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E. B. MURRAY, Editor. THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1881/ THRMS : uUE YEAR..>....~._?1.50. SIX. MONTHS.~.... 75c. Two Dollars If not paid In advance. TOWN MEETING. There was a meeting of the citizens of the Town of Anderson in the Court House on last Tuesday afternoon to hear the report of the delegates from this place to the railroad meeting in Winston, N. 0., on the 22nd ult. The meeting was largely attended, and evinced a great interest in the proposed extension of the Virginia Midland Railroad. The report of the delegation was heard, and the meeting provided the arrangements for such surreys by this point as may be ne? cessary. Anderson is fully alive to the importance of securing this extension, and with the inducements which she will offer feels hopeful that she will be able to obtain the road. RAILROAD MEETING IN WINSTON. . The meeting of the President and Di? rectors of the North Carolina Midland Railroad, which is in reality to be an ex? tension of the Virginia Midland, in which the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has a large interest, took place as announced in Winston, North Carolina, on Tuesday, the 22nd of April, and was largely at? tended by delegations from points in North and South Carolina. From this State' delegations were present from Yorkville, Union, Spartanburg, Gaffney, Greenville and Anderson, each looking after the interest of their respective lo? calities. The Board of Directors, of which Hon. John S. Barbour, member of the present Congress from the Alexan . dria, Virginia, District, is President, held their meeting privately, and ( admitted one delegation at a time, hearing the propositions they had to submit, and then taking up another until all of the - points interested we,, illy heard. At the conclusion of the hearing, a resolu? tion was adopted by the Board of Direc? tors locating the road as far as Mocks vi He in North Carolina, and directing surveys of the different routes from that point to Shelby, in North Carolina. The charter of the company ends in North Carolina, and therefore they took no action towards locating in this State, beyond passing a resolution authorizing the President to have surveys made in this State along such routes as he deemed best, provided the points along such routes would defray the expenses of such surveys. The pre? vious organization of the company was continued, and Col. J. B. Yates was . elected Chief Engineer of the company. After a session of two days the Directors adjourned, and President Barbour and party visited Augusta and returned via Atlanta, at which point he is now stop? ping. In Augusta he was assured of the completion of the road from Spartanburg to Augusta at an early day, the trains to be running to Greenwood by the first of September, and the remainder to be com . pleted in a very short time. President Barbour expressed himself as greatly pleased with Augusta, and advised the city not to sell its stock in the road, but to continue its ownership, and control of it The prospect for Anderson in this rail? road venture is very encouraging. Our commercial importance, the energy and prosperity of our people, and the excel? lent geographical position of the town is such'as to invite the location of the road this way. To go from Spartanburg to Augusta by Anderson would only be some sixteen miles further than to go by Greenwood, and would be through a much, richer country, and one where the local business would be much greater and surer, for there would not be so many competing lines of road touched upon it. To go from Shelby to Greenville and Anderson to Augusta is said to be only some eight or ten miles further than to go by Spartanburg and Greenwood. Now,, when Anderson is reached, the extension would be some sixty miles hearer Atlanta, so that on the Spartan? burg route the extension, by losing six? teen miles on the road to Augusta, would gain sixty miles on the road to Atlanta; and on the Greenville route, by losing about eight miles to Augusta, they would gain still about sixty on Atlanta. These facts give Anderson a considerable advantage in location for a diverging point to Augusta and Atlanta, but if the company, for other reasons, should take Spartanburg as a diverging point, then Anderson offers very great material advantages for the continuance to At? lanta. It is on the shortest and best line, and in ^ne of the finest sections of the South. It is a fact, attested by commer? cial men of judgment and experience, that the cottons grown in this belt of country rank in the very best grade of upland cottons, commanding an easier sale and higher price than those grown in the lower counties. The distance from Spartanburg to Atlanta by Ander? son can be made at least thirty-five miles nearer than the present Air Line route, and the difference in grades and curves will be equivalent to a still greater saving iu power and time, so that we may safely claim that this line to Atlanta could easily be made at least two hours shorter from Spartanburg to Atlanta, which would secure for the uew route the passenger travel and the United States mails between the East and the Southwest. The people of Anderson, however, will not depend alone upon these natural ad? vantages to secure the coveted extension. They are so fully awake to its importance that they will work vigorously to bring the road this way. Already surveys have been provided for, and at the proper time very - substantial material contributions will be offered to protect our interests, and secure the realization of our hopes. There is a harmony and unanimity among all of our citizens which augurs well for our success. President Garfield has at last become wearied of the Senatorial deadlock, and begins to see that Mr. Conkling is favor? ing its continuance in order to prevent the confirmation of Judge Robertson. Having made this discovery, the Presi? dent on. last Monday, through Sena'or Dawes, wrote a letter to the Republican caucus, asking the party to proceed to executive business, and calling on the friends of the administration to vote for an executive session at once. This ex? traordinary letter has had the effect of a dynamitic explosiou in the Republican camp, and the confusion is probably as great as that which exists in a routed array. The party was in a hopelessly divided condition before the reception of this letter, and now the crisis has burst upon them. The President has decided to give Mr. Conkling no further time to fortify for the fight over Robertson, and the battle will begin. Where the end will be, or who is to be victorious de? pends largely upon the wisdom with which the Democratic party is handled. The struggle will be interesting, and in all probability will have a very potent influence upon the future course of poli? tics in the United States. Postmaster-General James has gone to overhauling the management of the postal service, and as soon as his atten tention reached the star route, or country mail route branch of the department, the utter corruption, extravagance and profligacy of its management was devel? oped to so manifest an extent as to necessitate the resignation of Mr. Brady, the Second Assistant Postmaster-Gen? eral, and also the thorough investi? gation of the whole business. This is to the credit of the present Postmaster General, though it is a heavy load for the Republican party. As is alwayB the case the accused parties have friends, and strong friends, in the Repub can party, and they do not mean to be easily over-ridden. They have not only sounded the warning of a vigorous defence, but threaten war upon the administration, accusing the President of endorsing their schemes, and also threat eaing the country with another rehearsal of the Credit Mobilier, and other scan? dals, with which Mr. Garfield has already been intimately associated in the public mind. That there will either be a relax? ation of the investigation, or a very interesting fight in the Republican party may be put down as certain, and in ei'her event the matter is almost certain to result in very substantial party bene? fits to the Democracy. ' A Committee from the Republican Senate Caucus called on President Gar field last week to help them out of their fight, which is every day increasing their party complications, and promises them no beneficial results, because they can? not hope to end it until the Democrats are ready for them to do so. The com? mittee, however, received no assistance from the Chief Executive, as he was unable to suggest any plausible mode of backing down. The greatest difficulty now seems to be the fight between the two factions of the Republican party. Conkling will not consent to any pro? gramme that will probably have Robert? son confirmed, and the administration will yield to nothing that will render his rejection probable. The committee sug? gested to the President that if it would not embarrass him to withdraw the nom? ination of Judge Robertson, that such action would relieve the complications and promote party harmony, but the President replied that no such proposi? tion could be entertained, and the com? mittee went off to renew their already despaired-of contest, and the weary ses? sions of the Senate again drags itself along, with no better prospect of a close than it had in the beginning. This is one time that the Democrats have re? mained firm, and in doing so they have dealt the Republicans the severest blow that has been given them since the war. The Washington Republican, of which Mr. Gorham is the editor, is the organ for Brady and his friends in the matter of charges of corruption in the manage? ment of the star route postal service, and it has not only defended Brady, but has very plainly and vigorously attacked the President and his administration to such an extent that Mr. Garfield is bent on revenge. He has expressed himself to the administration Senators as desiring that Gorham should be withdrawn as the caucus nominee for Secretary of the Senate. The President also went so far as to say that he would feel it to be a personal insult for Gorham to be elected Secretary of the Senate after what had transpired. Thus another family quarrel has arisen in the first two months of the new administration's experience. At this rate there will be very little peace and harmony in the Republican party, and President Garfield will prove more disastrous to its prospects than Mr. Hayes, with all of his faults. The Democrats, however, will gain by the conflicts which are brewing, and the republic will be safer than with a united administration party. Governor Hagood has offered n reward of two hundred dollars a piece for the arrest and conviction of the parties engaged in the recent lynching of the negro woman charged with barn burning in Laurcns county. There were some twenty-five persons engaged in the affair, and consequently the reward offered would amount to five thousand dollars, should all of the participants engaged in the crime be brought to justice. This decided step on the part of the Governor is a proper and commendable one. The lynching was an outrage, and the public should be shown that such crimes can? not be committed with impunity. Gov? ernor Hagood does not intend that South Carolina shall be ruled by mob law dur? ing his term of office. It is said that the worst disgusted man in Washington is no less a personage than President GarGeld. He has been most perei3tently tormented by the array of office-seekers, and abused by men inside and outside of his party, and in trying to please each of them has disgusted both. Such is the reward of what men call pro? motion, and Gen. Hancock to-day is doubtless happier in defeat upon Govern nor's Island than Mr. Garfield in victo? rious occupancy of the White House in Washington. I .The Republican Senators have been caucusing as to the best means of back-, ing down from their fight over the offi? ces of the Senate without appearing to back. They have not yet found it, and are getting things badly mixed between themselvfi3, 1 It is announced that the Augusta aud Knoxville Railroad is to be running to Greenwood by the first of September, which is a mucb earlier period than we had supposed possible. When over the Road last Summer some of the heaviest work along the whole line was untouched, and considerable damage had been done to work finished by the heavy raine. The company only had fifty convicts then, bnt subsequently obtained one hundred, and has' certainly done extraordinarily efficient work with them to secure com? pletion at such an early date. The sur? prising success of this Road is a high tribute to the sagacity and financial abil? ity of Col. Verdery, the President of the Road, who is one of Augusta's rising young men. BUTLER KEEPS HIS WORD. A Logical Demonstration of the Mahone Bargain. Washington, April 28. The Vice-President haviDg laid before the Senate the unfinished business, being the resolution for the election of Senate officers, the usual motion was submitted by Senator Pendleton to go into Execu? tive session, and met with its unvarying fate, being lost by a vote of yeas 20, nays 21. Senator Butler then took the floor, premising his speech by reading from the Record the report of the colloquy which occurred between himself and Senator Burnside on the 20th inst., during the course of which he had stated that if he did not by irrefragible evidence es? tablish the fact that there had been a bargain he would resign his seat in the Senate. In endeavoring to do so he de? sired it to be understood that with the motives and purposes and intentions of senators as individuals he had nothing to do. He was not here to impeach the motives or to call into question the indivi? dual integrity and honesty of senators. The senator from Virginia (Mahone) had said that no man could search the human heart. That was true, but men were held respon? sible for their acts to society, and it was bis duty as senator to criticise the legiti? mate public acts, public votes and public utterances of all men who belonged to the public. He made no charge against the senator from Virginia. He had nothing but the kindest feeling for that senator, but when that gentleman and his friends rose and charged the Democrats with revolution and treason, it was his (But? ler's) duty in vindication of himself to account for the course which he was taking. What were the evidences of the bar? gain? First. The senator from Virgin? ia (Mahone) was elected to the Senate as a Democrat. Second. His purpose to vote with the Republicans bad never been announced until bis vote bad disclosed that fact. Third. Following that vote he had bad been assigned to the chair? manship of an important committee by the Republican caucus. Fourth. This had been followed by the nomination of Riddleberger for sergeant-at-arras. Fifth. George C. Gorham, an earnest friend of the senator, had been nomina? ted as secretary. Sixth. He (Mahone) had appointed Gorham's brother-in-law as clerk of his committee. Seventh. The nomination by the President of Mahone's political friends to Federal offices. Eighth. The senator had voted on every motion with the Republicans. Ninth. By such votes he was carrying out the will of the Republican caucus. Tenth. He had moved his seat to the Republican side of the Chamber. Eleventh. The Republican caucus re? fused to transact public businets until Gorham and Riddleberger were elected. Twelfth. The senator still claimed to be a Democrat and voted with the Republi? cans. Thirteenth. Riddleberger was heretofore offensive to the Republicans. Fourteenth. The senator from Ohio (Sherman) avowed that anything that would beat down the Democratic party was justifiable. Fifteenth. The Demo? cratic senators had been assailed because they voted as their consciences dictated, in order to divert the attention of the country from the unlawful alliance. Sixteenth. Instead of iuviting an in? vestigation of the charges, the senator from Virginia and his friends sought to to prevent free speech and legitimate discussion by threats and denunciations. Seventeenth. The reason assigned for the coalition vas that the senator from Virginia was in favor of a free ballot and and a fair count. Free ballot and a fair count, continued Senator Butler, when at the last election the State of Indiana was colonized with negro voters from the South, in order to nullify and neutralize the Democratic vote of that State! He then proceeded to reply to portions of Mr. Frye's speech, regretting that gen? tleman's absence. He repelled the as? saults made by that senator upon the State of South Carolina, asserting that the people of that State were living in peace and harmony. Was this insatiate crusade upon the South never to stop? If secession had been a mistake and crime how egregiously had the South suffered for it. If the maintenance of slavery had been a crime, bow the revenges of time had settled with her for it. Was there never to be a stop to tantalizing, misrepresenting and calumniating a people who baa a problem to deal with such as no people ever bad before si nee civilization had dawned upon the earth ? Instead of helping to solve that problem the Republican party had thrown obsta? cles in their way, and then cursed and anathematized and misrepresented them because they acted with the North? ern Democracy. There was not in the heart of any Southern man a scintilla of hostility to the colored race. He trusted that God would strike him down and paralyze his right arm if he ever had a a particle of hostility to that kind-hearted race, which had protected his wife and children during the war. It was a base calumny on the manhood and honor of Southern men to say that they oppressed the weak and lowly and humble born. Senator Hale said that he would not an? swer in detail Senator Butler's speech. His colleague tFrye) would when he re? turned be amply capable of taking care of himself. Senator Hale then replied briefly to some points of senator Butler's speech. The Star Route Frauds. A table of the Star routes, which are now the subject of investigation, shows the manipulation of ninety-three routes out of 9,225, whereby the annual cost of the ninety-three routes was raised be? tween July 1,1878, and January 1, 1880, from $727,119 to $2,802,214. The regular appropriation for Star route service for the year ending June 30,1880, was $5, 900,000. Of this amount $2,802,214 was absorbed by the ninety-three routes era braced in the table, leaving $3,097,786 for the remaining 9,132 routes. The frauds seem to have been mainly in con? nection with the routes in Louisiana, Texas, Indian Territory, Kansas, Ne? braska, Dakota, Montana, Wyomiug, Colorado. New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and California. The rates of increase obtained by con? tractors io many of these cases are enor? mous. One route in Indian Territory was swelled from $6,000 to $150,000; one in Dakota from $2,350 to $70,000; one in Wyoming from $11,000 to $90,000; one in Colorado from $3,800 to $8,133, etc., etc. In considering the aggregate increased pay shown by the table, it should be borne in mind that the increase extends over the remainder of the contract term, the full term being four years. Assum? ing that three years is the average period for which the increased pay would run on the ninety-three routes described, the aggregate of the arbitrary awards on these routes would be $6,275,285. MISERY LOYES COMPANY, ISrady't? Fortunate Foresight?The Presi? dent's Determination Mint no Guilty Man shall Escape. Washington, April 29. Gen. Brady has kept, so his friends assert, not only all the petitions and other documents bearing upon the Star route jobbery, but full minutes of all the Srivate conversations held in regard to tar route transactions with prominent persons Buch as Dorsey?people who came to him to get routes raised iu the interest of their brothers-in-law and other relatives and friends. He has thus, they 6ay, a complete written history of every Star route which he raised or made more profitable than the original and lawful contract made it, a history show? ing at what influential personal solicita? tion this was done, what were the special plans or inducements in each case, as, perhaps, that it was a favor to a brother or brother-in-law, and that it would help the party, and so on. A CHANCE for brady. If this report is true, then clearly it is only necessary for the President to squeeze Brady hard- enough to get at the whole nefarious business in all its details. Brady does not mean to go to jail him? self, or at least not until some other peo? ple have gone to jail first. If all that is nut out by his friends here is true, per? haps, with proper inducements, he might turn informer, and if he has been careful to keep minutes of all transactions be might be a valuable witness for the gov? ernment in the prosecutions which are impending. If he would tell all he knows about sham bondsmen, about sham contracts, about the system by which honest bidders were underbid by mem? bers of the Ring, who took contracts at ruinous rates because tbey knew they would be raised in a few weeks or months; if he would make public the whole system of fraud, and the names of those who were concerned in it, and how they were concerned, he would be a valuable witness. PLENTY of WITNESSES. Unless, however, private reports are false the government is going to have quite as many witnesses as it needs, and those who come last with their offers may find themselves in the prisoner's dock instead of on the witness stand. The pub? lic should understand that the accumula? tion and examination of testimony in? criminating individuals is necessarily slow work and takes a good deal of time. But this work is getting done. The post? master general and the attorney-general are in close communication. Further removals in the postoffice department will be made at once, and the government has already in its possession evidence which, when it is brought before a grand jury, will cause the indictment on crimi? nals charges of several important persons and their arrest. THE JOBBERS ALARMED. Meantime a considerable number of the jobbers has gathered here to consult as to means of defence. They are anx? ious, because they do not know where justice will strike first, and tbey seem inclined to hang together in the hope that a solid or bold front will drive off the President and the officers of justice. There are rumors that a huge bucket of dirty water is preparing to be emptied on the President's head in the hope that this will make him run off in a panic. But the jobbers deceive themselves. There is the best authority for saying that the President, Postmaster General James and Attorney-General MacVeagh are determined to go the bottom of the Star route jobberies, no matter who is hurt, and there is also good authority for the statement that while the jobbers pre? tend to each other to be standing together overtures have already come from them to confess, and by their revelations place the government in possession of impor? tant and decisive evidence against others on condition ot their own security. FILIBUSTERING. The Modus Operandi ot Obstruction in the Senate. When a debate is once begun the brethren on both sides usually pitch in and get so wrought up against each other that at about 5 or 6 o'clock tbey are glad when some one bethinks himself to make a motion to adjourn, and enough on both sides to vote for it to end one more trou? bled day. But supposing no debate is begun after the motion to go into execu? tive session is lost, then because some? thing must be before the Senate in the nature of Parliamentary business, and the vote cannot be at once repeated, another Democrat will get up the following game, which serves as an alternate mo? tion: He will say, "Mr. President, as we have done so little to-day, and as business of importance awaits our atten? tion I move that when the Senate to adjourn it adjourn to meet at 9 o'clock to? morrow morning," (12 o'clock being the regular hour) "and on this I demand the yeas and nays." He dosen't mean it, no more than you and I mean to dye our hair pea-green; but it serves its purpose. Then another Democrat rises and sol? emnly says: "As that hour would be somewhat inconveniently early for many of the Senators, I move to amend the Senator's motion by submitting 10 o'clock for 9 o'clock, and on this amend? ment I demand the yeas and nays." Then a third Democrat rises and says : "I move to amend the amendment offered by the Senator who just rose, by substi? tuting the hour of 11 o'clock for 10 o'clock, and on this amendment I demand the yeas and nays." Then the Vice-Presi dent has to put the amendments to vote, beginning with the last; the 79 names are leisurely called, various Senators ris? ing to explain that they are paired. This is Lhe formula: "I desire to say that I am paired on all questions with the Senator from-(naming the State.) ;f he were here he would vote aye and 1 should vote no" (or vice verso.) If a Senator is away when his name is called, his colleague (the other Senator from his Stale) will often make the ex? planation for him. The roll-call being finished, a posse of delinquent Senators will straggle in from the cloak rooms, where they go to talk, or to smoke, or to talk over private matters; and they will raise their hands, deuoting that they have not yet voted. The Vice-President recognizes them by this announcement of each: "The Senator from-" (naming his State). The Clerk then calls his name from the roll, and he votes still standiug; then, turning his heel goes back to the cloak room or wherever he lists. In this delightful pastime twenty-five or thirty minutes may easily be cansumed. This disposes of only one amendment. The next is then taken up in the same way, then the original motion, all of which are lost, as it was known they would be. That brings the business back to a point where it is in parliamentary order forsom. other Sena? tor to make a fresh motion to go into the consideration of executive business, which is also lost, and thus the game goes on. Hero is the "true inwardness" of dilatory motions or "fillibusteriug," and this state of things is called a "dead? lock." I have once seen the House of Repre? sentatives in continuous session for three days and two nights, in just such a dead? lock, taking a recess of not more than an hour and a half at a time. A great crisis justifies this sort of thing, but no ordina? ry crisis does. ? Ben Butler expects to be Governor of Massachusetts by the following calcu? lation : "To American parents there are born on the average one and a half votes, which go to the Republican party. To for? eign parents there are born on the aver? age four and half votes, which go to the Democratic party. This in time will make the latter successful." The Bcvelopment of the Railroad Cam? paign. The Railroad campaign, so far as it affects the Carolinas and Georgia, devel? ops rapidly. Three combinations are at work, and an idea of their plans can now be formed. The three combinations are: 1. The South Atlantic alliance, consist? ing of the South South Carolina Rail? road, Central Railroad of Georgia and the Georgia Railroad, with their branches and leased lines. 2. The Richmond and Danville system. 3. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, wit"h the Virginia Mid? land. Taking up these combinations out of their order, we find that the Baltimore and Ohio, via the Virginia Midland, is strik? ing out for the Southern and South At? lantic trade. The extension of the Mid? land Railroad from Danville to Mocks ville is determined on, and connections will be made with Charlotte, or Spartan? burg or Greenville. Thcobjectivo point appears to be Atlanta, but Port Royal is also taken into account. There is some talk of utilizing the Augusta and Knox? ville Railroad in connection with the Midland extension, but we do not see that there is any money for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the Port Royal connec? tion. Augusta and Atlanta can be made competing points, where Baltimore will meet the South Atlantic or Wadley Fisher combination, and the Danville system, but it cannot be expected that freights will be drawn from the neighbor? hood of Port Royal and hauled by rail to Baltimore, or that Baltimore can supply the South Carolina coast with merchan? dise and provisions by rail. The objects of the South Atlantic alli? ance are obvious enough. They are, to hold and increase their present business, and to effect this they will be ready to strike out for a new western connection. They can, also, reach Charlotte easily and cheaply by an extension of the |South Carolina Railroad from Cam den. We are not able to say whether the East Tennessee and Virginia and the Spartanburg and Columbia Railroads will work with the South Atlantic com? bination, or with the Danville people. What Mr. Cole said the other day about their lines ending at Columbia, making it necessary to come to Charleston by way of Florence, looks like a hostile move. It is positively asserted that persons interested in the Northeastern Railroad intend to build a line from Gourdin's on that road to Wedgefield on the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. This road will be about forty miles long, through a level country, where little trestle work will be required, and, it is thought, will cost not more than $400,000. It will give a line from Columbia to Charleston, it is stated, only 122 miles in length, which is less than the distance by the South Carolina Rail? road. Besides this, it will bring Claren? don and Williamsburg within easy reach of this market. The people in the coun? ties through which the proposed road will pas3 are so anxious for it that they will give every facility to the projectors, and will use their efforts to secure a sub? scription to the stock by the County gov? ernments. .The purposes of the Danville combina? tion have not been divulged. They have the Air-Line Railroad, the Columbia and Greenville Railroad and the Western North Carolina Railroad, as well as the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail? road. So far as they can get the long haul for freight by taking it over their liaes, comingorgoing, they have no use for Charleston or any other South Atlantic port. In saying this we assume that busi? ness, as fav as it can be controlled, will be moved along the lines which the Dan? ville combination are interested in, rather than along lines which they do not own or lease. But it may happen to be more difficult than is expected to force up-hill the business which naturally gravitates towards the coast. In this event provis? ion must b<3 made for reaching Charleston unmolested, which can be done by way of Florence, or by the Gourdin's connec? tion. In like manner, if the Danville people get io Augusta they can come on to Charleston by the Port Royal Rail? road and Charleston and Savannah Rail? way. One report is that the Danville people intend io build the old Blue Ridge Road. The story is that they have already the control of the outstand? ing bonds of the road, on the old route, from Knoxville to Walhalla. From Anderson they would naturally utilize their own property, the Greenville and Columbia Railway. In answer to the suggestion that there is nothing to gain by ouilding the Blue Ridge Railroad for the benefit of Charleston, they say that there is more business awaiting such a line than the Air Line Railroad and other lines running to the Northeast could possibly accommodate, aud that it would be to their interpst, therefore, to divide business with the Greenville and Columbia route to the seaboard, con? necting at Charleston with the Clyde steamers. We see then that what is now talked of is the opening or construction of addi? tional lines of communication with Char? leston. From Augusta there is a prom? ise of competition by the Port Royal Railroad and Yemassee, and from Colum? bia by way of Florence or by Wedgefield and Gourdin's. Above Columbia there will be a short line from Louisville and Cincinnati, by way of Knoxville and Asheville, and a still belter line is pro? jected by way of Knoxville, Maryville and Walhalla. It is evident from all this that the Savannah Valley Railroad and Edgefield and Trenton Railroad, as j well as the liaes from Asheville to Alston, are of the first consequence. Those lines will be important factors in future combinations, and their construc? tion with Charleston's help, so that they could not be absorbed by surrounding syndicates, would make Charleston secure, it seems to us, in almost any con? tingency.? Charleston News and Courier. A Horrible Affair. A dispatch to the News and Courier from Allendale gives the following ac? count of a most horrible affair. Young Priester was a cadet at the Charlotte Mil? itary School, but left that city in conse? quence of having killed a colored waiter in a restaurant there. He subsequently became a cadet at the Greenville Milita? ry Institute, and married Miss Cole, daughter of a well known and highly respected citizen of this county. Pries? ter is about twenty-three years old : Allendale, April 29.?A desperate encounter took place yesterday near Al? lendale between William and Henry Priester, father and son, in which the former was desperately if not fatally wounded, having received five balls in his body from a pistol in the hands of his son, three of the balls in his bowels, and bis life is despaired of. Parties just from Mr. Wm. Priester's bouse at 7 o'clock report him in a dying condition. The exact cause of the affray has not been made known, but the cause currently reported is the inability of the young man to live amicably with his wife, and yesterday morning upon her request to her father-in-law for funds to return toher home, the young husband interfered and getting his pistol, commenced firing at his father, shooting him twice through the abdomen, once through the thigh and lodging a ball in his side. He then fell to beating him with the pis? tol and only desisted when his brother, who bad been at the store some little distance from the dwelling, ran in and parted them. The young man disappeared last night. The evidence of the wounded man was taken to-day by the trial justice, Capt. Bostick. The only witnesses of the shooting were the young man's wife and her little sister. ? Minnesota has a Tanner hog lbj&' has fasted forty-five days, being snored under for that length of time, and doing well. ( Redmond's Arrest. ASHEVILLE, N. C, May 2. "This la Major Redmond," said 'Squire Young, the courteous sheriff as he poiuted to a slender, boyish figure that lay on a bed of straw in front of the iron-barred window enjoying the cooling breeze from off the blue hills with which he is so familiar. He has a western window, and looking westward can see the distant peaks among which for several years he has been as much at home as a chamois among his native Alps. He extended a small, weather stained hand to your correspondent and asked him to be seated on the only chair in his cell, except the one by which he propped his head. "Where did you get your title, Ma? jor?" "Well, that," said he, "is a nick-name they gim mc when I was a boy." "But you have beeu in command of squads of men at different times, have you not?" "No, sir, I never was. Them's all a pack o' lies they tell about me havin' a band of men." " "What, Major, are the charges against you?" "They say, some'rs about a year and a half ago I was seen in a blockade still house. The truth about the matter is that there's a man out there in Swain county who has been a trying to lay his blockade stillin' on me. He got suthin' or nurther agin me. We haint got along-well together for sometime now." "Major, tell me something about your ! life." "Well," said he, adjusting the chair under his head more comfortably, "I was born close to where Atlanta, Georgia, is now, in 1854. Then my father moved up to Transylvania, in North Carolina. We lived there till the war come on. and moved to Swain county. After the war was over I went back to Transylvania and lived there and farmed it till 1877, when I had some little trouble with some revenuers. They was to blame, I wasn't. I left then and went over into South Carolina. That same year about corn gatherin' time I married old man Ladd's gal?in the upper edge of Picken's county. I come back then in March '79 to Swain county and leased me some land on the Tennessee river, about eight miles from Charleston; but, wherever I've been Iallers had a good character. The newspaper men has tole a heap o' lies on me." "Major, how did the officers capture you?" "Well I'll tell you," said he. "I have been a 'livin' peaceable and not botherin' nobody fur this is now gwyne' on three years. I mostly stay at home and don't hardly ever leave my cabin 'cept to hunt a little and to work in my fields. Along about the fust week in April my wife asked me to step out in the edge o' the clearing and kill her a squirrel. And I heard the dogs barking up on the ridge above the bouse; so 1 gits the shot gun and goes up that way. But when Igot iu about fifty yards of my dogs?where they was a barking I seen somebody move behind the brush and cliff an' six men stepped out an hollered "halt." 1 turned around an' started towards my cabiu and they kept a shootin,' and ever once, an' a while I'd feel a ball hit me, and I heard 'era whiz zin' by me till I got over the ridge. They run after me and overtook me about a hundred ? and fifty yards from my house." "In how many places were yon wounded, Major ?" "Seven places, an' they hurt me mighty bad this mornin', but I don't say much about it." The officer's version differs somewhat from the Major's statement. Officer Con ley says: "We went to his house?or to a ridge about a hundred and fifty yards distaut?early Thursday morning, April 7. At 10 o'clock a. m. the dogs saw us and came rushing up to where we were. Redmond followed with his guu. When in about fifty paces of us he lowered his gun as if to fire.^ We told him to halt, but as he was still rapidly advancing we fired. His gun fell from his hands and he ran towards his house. Passing the cabin he ran about one hundred and fifty yards into the woods beyond. All six of us closed in on bim, and found him wounded and exhausted. We took him to bis house, and the physician said he could not be safely moved on an extend? ed trip on account of his wounds. So we were forced to try to keep him in our charge there. We anticipated an at? tempt at rescue on the part of his friends. We plainly told Redmond, when we saw his neighbors coming to and going from his house, that if any attempt should be made to take him or any attack made on us that we would shoot him first. This, we think, prevented his pals from the dangerous experiment. On Friday, April 22d, we carried him eight miles on a litter to Charleston among our friends, where we slept better. On the following day, Saturday, 23d instant, we started for Asheville, reaching here on Sunday. We brought him to Asheville because the several rewards offered for him designate that point as the place for delivery of his body." His father is said to have been a moon? shiner, and fared badly at the hands of the revenuo officers and the law. Hence it was but natural that young Redmond should imbibe the prejudices of his fath? er. His antipathy to the agents of the revenue department was not concealed. He would speak often of his successful resistance of the officers of the law, State j and Federal. Flushed with victory, he became desperate and shot down Deputy Marshal Duckworth, in Transylvania county, in 1877, when an effort was being made for his arrest for alleged violation of the revenue laws. He then fled to South Carolina. But he did not there escape the sleepless eye of the law, but ho managed to elude her officers. Where? upon a reward was offered, and we are informed is still offered, for his person. Once in South Carolina his wagon and team wen; seized under the revenue law. He escaped the small squad of officers who took his property. But in a few hours he returned with a double-barrel shot gun, and with the wild daring of a frontier desperado, quiekly dispersed the confiscator3 of his property. Then he, with his wife, left South Carolina and came to the wildest part of the Blue Ridge country?Swain county. Here he has since had a wide berth. Hi3 fearless and daring reputation had preceded him. To this he materially added by his open and defiant conduct. He told the credu? lous mountaineers that he was "bullet? proof." His immediate neighbors ? through policy?were his friends. They were afraid to be otherwise. At least, however, it was rumored that Redmond said, "There are not enough men in Swain county to arrest me." This awoke the energy and pride of the Swain county boys, and they determined to take him. The Federal Court convened here to? day, and Redmond will be tried some time during the session.?Concspondenec Atlanta Constitution. A Monument for Gen. Gaky.? The Barnwell People says: "The De? mocracy of South Carolina should testify their high appreciation of the distin? guished political services of Gen. Gary by erecting over his grave a monument worthy of the man and of the party he has served so well. Carolinians cannot forget Gary, for his history is theirs and their heritage; and while loving rela? tives would sec that his last resting-place is not unmarked, a grateful people should claim the right and privilege of preserv? ing in memorial marble the story of his gallant life." ? Couuecticut disfranchises 22,914 of her piti'/mm- yjmponh(lf|0,W[ Pftnnsvl. yU?i*r**Wt(mr^ "Mas flachusetts, 139,000. andyet'Hawley, Ed? munds, Cameron, Hoar and Dawes are yelling for a free ballot and fair count? in the South. The 141 Ii Session of the National Grange. We have just read with interest the proceedings of the late meeting of the National Grange, P. of H., at Washing? ton City. Evidently the farmers of the United States are engaged in the great work of perfecting an organization which is destined at no distant day to wield a powerful influence over the des? tinies of this republic. The government of the United States has been usurped, and is being prostituted to the base pur? poses of the most unscrupulous corporate power known in the history of any peo? ple. By the corrupting use of money these corporations assail both parties alike, and purchase the high places of the government for their paid attorneys. As an evidence of the fact, it is asserted that Jay Gould, the great railroad king, owns a controlling interest in two leading partisan papers of New York, to wit: the World and Tribune?Democracy or Republicanism either is good enough for these magnates, provided these organiza? tions may be used for the advancement of the unholy ambition of these selfish and unscrupulous millionaires. They have well nigh monopolized the tele? graphic business of the couutry, and now propose to superadd the transporta? tion of the country. With this vast power in the hands of a few men the millicjs of the masses will be laid under a tribute more galling and more despotic than the Turkish Khedive. The farmers of the United States are organizing by means of the Grange to throttle and overturn this huge corporate and monied monopoly, and propose to fight the battle at the ballot box for the control of our legislative bodies, State and National. T. H. R. The Charleston Canal. The work on the Charleston Canal is progressing steadily and satisfactorily. Capt. Green, of the United States Engin? eer Corps, who has the work in charge, says that a cut has been made from the Ashley River eight hundred feet by seventy-five feet wide, and eight feet deep at low water. The channel now extends as far as the- island near the point of the Devereux farm.- The quay, which commences at the western extrem? ity of the Devereux farm, has beeu built out two hundred feet towards the island. The whole length of this wharf will be one thousand feet and the work upon it is progressing at the rate of about sixty to seventy feet a week. Just at this time, however, the work of dredging has been temporarily susptuded, owing to the necessary removal of the dredge to do some work on the eastern side of the city. The grading for the reception of the South Carolina Railroad track will be com? menced next week. The track will cross the land of tho late M. P. O'Connor, a distance of about 200 yards, and will then proceed through Simmons street down to and across the marsh, a distance of 900 feet, and then on to the quay, out to a point where there will be 12 feet of water at low tide. It is expected that if no unlooked for delays occur the track will be laid and everything will be in running order by the 1st of June next. The en? tire length of the new piece of road will be about one mile and three-quarters. Simmons street, a distance of three quarters of a mile, is already prepared for the reception of the track.?Neim and Courier. A RroT Neaii Savannah, Ga.? Savannah, May 1.?A row ocourred among a crowd of negroes, fifteen or more, on the bank of the canal a mile from the city. The parties were engaged in gambling and a dispute arose over the cards. Pistols were drawn and a general fusilade followed. Patrick Reagan, a very worthy citizen, who was passing on his way to his pasture to get his cows, was struck in the heart and killed in? stantly. His body was brought to his borne in this city. Great excitement and indignaliou have been aroused. Nearly fifteen hundred persons soon collected at the scene. Z. wo negroes were arrested. The others escaped, but the police are on their track. NOTICE. ALL persons are hereby notified that Henry Green, son of Louisa Green, is under contract with me for the year 1881, and has left me without cause or consent, and those hiring or harboring him will be dealt with according to law. SARAH McCLELLAN. May 4,3881_43_2?_ THE EUREKA GIN WHET. THE undersigned offers the above Whet to Ginners, or will sharpen Gins at the most reasonable prices. The public are invited to inspect this valuable invention. The best mechanics endorse it, and for sim? plicity and thoroughness it has no equal. Call on or address E. W. 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