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DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND .?0 THE GENERAL INTEREST OF TE OUNTRY. VO. Vr PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1877 NO' THE SENTINEL 18 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. BY D. F. BRADLEY & CO. Terms of Subscription. One Year... ...........$150 Six. Months............... 75 Advertising Rates. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $100 per square, of (9) nine lines, oR LESS, for the irst insertion, and 60 cents for each subse quent insertion. Contraos made for THREE, six or TWELVE months, on favorable terms. Advertisements not having the number of Insertions marked on them, will be published until forbid and charged accordingly. These terms are so simple any child may tinderstand them. Nine lines is a square one Inch. In every instance we charge by the space occupied, as eight or ten lines can be made to occupy four or five squares, as the advertiser may wish, and is charged by the W Advertisers will please state the num ber of squares they wish their advertisements to make. Business men who advertise to be benefitted, will bear in mind that the SENTINEL has a large and increasing cir oflation, and is taken by the very class of persons whose trade they desire. . Heavy on Lawyers. The Devil came up to the earth one day, And into a Courthouse wended his way Just as an attorney with a very grave face Was proceeding to argue the points of a case. Now a Lawyer his Majesty never had seen, For to his region none never had been, And he felt very anxious the reason to know, Why none had been sent to the regions below Twas the fault of his agent his Majesty thought, That none of the Lawyers have been caught, And for his own pleasure he felt a desire To come to the earth and the reaso i inquire. Well the Lawyer who rose with the vision so grave, Made out his opponent a consumate kiave, And the Devil was greatly amused To hear the Attorney so greatly abused. But soon as the speaker came to a close, The counsel opposing then fircely arose. And he heaped such on the head of the first That made him a villain of men the worst. Thus they quarreled, contended and argued so long Twas hard to determine which one was wrong, And concluding he'd heard quite enough of 1%b fuss. Old Nick turned away and soliloquised thus. If all they have said of each other be true, The Devil has surely been robbed of his due. But I am satisfied now it's all very well, For these Lawyers would ruin the moral, of Hell! They puszle the courts with their villainous cavil, And I am free to confess they have puzzled the devil, My angels are right to let Lawyers alone, If I had tham they'd swindle me out of my home. T. W. G. MARION, S. C., Octobe~r 15.-Th e trial of the parties charged wvith the burning of the town of' Darlington on the night of the 4th of July last was concluded on Saturday. It occupied five days of the court, and resulted in the conviction ot all the prison ers. The investigation of the case revealed a conspiracy, which for studied and careful preparation, diabolical wick edness and devilish intention, is without -parallel in the history of crime. It was planned and executed under the supervision of Alfred S. Smith, a son of Representative Jack Smith, Whittemoro's friend and as sociate, in whose house he ate and lodged, and wh'ereeno doubt he sug gested the arson. Alfred is quite a young man, and was for nine years a student at the Claflin and South Carolina Universities. IIe is said to be an astute fellow. The jury was compo3ed of black and white men, and the best Jegal talent in this section represented the * Sta,te and the prisoners. The legal conteot wds earnest and able, and the facts and the law wore probed to the 'bottom. They are all negroes, and were sentenced as follows. Alfred 8. 8mith, Capt. Thomas, Isham Jack son, Samuel K, Smith, hard labor in the Penitentiary for.life; Calvin John son, bard labor in the Penitentiary~ for $0 y ear8; Milly Smith, hard labor in the Peanitentiary for '10 years. A Romance of Arizona. A TALE OF PRINCIPLEs AND A PONEY VS. BEAUTY AND GOLD. UNTOLD--nOW MOUNTAIN JOE BOUoUT Tft_43EAsT AND WON T1E BEAUTY. A correspondent writing from Tuc,, son, Arizona, to the Pittsburg Tele graph, tells the following intoresting story of frontier life: "There comes 'Mountain Joe' on his pony," said my friend, Co). Fle anco Fitz Roy, to day, as we were seated in the shade of a spreading mulberry, in the Grand Plaza. The peison referred to was a handsome looking young man of perhaps thirty five, something above the medium height, of gracehal carriage and agile appearance. He was armed with a half carbine, half navy revolver, that hung in a belt by his left side, and was clad in a buckskin suit. "Mountain Joe, as you call him, colonel, seems to be rather a fine specimen of the frontiersman, but I don't see anything remarkable about his poney to which -you particularly refer." "Thereby bangs a tale, which I will untold it you feel like listening to it." "Go on, tell it by all means." "Mountain Joe, as lie is called, was born somewhere in the Eastern States, and infatuated with the Indian stories he had read, ran away from his parents and came to the South west. But lie has had some hard knocks since, and the hardest were received in earning that pony or rather $5 d ,llars worth of it. You see, a few years ago old Senor Ru muldo, whose ranch lies out along the Pinto road, owned that. pony and one of the loveliest daughlters in all thjese par'E. Ile was inmenslv wealthv and owned several valuable wines, and thero' was-no telling how much gold and silver buillion lie had stored a way. "Now, all t lie young fllows ar oun d hore wer e crazy after the ("irl 'Inez, but Joo set his heart on the pony, and wvanted to buy it. Ie is a fel low wvho always has his own way, and it is a blessed good thing that his head is alw ays right, otherwise some body would get into trouble. But when Joe tried to buy the pony ev ery b -dy thought he was balked fur once. "The Senor asked $65 for it, and Joe dug around to raise the money. Ile raised it all except $5, and want, od Romuldo to trust hinm for the rest of it till he would come back from a hunting expedition. This the old Spanish curmudgeon refused to do, and Joe vainly ap)pealed to his friends to loan him the other V. Failing, lie got mad and swore that he would not live in such ra community. One day he left and was not heard from for nearly a year. "Ini the mecantimie a band 'of Kick, ap)oo Indians swoopeCd down upjoni Romnuldo's rancho, during his ab sence~ in town, ran oil his stock and carried the pretty Intez away into their mountain tastnesses. Several parties went out in search of the captive, only to be amblushbod and( whipped. Thten it was that Senor Romiuldo begani to bewail the absene oft 'Mountain Joe,' for every body had faith that ho could have rescued the lovely lnez from the dreadful fate in store for her. "Finaully, just as the unhappy Spaniard was giving up in despair, Joe suddenly puLt in appearanco. 'if you will recover my child,' said IRo muldo, 'I will give you a half million dollars. You may have half my property, and whatever else you may ask.' 'I am not particular about the reward,' said Joe, 'but I'll try and rescue the girl.' "And thien hie set about making preparations for the undertaking.-. Several gallant young tellows volun teered to go with him, but he ,de L .lined their services. He piled up f hat overgrown revolver of his, stow- I )d away about 500 cartridges and i Lbout ten pounds of jerked meat in i his clothes, and taking the trail of the t Kickapoos, set out early in the morn ng. IIe followed it all day cautious y, and by night was.far up the moun- I Ains. The next day, near noon, as E ie reached the brow of an immense I mrecipice, the redskins opened on I jim in the rear. "Ile was completely trapped. All I means of retreat wcro cut off, and I :here was death before and behind I iin. But Joe made up his mind to < lie game. Dodging behind a rock, I je opened with his shooting iron and j nado it lively for the ambushers. 1 Every shot told, and soon a dozen I lead Indians wore stretched out on ie mountain top. But their com- i rades were undaunted, and nearly a I tundred of them mado a dash to i eize him. ie had already killed E tweutg,six of them, but he saw that be must soon be overpowered. "Fight was impoksible, and pre ferring to kill himselt rather than be tortured by the Indians, lie rushed 1 to the precipice, fully 2,000 feet high and leaped into space. But during his fearful descent lie did not lose his presence of mind. IIe was going down near the face of the rocks and observed thiat stunted pines and hemlocks grew out of the freqnent crevices. -Ie beganl gasping in the tops of them, which first bont and then broke, but he found that he was breaking the force of his fiall. For the last 300 feet tihe bushes were thick, and Joe was soon going down, dropping from one to the otLer in perfcct safety. "At last he revched the bottom, suffering from a few brui6es and sov oral rather serious wound3 received in the contest with the Iiidi.,ns over wad. Just as he was congratulating limseif upon his wondlerful escape I mother pack of the red devils broke Ie chapral and opened fire. Anoth ir hand to-hand contest took place md Joe killed nine of his enemies. [Ic then started to run along the base >f the cliff, wheun on a sudden the 3arth gave way under him, and1 be [ell into a deep fissure. The Indians were immediately upon him, and tired two or three volleys down the bole and then covered it up with immense boulders. . "Joe had fallen twenty feet, and realizing the danger from shots above, got under the shelving of the rock and thus avoided the balls. The In dians, supposing him dead, made no further in vestigations. Realizing h is desperate situation, Joe sot about ex tricating himself, and found that ho was in a vast cave with a large nuum ber' of ramifications. Ini the midst of pitchy darkness he began his exp)lo. ration, which cantinued for four or five, days but which to him seemed as many years. "The jerk meat on his porlson) sat tafited the cravings of his apetito, and lie found plenty of pure wvater to drink. At lasE lie gavo up, and lay down to die. Listening intently lie heard what ecmed like human voices and this onco moro gave hinm heart. Crawling in the direcetion from whtich tho sounds casuo, lie at length reach ed a point from which lie was able to look into a vast ro0tundaIL fitted up in bar baric splendor, and lighted with pine knots and1( sputtering lttmps, and therc, reclining onl a couch of bear skinis, hie beheld Inez Romtuldo talk. ig wvith an old Indian squaw, who aljparatntly, was her jailer. "At length the old1 kiag withdrew in an' opposite direction, and Joe speedily made his presenco known to his fair captive. A hurried consul tation followed, arid the whole situ ation was taken ini. "Inez explained that she was held a prisoner by tihe chief of the tribe, Red Eagle, who was determined she ihould marry him. Rod Eagle was k half blood, his father being a Span ard. The entrance of the cave was iarrow, well concealed, and its oxiS enco known only so a few of the In. lians. They still swarmed in the monn aine, but in two weeks were going outh for a raid upon the settlements, mnd only a small guard were to be eft in t'e cave. "All this Inez hurriodly explained ;o Joe, and it was agreed that he was o lie concealed in the unexplored )ortions of the cave to the rear, re ,over from his wounds, and wait till he Indians left before attempting a -escue, whilo Inez was to furnish him vith provisions from hor own allow Lnce. "The chief, Red Eage, -in .the neantiine treated her with distin Yuished consideration, offei ing her io indignities, and ordering that she ihould have whatever she called for. Vfter three weeks of weary waiting [nez learned from the old woman hat Red Eagle and his bravos had yone South, and that four braves had ,een luft to guard her night and day .hey took up their places in the cor ier of the great hall, and Joe waited impatiently until they shoulJ go to sleep. Day and night were the samo in the cave, but finally the braves 3trechied themselves out one after another to sh:ep. That sleep was Lheir hst, four shots from Joe's re volvinfg arbine fired in rapid suc Cession killed them all before either was aware of his danger. "The old woman was forced to guide them to the entrance of the cave, which was found after many and tortuous windings, and Inez and Joe 6inorged from their living tomb just after sunriso. Joo then saw that lie had passed entirely through tho monlitainl. "Ronit:tlo and his faiunds had ong given them both up for dead, ind their feelings n.ay be botter im Iginled than detcribed when they re turnd safe and sound1( after their mniraculous ad ventures. Ever since then1 Joe has ridden that pony and has been perfectly happy." "But yo'u dlont mean to tell me, oolonel, that Joe got no other r'eward than that miserablo little picce of horseflesh, le married Inez, of "That's the way the story writers would fix things," said tihe colonel, "'but they never deal in facts as I have done. The Senor was as good is his wvord, and got, a surveyor to divido the ranch into two equal parts and showed Joo about fifteen cart loads of gold and silver bullion as bis ebare. "No, sir," said Joe, "I want none ,)f these. I want that sorrel pony. IIere are tihe $60, andl I want to know if you will trust me for the thier $5." "PIll give you the pony anid any thing else you want," said the Senor. "You dleservo anything that you will rak for." ''But with ntll that tihe Senor conidl io or say, Joe made him take t he $00 mnd let himn have the jpny with $5 eon it." "Well, that is the mo st unrnatu ral LInd(ing to a wonderfully romnant ie story I ever hard. (Col. iFitz Roy, there is somting wrong with the sentimient and civilization of TuIon" "Now, don't deceive your'self there [gain," put in tihe colonel. " Moun tain Joe and Iniez Romnuldo are to be married next week, andi we will b2th go to the wedding." It is said that while the President was on his Southern tour' some mran called out for three chieers for Hayes and Wheeler. The President anid his traveling comlpan ions were 8o as tonished that they looked at each other in astoniishment, and butrst into laughter as another fellow liqiuired, "W ho the h----l is W heel-r. The Forty-filth Congress. The following is a synopsis of the message of the President to the spe cial session of Cungi ess: The messago begins by referring to the failure of the late Congre8 to pass the army appropriation bill, and states that the army is a branch of the Government, authorized by the existing statutes, and the ohliga tion to maintain it is in full foice, and thal in the absence of specifle appropriation the Government was unauthorized to make the necessary oxpen(ditures. The absence of this authority is'regarded as fit grounds for the convention of Congress in ex tra session. The message asks that an appro. priation be made upon the basis of an army of 35,000, and that. all ques tions of increase or decrease or mo dification of the personnello or ad miration in either branch of the military servico bo suspended until somec future time. The message then states that the amount necessary for the war department for this purpose, ace )rding to the estimates, is $32, 439,764. The President then proceeds to designate his reasons fur the various estimates which accompany it. These are the library of Congress, for bind. ing newspaper file8, etc., $22,800; for adjusting cases under the Court of Claims, $1,206,453; for divers mnis. cellaneous deficiencies in the Treas.. ury Department, $273,891; for print. ing stamps in the Postoffice Depart ment, $700,000; for deficiency of navy pay, $2,003,861; for contingeni expenscs f [Juited States Courts, $262,535. The nessage then refere to the great benefits to accrue to the induistrial and manufacturing inter ests of the United States by proper representation of this Goveinment of the American industries at the ex position at Paris, to be opened May, 1878. It alludes to the receipt Qf communications from our Diploma tic representatives at various courts of Europe which have expressed a dermination to p)articipate. It re commenomds that a plani somewhait similar to that estab)lishied by Con~. gress for Vienna in 1878 be adlopted. It refers to thme amount of $200,000 as the sum ap;ropriated for that oc., casion, and closes by alluding to the invitation sent to this governmnent to apploint a rep)resentation to the In. tornationial Prison (>ngress, to be0 held next year at Stockholm, and states that these mieasures in the in terest of thme prevention of crimo are regarded as ighl1y sat isfact ory in tihe past, and recommends that a suitable app)ropriation maify be made that the invitation may be accep)ted, 'and representatives of thme United States he prsn at thecir delibera tions. It is undelrstooJd that Qumeeni Vic toria is becoming' so norvous that she cannJot he surrounded by a crowdl for more thman a few moments at a timo)1 ShAe refused to go to Manchester to open the no0w town hall simply bo cause shme could not hear the excito mnent of the ceremonies. She did not wanit to open Parl iament in person, nor to open the London season, but Lor)1d ihanconsfield urged her so strongly that she consented. F~if'teen States have yet to hold( elections this fall. Louisiana, Mas* sachmuset ts, MIi nnesota, .Miss1isippi, Ne,braska, Nevifda, New Jersey, New York, Poumnsylvania, Tomnes. see, Texas, Virginiai and WVisconsin vote on the sixth uf November and Georgia on the fift'm of December. In add itioni, liis 1 elects cunty oflicers on November sixth. T1heo Chicago T1imecs siays mn 1880 thc( D)emnocrats wvill, of' course, no11! mat( Ilayes anid Ihampton, if tho liopuhli cauns don't~ got thoe start of thoem b) nominating 11amptn and ILayes. Business is Business. COLmDrA, 8. 0., Oct. 15.--C. Cf. Bo,ren and Paris Simpkins testified before the in vestigating committee to day. The testimony of Nosh clinches the case against all the high priests of Radicalism in this State. Ie fur nished the missing link in the chairr of evidence. Patterson is gone be yond redomption. IIe (Nash) is re lieved of penal respcVnsibilities, but civil suits against him are still in or der. Over fifty witnesses will be ex. amined this week. Oourt meets Monday next. The preliminary examination of Barker and Paris bimkins was con mnenced before Justice J. Q. Mar shall this morning, but, on account of the absence of material witnesses, counsel for thc State moved a posts ponement of the cases until Thursday next, which was ordered. Both par. ties gave bail in the sum of $5,000 for their appeara ce on that day. The charge against both parties is having receivod bribes to vote for the passage of the printing bill, which has been so fatal to Maxwell, Smalls and Nash. A Spiritualistic doctor in Philadof phia describes a deathbed scone, in which those assembled whilo singing a hy mn had their spiritual eyes open ed and saw the dead brother issuing. out of his mortal tenement, joining his wife and child and floating away. Tho strongest hold that the Chi nose have upon California, is in re spect to cookery and domestic work, but proprietors of intolligenco offices in San Francisco say that many houeoholdors, particularly ranches, aro discharging Chines and employing white cooks. The Museum of the Royal Collogo of' Surgeons has received from tho 11on. C. P. Berkeley the skeloton of a crocodilo, shot by him in Egypt. sixtoon foot Jong. Thoso animals aro now very scarco below the Cataracts, and this particlar one was well known as a man cater. The Burlington Ilawkoyo observes that "Iowa Republicanism is tho kind to tie to, because it is founded on living principles."" It is founded on bayonets for the South and five years more of good stealing. A mas jurity.of the people in this country wvont tie to it worth a cent. "If I oould only got elected cashier of a Chicago Savings Bank," solilo. quized an experienced thief, a day or two ago, "blame if 'I wouldn't reform, and be a better man, and go to Europe in a mionith or two with $50,000) in my pocket." ibnanm, the forgeor, is IIenry Ward Boccher's n)ephe)w. II. W. B. mado some pulpit remarks on the subjoet and admitted that he had just emei' god from another "cave of gloom." lion. M. J. Crawford, of Georgia, was lately killed by being thrown from his buggy. His brother, last year, (lied from the poisonous offect of tho sting of a bee. A building has been erected near Brighamn Young's grave for the she!. ter' of a party of zen who keep a conitinual guanrd over it day and night.____ __ Noew York unliconeed grog shops, if p)lacedl in a row, would fill one- side of a stroot twenty miles long. The great objection to womern suffrage is there would be too much scratching at th)e polls. Among the last words of Arcl.. bishop JBayley were these: "GiYa sume money to' the pnor! Trho Republican p)arty is breaking up into "lsmus." The~ Demnocratic piarty stands firm and congners.