The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, April 28, 1881, Image 3
THE SENTINEL
D. F. BRADLEY. Editor.
PICKENS 0. 1-., S. C.:
TEURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1881.
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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
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asigtn D. C., IaWted hoavion atnd
aocomplete cournty Clams colect te Con-h
roedn LandCls Mlleerlsndprcullytufrs
,s stendied to btfe ithoepren of 1~coCuthey
terior at. ispremne ner. and Warc
ma prchased.81292n
InenosllAdaceer Itretb
A.oy A. Experin CeAtorney ndFreiet,
ashingon. C. A. Lehn, toicitsor ofd
mican a. Foregn Claimns, Washigtedon,
td and fomelan ExMiner ofd aitenunr
eatendto ofrie tll business. be for the r
mtior and Suparemen Coromt.y Latnde a
WaFehingn F.pon suehman Soliito f
T-o
S. BRAFMAN.
JUST RECEIVED OUR IM-.
-MENSE STOCK OF
SPRING CLOTHING,
GENTS' FURNI9IIING GOODSI
HATS, &o,
Larger then Ever.
WE MANUIFACTURE EVERY GARMENt
placed in our Stook, which enables us to sell
Goods at Wholesale Prices. That is what
other Retail Merchants have to pay for their
Goods.
WE KEEP ALL
GRADESOF GOODS
FROM' IF,
Gheapest to the Very
Pinest.
Give us a call, and we will prove that w's
can do everything we say.
DON'T MISS THE PLACE.
It is the second
OLO THING STORE
Vrom the Corner in the
Cleveland Block,
4QREENVILLE - - . . . ,'
MR. 31. W. FORD is still with the 13alti
more Clothing House, and he wishes for his
friends to call and see him whether they
want to buy anything of him or not.
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