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DEVOTRD TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND O TH vi. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY AUST1,8hNO4 THER SENTINEL BY D. F. BRADLEY & CO. Terms of Subscription. One Year .Y.... .$... . . . .... 160 six'Months . . . . . . . . . . . ...76 Advertisng 'Rates. Advertise mWv.Psertd 4t4he rate of $1 00 per square, ofoml*61ss, for the trot insertiofr. --fdr each subse quent inset tiou. Contracts made for -uas, six or TWELVH months, on favorable tems. Advertisements not having the number of i nsertions marked on them, will be published enttfobid and charged accordingly. Thesi tems ae so simple any child may underatund them. Nine lines is a square onb inch, lit every instance we charge by the space occupied, as eight or ten lines can b Lyo ppy tour or five squares, as the adve ser may wash, and is charged by the space. W Advertisers will please state the num ber of squares they wish their advertisements to make. e& Busndes men who advertise to be beietted, ' will bear in mind that the SENTINEL has a large and increasing cir culation, and is taken by the very class of persons whose trade they desire. FOR THE PICKENS SENTINEL. To the People of Pickens County. Mu EDIrOR: The undersigned being a line and a property owner on both sides of the County line, and from personal considerations,jbaving many dear friends residing in your County, and feeling a deep interest in your welfare, would beg pardon for offer ing a few suggestions in favor of the adoption of the proposed stock law Elections have been ordered, as we understand, in three townships lying along the County line, to wit: Gar vinl, Salubrity and Pickonsville. On the Anderson side a warm discussion has been carried or. for a month or. more, of the merits and demerits of the plan of fencing the stock rather than the crops. This discuc-sion has driven the opposit'o: to the subter, fuge of objecting to the details of the present law, while they concede the benefits of41e prop)osed change on general principles. Thi'S is a great point gained, and may be said to be the capture of the first line of do fence of the opposition. They c~annot deny that it is better for the land bolder and better for the renter, that the stock should be fenced rather than the crops. It is a great saving *of both labor and timber, as less than half the rails will fence the stock that is required to fence the crops. And then it is conceded that the stock would. 1)e better off, for the expen., ses of every farmer that has tried it, (and there are many such in iPickens8 SCounty) is in favor of fencing the stock. Mr. Kennemnoro, one of our best farmers near Easley Station has tried it for a great number of years, and would not think of changing to the old plan. Mr. Blenajah Wil liame, of Salubrity township, has *also bad .considerable experience in this matte,, and emphatically recomn monds It to every body. These gen tlemen are known to be our best f'armners and most reliable gentlemen, and their testimony is of groat value. The same kind of pasturage which ot sfock elip through the old fields t is greatly improved by enclosure. Mr. Kennemore first enclosed about five Rcres, and afterwards increased it to ten, with one cross fence. This plan exactly meets the case, for lhe can change his stock from one side of the fence to the other, as may be required. By stock raisers, it is es ' timated that one acre to every head of cattle, and one acre to every fiye head of hogs would be sufiicient.-.. Sheep can pasture with the cattle, and old. farmer's say they browse on whateapow leaves-so that the ex-. * perience of the gentlemnen* named above, with many others that migbt be adduced, settles the point that it is better for the stock to be enclosed. 'Then if it be a saving of labor and .timber both, the renter and land-. holder are alike in)terested in the a proposed change. But will ite renter I.e allowedto ha . f~ntg,U cheaply as now? We answer unho' sitatingly, yes. The proposed law makes it obligatory on the landlord to furnish pasturage for two head of cattle to each field hand. This is more for cattle than most rentevrs wAl need, but they can substItute hogs or sheep, or more of both. And those renters who properly appreci ate the necessities of the landlord in this respect, from the scarcity of timber, will excite in the hearts of the landlord, a corresponding kind feeling towards his intereats, which will make their efforts reciprocal to advanco as far as possible, each others interests. This feeling of reciprocity of interests, if properly cheerished by both parties, has always in the past, and will in the. future, result bene ficiatlly to both parties. Pasturage being assured to the renter on as favorablo terms as before, then it follows that it lie consults his own in terests as well as that of the landlord, they will vote jointly to fence the stock. But the objections ai e due to the subterfuge of saying, that to fence the stock instead of crops ic a good thing, but we object to the law be cause it was not passed as a State law to cover the whole State, to go into effect some definite time in the future, one says next January, an other says some five years hence, givil)g the people time to make the required changes. Let us analyze this specious pretext a little. The law as passed, leaves it with the OoPle of each township, to adopt it Or not, as suits their interests or con veni,uce. These objectora say, dont leave it to the peoi, but pass a State law giving time for the people to imike tLe necesarry changes. This argument would do vcry well if the condition of the people f the different Counties of the State were exactly alike. But such is not the case. Take the County of Pickens for an examplo. While the lower half of the (ounty is just a- much iterested in the proposed stcck law as tihe peop1le of the tipper half of Anderson, yet it may be safely pre sumied that tile people of the upper part of the County do not now need such a law, and probabty may not for many years to come, if ever. They have a large excess of grazing lands over arable lands, hence their in terests would perhaps be bott er subserved, by continuing ini force the old fence laws. Would it not be oppressiv'e to force upIonl these people the adoption of a policy so antagon. nistic to their interests, merely be% cause the people ot other portions of the County, or of other Counties, de. manded auch a change in fur'therane of their -own interests. And then again along our coast lines there are many countiees where grazing lanlds and stock are tbeir most valuable property, hence, they too, like the mountaineers, do not need a law, in-. deed, would be injured by it. And thoen again, by submitting the ques tion by townships to the people, every section can consult its own interests, and decide accordingly. If it shll be found after the election, as in An derson for instance, that a majority of the townships are in favor of the proposed law, but not all, thbe County Commissioners cani await the meet in)g of the Legislaturoe and change theo law so as to fenice in the wvhole coimn, ty. The opponents, of the mneas uro could not consistently objoct to, and then agali), as the law now stands, townships voting for it, may co-op)erate though in d ifferenit coun - ties, in building line fences, and may extend their township fences into other townships andl take in land holders alonig the township lines whoe the landholders so desiro it. As to the question of time, that can be easily decided. Onie singlo reai. 5011 is ouigh for any body. It will take less timte to enclose the stok , any farm than it will to repair fences around crops. It will not be necos Bary In all cases to remove outside fences at first. Enclose you1 stock at once, and then arrange at your leis ure all other fencing. You will have the next hundred yeaos to do it in. Fellow citizens of Pickens: It is reasonably certain that a majirity of the poople of Anderson will vote for the propesed stock law, and we earn. estly invite the co-operation of the friends of the measure in Pickens County. By such co-operation the expense of building the outside line fences will be greatly lessened to the people of both Counties, and there by both sections be materially bene. fitted.' From what I know of the people of Pickens, we flatter our selves that they will be in this case, as in all their past history, not be. hind the foremost in advancing the great cause of agricultural reform by fencing the stuck rather than the crops. We will relate one remarkable incident in connection with the his tory of the fence question or stock law in Salubrity. township, which makes a powerful appeal in behalf of the law, to the gallant yeonany of Pickens. In carrying around the petition for signers for the election in Salabrity township, it was ascor tained that twenty-one widows had affixed their signatures to the paper, and every one of them warmly in favor of the law. It, after that op.. peal, coming, for the most part from widows of thoac whoso husbands fell ii defence of our dearest rights; the men of' Salubrity township do not rally to their relief by voting for the law, there will remain a stigma upon their characters for gallantry not easily wiped out. Yonng ladies watch your sweethearts to see hom they treat the widow's appeal. Very respectfully, T. 1I. RUSSET.L. The Lessons of the Riots. NO STANDING ARMY wANTE~D, The Fmnancial and Co,mmiercial Chronicle says: More erroneons still is the inforence that this disturbance proves the neceessity of having a strong, centralized government and large and permanent standing army. The action of the last HIouse in re fusin)g to recede from the disagree mont which killed the army appro-, ipriation is rather hotly denounced by some newspapers, that seize the ocs casion as one for making a political "p)oint," and omit to blame the Sen ate for its equal p)ersistence in the disagreement. This shows, we are gravely told, that tihe State govern.. ments are miserably inefficient, and the only thing to be trusted is the Federal power; without that the whole country would at the mercy of mobs; and hence they conclude that this experience will or should lead to thle permanent enlargement of the army, so as to keep in reserve a sufli. cient power to crush such outbreaks. In part this is correct, and yet it so riously wrong. It is historically true that, in 1861, the country had nieith, or' army nor navy, and had to imnpro vise both thus increasing the duration and cost of war; but if an army of say 500,000 and a correspond ing navy had boon maintained for twenty years previous, there would have been no saving. Upto 1863 riots were local and trival; now, fourtee'i years later, thormo is an especially large one, induced by an event not likely to be pairalloed in another con tury; but, if it were liable to recur ovcry twenty years, it is plaini that keeping the standinlg army necessary to striko imnmediately at any number of p)oints of disturbance, wonld be a very costly m11 thod of insurance, and it would be cheaper to take the chiances. Tfhe oconomry of the thing,9 hlowever', is neither the only nor the most imp)lortant conisidoera' ion. The stronig centralized governmuet--thu heavy hand of power, always ready and able to strike hard, and always kept impending for that purpose-the peacefullnees wieb consists in being over awed by visible and constant forco, rather than in the law,abiding disposition of the people-these are the things which have been threaton ing us and aro what we need to es cape, not to invite. When the coun try will no longer hold together by that disposition and by the respect and fear felt for the law without a visible monaco, it will not hold to.. gether at all. The single fact. is that a standing army and a visible force, such as exist in Europe a re contrary to the essonco of Democratic govern nient which is voluntariness and con sent; we cannot have the '"atrong government" talked of and keep the kind we already have. Whether what we now have is essentially good and p,ractical; whether it is strong enough to withstand strains and last; whether it is on the whole be.ter than sone form of monarchy and is not undergoinlg process of Change, ar-O indopondent qiestions with which this has nothing to do. If we get the government talked of it may be bet ter than what we now have, or worse; the point is, that it will not be the same as we now have. TIE MOB AND THE EMPIRR. The Cincinnati Gazette says, "Be hind the mob stalks the emirel" 11ow profound a nd philosophical and historical this sounds13 Yet how shallow in thonght, and how ignor ant of philosophy, history and com1 1110) exp"ionce! What can "the empire" do to prevent lab-ir arikes, or mob viuleuco, or to protect prop erty? Can it garrison every town vith the iml-1peri. armly? 'T'lmat vonld not do it. Can it picket the railr-old ? It coild not protect thc-m agaiist n peo)lo resolved to dustroy thom. Under a demu"cracy or at) Cipire, tlu peIc o society, and the safcty 0; )erson8 and property, must rest on the matss of' the people, and on the influence of the class who, by intelli gence, character and pro)perty,, are' the natural leaders of society. When these influences fail to protect society no oenpire or Can3ar can do it. Then industry p)roperty and society must sink back to barbarism. In tis city, and in every other to which railroad troubles have extended, nine men out of ten are on the side of law and order; in the State together nine teen out of twenty. WVhat pusillani muity and childishness to talk of the stalking of the empire in this! With empire, still the common safe ty would depend onl the people. Wrhen) they become incapable the empire cannot save themi. THLE PE~OPLE WILL NOT TOLERATE IT. The Now York Sun Bays: Now, suppose the reliance in this contro versy had been upon Federal troops, as the centralists contend it should be in such emergencies how large an army would be nieeded? The res cent disturbances, groat and small, occurre.d in about 100 places, some of themi being very serious. To have promptly suppressed them would at certain point6, have required a large force. The averago numiber at the several localitics ought to have been at least a thousand soldiers. Theres fore, to have met and mnastered this outbreak would have r'equ irod about 100,000 soldiers; and, soon as we fall back u poni regular troops for kooping the peafce, w e must station thom wherever an uproar is likely to occur Moreover, we must have ab)out as many more, to muau forts, guard the frontiers and restrain the Iludians. Thus~ wo shonid have n standing army, in time of peace, of 200,000 metn, costitg $'200,000 ,000 a yeaur, quar'tered in all the large towns8, and con verting the n)at.ion inmto a mil itary camp; and all obedient to om will at WVashinvgtuu! The (cnta 1its may be~ assured that the neConint will nt to.L orate any such extravagat dangerous and monarchical scheme as this. USE AND ABUSIE OF FRDERAL SOLIER' The New York W.rld says: The abuse of the Federal uniform to par. tisan purposes dates far back of Grantism, it must be remembered. Grant nevor committed a grosser ont. rago in the South to carry an election than was committed in the North by Piesident Lincoln when he sent Gen eral Butler to New York in Novem ber 1864, to take command ot this city and overawe its voters in the Presidential election of that year. It is instructive to observe that the very same demagogues who then, as pub. lie officials, aided and abetted in this scandalous abuse of the Federal pow,s or are now loudly clamoring against the legitimate nse of the Federal power either to suppress domestic lawlessness or to enforce the rights of American citizens against a foreign State. The South, which has Su ffere'l most of late years from the illegal interference of Federal troops with its local affairs, has now been happily restored to its proper place in the system of the republic, and there can be no doubt that it will unite with the law abiding classes of the rest of the Union in putting our Federal establishments upon a proper and efficient footing. LET THE STATES DO IT, NOT THE NATI-N. The Lluisville Courier Journal says. Instead of urging an increase of the national army, it is perfectly ovident that should every State pro ceed at once to organize its ruilitia, as in the States named by the Graph ic, there will not be a particle of ne. cesFity to work up an imperial army uf regulars. In fact, the American po >ple will endorse no journal which advocates such a measure. They dIon't want a large standing army, for - bvions and historic reasons. There is every evidence, however, that the States are realizing the necessity of por fecting their militia systems, and if the idea is carried out the strike will have perf.rmed one good oflice cortaintly. There is no reason why Kentncky, Inidiana, Illinios, Missouri and other deficient States, should not have as well seasoned soldiers, ready for every emergeucy, as Now York or Massachusetts. At present that seems to be the notion in Kentucky, anid we shall doubtless soon have an efficient force. JERSEY CITY,AUgUSt 4.-As an Ex. prloss train on tho Now Jersoy South. ern Railroad was hastening on the above road to day, the Engineer saw a little child on tbe track. HeT whis tied down brakes, repeated tho signal, and revorsed tho engine, but the mo montum was too groat, and the child too nenr. The Enginoer than sprang from the train, and at the risk of his life rushed forward and knocked the child into the ditch by the side of the road. It was severely bruised and unconscious, but not dangerously hurt when picked up. 1 h train backed slowly to Cluster Burns' neighbor hood, when the Conductor carried the unconscious child to its mother, and then resumed the journey. Tho3~ En ginodr's namo is Bion. Scribnor. lion. John Goodo, Ropresentative in Congross from Virginia pronounces as utterly untrue the statement which has recontly appeared in several newspapers, that ho had boon writing letters to members of Congress asking them to vote for him for Speaker. Ilo has written to no membor on the sub-. joct, except in reply to friends who have requested him to become a can didato. Mrs. Irono A. V. House, who shot her husband, Orson, the famous di.. vorco lawyer, at Lawrenco, N. J., Juno, 1870, and was acquitted, has boon in the State JifLntic Asylum since that tim, aund it is now stted she is so much improved physically anmd imnaly, that hopes arc entor,. taiuned for her ultimate recover.. ftiary, Ter31 and Politics of the Gov. enors of the bifeieut States. Alaba.m.n, salary, $3,000, term of of.. fico A\vo yeaft, pottios, Domooratic; Arkansas 8,500, four years, Domo., cratio; California 66,000, four years, Democratic; Colorhdo -, two yearm, Republican; Connoctiot $2,000, two years, DomooraL;Delowaro $2,000, four years, Democrat; Florida 88,500, four years, Democrat; Georgia $4,000, four years, Democrat; Illinois $6,000, four years, Repulican; Indiana $3,000, Lwo years, Domocmt; Iowa, $3,000, two years, Republican; Xansas 08,000, two years, Republican; Louisiana' 68,000, four yeas, Democrat; on, tuky $5,000, four years, Domocrat;' Maine $2,600, ono year, Republican; Maryland 64,500, four years, Doma Drat; Massachusetts $5,000, one year* Republican; Michigan $1,000, one, year, Republican; Minnosota 83,000, wo years, Republican; Mississippi 14,000, four years, Democrat; Mis souri 65,000, four years, Domocrat; Nebraska $2,600, two years, Republi, 3an; Nevada $6,000 two year,, Do, mocrat; New Hampshire, $1,000, ono year, Dom; Now Jersey 65,000, threo years, Democrat; New York $10,000, Lwo years, Democrat; North Carolina 15,000, four years, Democrat; Ohio 14,000, two years, Republican; Ore% ;on 81,500, four years, Democrat; Pennsylvania $10,000, three years. Republican; Rhode Island $1,000, one year, Republican; South Carolina 13,500, two years, Democrat; Tennes iee $4,000 two years, Democrat; Toris 15,000, two years, Domocrat; Vor-. mont $1,000, two years, Republican; Virginia $5,000, four years, Demo orat; West Virginia 82,700, four years, Democrat; Wisconsin $5,000, two years, Democrat. By this table it will be seen that of the thirty-eight Governors, twonty five are Democratic, and thirtoon aro Republican; two of them recoive ton thousand dollar salary, one eight thousand dollars, throo six thousan(d dollars, eight five thousand dollars, one four thousand five hundred dol, lars, four four thousand dollars, throo three thousand five hundred dollars, live three thousand dollars, ono two thousand seven hundred dollars, two t,wo thousand fivo hundred dollars, t,wo two thousand dollars, one one thousand five hundred, while four get Qfnly one thousand dollars each. Fif-. teen of thoem hold the office for fotur years, and three lor three yQars., fif.. teen for two years, and five for ono year. Kfiled i?or tt Due Bill. BRUN,SON, 8. 0., August 5 187. A fatal shooting atiray took placo here last night about dark, between T. T. Gill and B. J. Martin, both white and residents of this place which resulted in the Instant death of the latter. The circumstances that cansed the difficulty were abont as follows: Some time in the day Martina and Gill had some words concerning a due bill for some very small amount which apparently passedl ofi' satisfactorily to both partijes, But to the surprise of the citizens, some time after wards Martio repaired to Gill's residence with a double barrell gun, and entered his house searching through the saine. Gill knowing the character be had to deal with, escapa ed through the back way with hbia wile. Martin, after a fruitless search, started back to his own house, about thirty steps distant. Before, how over, reaching his gate bre sto< d h's gun against the~ fence, and returned a second time; it is supposed to hunt for Gill again. Gill, meeting him on the door steps, fired at bim with a 0olt's navy revolver, the ball going throuigh Martin's heart. ie turned, made a few stop. off, and fell. Gill fired again, and thme shot took effect in his back. Thme j6ry of ingnest is now considering the matter. Gill has fled to parts unknown. Martink wvas a terror to all who wereo brought in coutact with hfsu.