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Noo~ DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND rO THE GENERAL INTEREST OF THE VOL. VI. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY,_OCTOBER 12, 1876. Communications .GREzNv4,, 0. C., Oct. 2, 1876. DaR SEINTINEL: Sirce OVOU were over here last week. I have been try ing to get to write you, but until the present I have had no tirtie-tbink ing about not going to the Centennial, and being scared because of 'Mre. Nix," suddenly taking leave for that delectible exposition, and a thousand and one other etcetraw, is my excuse. I am just as poor as an Editor. Of course all editors have had to stay at home and work on-work- ever-so poor that they can see nothing like other people; and now I .can more fully appreciate the duties of all you editors. An editor has to stay at home to look after other peoples busi. ness, and cortainlv as a consequence all such are poor. Well, other peo ple will not look after themselves, and it becomes an editors business, and he must look to It or all would be lost. If an editor did not stav at home, who would announce every bodys name in the papei a who goes to the Centennial and when he re turns. Why, no body would do it, and therefore the editor must stay home, work hard and die poor, witii. out a monument to his grave to mark the spot of him who served every body but himself, and could rvt serve himseif becautse of serving every body. Aid right hero, while I tuink of it, I would remark: A D ictor is just like ai Editor. L-ok at the two words tlhat rep&'R nt t1R. Althongh they start out differently, yet they end alike-die alike, pior. It you do not believe it, look at the thiree words: Editor, 1) -Utor, Poor all end in "or." The diffei ence be tweenl th#3 two hardeS-to-do-without poraonlages-Edilor, D .cttor-iis, thle Editor las to stav at rome to scerve every b--dy, and the Dow-tor has to go esery wl re to serve every body. Ini their-r nonieration they are just alike-they serve every body for nothing. Perhaps the reason I amn too. poor to see'-Pnil,mr York,'' is because I am both of the "qui','' and the "pill." Not wit hstanding every body has gotie, or is going Centen ial-ward, there is luots of thr ift in Gireenville. What it is dolig the lively I cannot see; for e very body says thereo is no money, and yet I passed-stopped a muoment-the great boot arnd shoe store of thar very worthy ''Tar'-heel," WV. Boyd, second d.or above the bank, arid t here at one glance I discovered that all who have feet (except Editor s and Doctors) must wear shoes, even it shod by the purse of dishonesty; and to "Bloyd's" a house--hold word here) is the place to get any thing your numrerous readler8 may desire, fr'om a cork sole to the finest boot or gait-. er. I can recommend every body, ~' the old woman and the cook to go to B3oyd's; and then without takinag time to breathe, I would say, as a favor to yourselves, and all w' ho read this article to call and see that tried old servatnt, p. A. Pickle, wherec you can find any thinag you want in the S clothing line, arid if hie has not got a readIy madle fit, you can just straigh' en yourself up and he can meaanr'e your physiology and maike you a fit as you like, lie can be found second door above the Mansion House. HIe als'o sells goods .t a dry kind on a broad, straight, long line. 4Now, M a SENT[ EL, we are hav. ing a grand one,sided political cam.. psigni in Greenville, as the rade have not put in an appearance since our greatJI npton meeting on the 7th ult., attt ough one said to me that a vast lot of banners and other para phernalia had been or'dered masde li N~ew 'York, for a grand jubilee n'ere. 1 do not tinmk those bunniers will ever be paraded in our streets. W by, sir, just last week the Democrat ic Club of this city invited the r'ada to meet in disnslon. bnt not h mme showed his head or crooked his litth finver, unless it was in the darknes4 of some cave, in the "Devels Den' or "ti,e Giants Coffin" down nundei the Falls. But at-ough. Be good t< your self until you bear once mor< from your friend, Nx Ccu AsouSs. The New York Herald on Hampton A NogRIra COMPAUISON OF THE CAN DIDnimS Fo GoV1ENoR-A DVIOE T( StUTU CAROLINA COLORED MUN. Governor Chamberlain, of Soutl Carolina, instead of attending to hit duties, says the New York Herald has been visiting the North, and, oti his return to Washington, which seems to be his headquarters, ho gives out that he has heard of th, murder of troim thirty to ore hun dred negroes in the State during hie absence. "From thirty one hundred' is a vague phrase Its use confossee a hameful amount of ignorance in the Governor of the Sta'e, Whose sworn duty is to maintain the peace of the State, to protect the lives ol the citizens, and to see that lawless ness is punished. The people ol South Carolina are a,ked to vote for Governor Chamberlain-to re-elect him to his place. But why shotlid thtyI At a tineof great excitement fie leaves the State, abaidons his posi of duty aid returns only to send out a vague r(-por t of the killing of sote ot ite cit:zm1s. Evidently bie is rIot W fit man f or Governor; he i6 not evet: a sute 11all. Gen. fade 6aptoii is his opp - t142 I t he ti-Ptiiincet of the Deicrati( pa ty. W hat does Gen. ll-amptou Oay abottt t he peace of lie Sta'e? lit is 1iakin, an acive and thorngl1 can1vas and every' where, from ever jolattorm and stmip, lie pledges bit word that, if he is elected Governior he wid "observe, prolect and defenc the rights of the c.)lored ian;" k solentily promisos to "render to th< whle people of te Sta E equal anc im partial just ice," aind, to miake thi, proise~6 Specific, ' e adds: "It t hert is a wvhite man in this assembly who, because lie is a D::nicrat or because he is a white man, believes that whet I am elected Governor, if I should be, I wvill stand between him and the law, or grant to him any pirivileget or i ulmunities that shall not be gran1' ed to the colored man, he is mins takent, and I tell him now, if that ii his reason for voting fur me, not t( vot at all." These are the honest sensible wordi ot Gen. Hlamptont. WVhat has Gov Chamzberlain said or done to matcl themi? What did he do on the heebi ot the Hamburg massacrel le tat to Washington to appeal for help. WVhat dues he do in the middle o the canvas-? Promise equal an< exact justice to all citizeitS Gnar antee that lie will "tbeerve, delent and protect the rights of the ,COloret mai?" Not at all. Hie leaves tti< State for a visit to New England. W lby should 'he colored tme n Soulth Cati'lia vote fur Mr. Oham.i berlaii Waa has he dono? What does he propose to do for them? I they are serisib)le meti they' will vote for General Hampton. He* at leas! umakes themr a definai!e promise. l< makes it for hi.iself and for the genti tlemuena who are on' the ticket w ith himt. Not only that, bitt he watrm ever y mtana who does nlot agree witt him ihait all ul,e people, colmHed aw well as white, sihall be egnially scure in hfle, liberty anid property, that h had better not vote foir him. I?we were asked by a South Carulhna cul ored anu how he should vo'.e, w4 should tell him, "vote for Geniera hampton; avid him and his to the responisibility they are willhng to as samxe. They are meun of character meni of proper'ty, old cit izemat ot t h State,go and shake hands with 'hem teil them yon will tru4L tbem V..4 ) for Hayee for President if you'lik ; It is natural that you should prefer ' Republican President, particularl if you are going to try a Democrat > State Government. Bt vote f< Gen. Hampton and the Democrat State ticket. Chamberlain has no protected you, and depend upon i it [layes is chosen President, he not going to listen to Chamberlain c any other Southern Governor wh runs up to Washington to tell b tale, when he ought to be on the sp to see justice done between you an your white neighbor. Hayes doi not believe in Federal interferenc in the South. That is the advice we should giv to South Carolina and also to Lou siana colored men. if they onl took time calmly to consider the mal ter they would see that while th Southern Republican politician livt upon "outrages," and prospers th more tie colored men are wronge or slain, the Southern Democrat mut pertforce maintain peace and trdei for it he does not the whole Nort hoots at him and demands that tli Federal power shall upset him. Ai kansas was full of crime and disorde until tihe Democertic Go)v. Garlan came into power. It has been peaci ful ever since, and no complain come from there, under his wise rul ;f wrong to Republicans or colore men. Death of General Bragg. The sad intelligence of the sudde death of Gen. Braxton Brago-i came to us (rom Galvustonl, Texas, wher he d1ied t ni the 2.7th inst. General Bragg was born in Wai ren County, North Carolina, in 1814 and graduated at Vest Poiit i 1837. IIe served with great distin tion in the Mexican war, under Gt Taylor, with the rank of Captai I and resigned his comimisaion in 185 ie then retired to private life unt the breaking out of the late war. He entered the Confederate ser vice, and in 1861 became a Brigadie General, and comnmanided the force at Penisacola till February, 1862. The May ensuing he succeeded Gei Beauregard as commander of tia Army in Mississippi, with the ran ot General. Afterwards, movini fr om Chattaooga, in August, he ini vaded Kentucky with a large arm and tureatened Louisville. Hie-w oppiosed by an army under Generi Buell, with-whom he fially fought severe and indecisive battle at ['em ryville, October 8, 1862. Atter th battle he retired in the night towar< IennIeBse with cowmmissary store taken at Lexington and other placel Ina Decemnber of the same year I fought the sev~ere battle of Stor f River. He thena retired to TaI! I ho ma, f ollowed slowly by Rosenrani - and thence to Chattanooga. He al I tacked the Union army on the 191 I ot September, 1863, at Cbickatuaa ga, wi.h great sucecess. Hie wi driven back by Generam Grant at ti b.4ttlIe of Missionlary Ridge, N -r ber, 1863, and on the following D. rcemuber was relheved Iroaie his coml f manad. General Bragg was wholly fre fre m the spia it of thme military at venturer, and united hirnaelf' wit - the Sonthern cause from convicmic Iand a genuine patritism. The dii ci[linae he sought to establisha in ti untrained army of the West, reta dered him generally unpopular. Bi it was needed, and his course d< serves high commutendation. Hie criticised for a want vf enter1.ris and for over eaution in the cangal gom into Kentucky and after theo bat ItIe of Chikatmanga. He was a ger tieman ot simple, unpretending mai - ners, pure character and clear minm , e was respeocted wherever know for these <quahtLies, Subscribe for t,he PIoKENa SesNrNs e. Plain Truth about the Southern State a It is reported that after the Oct< ber elections a considerable numbx 1C of prominent Republican speakei > are to be sent into the Souther 1 States to address the people there. )t This looks at first sight like an exce t, lent and even a patraotic movemen is It is alwayA nseeful to bring the peopi ir of the different sections face to faci 0 When they see each other they se ' that neither is as bad as the othe thought. Last year Colonel Lame and Senator Gordon went up int New Hampshire to speak for th e Democratic party, and their presene drew large audiences of people cu rious to see these famous Souther men-just as, no donht, Mr. Blaim Y Mr. Schur an"d 'Senator Morto would draw great crowds in th e South to see them. s Bnt, after all, if we had to advis 0 the Republican leaders we shoul - urge them to leave the Souther States unvisited during this canvasi Indeed, we should go further an ti tell them that it they were wise the e would give up every Southern Stat to the Democrats for this election. r The bouth has been a constant an d. increasing embarrassment to the R< publican party. The party has acte upon the superstition that it mm a' sOmehow make and keep those Stati d Republican. They seem to it th prize of war, to give tip which is t give up the resulL of the war. W speok of this as a superstitiun, and " is nothing else. In reality, the Re 13 publican party would be far stong 0.0 0 to day if it had tad courage ft years ago to cut adrift the Southei wing of the party and let the Dem crats assume the responsibility of ti U political settlements in those Siatc What harm could have come to ti coitry? Nut the least. "The Democratic party South is n< . composed of monsters and barb rianc; those Southern States whic have, in spite of Republican strug ~ glee and intrigues, become Demec rcratic arc almost the only peaceft Sand prosperous ones; which prove sufficiently that thle Soutbern Demo Icrat, thrown on his responsibilitj '" seeks, as he mast, to secure honet k anid lawful government for' his Stat< gULe cannotdhelp doing so, for he owvr -nearly all the property in his Stat and has a larger interest in its pros perty than the Rep.ublican by far. The credit of Deinocratic Georgia: a as good as that of the Federal GuM ernment. Arkanlsas is peaceale an spros,' erous under Democrat ic r ul< 18while South Carolina and Louisiani are unquiet and wretched unlder R< epublican control. Alabama, lon me thouighlt to be no better than) Louaisi *e ana, became quiet as soon as tL ~Democrats gained the ascendency. 8,That is to say, the Republican rul ~ in the Southern States has not been success, but the contrary; and ti tailuue has been caused mainly, it n< ali~tos;ether, by the fact that so calle ORepublicana of thle Southern Stat< have been the constant pets of ti Norther n Republican politician -the, have been nursed anid coddlet their qutalities have not been que& t iuned; their fan its anid crimes hav Sbeen condoned; they have been bol iitered uap by extraneous forces, h SFederal troops and Federal inlter Ste, once of var'ious kinds. They hav notat ruled oni their merits, or becaue -they were abler', stronger, mrue cL Itpable than their opponents, but be cause they were allowed to call fc a Fe.deral troops when they clhose; I a' sell their support in Congr ess anl in national conventions8 for partisa and dangerus legislaion, intende Sto b, lbter up their continuailly failin Sinfluenco in thleir section. Th'le have playedupnheumn e Sand tt:e ignorance of Northern 16 publicans until their wret.ched ar self ish mnisgovernmitent in thme 8,i Shas brougiat the, nauional RepubllicL s. party into disrepute and danger ot defeat. And, after all, they who rhave done this are not Republicans in any true isense. They are merely political adventurers, whom the hon eat and real Republicans in their States dislike and fear with all their hearts. e Whatever effort the Republican party makes in the South during the prescnt canvass will inure solely to r the personal advantage of this class r of men. Whatever success the party may secure down there by its efforts e will be the gain of the Kelloggs, SPackards., Spencers and Chamber lains. That is now unavoidable. Those people have the machinery in their hands; they are the candidates for office, and they cling to office e with a death grip. Reform in the South lies not i-% their further success 1 but in their utter and disorganizing I defea. If the Republican leaders of the North utiderstoood the South ern situation, those of them who are conscientious and patriotic. men would shake off thesu Southern bar nacles, and those who are not cons scientious would still for expediency'a Bake, drop these adventurers, whose illiance has been and must continue to be an embarrassment to the na tional party. Suppose an honest Republican espeaker sent into any Southern Sare, 0 except North Carolina, and what would he find? Unless he kept his ears stuffed with cotton and avoided all intercourse with men he could not help learning that every speech he made there was made in support of mewno betMAthan Tweed at d his ring; he would hear from the decent e and honest Republicans whom he would meet that they dep!ored noth oitig so much as the success of ihe persons for whom he was appealing; t he would find in Alabama that the _ real Relfilblicans ot the State have h beon either driven out of the party or silenced within it by Spencer and _ his gang of Federal office hoders. Ho would flid in Louisiana that ha.n sest Republicans, though they vote f>r llayes, refuse utterly to vote for Packard and his gang. iIe would find in Mi-s.sippi that hotnest Re pluNijcans are abused and villiti ed by the thieves who have the machine ethere. lHe would find ini South Caro lianF.orida everywhere, except in North Carolina and Virginia, that a duty to his country and his party made it imnpossible for him to take d p)art in the canvass, and that it he spoke con)scientiously lhe must advide honest Southern Republicans' whilIe votinag for the national ticket to sup gpjort and hejp eleet the Democratic local ticke~" eThe polidy we suggest will be scouted by Rep; blipan partisansc; but e it is, nevertheless, the true policy for a the party. It is the policy of pru dence as well as wisdom: Ini the tSouthernf tier of States--in South dCarolin a Georgia. Alibamna, M isais-. sippi, L-uisiana, Arkanas--th ere isi to day no Repunb lican party w orthy ft the alliance of thle national p)arty oir in whose fortutnes it can take part w ithu itjuring itself. If Mr. [Hayea is chosen President he catn, it bo is wise and intelligent, as we believe him to be, easily form a respectable -party there; but hie wvill have to be a gin by cut ing ad rif t the so-ca;led a Republican leatlers in those States in a oy and letting the infected wreck _ flo.at away. Why is it not better r policy in the Republican leaders to Sdo this tnow, and thmus relieve their d chief of an embarrassment? We can Sappreciate the feelitngs of those who durge thiat it would be bet'er for theo country, and better even for' the Southern S.ates, that the Rep)ubli -cans should rule in the Federal ad mi nistration for aniotheor tour years, despecially with a President who a seems to be in earnest about ref rms nu and whlo is said to undetand tha &Ilnthern Situation, B!jtit, C)ImS dition of Republican scceit In No vembor is the continued inintenah-co of eokRopublican State gover n1 t as oWtnod in Lonsiana and:' 'ti atlina, and of such so ea'led Res publican politicians as afm to rule in other Southern States then we should utihesitathngly welcome a D 3m >craiti. victory; tor there is no dangei itt a Democratic Federal admitnistration 80 serions as tMe contiieJ misriulo of the South by demagognes calliVg themselves Republicans and havin)g the countenanco of the Federil ad ministration. We advise the North, orti Republican leaders, tlierefort, to Fend no speakers to the South, ui le-s it be to Virginia and Nr:h Carolina, and to let i. be at once and Irankly understood that they neain to cnt loose from the Paclards, Spel, cers and Chamberlains.--New York [eirald. Troops that are Not Wanted in the South. Ompany D of the Eloventh Uni ted States Infantry arrived!in this city on Suiiday, and Were oblig12A to lay over until Monday. They vere from Fort Wor:i, or Smile ot hIr post in Texas, and on their way to the Itdian coutry in DA,k1:a. A Ineddlesom)e R1 Iical pol(1 icim met the boys soon after they had pitehcl their tents on a hill aove the d ' and called olti: "Ilurrl, buys, for [layer Not a solitary ch;eer re ici. O0ne of the sergeaits st(p)ed oute the crowd and remrked: Yon have made a ImistIke; wI don't cheer ft r Uaye-; we are T den men." all yon do not mivean to say yon oppose the men who giva ymi food and clothing?" "Yes, we do. Wo are tired of Grant and his gang, and as lor ont f,lod arid clotie8, we will excu(o himi for thit if hie will let us loose." "' h, nlonsenso, boys yon don 'c mean to go back on Giant und Liaye' "Yes, we will go back on anyv :n who keeps two thirds of our boys in blue dlown ~i "Dixie" to keep n~ ble men down beneath tho n iggrs, a d who sends a handfn! of us Nort h to he killed and scalp)eJ by the Indians3, armed writh guns and bullets furnmi.h - ed by Grant's brother, Or v i, mid his deputy post traders; and I will bot; you a keg of beer that three-four hi i of my comnpa'ny are Tildlen men.'" "I will take that bot." A voto was taken, andl tho vo(te) ini Company D, Eleven' h United St ates Infantry, stood: T'ldeni 40; Huyes 4. - Kansas City Times. Senator Patters,n is in WVashiii' ton, snifling battle I rom afar, iIe n,>t only sups, but break fasts and dimes on horrors. At whla:cv er e + t ot poring over a most volu in :ous cor respJondenicO from the1 set of war, the Senator is deterinited to h ave is dail~y whi lesale,in mrder of' inioien.iv blacks, and as "t here 1s nothing~ :.canI about htimu,"' the whole country, throngh the kinudness of the pros.., shall share in lh re past. If we were askedu by a South, Caio. linia colored man how hie sh->idi vote, we should tell himt, vote or Ge n eml 1Iampjton.-No4w Y >rk lH.ral. In every SouthI ern S.:ate th e~cc ored people are aband,'iing th I. publiccn party by thonsands. .\lbmy more woul o~ penly declare t a.nusi selves nowv, but for the int i mb.mlon and murdecrs of the Black L'uen, but will vote for Tildeun and Iioen dricks. An old lady thinks the 13Ind om!t be a family of' otr'ong relgOItnS in~' etincts, b)ecause she hears of m.a iy oft them being converted.