Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'Nine lines is a square one inch. :In every - instance we charge by - . pe.ootpied, as eight or ten lines can be made to occupy four or five squares, as the advertiser may wish, and is charged by the S sIpace.., _ Advertisers will please state the num bd of squares they wish their advertisements to make. Wt wBusiness men who advertise to be bineftted, ''will bear in mind that the BEldlN'EL has a large and increasing cir culation, and is taken by the very class of persons whose trade they desire. [Hon. A. B, Magruder in Philadelphia Times] Lincoln's Offer to Lee. In 1868-several years after the war-a senator in Congress had the temerity to make the charge that (u. Lee had applied to President Lincoln for the c)mmand of the Federal army destined to invade and subdoe the S.>uthern States, and that, beinz refueed, froin piqne and re senttient, lie turned and offered his sword in aid of the Sotithern cause una ahus was raised to the chief con. imand ot the rebul forces On the in Stt it, Mr. R,tverdv Johnson, of blary land, himself a Union man, de, a1ome)C.d . the statement as untrue, Paying that although he had not the ai;hority of (he accused to deny it, Gen. Lee's loftly character and un stained I.onor alone sufficeud to repel the charge. This furnished the o, casion for Gen. Lee to give, through Mr. Juhincon, not alone the conclu sive proof of the iacorrectness of the ciarge, but the clear evidence that h.e had hlinselt declined, from a stern sense of duty and honor, the very prefermnent which he was falsely ac cused of coveting. None can tell the extra6kdinary story in better terms tharn Gexi. Lee himself, as contained ib.the following modest and charac :ei4stio letter addressed by him at the tidae to the Hion. Reverdy John.. son, who, not long before his death, avouched to the contributor its entire authenticity: LkinGToN, VA., Feb. 25, 1868. Iea leverdy Johnson, -United States Senate, Washington-My dear Sir:-My attention has been called to the official report of the debate in *the Senate of the United States of the 19th instant, in which you did me the kindness to doubt the correctpes of the statement made by the Hon. Simon Cameron in regard to myself. I desire that you may feel certain of my conduct on the occasion referred to, so far as my individual statement can make you 80. I never intimated to any one that I desired the command of the United State army, nor did I ever have a conversation but with one gentleman (Mr. Francis Preston Blair) on the s@ject, which was at his invitation and, as I understood, at the instance of PresidentLineoin. A fler listening to his. remarks, I declined the offer biade -me to take command of the army that was,to be bronght into the fieId, stating as candidly and courte dialy as I could that thongh opposed to secession and deprecating war. I C could tjke no part in an invasion of the Southern S?ates. I wont directly from the interview with Mr. Blair to the office of Gen Scott, and told him of the proposition that had boon made to me, and my decision. Upon reflection after re tddntg to my Lomo, I concluded that I onugld no lnge to. en :.. t commission I beld in the United States Army, and on the second morning thereafter I forwarded my resignation to Gen. Scott. At the time I hoped that peace would have been preserved, that some way would have been f>und to save the country from the cala-uities of war, and I then had no other in tention than to pass- the remainder of my life ts a private citizen. Two days afterward, upon the invitation of the Governor of Virginia, I re, paired to Richmond, found the cons vention then in session had passessed the ordinance of withdrawing the State, from the Union, and accepted. the commission of commander of its forces which was tendered me. These are the simple facts of the case, and they show that Mr. Came ron has been misinformed. Your obedient servant, R. E. LEE. TnE INCIDENT CONFIRMED, Dr. J. Wrn. Jones of the Southern Historical Society, writes the follow ing letter: As confirmatory of the incident given by lion. Allen B. Magruder, allow me to say that the letter which he gives from Gen. Lee to Hon. Res verdy Jo*nson was found by me not long after Gen. Lee's death in his private letter book, copied in his own well known handwriting. By the kindness of the family I was allowed to copy the letter and publish it, in 1875, in my "Personal RetninFcen ces, Anecdotes and Letters of Gen. -R. E. Lee," (pp: 141-42,) where I also gave testimony of Mr. Mont g,mery Blair and other proofs that the supreme command of the United States Army was offered Col. Lee before lie left Washington. I once heard Mrs. Lee speak free ly of this event in the life of her hus. band, and a gentleman of high stan ding in New York has told ine that in an interview which he had with Gon. Scott in April 1861, he spoke in the very highest terms .f Lee's ability as a soldier and character ase a man; told him that the supreme command of the Unitedl States army was offered him, and said that he (Sc.tt) would have cheerfully given p)lace to "the ablest soldier in Amner. ica" if lhe could have induced himi to acceut. The proofs are conclusive that when Robert E. Lee cast his lot with his mother State, he turned his back on the highestip)osition that an American soldier could covet, and deliberately chose the path of sacri fice, peril and loss of this world's goods, because, in his judgment, it was the p)athI of duty and of honor. In June, 1868, he said to his trus ted lieutenant, the gallan t and acconr plished General Wade Hampton: "I did only what my duty demanded; I could have taken no other course without dishonor. And if all were to be done over again I should act in p)recisely the same manner." Men will difler as to the course which Gen. Lee thought proper to pursue in siding with Virginia and the South in the great struggle; but no fair.,minded man can examine the proofs and doubt for a moment that he-acted from tho pur'est motives from the highest sense of duty and honor. IIow 1T WORKs.-WO n otice in the list of delinquent lands a lot valued at $20. The tax on that lot was tweonty cents. The owner surely could have paid that small amount; but he didn't, and now in order to redeem his prop. erty he will have to pay the penalty, costs of ad'vertisinig, execution, &c., which will run the amount up to about, five dollars. Several other lots valued at *50 or $100 are delinquent. Fifty cents or one dollar would have paid the taxes. There must have been some carelessness, as well as inability to pay..Nnwhry eral-d, The Future of Parties. NO SIGN* OF A BREAK IN ANY BOUH ERN STATE. CHATTANOOGA, Nov. 14.-I see no indications of a break up in parties South, with the exception that th'e Republican party is pretty well brok en up and played out. In Georgia it is formally disbanded. Likewise in Mississippi. In South Carolina most of the leaders have been run off or are lodged in the penitentiary, where more of them belong than will ever get there. Right here let me say that sympathy for the South Carolina Republican leaders is pretty much wasted. They were rascals and plundereis from top to bottom, with now and tben an exciption that made the surrounding darkness only niore dark. That f,llow Patterson has no business in the Senate, and should be kicked out, no matter if his vote is neceseary to Repilican supre macy, as I believe it is. Ie bought his place, buying the purchasable darkeys in the Legislature as the slave drivers did in the old time, only under Patterson's dispensation the darkeys got the money them.. selves. Don't sympathize with the "persecuted South Carolina Repub licans" more than you would with an ordinary gang of convicts, 01 mourn that the so-called Democrats are in power there. That State must belong either to the thieves or the Democrats; there is no half way ground, and it is better to let the Democrats have it. We can almost cry out, "Anything, Lord, but what has been for the pas- tell years." In Alabama there is no Republi can party to speak of. There is Spencer in the Senate, but lie soon goes out and won't gc in again and Willard Warner running nn iron furmice, and ex-Goverior Parsons attending courts, and Sam. Rice sit ting oi the fence, and ex-Governor Lewis down on tlie other side, and that is all there is of the Republican party in Alabama. Ini Florida there is a sign of life, growing out of a collect in of North ern consump: ives and nati ve neg roes, but they cannot carry thme Siate. In Texas the Republican party is so red uced that a short string of omni. buses, moderately loaded, could cars ry it all out of the State, and they had as well charter the omnibuses 60 far as future supJremacy is concerned. In Virginia the party is so dead that it did not kick during the late Gu bernatorial canvass. The "Conser vatives" quarrelled among them selves like tonm-cats in a towv sack, but had the enemy app)eared the troubled waters would have beeni stilled and the Conservatives hiar mnonious. But the enemy did not appear. lie is past that perform In Arkansas Joe Brooks 13 dead, and Baxter has turned Democrat, and Clayton subsided or sacrificed. and Dorsey soon goes out of the Senate and won't go in again, and this completes the inventory of the Republican party in that quarter. In North Carolina, Kentucky and Tonnescee only are there signs of substantial Republican life, but not enough to accomplish substantial r'e suits. These States will remain De mocratic for some time by majoritiea ranging from thirty to seventy thou sand. It is a question if the party in Tennessee has not more "git up" than in any other' Southern State. It is certainly ahead of Kentucky, the Democrats here never being able to p)ile up as large a majority as in that State. But even here whore the conditions are favorable to Republi can growth, if anywhere, we find the party making no real progress. It we say that it is holding its own we say about all that the truth of the matter will admit. But it is not re trogading and plaving out, a in nearly all of the Southern States. Yet it is substantially, reliably De mocratic, and will remain-96 forsome years, more or less, and likelfmore than less. In spculating, tirefor' Uon the future 6f parties a "t dtike, a good deal of which is now going on iq Ilie press, it iP we0l tol bundle ali the late slave States in a parcel, and label them "Democrats.". At present:cer. .tainly there is little room for specu lation here and less room for hope. There are no signs of a "break" io, the Democratic party in any South en State sufficient to give that State to an opposition party. In 1880 you will see the solid South in solid array for the 1ationtil Democratic noini, nee, whoever lie may be. With this and a couple of the larger Norithern) States-New York and Indiana, for instance-they have the election. In the face of such encouragement as thia, it is useless to look for the solid South to be otherwise than solid. I. V. Redield in Cincinnati Cam mercial. An Old Time IlRelio. After "Old Hickory" fought 'and won the battle of New Orleans, the ladies of South Carolina presented him with a magnificent silver vase, as a testimonial of their respect and esteem fur the man who had wlhip. ped out Lord Packinghamn and 1is army. When "Old 11iccory" died be left in his will a clause directing that the vase should be roturned to the man in this State who should bear himself most gallantly in any war America might have with a for eign power. After the old herb died and the nexican war was over, Androw Jackston Donaldson, the adopted soi of General Jackson, and One of his executors, sent the vase to Col:imbia, to be prcsented to the bravest man in the glorious old Pal metto Regiment. Where all had )orne themselves so gallantly, it was impossible to decide who the vase belonged to, and it was finially eon.. cluded that it should be conveved to Capt W.~ U. Stanley, as President' "o the Survivors' Association of Mexi can Veterans, in trust for the last survivor. Governor Alston .wtas Governor of South Carolina at the time of the transfer. We were p)er, miimted to see the documents of trains fer yesterday, which bare passed through fire and blood, as has t,he vase, which is on exhibition at the stand of Captain Stanley, i the main building of the fair grounds. It is an interesting relic, which we should think many people would like to see.-Columbia .Regisier. SOLQON AND THE RoD.-The ques - tioni has been asked, did Solomon use the words commonly quoted as his: "Spare the rod and spoil thic child?" I have never beeun able to find those wvords in the Bible. Pro verbs XHIL-24 reads: "He that sp)areth his rod hateth his son; but lie that lovethi him chaeteneth him bet imes.'' XXII-15, "Foolishnese is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction should drive it far from him." X.XII-3-14, "WVithhiold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, lie shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and thou shalt d eliver h is soul from h6dl." XXIX-15, "The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to,hims, self bringeth his mothier to shame." These are the arguments . for the use of the switch found in the words of the wise man.** An Iowa manm obtained a divorce from his wile and then hired her for a cook. The woman is delighted with the change, because now she can have a new dress occasionally, and a little pin--money in her pocket. Hope is a working mana ream. .jounaiem in, RussiA. English writers, weI adquainted, with Russian ,u8tomrs, are furnishing to the free press of their own land details concerning Muscovite jourin a1i1m,, wh ich are exceedlingly inter -Let'us sipjo,pp, that some adven turous man proposes to start a rews paper, say at St. Petersburg. His press is bought, perhaps paid for, and a:supply of paper, scissors and pasto pots on hand. This is a trifling prelilde. -In Axnerica or England, th-.n'ext- thing done would be the issuing of the sheet. - Not io in Mus.. covy. There the candidate for jotirn Olistic fame must, to begin with, file at the office of the Governor of the province a bond, signed by twelve solvent, i-espectable and loyal citi zens who are responsible inrally, physical.ly and financially for his conduct. lI must file also a police certificate of his good, moral charac ter. With these formalities attended to lie can secure a license from the Governor and local censor to carry oil a newsyaper for a year, but only for that time, as lie must renew his petition and license each year. In addition, he must make a deposit with the authoritios of 5,600 rubles, andi ,-O0 rubies additional for each thousand subscribers to his paper. When the paper is brought out, it cannot be sold until a literary cen sorship. sits upon and decides that it contains no matter, native or foreign hostile to the Governmnout. In case of dereliction, the unbappy editor must submit to fines, imprisonment, a flgging by the knout, or, in flag rant cases, to a prolonged residence .in iburia, which is the living grave of Russian freedom of speech. We - are told that "the Moscow Farol has been Aned seventeen times within a year, and that it is extraor dinarily lucky is shown by the fact that less than forty six papers in St. Petersburg and fkrty two in Moscow have been comp)elled to suspend in the past seven years, because the fines paid by them to the Govern ment ftar exceed Ute.ir income. As for the editors. they fare even worse thani their papers. A good editor in Russia seidom.lasts over a year'. *Ata the end of that time lie is phys ical ly broken down with wi~hi ppi ngs and. imprisonment, and even, if not b)anished to Siberia, is too imumch of a wreck to do any writing." Any one might suppose, from this vexaIcions exhibit, that the p)rofession of journalism would die out altogeth er' in usia The sup)ply of edito rial aspirants is p)retty fair at all times, the chief requisite being the tenacity of their backs instead of the fullness of their brains. Alen go down into deadly coal mines the day after hundreds have beein engulfed with them. W idowers and widows templt fate a second time and it may be of:ener. Wanit, privation, folly and "purea' cussedneiss" are growths that inever perish- from humanity; and so when one crop~ of Russian editors goes to jail, Siberia or the grave, another crop steps into the deadly breach to take the chances of anm i ron destiny. At some future time, . we doubt not, there will be a free press in Rus sia, but it will be founded upon the bones of mnartyers. Perhaps such a foundation-terrible as it is-'-will insure the blessing of perpetuity. Another Homicide. On last Wednesday in the Cal houn's Mills section another homi cide was committed. Joe Colyer, a colored man, was shot and killed by Eugene Traggart, a white lad of o.igh... teen or twenty years of age. The circumistnces of the case are about as follows: Colyer was indebted to W. il. Taggart in an amount of men cy of which he refused to 1).S.--n.d p1ynent Deceived by his frequent promises to "make the thing square," Eagene Taggart and his brother James went to the house of the negro on Wednesday to insist upon the payment of the account; The evi% dence of the dead man's wife,. who was the only witness !to the killing, made it appear that Egene Taggart stopped at the end of a lane tiear Culyer's house, that James" Wet to the house, told Joe what he came for and that he intended to havd the money or whip it out of him. Upou refusing to pay, Colyer was told to go up the lane and "fight it out" and he proceeded to accept the banter. Upon reaching the end of th, lane Eugene Taggart stepped out, drew his pistol and flied. Ile and Joe then clinched, two other shots were fired, the last of which brought down the oegro. The ball took effect in the back of his head near the base of the skull and ranged around to the junction of the tempora' and occipital bones. The force anJ weight of the ball was not sufficient to fracture the skull. In a short time, however, the wounded man died. On Thursday Coroner Cochran held an inquest over the body of the deceased. Dr. Lyon of this place, acted as a medi cal expert and made a post mortem examination of the dead body. The skull was sawed Open, the brain ex anined, and the opinion given that death was pr-oduced by apoplexy. The verdict of the jury was that the deceased "came to his death from a pistol shot wound (pistol being it the hands of Engene 0. Taggart.) and impropper treatment. afterwards, which brought on apoplexy causing his death.11 Another account of this unforta. nate occurrence, to Which perhaps the greatest truth should attach, makes it appear that when James Taggart went to Joe's house to ask for the debt lie was roundly abused and threatened with instant extermi nation, Joe calling to his wite for his gun. The boy retreated at this, was followed by Joe, jerked off his horse and thrown down into the road. About this time Eugene caime up, was struck with a rock by Joe, drag ged to the ground and in the course of the scuffle fired his pistol, the ball taking effect as above deOtailed. Tfhe TaIfggart~ boys have fled from home but wvill very p)robably make their ap)pear'ance for trial at the prloper time. It is to be regretted that so many blooody deeds are oc curing in tihis county-always noted f>r its pcetC and good order. TXhey con tribuLte nothing to ou r domestic happiness and will be looked upon with an evil eye by those living out side our borders. Tioo many pistols and entirely too much p)assion.--Ab., beville Medium. The Curse is There.. "No man will ever prosper who has the curse of a ruined woman up on him. The murderer of the body can be tried and executed by the world's law, but the murderer of the soul is tried by heaven's laws, and the execution is sure as divine jus tice." Aunt Betsy said this as she folded the white hands of a beautiful girl, and p)ut white flowers and green leaves about the marblescold fore head. There was a tiny babe beside the girl mother. The house was hushed, and there was mourning such as few know. Hlalf glad that the mother and child were3 dead, t '' rest of the family must perform /he last office of burial and bear the fam ily shlame. A haunted house I A ruined home!i God the architect and man tile spoiler. Tihe curse is thereo and tile destroyer cannot escape. Woman's Journal. An experienced boy says ho regards hunger and the schoolmastor's rattan as about the same thing as they both mako hlim hollur.