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-- - - ?; Tia Press and Banner. . A-bbeville, S. C. W. A. LEE, Editor. ^ **' . - ' - '*-* V? ' * Ttr-j s ivjr on 1 o*fA vrcuaeBuuy, w.<iy AV, XO<*X. Terms.?Two Dollars a year, in adtance, or,Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, at the end of the year. No subscriptions taken for a shorter line than six months. Transient advertisements are charged for at the rate or' One Dollar per inch pace for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each subsequent insertion. A liberal deduction from the above . rates is made to persons advertising by the quarter or by the year. $eh All obituary notices and tributes of respect are clrarged for at the usual rates of-advertising. \ . JOB PRESS. We are now provided with an excellent Job Press, and fine assortment ol JTob Type, and are prepared to exccute superior work. Orders are respectfully solicited. Regulations for the Post-Office AT Abbeville.?The Office is open for the general delivery of letters and sale 8^amPs rom A' to Money Orders furnished from 8:30 A. ? 31. to 3:20 P. M. i Greenville and Columbia Railroad ~Mail closes at 8:30 A. M. ^ ;fac Washington, Ga., MaUcloses on Wednesday at 5:30 A.?M. Elbert, Ga., Mail, via Heardmont, closes on Thursday at 6:30 A. M. Antreville. Mail, via Temple of Health, closes on Thursday at 5:30 A. M. Elbert, Ga., Mail, via Lowndesville, closes on Friday jit 5:30 A. M. H. W. LAWSQB, Jf. JV1. OUR COURT. The regular May Terra of our Court xvaa opened here on Monday last, his Honor, Judge Cooke, presiding, with the following Grand and Petit Juries . GRAND JURY. rsi * ? *9 W.1 D. Mars, Foreman; Wm. Pope, m "Witt. Richey, Jas. L. Clinkseales, T. M. Christian, Alfred Titus, Elijah Whitlock,. Charles MeCaslan, Alfred Matthews, D. R. Morrah, Pierce Hamilton, (Jeorge Scott, j. W. Perrin, JR. A. MeCaslan,' Sam Taggart, Abner Williams, Ed Henderson.. I PETIT JURY xo. 1. j J G Edwards, A J Furguson, Washington Foster, George Hawthorn, Henry Harper, Henry Heard, James A Jones, "NVm Lomax, G S Merriwether, Henry Mark, John Mitchell, Luther Moragne. > PETIT JURY NO. 2. R W Anderson, Henry Mays, S T Martin, G S Cromer, Alfred Cunningham, John Chiles, A J Cochran, Wyatt Cosby, J C Carlisle, Fortune Calhoun, Charles Donnelly, W T JCllis. SUPERNUMERARIES, A J McKee, Jno W Moseley, Caswell Btewart, John Scott, E W Watson, Geo Wilson. His Honor, after defining certain offences of murder, arson, grand larceny, &c., which were embraced in pending bills of indictment, charged the Grand jury upon various mauers 01 general interest which he deemed worthy of their attention. His charge at the beginning of the year upon the general scope of their duties, he said, had been so minute, that he would only call their attention now to some subjects which had arisen since. He adverted first to the change in the license law, and after ascertaining from the Clerk that no petitions for license had been filed, according to the provisions of the new ; law, which require these application to ' be made before the first or second term of the Court, he complimented the coun- < A. ? ll _ L i 1 4. I 1 ? Af ^ ly upon mu una uiai uy iupse ?i lime noj licenses could now be obtained outside of corporate towns, cities and villages. As to these, the provisions of the old Uw still applied, and a petition with 1 .the recommendation of six good men was still necessary to be submitted to the Grand Jury, and if approved, then i the license to be graated, upon the production of the receipt for the license tax. ( As to existing licenses, it was the duty o/ .the Grand Jury to see that the proper > bonds had been filed, and that the pro- ; visions of the law otherwise had been J complied with?that licenses had been , granted for no term less than twelve < mouths, nor for less than fifty dollars. 1 His Hohor referred in terms of com- ! Daendation to the provisions of the new law -which made it an indictable offence to sell liquor to oue of intemperate hab- 1 its, and also to\, a husband, after notice not to sel.1 from the wife, and he called | ' upou .the Grand Jury to leud their aid < ".to the women of the county, in enforcing the law against all offenders. Another matter which His Honor brought to the attention of the Grand Jury, was i ihe proper management of the De La Howe Fund?a noble charity which had , bee# established near one hundred ' years ago for the education of the indi- . gent poor of the County, aud which vnder its past management had proved j a very great blessing. The donation . had origiually been made in trust to the State Agricultural Society, by them ! turned over to the Legislature, and by that body managed through the aid of | % the Abbeville delegation. His Honor i 'paid a high and well merited tribute to the old Board of Trustees, and to the financial abilityof Col. Thomson, the for- , jner treasurer, through whose efforts the fund had been preserved intact, through 1 ail the disasters of the past; and stated that very grave apprehensions existed us to the competency of the present Board, and called upon the present Grand Jury to make it the subject of enquiry, and to decide without regard to any outside pressure. Another matter of grave import His Honor brought to the attention of the Urand Jury?an allegation of embezzlement made by a State official against Henry Ellison, a member of the Abbeville delegation, and a sub-commisioner; fr.* flio aolo nf nnlilir Inndst to the colored people, who was charged with having j received, without having paid out, the purchase money of these lands. If the -oharge be true, let presentment be made by the Jury, and let the people remember ^t the next election to choose honestj men to office. His Honor instructed, {he Jury that if necessaiy he would i grant them authority to fend for persona and papers, aud called upon them to; perform their duty faithfully. Upouj their faithful discharge of duty, the -prosperity of the country largely depended. He conelifced by making favorable mention of the oolored members in this particular. His Houor for the purpose of carrying put the provisions of the Assessment Act, making it the duty of the # 1 ; ? " 11 ' " ' ' 3 Court to appoint certaiu citizons of the County, who together with the County Tft^sureraud County Auditor, should > constitute the bounty Hoard of Equali- j zfttion, ca^ed to his aid fpur membersji of the Bar, Messrs. Burt, Perrin, Thorn-!) son and McGowan, the Clerk of the;, Court* the Sheriff and the foreman of the Grand Jury, with the request that i they recommend suitable persons for < his appointment by Friday next. . The following true bills were found , State vs. George Strotlier, murder. , Same vs. Henry Hackett, stealing a mare. Same vs. William M. Ale wine, ob structing public road. Same vs. Josiah Matthis, Arson. Same vs. Anthony McCoppin and Samuel Jackson, Grand Larccny. i Same vs. Jacob Wright and Newton i Scott, grand larceny. . :.. In the case of the State vs. Isaac Arnold, for grand larceny, the prisoner j ; was acquitted. i Solicitor Blytlie is at his post, repre- j ? ? 1 ^i.: 124? i seating the State witn nis usuiu aumy i and efficiency. 1 Manufacturing at the South. I A correspondent of the Boston Adver- j tiser, writing f^om Augusta, points out the profitable character of cotton facto- i ries at the South, and the superior in- 1 ducements to the investment of capital , which these offer over similar enterprises at the North. He states that the 3 Augusta factory has paid twenty per < cent, dividends for nine consecutive 1 years, and that the neighboring factories , of Graniteville and Langlcy mate ( equally as good a shoeing, and that the i * *? i 1 i stock in tnese companies nas mcreaseu in value from seventy to eighty per cent. The working capacity of these mills has from time to time been increased, and as a mean9 of further developing its manufacturing industry, the city of Augusta has recently been enlarging its canal, which will soon be completed, at a cost of over one half million of dollars, and develop the largest water power in the Union, except that at Coloes, New York. The writer assigns as a reason that a larger amount of capital has not sought investment in J manufacturing, the fact that for years past the South has been an agricultural s people, devoting its energy and capital 1 almost exclusively to the culture of cot- [ ton. As a oonsequcnce, the capital of c the South is locked up in lands and i farming implements, money is scarce, ? and there is too little mercantile and j. banking capital at home to lend the t necessary aid. The profits which are t offered by manufacturing must, how- f1 ever, attract capital from other employ- ? ments and from other sections, and doubtless the prophecy of the New York f< Herald will be realized, that in ten " years, the rivers of the South will be dotted with manufactories like the rivers sj of New England, and with thriving \j towns about them, swarming with busy f1 operatives. Native white labor is abun- ^ dant here at cheaper rates than those c] now paid at the North, and the mauu- c< facturers here are enabled to effect a very i - ? X> - A. _ & 11 Si great saving in me cost 01 me raw tua- ^ terial, These and other advantages pi which give the Southern manufacturer w a great advantage over his Northern ri- n. val, are very clearly set forth by the writer as followsit The extraordinary success and pros- ir perity of the Lowell manufacturers is ci well known; yet the Lowell inanufact- di urer, I think, to-day is at a decided dis- q advantage as compares with his ruture sj Southern rival. It he buys bis eottou at this point (which you will observe is the most northerly cotton market of T consequence on the Atlantic side) he Jl will have to pay $7 65 freight and ex- tc penseson each bale of cotton he manu- si factures, paying this in dirt and waste us well as tibre, besides thirty cents per . cwt> and insurance back to New York 1E un his manufactured goods. Our man- is ufacturers, on the other hand, get their rnTTOX AT THEIR OWX DOORS. OJC and sell about one-half their raanufact- ^ ured products at home, thus avoiding the expenses referred to; while the -w other half, which is marketed at New York, costs for iflsurance and conveyance thither only $1 00 per bale containing 300 pounds of goods. Another great of item in ?avorpf the continued success of oi this as a manufacturing community, consists in the advantage we possess in cheap freights to St. Louis, Cincinnati, P1 and other Western points. The rate of V\ freight from New \ ork to St. Louis du- E ring the winter months is often $1 58 percwt.,or$4 74 per bale, whilst from here it is never over $1 90 per bale. As *Vv%. *1.^ l?n. T YI lUi IUWC IVW JL WUUIU TI explain that we are a cotton producing \\ people, and our planters canuot be induced to grow their own provisions, . consequently are supplied almost entirely from the West and Southwest; and as p? there is but a limited demand for freight tl] room in that direction tho trains go back -o comparatively empty. Thus it is we 4 make ^ our own terms, a?d ofton save $2 ?4 per bale in freights Weston our production over the .New England manufacturers. 03 or THE HOURS OF LABOR here favor the builder and manufacturer ?mechanics work not less than ten bours, and all the cotton mills work sixty-six hours per week, full. No trades w unions or labor organizations exist, and kj we are likely for many years to come to be entirely free from those elements, an- se tagonistic to the working of capital and a labor harmoniously. The elevation of tU factory labor has been the watchword of jn manufacturers in this vicinity, and they consequently work on the family sys- ot tem, which will explain why so large an ar amount is usually invested in real estate m nnrl fonniwntifo TKfttf 1? a * i ? /-\ f nuu i^ticuicuin. nicjf laivc wic wiCb ^ and most iguorant of native white raw material in the way of labor, making 00 attendance at school from sis: to twelve W years compulsory, and by this means jn soon secure the best of help and produce the well known great production on *>L their looms, besides having complete ?* control of the labor. . m OUR CLIMATE i* adapted to manufacturing, being neither too cool in winter nor too hot in summer, and with sufficient moisture always in the atmosphere to materially M assiss the working of cotton. The city ni is healthy, and the working class com- m paratively free from sickness; and the absence of extreme cold and the shortr ness of our winter makes, as a conse- "? quence, the cost of heating our mills a rc small item, when compared with your Northern mills. Fuel?pine wood and semi-bituminous coal?is abundant; the former at $3 50 per cord ; the lattor $7 to ge $8 per ton. We have as fine brick clay jj as is in the world, and make a brick 4 , by-J hy inches. Lumber of Southern hard pine is abundant at from $15 to $17 B per thousand feet for undressed, and $20 oi to $23 per thousand for dressed and selccied li inch heart flaring- One would thiuk that this would be A SUFFICIENT PRIZE n ii to Induce some of your enterprising and tl influential capitalists to come and view for themselves our beautiful little city, " with its magnificent caual, one hundred n and fifty feet wide and eleven feet deep, tl und its two miles of mill sites, with a G fall to each of thirty-three foet. 1G ; A . . ,w p IMMI8RATI0N. The Anderson InictUgencer publishes in interesting letterwn this subjectfrom :he Hon. Wm. H- Trescott, addressed to B. F. Crayton, Esq., Commissioner if Immigration for that County, in which he suggests what he regards the best means of securing the end in view, as well as the true principles which should control the movement. He is opposed to making the question a political one, and disclaims any desire to dispense with the present labor by sup planting a mass of Ignorant blacks with a similar class of whites. He is for giving the poor of both races the same opportunity to improve their condition by purchasing lands and applying their lands to its cultivation. But conceding this, and without doing injury to the rights.or interests of any, there is still room for a large and prosperous immigration. It is all-important that thi8 immigration should bring alike intelligence ami capital, and tbe end will be better promoted by importing families tlian individual laborers. These last liave nothing to attract them in the habits, mode of life, system of labor, and food, which arc new to them, and hence distasteful, and they soon leave. A. few families, on the contrary, will form the nucleus of a growing population and attract other immigrants. On this point, Mr. Trescott says: If you expert to induce immigration, and not to wait for immigrants to come of their own accord, you must to some extent consider the ways and habits 01 those whom you wish,to attract. AVe ire not likely to obtain either English or Scotch immigrants-rthe best agricultural immigrants in the world. Irish immigration naturally gravitates to the large cities and the great railroad works; ind I think it clear that the general wish is for German immigration?of ail immigrants those who most hang together and are governed in their movements by social ties and old associations. Hie only plan, therefore, which I think will succeed with them is immigration jy colonization. Do not oiler to give auds. "Jb'orty acres ana a muie" win lot make an independent, hard-workug farmer any sooner than it has made i black one, but if you can offer fair land it a fair price, with a reasonable credit, [ have no doubt that, with our advances of soil and climate, we will find mmigrants willing to come. An iniustrious laborer, with a family of two ions and a daughter, can understand lie advantages of an offer of one hunIred acres of good laud, say, at six dolars an acre, in a healthy country, where >ne of his sons can work on a neigh borng form at $10 a month, or his daughtei an go into service in a respectable famly within a short distance, feeling that >y their effort they are aiding in setling and securing the family home, so hat with his own labor and his regaining son, four years will make them ndependent landholders ; and the son nd daughter will do their work more iithfully and cheerfully, when they ;el and see the result before them, and hen they are near enough to their arents to have all the benefit of their ympathy and counsel. One hundred iicli families settled in this County rould soon attract others, and you would nd a steady stream of the best sort of nmigrauts flowing in upon us before re were conscious that we had dug the I 1 U ? iaiiiJL'1. r ruiu suuij u stu^ujcut iauuf :>nld be procured with a knowledge of s character and some certainty of its ;eady employment, These people would ring with them their knowledge ; the ossession of their own small means ould make them more respected and lore respectable; there would be a muial interchange between them and leir neighbors of learning and teacbig, anil there would be the gradual nprovement of land and steady approbation of its value. Such a plan would o more, do it better, and do it more uickly than five times the amount jeut in bringing in individual laborers. Greenwood Items. ? Mrs, M. M. ojxlan, of Greenwood, while on a visit > friends in Newberry, was taken quite ck, and is still sick there. We Jearn that S. P. Boozer lias gone ito the sewing machine business, and now agent for one of the companies. Corn is selling in Greenwood at $1.40 ish, or $2.00 on a credit to the lsfrof ctober next. The prospects for crops about Greennod nrp flnoouracinir?the cotton esDe ally looking well. The roads and bridges in the vicinity ' Greenwood are reported to be in good der. Among other citizens of Greenwood esent this week, are Messrs. C. A, C. Waller, J. T. ParkB, J. R. Tarrant, & lmore, W. H. Patton, and others. Receipts of the Probate Court.? <"e learn that up to the present date, C. T. Guflin, Esq., Judge of Probate, has ceived, on acoount of real estate partiDuecl iu his office, $56^84.23, and baa lid out, as per vouchers, $54,202.71? ie balance of the amount received?$2,11.52?having been deposited in the itizens' Savings Bank and the South arolinu Banking and Trust Company, alumbia. This shows a gratifying in* ease in the business of the office, being i large in amount as was transacted in ly twenty previous years of business i the office. Base Ball.?The Modocs of Greenood last week challenged their senior ethren of the Base Ball fraternity, the cond nine of the Greenwood club, for match game on Thursday. The Mo>cs were victorious?the score at five mings stood 37 to 32. Quite a number ladies and gentlemen were present id manifested an interest in the game. r. Charles Calhoun was Captain of the nisr club, whilst Master Nena Bailey i- i xl ^r. .i * ? ? r\ i f\ iiumuuuuu uie xuuuucs. iur. a. k/. ruller acted as Umpire. From present dicatlons we predict that this popular ime will occupy the waste time of most ' our citizens durings the coming sumer. ?? Robbery.?We learn that the store of lpt. Win. H. Brooks, at Brooks' ill, was broken open on last Sunday ght, and from forty to fifty dollars in oney taken. The entrance was effected irough the door, by wrenching off a ir which secured it. We trust that the igue may be captured. Mr. Edward Taylor, of the upper iction of our County, died at Mr. Jas. 'all's, near Milford's Mill, on Saturday st, of pneumonia, aud was buried at ell's Chapel. He was near sixty years F age, and was a good citizen. B?. The Charleston Chamber of Comlerce have passed resolutions petitionlg Congress to appropriate $25,000 for le survey of a doublo track freight lilway from the junction of the Teneasee and Hiwassee rivers, thence up ie valley-of the Hiwassee to Clayton, eorgia, with brahohes to Athens, corgia, ?jd (o Anderson, 6. G\ ==?' The Arkansas Troubles. The Legislature, which assembled in pursuance of a call from Gov. Baxter, having invoked the intervention of the and the Attorney-General having expressed an opinion in favor of Baxter, O nminlomntinn lins hoen issued SUStain log the latter. The Attorney-General Bays: ' It would bo disastrous to allow tlie proceedings by which Brooks obtained possession of the office to be drawn into precedent* There is not a State in the Unioji in which they would not produce a conflict, and probably bloodshed; they can not be upheld or justified on any grounds, and in his opinion Elisha Baxter should be recognized as the lawful executive of the State of Arkansas. The proclamation is as follows: Whereas, Certain turbulent and disorderly persons are pretending that Elisha Baxter, the present Executive ol Arkansas was not elected, and have combined together with force and arms to resist his authority as such Executive, and other authorities of said State; and, whereas, said Elisha Baxter has been 1 declared elected by the General Assemi bly of said State as provided in the Con; stitution thereof, and has for a long period been exercising the functions ol said office, into which he was inducted according to the Constitution and laws of the said State, and ought by its citizens to be considered as the lawful Executive thereof; and, whereas, it is provided in the Constitution of the United States that the United States Government shall protect every State in the Union on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive when the Legislature cannot be convened; and, whfflreas, the said Elisha Baxter, under section . four, of article four of the Constitution of the United States, and the laws passed in pursuance thereof, has heretofore made application to me, to protect the said State and the citizens thereof, against domestic violence;'and, whereas, the General Assembly of the State, convened in extra session at the capitol thereof, on the 11th instant, pursuant to a call made by the said Elisha Baxter, and both Houses thereof have passed a joint resolution, also applying to me to protect the State against domestic vioT .1 1 ~ 11 ! !? leuce; unu, wneruus, j& jh pruviueu iu the iaws of the United States that in all cases of insurrection in any State, it be lawful for the President of the United States, on application of the Legistature of such, or of the Executive, when the Legislature can not be convened, to employ such part of the land and naval forces as shaii be judged necessary for the purpose of suppresses such insurrection or causing the laws to be duly executed; and, whereas, it is required that when it may be necessary in the judgment of the President to use the military force for the purpose aforesaid, he shall forthwith uy proclamation command such insurgents to disperse and retire peacably to their houses within a limited time: Now, therefore, I, U. S. Grant, President of the United States, do hereby make proclamation and command all turbulent and disorderly persons to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within ten days from this date, and hereafter to submit themselves to the lawful authority of the said Executive and the other constituted authorities of said State, and I invoke the aid and co-operation of all good citiI zens to uphold the law and preserve the public peace. Iu witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Udited States to be affixed. (Signed) U. S, GRANT. Anniversary Orator. ? We learn that our friend and neighbor, R. R. Hemphill, Esq., of the Abbeville Medium, has been elected to deliver the Anniversary Address before the Plire* nokosmiau and Excelsior literary Societies of Newbery College, at Walhalla, at the Annual Commeencement on the 23d Sune next. The talents and literary acquirements of our friend well fit him for the task assigned him, pnd we have ifo doubt that he will do honor to himself aud to the occasion. The Strawberry- Fete given in behalf of the Abbeville Base Ball Club on Friday evening, was very successful, and more than realised the best anticipations of its friends, A bounteous table, loaded with delicious fruit, cake, and ice-cream, served up with the usual taste of the Abbeville ladies, spread its tempting array before an appreciative company, and full justice was done to the feast. The receipts we learn realized the handsome sum of eighty-nine dollars, Appeal Court.?The following orders were made in the appeal cases from this county : Garraty and Armstrong, appellant, vs. Robert M. DuBose, respondent. Continued. AlUn T17:1 jjuijuifticj /iiicn, uppcuaiibi vo. nir liam Speer, respondent. Continued. Trustees of tne estate of De La Howe, appellant, vs. Harper, respondent. Continued. The State, respondent, vs, Jerry Coleman. Continued to November term. Special order made. It will thus be seen that Jerry Coleman gets another respite until the November term, Officers of the Resolute Base Ball Club.?Jas. H. Perrin, President; Joel S. Perrin, Vice-President* R. W. Cannon, Secretary; Jas. S. Dickinson, Treasurer; L. \V^ Perrin, Umpire; T. P. Quarles, Scorer; Jas. ?J. Dickinson, Captain 1st Nine; Dr. Johu S. Thompson, Captain 2d Nine. RaT The Grand Jury of Orangeburg County, on Monday last, brought in a bill of indictment against J. L. Humbert, late County Treusurer, and F. J. Moses, Jr., Governor of the State, for breach of trust, with fraudulent intention, and for grand larceny. Solicitor Butts moved that a bench warrant be issued for thef arrest of the parties. Judge Graham reserved his decision as to his right to issue the .warrant for the arrest of the Governor. Fine Wheat.?Mr. Joseph S. Britt, of the Belleview neighborhood, has a flue field of wheat containing ten acres. which will average seventeen bushels to the acre. He is a model farmer, raising corn for his own use and to sell, and also his molasses, and besides is a granger. We commend his example. Bgfc, We are Indebted to our friend Sir. F. A. Connor for late files of Louisville papers. We again commend his article to perusal. It will bo found interesting and instructive. , ~ ? ^?. Fine Oats.?The Rev. W. H. Lawton of Ninety-Six, has fifty-five acres in red oats, which is now waist-high, and will likely yield fifty bushels to the acre. Wh? can beat this ? Bgk, We have received a coj^ of the Civil Service Report. t8T Trial Justice Benjamin Hughes lias beep re-appointed by the Governor,1 Hotel Keeping and Summer ResorfS. "We see in our exchanges that owing to the money pressure there will be less travelling this Summer than usual, and that many who have hitherto gone to Europe, to the seashore or the mountains, will be compelled to stay at home this season?that the proportion of persons who will seek health and recreation at the watering places, will depend very much upon the inducements offered to i theiji?and that unless the rates of board ! are very much reduced from former nign prices, there will be a very slim attendance. The Chroniclc and Sentinel says: "If the Southern watering places attempt to keep up the high prices which have obtained since the war, they will receive but little of this custom, and ' will pocket a handsome loss on the business of the season. 'Their two and three dollar per diem rooms, withevery1 tbing extra, will remain unoccupied, 1 and the ancient.cbickens, doubtful eggs, sole leather steaks and India rubber rolls will ruin only the digestion of Boniface and his family. The people are poor, the couutry is poor, aud the future bears no promise. Watering place pri-1 : ces must be made to contract so as to correspond with other contractions, or the traps will catch no prey for this 1 Summer at least. Invalids will seek out quiet places in the mountains of ; Georgia, of the Carolinas and Virginia ?places where the band cometli and dancing is unknown. "Where a spring containing more or less bad smelling 1 1 1 1 ?-? !>./? miohinrrfmm t.hp ftlJU UHU UlSUUjj tyiuu, Kuoniub.. hill side or rock, and impregnated with the virtues of old boot leather and rusty iron, will furnish the imaginative sufferer with an excuse for getting fat and strong under the Influence of regular hours, nutritious diet, plenty of exercise and a cool and bftflng temperature. Many suchJieavenrKases are springing up in the deserts or fashionable hotels and expensive and ill kept boarding houses, and many more will be discovered by the tight pressure of a money ' market, and last year's business losses. Many even of the pleasure seekers will flud fishing, hunting, picturesque scenery, spring chicken, mountain mutton and unimpeachable milk, ample compensation for flirting, dancing, dissipation and dj-spepsia. A Green Old Age?A Good Record. TVe had the pleasure of meeting in our office on Monday last, one of ouri oldest and most esteemed fellow-citizens, Mr. James ?L Baskin of Montereyt who has attained the good old age of eighty-six years, and still retains much of the vigor and activity of his younger days. Few of our citizens can boast a better record, covering an expanse of four score and odd years, than our friend, who for public spirit, and all the elements of a pure and irreproachable character, is a model to the rising generation. He has seen through the long years, times change and fortunes fail, but lias preserved his integrity and equanimity, and now witli ildren, and grand children, and great; grand children about him, and "troops - * 1 ^AHAfi Ann 1 Anlr OI IIJC'IIUS " UJ UU Ullll UUUV1 | VU11 luun back with pleasure to the record of a long and well-spent life. Years ago the efficient and faithful tax-collector of Abbeville, and during his lifetime a skillful and successful farmer, an Elder in the Presbyterian Church, a Director of the Bible Societ}', he has been found faithful to every duty of life, public and private, and as the citizen, the church member, the husband and father, exhibits an example worthy of imitation and deserving qf all praise. Such is our imperfect tribute, to oiie of our noblest feJJowcitizens, Returned, ? Dr. J. J. Lee returned on Monday last from a two weeks' trip to the "land of flowers." He took passage on the Excelsior steamer, "City Point," which left Charleston with a gopdly number of passengers, about ten days since, and gave them all an opportunity of visiting Savanuah, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and other points of interest, occupying about a week in the trip. He states that all of the Florida towns give evidence of the influx of Northern enterprise and capital, and show market! signs of improvement. St. Augustine is being rapidly built up, and Jacksonville has almost grown out of recognition. The trip was a pleasant one, though the weather was somewhat boisterous and fnclement, Among the notabilities met on the passage was Mrs. H. B. Stowe and Mrs, Henry Ward Beeeher, the former of whom Owns a plantation near the St. John's River, The Junior acknowledges pleasant noticcs from the editors of tho Anderson papers?the Inlclligciiccr and the Con\scrvater; they are both excellent newspapers, and in themselves speak well for the enterprise and attention to busi ness of the proprietors. They are representative journals of the up-country, and deserve the liberal support accorded to them by the people of Anderson. We wil] be pleased to greet our friends here, whether they come to court as lawyers, editors, or suitors. BST" We had the pleasure, a few days since, of meeting in our office Mr. Julian A. Selby, the genial proprietor of the Columbia Phoenix, and Mr. Charles C. Tutt, of the same office^who are traveling in the interest of that well conducted daily. The Phoenix is one of our most welcome exchanges, and has always been ably edited. Its columns are daily filled with the latest news and interesting comments upon current topics. Its proprietor is an energetic newspaperman, and deserves the success which attends him. Soda Water and Ice.-?All of our friends who are fond of cool beverages can be supplied by calliug on Messrs. J. B. & W. J. Kogers at their well known stand, No. 2 Granite Range. They have some delicious soda water, and will keep always on hand a full supply of ice. Mr.^lenjamin Rhett, the son of our former townsman Dr. B. Rhett, was in town during the past week. He is looking well and has the appearance of thrift. He is commercial agent for some of the business houses in the North. 1 i 00 I < A Pet Deer.?Any one desiring a i handsome doe some eight mouths old, i can Have ine opportunity OI puruuaamg i by applying at this office. jSyJWe had the pleasure of meetiug , Mr. Robt. Pratt in our town yesterday. He is one of the best farmers in his sec- < tion.of country?a staunch and reliable mun. ] Dry weather seems to have set ] in. Some sections wore favored with i rain on Friday last, * NOTES OP TRAVEL. Louisville, Ky., \ i "May 11,1874. / Editor Abbeville Press and Banner : We are safely in the JFalls City, and although we have bvft little time to spare from duties, sight-seeing;. visits, dire., yet we must go back and bri ngy ou up from Nashville, and show around a little. iTfce distance from Nashville to this place is 186 miles, which was run ill nine hours. The road passes over a variety of country?some broken and rocky, and some gently undulating, covered with rich grass and promising grain. We passed on the way Cave City, c small station nine miles from the celebrated Mammoth Cave. Before reaching this place, we passed another station called Sinking Creek. Here, while thf cars stopped but a moment, l looked otil on the West and saw a creek about th? size of Long Cane running towards th? railroad, and within twenty feet of it and upon looking out on the other sidt I could see nothing of it. I am noi very inquisitive, but being anxious tc know what had become of the creek ] asked a fellow passenger sitting by me and who fortunately was familiar witt with the country. He informed me thai it sunk right there, and that it nevei rose again, that any one had ever beer rable to flnu out; hence called "Sinking Creek" station. Then I wanted to knov a little more about the topography o the country, the big Cave, etc.' I learnec from him that in this neighborhood tbere were several caves that he hac been into?one of them more interesting but nothing like so large as the Mam moth Cave. In one part of it was a gur gling stream of water below, which h< could hear, but nobody had ever gon< down to it to see how deep it is. The Conference of the M. E. Church South, , is holding its sessions iii th< "Library Hall," a verylafge and Wei seated hall. Thferls the "Public Library of Kentucky," whfch a number of oui people helped fo pay for by buying tick ets toja "Grand Gift Concert" which thej never expected toatter.d, but all expectec to draw the $250,000prize. They are t< have another and the last, .bat if oui people in South Carolina could hear th< coriccm talked of as I baye here in L/ouisville, they wouldn't invest. Farbettei give their five or ten doHars to th< missionary cause, orlhe sufferers by th< overflow in Louisiana, or some othej benevolent object. But let us go back to the Couferenc< ?a much mofe interesting subject. Thii body is composed of about 270 delegated clerical and lay, from the different An nual Conferences, and meets quadrennially. It is representative,, and th? best talent of the church is here assejnMa/}. There are eight Bishops, aut3 B.D.'s too numerous !9 mention. wouic that that honored title was ndt common, Among the lay membere are Ex-Governors, judges, lawyers, generals, etc. and I may be be permitted to say that fl is a fine body of representative men; ir whose hands the interests of Southerr Methodism are safe. The commission' ers from tho Northern M. E. C'hurchDrs. Hunt and Fowler, and Genera Clinton B. Fisk?bearing the fraterna greetings of that church, are here They were cordially received by th< Conference, as was to be expected o polite and generous Southern natures and their addresses breathed the true spirit of Wesley an Methodism through out. Some of your readers will rcmembe: that, in 1848, four years after the separa tion of the church into two bodies, tin Southern branch sent Dr. Lovick Pierci on the same mission to the Northerr Church, but they would not recogniz* the ^Southern Church, and refused t< receive him, and on retiring he tolc them witn calm dignity, and politenesi of the Southern gentleman, that tin next overtures-must come from them Sure enough they are here now tender ing their fraternal greetings, and by thi wonderful Providence of God, the ven erableDr. Lovick Pierce, the Nestor o iSouthern Methodism, in his ninetietl year, was on the stage, and in very feel ii-irr forma T>h Hunt nf tho PnmmisRinn era of the Northern church, presentee to him as a precious relic, an autograph letter written by Bishop Asburg, ant dated in Charleston, 8. C., in January 1786, saying "there is one man, and onl] one, now In the "effective work" of th< ministry, whose life opens the lou$ years of thfeeventful period," and hand ing the letter to Dr. Pierce, lie con tin ued, "I feel, sir, more glad than I car tell, to transfer to you this preoioui fragment of our common history. Mai it prove also a seal of preciops bond: which shall hold our beloved Methodisn in endearing brotherhood." The speak er alluded tci another remarkable and in teresting coincidence. He said tba Jesse Lee a Virginian, was tlie apostle of Methodism iu New England?tha he stood, not long ago, under the olc elm tree in Boston common, where hi stood and preached his first sermon it that city?that his Jieart thrilled with strange aud glad sensations when he took the arm of Brother Lee and was, by him, brought here to be introddcec to this body, (Dr. L. M. Lee of Virgin' ia was the Chairman of the Committe< of introduction and a descendant o; Jesse Lee,) because when Jesse Le< opened his message of tree salvation amid the chilly atmosphere of Neu England Calvinism, the first man whe under his ministry yielded his heart tc Christ was one of Ate own kindred. Five names were soon on a Methodist classbook, and two of them were bound t< him by the ties of blood and now lit thought of them as lookiug down together upon their kindred, joined arm in arm in Christian brotherhood. They are not asking an organic union of the two branches of the Methodisl Church, as is very commonly supposed, but merely extending fraternal greetings and hoping to bring about fraternal relations. As the petitioners are endeavoring to do this (see the speech oi Lamar, of Mississippi,) why may not bodies of Christian men? A committee of nine was apDointed to respond, and they have had it in hand several days, and without any intimation of what their answer will be. The question is invested with grave difficulties, and full fraternal relations are not very probable except, upon the basis of the "Plan of Separation," adopted in '44. The Northern church has encroached upon our territory, now holds church property obtained under military order, and refuse to surrender it. All these quegtlons will have to be settled by a commission, appointed by the two branches, before fraternal relations can be established. As to a union I have no idea that it will ever be accomplished, nor is it desirable. I nave just returned from an excursion down the Ohio on the fine steamer Mary Houston, kindly tendered to the Conference by the Captain. There were about 350 passengers including about 50 ladies. We steamed over the falls and landed five miles below on the Indiana side at New Albany, a town of about 20,000 inhabitants. Here plate glass is made, the only place in the United States where it is made, and I hope to visit the factory and witness theproeess, as we are invited to do so on some other day. I suppose I have tired you and I am sure 1 urn tired enough to retire. C. Good Bread.?Go to Mr. Lubkin and get some of the best bread and cakes tMat ever gladdened the sight or palliated the appetite of the hungry. We trust that Mr. Lubkin will be liberally patronized, and that our people may feel that tt is to their advantage to "live and let live." He has recently settled in onr midst, and we give him a hearty welcome. We wish that we had many more as iniustrious and enterprising. ^ ^ Mr. Lubkin, at the new bakery in Abbeville, sold on Saturday last 360 loaves of bread, and, if his supply had not been exhausted, there is no telling! fhe cxact number he would have sold, ' ? LIFE INSURANCE. Reply to "Public Policy." If siiccess is Art indication of merit > and. popularity, Life Insurance In Ab, beville is quite so, taking his own show> ing for it. He goes into a long mathematical calculation, showing the uni doubted solvency of the Company (the i Piedmont and Arlington) which I have ! the honor to represent. To the policy| holders of which I would say, She ia all ( right. I may at some future time eipher ; a little too, but uot now. I thank "Public Policy" for the sev-. i eral free advertisements which' be has f;iven me and my~Company, and would ike to hear from him on Public Prisfiinff, r as a drain, of which- he ia a very great > beneficiary; and ope'who pays for it too, t V "W. T.BJRANCH. ; ! t r * ' / 5 Runaway. ? Atwo-horse wagon, b?* I longing to Mr. John Falkner, of Cedar t Springs^ unexpectedly took flight on ? yesterdayat the sight of flOfl^e bogSj' heads nfckr Wardlaw & Edwards' J the owner was laying in a stock ofcheap t supplies for his plantation,) and .ran off t with a couple of horses, scattering itiielf '' as fafr & the foot of the l&ie Hill. The J owner gathered the fragments,. and ref paired the damages himself, without I eallinc in Messrs; Seal. Bign4Robert-! } SOn. . . - ... t| 1 8@i. The Pickcns Sentinel la ill trouble; again. Their ink failed to come^ andj ^ they had only enough to print half 2 sheet this \veek. This way of disappointing editors is ho small- matter,-and 5 we trust that the freight line wjlfcendea* vor to be more prompt, iq the future. [, ,Not long since this same excellent jour. nal was forced to issue haif sheets for r several Weeks: in conseqUehceMSiP th$ 1 delay of their printing paper. ) j ' '" " p ~ -T ' V?yj ; \ i:? ' ; IPS* The Florida Pairon is: the title of - a neatly printed ninthly, published at [ Wei born, Suwannee Co., Fla., by our \ old friend Wm. H, Wilson, and devoted f to the interests of the farmer. Our friend is lecturer of the State Grange, 5 and deputy for the State at large. \Ve } wish him abundant puccess. ) . ? ' '1 * , Robbery.?The store of Messrs, Mil: . ler & Douglass. was.^roken into last | week and some one hundred and flftjP ' dollars in money abstracted. No other I article of value was missed. There has , been no clue to the perpetrators. J ? 1 BGP' Br. James McCravy wfi^'in town \ on last Monday, .and informsos thaf he . has a fine starfd " of cotton, but that it I needs rain. Wh{n we saw him the ' Doctor had some half-dozen new 1 ploughs on his shoulder, ready for busif ness when it does rain. t. I I 4P ! B?&?"Wehad the pleasure of meeting the mayor oflhe.-city'of Hodge^Capt. r J. N. .Cochran?on oq.r streets yetterl day. He requested us to state that the I calaboose of that town is for sale. It 1 has not had a lodger within its walls 2 for the last six months. Persons wantj1 ing brick might strike a good bargain 3 by application to his Honor, the Mayor. s Col.. B. Z. Herndon and Mr. J. I Mac. Moseley came up yesterday eve1 ning to hiatal the officers of Hesperian f Chapter. They are well skilled in the 1 mystic art, are familiar with tb.e degrees, [ and do such work as we are authorized I to receive. ' i 1 1&- The Episcopal Convention held > an interesting session of four days in [ Charleston last week, adjourning on j Saturday. Abbeville was represented - "Dair 17 P \fi1oa onrl IVfpnnra Rii'rt " Parker and Barnwell, i ^ ^ ] r ~leu"The crops in the neighborhood Of s Pratt-s Mills are promising. There [ seems to be a larger per cent of small . grain planted*this year than usual, and t it promises a g6od yield. * > ? j 16k. The rejoinder of Mr. W. T. , Branch to the article of "Public Policy," t may be found in another column., 5 Religious. ? Rev. S. L. Morris,"~of | the Theological Seminary, will preach! at Hopewell Church, on next Sunday. -? ^11 tv The press and the pulpit may say what they please, but a man in dove-Colofed pants and patent leather boots is not a fit person to adjust e tub tot catching raiu water. BAl^R'r AND CONFECTIONERY, ic. H. LUBKEN HAS established a first-class Bakerv In this town. At twelve o'clock noon, "Wednesday, the best Fresh Bread, Crackers and Confectioneries v can be had by applying to him at the old Post Office, on Main Street. May 20, 1874 6-tf DISSOLUTION. THE PARTNERSHIP heretofore existing between C. G. McAlister and E. A. Mars, under the firm name of Mc A LISTER & MARS, was dissolved by mutual consent, on the first day of April, 1874. C. G. McALISTER, E. A. MARS. Monterey, S. C. May 16, 1874 6-3m WANTED. Twelve good carpenters are wanted, and four Stone Masous can find employment, by applying F. B. HOUSTON, Architect, Greenwood, S. C. May 20, G-tf J THE OTTER" ^TnilSV lltARK PATtt* BRAND OF BLACK ALPACAS aje superior to any other. A fresh lot at 50, 65, 75 and 8o, just received at the EMPORIUM OF FASHION. May 20, 1874 6-tf Sheriff's Sale. ; ; ThomasM.Bfanyan and") ReutRrti Clinkscales I Elccatjoll, against John. P. Clinkscalea. j. BY virtue of two Executions to mef directed, I will sell at Abbeville Court Hons?, on Saleday in June next, within the legal houfs, The Boot* Tract, containing. * ' 1 ' iflOTLcres, more or less, bounded by ltfrtds^f "Jag, Clinkscalea, -Hugh _ IlobcrJLson, and others. Qld Homestead containing .. 160 4?res, moife or les? bOnqded by linds ; a. JW.0 wnorjciyx*. xjc. ?rra9W9ng,'uja<? a othersr" "Wakrcdrfd 1Twict contain ? 350 mor^g'iHO&Ss, T)dnir&fefl tyilandl*a#|kw C. Cllnksciles, Milft>n? Fishery- ?$}| I 0tfe*W TtJafcay 1 after silela|| '5 Jane 2,1874, atAbo-jfosjdwicerof Job? F. Clinkscale''tne^ltaw^^g'^e^sollal, . prwSty^)^: ;10 One Horse, . One Mufti;0 - W;H **1' H ?<sil Fetor? ndred bundles ?><Mor,S85C SiS.IW,, ; ,:. ; ) 1 en Sheep, ' One Piano,:. . , , , *, Household and itch on 'Furniture. J Levied on as tbe property of JohnF. ClinkscfltemfytK? ^(Thomas ' M. Branyan and Beaben Clmkscale. TfcSttfc'dltelto 2ffiM 'Tfi'-P. uthij}V. ) vrnGv* , s. a. c? ^ Sheriff's Office, v'/Vv.,'J; j . May 5, 1874,.,.Wfj,y; I ' ' iiHiuiV}: [ i t ." ti'i/fi ,os*A Nathan Ingram.* *) BY vir$olaTanjExe<?WI9n' me direciec^ I will seiniVthVresiLdenco pf.^tbaiulnjrram, on the 4th of Jane rnext,'the folloto'ingproperty: 800 lbs Seed.Cotton, more orlew, r.M* 1 Sideboard, vtV 1 large Sow, '' , " : Cora ^nd Fodder In barn, , ! > l.pejuof Whe^t'Stww,! I Cow and Yearling, ; 8 sUind of Bees, ' ? : 6 Chairs, 1 Piano, levied on -as the property of KstBan > Ingram, at the sait of A. J; Ferguson, Terms Cashr. L. ?, GTJFFIN, S. A. C~ Sheriff'8 Office, 1 } May 12, 1874 5-tf J n r Sheriff's Safe. ^ ? James A. PartIow, .Marv J. Partlpw,, , Georgo AfoKellar, 'Irustee; Plaintiff's, : /, against (l J. Y. L. Partlow. ;? : Executions.- . BY virtue ofsondry executions to me* directed, I wilt sell at Abb?vi(io< Court House, on Saleday in June- - next, within the legfcHiours,-; Sii Honfireft Acres of more or less, boused by Japds of G. W. Rampey, Bcnhett Reynolds, Benj. McKcllar, and. others, levied.on, as the properly of J. Y. L; Partlow, at the suits t)f Mary J. Partlow,' GeorgeMcKellar, Trustee of James A. Partlow. . Terms Cash. ";< - :i Jj. Pi' GtJFFIN, V.Vv>? ><* . S. A. C. Sheriff's Offico, ' -*' May 11, 1874 5rtf Slteiiff'sSaW <> - t . w _ Morris Israel, Plaintiff, against f. Garrison A. "V isanska, Defendant. Execution. 4 BY virtue of an Execution to m? directed, I will sefl within tbo legal hours, at Abbeville Court House, on Saleday in June nest, f- 1 . ? in a - ' Five Hundred anqA*?e* of Land, more or less, bounded by lands of the estate of ? ' t T TV Ja3..T, Ajid(leH, T if, Jttyuaorq, a. iv. Qalftragiier arid Mary A:>Marti?, levied on.as the property of Garrison * A. Visanska, at the suit ofMoitis Israel. Terms Cash. L. P. GUFFIN, Sheriff AbbovilJe County* Sheriff's Office, ) May 11, 1874. J Sheriff's Sale. >r ;,~y Banistej Allen, Pl'ff,") against' V Execution. James.Y. L. Partlow. ) . ! BY virtue 01 an .axecuwon w iuw directed, I will sell at Abbeville Court House, on Saleday in JULY next, within the logal hours, 600 Acres of Lang* moroorless, bounded by lands of G, W? Rampey, Bennett Reynolds, Benjl. McKellar, and others, levied on as thoproperty of J. Y. L. Partlow, at?tho suits of Mary S. Partlow, Georgo McKellar, Trustee of James A. Partlow. Terms Cash. fcP. GUFFX^. s. A. e. Sheriff's Office,' May 19, 1874, 6-tf PEARL GRIST. ~ Augfista Grllt, Bolted Meal, Greenville Meal, Bice, &c., just received, DuPBE, GAMBKELi h CO. 0, 1874, 4-tf