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FHE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST. 1 · - 111. .sea^^"1 - PYthenÄ? ^""ß "M «'« Manufucturers, wo are the only »uthorixed Agents ¡ " Counties of Anderson, Abbeville and Oconee. for the sale or DANIEL PRATT'S REVOLVING HEAD OINS, \^>àtnedQÌne *0,(l in 0l,r territor'J in tht t<Ut five yea" th"n aU ('ther TERM8EA8Y. Send for Clrculnrs. m _ . a c. 13,1882 McCULLY & TAYLOR, Anderson, 8. C. 01* 13,1882 a ru nu: ticket. Tin» KMUulou* Outturn*. ..f Ilio Grvviiuucli a tv. ' itpitth (. St ici!,./ (XurUr. ' A, September 5. Ihc ball of the House of Representa- tives was about halt QHcd to day with an ungular an assemblage of men us ever -atiiered m Columbia, not excepting the political mobs which were accustomed to meet here during the Recoiiêtructiouera l be Convention represented the Green- back Lab in Sou Labor Reform Independent party uh Carolina, and was made up of variegated material. Of timone hundred au.« twenty delegates present, about one- murili were colored and the rest of the numbe r was made up of disaffected Dein- ncrate, chronic oüiee-seekers and their uupes. Judge Mackey was the only man in the bo«ly with anv s..rt of reputation good or bud. The other delegates were all obscure men, mos», of them fanners. Dr. John Winsmith.of Sparlanburg, who was reported to be present at the confer- enee of the executive committee last inglit, was not in attendance and has not been here. Before the Convention met this morning a caucus was hdd and the work of last night was cotnoleled. At half-past 12 o'clock, with three raps <jf a gavel, the Convention was called to order by Mr. J. Heudrix McLane, and was opened with prayer bv Bov. Mr. Dur- ham, of Aiken County. Mr. McLane then" made an address. He said that it had been the custom since the foundation of our Government for the political parties to meet in assembly and nominate their standard bearers in every campaign. The people in this Stale have heretofore been rallied in the name of the Democratic and the Republican parties. These names have signified a race feeling, and in no Convention in this State has this feeling been wanting. It aus pleased God, however, to let us live hi a progressive age, and most of the people are willing to turn their backs on the jiast and live for the future. This Con- vention has as.-emblcd, not asa Demo- cratic or Republican body, but the day has dawned at last when the men who compose it can act as freemen, when they can meet as citizens and not as partisans on a race feeling. The grand question before the country is the purity of the ballot-box, and it is our duty to contend for the right of free speech, a free vote and an honest count, lor the encourage- ment and protection of industry and for the education of the masses. We must not depend for sucee-s upon the mistakes of our political opponents, but must offer an improvement to this country, if we expect to merit the support of good people. Nine out of every ten voters are honest and want and will have nothing hut good government, if left to their own choice. They must be secured in the ex ercise of all their rights, and from the tops of the hills in Ocotiee County to tho salt water at Charleston they waiit more than mere political nomiuations. The living issues are between labor on the one hand nud monopolios, rings and bossism on the other. Mr. McLane charged the Convention to he governed by moderation, wisdom and honesty in all its actions, and then "Come what may, let the earth melt and the waters disappear, we will have done our duty." On motion of Mr. McLane the Rev. I. D. Durham, of Aiken, was made temporary president, and Dr. V. 1'. Clayton, of Fairlleld, and Dr. Bowen, of Marion, temporary secretaries of the Convention. The following committco ou credentials was appointed: D. »{. Feasler, Fairfield ; Robert D. White, Charleston ; W. W. Russell, Anderson; Thomas Ras- kins, Suinter ; M. Chapin, Lexington; W. L. L. Wilson, Richiami; W. R. Mack, Orangeburg. Mr. Robert Fishburne, of Col letón, inaile a speech urging the necessity of each county reporting to the committee on credentials its delegates, and moved that the chairman of the delegation from each county be instructed to report to tho committee the names of the delegatee elected to the Convention. This motion was deemed unnecessary and occasioned some debate, but was adopted, Mr. Fishburne explaining that his object in making the motion was to secure a correct list of the delegates, so that when the Convention wanted to go into secret session only tho delegates entitled to seats should be rllowed on tho floor of the Convention. He was not disposed to have men presentiti the Con- vention who would villify aud malign the honest men who gathered from all sections of the State to do the honest thing, lie wanted to sift the chaff from the wheat.and so on ml nnutratn. Mr. Canps, ot Chester, who wore upon the lappcì of his coat an ivory skull ar.d cro.-s-boncs, was opposed to secret ses- sions whenever the proposition was made, and wanted to deal openly and above board with the work that should be brought bofore the Convention. The permanent organization of the Convention was perlectrd by the election of the temporary officers and by the ap- pointment of W. C. Mitchell, ol Orange- burg, as hergeant-at-arniH. On motion of Robert D. While, of Charleston, a committee of seven, one from each Congressional district, was appointed on platform and resolutions. The committee was appointed as follows : Robert D. White, Charleston; L. A. Wise, Richland ; M. Kelley, Williams- burg ; D. R. Elkin, Fairfield ; L. J. Sliealey, Lexington ; W. H. Brown, Aiken; A. IL King, Greenville. Mr. W. W. Russell, of Anderson, moved that a committee of seven be appointed on nominations. Mr. Fishburne objected to this motion, and made a vigorous speech against it, saying that the policy of the Convention was to fight monopolies, that the adop- tion of such a resolution would place too much power in the hands of the chairman, and that it amounted to the usual plan adopted iu packed Conventions of carrying through a cut and dried ticket. Mr. S. Augustus Sanders, of Summer- ville, "heartily concurred in the remarks made by the distinguished Senator from Colleton." Mr. Russell withdrew his motion, with thé statement, ! wever, that the delegate from Colleton had totally misapprehend- ed its purport. Mr. Fishburne moved that the Con- vention go into caucui on the nomina- °Mr. Pugh, a colored tailor from Co- lumbia, objected because Ike Convention was not properly organized. Mr Fishburne withdrew his motion. Mr. Cappa, of Chester, thought it would be better to have one delegate appointed from each club to consider the question of nominations than to go into discussion of candidates in committee of the whole. . . - ,, Mr. D. R- Rlkins, of Fairfield, nominated for Governar the Hon. James R. Campbell, of Charleston. Sir. Fishburne seconded tho nomination and made another Hpeech eulogizing the nominee. Just at this thrilling juncture hi the work of the Convention Mr. U. \Y. Richardson, a very black delegate from Marion County, threw a bombshell into O. LIIUKMJAÏ J tho Greenback cani» by anhing: "I wants to know just Inri' whether tin* Greenbacks is going to allow the colorcii people representation on their tickets ?" lie continued to press his point, saying: "If we is not going to have representa- lion why we had bitter not go into the light, if 1 don't support the Greenback ticket I ain't going to support anything else, because I believe it is right"it' we are guaranteed representation. We are going right into this matter blindfolded, and unless we can go in with representation w hy we can't go w ith you. ileforo Mr. Richardson liad taken his] scat Mr. S. Augustus Sanders again rose an.I made a skyrocket speech, declaring that it was "the purpose <>f the Indepen- dents to give the colored people the rights which periaiu to them and to in- clude them on various county tickets, according to their qualifications and fitness for other." Through the whole of S. Augustus Sander's speech the delegate from Marion stood firmly at Iiis desk, looking like a grim black spectre, and as soon as it had been finished again said: "Mr. Presi- dent, 1 is stil! waiting tor an answer." The president then evaded the unes- tion by saving. "We have not come here to discuss the question of ruce, but we arc contending l'or a free vote and a lair count, but we are not in favor of taxation w ithout representation." Again the irrepressible Richardson propounded his fearful interrogatory, saying: "I don't know one colored man who is lauding oiiice, but I only wants to know w hat we have a right to expect." A member moved that the Convention take a recess until -1 o'clock, and, with Kichardsou still holding the H<»i»r ami with his question unanswered, the Con- vention lock a recess. When the Convention reassembled Mr. Robert 1). White, of Charleston, submitted the renort of the committee on platform and lesoltitions. TIIK l'LATTO H M declares that und »r the Constitution Con- press alono has the power to mtikn and limit money and regulate its value. That all money emitted by Congress should bo a legal-tender ; thai the National bonds are a heavy burden upon the labor and industry of tbu country and should he paidas rapidly as possibly; that legal- tender greenback money, gold or silver should be issued directly from thn treas- ury at Washington. That the interests aud rights of labor should be protected by Ilio Government and not sacrificed to National banks and monopolies. That tbu State Législature should not have passed the No l'enee law against the will and interests of voters in certain su-lions. Thal all citizens simuld bo e<|iial In-fore the law, ami that all attempts io interfere with tree and Untrammelled suffrago aro a erimo against civilization. The committee also submitted the following : AODRlüiS ANI) RESOLUTIONS. There never was i:i tho history of the world in any Stale a sole power or party which was not tyrannical. The Demo- crat io party of South l'andina to-day as- serts that it should remain as it has been the sole powor for several years past, and it is no exception to the general rulo of tyrannies. tyranny is partial, unjust and oppressive to all except Itself, such is the Democracy of this Slate. A tyranny has to adopt unusual and unlawful menus to retain itself in power, from tho application of real forco in judicial or official murder to the social proscription of its opponents. The el ments of evory tyranny iho world lias over known are found in this Stato to-day, from murder in tho streets to ballot-box stilili nu» and the silent but savage process of starving out, all, all aro found hero. Tho murder; or goes free, tho sull'rago frauds aro protected, grim starvation is justified and our murderous Star Chamber« are styled Temples of Justine. No intelligent man oan object to tw o parlies at any time, hut when "such a tyranny should bo over- turned it is timo that the best mon in ilio COIintry should step to the front and do- muud two parties, if tho Democracy can justify itself why should it object to try tho issue fairly and without passion before the grand inquest of the country at tho ballot box. The only reason must be it stands convicted in its own con Bclousncss of its own tyranny and will not listen oit her to reason or allow tho voters of tho Stato to hoar tho caso or oven to question its integrity. Was therecvor such a tyranny ? And yet we aro called tho freo und independent Commonwealth of South Carolina, where life, liberty and tho pursuit of happiness aro to bo enjoyed by all. Our institutions aro not safo until every cilizOll entitled to voto is allowed to voto." Tho Republic is not Bccure until every honest voto is honestly counted. Whoever casts an illegal ballot, w hoever refuses to count a legal one is a trator to tho great principles upon which our Gov- ernment is founded. Tho existence of tho nation depends on our ability to ascer- tain the will of tho people. If wo can- not prevent fraud from roceiving tho bal- lots und perjury from annulling tho re- turns the Republic ceases to exist, und yet we navo a Registration and Election law which practically disfranchises one- hulf of tho voters of tho State. Wo charge : First. The violation of tho most solemn pledges mudo to tho people in i»7'» by tho leaders under Hampton. Second. The creation of useless ofllvcs and thereby an increase of public expenses. Thinh Tho sacrifico of tho phosphate interest of tho Suite for the enrichment of a few- individuals instead of utilizing it for the payment of tho suite debt. Fourth. Extravagance in legislativo expenses; $S7,oo<) for ltosl-b'j, and an extra session ; whereas it was in 1857 less than $l»;,ooo. Tho mode of legislation, too, only increases tho disquietude and political unrest, which excludes capital and also emigration, which now amounts to 1,000,000 per annum. Fifth. Tho unconstitutional Election law Ith its eight boxes, w hich Is a political device to disfranchise many thousands of voters of both races. 'Iho registration, though constitutional, has been most shamefully abused and lues illegal- ly excluded many from registration. Sixth. Tho unconstitutional poll tax law, which imposes murk often dollars or imprisonment lor thirty days, w hich tho law forbids. Seventh. The gross neglect of enforc- ing the laws against carrying concealed weapons, dueling, miseeginulton and licentiousness. Klgbth. Tho rofusal to leave tho 1'enco law to tho voto of tho people which has i been so destructive to tho interest of so many, and as the law now stands Hhoiild bo repealed. Ninth. The Lien law in its present form places tho impoverished buyer at tho mercy of the vandal with his usuri- ous percentage, which is tantamount almost to confiscation. It requires mod- ification permitting l~ per cent, to bo collectable by law on cash prices. Tenth. Wecondeinu unequivocally tho mileage grab of tho last Logislaluie. Eleventh. We arc opposed to tho Con- stitutional amendment because it places tho entire politicai interests of the citizens in tho hands of a trial justice. Twelfth. We think that tho offices of auditor and treasurer should ho unitod in one officer to be elected by the people. Tho appointive power has boon most fearfully abused to tho public detriment. Thirteenth. It requires ceaseless vigi- lance to guard against rings and monop- olists, which have consumed the vitals of tho Stato. Fourteenth. Wo condemn the gerry- mandering of the Stato. Fifteenth. We condemn tbothrcatcm-d intended shifting of the ballot boxes. Sixteenth. An unnecessary multiplica- tion of officers with extravagant salaries tends to corrupt tho civil service. Tho salaries of our State and county oflleors Hhould bo reduced ono-tbird. .Seventeenth. Wo aro opj>osod to the enactment of a prohibition law until that question shall ho settled by a voto of the i people. Eighteenth. No railroad should bo ab lowed to chungo its schedule of freight rates without giving thirty days" notice of mich intention, Mit. FlisllBl'RX. moved to strike out the resolution referring to the mileage grab, ami made a long, rambling speech, effect- ually tiring out the patience of the delegates and disgusting the Convention. He voted for this grab during the lust session of the Legislature. Mr. Wallace, colored, thought the fact that Fishburne had voted lor the mileage grab was no reason why the Convention should rt''".>e to denounce it. This statement was received with loud applause and a scene of ensued. Delegates in all parts of the house called "question" at the top .if their voices, and Fishburne, w ho hau re- gained the tloor. refused to yield until the president decided whether he was in order or not. Just here Mr. S. Augustus Sanders, of Summcrville, rose in an excited way and demanded the question. Fishburne declined to yield. The president rapped him down when, turning to him in a frenzied way and pointing to Mr. S. Au- gustus Sanders he exclaimed, "Do you mean, sir, t.. rule me out of order for that Radical scoundrel?"' The president declared that he would he obliged to call the sergeant-at-arma and have Fishburne put out if he did not submit, ami amidst a rarely equalled scene of disorder Mr. Fishburne was at last sulliciently subdued to seek his seat, when the platform and resolutions were unanimously adopted. Mil. MACKUSKER, OV GEOHUETOWN, thought the Convention should go into a private conference to discuss the situa- tion and select their standard-bearers and moved that the doors he closed. The press and people were then excluded from the hall and the Convention, with Dr. Durham in the chair, went in- to secret session. Mr. S. Augustus Sanders nominated the Hon. .lames 11. Campbell for Guv? ernor. Mr. Fishburne rose to a point of order. Ho said that Mr. Campbell had already heen nominated and endorsed by the Convention. He was informed that the nomination had not prevailed. Judge Mackoy suiti that there were two things which should be considered, the fitness und availability of a candidate for this office. Mr. Campbell would add lustre to the movement, hut he should he consulted as to whether he would accept the nomination. It would not do lor the Convention to nominate a candidate who would not serve. After some further debate the nomination for (ìovernor was suspended, and then the nomination for Lieutenant Gov- ernor was also suspended. After a little while Judge Mac key moved that the Convention nominate a full Stale ticket. Campbell was again sprung. Mackey said that he had been informed by Mr. W. J. Cliver that Mr. Campbell was un- alterable in his determination not to accept ihe nomination for Governor. That he, Campbell, thought ho could serve his State better as a member of Congress from the First District, und that he would be a candidate for that position. Mr. Fishburuo wauted to know "if Campbell is not our only chance ?" ami to this pertinent inquiry Mackey indig- nantly replied, "No, ho is not our only chance ! We have a thousand chances. This great movement does not depend upon any one man for success." Fishburne sat down. The motion to go into the nomination of a full State ticket prevailed. J. HENHRIX M'LAXE was nominated, and the nomination was seconded by W. W. Russell, who glori- fied McLaue us the standard bearer of the parly for the laut four yenrs and as never having trailed its banner in the dust. The nomination was greeted with vociferous applause and was confirmed by acclamation. Loud calls were made for McLaue, who said: "I hardly know what to say, hut if you will givo mo your unflagging support we will have this Gov- ernment. 1 am willing to spend all my efforts, and, if need be, die in the attempt to carry our movement through. If you don't mean business you are mistuken in the nomination you have made. If you stund by me and follow me through I WILL UE GOVERNOR of South Carolina, or by the Eternal wo will have a military government." This bloodthirsty oration occasioned another outburst of applause. W. W. liussell, T. J. Mackey and Robert D. White were then nominated for Lieutenant-Goveruor. Russell and Mackey were withdrawn. White was eulogized by Mackey, who said the t icket should he headed by the plough and the hammer, and that While's chisel was never truer to the marble- than his heart was to duty. Mr. S. Augustus Sanders and T. H. Russell also eulogized White, and his nomination was mudo unanimous. White took the floor, and after reciting his devotion to the party declined the nomination on account of his limited means and his duties to u large family. This brought out Mackey again, who said that he would make party speeches iu the State and spend his last dollar for the cause. That White ueed only remain silent and leave his cause with the people. A committee of five, with Mackey as chairman, was appointed to confer with White. MR. . AUGUSTUS BANDERS was then nominated for Attorney-Gcner-1 al, but this was moro than even a Green- back Convention could stand, and on motion of Major T. H. Russell the Con- vention adjourned until 8 o'clock. THE XIOI1T SESSION. At the night session of the Convention the doors were again closed and Mr. S. Augustus Sanders camo suddenly to grief. When the Convention came to order Mr. Fishburne again occupied the Hour, and forbearance, ceasing to be n virtue, Judge Mackey declared that the dignity of ttie body must be maintained, anil moved that FIBIIBURKE HE REMOVED KROM THE HAI.!.. After a considerable scuffio the refrac- tory member was put out, and then by a unanimous vote he was expelled from the Convention. After a great many nominations and almost c-udlesi speech-making the State ticket was completed at 11 o'clock as follows : For Secretary of Stale, Thomas lhtekins of Sumter ; Comptroller-General, Simeon Corley of Lexington ; Attorney- General, C. B. Farmer of Colleton ; Treasurer, W. H. Stauton of Oconee ; Adjutant-General, J. T. Johns of Dar- lington ; Superintendent of Education, Rev. I. D. Durham of Aik jo. On motion of W. W. Russell the Con- vention then went into tue nomination of Congressman from each Congression- al district. THE HON. JAMES B. CAMPBELL, of Charleston, was nominated from the 13HR 14, 1882. First District, ami T. J. Mackey from ihe Fifth District. Mackey addressed the Convention at length, declaring that every pledge made to the colored peuple l»y Hampton in I87ti had been ruthlessly violated, and reviewing with much sever* ity the Registration and Stock laws and other measures adopted by the last Leg- islature. Mackey spoke for three quarters of an hour, after which the nominations for additional districts was proceeded with. T. II. Kussel],'-'of Anderson, was nominated for the Third District; D. It. F.I- kins, of Fail held, from the Fourth Dis t rtct ; Dr. Ho wen, of Marion, from the Sixth District. No nomination was made from the Seventh District, and the Exec- utive Committee were authotir.ed to nominate a candidate from the Second Dis- trict. The nominees on the State ti ket and for Congress and the Executive Com- mittee will meet to morrow morning for consultation. A collection was taken up to cover the cost of lighting the hall. Thanks were tendered to the president ami at ]¿ o'clock the Convention ad jorrned nine ,{;>·. .1. 0. H TIIK srKRAlTTR.lUF.BY. Ileiuliilsceures or Koine Ten into l>ays In 1HH5. Leiter to t!ir Cincinnati Couoncrritd. It has recently been my fortune to fall in with the gentleman who was Mrs. Surratt's counsel (Judge John W. Clam- pitt, a well-knowu lawyer of Illinois,) and from him I learned many hitherto unpublished incidente pertaining to the celebrated case which occurred so long ago that a new generation has grown up, who know of it only by hercsay. The half-forgotten horror, thus revived, haunted me like a ghost, till 1 determined to "lay" it by making a lour of Ihe places connected therewith. First, 1 hunted up Mrs. Surratt's old home. C04 Jt Street, where the conspiracy.first of I abduction, aud then of assassination as a dernier re»*»rt. was concocted by some of her boarders and their friends, and whence she was dragged to the old Capi- tol prison. It is an unpretentious house, a story lower than others in the block, ils brick walls painted gray, its green blinds shutting in all secrets like the clo«cd ryes of the dead, and an uncanny air of mys- tery hanging about the premises. (light of wooden steps, placed sideways, leads up to the front «loor, and below, oil a level with the street, is the basement entrance to which Fay ne returned the night after the assassination. He was a stranger in these parts, \\ Southerner by birth, who had served in the rebel army, and who had often visited this bouse w ith Booth, to confer with John Surralt, while the plot was brewing. In I'AYNB'fi COX PK !8ION I'm IIIS COUNHKI. he staled that, believing he had accom- plished the work assigned in the killing of Seward, he endeavored to make his escape to Baltimore. All that dark night he plodded on, pursued by phan- toms of his crime, startled by every swinging bough ami rustling leaf, till daybreak, when he climbed up into a large tree that grow by the roadside aud hid himself in the thick spring foliage. Scarcely was ho secreted when a company of cavalry rushed by in hot pursuit, ami all day long the galloping to and fro of pursuers went on beneath his leafy 'shelter. Ho knew by the barking of dogs that a farm houso was at ham!, but, though faint with hunger ami feverish with thirst, he dared not stir. When night again let down her friendly curtain, he descended and cautiously approached the house. He was aware that to ask for food would be to surely Murrender himself to justice, for he had gathered from scraps of conversation beneath his treu that tho whole country was aroused, and that playcards, describing the murderers aud offcriug largo sums for their appro- hension, were already posted in every di- rection. Almost in a starving condition, a stranger in a strange laud, with blood upon his hands and a price upon his head, the only way of relief that occurred to him was to go back to his friend, John Surratt. (Mose by the farm-house he found an old cast-off hat and a pick and shovel. Donning the one nnd shoul- dering the others, he wearily retraced his steps to the city, where tho night before, ho had "bathed in blood the silver locks of an old and honored man." Again, every shadow on the way assum- ed the form of a living or dead avenger, and it was nearly morning before he reached Mrs. Surratt's house and knock- ed at this basement door, not knowing that its former inmateshsd been arrested, aud that officer* of the law held posses- sion. His presence here, at such an hour, in disguise, and hi* confused statement when questioned (that he had been cm- Dcd by Mrs Surratt to dig u drain, and come to seo at what hour in the morning ho should begin) formed a link in the chain of circumstances that hanged ttie unhappy woman. This house was about all of her once ample property that survived the ravage* of war. She had been Til IIEM.E OP I! Kit COUNTY, and at the time of her tragic death was not far from forty years old, and still a fine looking woman. Her husband, who was a well-to-do planter, left hor when ho died a fair estate in Marlborough County, Maryland.not far fron. Wash- ington. well stocked, and with numerous slaves to work it. As the war went on the slaves disappeared, and raiding soldiers burned her fences and made a bar- ren waste oí the once productive fields. Like many reduced gentlewomen, both before and since, her only resource seem- ed to bo in taking boarder* ; so she came to Washington with her children and "set up" the precarious business in this little house that was part of her husband's estate. JOHN II. BUltltATT, the eldest sou, then a man grown, should have been nome help to his mother, but instead wan, by his machinations, the cause of her violent death. This man, who joined Booth in his desperate scheme to kidnap the I'resident, now earn* a livelihood in the unromautic occupation of clerk for the Old Dominion Lino of steamships. Ho was a divinity student in a Catholic college in his youth, and when the war broke out became a block- ade-runner between Montreal and Rich- mond. When in Washington of cootse his mother's home was his, nnd his asso- ciates were naturally those who sympa- thized with the South. Hi* pretty sis- Ier, Annie, was also an attraction to hi* class of young men, among whom was the actor, Booth, who was at that time reported to be engaged to the daughter of a United Stales Senator. Being in Baltimore the other day, I made it a point to meet John Surratt.the only survivor of the consp'racy. He isa young looking man for his years, tall, slender and wiry. His face is not a striking one, but he has rather strongly marked features, a cold and firm expression of countenance, and looks like a etirri ng business man. His hair is quite red ; lie wears a mustache and goatee, which givo him something of a military appearance, and a promi- nent Roman noso adds nothing to his beauty. lie is spoken of as a quiet man VOLUÌN who shuns society, and never nllmlen in the remotest way to the conspiracy with which his family name in ho closely connected, l'ut in hin thin face, ami the restless 1·1 no eyes that never meet your own squarely, links the shadow oí the wrong-doing that brought his mother to the gallows. 11 : Sl'llKA *. The poor girl who suffered .so terribly as lo III a ko lier old while yet young in venrs, lives near her brother John. She is the wife of i'rof. Tonry, who is now the lending chemist of íiultiniore. Alter her mother had been hanged, and her own mentili faculties were shuttered by the agonies she had undergone, the innocent girl was ostracized and persecuted to an extent that is a disgrace to pur so called Christian civilization. Years after, when .Mr. Tonry -then a Government clerk. dared lo many her. ho was dismissed from ollice for the offence! l'Or a timo they were very poor, iliey being turned out of the Government grind proved to be the making of him after all. They ate now prosperous enough iti a worldly point of view, but Hie once blithe and beauti- ful Annie is wreck, both mentally and physically, with hiar as white as the driv- en snow, though but little more lhan thirty years of age. She never recovered front the shock of that awful day, the last of her mother's life, and is subject to fits of extreme nervousness bordering on delirium. Nobody seems to havo cvor interested themselves ill the fate of the younger son, who was a mere lad at the titneof the itagedy. and, notwithstanding man,; inquiries, I have been unable to discover any tra»e of bini. Tour boy, worse than orphaned, his brother a fugi- tive, iiis birthright gone, ami every man's baud against him for no fault of his ow n .what under the sun became of him ? Leaving Mrs. Slirratt's house.with the shadow of crime still so strangly upon it that few are brave enough to occupy it, and so it stands most of tho time closed and empty wegen few block« further up town to the army Medical Museum on Tenth street, which was John . * old nursi:, wherein President Lincoln was ansassi tin- ted. The building was never used again as a theatre, and tho interior is entirely changed since that eventful night. It is now full enough of tangible horrors without the Imaginary ones that clusler within. Here are malformations and monstrosities of every conceivable sort, skulls, skele- tons, dried and pickled babies, sections of "the human form divine" showing gaping sores preserved in ,'irils, every organ ol the body in every variety of disease ex- posed in bottles, and a thousand other tilings too terrible In contemplate. The obliging usher will show you w here the ('resident's box used to be, and where the old stage was upon which ittioli) leaped shouting his crazy "»SVe temper tyrmim*.'" ily consulting the nllichil catalogue you muy oven find, strung on its little wire, what purports to he a section of I tooth's vertebrie, and also a piece of the llesh . mangled by Ilio rope that hanged.of Wire's neck, tho keener of Anderson ville prison. Wo find it in**" >. just these days, to keep < agination out of the vat Cìuitcull was so lately boil. to roof where his bones aro supponi still lie bleaching in the sun. It wi, oc a rallier singular coincidence if the articulated skeleton of tho second ('residential murderer is set up here where tho first murder was com- mitted. In the dark valley at the side of this building, with which an entrnnee in the rear of tho stage (used only by lltluclu'8 of the theatre) communicated, Month's horse was in waiting, and, with the bono of Ids broken limb protruding through the llesh, he mutinied her and galloped. Directly opposite the Museum is tho house into which tho wounded Lincoln was curried, and where hi) died. A cou- ple of years ago ('ongiess caused a marble slab, telling the story, to beset into the front wall. It is said that those who boro the dying President hastily aerosi the street, ill tempted first to carry him into the house ibis side . the one nearest the theatre; but the frightened inmates, scarcely comprehending what had hap- pened, bolted their doors with all speed. The effort has repeatedly been made to induce Congress lo purchase tho house wherein Lincoln died, but it probably will not be done until the Might of years ,hull have invested it with the hulo of antiquity that hangs around every relic of Washington, Franklin and other lonjj dnpnrlcd iteróos. Next, ono's steps tend naturally to- ward Till: K- T. N'A I., where the closing scone in llic tragedy was enacted. The Four and-half street horso car takes us through tho terrain coynifa of South Washington (the higher points of the district) Lo within a block of the entrance to the Arsenal grounds Of all the "breathing places" with which Washington abounds none is so pleasant .because so like the opeu country.as this. Hero aro walks shaded by over- arching trees, green meadows, starred with daises, and glimpses of the great river glistening through the willows that fringe it*shores. Following a wide, brick walk up some distance from the entrance, you coinè to the spot where the old peni- tentiary once stood, the site being now occupied by the handsome house of the commanding officer. The pri&on was torn «low sonic ten years ago, nut a rém- miül of the old wall, still standing at the lower end of what was onco its enclosure, serves as a landmark. Seated upon a bench beneath a spreading tree, while happy children shouted on the green, a merry party of picnickers were lunching in the grass close by, and ala little distance a company of soldiers were going thtough some astonishing evo- lutions to the tooting of tho band. I tried hard, the other day, to realize the scenes that occurred hero ho long ago. Seventeen years, and tho sun shines on, ami the river rolls by with the same drowsy murmur as it did that dreadful dny, and God's eye is over all ! Was Ho so busy counting hairs and watching sparrows, that He gave no heed to the assassin's shot, or was it a part of tito great plan of the whole ? Thousands have died since then, and men havo forgotten the piteous spectacle of that poor woman, wringing her thin, motherly hands as sho sal.too weak to stand. upon the drop nt "high noon," almost dead before she fell.a bundle of clothes swinging to and fro in .just such a hot summer as to day's. Time, that "makes all things even," basso nearly vindicated her memory that few unprejudiced people now doubt her innocence, and would give much to efface tho stain of her busty taking-off from the judicial history of our country. She was condemned by a military commission ORCIAXTZGD to CONVICT, r.ud hanged for the crime, of keeping a boarding-house. True, on tho principio that most Washington boarding-houses are kept, the crime is almost heinous to merit capital punishment, but, then let us call tilings oy their right names. We of the North were led by published statements to belivo that Mrs. Surratt wes made insensible, absolutely intoxi- cated, by valerian, or some other diug, IE XVIII..NO, 9. so tliftt she had lo ho held up between two soldiers till the drop teil. I ant in- sured by two persons who saw her con- stantly during those last days, and who attended her to the foot of the gallows, and remained there tii: ail was over, that those statements were entirely untrue. Tlie unhappy woman had, years before, suffered from a complaint peculiar to her sex, from which sin; hud considered her- self cured, but tho terrible agitation, con- finement in a damp cell, which contained nothing but the cot .not even a chair. brought on the old trouble in aggravateti form, so during the closing hours of her life she was utterly unable to stand from physical sickness. Judge Clam pitt, who was present, says that until the last in- wt·> >» there '.vere s K<) OK^A PAUItÒN, or at least of a reprieve, for her. Cíen. Hancock firmly believed that one would arrive, so he stationed cavalrymen, as couriers, all along tile line írom l'ho White Mouse to the Arsenal, that the word might not come too late from delay en irumit. There arc some ghouls who lately used that circumstance of his humani- ty asapolitic.il weapon against him. Ho knew that at the trial it was tirsi proposed to acquit Mrs. Surratt, or at any rate to sparo her life. To this the Judge Ad- vocale liciterai objected, on account of the troublous times when "examples" must be made, but proposed instead thai the Commission render the same judgment as in the other cases, with a recommends* lion to the President for mercy in her case. Long alterward Andrew Johnson declared, upon his honor, that ho never saw ine recommendation, and did not know 61 its existence till two years later, when, having occasion to refer to some papers connected with the case, he sent for them, ami then for tho first limo found the recommendation among them, lit a tachcdfoi m. Upon tlm morning of the execution, Payne, who though au assassin, was a îiiftii to be believed, made allying decla- ration totîen. Hartranlt, the special pro- vost marshal, who sent to tho President the following words : "The prisoner, Payne, has just sworn to me that Mrs. Siirratt is entirely innocent of the assassination of President Lincoln, or of any knowledge thereof. Ho also stales that she had no knowledge whatever of tho abduction plot; that nothing was ever said to her about it, and that her name was never mentioned by the parlies connected therewith." And then nt tho close of the httcr, Ueh. llnrtrnnft adds: ' ¡ believe Payne hau told the truth".and so does every other unprejudiced person to day. The letter was placed before the President by Judge Clampilt himself, accompanied by Annie Stimiti, who, in mi agony of supplication beggod upon her knees for her mother's life; but all was oi no avail, for .Mrs. Surrati's dentil HAD IlKKN PinT.ltMINKD UTO as ¡i political necessity. The weak Ex- ecutive was not more terrified in ihechair, to which "the lottery of ansarsi nation" bad raised him, by dread of imaginary evils to còme, than were his Cabine', and others in high places, while blind preju- dices ami an insatiate tltir.-t for revenge ran riot among the masses. In the southeast corner of the Peniten- tiary iuclosuro the scaffold stood, that portion of the old wall yet remaining serving to mark the spot. What pen can describe, what imagination conceive tho parting scene between the despairing young daughter and the mother about being led out to death '/ When the hist moment had come, and, according to inex- orable law, the hanging could no longer bo delayed, the order of execution was ^'tv- en, nuil tho solemn march began. l-'irsl came the half-wilted boy, Harold .scarcely nineteen. the. slavo and tool of Booth, who had giggled ail through ho trial and now gazed vacantly about him, too dazed to comprehend the situa- tion. Next caino Azlcrodt, to whom hud been assigned the task of killing (he Vice-President, and who was in a stato of object terror. Then Payne marched forward with firm tread, like a so! lier going to battle, having just remarked that lie knowingly took his life in bis hands when he attempted to murder the Secretary of State, and accepted death as the result, and last canto Alary Siirratt, the whilom belle, upborne by two soldiers and proceded by Father Walter, bearing a crucifix, upon which she steadfastly gazed. After extreme unction had been granted her by the priest, and she had been HllltlVK.N eternity, when the order came for her to ascend the scaffold she begged, "Holy Father, may I not tell t/tese people before I tlie that I am innovent of ihr crime/or nth irh I have been eomtetnnca !" ''No. ni y child." replied 'be priest, 'the world and all that is in il has now receded from you forever. Let nothing disturb the serenity of your last mo- ments".and this while the shrieks of her daughter were ringing in her ears 1 When tho bodies were cut down and collided they were at first buried insido the prison, under ihr floor of the eccomi tlory, the heavy stones being removed, forming a vault of solid masonry. This is noi generally known, but is neverthe- less a fact, forlbave it on tho authority of an eye-witness. At the arscnel they tell you grim stor- ies of 8 3 that trail up and down at "witching hours," moaning and wailing. The officers make light of the idea, but the men firmly believe it, and take gruesome pleasure in relatin"; how, on moonlight nights, a spectral gibbet rises where tbn real one stood, and upon it ghosts "bob up serenely," sometimes »waying to and fro for hours as if they enjoyed it. Maçkey's blasphemy.."The Bour- bon Democracy have hung out tho black flag of defiance against American civilization. On questions of financial policy they are absolutely without principle. Tho Representatives of tlio Southern States in Congress have been voting with the Protectionists of tho North to impose a tax upon everything used by their con- stituents. "The groat vital issue in the canvass is the issue of a free ballet and a fair count. The avorago Bourbon, when he retired to his virtuous couch st night, might well be supposed to offer such a prayer as this : "Our Father who art iti tho Stato House King, hallowed bo thy name. Thy Kingdom corno over all tho United States. Thy will be done. Give us this day our daily grub. Lead us not into the temptations of the Oreeubackackers, but deliver us from a free ballot." . A grocer advertised that he had for salo theTcind of apples that Eve ate, and the uext day his house was crowded with women. . That was right mean In a young fellow telling a man on a very poor horso the other day that if he'd hand over ten centa ho wouldn't let tho buzzards know which way tho animal went Tho Richmond (Va.) Mate writes: Ex-Mayor J. . Gentry, Manchester, this State, was cured of rheumatism by St. Jacobs Oil.

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