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DR0TE TOPLMs 0 1t ------------ DEq.TtD TO POLyT10, MQRALITY DUCATIONAND TH ERNERAL INTER &W IC HENOSNTRT. 8Q! .b a --- I" 0D t ' - - - t - - VOL. V PICKENS, S~ O.,THURSDAY~ FEBRUARY 22, 18T NO ~ ~ ~ 1j . 24 T HE SENTINEL 0 1-(, - , IS PUUL11ID EVZRY TltAtDAY. BY D. F. BRADLEY .& CO. !erms of Subscription. One Yba- $1s0 1I9 Months . 75 Advertisinag Rates., Advert4etn6nts inserted at the rote 9f $1 00 per square; -f (9) nine lines, OR LESS, for the frst insertion, and 60 cents for each subse quent insetion, Centracts made for TnRNN, six or TWULV2 inenths, on favorable terms. Advertisements not having the number of 1isertione marked on them, will be published until ;orbid and charged.necordingly. These terms are so simple any child may understand them, Nine lines,is a square one inch. In every instance we charge by t.e 4pace occupied, as eight or ten lijues can boipade to occupy four or five squares,' as the advertiser -rgay wish, and is chargqd by the S Advertisers will please state the. num ber of squares they wish their advertisements tQ make. WOO iuSiness men who advertise to be benefitted, will bear in mind that the SENT-INEL has a large and increasing cir eulation, and Is taken by the very class-of persons whose trade they desirt. [FOR THE PICKENS SENTINEL. Ma. EDITOR: In looking around for the many causes that are ruining our whole country, where do we find one that is half so potent as extrava gance and speculation, and who is most to blame for iti Well, let us commence at the head of our list and cbme downwards. Our President, the wisest as well as the best, so say his party, reeeives A $50,000 salary. Does be coinprohond the condition of the country, when he accepts such an onormous sum? Tlien the Cab inet officers, Supreme Judges, etc., who are not entirely innocent; but probably the members of Congress and the Senate areniust guilty tor voting these salaries, and their own five Or six tlioufaud. Duos one %t our private citizens in teln thousai d ever expect to make tlhat amount in a litotime by hard and honest work? Our shjipof State miust be a rickety old bal k if she requires all this mil lions worth of talentt to run her, and run her so badly too. She looks like she was in a stormy sea wit,bout a pilot and well nigh on the breakers ]3oor -old yessel ebb must have been stolen out, else bad two much wisdom diisplayed on her, over the left. Ii theso officers can't live on shorter ras tioqs, they ought to be sltened, for they need starving out and replaced by a-hardier set; most of our people live on less. I'm aifraid they are coppy. ing after 'the crowned heads of En rope, the newspapers tell us they are p.ay1 from $3,000 to $10,500 per daly-we don't want any of this in -Our Legislature is coppying closely after Congress, give themselves and officers of the State, with a~ few ex ceptiota, Qfnorrnous salaries, and hAid down 'this er.ample to the churohes and society. The high salaries drive out our patriots, ar)d, enable demagogues and thieves to buy themselves high positions in the government. Some of them ought to bave their tails cropped three inches behind their ears. "I am no p'rophet nor the son of a prophet," but predict that this spirit of extra vagance and speculation will be the petard by which his satanic majesty will blow up the very foundation of our governmnent, Society and the church itself. If the pulpit bateries are not silenced, now they are almost as harmless to his cause as if they were usinag blank cartridges? What is the use keeping up a church with its members all 'speculatings extor tioning and wrangling among them--.. selveeatvei the almighty dollar; but the dollar is the one thing needful; the governmnent bas no otber use for its eiizn than to tax them to death, drives them to steel from each othek' toi keep out of the cluitches of its officers. Our farms are barely yielding a scanty support, we could not-more than play thunder living ii the taxna wore naynd tn .m, lo alone us having to'pay.- Look at this. Mr. C. is a church member, with a little property, *as E$150e to'pay for taxes, his farm ba only produced 100 bnshels of corn, surplus, and this after putting hiinself and ?took on half rations, his 'oyn is Worth 60 or 65 cents per bushel, now the man agemeft must come in--how in thunder can he get all that tax moneyl -Well, as his government has wheted its teeth, so has be. Mr. D., a still more unfortunate man, has no corn, nor not much credit; Mr. C. borrows the money to pay his taxes, adid says ro brotber D., well brother, I'll sell you corn at $1.25 or $1.50, 'till tall, as I love to help my poor friends and neighbors, if you will give me a lien on your crops. This is no over drawn figure, its common. Is not this religion with a vengance. Men stop and think. This is the 19th century, in the most e nligh1tened cowntry in the world I believe we claim! Well, whataill we not be at in one more century, to say nothing of nineteen more; some in veutive genius will have to produce larger figures it we improve much on this sort of enlightenment. It seeins that a little c)minmon sen8e ought to be distributed from the pulpit or somec other fource to go in with our religion. It won't do raw. I hold that our government is to a very great extent to b!awe for this, through its lavish expen(litnires of the hard earnings of its imnpoveriebed millions. Aid who is next to be blamed-we the people, for submit ing to that which will destroy our civilization. I do not believe one hall the world was born with saddles ton their backs, and the other half born booted ad spured to ride them by the grace of God. Ve have acted very unwisely at home too, bl,ilding $100,000 Rail r< ads, got into expensive law suits, invested all we had on hand or could borrow in store houses and goods, preparing to mend' our fortunes by speculating off of a broken and bank rupt peop)le. Is there a remedy for all the~se evils or is the day of re dIemfptionl past? It sceems to me that the remecdy has always been in our own hands, but it will certainly need lots of physic to save tihe patient at this late day, for -it Is in the very articule mnortis. I think this is the best remedy, let all unite in the most rigid system of industi y and econ omy, and denounce with one voice, and render so unpopular specuila tion and extravagance that no mortal, and esp)ecially no officer dare prac tice it. Teach them that folks who cant live on mnoderate incomes and hide their~ uglinesses, et ceteras, unner plain garbs, don't suit these times, and had better flunk. Let us live inside our incomes, if it brings us to beans for breakfast, water for dinner, and the swell for supper, and spectaclex and cravat for a toilet. Better be honest than fiue. If God did not make the man and woman, the taylor nor ruillener ought not to. Let nue see who can out pay, and not who gan outshine on borrowed cloth ing. This system if adbered to will restore confidence of man in man. Who can not say from the bottom of}is heart, amen to Senator Hill'se sentiment. Lie says: '"My country, my whole country, bles- ed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed be he that curseth thee." ENQUIaR. WAsHINGToN, Feb. 12.-Dispatchu to the Commissioner of Iternal iRev% enue from A gent Chamberlain, dated Cartereville, Ga., reports that a raid has beenmadeo in~ the northern part of that State, and 38 stills destroyed and 84 arrests made. Lient. McIn myre, of 2d infantry was killed in Log mountains by 30 illicit distillers, who attacked the government force under cover of nimt ~thePl'lpPromt. An objection is Interposed by th trnders*ned senators and ror4son tatives to the debision nadei by th commission constituted by the ac entitled an act to approve and regu late the counting ot the votes fo president and vice%president and th decision of questions arlstng there froin for the tirm oonlienbing Marci 3, A. D. 1877, as to the true and lei gal electoral vote of Florida on tb( following ground: The decision determlne4 that tb< vote cast by 0. H. Pearce, F. C Humphries, W. H. 11olden, and T W, Long, as electors of president an< vice president of the United Statei in,and-for and behalf of the State o Florida, is the true and legal elector al vote of the said State, when ir truth and in fact the vote Oadt by Wilkinson Call, J. E. Young, Rober E. Hilton and lRobert Bullock, is thi true and lawful vote of said State. For that committee refused to re ceive competent and material evi dence tending to prove that C. H Pearce, F. C. Humphries, T. W Long, and W. II. Holden were no appointed electors in the mannei prescribed by the legislature of tb State of Florida, but were designated as electorsby the returning board o said State corruptly and fraudulently in disregard of law, or with intent t< defeat the will of the people express ed in the choice of Wilkinson Call J. E. Young, R. C. Hilton and Rob. ert Bullock, who were legally an< regularly appointed oletors by the State of Florida in the manner pre scribed by the leuislature theieof, * Fur that the commission refused t ruecognize the rights of the courts o the State of Florida to review ani reverse the j udginent of the returninp boaird of can vassers rendered througi fraud, without jurisdiction, and re jected and refused to consider th( action of said courts after their decis ion that Pearce, tumphreys, frolder and Long were not entitled to cas the electoral vote of the State o Florida, which said decision was ren dered by a court of said State, law fully brou~ght before said court which court had jurisdiction over th< subject matter thereof, and whos< jurisdiction over the said Pearce Humphreys, Hlolden and Long 'ha< attached before atay act was done b.1 them as electors. That said decision excludes all ev idences tending to show that th4 State-of Florida by all the depart ments of Its government--legislative judicial and ex.ecutive--had decree< as fraudulent all the certificates o Stearns, governor, as well as that o the state canvassers, upon which certificate the said canvassers ha< acted. and by means of which th< true electoral votes of Florida hav4 been rejected and false ones substi, tuted in their stead, and 8. For that thecount of the votoi of Pearce. Humphreys, flolden an< Long for presidentrand vice-presiden would be a violation of the constitu tion of the United States. Signed by Senators Jones, Cooper Barnum, Kernian, Saulsbury, McDon aid, an d Representatives Knott, Field Holman, Tucker, Thompson, Jenks Finley, Sayler, Morrison, Hewitt an< Springer.____ To PRLEYENT L00KJAW.-EVery lit tie while we read of one who ha stuck a rusty nail in his foot or sow< other portion of his body and.lockjav has resulted mereiromn. All suel wounds can be healed without anr fatal consequences following theni The remedy is simple. It is only t smoke such wound, Or any wound, o bruise that is inflamed, with burning wool or woolcn cloth. Some twent; minutes in the rmoke will take th pain out -of thbe worst case of infiam miation we ever saw arising from wound. L. ad Occupation in the Black HilU . Rold Diggin~gs, there is n regularity about any I thing. A man opens a place af bus t iness Aad makes lots of money thei he gets tie prospecting fever, start for t4p .gulpbs, and : shuts up hi shebang, When a placo ip closed ul it means that: the ownor: is oat dig k ging, has been killed it a 6ght, o is off 6n a-spree. We have no mW nidipal government at all. Ever; man thinks he Is mayor of the town EItvery once in awhile the boys cal a mass meeting, draw up resolutions etc., and decide' to incorporate ih town and have a board of aldermen but, at the end of. the w'eek nobodj knpws what in the h-1 has becon of the resolutions or the aldermen We start a new city government ev, ery two weeks, and burst one everj week-if there! is any. THE THEATRE. The orchestra chairs are made o stakes driven into the ground with v round piece of board about the Siz< of your hand nailed on top. Admis sion $2.50; reserved seats. $5. They run a sort of variety show, and sling in the jokes and stage business al broad as possible. Tlhe "can-ca' was danced for some time until th< t boys got tired of it, and they said give us some iingin' or we'll clear out the place; we want something el. ovatin';" and the mNnager had t< import a female sentimental vocalis at big expense to appease the pa trons. She sung "Sweet spirit, hai my prayer" Consider the lillies," know that my redeemer liveth," an other high toned music, and I though the boys would go crazy with delight f but they got tired of it in about j I week. SALOONS. -There are saloons all over th place and whiskey four bils for I drink. They put two barrels up Gi end, nail a board across for the bar and deal it out. A miner who wanti to treat pours some gold dust on th< barrel head and says, "set 'em up..' They never weigh the dust. Some times a man won't put down enough dust, but they feVer say a wvord; anc if be's tight, and" or out $10 01 15 worth, they never' mention it. They have three faro banks running all the while. Thjey doni't use checki for the boys;.when they won a pilh of checks they threw 'em all over th4 place,, and some were too drunk t< handle 'em. So the checks playe< out. Now a man puts a litte gol< dust in a dollar gr'ern back and it goci for two dollars. Ten dollars worti 'of dust in a ten dollar green bacl goes for twenty dollars, and 8o on. They never weigh dust at all, bu guess the amount. THE DEADwooD DAILY PAPERVI. We have a daily newspaper-tha is sometimes it's daily-and the: #hen the compositors get drunk i don't come out for several days. I a man wants gun wadding he goc and pays four bite for a paper. Whenever they start a new city gov er.nment they print, a Jot of ordinan ces; theD there's a grand rush for thi paper. Soignetimes it-oomes out twic4 a week,..and sometimes twice a day A Gho*ING GUAVEYIARD. Every man ini Deadwood carrie abont fourtee'n pounds of firearm, hitched to his belt, and they neve: pass any words. T1he fellow tha gets his gun out first is the best mat 3 and they lug off the other fellow ' body. Our graveyard is a big insti ' tution, and a growing one. Some I times, however, the place is righ -quiet. I've known times when Sman wasn't killed' for twenty fou r hours. T1hen, again, perhaps they' s lay out five or six a day. When man gets too handy with his shtootir e irons, and kills five or six, they thin he isn't safe, and somebody pops) htir a over to rid the place of' him. Tiw don't kill him for what ho has dou s but for .that he is liable to do. The averagerdaths amount to' about 100 a month. -111 EOSTIL1! SAVAGEs. Thye 0(inty-wAros with 'em. They swoop down on the small camps At night; and kill whole par tios. In one ) campf aie* nWaib f1rom. Deadwoodi 62 > mon were killed in one night. But I n6vo saw a word about it in. any r newspaper. The Cheyenno papers supproos all such i:ns, and If the Doadwood papers print them they are bought-up at any price in Choy onne aid destroyed. I have gone out several timef to hunt for men who went out td prospect, and found thedi all.dead. I once saw fifteen mon ly% ing around a. camp--fire where they. had been eh6t down and loft. The Indians take their arms,'currency, find coin,.but leave the gold dust. TE GOLD DIGGINGS RICK. The Aiggings are immensely richj. I have known five men to take out $2,000 i day right along. Of oburso avery place isn't alike. Some mon don't strike such rich deposits, but a man who is tLrifty, saving and indus. trious can take away a big stake at the end of a year. The men who come from there broke are shiftless fellows, who gamble and drink all the while, and squander every cent they get. I have soon mon put down a week's run of dust on a single card. There is no limit to bets, and I have seen $1,800 put down on the ace,' and it was what a man had washed out of the gulches in a week. Of course the dealer took it. Board is $16 a week, and ovexything else in proportion. The quartz claims are also very rich. I saw, just before I left, a piece of quartz literally honey-combod with t free gold-more gold than quartz. The piece was not as big as. my hat, and there was $300 in gold in it. Thore are no stamp-mills, however, and no attention is paid to quartz 3 lodges. The present claims pan gut L from $10 to $30 a day, and if it wasn't for the Indians men would strike out and find splendid diggings all over the country.-Virginia (Nov.) Cbron A Chivalrous Craksman. Ralph I. Rolland, a Chicago craks man who figured in .the Chanlbe burg (WV. Va.) banik robbery Jast year has been 'interviewed by a reporter of the Ilarrisburg (Pa.) Patriot, who describes huim as 5 feet 6 inches jt height, sparely built, with a broad white forehead; hair thick, glossyand dark; a thick mustache; faco clear and of a clasic appearance; nose. aquiline;'mouth rather small, the lips indicating self will and firmness, and a lull set of natural white teeth. HIe wore no shirt collar, but on his bos om was fastened a magnificent dia mond stud, and a small gold ring was on one of the fingers of'the left hand. HIis clothing was of dark cloth, fash, ionably'made. In course of conver sation, Rolland sam: A fter information, I suppose? Glad to oblige you, provided you will not drag mec before the p)ublic unneces sarily, as the Chicago papers have done. Some of the public journals are inclined to be rather too sensa% tional, and frequently drag men into print who are no way responsible for the actions of others. Force of habit has taught me to bear up under any cloud, under all cir'cumstanices; and I never lose my presenice of mind. I have thus f4r been treated respect'. fully (md humanely by all the officers with whom I came in contact since my arrest. I have made it a rule in the adveutureroums, exciting life I lead to "give no one away" under any cir cumstances. Although I may be considered a bold, reckless man, I r have nevertheless an inherent prin Sciple, a sympathetic heart, ar.d'have Sgiven aid to hundreds of my fellow creatures in my time. No man has ever asked mne for aid and .met thme Sreply "I have nothing now for you; call again." I thrustit my hand into e my pOCket anid give the l.tst dollar. 'bia in Ity timn, I thiik, gIte a*ayastttAli f6rt4 i haity porteiT6 d ppefr to bxvy been liberally.qi&*atid, of good ads dress arsi respectable family. Why do,,you.9ll9w an-occupation so dan geros.Mnd pnl.awfulI . Ralland-4t is a:morbid desire for excitement and .adventure. 1' ba1e had tdventure' enough, Heaven knowst. but have never imbrued my handa in blood. On the coutrary, whn a "jb" waa planned or carried ont I have invariably instructed the men who vVere connected with me to take the cooseqtIenoes if they took the life of any one in. darrying out plans or finishing up "jo." Some men in the profession are blood. thirsty and villainous, h ie no deai're to be so, for I contend that I have as much feeling 'a the neit man for my fellow creatures. I adv' mit, sir, that my occupation is unlaw. ful and dangerously uncertain. Bat take your men in public plaoem now.a a days. They rob the people of teon. sands of dollars-nay, of millions and back out gracefully. Their friends come to the resene, make a big ado' and finally wori them out of the meshes of the law by book or crook. Now I take from the vaults' of a bank, where there is an abun dAnce of wealth. Besides the morti. fication6'at the loss of money the pulic at large will not suffer from the act. Besides, I have already told you, that I give liberally of my .ill gotten gains. Charity, you know, covers a muititude of sins. I believe in religion; that is a sacred, holy thing. I am no hypocrite, eithert Why,;sir, when I was at Chambers.o burg engineering .this job there was a great 6tir of religion there, from the fact that Moody and Sankey were carrying out the work of evangelism iu Philadelphia, and its influence was apparent all over the country. My wife and I were frequently pressed to atted church and the prayer tneet ings at Chambersburg. I said to her, "Go if you like, with your lady friends; I cAnnot Wear a cloak of r4 ligion to serg'e the devil in.' Reli gign is too sacred ithing to trifle with. I may have some glaring faults, but I contqzAd that I have also some,redeqnming trsits., Judge Carpenter In the case of Wmn. -11. Wallaoe, the Speaker of the Democratic IIo4se of Repsesentatives, et sl., VS. Carolina National Bank and other Stato depositories, anid F. L. Cardozo, claiming to be Republican Stato Treasirer, asking for an injuno tion restraining theobanks from pay', inig any funds upon checks .drswa by Cardozo as Treasurer1 decides: 1. That lyy law the Treasurer on tora upon the duties of his offioo when the incoming Governor is duly and legally installed, and not till then. .2. That, the constitution of the State andLltho statutes require the presengo of both houses to open and publish the returns for Governor and for his installation.. 8. That the Mackey House, in which Chambbrlain was inaugurated, was illegal and revolutionxary; that its acts are null and void, and that, there fore, no legal publiention of the re turns hed 'been wado, and no lawful installation of the Governor had taken place, A Westcein newspaper has the fol lowing notice: "All notices of mar riage where no btide cake is Bent will be set up In, sinall type and poked in an ontlandish corner of the paper. Where a handsome piece of cake is sent the notice will be put conspicuously in large letters; when gloves or otber bridal favors are ad.. dled a piece of illustrative poety will be given in addition. When, how.. ever, the editor attends the cer'emony in pe'-son, arid kisses the bride, it will have a special nortice-.very large ty pe and the most appropriate po otry that can be boggnd. borrowed