Orangeburg News and Times, 1875-05-29

which Lime to got up i;ii^ptcr-iU|ii!uft, vita jukI consented to ^''1111,1 ing i ^ftl' iuu]it:tii:ilo|v, winch j^how* that;.tho. Solicitor and tho Judgo,. while,, they, arc ready to punish crime, ? arc ..not' willing to lend thorn-elves to (v system.; of persecution.? (n-ixntn'tle la ics', . ; It in Duly a Ciiunnr it content i The trj.n; hill which; WOftq rwtuniflK yesterday by the;.grand -jury- n^nimii ev-Se.i|ni/?j Kobe*.. Sinei is.; in eljhetv thai he did advi>^??on>*M*d-nnd procure j *. >so] ?I iYix? W nth! tuti; oi f? Hk t>i'7.W4*ift'fV?ite, and A. Q. Jones; ehrk, of .the huiye of it;pr< s. utut i vs, t<. sign alnl certify to the allowance (if a, claim for Itll 1 , i: 'o of ?l (1: 250, thereby t<> commit a breach ol trust witli :i fraudulent intent .... . /o! im.i i ? oiiot J lie tiivcystigsilnn made by. the, grand fitrv i.- the result of exposure.*) * ?m i ... x i ? ? , j ' contained in an artieie in .the Liu-m litrttii! of.April ?!. We tlinii sl::teu\ih effect lim! wc had posiltv6 kuowh-ifge that a hold 'fraud had been, connnit connnitled; - led; connnitled; that a claim .bad been ' eertimip to 1 iv tho clerks of the ficneriil asscin asscinhJy - hJy asscinhJy as liaving been allowed und passed which in reality had not ,lioih pnssp/l by cither house, that subsequent .UJ .UJVC - VC .UJVC tig?tibn .-bowed tfia't tint pnjy'Tm'' no such claims passed, but that the pay eer't iii elite upon which the/ clerks luid acted was. in itself a fraud, hav having - ing having been paid a.year, before to thy person holding it. We explained the ease with Wnicn such a fraud could be successfully [practiced, by.a> porting the fact thai there was no iiro . ./ < , . , .?, ijo/ ? ?? 1' vision compelling the clerks to can eel'pay certificates received in ex change fir "passed claims,r' and that, therefore, nothing prevented the ?jer tilicutcs froi'p being preserved, ready to appear again, iii new ?i* old liaudsi to be again ground over into "pulsed claims. . ? '?jTI'jrui. L^i^ji^\'^^vT?^'o^>ClJ^^-U ? l^cclerks hurried "from Charleston to | IVdumkia, purchased the "passed idiiini" from a person to whom it had ileen sohl, and canceled it, with, a great parade Of contrition for having made such a im'stttA*, I nfnrtun.itely fur them there is sonic eyidenco that they made a precisely similar misfttki: in t he. ca.* e of the claim of N. K. l'id l'idwards. - wards. l'idwards. We are assured that, ab hough A. O. Jones has certified to a list "con "containing - taining "containing Kd Wards' claim, it did not pass the house of representatives, or sen senate - ate senate cither, for the amount its it appears in the published list. In other words, it was also a "raised claim " We ::re unable to see why a bill should lie sent to the grand jury agaid.-t Mr. Smalls, unless it was ac accompanied - companied accompanied by hills against SVooHrnlf ami Jones. To couiieii ;i breach of trti.-t is, of Course, unlawful and dis dishonest; - honest; dishonest; but to roinmit ti brcaeh . of trust is a groater crime. We insist, then, that the grand jury is bound to present the clerks of the general as assembly, - sembly, assembly, and we call their attention t<> the ease of lid wards.. A careful .sift .sifting - ing .sifting of the transaction in regard to this "passed claim,' business in ali its ramifications is due to the people who litiyo Iicmi robbed for years by means ul pay ccrtilit'iitesj contingent, claims, and a dozen other contrivances, not mi.? of which will he found without the names of the clerks of ilia senate and 1 use upon it. We are assured by those Who ought to know that the pu! licity given to this claims busines in the coluinns of the L'uioy.-llvrnfd resulted in despair to as many as a dozen members, who etuiio hero to meet tho rlcrks ?aud di divide - vide divide around thirty thousand dollars' worth of "raised claims.'! Quite that in neb was offen d for sale in advance of getting! tlmints bf paper from Joe ami .Jones, und great was the disap disappoint - point disappoint nient when lliosp worthies de declared - clared declared that for oneu thy were, scared oil'by that "danim 1 i'nion IlnaM " Never pay old debts?settle them. The paths that lead to the grave? Allopath and homeopath. When Jonah's fellow passengers threw him overboard they evidently regarded him neither prophet or OSS. ,

from tho scene, The more ig ignorant - norant ignorant and degraded the people arc the more likely they are to besVnycd by passion ami feeling rather than judgment. In the midnight murder it is not the death of the individual that appalls us so much as the sudden and mysterious swiftness with, which death comes upon him. So we think that if it were possible to conduct the execution of criminals in absolute pri privacy, - vacy, privacy, the. deterrent effect upon the minds of the peo'plo at largo would be infinitely greater ami more appall appalling - ing appalling than as now conducted. We arc aware that absolute privacy cannot be secured, but ccrfainiy comparative privacy may be; and the scones that wore witnessed recently at Orangeht*rg and Beaufort, and more recently at Ca indent may ho avoided. Is ir, possible for any one to think tluitd he execution 61* Josh Frascr, oil Friday hist, in the town of( nnidcn, in the presence of six thousand persons, as described by the re porters, had tho slightest (leterr ;nt influence upon per persons - sons persons with similar temptations or ten tendencics - dencics tendencics to his own ? Tic acknowledg acknowledged - ed acknowledged having killed Cooper, and he also con tossed the murder of his w ife's child and a negro woman in Canideii. He als?) acknowledged having set fire to gin houses, mills, etc. He siiid he was ready to meet death, <????<? he Inul hern ihrtshnf in //.> h'Otnl o/' liik Savin)", anil floral no Jt>irui to hi.i suit'.'' " Tin Tiniciltlt'^t - iciltlt'^t Tiniciltlt'^t religions i%n'hri.<io*n\ fircvfiilvil. It seems to us that if the ingenuity of man bad been deliberately set to work for the purpose, it could not have invented a spectacle better cal calculated - culated calculated to plant the seeds of ruin in the minds of tho six thousand people tljere assembled than the one descrih descrihj& - j& descrihj& blasphemer, hypocrite and niuis ?yW^lyvrn''* npjr h ^JiVICnl^fhp-i'bjuifs mi'tin excited crowd of religious cn cntluissas'.s - tluissas'.s cntluissas'.s is not a speelae'e likely to impress men of bis own class with the cxcectlwig sinfulncss of sin. To us the spectacle is disgusting and fright frightful. - ful. frightful. And if, us we believe isjjthe ease, thee U no law on the statute book reguht. s the execution of criminals, we trust that one iuay be speedily [Hissed that will prevent in the* future Stich terrible, exhibitions of human I depravity and fanaticism.? I'nu // //?<?? ! ttt.l. Daniel f. I) inly Arrested. A warrant was forwarded from Lautens county yesterday, to Solici Solicitor - tor Solicitor Illy the, for the arrest of Daniel ('. Dcndy, charged with the. .mmlcr of Williani Ueilly; colored, in that coun county, - ty, county, 'Hi the night of tlie iMlth pi" Octo October, - ber, October, ISi'O. The warrant was endors endorsed - ed endorsed by Trial Justice Sherman, und Mr. Deudy was arrested by Marshal Orccr. A writ of habeas corpus was immediately sued out, and Mr. DotMiy was released on :i bond of S'1,000, ! with the following securities: (!. I*'.' Mosely, Dr. Juo. I*\ Dorith, Alexan Alexander - der Alexander MeJiec' V. MeHee, S. {'.. Me MeClatiiihah, - Clatiiihah, MeClatiiihah, !J. Williams and others. Judge T. 'I. Cook lurid the ease? I Cob W. 11: Perry for the defendant ami Solicitor lily the prbsccutinin This is a m iv begining of the old prosecutions and persecutions of the citizens of f.auvcus county?j inaity of whom have been 'riven away from the coin, tv for fear of prosecution bv I scoundrelswhii themselves are guilty l of murder, and are Irvinir t ; hide their giiill by sulsorniug witnesses to ensure conviction of innocenl men. Vr, j Demlv is an aged gentlemen who hits livid no honorable life, res pet ?d by 'his fellow- itizons gem-rally, and the; case created considerable 'celiiu:, ami; the good men of (Jr??nville rushed to i his side in his ho'.ti' of need, ami if a ! j bond Of 8H 10,000 bad bu n required the citizens who have furnished it in j a very short line, notwithstanding ! Mr. Dcndy has resided in Crecuville I but a few months; The niurder he* is ebarged with is Said lei have been I committed in the ye: r 1870, during what is known as the Icu-klux riots. Mr. Dcndy present oil affidavits to provean alabi. wliieh w< re so conclu conclusive - sive conclusive '.hat Sblicslbi* Hlythe waved his privilege of requiring tin days, in

not sooner or Inter prove to bo :i ras rascal. - cal. rascal. Towards evening Jakey was sitting on tho steps, having; recovered from Iiis grief of tho morning, when the Sunday .schob] teacher chanced to pitas by, and Jakey hailed him with : 'Say, mister, I told my mother what you told nie about old Jacob last nigh!, and there has been the old scratch to pay ever since. Mr called pa a villain and a bloody thief, and tried to break her hack on the sofa, and said lh:\t there wouldn't he anything to eat,and there ain't been Mich a time since pa ollererl to kiss Aunt ?Taue good-bye! Maybe yon had better drop in and see tho old lady, mister; sheain't .so had as .\:ho was." * The teacher, after some pressing, accompanied Jakey into the. house, j and was presented to Mrs. Watts iii I the parlor. Mrs. Watts began to thank him for disclosing her husband's perfidy, hut lie disclaimed having done anything of the kind, and at length, after ton tonst - st tonst deruMe talking, it was discovered that Jtikcy had misapplied the story of the patriarch Jacob. Mrs. Waits started right out to hunt tip Jacob, and when she found him astonished him again by being as loving as she had been distant. Jakey U contented in the (net that there is no inimediale prospect of a;" lack of supplies* iii tho family, and Mrs. Watts would be perfectly happy if she could only shut Mrs. Lewis's mouth. Slum 111 Criminals lie Publicly Kxcctit il. Tliis question has been forced upon our attention by the accounts of re recent - cent recent executions which have reached us from diU'event parts of tho stale. The failure to convict and punish those guilty of the various grades of tnurder diinugjthe .past ysjr -??^,^OB0^ yxi?'rs undoubtedly, worked out great demoralization and contempt of tin tinlaw. - law. tinlaw. And unquestionably a vigorous anil impartial execution o?" the law against that class of criminals will he required to restore, things to their nor normal - mal normal condition. We are of the opin opinion - ion opinion however, that the public execu execution - tion execution of criminals does not assist in accomplishing this end, but, on r.Ue contrary, both directly and indirectly, ictards its accomplishment. Wc are aware that in stating this opinion we run counter to the : pin ions of many excellent people, and if is only because we. have a ( bar con conviction - viction conviction that the present mode ofexet u ting criminals ia demoralizing in the extreme that we venture to say any anything - thing anything on the subject. Without refining to experience at j all, wo think that it might be shown, from a consideration of the nature of mankind, that the classes who arc expected to he awed and restrained by the public execution of criminals are really affected in quite the opposite way. The punishment by death of criminals is justified on iho ground that it is necessary to the protection of society. This protection is secured, first, by the removal of 0110 who has proved himself to he dangerous to the rest of the community; and, secondly? by the deterrent influence bl his pun punishment - ishment punishment upon others of like tenden tendencies, - cies, tendencies, ff the clement of revenge upon the murderer is allowed to enter into the question at till, surely his private and swift execution will more certain certainly - ly certainly serve that purpose than will the parade and excitement of a public execution. Wc think, however, thai it will be denied that the law which takes tin' life of the criminal is based upon a feeling of revenge. '1 he ques question - tion question resolves itself, then, into one for tho 'protection of society merely. If, as we have already [stated, this pro protection - tection protection is secured first by the removal by dealh of the criminal, it can make but little difference whether his death Ik; public or private. Hut we conceive that lo secure, the deterrent influence of the death of criminals upon persans of like Icnilcn Icnilcncies, - cies, Icnilcncies, it is of the utmost importance ihal every things which conceals or diminishes in the. minds of these sought lo be influenced, the crimi criminality - nality criminality of theaet for which he. sit Hers, should he carefully eliminated

Truth Will Out. Jakky, ins Mama am? tuk SuxiVay School Tkachkii. ['Halt imore American.] Jako.y crept up und sat down l>y his mother's side hs she was looking out of titc window yesterday morning. After a lew minutes of silcr.ee, he broke out with? "Ma, ain't pa's name Jacob ?" "Yes, Jakoy." "It" I was called young Jacob, he'd he called old Jacob, wouldn't ho ?" "Yes, my dear; what makes you ask snob a question as that?';' "Nothing, only I beard something about hint last, night/' Mr*. W'ttts suddenly became if tor tores - es tores led. "Wh?t was it, my son ?" "Oh, iiothi: g much; something the new Sunday school teacher said." "You oughtn't to have anything your mother don't know, Jakey," corixingly plctul Mrs. Watts. "Well, if you must go poking into everything, I'll tell you. The new teacher says to toe, 'What'syour name, my little mail?' and when I said Jacob, he asked me if I ever hoard of old Jacob, a:td 1 thought that was pa's name, sol told bint 1 guess I had, but I'd like to hear what lie had to say about him. He said old Jacob' used to ho a little hoy once just like me, and had benn-shooter? and stilts, and used to play hookey ami get licked, and to tend cattle"? "Yes, I believe he said his father used to keep a cow," interrupted Mrs. Walls. "And he hogged his brother out of something or other, and he got struck with a ycung woman nanud Iiuehel (Mrs Watts became ?tili more inter interested.) - ested.) interested.) and wtis going lo 'inarry her, but h?r old man fooled him and made him marry Us other daughter; but pa j ?ilid_ hsed -b-r- v.vh^tn^Torry^B-fotjO and married thcin hot It." "The wretch !" ejaculated Mrs. J Watts, shaking her fist :it Air. Watt's ; slipper. "lie said bid Jacob had a dozen or j two child run und"? "Did I marry hiin for this?" cx-J e'.aimed Mrs. Watts, .sobbing and throwing herself on the sofa, making all the springs hunt like a set of tun tuning-forks. - ing-forks. tuning-forks. Ja key said he didn't know what, she married hint for; but -he wouldn't catch him telling her anything very soon again if she was going to kick up such a row about it, and went bulb'' the raom highly indignant. When Mr. Watts came home he met Mrs. Watt.s in the hall, with a very red fuce, wlio pointed her finger and jerked out the word "villain !" and asked him if he could look his innocent wife and infant son in the lace. Mr. Watt.? -h ?weil that lie e'e tld by staring very bard alternately ni ,1akey and Mrs. Watts. "J know where you go, sir, when you slay away from homo," continued Mis. Wails; "I've hear 1 the story of your perfidy, Can'tl you tell me how Uachcl ami that til her woman is to to<hiy - <hiy to<hiy ?''she asked with forced calmness. Mr. Watts confess oil his inability to enlighten her on titc health of the ladies about whom/sho was so solici solicitous. - tous. solicitous. Mrs. Watts Laid that sho al always - ways always knew that something like this would occur, and ended with another hysterical interrogation after titc children's health, Kul not receiving any satisfactory answer, she threw herself on the sbfuYnguin ami sobbed nod nsked herself fa fovy limes wjiy she eve. b i'i In r mother's house, and then she called Ja Hoy to her and told hiin llutt llioy woithl have to live alone in a litt jo [house and ho very poor, and nitty be Lot have enough io eitt.; which inadc f If at hopeful utter ti series of niostfdplcfiij bow!.--and hasten down to t!ic*titeh)i!n lo examine the larder I Later in the tlajy Mrs. Lewis hap happened - pened happened in, and Mrs. Watts confided to Ii r the dory of her husband's villainy. Of course, Mrs. LAtwis was very pro properly - perly properly shocked, rime tried to impress upon Mrs. Watts' the necessity of heilig philosophical, and left with the observation that . lit - had never seen a limn with a nude bit bis nose who did