The Sumter watchman. (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, June 28, 1871, Image 2
?EWS OF THE WEEK.
i-Nashville has a dark hoed vender
of ice cream camed Snowball Frost.
-Oo the 20th oi June Queen
Victoria completed tho thirty-fourth
year of der reign.
---English capitalists are finding
their investments in East India cotton
planting anything bat capital.
-A Chinese Young Men's Chris?
tian Association has been organized in
San Francisco. It starts with a mem?
bership of forty Celestials.
.-The papers left by President
Lincoln are to be published. Judge
David Davis, of Illinois, is now revising
them.
-Among the Catholic Church
choirs of England quite an excitement
has been created by a mandate excluding
female singers.
-Count Moltke, it is understood,
will visit England in order to be present
at the great military gathering which is
to take place on the Beeksbire Downs,
next September.
-In portions of Louisiana white
laborers are said to be cultivating cotton
and sugar with no sickness beyond the
average among th? negroes.
-A nove? illastrating the leading |
characteristics, official aud social, of the
men and morals ol the Second Empire
in France is now in press in Loudon.
-A San Francisco editor thus ad
dre ses an Oaklaud brother : "You
wnllapus, you i'ihtbvodorulite, you
bo-jus bammo-chrysos, you, you-Oak
lander.
-IQ a rash moment an Obio far?
mer offered his children ten cents a
quart for potato bugs. He has bis choice
now to suspend payments or mortgage
his-farm.
-It is thc Louisville Courier
Journal that says, now that California
has sent Grant a magnificent palace car,
he will never be happy until somebody
makes him a present ut a railroad.
-Hon. S S. Cox said io a recent
public speech that Mr. Vallandigham
showed those characteristics which
came, he thought, from his carly, rigid
.Presbyterian discipline.
-There is a young lady in Camden
studying Latin. She has a beau. He
asked her what sic tramit ?/loria mundi j
meant. She translated it, "Come and
sec me on Monday."
-Mr. Vallaudigham'8 support of a
theory in defence of a client has cost
him his life. It would be curious if thc
demonstration o? the possible correct?
ness of that theory should save the life
of ?he client, whose interests be so
faithfully served.
-The Emperor William remarked
to the Mayor lledcmen, who attempted
to kiss the royal right hand at thc
opening of the German Parliament :
'.This is not a German state custom, and
it is only fit for the ladies."
-Th? St. Louis Dispatch is shock?
ed at thc bad manu ors of some of thc
boarders it knows ff, and proceeds to
read them the following little lecture:
'.Duu't say 'pass' the krout, or shove
aloug that hash; well-conducted board
er.? always say, 'Will you be so kind as
to escort thc Jobseouse hitherward."
-A young countryman shopping
in Lawrence, Mass., stole a ride on the
ppriukK-r of the watering cart, evidently
not knowing how the old thing wurked.
The driver ?.ailed the valve Jever and
the countryman rose about three feet
into the air, cunrng down wetter but
wiser.
-Mr. J. N. Carduzo, of havannah,
completed his eighty filth year on Satur
day ,a..t. Ile hos u?en connected with
prominent Southern paper*- lor the last
fifty five yiar?, and wa??, during the war,
a writer on thc Southern Confederacy,
ajournai published in Atlanta.
-The New Yolk World gives the
Radicals to understand that though it
recognizes the new amendments a?
parts of tho Federal Constitution, it
docs not acknowledge the Radical con?
struction of them tu be admissible. It
proceeds to show that neither one of
thnii justifies, much less authorizes,
such a law as thc ku-kl'ix act.
-It is-aid ?hat Mr. Toouibs, of I
Georgia, is to testily before the Kuklux
('omn.itfrc The scene will be rich.
Toombs is exactly fit ti d for it. He
seemed to have b?*en invented fur inter?
views ami ku-kluz committees. If the
examination could be conducted in a
large hali, it would be crammed at any
price for admission. How Ljrnum
would {?lory in managing it !
-lion. John Van Lear McMahon*
who was from 1827 to P>00 the leader
of tbe Baltimore bar, died at Cumber?
land in that State ou '.hatsday. He
was President of the National Whig
Convention which nominated General
Harrison, and was one r>f the origina?
tors of tl c Baltimore und Ohio Railroad.
He was also author of a history of Mary?
land. During the past ten years he has
been partially blind.
-Hon. A. H. Stephens, in his
paper, .-ays that in his interview wiih
the New York TriLu.tc* correspondent
he did not hint at such a possibility u* '
that the South ri. ou id u-:e force to gain
her rights. lie believe* the apueui
should be to 'he ballot-box.
Mr. Stephens excoriares the corres?
pondent aforesaid, who, it appears, dis?
regarded the understanding which he
had with Mr. S. io regard :o what was
said iu the conversation between the
two.
-The people of the Sortit are be
ginning to realise %* (net that it is
passible to manufacture Bolton there a*
well as to grow it. A eotton factory of
jin?***** Ga., has paid dividends of
twenty per cent, annually from the start; J
land a new oue to run one ihowandl**
omi i* contempl?t ed if the requisite ' ^e
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INTERESTING SKIBTTCH ?ja* AR EX
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A Trial Involving a ?aronefey and a
Yost Estate- A Puzzling Question of \
Personal Identity.
For romantic interest and extraordi?
nary incident, the story now being told
in the English Court of Common Pleas,
before Lord Chief Justice Bovill and a
special jurj, in the great case of Tich?
borne vs. Lushington, can seaicely be
surpassed by any novel. The question
involved is the plaintiff's identity with
Roger C. P. Tichborne, who left Eng
land in 1853, and was supposed to have
bees lost at sea. If his claim is estab?
lished, he will come into possession of a
baronetcy aod a vast e3tate, while, if he
should fail, be may well be regarded as
the most remarkable ienposter of modern
titties. Questions of personal identity
are almost always interesting, and are
generally of much importance to the
parties immediately concerned; as, for
iostance, where tbe wrong man is bang?
ed by reason of bis close resemblance <o
the real criminal, as bas unquestionably
happened more than ooce. But such a
case rarely excites the same degree of
public interest as is manifested when,
as here, thc claim to a title and a great
estate is disputed, on the ground that
the claimant is an imjroster.
The Tichborne trial was begun on
the 13th of May, before a jory of eleven,
by conseo t of counsel on both sides, who
comprise some of the ablest men at the
bar. Thus far ooly tba plaintiff8 evi?
dence has been beard, but it ia of auch
a character as almost to justify the re?
mark of one of the witnesses, that the
claimant is "either Sir Boger Tichborne
or the devil."
About some of the facts there is no
controversy. It is certain that Rodger
C. D. Tic' borne, the soo of Sir James
D. Tichborne and Lady Harriet F. Tich?
borne, was born in January, 18*29; that
he was brought up in Paris, where his
father and mother theo resided, under
the care of a French tutor named Chat?
illon, the family being Roman Catho?
lics; that io 1845 he was sent to school
in England; that he entered the British
army as an officer of the Carbineers in
1859, and was statiooed for a while at
i'ublio with his regiment; and that io
1853, from some cause which is not
clearly explained, be left England, pro?
ceeded to iiarve, and there embarked on
a sailiog vessel called the' Pauline,
bound for Valharaiso.
While an officer io the army, young
Tichborne was rather slim, atout five
feet ci.-ht ?oches in height, aud having
been educated ic France, his English
ffa? decidedly foreign in acceot. Hid
ieparture to South America can bc at
tributed only to the unhappiness which
he experienced iu his home relations
.wing to the miserable life which his
pa cuts lcd together, to the ridicule he
jneuutered iu the army owing to bis
icficieut ?ducation, and which led him
o sell his commission, otid to his love
br a wild, roaming lile.
It is alleged in behalf of the claimant
hat Huger Tichborne, accompanied by
t servant named Moore, reached Valp
iraiso in safety, and thence went to San
iago, where Moore Iel! sick and was
eft behind by his master, who expected
o continue hi? voyage in the Pauline
U'ter residing a short time at a place
lalh'd Melipilla, he abandoned thin idea, j t
nd made a journey across theContiueut ! c
if South America. Keturuiag to San
iago, he met Moore again, and theo
uade bi? way to Kio Janeiro, where he
mbarked on the Bella, a veaacl bound
ur New York.
Now there is DO doubt that the real
loger Tichborne was on board the
Sella when she sailed. Thc Bella was
.st at sea; and wheo the news reached
Ssigland that the vossel aud all hand?
ad -.'"ne down, it wan firmly believed
?.at Sir Roger had shared their fate
lis (athel's will was proved, and the
ext of kio, whose guardians appear as
effiidauts in this suit, took the proper
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On the proposition that one person
as saved from the wreck of the Bella,
nd that tiiat person was Sir Riger
ichborne, is based the plaintiff's claim
i this great suit. Ile says that two
Data lett the vessel; that he was ?none
F them; and after floating about in it
ir three days he was picked up by an
mcricao vessel and taken to Melbourne,
here he landed in July. 1854.
The Australian gu ld excitement was
icn at its heigth; but Sir Roger-aa
imed that the claiu.ant is he-being a
jud horseman, went to work at break
ig horses instead of diging gold. He
a? very fond oi horses, and met with
uch success, remaioicg for some time
i thc service of a gentleman named
osier, in Gippsland, and changing bis
une to Thomas Castro, that of a friend
s had made in Chili. He was married
i 18G5, and has had two children.
In the meantime a sailor, who bad
I jetted alms of Sir Roger'* mother,
ady Tichborne, at Tichborne Park, io
ugland, saying that be had come from
ustraiia, told her that ha had heaH
hile there of some persons shipwreck
1 on the Bella having been fucked up
id brought to Melbourne. This was
1858. Lady 1 ichborne attached con
derable importance to it, although her
isbaud did not; but after his death,
id in 1863, she advertised the fact and
r information concerning ber io st son
England, Australia and elsewhere.
he advertiaemeuta came to the cotice
the claimant, and led to his return to
ngland ?iib bia family in ISM)
How far does the alleged Roger Tich
>rne of 1863 and of to.doy resemble
e Roger Tichborne who sailed from
a vre io the year 1853? He ja very
nen stouter, bia height differ, little,
at ali, and ha is utterly un ibis to
esk French, whieh wu tbe language
his childhood.
But the evidence of his identity is
coedingly strong. His toother-since
ad-recognized bim aud sc know I
ged bini aa her son. Mr. Hopkins,
e family solicitor, who bad known the
ung man very intimately, recognised
m. A cousin, who had previoualv
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first ?teryiew, and recognised him.
Moore, the-servant ?ho vent out in tbe
Pauline, identified Mos. The regiment?
al tailor knew him as the man Jor?whom
he bad formerly filled orders, and four?
teen lormer officers and privates in the
Carbineers swore to bis identity.
The claimant's lack of education has
been much commented on, aud the
Solicitor-general, who is one of the
counsel for the defence, elicited the
following testimony on his cross exam?
ination of the cousin of whom we have
already spoken :
Tbe Solicitor-Ger eral. Does be say
"fcowsomdever?" [Laughter.] Witness.
Yes, he does.
"Have you ever heard him say 'his
abscess busted ?" [Laughter.] Wkness.
No.
The Solicitor General. Do you mean
to say that he would pass muster among
English gentlemen as an English gen?
tleman ? Witness. I could point out
several EnglUb gentlemen who wo jiu
not pass muster as English gentlemen
any better than he does. They are men
apparently no better than farmer?, and 1
would place Tichborne among that class.
I have beard of persons called English
gentlemen who were so illiterate in
conversation that you would take them
to be nothing better than pig-jobbers.
The Soiioitor General. Waa tbe Rog?
er Tichborne of 1839 8 man whose man?
ners were no better than a farmer, or
more than equal to a pig jobber? Wit?
ness. In theme days be did not dress in
the particular style that be afterward
adopted.
The Solicitor General. I am not
speaking 'bout his dress, but his man?
ners. V uness. I never said that the
present claimant bad no better manners
than a pig jobber.
Tbe Solicitor General. Do you moan
to say that the manners of the claimant
are as good as the manners of the Tich ?
borne whom you knew in 1848? Wit?
ness. Quite as good. I have seen him
preside at bia table witb as much repose
as any gentrVman. He was a man
whom you could not distinguish from
the vast number of gentlemen except
in some inaccuracies ot language.
The Solicitor General. Such as ''bow
somdever." [Laughter]
A lady who had known young Mr.
Tichborne before 1853, when French
was his favorite tongue, testified that
while dining with the claimant since
his return she spoke a few words in
French, when he evinced his knowledge
of what she said, proving that he had
not wholly forgotten the language.
Almost every witness thus far has
described the manner in which he
tested the claimant's memory as to the
incideuts which iUsceius scarcely possi?
ble could be known to an imposter ; aud
in every instance the statements made
by bim have coincided with the recol?
lection Cjf the q estiooer.
Since his retara tbe claimant has been
engaged until now in collecting evidence
"or this suit; and through what perils
te had to proceed, the following passage
rom the opening speech of Sergenut
13allentine will show:
"Commissions were issued both to
\ostrailia and Melipilla. I may say
hat from that you cannot doubt that
?ir Roger Tichborne has been largely
lupportcd, and that a large number of
lemons implicitly believe in his story,
ind have been rrady to help him in
noney as well as in countenance Sir
Hoger Tichborne started with the South
American commission; and after they
.cached Rio it became a question w hetti
jr they should cross the Cordilleras or
ro around by Cape Horn. Sir Roger
ud naturally a streng objection to a
ea voyage, and while the other meiu
icrs afraid to undertake the risk of
Tossing thc Cordilleras, went by I ho
ea. Sir Roger started by that route,
ind had reached Cudova, a place on the
runtier of thc mountains. There he
became extremely ill, and, io conve?
nience, be was obliged to return to
England without making his way across
he Cordillera?. As a singular episode
n this extraordinary ease, I may men
ion that the diligence in which he ha
ak eu his place was stopped iu thc
?ordtHeras, and every person in it
iiurdered."
0? course we eannot know what was
n the counsel's mind when he said this
?ut it certainly was a very rr rum kable
act that every traveller in thc diligence
a which it was known the claimant
Qteudcd to cross the mountains should
ave been murdeied on that journey
Almost all that can be said of thc
efence is, that it will rest upon thc
Bsumcd death of Sir Roger Tichborne
n the occasion of thc shipwreck of the
leila. Although we have as yet heard
uly one side of the case, and not the
hole of that, it is certain that if the
l.iimant is not Sir Roger Tichborne
e ought to b<> in some doubt as to his
cr.-onal identity by the time the trial
ended. He might soliloquise alter
te manner of the Yale student
?med Amnii, who, coming home from
late dinner, held forth to himself
tas : "Am I Ammi, or am I not Arnon?
f I am not Ammi, who thc d-1 am I? "
?WThe New York Tirnts says :
"Thc tenor of thc discussion by the
ress throughout the country of the
iew departure' declared by the late Mr.
allaodigham and his followers, indi?
ces pretty conclusively that if the new
ovement ia to be insisted on it will
?ult io a hopeless division of tbe
emocratic party."
The Richmond Dispatch adds :
'Not so. Thc 'new departure' is
bibing more than tbe Virginia 'new
ovement,' which baa already been cn
?reed by tbe people of North Carolina,
eonesaee, Missouri, and Virginia, at
ie ballot-box. There is no danger of
division un this question. The ?oath
o States will support the D?mocratie
?minee. They ask no better platform
ian that of tbe Iowa Decuoeraey. We
tend to put down Radicalism, carpet
igistn, and scala wagism, to reduce the
:peni.es of the Government, to lower
xation, to let the negroes vote without
odrance or obstruction, to pay tbe
itioaai debt, and, g- nerally, to do
hatsoerer th liga are of good report.' "
VIRF jrtTICK CHASE ABT? THE
PaOCUKSitfVR BSHOCtSACT.
The Washington correspondent of thc
iebmood Dispatch saje :
Tbe Radical pol?tica! ce utrea here ve
ired adduiOQaf abocii io tbe iotelli
geooe which comes to them thru
carious chaooels of the 8 trou g i
port the progressive Democracy is lil
to receive io the .earnest counsel
adhesion of the Chief Justice of
Uoitod States. Conservative feeling
this distinguished jurist are, as is i
versally known, not of late origin,
the practical benefits which will ac?
to the country and to the Democr
party by the open and ardent discern
tion of them will prove an addif i<
sourco of anxiety to the oootroll
political party
THE WATCHMA
WEDNESDAY* JUNE 2
A.A. GILBERT.EDI
The Sumter Watchman has
far the largest circulation (es
dally in the surrounding count
of any paper published in Sum*
and wat established in 1850.
LET VH'ABANDON POLITICS.
More than forty years ago, Thoi
Carlyle, in an essay fer the Edinbu
Review, written with singular force ;
clearness, comments in his peculii
vigorous manner, on the undue imp
tance of politics. He says "politii
"ecclesiastical, or other outward est?
" Hahments, can at any time embr
" but a limited portion of man's in tere
"and by no means the highest poitio
If such language can be applied to I
politics of a country like England, h
much more suitable is it to the sad c
cumstances in which we live. In tl
great and perhaps, strictly speaking, oi
really free government in the wor
public affairs occupy the time and atti
tion of its best and ablest men. Memb
of Parliament serve without pay
reward direct or indirect. Lobbying
unknown, corruption unheard of. ?
even there the pursuit of politics is
we have seen of tittle moment, wb
compared with those great iotellectu
social and moral ideas which constiti
the real pivots upon which society turi
When we look at our own country as
is now, where thc upheaval of civil ?tri
has brought to thc surface the wot
elements of our population-when \
consider the situation of the who
South, but more especially of our ov
stricken State, who can hesitate to m
that
"Tho post of honor ii a private station."
It seems to us that if from the d:
on which we laid down our arms at
acknowledged our inability to contint
the unequal struggb yet holding th;
the sword was powerless to airer tl
immutable principles of truth ac
justice, wc had determined to remai
silent spectators of a reconstruction (
the government, io which we had i
voice and could not feel any intcrcst
our pos?!ion would h ire been mot
honorable to ourselves and more coi
dueivc to our own ultimate redemptini
Ir has bet-n faid that one of the noblrj
pp?-ct actes in faturc is the contemplatio
ot a brave soul straggling against ac
versify. .So it is with nation*. Hungary
Ireland and Poland excite our sympa
thies and command our respect, not oi
account of the rash and fruitless effort
which they have so often made to obtaii
some political power iu the councils o
their masters, but rather on ace .unt o
the patient heroism with which thei
have burne their I -tte. But alas, we o
the South arc caned with a more heart
less tyranny aud a more monstrous ny?
tem than wai ever dreamed of bj
Em met, Kossuth or "Warsaw's Issi
Champion." Th? Pole is governed by
his et] ua i j i lie Hungarian and the son
ot Erin by their ?opertorn, as man)
think, and by their equals as all admit.
But wc ot the South are comseilcd to
submit to a rulo of ?gnorauce and eor
ruption thc like ot which baa Diver yet
beeu seen.
Our fortunes ruined, oar national
hopes blasted, nothing remains worthy
jf our attention, except the pursuit of
thone domestic and social objects which,
liter all, are more important to men
ihau thc form of government ander
?viiich they may lire. The author whom
re have quoted above baa the follow*
mg beautiful thought, :
"Go the whole, as this wooderous
4 planet, Earth, is journeying with its
' fellows through infinite space, so are
' the wonderoua destinies embarked on
* it journeying through infinite time,
* nuder a higher guidance than oura.
'* For the present, as onr astronomy in
1 forms us, its path lies toward? Hercule*.
' the constellation of Physical Pow,
' But that is not oar most pressing
* concern. Go where it will, the deep
' Heaven will be around it. Therein
' let aa have hope and sure faith. To
' reform a world, to reform a nation, no
' wise man will undertake ; sod all bat
1 foolish men know that the only sotid,
* though tar ?lower reformation, is what
' each beging and perfecta on himsef/."
So let it be with at. lieserviug to
?urselve?, as individual-, tba right to
:ast oar votes in such manner aa we may
iecm beat, let ns abat?is from aaa
iemoralising arena of polities. Let ?a
ora oar attention to the improvement
if our fortunes, the education of oat
?hilaren, the support of religiosa sod
iterary institutions, the cultivation of
he social virtues ; bat above all, let sa
preserve immaculate the purify of our
toola, the honour tod manhood of sar
ional character. Qod still ralas tfet
vor ld, sod tbs Cns? ?ill some shan ? sa?
ue tad intelligence ?ill rimsiift thsir
>ower. Happy for os and Casts ?ts
come after us, if we and they ?hall bar
passet! through the gloomy intern
unsullied by the imparities which e
compass as ott every side.
JBFFKRtOlf DAVIS.
We seldo?r publish comm anicatio
from other papers, but (he following
so jost and withal so moderate and di
oified, that we give it to oar readers,
a fair and manly exemplar of'tri
Southern opinion :
THE SOUTH AND MB. DAVIS.
To th? Editor of the Charleston Hewn.
One of the most humiliating sigas
the times is to be lound in the cotnmen
of certain editors of Southern newsp
pera on Mr. Daria' recent speech
Atlanta. It is not the purpose of tl
writer either to endorse or repudiate,
any particular, the sentiments of th
speech. It would, perhaps have bei
more becoming, as well as more prudet
if Dr. Davis hud maintained perfe
silence in reference to the politic
si.uation. But, certainly, it mast 1
deeply mortifying to all true mt
everywhere-North as well as South
to note the alacrity with which Soul
ern men abase and villify the maa who
they so recently admired and honore
Mr Davis is no longer "the founder
a new nation." He can no longer d?
pense patronage and ron fer power. ?
ts now only the cz leader of a "Lo
Cause " But, notwithstanding th
great change, he is the very same Je
fersoo Davis be was in 1861. He
identically the same man to whom, i
less mercenary days, an unanimot
South entrusted the leadership of th
cause for whose support they "pledge
their lives, their fortunes, and the
sacred honor." This cause has bee
irrevocably lost, and the Southern pee
pie are very desirods of the restoratio
of harmony between the sections of th
country lately at war. Bat, unless
am greatly mistaken, they are utterl
unwilling lo attain thia end by sacrif
cing their self-respect; They bar
maintained and exercised the righ
freely to criticise the oficial and publi
conduct of Mr. Davis, as well as of ot he
men. But they cannot, without dee
degradation, condescend, in complianc
with a fanatical prejudice, to positiv
abuse and vilification of their ow
deliberately chosen leader and champion
If peace can only be purchased by sad
humiliating condescension, then le
discord reign forever. We cannot de
grade Jefferson Davis without degradioj
I ourselves. He stands forth now, am
I he will stand forth forever, as the rep
resentative of the Confederate cause
j The character of the people of the Con
! federate States is judged of now. ant
will be judged of by the most oistan
posterity, by the character of thei
chosen head. And why should wi
deprecate such a judgment? It may b<
true that Mr. Davis bas made grea
mistakes. It may be even, as sotm
assert, that our canse was lost tbroagl
his mismanagement. But wheo th?
pas.?i< ns of the hour shall have subsided
it will not be denied that, with ail o
his faults and shortcomings, he mani?
fested, io an extraordinary degree
courtesy, dignity, courage fortitude
fidelity, humanity, and ''all trat make.
?a*man." Jefferson Davin has stood bj
the Sooth with unshaken constancy ant
dauntless coor.ige. During his lo?;
imprisonment, without the aid of om
friendly voice to cheer his solitude anc
confirm hts courage, he was not onmiod'
fut even for one moment of the dignitj
and fortitude becoming the leader of i
brave though rained people. It then
became manifest that the honor of the
South was dearer to him ?han life itself
In the name of common decency, there?
fore, let not Southern men swell lh(
r u ks of those who defame and abuse
him. If ?re cannot endorse hts senti*
nj"nt?, ?et us say so with candor and
firmness ; but b< youd this the history
of the past forbids us to go.
AGRICOLA.
Darlington, S. C. June, 1871.
OBDINAKCB Ho. 4 -A S CGC Bl TIO H,
One of the Finance Committee of the
Town Council, han called my attention
to a snpposcd error in my last, vis : Io
relation to the numbering of the sec?
tions of the Charter. Oo examination
I find a discrepancy between th? pub?
lished Acta of the Legislature, aod the
copy certified by the Secretary of State
under bis hand and official seal. Tba
former was used by the committee, and
they therefore made a very natural and
excusable mistake i be latter waa used
by me and I wat therefore entirely
accurate in my statement.
While I aa on this subject I will
offer a suggest i oo to the Finaaee Com?
mittee, which I trust they will find a
convenient method of solving an un?
pleasant difficulty.
The total amonas expected to be
realised from the "Special Tax" Ordi?
nance ia about Five Hundred Dol?an.
If the committee will substitute "Gross
Proceeds of Sales" for "Net Proceeds of
Sales" io their Tax Bill (whets they
come to frame it) and wHI collect this
'.ax rigidly and impartially, the amount
thus gained will be about double that
lost by the repeal of Ordinance No. 4
A tax oo sales, payable mootbly, or
ereo quarterly, is easily ascertained,
easily collected, anti falls lightly aad
equally upoo all. The merchant mere?
ly ad vanees tho amount of the tax,
wb ich ia actually paid by the consumer.
The revente of tbe Tow? from o tax
ou salea, arranged aa above, Licenses of
Liquor Dealers, fte., tad tbe Beti Estate
Tax, will amply suflee to pty til the
expenses of tbe year, aid leave t hand?
some amount wherewith to redone tbe
outstanding debi. It is trw? that the
rate ot Beti Betti? ii ot? fifth bes, by
the terna of the Charter, than ft ?ta
last year. Btt as the Council is
now compelled (bj the Charter) to ?to
tb? State Assessment, iustet? *f their
own, the retail will b?much larger, ?vet
at the rtdueed ra*e, tbao \i ursa before.
I am tot doubtful ajse?t 'tl* letti
positions taken in ay former communi?
cation. I believe they can be roily
sustained. As, however, I have shown
an easy way ont of the difficulty, I
hope the obnoxious Ordinance will be
repealed and th ac a recourse to the Lew
be avoided.
TURPENTINE.
* Over one thousand crates of
peaches were shipped from Aiken during
the past week.
-Th? disease of insanity^ becom?
ing unusually prevalent in . Charles toa.
Each day a ease more or Ieee aggravated
is chronicled.
--The Columbi* Phoenix says
There will be a more extensive fruit
crop in this State, this season, than for
several years peat. Watermelons bave
put in an appearance already.
--A vessel is expected to arrive at
Charleston from Bremen, in the fall,
with a lot of German passenger immi?
grants. She is anxiously awaited by
those who expect the arrival of relatives
and friends.
--A Grand Division of the Son? of j
Temperance for the State of South Car?
olina wai organized in Charleston on
Monday, 19th inst
---The Committee appointed by the
Tax payer's Convention to report on the
condition of the State now and since
the war, will meet in the town of Cam?
den, on Wednesday, the 12th of July
next, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
-A planter writing from Kershaw
County to his factor io Charleston saya :
I have had enough ruin to make three
crape, anti I em sore that if it bas fallen
everywhere as it has here upon our
swamps, there mas? be a falling off in
the crops, lt ie now a rarity to use a
plough, and grate ie basking in its
glory, almost undisturbed.
-The Newberry Herald says: ?Maj.
C. H. Sober left Newberry on Thursday
last, or. a summons to attend the Kn
Klax Investigating Committee, sitting
io Washington. The Major regretted
that the season wee not m<rre advanced
that he might combine chis business
call with a pleasure in contemplation.
He left bis Ku Klul stick behind bim."
-'The closely contested will suit at
New Orleans hinges on the validity of j
the testatrix's mark, she baviog de?
clared that she "could not write," the
opposite party claiming that this ia no:
equivalent to saying that she "did not
know how to write."
MARRIED*
Jane 18th, 1871, at the residence of Charles
Spencer. B?q.. by the Ber. W. A. Qr***. Capt.
J. W. STUCKEY to Mite JOANNA RIVERS,
both o? Bithcp ville, 8. C.
At the residence of the bride's father, os the
21st instant, by the Ree. W. tl? Fleming, Mr.
R. M. FOWLER, of Wilmington. N. C., to Mist
LOU P. FULLOM, daughter of Benjamin Fol
Fulton, Esq., ot ganur, 8. C.
Ia this town, on Wedneeda* norning, the 14th
instant, by Hon. Judge M. Mose-, Mr. BAR?
NARD POLLOCK, of Colombia, and M ?ti
SELINA SCHWERIN, elden daughter of Mr.
J. Schwerin, of Sumter*
COMMERCIAL.
Cotton-very few bales bare changed heads
tbit week. Wa quote Strict Middling. 18?e,
BACON-Sides, 12a@l3j; Shoulder?, 10**3
Hi Haiat. 25.
LARD-Sf?Sse.
FLOUR-Per bbl. $7@|12.
COFFEE-Legeeyra, 30@W ; JaTa, 4000?;
Rio, 20@25.
8 A LT-$2.50
8 CG AK- Brawn. 12i@ 14; C., 15@16 ; A., 17
@00 ; Crushed, 17@18.
BAGGING-7?toS7i.
I RON-TI ES-8(?10.
KOPK- IPA IS.
BATESVILLE SHIRTINGS-Per bal?
YARN BY TUB BALB-tUOe. Per bench.
MASO JUC.
rr HR REGULAR MONTHLY COMMUfTICA.
X Ti ON OF CLARK? ONT LOUtiE. NO ?4,
F.*. M-*. viii be held ea Thursday evening,
Jane 20. 1871. at 7] o'clock.
By order of
T. V. WALSH, WV. M.*.
M. C. WILL?. Secretary.
Ann* ? IS71_
NUT ICU fiUJTAX PAYERS.
DELINQUENT TAX PAYERS OF REAL
ESTATE for 1870, are Itereby notified, un
le?? ?och axes ere paid by ne fi rt? af July,
proximo, axecatioea will he l<a*?il.
JOflNF. HAYNSWORTH,
Clerk ead Treasurer,
Council Cbaaber. Banter, 8. C. Jaae 28, 1871.
REMOVAL?
THE eodertlgeed respeetfalfy five? aa?lee
that he ha? removed his omeo to the old
Hotel Building, aext to the Court House, front
roon 2nd Stevy, directly ever the Hardware
Store of Mr. L. P. Larra*. Entrance fron Maia
Street. JOSEPH 0ALLUCHAT,
Jaae 21-lt Attorney at Law.
ATTENTION
Sumter Fire Engine Co.
THE RE ?ULAR MONTHLY MEETING Of
, Yeer Onpaay will he held at Xuffae Beena.
a?xt W adata day tv? lng, Jaly 5, 187!, at 7*
o'clock, P.M.
A ?yj ****?i?'fM iuesitei.
Hp ?ante ci YiesMcet
E. C. GREEN,
M. O. Rrrranae*, Secretary.
J-?_*
LAW CARD?
JOSEPH GALLUCHAT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AHB
SOLICITOR IK EQUITY.
SUMTER, S. C.
Mea ia the Old Hotel BaaM*f./?*ext fie tbs
Court House, frost roon, ?asead story, directly
??er the Hardware Stare of Capt. L. ?. Lerng.
lefiejwefteoi Mawr
Preserve Tew Sight !
THE CELEBRATED
Schafftaen Spectacles.
nf ea at at tm nt mm ie* m4 - <t...>?._? ?
Mwm\ymK*wr%m n oem*j mau***, ?wUeWMM.
The superiority of these Great Bj? Preterre?
-?hrt? bi tho ?arefeJ Mathematical Aeseiaej
ta tb? ecestreetioa cf fte Leases, bang nae?
?mKta* af tnt Beet Walts Ifcat Glacs, thc exact
the ether Train af Evils pve*?** by the ese cf
Every roe w Mee sight is frOtnC
BUT. THE BES! !
inf Sc?ajfhcnten ?metodea and
New Advertisements.
H. J. SAYERS.
DEALER IN REAL tSTATE,
FRANKLIN, P. A,
Buys and sell? improved ?nd unimproved lands
anywhere in the Unired States.
THE FREAK COMPOSITION ST"NE.
For hons? front?, dorks, piers, calverts,
walls, fountainsand all building purposes; hard?
er, more durable, and 100 per cent, cheaper than
natnral stone. F?r supply of ?ame, or right of
manufacture, for counties or State?, apply to
CHAS. W. DARLING. Secretory, N. Y. Freer
Stone Co., 1,238 Broadway, N. Y.
Schofields Patent Cotton Press
Is the simplest and best made. It will suit you.
Send for Circular und Price? to SCHOFIELD'S
Iron Works. Macon, Georgia.
CONFEDERATE LOCAL STAMPS
Four Dollar* a piece paid fur the local
stamp? issued by the Confedaiate P...-t
masters, excepting tba New Orleans and Mtm
pbis 2 and 5 cents, by WM. P BROWN A CO.,
53 NassaO Strret, New York City.
MERCHANT'S
IAlftUIft ?Il
IS GOOD FOB
Burns ani Scald?, Rheumatism.
Chilblains, Hemorrhoids or Piles,
Sprains and Bruises, Sure Nipple?,
Chapped Hands, Caked Breasts,
Flesh Wounds, Fistula, Mange,
Frost Bites, Spavins, Sweeney,
External Poisons, Scratches, or Grosse,
Si:nd Cracks. Stringhalt, Windgalls
Galls of All Kinds, Foundered Feet,
Sitfast, Ringbone, Cracked Heels,
Poll Evil. Foot Rot in Sheep,
Bites of Animals A Inseets.Ruu- in Poultry,
Toothache. Ac, Ac. Lime I ack, 4c. Ae
Large Stxc, $1.00, medium. 50c
Kuall, 25c.
The Gargling Oil ba? been in ose as a Lini?
ment for thirty-eight years. All ?e ask is a fair
trial, bnt be sere a- d follow directions
Ask your rearest druggist or lealer in pater.?
madiciues, for une ufour Almanac* and Vade
i ?cums, and road what the people say about
the Oil.
The Gargling Oil is for sale hy all respectable
dealer* throughout the United Sutes and other
countries.
Our testimonials date from 1833 to the pre?
sent, and are unsolicited* U.-e the Gargling Oil.
and tell jour neighbors what good it has done.
Wo deal fair and liberal with all. and dety
contradiction. Write for an Almanac or Cook
Book.
Manufactured at Lockpart, N. Y.
-BY
MER CHAM'S
GARGLING OIL COMPANY,
_JOH M HOPPE, ?ec*y.
DR. WORTHINGTON'S FAMILY MEDI?
CINE.-Extensively used tor "Bowel Af*
factions" tor twenty years. Endorsed by the
most eminent medical men of the country. Surg
Gen. Moore and Pr-f. Warren advised its use in
the C. 8. Army. We are now Proprietors of this
medicine, prepare it by the original reeeipe, and
offer it to tbs public in improved package* and
good style. All druggist* and general dealers
keep it. Send for te?t:u?nia ?. and your orders
to WADE, BOYKIN A CO., Baltimore.
Agents I Read This!
VTTS WILL PAY AGENTSA SALAKY
y f of $*0 p?r week MU ex en-*?, or ailuw a
largs commission, to ?ell our new and wonderful
invention*. Address M. WAGNER A Co., Mur
?ball, Mich.
?JjqO^A MONTH H?r?e ?nd Carriage
V^-^'Jiurnisbed. Espensos paid H. Shaw,
Alfred. Me
h HUI DOLLARS,
Shrewd bat quiet men can make a f >rtnne by
rt vealing the secret of the husmes? to no one.
Address GE ?. WINSTEAD.
*?S Rroadwav. N-w Y-rk.
Thc undersigned a grudu.?ioof OduuiMa Col?
lege, and Master of Belles Lerer?. respect
fully informs th? citizen? of Som:, r and tb* sur?
rounding country, that he is prepared to iastiuct
lehul.r? at their private residence* io
FRENCH, SPANISH AND I l'A LIAN.
ALSO t.t
CALLIGRAPHY, (McLaren's sad Goldsmith's
> systems)
MUSIC, (piano forte.)
DRAWING, (in pencil.)
DRAWING, (io charcoal.)
DRAWING, (in pastel.)
PAINTING, (in oil.)
PAINTING, (in water colors.)
Any communication will meet with prompt at
tent'Ms, addressed, caro <-f t?>e Watchman
Ofice HENRY A. HORN.
Jase 21-tf
Dr. J. S. HUGHSON,
WOULD INFORM BIS PATRONS AND
FRIENDS, that ha has removed his office I? the
sew baildieg, OB Main Street, eext above Mr.
T. T. Upshqr'i Store, where they may Ind bim
from W o'clock A. M , to 1 P. M., and from -ti
te 6} F. M., aale?? professionally engaged. If
absent they will please lceve their names un the
slate.
After 7 o'clock, P. M., be will be found at bi?
residence on Liberty Street, opposite toe Acade?
my Green.
Jeme tl
PACIFIC
Fire Insurance Company,
-OF
SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA!
ASSETS._.S 1.700 Oct GOLD.
Security hy Sute Law."..$24.000.000 GOLD.
Largest Fire Insarat.ee Company ia Amt rica.
Policies issoed payable ia Geld if deeirtd.
A. WHITE, Agent,
Ja* 78 Somier. S. C.
22 HOURS AHEAD!
'PHS DAILY NOHIVItetB STAR reuet?.
X es Sumter 22 ll OUR? AHEAD ol Ute
Charleston. Columbia and Angust? papar*.
The STAR contains LATfcST TELEGRAPH
IO DISPATCHES, (including New York ead
Live peel Markets), fall report? of th? Wilming?
ton markets, ead all aews of lateran or impor.
taeee.
Mesrheets of H ??ter receive reporta of
CUAKLB.-T0N MARKET through tba PTAR
22 hoer* sooner thea thtoagh tb* Charleston
Tersas, $.700 per yeer ; or $3.50 for ? moates.
Wa H. BERNARD,
Editor and Proprietor,
Jo** tl _ Wilmington, H. C.
8PRI&G FASHION
-IN
Miliinory and Fancy Goods.
CALL LA DICH
.ssl get year SPRING BONNETS AND HATS
OP i HE LATEST STYES.
-ALSO
Fancy (foods in Variety,
CH RAP AHB PRETTY,
-AT
MUM fi? De BRITTO X'S?
Hast Deer to J. T. SOLOMON.
April II_?_tm
For Sale or Bent
ATRACT OF LAND seer Pruvfcdaaoa, ia
Sumter Coety, e.>ataiair-g 228 seres, lately
o ?raed hy C. O. J eek? ?rn, ase purchased hy
km frota Edward L. Money ead Wire? Terms
, iliMi*mmii*.i'iit, Afffr ta Bsehardiea A 8ta??*
?tmmr.X C.
f. W. WITT1.
WhleU If
Plower Pots
AND
Geranium Jars
ALL SIZES, JUST RECEIVED.
ICED
BUTTER
Always on hand *
ht
AT y
Planters' Warehouse,
th
wi
?3?
wh
Wt
Mc
Chas, H. Moise & Co,, 'M
wei
th,
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8?MTER, S. C. }
Gat
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June 21 J?
proj
Ihn
(_S?t
OFFICE OF COUNTY AWlr?
SUMTER, S. C , June I?, 1871
Th!? oft?? will he opescd OD tho Itt c'rt
for the reception -if Retarn? of Personal pros* >
held na tb? 1st Joly, 1871, tod will OKOi
open during the tu?.nth of Jul*.
Only war?? of personal property art nata jv*
hot all ?ale? or transfers of Real Estate it
?-ej tru b r 1st, 1879, ou?t be outed un tails hoQ(
of th? mioro.
The caine of the Township in which tbsp* *"
er:y U held, ?ut also appear un the back af: ggf) 11
reto ra. -,
For th? convenience of tho?? livief it t * . w
H*e?t?rn part <>f rhe Cuinty. a cotsieleal ?. fi-_',
will ba in attaudaaca al Providence fer Mil
irons lb? IOth July. Xl
At Bi?h?p\ tile and Corbett's store, parti? i ?J??-,
uMke return* ta my?elf ur ?..?? cinpetitx .?
ty no the 17 b July, a d fur ten ?Uy? rhrfjt fe? jil
Panic? reridihg io Lynchburg. Stil?! r _
M?3e?viile. r?n aixke their retara? lo lt??. v?tli
P. Smith. a? Mr. W. D. Hinds, fr. ? tb? 2M
3lsf Joly.
Tb"?e who maka their referas ar?sjpttj ? P?g*
avoid ih? delay and j-stling which al*?JM V0?.
Companies lb? "lae! days" of tat f^iaf *
assessment*. NM
I a-k tb? co-operatt'-.B of every ciritea is .
tending this nolie? so tbat no on? will ia ' ^
penalties) by ignorance er e*reli??ne?*.
I invite particular ?tleaiion to th? f*B*w
extrae: fi um that Aet of the Lejisiatar? a? Tf?,
which ibis atseosment is made :
Seer** III. Tut whenever any tax
.hall fail io mah? retorna to the Aid a* sf' ?gg *,]
County, with o the time p-escribed by hw
shall be th? duly of tb? Countx Auditor ?*??|
?a th? Tai Daplieate, again*! such f*Jt"Pt<|fg*<)j
tb? property charged to l im the piari?e? *
with W per ct-OL realty thereto, excei* '?.Cf gOi
bf sirkne?s or ab??r. e from the C?et<ty.
th? trow iisnit of property oily sad " *"
ebargwd. Oo
0m<-? hoon at th? Sumter Ofiee trm .*??-"_
to 6 P. M. from Joly 1st to Jl.t Op*
day hat Sunday aod the 4th day ?f Ji'y- ?Matee
J. ?i. O?BBETT
Jasa :i CooatyABdjjOlOjf
-Wil?Cbf
SPARKLING wiitfc
CATAWBA SPRINS^
F -rm?rly called Diurift
THE CAROLINA VTBITB SULPBTI^i] ^
CATAWBA COUNTY, V. C. The ej
- ioterei
Tab highly popaur w?teri?f ata? ?? ?re ital
opea for visitor* ?o WEDNESDAY, ^8
Th? Miner?) Waler? of these Spring? * Jg?V*
Whit? and Bio? Sotphoc. ?ad Cbalye*??* hm per
saa'iriaal prop?r?i?s ol ?hieb ara 9t**Z.mmat.mm,
aada beal bitr and mor? d?lightf?l it?*Ww??aj
placa not to be found. tafittli
Tb? ?pring? will ba andar tb? maswi?**?^"
J aa M. BLAIH. formerly of Yarboroer??*
Ralogfa, 1*. C.. aa eapeeie&eed bord ** >A?J?Xf
together with Mrs Waaia, ?nd vistos?? >. .
rely op*>? good far? ?nd good ?tte*tic?- >-*^f
Fiawty of lew, good Band of Morie sa* I
Physician in attendance. Ac. . nH
Lear? Baitimor? or Washington CHj * ^fll
awning via Aeqoia Creek. Ricbmoed ?'MH
Tflw ?V B.: to Selisbery. whan TM TaaoJ^B
We-tara aad Morgan'on Road, aad "?"?r^H
ory .?tattoo (tba ?priegt Depot) bj ?^BetP M
ala? o'cl rfc tb? next muming. marfc mi
Leave Augusta, Ga., ai aigbt, -* *^mTn ^
Charlott? aad dtat?fTH!? Roed at c**?&m> kt
reach th? Spring? ?arly th? atgt
Charfamoa ia th? nora inf, aad be t? I* efl a
the oex: mtwieg. hiSmULi
Afead foar baraa Oaatriba? will ^VT**^
aacrio? with th? train? to tba &*W'JaWt) tii
b?aat?fal road owly rig milaa. W>?kk
BOARD. Jft
Porataatb, (cr fear weeks,).ij?^*"'
Par Dwy.-x.-.^- ?
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