Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Announcements of marriages sud deaths, and notices of a religious character, are i,".|>cctfull v solicited, and will be Inserted grsils FENCE <JUE8T10S-ror.lTIC8, AC MK. EDITOR : No? that A decision bas lu en reached at the ballot-box in An derson County OR the fence question, a hearty acquiescence by both parties should be the order of the day. It so happens that while a large majority of the townships have decided in favor of tho change, the popular vote is so evenly balanced that neither aide can claim the victory. And it so happens that the townships deciding in favor of thc stock law lie in a cornpac* body, and are pre cisely those portions of the County that stand in the greatest absolute need of snid kw., wh??e those deciding against it lie alio'Caftipactly together, with one cr-1 ceptioa, 'and are precisely those portions ?if &*> 'County having tiro most Umber, i ant? 'Who ha7o rwft yet feU the hand of toAiuvuity pre*??>*g KeiV?y upon them. In other wwds, ttoat holh sections, in the eleclHva, have acted upon the -ame prin ciple, only giving up the old plan when th? direct necessity forces it upon them. Tbi-i condition should reconcile both par ities to the exercise of the greatest for ibearauco and kind feeling towards each ? other, because the rapid course of event) i is driving all portions of the State to tho same result, and it is only a question of j . time as to how long before Brushy Creek ; and the other objecting townships shall stand shoulder to shoulder with Hope well and the other belt of townships voting for it. If this be a reasonable view of the situation, and wo think it ir, how absurd the iden that the fence ques tion possesses legitimately any political significance whatever. As well might it be said that tho proper wireWh of cotton, whether two, UiWt? \A lotir feet; or i whether Bard crop should be manured j with guano, a compost, or stable manure{j or whtther a man who is dreadfully i straitened for timber would find it Mete j economical to fence the stock rather than ?the.crops; that all these ?ire political .questions upon which parties must divide. As good reasons for one as tho other. 'These aro all questions of agricultural .economy, of dollars and cents, to bo judged of by discussion, and by a prac tical test of the advantages or disad vantages r,f the diff?rent plans proposed. That every sensiblo man will come to '?bis conclusion, after the passions and prejudices of the law have passed ?u? ny# there cannot be a pnrUcle of doubt. Let ?he Commissioners proceed at once to carry out the providions of tlie law as to those townships adopting tho proposed chango in the fence law, (or TTW;, would be better, if generally agreeable, to fence in the wholo County,) and the practical test will soon develop whether it be a good plan or cot. If it proves advan tageous and generally satisfactory, then tlie nc? t Step for the Legislature to take is to pass 'A. general stock law for the whole State,' excepting those counties oaiy whoso grazing interests would bo injured thereby. In conversation with a very intelligent gentleman from Oolcnoy, ia Fickena County, near Table Rock, ?ince the recent election, on the subject, amd who expressed himself aa opposed to the proposed law of the lost Legislature, he snid that a StaUi law, p.-operly framed, would ne acquiesced in even by tho mountain people. Such a law would not injure even stock raisers, as they could easily fence off large pasturage grounds, by felling a few trees across gaps or gul? ?es in the mountains. On tbe other side of tho Ttl tie Ridge, in North Caro lina, McGalloway said tho people were generally in favor of the law now. So that a little time or breathing spell now will likely bring all the people of our be loved Palmetto State, from the moun tains to the seaboard, in full ssd harmo nious accord on the fence question, and ali other questions affecting tho develop ment of our material and industrial in terests, and our genernl prosperity and happiness. But higher than all, and above every other consideration, is the perpetuatio!.1 of our present State government. Tho developments of thc legislative Investi gating Couiruitveo have unearthed an amount of rascality and corruption throughout the whole machinery of tho late Radical gururrifijeat, with scarcely a single exception, that has caused a moral horror to vibrato every honest ?nan's bosom in this broad continent, and across tlie waters even to the other hemi . sphere. When the people overthrew this monstrous pyramid of fraud and thievery ami corruption aft tbe ballot-box, last November, by the election of Hampton and a Democratic Legislature, they did not conceive, in the remotest degree, the hcighth and breadth and length and depth of our great deliverance. But every day is adding, and adding, and ad ding to the terrible truth-that under Radical rulo South Carolina, for the last ten or twelve years, has been governed hy a set of the most graceless scamps that ever disgraced the habiliments of tuan in a civilized country. But we have been partially rescued from this appall ing maelstrom of ruin and destruction, that threatened to engulf every thing dear and noble and patriotic in a Caro linian's heart, by the election of Hamp ton and his compeera. They have but just commenced the great work of reform, and they themselves stand aghast at the stupendousness of tho work eiitrustorl tn their hands. To go through successfully, they need, above all things, the moral support of a confiding constituency at home. When the people of South Caro lina rose, tip os one man, and hurled Chamberlain and his crew from their seats of power in this State, how was tho great work of political redemption ac complished T By union among ourselves. This is the talismanic word that thrilled th? Democratic ranks. The high and Uro low, tho rich and the poor, white men and colored men, by one united effort; fb. the restoration of honest gov ernment to thc down tioddon people of our beloved Slatey "arried Uro bright banner of "peace on earth, good will to all mou," the symbol of an honest man's government, to it? 6nal triumph in the election of Hampton. Just as wc have begun this good work, fa must we carry V. nto ito final oona ?nmntwn. "Uni ted wc stand, divided wo fall." T. H. R. THE FIRE IN THE U. 8. PATENT OFFICE. Gre*.. Instruction of Mud?is, end Heavy -.-?? ~j tbs Gurcruracut. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-8 p. m. The Patent OiBce building, in which much of the work eoniiecied with the Department of Interior is performed, covers tero squares. It mensures 453 feet from erait to wei', 331 feet from north to Mouth, and baa an elevation of 75 feet. The building contains 191 rosins, and cost about 02,700,000. It was commenced in 1837. Four halls on the second floor compass the whole extent of tho vast building, and have on exhibi tion every model of every patent issued since 1G36, both foreign and American, numbering about 160,000 models. This part of the building is what is called the "Museum of Models." PATENT OFFICE ABLAZE-ASSISTANCE FROM BALTIMORE AND Ol I?KR CITIES -HOW IT ORIGINATED-SCENES AND INCIDENTS. About ll o'clock this morning an un* usual column of smoke A*& noticed over the west hall, arising iront ono of the chimneys, when soon thereafter the cry of fire was heard ell over the neighbor? hood. The Ore department did not re spond as promptly as it might have doi <, something more than fifteen minutes hav ing elapsed before tho fire engine arrived. This was stationed on 9th street, between F and G streets, and about 12 o'clock the first stream of water commenced ifs play. The next engine was stationed on corner cf 9th and F, and the hose hois ted up on the roof of the south hall. Thc fire originated in the attic that runs jnst under- the roof along 9th street front, which has been used as a store room for something near 35,000 rejected models and some thirty tons of drawings and specifications. The fi?mes were carried with the greatest rapidity all a'ung the whole side of the building, and at about 1?:15 the entire roof over the west hall fell with a ?most tremendous crash. At this time the fire had its own way in the model room, where it spread with the greatest rapidity. Columns of fire arose and threatened all buildings in the neighborhood v/u h immediate destruc tion. Tho large and extensive offices of 1 Louis Bagger &. Co.. one of the moat prominent patent pgencies in the city of Washington, located right opposite the Patent Office, had their entire stock of j models removed for safe keeping, and tho heat was so intense in their offices that the workmen employed in removing the books, files and articles of value be longing to inventor? experienced the greatest diulculty h doing their work. Luckily, however, i~e wind changed to the southeast, and the danger of the de struction of the Le Droit building was romoved, and the fire confined to the Patent Office building, which, with this change of wind, was entirely covered, with the exception of the south hall. In the meantime, however, several engines were playing with marked effect upon the roof of the ?outh hall., and succeeded in saving iL and the many valuable and historic relics kept there-such as Wash ington's war swords, presented to bim by various foreign potentates, his plates and dishes, tlie cane willed to him by Ben Franklin, his military uniform, Frank lin's printing press, ?kc., &c. The origi nal declaration of independence was also saved. NARROW ESCAPES. August Petersolm, of lue firm of C. A. Snow & Co , patent attorneys, was one of first in the scene of disaster, and while attempting to enter tho room whero tho fire was first discovered, with ono of Babcock's fire extinguishers, came near being killed by the falling of the western roof. James Morris, of No. 5 engine, was nearly dragged into the fire at the same time as he fell down suffocated with smoke. BALTIMORE RENDERING AID. When it became apparent that our fire department was insufficient to cope with the devouring element, Secretary Schurz telegraphed to the Mayor of Baltimore for help. Tho fire department responded at once, nud the first engine arrived soon after one o'clock, having made the/un from Baltimore to Washington in thirty two minutes. SOLDIERS ON 0?ABD. Shortly after one o'clock a detachment of U. 8. Marines, of about one hundred men, were placed at various points in and out of the building to guard the government property. The model roora, or the upper part of the building, con tained perhaps the finest collection of models in tho world, which it is imposai? ble to replace, as many of them date bick to the early d-yc of thc Pitchi Office. There was also on this floor large numbers of maps and valuable drawings. These all being in wooden cases, the fire spread rapidly from one to the other. The floors of tho building aro on- brick arches, and consequently the lower part of tho building was not reached by the Ifire, but the water played sad havoc with Ihe books and papers below, t utf rvn. itv tyo THE Fi P.E. Many reports as to the origin of the fire were circulated. Tho one that was generally credited at first was that the fire started in the Green House on tho top of the roof by the rays of the sun coming through the glass roof, which made a fecus and ignited Mme cotton which was placed arout.d a valuable plant. A mother theory was, and the one most generally accepted, thai the fine for heating the Green House communicated the fire. The most plausible explanation ?AS, however, given to your correspon dent by Mr. Wilson, who was, at-tho limo the fire was first noticed, employed in tittling away old files, and the first ono who gave the alarm of fire. Re stated that between 9 and 10 o'clock a fire of wood had been lit In one or more offices on tho basement floor of the west wing, the heated u;r from which would ascend through the very chimney from which the tint smoke waa visible, and that a spark from this chimney ignited sonto boards which were placed on tho roof to keep tho spout of the chimney in posi tion. THE SCENES ON THE STIIKETS. At 12 o'clock the fire was at its height. The scene was ono of awful grandeur. Your correspondent witnessed tho pro gress of the fire from tho office of C. A. Snow & Ob., patent attorneys, who hare their rooms located not moro than fifty yards from the spot where the fire origi nated. The cold classic outline of the building was warmed up with a back ground of seething flame, curling, hiss ing, darting first here and then there, taking no fixini course, but devouring everything within its r*?ach. From each of the heavy windows on Q and 9th streets front, thcro wero sheets of flame curling upwards until lost in volumes of smoke, Bwept away by the wind. . Thou sands were on the streets and upon the roofs of adjoining buildings. Policemen were frantic in their efforts to stay the surging throng of humanity. NATDBB OP MODELS DESTROYED AS B.E PORTED BY LOUIB BAGGER A tX)., AT TORNEYS AND ROMCrrORS OF PAT ENTS, WASHINGTON, D. C. Eighty-eight cases iu tho north hall, containing models cf erection and bot tling, baths and c'-^ets, beehives, bolts, nuts, rivets, brakes and gins, casting, dairy, files, garden and orchard, grinding, polishing, hardware manufacture, har rows, harvesters, horso-shoes, metal lurgy, metal working, (7 classes,) mills, nails, needles, pins, ores, plowe, pneu matics, pumps, railways, (4 classes,) saws, seeders, planters, sheet metal, stab ling, tubing, wire, water distribution, water wheels, wire working, wood screws, wood working, (4 classes.) Sixty cases in the north hull, containing models of bridges, brushes, brooms, butchering, carpentry, carriages, wagons, excavators, fences, glass, hoisting, hydraulic engin eering, journals, bearings, masonry, me chanical powers, paving, presses, roofing, stone, lime and cement and treshing. OMEGA. THE LATEST FEOH CHAMBERLAIN. .ie Decline* io Become a Publie Wit ness-His Purported Letters to Kimp ton and Parker "May be Geuulue." From the A?tr York Tribune September il. In the handsome marble building of tbe New York Life Insurance Company on Broadway, the last Republican Gov ernor of South Carolina, Daniel H. Chamberlain, now hos an office, and is a member of a law firm doing a large bus iness. His room, which forms one of several opening r**o each other, is reached from th ? ?*uter world of hallway through an inferior corridor, from which branch off al co..-like offices. An air of active work pervades this chain of offi ces. Entering the narrow alcove of Mr. Chamberlain, the visitor sees directly in front a large window, and, lining monot onously the walls upon either aide, to the very ceiling, the calfskin-covered books of a law library. Standing close io one of thc book-shelves, with his back to the door, and intently rcsdir-g a law book, was Mr. Chamberlain, when a represen' tative of the Tribune-who had been previously announced-came into this alcove on Saturday. The man reading the book is of medium height; the close fitting suit of black makes him look rather slender; his eyelids droop over the eyes, he is decidedly bald, and alto Sether has the look of a keen-witted and igh-bred city ms . of forty years of age The visitor was greeted with a distant bow, and was told, with a weary air, by Mr. Chamberlain, that he had just re turned from delivering two lectures, one a? Potsdam, N. Y., and tho other at Worcester, Mass. During the few words spoken about this journey, Mr. Chamber lain had scated himself at bis desk in the centre of the room, placed bis book upon his knee and had gazed dreamily at tbe ceiling, at tho floor and at tho books on every side. He had not read the newspapers much since his departure, he said, ana consequently had no basis upon which to make any remarks con cerning BO ino criticisms upon his course while Attorney General and Governor of South Carolina, which h? 1 appeared." Indeed, he had, determined, upon the advice nf his friends, to Bay nothing at presont about his connection with the government of South Carolin?. "A com potert tribunal is now investigating tho methods of government in South Caroli na for tho past ten years," he said, "and doubtless my own part in that govern ment will bo fully disclosed by it." There had been two letters printed on South Carolina affairs purporting to have been written by himself-one addressed '< to Parker and tho other to Kimpton. Both might be genuine. "This one," said Mr. Chamberlain, at the same time taking up the one addressed to Parker, "this one may be genuine, ulthough it reads to me os if it bod bee *, doctored ; that is, some words interpolated." "Thia one," said Mr. Chamberlain, holding up the letter addressed to Kimpton, "this one ; also may be genuine. And if this letter I is genuine." Mr. Chamberlain continued^ "them isn't any tremendous wrong con cealed in it that I can see. It is true that wo bought the Greenville & Colum bia Railroad^ but we lost money by doing so. We did not buy the other ronds mentioned. I se? some newspapers say we made a vast sum-was it two mil lions?-through this railroad purchase. It was, in fact, a losing speculation." Mr. Chamberlain further said that Niles G. Parker's hostility to himself was in explicable to him. Probably it was due to the prosecution of Parket during his term as Governor. Ko bad not heard anything about the man for years, and was much surprised at his GUdaca erup tion lately in Jersey City. Then Mr. Chamberlain suddenly changed tbe sub ject. "By tho way " he said, "who is going to control the New York Republi can State Convention." "Apparently Mr. Con kling is to have everything hu own way," said a gentleman present. Mr. Ohombjrlain continued: "Tho Pres ident's friends clearly haven't been very vigor?os, except in talking. Do yon think Senator Conkling will oppose tho Administration there ?" "Not unless ho is violently assailed by it," replied the Sulieman. "That is wbat I think," said r. Chamberlain.' The gentleman con tinued : "Somo days it looks os if the Administration was more afrdd of Conk ling than he of it." "Indeed, it does look that way," replied Mr. Chamber lain, and bade the reporter, who had meantime arose to go, good afternoon. MB. BAYES IN TIE?!*:-. A Pointed Speech of Reception and the President'? Reply. LYMCHBUBO. VA., Sept. 24. The President crossed tho Virginia line at Bristol at 2 o'clock a. m. At Liberty there was an impromptu reception.' Chi reaching Lowey'a Depot, seventeen miles from Lynchburg, tho President waa met by a committee of prominent citizens of Lynchburg, headed by Hon. Thomas S. Bocock. Upou arriving at Lynchburg the distinguished visitors were greeted with tremendous cheering and with music. The President was presented to tho mayor of Lynchburg, who briefly ex tended the hospitality of t!>?; city, to which President Hayes responded more briefly. The party, conducted by the members of the reception committee and escorted by ihe Home Guard of Lynch burg and the Lynchburg Light Artillery, proceeded to tho Norvell House, accom panied by a cheering crowd, wno filled every available place from which a oight of the partv could be had. Upou arriv ing at thc Norvell House, tho Frequent and cuite were conducted to the front portico, where Mr. Bocock, chairman of tlic reception committee., addressed his Excellency, tendering on behalf of Lynchburg a sincere welcomo to the City of Hills-tho first Virginia city visited by him. Ho said: < Ohio was at ono lijum par.t of 4I10 "Ter ritory of Virginia, and many parts of it were settled Fy brothers ?.nd relatives'of the ancestor1 of the present generation of Virginians. We do not assert any maternal control over it, but wo havo sane claim to bo heard by its sons. Without desiring to incur the charge of boasting, I may say that the Virginia of olden time had certain characteristics for which aho was distinguished all the coun try over. Her courtesy and warm-hearted hospitality have often been commended, una she Las never been supposed to be wanting in due respect to official position. We havo passed through trying scenes, but it ?B hoped that it may turn out that these qualities have suffered no diminu tion. Another characteristic equally marked is her unchanging devotion to what she considers the true principio of the Constitution. She may err in judg ment, but she judges candidly and ad heres to her convictions most firmly. However dark the hour which may have fallen upon her, or however tempestuous the waters on which her bark may have been launched, there has been ever seen streaming from her mnsthead the motto, "Principles, and not men." Recent events nave given prominence to two leading political requirements, the qual ity of all citizens before tho law, and the equality of all States under the Consitu tion. We long felt that in the great de sire to uphold the first, the government neglected and discarded tho other. We saw States which had been admitted into tho tinton and had I ?come entitled to equal rights with tho others, still held guarded as prisoners of war, and com pelled to perform their most sacred func tions of government tinder the survib lance, ana sometimes under the direction, of tho military authorities., Thia wo-re garded as an immense^rong. It'raiiklcrj in our minds as a thorn in the flesh ; anc while it continued we were poorly pre Stared to listen to appeals to our gooc c clings. It was a wrong to our sistei States ; It was an outrage on tho bond, o the Union. But all this hos -beei changed, and each of tho States bas beet restored to its eoiutitbt?etisl rights! Lo cal pelf-g?vernroxnt has been restored ti all, and South Carolina and Louisiani ?re now on an equality with Massachu setts and Michigan. And what bas beet the result? Magic itself could scarcel* transform a scene more completely Where there was sullen discontent ther is now sulis/action. Angry bickering and impending strife have given place t stillness and quiet, and in the States eua fleeted of disloyalty there is now a cheer ill performance of every duty. It ha I been found that by a proper enforcemen ! of the Stab? laws the rights of all citi I zens are best protected. A sense c ? wrong being removed, good feeling an j harmony have como to occupy its place and tho Angel of Peace, like a hnlcyot now spreads its,white and downy wing over our entire country. Thia has bee done, Mr. President, and truth require the admission that your agency has bee most potent in thc work. A short tim ago the land was filled with complainl ot inefficiency and corruption in the civ service of the country, and the deman for reform was universal. The civil ac vice order lately issued by your admini tration was a bold and manly step in tl right direction. Is there virtue and ii telligence enough in the country to U] hold and sustain it?* Surely all goc men desire such' a result. We haveseei Mr. President: With pleasure the words < kindness you have spoken on your pre ent tour. You have spoken them in ti Norih and South" alike". 'Those we; good words you used.when you said th vom cause was no^tlieicajuse of a part but it was "the cause of the Conslitutio the estai*.? ui the Union, ino cans? of ha mony, the cause ?Y peace." These won will accomplish much good, and we kne that you have done these things not the dictation of party leaders^ J So'fiu-v we can see or know, yon have dono thc because they wore right, and so meet y< not as jpartv men. Our action has 1 party significance whatever. We ha come as patriotic citizens to acknowledj tho facta; we have come as true and loy Virginians to recognize, our principo by whomsoever avowed ?we have cor as honest men to say that your offici acts in the particulars named have d served no condemnation. The futu must take care of its own record. T rehabilitation of all the States, thc pu fication of the public service, and t "sci?eat?en of thc entire ccur.try lz great work, and if accomplished sh on fill the .neasure of a high ambition, your efforts are to continuo ns thuy ha begun, I can foresee great resulta nbc; Under the inspiration bf tho thought vision of the futuro comes up before 0 The chasm that once yawned so wide a bloody between tho Southern and t Northern States is filled and obliterate Tho bright flowers of Charity and cc cord lift their pure heads in the suuiig of a favoring heaven, and.overhang. Sill t?ic.r gorgeous Cuivm wo ?sun Frotniso and hope! ' ' Mr. President, agi greet you and bid you welcome. After music by tho Hand, the Presid? ....aid : My Friends: It is very gratifying havo the. opportunity, to make tho 1 quaintanee orso'large ti humber of lad and gentlemen and people of JLynchbu and of this section of the State of "V ginia. A week ago I entered what I speaker who then welcomed .mar' 1 pleased to term it, "the gateway to I South and Southwest"-Louisville Since then I hare met the people of tb great former nlnveholding States--Ki tucky, Tennessee and Georgia. I bi the happiness to .assure-you that I r assemblages feeling and thinking as j do to-day. Those audiences, Ilk*) t one, were composed ?f ?ic reprisent?.ti of al! political parties, and in each th was a respectable sprinkling of veter of both armies. [Applause.] I felt their welcome perfectly at nome. 1 gentleman who jost now welcomed me to your city, I am glad to note, referred to th? early hUtory of my own Klato-u ter ritory formerly belonging to bis own, Virginia. I don't forget how much in debted to Virginia are five of our great States, and I remember with pride and pleasure their OT Igln. Mr. Jefferson gave to us that which nos proved the corner stone of our morality--education and equality of rights before the law. We have have grown up and flourished in pursuing in the Constitution and laws tho pathway Jefferson marked out. In timo daughters and mothers came to differ for causes for which we were not responsible, but we will have no discussion now. It is enough to know now that every causo for hostility, estrangement and alienation has been removed forever. Ho who docs not soe the hand of Providence in this is not likely to ever notice any providential in terference. Tho restoration to ancient friendship is the result. We have come to a result that every good man has prayed for. Thc day is herc. There {pointing to the -unitaryj stand men who were against u? fren? '61 to '65. To-day tbero is no shadow between us. You risked your lives for your convictions. [Applause.] Good, men and good women respect thoae'who rink their ali in a cause which they believe to be right I Cheers.] I know now that you respect the mon who fought against you for what they believed right. There" may bo some among us, there may be some in the South, there may be many in both sections not recon ciled, but we all know that in the march of progress there are always some strag glers. [Applause.] There is a front rank aud a rear rank in all armies. The great body of tho pcoplo now moves forward under the Constitution and the Union, and all the rest will soon be glad to be with us. Nobody yields any of his convictions. We all believe that one nation is better than two;; that one Constitution is better than ' two? thati ope flag is better than two. 1 Tho question hos been which is tho right one, [applause] and that is set tled. [Laughter.] That horse carries two men [pointing to an animal upon whose back were two persons] when ono would be better. [Great laughter and applause.] Your honorable speaker said that all sections, all States, and all citi zens should have equal and exact justice. Tho government now regards all as equal citizen.". I rejoice that Virginia under stands tho Constitution as wo do. I have talked long enough. [Cries of "no. no."] My newspaper friends no duubt think so. [Cries ofvGo on, Mr. President."] I could talk a great deal more where i bav? duch agreeable audiences, for how could I stop when they greet mo as you do? [Cheers.] TIIE GREAT TRAIN BOBBERY. Full Particulars of the Raid ou the . Union racine. . OMAHA, NED., Sep. 19. The Union Pacific east bouud express train, due here this afternoon, was robbed last night betwocn 10 and 11 o'clock, at Big Springs Station, three hundred and sixty miles west of Omaha, by a party of masked men, who got away with over $60,000. Four masked men, holding four revolvers, walked into Station Agent Barnhart s office a few minutes before train time, and one of them directed him to cut off all telegraph communication by tearing up his instruments. Barnhart endeavored to throw them off thc track by taking up only his sounder, but tho men bade him pull up tho relay and h.-nd it over, which he did. The man who gave tho commanda was a captain, evidently a telegraph operator. Barn hardt, under cover of the revolvers, and according to the captain's commands, next hung ouf hi? red light to stop tho { ! express, which soon came up and f ' atoppe?. Barnhart was rushed to the door of the express car by tho four rob bers, who m ado bim knock for Express Messenger Miller, who opened the door a few inches. Tho highwaymen then, by somo means, shoved the door clear open, jumped in. and coverd Messenger Miller with cocked revolvers. They took Miller's revolvers away from him. bruised him about tho head considerably, and thou opened one Rntfi; from 'shich they obtained tho treas ure boxes containing $60,000 in gold coin, which was a shipment from Cali fornia, and $458 in currency. Thoy tried to make Miller open tho through tafe, which has a combination lock, a.J is not opened anywhere between the termini nf the road, "but as tho messengers do not know the combination he could not com ply with the demand, and they let him off after explaining. Whilo ti.is was going on in the express car, theLC^ier p^rtlortue gang had cap tur? :': er and fireman, and put ou( ti??'fire in tho engine, and ni mo meht'Oonductor Patterson stepped on tho platform to see what orders were await ing him, as indicated by the red light signal to stop, be, too, was corralled, being covered by cock J revolvers ano ordered to throw np his bands. Patter son say? there were from ten to fifteen of them, After plundering the express car, tho robbers went into the passenger coaches and began robbing tho passen gers, securing about half a dozen gold watches and nearly five hundred donara in 'cash and some railroad pickets. A freight train now approaching from tho rear, Conductor Patlera?n was conducted1 by a guard past the sleeping coaches a snort distance up tho track, so that ho could flag the approaching train to p:e vent a collision. The guard then, left bim and joined the main body, who th' retreated from the cars. They bt;d horses in sight, but bad 'them cone ?ti some little distance off. They noon dis appeared tia mysteriously as they bad appeared,- geing north, as was shortly Conductor Patterson ^nt the freight engine out at once to give the alarm at the next station, and as soon as tho fire was up in his own engine resumed hut trip. By 7 o'clock this morniug. Super intendent Clark having learned all the particulars, had telegraphed everywhere, and offered $10,000 reward. ' Sheriff McCarty, of Sidney, and Sheriff Bradley, of North Platte, were sent out with a large force of mounted men. Sheriff Bradley seems to have get on the iraii, aa it is said ?hat he found two re volvers and one empty coin box ten miles north of Big Springs. It is sus Gctcd that, these men are the samo who ve been robbing the coaches of Ute Black Hills stage linc. It is yet a mys tery how the robbers opened the door of the express .car, aa it is so, arranged as to open only six inches when the machinery is all right. It is also barred with boiler Iron, and a messenger, if on the lookout for such on emergency sa this, could hold tho fort against a dozen. There were thirteen in tho gang, and six of them went into the passenger coach ss and ordered all to hold up their bands, which they did. Then they went through the passengers systematically, collecting $1,800- according to the figures of Conductor Kelly. One man they searched three timeo, but ho managed to conceal $400 in largo bills between his ^he robbers tried to get into tho sleep ing car, bf i the doora wa olted for them. They did not rob the >omen, and tu t*> cripples they refund tl what they had taken. A company of ildiers left Sidney this morning in pur lit This evening several detectives, udcr Chief Hanlon, an experienced oili er, left Omaha for the West. KANSAS CITY, MO., September 19. 'here are good grounds for believing that ic train robbery last night on the Unir.) 'aclflc was perpetrated by a gang from outhwest Missouri mid this vicinity, eaded by two of tin? old guerillas. The deuda of the three Youngers, now in tho linnosotn penitentiary for the attempted mik robbery at NorlhF.eld, have been tanning for several months how to raise fund by which thc e<icapo of the boys light bo effected. Tho Youngers in ?eir palmy days never lacked friends ho sheltered them, and they could cl ays recruit a gang for n bank or train jbbery, from men whoso coolness of ervo could bo relied on tor the periodi id raids they mndo on banks and rail ?sd trains. Colo Younger was tho ?ador. WAH IX THE RADICAL CAMP. 'h'st ?Jun fired tn the Kew York Convention. ROCI?EHTER, September 26. The doon* of tho hall in which tho Ho ublican Convention meets wcro opened til o'clock, tum the hall was soon com letely filled with delegates and spcc.tn }rs. Senator Conkling took a seat im icdiately fronting the platform. The invention was called to order, and Mr. . C. Platt was chosen temporary chair ian. Mr. Platt returned thanks for thc onor, and said that the solid and true tcpublicnus of tho State spurned thc bought that tho mission of tho .Repul? an party was ended. Ho urged the ?aintenanco of patty lines, and criticised arcastically the men who in the past huming to bo Republicans were not true o tho party standard. An allusion to ?eneral Grunt ns n sterling statesman dei ted a hearty round cf applause, /hieb was renewed when the speaker re tried to him ns ono who had been al lays true to his friends, IHM party and II?H ountry. A reference to ce-tain advo ates of civil servico reform "licitcd light applause mid some hisses. Tko peaker said that tho party waa pledged o civil service reform, but differed with bc impracticables as to the modes of so uring it. Ho was not in fnvorofany nethod of civil servico reform that in thc lest judgment of the wisest men is im iracticnble, or which invades tho civil ?oliticnl rights of any citizen. He urged ne-dcration. magnanimity and harmony, n the joining of hands in tho common truggle against the common enemy. On tho question of the con?.-?sting dele gation from New York coming up, Mr. inkling desired to bo understood that ?S had not objected io tho reference of he contesting claimants and their fair onsideration by the committee on crc tcntinls. His objection was only to the issumption that parties contesting from lutside of the Republican organization hould bo permitted to silence tho rcgu ar delegates chosen inside of the Ite niblicnn organization. Mr. Martindale coi.t;ratulntcd tho con tention that Senator Conkling lind been tonverted to the views of himself (Mr. ilartindale) and the friends who voted vith him. Conkling inquired if Mr. .Martindale cally understood him to make the ob cction which ho had repudiated. Great cheers.] Tho gentleman from Monroe (Mr. Martindale) did not win ho honors ho wears by misrepresenting iny one else. I Renewed cheers.] Mr. Martindale rose and was greeted vith furious hissing and great disorder. [Ie maintained bb place, however, until irder was restored," when ho explained hat he had not understood that Mr. tinkling had suggested tho amendment iffered by Mr. Tremain. Tho chair then put tho question as imended by Mr. Tremain, uud it was idopted unanimously. Mr. Tremain's amendment was that ho so-called regular Republican delega ron bo admitted tc seats without preju lice to the contestants, whose case should jo referred to the committee on creden tials. ?: Mr. Conkling moved the usuul resolu tion to appoint a committee on resolu tions, ana that nil resolutions be referred to that committee. Adopted. Commit tees on credentials and permanent Organ ization were also appointed. Platt, in bis speech, said : "There is ino subject of political discussion which iomagogues hnvo magnified into un seemly propw-.timiM. I refer to the in cessant cry which is raised, that tho Re publican party is pledged to ruform in the civil service. Hungry expectants of oflico stand on the street cornors nud shout the shibboleth till they are hoarse und weary. The independent journalist rolla it aa a sweet morsel under hm tongue, and daily blurts lt in the face of a nail? seated public. [Slight applauao and hisses.] Tho Sitting Hulls and Crazy Horses of the Tammany tribes incorpo rate it in their war-whoops, and are per sistent in demanding thai tho most radi cal v-hemes for thc readjustment of the pub'tc se rr? ce should bc rigidly enforced against all Republicans. It is unques tionably true tu?t tho Republican party is pledged to integrity in the civil ser vice, and I know of no good Republican who does not intend that it shall faith fully fulfil its pledges. Our disagree ment, if there be any, is involved in the methods nf accomplishing the object. As I understand the case, tho Republi can party is not pledged to any plan of civil Bcrvico reform which is not practi cal in its bearing and general in Its ap plication, equally applicable to ovm-y State of the Union and eve: - department )f the government, ns bindi..g upon the Cabinet officer as upon the tide-waiter ; as earnestly opposed to political favorit ism in high places as in low. Tho Re publican porty is not pledged to any plan of civil service reform which most practical men aro sincero in believing will demoralize and destroy tho organiza tion and result in tho triumph of that old Early of spoils and plunder. It would e worse than folly to attempt to dis guise the disagreeable fact, to which I have before made' allusion, that tho present is a most critical period in the history of our party. The clouds which obscure the horizon aro black and threat ening, and the friends of freedom have good cause for doubt and despondency. Tho chief causo for discouragement ls In the perilous situation of political affairs in the South. For the first t'-no since tho war wo are confronted with the stern reality of tho Southern States in solid phalanx for tho support of their political confederates, the Democratic party. We behold the Republican organization in nearly every Southern State demoralized, paralysed and practically crp*harj out. The promised disintegration of tim Doin ocratio hosts which was to follow a liberal distribution of Federal ofr?<?K and a policy confiding aud effusive, is far in the dim future. It requires no gift of second sight to discern that even with the widest divisions of tho dominant party in tho South no resurrection there of a party by tho name of Republican is within tho rango of probability. To-day the Hamptons, Hills ead Lama? will caree? tho hands that restore them to power, but vote the Democratic ticket to morrow and forever. But, fellow-Re publicans, all this ouly der. "astral??* che vital importance of maintaining and per Setuating tho Republican party in the forth. It is no tuno to relax or despond. Tho committoo of credentials reported in favor of the regular delegates. Conk ling was made permanent chairman, but at ids request Mr. Platt retained the chair, Colliding saying that it would ena ble iiiir. to take a full share in the re sponsibility of whatever may bo dono or refused to bo done by this convention, f Applause!. The resolutions were presented by Mr. Conkling, who stated that they had been unanimously adopted by the committee. They cortain a somewhat elaborate argu I lent against tho prcseut civil service order, holding that uo employer, whether in business or political lifo, has a right to exclude h?? smsloycc-s fruin participa tion in political affairs. George William Curtis, of Richmond, when thc reading wu? concluded, called for the reading of the second section of the platform. Ho then moved to amend by substituting therefor a resolution which he read, having been called to the platform amid great upplause. His pro position asserted generally (hat the title of Prcildcnt Hayes is as clear as that of George Washington, [applause,! and commended the Presidents official con duct and policy in carrying out tho pledges of tho National Convention. Mr. Curtis proceeded to support bis proposition ut length, being frequentl* mtcrruptcd by demonstrations of hearty approval from a part of the Convention. Lyman Tremain spoke against the amendment. The general po;iit of his argument was that while there was to be no abandonment of cherished Republi can principles, no lowering of the flag under which tho party had so often marched to the battle of victory, [ap plause] there was no necessity for intro (hieing this firebrand, on points in regard to which therj were such wide differences of opinion It was not wise to thrust] down tho throats of Republicans, who differ -ind doubt, a declaration approving of methods which they honestly do not belicvo in. Remember, George William Curtis, said Mr. Tremain, "milk is for balden und meat for Btrong men." [Sub dued laughter.] George William Curtis mndo a strong speech in favor of bia amendment. The main feature of the platform h> that when a freo American hogpens to hold office and perform his duty, he has a right to spend his leisure in politics. Hints for tho Month. j If every section of tlie country bad suf fered ab thu has from drought, it would Uko r?gulai Ir lah hiuU io encourage a farmer to do anything this month. We had but a single shower from the 19th July to the r.)th September, and conse quently have but little cotton to gather, and may have little else worth housing. Nevertheless a good time may be coming, and heneo wo should not despair but I work with a will, and prepare os far as possible against tho inclement winter ahead of us. As rapidly as possible cot ton should bo picked and packed ; as to the selling wo aro in doubt. It surely eau go no lower ; every indication is, that it will go higher before March ; especial ly if it leaves the farmers' hands. Tho producer never will control the price of cotton until ho soils it nt his ginhouse. When buyers come to the farm to buy, and then pay tho farmer for delivering at the depot, we may look for tbe price of cotton being Bet by tho producer. But as long as it is hawked about for sale the buyer nas the inside trank. The farmer who loses a day with wagon and team and hired hand, hauling cotton to the dopot, bad better take one-eighth of a cont less for it at his ginhouse, and uso his team and hired laborer otherwise on the farra, for ibis month has twenty-seven valuable days in it. Corn should all bo gathered and housed before the cold of winter sets in. Peas should bo picked ??d ??to pea V?-iC-5 CUt, cured and housed. Sow oats even on a head wherever cotton has grown. Give two shovel furrows to run around the cot ton, BOW the oatt, and then with shovel and heel sweep give oue, or, if need be, two furrows to throw out thc middles and cover tho oats. With niue ploughs we sowed twenty acres in thi? way in a day and a half in the second week of Septem ber, and now have a beautiful stand. Sow wheat a? early this month as practi cable, and if the crop is at alt promising during tho winter prepare to ureas it in February with 100 to 150 pounds of superphosphate per acre, and run over it, as soon as the fertilizer is sown, with a two-horso harrow. With this treatment we mado twenty-tear bushels of r.'aeat to the acre last season on old -d land; Read carefully the published letter 6? Maj. R. A. Griffin on wheat1 in cotton] land, and if you have only gray land try j Dr. RavonoTs "Ash Element" idea.- ! Don't attempt to grow wheat for sale, but determine to buy no more flour. If wheat is sown in corn land, much more ploughing is necessary, simply be cause- the landis not in so g md a tilth as when planted in cotton. On corn land broadcast forty bushels cotton seed per acre: plough in, sow one bushel wheat, previously soaked, (five bushels wheat to ono of bluestone for twelve hours) per acre, and cross-plough to cover. Top dress and harrow, as above, in February. Barley and rye should now be sown ; the latter for calf pastures, and the for mer on the riebet land on the place, highly fertilize-.!, to make nilling iota for spring une. Wo have often said that green bailey, in March and April will come n^rer making an old mule young than any possible treatment that can be given him ; the land, however, must be very rich. This is the month in which to gather sweet potatoes. T::ke time, for it is a laborious job to shave down tho vines as soon as the potato is matured, (and they will usually grow till the first front,) into the valley between the beds, and cover them with two or four twister furrows ; then. plough out tho potatoes. Those vines aro a fine manuring for next year's crop. In gathering tbe potato make throe piles-the cnt potatoes, the eating and tho seed-each to themselves. Bar rel the two last and eat tho first as soon as possible. If you have a dry cellar pat tbe potatoes in there on a bed of straw or shucks, cover with the same, and ?sat as u oed ed. With no other caro we* hnvo thus kept them sound until calen up the following spring, for the past three yean. Lend an eye, as well as a helping hand, to tho stock, and particularly your cowa. If you have moro than yon can keep com fortably during the winter, butcher and sell if at all lat, or sell on the hoof at whatever you can get. Better economy and truer humanity is to sell a c. \ now in beef mr a song, than to kevp >??* to shiver away tho loug cold n'?!i^ ??f win ter in poverty ana pain wnili> yo? uro snugly housed and warily wr,.( p? d be tween tho blankets. Make every effort to do fall ploughing. Now is tho timo to turn under the stub ble fields, IQ do thia jub well don't ??i*??iiiawwaMKau^^ ' ; LZ ti ? L ?DVKRTISl?iQ.-we aro compelled to require cash paynxnts for advtrtUIngordered ?JY Executors. Administrators ?od other fldntUitt* ?nd herewitb append the rate? for tba ordinary Dulcea, which will only be Inserted whan th? tnnnpv rAtoM will? IIAAM??. CUa'iion?, ?w?'liJscVt??rjW,' V - - $3.00 Estate Kotlee?, threo Incitions, - 2 00 Final 8?ttl?BMsnta, five Ineertioas . . 8.00 TO COnncsPQhDHiilBr-ia order to receive SKSSiiSa, communications amit he trcamnnM *'? IM ?rus csrtc SJSA s?dr?? Of tb? writer. Bc leeted manuacripts will not be returned, unless the necessary stamps ar* iuralsbodto repay the poetase thereon. ?W We ar? aot responsible for the Tieweand opinions of ocr correspondent*. All communications should be addressed to "Ed itors Intelligencer." and all checks, droit?, money Ottlars, Ac, should be mode payebte to thc order of B. B. MUliBAY at CO., Anderson, g. C. think of ?tarting a one-horse plough ; turn with two good mules, and if they are not strong enough hitch in ?bur. Fence up all lall ploughed land, and let not at a hoof go oh it till tho ploughs are started next spring. We hare frequent ly heard that turning over red land deep ly, rained it. We have often done it and never yet felt thal our land was injured by it. Turn the subsoil on, harrow and pulverizo, and manure bnfore planting, and of course you have a better soil to cultivate a crop upon than if you had only scratched the surface. This is the month durUig which much thinking as well as mach manual labor should he done. Your orjspect* we"3 ' probably bright last spring; they may nave been realised or blasted ; now ii tbe time you discover one or the other of these facts. Cherish nil those incidents that tended to secure yon what you an ticipated during tho year, and be no less careful to note every circumstance that thwarted uny of your plans. Had you too much rain during the year? He member, Nature equalizes ber gifts and may not be BO bountiful next season ; then sow down largely such crops as will not require tho summer's showers. Did you suffer from drought? Then husband every possiblo resource, and sow such crops as will come earliest to your relief, and wait not another whole year for an income. Had you an employee that was unsatisfactory ? settle with him and let him go as soon as practicable before he becomes a winter's nuisance. Mad you willing, profitable hirelings? encourage them to economizo and prepare for thc future. Are your mules poor? fatten at once, for it will require as much food to keep a poor animal warm during the winter as it will to keep a fat animal fat. Are your mules fat? then start your ploughs and keep them going till tho winter's freezes. Have you moro stock, cows, bogs or sheep, than you can keep fat during the winter? if so, disposo of them at once, for they will be an ex pense to you, and will eat off their heads before spring. Have you a good supply of firewood laid up for the winter ? if not, haul it at once, and see to it that your "darling's footay tootsies" don't suffer during cold weather. Look around for all kinds of leaks, mid wherever found, stop them without delay.-Newt and Courier. _ General News Summary. - This is the poliey of the Lottsvillo Courier-Journal : "As long as the Presi dent docs his duty wo shall fling our cap for him, taking care, meanwhilo, to vote tho D?mocratie ticket." - Tho owners of the Mammoth Cave now search visitors, to be suro that no instruments are taken in by which tbe bearings of tbe cavity can bo ascertained. They iCsr that an en?r??v? piny bo ma?o on somebody elBo's land, and tho profit of tho cavo hi) thu? divided. - Advicos from Ohio are that tho managers of both parties are directing thoir attention moro tothecarryingof the Legislature than to the gubernatorial canvass. The question as to whom shall bo United States Senator is thought of much more importance than who shall bo Governor. - Ex-Governor Chamberlain m?de a speech at Postdam, New York, the oth er day, before an agricultural society. Among other things be said that, how ever much he might differ from tho Ad ministration on other points, he heartily endorsed its efforts to reform the civil service, which he believed should be en tirely divorced from politics, j - There is a daily increase of indica tions that the administration is very doubtful of success in Ohio. Grosvenor spoke very despondicgly of Republican prospects, and ??id lt eesmed impossible to get any entusiasta into the canvass. Contrary to the usual custom of Cabinet officers, Secretary Sherman says he in tends to go home to vote, which indi cates his belief that the Republicans will need every vote they can get. - The navoi officer in the Philadel phia custom-house is a frank individual. He told the investigating commission * i that he "consldored hts presence and po sition superfluous, but thought that in asmuch na the plac3 and salary sre pro vided for by law, be might as well fill tho place and draw ?he saUvy as any one," Accordingly he devoted himself to pa tient attendance at his office one day in each week, and drew his salary with con scientious regularity ; and, as his office was probably given to him as a reward for political ocrrice, he doubtless belie Y cu that he had dene his wholo duty in tho premises. - A practical uso for the telephone, better than the mutilation ot "The I ist Rose of Summer" or "Home, Sweet Home," bas been discovered by Dr. Fos ter, government inspector of minos in England. Dr. Foster s?nt a telephone down the ventilating shaft of the Eliza Mine, at St. Austell, Cornwall, the. in strument having been attached to a cov ered copper v,'lro, and in lena than fifteen minutes persons speaking at tho bottom of thc mine yere distinctly audible on the surface. The telephone will super sede the inefficient cord signals hitherto used as a means of communication from the Interior of deep mines to the ground above. - Jennie Juno says that money is not so often the reason why young women marry elderly men as people" imagine. She says that tho young man of to-day is not the desirable husband that the your.g man of fifty years ago was : ho ia not so thoughtful, aober, painstaking and con scientious ; he lives at a clabj lias no lovo of homo life nor desire to build up character and reputation as a man and citizen ; his ideas of life aro bounded^ by the thcatro and tho doings , of his little set : and in too many cases his ambition ?5 tC C"-**- ? TCJtv? ?ud 'bc Cu *??w?i?t? terms with the hallet Naturally moth- , ere "shrink from entrusting theil daugh ters to such youths as these, oven if they have the opportunity, ana aro better pleased to bestow them on olds* men men who have sown their wild oats ; who know how little of real value there is iu the temporary excitement of pleasure; Who have, perhaps, boen married once, and have learned to value home and tho guarantees it affords for permanent hap piness." - Mr. Richard A. Proctor, after citing a score of pr?dictions ofjtho discovery of the Martian moons, from tho time of Galileo, to whom Kepler said, "I please myself with the thought that you will discover two moons attending on Mars," down to Arbuthnot, nevertheless comes to tho conclusion that the recent dis covery of tho moona ls altogether new. But only the moat fortunate of astrono mers are likely to see them, and only for brief periods at long intervals. Now that they are "visible" there are not ton telescopes in the world which can ?how them. They will be lost to view after October, even in the Washington re fractor, the largest yet mounted. They may be visible again daring a few week* In autumn, 187?; but after that il is probable that no telescope will show them until 1802, Thrre w&s A wiro po?lh?h'ty that iu 1811} they ndght have been de tected had diligent search been ciado: but up to that dato men had not oponed their telescopio eyes sufficiently to soe these tiny orbs.