Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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e^,^^ ,^"<rr -'-^-^mmimm ^ ^"I7t^^ MORNING. JANlli^ 23. 1869: r^- ' ' ' ^?V^^? NTTMRER 49.. THE ORANQEBUM NEWS. -XK? D AT ORANOEBTJttG, S. <?. Saturday Homing. AXD/IETTS & HALL, PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. ?to;? TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. "One Copy far'4rt(?4?^ZS'ff&?^ ?2.00 M " ? Six Months..? 1.00 A?y one sending TEN DOLLARS. f?r a Clnb of Row SnWribor*. will rvceire on EXTRA COPY for ONE -YEAR, freeof charge. Any one ?endin* FIVE DOLLARS, far a Clnb of Now Subscribers, wiU receive an EXTRA. COPY for 8IX MONTHS, Tree of ?barg?. ?:<>:? RATES OP ADVERTISING. I Square Int Insertion...$1.80 ? 2d ?>. 1.00 A Square consists of 10 lines Brevier or one inch vif Advertising space. - Administrator's Notices.$5 qq Oontrnct Advert isetuents inserted upon the most ?iberal terms. MARRIAGE and FUNERAL NOTICES, not ex ceeding one-Square, inserted without charge. ?:o:? j?r Terms Cash In AOIfence. -?t feb 2* o ?- ly POETBY. * [From Peters' ?leo Uive.Jv If We Knew. if ?I If we know when walking thoughtless, Thro' the n'olfy crowded way, That some pearl of wondrous whiteness, (Mose beside our pathway lay ; We would pfttiso when now we husten, We would oOen look around. Lost our thoughufss feet should trample. Some rare jewel in the ground. if we knew when genius struggled. Thro" the weary nights and day*. Sighing for some word of comfort, Little word of hope'and praise; ?|fe^W^e^aJ?ta^nyd hjay :Of Waarel. . -? ^? 0~ ~ w?wout<i place within iludr hands, J.iitk- deed* wi Hungry heart* cam understand. ' tM^y*i^*rro^^ Which ?"??ng the lips that kiss its. First should noalh the daises lie X? AVo would iliww our arms around them, lacking*on then thro' our team, Tender word* of love etcrnaL If we knew, alas :*nd do we Ever career-seek ?o know. Whether herb? or bitter roses. In our neighbor's garden grow. Better far along Ufa's pathway. Keep this golden rule in ?iew,. '?You should always eare for others, As you'd have them care for you." ?vi A Letter from Gc?. Loiigstreet The Atlanta Acre Era publishes the follow-' I ing letter fpra Ueueral J antes Lougstreet: 'a ?.'*t ^fLY?cii?UBq/VA.Jr^v..24. My Dear Sin?Many of our Southern men seem to hafo lost sight of the fundament all doctrine?the interest of the people?in their] xoal to maintain their ideas of consistency! which consists ia adhering to old truth* whether they work for weal or woo. I rcgrcd that I am not bettor prepared to meet youtj wishes for information ia regard to the future! policy of on? new President. Although have had the pleasure of several iuterviewj with him within the last few year*, I have .sought to learn his appreciation of politic questions of the present or of the future, regald his past course and decided charactc| as the surest guarantee of hie futuro coui The floating ides that has attached itself jthe minds of the many that ho may yet prov\ !i# ite a Democrat, is like many other specula tions that gain circulation and credence, but only serve to deceive those who are credui -enough to iodulge them. It w? resell to mind the events of the last two yeara, we shall remember that Qerontl Grout's poeitioe si one -time was snob as to insure his nomination for "President by the party that b!h might choose as most in accord with his views of public policy; and subsequent events indicate that his personal popularity is such as to have turned the balance in his favor. It scorns to me unreasonable, therefore, to expect to find him. at this late day, seeking alliauoe with the old party. His antecedents clearly mark him as a national man, and of such he gives assu rance of his adhesion to the party whose basis is the Union, and that the influence of his ad ministration wiil be applied to its c ?mpleto and prosperous restoration. A fair-minded people must know, however, that no individual, un aided, can accomplish this groat purpose. He must needs have tho assistance of. the North, of the South, of tho East and of the West. - Having assurance of co-operation from other parts of the country, ho only wants that of the Oi-iS.h "SW'ptstC iiie Uc/.l.'S-hU-ii will ? Five Miles Above the Earth. Cue dull uay in August, just uflcr noon, a ntlloon rose in the air at the foot of Cloet Hills, on the ' Western edge of the central pin in of England. It was inflated with the ightest of gases which chemical skill could 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 bark laden to the dock wore to pass from heavy waters of the sea into an inland unsaline lako; tho bark would sink at once in thu ihm our water. Up, up, aim higher" What a silence profound ! The heights of the sky were as still as tho deepest depths of the oeenu, where, as was found during Ute search for the lost Atlantic cable, the fine mud lies as uu stirred from yoar to year as the dust which imperceptibly gathers on the furniture of a deartytod house. No ?nnnd. no life, opiy the bright sun-shine falling through a sky whioh it could not warm. Up?five miles above the earth!?higher than tho inaccessible summit of Dhimboraso I or Pftwangirt. Despite the sunshine, every thing freotos. The air grows toe thin to sup port life, even for a few minutes. Two men only arc in that adventurous balloou?the one steering tho air-ship, the other watching the scientific instruments, and recording them with a rapidity broad of long practice. Sud denly, as the latter looks at his instruments, his sight grows dim; he takes a leaor to help his right, and oo)y uutrk* from the falling >Vi -ly\' fck?s i-iv testing rtjMfo k of brandy lie* within a foot of hilji; he to reach it, but his nrm refused JO obey | will. lie tries to call on his comrade, who gone up into the ring abovo; a whisper inj et deep silence would eufnce?but Haines from"h:s lips?he is vc eersman comes down into the car; ft s comrado in a swoon, and feels his own nscs failing him. He saw atoaee that life, and death hung ?p t ? few moments. He seised, or tjted to I ize, the valve, in order to open it and let | tit the gas. His hands are purple witSfinfconse >ld?they are paralysed, they will i>nd to hb will. Ho seised the valve with | gis * -eth, it opened ft little*?once, twiee, thrice, balloon began to descend. The? the mooned marksman returned to consciousness, nd saw the steersman standing before him. [e looked at his instrument; but now the j aromcter was rising rapidly; the balloon was eceuding. Brandy was used. ?They hold been igher above the earth than mortal ny living thing had ever been before, One uinute more of inaction?of compulsory inac ion?on the part of the steersman^whose enses were failing him, and the air-ship, with ts intensely rarefied gas, would he ve;been Joui:::g unattended, with two corpses, fo the ride realms of space. Bloody Tragedy at Monoomery, jjvs?Four MeK Killed.?The G pVt jes, of the 3d instant, says: We learn from a gentleman who reside* few miles from the town of Montgomery, this State, that a bloody tragedy occurred that place last week. Four men were killed, nd the town for a while presented the appear* ince of a battle-field on s small scale. The circumstances, ab near as wo could gather them from a hasty conversation, are as follows : desperado, Whose name wo did not learn, rey (cently appeared in Montgomery, and in a *ho# time made #h tinsel f odious to the citizens by Ibis quarrelsome disposition. He gathered around him, however, several frieuds, who, ifl* 'proved, lost the?r lives in eud^javoriug to stat by him in his difficulties^ This desperado % ftusjieeica 01 pasaJug^ttfltflcTWtl and of haVtng been a horse thief. Oti the day of the tragedy he rode his horse into the store of Messrs. Smith & Peal, and on being ordered out, he drew his pistol, but be fore he could fire it. he was fired upon by Mr. Smith or Peat with a'double-barrel shot-gun. .Although badly wounded, ho 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 ran in another direction, when some one in the party fired upon him and he fell. A Mr. Oliver and two brothers named McGrew (who, it seems, were in the habit of associating with the desperado) ran up to his rescue, with y?* tuls drawn, when they were fired upon by the crowd, and all throe killed. ?it?i ?i A Fiout with Kkiveb and Pistols in a Ball-Room.?The La Crosse (Wisconsin) Democrat says: < -A. most terrible affray occurred down at Bud Axe City, 1? miles below here, on Christmas eve. There was a ball given at the hotel in that small river town, and many persons were present. A woU-knewn desperado by the nanae of John Oliver was there. There were also in attendance at the party three brothers j by the name of Benuron, who had at some previous time crossed the path of Oliver, and on whom he hud 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, aud imme diately drew a large Bowie-knife. Bennison saw htm coming, and in attempting to ward off the blow received it through the arm, just above the-elbow. The other brothers seeing this, 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 fatal blow, when one of the wounded brothers pulled out a revolver and shot Oliver through the head, aud he fell to tho floor and expirod. Little excitement existed and no arrests will probably bo made, for the universal verdict ?corns to be (of the villagers) that Oliver got what he wanted and needed most. ?-??--??????-?--?eaeMw?"" Tragic Shooting Affair near Ckatta noooa.?A tragic affair occurred on Bait Creek, forty miles below here, a few days since, the particulars of which are as follows: It seems that Mr. Beace, a school teacher, at* tempted to whip a boy named Hutchison, who resisted and left school. A day or two after ward'young Hutchinson, accompanied by hb brother and 4 man named Smith, vbited the school-house for the avowed purpose of chas tising Beano, and not finding bin* tbore, lhey -ffoeeedeu to hk ?es.d?s?c 3s?S$ s*w them coming, sq.Lggj38HEting the omni* armed' himself, ?e also did Mr, Moore, who happened to be at hb house. Oo ihclr arrival Hejtehic sou said they intended giving Beano a thrash Moore renwtiMritod. when Smith df^fc a pistol and shot himfead. This was u signal for-all to produce pistphr. Boane ahnt en<3fW eiantly killed CyrusHutchinson, brother of the school-boy. 'fte had scarcely fired, wf?ee .?m?h, who hadjuliod Mooro^fired another baasl at Bonnojj&?s kill ittRjia?hat Mr?Lto 1 immediately disable hiss. Beaae then turned on. Smith and lodged 3 balls ia his body, inflict-} ing wounds whieh watahnd ranortally io a few ?aiyatca. Twooty minntes after the affair con> anraoed, Moore, Cyrus Hutchinsoo and Smith lay dead on the ground within a few feet of each other. Hutchinson'? brother was^. tho o*?ly person who escaped unhurt.?Kentucky Kx. a Living II sapless Child.?The De pvoi* (N. Y.) Comtlrr m rvspoUB?Vlu for the j following marvebus story: *~Jn the vicinity of Spoon river in Illinois, is ^Hhl that was born and has lived fire years without a head. Mrs. ?, the mother, is ! I Abe widow of a Soldier, formerly living la Marshall county, who enlisted in the 65th or Sc<?ich regiment and was killed st the battle] ol Leslngton, Mi?She was alasdvisg beside her husband during an engagement, when a cannon hall 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 wa^ not the semblance of a head about it. The limbs are perfectly developed, and the should er* where the head hud neck should be are smoothly rounded off. Hut the meat surprising thing of all is that the face is situated ra the breast. Of cou#jg? there being ho neck, the power of turning Its head is wanting, ereopt as the whole body is j u^oved ; but this difficulty is overcotSSe hy the jtfjBgalar faculty it possesses of tannirg to1 in tiiuir sockets, enabling it to see quite as *?U ok either side as those more perfectly [ fr^VThvt. The uppor poftion of its body is downward is blood red. This strange creature, now an active b?y of five years old, as iff to compensate for his deformity, possesses the most clear and bird like tones ever listened to, siuging with .singular correctness everything it may hear, and its voice at this early age ac complishes two octaves easily - ??? mat Tiik Practical Bkautiks or Mormon Polygamy.?A Gentile woman in Utah lately gave a correspondent of the Cincinnati Com mercial this little, but telling sketch of the practical workings of the Mormon system; "Now, there's Eph. Roberta, over there/' pointing to a stone house near the mountaiu? 'he brought a real young, delicate wife from Now York, now going on sixteen years ago, and she workedhard, I tell yon; why, I've known her to do all her own work, when Kph. had three hands and the threshing machino at his house, aud sometimes she worked oast in she field, bouud wheat and raked- hay, which you know ia awful on a delicate New York woman; 'taint as if she'd been raised to it, like we folks ?and after all, jnat last year Eph. went and married another woman, a real young one, not over twenty, and dou't you think, this spring she knocked Maria?that's bis wife?down with the churu-dashcr and scaldoJ her. Eph stood by and just said; 'Go in, Luce; kill her if you can.' It all started about a churn, too. Both wanted to use it at once. Maria had it, and her butter was a slow a-comin, and they got mad, aud Luce struck her, and then snatched the kettle right off the stove and poured hot water on her feet, so she fell down when she tried to run out. Aud what was the rosu It finally ? Well, Marls loa him, of course?she hud to, or be killed. It's very nice, though, for the moo. I had a dosen chances to marry old Mormons; but law 1 I woulda't give that for all of 'em. Why, just turn things around and let a woman have two or three men, and see how they'd like that. There wouldn't be no murderin' done in these parts?oh, no 1 And I reckon a woman has as \ fine feelings as a man. I tell you, if any bus-1 baud ever joins 'em, or tries to get another wife, thai day I'll hunt another Gentie. Bet your life on that." A L?Vi? In ?nm Cuoianf.?A hli?ii time since a very enterprising young merohaut, who is tho happy possessor of a wife aa beautiful as heart could desire, had occasion to visit Mobile. He was gone bat a week, and retur ned sooner than was expected. Kaaoking home at an hour when the gray of the morn ing was mingling with the shades of eight, he of coarse found the family all in bed. Pro ceeding directly to bis wife's apartment, he rapped for admission, at the asms Urne announ cing who he was. At the mention el his name he thouslrt he detected a >tfath?M iton oi surprise, ??? men some one got nur ridry from the bed ?nd sought rCfiig? iti a closet, adjoining bis bed-room. A? ttitt tie heard afettnetly, as ha waited jjfegh0 with the demon of jealousy Imh^Mmwij his heart. There was some ouojn his wife** MutjBZto couieV be no doufPof that; and that some one had sought refuge in tho closet I ?rat ^ytattrA^ ^h^JBm^ Hh* than1 av lerer? .Mod .with, jealousy, ftmous -sd indignant, he could scarcely wait for the door to fie opened before he btrrstcd into the room end nwde for the closet. His wife ItMUI^pH and be%g?a that he wouldn't ?pz-tttoui' | concealing this duturber of doaaeeflc peace. He- dashed her aside furiously, but she elung ?to the tails* of bis-cost. 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 one of the prettiest girls imaginable. She was passing the eight, with. hH wife, and trying to avoid meeting him in dukabiUc^ brought about a rather em barrassing denouement. The gentleman, how evcr, ft may be as well to state, prosecuted hb j s?rrhes bo further, aud, instead, made a hasty retreat.?A"cvo Orleans Picayune. - . . . I IBM ~ nuniMi - Why General Grant Keeps Aloof from Andy Johnson.?It Is a matter of| surprise to saany that General Grant refuses to hold any Ii H?Hui fte with President John son, and in their forgetfulness of not long past | events attribute it (with expression* of sur prise) to political reasons. But any such thought does General 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 eat an oyster, smoke a cigar, or driuk a cup of tea with a political opponent. .Gene raj Grant's antipathy to Johnson has a better foundation than this. It dates back to the Stan ton imbroglio, When Johnson substantial ly accused Gcni Qrant'of falsehood in hb in terpretation of some of the phases of . that difficulty. This touched tba sensitive soldier upon a tender spot. A million men might, as 1 they did, declare him in their opmw for th'e^rt&fcieaey,- w!tl?Uit>-?4p?ft?lL i temper or changing tne cordiality of hut friend ly salute. But to be accused of falsehood was a different matter. Coming from the Presi dent he cuuld not meet the insult in a soldier ly way, and so was obliged to treat it as nn offence to be punished by gentlemanly con tempt. This is why General Grant keeps aloof from Andy Johnson.?Albany Evening Journal. - a* ' aaaewii . _ 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 foir your welfare?you have been sponging on jour neighbors ever since it was established. You are always eager to read it, and frequent ly, before it reaches the hands of its honorable J owner, it is crumpled and torn by your filching fingers. Drop it ! Never piek it up and read it again, unless you can do so With the proud consciousness that you have the tight?a right secured in a legitimate way. If yea are too poor to aid in sustaining it, let us know, and we will send you the paper gratuitously* But it b downright meanness in you, when yew are able as your neighbor, to send your chil dren through the enow and sleet, aud rain- to borrow it.?Alton Reveille. Tue Palindrome.?The palindrome b a line that reads alike backward and forward. One of the best w Adam's first introduction of himself to Eve: ".Madam, I'm Adam P Another is the story that Napoleon, when at St. Helena, belog asked by an Englishman if he could have sacked London, replied : <:Ablo was I ere I saw Elba." The latter b the best palindrome, probably in the language. EUMOEUOS. Pat Him Through. Not long ainco a brace of lovers from the in terior entered aa up-towu photograph saloon, and wanted their picture* taken. The lady gave precedence to her owain who, she said, "had to be tack fast tad real natural." ??6 utUSu&u Up his uniF, g?V? h? Cvck-liO A twist or two, asked hb girl ? if hh eotlor was | O. K., sad placed himself in the operator* | chair, where he assumed the physiognomical characteristics ef a poor mortal fa the dentist's hands, and about to part with one of hb teeth. "Now look purty," begged the lady, casting one of her Ungnbhing faces., The picture was taken. When produced' it reminded the girl, a* she expressed it "just bow Josh looked when be get orer the ? si***"} &a4 as tkb was not an era ia bar lower's j ht?orY **T"ti*tthuIt/ worthy af *ftcsf**mA*atio? j vi- iasftSN* -am anon id get *fr*tw-" He obeyedi aud' ell? sttertdsd him "?*0sV' fttid fihv, vjust lufee kJ??W Witin , . .. One direction followed another, but with little success. At last, growing iinpavleut andr Jas?^y^ i^ved to UA^ao eft^eseat, sfee considered itsfalKaea; and Oackfat "I don't keer.if there ia folks 'rouadV' She enjoined the operator to stand ready at the camera. Sho then set in her fellow's lap, and, throwing her arms around his neck, man aged to caat a shower of flaxen ringlets as a screen let ween the artists and the proceedings, which were betrayed by sounds which re vealed what was taking place. When the hilling and cooing had lasted long enough to produce the desired effect, the ca ning girl leaped from Josh's lap, clapped her hands, and cried to the astonished artist: "Now you've gas hue ant him through/' _- .7lMII~.a?ll -; Mrs. Harriet Beechcr Stowc admits it. In telling "fios wo kept Thanksgiving st Old Town, in the Times? of 1780 " she saye: Oae after another began joining the da nee. which, commencing first with the csrifcirettv' and young people crept gradually apwajtigg among the elders. As it was, grandmother stood with her pleased face radiqnt with satisfaction,. as the wave of joyousnoss Crept higher ?ronntPhcT, till the elders, who stoeJ keeping time with their heads and feet, began to tell each ether bow.they had danced with their sweethearts ia the good old days gone by. Aud the eider women began to blush and bridle, and to boast of steps that they could take in their youth and into the dWa&ihey went. ??Will, well!" quoth my grandmother, :lthey are all at it so hearty, I don't see why, I shouldn't try it myself!" and into the \" ir ginia reel she went, amid screams of laughter from all the youuger member.? df the papula tlOU. |*^g-^ff$5 shouldn'^Jg?KK^^^^Mjga^3^&Pf^ she arrived, red and resple11?jiWH^fufie the set. "Didn't Mr. Despondency, and Miss Mnchafraid, and Mr. Readytohalt all dance iu the Pilgrim's Progress ?" Items. The Senate in executive session has corf, firmed the nomination of Mr: 0. J. Stolbrand as Superintendent of the Penitentiary, and Mr. lleuben Tomlinson as State Auditor of South Carolina. A gentleman of Plainfield, N. J., seventy fbur years of age, is now cutting a third set of teeth. The dentists are not called in to help the work forward. A Boston Gentleman, a few days ago. dined, with a club, and invited its members to diuo with him, on Tuesday. At the time appoint ed they assembled tit his no use * not to a din ner party, but to attend hi* funeral. The next Senate of the United States, from indications presented by recent elections of new members, and the complexion of the " State Legislatures yet to make elections, will stand, politically, just as the present oho does. - Bets are already being made about the length of Geoeral Grant's inaugural message. It is said that it will bo the shortest ever de livered. General Graut authorizes the statemout that the articles writteu by an "Occasional Corres pondent" of the New York World, aud pur porting to relate conversations or furuiaft?onW ions of his iu regard to public matters and* public men, are utterly, without foundation. At Plymouth, Mass., there is a cat which, in the summer time, will go ton biook, plunge in and seise trout swimming along, which she will bring into the bouse alivo and lay on> the floor, purring woutad thorn, and apparently claiming praise for her piscatory feats. Iu a " kerosene murder'* in New York, ot? Saturday, by ?hieb a girl was killed, the coro ner b jury rendered a verdict of "culpable con duct" on the part of those who manufactured aud sold the kerosene. Mrs. Elisa Garth, of New York, aged seventy-four, has sued itiohard Uowell, of Flanders, New Jewy,- aged severity-seven, for ?5,000/ and got it, for trifling with her virgin affections and marrying another girl. A Capo Cod yaiikee has boon peddling seuV ed tin tubes full of corn meal as "a rlarificr of korosene oil." A Christmas goose, sent by a kruv* friend to two prisoners in a Canada jail, was stuffed with files and steal saws. The Bpriagfield Republics* says it would like to see some of the "splendid miheery talent of the South" back ia the army. Thieves lately stole the carpet from a church pear Ciaorwaatti? aud whan i* wet aewjy oar acted brought back the oU oae a&d toe* the