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f t CHARLES E. K, DRAYTOX, 3Iana^er. AIKEN, S. TUESDAY, JULY, 14 1S85. VOLUME 4.—NUMBER 3S s Professional Advertisements. D. S. Hk3dek#ox. K. P. Hkxdeehox. Honderson Brother?*, Attouxeys at b\W t Aiken, 8. C. Will practice in the Ktato ami NEGRO RURE IN HAYTl THK liKESVIIil.K S< H(K)I,S. A ItKVfEW OF SIH SI*.\NCFH JOHN’S IJOfJK. ST. (fulted Htaiox t'ourtn Cur 8<»utii C'aro- |iaa. Prumpt attention givon to col- i. Zed Dixuvr. Ur^. W. Cuorr, Croft k Dunlap, /^.TTORXKYB AJ L,VW, 8- C WIjhi haaOomc of Nejjro I>fii.oii?attoit inn liuiul Free trom l l;e I’lx-usooce of tlje Mao—T<htti<ooiiy of an U n- prejn<lObserver. News and Courier. Atthistjmej >yhen the negro race in l\ia J'niteil Htatort is unconsciously working out ti:e answer to the vexed question of its capacity to advance in j the lipe of civiii/.atjon, anything tiiat 1 will give a forecast of the result or of I the difficulties to bo met is of the ! highest value, not only fo the negro | himself, hpt to the whites among j whom he dwells and with whose fu-1 which they accordingly did, and took ip the State aijd United j tyre that of the negro is Inextricably I possession of their estate.” J involved. Of the Instances where j *'Qu another occasion the Emperor j the negro has had an opportunity to Dessalines said to a young man, who test his power of self-development, or claimed to he a mulatto: ‘I don’t bc- and greater recognition of duty to the ; tive African languages—in the thicker { j State. They are aUodistinguishcd by p'ronouuciation of certain vowels and ! their insufferable conceit, superficial .consonants, the loss of the grummati? . polish of manner and education, and cal forms and terminology, and con-i fickleness. They share, however, | sequent simplication of structure and j equally with the blacks lack of per- loss of precision. The statu* of creole i sonal financial morality and indiffer- French, as spoken in Hayti, is strik-! u,,.. . D , ence to the obligations of truth. Espe- ingly similar to the corrupt "gulla” chilly is the author struck with the English spoken by the negro masses The ngein nhjoh we live ja becom- complete absence apiong the mulat-, in tlie black portions of the Southern lug more and ntopeearofulin its search toes of the feelings of loyalty and af- j States. fection that are* sometimes found j To sum up. the Haj’ti of to-day has A Correspondent who Explains Cer tain Facta, and Asks (Question About Others. JLkesvim.k, I.extnoton Co.,) July, 1885. )' among the true blacks, and lie cites i certainly pot advanced beyond, and in jfAHEM AtDKICH. W'ALTER AhIILET. Aldrioli & Ashley, AttornEYt at La^t, 4 ii>kn, 8. C, Practice (Status Courts for Soutii Carolina. }¥• (^uitmaii Davi«, ^iTTOKNKY AT La"’, ^IKKN, 8. C, Will practice In the Courts of this Pireuit. Hpecia att^wtipu given to gvll«»ctioii8. 0, U, Jordan, yiiTORXKY at Law, .^igE-V, H, C. Claude E. Sawyer, iATTOKNKY AT L.VW, AlKBN, 8. C. jl. XT. DEVOUR. Aiken. S. C. M. n. WOODWAHD. Aiken, 8. C. DcYorc & Woodward, Attorney at Law, Aiifiix, 8, 0 ; Will practice lit all the Courts of this Htutc. Edwin R. Cunningham, uU 15road Ht,. - - Apousta, Ga. Commissioner of Deeds fop 8outh C’arelina, New York, Ploridu, Texas, Louisiana, Itiujdo Island, District of Columbia, ami Notary I’uhllo “ l Vith seal.” Drawing of ai|d Probafing J’apers “a specialty.” Dr. Z. A. Smith, PRACTICING I’ll Y8ICTAN, VAUCLU8E, . - * 8. C. BS^Offlco noar Depot. Dr. B. H. Teague, DeiMisi. -OKFICK ON- 0. -QFFJCJ} AT— "f even to iiraiutaip an acquired civiliza tion, Hayti is preeminent. Ju tlie Southern United States tlie time has hep;) tog short. In Jamaica, while nominally free, tl)p social and politi cal system has baejj framed ftiul con trolled by tlie dominant power of England. But in Hayti for near a century the black racp has had not only absolute control, but has been practically free from the presence of tlie white man. At tlie close of the civil disorders in the island conse quent op the French revolution tlie whites had been practically extermi nated or driven away, and the island was turned over absolutely to the col ored and black population. They had tlie form and machinery of eivij gov. eminent and such a civilization as had been acquired by more than a century’s contact with the whites. They had also the language of the race lately dominant—French—and the art and skill in mechanical and agricultural methods jp use among tlie French slave-owners. Af the close of near a century it is important fo see wljat use bus been made of this Unchecked opportunity, and to do so we must have the observation and popplu,slogs of a credible aud impar tial witness, 8ir Spencer St.John was for twenty years in Hayti and for twelve years her Majesty’s minister-resident and consul-general. For over thirty-five years he lias dwelt among colored people of various raeeiTund notes that he was brought up under Sir James Brooke, uwhose enlarged sympathies pould endure qo prejudice of race or color.,’ He himself can not remember •‘over to have feitgin; rcP l, lf na ueo to these as anecdotes well illustrative of'some respects lias retrograded from the Jtnyti of eighty years ago. The references of tlie author read sadly enough to those who have to grapple with the question in their daily lives: “Tlie vexed question as to the posi thm held by tlie negroes in the great scheme of nature was eontinuallv brought before us whilst I lived in Haj'ti, and I could not hut regret to find that the greater my experience tlie Jess I thought of the capacity of the lieve it, but you can prove it by going ! negro to hold an indeqicndent position, and poniarding your French friend.’ j As long as he is influenced by contact Tlie young-man did not hesitate, and with tlie white man, as in the South- i them at the present time. “ When the decree was issued by Dessa)ines that mulatto children should inherit the estates of their white fathers, two young men met, and one said to the other: ‘You kill my father and I will kill yours;’ was accepted as a Haytien citizen.” As to tlie pure blacks, 8ir Spencer declares that during his twelve years’ official residence in Ifavti no black statesman (with but one exception) appeared who was capable of manag ing with credit any important official erp portion of the United States, lie gets on very well. But place him free from all such influence, as in Hayti, and he shows no signs of improve ment. On the contrary he is gradual ly retrograding to the African tribal customs, and without exterior pres position. They have contributed noth- j snre will fail Into the state of the Su ing even to tlie so-ealled literature of habitants on the Congo. If this were vy .i res on the country; are steeped in ignorance; haters of progress, and the main sup port of the despotic and corrupt rulers of the country. As to society, while among the colored population and along the sea- coast in tlie ports where intercourse is held with the outside world, some at tention is paid to the common rules of decency and conduct that obtain among the white communities even lowest in the scale of cjyjlization, in the interior all is different, His de scription of l|fe their reads like a chapter trom Baker or Burton or .Speke or Stanley. The large cultiva ted tracts apd, magnificent buildings of the old French occupiers Ijgve goije to ruin. In their place ai-e the rude huts and crudely cultivated plots of the blacks. Polygamy obtains—the bead of fjie family, where ills means allow, residing in the centre, with the lints of his wives grouped around like a tribal chieftain of the Guinea coast. Tlie religion of the country is nominally Catholic, but so strangely intermixed witli savage observances and practices as scarcely to be classed as Christian. As evidence of tlie ten dency of the same mental develop ment to assimilate under different - *-eofrdiiions is Praniteville, Aiken County, S. C, . tl T7* ,'^M • ■ mmtj au » RltllOUHH years iio hx «<jr‘ "n MililaraiidYiuory-j ( * it ./ vot (ile ac'tuaWfelebrat Infprcotirse with Haytiensof a$ rnuks J vino AVor . hj) and shades of color apd thp jnfist fre- ^ | qiicntand not least honored guests at Dr. J. K. Smith, Dentist. -q^Kipp AT Williston, Barnwell County, S. C. fST" Will attend calls to the country. 0. P. Doolittle, QlLTtEK ASD PICTURE FJ{AMJ: P PrcsenUtive and tree, but in M . . . f . eflect a despotism—aqd one ijotcheck- my table wereof the black and colored races.” The conclusions of so intelligent and unprejudiced a witness, who lias bad such unrivalled opportunities for ob : serration, are well worthy of the gravest attention. The government of Hayti is nomi- Manufacurer, J26 Jackson Ht - - Aitoustj, Ga. picture Frames Made to Order at Short Notice. W MOULDINGS CONSTANT LY RECEIVING. Regilding a Specialty, f)ld Frames pquul to nww. Pld Pictures Qopied and Enlarged. W. A. RECKLING COLUMBIA, 8. 0, P lfTUR158 sent can be enlarged to any size, and >yjjl hp returned for Inspection. If unsat isfaeto.iy no pharge. Correspondence solicited. J. A. Wright, BOOT AND 8HQE MAKER, Quo on Door fmm Laurens Htreet RirhjaiK} Avenue. The best of material used, ami any fyle of boot or shoe made to order. Coo. W. Williams, jfOI’SE, STGN AND FRESCO PAINTER! Graining and Marl,ling a specialty. Old Furniture polished and niade a- good ns new. iarOffice No. 7, UiFstaiiy ill Croft’s jfloek. Orders aolieited. ed but IntenKifled by nuarehy. Revo lutions and e|vil di^spnsjpns &* Ve to tlie people for the time suveral despots in lieu of one. For ninety years tlie island has been the scene of continued strife. Presidents and Emperors have succeeded each other. A different name might he used, but in every case tlie governmental t'apt wijs that all power entered in one hand for the time being. Pompous constitutions have been adopted, and wordy decla rations about rights of the people have always formed component parts of them, hut the real title of tlie party in power has been based on the strength of thparmv, JUid not op tlie suffrages qf the people. In fact the inevitable tendency of tlie African mind is towards personal rule of a despotjc character, It is the only spe cies of government ever formed among communities of the negro race uneffected by foreign influence, and left to tlieiHhclves fljey iijevitahly ret rograde to the same foym. Its simplici ty of organism is sujtcd to the mental capacity of ;i lowep ofiter. When the government consists of one man and the laws are his utterances, there is no difficulty in operatiiig j.be niuohinerv of St?;te. Tiio t'retllom of mTiiTeisT efN*frWR^i«society requires complex sys tems of organ i/a tion ; cheeks and bal ances. We call theni constitutions. I about to acquit biin when shouts rose Their existence resf.s upon tlie intelli-[ ■ M parlsot the Court, ‘\\ hat! gent eo-ojKM*ution and iuteraetion of! ore you going to take t>art witli the the component units of those socle- j "'bite ? ’ami the 1* reiicbmaigwas con- ties. \yliere the nieinbers of tlie socie- t demned, ion of di- by g epngrpgatjon, as given by Sir Spencer, reads strangely like tlie recent recount in the News and Courier of the performance of services at tlie Methodist campriueet- ing near Lincolnville. Tlje real religion of tlie mass of the people is fetich worship, commonly called “Voodooism.” Of this fhere are two One, the more harm less, consists in the belief in and worship of charms, «fce., under the guidance of "horndoctors,” similar to the state of facts unearthed qt the last term In Orangeburg, where a negro was tried for robbing a grave fo pro- [ cure parts of a body necessary to pre pare a powder charm. Their religious exq**cisos popsist of orgies more or less loose, with the sacrifice of a goat or other animal. Tlie other form of Voodqp worship, says Hir Hpem-cr, undoubtedly add^ tlju sjtcrifiee of hu man beings and the cannibalism of the worshippers. This form is grad ually spreading, owing to the inabili ty or unwillingness of tlie Govern ment to deal witli it, and the present head, Gen. 8 u ! u n4fii, even .suspect ed on strong grounds of being himself a votary. Tlie administration of justice is a farce. T|ie fofm of Courts and a civil procedure is there, but tlie spirit is entirely lacking. I’rinnirily tlie Courts belong to tlie person in power Where they are not instructed by the ruler they are open to tlie highest bidder, and wherever a white map is con cerned against a black the result is predetermined, “An elderly Frenchman was sum moned before the jxuhj. dc for at a blii!'—— The <■* ; • 1 vj i rrt \ ■ in favor of me white only iny owp opinion I should hesitate to express jt so positively, but I have found no dissident voice among ex perienced residents since I first went to Hayti in Janugry, 18(J3.” And again: “I now agree With those who deny that the negro could ever originate a civilization and that wjth the best of education lie reinains an inferior type of man. IJe has as yet shown him self totally unfitted for self-govern ment aud ipcapablp ng a people to make apy progress whatever.” To judge the negroes fairly OUP must live a considerable time in their midst and not be led away by tlie theory that all races are capable of equal advance ment in civilization,” Space forbids more: nor can a bare sketch like this do more than call at* tentjop to the book and tlie guito of tilings it depicts. Martinis of Salisbury, From a London Letter to the New York Times, Up to a certain point there can be but little question that the Marquis of Salisbury is the ablest man in British politics. No one else can compare with him,for example,iu terseness, vig or, pointedness and power of political it, l *-* of the 4 t hink, A-c»-*i'|- vAi■ l». ■■»■ ■i * ** one ejsp lias so comprehensive and clarified an Idea of the foreign situa tion and the part England should play in the European concert. His ntlnd is essentially acute, clear, courteous and consecutive in habit of action. In a word, lie would be the ideal Mini ster of a sovereign who was supreme in authority, and had no need to con sider either ways and means or the se curity of t|jo throne—such sover eign, for examplf, as li{* grent ances tor, Lord Burleigh, served. But the other side of Lord Salisbury’s pharac- ing, after tbe reason of things. This js certainly very proper and no one should object to it. I am a plain man and look at things in tbe most direct way, and when I find men leading me into bewilderment, I call a halt and inquire the way. The faculty of the Leesvilie, English and Classical Institute Proper, have started me in a tilt towards confusion, if not disgust, by there recent catalogue. Having children to educate, and knowing something of the advantages of Lees vilie, I desire that they enjoy the ben efit of some Gaining in tbe Leesvilie Institute, but‘how are we to know which of UtaJ^o schools at Leesvilie, is the Institute? I have been trying to learn sumikhjng of the nature of the Institute, and I find that it is a school conducted for the benefit of the public generally, and is in no way sectarian. On page 10 of the catalogue, Messra, Pushy labor to confirm our mind at this point. Notice what it says, “Whilst the Institute is in full sympathy 'vith the common principles of the Christnin faith, it is as a State School, and from principle thorough ly nomseotarian in its infineneo and entire management.” Now 'the lan- ungc is strong aud plain enough for the simplest mind, and I fear some one will think me very foolish in ask- ng further information, but lei me explain. In my hand is a copy of a brief, from tlie filth Circuit Court, in which Levi E. Busby as pastor, David Rowland, 8, P. Derrick as elders; * W, W. Haltiwonger and W. B. Moffit as deacons; of a Lutheran Cluirch of Leesvilie, ap pear as plaintiffs, against D. D, D. Mitchell, H. A. Spann, J. W. Spann, A. 8. Bouknight, A. P. West, J. P. Hardy, John G. Able, Joab Ed wards, and J. C. Drofts all of whom are Trustees of the Leesvilie English and Classical Institute and against, Rev. J. E. Watson and E. O. Watson who wore teaching for said Trustees. Tlie brief recites tiiat defendants were using the school-building at Leesvilie as a public school. The plaintiffs every where, insist that the school was in tended “for the benefit of the Luthe ran Church a>)d congregation.” The defendants deny this, and insist that it was for the benefit <»f tlie public. oTTfo ■ ■ 1 - 1 1 ■ HE KNOWS TOO MUCH. LYNCHING OF UAYISHEltS. A Man With a Knowledge of Counter feiting Wants to Get Out of Jail. Chicago Tribune. George K. Osborne, the counter- Citizens Break into a Jail at Noon aud Avenge a Hark Crime. Girard, Kan., July 7.—At Baxter Springs, Cherokee county, a girl 14 COJiLECTOK FOK CHARLESTON. feiter, at whose arrest in March last years old was waylaid, ravished, and the government officers recovered a largo coining-machine which he had invented, is negotiating with the government to secure his release un der peculiar circumstances. Ho Inis already proven himself to be a man of rare intelligence for one in his occu pation, and is said to have in .'ented several valuable tilings now in com mon use. One of the inventions is said to have been the first burner by which coal oil was made available for lighting purposes, Osborne says iu the course of his experiments he ac cidently became acquainted with tlie means of making a good silver counter feit, that counterfeiting is not iiis trade, and that ho was working upon an invention at the time of his arrest, and that having run short of money, he hail temporarily engaged in an illegal pursuit to bridge over the difficulty until his Invention could be placed on the market. Tlie proposition whieli he made during his recent in terview with the District Attorney was that he would turn over all his secrets to the government and enter into bonds to make them known to no one else as a condition of his re lease from the present charges. Among tlie discoveries he olaims to have made and the processes whieli lie’ offers to make known to the gov ernment is one for softening steel so that an impression can be taken from a coin and then of hardening it (the stee])aguiu so tiiat it j«;ay be used us a stamp to turn silver or even harder metal into coin. Ho will also surren der a reelpo for making the counter feit metal in the shape of coin which was received at nearly every bank in Chicago last summer. It is hardly probable that the government will accept the terms Osborne offers. Tlie opinion seems to prevail tiiat lie knows too much to be set at liberty, especially when the evidence against him is strong enough to to send him to the penitentiary for a long term. terribly maltreated on Saturday after noon. John Lawrence, colored, aged 17, was arrested for the crime, and brought to Columbus at night for safe keeping. A mob followed, and in some way a young white man named Wolf, one of the party was shot and killed. Yesterday morning the col ored boy was brought here and lodged in jail. When the train from Baxter Springs reached here at noon yester day, about twenty men got otf near the station and scattered through town. Half an hour later a number of armed men made a dash for the jail, broke down the iron door, took the prisoner out two blocks west of the'juil and hung him to the rafter of an unfinished house. Then one thorn, said to be tlie father of the girl emptied his revolver into the body The participants iu the mob then walked out of town and returned to their homes. HANGED NEAR A JAIL. Trinity, Texas, July 7.—James Hoeroti, colored, who attempted a criminal assault upon a 4-year-ok daughter of a prominent citizen Fri day night, was ouptured by a Sheriff’s posse near Lovelady Sunday morning and placed in jail. At night, fearing tiiat indignant citizens would lynch the negro, officers secreted him iu the woods and tied him to a tree. While they were gone foi*water the prisoner was taken by citizens and hangec within 200 yards of the county jail where his body was found hanging yesterday morning. jOX February term of Court iu 1884, and on the 8th day of May following, he de cided in favor of the defendants. S. E. Busby and his elders and deacons, aL though sworn to abide the decissjon, charge Judge Presley with making 12 errors in his dooission, and carry the case to the SupremeConrt, Bead this, “10” because his Honor erred in not finding that tlie Trustees of the deed, required that the property should be held for the benefit of the Said Luthe ran eongregation“for a Church Acade- my,”and it was not in the power of the „er renders him just the J;ind of Minis- j u f tj ie gqij Church, in whom assanif upon was so much that even tjje Haytiep magistrate was ter impossible in a country where the sovereign is a figure head, and Demos is angrily suspicions of i^tempts to thwart popular rule. He is a inteuse- ly aristocratic by temperament and conviction; intolerant of all things even remotely resembling radicalism, and a profound disbeliever in the ability of the people to govern them selves. He believes that the Merrie England of the first Cecil’s time was a better thing than this modern Eng land of Joseph Chamberlain; lie re gards Democracy aa a synonym for in- fidelity; he loathes dissenter, abomi nates demagogues and reveres the au thority of tlie Crown and the J’cers temporal and spiritual. Ju other words, fie is a nicdhcvnl noble of the best sort, studious, grave, fioporable, bigoted, princely, magnificent pa tron, an ugly antagonist with equals, a cruej and comtcmptuous tyrant over conceited inferiors who dispute his rightful authority. A years’s experi ence \yith the British tradesman, tlie Britisli artisan, and the British Jabor- er goes far toward totichiir»/B»enver- Tq American uotoply tej Hgrpe with ’ \ r \\ 1 c’s (lictuni -rf “tlii mostly fools,but to Vegsml ' ty are incapable of initiating mental A remarkable trial v,'< 0 *s that of two to regard. Lord Nilisbury’s point of vio\y as a highly defensible one. But all tfie same, the English are irresistibly moving iu an opposite direction, and no man, were lie a hundredfold wiser and stronger than thp Marqms “t Salisbury could stand successfully in the way of that movement. Culture anil Happiness, ]><>stun Traveler. Now life is not only \yhfjt we make it, but it is, very largely, wfigt we think it is. Jf we bold before our selves constantly some dreary “might have been;” if we think if is, iu some Tin Roofing, Iron R#ofing’! j tq that mind the power of the State, jury with a broad grin and said, ‘At-!uiiexplainableway,fiueraHilmorcex- j is simple of comprehension, saves the i ter ail its only one white iiKpi less.’ altufi to set ourselves ton minor key putter* amt (‘onduetor*! Roof* Re- ^ citizen from the labor of thought, and \ The sally prod need a roar of laughter ; of sonio miserere, we may become in paired ami Fa'mti-il! .VYL'j j s ibe only form qf government which | and the prisoners were triumphantly j reality very unhappy. There is no pw-.y World Hot Airierwee*. Yen- has ips re-ptet i;ud support. j a .-quitted.” ‘ j law, unfortunately, against people’s H. Hargraves aetiop it is futile to expect the deli-| brothers who were accused of having cate scheme of a modern free consti- murdered a Frenchman, their bene- tution to be enforced. Ti;e Inference } factor. Tlie evidence against them tiiat there ! appeared overwhelming and their ad- yet shewn | voente, a thorough ruffian, was at a tobedrawn from Hayti is , tlie A.tiiean mind lias not .... ■ , »w*.v..,g, ' that development whichenaldesu free loss for arguments to sustain tlie de- | form of government to he maintained, fence. At last lie glanced around tlie ^.11 Kinds of Sheet Lfctal Work I; The rule of a single man represents ! crowded Court and then turned to the -Manufacturer of- tilator*, &c. H AVING every ihejlity for con ducting our business' with dis- Jiatch and satisfaction, I respectfully After the expulsion of tlie whites there was a fair percentage of colored iangungo spoken in Ifaytj is j making themselves wretched, *e io- ?oliclt a share of tlm patronage of Aiken aud the surrounding country. \V. If. JL\RGRAVES, 541 Broad St ; , Augusta, Ga. the property vested to divert it from the purposp of tfie trust as expressed iu the deed,\ ami (Ionvert tfie same into a school to be held apd CQi|du<*ted by another body, not for the Luthe ran Church, but for the public of Leesvilie, and in opposition to tho authorities of said church.” This is not my language, I copied it from the brief, page 56. Now Judge Presly did not mafic the catalogue of the “Institute Proper,” nor did lie write error number 10 against iiis dccission, but between page 10 of the catalogue and page 10 of the brief, tfiere ja a glTHt Conflict going on. Both cannot be true. I am exceedingly anxious to finow whieli one we are to regard as true, and upon whom are we to cast tfie false. If the catalogue is true, the brief is false and if the brief is true the catalogue is false. Will the faculty oomc to the rescue and let the public know how to judge of inharmonious ut terances. We^Bant to hear sweeter music and si^^Messrs. Busby are -” -i ■■ we not imlutlie l,.,. . Iiat tbe^ win uuusc pajic 10 of the catalogue mid error 10 of t ie firjef fo take uu the “proper” sound of agreement. If any men in the world can do this, why may we not expect tfioy will since they claim tn preside over and direct the Leenviile English and Clas sical Institute “Proper.” In tfie mean time I shall remain au avowed, Expectant. Two ■ ishing Knilrouds. The hoard of directors of the North eastern Raitfogd Company have de clared a semi-aniupfi dividend of 11.50 per share on the capital stock of the company. Tfie amount of the capital stock is $809,*5Q. Tlie Northeastern railroad and tfie Wilmington, Colum bia and Augusta railroad are said lo be tlie only two railroad companies in South Carolina which have paid a dividend on their capital stock, The latter company lias also declared a semi-annual dividend of $1.50 per Southern Cotton Mills. Savannah News. A circular sent out by four cotton maiuifuoturiugcompanies—two at Co lumbus, Ga,, one at Memphis, Tcnn., and one at GrauUevillo, S. C.—to Southern cotton mills stockholders asserts that for the last three j'ears cot ton manufacturing iudustiies in tlie South have been on tho decline, and jAm* v 11 r~ r ‘the are in a deplorable condition, The purpose of the circular is to bring about an agreement among mill owners to limit production by closing a certain number of the mills. The proposition, of course, is tiiat those which are closed shall partici pate in tfie profits of those which re main open, Tfie depression in cotton goods is greater than it has been in years. Tbe price of them is remarkably low. The impression all along lias been, however, that tlie Southern mills were doing much better than the Northern mills. This circular, however, leaves ground for reasonable doubt on that point. At tlie prices at present pre vailing, there is no margin of profit for mills, and from tlie tone of th<> circular they will sutler serious loss if something is not done to re lieve an overburdened market. Tlie pooling plan suggests itself fo some of the mill owners as the best that can be adopted at this time. It will be known SPQU probably whether it meets the approval of a majority of them. Encouraging Work of the V. M. C\ A, Columbia Register. Hon. H. G. Scudday, the General Secretary of the State Executive Committee, is on a lecturing tour with the object of eregtingand reviving an interest in the work of tfie associa tions. He lias thus far visited Orange* burg, George’s and Camden, where he lias addressed large audiences of inter ested listeners. lie writes enooumg- ingiy of tfie prospects, v»f successful . *rTT".» -i- Hasty Words, Mastery Half the actual trouble of life woufi' be saved if, when people are Irritated vexed, or annoyed, they would re member that silence is golden. To fbel exasperated at a trifle, when the nerves arc exhausted, is perhaps nat ural to us in our imperfectly snnctifici state. But why put tho annoyance into the shape of speech, which once uttered, is remembered, and may burn like a blistering wound, or rankle like a poisoned arrow? If a Child be trying', or a friend capricious, or a ser vant unreasonable, be careful what you say. Do not speak while you feel the impulse of anger, for you will say more than 3-011 r clear judgement will approve, and to speak iu a way chat you will regret. Be silent until tho “sweet b3'-an-b3-,” when you shall he calm, rested, and self-con- trolled, Above all, never write a letter when >-ou are in a mood of irritation. Tlie hasty word spoken in petulance mfly be explained, forgiven, and forgotten. But the letter written in an ebullition of wounded feeling is a fact tangible, not to be condoned. There it lies with certain permanence about it, You have sent it to a friend, who, reading it half a dozen times, will each time find it more cruel aud incisive thanfieforo, Letters once written and sent away can not be recalled. You can not be sure that 3’our frieiid£m- enemy) will burn them. Hiddo^^i the briS?au drawers or in compartments of desks, folded up in portfolios, locked in boxes, 11103- will, it in:i3' be, flash up again iu sudden feud and fire, mouths aft jr you have cease to think of the foll3’ which incitetj them, or the other foil3- which penned thoip, Never write an angry letter,or write a letter when you are angry. ?'» »» The Place for Bargains. The “creole,” an uncouth jargon of cor-j penhaue’s thooiy is that culture makes in population. To their treuehery was ! nipt “French, in an African form.” , for unhappiness ;that the more cujtiYn- tlie overthrow of the white rule in , Language is now held to be one of the ted is an individual tbe more sensitive . t .. ■* 1 .* ,1- • great measure due. B\- a singular , best criteria of iiieqtal development, is he to ph3'3ic:il discomfort or mental s ,a I' t 0,1 * s a 8 “e *. i nemesis they h;iye cxpcric|iccd a j A people of high, intellectual pot ition troubles, and that ho is thereby a be- * j similar fate. The ever increasing joal-; has correspondingly developed Ian- ing formed tq be jarred upon at every TUo Qreem’Ule Court, . ously of tfiem felt by the blacks guage, calculated to express their in- turn. It is ver3’possible that tho old j GREkN'YlfiLk, July 8.—In the Court j s lu>we<l itself iu outbreak ftf^cr out- tolleetual conceptions, anti a people of; ullage about a little (earning RppU^s j Qf SosHionsi tonlay Alary Spautb a dls- ; break. They have been sjeadih- push- lower,mental capaeit3- i;sess\ language , to this case. A superficial culture ! reputable negro girl, who killed John |ed from place and power. At each j of proportionately lower type. The' J. U. Stanley & Bro., Dealers ip PHINA,GLASS, EARTAKX\Y \UK And House-Furnixhitiy Goods! pOLUMBIA, - - S U. j successive revolution they have been African race lias been put in posscs- ; slaughtered wjth cruelty sis great as sioii of two of the most polished and ; they practiced lo thoii; unfortunate . developed languages of in»<fi>rn civil-j but the deeper culture supplies these ! She wasaenteflceil fi> five yeai J masters, until their extinction ag a ization—the English and the French, j and enables its possessor to beaf a prisonmeut in U\c State I'eniic- class by dcqtli or absorption is u niat- In each case the result has been the l ter of a few years. same. Tlie language iu the brains T“ the mufiittoes Sir Spencer awards and mouths of the African lias ap- grouter intelligence aud discernment 1 proximated lo the lower type of 11a- doubtlesa increases one’s sensibilities Brown, colored, a month ago by stab- in various wayg without producing a Tupg him will! a pocket knife, was corresponding increase of resources; | trjed and convicted of inauslangliter. ears bli the State Penitentiary thoiisand trials or to discover means j at hard labor. King Gordon, colored, to surmount them as may Ik*, of which was convicted of burglary aud larceny the more ignorant individual ivould ! and sentenced to three years of like never have dreamed. 'punishment. Christian glcnieut in me smte is ripe for ty general effort to give effect to the agencies bo successfully used in other States. A large association was organised at Orangeburg, and renew ed life and spirit was manifested by- Che excellent organizations existing at George’s and at Camden. Would it not be well for the Christians and business men of Columbia seriously to consider whether their agencies cannot be made available for the im provement and salvgtiou of tlie young men of our- city? Tying Them up l y the Heels, Charlotte Observer. Guile a revolution has been wrought in the management of the county convicts, and the system is now con- “l>i:t!ii<md Cut Diamond.” Edgefield Advertiser. This charming operetta will be rp- •eated at tlie residence of Mrs. Wig- fall, for the benefit of the Episcopal Church, on Thursday evening July .‘>011), Tfie long-needed repairs upon this church arc now inactive progress and, as is generally the case in tlie re pairing and remodeling of a \tr; old building, new, unexpected, and very uecesssarv needs of money nre- *r:u aimo.ui mj mnw ne ~ : rh ti.rnrnTcf*? rv ifwir Therefore the ladies of the congrega tion still earnestly heg the kindly patronage of the public. On the com* ing occasion, the performance of the operetta will bo preceded by- a very beautiful and high-ejass miscellan eous concert, in whioh the performers will be Mrs. Melton Parker, Miss Tunic Tillman, Miss Mae Dozier, Miss Lola Kirkland, Capt. M. A. Marker!, Cadet M. C. Butler. Dr. B. H. Teague, of Aiken, Dr. Newton, Teague of Avigusla, aud an eminent flutist of Columbia. His Virtues Recorded, • New Yorfi-Tribuue, An Arizona editor thu* records the virtues of a dead townsman: “We sidored good. The convicts arc made drop a tear as we record tjie demise of to do a full day’s labor anil do |t strict- j poor Billy Muefirow. IIis genial pres- ly according to directions, and none ence and hearty laugh added a new of them are known to speak to people i grace to the most exclusive saloons of passing them on tbe roads. A sys-j the town • We say it without fear of tern of punishment, much better than whipping, has been adopted and all the convicts stand iu fear of it, When ever it becomes necessary to punish M*. Theixlore l>. .lervry Likely to lle- celve tlie Appointment. WASitixoTox.Julyg.—TbeCharles- ton collectorship easels about to como to a head. The appointment may be made iu a day or two. The President has called for all the papers on file bearing on this matter. At the Treas ury Department it is said that Sena tor Hampton has strongly recom mended Theodore D. Jervey as a com promise man, and the latter will probably- lie commissioned. —A End of the Chicago Strikers. News dud Courier, July 9th. The strike of the drivers and con ductors of tho West Division street railway 01 Chicago, which begun on June 30, ended yesterday. Eight days’ loss of business to the company, eight days’ of wages to men, eight days’ inconvenience to the public, numerous arrests and a number of persons beaten and severely injured, are the fruits of the strike, all of which might have been avoided by the exercise of a spirit of justice, or ov.eti by ordinary common souse, on the part of the officers of the street car company, who have been com pelled at last to3'ield the point at Is sue, namely, their right to run their business at their own sweet will re* gardless of the rights or feelings of their employees. Tlie situation at tlie beginning of the strike was this: The drivers and conductors, being dissatisfied, ap pointed a committee of fourteen to pre sent their grievances to the officers of tlie company'. The committee per- formed their duty, and iu lieu of a re ply tlie officers discharged the mem bers of the committee. A more high handed aud arbitrary act is difficult to imagine. The strike followed, and now theoffieors have taken back the strik ers, and have agreed to take back the members of the committee, if disin terested arbitrators agreed that there was 1 o cause for their discharge. It is some consolation that tlie man agers of tlie road have been brought to their senses, but it is a great pity tiiat their was not some acknowledged and trusted authority to which the men could have appealed in the first instance, and thus have avoided the evils inseparable from a strike. The Health of the State. Dr. II. D. Frazer, secretary of the State Board of Health,has just return ed to Charleston from uu official visit to the djiltercnt sections of tlie State. The survey of the State was made in accordance with the instructions re ceived fron) tlie board to inquire into the sanitary condition of tlie State in view of a possible visitation of cholera, and to make a report of the same,In order that the board of health might be yble to act advisedly in adopting measures for preventing tlie entrance of cholera into the State, and for combating tit should it gain a foothold hero. Dr, |?'rgzer reports that tlie State gegepijIJy js in a fairly healthy- condition, although there are certain localities in difiVrent parts of the State in which tfie augitary condi tion is not such as it should be, and where measures will have tq be adop ted to promote a better system of sani tation. • The Rev. Sam Jones on Colley* tions. ‘ From tho Wacco Day. Between 2,000 and 3,000 people were in the tabernacle last night when Evangelist Jones stood up to open the services. He prefaced his remarks with the statement that there were some incidental expenses, such as the gas used, etc., that wpujd have to he mid for, and that a collection should be taken up to meet this. “Any gpll* tleman,” ho said, “will cheerfully contribute his mite to help out, for tfie demand is ucccessary’ and reasonable. here are some people here, I have no doubt, who will sneer and say*: ‘This s always the way with these religious meetings; anything to get money.’ I am lint appealing to these flop-eared lounds. They can keep their hands and their money in their pockets.” Laughter.| Tfien the ushers passed the baskets and tfie olineU of silver was heard, Obscure Men Happiest in Wed lock, Alabama Raptlst, No woman will love a man better Thougi.1 ^-imlie me nrsc aTiioug she will be prouder, not fonder; as is often the ease, she will not even bo proud. But give her love, apprecia tion, kindness, and tfiere is no sacri fice she would not make for his con tent and comfort. The man who loves her well is her hero and king. No less a hero her, though ho is not to any oilier; no lesg a king, tfipugh h|s only kingdom is her heart and homo. It is a man’s own fault if he is unhappy with his wife, in nine cases out of ten. It is a very exceptionable woman who will not be all she can to an utientivo husband, and a very exceptionable one who will not be very disagreeable ifshe finds herself willfully neglected. An A>vf«il Outrage. Cleveland Plaindealcr, (. Dtm.) Brooks Thomas, of Clayton county, Georgia, a soldier in the Confederate army, exchanged his (.'unfederategray for Union blue on condition tiiat he shoud not be compelled lo bear anna against the Confederacy, went West to fight Indians, and by President contradiction • Billy was as square as a chessboard. He was no chump. He never killed a man without cause; lie never forgot to settle his score on tho j Lincoln’s order, was placed to tho e refractory convict, fio is made to lie ! slatJ. He never refused to go out or credit of a Northern county as fighting flat on iiis hack and fiis feet are then | a hunt for boss thieves; nor to ante on Us behalf against the Confederacy, hoisted about a yard above ground,! up iiis little pile when he bneked the Aud now this Confederate soldier suspended hy bracelets around his : tiger ami lost. And he was a ankles. Tfie position is comfortable rustler when out with tlie boys. But enough for the first two imputes, but ; Ids crowning virtue was that just be bv the time five minutes haye elapa- fore hi* death fie pftUi us tfiree years ed the convict will lx* ready- to call out for mercy. Tfiis punishment has boon subscription in advance for fhe How ler, am.i >ye assure his widow lfiat the pockets $3,000 inn lump, and gets $00 a year as a Northern m®» fi 1 Union army fight jug against the Con federacy. mu! begets it as a conse- dent Lincoln. ucnceof a positive order from I’resf- ent Lincoln. Wow let the bloody . , .,, , ... 1,1 I.'”! j sbirt be wildly flapped and the shrieks resorted tm 11 hut three cases, and no , paper will be delivered to her on tune ; of |Jie n „ n ^.ond>atants in convict ever permit* himself to under-j every week. Stranger, go thou and do war r ,,, M | n,,. „j r> a rebel soldier is go it a second time. ‘ like-wise.” I cn the pension rolls!