The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, February 13, 1868, Image 2
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Horrible Situation of Two
Children?Almost the Fate of
Ginerva.?Every reader remembers
the ancient Venetian legend?best j
told in Roger's poem " Ginerva"?of |
the bmle who playtuity nm away j
from her lord on the wedding day {
in an old oaken chest. It closed with j
a spring, and she was thus entombed j
alive: her mourning friends and inconsolable
lord never saw her face
again, and he,
"Weary of life.
Flung it away in buttle with the Turk."
Years afterwards, when the bride's
mysterious disappearance was almost j
a forgotten talc, the discovery of a
few mouldering bones arid ashes in
the fatal chest, with long locks of faded
hair, and rings, and wedding trinkets,
revealed the sad story of the
doom that had suddenly snatched her
???" {V.m lcinninpss. lirrlit. and life.
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Precisely such a fate two little child- j
ren of a well known family in this j
city narrowly escaped on Wednesday
last. They were at play in a yard
near the dwelling, where a number of
boxes and other things had been
placed, among which was a very large
chest with a hasp on the outside, clo- |
sing down over a staple so as to be j
secured in the old style with a pad- i
lock.
In their play the children?a boy
of eight and his sister of six years?
got into the chest, and the lid, which
was heavy, fell, and brought the hasp
oyer the staple, fastening the lid
down so securely that a strong man
could not have bursted it open from
the inside.
Near nightfall the mother of the
little prisoners missed them, and not
finding them in the yard, supposed
they had, against orders, strayed in
the street. She happened to pass
near the chest, and fancying that she
heard a strange, moaning sound,
stooped and opened it, and there, to
her great surprise, she found her little
darlings crushed down by the
heavy lid, and so nearly suffocated
that they were speechless. A little
longer, and the chest would have been
their coffin.
The boy, it appears, had a stout
and pious heart; he told his mother
that when he found they were fastened
in, he prayed that she might be
sent to open the chest, and he believed
that she had come in answer to i
his prayer. lie then got out his lit- j
tie pocket-knife and felt about for the |
hinges of the chest, which he vainly i
endeavored to cut loose, telling his j
little sister Datey to pray in the mean-}
time with all her might. That boy's ;
life was undoubtedly spared to some j
good end.?Mobile [Ala.) Register, |
'24th nit.
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A Horrible Cannibal Story.?
A horrible tragedy (heretofore briefly
mentioned) is reported from the Isl-j
and of Fcejc, South Seas. The Ilev.
Thomas Baker, with an assistant missionary
and six native teachers, went
to visit some island tribes, and he and
his party were brutally murdered by
one of the tribes, who are described
as the most confirmed cannibals.?
The writer says:
"In this town (Longtown) there
lives a notorious cannibal with whom I
had a little conversation, lie pointed
me to a pile of human hones irt the
fork of an orange tree under which
we were sitting, and assured me that
he had eat?n the men of which each
bone there was a representative, and
that he had kept these bones as a memento
of his cannibalism. Many other
things did this inhnman wretch
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make kh^wn to me, arid his countenance
and more than ordinarily worn
teeth only helped to convince mo that
he had been literally a bone crusher.
To have listened to this man's statements,
and told too, jn the presence
of those who could have contradicted
them, if false, would have removed
forever from the minds of some the
idea that Fecjceans arc not lovers of
human flesh. This vile cannibal declared
that as for eating, nothing
was comparable to human flesh, not
even fowls or pork."
The main fact of the above statement
is confirmed by the letter of a
fentleman formerly of Lawrenceburg,
ndiana, in u letter to his brother in
Cincinnati, dated Leonka, Ovalan,
Feejce, September 2, 1867. We
make the following extract:
" Our native population, too, have
been indulging themselves in a cannibal
feast almost unprecedented in the
annals of cannibal Feejee. There is
a district of the interior of the largest
island of the group of which the is
as yet little known. White men have
crossed over it or through it, but it
was never considered safe. About
two months ago, one of the Wesleyan
?t?- :? ????_ C
UilSSiUUiU irjj vriiii ouuicwiiiu ui u? uia-i
vado spirit, determined to penetrate
into the stronghold of heathenism, by
their leavo or no. He took with him
ten'of the christian natives of a coast
tribe, and marched boldly on from
town to town, through heathendom,
though he was warned by the people,
timo and again, that he would be killed
if ho went further on. Still ho
mmnow3i BII M'I i BnanmopMEi
went on; and when in the midst of the v
district they set upon him and his c
followers and killed all hut one of the h
natives, who escaped by more of a P
chapter of accidents in his favor than a
otherwise, to tell the horrible tale.?
The dead bodies were all piled up, t.
a pow wow was held over them by the g
heathens, and then they were distri- "
butcd for cooking, the ruling chief J
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keeping Mr. linker and one native '
for his private palate. ' "
The coast is in a furore. The old ; t
king is making preparations to kill, t
hang and quarter the interior tribes, o
and sell out the district to the white 11
settlers for cotton growing. Hundreds s
or thousands perhaps, will be sacri- s
ficcd to avenge the death of the mis- s
sionarv. v
1
-sjn* to t/ie South.?Some of the ?
soutnorn commanders and their prir- ^
cipal aids, who have been much L
excited by the scenes and sufferings ?
they have beheld, have urged upon 11
the Government to appropriate money I1
to aid the southern people and pre- J1
vent a famine. Every now and then the 11
suggestion is repeated. ^
The gentlemen making the sugges- 0
tions deserve credit for their human- n
ity; but they arc greatly mistaken if n
they suppose their propositions will ,
be entertained.
The money that will he paid ou.t ji
by Congress to the South will be ex- si
clusively devoted - to the prosecution fi
of the Radical plan to radicalize the h
South by Africanizing it. The money it
expended, therefore, will be given to c
the support of the great army of t<
black voters now embodied and drill- s
ed in the South for the elections that s
occur this year. They will be kept tl
in close order?well in hand?ready ii
to be called out in force when wanted, o
and will in the mean time be constant ?
attendants of the soup-houses and the p
depots for the dispensation of rations, a
It is for this the money will be e:c- b
pended?the money raised uy tax a- s
tion from the hard earnings of the t
people (we of the South included) ?
for the infamous purposes of partisa n ?
scheming. All this will have itsd.i v ii
?and then we shall sec what follows, a
Jlichrnond Dispatch. tl
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A Desolated Region.?A cor- *
respondent of the New York Evening 8
Post, under date of the '25th ult., v
writes from Savannah as follows: a
Truly, the desolation that new* *
reigns over the fertile region between s
Charleston and Savannah is dishcart- I
ening; and the more so because there ^
are no signs of recuperation, as there ^
are elsewhere. There still stand the
populous negro colonies as before, '
and in most cases a good portion of ii
them live in the huts they always cc- t
cupied; but towering among thcra o
also stand the pairs of chimneys that a
' * 1 ?1 v.
mark the places wncre tneir owners a
dwelt. Many of the latter arc in the t
cities, and many more arc in their i
summer residences in the uplands, t
and return to the plantation only s
occasionally to collect rents, &c., al- i;
lowing the negroes to conduct affairs a
pretty much after their own models; a
and rice negroes are not remarkable s
for thrifty management.
In the whole distance, of one hun- li
drcd and ten miles, I saw hut two u
frame houses that had been built c
since the war that were not erected c
by the railroad company; amidmost
of these arc mere wooden boxes, a
score of feet square.
^ Trains run on this road a distance of
seventy miles; yet in all this inter- p
val I saw only four negroes and one s
white man ditching, and six negroes ?
cutting weeds and bushes by the b
side of the track, while two white p
men sat on the rails, overseeing them, t
Five of the seven stations are log I
huts; and not a car or a locomotive is ?
shielded frtm the storms by so much t
as a shingle. t
Vast, level rice fiejds are choked s
with sedges and rushes; while the I
water ebbs and flows at will through v
broken "trunks" and ditches. Mag- p
nificcnt stately avenues of live oaks, 41
whose long, grey beard of moss, like v
Barlarossa's in the cave, sweeps and t
sways mournfully in the wind, con.- t
duct one through jungles of rank s
weeds to heaps of ashes. ' f
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General Grant as a Military ?
Chieftain.?The Louisville Journal k
has a severe criticism on General
Grant's tflilitary record. It says,
" Ignominiously defeated" at Bel- J
mont; "awfully whipped" at Shiloh, ^
and would have been annihilated but
for an event which he had no right ti
to expect, and that at Vicksburg he ji
spent more money, time and life, than )(
were ever before sacrificed in taking p
so small a town. As to the Virginia e*
camnniorn. if. sava *1
~ 1 O ' J ~ II
"We think that tlie whole country w
understands the truth that Grant's si
march from Washington to Richmond C
in the face of Gen. Lee was one of
the most disastrous campaigns ever
undertaken. He was brave, or ra- _
ther obstinate enough. lie would,
whenever and wherever Lee chose to ^
stop and throw up battle works, ad- gi
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rnM&vmummmmmmmKmmmn ijji , i
ancc and attack him at a terrible T1
xpcnditure of life, aftd in every ense ,
c was repulsed. And at each ro- ' ^jrti
iulse he would walk his army round k&bdnd
make a flank inovemcnt, giving
notlier disastrous "battle, getting ano- ()U1
her most bloody repulse, and then
;oirig again into the flanking busi- Q^3ej
ess. At last lie got 10 city Point on . ^^
ames River, after losing a hundred j
hcusand men. There lie stopped.? j
^liere he squatted. He did'nt do any j would
liing. lie did'nt propose to do any Secret
hing. He said he would "fight it Ottart
ut on that line if it took all the sum- gi^n i:
ler," but his fighting was simply p^t
quatting. There was'nt the first cfl$.c
ign of aggression about him. The g,r.kKT
cnior editor of the "Journal" . . .
v? i i . ., . _ c nromi
ms in mcnmona in me winter 01 * .
865, and wo know that the Confcd- -e81<
rase officers, soldiers and citizens Gsajc
ad no more apprehension of General/the nl
irrant than if lie had been on the questi
thcr side of the ocean. Ilis prox- which
nity didn't keep a man or woman C{jpar
wake a single minute. lie was held ^at)er
a contempt. The whole terror was g
i regard to the march of Sherman, .'
Lnd it was Sherman's march, and
nly that, which conquered Lee's ar- partk'
ly and all the other Confederate ar- which
lies."
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The Railroad Lands.?The act
ast passed by the House of Repre- the I
entatives of Congress taking away 6th ir
rom southern railroads the public Gcnin
mds given to them before the war is \9ar<
i accordance with the general Iladi- (jen^.,
al system of "punishing rebels" viz., , .
o take away their property. Every ?
tep to "make rebellion odious" is dc- com
igned to enure to the advantage of ai}# .
he northern people, either in increas- opmu
ig and prolonging the Radical rule, Gene:
r in transferring money from the a3 Se<
ionth and placing it in Northern of la^
ockets and treasuries. The greed II8.tioi
ml acquisitiveness which arc at the nn(j p
ottorn of this system are such mon- ^ c
ters, and their cravings so insatiable,
hat all that can be taken from the . 1
iouth to puninh it is not sufficient.? m1? 1
>o voracious are those monsters, "Pne
ndeed, that men who cater for them, Jbcts
,s unscrupulous as they arc, find it prcse
iifficult at all times to do what is tbo c
equired of them. So on this qucsion
of withdrawing the donai:ions to
outliern railroads?so insignificant Th
riien compared to the millions of por
cres that have been corruptly given q0V6]
o northern corporations?all of the ^ t
oldiers of the monsters did not ap- .
icar on their side. There were -some 198U0
leserters, tlie voto standing 86 to 73! e'Pe11
Fherc is some shame yet left. these
It is a feature of the proceedings to ff ^te
n I" a vnKoll i An a/Ii'aiio ' ' !??? Anwi'ttn 1
uian.u ituumvu vujvsub, ma* opiui^- j
ng from selfishness, greed, and am- tion c
lition, they must naturally and pliil- rejoic
sophically be maintained by passion the I
,nd violence. Leasts of prey are thed<
Jways enraged when about to seize jj -y
heir victims, even when of the most ^^
nnocent and helpless kind. Ilcnce
he tirades of the advocates of the <j0?e
ystcm of punishment of the South, ten?
nspircd by the meanest of passions, t.liofire
always vindictive, vituperative, felt 1
nd mendacious. Trumped-up accu- count
ations to justify inhuman measures f-;ae j
-wholesale slanders invented by pa id c
Fellers?arc trumpeted forth with ^
nblushing effrontery and liypocriti- _
al indignation. Fitting defences to ,ltC( '
xccrable deeds ! . k
Richmond Dispatch. k?l l
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Su.mneh, Forney, and a Negro. btate
?Mr. Sumner has got himself into a*^11
;rief. It.was an understanding among *
cnators when Forney was elected lions
Secretary that they not only as a ident
ody iiitiuenee appointments under ,ln(i [
im Vint tllPV kIuiiiIiI mnrlnoftor ..
; ' i r " " . it am
lie manner of cadets at \\ est Point. ( t
t seems, upon the death of Mr Noah '
jmith, thg Jounnal clerk, it happened
o be the turn of Mr. Sumner to die- <-/0nS1
ate his successor, The fact vras
pread far and wide, and several of tutior
he Senator's "colored brethren" lingt<
rcre applicants. X henr that he had of the
iromiscd the place to one of those as r)0ars
'black as the ace of spades." Here ?onm
ras a dilemma. The subordinates in
he Senate rebelled. Certain sena- %ongti
ors became pale with affright?and " .
poke of prudence and all that?and- ProJe<
inally the Senator was with difficulty ather
prevailed upon to abandon Sambo. MrPhe
"colored" applicants left the city Gban
n a huff.-?Baltimore Gazette. Presi
???. Bessio
A Land Claim of Importance. sayb t
t is stated that counsel are now en- tivo u
;agcd in preparing a claim for the o^t i
eivs of John Lederer for? compensa- ^
ion for the land on which, the Washigton
Arsenel is located, which it is al?ged,
was never paid for, and legal- ?omo
v belongs to the heirs above mention- lfc 8U'
d. As soon as all arrangements for charg
io claim are completed the matter first li
ill be brought before Congress, or a spond
nit commenced in the Court of that t
'laims.?National Intcllirjencer. festin
_ - - the P
Fifteen hundred frcedraon of ter, a
,owndes county, Miss., haro signed in the
icir names to an agreement to cmi" in the
rate to JJiberja, dence
F . iL
HE JOURNAL
csduy, February 13, 18C9.
A Question of Veracity.
* exchanges contain the. ccrrcsnce
betjveen the President and
al Grast, on tho subject of cerromises
made l>y tho General to
'resident, to tho effect that lie
L either hold on to the office of
;nry of "War ad interim until the
s should force him out, or ren
time for the President to aphis'succcssor
before Congress pass>
order for the re-instatement of
on' :is Secretary of War?which
ses GitAN'r failed to perform. The
lent affirms that he did, and
r declares that ho did not make
ledged promises, thus raising the
ion of veracity between them, in
l the President evidently has the
itago of the General, for whdo the
relies entirely on his own nsser tift
fnrmpr ' Tins ns witnesses. his
et officers who wcro present and
ipated in tho conversation in
i tho promises wore mndo.
Inother Impeachment Project.
3 "Washington correspondent of
laltimore Sttn, under date of the
ist., nays:?"Tho Reconstruction
littee have been considering the
Office correspondence of the Presiind
General Grant with a view to
ing out another sensation. The
littee is reported by the Radicals
;ing almost unanimously of tho
m that tho President, in ordering
cal Grant to disobey Mr. Stanton
cretary of War, acted in violation
v, and that it showed a determii
cn his part to defeat the purposes
aws of Congress. A sub-commitomposed
of Messrs Bingham and
veil, have been appointed to look
life matter, with authority to draw
w articles of impeachment, if tho
warrant it (in their opinion), and
nt them ut the next meeting oi
omniittee.
is President and General Grant
e great contest now proceeding
to possession of tho control of the
rnment ut Washington every now
hen, culminates in sonio sorioua
which tlireatens instant violence,
anaTchy and confusion. One oi
crises is now upon the country,
as^threa'ning as any of its preders.
The whole conservative por)f
tho people North and South,
:ed in tho proceedings whereby
'resident succeeded in dislodging
pfiant and tyrannical incumbent oi
Var office, Mr. Stanton, and esdiing
in his place temporarily,
ral Grant. The step was charnc'd
by boldness and decision, and
icnds of order and the constitution,
;hat there was yet hope for the
:ry in .the firmness and sagacity oi
'resident, so warmly enlisted in
uuae of the country,
ngress, on the other hand, repudithe
act of the President removing
Stanton^ denied his power to conhe
jnembership of his own Cabijf
counsellors und ministers oi
, and ro-instuted Mr. S. so lfai
[it could bo dono by "the paper, pen
nk, which recorded their rosoluupon
the subject. Still the Preshad
possession of tho war office,
t seems, had determined to retain
I force Mr. Stanton to resort to the
for his remedy, which would briug
he legality of tho proceedings oi
rcss. As tho President was fully
,ed the moasui'cs were unconstilal,
and void, he was perfectly wil0
abide the test ofajudicial decision
1 questions at issue. But it npthat
the party now controlling
ress, dread nothing so much as
itting to the arbitrament of tho
itutipnal court, any of their party
rts. Thoy theroforo resorted to
means to effect the restoration of
Stanton, and induced General
t, v/ithout the knowledgo of the
dent, to nlace Mr. Stanton in nos
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n of tho office. The President
:hia was done in violation of aposinderstanding
with General Grant,
10 ehango should bo made until
ie President, should be informed
fforded an opportunity of placing
one in tho office who would hold
>joct to his authority. This ho
es homo to Goneral Grant, in his
etter. to which General Grant roai
denying any positive promise to
>ffect, but at tho same time, inani
g that ho was lully awaro that
resident so understood tho njatndbyhis
own showing as stated
i Presidents rejoinder, he is placed
) position of violating the confii
which ho knew was reposed in
him, oud surrendering the office witl
which lie was entrusted l>y the Presi
dent, to his worst enemies, to be use<
by them to the detriment and disad
vantage of the party from whom h
held it. ' To our own comprehension o
j tjie moral question involved, it matter
I but little whether, as asserted by th
President and tho members of the Cab
iuct present, there was a positive prom
ise, or only a just and proper influenc
drawn from the language and conduc
of Gem ral Grant ; that officer was a
much bound^ in good faith, to restor
tho offico to the President in the on
case, as in the other. The Presider
thus disappointed in his purpose <
having the supremo court decide thi
important question, has ignored Mi
Stanton as Secretary of "War, issues hi
army orders directly to subordinate!
and to prevent any interference by bin
has directed General Gkant to obey n
i T i -%r n ,1
oraors issued uy Air. oiaxtox in til
name of the President, unless ho know
that they are issued by his authorit;
To this General Guam has replied, d<
claring his purpose not to observe sue
orders, because Mr. Stanton has not bee
ordered by the President not to issi
oiders as horetoforo. The object <
this, no doubt, was to placo the Pres
dent in tho position of making a dire*
issue with Congress, by directing M
Stanton not to exercise the functions <
tho office to which he had been resto
ed, in order to afford the strong*
ground for impeachment.
The President having failed to tai
this course, the indications aro that a
attempt to impeach hjm will bo mac
for his ordor to Gkaxt to disregai
Stuttok's authority. It remnins to 1
seen whether Congress will hjvo tl
nerve to carry tho design into execi
tion. Thoy failed signally in the fo
nier attempt at impeachment, andthei
is nothing to indicate that such a pri
a?4a/1 ! n Tnnrif nmrA fitv<
nuuw *uvvv *1.,,
from the -peoplo now, than then, bi
? rather the contrary, except that Ge
Guant has evidently thrown himse
into the arms of the radicals. But c
the other hand, Gen. Guant is no loi
? gor the | tow or, politically, that lio w
i heretofore. If a resolution of inipeac
ment is resorted to, it will be accomp
i nied by an attempt to remove tl
President from office, pending tl
f the trial. Will he submit to this? j
what manner will lie resist? The
. are questions pregnant with the futu
. destinies of this great country. For
of this devastated region, there can t
but little to fear from their solution.>
Our affairs could hardly be worse.
r ?
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The February number of the folio
. ing are on our table:
The Sourni:nif Cultivator?Tl
numbor not only sustains, but enlianc
, the high character it has heretofore r
f tained. It is decidedly the best nui
L ber issued in many months. To t!
planter of the South, it is almost indi
nnnsnhlo to successful farminor. Pu
. lished at Athens Ga,?prico $2.00 p
annum.
The Amkuican Fahmer, presents
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?Management of Manure Heap?Ca
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Needed on n Farm?lielath ns of Lan
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Published by Wokthinotox & Lewi
Baltimore, Md.
The Life of Jefferson Davis.
By Fkank II. ai.FiiiBNn. Richmond, Vn
Late Editor of the "Southern Literal
Messenger," and well known from his cd
torijd connection?both during and sin
the war?with the Richmond press. Pu
lished by the N ati ox a j. Publishing Co:
paxy, Atlanta Ga. To issued in 01
handsome Octavo Volume, from 500 to W
pages, embellished with a portrait on stc<
engraved in pure line and stipple, by Be
tim, from a recent photograph from lit
Price (bound iiVthe best English Moroci
cloth) $8.50 per copy ; bound ill (half eti
antique) $5.00 per copy.
Tlio above work is now far advance
in its preparation, and will he publisl
ed at an enrly date. It will bo so]
exclusively by subscription and a Boun
Prospectus is now ready for Agents.
In tho collection of materials the at
tjior has had the co-operation and iu
sistanco of prominent officials of ver
high position in the late Confederacy
and has enjoyed facilities unsurpasse
by any writer upon the subject of th
war, for obtaining information froi
original sources,
i The work will form a full, complet<
and authentic Biography of Mr. Davii
i"""*"-*1.- -i1..1 "L".. msm
j t embracing- tho whole period of hig life,
and will shed much needed light upon
I many important subjects connected with
j the late war, which have never been
0 understood?or, at best but imperfectly
^' so?because the facts necessary to the*
8 | elucidation have remained inaccessable
e to all previous writers. . iT,
Tliat such a work will be looked for
. j with eager iuterest, and that it isjpefe
| tain to prove one of the most popular
? 1 books ever published must be evident
a : to all. We make the following extract' ^
0 from page 73: ! ' 1
a The development in Mr. Davis of*
lt the high and rare qualities, requisite to?
parliamentary leadership/ -was rapidi
and decisive. His nature instinctively
is aspires to influence and power, and unr.
der no circumstances could it rest con[s
tented in an attitude of inferioriiy^
Independence, originality, and intre'
pidity, added to earnest and intelligent
b conviction; unwavering devotion''to
o principle and purpose; a will stern and
.e inexorable, and a disposition frank,
r8 courteous, and generous, are featuresof
character which rarely fail to make
' a representative man. Alter tne deatn
3" of Mr. Calhoun, he was incomparably
h the ablest exponent of States' Bights
m principles, and even during thediie of
ie that groat publicist, Mr. Davis, almost
. equally with him, shared the labors
and responsibilities of leadership. His
i" personal courage is of that knightly Orct
der, which in an age of chivalry would,
r> have sought the trophies of tlie-tourney,,
? and his moral heroism fixed him imr
movably upon the solid rock of princir"
pie, indifferent to the inconvenience of
Jr being in a minority and in no dread of
the storms of popular 'passion. His'
:e faith in his principle was no less earnest
than his confidenc m his ability to
j11 triumphantly "defend them. .
; Gov. Obr on t'iie Situation.?
)e Governor Orr returned yesterdaym
from his visit to Beaufort, and has
r- again taken rooms at the Milk House.
r- The Governor went to Beaufort partly
r0 to learn the circumstances of themurQ_
der of Mr. Matthcjves, recently reported
in these columns. He-says
irtcit iiieiu ijl'iiuci iiiw ui uiuvr in
the section he has visited, and that
n- he will so report to General Canby
>lf to-day. On a drive of ten miles,
m through come places once the most
n- flourishing in that District, the Goas
vernor saw not a vestige of a fence,
not a single hog or sheep, and only
two poor cows. i *
Char. Mercury of Monday*,
^ -The Cotton* Market:?On Saturday
last the offices of our factors
80 presented a busy scene, arid theanxre
ioits desire of purchasers to take hold
us of the staple was truly animating, and
)0 presented a picture very similar to
_ many seen before the war. The fortunate
holders who operated some
weeks since and now possess a stock
laid in at prices several cents *per
pound below present rates may congratulate
themselves as being rather
better off than many of their neigh113
bors. The sales of Saturday were
es more extensive than any that have tait
ken place in this market since the
n_ nf ltnaf.i iif'i#>c
be Char. Courier of Monday.
b Abbeville and Cotton.?Wo
were on a visit to one of the neighcr
borhoous near New Market, and were
pleased to learn that a very considera
able portion of the Cotton belonging
bs to the planters remains unsold, as wo
tie hope is'the caso in the State generalir
ly, so that they may realize the benor
efit of the present improved prices.?The
planters tare acting wisely in
sending their crops generally to Chare
leston by railroad, where they may;
a" with less expense than hauling to
^8? Augusta, obtain better prices. The
i*1 roads to market are now becoming
i- almost impassable, and rail road
h- freights are moderate and reasonable,
ty It is the present intention of plante
crs in Abbeville greatly to diminish
g their Cotton planting, and to culti'
vato more land in grain. This ought
always to be the rule.
Greenville Enterprise.
i., A Sad Warning?A Little Girl
7 Choked to Death by Swallowing
^ a Button.?On Thursday last our
u community was shocked to learn that
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our esteemed fellow-citizen Dr. J. J, Ellis,
had suddenly met with the loss 1
;lt of one of his children, a little girl,
t- aged 3 years. The child was spendeo
ing a few days with its grand-mpth^
'if and was playing in the yard, when,
she was observed to make a strange,
1(j sound as if struggling for breath. Her
t grand-mother ran to her in time t<^
, discover that she had swallowed a.
1 button. Every attention was render-. .
^ cd to give the little sufferer relief, but |
to no purpose. The family have the^ I
? n i .1* O a
x- neartteit sympatnies 01 our commu-_ ?
3- nity.?Florence Gazette. ?
y ? ? ^ I
7i A correspondent of the New York y
j I Tribune, shocked at the terrible, andj
| as he says, needless torture of crimi\
i nals by hanging, suggests that herei
after t-hey may be made to touch1 a
j wire communicating with twelve Ley-.
5> j den jars, when dejfth by electricity.
3 would be instantaneous and painless.
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