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VOLUME 28. CAMDEN", SOUTH-CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 4, 1869. NUMBER 20.
__ MISCELLANY.
OAYTI AND ARKANSAS.
It is hard to say which land is bless"cd
with the best government, Hayti or
Arkansas. First, fre have this sketch
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bf Hayti trdra the Jfort au rnnce uortespondenbe
(Dbccmber 25,) lm)epeiitlent
Press, Pott Jefferson, New York :
The whole country is in a state of the
must Jeplbhiblb degree. In this city,
(the capta! of this unfortunate Republic,)
it is the cmaille (the roughs) that
rute. Salnave, seeing that his cause is
nearly loet, has given up nearly every
city and town to plunder and pillage.?
On the the 30th of November, the town
of Mirogoane was bombarded, attd after
* 1 * ?* rvtuoo tVtP
tatting posscssiuu ui mc pi
troops of Salnave proceeded to pillage
the stores and houses. They broke
open every door, smashed everything
they could not carry away?after robbing
them of all the goods, money, jewtilfry,
&c. The traffic of logwood belonging
to foreign houses were shipped
on the Government's vessels of war.?
On the 1st day of December, after
having ransacked the towD of Mirogoane,
and left cVefy house completely
gutted, they set fire to th?e town?half
of which has been destroyed.
The letter goes on, through nearly a
column, detailing arsons, murders and
depredations.
From Arkansas, one of the sovereign
States of the model Republic, we have
accounts which outstrip Cvch Hayti, or,
fcl ahy Wlc, Wtttlcr it doubtful which is ;
which :
^ Militia Outrages in Arkansas.
BEL -?The Memphis Ava/ancJie, of January
17, sys: All accounts froiu Crittcn
.Btjeb County are of s'tuilar import, and
Btnfirtn the worst that has been told
Bncerning the conduct of the militi:>
v^K iwards the citizens. The negro tuiliaTS
tOTTngUTef llie couTrtryTrrstnmpr J
n nrmed squads, taking everything that
W they fancy and destroying much that
they cannot carry. A reign of terror
exists which is difficult to be understood
febroad. The worst days of the War
have returned upon the people. All
business is suspended) and the people
ate afraid to complain or attempt to escape.
^ thiy before yesterday, a gang of the
F tniiitia went to the house of Mr. Jack
Ware, near Marion, an original and consistent
ITbiob matt, tlnd sacked his pre
irtisfis of every thing valuable. Fie Was
Well to do in the world, but the work
of nearly a lifetime was swept away be1
fore bis eyes in an bodf. Matiy other
citizens in the neighborhood were treat
ed in the same ttlanbef.
On the same day, a party of the negro
militia attempted to otitrage the
persons of four highly respectable white
ladieS-^Mrs Jeff. Reeve, Miss Sweptson,
daughter of the newly elected radical
County Clerk,- and two others,
names unknown. By some means they
were foiled in thelf damnable attempts,
and several of thetti Were arrested. The
officers threatened to make examples of
them, bat so far all examples have been
dd the other side.
Last Thursday night, we learn; the
five citizens who hfcve been held as
'hostages" #erC hung up by General
Upbam until life was nearly extinct, to
try to force them to disclose facts supposed
to be in their possession. Nothing,
flO#e^fe'ry Was elicited; as the victims
of this torture probably knew rtotbing
to tell. When cut down it was
found that they were nearly dead, and
one of the number was res^rrf 10 I
~:.i? ?<Kffinnltv. This statement 11
tftnu . I
comes from a reliable frecdman, and is
supported by respectable testimony.? 1
Friday night three of these citieens wore
spirited away and have not since been
beard from. Their fate is unknown,
but no one knowing the reckless character
of the malitia would be surprised
to hear that the gentlemen so long ior
carcerated and tortured without oause,
mom barbarism, had been tnuf
wvtw ?
tiered in the woods. Two others are
jet in jail at Marion, and have bat glim
mering hopes of liberation or even life.
We are satisfied that the tenth part
of the outrages committed daily by the
jR^itia in Arkansas has neyer been pub
lislicd, and probably never will be. The
means of violence and oppression are
abundant, but the complaints of the
wronged people travel on tard)r wings.
It was reported yesterday that the
hegrb hiilitia had nearly all lelt the
m ighborhttod of Marion for Mississippi
ijounty, above, whfcfe they will of course
re-enact the fearful scenes of plunder
and ruin, and personal injury perpetrated
in other portions of the unfortunate
State.
The following diSpasch, which wc
find in the New York Tribune, tells
what became of the three missing men
referred to above:
A citizen from French Bayou, Arkansas,
Borne ten miles above Marion, reports
that a body of hiilitia shot three
men near his house, oh Sunday. The
officer in command told him that they
had been tried by a court martial, on a
charge of being Ku Klux; and ordered
?Kn( with mu.?ketrv.
vv W UHUV VV y
The Memphis Avaldrtrhc, orihe 19th.
contains additional details, too revolting
to be published.
SPECIE PAYMENTS.
A novice in politics might really
think from hearing the immense amount
of "sound and fury" issuing from Ilnditill
sources, that sprc:c payments, a
eonsumation devoutly to be wished for
?could take place in six, or twelve} or
twenty months, just as easily as not?
would injure no one, and wou'd bene
fit all. But those who know what
complete charlatans the Radicls are?
Wi.-.fc they know of the tVuc principles
of government?unci r stand that all th"
sound and fury signiGcs nothing. The
thing cannot be accomplished suddenly,
for the body politic, which has been
severely injured by financial violence,
can no more rise up and walk than a
natora lpcrson could do who was sick
or wouotlcd* without the working of a
miracle.
It seems to us that all the efforts of
ill the financial I nkers, including Se-iaitor
Morton, ate
1. To make capital for the Radical
partyby vaguely proposing to do impossible
things?and
2. To make the bonds worth one
hundred cents itt gold, Which they ate
not noW, never were, never will be,
and never ought to be.
Senator Sherman's pliln was to reduce
the interest to four and n half per
cant, in g ?ld, and in acquittance for the
loss of one and a half per cent gold interest,
he hoped to obtaih for the bondholders
a solemn, deliberate promise,
sanctioned by public sentiment, that
the new bouds should be paid in gold?
and thus remove the question whether
the prihdipal of the present bonds shall
be paid in Cilftenfiy, ffrotii dispute at
once and forever. In other words,
the bonds arc worth scventv-five cents
in gold now?cad be contorted at it
In reglllar, moderato quantities?and
Senator Sherman was willing to Solidify
thera tit that figure, and make the
owners of them secure against any fup
ther agitation of the qllesfe'ioh. The
bunded debt (if all the interest were
fediifc'fe'd one a nd a half per cebt:,) would
by this plan be practically reduced onefourth.
This was Mr. Sherman's first
step in the direction of specie payment.
But we do not think it very popular
. si .1 i 11 1 i it * 1. ? n
wun ine oonanoiuers?mougn we iear
they might go farther and far worse.
But the tiofid afld sanguine statesmen
who talk about resuming specie payments
in .taniiary, 1870; or 1871, or
any where along there, propose to ralise
tiie p.'PfiCnt price of the bonds from
seventy five cents to one hundred cents
, , ' This would be fun for
on the dollar . (
the bondholders, but dcatn !? everJ
other interest that is taxed to pay interest
to the bondholder, who pays no
taxes.
Now, if tlio legal tenders and national
bank notes by some magical or miraculous
process, or by the prayers of the
righteous, or by the frequent wishing
of devout bondholders, could be made
payable in gold on demand, we contend
that although they might bo re-issued
indefinitely, enough speoie would have
to be provided to redeem the 850,000,000
of out' bomkr whksh are held in
Europ ). Even admitting that onr own j
patriotic bondholders wotild think their t
bonds as good as gold, and would not ?
seek to realize gold for them, coulid ^
hope that out German ahd English and c
French friends would have the same *
cheerful, trusting, amazing confidents ? *
We fear they ftould not. And we veH- *
ture the opinion that, if our currency 1
were redeemable in gold, our foreign
friends who bought their bonds as low
as thirty-nine and not oversevcnly-fiVO,
would slyly send them back again and 1
realize their profit at once in hard cash. T
Of course 'they would?and tfould they
not have reason to do so. 0
Have not such of them as were hold- F
ers of Pennsiyvania securities, been 1
compelled to lake their interests, hon- a
estiy payable in gold, in paper of which 0
was required variously 140 to 280 to c
pay 100 cents in gold? And then, 1
did they not have to take the princi- 1
pal in legal tenders, when their debts ^
became due? And did not New York c
repudiate the payment of her interest ^
in f?old and ravin paper also? And 1
? o - - >
have fotcign lenders forgotten how thej D
trembled lest they shonld lose all their *
investments by repudiation in this hon- P
estold county of Allbghcny which "rolls ^
up" 11,000 Radical majority? And i P
were not foreign bondholders told by '
the Iladicnls again and again, in the a
late canvass, that the Democrats were r
the party of repudiation, and have not *
these shrewd Shylockssecn by the vote *
that the Democrats are very nearly as *
many as the party that elected Grant? 8
??? ? il?it mrt oramtln'nnr (if pntirse !
Hie pa I %.J \ UUK pi?J o v?v.jr?...?r #
Therefore, in view of nil these teach- "
ings, and nil theso warnings, would not
the foreign bondholders make haste to 0
realize the gold for these 850 millions '
of our wcurities, if our currency were r
mode equal to gold ? And in that case, 1
docs any one suppose that they would n
not take that 850 millions of specie out 8
of the country as quickly and qutctly n
as thev possibly could ? J1
Thin is but bne of the obstacles to a
the resumption of specie pnymcnts. If ^
the bonds shad not be redeemed, the 1
interest will not be diminished?and ^
not only not diminished, but increased
one-fourth in gdld value; And doe9 fc
any man think we could pay the pre3- v
ent amdnt of taxes, or anything like it, ^
in gold, t/buld we stand one hundred 1
and fifty millions mote of taxation ?? ^
And how would this sharp and sudden b
resumption affect those who have money
to pay on contracts ninblng, My for five
years to come; and made wiheta the cur- 8
rcncy was irredeemable paper? Would y
they not be compelled to pay in gold a
or convertible paper ? Or would Mr. a
Morton make their creditors take de- v
preCiated jjdpct* as those who held gold **'
contracts had to do six or seven years
ago ? Perhaps be would if he could, but
could he?
There is but one way to return to 11
specie pdjtnenfs, and that i:i#the honest, ^
legitimate, though perhaps a little &
dious way. That is to redeem the bonds
in niiKnri n nil r\C t ll An f l
IU ^icfuuuittB an ui tui;ui auu tiiuii n
use tlie taxes; which must be made to \
yield lis tatich as at present for ten years h
to come?to redeem the greenbacks? c
buying them in at their value in gold it
?this is the only way the thing can be I
done so that it will be well done, so that si
there will be no relapse into paper mo- ii
ney, when once we get rid of it; Any t
other plan than this would be spas- y
rnodic and partial, and would leave 1
things worse than they are now, hrhen a
we shall fall back; as wd aurely would ti
fail hack, into the old course. We s<
would say to Radical currency tinkfers t<
that they cannot return to our pood old a
financial condition without somebody tl
heinsr hurt. The bondholders mau be a
hurt a little, u.9 people are sure to bo ii
hurt very materially. They h?>e much b
to suffer yet before a permanent recov- I
efy Can take place. Why if a man dig- li
locates a limb, to put it back into its C
place fcosts infinitely mor6 f>a1n and suf. I
fenrfe than' the throwing ot it out of f
its place caused hiin. And yet there t
is no other way to relieve the patient n
than to use, at whatever pain it may (
inflict at least as much force to re set J t
tho limb as it took to disjoint it. We g
all admit that the ''times arc out of I v
i
ointj" bat Wme visionaries fondly h<
hat all Will be well, and that we <
jet through Bnf 66* of troubles aa eat
,'nd as hazily as a-wfiter of fiction c
iludes an exciting story, where 1
'ilians are all ptinistied and the vir
ills are happily marribd. It is ttbi
ime they weald awake from drca
iko these-.
A BLOODY DtJEL.
The fanlous dueling ground on I
lletniric Ridge, kno&h as "The Oak
ras the sdche yesterday morning (
anguinary duel betweett two young n
if this city, which has rarely had
larallcl in the annals of the code eitl
n this country or in Europe. 1
ntagonists tfrbre, the one a native c
lo of New Orleans, the othfer a Fren
nan by birth; the provocation a di
o the face, at the hand of the cre<
he weapons were broadswords; the hi
lay break. Arrived on the field
ompahicd by their seconds, the cc
iatants stripped to the waist, and swi
n hand, in the frecztng air of I
uorning. sprung at each other 1
igerfl. There was no hesitation,
laying to try eaeh other's skill,
ew lunges and cutts were succcssfu
arried when suddenly an uJ)Cut fr
he Frenchman's sword wounded
ntagonist in tlie right artil. T
ipostc from the Creole laid open I
prcfifchman's left oheek, laying op
he inside and exposittg his tdeth.
Nothing daunted, the wounded n
tepped back, had a handkerchief oou
round his face and again put hiros
3 attitude of offence.
His first lunge penetrated the bre
f his opponent, between the rib a
he skin, but it was made with sc
elentless force that it passed a
hrough the off-arm. An attempt v
jade at this moment by the seconds
top the matter at that point, but i
rati wTttf" tbor-HandkercMcf iHWMid"'
iws rushed at the second who i
nxious to settle the matter, sword
and, asseverating that naught fho
uict his animosity excrpt a cut acr
is throat. The battle was renewed a
isted until the Creole had receii
ight wounds slid the other six?all
erfe abd painful, but none, it is hoi
angerous. Both men displayed i
raordinary courage, animosity and <
uranee; and during the course of
loody encounter, neither was prill
0 give up the contest until both had
jt their hands fall helpess to th
ides from loss of blood and the pain
rounds. The parties were carried hor
fter having fheit wounds dress<
nd though the creolc had two m
rounds, his situation was more cc
jrtable and less critical than that
is antagonist.?N. 0. Crescent, 13A
The CotoRED Race.?The folh
ig suggestive article is copied from
lew Orleans Times. It is worthy
Consideration :
"Hewers of wood and drawers of \
sr, it would appear, they must erer b
Whether the negro as a race is to ha
is couditioo improved by public c<
ation and the exercise of thefranchi
1 yet a problem for the reformers of i
Juited States to work out for the
efvas. The disciples Of ttilbcrfor
n England, orie y'eaf ago, abaudor
he attempt as hopeless, after over thi
ears' trial in Jamaica and other W
ndia Islands. "Whether a differ*
nd more fortunate result is to be
aified in this country, remains to
een, and we of the Soiith are dispoi
) lend our eafbdst and sincere aid
fFording opportunity for a trial. Bef
he war, as a general thing, all ncgr
ppeared happy, comfortably clad a
idustrious. We rarely found th"
egging or engaged in menial ptfrsui
Jut few of poverty's resources to kc
fe in the body were visible ib N
Jrleahs, thtls glfrlng to ptrangefs
lea of wealth, exceptionable in c
avor over etary other community, j
his is changed now. The dilapidal
fljrro boot-black meets us everywhc
"C"
jaunt, hungry saw-bucks warn
hrough every street. Famished b
;ars, with searcely sufficient clothing
rad a gun, haunt the alleys, and e
)pe bodiments of grimy filth, in tlie shap<
:an of black chiffoniers, rake the offal anc
lily Bweepings of the stores and dwellings
on- That tilfeta is a compataion and brightei
the pictnro, we admit; but of the two op
tu- posing tendencies, which will win, ii
oat thte problem now before as. Eng
ms land bat already tacitly acknowledged
her failure to elevate the npgro nice t<
.the Caacassian standard. Liberia ha:
admitted the same. The history o
the Hayti is one of pitiful retrogression
S," ahd eveh the Africa of to-day, whet
>f a compared with the limb fthets Carthage
icn Alexandria and Numantia flourished
its forces upon us the same dispiriting con
her elusion. If 8,000 years of etjtlal op
'lie portunity with the Caucassian race hai
ire- failed to develop the negro into a high
ch- er type of humanity, we mtist hot ex
iiw noot mnrti frnm ftnft naltrc veneration
J-VV. I J o
)le; Far be it from as to deny them anothei
sur opportunity; the whole tendency oi
ac- public opinion in the South is to th(
?m- cotitiafy; but it is only fair and right
)rd that they should carve their way up
the ward by their own merits, and win f)o
ike sition by their oWn dcsfeFtS. t?cga!
or enoctmohts cannot change natural laws,
A while peace, quiet and harmony may
Hy level a rough hill, nofr feared In tht
Dm path of their progress.
his ; 1
'^e Thb Chicago Tribune, which suffered
tjje so heaVily a few days ago fob an unflat
)CQ tering police itctn, before a prejudiced
jliry, noft lias the word "alleged" elec
_an trotyped, and uses it before every othci
word in its refedrts. Hefe is one of it*
IJU
lcjf neifr blodel reports :
"It iBhlteged that 0ne tfredericic Mey
er, alleged to be doing business in thit
city arraigned before one Hoyne, whe
^ is alleged to a commissioner of the tJni
j ted States, on yesterday. It is alleged
that the alleged party, charged wit!
an alleged fraud npon an alleged Gov
^ eminent, assisted in some way in smng
| filing ?>rae alleged drugs, which are al
leged to be of considerable value. J
is alleged that the cose was postpone!
U un/il Mouday, alleged to be the 11th da;
of January. It is further alleged tha
^ the alleged defendant was held to bail
^ It is alleged that the alleged Mr. Mey
.er, whom it is alleged kept an allege!
^ drug store, being before an alleged com
missioner, whose name is alleged b
be Hoyne, was requited to give a bon<
which it is alleged, requires theallcgei
^hc Mr. Meyer to furnish for the paymen
of any sum of money which sdme en
lighthnad but not yet alleged jufry ma;
^ allege against him as damages sustain
cd by the alleged Government."
cd> Time Does It.?Time has a won
ore derful power in taking the conceit ou
,m* of persons. When a young man fifs
of emerges from the schools and enffer
k upon the cateer of life, it is painfull^
amusing to witness his self-sufficiency
)W* he would haVe kll the world to under
the stand that he has "leartcd out;" tha
?f he is master of all knowledge, and cai
unravel mysteries. But as he grow
wa- older he grows wiser; he learns that hi
e." knows a great deal less than he sup
ive posed he did; and by the time h<
3u- reaches the three-score years, he is pre
isc, pared to adopt, as his own, the senti
the ment of John Wesly: ''When I wa
t noa euro rlt rttfflH/thinfr: in i
,Ui- JUUUg X nuu w - ? J 07
co, few years, having been mistaken a thon
led sand times, I was not brilf aS srife 0
rty ttiosl tbiftgs rts I vtas bfefore. At prcs
est ent, I am hfirdly sure of anything bu
;nt what God has revealed to man."
at
be A Balloon Yoyaoe to Europe.?
sod The notion of an aerial voyage to Eu
in rope lias been revived by M. Chevalier
ore a celebrated French aeronaut, who hai
oes just arrived in New York. lie propo
nd scs starting from New York next Apri
em eft May. M. Chevalier, we are told
its. once made the journey from Pans tc
>ep the Russian frontiet; a (distance of ovei
ew 700 miles, in less tfrnn five hours. Upor
an another occasion he crossed St. George'f
)Ur channel from Dublio, and has accom.
kll plished without injury several ascem
* ' ---i? V? ? - Pnrrlnnrl TVio n?r,
ted 810DS iu rruiiuu ouu ?u6?u?.
ro. ship in which the experiment is to be
3er attempted is called L'Esperance. Itf
eg. height is 95 feet, its diameter 150 feet,
r to and it requires 120,000 cubic feet ol
m- gas to inflate it. Attached bo the ship
3 is an enclosed car capable of carryih?
i abont fifty persons, with provisions f8r
. ten days' voyage M. Chevalier coor
templates extending invitations to sfcir
eral members of the press to accompany
i him.
I Terrible Death:?A colored oaii
> met witk an awful death in the rifeigfc
' hood of New Paris, Ky., a few Hightt
f since. A neighbor, a white Jhao, had
i hilled hid hogs and left tbfeih ottt at
> night. The hegro nodeiioolc 16 lieil
? one, and was in snch a hurry to accord
}t the pork that he forgot to remove the
- pambrel-fltick: To reatih hie home H
- ttds tiecfeSSdfy td brosfc a fehBe. til dd'
iog so he placed the hog dn the top
rail, and it is supposed that it slipped-^1
- at any rate; the negro's head was caught
in the opening of the hind legs, and
[ his neck tfas broken by the stick, if 8
f was found next morning dead, the hog
> on one side of the fence and he on thd
t other, with his head fust, as described:
tjaE ofLiMOfls ?When persons are
I feverish and thirsty beyond what is na?
, ural, indicated in sdme case* by a n?-'
r tallic taste in the month, especially afi
ter drinking water, or bj a #Hitlflh appearance
of the tongtie, one of tlie bedt
' coolers," internal or external, is to take
' a lemon, cnt off the top, sprinkle over if
' some loaf sugar, working it down ibid
' the lemon with the spoon, and tberi
' sack it slowly, squeezing the lemon and
adding more stigar ad the acidity iH1
fcrcdeeS from a lowor point. Invalids
with fcverishness ma; take two or thfe#
lemons a day in this manner with the
1 most remarked benefit, manifested by i
> sense of coolness, comfort and invigori^
tiofi. A lemon or two thiis taken it
1 tea-time, as an entire odbstltute for the
1 ordinary sdppcr of siimmer, wotlld gi j#
many a man a comfortable night's sleep
* and an awakening of rest and inyigorar
* tion with an appetite for breakfast; id
t which they are Strangers who witl hairli
1 their cup of tea or supper, or relish and
"* * ?31 ?? A***! naoeffl
1 case, ana oemes ui pcavucc auu v>v<...
t JourHdl of Bkaltht
Decrease op Children.?Notloflg
j ago Dr. Stover] and otbers, in Massachusetts,
in aonie comments upon the
singular fact that the increase of chil0
dren in that State is limited almoet
1 wholly to the foreign population, as*
] signed the cause of it to too dotnmoit^
ticss of the Crime of fetioide. It now
appears that Maine is following Massachusetts
in the decrease of the rising
7 generation. Mr. Warren Johnson, tb<|
i. State Superintendent of Common' School
in Maifte, teports to the Legislature
that there id a decrease of 16,683 schol*
are, between the agefe of four and t#en<
ty-one years, from the census of 1868.
1 The decrease in the past year has heed
t 3,182; the decrease in 1864 was 4,141,
s and the total decrease from the maxij
mum of 1860 is noarly 20,000. Mr:
JtfhriSon very naturally considere thid
' decrease alarming, bdt as he cannot
* satisfactorily account for it, he proposed
t a series of inquiries, such as: "Have
3 we ceased to be a producing people V
"Are the vital forces expended in braid
9 labor and lost to physical reproduction?"
^ and, "Arb the modern fadftiotfabfe
- criminalities of infanticide and feticide
? creeping ioto our State community?"
. Coming from snch a source, thesb drd
questions of fearful import, relating ad
they do to the populations of rural dts-*
8 triots, where there being greater abunj
i dance of tfee means of subsistence and
. less temptdtiotl ttf cfimb than in large!
f c;fies, thefe is generally supposed to do
tnoffi mdrality.
What thero is left of the white pub-'
lie should be everlastingly thanful that
the miscegenation crop is not long lived:
If it were, there would bo an aspect of
jaundice throughout the entire land id
? another five or six years. TbeJ hnttf
3 been becoming "one flesh" So rapidly
In Cleveland, says Pomeroy's Democrat,
' that the papers are alarmed ou the querf*
f ion of the probable complexion of the
' entire State of Ohio,
r
1 A new perfume yclept "Loyal balm
1 of a thousand niggers," is advertised in
ao exchange. The inventor claims that
it was manufactured expressly for par
ties desiring the removal of their polil.
! ical disabilities.
i
Albert Sidney Johnston and Lovelf
f H. Rousseau rest side in the New Of
> leans cemetery.