The Orangeburg news. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, January 23, 1869, Image 2
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xjrday morning, january 23, 1869.
number 49,
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POETRY.
[From Peters' Ulve Hive.]
If We Knew.
If we knew when walking thoughtless,
Thro' the noisy crowded way,
That Borac pearl of wondrous whiteness,
t'losc beside our pathway lay ;
We would pause when now we hastcu,
We would often look around,
Lest our thoughtless feel should trample,
Swine rare jewel in the ground.
If we kn ow when genius struggled
Thru" the weary nights and day*,
Sighing for some word of comfort,
Little woril of hope ami praise ;
Boughs of b.ilni und leaves of laurel.
We would place within th.-ir hands,
Little deeds with pleasant mvsuingi-.
Hungry hearts can understand.
Closely prt >s r..-?<y -'(?od bye,
Which among the lips that kiss us,
First sitnuhl neath the daises lie \p
Wo would throw our arms around them,
Looking on then thro" our tears,
Tender words of love eternal.
We wituld ivfcisper in their cars.
If we knew, alas! and do we
Ever enroor seek to know.
Whether herbs or bitter roses.
In our neighbor's garden o'row,
Detter far along life's pathway,
Keep this golden rule in view,
??You should always care for others.
As youM have them care for you."
. V ? RI0U8.
A Letter from tieu. Longstrect
The Atlanta Ar?? Era publishes, the follow
ing letter from General James Longstrect:
Lynciibuuq, Va., Nov..24.
My Dear Sir?Many of our Southern men
been) to hnvo lost sight of the fundamental
doctrine?the interest of the people?in their
zeal to maintain their ideas of consistency
which cousists in ndhcring to old truth?
whether they work for weal or woe. 1 regret
that T am not better prepared to meet youi
wishes for information in regard to the future
policy of our new President. Although
have hud the pleasure ot several interviewt
with him within the hist few years, I have uo|
.sought to learn his appreciation of politico^
questions of the present or of the future,
regmd his past course and decided chatacteF
as the surest guarantee of his futuro eoursoj
The floating idea thut has attached itself My
jthe minds of the many that he may yet provlf
.4? t*e a Democrat, is like ninny other specula
tions that gain circulation and credence, hut
only serve to deceive those who are credol?*?"
?enough to indulge them. If w recall to
mind the event* of the last rwo years, we shall
remember that Gen*"-*' Grant's position at one
time wan suoh as to insure his nomination for
President by the party that he might choose
;is most in uceord with his views of public
policy ; and subsequent events indicate that
his personal popularity is such as to have
turned the balance iu his favor. It seems to
mo unreasonable, therefore, to expect to find
him, at this late day, seeking alliance with the
old party. His antecedents clearly mark him
as a national man, and of such he give* assu
rance of his adhesion to the party whose basis
is the Union, and thut the influence of his ad
ministration will be applied to its o unplete und
prosperous restoration. A fair-minded people
must know, however, that no individual, un
aided, cun accomplish this great purpose. He
must needs have the assistance of the North,
of the South, of the East and of the West.
Having assurance of co operation from other
parts of the country, he only wants that of tbe
South to complete the combination which will
Five Miles Above the Earth.
' c ?lull ?ny in August, just after noon, a
hulloon rose in the air at tho foot of Cloct
Mills on the Western edge of the central
plain of England. It was inflated with the
lightest of gases which chemical skill could
with tremendous velocity. Four miles above
earth a pigeon was let loose ; it dropped down
through the air as if it had been a stone. The
air was too thin to enable it to fly. It was as
p^O?n bark laden to tho dock were to pass from
the heavy waters of the sea into an inland
uusalinc lake; the bark would sink at once in
the thinner water. I'p, up, still higher! What
a silence profound 2 The heights of the skv
were as still as the deepest depths of the occatii
where, as was found during tho search for the
lost Atlantic cable, the tine mud lies as un
stirred from year to year as the dust which
imperceptibly gathers on the furniture of a
deserted house. No sound, no life, only the
bright sun-shine falling through a sky which
it could not warm.
lTp?five miles above the earth!?higher
than the inaccessible summit of fhitnborazo
or Pawangiri. Dospite the sun-ihitio, every
thing freezes. The air grows too thin to sup
port life, even for a few minutes. Two men
only are in that adventurous balloon?tho one
steering the air-ship, the other watching the
scientific instruments, and recording them
with u rapidity broad of long practice. Sud
denly, as the latter looks at his instruments,
his sight giow.-, dim , he taki s a lean to help
his bight, aud only msrk3 froaj tho falling
barometer that th v lire testing rsnidly A
sk of brandy lies within a foot of him ; he
k'd to reach it, but his arm refused to obey
s will. lie tries to call on his comrade, who
s gone up into the ring above; a whisper in
at deep silence would suffice?but no .sound
mcs from' his lips?he is voiceless. The
cei.sinan comes down into the car; o en
s comrade in a swoon, and feels his own
rises failing him.
lie saw at once that life and death hung up
l a few moments. He seized, or tried to
izc, the valve, in order to open it and let
it the gas. IIis hands arc purple with intense
dd?they arc paralyzed, they will not res
Mid to his will, lie seized the valve with
is teeth, it opened a little?once, twice, thrice,
he balloou began to descend. Then the
irooncd marksman returned to consciousness,
nd saw the steersman standing before him.
Ie looked at his instrument; but now the
aromcter was rising rapidly; the balloon wus
cccuding. Brandy was used.-They had been
igher above the earth than mortal man or
ny living thing had ever been before. One
ninute more of inaction?of compulsory inac
ion?on the part of the steersman, whose
euses were failing him, and the air-ship, with
ts intensely rarefied gas, would have been
touting unattended, with two corpses, in the
ride realms of space.
Bloody Trauedy at Moncjomeby, Tr.x
is?Four Men Killed.?The Galveqtou
Yeics, of the 3d instant, says:
We learn from a gentleman who resides a
few miles from the town of Montgomery, in
this State, that a bloody tragedy occurred in
that place last week. Four men were killed,
und the town for a while presented the appear
mice of a bat tic-field on a small scale. The
circumstances, as near as we could gather them
from a hasty conversation, arc as follows : A
desperado, whose name we did not learn, re
cently appeared in .Montgomery, and in a short
time made himself odious to the citizens by
his quarrelsome disposition. He gathered
around him. however, several friends, who, it
proved, lost their lives in endeavoring to stand
by him in his difficulties^ This desperado waa
a Too ?u?|icctc!i oi passing VoiliiterieiC" money,
and of having been a horse thief.
On the day of the tragedy he rode his horse
int*? tln? store of Messrs. Smith & I'eal, and on
being ordered out, he drew his pistol, but be
fore he could tire it. he was fired upon by Mr.
Smith or I'eal with a double-barrel shot-gun
Although badly wounded, he ran out into the
street, aud by some fatality met a party of citi
zens who were hunting him for the purpose of
arresting him for passing counterfeit money.
He rau in another direction, when some one in
the party find upon him and he fell. A Mi
Oliver and two brothers named McCrew (who.
it seems, were in the habit of associating with
I the desperado) ran up to his rescue, with pi..
to Is drawn, when they were Gred upon by th<
crowd, aud all three killed.
A Fiuut with Knives and Pistols in
a Ball-Room.?The La Crosse (Wisconsin)
Democrat savs :
A most terrible affray occurred down at Had
Axe City, 12 miles below here, on Christinas
eve. There was a ball given at the hotel in
that small river town, ami many persons were
present. A we'l-known desperado by the
n iiue of John Oliver was there. There were
also in attendance at the party three brothers
by the name of Denilison, who had at some
previous time crossed the path of Oliver, and
on whom he had sworn vengeance. Those in
the ball-room had heard it hinted that if Oli
ver got another drink or two there Would
probably be a collision.
About half-past 10, Oliver commenced
swearing and talking very loudly, nud imme
diately drew a large Howie-knife. Denuisoii
saw him coming, and in attempting to ward
off the blow received it through the arm. just
above the elbow. The other brothers seeing
tlris, went to their brother's assistance, when
Oliver stabbed at one of them, cutting an Ugly
wound in his side, and immediately clinched
the remaining one, and had his knife raised to
give the latal blow, when one of the wounded
brothers pulled out a revolver and shot Oliver
through the head, and he fell to the floor and
expired.
Little excitement existed and no arrests will
probably he made, for the universal \erdiet
seems to be (of the villagers) that Oliver got
what he wanted mid needed most.
Tragic Shooting Affair nearChatta
noooa.?A tragic affair oeourred on Salt
Creek, forty miles below here, n few days
since, the particulars of which are as follows:
It seems that Mr. Boa no, a school teacher, at
tempted to whip a boy named Hutchison, who
resisted aud left school. A day or two after
ward young Hutchinson, accompanied by his
brother and a man named Smith, visited the
school-house for the avowed purpose of chas
tising Beuoe, and not fiadiog him there, they
proceeded :o bin residence Bt-aafc s.*w tin ta
cowing, and anticipating the errand, armed
hie.self, a* also did Mr. Moore, who happened
to be at hia house. On (heir arrival Hutchin
son said they intended giving Bcane a thrash
ing. Moore remonstrated, when Smith drew
a pistol and shot him dead. This was a signal
for all to produce pistols. Beane shot and In
stantly killed Cyrus Hutchinson, brother of
the school-hoy. He had scarcely fired, when
Smith, who had killed Moore, tired another
bacrel at Henne; the ball struck but failed to
immediately disable hint. Beane then turned
on Smith and lodged 3 balls in his body, inflict
ing wonnds which resulted mortally in a few
miv.nies. Twenty minutes after the affair com
menced, Moore, Cyrus Hutchinson and Smith
lay dead on the ground within a few feet of
euch other. Hutchinson's brother was the
o#ly person who escaped unhurt.?Kentucky
Ex.
A LlYINU IIKADI.r88 CHILD.?The De
posit (N. Y.) Courier is rcspousiblc for the
following marvelous story :
in the vicinity of Spoon river in Illinois, is
a child that was born and has lived five years
without a head. Mrs.-, the mother, is
Jhc widow of a soldier, formerly living in
Marshall county, who enlisted in the 65th or
Scotch regiment and was killed at the battle
ol Lexington, Missouri. She was standing
beside her husband during an engagement,
when a cannon ball carried his head complete
ly away, his body falling into her arms and
covering her with blood. The shock affected
her greatly. When her child was born there
wit* not the semblance of a head about it. The
limbs are perfectly developed, and the should
ers where the head and neck should be arc
smoothly rounded off.
Hut the niMSt surprising thing of nil is that
the face is situated in the breast. Of course
there being no neck, the power of turning its
hCad is wanting, except as the whole body is
mOved ; hut this difficulty is overcome by the
tingulur faculty it possesses of turning its
eyes- in their sockets, enabling it to sec quite
.11 well on either side as those more perfectly
t'n?iKv|. The upper portion of its l?dy is
"*!mreas itn^pii ?%.-??. Oauvmu*... , tv.,n? th* ??<>;???
downward is blood red. This strange creature,
now an active boy of five years old. as if to
compensate for his deformity, possesses the
most clear ami bird like tones ever listened to,
singing with singular correctness everything it
may hear, and its voice at this early age ac
complishes two octaves easily
Tim Practical Hkai tiks op Mormon
I'oi.vc.vMV.?A Gentile woman in Utah lately
gave a correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
nurcittl this little, but telling sketch of the
! practical workings of the Mormon system :
"Now, there's Kph. Roberts, over there,"
pointing to a stone house near the mountain ?
"he brought a real young, delicate wife from
.NC? York, now going on sixteen years ago, and
she worked hard, 1 tell you ; why, I've known
her to do all her own work, whwu Kph. had
three hands and the threshing machine at his
house, and sometimes she worked out in the
ticld. bound wheat and raked hay, which you
know is awful on udelicate New York woman ;
'taint, as if she'd been raised to it, like we folks
?and after all, just last year Kph. went and
married another woman, a real young one, not
over twenty, and dou't you think, this spring
she knocked Maria?that's his wife?down
with the churn-dasher and scalded her. Kph
stood by and just said; 'Go in, Luce; kill
her if )tiu can.' It all started about a chum,
too. Itoth wautcd to use it at once. Maria
had it, and her butter was a slow a-comin, and
they got mad, and Luce struck her. and then
.-.latched the kettle right off the Move and
poured hot water on her feet, so she fell down
when she tried to run out. Ami what was the
result finally '! Well, Maria left him, of
course?she had to, or be killed. It's very
nice, though, for the men. I had a dozen
chances to marry old Mormons; but law ! I
wouldn't give that for all of 'em. Why, just
turn things around and let n woman have two
or three men, and see how they'd like that.
There wouldn't be no murderiu' done in these
parts?oh, no ! And 1 reckon a woman has a>
tine feelings as a man. I tell )0U, if my hus
band ever joins 'cm. or tries to get another
1 wife, that day I'll hunt another (jlenti e. Ret
I your life on that."
A Lmvkr in tiik Closkt.?A short time
since n very enterprising young moruhaut. who
is the happy possessor of a wife as beautiful
as heart could desire, had occasion to visit
Mobile. He was gone but a week, and retur
ned sooner than was exacted. Reaching
home ot an hour when the gray of the morn
ing was mingling with the shades of night, he
of course found tho family all in bed. Pro
ceeding directly to his wife's apartment, he
rapped for admission, at the same time announ
cing who be wus. At the mention ot bis uame
bo thought he detocted a boieihefcd exclama
tion of surprise, n?d then souic ono pot hur
ridly from the bed and sought ref?ge in a
closet, adjoining his bed-room. A? this lie
heard distinctly, as ho waited in the cold,
with the demon of jealousy tugging away at
his heart. There was some one in his wife's
room, there could be no doubt of that; and
that some one had sought refuge in tho closet
was equally clear. Who else oould it be than
a lover? Mad with jealousy, furious and
indignant, he could scarcely wait for tho door
to be opened before he bnrsted into the room
and made for the closet. His wife interfered
and begged that he wouldn't open the door
concealing this dijtnrber of domestic peace.
He dashed her aside furiously, but she clung
to the tails of his coat. The strain made up
on those useful appendages at last compelled
them to give way, and the angry benedict
threw wide open the door of the closet, and,
lo! instead of the cunning libertine, his as
tonished eyes rested on oue of the prettiest
girls imaginable. She was passing the night
with his wife, and trying to avoid meetiug
him in tlitJuibiiff:, brought about a rather em
barrassing denouement. The gentleman, how
ever, it may be as well to state, prosecuted his
searches no further, aud, instead, made a hasty
rotreat.?ilcic Orlcan* Picayune.
j Wuy General Grant Keeps Aloof
?'rom Andy Johnson.?It is a matter of
surprise to many that General Grant refuses
to hold any intercourse with President John
son, and in their forgettulness of not long past
events nttribute it (with expressions of sur
prise) to political reasons. Hut any such
thought docs Genera! Graut injustice. He
is doubtless as free from the folly of permit
ting political differences to interfere with social
courtesies as any of us, who find it quite pos
sible to cat an oyster, smoke a eigar, or drink
a cup of tea with a political opponent. Gene
ral Grant's autipathy to Johnson has a better
I foundation than this. It dates back to the
Stan km imbroglio, when Johnson substantial
ly accused Gen. Grant of falsehood in his in
terpretation of some of the phases of thut
difficulty. This touched the sensitive soldier
upon a tender spot. A million men might, as
they did, declare him in their opinion unfit
tor ?iTB^nes&enuyj*- *'i"... ?it???u** orbing hia
temper or changing the cordialit) of his friend
ly salute. Hut to be accused of falsehood was
a different matter. Coming tram the Presi
dent he could not meet the insult in a soldier
ly way, and so was obliged to treat it as an
offence to be punished by gentlemanly con
tempt. This is why General Grant keeps
aloof from Andy Johnson.?Albany Evening
Journal.
Drop that Paper.?Yes, drop it. Too
niggardly and mean to subscribe and pay for
your county paper, which is steadily laboring
for the promotion of the welfare of society?
for your welfare?you have been sponging on
y?ur neighbors ever since it was established.
Von arc always eager to read it. and frequent
ly, before it reaches the hands of its honorable
owner, it is crumpled aud toru by your filching
? lingers. Drop it ! Never pick it up and read
it again, unless you can do so with the proud
consciousness that you have the right?a right
secured in a legitimate way. If you are too
poor to aid in sustaining it, let us know, aud
we will send you the paper gratuitously- But
it is downright meanness in you, when yr?u are
as able as your neighbor, to send your ?hil
drcn through the snow and sleet, and raii> to
j borrow it.?Alton Reveille.
j The Palindrome.?The palindrome is a
j line that reads alike backward and forward.
One of the beat is Adam's first introduction of
himself to Eve :
'?Madam, I'm Adam !"
Another is the story that Napoleon, when
, at St. Helena, being asked by an Englishman
j if he could have sacked London, replied :
"Able was I ere I saw Elba."
The latter is the best palindrome, probably
in the language.
HUM 0R?0S.
Put Him Through.
Not long since a brace of lovers from the in
terior entered an up-town photograph saloon,
and wanted their picf ::es taken. The lady
gave precedence to her swain who, she said,
'?had to be tuck fust and real natural."
He brushed up his hair, pave his neck-tie a
twist or two, asked his girl if his eollor was
O. K , aud placed himself in the operators
chair, where he assumed the physiognomical
characteristics of u poor mortal in the dentist's
hands, and about to part with one of his teeth.
"Now look purty," begged the lady, casting
one of her languishing faces.,
Tho picture was taken. When produced it
reminded the girl, as she ox pressed it, ''just
how Josh looked when he got over tH moa.
sle*"> and as this was not no era io her lover's
history particularly worthy of commomoration
she insisted thit "lv should ?o-?:n "
He obeyed end she attended biui *o tbe
oliaif;
"Josh/' laid rtlie. "just luke kinder smiiin ,
aud kinder don't."
The poor fellow tried to follow the indefinite
injunction.
rtLa!" aaid she, "you look kinder nil puck
ered up."
One direction followed another, but with as
little success. At last, growing impatient aud"
desperate, she resolved to try an experiment,
which she considered infallible, and exclaim*
cd:
"I don't keer if there is folks 'round."
She enjoined the operator to stand ready at
tbe camera. She then set in her fellow's lap,
and, throwing her arms around his neck, man
aged to cast a shower of flaxen ringlets as a
screen between the artists and the proceedings,
which were betrayed by Bounds which re
vealed what was taking place. When the
billing and cooing had lasted long enough
to produce the desired effect, the cun
ning girl leaped from Josh's lap, clapped her *
hands, and cried to the nstouished artist:
"Now you've got him?put him through."
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowc admits it. In
telling ' How we kept Thanksgiving at Old
Town, in the Times of 1780," she says :
One after another began joining the dance,
which, commencing first with the children i
and young people crept gradually uprurds
among the elders.
As it was, grandmother stood with her
pleased face radiant with satisfaction, as the
wave of joyousncss crept higher around her.
till the elders, who stood keeping time with
their heads and feet, began to tell each other
how they had danced with their sweethearts
in the good old days gono by. Aud the elder
women began to blush aud bridle, and to boast
of steps that they could take in their youth,
and into the dauce they went.
"Well, well!" quoth my grandmother,
"they are all at it so hearty, 1 don't see why I
shouldn't try it myself!" and into the Vir
ginia reel she went, amid screams of laughter
from all the younger members of the popula
tion.
"Why ?houldtjXLdjocc 1'" she said^ when
she arrived, red and respmmVjinWn'Weioot oP"
the set. "Didn't Mr. Despondency, and Miss
Mnchafraid, and Mr. Keadytulult all dauce iu
the Pilgrim's Progress tn
Items
The Senate in executive session has cow
firmed the nomination of Mr. C. J. Stolbrand
as Superintendent of the Peniteutiary, and
Mr. llcubcn Totulinson as State Auditor of*
South Carolina.
A gentleman of Plainfield, N. J., seventy
four years of age, is now cutting a third set of
I teeth. The dentists are not called in to help
ihc work forward,
j A Hosten Gentleman, a few days ago. dined
' with a club and invited its members to dine.
' with him, on Tuesday. At the time appoint
ed they assembled at his house?not to a din
ner party, but to attend his funeral.
The next Senate of the United States, frotu
indications presented by recent elections of
new members, and the complexion of the
StaU- Legislatures yet to make elections, will
stand, politically, just as the present one does.
Rets are already being made about the
length of General G rant's inaugural message.
It is .said that it will be the shortest ever de
livered.
General Graut authorizes the statement that
the articles written by an '?Occasional Corres
pondent" of the New York World, and pur
porting to relate conversations or furuisn'oyM??
ions of his iu regard to public mutters aud'
public men, are utterly without foundation.
At Plymouth, Mass., there is a cat which,
in the summer time, will go to>Q biook, plunge
in aud seize trout swimming along, which she
will bring into the house alive and lay on tho
floor, ??ailing around them, aud apparently
claiming praise for her piscatory feats.
In a'?kerosene murder" in New York, on
Saturday, by which a girl was killed, the ooro
ner'.s jury rendered a vordiet of "culpable con
duct" on the part of th j?c who manufactured
aud sold the kerosene.
aMts. Kliza Garth, of New York, aged
seventy-four, has sued1 Richard Howcll, of
Flanders, New Jcrsy, aged seventy-seven, for
$5,IR)U, awl got it, for trifling with her virgin
affections aud marrying another girl.
A ('Mpc Cod yaukeo has been peddling sea1
ed tiu tubes full of corn nical as c-a elaritier of
kerosene oil."
A Christmas goose, scot by a krudi friend to*
two prisoners iu a Canudo jail, was stuffed with
files and steel saws.
The Springfield Republican says it would
like to sec somo of tbe "splendid military
talent of the South" baek in the army.
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Thieves lately stole the carpet from a church
uaat CiociooaUi, and when it was newly car
peted brought back the old one and took- the
at<\f one