Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-03-08

the colors we're East" and would moi
wash out, and if not SO. the article
W0uld be taken back and the money
returned. The remarks were over
heard by Mr, Stewart and he called
the clerk to him and spoke with indig-
nation What do you mean by thus
/ saying what you know to be untrue o.
The clerk perhaps astonished at thus
being called to account replied that
the woman would not return the goods
and If she did she could easily be put
off By stating that she must be mistak-
en-, and the purchase must have been
made at some other store But no ;
that was not the point. A lie had been
told TO induce a purchase and no
goods must be sold in his store or in
his name under any misrepresentation
whatever The clerk could conform
to that rule or at once yacate his place.
This interview between him aud one
of his first clerks was narrated to the
writer 8 few years since, when in a
familiar conversation the direct ques-
tion was asked ITO what do yoU at
tlbute your great success as a mer-
chant r. That I have conducted my
business from the first on the basis Of
trWlh IFasth, truth. be added with
great emphasis. is the talismanic
word and If / have any one earthly
wish or desire greater than another, it
is that in this respect my example may
be commended and followed By young
men entering into business, and espee-
tally BY. young merchants"
----s-s--------
The Murder Of Union Soldiers.
0htha 8fh of October, 1865, cor
porals and two privhtes of the Maine
Veteran Volunteers. were brUtally muir
dered at a place called Browns Fer
~. on the Savshhah River, In south
Carolina. They had Committed no
Wrepg and done nothing to provoke
hostility, but we're massacHed in cold
blood for no other reason than be-
cause they wore the uniform Of the
United States. BOur men were arrest
ed for the crime by tho military au-
thorities. and a Military Commission.
convened by General Sickles, after a
long and careful trial, found them
guilty, upon undoubted testimony, and
they were sentenced two TO be hanged,
and two to be imprisoned for life.
OF course all the South was enraged
at learning that four Of her citizens, bad
subjects though they were, had been
convicted, and were going to be pun
ished for the venial otfeDse of shoot
ing and drowning three Yankee sol
diers. The President was besoUght
to interfere. Petitioners reminded him
that his "aVoWed policy" demanded
his interp0sition and Alexander III.
Stephens, Gov. Orr, Hersehel v J ohm
son, and others Of the leading men Of
the South, united in applications for
the discharge of the prisoners. or at
any rate for their transfer tc the civil
tribunals, which they knew would
amount to about the same thing. The
Hon. O. H Browning, now Secretary
Of the Interior. received q fee Of 81 900
for his Influencing MF.AndreW John
sons mind On the subject and peTsua-
ding him TO remove the criminals to
some fort, where writ Of hdbeGs corr
olts could be served on their custodi-
ans without danger of a conflict be-
tween the civil and military authorit-
les: 1t was supposed that after the
Mllllgan decision there would be no
difficulty in having the trial declared
unlawful a writ was served upon
Gen, Sickies at Charleston but he
it, and the Secretary Of
War approved his conduct.
Several weeks after this service. the
President cOmmuted the two death
sentences to imprisonment for life at
the Iortugas, but eight days later ali
four OF the prisoners we're removed to
Fort Delaware, and there the com
mandant, Col. Howard. was served
with a writ of hGbeGs corpus from
Judge Hall of the United States Dis
trict Court of Delaware, which he was
instructed from Washington to obey
A bearing was had and the prisoners \
were discharged, on the ground that
at the time of the trial of the murder
efs the civil courts of South Carolina
were open and the regular administra-
ton of Justice was unobstFueted We
aeed hardly remind our readers that
this assertion of Judge Halls was
very far from truth The prisoners 4
returned to their homes, and their fel- !
lOWreitizeRs. who, be it tremarked, were !
almost unanimously convinced of their !
guilt, received them with 0vatiOns, and |
gave them a banquet. To quote the 1
language Of asurge0u In the army, ''the |
town was, as they expressed It there, /
drunk, The civil authOrit- |
les never took measures to try the as
sassIns, and they are still at large. -
NJ T. Iftb8Be