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PATRIOT,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Deo.B-3t.
VALUABLE LOT AND TIOTJSE
FOR SALE.
In view of the erection of the New Academy
Building, containing two large school rooms be
sides the main Academy Hall. The owners of the
private school building and lot, fronting on Court
blouse Square, have concluded to offer it for sale.
The lot is number 135, fronting 50 feet on
Washington and 50 feet on Mifflin streets, 200 feet
in depth, giving two very desirable fronts fur
building purposes. There is a New Brick School
Building on tho lot 30x35 so planed that a large
front building can be added to it if desired. The
lot affords ample room for four dwelling houses,
and the location is excellent. The property will
be sold, at Public Sale, on the premises, on
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1873,
at 10 o'clock, a. m., and possession given on the
first day of April 1874.
TERMS OP SALE.—Two hundred dollars to
be paid when the property is struck down, and
the balance of one-third of the purchase money on
tho lot day of April 1874, the residue in two equal
annual payments, with interest from the first day
of April 1874, to be scoured by judgment bond
and mortgage. .
For forrh;r particulars, fir
A apply ;it ILLER.
Dec.3,'73.2t. BAM'L T. BROWN.
VICK'S FLORAL GUIDE FOR 1874.
200 pages '
• 500 Engravings, and Colored
Plate. Published Quarterly, at 25 cents a year.
First number for 1874 just issued. A German
edition at same price.
Address, JAMES VICE,
Dec. 3,1873. Rochester, N. Y.
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1873
Legal Advertisements
- REGISTER'S NOTlCE.—Notice is
hereby given, to all persons interested, that
the following named persons have settled their ac
counts in the Register's Office, at Huntingdon, and
that the said Recounts will be presented for con
firmation and allowance, at an Orphans' Court, to
be held at Huntingdon, in and for the county of
Huntingdon, on Wednesday, the 15th day of
January, next, (1871.) to wit:
I. Administration account of John D. Duels
Administrator of the estate of John Irvin, o
Franklin township, deceased.
2. Final account of Evan Nearhoof and Samuel
Ralston, Executors of George Nearhoof, late w
Warriorsmark township, deceased.
3. Account of Samuel A. Stetfey, Administrator
of George Steffey, late of Jackson township, de.
ceased.
4. Final account of Henry Wilson, Executor of
Elizabeth Hallman, late of West township, deems.
ed.
5. First and partial account of Isaac Swoope,
Administrator of the estate of Hugh I. King, late
of the township of Shirley, deceased.
6. Administration account of Sterrett Cummins,
Administrator of the estate of James Barr, late of
Jackson township, deceased.
i. First and partial account of Calvin and An
derson Bell, Administrators of the estate of George
Bell, lite of West township, deceased.
8. Account of Wm. Hall, Administrator of the
estate of Dixon Hall, Into of Brady township, de
ceased.
9. The account of Eliza J. Thompson, Admin.
istratrix of the estate of John Thompson, late of
the borough of Mt. Union, deceased.
10. The account of Levi W. and Samuel 11.
Pheasant, Administrators of tho estate of William
Pheasant, late of Union township, deceased.
W. E. LIGHTNER,
REGISTER'S OFFICE,
Register.
11untingdon, Dec. 10, 'S3
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons
interested that the following Inventories of
the goods and chattels set apart to widows, under
the provisions of the Act of 14th of April, a. d.,
1851, have been filed in the office of the Clerk of
the Orphans' Court of Huntingdon county, and
will be presented for "approval by the Court," on
Wednesday, January 15, 1574:
Ist. Inventory of the goods and chattles, of
Wm. Lowry, deed., as taken by his widow, Sarah
Lowry.
2nd. Inventory of goods and eba t tleo, returned by
and set apart to Mary Ann Piper, a idow of Peter
Piper dee'd.
3rd. Inventory of the personal property of J. C.
Shoemaker, dee'd., as taken by kis a zdow Mary C.
Shoemaker.
4. Inventory of the goods and chattels, ac., of
Richard Meredith, deceased, as set apart by his
widow, Sarah E. Meredith.
W. E. LIGHTNER,
Clerk of Orphans' Court.
Orphans' 'Court Office,
Dec. 10, 1373.
NOTICE IN PARTITION.
[Estate of MATT HE 1V TRUMAN, dee'd.
Notice to Peter Carlisle and William Carlisle,
whose poet office address is unknown to petitioner,
being the children of a deceased sister Peggy, who
intermarried with - Carlisle, both of whom are
now dead, and three other nephews, Levi Pyo,
whose post office address is Clear Springs, Wash
ington county, Md. ; Samuel Pye, whose poet of
fice address is Indian Springs, Washington county,
Md.; Jonathan Pye, whose poet office address is
not known: Take notice that at an Orphans' Court
held at Huntingdon, in and for the county of Hun
tingdon, on the second Monday and 10th day of
November, A. D. 1873, before the Honorable John
Dean, Esq., President, and David Clarkson and
Anthony J. Beaver, Esquires, his Associates : On
motion of Lovell & Musser the Court awarded a
Rule on the heirs and legal representatives of Mat
thew Truman, late of Tod township, deceased, to
appear in Court, on the second Monday of Janua
ry next, (18740 then and there to accept or refuse
the real estate of said deceased at the valuation
thereof, oxshow cause why the same should not be
sold. And ordered that to all persons interested,
notice be given personally or by writing left at
their place of abode residing within the county,
and to all residing out of the county, by publica
tion in one or more newspapers, and a copy direct
ed to their nearest post office address, at least ten
days prior to the said second Monday of January
next.
Certified from the Record under seal of said
Court this 24th day of November, A. D. 1873.
AMON HOUCK, Sheriff.
Huntingdon, Dee. 3,1873.-4 t
NOTICE IN PARTITION.
...[Estate of DIXON HALL, dec'd.]
. . . _
Notice to Mary Ilarties, intermarried with James
Barnes, of Petroleum Centre, Pa.; Catherine Lew
is, intermarried with Albert Lewis, of Parker's
Landing, Pa.; Richard Hall, of Lagrange Fur
mace, Stewart county, Tennessee; Wm. Henry Gil
bert, of Pleasant Hill, Missouri; Mary Ann Gil
bert, married to Joseph Reed, Pleasant Hill, Mo.;
David Gilbert, Richard Gilbert, Thomas Gilbert,
Pleasant Hill, Missouri: Take notice, that at an
Orphans' Court held at Huntingdon, in and for
the county of Huntingdon. on the second Monday
and 10th day of November, A. D.. 1873, before the
Honorable John Dean, Esq., President. and David
Clarkson and Anthony J. Beaver, Esquires, his
Associates On motion of E. S. McMurtrie the
Court awarded a Rule on the heirs and legal re
presentatives of Dixon Hall, late of Brady town
ship, deceased, to appeir in Court, on the second
Monday of January next, (1874,) then and there
to accept or refuse the real estate of said deceased
at the valuation thereof, or show (muse why the
same should not be sold. And ordered that to all
persons interested, notice be given personally or
by writing left at their place of abode residing
within the county, and to rail residing oat of the
county, by publication in one newspaper and a co
py directed to their nearest Post Office address, at
least ten days prior to the said second Monday of
January next.
Certified from the Record under ecal of said
Court this 24th day of November, A. D. 1873.
AMON' TlOUcic, Sheriff.
Huntingdon, Dee. 3,1873.-4 t
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
The undersigned, having been appointed
by the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon
county, Auditor to distribute the balance in the
hands of the Sheriff, arising from the sale of the
Real Estate of Jackson Lamberson, will attend
to the duties of his appointment, at his office, No.
302, Penn street, Huntingdon, cn Friday, the
26th of December next, at 1 o'clock, p. m., when
and where all parties interested may attend or be
forever debarred from claiming any port of said
fund.
J. SYLVANDS BLAIR,
Dee. 10,1873. Auditor.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
The undersigned Auditor, appointed by
the Orphans' Court of Huntingdon county to dis
tribute the recognizance of Tobias Varnish to the
heirs of Itobert Lytle, late of Hollidaysburg, de
ceased, and ascertain the amount coming to the
heirs respectively, will attend to the duties ()rids
appointment at his office, in Huntingdon, on Fri
day, December 26th, 1373, at 10 o'clock, a. m.,
when and where all persons interested are requir
ed to be present, or else be debarred from coming
in on said fund.
R. A. OftBION,
Auditor.
De 0.10,13.
ADMINISTIIATOR'S NOTICE.
[Estate of JOS. C.BHOEMAKER, dee'd.]
Letters of ad - ministration having been granted
to the undersigned on the estate of Joseph C. Shoe
maker, into of the borough of Huntingdon, dee'd.,
all persons indebted aro requested to make imme
diate payment, and those bavingelaims to present
them properly authenticated for settlement.
` n"'"'"" • ".""'
KLISHA SHOEMAKER,
Ader.
n0v.20;73.]
A 6k DMINISTRATORS' NOTICE.
.A.A.[Estate of PERRY P. S7'EEVER, deed.]
. .
Letters of administration having been granted
to the undersigned, by the Register of Huntingdon
county, on the estate of Perry P. Stever, late of
Cass township, dee'd., all persons knowing them
selves indebted to said estate will snake immediate
payment, and those having claims against the
same will present them properly authenticated far
settlement.
WALTER C. STEVER,
Cassville, P. 0.
EPIIRAIM CIIILCOTT,
Colfax, P. 0.
uov2o-6t.
A DMINISTRATOWS NOTICE.
[Estate of WILLIAM LO IVRY, deceased:] . . . .
Letters of Administration having been granted
to the undersigned on the estate of William
Lowry, late of Hopewell township, deceased, all
persons indebted to said estate will make imme
diate payment, and those having claims against
the same, will present them duly authenticated
for settlement.
LEVI LOWRY,
Coalmont, Pa., 0ct.29,73. Administrator.
NI - 0110E.
11 Whereas my daughter Ada, has left her
home and is disposed to contract debts on my ac
count, I hereby notify all persons interested that
I will not pay any debts of her contracting.
AMOS STAR.
Pe0.10,1873-3t.,..
(Oxiginnl
Pen and Sword ,
BY THE BARD OF THE MOUNTAIN,
Turning o'er a dusty volume,
Filled with gems from Sage and Bard
I beheld this quaint old adage :
"The pen is mightier than the sword.'
Then my fancy drew a picture;
'Mid a dungeon's murky gloom
Lay a prisoner, sad and lonely,
Longing for the cannon's boom
To a man of power and talent
Was conveyed the saddening news,
Soon be sought the galling fetters
From the prisoner's limbs to loose.
By his pen he quickly fired
Every freedom-loving soul,
Soon there moved a gallant army,
Did the Sage assume control?
No. His part was done, another
Lightning flashed from out his eye—
Led to victory the army—
Gave the captive liberty.
Who was greater, Sage or Soldier?
Which was mightier, Pen or Sword ?
Pen may prompt a host to action,
Paint the hero's great reward ;
But if by the sword unaided,
Conquest pen may never win ;
Pen may fight a bloodless battle,
Sword must bring insurgents in
When the long foretold millenium,
On our sin-cursed earth shall dawn
Robbing men of fiendish passions,
Pen may wear the victor's crown.
gstrixg-Zdter.
The Patriot ail the Traitor.
Sixty-four years ago a terrible storm
shocked the city of London. At the dead
of night, when the storm was at its high
est, an aged minister, living near the sub
urbs of the city, was aroused by an earnest
cry for help. Looking from his window
he beheld a rude man clad in the coarse
attire of a sweeper of the street. In a few
moments, while the rain came down in
torrents and the storm growled above, the
preacher, leaning on the arm of the scav
enger, threaded his way tbrough the dark
suburbs.
That very day a strange man had fallen
speechless in front of the scavenger's rude
home. The good-hearted street-sweeper
had taken him in and laid him on his own
bed ; he had not spoken since and now he
was dying.
This was the story of the rough old man.
And now through dark alleys, among
miserable tenements, that seemed to topple
down upon their heads, into the loneliest
suburbs they pass, that white-haired min
ister and his guide. At last in a narrow
street and np a flight of stairs that creaked
beneath their tread, and then into the
death-room.
In one corner, on coarse straw and a
ragged bed, lay the dying man. lie was
but I=lf-dressed—his legs were concealed
by military boots.
The aged preacher drew near and looked
upon him. And as he looked you might
hear the death-watch ticking in the shat
tered wall.
It was,the form of the strange man,
grown old with care more than age.
There was a lee you might look on
once and yet wear it on your memory for
ever. Let us bend over the bed, and look
on that face.
A bold forehead, seamed by ono deep
wrinkle between the brows—long lucks of
dark hair, sprinkled with gray, lips firmly
set, yet quivering as though they had a
life separate from the life of man, and two
large eyes, vivid, burning and unnatural
in their steady glare.
Ah, there was something so terrible in
that face, something so full of unutterable
loneliness, unspeakable despair—that the
aged minister started back in horror.
But look ! those arms are clutching at
the vacant air, the death dew starts in
drops upon the cold brow—the man is
dying.
Throb—throb—throb--beats the death
watch in the shattered wall.
'Would you die in the faith of a Chris
tian ?" faltered the preacher, as he knelt
there on the floor.
The white lips of' the death-stricken
man trembled, but made no sound.
Then, with agony of death upon him,
he rose to a sitting posture. Far the first
time he spoke.
"Christian I" he echoed, in that deep
tone. which thrilled the preacher to the
heart, that faith give me back my
honor? Come with me—with me far; far
over the water. Ha I we are there This
is my native home; yonder is the church
in which I knelt in childhood; yonder is
the green on which I sported when a boy.
But another flag than that waved when I
was a child. And listen, old man, were I
to pass this street as I passed it when but
a child, the very babes in their cradles
would raise their tiny hands and curse me;
the graves in yonder church-yard would
shrink from my footsteps, and yonder flag
would stain a baptism of blood on my
heart."
That was an awful death-bed. The
minister had watched the "last night"
with a hundred convicts in their cells, and
yet never beheld a scene as terrible as
this.
Suddenly the dying man arose. He
tottered along the floor. With those white
fingers, whose nails are blue with death
chill, be threw open the valise. He show
ed his military coat, trimmed with silver;
an old parchment, a piece of cloth that
looked like the wreck of a battle flag.
"Look ye, priest, this faded coat is
spotted with my blood !" he cried, as old
memories seemed stirring him. "This is
the last coat that I wore when I planted
the banner of the stars on Ticonderoga.
The bullet hole was pier , cd in the fight at
Quebec; now I am—let me whisper it in
your ear."
"Now, help me, priest," he said, in a
voice grown suddenly tremulous; "help
me put on this coat of blue and silver.
For you see,"—and a ghastly smile came
over his face—"there is no one to wipe
the cold drops from my brow; no wife, no
child—l must meet death alone; but I
will meet him, as I met hint in battle,
without fear."
While he stood arraiing himself in that
worm-eaten coat of blue and silver, the
good preacher spoke to him of faith in
Jesus; yes, of that great faith which
pierces the clouds of human guilt and rolls
them from the face of God.
"Faith !" echoed the strange man, who
stood there erect, with the death-light in
his eye. "Faith ! Can it give me back my
honor? Look ye, there, over the waves,
sits George Washington, telling his com
rades the pleasant story of the eight years
war; there in his royal hall sits King
George, bewailing, in his idiotic voice, the
loss of his colonies. And here am I who
was the first to raise the flag of freedom,
the first to strike the blow against that
King—here am I dying like a dog."
The awe-stricken preacher started back
from the look of the dying man, while
throb, throb, beat the death-watch in the
wall.
"Hush ! Silence along the lines there,"
he muttered in that wild, absent manner.
as though speaking to the dead, "silence
along the lines ! Hark you! Montgomery!
we will meet there in victory or death.
Hist ! silence my men ; not a whisper as
you move up those steep rocks ! Men of
the wilderness, we will gain the town ;
now up with the banner of the stars, up
with the flag of freedom, though the night
is dark and the snow falls ! Now !" yelled
the death-stricken man, towering there in
the blue uniform, with his clenched hands
waving in the air, "now one blow and
Quebec is ours !" • _ _ _
- His eyes grew glassy; with that word
on his lips he stands there. 0! what a
hideous picture of despair, erect, livid and
ghastly ! There for a moment, and then
fell. He is dead, all, look at that proud
form thrown cold and stiff upon the damp
floor ; in that glassy eye there lingers even
yet horrible energy, a sublimity of despair.
Who is this strange man, dying here
alone in this rude garret. this man who in
all his crime still treasured up his blue
uniform and faded flag.
Who is this being of terrible remora° ;
this man whose memories link something
of heaVen and more of hell. ?
Let us look at tha parchment and flag.
The old minister Unfolded the faded
flag. It was a blue banner, gleaming with
thirteen stars.
He unrolls the parchment; it is a
Colonel's commission in the Continental
Army, addressed, "BENEDICT AR
NOLD."
And there in that rude hut. while the
death-watch throbbed like a heart in the
shattered wall, unknown, unwept, in all
the bitterness of desolation, lay the corpse
of the patriot and traitor.
0, that our true Washington had been
there to sever that good right arm from
the corpse and, while the dishonorable
body rotted into dust, to bring home that
good arm and embalm it among the holiest
memories of the past.
For that right arm bad struck many a
blow for Quebec, Champlain and Saratoga,
that arm, yonder beneath the snow-white
mountain, on the deep silence of the dead
first raised into sight the glorious banner
of the stars.
It was during the renowned expedition
through the wilderness that Arnold en
camped for two or three days beside the
River of the Dead, near a snow-white moun
tain, which in lovely grandeur towered
above all others into the autumnal sky.—
A single soldier ascended the mountain,
with the hope of beholding from the sum
mit the reeks and spires of Quebec.
When he came down, Arnold took from
his breast, where for four days, in priva
tion and danger he carried it, a blue ban
ner gleaming with thirteen stars. He
raised it into the light, and for the first
time the Continental Banner floated over
the solitudes of the Dead River. This is
a fact attested by history and corroborated
by tradition.
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itov the pillion.
Senator Carpenter,
We are not aware that Senator Carpen
ter intends to take any step in regard to
the slander set on foot against him by an
enemy last Summer. He could scarcely
bring a libel snit in which the ocly issue
would be in regard to the character of a
lady. This dificulty was doubtless well
considered beforehand by the correspondent
of the Tribune, . a man named Ramsdell,
who concocted the original slander, and by
his "editor," who repeats it with the full
knowledge that it is thise.
We have refrained from commenting
upon this affair, believing that after the
slander had had its run, it would die and
be forgotten. But the habitual slanderer
of the Tribune seems to be determined to
"have it out" with Senator Carpenter, who
,happened to get a Tribune correspondent
locked up a year or two ago. For this the
so-called editor of the Tribune has sworn a
deadly revenge. He and his-correspondent
have therefore, we repeat, deliberately in
vented a disgusting calumny about Senator
Carpenter—a calumny of the kind which
every man finds it hard to meet, because
lie cannot meet it without calling a lady
into a public controversy. This fact was
duly calculated on by a person at the
Tribune; we all remember how clever and
brave he was in attacking the President's
with and children. lie is capable of in
venting any vile slander, as the columns
of his journal in the past fully prove. The
story about Senator Carpenter is hatched
solely in his own imagination, as we expect
to prove to the satisfaction of every in
telligent man in the country.
The true facts have been' known to us
for some time. The husband of the lady,
who, for very natural reasons, desires not
to briqg his wife's name before the public,
and therefore does not wish to publish
anything under his own signature, some
time since called on us and informed
us that the charge was utterly false, and
requested us, in case the slander was kept
up, to publish a statement of the facts.—
It is not a business we care to go into—it
suits the Tribune scandelmongers much
better. But we will relate the facts, and
then we will deal on another occasion with
Senator Carpenter's assailant.
Mr. Carpenter went during the Summer
to Long Branch, having an appointment
with the President on business. He was
accompanied by the lady in question, who
was put in his charge by her husband.—
Arriving there about 5 in the afternoon, lie
went directly to the West End Hotel and
applied fir rooms, and was informed by the
clerk that there was not a vacant room in
the house, and had not been for several days.
The clerk and Mr. Carpenter were well ac- .
quainted, the clerk havino• ' been formerly
in Willard's Hotel, Washington, where
Mr. Carpenter and his family hadboarded
two years. The clerk gave Mr. Carpenter
a note of introduction to the Ocean House,
and be went there and obtained a room for
the lady and one for himself At 7 o'clock
he took tea at the President's and spent
the evening with President Grant until
about 9:30. He then returned to the ho
tel ; where several gentlemen called on
bim, in whose company he remained until
about 12 o'clock, and returned to New
York the next morning.
.Ramsdell—a correspOndent of the Tri
bune, who was imprisoned about two years
ago by the Senate on Mr. Carpenter's mo
tion, for contempt in refusing to testify
in regard to the stolen treaty, and who
rowed vengeance on Mr. - Carpenter atjhat
time, and seems to have watched for au
opportunity to retaliate for what he re
garded as an injury—was stopping at the
West End Hotel. He at once repaired to
the telegraph office and sent a dispatch to
the Tribune, saying that senator Carpen
ter had arrived at Long Branch, and had
been refused a room at the hotel, "for rea
sons best known to himself and the proprie
tor of the hotel."
This telegram suggested a base falsehood,
as Ramsdell well knew at the time. He
devised it, as lie himself admitted aPer
ward, solely for the purpose of -gtt ti ng
even" with Senator Carpenter. After this
had gone through the press, there came a
charge made by Brick Pomeroy, in his
sheet in this city, that Mr. Carpenter was
refused a room because he was in a state
of beastly intoxication, and it was said that
his appearance 'wag dirty and filthy in the
extreme," and Brick moralized it as fol
lows :
"It was a pitiful sight, this drunken
personal tool of the President, himself a
Senator, refused quarters at a Long Branch
hotel because he was not in a fit condition
to associate with the people who are guests
there. John Morrissey could get the
best accommodations there because he
would go clean and sober."
A few days were allowed for this to be
copied by the press, preparing the public
mind to believe that Mr. Carpenter, in
such condition, might be guilty of any
thing and then the moral editor of the
Tribune came out with a column of his
usual wild Western rowdyism, charging
Mr. Carpenter with having outraged the
decency of the land by flaunting a para
mour in the face of mothers and wives.
The charge of "beastly intoxication" was
a necessary basis upon which to rest the
other charge; for no one would believe
that 3lr. Carpenter was such a natural
born idiot as to do what was charged,
if he were sober and in his right mind.
We have before us a letter from Presi
dent Grant, pronouncing the charge that
Mr. Carpenter was intoxicated entirely
false. The President thus writes to Judge
T. 0. Howe, (Oct. 20,1873 :)
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct 20, 1872.
DEAR JUDGE : Much has been said in
the public prints relative to your colleague,
Senator Carpenier, during his visit to
Long Branch this last Summer. One
charge made ag.iinst him I know to be un
true. He spent an hour or more with me
during the evening of his stay, and I can
answer as to his being at the time strictly
sober giving no evidence of having been_
drinking to mark its effect at the time.—
The ether charges I know nothing about,
and make no inquiry about., thinking them
Yours Truly.
IT. S. GRANT.
Judge T. 0. lime.
Here, then, is charge No 1 disposed of.
Mr. Farrar, the clerk of the West End
Hotel, thus disposes of Ramsdell's lie:
WILLARD'S HOTEL,
WASHINGTON, OCt. 20, 1873.
Hon. T. 0. Howe :
Dear Sir : In regard to the charges
against Senator Carpenter at Long Branch,
the facts are simply these Mr. Carpenter
came with several others, and there was
not a vacant room in the house. I told
him so, and gave him a note of introduc
tion to the Ocean House. If the President
had called at the same time for a room, I
should have told him the same thing. Mr.
Carpenter was neither intoxicated, nor
guilty of any improprieties whatever.
GEO. H. FARRAR,
Room Clerk West End Hotel.
Aud Dr. Bliss, an intimate acquaintance
of Ramsdell, thus disposai of hint :
District of Columbia, Board of Health. 1
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21, 1873. J
Lion. T. 0. Howe :
Dear Sir : I saw Mr. Ramsdell, who tele
graphed to the New York Tribune in re
gard to Senator Carpenter's being refused
rooms at the West End Hotel, Long
Branch, in June last. sean after Mr. R 11113•
dell's return to Washington I then in
formed Mr. Ramsdell that I was personally ,
acquainted with the lady in question, bay
ing attended her professionally on several
occasions during the last few years ; that
he made a mistake and done the lady a
great wrong. He replied, "I don't care;
I have got even with Carpenter." This he
repeated, in substance, several times during
the conversation, leading me to understand
that he was only endeavoring to punish
Senator Carpenter for his course as chair
man of the Senate Committee in the mat
ter of the stolen treaty, Mr. Ramsdell was
formerly nay chief clerk at Armory Square
End Hospital during the late war, and our
relations have been and now are intimate,
and this conversation convinced me that
his statement was more freely made than
it would have been to others, and that he
was only actuated by a design to retaliate
upon Senator Carpenter, and seemed to re
joice that he had inflicted injury upon the
character of Senator Carpenter without re
gard to what the facts night be.
I make this statement as a matter of
justice, both to the lady injured and Sena
tor Carpenter,
Very truly yours, D. W. BLISS.
These letters not only refute the charges
against Senator Carpenter, but show
that they have been inspired by personal
malice. We have before us a letter writ
ten by a United States Senator, in which
he says that be was at Long Branch the
day after Mr. Carpenter was there, and
that he applied for and was unable to ob
tain a room at the West End Hotel for
the reason that there was not a vacant
room in the house, and he adds:
DECATUR, Ala., Sept. 11, 1873.
„ .
MY DEAR SENATOR I was at Long
Branch the clay after you were there last
Summer, or, at all events, the day the first
telegram appeared in the New York Tri
bune concerning your visit there. I went
to the "West End Hotel,” and was told
by the clerk that there was not a vacant
room in the house and had not been for
several days; that they hid been ompell
ed to refuse many persons.
I saw the Tribune correspondent (Mr.
Ramsdell) a few moments afterward, and,
referring to the telegram in the Tribune, I
asked him what it meant, and whether
there was any truth in it. He admitted
to me that there was no truth whatever in
what would be implied from the tdegrant.
I afterward talked with the room clerk up
on the same subject, and he told me you
were refused a room only because every
one in the house was occupied.
I am very sincerely yours,
F.F.O. E. SPENCER.
Hon. Matt. H. Carpenter, Milwaukee, Wis.
We think that there is quite proof
enough here that the Tribune has once
more been at its old games, and endeavor
ed to destroy a political opponent by in
venting a dastardly slander concerning him.
What can people think, after reading the
above letters, of Ramsdell and his precious
"editor."—N. Y. Times.
NO. 51.
Usury and the Banks.
Usury, in the legal sense of that term,
means taking interest or compensation for
the use of money beyond the rate fixed by
law; but in its secondary and more liberal
sense, a rate of interest whether allowed
or forbidden by law, which involves, owing
to its magnitude or the condition of the
debtor, the ingredient of oppression. Pow
er, however it ma!, have been acquired,
IT !It'll unduly exercised, whether undercol
or or law or not, is oppression ; and oppres
sion in all its forms is condemned by the
moral law. The Jewish usurer was entitled
by the bond of Antonio as well as the let
ter of the law, to the pound of flesh, but
"the young doctor of Rome" decided
against him. The boast of Samuel the
last and best of Jewish Judges, was that
he had oppressed no man. "Whom have
I oppressed ? Witness against me before
the Lord." Amongst the Jews, as be
tween themselves, the taking of interest at
all for the use of money was held not only
to be usury bu% odious, and, doubtless,
upon the principle that money, owing to
the very nature of the thing, affords un
told facilities of tyranly and oppression.
The same principle has induced most
Christian nations to limit the rate of in
terest by positive law.
"Love of money is the root of all evil,"
and when put out at excessive rates leads
to covetousness; covetousness to ido'atry
of the meanest of &is, gods Usurers in
every age and nation have been held in
detestation, and amongst the meanest of
human kind. St. Paul does not hesitate
to put them in the same predicament as
adulterers, fornicators, idolators and un
clean persons generally. The Shylock of
Shakespeare, and the Trapbois of Sir Wal
ter Scott, are not purely ideal. They have
only too painfil their exemplifications in
the living, moving world round about us.
The practice not only corrupts the heart
but mars the outward man ; the wrinkled
brow, the suspicious eye, sunken cheek,
shuffling gait, and leprous colored face,
point out unerringly the Shylock and Trap
bois. The moral condition of the man
whose habit it is to take excessive interest
for the use of the money under color of
law, is bad enough ; but not by one-half so
bad as the man that is in the habit of ex
acting it in spite of law.
Whatever doubts there may be as to
taking exc:•ssive and oppressive interest
where the law is silent on this subject
there ought to be none where the law for
bids it. No man can be a faithful citizen
and a grol Christian. Obedience to the
civil magistrate is a Christian duty. The
best man, for he was God and man blend
ed, that ever trod the earth commanded
and practiced obedience to the civil author
ities—"render unto Caesar the things
which are Cmsar's." The moral obligation
to submit ourselves to the law is all the
same whether it be politic or impolitic,
wise or foolish. If it were not so, the lig
ament which ties mankind together in the
social relations of citizens would he as a
rope of sand. All consciences are not the
same any more than all flesh is the same ;
and if the submission of every citizen were
to be measured and regulated by his own
conscience, there would be an instant end
of all human government. But our main
object is to deal with the subject of usury
in the legal acceptation of that term. In
Pennsylvania the rate of interest for the
use of money is limited to six per cent. per
annum, and all in excess of that rate is
usury. This limitation has prevailed uni
formly for over a century, notwithstanding
frequent efforts to abolish or vary it.
Down until 1858• the corrupt taking of in
terest on it loan of money beyond the rate
limited by the statute was forfeiture of the
contract; but by a statute passed in that
year the penalty was reduced to forfeiture
of the excess of interest only.
But the mitigation of the penalty does
not, either in law or conscience, impair the
obligation of the law. The sanction of the
law, that is, the penalty incurred by vio
lating it, is not in a moral aspect of the
essence of it, but the means which it pro
vides of coercing bad people who neither
fear God nor regard man ; it is the "hang
man's whip to hand the wretch in order."
Good people obey the law for conscience
sake, and bad for wrath's sake, or not at
all.
There is a large and influential class r,l*
men in every community, more especially
the centres of commerce, who are under
peculiar and most solemn obligations to ab
stain from usurious practices, but habitu
ally and notoriously indulge in them—
these are directors of banks, both National
and State and other monetary institutions.
It is hoped that theirs is the sin of ignor
ance, which is punished by a few stripes.
By an act of Assembly, approved 16th
April, 1850, Sec. 15, it is provided "that
the President, Directors, Cashier, and oth
er officers of a bank shall severally take an
oath or affirmation to observe faithfully
and honestly the provisions of this act ;
and that they and each of them, during
their continuance in office, will not know
ingly violate, or sanction, or willingly per
mit any of the provisions of this act to be
violated."
Then follows the section, in close con
nection with the preceding one, declaring
that "the rate at which loans may be made
shall not exceed one-half of one per cen
tuna for thirty days." The Supreme Court
has declared time and again that a bank
cannot, by any management or contrivance,
' exceed the limited rate of discount without
violating its fundamental law. Are direc
tors of banks aware that by disregarding
the legal limitations on the rate of interest,
they are, just as often as they do it, put
ting in peril the characters of their insti
tutions? Yea, more, their own souls.
How is it with the directors of the nation.
al banks, when their doings are judged by
their official and personal obligations ?
They, too, are required to take an oath
"that they will not violate or permit to be
violated any of the provisions" of their
charters. Then follows the provision that
"every association (bank) may take, re
ceive, reserve and charge any loan or dis
count made, or upon any bill Of exchange,
note or ether evidences of debt, interest
at the rate allowed by the laws of the State
where the bank is located and no more."
Who that possesses a conscience not al
ready galvanized with gold and silver eau
read these all-searching oaths, and think
of the notorious and habitual disregard of
them without a thrill of horror ?
The practices which they forbid and are
interested to prevent, are destructive not
only or public and private morality, but of
the material interests of the community
where they prevail. Gradually but inevit
ably they are bound to bring the treasures
of the bed into a few bands; and what is
harder to bear, to build up an aristocracy
of wealth, the most galling and intolerable
of all dominankelasses.—Cannonsburg (Pa)
Herald.