The Greensboro patriot [August 2, 1876]

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THE PATRIOT
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
AT GREENSBORO. N. C,
Bi DUFF1 A- ALBRIGHT,
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The Greensboro Patriot.
Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1876. New Series No. 486.
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ADVEHTI8ING,
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Tilden and Hendricks Cam-paign
Song.
HV c.i'T. snl'l T. WILLIAMS.
Composed in Honor of the Raising of
a Tilden Mid Hendrieka1 Flag at Rocky
Mount, N. C, on July 4tli, 1-70, and read
mi tin- occasion bv the Author.
Do Ding! Wa fling oat banner proudly forth,
- :-■ - earler than eai
larger and liner. Endon
Warden, Thomas and many other eminent I Inscribed with honored names and pure;
Pornokgiata ii ibe I B. ' respondents I Tne EtWi tne sja,,^ «„ South, the Nortt
U payable in ad .oUoitad. Specie - ; . la.gc WiU atrive to make their triumph aure.
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Professional Cards.
: ,ii,ll.. JOBS N. BTJ ftH
>!Ef!DENHALL & STAPLES,
A rroKNEYS AT LAW,
«BKEN»»»0*0, W.C.,
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a! attention given to
WATCH MAKER.
JEWELLER, OPTICIAN
A.3ST3D EJSTG-J^-YVIEIR,
Qremtboro, .V. ft
Hae eooetantly on hand • splendid aaaorl
the Slate, and to inent .,r Fashionable Jewelry, and man
aplendid Warcaci I I -
du : Court H.Mi.e. Which will !><■ wold ©heap fbr CJaab
ByWatehea, Cloeka, Jewelry, faringMa-chine*,
and PhMla repaired cheap an.lonehort
notice. An assorted ito. k of Onna.Piatola,
Cartridges, ate., always on hand.
Mar. 14 I v.
j , Jno. A. Uiliner.
Dillard, & Gilmer
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
aud
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1>r ,1 Federal Court..
ITen to matter, in
sing Dndei luter-
Couri ol* \s.
North Carolina Collaataotaa In
I |i ral Courts soli, lied.
tOStly.
ODELL, KAOAN A CO.,
Wholesale Dealers in
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Qremtboro, X. ft
Jan. SO, 1875-ly.
W. A.. HOBNEY,
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V. Al.l KK P. CALDWBLLi
('ALOWELL.
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it- >u| erior Court ol
\\ I; m 1 Ipb, Darid-
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■ Ureenaboro
Baiikt iptey, aud in court.
ana of money
iritiee.
II Iv.
.in. \V. GLENN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Reidsritte, A'. 0.
iiT ILL i • be Courts of the
il attention given to
i)r. it. u •■i.'iiory
WATCH-MAKER, JEWELER AND
OPTICIAN,
No.11 South Elm Street, Greenah. ro, N.C.
Gold Pens, i ■••• U6:lj
To my I'rieiuls anal llie
PUBLIC GENERALLY.
I would state that I have opened in raj
old stand, reoantly ooenpled by W. M.
ll.iu.itou A Co., a new aodelegaut stock
OF FAMILY SUPPLIES,
Embracing every srtiele usually kept in
a Kir.t Class Family Grocery, all ol wbieb
have been (elected from first band* with
great care by my Salesman, Mr. £. G.
'rCFSPECTFULLT Howconib,in whom the pnblic will find
an experienced, polite and attentivi
ill I !/:• HIS manager. An examination of the above
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Sickle resjici-tYiiT.y solicit.-.!,
i, it i neboro.
t'EEM THE SAME AN THOSE
bj other Practicing
/•// the lily.
l:. spe. tfnlly,
SEYMOUR STEELE.
J°"M v. ic iuiciM.i:it.
A I 1'ORNEY AT LAW,
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i" Chatham,
. Randolph.
■ - nlaced it bia banda "ill be
proii ttteuded to.
.! I! . bee Photograpli
■'.lit lloli.e.
ol ■.. II. QKBOORT.
BALL & GREGOB V.
ATTORNEYS ATL AW
Real-,
I.I:I EN8BORO, N. C.
I'll Bute and Federal
J. A. PRITCHETT,
CABINET-MAKER.
Furniture ffcttler and Undertaker^
ANNOCNCE8 to (lie cil
QramiBboro atnd Guiltord Cooing
it he i- better : ; "1 now
m i'v-i tu proviJrj ibi Ul «itfa
riK\ins.r
iii grml VIT'K ;v —-.-It-i!>-il with B view to
ecouon.} iiitit tu Biiit tin* limes.
\\ tin. ot ibe Hrm can be al-
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EON DENTISTS,
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djaUasTeUfiue bmm f< ; ibe IM of the pnblic.
AT. oraen for Fnrniturt?, \
Batata promptly attended i<>, al mod**rati<
ohargaa.
Any maiLt-ia.il*- prodoee taken in<
fur trork, If detivered at my nbop t-n Pajrette-viil—
utreet.
Work oarafullj packed mi.i .!.••-
tlit* d»fpot Free ul Ckttrgt. Jan.7,-1j.
' Batiamctofy raf-aranca
giaani it
213 it
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'^CHAS. D. YATES."
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Mi:iM< tl. « \m>. The under
etc bifl friends
•■ rved for the
:.' piaotice of his pro-baN
'iiitiii^ the past fall
a Ihorongh eonne In
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^y and treat-
■ in to FSMAI K8,
» till all the instill
■ eesaary in this
He is, also, pre-n
ii. ai all.;;-. aaeaoftbeeye A ear.
found al the Urug
A Son, when not
R. w. GLENN
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PETER COBLE,
Bhaw*a Mills-.
W.C.
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1 -" I WILL CLOSE OUT
• price.
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FBEDBRICE DET31ERLNG,
Boot & Shoe Maker,
Oil Uavie Stivrt, iir:»r I'i.-; '
T>OOT8and8hoea made I
teat notice, at tne low
loabeatof »-alln-r, ami a ir«
led.
►rder in ii.»-
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N. H. II. WILSON,
j Will strive to ma
' Our people have been cursed too long
With fool miarule and nnjnat lawn,
They're moving to redreee the wrong,
j hi j 're moving to uphold tli.-ir cause.
CHORUS.
The jialiiol- now arc gath'riog fa^.t,
In every 3tate they soon will awann ;
And soon we'll hear the welcome Wast
King out for Tilden and Reform.
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Corruption re ions on every hand ;
The rooues ne'er feel the halter draw,
lint pi II n.!.'-.-our impoverished land
In name of liberty and law.
I be tbieTeaaretothe White Honae traced,
See Baheoek, Belknap and theieat,
Our name ai home, abroad, disgraced,
And patriota bloah, amaaed. distress'.!.
ClI.IBt s.
But now the hosts are gatb'ring fast.
In every Slate they soon will swarui;
And soon we'll hear the welcome blast
Ring out for Tilden and Reform.
til.
Our leader is as hold a knight
As e.i-i lifted lance or ahield :
rie'll guide us safely thro" the flight,
And ■:i i■. ■ - the rascals iv..m the field.
He's loo.-i I he's faithful too,
ii. smash the Rings where'er they're
found :
He'll bold them t.> the public view,
D sgraced, dishonored anddlaowo'd.
CHOBUS.
For now the boats are gatb'ring fast.
In every State they soon will swarm ;
And soon we'll hear the welcome blast,
Etingoul for Tilden and Reform.
iv.
To aid our chief the uoble Weal
Lends t ir cause ber brightest star :
Her Hcndrisks, uobloat, purest, beat,
SI 11 .1. by our Til.leu in this war—
This war against unblushing wrong,
This war against the people's foes,
This war against the robber throng,
This wat t" stop the nation's woea
CHORUS.
For i."W the hosts are gath'ring fast,
:■! ev. iy Si.,:, they eoon will swar.ii :
And soon we'll lu-ai" the welcome blael,
I'm Tii.len, Hendrieka and Reform.
v.
Tin n let onr banner wave on high,
Its motto streaming to the breeze,
now, that out triumph's nigh,
-the vict'ry seize.
The people in their strength will rise,
And save tlo- '■■• '1 from plunder more:
Their sbonts of joy will rend the skies
Ami echo back Irom Bhore to shore.
( ROB.ua.
For now the hosts are gatb'ring fast,
In every State they soon will s.warni;
And soon we'll hear the welcome blast,
For Tilden, Hendricks and Reform.
VI.
Then let each patriot join our band,
And work for liouesl men and true,
For Tilden and for Hendrieka stand,
And strive For Vance and Jarvia too.
And when November's inn goesdown,
\ - M ly ;.^ our cans.- is just,
We'll hear the shout of triumph home
From North to South, from East toWest.
CHOBUS.
For now the hosts are gatb'ring fast,
lu every State they soon Will swarm ;
And soon we'll hear the welcome blast,
ForTilden, Hendrieka and Reform.
' ■. Sa«a,
WINDOW AND DOORFRAMES
PLADJIKG, AC.
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• - »ays on hand, which
A Gallop for Life.
When out vessel was lying in
harbor at Monte Video, I accepted
an invitation from a Kuroiicau set-tler,
who Imtl been one of the lirst
to substitute Bheepfarming on a
large scale for the cattle-breeding
which had hitherto been almost the
only occupation of the natives of
the country, to visit his place in the
interior. He owned stations iu
various parts, but his principal
homestead was on the Bio Negro.
It bad been a very dry season,
but rain had just commenced to fall
—and in time to prevent terrible
loss and suffering. This circuui-stance
led us to talk of the droughts
in which these countries are at
times liable: and, recalling the
mention made in Mr. Darwin's
" Travels," (which I had been lately
reading)ol the celebrated dry sea-son,
known as "el grau seco," or
the great drought, when cattle in
thousands rushed into the river and
perished, I asked my host, who was
a man past 50, if he had been in
Banda Oriental then. We were,
at the time I put the question, rid-in";
itlung the bank of the Plata,
not far from the junction of the
Uruguay with it—for we were going
Brat to t'olonia. As the leader is
doubtless aware, La Plata is, eveu
when on miles from the sea, a stream
ot many miles in width, although
shallow, [comparatively ; and thus
more resembles an inland lake than
a river. The bank or shore jttst
there made a great semicircular
bend, lormiug a promontory pro-
I ITB A- FIHP IWIRIVIT ii'i'YT Ijeeting into the stream. This like
LlrhArlKhl.YSlRAMi.AGENT, a!i ,|„. itst of me country, was a
Greener*. treeless, 1 oiling plain or prairie, but
V 01Hi < arolina Htaue
-' !•" ! RANI i: COMPANY.
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PETER ADAM8, Agent,
Greensboro, N.C.
ro, X. c,
REPRE8ENT8 1 rs Companies
with an aggregate capital ofovi r
THIRTY MILLIONS DOLLARS,
ibis term., ami can carry a foil line at lair rates.
ta^Ouiee, up stairs over Wilson A Sho-wer's
Bank, underthe efficient supei
of
W. II. HILL.
who will at all times bo glad to v. ait on
all who desire either
Life or Fire Policies.
mar H:ly
lidoot.
.)(|(| BALES .CHOICE HAY
— ' '' ' t" ■ sale by
JAS. "SLOAN'S SONS.
ASvt-onil llaiitl IMaiio
FOR BALE
evry cheap at
April 04, ltiTO.
Jas. SLOaso' SONS
not neatly so level as that on the
south, or P.uenos Ayres side of the
river. Cliffs or steep banks of 50
or GO feet terminated it, and a broad
margin extended between the foot
ot these and the now shrunken tra-ins
of the river.
•■ You could not have put the
question iu a more fitting place,'' he
replied, •' for it was in the bend of
the river that a circumstance bap-hened
which, long as it is ago, will
never allow me to forget the great
draught. Do you see those white
specks and patches here and there,
between the present edge of the
I river and the cliffs T Ride a little
nearer, and look along the foot of
the rocks. See those white spots !
Those are bones, the remains of in-numerable
cattle, who here rnshed
madly to their deaths. My own
bones had nearly found a similar
resting place, and farther on those
ot my horse are bnried beneath
them. The floods of 30 or more
, years have silted and nearly covered
them overt Wk knows f Per-haps
the geologists of future ages
may puzzle their brains to account
for their presence among the arm-adillos
aud mastodons, and other
extinct species! I will tell you how
it happened, aud what a narrow
escape 1 had of being made a fossil
myself, as well as my horse.
" I was then a lad of 16 or 17,
aud had had only recently joined
my uncle, who was a merchant in
Monte Video. It was he who
bought the place I now live in, aud,
being a childless widower, he sent
to France for me. I had only been
about a year with him when what I
am going to relate befell us.
lie had retired from business,
aud had already commenced the
pursuit I have since followed tip so
extensively, that is, he had pur-;
chased aud imported a number of
sheep, when the drought—called by
the people here-, to distinguish it 1
from the others of less intensity,
" el gran seco"—visited the country.
▲II the smaller rivers were either
dried up or else rendered so salt as
to be useless; you kuow the soil all
over these plains, particularly on
the south side of La Plata, is im-!
preguated with nitrate of soda, and
the larger ones themselves terribly
diminished. Nearly the whole of!
the back country was at last desert- j
ed, and every one eudeavored to
save some of his stock, by migrat-ing
to the main streams, where still
some trille of herbage could be
found here and there. We were
better off than the rest, being on a )
" rineon"—that is, a place nearly '
enclosed by a bend of the channel,
while a deep back water running
through the other part almost made
it into an island, and we managed
by incessant care and watchfulness
to prevent beiug invaded aud over
run by the starving cattle which
came starving in thousands from
all parts.
The few sheep we then had were
stationed at the place we shall sleep
at to-night; but as the feed there
began to tail, we were obliged to
bring them to the main homestead,
which was theu ou this river. I :
w as engaged on this service, and I
had a lad with me, the sou, of one j
of our guachus,* who had also ac-'
yompauied us to the end of our lirst
day's journey ; but he had theu left
us to ride back again for some pur- i
pose or other, promising to over-1
take us next morning by the timei
we had gone a mile or two with the
Hock, which only mustered some
eight hundred; but they were;
choicesheep.amongst them all those,
imported at such care anil expense. |
I had watched during the first I
half of the night, and the boy had 1
riseu to take my place. It was a i
beautiful moonlight, I remember, j
ami nearly as light as day, when 11
was suddenly aroused by the voice
ol Iago, my companion. He had
rushed to the horses, which we bad
kept together by their lassos lest
they shoul.l stray for feed. The
sheep were lying peacefully enough
grouped in a hollow; and seeing
they were all right, and being still
not half awake, I peevishly de-manded
what he metit by disturb-ing
me. lie put the horse's bridle !
in my hand, and merely said, " Lis-ten
!"' and then hastened to suatch ]
up and arrange the different ma-;
terials of my saddle which also con-1
stitute the bed on which the guacho 1
Bleeps. And now indeed I observed j
that the horses were in a state of j
great excitement, and on the night i
breeze there rose a sound which, \
when Iago explained the cause,I
made me hasten to help him in ar-1
ranging matters for instant flight.
It was a roaring, thundering.thougli
as yet, distant noise which my com-panion
said proceeded from a count-less
number of wild cattle, which,
maddened by thirst, were rushing
down Irom the parched interior dis-tricts
to the river.
"There must be many—many
thousands of tbem ! Father told
me before he went to be watchful,
for the old guachos have been ex-pecting
and foretelling that some
snch thing must soon happen.—
Hasten, Don Charles! What are
you going to do t"
" I was going to rouse the sheep
and drive them before ns; but the
boy insisted that this would only
insure our own destruction, and
would be useless besides.
" The river is live miles from here,
and the flock will be overtaken be-lure
we have got one-third that dis-tance
: and we ourselves shall not
be safe, eveu there, unless we. reach
one spot alone, and that is still
farther. Come away at once, or
von will perish !"
But I was determined not to
sacrifice my une'e's cherished stock
without an effort at least to save
them. The truth is, I did not realize
the extreme danger of our position.
Once on my horse I thought I was
safe enough, and could at the last
momeut, simply by gallopiug off,
save myself. I did "ot know that
the thundering sound which every
moment rose louder and louder,
and above which could now be dis-tinctly
heard the hoarse bellowings
of innumerable maddened creatures,
proceeded from a body of cattle,
the front ranks of which reached
right across the great bend of the
"Literally, " countrymen,'' the men who
have charged of the herds of cattle in the
republics of La Plata. In Chili they are
termed "goacbos," and are agriculturalists
as well as herdsmen,
; stream ; and that for miles to the
right aud left the infuriated herd
extended, hemming ns in, so that
there was no other resource than
flight to the river. I tried to get
the sheep into a run, but with the
proverbial stupidity of their kind
they took my effort in very bad part,
and would not hurry themselves.—
Many valuable mtuutes were thus
lost, during which the boy Iago,
at other times taciturn enough,
stormed angrily at my folly, and at
last threatened to set off without
me. The onset of the approachiug
heard at the moment became so dis-tinct
that I began to think it ad-visable
to do as he wished, and off
we set at full speed, leaving the
sheep to their fate.
Before we had ridden a couple ol
miles, however, we saw a horseman
coming obliquely to the direction of
the advancing herd. It was lago's
father iu search of us, for he had
heard of the inroad of advanced
parties of the wild cattle, aud had
set off to rejoin us instantly, but
had been repeatedly obliged to
make circuits to avoid detached
bodies of them, lie had iu con-sequence
lost all idea of his exact
locality on the plains, but with the
skill, which amounts almost to in-stinct,
of the old guacho, he had
found his way to the neighborhood
of the spot at last. But the part
we were making tor across the river
was, he said, already tilled with
countless beasts; and, indeed, the
thunder of the tramping of their
myriad hoofs on the baked soil was
audible ahead of us. Without a
momeut's hesitation, however, the
old man putting spurs to horse,
called ou us to follow him.
"What a ride that was! We
were obliged to keep nearly parallel
with the advancing host, which we
at last came so near that that the
forest of tossiug horns, gleaning in
the moonlight through clouds of
dust, became plainly visible. But
we were rapidly nearing the river.
Soclose was the race, however, that,
as we descended the bank, the part
of the advancing Hue which was
nearest to it reached it at the same
moment.
These had desceuded the bank at
an accessible place—almost the only
one for miles where a horseman
could gallop down. Only fancy the
scene then as we tore furiously
down the border of the stream to
reach the spot the guacho was mak-ing
for! Ou our left were either
cliffs or very steep banks, down
which soon came roaring, tumbling
and crashing on the granite bed
below the bodies ot all the front
ranks. In huudreds, and soon iu :
thousands, the helpless creatures,
poshed on by the maddened myriads i
behind, fell in one living cataract,:
and their outcries, as they lay with ;
their limbs fractured, and as fresh
victims still in oue incessant stream
poured down ou them, were awful
to bear.
Approaching the tiverin abend
as they did, the two ends of the ad-vancing
line reached it first, the
rest being yet at a distance, so rlt.it
as we galloped ou this living cata-ract
accompanied us. Soon, bow-ever,
we shot ahead, and reached
the spot the old man was striving
to make. We did so only a lew
minutes before the advancing tide
of life, about to pour down it, had
reached the same place.
Here the dills were some 50 or 60
feet high, and iu some places over-hanging.
Jumping off his horse,
and leaving him to his own instincts
to preserve himself if he could, the ■
guacho hastily scrambled up the
rocks, and we followed fiis example.
Not far from the summit was a ledge
of rock, projecting from which grew
a cotton-tree. It was a kind of
shallow cane, and we had hardly
reached its shelter when the tramp
Of the hoofs above Shook the granite
rock whereon we lay ; and presently
the horrible scene I have just de-scribed
was re-enacted on a more
awful scale. And there we crouch-ed,
watching the stream of living
creatures falling down in front and
on both sides of us, until the space
below was one vast scene of mangled
remains. Those which reached it
unhurt rnshed to the river only to
perish iu the soft broad margin ol
clay, in which they were bogged
and smothered in immense numbers.
Altogether, the guachos computed
that there were probably not. far
from 8,000 or 10,000 head perished
on that night. The frenzy of thirst
which impelled them was such, and
the scent of water appeared to ren-der
them so ungovernable, that
numbers seemed to me to make no
pause whatever, hut leaped into
the valley below, as if unconscious
of the descent before them.
There had been a hut on the
plain, not far from the edge ot the
cliffs, on the. preceding evening,
but its two inhabitants had, with
their child, been surprised in their
sleep, its clay walls had given way
uuder the pressure, and we found
their remains—or rather the frag-ments
of them—trodden out of all
human semblance, lying amidst the
ruins." ^^^^^^^^_
A Berlin mechanician has invent-ed
a steam velocipede which is said
to auswer admirably. The engine
is heated with petroleum, and,being
placed on the two back wheels, does
not iuterfere with the convenience
of the driver.
" Brother, why don't you ask the
stranger to pray P " Because," re-proviugly
observed the deacon,
"this ain't no place for practical
jokes. That man's the president of
a gas company."
A Kentuckian in Menifee county
has a dangbMf eleven years old
who weighs uny pounds, is forty
inches high, and whose head is cov-ered
with beautiful black hair thir-ty-
six inches iu length.
The Hamburg Riot.
Detaili of the Bloody Conflict beticeen
Tico Armed Mob* in South
Carolina.
Charleston, S. C, July 10.—The
city of Hamburg is situated oppo-site
the city of Augusta, Ga., on the
' west bank of the Savannah river,
in the corner of E.lgetield, Aikeu,
and Barnville couutiesof this State.
It is an ancient town, and before
; the war vied with Augusta as the
market for that region of country.
It comprised some twenty-five hun-dred
inhabitants, and was a monev-making
and wealthy place. Since
the war, however, it has become a
den of turbulent negroes, and
scarcely a half dozen white families
remain. There are some live huu-dted
lazy blacks who iuhabit it,
and make the gateway from the
counties above mentioned, across
the only bridge into the city of Au-gusta,
an eyesore and a nuisance.—
The negroes elect their own Mayor
and Council, aud have charge of all
the civil offices. The ebony head
of this crew has been Prince Riv-ers.
He is Major-General of the
South Carolina militia. He has
been a member of the Legislature,
and while there was the President
of that notorious gang of thieves,
the United Brotherhood. He was
Mayor of Hamburg until he wear-ied
of the honor. He is one of
Chamberlain's appointees as trial
Justice, having jurisdiction overall
misdemeanors and civil causes un-der
moo.
lu the city was a negro military
company commanded by Capt.Dock
Adams. During the Ridge Spring
riots a year ago, according to the
at mist ice agreed ou by the whites
aud the blacks, aud the orders of
the Governor, the company was to
return their arms to the State ; but
they have never complied. On the
Fourth of July as two young white
gentlemen were returning from Au-gusta
to their homes iu Edgefield,
they were confronted by Dock Ad-ams's
militia blocking up the high-way,
and made, to await its ma-neuvering.
They were told they
Should be kept there all night, and
very offensive language was used
to aggravate them. They pocketed
the affront, and di termined to re
sort 10 the law at Trial Justice Riv-et's
office. They employed Gen. M.
C. Butler as their lawyer, aud Sat-urday,
July, was set for the trial.
I apt. Dock Adams decliued to
attend the Court, and when ordered
under arrest for contempt refused
to obey. He called out his compa-ny
and provided them with ammu-nition.
This attitude ot defiance
to civil law by the militia placed
the corporation and the vicinity in
the hands of an armed mob of dan-gerous
rioters. The whites who had
assembled demanded the disarming
of the company. Trial Justice Riv-ers,
seeing they were iu earnest,
vainly endeavored by persuasion
and orders to have the guns given
up. The whites being reenforced
from Augusta and the South Caro-lina
neighborhood, the militia re-tired
to ti brick building, aud soon
afterward the firing commenced.—
A white man named Mackey Mer-ry
weather was the first killed—by
a ball from the militia. Augusta
then sent lorward a piece of artil-lery,
which, after four shots, dis-lodged
the negroes. One was killed
anil one was wounded. The city
was then searched for the militia,
and some twenty nine prisoners
were taken. They were given in
charge of a detail ot twenty-live
men to take to Aiken jail; but four
ol them were shut, four wounded,
and the rest released.
During the fight a white man
named Morgan was shot in the leg.
This and the fatal shooting of Mer-ryweather
were the only casualties
o:;tliat side. The loss of the ne-groes
dining the light was three
killed, in addition to the four pris-oners
who were afterward shot.
Gen. Butler left, the scene ot ac-tion
before the killing ot the pris-oners.
The detail who had them in
charge seemed to agree that if they
took their prisoners to Aikeu jail
they would be tried and acquitted
by the new Radical Judge, Wig-gins.
Besides, there was uo telling
but what when they arrived at the
jail the detail itself would be incar-cerated
upon some counter charge
made by the prisoners to the Radi-cal
officials. Major-Gen. Prince
Rivers took refuge in Augusta.—
The Democracy of that city gave
him the protection he sought and
took care of as many of his follow-ers
as applied to them.
Nonsense.
A radical politician says if you
vote for the amendments you vote
yourselves slaves. Yet he gives uo
reasons for the assertion.
The cheapest Legislature since
the war was the last one. Its per
diem was 980,000—the highest per
diem under the amendments can-not
possibly exceed * 10,800—mak-ing
a saving iu per diem alone of
945,200. Is saving 945,200 making
you slaves f
The amendments cut off '1 Su-perior
Court Judges at a salary of
92500,00 each—making 97,500 sav-ed—
Is that making you slaves 1
They cut off 2 Supreme Court
Judges at the same salary—making
95,000 more saved. Is that making
you slaves ! According to this radi-cal
nonsense, voting to save in three
items alone, viz : 945,200 for Legis-lature,
97,500 for Superior Court
Judges, aud 9->,00C for Supreme
Court Judges—making in all 9)67,-
700—is voting to make you slaves.
Away with such stuff.
\Dmeii*on Record.
Whaling has been unusually pros-perous
ou the lower California coast
this summer.
Hayes is No Reformer.
Hayes has never greatly distin
guished himself in civil life, either
in Congress or as Governor of Ohio;
but there was one important meas-ures
that was carried through bv
the last Ohio Legislature which
gives special significance to his ad-ministration,
and which will enable
the people to form a tolerably clear
idea what kind ot reform we may
expect should he be successful n
getting elected President.
During the first two terms of Gen.
Hayes, as Governor of Ohio, and
during that of his successor Gen.
Noyes, a system of wholesale swind
ling by county Rings reached enor
uious proportions. This tieecing of
the people was accomplished bv
means of constructive fees exacted
by county officers ; and the extent
to which these abuses were carried
may be inferred from the fact that
the report of the State Auditor in
1874 showed that the compensation
of county officials amounted to
about five times the total expenses
of the Legislature, Judicial aud Ex-ecutive
Departments of the State.
The extortions of these officials
reached every class of the commu-nity
; even the estates of widows
and orphans were robbed to satisfy
the insatiate greed of the county
Rings, and by meaus of excessive
fees, Probate Judges in some of the
counties were enabled to swell their
compensation to amouuts more than
double the salaries of the Judges of
the Supreme Court.
When Gov. Allen came into office,
he immediately gave his attention
to the rectification of these abuses.
Iu_ his message of December 1,
1874, he called the special attention
of the Legislature to the subject,
and the people of Ohio, finding that
they at last had a champion in the
Executive chair, poured in their pe-titions
to the number of fifty thous-and,
demanding immediate relief
from the exactions of the county
Riugs. Not satisfied with present-ing
the matter officially to the Leg
islature, Gov. Allen made the most
urgent personal appeals to bis sup-porters
iu both Houses, and, though
his efforts met with persistent op-position
from members aud tools of
these Rings, belonging to both po-litical
parties, he finally succeeded
iu carrying his point, aud a law was
passed makinga reduction of 9285,-
000 annually in the compensation
of county officials.
Well, in 1875, Hayes was elected,
and a Republican Legislature came
into power. At once the rings ral-lied
in full force, aud a bill was pre-pared
to repeal the reform law
which Gov. Allen had forced
through the preceding Legislature
by bis untiring personal labors.—A
strong lobby was organized at the
Capitol, and, although new county
ofiicers had in the mean time been
elected uuder the act fixing reduced
salaries, they succeeded in repeal-ing
the law which the Democratic
Legislature had passed, the new
bill being made retroactive iu its
operation, so as to completely neu-tralize
the effects of the law which
was repealed.
What was Gov. Hayes doing
while these leeches were prosecut-ing
their schemes to defraud the
people T That amiable gentleman
was doing nothing al all. The men
who were engaged iu the service of
the R'tigs were politicians of influ-ence.
Gov. Hayes is not the man
to make enemies of such servtcea
ble friends, ami so he looked ou
without moving a finger, and per-mitted
a measure to pass which in-volved
the robbery ot the people of
Ohio to the amount of several hun-dred
thousand dollars annually.
As the Cincinnati Commercial said
at the time the repealing bill was
passed: "Gov. Hayes has lost a
glorious opportunity of proving
himself a good reform candidate for
President by not raising his voice
against this iniquity;" autl we
thiuk the people will agree with
our Western contemporary. 11
Gov. Hayes could not resist the
pressure of a few petty Ohio county
Rings, in a matter where all the
people were on one side and a few
greedy politicians ou the other,
what possible chance is there that
the same inoffensive gentleman
would be able to resist the over-whelming
influence of the colossal
Rings which are intrenched in
Washington' Not the slightest;
and it is for that very reason that
his nomination has proved so ac-ceptable
to Ring Republicans of
every grade.—-V. I'. Sun
Ashamed of his Party.-Oai Pitts-boro
correspondents tell a singular
tale of Hon. 14. C. Badger and Hon.
Baton Bledsoe, two Radical worth-ies
of this city. They went to ha-rangue
the Republicans of Chat-ham.
Finding the Court House
packed with negroes and only a
half dozen w bites present, they in-gloriously
beat a retreat. They
were ashamed of the crowd I—
Ashamed of the negro! I!. C. Bad-ger
ashamed of the men whom he
would have control this State! We
would say to all such, stand by
your colors !—Ral. Aetrs.
Thus talks an old farmer about
bis boys: From 15 to-0 they knew
more than I did; at 25 they knew
as much ; at SO they were willing
to hear what I had to say: at .')•»
they asked my advice; anil I think
when they get to be 40 they will
ackuowledge that the old man does
know sometbiDg.
Two tramps stopped at the house
of a lone widow in Westchester
ecunty, and oue went in to beg.—
Very soon he came out with a
bloody nose and a black eye. " Did
you get anything, Jack T " Yes,"
growled the sufferer, " I've got the
widow's might."
The Proposed Impeachment
of Robeson.
The democrats must not make a
blunder iu the proposal to impeach
Secretary Robeson. The evidence
against him is of the gravest char-acter.
It appears that as Secretary
of the Navy he permitted friends
like the the Cattells to amass large
sums of money at the expense of
the government. To suppose that
he did not know of their transac-tions
is to suppose bim to be a fool,
which no one for a moment will do.
The inference has been drawn that
Mr. Robeson shared in this spoiling
ot the Treasury. We should re-joice
in his vindication, because the
shame of an officer so high in the
nation's service is the nation's
shame, and because the Secretary
has been the victim of what has
seemed to us to be a bitter and un-pausing
persecution. It is his in-terest,
if he is innocent, to have a
prompt inquiry, not before a House
committee, but by the Senate. If
he is guilty it is the interest of the
republican party to have him tried
and convicted. Hut there must be
no halfway position on the part of
the democrats. They must censure
or impeach Robeson or acquit linn.
To leave him in a neutral position,
suspended between heaven and
earth, neither convicted nor acquit-ted,
but used as a campaign weapon
would do the party and the country
harm. It would draw around him
the support of the republicans, who
would view it as a political pet seen
tiou. Impeachment is one ot the
gravest duties of a free govern
meut. It is a solemn process of
law. It should never be debased
to mere political ends. If Mr. Rob-eson
has committed crimes iu his
office all good men desire his im-peachment.
If he has been accused
unjustly then all good men desire
his vindication. If the democrats
adopt a middle course they will
wrong not alone their party but the
public morality.—.\. Y. Herald.
A Specimen Apostle of Reform
Washington, July 2L—James
Atkins, confirmed some days ago
as collector of the port of Savannah.
Ga., was appointed collector of In-ternal
revenue in 1865, and up to
1871 continued in that position.—
In the last named year be was dis-covered
to be a defaulter to Ibe
Government in the sum of 914,000,
which be said hail been sto'en from
him by some deputy collectors
Whom he had appointed in order to
please bis friend -Mr. Delano, whilst
Commissioner of Internal Kevenue.
However, this state of affairs did
not dampen bis ardor or aspiration
for office or promotion. In the year
1872 Atkins was a successful appli-cant
for the office ot collector, of
the. port al Savannah, Ga. It trans-pired
soon after this event that be
was a defaulter in the sum of |3ij
000 including the 914.D00 taken by
1 lelano's deputies. He recently got
a bill through Congress relieving
Diin oi * 14,0110 by reciting that the
" bill was to cot net an error ill en
rollment," when, in fact, tins was
not true, as the bill bad never pass-ed
both houses of the previous I'mi
greSS, as alleged. This relief from
the 914,000 defalcation leaves bim
still a defaulter in the sum oi 917,-
000, and yet be finds no difficulty
111 getting confirmed as collector of
the port ol Savannah. Put the ex-planation
uf this gives an insight
into the manner in which the recent
candidates for Presidential honors
at the Cincinnati Convention were
governed Karly in January oltbis
year, Atkins came to Washington
as a strong BristOW man, aud did
not scruple so promise the friends
of this gentleman that the Georgia
lelegatioli should be carried solid
for Bristow, After he was nomi-nated
for the collectorship and con
linnation was not promptly made,
be went to Senator Morton anil
promised that he would see that the
the Georgia delegation to Cincin
nati went solid lor him. Still im-patient
at the delay in his confirma-tion
he went toConkling to whom
be promised the solid Georgia del
egation. The Blaine men, however,
defeated him, ami al the Conven-tion
Atkins voted for Conkling. and
is again collector ol the port ol Ma
vaniiah. Glorious evidence oi the
great reform inaugurated by the
liepubiican party.
A German Straw Against
Hayes.
The New Yorker Haudt-ls Zeitnng,
heretofore republican, of July I,
contains an article from which we
take this significant extract:
"Our sympathies in the ap
preaching struggle are with Samuel
J. Tilden, not because, but notwith-standing
he is the candidate of the.
democratic party. It is not with
hollow phrases, but by weighty
deeds, that Tilden has proved bim
sell the representative of reform.—
But what is liases' He is the
nominee of a party which claims
indemnity for eight years ol mis
government on the strength ol its
great services in 'lie past ; which
demands the confidence of the peo-ple
without offering guarantees lot
the future, for it has as good ■ .
thrown on one side the only practi-cal
reformer in its ranks, Benjamin
Bristow. Tilden and Hendricks are
vuite as honorable, and at least as
important men as Hayes and Wheel-er,
and, as for the two platforms,
the democratic, of which reform is
the beginning and the end, has
many advantages over the republi-can.''
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The Secret of Spiritual Potter.—
W'e must have a consistent Chris-tian
character to begin with. If
there be anything hollow about 11- :
if we be not true and real through
out; it there by any inconsistency
against which we have not declared
war to the death ; if there be any
compartment of our life from which
the morality of lie-gospel has In en
excluded, then power is for us im-possible.
Bat power belongs to
those who are not merely consistent,
but eminent Christiana. It de-mands
the abundance, healthful-ness,
and sweetness of the Christian
life. Entire consecration is one of
its conditions. The powerful walk
humbly with God, ami cultivate
teuderuess which fears to grieve
the Holy Ghost.