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'..-.i"b "' - "L '- i . . . . , - --..-.- .. .!.;..,.- ..;.,. ,,r ....-. r " " '. '.' ! !: ' r : ' -V '-r : '' i I - i jmk Olliidl - -' ; ! f ; -; y - . t; ..,1 i , .1- . i .- .-' - . ' . ' , ;i , ll(P)- 7 v v uL ILV-Jl LO L. VII.-.THIRD SERIES. SALISBURY, ST. C, JANUARY 20, 1876. NO 15 i PUBLISHED WEEKLY : s J . J V BRUER, : Proprietor and Editoi . ; Vhos.-k.. bruner; Associate Editor. ; , - BA1I5SOF SCBCRIPTIftN; WEEKLY WATCHMAN. J EAR, payauie tn aawnr.t, .....iu JOKTRS, v - j ------ lesto any address .......... 10.0 y1rTIIX RATES : I M . - i ;...: . " Iouabe (1 inch) One. ingertidn $100 f :tWo' t 1.60 I for a greater number of insertionn te,-Special notices 25 per 'cent.nr lilar adTertisera.entf. ;! leading notice. per line for each and every insertion " - jiEV ADVERTISEMENTS c beautiful than ever is the new ; JEWERLY - received at Bell & Bro's : p . consisting 'of . D AND SILVER WATCHES, . ... i - . "! - i LP AND PLATED CHAINS, ; BRACELETS,; LADIES SETS, ij GENTS BUTTONS, PINS, AND STUDS. j:V re haye made in the handsomest ner.U ' ' " S -" CHA IX S, HAIR JE WELIiY, mond and "WeddiBg,RmB:s LctaV attention giving to the ! Repairing Timing of fine Wati;heaiid RcruIatora. il Watdves repaired bv us are onth-L 1 f' h See 2 door above National Jof large WaRh an4 Pen. frubury. Dec. 2.-187J tf. ' warranted Hotel, see Il lJil) WAR E. v-. hen you waiit Hardwaro at low brtt: call on thp iindersi?ne d at No. 2 toite Row.. j J D. A. ATWELL. ffbury ,N. C.May 1 3-tI. CEDAR COVE iu-a's B:Bii. SUIT TREES. VINES & PLANTS. J are srock at" reas?oH&ble rates. ! ,. Cat alogue for-1.5 and '76 with full de 3tion of fruits, pentpree. i - 4drta CR AFT & SAILOR, : ' ' -" Red Plaiks, . ! -1 " V - ; Yadkin County N. C. n if 1875; 3mosIr fflOBIICSMEHT i II ab t: IAIV, now1 receivitier and ope'fiine for the. in fction of the people of Salisbury add Row fCouuty the Rest; Selected Stock of : 1 STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES, it has ever been exhibit! in Salisbury r . . t - f MDCV lirands of Turur anA rheronta. i 1 i - . . v i. ' at.lvttoui figures. Candie6, both -plain and fancy. Figs, Almonds, J i Pranges, Raisins, Jellies, v ;an'i iu fact anything that a first " "ciais Grocer? house should! have. ilso Vuya and sells Domestic bacon and kind of country produce. Hoping to see many friends both n town and .country - ! 1 remain Respjecttully J D. R. JULIAN. i THE . LYHCHBURG ipce M Mm Company. itat iod Assets over ' $600,000 e peposit i . 15,000 3PERTY INSURED AGAINST LOSS BY lhe lowest Current Iiateft I' 1 a Pylky in the Lynchburg and slee'p am also Agent for the North Carolina jjL.tf Insurance Conrpany. I 709 navjjthe good of your Country at Vr ynr miMy -in the - South an4 voild up IInn Institutions, -i J. D.-MeJflSEJwT Artaf " .iWiiaMiian. hi i - I ITRAORD REPORTED KILLING OF A , HIGHWAYMAN. It is reported in this city, that on Tuesday; evening lafter. dark, a man named Smith, a citizen of Cabarrus county, was on. his way borne from Concord, when- he 'was met in the road by a negro 'who; demanded money. Mr. Smith gave him 5 and the scoundrel demanded more. He responded that he had more, but thought that ought to be enough ? for him. The negro Jd Mm to hand over all he had, and Mr. Smith reached in his pocket as if o get it j but instead of the money he drew his pistol Tjiich he leveled upon ia assailant arm nrea me Dan striKing him in the breast j and producing al most instant death. The above item: appeared in the Observer of yesterday. The circum stances are these : Dr. Gib Smith, resides in Coddle Creek Township. Iredell county, in the corner of Ire dell, Mecklenburg 'and Cabarrus, was kreturning home on Tuesday night about 8 olcIock, from a visit to a pa- ient, when he wae met in the road by two negroes, one )f whom demanded money. He handed him $1.20 which he had in his vest pocket, when the 11 '.iii nignwayjnan poia nim tnat ne, mast have more. pr. Smith told him that he had some more money, and if noth ing else would do, supposed he must give him. Saying which, he reached nvtjie rear pocket of his pants, drew a pistol .and fired upon the negro. The ball struck him An the ! forehead and he fell dead in the road. Dr. Smith rode oh to the nearest house and re ported the occurrence. A number of persons in the neighborhood visited the body while it lay where it fell but none could identity it ; the negro seems to nave been a stranger in that section. I His companion darted into the woods as soon as Dr. Smith fired, aud was seen na more Charlotte Observer. , f ' . OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT. On yesterday about noon, or a short Jtime after, aj negro whose name was subsequently ascertained to be Gus Way man, went to thejhonseof a gen tleman in tlie erty while he was away .and entering the door,! made iudecen proposals to the lady 4 lie was run from this place, after which he went to another, hot far distant, and on the premises' indulged jni the most out rageous language and conduct. The owner of the place was at heme and wenteut to remonstrate with the ne- gro. Alter some conversation ne or dered him off the lot,! when the negro seized a rock as? if to throw it at him The gentleman went j in the house and got his pistol: and returning into the yard,, found that the negro had lied. An othcer was put j upon his track, and he was; apprehended and carried 1 f T ,i TT'li J J lir-XT? V oeiore justice xinton anu xueiMncn. His bearing in the court was boister ous and impertinent, and after having been told several times to stop talk ing, and having refused, Constable Whitley, was told to carry him to jail. His left hand was put in the hand-cuff, and he was ordered to put . the other one in, which he peremptorily refused to do. At! this juncture, policeman Hill, wTho was present, ordered him to allow himself hand-cuffed; refusing the second time, the policeman very properly knocked him down in the - &' 1 1 j j 1 i court room, alter wnicn ne stretcnea out his hand and let.it be locked Up, A further hearing of the case will be had to-davi The scoundrel is indict ed for attempt at rape, forcible tres pass, and indecent jexposure 01 per son. v ' The case excites a good deal of com ment. The negro's conduct was most outrageous' and hasj caused a good deal of alarm abong those even who were not directly interested. He merits severe purjishment- Char. Observer, Death: from Tight Lacing. From the London! Daily Telegraph. - ' j " There baj just died -iu Pimlico Mrs Kezia V heeler, an old lady at the age xf 6eveqty-9even,.onj whom an inquest has been held. Mrs. Wheeler wa found dead in . he bedroom on Sunday morning last, dressed for church, and with her Bible in he hand, bavintr apparently expired sudden ly. Tlfe surgeon ! said, that death bad resulted from the bursting of an aneurism, and the post mortem1 examination reveal ed terrible evidences of tight lacing on the)ar6f the deceased, who had been. a very "beautiful women. In fact, one of the old lady's ribiB ' had been pressed against the internal (organs, and had, kept them constantly at half aftjon, as it were until apparently .-an j aneurism was pro duced by the soddejn rupture of which the died, Mra. Wh;eeler mast hare been an exceptionally healthy women ,to have thus lived in spite of the coreet which imprisoned part of her organs and inter fered with 1 their 1 natural, development; had she itot laced, j pbe would doubtless Jbare jfcieb f !aateati;aar v ; . t Special ? Wilmington ; StarCorreBpondence. Lacrkinbcbg, N. O, Jan: 1, 16. On Saturday evening last, al "Clio,? a small village in Marlboro county,' 9. C, Arth. Madi son, col met his fate, suspended from j a limb. A short space previous to his hanging; during the absence of Mr. ' , a resectable citizen of the above county, Madison broke jinto his residence, and despite the frantic efforts of Mr. 's wife, Madison committed the; crime of rape upon her person. Hence his just punish ment. Several months ago an attempt upon the person of a respectable young lady was made in this section by a buck negro, who, up on failure in his purpose, cut her throat from ear to ear. The cut was not so deep as expect ed, and the lady recovered. The perpetrator was promptly handed over to the lavr, but the law power was so favorable to this species of crime that he escaped under the sentence of a short confinement in the State penitentiary. Fearing that the crime would be further en couraged by the law power, the citizens in'the late case took the matter into their own hands, and, as above stated, on Saturdav evening last, about three hours before night, Arch. Madison was hanged to the limb of a tree. Thje outrag ed lady belongs to one of Marlboro's most re spectaole families, and the sympathies of all the just citizens of that community have been extended to her. ; Many of the colored people admit the justness of the negro's fate. A coroner's inquest was ftejd ovtr the body. No arrests have been made. 1 I Caught in a Log Trap. In; Warren county three negroes went to a farnier's smoke-house to steal his . meat. It was a log house and tliey prized itj off the ground, while one held it up with a lever aB the eft her two went under T after the meat. The do? barked and brought the armer out with his gun, and as I the two negroes had commenced crawling out, the farmer fired his gun off, and) the one holding the lever took to his heels, drop ping the log house on his friends and killing (hem both. It happened during Christmas. Ral. News. THIRD TERM IN N. C. What the Office Holders Say Where the Opposition Is. better in New York Sun. Raleigh, N. C.,Jan. 1. It is really wonderful to note bow strongly the third-term movement has developed in this Slate within the past mouth. 1 he 1 ederal office-holders aro all for Grant. Until Bishop llavcu was so outspoken in Boston a short time ago, many of this class were silent on tho sub- jeet. I lie leading lights here ot the movement for tho President s renomina- Uon arcvfirst and foremost ex-Gpv. llold- en, irapeauhed Radical, and present Posts master at Italeigh, and Dick liadgcr, who was, until 1874, one of the most violent Democrats iu the btalc, but suddenly became'a convert under tho influence of Iiolden and a Riqg which then held the reins of the StateV Government. Badger is now U. S. District Attorney, and has still higher political aepiratious. R. M Douglass, United States Marshal, former IV U rant s private secretary, has some religious scruples about supporting his former master for a third term; but, be yond the patronage of his office, Robert wields no pohticul influence in the btate. Thos. Settle, who was President pf the Philadelphia Convention, is j a strong Ibird-termist. 11 is associates on the Supreme bench of this Stac are non: committal. The colored people in the State, who do not publicly favor, do not oppose a third term. , . , The respectable classes among the -white Republicans are not at all iu favor of a third term of third termers ; aud when the State Convention meets, should the question be mooted, tbere will be a row. at any rate, it is safe to say third term or no third term, at the next btate election in North Carolina will go Demotratic. THE GRINDSTONE SWINDLE.. . , j To the Editor of the World. Sir: You make a point, in j your dis cussion of the tariff, on grindstones. The principal grindstnoe quarries in the coun try are on the Western lieterye, west of Cfeaveland. Soon after the passage of the tariff act, laying the present duty on crindstonee. the writer met one of ti e principal men interested in these quarries, and the following colloquy ensued : Grindstone Mai-1 have been in Wash ington six months and procured a tariff of $2 a ton on grindstones. I am a free trader in everything but grindstones,. But we cannot compete with. Ndva Scotia grindstones, on the Atlantic sea-board, without a tariff. Writer If the question is not a fair one, don't answer it. But how much did you pay ? A short time after, meeting the same gentleman, the writer put the following question : f'When I last met you I asked you how much you paid for your iltariff on grindstones. You did not answer. I will put another questiou: Do Congress men take money for their votes?" Grindstone Man They will all stick their hand out behind them, illustrating the way they do it by thrusting his own hand behind cupped to its utmost recep tive capacity. This may not be plenary proof that this tariff act' was procured by bribery; but that intelligent legislators would pass an act compelling the industries of the At lantic States to pay a bonus of $2 a ton on grindstones to an insignificant number of quarry-men on the Western , Reserve, with no other motive than the public weal, is preposterous. - The above is literally true. If you desire you can publiBbit, though I should not wish my name 'connected with it; still if called opon, I can furniilij names to nrovfi th the act referred to was a most torru pt job. RWERTX. SUCCESS IN LIFE. Perhaps the first and great requisite to perfect success in life is to be fully per suaded in your mind what is the object you wish to obtain. Many make their first false step by a wavering, uncertain beginning. Not quite sure what their aim is, they waste precious time and ac quire habits that will unfit them for any patient, continuous or energetic labors success must depend, m a great de gree, opon tbo ; determination to concen trate one's self upon some one object. 1 be object of one s ambition, then, fully and unchangeably decided the plain path of hard working perseverance, punctuality; and honesty should be pur sued. There is no roval road to success: for though, as Darid Copperfield has told us, some happy talent and some fortunate opportunity may form the two sides of the ladder on which we amount, the rods of the ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear. For the first round there is perhaps no better substitute than nerseveranco perseverance that will lead one to work, to go over and over the same dull routine of what is often merely mechanical and uninteresting labor. It is donbly needed at the commencement of busiuese, for here concentrate all the great obstacles that impede the way, so that it often seems that the first third is the only really diffi cult portion of the road to success. Punctuality, though eeemingly ranking among the lesser virtues, its absence will occasion as great evils as many a graver fault, and it cannot be dispensed with in any ot the departments ot lite. I he pro fessional man is ruined without it, and in business man its absence cannot be tolerated. Honesty i, if from selfish motives only, the best policy. Honesty that will lift a nian not enly above a dishonest act, but a mean act, or unworthy motive ; honesty that will extend into all his dealings. that will allow no shuffling or shrinking of duty, no appearance of wealth not actually possessed, no extravagance of living tor himself or family that may not strictly and knowingjy be allowed, with out detriment . to himself, or his business, or without injury to others. AGRICULTURAL. From the Southern Planter and Fanner.! CORN-SHUCKING. Why is it that farmers will contin ue to pay the negro ten cents per barrel to shuck their corn when there is little or no expense attending that operation ? Let the corn ' be "slip-shucked" asit is gathered and thrown into 'the '-fcribl This can be done with safety three weeks earlier than; when it is shucked. The rats do not injure it anything like so much, and there is not that vile scent upon it caused by them. . It is the best plan upon earth to keep weavil from it and in fact there are many reasons why it should be housed. When you wish to prepare the crop for market or the 11 . . t 1.1 111 mill, pass it ttirougn tne com sneiier and through your wheat fan, with the chaffer only tn it, and there you have your corn shelled, shucked and cured, and your shucks hackled and ready for your stock, than which nothing is better for them, always provided ypu have them slightly impregnated with water, into which you nave cast a modicum of salt. What pleasure to see them eat .it, all the tune remem bering that you have in your pocket 10 save upon every 100 barrels of corn vou may have made, which would have gone into the pocket of some low vender ot lightning, who have gone into the pocket of every negro to whom the farmer pays money. Comparative Cotton Statement. New York, Jan. 7. Th iollowing is the comparative cotton statement fo the six days ending January 7th : Receipt at all U- S. ports, 139,656 Same week last year : 80,420 Total to date 2,482,238 Same date last year 2,205,982 Exports for tho week 123,422 Same time last year 71,230 Total to ddte, 1,364,681 Same date last year, 1,126,843 Stock at all U. S. ports 795,820 Same time last year 842,474 Stock at all interior towns 1,302,340 Same week last year 121,008 Stock at Livorpool 6&0,000 Same week last year 769,000 American . afloat for Great Britain 299.000 Last year 251,000 Who Can Beat This f Mr. A. J. Black welder infoims us that he baa been married 20 years, has made his own provisions each year, and has to spare. He cultivates about 230 acres of laud, has 7 head of horses, from 20 to 30 head, of cattle, from 30 to 50 bead of sheepi He killed about the middle of December, 2 pigs 16 months old which netted 345 pouuds each, and has now some pigs on ly 4 months old that pull down 130 pounds each. He also has a muleS years old which, on the 7th of last August, got his leg broke, is well now, and bids fair to do good work for a long time yet. Mr. B. has fine turnips and sweet potatoes, one of the former measuring 21 inches around and 8 inches in length ; the potato is 19 inches around, and, better still, he lives at home in every particular. His farm is on Cold water creek, about 3 miles from Concord. Who etu beat this report $f 20 yars nruggKos Qcmper$ Su. Tobacco Culture in North Carolina, The New York Batty Bulletin, of the 15th ult., remarks that the successful rais- ing of fine quality of tobacco in the Went- ern portion of North Carolina is the latest agricultural achievement in the Rtti Snrh n nttainmpnt w until witliin n (a nr vmm moat and indeed would have been ridieuled if m-ntinn tPn vMr Tint with th rnnsinnt ilAplAnm.nt-ftf tb-r.nKniii of the soil, in this, as well as other Southern States, impossibilities of the past are being proved possibilities of the present. The fact that thousands of fan cy wrappers are now produced (in North Carolina) where, ten years ago, the crop fVAf lflTnftl W Irr Aion id AAvtalnl A Am An. strative of these facts. A new method of curinsr is introduced which will add ma- terially to the success of the tobacco interest in North Carolina. This is in curing the leaf off the stalk. The advan tage obtained this wise is shown in tho following yield of 230 pounds of green tobacco, one half of which was cured on nrf th aiIiaf half ff th- .toit . ibf . cured off the stalk, 12 pounds 15 ounces; 8 talks weighed 6 pounds 11 ounces ; to tal 19 pounds 5 ounces. Cured on stalk, 11 pounds 11 ounces ; stalk on this top, . 11 lM 8 pounds;' total 19 pounds 11 ounces. It will be observed that the grand total is just the same except six ounces, and in this lot cured off the stalk 15 ounces, or something like 8 per cent, on the leaf is gamed, while the other gains ono pound, but that gain is in worthless stalk. Mortgage on Crops. From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, The following questions will interest tnauy persons, especially throughout the South, where this tonic has been much discussed : Concord, N. C. Dec. 24, 1875. Editor of the Journal of Commerce: An answer in your "Replies aud Decisi ions" will be fully appreciated: A farmer plants hia crop, then gives a mortgage to a merchant on bis grooving crop of cotton, &c, for supplies furniehed. The mort- gage claims the matured cotton as his by reason ot mortgage on growiug crop. Can tbc merchant take said cotton from an innocent purchaser 1 Will you give ease and decision in United States Su preme Court, from Louisiana or Missis sippi, concerning mortgage on growiug crops ? Was it not decided it did not bind the matured crop? It will be much to our advantage to have your valued opinion published. lours truly, P. & C. Reply. 1 he case stated appears to be completely covered by the decision of the United Mates Supreme Court in the case ol Butt vs. Ellett, 19 Wall. 324, being an appeal fom the U. S. District Court for the District of Louisiana. One Sillers sold bis plantation to Graham; and Graham executed in return a mnrtfap'e dated 1867, on the crops to be grown that Sillers as judgment creditor, but Graham, notwithstanding the mortgage, sold the crops to Butt & Co. to repay advance. Ellett accordingly filed against Butt & Do., and me District Uourt gave nim a decree for the value of the crops. The Supreme Court affirmed the decree, Mr. Justice owayue delivering tne opinion, and saying, 44 1 he mortgage clause could not operate as a mortgage, be cause the crops to which it relates were not then in existence. When the crops grew the lien attached aud bound them effectually from that time." H i iN ANKWKK " K hA N H . A STINGING REBUKE FOB BE- YIVING TUE WAB FEELING. Jeff Bavis not the Monster Hie Ex Speak er Tainted him How the Federals were Besponsible for the Horrors of Ander- sonville An Eloquent Plea for the Union. Washington. Jan. 11. TherHouse then proceeded to consider tbe Amnesty bill. Hill spoke two hours in most effective style, aud was frequently applauded by a - lit. T 1 the House and galleries, in opening ne disclaimed all desire on the part of himself and his associates from the South to re open.ill feeling between the sections. The country had already suffered enough from Vmlj T T a anA liia aaanniatpa liarl nntnt hero with the patriotic idea to remember nothing but the country, and the whole a 1 country, aud fuming their backs upon all the horrorB of the past to look with all earnestness to find glories for the future. The gentleman (Blaine) who was the ac knowledged leader of the Republican par ty in the House, and was the aspiring leader of the Republican party of the country, bad, however, willed otherwise ar.d seemed determined that the wounds which are healing should be reopened, and that tbe passions which were hushed should be rt-inflamed. He (Hill) wished the House to understand that be and his associates did not reciporate either the purpose or the manifest desire of the gen tleman, and while they telt it their lm narative duty to vindicate the troth of history as regards their section, they did not intend" to say anything calculated to aid the gentleman in that work of crimU nation and recriminatfon and of keeoine nation and recrimination at d ot keeping m m up toe war oy politicians ner orave men have said that the war shall end. The gentleman from Maine bad made two points in his speech: the magnanimity and crace of the Republican party and the brutality of those whom he pleased to term rebels. As to tht firs -question h did not propose td weary the House to ty hecanse with! the history of the last nMn years yet fresh in the mind of he wo,a "?e,e? peak of the grace magnanimity ft the Republican party. " " u.e a"e5- ??ayea, un intelh gco.ee disfranchised, with socety disor dered, with State subverted, with Leeisi htr ''persedpeople could net afford to talk of grace i and magnanimity. If lM ere grace s and magnaniniity he prayed God to save the country in future from such virtues The gentleman from Maine had made the grave indictment against Mr. Davis that he was guilty of the murders and crimes at Andersdnville, and the gentle man stood before f the country with his fame 'n.Pc"' lf' aftcr ak,f n char&e' ,"ed to prove it: Ue (Hill) would take up thfe gentleman's proposi- i tionl in their order. He hoped that no one would imagine that he was here to pass any eulogy on jetterson Davis. 1 he records ou which his fame must rest had been made up, and his companions and ineqas nau remitted mat record to the .n t"jnl thatiwould give an impar tial ltidgement honest prosperity. In the meantime no eulogy of thisjcould help it, no censure from? the gentleman (Blaine) could damage it, and no act or resolution of the House could affect it. The charge against Mr. Davis was that he was a deliberate, wilful, scheming murderer, of thousand of his fellow?citi zens. Knowing the high character aud reputation of the gentleman from Maine, he (Hill) had supposed when he heard the cbarge fall from his lips that he had certainly made a recent discovery and he listened for the evidence; but what was it, nothing but thejpartial report of a Con- gresBionai committee. ihe testimony read was exclusively ex parte testimony, taken while the gentleman now on -trial before the country was in prison, without a Hearing uuu wmiuui wie opportunity on 1 : i -.4 i . A hcnrinc. Tf triArn ua a anv nr4nin1n l it 1 tit neia sacred in tueAngiobaxou mind, it was that an . Lnglishman was not con demned until he should be confronted with his witnesses. But the testimony was not only ex parte, but was mutilated, palpably mutilated, most adiiotly mutila- ted extracts. Even the day pf his exe cution irz had been offered a commuta tion of his sentence if he would implicato Jenerson Davis, 'but Wirz a answerjto bis counsel was, "Schade. you know that 1 have always told you that I do not know anything about Jefferson - Davis. lie had no connection with me as to what was done at Andbrsonville. I would not become a traitor against him or anybody else even to save; my lite. v But, said Hill, what poor Wirz within two hours ot his execution would not say for his life the gentleman from Maine says to the country tor the sake of keeping his party m power. pensation.J bir, Christianity is a falsehood, human ity is a lie, civilization is a cheat, or the man who would not make a false charge f?r h5 lifo waa n(iver gnilty of wilful mur Hill went on to argue that on the logic of Blames speech, holding Davis respon oie ior tue acts,; or i inner, x resiaeni Grant might be held responsible for the acts of McDonald, and Joyce, and he ask- J I .1 T" 1 ' . . .ifl ea wnemer uiaine meant to estaoiisti a rule of construction that would authorize the country to arraign President Grant for complicity in the whiskey frauds. Was President Grant responsible, be asked, for Credit Mobieler, for the Sanborn contract, or for the frauds of the District of Colom bia. And yet Giant had absolutely sent to tbe Senate of; the United States for confirmation for a high office the name of a man (alluding to Alexander R. Shep before the countrir with the grossest pec- uiaiions aim iraudiH ou iuib i7isirict, alter the charges had been made and while they were pending. He (Hill) was uei ther the author nor disciple of sucb'politi- cal logic, but if tlie gentleman's (Blaine's) proposition with jregard to Davis were true, then by the same logic General Grant, instead of being entitled to a third term, was entitled to 20 terms in 20 peni tentiaries. Laughter. I extract. i vv natever norrors nad ex isted at Andorsodville not one of them could be attributed to an order of the Confederate Government, and every one of them grew ont?of the necessity of the occasion, which necessity had fastened on the Confederates by the conduct of the other t ide.J 1 He challenged Blaiue to meet him face to face and fact to fact in the discussion of the question, declaring that the . time was of tho past when the country could accept the impudence of assertion for the force of argument, or the recklessness of ! allm.in fo.r lPe trulh ?f. ll!story- Mr. ilill had some the prison at Elmira. articles rprardin?r o o Piatt, of New York, asked him wbo was the author of the feller. Hill replied that he did not know. Piatt declared, las living within thirty six miles ot rJmiia, that the statements were unqualifiedly false. Hill, after reading from Surgeon-Genv eral Barnes that 12 per cent, of Confede rate prisoners in Federal hands died, and : i . s : . m i less man v per cupt. ot n eaerai prisoners in Confederate bahds, said, " "My friend. (addressing Blaine with great emphasis,) who is the murderer 1 I would believe Surgeon-General Barnes in preference to An v rmlitiftian. nvor th p-Antl.mn Pl-nt. He says he lives 36 miles away from El- . , i ii i ; ii j i uiM, pc.uapo vu.u ud.o buiciicu , iu0 small-nox that fan: he certainly could not L I 4 7 " ao(i 4 venture to say tbar if iho small pox waa; at that prison camp, . H j, i r. ? ,f ;T"" 7" " ' '") . iuguicr.j But the great question is at last, who was responsible for that state ot things, and that is really theouly important ques tion." ' I Hill went oo to discuss the history of the exchange of prisoners, dwelliug on the fact that the cartel which was established in 1862 Was interrupted in 1863 and that . the Federal authorities actually refused to coatiorle'ihe lexchangec At; this point, Hill's hour expired, but by unanimohs consent be as allowed to proceed Without any limitation as to time. Blaine asked him whether he had not been a member of the Confederates Sen ate. f . ij.;, m-, ; . Hill replied that he had Wen; . ; Bliini thn proceeded to quote a reeo lutiori offerwl in the. Confederate Congress ' ; by Senator Hill of Georgia, to the follow effect: ' ; - ' 'That every person pretending to be a soldier of the United States wbo shall be captojred the soil of the Confederate States, after the 1st of Julv. 1863. shall be piesomd tu have entered tbo territo- s ry of! the Confederate States with intent to excite insurrection aud to abet murder, f and that unless satisfactory proof be ads I d need to the coufrarv before the militarv court before which bis trial shall be had, ne snail suiter' death. ' He asked Hill whether he was the au thor af that resolution. Hill I!! will say to the gentlemVn from Maine; very frankly that I bare not the slightest recollection of hearing it be fore. " : - ;i; Blaine You do not deny it ? Hiiil I do not know my own opinion is that I Clever was the author of that .si resolution, but I have no recollection of it. If theti gentleman c&V give me the circumstances under which it was tntro duced, I naay recollect. . - BlameOn the 1st of October. 1862. the Judiciary Committee of the Confeder ate Congress made a reoort and offered a series of resolutions, and thereupon Sen ator Hill of Georgia is recorded as having offered the resolution which I have iust read.! Hill I was chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate and very likely, -like the chairman of the Committee on Rules at the last session, I may have con s en ted to : that report.- f Laughter at the expense of Blaine. j Blaine Does the gentleman admit that lie made that report t H31 I, do not know, but it is very likely. . Derisive laughter on the Re publican side. Blaine Ihe copy which I have duo ted fro in jis entitled "Republicanism in America.'. ; I wish to know whether the gentleman was the author of that resolu tion, u , Hilll I; really do noLrecolleet. Re newed laughter on tbe Republican side. BEaine (persistently) The gentleman dobs! not say that he was not the author of iU- : s ' , . - Hill! do hot, but I do not think I was the author of it. . . Blaine I thought that as the gentle man a enort was to snow tne numane character of the Confederate Congress this might aid him in remembering the factj . Hill With air doe deference to the gentleman, be did not think any such thing. Laughter. He thought .he would divert me from the purpose of my argument Blaine (apologetically) Oh, no: the gendemati can have all the lime he Wants. Hill-What measures the Confederate Government might have thought proper to take at: that' time to protect the women and Ichildren of the Confederacy from insurrection, I do not recollect ; but L shall not, be diverted by the gentleman from Maine from the course of my argu ment to go into the history of slavery, or of the insurrection, or John Brown's raid. 1 know this i that whether I, or any ': other gentleman, or the committee was tho author of the resolution, and which I think more than probable, our purpose was not to do injustice to any many woman or child, North or South, but ' to adopt what we deemed stringent measures i to protect our wives and chil dren trora servile insurrection and slaugh ter, Awhile our brave sons were on the field. Lioud applause on the Democratic sidet ' i i ' Hill passed iu review the efforts of the Confederate Government to get rid of their prisoners, and concluded this branch of his subject hy saying : 1 ; j 6CMMIKO UF. Mr. Hilt then proceeded to sum up his Argu ment, and ! said ; What have we proved ? I hav proved that the Federal authorities broke . the cartel deliberately. 1 have proved . that they refused to reopen that cartel when ap proached by Mr. Stephens as a commission solely on the ground of humanity. I ' hare proved that they made medicine contraband of war,, and thereby left us to the dread necessity of supplying prisoners with uch medicines as could be improvised in the Confederacy. I hav proved that they refused to allow the sur geon of their own array to accompany their prisoners to the South. 1 have proved that the Confederate authorities nrooosed to return vou r sick j and Wounded without an equivalent in A ugantjl 864, and that you never deigned to apply until December, 1864. I have proved that jour high officers tn command gave as a reaaon hy-they would not exchange prisoners, that it would be humane to the prisoners but cruelty to tie soldiers in the field. It was a part of your military policy to let your prisoners suner rather than that tha. Confederacy should; have an iacrease of the military force. I have also proved tha with ail tbe horrors -which you have made such a noise about as .occurring at A nderronville, greater horrors occurred in the prisens where you held your troops, and that the percentage of hnth was three per cent greater among our prisoners iu your bands than among Jouir prisoners in our hapda. tyhfin We gen- lenxan front Maine rise, again to pve birth to I tliaC unmitigated effusion of genius without a- fact gQ mnUia itf in which he njK MAnd het hpfrvo mv ClnA. miiBiir!ncr m vnrda. Irnnwinc . J .IT I m J ' ' ' 7 their ruii mwnt ana impo i aeciare that neither ;the deeds of the Duke of Alva in th Countries, nor tlflrniassacre of St-Bartho- lomew, and the thumb screws and engines tortare of tbepaniid inquisition began to com- pare in atrocity with the bidioua crime of And erson villef let him add to it, "and the atroci ties iof Au Jersonville do not begin to compare wlt. the atrocities of Elmira, of-Fort Poug lassi orf Fort Delaware, and of te which Confcdfeder GoTeroment stands aeqoitUd from f ', j i -U ' -' ' . 1 ; ;-':', v.- . s J; r- I- - : l ( IS .a
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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