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The Press and Banner. AUUEVILLE, SS.C. Wednesday, Sept. 22,1886. Y.<.? ilin I'nnvirlx ll<'!l? to ISll i S<1 (Mir Kail roads mill Public Highways. Xo doubt the proper disposition of our con. victs will engage the attention of the next Legislature. From statements made by the governor in his granting of pardons a largo number who are so hired are killed or entirely broken down in the phosphate works n bout Charleston. Thevalhc of their hire is merely a question ot dollars and cents, out. Hide the humanitarian view. Not so when : they work on railroads, on tlie railroads j they Can r>ari\ nearly as much money, even if the s^late is paid for their services in the stock ?T the railroad company. Such stock has al. \vays commanded a good pricis and it is tea. ^oa Able to suppose that the stock of any other siew roads would be worth something. Hy the aid of convicts wo haVo the Greenwood, ] .aureus, Spartan burg, Greenville, and Savannah Valioy Railroad*. The State received seventy-live cents oil the dollar for the stock j received In payment of the Mire. 01 me convicts. The railroads thus secured for taxation : nre worth more than a million of dollars, to. feay nothing of the enhanced value of the real, estate along the line of the roads. Hut in case there is no need for convicts in building new railroads, each county could use from twenty to fifty convicts with great profit in building good and substantial j bridges, and in improving and working the! public roads. Convtcts employed In the penitentiary in j The manufacture of goods to come to sale in ! competition with honest labor Is of doubtful! profit. We say, therefore, let the convicts be i Employed on the public works, or in building j toow railroads. Tlic A>tpusta Chronicle has done a bis tiling 1=n publishing a "Carolinil edition." In it '1 here is the result of great labor. It furnishes ?iiuch valuable Information, although sonic "of the statistics which it copied from John Lcthcm's hook wouldn't do as evidence in court. The enumeration of stores at the dlf- J ferent towns is Incorrect, we believe, iu every I Instance. Some of the alleged towns do not exist, while other live towns are omitted entirely. The towns of Bradley, Corotmca, Willington and Mt. Carmel do not appear at all. Abbeville is set down as shipping 15,000 bales | of cotton. She never shipped more than about 14,000 in any ono year. The average i shipment Is less than 10,000. Abbevillle gets credit for six churches when she lias eight. I She lias also credit for two hotels, when she has four. Wo would not depreciate the value of the ""Carolina edition" of the C/ironicic. ju istvi vnost excellent work, and the errors into which it lias fallen was owing to copying j something from the statements in Letliem's | book. If the Chronicle feels disposed to retaliate for tlic above criticism it may do so when the Press and Banner prints a trado issue, which of course will be defective in the mailers of omission as well as of commission. rapt. B. It. Tillman. It seems that Capt. B. R. Tillman's charges against the State House officials, or members of ihe Legislature, has at Inst met with a very j emphatic contradiction. When Captain Til 1- j man has had more experience in public \ speaking and in writtng lor the press, lie will perhaps be more cautious in the use of oflTen-j sive epithets. While we think the farmers have just reason for complaint, and while we hope to see the evils of which they complain corrected, yet we have published very little of Capt. Tillman's writing because of his man ?, f\ uer OI expression, -Liii-it; iu k/v .?? ..v | ccssityor appropriateness In the use of oilVn- j uive epStlrets, anil the habit of attributing Im-1 proper motives to those who dlller from us in ' opinion is, in our opinion, entirely cut of' place. A case in point. Hon. W. II. Brawlcy's re- J ply to Capt. Farley furnishes one ol' the most1 Milking examples. Capt. Farley is a man of j much ability. As a writer lie has few equals, j but lie lost his temper, and thereby lost his j case by the nse of strong language. Mr. lJra\v-| ley was entirely respectful, hut his answer; was one of the most forcible articles that we! have seen in any newspaper for a long time. The County Assessment for Campaign I'urposoM. Abbeville county Is expected to contribute her share to defray the expenses of the ensu- j ing campaign. Loyal Democrats will there-1 fore provide themselves with a reasonable amount of ready cash. For our own part we do not see what use the State Executive Committee will make of money in this campaign. If they collect SM) from each county, Quito a .sum will be raised?SO,SO). Under the circumstances wc do not see the use for the cxpendi Hire. UI course UUS HSStrasiiiciii, uunuuicici I encc to the expense which any community | may go to in preparing for n !>ig meeting.! That would be a local affair. If there be use for SG.SOO In this campaign, we would like to know for what purpose. We are inclined to the opinion that the Fanners should move 011 Jhat call. Charleston A^aiu Shaken. Slight earthquakes since the 31st of August. Siave been felt almost daily in Charleston. At a little after five o'clock yesterday morning, the city was so severely shaken as to bring ?iuivn the walls of quite a number of the houses which were injured by the first earthquake. So far as we have heard no lives were 1 lost. The feeling of Insecurity and unrest which these continued shocks give must be as ills-; tressing as the actual losses which they occa-; jslou. We are surprised to find tliat our contemporary has admitted that it was possible some other influence besides merit save Messrs.1 lticeand Bonharn their positions, and we believe tf they succeed In getting the voters to elect Judge Coilnan they will he forced to admit that men of equal or superior merit and . character were left out to ?ivc place for him.? ! JS'eU'bcrrj/ Herald and JVctr.t. And "we arc surprised" that the Herald and ! 2Yews should say that we made any such ad-' mission. We think our p;ccc docs bear that construction. We have said over and over that Messrs. Itice and Bon ham would make most efficient officers, ami never onco thought oi anybody being better fitted for oil her office. Tlie Election To-.Morrow. Our people should not forgot the election to- j morrow. It is the duty of our people to go to | the polls and cast their vote for the man of their choice for Congress. Abbeville owes it to herself to give a full and fair expression of preference. The other conntiesof the District expect as much of us. Wo learn that much j interest is being felt in the matter In other counties, and we should he as fully alive to( the matter as others. By the fast schedule now in operation from ; Charleston to Augusta, and from Augusta to! Oreenwood, Laurens, spartanburgandGrecn ville, the Charleston Xews and Courier is re-' reived in those citics several hours earlier 1hati the same paper Is received in Abbeville. Tills ought not to be so. Tiik next Legislature will no doubt take, steps to reduce the number of "Commission- ' crs." At present we have n Jury Conimis-j ?ioner, a School Commissioner, and three j ^County Commissioners. One good active Titan could "Commission" the whole busiJIOSS. Tus Legislature should make a law re. /iiilring the Clerk to tako the prisoner's own ; recogtijgance, in trifling cases, when he is unable to give security. There Is no ei>rtbly j tisc of spending ^l.'jiN) a year in each county' t<> fc-ed prisoners waitiuv trial for trilling ' offenses. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, ?- ? v SOME OF THE MANY UNSOLVED QUESTIONS WHICH AGITATE THIS COUNTRY. ? AtldrcKs of \V. MoOounn. Rsq., IJ<'' lore the Alumni of (lie I'nlvcrxHj of tlic KotiCli. Newatirc. Tomi., !>< livorod Aui;ii<tt .1th, !SS(>. Mr. Chairman <tn<l Fellow Members of the Alum ni Association, Ladies anil (jciittcmcn: It would be an aU'ectation in me not tone knowledge tlie pride 1 feel at having beei asked to address you upon this occasion, bin while I do feel proud of the honor you havi done inc. and doom it a privilege as well as r pleasure, I am at the same time constralnei to ask your forbearance. 1 have had little 01 no experience in the litic of speech-ntakin; outside of my profession, and feeling the nut ural dillidencc and embarrassment that, fol tows liicxncricncv. I can only bespeak youi kind indulgence. It docs, my friends, give me great pleasun to tx- hero, I have to look hack through th< vista of hut eleven short years, and all thc? scorns rl.-o fresh before me, and -Tin- innirnet <>f the s?ul, touched by remembrance TrcinbL-a to that i>?1>-." But time and distance in t!>is consideration have little place. The memories of school and college days arc as fresh and green and delightful to the gray hairs of ripe old ?ge,a> to the ardent and impulsive lire of entluisias tie youth. Time cannot tarnish nor distanc? dim, but nil, young and old, meet here upon an equal plane, and hold a common heritage of grateful memories in these Alumni reunions. The sweetest word in human language Is Home, and all the highest and noblest impulses of a generous heart cluster around thai blessed name. A perfect home, "where the father rules in wlsdom.and the mother reigns in love" is not only the hope of nations, bill the very bed-rock of civilization itself, and nc ellmate.no space, and no time can dRiee 01 uproot the memories that home infiucnceaiifl a mother's love nave piaiuc'i 111 nic ntiman heart. Is there a scene upon earth so tender, so gracious, so happy, so joyous, so beautiful as a family re-union? When the members01 a scattered house forget lor tlie time then struggles with the world and gather from fai and hear at the old paternal homestead, live over apt In tlie days of youth and re-visit the haunts of childhood- perhaps the only break In a chain of sorrow and trouble, and there, apart from the anxiety and tlse wear and teai of the daily battle for bread "Mix sobrlc'y with tvlnc And honest mirth, with thoughts illvlnc." If there be unalloyed happiness on th!* earth, surely "lis there and then. Did you ever think how closeakin !o these sentiments are the feelings we have for our A baa Mate) and these Alumni re-unions? Our Mater first, our Alma Malcr second. Home influence tirst and college influence a closely following second, develops the mind and moulds the character of plastic youth, and as the twig is bent so grows the tree. There is to me a strong and striking parallel between family and Alumni re-unions. They are interwoven as parts of u symmetric whole.. Our natural mother, the fountain source of all that's good in man, begins the work whieh.il properly followed up by college influences and associations, will send forth to battle with the world a member of society armed ami equipped in character as well as intellect, and, as Lord Brougham says, "it will bo lib own fault if he looks back upon this place with repentance or with shame; and bo well assured that whatever time, aye every hour, he spends here in unprofitable idleness, will rise up *gainst him and be paid for by years of bitter but unavailing regrets." I wish to-night, however, to speak to you briefly, and in a plain practical manner, ol some few of tho prominent and important quest ions that confront us at present and do maud solution In tlKJ near future. Hut four teen years will elapse and we cross the thresh hold of the Twentieth Century. Most of you, tbe Alumni of this Institution will Just then bo in the prime and vigor 01 mature manhood, and upon you. the nation's ft.ill <* 111 i l\o hitiit ntul hnnli.n t?f tin v? in iiim uiw in m twiu .. ?. day. It behooves us all to give those burning! questions earnest thought, for I tell you, ttic century will not have (lolled lier swaddling clothes before the safety, the salvation of oui country, will demand u clear and unequivocal demonstration. Labor mid Cn^ltnl. The question of first importance to the country at large to-day, is, in my judgment the present conlliet between labor and enpi tal. The spirit of unrest which pervades oui whole country, the numerous "strikes" which clog the wheel* of industry and paralyze oui tlirift, the labor unions which, uay by day are gaining strength, ail these point with sol cmn and prophetic linger to the necessity loi a speedy adjustment of this trouble. Ast< l.he remedy I do not speculate, but I do say this. I believe most of the trouble is attril-iv table to two things: 1st. The taking into our midst, the outcasts and scum of creation iu our craze lor immigration. 2d. The nmnsslng of enormous individual ....... 1 am not opposed to Immigration. If of the right kiiul it is w hat we need and what wc want, hut I am opposed to this wholesale invitation to tlie convicts and offcasts of ever} I-'uropcun nation; men who have no syinpa thy with our government or ourselves, win do not even know our language, but win como to America to break down and not If i>ui!d up. Thescurc the men who have sown the seed that bring forth ' strikes," "riots' and "communism." For example take th< city of Chicago, tlie late scene of sueli fearful strikes nnd riot*. According to a recent cen sus its nationalities are: (.tenuaii, *:iii,OO0 American, 1 ji,iXW; Senndinavlau.&'J.i'Ml; Irish rj<yj(W; Slavonic, 35/WJ; English, iiO.iluO; I .At in. 1 r.imk?; Negroes, K.Ortt; Canadian, -J/KiO, am all others, O.ijiiO, making u total population o G.10.frt <>. In other words, I lie Americans arc it a minority of :iIT.ixK), or its the AVie Orlcan. Tirnrs puts it/'Chieago Is more Irisli than an\ eity in Ireland save Dublin and Heif.isl, an< more CJerman than Munich. Dresden or Co loune." Chicago for all these dis&niccfu scenes takes the lead of any Northern oi Western city.and I believe it is mainly due t< her foreign and discordant population, l-'our fifths of those arrested in the recent rioti could not, spcas our innvintgu aim u-u no Know our form of government. Toll me fhn such men make good eili/.ens, being natural izid as soon as they touch the soil and brcat In liie air of our generous Republic? I can no believe it. I am ? free trader in all else savt human llesli, and I do believe that while tlx population of our country would not Incrcust quite so fast, our country would be placed upon a more solid basis of prosperity if ever} new comer were required to bring testimo nials from his government, and had to pay at impost duty, as it were, before lie coukt land Sjtccnlnilon. T think much of this unrest can be ebnrgec too to tile speculators in Wall street., and tin fact that, our government openly counto nances their robberies. 1?<> not understam mo to say that I am in favor ol limiting tin riitlil or privilege of aciuiring properly ; b\ no means, thai would bo to strike a blow a one of the lundamcntal principles ol' ourgov crnment?the right of private property. it is the right ol" any man lo make as nuicl money as lie can, mid to do with his owr what lie will, but it must lie made honestly without extortion or bribery, ite must no ride into wealth by crushing remorseless!} the weak who come within his clutches. Tin enormous fortunes acquired in this muuiiei have much to do with tiio spirit of envy am ami jealousy that is abroad throughout tin North, r. I/. Itisakuowu principle of polili cal economy ami a universal maxim, ihat ii all departments of trade and commerce Sup ply and hetoaiid regulate lYiccs. Not with standing this principle, in bold dHSance of a I precedent and principle, the Hulls and IScai> of Wall street in Hale or depress prices tosui their own stupendous speculations. Take cotton, the principle product, "f tl:i South. We can wilh reasonable certainly tel tiie number of bales thai will be made, knov the exact number of spindles in the world the consuiiiptlon and dciiiaml.and yet, will till this knowledge, we predict in vain as t< the price. It seems to me there is soincihiu; radically wrong in this?an underminingo fundamental principles, and most id' the grca fortunes of the North arc made in this way Holiest labor is absolutely helpless, and boh unprincipled speculators dictatorial master! ??I" the situation. The toiling laborer \vh< earns his daily bread in the sweat of his brow and ignorant of these manipulated swindles is the one who sliders, fan this he right? Jay (iould has more absolute power, and I: to-day a tfieater tyrant over hisi'.iiikm) employ ees than was ever a monarch ol Medieval Kit rope. These colossal fortunes enter even on Congressional hulls anil to a eertain exten eontrol legislation, until it seems thej iik nuei our very government. How shall they hi eon trolled and regulated ? Voting mail of tin twentieth century, answer. This labor trou tile has, as yet, been litl le felt in I he South, fo the reasons that we have no such colossal for tunes, nor are we troubled With the Itilliix o mixed immigration; hut we are eonfrontet with the still more eomplieated question, The Xejjro. This Is, par excellence, the problem of tin South. Tlic Jieuro, practically as a laborer and socially and politically as an equal. As; laborer, if let alone, In- is by tar Hie best wi could have: stronir. docile, inured to our ho Southern sun; Willi lew wants and hupp.1 temperament, lie seems born lo "hoe de col ton and de cane," and if kindly treated am intelligently overlooked, is as a eh.ss content ed in his state, lhit the trouble is. he is let let aloue. l)c>iy;niiig politicians excite bin to discontent and turn him against his trues friends. Kaiiaties see in lilin the mission o their lives, and maudlin sentimentalists pa rsulo tliolr iiiorliiii notions tin <>:i>! miun 111inU tliu nrum an injMrcil innocent, inlni manly f rented aii l rni.'-lly por^ocuSotl l?y tin litartli'ss land oivi.-ts ??i the Sutilli. lint sim'|,,,m! iii?Lt us a 'borer lie is a failure Wiiiit I lieulie is lie. iu our uiiiUt iiud In is here to stny. It Is nn indisputable fact sr< I every day, and which history teach ok lis li '! Iioen true I'or ?II timo, thai wooanimi mix tl j whitonnd h'aclc races. Nut only will I he ra antipathy, inextinguishable as it is, pievei , their mingling, but it isan impossibility fro a purely practical ami business point of vie' The wants ol' the white man are more mime oiisand (ltU'erent from thoseof the negro. 1 cannot live under tin* same conditions n work for tlie same wages, and therefore as daily laborer lie cannot compete with thou gro. We must have all negro labor or noil and if wo come to the conclusion that c white labor is best, then what are wo to < with the nemo? Return him to his nati land? which is neitherChristian norprao cable. Kdueato him until he is our equa wliich is impossible. Or keep liirn as he I: Those .-ire questions which tlve twentieth ce tury will decide. For tiiis same reason, viz: because tl races will not mix and labor together as unit, immigration is withheld from the Sou and many of our young men are driven fro tli ir sunny homes. As I said before, iintt . gration, ifol the right kind, is Die hope this vast country, hut. what I complain of that we are too generous, and while we g much that is good, we also make America tl asylum of alt who are banished fro Kuropean countries, and thus lnjc into our body politic much of e\ that might he avoided. I think inini frK.iti/\it c-lirvulil hrt rmmlntAfl oi??1 oitllf mill ' j but even then, while wo have the n gro, it wiH nevcrcomc South. Nor is the o 11 jet-lion solely in ado by the white man. Tl negro h:>s s\ seorn and contempt tor the whi i ! man who will coinc down to his level, spea I jinx of him as "poor buckra," "poor whi I j trash," and otherwise showing his entire lai i j of respect for him. . I That our land is crowded with deservii : |young men, men of Industry, energy and tn i; cnt, who can barely make a living, and mai .' of wiioni must leave to do so, is undoubted . true. The professions are overcrowded. . merchandize the numerous failures all ov i the country show that the merchant wl . wealheis thesbnni must have capital to bai I him. There is little demand for skilled lab( . | and in all departments of life if there be mo j than are needed, the surplus are consumei > and not producers, e. y. Take my nati ,! town where we have SO lawyers and businc for about ir?. If the bushresscould be done I I I.I and is divided between the remaining II are consumers anil not producers, and tl (| noil-producers are drones in business, clogs [ society, and stumbling blocks to advani I* nient and prosperity. The question tin naturally arises. What are our young men do* J t would seem a simple question as sii . ply answered, viz: that here are thousands \ uncultivated acres, and all that our yout men have to do Is to put their hands to t i plow and shoulders to tbo wheel, and o country would be strengthened by a vigoro and prosperous yeomanry. Hut the trout: is that our young men do not own the lan and as a nicie hireling cannot compctc wi the negro. 1 Our land is owned, comparatively, by a fc i who will not part with it except upon tern > that the average young man cannot aftbi On the contrary, to own land makes oi greedy for more. it. is a significant lact th . from time immemorial men have fought J two thinsrs, Uevcngeand Land, and men flg 1 for those things they love best. in former lim , all disputes were settled by the arbitrament . arms. The tournay was their law (*>urt. ai I I lie lance was their defence, the belief ltcii that God gave him the victory who was in tl . right; and all nations from the beginning u I! til new, have fought for the acquisition of ti rj ritory. i| Knglnnd, upon whose possessions the si i j neve sets, has dyed with gallant blood h i encircling zone. And France, whose hen II to-day beats quick and fast, is but waitii ?l her opportunity and the rise of another "Co s slean" to wreak upon Germany the dire I and bitterest revenge that the human bcii ,' can nourish. In our law courts to-day, mi II tight longer and harder for land than ail oh '.aim toe same :?i>irii? iim ii uirtvu iw; m.ii | the feudal knight, now sharpens the wit tti tongue of the legal advocate, ought o r Government to own all the land and pare <j it out? Or. ns Henry George says, ought hit i to be ns free as air to one aiul all ? The fiUu j must decide these questions. Gladstone, that great hnglishtnfui, who not in the Peerage simply because lie It no peer within the borders of Kritain, ai around whose untitled head a glory shines 'comparison with which theco'uuentratcd li treof all the crowns and coronets of Euro |; is but- a "tinselled gew-gnw." Gladstone, t .; statesman of modern tunes, has proposed - solution of this questlou in the recent I.ai IJ 15i!l for Ireland, w hicli, as I understand it. ' for tlu? Government to buy up nil the land 'Ireland aud then sell it to the Irish in sin; IJ Iracts, on reasonable terms and 011 long tim j His bill was lost, but it may be the soluliu and the forerunner of things to come. To a limited extent we have the curse I "Landlordism" in this country, and in a It I public whose boast is that all men are bo -1 free and equal, the landed estates of the J*' ; glisli nobility and the consequent subservie tenantry cannot be expected nor will it [j tolerated: but the ownership of large trac lot' land borders dangerously near Hie cliasi > Thus our young men are forced to "go wes |1 and we are left with the ubiquitous negro < ; our be lids. > | The Xeg i'(i us a .Striker. | All the recent writers and speakers < these labor problems have eongratulat themselves mid the country that the neg | never' strikes." In this I think they are in I! taken. It is true we have been little tronhli | in tliis way as yet. mid so fiir as the nati' negro character is concerned, they are rigl I; hut licrc again he will not he let alone. [ i The negro is capable of the most perfect < . I gnnization of any people upon earth, If skil . j fully handled. Jle is powerless to ortrani , i himself, hut just so soon as the "Knights , Labor'" and other labor unions come Smitli , and they are beginning now?with their Ixi , and able leaders, the negro will ho organ iz >| to a man and driven as a unit. They do n ,! think of consequences but witl go solid. ! f; er?t organizations have a peculiar ebarni t .! them, and the means they have of trunsm .' ting their knowledge and of keeping it inv: ' late Is truly wonderful, and it will be but i !j easy, and 1 fear, inevitable stage, from lab I [ unions into polities. r' It is amazing to trie that men who lia II lived in the South during that awful deca 5 from Irom "tW to'7(i, and saw the perfect orga t' zatiori of the negro, Iww, regardless of rt 1 son or consequence, they would go like dun .! driven cattle, as a solid unit, In an organi> I i tioii so perfect that despite all efforts > ! could neither break it up among tliem, n \ i imitate it among ourselves. That men Imvi _! seen this can now tear no trouble from tin s in tiiis movement, I cannot. uud< rstaud. O ! only hope is Unit the negro is a coward, but t anticipate (rouble. . j As to social i quality I have little fear. T . sentimentalists may give trouble, hut tlie I I j stiuct, the racc-antipathy, cannot bo uproi . ed, and as it has prevented amalgamation . | axes past, it. it will protect the Anglo-Saxi in ages to come. . Politically, the negro has been a failure . the past, is a farce at present, and his futu _ is an enigma. , The great, st outrage of modern times, I greatest political crime that has ever <1 ' j graced the policy of any nation, at the tii and under the circumstances, was the entry chiscinent of the negro. Vastly superior ' j numbers, immoral, ignorant, degraded, one hour to have the shackles of slave * j thrown olf, ami be invested with supreii "political power; the inferior race put ov - the superior; ignorance ami vice ruling i I ..iwl vi rt nr> thi'Sln v#? M:isf ( ' Only those wlio passed through that hitter humiliating dccadc will t ver know tlie ha j Tho dauntless courage, the devotion todui 1 tin- heroic spirit of Southern manhood upi I tin; Held of buttli*,has been the theme of ma: ' an orator, and far h-j it from mi' to dctru ^, one lota from such a priceless heritage. , ' Tni'lltlon, It-ireinI, tune ami sons. r I Shall many aii aw tli .t wail prolong, j ! Still fri.ni tin- !iii?' tin-sun shall hear , Of the jiti-rn ft rife ainl rarnagc drear Ol FlixiilcnV filial llr!<l. When i-hhvrc'! was fair ^rollaml's spear Ami bruk>-n was Sier ?hieM." - j While11 ifso memories iire u sacred t roa? u II ever to l.i- guarded, still, the paticnee, the ft s 1 In-urancc, I lie loiijj-siiilerihir witli which t! I | ico) ii<- In ire I hat hum and hideous night iii-i wliieii followed the war, stands as a moil ; menl ever, higher, and proves that in advi I sity as in prosperity, in weal as in woe, t South has developed a type of eliaracter tli , can stand every te?t. i "The whirligig of time," however, in a me: ? uro "brings in his revenues." It was to nu ; .sweet morsel of ret rihulivejusl ice that lllai f was defeated for the presidency hy cxael t the number of electoral votes which was ail .! cd to the .South hy negro sullra^e. Surely I him this was the veriest irony of Kate, a I s with what disappointed hit |i'rnes% with wh > exquisite agony must the l'iumed Knigl > like the stricken eusjlc, have seen his ov , 'feather on the shall that quivered In I "heart. s J predict that when tho Republican par - comes into pmver again, one of their first at -1 will he an attempt iodisfranchi.se the ueg! r {because, unable longer to control his vi t i they wish lodeprive ihe South of tlieadvy is j tage it now gives her. . j ('omtniniisiii. I One of the greatest of tho impending ev r ; t/i / .mi. i'uit i> 11* v* iv< *iuntiln ii ism. Tin* old woi is now daily threatened Willi revolution I j! the communists,'and I inn sorry to say tli ' i l In* spirit seems growing in our la ml. 11 :iii Isil tho/overthrow of all society, all right I private properly, all governniuut, and out I ilie ruins to reconstruct society upon a ha; b of e?|tial division of nil properly. To li without the ulii and support of goveruniei i no right of property aunve your fellows, i? protection to life or liberty, and in place of I [ happy, peaceful and pro>p< rous country lo i f jsliluic a reign of terror. Kvcry man's ha; ngaiusi thai of his brother and iu short 1 j hack the tidt! ot civiii/.atlon for ccnturi* - This is :lie aim and end of communisi i ! Young men of I he j-;t li century m e you reiui i , to meet it? Something must be done. "Tin t' are two ways" -ays Kohcrtsou, "in wliich : f ter.ition may Iw 111V ct?l. If done gradual j from ubove, il is reformation ; if snddeti t. from below, it Is revolution." The aim - | ^talesmen should he t<i bring about, the reft i? I million be|i i iv I Ins iwoluii-ii) is forced iij>i ,lliieni. Whether the military, before I j monster becomes hydradieaJed, should, li c lierculis, strangle the serpent Communis >n in its Infancy, nnd thus by a bold precedent niT us coerce It in Hie future; or, whether :i compul- Illy !< sory education of the ijirsscs be Ihu cute, I do [ a j not nnderiaUe to say. iSul, in the words of tit I anolher, "if it conies to an amy of simple in i brute force, then well mny tlie bruvesl tremble awOTE nr. I and the most incredulous nuakr." It seems r- unnatural linit there should be u tendency to I i(> Communism in this country. In some of the up cf!\-ic nioiuirchies of the old world iu may a hftdiHeront-, where the nobility hns become ,rh? T ip- cflcmiuntc from luxury and indolence,and in- 1 10, solent from an accumulated inheritance of llei til arrogance, pride and wealth. I nm rM sur- ,, jo prised that the spirit of Communism shows ve iiself there. History tenches that nations, van li- jikc inuiviuuais, nave meir loum, junnnoou, , 11 Old Age. Youth and Vigor, Maturity and wc strength. Decline and Decay, and many of n- the oltl kingdoms are tottering to their fall \yc , and all this unrest one of the awful premonl- gCtner i lie lions. nrobabl a The land of the Pharaohs, whose clvlliza- ?,?r eit> tti tion, and whose perfection in science mid inj.,rjSe m art hns been the wonder of succeeding ages, ] extendi ii- has passed away forever. and on of Home, with all her power and splendor, and (jiicster is strength of national character, decayed, dc- structci ;et clined, and fell. Tavern lie "Jerusalem's last sob is linshed." hereto in Ami Spain whose proud dominion onoe cov- now |n el cred the carl h and ruled the seas, now strug- j pjberto ,-il gles for existence within her own limited bor- jjr ju| ii- tiers. nany. v u-d The Pyramids, the Coliseum, the Alhr.mbra. },c ;.;IVS ic- sml monuments of departed clory, silent but bo bre?i b- eloquent interpreteis of what has been, but is nnj, rj, ic now no more; and not even the corner-stone Athens to remains to inark the site where ouce stood W))r|k Solomon's lleautiful Temple. cdby'tl te llut America is young. Hardly yet in the i ti|C-;*te Bit strength of manhood. Not yet in the zenith ^ of her glory. Strong, vigorous and hmlthy. panv. in Communism has no right to bo here. It. Is an eiiS roa' .1- imported evil and one which we should ban- USsureil iy ish to those rotten countries from whence It arc! a|)() ly came. There let its wrlthingconvulsions ag- ni?cted In Hate and dismay, until perhaps, It may con- {ntwoi or vert their looblc inslitullons Intothc free Con- J Athens lio stitntion of a bold Republic, of which Amor-; bu 1 HIin -k icu is the foremost type and In which Coiuiou- ,]rcam, >r, uism should have no placo. have be !j"? Love of Money. aid to ra, portanc ve Another evil, and one which I hope I lie 20th ! in the r '-* century will see corrected, is the Love and will be D.V I'owcr of money. Its love is proverbially the sanguli ! "? root of nil evil and America is a striking il- restore.1 he lustration. There is In this country an "Aris- to Athc to tocracy of Wealth" and society is almost sub- dred 11 so- ordiuated aud dominated by the Almighty there v l*i? Dollar. Mills In to i am not one to stand solely on birth. I est of 11- hold it a great privilege to be born a gentle- Vance i of man, and to that extent one has an ailvnn- thatth >g tage, for a gentleman can safely say mid do as well he what one doubtful of his position would not there is til' venture; but I think every mail has tin; right Tho m us to lie weighed In the halancc and If not found such w ?le wanting, and a lowly birth bisonly drawback, tho Mai d, then he should have the ritiht to take his po- operatl th sltion as a gentlemau and should be so con- slon to sidcrcd. let us i "Kind hearts nro more thnn coronets, ;(l Anil simple faith slum Norinan blood." o\erno ie Hut I scorn thatsociety wherewealMilsthconat ly test, where "every do.ir Is barred with sold, or and opens but to golden keys" and a man's lit power and importance measured only by Ills is purse. This is the tendency of to-day. 1'erof haps the country is too young to have a true nnilr< id aristocracy. That when the motley is made, !? culture and refinement will follow, as in the He ie city of Boston. 1 hope this is true, but at pres- fhi n- cut the greed s<*oms insatiate and tho uiflu?r once of money unbounded. est, in Prohibition. Thep or Another question that is fast looming into (}reen v rt national Importance Is 1 'roll i bit ion, That held lie ig whiskey drinking is one of the greatest evils sentod i'- in our land there is no doubt, arid its correc- preside st tlon is a question of supremo importance, but totned i trt [ doubt if It is wise to make it a political qnos- county, L'tiI t!on. Coercive prohibition rarely prohibits. Chiles, '? . The remedy, it seems to me, lies in tho cultl- cussed of I vat ion of high chancier and high tone, lie- porta m ><J | riucmcnt and nubile sentiment will do fnr iiencefi l|J" more than volumes of statute laws. It Is n respect f-l work for the Church rather than the state, and wo m Temperance societies, and, above ail, the per- will no ic uonai influence of high Christfnil character Mr. a will do more lowrrds the formation of a visit to 1K healthy public opinion thun scores of nrohi- Siwei iiilion candidates, or even a St. John Presi- be bu( 1(' ileiit. known This is bound to bn n prominent question of The Ii is- the 2tilh century. There are others, my friends uable 1 Pe that I might discuss, but time will not per- The I he in it. One word as to our native land and I cntitiei '1 have done. In tliei is Onr Xmtlve Laud. of h:nd !?{ Yours Is a great country. From the At Inn- two vu ? ' Ic to the Pari lie, from the J,akcs to the Gulf, | ;l_n' .' the majestic waters bound on all sides a eoiin-j, try, the vastness of which is almost I neon-j hack ii nr ceivable. Lofty mountain ranges and mag-1.. 'rnltieent. livers give .is varied climate and for- I Salurui r " t ile sol). The very bowels of the earth areK'uuiet: rich 'n mineral and in ore. We have a strong '"'J nc< nj ami healthy population. Our Institutions the , ^li'ssl most lasting. Religious liberty, and a Comti- J" ,u tution which Is the admiration of the world. host (|U ... Into her lap Is eniiitiod the horn of plenty, mauec and all nature "<ibsolo usque uU cwliiiii,'' con- manyii ,,, spires to make America "of nil the lands, the 1 had land supremely blest."' Her future tics with remark you. In exact proportion to the possibilities ,i? 1 of your eountry is your responsibility. 1 "'s IHd you ever think of what a country you we are m (/olive In? Did you know that the siuslo u!j: ((l i State of Texas is larger than either the tier- I he a ro tnau or Austrian Umpires, and more than hasaUi lsrl twice as large as the United Kingdom of Great !"*!'. " ''ll I .'Sritaiu ? I?iil yon know that tn iifty years, k'? ! from IK-'ll lo lS'si, the population of yourcoun- ,n? lt>!! ry increased from thirteen lo ilfiy millionscrs l That in the same length of time France gain- l.mJ' 1,11 ',r": ed live. England ton, whiloour Republic train- derson "* ed thirty-seven millions. And that in thirty it is* y.e | years the wealth of the nation hounded from same s| I eight to forty-nine liilionsof dollars ? Think glj>ucc of these facts, then measure your rcsronsibil- }vl!1 'l" I' t v. been la ;';J i Since the iufancy of Ihe human race, era- M?isti died atr.Ul the wild and rugged mountains of is last I .,c" t'entral Asia, the slur of Kmpire has ever 11 '"J ! pointed to the brightening West. As HNhop near> Herkloy has beautifully said and with proph- ?Yf,Vr , '" etic ken, Alio 1 sin crops o or ''Westward the emirs > of Kmpire takfs its way, and C'a Tin- four first tictsf.lremly past Miss ve A fifth shall close the (Iran;a with the day, Mrs. <le Time's liublvst otfspring is the last." vil lo. The pilgrimugo of that slfir hus ccnsed. It '"i'ml j |,lj now stands, fixed and rooted iu the bending preach heavens straight ab>ve us, an everlasting heneon to those who sc2k life and liberty In the iufn<? p or new-found world, '.'.'he hope of all nations, the will Im n.r eyes of the civilized world look to America frPouei in ' lo-day as the land of hope and promise still. (_!otto slr | ill that, awful drama, "thecrush of tnatterand loafers i : t he wreck.of worlds," the four first acts are seen j already past, that is to sa.v, the empires that Mr. j. i1(, I have or must pass away forever. The Assyr- r-,r-i'-iin nian, the (Jreeian, ti e llotnaii?the Knglislu?) nun )t. "A liflii shall closc the drama with the day." St'iit<'d jn | Yea verily, "Time's noblest offspring is the (,'apt. iijj ! lust." with a America /? the land of Hope, and of Amor- must h l? I ica, the South is the land of Promise. Just jj,.s ru passing through tlie iraiisiuon s;:uc. just re- friends cupemting from the ills anil horrors that civil IIC war entails upon n conquered people; weight- ,j(1vsn{ js. eil down by the incubus ol negro sull'rage tiiul collect' ,je staggering beneath years of tinancial depresin. j sion, the south begins to give faint promise the rai* j?'of the future that awaits her. Just budding Mr.'.) j? ' forth, the Jlil/i century will see her bloom ami j mcrly i rv ' blossom into that glorious destiny which will | |>ridi;o j make lior first of this foremost nat ion. i>t*. c.r Can mortal man liud words to depict tin*; Six n-1 possibilities of this 20th eentury? Jfwe judge i-'jve the future by the past (and wc have the right), cltnreh |vilf our advance in the next fifty keep pact? Mr'.J tjY | with the last til'ty years, who d ire measure jury of y'itbe heights to which our civilization may (ids wc II" i if fancy in her wildest flight could i in per- dJ-scrVp ict foctly conceive, words would fail the thought, iv arrii unless we are eon tent with the striking words " Twu i of Kngiaiid's living poet wl.cn he puts "filly .cjjotat years of Kurope" 'gainst "a cycle of (.'at hay." inst wc Much at present may look gloomy. Though ' More the signs of I lie times may not be bright, let ! grain t us remember that the darkest hour of night. Immediately precedes the dawn. When the sun of the'Jiltn century shall rise al ove the blai'k horizon, may Its penetrating 1 i-clit disre pel and dissipate all these doubts and mists. Crops >r- And this University, standing as she dne? good, lis ' hteli above the turmoil niul strife of the worh : debts, .* re i b-neatti tier, surrounded and encompassed by 1 ter suj> u- the pure air of heaven and built upon the ev-. ami va r-' erlasting rock of religion, may the coming mand. lie century see in hern great and mighty iustitu-j Mr. T at ' tion. ill r iultuenee radiating from this com-! etlicien j mon centre I hroiighouttbe Irnglh and bread!U ' now s{ ts-jof our native land, may it be as pure ami.'place. a. bright and all pervading as the first flash o;ri finer ue : that brilliant sun as lie gilds the cross that, j son win ,ly j caps her topmost spire. week. Iii-; The University of the South ! The Parnns-1 Alton to; sus of the Southern States, to which we, the'been si nd ' Alumni, may ever proudly point as the chief j lhirnet nit ornament of our glorious Commonwealth? ; Instant it, | the Ml. /.ion of the new-born South. Miss i n I I visitin; tis 0 I positiu y OLD MAN GONE. Knoxv ts * lis Cliiii ro, I will uel ilc j 15? liCtivoH (ho Wife witli whom lie slcnil o "'I li.nl I.i veil for Sivlv-Fivo Yours. i ! James Grant clicd at his resilience near, ,x. j howndesvilic, S. Sept, 1I, lJvSiiaucd S."i years. I J.'10 1 lis! The deceased was burn in Virginia hut nunc . , id to Soulli Carolina when a ho.v .s years old and J",1 " l?y | settled in llu: western part of Abbeville conn- j b'J'i m' at; ty in which section ol tho country lie spent y'|U'H? ns the whole of his Ion* tile. lie married wlieii j iC*. T of l!?years old, and the companion of <V> years of i 1 ol" Ids life. > till survives to mourn I lie loss oft he f >ij,M sis husband o| her early choice. When but a : l,l('a ve youth James (irant cinhraeed reli?lon anil, f""1 .it, became a member of the Methodist church,! Miss, no of which lie continued a worthy and acceptn- j piorrov a ble nieinher to the day of his death. 11e, t''?j *' n- spent his life in rural unlet, and was well' , lid known all throindi the section of country i lV,w,. io j where heliveil. Kor some years before liif: '",l i'S. (ieatii he was ?|iilte I'eeble?liiilld mid body mcdlni hi. | both iudieat iiitc that the eventide of life had I'.'j1'iy, arrived. Ill* body now rests in old Smyrna ' *:J re arave-yard awailini* the resurrection of the s"" %vil i,i- j .ist. A. j ""v', iV-! ~ lle< are Mish Nettii: Koons w ill lie clad to show \v. c. A the ladies all the novclti-s in hats and l>on- they si j IKis tri ?I ii11; s on SeptO ilber .'I I st.tt I I let'il-vr naiiv ol ho! ' and W.u. K. liell. |' * keI 1' Ai.i. opening ou September :>D and Oclobcr! Kali a ui 1 and - Win. E. Liell. I shade.-' BL? fl?WBHWCTCTW? TO ATHENS, GEORGIA. ? ER GREAT RAILROAD TO BE IUILT FROM EAST TO WEST. tne Frf?m Monroe, X. Now ni; I,oonted ? Dirt Soon to be ken oil the Ruuhs or tlic Knm.-ili?Alliens and Klberton to United by Iron Hands. A then.* Banner- Watchman. cslmlay received information, altoiuithentlc, tlmt inn very short time? y twelve months?the business men of r will sccure a Ions-hoped for enterIz: a railroad not only to F.lberton but njj beyond tlint thriving little city , tliroiiL'h Abbeville. Greenwood anil , S. C. From Athens it will be con1 to Atlanta, probably going by Jug and making about an air-lino from that city. The engineering corps are the Held, and In a few days will be In n, when they will push on to Alliens, ius Mills if the Pres ident of thecom,'ith headquarters at Chester, .S. C., and that in a very rew months hands will iking dirt on tho banks of the Savan,'er, and the road pushed through to as fast as men and money can do the We learn that this enterprise Is buckle powerful Pennsylvania Central synund will connect with Monroe, N. C., through line controlled by that cornCol. Machcn, of the Macon and Athd, spoke of this line, and said it would ly be built, and it soeins that his words ut to be confirmed sooner than we cxA road to the east, tapping or cutting I he Klberton Air Line and restoring to the valuable trade she lost upon the g of tills narrow gauge, has been the if our people for years; and while tlicy sen divided as to the wisdom of giving other lines, they are unit on the lin!o of getting a road to Klberton. But svent that the proposed line is built It i even a greater thing than our most ic i>eople could hope for. It not only < to lis our Elbert trade, but brings in>ns a business extending forone hunillos Into South Carolina, for which rill be 110 rival with us. President i expected in our city soon In the lnterthis lond. nmt we nromise him in ad every aid and every encouragement e Athenians can give. Our people hart bcj;lii to prepare for this new road, for * no doubt but that it will come here, en who uro at the head of it know no ord as fall. We are now assured of iron and Athens road, which will be in r>n by Christmas, and also the extenKnoxville is almost a fixed faet. Now :et the road to the cast, via Klberton, liens'cup of happiness will be full to wing. NINETY-SIX LOCALS. >acJ Convention?Champion Axnlturist?Hail .Storm?Chick?*n ieves?Various Matters of InterNinety-Six, Hept. 20, ISSfl. loekholdors meeting of the Atlantic, illc and Western Hailroad which was re on the 17th instant, was fully repreby every township along the line, mt Haminelt presided with his accusrlignity. (,'apt.McKclvy.of Greenville , was elected a director vice Dr. T. W. /.. t.r-Ml \*?. ivnea Hid. before the convention. Tlic most iml was that of changing the guano, so >rlii wc limy he reckoned among that utile class known as standard gouges, hope in the future our fi loud; 8. 1*. iJ., t call our road a rabbit path. nd Mis.T. T.IlOi'.clsnin have gone on a friends at Met '01 mirk and Ttoy. 's summer residencoat Greenwood will It after the st> le of those mansions as hiircastles." lail storm l.ist week killed several valI'M'kshlrc pigs for Mr. James Kogors. JnitedKtalcs postmaster at this place is I t.) the ciiampion belt as agriculturist, early spring he planted Irish potatoes seii si tine crop, now on the same plotlie litis a second crop of Irish potatoes, rieiies of turnips, a crop of wutermelI a Rood crop of weeds. Wo do not rhctlier he Is a grange? or a straight ilnianile. L. l'ratt lost a valuable cow 011 last ay. She was tied out to uraze and be11'; angled in the rope and fell and broke 8. Moore. Galphin & Co., have their aril in full blast, and are making the tiiity of brick. Their present Idea is to me million, at least they say that that ire needed ticre. no intention to affront any one in my :s about the vote at lion aids. 10 very las a right to vote just as they please, a prcrogaiHe we always exercise, yet always willing to help those who help hti-railroad faction below Ninely-Six >ut faded out, scarecly a grease spot reg. A better judgment wo hope pro"nnvpnllon of farmers and cotton hnv Jinety-Xlx last week, H was resolved to I liveeeuts for weighing. W. L. An, Jr., was clcctcd public weigher. mill that two bod ion cannot'occupy (he |inee at the sumo time, but a casual at Mr. T. f. Heaeham's turnip patch invince you that our scientists have boring under a delusion. ?>r Bernard I'opo who has bee n quite 11! recovering. reported that we are lo have n wedding inety-Six soon. A good looking widthe happy man. mil In lidgetleld last week injured the f Messrs. J. (J. hill, Freeman Mariin, Ivm Kinard seriously, others sliglitly. Glass will board with Mrs. (iuarles. L. 1J. Jones tliiuks of moving to Green\V'e are very sorry Indeed. fSlie will be nissed l>y her friends and churcii. {(>v. G. H. Carter, after a long interim, cd at tlie ISnptist church last Sunday Ills longabscnce lias been i'elt.and wi ow that he has regained bis health we ve the pleasure of hearing him more HIV. n ia opening rapidly and (he colored familiarly k nown about ourstrccis can i no more. ;. S. Addison is selllngand shipping his ed red rust proof oats every day. own and community was well repre tif. tircenwoou on last aionnay. McCnslnn has enclosed his garden blind fence, and l'roni appearances il ave been built by a lilind man. Nix, of Ilodges, has been visiting at Ninety-Six. ucle Mostlek Cason was in town a few ;<>. He makes us a visit once a year to up 11is rent and buy a few goods. \v. J. Ready, of Kdgetichl, was here al Iron11 convention last. week. l. \V. Still has moved to the liouse foroccupied by Mr. It. I.. 1'ratt, on Camstreet. .Mr. Carter has moved hack to Ninetyndditlnns wore made to tiie Methodist on Inst Sunday. ohn ('. (iritUn Is Serving on the petit tiie United States Court at Greenville 'Ck. to Ninety-Six for cheap goods of every lion. The stocks are lull and more dairing and to arrive. L'hickcn thieves were wounded at one Dr. Ifo/.cinnn's plantation one night ek and others escaped unhurt. rain is needed lor the turnips and lint has been sown. EAST I5ND, ? m ? ? "Troy Hots. Tisoy, S. c., Sept. 20. i In this vicinity are generally very Our farmers will bo aide to pay (heir mil have enough left to buy their winplies. our merchants will have large t ied stocks of goods to supply the de. (). Teguart, one of the most polite nnd t conductors on tl.e Florida roads, is lending his summer vacation in this if the most enjoyable events of the sens a "sociable'' at Mr. G. M. Sibert's last t twenty-tire bales of new cotton has ild here at good prices. Messrs. J. I., t it Uro. brought lu the first on the 11th J.nurie Vance was In town Inst week ; friends. Her amiable and lively disa makes us all glad to see her. rhange of schedule on the Augusta nnd ille road and connecting lines brings rbston news at 11 o'clock a. in., and we : the J'i'cxiami Hn/tiicr ut 3.-W p. in., inf 7 o'eloek as before. !>'. 1'. Calhoun knows the true meaning man's love." Only a few have been favilli his most extraordinary definition, "roy string Hand has accepted an invltrom the Millway Social Club to lurin?lc for tlielr enteiiainmiMit al P.radxt Wednesday night. Many of our folks will doubtless patronage ine ai, [,. r.iirm-tt will a;f:iin Ik; with Messrs. tiiluTfr t'o. from Ootohor 1st. and will s"d to serve his friends with the ehoic|y. Mario Chiles loaves for CroonviHe lot, where she will pursue her studies at nalo College of i hat city. . 1*. Noel will leavu- for Now York in a rs lo attend medical looturos Mr. I., moil.v poos lo lialtiinoro to linisli l:is 1 OOtifSO. .1. 'I . Voun^hlooil has porcha-ed Mr. .ililisoii's olotanl residence. !>r. AddiI move in his farm and devoto his aKiioulturo. r?! jrlud lo loam lliat (ho Ahhcvillo I'iin a lluurishinjt condition. Willi Capt. loCowan as Ihoir commanding oflle- r mold Iiccmiiio the oruek military comr III.- Slato. md winter dross goods in all tlicsfaplc just opened at il. M. lladdon iV: Co. SOME SUGGESTIONS ON FARM WORK FOE SEPTEMBER. j ElnrrcKdns full Crops?Cotton Pick-, ] iw;?Corn? Sweet Potatoes?Rye, Jlnrley nn?l OntH. Demosthenes Is reported to liave said tliat ] the essence of oratory was action ! action !! action!! ! n Llie areat Greek orator had lived in onr t clay and time, and followed the avocation of the South Carolina farmer, his oratorical mot- ( to would have been very apropos to all agrl- ] cultural interest. If a coltontot does not ( stand in need of action, and a great deal of It, , from the first day of January until the 31st . ; day of December, then our experience and ob- \ ! nervations have been very much at fault. A iuw uu^a nnt in tuc UHiijr ncanuu mcu-in ??.? j preparation; precious time idled now and ( I then, iati r on, will show up late planting; and las the shadows grow shorter, a little more j folding; of the hands and a little more slum- : | l>cr means grass, bad and unwise cultivation, ] I great reduction in the average of the crop we ; should have made, and thus has come much :?>f ou<* agricultural poverty, as well as this heritage of "hard times." The crop of lS^i is about made. The older planters tell us that no bloom that comes af- < ter the lUth of .September will make white cotton; but since the days of guano we have seen blooms of the 21st of this month make white cotton. I By the way, will the Hon. Commissioner , and some of your correspondents tell us what , Is the largest number of frosli blooms they have noticed on t? stalk of cotton in one day ? While this is not a matter ot much importance, yet we may learn from this fact in how short a time the cotton plant, under a high state of cultivation,can and may make a crop. ; Wc noticed a stalk on the llith of August that ! had twelve white blooms, on 20th it had sev< ... ?.. ?..? ?<..!.> I l.lMnmo (,< I three days. On average cotton this, hy itself, ! would bo a fine crop, lint it was on cotton Hint j will make something over two thousand I pounds of seed cotton per acre. We did not : think of it at the time or we should have noticed for blooms on cott?n more on the uver1 age of our general crop. I September is the first harvest month for all pur Kail crops. Most of the forage crops are ! already housed. Fodder and hay are saved, and pea-vine hny is about tlieonly long forage crop lhat will require attention. If you can spare the vines, by all means leave them on the ground ; nick over for the purpose of savins an ample supply of seed; allow your stock to run over and glean the field, tramping the vines and dead leaves Into the soil. Never turn under pea vines without you intend sowing small grain; leave alone until you tire ready for your Spring preparation ft?r cotton or corn, experience and close observation have taught ns that it is worse than time thrown away to turn tinder pea vines for anything but a grain crop, but we much prejfcrto always follow this crop by cotton or corn. COTTON TICKING. In the middle and lower section of the State picking has pretty generally commenced. It will be the 1st of October before this is the case in the upper section, as the crop is unusually late. Pick clean and as rapid I v as possible; gin as fast as convenient; sell at your nearest market, and stop interest at once.. ! Tberc are several fallacies regarding this crop j Mint are fust dying out. One is that you must bulk your cotton until it may heat a little? I ?llii. nil will luiss Into Lhfl tint?and vou will gain much iu weight. The (net is, about (til you will gain will be a damaged lotoflintand seed. Another Is that middle men and speculators have combined ngainst the farmer to 1 get the cotton crop out of his hands and then j put the price up. What is the average actual I result? Col ton held for six months at heavy I expense; lossof weight at from ten to twen! ty tlve pounds per bale, and finally sold for i the same or less price tliau could have been obtained in the early Fall. Twenty years' cxi peiienee lias taught us to pick clean and hanl die with care; gin and pack nice and trlml.v ; | keep out of the weather; sell as soon as yon t can get to the scales, if you have any fair home | market. cork. | Before the next Report appears we will be I in the midst of cribbing corn. As soon as dry [by all means gather, and don't leave it a j temptation to man and beast. We prefer nutting up in the shuck, and as every few baskets arc turned in sprinkle a handful of dry salt; it will keep out weevil, and you will hardly ever lind| a shuck or cob in your trough. sweet potatoes. This is a crop that Is very Justly growing In favor and increasing in production in many sections of the .Slate. In the Piedmont secI tion, which is so often more or less subject to I heavy freezes, the trouble has been as to i keeping safely through the Winter. In the middle and lower sections we are told that ! there is never any difficulty in tlits direction, i Whithout giving the various losses we have had in dil'ercnt plans that have been tried. I we will give a very primitive plan that we j use now, and which has never failed lu our : heaviest freezes. j The potatoes arc dug Immediately after the , fiist Irost. A lot of p!no poles hio cut to j make a bi d eight or ten l'eet square. Put | these just on the ground ; green pine tags (or | needles) are put upon the poles lo the depth of two or three luetics ; on these are placed a i layer of dry corn stalks ol two inches: on I this the potatoes are put, say thirty or forty hushcis in a cone shape; then a layer of corn . I stalks, three inebes; then u layer of green i pine tag*, three or four indies: then six i inches ol sand, If you are going to cover witii j ' n board shed, il' not, twelve inches of sand or > Might clay. W'e huvo never failed to keep j potatoes successfully by this simple, cheap J plan, but have fulled with sill others. ij One of the mo>t important mutters that I requires the farmer's attention at tills time is j preparation for his Winter grain. In some j sections of tlie State ilie corn crop will tie cut ; I short very much oy ilie failure of the bottom .; lands. This failure must be supplemented by I some early barley, rye and oats. We conslijdcr bailey the most valuable early green foliage crop; it never has tbe same injurious , effects that follows the use of some other i green forage plants. To make barley you .1 have lo sow ouiy rich land. If you do othersi wise, it will be simply sending good seed aftor bad, for your crop is sure to be a lailure. , We are going to sow a live acre lot in a few j days, and will give 0111* plan for what it is ; I worth. The lot was in oats the past season, i j and made forty bushels per acre. It has alt j ready been broken deeply with a bull tongue j plough; we will break again in a few days I with same plough as deep as a strong mulo can do it. Will manure with forty bushels I of green cotton seed per acre, cotton seed i [ having been ground in cotton seed mill. Willj j sow one and a half bushels of clean barley I j per aero; piongn in wiuiu turn piougu, ??u . liarrow with smoothing harrow. I should 11 have stated that about a dozen In-ad of cattle , have been penned on the lot at night for the I po?t month or more. j ltye will moke a line early Winter pasturage, if.sown at once, on most any of our uv-l 1 orasf! farming land. We liavo sown a good! >! deal of our thin cotton land, as we laid by the I cotton, In rye, which wc will use as a pasturJaire during the Winter and early Spring.I j What heads out we will leave to fall ou the! ground and be turned under next Summer j . | again, as we are goinsr lo pursue this plan for several years with this particular pieeo of land (a poor red clay) as a recuperating exj peri men t. Our plan is: always sow a portion of your oat crop In September; in fact from j September to March has been our rule for , I years, and wc have never made a complete i; failure. Our judgment is that the lied Rust . l'roof is thcotUxfor our climate, from one and ; a half to two bushels per acre. Plough thoroughly; manure with something?stable ma] nure and cotton seed?and if you havenellher I of the above, a mixture of cotton seed meal, ,j asidulated rocl; and kainit. Nothing responds more quickly ton little manure than i an oat crop, and you might Just as well give ! up that old Idea that oats can be made where i I nothing else will grow, for the red oat will! j never do it, and none of the other varieties I will give you a crop one out of three. Don't ! be deceived about seed. We have seen several lots that have been shipped intothe state as red rust proof oats (hat are badly mixed land of an inferior quality. On the other j hand we have seen some very fine Texas red ' I oats that are gcnuir.e and very good. There I is a yellowish red oat ou the market that will | deceive a careless observer, and can be easily j 1 passed for red oats; but we saw them tried! i:isf year, and they were very inferior. Look | ! always for the heard on the grain: tl.ls is a I characteristic of the red oats, and i.otie are) genuine without it. I). 1'. Dvsc.vs. I | POOR OLD EDGEFIELD. Serious Trouble Attend of Her Municipality. WovJi cltl Chronicle. | There Is a serious trouble ahead of our municipality, hi the shnpu of n tax of some 2r}? I mills, to he collected between the l">th of <?c-i J toherand tin; I.itli of December, Of these27:,{ | : mills, H mills are to he paid upon the bonds i of the Kdgelield and Trenton 1 tail road. Or in j ' other words, the old vexed nucslion of two years ago Is lo he revived. We learn from Auditor 1 'avis that shortly before tlie going | out of olliee of the InieTown Council, he, the-! I Auditor, was officially Instructed by the said Council, as required by statute, to replace this lax upon Ids books, from which, If we uniler'sliiiid aright, it had disappeared. Auditor l?acis, wisely foreseeing the coming dilliculcullies, applied to Comptroller-tienernl Xtonev to allow him to make out two separate sets of books, one for stale and County tux, the other for Knilroad tax. ('oniptro1 ler-<jeneraI Money a.reed fully with Auditor Pavis ill judgment, but replied that, unfortunately, he had 110 power under the constitution to order or permit siie.h a thing. Consequently all this tax -some 27:,f mills?goes upon mm : iid the selfsame hook; and Auditor I'avU, positively ami absolutely, caiiuoi recei ve one penncy of it without tin* who!"?no State tax, no county | tax. no School tax, no Narrow tiaitsre tax. Without further livrht on this subject?legal and other ll.'lit?which we shall certainly endeavor to obtain, we on this occasion otlcr no advice to our fellow citizens. Wc it.creiy st:itr? j tlie iitiovc fuels as an opening of the .^object, j remarking at (lie same I inn? iliat never since ' the world began Mas there a prettier kettle uf | li.-Li thau tills. FINANCIAL EN&INEERIN&. ilE. IKE TACKLES A BIG SUBJECT, AND GIVES HIS VIEWS. Financiering in not Only a Domestic ftnkjcct, bnt a Xntional Question. Editor PfcM and Banner : Tho luminosity of my club will be conveyed in the subject of financiering at the present meeting, Ills honor, myself, occupying the :halr, at the game time being oiaior of the Jay, and his own audience. Mr. Ike will please act as secretary of the meeting and take down the following remarks: Financiering Is engineering In money, and Is a very important, honorable and profitable occupation.. Mouey is the root of all evil and of most all ijood, anil as a tuber crop I woukl advise all rincn to plant and cultivate it It will answer for bread and meat, besides ft Is as good as . 1 : wool or col ton for a clothing crop. Some clubs have been considering the Im- * portance of the turnip, potato, pompkln,pea, wheat, oats, corn and cotton crops, all or ' these are good lc their place, but a money crop is good, in or out of place. It adds beauty to ttic belle, dignity to the beaux, laurels ito tlie soldier, eloquence to the orator, wealth to the rich, learning to the wise, virtue Co the good, zeal to the preacher and helps the poor ' considerably, if they can got It. Money in one of the nicest, most convenient and" useful things a man can get hold of. It can be used lor more purposes than any thing else I know of. I am told if you were to bait a trap with a nicicle you could catch some men's souls, and If you were to use twenty dollar gold pieces you would nearly exterminate the race,.feu11 suppose that is about the last thing we would want to catch if we-had: plenty of money. . A financier is tlie encineerof getting-and managing money, and there are very few capable of Hlllng the place prouerly. My club lias been and is now considering how It might prepare its member for the occupation, and I hope and pray that the good and overruling providence will open his eyes, and enlighten Iilm on the subject, and crown his etlort'Witlr success, and that he may be the means of setting a good example In the undertaking, and mat iiis ncignoors una mentis may ioiiow tne course ho pursues, and that all mny obtain and retain at, least enongh to make thenrcomfortable and happy and be grateful to hlin> lor It. As matters now stand some people coll me Rain, siime call mo Ike, and some call me Skim Ike. bat if ever I suceeod In financiering,^ Idesire to, then tlrcy wlll'all give me my full trimmings, that is to say they will all call me 3Ir .Sqirlrc Sninael Ike. and I tell you If I had enonith money, 1 would he Mr. Hquire Samuefr Ib.e for true. I would like to tell some of tho things I would do. but I will not do so at th? present time for fear you might think I wan building air castles. Most men Imaaine that if they Tiad a nest egg to start with, they could get the balance, but I think it would be better to have a good setting of cscsat the start, and then if you could have good luck In hatching^ you might succeed, though I have known some to fail even *fter they hud a good brood hatched out. Now I cau tell you of moro^ ways you would fall in, than you could get Into this issue of your pai>or, but I supposeyoa dou't enro about knowing how (u fall. If I could succeed half as easy as I could tall, I would ask nobody to be my aunty. I would be my full grown self at once. The proper way to succeed is to spend but one per cent, of your income, and make a hundred percent, on every investment. Now if I could prevail on my club to adopt tills plan, and to push It vigorously for a few 1 years 1 would soon.merit and obtain my full trimmings as I desire to do as aforesaid, but my clnbnnd his family have one rule that I fear will be the ntln of us, and that is when tlicy get hold or a little mouey to lay it all out in things we could get along without, and then be compelled to Buy the things we need on a crcdlt, as long as our credit lasts, and finally* to do without most all the things we want for the lack of crrdil?about the first of June every year when the club's credit gives out, (themoney gives out early iu January) and we? arc reduced to half rations, and every thing is so high and it takes so much credit to get a little, we concluded hereafter we will buy for cash, and get things cheap anda heapof them for a little money, but we break over every time we can get auylhlnz on a credit, ami tltpn up crrt. mud with Uio fellow Hint crcdtlK us. nnd abuse hlin for selling so high that.lt: talcc? all wo mnke and a Utile more to payout. In ttie first place, we nre mad alt tho time because lie wont sell us all we wanton a credit, and then In the next place we ar^ mail because ho wants us to pay for what bp dii# sell us So we are out of humor all the time, hence the lmportancuof understanding financiering. If we could only adopt the rule of buyingnothing on a credit, and only use lialf or our Income In cash to buy with, and put the other half to interest,nnd could live long enough wo might have some money when w? came to die. but my club wants money to live on, and is willing not to die al all, If il can't dio on a credit. .So far it has had but little experience in managing cash, and wants to practice a little the worst you ever saw, and there Is no doubt but that it could use a considerable sum without complaining of the burden or the responsibility. It would like to try ii? hand on at least one good setting. Ho far I have only considered this matter on a small or family scale. It is also a great national subject. All our statesmen nnd law , givers are using their best, efforts to make themselves rich and the rest of us not quite so rich. Some of them pretend they would be satisfied if they had all the silver, some If they had all the gold and others if they had < all the paper money, but if you believe my talk, if they had all the silver, gold and paper money tliey would still not be satisfied, out want all the nickles, of which the bulk of the coin my club gets hold of, is mostly composed. . " It is useless for my club to try to Instruct the national government in financiering.us it is so self conceited it will listen to nothing the club might have to my on the subject. Nevertheless, my club unanimously believesthat if the government would sell all the goldand silver it lias, and pay the proceeds out to its creditors, and then issue enough paper money to pay all the balance of its debts, it would be the best way to dispose of the whole matter. Gold and silver are too high to us? in making money of when paper does iusta? well. Respectfully, MR. IKE. A Young: I.nd.v'it Miraculous EsewpeEilitor Press and Jiannrr : Although not a reporter, 1 hasten to glvo f/xn mi rn/<l<lont u'ltioh IttinniMioil h?ri> fhia morulng. One of Due West's fairest bells has been spending n lew dnys nt Krwins Mills. This morning she went fora ride in the boat but at the tirts rock of the boatshe thougbltht* earthquake was hero again and leaped for thobank out stepped in ion feet water. Lnclc was on her side as Mr. Jos McCullough was just passing in his callage, he bolted for the river and soon hnd tho lady safe on land. Now, .Mr Kdltor. McCullough is like yourself, a bachelor and 0:10 of tho most popular yougt men of Greenville and I could not ut present say if all this was an accident or accedontly done on purpose, tut he that as it may, tho la-.ly was saved perhaps from a watery grave. SALUDA? TalTmillineryAnd Other Articles of Ladies Apparel, and Fancy Goods. A FULL and. COMPLETE STOCK ENTIRELY NEW. AND SELECTED In the Northern Cities with unusual care, by skillful and experienced Milliners and experts in the Fancy Woods Trade, of the Newest, most Fashionable, and Tasty MILLINERY GOODS. rXIN.SrSTIXG of all styles, from the cheap) est to the finest nt Ladies, Misses, and t'liiidrens HATS, HON NETS, CAl'S and other I'ashionahle Head Wear, trliuiued or uutrimmod. Also, FANCY GOODS. /COMPRISING n?I descriptions of RIHBONS Vj LACKS. FEATHERS, ART! KICIAL FLOWERS, ?Sc., Ac. In I act a full aesortniont cif this class of merchandise, a* well also as a full line of HosJKUY, <;L?>Vlv<, ami other articles of Ladles wear, which will he sohl at the cheapest living rates, ami prices juaranteerl as low as in any other town or city In tho South. l.^XPERlENCED MILLINERS ready to IV trim ami lit out work at a moment's notice. I?ress making carried on In the back room, ami a til yuanmteed or no p^y, GIVE ME a pall, and I will surprise you in low prices. AVM. E. BELL. Sept. -J, lj-Mi,