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THE AIKEN, RECORDER. BY DRAYTON & McCRACKEN. AIKEN, S. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1883. VOLUME 2.—NUMBER 37. Professional Advertisements. D. 8. Hesdeiusox. E. P. Hendeesox. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. Official Directory. Geo. W. Cboft. J. Zed Duxlaf. Croft & Dunlap, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. James 'Aldrich, Attorney at Law, Airen, S. C. Practices in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. P. A. Emanuel, Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. C. Will practice in all the State and United States Courts. Special atten tion paid to collections and invest ments of money. W. Quitman Davis, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit. Special attention given to collections. 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Emil Ludekens, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts of this State. All business transacted with promptness. James E. Davis, —Attorney at Law,— Barnwell Court House, S. C. Hawkins K. Jenkins, Attorney at Law, Rock Hill, S. 0. Will practice in all the Courts of this State. Special attention given to collections. Claude E. Sawyer. ArroRNEY at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts, and give special attention to Convey ancing, preparing Abstracts of Titles and Negotiating Loans. B. F. GUNTER, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. -——W4ti- Uofe. in all thf Courts of South Carolina. Prompt attention given to the collection of Claims. j. w. DEVORE. Aiken, S. C. M. B. WOODWARD. Aiken, S. C. DeVore & Woodward, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts of this State. Dr. B. H. Teague, Dentist. OFFICE on * Richland Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. Dr. J. H. Burnett, Dentist. OFFICE AT Graniteville, Aiken County, S. 0. Dr. J. R. Smith, Dentist. OFFICE AT Williston, Barnwell County, S. C. Will attend calls to the country. R. G. Turner, M. D. VAUCLUSE, - - S. C. Office at the store of G. W. Turner. Real Estate for Sale. Also Houses and Rooms to rent. Apply to H. SMITH, Main street, - - Aiken, S. C. CAROLINA SAVINGS BANK. OF CHARLESTON, S. C. 1 Incorporated by the State, 1874. Authorized Capital. . .{jeMMLOOG Undivided Profits . if»2{),07l2 £50 Deposits received and interest al lowed in the above Rank at the rate of Five (5) Per Cent, per annum. Ex change on New York, Liverpool and London bought and sold. Geo. W. Wieliams, President. J. Lamb Johnston, Cashier. Russ & Stothart, GRANITEVILLE, - - S.C. DEALERS IN DJUUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS. VARNISHES, PAINTS, Oils, Glass, Putty, Fine Soaps, Per fumery, Dye Woods and Dye Stuffs generally, Spunges, Brushes, and all articles kept by druggists generally. ty Physicians’ Prescriptions care fully compounded. W. W. Bansley, AT THE Globe Hotel Barber Shop, AUGUSTA, - - GEORGIA, Is now prepared to accommodate the most fastidious with a first-class shave, haircut or shampooing. BARBER SHOP. T HE undersigned have opened a «. Firstelass Barber Shop on Lau rens Street, Aiken, S. C., where they will be pleased to see their friends and patrons. Shaving, Hair Cutting and Sham pooing executed at reasonable psices. W. F. CORMICK, J. R. BOYCE. ^ The State. Governor, Hugh S. Thompson. Lieutenant-Governor, John C. Sheppard. Secretary of S'ate, James N. Lipscojib. A Homey-General, Charles Richardson Miles. State Treasurer, John Peter Richardson. Comptroller- General, William E. Stoney. Superintendent of Education, Asbury Coward. Adjutant and Inspector-General, A. M. Manigaclt. Cnited States Senators, Wade Hampton, M. C. Bctler Congressmen, First District—Samuel Dibble. Second District—Geo. D. Tillman Third District—D. Wyatt Aiken. Fourth District—John H. Evins. Fifth District—John J. Hemphill. Sixth District—George W. Dargan. Seventh District—E. W. M. Mackey Agricultural Department, A. P. Butler, superintendent. L. A. Ransom, secretary. Railroad Commissioners, M. L. Bonham, T. B. Jeter, Legare J. Walker. Penitentiary, T. J. Lipscomb, superintendent. Supreme Court, W. D. Simpson, Chief Justice. Henry McTvek, Associate Justice. S. McGowan, Associate Justice. Circuit Courts, First Circuit—B. C. Pressley. Second Circuit—A. P. Aldrich. Third Circuit—T. B. Fraser. Fourth Circuit—J. H. Hudson. Fifth Circuit—J. B. Kershaw. Sixth Circuit—J. D. Witherspoon. Seventh Circuit—Wm. H. Wallace. Eighth Circuit—Janies S. Cothran. Solicitor Second Circuit, F. Hay Gantt. E3T Congress meets on the first Monday in December of each year. tyThe Legislature meets on the fourth Tuesday in November of each year. £3$“ The Circuit Court for Aiken County meets three times a year, as follows: first Monday in February, last Monday in May, and second Monday in September. Congressional districts. First—Charleston and Berkley— (St. Phillips and St. Michaels, Mount Pleasant, Moultrieville, St. James Goosecreek. Summerville), ten town ships of Colleton, fourteen townships of Orangeburg, and the entire County of Lexington. Second—Hampton, Barnwell, Ai ken, Edgefield, and Colleton—(Brox- son and Warren). Third—Abbeville, Newberry, An derson, Plekeiif s»nd Oconee. Fourth—Greenville, Spartanburg —(except White Plains and Lime stone Townships), Laurens, Union— (except Goudeysville and Drayton- ville Townships), Fairfield, Richland —(Upper Township, Columbia and Centre). Fifth—York, Chester, J^ancaster, Union—(Goudeysville and Drayton- ville), Spartanburg—(White Plains and Limestone), Chesterfield and Kershaw. Sixth—Clarendon, Williamsburg— (Kingstree, Sumter, Lees, Johnsons and Lake), Darlington, Marlboro’, Marion and Horry. Seventh—Georgetown, Williams burg — (except Kingstree, Sumter, Lees, Lake and Johnsons), Sumter, Hichland—(Lower Township), seven townships of Orangeburg, Charleston and Berkley not in First Distriet, six townships of Colleton, and the entire County of Beaufort. Judicial Circuits. First—Charleston, Berkeley and Orangeburg. Second—Aiken, Barnwell, Beau fort, Colleton and Hampton. Third—Sumter, Clarendon, Wil liamsburg and Georgetown. Fourth—Chesterfield , Marlboro’, Darlington, Marion and Horry. Fifth—Kershaw, Richland, Edge- field and Lexington. Sixth—Chester, Lancaster, York and Fairfield. Seventh—Newberry, Laurens, Spar tanburg and Union. Eighth—Abbeville, Oconee, Ander son, Pickens and Greenville. : o: The County. Senator, D. S. Henderson. Reprcscntati ves, John M. Bell, George W. Croft. F. P. Woodward, Thos. J. Davies. Sheriff, Milledge T. Holley. Cleric of Court, Wm. M. Jordan. Probate Judge, W. W. Williams. School Commissioner, Luther W. Williams. County Commissioners, Wm. M. Foley, J. Cal. William Stevens. O. P. Champlain, clerk of board. Treasurer, J. E. Murray. Auditor, David H. Wise. Corom r, S. P. Kitchixo. Jury Commissioner, R. L. Evans. who constitutes the Board, with the following ex-ofticio members, viz., the Auditor and the chairman of the Board of County Commissioners. Board of School Examiners, Luther W. Williams, ex-officio cii’m. James E. Crosland, Charles E. R. Drayton. Board of Assessors, B. W. Moseley, Aiken. J. H. Quattlebaum, Chinquapin. J. G. Sally, Giddy Swamp. James Powell, Gregg. H. L. Mayson, Hammond. Macom Gunter, Hopewell. W. E. Sawyer, McTier. Martin Holley, Millbrook. Daniel Jefeoat, Rocky Grove.'* James M. Cook, Rocky Spring. J. D. Taylor, Shaw’s. Jus. C. Hammond, Shultz. R. S. Hankinson, Silverton. Isaae W. Foreman, Sleepy Hollow. James K. Brodie, Tabernacle. R. L. Evans, Windsor. Chairman—E. 8. Hammond. Secretary—Jas. C. Hammond. Kx-officio Clerk—J. H. Mmrgaa. Courtney, A GLORIOUS CELEBRATION UNVEILING THE CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT CAMDEN. About Two Thousand Soldiers in Col umn—Six Thousand Spectators—A Magnificent Oration by Senator Hampton. Camden, June 20.—Camden’s great day is over, and a more successful re union the State has not seen. Through the early morning the people poured in from the country and the streets were speedily crowded. The local com mittees were working nearly all night in preparations. From different causes difficult to ascertain, except that two of the companies arrived at the last moment, the line wiiich was to have moved at 1:30 did not form fully until 3 p. m. The sky was clear, the dust being pretty well laid by yesterday’s rain, but the sun was baking. The parade was very handsome. The men marched well and the varied uniforms made a bright and panora mic spectacle. At the end of the route the brigade turned and marched in review by the stand before the Governor. The stand was about thirty feet to the west of the monument and was exquisitely decorated with South ern taste and appropriateness. An immense crowd occupied the broad square at the corner of Broad and Laurens streets. The crowd, outside of the military, is estimated at 6,000. THE MONUMENT is a prominent landmark in the town, and can he seen from a long distance on account of its position at the inter section of two principal streets. It was built by Mayhew & Son, of Co lumbia, and is in the Gothic style. The base is made of Winnsboro gran ite, and the shaft, which is of marble, is eight feet in height and four in cir cumference; the whole monument being twenty feet in height, surmoun ted by a dove with wings spread. On one side of the monument are two swords crossed, with the dates 1861 and 1883. On another side is a laurel wreath, with the letters C. S. A. An other side bears this inscription: “This monument is erected by the women of Kershaw County in memory of her brave sons who fell during the Con federate war defending the rights and honor of the South.” On another side is, “They died for home and country, and are gratefully remem bered wherever they be. ‘Countless hearts have conned their story; Countless hearts grown brave thereby;* Let us thank the God of glory Wc had such to die.” Senator Hampton’s Oration. After paying a glowing tribute to “the sublime faith, the constant devo tion and the unflagging patience, of the women of the South,” Senator Hampton spoke as follows: We of the South were NEITHER TRAITORS NOR REBELS, nor was our war in any proper sense a rebellion; it was strictly a civil war, growing out of conflicting interests and different constructions of the Con stitution by the opposing sections of the country. Words are something more than mere symbols; they are often potent to give a wrong aspect to things. We should therefore not ac cept the flippant phraseology in which political demagogues brand the Southern men who fought and died for a cause which they honestly believe to be right and just. Far be it from me to say one word that would tend to rekindle the fires of sectional animosity. I would rather strive to smother those fires in the ashes they mve left. The cause for which we fought has failed, and it is the duty of every patriot in this broad land of ours to endeavor to OBLITERATE THE PASSIONS engendered by the late unhappy war and to make this country—now conse crated to freedom for all time to come —the happy abode of prosperous and contented freemen. The result of the war established the integrity of the Union, and this result we all knew would follow us the legitimate con sequence of the defeat of our arms. When we laid down those arms we accepted this inevitable and logical condition, and we are bound by every dictate of honor and of good faitli not only to yield a ready obedience to the constituted authorities of the Union, but to give our best services to our common country. But while doing this as patriotic citizens it is not in cumbent on us to place with our own bands THE BRAND OF TREASON on the brows of those who fought as bravely, as honestly, as conscientious- Iv for the right as they saw it, as did our forefathers of the Revolution, or as ever men did on this earth. Were we to do so we should deserve and re ceive the contempt of every brave and honorable man who met us in battle, and we would incur the scorn of the whole world. Nor can that “more perfect union” contemplated by our fathers he ever possible if the citizens of one portion of the Republic are to be kept in that Union merely on suf ferance, tolerated but suspected; con tributing their full share to the sup port of the government but not parti cipating in its direction; bearing its burdens but not sharing its honors, and feeling that in the home of their fathers they are but unwelcome in truders. No government w r hich de rives all its just power and authority solely from “the consent of the gov erned” could exist under such an anomalous condition. TO MAKE THE UNION PERFECT it must be composed of equal and homogeneous States; to render it per petual it must be respected and loved; to give it strength it must l»e just, recognizing in the administration of its authority no favored section, know ing no North, no South, no East, no West, but one grand confederation of free and equal States upheld by the love of its citizens, ’and ruling and protecting them by its beneficent sway. That would be the perfect Un ion for which our fathers fought and prayed, and such is the one that would bring enduring peace, universal pros perity and profound contentment to OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. Can this consummation so earnestly desired by every lover of his country be obtained? It seems to me that the signs for the accomplishment of this object are auspicious. Time, with its soothing influence, has mitigated those fierce passions which dominated men of both sections of the country and of all parties during the war and immediately after it; a closer contact between the people of the North and those of the South of late has taught both parties to understand, to resirect and to appreciate the actions and nro- tivesofeach other more fully than hitherto; both sections are beginning to comprehend that neither can be permanently or solidly prosperous without the aid of the other; slavery, the fruitful cause of bitterness and strife, has been abolished forever; commercial and social connections are daily drawing nearer together the late opposing sections; the wounds made by THE SAVAGE HAND OF WAR are known now only by the scars with which Time has mercifully covered ,them; and true and brave men of all sections and of all parties are turning from the darkness of the past while looking hopefully to the brightness of the future. It is a significant and noteworthy fact that the very men who are foremost in the effort to secure honorable and lasting reconcil iation are those who met each other on the battle-fields, and I doubt not if the men of those great armies which for four years grappled in a death struggle had been charged with the duty of settling the terms on which the South should he restored to the Union after the war, we should long since have enjoyed a peace honorable alike to conquerors and conquered, and we should have been spared the wrongs, the suffering, the shame and the humiliation of Reconstruction. Brave men who have met in battle “foeinen worthy of their steel,” are apt to be generohs to a disarmed foe, and the men who are doing most to bring about reconciliation are those who stood most bravely and loyally by their respective colors during the war. It is fresh in the remembrance of all of us how cordially our noble fellow-citizens of Charleston wel comed THE SOLDIERS OF CONNECTICUT recently, and the people of that State are even now preparing zealously to jifc: ice rules and fraternal relations avf cultivated; if the time shall come wiien the North can look with admi ration on the heroic courage, the un surpassed fortitude, the indomitable energy and the incomparable pluck displayed by the South, and the South can earnestly strive to imitate what is beijt at the North, we shall see a re- stored Union in fact as well as in name. When like the citizen of Ityme, when Rome swayed the desti nies of the world and it was his proud est boast to say “I am a Roman citi- zeu,” so will every man over 'whom waves the flag of the Union feel a pride In declaring that he is an Amer ican citizen. It requires only mutual forbearance, concession and generosi- tyVn the part of the Late contending sections to bring about this result, and surely every statesman, every lover of his country desires to see this end reach ed. And it can be attained without tbjiJtoss of self-respect by any honor able man, North or South; without any unmanly degradation, without the! sacrifice of one honest conviction or of one cherished principle. The questions which were at issue be tween the North and the South and which were left to the arbitrament of war w r ere decided against us, but the svvord never lias decided and never will decide a question involving a great principle. The final judgment as to the motives and the actions of 5nan rests with a higher tribunal than any on this earth, and to that last great court of appeal must every ques tion of right and wrong be submitted. But we have divine command to yield obedience to constituted authority, and it is the duty of every good citi- zeiLwho receives the protection of the Government to obey its law's. For ouq convictions we are responsible ak^ie to our own consciences and to oirt^ God. Hence there is no incon- sisfency in our giving to the Consti tution and the laws under which we li^ an earnest, conscientious support, while we hold in tender reverence the memory of tiie men who died for the cause w'e held to be just and right. We respect the North for honoring their dead and their living; we should be respected fordoing the same; and we feel that we are discharging one of the highest duties of humanity when we turn aside from the daily avoca tions of life to do honor to those whose fealty has been shown even unto dellth. No people are worthy to live who lack reverence for their heroic dead. I pray that the time may never come when the HUMBLE GRAVES OF OUR SOLDIERS shall not be deckod with the fairest rcciprocaleto oirr galhtlTt' soMiers^+rr of^'r.’-iigr-er-tKat t4t«se honored right royal fashion the welcome given to them in the City by the Sea. If, then, the active participants in the late war can meet their former ene mies on friendly terms as fellow- citizens of a reunited and com mon country, all holding the same interests, cherishing the same purposes, bound by the same destiny and seeking the same ends, surely the political demagogues, the men who were citizens in war and soldiers in peace, can no longer retard the ad vent of an honorable reconciliation and a blessed peace. The battle-fields whereon our fearful contest was w r aged and where shot and shell ploughed cruel furrows are now teeming with the fruitful products of man’s indus try; the frowning battelements, whence of old death was dealt with such frightful prodigality, are crum bling to dust; the wild flowers bloom alike over the graves of Federal and Confederate dead; the gentle dews and the soft rains of heaven fall alike, too, on the last resting places of THE GREY AND THE BLUE, and the glad sunshine throws its glo rious light on the holy mounds where sleep side by side the brave soldiers of the North and of the South. Enemies no longer, they slumber peacefully to gether, waiting till the last great re veille shall summon them to roll-call on high. Until that dread trumpet shall awaken them these buried he roes will sleep in peace, for “On Fame’s eternal comping ground Their silent tents are spread. And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.” Our kind mother, Nature, teaches us by her grand and perpetual lessons that the wounds left by war are not mortal or incurable, and history in culcates the same great truth. I need only to refer to our mother country for one illustration from the many which might be given. The descen dants of Lancaster, of York, of Cava lier and of Puritan, have buried for ever the feuds of their ancestors, and all alike boast with just pride that they are Englishmen, proud of the bravery of their ancestors and of the glory, the grandeur and greatness of their country. The wounds inflicted by civil war on England have long since healed, and may we not hope that time will apply the same healing halm to those from which America, child of England, is now suffering? If this hope can be realized a grand future lies before this country, and in its onward march to greatness and power the South, that beloved South of ours, which has so long been clothed in mourning, will not lug be hind, but she will be found, as in the past, contributing her full share to the prosperity, the honor, the fame and the glory of the great Republic. We ask, though, but in no arrogant spirit, that our former enemies may do jus tice to our motives aud our conduct. We assert that we have been honest, sincere aud conscientious. We recog nize the integrity of the Union and the SUPREMACY OF THE CONSTITUTION as amended, and as citizens of the great Republic we claiu all the rights guaranteed by that Constitution. We ask no more; we never can be satis fied with less. If wise counsels gov ern the authorities of the country; if monuments in your midst shall no longer awaken emotions of pride and of pity for the memory of DeKalb, of Dickson and of the Confederate dead. In a noble tribute to the gifted and lamented Gen. Pettigrew, one of the most briliant writers of this day, William Henry Trescot, uses language so appropriate to this occasion and so much more eloquently than I could do that I esunot refrain from quoting it. “And thus it happened,” he says while speaking of the sacrifices of our people, “that the very flower of our youth were mowed down by the reap er whose name is Death in the rich harvest fields which human passion and civil strife had at last rijiened un- der*the peaceful skies and on the un stained soil of the new Republic. For there was not a community in the Soiith from which the younger men of mark, the men whom their people ex pected to take the place and sustain the characters of the fathers, did not hasten to take up the heavy burden of their responsibility. And if in ordi nary times it is one of the saddest of human experiences to see the sudden destruction of great gifts, the extinc tion of fair promises, the uncomple ted and fragmentary achievement of useful and honorable lives, with what bitter regret must we not review that long list of the dead whose vir tues, whose genius and whose youth we sacrificed in vain. To the memo ry tender care. They went to death at our bidding, and the simple and heroic language of one, not the least among them, spoke the spirit of all. ‘Tell the Governor,’ said he as he lay dying, ‘that if I am to die now I give my life cheerfully for the indepen dent of South Carolina.” “Their leaf has perished in the green, And while we breathe beneath the sun The world which credits what is done Is cold to all that might have been.” “(^f the great men of this civil war history will take care. The issues were too a*gh, the struggle too famous, the consequences too vast for them to be forgotten. But as for those of whom I speak, if indeed the State is the mother whom they so fondly loved, she will never forget them. She will speak of them, in a whisper it must be, but in tones of love that will live through all these dreary* days. From the children that survive to her her heart will yearn forever towards the early lost. The noble enthusiasm of their youth, the vigorous promise of their manhood, their imperfect and unrecorded achievement, the pity* of their deaths, will so consecrate their memories that be the revolutions of laws and institutions, be the changes of customs and fortunes what they may, the South will, living, cherish with a holier and stronger love, and dying, if die she must, will murmur with her latest breath the names of ‘THE CONFEDERATE DEAD.’ ‘When I think of Pettigrew and men not unlike him, and think that even they could not save us; when I see that the cause yvhlch called out all their virtues and employed all their ability has been permitted to sink in utter ruin; when I find that the great principles Of constitutional liberty, the pure and wqll ordered society, the venerable institutions in which they lived and for which they died, have been allowed to perish out of the land, I feel as if in that Southern cause there must have been some terrible mistake. But when I look back again upon such lives and deaths; when I see the virtue, the intellect and the courage which were piled high in ex alting sacrifice for this very cause, I feel sure that unless God has altered the principles and motives of human conduct, we were not wholly wrong. I feel sure that whatever may be the future, even if our children are wiser than we, and our children’s children live under new laws and amid strange institutions, history will vindicate our purpose while she explains our errors, and from generation to generation she will bring luick our sons to the graves of these soldiers of the South and tell them, aye, even in the fullness of a prosperity yve shall not see, “This is holy ground; it is gr.od for you to be here!” God grant that this patriotic hope may be fulfilled! God grant that our country may enjoy a fullness of prosperity as great as the most ar dent patriot can wish, and may our children through all succeeding ages venerate the memory and protect the fame of these DEAD SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTH! They are worthy of all honor; for bra ver, truer, more devoted and more patriotic men than these never died for the land they loved. I know, my friends, hoyv many homes have been made desolate by the death of the gallant soldiers whom the State mourns. I know that many a father’s l/eart yearns for the hoy yvho should* Ziave been the pride and prop of his old age, but who has joined that vast army of dead heroes whom we are now honoring. I know how many a mother, as she strews floy^rs on the graves of our dead, like RdSbl “weeps for her children aud refuses to be com forted because they are not”; but our sons died in the discharge of their duty, and could we “yvish them a fairer death?” “I have prayed to the gods,” said Xenophen, w*hen told that his son had fallen in battle, “not for my son to he immortal, but to be brave,” and if patriotism could sus tain a pagan father in the death of his child, surely the same seritimqjit, aided by the blessed spirit of Chris tianity, should teach us to bear our bereavements with resignation, for we look forward to an eternal reunion with those who are not lost but only “gone before.” To you, WOMEN OF THE SOUTH, behipgs the high and sacred duty of guarding the graves of these dead sol- diere of the South—duty which so far has been nobly discharged. You have another duty to perform—it is to teach ymrr^-hildrf h» that>while serving theft) country faithfully they must cherish as among their proudest heritages the memory of the men yvho died for the South. Teach them to be worthy of their fathers, to love their native land and to defend their liberties forever, if need be with their lives. I need not exhort you to preserve these cemeter ies—these God’s acres—sacredly. You have made them for our warrior-dead; you have dedicated them in tne name of the Most High; in your loving care they yvill be forever safe. Blessed by God ami protected by woman, no holier spots can be found on earth. “And Freedom hallows with her tread The silent cities of the dead; For beautiful in death are they Who proudly fall in her array; And soon, oh Goddess! may we be Forevermore with them and thee!” Gen. Hagood and the Railroad. | Edgefield Chroicle.] Gen. Johnson Hagood, president o! the Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railroad, arrived in our vil lage last Wednesday morning and re mained here, the guest of Senator Butler, until Thursday morning. The special object of Gen. Hagood’s visit here was to make arrangemen ts with our town council to cancel the mort gage of $12,000, held by this town against the Railroad, and accordingly at a special meeting of council on Wednesday Gen. Hagood made a for mal proposition to deposit $20,000 of second mortgage bonds on the entire line in lieu of the first mortgage of $12,000, and this proposition was ac cepted by the council and a resolution passed cancelling the first mortgage so far as the council had the power to cancel it. Senator Butler and a num ber of other prominent citizens were at ;he meeting and everybody who spoke advised the council to cancel the mortgage. Gen. Butler explained that it was to the interest of the Rail road, to the town and the bond holders to accept Gen. Hagoods propo sition. Preident Hagood talked quite freely and frankly about the prospects of the Railroad. He is confident that the road yvill be built at an early day, but tiie surest way he, said, to hasten its completion was for the people who live along the line to do everything possible to assist and encourage the enterpise. He referred to the old story about Hercules and the wagoner and said the moral of the fable was as true now as it always was. Gen. Hagood spoke favorably of the proposition to carry the line by Greenville, but said it was not the intention to abandon Pickens or Easley or any other town on the road. He said he had written a note to the Pickens Sentinel in which he had assured the people of that section that there was no cause for their present apprehensions and that the Railroad would certainly go through Pickens county yvhether it went by Greenville or not. —The Rev. T. B. Jenkins, a Baptist minister, aged 25, blew out the brains of the Rev J. Lane Bonien, under whose ministry he had been conver ted and received as a preacher, at Mansfield, Louisana, on Saturday. Borden was principal of a Female College, at which a girl of 17, who was Mr. Jenkins’ promised wife, at tended. She confessed to Mr. Jen kins that she had been betrayed by Borden, and his action was prompt and effective. Robert K. Lee in Marble. [N. Y. Herald’s Lexington (Va.) Letter.; The occasion of the nnvailing of the commemorative statue may be de scribed almost as a national event in the South. Not, indeed, that is inten ded to be an afterglow of the yvar, or a stirring up of dying embers that had best be left to grow cold forever. The spirit of reconciliation is abroad in the land, and has penetrated even to these sequestered mountains, and it stands alike by the graves of Lincoln and Garfield. The Southern people will look upon the 28th of June, 1883, as a day of beautiful and solemn in terest, of tender recollection, rather than of moody and bitter regret, fin the issues yvhich it might have served to celebrate are closed forever, happi ly sepulchered in the triumph of n great cause. Their attitude toward the commemoration is that of poetic and worshipful remembrance; they have lived and suffered; the longing that yvas once so bitter has passed away, and along with it the pessim ism and hostility consequent on the hatefulyears of reconstruction. They glory in Gen. Lee as the ideal South ern gentleman. WHO WILL PARTICIPATE. It is expected that the ceremonies of so interesting an occasion will bring together a most picturesque his toric group—one of those focal, viv idly accentuated groups such as we see in the great historical pictures at Versailles. Sir. Davis was expected, and may still come, if his feeble health allows. Gen. Joseph E. John ston, as President of the Association of the Army ot Northern Virginia, will preside. Bishop Pinckney, of Maryland, will open the special cere monies of the day in the University chapel. Maj. John W. Daniel, of Lynchburg, the recent Democratic candidate for Governor of Virginia, and au. Orator of admirable gifts and more than locul reputation will ad dress the audience. Deputations from all parts of the country have an nounced their intention of coming. Old soldiers, old Generals, relics of old regiments and brigades, bringing their tattered colors and their battered ar tillery, will animate the charming woods and grassy heights about the town. The remarkable loveliness oi the green Valley of Virginia, in one of whose offshoots Lexington nestles by a strong, swift stream under the shadow of noble mountains, will at tract many lovers of fine landscape and bracing air. A New Yorker, taking the Shenandoah ^iilroad or the Richmond and Alleghany at Lynchburg, can reach the place with the least imaginable difficulty. The passage through the celebrated She-' nandoah valley, sprinkled with mem ories of the war, is hardly excelled anywhere in the land for ever-chang ing, sinuous, luxurious mountain sur prises, poetic coloring and bold land scape form. The town is making most hospita ble arrangements to entertain all who may come; the authorities of the Uni versity are deeply interested in the success of the exercises, and commit tees have been formed to receive and care for the guests. No political sig- niffeanee whatever, however, should be attributed to the gathering. The Lee Memorial Association, which has built the mausoleum at an expense of some $12,000 and purchased the statue at a cost of $15,000, is an organization whose only object is to place in the University chapel, designed and part ly executed under the superinten dence of Gen. R. E. Lee, a fitting tribute, in marble, to the memory of a beloved friend. It will gather in a magnetic circle so much of the wan dering and Bohemian life of the South, it will be illustrated by so many singular and memorable per sonages, its ensemble will have a char acter of such delightful picturesque ness, that there is enough, and more than enough, to fill columns of nar rative without the utterance of words that would wound the sensibilities of a most generous hearted and hospita ble people, or arouse the sectional feeling, North or South. A GLANCE AT THE FIGURE. The statue of Gen. Lee is a lifesize recumbent figure in white Vermont marble, drawing its inspiration from a similar figure over the tomb of the Queen of Prussia, at Charlottenburg, by Routh, and from Hoffgarten’s memorial tomb of tiie Duchess of Nassau, at Wiesbaden. It lies in a sepulchral chamber designed for it. The floor of the chamber is tesselated in white veined marble and encaustic tiles. The walls are paneled with slabs of grayish Indiana marble, set in frames of dark red Baltimore pres sed brick, and there are semi-circular compartments above the panels where medallions in basso relievo of the Con federate Generals may be placed. The light fails from above through a ceiling of semi-translueent, compart- mented glass that strikes the out stretched marble figure at an admira ble angle, filling the room and illumi nating the figure with soft but pow erful radiance. Seen in perspective from the chapel, through heavy silken curtains, the mortuary chamber, with its uplifted illuminated memorial, presents a view of peculiar and strik ing artistic effect. The slumberer— for the General lies on his narrow military couch asleep, one hand rest ing on "his bosom, the other touching his sword—is at perfect peace with the world; the sculptured draperies fall with graceful and life-like ease about tiie slumber-mantled form; tiie face, in its expressive strength and tranquillity, is turned slightly towards the rostrum of the chapel. The Grace Memorial church, dedi cated _to the memory of General and E. Lee, is situated in univer- An American Exploring Expcditlm to Madagascar. An enterprising young Americai.' officer, Mason A. Shufeldt, has secured the co-operation of the secretary of the navy in an exploring expedition across the great Island of Madagas car through a wilderness which has never yet been penetrated. The plan is to start in at the mouth of the Betsibook, a river on the northwest coast, and, after following the course of the stream for about one hundred and twenty-five miles, to push across the country to Tananarive, the capi tal, which has a population of 100,000, andfrom thence to Tamatave on the east coast, where a government vessel will lie found in waiting. Master Shufeldt will take with him a party of about twenty, natives and one as sistant, and the expedition will be provided with a photographic outfii, pencils, instruments, cases and things whic^i men of science take into the wilderness when in scurdh of strange birds, plants, insects aud animals. Duplicate reports of the results of their researches will be sent to the naval department and to the Smith sonian Institute. The present unset tled condition of the country, now that the French are making things un comfortable down there, may dispel the dreams of this young naval offi cer, but in face of all this he is deter mined to go on with the enterprise, the department having left the matter to his discretion. The Florida Canal. Mr. Charles H. Jones, editor of the Jacksonville (Fla.) I'imes-Unton, and one of the directors of the Florida Ship Canal Company, was inter viewed in Nashville concerning the prospects of the canal enterprise. Many of the statements mfl&e by Mr. Jones have already been in print. In addition to 'these, he announces that the salary of ex-Governor Brown, of Tennessee, the president of the com pany, has been fixed at $25,000 per annum by the directors. Arrange ments have been made to secure two powerful dredges, already built in Philadelphia for the Panama Ship Canal and costing$300,000each, which will be put in operation as soon as the work is commenced. Each of these dredges can do the work of 5,000 men. Securities of the company will not be put on market until tiie line is located, the termini selected, and the specifi cations for the contracts perpared. It is expected this can be done by Sep tember 1. Mr. Jones also states that the canal is not to he twenty feet deep* as has been announced, but thirty feet, so that the largest sea-going ves sels can pass through it heavily laden. The State Convicts. [Winnsboro News and Hcrnld.1 Loud complaints are again heard about the treatment of the State con victs hired out to private contractors. It is a noticeable fact that in nearly every case where they have been em ployed either by private parties < corporations, they have been bad treated, and the State, to say nothing of the inhumanity of the praetkv never fails to lose and heavily by such transactions. We do not hesitate to say that it is wrong, grievously wrong, to permit a single convict to go beyond the walls of the penitentiary, Unless it is for the improvement of public works. It is true they are criminals, but humanity demands that they should be treated as human beings. This has not, Is not and will not be done, so Jong as the present policy is adhered to. Will not the General As sembly come to the rescue and legis late the barbarity out of existence ? Death of Mr. Joseph S. Bean. [Augusta Chronicle, 20th inst.) Mr. Joseph S. Bean, after a long ill ness, died this morning, at ids resi dence, on Reynolds Street. For some time his life had been despaired of, but surrounded by the best of atten tion and sustained by the most care ful of nursing, his life was prolonged until to-day. Mr. Bean was a native of New* Hampshire, but had been en gaged in business here L-oia early youth, and at the time of his death was cashier of the National Exchange Bank. He was an useful citizen, a man of modest, sterling worth, and will be missed and mourned in this community. boy Mrs. R, sity ground, and is one of the most beautiful churches in the South. It was built by contributions from all sides, and in its pews of polished oak, its lovely stained glass, its elegant or-, gan and chancel funiturc, presents an a; appropriate side piece to the mortuary ?napel a hundred yards distant Tiie Good Small Boy. [Detroit Free Prest.J “I remember,” said a Detroit to ids Sunday school teacher, “you told me to always stop and count fifty when angry.” “Yes. Well, I’m glad to hear it. It cooled your anger, didn’t it?” “You see, a boy he came into our alley aud made faces at me and dared me to fight. I was going for him. He was bigger’n me and I’d have got pulverized. I remembered what you said and began to count.” “And you didn’t fight?” “No ma’am. Just as I got to forty- two my big brother came along, and the waj* he licked that boy would have made your mouth water! I was going to count fifty aud then run.” —The record of the SUr Route trial is the largest ever made in a criminal trial in this country. Printed in small type and of octavo size it comprises over six thousand pages, or about four and oue-quarter minions of words. The report of the preliminary proceed ings up to the date when the taking of testimony begun covered 463 pages, and the direct testimony for the pros ecution occupies 2,318 pages. Mr. Merrick delivered the longest speech of the trial, lasting nine days ami cov ering 28.3 pages of the record. The record of the Guitcau trial comprised 2,7tX) pages, ami was regarded of ex traordinary length, but become* quite insignificant when compared with this enormous record. —John Brown’s poor widow is liv ing on a lonely farm at the top of a California mountain. She derives her living mainly from asmall crop oi prunes which she is able to raise yearly. iH