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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture Markets, &c. Vol. XV. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3, 1879. No. 49. THE HERALU IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry, S. C. BY THOS. F. GRENEKER, Editor and Proprietor. Teims, $e.O0 per .,un,1M Invariably in Advance. Tito paper is stopped at the expiration 01 time for which it is Paid. t- The >1 mark denotes expiration c r sub cription. Watches, Clocks, Jewebry. WTCHES IND E ERV At the New Store on Hotel Lot. I have now on hand a large and elegant assortnent of WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, Silver and Plated Ware, VIOLIN AND GUITAR STRINGS, SPECTACLES AND SPECTACLE CASES, WEDDING AN3 BIRTHDAY PRESENTS. IN ENDLESS VARIETY. All orders by mail promptly attended to. Watchmaking and Repairing Done Cheaply and with Dispatch. Call and examine my stock and prices. EDUARD SCHOLTZ. Nov. 21, 47-tf. WILLIAM GLAZE. I am receiving a full line of Fine Gold Jewelry, DIAMOND RINGS, PLAIN GOLD RINGS, fterling ilver Wedding Preents -NEW DESIGNS. I am Agent for the J. E. SPENCER & CO., Diamond Pebble Glasses, all ages. Watch and all kind of Repairing and Engraving done in the Best Style. WILLIAM GLAZE, COLUMBIA, S. C. Oct. 22, 43-2w. The subscriber having bought the stock of the firm of J. Taylor & Co., will continue to conduct the business in all of its various branches of WHEELWRIGHT WORK, BLACKSMITHING, PAINTING AND TRIMMING, All of which w~ill be done in first class style. I have a choice and well selected stock of seasoned material and will build Double and Single Seat Buggies for sale and to order, of any style or pat tern, promptly, and guarantee satisfaction, as I will employ none but the best and most careful workmen; and spare no pains e make -mny work first class. OLD CARRIAGES AND BUGGIES reno vated and wade to look equal to new. REPAIRING done in the best manner and with dispatch. HORSESHOEING and PLANTATION WO0EKI promptly done. All of the above will be executed ATLOWVEST CASH PRICES. A liberal patronage respectfully solicited. J. TAYLOR, Shop Opposite Jail, NEWBERRY, S. C. TERMS CASH. Oct. 8, 41-6m. .lPiscellaneous. 'RIL CA E. Respectfully announce that they have on hand the largest and best variety of BU R.IA L t.jASES ever brought to Wew berry, consisting of Fisk's Metalic Cases, Embalming Cases, Rosewood Cases. Together with COFFINS of their own Make, Which are the best and cheapest in the place. Having a FINE H EARSE they are pre paed to funinsh Fnera in town or cnun Clothing. CLOTHING, UNDERWEAR, HATS, SHOES, &c. NEW FALL STOCK -AN'D NEW PRICES. HIGlT & J. W COPPOCK Iuvite attention to their elegant stock of Clolhing & Iurishi Goods, Guaranteeing Satisfaction Both in Quality and Price. Suits Fine, Medium, Commen, LOWER THAN EVER. CIVE US A CALL. \VRIGlT&J. W. OPPOK, No. 4 Mollohon Row, NEWBERRY, S. C. Oct. 1, I-Iy. 01iscellazeous. 0. B. 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Now is the time to subscribe for this ol~ ad reliable Agricultural Journal. It is in its XXXVIII volume, and stands at the head f agricultural papers. It is now published y the CONsTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga. Price, - - - $ 1.50 per annum. Clubs of 10, - - 12.50 " Clubs of 20, - -- 20.00 "' THE WEKLY CONSTITUTION, THE GREAT sOUTHERN FAMILY PAPEE. Price, - - - - $ 1.50 per annum. Cubs of 10, - - - 12.50" lubs of 20, - - - 20.00 "~ The Cultivator and Weekly to the same address, 2.50 " Agents wanted everywhere. Liberal com mssions. Address CONSTiTUTIO, FAITH. Fain would I hold ry lamp of life aloft Like yonder tower built high above th rest; Steadfast, thou tempest rave or winds blov soft, Clear, through the sky dissolve in tears o grief. For darkness passes; storms shall not abide A little patience and the fog is past. After the sorrow of the ebbing tide The singing flood returns in joy at last. The night is long and pain weighs heavily But God will hold His world above despair. Look to the east, where np the lucid sky The morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair! -Celia Thaxter, in Scribner. AisielUanlenm. THE GREENWOOD & AUGUS TA R. R. AND THE PENI TENTIARY CONVICTS. The correspondence below Ifas appeared in the Abbeville papers. DEFENSE OF THE RAIL ROAD DIREC TORS. STOCKADE No. 5, ON GREENWOOD & AUGUSTA R. 1., EDGEFIELD COUNTY, S. C., Oct. 22, 1879. To the Public: So many horri ble charges of cruelty and bruali ty towards the convicts at work on the Greenwood and Augusta Railroad, have lately been publish ed in the newspapers, that the undersigned board of directors of said road feel it due to the public, to themselves and to the employ ees of the road, to make the fol lowing plain statement of facts: It is sadly true that during the little over two years that the con victs have been at work on our road, about hilf of those we had in charge have died, but it is also true that about half of all their deaths occurred the five next suc ceeding months of the present year, dating from 20th April, 1879, when we received our last batch of convicts from the Penitentiary, and we are sorry to have to add that we now believe most of them died of scurvy, although uudou bt edly very many of the dead con victs likewise bad syphilis and other chronic diseases. At each of the stockades estab lished on our road every reasona ble effort has been made by the board to provide for the comfort and health of the convicts consist ent with their safe-keeping. Eve ry stockade has had a good spring or well of pure water. A large yard has been enclosed for exer ise of the sick ; commodious pris on pens have been erected, anoth er separate structure for a hospi tal has been built, still another cabin for commissary stores put tip, another for a guardhouse, yet another for the superintendent, besides two large tents for various uses. A bountiful supply of ba :on, corn bread, pcas and such ther vegetables as could be had in thc neighborhood have been the usual diet of the well convicts, but they have also had potatoes, nions, sugar, molasses, turnips, ollards, &c., by the barrel or wag on load, and lemons by the box, while flour, rice,, chickens, milk and other delicacies have been furnished the sick in large quanti ies, both by the company and by the neighboring citizens. Many and many a box of tobacco has been served to the well convicts and w hiskey has been freely ad inistered to the sick ones, es pecially since we ascertained, on the 19th day of August last, that they had scurvy, since which time hey have also been supplied lib rally with ripe fruit, vegetables, fresh meats, pure apple vinegar, potatoes, &c. Particular care and attention have also been given to tbe cooking, and a regular diplo matized practicing physician has been employed to attend to the ack at each stockade. Cleanili ess of person, quarters, night tubs, &c, has been studiously ob served. An abundance of medi :ine, shoes, clothing, blankets, &c., have always been kept on hand, except once or twice in summer when we have been a little short of clothing and shoes, but during the present year each of our con victs has bad three suits of othes The convicts may have beer pressed somewhat hard at timei to finish particular jobs of work but ordinarily they have not been overworked and have oftener worked less than ten hours a day than they have worked the full ten hours. As a rule they have never had less than an hour for dinner and rest in winter, and from two to four hours in summer, according to length of the day oz the heat of the weather. The su perin tendent, overseers and guards have never abused the convicts habitually or even in particular instances to our collective or in. dividual knowledge, and some one or more of the directors, who re side at short intervals all along the line of road, have almost daily, and frequently several times a day, either visited the stockade where the convicts were kept for the time or the railroad where they were at work. No one but the superintendent or head over seer has been permitted to inflict punishment, and then only with a strap, and if scars are to be found on the heads or persons of any of the convicts we have had in charge, (as is alleged by some of the newspapers,) we unqualifiedly deny that they have been inflicted by our employees, except, perhaps, in one or two instances for an at tempt to revolt or escape. Yet, although such has been our gener al treatment, the sickness and mortality, as before stated, has been very great, especially during last* summer and spring. That scurvy was the most fatal disease bardly admits of doubt, and al though we had the best medical attention in the neighborhood of each stockade, and although nu merous country physicians visited each of the stockades Nos. 3, 4 and 5, where nearly all the deaths have occurred, yet we were not informed of the presence of scur vy until the 18th of August last, when it was discovered in most of the convicts by a medical com mittee, consisting of Drs. -J., C. Maxwell, C. M. Burkhbalter and S. G~. Meriwether. - That it was scur vy which produced most of the mortality is proven by the fact that as soon as the prisoners were treated and dieted for scurvy, there was an almost instantane ous change for the better, and on ly o.no death has occurred from disease at this stockade during the last month, and only two oth er deaths, as we are informed, have happened among the twen ty-five convicts returned by us to the Penitentiary on the 26th of September, nearly all whbich twen ty-five wore rapidly con valescir'g at the time of their departure for Colum bia. Thbe scurvy of course was great ly aggravated during the past summer by the almost universal and protracted drought in this part of the State, preventing us from supplying the convicts with the fresh vegetables they would have otherwise received. On the 8th day ot April last our company re ceived seventy-five convicts from the Penitentiary without any medical examination by our sur geon, and many of tbose convicts, as we are informed, were afflicted with syphilis, dropsy, 'general de bility or other constitutional dis eases, .which rendered them unfit for grading a railroad and made them easy victims for the ravages of disease. Although our written contract called for seventy-five "able-bodied" convicts, yet we re ceived seven under fifteen years of age and others having syphilis, epilepsy, &c. We do not charge that those convicts were the pick ed invalids of the Penitentiary, but it is not reasonable that the most able-bodied or healthy were selected by the overseers in tbe Penitentiary, to be sent to us, particularly when we were so glad to get any, thiat we took all who were offered without inspection or examination. Among them were undoubtedly several who had been returned to the Penitentiary as worthless by other lessees. If we or our employees have been guil ty of a wanton abuse of our trust we have taken a strange why of exhibiting it. Tfhe late investiga tion which has been had by the Penitnntiary authoritien into the I causes of the mortality among the convicts on our road was set on foot by our president, Gen. P. H. Bradley, and at our own expense. This the superintendent of the Penitentiary, Gen. T. J. Lipscomb, admits in his report to the board of directors, of the Penitentiary, giving an account, of his first vis it to our stockade on the 21st of August last. In that report, wbich bears date 2d of September, 1879, he says he came to inspect our convicts, in con3oquence of "hav ing received a letter from Gen. P. H. Bradley, president of the G. & A. R. R., stating that a great deal of mortality and sickness existed among the convicts leased to that company." The surgeon of the Penitentia ry, Dr. Trezovant, never visited our convicts until the 25th day of; August, when he was ordered to do so by Superintendent Lipscomb, yet both of these officers, if we are correctly informed, bad been com manded by an order of the board of directors of the Penitentiary, as far back as the 22d of April last, to visit every convict camp in the State. Why did the superinten dent and surgeon of the Peniten tiary slumber over discharging this duty so longn? They could not plead ignorance of the fearful mortality among our conyicts, be cause regularly every month the superintendent of our road, J. J. Cahill, made a report to Gen. Lip scomb of time lost, or worked by each convict, as well as of the list of the sick or dead since his last monthly report. The superinten dent and surgeon of the Peniten tiary ought to be, and doubtles6 are, skilled in the best methods to treat convicts at work on rail roads, and if either of them had visited our road in the spring or early summer his suggestions would gladly have been put into practice, perhaps, to the benefit of the convicts, particularly if it had been impressed upon us, as it has been since, that all prisoners long confined are predisposed to scurvy. When at last Superintendent Lip. scomb and Surgeon Trezevant did1 make reports on our treatment of1 convicts, those reports contained1 such charges that our company was summoned to appear before the board of directors of the Pen itentiary to answer these charges.1 On the 18th day of Septemberi our president, vice-president and : superintendent did appear before< the board and made a thorough showing in written answers and1 by numerous certificates of gen tlemen and ladies near the stock ade and line of our railroad thatt the burden of the charges were without foundation. Yet as the< substance of those charges hast been published in the newspapers, t we respectfully submit that it / would be but fair to publish the e answer to the charges also. Lett all the charges and all the answers < therefore go to the world togeth- < er, and we do not fear being ac- ~ quitted of any intentional guilt t or gross negligence in our treat- < ment of the convicts. Fair play e is a jewel, and both sides ought to j be heard. As a result of the in- t vestigation by the board of direc- ( ters of the PenitLentiary, on the 18th of September it was agreed a by and bet ween the Penitentiary .I bEard and by our board through t its president, 0Gen. Bradley, that Dr. Pope, hospital steward of the Penitentiary, and Dr. T. J. McKiie, < who had been the surgeon in < charge of railroad Stockade No. 4, should make a thorough examina- < tion of all the convicts on our < road, both sick and well, and or der such of them back to Colum- I bia as they deemed advisable, be- t cause of being unfit to work ona the road, or for better treatment in the permanent hospital in the I city thani our temporary hospital on the road afforded. Those phy sicianis selected twenty-five con-< victs to be thus returned, and they were promptly returned at the expense of the company, although I several able-bodied ones were tak- I en from work on the railroad with out complaining of being sick< at all. Several others rapidly con valescing on the sick list under treatrn'ent for scurvy, and who would soon have been ready fori labor on the road in opinion of a1 number of physicians, including two of the undersigned, who saw them the day before they started for Columbia, were also included in the twenty-five before mention ed, while four or five obviously feeble ones were left on our hands. One of those twenty-five convicts sent to Columbia died on the road and another one shortly after ar riving in Columbia, but if they were tao feeble to be removcd thither, it was io fault ofour com pany, as Dr. Pope, who represent ed the Penitentiary, when remon strated with, said carry them, no matter if they should die on the road.he would take the respon.si bility. After carrying out the wish.s of the board of directors of the Penitentiary we hoped ou. trou bles were over and that we should be permitted to proceed with our road prosperously, especially as appropriate treatment for scurvy had n(t only improved the health and strength of the remaining convicts but their spirit also. Judge then of our surprise when on the 6th day of October Super intendentLipscomb and Dr. B M. Taylor, of Columbia, turned up at the stockade, inspected the same and the convicts without giving any notice to our president, sur geon or superintendent, or saying a word as to their object. We i 03ver knew their purpose until Gen. Bradley received on the 15th day of October last a copy of a resolution of the Penitentiary board passed at a special meeting Df the board when only - mem bers were present, ordering us to immediately return all the re maining conviCts at work. for us except eight in conformity with the recommendation of Dr. Tay or, dated 9th instant. From all this it would seem that there was % desire to break up our railroad mntirelv and have all the convicts ,eturned to the "enitentiary eith 3r to be supported in idleness at ;be expense of the taxpayers or to mt a canal and build factories as well as operate them for the bene it of Columbia at the expense of bhe rest of the State. It is true ,he Greenwood and Augusta Rail. 'oad is on the extreme western rerge of the State, but it is an im >ortant link in the railroad sys ,em of the State, as it will he a >ractical extension of the Port Royal Railroad, especially when ~ompleted to Spartanburg and al o to Anderson, as it it will be in ime, and connect our greatest eaport, Port Royal, with the ~reat North west. Therefore, all he people in western Carolina ~re deeply concerned in its early ~ompletion, particularly the coun ics of Beaufort, Colleton, Hamp on, Barn well, Aiken, Edgefield, te. Now that we have no serious ickness among our.convicts, andI hat they are all working splen-1 lidly except four or five feeble< mnes unaccountably left us, iti eems hard that we should have< o quit work at this juncture w ben ur grading is nearly completed,i nd wIgen our railroad taxes haveI ust begun to be collected in every ownsbip along the line from freenwood to Fury's Ferry. .. If the road is to be. suspended < s5 will be the case temporarily at< east if all the convicts are to be1 aken away excep)t eight, for it is; nockery to offer to leave us only< ight with which to work, then ur taxpayers will also becomei lemoralized in all probability and hereby greatly embarrass us, but loubtless the three city medical ~xperts from the capital and their ~llies intended our work shouldi e suspended and our railroad i axes- too, if possible. Yet con ~its or no convicts our road shall1 ot prove a failure, and our stock olders and friends may rest as ured of this. If we or our agents have abused mur trust in mistreating the con ricts, the State has our heavy nd valid bond upon which to sue 'or damages. Besides, she has the aw and can indict and punish'u.s.1 HVe have her consent to use the onvicts by act of the Legislature,1 nd we also have her contract in eriting through her officer and; gent to the same effect, and we ntend to stand upon our legal1 -iht uantiil eithe the Legislaure1 repeals the act granting us the labor or until the courts shall or der us to surrender the convicts. We are the more resolved on this course, because a medical committee, consisting of three well-known and skilful physicians of Edgtefield, to wit: Hon. H. A. Shaw, now a member of the Leg. islature, E. M. Burkhalter and G. S. Merriwether, have this day re ported, after careful investigation, that the health of our convicts has much improved of late, and that the whole of them are capa ble of performing the ordinary la bor required of the ordinary la. borer-except six who are resting in the yard-not one in the bos. pital and only one death during the last monto, from heart dis ease, of a convict formerly injured. on the Edgefield -and Trenton Railroad, whence he was returned to the Penitentiary as worthless, but was deemed good enough to be sent to our road. We feel con fident that the harrowing experi ence we have acquired will pre vent us ever having any more scurvy among our convicts. In reference to the grave charges which have-been preferred against either us or our agents in the public prints. we say boldly once and for all, that: we invite impartial investigation by the courts or by a committee of the 1 Legislature. Our- self-respect as men, to say not.hing. of our pride I of character as citizens, would have prevented us from intention- i ally wronging or p-rmitting, the convicts to be -Wronged. More over, we have had and all have a deep, direct,. personal and pecuni ary interest in:-treating- the :con victs well, so as to get; our road completed. For these reasons. a just or generous man would think I the terrible sickness and mortali ty among them had 'sufficiently distressed our feelings and embar rassed our enterprise without also making us the recipients of whole- .a sale and undeserved abuse. More convicts died irn the Peni tentiary last year~than died on the Greenwood and Augusta railroad, and about as many died in 'the e Penitentiary this year as have t died on our road. We have also been reliably informed that the general symptoms of the disease t which bas proven so fatal:to the t convicts both on the railroad and in the Penitentiary during the 1 two !s -tars have been identi eally the same-general. debility, j aruptions and dropsies of the low- t er extremities, alternating with Thronic diarrboea, which are at t.endant symptoms of scurvy, ac sording to all,the medical books. Now, as the health of the con-A v'icts in the Penitentiary this year bas been exceptionally good and is the health of our convicts hasj een wretched, especially that of ,he last lot of seventy-five we re 3eived without medical examina ion in April last, the public can iraw its own inference as .to how ,he mortality ceased so suddenly ni the Penitentiary and why it >roke out so alarmingly on our 'oad immediately afterwards. When so many convicts died in .e bhe Penitentiary last .year, no f~ ~limor was raised in any quarter ~oncerning it, but when only about he same number have died this rear on3 our road, and died too of lisease contracted in all probabili .g y to a large extent in - the. Peni- e ~ent.iary, or in the jails before be ng sent to us, agreat hue and cryd a heard all over the land. I1 Our company got its first hun- ca Ired convicts from the Penitentia- d yon the 24th of September, 1877, ynd as our own surgeonsexamie 3ach one before receiving him, o ibhey were for the most part a very b bealtby lot of laborers, among whom only six deaths occurred, a aven when counting several who t were killed for trying to escape t :luring the first eight months that I we had th.em, say up to May, 1878. But after we obtained a second ot of fifty convicts on the 2d of t K'ay, 1878, the sickness and mor- 0 1ality among them soon developedr it a fearful rate, and when we got a third batch of forty more; DIe- t sember the 6th, 1878, the mortali- t by again swelled to an undue pro- a portin. However. it is but .the o ADVERTISIHG RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1.00 per square (one inch) for first insertion -.nd 75 cents for cach sabsequent insertion. Double column advertiemcits ten per cer'lt. on above. Notices of meetings, ohituaries and tributt s ot-repe-r, same rates per square as ordinai y advertisemfents. Special Notices in Local column 15 ca&n s per line. Advertisements notmarked withthe nrr ber of insertions will be kept in ti forbid, and chnrged accordingly. Special contracts made with large sdver tisers. with liberal deductions-on above rates. -0:_ JOB PRIA*OTIAG DONE WITIT NEATNESS AND DISPATCH TERMS CASH. simple truth that when we receiv ed the second and third batch of convicts- above mentidnbd, Mr. Parmele, the then supperintendent of the Penitentiary, streniously objected to our taking them, be cause, as be said, most of them were badly diseased and would die on our hands. We unfortu nately failed to heed his counsel in our eagerness to get labor of any sort. They have died as he. predicted they would. in great numbers; but the last lot of sev enty-five received from Superin tendent Lipscomb on the 7th of April, 1879, have died at a far more appalling rate, considering fhe time we have had them, than %ny of tne other lots. In August, 1878, Superintendent Parmele visited our Stogke NQ. 3 at a time when there was negy is much sickness and, as many leathsamong.the convicts 4s there wvere at Stockade No. 5,. in Au Yust, 1879, when uperintendpnt Lipscom b visited it at our reqLest. 3uperintendent Parmele highly, )raised the general plan of our Itockade as well as. our manage nent of the prisoners, -both ~sick wd well, saying we were <doing a etter part by.the..convicta, in our aemporary country quarters than secould do for them2in- the, per-.. nanent~ quartersst the Pen iteatias y..Althougtep..tockade No. in, its appointemntseaand, disci-. >line is almost a duplicate of Stock Lde No. 3 which elicited thie warm nei 878, yet. Suerintendent ipscomb~ was not satisfled wi,h Loything he saw at Stock:ade No. in 1-87 -*-- - ~ ~ ~^ ~ I'i suanit igthisiskatement of acts to the public,-we claim that f mistakes have,been made th'ey vere unintentionah 2. Thbat-o onviets.have always een well fed, and generay weHt lothed. 3. That the secretary's..minates how that, the-.directors havelig. ued every order and used all dbe rigilance. to provest~ erneIty,-kard. bip or inhumanity~ 4. That the mortality was odue argely to p vious condition of onvicts, an dwto disease: beyond be pale of medicine. 5.. hat the o.n-its-hvedeen ttended by phyeicians who are he peers of any~in the.State. 6. TPhat the hospital treatiment pas as good as.could be giv6n to riapacled prisoners, and equal to hat received by the ordiDary it orer of the country. As a large number of newspa ers found space-to publish severe ttacks on. our marnagement. of onvicts, we hope their sense of istice will induce them to.publish bis response. P.:H. BIIdDLEY, Pr.esident. G. D.' TILLMAN, Vice-President. A. M. AI,KEN, Secretary. ~. W. Lites, G. W. Nixon, 7.* K. Bradley, J. D. Neel,. .B. Kennedy, J. C.: Maxwell, .H. Middleton, B. Reynolds, Jr., esse Stone, . J. N. Dendy, f. L. Parks, 'S. B. Hodges, os. Merriwether J..-T. Parks, . .Burkhalter, IJ. In Pressley, T. F. Riley. ard of Col. T. 3.. Lipsconmb, Se e~rintendent of the Peni .tentiary. - CoLrIBIA, S.-C., .Novemnber 15, 1879. In your issue of the 12th. insta'fr rere appears a commui~nication head I "The B3ailroad Convicts. *eThe de oce of ie Greenwood and Augusta ailroad directors. How. the con icts have beestecared for. .T be - true iwardness of the Penitentiary inves-~ gatiion." Dated October 22, 1879. aIn this commuigation i4.is very.va ae as to who is charged with enmity, nspiracy, opposition to the Green ood and Augusta R,ailroad, and false uarges and accusations against its irect,ors. . $o far-, I. am. econcerned assert that I acted s.olely -as an..f er of the State in the' discbarge of my uty, and that alone. If therefore say iat if anything in the communica on referred to was intended to-a art or imply that I ma~de false charges e- acted from im:proper motives, I ereby denounce that much of it .as tterly untrue and maliciously.unjust. [ajor W. K. Bradley, -whose :name anears among the signatures, assets