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9 . .. 1 IT - 1 ? THE PICKENS SENTINEL. i J . i . . 1 -): , . . . . . . , . , . DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO THE GENERAL INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY. YOL. v7 PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL?O7TBT6. NO. 33. 1 s . ' * > . ' flntramnr- niiamliavlain I 1 1 1 ' JI,L"i 41 *" ? ? ? MVV VAUVA VUWU1MVAAM1U* This advoit politician as be moves ^ along, makes it convenient to show bis hand occasionally, but never inrid rertently I His letter to Morton established bis claim in the Northern tniild, to an earnest desire for reform j in order to save the Republican party in Sontb Carolina from dissolution, which ho knew would result from the infamy of defiant Radicalism in the ^ Legislature: That point gained, ho now sots about the work of securing the elec~ toral voto of tho Stato for tho Ropub lican [^residential nominee. ^ How he has used tho credulous Democrats for his own purpose and for their ruin, is known to every body. Ho now proposes to secure > the confidence of Grant by a promise of the electoral-vote, and tho defeat of tho Democrats in the State. We give Governor Chamborlain credit for the wisdom of seeing that the electoral voto of tho State is of vastly more importance to either party, in every point ot view, than tho succes ^ of the State ticket in South Carolina. As indicated by tho following lettor to President Grant, Governor Cham- , berlain will use tho Democrats for one purpose, and tho Whippor-Moses gang for another, thus securing for r tho Republican party both tho electoral vote for President, and a coni tinuation of Radical rule in tho State. Some Democrats (tho Lord help iho poor State) nro blind enough to 3 ield to his soft persuasion*-! It is plain that if tho Democratic Stnto Conven tion yields to this bargain offered by tho adriot Chamberlain, we will have ; nether the ghost of a party left to is ni' tlin (rlincl 11 flmnnn <.f uu<n.n>!i<? tho radical iliicvos from ollico.? .Greenville Nows. Read lus let tor to President Grant; To Ilis Excelloncy tho Priadent: Sih: I am induced by roc nt extra ordinary circums'ancos occurring in this State to addross yon this communication, as tho hoad, in a cortain eenso, of tho Republican party. The General Assembly ot this State, on the 10th instant, electod W. J. Whip* per and K. J. Moses, jr., n8 judges o' tho circuit embracing tho city of u~ i.~~ ? V-'HiU 1UCJWWII (IIIU ^UIJBl lUIUIJ^ UJ 11U IIJU most important circuit in the State in point of population, wealth and business. The character of F. J. Mosos, jr., is known toj'ou and to the world. Unless the entirely universal opinion of all who are familiar with % bis career is mistaken, he is as infamous a character as ever in any ago disgraced and prostituted public position. The character of VV. .J. Whip per, according to my belief and the belief of all good men in this State, bo far as I am informed, differs from that of Moses only in extent to which opportunity has allowed to exhibit it. The election of theso two men to ju4 dicial oilicea sends a thrill of horror through the State. It compels men of all parties who respect dcccucy, virtue or civilation, to utter their louuest protest against the outrage ol their olection. They havo not cvon the poor qualification of such a degree of legal learning ns to quality them for the intelligent discharge of any judicial duty. The loast of all the evils inflicted on the peoplo of this Stato by their election is the fact that it compells all .Republicans who love or honor the principles c. their party to refuse to countenance or tolerate such representatives. I pin a Republican of just as many yoars' standing as I havo seen years ol discretion. I havo been u strict party man adhering to my party here in Soutu Carolina through good roport and evil report, never for once qnuung us ranits anuu me greatest ditcouragoments arising from tho bad conduct and suicidal policy of many ofite most promjnet members; but the time has now come when nu eelf fitting ftepublicau cqq ^olarato iiiu uacuuuuuuy 01 bucu mon as, in this instance, have been forced upon ur. For yon or me, as Republicans, to countenance the election of Moses and Whipper is as impossible as it would bo for Governor Tilden, as a Democrat, to countenance the election of William M. Tweed and George GBarnard to judicial positions in New i York. I cannot and will not doit, . bo the consequences what they may | politically. And yet I know there are men who will chargo mo in this crisis, as they have charged mo hitherto, with treachery to the Republican party bocaueo I cannot keep silent and still support a party loaded with such men. The newspaper in Washington which has somotimes boon called your orgltn, doubtless erroneously, will quite likely denounce mo with renewed vigor for what simple self resuect will comuol mo to do iii view of this outrage. I toll you, Mr. President, no act of mine, if I were the greatest living traitor to my party, could bo so fatal to that party as tho eloction of Whipper and Mus 08 has been and will be. I want, above all things, to save South Caro lina for tho Republican party in the coming presidential struggle, but I cannot save it, nobody can save it, it the party here or tho party at Washington, or in tho North do less than denounce this thing unsparingly, and join their etiorts to Ihuue of the honest Republicans here in an effort to overthrow the power of ench men as Whipper and Moses and their aiders Mid abbettors. Our only salvation id in cutting louse from all contamination with these men, and requiring all who are amendable to our influence to do the same. To try t > save the seven electoral votes of South Carolina at the pi ice of silence under this inilic ion will co6t us, in my judgement, many times that number of votos elsewhere We want your moral and political support in this struggle of political iniquity in its woist forms. It is as suicidal to gi vc countenance to Whip per and Mosus here as it would be to give countenance to the whisky thieves in St. Louis. The party fealty of such men is disastrous to the party. I havo written earnestly. I cannot do otherw ise. Lot no man convince you that I am anything but a Republican until common decency compels ino to bo something else.? Give us your countenance as you have giver, if, I be!ie*<v in the pasf. aucl if wo cannot save South Carolina to the party, we can pi event our party here from becoming a thousand fold greater burden o the national repub^ lican party than it has ever been bo fore. Wo propose to declare war on this WhipporsMosea gang. Wo pro pose to ask the national republican party to sustain ub, aim wo Know that you- and all true Republicans will hid us G>d speod who know the depth of degradation to which those men are plunging us. This letter is, of course, addressed only to you, but you enn rnnke any use of it you see fit; and I remain your sincero friend and fellow Republican. D. H. ClIAMnERLAIN, Govornor ofSonth Carolina. An enterprising grocer at Santa Clara, California has adopted an oricrinal method of doincr business n cj Each sido of his store is fitted up tor business on its own account. In tho gonoral arrangement oaoli sido is a duplicate of the other, tho difference being that ono sido is cash end the other oredjt, When a customer compg in tho first question asked is. ?Do you wish to buy for cash or on account?" If it jg n oasli ouBtomer tho j>ooda and priccs on tho cash side are shown, but if it is ono who wants credit he is shown tho other side, and for tho first time in his lifo^ perhaps, made to roaiizo tho yaluo of ready monejr. w uni me ? ow * otk Herald Says of It. The re-eloction of Govornor Ingor-. soil, with a falling off of about Gfty throo por cont. of his last ycar'B raa^ jority, has bocn a favorablo aspoct for tho Domocrats. Thoir success in holda. a*-*- -*? mg tuu nmiu give uiom a roasonablo hopo of currying it for thoir Pr?8i-> dontial candidato in Novoniber; but, on tho other hand, tho curtailmont of thoir majority is an indication that thoy can oxpoct no addition to their strongth in othor Statos. rJ?ho groat States of Ohio and Pennsylvania, which they lost last yoar, will not bo rocoverod, and tho outting down of Govornor Tildon's majority of tho previous yoar by moro than sovontv per cont is ft damago whiph cannot bo repaired. Tho result in Now Hampshire and Connocticut proves that tho rocont oxposurcs in Washington do not strongthon tho Democratic party, or that, if thoy havo any political cffeet, it is moroly to put tho brakes on adoscont which might othorwiio havo boon moro rapid. Within tho Stato itsolf tho diminution of th3 Democratic majority mal/no .iiunim iiu jnuuiivui uuierenco, sinco tho oloctoral votes of Connecticut will doubtless bo given to the St. Lcuis candidato. As rogards the rost of tho country, tho most hopeful viuw Domoorats can take is that they may baroly hold thoir own in States not doubtful enough to bo vigorously contested by tho Republicans. Con* ceding to tho Democratic party all tho comfort they may dorivo from this expectation, wo insort parallel lists of all tho Democratic and all the Republican States, with tho electoral votos of cacli, rosorving Now York out of both lists, for reasons lhat seem sulticcnt. DEMOCRATIC STATES. Alabama, 10 Arkansas, G Colorado, 3 California, 0 Connecticut, 0 Dolowarc, 3 Georgia, 11 Indiana, 15 Kentucky, 12 Louisiana, 8 Maryland, 8 Mississippi, 8 Missouri, 15 Novada, 3 Now Jorsoy, 9 North Carolina, 10 Oregon, 4 Tonnessco, 12 Toxaa, 8 Virginia, 11 Wost Virginia, 5 Total 172 ltEl'UlJLICAN STATES, Florida, 4 Illinois, 21 Iowa, 11 Kaunas, 5 Maino, 7 Maamichutts, 13 Michigan, 11 r. i?i i ii iiunvut, j Nebraska, 3 Now Ilampshiro, 5 Ohio, 22 Pennsylvania, 29 Khodo Inland, 4 South Carolina, 7 Vormont, 5 Wisconsin, 10 Total 162 Wo havo ondoavorod to niako this list fair, and if there ho ono or two doubtful Statos of oithcr side a now classification would ho about as favo* rnblo to quo party an tlio otlipr. Our ptirposo In proparipg this tablo is to oxhibit In an intolligiblo and convincing forrp tho cardinal faot that noitbor party has any ehaneo for suceoss without tho doctoral votosof Now Yqrk, tho omittod Statos. To raako this oloar it Is only nocosaary to com. - r paro tho torogojng tfthlo with the fol? lowing statement: Wholo numhor of olootoral votes. .300 Nccossary to a ohoico...t... 186 Tho thirty-flvo doctoral votoa of Now Yovk will turn tho tjpale and do* oido tho election. ThisStato is, thoro(oro, thp 'Jphprmopjlfo of tho Prosi dontial contost, and if oithor party fails to soloct its oandidato with a view to his strongth in Now York it will .mako a fatal blundor. Thoro is no likolihood of any considorablo chang08 olsowhoro, and Now York is doubt ful enough to demand strenuous of* forts on both sides. Tho chiof problom to be solvod, both at Cincinnati and St. Louis, is, what candidato has tho best chancoa ot carrying New York? ? Why Is It 1 It appears that <iuito a number of the citizons of Grecnvillo, Oconeo and Pickens Counties, liavo been sent to /II 1 4 -- *-1 - ' ? ' * 1 TT '* v/uHiicBioii, io ue uieu in ino united States Circuit Court, (now in session there) for violations of tho Internal Revenue laws. Tho United States District Court has jurisdiction of all matters involving violations (t tho Revenue Laws and we were not awaro that tho Circuit Court had concurrent jurisdiction. Tho judiciary net of the United States, provides that an annual session ot the District Court, for South Carolina, shall bo held in Greenville, in August, and it was evidently con-, templated that all offences arising in this part of tho State should bo tried jn that Court. It is a maxim, as old as the common law, that ovory citizen accused of crime shall have a fair trial by a jury of the vicinage; and by the statute law of this Statu a citizon accused ol'crimc must be tried in tiio county where the crime is alledgcd to have been committed, unices tor good causc shown, the venue is cluing ed. The leason for this is obvious.? The accused has u ri??nt to mnka his defence; and, except in felonies, lie must procuro his wi'ncsses at his own expense. It w?uld be n practical de nial of this light if iho accnsod was dragged clear across the State for trial; for, although he might havo a good defense, he perhaps would not bo able to carry his witnesses with him. And especially is this true in the United States Courts, where the accused cannot testify in his own be*, hall. Then, even if the Ciicuit Court has concurrent jurisdiction, should these men not be tried in Greenville? If they were unablo to give bail, it might be said that it was dono to irivn tho.m n RiMnrlv trirtlr lint n. lnrtrft number of tliotn wore ablo to give bail, and they also have to go to Charleston. Most of theso men aro poor; thoy unable to carry their witnossos with them. By tho law governing tho court in which thoy aro tri?.d, their own months aro scaled; and honcc? guilty or innocont, thoir conviction is a cortamty. Is tins justice f Is it law ? Wo do not know who is rosponsiblo lor this movo. nor do wo know by what right it is done. Wo proposo, howovor, to look into tho mattor, both as to t)io law and tho facta, and perhaps shall luivo something furthor to say at an oarly day ?Greonvillo News. f . lie camo homo very lato ono nightt and after fumbling with his latch kov CJ u ft good while, muttered to himself, ft8 lie ftt length opened tho door, tnushmuftkeny noieh,cftU8e tholoman aebleep. IIo divostud himeolf of his garments with 601110 trouble, and was nniu^rof nlntSniv ItiinQnlf on liia QiiP^nuQ as ho was getting into bod, when a calm, clear, cold voice sent a chill down his spinal oolumn: "Why, my dear, you ain't going to sleep in your hat, are yon." ' IIonest Qovkhnmkmt,?Tho work before tho pooplo is one in which ovory honest man, whatovor may havo been his provious political associations, may consistently and profitably participate, it is simply the restoration ot honest and oftioiont government, That end accomplished, the party bringing it about will have dono as much for South Carolina as all the brilliant statesmanship of by-* gone dajs.?-Winnsboro Nowa Mrs, Marsh in Washington. You Vnow it is always tlio bandbox lellow, like Marsh, who marries the smartest woman in the community, and I judge Mrs. Marsh wa& the smartest woman in the community where she was raised; at all events 1 would buy pools on her against the field in any community whore she might happen to bo located. She is a trifle below the medium size of women, and is about thirty-four. Iler hair is a profuse mass of gray silk, aud she fixes it up in some mysteriously bewitching style, tho translation of which I forgot just at tLi is moment. Her faee is a smooth, delicate oval, and her complexion has tints wo aro accustomed to find in the lining of a sea shell. Her eyes aro largo and ltis\ trous, dark brown in roposo and black in excitement. Iler features are perfectly regular; just enough of tho Romanesque in curvature to give strength to the face, with still onough of tho Oriental to answer all of the purposes of tenderness. When I saw hor she wore a plain, trim-built suit of black silk that clung to every mo* dulation of her inimitable shape like tho bark of a peach tree. And she walked Ull tho p.nrridnr lnarlinnf the committee room with as much empressmcnt as if she had juat bought the Capitol building, Congress and all, and taken a louse on the administration to boot. Nobody would imagine that she was a criminal recently pardoned. Poor little Marsh tiotted along by her side with the air of a fellow who knows that he is among enemies, but feels that his protector is at hand. The whole story told itself as that ill-assorted couple came up tho corridor leading from the east entrance i f tho south wing to Clymei's committee room. In tho committee room tho little woman had things all hor own way. She answered tho question* with a monosyllabic coulness that was perfectly exasporating. Onco in a while she would bring up a little when Danford, who was conducting the examinatii u, seemed inclined to get above his business, as the girl said to tho shoomakor, but sho kept her tongue in a refrigerator all tho time, and got in her work with hor eyes and tho expression of tho features.? The 6ubslanco of hor testimony has boen told by telegraph. From boonnnint* tn Ami tif llm " * C3 -v V??v. v a. v > vi VAUililliai IUII ebo was as cool as a cucumber and as improssive as a curbstone. Suu fi u/e Danford out in iiftcon ininutos. Then she congealed Bass in about fivo.? Blackburn ebo put to lligbt in three, and Clyiner gave up the ghost at the lirst pass. Robbins did not come to time at all, and thus avoided punishment. In about twenty five minutes U.. ? I. ~ ....I.I. --1.^1 uy iiiu winuu iiiu wuuio t:uuiiiuuuu threw up tlio sponge, and Newspaper Row, which acted as rofcree, declared tho woman winner. The ehow thon adjourned, and Mrs. Marsh, with her thiu husband still mincing along at hor heels, loft the Capitol and went back to tho hotel to await the action i of tho grand jury. California's Sonato wants a law providing that every article in ? newspaper will bo signed with th( name ot the writer. Edwin Booth has boon olVoroc $20,000 in gold for twenty per for inanccs at wado,s Opera House ii San Francisco. ? A girl in Richmond on Sunda) last recited the whole of the Psaltnt aiul nftff AO A ( AO ??rtH.iA? f'??> W vi vo KIO IVOj 1 jV/ V/1/ T Ul DW in all, wliicli elio committed during thcwcok provioua. Tbobunday before elio recited 2,000 voreoa, compriaing the Epirttlo to the lloinan Galatiam rhilapliiaiiB, and one or two otbera She is bound to have tbo prize, bu! ia moro likely to bavo biaiu fevor The legislative Recess, If any proof woro noodod of tho ut* tor incapacity of tho party now in poworin this this Stnto to carry on n civilieod govornmont, says tho Char* loston Nows and Courier, it would be amply iarnishod by tho bohaviorof tho Logislaturo in tho matter ol ad* juuni iiiuiil. lloro is ft body which, with two thirds of tho State debt repudiated, has /ailed to moot promptly tho interoet on tho part which has boon lucky enough to oscapo repudiation?a body which cannot provido for tho paymont of tho oxpcnsoB of tho ponal and charitablo institutions of tho State, nor cvon for the labor performed in sweep wig uio noors 01 mo rstateiiouse, and vot lias tho ftudiicity to keep on ad% ding further to tho burdons of tho pooplo by refusing to adjourn! If forced to givo ronson for this putting off of final adjournment, wo could as* sign no other than?puro imbocility. It is undoubted that a largo majority of tho IIouso of Representatives, and even a majority of tho Scnato, really wish to get away to their homos. It is only that they havo not tho ulimnnlli .v >Iai>ai.I ( 1. I ? ? ,1 ~ ' J t. _ un Vii^uu vu uuoui I IIIU lUUUUIO Ul tuu party, and the loaders aro at a loss. Tlioy arc averse to adjournment, but they do not know exactly why. The railroad froo passes, which aro only good "during the sossion ot the Legislature," may indeed assist somo of tho Republicans, who aro also membors of tho Convention to nominate dologatos to Cincinnati, in getting to Columbia on the 1 llh; and this is a causo quilc paltry enough to inflnftnno party action in Soulh Carolina. Rut although this may havo had somo influ* once, and, while tho anger of tho om?t ployocs of tho two houso.s, that no moans has boon provided for paying thom, may havo inducod somo members to vote to como buck, in tho hopo of contriving a way of appeasing thoir wrath, the real socrct of delay is that tho leaders do not know what to do. Thoy know that tho Legislature was a power in the flush days of Reconstruction) when all rascality was allowablo and backod by tho Federal bayonets because committed against "rebels," and they think it must be a power now. Tliey distiust and fear tho Governor; thoy distrust and fear oach other; and. moro than all, do thoy distrust and fear the honest pooplo of tho Stato?tho taxpayore i?nd nroncrtv holders, whom thev 1 1 ' ' havo robbed and despoiled. And so tlicy sit and sit, hoping for something to turn up. Hoping that their divisions may bo hoaled. Hoping that Elliott may mako torms with Whipper, whom lie first urged 1?in moro ignorant followers to voto for, and then?a fit specimen of his parliamentary knowledge!?donouncod from the chair as a "knavo" and "liar." Hop* ing that Whittcmoro and Swails and John Patterson, with Worthington? "Frank" Moses and Bown, may des vise some schcmo for continuing tho plundor, circumventing tho Governor, and escaping tho wrath of tho poople of tho Stato and the country at largo. Well! Let thorn sit. Let them continuo in session until tho Fourth of July, and oxhibit to tho Conton nial visitors tho antics of tho only i epecimon of a real "Reconstructed'* State Legislature now extant. Hard as it is to Btand, let us have pationce. Unloss wo havo very much umtftken i puonc icoung overywnere, ino sKtos j aro getting unpropitiona for thiovos, and thtf days of corruption, in South Carolina cvon, will, boforo thocxpirnI tion of tho yoar, havo corno to an end. \ William McGuiro has boon iropriaonod in Philadelphia for having bitten off tho nOBO of Wm, Uoao. A Iloao , without a noso will not amoll aa awoct, tm J A Buffalo man droamod that ho was 1 going ovor tho Falls, had his wifo by > tho throat whon ho woko up. Noxt * night hIio had a droam, and broke his ; no3o at* alio struck at an Indian. A littlogirl who wanted to be Tory t good during I^ent proposed to giv? . up going to echool.