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THE SENTINEL. D. F. BRADLEY.- Editoir. PIOKENS 0. I., 8. 0.: TEIURSDAYt, PEBUARY 10, 1881. .- TERMS: For subscription, $1.50 per annum, for six months, 75 cents; strictly in advance. Advertisements inserted at one dollar per square of one inch or less for the first Inser. ion and fifty cents for each subsequent in sertion. Liberal discount made to merchants and others advertising for six months or by the year. Obitnary Notices and Tributes of Repet charged for as advertisements. Announcing Candidates five dollars, in advance. "The Conciliaton Plan." Tho Greenville News claims that there is no "element of fusion" in giving the negroes "a certain share of the offices, if they will join our clubs." If this does not contain an element of fusion, we confess our ig norance of the meaning of the word as applied to politics. No pledge ex copt that of joining our clubs is re quired of him-the color of his skin is sufficient if he complies with this requiremetnt. With the purpose of keeping up the clubs and "patient in. struction and work" among the no groos, we agree, but when it comes to "the tender of inducements" in the shape of office, simply because he is a negro, we beg to be excused. W e do not intend to degrade our manhood or abandon principle for the hope of a temporary advantage. Can the News give us any assurance that a Radical innjority in Congress would not un seat our Congrossmon, if by so doing they could gain a partizan advan. tago, even though the negro voted with us and we had placed his name on our ticket for office? Thoy care no more for the negro outsido of the pol'tical capital he gives them in the North, than they do for Sitting Bull and his tribe of Indians. The News gets ites figures a little mixed wher. it says we are in a minority of 30,000, and to be saved must "get into our ranks at least 35,000." Fifteen thous and of their number added to our side would make a tie, provided the wvhites were solid, and sixteen thoua', and would give us a majority of two thousand. So it will be seen that it does not require the half of 35,000 to give us a majority. Can not the white men of this State with their advantages of experience, culture and wealth, control the votes of 16,000 men who are dependent upon them for every necessary of life, even the dirt daubed cabins they live in most assuredly they can, and will, if they only work in harmony together. The News thinks we unintentionally slander the up country Democracy when we say that the placing of' the name of a negro on our ticket would ensure its defeat. When we say this, wve speak from past experiences. Was it not the case in Anderson County, and infact in nearly every county in the State where the experiment was tried? We have heard as good men as there are in the State-Democrats --say that they never have nor never intend to vote for a negro. If the News will carefully investigate the sentiment of the Democracy of Green ville City, it will find many there who occup)y the same position. The great aim of the Democracy should be to prevent a split in the white~ ranks. Bunt if you place a negro on the ticket -simply because he is a negro, with out any regard to mor al or intellectual qualification, that instant you'create 4a division in the ranks of the wvhites that will prove disastrous to the causo of good government and white supremacy in the State. if the plan of our Greenville fitends should be adopted, it would in our opinion, he the rook upon which we would split and go to pieces. We had better let well enough alone. -'We are in receipt of the Seed Ca 1talogue of David Landreth & Sons, Pliladelphia, Pa. This firm, establis hed in n7B, is the oldest in their line in the United States, and is widely known for square dealing. Their Almanac and S~ural Register and cat, alogue is an isnproyoment upon form. er editionis; their motto seeming al ways to be forward. Lt is Illustrated with outs of their farm buildings and the miore Important .vegetables. It contalne vsluaible tables andi instruct, ionsato;arket gardeners dnd amate urs. It is . mailed, postpaid, .to ali who apply for it. l'rovident farrqiors are sowi;ng many Oata this -mon th. "The Labor Question" Mn. EDITOR: In my judgment you are entirely correct in youi' recent article on the "Labor Question," and I am entirely in accord *ith Gen. Butler in thinking we have too many no groes in South Carolina for their good or our peace. The correspondents of the Charleston News and Courier say "hands are scarce, wages are high, cotton at eleven cents pays, and therefore we haven't enough negroes in the State-" The Editor of the News chimes in with this contracted idea, and promulgates thisBull. "1f white men were to immigrate into South Carolina they would soon be come property holders because they would work for themselves, and after a few years would hire the negroes, become competitors with the present employers, and make wages go still higher." These are not his words but they are his ideas, and did mortal man ever read such a travesty upon the life of the laborer, be he black or white? In all conscience if the negro works at all, for whom does he work, if it is not for himself? Does the News presume to suggest, that the white men got it 'all when the negro makes a crop? If so, how is it that the negro is improving? No sir, those men who say labor is scarce and therefore wo want more negroes, are short sighted, and them selves are intent solely upon exacting of mother earth a larger cotton crop, and are not attempting to improve the State in any other laudable man ner. As a race the negroes are antispro gressive; they have been freed for a half gener.tion, and I defy a man to point to a well improved premises purchased by the labor of any froed, man since the war. That some have bought lands cannot be denied; that five times as many have not done so is the wonder. Inured to scanty liv ing and worse clothing any industri ous freedman might easily have bought him a home since 1865 had he been thrifty and economical. But every body knows they are not so, and it is equally certain if the best of them can get a dirt-daubed log house to live in, they have few higher aspirations. Compare the price of real estate in any portion of the State where ne, groes are in the majority with what is in the older settled sections where they happen to be in the minority. and the comparison 'will reveal n wonderful fact. The superabundance of negroes invariably depresses the value of real estate. When any thinking man .advises the emigration of the negro from South Carolinn, at once, such correspondents as those who do the bidding of the News cry out "why, what will you do f'or las bor?" as if the world depended uipon~ the negro for labor, or as if the negro population of South Carolina could bo exported in a trice. A grad unl oxportation of the negro would most assuredly be followed by a gradual importation of the white man. The negro has muscle and en durance but nothing else to commend him. The white man would easily substitute improved impliments for muscle, and horse power for physical endurance. And indeed it we had neither hcrse power nor improved iims phiments, the skill and intelligence of the white man would in a short while be more than a match for the muscle and endurance of the negro. Few men are awaro to what an extent this substitution has alr'eady been made in the production of our great cotton crops. Throughout Yankee land the negro gets credit for growing, culti vating and harvesting our immense products. But Mr. Editor, look a little at the statistics. Oconeo and Pickens together havo only 8,013 negroes by the recent cens sus. Suppose but a fifth of them are grown men or 1,603, it is fair to con, clude that at least 103 of these dho not go to the field, and hence in these two counties we would have but 1,500 field hands, for women and boys are not field hands now-a-days. Unless 1 am sadly mistaken these two coun ties during the past year have grown 15,000 bales of cotton. Think you these 1,500 negro men aire entitled to that credit? No air, the bulk of the work has boen done by white men, and whito women too (God blese them,) and it the 1,500 regro men were supplanted by 1,500 white men, the countics would grow that much more prosperously, and if the labor ers found it profitable to do so they would in a very few years greatly incrense the product cf cotton. lBut Mr. Editor, this is an exhaustless subject. and one that 8bimld in:s our farmers, and indeed every citizen in the State. We have too many no groes for the present white popula tion to make it profitably healthy in South Carolina. We must reduce their majority by exportation, or an nul it by importing whiter. With the existing prejudices of the world a gainst South Carolina we will never see a stream of immigrating whites till we force to flow a stream of emi. grating blacks. 1 entertain no malice towards the negro; indeed have always utilized him to a limited extent profitably.-. But I feel, that there is no progress where he is the occupant of the back of the car. He is a dead load to carry and thereforo should be lifted off our shoulders. Ho degrades labor. No white man will work contontedif in the field with negroes where all are subject to the satifo authority. Where negroes are used as house serv ants,- wnsherwomen, cooks, &c., no white women will consent to be en gaged as stch. A white woman in Maryland, Kentucky or Missouri who -would turn up her nose at you if you tried to hire her as a cook or house servant, will stop over into Pennsyl. vania, Indiana, Illinoise, or Iowa and hire herself out as a girl to do the most menial labor, and why? Because on that side white women have sup. planted the negro; on this side the negro supplants the white woman. There all labor is honorable; here me nial service is done by an inferior race and is therefore degrading. Were it not for becoming irksome I would write you much more, but perhaps I have said enough or too much already. I simply wanted to give you an endorsement of your Ontvu npon the "Labor Question," and hopo you will pardon me if I have beon too prolix. CENTRAL. Letter from Washington. [sPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE SBNTINEL] WAanINGTON, Jnn. 31,1881. One week from next Wdedy the Electoral count wvill begin, and as no rule h:as yet been adopted, so no trouble is anticipated as both parties entertain radically dif'erent views as to the piroper method to be emnployed to ascertain the result. Should an occasion arise, upon01 which Mr. WVheel er assu mes to net juid icially, t herec will be vigorous protests from the Dem.. ocrats. A protracted debate wvill probably arise when the vote of Geor'gia~ is called. 'The Electoral Col.. lego of that State did not meet oni the day rcquired by lawv to count the voi~es of the State. Both pai ties alr& divided to whethmer thme vote of Geor gia should be countLed, or not. But whlether it be coun ted or reject ed, if the Vice--President proposesM to dec'ide the case, thiere will he troublo ahead In order to setLi the qiestion as to Georgi'a, Senator Fdmunds on Satur day introduced a resolution which was unanimously adopted directing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire and report its o'pinion as to the legality of the vote of an Elec toral coliege, cast on a day other than that fixed by law for counting the vote of all other States. This may settle the Georgia question. Senator Ingall'd resolution on the Electoral count, was referred to the committee, and it is doubtful, wheni reported back whether it will pass. In the I~o use, the su b--com mi ttee has report ed back to the whole committee. Capt. Ead's project amended so that the Government shlhl guarantee 4 per cent~on $50,000,000, instead o1 6 per cent, and reducing the time from 30 to 15 years. Among the numerous projects, Eads seems to find the most fa vor. President Iayes will within a dayi or two send a sp~ecial message to Con gress reqjuesting an appr'opaiation for the purpose of fitting out a vessel to go in search of the Arctic exploring steamer .fcannetto. The Joannotte sailed from San Francisco July 8th, 1879. She had been fitted out for Arctic service at the Mare Island navy yard at the expense of Mr. Bennett. She sailed under the command of Lieutenant Commander G. WV. Do Long. with Lieutenant C. W. Chipp and Eneien Danchowor, of Georgotown, as his as,, sistants The only commnunication1 that has been received by thme Navy department from her was dated Au gust 26th, 1879. Mr. D~o Long in that communication salid: "I haro hopes of reaching Wrangell Liand before go,. ing into winter quarter's." The New York Heorald heardl from Do L~or~g September 2d, 1870, from Cape Ser'z,. go, the last point on tho e a ~ ofi: beria, he would be likely to touch be fore fully entering the Arctic sea. Af& terwards the Jeannette *as seen a abort distance east of Wrangell Land, in about 71 degrees north Jatitude, whore she probably encountered the ice then floating southward. The de, partment has reeived a letter written from Petropavloosk, Kamschatka, September 22d, 1880, in which it is stated that tho writer, while in tho Arctic Ocean, had fallen i with a whaling vessel, the officers of which informed him of a rumor that the Jeannette was lost. This rumor is not credited by the officers of the Navy department. The revenue cut ter Corwin, in her recent Arctic voy ago, was ch arged, among other things, to look out for the Jeannette, but learned nothing of her. CORDWAINER. The Choice of Books. A very elegant volume with the above title, by Charles F. Richardson, is just issued by tho American Book Exchange, Tribune Building, New York, at the very low prico of 25 cts; also a cheap paper edition at tho no.. minal cost of five cents. It will do light all who love good books, and in its wiso suggestious will bo greatly helpful to nll who wZanL help in choos, ing the bust books. In its various chapters it treats of The Motive of Iteading, The Reading Habit, What Books to Read, The Best Time to Road, Row Much to Read, Rernemb oring what One Reads, The Use of Note Booke, The Cultivation of Taste, Poetry, The Art of Skipping, the Use of Trunslations, How to Read Peri. odicals, Reading Aloud and Rteading Clubs, What Books to Own, The Uso of Public Librarios, the True Service of Reading. The volume is remarka. bly rich in striking quO1ations from the world's most famous authors and thinking, from Aristotlo t~o Emcrson, includingsuch names as A-ldison, B. con, Burns, Cato, Carlylo, Disraeli, Fenclon, Gibbon, Hugo, Koat'4, Lamb, Locke, .luther, Milton, Petrareb, Ruski n Shiakespearu, and Thiorean. It is a roal literary treasure houso. TIlE .Ol 1sION OF IJA~BoR, --Tenny,. son can taiko a wo'rthiless sheet of p)a per, atnd by writing a poem on it. (nake it worth 86,000. That's geniuMs Mr'. VanderbiIt can witeI fewvor words on a similar shicot and mnke it wort $50,000,000. T h at's en pi t a. A r d th< United States Goverinment can takt an ounco and a quarter of gold an J stampj up)on it an enigle bird" anid The mnechnic can take thne materia worth 850 and matke it ito a watelt worth $100. Than~t's skill. The mcer, chian t can tako1( an artielo wor'th 22 cents anid sell it tO you1 for 61 .00. Th'lat's businriess. .A lady can) pu rch aso a comfortable bonnet for $10, but preofers to pay $100 for one because it is more stylish. That's foolishness. The0 di t(ch digg(er' works ten hour I' ( day arid shovels out three or four tom of earth for it. That's labor. A saloon keeper, having started bu siness in a building where trunks hac been made, asked a friend what he had better do with the old sign "rn k Factory." "Oh," said th< friend, "just change the T to D, it wil suit you exactly During the past two years, foui h undred distilleries have been broker up in Georgia. Administrator's Sale BY order of Olin L. Durrant., Esq., Judge ci .) Probate for Pickens.County, I will sell for cas9h to thie highest bidder, on Friday, the 25th February, 1881, on thie premises of tho the late Ftephen D. Keith, deceased, thie fol lowing Property, belonging to tho estate ol the said deceased, to wit: The Ilotel Furniture, consisting of Fifteen or Sixteen New Bedsteads, Mattresses, Beds and Clothing; Household and Kitchen Fur-. ni.ure; about 400 bushels Corn, 4,000) bundles Fodder; 8 Yoke Stears; 1 H orse, flogs, Cat tle, Sheep, Shucks, Plantation Tools, &c. Now is the time to buy what you want. Ternu Cash. J. C. GRiFFIN, Admn'r. feb 10, 1881 21 8 N OTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. Notice is hereby given, that I will ap. ply to 0. L. Durant, Probate Judge for Pick ens County, on 12th March 1881, for leave to make a final settlement of (lie Estate of JOHN FINDLJEY, dleceasedl, and ask to be decharg ed therefrom as Adminiistrator. T. P. LOOPER, Admn'r. feb 10,18SSI 21 6 Notice to Debtors & Creditors. ALpersons having demands against the estate of STEPHEN D. KEiT h, deceas ed, will present them at. once properly proved, to the undersigned, or be forever barred of all claim against the said estate; and all per sons M'hebted to said estate will please come forward ansil settle lie same. J. C. O R IFFIN. Admn'r. feb~ 10. 1.81 v2 3 MIRACuLous Powzi..-The Forest and &ream has it: 'To preserve health use Warner's SafeRem edies. These are almOst of miraculous power in re-. moving diseases for whioh recom mended. The wondorii curative qualities they are possessed of is vouched for by tens of thousands.' A BIG SHOW!11 -0 Barnum's Hippodrome THE MOST WONDERFUL 8HOW EVER seen in Pickens hag just arrived. Amo'g the various Artieles in this Show and which can be purchased at the LOWEST CASH PRI CES, are all kinds of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, HATS, SHOES, LEATfIER, FANCY ARTICLES, TOILET SOAPS, HARDWARE, CUTLERY, and all kinds of Groceries needed for family use. In fact everything kept in a First Cliss General Mer chandise Establishment can be tound here at bottom prices. FRESH CORN MEAL will always be found on hand for sale. Ti1IS SHOW caa be found across the street opposite the Court House, at the WW STORE OF Griffin & Newberry. AGENTS ALSO FOR DIXIE GUANO. jan 6, 1881 16 Apply to IIAGOOD, ALEXANDER & CO., or L. B. GRAVLEY on the place. feb 10, 1884 21 If Clerk's Sale. -0 STATE OF. SOUTII CAROLINA COUNTY ' F PiCassa. IN COURT OF COMMON PLEAs Lucy A. Smith et ali. l'Ilaintifl's. against Wm~ N. Hlendricks, et. at. Defendants. B3Y auiLthrity of' a D~eere:al Ur ler, made in heabove sitated caese, onm fhe 31lst J1an, uary, 1 881, by the }lon. TIhonis Thoma'son, Circuit Juidge, I wi~l seii Co theO highiest bat der a~t I'iekenis Court li onse, On bsuledaiy ii ~m:neh next~:, the foliowinig Tracets of Lanid, to wnt: T1' i.\CT1 NO I1.-''onh dininhg S9 Acres, ad . iiing hands of TV. J1. Chiabim, J. A. 1;iugg,. 83. A. .i Mctram:i, et al. T ibACT Nt). 2 --t oui ining I8.' .\cres, on bothI sides of tGo ~dlen'*s Cre k , be ing pi 01 the llome Tract of the~ late Zephi.Oaum ~uInih, die Znsed, adjom C: g huids of Z 41. tont Smitih, W. Alhtr, di Sm.~ih, Mrs. N. u1:y-. * Ion amok ot hers. '3 -Ctaeiiig I A'cre amn I ( 16Iodl., on the \\est-side of Liit'erty Chiurch, bein,.: the obl Liblerty .Schtool iiluse.. Lot, aIoInui n.io lani Iof J. A. ioggu, T1. .J. Chami)l:un a'u oh-ii5 'T'1.IIM M-t )mue half thle purcatWse mon ey to beC pa id onl day of oie; tle credi lO prioi t.1 eona credit of t were.~ III moia, aee;. red by deed to thie premie o emde whenth -8.. . J. L'Wl8, c.c.r,. leb ilu,1881 21 .4 Sheriff's Sales. STATE OF SOUTII CAROLINA. CouNTY Or PICKENS. BY virtue of an execution to me disected, I aelevied upon and will sell at Pick ens Court House, South Carolina, on the first Monday in March, 1881, to the highest. bid. der for cash, All of thant Tract or Parcel of Land, on which Abel T. Stephens nOW lives, known as the Ilallenger Place, containing One flundred and Eighty-One Acres, more or less, at the suit of James A. Ballenger against Abel T. Stephens, for the purchase money thereof. JOAB MAULDIN, sro feb 10,_1881 21 4 HOMESTEAD & EXEMPTION NMOTICE is hierebn given that MRS. MIN .'Nl E McFA LL, widow of James M. Mc Fall, deceased, late of the Counity of P'ickens, South Carclina, has made application to mec for Homestead in the real estmte belonging to the Estate of said dleceased, and that I will pass upon the samue ait my ofhice in the Court Ihouse, at Pickens, South Carolina, oni Thur6 day, the 10th (lay of March, 1881, at 11 o'clock, A. M - 0. L. DURANT, Judge of Probate. feb 10, 1881 21 6 TRIEASURER'ns 01 FI0E. PICK ENS C. I1., 8. C., Jan. 31, 1881. BYauthority from Comptroller General, notice is hereby given, thant the lands heretof'ore advertisetd to be sold als Deflinqhl~ut, will not be sold th le 1st Monday in February, Instant, but in lieu thereof all parties owning or having an interest therein may redeem Li e same on or ty tihe 81st day of May 1881, as providedt in the A. A. approved De cember 24, 1880. B. F. MORGAN, Treasurer Pickens County, feb 3, 1881 20) 8 BI PAY XG~ a number of active, energetic business canvass ers to engage in a pleasant and profitable business. Good mnen will find this a rare ch ance To lMake M1oney. Such will please answer this advertisement by letter, enclosing st amp for reply, stating what bumsIness they have been engaged in. None but those who mean business need ap ply. Address FINLEY, HARVEV & CO .,.lat,a. F. W. POE & COe cx: SICE CLOTHII! MAIN AND AVENU3 B'iREZTI, Greenvile. S. C, EVERYTIIIlli MARKED IK PLAIN FIGURES AN'D One P'rice to .i11! 0-' We do not ask our customers 40# for a SUIT that i8 only worth 15$ thinking that all we can got OVE R 15$ WILL BE SO MUCHI EXTRA PROFIT, IBUT OUR GOODS A RE MA RKED AT TIIEllt ACTUAL VALUE, Anid being thorongbhly p)oste'l in onr business8, we conf(ient ly as5ur P0Onr cttomenrs thatI oulr jirises ar e a. hOPW as tho samo Gtella (an ie bongh~bt in anly market.. Notice to Dehbtors & cr'editors. T. L Pin!nvn den-is zds h (, the iht irv i t mak ymentv'c to nh meusca aceiii nuiis wil1 save 0cost. O. C. FulG!:;l, Adm'r, jinit 13, 1-81 173 Noice. Thw of' 011r rem:l r* rxinig stind .qnil 'lat fer cheap for' 1'SI. shoiCI, 'ei 15) cints ta l).'y Sr.. New~ 'ii, h. for j a con1'I.i e set of their J"i nionn ii nstrou 01ed (Giallogne, con-~ taiuning list ot p'ren inims. &c.. or' .1 51 for A com1 plt e n igerui's oiiiilt n f 12 h'ea ,ui, i'u Chri' I)r. 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