Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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jMMMW??MMM?<Mi?ii?i?i?iiT^?r??.a>i????t*ai?"ii<r?<?Miiiw??|iiiwM?."*M'/? " ---.-T-iTT-r1 *. ; 'From {he Rome (Georgia)'Courier. Sill Arp on the State^ of the Country. "Sweet lana of liberty, of thee I sing." No* much J don't, not ut this time. If there's, -phything sweet about liberty in this part of the moral vineyard, I can't sec it Thc land's good eiiuf, and I wouldn't mind hearin a hyme or two about thc dirt I live on, but as for Und ing'sugar and'liberty in Georgy soil, it's all a mistake. Howsutncver, I'm hopeful. I'm much calmer and serener , than twas a few months ago. I begin to feel kindly to all people, except sorne. I'm now cudeavorin to bea great national man-* I've taken upa luottoe of no ?orth, no South, no East, no . West; but let me tell you, my friend, I'll bet. , o? Dixio as long ns I've got a dollar. Its no hann to ruu both skcdules. In faktits high ly harmonious' to do to. I'm* a good Union . reb, and my battle cry aro Dixie and tho Union. j But you see, my friend, we are gettin rest less about some things. Themar h?"1 hokum mity heavy on us, and after the big collapse Wo thought it was over for gool. We had killed folks and killed folks until the novelty of tho thing had wore off, and wo were mity nigh played out all over. Children were iu . - creasjn and vittols diminishin. By a clore calculashun it was perseeved tb H wc didn't kill our enemies as fast as they wciu imported, and about those times I thought it was a pity . That some mirakle of grace hadn't cut off thc breed of formers some eighteen or fcweuty years ago. Thou you would have seed a fair fight. General Shot man wouldn't havo walked over thc track, and Uly ses would haye killed more men than he, did- -"f his own side. I have always th ot that a General ought tc be jpertikclcr which side ho was saqri?isi?. Well, if the war i's over, what's thc usc of fillin up our towns and oitiesVith soldiers any tonger. Where's your reko.nstruktion that thc popers say is goin on so rapidly ? Where's the liberty and freedom ?, The fact is; Gen. Sherman and his caterpillars made sich a clean ?weep of everything, I don't sec much to re konstrukt. They took so many liberties around here that 'there's nary liberty left. 1 ? could have rekoustrukted a thousand sich States before this. Thero- wasn't nuthin to do but jest to go off and let Us alone. We'vo got plenty of statesmen-plenty of m?n for Governor. % JOG Browri ai nt dead--he's a Wa i titi-Bti\n diu at the door with his hat off. Then what's .the soldier's -hore, for-What good are they doin-who wants to sec 'em any lobber.; Ev ? erybody is tired of the war, and wc don't want to soo any .more signs of it. Tho niggers don't want 'em, aud tho -white folks don't want 'em, anotas for the witninen-whoopee ! I golly! . Well, there's no ,use talkin-\vh^n thc stars fall agin maybe the winunen will be harmonized. That mail business-that oath about gittiu letters ! Gee tiger! 'They al ways was jealous about the males anyhow, and that order jest broke the camel's back. Well, . 1 must confess that it was a powerful small consarn. 1 would try to sorter smooth it over if I knowed what to say, but I don't. If they was afcer?d of the wi m mein why didn't-thcy say so? .If they wasn't what do they make rem swear for ? ?'est to aggrovate 'cm ? Didn't they know that the best way to harmonize a man, was te harmonize his wife first ? What harm can the wiititnon do by receivin their letters oath free? . They can't voCe, nor they can't'preaoh, nor hold oihs, nor [?lay soldier, .nor muster,-nor wear brooches, nor ride strad dle, nor cuss, nor chaw tobacl;of, nor do nuthin hardly but talk and rite letters; I hearn that a valant kernel made a wi men put up h^r fan because it had a pi Uer of Borygard on lt. , Well," she's harmonized 1 reckon! Now the trouble of all sich is, that after these bayonets leavo here'and go home tbesc pettycoat tyrants can't come back any more. Some Georgy fool will smash the juice out of 'em,' sardin, and . that won't-be neither harmonious or.h-ealthy? Better let the wimmcn alone. Then there is another thing I'ni .waitin for. Why don't they. rokoristrukt the niggers if t they are ever goin to? They've give 'cm a. fowerful sitoof freedom, and a very little else, lore's the big freedmen's burp, and the little buros all ovor the country, and ttifc pipers are full of grand orders and special orders, and paragraphs, but I'll bet a possum some of 'om ?toals my wood this winter or freezes to death. Freedmen's buro ! freedmen's humbug, 1 say. rlust when tho corn needed plowin the worst,' theburo rung the bell and tolled all tho nig gers to town,' fand the farmers lost tho cropsi": and now; the frond tn an is getting cold and hungry, and wants to g;o back, and there aint nuthin for 'om to goto. But freedom is a big .thing. Hurra foi freedom's burp ! Sweet land of liberty, of'thee I u^n't sing i But it's all right. I'm far freedom mygolf. ' Nobody wantsapy more slavery. If the ^bolUlliunists had let us alone wo would have fixed i,t up, right a long' time ago, and weean fix it.up now./ The buro ain't uxed it, mid it aint a goi?i to. It dpu't know anything about'?t.-' Out peopl?. have got a heap more feclin for i !*? ii mai M i>jiww?iiin ?Km M <Mni>tf afpi Jiwnyianp ?ri im ?r*i if i ?!? mr - tho poor (jigger than any abolishunist. Wo are hs-poor as Job, but I'll beta dollar weeing raise more ?nou?yiin; K?ine to build aniggof church than they did in ISostowu. The pa pers say that after going round for 3 woeVv the liostown .christians raised thirty:sevcn dollars to build a nigger church in Savannah. They nrc powerful on theory but mity scace in practice. , But its no use-talkie Kverybody will know by waitui who's been fooled. M r.. John son says he's givino to experiment,' that's all he can do now-rit's all anybody can do. Mr. Johnsen's licud is level. I'm for him, and everybody ought to be for him-only he's powerful slow abolit souioRthings. I aiut a worshippin him. He never made me. I hear folks hollerin hurr?w for Andy .Johnson, and tho papers say, oh ! ho's for us, lie's all right; he's our friend; Well, sposo ho is, ha<ju't be ought to be? . Did you expect him lo bo a dog? Kckase heain't a hangin of us, is it necessary to bc phiyjn hipoorit around 'the footstool'of powor.apd makin out like he" was the greatest mun in thc world and wo was tlie greatest sinners ? Who's sorry ? ' Who's repentin g Who ain't proud of our people ? Who love's our enemies?' Nobody but a dinned sneak. I 'say let 'em hang and be hanged to 'cm, before I'd befe 'em. for grace. Wliar's Sokratos, whar's dato ? Nut if "Andy holds b?8 0wh, the country's safe, provided these general assemblys and synods and bish ops' conventions will keep thc devil and J?rowulow tied. . Here's a passel of slink hearted fellers who played tory jost to dodge ; bullets or save property, now. howl in about for oflis-want everything bckaus they was for Union. They was for themselves, that's all, they was for, and they ain't a goin, to get the offices neither. Mr. Johnson ain't got no moro respect for 'em than I have. , NVc want to trade 'cm off. 3$y hokey, we'll give two of 'em for one copperhead, and'rix nothin to boot. Let 'eui shinny on their own >side, and: get over among tlie folks'who. don't want us rekonstrukted. There's them newspaper scribbler's who slip down to t^e edge of Dixey every 24 hou)*s,and peep.over at us on tip toe. Then they rup back a puiliu and bip win'with a strait coat tai!, a/id holjerout, "Heain't dead--be ain't dead-look out everybody. I'm jost from thar-seed his toe move-heard him grunt ; . he's goin' to rise nguiu; Don't withdraw the sojers, but send down more im mcgeately." And hero's your Harper's Wock ly a'heading all sioh-a gas?in lies and slan ders in every issue?-makiu insultin pikt.ors in every sb,eet-brccdin cverlastin discord, and chawin bigger than ever, since \?e got licked. Wish old Stonewall had cotched these Har pers atv.their Ferry, and we boys had kno'wed they was going to koop up this devilment so long. 'We'd a made baptists of them, serhiin, payroll or no payroll, II urra w' for a brave S)ldier, I.say, rob or no rob, vajttfcor no yank ; hurraw for a manly foo and a generous victor -hurraw for our side too, 1 golly; excuse me, hut sich ext.-essioiis'will work their way out sometimes, brakes or no brakes. Dut I'm for Mr. Johnson." I'm for all thc Johnson's-its ii bully name. There's our Governor, who aint a goin at discount; aud there's Andy, who is (loin powerful well coti siderin, and there's the hereof Shiloh-peace to his noble ashes. .And there's Joe-my bully Joo-r-wouldn't I walk ten miles of a rainy night to s^? them hazel eyes and feel the grip of his soldier, hand. Didn't my rooster always clap hit wings and crow whenever ho passed o'urquar ters ? "Instinct t'old'bi*n (bathe was the true prince," hod it would make anybody brr.ve to be nigji him. llurraw.(or the John sons .?>, .'..'.' Wei), on the whole] there's a heap of things to bc'thankful for. i'm .thankful the war is over-that's tlie bier ti.-'ug. ' Then I'm thank ful 1 aint a J^Iack.J.l.epublica.n. I'm thankful that Thad Stevens and Surlier ?nd Phillips, nor mino of t heir kin ain't no kin to me. I'm thankful for the higly piyilenfe'of lia tin all such; I'm 'thankfub.fhat I. live in Dixie in thc State> of Georgy and our Governor's name ain't brownlow. Poor Tennessee! J golly, didn't she oatoh it ? Andy. Jonnson'k pardons won't do', robs much good jhore. They better git o pogrom, the devil if they ox pect it to pass. Wonder what made Provi dence nfllikt 'om .with' shch a cuss. hut I can't dwell On pich a subjekt. It?a highly deinoValiziuhnd unpiofltablo.' , ' ' Sweet land of liborly," of theo 1' could not sing in T?nn'es?ta. - , But'then wo've had a eircUStfinoe. morey, and seen the clown play rini.ndy^nd^th?tiiiake's up for a l\oap of trouble'. In 'mct,;its tho best sign of rokonstruoktibrr^I nave yit observed. .Yours, hopin, '.'.\ .,, lin.L A.RP. . \" > . .. . . ? . ' \ ' y .'.,'.',.;?*". ' ' IV S.r-And they bawled Grant's cabjn a thouran4iuiij?'s. Well, $ herman's war Horse, stayed in my stablo ono night. I wan^o sell .the stall to some Yankee ?State Pair. 'A's our pcoplo ainlt thc, sort that runs after big folks things, tho stall ain't no move than any otbo.r stall to me. State Vairs/ its for sale, - I sun pose that Harper's Meekly qr Vrank hcsly will paint a pikter of it soon/ by draw In on their incarnation" A, V?iv.li.(?il?v..i-f..f ?. ;fH^MIimMtlM4tM?illUIuUM^llnMlUMai Dangefs of Travel. . The New York '<< Tribune gi hasa- chapter ! of ".statist ics 'of. cri rue .and. disaster*' in tito United States; for six montes euding 10th of October, in winch, after a'U?ng array of homi cides,'jamerdes, matricides, fratricides,.sore ricides, familcides, {fee.., it gives the following Under the head of viratieides, or murders of travellers : " ' ' ' ltAriiWAV MASSACMIES.-Railway accidents open up a largo account. From May 15 to October 15, there were,68 in all, or Gcf.in six months, up to September. Of these 24. were collisions, 9 explosions, (two of whieh-ditf not .occur on the lino,'). 6 came from bat? uridges and culverts, 22 from rotten, ties, broken nails and axles, and 12 were precipitations, more or less uncomfortable to tho. travelling public. 'J'en accideurs recurred in June, 8 in July, 15 ih August, .-.y in September, and in the ? whole year, to dato, not less than 109, compur ing tho present with our former statemenkof accidents published in August. Thirty> mil lions dollars would bo a modest recoiling for the loss involved 'in the demolished l|\'es. trains, and "properties of the pa?t yeatr; and probably 'iot lesa thai|?300 persons have been killed, and more than 600 injured in every shape by. accidents in the same time. CALAMITY HY STEAMBOAT ANO .SIIIP \vn KOK V-?-S t ea m boat explosion** and shi pwreok naturally accompany this cla^s of travelling accidents. Ten explosions and eight collis ions of steamboats-''are noted, along with 45 burnings, sinkings and wrecks of vessels,- 63 disasters in all,- upon the water. Several of these catastrophes, which have crimsoned river and ocean farrand wide, ate remembered in all their awful poetry, and helpless agony and terror. By the explosion of the steamer Sul tana, some 1,20.0 victims found a mud^y grave in the Mississippi ; -100 went down in the. burning ship Nelson ; 250 with the Brother Jonathan; and 100 were drowned'by the col lision of the ste* mers Powabic ...rd Meteor on. hake Michigan. Nearly 8,000 lives, it may bo guessed,, have been lost at sea betwoou April and September. The translateablo loss c'.iniiot be far inferior, to that sustained upon ?tho railroad. E?gl?j^additional disasters apo recorded in October. . SrAiN'.-Tho cholera ! thc cholera ! is the one long, terrible en of agony y?rpui u.early every part of,the Quoeu's home dominions: At Seville, Alicante, Malaga, Pampeluna and Madrid, its ravages are horrible, b?t it is at V^alentiiT* in Andalusia, that thc most astound ing slaughter has resulted-no Tess than fif teen 'thousand persons having been sweptoif ina few days.. At Palma, "in the Islam!of Majorca, thc decaying bodies of men'and wo-' men onc?mber the houses for lack: of hands to bury them-;-well-nigh all the inhabitants hav ing- fled. At Barcalona all the shops are ?hut, and tho inhabitants impelled, io fly by their fears, endeavor to escape, even beyond thc French frontier, where, alas 1 the dreaded death stalks belote thom'as* fearful as where they left it. Business und politics alike arc dumb in the presence of such terror. B'J ! ' *. * v'.. . -'tL-< ' . .- -~. + -y if ? TUB VALUE OK N firmo TESTIMONY.-The Athens (Georgia) " Watchman J-, says that the other d'ay a gentleman in that vicinity, being greatly i provoked at the insolence of a negro woman, administered to her, in the pre-: once of two negro men, a sound flogging. ??he forthwith reported the case to tho provost marshal. Pict while she was absent on thirl mission, thc gentleman aforesaid remarked to thc freedmen that he would bo arrested and lined heavily*unless they would relieve him, which they could do by swearing that he did not strike the w-.iQian a blow. This they agreed ( to do, if he would pa^ them a half dollar a piece in silver. Ile was soon waited upon by. a filo'of soldiers, ?nd required to ap pear at iiCau(|U;irLoi<<> immodialuly, which ho did, taking his wituesscs along with him. Ue was arraigned for ass ault anc| ?battery", and at once introduced his two witu?ssQs^who, being sworn, testified he had ; not touched the wo man ! Of course, he was discharged, and tho woman severely reprimanded. After tho ne groes had loft the office,'the gentloman'stated' the crisp to the marshal, just fis it ?fct?ally oc curred-assuring htm that ho clid not employ thc witnesses to 'screen himself from punish, ni?nt', b?t' solely for the purpose of illustrating the val?e of'negro suftVago. y * . .-+ -? ' . GOOD APVIGF,.-The ^piilsyij?? " Daily -Democrat:'' sensibly remarks : , If a negrp has gota gtfod, comfortable liomp we adyiso. him to keep it. Winter ;is coining on, and1 its cold bitter winds are anything birt oheor'ful music in che etird' of a poor, half naked, hungry, homeless individual, white qr bluok. If 'you are lounging about ,the citV uow, making no-endeavors whatever to "Tay Up KOtnething '. for ? wet day, you had fet ter take,, our advice and go lind employment without delay, \, ' .. ? This is .wholesomeAdvice, and we trust tlmt the colored people in this vicinity who ai'e^o unfortunate aa to have np. homos, will endeav or to find work without delay'. . i -' . -4 . EXPERIENCE is the best adviser; but it k bettor to leam by others .than, our own. OUR STATK COWKNTION..-'f lie editor of f the FayettcviHe " Nows " pokeu- fuu at the Cot? vent iou as follows :< . . V. ? JS(orth Carolina has gatherod'in Con ntiou lier wisc men-her Bedford Brown-her Nat.' j) Hoyden-her Sum'. Phillips-her Hobt)j'Dick -her But. .Mooro-and- Jh?r McDonald, of Jfs Moore. And they havo got off an extraordi- ?iR nary thing in the shape of air " OrdinahofyJ' . which cannot fail in after generations to nc/ claim eaoh and every ono of those distinguish- ' cd lights to imperishable celebrity. ? The " Ordinance," 'though not worded ex actly as this which follows, is va substance tho same : ' . Jieaolvat, That we are going home'to re- .'" take the places around the old family hearth stone that havo never- boon vacated by ?s j and that we-are going to rcjoiu our brethren, from whom wo have novcr been parted. Kcsoluerf, That wo wish it distinctly under stood that wo rescind tim secession ordinance, because, wo fear if wc r\o not, we cannot get back into thc Union ; but at the same tituo, J tesol ved', That, there never has boon in ex-' istencc, orin force, any ordinance'of eeocs-' sion j and if there has beens wc ar*o afraid to* ; say so, for fear of offending the authorities. '. . Jlesolved^ That Dixie is no longer a pretty ' tune, and the parable of thc prodigal son is ".some pumpkins.'! JoiU>* NAPPY, thc liumorous *l local" of the Nash.vjllc ?* Dunner,"' recently went to' , Washiikgton ol) tho hunt of. a pardon. Joh ti gives his .experience. Ile* says: V Had a pocsonal interview with tho Chief Magistrate, and asked him for a small Pnrdony if he had any more loft. Chief Magistrate wanted to? know what.position I beldon the rebel army. The answer was faint, somewhat/ hesitating j and a little shaky-1 said .: " Quartermaster I"' Chief Magistrate chuckled, and' turned his: < 'head to conceal a sardonic smile. "Myan- k clent and venerable friends" he said, M if yow t hink that your department bf "'the rebellion endangered the Union cause, your innocence is a pardon .in itself." f scornfully refused tc interpret thc meaning, of that cruel s'atire." A TKXAs lcttar says : " Wewant not only', * fanners, bu.'. ? .eolmnies of ali' kinds. We want rougli lal.or, skilled,lalnV;. educated la bor, hinnau labor, horse labor and machine* lalor." *'?. . . i > 1 . -. ? -1_ ' ? V ? >:\ A ??rrjpKitijY old lady, during: tho old revo lution, kept? a tavern. One day a half ^fam ished soldier'called forsonicthing to eati- . Some bones pretty well picked, were; plaoed4 before bim. Alter finishing thom, a littlosoiij o'f thc landlady, noticing that the soldier found it difficult to make a. dinner, put some money in his hand (us he left. When his mother oanio,tny he asked how much it was worth to pick the bones-, ?*A shilling," said ?he, ex pecting tho money: " tl J thought so," replied he, ''tnd' I gave the old soldier a shilling .for doing if." J , f' WKI/TI, my lad, that is'small corn you aro hoeing.'' " Vis," said thc boy? whilo ho con tinued his labor, "wo planted small corn.*' But it looks dither yellow." " Yes, sir,w<>-> planted the yellow kind," returned the yoy. M But I do not believe you- will have half a crop." "No, rir, we planted it en shares," halloed the youngster, as thc ' traveller rode" away. . ... ' m , . -- - ? - SMALT, K^tt ITS AUK.-A friend of our? , was asked, a few days ago, by a close fisted old customer,.to partake of sonia- very olpV whiskey . whioh-ho valued-very highly. Flo coh.sentt. cd,.hst reluctantly, whilst his hospitable- en-. tertaincr took thu bottle and pourea out what our friend regarded os a very small dose. The latter, taking the glass n?id holding it above his hxad, remarked^ rather, skeptically :r u You say this fy forty years old I" "Yes," replied thc host. v Then," replied our friend, l'al? ? hnvtrlo ' ' sa^is, that' it's devilish small for ita age !" STATIS Or {???UTtt CAROJJttU. IN ORDINARY-AGITATION.. . \V U li HE A &j Kob't. A. Thompson, o', v.. wv. ,.lia.tlv ; H applied to mc fon letters of adiuinistrftilbnt' upon (ho estate ot' William M. Fennell, dcert'sed, late pt tho-District of PicKons and Stat?, afore said? Tho kindred and credit ors of said defensed, arc,. therefore; cited'l? aproar bofor? ?no nt Vick-, cns ?.'.?l., on Monday thc 27th day of No'.xmbcr next, to shew cnu.so,. if miy they can, why-'sadd letters should not bo granted., Oivcn undor'.my.. luxnd and seal this 11*1 h O'citober/ l$05. . ; W. E. .HOLCO'MUI?f-^>,p.f>;. ' p.. ,. .._I_,-?---I4rr+--r--" - Shiite <>r ?aull? C;is oI?Bia, .' /IM OHDI.V.\HY-r-OlT.VtlON. .,' lyiDCaKAS, Kob't.' A. Thompson, c.n.i'.o.'hath ! T applied to mo for letters of adin\nislrrttrna (Upon.tho cstnto of Nathaniel Howard, .deceased, ?Irite pf tho District of Piekcns and 'State aforesaid : Tho kindred and creditors of. said deceased, arc, therefore, cited: to appoar before nie at liM?kons C. Hj.', pu Monday thc ?,7?b day of November noxt, to?- ,A ?new cause, .if any they can. whf/v?Ud letters should' not bo granted. (?iv'on mulei' my. Hand aud 8?{ilr (fdal?tli Oytobor, IWVS.; ... NV.. K. IlObCt^C?^K, o.r.n. ' JOB PRINTING' N'KATbV PXK?CTMD t\X HUS Oi l KL.