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^9 ^3ea ^bFOfiiele PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ? BY W. L V1LLEP1GUE. CAM DSN, S. C.Oct. 13ih 1893. The establishment of a direct !ine of steamers between Port Royal and Europe opens the way for a grand commercial future for the town, which will also be of great benefit to the State and the South. The port is destined to become an t nportantone for European vessels. She has as good a harbor as any eity on the Atlantic cons', and 5 ill successfully compete for trade with, them. The price ot cotton is an inter testing problem f/>r onr farmers The general opinion, or rather hope is that it will go up and that the producer may get 9 to 10 cents The indications are that the crop will not be larger than that of last year. The mills are generally! starting up again and if the de. inand for cotton products should increase the j rice ought to go up. The Washington "Post says this thfs is to be the tesi week for the repeal bill ; that if tha efforts which are to be made this week to force a vote in the Senate prove unsucee*t? ful, definite steps toward a com promise financial measure will be taken. The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the bill for the repeal of the Federal election laws by a strict party vote of 200 to 101, the Populists voting vath the Democrats iaihe affirmative. \ Congress can scarcely do better than pass the bill introduced by Representative Bynum, of Indianai providingjfor a graduated income tax. The Dear, Sweet Face. There's a face I love most dearly? face I seldom see ? It's features cut so clearly ? Hotv sweet it seems to me, I've loug~d, for lo! these many year*, This dear face to possess. To feelihnt it was mine alone To forfcle and caress, i , ; ? ? ? But as the years glide swift along And zephyrs gently blow Thro' whiskers mine that once were brown, s i \ But now are white as snow, Possession of this dear, sweet face ; A loavz "tviiy off still seems ; \ I see it ever and anon ? Bat mostly in my dreams, I've tried and tried snd tried again ? - I'd give shirts cuffs and collars To press once more the dear, Rweet face That's stamped on silver llollar*. ?Brooklyn Life.* TH3 SILVER QUESTION I have read numerous communications in the newspapers on the financial situa tion, awrt while', the most of them are wli-^Titten, yet. in my opinion they are too volufninou&'and are couched in s:ch phraseology as Cannot be easily compre hended by the masses , who eagerly read such communications involving the dis cussion at issue. But, to the point , first the silver dol lar , prior to its demonitizat'ion by act of Congress in 1873, was worth one dollar and three cents as compared with one dollar in gold, and every act passed by Congress in relation to silver since 1873 inclusive has been passed by the enemies of the white metal ; and while it was at a. premium of 3 per cent prior to its be ing intermeddled with by legislation, yet it is blamed for its depreciation, while in fact legation alone has fcause<". its depreciation. So the plain and logical conclusion to the foregoing is this; that the domonitization act referred to has caused the difference in value between the gold and the silver dollar. Now where does this difference :n val ue lie? Since we can purchase sis much with a silver dollar as we can with a gold doll xr, it is pimply this, a gold dollar, as it now stands, will buy 24 grains of silver in bullion while the silver dollar onh' contains 16 grains and the difference between 16 and 24 grains is locked up in the United States Treasury tobickuj. the silver dollar in order to float it int-*r. changahly in Value with the gold dollar and so with thesilver certificates. These re-ults were brought about by making silver bullion a commodity as cotton, corn or any other commodity , and is there fore as liable to fluctuate in value as any other commodity under the existing laws by which it is now governed. So silver is contracted 50 per cent, by making it a commodity .*nd that much of it is kept out of circulation by the act of 1873 re ferred to, and the repeal of said act will restore silver to an equality with gold ? 10 grains of che former to one of the lat ter. tlius increasing our circulating me dium 50 per cent, so far as silver is con cerned. The argument advanced against this proposition to restore silver is that it it not of equal interna ional value. _ This being a fact, which is caused bv f legislation as aforesaid , what is there to * Wilder us from demanding gold in pay ment foe our exports and paying the same for imports and take care of our selves ofc ' this Hide of the Atlantic by trading with the ?il*er states of Mexico and the South American States. The Interest of the bonded debt of the U n?ed States is paid In g<>M. those holding snch bonds in this country as well ?is other countries, have combined \ and by legislation have d unor.it wed sil ~>^r.hy which it id depreciated 50 per and appreciating gold in the same oruer to realize more on their in 00 said boads. . ."IKS J I ' ' ? Observes, j ' WASHINGTON LETTER. {"From our regular correspondent} Washington. Oct. 10 -1893. Senator Vnoilees on Saturday gave notice that next'Wedaesdav's session of the Senate w4uld !>e made contiuoue, for tbe purpose of trying to get a rote upon bis bill for the repeal of llie purchasing clause of the Sherman silve- law, and since then every Senator who is absent, and not paired upon this bill has been notified to be on hand Wed nesday. Numerous attempts have been made in the past id the Senate to force a vote upon measuree by holding continuous sessions, but there have been more failures than successes, and the peculiar circum stances surrounding the present at tempt make it almost certain to be a failure. No party machinery can be used in this contest, be cause there are no party lines ob served by the friends and oppon ents of the repeal 4>il!. The ques tion which is exciting the most in terest here is, what will follow the, failure to reach a vote on the Voor hees bill? One or two things must be done. | If the bill cannot be passed it most either be indefinitely abandoned, j leaving the present law in force, or u compromise amendment that can be passed or l?e adopted. Which will it bi? No man can at this time answer that question with ab solute certainty, but it is generally admitted that the present law is a bad one the probabilities seem to Javor a compromise, although a number of prominent demociats, among them President Cleveland, believe that it would be l5Uer to abandon the bill for a time than to adopt a makeshift, comnromise. VVh&Ujver is the result, so far as the Voorhees bill is concerned, the opinion seems t> be increasing dai ly among conservative men, regard less of party affiliation, that Con gress must pass a bill authorizing the administration to issue bonds to increase the gold reserve fund whenever it may become necessary io order to Avoid panics, simillar to the one the country passed through which may at any time be brought on by large and continuous expor tations of gold. Men, who six months ago, opposed hb i&sue of bonds under any circumstances are now advocating that the authority for issuing bonds be given to the administration. Jt would not nec essarily follow that bonds would be j issued. The knowledge that they could be issued if necessary to re plenish the government supply of gold would, in the opinion of shrewd financiers, of it?eli act largely as & preventive of the exportation of gold. When the House adopted the order closing debate on the biil for the repeal of the Federal election laws, yesterday, Oct. 8th, and di recting that the voting on the bill aud the N amendments proposed thereto should begin tomorrow and continue until the bill has been disposed < f, it was thought that the Senate would have before this disposed of the Vorhees repeal biil | and luve been ready to receive the election repeal bill. The Dtmo cra's of Ihe House held a caucus on the subject last night. The Ford's Theatre disaster hasj been recalled to public notice dur-l ing the past week by the opening of, the trial of the four wen indicted for, criminal negligence in connec therewith; bv a Senate resolution * . " * . . for the appointment of a joint con- J gres8ional committee to ascertain the responsibility of the govern ment for damages to the families, of the victims, and by beginning of retails upon the wrecked building. A rumor that the men who occu ied t.he building at the time of ti.e disaster are to be again put in in there to work as soon as the re pairs are completed has raised a general protest, not only from five hundred clerks and their friends, but from the public at large. It would certainly seem to be an un necessary cruelty to compel those clerks to work in that building again. j It is extremely doubtful whether the joint resolution offered by Ke preseutative Davey, of La., for th?* appropriation of $25,000 for tin relief of the cyclone sufferers on the southern coast - gets through Congress. Not because indivdual Senators and Representatives art opposed to helping the sufferers, but !>ecause all such appropriation by the general gouernment have been opposed on princi pie for raan\ years, on the theory that the sev eral states should furnish needed relief to their own citizens. How ever, this being an exceptional ease the House committee on Appropri ations, to which the resolution was referred, may ignore preceden and favorably report it. Should ;t be fa vorably reported it woj!d pro bably pass. ; president Cleveland and lii 3 ! family moved out to his country residence Saturday sfernoon, and ihey will remain there until Miold weather, the President coming to his office every morning and re turning in the afternoon. Mrs Cleveland is rapidly regaining her strength and baby Esther is enjoy ing good health. Misa Ruth cele brated iter second birthday last week. List of Unclaimed Letters, The lolloping is a list ol letters re maining uncalled for in the Camden post office for the week ending Sept. 10th 1?U3 : XES'8 LIST. Johnson. J. C., Mattox, J . S., Simras, J. S., Sawyer, J. E., Whither, Aaron, - Wall, Louis, Alilerson, Bert, Butler, James* 2, Black, John, Stewart. Mr., Bnrnhart, Frank, < WOMESS'3 LIST. Lewis, Mrs Jessie, English, .Mrs Laro, Brown, Miss Mealia, Datis, Miss Com. Persons calling for these letters will please str.te what week they were a <1* vcrtised- ? Uesaider, P, M* AILIAMCE B3S0LTJTI0NS. The following arc the resolutions adopted by the County Alliance at at the meeting held on the 4th irist., which were furnished to us b> Secretary Joel Hough kHh the re ques for publication ? ^ Whereas, The establishment of Na tional banks has practiailly delegated to these corporations^ monopoly of the issue of currency, (a power de nied by the United States constitu tion, to the several States ) And \ I Whereas, The substitution of National bbnds for coin as * basis Qf issue of paper monoy has increased; the value and demand for sucL bonds, and decreased the value aud demand for silver. And Whfrpah, Tbe National bond holders and bankers are urging Con gress to demonetise silver, to still fnrther - increase the value of their bonds, and to give^tbem a more com plete monopoly of the issue of money aud enable them still further to in crease its value, at the expense of the farmers, by reducing the prices of farm products. Be it Resolved, That National banks be abolished at tbe expiration of charters already granted, and that no more charters granted, and that silver be restored to free coinage as it existed prior to 1873, Yat the ra tio of 16 |Lo 1 ) Be it fuirtfer v Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded Ly our County Secretary to our Congress men and U. S. Senators for presen; tation to Congress for action contem plated by the reeolutkm. And that copies thereof be furnished our coun ty papers and the Cotton Plant foi publication. Whereas, The national -debt of the (Juited States io 1889 amounted to the sum of $1,462,800; and the private indebtedness of the people in tS90 amounted to $19,7(X),(XX),000; and the funded debts of oor railroads amounted to $5,463,000,000; and the aggregate debts of states and munici palitiws amount to $1,13&,2 10,000. Ibe mortgage debt on the homes of the farmers amount io $2*500,000,000 The interest on this debt at 5 per cent, amounts to $1,610,000,000, a sum equal to the entire volume of curren cy in the United States. And Whebeas, The bonds and stocks ipgued to investors, foreign and do mestic to secure the payment of these debts are daily sold and bought at our various exchanges. And Whebeas, These sales and tbe dealing in futures divert the^mlk of the money in circulation from its le gitimate use (the exchange of com modities) and a money famine is thereby annually threatened when our cotton is forced upon the market, and prices are thereby greatly re duced. And Whebeas, The monopoly of the issue of money given by Congress to national banks and the large use of money in bond and stock gambling and dealing in futures has resulted in establishing great money centres that absorb the currency of the conn try and prevents its equitable distri bution among the several states, and thereby renders money inaccessible to farmers in marketing their crops, which results in lowering prices of cotton to the producers. Therefore be it i Resolved, That the Congress of the United States be requested to authorize the issue of lt-gal tender treasury Botes (such as are now is sued to national baoks) in amount ^nfiicient to move crops when har vested, said notes to be equitably ap portioned among the several s'ates for distribution and furnished by said states to resident applicants in such amounts as such Hpplicants >hall ampiy secure the reti r . thereof by a deposit with the Stale Treas urer of state bonds or non-perishable farm products or such oiher securi ties as may be designated by law. Be it further Resolved, That when these notes are returned to said state that the said state may re-distribute them as herein provided; and that the states receiving said treasury notes for dis tribntion shall ampiy secur 6 tne United States from losses that might otherwise accrue from issuing said uotes to said states Resolved, That our County Sec retary be reqested to furnish copies of the foregoing to our Congressmen for presentation to Congress, and to our conuty papers and the Cotton Plant for publication. WEATHER-CHOP BULLETIN. Synopsis of South Carolina Weather for the Month of September. General heavy rains occurred during the first two days of September, causing! in many localities the heaviest precijutn- , tion ior the month, after which a clearngj condition prevailed until the 7th and 8th. j Rains again then set in lasting an entire week with the exception uf one. and in some cases, two days. These rains were steady falls and represent the bulk of the precipitation for the month. From the i.">tii to t:ie 26th, and in mmy localities to the end ot the nx?nth fair weather pre vailed allowing great quantities of cotton to open and be gathered. A thunder storm on the 36th and 27thivelayed work somewhat but did no damage to crops. Accompanying and following this storm was a coldAl'ave which remained over the State October 1st, causing the temperature to drop from 20 to 30 degrees and reaching its lowest point at m*st stations during the early morning of the 29th or 30th. A majority of stations recorded their highest temperature on the 16th although almo?t an equal number recorded on the 20?h. ? - Following is * summary of the month ly observations : Atirospheric pressure, corrected for temperature and reduced to ?ea level, mean for State 30.07, highest 30.28, low est 29.87. Temperature, degrees Farenheit; mean for State 74.7 ; highest 98 at Kings tree on the 20th ; lowest 46 at Greenrille on the 30th. Precipitation, in inches and hundredths ; average tor State 4.42 ; greatest monthly, 13.08 at Central ; least monthly 1.10 at A'lendale; greatest daily 6.14 on the 8th and 9th at Ilardeeville ; least daily on the 10th at Allendale. Pretailfng direc tion of the wind for the State was South west. V Central Station, Columbia. S. C. J. Ix. Harmon, Dir*. ctor, m Subscribe for The C i-eoxicl*. Jfrs* Sarah Muir Of Minneapolis. For Women Mood's Sarsaparllla Is Especially Adapted, to Cure Difficulties * Peculiar to the Sex ' The restoring and Invigorating property* of Hood's Sarsaparllla, combined with its power toqritalixe and enrich the blood, render it pecul iarly adapted for all troubles peculiar to women? that tired feeling, or debility caused by change of season, climate or life. Hood's Sarsaparllla has accomplished very gratifying results in many eases. Kead the following: " I was for a long time a sufferer from Female Weakness and tried many remedies and physicians, to no goodpupose. One day I read one of the Hood's | SarsapariDa books, and thought I would try a bottle of the medicine. It made so great a dif ference in my condition that I took three bottles more and iound myself perfectly well. I have also given Hood's Sarsaparilla to the children, and find that it keeps them In good health. I am willing that this shall be used for the benefit of others." Mas. Saxah Mrr*, 308 16th av., So. Minneapolis, Minn. HOODS FILLS cure all Ilrw IUa, Blllou* bms, J Madlee. IadlfMtlozx. Sick Hsadache. 5k , _ HOW ABOUT the- ? Are you a supporter of the present fi nancial system, which cnnj?t?>t* the cur rency of the country periodically al the money centers ami keeps the masses at the mercy of the clasps, or Jo you favor a broad *nd "Which protects the debtor while it docs justice to the creditor? 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