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VOLUME 28. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CABOLINA, MARCH 11, 1869. NUMBER 80.;
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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"
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.