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. .E be WNeiNl aub 2t TRI-WEEKL Y EDITION .} WINNSBORO. S. C.. TIHIURSD)AY, AUGUST 29, 1878, {TOL. 2. NO, 89 ANOTHER WITNESS. -0 iHOW.TIl STATi OF NOUT[ VARO JINA WAS ROBEJW, Ex-Judge Wright, the Colored Ex. Supreme Judge of that Stato, Talks Most Interostingly of Himsolf and the "Notablos" of the Long Time Prosti'ate Stato, [PIron (he Phikulelphla Times.] When thieves knocked down and robbed Jonathan Jasper Wright, the colored South Carolinian, on Sixth street, not long ago, they were dealing with a very prominent man, He was the lrst colored man ad mitted to the bar of the Pennsyl vania courts; he was the first colored man admitted to the bar in ,amy State where the negro had io vote ; lie was the first colored car pet--bagger that entered the bor dors of South Carolina; he was the first colored man admitted to the bar of that State; he was the first colored man elected to any State Senate; he was the first colored man that over occupied a seat on the bench ; lie was the first and only colored iman that was elevated to the bench of the Supreme Court of the any State, and 4inally lie is the last man about whom there are pretty distinct statements that he has soiled his judicial robes and got found out, and thereby turned down from his high seat. He is one of the men that has made history for South Carolina since th reconstruction of the Palmetto State, and his last contribution to his own notoriety is summed up in three drink, the foolish exposure in a saloon of $200, a light, the .absence of that $200, 'and his re noval to bed, from which lie has just arison. In person lie is tall, broad-shouldered and j.Uuscular. His forehead is narrow, his eyes .dcepsset, his mouth large and his color the deepest black. His mo tion and speech are both slow and ponderons. A lisp interferes with the trilling sound he invariably tries to get on his r's, and in conversa tion lie halts, says Ai, Ahi, and seeks for a largor word to express the meaning a smaller one is adequate to do. THE JUDGE'S SUNDAY- SOOoL WORE. At present he is living in the highly aristoeratie colored boarding house at 604 Pine street. His immediate business is to excite a moneyed interest in South Carolina Sunday schools. In this religious task he says he has been fairly successful and lie proposes soon to return to South Carolina., "where, sir," says he, "I propose to reside the residno of my lifo-span and there he buried," Pennsylvania has farnished como very prominent carpet-baggers, but Wright is the only distinguished one of color, and for that reason, as well as for his steps in advance of his race in so muany instances, his ,early record is worth preserving. His father was a slave and made ,his escape by the underground railroad. Re married in Luzerne .county, where the future South .Carolina statesman was born, in 1840. Afterwards the family weont to Susqjuehanna county and .Jonathan Jasper went to school .there. At the age of fifteen he became the private pupil of the Presbyterian minister at Spring ville, and in 1658 went to the .Lancasterian Academy, near Ithica, N. Y., whore he graduated in 1860. ~e then taught school in Montroso., Susquehanna county, and in 1862 he entered the law office of Bentley, .Fitch & Bentley, in 1'Xontroso,, and read two years. He then .taught .school a year in Wilkesbarre, studying laiv at the same time with Judge 0. Collins. In 1864 he made an informal application to Judge Mercur for admission to practice in the Pennsylvania courts. The Judge, declining .to give a direct answer except from the bench, said that it was scarcely probable the .application would receive an affirma tive reply. Thereupon Wright accepted an appointment from the .American Missionary Society to go to Beaufort, South Casolina, to .organize schools. Shortly after lie got there Je heoard that Judge Mercur had gone to Congresg, and he returned at once to this State, ,and his application for admission to the bar was - granted by Judge .B. F. Streetor. This was on the .18th of August, 1866. "But prac -.tice came in so slow," he says, "I ',h~ought sure I would be famished for want of money to buy food. I went back to South Carolina, whero I saw a field of opportunity spread wide open to ambition. Genteral 0. 0. Howard, thon the head of the Freodmin's Burbau, appointed me to a special agency." 1118 EXPERIENcER WITH THE CHRIsTIAN HOLDIER1. "What was your exportnco with1 General Howard ?" "Well, I found him a high-toned, estimable Christian gentleman." "Is that the general belief among the colored people of the State ?" "Not exactly-that is, you know there are always sorehleads and complainers. Well, I was elected to a seat in the Constitutional Con vention and assisted to frame the now Constitution. I had to resign my position as spoecial agent to occupy my seat in the conivention, In 1868 I was elected Stato Bonator from the Beaufort district. In 1870 I was elected for the short term Associate Justice of the Su promno Court, amd on the expiration of my term, in October of the same year, I was re elected for six years. In October, 1876, I was re-olected for six years, and in December, 1877, I resigned." "Was there not a chargo of drunkenness against you ?" "Just so. It was persecution. Charlos S. Minort, a Democrat, was buying witnosses to say they had seen m0 drunk, and I resigned, not knowing how far the purchaso might go. And Governor Hamp ton said, in accepting my resigna tion, that lie placed no belief in the charges, and that as a jurist I was one of the purest." So much for ex-Associato Justice Wright's history, and it may readily be supposed that such an experienco gave him iatimato knowledge of the carpet-bag rule in the afflicted State of his adoption. If such is the case the ex-Jtidge is not making exposures, but he does speak with a remarkablo degree of freedom about some of the corruption there, and about Senators Patterson, Butler, ex Governors Scott, Chamberlain and Moses, Kimpton, the lato financial agent ; Parker, Owen and ex-State Treasurer Cardozo. Speaking of the fraudulent issue of the $6,000,000 of State bonds lie said: "Thore is no reason to doubt that Cardozo and Owen carried the Stato 9eal to New York, and the share that Pauline Markham is suid to have had in affixing the State seal has been correctly related by the flannel-mouthed son of Sematr Patterson-Silas, I mean." "Have you any personal knowl odge about the affair ?" ,,No, T have no personal knowl edge, but it is an accepted fact in the State, and I have heard it from pretty direct sources. Oh, you need not press in to tell anything more about that. I would only be repeating what I heard, any way." 111s VIEWS ON SENATOR PATTEBSON. "Of course you know Senator Patterson 'I" "Yes, sir ; but I haven't seen him since he left the State, and unless lie is brought back there to stand trial I don't expect to see him there again. W~hy hie has no standing at all, and his going back depends very much upon the arrangements 1 he can make with people thore.'' -"With the State government 2"1 "Not much. Governor Hampton is not the sort of man to make arrangements with anybody, al though Patterson's relations with Senator M. C. Butler are so inti mate thast things look ishmy for justice in Patterson's case. Why, B3utler, because of his relations with Patterson, don't stand any too well with the Democracy of the State, J Carolinian though he is." "Did inort hav~o atnything to do with Patterson's election.?" "Why, certainly. Heo was to re -ceive $2,500 for his vote. He'was in the Legislature at the time Patterson was up for Senator and4 he received $2,300 of thmat amnount To this .fact Minort mado affidavit. That's tihe wvay Patterson wvent ' o the United States Senate;" "Are native Carolinians thought much better of than carpet--baggers, then ?" "My answer to that is, look at Governor Hampton. Uo has kept: every pledge he has made, and on: the seventh of next Novemnber ho will be re--slected Governor almost unanimously. lie will get nine tenths of the colored vote. I speak advisedly on that point. There is not a decent negro in the State Jthat' will vote against him." Pay your subscription to THE NEWS AND H{~nAto. THE INDEPENDENT.-Tho dhido, pendent" now is loss to bo excused than was the Radical eight years igo. Thon thoro was som oxcuso in the belief that the only way to work out the redemption of the Stato was through the colored vote, ind, to do so, it became, as was said, iiecessary to enlist under their )a) nors. This was was then plausible. But we have seen to what direful consequences all this led. Wo havo soon what this working out of the rodomption of the State really meant. It meant eight years on Juranco of the greatest calamity bhat the Almighty over permitted to be visited upon any people. And this is the accursed thing that is endeavoring again to lift its head md gain ascendancy in the State s that is again endoavoring to obtain the mastery of at loast ono branch if the governmnent, with the ulti nato object of obtaining again pos session of the Stato. Tho entering 'vedge by which they hopo to 1complish this great and unspeak 1blo disactor is known by the namo Af "in'lependent." LAt them divido by this means the Democratic party, md in stalk's the Trojiin horse. Wo shall have the Stato captured by ir most direful onemies-the anomy of peace, the enemy of law %nd the onomy of honest govern nont.-Uolumbia llegister. A TRAMP Huxo F on RAVISHINo A %VoMA.--Tonniiesseo possesses tho nionviablo distinction of having had inore men lynchod within her bor ers within the past twelve months than any other State in the Union. During the past three months three ?orsons charged with rape have mot with ignominious cleaths at the ands of mobsand Tuesday night the 3)istence of anothor was terminated it the end of a rope, Tuesday morni ng, whilo William Mltartin and4 P. Williams, living in the Twenty lifth District of Bedford county, ivere absent hunting deor, Dennis Bclar, a tramp, who had been work iug for Williams, committed an out, rLage on Mrs. Martin. When Martin mid Williams returned they were informed of the occurrence, and B3clar was pursuod and captured. Ee was arraigned before a magis, trate, who ordered hin to be taken to Shelbyvillo jail to await trial. At 10 o'clock, when the officers having Bolar in custody were near bho town, one hundred armed men ittacked and overpowered them. Pho prisrnor was taken a distance f three miles on the Tullaboma pike md hanged to a troe, on w'hich two solored ravishors were hanged six years ago. The body was found the .ext morning and cut down. The 3oroner hold an inquest, and the isual verdict was rendered. DrAC1REAsE Or ORuME.-Only two maces of "criwes coumitt61 by vhito persons against colored per ;on" since the installation of Gov inor Hampton have como to the mowledge of the circuit judges, and n on. of these cases tile act was roved to hlave been committed in ielf'-dofenso. There is a diminution wverywhere in the niumber and legroe of crimoes, and the confidene >f tile colored 1)eopl1 is shown by heir preference for white jurieg, a onfidenco justified by the leniency vith which colored offenders have >eon treated. With this exhibit >OforeO the public, we assert without he possaibility of .successful contra liction, thmat the Democratic party mns protected the persons, rights Lnd property of all the people. d'ore than thlis, the assurance that ~rime will be punish~ed has prevent d persons from taking the iaw into heir ,own hands, and has exercised salutary ol'eet upon the criminal llasaes. South Carolina, under )emocratie rule, is as peaceful as nuy State in the Union, North or south, and in no State is life or prop - mrty better guarded or rer safe,.-,. Vows andl (Gourier. Dr. I. B. Fouta died at Uorse Jovo, N. C., oni Tit esday, tile 20th, >.f consumption. l14e was the pro. >rietor' of the celebrated hlorse pow hers, which have a wvorld--wide repu ~ation. He was a native of Balti nore, Md., and had recently gong to Elorseo Coy.o for his health. As iho perfection of entirte1y .de bends upon the p~erfection of ninutim, so no one can hope for cobust heal~th of the entire system .f thme blood should becomo in the Least impure. Its standard of purity is best maintained by the ase of Dr. Bull's Blood Mixture.* Punctuation was first used in literature in 1520. Before that time wordsandsontonoesweronnttomethne The plhonograph is an invention that speaks for itself. Recipe for whipping Indians: First catch your Indians. If the clovO smells swoot, must not the clover smell swooter ? Misery doos not always love com pany, if the company happons to be 1n0s(uitoos. Why is a dishonest bankrupt like an honest poor man I Becauso they fail to get rich. If your foot is asleep, do not be alarmed ; the poet tells us that the soul is not dead that slumbers. An air-tight trunk is the latest novelty. The koy-hole is hung on a strap fastoned to the handlo. .)anbu3ry News. The powor which the toad has of inflating his body is a power of defense, to prevent the possibility of being swallowed by snakes. The boy who geos a fishing on Sunday, when he has been sent to Sunday school, generally goes a whaling when lie gets home The difference between the ordi nary seamen and the captain who uses the rope's end freely is : The former tars the ropes, and the lattor ropes the tars. A devoterd husband says the phonograph is simply a machine that "talks back," and he has had one of that kind in his houso ever since he was marrjed. Shooting women from cannon is the new attraction of a Paris circus. They are thrown some thirty feet and land in a strong netting. A locksmith, whose name Wa8 Geese, placed the figures of several of thege birds upon his sign, thus showing that he was too smart to be called a goose, The Bible has been printed in thirty different languagen for tihe benefit of aborigines of this coiln try an4 of Greenland, J3ritish America and Mexico. It has been discoverod that the noise made by bees is n lament. Detroit Free .Prcs. Especially when they use a short-haired boy for a phonograph.-Uincinnazti Commercial. There are many things wbich disconcert thle averaga young lady, and one of them is, while reading an intonsely interesting novel, to discover that in the most exciting part there is a chapter torn out. M Taking the best of it is a good rule for everybody. '-'What is the mattor?" asked at lawyer of his coachian. "The horses are run ning away, sir." "Can you not pull them up ?" "I am afraid not." "Then," said the lawyer, after judi cial dolay'--"Run into something cheap." A queer mistake occurred on the Brtish expedition to Cyprus. Nine Ly mail carts were despatched fron Malta, with .bags of tentpegs j.n mistake for inchpins, The carts, of course., where useless without the linch-pins, and the tent-pegs did not sceom, apart from the tents, to be par ticularly valuable. Prof. HaecJkel, of Jena, has an swored Prof. Virchow's famcous speech delivered at Niunich at to. neeting of German natu~ralista and physiciaus. Virchow had deni~ed Shat evolution could ever chango an ipe into a man. Hlaeckel reasserts Ahe p~ossibility,, and moro .than pos mibility, of that chang% and4 repre monts Virchow as th~o ally of the resuits.' NMlle. Poda, a youmng 1telegraph >perator, who disftinguished heorsejf ]iring the Franco-Gecrman war .by m act of courage and devoti on, has >eon decorated with the Cross of ~he Legion of Honor,. Shut up in a hamber' through wvhich thie tele, raph wires conveying despatcbes lo the German army passed, she de stroyed the consenoog~o at the risk of ier life. A Frenchm~ni .i interpreting [ndian names. He says the Siouxc [ndiangs name their papooses atter wvents happening at thme time of their birth. 4s jllustrative of this pecu Liar traite, Red Oloiud i~s knowsi t9 baye taken that name from the faeji that the western sky was overspreaid with red clouds at the wmnt of his birth ; while the bringing in of a captive horse with a epotted tail gave to another chief tlipeingular cognomon of Spo~tsted Tail. Sitting Bull received hnis name because a buffalo bull was, by a lucky shot, thrown upon .its haunches in sight of his mother's resting place at the natal hour ; while the struggles of a fractious pony furnished a title fpr tho rodoub ,able Crazy H~orsa. DEATII OF JUDos INOLI.-JUdgO John A. Inglis, Chief Judge of the Orphans' Court, of Baltimore, died in that city on the 26th instant, in tho 65th year of his ago. He was a native of Baltimore, but at an early ago removod to Cheraw, S. C., whoro he became a very prominent citizen. He served the Stato in the Logisla. ture and on the bench with distin guished ability. At the close of tho war, he, with Chief Justico B. F. Dunkin and Judge Wardlaw, con stituted the Court of Appeals. At io close of the war he returned to Baltimore and resumed the practioe of law. He was subsequently chosen Judge of tbo Orphans' Court, whiah pQsition he held at the time of his death. He was the author of the South Carolina Ordirarqce gf Secession, Kansas has increased her popu lation over 150,000 during the year ending Juno 30, and over two mil lion acres Qf government land werq taken up. VEGETINE. I WILL TRY VEGTTINF,. HE DID. AND WAS CURED. DELAwAiRE, 0., Feb. 16, 1877. Mn. H. Rt. STEVJNS: Dear Sir-I wjsh to give you this testi-. mony, that you may know, ani let otherq know, whait Vogetino has done . for me. About two years ago a small sore camo oi my leg; it soon becan)o a largo Ulcer, so troublesome that I coosulto I the doo tor, but I got no relief, growing worso from day to day. I sufferod terribly; I could not rest day or night; I was sq roduced n)y friends thought I would never recover; I consulted a doctor at Columbus. I followed his' advioe it did no good. I can truly say I was discouraged. 4t this time I was looking over my newspaper. I saw your advertisenent of Vegetimo, the .'Great Blood Purifier" for cleansing the blood from all impuritios, curing humors, uL. ees, &Q. I said to my fanaily, I will try some of tho Vegetiho. Before I hqd used the first botdo I began to feel better. I made up my mind I had got the right medicine at last. I continued taking the .' -.tine. I took thirteen bottles. My health is good. The Ulcer is gone, and I am able to attend to business. I paid qbout four hundred dollars for medicino and doctors before I bought the Vogotine. I have recommended Vegotine to otherq with good success. I always keep a bot tle of it in the house now. It is a mosk excellent medicinn. Very respectfully yours, F. ANTRONT. Mr. Anthoni is one of the pioneors of Delaware, 0. He settled here in 1834. He is a wealthy gentleman, of the firm of F. Anthoni & Sons. Mr. Anthoni is extensively known, especially among the Germans. Ho is well known in .Cincin. nati. He is respected by all. 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For the last three years 1 have not ,been able to walk, now i cast walk and sleep, and do my work as wvell as I over (lid, and I must say I owve it.alti sto your bWood p,~urior, Yogo.. tine. -VRGETyyiE.-The gro~t success of the Vegotine as a cleanser and pumrifior of the blood is shown beyond a doubt by the great numbers who have taken it, and ,received immediattorolief, with sueh r.. ma~rkable cures. VE~GETINE3 Is Better Titan Any Diedicine, 1(~~sv Kr., Dee., 18.77. I have used H. R. Stevens' yogetine, and lJlkoit better than any ,weodcne l have used for purifying tlhie blood. One bottle ,Qf Vegetinoe acoimplished more ocod than ai otlher ,uedielnes .I have tken. 108lO. LYN, llondorajon, Ky. VEGETIgg js comnposedl of Roots, ilarkg and Herbs. It Is very pleasant to take; ov.ory pohild likes It.. VEGE TINE. Recomniemnded by M. D.'M. HIR. STnvENs: 'Dear Sir-I have sold Vegotino for a long tie, and iit gives' giost oxcel, 4. ],. ])] FXEST, M4. D., Hasleton, Ind. Preparea by H. R. 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