THE PICKENS SENTINEL? DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO THE GENERAL INTEREST OP TIIE COUNTRY. 1 ' A L ?. . ....... I, L ? . _ _ ^ fcsmvMk VOL. Y. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1876. NO^S 1 " From tlio Nowb and Courier. Governor ChamberlainVIEWS ON THK WillPPKR?MOSES INFAMY. Columbia, Sunday, Docombor 19.? * Upon my arrival hero to day I sought an intorviow with Governor Chamberlain, and now givo you an oxact report of what passed. Question?Ofoourso you aro awaro? Governor, of tho result of the judicial election. Did you oxpoct that election to tako placo on Thursday last? * Answer?I did not, ftnd I had tho best reasons for not expecting it. On Tuosday, when tho Sonato passed tho concurrent resolution to hold tho olcction on Thursday, 1 spoko to both my Itopubliean and Conaorvativo frionds, tolling them that I had a very important engagement in Grocnvillo on tho ovoning of Thursday, which I was the raoro anxious to kocp bonniiOA If i r* *tnl IV IUVWIVVVA \|UV WIIVVIIIOIIV9 (IUU interest of po many othors. I stated that, if tho oloction was to tako plaeo on Thursday I must and should ro~ main horo; butl carr.oatly appealed to ' tho/n not to allow tho election thon to oicur and thus disappoint my frionds ' ill Greonvillo. .1 also addrcssod a personal noto to Mr. Speakor Elliott, in which i requested him, or. pcrcona! as well as public grounds, to uso hie influence to stay the election, not only from occurring on Thursday, but to stay it until next week or after tho holidays. In answer to this noto, Speaker Elliott catno to my oflico on Wednesday morning, and unid ho res ^ grettod that ho had not thought of my ongagomont in OJrconvillo hoforo Ho nnked to favor coucurroneo in tho Sonato resolution. ILowover, ho said, whilo ho might vote for concurrence, owing to his previous commit r ul, yet lio would speiilc to his friends, and ho thought thcro would bo no dit(iculty in postponing tho election until aiicr my return from Greenville at v tho earliest. I acccptod this aesurrtnee of tho Speaker and tho voto of tho House, which was 72 to 31 on tho mAtinn in 1 n xr ( lu? ftnnofn i* * ls\ on the tablo, as a sufficient guarunteo, and left for (xroenvillo on tho morning of Thursday, without tho slighcot suspicion that tlio olcction would ho brought on. It is true that I was told just before tho train loft that there imtj u i/i?? v jiVQOiUliItjr LIIUU till} CIW" x tion might como off that day; but it was doomed cortain that tho rosolu? tion could at least bo fought off until Friday, and Icontentod myself with making arrangements for a special train to bring rno back Jto Columbia by Friday morning if necessary. If I had really suspected the conspiracy #hfch was dovolopod on Thursday, nothing in tho world could have in t uuccu rao 10 loavo uoiumuia, Question?Ilnd you boon prosont xvhon tbo election took placo, could you havo changed tho result? Answer?I soo no roaaon to think I + cculd- Tho conspiracy appears to iiavo been carofully concoctod. Tho color line, tho nnrtv line, and t.bo linn of antagonism to my administration, all wcro sharply drawn; and the tono ? of tho spooohcfl mado by tho leading Biipportors of VVbippor and Moses and Wiggins shows that it requirod a dogroo of boldnoHS not possessed by igany of our legislators to vote in ops position to the combination. Still it would havo boon a groat satisfaction ^ to mo to havo bcon on tho spot and gone down fighting, if 1 must go dpwn. Quoation?Was it not as a oomhu nation of tho supporter/) of diffaront candidatoH that tho conspiracy of which you havo spoken wus ho powerful? - Answor?Yos. Tlio peculiar strength of tho combination lay in uniting the interests of a largo nutnbor ot tho f candidates. This alone, I think, * v cauflod tho defoat of Judgo Mahor. Tho oppononts of this Judgo hud a certain number oi votes which thoy would east lor other candidates in other circuits only on condition that tho friends of theso candidates should * pay thorn lor voting against Mahor. Mr. Wiggins, the successful candidato, had no strongth,and was a moro loaf on tho ourront; but tho combination that took him up was woldod togotlior by tho force of a common nurnoso to - t 4- -rout an incorruptiblo Judge who lmd boon nn insurmountable barrier in tho way of thoso who havo at last overthrown him. Question?IIow do you look upon tho election of Wiggins, Whipper and M0808? Answor?1 look upon thoir olootion as a horriblo disaster; a disaster equally great to tho Stato, to tho Republican party, and, groatest ot all, to thoso communities which shall bo doomed to foel tho full eflfocta of Moaos and Whippor upon tho bonch. I did, a yonr a^o, apeak publicly of Whippor, who was then a candidato for tho position to which ho baa now boon olcctod. Then I denouncod him as incapablo and utterly unfit for tho ofllco. Of Mobob, no honoat men can havo diflforont opinions. Neithor Whippor nor Mosea baa any qualifir>,it.inn for inHininl nnnitinna Thn i-i>_ putation of Moses is covercd deep with charges which aro boliovod by all who aro familiar with tho facts of corrupt tion, bribery and tho uttor prostitu* tion of all his official powers to tho worst possiblo purposes. This calamity is infinitoly groator, in my judgment, than any which has yot fallon on tho State, or. 1 might add, upon any part ot the South. Mioses as Govornor i? endurable compared with Mosob as J udge. Question?What do you think of Wiggins? Answer?IIo is not to bo classed morally with Moses and Whipper; but in order to defoat Judge Mahcr, lie has eonsonled 10 bo iho tool of the samo combination which elected Moses and Whipper, and, as such tool, he will bo expected to, and doubtless will, do thoir worlf. Quoation?What in your judgment^ will.to tho effect of tho cloction of those throo men? Answer?Tho greatest consequences of all kinds will follow. Ono im unoaiato ettoct will obviouwly l?o tSic ^organization of tho Domocralic party within tho Stato, as tho only moans loft, in tho judgmont of its mombors for opposing a solid and reliablo front to this torriblo orovasso of misgovornmcnt and pablio dobanohory. I oould havo wished, as a .Republican, to have kopt off such an issue, but I have a profound beliof in tho logic of ovonts and a Providonco, too, that shnpos ovonts; and I do not allow mysolt to think thai tho good and honest men of South Carolina will find it impose I At _ * muiu, uuuuuhu nicy arc organized as Democrats, to givo their help to whom soovor shall bo the beat able to undo tho tcrriblo wrongs of last Tuesday. I nm free to say that my bighost ambition as Governor baa been to make tho ascendancy of tho Itopublican party in South Carolina compatible wiiu ino attainment/ ana maintenance of as liigli and pure atone in tho administration of pubtic affairs as can bo oxhibitod in tho proudest Democratic Stato of tho South; and it was also my fondcHt hope, by peaceful agoncioa, horo in South Carolina alono of all tho Southorn Statos, to havo worked out, through tho Ilopublican party, tho solution of tho most difficult, and ono of tho most interesting poli tical and social problems which this contury has prosontod. If thoso rouultH bhull not bo roached, the responsibility for tho fuiluro will not ro?l upon tho Consorvativo citizens of South Carolina, who havo hithorto, with unvarying fidelity and gonoros ity, Blood by mo in my work; but upon thoso, and all liko thorn, who dealt tho oauso of good govornmont so deadly a blow on Thursday. Quoetion?Has your attontion boon called to the quostion of the right of tho prosont Legislature to oleot Judgop, whore tho incumbonU had boon eloctod to aorro for unoxpirod torma? AnBwor?Yofl. I havo road thodiscurtHton of this quostion in tho nownpaporu, and havo liHtonod to tho viows of sovoral mo inhere of tho bar of tho Stato; but I cannot nay that I lmvo maturely studied tho quostion. It is ovidontly a fair and open question, and involvos most important consoquenccs. If tho Judfoa who !???* ? _ O " ",v "" * provious to tho present session, been olootod nominally to fill unexpired terms, aro ontitled under the Constitution to hold a full term of four years, thon it follows that this General Assembly Imd no right to olcct their successors. This ouestion eovorn i.ho cases of \V hippcr, Moses, Judgo Curs pontor and Judgo Cooko; but you will rcmombor that both Judges Carpontor and Cooko are thoir own succcsh>ors. - ? Tho owls unci bats and obscono birds of prey begin to fluttor and fly away from tho Capitol at the coming of tlio day. Wo arc informed tliat Judge Advocato Goncral Joseph Holt has boon retired, at his own roqnost, after a sorvico of thirteen years, during which ho has contrived to commit moro villainly in tho name of justicc than any other man save Foucho or Fonquicr Tinvillo over perpotratod. Ho is ono of tho very fow Americans wtioso names will go down to history red with tho stain of innocent blood. Among the political roncgados of 1801 ho was not as rookloss as Butler, or as able as Stanton, but ho was more malignaat and baao than tho other. For years past he has sluilped out of tho sight of men, in a cloud ox hit* own making, shunned and avoided even by such as aro left living about him of tho men who usod him in thoir clay of pownr to ensnare and torture their follows. He retires now that he may avoid ejection hy a llouso of Representatives which will really represent the American people. Hut it will be tho duty of tho llouso of roprosontativos to sec to it that ho carries with him into his retirement nothing but tho lively of shame which ho has I.UKVII iniu ouajiuu UIIU Illiea 10 l)im*? Rolf forever.? Now York World Philadelphia, December IS ?The fourth week of Moody and Sankey, tho Evangelists' labor in our city draws to a close to day. Judging from Mr. Moody's own words, the results have been more than satisfac tory?they liavo been surprising.? \fnrri /?/??% n lw?JJ ..,1 I? - i ?^v>. v winwio in u uviiuvcu uy 1110 Evangelist to liavo been made during the past week than in any other week ever spent in America. The inquiry rooms have been full almost every evening, and a large proportion of those converted have become earnest workers for the salvation of others. The meetings this week have been largoly attended. The evening Hurviii?3 liavn Avornorrttl frnm ton twelve thousand people. The Friday meetings havo boon set aside lor tho cause of to-nperance; no other requests are offered. On the morrow, Mr. Moody lectures to young men only; twelve thousand tickets are being distributed. It is remarkable, as we consider the thousands that have assembled to hear Mr. Moody, that as yet thoro has been no disturb anco of any account. Chntknnial.? Among the Swedish Exhibits to the Exhibition, will bo a moteorito weighing three and a half tons, found a tew years ago in Greenland by Nordonskiold, the Swedish geologist. Already, live hundred persons havo engaged tu exhibit from that country, ono hundred of them in the department of Hun fil'la Tim nliirtf rlioiilnu 1... of iron, Lor main comco of revenue, although tlie manufacture of watches and majolica waro will roccivo much attention. Considering Sweden's population of 4,000,000 and her Centennial appropi iation of $150,000, el?u has dune bettor tiian any other foreign nation. Counterfeiting monoy is getting to bo ono of our most important industries. In Brooklyn rocontly ton mil. lion dollars in counterfeit groonbacks j wore burned. ?T . Another Veto. Tho following was filed yestorday by Governor Chamberlain: EX KOUTIV K C11A M D Kit, Columbia, S. C., Dec. 21, 187;"). I decline to sign the commissions ot w.j. YVliippcr and F. J. Moses, Jr., elected as Judges of tlio Circuit Court of this State by tlio Genoral Assembly, on the 16th instant, for terms to begin on the 20th day ot August, 18TG. By tho constitution of tho Stato Ihe T 1 ' ? * .juuges ot tlie Circuit Court arc to be elected for terms of four years. P>y a ecries of adjudicated cases in the highest court of this State, extending from 1821 to 1872, it has, in my jud gmont, been determined that oilicors elected under provisions of law similar to this provision of the present constitution arc entitled to hold their offices for the full term prescribed by the constitution or laws under which ,l.~ ?i? :? i i i mvj eiccuuu is ueiu. It follows thai, sir the terms of the present incumbents of tho offices tu which the above named persons claim to have been elected on tho lGih instant will not expiio until after an other general election of members of the General Assembly, tho present I (ionp.ral Assembly bus not tho right to elect their succcssors. Whilo in some Ci!6ea, presenting similar legal questions, it might not be required ol tho Governor to deeline to icsuo commissions, tho circtims'ances of the present case com pels ino to this eourso. I). II. ClIAMIlKKLAIN, Governor of South Carolina. The Two ApprenticesThe boys were in a carponler shop. Ono determined to make himself a thorough workman* Mm v,,v ww,,v* u,u" v I euro. 11c rend and bludicd and got books that would help liiin to mulor-> .stand the principles of his trade, lie spent his evenings at homo reading. Tho other liked fun the best, lie went oil* w ith other boys to have his /un. "Come,'' ho often said to his shop mute, leavo your books; go with us. What's iho use cf all this reading? "ICI wasLo these golden moments,'' was the reply, "I shall loose what I can nover, ncvor mako up." Whilo the boys woro still appron* tices, an oiler ol two thousand dollars appoarod through tho nowspapois, lor tho host rtlfin of' n SlnlnlmHOA >' ' J-.---- W. ?? ry vitbVUV/uru IW 1/ U built in 0110 of tlio Kastorn Slates.? Tlio studious boy saw llio advcrtisoI monl, and iio determined tu try for it. Alter c (ireful study lie drew liis pinna and sont them to tlio coniinittce. 1 HUPDOSO Iio did not. nvnnr.l Irw 4 t ? . ?... .J v nothing like trying. It was not long bcforo the committoo of gontlumen arrived at tlie carpenter shop, and asked if an architect by tho name?mentioning the hoy's namo?lived there. n\r.. n i -^o, Hiiui ino oarpontor, no architect. I've ^ot a 11 apprentice by that name." "Lot's sou him," said tho committoo. Tho young man was calloil, and Hiiro enough, his plan had houn acooptod and tho two thousand dollars woro his. Tho commillco ihon said ho must put up the building; and his employor \v.?fl ho proud of his success, th?it ho willingly gave him his time and let him go. This studious carpenter's hoy hocamo one of tho best architects ot our count rv. 1I<< ...... ^ IIIIIVIV 41> lUl'llI lll'j t'lDd J stands high in the esteem of everybody, while the fellow apprentice cum hardly earn by his daily labor, daily bread lor himself ami family. >v no loses si youlli ot improvement, loses tho best beginning which :i boy, can make in life. An unusual number of pooplo are marrying now. This is leap-year, anil no woman wants it prominied that hIio popped llto question bursal/. They Must Neves Be ForgivenCharleston, S. C., Dec. 20 To the Editor ot the Union Herald: ? Sir ? As a citizen and as a member C ?. 1 " i in u'o icepu 1>1 icivn party, I wish ti>1 place inysolfon record as denouncing with my wholo soul the outrage upon decency and civilization perpetrated j by the Republican majority in the Legislature, in thr? ohu'iion ?f m.?>,.?, ^.^w.v.1 VI iUV3VOj [Whippcr and Wiggins aa judges of ' the circuit courts of i his State. A majority ot those who did this thing will doubtless live to repent of it, even if n>?t penitent already, hut as public men they must never he forgiven by the \ eoplo. A man who says that he votoa fin L<\ 8. Moses Jr., as judge because ho is a Republican proclaims himself so destitute of decency, or political wisdom, as to make it tiic height of absurdity to speak or think of him as a Republican, lie is simply an ig j norant ass, or a political bandit, and such in the future, if not in the pres ent, win bo the verdict oi the people with retercnco to tho men who, by their votes last week, made tho llupublican pa> ty in this Slate a stench to tho nostrils of the wliulo country. For those who, through tl.oir ignorance and prejudice were excited d.~ * miu ui ouiiiiimiHig mis great outrage, once can ieol nothing but pity and contempt, but the intelligent white and colored scoundrels who conceived and carried out this plo1 against all that is decent and honest in the State deserve and will ultimately receive condign punishment at tho llfllld of MM Mil t I'll rnirl nn.inln - There was not an intelligent man voting for Moses, Whippet* or Wig* gins who did not know perfectly well the entire unfitness of these men for the positions to which tiiey aspired. It is sale to assumo that neither Senator Wliittemorc, Nash, Swails, or any other intelligent member of either house, would trust Moses to act for them in any private business transaction involving tho value of lifty dollars, and yet they deliberately placed him in a position where ho is to pass up* 11 the l ights and property of a whole onnununity, and this too, it: tho face of the fact that his knowlI i?d ill llii url in i 11 oil >D m.->? w ...V . v\v/\l I IUJS !D JlV/b con lined to their breasts, but is iti the possession of the whole country-. Take tiny possible view ot thoeitu* ft'ion and it must he conceded that the men who have committed this crime against the people can no lon> gur be tolerated in public lite. If they elected these men, as many of them eav, to save the liepubiican party from uisaslor, then they de serve to bo Uirnecl out of the eight and hearing ol men, for their blind folly and etupidity. If, on tho other hand, a^ I fully believe with reference to many of them ihey did thia thing under the cry of danger to tho party, while their real designs were to pow or ami plunder, they still more richly deserve ilio fate certainly in store lor thorn. Let the Republicans of the Stato who have the intelligence to boo and tho heart to feel the enormity of this crime committed by those who uns tier the guise ot Republicanism, are simply organized public robbers, or the aiders and abettors of such. Rooudiato them uttmlv. ' -J - I Governor Clmmbcrlani, both as Governor and an tlio representative of tlio Republican party, 11an done liiw | part, and it i.s now tlio duty of tliono j who oleclod him to ollico to conio to his help a^aiimt tlio men who aro cary f in^ both Htato and party toiuin. 01 t one tiling wo may uo sure: il tlio ho- . publicans themselves do not drive from : t powor these traitors and thus save tho j Ht:Uo,'80ii.o otlior political organi/,as j lion willj for in tlio naturo of tilings j tho misrule and corruption which lutvo culminated in tho olootiou of Moses, ^ Whippor and Wiffgiu must some to 1 an end. Respectfully, | Kkujiun Tom i.inkon. I* * iLiu i' * *-> A Tail That Was ft Tale. s> When tho Irwin ton tolls a story it tolls a g>od one, ? witness the onchorennto api>peridp$ifcr i)t:ac 11 Smith of Wilkinson Ooum* ty, owns, or did own, a horso whiijjji ono time in his lite saved hhh an incalculable amount of money by {(a horse sense. The deacon Buys himself and wife, while partaking of ? I. - : * nioir noonuay meal, wore very much surprised at tlic action <>t llieir horse, which was loose in the road near tlio house. It would run up to the gate, neigh vociferously and ilicn run oft' again. This wan repeated sovera) times, Iho deacon aipso from ther tfll>lf?. fo flBCOI'tflin t ..uuv> iuiii illU UII1I3U "I HH stran?ro conduct. flc rcachcd tlib door and looked out, and saw awflty off in the direction the horse had ran a dense emoke. lie 6eizcd his hat and ran to f.lm iilsw-n - ?- ... v |'ii*vwt v^Vil'llUUIUIlj suid lie, "lightning had struck a treo and but it on lire, and the (lames had communicated to uiy fence around my corn field containing about eight hundered bushels ot coin. Tiw iiio had consumed about a dozen paituels of fencing, and readied a branch* My Iio- jo, when I arrived, wae atandng in this branch dipping hor tatUtalto the water and throwing tho water on tho burning touce." Tlio crowd looked incredulous, and the deacon enid: "Gentlemen, if you dont bclicre itr you ask Malinly. Stylish but Sknsiblk.?A plucky Iowa girl thus tolls lirr experience in gotting on in this world: "1 am Uioonly daughter of a farmer of moderate >vwin..o. ? - '?' " mtru tuiigiil muiiuoi nve yours, I begun whon nix teen yours of ago. This present summer 1 walked ononnd three fourth miles night and morning and taught my suminor school. Harroot. ???w 1 ~ ?- - ? 4 . vimiu v,n iiiiu ivg wurp l|l wnnv Of a hired hand. Plenty could bo had ftt f'2.50 per pay, but that socmod liko loss without profit, so I donned ray driving gloves and broad brimmed hat and dro\ o tho reaper to cut oight acres of grain. Besides I took a music lesson onco in overy week. All of my young may mends sulci: "Oh, you will ruip your hands and complexion,'' but for aught I closed school' Smco roaping is dono I've dono all tho cooking lor tho havest folks. 1 carry a gold watch and chain, and support ninelhynl jowclry and move in tho beat eociofyi aiu considered rath or Gtylish, but ajii of that disposition that I can adapt myself to circuni&Uincos. I am well awaro that a delicuto dress and v.utiii uutumi; ntu in u uniirooin, that a m( dust Ureas and neat tilling gloves aro designed for church, aud last but not least, that a calico droflii ia proforablo (or kitchen work. ... .? \ T XT - JY iJAUK X> ATURAI-IZKD, 11)0 JfUl? tirnoro Sun, saye; Mrs. Robert Mickto, wife of tho cashior ol tho National Union Bank, was naturalized in tho City Court on Saturday by Judge JJrown, upon renouncing all allogianeo lo tho King of Snain. Mrs. Micklo camo to this country when a child IVom Cuba. Desiring to pay a visit to hor native Mo to sco relatives, sho IbiunJ sho could not obtain a passport from tlio Stuto departmont without Itaviiiir naturalization papers. Hor husband gave the necessary ovidonco that tho lady was of good, moral character, and bore good disposition, to tho Constitution of the United Statos, &c., amid noinq pleasantry from tho Judge and other friends in Court. Ijtti.k tiiinos.? Ivil'o ik mado up of litllo tilings. Ho who travols ovor a ontinent must go along step by stop. Ho who writes :i hook must do it icntonco hysontonco. llo who loarns i scienco must master it fact by fact ind principle hy principle. What i? ,ho liajtpi 11C8H of our lift) rnado up of? [iittlo courtcsioH, litllo IcindnoHKCS, )lca?:int word*, gonial Hinilofl, u I I i> I a! I