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GAMBLE LODGE No. 244
fleets 4th SaturdayniglitIn eachraontli
GEO. D. RUSSELL, W M.
Erhard, Secretary,
rop, January , 1876.
BASTROP, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1876."
Meets
BASTROP CHARTER No. 95
1st, Saturday night in each
r T. C. CAIN. M. E
Jxo. M. Fixxet,Secretary.
Bastrop, January 1,1876.
H. P.
MOORE & SHELLEY,
AT TO R NE YS AT L A IF.
AUSTIN* TEXAS.
YSTILL practice in the District,Federal
?? Supreme Courts at Austin. apr8
■8v
TAR. 0. G. McPHERSON again offers his
1/services to the people of YoungU Settle-
ment and surrounding .country.
CFPfca a vd Re-upkncb.—- Jordan Smith’s
place, 5 miles from Elgin and 2i miles from
Young’s So til e m e n t.
.April 29th, 1876.-y
f SAM. SHEASBY.
,F. R. MARTIN.
e>
Having associated themselves together in
M| 1 practice of medicine. respectful1}- tender
1 .r services to the citizens of Elgin and vi-
cinity, in the various branches of their pro-
fession.'
Elgin, Bastrop Co., Texas. Oct. S0.Y5.nrn.
[R. R. E. GRANT.
AusUfi,
DENTIST,
..Texas
IffOT
New Office—Near bis residence, jig-st sGUtb
of the market, cu Colorado street, one block
west of Congress Avenue. Will, make pro-
fessional visits to Bastrop when desired.
Bastrop April 15-’76.-tf.
Clocks, W;atches k Jewelry
41AIIE EIjL ffjV EEPAIIISD
ING served a regular apprentice-
shin lo the business, together with
5s&-»5S© year* of experience. I Feel confident
frendering satisfaction to any who may en-
trust work to rny care.
.W™ Place of business. Early <S; Reding’*
Drug store, Bastrop, Texas.
oct. Bllv 1875-if ' W. B, SEAY'
WM. RBSSBIUS.
Me rc Ii ti tt i Tn. IH or.
Basfrop, - - - - Texas
PATTERNS FOR SALE AND CUT TO
.1. Order. Also Agent for
WILSON'S SEWING MACHINES,
Oils Need lea nn$ Fixtures. Sewing Machines
of all kin- s repaired on short notice and lib-
era! ten;
m~A w
&pe -
all kins
lis-r
ias. voght;
'.STROP..........TEXAS.
’ oned a Gun-Smith Shop, near the
. Office, and will make
ail work in his line,
ole prices,for the cash.
% is warranted to give*d-b
n. A liberal patronage respectfully
. 1 attention given to the repairing of
of Machinery.
CHARLES VOGHT.
Texas, May, 15.569:n28-ly.
If LEY UK I EG Elf,
Ii) XABLE TAIL#K,
i Street, llastrop.
\-D respectfully inform his friends
the people of Bastrop and vicinity
that he is row prepared to do all
bioriug on short notice and in the
roved workmanlike manner. He is
■' of the very latest Parisian Fashions
> pared to make his.“cuts” to suit
■\ay gent or the plain farther,
al for pastliberal patronage, he asks
■ roe of the same from his old custo
trialf rom the public generally.
) o. 1st, lS75;y
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icholson House,”
USastro.p, Texas,
iRi St.- near Military Colley
kelson's Photograph
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V ORLEANS, LOUISIANA,
11 OHjSI'J, —J*ropri ctoh
her 17th, 1870:n4(>y
A WOMAN’S PORTRAIT.
It is a face where pain is past,
And peace triumphant reignf at last,
No shallow peace, no fitful ray
’Twixt rain drops on an April day,
But grace of heaven made manifest,
that time and change cannot molest—-
j^I'he index of a sou! at rest,
I do not know, • mfcy'not tree©
The eior;- of that pictured face;
Whether the world that closed her round
Esteemed her fortunate or found
Large place for pity in her lot,
Or loved her once and then forgot,
And was as though it knew her not,
Not even the painter’s name is told, ■
The picture is so old, so old;
Or, rather such a little space
Is granted to the fairest face,
And hand most cunning to portray »
The beauty of its transient day,
Era death has wrapped it id decay.
But yet the legend of the soul, *
Is plainly writ as in a scroll
On those pure features gravely sweet,
I know earth lay beneath her feet,'
And how she gained the victory,
May well remain a mystery,
The fact is hope to you and me.
But when the storm was overpast --
The sunset gave her rest at last,
And raising up-, “For me,” she said,
‘■'Is conquered life’s supremest dread.”
And ehen she took her quiet way,
Bending her step? without dismay
into the twilight cool and gray.
*
Free as a child upon the road
That leads unto a loved abode,
Sack singing bird, each fragrant flower,
Gave pibasure to the passing hour.
Not hesitating, nor delaying, still
With even stipS o’or vale and bill
She trod, to do her Father's will,
At leisure for the children’s play.
Companion for the grave and gay,
Yet always with a steady poise,
‘Heart-anchored into deeper joys—
Comforting, as herself consoled,
With consolations manifjfd —
Bo lived she till ftor days were told.
So lives sue still, and works perchance,
By this sweet charm of countenance
Ihe word of God to you and me,
Nor shall the painter thankless be,
For he who could -that great impart.
\Vliieh stamped there, features from the
heart
Was not unworthy of his part.
WIIY LINCOLN WAS
TED.
ASSASSINAs
[TY HOTEL
/
ITM
(Former Baker House,)
Side of Main Plaza,
In tiip. Center of the City,
A NTONIO.........TEXAS.
Well Furnished Rooms.'
• Stages to and from the House
s sold at the Office.
I. N. BAKER
op, August 4th. ’75.
-Propr*
UINGTON HOTEL,
BUMMERS, Proprietor.
(f orderly of tbo *
HOW JOHN WELLES BOOTH AVENGED THE
HANGING OF HIS FRIEND, JOHN Y.
BEAL.
.Among the chosen friends of John
Wilkes Booth’s boyhood was a dashing,
chivalrous young man named John Yates
Beal, whose home was in the Shenan-
doah Valley, not far from Winohester.
Damon and Pythias were not more at-
tached to each other than were Booth
and Beal. Beal was Southern* in his
sympathies, and planned raids on North-
ern cities, and at last was captured at or
ner-T Buffalo, tried for piracy on North*
ern lak-xs, and sentenced to be hanged on
Bedloe’s Island.
One afternoon, in the city of Wash-
ington, while Beal was under sentence of
death, there alighted from a carriage two
men, who walked into the room occupi-
ed by Washington McLean, of Cincin-
nati, who was at the time in Washington
City in the interest of his business.
These men who celled were Senator
Halo of New Hampshire, and John
Wilkes Booth. Booth was anxious to
save the life of Beal, his chum and con-
fidential friend. He had interested M>,
Ha jo jji his behalf.
They importrued McLean to go with
them to the President, as a Democrat—
as a friend of Booth—ns a man who had
much influence with Mr. Lincoln, end to
vouch with Mr. Halo for any promises
Booth might make in return for this
great favor to him. After a protracted
interview, McLean accompanied Hale
and Booth in a carriage to the residence
of John W. Forney, who was then in
bed, the hour being late. Forney was
awakened from, his sleep and told the ob-
ject of their call. His sympathies' were'
enlisted, as he was always ready to serve
his friends.
It wa3 an hour or more past midnight
when Hale, Forney, McLean f»cd Booth
were driven to the White House. The
guard, at the request of Forney, admits
(ted the carriage to the ground. Mr. Lin-
| coin was called from his sleep, and there
in the dead hour of night, he sat and
■■rvan»*. First-el ass i.n its
d eood attention gun rap teed
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appoint
endorsement of those who came with
him to ask the favor of Executive clem
ency.
This interview lasted until four- In the
morning. It was one of tears, prayers
and petitions. There was not a dry eye
in the room as Booth knelt atvthe feet of
Lincoln, clasped his knees with his hands
and begged him to spare the life of one
man—a personal friend, who in serving
the ones he loved, had come to the door
of death.
Booth told alt He ioid how long be-
fore, in a fit of passion to do soma bold
deed, he had joined a conspiracy to ab-
dnco the President and to hold him as a
j coauago for the relief of certain military
| prisoners who Were Booth’s friends, and
it was tkjigllt, were to be shot, He told
vf the meetings' they had held at the
house'of Mrs. Surratt, and ail of that
plan Which had fallen to the ground long
before. He offered his services at any
time and in any place or capacity, fear5*
less of consequences. The eminent gen«
tlemen who were with him joined in the
request that the prayer of Booth be
granted, and that Beal be pardoned,
At last President Lincoln,. with tears
streaming down his cheeks, took Booth
oy the hands, bade huh rise and stand
like a man, and gave his promise that
Beal should be pardoned. He asked the
party to depart that he might gain rest
for the work of the marrow, and said the
official document they asked for should
be forwarded at once to United States
Marshal Robert Murray, -in New York,
and through him to the officers charged
with the execution of Beal.
.After breakfast Lincoln informed Sew-
ard, Secretary of State, what he had
none or promised to do, Seward said
that it must not be; that public senti-
ment in the North demanded that Beal
should be hung. He declared that to
pardon Beal would discourage enlistment
lengthen the war, and insult the senti-
ment that called for blood. He chided
Lincoln for making such promises with*
out asking the advice of his Cabinet, or
advising with hims*elf, Seward, on State
policy. As the argument grew continue
ons, Seward declared that if the conduct
of the war was ’to be trifled with by ap-
peals for humanity he would go out of
the Cabinet and u.se his influence against
the President,, and ciiavgo him with be-
ing in sympathy with the South. Lin-
coln yielded and Baal was executed. The
reaction on Lincoln’s nervous system
was such that for days ha was far from
well.
The effect on Booth was terrible. He
raved like a mad man, and in his frenzv
swore that Lincoln and Seward should
both pay for the grief and agony he had
been put to. From the death of Beal,
Booth brooded vengeance for that which
he considered a personal affront. His
rage took in Seward, and he engaged
Harold, Atzerot apd others to avenge
Beal's death by killing Seward, while he,
Booth, wreaked human vengeance on the
President.
At last came the hour. Booth killed
Lincoln, His friends and the relatives
or avengers of Beal tried their best to
kill Seward, and when they left him,
stabbed, bleeding and limp as cloth, as
he rolled over behind the bed whereon
they found lum, they supposed their
work was completely done.
Our story is told. We have given the
truth of history, and told exactly why
Abraham Lincoln, the humane President
of the United States, was killed.— Pom-
eroy's Democrat,
LOVE AND LIMBURGEE.
Some months ago, a youth in this or
some other city took a Taney to*a maiden
fair, and began to be polite to her. He
met her when he could at parties and
that sort of thing, ffid occasionally he
called to see her at home. She liked the
young man, and smiled sweetly when his
nama mentioned. He was Augustus,
and she was Mary Jane. Augustus wasn’t
worth a cent fin^ cially, but he bed a
oapital of hope that surpassed the treas-i
ures of the Fourth National Bank.
Mary Jane nad a father whose name
v,uS Jones. He didn’t fancy Augustus,
and c-idn t like to have him spooning
ar ound Mary Jane. J^i£ he was a shrewd
and sensible old duffer, and he knew, if
he raised his voice in opposition, that
Mary Jane’s liking would be. strengthen-
ed into regular red-hot, diamondspin,
flatsfooted love. Bo he kept still and
pondered, and then he hit Uh d plan to
smash the courtship of Augustus into
smithereens.
At the boarding-school where Augus-
tus lived, there lived also two youths of
his age and sex, who were as full of mis-
chief as a caucus is of seekers for office.
So Papa Jones wen^ to them and unfold-
ed his plans, and offered them $10 apiece
to bring it to a successful end. Within
a week they had the money, and this is
how they earned it:
_ Augustus was to eal'l on his Mary Jane
tiiat evening, .so of course he put on his
best clothes for the occasion. Half an
hour before he went to his room to dress
his friends went there and took his best
coat from the w&rdr^be. They ripped
open tlie lining between the shoulders
and put inside a couple of very thin slices
of Limburger cheese. You know what
that is if you have aiA familiarity with
German beerhalJs.
Augustus dressed and started for old
Jones’s house. He changed his.seat two
or three times in the street car, and,
THE SWEET OLD. FASHION
LOVING!
OF
A JUDGE’S TIPPLE.
A good story, and a true one, is told
of the venerable judicial mill, Judge
Humphreys. The other day, holding
the Circuit Court, old Pump, grew weary
of the endless tongues of attorneys, and
calling to a bailiff, said, lqsRiiy. “Go
over to the Hole-in-the-Wall and bring
me a drink of whisky.”
The baibft disappeared and reappear-
ed shortly with an inch and & half of
dhrn-juice in a glass, enough for any
Christian man, but not a sufficiency for
an Alabama judiciary system.
“Go back,” trembled the Judge, “go
back and tell Hagerty to send me a drink
—a drink of whisky.”-
The bailiff disappeared again, and rex
appeared a second time with a tumbler
brimming full.
“Ah!” said the wearer of ermine, “that
now is a drink. But what,” wiping his
lips with the cuff of his coat, “what did
he say?”
“Oh, he didn’t say any thing*, your
Honor,” answered the bailiff, blushing.
“Oh, yes, he must have made some re-
mark; now what did he say?”
“Well, I don’t like to tell yon* eah,
your Honor.”
“Go on and tell me exactly what he
said,” demanded old Pump.
“Well sab, your Honor, he said, I sent
him a drink of whisky at first; I didn’t
know that the cussed old fool
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listened to the prayers of Booth and the take a bath!”
Hem, hem, go on with the examina«*
| tion of your witness,” sighed the Judge
. to the attorney for the plaintiff, and the
baliff slunk into the backi.room and butt**
ed his head against the wall till he knock-
ed a dollar’s worth of plaster off.—Puts-
bury Leader..
down; but ’twas no usq. He usually oc-
cupied a seat on the sofa, at Mary Jane’s
side; but that evening she was inclined
to dignity, and occupied an arm-chair a
couple of yards away. She went twice
out of the room to dip her handkerchief
in Cologne-water, and the second time
she brought the botth and offered some
to Augustus. , .
After he had gone^iome and changed
ais clothes, one of tffi boys took him out
to walk, while the oiler restored the coat
to its former condition He examined it
very carefully before he went to bed, and
naturally discovered Nothing wrong, exs
cept the scent of the roses which linger'31
ed there still. «
But when, three Qfenihgs later, he
again visited Mary Jjme, the trick was
repeated. Old Jone} had taken care to
hide the Cologne-waier and every thing
else of that characteiTUo that the offense
of the Limburger coffid not be condoned.
The fair maiden. stohd it for half an
hour, then she faint*#" and called for the
old folks. She was borne to her room,
and Augustus was sent home. Nest
morning he received t, highly perfumed
note (white rose was fae odor it exhaled),
which told him that far the future they
had better b9 friends,only; and, the nest
time she met him, she hoped it would be
in the open air, and . she would try to
keep to windward.—Chicago Tribune.
0, His sad, sad work to love and-lose!
And so much of it makes us weary
As we stumble ahead on the road of life
Y here the shadows are long and dreary,
But I’d rather die of loving toe well,
And that fatal love improving,
That that ever my heart should forget to
dwell
On the sweet did fashion of loving!
0, take, if you will, the red from my cheek,
And take the pulse from my hand,
And darken my eyes from the springtime
light
And the blossomihg of the land,
Take all the rest, that is fairest aDd best,
And mightiest at heart moving,
Aut leave me, to take to the far country,
The sweet-old fushiun of loving!
Ah yes! I might give up every one
Of {he roses of June, so sweet,
And the dark blue violets that lie
So lovingly at my feet,
And everything in this beautiful world,
And count it but love’s behooving*
But never! 0, never, in life or death,
The sweet old fashion of loving!
And though it may bring the tears to my
eyes,
And may bind the paia to my heart,
And kindle the hunger for what is not
That makes love’s bitterest part,
As the nightingale hides the thorn in her
breast,
Though the pain be past all proving,
I’ll clinj; to mine, if with it must go
1 he sweet old fashion of loving!
Howard Glyndon
JUDGE EENICK’S SPEECH BE-
FORE THE BAR ASSOCIATION.
Upon offering the resolution sustaining
the cause of Col. Anderson, Mr. Renick
said :9
Mr. President and Members of the B&'*
_____ oulvav.vaL BJiU Association.
when be reached the doors ten he turned J3fee a,s honr 1 crave your indul
-*-x«S
OBSCURE MEN HAPPIEST IN WED-
LOOK.
man the better
or prominent.
Though he be the fitfiV^mong men, she
will ho nrmirW . o„ ?«
No woman will love a
for being renowqgAV
will be prouder, ncfcfronder ; as is often
the case, she will ntfc even be proud.
But give her love, tppreciation, kindv
ness, and there is no.sacrifice she would
not make for his content and comfort.
The man who loves her is her hero
and her king. No jess a hero to her,
though he is not to Jjny other; no less
a king, though his jnly kingdom is her
heart and home. Itjis a man’s otfn fault
if he is unhappy with his wife, ip nine
cases out of ten. Ifi fe a very exception*
al woman who will ijot be all she oan be
to an attentive huiband, and a very
exceptional one who will not bo very
disagreeable if she finds herself willful-
ly neglected. It wqild be easy to hate
a man who,- having |onnd a woman to
him, made no efforUo make her happy;
hard not to love om> who is constant
and tender, and wh^n a woman loves
she always strives tojbiease. The great
men of this world have always been
wretched in their domestic relations,
while mean and comjnon men have been
exceedingly happy. The reason is very
plain. Absorbed iji themselves, those
who desire the werfd’s applause were
careless of the Iittlevprld at home, while
ibo-e who had noae of this egotism
strove to keep the hearts that were their
own and were happy in their tenderness.
Alabama Herald., +
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do an act of justice to my friend. Judge
Battle. When I oame to Waco be was
occupying the bench of the Nineteenth
Judicial District, and since then I have
known him intimately ; and whilst he
was on the bench; instead of the lawyers
who practiced before him thinking he
was too lenient to criminals, the univer-
sal opinion was that bis previous train-
ing in the office of district attorney and
his abhorrence of crime made him too
strict in ruling the strict letter of the law
upon all applications for continuance, and
rendered him over vigilant in excluding
evidence not strictly legal, which might
tend to excuse or extenuate guilt. This
was his course as Judge of the Nineteenth
District. And whilst I did not practice
in the Criminal Conrt daring the time he
presided over it, I am certain the same
opinion prevailed as to his action in that
office.
And now, as to this subject of lawless-
ness and crime, about which eo much has
been said and written, I hav9 a few words
to say : That a carnival of crime seems
to have overspread the land, no one can
deny. But the causes for its. existence
are apparent to every thinking man who
is acquainted with the social history of
th© State for the last twenty years and its
present condition,
The primary cause of this deluge of
evil.ia ignorance, the prolific mother of
crime and misery in every country, and
among all people where she holds sway.
I call upon every lawyer that practices
on the criminal side of the court" to bear
me out in tbe assertion that nine out of
ten defendants-, dragged to this bar and
arraigned before it upon criminal charges
are sank in the lowest ignorance. Their
stolid countenances Rnd stupid looks
point them out as barely accountable be«
ings,often more to be pitied than blamed.
When the war broke out teachers and
preachers in most instances left the pul-
pit and the school-room untenanted to
go and join the army. Churches were
closed, school-houses shut and Sundar
school classes turned loose withon'o a
guide ahd without a shepherd ; as a
consequence,- especially in tbo sparsely
populated portions of the country, the
active young men of to-day who are in
the fresh vigor of yoong manhood, have
grown up, in masy instances, with very
little training, moral or intellectual.
Then emancipation turned loose avast
additional flood of ignorance. • Is.it any
wonder, then, that crimes prevail ?
And now I beg to call, your ..attention
to the kind of crimes that are being pern
petrated. They are confined almost ex'
clusively to two clas3ea—theft of animals
and marder. The State is enjoying al-
most an exemption from all other grades
of crime. We have no card playing, no
bigamy, no riots, scarcely any of the
dark catalogue of crimes save these two.
Why do these two classes of crime pre-
vail to so alarming an extent, and to the
almost total exclusion of all others ?
And here, again, the causes which
have produced this mournful and lamen-
table effect are painfully apparent to
every one who will open his ■ eyes and
ears and look about him and listen to
what he hears. The alarming increase
of theft of animals has been brought
about by a lax moral sentiment concern-
ing the rights of property. Some twenty
years since, when cattle, raising had be>-
come one of the leading industries of our
State, the problem was presented tp per-
sons engaged in the business as to what
disposition should be made of the un-*
marked stock over one year old, when
the animal could not be identified by the
owijpr. What was to become of these
mavericks or orphan cattle ? The owner
could not identify them. To lot thorn
go would soon fill the country with vast
herds o.t wild cattle more numerous thau
itie tamo, and destroy - the business en-
tirely . x Le stockraisers came to a sort of
universal agreement among themselves
that each one should mark all that were
found with, iiis stock. I3ut, as stocks
were interminably mixed, this was found
to be impracticable.
j-be next step was for all to begin
about the same time and divide pro rata
the mavericks ifhaong the stock men,
—■at this rule was soon broken through—
one after another would start ahead of
time, until a general grab game was in-
augurated. The originators of this prac-
i tiee were as good men, as an average, as
1 fYer peopled any country. But ail the
time the law forbid the marking or
branding of unmarked cattle without the
consent of the owner. And uotwith
otanning the fact that it became almost a
dead letter on the statute book, yet these
good men brought up their sons ir^ the
known violation of the law. Their moral
perceptions and sensibilities were dwarf-
ed, their consciences seared and scarred
ana the broad line that should mark the
boundaries between mine and thine con-
fused and dimmed if not obliterated
Ihe idea produced in the minds*of the
young by such examples, was, get all
you can, so that you cannot be punished
by law, regardless of the rights of the
true owner. The loose sentiments that
prevailed, in a new country where land
and timber had no fixed market value
even amoeg the very best of people
tended m the same direction. I do not
claim originality for these reflections.
My mina was lead to them by hearing a
man with gray hairs in his head speaking
of his own experience on this very subject
of timoe? stealing, in answer to the “ar-
guments of some gentlemen, who were
justifying the practice, on the usual
grounds, that the timber belonged to non
residents who were generally " unknown,
that even when known they refused ^to
sen, and ffiat the hardy pioneers wece
budding up the county and adding to
the value of these lands. His answer
was substantially, “Well, gentlemen, that
may oe all very well for yourselves, your
character and habits are already formed
and settled ; butflook at the effects on
your children. I was raised by a Pres-
byterian elder who was very strict upon
all subjects of morals. But our own
timber was four miles off, and there was
a nice grove within one mile of the house.
AT.!—aA’ LA her broke a
lo*iiSinjf_»lUlps emergency
justified the act, he took myself and
brother and cut a trea to repair the dam-
age from another’s land. I felt all the
time as mean and degraded as if I had
been caught in a neighbor’s smoke house
stealing meat, But right then my sense
of right and wrong was distorted, my
conscience blunted, and soon in an emer-
gency, I went into the same grove to cut
firewood, and from that time on I never
went any where else. I knew it was theft,
but the violence done my conscience had
silenced its warnings. The consequence
was I grew up a thief in my heart, and
would probably have been one by prac-
tice, had I not been checked up suddenly
by some of my young friends, as good as
I was by nature getting into trouble. I
then, said he, saw my error, repented,
and I trust wks forgiven for my great
sin, and have tried to lead an honest life.
When he finished there was no dry eye
in that company, and no reply to* his
powerful statements of truth.
My friend, Dr. Moore, will bear me
out in the statement, that in the old dis-
trict where S began the praotice of law,
I could name twenty or thirty families of
good people who raised np a hundred
boys under these loose notions about the
eaerhdness of the rights of property, and
these practices of marking yearlings apq
cutting timber promiscuously. And
ninety of the hundred have beeo oon
victed of theft, or are fugitives fyorm'jus-
tice to avoid trial. So* powerful ia ez.
ample, and so certain is a step in the
wrong direction to lead Uj bad results
The cause for the prevalence of mur-
der is just as apparent and thb fearful
result is Drought a>00ut by the came lax
standard of raor^'i right, and the low es-
timate pat upAn human life. A mob
composed 07 from 20 to 50 men,generally
^Ob'dst citizens of the country, acts
pa.ea Uy a laudable but misguided zeal
to suppress crime, arrest a man charged
horse stealing, oj* being a bad man
generally, and hangT&m without trial.
They pursuade themselves -that they are
doing right, but in the eye of the law of
God and man, they are guilty of willful,
deliberate,malicious murder. But around
their own firesides they justify the act ;
their neighbors do the same ; the people
congratulate themselves and each "other,
in publio places that another horse thief
has gone up. The newspapers too,often
comment on the ocdurrence, in a vain of
excuse, if not open justification, by
writing about the terrible necessity,
rights of self defence, &c.
No body is indicted nor tried for the
crime, and another is added to'the long
list of victims of violence, whofe blood is
crying in vain from the ground to heaven
for vengeance, in every neighborhood
almost in the State. . |
Young men who grow up under such
influences, have no conception-~ef the
sacreduess of human life, nor their obli-
gations as good citizens, to maintain and
defend it, beyond their own caprice.
If one of these has a serious falling
ont with a fellow man, he at once con-
cludes that his antagonist 13 an outlaw
and a scoundrel, whose presence, polntes
the earth, and he will be only • doin°-
God’C service by killing him.. If he be
brave, and have a high ser4ge of imagi-
nary honor, he boldly attacks his enemy
and takes his or loses his own life in the
Gotempt. If not, he Waylays bis ‘victim
and shoots him down from a shamefully
secure cover. And his conduct is jastin
fied by the same course of false reason-
ing appealed to by the public, to justify
mob violence. One man has as good a
right to judge when another should iose
his life, without the sanction of law as a
thousand or a million.
Those are the causes that have lot loose
the flood gates of crime that is devastate
j VOL. XIX, NO. 33.
] WHOLE NUMBER 669.
■Da and almost mining onr country.
A few shallow thinkers look about and
because they occasionally see a man
Whom tney have prejudged in their iu-
xalibility to be guilty, acquitted in the
courts, jump at the conclusion that the
-awyers are the cause of the crime, Pnd
ihe^courts are corrupt.
Nothing is farther from the truth The
number of clients that every. lawyer
practicing in the Criminal con4, has in
the penitentiary, gives the Ue to the as-
eertion that lawyers do or can shield
criminals from punishment. The cause
ol crime lies deeper, and must be attack-
ed by other means, than trammeling (he
lawyers m the discharge of their duties
Let the newspapers, as ours have m*Tn‘
fully done, for the last year or more ex-
pose mob violence *nd denounce cvetv
unwarranted interferance with private
Let them teach the people, end Jet thn
preachers, as is their duty to do, preach
rom the pulpit that the law of the land
*? the on3J standard of civil rights • thS
I‘h” ?7er? man’8 d«ty to obey° it •’ and
that the man or set of men that willful!?
JssstasseKs;
then , and uo look upon vour neighbor’s
property with a covetous eye, makes you
a. yoar* own heart and in the
sight of God. Scatter schools over the
raunlrj and let tbe teachers iaealelie
tw«,0tnne eve7 day upon the children,
that the man or boy that would take the
smallest thing not his own, because the
owner aid not see him, is a felon and a
tniet, whose company should be shunned
as anxiously as small pox or the plague
because the breath of his mouth is pffiu!
tion , Ins example corruption, and Ms
very touen ioul contamination.
Let parents teach the same wholesome
lessons, and superintendents and teaoh-
ers in Sunday schools join in the noble
e~0:j 1,0 raifa Ihe standard of moral
opinion, and half a generation will not
have passed away before your peniten-
tiary will be thinned ; your jail doors
fnld,e faf lta f11 empty, your crim-
inal docked cleared* and peace and good
oraer will reign supreme through tbe
wide extendea borders of this great State.
Violence and blood shed will be no more
heard of in the land, and crime will hide
. its t!0^m neaa abashed in the presence
wapo:: of truth anil ■pl.ii-.nQ , rtj.. r .
been raised against the lawyers'by S>no-*'
rant demagogues, I should like, . afc°the *
risk of wearying your patience to call hhe '
gentlemen’s attention to some of the
blessings they owe to the law, ayffi to
some of the obligations they owe these
much abused lawyers.
1. know it has become the /.sshion to
*egara Iswyeis as a soro of nc*ggggary evil*
and the profession a nuisar.ee to be toU
erated by society.
But nothing is further ?rpm the truth:
society would not exist without them.
Allow me to call your attention to an in-
stance of recent date,, well remembered
by ail who wbre ol-j enough at the time
to remember any thing.
Do you remember, Mr. President, and
gentlemen, when Gen. Lee surrendered?
I know that you do, for such scenes can
not be forgotten. As the telegraph flash-
ed the news over the Confederacy, hope
cued in r-very heart. Visions of Ireland
under the Stewarts, Jeffries’ Bloody
Circuit, Ghaverhouse’s brutal dragobns
rose; np in h or id distinctness before evey?
©ye,. . ‘
[concluded next week.!'
Number One.—One hour losi in thc-
izaorning by lying in bed will put back
all the business of the day,
‘ One hour gained by rising early is
worth a month in a year.
Qneffiole left in the fence will cost lets.
times as much as it will to £2 it at once.
One diseased sheep will spoil the whole
flock.
One unruly animal will teach all others
in its company bad tricks.
One drunkard will keep a family poor
and make them miserable.
Ona wife that is always telling how-
fine her neighbors dress and how little
she can dress, will look pleasanter if she
talks about something else.
One husband that is penurious or lazy
and deprives his family of necessary com ■
forts, such as their neighbors enjoy, is
not as desirable a husband as ho ought
to be.
One good newspaper is one good thing
in every family, and
One -who don’t takb a good paper and
pay for it, disregards the best interests
of his family.
An interesting instance of intelligent
discrimination in the administration o£
justice occurred the other day at Spring-
field, Mass. A young married woman >
on trial for larceny, plead guilty on four
indictments, and yet was acquitted and
liberated, while her husband, who was
only charged with having received the
stolon property, was given ten years in
the State prison. The explanation * of
the matter is simple. . Tbe court ascer«
tained that the man was a professional
thief, who had used his young wiffi as a
tool,
She was a young lady from New York,
and he asked her if she would pirtake of
an ice-cream, and she gently answered :
“If it’s good square confectioner’s cream
I’m there, but if it’s church-faro or
strawbearysfeetival slush count me out.”
—Chicago Times.
- A family of eight negroes, was poison-
ed to death in Lenoir, North Carolina*
by strychnine, which e farmer bad put*
into pork. He had lost meat soveral
tii^os, and took that way of punishing
the tbffiy^s,
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