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THE PICKENS SENTINEL. * J 1 I 1 DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO THE GENERAL INTEREST Otf TllE COUNTRY. Vol. v. Pickens, s. c., Thursday, nov km ber 11, ms. no. IT (J I From tlio Anderson Intclligcnccr. , ! 1 A Glance at ''Old Pickens." j The general aspect of things about *'Old Pickens" to day strongly con* tra-ts with its appearance fifteen or twenty years ago?then at the zenith _ r\i itn nntn hplliim ni imn nn/1 iiniiin< w 1 tanco as a country town, now all tumbled down and abandoned. . "Tho dividing of Pickens District .shortly aftor the war into Pickena nnd Oconee counties, and the consequent removal of tho county seat, sorVed to utterly annihilate the old town All tho old residents, as by one impulse and seemingly actuated ' by a determination in common to roeide at a "conrt houso," migrated at onco and settled exclusively in Wallialla and New Pickens, mainly in the latter j)laco. As a consequence, a wonderful depreciation iu value of town property followed and raosit, if not (ill, tho old lots changed hands for n inncn h'iflii A a fill mm lot ot two acres, on which was a good dwelling with a store room at tached, sold for only $20. The Court House and Jail, and nearly all the e store houses and dwellings were torn down and moved away, and now only a tew weather beaton aiul desolate houses, and most of these in the last stages of delapidation, remain to remind one of the former life or pro tensions ot tho place, in (act, everything has degenerated to s > {/rear, an pvtfwit thsit tho ftiw rumsiiniiw lrflnns and relies would scare ly excite the curious interebt oftiic passing si ran gcV. The largo hotel building is standing vet, l?nt i.s I ist going lo ruin nnd the absence of all the door and window shutters and sash serves hut to heighten tho gloominess of the picture. Only one business sign iemains?that of the old hotel bur, which holds on to the wall with a tenacious giip as if onc->iitci??us ol the fact that the "spirits" have llown. Tho old academy is \ ot to bo seen; and tho town could at. mm tinnboast of a flourishing Uig!" School, which is an easy ami safe miervnou when it is known that the ltev. J. L Kennedy was ita principal. It may bo added in this connection that y-.ur townsman, O. II. P. Fant, Esq. once trained the vountr idea of thin locality "how to shoot." There was never but ono church immediately in the place, a neat and substantial brick structure, which whs originally intended for the use of the variou* denominations, but it was used almost exclusively by tho Presbyterians until late years, when they abandoned it. Very lately it has been in corporated in a Methodist Mission <>f ^ tho South Carolina Conference, and a strong membership lias boon already established. This is a remarkably healthy locality, a fine grain growing section +> and, ainQo the war, a considerable quantity of cotton is raised. There are no stores nearer than Central Sta tion and Seneca City, on tho Air Lino Kailroad, cacti ton miles distant; and ** tills fact together with tho natural ro sources of tho surrounding country, make this place a splendid opening for n country storo. A merchant of Seneca City, 'who, it would eeem, was encouraged by these inducements has very recently opened a general f stock of goods hero and is doing a profitable business. A store at Old Pickens is something of a novelty, and the "natives" bail its advent with rojoicing. The offect is amusing and particularly pleasing to tlio propria*. tor. About five families of whito people and about as many ut negroes are living in tho old placo at present, none of whom, however, resided within tho incorporation prior to tho "bieaking up," save, per ha pi, ono old negro man (Go 'fgo) who "belong ged to P? Alexander 'Joro 'maueioas V r tion." Goorgo owns tlio hit goat pui t ^ of Old Piokous uow, nnd ono brond smile, betokening an inward coneci oneness of his thrift, irradiates his sahlo features wlien ho tolls us thst ''tilings is turned 'round mightly," Ilo rejoiccs in his freedom nnd vo'es tho "publikin" ticket. To. ineditato upon tlio pa6t prosperity of tlio i-Id town and upon I ho character of its former citizens, is a reflection of some interest, but it is a melancholy retrospect. It has a hoot it much of that feeling which re3lllt8 from thfi f>ontpmnl?tir?n r?f cay and ruin. There is an eloquence in decay, but it is a sad eloquence, and growth lias more ot vital interest than declino, even us wo gaze with more pleasure upon tho vcrdency of youth tlinn upon tho dccrepancy of declining i oars- "K - o J ? " ^ A Gloomy Picture for the North. Tho Augusta Constitutionalist spoalcof a conversation had with Senator Bayard, of Delaware, says: All. Bayard says that tho people of tho South liavo but a laint conception ol tho distress at tho North, lie do..1 A 4 ?.? * !_.!-! -- ' ? v;iuruu Lii;iLj III HIS opinion, wuoro one man is suft'oring from poverty licro, inon uro suftoring much moro beyond our confines in tho loyall" States.? Therocnn bo no question that this is truo, and for our part, wo look for an aggravation of tho woe, East and West, long before tho grim winter shall relax itn icy grasp. A gcntlo** man in this city told us that real cs. tine aeur contrai j/arK, JNew York, for which ?125,000 had bocfr paid two years a^o, less a mortgage of 35,000, was offered him for tlio mortgage alone. Mr. Bayard, in confirmation of that statement, said ho had heard it announced in New Yorlc that there .van not a second mortgage on any nronnrt.v ill tlm mnl fiinnlia niirJ I I -J > "" ?VV.W|.V..U """ ? % ? ity, which was worth the paper it was written on. He remarked, too, that these woro some of the results of tho war, that made men almost, curse themselves for being misled in 18G001. Wo venturo to assert that this feeling will grow as time rolls on. Tub wav Kihto s auk Disappoint kd.?Tho editor of the Albomorlo Times liavo "cut their t*ye teeth'' in the newspaper business, and now discourse thusly: ' Happiness now?horoaftor wailing and gnashing of teoth. Wo woro very green when wostartod tho nowepaper business. A gourd vino was ripo eomparod to us. Wo aro good and mellow now. Those who got tho Times pay in advance. In tho mean timo all tiio fellows who soaped us out of a years subscription arc happy. At least v/o hope wo. Anyhow they had bettor bo for hcreaftor Ihoro will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. As cold watorto a thirsty man, so Is back pay from an oid subscriber to an odilor." Diam nds.? Previous to Jlumboldl's oxploration of tho Ural and Altai ho called attention to tho pro hablo oxisteneo of tho diamonds in lliOHft regions, and his expedition in 1829 wan the immodiato eauso of thoir diHCOVOi-y. Floxiblo itacolumito is plentiful in Spartanburg county. Whonever this rock oceurH in tho Brazils, tho Ural and tho East lndias, tho diamond* is a Htoady companion, and at eomo uiuiru uuy uuvoiupmunis may leatl lO a discovery of tho diamond fields in our midst. Not moft) surprising than tho fact that in 1857, pearls of the size of a No. 4 shot were discovered in tho shdris of Unios (frosh water muscles) in a stream on tho lino of South western Spartanburg and Greon vino couni,y.?uooiogicai Diaio ourvoy. The Financial Clironiclo ulatoa that tlicro lmvo boon failures to tho amount of $131,000,000 during tho pant nino months, of which South Carolina con tribute*.! two and a half millions! (iroonvillo is oxlonding hor bordors. Survoyor Johnson has laid out twonty tlnoo lots totwoon tho Jjaurons and Spartanburg roads, on a commanding ominonco, and in full viow of tho drivo to Lowndo's llill, From tho Now York Mercury. Aleck Stephens^ Stephens and Randolph?Eying for Iwcnty Years?A Congressional Reminiscence?A Victory Over Grow. A dispatch from Georgia prcmatu* roly announcing that this vonorablo, erratic gonitis was suddonly attacked by dangerous disease, and was in a critical condition, furnished our correspondent tin opportunity to rclato, from his own experience, Romo interesting reminiscences of a remarkable man. Aleck Stephens has been, like Randolph of Roanoke, dying for nearly thirty years, and yot continnml (.lirniifjli oil tliio " ?:4 ? vuftVM^M Kit Ullio II l?l\Jj illlU III (JfjllU of bis moribund condition, to tnko nn important and prominont part in all the gravo public events that twenty years sinco 1 first saw him on t.hn flnor of tho IIoubo of Reprcsontativos at Washington. J lis physical weaknoss was bo marked that everybody spoko about it, and all doubted his ability to livo through tho session, which ended March 4, 1875. But tho hackmen and undertakers in tho city know him bottor. Thoy all said that Stephens was an impostor in the matter of health, that for ten years previous ho hud protended to bo dvinf. mis / o? ing tho hopos of the undertakers and cab drivers lor lucrativo ompioymcnt at a big Congressional f'urnal, bul had always cheated them out of it by ever seeming to be dying, and yot never dying. lie has thus lived on ever since, passed through the fierce contest over slavery, scccssion and the v/ar, and managed so well that, although Vico-Prcsident of the Confed cracy and author ot tlio celebrated manifesto that "slavery was the corner stone of ilio new Confederation of American States," be yet, of all Confederates, attained tbo most popular!^ ty in tho North, and was tho lirst of them admitted to a scat in Congress after tho war, and treated with iho highest regard by .Republican members, though not acting with their party, isnl nil these thingsaro rocont history, and well known, lieneo they need not he repeated here. But one ot his eonlliets in the llousc in ante war limo*. and in which a member from the Stalo of How York was personally concerned, is worth telling. Orsamus IS. Matteson represented tho Utica District, nnd sorved on tho Coinmitteo on Pensions. A Mr. Tripp ictt, a pension agent at Washington, had compiled a volurao of tho laws and regulations concorning ponsions, and of decisions of courts relating thoreto, and this hook ho was anxious to sell to tho Government. Congrees? man Alattoson exerted himself strenuously in favor of Tripplett's work, and ho carried through Congress an appropriation for its purchaso, at a fixed price per volume. It leaked out subsequently that this prieo was a trifle higher than tho retail pi ico at which iho book sold at tho storo, and that tho excess wont to Sir. Maitcson I as compensation for bis labors. Charg wo were preferred on theso facls, and a cominitlcc appointed to investigate thorn. Aloelt Stephons was tho Chairman of that committee, and (Jnlusha A Grow, of Pennsylvania, one of tho members. Thocommittoo made two reports, 0110 by Stephons, to expel Malteson for corruption, tho other oy urow, lo ccnsuro him only foi careless conduct in allowing himsolf to bo found out. This occurrcd in 1857. Grow was a new convcrt to Republicanism, having clmngod ovor from a Democrat only in the provious Congress on the Kansas Nebraska troubles, and ho dotcrminod to win his spurs as ono of tho loaders of tho now party in conducting tlio defense ofMattoson, also a Republican. Tho contcHt in tho ILouho rested solely upon Stephens nnd Grow, and lh?y were woll matched. They aro both, when under exoitcinont, oxeoedingly pasBionato, tho voico of cach is Bhrill and piercing, their oratory aggressivo and evon violent, but Alcck had tho hoHt of it, ah lie- fought on tho sido of honcHty against bribory. Novor did tho most robust and powerful man ohino brighter in dobato than Stophona on that occasion, though tho hand of grim death soomcd already upon him. Tho denunciation of tho turpitudoof Mattoson's crlmo was a burst of such fiory oloquenco as is seldom heard in Congross. llis litlio framo shook nervously, and appoarcd as if falling as>> undor, as ho turned his brilliantly ? >f-" - > UVUIIIIN^ u U[IUII itllll. LU3UI1 iinu pointed lii.s lunh, bony finger in crush ing scorn at tho nccuscd. Tho Ilo* publicans had a majority, and Banks was Spcakor, yet all tho efforts of Grow woroinvain. Stephens carried tho llouso with him, and Malteson wasoxpclled. It was one of the most extraordinary parliamentary triumnhs over aehioved, and will bo long re^ mombored by tboso who wero present at tho time. Romantic Divorce CaseTho young wifo of tho Grand Dulco A lexis, of llussia, son of tho Czar, has just been divorcod by tho tribunal of St. Petersburg. Sho was a llessian, and in that quality has been aecepted by tho limoross Maria Aloxandrovim as a mni'l of honor, llcr majosty was rapidly captivatod by her youngcountry woman who speedily bccamo her favorite. Another conquest of still greater importance awaited tho young lady in iho Muscovite .Empire. .Not absolutely pretty, but endowed with that grace which bowitcbes moro than beauty, possessing a charming figure and an incomparable elegance, she in-* t ka fy 1 ? - ' o^jiiuu uuu j vmig vi I'll 1111 XJ UKU Willi tin irresistiblo passion. One evening the Empress saw enter her apartment the maid of honor bathed in tears, who throwing herself at her Majehtys ioei, avowed lier love, and besought the Czarina's consent to the marriage, that sumo night the young huly was put into a railway earriago, and, under good e.-cort, conducted to the Iron tier, whilst tho Grand Duke Alexis received orders to rejoin his ship. But llio Czar had reckoned without the determination of tho two lovors. The Prince escaped, rejoined his fiance beyond tho Jlliino, and married her in (I'erman territory, notwithstanding I he parental fulminntions; and thon left with her for Amorica. Tho ro m&nco lasted two years, and nothing could bend tho determination of tho Emperor nor rostoro his son to his fas vor, when the iniluoneo of tho Empress boing brought to bear on his son, do terminod the latter to accept his faths or's conditions and it was decided that tho Grand Duko should consont to a divorce, rosumo his situation in tho Russian navy, nnd an annuity should bo sottlod on tho hcroino ol tho romance. It was immediately aftor that tho Princo was in London with tlio Czar. A Stir in tijk Brooklyn Scandal. ? Tlio belief prevails in Brooklyn ti nt Loader will be tried on the charge of perjury in the scandal case and that Mrs Tilton will bo the prin cipal witness against l<iin. Mr Beach and Air. Fuller'ton had an interview with District Attorney Britton on uriaay, ana it was presumed that an attempt was being made in behalf ol Mr. Moulton for ilio indictment ot Mr Beeclier on a charge ot libel. tm m > A man rushod breathlessly into a lawyor's offico in St. Paul, and, approaching tho legal luminary, excitcd lv rnnuirUnd UA man haH tiod a lioop to my horsch tail. Can I do anything?'' "Yob," replied tho attorney; "go and untio it' This was good advico and only cost tho man five dollars. Mr Bonnott's yatch won tho ocean raco; and if Mr. Bcnnott does not inimodiatoly print a map cither of himacli or tlio oconn, wo shall bo forced to tho unwolcomo conclusion that ho has forgotton Iho rudimonta of journalism and had hctfor ship bcforo tho mast of an oystor bout at once. Prosperity is a blossinirto tho tro d, but n curso to tho evil. Dim Voorheoa'son Jiunes is about to csafty tho part of Hauilot on the Terra Haute atogo. A Story of Divorce' It may not bo generally known, 8fiy8 the Cincinnati Enquirer, yet it is probably true, that tho novel ot "East Lynne," although written in England had tho ground work ( f its story | in a singular marriage which took place in this city, tho notice and the attending circumstances at tho time being copied by alino. tovoiy paper in tlio country. Tho mutter v;as about a; follows: A Mr. J. M.v a clerk in a down town house, full in 1 - * ? * ' iuvu win: si young jauy wnoae lather was a well to do Second Street fuel's chant, and after a propor season of attention the couple wero married. 13'jtli soon found out that they were not haimilv mntr>fl find nfrm? o I ?I I J 1 4%t'v* " marriage of seven years, during which time they had three children two boys and a girl, thoy mutually agreed to the husband a piying for a bill of divorce, on the ground of in wiiptiiuimj' ui ?.uiiij>ur. j. iiu uivorce was granted; and the wifo went home to her lather, who through endorsing lost his business and all his property Tho daughter's and his own mist'or tunes weighed so heavily upon the fathers mind that during a moment ot mental alienation he took his own mo, leaving his cmughier penniless and ti> go through it with tho cold charity of the world as host 6ho could T.ic woman, a brave littlo creature tried every way she knew how to gain an honest livelihood?in lact> working 60 hard giving music lessons and doing embroidery for her old school unites that her health gave way; and having no money to pay her b ai d, must beg, Rtsirvo or tro to the poor house. To turn to the other side of the picture, the husband, af ter a few months release from the marital bonds, again married, and at tho ti ne of which wo speak had not only the three children by the first wife, but also an addition thereto, a little two year old girl by the second wile. The latter day being all, the husband advertised for a nurse and housekeeper, which notice reached the eye ol the first wife, and she, in imp ti'aiikin f r\ i 1?a not* ( f her heart, told hira of her sad condition and applied for the position in h 16 household. The husband knew not what to say; but after giving her ample funds for all immediate wants asked her to call again at his oftice on the following morning promising to consult ma wire about ttie mutter in (lie meantime. Prom ply as per agreement wife No. 1 was on time, as was the liua? hand, and from there they went to tho residence, where the two wives had their lirst conversation, ending in the agreement for 'he first wife to couio and accept tho vacant place. which felio did, seemingly delighted at having a peaceful home over her head, notwithstanding the very strange circumstances under which such a shelter was given Necessity demanded that the entire past should be obliterated., and tho new hcuso kcepor treated as any other helper; that sho 111 neb care for tho children? her own oil's pi ing?and tho other child tho same as any hired nurse would di?; that sho must eat at tho second lablo to caro for her charges All these things and even more litis utility did tho poor woman show, no.vnr l?v num. word or look nvhiliit.. 7 * ing the least evidence oi' discontent. What, however,'must have been the true feelings of her heart, when sco~ ing another iill tho place that she had once tried, as she thought, so hard to fill. Tho above is from tho files of an old Cmcimiatti paper, but the sequel, us told us by one conversant ?i.sv WIIII IHU wuuiu uiuis, IN tHritligur language than what wo have already narrated. Whon tho cholera waa raging in our city in 1800 the second wife wad taken very ill with it, and being informed by tho physician that gho could live but a few hours at tho most, as sho was then in a collapsed condition,she asked that till go out tho room, excepting hor husband and housekeeper^ when sho told how much 6ho dreaded leaving her child amongst 8?rangers, rttul a dying wife entreated them both to marry again. The proposition was a strango one I out uotu promised, and a few months I afterward, when the Rccond wifo had been dead a sullleien' length of time not to cause remarks, the two were again married, brought together af~ tor a cruel ^operation <>1 bo many years and we believe are m>w living happily together in a cozy West End lull ao. Atlanta, Ga , Nov. 3.?Tho stockholders of tho Air Line Railroad met and the following board was elected I A. S. Huford, President, Directors: Austell, Alexander, Maddox, Eailo, Cannon, Clayton, McAdden, Wilson, Southerton, Dnbarry, Roberts, Howard. Infidel France turns the Sabbath into a day of grand display, festivitv ana theatre going. The parks, tho wine gardens, the saloons, the the litres and street shows are all thrown onnn on 1 li!it <tn <Sft> A new biographer ol' A rternus Ward says tho genial iiunicri.st usually wrote with one lego over tho arm of his-chair. We had always supposed he wrolo with :i pen or a pencil; but to writo with ono leg over the arm of \ r?hn ii* im tint cn /linw.nl* 00 1 s\ with otic arm over tho log of a chair. ?llurislown Herald. Mrs. C. II. Iliuris (Carl Pretzel) will probably enter the lecttirc field next Summer with a humorous did' comae on "finance." Fifteen thousand people will go to cull!cu wo ecu u neau'.iiui girl mar-, ried, but if it rains on Sunday they "ain't well." Dio Lewis lias gone to California to stay a year. Dio thinks that tho air of tho Golden State wiil icvivo liis appetite which has vegetated of late. "Tiiey call these flats; mum," eaid t\ Jl lllll il> UHUtt [?UI lui IU i\ IHIIJ 111 vutstigating the new French houses, "cause of the kind of people who takes 'em for homes !"' Possutr.glory is the name of a rural town in Bartholomew county Indiana. It is a foretaste of paradise as a placo t?f residence for colored brethren.? Chicago Times. rnm ? A man who inquired if anybody had soi'u anything of his litile boys and tlion said ho was looking lor him, s'opped at a White street g''o* cory, yesterday, at throe o'clock a.id talked til! ab>nt live, when he struck out again in search of his son with a touching exhibition of parental interest? Danbury News. - -? ? ? ? IIciv'6 a iin'n who knows how to keep a hotel. He lives in Cambridge City. Indiana, and takes twenty oight weekly bee id en eeveral daily papers. A very genteel appearing young man, wearing kid gloves and carrying a 1 itlio and llexiblo walking stick, thought ho would have a joke with a rust}' and venerftblo farmer on tho Fair Grounds Inst Tuesday afternoon. "Halloo," said tho dandy, "aro you ono of the judges, on hogs?" "Waal, vans, walk riirht tin and lot inc look j > O 1 at you," said tlio old farmer. Tliat youth wns soon lost amid tlio crowd, and no other judges on swino saw b'm.?WoonsoeUet Patriot, "Man," says Victor lingo, "was tllh conundrum of tlio eighteenth century; woman is tlio connnulrum of tlio nine* < ?> \\r w i. tccniii century. >? u rail i uur, but we'll never give hor up?do nover!