The Orangeburg news. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, April 25, 1868, Image 5
TMS? 0RAN4352BURG NEWS,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
AT
ORANGEBURG, S. 0.
K&to of F\ibixeation on Market-Street over tht
Pott Office.
8AMUEL DIBBLE, Editor.
TIIOIL C. DIBBLE, Associate Editor.
?HARLES n. BALL, Publisher.
R?ABING MATTER ON EVERY PAGE.
The Election
0! jTjif f | u H
Wo eopv tho followinc
from the Marion
Pawed off quietly at all tho Polls in the
PMtrict, and there is a majority of thirteen or
thereabout for tho adoption of . the Constitu
. tjoa., We have not the official returns from
tho different Registration Boards, and cannot
if tho whole Radical Ticket is elected,
'being scats doubt with regard to one or
. But thoro is no doubt about one .thing,
/.j^m J$$ieal Ticket has been elected solely by
the failure to vote of white men who call them
: selves Conservative. The Registration lists
show that many-white men failed to vote, and
that in this District the rule of the white' race
can be maintained but for the treachery of
white men. Ii an ignorant, q?ateron adven
turer, without any interest in the District and
without the slightest claim to moral or mental
qualification for the post, is to represent
in the Senate it is not the fault of the
I negro but of tho white meu who would not
go to the Pdb. . We shall not say what we
think of such men. Wo leave them to the
judgment of their White neighbors, and to
? their own conscience. The day is not far. dis
? tant when they will tool, if thoy do not how,
their guilt to its whole extent. What can
such men think of themselves in comparison
with the fifty or sixty 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 Ticket7
' They defied the threats of the Union League
and acted honestly on their convictions.?
HONOR TO THEM AND THKY ARB HONORED.
The white gentlemen of the District will stand
by them to to tho last, and there is many a de
luded 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 the poor ne
groes to their ruin, and the promises of men of
character and honor.
And time will show anothor thing. Men
who have made contracts will not break them
* hut we warn negroes who have voted the Radi
cal Ticket in defianoe 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 thoy are in trou
ble. Justivc 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 die Radical Leaders know how
vain are your hopes, and how false are their
promises. The apples they offer you, will turn
to aahes in yo"ic mouths, but don't expect to
como to consorvativea lor aid, when you find
you ire belayed.. You,have made your bed
?lie on it. We intend to help our friends,
.and let. our .enemies help themselves. The
white man who befriends a Radical is as vile
as a Radical, and the intelligent publio of this
country will treat him as such. We advise
both white and black to ponder this thorough
Butler's Harangue.
$k#$?4<jb?ul srsicn history tub court or1
IfWBAOHMBRT. .
. Mr. Butler hoped ibe couosel would be. re-!
quired.to go on. He would bo glad, to have
Mr. Stanbery hero, but there were,four coun
sel-present and they could go on with the case.
There.'' uld bo no waiting for sick men or
Sick women. Already tho President's counsel
had occupied thirty-three dnys. Their appli
cations for time had been granted over and
over again. The whole legislation of the
country was stopped, the taxes needed imme
diate attention, and yet tho wholo country was
to Wait the convenience of the President and
his counsel. The interests of the people were
greater than those of any one man, and they
should not wait nOw for tho siokness of any
one man. Ho had testimony hero in his hand
of what was going on in the South.
Aod when this great criminal is gotten out
of the way, these murders will eease. [Ap
plause in the galleries.] Even now, this very
day, your register of bankruptcy in Alabama
is driven ft Sm his home, and is unable to per
form his duties. Then, since this trial begun,
Moglnnle, whom you rejected as unworthy of j
an office, has, by Authority of the President,
%*an Belling government gold, In New York, at
a- los? of 812,000 to the government, which' he
has put iu4o bis poofcet, and has also boon buy
ing the government bonds under the same au
thority, and Is paying higher thaw the- market
jpsiee for them. Out of all this monoy are* the
people of this country being defrauded. For
She safety of tho finances?for the safety of
tho true loyal meu, black and white, in the
South?-forallthat4s dear to every patriot!
and man? lot this trial prococd with no fur
ther delay, Wo, by command of the House of |
Representatives, havo presented this great
criminal at your bar; we believe ho is guilty,
find We believe we con prove him to be so, but
if you decide him innocent let him go. But if
from his corruptions, if from his violations of
the lew, if from his betrayal of the liberties en
trusted to him all these wrongs proceeded, let
us have au end of it. After all the delays
which have been granted, and tbc managers
thought they had boon very courteous and
polite in according to the requests of counsel,
all that they now asked waa that this trial
should go on. Let us contrast the delay
which has attended the progress of thia great
trial with a great {State trial in England, where
the court eat from nine in the morning until
one at night He waa not now complaining of
the delay which had been granted by the
Senate, but only conti ??uBg the English trial
with tho courtesies shown to this criminal and
his counsel.
They had been threatened that these delays
would he availed of. Mr. James Brooks, in
the House of Representatives (it waa in the
Globs), 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 no doubt that this was the pro
gramme. He (Mr. B.) nover picked up a
mail that be did not read of the murder of
Union men in the South.' He begged pardon
if be had spoken with warmth, but it was
impossible not to have some feeling over the
wrongs whioh had been perpetrated. He would
not speak now of the threats whioh had been
made against high officers of tho Senate and
himself and the other managers, for the dis
charge, of their doty. Ho did not think they
were in any danger. There was an old Scotch
proverb which said the threatened dog is
always long lived. [Laugter.j He would only
conclude by saying that all these crimes, all
these' murders, all these outrages on deeeney,
would cease when this man was out of the whrto
House. [Subdued applause in the galleries.]
THE ORANGEBURG NEWS.
SATURDAY. APRIL 25,1868.
While ire reserve to ourselves the right of defi
ning our own political position by means of our
editorial columns, we will be pleased to publish \
contributions from our fellow-citizens upon the
yrave Questions which now agitate the public
mind, wh*t\er. their opinions coincide with ours
or not. A district newspaper, we consider,
should, be an index of the various shades of pop
ular sentiment in the section of country in which
it circulates. Our columns are open, therefore,
for any communications properly written, aectmi
panted by a responsible name, not personal in
their charaetert 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 tho field for
another contest. The first conflict is over
but wo cannot stack arms, or take our repose.
Fall into lino,?beat the long roll,?and to
action again I Tho current of eventa is rapid
and we must not lag boh ind them. The Rolls
of the Conservative P.;rty are being filled with
names, but let us not stop at thia. We must
perfect our organisation ; and prepare for an
other election, which will soon bo upon us.
i 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 vicinity, without a single
exception. We have entered now upon the
canvass, and let us do nothing halfway. Num
bers of tho more sensible colored people will
co-oporato with us, if the matter is properly
presented to their notice; and it ia for these
local associations to effect this Important result.
Wo think it very accessary that we should
work with energy and unanimity, and in the
fuii confidence of ultimate success. We see
the TRIUMPH of the RIGHT ahead of us:
and wo are willing to strive for it, biding our
time, an never despairing of tho result. Tho
short-sighted demagogues, who are sacrificing
thoir principles upon the alter of a mistaken
interest, exphemeral as it if" 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 the storm will soon come,
which will sweep away the unsightly edifice
thoy have erected j and the TEMPLE of
LIBERTY, based on the rock of eternal jus
tice, will rise in more than Grecian beauty in
our midst.
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The Election in the State.
Official returns from bc vent con Districts give
Fon Constitution - ? 46,650
Against ?? ... 13,627
Radical Majority, - - - - 33,023.
Ton other Pistrice are heard from, and
among thorn Oconeoy Spartanburg and Ander
son? give Psmoeralio majorities; and m Marion
whore* taw Radicals oarriod the elect ion by f 3
majority, tbore* fa a protest el the etoclk>?, for
Radld&l frauds. Five offVer fMatrlets are not
yet hoard from.
? ... .Mm.it-awB?-^<aaat?-?-?~?'
The puhllo lands in Alaska are said to ex
tend to 365,000,000 of acres. Many of theso
ftcrcs arc preserved iw ice,
[FOR TIIK OHANaKUUBO HR^s.]
BranciiviHo Letter.
?1 ?* A
v?, j\yin to, 1000.
Jtfr. Editor ? Wo have Lad quite a ei owded
Street since the morning of 14th inatan? Tho
Inegroes seem not to have satisfied their thirst,
un casting the Eagle into the box, bat lounge
{about the street the greater portion of the day.
Their anxiety has been undoubtedly aroused to
its acme, in Performance of what they seem to
consider their meet sacred duty. Many made
^thoir entry. into the Vil'ago with the dawn of
y on the morning of the 14th, notwithatand
g the inclemency of the weather, a goodly
numbor hail from 15 to 20 miles distant; and
ivouacked near the Village on the night of
3th, through apprehension (tbey say) of a
penalty being inflicted, in ease of their non-at
tendanoe on the first day of the election. The
greater portion of the votes taken on. the- first
day were negroes. On the second day wo were
cheered by the appearance of a goodly num
ber of whites, who came iu spite of the ? incle
mency of tho weather. E ' r?.
We have been assured by some of the* most
intelligent negroes, they they have east their
votes against the Constitution?yet they seem
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
ho know to vote against the Constitution.
Thoy are linked together as by a mighty ohain,
inseparable by influence. They heed not the j
white man's warning.
At the opening of the polls on the 14th, the
negroes were warned by one of the most promi
nent mombcra of the "League," should they
be handed a ticket by any white man, instant
ly to commit it to the flames. Many arc so
ignorant as to believe the white men $ are not
allowed to vote the Radical tioket. TJiey are
so duped by those carpet-bag-copper-colored
office-seekers that thoy have long since refused
to believe anything the white people tells them
in regard to political matters. Thoy 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 utter
ruin. But ah 1 ill-fated and short-sighted ne
gro, the hour of retribution will come. Many
f the farmers have resolved to render assist
nco to the negro no longer, as tho negro feel
no gratitude towards the white men jwho ren
der him any assistance, but ntherahink it
'??~:^?
Washington News. |
April 20.?Tho Court of Claims have de
cided fifty-four Cotton cases, under the seizure
and abandonment law, in favor of claimants.
Tho judgment in forty of whioh was rendered
during the present term. The amounts of
each case, varies from $10,000 to $123,000,
Randolph L. Mott, securing tho highest claims.
The claims aggregate 8623,000.
The close of impeachment is not expected
before the middle of next week.
Sergeant Bates' festival was enthusiastic,
and tho ceremonies at the Washington monu
ment were beautiful. Bates was loaded with
presents from the ladies and citizens.
In tho Senate information was called for re
garding the detention of tho steamer Sabino,
at New London, alleged for political purposes.
Proceeded to Impeachment. The managers
are introducing documentary evidence.
Blodgett's indictment was offered. Butler
offered Blodgett's answer. Evarta objected,
that Blodgett was not on trial here. Butler
proceeded to state orally what ho intended to
prove. Chase ordered|it to be reduced to writ
ing. Batter protested. Chaso insisted, and
Butler is now waiting.
Impeachment continues. Tho Senate re
fused to admit Blodgett's papers, and Butler
appealing for Blodgett, said, he had never been
able to got his case before the Sonate, and jus
tice should be dono him; Blodgett was only a
Captain of a rebel militia company, and an
unwilling one. Blodgett would sv. _ar that he
waa known in Augusta, and was elected by his
neighbors, to make a constitution for Georgia,
He was mado Mayor of Augusta, by Pope.
Butler did not doubt, when Georgia was ad
mitted, that Blodgett would tako his seat here
with the proudest of us. Butler then offered
the nominations of Sherman and Thomas, to
Brevet-Generalship, claiming that it was ad
missible under th? tenth article. The Sonate
refused 14 to 35 yeas. Anthony, Cole, Fes
senden, Fowler, Grimes, Henderson, Morton,
Rons, Sumner, Tipton, Trumbull, Van Winkle,
Willy, and Yatcs?14. Both parties an
nounced tbfj evidence closed. Chase ordered
tho prosecution to proceed with the argument.
Boutwell not being ready askod adjournment
until Friday. Tho defence asked until Wed
nesday, in view of Stanbcry's sickness. Bout
well sec nded the request, and after hearing
and rejecting an appeal from Logan to print
his argumont, tho court adjourned until Wed
nesday.
Tho Senate wont into Executive Session and
adjourned to Wednesday,
i la tho House Senate's appropriation for im
peachment was considered, EMridge said it
was evidqnt that $10,000 would not defray the
expenses of tho impeachment trial, and he
thought this was ft mpro blind, Why did not
the committee come out boldly end say that
th;a wcs a mere bagatelle to operate on the
pnblio mind. Waahburoe said that if another'
apnroprinatJoa was required, he vo?!d vote ab*
it, and he believed it would he worth $100,000
to pay the expense. Eldridgo asked if ho un
derstood that the gentleman would giro
$100,000 to make tho impeachment trial a suc
cess. Washburno had not said that exactly,
but what he meant was that if the impeach
ment waa a success, it would worth not 9100,.
000, but $100,000,000 to tbta country, in
greater security to persons and property. Ap
plause in the galleries. Eldridge said that he
exported as much, that his money was tobe
used to success. He would not vote a dollar
for such a purpose. Washburne aaid that he
would not be misrepresented, but he would re
iterate that he believes the country would be
benefitted, to the amount of milieus of dollars,
by the removal of the usurper and tyrant from
the White House. The bill was passed.
Apbil 21.?In the House, Mr. Banks' Bill,
protecting naturalised citizens abroad, was
amended by a provision allowing tho President
to withdraw the commercial relations of the
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 waa
passed by a vote of 99 to 6.
The 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 Vitrgie.
ians.
In tho House, to-day, Mr. Robinson offered
a 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 the Govern
ment securing the control of the telegraph
lines of the country.
An amendment to tho Bankrupt Law, ex
tending the time for auch as could not pay fifty
cents on the dollar to tho first day of January,
1869j was adopted.
Armi. 22.?In tho 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
whethor Stunbery will be able to take any
further part in the trial, and Groo beck will
follow Routwell.
The Senate, after a half doxen propositions
had boon voted down, adopted tho following :
that as many of the managers, and counsel
for tho Piesidcnt, as desire to do so, be permit
ted to file arguments, or oddreas tho Senate
orally. Chase ordered Boutwell to proceed.
Boutwell said that the Chief Magistrate of the
principal jRcpublic in the world wbh 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 sets forth the
evils, probably, following the acknowledgement
of the President's power to remove officers at
his pleasure. He mentioned that sovereignty
rested with tho people, who vested it in Con
gress, whereas the Executive and Judicial are
denied all discretionary or implied power.
Congress can adopt and administer to the con
dition of national life, whereas the President is
governed by the prinoiples which govern the
judge of the court. The President- must ad
minister the law aa he finds it, withont ques
tioning legislative wisdom. The President can
make no inquiry regarding constitutionality,
A puhlie officer can neither plead nor prove
good motives for nullifying the law. Tho
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, Hb pretextfuliy exposed that
this object waa to seise officers of the govern
ment, and, by their influence reconstruct the
Union in tho interests of the rebellious States.
No criminal was ever arraigned who offered a
more unsatisfactory excuse for his crimes. He
argues that Stanton's removal and Grant's ap
pointment was an acknowledgement of tho le
gality of tho Tenure of Office bill, behind whioh
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 verdiet of guilty under
tho firstartiole. The Cabinet's advioe was no
advice. It was tho advice of servants to their
master. Boutwell discussed the constitution, and
praetice of removals, elosing his argument with
none of the predecessors of Mr. Johnson from
Genoral Washington to Mr. Lincoln, ever
claimed the power to remove a oivil officer
during the sessie i of the Senate without its
consent. He claimed that the act of 1795,
even if tho right claimed under it waa valid,
was repicaled by tho act of 1863. Boutwell
argued in*favor of the constitutionality of tho
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 criminal
pvupo.se, to destroy Grant as well as remove
Stai.ton, and attempted to carry out his pur
pose by various and traitorous methods, at
tempting to seduce Sherman and General G,
N. Thomas, and used General L* Thomas.
The nomination of Swing was a part of the
old game. He' was 79 years old and would
gladly vacate hia office at any time, leaving it
in the hands of Johnson's 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 concludes: The House of Represen
tatives have presented this criminal at your
bar with e^ual 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, justice
and order. I don't contemplate his acquittal
?-it is impossible. You don't look beyond;
but, Senators, 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
hands; your verdict of guilty is peace to our
beloved land.
April 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
eharged 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. He denounced as grossly improper
the managers' pi3a that the people demanded
conviction, and "that tho public pulse beat fit
fully whilst they delayed it."
Murder S? BansvreH
The B^n.eU -S^frrrf ptris tU&Uvw?%
particulars of the murder of Mr. Martin at
Allendale lit that District, on the 9th imtt
"Mr. Martin, & 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* musi be takes
to the etable and attended to, and not left
hitched on *!>e wa*M&*. One fellow in partis
ular, paid no attention to these orders, and
hitched bis horao or mulo near a negro house,
leaving him unattended to, disobeying Mr.
Martin, and anxious, no doubt, to create ?
disturbance. Mr. M. seeing the horse stand
ing hitched, after giving these orders, went
thore for the purpose of remonstrating with
die fellow, when he was mot by a colored
woman who used the nest abusive and threat
ening language towards him, whsreepon he
struck her several blows. A negro fellow ob
seeing it sprang to her assistance, hoe in hand,
and when in the act of striking Martin, he.
was fired upon, and shot through bio nose.
Martin then tried to make his escape, but
was pursued by dozens of them, who bad
collected, with dogs, and aimed to the teeth,
and swearing to kill him. He wes fired on
several time, but succeeded in reaching the
house of a Mr. Mallard, where ho was 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 bim. After shooting and
beating him to death, and while he was reek
ing in his blood, these savage brutes, some
thirty in number, proposed cutting him in
pieces and each one taking some of his flesh.
Some fourteen or fifteen of the number arc now
confined in our jail, awaiting their trial?the
others are still at large."
' The Sentinel also contains the ft d to wing
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, Hilled another named Williams, last
week. Youmans, it appears, lost some hogs, a
abort time since, and being of a superstitions
nature, waited crpon a fortune teller in the
neighborhood, who informed him that this*
man, Williams, had stolen them. On the word
jfoT"the fortune-teller, he set out for Williams,
and on meeting him told him that his ho^a
were missing, and that ho believed ho (Willi
ams,) had stolen them. Perhaps the lie was
given. The charge, was, however, a serious
one, and soptmvokiug that WilliuniB knocked
him down, and as wo are informed gave him
a severe whipping. He got up and told
Williama that he had Whipped him, but that
be still believed he atole bis hogs. He wan
again whipped, but still believed that Willi
ame had committed the theft. The accused
cfrtawg ?'rmmf Is Im *t?Ij-<l 4tunj, no. yr-o ort> St.frS
med, when Youmans drew a knife and stab
bed him causing his death in a short while.
Williams has always borne a good character,
and is said to be a quiet, inoffensive man."
Not Genurau.t Known.?Martin Tan
Buren is the only man who held the offices ?-f
President, "Vice President, Minister to England
Governor of his own State, and me rub cr of both
houses of Congress. thomas H. B ento.f is
the only man who held a scat in the United
States Senate ihr thirty consecutive years.
The only instance of father and son.in the
\ United States Senate at the same time, is that
Hon, Henry Donos, Senator from Wisconsin
and his son, Augustus 0. Dobob, Senator
from Iowa. General James Shields is the
I only man who ever represented two States in
the United (Hates Senate. ' At one time he was
Senator from Illinois and subsequently from
Minnesota. Jonn Quincy Ar?AM? held posi
tions under the Government during every ad
ministration from that of W asuinoton to that
of Polk, during which he died. He had been
Minister to England, member of both bonos*
of Congress, Secretary of St?te and' President
of the United States. He died while* mem
ber of the House of Representatives.
Death or A Mikek.?Peter Hendrickson,
[ a man seventy-six years of age, was found dead
in his room at No. 58,. Wiliett-street, New
York, on 1 uesday. The room in which he
lived was found in a very filthy condition, and
m b?ndle of stf?TT had iervea the purpose ox s
bed.- There were no chairs or table, and the
remnants of his last meal, consisting of water
and stale bread, were found on the Soor. On
j his body were several bank books, deeds, bonds
and mortgages and treasury notes, representing
; $20,000. He was also tbe owner of a house
and lot valued at 325,000. Hendrickson was
a native of New York, and had followed the
occupation of a junk man.
The carpet baggers of Richmond are get
ting very sensitive about having the initials
, 0. B. M. put after their names. Here is what
one of them recently said at a Loyal League
meeting: "Gentlemen, 1 am tired of thestd
d?n rebel newspaper.) calling vm carpet has;
men. I have therefore bought that trunk, and
tho next one who calls me C. B. M. (carpet
bag man) I'll tell him of this trunk and dash
the insinuation back into his teeth.
A few weeks since a man approached tho
rope to which is attached the balloon in which
everybody in Paris Its; making ascensions. He
drew a knife when tho attendant asked him
bis intention. "My wife," he replied "is up
in that baloon, and I'd give a hundred franca
for the privilege of cutting the rope." The,
offer of the monster was refused^