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"BYTCLINKSOALES & LANGSTON., ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1900. VOLliME XXXYI-NO 16 ? How We rinimrn IT n nuunLU II Ia February, 1898, we started our Cash business. We had confidence in ourselves, and believed we could, by selling for Spot Gash, give the trade better goods for the same money than credit stores could. We figured we wouldn't have any losses by bad debts, wouldn't have to pay the salary of a hook-keeper, and if we could get spot ca?h for the goods we sold we could in turu pay spot cash for them, and by that means get them cheaper to begin with. This way of demanding cash in ad vance was unknown in the Clothing business. It had always been the cus tom to sell the goods at a big profit and collect for them at the end of the year. People said you ' can't sell for spot cash exi'irely," and our finale was predicted long ago, but we are still selling lots of Clothing, Hats, and Furnishings, And the Cash comes with every saler Some of our competitors will tell you ?they can make you the same prices that we do, and that they'll charge the goods, too. Ask them ^vhy is it they ask 75c. for Semen's Elastic Seam Drawers (No. 50) when we sell them for 50c. ? And why do they ask $4.00 for the genuine Hq.ward Cassimere Trousers that we sell for $3.00 ? And why do they ask from $2.00 to 50 for the genuine Redding Hair Line Trousers when our price is $1.50 ? They will possibly say you can't buy these goods here at the prices quoted, but if you'll come here with the Cash lo hand you can get the goods. No loubt about lt. R fl Clique.fcVii THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Oar Correspondent. "WASHINGTON, D. C., April 33,1001. While Southern men here appreciate President McKinley's selection of gold Democrats rather than disreputable negroes for high office in certain South ern States, they realize fully that the appointments are made chiefly in the hope of splitting the Democracy open i nd organizing a white man's Republi can party in the south, and in the ultimate hope of carrying somo South ern S tate t?. Unfortunately for the President, however, he is likely to find, so it is said, that the job of creating a decent Republican annes ia tub South j will not be mudo the easier by nsao-, ciating a change of political allegiance with a cash consideration in the shape of oihrial salary. A respectai)le white Republican party in the South must be based on convictions, not ou bribery. With the bribe openly displayed, it will be useless for the bribed to talk about the workings of bis conscience. The venal may be attracted by th*, spoils, but their very venality will be a warning, and men who have respect for themselves, and, therefore, influ ence with the people, wiil be slow to challenge tho suspicion of improper motives by joining tho organization. Tho South muy some day be split by the wedge of office, but it is thought more than likely that several wedges will be crushed in tho crack before anything much is accomplished. Tho information should be circulated arnon ir the Southern negroes that there is no demand at all for laborers in Li beria and that all emigration societies designed to ship negroes to that coun try are little better thnu catchpenny concerns. Aa many of the emigrants as can find money to pay their passage back have returned to this country, showing evidences of great hardship and suffering and telling tales that ought to discourage the movement. The method of the societies aro to send plausible agents among the colored people of the South with brilliantly illuminated posters and pamphlets representing Liberia to bo a land of milk and honey, like Canaan of tho Israelites, and Beliing tickets to those who wish to go. The tickets are paid for on tho installment plan, so much a month, but if the full price is not paid within a certain time nil previous pay ments are forfeited. In this way the companies have made a profitable en terprise of tho Liberian cause, because not ono in ten.of their subscribers ever succeeds in complying with the condi tions of the contract. A man with 315,000 or $20,000 can make a fortune in the coffee trade thero but labor is a drug in tho market. In one case at least, the whirligig oE time has brought in its revenges with speed and certainty. When the recip rocky treaty between the United States i and Ntcarauga, negotiated-by Ur. Kna son, was submitted to the Senate last winter, Californians raised such a howl that it was laid aside with the other documents of the kind. Nicaragua then set to work and made an almost exactly similar treaty with Chile, and now Californians are protesting bitter ly to. the State Department at their loss of trade to both countries. It so happens that the United States has no trade with Nicaragua of recent date, and under the old treaty there is no warrant foi the preference of a claim by our government for equal rights with Chile, inasmuch as we have not seen fit to enter into a similar special arrangement with Nicaragua. California business men who are suf fering severely in their trade with Nicaragua, owing to the favorable rates given to chilean merchants under the new treaty, can only be assured that there seems uo way of satisfying them, save by again extending to the Senate the opportunity to ratify the treaty already referred to as between the United Stales and Nicaragua, which j wiil cure the discrimination complain ed of. Tho looting of consular and diplo matic posts, by the removal of trained men in favor of Republican political appointees, continues, despite Presi dent McKinley's intimation that no mau would be removed except for cause. The latest is the dismissal of the Secretary of our legation to V ion na und tho appointment thereto of Chand ler Hale, sou of Senator Hale of Maine. Tho present occupant, Mr. Herdliska, is au intelligent and capable officer, und hus given full satisfaction to ult concerned since his original appoint ment in 1807. Americans who have hud business with him speak of his zeal, efficiency und courtesy in the most co rd ia! manner. On tho books of tim Department, Mr. Herdlisku is credi ted to tho District of Columbia, but carno origina!!? from Dayton, where his lather is attached to the Soldiers' Home. Senntor Foruker was his "in fluenae, V but he was personally known to .' td ge Day, who was at that tin e Assvtaut Secretary of Stute and thu appointing power. Hence, there is no exe.use for Senator Hale's claiming the ellice us belonging to his State, ns the Senators from Connecticut claimed the consulate at Ql??ss&ii When thoy de manded the removal of Consul Sawter. HH simply wishes to timi an agreeable place for his son, and has selected Vienna as suitable to his taste and ability. / "Tho guilty fleo where no man pnr suetb," and thu managers of the admin istration junket across the continent have been thrown into a panic by the discovery that the magnificent private parlor ear in which the President was to travel was named thu "Imperial," the- name standing out boldly on ita side. When this was found out, there was a tremendous flurry un4] another car could be substituted. The inci dent ia the source of much nm nu*-"j vi;?. i to railroad of?chtlsand other?, and is being told with relish. As the result I of the nice discrimination of tho com mittee as to names the President will rule in the richly finished private car "Olympia." The "Imperial' and the ''Olympia" are the two most sumptuous and luxurious private cars built by the Pullman Company. In spleudhf np pidutments. in equipa.oat und comfort thero ia no choice between the two. GATHERING COTTON STATISTICS. Hr. Bewden Calls Upen the Ginners to Help. Mr. Editor-Tho continuons down- : ward tendency of tho price of ootton during the last throe months has been < enough to arrest the serions attention of overyono who is at all interested in Southern prosperity. Ootton has been, ia and will bo for y nara to como, tho main market crop-the money croo of the country nnmoionly called the "South," consisting of the South At lantic States, the Mississippi valley, together with Texas, Oklahoma aud tho Indian Territory. Tho aroa con tained in tlie territory indicated pro duces unnnally in tho neighborhood of vinni.v per cont, of tho world's sup ply of raw cotton. The valuo of this crop to tho farmer will amount to not loss thau 400 million dollars for tho orop that has jnst beou sold, aud from what I can learn from statistics thoro is no reason why it should not como up to that figuro every year, tho crop largo or small. Many authorities maintain that the consumption of cotton does increase at tho same paco as tho production aud that a systematic curtailment of the crop planted is the only wav to maintain a price level that is fair 1 to tho produoer. That theory may bi? ! true if ootton is to be kept in tho neighborhood .of ten cents,"huc with tho price ranging from 5 to 7 cents it only took a few years for tho mills to cut oh np with tho farms to such an extent that the short crop of tho cur rent year put them on tho verge of a cotton famine* and sent tho price sky ward. The above theory sooms tc ho tho ono adopted by tho Ootton Growers* Protective Association in its effort to benoni- tho Southern larmer*. I have the heartiest sympathy for tho object of tho association and tho kindest feeling that I am capable of for those who compose its membership, hut it seems to me that it is wasting ouorcy as I don't soo that any direct anti very little, if auv; indirect benefit can accrue to tho average cotton grower hy tho effort, to roduco tho acreage planted in cotton. In tho first place with tho agitation tor a reduction in acreage that has been going on ever sinco I can recollect nud experience for several years with low priced cot ton tho farmer who now doesn't nive his attention first to raising his homo supplies; so far ns bread and meat is ooucerned at least, canon*-- be reached by resolution or argument and induced to plant lesB cotton. Those who have progressed far enough to raise their food supplies aro generally ready to try another money orop if ono could b3 found that would yield, everything considered, bettor returns. Tho tann er by nature and training acts almost entirely on individual initiative, which makes him to an extent unfit ted for co-operative or organized ac tion, and if 99 per oent. of them could be convinced that thercf would be a general reduction of acreage with n prospect of a riso in price every moth er's son of them would set about im mediately to t-nlarge his own crop. I tbinb: that eventually cotton will be forced from this section by compe tition from Western plains and the al luvial soils nf valley and coast regions and when the citv population has in creased and to an extent that will mako food BUPPIIGB a remunerative money crop to the farmer Until that timo comes tho most of us will be compelled to stick to ootton and raise all we can after raising enough "hog and hominy," and "biscuit," I will add, to feed all that live on our farms. While the trusts of surprising dimen sions are being formed on all sides I very much donbt if the time will soon come when a trust of the ootton grow ers will be within the range of pos sibilities. I won't go into the subject further as I started out to say something about cotton statistics and make a suggestion. There isn't a business car ried on in this conntry that is based on su"h unreliable information as is the bnsiness of marketing the cot ton crop. To begin with, the acreage planted is only the vague guessing of a few agents, government and others, scattered over too ootton belt. Those men have nothing to baso an estimate on except the census report, only conversation and correspondence with a few men in tho section they repre sent and I have no doubt their esti mates, aro v?rv generally wido of the mark. And then when the guessing begius again on tho size of tho crop nud even at the end of .the season equally good authorities differ widely -as much as a million balea or more as to tho amount that has been made. While theso estimates are the.basis of tho business of speculating in futures yet they aro of httlo or no uso to tho owner of tho actual cotton who must sell to got his money. Last year tho (J. S. census ornoo rondo tho effort aud succeeded to a surprising oxteut in getting in direct communication with tho ginners of tho South'and recoived reports at the end of the season of cotton actually ginned aggregating 9,645,974 bales. 'Theso reports carno from 29.620 gin neries scattered allover the ootton belt and doubtless aro the most reliable that havo over been published. The census office Kt ands ready to mako this a permanent work and got theso re ports every year even more promptly and fully than they did for tho cur rent ootton year. What they want and need is tho co-operation of all who are interested in haudling tho raw cotton, especially the ginners. It is entirely feasible, with the ma chinery in the hands of tho govern ment, to got these reports from gin ners we .-My or at least bi-mont ii Iv during the season and thus keep all interested thoroughly posted and on an equal footing in the market. It needs no argument to show tho im mense benefit that the carrying ont of this idea will be to the ootton growers and I sincerely hope to see the Ootton Growers* Association take ; an active hand in hanking; np the cen I sus officials in getting tho scheme in to aotive operation. I believe it will largely, if not entirely, destroy the power that speculation has in controll ing the price aa ot pr?sent. Recently I had Che pleas uro of talking over this matter with Mr. North, ohief statistician.and Mr. D. O. Roper, who has soe dal charge of ginning statis tics in t'"? ??nano fH?". und I fo*?| ?nro thal they can be depended on to do all In their powor to accomplish mis work and are anxious to got in tenon with all interested and receive sug gestions as to methods to be nsed in carrying out the i lea. Mr. Roper is n South Carolinian and from sym pathy and experience is peculiarly titted for tho position ho occupies. Now a word to tho giuners of this county: The census office- has sent mo a Hst of the sinners in this coun ty and asked ma to reviso and oorroct it. Tho object is to got vcu in direct communication with tho census office at Washington so that yon cnn report i for yourself at ?u??i ? lines during ino Reason ns will bo hereafter determin ed on. The list I havo contains 171 names of sinners and ginning oom- 1 panics. I can seo myself that thero 1 aro duplications and inaccuracies in both names und post- offices. Success depends largely on the interest taken in this matter by von. I have taken tho liberty or calling on tho gentle men named below-one in each town ship-to act with mo in Betting up a complote and accurate hst to send the census office Wo should have cacti township separate and I wish to nrgo you to co-operate with this voluntary commit tee and seo that your nanto and address is Bent in corrootly : C. P. Kay, Bolton; W. L. Anderson, Andorson; H. F. Cely, Coly: S. N. Browne, Anderson; A. S. Bowie, Good Hope; R. A. Sullivan. Alpino; T. T. Wake?oid, Soptus; A. M. Guy ton, Guyton; C. E. Harper, linnea Path; L. N. Martin, Annie; C. M. Barrett, Roberts; J. D. MoElroy, Den ver: J. B. Levorett, Moscow; R. P. Olinksonles, Good Hone: J. P. John sen, Polzer; 8. H. Stone, Dean. J. W. Bowden. Andorson. April 19, 'Ol. UEN'EIUL NfcWS ITEM"v - There are 13,000,000 families in the United States. - A 70,000 barrel oil property in the new Texas field sohl for $1.250,000. - W. H. Martin, a defaulting clerk of the North Carolina Treasury, was sentenced to ten years in the peniten tiary. - Students nt Harvard University nie not opposed to hazing by the secret societies. - An Akron, Ohio, girl wove an K?s ter hat trimmed with twenty-live one dollar bills. It cost $45. - More factories have closed down in Massachusetts leaving about 2:1,000 operatives without work. - Charleston is to have a new union st at ion for its railways, the Southern, Plant System and Coast Line. - President McKiuley und his cab inet will start on their Pacific tour tho 20th instant over tho Southern. - It cooes this government about n thousand dollars a day to talk to its repr?sentatives in the Philippines. - There will be between 50,000 and 100,000 additionol acres of land devoted to rico culture in the South this year. - After being pardoned, Frank Coles, a burglar in jail at Richmond, Va., declared he would be a mission ary. - In the past fifteen months 514 ves sels havo cleared from tho port of New Orlcdns loaded with 40,404,800 bushels of grain. - Tho Easter church collections in New York city amounted to over $1, 000,000, and Grace church headed the list with $107,000. - In the last six months of 1000 seventeen Americans emigrated to Cuba while 12,004 Spaniards "took residence" on tho island. - The Michigan legislature proposes to chango* the pay of its members from $8 a day to 61,000, and the Hanois leg islature proposes tc change from $1,000 to $2,000. - During the month of March 2,000 young Greeks left their country for tho United States. For some time thQ number of emigrants from Greece has been increasing. - Later information shows that tho northern lady who left $10,000 for tho caro of her dog also left $140.000 for benefit**!' her relations. She was kind and consid?rate for both mau and beast. - A hugo mass of snow and rock swept down from tho mountain near Adelaide, Col., burying a work-train and killing three men and seriously in juring four others. The men were clearing tho debris of an earlier slide. - China's troubles aro increasing. A robellion, headed by General Tung Fa Shin (the former commander of tho northern army), in the province of Mongolia and Shen Si, has broken out. - President McKinley will open Hie Buffalo exposition on tho 1st of May from Vicksburg, whero he will he on ilia way to the Pacifie const. At 2 o'clock in tho afternoon ho will presa n hutton that will make the wheels go round. - Tho Zionist movement ia gaining strength. A meeting of 1,500 Jews was held in Milwaukee recently in the in terest of tho movement, which is to buy Palestine from the Turkish gov ernment, that it may bo settled again by tho Jewish people. - Cattlemen in Greenwood county, Kansas, are making hard times for lawyers. They have established a sys tem of abitrating differences. Three men are chosen as an arbitration com mittee. They investigate the troublo and make a decision, which is final. A fuss involving $60,000 was Bottled at Eureka last week by an arbitration com mi tte o. - The congressional appropriation of $4,000,000 for tho extension of the rural delivery postal service becomes due iu three mouths, und Chief Mac hen, of the poBtoffico department, is now getting ready to spend it. The rural delivery rou tea cost au average of $500 000 for clerical hire and other expenses, it ?ill be possible to establish about 5,000 new routes. STATE NEWS. - Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, of Maryland, has been visiting General Hampton ut Colombia. , j \ ^??L\ ' . - Dr. J. Dj^ O. Landrum,jof~8par tnnburg, the author "ofjseveraflocal histories of repute is dead. ; - Dr. W. P. Gibbes, health ofllccr at Beaufort, was assaulted by a negro man and woman in that city and severely beaten. - Tho dispensary at Sumter has been robbed. It seems ns if n small child was let through the transmuto open the door on thc inside. - J.H. Sudduth waa convicted of murder in Greenville nnd was sentenced to tho penitentiary for life, thu .fairy having recommended him to mercy. \?- A large Cuban exhibit has been secured for the Charleston exposition. Geu. Leonard Wood, governor-general, has ordered it sent from B?llalo there. - A State summer sehe >1 for negro teachers will be held in Columbia be ginning in June and continuing a mouth. Tho teachers for it will bo white. - Governor Mcsweeney has issued a requisition ou the governor of North Carolina for the return of the gold brick swindlers who "did up" Mr. Wheeler, of Newberry, for $7.000. - A woman's edition of the News und Courier is to be brought out by the women who are interested in tho exposition work soon. Th? receipts will be used for the exposition fund. - Au eight-year-old negro boy went to sleep on the railroad track near Dawkins on the Southern between Columbia and Spartanburg and a train ran over him cutting off his head and his arms. - Gen. fr*. M. Bamberg has already paid over the $0,1)00 which he subscrib ed to the Carlisle Fitting School nt Bamberg. This i* a very generous gift and one that will result in great benefit to the School. - There is a light on between Dr. Brimin, Presbyterian minister, and Charleston presbytery, to which he used to belong. Dr. Brimin has hetero dox views of divine healing and refuses to obey the order of the presbytery to stop preaching them. - Tho Board of Regents of the State hospital for tho insane have decided to build an open air pavillion for tho use of the harmless patients of the in stitution during the summer months. Herein dances, etc., will be held during the sweltering period. - M. R. Rce80, ono of the principals in a celebrated murder enso at Blacks burg, has been arrested in Oxford, Miss. He with Daniel Luckie were charged with killing,C. T. Williams and they made a sensational escupe from tho York county jail in 1807. - Gen. Thomas W.^Car wile, of Edge field, has been appointed chief marsha* of tho day on tho occasion of tho un veiling of the Stnto's monument to her Confederate dead on tho field of Chick nmauga Muy 27. Gencrnl Carwilo was himself a gallant and conspicuous figuro in that bloody battle. - A woman died in tho alms house in Charleston tho other day and was buried as a pauper by tho city. An investigation of her effects after her burial showed that she had boen a miser and had a bank account. Tho city will got her money if no heirs claim it. It is about $300. - South Carolina made silk will bo shown at tho Charleston exposition next December. The silk culturo com mittee of tho woman's department is now engaged in active promotion of the interesting industry and expects to make a very full exhibit pf tho process und its product at the exposition. - The Maryland Stato Building at j the Inter-Stnto and West Indian Ex position, at Charleston, will be one ol' the handsomest State structures ut the Exposition. The site selected for tho building is un admirable one, and will show the building to an advuntage. Tho building will be 140 feet long, in cluding n semi-circular portico and will be 45 feet in height. - A Darlington merchant is being joked by his neighbors, but, ho doesn't laugh heartily. A negro bought from him a pair of shoes for $1.50 and hand cd him a $20 confederate note, inila original state. The merchant gave him ?18 50 in chango and didn't know the difference until hu went to the bank to deposit his cash, and the teller de clined the Confederate States govern ment's promise to pay. - We have been shown an old cotton bill that was found by Mr. J. If. Rod ger in his father's old papers that names prices astonishing to people of this day and time. The bill is dated I860. 23 bales were sold to a New York firm by Mr. Rodger at an average price of 38c per pouud. Tho bales averaged 414 pounds and tho amount of money paid for them was $3,424.29. If cotton would bring those figures now wo would tell our farmers to turn their land into cotton Melds. Wo might oven give it a trial ourself. Union Time*. - J. A. Abbey of St. George'.", and Mrs. Jessie McKinney of Itu:* \ N. Y., were married in Columbia Sunday. Thirtv-ono years ago they were en guged be married, but the engage ment was broken oil* by the intermed ding of a jealous relative. As soon as it happened Mr. Abbey left Ithaca aud came to to South Carolina, settling at St. George's, in Dorchester county. Mr. Abbey's first wife died last year, and Mrs. Abbey's husband Judgo Mc Kinney, died fourteen years ago. Their reunion came about through Air. Abbey's oldest son running ucross tho widow. Portman Letter Oa the iOtli IDHI, tho correspondent left . no rainy atmosphere of Portman for a dry, crisp cold Sabbath morning st Pied mont. It "BB tuoHabbath greeting of the *outb Carolina Preabv ter? to the mem bers of tue Presbyterian Church at Pied mont, 8. C., and the returning exchange of salutations of the members to the large body of officials and guasiB. Ouco in a largo city lt was the privilege of the correvp aident to attend a meetlug of the Theosophists of America and lUtaS Ui the nctsb'.s Iwiure on "Brotherhood" of their great High PrleBtese, Anna Ber nant The meeting was a splendid re ception to the intellect, and H grateful, cordial communion to tho social m-tlncta ?M ?.um ui nature. Such was thl*8ahbath meeting of tho Prn.hytory at Piedmont. Tho talented clergyman so well known among tho religious denominations of South Carolina-Dr. Lowery Wilson-by a large circle of petitions preached the morning Hermon. It IH not. enough that Hum's sinning soul be sat'islied-his an terior judgment, hin discriminating in tel ect must also be sat'islied. To these craving forcon, theae strong attributes of human nature and HHpiralion, Dr. Wilson addressed himself, 'the? great fault with many clergymen h that they pre tob to the slnniugsoul and neglect tho clamor ous, beavon-bf rn distinctions of the in tellect. An intelloctual mau munt enjoy the proper respect extended to his intel lect, or the thutnlorliii-H at htg sinful soul will not awaken him." To meet this exi gency of the 20th conturv the persuasive, ennobling Hermon of 'Dr. Wilson waa conceived and dollvered. The address was, in a theological and moral conception, an exegesis of con tested portions ot' scripture. The light of inspiration alono could supp:/ tho ex planation. I"t"!lent would fall, senti ment would be useless, sectarianism bad no place w hato vor. Th? explanation was like the atmosphere-tho commun need, tho common property of all. No sinner, neither haint. omi ld Hud faull. This in spiration cornea not unconditionally to the in?n who pravs for it. The mau who prays for a 100 hoad of cattlo and has an enclosure for 40 will n"t rnoplvn tho 100. Tho dot o . will not discredit the worth of tho rema'ring fit) for which there ls no accommodation. Only the 10 will be sent. A mau without iutePo-tual and proportionately spiritual capacity, will not receive extraordinary inspiration, rbis ia why ao tunny failuroato roach tho intellect aro encountered. From a moral Henee without devoted Intellect, men will ta c?me preachers and evangelists ihelr omhusiaem reaches tho rna** wbo?e in tellect has not compelled them to think. Inlelloct ls tho warring Lucifer that com bats tho li nt of tho Trluno-soutinrent, orthodox and tradition, and require? as opponent and conqueror tho archangel Michael, or Spirit ot God. This apt bin multiple proportion proceeds from the Pountalu of inspiration only through a igni?od und huge avenue A largo heart and Htnal'. intellect will impart much sympathy and comfort, nut little Inspired, ino.introverti bio consolation. This Intellect under the control of a spiritual nature speaks to and converts to God li no-s the intellects of less spiritual natures. Sunb aauperior intellect In the person of Dr. Lowery Wilson wa? the mouth-piece of the Spirit addressing this Presbytery and Sabbath congregation. The pastor of thia congregaron, Rev J. ?\ Shiye, has given so much satlafaotlon in spiritual sud material comfort that in a field of HO large acknowledgment there ls little to bo said. The correspondent of TUB INTELLIOBN CER on a speedy visit, and hastening anray toward speedy duties, had little time fortbe banquet of sociability, which was so generously offered to all. The ploasure waseajoyodof personally moot ing Mr. and M rs. C. D. Nesbitt and sou, Mr Willie Nesbitt, Mr. Dan Nesbitt, Rey. and Mra. J. C. Suive, Mr. John E*kew, Mrs. B White, widow or the late Mr. B. White, esteemed sexton of the Church, and aaaiitant to the sick for the Benevolent Societies of Piedmont, Mr. Robert Simpson, Mr, and Mrs. Porter Dodson, Mr. George Greor, of Hones Patb, Mr. 8. D. Stewart, of Liberty. Outside the Church ebola many kind words were beard for TUB INTKLLIQBN (,'KR which, the onr.-espondont was ssour ed, "wo all read." Returning to the subject of Portman and at an antithesis to tba foregoing aub jeot of thia correspondence tb au account o'a l.ttletrip made last week into An derson. Ocoaslon necessitated a mf sing with Mr DIMngham, Deputy Sheriff. An in troduction was given to the interior bf the great mural institution of Anderson County, the Jail. Cleanliness and order seemed the provaillng characters of the Institution. Mr. Dnilngham, with an appreciable pride, waved bis hand toward the brick residence, and remarked: "Yes, anderson County uhnuld be proud ot its j-iii." A peep lu through tho bira was given and the distinction of an introduc timi to the priannors. Two colored men participated in the exchange of courte sies and remarked Interestingly: "Aint iou so and se? Yes, yes, wo lived on Hurricane ("rook and saw you thor?, an* ono of us worked at Portman." "Waat is the charge against you?" uskod tho correspondent. "We is 'cussd o' stealing s bale o' cotton," said one. "Thought 'twas us stolo it over there, 'cause we hippeued to go dovn to AUbana' at tho time." A case was recalled of a negro who, a fow years ago, was arro-to i in Greenville for what tho butcher believed toha colling a cow ton cheaply. About that time a inossaj;? from Patzsr was re ceived that man and boast wero Ml groat demand; both wore retained, and in Court tho negro, who was "'cased,*' said he was waining along tho road and saw a rope; ho picked it up and carried it along when, as ho neared Ureonv'. ?e. ho noticed th? r??ps to be heavy, and looking round found "tho ?d' fool ropo was toten* a cow! then ho was 'cosed o' stealiu'" Mr. Dil linzbain ls adapted to bia profession aa the talons of an estr?e aro to controlling its pt ey. Toan observer h's paws tm em to shut Uko a stotil trap. Thors is tho iilit'or ofl>a'na*cus steol in hi-? eye, and in its gazsthe NW my of a Roman archer, lie is in his pro'osHion a noblo mao. "I like tho work," ?aid he, not, it was evi dent, In its capacity of intercepting crimi nals, but in the same appreciatiou which artist would enjoy when he said he oked the occupation of b?ing sn artist. Clone or ? bis pursuit' when traci mr an o ti n ' der at Portmao, and negroes run and hide t om htm like mice (rom their tor mentor. They entertain ot him a sacred awe, and great must be the secret they will not ponteas ba,o re their wr'.iits have submitted to the adornments of the l*w. che food and sanitary conditions of the jail were specially oommendbble. and every taxpaying oltlssn should sea for himself how great a good ls performed by this expenditure of money which par asps he might l??uiure *<* a dispensation ut criminals. It i* a preaeryafon to hts own peaoe and ths greatest moral reform to th? State. The pleasurn ora* tim accorded of moot ing Mr. and Mrs G. W. Browning their daugoter and ann-tu law, M . ao l vira. Robt. E. L-*?; also a welcome visit with Mr. John W. Lee and family. B. It. L. R>>tlng, tin work, galvanizad iroft woci\ ar:d plum-dn* done on short notice by Osborne A Osborne.