The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, October 21, 1880, Image 1

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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MOENING, OCTOBEE 21, 1680. _VOLUME XVI. -NO. 15. Testimony as <o Death of Capt. T. P. Benson. Coroner S. B. Ezell held an Inquest on Sunday morning, 10 inst., over the body of the late Capt. T. P. Benson, at which the tollowing testimony was taken: J. R. Thackam, sworn, says: ? am clerk in this hotel. At five minutes before 4 o'clork on yesterday, the 9th of October, 1880, I left the office of the hotel to go to the depot. I left Captain Benson in the office. He was alone and . at the safe. I returned about 420 / o'clock. Did not see Captain Benson when I returned. At about 5.45 Mrs. '?? Benson asked me to wake Captain Ben? son, as it was about time for him to get tip. I told her I would go in a few minutes. She said she would go, and asked me where he usually slept. I told her No. 4. She returned, and said it ?was locked. Asked me to examine the other rooms and see where he was. I examined and found all the rooms locked. She then sjiid, "By the way, he told me he was going to No. 21." I came, knocked at 21, and received no answer. I went to the office and got some keys to try the door. She came with me. We found a key in the door on the fnside. She asked if I could get in. I toldlier by breaking the door. I broke it open. We came in together and found Captain Benson lying on the bed, as you see him, except that his head whs a little off the pillow and his face slightly turned towards the wall; was j neither on his back or side exactly, but slightly turned towards the left side; had his clothing and shoes on. He was in the habit of taking a nap in the after? noon; usually went to No. 4, but some < times to others. He always told some of us where he was going. He had not been complaining of ill health to me. Was temperate in his habits. Jas. B. Thackam. / . Dr. J.J H. Clawson, sworn, says: I saw the body of Capt. T. P. Benson soon after it was found. He was lying on his . back, the body limber, mouth and eyes closed, hands by the side. I examined his pockets and took the things out, giv? ing them to Mr. Parrott. I found pa? pers, keys, cigars, match-box, knife, oc. Did not examine the articles. Found nothing like medicine or poisoo. I saw nothing whatever to indicate the cause of death. One shoe was lying between his legs. I took a watch from his pocket and a little silver coin. I saw him have n large, red pocket-book on yesterday morning. That was not in the pockets when I examined them. I saw Captain Benson every day. Never heard him complain but once, then I was speaking of some one who bad heart disease, and ha remarked that he had some trouble ? here (putting hie hand over the region of the heart.) J. H. Clawson. Dr. H. A. Ligon sworn says: I am a druggist. I think I sold Captain Ben sou about all of his drugs. I sold him a little bromide of potash a few days ago. Have not sold him anything like mor? phine, opium, or anything that would destroy life. Mrs1. Benson, wife of de? ceased, has told me tbat'Captain Benson thought of going to Greenville on the 4'oclock tram yesterday afternoon, and dressed, for that purpose. Just before ?Train time he stood for a short time with his hand on his forehead, and said to her that he felt a little badly and believed he would not go, but would go up to No. 21 and lie down. Mrs Benson also told me -hat when Captain Benson changed bis clothing that he laid his large, red pocket-book and moraorandum-book on the bureau and went up stairs, leaving them there. She put them away. These articles, together with the others found on his person, are now in my safe. The deceased was subject to headache and used bromide of potash for it. I never heard him complain of ill health, except headache. H. A. Ligon. Prof. A. T. Peete, sworn says: I have been boarding in this house about two years. I was in room yesterday after? noon, 'about 4.45. My room is about four doors from the room in which Captain Benson was found. I was Bitting in the corridor reading, when the clerk came up, look? ing for Captain Benson. He asked if I had seen him. I told him, "No," He weut to No. 21 and knocked some fifteen minutes. He then went down stairs and returned with Mrs. Benson. Both tried the door. Mrs. Benson directed the clerk to break the lock, aud he kicked the door open. He ran out to-me and said, "Mr. Peete, the Captain is dead 1" I ran into the room. Mrs Benson screamed, and said, "He is dead 1" I put my hand on his pulse and on his heart, and was satisfied that he was dead. He was getting cold. I sent the clerk for a physician and remained with Mrs. Benson. Dr. Clawson came in with the clerk within five minutes. Drs. Russell and Means also came iu and examined the body, pronouncing it dead. His business interfered with his sleep at night and he was in the habit of sleep ing iu the daytime. I often saw him come to the rooms on this floor?the third in the hotel?to sleep. I have seen the waiters frequently have to knock for some time to wake the Cap tain, which would indicate that he was in the habit of locking the door inside. The body was found about 5.45 p. m. on yesterday, October 9. The body was found in a very easy, natural position, on the back; eyes and mouth closed ; no change in the countenance; arms easily down by the side; one shoe off, lying on the-bed between his feet; the other shoe was taken off by Mr. Poinier later in the evening. Alfred T. Peete. Edward Richey, sworn, says: I am porter in this hotel. I saw Captain Benson in the office about 4 o'clock yes? terday evening. He was there when the omnibus started to the train. I have seen him take a drink of liquor occ.v. sioually, but not often. Never saw him intoxicated or heard of it. Have not seen him take a drink lateb . He usual? ly takes a nap about 2 or 2? p. m. I met him yesterday afternoon coming out of No. 21 at 3J. I have not known him to come on ihis floor to sleep lately. Edward Richey. Dr. Win. T. Russell, sworn, says: I am a regular practicing physician of this State, have made an examination of the body of the deceased, Thomas P. Benson. I hrive dissected the head, and find the brain congested. I would say that the cause of bis death was congestion of the brain. Wm. T. Russell, Iff. D. S. F. Parrot, sworn, says: I board in this hotel. Went into the room where Captin Benson was lying dead about 5.45 p. m. on yesterday. Dr. Clawson examined the pockets of deceased and banded the contents to me. I have ex? amined those articles. They consist of watch, letters, receipted bills, .pencil, cigars, keys, small tape line, whistle, some silver change, very small i memo? randum-book, a notification of a bank check due at Spartanburg National Bani: on yesterday, and perhaps other Jitflcarticles. J have also examioea\a large, red pocket-book, which, I am in? formed, .belonged to Captain Benson, and find in it letter, addressed to all whom it may concern." I have seen Captain Benson's hand? writing, but canuot say that the letter is in his writing. The letter was taken out of the pocket-book by Dr. H. A. Ligon in my3{presence. I came to my room about 3.30 yesterday afternoon. It is No. 22. As I entered, Captain Benson came out of 21. He 'spoke to me pleas? antly, and asked where I was going. I thought of going to Atlanta. He asked roe if I was going on the 4 o'clock train. I told him I was. He said I did not have much time, and that he thought of going to Greenville himself. While talking he stepped into the door of my room, and then went down stairs. About 41 went down stairs and found him in the office. He said the bus had just gone out and that he had conclud? ed not to go. I did not reach the depot in time, and was left. Sam'l F. Parrot. J. B. Thackam, recalled, says: I have often seen Captain Benson write and seen his writing and signature. I have examined this letter produced by Mr. Farrott and think this looks like Captain Benson's signature. I think the fetter was written by him. Captain Benson had been up very late on the nights of the 7th and 8th. Jas. R. Thackan. Dr. H. A. Ligon, recalled says: Mr. Parrott and I have been,'.as requested by this inquisition, and examined the arti? cles in my possession belonging to Cap? tain Benson. In the large, red pocket book we found the letter produced here by Mr. Parrott and addressed "To all whom it may concern." I took the let? ter out of the pocket-book in Mr. Par rott's presence. I am familiar with Captain Benson's writing and particular? ly his signature. I believe the writing and signature in the letter to be his. The book in which the letter was found has his name in it. He was a gentle? man of cheerful disposition. Do not remember that I ever saw him gloomy. The red pocket-book contains some bank bills. H. A. Ligon. Dr. W. T. Kussel, recalled, says: After the discovery of the letter written by Captain Benson, and at the request of the Coroner and Jury of Inquest, I have made a further examination of the body of deceased. I find the 1 eart and lungs healthy; the bowels distended, but pre? senting a natural appearance; the stomach empty, of a congested condition, and somewhat softened. In consider*- . tion of the circumstances and condition of the stomach, I deem it necessary and important that the stomach be analyzed by a chemist. The stomach ia of an unnatural appearance. War. T. R?ssel, M. D. A Sketch of Judge Cook. The News and Courier says of ex-Judge Cooke: Judge Cookeisa native of South Carolina. In 1874 he was elected Judge of the Eighth Circuit, and served upon the bench until the expiration of bis term of office in 1878. He was elected Judge by a Republican Legislature as a member of the Republican party, defeat? ing Gen. McGowan, who was the Demo? cratic candidate and his strongest oppo? nent. He continued to act with the Re? publican party until the autumn of 1876, when he declared that he could not sup? port such nominees as Chamberlain and Elliott, and at the meeting in Abbeville iu September renounced bis allegiance to the party of plunder and became a most bitter and. uncompromising Demo? crat. In 1878 he failed to be re-elected Judge, and went into the canvass in GreenviUo County as a candidate for member,of the Legislature and was elec? ted by Democratic votes. He sate in the Legislature at the sessions of 1878 and 1879, and at the opening of the present campaign published a card declining to becomo a candidate for office, alleging that the Democratic party had iot kept faith with him. He is now a candidate for the State Senate, and will be suppor? ted by the Greenback, Independent and Radical voters of Greenville County. Even with this support be cannot be elected, but his present desertion of the Democracy shows how much faith can be placed in the declarations of such a man as he has proved himself to be. On the beuch and off it, Mr. Cooke was brilliantly successful as a judicial alcoholometer. Leading lawyers hold that, in other respects, be failed conspic? uously. But he delivered mauldiu lec? tures on temperance to the disgust of the grand juries to whom they were addressed. In the Legislature he did not originate a siugle measure of any public good, and made only a third-rate member. The object nearest his pericadium was to ob? tain payment of somo arrears of sal? ary as Judge which he claimed were due. While the Radical party wo3 in power Judge Cooke was in full fellowship with the theives and assassins of the period. In 1876 he was a pronounced Democrat partisan, and as long as offices were plen? tiful he claimed connection with this party, but now he has thrown off his dis? guise, and like the sow of the Scriptures, has returned to his wallowing in the mire. Helaffected to be politically honest in '76 because he thought that would be the cheapest way to make a living, and now he hopes to get into office again by turing his coat and going against the party he claims to have helped to get in? to power. He stands before the country in his true light at last, and is unworthy of the support of either political party or of any intelligent voter. It were better to give over the government to the Rad? ical party at ouce than bestow public offices upon a moral and poliitcal uncer? tainty of the type of T. H. Cooke. ? A negro barber, at St. Louis, studied law at night for several years, and was finally admitted to the bar. He now works in the shop on Saturdays and Sun? days, and practices with co isiderable success in the courts on other days. ? Gen. Hancock says that he has had only one application for office as yet, and that was from a man who wished to go as Minister toCorca. He had understood that every white man, on landing there, had his head taken, and he desired the operation performed on himself. ? In Baltimore on Monday, a lady dropped a roll of bills containing $1,390 in the street. They were scattered about and picked up by persons who took them to be advertising dodges and lit cigars with ?20 notes, pasted them on walls, and handed them about promiscuously. Only $450 were recovered. ? On February 1, 1S79, the Chicago Tribune denounced Gen. Arthur, the Re? publican candidate for the Vice Presi? dency, as the bead center of a "syndicate of revenue thieves," and asserted that "every member of the ring of crooked importers in New York city desires and is laboring for the return of Mr. Arthur to the Collectors!!ip." The Tribune is now heartily laboring to have this disre? putable fellow elected Vice President of the United States. WORSE THAN THE BENDERS. The Shocking Deeds of Sawney Beano and the Members of His Numerous Family. History contains no parallel to the hor? rible cruelties and robberies that were committed by one Sawney Beane, a Scotchman, in the reign of King James I., before he came to the Jcrown of Eng? land by the demise of Queen Elizabeth. Sawney Beane was born about eight or nine miles eatward of the city of Eriin burg, in the county of East Lothian, of parents who went a hedging and ditching for their daily bread, and who brought up this, their bloody-minded child, to the same occupation ; but as he grew up, his disposition to idleness not permitting him to follow an honorable employment, be left his father and mother, and ran in? to the country, where, following a most wicked life, and taking up with a woman as vicious as himself, instead of living in any city, town or village, tbey took"up their lodging on a rock by the seaside, on the shore of Shire Galway, where they lived for upward of twenty-five years, having both children and.grandchildren in that time, whom they brought up so wickedly that they never sepnrated, kept no other company but themselves, and supported themselves entirely by robbing, and, what was worse, they never commit? ted a robbery without a murder. LIVED UPON THEIR PEEY. They never frequented any market for provisions, but as soon as they had mur? dered any man, woman or child they did not leave the carcass behind, but carried it to Iheir den, where, cutting it into quarters, they would pickle them and live upon human flesh until tbey got another prey of the same kind. But tbey had generally a superfluity, insomuch that they oftentimes in the night time, but at a great distance from their sanguinary mansion, threw legs and arms of some tbey had killed into the sea, which the tide frequently cast up at several parts of the country, to the great as? tonishment of the beholders. Persons who went about their lawful occupations fell often into the bands of these merci? less cannibals and never returned home again. Tnis raised a general cry among their friends and relations, insomuch that the whcie country was alarmed at such a common loss of the people, which hap fiened in traveling into the west of Scot and, and private spies were sent out into all parts to find out, if possible, how these melancholy events happened. For a length of time their strictest searches an inquiries were to no purpose. However, several honest travelers were taken up on suspicion, and wrongfully hanged upon bare circumstances, besides several inno? cent inn-keepers, who were also executed for no other reason than that persons who had been thus lost were known to have lain in their houses, and were supposed to have been robbed and murdered by them and tbeir bodies privately buried in obscure places to prevent a discovery. To such an extent was this carried that several inn-keepers on the western road of Scotland left off their business for fear of being made the like examples, and followed other employments, so that trav? elers again were put* to many inconven? iences for want of accommodation. However, after several had been exe? cuted, and no one made any confession at the gallows, but declared they were innocent of the crime for which they died, this rigorous way of proceeding was giv? en up, and the finding out of the murder? ers left wholly to God. A SAVAGE FAMILY. Sawney Beane, with his wife, children and grandchildren, still pursued their barbarous actions with impunity; and, being somewhat numerous, they would attack .our, five or six men together, if they were on foot. As for horsemen, two were the most they would ever set on, and then with such caution, that an am? buscade was laid to secure them, ride which way they would, provided one or both made their escap9 from the first as? sailants. Thus, whose fortune soever it was to fall into their barbarous hands, he or she never came off with their lives. The place was solitary where they inhabi? ted; and, when the tide came up, the water went for nearly 200 yards into their subterraneous-habitation, which reached almost a mire underground; so that if they were seen thereabouts by any person, it was not in the least suspected that any? thing human resided in such a dismal place of perpetual horror and darkness. The number of people they had killed was not exactly known; but it was reck? oned that in the twenty-five years they had reigned in these inhuman slaughters they had washed their handsin theblood of about 1,000 men, women and chirdren! At last the discovery of the cannibals was thus made: A man and his wife, who was behind him on the same horse, coming one eve? ning from a fair, and falling into ambus? cade of'these merciless wretches, they fell upon them in the most furious manner; the man to save himself, as well as he could, fought it bravely agaiust them with sword and pistol, riding some ol them do?vn by main force of his horse, from wbichjbis wife in the conflict fell off, and was presently murdered before the hus? band's face; for the female cannibals forth with cut her throat, sucking her blood with as great a gusto as if it had been wine, ripped up her belly, and pulled out all her entrails, which unparalleled bar bariry made the poor man make the more obstinate resistance, as expecting the same fate if he fell into their impi? ous hands. It pleased Providence that twenty or thirty passengers were riding that way from the same fair that he had been at, and Sawney Beane and his blood? thirsty clan withdrew, made the best of their way through a solitary wood, and so retired to their den. ONE HAN'S STORY. The man, who was the first that ever came off alive after falling into tbeir hands, told the passengers what had hap? pened, and showed them the bloody spec? tacle of his wife, whom the murderers had dragged some distauce off, which struck them all with stupefaction and amazement. They carried him with them to Glasgow, and, relating the matter to the Provost of that city, he immediately sent to the King about it, who, in three or four days, came in person thither, be? ing desirous of seeing the apprehending of this villain, who for so many years, had been the pest of the western part of the kingdom. A body of about four hundred men, well armed, set out on horseback with the King, who hadseveral blood-hounds with him ; and went with the man to the wood by which he was attacked, but found no sign of any habitation all over it. They then went through it, which led down to the seashore, when, the tide being out, and going along the shore, they passed by the cave of Sawney Beane without taking any notice of it as a place of hab? itation, until, some of the blood-hounds running into it and setting up a most hideous barkiDg, howling and yelling, the King and his attendants came back and looked into it; but, seeing nothing .but darkness, they could not tell what to think of it, but, nevertheless, imagnied something more than ordinary by tha blood-hounds making such a noise there' going out of sight and appearing quite unwilling to come out. Torches were sent for, and a great many men ventured into it; though there were several intri? cate turnings and windings in this private recess from mankind, yet they at last came to the apartments of sawney beane, where, to their great surprise, they he held the legs, arms, thighs, hands ana feet of men, women and children hung up like dried beef, and some limbs lying in pickle, a great mass of money, both gold and silver waches, rings, swords, pistols and a great quantity of clothes, both linen and woolen, which they had taken from those they bad murdered. All these thay seized, took what hu? man flesh they found there and buried it in the sands, and brought out Sawney Beane and his murdering family, which, besides himself, consisted of his wife, eight sons, six daughter,* eighteen grand? sons and fourteen granddaughters, begot? ten in incest. They were pinioned and carried to Edinburgh. All the country, as they passed along, flocked in multi? tudes to see this cursed tribe, who were no sooner come to their journey's end than they were put into the Tolboth for one night, whence the next day, being conducted under a strong guard to Leith, the men, without process or any manner of trial, had their hands and legs cut off, by which amputation they bled in some hours to death, all this torture being justly inflicted upon them in sight of the wife, daughters and grandchildren. They were then all burned in three separate fires, all dying, like the men, without re? pentance, but cursing and venting dire imprecations to the last gasp of life. Daylight by Electricity. It is reported that a Boston electrical engineer is about to try the experiment of lighting the large manufacturing centre of Holyoke, Mass., with the elec? tric light in a manner that will strike the Eresent generation as novel, but which as been essayed before, ll is proposed to erect a tower 75 feet high overlooking the town. This is to be surmounted by an immense lantern of such illuminating capacity as to put all previous lamps in the category or trifles. At present only one tower will be erected, but if the prin? ciple should prove a success, seven or eight will ultimately be built, with a view to render the city as light as day and completely to supersede gas and kerosene. The idea of the inventor of this daring scheme is to charge the upper strata of the atmosphere with luminous vibrations in the same manner as is done by the sun, and thus to produce the same effect that is obtained during the day from the reflected, refracted and diffused light of that orb. In this manner it is believed that electric light can be made to permeate spaces which are inaccessible to direct rays by the same law by which daylight diffuses itself?that is, by virtue of an expansive property which is con stnntly illustrated on the large scale of 3olar illumination, but has no place in our text-books on optics. The light given by the solar orb a few minutes after sunset, when only the upper strata of the atmosphere are directly affected by the 3olar beam, furnishes, perhaps, the best example of the diffusion and expansion that our engineer proposes to imitate arti? ficially. His plans provide for an illu? minating power from each lantern equal to 300,000 candles, which is nearly twenty times that of any electric lamp yet man? ufactured, but is not at all impracticable, as it involves only an increase in electri? cal volume and pressure, and a corre? sponding increase in the diameter of the carbons. The cost of the tower, lamp and generator for u single light is esti? mated at ?15,000, irrespective of the en giue-power required to run the latter. Magnificent and original as this concep? tion seems, it has been attempted before, in the infancy of electrical engineering, by a Western experimentalist, who con? ceived the idea of lighting the City of Cincinnati in a similar manner, by placing enormous lights upon the high grouud overlooking the town. This idea was not successful, but possibly the fail? ure was due to the crude electrical en? gineering of that day, not to any inhe? rent difficulty. To say the least, the re? sult of the Holyoke experimeut will be viewed with interest, and if it succeeds Edison must look to his laurels. He was not Eli Perkins.?He was being examined in a Galveston court for trying to pass a counterfeit money. When questioned he said he bad received the questionable ten dollar bill from one of the leading citizens of a neighboring city. "But when you were first arrested you said you picked it up on the corner of Mar? ket street and Galveston avenue." "I believe I did say that. It is a fact, too." "And when you got to the police sta? tion you had received that ten dollar bill as a birth-day present in a letter from your brother, who is a New York alder mai." "Come to think of it, I did say some thing like that. Yes; that was the true sto? ry." "And you told a fellow-prisoner the ten dollar bill in question was given you by a prominent Galveston politician to help elect him to office." "So he did, and promised to give me some more of the same sort to distribute among the colored voters. That's a fact; he has got a whole wallet full of them." "And you told a detective who was locked up with you in the cell that you didn't know how you came by that bill, but you thought that the wind must have blown it into your pocket." "That's the only way I can account for it, Judge. It must have dropped out of a three story window iuto my vest pocket." "I suppose you can reconcile the con? tradictory statements ?" asked the judge, sternly. "There is only one man in the world who can reconcile them statements, Judge and rather than to be taken for him I'll plead guilty." Judge; "Then you are not EH Per? kins. I am glad there is oue mitigating circumstance in your case." "Thank you, Judge."? Galveston News. "Don't Know Half Their Value." ?"They cured me of Ague, Biliousness and Kidney Complaint, as recommended. I had a half bottle left, which I used for my two little girls, who, the doctors and neighbors said, could not be cured. I would have lost both of them one night if I had not given them Hop Bitters. They did them so much good I continued their use until they were cured. That is why I say you do not kuow half the value of Hop Bitters, and do not recommend them high enough."?B., Rochester, N. Y. See other column.?American ihtral Home. ? Democratic legislation has saved nearly $100,000,000 for the country du? ring the past four years. Republican robbery and extravagance wasted nearly $250,000,000 on the navy, alone, during Grant's Presidency, andijere is nothing tj show for it. ? Free Speech in the Sonlh. From the Agricultural (Mich.) World. Dear Sir : Your letter of September 10 arrived at this point in due time, but was not answered earlier because I was away from home. In it you say: "Some farmers and Patrons in Michigan believe that the Southern States are ready for another rebellion ; that the right of free speech is denied to Republicans in the South, and that great outrages are being perpetrated there upon men for their political opinions," and you ask me, arc these things so? Well, to give a flat denial to the three allegations, would not convince those in the North who assert them merely "for political capital;" and to attempt to prove the charges false would be an at? tempt to convince a man against his will. Therefore it seems a futile task to en? deavor to correct these malicious accusa? tions against a people, whose immense annual products should convince the world, that neither rebellion nor political disquietude is at present giving them much concern. What is meant by being "ready for an? other rebellion," I do not exactly com? prehend. If another civil war is meant, the charge is simply ridiculous. I know I speak the sentiments of the entire South when I say we have had quite as much war as these people will want during your life and mine; what future generations may do neither you nor I can tell. I will dismiss this part of the sub? ject with the assertion, that the genuine national conservatism of the country rests to-day in the South, and we are really more anxious for a "Solid Union" than are the people of the North ; we are determined, however, if by our efforts it can be made "solid" it shall be so Demo? cratically. But "the right of free speech is denied to Republicans ;" where and by whom ? Certainly not in South Carolina, nor by the Democrats. Wherever they desired it, the Republicans have had their public meetings?a few seedy scalawags and idle negroes constituting the assemblage. At all such meetings gentlemen desiring peace and harmony between the races here, and a successful development of our resources, have requested to be heard in reply to the Republican speAkers. Wherever consent was given, replies were made; where denied, no further demand was made. The negroes are generally willing for these discussions; the white aspirants always object. The non de script adventurers, eupho? niously styled "carpet baggers," have left our country, and the ignorant, corrupt, miserable scalawags, who joined them in desolating the South from 1868 to 1875 inclusive, have not the power to organize the negroes, simply because the negroes know that for the past four years of Democratic rule they have been unmo? lested and have accumulated property, and are content. For this reason, and this reason alone, we hear very little claim made anywhere for "Republican speech." Republican county, district and State conventions have been held, and let one instance of their actions suffice on this point: The Congressional Convention of the Third South Carolina District, which I now have the honor to represent at Wash? ington, met and nominated as my oppo? nent one General Stoibrand, of jthe Un? ion army in the late war; a man who, during the carpet bag regime, was the keeper of our penitentiary, and who since that collapse has lived?God knows where?a man who does not now live in the State, that I am awaro, and certainly neither pays taxes, owns property, nor lives in this Congressional District; a man whose son was appointed a West Point cadet during the forty-fifth Con? gress by one of our dusky representatives in Congress, but denied admission by a Republican Secretary of War, because his father was a non-resident of South Carolina; a man?well, what is the use to go farther? Do you think the Third South Carolina District will ever submit to such mis-representation? Would Grand Ripids submit to being represented by a man from Chicago? This man Stoibrand claims to live in Washington, D. C. I assure you upon the fraternity of a Patron, all such trumped up charges as this denial of free speech to Republicans in the South, are so utterly false that they would be laughable but for their falsity. But no argument of mine can change the opinion of any Northern mau, whose political views and persuations are not in accord with mine. "Great outrages are being perpetrated upon men for political capital;" perhaps so, but if so I don't know it. About three weeks ago Senator Bayard, of Delaware, attended our State ratification meeting in Columbia. Democrats from all over the State attended the meeting, not only to evince our universal and unanimous approval of the National Democratic ticket, but to hear Mr. Bayard, a man whom our people delight to honor. In the throng on that occasion "red shirt," emblematic of the Republican bloody shirt that Senator Morton used to love so to flaunt in our faces, was quite conspic? uous, and was worn by scores of Demo? cratic negroes. That afternoon a Re? publican mob attacked one or two of these Democratic red shirted negroes, be? cause they rather boastfully asserted their Democracy. One of the Democratic ne? groes was beaten most unmercifully. Beyond this, if there has been a "politi? cal outrage" committed in South Caroli? na since the fall of 187G, when the Dem? ocrats came into power, I have not heard of it. But why write more ? I can convince one in Michigan. I will therefore close by extending to you, and to as many of the most rampant, anti-Southern Repub? licans as will accompany you, an invita? tion to come down amongst us. Come to my house and stay as long as you please, look, learn and act for yourselves, and while you remain here it shall not cost you a dime, and every possible opportu? nity will be afforded you and them to gather all the information you may desire to carry back to Michigan, to lay before your friends, politically or other? wise. This is a delightful country to live in, and we want more inhabitants. Lands are good, climate unexceptionable, water pure, shools abundant, churches everywhere, people kind and industrious, railroads running everywhere, living cheap, and all else that is needed to make up a good home; but we want labor. Can't you send us down some of your surplus laborers ? Send me a family or two of blatant Republicans, if they will work, (such men are generally not indus? trious) and I will give them employment long enough to make them good Demo? crats, or agree to pay all expenses. Very truly and fraternally, D. Wyatt Aikex. Cokesbury, S. C, Sept. 27,1880. ? Not a distilery, brewery, or wine factory in all the State of Maine; all have been summarily suppressed by the law. ? "Never push a man because he's going down the hill." No; far better to bead him off and and kick him until be is glad to streak up that hill again like all creation afire.?Danbury Netvs. 1SG0?1870? 1SS0. What Saiicrintondcnt Walker Has t? any of the Census. Washington, October 9. Secretary Scburz has made public the report of Superintendent Walker, of the census bureau, on the alleged census frauds in South Carolina. After review? ing the statements made by the press, alleging frauds, and the action of the census bureau in investigating the same, Gen. Walker says : "The extraordinary gains reported in certain of the counties of South Carolina and in the State as a whole over the census of 1870, demanded therefore investigation. It was notorious that South Carolina had not profited materially during the ten years since 1870 by immigration cither from foreign countries, or from other States of the Union. With a slight advantage from immigration it was not possible that an old State could have gained in popula? tion in the interval since 1870 to a de? gree which is shown by a comparison of the two censuses. It follows as the con? clusion of the highest authority either that the census of 1870 was grossly de? fective in regard to the whole of the State or some considerable parts thereof, or else that the census of 1S80 was fradu lent. The census of 1870 might have been defective in a high degree, without fradulent intention, through the incom? petence or negligence of the enumera? tors employed; But the census of 1880 could not have exaggerated the popula? tion of the State without absolute fraud, iuasmuch as the census law requires the name of every person reported to be written at length in the schedules with a score of particulars as regards their age, sex, nativity, occupation, &c, so that any illegitimate addition whatever to the schedule must be in the nature of conscious and purposed crime." Gen. Walker then gives his reason for believ? ing the report of 1870 iucorrect, attribut? ing it mainly to the defects of the law under which it was taken, namely, that of 1850, 'and says there was moreover lacking iu 1870 throughout the general region one very important subject of enumeration, viz: public interest in'the result The interest generally manifested throughout the United States in the ninth census was far below that which has been shown the present year, but nowhere did the interest in the work of the census 4all so low as in the States referred to in which political activity under the Constitution of the United States had scarcely revived. No specific allegation of fraud in the enumeration of South Carolina has ever been made to this office. The entire reason for im? peaching the integrity of the recent cen? sus was based on the reported gain of population between 1870 and 1880. The result of the investigation places beyoud possible question by any fair minded man the' entire fault upon the census of 1870. I know of no reason therefore why any further charge should be made against the enumeration recently brought to a conclusion by the commissioned and sworn officers of the government in South Carolina. The presumption which existed against that work has been completely overthrown and a strong counter presumption has been created by verification upon the ground of sched? ules of the inhabitant in the cases of eighteen enumeration districts succes? sively taken for special investigation on account of their exceptionably question? able character. Gen. Walker closes with a consideration of the objection urged against the rea? sonableness of the result of the census of 1880, derived from a comparison of the ratio of increase of population in South Carolina between the years 1820, I860 and 1880. After stating that the popu? lation of the State increased 41 per cent, during the first mentioned period of forty years and 41 per cent., or the same per centage between 1860 and 1880, a peric' of only twenty years, he says: "Such a comparison, however, is not fair w:*hout reference to certain general causes operating. During the two peri? ods from 1820 lo 1860 South Carolina was a behive, from which swarms were continually going forth to populate the newer cotton growing States of the Southwest. Between 1820 and 1830, immense tracts of fertile lands belonging to the Creeks and Cherokees in Ge~"<ria were ceded to the United States u were largely occupied by South Carolini? ans. Later in the period an active emigra? tion of whites from South Carolina sprang up aud was maintained in favor of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, while South Carolina negroes were sola in great numbers to cultivate the cotton, rice and sugar fields of those States. Still later the annexation of Texas made further drafts upon the population of South Carolina. With reference to immigration from the State between the years 1860 and 1880, the report concludes as follows: We do not know fully what effects the destruction of slavery and the vast change resulting in the conditions of labor have produced upon the emigrat? ing propensities of the people of South Carolina. We do know that the negroes are no longer sold South to cultivate the lands of Yazoo, Red River and Brazos. It is reasonable to suppose that concur? ring causes may have checked in an equal degree the outward movement of the white population. A comparison of "free" natives of South Carolina living in other States iu 1860 with white natives of South Carolina living in such States in 1870 shows the number to have been respectively 193,389 and 148,574, a re? duction of 45,000 in ten years, between I860 and 1870. ?Frederick Douglass, the well-known colored Republican, has published a let? ter, in which ho says that during his visit to North Carolina last week he saw and beard enough to convince him that the impression in the North that there is a conflict between the races in the South is wrong. He says that he was extremely pleased with his reception in Raleigh, and made hopeful of the future of his race in that State by the kind and friendly words he heard from Governor Jarvis on the occasion of the colored people there assembled, and he hails it as a sign of the coming time whan there will be perfect peace and concord between the different races and colors of the whole South. ?Was it reason or only brute instinct? The engineer of a train near Montreal saw a large dog on the track. He was barking furiously. The engineer blew the whistle at him, but he did not stir, and crouching low, he was struck by the locomotive, and it attracted the attention of the engineer, who stopped his train and went back.jjaiTherc lay the dead dog and a dead child, which had wandered upon the track and gone to sleep. The dog had given his Bignal to stop the train and had died at his post. ? An army of worms, gnawing, gnaw? ing, night and day, eating the vitals away, is frequently the cause of convulsions and fits. Shriner's Indian Vermifuge is the remedy. ^ j INCIDENT OF WESTERN LIFE. The Four llullwhackers of Bitter Creek. Perhaps every person ?vho is somewhat advanced in life can remember some in? cident of his early years which he would really like to forget?something that re suited from the freshness and vast inex? perience of youth. I remember one which I have spent, a good deal of time trying to forget. Just before the Union Pacific Railroad reached the Bitter Creek country I made my first overland trip to the Pacific coast. I staged it from the then terminus of the Union Pacific to the Central Pacific, which was pushing East. The stage broke down on Bitter Creek, and the passengers had to walk to the next station. I grew tired of walk? ing before I reached the station, and coming, late in the afternoon, to where some teamsters were encamped, I con? cluded to stop with them for the night. On asking their permission to do so tbey assented so heartily that I felt at home at once. Life in the West was something new to me. I was young and buoyant, and just out of college. I was fond of talking. I thought it would be novel and delightful to sleep out with these half savage ox-drivers, with no shelter but the vaulted, star gemmed heavens. There were four teamsters, and as many wagons, while thirty-two oxen grazed around in the vicinity. Of the teamsters, one was a giant in stature, and wore a bushy black beard; another was shorter, but powerfully built, and one eyed ; the third was tall, lank and hame jawed; while the fourth was a wiry, red? headed man. In my thoughts I pitied them, on account of the hard life they led, and spoke to them in a kind tone, and endeavored to make my conversation instructive. I plucked a flower, and, pulling it to pieces, mentioned the names of the parts?pistil, stamens, calyx and so on?and remarked that it must be in? digenous to the locality, and spoke of the plant being endogenous, in contradis? tinction to exogenous, and that they could see that it was not cryptogamous. In looking at some fragments of rock, my thoughts wandered off into geology, and, among other things, I spoke of the tertiary and carboniferous periods, and of the pterodactyl, ichthyosaurus and dino therium. The teamsters looked at me, then at each other, but made no response. We squatted down around the frying-pan to take supper, and as the big fellow, with his right hand, slapped or sort of larruped, a long piece of fried bacon, over a piece of bread in his left hand, sending a drop of hot grease into my left eye, he said to the one-eyed man: "Bill, is my copy of Shakspeare in yo' wagon ? I missed it to-day." "No. My Tennerson and volura' of the Italian poets is in thar?no Shak? speare." The lank looking teamster, biting off a piece of bread about the size of a saucer, said to the big man, in a voice which came huskily through the bread, "Jake, did yer ever read that volum' of po'ms that I writ?" "No, but hev often beam tell on 'em." "Yer mean 'Musin's of an Idle Man,'" spoke up the red-headed man, addressing the poet. "Yes." "Hev read every line in it a dozen timos," said the teamster with the red hair; and as he sopped a four-inch swath, with a piece of bread, across a frying pan, he repeated some lines. "Them's they," nodded the poet. "The Emp'ror of Austry writ me a letter high? ly coraplimentin' them po'ms." "They're very techin'," added the wiry man. I took no part in these remarks. Some? how I did not feel iike joining in. The wiry man, having somewhat satis? fied his appetite, rolled up a piece of bacon rind into a sort of single-barreled opera-glass, and began to squint through it toward the Northern horizon. "What yer doin', Dave?" asked the stout man. "Takin' observations on the North star. Want to make some astronomical calki lations when I get inter Sackrymenter." "Well, yer needn't ter made that tele? scope. I could er tuk yo' observations for yer, bein' as I haint but one eye." "Git out thar, yer darned old carbon? iferous pterodactyl," yelled the hame-1 jawed driver to an ox that was licking a piece of bacon. "I give a good deal of my time to 'stronomy when I was in Yoorup," re remarked the tall man. "Over thar long?" asked one. "Good while. Was minister to Rooshy. Then I spent some time down to Rome." "Rome I" exclaimed the lank individ? ual. "Was born thar. My father was a sculptor." "Good sculptor?" "Yes." "Well, one wouldn't er thought it, to look at yer." "I never was in Yoorup," remarked the one-eyed man. "When I ocypied the cheer of ancient languages in Har? vard College my health failed, and the fellers that had me hired wanted me ter go ter Yoorup for an out, but I concluded to come West ter look?Hold up thar, yer infernal ole flea-bitten ichthy'sau rus," he bawled to an ox that was chew? ing a wagon-cover. 1 felt hot and feverish, and a long way from home. "I got ready once ter go to Rome wanted to complete my studies thar?but give it up," said the one called Dave. "What for?" "They wanted me ter run for guv'uer in Virginny." "Yer beat 'em?" "Thunder, yes." "Why didn't yer stay thar?" "Well, when my job as guv'ner give out they 'lected me 'Piacopal Bishop, an' I hurt my lungs prcachin'. Come West for my lungs." "Found 'em ?" "Well, I'm improvin'." I did not rest well that night. As day came on, and the men began to turn over in tbeir blankets and yawn, the tall one said: "Hello, Bill. How yer makin' it ?" "Oh, I'm indigeuous." "An' Dave?" "I'm endogenous." "An' vou, Lanky, yer son of a sculp? tor?" ?'Exogenous." "How you feel, Jake?" inquired one of the three who had responded. "Cryptogamous, sir, cryptogamous." I walked out a few steps to a little stream to get a drink. I felt thirsty and I ached. Then I heard a voice from the blankets: "Wonder if them durned ole dinother' ums of ourn are clone grazin'." Then a reply: "I guess they've got to the tertiary pe? riod." I walked a little piece on the road to breathe the morning air. I kept on.?Loch Mahne, in October Cali/ornian. ? Children naturally love the truth. The four-year-old will tell in the presence of company that his first trousers are a pair of his dad's cut down. ? There are 170 colleges in the United States where both sexes are admitted as students. The Gentleman Clown, The man who rode at the head of the circus procession yesterday morning, on the white horse was John Lowlow, one of the most noted clown in the country. He is Southern born and bred, and has a great many personal friends South of Mason and Dixou's line. The fact that he was once a student at the University of North Carolina, is, wo believe, gener? ally known. In the absence of the Rob? inson brothers he is boss of the show and in this capacity a reporter met him yes? terday just before the performance began. He is exceedingly quiet and gentlemanly in Iiis manners but brim full of humor which occasionally lights up his face like a sunbeam. How did you get into this business any how ? Mr. Lowlow was asked. Well, you see there was five of us boys in Savannah?that's where I was born ?and they couldn't do any thing with us. At last the old folks concluded to send us up to Chapel Hill?in the woods, but the woods couldn't hold us. We ran away from the University and walked all the way from the University to High Point where we took the train. We weren't going any where in particular, and when we got down in South Caroli? na we struck the circus. I concluded to travel with them, but the rest couldn't stand if. Fstill, the present editor of the Savannah Morning, News, was one of the gang. He left us at Charleston and went home. He is still the editor and I'm still in the show business. That was in 1856. Rough sort of life, isn't it? May be it is, but I'm used to it. Wo get plenty of sleep and work about four hours a day. I got married up in New York a good many years ago and my wife's people got after me to quit the show business and go into something more respectable. Well, I did. I had saved up between $14,000 and $15,000 dollars, and I put it into the merchants business. It took me just a year to get iway with it all. I thought I had bet? ter go back to something I was used to, ind I have been with the show ever since. Yes, continued the clown, I like it, of :ourse. Then, I couldn't do better at inything else. I have a nice home in Cleveland, O., one of the prettiest of towns in the United States, and try to live like a gentleman when I'm there. We ire generally on the road about eight month in the year, and they pay me $150 i week and all expenses. That's enough to live on. Don't your local hits sometimes get vou into trouble? Very rarely. Once, out West, a fel? low ran into the ring at mo with a lont knife. I dropped on my knees this way (clasping his hands like a man in prayer) md said you wouldn't kill a fool, would you? The people here would :hink you were the biggest fool of the two. He looked down at me a minute and then said, I believe you ure a damn fool, and walked away. But I don't have much of that sort of ,hing. But the band's playing and I must jet out of these clothes. Come again.? Charlotte Observer. The First Marriage. "Morning without a cloud; amos phere without a chill; foliage without i crumpled leaf; meadows without a thorn ; tit morning for the world's first wedding. It shall be in the church, the great temple of a world, sky-domed, mountain pillared, sapphire-roofed. The sparkling waters of Gibon and Hiddekel, rivers of Eden, will make the font of the temple. Larks, robins and goldfinches, birds of Paradise, will chant the wedding march. Violet, lily aDd rose burning incense in the morning sun. Luxuriant vines sweeping their long trails through the forest aisle, upholstery of a spring morning. Wild beasts stand? ing outside the circle looking on, like family servants from the back door gaz? ing upon the nuptials. The eagle, king of insects; the lion, king of beasts, wait? ing. Carpet of grass like ? emerald spread by God's own hand for the first bridal party to walk on. "Hum of excitement, as there always is, before a nuptial ceremony. Gross blades and leaves whispering, and the birds a chatter, each one to his mate. Hush all the winds, hush all the birds, hush the voices of the waters, for the king of the human race advances with his bride, a perfect man leading to the altar a perfect woman. God, her father, gives away the bride, and angels are the wit? nesses, and tears of morning dew stand in the eyes of the violets, and Adam takes the round, soft hand that had never been soiled or hardened with work, or stung with pain, into his own stout grasp as he says, 'this is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.' "Tumults of joy break forth, and all the trees of the wood clap their hands, and all the galleries of the forest sound with carol and chirp and chant, and the circle of Edenic happiness is complete; for while every quail hath answering quail, aud every fish answering fish, and every beast of the forest appropriate companions, at last man, the immortal, has for his mate, woman, the immortal. Married on the second Tuesday morning in May, in the year one, Adam, the first man, to Eve, the first woman, high heaven officiating. No cards."?De Witt Tahnage. Association of Old Maids.?The Old Maids' Asssociation, of Geauga coun? ty, Ohio, had a picnic on the lake recently and mustered eighty-six souls. This so? ciety was an outgrowth of the hours, and was organized in 1862 by a bevy of young ladies whose brothers and sweethearts were fighting for their country and left them without the resource of male escort, ex? cept the laggards who remained at home. Unwilling to accept the gal? lantry of these young ladies preferred to depend upon themselves, and formed the association mentioned. Out of revenge the gallants dubbed these independent damsels, "Old Maids," and they accept? ed the cognomen and make it their own. A humorous constitution and by-laws were drafted by Mrs. C. E. Henry, then a single young lady, and oneof the found? ers of the institution. Man was declared the "common enemy," and one of the chief objects of the society was a contin? ued war against his advances. He was religiously excluded from all meetings, and a special clause of the by-laws said that any member who should marry should be fined one hundred big copper cents aud should be branded with tar on the soles of her feet, "U. D. I." meaning "up and done it." The beautiful consis? tency of woman's nature will be appreci? ated when it is known that every one of the charter members and nearly all of eligible age since are married.?New York ! Tribune. ? The census shows that the*popula tion of Florida has increased 45 per cent. I: is 271,764, of whom 143,821 are whites. ? Work on the Hudson River Tunnel, for the recovery of the dead who were entombed on the 21st of July last, is still going on.