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THE SENTINEL D. F. BRADLEY. Editor. PICKENS 0. 1-., S. C.: TEURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1881. For subscription, $1.50 per annum, for six uonths, 75 cents; strictly in advance. Advertisements inserted at one dollar pei aquare of one inch or less for the first inser ion and fil'ty cents for each subsequent in sertlon. Liberal discount made to merchantE and others advertising for six months or by be year. Obitnary Notices and Tributes of Respect barged for as advertisements. Announcing Candidates five dollars, ir advance. The:Cowpens Centennial. We havo received from the com. mitteo an invitation to attond the un veiling of'tho Morgan monumont at Sparitanburg on the 11th of May next Groat preparations are being mado tc make the occasion one of the groatest affairs over seen in this Stato, and it is expected that, 20,000 persons wil be presetit from all parts of the coun try. Tho invitatian card is the larg est and handsomest we have ovei The Dead-Lock. The dead-lock in the Senate still continues The usual bitter speeches are made daily, an( the end is not yet. in sight. The Democrats however are exhibiting more pluck and back hone in the contest than is usually attribute< to them). The time has been when the Re publioins could drive the Democrats from al most any position, however just., by flauntinC the bloody shirt and crying treason. This i an old trick, and has proven so effectual ir the past, they are trying it again, but 3o far,' to no purpose. We trust the (lay has r assed when the Democrats are to be fright med and driven from advantageous grouni by the old war whoop of the Republicans. W< believe as much could have been gained b) the Democrats to have quietly submitted a the first, (when the bargain with Mahone hat been exposed), and permit ted the Republican; to have carried out their unholy bargain witll him, but the fight has been madl~e and it is to< late now to back out. We hope the Demo crats will fight it out on the line they hav4 conmmenced, if it takes all summer. A Womian Hanged b~y a Mob ii Laurens8 County. The habit of lynching weak and defenceles negroes in this State has gone on constantla for several years, and without eensure, bu flow we are glad to see that t wo or three jourl" nals of the State have had the manhood to de' nlounce the recent hanging of the hialf-wvitted negro womamn in Laurenis county.-Abbeville Press and Banner. The hanging of this woman by a mob can not be too severely condemned, and we trust the oflicers of the law in Laurens County will ferret out the guilty parties and have them punishled according to the enormity of their crime. The zeal of our esteemed contemnpo porary in this direction is to be commended. but when it accuses the people of the Statt of "the habit of lynching weak and defeselesi negroes," we think it is going farther that the facts will justify. The only lynching it the State that we remember, up to the tim< of the lynching of this woman, was tor th heinous offense of rape and murder. Th< first fiend who met th', vengence of an out raged community for rape, was John J. Moore a white man in Spartanb~urg county. Thei followed the lynching of three negroes ii Clarendon county for the brutal murder of white woman and plundering of the house and the lynching of the two negro brutes a Prosperity for the outrage and murder o. Miss Wertz. The indliscrtmilnate charge of murder and lawlessness against our people is commnoii with tihe Radical sheets of the North, but th( Press and Banner is the first l)emocratic pa per in the State, or the South, which ham made a simnilar charge. It would have beer better for the good reputation of our contenm. porary to have given the number of "weals and defenseless negroes" lynched, and tI character of the offeijses for which they wert lynched. If it had persued this course antr then given its unqualified condemnation o the persons who comlmittedl the deedls and thE papers who commendled thema, there wouh have been some consistency in its course, hu when it makes a wholesale charge against tin people of the State without giving the nunmbet of "weak and defenseless" negroes lynched and the character of their offenses, we think it is placing itself in a very unenviable po, sition to say the least of it. No doubt its assertion will be copied by all the bloody shirt organs of the North, and quoted upon every political rostromi by Republican speak.. er-, asth highest Democratic evidence that thehi charges against the white people of the South are true. Such reckless and unjust charges are calculated to (do us more harm than the treachery of all the Mahonus in the South. Southern cotton mills have made rponey while their .Northern rivals wore being satiefied at holding their own. After such experience perhaps the South Will turn her hand to other industries, the raw material of whicn ebe bQs in abundance. There would be more money in it than in politics and more honor too.-N. Y. 11rmald* We will a' tend to both little matters thak yru . iscrimination~. The New South:says: The County Co missioners of Pi0kens County notify all persons running licensed distilliries "that unless they cease to violate the laws of the State of South Carolina by soiling spirituous liquors on or be fore the lt day of May next they will be reported at the next term of court for such violation." Very good, sofar as it goes, but would it not be well, oh, sapient Commissioners to give the same notification to persons running unlicensed distilleries? Is tho "even handed justice" of Pickens only to be a pplied to tbose who obey the United States laws, while those who violate the United States and the State law both are to go unpunished? It is gerorally believed that for overy licensed distillery in Pickons there ard a dozen unlicensed ones, and a scoro or more of moonshiners poddle thoir contriband whiskey through the County, with "none to molest or make them afraid." It is unquestionably as much the duty of the County Commissioners to report "unlicensod" distillers for vio% lation of the law as it is to repoit li consed distillers, when such violations are brought to their attention. But thoro is this distinction, which seems to have escaped the attenilon of our contemporary. The County Com missioners are not paid to hunt up unlicensed distillers, and they can not afford to give their time and atten tion to the matter for nothing, while Revenue officers are appointed and well paid for this especial duty. The Government distillers have ben, and are still, openly and defiantly violat, ing tho Stato lad, and unless the law - is onforced agairnst them it had better bo repoaled. Some of these distiilleries havo become nuisancos and are more demoralizing to the commun ities in which they are established than ro, gularly licensed bar-rooms would bo. Crowds of dissipated ' men visit them on Sundays and desecrate the day by their bacchanalian carousals. Lot the County Commissioners see that the law is enforced against them, and the unlicensed distillers too, and the law Iabiding and order loving p)ortion of our citizens, which constitutes a large majority of them, will rise up and say 'wvellI done, good and fa ihfulI servants.' As to the "'moonshiners" in this CJoun ty, we think our contemporary over draws the picture. There is certainly some violations of the lawv in tlhis re.. spect, buat wo (do not think it greater than that in'Greenville and some other mnou ntainous couIn ties in) thme Statec. Let~the Now South sweep the trash away from its own door before it, as sails IPickons. A Bad System--Robbingtie IHon est Laborer. There Is a large class of workingmecn in South Carolina, who are not. plan ters,'and who know little or nothing about farming. ha'ivitng spenma ny long yeairs in acquiring trades by which they nowv endeavor t o earn honest living. .This they have done successfully up to thme time of teing confronted by convict. labor, wihis fast spreading over the entire State. Thes me coplan o the system,ansy that the bread is being takena out~ of the mout hs of their faimilies, for everywhere t hey turn to work they arc confronted by these ball and chain fellows, who cost comparatiyvely nothing. It is certainly very poor encouragement to honest laborers, when they see capitaliss gobbling up every contract offered and com plying with its terms by wvorking these con vic ts.-BHarnwell Sent iniol. Our esteemed contemporary, who is usually well posted upon public matters, seems to be entirely ignorant of the workings of thme Pen itentiary. We happen to bo in a position to know that there is not a single convict hired out to work at any trade. All the convicts now hired out, are at work in the phosphate minecs and upon railroads, and we have yet to learn that meon whao hmave "spent many long years in acquiring tradles" are employed t~o dig phosphate rock or shovel -dirt upon rail roads. Convict labor has built a railroadl from Blackvillo to Barnwell, which we pre sumame would not have been built. without their labor, and yet the Sentinel is not happy. We believe that the wisest polioy of the State in a eference to its convict labor, would be its enmploymnent upon railroads, and other in ternial improvements which would develop our imaterial resources. Such a courbe would add t housands of dollars to our wealth, in duce ii;migrat ion to out' soil and create a (dem nd for labor of all kinds that would be hard to supply. But we know that there is a strong sentiment ini tihe State in favor of working the convicts inside the Penitentiary walls entirely, and if it is the purpose of our contemporary to advance this sentiment, it shoumld first pos5t itself as to tihe present dis posit ionm of convicts find imake its fight upon a famir amnd honest statement of facts, and not endeavor to arouse the prejudices of time peo plc upon erroneous stat ememnts. Over $2,000,000 have been expend ed1 on a mammoth grain elevator at the foot of' Pacific street, Brooklyn, New York, in which D. D~ows & Co. andl Wm. 11. Vanderbilt aroe said to be largely interested. The elevator wvill be ready for use during the present week, and will have a capacity of 2,500,000 bushiels. The hargest grain elevator nowv in use tihe property of Armour, lDolo & Co , Chicago, has a capacityv of 1.8~000O ho shtls. Atlant$idid\French Broad Valley Railroad, Private snbscriptions to the Atlan tio anidFrenq Broad Valley Railroad, to the amount of $12,000 was made in' Abbevillo -lant week in a very short time. It is expected that this amount 0 will be doubled, and, perhaps trebled. d In addition to this,'it is confidently ex- E poected that $50,000 wilt be ra'eed by township taxatioh.. We are informed ti tha.t the friende of the road in that 01 county are determined to commence C' work at an early day, aid have made Y application to the Immigration Bureau for fifty Irish laborers. The interest of the road is to be worked up in Edgefield, and within a short timo it is e believed that enough money will be h raised to grade the road to the North tj Carolina lino. A con sid erable amount of money can be raised in .North Car- 0 olina to commenco work on that div. t' ision, and it is hopod that work will C be going on all along tho lino within twelvo months from thib timo. a A sufficient amount of money can bo C raised by the issuance of bonds to iron t tho road and purchase the necessary rolling stock, and with onergy and 1 good managemont the road can be f completed without forming an "alli- a anco" with any of the moniod monop. olics that are now gobling up all the I roads in the State. A plot of the convicts in the State a Ponitentiary to seizo the guns of the t guards on tho first Sunday in May, i overpower them and mako their es, f cape, has been discovered and frustra, v Led. The conviets have also bocn h making counterfiet silver dollars. Two ti dies mado of plasteri of paris were found in ono of the guard's room. An- u other die was thrown in the canal by i one of tho convicts. 'Ilie guatcd, Lows A ory by name, and w Ito hails from Lox, tI ington County, was taken before Un- b, itod States Commissioner Stoober and tI sent to jail to await trial. ri Tlbc Colum bia un Greenv'ille Rail e road cornpa ny hasi~ issued Ii rtL mort g:age bonds of thle road to the amounta of 2,000,000 P'residenl t McCaiuglrrin~ went to New York recently to pytL G these bonds on thet market. Th ey wecre tak en very freely. A Baltimore bank took 8'o.0,000 wort h in a b u1 lk at. 97. In smnaller lots the b(unds sell for par. .Nearly the whIo)lo a mount p has been taken.h ~h Tho11 Pot'flieec at th tis place has4 been desiginted as a monecy order I( Oflico by the P'ostoflieo Department, 1 to go inito effect the 1st of .June next. TPhis will be a great convenience to ~ OuUtitZena. The1( lIon. M. P. O'Con:~nor, membher at of Con gress from the Charleston Dis- b rict, is serioutsly ill atL his home in jis Chaurleston. bittle hope of his recov... ei ery is entei tained by his friends. s The Lim fo r sittinug airon nd store doors and wvhittling on dry goods boxoswhas arrived. 0 Gen. Proston, of Columbia is quite n ill. A Correspondoent ofa Gorugia news. paper1 writing from Senoia of the Clement Attachment there says it is n' a failuro becanse of its slowness. IL ci can only gin and handle 600 pounds a of cotton in 12 hours, and the labor required eats upI the pr1ofits.V Thrce New Railroadls to Spartan burg. 0 It will bo seen from the proceedings LI of thte railroad meeting in another' col, umn thatL Our pecople are wideo-awakeG to tihe adlvantages of railroads and fa. vor building three more raiilroads to al our city, viz: Tho1 extension of tho gi Vrginia Midlandi iailroad from Dan - hi ville. Va , via St atesville, Lincoln ton g, antd Shelby ville, IN. C. to Spartar'burg the extonsion of' the Augusta and Knoxvillo lioad from Green wood, S. m C., via L~auronsville to Spartanbutrg, lii and anothcr road from Spartanburg, in via Rutherford ton and Marion, N. C S Lo Cranberry Iron Works to connectS with a road already built from thtats point, to Johnson.City, on the East bi Tenntessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail,. br road. Tile first-mentioned lirte would n< give direct, connection through the Virginia Midland Road with the Bal timore and Ohio Road-the second r line would cotinect at Augusta with 0r the triple allianco known as the WVat. di, Iey Syndicate of South Carolina and fe Georgia Rmairoads-anld the third line b would secure another direct connec, b Lion with the railroads of thte North, th~ wvest, thus making Spartanburg the he railroad Center of Upper Car'olina, and su giving two competing lines of railroad Lie in every direction-North, South East andl West. >'p With these additional lines of rail,. ua road, which can be secured, if proper co efforts are made. Spartanhurg will eq-- th ual Atlant a in Railr'oad facilities, and se~ soon rival tat city ini size, population, and commercinl imrinon..3.p.! tot Our Washingto i tter. ,.ItNGTo, April 14 1881. It *'l idA to look as though we were i an all spynmer eAsion of the anate'unless some action on the part Ethe President brings the present aad look to a close. This is the gen !al feeling on all sides , now. The temocrats are more firm than ever in ieir determination not to permit the >rrupt bargain with Mahone to be )mpletAd. Senator Pendleton said estorday in his reply to Sonator lawes: "You forgot wiat the Senate i. You forget the character of the Pork in which you invited our co-op ration. I tofl you now, I toll you ore, you will not have that co-opera on for that purpose at any timo." onator Vost, in one of the best speech 3 of the session thus referrod to the 3mper of the Democratic siao of the b)amber: "Rather than see the reil Oemocracy of Virgiaia stricken down fter this fa-bion we will tay hoero, rod willing, until the ice again gorges ho Potomac and tho snows of Docom or wreath these hills in their winding hoot." This' fairly illustrates the wling anong -Democratic Senators, nd there is no possible danger of any ack down from the position taken. t is not a more contest for the few flices of the Sonato, but for the pro oction of the honor of the Senato ag. inst a disgraceful trade and to doprive bo renegado repudiator from Virgin, L of the fruits of his trafflo, TQ dq )at Riddleborgur at this time will be rortli thousands of votes to the rogu, ir Democratic dobt payors tickot in io Virginia Stato olection this fall. On the Rcpublican sido thero is oq al determination manifested and noi )or now expects the other to relent. mong Senators tho belief now is at each side will keep enough ncr. 3rs here to watch the other, and that o formality of a session will go of) ghL through tho sunner. There 1s talk of inducing the resident to amngo his decision anid call an extra ~ssion of both houses to compel break, b ut this ideai has been aban anh d. lIn one othier way President artield coulId term inate the .str uggle, iz: by prioregnin g the Senato, as he as poweor under the Constitution to . This would relieve the civil ser ce of some embarrassment, as the I rCeient could then cornmmission all1 s late ap poi nteca andc they could le,~ ally enter upon his duties without >nfirmliation,. iuntil the regular s *ionn uir hundred app)oin-tmenats E nt to the Sonato, of wvhiebi ou abinet officers and about tv -s have been acted utpon. vce the appoint menlts made 4 y this delay but in many a 1 serious diist urbanace of put * s. The District of Columinb. ance, has no marshal and t ail court is completely blocl ouglass the mnar:shal whe pired, can not net and his su~ n not qualify until confirmed. TJ' w Commissioner of Indian :aii ~r. Price, can not qualify tY1c9 rvices arc urgently requirl a b epaurtment, and it was fina!'- ' c. inied to) cornmission .him an (. cik, that officer being cmpoe ft as Cornmissioner in any t uor ar ieaniey. It is not unlikely ta d. residient may puit an end to a h. lly on thie part of his parau I) 'doring the Senators to A.reL cir homes. The embarrassmcn t to Pr':o arfield growing out of his . ' s >poinatments is undoubtehmv 'eat. It is even questionod w.ho a administr'ation can ovei -* om it; yet I think helhas the en t andl sy mpathy' of a ver ajority of the pcollo. Sonato ' ig unquestionably hats great p the party, especially in his ownt ate, though nobody can tell why he C ould have it. lie is simply anu oflico a oker and not a statesman in the U 'oad sense, an arrogant dictator arid U popular leader. But his power ists for' some renson, and his quar isomae dictatorial disposi tion is the ly thing for whliich lie is equallyB atinguished. lie may succeed in do, dting the confirmation of Robertson), al t lie crtainly canno dloLJ it wvithmout I o aid of Democratic votes, and these rn should not have. Wt hother hio is ccessful or whether the Admninistra-~ in carries its point, the breach is obably beyond healing, and the sit.~ Lion is almost, if riot quite, as 1Uu mfortatblo for Mr. Garfield as was p at of the fraudulent Ilayes. This a! sms all wrong. L yho founders of our Republic in- c aded to construct a government the to w e rs o f w h ose dua's..ent, bns ihould, as much as possible balance ach other. Thus, to the President Whs nt given the absolute poweot of ippointment to the principal offices >ut the advice and consent. of the senate was required, which In pra ,ice means that the Senate may con, Irm or reject any nomination. 'What vould have been said by those sages f they could have foreiseen that in es8 tban a centui'y from the adoption >f the Constitution, claims would be advanced by members of Congress ind by local politicians to 'control the patronage' of particular states and districts? A great deal has beeni said ibout "one man power," but if one man as a ruler may be despotic, the :>no man as a local chief is apt to be factious. Instead of grave and rov, 3roned Senators deliberating in sol 3mn conclave over the Nation's wel fare, we may look to soo, as once in Rome, lordly patricians stalking thr. Dugh the halls of' state with crowds of Followers at their hools. The Senator ilis)ns08S offices to his train, and they in turn, give voice, muscle and money Lo support him and continue his power rnd influence. This is the practical working of our system as it has do-. generated to day, and the claim of Uonkling to dictateand control is only 6ho ultra development of it. The financial policy of Secretary Windom, especially that relat.ing to Ahe maturing bonds of the Govern mont, is an absorbing subject in fin.. incial and political circles at present. Undoubtedly the greut majority of' all parties approve the course lie baf ad. )pted, and it unquestionably, so far is it goes, accords with tho views of a majority of both Houses of Congress, ts expressed through the enactment )f thQ funding bill. But there is a gravo legal or constitutional question nvolved, which suffices to throw a iloud over an otherwise stisfactory ituation. It is a question whether ,bc Secretary has pover to extend or sontinuo the bonds called in at a low ,r rate of' interest, or at any other 'ato of interest. It he has power to :oninue a six per cent bond at three nd one halt per ccnt, he would have iqual power to continue the same )ond aLt tn per cent. In other words, f it is in his discrotion to reduce tho -ate of interest, it is equally in his )ower' to increaso it, and there are erious doubts whether any such ex,. ~rois3u ofi discretion rests with the Se !retary. Whait would bo the sense of ~onigress speninutg treo mionths in heenussing thec subject of interest and efhundin ift after' all, tho discretion ested with the Administration of the L'r'easur'y Depairt'tnent? In this case lhe action taiken is generally approv-. d, antd works to the advantage of the ove'rnment; but in some~ other case he exercise of thuis samie discretion night, produce very different results. r~om advices so) tar received, it is vidcent that, near'ly all holdness of the ix per cen it bondS calld in will aw "- - . .~ lA haig ten e ' asigtn D. 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