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r ' ' /V w *' .v tv l9.i iortiquJlur^ Som?5i4 (ttqonoing,'ftffys; and th^ Oliirrcnf ^rirn oflht Jin* ' VOL. X.?*New Series. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, AUGUST 1, 1879. NUMBER 31. UJ-i > u-i '. - ' ! ?r-r , ; ; -! i ' ? TTrt\lf TUP prt?rppntfO?TP nopornow* ? - ? ***? ""PUTTITSHIAN8!",iU 1,1,1 WA? On tho morning of tho 23d of May, a bittor trial was in store for tho proud spirit?a trial severer probably, than lias over in modern times been indicted upon any who had enjoyed such eminence. This morning Jefferson Davis was shackled. It was while all tho swarming cauips of tho armies of the Potomac, the Tennessee and Georgia?over two hundred thousand bronzed and laureled veterans?were preparing for tho graud review of the next morning, in which, passing in endless suc ccssion before the mansion of the President, tho conquoriug nulitpry power of the nation was to lay down its arms at the feet of tho civil authority, that tho following scene was enacted at Fort Monroe : ; Capt. Jeromo E. Titlow, of tho Third Pennsylvania Artillery, entered the prisoner's cell, followed by the blacksmith of the fort and his assistant, the latter carrying in his hauds some heavy and harshly rattling shackles. As they entered, Mr. Divis was reclining on his bed, feverish and weary, after a sleepless night, tho food placed noar him the preceding day uutouchcd on his tin Dlate near his bodside. Well? said Mr. Davis, as they entered, slightly raising his head. I have an unpleasant duty to perform, sir, said Captaiu Titlow ; and as he spoke tho senior blacksmith took the shackles from his assistant. Davis leaped instantly from bis rccuuibcut attitude, a flush passing over his face for a moment, and then his counteuancc growing ns livid aud rigid as death. Ho gasped for breath, clutching his throat with tho thiu flngors of his right hand, and then recovering himself slowly, while his wastod figuro towered up to its full height?now appearing to swell with indignatiou and then to shriuk with terror, as ho glauced from the Captains face to tho shackles?he said slowly and with a laboring chest: 1 My God ! You cannot have been scut to iron mo ? Such are my orders, sir, roplicd the ofli- 1 ccr, beckoning the blacksmith to approach, who stepped forward, unlocking the padlock and preparing tho fetters to do their office, i Thcso fetters were of heavy iron, probably < iivo eights of an inch in thickness, and cauncctcd together by a chain of liko weight, j [ believe they aro novr in the possossion of i Major Genera! Miles, and will form an in- 1 tcrcstiug relic. s This is too monstrous, groaned the pris- > onor, glaring hurriedly round the room, as if for somo wcapou, or means of self des- I structioo. I de-i.aud, Captain, that you let "i mo sco tho commanding officer. Can he pretend that such shackles are required to I secure the safe custody of a weak old man, I so guarded and in such a fort as this ? 1 It would serve to no purpose, replied I Captaiu Titlow ; his orders are from Wash- ! iugton, as mine aro from hiui. < Hut ho can telegraph, interposed Mr. ' Davis, eagerly; there must be some mistake. I No such outrago as you threaten me with | is on record iu the history of uations. Hog < him to telegraph, and delay uutil lie re- < coivcs an auswor. i My orders aro peremptory, said tho officer, and admit of no dolay. For your own < sako, lot dic advise you to submit with pa- < tic tie?. As a soldier, Mr. Davis, yon kuow < I must execute orders. : These arc not orders for a soldier, shouted the prisoner, losing all control of himself, i They aro orders tor a jailor?for a hung man, which no soldier wearing a sword i should accept! I tell you the world will < ring with this disgrace. The war is over ; | tho South is conquered ; I have uo longer j any country but America, aud it i? for tho " honor of America, as for my own honor and life, that I plead against this degradation. Kill uic 1 kill me! he cried passionately, throwing his arms wido opon and exposing his breast, rather than iiliet on me ?nd my people through mo this insult, ? wnraA t.hnn df.fith. Do jour duty, blacksmith, said the officer walking toward the embrasure as if not earing to witness the performance. It o.ily gives increased pain on all sides to protract this interview. At these words the blacksmith advanced with the shackles, and seeing that the prisoner bad one foot upon the chair near his bedside, his right hand resting on the back of it, tho brawny mechansio made an attempt to slip one of the chaokles over tho ankle so raised ; but as if tho vehemoncc and power which frenzy alono can impart, even to tho weakest individual, Mr. Davis suddenly seized his assailant and hurled him half way across the room. On this Captain Titlow turned, and scoing that Davis had backed against tho wall for farther resistance, began to remonstrate, pointing out in brief, otoar language that this course was madness, and that the order must bo enforced at any oost. Why ooinpol mo, he addod, to add tho further indignity of personal violence to the necessity of your being ironed ? I am a prisoner of war, fiorccly retorted Mr. Davis; I hnva been n soldier in tho armies of America, and know how to die. Only kill me, and my last breath shall be a blessing on your head. But while I have life and strength to resist, for myself nud for my people, this thing shall not be done. Hereupon Captain Titlow called in a Sergeant and iilo of soldiers from the next room, and the Sergeant advanced to seize the prisoner. Immediately Mr. Davis flew on hiui aud seized his musket and attempted to wrench it form his grasp. Of course such a scene could have but one Dsue. There was a short, passionato scuttle. In a moment Davis was flung upou his bed, and before his four powerful assailants removed their hands from him the blacksmith and his assistaut had done their work?one securing the rivet on the right anklo while the other turned the key iu the padlock on the left. This done, Mr. Davis lay for *i moment as if in a stupor. Then slowly raisiug himself and turning round, he dropped his shackled feot to tho floor. Tho harsh clank of the striking chain seems first to have recalled him to his situation, apd dropping his face into his hands, he burst into a passionate flood of sobbing, i <*? __J?-- - " uv.ni.ii; i.u huu iiu, mm uiuiicnng at unci intervals: Oh, the shame! the shame! It mny here be stated, though out of its dud order?that wo may got rid in haste of au unpleasant subject?3Ir. Davis some months later, when frequent visits hnd made him more free to converse, gavo a curious explanation of the last feature iu this incident. He had been speaking of suicide, and denounced it as the worst form of cowardice and folly. Life is not like a commission that wo can resign when disgusted with tho service. Taking it by your own hand is a confession ofjudgincut to all that your worst enemies can allege. It has often Hashed against me as a tempting remedy for neuralgic torture; but, thauk God. I never sought my own death but once, and then when completely frenzied, and not master of my actions. Wheu they came to irou mo that day, as a 1st resource of desperation, I seized a soldier's musket and attempted to wrench it from his hands, hoping tint in the scuffle and surprise some of bis comrads would shoot or bayonet U1C. Tup. "Indui.oencb" of Pistols.?Failing all other moans of accounting for tho loath of Mr. Seymour, of New York, who was found killed by a pistol shot iu the grounds of the Theological Seminary, public opinion in that city is now settling down to the belief that lie was killed by a stray shot from some one celebrating iu this reckless way the Fourth of July.? Among others u boy student is said to have bocn indulging in such shooting, and may have caused the disastei unknowingly. Reports have already peen published of the wounding or killing of many persons by the indiscriminate firing of guns and pistols on that day, and the marvel is that there were not uioro of these accidents. Since the introduction of toy pistols a uew ind every day danger has been added, for what are called "cat and rat" pistols may bo included in the list. For men to carry pistols is a reflection upon tho civilization af tho age, but to find tlicui iu possession ji small boys, and even girls in souio instances, is a public scandal. ''During the Fourth of July," us wo learn from Philadelphia papers, there wcro captured there rjuite '' an armory of revolvers and pistols af other patterns from persons (mainly unall boys) tiring them in the park." The Ledger, alter describing these cheap and dangerous weapons, adds : "The assortment of pistols just captured in the park from boys shows there is no difficulty whatever in the way of children getting a large supply of theui, if they have Docket-money enough. That tho uianufacmrere and venders of such woapons underpaid right well the scandalous character of the trade is manifest from tho fact that only one of the whole lot has the maker's naui 3 upon it. All the rest are anonymous, ns if ashamed of themselves and the makers and vonders, too." Hut the blauie attaches quite as much to the parents of the children ns to the manufacturers and venders of these "cheap and rickety and disjointed things." One of tho great defects of social life at the present day is the decline of parental authority, resulting in many cases from the indifForcnco of tho parents themselves.? Children arc often permitted a larger do groo of liberty than is good for them, aud instoad of engaging in childish sports and pastimes, they aspire to what Shakspcaro calls "mannishncss," to copy what aro supposed to bo manly ways, and to carry manly weapons. In European countries it is J j e _ r;iru, iiiuuuu, lur uvuu uicii in uwu pisiuis, and rarer still to wear them habitually. Public opinon is so emphatically opposed to the practice that few, indeed, tbiuk of flying in tho faco of it. The custom of wearing swords went out of favor threequarters o? a century ago. But thoso who indulged in it wore them openly. With us tho pistol is concoaled, and is more dangerous, for tho possession of it is, in hot blood, a provocation to use it. In populous cities, whero law and order rulo, for a man to plead that he carries a pistol for selfdcfonco is, as is truly said, "the flimsiest of pretexts." For boys to havo them is even worse. They arc dangerous as toys ; they are intolerable in childish hands us weapons I and the use of them should bo prohibited | by all possible penalties.?Haltimorc Sun. NORTHERN IMMIGRATION SOUTH. The Chattanooga Times, in an article on ua Northern immigration to Tennessee and W the Southern States, says, the fact is that me real and valuable immigration to the South- stu err. States from the North has just fairly sta begun. True, we have had. here and there, for a colony of foreigners and occasionally one a c of Northerners planted during the last top twelve years in different States of the South, oft A considerable amount of Northern and roc European capital nave found their wny to do Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia and tilt North Carolina. Hut there has been no system or combination in it all. Tho whole Co of it has boon desultory, scattering "?d not as intelligent as would liavo been best for pol those who couic. The Swiss colony at wh Cullman, Ala., and tho one 'in Grundy the County, this Stito, liavo boon decidedly asc successful, and one or two of foreign com- mo position iu Virginia uud North Caroliuu hal liavo done and are doing well roa . The more general and systematic move- Ian mcnt of immigrants in this direction from to Now England, Now York, Pennsylvania cr and other of the old Northern and Eastern arc States, has only taken shape during the last in few months. There is now hero a gentle- tor man from Portland, Maine, who will prob- the ably buy some 30,000 acres of land on tioi which to locate a colony of several families mis n i ??UL ?- -** 1Ul *' ov viiw, ??n? ? prwjiuct oi many more 101- inn lowing in the coming autumn and next exf spring. The persons composing this in- nm choatc colony arc men and womon of culture, Tin made up of first-class business men, nicchan- pro ics, farnnrs, manufacturers, etc., who will chi bring their all with them when they come, edi and will bo an acquisition any State may bet be proud to get. liot 'i'ho same thing may be said of ft large ma colony from Lowell, Massachusetts,* who the arc preparing ?o settle on a largo tract in mu Coffee Couuty, near Manchester. Col. Killebrcw is now in New England, working up and putting in shape the movement of wil New Englanders southward. The secretary tha of the Massachusetts Colonization Assoeia- bar tiou, Mr. Stearns, of Boston, spent sevoral a j days in this city last week, and went over the to Middle Tennessee to look at lands near ?ot Scwanoe. He is commissioned to purchase law 00,000 acres for one colony, and may pur- in chase more thau one site for other colonists chi b foro be returns. cu< This looks like business. Tt 'shows that ma the purely American element ia our East- apj cm towns and cities arc taking to the fine too climate, healthful and productive laudfl of of the South, as thoy have been for years fro swarming 011 to the prairies of Illinois, Iowa, rel; Kansas, Nebraska, Miuuesota, leaving the faci factories and shops to the Swiss, Irish, it d English and German laborers and mcchan- ?t d ics. So numerous has this exodus been casi that some of the New England States, uota- irre bly Connecticut and Maine, are literally poii drained of their best native ycung blood, An and foreigners hold the balance of p:wer test at the ballot-box and evervwhore else ami J ---I J'?" still the hegira goes on. One of these ycr colonics will bo the mother of twenty oth- pus era, anil ere long th j middle and more ot noithorn belt of tho Southern section will the not only divide the "human spoil" with the wh Northwest, but wo shall certainly get the pre lion's share.?Macon Telegraph and Men- C1C| senger. tha So A Ringing Letter.?Thj following ccj production is well worthy its eminent r.nd of patriotic author. Here the wholo matter dre is stated with all possible force and concise- one ness. This letter deserves to bo read by ing every innn on the continent : am United States Senate Chamber, ) I fi Washington, 1). C., July 3, 1879 } tor Dear Sir:?The extra session is at an a 11 end. In my judgment, no session of Con- for gross has ever done more for the vindication of the principles of American liberty. We have successfully maintained the prin- wo ciple that the bayonet shall not control the P01 ballot-box; wo have repealed tho infamous 4'Uf jurors test-oath ; we havo provided fc>r im- bet partial juries in tho Federal courts, North ' and South, and we luive maintained the. Pa* principle that the Federal government, shall not interfere in the election of officers of 1 the States. A greater declaration in favor 80C of popular liberty has not been made since the adoption of Magna Charter. * rui Yours truly. A. G. THURMAN. 8U( Hon. J. IF" Eylar, West, Union Ohio. n''! . ha Southern Competition with North- wl( F.UN Miles.?Kirk's Mills, Pennsylvania July 16.?Ah pertinent to tho cotton spinners' strike in Fall River, I contribute a rm fact within my own knowledgo. %triug ti'1( the past winter some timo n member of a ov leading Baltimore firm said they would have to stop spinning cotton nud buy yarn in the South, as they could buy cheaper than they could spin. And they werg bred Te to tho business and themselves manage tneir gri factories. In March and April last I was art in Georgia and Alnbnma, and then camo to by the conclusion that tho mills thcro could tin oirtaiuly spin yarn and make coarso cloth sni much cheaper than those North could. The ha South has fino mills, low taxes, hays cotton foi from tho wagons, has water power nnd cheap pa labor. Tho people in Full Jtivcr nro in fact co in grinding competition with the darkey, so who works and boards hintaelf for nine dol- gc lars tho month.? Correspondent Phil" del- cl< phi a Timtt. I an Wanted?One Hundred Mat.bGrad.tks?I'npcrs North, South, Knst ami est have inuuniorable accounts of couimccuicuts, uud able and manly graduates pping from tlie college rostrum to the ge of actual life. 'J'liese young meu go tli with sheep skins iu hand, aspiring to ouifortablo and distinguished place at the >, wherever that may be, for they have en been assured that there is plenty of >m up there, and they have nothing to but take a few upward steps and land at ) aforesaid top. Now there is room horc in Spartanburg uuty for at least one huudrcd of these in law, nor modicine, nor Iiti98, but on the farms of the couuty, ere tbere is plenty of room not ouly at s top, but everywhere else in the line of :ont from the very bottom. If we hud re of these young graduates, with their bits of study and investigation and ding, in charge of some of the good ds of our county, they might help bring thisoccupation into even high repute than it now enjoys. Thero a hundred questions that come up daily farm life that need the applied cc of trained aud vigorous minds. Take i one that is now attracting some attcna in the Spartan, the best way to cconoso rain in dry woather, and you ifill find t dook-learoing, combined with afctual terimcnt, would in a revt thmuch light on that very important subject, e growth and habits of plants, the itnvemcnt in farm stock, labor-saving mauery, diversified crops, a higher home teat ion for farmers and their families, tcr and inoro stylish houses, are quosis worthy of the best minds. Then let ny ot the graduates go to the farms; there y arc ueeded, and there they may do ell good.? Carolina Spartan. \ Judge Learning his Trade.?You I perhaps be surprised when I tell you t the ablest lawyer of this or any other ', when ho is for the first time appointed udge. has to learn his trade, as much as i mechanic s apprentice. Of course I do > mean by this that he has to lcaru the \ for I am supposing him to be learned the law. But what the apprenticed mcinic learns of his master is not the sciiq of mechanical forces, at least not inly that. What he does acquire in that irenticeship is skill in the use of his Is, This is precisely what I am saying a new judge. Lot mo illustrate this m my own experience, for it is closely itcd to training in a lawyer. It is in L the same thing. I am very sure that Iocs not take me half the time now that lid at first to eliminate from a complex e presented to uie for decision what is levant or immaterial, and to ascertain the nt of conflict ncc.'ssary to be decided.? d this is equally true whether the con, be one of law or fact, or both. ]Jy cticc and attention I can listen to a lawread a document offer d in evidence, s with him lightly over the formal parts the instrument, and when lie couics to vital matter, tho few words, perhaps, ich alone touch the issue, I catch their cisc meaning, and if I do not get that irly I stop him there until I do. It is rare t I need go over that instrument again. I have acquired, I hardly know, how exit by practice?by training?the faculty taking au immense record of five hunvl or one thousand nacres, and turning at :e to the ui.'ilcrial parts, whether of plcadof evidence, or whatever it may be, 1 iu one-third tho time it took uic when rat went on the bench, I gather tho maials for my judgment without digesting iass of useless chaff.?Justice Miller hec the Iowa liar Association. About tho best specimens of ready wit havo met with in a long time arc roted in a Virginia paper. They are good >ugh to go tho rounds aud be rcrnein cd. Here they are : When Gen. Gotsy, commander of the rison of Fortress Monroe, received Capt. so and the Richmond Blues with a baud music at Old Point, the other day, as >n as tho music struck up it frightened i team of a countryman, consisting of a it of a bull hitched to a stick cart, to ill an extent that he ran into and demorzed the entire command. When order J been somewhat restored, Cupt. Wise ttily remarked to Gen. Getty : "'Another Bull Han, General. '"Yes, replied tho General; 'a regular it; but I promise you when I get inside 5 fort you shall laro belter at Getty's rO"And they did, loo The Texas Fever Dying Out.?Tho xos papers admit that the rush of immimts to their Ntnto is over, and say they ) not sorry. The glowing pictures druwn railroad agents of the certain wealth at awaited every comer attracted thouids of shiftless people, who, of course, re found thut it was necessary to work r a living in Texas, as well as in other rts of the country. Even tho railroad tupanics now seo that immigrants of this rt are worse than useless, and thero is a neral disposition to stick a little more imcly to the facts in immigration circulars id get better pooplc if fewer of Ihom. Sa-Lutinu tiik 13uidk.?There was a marriage at the upper end of the Detroit, Lausiug and Northern road the other day. A great big chap, almost able to throw a car load of lumber off tho truck, fell in love with a widow who was cooking for the hands at a saw-mill, and after a week's acquaintance they were married. The boys around the mill lent William three calico shirts, a dress coat, and a pair of whito pants, and chipped in a purse of about $'20, and the couple started for Detroit on a bridal tour within an hour after being married. This ere lady, explained William, as the conductor cauio along for tickets, arc my bride. Just spliced fifty-six uiinits ago. Cost $2, but durn the cost ! She's a lily of the valley, Mary is, and I'm tho right bower in a n :w pack of kcerds. Conductor, sa lute the bride ! Tho conductor hesitated. The widow had freckles and wrinkles and a turncd up nose, and kissing the bride was 110 gratification. Conductor, sa lute the bride or look out for tornadoes, continued William, as lie rose ' up and shed his coat. The conductor sa luted. It was the lest thing lie could do just then. I never did try to put ou style before, muttered William, but 1 ui bound to see this tiling through, if I have to fight all Michigan. These ere passengers has got to C,OU?c up to the chalk, they has. The car was ttin. -?vini.iui wuiHca au?u the aisle, waved his hand to command attention, and said : "I ve just been married, over thar sots the bride. Anybody who wants to ga luto the bride kin now do so. Anybody who don t want to will licv cause to believe that a tree fell on him ! One by one the men walked up and kissed the widow, until only one was left, lie was asleep. William reached over and lifted him into sitting position at one movement and commanded : ^Aryegoin to dust over thar an kiss the bride ? "Blast your bride, and you, too!?growled the pnsscuger. William drew him over the back of the seat, laid liiui down in the aisle, tied bis legs in a knot and was making a bundle of liiiu just of a size to go through the window, when the man caved and wcut over and sa-lutcd. "Now, then, said William, as be put on his coat, "this bridle tower will be resumed Why a Bhidal Thip Was No!' Taken'. ?Quite a sensation occurred in Crawford County, not far from Fort Valley, la3t week. A young gentleman was to have been married to a very estimable young lady. The invited guests had assembled; the clcrgy| man was present, ready to perform his part; the table was prepared with the usual dainties which so pleasantly assist in making merry such occasions; the bride was adorned for her husband in all her blusluug beauty and angelic loveliness, with a throbbing heart, anxiouslv awaiting the nrriml ef V O ? v? her betrothed. At a tardy hour he arrived. Ilia appearance told too well that he had broben hia pledge, so sacredly given, to drink no more. The resolute young maid rose to her feet and with a determination that spoke in worda too plain to be misunderstood, sa d '-I will never marry you, sir." Friends interceded and earnestly besought tho young heroine to retract her words ; the bridegroom pleaded with all the vehemence and cloqucnco of a lover, but still tho maid would havo her will, and said nay. She boarded the train in a day or two for southwest Georgia, and took her bridal tour without tho would be bridegroom. . Tiie Southern Life Insurance Company.?Time has passed on. Dull, heavy, long years havo rolled by. Poverty has invaded tho sanctify of many a widow's home, and not yet one single word from this fallen giant. Whnt docs it mean ? Why is it so? Why all this silence ? Why this kid glove handling of this defunct concern '{ We mean no reflections upon its former distinguished head or of its officers, but facts arc stubborn things, and as we are in darkness, nod as our people have suffered so much, we call for light, more light, upon this yet hidden and obscuro matter. Let us have n clean breast of it. As public servants, we would bo recreant to our trust it we did otherwise, aud as we tender our thanks to "H. W. A ," of Edgefield, for opening the ball, we call upon our contemporaries to keep it rolling. It is by theso moans, and these alone, that we bring just such institutions to a proper appreciation aC f Koil* Ad nr>/l /%Vvlir?n? l/\?n ~ * '1 - - VTA vuuii uunwo auu uuiigamuun y ilUU lb IH but a matter of justice to all well managed companies of tho kind. Lito insurance in itself is good, but a counterfeit is not worth a ponny.? Camden Journal. ? .. .? A Business Affair.?Tho following curious advertisement appears in the columns of a Oerman medical journal Through the death of tho luto proprietor, a good praetico (surgery) in a wealthy part of tho country is to bo disposed of oithcr by snlo or leaso. The present owner, daughter of tho deceased, is young and single, and would not object In marry with the buyer or tenant, if suitable arrangement* tfere made. Address, Ad.