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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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\
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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
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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.
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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