The Orangeburg news. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, April 25, 1868, Image 4
THE OKAW?BUIiSt NEWS,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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ORANGEBURG, S. C.
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SAMUEL DIBBLE, Editor.
TI?OIL C. DIBBLE, Asaocbte Editor.
?HARLE8 H. HALL, Publisher.
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" We copy the following from the Marion
Passed off quietly at all the Polls in the
Patriot, and there is a majority of thirteen or
thereabout for tho adoption of the Constitu
r t|na... We have not tho official returns from
the, different Registration Boards, and cannot
. .;'eay if the whole Radical Ticket is elected,
o!?*r* betas Bome doubt with regard to one or
>: tw^tM*. .
... Bat there is no doubt about one thing.
Radical TicUt haa been elected solely by
the failure to vote of white men who call thorn*
: selves Conservative. Tho Registration liste
show that many whito men failed to vote, and
that in this District the rule of tho white' race
can be maintained bat for the treachery of
, white men. lit an ignorant, quateron adven
turer, without any interest in the District and
^ithout the slightest claim to moral or mental
qualification for the post, ib to represent
in the Senate it is not the fault of the
;negro but of tho white men who would not
go to tho Polls. .Wo shall not say what we
think of Such men. We leave them to the
judgment of their white neighbors, and to
. their own conscience. The day is not far dis
, tant when they will fool, if they do not how,
their guilt to its whole extent. What can
auch men think of themselves in comparison
with the fifty or sisty colored men in the Dis
trict, who having been honestly convinced
that intelligence and character ought to rule,
went forward and openly voted the Conserva
tive Ticket?
They defied the threats of the Union League
and acted honestly on their convictions.?
HONOR TO THEM AND THEY ARK HONORED.
The white gentlemen of the District will stand
by them to to the last, and there is many a de
faded fool who has followed the Radical pack,
who will envy them their hone?t courage and
the friends they have won by it Time will
show the difference between tho promises of
_ the demagogues who are leading tho poor ne
groes to their ruin, and the promises of men of
character and honor.
And .Ume will show another thing. Men
who have made contracts will not break them
. bot we warn negroes who have voted the Radi
cal Ticket in defiance of the warning and ad
vice of their true friends, to be very certain
that they are securing Radical friends upon
whom they can depend when they are in trou
ble. Justive is the right of Man from Man.
friendship, goes by favor, and the white men
. will understand that the Radical negroes are
banded together by hostility to the whites and
the hope of plundering and ruining them. ?
We know the Radical Leaders know how
vein.are your hopes, and how false are their
? promises. The apples they offer you, will turn
to ashes in your mouths, but don't expect to
coxno to conservatives for aid, when you find
yo$. are betrayed. You,have made your bed
-?lio on it. /We intend to help our friends,
.gBd Jet our enemies help themselves. The
white, man who befriends a Radical is ae vile
as a Radical, and the intelligent publio of this
..country will treat him as auch, We advise
boih white and black to ponder this thorough
? ' - " :'? ?
....
Butler's Hanusgue?
t?umAcmev\, 6p?Bcn sbtorb tb? ooout of]
IHPIAOaMXHT.
?\ %j.:%Uiv; Mil' . mm. . -?? dg .Win
,:MsLr^iUirhepsd the eotttt??i would bo re
quired.fco go. ou. He would be glad, to have
?Mr,: jStanbery here, but. there were four cbun
?el present and they could go on with the ease.'
There should be no waiting for sick men or
Mick women. Already tho President's counsel
had occupied thirty-three days. Their appli
cations for time had .been granted over and
over again. The whole legislation of the
country was stoppod, the taxes needed imme
mlmkm oMention, and yet the whole country was
to wain the convenience of the President and.
bis counsel. - The interests of the people were
greater than those of any one man, and they
should not wnit now for the sickness of nay
one man. He had testimony here in his hand
of what was going on in the South.
And when this great criminal is gotten out
^fths way", ihvBc ujurnora will cease. [Ap
plause in the galleries.} Even now, this very
day, your register of bankruptcy in Alabama
is driven from his home, and is unable to per
form his duties. Then, since this trial begun,
Moglnnts, whom you rejected as unworthy of
an oraeo, haa, by authority of the President,
'been selling government gold, in New York, at
?lote of $12,000 to the government, which he
has put infc> htt pooketf, and has also boon buy
J?? the government bonds under the same au
thority, and Is paying higher tfca? thw market
$*Jce for them. Out of all this money aw the*
people of this country being defrauded. For
tho safety of the finances?for" the safety of
the true loyal men, black and white, in tho
South?for all that <* dear to every patriot
and mar.?let thj.i trial prucned with no fur
ther delay, We, by command of tho House of
RcprcjwHtatfves, havo piesented this great
criminal At your bar; we believe he is guilty,
and w? b*Iiey* we p.a,n provo him to he so, but
if you decide him innocent let htm go.' But If
from his corruptions, if from his violations of
the law, if from his betrayal of the liberties en
trusted to him all those wrongs proceeded. 1m
us have an end of it. After all the delays
which have been granted, and the managers
thought they had been very courteous and
polite in according to the requests of counsel,
all that they now asked was that this trial
should go on. Let us contrast the delay
which hiui attended the progress of this great
trial with a great State trial in England, where
the court sat from nine in the morning until
one at night. He wss cot sot? scsapbiBlftg of
the delay which had been granted by the
8cnate, but only conti astiog the English trial
with the courtesies shown to this criminal and
his counsel.
They had been threatened that these delays
would be availed of. Mr. James Brooks, in
tho House of Representatives (it was in the
Globe), and Senators could see it, had threate
ned that the friends of the President would
make this trial last until next March, that they
Would hold the Senate to all the forms, and'
there was too doubt that this was the pro
gramme. He (Mr. B.) never picked up a
mail that he did not read of the murder of
Union men in the South. Ho begged pardon
if he had spoken with warmth, but it was
impossible not to have some feeling over the
wroogs whieh had been perpetrated. He would
not speak now of the threats which had been
undo against high officers Of the Senate and
himself and the other managers, for tho dis
charge, of their dnty. He did not thiok they
were in any danger. There was an old Scotch
proverb whioh said the threatened dog is
always long lived. [Laugter.] He would only
conclude by saying that all these crimes, all
these' murders, all these outrages on decency,
would cease when this man was out of the wh?to
House. [Subdued applause in the gallories.J
THE ORANGEB?RG NEWS.
SATURDAY, APRIL 25,1868.
While tee reserve to ourselves the right ofdefi
tiing our otrn political position by means of our
editorial columns, tee will be pleased to publish
contributions from our fe?ow-citixens upon the.
grave questions which now agitate the public
mind, whether; their opinions coincide with ours
or not.' A district newspaper, we consider,
should be an index of the various shades ofpop
ular sentiment in the section of country in which
it circulates* Our columns are open, therefore,
for any commiuiicationsproperly written, accom
panied by a responsible name, not personal in
their character, nor absolutely injurious in their
tendency.
No Breathing Time.
After a period of excitement, there is neces
sarily a reaction. But we must not waste a
moment now. We must re-enter the Sold for
another contest. The first conflict is over;
but wo cannot stack arms, or take our repose.
Fall into line,?beat the long roll,?and to
action again 1 Tho current of events is rapid
and we must not lag behind them. Tho Rolls
of the Conservative Party are being filled with
uanies, but let us not stop at this. We must
perfect our organisation; and prepare for an?
other election, which will soon be upon us.
1 We are glad to notice the formation of local
Democratic Clubs in different neighborhoods,
let them be organised at every poll; and let
their rolls contain the names of every. Conser
vative Voter in the vloiuity, without a single
exception. We have entered now upon the
canvass, and let us do nothing halfway. Num
bers of the more sensible colored people will
co-operate with us, if the matter is properly
presented to their notice j and it Is for these
local ftsaocifttions to effect this Important result.1
We think it very necessary that we should
work with energy and unanimity, and in the
full confidence of ultimate success. We see
the TRIUMPH of the RIGHT ahead of us:
and we are willing to strive for it, biding our
time, an never despairing of the result. The
shortsighted demagogues, who are sacrificing
their principles upon the alter of a mistaken
interest, cxphemeral as it is disgraceful; the
deluded victims of carpet-bag politicians, who
vainly imagine themselves the permanent
rulers of the Palmetto State;?these may
flourish for awhile :?but their foundations are
on tho sand; and tho storm will soon come,
whioh will sweep away the unsightly edifice
they have erectedj and the TEMPLE of
LIBERTY, based on the rook of eternal jus
tice, will riso in more than Grecian beauty in
our midst.
The Election In the Stato,
Official returns from soventeon Districts give
Fon Constitution - - 46,650
Against ?* ... 13,627
R?cKeal Majority, - - - - 33,023.
Ton othor Pisiric* are heard from, and
among thorn Oconeey ftpertanburg and Ander
son' give Pemoerotuj majorities j and in Marion
wnorar tfnr Radhwln oarriod the election by 1Z
majority, there* is a protest ef the et?ctk>w, for
Radidal frauds. Five otflrer Dfctriets are noit
yet hoard from.
The public lands in Alaska are said to ex
tend to 365,000,000 of acres. Many pf these
acres are nrc?c|Vod iu ip<V
[Foil TlIK OKANGKUUUO NB1
Bnuseavllle Loiter.
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68.
Branchvi ixe, 8 C, April 16,1
Mr. Edttot?Wo have had quite a ci awdod
Street since the morning of 14th instant. The
negroes seem not to have satisfied thorn thirst,
tin casting the Esglo into the box, but loungo
jrtbput the street the greater portion of tho day.
Their anxiety haa been undoubtedly aroused to
its acmo, in perfbrmanoe of what they scorn to
o?oaider their most sacred duty. Many made
their entry. into the Tillage with the dawn of
pay on the morning of the 14th, notwithstand
ing the inclomeney of the weather, a goodly
number hail from 1ft to 20 miles distant; and
ivouacked near the Village on the night of
3th, through apprehension (they say) of a
penalty being inflicted, in ease of their non-at
tendance on the first day of the election. The
greater portion of the votes taken on. the first
day were negroes. On the second day vo were
cheered by tho appearance of a goodly nuiu- j
bee of whites, who came in spite of the* incle
mency of the weather. -'<"--?
We have been assured by some of tho most
intelligent negroes, they they have east their
rotes against the Constitution?yet they eeein
to fear the "League," and desire to do it se
cretly. One negro asserted it as his right and
intention to take the life of any negro, whom
he knew to vote against the -Constitution.
They are linked together as by a mighty chain,
inseparable by influence. They heed not the
white man's warning.
At the opening of tho polls on the 14th, tho
negroes were warned by one of the most protni
sest members of the "League/* should they
be handed a ticket by any white man.! instant
ly to commit it to the flames. Many are so
ignorant as to believe the white men | a re not J
allowed to vote the Radical tioket. Xhoy are
5o duped by those carpet-bag-eoppcr-colorcd
office-seekers that they have long since refused
to believe anything the white people tells them
in regard to political matters. They no longer
make it a secret, that every thing that is told
them by any person except their own party, is
through an ill design, and to work their uttsr
ruin. But ah 1 ill-fated and short-sighted ne
gro, 'he hour of retribution will come. Many
)f the farmers have resolved to render assist
in ce to the negro no longer, as tho negro feel |
no gratitude towards the white men .who rca
lor him any assistance, but rathcrjthink it
t compulsory act, than one of arsjfll raha,
Washington News, j
April 20.?Tho Court of Claims have de
rided fifty-four Cotton cases, under the seizure
md abandonment law, in favor of claimants,
fbo judgment in forty of whioh was rendered
luring the present term. The amounts of
;ach case, varies from $10,000 to 9123,000,
Randolph L. Mott, securing tho highest claims.
The claims aggregato $623,000.
The close of impeachment is not expected
aeforo the middle of next week.
Sergeant Bates' festival was enthusiastic,
ind the ceremonies at the Washington monu
nent were beautiful. Bsies was loaded with
presents from the ladies and citizens.
In tho Senate information was called for re
garding the detention of the steamer Sabine,
it New London, alleged for political purposes.
Prccccdcd to Impeachment. The managers
ire introducing documentary evidence.
Blodgett's indictment was offered. Butler
}ffered Blodgett's answer. Evarts objected,
that Blodgett was not on trial. here. Bailer
proceeded to state orally .what ho intended to
prove. Chase ordoredjit to be reduced to writ
ing; Butler-protested. Ohaso Insisted, and
Butler is now waiting.
Impeachment continues. The Senate re
fused to admit Blodgett's papers, and Butler
ippealing for Blodgett, said, he had never been
kble to got his case before the Senate, and jus
tice should be done him; Blodgett was only a
Captain of a rebel militia company, mid an
unwilling one. Blodgett would swear that he
was known in Augusta, and was elected by his
neighbors, to make a constitution for Georgia?
He Was made Mayor of Augusta, by Pope
Butler did not doubt, when Georgia was ad*
mittcd, that Blodgett would take his seat here
with tho proudest of us. Butler then offered
the nominations of Sherman and Thomas, to
Brevet-Generalship, claiming that it was ad
missible under the tenth article. The Senate
refused 14 to 35 yeas. Anthony, Cole, Fes*
senden, Fowler, Grimes, Henderson, Morton,
Ross, Sumner, Tipton, Trumbull, Van Winkle,
WUly, and Yates?14. Both parties an
nouneed the evidence closed. Chase ordered
the prosecution to proceed with the argumont
Boutwoll not being ready asked adjournment
until Friday. The defenee asked until Wed
nesday, in view of Stanbery's sickness. Bout
well see- nded the request, and after hearing
and rejecting an appeal from Logan, to print
his argument, tho court adjourned until Wed
nesday.
The Senate wont into Executive Session and
adjonmcd to Wednesday.
la tho House Jtaoate's appropriation for im
peachment was considered. Eldridge- said it
was evident that $10,000 would not defray the
cxpensoa of the impeachment trial, and he
thought this was t> mero blind, Why did not
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tho committee come oat boldly and say that
this was a mere bagatollo to operate on the
public mind. Waahburnn ??id that if another
appropriation was required, he would vote for
it, and he beliovcd it would be worth 6100,000
to pay the expense. Eldridge asked if ho un
derstood that the gentleman would give
$100,000 to make the impeachment trial a suc
cess. Washburne had not said that exactly,
but what bo meant was that if the impeach
ment waa a success, it would worth not $100,
000, but ?100,000,000 to this country, an
greater security to persona and property. Ap
plause in tho galleries. Eldridge said that ho
expected as much, that his money was to be
used to success. Ho would not vote a dollar
for auch a purpose. Washburne said that he
would not be misrepresented, but he would re
iterate that he believes the country would be
benefitted, to the amount of millions of dollars,
by the removal of the usurper and tyrant from
the White House. The bill was passed.
April 21.?In the House, Mr. Banks' Bill,
protecting naturalized citizens abroad, was
amended by a provision allowing the President
to withdraw the commercial relations of tho
United States from offending nations, and ex
empting ambassadors, consuls and agents from
the list of persons whom the President is per
mitted to incarcerate in retaliation. It was
passed by a vote of 99 to 5.
Tho pressure upon the Senators who are un
committed on the subject of impeachment, is
tremendous and comes from all quarters. The
apprehension of the President's friends is in
creasing.
The new municipal officers of Alexandria,
Virginia, qualified to-day. None of them are
negroes neither are any of them native Virgin,
iaus.
In tho House, to-day, Mr. Robinson offered
ft resolution recalling tho Managers of Impeach
ment and abandoning it.
The Speaker declared that this was a ques
tion of privilege, but that, under the ruling of
the Speaker, or of a majority of the House,
the House Could refuse to consider it even as a
question of privilege.
The House, by a strict party vote, refused to
corridor the resolution.
The Postoffice Committee was instructed to
enquire into the expediency of tho Govern
ment securing the control of the telegraph
lines of the, country.
An amendment to the Bankrupt Law, ex
tending the time for such as could not pay fifty
cents on the dollar to tho first day of January,
1869/was adopted.
Apuil 22.?-In the Impeachment trial a mo
tion was finally passed allowing unlimited
speeches, oral or written by the managers and
defence. The galleries are crammed.
Curtis has announced that It is doubtful
whether Stanbery will be ablo to take any
further part in the trial, and Groo beck will
follow Boutwell.
The Sonate, after a half dozen propositions
had been voted down, adopted the following :
that as many of the managers, and counsel
for the Piesidcnt, as desire to, do so, be permit
ted to file arguments, or address the Senate
orally. Chase ordered Boutwell to proceed.
Boutwell safd that the Chief Magistrate of the
principal jRcpublie in the world was on trial,
and the object of the proceeding was not the
punishment for offences, but the safety of the
State. The issues between the President and
the House of Representatives are technical and
limited, namely, whether Johnson violated the
constitution and laws in removing Stanton and
appointing Thomas. Boutwell seta forth the
aviis, probably, following the acknowledgement
?f the President's power to remove officers at
his pleasure. He mentioned that sovereignty
rested with the people, who vested it in Con
gress, whereas the Executive and Judicial arc
denied all discretionary or implied power.
Congress can adopt and administer to the con
dition of national life, whereas tho President is
governed by the principles which govern the
judge of the court. The Pr?sident must ad
minister the law nahe finds it, without ques
tioning legislative wisdom. The President ean
make no inquiry regarding constitutionality.
A public officer ean neither plead nor prove
good motives for nullifying the law. The
President violated the law, and the Senate can
enter into no inquiry regarding the violation of
the laws or the constitution. Boutwell denies
the President's desire to bring the question be
fore the court, Hin pretext fuiiy exposed that
this object was to seise officers of the govern
ment, and, by their influence reconstruct the
Union in tho interests of tho rebellious States.
No criminal waa ever arraigned who offered a
more unsatisfactory excuso for his crimes. He
argues thnt Stanton's removal and Grant's ap
pointment was an acknowledgement of the le
gality of the Tenure of Office bill, behind which
the. President could . not go. The subsequent
attempt to remove Stanton, unauthorised by the
constitution and violation of the President's
oath of office, requires a verdiot of guilty under
the firstartiole. The Cabinet's advice was no
advice. It was the advice of servants to their
master. Boutwell dismissed the constitution, and
practice of removals, closing his argument with
none of the predecessors of Mr. Johnson from
Qeneral Washington to Mr. Lincoln, ovor
claimed the power to remove a civil officer
during tho session of the Senate without its
consent. He claimed that tho act of 1795,
even if the right claimed under it was valid,
was reploalcd by tho act of 1863. Boutwell
argued in*favor of the constitutionality of the
tenure of office act, claiming that Johnson was
serving Lincoln's term, and that the law cov
ered Stanton. He says the President seems to
have been under the influence of a eriminal
purpose, to destroy Grant as well as remove
Stanton, and attempted to carry out his pur
pose by various and traitorous methods, at
tempting to seduce Sherman and General G.
N. Thems;, and used General L. Thomas.
The nomination of Swing was a part of the
old game. He wss 70 yearn old and wo oil
gladly vacate his office at any time, leaving it
iu the hands of Johnson*? tool. There is no
reason to suppose that- the present Secretary of
the Treasury would not yield to any soheme
Johnson might undertake. Regarding the
President's speeches, he said that the House
did not arraign the President for slandering
Congress or for any purpose of protection, but
that a man uttering such words is unfit for the
office. After narrating the President's recon
struction course, Boutwell says the House'
brought this great criminal to your bar upon'
the conviction that the country was in peril.
Boutwell eonoludes: The House of Represen
tatives have presented this criminal at your
bar with equal confidence in his guilt and in
your disposition to administer exact justice be
tween him and the people of the United States.
His conviction is the triumph of law, justier
and order. I don't contemplate his acquittal
?it Is impossible. You don't look beyond;
bat, Senstors, the people of America will never
permit a usurping executive to break down the
securities for liberty provided by the constitu
tion. The cause of the country is. in your
bands; your verdict of guilty is peace to our
beloved land.
A rniL 23.?In the Impeachment Court Mr.
Boutwell concluded his argument.
After a recess, Mr. Nelson, of Tennessee,
spoke extemporaneously- He alluded to the
magnitude of the eecasion, and feared his
ability to treat it properly. The managers had
charged Mr. Johnson with an evil nature and
wickedness, and characterized him as a desti
tute of character. He gave the President's
biography in refutation of these charges and
aspersions.
Mr. Nelson claimed that Congress had justi
fied the President's policy in its primary re
cognition of Virginia. He argued the judi
cial character of tho Senate, and denounced
the claim of the Managers that the Senate was
a law unto itself, and could convict a man on
common fame as one dangerous to the country.
Senators oaths showed that they were bound
by laws. Ho denounced as grossly improper
tho managers' plea that the people demanded
conviction, and "that tho public pulse beat fit
fully whilst they delayed it."
Murder In Sarawell
The Barn well Sentinel gives tho following
particulars of the murder of Mr. Martin at
Allendale in that District, on the 9th instJ
"Mr. Martin, it appears, was acting in the
capacity of .an overseer on the plantation of
Mr. Richardson, and had gtved orders to the
hands under his charge, that the mules and
horses when through ploughing* must betaken
to the stable and: attended to,: and not left
bfahed on the roadside. One fellow in partic
ular, paid no attention to these orders, and
hitohed his horte or mule near'a negro house,
leaving him unattended to, disobeying Mr.
Martin, and anxious, no doubt, to create a
disturbance. Mr. M. seeing the horse stand
ing hitched, after giving these orders, went
tbcie for the purpose of remonstrating with
the fellow, when he waa mot by o colored
woman who used the most abusive and threat'
ening language towards him, whereupon he
struck her several blows. A negro fellow on
seeing H sprang to her assistance, host in hand,
and when' in the act of striking Martin, he
was fired upon/ and shot through hia nose.
Martin then tried to make hia escape, but
was pursued by dozens of them, who had
collected, with dogs, and armed to the teeth,
and BY?earing to kift him. He waa fired on
several time, but succeeded in reaching the
house of a Mr. Mallard, where ho waa followed
by this band of brutes, some thirty in number,
and despite the entreaties of Mr. Mallard and
wife, forced their way into the house, and
there murdered him. After shooting and
beating him to death, and while he was reek*
iug in hia blood, these savage brutes, some
thirty in number, proposed cutting him in
pieces and eacL one taking some of his flesh.
Some fourteen or fifteen of the number are now
confined in our jail, awaiting their trial?tho
others are still at large."
' The ?Sentmel also contains the .following
account of another murder committed in that
District last week; * A man in the lower part
of .the District, about the Beaufort line named
Youmans, killed another named Williams, last
week. Youmans, it appears, lost some hogs, a
short time since, and being of n superstitious
nature, waited upon a fortune- teller in the
neighborhood, who informed him that this *%
man, Williams, had stolen them. On tho word
of the fortune-teller, he set out for Williams,
and on meeting him told him that hia hojja
were missing, snd that ho believed he (Willi
ams,) had stolen them. Perhaps the He waa
given. The charge, Was, however, a serious
one, and so provoking that Williams knocked
him down, and as we are informed gave him
a severe whipping. He got up and told
Williams that he had Whipped him, but thai
he still believed he ymle hia bogt. He waa
again whipped, bat still Relieved that Willi
ams had committed the theft. The accused
c|>itit.^ .... litui tl.o ?LlrJ time, ao.wo ?ro In
med, when Youmans drew a knife and stab
bed bim causing his death in a short while.
Williams baa always borne a good character,
and is aaid to be a quiet, inoflensiv? man."
Not OENEitAL-t.y Known.?-Martin Tan
! B?ren is the only man who held the offices ?f
President, Vice President, Minister io England
Governor of his own State, and tnemb er of both
houses of Congress. Thomas H. Dentoh is
tho ooly man who held a scat in tho United
States Senate for thirty consecutivs years.
The only instance of father and son in the
United States Senate at the samo time?, is that
Hon, Henry Dodok, Senator from Wissens??
and bis son, Au au stub C. Bodos, Senator
from Iowa. General JamK8 Shields is the
only man who ever represented two States in
the United States Senate. At one time he was
Senator from Illinois and subsequently from
Minnesota. John Quincy Adams held posi
tions under the Government during every ad
ministration from that of Washington to chat
of Poms . during which he died. He had been
Minister to England, nicn?h?t of fecfS ho?r^c *
of Congress, Secretary of State end* President
of the United States. He died while * mem
ber of the House of Representative*.
i> i>aepraii ?m-insn ? '".?
Death or a Misek.?Peter Hendrickson,
a man seventy-six. years of age, was found dead
in his room at No. 58,. Will?it-street, New
York, on 1 ucsday. Tho room in whieb he
lived waa fonnd in a very filthy coml't'on, and
a bundle of straw bad served the purpose of a
bed.- There were no chairs or. table, end the
remnants of his last meal, consisting of water
and stale bread, were found on the floor. On
his body were several bank books, deeds, bonds
and mortgages and treasury notes, representing
820,000. He was also the owner of a bouse
and lot vakeer St 525.000. Hendrickson was
a native of New York, and had followed tho
occupation of a junk man.
' i iw?-M-aaa?>-- lat-Mw??!!.
The carpet baggers of Riehmond are get
ting very sensitive about having the initials
C. B. M. put after their names. Hero is what
one of thorn recently aaid at a Loyal League
meeting: "Gentlemen, 1 am tired of these
d?n rebel newspapers calling as carpet bag
men. I have therefore bought that trunk, and
j tho next one who calls me C. B. M. (carpet
I bag man) I'll tell him of this trank and daafa
! the insinuation back into his teeth.
A few weeks since a man ajrf/roached thsj
rope to which is attached the balloon in which
everybody in Paris la making ascensions. He
drew a knife when the attendant asked him
his intention. "My wife," he replied "is up
in that betont?,, and I'd give a hundred franca
for the privilege of cutting fthe rope." The,
offer of the monster was refa%ed^