The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, July 29, 1869, Image 2
THE JOURNAL. ;
Camden, July 20,1800 t
LITERARY. .]
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Col. W. Z. JjEITNER Will auarefcH me j
DeKalb Literary Society, in the Town i
Hall on Monday next, August 2d, at *
"half past eight o'clock, P. M. The J
public are respectfully invited, to at- ?
* tend. ?
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RAIN. i
Although Camden and its vicinity J
have been blessed with abundant rains, .
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wo still hear complaints from some portions
of the District, that as yet none <
has reached them. We hope, however,
since tho rains have begun, that '
they will visit every portion of our ]
parched country, frequently. I
DUSINESS. I
Our town for the past week has pre.
sentcd the appearance of its usual stagnation.
The rain seems to have thrown
around us a somnolcscent garment, in
the folds of which all lie perfectly content,
complacently watching the ceru
lean firmament, no longer vexed with
anxious longings as to the promise of a
shower.
The merchants stand about most frequently
in front of their establishments,
with arms "a-kimbo," searching op and
down for a customer.
The M. D's. however present a pleasant
contrast by the manner in which
they ride around, urging their horses
into the fastest of slow trots, giving one
the idea of an immense pressure of business.
The lawyers work silently and incomparative
solitude, but many an unfortuuaie
finds himself in their web, ,
U.nrr V>nfr>ro lin thinks that there are
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"breakers ahead." These lawyers uphold
the adage, "he that laughs last,
laughs best," and doubtless many come
to the same conclusion before they ajc
polished off in "manner and form" as
is suitable to the tenets of these professional
gentlemen.
Our old town bears the improvements
now going on with singu'ar equanimity,
not even being startled by the new
Post Office in process of construct:on
on Itutledge Street, next door to General
Kershaw's Office under the supervision
of the new appointee, whom
the present quarters don't suit, for what
reason we do not-know.
Taxes, form the most engrossing topic
of conversation- and discussion among
our citizebs. They touch the most vital
portions of the body, viz : the pockets,
bit people look in vain therein for
the wherewith to liquidate them. It i3
decidedly non eat inventus, with the
greater part of them.
Many are filing Memorials with the
County Auditor, praying that a reduction
be recommended, which, we understand,
ho has done in several in- a
stances. p
This is not presumed to be "a fac- c
tious attempt" on the part of tax pay- ^
ors, to obstruct the wheels of the chariot
of government which rolls on towards p
its destiny, in a manner gratify- (J
inc f?') to behold. No restive animals
are those which form the motive power
of the said chariot, but steady going
hacks, blind, deaf and broken winded, il
Finally, upon a comparison being Y
instituted between our condition and I
that of out neighbors, we bave come a
to the conclusion that we are about as c
well ojf'in a material point of view as u
an// of them, and therefore, wc wind up a
tKii article, by saying, that we are con n
tcnty and drink a glass of water to 11
the health of CamdeD, generally, and a
ourselves particularly.
"LET US IIAVE PEACE." S
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On Friday morning last, as we learn p
from the Augusta Chronicle & Senti- v
nel, the people of the quiet village of B
Edgefield were surprised by the arri- ?
val of a large body of Gen. Scott's uiilitin,
u.nder the command of the notori- p
ous" Hubbard, State Constable, the fit p
instrument for doing Gov. Scott's dirty ^
work. Our time and space prevent us 1
from giving more than a brief abstract a
of the affair. Meeting with no rcsis 1
tance, the troops took peaceable pos- t
cncclnn Tluiir firal mnt*n n...4^ ,Un V
OVw.;.vu. UlOb UIVYU UUS tU UiU"
charge tho jailor and place a guard
around tho premises, while Hubbard ^
entered tho building to engage in his c
favorite employment of torturing three 1
or four prisoners charged with killing j
two negroes and lyoching Eisenberger,
tho Coroner of the District.
. - HOW THE TROUBLE ORIGINATED.
Some weeks since there was a murder \
committed in the county, and tyo ne- i
groes were tho victims. Though no t
proof was obtained as to who were the i
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nurderers, still three white men were J
irrested by the county authorities upon
luspicion and lodged in the jail at Edge- i
icld Court House?one of these men an r
)ne-armcd Confederate soldier named 0
Lanier. Despite the prompt arrest and c
ncareeration of these parties, the ne- t
?roes living around the Court House a
vere very much dissatisfied, and were t
oud in their murmurs that Union men f
vere shot down like dogs by rebel j
mshwhackcrs, and the criminals were
illowcd to go unpunished. A white
scalawag named Eisenberger, the Coro- ,
ler of the county, took the part of the
legroes, and is said to have labored as- a
ill t
.* J 4a Annca fwAimlA f no nr>P'i
I1UUUU0IJ IV waucu bi vumiw vt.v v.wm.
Through the representation of this man, ?
t is alleged, that four detectives were
tent to the county from Columbia to I
svork up the case.
Some time after all this bad happen- ?
3d, a few thoughtless lads of the village '
isserabled one night, and, after making '
i figure of straw snto some faint rescm- T
blance of "old Eisenberger," took the '
:*ffigy out a short distance from the I
lown and made of it a jolly good bou5re.
When the Coroner was informed 1
if this act of a parcel of boys, he preiended
to be very much alarmed, and
;o fear that his lcyal life was endanger- 1
?d by the machinations of the Ku Klur. 1
Hastily packing up his (raps, he repair- ;
id, by private conveyance, to Columbia, c
ind poured forth his grievances into c(
he willing ear of the State Executive,
jov. II. K. Scolt, beseeching that the 'J
atter would grant him protection. It c
vas then decided, we are told, by the c.
jovenor to order out the safeguard of
he Stafe, ye loyal (colored) militia.?
\rms were ordered to be furnished, and
he Coroner once more returned to his v
lorne in Edgefield County. Citizens c
ii uit* iowu sium u lutv digitus unci uu o
cturn ho entered the village one night i
it a very late hour surrounded by a r
arge body-guard of negro militia, and 1
narched through the deserted streets; t
>ut uo encounter with Ku-Klux took t
jlace. Like the famous King of Brent- I
ord, who, vi
''wi.h full ten thousand men, d
da'chcd up ilie hill and hen ma'clicd down s
again," ?
Siscnberger, after this parade of hissa- j:
tie vctrans, left the town, without hav- t
ng an opportunity ottered for testing I
he mettle of the "Mclish." v
A committee of citizens bas been np 1
minted by the people of Edgefield Court r
louse to go to Columbia and represent t
o the Governor of South Caroliua the t
tate of affairs existing in the town, and
irotcst against, the manner in which
he people of Edgefield are being treat- ,
d. The Committee left for Columbia ,
Sunday morning, but the people do not
inter tain much hope of success of the _
nission, as one of the State spies also .
vent to Columbia on the same train
nth the Committee, and will, doubtless ,
iil Scott full of lies about the thousands
?f Union men, white and black, who ,
tave fallen sacrifices to rebel hate with- t
n the past month in Edgefield County. ,
Among the numerous evils which ,
tave resulted to the people of Edgefield .
rout this iuvasion of the county by the
legro militia, has been the desertion of g
he fields by the negro laborers. Many
f the planters have employed rcgro laiorers
for the year, and contracted to
ive them a portion of the crop made
nstcad of wages. As soon as the cap- h
lire of Edgefield Court Ilouse by the 3
cgro militia was heard of, nearly all t
bese farm bands left their employers n
nd crowded into the towu for the pur- 1
oso of joining their colored military w
ouirades. Many farmers are thus left e
igh and dry so far as planting is con P
erned, and many of them are without *
single hand on their plantations. Nice ti
rospcct for crops ahead in Edgefield k
'ounty, certainly! ^
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THE.HEARTH AND HOME. 1
Tl e above presents the title of an jj
lustrated Weekly, published in New p
'ork City, by Pettingill, Bates & Co. (
t is devoted to the farm, the garden
l
nd fireside. The articles are well and '
ritically written, and the general "get
p" is very artistic. Its contents arc rJ
ttractivc as its title, and wc cheerfully v
?commcnd it to our readers. Speci- 0
icn copies at the Journal Office. Call
nd examine it for yourselves.
The Way the Money Does.?The )
Itate census appears to be but another
xpedient for tilling the pockets of the
ladical undcrstrappcvs, black and white,
' > ? i>~ n?u h
nt'l tne pcopio S uiouey. i>y Hie fiu cction
of "Ad act to provide for the s
numeration of the inhabitants of the F
Itate," the census taker receives as a *
ompensation for his services, five dollars g
ier day, and his assistants four dollars ^
icr day, while actually employed. The c
Jeorgctown Times informs us that it T
ook three assistants five days to take the 1
ensus at North and South islands, which F
t twelve dollars, makes the comfortable 1
ittlc sum of sixty dollars, or more than s
hrce dollars for each head of a family '
isited. The Times pertinently asks: J
'Can the chief census ta^er tell us why 1
t was necessary for all three of his as- ri
istauts to wait at one time on the head }
if each family on South Island ? Could 1
lot the same object be accomplished by c
me competent assistant, and eight dol- 1
urs per day saved to the State?"
Charleston Daily News. '
A German astronomer, probably e,'oiving
the fact from the depths of his t
oner conscionstmss, has discovered that c
his respectable old earth is soon to have j <1
mother moon. j l
3L00DY WORK IN BARNWELL.
A serious and bloody riot occurred
n Barnwell County on Thursday last,
growing out of the election for township
iHicials, held on that day. The scene
>f the affair was at a place near the
tanks of the Savannah River, known
.s the Upper Three Runs, distant about
wenty-five miles from Augusta. The
ollowing are the main facts, as given
n the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel:
THE ELECTION.
The township was of course inhabited
>y two parties, Radicals and Democrats
.nd each faction had its candidates in
he field. The principal officer to bo
ilected was a clerk, and for this posiion
the Democrats were running a very
espectable gentleman named John S.
Jreen, while the candidate of the negroes
was a man named Pickens Woodvard,
the son of a wcll-to-du-merchant,
yho, we understand, had always stood
veil in the county, but who, be'mg very
jopular with the negroes, suffered his
tame to be used on the Radical ticket.
Tho election took place on Thursday
noruing. aud was held at Nat. Greene's
itorc. Of course, as the negroes bad a
arge numerical majority, they carried
he Township and elected their enndilutc,
while Greene was defeated. There
verc present at the election, besides
ithcr white men, the Democratic canlidate,
John Greene, his son, Frank
Jrcene, his son-in-law, John Holland,
lames Tyler, Wyatt Tyler, and three'
ir four others of the same name, Pick
ins Woodward, his brother, and W.J.
iVoodward, his fatlfer.
EOW TOE RIOT COMMENCED
After the election was over, and it
ras known what party had been sucicssful,
a crowd of the white men were
tandiug around the store discussing it,
n which crowd were the parties above
ucntioned. At length one of the Tvers,
an ardent Democrat, remarked,
hat while he hated very badly his pary
being defeated by the negroes, still
le attached no blame to the latter for
rhat they had done, but the men lie
lid blame were the ' d d white
calawags who ran on the negro ticket."
Vt this remark, A. 1\ Woodward stcp>ed
up to the speaker and said that his
mother's name was on that ticket > that
le was no scalawag, and Tyler mast
rithdraw the offensive epithet. The
alter declined to make the required
etraciion and an altercation between
he parties ensued, while their respecive
fricuds gathered around.
THE MELEE COMMENCES.
While the quarrel was progressing
ictwccn Tyler and A. P. Woodward,
mt before blows had passed, tl.e Hadcal
candidate stepped into a crowd
rith a drawn revolver in his hand to
akc his brother's part. As sooa as
his was ohs rved, John firreng. the
>cmocratic camlldffu, fell upon floodrard
and knocked the pistol from his
land. Almost at the same instant A
Woodward turned from Tyler, drew
lis revolver and shot Joliu Greene,
idling hi in almost instantly. Here
rohn Holland drew hisoistol to defend
lis father-in-law, but before he could
rc, Woodward shot him, inflicting a
aortal wound.
A SCENE OF CARNAGE.
The mclce here became general, and
t is impossible to give any detailed deception.
The negroes retreated from
he precinct as soon as the firing coinicnccd,
and the field was left to the
'ylcrs, Hollands, Greenes and Woodrards.
As fast as the combatants
mptied their pistols, the useless weaons
were thrown aside and the knife
ras drawn and freely used by both paries.
Wo learn that as John Holland
iy dying on the ground, with the balls
rbistliug around bim, he managed to
ock and aim his revolver, and shot A.
\ Woodwood twice, one of the balls
enetrating his back, the other taking
fleet in his kidneys, the latter wound,
t is believed, being mortal. Frank
Ironnn III iu ola/1 Iind fiAVPfolv I
rounded and stabbed, with a knife.?
inies Tyler, Wyatt Tyler and two or
lireo others, were badly stabbed, but
lone of their wounds will prove mortal,
'bus closed this terrible* combat, in
rhicb otic man was killed outright, two
thcrs mortally wounded, (one of whom
ias since died,) in which every man eti;nged
was, we believe, more or less soiously
wounded, and which will carry
nouruing and desolation into so many
auiilics.
CONCLUSION.
On yesterday morning, at an early
lour, a messenger came up from the
ccne of slaughter to this city for the
(urpese of procuring a coffin for Mr.
ircenc. Later in the day another mescnger
came for another coffin?this one
or Mr. Holland. We suppose the next
ne ordered will be for Mr. A. P. Woodrard,
who, we learn, was not expected
o live. All of the parties in this trade
occurrence were, we underhand,
ncn highly honorable and of undoubted
? *? i?f- A _j
ocial position. A. J*. tvoouwaru is
rcll known in this gity, having been
iving here for two or throe years, clerkng
for tlie house of \V. S. Royal, coricr
of Rroad and Centre streets, and
tad gone home for a few days on a vist
to his family. lie is a man of good
haractcrand a cap'tal shot with a pisol,
having frequently in his employer's
tore, shot off the head of a rat at twcny
paces with a Colt's revolver.
The Indians.?Samuel 31. Janncy,
he distinguished minister of the So-:
iety of Friends, appointed by Prosileiit
Grant to ihu .Northern Superin- ,
cudcncy of Indian Affairs, has written '
a letter from Omaha to a Friend in 1
Philadelphia, which is published in a i
late number of the ^Friends' Intelligencer. <
Tho date of the letter is 6th month (of 1
June) 18,1809. At that time Friend i
Janney had visited but three of the a- .
gcncies, those for the Winnebagocs, the i
Omahas, and the Pawnees. With each <
of these tribes he held a council, and
found them much pleased at having ]
.Friends for their caretakers. They call
the agent Father, the superintendent
Grandfather, and tho President of the
United States Great Father or Great
Grandfather. Of these tbreo tribes the '
Winnehaones are. Friend Jannev thinks .
riglll trUUlUJCUt UUU JUUIUIVUO a|;piiauoti? i
they may in time be civilized and Christianized.?New
York Sun.
The South: Carolina Railroad i
Company.?It gives us great pleasure
to announce that the negotiations for
some time pending in London for the
exchange of the pastdue guaranteed
bonds of the South Carolina Iluilroad
Company for new first mortgage bonds
of the company, have been brought to
a successful issue. This gratifying intelligence
is contained in a cable telegram,
dated London, July 17th, received
by President Magrath from the Hon.
C. M. Furrnan, to wlion the conduct of
the negotiations was entrusted.
The differences of the South Carolina
Railroad Company with tho city of Augusta
aud the Columbia and Augusta
Railroad Company, wero amicably adjusted
some weeks ago, and now that
the greatest difficulty of all?the equitable
arrangement of the past-due debt
?has-been overcome, the Sou'h Carolina
Railaord Conpany will, we trust,
find no obstacle in the way of a rapid
return to a condition of prosperity and
profit. The South Carolina Railroad is
the highway of the State. Upon it depends
in a large measure our commercial
progress and business success. And
whether we rpgard it as a private corporation
or as a great public work, we
have every reason to hope that our
brightestanticpations of its future prosperity
will be more than realized. The
road has had to eucounter many dangers
and embarrassments winch arc Known to
the management alone; but the worst is
nvi-r, iuul. ilie day la last?oppronviiiuy- which
will reward the stockholder for
years of patient waiting, and at thesame
time enlarge the usefulness of the company
as the leading feeder of our commerce
and trade.? Charleston News.
A rabid Radical cotemporary, having
in view the Ilayncs tragedy, says:
"Can you name a Southern soldier or
officer who has been rtiuidrred in the
North since the war ? We defy any mun
to do this; and yet tlieic are two Southern
men in the North for every Northern
man in the South. Rut if such
assassinations were li rhtly suggested,
and when committed, applauded by the
Northetn press, and the victim malignantly
misrepresented, might we not
expect to harvest a crop of assassinations
as bloody as that ol the South? Has'
assassination become the boast of chivalry
7"
The Southern soldiers who went
North after the surrender demean themselves
as gentlemen, and have ueither
broken the laws uorrendered themselves
obnoxious to the communities in which
they reside. Had they sought by obtaining
control of the local governments
to inaugurate a reign of terror, plunder
without stint, and persecute whoever
did not endorse their scoundrdism, violence
and I loodshcd would have frequently
resulted, as a natural consequence.
Men's natures are about tbe i
same the world over The passions are I
no more under control North than South; |
aud too many individuals, smarting under
real or supposed wrongs, choosy to
become their own judge, jury and executioner.
Men in the South who stir
up bad blood run the same risk encountered
elsewhere. Every deed of
blood in tho South finds its fellow in
the North. A single issue of a Northern
journal frequently cuntaius recitals
of half a dozen tragedies committed on
"loyal" s)il, tho results either of passion
or cupidity. Rut it suits the purposes
of Radicalism to invest every tragic
affair in the South with a political,
significance. The object is to make
sentiment in the North. The scheme
will no longer wiu. The country fully
understands our carpet-baggers and
scalawags, and the motives prompting
them. It is their death struggle. A
year hence, evou the negroes, who have
been their trusty followers, will shun
them as the p'ague. Every dog has his
(lay. They have haa theirs.
Mcmphis Avalanchc.
Fertimzers.?The Charleston Courier
of the 10th inst., contains the following
notice:
Cotton planters are invited to visit
the l'arni at the Etiwan Woiks, of tho 1
Sulphuric Acid and Supor-lMiosphate <
Company, about three miles from the |
city, to see the cotton produced by their J
Fertilizers. Tho Heel were planted on
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the best informed but the most demor- i
alized; the Omahas the most orderly '
aod virtuous, and the Pawnees the most
warlike. The last mentioned are less <
civilized than the others, but they have
one redeeming characteristic. They do i
not drink ardent spirits, and will not i
allow it to be brought on their roserva- '
tions. Our sober Friend also had his i
1 /* 11 A.? \ A
eyes opened to iemaie oeauty, dui sorrowfully
records, "I have not yet seen a
handsome Indian woman." Nor does i
he hold out hopes of immediate good |
results from his labor/ among the In- ,
dians, though ho is confident that by
neez, where Noah's ship . jested, and
still is upon that mountain ; aud men
may see it afar in clear weather. That
mouutain is full seven miles high, and
somfc men say that have set n and touched
the ship, and put their fingers on the
part where the devil went out when
Noah said ''Benedicite." But they
that say so speak without knowledge; for
no one can go up to the mountain for
the great abundance of snow that is always
ou that mountain, both summer
and winter, so thatnomau ever weut
up since the time of Noah, except a
monk, who, by God's grace, brought
one of the planks down, which is yet in
the monastery at the fuot of the mountain.
This must have been the plaok
afterward carried off to Constantinople,
for three of the doors of St. Sophia were
veneered with the wood fioui the ark.
There are few places of such antiquity
the site of which is so satisfacioriiy
determined as that of flic Cave of Muelipelah
It is by no means irnprob .ble
tlia b'ino.o of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, are reposing there, though CalwrTi'
in bis
viii ?imiuii;o uo biiui* ?.
time iu the church ofSt. S->pro Minerva,
at Home; and portious, at least, arc
still to be seen in the Cathedral ot'
Prague. Bcrtrundon de la Brocquir,
was shown in Constantinople in 1-32,
"a largo stone, in the shape of a washstand,
on which they say Abraham gave
the angels to eat when they were going
to destroy Sodoru and Gomorrah " Another
relic of Abraham is preserved iu
the Caaba of Mecca. The original Caaba
was of radiant clouds, sent down from
Heaven at Adam's request as a representation
of the Paradise he had lost.?
On Adam's death this was removed,
whilst another of the same form, built
of stone by Seth, was destroyed iu tbc
Deluge. Iahmacl, by tire command of
God, rebuilt the Caaba, assisted by Abraham.
"A miraculous stone served Abrahatu
as a scuifold, rising and sinking
witb him as he built the walls of tbc sacred
difico. [t still remains there, an estimable
relic, and the print of the patriarch's
foot is clearly to be perceived ou
it by all true believers."
In a coi ner of the exterior wall of the
Caaba is a stone held in great veneration
by the Mohammedans. Some say
it was one the precious stones of Paradise;
others that it was Adam's guardian
angel, changed to stone for not being
moro watchful. Anyhow, it was
brought to Abraham and Ishmael by
the Angel Gabiicl?a jacinth of dazzling
whiteness then, but now as black
as ink, from the touch of sinlul men,
and only to recover its purity at the
Day of Judgment.
If we are to believe the Mohammedans,
they are in possession, likewise,
of the stone of Jacob's pillow?the rock
of the Sakrah, in the Mosques of Omar,
at Jerusalem?but the real stone, as
everybody knows, is in Westminister
Abbey.? Cornhill Magazine.
Tiie Iowa Democracy in the
Field.?The Iowa democracy have had
a State Convention from which they
have proclaimed their State ticket and
their new platform. In this new platform
they declare that they view with
alarm the unscrupulous majority in Congross
; that they want a reform in our
national banking system, and look to
its ultimate abolition; that they are opposed
to a high protective tariff, and to
military commissions; that they demand
no more, and will submit to uo less than
the settlement of the Alabama claims according
to the recognized rules of internatiourl
law (a sort of leather and pru
nulla resolution;) that they are in favor
of economy, retrenchment and a reduction
of taxes; that the Maine Liquor
Law is a disgrace to the statute
books of the State ; and that (and here
we get at the main idoas of the Convention)
a national Jolt i-; a national
the 22nd of April, and the forms on c
many of the plunts exceed eighty j.and i
on one plant one hundred and sixty-two <
wore counted. The attention of vititors t
isparticularly called to the-fact that the i
Eiiwau Fertilizer, No. 1, which consist i
af Super-rhosphate alone, shows finer <
uotton than No. 2, which is mixed with t
Peruvian Guano ; and also than that
portion which has been manured with i
Peruvian Guano alono. i
ANCIENT RELICS. !
We way not perhaps be surprised t
when told that the red earth from which 1
Adam was made is still pointed out both '
it Hebron and Jerusalem; but it is somewhat
startling to be assured bj Sir John t
Maundrell, that his skull was found at i
Golgotha. On the way to Baalbec, i
Maundrell mentions the tomb of Abel, i
said to have given the adjacent coun- 1
try in olden times the name of Abilene. 1
The tomb is thirty yards long, and yet i
it is believed to have been just propor- i
tioned to the stature of him who was I
buried in it. The men in those days, i
and the women, too, must have been J
giants indeed. The tomb of Eve, at i
Jedda, Barton tells us, is two hundred ]
paces long. That of Seth, on the slope I
of Antihbanus, is sixty feet in length, i
"It would have been twenty feet long- <
er, but the" prophet Seth, who came
here preaching to the people who worshipped
cows, was killed by them, and
was hastily buried, with his knees doubled
up uuder his legs." Noah's tomb,
on the opposite side of the valley, is one
hundred and twenty feet long. By the
time of Joshua the human race had begun
to degenerate. His tomb, near
Constantinople, is only thirty feet long.
Of course Sir John Maundrell -has
something marvelous to tell us about
Noah's ark. lie speaks cf a mountain
nailed Ararat, but the Jews call it Ta
mrse, and that whilo we favor the puvnent
of our present indebtedness aclording
to the striot letter of the conTact
(meanang greenbacks) we would .
ather repudiate the same than see it
nade the means for the establishment
>f an empire upon the ruins of constiutiional
law and literty.
Here we have repudiation fenced
ibout with conditions and contingencies^
jut the word is there, and unless Congress
at the approaching session shall
lo something with our abundant iejources
to lighten very materially our
burden of taxw, and to open a wayr
visible to the naked eye, for an early
extinguishment of the national debt, we
shall hear this dreadful word repudiation
more distinctly and more widely pronounced
by the democracy than they
jpeak it now. The Iowa democrats
looking evidently to the square issua,,
by and by, of repudiation; and at the '
same time they appear to have given up
the battle on "die almighty nigger,'*
for a resolution offered m the Convention
oq the fifteenth amendment was
laid on the table. In no two' States sofar
do the democrats agree upon their
platform fur the future; but on- the mo
a! ll I - T.:_ J
ii-jjr if uusiiuu tuuj aruj, uy a muu ui
natural law of gravitation, drifting to a
common ground; and. this general movement
will lose or gather strength according
to the folly or wisdom of the
party in power in the management of
the great money question.
New York Herald.
A New York paper gives the follows
ing melancholy account of what occurred
to a young lady who experimented
with patent hair dye.
A painful catastrophe has occurred
in New York. A beautirul damsel, with
all the charms of maidenhood, unfortunately
had black hair. Female vanity
and. Nib'.o's Theatre taught her that
blonde would be more attractive, so
she- rushed .0 the dye pot. Tho artist
was engaged for 5100, half in advance.
One side >f the turbulent da:k
hair was smoothed iato golden ripples,
whrn the hair dresser, to increase his
profit, resorted to inferior drugs. The
effect was disastrous. Purple and strcked.
and trrev and burned, and. indeed.
, t*
uttcly ruinous, was the last half of the
professors work. There remained foe
the broken-hearted'semi blond, only the
poor cousolation ofsuing fof damages.
The Coming. Chinamen.?The London
newspapers contain correspondence
from Canton stating that preparations
are making there for wholesale emigration
to the United States on the part of
the masses, who are but too eager to
embrace any oppoitUDity to gel awuj
from their mandarins and the bastinado.
One of these writers says there is one
caution to which the authorities of the
United States would do well to give "
fheir "attcnibom^tfiey-must keep the
whiskey-bottle from their new subjects.
Hitherto this has been done with tlio
most satisfactory results ; aud if it is
not done now, we are warned that weshall
get rather a bad bargain, a drunken
Chinaman being about us hard a coseas
a whiskey-drinking Indian.
IIowSmall Expenditures Count.
Five cents each morning. A mero
trifle. Thirty-Gve cents per week.?
Not much, yet it would buy coffee or
sugar for a whole family. 818.25 a
year. And this amount invested in a
savings bauk at the end of each year,
and the interest thereon at nix per cent,
computed annually, would in twelve
years amount to $1)70. Enough to buy
a good farm, iu the West.
Five cents before breakfast, dinner,,
and supper; you'd hardly miss it, yet
'tis fifteen conta a day; 81.05 per week.
EDtugh to buy a wife or a daughter a
dress. $51.60 a year. Enough to buy
a sma'l library of books. Invest this as.
before, and in twenty years you would
have over $2,000. Quite enough to
buy a good house and tot.
Ton cents each morning; hardly
worth a second thought; yet you can
buy a paper of pins on a spool of thread.
Several yards of muslins. $36.50 in
one year. Deposit this amount as before,
and you would have 81,340 in
twenty years; quite a song little fortune.
Ten ecnts before each breakfast,
dinner and supper?thirty cents a day.
It would buy a book for i'ic children.
82.10 a week; enough to pay for a year's
subscription to a good newspaper. 8109.
29 per year. With it you could buy a
good melodeon on which your wife or
daughter could produce sweet music to
pleasantly while the evening hours away.
And this amount, invested as
before, would in forty years produce the
desirable amount S12,000.
Boys, learn a lesson. If you would
be a happy youth, lead a sober life, and
be a wealthy and influential man?instead
of squandering your extra change,
invest in a library or a sauings bauk.
If you would be a miserable youth,
lead a drunken life, abuse your children,
grieve your wfie, be a wretched and
despicable being while you live, and finally
go down to a disbonerable grave
?take your extra change and iuvest it.
in a drinking saloon.
Turrots live to a wonderful age. A.
gentleman of New York City has a
parrot which has been in his possession
for upwards of forty-five years. This
bird, which is of the cockatoo kind, is
still very lively, getting off at uncertain
intervals the little speeches learned by
him in his youth, but not acquiring any
now phrases