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TRI-WEEKL Y EDITION .} WINNSBORO. S. C.. TIHIURSD)AY, AUGUST 29, 1878, {TOL. 2. NO, 89
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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."
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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.
IMPUiRE 3LoOD.-In morbid conditionq
of 11w blood are many diseases; such av
salt-rhouin, ring-worm, boils, carbuncles,
sores, ulcors and pimples, In this con.
dition of the blood try the Yegotine, and
euro those affeoctions. As a blood puri,
foer it has no equal. Its offects ar won,
derful.
VEGETINE
Cured Her.
DoncnITES, MASS,, Juno 11.
Dn. STIYNs:
l)ear Sir-I fool it my duby to say ono
word ix regard to the great benefit I have
received from the use of one of the
greatest wvonders of the world: it is your
Veotino. I have been one of the great.
ost sufferers for the last eight years that
ever could be living. I do sincerely
thank my God and your Vegotine for the
relief I have got. The Itheumatism has
pained me sto such an extent, that my
feet broke out in sores.' 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. STE~VENS, Bostn Na
VegetIne Is 8old by all DruggJstja