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THE JOURNAL.
'CAMDEN, .NOVEMBER 1ST0
"Postponed.
The Tea Party advertised to take
place this evcoiDg, has been postponed,
on account of unavoidable circumstances.
Survivor's Association.
The Survivor's Association of Kcr'shaw
County will meet at the Town
'Hall on Monday next, (7eh inst.,) at
>12 o'clock, M-, to appoint delegates to
attend the meetin.g of the State Asso-ciation
to be held at-Columbia on the
10th instant.
J. B. KetisnAW, President.
The Executive Committee
Of the Reform Party of Kershaw
^County *aro requested to meet at the
office of the Chairman cn Monday next,
'.(7th'inst.,) atl o'clock, P. M.
The Republican Triumph.
It i8at last known that the so-called
Republicans virtually the thieving
hordeof foreign adventurers and plun derers,
have carried the State fur that
infamous Ohio Doctor, 11. K. Scott.?
"^The Devil takes care of his owd," is
a well established dogma and his Satanic
majesty has a trusty crew of his own
now manning the ship of State. The
lust of gain, has effected this 6ale of
the crew to their captain. The Devils
own weapon, lying, has aided to bring
about this result. His pet liar. Chamberlain,
who lies by hundreds of thou-sands,
was an active tool in erecting this
manger'of filth. Again has the voice
of the people spoken) again has that
voice been that of the Devil and not of
a god. Again, have the colored people
drawn the line of hatred between the
whites aud thcmsolves. Again have
they declared their absolute determination
to remember, forever, the lashes of
slavery. Again, have they said "there
shall be no peace between you and us."
Again, have our promises been spumed,
our warnings unheeded. Again, have i
we been told that we are a raco of liars
?nd deceivers. This is the last time
- i n
that we intend to put ourselves or awow
ourselves to be put in this humiliating
attitude. It is the last time that we
will undertake to advise or interfere
with the colored people. They have
declared "war to the knife;" we arc
prepared to meet the issue. Henceforth
let no ruan deceive himself. He is
feeding men who are dragging himself
his family, even his innocent children
to starvation. Can you afford to feed
that man any longer. ? You cannot.?
You can scarcely live now, what is the j
prospect for the future? Darkness,
deepening darkness. Comparing the
future with the past two years, and confiscation
stares you in the face. The
appalling taxation will be the means of
that confiscation. IIow then can you
escape the general bankruptcy? Certainly
not by retaining nor feeding, employing
nor giving a home to those who
have brought this upon us?those who
make war upon us?those who have
sought and are seeking our ruin. For
the present, of course, necessity compels
us to use them, but only as means
to an end. Let us all UDite upon the
oil" nmofipril hnKis of tlio restora
VUIJ WV11V.
tion of South Carolina to her proper position
among the States of the Union.
That basis is the importation of ichite
labor pom abroad. Let us but offer
that lab?r the proper inducements.?
Let as but offer to each man a small
portion of the uncultivated lands that
we own, in exchange for his labor
for a given time, and immigration
hitherto, a myth in this State, will assume
the gigantic proportions of a real
substantial enterprise. Then will we
bo able to have our interests represented
and eared for in the general assembly.
Wo need not then ash for represcntion?we
will have tho power to demand
it, and we will have it. This is no
chimerical idea. In the State, there
are of wood, uncultivated and marsh
lands, not less than twelve mill ion acres.
One fourth of this, or three millions
could be easily spared, and scarcely
missed, and if one hundred acres were
given to each immigrant, thirty thousand
could be supplied. But the advantages
of bringing immigrants here
would be soon felt. Land would instantaneously
appreciate in value, capital
would flow in, other immigrants
would come preparsd to purchase, and
the^ultimate results would be the enrichmectof
every branch of industry.
Then let us unite in this grand and
glorious task. Far removed from and
above the arena of politics, this scheme
should be carried out, for it is to our
mind, the sole practical method of enriching
our people, and leaving a proud
heritage to our children.
As to our political actioR, let it be
distinctly understood that since the
question has resolved itself into one
race, we, the white people of South
Carolina, intend to stick to each other,
in one vast brotherhood. Let us form
a "Caucasian League," but let our actions
be able to bear the garish light of
day, and not hid in the shadows of tbo^
night, deep engaged in hellish plot.?
Let us throw our banner to the brcezo,
and inscribe upon that banner our determination
not to interfere with State
politics, until wo can make ourselves
heard. As a balance of power party,
we can sometimes take such action as
may redound to our interest, but ex- '
ccpt at such times, we will touch not
politico. Let us be what has been
forced upon us, "a white man's party!"
Again, let no man deceive himself.?
The lines have been unmistakcably
drawn. Let us accept tho challenge
thus thrown down, and if we do not use
our intelligence and capital to a better
purpose than heretofore, we are unworthy
the name of men or Carolinians.?
We owe it to our honored dead, to our
grey haired sires, to our aged mothers,
to our wives and children, to ourselves,
to fight out the battle of South Carolina's
redemption, upon higher, nobler
and more lasting grounds than we have
heretofore occupied. Let us go about
it at once.
It was our duty to endeavor to effect
the reconciliation of the races, as has
been done by the Union Reform Party.
It was our duty to recognize as accomplished
facts, what is embodied in the
Constitution of tlio United States, in
the XVth Amendment. This we have
fulfilled. Our efforts have been met
by stern, implaeablo resistance. We
have fought the fight, and we have lost
it. We sacrificed no principle in that
fight, nor will we sacrifice any by undertaking
to effect our redemption by
the means herein advocated. We do
not propose to go back of the sentimei\ts
embodied in the platform of the Union
Reform Party, in reference to the status
of the colored people. We leave that
question where wc found it. It was
done without our assistance, but none
the less thoroughly done on that account.
The sentiment of the entire
Democracy at the North, is in favor of
a complete recognition of the rights of
the colored man embodied in the Constitution.
Some of the Democratic
States have openly made it a part of
fliii 11tit irifliin flirvm?r*lrrnc nnrl fVto t?nn.
V?i\i JUU I! IVUIU Vkl VUJOV/J 1 UUU KUV VUUveniious
of other States have adopted
it in their platforms. We would be
going backward, not forward, in denying
what we have openly advocated.?
We would be stultifying ourselves and
prove that we arc base deceivers, were
we now *o recede from the position we
occupied in the late campaign. Since
then, we have faithfully done our duty
in this respect, ar.d have failed to effect
the desired result, we repeat, that we
sacrifice no principle in occupying the
ground that has been forced upon us,
viz: that of a white man's party. We
wouid, indeed, sacrifice the principle of
sc!J-rc*pect, wero we to continue, after
such a result as wo have seen, to en^
deavor to bring about union, peace and
harmony between white and colored.?
it is me result 01 t/icir action, not ours.
They have drawn the line, not we.?
They have rejected our overtures, not
wc, theirs. They have withdrawn themselves
within the pale of race, not we.
They have forced this upon us, not tee
upon them. So let it bo them We
now, for the first time understand each
other. You, colored men, have declared
your determined purpose not to go tcitk
us. We accept your decision, calmly
awaiting the time when the Government
of the State of South Carolina,
shall be carried cn by Representatives
of the entire people. When the intelligence
aud capital of the State shall
be represented, as well as the ignorance
and labor, in the General Assembly.?
We have gone far enough. We have
sacrificed pride and prejudice, every
thing but our sacred honor. To that
wc will hold fast, though our hcart'sblood
be the penalty. Rut there is a
God of justice, "who rules in Heaven
and among the inhabitants of earth."
lie has his immutable and mysterious
i - A.1C1 - _ J
purposes LU IUIUI, ULIU upuu UUl
edge of His justice we rely. We accept
this condition of things, as one of
the decrees of his wisdom, and await
the current of Ilis sovereign will;
This Journal had its representative
in the Press Conference held in Columbia
in March last. We were in favor
of a movement which culminated in
the Union Ileform Party. With no
private or personal motive, but for the
general good of the State, we went into
the movement, and have persistently
advocated it throughout. We stand
now, where wo stood then, perfectly
unbiassed iu our minds as to the true
status of the colored race, acknowledging
our acquiescence in the law of the
country, believing that the colored man
had a right to participate in governmental
affairs, in which they were as
much interested as we, and anxious
only to promote tho welfare of the
State. For the cause of Reform we
have labored earnestly and anxiously,
nor do we regret our course now, nor
will we ever. We have attended the
Radical meetings and listened to their
speakers. Wc have sifted those speeches
and compared them with official records,
which we were obliged to take as
true, and have no hesitation in saying
that more contradictory, false, preju
I
diced, incendiary, blackguard, slanderous,
vilej offensive, abusive, malignant,
base and unreliable speeches, nef9r
were made in any age, clime or conn*
try. The living present tffis; never once
touched in connection with the principles
of the party of Reform. The dead
-past, which no power can cl|inge, formed
their entire stock in trade, and unjust,
ungenerous and malicious the use
they made of it?utterly unworthy of
gentlemen living in a christian country,
professing christian principles?
altogether worthy of savages living in
a heathen country, professing barbarian
principles. To be asked to associate
ourselves with a party upholding and
revelling in every crime which disgraces
the calender, except murder, for
which it is;too cowardly,'is an insult to
any man :attenrptiog to live according
to the dictates of conscience, and "to
shape'his life as awaiting dreaH efcerniT
* ,1 -f? nn fnr mir
tj. xc is asKea ui us iv oc? ?
idol, the lust of ill-gotten gain, and to
sell our soul for a few peices of silver.
We caonot contemplate such a request
without feeling intense ^Iisgust and
utter contempt for those who are so
vile thomselves as to propose such a
thing. So much for oar action in this
mattor.
To the whites "Who did not go "with
the Reform party, we havo to say that
they have been utterly bliud to their
interests. A short sighted policy may
have induced them not to oppose the
Scott Ring, but wisdom would have
suggested to them to work heart and
soul for the success of the Reform party.
They may enjoy the custom and
patronage of 6omo of tho Scottites who
had grown wealthy by plundering them
and others, for a short time, but they
will deeply regret their action, when,
two .years hence, they see the public
debt piled mountain high, and their
neighbors sold ont on every side, to
meet correspondingly high taxation.?
We consider that they have proven by
their action, that they prefer Scott and
Ransier to Carpenter and our own Butler.
There is no getting out of this
position. They who profess and act
upon old Democratic principles, have
done more for Radical Republicanism
than if they had voted for Scott & Co.,
because they not only refused to vote
themselves, but their example deterred
others who would have voted for Reform.
In this, they have shown con-1?:
?1 - !>?* (1 lia wlin ia tint fnr nq.
Uiusiveijr, Luuu us nuu ?,
is [against us." The proper reward for
such apathy is the continuation in power
for two years longer of the vile crew
now over us. Two years more of this
rule, will cause these sticklers to principle
to be ready enough to get rid of
of those they helped to place in power.
Shameful, disgraceful, nonsensical, ridiculous,
absurd, self-stultifying action!
Now let us look at our future. Chaos
seems about to return, at least to this
portion of the world. Anarchy will be
the result of this terrible state of thiDgs.
No man will sit coolly down and see his
homestead sold to keep up a govern
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ment of thieves, roDOers ana wouia-De
murdefcrs. Let the lurid glare of civil
war once settle down upoU Us like a
heavy pall) aud terrible will be the com
sequence^ We warn this government to
economise, to retrench, to reform, of
else, mark the prediction: a war a/
races icill remit. Why a war of faces ?
Because the colored man, trusting you,
will support you in your acts, and because
you trust him, and by your acts,
endeavor to bring on what we are trying
to avoid. But you will be the firil
sufferers, should that evil day come.?
After that, we cahnot see.
To the colored people we Wonld say,
that the time will come, and soon come,
when they will wish that they had
heeded our warnings, and believed our
assertions. We want you to educate
yourselves and your children, so that
your ignorance cannot be taken advantage
of by those who have designs upon
every honest and iudustrious citizen.?
When the smoke and dust of this conflict
shall have passed away?when
your passions and your prejudces are
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sway, then will her promptings cause
you to regret that you havo rejected
our gospel of peace and reconciliation.
You will see then, that we spoke the
words of earnest soberness and truth?
you will see then, who deceived you
from base and selfish motives, and Who
were striving for their country's good.
The shackles of your mental slavery
will be stricken off?the bandages will
bo removed from your eyes, and yoti
will feel and see that you are doing all
that you possibly can to degrade yourselves
in the estimation of your best
friends, and if you arc not careful, the
great national republican party, through
whom you were endowed with all the
rights and privileges which you enjoy,
will take axcay those rights and privilegesj
and banish you to the wild forests,
as has been done to the poor Indian.
Remember the prediction ! 1
Judgo Bailey'of Demopolis, Ala. was
so affected by the news of the death of
General Lee, that he died instantly,
while sitting on his chair.
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The Barnwell Sentinel.*
jTbis excellent old paper has been
enlarged, and appears in an' entire new
dres?: We coogratulatc? brother Bron*
"Bon upon this evidence of his prosperity.
In these 'hard times hut few of the
fraternity can indulge in the luxury of
a new suit.
SnccesSDr toOeu.'Icc.
Gefl. C. W. G. Lee, second son of
Gen. R. E. Lee, and Professor in the
Virginia Military Institute, was unanimously
elected to Bucceed hisTathcr as
Presid't of Washington College, Professor
Pratt, of South Carolina, was elected
Professor of Applied Chemistry.?
The Beard-also changed the nome of
the College 'to the Washiogton-'Lee
University. -The family of Gen. Lee
hdve'tome the .Inal and unalterable
determination 'to let the r'emdins "of
Gen- Leo lie fahere they are in the
Chapel, designed and erectcd'by himself.
Rural Carolinian?November.
This favorite Southern agricultural
magazine gains strength and interest
with every succeeding number. This
month we have "Maintenance of the
Fertility of Soils," by Professor Ililgard
of the University of Mississippi; "The
South and her Resources," by If on..
Alfred Huger; "Plantation Economy,"
by Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken; " Texas
Grasses," by S. 13. "Buckley; "Southern
Peaches," by P. j. Berckmans; "Manure
Pits, and IIow to use Them," by
Alex. Y. Lee, and a hundred other articles
of'inte-cst which we have not
space to even mention. The Rural
shows manifest signs of regularly increasing
prosperity, and yet how the
publishers continue to supply it at the
marvellously low figtire of $2 per annum
is a miracle to us. Their circulation
must far surpass that of any
magazine of the class heretofore issued
at rhe South, or they would be compelled
to reduce expenses. If any of
our readers are without The Rural
they should at once enclose $2 to Walker,
Evans & Cogswell, 3 Broad street,
Charleston, S. C.
The Shooting Affair at Chester.?A
gentleman from Chester, who
arrived in this city ycstcrdry afternoon,
furnishes the following paiticulars of
the recent shooting affair in that town:
On Tuesday last, two men went to
Chester in a baggy, stating tnac tney
bad como from Latfrcus, and one of
them who was rather communicative,
said that "he knew something of the
affair at Laurens." Constable Burke
bearing that be had said this, arrested
him after he bad taken passage on the
Charlotte train. Ho managed to escape
from Bnrkc, who shot at him
twice without hitting him. The other
party, who was named llichardsoD, was
followed hy a DCgro constable Darned
Ross, who met him, quietly seated in
his buggy, in conversation with Mr.
Adam S. Walker, about five miles from
Chester* Ross simply said to him, "I
have eome to arrest you," and fited at
hita Vrith his pistol, severely wounding
him in the arm. Several negroes being
present, Richardson feared that he
would be crowded and retired some
distance, endeavoring to get a chance
to shoot Ross, who dodged among the
trees, and finally succeeded in getting
possession of Mr. Richardson's buggy,
in xvhicb he returned to Chester, Icav*
ing Mr. Richardson wounded in the
road.-1? Oharleston Nctcs.
Kever Give Up The Stttp.?We
^ A .11 n rm ?nortliiflnna
COinuieuu LUC lununiug i uuiuuuuii)
printed in the Newberry Htarld, to the
serious attention of the honest citizens
of the State i
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
meeting that the efforts of the good
citizens of this county, to remedy the
inefficiency and corruption now prevailing)
should not cease now that the
present political campaign has closed.
Resolved, That a meeting of the
citifcens of this county be called on the
1st Monday in November nest, at Newberry,
C. II.) to consider the best
means for advancing the public welfare,
and what line of policy will be most
consistent for us to adopt in the future.
There is sound sense and practical
wisdom iu the proposal of the citizens
of Newberry to continue an organized
opposition to ignorance and corruption.
We have already made an excellent
impression upon both white and black,
and what we need now is lo stand to
the principles of the Union Reform
party, to oppose the Scott clique, foot by
foot, inch by inch, in all their oppressive
acts, and te fight it out on this
lino until we have accomplishen the
nj/imnh'nn nnrt rfinrpnflmtinn nf the
I V/UVyUJ pi/iUM MMW - "QW-?State.
Then, and not before, will the
Reform party have completed glorious
work:
'There is but ono word in the Bible
I would have changed,' said a pretty
girl in our bparing the ether day. 'It is
whers the Lord says, 'If a man strikes
thee on one check turn to him the
Other also.' It is the word strike?I
would have it Asss.'
The pension rolls of the War Department
contain the names of twelve widows
of revolutionary soldiers, each over one
hundred years of age. Of thes relices
of the Revelation two have reached the
ripe age of 117 years; another, a resident
of Ohio, counts nine years over a
century and her son is a promising lad
of 87.
There are over twenty young women
in the United States studying theology
and things, and going into training or
preachers. Female preachers arc the
best policy.
Brick Pomcroy has sold out and retired
from the New York Democrat.
Brick found that it was easier to publish
a paper in LCarosse than in Now York.
LEE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION^
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Totho Surviving Officers and Soldiers
of the Confederate iSrmy.
- The last sad rites are" over, and all
that was mortal of ohr beloved and honored
chieftain, General RobeHEdward*
Lee, has been committed to the grave.
'It1 is now only left ;to Us to discharge
the duty, so sacred to surviving affection,
of building and decorating bis
tomb. Admiration for his great qualL
ties and fame, may ' prompt others to
raise fhe lofty column and imposing
statute; but love for his person reverence
for his virtues, and regard for his
memory, dictate to comrades in arms,
as their first care, to.properly enshrine
liis'remains. . ' ? . :
After General Lee assumed the Presidency
of .Washington College, his
earliest work was the erection of a
chapel on the College grounds. 13cneath'that
chaste and -massive struc-<
ture in fhe "room designated for a library,and
adjoiding tli'e office filled "with me'lYipritnes
'hf his hist iinS<>lfish. enrnest
labors, bis ashes now reposed. And hpre
in the temple reared by himself,.the
home of his adoption, will be his fitting,'
and we believe, his enduring restingplace.
We hold this conviction because
his remains now rest in the . spot
chosen by those who alone had a right
to decide, because this spot would
most likely have been approved by'
the illustrious dead 'himself had his
self-forgetting mind everdwclt for a mo '
ment on such a question; because it
holds his memory aloof from the-possible
contaminations of party politics; because
it accords with the custom observed
by the great Father and servants
of. the State, all of whom preferred unostentatious
resting places; and because'
his tomb here will be really tnore useful
in connection with the last work of his;
exemplary life in perpetuating the
good influence of the College of Washr1
iugton and Lee throughout the South.1
We therefore invite his brethren and followers
in the momentous, struggle whichhas
made his name and their owninimortal,
to unite in constructing here a Mausoleum
worthy the foremost man ofail his
time. On the day succeeding the death of
Gen. Lee, the Confederate soldiers who
escorted the body from his residence
to the Chapel met and at once resolved
' to form a Memorial Association; and
at an adjourned meeting on the 15th of
Oct, when the funeral obsequies were
concluded, they adopted a plan of organization
An Executive Committee,
with a President and Vice-Presidents
for the Southern States, have been appointed,
and the Association will soon
be incorporated. In order that the
poorest In our ranks may be enabled
to join upon an equal footing with all
others in the pipus work in view, it has
been determined that any Confederate'
soldier may become a member of the
Association upon the payment of one
dollar, and that the names of all the
members shall be enrolled in suitable
books to be preserved in the Memorial
Chapel. It is not proposed to limit
subscriptions to the small sum already
named, nor to confine tliein to soldiers;
nor do our wishes and purposes stop
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witu tne mausoleum. uomnDuuoos
will tre gladly deceived from friends
everywhere and Of all classes, who ftill
under proper regulations, be inscribed
as honorary members; and when a sufficient
fund shall have been secured, it
is contemplated to erect a special monument
in connection with the tomb.
Fellow-soldiers, we invrko you by
the common memories of the past to be
prompt and earnest in the noble undertaking
to which you are now invited.
In the quiet church-yard of Lexington,
Lieutenant-General "Stonewall" Jackson
lies; and now his great commander
sleeps near at hand. "What holier
spot 6an there be to 63 than the coinmon
home of these grand representative
men ? What more fitting monument
for the Great army itself of which
Lee was the head, the pride and glory,
than one raised here by its survivors
perpetuating alike the memory of his
and their own great deeds, the enduring
witness at once of his heroic qualities
as a man, his virtues as a patriot, and
his graces as a Christian ; the remembrance
of which will indeed outlive the
marble and the bronze which human
art may fashion in his honor.
W. II. Pendleton,
Late Chief Artillery A. JM. Va ,
Chairman of Ex. Coui'e.
The following officers have been selected
and requested to act as President
and Vice-President of the Association.
Gen. J. C. Breekenridge, late C. S.
Secretary of War, Pioside.t.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Vice
President, at large.
Gen. J. A. Early; Col. W. II. Taylor,
Vice Presidents from Virginia.
Gen. G. T. Beauregard, Vice President
from Louisaud.
Gen D. II. Hill, Vide President
from North Carolina.
Gen. Wade Hampton, Vice President
from South Carolina.
Gen. John B.Gordon, Vice President
from Georgia.
Gen; W. J. Hardee, Vice President
from Alabama.
Gen. S. D; Lee, Vice President from
Mississippi.
Gen. It. S. Ewell, Vice President
from Tennessee.
Gen. J. 13. Hood, Vice President
from Texas.
Gen. Trimble, Vice President from
Maryland.
Gen. J. S. Marmaduko, Vico President
from Missouri.
Gen. Win. Preston, Vice President
from Kentucky.
Gen. Tnppun, Vice President from
Arkansas.
The place selected for the deposit of
funds is the Hank of Lexington, Va.,
C. M. Figgat, cashier.
A negro who was tried in Tunica
County, Miss., for hog stealing, and
acquitted, was immediately put on the
jury to try and acquit one of the negro
jurors charged with horse stealing.
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k: Radical progress iu the manipulation
" of'Southern Colleges is not illustrated
in .North Carolina aline. Mr. Holden's
ruinous work at Chapel Hill, has "a
companion picture iu the present condition
of tho UnivcrsUj-of Alabama.-r15
the latter institution'the number of
pupifahave been rcdneed to ten, five of
whom are sons of the Professors, socalled?men
who are" neither competent
or respectable. The^conccrn costs
the State 81^000,*so"that eacb stucfen't
costs just il,50O.dvllars. Xbis is progress.
' ' ' . .
The L'o'uTsvillc" Conner JolirriatJ&ys:
Genoral JJreckenriUge and General
Banks met the other day at the Burnet
House in Cinc'inbdti.^ *ThV two had
n6t met for teo years. They Were
yoilng members of Congress together
fifteen years ago. "They arc old friends*.
One Wore the blue, the other the "gray.
Both were leaders 'in 'the great ciVll
war, but on opposing sides. TJiey DStet,
after all the 'vicissitudes of the lost decade,
cor'diully, and Banks "'is now lit
Lexington, the guest of.Brcckenri'dge.
The illustration is as :pledsant as, jt Is
instructive, and ought to show the redhot
chaps that there is not nearly-so
much-fire- ;md brimstone-amongdEdblb
people as they think. - ; ?
A man named Haywood Blakcly hah
been convicted in Brunswifck Qo., N.
C., of druelty to animals, and sentences
f a n w m An I L n HPVi J
IAJ lUipilCUUUlCUl 1U1 BIJL iliUlliiiO. .LiiUU
is right. "Providence Las given us dumb
brutes for our use, and '.endowed theth
with a certain instinct to look up to ufe
for food and shelter aud protection.. Ho
who lifts a cruel hand against one of
them, is less than a brute himself, una
needs to be tamed bj.severe discipline.
A minister in' Alliance, Ohio, is going
to bring suit against a man fju^yer
$46,000 for iharrying him, .Fourteen
years ago he married the man, ,whi>
wanted to pay in potatoes touionjowi?
fie said he would give six bushels of
potatoes down, and double the number
of bushels each year until the minister
was paid. As it has been fourteen
years, a'ud nary potaso come yet, ft
amounts to 98,289 bushels, and at fifty
cents a bushel, to $16,149. Expensive
wife that! ,
Latest Cotton Quotations. ;
Camden, 14 1-2 to 15.
Charleston, . 13 3-4 {o 15 5 8
Baltimore, - to 16 1-4
New York, to 10 7-8
Liverpool, 9 l-8d
MARRIED?On Thursday evening
last, by llev. J. E. Rodgers, Mr. F.
Mor.nAT.l to MisS A-. L. McDonald.
All of Kershaw.
On Sunday last, by the same, aspiated
by Kcv. A. K. Durham, Mr. John
Aurants, of Camden, te Miss IIattib
A. Suldd, of Sumter District.
On tlo 30th u!t., by S-J D. Ilalli
Esq., Mr. Silvanas F. Hall, to Miss
Mary S. Watkins. All of Kershaw.
On the 20th, at the residence of the
bride's father, by the Rev. 0. A, Darb^
Mr. A. C. Chapman and MftS Alice)
eldest daughter of Rev. A. J. Cauthen
ofS.C.Conference. All of Newberry.
Deported this life, on the 27th of August,
1870, Dr. Jamks R. Eu.is, a native of Kershaw
District, S. C., in ihe 25ib year of his
age. His'deaih is much regretted by his
relatives and friends, and all who were personally
acquainted with him. Dr. Ellis
was noted for his piety even from childhood
to manhood fie was never knownio use any
profane or opprobious languange. Ia youth
by assiduity and diligence, ne prepared himsell
for A profession, and chose that of _medi*
cin'e. He graduated at the Medical Ur.iversu
ty of Boston, in 1868. with much credit to
himself, gaining the encomiums of the whole
Faculty, cn receiving his diploma. He met
with an open and ample field for practice in
the vicinity of Itis parental home, but after a
brief practice, his health became impaired,
and by the advice of Itis relatives anJ.friendd
lie removed West, and located in Arkansas;
but finding his health growing mote feeble
instead o' improving by a change of climate,
he returned to his native soil, and survived
only a few days alter his arrival at home.?
He died as le had lived?a christian?and
with a full and well founded hope of realizing
all the blessings prepared by our Redeemer
for those who love Him;
'Let mo die the dea'h of the righteous,
and let my list end be like his." M.
DIED?Cn the 11th uli., Joseiii T.t son.
J. B. and S. A. Hammond, and grand son of
T. L. Smith, of KeTsh.tw District. Ile wad
born on the 25th of May, 1870. and died after
a lingering illness of thiity days, aged four
ntonins and sixteen days.
MASOETC.
A lingular Communication of Kershaw
Lodge, No. 29. A.'. F.\ M.". will bo held nt
llieir Lodge Loom on Tuesday Evening a I 7
o'clock. L!y ol der
W.\ M.\
J. A. Sciiuock, Sec'y.
LOST.
A Memorandum Look, containing a aim of
money and papers, amongst tbe latter, a note
signed by II. Bauiu, for Two Hundred and
Filly Dollars, and due in December ue*t. I
j hereby warn all persons not to trade for said
note. By returning the Memorandum Book
and said note the finder can retain tbe money;
Nov. 3.?2tpd. J. L. GETTY'S.
Executrixs' Notice,
ALL persons having demands ngrtlrist tbd
Estate of JAMES LOVE, deceased, wilt
render their claims, duly attested, on or before
the first day of October. 1871, or all
claims will bared alter that date. All persons
indebted to Miid Estate, will make inF
mediate pavmejit to me.
MAKTUA LOVE, Exc'tx.
Aug. II. 3m
Louisville Excelsior Ploughs;
These Flnujjhs "re made of either Cast Iron
or Steel, and are the best and cheapest in the'
market. Selul for pneo list. Also, Aines'
and other Ploughs of all prices and descrip-'
tious, Corn Shellers, Straw Cutters &C.
(Also, always on hand,)
Moore's New York Ploughs,
AT $2 KACH.
A full stock of PLANTERS' and BUILDERS'
HARDWARE, consisting in part, of
Elwells' and Hindis' Hoes, Spades, Traco
Chains, Axes, Nails, of warranted qualities,
Guns, Cutlery and Household Articles,?'
Wholesale aim retail, bv
C. KEKRISON, JR. & CO.,
249 King Street, (sigu of the Big Axe).
Charleston, S. C.
C. KERRISON, JR. W. J. AXON, C. WAGNER.
October tj.