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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-07-31

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Nor AFRAID.-A little thing in o
Sabbath-school was asked BY her
teacher if she said her prayers night
and morning. ra; 5t
"No, miss, I don't" sadaa
"Why, Mary, are you not afraid to
60 to sleep in the dark without asking
God to take care of you, and watch
over you till morning 2" Hi@
"No, miss, amt; cause I sleep in
the middle"
The Quaker City lost 80 children
from cholera-infantum last week-the
largest rate the city, has ever known
from that cause. -
One Missouri editor says of another
that "his cars will do for awnings to
ten-story Wholesale hog.packing
establishment" ':7,-sE'
The st. Louis city attorney lately
had to pay a fine of fifty dollars for
coming late to court, and ten dollars
more for not sitting down when told
to.
Felix G. DeFontaine, Esq, tho
graceful writer and accomplished
journalist, is now connected with tho
New York Evening Telegram as its
managing editor.
The modern Faro has found its
Red Sea in San Francisco, in tho
shape of a black-eyed girl who wins
81, 600 nightly, and has broken several
banks in the city.
A youth of Franklin, Ohio, calcu-
lates that during the past FIVE years
be has walked 13, ,2b8 miles in visiting
the maiden upon whom his affections
are centred.
The Texas Pacific Railway is to be
1915 miles in length. For $50 miles
it is to be an airline, and in stretch
of Bis there will be but six bridges.
A Kansas Radical editor, when he
heard of Greeley's nomination, very
sensibly gave up his paper, got mar
ried, and went TO work IN hls 1ather-
in-law's saw mill. =:
A fungus, which grows on the cal
4 careous rocks Of Florida, is said 70
possess narcotic properties, and to be
used by the natives to some extent as
a substitute for tobacco.
To jump into the bins Of grain ele-
vators and be sucked down the spout,
is o style Of suicide developing out
West, which laughs at probes and
stomach pumps.
Two sisters havo eloped from Bcr-
lin, Prussia, with young man whom
they are both in love with, and whom
they both intend 10 marry when they
reach Salt Lake, which is their dcs'',
nation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-07-31
VOLUME XX---NO. B.s s, !
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ture. He told her how his father had
determined on making q laWysrt1 Of
him, the youngest son, and forbade
him h spending his time withsmusic.
Then ne pictured to her the intense
desire OF his early boyAood TO LEARN
some instrument, and his delight when
he found an old piano, that hafJbe-
longed to his grandfather in the gar
ret, on which he practised every even
ing, until his father found him there,
one midnight, half frozen; how ffon
this time forth, his father not only
ceased to oppose his Wishes but 'gsen
placed him under the direction dE xbe
domorganist Zachau. q
zachau heard nothing Of all these
confdings; he sat at the other end Of
the table, between two Of the yonng-
est and prettiest Of the ielectrdss's,ila-
dies Of honor, Frauleins von Pollnitz
and Schlippenbach, who took him
severely to task for bis low estimate
Of the female intellect. ~ iig
Nevertheless, his whnkled features
were radiant with good, ,hnnor.
Would this have been the case t no
had heard his pupil tell the princess
how he longed to visit ItalyBha land
OF OF song,p and had heard A herirspE:
leave 1nat 20 me = I, VIII see a, thas l
your wish is grained ." IL ndcubt-
ful: ~! !ss9o9ua 8
After tier DINER, Sophie Charlotte sud
to her young guest :: nNow 81, With
Buenoncin !; he will show you my fdu-
slcal library. There yous smS sasiSe
and rnmmage as much as you waisso
lang as we succeed in IN keeping g lypu
among us. Should you want to play
there, you will ind 9 piano expressly
for your use: ! will follow ina attte
while, that myself may show you
my choicest treasures Herr Ieibnitz
will accompany me. ~ ,..4.'.. ',,.
Later, when young Handel .hxdf Be-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-14
The souirrel and the Nightingale.

The nightingale one happy morn in spring
Upon hawthorn bOugh WAS singing brightly,
When on a sudden she did cease 10 sing,
And bending 10 the squirrel, quite politely
Asked him for one sweet nut-(she did not say
She meant the sweeter worm that in II layD
The squirrel would not grant the nightingale
Her wish nor for refusing give good reason.
But said her pretty song could not avail.
For nuts in early spring wers not IN season.
o. naughty Bun lie knew that IN his store
lie had a hundred nuts and many more.
Fall fifty notes she gave him in one tril
OF rarest music, yet he would not bring her
One single nut. but sat demurely still.
AMI said My nuts would spoil the sweetest
singer:
Iwould not mar my nightingale's soft strain
For all the wealth my nimble toll could gam.
All, me- Sc plausible was Buns reply.
IL might have gained him credit for politeness,
Had not an aged weasel standing by >,
Heard the discourse. aud with weasel ;
brightness, -,
Seeing the plain truth, said: You greedy oil.
You mean 10 eat your whole great hoard your
setP'
The squirrels russell cheek grew red with shame,
Ills bushy tai! began swell and tremble
While TO his little mind this moral came:
We are as bad as men II we disSemblel
And we should never selfish craft employ
To keep from others whit ourselves tnJoy.
Henceforth will be frank. and kind and true
My sweetest nuts I'll give 10 every conner;
I'll mediate the next long winter through
How can kinder be the following summer;
And men and weasels in their sharpest mood,
Shall nothing say OF me but what is good.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-14
Foreign Notes.

The British merchant marine is Grip
pied for the want of able seamen, and
there is talk among ship-owners about
establishing naval seamenary to sup
ply the deficiency.
THE project is again mooted among
the Rabbis of Europe of leading the
scattered children of Israel back to Pal.
estine and establishing Jewish king
dom there once more.
THE expected Peruvian loan will be
one of the largest financial operation of
the year in the London money market
According to rumor, its amount will
probably exceed Sl50,000000 nominal,
and perchance reach S300,000,0O0.
IT will cost eighty-three million dol.
Seas, and occupy period Of five years
active labor.
GAMBLING having increased in Havana,
the aptain.General has closed a mum.
Der of gambling houses, and banished
seventeen professional gamblers, of va
rious natIonalities.
A DAUGHTER of Sir Roger Tichborne is
said to have turned up in Dorsetshire,
having been EARNED OUT under fc-
titious name nearly twenty.one years
ago, with sealed document not to be
opened until she came of age.
THE only Alsatian railway which has
hitherto preserved its character as a
private establishment, viz, the line
from Colmar to Munster, has just been
sold to the Imperial Government for
100000 francs.
A SINGULAR disease has broken out
among the dogs in some parts of Shrop-
shire, England. They exhibit great
restlessness, and on being opened black
fluid is found in the stomach, which is
much inflamed.
NAUGHTY Prince Teck, who left Lon
don and his wife, in company with an
actress, TO the great grief of his royal
cousin.in.law, has evidently returned.
The name of Prince and Princess Teck
appear in the list of notables present at
a recent State occasion in London.
FORCING the sword into the plowshare
is changed TO molding the cannon into
ptIlS III btIllldilg. ihc iusSitilS
are melting large numbers of captured
cannon and making bells for the various
cathedrals of the large cities.
The Emperor William rides about
Berlin in very plain looking carriage,
without escorts or guards. He always
appears in full uniform, and graciously
touches his helmet to the crowd, who
bow and applaud until he is long out
of sight.
The ATLANTA boat crew, now in Lon
don, meets with hearty English vel.
come at the hands of the London boat
club. Their kind reception forms a
marked contrast to the stingy welcome
given to the Harvard crew by the Ok.
fords three years ago.,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-14
"Ef He'd Said Ducks"

During class meeting held several
years since by the Methodist brethren
of Southern village, Brother Jones
went among the coiored portion of the
congregation. Finding there an old
man notorious for his endeavor to serve
God on the Sabbath and Satan the rest
of the week, he said
"Welz, Brother Dick, I'm glad to see
you here Haven't stole any turkeys
since | saw you last, Brother Dick ?"
"No, no, Brudder Jones no tur-
keys"
"Nor any chickens; Brother Dick?"
"No, no, Brudder Jones no chick
ems"
"Thank the Lord, Brother Dick
That's doing well, my brother ~ said
Brother Jones, leaving Brother Dick,
who Immediately relieved his over-bur.
dened conscience by saying to a near
neighbor, with an immense sigh of
relief
OFF he'd said ducks, he'd had
me
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-14

Prof. Atkins, attached to Lipman's
Queen City circus, which exhibited at
Decatur, Ala, on the 9th ult., assembled
with a hot hair balloon during the after
noon. The balloon became detached
from the windlass fixing its altitude
and assembled to the height of half a
mile, when it rapidly descended into
the Tennessee river. Atkins succeeded
in getting out of the basket, after a
desperate effort, having got entangled
in the ropes, and attempted to swim
ashore. A fisherman in canoe went
to his assistance, but failed to rescue
him. The unfortunate aeronaut sank
and was drowned. His corpse has not
been recovered. The balloon was
saved. Atkins seems to have had a
presentiment of misfortune. He re-
marked, as the balloon started, "this
is my last ascension"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-14

A FLORENCE correspondent writes :
The sad items of the chronicle of the
past two weeks are the deaths of three
young Americans, all under twenty five
years of age. Mr.. Swain, of Boston !;
Mr.. Simpson, of Boston, Harvard II,
and Amos Sprague Smith of Providence.
They all took the fever at Rome and
were brought here. but neither the
skillful physicians in Florence nor its
pure air was effective in saving them.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-24
WHY DOES Mt HE SPEAKf

Mr.. Oakes Ames has been repeatedly called
on to tell who were bribed by Credit Moblller
stock if MeSrs. Blaine, Wilson, Scofeld and
others were not. But he remains as mute as
an oyster. In his address to his constituents
he evaded the whole question by quibbling
about his not asking for legislation in 1863
when it is alleged that he distributed his
shares in the Credit Mobilier. He has
not deigned, however, any explanation OF
the transactions in which he was then
concerned. There have been shufiiing ex-
cuses and lame disclaimers from one or two
of the implicated parties; but not word of
explanation from Mr.. Ames. For the sake of
getting at the real truth, suppose we tenn
porarily waive any charge against Messrs.
Blaine, Wilson, and others will Mr.. Ames
then tell whom he bribed7 Will he explain
how he distributed his stock when he allotted
it to -four from Massachusetts, one
" from New-H,mpshire,n and so ONT He
extraordinary and mysterious phrases
occur is his; if he did not allot that stock to
Blaine, Wilson and others, to whom did he I
Mr. Ames owes it to himself and to the cause
of justice Immediately to tell all he knows
about this cloudy business. His friends and
associates in Congress are resting under the
imputation of receiving bribes from his hands;
if any man can relieve them from this shadow,
he can; will he speakf
Nor does Mr.. 0akes Ames occupy the posi-
ton of an ordinary lobbyist. Our business is
Just now with the Hon. Oakes Ames, Repre-
sentative in Congress from the lid District of
Massachusetts, and second member of the Com
mittee on Railways. 1t is the Congressman, not
an outsider, who is charged with cOrruptly using
stock, or Other valuable consideration, in pro-
curing Legislation. His own letters, the au-
thentcity of which he has never yet denied,
seem to prove this. Let Mr.. Ames defend
himself, since he has not the courage and
manliness to attempt to defend his associates
in Congress, Lest we may be misunderstood,
let US restae the case: 1t was charged
that Senator Wilson, Speaker Blaine,
and several other Congressman, received
from Representative Oakes Ames certain
shares of Credit Mobilier stock, or
their equivalent or avails; Representative
Ames, if his language means anything, says
this charge is false. If, then, he did not dis
tribute this property, or something like it, to
the persons mined, to whom did he give 1T
And if he did not give, assign, allot, or lend
it to Congressman, to whom did he so dispose
of itf We an speaking now toa Member of
Congress- accIsed of a grave offense against
public morals VIII Representative Cakes
Ames answer
New-York tribune., 1872-09-24
COME TO THE POINT!

Once more. for about the hundredth time.
The N. Y. Times threatens certain wondrous
revelations about Senator Fenton's boyhood.
Will it not have done with its iteration, and
berin What are your stories 7 Out Win
them. Doubtless they will be false ana maiig
nant - at least they are sure 10 DC, IL
they bear any kindred to those with WHICH
You daily crowd your libelOus c0lumns-DuC
any lie. souarely told, would be preferable TO
this constant and cowardly insinuation. What
are your storiesf Out with them; and nave
the goodness to put them in such precise
terms that they can be squarely met or must
be squarely admitted.
If this canvass is to drag in everybody, candi-
date or not, arraigned or Motif old scandals
are to be revived, without reference to their
bearing on present issues and for the SOLO
purpose of blackening character,-let us un-
derstand it at once. Before that game Is car
ried much further, there are legitimate sub
jects for investigation, among men who have
as yet escaped rigid scrutiny. The present
senior Senator of the United States from New
York has q career well worth considering.
So has an Ex-Governor for two terms, and
ex-U. S. Senator. So has an ex-U. s. Dis
trict- Attorney, and so has an ex-Collector
of the Port. There is Naval Officer here, OF
whom a very pretty tale can be unfolded; !;
and there are other officials, prominent in our
State politics, with very interesting lives.
The facts can be set forth in far less tlme
than The N. Y. Times has spent in gasconading
about what it was going to prove concerning
Senator FentOn's bOyhoOd.
Ii has not been our choice to make cam
paign of this sort. We have found in mat
ters affecting the present issues OF Reunion
and Reform, matters affecting present office
holders under the present Administration,
matters affecting men intimately connected
with this canvass, and of record in legal and
public transactions all the material that seemed
needed, whether for discussion or denuncla-
ton. We have carefully avoided the common
tattle about the private characters OF men not
directly involved We have even discoun-
tenanced and kept out of the authen-
tcated reports concerning the private
habits of the President. There are public
grounds enough for demanding and securing
a change of Administration. But the
temperate and kindly reserve we have
practiced in these matters has been re-
warded by showers of filth unprecedented
in political annals Now let us have
in one case, at least, something definite. Let
us have these long-heralded stories concerning
Senator Fenton, and let us see how they COM
pare with better authenticated transactions
concerning other public men of this State.
Stop brag and bluff, and come to the point!
New-York tribune., 1872-09-24
CURTIN TO TIE Front.

The long agony of the Cameron-Grant Ring
in PENNSYLVANIA is over at last, and they can
take what comfort comes from knowing the
worst when they read the letter of the Hon.
Andrew G. Curtin, accepting the Liberal nom
nation for the Constitutional Convention
They will scarcely have the effrOntery to claim
that they think slightly of this most formida-
bic adversary. AS long as there was any
doubt of his purposes they prosecuted and
waylaid him to enlist his powerful influence and
eloquent voice in behalf of their own corrupt
and failing cause. They sent delegate to
Europe to worry him on the way to the
steamer. They dispatched the most phenom-
enal bore in Philadelphia to intercept him in
New-York harbor. They haunted his sick
room and besieged every house in which he
took refuge to try to use upon him the
arguments which have so often proved
effectual upon weaker or more selfish
men. The labor was all lost. Gov.
Curtin is not of the material which can be
wheedled or cajoled or corrupted. He waited
his own good time, and with the first impulse
of returning health he issues this ringing
manifesto, announcing his entry into the fight
on the side where he has always fought, In
favor of honesty and truth against knavery
and les
There are few men of whom it can be said
in this intensely individual and practical soci-
ETY. that zone blast upon his bugle-horn were
"wOrth thousand men.p But it is no met
aphor to say this of Gov. Curtin. He is one
of those men whom it is fashionable to call
magnetic. He has that rare sympathetic quail
ity which enables him to attract the confidence
as readily as he convinces the understanding
of his hearers. No public man in recent
years has possessed this quality in an equal
degree. He is not only the best known citizen
in the State but the most popular. His long
political life Is without a suspicion Of corrupt
or irregular practices. In a State where
New-York tribune., 1872-09-24

II really would seem that the business Of digging
ND Straight-out Democrats who support Grant" is
about worn out. One of the latest cases of resur-
rection is that of Mr. Justice Field OF the United
States Supreme Court, who is proudly exhibited as
lifelong Democrat of great political influence in
California" who cannot endure for moment the
idea of electing Mr.. Greeley. We have quarrel
with Mr. Justice Fields tastes but to fix the polit-
cal preferences of any of the thrifty Field family is
too great puzzle, even for the alknowing Erenipg
Post Mr.. Stephen j. Field was appointed by Presi-
dent iLlncoln to the Supreme Bench, and was then
very glad to be classed as an ardent Republican He
Johnsonzed with a great many other timorous Re-
publicans in 1866; and what he has been since no.
body but himself knows. We do not believe that
his political status could be ntegently defined by
any in California, where his influence Is repre-
sented by cipher. This is a representative case ;
and another is list of "Straight-out Democratic
newspapers which support Grant" published in an
Iowa Grant-Democratic sheet. This portentous
cata logue is headed by HarpeTs Ueekly and tailed
by Pomeov's Democrat. How does the aesthetic
editor of the Journal of Civilization like that
New-York tribune., 1872-09-24
BULLOCK, KIMBALL, CLEWS g. CO.

We have received from one b. p. Frink,
who claims to have been confidential book
keeper of the firm of j. Edwin Conant u
Co., contractors for building the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad, a communication in
which the said Frink asserts that Mr.. Henry
Clewss conduct was irreproachable up to the
10th of November 1870. We decline to sacri-
flee valuable space to irresponsible, wordy,
irrelevant and tricky communications like that
of Mr.. Frink's. If Mr.. Clews has anything to
saw for himself we shall not refuse any reason
able demand he may make upon our space.
As to Mr. Frink we refer him to page 10 of
the Bond Committees report for Mr.. Anglers
letter, showing that about the 10Th OF Noyem-
Der, 1870, Mr.. Clews had been officially In
formed of the fraudulent issue of Brunswick
and Albany bonds indorsed by the State OF
Georgia; to the testimony of William
L. Avery (page 52), partner of Conant
and Kimball in the firm of j. Edwin Conant
a. Co., showing that Henry Clews was to have
one-duarter of the profits of said firm, and
was also fully cOgnizant of the infamous bill
approved by Bullock, Oct. II, 1870; to the
testimony of James II. Ledlie, one of the sub
contractors (page 55), showing that Henry
Clews knew that the bonds he was
selling were fraudulent and worthless; to
the testimony of Jacob II. Schif, of the firm
of Bulge, Schiff & Co., bankers, of this city
(page 65), showing that Henry Clews violated
his agreement with that firm, and testified
falsely as to the work which had been done
on the road; and finally to the testimony of
F. A. Babcock, civil engineer (page 7O),
as to the swindling practced in the
Winter of 1S69-7O in the construction of
the first fifty miles of the road ; and to that
of Mr.. Sadler (page ~ to the same effect.
Mr.. Clews's man Frink has immensely under
estimated our knowledge of the subject upon
which he attempts to mislead us, and is clearly
a novice in the art of whitewashing. Let Mr..
Clews take the pen himself.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-24

AS stated bl the counsel for the Cuban pri-
vateer PioneG, the case of that seizure and
libel is STANCE one. 1t is claimed that
the steamer vas bought in Hayti, and was
seized outsid, of the jurisdiction of the
United State, by revenue cutter, and
brought into Newport, where she was libeled
and CONDEMNED for violation of the Neutrality
laws. The ca,tain, lodged in Jail on civil
charge, was MT informed of the proceedings
against his vessel, which was declared for
feited in the United States District Court
The Attorney yGeneral declines to interfere,
and so the v,ssel is to be sold. Those who
suffer by this conclusion Of the uffair may re-
aect that the morbid anxiety Of this Adminis.