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VOL. XXI
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, S?PTEMBE? 7, 1870,
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TO LITERATUBJE, MORALITY AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
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NO. 20.
T he Sumter Watchman
{ESTABLISHED IN 1850.)
VERY VBOHM?Ar HOB?INfl|
AT SUMTER. 8. O.? BY
G1L. BE KT_ A FLOWERS,
Terms.
Uno year.,.*..?.?
?ix momba....A.... J 0?
T?r?? month;.1. * ?0
A 1> V IC HT I.S KM 15 NT ts loaerted nt tho mt*
"? ON li DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS per
...uar. for th? first, ONB DOLLAR for tko
iccond, and FIFTY CENTS for ??eu sabaequent
?u*?ri?on, for any period leas than three months
OBITUARIES, TRIBUTES OF HESFBCT
and all communications, which eatbaorve private
uioreata, will be paid tor na advertisements.
?1. E. SU ARES,
SUMTER FURNITURE
-AND
Chair War e-Room.s
IAS ON HAND A LAROE STOCK OF FUR
SITU H E, for loss than can be .obtained ta any
outhern market, saving both freight and risk of
?reakago by Railroad. With experience in this
? randi of businoss in the City of Charleaton, for
wen ty-li vo years, and having th? advantages of
hobest Manufacturers, he is offering Brat claas
/ork of winch every article sold ia warranted,
'.'bo stock constats of
Sofas, Sido Board?. Rook Caeos, Wardrobe?
Washstands, Rureaus, Cottage Setts, Whatnot?
Extension Tables
Mahogany, Caneand Wood Sett RookingChalrs
Mahogany, Cane and Wood Seat Setting Chairs
Cribs, Cradles
Trundle Bedsteads and Oottago Bedsteads
Every atylo Looking Olaaaoa nnd Mattraaso*.
FIVE HUNDRED PAIR WINDOW SHADES
ust received, together with a lot of WALL PA
.ER AND BORDERING.
l/?m Streetf opposite Express O?tce,\
UP STAIRS.
J. E. Suares,
Feb 23^tf_
NO. 3
GROCERIES.
THE ONLY STRICTLY
Grocery and Liquor House I
IN TOWN
THE UNDERSIGNED, bega leave lol
cull tho attention of his friend j and the |
public generally to bia
NEW AND WELL SELECTED
STOCK OF
Heavy and Fancy Groceries
Which ho offers lew for CASH ONLY.
^.Q, All articles warranted aa recommended |
jJ5.tr* Puro Mod?olnal Liquors kept constantly
on band.
J. H. EBER II A RT.
April 13 tf
MARBLE YARD
TUE undersigned would most respectfully
announce to tho people of Sumter nnd eur
.mailing country has ne have just recoived a j
SPLENDID LOT OF
!?:/_ arbl6)
.iii N noir ur ?),an-1 to receive mid oxecuto or
.' i?l >i kinds in bi.-? lino, with ncatnoss and J
.I < "tl-il.
IUON RAILING FURNISHED TO ORDER.
W. P. SMITH,
SUMTER, S. C.
Nvp- 17_ tf
C ?. MASON"
WATCH MAKER
AND
JEWELEH.
SUMTER, s. c.
Una just recoived and keeps always on linoel j
Kow ?nd Beautiful Styles of
JEWELRY, F YE GLASSES, &C.
WATCHES, CLOCKS and JEWELRY RE.
PAIRED WITH DISPATCH.
March 31_
O. F. HOYT,!
SUCCESSOR TO
I HOYT,
so. CA.
?y^OULD respectfully inform his friends
aud tho publio of Sumter, and adjoining countlos,
that be has recently rccoivod u choico selec?
tion of
LADIES' AND OfiNTLEMENS'
Wato Hes,
JEWELRY, SILVERWARE,
SPECTACLES, &c, &c,
His stock ombraoea all _tho latest styles, and
will bc sold at reasonable rates.
_Sopt 20_
IlM?RT BROUN,
Architect, County Surveyor,
-AND
Mechanical Engineer.
WILL ATTEND TO ANY BUSINESS EN
tra -tel to bim with aocuraoy and despatch.
Rcf?rs to FOES OR FRIRNDS.
Address, Manohoster
Juno 29-3m
LOTHAIR, LUCK OF ROARINO CAMP,
Curiosities of Literature,
Old Curiosity Shop,
Pickwick Papers,
and all the late publications of the day to ba had
at publiaher'a prices,
' At TUE SUMTER BOOK ST ORE.
July 27
THE STATE CAJfV?pS.
TT lil B aOMK OP KERSHAW RISING
: FOB HKFORM. V ' ?
Formation of ?a Union Republican
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. iCpr-.Cbarloiton Newa.]
CAMBEN, Aug. 20.
Oar party reached this delightful
tow o yesterday afternoon. We were
tuleen In charge by a committee, and a
portion of us quartered at the DeKalb
Honso, and the others at the Kershaw
House. The first named house, a com?
fortable, first olass stopping place, ia
kept by a well known Cbarlcstoniao,
Mr. J. B. Washington.
Camden, although nearly destroyed,
by Sherman's torches, is rapidly regain
ing its former position. It has several
churches, numerous business, houses,
and iabout two thousand inhabitants.
Kirkwood, an extension of Camden,
haa a large number of elegant residences
and tastefully laid out grounds, and. ia
very properly, the, pride sud boast of the
people of this section.
THE MEETINO
to day, held in a grove near the Pres?
byterian Churoh, waa most * successful,
over four thousand persons being pres?
ent. A police forco, numbering seventy
five men, had been organized, and pre
served excellent order. W. Z. Leitner,
president of tho Central Reform Club
of Kershaw County, called the meeting
to order, and the excrcisos were com?
menced with prayer by the Rev. Mr.
Hayes, of the Presbyterian Church.
Among those on the stand were Judge
Carpenter, Generals Butler, Kershaw
and Kennedy, Rev. Mr. Hayes, J. A.
Chcsnut, colored, member of the last
Legislature, Col. Wm. M. Shannon, Col
DePass.D. L. DeSaussure and Wm. A.
Anorum-the two last named being
candidates on the Independent Union
Republican ticket.
She speakers to day were Judge
Carpenter, Gen. Butler and Gen. Ker?
shaw. We have often before given a
synopsis of tho arguments of these goo?
tlernen, and it is therefore needless to
repeat them here ; but it is doubtful if
their speeches ever beforo produced so
great an effect as was witnessed upon
tho audience to day, nod especially
upon the colored portion of it. Their
exposure of the Loyal Leagues, show?
ing the colored people how they were
cuslaved by tho oaths of the League
had the effect of openiug the eyes of
many who have clung to that organiza?
tion us if it were their only safe guard,
and many avowed their intention to
leave it nt once.
Henry Cardozo, "a "brown man," as
he calls himself, a brother of Secretary
of Stato Cardozo, and Uudical candidate
for the Senate, interrupted General
Butler several times ; but his questions
were so clearly answered, and his in ten
lions so thoroughly exposed by the
General, that ho retreated amid tho jeers
of his Radical friends.
After thc speeches there was a grand
barbecue, with food enough to' satisfy
thc appetites of all present, and to allow
u large quantity to ull who desired to
take any away.
POLITICS IN KERSHAW.
This county is regarded by the Radi
cals as ono of their strongholds, but
there is every indication that in October
next they will be routed, "horse, foot
?nd dragoons." The people of Kershaw
have gone to work in earnest. Reform
dubs have been organized, and meetings
are held every few days. At tho last
election tho Radicals wero largely in
the majority, 6ut this year that majority
will bc ovorcomo, and doubtless there
will be as large a majority for Reform.
Lust week tho' white aud colored citizens
united and formed an Independent und
Union Republican ticket, with Carpen?
ter and Butler for Governor and Lieu
tenant-Governor; Edward J. Conway,
colored, for senator; John A. Chesnut,
colored, Daniel L. DcSaussuro aud Wm.
A. Ancrum for representatives. All of
these nominees arc men who havo so
cured tho rospect and confidence of ull
classes aud will certainly be elected.
IN GENERAL.
After tho barbecue to day, several
hundred Rofoimcrs paraded through
the streets. Shortly afterwards thc
Radicals secured a fifo and drum, and
paraded with about thirty men and boys.
When they halted, Mr. E. Conway,
candidate for senator on tho Indepen?
dent and Union Republican ticket, made
thom a speech. Beforo ho concluded
his audience numbered several hundred
Ile urged his hearers not to trust the
Radical leaders who had onoo deceived
them, and proposed to do so again, but
to give their support to the people of
thc State who could bc trusted.
To night, in front of the hotels, Mr.
J. A. Moroso and Jonas Byrd made
brief Reform speeohes to a large number
of colored men.
If the peuple of thu other counties of
the State would go to work as earnestly
as thc people of Kershaw have dono,
there would not bo the least doubt of
Scott being defeated by fifty thousand
votes.
HOME CH1WRFI M.NESS.
Many a child goes astray, not because
th ero is a want of prayer or virtuo at
home, but simply because home lacks
sunshine. A child needs smiles as
much as flowers need sunboams. Chil?
dren look little beyond the present mo?
ment. If a thing pleases, they are apt
to seek it, if it displeases, they are prone
to avoid it. If home is tho pince where
faoes aro sour, and words harsh, and
fault-finding is ever in the ascendant,
they will spend as many hours ns possi?
ble elsowhere. Let every father and
mother, then try to be happy. Lot
them talk to their children, especially
tho little ones, in suoh a way as to
make them happy.
' [Coi*?#t*>n4?i i ?r MM ?ba?ieetoa Ho??;] ?
A RADIC AL -BKTi: il. . . <
Th? Be?ormer? Tanqttuh (De Pc?-rA,
'..j JPlKkvc lor ?lie Loht/es ar** IfUfaea.
Oo Saturday, 27th ?ostant, tho.Radi
Cal party of Williamsburg County, to
patoh a brcaoh made ip their walla, by
th? resulta of previous meetings, called
another at the Lower Bridge., One Re*
formist was callenged to meet them
there, who, oo taking up tho gauntlet,
found upon making inquiry, a strong
ourrent in favor of bearing him under
by prescribing his priviligoB-a viola?
tion of courtesy so oommon aa scare o ly
to deserve a passing notice, because tho
meeting was-Republican !
Many of the audienoe wero slow in
gathering. Their ripeniug disgust for
everything Radical seems to engender
a d ^inclination to longer handle the un*
clean thing
Tho speaking waa opened by oolored
men, who advocated the cause of Re?
form (?) in an impressive and convino,
ing manner. Anathemas and invec?
tives were poured by those ignorant,
but bonost men, with such relentless
oontinuanoe as to make them wilt Uko
Jonah'8 gourd at noonday. A few fee?
ble efforts were made at roply by oolored
men-so feeble as neither to benefit
Radioals nor injure Reformists. They
shouted the blood hov.:al and lash war
ory. The lane straw of tho drowning
man 1 They rather solioited pity for
their bare feot (a sad commentary on
Radical prosperity,) and tattered cloth,
ing, than urged arguments in defenco of
their cause.
Towards its closo the meeting was
ubly and eloquently addressod by Capt.
S. \V. Maurice, whose ceaceless flood
of denunciation so overwhelmed the mu?
latto leaden of tho party as to drop t'.eir
arrogant heads like peacock, when dis?
robed of their tails. Ho set before the
colored people a truth supported by facts
and figures, that S. A. Swails, with Mel?
vin J. Hirsch as an accomplice* one a
senator, tho otbor clerk of tho oourt
of this county, bad speculated, through
the great laud commission scheme, on
the State of South Carolina to the
amount of fifteen hundred dollars.
Swails closed the m ting with a re?
newed exhibition Ot' his characteristic
audacity-a long and loud bellowing
over his innocence. Tho motley assem?
bly of incongruous slang, squeezed into
a nutshell, amounted simply to a reiter?
ated protestation of innocence, corrobo-,
ated by no facts or reason, savo the
punnu plea, the pityfui declaration that
had ho stolen the fifteen hundred dollars
he would have been sont to tho peniten?
tiary long ago ! He feigns to have lost
sight ot the true economy ol Radicalism,
whose grand fundamental principles aro
first, to encourage vielaoy, and then ac?
quit the thief.
The rich, rare and racy time how?
ever, did not blossom forth till thc
shank of the evening. When hunger
grappled with the inner man, and
Kingstrec's Red Eye had armed his
combatants, tho fun "grew fast and fu?
rious." Thcro never was a farce to
equal tho smallest scene of it.
The echo of tho last plaintive whine
of Senator Land Commission Swails,
had scaroely died away amid tho histo?
rio woods surrounding the Lower Bridge
when a rush was made. Tho devil take
the hindmost; for tho loaves and pigs,
despite the protest of the ' venerable
Cart-kecper, who, we understand, drew
his dogger, and brandished it with such
indifference as to results, that a bystan?
der advocating his rights to the loaves
severely out. There being boisterous
friends on each side, the combat soon
asBumod huge proportions, pvgnis ct
calcibus. Muskets were dubbed, fences
demolished, and a charge made by anti
loaf men with rails. The loaf-men re?
ceived no damage, savo the knocking
down and the dragging out of a few of
their number. It was a noticeable feature
thut the disputants were principally, if
not wholly, Radicals and Lcagucmcn.
The signs of the times are most favor?
able for Reform. Radicals are becom?
ing shaky about the knees at the infec?
tion in their ranks. Their bands are
daily bursting asunder ; and ero long
the dark shadows of n long and drcaiy
night will have flown from the lucid
rays of tho orient morn.
"A little moro grape, captain, and thc
day is ours."
SPECTATOR.
Kingstree, August 29, 1870.
A I.AITIi: RADICAL ITIEETINO.
THE ARGUMENTS OF REFORM PREVAIL
"If clio tv hite? do their Duty. Bamber?
1* ao?c.?
BAMBERG, August 29.
I have thought that perhaps a line oi
two from us at this place, to let yoi
know bow wo aro getting along, politi?
cally, would not bo amiss. On Satur?
day last we were troated to a very lam?
affair, in tho shape of a meeting iu th?
interost of the Soott Riog. For ovci
two weeks runners were going througr
tho surrounding oountry, trying to go
up something like enthusiasm. Bul
thoy wero doomed to disappointment
for io spito of all thoir efforts, only som?
fifty or sixty of the colored populatioi
wero out. The meeting was conducted
undor tho leadership of one Marioi
Jaokson, a bright mulatto, who, it i
thought, has some aspirations towards i
seat in the next Legislature, and-Whit
a copper oolored indi vidual. Th uso spca
kers regailed our ears with a tirado ol
abuse against Carpenter, Butler and lb
Reformers, and told the negroes to be?
ware, as it was only a Democratic move
raent in disguise.
Our young townsman, Mr. C. P. Sanders
replied in an caruest and eloqucn
' speech. He denied in emphatic lau
guagei .that (hil .?ras a ^Democratic
movement io disguise. Ho, explained
to them the platform of Reform,, which
ho Baid waa broad enough for all honest
men to Btand upon, and strong enough
io sustain both Dem?crata and. Repub?
licans who wished an honest State
Government. Ho told them of the
frauds praoticed by the land commission,
and denounced Orr in bold and unmeas?
ured terms. During Mr. Sanders'?
remarks, Jackson became,.quite uneasy,
and went among the nogroos, urging
them to leave ; but they paid no at?
tention to him, and gave Mr. S. a quiet,
and respectful hearing. As soon as Mr.
?. took his seat, White and Jaokson
arose and tuado a few remarks, urging
tho colored people to go away. A large
minority, howover, remained, and ex?
hibited an earnestness to know the
truth, by asking tho whites who were
present numerous questions explanatory
of tho objects of Reform.
My observations have lcd mc to con?
clude that if the white men but do their
duty, Bamberg and vioioity will present
a handsome majority for Carpenter and
Butler.
[From tho Uaionvlllo Times.]
WHAT A COLORED NAN SAYS"
READ ir t
GOSUEN HILL, August 2?, 1870.
Mit EDITOR :-Will you allow mc
spaoo in your columns to contradict a
foul slander upon my oharaoter ? I
hear it is reported that I belong to the
Radical party and havo joiued the
League... I cannot think of any report
that would disgruco me more thau to say
I belong to a party that has committed
so many glaring acts of dishonesty, cor?
ruption and deception to my raoc, as tho
leaders of tho Radical party have. No,
sir, I nover have and nover intend to
belong to that party, and he who says
I do simply tells a lie. I intend to set
my voto agaiust Judgo J. L. Orrs*-he
says he will voto for Scott and Ransier,
I say I shall vote for Carpenter and
Butler. I am a free colored man, bound
to no party or mou, by oath, but feeling
that my best friends aud tho beat friouds
of the Stato aro tho nativo white men
of South Carolina, I intend to stick to
them. I have becu raised with them
and know them; but I know nothing of
carpet baggers who rule the State, ex?
cept that they are getting very rich
aud the poor people of tho State are
getting pooror.,
I believe the native white Southern
people aro tho friends of tho colored
people, and I can provo it by their kind
acts towards tho pcoplo of my race,
wheuever and wherever thoy uro called
on. I know many instances where Re?
publican colored incu depend altogether
upou their old white friends, for thc
broad which they aud their family eat;
and wheu thoy wanta friend thoy always
go to thc Southern men for it ; but still
the colored people will liston to men
they don't know, ?vote against their
friends and allow those bad strangers to
teach them to hate thoso very friends.
I wish all my colored friends would
think seriously upon this state of
things, und try to unite with tho whito
peoplo in perfect harmony, to drive
their emmes from offico, and if they
do that they will drivo thom from thc
State. Do you know of twenty white
radicals in the State who is not an olfioe
holder, or is not working with you for
your votes to elect thora to an office?
Yours, respectfully,
BILL ROGERS
THE WONDERS OF PRAYER,
Abraham's sorvant prays-Rebekah
appears. Jacob wrestles and pray.?,
and prevails with Christ-Esau's mind
is wonderfully turned from tho reven?
geful purposes ho had harbored for
twenty years. Moses prays-Amal?le
is discomfited. Joshua prays-Samuel
is born. David prays-Samuel is born.
David prays-Ahithopel hangs himself.
Asa prays-a victory is gained. Jeho?
saphat criosunto God-God turns away
his foes. Isaiah and Hezekiah pray
ono hundred and eighty live thousand
Assyrians arc dead iu twelvo hours..
Daniel prays-thc lions arc muzzled.
Daniel prays tho seventy weeks arero
vealed. Mordecai und Esther fast
Haman is hanged on his own gallows
in three days. Ezra prays at Ahava
Gd answers. Nehemiah darts a pray?
er-tho king's heart is softened in a
minuto. Elijah prays-a drought of
three yours suococds. Elijah prays
rain descends apace. Elisha prays
Jordan is divided. Elisha prays
child's soul comes back, for prayor
rcaohos etorniyt. The church prays
ardently-Peter is dcliverod by an
angel.-Rev. J. Ryland.
THE UNIVERSALITY OF MASON?
RY.
Whcthor from Koglnnd or Scotland,
or from ancient Egypt, Masonry origi?
nated, it spread all over the globe,
and now Musons can bo found among
almost all thc nations of tho earth.
Inasmuch as it teaches liberty, equality
and fraternity, it is interacted iu Russin,
Austria, Spain, and Portugal ; and in
Hungary, a mau, if known to bo a
Mason, would be imprisoned. Tho
Chinese havo an organization closely
allied to Masonry ; but instead of tho
Bible, they use tho writings of Confucius
who is claimed ns their spiritual guide.
There ?re Masons among thc Mahomet?
ans. Tho high degrees known among
European Musons arc not practiced by
tho Chinese or Asiatic Masons, but the
extent of their Masonio knowledge is
confined to that obtained in simbolio
lodges. Thcvoforo if a Master Meson,
made in this country or in Grout Britain
or tho Continent of Europe, should visit
tho Mongolians or other Asiatic nations,
he would find that ho could readily
j inako himself known, and would be
rccoguiacd asa brother.
' - ' THU ItANP S WINDI. B
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Wo have printed fro bj timo to ti ina
the. particular* pf tho parcha sea vade
by the Land Commission io diff?rant
parts of the State. IQ every case we
have given the qaalttios and the actual
value, as well aa the price paid by the
Land Commission ; and, generally, . we
have been able to publish tho n?mes of
the agents who were the representatives
of the Ring. We now sum up, 'sis.
follows, the instances iu which tho poo
pie are known to hare Wen swindled,
under the pre ton oe of giving homes to
the homeless poor :
1. A traot of land iu Charleston
County, for whioh the actual seller re?
?oives ?30,000, costs the Land Com?
mission no less than $120,000.
2. In Coonee t?ouoty the Land Com?
mission buy two thousand acres of land
at an average priue of 86 an aore, whioh
land, at au outside estimate, ia worth
only 83 an acre.
8. In Williamsburg the Land Com?
mission oharge 8-J000 for a traot of land
whioh oosts $1500.
4. In Lanoaster County the Land
Commission pay $3032 for a tract of
land "known to bo utterly worthless/'
Eighteen months ago this land could
have boen readily bought at $1 50 an
aore; thc Land Commission pay $8 an
aore.
5. lo Beaufort County the Deputy
Land Commissioner, oidod and assisted
by Representativo W. J. Whipper,
bought nineteen hundred acres of land,
at $2 25 an nore, and made the seller
sign titles at $5 an acre.
6. In Darlington County the Land
Commission buy u parcel of lands for
$5986, and the amount stated in the
titlos as paid by tho Land Commission
is $11,608.
7. In Anderson County the Land
Commission buy fifteen tracts of land,
aggregatiug 4285 aore?, for $21,180.
These lands aro shown to be worth, at
most, $7000.
8. In Chester County the Land Com*
mission buy seven hundred and thirty
acres of land at $8 50 ; their aotuai oost
was not more than $5.
9. In Georgetown County tho Land
Commission buy 5310 acres of laud at
83 50 an aore. That laud is dear at $1
un acre.
10. In Colleton County the Land
Coin mission buy 2732 acres of land at
84 an acre, 300 acres at $3, aud 1040
acres at $2. A high price for the first
tract would be 82 an acre. Tho second
traot is worth less than 81 an aero.
Tho third tract is worth nothing. -
11. lu Lexington tho Laud Commis?
sion agent buy 2300 aores of land for
85000, and thc State pays for the same
tract $8050.
Thc loss to the State, or to the
colored people who buy the lands, upon
these eleven transactions, is as follows :
1. Charleston. $00,000
2. Oonoo.,. 0,000
3. Williamsburg. 1,500
4. Lancaster.; 8,032
5. llouufort. . 6,225
rt. Darlington. 5,617
7- Andorsoa. 14,000
8. Chobter. 2,555
9. Uoorgotown.-. 13,270
10. CollotOD. 7,104
11. Lexington. 3,0?0
Total.$156,353
This $156,851 represents tho loss to
tho State, upon tho transactions of
whioh we have knowledge. It cannot
bo doubted that every purchaso made by
tho Land lliug is of tho samo scanda?
lous character. Wherever land has been
bought, a large profit bas gono into the
pockets of thc L-tnd Commissioner, tho
Advisory Board, and thoir agents.
Every tract of laod is hold nt far more
than its value. But if tho Land Com?
mission can carry out thoir plans, tho
loss, which is their profit, will not fall
upon the State. They hope to sell the
lands to the colored people at what they
cost the State- thut is, twice, thrice and
four times their value. Io this way the
colored people will, onoo moro, ami at
their own expense, save tho Scott King
from detection, and enable thom to di
jest, at leisure, their ill-gotten plundor.
Thc loss must fall upon the State, or
upon the colored peoplo And if the
colorod people buy the lauds offered
them by the Ring, the loss will bc theirs
alon e.- Charleston News.
? MUK,
If you desire to got a largo yield of
milk, give your cow, tinco times a day,
water slightly salted, iu which brau has
been stirred at thc ruto of one quart to
two gallons of wator. You will find
thut your oow will gain twenty five
per cent, immediately under tho effects
of it, and sho will bocome so attached
to the diet as to refuse to drink clear
water unless very thirsty, but this mess
she will diTnk almost ut any time,
nnd ask for moro. Tho amount of
this drink is un ordinary water r..!'
full at oaoh timo, morning, noon, > i
night. Your animal will thcu do her
best at discounting the lacteal.
TUB SUPPLIES STOPPED.-"YOU
have stopped thc supplies!" said a poor
working man to a gentleman whom h?
mot on the 8troct. ?'Why, how?", in?
quired ho. 14Well, you soo, sir," MOOO
my lillie girls) and boys have been going
to your Sunday School, they- havo
firomiscd to havo nothing to' do with
iquor or tobacco, and I can't get them
to go buy cither for. mo." "I um glud
to hoar thnt," said tho friend; "but
what will you do now?" "Why I hove
thrown my pipo away ; and the children
have coaxed ino so hard that I havo
promised not to smoke or ohew nguiu,
aud togivo up my daily drams."
- - - . .
Three girls aro hoeing corn iu the
Michigan Agricultural College.
[Fror? Chuabei'? Journil.]
' ' ?KT KCTT IT I? AS VUKY AtllS.
Some who bavo read the highly spiced
fiotions purporting to bo r?ui lui sconces
of detectives may take lt for granted
that a halo of romance o'erbang? the
life of a professional, taker of thieves
and murderers. But in aotual expert
coco it is not so. C?ntrarywlse, the
lite of suoh a mao is rather prosaic than
Otherwise ; nor, iu nature, does the do*
tectivo go about iu those wonderful dis?
guises the books we have referred toso
enlarge upon-disguises only to be met
with on the stage and in novels. He is
truly "a plain clothes mao," and is so
spoken of by the^membera of the foroe,
just as railroad people always speak of
ooaohos sud not "carriages," as the
outer world does. The veteran straight?
forward assures me that he has never
adopted what could be legitimately call?
ed "a disguise" on any occasion. ''Why,
said he, "I should not have got half
way down the street, or past a soul I
know, before one of the cove* would
have twigged me." "Hollo !" he would
have thought, "what's the Sergeant got
thom togs on for ?" Aad then it would
have been all up with my little game,
for the "office" would at onoe have been
given, and my bird flown. Not I ; I
Dover used any disguise. I went out
just as I was-plain olothes, of oourso.
No; disguise is all bosh. When I
wanted my man I always knew where
to put my hand on him. In faot I had only
to go to his houso or oall at a oertain
limo, beckon him out, and he would
come with me as quiet aa a lamb. Did
I ever have any oases of resista&oo or
assault ? Not many. If they were saucy
I used to put tho handbolts on them ;
and if I thought they intended a blow,
I gave them ono for themselves first.
I can give you an instance how I used
to manage my obstropolous gents."
I took one, not more than fifty miles
from here, ir. a plaoe he was well known
but not for the thiof he was. I order?
ed* him to carry his box before me to
tho station. He refused till I told him
if he did not do as I told him I would
hire a cab, chain him behind, hand
bolted, put the box inside, aud walk
leisurely on tho pavement behind him,
giving all his townspeople who asked
questions their full of answers. He
know I would keep my word, and be
trotted before me to tho terminus with
his box on bis head, as quiet os-well,
as a lamb,
"I iuterrogate the Sergeant upon the
matter of burglary, and he instanoes a
representative case. A message arrives
at the police office from Mr. Qroeno
Jones saying his premises have been
broken into and oertain moneys or pro?
perties stolen. Tho ohief sends myself
and another detective to tho plaoe.
After a few moments survey wo glance
at each other in a peculiar way, where?
upon the proprietor of the stolen pro?
perty looks uneasy and perturbed. 'Well,
officers.^vhat do you mako of it ? The
marks are plain enough, are tboy not ?
My mate-you know Driver, sir?
whistles und swings from one hand to
the other tho polished holly stick he
always curries with him. I kneel down,
Driver having mudo his inspection first,
and examine some marka ou the window
Bill. 'That,' says Mr Jones, 'was cvidont
ly dono with the ohiael found ia the
gardcu."
"I thought it was rathor too strong
that he should talk to us who know
what was what liko that, but determined
to bo even with him bye and bye. So
I went on asking a lot of tom fool
questions. Aftor a bit he said : 'Well,
what'll you take to drink ?' My mate
said that bo thought a toothfo.il of rum
-Driver is partial to rum-wouldn't
poison him, while I gavo a name to
brandy hot. I remember it quite well.
He asked us into a little room behiud
tho shop, ilis wife was there, nursing
a young child-au infant in fact-aud
sho looked, poor thing, awful down in
tho mouth. Tiie husband hadn't been
long in business, and we knew that
business hud been queer with him for
some timo. He had to send out for thu
stuff, which he hid by a little slatternly
servant girl. While lie was awuy talk?
ing to the girl my mute was lcd to pump
the missis ; but L stopped him, for I saw
how the laud lay as clear us mud. She
bogan, however-uneasily I could see
to talk of it herself, saying it was strange
they had heard no noise, that tho ser?
vant had always slept at her mother's,
and so on. When her husband return?
ed followed ''oon after by the girl, ho
had in hot water and mixed the grogs
- stiff ones tliey were too, though it is
was only about noon. Dy tho time we had
ull three finished our second tumblers
our mau got maudlin, first snivelled over
his losses, and then talked big all io a
breath, as the saying is. This was
more than I could stomach, though I
had had his grog; so when my mme
and I went out, Driver hoing in Iront
'1 suppose,' said he, 'you have an idea
who did ibis ?'
"I ouu give u shrowdish guess," said
I."
"Ay ? I hive heard you detectives
aro ciovor chaps and know a man's
Work, as you call it, by tho way ho goes
about tho joh Now who do you sup?
pose did this ?"
"You," said I, looking him full iu
(ho taco.
You should have soeu his countenance
chango, sir ; first us white as that pipe,
then as read a? that bur curtain, and ull
of a minuto. I uovcr saw such a thing.
Had I wanted proof of tho truth ol
what I hud suid, twas written there in
red und whit?.
"What!" he blurted out, trying tu
gulp dowu u something that seemed to
stick in his throat. "Mo? How dar?:
you say such a thing?"
"I dare say anything that I know i?
true. You uskod me u plain question
ana I gave you a plain answer."
Calming down a bit when he s.tw 1
waa net cowed or taken abie* nt* nil,
ha says : "do yon think I should bo mott
a beru fool M to rob myself f
"That's another plain question : x> ir
voa want another plain answer, here it
ie : not yourself exaotly but your cred?
itors. That's abont the breadth of lt."
Theo he began to bloater again. In
the midst of which I left him and
walked after Driver, who said : . What
were a jawing with the Cove' about f
'Twas his own oraok."
'Hight you are/ said I; 'and what's
more I told him so.0
. "Yonsee, sir," said the detective in
explanation, "the marks on the window?
sill were ali made from the inside."
It will astonish the unsophisticated
road or to learn that the proceeds of a
robbery are ofton not recovered because
it would not pay to rooover them. A
detective is sent for the day following a
burglary. He receives a description ci
tho spoil. He knows by what ohannel
-aa we shall presently show-intelli?
gence may be conveyed to the present
holder of the booty that the person
robbed will give somnoh for the restora*
tion of hi? valuables. But where not h
ing is offered the plato goes to the limbo
of the melting pot.
With watches, the rogues melt the
cases, and haviug erased name and uum
ber on tho work?, put thom into fresh
oases. Kings or braoelets they deuude
of stones, whioh they dispose of on the
continent, or even at home, except in
some oases, when they send them as
they are, if boaring no name, crest, or
mark, to the richer colonies. Indeed,
it is a well known fact that the wife of a
vory high official had a bracelet offered
to ber in one of the first shops in Mel?
bourne that had been stolen from her
house in Park Lane, London, but fifteen
months before.
Even bank notes, though stopped, can
be got rid of ; and there is plenty of ma*
ohinery for doing so. A stranger lost
several Bank of England notes for fifty
pounds each in a certain provincial
town. ' Notice was given to the brauoh
Bank of England in the same place of
the loss, the number of the notes being
also supplied to the distriot manager.
Now, Bank of England notes, when onoe
paid into Threadneedle street, are never
reissued, even if they have only left the
bank new the same day.
No fear was felt of their getting
abroad again if they once went "home";
so & duplicate list of the lost notes was
forwarded more leisurely to town. In
about six weeks news was sent down to
thc provincial town to the efteot that the
no tea Jiad roached home. The polioe
noxt sot-about tracing the notes. They
had boon paid by a bank in the provin?
cial town to their city agents. The
country bank had reoeived them from
a professional gentleman, and they had
been paid to him by a tradesman in a
large way of business, who had been
long suspected by the polioe of boiog a
buyer of stolon notes. There the olue
abruptly stopped, and could be pursued
no further.
Tho tradesmao said he oould not tell
whom ho had tho note from. Invited
by tho police to attcud boforo the magis
trato he repeated the samo tale.
Asked particularly by tho magistrates'
clerk it he took so many fifty-pound
notes in a day that he could not tell
who nee they came, he replied, goner
illy, that he often took fifty-pound
notes without endorsing thom, and this
must bo one ; and he positively oould
not tell how the note had como into his
hands, except that he knew it must
have been in tho regular course of
trade. And so it ended.
Now, ii this had been a man in a
small way of busiuess ho could not have
got oft by such an excuse. The police
were morally sure tho tradesman had
bought tho fifty poaud note, but they
oould uot prove it. Tho vastness of his
business protected this mao ; whereus
the petty trader, being unable to urge
suoh a plea, would have huon caught
and trounced.
We easily forget, and yot how inex?
cusably, our personal and constant de?
pendence on God. We can soe wby tho
poor widow, whose barrel of meul hud
jailed, and whoso cruse ol'oil was spent,
should and oould thus humbly and ur?
gently ask for her daily bread ; but it
aeolus strange to us at first that such a
request .should be made as well by the
rion-tho owner ol' houses and farms
and bunk-stock-tho man whose gar?
tiers contuiu iood that would supply
brea J for myriads of m out hs besides his
own, and this not for a day only, bit
for years hence-the merchant, it may
be, whoso warehouses would victual
whole navies. Weean see how David
might, naturally and most urgently,
offer suoh a prayer as is our text, on
tho day when he and his soldiers wore
hungering, und the show bread was
given thom; but why Solomon, hts son'
should muko it, when his purveyors
sent lum, month by month, auch pro?
fuso supplies for his table and palucc
scorns not so ea -y to bo understood
Ami yet ibis vory language would ap
ply equally to both-tho hunger bitten
lather iii the day of his want, and the
tho luxurious sou iu the ?euson of his
ii?portal optilenoo. Job in his palmy
day?, when ho was tho richest of ul ?
thc inou of tho lijiist, and when his son?
were feasting each in his own .house;
and Jo-ioph, when opening tho grana?
ries of Egypt, whore he had laid up the
food of seven plenteous years, for an
entire nation-each needed the spirit,
if not tho fu'filltnont of this prayer;
and wu doubt not that each, dependent
and grateful, was wont to sit down to
his weil-stored board in the temper
whioh is inculcated by this very prayer
- --.? . --
- Qruco nevor appears graoe until it
nppoarsV) bo a sin. The deeper tho
sense of I ho evil of sin is the deeper our
apprehension of the free graoe of Qod
in C?irid will bo.
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WHITTKnoilK
Tas MARTYtiBD MEMBER.
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Mr. B. F. Whittcojuro, member of 9
tho Ut? House of Kepreycututi vo<? from "
the First ^Congressional District of South
Carolina, waa foand guilty upou irre?.
tragable eyideuco of official corruption, \
i. e., of selling s oadetahip at Weal
Point. lie said that bo sold his ap~
poiotiug power and official, .'authority
that ho wight give the money to his '
needy constituents. A more cxtraordi.
nary plea never oamefrom a representa?
tire-it was, in faot, the confession of a
new crime. Finding himself io a tight
place, W h (Memore saved himself from I
expulsion by reaigoing; ho wens baot
to nia constituents, and they, grateful,
doubtless, for his pecuniary consolation,
scot him back to tho same Congress ;
the House not oaring to atupify itself,
and being, by the provisious of the con*
stitutioo, aole judge of the qualifications
of its own members, returned him his
credentials. His gratoful const i tuon ts
showed signs of seodiug him still to the
next Congress ; but Mt*. B. F. W., in a
letter exhibiting tho virtuous exaltation
of Mr. Pecksniff, and thinking it doubt
ful whether tho next Houso would prove
moro placable than the last, has de?
clined iu a letter of mingled dignity,
wrath, and sorrow. Ile recites his
many services to the body politic; he
declines modestly that for "fivo years
un J nm -o he has been identified with
South Carolina's destiny;" "I have
tried," he says, "to do my duty wher?
ever duty called ;" he suys, "I nave re?
ceived," he declares, "generous majori?
ties ;" "my acts," ho urges, "have been
unselfish ; my motives for the geoerul
weal ;" and here I am, he might have
said as good as twioe kicked outoi Con*
gress, ana with every prospect, should
I be re elected, of being kicked out a
third time ! And all through -'Logan
tho willful deoeivor !" "1 am the victim
"of aii unpreocdent and unconstitutional
"act. Tho saored rights of electors
"have been subverted f Magna Charta
"has been despised ! ! Law, reason,
"justice, precedents, have boon disgra
"ced!!! AVe, the governed, have no
"longer the prerogative to say who shall
"govern us ! I !" And all through the
assumptions of "Logan, tho willful de?
oeivor." Verily, Mr. Logan ha? a groat
deal to answer for. And so on, through
Siuantities of what we must bo excused
or calling tho very purest flabdood!o !
Hold hard Mr. B. F. Whittemore !
Stop moaning and groaning and Bighing
and turning up the whites of your eyes
for a moment ! Don't you see tho main
question is whether or not you took the
money ? You were either knavish or
foolish, and, in either ease, you have
proved yourself to be unfit for a seat ia
the House of Representatives ! Whethn
ar you be an ass or something morally
worso, does not make the least difference,
except to your own conscience. A man
who, in perfect innocence, commits a
penitentiary offence isn't fie person
to assist in making.the laws of the Repub?
lic. He may be a modle of mature
piety, the most patriotic creature breath?
ing, a very incarnation of benevolence,
but the placo of honor and safety for
bim is the private station.
Yet we should not fail to express our
admiration to Mr. Whittomorc's course
in refusiog to bo again a candidate.
Whatever oredit he is entitled to, let
him, in the name of common humanity
receive. He koeps off the course, he
tells us, lest by permitting himself to bo
re-elcotod he might "contuse his best
and truest friends " His "friends'' will
be grateful, or at least they should bc.
We assure him that there ure very few
Republicans in the country who will
not be profoundly, thankful to him for
the self sacrificing spirit whioh hs has
exhibited. He reminds us, in some
sort, of these gentlemen who, after a
compulsory emigration to a ponai set?
tlement, declared that they ''left their
country for their couutry's good." G<?,
Mr. Whittemore, if such aro your feel?
ings-go, wherever you please (provi?
ded tho officers don't nab you for the
penitentiary), and muy you bo happy!
As the pr. 1.to said to dil Rias, "Wo
wish you all manner of prosperity aud a
little moro sense !" Your misfortune is
that you huve been found out. Un?
doubtedly there were many members of
the last, an there will bo many members
of tho uext Congress, who arc not a bit
better than tho unhappy Whittemore ;
but they were or will be shrewd nnd
?harp fellows, knowing how to cover
their tracts. Tho fact is, Mr, W. (if
we muy credit his lotter) is altogether
too good for Congress, and if ho should
bc sent bick to Washington, he might
be like the simple-minded glrlj who
used to inform thc Justice of the i'oa^o
that she "was ruined again."
itrtnui?T?? Liva,
Good counsel (rom a wife and in ?th?
ur : "I will try to tinko myself nod all
around mc agreeable. It will not do to
?eave a m ut to billin.if till he Collies to
you; to take no pain.'? to attract him, or
io appear before him with u Inusf favo.
lt is not so difficult at you think, dear
child, to behave to a husband ?o that ho
shall remain forever a husband.
I nm un old woman, but voa can still
lo what you like ; a word from you ut
the right limo will not. fail of its effect ;
what neod have you to play (ho suffer-*
ing virtuo? The tear of a lovely girl,
says an old book, is liko a dc* drop on
i rose ; but that on the chook of a wife
is u drop ol pain lo her hush ind. Try
io appear cheerful and COntontvd, uni!
your husband will be so; nnd you hav?
ing made him happy will como so your?
self in reality. Nothing flatters a man
so much as tho happiness of his stile ;
he is always proud of himself us being
the source of it. As aoon ns y m ur*,
cheerful you will bo lively und alen.,
and ?rory moment will uff ?rd votan
opportunity to lut tali an agreeable
word.
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