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DEVOTED TO POLITICSTIE GENERAL INTEREST OF TIE COUNTRY. VOL. VII. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1877.N. N THE SENTINEL ts PUBLISRED EVERY TUURSDAY Y D. F. BRADLEY & CO. Ternas of Subscription. One Year . . ... .. . .. .. .. . $1 50 Six M4onths ............ 75 Advertising Rates. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1 00 per square, of (9) nine lines, OR LESS, for the first Insertiou, and 60 cents for each stibse quent inseition. Contrats msde for TuRN, SIx or TWELVE mouths, on favorable terms. Advertisements not having the number of insertions-marked on them, will be published until forbid and chargediecordingly. These terms are so simple any child may understand them. Nine lines is a square one inch. In every instance we charge by the eppee occupied, as eight or ten lines can be made to occupy four or fie squares, as the advertisor may wish, and itt charged by the space. SW Advertisers will 1leise state the num ber of squares they wish their advertisements to make. SW ""usiness men who advertise to be benefitted, 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. Govrnor Soott Interviewed. A Sunday Jouin ial reporter, says the T- ledo, Ohio, Sunday J urnal, visited Napoleon on Thursday, where he met ex-G-svernor Scott, 01 Sout b Carolina. The Governor formerly resided at Napoleon, fiom which iace he tntered the army as Liet te ant Colonel of the sixty eighith, was protmot, d ti C.-lonel, and stubs - quently to the rank of Btigidier General. Ile was in charge of the Freedman's Bureau in Su:hb Ciaruli nIa, and atter reconstroic i-ini, was twice elected Governt,r of that State, where he hai sice rneided. "Will, Governwr, said t lie report er, you a e again back ainong yutir old friends-I am glad to see you." "Thatik you, replied the Goverinor. It is a great plensuie to imeet iy old acquaintances, most of whoi I be lieve to be my triends. This climate suits me uinch better dprting the hot seaeon than Ihat of the Soil h. I have alo e siderabLe property interest here, which i equmire moure or less at tent ion "I suppose, Governor, that you are * ab.Ut p)repatred to make this phac' your home again?" "No, sir, Suath Carolina is my home-it is tihe only home I have. I like her people, and have idenutitien my intere8s and myselt with them. I have no intention ot removing " "What have you to say of H1aye/' 'pL;icy,' and of the administ ration of UamnptonIA" "Hayes has adopted the policy for which I hoped and looked for ever since 1870., 1 indicated that p. Iicy in several public commnunicattio,tss and addresses-tor instance in an address a delivered at Jenmkenseville, o .the 4.h of July, 1873; also in a letter t, Lieutenant Governor GIleaves, in 1874, and you certaitly rememnber' tihe address which I delivered at thi8 place in July, 1875, oil tha occasion < f the, reunion) of my old regiment. Don't you remember the little hell the Radical Republicans raised about it at the time? Here is what I said in conclnaion: "Let us forget that there has been a wvar. Let us obliterate every evidence that remnaius of the strife, and meet on a common plat-. for m of truth and justice, with the love of a c omnona country as a bond of union, that, shall nnite us and our prosperity for all future itme.'" "A nd what of Hampton?" "I have never had confi hence in a goveu nmment largely con trolled by a population just d isenthralled from slaver.f' The persons to suICCes-fully govern an intelligent people, stich as ourar must the,melve be ed ucated .and intelligent. The educated white people of the South would have ob tained control of the State govern.. monta long bei~ae this, had their prejudices been less bitter and ti e hatreisegrowig out of the War loss intense, and had they adaV.o t.. etitfoio, and pursued tie policy .wlich Hampton did last fall. The poliev which Hayes has adopted will return prosperity to the South; the government of Hampton will inspire confidence, as it will be honestly and faitlifuly adiministered." "What effect will this policy have in the future upon the political or ganizations of the South-will Dem ocrats leave their organization and jine the gang' withl StanlejI" "I think not. There may be di visions iii the Democratic party, but they will be upon men, and purely local-in national politics, or, rather, in political organizations, Democrats will iemain loyal to their party. It is true that more charity, if I may so call it, will be entertained for the Republican party, and inore conti. dence reposed in it; but the policy, as it is c lIed, is in the South especially regarded as the oi1spring of the Den ocratic party, which party, aided by conservative Ri!publicans, f)rced re cognition from the adiministration, The negro el-ment, the main support of the Republic iml part%-, will be Irge ly contr- lIed by the Democrats here after, and the colored vote will be cast more for men than for party. Heret. fore the attachment and de votion of that race to the Republi cans was owing largely to the fear entortained Ilhat the success of the Democratic party would result in an abt idgient of the rights of citizen ship. The course of Hampton dis pells thalt appreheiisiion. 1]amnpton is h141nestly carrying out tle promises whiebh Ie made during the campaicn). ie has already aIppoinkted inure col ored 1ile) 14) idlice Ihan were appoinlt ed duiing tile entire two first years that I was Governor, which were the first of reconstruct ion. "Ad what do you think wi'l be the futtire of thie colored race in tho Soulhi" "I thiik that that they will quietly and p%.ceably eiijoy all civil rights as gua anteed to all other cit izens. I biElieve, h"wever, that an app)recia ti< ni of their' own g 'od antd advantage will gradually climinate them from at least an active p artiipation in) p.oli:ies. They are a race easily con trolled. Labor is t heir field of' use. tulnuess, andi they are especially suited to to t he fields anid the climate of' the South. It was a mistake to draw Item jrotn i uently iinto partisanm pol itico-theo white man (a fact whicit mutst be conceded) being the suiperi 0! will never c umuetnt to be govert.ed "It, as I understatid you, the eIcn oct attic art y willI become str'onger' in the S 'uth by acquisitions11 from tihe col' "red vo e, what say you as to ant ex C2onfedera e f>r the next President, w ich will probably b>e urged by the Soutbi?" "I think ' hat thle poop)le of both the Nortih and South could suppihort a m:;n like Blami3ton with periect con sistency, and w"ithout thle surretider of a particle of principIle, and no more c.noproi'lse of honor than a On'federate makes in the support of a Northeorn man. The causes wh ich led to the war gecw out of our politi cal systgi-the IIamiltonian and Jeffersonian ideas of government consolidation and State soverei&nty3, State rights; in a word, IIamponi be. hieves ill the teachings of Calhoun, and that lie owed his first allegiance to his State; the people of the South believed otherwise, ard the conflict catme. The disagreement has become acc'rd. Before the outbreak, as is well known, Hlamptona was a Union man--ho is no~w ats lo)yal as any cits izen in' the country, and if at the htoad( of the governnmnt, would ad mihnster its afifaire as honestly, as ably and as faithtull as any statesman in the North possit>ly c'tuld do. Look itng att the country in tie light of the recent strikes' it seems to me that the most reliable cnarvativa men will be found in the South. There the re lation of capital and labor is best understood, and the Imlost respect en ter-tained for each other. The South also possesses within herse t the means of suppressing everything tending to comimuiuisin. When the f>lly of the government in' distran chising citizens on account of their l);itical opinions is fully appreciated. then thei e will be nothing more to prevent a Union soldier Vol ing for a Confederate than there now is to re st rain a Southerner from voting for a man from the North." "Excuse my curiosity, but what have *you to say of the prosecutions now pending against Moses and oth er-O" "It is a delicte subject for me to talk about. I consider the prosect tione unwise. They aire the resilt of the political complications growing out of the war." "Ilow with the Federal ofAcers in the South?" "bTle Federal, especially the reve nue officers, should be taken from the natives. Many of the lower classess have beon in the habit of distilling their surplus stuck; they cannot be made to uiderstand or appreciate the revenue laws- they are like the Irish and the English-and the Northern men sent down there are more dis posed to arrest and anmoy than to in struct and benefit the revenu. The Governi-,ent of the SouhI ii now sale in the hands of those to whom it Iffo perly bulunurs, and it will be timnch nore honei ly ad:inistered than it w11s by inre advenituiers from the North." "Who, Governor, do you t1hink will he the next United States Senar Cor bin or Butler?" "It is diflicult to say who will be Svrnatoi; as to whom shoulid be, ihere can be no question. Buler is t he choice ot the Sothi. Thle pers-ms who oomposed what was claimed to be a Legislature, which elected Cor bin, were never elected, and it has been so declared. These places have been supplied by others who hold entirely different views. Butler wasG elected by the Legislature of the State, and is entitled to his seat if the State is to be recognized." "And w hat, Governior, (it you think of the issues, as inade up in Ohio?" "As I read your platforms, there is but one issue-that is on .lbe financial question. In that the Democrats have decidedly the advantage." A clergyman was annoyed by poo plo talking and i.eiggling. l1e pausedi, hooked ait the disturbers, and said: I ama always afraid to reprove those who misbehave, for this reason. Some years since, as I wvas preachiing, a young man who sat before me was conistantly laughing, talking, and making uncouth grim maccs. I pase and administored a severe rebuke. After the close of' the service a gen tleman said to me: "Sir, you have made a groat| mistake; that young man was an idiot." Since then I have always been afraid to reprove those who misbehave themselves in chapel, lest 1 should rep)eat that mis take and reprovo another idiot." During the rest of the service there wvas good order. Mr'. IIayes is glad to get back to his old Ohio home in Fremont. It is natural that he should sleep better thiere than in Washington. lIe can go to bed under the roof t,hat is his by virtue of' uncle Birchard's wvill, wvhile his only title to the White IHouse is that signed by the dishonest pens of J. Madison Wells and Joe Bradley. Tfhe contrast must strike him forcibly (luring hia4 stay in the Birchard home. stead.-N. Y. Sun. "Gracious me!" exclaimed a lady in at witness box, "how should I know anything about anything I dhon'L knowv anything about?" Mr. Hayes and the Survivors. MARIETrA, Sept. 7.-In tho Na tional Federal and Confederate Sur vivors' Assembly to day, after an ad dress of welcome by Mayor Paler, President Hayes stepped forward and was gi eeted wit h great cheers and waving of handkerchuiefs. Ile said: Ladies, Fellow-citizen3 and Sur vivors of the great War: I wish that I was prepared to speak suitably up on this occasion. Aly friend, Mayor Paliner, in his address iiiforms me that in every speceh made at this great niatitoal rention, encourage ent has been given to that spirit of fra'ernity, wvhicb it is tho desire of those associated with mte in the Ad ministration to do something during (ur term of service to advance. We do not in meeting the pbople pro pose to discuss any of the great party questions whieb divide the people who ionors u.s witi their attention. [Cheers.] We leave these to be dis4 cussed before the people by those wlo may be appoinited by the res pective parties to carry on those de bates, but we do feel that if, in vis iting() our fellow-citizens in different States, we can add anything to strengthen the sentiment alluded to by the Mayor, it is riglht and proper that we should do it. [Applause.] All whlo are familiar with the history of our11 country ihlow that. a huuldred years ago, there w.s n Ni-11rth1 or South, the tathers were one through. out tihe whole country. Wahition and ;!eff'rsoni wero side by side with Frtido itnd Atmns. DaDuiui Mor. gan and his Virgiiiants imarchecd fromll Virii'tia to 11.sO; they were at Saratoga, and~ Na:uhimtiel Gr'een and his Continentals were ill the Car. ojlinas. Tei w1ole conitry belonged to the fliobers. It is to that FtIte ft barnly. and of fraternal friChJbip' that to desire 'ur country to return. [1A voie: 'Good fir yoi,'and cheers We at e for tihe Union as it is. (Cheers ] We ar*e fr th le Cons! itui tion as it is. [Che ere.] W it h all its amend men's. [A voice: 'hat's it. Great cheer! s.] We want the eitizents of every St ate to feel at home an every other State. [Amen and cheers.] It a citizen of Vermont travels to Georgia or Texas for buisi, ness or pleasure. we want him to feel ait home in those States. [Cheers] It a citizen of Texas or Gieorgia trav els .North, we want that citizen to heel a t home eVery wher e throughorut LIhe Uniton. Now, tiny friends, I do not ~i op) se to de.tain you. 1 have made a mu ich longer speecch alrtead han I ini endeid w hen Ii entered your tw, bt y oiui underistand the pur pose. WVe inay make mistakes in tmet hod, bitt the sent iment we would enicourag(e is a setiintent of' nation aility throughout the Union. [Ap plaiuse.] .We all regoa d the serb ict of that thu years'~ war, we re.gard that period ot four years as the most interestinig of our lives. We fo ught thteni-those of 1us n ho were in t he Union01 army-fought as we believed to mnake this forever hereafter a uan it ed peoplle-lore~i ver he ealter a free people-and we rej, ice to day to believe ti at t hose who were ais ga ist us in t hat strugg~ole now~ are with us on both of these questions, and " ill forever remain w ith us on both of thiese qutestions. [Cheers, lontg and loud.] The Piesidenat was followed by Mr. Key, w ho alluded as uisual to his p)ecuitar. po.i : i. n, and made a long speech reviewing the history of the conflict of op'i nion about slavery and of thet conflict of am s which resulted therefrom, deCldting fromi htis te view thle concluisioni th.At neither side shoul d har bor ill feelings toward t he ot her. People learn wisdom from expe. rience. A man never wvakes up his P.nnonrd baby to see it lhugh. Emigrants Advised to go South. The New York Tribune gives edi torial expression to the opinion that there never was a better time than the present for emigration to the South. It says the conciliatory policy of P'esident Hayes is fast remov ing the remains of unreasonable pre. j ud icc against Nortiernt men, and in nearly all the Southern States a pub lic opinion is springing up that fa vors tle enlcou ragement of Northlern1 settlement. The Tribune thinks the settler would do well to select a home in one of the valleys of the Alle gliany Mountain system, or in the hilly country of the Piedmont re gion, which lies ini a broad belt along its base. This gives an ample range for choice location, for it includes portions of Virginia, North Caro lina, Tennessee, Georgia and Ala baia. The reasons for preferring this section ate: (1) 1t is a fruif country, where tihe apple, pear, peaeh, grape and all kinds of berries flouribh; (2) it is a grass country, and no Northern farmer ever feels at home in a region destitute-of gren pastures; (i) all the roots and sn.all grains are profitable crops, and it is, therefore, well adapted to small farming; (4) the country has good water, good air, and a pleasing vat riety of sconery. The best method of e-i6gration would be for a few Families to j"in in forming a colony, buy onei or two large plantations and divide 'lhe lund between thom. From $2 to $10 will be the range of price per ae. E-chl settler should have a capital of a few hundred dollars to cue.n101CO with. lis first payment on his land need be bi,t small, and long credit should be secured for the sulbsequent paymctits, so that the pr-olits can be applied for two or thiee yeatrs to needed improvemons' and to imnereasir.g the productiveness 1)f the soil. In March last Mr. J. R)Sa, of Spar'ta, Geotrgia, was murdetred. iIe w as a grocer, doing a good business in thle town, and( was known to have hiad, about t he time of the act, a large amoun t of monley, iIe was r'ash en oug, in fact, to let plell know t his. On ihe faital Saturmday night lie closed his store as usual, and p)uttinlg a smnall basket of' groce rics on his arm, started for htomte. On tihe way lie was att:acked by some p)ersons1 who evidenitly snieakedl up behind him anid slumgged, or, as 1professionals call it, sand( b)agged him. IIlis skull was crushied inl, and though lie was ntiu entirely deadl(, lhe wa1s so par'al, zedl hat he could not utter a word. All that hie could do was3~ to p)oint to his store key andl mlotilon to go theruie. It was then iound that the hulk of' his monzey had been left thler'e, and( though thle muri tderer had - got ab)out $140, a wat ch, anid a revolver, the mo'st of thle spoil was untouched. The muitrder' was tracked thIarough several States to Canada. iIe was theu tr acked to lie (heat London Cirensi. Onl Frliday moini1 mg dectec tive E. C. Murphy, of Atlanta, Ga, madle apphlicat ion to Lieu t. Mor'se at the Cent ral Station, this city, st ating hat lie thought lie had his man. Thme Lieutenant innneiidiately gave himl the m equnired help, and the posse re paired(. to the circus gron d oni Super ior street, where the man wris aL' ebtedl. 11 is name is J oh n Enin wight, and he0 for mely Ii ved ini At IantLa. iIe immtied iately weakened, anid said he knew what his arrest meant. Two men) had previously been trijed, and senlteniCed to life impr)tis OnmeniCtt fot' thIis cr1imeC. A new tr'ial has beenl grantted themil, and( it is claimled that they are innoCent, and thalt Einwright, if not tile guilty party himsi~elf, can poi t the miurder-. er' out .--Cleveland IIerald. ISnbscribe for the a Ri'1er4 An Astounding Discovery. WAsnINoTrON, Sept. O.-Governor flampton went away from this city without being able to secure any Government arms for his State mili tia. The critics who cried out at llampton'r coming here to secure arms for What they pleased to call the Wihite League, will -have to change their tone. When Uampton made application it was thought that his State was entitled to a large tiumber of arms. The militia com panies in his State are not able to arm themselves; hence the applica tion. On examination at the War Department the astound fig discov cry was made thatSouth Carolina has already received an advanco of all arms to which it is entitled for .forty years to come. It was also discover ed that this extraordinary issue of aiirm came throngh Don Cameron, who, at the instance of Honest John Patterson, ran this load oi arms into South Carolina for the use of the ne, groes onIly. This was done last fali when the Camerons and Chandlers were crying out so loudly at the dan gers arising from the presence of the Vhite Leaguers in South Carolina. This when the negroes had twenty stands of arms to one for the whites. Besides this great issue of arms, it will be remembered that a large body of troops was ordered into South Carolina. Everything was done that could be done here to pre cipitate a color line fight, but the pa. tience and eolness (,f Governor Iampton and his peoplo frustrated this well laid plan. Gov. Hampton goes back without any arms for his State, but he is sa!isfied with the reason, as it will ielp Oxplain to tbe public the extreme means adopted hast fall by the Administration peo ple toward the bonth. The Democratic policy of rei trenchment so strenously enforced by the last ilouse of Representatives was bitterly opposed by the whole power of the Senate and the Gi ant Adin ustration. The Radical journals and 81peaker's ridicnled it as sham econ, omny, and said that the close of the fiscal year would show that the Dem. ocratic policy would not result in real economy. Now that these reports are p)ublished, is t lie proper time to test their prophesies. Applying the test, we find that although custom re. ceipts have fallen off $17,000,000 as comnpared with the lowecst year of the last twelve, the decrease in net ordi nary ex pend itures of the Government bince 1863 is $139,0000,000. Had the Democrats of the llouse been able to carry out fully their policy of retrenchment, the resnlt would have been mxuch more favorable. The funeral of' M Thiera took place yesterdlay, anid all that was mortal of the great French statetman was laid bueneathi the dust of Pere la Chaise. T"er was an immense concourse presenit, and the authorities had to take every preccaution to prevent a (list urbance, The route of the funer al procession was twvo leagueB in length, and thisa was densely crowded with Parisims and p)eople from the provinces, who braved a fearful storm of rain. The shops were gen erally closed, and bore upon them the wvorde "National Mourning." The flag on thme State Department at Washington was at half mast in hone or of the illustrious dead.' In Florida the cotton crop is re ported two weeks later than lastyear. In Georgia it is ten to fifteen days late, but will yield a faxir average. 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