Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

I.. . 0"SM o mue lip ? * DI%VOTBb TO POLITIC&, IONALMY EDC g MRA IS735LWT OF TIX COUNTRT. L.i4& II 11 PICKEN$ A V . tp4.,'MAY is 18781 THEy SENTIN]RL S PIUSRTHD ZVERY TWD1AV. Terms of Subseription. One ea . .... **.* ., ...010 SiXMonths .... . . .6 Advertising Rates. AdvertiseMent-9 inserted at the rate of $1 00 pet square, of (9) nine lines, OR LESS, for the irst insertion, and 50 cetts for each subse quent luoetion. -Contra6te made for THlsRIO, SIX Or TwnLyn Months, on favorable terms. Advertisements not hallng the nmber of Isertrons morked on thej, will be published antil forbid and charged Accorditgly. These teias Are so simple a y child may understand them. Nine lines Is a squate one inch. In every instance we charge by. the's'phde 6ocupled, as eight or ten lines can be made to occupy four ot five squares, as the advertiser may wish, and is charged by the space. gg- Advertisers will plense state the num bar of squares they wish their advertisements to make. - SW Business men who advertise to be benefitted,. will bear in mind that the SENTINEL has a large and increasing cir oulation, and is taken by the vety class of persons whose trade they desire. FOV TIIE PICKBNS SENTINEL. MR. EDITOn: As Rover has roved ovor the bills and far away, I will spend a few moments scribbling for your paper, as I decmn it the duty of every citizen of our impoverished State to help on with the good work accomplished by our Governor and Representativos, during th1e past win tor. I wai somewhat disappointed that they did not wipe out every sta 'tuto, and rub out the hst greasy spot left by the thieves that h1d been, over since the civil Nyar, robbing our State und people, not only of all ave h1d, but every dollar we could make by hard work. Thero is much to be done yet to make us once more a prosper ous and bappy people. We need a few good specio paying banks, such as we had beforo reconstruction-, (or, more properly saying, before do6truc tion by the thioves.) We need a still greater reduction of foes and, salaries; We neod a change in our Judicial sys, tom, we should reduceo the number of cour ts, thereby deercso t0e-xpenscs. M1any of the States hold what is term ed courts of comnmoni please and quar ter 8Sessions, betdk by one prEsiding magistrate and two associates; these courts tE have power to try all civil actions, such as collecting all debts over $100, and power also to try all cases of petty larceny, assault and battery, and to levy county tax. If - parties in civil actions felt themselves agrieved.to have the right to appeal to the superior court, by giving bond and security for the costs. Many of our States haye these courts, and go so far as to have but one court a year. Our sister State, Tensse holds bu t one court in each county a year, and the citizens of that State live bett4 are more quiet and less Iitigation than any other State in the Union. If a man gets sued for debt in that State, the whole cost paid by defendant in noo,soe is allowed to exceed 75 cents. Our last law makers voted themselves too much pay; they should put the low price before the war, which never exceeded $8.00 per dayi by all moans it never should exceed thnt, and then our members would work harder to give us better laws for less money. In truth, the honor sh)onld be pay enough and then our servants would work hard and come home sooner to stop their board bills. If we mean to re trench, let us shave down every dollar that we possibly can In the way of expenss-not only in State and coun. ty expefisos, but in family expenses aTo-stop all unnecessary expenses, stop paying all our crop brings for these cheating fettilizers, make our own fertilizers, plant corn, sow wheat, oats, barley, rye, grasses for our stock, and turn our old fields and all land, thereby,save thousands of' dollars paid out amu~aally for rails, which now cost mnore than,aIl the buildings in the government. . But while attending to our domestic duties, we must not Jose sight of our most importanta duty. We have a most corrulpt asnd wily foe to contend with, a foe that will work day and nigh bto gain control of our dlown-trod don Saten For .... *a. years I have been a close observer of tho two great political partios in our government, and nothing too base or too corrupt; has boon resorted to by the party calling itself Republican, to gain power. They stole the name Itepubl1can purposely to mislca and deceive the Atnerlaa people, and did get the power i their clutches. And what has been the fruits of their work? A four years war between the North and South, a war such as history has never before known, a war tdat bur ried millions of men who had lived and prospered as no other nation ever did, a war that robbed the South of 600,000,000, desolated the whole cotirn try, North as well as South; and what have they done for the country? Have they brought peace and prosperity to the whole country? Have they done anythingbuttaxexery man to the ex#nt of all he could make?- Have not all worked harder, lived harder than our slaves over did? Are we not all growing pooror and poorer every day? Can it bo possible that we have a sane man, Wro professes to be hon est, in this glorious old State who will go blindly and ever east another vote, ;n this or any other State, for one of the party calling themselves Repub licans? If we havp any such, God pity and forgive them. Men of Pick ons, men of South Carolint meet to gother in your counties and in your townships. Reorganize, don your red ihirts and be ready to fight again for your noblo Uampton and Home Rule. Be not, deceived, lot us again whip theso thie-es, and give then such a whipping that they will follow Scott, Chamberlain, Moses and all the motly crow to somo other land. AMicus PATRIE. Ma. EDITOR: The voters of our town and' country around would be glad to know if the contract of our Commissioners and Col. lor'ton was reduced to writing, if so, wore the Commissioners bound under said con, tract to pay their attorney continued expenses. We think every taxpayor should fully understand this (to them very important matter.) Can you Mr. Editor, through your valuablo paper, give us light on tho subject. MANY CIT1ZE~Ns. Central, A pril 25. yefferson Davis. IrssrsIPPICITY, Miss., A pril 11, 18718. GENTLEMEN-- I sin)cerel*y regret my inability to be presen; at the Jaying of the-cbruer stone of "a monument te be erected at Macon, Ga., in honor of onr Confederate soldiers." The vent possesses every attraction for me; it is inspired by the Ladies' Me morial Associati on; the monument is to be located in the key-stone State of the Confederate arch; and to comf memorate the escrifices of thpee who died in the defense of our inherited and "inglienable" right. W hat though we wer'e overborne by num be, and accessories not lees efficient, truth is not to be measur ed by suc Cess in maintaining it against forCe; nor is the glory less of him who up holds it in the face of ucqual odds,buy is it not rather more to his credit that he counted all as duet in the ba. ance when weigh)ted with honor and duty. On many a stricken field our soldiers stood few and faint, but fear less still, for they Were the panoply of unquestioning confidence in the rectitude of their cause, and knew how to die, but not to surrender. Let not any of their enrvivors impugn tQheir faith by offering the penitential plea that "they believed they were righ." Be it ours to transmit to. posterity our buequivocal testimoniy to the justice of thbir convictione, to their virtues, and the sancity of the mo tives by which they wore actuated. It is meet that this monument should have originated with tire ladies of the land, whose self denial was conspBicul es thrpugh all the trials pnd suiffer ings of war,.whose genial mii.istra~.. tions itn the obspitals. and at war sid refectories, so largely c'nttiliOt6d )t ,relieve tho sick and the "woudd, and whose 6nfalterihj'A0o" 1* their. bI~eri'.e~g~ W. their. Country's causor 1 e ia. t honre of its strugAle, 1itata"4 t1 fidelity of the sex which 4a 194 at the cros, and first at the s'p I am profoundly thankfu1te ger for inviting me to be prisent,.as tbpr orator,.on the approaching -ooWl9a.' Had it been practicable to aopt their req nest would have leen, to me, a command, obeyed with - no -other relutince, than the consciousness 6 inability to do justice to the thew Thanks to the merits of our Oon federate dead, they need neither r* tor tior bard to commend their deeds to the present generation of theb countrymen. Many fell far ,ronI home and kindred, and sloop In un marhed graves; but all are gatheied in the love of those for whom they died, and their memories are hallow-i ed in the hearts of all true Oonfad erstes. By the pious efforts of our people, many umble cemeteries. such as, in their inpoverishni nt, were posible, have been prpred, and the Con'ederate dead have been collected ii them from neighboribg halti-2-fielde. '1here annually, with reverential affection, the graves, alike of the known and unknown, are decled with vernal flowers, express-, ivo ol gratitude reiev.able forev6r and typical uf the hope of a resnrrew; tion anld reuriion where the wicked cease trurm troubling and the weary are at rest. To be remembered, lion. Ird, belouved by their people L 'the re ward beitowed on our Confed.erare Dead. It is the highost wihich a good a purily patriolic man could deoire. Shiould it be asked why then boii this imonument? the answv; is, they do uiot n.eed it, but postarity may. t is not their reward; but our debt. If the gift a hero gives his race, is to have been a hero, in order that this gift may be utilized to coming gen Orati1q, its appreciation by con1tem poraries should be renilered as visi-. ble and enduring as possible. Ist the monpit, rising freir earth tl Heaven, lift thieniinds of thes. wiho come after us, to a hIgher standafd 'lhan the common test of snodess. lIt it teach that mani is born ford, not for expediency; that when an a& tack is made on the .gommuisty to which he belongs, b,y which he Is protected, and to which his allegiance is due, his first obligation Is to de(end that community; and that under sneha conditions it Is better to have "fogght, and lost, than never to have fo.Aght at all." Let postefity learn by this monuthent that you commemorate men who died in a defensive war; that they did not, as has been Idly stated, submit to the arbitrament of armse the questions at issue.--oes60 tions which inivolved the inalienable rights inherited from their ancestors, anid held in trast for their posterity; but thtat they strove to mnaintain the State sovereignty wih it was their duty it possible to transmit to their ch ildren. A way then with such feeble ex else for the abandonment of prinet-. p)le, which wsay be crushed for a while, but which, possessing theeter nal vitality of truth', tanst in its own good time prevai over perishable error. Let this nsonutnent teach that heroism derives its lustre from the justie of the canse in whiok 'It id displayed, and let it mark the differ.. ence between a war waged for the robber like purpose of conquest, and one( to repeOl invasion--to defend. a peop)le's hearthe anid alters, and to mfaintain) their laws and liberties.---. Sneh was the war in which our he roes fell, and t,heirs is the crown which sparkles with the gems of pa iriotism and 'righteousness, with a glory undimmed by any motive of agrandisement or intent to Ingiet rain on~ othersI. We present them to posterity as examples to be foIIoabad ** Wgit sedrel$ for the v keditt of WiMd1m*hWhMw*edge shill Iav. 6ld s etatIon nd de. i~n.'b Id1 snae to hope tb ~ nr refieion aid cjose it otiea fokwrivy of t4e e43* red,er theA rights pystr y Ab passionp developed in var 4As qP# bloody wi jf, bowvwjg *oul)l be ot4rwise,. 46ag fr" , @ br Jwew graves shall oome in 101arpial. tooes the "Answer it; And if out Ohd"ed must obey, They mast, but thinki&g en ear day, Twin hs bse thep to sabolt." Yours faithifnlly * JEIWNS1On DAvx#. The Washidgton Post says: The Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond, had an udienoe of about two bundred people at 'Lincoln Rall lost evening to listen to his lecture on "The Rota.. tIo4 of th Sun." Most of the addi neo were white people. took the. platform at 8 o'clock. He is almost coal black, about five feet ten inohes in height, of muscular frame and jaw,A has a partly bald .head,send.a face covered wvith a short black bead And mustache, le was dressed in blibk, with a white neck.. tie and a "pair it .new shoes. 11is years are about 49. The chain to his watch got'1o6o6s from the tipper button-hol6 of his vest, wheo be be came excited in hIs did-houlsl,; and dangled wildly around his stomach as be rushed from. one ~side of the stage to the .Qther. His delivery is good,Abough somewiat fast, and he .soMetMes ,,N*qQj& his words. ifis dialset is sarked. Jif.voice is clear and sharp, wa4 rans at dimes into the Sing-mong of the camp weeting or retival, and the "Yes, abl" "Good, ahl"oftb eoeverteddarkey. When speAking quiet:y iad evenly lie keeps his left Aitud on li hip, the arm akimbo, and saws the air with his right. When excised, however, he charges about, and gestibulates rap% k4gy wtsh b.th hand.sLruws back bis bam.d and .isIunges In one or two lines of some old-m4shbigned. hymn, tise<J$tor, jo illsstate h a moaning and isnprss.npp isi bearers what he he t9ase. He commencaed by saying that his usual. Custeom was to-begin his lecture with a h,yme,-but, hie saw there was no choir present, he would. "line out a few vers'nd auk the audience to "4in* him. He read three verses of the hymn "The neaingsjdeclare thy glory, Lord," and after singing one or two' lieos, by himself, reading them separately, iie was joined by the colored people in the aud ience. BROrBxB JA85Jg AS A .BIBLE IN TEE Heobegan his lecture by saying ibat.he was no grammarian, and had never been to s@hool in his life. If aniy of thg audlience expected gram mar from him they would bermie taken,, het they would get in,stead scriptural truth and sound argument based na ihe:Bible. It was owing to the. grase of God that he ha4 "ar reve" at what Be had "arrove at." 'ij eome," he said, "befo' y'ou to prove- beft I let you, thai 'the sun de mova" The first part of isi die bourse, he said, might be 'scatter. sing,' until be got to the land of Canaan, bat 'when I dos get to Panaan, I certainly will. prove d at the soan do move?1 He theen gave AN .AooQurT 01 ABRAHAM AND IBAAo: bow A brabam wa about to 'dagger' Issac, when the angsl called out 'hold on Abaaham, thy faith are tried, thy lovo known,. go dar in do hushos fimd get dat ram what have got hisa horns tangled, and sacrifice bimn.' F'or do Lord was a-man of war. ivse in the same stye a his. 4Phairar's' wiokednessi and the do ig of Moses and 'Aaron' who were sent by the Lord 'to tell Phariar to let my people go.' The Lord wanted his peoPle to go, for he was a man of war. The plagues were next des. bribed. When the lice came, Pbt riar said to Moses, 'Take the lice away and I'l let 'em go; and the Lord to9k 'em away, but Phariar wouldn't let his people gob Then (sme the flight of. the children of Israel and ' Phariar' following them, he ' baving 'solicited' six hundred ehariots, 'with captains and colonels to dommand them,' and 'the troops on horsebaek and the infants on footiog. Then the passage of the Red Sea byrIsrael &'uthe destrue.. tion of 'Phariar,' the Lord having sent his angel to take the wheelS from his chariots; 'for de Lord was a man of waj.' After some more skirmishing, he came to THE RATrLZ OF THE ISRAELITE WITH THE GIBEONTEl,. when Joshua cried unto the Lord that he had not time to whip hi enemies as the sun was going down, and was told to commaud the sun to stand ptill; aud the sun stood still and the moon stayed until the peo ple had avenged themselves upon their enemies. 'It the sun don't move what was the use of Joshua commanding it to stand stillf Why didn'tl hit tell the earth to stand still, if that was the one that movedf' Our fathers believed in the Bible, aud, he said, we should accept their belief. The Bible is recognized throughout the laud. Every witnegs In -court is swot u upon it to tell the truth. It., a.diNeuly inspired vol' uwe, and is to be believed above all other books, or the words and act entific doctrines of all men. *Turn to the Psalms,' said -the lecturer, and you % ill fld 'From' the rising of the sun until the going down of the same the Lord's name to be praised.' It the sun don't have to move, to rise and go .down,, why, theni, i'm mightily mistaken. You will all ad. with that. a cultured gentleman and a Chris tian. Now he says in Ecclesiastes, 1st chapter atud sth verse: "The sun also arispth and thr&sun goethr down and hasteth to his place where he arose.' I don't k,now any grammar, but I know that w~hile teaching your children in your grammar schooils, when you come to the word arise you tell 'em It meana to git up, not to lie down. You also tell 'em that eo go down is also a movin' action. I am sho' uno one will say that hasteth don't mean mnovin'. Therefore, tak ing dat veree from Solomon and de meaning of de words in it, If de sun don't move then my name ain't Jas-' pert' (triumphantly.) Hie quoted a number of similar passages t rom the Old Testament, always winding up with *ThEREIORE THE stTN DO MOVII. Again be said: 'You get up in the morning and see the sun rise; you see it move up. above your head, and you see it set behinmd the .western hills. If the sun don't move, then you canm call Jasper a liar.' A gen-.. tiemuan in Richmond .had told him that tbe earth moved instead'of the snn. lie asked him bow. The gen tiemnan moved hise arms rapidly around each otber in front of him, and said on its axis. That couldn't be so. WUAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE EARTH TURNRD OVERL. If the earth turns around, then all the people, the honses, the rivers, the creeks, the trees, the lakes and the surroundling territory would be mix edl up togetber, and we would cer tainly all be drowned. We don't have any little trap.in "onr -feet by which we can dold on to the earth, like the fly on the ceiling. 'Thme sunt do mve ad not the earth. When saae 4 . I. .* j - the angel sounded his trimpet and the earth moved, we would all know it, and that sound would be unJIwb come to lots of us.' AS TO THE HIIoLSOf'RfM' he said they wore gentlemen, but mistaken. They did not know they' were wrong, but they-ghbuld not put themselves abovo the word of God. These philosophers saiA that the sv6 was 95,000,000 tiniles from the earth. How did they know? He couldn't be made to believe that one of thep with their spy glasses or microscopes or any otlhor kind of scopes could see that far. No one could comprehend that distance, Suppose you knook off the 94,000,000 and try to oon celve the 1,C00,000 left over., You douldn'l do it.. By the eye of ikjth you could see that distance, but *not otherwise. Theae philosophers would have to look through something. else' besides the microscope. They are woefully mistaken, 'and the sun do noveU ROW DoS THE SUI OE't DAo AGA1I The lecturer 'was well received, and was frequently greeted w^fh shouts of laughter and hearty ap plause, especially when he wound up a syllogism with -'tIterefore the sun do move.' One of the audience ask ed him at the close of the lecture how the enn got back to its starting point after rising in the eist and setting in the west. He said he hasted back, for the Bible said 'the sun goeth down and hasteth to the place where he arose.' Bill to Prevent the Destruction of Birds The following act was approved by Governor Hampton on March 25, and is now a law: . A x Aar for the Preservatlon of Cer tain Insectiverous and other Birds therein named. SEnoN 1. Be it enacted by the. Senate and House of Represeutatives of the State of South Carolina, know met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: That no person or persons shall at any time or place within this. State take, kill, sell, expose for sale, export beyond the limits of the State or cause to be taken, killed, sold, eg. posed for sale .or exported beyond the limits of the State any mocklng'. pird, nonpareil, swallow, beebird, woodpecker, thrush or wren under a penalty of $5 for each bird so taken, killed, sold, exposed for sale or ex perted beyond the~ limits of the State; and it shall be lawfnl for any person to take or destroy any net, traps or sferes used for taking such birds wheresoever f ound set for such purs pose. SBEo. 2. No person or per'sons shall destroy or rob the nests of any of the said birds under a penalty of ten dol. lars for each offence SiEo. 8. The penalties inCUrred for violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be recovered before any trial justice in the county where such offence shall be committed, and shall. be paid one half to the informer and the other half to the entnty comine. sioners to and for the use of the poor of the county. BiEo. 4. In ease of failure by any person or persons to to pay any sum recovered under the provisions of t his act, the said person or persons shall be committed to the jail of the conn ty for a per iod of not lese than five days, and at the rate of one day for every dollar of the sum recovered and not paid when the amount re,~ covered exceeds fivye dollars. SEio. 5. Nothing in this act shall aplply to any person who shall kilt or take any of the said birds for tfiq pur%se of studying its habits or bis, tory, or having the same 'itum~f an set up as a specimen, ot- any whbg shall kill on h)is presgspo say of the said birds in the a0t 'o~f destroying fruit or grain crops. Approved March d5,. 1878,.