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cal out the object of
its creation, that it tare into tatters and
trampled under foot, during the frenzied
hours of the civil war, the Constitution of
the Union and the rights guarranteed to
all under that sacred instrument, and
shook the temple of republican liberty to
its foundation. In 1860, the war was over
—and it would have been well for the
present and future generations if this party,
“battle born and blood sealed," had passed
from the political arena and handed the
government over to another not nurtured
amid such stormy elements. But no! in
fluenced by victory and uncontrolled li
cense, it had acquired a pride and inso
lence which made it believe that place and
power were its natural prerogatives. Its
leaders mistook the brute force which
had successfully carried it through the
civil war for the wisdom of statesmanship.
And then whilst with one hand fanning
the embers of civil and sectional discord,
which should have been smothered by am
nesty, with the other they drew up those
iniquitous and oppressive measures known
as the Reconstruction and Enforcement
acts. The result of these we all know.—
Instead of strengthening the bonds of
union, the only effect was to further de
grade the intelligent whites of the South
by elevating the brutal and ignorant slave
to the seat of the master. Thievery, rob
bery and anarchy followed as a matter of
course. The helpless and conquered
whites heroically struggled against their
hard lot, hoping almost against hope.—
Time rolls along. There being no longer
anything for them to feed upon, the angry
passions of the masses of the victorious par
ty are dissipated, and it is then discovered
that the government has been swept along
by the mad current to the verge of bank
ruptcy and ruin. Men, who a few days
before, revelling in wealth, boasted, like
Gov. Cook of Washington, that it trou
bled them to spend one-tenth of their in
come, suddenly found their money turned
into rags and themselves bankrupt. Panic
seized upon all—business came to a stand
still. All was doubt and uncertainty. No
man knew what the morrow would bring
forth. The capitalist hoarded his money
and the unemployed mechanic grimly
stared starvation in the face. This was
the condition of the country when the
forty-third Congress met. It met as its
predecessors had for the last thirteen
years, with an overwhelming majority of
the Radical party in both Houses, and
the government in all its branches com
posed of members of the same party, and
with a small but intelligent band of Dem
ocrats in the opposition—so small indeed
as to be powerless to prevent vicious leg
islation, except by availing of some tech
nical parliamentary rule. Therefore, the
responsibility of the Radical leaders and
their party cannot be evaded in this con
nection. Has the party met the responsi
bility which was thus on it ? We have
shown that the stormy school in which
these leaders were educated was not cal
culated for the cultivation of a prudent
statesmanship, and the history of the Con
gress, which has just adjourned its first
session, shows that with the long years of
pow T er those leaders of the party have not
risen above the circumstances which gave
it birth and are utterly unable to cope
the exigencies of the present. For
time in its history it was called
on questions of practical
which had heretofore been
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rHE PORT TOBACCO TIMES AND CHARLES COUNTY ADVERTISER. FRIDAY. JULY 8. 1874.
meeting of Congress—the currency
been neither increased or dimin-
Though, inasmuch as it legalizes
■■Hk of the $26,000,000 of reserves
Secretary Richardson, without
color of law, during the pan-
MHHHBo releases and puts into eireula
nßßtOOO.OOO of reserves, which hereto-
banks were obliged to keep, it is
a measure of inflation. Yet,
States solemnly pledges its faith to
provision at the earliest practicable
[period for the payment of the United
Ktates notes in coin.” And the above act
C)f inflation is all that has been done to
[keep the faith pledged. President Grant,
ntoo, in his veto message and his Jones
pledged himself to sign no
bill that did not provide for the resump
tion of specie payments, yet he approved
this last measure. If this record does not
show a most lamentable disqualification
on the part of the dominant party, includ
ing their President and their Congress, to
deaf with questions of practical politics
in a statesmanlike manner, we cannot see
what it does show.
What else could we expect from a states
manship which seeks to make the negro
the equal socially of the white man ?
Oar fltUh A {fa 1 11.
We copied last week a brief statement
to the effect that the Postoflicc Department
■ was arranging for the extension of our mail
facilities. We sincerely hope this is true.
If ever there was a people needing the pro
tection of a “paternal government" the
people of Prince George’s, Charles, Cal
vert and St. Mary’s counties need that
protection at this time in the matter of
mail facilities. The importance of this
matter to every interest in these four coun
ties is so great that we need no excuse for
speaking again of the subject and calling
the attention of the authorities thereto. —
The people of the entire section named re
ceive their mail now at a much later hour
than they did forty years ago, in the old
days of the stage coach. It is simply an
outrage that the interests of so vast an
area of territory and of so many people,
living too within a few hours of easy ac
cess to the National Capital, should be
subjected to the whim and caprices of a
railroad superintendent, who, knowing
everything which in his own opinion is
worth knowing, confessedly knows noth
ing and wants to know as little about our
people as they care to know about men of
bis calibre. Certainly there must lx pow
er somewhere to prevent the entire busi
ness interests of communities from being
so seriously injured as ours have been in
this matter of the mails. For very many,
many years before the war we received the
Baltimore mail by 11 o’clock. A. M. Now
it arrives at BP. M. Nor is this all of the
evil. The city mail is closed early in the
morning of the day we receive it, and the
night before for letters, and nothing of
that day, except the morning papers, can
be brought by it either from Baltimore or
Washington. If these mails were kept
open until four o'clock, P. M.. of the day
on which they arrive here, that would be
something at all events. But no! We
cannot even get letters of that day or the
evening papers, though there is an abun i
ant time for both and no earthly reason
why we should not that we know or can
imagine of. Our letters for Baltimore or
Washington must be mailed in the even
ing before eight o’clock and leave next
morning at 6.30, and yet do not reach cor
respondents in Baltimore until 3 P. M.—
It is absurd to say that this is necessary,
or that there is no power in the Federal
Government to protect its citizens from
such outrages on the part of mail carriers
as we have been subjected by the B. & P.
R. R. Co. It is a disgrace to the Govern
ment and a reproach to the Postoflicc De
partment that citizens should have been
compelled to submit to this utter disre
gard of their rights fur so long. And we
sincerely hope that this great wrong is a
bout to be remedied. When the B. &P.
R. R. commenced the carry ingot the mail
their trains left the cities in the morning,
thereby delivering the mails, though later
than we had been receiving before, yet in
time to be satisfactory. After awhile this
morning train was taken off and the mail
sent as now. The department at Wash
ington was written to on the subject, and
one of the Solons, who gives the country
the benefit of his valuable time, wrote back
that the department had no power “to reg
ulate the running of the trains." Of course
nobody asked or expected that. But we
did expect, and we do expect, and we have
a right to expect, and we shall continue
to expect, that the department will regu
late the carriage and delivery of the pub
lic mails so as to suit the public conveni
ence, and not the fancy of railroad officials.
It.seems to us that the department might
at least restore our mails byway of Gly
mont and put us back where we were be
fore. If the railroad company will not
obligate itself to give us a morning mail,
the department might send the mail for
this and St. Mary’s county byway of Gly
mont, thereby enabling our friends of
Leonardtown to receive their mail by four
or five P. M. of same day. At all events
hope that the successor of
ffsßpqW.well. who distinguished himself
ft Ban energetic and progressive dis
condition ot affairs to
Please, Mr. Post Master, give
mKmr mail if it has to be sent in a one
" A wheel barrow or a dog
deliver it sooner than we now
B. &. P. R. R. Do, Mr. Post
Master General, give us a morning’s mail
and we will pray for you on its arrival
1 each day, and “generations unborn shall
rise up and call thee blessed."
Kignitiraut.
On Friday night before the adjournment
of Congress, old Ben. Butler made one of
his characteristic speeches in the House in
defence of the moiety system, the Sanborn
and Jayne contracts, and his own connec
tion therewith. •In the course of this re
markable speech, in pitching into the
Committee of Ways and Means, in allu
sion to the remark of Mr. Foster, (Rep.),
that he, Butler, ought to be investigated,
he made this significant admission. He
said ; "1 look forward to the time when
the majority of this House will be opposed
to me in politics and then I ask them to
investigate every act of mine aud publish
it to the country. I invoke the investiga
tion of a gentlemanly opposition and not of
a malignant personal spleen egged on by
political rivalry." As old Ben. is known to
be a pretty good political weathercock, this
admission of his, that he expects soon to
sec a Democratic majority control the
House, may be taken as a sure evidence of
what quarter the popular breeze is coming
from.
By the way, on this occasion, the re
doubtable hero of New Orleans, having
turned the whole House into a bear gar
den, got decidedly the worst ol it. He
produced a letter said to have been found
on the streets of Brooklyn, and written by
Mr. Foster, wherein Mr. F. says: "I
want to get a rap at old cock-eye." Mr.
Foster replied, that when he got into this
controversy with old Ben. he expected his
letters to be stolen, and had written them
on purpose. “Old cock-eye" seemed really
hurt, either at the reply or at the cuteness
of Mr. F. in thus preparing letters tor him
to steal. But the unkindest cut of all was
given by the same Mr. Foster, after the
peroration of Benjamin, who said that
after the asperities and rivalries had
ed away his countrymen would say of him,
"He was a man whose virtues overbal
anced his faults, who love I his country,
his kind, justice and nobleness,"
Mr. Foster—“ Let us pray." Amidst
shouts of laughter the irrepressible Ben.
was for the second time in his life meta
phorically floored. We do not recollect
having noticed the name of Mr. Foster a
mong the debaters before this, but in the
speech which followed he certainly got
more than one “rap at old cock-eye." At
all events he knew whom he was dealing
with when he wrote his letters expecting
them to be stolen. Evidently he is a cute
one.
Frctl RoiikU* on The * lid Kixhtn Kill.
Fred Douglas came out the other day
in a furious article against the Republi
cans. especially those from the South, who
voted against the passage of the Civil
Rights bill. In the course of this article
he says:
By the treachery of Republican mem
bers of Congress, elected in large part t<_\
colored votes, the negro is continued an
outlaw. Fortunately the ncuro has tin
ballot. He owes it to himself to use that
ballot in punishing the treachery of the
men whose treason to professed principles
leaves him a victim to negro hate. Even
ballot that shall be cast by colored men
for the so-called Republicans \\ boon Satur
day night last voted against tin Civil
Rights bill will be regarded s so main
indorsements of their treason, (bir people
are not the cowards to kbs the hand that
smites them. They must not be led into
the support of pretended friends by soph
istry nor by intimidation. Detent every
pretended Republican who voted against
the Civil Rights bill.
In this Fred Douglas sounds the key
note of the next compaign. We suppose
the colored men w ill follow his lead and
vote for no man who is not pledged to the
support of the Civil Rights bill. If this
is so. it will be better for both sides. It
will abolish these so-called Independents
and played-out Reformers, and all that
class, who seek “to run with the hare and
hunt with the hounds.” The colored men
will then know who is willing to go -the
whole hog” for them, anti the w hite people
will also know who is in favor of mixed
schools and otherwise dragging the white
man down to the plane of the negro. In
-1 sist upon your platform, black men, and
let there be no dodging, but an open field
and a fair fight! Come, gentlemen, as
pirants and office-holders, you w ho expect
to “run with the machine," "lace the
music,” and give us a fair and square an
swer. Are you in favor of negro equality
! as proposed by the Civil Rights bill?
the 14th of July a vote will be
taken in the counties of Caroline, Talbot,
Queen Anne's and Dorchester, on the ques
tion of Local Option. The contest which
was actively opened some weeks ago, is
very animated, and the grounds of objec
tion are fought over inch by inch. The
latest objection raised by the ant -prohibi
tionists was the illegality of the election
without a registration, the constitution
requiring a registration to be made prior
’ to each election. Attorney General Syester,
however, has come to the relief of the Local
j. Optionists, and says that no registration
is required.
i J-jf’On Wednesday of last week Samuel
f W. McDonald was indicted for the mur
f der of Berry Amos, in the affair at the
. Sherwood House in Baltimore city, on the
• night of 22d ult. Win. Clark and Henry
• Golibart have been indicted also asacces
■ series to the murder. These parties were
arraigned in the City Criminal Court on
; Friday last, and plead not guilty. They
were remanded to jail and the cases con-'
, 1 tinued until October term.
1 Hit Superfluous Excellency.
I During the debates in the Convention
I which framed the Federal Constitution, it
is reported thfit Benjamin Franklin ironi
cally suggested that the Vice President
should be entitled "His Superfluous Ex
eellency,” and with our recent experience
we think the'skge Pennsylvanian showed
great forethought in his sarcasm. Certainly
Mr. Heury Wilson, the present incumbent
of that office, could be justly so termed.—
He does not pretend to preside over
' the Senate, but leaves that to bo done by
Senator Carpgjfler, who was elected Pres
ideal pro tern. And the only thing we are
■ aware that His Superfluous Excellency
‘ i does, in the way of earning his SIO,OOO
per annum, t!r to di\iw the same. And
this he does quarterly with masterly reg
I I gularity.
Now, as (’aggress has a superfluous ter
ritory on its hands, in the shape of the
f District of Columbia, and for which gov
ernment of some sort must be furnished,
1 it is suggested byjhe Milwaukie Sent ini!
that the Vice President lie made Governor j
■ ex officio of the District. Thus this super ]
lluotis territory would be governed by His
f Superfluous rtf tHenry, who would be j
kept tolerably well employed in earning
his salary, besides being convenient in
case anything should happen in the fami |
■ ly at the White House.
Xewvpnper Enterprise.
We have received the first copy of the
, "Maryland Independent " a newspaper pub
lished in this town on every Wednesday, j
!In its salutatory, which is very graceful'
■both in language and tone, it announces j
that it will be and principally ,
; devoted to the material promotion of our
i people by assisting to brim; more promi |
, jnentlv to public view the splendid ad
I vantages with jft hieh beueneient nature
has so richly dowered this peninsula of;
country." It will also be devoted to the:
. educational interests of all by the “impar
. tial di-s inination of know ledge among all
j classes e>f our citizens." In polities,
'whilst not neutral, it professes "to lx in
dependent.”
We congratulate our friends upon th
| neat appearance of their paper, and the ad
rnirable selections of new s and other read |
| ing matter, in this their first number, and i
if they keep up to tlie standard they h ive :
thus erected we are sure thrir paper w 111 j
. always lx a w elcome visitor to our peo-1
pie. If is i'-ued by John S. Button A Go.!
We know Mr. Bjjtton well, as he was s< v
.'era! years our assistant. He is an accom
. plished typo and a man of industry, who j
w ill leave no effort unspared to deserve j
1 success. We do not know who tlie "Com- :
•
pany" is. but presume it is good, as friend j
Button has in tlx past given repeated evi-
of his &>r good company
that of the ladies. We congratulate our
citizens upon this evidence of enterprize
and progress amongst us, and sincerely
, hope it may lx the harbinger of an extend
ed prosperity to all. For ourselves, lx
lieving "that competition is the life of|
trade." we welcome our ncighlxr, and are I
happy to have it to divide the lalxrs and ,
responsibilities of the position we h ive so
long occupied.
———-
THr tlurlboro -
The Gazette, which enters this week up
on its 39th year, comes to us enlarged t-> I
the extent of one column on each pag
and olherw-isc much improved. It is deco .
rated with a wonderfully-made new head, j
.'which friend Wilson undertakes to ex
plain to us and which we should not h ive
understood without his aid, and cannot]
say we comprehend w ith it. except that if
1 has all sorts ot go a head emblems in it
The Gazette, while the oldest journal in
[, _
Southern Mary land, is edited by the y oung
cst man in that section. Its columns. |
plethoric with advertisements, show un
mistakingly the appreciation in which if
\\ is held.
fit. John's tbll>Kf.
1 The Commencement exercises of this in
> stitution began on Sunday las* by the de
■ livery of the Baccalaureate Sermon by Rev.
1 T. L’. Dudley, Jr. Monday was devoted to
the Class-Day exercises of the Senior Class.
Tuesday Rev. Dr. C. K. Nelson address
-1 cd the literary Societies. The Coinmence
-1 ment proper took place on Wednesday.—
The follow ing are the names of the gradu
t sting class: O. B. Batten, of Baltimore;
• F. W. Brune, Jr., of Baltimore; S. W.
. Greenway, of Baltimore; J. W. Griffin, ot
■ j Elizabeth City. N. C.; A. D. Johnston, ot
Waverley, Baltimore county ; J. M. Mun
roe. of Annapolis; K. S. Nelson, oft ulpcp
’ 1 per, Va.; Blanchard Randall, of Annapo
• jlis; John K. Randall, of Annapolis; ,1. R
j Wilmer, of Charles county, Md.; W. Sid
- 11 ney Wilson, Snow Hill. Md. We are glad
* to learn that the College is in a prosper
ous condition, the number of students be
ing about the same as last year.
■tenth Warrants.
1 „ , . .
Governor Groome on Saturday issued
r his warrant for the execution of Ernest
Smith, colored, convicted ot rape in the
j Circuit Court for Talbot County at the May
term. 18T4 and sentenced by the Court to
be hanged. The w arrant fixes Friday, the
7th of August next, as the time of the ex
* edition.
The Governor at the same time issued
3 to the Sheriff of Baltimore city his warrant
2 for the execution of Charles Henry Jones.
’ colored, convicted in tlie Criminal Court
' for Baltimore city at the January term,
2 1874, for murder in the first degree, and
1 sentenced by the Court to be hanged. The
1 warrant fixes Friday, the 7th of August
' next, as the time of the execution —the
same day as that of Smith.
JAM AL MATTEUS.
Infoniuihon under this lend e/ienalli/ re
(/fleeted. The ihu/ie in which it comex is of no con
sei/nenee —the gist of the matter being all that is
required.
The Country Press.
(<bo. I*. Rowell & Co., Advertising Agent* 1
of Now York —the very beat authority on llu
subject of atlvei tisiug—in their American AVira
/Hiper Iteporter, say :
“ Advertisers of experience state that, to the
best of their belief, it pays larye dealers better
to advertise steadily in country papcis first
Local advertising gives an article <>r a fii in local
indorsement, for people read and believe tbeir
own papers, and trade thus works from the oul
skii is to the centre. People thousands of mih s
away from the advertiser, see his notice, and
are loci to inquire of their own merchant for the
eommodity thus announced, and inquiry is the
sliaigbl precursor to introtlut tion. Of course,
when a name is once made, a pet son, or bouse,
( an advertise as th.-y like without going amiss
I'he coin lusiotis to be drawn liom this point
would seem to be: First, begin advettising with
the i tinnli y press and work toward the cities,
taking rare I* cover the ground as you go tho
roughly ; and, secondly, avoid “fits and starts.”
Steadiness and perseverance always win, even
if they go so far as to (level ‘pe into something j
like obstinacy. The plodding tortoise of the !
table overhauled tin nimble bare, and so you,
by (• naeionslv adhet ing to youi advet tisement, |
no matter how small it is, may perhaps, in (he |
[ end, show in advance of him who fills a column j
| with his announcements at a single splurge, and
jis not heard of again for a twelvemonth. This j
at least is the gratuitous testimony of im n who
say that they would have done hi tter had thev j
I known as much themselves in the beginning.” [
Co rres|iou<leii Is.
| Persons sending us matter for publica
tion should not tail to let their proper
names accbmpany their communications.!
This we exact simply as a guarantee of
good faith.
Supplement.
I We issue the third supplement this week
11 1
1 containing the conclusion of the general j
j Laws passed at tlie last session of the Le
gislature. The delay in its publication
! has been unavoidable.
Concert itnd Festival.
We mentioned last week that the ladies;
of the congregation of ( iirist Church. Port ;
|Tobacco, were making arrangements for
a Festival and Concert. The affair will'
] take place at the Court House on Wednes-1
day evening. July loth. For particulars,
'(■e advertisement in this paper.
Vppolnlinent of ItcKistrar*.
A letter from Appapolis states that the j
Governor has appointed the following j
t Mficers of Registration for C harles county ,
to till \acancies: —T. A. Smith, for the;
.
third d;>trirt. vice Geo. N\ . Carpenter, re-.
signed: Washington Page, for the fifth I
(district, vice H. R. Scott, deceased.
4 aunt} < oiumltdonm.
j Tit Commissioners last week signed the j
at;no dfvy w hich amounts to $1.23 Vl6in j
the hundred dollars, which is an increase
I T 3 a Ifi of a cent in the State tax and of
i three cents in the County tax, over the levy
j of lust year.
Through the ludepen lent, the Commis
sioners advertise for proposals for 4.000
dog t tgs. Proposals to be submitted at |
, the meeting of the B ard on the 2 s th inst. 1
The t tgs to lx two inches long, two inches j
wide at the bottom and one inch wide at I
i the top. with orifice half inch long near j
the top. So, bidders, lake n >ticc.
Fuurlll of Jnly.
To morrow is the Fourth of July, a day
1 which formerly in this community was [
■. u.ade the occasion of much patriotic out-j
■ pouring liquid and oratorical, but which
1
i now is scarce noticed. We do not believe j
' that this is because of a want of sincere:
! patriotism on the part ( four people, but i
because those who have ridden into place 1
and power on this hobby have shown.'
'most disgustingly, that old Johnson was I
'right when he defined patriotism as "the ;
last refuge of a scoundrel." When the Au- ]
! go in stables shall have been cleaned, weex j
, po t to sec a return to our former practices. |
I and to indulge in libations "to the day we
i celebrate."
Orouirtit.
Our county is suffering now from a severe
'drought, there having been no rain to do
much good for several weeks. Under the
influence of the hot sun vegetation is be
ginning to wilt and pastures to burn up.
The oat crop will consequently be short.
Corn, thus far. does not seem to have been
1 injured but is holding on very well. Very
little tobacco has been planted, there hav
; ing been but one very brief season suitable.
During the past few days we have had
several delusive indications of rain ending
i in nothing, except apparently making the
; sun tiercier in its tropical heat. We hope
I the Grangers will put all their chaplains
to praying f>r the much desired moisture
\v ithout further delay,
i.ookwut.
This watering place is in full blast this
year and we see by the Baltimore papers
that the 6th Regiment, Col. Clarence I’cters,
will go into camp there for a week on the
| morning of the 4th July. It is expected
that the encampment will attract a large
j crowd to this lavorit resort of bye-gone
days. Here is a good opportunity for our
people who desire to take a few days frolic
and recreation. By taking either the
Gcorgeanna or Express they will be landed
at the wharf, and after a day or two of
refreshing surf-bathing, can return in the
same way, with renewed strength to en
counter the heat and trials of the summer.
(•Mount Misery" Itoad.
Now that the County Commissioners
are relieved of the pressure of making ap
pointments and passing accounts against
j the county, wo hope they will find time
j to turn their serious attention to that bite
i noir. Mount Misery, as it is very appropri- j
ately termed. Certainly something ought
! to be done to improve and render safe the
I road between the county seat and the rail- j
road. We were in hopes that the Board
had intended to put this road in a first]
; class condition. When the spring first
upend they put on the bill that distinguish
ed topographical engineer, Mr. Christopher
Columbus Blair, with his corps of able as
sistants, and we expected soon to seethe
i hill melt before their scientific strokes into
| gentle grades that would scarcely reduce
i to a walk the trotting stock of our “young
bloods.” But alas for human expecta
tions! Mr. Blair's eminent services were
i needed elsewhere, and after a week or ten
days’ work he was sent away. Whilst at
' work there he hauled gravel enough to till
j up entirely the drain on one side of the
| road, so that hereafter the water will be
obliged to run down the middle, thus in
geniously, by the aid of nature, laying the
dust in the bed of the road. Mr. Blair
doubtless thought that as the capacious
orifice in his intellectual contenance was
intended to be filled by “de hoe cake,” so
i this drain should be filled by dirt and
[ gravel hauled from above. After accomp
j lishingthis masterly piece ofeivil engineer
ing and leaving a broken-down cart as a
i 3 °
j monument, to mark the scene of his
triumph, like the Arabs of the desert, “he
| silently folded his tent and stole away,”
| and we have lost scent of him.
wire Whipping.
The warm gush of the Sabbath i?un
j light was made vocal with the piteous out
| cries of a poor woman who was receiving,
j at the hands of a brutal husband, a casti
j gation which a retributive justice ought to
(administer to him with interest. This
joccured last Sunday in the creme de la
j creme of the colored society of our town. —
| The liege lord and master is a well
| known politician, statesman and orator,
j who for his valuable services in the polit
| ical arena, has been elevated by the Coun
ty Commissioners into an office, which
heretofore a white man was thought
I 3
good enough to till. The wife, who was
j thus made the victim of cruelty, is well
known to us and the whole community as
June of the most industrious, useful and
worthy members of her race, and we doubt
whether during “the barbarous days of
shivery” she ever received at the hands
of her owners a punishment of any sort. —
j The outcries called some our citizens to
the spot, who speedily stopped the Sab
bath saturnalia. This interference was
resented by our Radical leader and office
holder, because he thought it an imperti
nent intermeddling with his civil rights,
which was guaranteed him by “appropri
ate legislation.” We are glad to say for
j common humanity's sake, that this is an
unusual thing in our quiet and peaceable
i community, and will not be tolerated in
I white or black. Such occurences are al
j ways very shocking to us, for we believe
i that "he who lays his hand on woman in
| aught save kindness, is one whom it were
1 gross flattery to term a coward.” We hope j
! not to be called on again to chronicle so i
. . . . j
, uncivil an exercise of civil rights. Our
English cousins have lately been much ex
ercised over the great brutality of the
; lower classes as developed in the increased
frequency of similar cases. Much difficul
ty is found in punishing the "lords of cre
ation” who think they have a right to
i wallop their better-halves whenever they |
feel like it. from the fact that the wives t
! obstinately refuse to testify against their
husbands. An instance is related of a
wife who had her nose bitten off by her
husband. When called into the witness
[ Ih>x she testified she had “bitten it off
i herself,’’ and of course the husband escap- j
ed. These fellows ought to be tried be- (
fore a magistrate like Baltimore city once 1
, had in the person of Judge Stump. When
Ihe presided in the Criminal Court there
|a man was put at the bar charged with
I this same offense —whipping his wife. —
His counsel professed to be ready for trial,
[ but the State's witness —the wife—was not
j present. The State's Attorney asked fora
postponement, which the counsel on the
other side resisted; and after some squab
-1 j bling the matter was left to the Court to
' decide. That venerable functionary sat
back and was seen to be muttering some
thing which was unintelligible to every
body else. At last he leaned over towards
the Clerk and said aloud, in his peculiar
jerky manner, “Guilty—six months and
costs.” The counsel for defense jumped
up and asked the Court whom he was try
ing. “Prisoner at the bar, ot course, who
else can 1 try.” The counsel very earnest
ly remonstrated and reminded the Court
: that the State hud produced not a particle
. of testimony on which the Court could
. convict his client. But the Court was not
to be moved by any such special pleading,
I and replied—“ Court don't want no testi
• mony; Court tries this man on view:
Court looks at him and sees he is just one
them-sort-men what whips his wife and
then tells her if she comes here to swear
> gainst him he'll beat her again. Court
i finds him guilty and sends him to jail for
six months and to pay costs; and Court
don’t want to hear no more 'bout it.” —
1 Now if a few of these wife-whipping men
I I were tried “on view” and convicted, as
> | doubtless this Baltimore chap properly
. | was, our word tor it the business would
| soon bo broken up, and there would be no
I occasion for adopting the suggestion of
' | Col. Egerton Leigh, as proposed by him to
■ the English Parliament—that in cases of
i this sort the cat-o’-nine-tails should be
used and the beater beat.
From Reniiluwn Station.
C.vpt. Wells:—l have thought that
perhaps you would like to know what is
going on at this place. Well, we had
quite an interesting law suit here on Mon
, day week before Judge Wilkerson; the
case was against some parties for taking
and carrying off a goat belonging to Geo.
F. Bealle. The Judge held the parties to
. i bail for their appearance at Court. So I
, | suppose you will have a chance to hear all
about it. To make the occasion more in
teresting, some of the sporting boys got
up a race. Only two horses were entered,
■ Capt. S. F. Gardiner's colt, Fleetwood, and
George F. Bealle's horse, Sobersides. —
Gardiner’s horse won the race easily, mak
ing the best time recorded on this course,
and distancing Bealle's horse. More anen.
' June 2 7'A 1871, G. M.
Tin* Orange.
We republish the list of officers of the
Agricola Grange, organized in Pomonkey
on the 27th of May, on account of an o
mission in the list we inserted last week.
Master —Thomas R. Halley.
Overseer—R. W. Bryan.
Lecturer —W. E. W. Rowe.
Chaplain—B. W. B. McPherson.
Steward—ll. M. Thomas.
A. Steward —R. A. Chapman.
Treasurer —B. I). Tubman.
Secretary—A. W. Thomas.
Gate Keeper—E. 11. Brawner.
Ceres —Mrs. J. S. Warren.
Pomona—Mrs. R. K. Compton.
Flora—Mrs. B. D. Tubman.
Lady A. Steward—Miss M. A. Cox.
|rsF”The Democratic State Central Com
mittee will meet at the Maryland Institute
on the loth of July.
♦
i-iF“IIon. D. W. Voorhees is spoken of
us a candidate for Congress in his old In
diana district.
After the first of January, 1875, the
postage on daily or weekly papers will be
two cents per prepaid in all cases.
Weekly papers are to pass free, however,
in the counties in which they are publish
ed.
|2F”The infatuated Grand Duke Nicho
las, who stole his mother's jewels and gave
them to an abandoned American adven
turess, has been sentenced by his uncle,
the Czar of Russia, to banishment for life
to the Caucasus. This is certainly a very
severe punishment.,
I-£f“The Citizens’ Bank of Annapolis
opened for business last week. The fol
lowing are its officers: President, Wm,
11. Tuck; Cashier, J. Harris Forbes;
Bookkeeper, Ernest Clayton; Directors,
James Andrews, William H. Gorman, Wm.
11. Tuck. Levin Woolford and Machael
Bannon.
***
JrF”Tliice hundred and seventy-five fe
male clerks were discharged from the
Treasury Department on Tuesday last, and
. it is said that about three hundred more
are to share the same fate. They are poor
working girls whose services the govern
ment no longer need. Upon being dis
charged fourteen of them fainted.
-■ - -
resignation of Postmaster Gen
eral Creswell was unexpected, and took
many by surprise. Mr. Creswell's action
as head of the Postoffice Department has
been very much criticised, and imputa
tions of misconduct have been freely made
upon him. He has, however, been vindi
cated by the committees of Congress which
have inquired into the matters complain
ed of, and it is said by his friends that he
feels that now is a proper time for him to
carry out an intention which he has had
for some time, to give up a position the
honor of which does not compensate for
I the labor and vexation attached to it.—
| The vacant position has been tendered
Mr. Eugene Hale, of Maine, son-in-law
i Senator Chandler, who, it is
will accept.
.— . . - -
I.ettcr from Annapolis.
Correspondence of the Times.
St. John’s College,
Annapolis, Aid., June 27th, 1874.
Mr. Eiutor; The exercises attendant upon
Commencement were opened last evening with
, the Reunion banquet of the Philokalion Society.
The banquet was prepared by Messrs. W. 11.
Gorman i Co., of the Maryland Hotel. It was
held at the hotel, and was attended by all the
active members of the Society and by many of
the ex-active members. On motion of Mr. E.
M. Johnson, of Elkton, Md., Mr. J. S. Wirt, of
. the Baltimore Bar, one of the most well known
of the ex-activemeiubers,wascallad to the chair.
, On taking the chair, Mr. Wirt made a well-timed
and happy speech. He expressed his gratifica
| tiou at the prosperity of the Society, and en
couraged the members to persevere in their
efforts to build up the College. He reviewed
the history of the Society, and concluded by
expressing the hope that the present Reunion
■would be followed by others as the years rolled
on. and hoped that by means of them, the bonds
of fellowship contracted by the members with
in the limits of the old society hall, might,
after being loosened by the stern struggles of
\ everyday life, be once more united and knit
closer and closer together.
After the viands had been discussed, toasts
I and responses became the order of the evening;
many toasts were proposed and responded to
by Messrs. P. H. Tuck, G. W. Munroe, of
• Annapolis, C. K. Nelson, K. S. Nelson, of
; Culpeper C. H., Va., Greenway, Lawrence, of
. Baltimore, H. B. Wirt, ofElkton, J. M. Carlisle,
of Washington, H. W. Archer, ofßelair, Har
. i ford Co., A. G. Harley, of Centreville, Md., J.
i T. Thompson, of Oakland, Howard Co.
‘ i The festivities were prolonged until twelve
>jP. M., and everybody went away very w'ell
■ pleased with the proceedings of the evening,
t This was only an experiment and succeeded as
> well as could be expected.
| It is the wish of the members to hold a Re
, union every year; all who have ever been mem
• | hers of the Society are cordially invited to
’! attend the next. The Society, in conjunction
’ | with her able and prosperous rival, the Phi
■ | lomathcan, is doing a noble work and is of no
■ i small assistance to the Faculty in their efforts
I I to elevate the moral and intellectual status of
r j the College; it numbers on its roll the names
t of many young men of promise throughout the
- Slate—young men of whom it is not idle to
> dream as the “Maryland line’’ of the future.
“Sat cito”
\ DIED,
. On the 18 of June, 1874, MITCHELL, young-
I cst sou of Richard F. aud Violetta B. Nelson,
( aged 7 years’
I CONCERT & FESTIVAL,
; rpnE LADIES of Port Tobacco Parish in™
I tend holding a CONCERT at the Court
House,
On Wednesday, the lith of Jly
i in aid of the fund for the repair pf Christ
[ Church, Port Tobacco. A party of gentlemen
from Washington have kindly volunteered
> their services, aud we promise a real treat tp
the lovers of good music.
' The doprs will be open at 8.30 p. M, Ad^
• mittance 50 cts.—Children half price,
1 A substantial SUPPER will be provided at
l 7 o’clock, and after the Concert Icprcreotn,
[ Cake aud other refreshments.
The public is respectfully invited to attend,
: je 3—2 t ' _ '
1 NOTICE.
I‘HE ANNUAL PUBLIC EXAMINATION
OF CHARLOTTE HALL will take place
, on WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, the Bth
. and oth inst. The EXHIBITION on the 10th.
July 3, 1874. It