.
W. H. WALLACE,
IAZ"
-NEWBERRY. S. C.
W EDNESDAY, A UG. 29, 1877.
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
The Uerald is in the higrhest respect a Fan
ily Newspaper. devoted1 to the material in
tere4ts of the people of this County and the
State. It circulates extensively. and as an
Advertising mediun otrers unrivalled ad
vantages. For Terms, see first page.
Adger College.
Attention is directed to the ad
vertisehent in this issue of the
above named institution, located at
Walhalla, S. C.
Railroad Again.
The probabilities are that the
mass meeting in the interest of a
new railroad will be largely attend
ed next Monday. Let those who
feel specially int.Qrested examine
and study the subject closely in the
meantime in reference to the ex
pense, the route and the manner of
raising the necessary funds.
The Sumter Watchman believes
that the way to avoid Independent
Democrats is to do away with noi
inating conventions and we be
lieve he is right. The only fair,
just and satisfactory way to nomi
nate men for office is by primary
elections ; that is, each club in the
county should vote for nominees
separately, and the aggregate votes
of all the clubs should decide the
nominations. So long as the pres
ent plan obtains there will almost
always be found a set of men, or
"c ique", who by bull-dozing., wire
pulling, or otherwise will control
the convention.
'Evil ComunIication.s. &c."
Poor Key ! He never was mutch
of a' man or he wouldn't have ac
cepted a position in Hayes' Cabinet.
And now he seems to have lost what
manliness he did possess. and as
for his Democratic principles and
Southern pride, if he ever had any,
they are gone. The emoluments of
office and the blandishments of the
Republican Administration have
been too much for the poor, lone
Democrat. -He has developed into
a first class political flunkey. He
has been traveling around through
New England with the peripatetic
President, and making speeches
and such speeches from a Democrat
and a Southerner ! At Bennington,
Vermont, a few days ago, this ex-Con
federate Colonel and professingDem
ocrat, told the New Englanders that
he accepted the cheers with which
they greeted him "as an indication
of fraternal feeling on the part of
our Northern friends toward their
erring Southern brethren." And
again in another speech he told the
New Englanders that he had for
merly entertained prejudices against
them, but since coming among
them he almost wished he was a
New Englander himself. (Amen.)
This man is this, in his high place,
misrepresenting the sentiments of
his section and people. While the
Southern people entertain no un
friendly feeling toward the North,
they are not cravens nor repentant
rebels. The Postmaster General
has forfeited all claims to being a
representative Southerner and Dem
ocrat. Mr. Key is a well-meaning
man, no doubt, but he is soft, very
soft, and his plastic nature has
taken on the impress of his Repub
lican surroundings.
State News.
The Greenville Agricultural Fair
will begin the 16th of October.
The Abbeville County Fair will be
held the 17th, 18th and 19th of Oc
T. O. P. Vernon, formerly Judge of
the 7th Circuit, died at his home in
Spartuuburg the 18th instant.
Th firt bale of new cotton this
season was shipped from Oraugeburg
County to F. W. Wagener & CJo.,
Charleston. the 15thm instant.
Gov. IIamopton has necerpted an in
vitation to deliver an address before
als WVinnebago County Fair, Rockford,
Illinois, thle Uth of Septemiber.
Piekens jail has oniy two inmates.
and they were put in for only a few
day by a Trial Justice for fighting.
Happy ]"ikns e Jhaynn -Tailm-r
ty Commissioners and the Coroner.
The Judge of Probate can neither
read nor write. These officers are all
radicals.
The Walhalla people, having se
cured a Male College, have determined
to have a Female College also. Dr.
J. P. SIneltzcr, the former President
of Newberry College, will be Presi
dent.
AnBEVILLE, S. C., August 22.
Ben Williams, colored, died to-day
from hydrophobica. He was bitten by
a rabid dog about nine weeks ago, but
he felt no symptoms until Saturday
last. and did not have the first parox
ysm until Monday. Seven other per
sons were bitten by the same dog, and
there is much excitement in the com
munity. Williams was a good citi
zen, and an active Democrat in the
last campaign.
The negroes in the lower part of
the State are very much exercised on
the subject of Liberia. Certain quon
davi radical leaders are engineering
the movement. The plan is to get up
a joint-stock company with a capital
of $300,000 by 30,000 negroes con
tributing $10 each. With this capi
tal they propose to run a line of steam
ships between Charleston and Liberia.
Rev. B. F. Porter, well known here,
is "President of the Liberian Emigra
tion Society."
A Kingstree (WilliansburgCounty)
correspondent writes as follows to the
Charleston News and Courier, the
20th instant: "I wrote you in my last
letter from this plaoe an account of
tie trial and acquittal of Henry Baker,
a negro, for the murder of Levi Brown,
a white man, who was killed while en
deavoring to save his property from
thieves. The jury that tried the case
was composed of twelve negroes. It
was a nigger murder, a nigger jury
and a nigger verdict. Here is an exact
copy of the verdict as rendered on the
trial:
bend rey
Baker not
Gil try
Marcus
Green
fo mon."
.Editorial Review.
Senator 0. P. Morton, of Indiana,
is dangerously ill.
Out of the thirty-cig.ht Governors
in the United States twenty-five are
Democrats.
Brick Pomneroy is a much married
as well as a much divorced individual.
He has just gotten his second divorce
from his second wife, and is already
married again.
"Seventeen Radical newspapers
have gone up the spout in Louisiana
since the first of January last. They
died of intimidation-'skeered . to
deth'-of course. "-Courier-Journal.
If there is a more despicable wretch
in this country than Postmaster Gen
eral Key, won't somebody just point
him out ? Contemned by the South
and the whole Democracy. whose
names he has disgraced, and despised
by the North, for whose approbation
he is fawning and cringing, his case
is pitiable indeed.
The Georgia Constitutional Con
vention has been in session several
weeks. The Legislature appropriated
$25,000 for the expenses of the Con
vention. This was exhausted the 22nd,
and the State Treasurer refused to
make any further advances. The
Convention then passed an ordinance
authorizing its president to borrow
money to defray its expenses for the
remainder of the session, to be paid
by the next Legislature. Upon this
Gen. Toombs lent the Convention
$25,000. The Convention has fixed
the Homestead Exemption at $1,600
-it was $3,000 before; it provides
for biennial sessions- fixes t,he pay of
members at $4 per day, and reduces
the salaries of State officers to very
low figures. There is seine probability
that the people will refuse to ratify it.
The Convention adjourned the 25th.
"On the Fence."
Two townships in Marion Couuty
have voted on the Stock Lawv, defeat
ing it by 5 to 1.
The Stock Law was voted on in
Anderson County the 18th, eleven
townships going for and five against
it.
One township in Oconee County
voted the 17th on the Fence Law.
17 in favor of fencing stock, 351
against.
Elections were held in four town
ships in Lancaster last week. Three
voted to fence stock, and one to fence
crops.
ELEGANT FIAJI is Woman's crowning
beauty, When it fades, she fades as
well. While it is kept bright, her per
sonal attractions are still maintained.
By preserving the hair fresh and vig
orous a youthful appearance is contin
ued through many years. Those who
grieve oever their fading hair turning
gray too'early shculd know that Ayer's
Hair Vigor prevents it, an;d re.stor-es
gray or faded hair to its natural &do~.
FOR THE HERALD.
Broadbrimi's New .ork Letter.
No. 32.
History of the New Court House--Recollec
tions of Watson, Tweed, Cardozo, liar
nard and McCunn--The Stock Mar
ket-A California Woman's Re
venge---The Temperance Cru
sade-The Weather
The Markets,
&c., &c.
At the north end of the City Hall
Park, and immediately on the site of
the old Bridewell, stands a large un
lnished white warble building known
as the New Court House. Inside
Fort William, in the British East
Indies, stands an obelisk to mark the
spot where once stood the terrible
Black Hole of Calcutta. It tells a
sickening story of brutality and suf
fering. Yet it is no such monument
of infamy as this. In Trinity Church
yard is a mausoleum which marks
the last resting-place of those who
miserably perished of starvation and
disease in the prison-ships =n New
York harbor. Yet it i-ec,r,. ) tale
of shame and sin which will equal the
story of .this great whited sepulcher.
In its rickety walls, and ill-begntten
stairs, and villainous passage-ways,
are entombed thirteen millions of the
people's money. Nor is this all.
Here, too, beneath the general ruin,
lie the crushed hopes of thousands
and thousands, mingled with a story
of wickedness to which this world
has fortunately few parallels. Cities
in ancient and modern times have
been taken by savage conquerors, and
sacked and plundered and pillaged,
but the robbery of this goodly city
was effected by friends in a time of
profound peace, and this great monu
ment of municipal crime marks the
spot where the infamy was consum
mated. Those ragged curtains flut
tering in the wind cost more than the
velvet wonders of Lyons or the mirac
ulous tapestries of Gobelin, and the
price of the wretched frescoes on the
ceilings and walls might have lined
the building from cellar to dome with
the rarest works of the Italian mas
ters. From this place graduated that
villainous trio which eventually reach
ed the Supreme Bench of the State
of New York. Here justice was aue
tioned off as at a public mart ; here
the widow was defrauded of her pro
perty and the orphan was spoiled of
his heritage ; might and crime tri
umphed over justice and right, and
the best law was given to the highest
bidder. Over there, in those rooms
on the east side, sat McCunu and
Cardozo and Barnard when they
chose to open chambers in the city
of New York, and on the floor
below sat Watson and Sweeney and
Woodward dividing the city's plun
dered millions among the band of the
Forty Thieves. From here went out
those terrible writs of mandamus and
injunction which enabled Jim Fisk,
in the light of open day, to smash the
great safe of the Union Pacific Road,
only to find that the plunder which
he sought had gone where the wood
bine twineth.
Walk carefully up the iron stairs.
Every step that you take is instruc
tive. In the days of the ring each of
these rooms along the corridor had a
private history of its own. Many of
them were fitted up with costly and
magnificent furniture which has long
since disappeared ; and here noted
robbers and courtesans held high jinks
away into small hours of the morning,
washing down their deviled crabs and
oysters with "Widow Clicquot" and
'Charles Hieidsieck," and then sleep
ing off their swinish drunkenness on
gorgeous couches of velvet and satin,
which bad cost the city a thousand
dollars apiece. Those were the days
when a splendid wedding took place
at a palatial mansion on the Fifth
Avenue; New York held its bated
breath in expectation of the great
event, for an American princess was
to be married., urn the day the
entire business of the city was sus
pended, and as the shadows of night
fell cordon's of police 4eld all the ap
proaches to the Emperor's palace,
which for the time being was trans
formed to a fairy bower, gorgeous in
flowers and sparkling with jewels.
The glittering buttons on the gaiters
of the young bride were made of rare
and costly diamonds, and .the display
of gold and silver ware and precious
jewels was roughly estimated by those
who knew to be worth a quarter of a
million of dollars. The bankrupt
chair-maker, who in 1866 swore that
ie did not own a dollar, had suddenly
become a millionaire, and more than
a millionaire, an autocrat and a despot
with an army of hirelings and retain
ers at his beck rivaling the retinue of
a king. The wealth of a great State
aggregating over two thousand mail
lions of 'dollars lay at his feet as the
spoil of his ~villainous conquest, and
already plans were being formed which
were to place this gigantic thief in
control of the treasury of the United
States. Let those who doubt the ex
istence of an overruling Providence
watch the tremendous sequences of
this story. No mortal force seemed
able to cope with the terrible power
which controlled the executive of the
State, which held in its deadly grip
the sources and fountain of justice,
which blocked every avenue to civil
nd political preferment with bands of
riinals and thieves whose legitimate
sud was State's prison or the gallows,
'he 31st of danuary, 1871, broke
sharp and cold and clear-a heavy fall
>f snow had blocked up the streets,
nd sleighs loaded with gay passeni
~ers, dashsed up and down the various
~rand avenues, filling the fashionable
rives in the park and crowding Hiar
em Lane. Late in the afternoon a
~oupe of fashionable bloods, wrapped
u costly furs and driving a splendid
mo'ca mn of blonded~ bays, stopped
Mountain Boy and mate had just
passed by, closely followed by Bouner
driving the king of the American turf.
Far as the eye could reach, either
way, were spleudid equipages enliven
ed with gold and silver bells, and glit
tering amid jewels of snow. Sudden
ly the two travelers of whom I spoke,
leave the line and dash wildly up the
mall. Screams of terror rung out from
the affrighted crowd as they madly
dashed along. Another madman heed
less of danger is flying down in the
opposite direction. There is a sud
den crash, a wild cry of agony. One
of the horses falls dead by the road
side, the pole of the sleigh piercing
his heart, and bleeding and torn, one
of the gay travelers is dragged from
among the ruius and borne back to
his magnificent home and his agonized
young wife to die. With that young
life the keystone dropped out of the
villainous arch, and when James Wat
son died the rope of sand was broken,
and you know the rest of the story.
How the great thief became a wan
dering vagabond, finding no shelter
for his wicked head and no resting
place for his weary foot, even in re
mote and foreign lands, and at last
worn and broken in spirit, he is drag
ged back across the sea, and here in
the city which he plundered and
wronged he sits behind prison bars
clutching the miserable remnant of
his ill-gotten gains, and hopelessly
waiting for that liberty which will
come to him only in the grave. When
Watson was killed thirty thousand
dollars had been subscribed to raise a
brazen statue to Tweed in the centre
of the City Hall park. Part of the
money was returned to the donors and
that statue was never erected, a:d as
lone as the new court house shall stand
he will need no other monument.
With Connoly and Sweeney, with
Oakey Hall and Garvey, with Wood
ward and Mike Norton and hosts of
lesser thieves he will find himself en
shriued in-infamy. They are waking
an addition to the new court house
now, which can scarcely add to its bad
eminence. It is true that the present
work is just and honest, and so far is
worthy of commendation, but the rag
ged villainy of the main building only
has its worthlessness and poverty more
powerfully illustrated by the excellence
of the material and work. which is be
ing put into the new addition. . The
front of the building facing Chambers
street has a bilious, unhealthy appear
ance, as though suffering from a hee
tic fever. No two stones seem to have
come out of the same quarry, and you
can readily imagine that some wander
ing traveler am1ong the ruins of Pal
myra or Balbec had surreptitiously
come into possession of a lot of second
hand material, and had afterward se
cured a contract from the city of New
York. There are scores of buildings in
Europe from five hundred to a thous
and years old which do not look more
dilapidated and shabby than the New
York City Court House. Yet, I
would not have it other than it is. I
hope to live to see it completed,, and
when its lofty dome shall rest secuxrely
on its massive arThes, and the figure
of blind justice, with her evenly pois
ed scales, shall stand triumphant on
it.s summit, I would inscribe on a
br-azen tablet on its front, "A memo
rial fr-om the citizens of New York to
the infamy of its municipal govern
ment from 1868 to 1872." For the
benefit of future generations, I would
have it recite the story how vulgar
thieves and harlots once got possession
of the City and the State, that the
American citizen of all cowing time
reading the warning and the record
may learn that honesty is the best
policy, and that there is a just God
who still rules the world.
This week has not been very pro
lific of news--Brooklyn furnishiog
us with the only first-class sensation
of the week. A damsel of fifty, and
the mother of a good-sized family in
San Francisco, came all the way from
California to make minee-meat of a
gay machinist who had formerly sus
tained a peculiar relation to her not
exactly sanctioned by .the church.
She made an appointment to meet
him in a dark street, though it ap
pears he went to her house. They
walked down-stairs quite lovingly to
gether, when the lady whipped out a
shoe-knife which she carried in her
sleeve, and before you could say Jack,
much less Robinson, that man was
one of the worst-looking machinists in
Brooklyn. He looked as though he
had been attending a picnic in a sau
sage-machine; and when the neigh
bors rushed into the fray they thought
they would have to carry the. machin
ist away in pieces. The man was
carried to the hospital and the woman
was lodged in jail, but she hopes to'
get out in the course of a few days,
to carve up some other fellow if he
says anything about her. The battle
still rages between Jay Gould and
the bulls and bears indiscrimintitely,
-somebody is going- to get hurt.
For the present the whole list of
stocks has taken an upward start. A
musical lunatic up town has been try
ing to startle our police with the con
fession that he is the murderer of Sa
rah Alexander for which Rubenstein
was sentenced to be hung over two
years ago. There is nothing in the
so-called confession to entitle it to a
moment's consideration, and the only
place for the unfortunate wretch who
gulled the World's reporter, is in the
inside of a lunatic asylum. The
great temnperance tidal wave which
we expected was going to sweep the
city has not yet struck us; we hear
from Ocean Grove, and other spiritual
trongholds, of thousands and thou
ands saved, but I strongly suspect
that the majority of Ocean Grove
onverts could not tell Bourbon whis
key from Jamaica -rm, and would
not know a gin cock-tail from a bran
dy smash; we need the workers here
among us sinners. It is not in the
churches and gospel tents that you
eighty thousand have profited by our
public baths in the last two weeks.
Fruit and vegetables of all kinds be
gin to pour in on us like an avalanche.
Business is reviving and our stray
sheep are coming home.
I am, truly yours,
i;ROADBRDI.
FoR THE IIERALD.
Our Washington Letter.
WASIINGTON, D. C.,
August 22, 1877.
While Secretary Sherman was mak
ing his political speech in -Ohio the
other day, the Pennsylvania Republi
'can Association of this city was inak
ing preparations to disband in accord
ance with the President's civil service
reform order. The Association was
composed of clerks in the various De
partments and gave an active and effi
cient support to the Republican ticket
in Pennsylvania, and to the National
ticket. In the Presidential campaign
of last year most of its members aban
doned their official duties and were
regularly engaged in sending docu
ments to doubtful States. The de
moralization of the public service here,
as I long ago wrote you,.was complete,
and through that demoralization Hayes
came within stealing distance of the
Presidency. Under Zach. Chandler
the clerks in Washington literally
flooded the doubtful States, like Ohio,
with political documents.
The last rose in the bouquet of
whiskey thieves in Missouri, John A.
Joyce, is with us. He is out of the
penitentiary on habeas corpus, and
does not expect t4 be confined again.
He has in preparation a volume of
poems, and a perusal of one or two of
them makes oae believe that the
charges of fraud in his case may after
all have been false, and that his im
prisonment was brought about by some
Ieombination of people of literary taste
in Missouri. Much could be said in
extenuation of such a conspiracy. He
has found a publisher however.
Mr. Hayes is expected to return to
us on Saturday next. It is not known
here, however, whether he will accept
Gov. Connor's and Senator Blaine's
invitation to visit Maine. If he goes
there his return will of course be de
layed. The infinite assurance of that
man Blaine, by. the way, will yet wake
him a historical character.
The State Senators elected this Fall
in New York will hold over and par
ticipate in the election of United States
Senator in January, 1879. Conkling,
Fenton and George Win. Curtis are
named as Republicans who aspire to
the honor. Fenton, when here in the
Spring, was most cordially received by
Messrs. Hayes, Evarts and others.
The positions of Senator Conkling,
'the Administration, and the Republi
can Party are such as to give peculiar
interest to the comning election. ft is
beginning to be believed that, of all
the Republicaanjeaders who are dissat
isfied with the Administration, he
alone has the ability, determination,
character and conscience to wake any
considerable fight.
The last despatches from the Indian
war add General Sherman to Chief
Joseph's list of victims. It was hard
to have Howard out there in a place
of danger, and apparently living and
writing despatches only by the consent
of the enemy, but to have one of the
Sherman's fall into the hands of the
Indians would be more than the loyal
South or the strike-stricken North
could bear. Let Secretary Sherman
send Assistant Secretary McCormick
into the Indian country, or the Gal
pin family-there are eight of them
in office here-or adopt some other
moasure to protect Sherman and How
ard. The world may shudder at such
barbarous warfare, but it will not
laugh.
Geni. McClellan, who believes in a
larger standing army, is endeavoring
to show "that a sum greater than the
expense of an increased military es
tablishment has been paid annually for
the transportation of men and mili.
tary stores." If we should, as the
General is understood to desire, sup
port a standing army of '75,000 men,
I fear the transportation of "military
stores" would cost. much inore than
now, and as numerous remote posts
would be established in the far West,
the increased cost would probably be
enormous.
The laboring men of Baltimore and
other cities and large top.s of Mary
land are organizing thoroughly for the
political campaign. There seems to
be a greater determination to .hold
together than heretofore, an unusual
earnestness and a disposition to ignore
political parties. SOLON.
WAsHINGTON.-One of the noblest charac
teristics of the Father of hi.s country, was
that in his boyhood whten he had committed
an offense whlich was likely to bring the in
fliction of the severest punishmnent, hie could
not tell a lie. I grie~ve to say tha t ther e are
reputable grocers and mneebants who will
assure you that any other starch is as good
as the Dur-yeas'. The awards of the great
Centennial at Phtiladelphia have settled that
question, and they have proclaimed that as
against the starches of the world, there is
none equal to that manufactured by the Dur
yeas. They took the great medal at the
World's Exhibition, and they pronounced
their starch the best in the world. Al! re
spectable grocers keep it. Ask for Durg'eas'
Improved Corn Starch, and Duryeas' Saitinl
Gloss Starch. Use it once and you will use
no other.
Memn, from Society Joutnal: "Mis
- - ~
.iiIarried,
On the 12th instant, by Rev. M. M. Boyd,
Mr. ANDREW FULMER to Miss ELLBN CoN
NOLLY, all of Newberry County, S. C.
.Vew S wMiscellauneous.
FOR SALE.
1,000 BUSHELS RED RUST
PROOF OATS.
For sale nine miles South of Ninety-Six,
by J. K. DURST & CO.
Cg' Sacked and delivered at Ninety
Six, if desired Aug. 29, 35-3t.
Fire Proof Roofing Paint.
The subscriber is now prepared to apply
his EUREKA SLATE PAINT to tin. roofs,
and FIRE PROOF PAINT to shingle roofs.
Sample for tin, J. P. AulI's.Mill and T. Q.
Boozer's Bar Room, near Post Office. For
shingles, H. H. Blease's Stables.
GEO. NQRTH,
Aug. 29, 35-1t. At H. H. Blease's.
NOTICE.
All persons holding Past Due School
Claims against the County of Newberry,
for the years 1875-6, will please register
the same with the undersigned at:once.
MUNSON S. LONG,
School Con'r., N. C.
Aug. 28, 1877-35-2t.
ADGER COLLEGE.
The Exercises of this Institution will.be
opened at WALHALLA, South Carolina, on
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th, 1877,
with a corps of competent professors. -
Tcrrox IN ADVANCE-$20 in Collegiate ;
$10 in,. Preparatory? .and $6 ani $3. in the
Primary Departuents, per session of five
months. -*
Board, including everything except lights
and washing, Sl Oer menih, paybleimonth
ly in advance.
Location noted for henlth, pleasant cli
mate and good watpr. For particulars ad
dress
J. J. NORTON,
Chairman of Stockholders.
Aug 29, 35-1m.
PIANOS & ORGAN
t$600 Yianos for $175,j"$200 Organs for $65,'
'Strictly first-class."t"The Best Made."
Is it true? NO! Those who so advertise, offer
Inferior Iistruments, priced at three times
their.value. Buy from Responsible. Home
Dealers,;and av6iddmposition.. . OLE
sALE DEL oAtxsgNO
No Co3misso; we sell V,iABir RU
'ETs,' fron 'EsT MAKERs. direct to pur
chasers at FACTORY PRIcEs, [with .stool and
cover]; :7.ct. $8; -ocT-$230; 7 OCT.,
SQrUARE GRAND, .$280. MiBON & HryMLI
ORGANS. [with stool,] 3 sTops, $90; - 7 STOPS,
$100; 9 sTors, $110. -Other Organs, 4 stops,
$55; 7stops, $65; 0 stops;$75. -fteCn- days
Lrial-written gane. Reduetion to
Teachers, Schools and Churches. Fair and
Square.dealing. Send for Catalogaes and
Special Offers Sept. 1.1877.
LUDDEN & BATS, Savannah Ga.,
Wholesale Piano and Organ haers.
Aug. 29, :35-It.
Cannot be equaled in the medical world for
ali
DISEASE OF THE LIVEER
Bilious Complaints,
Constipation, Dyspejsia, -, -
Erysipelas, Low, Nervous and Simple Fevers,
Gastric Fevers, Gripes,
Hearthurn, Headache,
Indigestion, Liver Complaint, ad alrarneaun
~arising from want of action in the Ibigestire
Organs, -
Difficult Breathing,
Acid Stomach,
Dyspeptic Consumption,
Determination of Blood to the Head,
Flatalency,
Tneammnation of Vital Parts,
Inflammation of the Stomach,
Jaundice, &c.
.Simmons' Hepatic Compound.has-nothing In
its composition that can possibly1njure the
most delicate.- Its taste is not unpleasant,
does not nauseate or gripe, and yetr it ~Scts
on the liver and bowels just as efcpU
as calomel or any- of the preparatiohsof
mercury, without m'njuring the constitu:tion
or debilitating the system. -
For sale Wholesale and Retail b
POPE & WARDbrAW,
DR. WV. F. PRATT,
DR. W. E. PRTHAM,
Newberry.
DowrE & MoIsE, Proprietors,. Charleston,
S.C.
EDWARD SGHOLTZ,
WATCHMAKER
JEWEzL L ER,
Is now to be found at the. store of Me.
Fall & Pool, where he will M.tind to all
business in his line with fidelity and dis
patch. .. - - -
Eg WORK WARRANTED TO GIVE
SATISFACTION. .g1
Aug. 3,35-ly. .
J. B. ADGE &C.,
137 and 189 Meeting Street,
CHARLESTON, S. C,
WUOLES.1LE DEALERS IN
FOREIGN and DOMESTIC
IB V1RE ANDIfULERY,
Gr-LTNS,
BAR IRON AND STEEL,
SADDLERY AND SADDLERY
HARD WARE.
State Agents for the Celebrated
Farmers' Friend Plows.
A full line of.
A6RICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND STEELS.
S tate Agents for the
TREDEBAR HORSE AND MULE SHOES,
rhich have been recently improved, and
v'e now offer them to the Trade ithd entire
atisfacetion. -
Our entire m!ock is nos full and comn
il'c, to which we invita theat,.eantion of