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.. - - - - - - - -* - - I'IRV - - * - OL VI PICKENS, S. .. IK.T H U SENTINEL is ILtUtiIED hVERT TiJUlSDAY. BY . P.3RADB 0&CO. Dr Totaan of @ubse&riptioita. Pe one Yea*t . . $1 50 ti< &Wt 1Moniho . . .013.... .. 7 - Adtrtlen'g ateis. 9~ P.0 Aivertisements inserted at the rat e of $1- 00 p squsare, of (9) nine lines, oR LEss, for the Arst insertion, ad 50 cents for each subse- la1 quent insettion. .Cntraots made for THREE, six or rwELV f months, on tavorable terms. W] Advertisements not having the number of insertions marked en them, *ill be published intil forbid and charged accordingly. 0 These terms are so simple any child may understaud then Nine lines is a square- CO ene inch, In qvery instance we charge by ( the space occupied, as eight or ten Jines can be, made to ocoupy four or five squares, as the tic advertiset may wish, and is charged by the foI a pace. Sp Advertisers will please state the num- tu ber of squaros'they wish their advertisements tei to make. Business men who advertise to be D beneitted, will bear in mind -that the di' SENT INEL has a large and- increasing cir onlition, and is 'taken by the very class uf th4 ptwooeswhose trade they desire. PROFESSIONAL NOTICES. cal L. K. CLYDE ATTORNEYi CO UNSELOR AT LAW, in GREENVILLE, S. C. tht Special attention given to collections tio April 4, 1878 80 6M th ers A. BLYTHE, C. P. BARBETT, bei M. F. ANsErL, - Pickens C. H. Greenville, S. C. S. C. we BLYTHEANSEL& BARRETT ed' wi' A TTORNEYS 4 CO UNSEL ORS T LA W, ' PICKENS-0. 11., 8, 1b. (Offiec in School Comnissioner's Office.) ba eni Will practice in the State and Federal acl Courts. March 21, 1878 28 gi 3 8 COttiVAN, ' R A Ciin., a. Abbeville C 11P) 1 rickens C H the COTHRAN & CHILD, ATTORNEYS i COUNSELO 1' AT LA IW J pii, PICK-ENS C. If. B.C., ter Will lractice in all the Courts of the State and Courts of the United States, for the Di.. we trict of South Carolina. March 29 1877 20b93 SLTO-P ! 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BrIllinpit Completed St ories, Brilliant Poems d i an-d Essays, Exc6llent General Editorials, Ex icellent News Surmdiary, Excellent Society Let- &Bil 4ers, Excellent Rteligious Notes, Noles of Tray- Ch( gles, Notes of Fashions, Notices of New Books, , otes of New Music, Notes of the Drama, ar Portraits of Noted People, Paragraphs A bout Women, Paragraphs of Humor, Scientific De ~a~m ent, Pussle .Departmnent, Mathematical na etinent, Housekeepers' Department, Cor .respondents' Department. Chess Department, ~ Answers' to Correspondents, Ohat with Con. er ,itibutors, B autiful Illustrations It bas toj wide columns of matter each Pris oly$ a yMi; T wo sub'icribers b y Perwa club of six at $2.60 a copy is sent ye * ~Frwo'ie oftwety, all sent at one time, M $15a-geld ls"parid. Address, Iof * - SUNN~Y BOUTHT, or ar J. H.8SEALS, forta Specimen. Atana, na. # FOR THE PICKENS SENTINEL. Campaign Signs for 1880. I, the writer, recogniiing that there a great deal of utmecessary and icalled for apprehension among the oplo concerning the political condi. in of our country do, therefore, as e who lis endoavoired to keep eted on the general tenor of affairs ring the time between this and the it election, beg leave to present the lowing to their notice. As one io has at heart tire interests and the ilia-e of the people of not only the d Pal-uetto State, but the whole untry, I shall be compelled to say ,) as a State, are in a efitical posi rn, politically and socially speaking, the eyes of the whple country are rned upon us, and to a great ex it we possess tae salvation of the miocratic patty; therefore it is in ipensible with us that we give ,m no room or possible grounds - political criticisn. The revenue les of the mountains has already ned notbriety througbout the lion, and the Northern journals (as ave before said) ai e busily engaged manufacturing and and flooding country with shameful descrip us of the-so-called resistance, by people of South Carolina, of Fed t law; they stand aghast at the %ring of our new deeds, and often, might add, the timid Republicani tor falls to the floor ebrieking and estling with nis bloody recitals dI - crimes. <Now, whilo all of this called for and malicious distuir rce is going on, I think it exi'cdi and Lighly necessary for some to the part of reconciliators, and ti 'c the whole people )eople a ti ne I j list representation of affahii s as IN are, Jhere bas been heretofore two simi cases to that which has just trans. -ed in tiis county, one in our sis State, North Carolina, and one in leware, where the stat of affairs re identical; (a so called c, nflict ween State and National law.) d still we have all of the anathie s and blame to bear of th e styled iflict. We have went no furt~her the prosecution of our rights aic 'ding to constitutional authority mr they, yet the demoniacal journals Republicanism have the audacity J boldnees to attempt to raise the e and cry of, the spirit of' sixty-one lown .(bere yet. If' it is in our dat we know not of its existence, I all we have done or attempted to is granted and protected under the or and by authority of the conisti ion of this State and the constitu u of the United States of A merica, ise rights wvhichu are as sacred as men that made thorn, and as r'nal as nature itself, we lbare act under' and have been guided by. We know no North, no South, no 8t, or West, hut one grand Union all, and thle rights id imminunities anted by that noble, grand and im >rtal old documene we intend to ,d by and claimi its- protection. > bayonet rule shall ever crush it t of us; we may be over powered, or en intimidated, but never, while we n the name of our' ancestors, will give over or consent that w'cmg right. ihe South has laid asile her arms, r sword is sheathed, we want no sention, but peace we desire; our uggles have ended, the war bas, ised on our part years ago, and we a in the Union ,nce more and thbere intend to stay so long as the me of Union is to be found, or its irt exists. Never again will w'e r, if it were error, no miore will1 the er cry resound in our cars' raibted our own people. Thej dead of the ties shall pass their long sleep in ace, out' wronlg%, our rights will ver desecrate the burying grounds their hallowed repose, our spirits e cue. Again we wish our hearta l it and never while we extet sball the echoing bugle raise them to field of strife. And now all we ask of the true at patriotic men of the North is a fa and just consideration of our cond tions, and we will again possees tj ntame anomg them of a State peace forever. But we are compel ed to leave this pat of the subject, i it is not necessary for me to cornmei upon it to a great length, and -neitt er was it. my intentien at the outsa to give it thd notice I ha'e, but cannot well leave off when I hai once begun on it. The present prospect as to 11 number ot parties is: very flalterin; There will in all probability be thre parties during the next presidenti campaign. The new one being whi is known as nationalist, a composi tion of lab'>r parties, antisresump tionists, socialists, &c. The platfor of the new party is now in construe tion and the most prominent princi ples are very indefinitely known i the present, but as the time ap proaches for the final declarations < each party's platform we shall be ab] to give them more elaborately. Th party known as nationalists is a con bination of the miinor sects, such V has been noticed. The most notabl feature of them is what they ca equality as relates to their positior socially anid in the possession c of property. They desire a comino ownership in all things a thoroug chango in government and free an equal citizenship. They claim to LI the poor laboring man's triend, an that i heir pi incil.les are his naturi and inidestrustable*privileges whic have been abused, and they desire t restore them. They vant all equal t the middle class, the rich bronlgli down and the poor and degraded el evated, and all such things as lanc railroads, canals, mach inery an commerce equally owned tby ther all, rnd so made to work by the gov ernmient, as the main system is regr lated at the present.. for the good c the -whiole. To abolish the wage system and substitute in its stead ct operative produetions, with a jm: distribut ion of its rewards. Suchi a state of feelings that is beginning t poSCSs the par ty mentioned abov< and more especially the part know as communiste. The anti-resump j tionists and others are not so vehte ment or radical, buit they desire thei Opinions spread in concert with th balance, if they can not work to su their own interests during the cant: paign. The nominee of the piartyi itot known vet. One of their strong est friends and one most l1romniinen is Ben Butler, he has one eye on th Presidential chair, it is thought, art desires it through themn as the actini medium. Kearney, of Californit has also a strong hold on the vote: of the West. .Ue is a live, energot ic politician, and has done wvonder in his own State in the way of break ing up the two older parties in th recent excitement ont there. Sch wal the communist, holds a strong ban with the beer' drinkers of New Yor and Ohio.. If we had time and space w would like to devote more to this pa: of the subject, but at the preset: neither will permit. We should, E we are about to begin on Republica side, give the reader a general viel of the situation of the Northern an, Western States, but we shall h~ave t forbear, through necessity this tim4 fromn so doing. The Re~pu blica party at tire present time is, it seemi rather in a dilemna as how to act. They have not recrnited sufficienti since the adjournment of Congresst be strictly mnited, but neverthelei they think their chanices for thme nei President very good, and they wi offer stout resistance to all -opposin candidates. The recent Potter ir vestigation committee bad a'marvei Ions and inistantaneous effect on th Is Republicans, and it throw them inti a general and consolidated state ,o Ad planning as to how they could defea ir its inevitable issues; but as that hao i- gradually subsided, they have quiet ie ed with it. The party at large ar( of not in active service during the pres l- ent time;' they are waiting for th( ie Democrats to make the outset, (aE it they have already begun to do,) and - when they have themselves then if At will be their policy to consider our I actions. Their platform will be sub, e stantially the same as that of '72 and of '76. The Republicans are setting e their political dead-falls and waiting . for he other. parties to walk into -e them. The next House of Congress I and the Senate will be decidedly it Democratic, and the returning board - scheme will have played -out before - them, the Congress that's to be elec n ted this fall will not meet until De - cember next year, long before then - specie payment will have been re it sumed and the currency question will - be forever settled with us. f These candidates for the Presiden, e cy is a very important part of the O, subject. And just here we will take k up.that part fur awhile. Grant, it S is thought by a greut many, will be e' their nominee, but such we don't I think is their intention, fo r these rea a sons. Grahit, as we know, does not f desire the nomination, and neither i be nor his party have started all of b this fuss abont his election to a third d term. As'all who are acquainted 0 with the facts ot our political history d will say, lie (lid not desire nor seek i the second term, and it was his de sire to leave politics and rot urn Ic 0 his hirm at the expiration Of hiis first, 0 Bit why did he iotlay that he -did t not desire a thirl terIm sine say. Well, Grant is a very peculiar kind of huonoai nature, as %c fill have found out down South. Ie can't be driven. Tho newspiper men who were opposed to him declared he would not have the office and he would not bo tricked ly them. They Sdid such forcapital, anid lbe took the hint and hence he acted the way he dt(id. Thel chances of Grant f6r the 5 nomination are about as good as any 0 and he is a very strong mnan in huis " party, doubly to that of Ilayes', " but still we don't think that lie ~ will- be nominated for the ~ simple fact no candidate was ever r yet nominated, whose elcinwas e talked about three years before it Lt came off, and again Grant's friends - are not ma.king this fuss about him, s setting up a monarchy hero, but it all was started by Deomocrats to keep the t people alive as they thought, bitt re. c ally it is awakening their opponen'ts, d and they too are watching our move monts to take actions accordingly. But to sum it up, their strongest men are still unheard of, and they purpose to keep quiet until the Limo conmes for them to appear. To consid'r the third party and then we close. The Democrats are highly 0 favored at the present when we take them geneorally, for we havo nothing to plan upon so much as to execute, k the principles we intend to adhere to are already laid down, we are to fol 0 low the essence of the platform of 76, t again during the next contest, and t fatten as a nation by our State, act 8 with their model harmony of a few n days ago, when they met in State v Convention, and adjourned, without jthe least eo~idence of anything but a unanimity. As -I have already stated the next, House of Congress will un n' doubtedly be Democratic, and that cuts off all chances of returning board ideas of' a repetition of it, some have ~begin to think, although we are safe Y in this respect, that there- will be o three: contesting candididates. Well 6 if such is the eaae and Ccngress% can t not settle it otherwise, tbey will pro. II ceed to ballot and elect a President g of the 8enate, and he will become by succession the lawful and legel chief --magistrate, and hence there is no e pyossible room for defeat, if we will Rxtraot from the Presentment of the Grand Jury. The following is an extract of the presentment of the Grand Jury of the UniftedStates Court, now at ses sion in Greenville: "The enforcement of the Revenue laws is a matter of great and -special importance to the people of thls sec tion of country. We are fully satis% fled that their violation is confined to a narrow strip Ofcountry through the mountains, and the sentiment of the great body of the people is strong ly averse to the violations of these laws, and that a failure upon their part to afford active co-operation in the vigorous enforcement ot these laws is chiefly ascribable to the-mis conduct of some of the subordinate officers, who have been charged with the delicate duty of making arrests and seizures. Some of these have been discharged, and we are infortn ed that others will be; but we desire to say that the Marshal and the Cot. lector cannot be too careful in so lectingInen for these important du ties, and should watch their conduct as much as possible; for of all the officers these are the ones who come most directly in contact with the people, and by them aind their con duct the course and policy of the Government towards its citizens is judged. "We desire, in this connection, to express our hearty approval and commendation of the wise and beni ficent policy adopted by the Govern ment towards this class of the viola. tors of.its laws. "We trust that gratitude and honor as well as a proper regard for their own interests, and the welfare of their families, will cause these men not only to abstain, themselves, inl the future from all participation in violation of these laws, but to exert themselves actively to persuade and, it necessary, to compel all others t do so. The sympathies of a great. anany good citizens, who would not themselves violate the law, have been enlisted on behalf of their' un fortunate neighbors, on account of the hardships which they have senf fered, whether j ustly or unot. But, in our opinion, th e magnanimous course of the government should, and we believe will have thme immediate effect of determining all good citi zens actively to aid the Government in) su1ppresSIng all vijolations1 of the law, and will tend to promlote that spirit of obodir nteO to law without which no community or neighbor.. hood canm be peaceful, prosperous and happy. "Weo have heard with pleasuro that the Commiissioner' of Internal Revenue has sent a rpecial and re liable ageut to go through the rev ennte sect ion of these u pper counties to explain thie, law to these people and encourange thenm to engage les gally in the business. Tihie peoplo in the main who have engaged ini the business illicitly are ignoranit and poor. They have not the moans of transporting their little surplus et Crops to mnarket to realize even en.. ough money to pay their taxes. To distil it, io not only profitablo and affords a better market, but converts it into a more portable f'orm, and these constituted a grea~t temptation to illicit business. When it is ex plained to them that they can distil legally without incurri ng anm expense beyond their means, wve have no doubt that legal distilleries enough will be established to remove this temptation, and the Goverument will get its revenue.". Stanley, it is reported, will agaUn set outfor Africa; this time under the auspices of the King of Belgium. The millenium is certaialy at hand a SWork has boon resumed oli the Wash. >ington monument. > act our part well. As to those who . are most likely to be the nominees of the party. Hendricks was talked of by the leading men-% while, but. they have concluded to drop him, and then they took up Tilden Jor a reno. mination,but his course has also proved disatisfactory to them, and from all sources, we are rather of the opinion that Thurman stands the best chance so far, but these remarks as to whom the real nominee will be aro mere conjectures, as the time is too far dis. tant to attemit to make any decided conclusion as to who will be the lucky man. To close for this time, wo will say the outlook all over the Union is promising and we should act accord.. ingly and do all that we can to pro, mote the interest of' Democracy. Yours most obodiently, AUNT JERUsIIA. Fatal Affray in Edgefield-Four Men Killed and Six Wounded. On Monday, the 12th, the day of the Democratic celebration of the beginning of the campaign of 1878, in Edgefield county, a desperate. rencounter took plaee in tbe village of Edgefield, in which Brooker To ney, James Booth and Thomas Booth were instantly killed, and Benjamin Booth mortally wounded. The fight was the result of an old feud which originrited years ago, and was be tween parties of a desperate charac ter. It begun in a bar room more than a mile from where the public meeting was being held. In the me lee, Mark Toney, W. L. Coleman, Wade Scott, Dr. A. W. Sanders, Steumore R3 an and Clarence Seig ler were wounded, but dlightly. When the new'of the fight reached the place of the Demccratic meeting, Governor Uampton ordercd General Moise to proceed to the scene with the Edgefield Rifles and quell the ditsturbance, but it was all over when they arrived on ,the ground. The affair had no connection with politics, but resulted froam the aninosiiy and revenge of' parties, which had long b~een awiigthe opportunity for violence. Revenue Matters. Under instruct ions from Commis sioiner Raum, C. M. Braytcn, r'e or ganmzed the force of special Deputy Collectors, stationed in the mountain districts, on Saturday last, Caipt. E. G. Hoffman, with a force of four men, con sisting of Capt. J. 0. Ladd, C. C. Carson, J. E. Giles and Wil liam Klennedy, will operate in the counties of Greenville, Pickens and Oconeo. Capt. S P. Landford, as~ sisted by U. [I. D. B~ryon, M. W Watson, R. P. Scruggs and C. W. Curmmigs, will look after the coun~ ties of Spartanbumrg, York a~mInd Uion. VTe most important duty of these officials will bie to see that the moun., taineers who were beneftted by the leniency of thme Government, do not violate the obligations inaposed by the Court. They were specially in, structed by Mr. Brayton to exercise prudene and leniency in the per tormnance of their duties, and thby will be held to a strict accountability for misconduct. WASHIINoTON, August 9.--Moxic n affairs were again discused. in the Ca~binet to day. The result was in structions to the Secretary of War to issue an order reiterating the provis, ions of that already existing, re(quir, ing our forces to protect the property of Americans on the Rio Grando at all hazards, and, if necessary, to pur sue the raiders into Mexi4can teraitory. It is to be dono, no matter what show of resistanne is ma~de. A dispatch from Washington states that it is depcided to have Chief Justiee Wait to go to South Carolina, about September lst to sit with Judge Bond on the trial .of the .Rovenue offieers charged with the murderm. a4.