The tribune. (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, February 03, 1875, Image 1
THE TRIBUNE.
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"VOL. I.?NO. 11. BEAUFORT, S. C., FEBRUARY 3. 1875. $2.00 PER ANNUM.
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Come To ]#e!
Come to mo!
Come to me in tbv brightness and sweetness,
Come to mo in thy spirit's completeness,
, Come on the wings of love's magical floetncss,
My heart longs for thee
Come to me!
Come when my feelings are solemn and prayerful,
Come when my heart is weary and careful.
Come when my eyes with sadness are tearful,
My soul yearns for thoe.
Come to me!
Como when the morning in brightness emerges,
Come when the noontide with ardency urges,
Come when tho night-billow solemnly surges,
My being calls for thee.
Come to mo!
Oh, haste in thy coming?oh, darling one,
qnicken,
Oh, oomo to this broast with caro sadly stricken,
I wait for thy coming?1 languish and sicken
For soro need of thee.
Come to mo!
Though time divide, thongh distance dissever,
Soul may meet soul in loving endeavor ;
Come to me, come to me, now and forever?
I'm waiting for thee.
Come to mo!
Let mo but fool thy true arms around me,
My soul shall know peace that seldom hath
found me,
No peril shall chill, no sorrow shall wound mo
Loaning on thee.
A JURYMAN'S STORY.
Wc had been out of oourt twenty-four
hours, and stood eleven to one. The
case was a very plain one?at least, we
eleven thought so. A murder of peculiar
atrocity had been committed ; and
though nd eye had witnessed the deed,
circumstances pointed to the prisoner's
guilt with unfailing certainty.
The recusant juror had stood out
from the first. He Acknowledged the
cogency of the proofs, confessed his inability
to reconcile the facts with the
defendant's innocence, and yet, on every
vote, went steadily for acquittal. His
conduct was inexplicable. It could not
result from a lack of intelligence; for,
wliilo he spoke but little, his words were
well chosen, and evinced a thorough understanding
of the case.
Though still in the prime of manhood,
his locks wore prematurely white and
his face wore a singularly sad and
thoughtful expression. " He might be
one of those who entertained scruples as
to the right of society to inflict the
death nenaltv. "Rut. tin it woo nr?t Mint
for, in reply to such a suggestion, he
frankly admitted that brutal men, like
the vicious brutes they resemble, must
be controlled through fear, and that
dread of death, tha supreme terror^ is,
in many cases, the only adequate restraint.
At the prospect of another night of
fruitless imprisonment we began to grow
impatient, aud expostulated warmly
against what seemed on unreasonable
captiousness; and some not over kind
remarks were indulged in as to the impropriety
of trifling with an oath like
tliat under which wo were acting.
And yet," the man answered, as
though communing with himself, rather
than repelling the imputation, "it is
conscience that hinders mv concurrence
in a verdict approved by my judgment."
" How can that be ?" queried several
at once.
" Conscience may not always dare to
follow judgment."
" But here she can know no other
guide."
" I once would have said the same."
* And xrlmf lina n^onivnil
?..v? *??? > mmn^vu JUIU uplll"
ion."
44 Experience!"
The speaker's manner was visibly agitated,
and we waited in silence tbo explanation
which he scsmed ready to
give. Mastering his emotion, as if in
answer to our looks of inquiry, ho continued
:
44 Twenty years ago, I was a young
man just beginning life. Few had
brighter hopes. An attachment, dating
from childhood, had ripened with its object.
There hod been no verbal declaration
and acceptance of love?no formal
plighting of troth ; but when I toon my
departure to seek n homo in the distant!
West, it was a thing understood, that J
when I had found it and put it iu order, I
she was to share it. Life in tho forest,
though solitary, is not necessarily lonesome.
The kind of society afforded by
nature, depends much on one's self. As
for me, I lived more in the future than
in tho present, and hope is an evercheerful
companion. At length tho timo
came Tor making the final payment on
the homo which I had bought. It would
henceforward bo my own ; and in a fow
more months, my simplo dwelling, which
I had spared no pains to render inviting,
would l>e graced by its mistress.
"At the land-office, which was some
sixty miles olT, I mot my old friend,
V> . He, too, had come to seek u
fortune in the West ; and we were both j i
delighted at the meeting. He had j i
brought with him, he said, a sum of j <
money which he desired to iuvest in j
land, on which it was his purpose to |
settle. I expressed a strong desire to i
have liim for a neighbor, and gave him <
a cordial invitation to accompany me
home, giving it as my belief that he i
could nowhere make a better selection
than in that vicinity. He readily consented,
and we set out together. We .
had not ridden many milos, when George '
suddenly recollected a commission he <
had undertaken for ft friend, which i
would require his attendance at a public 1
land sale on the following day. Exact- j
ing a promise that he would not delay i
his visit longer than necessary, and
r'ving minute directions as to the route, j
continued my way homeward, while j
ho turned back. \
" I was about retiring to bed on the i
night of my return, when a summons j
from without called me to the door. A 1
stranger asked shelter for himself and ]
his horse for the night. I invited him i
in. Thtmgh a stranger, his face seemed 1
net unfamiliar. He was probably one of 1
the men I had seen at tho land-offioe?a '
8lace, at that time, much frequented, i
ffering him a seat, I went to see his ]
horse. The poor animal, as well as I i
could see by the dim starlight, seemed i
to have been hardly used His panting <
sides bore witness of merciless riding; !
and a tremulous shrinking, at the 1
slightest touch, betokened recent fright. 1
On re-entering the house, I found the l
stranger was not there. His absence ex- ]
cited no surprise; he would doubtless soon 1
return, jli was a little singular, however, <
that ho should have left his watch lying ]
on tho table.
" At the end of half an hour, my guest i
not returning, I went again to the stable, j
thinking he might have found his way i
thither to fjivo personal attention to the <
wants of his horse. Before going out, j
from mere force of habit?for we were as ]
yet uninfested by either thieves or 1
policemen?I took the precaution of put- <
ting the stranger's watch in a drawer in t
which I kept my own valuables. I found j
the horse as I hod left him, and gave \
him the "food which ho was now suf- I
flciently cooled to be allowed to eat; but <
his master was nowhere to be seen, j
As I approached the house, a crowd of <
men on horseback dashed up, and I was
commanded, in no gentle tones, to j
' stand !' In another moment I was in <
the clutches of those who claimed mo as i
their 'prisoner.'
" I was too much stupefied at first to ]
ask what it all meant. I did so at last, i
and the explanation come?it was terri- i
ble ! My friend, with whom I had so
lately set out in company, had been
found murdered and robbed near the
spot at which I, but I alone, knew wo
had separated. I was the last person
known to be with him, and I was now '
arrested on suspicion of his murder. A
search of the premises was immediately
instituted. Trie watch was found in tho
drawer in which I had placed it, and was
identified as the property of the murdered
man. His horse, too, was found
in my stable, for the animal I had just
Eut there was none other, I recognized
im myself when I saw him in the light.
What I said, I know not. My confusion
was taken as additional evidence. \nd
when, at length, I did command lanCliarre
to civft an intpllicanf oliiffimonf
ii was received with sneers of in- '
credulity.
" The mob spirit is inherent in man? (
at least, in crowds of men. It may not
always manifest itself in physical vio- ,
lence. It sometimns contents itself ,
with lynching a oliaracter. But what- ]
ever its form, it is always relentless, piti
less, cruel. ~ j
" As the proofs of my guilt, one after |
another, came to light, low muttcrings (
gradually grew into a clamor for ven- (
geance; and but for the firmness of one ,
man?the officer who had me in charge
?I would doubtless .have paid the penalty
of my supposed offense on the spot.
It was not sympathy for me that actnated
my protector. His heart was as
hard as ms office; but he represented the
majesty of the law, and took a sort of '
pride in the position. As much under
the glance of his eye as before the muzzle
of his pistol, the cowardly clamorers
urew ujick. .remaps tney were not I
sufficiently numerous to feel the full I
effect of tliut mysterious reflex influence 1
which makes a crowd oi men so much 1
worsti, ami at times so much better, than t
any one of them singly. i
" At the end of some months my trial <
came. It could havo but one result. I
Circumstances too plainly declared my <
guilt. I alone knew they lied. The I
absence of the jury was very brief. To I
their verdict I paid but little heed. It ]
was a single hideous word; but I luul
long anticipated it, and it made no im- ]
gression. As little, impression was. made |
y the words of the judge which follow- ]
ed it; and his solemn invocation that \
God might havo that mercy upon me I
which man was too just to vouchsafe, I
sounded like the liollowest of hollow j
mockerios. It may be hard for the con- |
demned criminal to meet death ; it is
still harder for him who is innocent. I ]
The one, when the first shock is over, f <
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acquiesces in lii* doom, and gives him- J
Bolf to repentance ; the heart of the
other, filled with rebellion against man's : 1
injustice, can scarce bring itself to ask 1
pardon of God. I had gradually over- |
como this feeling, in spite of the good li
clergyman's irritating efforts, which were j f
mainly directed towards extracting a r
confession, without which, he assured j (j
me, ho liad no hope to offer. j c
'' On the morning of tho day fixed for t
my execution, I felt measurably resigned, t
I had so long stood face to face with g
death, had so accustomed myself to look r
upon it as merely a momentary pang, rJ
that I no longer felt solicitous save that r
my memory should one day be vimli- c
Dated. She for whom I had gone to t
prepare a home, had already found one n
in llPftVPn Tlin mw on 1?-?*v-? ! k-rr l
?. U.UUUIII U
had broken her heart, She alone, of all fc
the world, believed me innocent; and n
she had died with a prayer upon her ?
Lips, that the truth might yet be brought ?
to light. All this I had heard, and it b
had soothed as with sweet incense my p
troubled spirit Death, however un- 1
welcome the shape, was now a portal, ti
beyond which L could see one angel d
waiting to receive me. I heard the a
round of approaching footsteps, and* tl
nerved myself to meet the expected f<
summons. The door cf my cell opened, s
Mid the sheriff and his attendants ?
antered. Ho held in his hand a paper, tl
It was doubtless my death-warrant. He 1
began to read it. My thought were tl
busied elsewhere. The words ' full and g
free pardon * wore the first to strike my p
preoccupied senses. They affected the
bystanders more than myself. Yet so it ?
was: I was pardoned for an offense I $
bad never committed ! g
44 Tlio real culprit, none other, it is ?
needless to say, than he who had sought p
ind abused my hospitality, had been b<
mortally wounded in a recent affray in ft J
listant city, but had lived long enough ?1
kb make a disclosure, which had been o
laid before the governor barely in time
to save me from a shameful death, and d
rondemn me to a cheerless and burden- w
romc life. This is my experience. My d
judgment, as yours, in tlio caso before d
us, leads to but one conclusion, that of bi
the prisoner's guilt; but not less confi- gi
lent and apparently unerring was the fi
judgment that falsely pronounced my Y
}wn." , o
We no longer importuned our fellow- b
juror, but patiently awaited our dis- o
charge, on tho ground of inability to ?
igree, which came at last. s:
The prisoner was tried and convicted n
it a subsequent term, and at the last h
moment confessed his crime on the
scaffold. A
The Other Daughter. n
During the war of the Revolution, "
while the British occupied the city of "
New York, an English officer of rank ?
?ave an entertainment to which several ri
American officers, who were prisoners, ?
were invited. Among them was Colonel
John Lowry, of Concord, a man emi- ?
lently distinguished for his bravery, and
for lus many good qualities of head and j *
lean, dui uncouin 111 speecii, unrefined r
in manners, and not at all versed in the 1
polished ways of society. He liod been 81
i sailor in other years, and the stamp of v
the sea was still upon him. The English ?
ifflcer who was host of the festive occn- ji
don had two grown-up daughters?one J:
5f them distinguished for her exceeding .
ind faultless beauty, while the other was "
not only quite plain, but had a glaring
defect in one of her eyes.
After the removal of the cloth many r'
sentiments were drank, rfud among them u
several highly complimentary to the ?
beautiful daughter of " Our Host." Col. fj
Lowery, with that chivalrous devotion to
the fair sex which is characteristic of ?
truly bravo men, feeling that the other 11
daughter liail lieen sadly neglected, when TJ
sailed upon 4>y the host, gave as his ?
sentiment?
' * Your daughter, sir." 11
" Which one ?" asked tho parent.
" The one with the cock-billed eye, P
rir /" c
Well-meaning and gallant, but very 11
plain-spoken.
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Taking Account of Stock. t<
The New York Times, referring to c
the fact that merchants are now busy tj
taking stock to iliscovor their assets, and ( E
balance their books for tho year, re- j w
narks : " Tho probability is that the ' A
itock-accounting this January will show i p
> crn*nf. iln/?v.?oan iii lli. .inMi.iiif ^? t
V ..v vtwvAVHOW All WHO (llliUUIlU U? ^WWUH j I'
>n hand in the city. In the country, li
too, stocks are generally light. This re- : ii
iuction of stocks throughout the coun- ; h:
try, the stoppage or diminished working tl
time of the manufactories, and the dis- ol
posal of the stocks in the hands of New 1
iTork merchants, have brought the mar- i &
ket into a healthful condition, and pre- j ul
pared it for rapid improvement in all its j p
branches when renewed activity springs ii
rap. This is a view of the situation that ;
the business man has the best of ground tl
for takinc. anil from which lm m? rrnfhr...
justifiable) hope for the futuro, even o]
though his balance sheet for the year i ci
1874 does not sliow that largo sum of 01
profit which it had displayed ou pre- o1
rious Januarys. I st
MANUFACTURING INTERESTS.
low Tlicy Appeared to nn Editor?Tlio
Prospects Ahead.
There are indications that some of our
argest manufacturing interests begin to
eel the relief of getting down to liard>an,
says the Springfield Jtcjmblican.
liero is great difficulty in securing a
ontinuation of the agreements to curoil
production. Those industries, paricularly,
which have reduced wages bein
to feel themselves in accord with the
educed scale of profits and production,
lie paper manufacture is no longer enried
on at a dead loss, at least, and the
otton mills are generally resuming full
ime, with reductions in wages. The
aarket for cotton goods has been reieved
of the surplus and, in general, the
extilo markets arc not overstocked with
lanufactures. During the year, raw
otton has fallen llj percent, in price,and
lie manufactured article quite as much;
>rown smseting, for instance, 12 J per cent.,
irints five or six per cent., and denims
2J. Both the manufacturing and the
rading interest have weathered the
.otible embarrassment of a dull year and
great cotton crop successfully. Neverlieless,
it is not to our credit that
areign nations should still bo able to
apply us with $23,239,000 worth of
otton goods, as they have the past year,
hrough the port of Now York alone.
*liis is a reduction of $5,400,000 from
lie importation of the same class of
oods two years ago. Again, our exortation
of cotton goods is nothing to
'hat it may become under fair financial
onditions. All told, it amounts to only
3,000,000, and a very small share of this
oes to the rest of America. Wo buy !
80,000,000 worth of sugar and tropical
rodnets from Cuba, for instance, and
all her only $63,000 worth of cottons.
Tow, it is evident that every breech- j
lout and shirt in the American tropics j
ught to come off from our looms.
Improvement in manufacture is most
iscerniblo in woolens, although the
oolen manufacturers claim to be more
epressed than the cotton. American
ress goods and cloths are gradually
aperseding the foreign. American
Iks, too, are received with increasing
ivor. The importation of silks at New
ork for the past two years has fallen off
ne-fourtli in value, and not, we suspect,
l amomit, as the reduction in the price
f silks must have sustained the total
onsumption, if not increased it: It is
iugidar injustice, by the way, that this
lost serviceable of all fabrics should be
abitually denominated as " gew-gaws."
One of the most striking features of
imerican manufactures at tliis moment
i the rapidity of their western developlent.
The prosperity of the West durag
the past year has greatly aided that
evelopment. The Chicago Tribune
lairns that nearly the entire bulk of the
eady-made clothing sold in that city,
mounting for the post year to $12,000,00
wholesale, is made up in that city
nd employs from 3,000 to 5,000 hands.
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no vaiicugo manors coniorm tiie cliarcter
of the clothing to the climate of
lie consumer, whether it be Michigan or
'exas, wliile eastern makers attempt to
trike an average, they say. The tirst
'estern felt-liat factory lias just been 1
pencil at Chicago. Nearly all tho men's i
eavy wear of boots and shoes sold in
lliieago are now manufactured there. ;
'his business has grown fully one-third !
1 the past year, and competition with |
lie East has been greatly aided by a reliction
of 15 per cent, in wages. Tho
eputation of St. Joseph-made boots is
ot second on tho plains to thoso from
ny quarter. The boot and shoe manuvcture
is likely to tend westward, where
lie hides aro and whero the leather will
ltimately be tanned. A great cluster of
on industries has gathered at Chicago,
rlll/lll llOTTA ? ?
1UVII unvo piUUUUCU} mm JKWt y t'llT}
29,7'27,000 worth of goods, against
32,100,000 in 1873, the reduction being j
i the price rather than in the quantity
f the goods manufactured. Farm im- !
lenient,s and wagons show a great iurease,
but carriages, which are of the
ature of luxuries, a falling off; 15,000
capers have been mode, an increase of
ne-third, which is attributed to the
Inglish demand for American machines
) take the place of the striking agri- !
nltural laborers. This is a curious con- j
foversy of private interests, that the ,
'.nglisli farm-hand, striking for higher
ages and threatening to immigrate to i
merica, should bo beaten out of his
osition by American reapers and other
roduct3 of Yankee ingenuity. We shall
nally corner poor Hodge, and make him
emigrate to us or starve. This theory
as sorno contirmat ion in tin returns of
us bureau of statistics, which show that
f the $3,310,000 worth of agricultural
nplements scut abroad, last year, I
171,000 went to England; $1,353,000
so went to Germany, doubtless dislacing
some of the countless German ,
nmicrrants to this eonntrv.
The wide geographical distribution of
?o few manufactured goods which we
sport indicates that the whole world is
pen to us, when we lmve reformed our
irrency and moderated and simplified
iir tan IT, ho that it will not defeat its '
tvn object. To give a few additional induces
: 1*083 railroad cars went abroad, '
i last year, averaging about ?1,500 each in
1 value, some of them going to England
and Germany, many of them to the
Dominion, and 28G to Chili; of the ?17,700,000
of iron and steel goods, England
took SI,'250,000, two-thirds of which
j was steel, while Germany took about
; the same amount, two-thirds iron, and
nearly every country in the world took
some; $1,500,000 worth of sewing ran!
chines is not included in the above, half
i of which went to England and Germany.
I We believe that without any legislation
to foster special interests, but simply by
our return to a sound currency, healthy
, industrial conditions and honest admirt.
istration, we shall be ablo to extend the
sphere of our international trado vastly,
i On the other hand, England is now in
the depths of a coal and iron depression
quite as great an that in America. Men
! are left out of employment by the hundred,
though in some cases, by returning
to ten hours a day and submitting to
great reductions in wagei, works are
kept open. At Sheffield this state of
affairs is attributed to continental com
pennon ana tlie introduction of msi
chinery, as well as to the failure of the
American market. The liammer-mcn,
for instance, employed in the manufaen
ture ?f iron rails, have been dispensed
with by the introduction of machinery.
The labor straits in South Wales and the
north of England were not exaggerated
by us in anticipating them, the other
day, and at last accounts there was little
prospect of a settlement.
i
Taking a Cold.
i Tliis is the season for taking cold?first
a few snapping cold days, then a long
spell of damp, foggy weather, so mild
tliat winter garments feel oppressive,
and yet one does not dare to tako them
off. When some unfortunate sits with
throbbing brow, stuffed head, sore
throat, and a vexatious little cough, ,
when alternate chills and fever fits rim
over his whole body, and he feels
" most miserable," if anything in the <
world can interest him. it is the flood of i
remedies suggested by sympathizing
friends, or tlio "certain cure for colds
which meets the eye in almost every
newspaper of the day. Pages would not ?
, bo sufficient even to give a brief-mention ^
of all these remedies?allopathic, homeo
patliic, hydropathic ? for a " cold" is
one of the most common as well as one
of the most uncomfortable of the ills to
which flesh is heir. Not long ago we
read somewhere an article on " How to
avoid taking cold"?a practical point
W1 1 i A- ?
ITIULU OC1JHFUUJ WUIU1I lltvl! to unuerstand
for Ills own personal comfort.
Tlie general idea advanced was tliat ,
when tho body is at its prime, with
youth, vigor, purity of blood, and a
good constitution on its aide, no ordinary
exposure will cause any unpleasant
effects; indeed, ordinary precautions
against colds may bo disregarded without
danger. But when the blood is impure,
the body disordered, and the vigor
of lift; begins to wane, then colds will be
developed ofteu upon the slightest provocation
and without any known exposure.
It frequently seems as though no
degree of care will prevent a person with
a feeble constitution from '' taking
cold," as it is termed. To be secure
from this evil the vital processes must be
strong and in healthy action. Consequently
the best way to avoid taking
cold is to build up a good constitution
by obeying all the laws of health. Those
who are permanently and incurably weak
and feeble must doubtless submit to
their fate. They must carefully guard
against exposures?and even then will
doubtless be afflicted with "colds."
A Swiss Washerwoman.
To a smoke-stained Londoner tlio exqmsite
purity of the homespun Swiss
linen is a constant wonder ami reproach.
And yet scarcely a wonder, if he chance
to sit by the lake side, say at Brieuz, on
a sunny morning, and watch the proceedings
<5f the little Swiss maiden in
straw hut and block velvet bodice with
the silver chains, who is plying her occupation
of laundress. She had paddled
her boat far out into the lake anil is letting
it drift with the current. In the
boat beside-her is a pile of freshly-w .shed
linen, glistening like snoy in the . \rulight.
But its whiteness does not i t"iit
her. As the boat moves i rl t
along, each separate piece of lint i; .. ?
thrown into tjio lake ami trailed slo ,y
through the blue water, blue as i -r
puintad. Still she is not tpiite sutisfi d.
She take : perhaps three or four handkerchief*
iu her li:uid at a time, and
literally throws them overboard iu such
a manner that the speetotor on the bank
emmet but breathe n fervent. hope that
they may not, 1 >?? his own properly. Tint
before he has time to frame his wishes
into words slio bns vauglit them sign in
with a dexterous sort of Icyerdcnutin,
ami the process is repeated again and
again. And all the while the black velvet
bodieed maiden, with the glittering
silver chains and pins, showy sleeves and
round, white arms, if she be a true
Brienz maiden, is singing like a very
nightingale.