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\ I ? ... ? VOLUME 28. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CABOLINA, MARCH 11, 1869. NUMBER 80.; ??. ! ~~ i v nJ" MISCELLANY. INAUGURAL ADDRESS OP PRESIDENT GRANT. Citi&ent of the United States?Your suffrages having elected me to the office of President of the United States, I have, in conformity with the constitu tion of our country, taken the oath of office prescribed therein. I have taken this oath without mental reservation anc^rith the determination to do, to theTest of my ability, all that it requires of me. The responsibilities of the position I feel, bat accept them without fear. The office has come to me unsought. I commence its duties untrammelled. I bring to it a conscientious desire and determination' to fill it to the best of my ability to the satisfaction of the people. On all leading questions agitating the public mind, I will express my views to Congress, and urge them according to my judgment, ani when I think it advisable, will exercise the constitutional privilege of interposing a veto to defeat measures which I oppose; but all laws II I * -.1 * 1?_ A - J __1 ll will do lanmuiiy exeuuicu, nuvtuu they meet my approval or not. I shall on all subjects have a policy to recommend, but none to enforce against the will of the people. Laws arc to govern all alike, those opposed to, as well as those who favor them. I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. Tho country having just emerged from a great rebellion, many questions wili come before it for settlement in the next four years which preceding administrations have never had to deal with. Iu meeting these, it is desirable that they should be approached calmly, with out prejudice, hate or sectional pride? remembering that the greatest good of the greatest number is the object to be attained, of person, property and for religious aod political opinion in every part of our common country, without Tegard to locel prejudices, Laws to secure these cods will receive my best ef* forts for their enforcement. A great debt has been contracted in necuring to tls aod our posterity the Union. The payment of this principal and interest, as well as the return to a specie basis as soon as it can be accomplished without material detriment to of the debtor class or to the country at large, must be provided for.? To protect the national honor, every dollar of government indebtedness should be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. T!? Ka nn/1ni?ofno^ fliof nn VAnt1^ii)_ M 4V> v it UM UUUCIOVUUU vliat IIV icpuu II?tor of one farthing of our public debt will be trusted in public place, and it will go far towards strengthening a credit which ought to be the best in the world and will ultimately enable us to replace the debt with bonds bearing less interest than we now pay. To this should be added a faithful collection of the revenue, a strict accountability to the treasury for every dollar collected, and the greatest practicable retrenchment in expenditure in every department of the government. Wheu we compare the paying capacity of the country now with ten States still in poverty f:o n the effects of war, but soon to emerge, I trust, in greater prosperity thai, evor before, with its paying capacity twentyfive years ago, and caleulato what it probably will be twenty-five years hence i i tiii n n wno can aouot me icasiDimy 01 paying every dollar then with more ease than we now* pay for useless luxuries. Why, it looks as though Providenco had be. stowed upon us a strong box ; the pref cious metals locked up in the sterile W mountains of the far West, which we are now forging the key to unlock to meet the very contingency that is now iupon us. Ultimately it may be necessary to increase the facilities to reach these riches and it may be necessary also that the general government should give its aid to secure the access. ' But that should only be when a dollar of obligation to pay Becures the dollar to us now, and not before. Whilst the question of specie payments is in abeyance, the pro dent business man is careful about cog trading debts payable in the distant fo tare, and tbe nation should follow th same rule. A prostrate commerce is to be re built and all industries encouraged.The young men of the country, thos who from their age most be its ruler twenty-five years hence, have a greate interest in maintaining the nations honor. A moment's reflection as t what will be our commanding infiuenc among the nations of the earth in thei day, if they are only true to themselve should inspire them with national pride All divisions, geographical, political am religious, can join in this common sen timent. How the public debt is to be paid o specie payments resumed is not so im portant as. that a policy should be a dopted and acquiesced in. The deter mination to do is worth more than di vided councils upon the method of (Ling Legislation upon this subject may no be necessary now, nor even advisable but it will be when civil law is mori fully restored in all parts of the conn try, and trade resumes its wonted cban ncls. It will be my endeavor to execute al laws in good faith, to collect all reve nurs assessed, and to have them prop erij accounted tor ana economical^ disbursed. I will, to the best of my ability, ap point to office only those who will carry out this design. In regard to foreign policy, I would deal with all nations as equitable law re quires individuals to deal with each othcr, and I would protect the law abiding citizen, whether cf native or foreign birth, wherever his rights are jeopardized or the flag of our country floats. ] would respect the rights of all nations, demanding equal respect for our own If others depart from this rule in thcii dealings with us, we are compelled tc fuilow their precedent. The proper treatment of the original occupants of this land, the Indian, h one deserving of careful study. I will favor any course towards them whicl" J? 1- M'?>'Kan??An ft M/l ilUlrtinf/ lenus LU UICU liuuuanuu uuu uitiujitH citizenship. The question of suffrage is one whicl is likely to agitate the public so long a? a portion of their people Is to be exclu ded from its privileges in any State. I seems to me very desirable that thii question should be sett'ed now, and ] entertain the hope^nd express the de sire that it imy be by the ratification o the Fifteenth ariticle of amendment t< the Constitution. In conclusion, I ask patient forbear ancc throughout the land, and a deter mined effort on the pafb of every citizet to do his share towards cementing t happy union; and I ask the prayers o the cation to Almighty God in behal of this consummation. THE HOMESTEAD IN THE COURTS. Judge Carpenter, of the Charlestoi Circuit, has recently had before him the question of the constitutionality o the "Homestead" exemption law. Th case was that of Joseph Purcell for an other, vs. Dr. J. E. Whaley. Whale; had in 1866, confessed judgment to th plaintiff for $4,368,70 ; and the Sheril recently levied the execution upon th defendant's plantation; laying off befor sale, a homestead of the value of 81,00C The plaintiff filed his objections to th allotment of the homestead, and the cas was argued pro and con. Judge Carpcn ter, in a lengthy opinion, decides tha the Homestead Law is unconstitutions and void as to liens existing previous t the passage of the homestead law. Afte citing numerous authorities, the opinio concludes with these points: "The tacts in this case show tha the judgment was rendered more tha a year before the passage of the Home stead Law; that the only real estat owned by the defendant, is the tract c land containing about four hundred acre levied on; and that at Sheriffs Bale i will not sell for more than twenty-fou hundred dollars, although its real valu for planting purposes is between fou and five thousand dollars. i- This judgment was by law a rested i- right, a lien, a contract. Had the State i- the constitutional power to direst the e plaintiff of his rights, andinrest the defendant with them ? h Upon the principle inrolred in this " case, there is difference between liens e by mortgage and judgment.. The form8 er are specific, the latter general, but r both are rested, legal rights, entitling >1 the holder to a ss.le of the property, or so o much thereof as will be sufficient to sate isfy the demand. r In my judgment, so much of the Act 8 of the General Assembly as exempts a portion of the land levied on from sale ^ under execution is in conflict with the Constitution of the United States and void. It is therefore ordered that the Sheriff proceed to sell tbo property levied upon and advertised for sale in this case with* r\MAtrtaiAna V*? Inn UUb rc^ttiu IU VUC piui WIUUO Ul tuu mn iD relation to tho Homestead, passed ^ since tbe rendition of the judgment, and that he execute the process of the ' Court, enforcing the judgment according to the remedy existing at the time of the rendition of the judgment, and the making of the contract between the j parties." The case will doubtless go before the Supreme Court of the State for a final 7 hearing. If that tribunal sustains Judge Carpenter's views, the Sheriff will be at work again, undoing the calculations r of many families who have relied upon this law as their only protection from I want. The people of the State are not ready to have a final opinion pronounced on this question now. A year tttI*V? Av/llnnrw rvwnonnrifr p Ul unu UiVIV} TT ?iU VIVIIUHI^ t VC^/VI ft vj j ' will rcsillt in the holiest debtor's having compromised his old dues, and rer lieved himself from the fear of thfljSherifF. We hope the Supreme Court will *not hurry to a decision of this question; . and by this means give our people a ( further breathing spell. Every day is diminishing the amount of indebtcdI ness, uuder fair compromises. A year } or two more is all that is needed. I Yurkville Enquirer. ?: fcA <t DESPERATE AFFRAY IN EDGEFItlLD. On yesterday morning there was an ( auction of bank furniture in Hamburg, in front of a store on the corner of Cen t tre and Merer streets* While the sale was in progress, a Mr. Sharpton, with [ two packs of fire crackers in his pocket, 4 aided by a young man, William W. Kenf nedy, the County Marshal, set fire to ^ one of the packs in the utreets and then slipped back into the crowd without being detected. The noise made by the explosion was heard by the County Com* j missioner. J. J. Kennedy* an tincle i of the marshal, who attempted to disf cover the authors of the disturbance, f but unsuccessfully. He having retired, William W. Kennedy and a young man, J. Henry Keys, procured more of the fire-Crackefs, abd the former holding, the latter set them fire. This repitition a of the offence again brougt out the com, missiener, and still unable to discover f the perpetrators, in a very exoitedman* e ner he exclaimed alolld, that whoever - did it was a G?d cl?d rascal. At j this remark Keyes stepped forward, and o said, " I shot the crackers, and am no ff more a G?d d?d rascal than yon are." e The elder Kennedy then drew a pistol e from his side, and Kcyes whipped oot h a large knife, while at the same time e the younger Kennedy, taking his relae tive's part, drew a revolver and fired on i- Keyes, but missed hit target. Keyes t immediately turned at d left the place, d saying that he was unarmed, but would 0 return in a little while better prepared 1 pared. "When he had gone, Kenn dy, n the commissioner, entered a house near corner, while Kennedy, the marshal, ret mained to await his antagonist'!) return, n In a few minutes Keyes was seen advan! cing down the street toward Kennedy, e with a pistol presented, ^nd the latter >f jumping behind the trunk of a large is tree which grew on the edge of the ? ' . P L-.A it pavement, urea upon me xormer, uui, ir again missing. Without returning the e fire, Keyes still advanced, when Kenir nedy fired again, br\t still without effect, but at the second fire Keyes him self shot s.nd a portion of bis antagonist's person being nncorered by a ?bend" in the tree-trnnk, the ball entered bis groin, inflicting a very dangerous wound. Though shot, Kennedy fired twice again, but with no better snccessthan formerly, and then his ammunition being exhausted, he stepped out from behind the tree, begging Keyes not to shoo!, asjhe was unarmed. Keyes' friends also interposing he put up his pistol, and Kennedy, sinking rapidly, was carried away in what was supposed to be in a dying condition. While the fight was progressing below, the elder Kennedy, from a second story window, is said to have fired on Mr. Robert Kemigham, one of Keyes' friends, but did not hit his mark Dr. Flournoy Carter summoned to attend Mr. Kennedy, ' J S 1 A pronounced me wouna aangeruua, uut, perhaps, nob mortal. We understand tbat there has been, for some time, bad blood between the two families, caused by Commissioner Kennedy's believed complicity iti the arrest of young Keyes' father, last year, and subsequent brutal treatment, by the Federal soldiers at Aiken, which fact may throw some light on the bloody affair. No arrests have boen made of any of the parties concerned.?Augusta Chronicle, March 4. PLANT CORN. The Chronicle and Sentinel well says: We are fearful lest the present high price of cotton shall induce the Georgia planter to devote too much of his land this year to the production of that staple to the neglect of a full corn crop. Such a policy, if adopted, will surely lead to the rui n of those who engage in it. We care not what price cotton may * V.? ? -of ni-tf tt nf thngo nlnntom l/UUg) bug UIOl UUKJ VI wuvwv who would prosper is to secure full and ample p*aaJejan We hear a great deal of nonsense talked these days about its being cheap* er to buy bacon than to raise it, when a pound of cotton will bring the price required to purchase a pound of bacon; and that an acre of land planted in cotton will bring money enough at present prices to purchase as iguch corn as three or four acres will produce. Those who argue in this way, and act in accordance with these theories, will always bo poor. Their stock and work animals will never be able to perform full work, and every living thing about the plantation will speak trumpet-tonged against such a false system. It matters not how much cotton the planter produces, bo can never make large net gain so long as he compelled to purchase at high prices everything consumed in making the crop. A large crop of cotton made in this way would tend to depress prices while the extraordinary demand for grain and provisions growing out of a failure on the part of cotton planters to make their own supplies, would send prices up. This, then, is the inevitablo result to be derived from large cotton to the exclusion of corn plaating^loW priced cotton?high priced corn?lean and weak Work stock ?starved farm animals?empty pockets?shoeless children?threadbare clothing and sour dispositions. The experience of our planting friends will bear us out in the declaration that planters will not feed sufficiently when they have to buy provisions. They will also purchase cheap supplies?musty corn, poor bacon, etc.,?whicb in turn produces disease among their stock, and often heavy losses in the very midst of the plowing season. Have we all foreotton so soon the distress and want and disease of the year 1867, following an almost total failure of the crop of 1806? Will not planters be warned in time of a like and immiuent danger growing out of a failure to try to make provitions ? A very curious railroad acciden haprecently near Mirzapore, India. A largo elephant, seeing the red light and the ' ~ 1-- ?? ?Vn nniao lnn/imnfiVP BmUKe, t'UUlilUUCU tub UU1UJ was an enemy to be summarily demol? ished. He accordingly placed himself on the track, and met the strange creature head on, with trunk and tusks.? The result was a dead elephant. and eleven cars capsized. Only one man was killed. VAKIUTi. o - ? ^ The Nashville Union says : "There ^ resides on Hardin Pike, twelve miles . from the city, Mrs. Dinah Vies, a widow ^ lady, who is now verging on her 114th c year. She is vigorous and healthy;and q is, though incredible to relate, still able ^ to ride horseback and attend to her per- ' sonal wants. She has been married three times, has over 400 decendents living, 8 and ha/i been a widow for twenty-three S years. She has one great-great-great v. grand-daughter three years of age.? ^ Then she has a daughter named Mrs. & Sawyers, who is in her ninetieth year. " Each one of her husbands served in the revolutionary war, for which she draws a pensions." b 41 On Saturday, Gen. Van Allen, (for- b merly of Gen. Hooker's staff, and in ? command at ^orktown,) who has re- j, cently arrived from Cuba, had an in- ^ terview with Gen. Grant, in behalf of 0 the Cuba revolutionists, who wished him to urge upon the President elect ^ and Uj-on leading members of Congress, the necessity of giving them some encouragement in their efforts to free ? Cuba. General Grant replied, that the ^ Cubans not only bad his earnest sympa- ^ thy, but he was disposed to give them the more substantial support of official ^ recognition. Spain, by her unfriendly ^ course to us during the rebellion, had relieved us of any obligation to consider her interest in the matter. He fa* d vored the resolution offered by Senator tl Sherman, Saturday night, authorizing the President of the United iStates to b acknowledge the independence of Cnba d when in his judgment, it would be proper. I New Orleans, unlike any other ^ by wild animals. Deer are shot within a five miles of the City Hall, and alligs tors abound in neighboring swamps.? 8 Old rosidents, indeed, remember when ' yonng alligatiors were caught in the a ? . . .. . v street gutters. The last news is tnat an American Bpotted tiger has complete- ^ ly devoured a little girl iu a parish not far c from the city. These animals, it is said, are increasing in that part of Louisana. 11 v Dancing the death-ContiLloft in ^ the Air.?A lady by the name of Mrs. Roach, was recently murdered In the g County of Atlstin, Texas. h She was sitting in her chamber sew- & ingj when some unknown person fired I through the window, killing her instantly. The murder created the wildest g excitement in the vicinity, and every ^ effort was Inade to discover the perpe- s trator. Suspicion fell upon a young D man whose suit to Mrs. Roach's datlgh* a ter had been rejected, and he was ar- D rested. A remarkable Circumstance g. fixed the crime upon. In his pocket t was found a copy of the New Orleans Bui- j letin, from which a piece had been torn. ^ On the floor of the loom in which Mrs. _ Roach was shot, a piece of paper was ^ picked up, scorched and discolored by powder, which precisely fitted to the torn place in the paper. This confirm- ^ ation of their suspicions induced the a neighbors to escort the young man to a ^ neighboring grove, where hd"was soon r put to dancing the deatfl-collion in the a air. 8 a Unhappiness in Married Life.? Wc clip the subjoined few, but highly ^ sensible remarks, from the columns of a Savannah cotemporary: "The last number of the New York Ledyei has an editorial article on this point. We quote a paragraph which the ^ unhappy can accept or reject, according ^ to their pleasure: "It is almost incredible from what a variety of circumstances marriages may prove nnhappyj but it is found, in by ^ far the majority of cases, that the hus- ' band is somehow or other the cause 1 of the evil. Domestic felioity is seldom marred by the *oman j it is her 1 empire, and she is no more likely to destroy it than the bird is to pull her own 1 nest to pieces. She stands by home as < a principle, and it is her nature to seek y to render it as agreeable as possible to { her husband. She has also a more in- i tense sense than man of the decencies < t mo la more inuoui w u?t? nu vines properly observed?to bate a cred* Able appearance before neighbors?in tiort, as she says, to hare everything ight. Men?even sensible, well eduated men?are often rebels against jany of the proprieties, bat women rery arely." Good Roles foe all.?Profane wearing is abominable. Vulgar linage is disgusting. Loud laughing is upolite. Inquiaitiveness is offensive, 'attling is mean. Telling lies is con* smptible. Slander is devilish. Igno* ance is disgraceful, and laziness is bamefol. Avoid all the above rices, nd aim at usefulness. This is the r6ad y which to become respectable. Walk i it. Never be ashamed of honest laor. Pride is a curse?a hateful rice, fever act the hypocrite. Speak the rath at all times. Never be discouraged at persevere, and mountains will beome mole hills. A New Dbink.?The KnoxviUe 'ress and Herald says: "Some ingeioas case has introduced a new style f 'beverage' at some of oor bar-rooms, ; is called the 'Beast's cock-eye', and iffers from tho ordinary 'cock-tails' in [lis?you stir it with a spoon*, squint ne eye when you swallow it, and sfip he spoon in your pocket as the bareeper turns around to make change." Taste Not V?Drunk 1 Young man id you ever stop to think how terrible hat word sound* ? Did you ever mine wnacmuerj juu rought upon your friends, when yon egrade your manhood by getting drunk T Drunk ! How it rings in the ear of a t wing wife! How it makes the heart of mother bleed 1 How it crushes out the nf n father, and hrinwa rtmmtrh ' nd shame upon sisters ! Drunk I See him as he leans against ome friendly house. He stands ready o fall in the jaws of hell, unconscious s to his approaching fate. The wife rith aching heart, sits at the window to tear her husbands footstepn,. but they ome not 1 He is drunk! Drunk I He is spend' Qg the means of support for liquor, rhile his family is starring for bread, lis children for olothibg. Drunk I His reputation' is going? -one! His friends, one by one, are I I.!. <? ? Ua rrnaa dn*n iUViUg 111LU IU UIO lOlt. MW gvw o bis grays 'unhonored and unsung*? hunk! A young married lady from Spritig- . eld, 111., called at the polioe head^oarers in New Orleans, last week, to get ome clue to her husband who has been nissiog some months. He always made Southern tour in winter, she said, and eade a deal great money, keeping her applied, fie had been gone so long his time> however, that she was anxious, t turned out that he was a professional Lief, and is now in prison. The poor roman's horror and augtiish ma^be maginedi "There is no accounting for tastes." Ve ohew tobacco, the Hindoos Hide) nd the Patagonians, guano. Our chilIron delight in candy, the Africans, ill ock salt, while the Esquimaux leap for , bit of tallow candle. To us turfes are , savory dish; the French revel on frogs ,nd snails; other savages on snakes. A citizen of Chicago demanded satisaction of his family physician for ia* ultiner his wife, whereupon the doctor track the injured man fire times with , elung-shot, leaving him almost insen* ible. The doctor Was let off with A ine of ten dollars, while the citixen sras fined three dollars for being the % ggressor. In a very thin hotise, an actress spoke rery low in her communication to hef over. The aotor, whose benefit it hap' o be, exclaimed, with a woeful voioe) 'My dear, yoa may speak out, there is lobody to hear us/' A baker recently waited on one of lis customers, to know how it was he lid Dot intendjto take any breqdofhipi. ras told in reply, "that he had never ?iven him a job/' The baker was pereotly satisfied with the reason, foT the justomer was anundertaker.