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y ll? I jr M. .Wi ^ ititi* LAURENS C. H., S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST If), 1885. NO. 3 MOUNTAIN SKADOW. ONK OF TUB ATROCIOUS OR I MKS OK TUB WEST. A Htory Thrillingly Ilololil-Vi nrly Our Ililli trr.? Emigrants Slaughtered and I(*70,IMM> Worth nf Property Stolon-Tlu* Bodies llorrl bly Milium.-,I. rKtc. Tn n work relating to Indina history, by J. P. Dunn, Jr., recently published by tho Harper's, tho author gives a vivid and autiicutic sketch of tho atrocious Mountain Mtaidow inassacrc, tlio thought of whicli oxcites burning indignation to-day, although nearly thirty years have pawed since this dark stain on American annals. As illustrating tho savage spirit which incited this horrible crime, tho writer quotes from a sermon of Brigham Young, published in tho Desortot News just prior to tho wholesale murders, Young tells his congregation: "I could rofor von to lots of instances whoro men havo been righteously slain in order to ..done for their sins. I have seen scores and hundreds of people for whom there would have boon a chanco (in tho last resurrection lhere will be) if their lives had been taken and their blood spilled on tho ground as a rrooking incense to tho Almighty, but who are now angels to tho devil until our cider brother, Jesus Christ, mises thom up, conquers death, hell and tho grave, lt is ti no that tho blood of the Hon of dod waa shed for our sins, but men commit ?ins which it can never remit." It was during thc zeal which Young thus wrought among his fanatics that tho mossocro occurred. Dining tho slim mer of 1857 Captain rancher's train, numbering lifty-six men and .sixty-two women and children, most of whom were from northern counties of Arkansas, at tempted to cross the mountains cn route to Calift >rnia. At Halt Luke City tito train wa? joined by several disaffected Mormons. In thc train were thirty good wagons, as many mules und horses and OOO cattle. Their route lay {brough southwestern Utah, where tho Mountain Meadows ure located. In those meadows they camped on tho dill of September. Hero is thc national divide. They were on tho edge of tho Pacific slope, Tin y just bogan to realize their holies, for they could almost look over into Oali nia, their "promised land." On Monday morning, September 7, tis they were gathered about the cami) bros, a volley of musketry blazed from tho gulley through Which ran tho stream Unit watered thc meadows. Seven of tho ex pectant travelers were slain and sixteen wounded at thc ilrst lire. Tho men hud been frontiormeu too long to 11ECOMH PANIC STBI0K8N. Tho women and children hurried to cover and tho men returned tho tire, much to tho surprise of tho musking assailants, who had expected to enjoy an unresisting massacre. Tho assailants were made up of Mormons masked as Indians of Tah, Utter, Upper Pi-Fads and Lower Pi-Fads, and all lcd by John D. Loo, a Mormon elder. Thc response flujt tho bloody wretches received to their lire (iiPve them buck und they sent after rein forcefields, and while waiting for thc same amused themselves by pitching quoits, and occasionally shooting tho cattlo and tiring upon tho wagons, which tlio travelers hod to draw around them os a barricado und defense. < )n Wed nesday a young man named Aden, a son of a Kentucky physician, together with a companion, succeeded in eluding thc. vigilance of tho masked savages and get ting out of thc meadows on their way to Cedar City, where they hoped to secure aid. At ilicbards' Springs they met three Cedar City mon, William C. Stew art, Jool White and Benjamin Arthur. As they stopped to water their horses, Stewart SOOT AND KILIiKO ADEN, and White attempted to kill tho com panion, but succeeded only in wounding him, when ho escaped and made his way back to camp. His report lilied tho emigrants with despair, Aden's father was jiuown to have saved tho life of a Mormon bishop, and yet his son Iwd been assassinated by a Mormon. Already they lunl pierced the musks worn by many of 11101?' assailants to discover that they were white mon - wcro indeed Mor mons, fifty-four in number. Tho Indians numbered '200. Tho lieaioged prepared a statement of their desperate condition, giving as their belief that tho Mormons wcro their real besiegers, directing it to Masons, Odd Fellows and leading religi ous denominations. With this statement thoy dispatched three of their best scouts, directing them to California. The scouts did not succeed in eluding tlio vigilance of tho murderers. They wore run down by Ira Hatch, a Mormon and a leader of n band of Indians, in tho Santa Clara mountains. TWO OF TIIKSI WBBR Ut'KDKltKD as they slept and tho third was wounded, and a fow days afterward assassinated. Whilo tho Mormons were awaiting re inforcements thoy knelt and formed a prayer oirolo and askod for divine guid ance. After prayer ono of their leaders, Mayor liigbeo, said: "I havo tho ovi ? lenee of Hod's approval of OUI IlUSStOU. It is Hod's will that wo carry out our in structions to the lotter." In carrying out these instructions they found it necessary to raako uso of tho basest treaeliory. This tlwy did by menus of a white Jlag l>orno by Loo and william Uah'ina n. "Thoy representad to tho be sieged that the Indians wore terribly ex cited ami thirsted for revengo because of the loss of some of their cattlo, and thoy p -onused protection to tho emigrants if they would unconditionally surrendor. There was no alternative. The supplies of tho emigrants were giving out, and inasmuch as tho Mormons wero tho only white iieoplo in fftah, there was no bono for morey from any otlier source. Tho terms wore accopted, and on Hui morn ing of Friday, Bepte abor H, they gavo nj? all their guns and luiniiuiiition, and then placed themselves wholly in tho power of thoso whoso apatite for blood shed hud but inst been whetted, They marched out from behind THEIU BAWUOADKfl. Tlio scene that fol loa ed is thus de scribed by Mr. Dunn. ''It is just afternoon and tho ?lay is bright and clear. Tramp, tramp, tramp, thoy roa?)h down from tho camping place. Tho men reach tho militia ami jrfYo three hearty cheero as they take their placea, murderer and victim, side Lgr side. Tramp, tmnp, tromp, They 4W9 JOIUHtiag ttec point ol tho ridge whicft lu?a nerved aa a aereen for tho Mormons and Indians for tho past week. A ravon flies over thom cloaking. What called him th ore? Docs ho foresco that ho shall peck at tho eyes of bravo mon and gentle women who aro looking at him? Tho wagons with tho wounded and chil dren aro passing tho hiding placo of the indians. How quietly they lio among tho gnarly oak bushes! But their eyes Elliston and their necks stretch out to seo low soon their proy xviii reach them. Tho women aro nearly a quarter of a milo behind tho wagons, and tho men arc much further behind the women. A half-dozon Mormon horsemen bring up tho rear. Trump, tramp, tramp! Tho wagons have just passed oat of sight over tho divide. Tho men aro entering a Ut tlo ravine. Tho women aro oprosrra TUE INDIANS. They have regained confidence, and several arc expressing joy at escaping from thoir savage foes. Hoe that man on tho divide. It is lligbce. He makes a motion with his arm and shouts some thing which thoso nearest him under stand to bo 'do your duty.' In an in stant tho militia mon wheel and each shoots tho mun nearest him. Tho In dians spring from their ambush and rush upon tho women; from between thc wagons tho rifle of John 1). Lee cracks, and a wounded woman in tho foremost wagon falls off tho seat. Swiftly tho work of doa th goes on. Leo is assisted in shooting and braining tho wounded by tho teamsters, Knight and MoCurdy, and as tho latter mises his rifle to his shoulder ho cries: '() Lord, my dod, re ceive their spirits; it is for Thy kingdom that I do this. ' " The tomahawk, and bludgeon, and knife soon completed tho bloody work begun by tho bullet, and in a few minutes after Higbco's signal not a man or woman was left alive. Two girls were missing, and were soon found Concealed in some neighboring bushes. Two of tho Mormons-and Leo was one of them -dragged tho trembling and HAIiF DKA? (UltLS from their piuco of concealment and ravished them, then Lee ordered them killed by tho Indians. An Indian chief objected, saying "they were too pretty to kill; let us save them." While this objection was being made Lee held one Of tho girls on his lap. Hbo throw her arias around his neck and implored for her lifo, promising she would love him always if ho would but let her live. His answer was to push her head buck with ono hand, when, with tho other hand clasping a bowie-knife, ho cat her white neck through to the spine. This finished the slaughter us awful as were thc Sicilian vespers. Tho bodies, horribly mutilated, were left upon thc meadows a prey for wolves and buzzards for weeks, and it was not until some months hud elapsed that tho whitened hones wore gathered together and buried. {Sixteen or seventeen children, ranging in age from a few months to eight years, wero divided up among the Mormons, and so was 870,OOO in proper ty which tho emigrants possessed. Tho little children wero subsequently secured by Gentiles and restored to Arkansas, but tho "strong parental government" hus never compelled the cut-throat? to disgorge thc $70,000 and restore it to tho SURVIVORS OF Tim MASSA ORB, most of whom have always been in des perate, need of it. A stmnge sequence to tho awful mas sacre is tho fact that Mountain Meadows, from being a verdant spot in 1857, in viting the fatal halt and rest of tho emi grant?, ha? become sterile and barren, literally tho abode of desolation. Tho only atonement ever ofi'e cd for tho crime was tho shooting ol ? T? hu 1). Leo at tho scene of tho ma&'.acru on March '2M, 1H77, nearly twenty years after thc crime wa? committed, and after he had confessed that on that bloody occasion ho himself took live lives. Tho responsibility for tho crhno wu? at every Mormon official's door, and lingham Young was their chief. Thoy ought to have all swung for it. President .lohn Taylor, Goorgo Q. Cannon and other Mormon leaders ought now to bo arrest ed and tried, not for polygamy, but for tho Mountain Meadow massacre, and ought to bo Innig. They could all be convicted of being accessory, not only after, but before tho fnet. lu l.n;:rr Hei r un Intoxicant I A stone cutter, whoso ellice adjoined his stone yard, wa? seated in his oflice when u friend called iqion him, and they discussed several topics together, among them tho question as to what extent lager lxwr wa? an intoxicant. TJio stone cutter maintained that beer wa? not in toxicating, while his friend maintained tho opposite. Tho stono-cuttcr said, thcro is n man at work in tho yard (pointing to a brawny-chested German] wlio could drink a bucket (three gallons; of ticer at ono sitting and fed nono tin worse for it. Tho mond doubted, and a wager was inado and tho workman r illed, who when asked if ho could drink that bucket ( point nie; to a large watei bliokot) full Of beer at ono sitting, re Iilied: "Voil, I don'd know; I lots yoi mow af tor a vilo." Tho Gorman wenl away, and after remaining tlftoci minutes, returned, and said: "Yes, lear trink dot poor." Tim bucket of booi wus proourod and placed boforo tho Ger man, who vory soon absorbed tho las' drop, and a rose from his soat, wiping hil mouth with his sleeve, and was walk hu a wv y with a firm step, when his employ or recalled iii;;' and said to billi: "Sot boro, my friend, uud I have somo euri osity to know why you did not drip! tho beor when yon wore flrsl ^sked.' Tho German replied: "Veli, I don't know dot I mould trink it, so I vont ou und trink ? bucked, don I know I conk do it."-W., in Harper's Magasine fo July. _ A Fahr Riflians?. Mr. Warner Miller is very muol alarmed about tho rico birds. Thoy arc ho thinks, destroying about $7 worth o nco for evory acre mined. It is a littl si range, if this 1)0 so, that tho Soliator from South Carolina and Louisiana alt not come to the front. According to th liest of our recollection, tho State o Now York is not much given to tho pro dnction of that ooroaj. As a genera thing, local i nhl ?wt? oro looked after b; those who aro supposed to bavp som nrst-hsnd JuiowWdgo of tho subject Perhaps Mr. MUlor will take in han? alligator fence?, und that hereafter on of tho Palmetto or Magnolia Senator >!; after wood pulp.-Chieagi toter-Oceoi. (Rep), \ MOM; THU p. P. V. A I.I:MHT nt th? Mode or MTo of Hie Ol.I. -i Virginia Familles. (From thc Phtltdelphts Time?.) Virginia's ' 'iirst families" can bo found all over thc State, but nowhere in such purity and antiquity as in Stafford coun ty, tuc homo of Governor Leo. Thc county is not very largo and by no means prosperous, but it stauds first as tho ex ponent of all that is conveyed by tho ex pression "F. F. V." Nearly every fami ly hero can trace its origin by lineal descent to thc first English settlers, while not a few can speak of their groat grcat-grand-fathers and grandmothers as lord and lady so-and-so. Tho county is named after the famous carl of Stafford, and not a few of its people arc descended from tho family of that nobleman. Be fore the war these people lived in the stylo of nobility, if without its name, and now that tho conreo of events has reduced their means they preservo Eng lish customs in all except the splendor which only wealth can afford. In the Hist place, each family has its little domain, and, however small, it has au imposing English name, just as if it were an earldom. Somorsot, Richland, Aberdeen, Lennox and Wayside aro a few of tho names of small farm houses nestling in tho Stafford pines and sur rounded by thousands of acres of par tially cultivated lands. These houses are frame, generally two stories high, and tho poorest of them is surrounded by a lawn, through which runs one or more carriage drives. Ono would expect to sec castles when coming in view of tho beautiful lawns and tho centuried oaks, and would feel disappointed at thc little white houses nt the end of the drives; but there is a sort of rustic harmony in the picture after all. Heated in tho veran dahs at evening and looking out on tho oak-canopied swards, you would forgot the absonco of the castle, and, if yon were an Englishman, fancy yourself amidst thc lime trees on one of tho grand old estates across tho w ater. THU KOMB Ol' GOVERNOR M?E. The former home of Governor Eco is called Richland. It is like all the estates in tho county-a two story frame house, a largo lawn and several hundred acres of anything but rich land. Hero tho Governor's ancestors have lived for hun dreds of years. Of cou ree, the Lees can trace their descent lo titled Englislimon; at least, all books of heraldry make it out so. At a distance of a few miles is Somorsot, tho home of tho Monouro family. The present Mrs. MoilOliro is a granddaughter of tho famous Lady Spotswood, whose portrait hangs in the Capitol at Richmond. This family has lived in Stafford county for nearly two hundred years. All its deceased mem bers are. buried in tho graveyard al Aquia church, and a tablet near tho pulpit con tains tho rather royal inscription: "Sacred to thc memory ?if tho race, of Monouro." There aro about ono hun dred and fifty members of tho family in tho county. Tho women, taken all in all, are. tho most beautiful tho writer him over seen w ithin tho same area. They seem to have inherited in a remarkable degree tho queenly beauty of Lady Spotswood and some of them boar a close resemblance to her portraits. Tho Waller family, a little further up at Wayside, is related to tho Lees and trace their origin to thc same source. Tho first of the Scotts came to Stafford from England to take charge of Aquia ohurohi He was one of tho unfortunate class known as noblemen's sons, and was assigned, as is usually the case, to tho ministry. Ono of Iiis descendants is I Congressman W. L. Scott, w ho passed his boyhood on tho Stafford hills. Mr. Scott has not forgotten his old homo amidst his Pennsylvania millions. A fow months ago ho sent twelve hundred dollars to tho pastor of Aquia church for tho purpose of repairing tho old build ing, and is now contemplating a trip to the homo of his distinguished ancestors. The names of all the families who have lived in tho county since tho ante-Revo lutionary days would fill a half column of the Times, and although they cannot all claim titled progenitors, they arc the very first of tho "F. P. V." SOMt: NOSSENS? AWRGRD. A great deal of nonsense has been written about these "first families." They are usually represented as thriftless, vain and scornful tb all outside tho magic cir clo of their society. They lack, it is truo, much of tho energy and goaheadi tivcnoHS of the Northern man, but it must be remembered that most of thoso yet living were brought up under condi tions that paralyzed energy. Willi largo estates and hundreds of slaves they hail lio motivo for exertion, and now that the war has swept away all their wealth, they must cliango their very natures before they can become tho pushing business men who build up communities. The now generation is growing up quite dif ferent, and it is moro than likely that when thiy como to tho foro tho Virginia farmor will no longor let his nert* lio useless or half cultivated. Tho fact is that thc landholders in Stafford county aro yet in a da/.cd state over tho result? of tho war. Thoy can hardly reali/.o tho chango, or if they havo they think it is too late in lifo to start out afresh. As to tho "proud, scornful women" of tho "F. F. V.," it is a pity to strike a blow at tho pictures which havo boen drawn by imaginative writers, and which havo long lieeu regarded as gonuino in tho North, still tho pictures havo no prototypes in real life. Evoryono hos road tiloso fanciful stories aliout rich and cultured Northerners sucing for tho hand of poor Virginia frire? and being refused, solely liocauso they did not be long to tho "F. F. V." Those are voricst IMJSTI. Hore among tho very oldest Vir ginia families there aro many marriages ovory year between Northern mon and Stafford women and vice versa, Tho socioty lipo ? lill".-is from that in tho North only in this particular, that hero wealth without culturo is insufficient to gain, entrance into society, while in other ?laces it is sometimes quito sufficient. ?li thc ot her hand, eu ll ure, even if nu. accompanied with a dollar, will open to a man tho liest houses in the oonntv, providing, of courso, that ho has tho usual recommendation ot respectability. hiuie Willie prayed long and Ineffectu ally for a Ultlp brother. At last ho gave it up os '':?o us?.-" Hoon offer his mother had the pleasure o. showing him twin hu flo looked at vfiem a moment and then exclaimed,: "How lucky it was that I 'lopped pray log I There might have men OllATOKS OK OT1IKU DAYS. TUB MUN WHOHB KMHU K.V B WAK IIBAItD IX to.\anE88. Personal t'lisraeterUttai of Patrick Henry, llntnlllon, Leo, Webster, Cloy, and Sergeant h. Prentlfi?. (Ben. lVrlcy I'oore, in tho Chnutau<iunn.) Patrick Henry, tho great Virginia ora tor, called in his day "tho Demosthenes of America," is decribed OH having boon nearly seven feet high, with a ?light stooj) of tho shoulders, his complexion dark, sunburned and sallow, his foro hoad high, his blueish-gray eyes over hung by heavy eyebrows, and his mouth and chin indicativo of firmness. His delivery was natural and well-timed, and his manners wore dignified. Ho spoke with great deliberation, never recalling or recasting sentences as ho went along, nor substituting a word for n bettor one. His voico was not remarkable for it? sweetness, but it was firm, and ho never indulged in continuous and deafening vociferation. Kvcry schoolboy is familiar with his wonderful appeal to Congress to oiler armed resistance to Qr cat Britain, ending, "Clive mo liberty, or give mo death." Richard Henry Lee, measured by the classic standard of oratory, was tho Cicero of tho Continental Congress. The cultivated graces of his rhetoric, wo aro told, received and reflected beauty by their contrast with his colleague's grand or effusions, his polished periods rolling along without effort and liding tho ear with the most exquisite harmony. Samuel Adams, of Massachusetts, who had been known as "thc great incen diary" in New England politics, beenmo tho guiding intellect of tho Congress. Yet it does not appear that either he or his colleagues took a prominent part in the debates -wise counsels, perhaps, ac complishing as much as eloquence. Ho was at that time fifty years of age, and his form was slightly bowed, while his long locks were gray, but his ch ar blue oyos Hashed with the lire of youth, and Courage was stamped on every feature. Alexander Hamilton, of New York, small in stature, possessed a mind of im mense grasp and unlimited original re sources, of such rapid thought that he seemed at times to reach his conclusions by a species of intuition. Ile would catch the principle involved in a discus sion as if by instinct, and adhere rigidly to that, quito suro that thomby tho de tails wore certain to bo right. Rufus King, one of his colleagues, was tho pos sessor of an uncommonly vigorous mind, highly cultivated hy study, and he spoke with dignity, conciseness and force. His argumenls were so logically arranged thal as they had convinced him they carried conviction to others. John Rutledge, of South Carolina, was probably tho most cultivated orator in the Continental Congress. His idoas, Ramsey tells us, were clear and strong, his utterance moid but distinct; his voice, action and energetic manner of speaking forcibly impressed his senti ments on the minds and hearts of all who heard him. At reply ho was quick, instantly comprehending tho force of an objection and seeing at once tho best mode of weakening or repelling it. 1 luring the first fifty years of tho ex istence of tho "Senate and House of Representativos in Congress Assembled," under tho Constitution, thoro were no verbatim reporters, and tho Congression al orators poured forth their breathing thoughts and burning words in polished and eloquent language. Business was transacted in a conversational manner, and when set speeches were occasionally made they wi re listened to with atten tion. The first written speech read in tho United States Senate was by the Hon. Isaoo Hill, of Now Hampshire, a firm supporter of Qon. Jackson. When about half through he suddenly lost the thread of his discourse and stopped, evi dently embarrassed. His wife, who sat in the gallery almost directly over him, comprehended tho situation, and said in a vince hoard all over the Senate Cham ber, "Mr. Hill, you've turned over two leaves at once." Ho immediately cor rected his mistake and proceeded with his remarks amid a roar of laughter. Daniel Webster was not on extempo raneous speaker, and ho always prepared himself with great caro for his speeches in tho Senate and his arguments before tho Supreme Court. Always careful about his personal appearance when he was to address an audience, ho used, after ho had reached tho zenith of his fame, to wear tho costume of the British Whigs-a blue dross-coot with bright huttons, a buff waistcoat, black trousers, and o high, white cravat, with a stand? ing shirt collar. A man of commanding presence, with a well knit, sturdy frame, swarthy features, a broad, thoughtful forehead, courageous eyes gleaming from beneath .shaggy eyebrows, a quandrang ular breadth of jaw-bone, and a mouth which ln'spoko strong will, ho stood like a sturdy I tomalla-ad sentinol oil guard before tho gates of tho Constitution. I h Miling in profound oontcmpt what is termed sproml-caglo orr tory, his only gesticulations were up-and-down motions 0/ his right arm, as if ho w as boating out with sledge hammers his forcible ideas. Henry Clay was formed by nature for a popular orator. Ho was hill and thin, with a rather small In ad and gray eyes. His m CM' was straight, his upper hp long and his under jaw light. His mouth, ol generous width, stri'Jght when ho was silent, and mirving up at tho corners as he spoko or smiled, waa singularly win ning. When ho onchantcd large audi ences his features wcro lighted up by o pleasing smile, tho gestures of his long arms wcro graceful, and tho gentle goeegt* of his mollow voice were persua sive and winning, or torriblo in anger. His friends were legion, aud they cluug to him with undying affection, w bile his antagonists novov mado p'saco with him. John'Quincy Adams wrote in his diary that tho "oratorical encounters lictweoii Clay and Calhoun aro lilliputian mimicry of tho orations against Ctosiphon and thc Crown or tho debate of tho second Pbil lippio." Sergeant Smith Prentiss waa undoubt edly tho most eloquent man who evor aduvossod tho United States ilonso of Representativos. A carpet bagger from Maine, ho went to Mississippi ]x>or and friendless, and not only became foremost among her sons, hut acquired a national reputation. Ho was, towed, ? seroark oblo orator, II?M intellectual ondowmonts presenting a remarkable exam plo ia whick groat logical power? and tho most vivid imagination wera happily blended. As Dryden said of Halifax, lie was a nam "Ol' piercing wit and pregnant thought, Knducd hy nature aval hy learning taught To move assemblies." Thc great secret of his oratorical success wm his readiness. He never seemed uta loss for an epigram or a retort, and his impromptu speeches were tho best. Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, was noted for his humorous speeches, especially one in which ho mercilessly ridiculed a lawyer holding ii militia commission, who had undertaken to criticise the mar tial exploits of (?en. Harrison, lt was with him, however, a subject of regre t that ho had ever said a funny thing in debate, and ho used to advise his young friends never to make humorous .speech es. "A mun," said ho ono day, "must. 1)0 funny or wise. Von will l ise higher in the long run to ho wise. This repu tation of mino for humor hangs about my nook like the body of death. lt is tho Nemesis which will haunt me to my gravo. Shun it while you may." Stephen A. Douglass was ti short, thick-set nain, with a florid, clean-shaven countenance, and a nervous manaor, which made him attractive to friend and foo, and gained for him tho sobriipiot ol .'Tho Little Giant." His mind was capa blo of grasping, analyzing and elucidat ing the most abstract and dilllcalt sub jects. Ho had a deep-toned voice, and his gestures wore energetic and some what graceful. We may not have tho equals of Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, John Rutledge, Webster, Clay, Calhoun or Prentiss, but us a w hole tho Congressional orator of to-day is far superior to that of tho near, or the distant, past. Verbatim report ing has proved a great injury lo Con gressional oratory. In the olden time thc Senators and Representatives would lisien to those who wi re speaking with the attention of assemblages ol' trained critics. When verbatim reports of the debates wore made and printed, these Congressional listeners were no longer to be. found. A Senator or Representative who had can fully prepared himself would, as bc commenced his speech, SOO his audience engaged in every other way thau listening to his accents. Sonic would ho in groups chatting, others would he reading newspapers or IHM.?vs, and tho rest inditing epistles or directing public documents to their constituents, lt would be dilUcillI for him lo gay wind he had intended were there liol another stimulus by which his toilgUO and his patience were rendered inexhaustible - thu reflection that although his words wore falling lifeless upon the ears of his ostensible utldicllCO they would be read by attentive constituents al homo, lt i> to them thal speeches in Congress have been addressed since the introduction ol verbatim reporting. Congressmen win were noted for their eloquence upon th? homo sttunp have floundered llirougl: written platitudes at the capitol, oftci prepared for them by some journalist foi a stated compensation. TUR IIA ll ItOOll I'OKT. Ile lu ul Kirai IIIIIIHIIIK-Then Ucla drunk am I? (.'aricil lloma, Every city in tho country numbers among its inhabitants a class id' individu als known as whiskey poets. The whiskey poet is a very decent soi l of a pe rson until he gets drunk, and thoi if ii house suddenly fell on him he wolli) not he missed. When he loads hine with an alcoholic stimulant he like, I stand in a liar room and recite poetry h an admiring and bibulous crowd whicl divide their appreciation between tin drinks ho pays for and his Mights o fancy. On such occasions tho whiskey poet soars far np into the blue empyreal und snatches lire from the stars, and a a general thing recites some little poon of his own, which is very bad, and the] explains tho beauty of tin: thought, whicl is a good deal worso. Ile is never at his best, however, anti ho expresses to his companions a desiri to know the name of the author ol' ai anonymous poem which he declares b bc thc sublimest and most touching tllillj in the English language, and Hu n pro coeds to launch the poem in a grave am measured tone. His manner is solemn his eyes reek with sadness, and his gc? tares arc like those of a man who think that this world is a hard and bitter pill When lu> finishes the recitation he want to know if the poem is not sublimo am exquisite. The crowd, of courso, swen that it is tho sweetest thing thal eve smote their ears, and then the whiske, poet, enthused by their enthusiasm, dit sects the poem, takes it apart as it wert picks out tho pathos, which he declare goes straight to (ht! heurt, shows ho' true to life it is, how it moves the sou und finally ho weeps and nods to tho ba keeper to sot out once more tho tinctuv of inspiration. At first tho whiskey poet is ralla amusing, but in tho course of time h get? us drunk as the proverbial bode owl, jumbles his poetry in a muudli way and becomes SO grief stricken an idiotic that his friends realize tho DCCCJ sity of curling him off to his home i order to prevent him fulling into the en bruce of tho police. Shottory nml ShaheappMttf. If there is ono thing more than anotl cr calculated to shake down the fotteiin remnant of faith which is still K it to ll world it is Hie researches of resile; arcliieologists. Generations of Knglisl men, Americans and, distinguish! strangers on paying tho usual tribute i respect and curiosity al SI ral lord-01 Avon havo extended their pilgrimage I Hhottory, and af ha- gazing at the cot ht} where Anno Hathaway was hither born, wooed and won bav? gone awi happy in the belief that they had sc? thc si>ofc whore Shakespeare was tak< in just as any other man might hu' .boon, Rut HOW some record search discovers that William Shaxncrc marri? Anno Whatoloy, of Templo Grafton, ai explains that by a "ourious mctonon common to tho times" Whatoloy is mei ly a funny way of Hathaway, whore Templo Grafton contains no conuudriu lb nee Shottory has nothing t<> do wi Mrs. Shakespeare. Nobody gains an thing by tho discovery, if it is ono; In on the other hand, common decency ? monds that it should have boen left hi den till tho point concerning tho idon tv of Shakespeare and Baoon hos bo finally cleared up.-Pall Moll Uftsetto, A HI8TOHIC IIOItN. Willoh Colonel n. V, Sloan i ?.- ? - * Sounded i>n Several liii|torlnnl ?>. ??M-MMI-. Colonel D. U. Sloan, ol' tho National, has a historic hom ami on hoing asked tlie story connected with it furnished thc following sketch: You ask mc for a history of tho hom I blow as thc cars brought Jefferson Davis into the Cato City of tho South. Well, to begin, this horn has boen in my possession a quarter of a century. Notice those small perforations through tho shell. Hoe how tho worms have eaten it. Yet it retains its original mel low tone. Tliis horn was presented to mo by u man who never saw or heard of mo in his life; by a man I never saw or heard of till after his dcatli. His name was Kirkpatrick, lt cunio about in this way. Tlic gentleman lived near Charles ton, S. C., had been a groat hunter, was on his deathbed, und said to Stroheoker, of Charleston, who was sitting by his side: "Stroheoker, there hangs a horn:I prize it very highly on account of it? superior tone; I fool that I shall never bo ublc to sound it nguiu; thc delights of tho chase is all ovor with mc; Strohock or, take that horn und give it to some good hunter for nie, und tell him I be queathed it to him as a dying gift." Stroitecker promised, und thus I became the luvend one, und 1 trust, ifdop&rtod spirits have cognizance of what WO do hero below, Hint the soul of Kirkpatrick is satisfied with his legatee. I have winded this hom in many a hunt on tho Blue Itidgo mountains with that patriot, tko best of men, Wade Hampton, with Alick Haskell, thc Taylors, Culhouns and oth ers of South Carolina's noblest sons. I made tho seacoast welkin ring with this horn on that memorable evening of se cession in Charleston. I sounded it on Atlanta's hills for Democratic victory und Crover Cleveland, and I m ado it re st.mid with lusty blasts on tho triumphal entry into tho city of Atlanta of our old Confederate captain. I was a secessionist in tho war, a South Carolina rebel, but am under reconstruc tion now. I do not feel that I com mitted treason against tlie general gov ernment, If so, our fathom did thc same in tho llovolution; tho sumo causes ex isted, but au ii.scrutable Providence gave success to tho ono and defeat to thc oili er. Clod docth all things well. 1 nm a I nion mun now, und should Massiichusctta or South Carolina secede, 1 I. would help whip thom back. The lost cause is dead and buried now. I iv\ < Te it s ashes, und love the grund old chieftain who will soon follow it to that < bourne from whence no traveler returns. I honor him because ho novor flinched or 1 faultorcd from what ho believed to bc his duly; 1 honor him because he was over staunch and true to his trust. But wc fool that wo are again hock in tho house of our lathers, and are herc to stay; wo feel that tho great banner willi its stars ure. our slurs, its stripes our stripes; once moro wo cnn place our hands upon our hearts and say for the star-spangled bonnor: "Long, long may it wave," otc. Henceforth, its foes arc our foes, its frit, \s our friends. JofTorson Davis is no longer its foo. It was not that lie loved the, great federa tion less, but tlint he loved tlie principles of tho Confederacy moro. Yes, I love and honor this dying hero, but Cod for bid that in so doing 1 should cast a shade of dishonor or disrespect on my country's Hag. 1 feel us if, by thc grand est impulse, of my nature, I could grasp and bear aloft in my right bund my country's colors, und willi my loft hand put into an honorable gravo the loved form of JofTorson Davis, who soon must go. 1 entertain no feelings of animosity toward our Northern brethren, once eur foes. 1 look down upon them with pride They are a great people, a most wonderful people. Let us together build np un American government so grand, so good that t!ui heavens muy smile upon us, and tho whole world gn/.e upon it in astonishment. But this horn f hope to blow it again in 1888 for (?rover Cleveland, or some other Democratic President, and if do tent shall bo our fate, I will hang il upon tho willows for another day. Once be fore then, however, I will lake it down n ul blow a strain for Governor John B. Cordon, a nanu? of irresistible lovo to every son of South Carolina and ovory boy who wore tho gray. D. U. SLOAN. Aol ll.ul io Ki- Un- Hillie. Tho court of chancery in New Jersey has just rendered an opinion holding that u witness ia that State who swears by tiic ibbie is not bound to kiss the book. A woman when sworn had laid her hand on tho Ibbie but refused to kiss A. Tho only reason she gave for the. refusal was 11 int she hod "never kissed thc book." She was allowed by the. master to testify, but a motion was subsequent ly mude to strike out lier testimony. Fiero is tho law, as laid down by Vice Chancellor hird: "Almighty God, or tho over living Cod, or the like, is called upon by thc witness to witness that he will speak thc truth, The rest is form. Tho solemn invocation, affirmation or declaration is Hie substance. All else is shadow. Thc witness in this case was sworn with lier hand upon tho book. Tliero can bo no doubt but that if slio made, a false state ment willfully shu is liable lo indictment for perjury. "Ihit it is said that this may bo tnio und yet tho conscience of thc witness not bo bound, which is tho object of tho oath. There is great force in this. How did the witness herself regard it? She is presumably a witness, for nothing to the contrary appears. Shu accepted tho form of thc oath as usually administered, with out objections, except kissing tho Bible. I>y this act on her part tho court is jus tified in presuming, without further in quiry, that tho witness intended that hor conscience should he bound. Speaking from Uie forum of her conscience, sho declared (hut it wu? not essential to kiss tho book in order to impose upon herself all the obligations of nu oath."-Now York Herald. A matrimonial authority says: "Those two rules will \H> safo to follow in all but I a fow except ional eases: First, for a wo man to ro?ase marriage with any man \N1IO is objected to by nor malo relatives I provided they aro reasonably well ac qunintcd with tho object of supposed affection; and, secondly, for a man to refrain from offering: his hand in mar riage to a woman who ia not approved by his sister, or if he has none, by his judioieus lady friends. UKI | KKI> HIM A STATBUOOAI. A I'olorcd .Mn H'M Knit Again*! a Kleatnbont < tonipauy. G. McCants Stewart, tho colored law yer, formerly Professor of Mathematica Ul tho Sdutl? Carolina State Agricultural Cohcgc, and at ono time General Agont for Industrial Education in Liberia, ha? begun suit for $20,000 damages against thc President of tho Peoples Lino of Albany steamers. Mr. Stewart states in his complaint that on June 8, when about to start for Albany on legal business, ho went to Charles H. Orr, au acquaintance, and one of the ageuts of tho People's Lino, at No. 207 Broadway, and asked liim whether it would bo better for him lo go to Albany by boat or by rail. Mr. Orr advised Mr. Stewart to go by tho night boat, Hie Daniel Drew, on which lie would bo able to have a good night's rest. Mr. Stewart paid for a ticket and asked if he would have any dilliculty in securing a berth on tho steamet on ac count of his color. Mr. Orr laughed at tho idea, and said that ho had novcr known of a Hudson Uiver passenger steamer refusing to curry passengers or to give them staterooms. Mr. Orr tele phoned to Hie dock to engage a state room for Mr. Stewart, and gave, him n cheek for the room, but told him to pay thc purser for it. When Mr. Stewart roached the steamer ho presented his stateroom check to the purser. Tho lut ter asked who thc stateroom was for, and when Mr. Stewart replied that it was for himself the purser Haily refused to give him the room. Mr. Stewart t uen ex plained that the agent hud told him that thero would bo no dilliculty about his securing a room, but thc purser still re fused to give him thc room, although it was vacant. Mr. Stewart went to tho captain of tho steamer, who treated him kindly and ap peared annoyed at the purser's behavior. Thc Captain said that ho would seo tho purser. He had a talk with tho hitter, after which, however, lie told Mr. Stew art that ho could uot let liim huvo tho room. Several passengers assured Mr. Stewart that they would act us witnesses for him if he went to law over the mat ter. Mr. Stewart left tho boat, and soon afterward placed the mutter in thc bauds of a lawyer, w ho hus since begun pro ceedings. Mr. Stewart says that ho brings tho suit on thc grounds of a breach of contract and a refusal to act us common carrier, ile says that he does not wish to make. Iiis stund on his civil right? us H colored citizou, us an agita tion of that .subject might prove injuri ous. Algernon S. Sullivan and cx Governor Chamberlain have been retain ed for Mr. Stewart. THE LAURENS HAR. JOHN 0. HASKELL, N. H. DIAL, Columbia, S. C. Laurens, S. C. HASKELL ?2t DIAL, A T T ? lt N E Y S A T L A W, LAURENS O. H., S. C. J. T. JOHNSON. W. H. RICHEY, JOHNSON' & RICHEY, ATT( ) IJ N E YS AT Ii AW, OFFICE-Fleming's ('omer, Northwest side of Public Square LAURENS C. IL, S. C. J. C. OAKLINGTON, ATTO R N E Y AT LA W, LAURENS C. H., S. 0. Olllcc over W. II. Garrott's Store W. O. HEN ET, y. r. M'GOWAN, Abbeville. Laurens. BESET & MeGOWAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, LAURENS 0. H., S. C. J. W. FERGUSON. ??KO. V. YOUNG? FERGUSON & YOUNG, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, LAURENS 0. H., 8. 0. R. 1*. TODD. W. n. MARTIN. TODD & MARTIN, A T T O R N E Y S A T L A W, I.AUKENS C. H., S. C. N. J. HOLMES. II. Y. SIMPSON, HOLMES & SIMPSON, A T T C R N E YS AT LA W, LAURENS C. II.i S. C. N. ST??ARRIST ATTORNEY AT LAW, LAURENS, C. IL, S. C. OHicc over ?torc of W. L. BOYD. Dr. W H. 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