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The Press and Banner Wednesday, April 14,1886. ! fence. How vain are thoughts that wing the soul! But lift it not to purest light! Like gorgeous sunset clouds they roll, Then fade across the hill of night. How weak the deeds for which the soul Still seeks to soothe her restless stnte ! Like mighty waves they toss and roll, And beat in vain at heaven's gate. "We look across the wastes of life, Nor yet our straining eyes discern, Beyond the languor and the strife, The perfect peace for which we yearn. It comes upon its silent way In breath of noon or starlight hour; It soothes us with a subtle sway. It lifts us with a bouudless power. From all the beauty we have known A fresher light of beauty springs; 'With purer gladness freer grown. The soul within us thrills and sings. That peace of God! Each restless dead, Each daring thought, at last must die. God knows-the vigor that we need, God knows the peace for which \vc sigh. tr> enmo chit hnnr when self is not, Antlsome unknown vjist power. Our wayward folly is forgot? We yield, and then our soul is free. I IS THE NEGRO A FAILURE ?! ? AN ABLE AND SCHOLARLY REVIEW OF THE QUESTION. +. Tievs of Hon. W. C. Benet, of South Carolina?Tlic Brother in Black and liis Future?The South needs a Yeomanry, not a Peasantry. Augusta Chronicle. Abbkville S. C., March 31. Editor Chronicle: Your letter of 18th inst. vpas duly received. It calls to my attention the conversation with Prof. White, of the University of Georgia, on -'The Negro as a failure," published in a recent issue of the Chronicle: and you ask my "opinion about the negro as a laborer, and of the race as a "peasantry for the soutn." Ana you uuuil-i ask if I "believe that we must look for a new class to supply his place on the farm," and if "scientific and intensive farming, and Northern and foreign immigration are the best substitutes for the present labor system of the South." It gives me pleasure to comply with your request. First, then, as to THE >'EGRO AS A LABORER. Prof. White docs not say the negro is a failure as a laborer. He does pronounce him a failure as a "skilled laborer," and in this no doubt he is correct. Nor would he go far wrong if he said that the field-laborers of France, England and Ireland?three countries he mentions?were failures as skilled laborers. Having some acquaintance with the peasantry of those European countries, I cannot agree with the Professor that they are "scientific laborers." Intelligent they may bo?very many of them are?much more so than the negro; but surely not scientific. Is it really necessary that farm laborers should fce scientific or skilled? That the farmer himself should be so, needs no argument; ju.?t as the ship captaiu must be skilled in the science of navigation, whether his crew be so or not. Jt is the duty of the crew and of the farm laborers to obey the orders of the captain, to carry out the directions of the farmer. "Theirs not to reason why; theirs not to make reply." And the captain and the farmer must see that their commands are obeyed. As a laborer pure and simple, I do not regard the negro a failure. On the contrary, when under the supervision of the white man, HE IS AN EXCELLENT LABORER; but white supervision, constant and efficient, firm if kind, the white man must exercise over him. His fine physique enables him to stand hard work; and, easily satisfied, easy to manage, light-hearted and simple, he is never 60 happy as when let alone by demagogues and philanthropists and suffered to do I his day's work and eat his frugal meal. Employers of labor in other parts of the world account the Southern States fortunate in pos iociinir in the nesroes a laboring class whose docile and contented disposition prevents them from combining in strikes anil unions, while the white laborers of the North and of Europe, with much turbulence and violence, are forming themselves into a grand army ol' the discontented. OCR SOUTHERN* CLIMATE must not be forgotten in this discussion. What white Ial>orer can take the negro's place in the sweltering rice-fields, tiie steaming corn-fields and blazing cotton-fields of our too sunny South? The negro is the child of the sun and the swamp, and he thrives and grows sleek where the fair-skinned "white man shrivels up and dies. There is much truth in what Sir George Campbell says in his ( uri.iiann/i Tiifw.ir in thp United States."? (pp. 160-1.)"Tlie American blacks are in a fair way of "becoming a comfortable, wcll-to-ilo population to a degree found in very few countries, "a condition which may compare very favorably, not only with the Indian ryot, the "Russian serf, or the Irish tenant-farmer, but "also with the Dorsetshire laborer. I doubt "whether, on the whole, a better laboring population, more suited to tiie climate and "country in which they Hud themselves, is .'anywhere to be found." Your second question relates to the NEGROES AS A PEASANTRY for the South. Prof. White is reported as having paid that "the great necessity of Georgia was a peasantry," meaning by that term "intelligent and "scientific laborers such as France, England, ovon ilnivn.trnilfton Trnlalld have." I! .such be his meaning, no wonder ho says "the country is absolutely without a peasantry." I have already ventured to doubt if there be such a peasantry in Fiance, England or Ireland. j What Is a peasantry? That class of rural laborers who do field and farm work. It does not include farmers or employers ol labor, j Properly speaking, a peasantry is of the same blood and race as the rest of the inhabitants I of the country. The Irish peasant is kith j ?nd kin to the Irish peer; the Duchess of Devonshire is of the same blood as the De-i vonshire dairymaid. -In this rcspect the South has no peasantry, and I rather fancy she never will have: for the negro takes the place of peasant in the Southern States. No .doubt he is not like that "bold peasantry,! their country's pride," i,sung by Goldsmith; but here be is?some seven millions of him.; "What is to be done with him ? lie cannot do! without us, and I fear we cannot get on without him. But, supposing we should try with j Prof. White to supply his place on the farm j by tlie introuucnou 01 wimu i>? as;mn v uom ttie North and from Europe, what shall we ilo i with the negro? Shall we ask him to EMIGRATE TO AFKICA? This he could not do even if he desired to; return to the land of his father."-? which he does not. If the bridge of boats spoken of by Henry Clay were to stretch across the Atlantic Gcean from shore to shore, and a continuous procession of negroes were to keen steadi-l ly marching day and night from Georgia toj the Guinea coast, the daily birth-rate among j the negroes of the South would more than keep pace with the number daily departing.; But he has no desire to depart. The lied Indian pines Into annihilation when deprived of his native forests and farreaching hunting grounds; but the negro leaves behind him Afric's sunny fountains to roll down their golden sands with scarce a regret, and lie makes himself equally happy! iindat. home with tlie Englishman or the Frenchman, the Portuguese or the Spaniard,' the Aiab or the Turk. The Sioux and the Cherokee dream of regaining the land of their J < fore-fathers; the Chinaman slaves for money 1 among kicks and scowls 011 the Pacific slope j 1 that he may go back to his far-away home to! 1 live and die and be buried there; the Coolie | in Jamaica longs to see again the coral reel'J ] and fringe of palms around his native isle in j1 the distant Indian Ocean; the Jew turns 1 longing eyes to Jerusalem; all men of all races 1 ' * " - ' 1 11 ~ llw-.il- I. loon uuck kj me iiuiuir aim uniting vji mv.. race with love and longing?all except Ujc i negro. He docs not desire to go back to Africa,; lie cannot be induced to go there. The Dark Contlment. has no charms for hi in. ; Of the one hundred and twenty-seven petty i African tribes, which are said to have fur- i nished the slaves to the fields of the South, is there one negro of all the seven millions who knows or cares to know to which lie belongs? Judging him by the standards applicable to , other men, philanthropy, at great cost, established for the negro the republic of Liberia, and a second Exodus was looked for. But the uegro prefers the llesh-potsand still lives in the land of Egypt. He prefers to live in a white man's country, subjected to the influ- 1 ence and example and control of the white ; man; and in truth, the negro is at his best ' with these surroundings. Shall we ask him or compcl him TO MIGRATE to some "Western or Southwestern vesorva- ' tiou? Even if like obstacles did not make ; migration as difficult as emigration, it would be found, I appi&liend, that reservation does I not reserve; for would the white man observe the reservation? Let the red man testify. THE >*EGKO WILL NOT DIE OUT. "Will the negro "die out," as some sanguine prophets foretell? They predict the speedy extinction of the black racc as in the case of the Red Indian, the Carib, the Maori, the New Hollander. But the negro, although of the most obliging disposition, will not oblige us in this regard. He will not for our convenience efface himself and disappear as if his day were done and his lamp going out in the darkness. He thrives and multiplies best and quickest when living in a white man's country. The elasticity and plasticity of disposition which is ttie neuro's distinguishing characteristic, bas enabled him to submit j contentedly to centuries of slavery, and will enable him in a stato of freedom to live in . the presence of the white man without danger of extermination. Of all savage peoples the negro is the only one that can *ee the Anglo-Saxon's lace and live. The fierce Red Indian, the gentle Carib, the brave Maori,the savage Australian, all vanish from before the white man. Civilized they r?m> not, ho domesticated thev will not be. It is with wild people as it is with wild animals; the untamable arc doomed to extinction?only the tamable can survive. The horse and the ox, the camel and the dog live and thrive ns man's faithful servants; but the days of the lion and the buffalo, the tiger and the wolf are numbered. Job's question is the test?"Will he make a covenant with thee? "Wilt thou take him for a servant forever?" The Southern negro's present condition is one of DOMESTICATION* and not ono of civilization. Tie has adopted the language, the religion, the customs, the dress of his former master. Civilization is the outgrowth of influences and tendencies from within; domestication comes from influences from without, and it necessarily takes its color and character from its surroundings. Civilization is a polish, domes :jc o vnnnnt'i sins* r?ni"w?r?n 1 < fho rough grain of the pine, the other brings out the ingrained beauty of the oak. But the very ease with which he puts on the veneer will secure the negro from extinction and danger of extermination. lie Is a nation of cockneys, as Carlylc says, happiest when living with the white man; and as such he will continue to live with the white man, happy and contented?if the politician and the pseudo-philanthropist will only lcthim alone. 1STEKMAKKIAGK. Some think they see the solution of the knotty negro problem, the only reasonable and natural one, in amalgamation of the two races by intermarriage, whereby the whites shall absorb the blacks, or the blacks shall absorb the whites. Of this we need have no fear. The proud race whose blood flows in our veins will never stoop to marriage with <?-' ?? - rt \w r-inn T> scorned so to do with the Hindoo, the New Zealander, the Red Indian : there is no reason to suppose it will consent to marriage! with the less attractive negro. Although Bishop Dudley, of Kentucky, thinks he sees it in the far distant future, 'and Cnnon Rawlinson plainly and forcibly advocates it as the "true remedy"' for all our social ills and race conflicts, and Frederick Douglass agrees with him in theory and himself furnishes an illustrationyet is race fusion so abhorrent to our r:ice instincts and so out of accord with the history of our race that we can smile at the absurd suggestion, ltawlinson goes so far as to say that such amalgamation "might he counted "on to Improve in certain respects the mental 'and moral temperament if not the physical "characteristics of our race." To quote his words is to explode his theory. This is no theoretical question, but a most practical one. It is no question of improvement in breeding of cattle, but a question of the future of two races of human being*. 1 ins lfc iiuqutr.Miuu Ul tUMU, ll l? tl VJUVnu?Mi of race; no question of master and menial, rich and poor, intelligent and ignorant, cultured and rude, hut one ot race; it is not a question of "traditional sentiment," as Mr. Cable thiuks, but of INSTINCTIVE BACK ANTIPATHY J it is not a question of politics, but only of race. And although Cable may speak of race instincts as "cheap twaddle," and Rawlinson may theorize about improvement of our Anglo-Saxon stock by the infusion of negro blood, the test question after all is this; Willi you let your daughter marry a negro? He | WIKICclII MIV J V.\*> L?.? lllilb l| Ill/MUHI IViIVIII*, easily and as a matter of course, and not in the spirit of a martyr to some theory or supposed principle of equality and high humanitarianism, he and he only has the right to speak seriously of amalgamation by intermarriage. Besides, the negro, his own writers being the judges, does not desire marriage with the whites, and tlio whites next in the soei:il | scale to the negroes?the "poor whites," the. "mean trash," "prior buck ra"?in that -class. the prejudice against the n gro is strongest and it is met by a hostile feeling on the p;irt ' ' of the negroes. Many efforts have been made j to bring together the two races in schools and I churches, but. they are further apart than ever to-day. Obcrlin and Uerca Colleges have ! carried on co-education of the races and the [ sexes for many years; and yet from their own records I learn that not one instance has occurred of intermarriage between the students ! of the two races. THK MULATTOS. As against this view, it has been frequently j ili.it tlio larL'ft number of mulattos of all shades disproves any assert ion of rate antipathy on the part of the whites. This at first looks like a very strong ari/uiiirntiiia ad hominem, hut oil a closer inspection it will be1 found to support thy assertion; for, as l'rof. It. T. (Jrecner, himself a fair mulatto, says, in all siieh cases the white man has been the misccgenationist ami the negro woman the facile victim; and the ollspring is proof not of the attractiveness of the negrvss in the white man's eyes, as Frederick Douglass would have us to believe, bill only of a con veil iniey. 'i'liere maybe isolated cases of intermarriage, but i they will never betoken a race movement. The mulattos form a fringe of bastardy on tlieirreat iif:r!i riiee?a si^n of degradation of the white man ami of no elevation in the n*1 ?rro. Tiiat frinjre, so broad under slavery, will gradually but sureiy ;/row narrower ill a state of freedom until it will become an almost invisible selvage. And it will be well for bo lb races when it shall wholly disappear. The'j mulatto class Inssupf.li.vd nearly all the stir-, rcrs-up of .strife between the two raccs. They ' 1 :lo not like to consort with the blacks, and they cannot make their way into the society af the whites. Hence the too frequent but ciuitc natural bitterness and indignation in tiie breasts of those people. The blacks of Hayti j have a suggestive proverb about the mulatto: 'He bates bis father and despises his mother.'' He can be of little use to either race, and tlie sooner he vanishes out of sight the better for both. I am glad to believe with Prof. Krecner that the signs of the times betoken i his disappearance. What is the conclusion of the whole matter? | Emigiation, migration, intermarriage,extinc- J Lion?there is no hope in any nor in all of. these. The two races are DESTINED TO LIVE TOGETHER in the same country, under the same laws. Can they live together in peace? Can there he political union without social fusion? Can there be propinquity without hybridity? Can there be nationalization without amalgamation ? Without being too sanguine, I feel that I oan answer "Yes," if only the people of the North and the people of the South will let the negro :iinnr> to work out his own civilization?to live out his own history. To South and North alike I would say, LET TIIF. XEGllO ALOXE. To the North I wouid say, Lot the South alone; let the races live here in peace. Let the negro be no lonaer the spoiled pet of sentimental philanthropists?the special object of euro to all people with a mission. Treat him as a man and not as a little child. Meddle not with race movements; they will adjust themselves. There need be no conflict, for their lives are diverse. There need be 110 antagonism, for there Is no rivalry. Lett to himself, the negro seeks and needs no better friend than hi.s white neighbor and employer. From the cradle to the grave the white man and the black have the kindliest feelings towards each other. A negro nurse rocks the white man's cradle; a negro nurse arrays him for the grave; and negro servants and neighbors shed honest tears at his funeral. There is the most cordial friendship between white man and negro and yet no social intercourse. Neither seeks it, nor will ever seek it. Thus they live together on the same soil, nextdoor neighbors, with distinct social systems; not on different social planes or levels, as is sometimes charged, for their lives arc so distinct there is no medium of comparison?no higher, no lower?but entirely apart. There let them live, pursuing their course in PARALLEL LINES OF PROGRESS, never meeting, never coming in conflict, but each helping the other when their interests are mutual, the white man helping his weaker brother whenever possible, sis the negro knows so well how to obtain help, and as the Southern white man knows so well to bestow it?a unique relationship understood nowhere else. The foregoing remarks, Mr. Editor, show that in answering your third question, "Must we 1UUK IUI ll new iy i/iiv wv^ivo place on tlic farm ?"?in my opinion, we need not. There is great need of improvement in li 1 in as a laboring class. It is true that among the negroes, as Trof. White pays, "there is a low state ol morality and little disposition to acquire property.Uut LET US HE PATIENT. Chastity and the one-wife family system distinguished our Teutonic race In the dawn of history. It is not surprising that the negro and negress are unmindful of tlie sanctity of the marriage vow when we reflect that their progenitors of three or four generations back practiced polygamy and polyandry, and that among their not-distant cousins in Africa torlnv fOinKt.itv is .in unknown and unknowable virtue. As. to tlioir learning to acquire property, this, too, is .1 virtue of slow growth among interior races. To lay up something for the morrow; for a rainy day,or for winter; for next year; for sickness and old age; for one's children and heirs; these, in rough, arc the successive steps in the arduous and slow task of learn!ng economy; and the ncgro.h is hardly arrived at the point of saving up for next year. Hut he will learn in time, and we must bo patient, with him. The Germans have a proverh, "When emptying out tlie bathing tub, don't throw out the baby."' As a farm laborer he cannot be dispensed with in t lie South, and if we could do without him, the Southern farmer and, planter would soon spoil the white laborers and unfit tliem for labor. Nor can we get on without the negro in many other kinds of work. For example, as HOUSE-SERVANTS; with all his and her faults, and they are not few, the Southern housewife prefers the negro and his wife to the white servant. The negro nurse, the negro cook, the negro housemaid, the negro serving-man?what .Southern woman, who values her peace of mind, would exchange those faithful and kind-hearted servants for white ones, no matter how much more competent they may be ? Kind hearts are more than competency, and broken crockery Is easier to stand than broken contracts. In regard of "scientific and intensive fanning," as a "substitute for the present labor system in the South," it becomes me to say but little, seeing that neither with the plow nor with the pen am I a firmer. Thus much only shall I say: That it would seem to me that scientitlc and intensive farming can surely he carried on by a scientific and intelligent farmer, even though his laborers be not "intelligent and scientific," but. only stout, likely, negro "field hands. It is not clear to me that I'rof. White is right in saying "we must live independently of this class of labor." I have tried to Show that it is useless to seek for a substitute for neirro labor, but that we must make the most of It. Efforts to introduce white Iaborors have boon made in the .Southern States witli the invariable result of failure to keep them in the Held. The white laborer will not remain a laborer where the negro is his rival, equal or competitor. Prof. White says, "We must work for immigration." Tills brings me to answer your last question as to Northern and foreign IMMIGRATION. Undoubtedly immigration must he looked to as the cure for many ot our troubles, but not the immigration of white laborers from the North and from Europe as a substitute for the negro laborers; not the introduction of a white peasantry which shall by some process distinct* and simulant the negro. I have en dcuvored to make plain that .such a substitution, even if desirable, is not possible. What, then, is the remedy? Will Prof. White permit me to suggest that what the South needs is not a white peasantry,but a largely increased yeomanry ? A YEOMANKV. By this term 1 mean that class of white citizens $:en orally known as small fanners?men who willi himl negro labor work farms of fifty, a hundred or two hundred acres; if they own the farms they till, so much the better. There arc many such in the South, hut their numbers should be, and with well-directed effort could be increased tenfold, inured to work with spade ami plow from boyhood, they do not play the gentleman farmer, but take their place in the field with their hired negroes, and not only see them do their work, but set them an example. They do not aspire to be planters; they do not deal in futures and try to make fortunes hy speculation; they are simply farmers who makes the earth yield her increase (or the support of their families. They are not rich, nor are they in haste to be rich; but they are well-to-do, and their thrift and frugality keep them out of debt and thus independent. Perhaps the most prosperous county in South Carolina owes i'.s prosperity to the unusually large number of such small farmers within its borders?a yeomanry to be proud of?such a yeomanry as. to my thinking, the Southern States need above all things else. It was just such a yeomanry that about, the second quarter of la*t century came into the Piedmont region of the Carolina:* ami (ieor ; insn jiihi unnmn .-v-hh:i.-> ?n. Pennsylvania; Seoteh-Jrisli and .Seolth-i: sot- ' tiers from tide-water Virginia; A IIARDY RACE of frontiersmen who hewed their way southward through dense forests and braved the tomahawk and bullet of the dusky savage at every step; an Intelligent race of pioneers who built a church wherever they erected a fort, and planted a school wherever they planted a crop. Those were they who reclaimed the Piedmont country from nature and the savage native, and whose descendants bid fair to make it the most prosperous and populous part of the Southern States. "We must work for immigration," as Prof. White says. By all means?but let it be for the Immigration, notof a white peasantry, but of a yeomanry such as I have tried to dcseribe ? small farmers, skilled mechanics, tradesmen with small capital. Let them come from England, Ireland or Scotland, from Germany,Franceor.Scandinavia,from Maine, Vermont or Massachusetts?let them come and welcome. "Norman and Saxon and Dane" they may be, and even Yankee, when they come, but one generation shall not have passed before they will all have become Southerners. The Southern Statcsand Southern railroad companies should act on Prof. White's advice and do all in their power, BY ADVERTISING and offering inducements, to divert, in some degree, the current of immigration to the South, not by such landslinrk schemes ais that which recently brought a Scottish colony of well-to-do settlers to the barren sand banks of Sarasota, Florida; butby such truthful representations as will assure the industrious and Jntfllicrr>nt. immioTiint. t lint if lie will come to these .Southern States aud buy a little farm, lie shall here find a home where he will delight to dwell. Tens of thousands are seeking such homes, and such homes arc here for them. I feel sure that if proper steps were taken thousands of such immigrants might be lnduecd to come from the North and from Europe and be happily and permanently settled in our Southern country. Thus would the unoccupied landsof theSouth become tiu abode of a sturdy and numerous yeomanry; and thus ouly, in my opinion, will the vexed negro question be pleasantly, successfully ant finally settled. W. C. BENET. Ladies and children's parasols inbeautifu colors, at Wm, Hell. 4-7 White satin and feather fans; something now in style, win. ! ;. ueii. i-/ Mits Sarah Brady will bo glad to show al the new shapes in hats on opening day. Win E. Bell. 4-7 The White machine is the best in use. Cal and gel. one at Win. E. Bell. J. L. Simpson. Don't fail to examine the White machine 01 opening day at Win. E. Bell. J. L. Simpson Novelty braid for lace, in I'll styles. Win E.Bell. 4-7 Yon should see Miss Borah Brady's trim ining before you buy your hat. Wm.E. Bell Chew "Sulivans Free and Easy" tobacco a T. C. Peri l 11. 4-7 The finest cigars and tobacco at T. C. Per l'n. 4-7 Patent medicines of all kinds at the Druj Store ol" T. C. Perrin. 4-7 "S. S. S." both in liquor and dry form at T C. Perrin. 4-7 Messrs. Ilu.r, & Chapman have bonghl the eatent ri*rht for making and selling an excellent board for ironinu shirts, ribbons ! laces, Ac. This is the b<-st article of the kiiu on the market. Every lady should have one ('ail at Hill's gallery or at Chapman's shop, tc see sample boards. 4-7 Swift's Specific s. S. S. sold in the dry forn by Speed <*'. Ncuffer. 1-20 Breech loading shot guns at New York cost P. Rosenberg & Co. Ik yon are looking for wedding presents don't fail to examine Mr. Reese's stock ot sil verware which is both beautiful and useful, t Cash buyers will find it to their Interest t< call early at I lad don's. 3-17 Thomas McGktthsan, proprietor of tin j largest and best stocked saloon in the State invites his many customers, his good friend and the public in general, to call at the oh ! Palmetto Saloon and sample his four-yea old malt whiskey and his California brand; I made from the pure grapes; sold at SJ.oo pe | gallon, almost equal to the finest Frencl | nrandies that cost from to SI2.IK) por g.il i Ion. Medical men cheerfully recommen< Tom's old {roods, and lliey warn tneir paiieni not to forget again Thus. McGettigan.?Adv. Now is your time to got a good breech load ing shot gun at New York cost. 1\ llosenberi j .t Co. I The styles in Spring millinery are simph beautiful. If you wish to see the latest call a Haddon's. 3-:M All the new shades of Spring dross good with trimmings to match ut Haddon's. 3-24 Sewing machine needles, sewing machini oil, sewing machine attachments, at Had don's. I'-::l Coming! comingj new spring goods n Haddon's. <>-17 liorlin and lisle thread gloves just receive* at Haddon's. 3-17 Woolen dress goods, light weight tricot' the prettiest good out for spring at Haddon's 3-17 IMaek fanies, black buntings, black cash mers, just received at Haddon's. 3-17 Our aim shall be to show a line of goods no to he found any where else in the County Cull at Haddon's. 3-17 Knvkt.oi'ks with your card on them at vcr; low fi> urjs can be had at the I'rcss and Bun ner oltiee. Evkuyiiody uses letter heads, and it i strange that you do not go to the 1'ress cini Banner ollice and get them printed. Mr. It. iM. Haddon has been In New Yorl for two weeks selecting our stock, Huying a wn do from headnuartcrs in New York City We will bo able to slow n line of goods tlii spring not to be found in any other house ii tbis section. A big Sot of prepared paints, colors, leads oils, Ac, just received by Speed & Neuller. 2-17 A small amount invested in window glas and prepared putly will make your house much mure comfortable for the winter. <?las cut to tit any sash by Speed & Neull'er. 12-!). Always on hand, a large lot of white lead prepared paints, linseed oil, paint brushes which you can buy in any quantity fron Speed A Neutier. 12-9. The large buttons forJSpring dresses are on ly to be seen to be admired at Iladdon's, 3-21 I White Brothers have a good lot of sho I guns. Among them are some very fini breech loaders. Sept. 30. I Let ail tbo ladies wanting a cashmere dres examine White Brothers' stock before pur chasing. Sept. 'JO. | Buy your tobacco and cigars from us. Tin I "May Kirby" is liard to beat. Sppecd & Nout j for. 12-0. We are still in the same place, first door be fore the National Hank. Our recent improve ment has added much to the beauty am convenience of our store and with a coinpleb line of dresses etc. hope to meet all demands All order shy hand or mail promptly and care fully attended to. Give us a call. Spcpd <S Neull'er. 2-17 Try the crown fine cut charming tobacco Sold by Speed & Ncufl'er. 2-17 Diamond Dyes, Diamond Dyes, the best, am cheapest dye stullin (he market. For sale bj j Speed & Nentier. 2-17 Mr. T. T. Hill's gallery Is open every clay l where the nicest work can be done. Tlx j specimens which he has on hand are work o | art. 3-17 | For the latest style of wash dress call a I Iladdon's. 2-21 All forms of contagious itch, mange am scratches cured in thirty minutes by Wool lord's sanitary Lotion. For sale by Speed i* X fuller. Feb-2-1 tf Skm> to the Prrx.i rind Iimiiicr for lien am ! nmriifiiiri' hhmks of the best lorm. | I'.uy the Golden Machinery Oil for engines gins, Ac., sojp liy Speed &, Neiid'cr. 12-'J. j Call and examine onr stock of overcoats be j fore they are all gone. i>. Kosenberg .t Co. ! Some liite style raised edge and plain visit I inn cards at. Lav/son's. ??Ii:. Ti'stkn'sJewelry and watch repairing | business is in the new store of .Messrs. it. M iladdon A: Co., \\ liich has just been beautiful' ly litled up. Mit. Trsri'n ha< moved his watch repairing ; business io ilie new store of Messrs. it. M, lladdon A: ?.'o. 1 ?on't forget that Mr. Tusten Is in the store of M"ssrs. !!. iM. 1 (addon A*. Co. | <!i:r your job printing done at the Press ami liiutHcr ollice. 1\ lloseiiherg it Co. arc selling their breech fading shot guns at New York cost. I Sweet Cum and Mullien, the great medical i remedy now being advertised all over the ! coin.Iry, for eoUtflis, coins, t\c. sc-lil oy >pccti iV NueH'cr . 17 | If you waul :i good overcoat t l a reduced price, rail on 1'. Ii??st*nl?frjr A* Co. Our line of cigars nml tobaeeo is much larger than ever Ix-forc, and we only a<k a lrial to roil vienee you of superior quality of same. Si e ii iV Nculior. l'-17 ? Johnson's Kais.unino, the prettiest, cheapest au'l most valuable preparation of I In* kind in tlie market., tor a le.-diiuunial examine Speed ?& Is eutier's store. 'J-17 Prepare for the Winter by buying an elegant pair of bod blankets from While Hrothers. Sept. oU. umim?BWBWWMW?iwwwiui m SORRY TO DISTDHB YOU, BUT YOU MUST READ THESE FACTS. UiJlIllIlU : Uiu . UiULUilig, . . SPUING & SUMMER. WE have just, received our Spring and Summer samples and styles, and are better prepared than ever to offer our friends and customers the following lines of goods : GEISTTS' SUITS made to order by the best of tailors and euar- 1 an teed to fit or no pay, at prices from ?15.00 to S<)0.00. Boys' suits made to order and guar| an teed to fit or no pay, at prices from 58.00 to $lb.00. Gen ts' ready made suits made by the Latest Styles and Patterns, . and guaranteed to fit or no pay at prices from S7.00 to $35.00. Hoys ready made suits guaranteed to fit or no pay at prices from 64.0!) to : ?15.00. Shirts, collars, cuffs, hosiery, suspen. tiers ami underwear, in fact eoerything need! cd to complete a gentleman's or boy's dress 1 made to order or ready made, al! of which are I guaranteed to fit or no pay, We have the pleasure of representing the largest clothing fisliibHshmont in the world, that of JOHN WANAMAKER, successor to Wanamaker& Brown, of Philadelphia, iind with its millions 1 of capital and ample facilities make it without a doubt the cheapest and most satisfaeto; ry way in which to buy your clothes. All we ask is just one trial. ! MILLER BROTHERS. . March 31, l&SG. : SMimHAMMOND, ABBEVILLE, S. C. Dealers in GUANOS & FERTILIZERS. t PLANTERS IX NEED OF FERTILIZERS - L or Guanos would do well to call on the undersigned, who nre agents for the sale of , some of the best fertilizers in t he market. * A.W.SMITH, J. S. HAMMOND. ; Jan. 20,1586,3m ; ABBEVILLE HOTEL, j HAVING lately gone throiu:h some repairs' is now open for the accommodation of the traveling public. Terms reasonable. B. K. UEACHAM, 1 .Manager. Jan. 0, 1880. tf. Wanted. f I An CORDS Tan Baric, will pay the high J lUU market price. Apply to 3 G. 1?. MOORE. I Oct. 21,1SS5. tf e i 1 FOUTZ'S 1 HORSE WO CATTLE POWDERS r r ji raMIs ,. ', No Horse will die of Colic. Eots or Luuo Fe* vek, if I'onfz's I'owders r.re used in time. Fontz's l'owders will cure and prevent Hog Cjiolbba. * Fourz's Powders will prevent. Gapks jx Fowls. t Fontz's I'owders will increase the quantity of milk nnd rrenr.i twenty per cent., and make the butter firm M'l sweet. S Fontz's l'owders will rnrc or prevent almost evkey Drsi ask to which Horses and Cattle are subject. Fofr/.'s Pownrna will "give Satisfaction. c vSold everywhere. DAVID E. rotrrz, Propriotor. t EALTIiIOE.E. 1ID. FOR SALE BY ' COTHRAR & PERRIH. WM. TI. PARKER "VV. C. McGOWAN* jMRSEE&McGOWAK * ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS, F I * 17 T ? T W7? 4^1 IF CJ #1 I AUUJLi * XLllJb, V/. 11.) O. Vi , \\7 ILL practice also In the Circuit Courts01 * }\ the United States for South Carolina* ' Jan 7,1SS0, tf 5 Take Warning. >5 A LL persons are warned not to TRESPASS i l\ upon my lands situstted near Donalds-1 vilie, either by hunting, lishing, cutting timber or passing through the same outside ot '? regular road. Any one violating either of the above warnings will incur the full penalty of the law. MLS. BARBARA BROCK, s March 10, ISSG, 3t Dissolution. TIIE firm of R?LL A- ?A!,PHIX. composed of \V. K. BKMi iind B. GAL 1 1'il, uas mis nay uissmveu ci'imi uiitjuuij i r I by mutual consent.. The business will bo ear- j rieil on by \V. E. Bell. W. E. HELL. 1 # 13. F. GALI'lIIN. 21 March 9, 1S-5C. tf ? Hi 0. hEtSEj f atcii Repairer ail Jeweller, J In tlic Store of Messrs. Hell A (ialphin. ^ ABBEVILLE, 8. C. ALL work entrusted to lilm carefully executed in the best manner at reasonable j prices. Jan. 'J7,1S8C. | To The Public. I ri'TTTi" T'n.lavuiirtioil utilteorlhni* i? nrpimrrvl to ! I 1 Terrace i.ancl upon the most scientific! : principles known to modern ajrri cult tire, li 1! will furnish a jjood level and render my ser-1 j vices at reasonable rates to all who may favor t me with their patr^iia^c. Satisfaction miarlanlecdorno pay required. Correspondence [ solicited. It. A PltKSSLV, . j Jan. l;5, 188(1. If I.owndcsville, S. C. M0TS421 I 'j Treasury Department, : Office of Comptroller of tiie currency, j : I Washington, December 16th, 1885. I W1IKKKAS, by satisfactory cvidftirc pro-j S'-nt>Ml tii !l:e tindcivi^neil, it lias been; made lu iti'pi iir t hut Nallosal M of MCi i' in the TOWN (?F AIJliKVILI.K, in theComiI ty ??l" AIWJKVII.U:. and State of SOl'TIl ' ('AIM >1.1 N A, has ?*<>m|-1 i?*iI Willi all the pro-; visions of thr I If vised Statutes of I In? I'liilcd Stales, rctjiiiivd 10 berniiipiirti with bctore nil 1 assoeia I ion shall be anthoi i/.eci to coiiiliu'iiee j ' the biisii-ess oi i;aiiUin_'; j Now Iin'icfiMf I, IlKNKY Y\". CANNON, Comptroller of t !i>- CiiiTeiicy, do hereby certify Hi:.I "Till; NATIoNAI, HANK ni' \HIJK-j VII.I.K," isi I lie Town <>f A illc, i: i I lit?! C'iuimy of Abbeville, niul State of Soiilli i 'nr olina, is ;tiu hori/.cd to commence I In* btiMne.ss of liiinivilij.' ;is provided in Section Kif;y one , hundred :i11<I sixty nine of the Jievistd .statutes of the I'11 itcil States. In it s'iinony whcivoi' v/ilm ?s my h:*nd Seal oi oiiiec tiiia hilh day of Pc-; cumber, 1S.\>. IT. W. CANNON, j f'oinptroUcr ol'the CuiTcucy. 1 Dec. 23, lSi>-3, It . 0ADnl IMA nuicc uftnuunm uniLi. . ~ ?. ^ ? ? rHOSE parties desiring the services of this thoroughbred registered Jersey bull will >e pleased to know that he will be stationed it Abbeville for the next two months. He vill l>e kept at. the residence of E. C. Wilson, >11 Floral Hill. Service fee S5.00. Parties vishing to purchase Jerseys should consult he undersigned before investing. II. C. WILSON. Jan. 27, 1880. Press and Banner olHce. m'JLUgt/ tu JLIOfc. o ? o [will let to the lowest bidder on Thursday, Aprils, 1SSU. between the hours of 12 rn. itid 1 p. in. the building of the bridge across ilie Saluda River at WaTT'S FERRY. The "ight is reserved to reject any or all bids, specifications made known on day of letting. JAMES A. McCORD, Chairman B. C. C. March 17, 1S8G. 4t vnv. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE, COUHT OF COMMON PLEAS. Loudie X. Speer ucd Martha K. Norwood, Administratrix, &c., against Jennie P. Glymph, Fannie N. Townsend, et al. IN obedience to tlie order of the Court herein, all parties Willi whom the late Dr. W. 0. NORWOOD, in his lifetime, entered Into tmy contract or contracts for tlie sale of any rcnl estate and who have not as yet received titles for the same, are hereby notified and required to prove their respective claims before me ou or before the first day of'June, 18S6. J. C. KLUGH, Master. March 15, 18SG. 4t Mules. * will have the finest CAR LOAD OF MULES here next Monday that lias been here foi twelve years. Will sell them cheap. Walliiigford & Russell. March 17, 1S80. An Ordinance Against Carrying and Using Sling snots. rpHE careless nntl improper use of Slinj ? Shots in the Public Square aud streets u the destruction of private properly bavins been reported to the Council by .Sundry per sons, notice is hereby given that the use o sling Shots in the Public Square and street is forbidden by Ordinance ami the Town Mar shal is instructed and required to arrest al persons violating this Ordinance. By order of Council. J. 3. HAMMOND, Intendant. March 17, 1SSG. tf Perfection HAS at last been reached in Cotton an< Corn planters. The MeClTLLOCH COT TON and CORN planter and guano dis.tribu tor is the cheapest, the simplest and the best for the following reasons : 1. It can Iju attached to any plow stock. 2. It can be managed by any boy. 3. -It will drop the seed in tlie lull at any rc quired distance apart or sow them iii any given thicknes* and covers. 1. it saves the work of an extra horse an< two hands. it. It costs only ?3.50 and does not get out o order. Call and see for yourself and you will fln< that you cannot afford to be without one. Or dcrs mav be left with ihe undersigned or will Capt. Witter at the New Hotel. J. W. McCULLOCII. March 10,1886. tf Chairs. ALIiklnds and styles. Over 600 on hand. J. D. CHALMERS & CO. Nov. 25, 18S5. tf Notice. '"IMTAT an application will b'b made to th X Clerk of the Court of Abbeville county, ? C? for a charter for the Buiial Aid Society, < - o t. ilnfo ?fiof tlii< nnh UlL'tllH UUU, U. V.., V.I1I IJ uujg e ? lication. Robt. J. IiOsran, President. Monday Williams, vice President. Rev. G. W. Williams, Secret:)r.v. T. R. Gray, Assistant Secretary. A. J. lvol, Treasurer. Thus. Anderson. Elijah JetJ'crson. Henry Tarrant. March 10, 1SS6. VALUABLE I I l LTj that tract of land situate in Calhoni J\ township, Abbeville county, on Littl River, and known as the TENNENT place and containing Six Hundred & Forty Acres more or less, with about ONE TIUNDREI AND FIFTY ACRES of cleared land, incltid ini; SEVENTY-FIVE ACHES of splendh bottom land on Little River, balance in origi nal forest and second jrrowtb; three miles o depot on Savannah Valley Railroad. For terms apply to DR. J. A. GIBERT, Bordeaux, S. C. MR. S. F. GI BERT, Lebanon, S. C. and ORVILLE T. CALHOUN, Attorney at Law, Abbeville, S. C. March 10,1SSG, tf Good Meals. H ATT IE ADAMS still keeps n RESTAURANT on the Dondy corner. Gooi ii111 < .-if ii 11 hours nt the tlav. jilil. -7, kSii, if Terra Cotta Y/ells. fjHIK undersigned wi'l put 3*011 tip a 19 inoli I Terra Cot til Weil for halt the price of 11 dug 1 me. The common wood bucket is used tor ilrawing water. The cleaning out is tlu: work of a moment by keeping a galvanized sheet iron bucket in the bottom to be hooked out at will. Satisfaction guaranteed. Also agent for the celebrated Cucumber J'tun p. C. M. CAl.IIOUX, Greenwood, S. C. They are frog proof and superior to one dug. Joels. IJailey, Greenwood. They arc bound to fake precedence over all others. J'rof. Blake, Greeuwood. .kh: liiuoi, iiiiiuiL-,). ]{cv. II. smart, Troy, J)r. L. Anderson, Ninety-Six. I lev. l'rcssly. l)ue West. J). J. Wardinw, MeCormiel?. 100 other names given if necessary. Fel>. 21, 18m!. In r 4 GARDEN SE?D. ^ E HAVE rcceivcil a large suppply of UmaHffS GABHEH SEED, All varieties, ami warren tod fresh. H. W. Lawscn & Co. Feb. 10, IiW'J. tf . -... - - ><-> V.', ' ^ * mi iii? - CONGAEEE innm M/flDfc s I11U11 II Oil [YD, Coumbia, S. C* Agnt for CHAPMAN'S PERPETDAL EVAPORATOR * f ' -TV;/*./'' - -"4 riiHESE WORKS WERE ESTABLLSAED <ii 1 1S47 by Messrs. Geo. Sinclair and James Anderson and purchased by me in the year 1856, and from that time till now carried on successfully by myself. My friends and customers will beaf witness of the large "and stupendous Jobs executed by me. It was at iny works where the largest and almost only job of Its claws ever executed Mn this city was done viz: the making of the pipes for the City Watpr Works In the year 18I>8. In the brnnch of BELL FOUNDING, I can say that I have made the largest bells ever east in the State, such as th? bell for tfib City Hull in Columbia. # ' My stock of patterns for ARCHITECTURAL WORK COLUMNS for Store fronts, Is large and various, and in RAILINGS for Balconies, Garden* and Cemeteries I have the largest variety nnd tnost modern patterns: manv of these are patented and I hav? purchased the right for this state. In the machine line I can furnish my pattons will STEAM ENGINES and BOILERS of any siie and description. My CIRCULAR SAW MILLS have carried off the prize at ev-ry State Fair held in this city, and in their construction I have taken pains to . combine simplicity with th? most nsefui modern improvements, and may flatter myself that my CIRCULAR,SAW MILLS find favor with every sawyer who understands his business. v ' The many orders I am steadily receiving for SUGAR CANE MILLS prove that the pnWie. appreciate the mills of my make, and so it is with my GEARING for IIORSE POWERS. GIN WHEELS. GRIbT MILLS and other MACHINERY. I have the manufacturing rlsht ff many PATENTS such as castings for ROCK COTTON AND HAY PRESS and three or four different FEED CUTTEB and other implements. I will be pleased to send my circulars to any applicant, together with price list or estimate, ily pricee are moderate, and I assure the public that tn#y are lower than those of Northern manufactures, and that my work will compare favorably with that of any other maker. Address John Alexander, Congakee Iro>t Works, Columbia, S. C. . ?- -m ' The Place to Get What ' You Want! i THOS. M. CHRISTIAN f HAVING bought the interest of Mr. JOHN WILSON in the business 1 formerly conducted by them jointly will keep always in store, a complete stock of M i vnv / iuis/M.>uri?ci r< a r V L UAv/V/J^nu^jf VUXXHTJU4^ GOODS and CONFECTIONERIES of all kinds. The best and cheapest CIGARS and TOBACCO. The FINEST WINES and LIQUORS. Sweet Mash Corn Whiskey ! For medical purposes a specialty. Also, Choice Liquors of any kind for medical - purposes. /}. J.yf^ > Give him acall. Satisfaction guaranteed All persons indebted to the firm of Christian tfc Wilson must make imrnei diate payment. i THOS. M. CHRISTIAN, f Abbeville, S. 0. j Feb. 13,1884, tf i Columbia nntl Greenville Railroad. ON and after Jnnnarr 10. 189U, Passenger trail* will run as herewith indicated upon thlt roai and its branches : DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAYS. no. 53. vr vasssxcir. Leave Columbia 10 46 a ref Arrive Al?t?n 11 45 ra Arrive Newberry 151 48 p in Arrive ChappoH'd. 1 84 |? m Arrive Ninety-Six, D 2 03 p m n ArMv.i (}i-?i>nw,uul 2 45 B in I Arrive Mntlgea 8 05 p m if| Arrive Dunnulds 8 26 p m i. I Arrive lielton 4 11 p in Arrive Greenville 5 85 p in NO. 52 DOW* PA8KXGER. f/oave Oroenville 9 45 a m Arrive ttcltun 11 08 a m | Arrive DunnaMs^. 11 51 p in Arrive Hodges. 12 IT p in Arrive Greenwood 12 44 p m Arrive Ninety-Six, D 1 10 p m | Arrive ChappeD's 2 08 p in Arrive Newberry 8 02 p wi Arrive Alston 4 05 p m Arrive Culuinbiu 5 15 [r ui AHBBVII.LE BRANCH. r Leave Abbeville 11 05 a m Arrive Dirraiifrh's.' 11 2T a in | Arrive Hodges 12 05 p m j Leave Hodges.*. 8 10 p m Arrve Dirrunsrb's 8 47 p m Arrive Abbeville 4 10 p iu BI.UE INDUE UAILKOAD AND AXDKRSOX BRANCH. Leave Helton 4 15 p m Arrive Anderson 4 47 p til ' , I Arrive Seneca 6 00 p m ' A<rive Walbalia 6 p n> , I Leave Wallmlhi 8 80 a in " j Ariive Seneca 8 50 * tn | Arrive Anderson 10 9i a in ; Arrive Helton 10 57 a m I j I.AURKXS RAILEOAU. I Leave Newberry 8 25 p ra J j Leave Helena... 8 32 p in " Arrive Clinton 5 80 p in '! Arrive Laurens 6 80 p m j Leave Laurens 8 00 a in ' Arrive Clinton 8 50 k m Arrive Helena 11 00 p in Arrive Newberry 11 10 p m D?Dj^iner. Time?Eastern standard. G. It. TALCOTT, Superintondant. D. CARD WELL, Assist. Gen. Pas. Agant. Sea!, Mcllwaine & Co. , J.J AVE on hand almost every variety ol CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, WAGONS, v\*liicli thoy oflcr to their customers on tho | most advantageous terms. jMAIRIM A SPECIALTY. i With the hest of workmen In every branch of our business, unci an utnimiani supply ci lumber. and other materials, wo aic prcpnrod to do all kinds of repairing in the very be.?t manner, at the shortest notice, and on the most accommodating terms. All work fully i warranted. SEAL, McILWAINE & CO,, *rr . *? ^.4. p^,?a4. \V liSIiiilg LUU OUUCt, Extras. STIR HUPS, Stirrup Leathers, Girths, HoM back Straps, Breast, and Yoke Straps Wnme Straps, Curb Straps, ?e., on hnnri ?ticl lor s:ilc elicap by THUS, D?UGS. Sept. 3'J, 1H60.