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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-23

Hon. REvERDY JOHNSON gave dinner TO
he Cabinet, judges of the Supreme Court,
their officers, and other invited guests, at
Wizards hotel last night. The President
could not attend on account of cold
Among those present were Secretary Bris-
tow, Attorney General Williams, Chief JUS
ice Waite, Justices Miller, Swayne, Hunt,
hradley, Clifford, Field and Davis, Judge
jeremiah S. Black. Mr.. ID. w. Middleton,
clerk Of the Supreme Court, AID Mr.. John
w. Wallace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-23

A DESIGN for the new "a life saving medal
TO be presented to persons i'm testimony of
heroic deeds in saving life from the perils of
the sea has been selected by the director of
the mint. 1t is about three inches In diam
eter, and has on one side a representation of
three persons In boat in an angry sea. res
cuing shipwrecked persons, and on the other
the figure of history inscribing heroic deeds
on a monument surmOunted by the Ameri-
can eagle.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

The Charleston NeD s publishes serious
charges against j. Douglas Robertson in
connection with the school books recently
selected for use in this State. II these
charges can be proved to be true it is the
duty OF the State board to annul any con
tracts shas have 6con madc, and we nope
to see Gov. Cha mberlain, who is on the
board, take some steps to ascertain the
truth of these reports and if found to be
true to see to it that the newly selected
books be refused. The Governor has
enough to account for now without being
mixed mp in this affair. We hope Mr..
Robertson can come to the trout and
give a satisfactory explanation of his
connection with these charges that may
relieve him of the odium under which, he
must suffer unless he can show the charges
to be false.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

SOUTHERN papers are busily quoting
the speeches of Wendell Phillips and
nen Butler to prove that the northern
mechanics and laborers are now nothing
but halfstarved white slaves. The south
ern people will not be any more fooled
wien the demagogucs of the north tell
such silly lies than they are when the
southern demagogucs prate of .'down-
trodden and oppressed people. ."-Un,on
Herald
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20
A correspondent of the Charleston

a correspondent of the Charleston
News, in Columbia, writes "a follows:
-Four dray loads of stati onery for the
use of the coming Legislators were deliv-
cred at the Statehouse this morning. /
say for the use of the legislators, for it Is
well known, and openly asserted by eve
~ honest man in the Statehouse, that the
Legislature as such can not properly Use
more than one fifth of the mass TO-DAY
received. Each load required four mules
to remove it from the depot to the State
house. Among other packages noticed
two labelled '.perJumed Office Paste ~
There is malicious rum or afloat that the
mucilage for the backs of the stamps and
the flaps of the envelopes was sseeetened
before applied; but doubt this. There
is but one other fact Of note to be men
toned In this connection, which is, that
this is not all of the supplies ordered.
Some one suggests that they propose
perhaps to write up their confessions, and
to tell all they don't know about running
State government. The supply is too
small, for that purpose at least.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

WHITE LABOR SoUTHwARD-The Mo-
bile (Ala.) Register is authority for the
statement that "the negro does not pro-
duce half the cotton which he produced
before the wal >" and credits white labor
with the production of large portion OF
the crop. Besides the actual production
of wealth flowing from it, the moral effect
must be incalculable also. and by exam.
pie the coloied laborer will be improved
rs a necessity.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

Plato c. Fluid, a colored ex-treasurer
of Darlington county, who was convicted
at the recent term of the court of failing
to make the monthly returns required by
law, was sentenced to one years impns-
onment in the pepitentiary and to pay a
fine of fifty dollars.
"The best treasurer Beaufort county
ever had" was in the habit of reminding
people that he would make reports when
he pleased, and he refused several times to
report but nobody thought Of prosecuting
him. But then he was treasurer of Beau
fort county and not Darlington.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20
Sale i'm Bankruptcy
Assigned Est. Mauldin Owens Co.
BANkRUPTS.
BY Frederick w. wagener, Assignee.

ON THURSDAY, 21st. OCTOBER, 1876, WILL
be soldatPUBLIc AUCTION, at Hoover's Station
on the Port Royal Rail Road, commcnc,n.. at 10
O'Clock m, the following property Of the assigned
Estate OF Mauldin Owens & Co., Bankrupts; VIZ:
2S Mules: ao1cn: 10 Timber carta: 4 Wagons
% setts OF Harness: 10 Saddles; Sets of Black.
smiths Tools.
ALSO
Steam Engine, Boiler. Saw Mil and fixtures.
ut Hoover's.
Steam Engine, burned and injured; at Hooyere
1steam Engine. Boiler, Saw Mill and axtursy
at Altman's
ALSO
1x66 ACRES OF LAND on Mill and Teuant,s
Branches, Beaufort County: more or less.
1850 ACRES OF LAND near MauldIn's Station:
more or less.
TERMS--For tho personal property, Cash. For
the real property, onehalf WI cash, and the bal.
ance upon credit Of one year, secured by bond
and mortgage Of tho purchasers: purchasers pay.
ing for papers.
r. W. WAeEssR,
sep 29-4t. Assignee.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

Good sense is not shown to any re.
tnarkable extent in Georgia educational
nfiairs. The whole appropriation made
last year for the support Of the public
schools intended to eduentc the school
population of 400, 900 was oLly $3.50, 900;
while the appropriation for the support
or insane, blind, and deaf and dumb
persons-in sIl about 700-amounted to
S1S2 ,5f5, q sum further increased by tho
interest on tho cost of the buildings
erected for them.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

A system of specie payment under
which specie shall from a considerable
prrt both of the actual money of the
country and of the reserves for the pay
ment Of such proper promises as may be
issued, is our platform. The variations in
quantity of convertible paper currency
IS, that the currency should fluc-
tuate, In the same way that 1t would
fuctuate, If 1t consisted solely of specie;
tending to become scarce when gold is
exported and plenty when it is imported,
precisely as the currency would do if it
consisted of coin only. Our paper is at
discount now not because there is any
doul't.about the solvency of tho govern.
ment but because the amount of paper
is in excess of its Immediate converta.
hihty. But these causes must act and
Ieact inevitably upon each other and
cause become effect. No room being
left for metal to circulate, On ostensa-
bly, convertible paper currency issued in
excess, must compel those who issue il
to suspend payment. Hence our views
ofa sound currency, are upon solid
basis of actual metal and paper currency
convertible into coin on demand. In
order to make our currency more valua-
BILE we must either contract orr paper
money or provide more extended uses
for 1t. THIS latter Is the key note to
some wholesome measures of financial
refolm and restitution of our
deprecated paper to its nominal pal t.
to be accom- plished by fostering anG resto-
ring our agricultural interests SO as to
develop new uses for its cmp ployment.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

The state Census OF Charleston County
inst completed shows an increase of a.
BOB coiored and only 5.736 whItes since
the u. 8. Census Of 1870. The vote OF
the county Is 25.085 of which whites
number 1888. against 1850 coiored
The proportion of colored children to
white Is nearly 4 to one. The forme,
numbering 1881 and the latter onl,
6.95s.. In the city Of Charleston alone
the increase of coIored has been 5.sSs
while that of the whites have only been
1.779. What IN alarming exhibit ofthe
future political complexion should the
aggregate per cent continue to augment
in the fame proportion.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

Charles Nordhoff closing his Georgia
letter says:
"The difficulty in. Georgia is that black
and white Republican ond deupcratic
demagogucs unite in maintaining the col
or line iu politics. The bad democrat
does not object, for it enables him to
control the State. The tad- republican
likes it, for it makes him a martyr and
gives him what he longs fora federal
office-or at least the excuse for de
manding one. Governor Smith spoke
wisely when he said to me that only
when the color line was broken could the
politics of the State be settled, and this
would bring absolute security to the ne
gro. There is no doubt, too, that the
Civil Rights bill and the Force bill, and
all the other efforts to ma intain in the
South spurious republican party, have
only tended to band the white voters to.
gether in q more and more infiex1ble
opposition to the federal administra tion
and to band the ignorant blacks together
and subject them to the rule OF demagog-
ues, leaving the moderate men of both
sides without their just voice or influ-
ence.'
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20


The condition of affairs in Mississippi
can be imagined when such Republicans
as Senator Pease and District Attorney
Wells JOIN in the denunciation of Ames
and his administration. His aim has
been to build upa personal party that
would elect him to the United States
Senate, and to this end he has not only
pardoned felons out of the penitentiary
to run for the Legislature, and procured
the selection Of other notorious criminals 8
as candidates, but he has likewise used
bis utmost exertions to instigate war of
races But the decent negroes Of his
own party have become Disguised, and
are desertlng him In crowds. The Rev.
j. E. johnson, an influential colored
Methodist clergy man of Jackson, has re-
Gently published letter advising the
coiored people to cut loose from their
leagues and join with the whito men in
redccining the State from the spoiler.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

An English co-operaiiye cotton manu-.
featuring company in SpartanLurg, has
succeeded IN interesting the Fall r1yer.
Mass, cotton operatives In the subject
OF emigIating South 10 such an 'ex
tent that colony is being organized to
settle near Sparranburg, where GOOD farm
lands can be bought at from "a to S5O
per. acre, and the country pr, scnts vary
supsnor advantages to Massachusetts,
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

MIR. Stanley has been heard from in
his far wanderings in Africa. He has
found tribes of negroes hitherto unknown.
and reached the region of the great lakes
with a serious loss of men. OF the three
hundred men composing his escort one
hundred and twenty-five have died aud
been killed in battle with the natives
In three days fight with the Watura
tribes he lost twenty-onc men, killing
thirty-fve of the enemy. The narrativ.
OF his progress seven hundred and TWEEN
ty miles into the interior of Africa is in.
tensely interesting.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

Gov. CHAaBERLArN's BAD LUcx.-Is it
not strange that some unlucky accident
befais every financial board upon which
Gev. Chamberlain is placed We arc nil
acquainted with his ,nisfortunes befors he
became governor. Since his elevation to
this high dignity, he has met with an
other piece Of bad luck. His was tho
casting vote which placed the deposit in
Solomon's bank. And when the bank
fails he pleads ignorance of its condition,
ex presses sorrow that he was victim of
misplaced confidence, and demands that
the public excuse him. And thus far for
some reason has escaped all blame. Now
If the assertions of the treasurer be
true Gov. Chamberlain is as culpabls as
Comp troller Dunn. If an investigation
Of the condition of the bank was deman-
ded by Cardozo before the deposit was
made, it was the bounden duty of the
Governor to vote for this resolution, and
to institute the most searching scrutiny.
He owed this to the people, and he owed
it to himself; for he had discovered in
his past career that even a mistake in a
public official is an offence.
The only defence the governor can
make is to deny the warning of the treas
urer. He has declared that he knew
nothing of the instability of the bank
and this declaration was accep ted, before
tie appear ance of Cardozo's letter. This
letter demands a further response from
the Governor.
We have always taken the position
that as long as Mr.. Chamberlain makes a
good Governor his past record should be
held in abeyance. But when we see
heavy losses to the State occurring now,
through the negligence or venality of the
financial board, of which Governo,
Chamberlain is a member, similar to these
that disgraced the State in the dayt
when Attorney General Chamberlain was
a member of the board, we must say that
forbearance ceases to be virtue and VIC
must require of the Governor the same
explanation as is demanded fro m the
other membcrs.-FairJfeld Herald.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

The grand jury of the United States
Circuit Court at Richmond Va, presen-
ted Albert P. Lathrop, carpet-bag
State Senator, on the charge of embezzl,
ing the funds of the government, entrust,
ed to him as collector of the Third Vir.
ginia District. The defalcation, 1t is
alleged, will amount to $500. George
Eldridge, deputy collector for Lathrop
was presented by the grand jury ut the
same time rs a party to the embezzle.
ment.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

There is gentleman working in
Charleston as a carpenter, says the
Savannah NeUs, that, when the war
commenced, was the owner of three
hundred slaves and one of the largest
plantations in Beaufort county. Eman-
sipation lost him in his negro property,
and tax collectors sold his plantation.
Without money, and only friends as
bad of. rs himself, he sought work az a
carpenter, which trade he had learned as
pastime when he was young and
wealthy. and by industry has succeeded
In supporting his family.
CLEARED October 9th. Br. Brig. Flor
ence Baynon. m aster for Newcastle, Eng
land, with 4s4 tons phosphate rock from
Coosaw mines.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

The result of the election in Iowa on
Tuesday was scarcely less surprise than
the result In Ohio. The financial ques-
tlon did not come prominently to the
front. Both parties were committed to
specie resumption, and the State has
gone Republicau Ly about thirty-f1ve
thousand, The Cincinnati Eaquirer says
the g,eesLack doctrine didn't do that.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

On Friday afternoon the British bark
III. Wood from Sydney C. B. grounded
on Pumpkin Hill shoal. This is the
very channel upon which dredging has
been attempted and at which
Professor Mallifert has been operating
upon for the last year. The pilots
have evidently been misled by false
reports that have been given of the
success of the undertaking which proves
to be futile. Charleston had better
content herself with a coastwIse trade
and not try to compete with Port Royal
in having vessels of heavy draught to
attempt an entrance over her bars.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20

THE jacksonville, Florida, papers are
calling for more hotels at that city, STATING.
that the prospect of great number of
visitors the coming winter is very marked,
and that last season, entirely too many
people were obliged to sleep in hotel cor
ridors and other unseemly places. The
city of jacksonville becomes one vast
boarding house from the first of Novems
Der to the first of May.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-19
LEXINGTON's PROGRAMME.

ON the morning OF the 10th a salute or 100 guns
will be fired at sunrise
The public exercises or the day will begin at ten
O'Clock, in the Pavilion on the Common, close to
the railway station. Doors open at nine O'Clock
Admission Tree. Ladies and gentlemen can be
seated together.
The platform Will be decorated with trophies
from the Lexington battlefield.
A pine tree from Massachusetts and palmetto
from South Carolina Will represent the union be-
tween the different States OF the Republic.
Thomas Merriam Stetson viii oilciate as
President OF the day.
An GRAFTON Will be delivered by the Hon. Richard
H. Dana, Jr.. preceding which 1t Is expected that
statues OF John Hancock and Samuel Adams Will
be unveiled with an address by the Hon. Charles
Hudson
The Rev. Professor Joseph w. Churchill win read
a selection or Sculptures from an ancient copy OF
the Bible. presented to the church In Lexington
by Governor Hancock. Prayer will be offered BY
the Rev. Henry Westcott.
The Boylston Club win sing hymns written for
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-19
precisely nine O'Clock A. M. OF Monday. April 10,

precisely nine O'Clock A. NJ OF Monday April 10,
is75:-
Marshal on Main street. right on Ihoreau
street.
second Division, Colonel Theodore Lyman, Mar
shal on Middle street right on Thoreau street.
THIRD Division, Colonel william b. slower, Mar
shall on sudbury street, east OF the railroad, rlght
on Thoreau street,
Fourth DIVISION, Colonel Charles l.. Person. Mar
shat on Sudbury street west OF the railroad, right
on railroad.
Ftn Division Colonel Charles f. Fuller, Mar
shall, on Inoreau street. south OF sudbury street,
right on sudbury street.
All persons and organizations are requested 20
proceed immediately on arriving IN Concord TO the
points designated as above, IN order That they
may be placed IN position by the Marshais AIDES
In enarge OF the respective divisions.
by reason OF the concurrent ceremonies on the
same day In the town Of Lexington, IL II abso-
lutely necessary that the procession move pune
tually at hafpast nine O'Clock, ana all persons
and organizations not formed in their proper
position that time win be considered as having
declined the invitation TO participate IN the cere-
monies
Military organizations will march in company or
nate. =,
All bodies or civilians marching on loot VIII
marcn in ranks four abreast, with intervals pe-
tween the ranks OF four feet.
All ladies desiring to obtain seats a the oration
will assemble at the Town Hall punctualy at haH-
past nine O'Clock and win be conducted to the
tent.
Al the close or the Grafton and other exercises
In the tent, those desiring to participate In the
dinner VIII proceed tortnwlIn TO the tent provided
for that purpose
Colonel Theodore Lyman No leI Commonw ealth
avenue, Boston, will represent the ChieI Marshal
in Boston until the day OF the celeoratlon anu
will answer all inquiries All ORGANIZATIONS or
bodies propo ing TO JOIN the procession ana not
provided Tor above, are requested TO communl-
cate with Colonel Lyman forthwith.
FRANCIS Q. BARLOW, Chief Marshal.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-19
e CONCORD PROGRAMME.


the Committee OF Arrangements OF the Town OF
Concord have made preparations for tne celebra-
ton or the one hundredth anniversary OF Concord
fight,
10TH OF APRIL, 1878
and the citizens OF all the towns locally or other
wise Interested In the event Of tnat day, and the
public generally, are invited TO be present.
The exercises win begin With salute OF 100
guns ut sunrise.
corted by the Filth regiment. NV. NJ, ana under
the direction or General L. c. Barlow as Chief
Marshal
Alter visiting the monuments at the 0ld North
Bridge the procession Will march TO pavilion on
the Provincial Parade Ground, where the exer-
cises OF the dedication OF the new statute Will
take place, consisting OF an address by r. W. EN-.
erson and an Grafton upon the events OF the day
by gorge william Curtis.
AT the conclusion OF the Grafton the company
VIII proceed 10 the dinner tent on the same field.
Addresses Will be made at the table by many dis
tingulsned speakers.
Hon. f.. II. Hoar win act as President or the day.
The exercises will conclude with grand bail
at the Agricultural Hall Ia the evening.
Tickets to the dinner 81 80, To the Dali SO, 10 be
Obtained OF the Committee OF Arrangements as
advertised The numDer OF tickets TO the dinner
now remaining unsold Is very limited, and all per-
sons VINO desire 10 OBTAIN them shoulu senu their
applications immediately
special trains VIII be provided on the Fttchburg
and Lowell railroads 10 accommodate those who
desire TO unite In the celebration.
By order OF the Committee OF Arrangements.
GEORGE KEYES, Chairman.
SAMUEL HoAR Secretary.
CONCORD, Mass, April 10, 1873.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-19

OF his intensely interesting narrative, "the COM
msnder OF the (Amencanl militia company.
ordered MS men to disperse and not 10 fre.n He
omits 70 add that IN the teeth OF this order they
Ola fire. Mr.. CURTIS SAID that Doth Richard
rockingham ana Edward Everett, who
very careful and accurate authorities agreed
that there were scattering SHOTS from the Amert-
cans. Mr. Curtis readily pointed out the passages
In both authors abiding to this event. In his
Grafton at Lexington OF the Goth or April, 1885,
Everett says:-"Captain Parker now fell the
necessity OF directing his men TO dispense, but 10
was not nRtn several Of them had returned the
British nre and some or them more than once
that his handful o. brave men were driven from
the ned.n And Richard rockingham, In MS "his-
tory OF the Siege or Boston and OF the BATTLES OF
Lexington. Concord and Bunker Hln says:-"A
few OF the militia who had been wounded, or VINO
saw Others killed wounded by their side. no
longer hestated but returned the fire OF the regu-
lafs.n
Az INTERESTING NOTE
And in a marginal note the historian SAYS
.sThe contemporary evidence OF this return fire IS
no posltlye to be set aside. In the counter
festo to Cages proclamation, prepared in June,
l775 which was not published at the time, 1t Is
said that the British in q most barbarous and
infamous manner rred upon small NUMBER Of
the inhabitants and cruelty murdered eight men.
but their number was TOO inconsiderable 10
nov the regular troops, who proceeded on their
errand, and upon coming up TO Concord,n
4c / COPY from Ms IN Massachusetts arcnlyes.
Gordon, May IL, 1875, says that James Brown
informed him thar, 'beng got over the wall, and
seeing the soldiers IRE pretty freely he fired upon
them, ana some others did the same" DEPOSIT
ton No, s, oil 1875, Is cear:-"ADout ave O'Clock
ia the morning we attended the beat OF our drum
ana were formed on the parade. We were laced
toward the regulars then marching up TO as, and
some OF our company were coming TO the parade
with their backs toward the troops; ana Others
on the parade began TO disperse when the regu-
lars fred on the company before q gun was fired
by any OF our company tnem.n The great
point was as TO who fred nrst Clark says:-''So
lar from firing nrst upon the Kings troops upon
the most careful inquiry 1t appears that but
very lew or people hred al all, and
even they did not ire TIL, alter being nred upon
by the troops, they wounded themselves
&c Phinney's history contains the details with
dispositions, which, as to the main TACT, are sup
ported by the authorities OF 1875. All the British
accounts state that the nre was returned, or
rather they state that II begun by the militia
his last assertion, made IN Cages handoll,
was contradicted. Much controversy took place
ABOUT IL, and the Provincial Congress- account
was prepared IN reference TO It. As late as May
3, l77e, London journal says:-"It is whispered
that the Ministry are endeavoring to tx GER