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E. li. MVUMY, Editor.
THURSDAY, M Ai' 5, 1881.
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NIX M0NTI18. 76c.
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TOWN MEETING.
There was a meeting of thu citizens of
the Town of Anderson in the Court
Houne on last Tuesday afternoon to hear
tho report of the delegates from thia
place to the railroad meeting in Winston,
N. C., on tho 22ud ult. The meeting
was largely attended, and evinced a great
interest in the proposed extension of tho
Virginia Midland Railroad. Thc report
of the delegation was heard, and the
meeting provided the arrangements for
.inch surveys by this point as may be ne
cessary. Anderson is fully alive to the
importance of securing thia extension,
and with the inducements which she will
oder feels hopeful that she will be able
to obtain the road.
KAIMIOAU MEETING IN WINSTON.
The meeting of tho President and Di
rectors of the North Carolina Midland
Railroad, which is in reality to bo nu ex
tension of thc Virginia Midland, in which
tho Baltimore ?fe Ohio Railroad has a
large interest, took place as announced
in Winston, North Carolina, on Tuesday,
the 22nd of April, and wan largely at
tended by delegations from points in
North und Soutli Carolina. From this
Stnto delegations were present from
Yorkviile, Union, Spartanburg, Gaffney,
Greenville and Anderson, each looking
after thc interest of their respective lo
calities. The Hoard of Directora, of
which Hon. John S. Harbour, member of
thc present Congress from tho Alexan
drin, Virginia, District, ia President, held
their meeting privately, and admitted
ono delegation at n time, bearing tho
propositions they had to submit, and
then taking up another until nil of the
points interested were fully heard. At
the conclusion of tho hearing, a resolu
tion was adopted by the Hoard of Direc
tors locating tho road as fnr as Mocksvillo
in North Carolina, nnd directing surveys
of the difTeretlt routes from that point to
Shelby, in North Carolina. Tho charter
of the company ends in North Carolina,
and therefore they took no action towards
locating in this State, beyond passing a
resolution authorizing tho President to
have surveys mado in this State along
such routes ns he deemed b:\st, provided
the point* along such routes would defray
tho expense? of such surveys. The pre
vious organization of tho company wits
continued, nnd Col. J. B. Y'atea was
elected Chief Engineer of thc company.
After a session of two days the Directors
adjourned, and President Barbour and
party visited Augustn nnd returned vin
Atlnntn, ut which point he is now stop
ping. In Augusta ho was nssurcd of tho
completion of the road from Spartanburg
to Augustn at au enrly day, the trains to
be running to Greenwood by the first of
.September, and tho rctnaiuder to be com
pleted in a very short timo. President
Harbour expressed himself ns greatly
pleased with Augusta, nnd advised the
city not to sell its stock in the road, but
to continuo its ownership nud control
of it.
Tho prospect for Anderson in thia rail
road venture io very encouraging. Our
commercial importance, tho energy and
prosperity of our people, and the excel
lent geographical position of tho town is
such ni* to invite the location of the road
thia way. To go from Spartanburg to
Augusta by Anderson would only bo
sumo sixteen miles further than to go by
Greenwood, and would be through a
much richer country, and one whero the
local business would be much greater and
Mirer, for there would not be so many
competing lines of road touched upon it.
To. go from Shelby to Greeuville ?nd
Anderson to Augustn is said to be only
some eight or ten miles further than to
go by Spartanburg nnd Greenwood.
Now, when Anderson is reached, the
extension would bu some sixty miles
nearer Atlanta, so that on the Spnrtnn
burg roulo the extension, by losing six
tccu miles on the road to Augusta, would
gain sixty miles on tho road to Atlanta ;
and on the Greenville route, by losing
about eight miles to Augusta, they would
gain stiil about sixty on Atlanta. These
facts give Anderson a considerable
advantage in location for a diverging
point to Augusta and Atlanta, but if tho
company, for other reasons, should take
Spnrtanburt* as a diverging point, then
Anderson offers very great muterial
advantages for tho continuance to At
lanta. It ia on the shortest und best line,
and in ono of the finest sections of the
South. It is u fad, attested by commer
cial men of judgment and experience,
thal tho collons grown in this belt of
country rank in the very best grade of
upland cottons, commanding nn easier
sale nnd higher price than those grown
in tl'.o lower counties. The distance
from Spartanburg to Atlanta by Ander
son can bo made at least thirty-five
miles nc-??e? iban ibo present Air Line
roulo, and the difference in graden and
curve* will be equivalent to a still
greater saving in power and time, so that
we may safely claim that this line to
Atlanta could easily be made nt 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 tho coveted extension.
They are cs laity awake to its importance
that they will work vigorously to bring
the road this wny. Already survey* have
been provided for, and at the proper time
very substantial material contributions
will be offered to protect our interests,
and f.c uro the realisation of our hopes.
There is a harmony and unanimity among
all of our citizens which augurs well for
our success..
President Garfield baa at last become
wearied of tho Senatorial deadlock, aud
L .fda* to see that Hr. dookling ia favor
iug iti continuance in order to prevent
the confirmation oz Judge Robertson.
Having made this discovery, the Presi
dent on. list Monday, through Sena'or
Dawes, wrote a letter to tlic Republican
caucus, asking thc party to proceed to
executive business, and calling on the
friends of the administration to vote for
an executive sc-ssion at once. Tim ex
traordinary letter has had the effect of a
dynamitic explosion in the Republicau
camp, and the confusion is probably as
great as that which exists in a routed
army. The party was in a hopelessly
divided condition before the reception of
this letter, and now tho crisis has burst
upon them. Tho President has decided
to give Mr. Conkiing no further lime to
fortify for thc fight over Robertson, and
the battle will begin. Win re thc end
will be, or who is to be victorious de
pends largely upon tho wisdom with
which the Democratic party is handled.
The strugglo will be interesting, and in
all probability will have a very potent
influence upon the future COIIMC of poli
tics (:i the United States.
Postmaster-General James hus gone to
overhuiiling the management of thc
postul service, nnd as soon as his alien
trillion reached thc star route, or country
mnil route branch of tho department,
the utter corruption, extravagance and
profligacy of ita management waa devel
oped to so manifest un extent as tc
necessitate tho resignation of Mr. Brady
I the Second Assistant Postmaster-Gen
?eral, und also thc thorough investi
gation of the whole businei%s. This is tr
the credit ol the present Postmaster
General, though it is a heavy load for tin
Republican party. As is alway? tin
case thc accused parties have friends
and Krong friends, in the Hepub
can party, and they do not inonu to b<
easily over-ridden. They have not onl;
sounded thc warning of a vigorou
defence, but threaten war upon tb
administration, accut' :g tho President o
endorsing their schemes, and also threat
caing thc country with another rclieuras
of the Credit Mobilier, and other scan
dills, with which Mr. Garfield hasalrend
been intimately associated in tho publi
mind. That there will either bc arelai
atinn of the investigation, or a vcr
interesting fight in tho Republican part
may ho put down as certain, and i
ei'herevent the matter is almost certai
to result in very substantial party beni
fits to tho Democracy.
A Committee from the Rep?blica
Senate Caucus called on President Ga
field lat? week lo help them out of thc
fight, which is every day increasing the
party complications, and promises the
uo beneficial results, because they cai
not hopo tn end it until thc Dcmocra
aro ready for them to do so. Thc con
millee, however, received no itaaistani
from thu Chief Executive, as he w
unable to suggest any plausible mode
hacking down. The greatest diflicul
now seems lo bo tho fight L.-tween tl
two factions of thc Republican part
Conkiing will not consent to any pr
gramme that will probably have Robei
son confirmed, and the administratif,
will yield to nothing that will render li
rejection probable. Tho committee su
goaled to tho President that if it wou
not embi russ him lo withdraw thc not
?nation . f Judge Robertson, that sui
action would relieve the complicatio
and promote party harmony, but t!
President replied that no such propoi
lion could bc entertained, and thc coi
miltee went off to renew their alreui
despaired-of contest, and tho weary s<
sionB of tho Senate ngain drags its?
along, with no better prospect of a cit
than it had in tim beginning. This
one time that the Democrats have 1
mnincd firm, and in doing so they ha
dealt the Republicans the severest bli
that hus been given them since the wi
The Washington Republican, of whi
Mr. Gorham is the editor, is thc org
for Diaiiy and his friends in the mat
of charges of corruption in the manaf
ment of the star route postal service, a
it baa not only defended Brady, but i
very plainly and vigorously nttneked t
President and his administration to tu
au extent that Mr. Garfield is bent
revenge. He has expressed himself
tho administration Senators as desiri
that Gorham should be withdrawn
tho caucus nominee for Secretary of I
Senate. Tho President also went so
as to say that he would feel it to bi
personal insult for Gorham to bo eleel
Secretary of the Senate after what L
transpired. Thus another family quar
has arisen in thc first two months of I
new administration's experience,
this rate there will bo very little pei
and harmony in tho Republican pm
and President Garfield will prove m
disastrous to its prospects than Mr. Hnj
with all of his faults. The Domocn
however, will gain by tho conflicts wh
aro brewing, and the republic will
j safer than with a united administr?t
Parly' .,
Governor Hagood has ofFered a row
of two hundred dollars a picco for
arrest and conviction of tho par
engaged in thc iccent lynching of
negro woman charged with barn burn
in Laurens county. There wero ar
twenty-five persons engaged in the nfl
and consequently the reward offe
would amount to five thousand doll
should all of thc participants engaged
tho crimo be brought to justice. 1
decided step on the part of thc Govei
is a proper and commendable one. '
lynching was an outrage, and tho pu
should be nhown th?t such crimes c
nat be commuted with impunity. G
ernor Hagood does not intend that Sc
Carolina ab;dl bc ruled by mob law t
ing his ten.; -.f office.
It ia said that the worst disgusted :
in Washington is no lesa a personngo t
President Garfield. He has been n
persistently tormented by the army
office neckers, and abused by men in
and ouuide of his party, and in tr]
to please each of them has disgusted b
Such is the reward of wbat men call
motion, nnd Gen. Hancock to-day
doubtless happier in defeat upon Gov
nor's leland than Mr. Garfield in vi
rious occupancy of the White Houa
Washington.
\ .The Republicau Senators have 1
caucussing ac to the btst means of li
lng down from their fight over the
ees of the Senate without appearin
back. They have not yet found it,
are getting things badly mixed beti
theuselve?.
It ia announced that thc Augusta and
Knoxville Railroad is tn bc running to
Greenwood by the first of September,
which is a much earlier period than we
had supposed possible. When over the
Road last Summer some of the heaviest
work along the whole linc was untouched,
aud considerable damage had been dono
to work finished by the heavy ruins. The
company only had fifty convict? thea,
but subsequently obtained one hundred,
and bus certainly dono extraordinarily
efficient work with them to secure com
pletion at such an carly 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 thc
Road, who is one of Augusta's ribing
young men.
BUTLER KKK PS HIS WORD.
A I.nrjlcttl Dniiioniitrntloii of tho Mulioue
Bargain.
WASH I NOTOS, April 28.
Tito vice-President having laid before
the Senate the unfinished business, being
tho resolution for tho election of Senate
officers, the usual motion was submitted
by Senator Pendleton to go into Execu
tive session, and met with its unvarying
fate, btiiig lost by a vote of yeas 20, nays
21.
Senator Huller then took the floor,
premising bis speech by reading from th?
lieront the report of the colloquy which
occuned between himself and Senator
Burnside on the 20th inst., during tho
course of which ho bad stated thal if bo
did not by irrcfragible evidence es
tablish thc fact that there bad been a
bargain be would resign bis peal in thc
Senate. In endeavoring to do so hu de
sired it to be understood that with the
motives and purposes ami intentions of
senators as individuals he bad nothing lo
do. He WJ?!? not hero to impeach the
motives or to call into question the indi vi
dual integrity and honesty of senators. The
senator from Virginia ( Mahout*) had said
that no man could search tho human heart.
That was true, but men were held nmpon
siblo for their nets to society, und it was
Iiis duly aa senator to critictso the legiti
mst j public act*), public votes and public
utterances of all men who belonged to thc
public. Ho made no charge against tho
senator from Virginia. Ho lind nothing
but tho kindest feeling for that senator,
but when that gentleman and bia friends
rose and charged the Democrats willi
revolution and treason, it was bia (But
ler's) duly in vindication of himself to
account for thc course which be was
taking.
What woro the evidence" of tho bar
gain? First. Tho senutor from Virgin
ia (Mahone) waa elected to the Senate as
n Democrat. Second. His purpose tu
vote with the Republican*! had never been
announced until his vote had disclosed
that fact. Third. Following that vote
be bad lind boen assigned to the chair
manship of un important committee by
tho Republican caucus. Fourth. This
bad been followed by tho nomination ol
Riddlebcrgor for sergeant-nt-nrms.
Fifth. George C. Gorham, an enrnest
friend of tho senator, bad been nomina
ted ns secretary. Sixth. Ile (Mahone]
lind appointed Gorham's brutbcr-iu-law
as clerk of his committee. Seventh
Tho nomination by the President ol
Mahoue'a political friends to Federa!
offices. Eighth. The senator had voted
on every motion with tho Republicans
Ninth. Ry such votes be was currying
out tile will of the Republican caucus
Tenth. He bud moved hin Heat to thc
Republican Bido of tho Chamber
Eleventh. Tho Republican cnucua ro
fused to transact public husineis anti
Gorham and Riddlebcrger were elected
Twelfth. The senator still clnimed to b<
a Democrat and voted with the Rcpubli
cana. Thirteenth. Riddleberger was
he fttoforo offensive to the Republicans
Fourteenth. The senntor from Ohi<
(Sh..man) avowed that anything thu
would beat down tho Democratic part]
was justifiable. Fifteenth. Tho Demo"
eratic senators bad been assailed becausi
they voted a? their consciences dictated
in order to divert tho attention of thi
country from the unlawful alliance
Sixteenth. Instead of inviting un in
vestigation of the charges, the senator fron
Virginia and bis friends sought ti
to prevent freo speech and l?gitim?t
discussion by thrents and denunciations
Seventeenth. Tho reason assigned fo
the coalition was that tho Benntor fron
Virginia was in favor of a free ballot am
and n fair count. Free ballot and a fai
count, continued Senator Butler, when n
the last election tho State of Indiana wa
colonized with negro voters from thi
South, ic ..rdsr to nullify and neutraliz
tho Democratic voto of that State !
Ho then proceeded to reply to portion
of Mr. Fryo's speech, regretting that gen
tleman's absence. Ho repelled the ns
snults made by that senntor upon th
State of South Carolina, asserting tho
the people of that State woro living i
peace nnd harmony. Was this insatiat
crusade upon tho South never to stop
If secession had been a mistake and crin)
how egregiously lind thc South suflere
for it. If tho maintenance of slaver
had been a crimo, how tho revengos c
time had aettlcd with her for it. Wu
there never to bc a stop to tantalizing
misrepresenting and calumniating
peoplo who bau a problem to deal wit
sn ch as no people over u ad before Bine
civilization had dawned upon the earth
Instead of helping to solve that probier
tlie Republican party had thrown obsti
el -s in their way, and then cursed an
anathematized and misrepresent*
them because they acted with the Nortl
ern Democracy. There was not in th
heart of any Southern man a sciutiila <
hostility to the colored race. He truste
that God would strike him down an
paralyze his right arm if he ever had
a particle of hostility to that kind- herirte
race, which had protected his wife an
children during tho war. It was a ba;
calumny on tho manhood and honor <
Southern men to sny that ;hey oppresse
tho weak and lowly and humble bon
Senator Hale said that he would not ai
swer in detail Senntor Butler's speed
His colleague (Frye) would when ne r
turned bo amply capable of taking cai
ef himself.
Senator Hale then replied briefly i
some points of senator Butler's speech.
The Star Route Fraud?.
A table of the Star routes, which a
now the subject of investigation, shot
the manipulation of ninety-three rout
out of 9,225, whereby the annual cost
tho ninety-three routes was raised b
tween July 1, 1878, and January 1, 188
from $727,119 to $2,802,214. The regnl
appropriation for Star route service f
the year ending June 80, 1880, was $i
900,000. Of this amount $2,802,214 w
absorbed by tho ninety-three routes er
braced in the table, leaving $8,097?71
for the remaining 9,182 routes. Tl
frauds seem to have been mainly in co
nection with the routes in Louisiar
Texas, Indian Territory, Kansas, N
braska, Dakota, Montana, Wyomiu
Colorado. New Mexico, Arizona. Uta
Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and Caltforn!
The rates of increase obtained by co
tractors in many of tbeso cases aro en<
mous. One route in Indian Tontito
was swelled from $6,000 to $150,000 ; o
in Dakota from $2,850 to $70,000; o
in Wyoming from $11,000 to $90,000; o
in Colorado from $8,800 to $8,188, etc., e
In considering the aggregate increas
Eay shown by the table, it should
orne in mind that tho inereaso cxtec
over tho remainder of the contract ter
the full term being four years. Assn
log that three years is the averago peri
for which the increased pay would r
on the ninety-three routes described, I
aggregate of the arbitrary awards
these routes would be $6,275,285.
MISERY LOVES COMPANY,
Itradjr'a Fortunato Foresight-Tho I'roat
dent's DeleruUaatlon Unit no Guilt)- Mun
.tlmll Kucupe.
YVABIIINOTOX, April 20.
GCD. Brady han kepi, so bis friends
assert, not only ail the petitions and
other documents hearing upon thc Star
route jobbory, but full minutes of all the
private conversations held iu regard lo
Slur route transactions with prominent
persons such as Dorsey --people who
came to him lo get route? raised in tho
interest of their brothers in-law and other
relatives and friend*. Ho hus thus,
they say, a completo written history of
every Star route which bc 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 tho special
plans or inducements in each case, a-*,
perhaps, that it was a favor to a brother
or brother-in-law, and that it would help
the party, and ho on.
A CHANCE FOR BEADY.
If this report is true, then clearly it ia
only necessary for the President to
squeeze Brady hard enough to get at tho
whol e nefarious business in all its details.
Brady does not mean togo to jail him
sulf, or at least not until some other peu
plo have gone lo jail first. If ail that is
put out by his friends herc is true, per
haps, with proper inducements, he might
turn informer, and if he hus been careful
to keep miuutes of all transactions he
might bo a valuable witness for the gov
ernment in tho prosecutions which uro
impending. If ho would tell all he
knows about sham bondsmen, about
ahum contracts, about the system by which
honest bidders wcro underbid by mem
bers of thc Ring, who took contracts at
ruinous rates because they knew
they would oe raised iu a few
weeks or months ; if ho would mako
public tho whole ayutem of fraud, and
the names of those who were concerned
in it. and how they wero concerned, he
would be n valuable witness.
PLENTY OF WITNESSES.
Unless, however, private report* are
false tho government is going to have
quito ns many witnesses as it needs, and
thoso who como Inst with their offen may
lind themselves in the prisoner's dock
instead of on the witness stand. The pub
lic should understand that thc accumula
tion und examination of testimony in
criminating individuals is necessarily
slow work and takes a good deal of time.
But this work is getting done. Thc post
master general and the attorney-general
are in close communication. Further
removals In thc postofJico department
will be mndo atonce, and the government
has already in its possession evidence
which, when it is brought before a grand
jury, will cause tho indictment on crimi
nals charges of several important persons
and their arrest.
THE JOBBERS ALARMED.
Meantime a considerable number of
the jobbers baa gathered here to consult
as to moans of defence. They aro anx
ious, because they do not know where
justice will strike first, and thoy 6eem
inclined to hang together in the hope that
a solid or bold front will drive oil' the
President and tho officers of justice.
Thero are rumors that a hugo bucket of
dirty water is preparing to be emptied
on tho President s head in the hope that
this will make him run off in a panic.
But the jobbers deceive themselves.
Thero is the best authority for saying
that the President, Postmaster General
James and Attorney-General MacVeogh
aro determined to go the bottom of tho
Star route jobberies, no matter who is
hurt, aud thero is also good authority for
tho statement tba', while the jobbers pre
tend to ench other to bc standing together
overtures have already como from them
to confess, nud by their revelations place
tho government in possession of impor
tant and decisivo evidence against others
on condition ot their own security.
FILLIUUSTERINU.
The Modus Operandi of Obstruction tn the
Senate.
When a debate is once begun the
brethren on both sides usually pitch in
and get so wrought up against each other
thal at about 5 or 6 o clock they are glad
wheu some one bethinks himself to make
a motion to ndjourn, and enough on both
sides to vote for it to end one moro trou
bled day. But supposing no debate is
begun after tho motion to go into execu
tive session is lost, then because some
thing must be before the Senate in tho
nature of Parliamentary business, and tho
vote cannot bo at once repeated, another
Democrat will get up tho following
game, which serves as an alternate mo
tion : He will say. "Mr. President, os
we have dono so little to-day, and as
business of importance awaits our atten
tion I move that wheu tho Senate to
adjourn it adjourn to meet at 9 o'clock to
morrow morning," (12 o'clock being the
regular hour) "and on thia I demand the
yeas and nays." He doaen't mean it, no
moro tlittn you nnd I menu to dye our hair
?ea-greeu ; but it serves ita pinpo.se.
'hen another Democrat rises and sol
emnly sayB: "As that hour would be
somewhat inconveniently early for
many of the Senators, I move to amend
tho Senator's motion by submitting 10
o'clock for 9 o'clock, and on this amend
ment I demand tho yeas and nays."
Then a third Democrat rises and says :
"I move to amend the amendment o tiered
by the Senator who just rose, 'by substi
tuting the hour of ll o'clock for 10 o'clock,
and on this amendment I demand the
yeas and nays." Then tho 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.
Thia ia tho formula : "I desire to say
that I am paired on all questions with
the Senator from-(naming the
State.) If be were here ho would vote
aye and I should vote no" (cr vice versa.)
If a Senator is away when his name is
called, his colleague (tho other Senator
from his State) will often mnke tho ex
planation for him. Tho roll-call being
finished, a posse of delinquent Senators
will straggle in from the clonk rooms,
where they go to talk, or to smoke, or to
talk over privato mattera ; aud they will
raise their hands, denoting that they
have not* yet votea. The Vice-President
recognizes them by this announcement
of each : "The Senator from-"
(naming his State). The Clerk then
calls his name from thc roll, aud he votes
still atandiug ; then, turning his heel
Koes back to the cloak room or wherever
e lists. Ic this delightful pastime
twenty-five or thirty minutes may easily
becanaumed. This disposes of only ono
amendment. The next is then taken up
in the name 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 whero it is in
parliamentary order for soma 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 "fililbusteriug,"
and this state cf 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 al 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 aro
born on the average one and a half votes,
wbicb go to tho Republican party. To for
eign parents there'are born on the aver
S;o four and half votes, which go to the
?moe ra tic party. This io time will
make the latter successful."
The Development of Hu? Railroad ('nm*
paltju.
The Railroad campaign, no (?ir AS it
affecta the Carolina1? and Georgia, devel
ops rapidly. Thtee combinations are at
work, and an idea of their plans can now
be formed. The three combination-* are :
1. The South Atlantic alliance, consist
ing of tho South South Carolina Rail
road, Central Railroad of Georgia and
the Georgia Railroad, with their brunches
and Ittased lines. '1. The Richmond and
Danville system, li. The Baltimore am'
Ohio Railroad, wifb thc Virginia Mid?
lund.
Taking up the.se combinations out of
their order, we (ind that the Baltimore und
Ohio, via the Virginia Midland, is strik
ing out for the Southern and South At
lantic i rude. Thc extension of the Mid
land Railroad from Danville to Macks
ville is determined on, and connections
will bo made with Charlotte, or Spartan
burg or Green ville. The objective point
appears lo bo Atlanta, but Port Royal is
also taken into account. There is some
tail: of utilizing the Augusta and Knox
ville Railroad in connection with the
Midland extension, but wc do not see thnt
there is any money for tho Baltimore and
Gino Railroad in the Port Royal connec
tion. Augusta and Atlanta can bc made
competing points, where Ballimore will
meet the South Atlantic or Wad!ey
Pisber combination, and tho Dunville
system, but it cannot be expected that
freights will bo 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 fur a new western connection.
They can, also, roach Charlotte easily
and cheaply by an extcusion of the
|South Carolina Railroad from Cam
den. Wc are not able to Hay whether
the Kant Tennessee and Virginia and thc
Spartauburg and Columbia Railroads
will work with tho South Atlantic com
bination, or with the Danville people.
What Mr. Colo paid the other day about
their lines ending ut Columbia, making
it necessary to come to Charleston by
way of Florence, looks Uko a hostile
move. It is positively asserted that
Ecrsous interested in the Northeastern
.ailroad intend to build a line fruin
Gourdin's on that road to Wedgefield on
tho Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad. This road will be about forty
miles lung, through a level country,
where little trestle work will be required,
and, it is thought, will cust nut more
thau $100,000. It will give a line frum
Culumbia tu Charleston, it is stated, utily
122 miles in length, which ia less than
the distance by the South Curulina Kail
road. Besides this, it will bring Claren
den and Williamsburg within easy reach
of this market. Tile people in the coun
ties through which the proposed road
will pass are so anxious for it that they
will give every facility tu the projectors,
and will uso their efforts tu seeuro a sub
pcriptiun to thc stock by the County gov
ernments.
.The purposes of thc Danville combina
tion have not been divulged. They have
thc Air-Line Railroad, the Columbia and
Greenville Railroad and the Western
North. Carolina Railroad, aa well as tho
Charlotte, Columbia ami Augusta Rail
road. So far as they can get the long
haul fur freight by taking it over their
lines, coming or going, they have no use for
Charleston ur any other South Atlantic
port. In saying this we assume that busi
ness, as far as it can be controlled, will
be moved along the linea which the Dan
ville combination are intercnlcd in, rather
than along lines which they do not uwn
or lease. But it may happen to bo moro
difficult than ia expected to forco up-hill
tho business which naturally gravitates
towards the coast. In this event provis
ion must be made for reaching Charleston
unmolested, which can be done by way
of Florence, or by tho Gourdin's connec
tion. In like manner, if the Danville
people get to Augusta they can come on
to Charleston by tho Port Royal Rail
road and Charleston and Savannah Rail
way. Ono report is that the Danville
people intend to build the old Blue Ridge
RoaJ. Tho story is that they have
already the control of the entstand
ing bonds of the road, on the old route,
from Knoxville to Walhalla. From
Anderdon they would naturally utilize
their own property, the Greenville nnd
Columbia Railway. In answer to the
suggestion that there is nothing to gain
by building tho Blue Ridge Railroad
fur tho benefit of Charleston, they say
that there is mure business awaiting such
a lino than the Air Lins Railroad and
other lines runuing to tho Northeast
could possibly accommodate, and that il
would bo to their interest, therefore, to
divide business with thc Greenville and
Columbia route to the seaboard, con
necting nt Charleston with the Clyde
steamers.
Wo see then that what ?snow talked ol
is tho opening or construction of addi
tional lines of communication with Char
leston. From Augusta there ia a prom
ise of competition bv tho Port Royal
Rr.i!?-oad and Yemasste, and from Colum
bir. by wny 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 Btill better lino 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
well as thc lines from Asheville to
Alston, are of tho first cousequence,
Those lines will be important factors in
future combinations, and their construc
tion with Charleston's help, so that they
could not bc absorbed by surrounding
syndicates, would mako Charleston
Bccure, it seems to us, in almost any con
tingency.- Charleston News and Courttr,
A Horrible Affair.
A dispatch to the News and Courier
from Allendale gives the following ac
count of a most horrible affair. Yo- ?
Priester was a cadet at tho Charlo;'
itary School, but left that city in oje
quenco of having killed a colored waitei
in a restaurant there. Ho subsequent];
became a cadet at the Greenville Milita
ry Institute, and married Miss Cole,
daughter of a well hr. "wn and highlj
respected citizen of this county. Pries
ter is about twenty-three years old :
ALLENDALE, April 29.-A desperat?
encounter took place yesterday near Al
lendalo between William and Hcnrj
Priester, father and son, in which th?
former was desperately if not fatall?
wounded, having received fivo balls ir
his body from a pistol in tho hands o
his son, three of the balls in his bowels
and his life is despaired of.
Parties just from Mr. Wm. Priester*!
boure at 7 o'clock report bim in a dyiot
condition. The exact cause of the affraj
has not been mado known, but the causi
currently reported is the inability of thi
young man to live amicably with his wife
and yesterday morning upon her reques
to her father-in-law for funds to rrturi
to her home, the young husband i n ter ?erct
and getting his pistol, commenced firini
at his father, shooting him twice throng!
the abdomen, once through tho thigl
and lodging a ball in his side.
He then fell to beating him with tho pis
toi and only desisted wheo bis brother, whi
had been at the store some little distan?
from the dwelling, ran ia md partcc
them. The young man disappeared last
night. The evidence of the woundei
man was taken to-day by the trial justice
Capt. Bostick. Tho only witneeaes o
tho shooting were the young man's wif
and her little sister.
- MianesoU lias a Tanner hog tba
has fasted forty-five days, being snowci
under for that length of time, and doini
well.
Redmond's Arrest.
ASHEVILLE, N. C., May ?.
"This in Major Redmond/' said 'Squiro
Young, tho courteous sheriff as he pointed
to a slender, boyish figure that lay on n
bed of straw io 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 year* he
has been as much ut homo UH a chamois
nmong his native Alps. He exteuded a
email, weather stained hand to your
correspondent and asked him to be seated
on tho only chair in his cell, except the
one by which bc propped bis bead.
"Where did you get your title, Ma
jor?"
"Well, that," said he, "is a nick-name
they gim me when I was a boy."
"lint you have been in command of
?quads of men at different times, have
you not?"
"No, sir, I never was. Them's all
Iiack o' lies they tell about mo bavin' a
?and ri' men."
"What, Major, ure the charges nguinst
you t"
"They nay, some'rs about a year and a
half ugo I was Hceu in a blockade still
house. Tile truth about the matter is
that there's a man out there in Swain
county who has been a trying to lay his
blockade stilliu' on me. Ho got Bulbin'
or nurther agin me. We h ??ut got
along well together for sometime now."
"Major, tefl me something about your
life."
"Well,"' said he udjusting the chuir
under his head mora comfortably, '"I was
born close to where Atlanta, Georgia, is
now, in 1854. Theo 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 thero and farmed it lill 1877,
when I had some little trouble with some
revenuers. They wa? to blame, I wasn't.
I left then and went over into South
Carolina. That name year about com
gatheriu' time I married old man J .add s
gnl-in the upper edge of Picken'a
county. I come back then in March '79
to Swain county nnd loused mc aomo
lund on tho Tennessee river, about eight
miles from Churlestoii ; but, wherever
I've been fallers hada good character.
The newspaper men hus 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
botherm' nobody fur this is now gwyn?'
on throe years. I mostly stay at home
aud don t hardly ever leave my ?abin
'cept to hunt a little and to v.orL in my
fields. Along about the fust week
April my wife asked mc 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 house ; so I
I gits the shot gun and goes up that way.
Dut when fgot in about fifty yards of my
dogs-where they waB a barking I seen
somebody move behind the brush and
cliff an' six men stepped out an hollered
"halt." 1 turned around an' started
townrds my cabin and they kept
shootin,' and ever once an' a while I'd
! feel a ball hit mo, and I heard 'em whiz
zin' by me till I got over the ridge.
They run after me and overtook mc about
a hundred and fifty yards from my
house."
"In how many places were you
wounded, Major?'5
"Seven ninnes, an' they hurt mo
mighty bad this raornin', but I don't say
much about it."
Tho officer's version differs somewhat
from the Major's rtatemont. Officer Con
ley says : "We went to his house-or to
a ridge about a hundred and fifty yards
distant-early Thursday morning, April
7. At 10 o'clock a. m. the dogs Baw us
and came rushing up to where we were.
Redmond followed with his gun. When
in about fifty paces of us he lowered his
gun as if to fire. Wo told him to halt,
but as ho was still rapidly advancing we
fired. His gun fell from his hands and
bo ran townrds 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 his house, and the physician said he
could not be safely moved on an extend
ed trip on account of his wound-. So
wo were forced to try to keep him in our
charge thero. Wa anticipated an at
tempt at rescue on tho part of his friends.
We pluinly told Redmond, when we saw
his neighbors coming to and going from
bis house, that if any attempt should be
mndo to take him or any attack made on
us that wc 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 wo Blept better. On the following
day, Saturday, 23d instant, we started for
Asheville, reaching hore on Sunday. We
brought him to Asheville because thc
several rewards offered for him designate
that point as tho place for delivery of
his body."
His father is said to have been a moon
shiner, ".nd fared badly at tho hands of
tho rovouuo officers and tho law. Hence
it was but natural that young Redmond
should imbibe the prejudices of his fath
er. His antipathy to thc ugents of tho
revenue department was not concealed.
Ho would ?peak often of his successful
resistance of the officers of tho law, State
and Fedoral. 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 rovenuc iawH. He then fled to
South Carolina. But bo did not thore
escape the sleepless eyo of the law, but
no managed to eludo 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 were seized under the revenue law.
He escaped the nmnll 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 n
frontier desperado, quickly dispersed the
confiscators of his property. Then he,
with his wife, left South Cnrolinn ?nd
came to the wildest part of the Blue
Ridge country-Swain county. Hero he
han since had n wide berth His fearless
and daring reputation had preceded him.
To this ho materially added by h?- open
and defiant conduct. Ho told the credu
lous mountaineers that he was "bullet
proof." His immediate neighbors -
through policy-were his friends. They
were afraid to bo otherwise. At least,
howover, it was rumored that Redmond
said, "There are not enough men in
Swain county to arrest me." This awoko
tho energy and pride of tho Swain county
boys, and they determined to take him.
Tho Federal Court convened here to
day, aud Redmond will bo tried nome
time during the session.-Coriespondenee
Atlanta Constitution.
A MONUMENT ron GEN. GAHY.
Tho Barnwell People says: "Tho De
mocracy of South Carolina should testify
their high appreciation of thu distin
guished political services of Gen. Gary
by erecting over his grave a monument
worthy of the man and of tho party he
has served so woll. Carolinians cannot
forget Gary, for his history la theirs and
their heritage ; aud while loving rela
tives would see that bis 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."
- Connecticut disfranchises 22,914 of
her citizens ; Vermont, 16,000 : Pennsyl
vania, 100,000; Michigan, 40,000; Mas
sachusetts, 139,000. and yetTJawley, Ed
munds, Cameron, Hoar and Dawes are
Jelling for a free ballot and fair count
n tho South.
Tho 14tli Session or Hie National
Grunge.
We have jual read with interest the
roceedings nf the late meeting of tho
National Grange, P. of H.. ut Washing
ton City. Evidently Uie fanners of the
United .States are engaged in thc great
work of perfecliug an organization
which is destined ut no distant day to
wield a powerful influence over the des
tinies of this republic. The government
of the United States hus been usurped,
and is being prostituted to thc base pur
poses ol"thc most unscrupulous corporate
power known in the history of any peo
ple. Ry the corrupting usc of money
these corporations assail both parties
alike, anti purchase the high places of
the government for their pani attorneys.
As au 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:
thc 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 sellisb
and unscrupulous millionaires. They
have well nigh monopolized the tele
graphic busincas of tue country, and
now propose to aupcradd the transporta
tion ot the country. With this vost
power in the hands of a few mc?, the
millions of the musses will be laid under
a tribute more galling and more despotic
thnu thc Turkish Khedive.
The farmers of the United States are
organizing by means of the Grunge to
throttle and overturn this huge corpornto
and monied monopoly, and propose to
fight thc battle at the "bal lot box for the
control of our legislative bodies, State
and National. T. H. R.
The Charleston Cuna!.
The work on the Charleston Canal is
?rogressing steadily and satisfactorily,
apt. Green, of thc United States Engin?
eer Corps, who bas the work in charge,
says that a cut has been made from tho
Ashley River eight hundred feet by
seventy-five feet wide, and eight feet
deep at low water. The channel now
extends as fur as the island near the
point of the Devereux farm. The quay,
which commences at thc western extrem
ity of the Devereux farm, bas been built
out two hundred feet towards the island.
The whole length of this wharf will bo
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, thc work of dredging bas
been temporarily suspended, owing to
the necessary removal of the dredge todo
some work on tho 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 ol' OOO
feet, and 'hen on to the quay, out to a
point where there will be 12 feet of wate:
at low tide, lt is expected that if no
unlooked for delays occur the track will
be laid and everything will bc in running
order by the 1st of June next. The en
tire length of the new piece of road will
bo about one mile and three-quarters.
Simmons street, a distance of tbreo
Sjarters ufa mile, is already prepared for
ie reception of the track.-New* and
O mri er.
A RroT NEAR SAVANNAH, GA.
Savannah, May 1.-A row ocourred
among a crowd of negroes, fifteen or
more, on thc bank of the canal a mile
from the city. Tbs parties were engaged
in gambling nnd a dispute arose over tho
cards. Pistols were drawn and a general
fusilade followed. Patrick Reagan, a
very worthy citizen, who wns passing on
his way to his pasture to get bis cows,
was struck in the heart and killed in
stantly. His body was brought to his
home in this city. Great excitement and
indignation have been aroused. Nearly
fifteen hundred persons soon collected at
the scene. Two negroes were arrested.
The others escaped, but the poliee aro on
their track.
NOTICE.
A LL persons aro hereby notified that
JA. Henry tireen, 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. 1881_43_ 2?
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r I -.HE undersigned ofTers the above Whet
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JOHN R. KAY having made an Assign
ment to the undersigned for the bene
fit of bis Creditors, notico is hereby given
that a meeting of said Creditors will be hold
at Ilonea Path, Anderson Countv S. C., on
TUESDAY. ?- ly 10th, 1881. f-r tho pur
pose of appointing an Age?-, .o represent
the Creditors, and for such .her purposes
ns required by law.
H. G. REED. Assignee.
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ANUKRMON Coi'NTY.
BY virtue of various Executions to me
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finit MONDAY in JUNE, A. D. 1831, at
Anderson Court House. South Carolina, the
following Truet or Land, to wit :
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Containing one hundred and fifty (150;
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Sheriff of Anderson County, S. C.
May 0, ISSI 43 4_
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Ladies' Corset Covers, 50c, 75c, $1.00 up.
Gents' Shirts, to order, 75c, $1.00, $1 50,
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Gents' Drawers, 50c up.
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Gents' Undershirts, 30e, 45c, 50e, 75c,
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