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|T _ ...... r- ,vv,. J-.. y p - BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 18S6. VOLUME XXXI. NO. 24. - "ACUTE SENSITIVENESS." | THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEMOCRATIC WASTE AND RADICAL EXTRAVAGANCE. The State and County Otliccrs Discuss, ed?An Instance of tl?e I?>s;>crioiisness of the School System Ventilated?A Column which is Full of the Most Vigorous English and the Most Eiitcrtaiiiin;* Reading, with Plenty or Rich Food for the Re-1 Ilective and Discriminating Mind. Editor Press and Banner: Throughout the entire state there seems to j be au euldemlc, a strange iu lection, "'a planue that wa'ketli in darkness"; for there appears j to he no linut to its far-spreading, yet subtle Influence. This wh*rd affection attacks the] * high and the low, the famous and those ofj 110 importance whatever, to speak of. Itsj queer freaks bring to mind the Convulsionsiriesof France and ttic Dancing Mania of the Seventeenth Century in Germany, when the the whole populations ?>t towns would he| seized with tliis ludicrous mania, and con-1 tluue dancing in wild deliriutn, till they foil j In extreme exhaustion, and groaned as In the ( ngnuiesof death; some actually dashed out! their brains against walls. The mania spread over many towns. The country ?. c. Ger-1 many was generally in a miserable cointi- I Jtion. Hijjh taxes, corruption of morals, ins<euri y of property, low statesmanship, are | given as the causes of the Wretched people j thus seeking relict in the intoxication of artificial delirium. The grevious malady that is now afflicting our Slate has however touched ; with lis palsying, yet electric current, only one ela*s of our people, and that class is our | office-holders. The epidemic first showed its appearnncae j In tlie office of thi* Commissioner o| Agriculture. He and hi* clerk had it badly especially while one Dr. Moses Tillman was prcscri!> for them. Then it s;?re?d to the nominees for the State officers. The same physician (Tillman)cave them some good medicine; but they, like the Commissioner of Agriculture, only deve.oped more symptoms of the' complaint. At I he present writing the coun-l ly otlieers and the public school teachers have developed this mania in a surprising degree. I Well now, anybody with one eye oi en can j giii-m vrlust this d rend fill epidemic is. It is simply Sensitiveness, acute ua<l abiding sensitiveness to anything approaching dicussion or investigation. They seem to torget lhat a public office is a public trust; they lose their jumpers nnil call the investigators u?ny names and dispute facts and try to prove l>y ligures Mint there is some miihty difference between tweedledum and tweedlcde', ami that any way you fix it, there's a long ways more propriety in Dcinociats wasting than in Italic:ilsstealing. When the people are fairly groaniup: under the bardensof taxation; when it has been proved beyond a douht tliat our State and County taxes and expenditures actually and r u'y exceed those of the Itadlcat plunde'ers. i it is, to say the least, startling to read a para-j g-aph like the following: "We believe that our State officers should be men of undoubted | cuUure and refinement, and we also believe thai they should be paid such a salary as would put them above and beyond temptu- | lion." I believe that our State officers should lie J men of undoubted h? nesty and ability, and I! know that they should be paid a living sala-1 ry; but this talk about "euMiur" is out of! date- Canada is full of American citizens ofj undo ilited "culture and refinement.'* a-.d although their salaries in most instances were higher than tlio.-e of our State officials, il seeuis that this did not place them "above rind beyond temptation.' This lust expression is brimful of d irk significance, comins as it dots from a paper owned and ed|:?d by ? state oliijial. "Above temptation" shone! **Tell It not in Oath, publish it not in Askclon lest the daughters ?f iho Philistines reJoice over us." Ah! the shades of Slieol are dense with the spirits of men of "undoubted culture ami refinement." whom, if barriers as high as the eternal snows of ilie Himalaya's highest peak had interposed would i yet. have yielded to tfinptntion. When I read such sentiment coming from i *Hoh a source I wonder if there is I lie faintest ! wini?:ance<>{ pure patriotism within our Imr- ] tiers. The almighty dollar stents to lie the most potent influence in j-oliticul life. As ex-1 p isure after exposure suee<*eds development I ?iIt-*-r development., I led as if 1 could exclaim j with the t;age iian "Oh ! Heavens, my bleed- i i :ig country yet rem.tins 1 hope, Mr. ISditor, llvit you will pro on and j jive ns further lisrht on tlio c.unity oillcs in j <lcta'l; particularly reuardimj the fee system. | To cleanse these Augean stabics will doubt-j les.< be an Herculean task; but ft ta^k tint J when accomplished will wiu you the thanks J <U thousands. To slve an instance of the fee system, (15.it | ?previous to saying in^re, I hail better ?o k'X >re a Notary Public and tiike oat hi that I do not mean anytliinz personal).] On Sale Day in November a citizen bought aj jsm ill tract of land for tive hundred dollars, | mid the papers drawn up by an otlieer ol" tiie, Court and County co<t the buyer eight dollars and a half Query: If the purchase money had been S2,50t> would the c? st have l>een $12 5U? If so, is not this an exorbitant fee? if it is not so,does ibis make the other fee (*S">0) any less pioportionately ? Another Just ilice; Ail individual was enmpclled, by the enrol exigency of circumstance, (? cotton factor) lo release a dower?the otlieer who witnessed for the signer charged a fee til S2..30 for simply writing his name i:i his office. 11c did dot see the signer. That per-1 *?o!i was miles away. Legalized extortion, wasn't it? i iimva ..rten hei.nl :.n okl eentlemnn. who In-Ill a county office before the war, say tl:at | lie never chuiged but Imlf Tecs in soil hut; up estates, "For, saiti lie, "the fees were s<? Jib-J crul t lint I always l'elt fully compensated in, charging but half of the fee allowed by law." i A lady who was executrix of an estate, amounting to seventy-five thousand dollars j iilso told me that this otlicer would never; ?h-'irirc Ids fall jVe. It is sabl that official fees have berm stwulily increased since ante-bellum days, ti'l now it | casts one hundred dollar^ to close a forty dol- j lar mortg'iiic. Yes, there is patriotism, pure and plentiful! In -South Carolina. If this were not the ease, would our government stand tirin asa rock today. It was just such taxes and let's, ami fees ' mid taxes In-aped hiah on a long>ul!cring poo. | pie that eulmiiiated in the French Involution whieli was. as that grand moralist Thomsis; C'arlyle, termed it, "a truth elml in hell tire"! That there is patriotism in South Carolina j us pure as that which animated the bosoms of i our Revolutionary sires, is evinced by the fact I tnatour people have been unshrinking, true, and unflinchingly faithful to the Democratic party, even though that party has given them ' for bread a stone; has in ten years, in one bniiw): <1 ( iii<> conntv irovcrnmcnt. as it were.; spent (if ceil thousand lour hundred and sev ' j rnt.v dollars more than our Kadi en I plunder- ! era in the same length of lime, oli, tell it not. in Maine, publl-h il not in ISo?ton, lesl tliej daughters of "culshur" laugh at us and re-' juice over us. As I s iid a ho vp : thisstraiigc malady thai In ' its festive eccentricities and electric vagaries , resembles so amusingly ilie ConvtiMonaries of Franco, (whom hy the way Voltaire liclp<d lo kill liy his terrific satire) and tIn* Dancing j Mania in (iorniany wliieii spread over the length and breadth of the kingdom, had attacked our county officers and public school teachers;I will proeccd togive the latter my 1 attention, by first solemnly laying my hand , over my heart and affirming by all the gods of l?recce arid Homo that I do not mean any- j Milng personal. This disclaimer ought to please those that "teaeh the young idea how to shoot" very much, it is .so very classical you know. After Mir School Commissioner published! is notice that the scliools.should open in No-j vembcr. which notiee was according to a law, I which had, very properly, fallen Into inimcu-' ous desuetude, said law being revived solely because the sceptre was about to depart from Israel or under the principle that "blessings (that is. power in office,) brighten us they take tlieir lii^ht." The patrons of the public school in our neighborhood conferred one1 with another, ami it was very generally and emphatically declared that li was inadvisable t > open the school !n November. I beimr inten-sied (in the capacity of elder brother; drew up a protest to our nearest trustee aiui obtained the signatures of a majority of the patrons to the paper. The protest alluded to was non-partisan, gentlemanly and generous, giving Its reasons fully and freely. The word teacher did not once occur in the protest. After obtaining the signatures, the protest bein^ already made as public as possible, it was banded to the editor of the leading county paper for publication. This editor, who seems J to grasp "Ithuriel's Spear," in.-'crted the protest with some telling headlines. i'he neighborhood was sorpilscd to see In the next issue of the paper, a card from some of the signers to the protect, Buying, ''they meant no reflection on the teacher." Who disputes it? That protest which they call a petition, could not be tortrred into a reflection <>n the teacher. 'I'hey might as well have added that we furthermore declare that we meant no reflection on the civil service reform hobby of his excellency, Grover Cleveland. This latter statement would not have exceeded the other in absurdity, but to some of mCTBCJB v WWBBBBBWBWHBBPBWWBWPBBBOPWP onr citizens there seems to ho no appreciable dilt'ercnee between the snhlimeand tin* ridicn-j lous. Also, ii may Ise informrlion to some to know that editors reserve the right to coinpose :il I headlines to articles. Of course this card didn't walk around of its ' own accord and persuade its half dox.cn varl-j able and eccentric signers Unit this was April j Insti jul of December,and the fact that this is not the fact only carries us hack to the days when Charles Dickens set lance in rest against I many a social monster, and in "Nicholas Xieklcby" exposed the cruellies of the cheap school masters of Yorkshire and the unhappy existence of their wretched pupils. It may ?>.. int?rr>?tincr 111 relate tiiat our nedaiiomies are not alone in their sensitiveness, for it islrecorded that Mr. Dickens received no less than thirteen threatening letters from thirteen irate school musters, each thinking that Dickens had veiled his fictitious school master so thinly that all tho world recognized him as the original. Of a truth, "a guilty conscience needs 110accuser." And if is furthermore recorded that some several of themae-; tuall.v went down to London to thrash Mr, Dickens, hut they all happened to meet al,< the railroad station or inn. and their In ten-1) tions accidentally leaked out. They were all! veiy crest fallen indeed and went home sadder I but wi-er men. lint one Dominie was so ter-! libly chagrined that he became ill and fright- L ened his gentle landlady almost into hysterics. she had to send a! I over London f.?rphy L sicinns, and they bled and physicked the poor fellow almost ludeath. All tiiis for being so i uncalled for, and abnormally sensitive. Hut 1 had almost lorgotteh to tell you, Mr. | Editor, that in the face of our protest, thnji school was opened and is running with h few ! pupils in attendance?when (he weather permits. A small minority are now taking up the fund that legitimately belongs to thirtysix children. It was just such imbecile mis- . management as this t i i a I curtailed the writer's | opportunity lor an education, and scores ofj boys heslde made "bread-winners" in child- ; hood, by providence, have tints been cheated of the ble.?*sed privilege of an ediica'ion. The ]>oet (Jrey must have looked with prophetic eye down through the rolling centuries on the fate of many a boy In .South Carolina, , when he wrote tiiese thrilling lines: 'Thill nennrv repressed their noble rage 11 And froze the xenial current of ihc soul." W. K It. _A?b- ? , 2ND OF TEE WOODROW CONTROVERSY. The Directors or (ho Sentinar.v Esc- | onto Ihc Drmniuifi of Ihc Synods? I?r. M'()i)(!rou' 2i^nosl;><l lo | ?Declines lu .!? ?!? ami is !Ce- i moved From (lie I'erltins 1'rofos-1 s?rslti;>?Tlte Hoard rnanimous i:c | Their Aclioji?Dr. Birnrdpan Ke-j elected a Professor. and the Semi- , uary to I?e Opciinl Xext Year. Coliiuil/i't Itryixlcr. The prolonged theological controversy I which lias agitated tlie Presbyterian Church < for tlie past tliree years a-id iieen so disastrous j I in its flfoclK upon llit- Columbia Theological i Seminary, was broiu-hl lo its lin.-il siaae. s.i far < as l)r. Wood row's connection Willi the 8cm I- < miry is concerned, by the action of t!;e Hoard of Directorsycterday. There-ult will be bailed with satisfaction by the ureal body of tlie church. wlileb has in | its highest councils through all I he stages of . this unfortunatecontroversy maintained that ( the theory of evolution helil by Dr. Woodrow i ( was contrary to the teachings of Scrii'ture as I Interpreted iu the mandarus ot the l'roabytei tn i < 'i | ( l>r. \\*niid;o'.v, on his part, has a.-sovera!cd I and m dnt:dnc:i tiiathts teachings won* mil', tmscri plural or hcrctlcal. and Ins therefore I declined to roi;*n his connection with the;, Seminary under midi a.ebar:?e, and lias insistI'd that tIn* ;ssivo raised hy Ids aceuseis should he met and adjudicated hy ttie proper trihuua>K of tie church, whose judgment alone could vindicate or condemn him. The lour Synods which control (he Seminary Have successively piom.iniecd against Dr. \Voodrovv mid formally instructed tin; Hoard of Directors to reijucsi hi< n situation, and in ease of his failure to acquiesce, then tod'-elare vacant the chair held by iiini in the Seminary. Yesferdiy morning the Directors met in the chapel of the Seminary, of the thirteen mem hers coin pi isinjc the Hoard, nine were i<resent, to wit: Rev. James Stacy, 1?. D., Hev. \V. Adams, D. 1)., llev. John <i. L iw, llev. \\\ T. Thompson. D. D., Hev. J. \V. kolmh, Prof. Henry K. Slic; lieru, W. C. Sibley, (ieo. \V. < srott, J. 0. McMahen. The absent members 1 were M< ssrs. McKee, \Vel>'??, Henderson and ' Morris, nil of whom were unavoidably prevented ironi atteiidim; the tneetiiv/. Hev. .hums Stacy ivas e!ci ted President o! tin; Hoard and Hev. John tJ. Law Secretary. A Her organization, the 13ourd adopted tlic' following minute: "Whereas t!u- four Synods eontruHinsr this Seminary have instructed this I> >ar<l to rc<luk*t lii'* Kvv. Wooiir'nv, i>. 1). for Jiis < 1vsiiMi.1t ion a* Professor of XaUinii Sscieneo in connection willi Kevctiition ; "Jiexiilrrd, Thai committee, consisting of | Rev. J. W. Rojr n, and Rev. \V. T. Thompson, 1). I>., tic n|>|Milnti*?l i? wiilt on l>r. WowI'mw i and make the said request,und that tiio said ] coiumitH'C present j>r. Wuodrow Willi a copy of this resolution." Tlic Hoard then took a recess. until :> I\ M., mid in ll:e meantime tin* commlttcc called on { i)r. \Vootlro>v and discharged the delicate j duty assigned t licm. Hit. WOODKOW WH.h NOT It K.SIGN. ]"): . Woodrow verbally dcclinctl to accede to th?* mi'.tolto rc? i?n. and subsequently t-enl the following eommnnie..ition: I'oi.r.M nt.\. s. t'.. ]J ceinberS, ISStJ. Totiu'Kov. .). \\'. Hawaii, Rev. Dr. W. T. Thompson, t 'oinmsttec. < if.NTt.KNKN: In reply to the request which I y..u havejust handed me for my resignation | :is rru!c<Mif of N.itnral Seicnce in connection i with Revelation. I bca leave to say that 1 ie.Sj.cctlully decline aeecdinjr to it. Yours nsj eetfuliy, Jamiw Woonitmv, Perkins Profe- sor of Natural Science in connection with Revelation. UK I.S ltKMOVKD. On renssosiiliHiiij at .'J P. M. the committor" report f<l the result of their Interview* with' I'r. Woodfow, ami I lie iioard adopted the followin^: "Ihsutr-il, in accordance with inslruciinns received from tile four controlling Synods (if; tiii> .Seminary. t!ia! Is he. an<! i< h.*rel.y, re-j moveu from the chair of Natural Science i;i connection wish 1 { vel.ition, ami that the Secretary l?e instructed to comiiiuuicu'.c this action to ]>r. Wood row."' rn,:.i.\-r; tjik <*maths. I?ov. ,T I., ( 'harili-au wai thfn cloftod to thei Professorship of 1 ilil.ieiie ami Polemic Theoio j cy, formerly held i?y him, and the Koatd in a j hotly wait-don liini ami eirne.-tly urged hi:! acceptance <jf ;Jie jrisitinn. Dr. (iiranlenu expr. s?eil his deep senee of: the honor put upon him, ami Mild thai he would give the subject lii.s prayerful consider- j at inn. It is und: rsiood that I> *. fiirardeau will suhlisit tlie matter to tlie coii^reLii'ion of t he Sec-! ond l'resSy ieriaii Church, of which l:c is the; foiind< r and pasfor,unit if it is not found in | emiltiet willi lii:- relations io tle-ni lie will re enter lijutu tlu-dutics i>f i ho i>rofe.K?i>i>hii? loj wllii'li In- lia< In I'll i-:?. (I. Three other oh; irs are Mil vacant in t!?o j Seminary?Uiliiic.tl Liteiatnro anil Kxegisisj of Si-rl|iiur?'. l'lis^crsti '1 and I hr i'erklus I'rniess irsliiii, irmn which I?r. Wood row | lias lioen tvinovcd. At the. nitthl session ni'| I lie I Jut I'd, which wa- held at \V right's lintel, it was determined thai ilie i lociiull III fill ; these va'-anci. s should lie postponed until the next i'imoi iir.r of the Ituard in Augusta on tin; liist Wednesday in l-'obiuarv. THE SKMINAKY TO liM OI'KXKl). The tnoinii"rs of the Hoard regard tiioir ac-! lion (iiuiiiy disji?i?ini: ? !' the Woodrow mat- i lor. and express the in Jill the chairs [ ami he prepared to oprii the Seminary next I Octohi-r nnder cotulilioiis lavoialdo to a rc-| iiuwal ol' iis usefulness and micccss. !>i!. WOOIIKOW WJJ-J.. .HV.M t inr. Kia.tiKu | In ennvcrsation with ii sen! Ionian who !' !t nut l:oi ixi-d lo ai'C il< for I >r. Woo.irow, ilio r?- j porter h-arm-d that h?* would doubtless aceept 11n? neliou of I ho Hoard as tlio voi.-c of tlicj dominant party of his ee.ureh in t!iis matb-r, I and. however mucli he may leei tii ?t lie iris [ been uiisiiii li-rs'ond, inisri'i ps'-nted and misjudged, lie will tn;i!(< no ivseaanee to the will of the church now for the tirs;. tinieauthoiita-l lively expressed. t\C?Ki Zi'iVt'K* | A lii!l It a* boon introduced into tin* Alabama I.oai.-lature to remove the legal disabilities of ' I women, and it. will probably ho passed at the i pie-ont session. It puis?a married woman on precise^- the same tooting with a man as to; her projHTiy riubt Another Ml! has lor its j oliject the protection of Hie wi\cs and cltil-J | droil ??>' hard-labor convicts. It gives half I tiio price of the hire received by the county | to Hie wife and children. I The tax returns of North ?*arolina pliow the taxable uropert y of the state to bo a ^ain of iJ/W.iA'O over last year. I RAILROAD MY IN ATHENS. | THE PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL SYSTEM! COMING SOUTH. i'lrpp Enthusiastic Meetings and EncournsiBK Prospects for Abl>c* vIIIo'h (ircnt Outlet?Speeches and Speakers-" Plenty of Subscriptions and Ilopcfiil Worils-Odiccrin^ the Proposed Eine?Abbeville Draws an Honor. Augusta Chronicle. Atiikxs. (Ja., Dee. 9.?'This lins been a railroad (lay in Alliens and unless all the sis:ns melt this "section of Georgia will be hooked into the Pennsylvania Central system in u short time. The day was wet and slushy, but n crowd of people was in the city. This morning the incorporators met at the Commni'oini lutif'l. (ieneral It. K. Hoke, of North l'<irolin:i. presided. 'J'lio charter was accepted us signed by the Governor 011 the 7tn inst. Atlanta sent in $bi,7?0 subscription ami Alliens jlM.UOO. (Jen. llokc p:it in irlO.OUO cash, and Hoke Sniill) K.\>>. l'ive subscriptions of SI,owl each, in Athens, were made by Messrs, 11 till, Heaves, Cohen, O'Farrell, it llhdgson, [ '. l'hini/.y wnd l>r. Cainak. There arc seven J in Sin ?Messrs. Hodgson, Jlimnicut, Thomas, I Harris, White, Chllds, and .Moss, THE MEETING AT COUNCIL CHAMREIt. The charier requires 525,000 to be paid in.; There was nearly forty. 'J tie counties of K1 j lici t, Clarke, Wilkes, Walton, Oglethorpe and ' I'll I ton were represented. At batf-past two! this afternoon a meeting of the friends and I incorporators was held in the Council Chain- j tier. Mayor pro teiii. Kd.Smith presided, and Augustus L. 11 til I was secretary. A large crowd was present, Dr. Carlton welcomed the delegates to Athens. Speeches were made by HokeSmith, l'rince Hodgson, lien. Iioke, John shaiinuii. of K.berl, James i M. Siniill. of Oglethorpe, K. S. V. liryant, ofi Walton, K. J. Jtrown, of Alliens, C. 10. Smith, I [if Washing on, K. L. Mo-s, of Athens, and I others. Iloke Smith mr.kc a strong and Ir.cid stakinent of ttieXorlti Carolina system seeking Southern connection via Athens and Atlanta, ile believed I lie road would tie built at half i!ie cost of the Air Line, and that it passed Mi rough a better section than the Georgia i road. There would be ; .(> construction company to steal the stock, and lie believed the load would pay live or ten percent. All Mint j was wanted was that the people show interest ! by making subsci iptions and giving right of! way. The meeting was full of enthusiasm. Gen. Hoke assured to the road hearty support all iloim the line. Mr. Shannon, of K hert, offered deeds to right of way utid to build depot" nut Hoii-leied rielit of the old Petersburg aild Klbert I'iiiiroatl. He said ilio road would pass through Atlanta, Athens and Kit'orton and the pettiest of these is Klberton. Mr. Mryant, >t'Walton, said his dciouation hail been sitling up with this railroad enterprise ever <inee they heard of it. They had borrowed toMies to come to Alliens to advocate its iN>m:ng by I.ogansville. OFFICERS AND I>IHECTOUS-EI.ECT. This afternoon the stockholders met after the meeting adj mined, and three hundred iiv! eijil?Sy-Ilve shares were represented. The charter was accepted iind a Hoard of Mireetors hosen by ballot, as follows: It. T. Hoke, No:th Carolina : /,. \\\ Periin, Abbeville; A. [..llllll, A. M. lledjison, Athens; li. J. Lowry, l". A. c'ol iier,-II nke .Smith, A Man! a. The Iioard of Directors then met and elected Gen. Hoke, as President and Mr. A. It. Mull, as Secretary and Treasurer. The PresiJen! was authorized to put one or more surveying parties out at once in licorgia between Atlanta and t!ie Savannah river. MORE TALS ABOUT OUR RAILROAD. a'Jteir Victory in Gcorgin-Thc Jfonry ( in ?2;i:id lo Knilil the StoaiJ?Sur-; voyors Already on iiic I.inc. Ati.avta. (i \ Nov. 22. I Allanlii's railroads ti'c becoming more mi- j men .us all t lie time. .slie now is certain of a I road to Mil 11 roc, X. C.. and what is more, tIk* | road will not cost her one cent. Jtisan open! secret lliat the road above referred to is hack- i [>d by the Pennsylvania Central. The road is milled Th'- North Carolina & Georgia load. It | will pass through Athensaii'l Kli?erton, Georgia, and M'ilJ form a direct line to New York, seventy miles shorter than the Jtiehmond A* j !>.i!iville. The truer statu* of the c.ue Is this. The Pennsylvania (Central wauled a line inioj the Soil ill, and knowing the opposition that they would meet from the It. ?.V ])., people whose territory they proj t?ed to invade, they moved very qi'.ietiy in the matter and did not k t it pet into the mw^pepcrs until n I. w days r.g.y, when it was ncci s.- ary, under the laws of (ieorgisi, to pul>ii*h their application for eharter. In the meantime, they had already se-j cured a charier from the North Carolina I.eg-j isla lire, and had surveyors in the Held. There j waseonsideratilc trouble over the charter in the tact that a clause in tint charter gave the new road the right to condemn enough of (lie j (?a. It. It. side lrack for two ml es from th".de- j pot Jo enter th<? city, and gave them the riirht : to enter the Puiou Passenger Depot. The t'eiilral road, which leases tli?; U.i. It. It., fought the charter on account of this clause. Hen. Hoke, who is representing certain capitalists interested jointly in the projected road : si si d l lie Pennsylvania Central, nml Mr. Iloltc ! Smith, attorney for tlic new road. held that it i r road roiiltl condemn private properly they eertaisly ought to bo allowed to condemn the property ?f a corporation. especially when tli:it propel ty was not essential to the sucee?st'ul operation of the road owning ti. as was the ease of t!ie Georgia railroad's side track. A lively fight before I he Railroad Committee of the limine win; the result when a comproinise w?s proposed t>y tlic Georgia railroad and accepted by Gen. Ilokeas representative ; of the men interested in the new line. The compromise permits tha new road t > condemn two miles of the Georgia railroad's sidej track in order ti>get inlo the city, hut pro-! viiles that the new road shall not he permit- [ led loenter the I'nioti Passenger Depot, Mr. | Moke Smith, attorney lor tlic- road, says this j is all his people want, and that two surveying | parties will start from Klhertoa 0:1 to-morrow, | one coming towards Atlanta and the otheri going towards the Savannah river. The iu-j stanl the river is reach.-d a suitable place forj crossing will be Joc.it <*d and the surveying; continued. The charter, (Sen Hoke "ays, will be granted by I>cccmber !itb, on which day I the Georgia incorporators will meet ill Alliens 1 and perfect llio-orgaiiistalion. The road will lie com men veil from hi>0fet-nds, viz: Atlanta, (Ja.. and Munroe, N. and will be iinished to | (lie center. The rails will be made at the J Koane Iroti.Works, at Clint lanooga. 'i'his road gives the Pennsylvania Central an millet that i;. has long sought. It is a valuable line to AI Inula in I bat. it wl.l give her a direct line to Norfnrk, which 1< bound to be a | iwii-i i,i* <-.:ii<ii!cr:iiilc imiiorbinee. This line direct In such :i |H?rl will is):tke Atlanta a ilist!ibiitir.;;point for both imp->rt and export roods. (ifii. Iio!?osays (hat tli<* J'oad is need? <.!. the money Is.ready ami waiting iiinl all' that is needed is the crantin;; of the charter | liy tlie tieoriria Legislature, after which the road wi'l he built i.s last as money and men' can build it, a* Tlit* Mcctiuu of .! ndy ;-. Senator Mtirry in A itdcrvni Intel! igcnncr. j Tlie election forjudge of the Ki^lilli C.reult is the moil absorbing election helore 111 l.cj{isiatuie. The candidates have, milil la?tKaiunlay, been in Columbia the {jreater poriionj of the time, and mosl of themad ol' Ihii lime, ] since t!?it Legislature met Tlie friends ol Col. Norton elaim tiiiil lie is considerably in tlie1 lead, while tlie friends of Maj. Whiuier and Col. 1'arUer do ims. concede tills elaim. The I'.et is, we think that each <-f these gentlemen have a number of'.stro:u friends, and theeonlest. ise!o.-ea:nl tinee:i;:in eiiou.uh to make it ilevidediy inleiv-tinjr. We tiiink Maj. Whilner lias;raiat d steadily on Hie Legislature, and would as soon, or perhaps M;oi:er, take his ehaiiees than that ol any oilier candidate. Mr. tiraydon, of Abbeville, will also make a wry creditable race for a .Voting man. and Col. l>oiia!dsoii will Ket wine vnte-. Juiljre' Ciitbran will n<>! icsisrn nefoiv the lifieeiith or, twentieth of this month, and henee the e!ectioii is ;it least, icn days oil', in that period very many chants may occur, and hence i... iI_ ,,r i, , 11.li.1.11 . will lie lvn ilil'ed to give no ii!tie licit1 in K ! i11i up their i'eucet*us well iis to securing acquisitions. Alittst'cfliPr I.ovpiy. As a result ??l" the recent Kh-hmor.d I?mhvillc I. a Uiehtiioiu' spread says: It is understood that the relations t.elueeu the Jticliniond 1 tanvil!e and Il;c t ieornia t 'entral M lie changed. Ileietoi'ore they have hecn great rivals, mid they arc now oil good terms and will work together. Mil. Xkwt. Xicicoi.s hroimlit a drove of Jiogs to town last Saturday evening, and put them in Seal .t Mellwaine's lot. It really looks as if the Legislature hail no time to attend to the business of reducing public expenses. A COLD-WATER WAVE STRIKES THE SEN-! ATE. Ky a Vote of 23 to II T!in( Rraiicli of the General Assembly I'nsscs a J.o* ral Option IJiSl tor Anderson and I.aureus Counties. in Which Abbeville Should be Included --- IT it I'asses the House the Whiskey Klemcnt Will Hare no ICeason to Complain That the I. a v. Will Sot be Enforced ? It is Suaicleutly Strin;;cnt to Satisfy the Whiskey Men That the Temperance J'eople are i;> JKarncst. ? If the House Doe3 its Duty to This Part of the Devil's Domain, There Will be Few- j er Death-Dealing Depots Through Which' to Draw Drunkard:? and Dram Drinkers j Down to Destruction and Death. j\'ews and Courier. ("oj.u.mw.\, uccenioer i?, icon, i Prohibition won an easy victory in the Senate to day. In the abnence of any general staiciiKitaUonontlicnit.jeet.it Is remarkable that nearly ail of the new Senators should prove to tie out-and-out Triple X Piohibitionisls If the House docs not defeat the bill passed to-day by the Senate, 1 lie counties ot Anderson and Laurens, -.vilI have an opportunity ot securing prohibition of the most stringent kind, riveted by enactments of an extraordinary character. The original title of the measure was, "A bill to submit the question of license for the sale of spirituous, mall, or In toxica ting liquors in Anderson County to the qualitled electors thereof, and providing penalties for tlie violation, evasion or attempted evasion of the prohibition law, if a majority of said electors vote in la\or thereof.'' . This bill has been reported unfavorably. It provided in Its tlrst three sections for an election on the second Tuesday in August, 1-87 In case of the success of the prohibition cause '.!tc issue ol I.ICKN'SKS WAS FORBIDDEX. Section i! made it a misdemeanor to sell any intoxicating liquors, except domestic wines. Penalty, imprisonment from thirty days to twelvemonths. Section 7 made it a misdemeanor to give away, barter or exchangesucli liquors in coiincctior< with any business conducted without a mnnicip il license. Penalty, imprisonment from thirty days to twelve months and lino at I lie discretion of the Court. Section 8 made It. a misdemeanor to keep any sttcli liquors in any room or house in which a United S'.ates license is posted, without a state license also. Penalty, imprisonment from thirty days to twelve months. Section i) made it a misdemeanor for any pers.on without a St ?te license to keep any sucli liquors about liis or her place of business or near thereto and pernii'. another to take any portion thereof. Penalty, imprisonment, from thirty days to twelve months. Section ill required railroad agents to Keep a public record <.I all liquor packages received, Willi the addresses of consignees, ?!fcc. Penalty ftSJO tine or two months' imprisonment, or both. Section li makes it a misdemeanor for any person to have :in.v sucii minors Muppcu u? iii 111 iir her marked hi a way calculated lo deceive as to its nm I en's. Penally, imprisonincnt from tliiriy days to twelve inonttis, and lino in tlic discretion of tlic Court. Section 12 makes It a misdemeanor for druggists to sell siscii lli|iiiirs without a written prescripii-m l?y a regular practicing physician In attendance upon a patient, which shall certify that Mich physician is attending the patient, the amount prescribed, and that the sllmulnnt is needed, and that the certificate is notirivrn to enable the stimulant to l?e j<r;> cured as a beverage- All such prescriptions shall be tiled lo IliQinselvcs and open to inspection hy tiie police or city or town council, or any oilier p -rson Inteicsteil. Penalty, imprisonment from thirty days to twelve inon tins mii lino ill t iie discretion of the Court. Section 13 makes it a misdemeanor for any physician to evade these provisions. Penally, hN name shall he siik-kcn from the roll ol phisieiansunci he shall not be allowed to practice medicine in the state. The hill had been diseu-sed yesterday in general terms. The unfavorable report of the I committee had been rejected by a vote of '?> loj U Tt was now open to amendment. Senator! Crews, without opposition, had t'ne bill so changed as to apply to Laurens C'otiniyas well as to A iiilcrson. Sena lo:* Youmans moved to strike out Section 1:5. He considered the punishment en tirely too severe to lit the crime. Senator Jlurtay moved to lublo. Carried. Yeas 2J, nays 10. Senator Smyth?, "ft* a. matter of princip'e. and not to waste time.*' moved to strike out! the provision in Section 1, that if no prohibiten Is the result of the election existing provisions of law as to lioensc In cities and town* of the county shall bo maintained. lie i iimii'iii that the advantage was u I veil alto gHher t? the 1 'r?>l. i s-i I ion i<ls. They could make thp whole e-ninty "dry" if they had a majority in this election, whi'e t!ie ".mlis," if if I bey suct-ccdcd, could not make siny town or city "wi't." Senator Murray made his regular motion to tabic. Carried?yens 22. nays I.;. .Senator MeMast-r moved to amend Section II by mnking it apply to ' any citizen," in-{ stend of "auy person." If a visitor to the county sliould gel an incorrectly marked package of liquor he would be liable to imprisonment. This whs not fair. Senator Murray moved to table. Carried? yeas 2:). nays II. Senator Youmnns moved to strike out that pari of Section 1! punishing physicians by prohibiting the practice of their profession. Scnetor Murray moved to table. Carried? yens 22, nays 12. Senator Nmytlie moved to strike out Section II. "I.ook at the law you are passing!" said he. "suppose a man in Charleston lias a grudge against a citizen of Anderson and sends him a fa!s< ly marked package of liquor, what is the result ? The Anderson man, who is innocent, will be punished for an olience he did not coin mil." Senator Mm ray <lhl not think the section In >rn this construction, and moved to table. Carried?yeas 21, na> s 12. Senator Sm.vthe, undaunted by repeated failures, moved to strike out Sect.oii ii. According to thatscciiou a man bad only to keep a hot I!; iii liis iof business, or " near thereto," and allow ii friend visiting liliu lo tako u -.It ink from it lit subject himself to a heavy >enilty. Jiesidcs, this was a heavy provision which, in the hill, was made itulcjii'iuh r t of the result of the election. S.-iis.i or Murray said that lit- would change it so as to make it so dependent, lint lie must insist on tahlim; Ilia amendment. On the motion t;i 1111ilt* (lie vote stood : Yeas?Senators Hell, Crews, Kd wards, Krwin, iield, Jiempliiil, Met'a 1, Moody, .Murray, V'aiterson, sinkler, su^h, Smith, Talhert, Williams and Woodward-Hi. Nays?Senators Alexander, Austin, l!iemann, J'laek, l.'uist, I'.yrd, Howell. Izlar, Kmiied.v, McMasler. Molse, Moore. Munro, Ilha'me, Smylhe, Wingard, Wollord and Youmans?is. su the* nation was lost. The <|lies!ion reclined on Senator Smytlie's ntueiKiiu-'ii!. Senntor Murray said that to strike out this sic.' ion won lil make a serious cap In the law and Injure the hill. He maintained that tills section was necessary to pi event ttie practice of "throw imr in drinks" In trade. Senator smylhe rejoined lint Section 7 covered that hy ptoliibitin:; I he l<a t'-ring, givimj away or exchanging of lhjuor in connection with hiisimss. Senator Murray wauled I lie section retained because it prevented a customer from helping hitii*< II' lo the Ikjuor of a dealer hy '*a iaeit understanding." In spite of this defence, hi'Wevor, t'u* section was stricken out without a division. The hill pie-sed its second read imr without a division, general notice of ameiiilineiilson the third reading being ttivcn. The only Senalors who voted against it Bt..!ul:lv itiroiiifhoiit the tiiflit were Messrs. Illaels, llni-t, ityrd, 17.I.-1 r. MeMaster, Moise, Moore, Monro, Khaiue, .Sniythe and YouIlliiltS?J1. Sensible to l!io fioiithrrii Chrhtniii AiU'uca!t\ Some rvanjiellsls and preacher* s'poni to t: kl* Kpeeial I'll.'I..lire ill leltilli: till.' public knov* what MVtul sinners liic-y were before conversion. They talk so irlihiy about their lives ol' profanity, intemperanceand impuiily, and willi sti little evidence of sli-iiii'', thai, instead of iiiairr.ilyinsj the jjrace of (!od dis|>l:iyi'd in their silvaliou, we sire almost, tempted to dolibl whether they have been 1 caved at aM. The truly converted man caunol. think of the dark reeord of hU ungodly and sinful life without experleneinif deep .?<?rn.w and cor I ri lion. Any reference to it i* in. tensely inortifyiiij.', and illls him with shame* Cross tif s on the A. 10. & N. It. II., have been l.iid to Hojras" h>11 nine or ten miles t'nis side , of Iliiinlnirjx. President Mitel-.ell lias gone ' North to buy rails for tiie roail. | Mm. J. H. Wir.toN ol Bradley was in town I last Saluidaj*. TIE TELL-TALE FILE MARKS. TEE OPENING OF A WATCH KEY SEALS THE FATE OF CLUVEP.IUS'S The Prisoner is<RcH|)ltcil lo .January 14, IS87, with No Hope for Pardon or it Commutation of Sentence? A Talented Yomijf J.nwyer of Virginia is to be Handed on Circnm* hi initial Evidence for Killing iiis Consist. The dead body of Lillian Madison was found In the reservoir early <*i Saturday morning, March 14, l?8j. Sunday following Isaac Williams, a boy of eleven years, with a companion named Willie Tlnn>toii, went around the outer tence 01 me reservoir grounds, Uud Willie "milled n plunk of the fence open and Isaac put his head In there and saw a watch-key close lieside the fence, and picked it lip. It looked like a gold key. Had a little ring whe^p the chain went in, and It was sprung out. There were some planks off at one place, but not where Isaac put his head through; it was close besides that. A plank there was just loose at I lie bottom. Willie pulled it aside and Isaac poked his head. in. The key was lying up by I he fence on the right hand of the ditch, in some wiregrass, right against the fence. There was no pathway there, and II was arightgood way from where the pluuk had been pulled off the fence." So the watch key came into the Ciuverlus case. When officers C. II. Epps and Logan 8. Robins arrested CIuversus down the country, one of the first thing* tney did was to give a glance at the prisoner's watch chain. There wax a charm, >?r key chain attached to it, but no key was on it. The ofllcets winked at oncli other in recog-| nit,ion of this fact, but made no remark. Afterwards, when they had arrived at the Third street station house here, it was found that the charm-chain was cone. Afterwards it was delivered up by Willie Ciuverius, with an explanation that could not be accepted. Jlr. Jo?! a;iil Ihc Key. A c n-idrrablc time elapsed, and no pro gress was made in proving that the key bc^ longed to C'luvirius. Hunter Hunt, one of the colored witnoses at the American Hotel, had told the the coroner's Jufy that lie saw a key of that description in Lillian's room at the hotel, but. later on the ascertained that wlii.t he thought was a key was the projcctinir part of a brass hinge of trie bureau. HI 111 proof was wanting that the key had ever been in t luverius's hands. Detective Wren and Mr. Frank Nolan, whi e working in the country, by some means ascertained that Mr. Herman Joel, of Richmond, while at Centrcvilli; on one occasion, had repaired a key for Cluverius. Mr. Wren visited Mr Joel and ascertained that he was a valuable witness. On the trial Joel said that lo the best of his knowledge the key there produced was the key left at his store ami that he had mended for I'luveiius; hut he would not be positive unless pet'mitled to open the key. He was sure that If the key were opened ho would recognize his work. Defense objected to open l..o I'ommmiur.uilllt (lid not Ktr.?n?ly ln-l?t. Ciuvcrius's relatives produced another key. wliirli they said was the prisoner's; but it did no lit his watch ami tlicy failed to show that the prisoner had worn if of late. TSie itr.v and Hie Governor. When the trial was over the key was placed, | with other such evidence, in I he hands of ihe City Ser;eiint. It was certified with therecord to i In- Supreme Court, and was examined hy Judgo ilinion. After that the case went u> the Govt i^ior, to whom tliccoiidemn: ed man appealed lor clemeney. Governor Ia'C considered this key n pivotal [ point In the case. After mature deliberation, ac'.irgsolely upon Ills own Judgment and responsibility, he rcolved to have It opened. On tlie evening of Tuesday, November 2:lrd, he sent for Mr. Joel to come to his house. Mr. [ Joel, not- knowing what was wanted for him, came with the messenger. The Governor told him that he had been reading: his (Joel's) te-tiuuiny, and proceeded to ask Joel a score or more of questions, testing his sense and accuracy. All were answered satisfactorily. ! IIi! then asked: I And you are positive you mended a key of II his character? "I am,'' answered Mr. Joel. And you are positive that Cluvetius was the man for whom jon mended the key? Joel said that he was absolutely certain that CI live: ills was. that he distinctly remembered Clnveriiw, whom lie had seen several limes before the murder. . I "Now can you with equal positireness idenI llfy tliislcey ?" I he Governor asked. Jnci said no; that lie could not. lie thought III il..-. I-.11r ir:i>; not, sure. Had he I been ill lowed to open It, tie cuulii have satlsI (I'.'d him.vc'.l beyond all question. The Governor then inquire ! how long a Mine it would I take to open it. lie said "about two min] tues." Tlie Governor then told him lie would i have it opened. Here Joel began to show re! luc.taneo. He earnestly protested that lie did | not wish 11 take any further action bearing | upon the ease; said, also, that he was Opposed to capital punishment. and that, ho came I from h country (Polish-Austria) where there was no capital punish men t except for crimes against the government. [ The Government answered that the responjsibiilty was with him, not v ith Joel. With this view strongly put before him, Joel said he would open the key. Celrig asked, in the presence of two wime.-BC?. what he expected to find in the key, ho Paid if it was the key Into which he had put a new barrel for t'lttvcrius, two or three file marks would he found on the upper end of the barrel, and about it a small quantity of white solder. T'ooN scut for.' I Joel ennio to the Governor's house, not j knowing for what purpose he was wanted. ! lie of course brought no tools. j The Governor a?kcd* hint what tools he needed, and he said a plow-pipe and pincners. Ti.r> coventor held Joel in conversation while I lies;1 wore sent for from a place of busii ncs8 within easy reach. Open. j Tn a very short time the key was onencd. > Joel had a lootc of deep anxiety as he viewed 11 lie two pieces. Then he handed them to the (Governor, and told him to look. The Gov| ernor looked and saw tin1 very marks and solder Juel iiad predicted, l'eyond doubt it I was the key into which Joel had inserted a new barrel at (.Vntrevllle. Joel, then.at the request of (lie Governor, I replaced I lie barrel In the key, doing the wot k ' so nicely that it is next lo impossible to tell | that the key was ever opened. | ltesides the (iovernor, there were hut two j witnesses lo the opening of the key. They , and Joed were charged by the (iovernor not I lo divulge the secret. The idea was to keep it [quiet until after the (iovernor had acted on I the petition for clemency ; but another coinI plication arose requiring that 11 should be ! Kept secret a little longer. j Joel Comes ISar't lo ihe Governor. I Next morning ai'iTr tlie key was opened, j .Mr. .loci eaniy lo see the < iovernor again. He I said in sub>tuncc that he had that morning i be.-n visited by Dpuring* that Denring had I said: "You were to see the Govornor last night?" Yes said Joel. "l>o.-s he want you : to open the key ?" Joel led him to think thai j Ihe Governor was talking about it. Then ; lieu ring approached hint with a bribe, the i coiiditinii being Ilia! Joel should not be cur: tain (hat it was liis(.loel's) work in Ihe key if asked to open It. Dt'ttring otl'ered Joel ?100, . if ti of which he paid and which Joel brought to t lie < iovernor. ' * '* 1 l!*/i niunalnlt Tiierc-uii 01 iiiiu ii-\i-iiiiI'm nv render knows. Jiti'l vnuscil l>etiring to come tosee liini again l(? iiiik over tin- mailer; a i>nliceman was lilil under Joel's counter and . Ilea til all of I'ciiriinr's con versa! Ion. | Alicr llu* (Sovcrnnr had disposed of the ' ('Inverbis ease l>etirinir was arrested. Then for Die first l ine the opening of the koy leaked out, ami the following fioni tin; |ii?paleh of Thuisdav morning la-l. was the very earil: est int nii iM made in print of that cireuin' stature. and set a dozen newspapers reportors to work on ;i new trial: The (iovci'iior, A v. Governor I.eo was asked last nluht if he couid jslvu flie liispateh any tuforiualioii coneerninji the Hearing ease; out ho said: "J can't teil yon now." i The particular inquiry Hint i'f I>!spateh wanted to mage of hun was whether, when Joel visited him, the key was opened, or anything was done in thai direction. Itunmrcil concession. A rumor was wide p;>-o:i'J in the cltv yesterday, and was credited by many thai Clnverins had made a confession to Uev. 1 ?r. Hatcher, who was at the Jail to sec him. Il may or nc t he true. Whatever l?r. Hatcher receives from I 'III vcrilis and undoubtedly v. ill he so kept. ! There were also contlicting reports a'< to (Muverius's condition?<<ii(! representing him I as sunken very lowly in spirits indeed. Ciuverinswas as well as usual yesterday. His brother, in reply tu a tiuu&liou, said the prisoner "was as well as could be expected." ' The brother and Dr. Hatcher, Cluverlus's spiritual adviser, were the only callers admit ted yesterday. The seafl'old has not been milde yet. It Is probable. if It Is in good repair, that the , Henrico pillows on which Charles Lee and Barbara Stiller were banged sonic time ago will be pressed into service. The Oirl'H Mother Wants the fntal Day Hastened. Governor Ire received a letter from Tiiieinc T. Madison, the victim ol Chm-rins, in which she beus the Governor to "let the law take Its course with that wretch who hag caused the 1 father, mother and cUht brotbe. s and sisters ] to see so much trouble. Only hasten as quick ' as possible for the sake of other poor mothers and Innoccnt females. Please, for the sake of 1 the mother whose heart and mind have been ] nearly crazed with grief and distress, let it ' (meaning the Judgment of the Court) stay as 1 it is." . I A Roy Who Objected to the 10th. The Governor received the following yester- I day: , December the 10th. Dear GovEKNon-Plea.se don't hang Mr. Cluverlus on the loth, for that. Is my birthday. Will be ten years old then,and I c an't be happy for thinking of Mr. Cluverlus. Plea>e ilon t hang him that day. You don't know how I love you, General Lee. I hate blue because you fought against It so well and hurd. My papa fought, too; was with the Cadets, grandma nays, at. the battle of New Market, and he was only fourteen year*old. My papa is dead now. Dear General, don't linng Mr. Cluverlus on next Friday. Your llnli* friend, Kichakd wood. "Confesses" llic Murder. Inspector Murray, of New York, yesterday sent to Chief of Police Poe the following letler, which was either written by a era ilk or by some one who wishes to manufacture sympathy for Cluverlus: "December 8,1880. "* Superintend ant Murray : Dear Sik?I am sorry that the authorilies ol Kichmond are making a great mistake about Cluverius's case, he is the wrong man. | Sorry liecould not prove an alibi. I had hoped he could, and now there is nothing left for me but to surrender my.-elf us the murderer of Li'lian Madison. "I will surrender on the morning of Cluverius's execution al your headquarters. It is unnecessary lo give you further partit-u ars, as my case will show clearly about the murder at my trial. I cannot wait any longer of confessing my crime, us my conscience has troubled me enough. I will prove all when I surrender.and there is nothing left for me but to surrender, get a trial, and probably hang. "Lillian Madison's Murderer." The Governor and Dr. Hotelier. Yesterday evening about 4 o'clock Dr. Hatch[ er called on Governor Lee and presented the following letter to his Excellency: Richmond, Va., December 8, 1886. J To Governor Fitzhugh Lee : I hereby present to you my humble and last petition, that you will grant to rne a reprieve for a term of sixty days, that I may have a suitable time to prepare for my Inevitable end. This I solemnly feel is most- needful and . ; important for me in my present sad condition, nil unrililv lump linilii? nn 11* flit ol?' j Thomas J. (\luverics. The Governor sent a message to the prisoner by Dr. Hatcher telling him lie would respite | htm until the llth of January next. The news whs at once conveyed to Cluverlus and considerably relieved bis anxiety. When I)r. Hatchcr Was Sent Tor. A tier tL*e Governor on day before yesterday, refused either to pardon Cluverius or to com! mute his seiitenee.eounsH a<ked for a respltp, in order that the prisoner mlsfht have time to | prepare fur death. The Governor said lhat he [would like to see the prisoner's spiritual ad j viscr on that point. This information being i conveyed toCluverius, he asked that Rev. I)r. ! Ha teller t)e sent for. Accordingly Mr. He v. ; Crump not into a carriage and drove to Dr. Hatcher's residence, and Dr. Hatcher got in , the carriage and was driven to the Jail, where he had quite a lengthy talk with Cluverlns, , and questioned him as to his preparation lor the fate thai awaited him. Through the Doc! tor's representations to the Governor the Governor yesterday agreed to order the reprieve ' above staled. : SHOOTING STRAIGHT AT THE CENTRE. I Wrong; on the Bank Question?.Right in Fighting the Protective Tariff. Editor Press and Banner : j Sly enumeration of the causes for hard times?scarcity of money?general depression | was not. intended to be exhaustive. It is a ; catalogue of the principal, most powerful 1 agents in the catastrophe. Let us now examine each of them separately, in order to deter' minn ttmlr Dower. The nrcsent banking, sys tern is entirely tun expensive, it has to malntuin too many officers at exorbitant salaries. Some of tlie bank presidents receive $23,000 a year. And t here are about li'OO of these presidents. In the large cities, some of them have : a dozen or more clerics. They will average, at ; least, a half dozen. In round numbers about 25.001 men to be supported by the people In princely style, for doing what the Treasury | Department is paid to do, and could do just as ' well the hai.k nabobs. Hut a more serious I charge, and a far greater item of useless j expense, is the double profit the banks are al-1 ! lowed to make. They deposit b'mds for the! security of their circulation, and draw inter- j est on both the bonds and the circulating notes. Under the old banking system, the basis of circulation was coin held in the j vaults of the bank. The bank received no interest (> ) this coin. Justice and equity de mand that interest on these bonds should J cease when deposited by a bank to secure Its circulation. The amount Involved here is belt ween thirty and fifty millions annually. > Hence the National Hanks cost the.people in expenses alone, ?10:1,000,000 rimually. Isitj any wonder that We are poor? | Hut of all abominations that ever cursed a people, the. Protective Tariff is the greatest.! Conceived in lulipily and brought lorth In! sin, U is sustained in crime. It robs the .in any | : for the benefit of the few. It Is class legisla-1 11ion of the vilest character. It fosters monop-j loly, and destroys competition. It is wrong | I in principal, and ruinous in practice. It com-1 ! pels Hie poor to pay ns much for the support! of the government as the rich. Many a poor i tenant, with rive or six children, pays more than Jay Gould to the United States Gove: 11-) .?..i i:/...Mil* khuu' 1111* iniouit v ol'the! Illl'lll. i'Wvau >. ? ? a .system ? I Property, or its represcntntivn money, Is | the tiiicl of t he world. Government is chiefly ! concerned in devising ways and means to | nrolcet and increase property. Ninety-nine hundreds of all I lie legislation of tiie country, I nutional, state Pud munieipal, is dlree'lyor | Indirectly devoted to finance. Hence property ought to pay ttie expenses of the governiinenf. The almighty dollar is at the root of !"iill legislation. Kdueation and religion arc encouraged hy law. because their intlncnce j tends to lessen the expense of present In erinng and punishing criminals. Mate and intini clp.il uovei ninents are supported by a tax upon property. Why. in the name of common sense and common honesty, is not the national government supported in the same way? I l.iu we are told that our infant industries re-1 Tiiire protection and encouragement. In the' litst place, we li ivc no infant industries ; and In the sec;.nd place, if we had, the claim is; lalse, as shown by the history of the times. I AcconlinvMo the historians, phiiosphcrs, and i StntcMiii ii of our times. we are not surpassed hy any nation on ih<s cartli in anything that j goes to make up national greatness, besides, j 1 we are separated from all the great pmveis by I ; water. The protectionists would havens lie lieve, that Knjjlish mill owners can send vesI sels across the Atlantic, load them with cot- j ion, tveross the ocean, transport thfic-dton by rail to the mills, change it lot:) cloth, send the ; i cloth back to America, ami successfully coin-! i ;>ete with American mills in the sale of such [ j cloth ! An M. i'. recently sai.l, "any sort of a I I Tiiri!!' Is better than a direct tax, levied, asj the Constitution pri scribes, according to pop-, j ulal ion.'' I bit the Constitution can be altered,; j or amended, and will be, if the people ever j i gel lulu power again. j A diiect lax, levied in proportion Id proper-' ly, lor Ilit> support of tiic <{e?eral Govern-j limn I wouldn't cost the common peope Kutof what they i.ow | uy, under the operation of| tin- ihievintr Tiiril!'. Tim present Male ma-j i-hincry conlil collect tlu? national lax Willi! i very l.flc additional expense. Th''h?.rdc of revenue and Custom Ilou-ieot'lelaN, coding ! j many millions annually, woulil lie driven j until Hie putdh-crik V?"e*!, v?r. Kdilor, I shall i have In dose. wi:l:o:it coiieludinjr the stil?Jecl, 1 1 and murk il, continued in our m-xi. Itespeetliilly, <11.L> FOC V. j The via I wiiiie postal cars now in me on j the I'ii'dmont Air-I.ir.e. between WaMiinvitnu i and Atlanta, arc to he sidolracked ami their i placi s are to lie taken hy new and larger cars. I The old ears tiiat a h w years auo were retraid(<'d as modi-Is of eon vciiiciice arc now found i ! to lieentireiy inadequate to the demamls of II in* times, Hie mail business having titviitly 1 increased. Tiif. Ahhevillo I.itemry ('uli met. last Friday nigi. tut- Hie home of SI. 1'. lieHruhl, Ksij i'rof. tleor^e C. Hodge* read an essay on Kiiticai.cn. i MR. IKE AS A PHILOSOPHER. - . rwo AXIOMS IK ma.RELIGIOUS GREEDi Man !Knst Itclp Himself?Providence. tVill Do For LTS What We ?3ioufil l>o For Ourselves. Editor Press and Emitter: The oltfect of thfe present meeting, Is to con* >ider the question of help, and .without furLhi r preliminary the ciub will proceed to bua? l:ic*s. .. . ji , ' The first thins discovered after the creation :>f man, was Ills need of help, and he has nev-er be*n fully supplied yet, although he wan In 6on!e uten<uhe supplied by the creation Df woman. She was Intruded ns a help, batproved to be a mother of necessity atid hbtp~"> lessness, a remedy worse than the ftiuludy?* and man needs as much If not mare ass^t*1 mce now than lie did before her creation, and the superlative question remains to discover the headquarters of help; from whence? when? and how, are we to expect help? who lire to lie the helpers? and cun It be obtained by nil? ure vitul questions, ana tlte member jl'this club I>hs no Utopian vanity to gratify, lint ureal desire first to help himself, and then as many others as possible. If thero sver was a time when help was needed. It Is |ust about now, and here Is the place that a, helping hand would be gratefully grasped, and gladly received. Theie Is no lack of advice, and advisers, for obtaining help, but In genuine hard times like these they all fall, and there seems to i>e no balm of Gtlead to remove the anguish ' ' from aching hearts, or to hush the sighs, or still moans, of hungry, cold and suflerlnjc; homes of despairing families. The shadows of coming woes, no hope of aid and no prospect of success, is crushing the 6ouls ana be- , wilder'ug the faculties of prostrate rmn. Th'^future prospects are^rlnomy, and we are teu>;Eest-tossed, without sail or rudder among tbo reakers ol distress and despair. There has been no night so dark as to ol scuretlie light of the succeeding day, and therefore I hope our present tribulations will be succeeded by a period of prosperity as briuhtas the period of want is dark. Experience is a good schoolmaster and a dear one, but fools will learn under no other. It is giving us some dear lessons at present, and I hope after .the recitations are over wo will be wls**r and better, and that wo may all in the end rcceivc diplomas ol graduation in business, social, nnimorc.1 tn.li.lng that will enable us to pafs the remainder of our lives In usefulness, full of profit to this club, andthe rest of mankind to the end of time. Th&; club wl'.l hall the time when the bright side of events turns toward us, and will hold a nitM fication meeting with open doors and a fu.rLhouse. In the meantime let us consider,' some of the ways an'd means of fastening such ii glorloneconsummation. From whence docs help come? It should cotnc from the four corners of the universe. From all sides, from above and below, it should meet In a common center. It should proceed from every power, good or evil, divine and human. and so brace us on every Side thut we could not fall, and It is our duty to try to obtain it from every source, und every quarter, and with proper exertion It can be done. When is it to be expected? Forthwith, Immediately, right no?, and lorevcr. Iniay be obtained at all times by the proper use of our faculties and energies. We should draw on it all the time, If we u?o the proper mean*. can neip Denniainen oy aur or i* me ?u|jply limited ? There is an Inexhaustable supply, and H iscomeatable by all. , ' IIow arc we to expect help? First, by helfi'i ing ourselves, and then by forcing all eitsc^lci help us. One of the greatest obstacle* in the,/ way of help Is laziness. Laziness Is as nbuh-. dant as help, and tlirives better In the uncbl-' livated state lhan any other pest, and will smother and choke out any good habit that comes In contact with it it left Alone. Why iiml when It was invented are unknown to this club, though it has been in existence so long that it has common law. Idleness Is the mother ot it, and trusting on Providence todo everything is the father of it, and believ-ing it to kc unnecessary to do anything ourselves Is the best soil to plant It in. This dab hag two ere<ds in religion, or rather has two axioms in its religious creed. The first. Is that God does nothing for man he can do fprhimself; and the second Is, that Goa leavesnothing essential undone for a loan that ne can not do for himself. Incessant labor conqucrs all things. Nothing Is too difficult for mortals. The great mistake is to expect help belore we help ourselves. We innsthavo faith enouarh to go In work under all circumstances, and do oar partof the Job, knowing theotlu?r part wlllbOj done. How to obtain this faith Is a question, not fully known or understood by this <jlyh,. that s, to know we will be helped by soyrb, supernatural cause when we help ourselves,'though It Is thoroughly understood by the club that supernatural help never comes before the natural help Is used. You might as well try to begin building a chimney at the top, or digging a well from the bottom, as to npply for supernatural help before using your r,u-n no Mini I nnu-ers of heln. If every man*. woman, and cliild would only do their distress, woe, and despair would soioc -go; hence, and the country would bloom and prosper. If Joshua of old hud possessed ehnnon and war engines, the walls of Jcrlcho could not have been levelled by shouting and blowing rams' horns, and he had to use tho means lie had or they would never have fallen 4 down; and although It looked like utter folly to expect the wallsto fall by marching around.tliein blowing rams'horns, yet he did so .forseven days, and seven times on tho seventh day, and down they came. The Lord never would have made the wine fnr.-tM raofKiage. feast, unless they first had drawn the'wawrtwK%filled the Jars. The servants 1ld that. iUffiBfey / did the rest. With faith you ?an move tain?, but you cannot have fallh irnlestt There Is enough profitable work nbotrt household to employ every member all "Ihtf t line. The pater familias of tills club can fin<t Innumerabre things to be done around hi?; lodgings. Tho great trouble with his suborn dinates, is the fear of doing the dulr that belongs to some other associate, and they are too honorable and to high-minded to Intrude on the province of each other in the way of performing duties; and he is rather too cautious of doing what should or ought to bo doue by others, and as It is hard to decide who should do sonic things, they are leu unaone, and the most of the duties are neglected in that way. Making, Mending, and Saving, are essentials that cannot be neglected, and each would require.".n entire meeting Hw club to be expatiated on. Little Mls.s Ike,' about oiL-ht years o!<l, remark?:' ' Papa, you have enough of that"; sogOiid night. Yours truly, MR. IKE, FIFTY-TV^ MILES OF ROCK. The Work of Mncndp.mizini; tho Public Roads Ready to Commence*" Convicts <lunrryliijr Rock?.-Tho Day or R:ul Romh Ynni*hiug? ]lrcklciibiii's'H Enterprise. Charlotte Observer. Within the next twelve months, all the pubII .......I., I...,.linn 1,11.1 Phmllltto will be mil IIU llliiun iV-iiMuif, v.? ? eadamizcd iroai the crossing of the township lino to tho crossing of thu city corporation line, outside the city limit* u:td insiuc, ttfS township limits, there are .fifty-two io2) aiUe* ot public road, all of which Is to bo thorough* ly macadamized uiul made as sound and as good in sill re* peels as the macadamized streets of the city. Tho work is to be done by the county convicts, under tile vorv ab:o supcrintendeney of Ksquire.S. If. Hilton. For the past eighteen months the convicU have been employed in grudimr liie public miv^ls of. the town.-hip, and now ilio roads are to1>e further improved by macadamizing, 'i'his done.' it will i>e many years before any additional work will be m|Uir< d on tiic roads leading into i;hnrS*>itc, and ten foot mud holes, wheel-, wrecking ruts, and miry hills will be henceforth unknown. The work is to be well done, and then Mecklenburg county can boost of titty-two miles of solidly macadamized roads, a boast that no other county in the State can make. When the work of macadamizing ihe. roads of this township is completed, the convicts will t>e rotated around the county, until every mile of public road In Mecklenburg Is leve.cd and coated with rock. The convict* are now engaged in quarrying rock, at. the en-tern terminus of Trade street,' and will soon have it sullicient quantity quarried t'? macadamize the I'rovidcnee road tjotn the corporate limits of the city to ttfe town hip I'm s." The whole cost of tftlK' road work ?i.1 be met l?y the taxpayers of t'harloito towtu-hip. A fund of fl.OOU is already nvnilnbie in I be county treasury, and the oulsiilo townships of ihe comity will not be called upon to pay a sinule cent. .We l.;-ii?\e that this Is Ihe most important step in the mad working lutcrcsis yet made in I ii Is Still I*, and will insure tine reads fur t'iiaiiollc township and evenltmlly for Mecklenburg ouniy. Tho supervision of the work i> In good hands, for Inquire Hilton iv a man who is to be trusted, and who docs not need wat-hiii!'. Ma. Wii.i.iam I.. Mii.kek of this villupo and every member ot liis family are ill bed with measles.