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O-- e e . - -.... - S C * 7THURS 44 0~e 4 g - -DEVOTED TOi POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND . O HE~ G1 ERAL INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY. - S.L ...1I..PICKENS, S. C., THURSD AY,.MAY 2, 1878. .-NO.a34 T.E SENTINEL tl PU19itBD 3VERY THURSDAY. Y . F. BRADLEY & CO. Terms of Subseription.'8 One Yeir . $150 Six Moths. . 75 Advwtising Rates. Advertisements ihserted at the rate of $1 00 per square, of (9) nine lines, OR LESs, for the first inseqrti4n, and 50 cents for eaol sube quent isettIbn. Contracts nade for THREE, SIX or TWELVE months, on favorable terms. - Adtertisements 1bt Waving the number of insertions marked on them, will be published .until forbid and charged accordingly. The termilLe'o simple any child may understand them. Nine lines is a square one Inch' In. dvery instance we charge by the 906pe oooupied, a eight or ten lines can be made t ocodpy four or five squAres, as the ad9etie may wish, and is charged by the . W. Advertisers will please state the num ber of equares they wish their advertisements to make. XW Business men who advertise to be benofitted, will bear In mind that the BENTINEL has -a large and increasing cir cul6tion, and Is taken by the very class of p6rsof whose tradethey desire. The Up-Country of South Carolina. We publish this morning copious extrsits'fr6m a'SoUth CaTolina letter to the Springfield Republican, an in fluenital independent ' Republican jourbal of New EnglaqJ. The letter is, written from Charleeton, and givea the writer's impre:ssion of tho politi cal situation in our sister State. There is but one portion ot this let ter, that callb for any pr-esent notice 1our hands. The writer say: "Tb fiet is th:at there are twot stroug opposinig elen.ciis in the Dem ocratic party, u Iich divide a good deal mn t le geopraidical line of t be 'up Country' and the 'lkw- cu.intry,' the latter inclnding the conn:ies along the c-Last, with Charleston as the great centre, and the 'up coun try' the more remote parts of the tato, including the mi.iuntain 'coun ties and such districts as Edgefiild, where Gary. the leader of Hathpton's .,opponents'in the Legislature, livep. Broadly speaking, the wealth and in telligence of the St,ate are in the 'low counatry'; the ignoranceaud poverty in the 'nifeoutry.' Asa a niatuiral con sequengco liberal ism, has its headquar ters in the 'loW-couintrg., bonrboni6m in the 'np.conmitry.'" .We-have nothing to say concern Irg~ the divisions in the .Democratic par4y of liikottb Carolina.. We care npthing about the differences that are said to exist between General Binpton 'and General Gary. But we think that the sneers'of this Char leqton cegrrespondent, wLo probably drew hIs inspiration from his suir ronm,dings,, at the up-country of South Carolhina should not be allow-. ed to pase unnoticed. We shall not dispitet:he justice of his compliment to, the wealth and intelligence and libgraism of Clbarleston. It is well depid BI.ut whe~n tho.coirespon dent speaks of the up country as the herlo~dMgdranto"' he sim ply dis plays either prejudice or woful want oitftimtion.s The .people of t.he up.aountiy ,may the poorer than t'he *people oi Charleston, for they have suffered mnuch and haveo'had to earn their bread in -the sweat of their 1466B, Aut thsre is-jnst as much of ediieratiotr'jtust as much of intelligence otilture arid r'efinemenit in their a)(tioofthe'$tiate as in the favored rigionof. the' coast. Whbo says other. 1;g9vee }iitiself either gross ly ig rautoor as grpss a slanderer.~ Char .1Wg9n yray be the homne of liberlism nwd the up-country of bourbonism; h,~~al 'Lo quarrel about terms. But who ever knows anything of, the political history of South Caroli,. nlAknlows phat Bour boism f reed the 8 ie from the most galling tyranny 9]ile tiie polley of liberalism would Imve(no mBatter whiat the inten tion of es advocate.) rivetted its chains.. It is -liber alism th at gave South (Car.. oliagi Scotth sQB'Ohai'nberlain, EI. ft4 Wbipp)er, .Wiittem10oe Wright and Drown. It was Bourbonisin (born of the ignorance and poverty of the -li-country) that gave the State Hampton, Hlagooid, Haskell, Lipscomb, Butler; Aldrich, and Gary. Liberalisin would have made terms with the spoilers. Bourbon erm would make no comproTise with corruption; Liberalim -would have sibandoned the fight against fraud in despair and been content with the s;nallest crumbs, of power that fell from the Radical table. Bourbonism, "ignorant and poor," was determined to have liberty and honest government at any cost. In brief, liberalism sought to make Chamberlain Governor a second time; Bourbonism drove the corrupt usurper from this State t nd put Wade Hampton in his place and dQ livered the whole of Carolina from the plunderer and oppressor. With such a record Bou irbonism and the up..centry can afford to Ireat with contempt the silly sneers of ignor ance Qr of malice.-Augusta Chrn Mce and Constitutionalist. Speights' Daily Newspaper makes. the following comments on the above: "The statistice 1670 shows a wealth in the up-country some twenty millions g'.euter than that of Charldston and the coast cotntiec conbin&. This valuetion since that time, even then mythical, hns sunk to a mere not1hing out of Charleston, and there even, it 4as doubtless de, c!ined. The tp-country on the otfher hiaid has enlanced in. ,grear e valI nation Ill Somie portions6 there is a very largo and evident enhiancetnet whi!st in others here has bleen1 an actual dcline or littIe or -no increa S of valuation., If an h.onet Vssess ineut of the true valueS of the bilIte were made to-day thero can be little dutbt that lie lroperty valt-ation, of the npscountry would exceed that ( he low-coun46 by at lMst $40,000, 000? 1 his is not random specula 1i0q. It is just what meet8 the most unobservant eye everywhiere in the State. So far as populat iot, is concerned, by consuo of 1870, of t he population. :>f the city of Charleston and coast counties of Beaufort, Colleton, Char leston, Sumter, Georgtown and Hurry4 with Orangeburg, Sandon and Williamsburg is shown as follows: Charleston, etc, whbite<, 76;219, col ored, 171,142; The rest ol the State, whbit e, 218,448, colored, 244,672 Before the war the rest of the State outside of Charleston 'amd thbe coast enunties etc., contained -some 700,000 mrore slaves which alone meant over $30,000,000 of property in excess. So far' as the Superior intelligence of the Coast is concerned, what arc the facts? WV by, tor' the p)ast forty years the upshcountry has afforded the intellect of tlie State. Call ti e roll and the' ulpscountry resp)onds with Calhoun, ThornwelI, Petigrn, Cheves, Judge Smiith, HIar per, O'NeaI, Job .Johnson, 11am mnorr, P. % War'dlaw, Chancellor Dargan, Ev ins, Jam~es Gregg, Maxey Grdgg, Waddy Thompson, B. F. Perry, Bntrt, Carroll and others which we may havo hastily omitted. So, too, Avbilst Georgia gave us -e Dufile, onr u p-Country gave to Geor gia Governor Brown, scond to no man in the South. Whlat other sectimof the Union of like area and poplation can shoes'eo many great or truly remarkable men)? Born and reared ourself in the. glo=. riomus old District of Beaufort, and loving that genial land of our'airee with a holy and undy ing affect ion, these arc facts we could not hide if we would and wourd niot if we could. We, of the low country, have always been proud of these great sons of the -State, and never' for g rnmeonit balp ed ini our admiraItiom) for th,#az be cause they were. horji erIm0nget &Le il. f o far as vur coaut. is .cp corned she hs no -reason to vail her face when the napoes of her sons are to'd, but it must be. confessed that thb upper section of our State has been far more fruitful in great men than the sea shore. THE BLAIR REsOLUTIoN.-The joint resolution of the Maryland Legisla tnre, urging upon Congress the pas sage of a law for testing the title of .President Hayes, w'as passed in the 11onse yesterday andiled it to a lively debate as to whether it should be re jected at once or referred to a com mitteo for consideration. No decis ioi' was icached, but it seems pro' bable frmn the tenor of the debate that it will be referred. We pre sune that no m1au of sense, either in or out of Congress, believes that a serious atenpt will be made to dis possess President Hayes. There may be Republicans who would gladly annoy him and render him uneasy respecting. his tile as a' means of subjhgatilig him to party behests; and there may be Democrats who would be g1ad'to magnify the so. called "fraud" as an electioneering topic, but beyond reference to a committee nothing is likely to' be done on this suhject. Ni ne-tenths of the Democraks in Congress do not desire that Mr. Tilden should either be President or the )ext candidatQof-, their party for that (.Tiee; and the Republic.ans will. 1he in 1o hurry to sultity their unanimous action of last winter. This io a mere -bubble I)n. Ihe sut: rface of politriv which will soon bnrrf - _1ew YI k World. Amongi{ thu Se.nmnle IndiansTU there is a tradli:ion regarding tho white mn4an' Origin land s11periority. They' say when the Great Spirit made the earth he also made thre ire men, all. of whom were falir cumplexi tned, and that aft'ter makinig tOhem he led then to tho mar.:n of a (Siall lake, and bid them leap in und wash. One obeyed, and came out purer and fairer than before; the second besi tated a moment during which time th'e water,'agitated by the first, had become muddled, anid when Ihe bath ed, he camne up copper colored; the third'did not leap until the warer be came black with mud, and he came out with his own~ cplor. Tlheun the Great Spirit laid before them three packages, and out ofk pity for his mis-, fortunes ini color, gave the black man the first choice. He took, hold of each of the packages, and having felt the weight chose the beslviest; the copper colored man chose 't he next heaviest, leaving-the white man the lightest. When- the packages were opened the first was found tQ contain spades, hoes, and all the. im plimtslt of labor; the secon)d no rapped hunting, fishing, anid warl ike aparatus; the third gave the white iman pens inks, and paper, thme en gine of the mind-the means of mnn tual menital inmiprovenmnt, thle social link of humanity, thme foundation of the wbite man's superiority. A SUIowa-A correspondent of theo Jonrnal Commerce writes: Just after the late storm, on Thursday last, a man, by the namo of F. E. John son, whto had beenk out of his moind for soiiie time, 81pposeBd to,be caused by hi6 son, Rl. E. D. Johnson, a youir or two ago, was f,undl cin the woods near Lydia, in this (I)arlingtom) county, hung by the neck to a'stoops inig oak tree; when found. just after the bailf storn~ lie was stiff dead. iIe was a small and -- '- mccessfuli ilanter, anmd leaves a wife and several chil dren. Ihis son's life was insured in), we believe, the Universal Life Insu rance Comp jny for.$1,500. A por' tion of this amount the father was heir to, and got it.. Learn not to judge too bat ably of *any oaie, either in respect to good or eviL Hanged at Last-The Execution of Xotvoy, the -kurderer. A'iEN, S, C., April 194--On yes teray, McEvory, accoMpanied by the DeputylSherlff and 'a few othere, called at the barbers and was shaved, and from thence to the gallery of Mr. Gunter, where he had his am brotype taken in various postures for diatribution. He was convers ing freely and on various topics, as if his doom was in the far distance. Just before leaving jail. he wrote a statement of the Sawyer murder, ir4 which lie implicated those already known to the public, and another who, so far as I know, .bas, nothere tofore been susp.eckq0, iaqd it at .the g'ilt ofrthe parties ciuI be pio.ve by thirteen witnesses, gentlemen and ladies of the higbest respeetability, but refused tb give their names xin lees he could be benefitted by it. On his return to jail be ehibited 'the same devil-may-care disposition... But soon after ho began,,-,to express great leAsieC, and requested to be allowed to tegraph Gov. U1Iavampton, which was readily, granted by onr kind hearted she~riff. The- Governor immediately reAied-ne follows: "McEvoy's dispatch received: Under the opinion -of the Supreme Judgres I mustwith great regret, rc. 1se to interfere. Fur a ' few ioent's biis nerves were copletely u1nstrung; buft soon he roytained his former clicrfulness, and seewed to forget tiat c-n*the mor row his soul would bo hunched into OrCnity. Father Jw epi, of Augusta, hv1; been0 WVith him. b>r some days vs hist iipiritual ndviser, and iewLained with hin during the- night. Ie has ,been nntiring in, his. -ffurls to get him in a fraimo of mind to prepare for that "bourne froi -Whenc- .o traveler returns. lie is doing every thing to Lzoothe him in: is hlast hours, and to convine l him of th ne0g*e1ety of ail iminediate prepaatiofor the 3011inCy through tihe "dark valley of the d:adow of degjlh," and niow ex presses the belief th*at tibe prisoner has bitterly repented ofa alli- his past m)isdeeds. which. God. knows, are mnanny. Uns ftesarpermitted to visit him in his cell 'this morning. The old man knelt'byhlis son- and claspot,l his hand, ex pressed natural feeling tor his poor'warward boy. *At an early "hoiir to day persorns begnnd to assem1,Ae - oun'd ths bnild ing in which nas. the .doomed man, and by 11 o'clock abon$ 75 wete seen in little groups awanm~r the hour wneu Robert MclNvoy stion1d expa-. t iate upu>n Cle galpws tpt.qmurder.of the lamented Capt. Jas.. J. Gregg. A t about 12.30 o'clock Sheriff Hol.. iey and his posse entered the jail and imrmediately commien,ced robs. bing the young assassinI for: the calls of retributive justice. Uo walked frorn1 his cell to the* gallows, which was ini the hyll way of the jail, with a firmi tread. TIhe rope was,.adjusted, the cap placed over his head, and at 12.5'> o'clock the t/ik e:"w Bprnmg and hie fell six iirid 4one-half feet, scarcely making a struggle. The p)hvysicians aixamined im 'atter 'hbe hadI been suspended tv epty:mmnt, and pr)Ionounicedl life ,c: tinct. In one half honer hewas -taken' do'n .an his remaiVns we'3 given in-wsoseession of his~ father; They wIll bd&bonVeyed on the 4 o'chtkof a'ih to Grunift& vile and will 'b'' itne d in the family bunilal groimd. lie seemeid toexdi e same stoical indiflercence to aII fato which hase chiarateri.zed bia conduct almost thbromgh out h is .inearnerAfou - in the jail at this plhme fkri'nerly twoyars. -'-L. A.R. ANoTHER~ ACoUNT'OF THE EX TIN AIKnus, A pril- 19 -~A little before one o'clock, all the needseary arrange mnents hiaving~ b3een pertected,ilhe of orfl-~d th iai AbeetaAijher t he structed on an ingenious plan. After waiting a few moments, the sheriff announced that the hour for the ex ecution had arrived, and immedi ately McE-of, leaning on the arm of his spiritual adviser, Father Heldin camp, came 'nt of his, cell, and took his position on tbe scaffold. The. two then conversed with an h other for a few minutes, when Sh Ho ly advanced and placed the white robe up6n McEvoy, and securely tied his hands behind his back. He then said, "Farewell Robert," and pro cOeded to put over his bead: the black cap. During all, these mo ments the h4rdeped yotg .wan evin% ced..not. the edigh test signe of mental suffering, nor the sniall&At.amotion. He seemed perfectly INdifferent to hi%.fate. Standing on the threshold of-eternity his face wasnot blanched, his lips did not utter a sound, lis frame did 'not tremble with fear. A reckless disregard. of his ap proahinlg doom was aparaut. "One o'clcck," strikes the village bell;'the solemn moment is hcre" the trap il touched; the floor trcmblee; the Ecaf fold fall; the youtbful iurderer leaps wildly in the air; the rope tightens,. and a thid grates upon the ear; a momentary struggle and all is still as death. In deed it is death, for the engine of destruc;ion has done its work swiftly and surely. ThougVf the lall was more than siz feet, Mc Evpy's neck was not brokoi; but he died of stragiflation in seventeen min i tes. Th ree con petent physici ans, Drs. Oroft, Jennings and Wood ward, examined the hanging body, and, after it had swung for thirty min. utes, they unanimously, decided that every spark of life was extinct. The body was then cut down and placed in a plain coffin, where it lay for some time, when tholid was.fastened down 'and the coflin placed in a large wood er case, carried ou't of the jail yard and pit in the possession ot Mr. Mc&. Evoy, the fathier, who at once con veyed.it to) Graittevihll, where it will be interred to-morrow. On the 20th day of A pril, 1876, Robert M6 Evoy killed J. J Gregg. -On' the 20th day (t April, 1878, he is con signed to a inred' ignominous grave. J. E. Q. MONUMENT FOR GEN. LEE.-The Lee Memorial Association, i ncerpor ated in 1871, for the purpose pf or ecting an e<t1estr'ian statue of Gen. Rtobert E. Leo in Richmond, has issued an appeal to. the people of the South to aid in the noble uinder taking. Each State contributing will b.e. entiled, through commissioners appointed by its Governor, to a voice in the selection of the design and the arts. The plan proposed is to canvass every house in every town on the 19th day of January next and solicit generous contributions. Raleigh News. PAY ORo YOUR WIFE.--Vo heard an old preachor say a few days ago be had -married t welve ooAmples this win. ter, and had only received one dollar and fifty cenits for making -twelve people of twenty-four. Another pitoacher says ho received thirty dol lars for splicing two couples. A young man that can not afford to pay at leas't five <lollatrsfor his wife, ought to stay single uif,il he is able. We know thaLt iA s ,is thioughtlessness on L,be part of our young folks, as it.has nov oif heon customnai'y to pay for anything ini Lhis county that could bo obtainod err a'rcdid. B3ut then you know this is too' long a cred it, an d you might not meeot in Lhe next world-Speights' Daiily Newspaper. =The triumphs of genius are won. derful. Thler.e is M. F. Leseps; he~ built the Snez canal. In 1869 he mat rka a pretty young wife, and now she has twine. .Active liatu re are rarely melani 'chu' . A ctiv i,ty and me)~lanchioly ear itMfliauiblo. Senator Butler's Seat. A Washington special to the New Times says letters have beet receiy ed'in that city from Senator Sharon, of Nevada, in which he promises to asenme his Senatoral dutied about, April 20. Mr. Sharon's term of service as a United States Senator began March 4, 1876, but thus far he is ahmost a stranger to the Senate, and is personally unfinown to a ma jority of its members. It is said that when Mr., Sharon arrives the Com mittee on Privileges and. Elections will report on the case ot D. Ti Gor., bin, who contests the seat of Senator Butler, of South Carolina. 'The con mittel hae already eonldred all the facts of thw.case, and a majority report will be made in favor of 'the contestaut. Corbin can only be sepat. ed by the solid Itepubtcan vote, and as fpatterr3ou and Conover have once recorded themselves in favor of But ler's claim to th-e seat, it is 1ot likely Utt they will now reverso their formeor actiQI)9p the casp, Whether Sharqn eoUes to . Washa iugton ur remains in Califoruia to superintend his Spring Valley Water Works swiudle, Senator Utlere an not be unseated. The best 'lawyers of the Senate have given it as their opinion that General Butler Vas not seated on a prima facia case, but on the merits of the case, nd that he cannot be unseated now except by the two-tirde vote necessary to the expulsion of a member. It is con sidered almost certain that Senator David Davis and Stanley Matthews will vote giinst the. report .of .the' Luajority of the Committee on Pri-. vileges and Elections, and the vote of either one of them would 4feat the.designs of the Radicals. - We do tot think there is the slightest pro-" bability of the admissiod of Corbin; but if the Republican maj>rity abould so far otrage law and decenoy ab to deprivo General Butler of the seat to which he 'was legally clectod we give them fair notice that'retri.bution will be speedy and' certain. The Democrats will have an undoubted majority when the new. Senate,as sembkle, Qnd the first act of thiis ma jority will be to kick Corbin out of the chamber, and every .Radical whose title to a seat is at Sll taintedl may be treated to a dose of the same medicine.-Agusta~ Chronicle and Constitutional ist. Bov KiLmo.-The up passenger train on the South Carolina Railroad on the 20th instant, ranm over aceol ored boy about seventy-five. miles this side of Charleston and killed him instantly.' *'t alpears that the boy was about ten years of age, and had accornpanied his father, who bad gone to the field to work, straying away from the father, the boy fell asleep on the track, and being un seen by3 the engineer he was runfover and killed. Ilis father afterwam'ie found his body," which a thjren fromn the track by the cowcatcliera terribly mangled lying on the side of the road.-Columbia Register, Junior clerk: "Would .you kindly permit me to absent myself tomorrow 'o attend my father's funeral?" Head of tim (deep in figures): "You may go, Hawkins, -but pray-.do not let this happen againi" A piousi resident, who has been much interested in the cremation syS.. temi, yesterday said to his wife. "My dear, I wish you to remombeor that when the Lord enlis me to my re ward, I desire to be oromrated if a suitable furnaco is accessiblo." "Yes, love," replied his spouse, "but when the Lord calls you 1 think lb will provide for your burning." The Wisconsin Legislaturo has re fused to make insanity a causeR for divorce. It believes if ever a man wvants a wife it is wheri ho is crazy, or words to' that effect.