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THE BY DRAYTON & McCRACKEN. llKEN, S. C., TUESDAY, FEB. 12, 1884. VOLUME 3.—NUMBER 15. Professional Advertisements. D. S. lIr.NDF.R»OX. E. P. Hesdersos. Hendorson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Atkkx, S. C. Will practice in the State and VTnited States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. Geo. AV. Croft. J. Zed Dcxlap. Croft & Dunlap, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, James Aldrich, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Practices in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. Official Directory. P. A. Emanuel, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. 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, Attokhky at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit. Bpecia attention given to collections. 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at Law, Aiken, 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. Claude E. Sawyer. Attorney 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, 8. C. Will, practice in all the Courts of South Carolina. Prompt attention given to the collection of Claims. J. W. DEVORE. Aiken, S. C. M. B. WOODWARD. Aiken, S. C. DeYore & Woodward, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Vili praa^flfe in all the Courts of Dr. B. H. Teague, Dentist. -OFFICE on- Richland Avenue, Aiken, S. C. Dr. J. H. Burnett, Dentist. ——OFFICE AT Graniteville, Aiken County, S. & Dr. J. R. Smith, Dentist OFFICE AT Williston, Barnwell County, S. C. c?r Will attend ealls to the country. R. G. Turner, M. D. VAUCLUSE, - - S. C. Office at the store of G. W. Turner. The State. Governor, Hugh S. Thompson. Lieutenant-Governor, John C. Sheppard. Secretary of State, James N. Lipscomb. A ttnrney- General, Charles Richardson Miles. State Treasurer, John Peter Richardson. Comptroller- General, William E. Stoney. Superintendent of Education, Asbuby Coward. Adjutant and Inspector-General, A. M. Manioault. United States Senators, Wade Hampton, M. C. Butler. ’ Oonyrcssmep, 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, L. J. Walker, 1). P. Duncan. Penitentiary, T. J. Lipscomb, superintendent. Supreme Court, W. D. Simpson, . Chief Justice. Henry McIvek, 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—James S. Cothran. Solicitor Second Circuit, F. Hay Gantt. CiF* Congress meets on the first Monday in December of each year. lag" The Legislature meets .on the fourth Tuesday in November of each year. kSF’ The Circuit Court for Aiken County meets three times a year, as follows: first Monday in April, third Monday in June, fourth 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, Pickens and Oeoi AIKEN COUNTY. HUH COMMERCIAL WEALTH, MANUFACTORIES AND HOTELS. Fourth—Greej THE Georgia Chemical Works. Manufacturers of all kinds of Fertili zers. M. C. STOVALL, Secretary and Treasurer, Augusta, Ga. Langley Brothers, 104 King St., CHARLESTON, S. C., Manufacturers of Ladies' and Gents' UNDER WEAR. H AVE your Osnaburg Underwear for Rheumatism, made by Langley Rros., and save nionev. tSUFull price list and directions for measurement sent out by Langley Bros., on application. -OF- Pure Cod Liver o WITH IRISH MOSS and Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda. T HE most valuable preparation oi Cod Liver Oil for Colds, Coughs, Consumption, Amemia, General De bility and all pulmonary affections. Prepared by ANDREW A. KROEG, Charleston, S. C. Price $1; small bottle 50 cents. Fo^sale by all druggists. stone Townships), nru!M»P7"Wmon (except Goudeysville and Drayton- ville Townships), Fairfield, Richland —(Upper Township, Columbia and Centre). Fifth—York, Chester, Lancaster, 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, Richland—(Lower Township), seven townships of Orangeburg, Charleston and Berkley not in First District, 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. Sixtli—Chester, Lancaster, York and Fairfield. Seventh—Newberry, Laurens, Spar tanburg ami Union. Eighth—Abbeville, Oconee, Ander son, Pickens and Greenville. Interesting Extract from Hammond's Hand-Book of South Carolina. T*e following extract from Ham mond’s Hand-Book of South Carolina will be read with interest by the read ers of The Recorder: Aiken County has sixteen towns and trading settlements, with one hundred and four stores, distributed as follows: Aiken Court House, forty- four stores; Graniteville, seventeen stores; Hamburg, nine stores; Beech Island, six stores; Langley, Windsor and Ellenton, five stores each; Mont- morenci, three stores; Bath and Vau- cluse, two stores each; Hammond, Johnston, Kitching Mills, Merritt’s, Sunnyside and White Pond, one store each. Of this number eight sell li quors, three hardware, thirty-seven miscellaneous articles, and fifty-six general merchandise. Two are kept by colored persons. The estimated wealth of the storekeepers is stated at $712,000. Aiken, the county seat, was settled in 1.833, when the South Carolina Railroad, then the longest in the world, was built. The first settlers were persons from the lower country in search of a healthy and invigora ting climate during summer. Since it lias become a famous health resort for those from Northern latitudes seeking a warm dry winter air and sunshine. It has an elevation of about six hundred feet above the sea level, and the soil is coarse quutzose sand to the depth of ninety to one hundred and fifty feet, sanitary conditions rein forced by the balsamic odors of the great pine forest that surrounds it. In addition to numerous excellent board ing houses, the Highland Park Hotel, open during the spring and winter months for Northern visitors, is one of the largest and, in many respects, one of the best hotels in the South. There is a private bank in the town. The population in 1880 was 1,817. The streets of Aiken are wide. The side walks are raised and covered with clay. This clay, restir-g on a bed of deep sand, is kept well drained, and forms a smooth, hard, elastic surface. A broad drive of the same material has been similarly constructed from the Highland Park Hotel to the freight depot, three-quarters of a mile, at a cost of $600. It forms an excel lent roadway, over which even heav ily laden cotton wagons are in the habit of moving at a trot. It is claim ed that six or eight inches of such clay, spread over these sand beds, will make a durable road of this charac- rg j for, easily kept in repair. As bodies wn. .i ti —...... A HUMANITARIAN ISSUE. -: o:- -GO TO- flOBMftHY’S;fiRfXGflLLEBY, [Wade’s Old Stand,] 70S Broad St. - - AUGUSTA, GA. : o: W E have the same portrait artist, Mr. Branson, and can give you fine city work in every branch of art. Call and see us. The County. Senator, D. S. Henderson. Representatives, John M. Bell, George W. Croft, F. P. Woodward, Thos. J. Davies. Sheriff, Milledge T. Holley. Clerk of Court, Wm. M. Jordan. Probate Judge, W. W. Williams. School Coinmissioner, Luther W. Williams. Conn ty Com m issioners, Wm. M. Foley, J. Cal. Courtney, William Stevens. O. P. Champlain, clerk of board. Treasurer, J. E. Murray’. A ud it or, David H. Wise. Corone r, S. P. Kitching. Jury Commissioner, R. L. Evans. who constitutes the Hoard, with the following ex-oliieio members, Y'iz., the Auditor and the chairman of the Board of County Commissioners. Hoard of School Examiners, Luther W. Williams, ex-otticio ch’m. James E. Crosland, Charles E. it. Drayton. Hoard of Assessors, B. W. Moseley, Aiken. J. H. Quattlebaum, Chinquapin J. G. Sally, Giddy Swamp. James Powell, Gregg. H. L. Mayson, Hammond. * Maeom Gunter, Hopewell. W. E. Sawyer, MeTier. Martin Holley, Millbrook. Daniel Jefcoat, Rocky Grove. James M. Cook, Rocky Spring. J. 1). Taylor, Shaw’s. Jas. C. Hammond, Shultz. R. S. Hankinson, Silverton. Joe Stallings, Sleepy Hollow. James K. Brodie, Tabernacle. R. L. Evans,. Windsor. Chairman—H. L. Mayson. Secretary—J. D. Taylor. Ex-ofiicio Clerk—J. IK Morgan. every locality throughout the sandy lower two-thirds of the State, the above experiments suggest the mate rial and methods suitable for con structing good and cheap dirt roads in this section. Graniteville, on Horse Creek, where the Columbia road ap proaches the Charleston and Augusta railroad, is a thriving manufacturing village of 1,069 inhabitants. Vau- cjuse, a few miles above, and Langley and Bath, a short distance below, are U‘i u ‘** c ^ J ” . .. ... .. ., ’ ’the influence of the similar villages, situated in the valley of this stream. Hamburg, opposite Augusta, has now only about 485 in habitants. Fifty years ago it was a prosperous village of 1,200 inhabi tants. Besides flour, corn, tobacco and other productions, there Yvas then shipped hence by steamboat to Sa vannah and Charleston as many as twenty-six thousand bales of cotton in one season. Fifteen steamboats, capable of transporting six hundred to ono thousand bales at a load, once plied regularly, making weekly trips between this town and the cities of Charleston and Savannah. A Chapter on Bulldozing’. (From The Greenville News.) It is very unpleasant to see that some of the property holders in the town of Aiken are fighting the 'sub scription to the Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railroad with the same methods heretofore used to fight radicalism. They threaten their ten ants and dependents with increase of rent, foreclosure of mortgages and ejectment us punishment for voting for the subscription. A number of newspapers have asserted that such means are being used and have not lieeii contradicted. This is one of the evils necessarily proceeding from the abnormal condi tion of our polities, and it has been foreseen with sorrow and dread for a long time. Methods which aro justi fiable when used to save the State from anarchy and ruin are not justifi able under any other circumstances. That fact should be instilled in the public mind without delay. The evil can be checked in only one way and it ought to be checked before it grows big enough to crush all those who want honesty and freedom to prevail and the rights of citizenship to be maintained. Aiken is a good place to begin. Every man who is suspected on reasonable evidence of bulldozing or attempting to bulldoze in the town election ought to be indicted, tried in State Courts, and, if found guilty, con victed and severely punished. We must have it understood that ques tions of policy and polities can not be discussed and decided as contests be tween honest men and freebooters are. We have a right to resist an invasion of thieves or burglars with deadly wea pons but we have no right to use them to decide disputes with our neighbors who are as honest as we are and mean as well as we do. If we douse them in that way we ought to be punished and must be if civilization is to con tinue. ^ The mass of mankind were poor when the Pyramids were built, and will be poor when they have rotted. A Sensational and Wonderful Scheme —Edgefield Petitions for Educa tional Appropriations for Alaska- Two School Houses Required to Each Inhabitaut. Editor Aiken Recorder: The vital need of Southern|>olitics is some distinctive new, national and broadly humanitarian doctrine. Some doctrine which striking its roots deep ly into the advanced ideas of the age shall draw its nourishment and take its growth from the latest and most widely prevailing thoughts and feel ings of mankind. Free trade, perhaps, is the best thing of the sort that s» far ’has been offered, but it lacks novelty, and it addresses itself chiefly to the merely industrial and material wants of man, wants which rarely or never generate those grand impulses that compel the course of history. Civil service reform is on a higher, but on a narrower plane, and the sharp and well defined distinction between the reformers ami the reformed, the ins and the outs, is likely to be blurred and obscured in the dust raised in clean sing the augean stables of the public service. Of one thing, however, we may rest assured, that so certainly as there is a great destiny before this country, just so surely will this want be supplied. It will be evolved from the practical common sense of our citizens, and when it is instinct with life we shall hear its birth announced in ringing tones by our Representa tives in Congress. Already our senses are on the alert to catch this sound. Perchance we have already heard it, mayhap the first steps in the new de parture has already been taken. We refer to an inconspicious para graph in small print in the Notes and Courier, stating that the Hon. G. D. Tillman presented in the United States House of Representatives the petition of the citizens of Edgefield County, praying the Government to make appropriations to establish in dustrial and other schools in Alaska. Here is the germ of something new, national and broadly humanitarian. No abolition or colonization scheme ever plumed its imagination for a higher or a wider flight. View it as we may it arrests our attention and commands our admiration. The in domitable pluck of the people of Edgefield rises before us superior to all those selfisli cares which clog the lot of man here below; in spite of last summer’s drought on cotton, and the unprecedented frosts of this winter upon oats, their warm and generous hearts send forth a bioad beam of brightest sympathy across the widest diameterof the continent, to shed its light and heat over all the Y’ast and frozen v^gstes of Alaska. The noble desire shared in by all civilized na- T7T i.ms to Af which much treasure and many valu able lives are sacrificed yearly—is as nothing when Compared with this im pulse to minister to the want of hu man souls throughout the length and breadth of the aretiejprolongation of the United States. The length is over 1,500 miles and the breadth is over 2,- 200 miles. In this wide rigion there is about one human being to every 11 square miles. It is estimated that average school house, when set upon a hill, is effec tive over an area of 5 square miles, whence it follows that to afford the Alaskans the full enlightenment of the modern school house Yvill require a fraction over two school houses to each inhabitant. Again, such a conception on the part of the citizens of Edgefield at once dispels, as does the rising sun the va pors of the night, all those foul charges that they ever were or woultl have been, even under the greatest provocations, influenced by race prej udices ; for it is well-known that in all Alaska only a few hundred whites temporarily sojourn as traders and government ofticials, while the bulk of the population are Aleuts, Eskimo, Russians, Japanese, Chinese and Ne groes. Mr. Eliot says, that noYvhere among the same number of persons is a greater mriety of the-types of man kind repreie.nted than among the Pritilov Islands the commercial em porium of Alaska. For moral grandeur, and enlarge ment the conception is unrivalled, and yet with all its dove-like purity and innocence it may not be devoid of that wisdom of the serpent commend- ded by scripture. If we may venture to look on the practical bearings of the. question and guess at the character of the industrial schools to be establish ed, it Yvill at once occur to us that they must have reference to the fur seal in dustries of which this region now en joys the monopoly. The excellent na tives of St. Georges and St. Pauls who, says Mr. Eliot, have never since the occupation by the United States committed one single act that could have justified the interposition of a * trial justice, receive only 40 cents for each skin of the fur seals, while the same skins after enriching numerous middlemen and bloated monopolists are finally disposed of for from»$25 to $166.66 each. Such is the nefarious treatment of these innocent and Christian Aleuts by the more highly educated and civilized nations of the earth. Of course the only effective remedy is to teach tfiem to read, write and speak fluently the English language so that they may be able to retaliate successfully upon others the practices now directed against them selves. Jiut this is a restricted view of the great developments possible in this highly favored region. Here are the breeding grounds of the fur seal; these animals are gentle and gregarious; they have the softest and most ami able blue and black eyes, and almost every moral excellence, except that they are somewhat tainted with the great western vice of polygamy. They have the shortest tails and the largest brain cases i# proportion to size of any known ann.mal except man, and in all human tlaits they far excel the most authrop<nd of the apes. That the United Stat\s|Governmciit should not only pormil t>ut encourage annually the slaughter of 100,000 of these beings for their skii s, simply to swell the pomp and p ide of luxurious beauty and to heap ip riches for the Alaska Commercial Company is enough to dest frenzy in every So- ’revention of Cruelty to ughout the length of y other land. On the arouse the wi ciety for the Animals thr this and eve great seal r< okeries of this region dwell during ix months of the year, as shown in c stail by the 10th United States eensu , 2,000,000 kotickie or young and y ?arling seals; 1,764,407 matka or fei lale seals, maids and mothers; 1,0 X),000, holluschikie or bachelor staji, and 429,013’ seecatchie or patriarcljseals, in all 4,693,420 liv ing creatuijes second to man only in morals andfintelligeuce and vastly su perior »> him as regards many most import‘JiPTfriSacities. Already they may be considered, while on shore, as much donlestic animals as sheep; suppose now they ^ould be perma nently doraestieated and made help mates of njan over the wide waters of the northern seas and in their un known depths? Suppose that the people of Edgefiel^ County were the first to suggest and the whole people of this great Nation were the first to carry out this grand conception, there would be a step taken in the world’s advance, such as has not been taken since the horse was subjected to man’s uses and'for centuries made his mas ter, master also of afl the other people of the world. The benefits to be ex pected from the seal as a domestic ani mal are a thousandfold more impor tant than those derived from the horse, as the -ea is greater than the dry land. Mr. Huske will at once put in his cav eat for a certain number to capture the millions of carp he is about to breed in the rice fields of Carolina, and Bat tler, theComMlssioner of Agriculture, who is in Edgefield man, is preparing a bill for tile next Legislature with drawing all privileges fi'om phosphate companies dredging in the navigable waters of the State, as a few domestic seals, managed by one or two Aleuts, will bo able to undertake this whole business on account of the State so that the community as a whole may thus cheaply and certainly reap all the profits of river mining. But this is a narrow view of the matter. The last census show that these seals are the most Wonderful fisherman of this age, they know fishing banks over thous ands of square miles of the ocean, never dreamed of by the fishing fleets of man, myriads of cod’s heads bitten off by them and rejected by their fas- idHnjg appeiies lire annually floated A SHIPWRECKED CREW. THE OLD RADICAL RULERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. ka. EWhry year they consume more than 6,ff00,000 tons of fish or more than 2,000 snip loads for the longest ocean steamers. With such facilities as man could offer to the educated, civilized and domesticated fur seal they may easily furnish 100,000 steamer loads of salt fish or fish food for 100,000,000 of people, say a meat supply for the pop ulation of America. Nor will this wonderful development end here, after the seals are tamed, there are thous ands of sea lions, and after them thousands of Yvalrus, the elephants of the deep, furnishing man with ivory and leafier of the finest quality. Now these # great ends are to be ac complished by the establishment on Alaska soil of* a few universities in structing the natives in the DaAvinian philosophy concerning the evolution and treatment of animals under do mestication, and a few seminaries with professors drawn from the socie ties for the prevention of cruelty to animal?, for the elevation of their moral cmiracters. Surely the people of Edgefield County and their distin guished Representative are engaged in a great and noble work. Long may they live and prosper. X. Y. At the first battle of Manassas the uniform of the First Louisiana regi ment, of Confederate infantry \\*as blue. Another Confederate regiment, mistaking them for the enemy, began firing upon them. An order was im mediately given for the Louisianians to shuck their coats and put them on inside out, and the comical spectacle of 800 men with their coats all turned wrong pnt an end, for the time being, to the pomp of war. This was the first ^greut reverse” that befell the LouiJ^mta’oops in ^ ie war. H. I. Kimball, of hotel fame, has a scheme on hand for building a subur ban city near Atlanta. His idea is to get a million of capital and spend half of it in paying for 400 acres of land and certain improvements there on, $5,000 for a park, $150,000 for a mile of street, paved and graded, $50,- 000 for a'Central stand-pipe for water works, electric light and heater, and to build fifteen houses for $10,000 each. Years have dealt gently with Sena tor Pendleton. Turning sixty now, his hair Ls. as black, as glossy and as curly as it was when he first took his seat in the old hall of the House of Representatives. His heard has whi- tenedsojue, but his eyes are bright, there is a good color in his cheeks, he steps in a sprightly way, and still loves a quick walk down the avenue. Men Who Flourished in “the Pros trate Slate” when the Stealing was Good and the Ballot-Box was Guar ded by Bayonets. (From the Boston Herald.) Washington, D. C., Feb. 2.—I had a talk with a South Carolina Republi can attending the funeral of E. W. M. Mackey. “His death,” he said, removes the only real live political force opposed to the Democratic party in South Carolina, a State which ten years ago was as surely Republican as is Vermont. Since the death of Bowen, Mackey has been the brain and arm of what remains of the Re publican organization. He was an indefatigable, cool, shrewd and fear less man, and xvas the ideal political manager. There is absolutely no one to take Ifis place.” “Is there any likelihood that the State will be Republican?” “Not the least in the Yvorld. If it were not for the Federal office-holders, even the present shadow of a party would disappear. They go through the motions of being a party, and ap pear as much like one as possible in order to send delegates to the-Nation al Convention and to recommend one another for office.” “social and business ostracism attaches to all who countenance Re publican rule. Outside of these there is scarcely a Republican who can af ford to pay his expenses to Chicago.” “Will there be any bulldozing in South Carolina this fall?” “Not a bit. The eight box law makes that unnecessary. Every negro in the State can vote if he Yvishes. Nine out of ten of the ballots Yvill get into the wrong box, and will not be counted, and Jefferson said that in Republics there must needs be a gov ernments by parties, but the Republic of Soutli Carolina is a government by a party.” “Who will come in Mackey’s place?” “Some negro, undoubtedly; proba bly Robert Smalls. The fearfully and wonderfully gerrymandered ,7th dis trict has 30,000 negroes, and was made to be represented by a negro. I don’t know of a white Republican living in it, except T. B. Johnson, the present collector of the port of Cnarlestou, and he, of course, would not want to give up his present office.” “Are the Federal appointees satis factory to the people of South Caro lina?” “As much so as any that could be made from/ the Republican party. They are men of fair capacity and character,, and would be men of good ■tunMfrl»■» G*»> »»»*«> <n uninp if they were not Rcpublibans.” “How Yvill the delegation to the Chirago Convention vote?” “For the winning candidate, if they can find out who he is. The Admin istration can have the vote to begin with- They are all Arthur men now. Hbwdolknow? Why, I can name a good many of them. There will be eighteen of them. The Senatorial del egates will be about as follows: Taft, post-master at Charleston; Smalls, who will probably then be represent ing Mackey’s district; Johnston, col lector of the port of Charleston, and Sam Lee, who will contest the Con gressional nomination with Smalls. Then will follow a list headed by Bray ton, internal revenue collector: Tom Miller, the colored Senator from Beaufort; Swails, who is hero in the treasury department, but who holds a residence in Williamsburg; the three or four colored postmasters of the State, and half a dozen deputy col lectors.”' THE FATE OF THE PLUNDERERS. A man in Nebraska City is actively promoting starvation by giving away flour to the poor. He distributes it in sacks, one to every purchaser of 100 drinks alibis bar, and, under the* cir cumstances, the winners are bound to be losers. Confidence men are becoming quite common in Texas. The first time one of thenffvictimizes a cowboy there will be znusic in the air. Calling the Roll of the Thieves and Adventurers who Ruled qnd Ruin ed South Carolina from ISOS to 1S7G. [Letter to the Philadelphia Press.] Washington, February 3.—A gen tleman who, during the Reconstruc- ^on period, was intimately acquainted with the Republican loadersof South Carolina, has written an interesting- review of the political downfall of those persons. The death of Congress man Mackey, he says, has removed the only real live force in opposition to the South Carolina Democrats, and there is no likelihood that the State will ever be Republican again. The leaders of ten years ago ar? scattered from Dan to Bersheba Outside of the Federal offices there is not one left. Patterson has given the State a wide berth since 1876. Tom Robertson, the other Senator, is a par alytic in Columbia, Bowen, who held Charleston and all her interests in his grip, is dead. Elliott, the smar test negro developed by a Reconstruc tion Congress, Speaker of the House and attorney general elect, is making a precarious living in New Orleans. Wright, the negro Justice of the Supreme Court, is a drunken loafer in Beaufort. J)unn, the comptroller-gen eral, is peddling a patent glue in Bos ton. Hardy Solomons, the Jew finan cier and keeper of the State deposits, is possessed of a little hake-shop in Kansas City. Gurney, county treasu rer of Charleston is long since dead. Niles G. Parker, the manipulator of millions of conversion bonds, keeps a little music store in Indiana, and ekes out a living by leoturing on temper- and religion. Governor Scott, since his trial for murder, is broken in health and spirit, but is pretty solid financially from the rise of Ohio woodlands. Hoge lives in Ohio and rememlicrs the fat pickings of the comptroller- goYieral’s office with pleasure. Cass Carpenter is a wreck in Denver. Ex- Chief Justice Willard has drifted to Washington, having been digested and disjected by his Democratic em ployees of 1876. The irresistable Judge J. T. Mackey has also opened a a law office in Washington. Cardozo, ex-St ate treasurer, and Swails, once president of the Senate look contented with clerkships in the treasury. Whitemore is in Massachu setts. Charley Leslie is as shifty in Kansas as ever he was in Barnwell CoOnty. Kimpton, once “financial agent” of the State in Wall street, is a seedy looking fellow among the cus tom brokers there, Puffer, who once handled the assets of the Bank of the State, comes to Washington occasion ally, cheerful, but not rich. MeDe- vitt knows the value of three aces in Colorado as well as when he had the revenues of Edgefield County to back his hand. John B. Dennis prospers In Dakota. Joe Woodruff practices sliorthand in a counting room in Philadelphia, not so profitably as when he was the king pin of the legislative ring* as clerk of the Senate and president of the printing committee. ^Neagle is a special agent of the Pensipu office, and last, but not least, Frank Moses, the young native Governor in 1872, having served out his time for swind ling in the county prison of New York, is now teaching the “ rustlers” of New Mexico some new tricks. How It Feels to Kill a Man. (Exchange.) “I believe I must have killed at least a dozen of the enemy during my three years’ service in the army,” says Charles F. Mandersou, of Ne braska. “One gets used to that sort of busi ness, just as a surgeon becomes har dened and calloused in his profession. The first man whom I killed was be fore Richmond, when McClellan was in command. I was doing picket duty late one night near the hank of a creek, and had been cautioned to lie especially watchful, as an attack was expected. I carried my niusket half- cocked, and was startled by every rustle the wind made among the trees and dead leaves. It was some time after midnight that I saw a Con federate cavalryman dashing down the opposite side of the creek in my direction. As he was opposite I fired upon the horse, and it fell. The cav alryman regained his feet in a mo ment, and had drawn his pistols. I called to him to surrender, but his only reply was a discharge from each revolver, one bullet inflicting a flesh wound in my arm. Then I let him have it full in the breast. He leapt three feet in the air and fell with his facedown. I knew I had finished him. I ran and jumped across the creek, picked him up and laid him on his back. The blood was running out of his nose and mouth, and poured in a torrent from the r tell it he was dead, wltSR^VTaving said a word. Then nly head began to swim, and I was sick at my stomach. I yvus overdome by an indescribable horror • of the deed I had done. I trembled all over, and felt as faint and as weak as a kitten. It was with the greatest difficulty that I managed to get into camp. There they laughed at me, but it was weeks before my nerv ous system recovered from the shock. Even in my dreams I saw the pale face of the dying cavalryman, and the spectre haunted me like a Nemesis long after I had got over the first shock of the affair. It Yvas simply horrible, hut in time I recovered, and at the close of the war I was quite as indifferent to the sacrifice of human life as you could imagine.” in his MISCKLLANEOUS. Ben Hill, Jr., declines to be a can didate for Attorney General in Geor- gia- Barnum owns a building in New York, the rental of which is $65,000 a year. New Orleans cotton mill girls have struck against going to work before daylight. It is said that no United States Sen ator lias ever resigned at the request of a Legislature. Public opinion in England is much disquieted, and there is much anxiety as to the O’Donnel vengence fund. A medium size snake young carp in a summer. eats 5,000 The Fish Commission is a big tiling for snakes. There is no doubt about Jay Gould being seriously embarrassed—he has so much money he don’t knew what to do with it. Mr. Harrison, the “boy preacher” is in St. Louis, .where he is paid $100 a week. He claims that he “converts thirty-five souls a day.” Frederick Douglass still lives in the old manor house of Van Hook, who so hated negroes ever he sold land he stipula o color ed persons ever should become the owner of it. Judge Wilson, the new United States Senator elect from Maryland, has been interviewed on the tariff question. He coincides substantially with tha views of Speaker Carlisle, though he lives almost in the shadow of Pennsylvania. L. Q. C. Lamar is said by his Missis sippi friends to be one of the few poor men in the United States Senate. Of late years most of his salary lias gone to pay old debts, obligations of a na ture that only a man of scrupulous in tegrity would think of paying. G. P, Morrosini, Jay Gould’s con fidential manager, is an Italian patri ot of herculean frame and brave as a lion. He served under Garrihaldi and won distinction in the ranks. Moros- ni is said to he the possesssor of $1,- 000,000 in his own name. THE FARM AND FIRESIDE. ALMANAC FOR THE WEEK. FEBRUARY. Tuesday... Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday .. Sunday Monday.... SUN RISES 7:07 7:06 7:05 7:04 7:02 7:01 7:00 SUN SETS 5:22 5:23 5:25 5:26 5:27 5:28 5:29 MOON K & 8 “TTm 2:58 3:57 4:49 5:85 6:16 rises. The Lima or “Butter” Bean. I am not aware that this l>eait is cul tivated to any extent by our Southern market gardeners or truckers, though it is grown in a small way in most of our family gardens. I rarely notice any reference to its cultivation in our agricultural papers. Seed butter beans are quoted by Landreth and Hender son respectively at #10.50 and #12 per bushel this spring, and if the South ern growers could secure anything like half these prices for his crop ho would certainly be justified In plan ting considerable to it. I don’t know but what it might be made quite profitable at prices one-fourth of those quoted by Landreth. While it is a tedious and expensive crop to grow compared with most crops, yet if this is made up in the price obtain ed it need not be an objoction to its. adoption as a money crop by Southern farmers or gardeners. Those who are« so situated ns to get the poles for the cutting and hauling can, of course* grow this crop to more profit that} those who have to buy the poles. So mo growers at the North have essayed t** grow the Lima bean without poles^ re-, lying on thorough pruning to mako the vines stocky, and have churned that it is a very satisfactory plan, but it is hardly possible that a large yield can be made in this manner. Qne se rious objection to this plan would bo that the vines would bo beeien down to the ground by* heavy mins and many of the beans would become dis colored, if not rotted, bv contact with the soil. If they are to b* grown at all it is far better to ado^t the pole plan. At a distance of 6x4, which is the best distance, it would require about 1‘800 poles to the acre, and such quantity could not be bought general ly for less than $8 or $9.. In some parts of the State they could m>t bo had for this price. Where young timber la plentiful and the poles to be had for the cutting and hauling* they c#n bo cut and hauled up in tie winter at times Yvhen no ordinary farm work could be carried on, undAhe cost need not be greater than $4or$5 per acre. Itis notideslruble that the poles be cut longer than 6 feet—one foot to go in the earth. Four feet above the sur face would be sufllcipitf. There is good reason for having them longer to Hwui run f rj^ long the may be used a secon time, and some of them.q. third time, by simply cutting off flip part that has become decayed fj^oip the soil. Where the poles are over six feet it is conqenient picking the beans. Dak and hickory saplings„2 to 4 inches di- ametor, are about as good as can be had generally. Bine pole^.will do ve ry well for one year. When an acre or moreip pljnpted it is much better to check. Um land and very little hoeing will be*needed,, Lay off rows 6 ‘feet (previous!}’ breaking the soil if necessary) and put the ma nure and throw 2 furrows on it.. Then check across at 4 feet, and thenidistribr nte the poles. With a crossbar make holes about 12 inches deep, working the bar around so os to get the holes, large enough to receive tine polps* Ram the poles in and. Yfitln tine feet* fill up around the polo and press firm-, ly, leaving a slight depression for the seed. Drop 8 to 10 seeds around the poles and cover with a hoe. As soon as the young plants show the third oj? foruth leaf then cut all but three.Plow out and hoe, and as soon as the vino gets to the top of the pole prune it off so as to make it throw out laterals abundantly. This trimming will have to be repeated two or three times to produce a large crop of beans. If not thus trimmed they will not piodueo near so well Beans do not require a very large application of amonia, but the supply of phosphates and potash should be liberally applied—at least 200 lbs. each of acid phosphates and kain- it. If the manure is all applied in tho drill the cross plowing will place tho manure all about the hill. The culti vation must be shallow after one good breaking of the middles. I have nev er been able to test the possibilities of yield of dry beans, but think, under high culture, 40 bushels might be se cured; the product will range from 10 to 40 bushels. Generally the green beans are readily salable in market at good prices, but whether they have proved a profitable crop to ship North I have no knowledge. S. A. Cook A Mississippian, who recently saw Jeff Davis, said to a reporter of the New York World the other day: “Ho is almost as feeble us a sick man can be—bent with cares and years. H|s voice is weak and his body is bent. I iniglit almost say that he is decrcjdt. He lost an eye years ago, and tho sight of the remaining ope is failing. He takes too little exercise* hisifriends say. I reckon the old man is not long for this world.” Among the Galunet ladies Mrs. Lincoln is the prettiest, Mpq Brews ter the handsomest, and Mp*. Candler the most popular. Tho first is a tiny little tiling, with clear opt features and a complexion like an opal. Tie second is massive, with su|K*rb dark eyes, white hair, and great repose of manner. Hon. Samuel J. Randall happem <1 the other day to allude to the superior quality of Texan wool, and now all the Lone Star jourmls, nearly, aro pronouncing him “a gentleman and a scholar.”