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HEPLR VOL 5-NO. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER '7, 1&95- ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. IRBY ON THE WAR PATH. 11' BIDS 'DE1IANCE TO BEN TILLMAN. The Twin Brotherm of Iteflorm No [ongelr Dwell 'ogether in Unity The Suflrage Plan is Denounced in 1itter' Terms-tle Calls it, a P1olitl cal Monst.rosity. - The Piedmont Headlight has Inter viewed Senator Irby at his home in Laurons, in which ho oxprossed his opinion very cmophatically in regard to the suffrage plan pi oposed by Sena tor Tiillmaln, declaring that it is "a po litical montrosity," which will dis franchise poor and illiterato whites. The interview is very racy reading, and is as follows: "1 have had but little to say thus far," romarked Senator Irby, " as only preliminary work was being inapped Out, and the settlement of a few ques tions of any great importance brought beforo that, body. or course there was pleity of tjpeakcrs on hand anid I (lid not desire to fat gue the patienco~of the members. I have carefully watched the deliberations, however, determin ed that whenever the rights and in terez ts of Iy people were imperilled that I would be hUard frinn in no un certain to: il2 " Seuator," we aIked, *4 what (10 yoli think of the recommendation of Sena tor Titunmian s 1oimiiiiitteU on the right of sutTrage' ? " l0( upon that report as a politi cal uonstrosiy--one of the most dangerous schemes ever concocted in the bra.ii of ioan, arid when the coni vontion re >vienes I liall ight it. and Vote aga inst, it, if .L htve not aniother member upon the lloor at my back. Why, thel more I btudy that report, the stronger my opposition and the greater the danliger I see in it. But let mne take that report up section by section, and analyze it for you and I do hope that The Headlight will go to work without delay aid arouse the white voters of our State its to the dan )'cr that threatens both the poor and iiJiteUrate white man, as also the polit ca- su premacy of the Angio-Saxon race in o' State. " Tji tirst three sections of that re port, Uru I1t a 1'Citorationi of the Old law and t1\ which no objection can be urged. !.ut after that the plot begins to thiel 'n11 anld tlhe lurther you go tn(o more dain.K bo and outrageous it becomts. iit, let me take the qualificttions for su ige as followb ; "'The person apl. for registrs tion must be a iie n r. ad write any Secticn o ibis constituti, or misi. show that he owns an'. paty- ta xes oni $3100 worth of property in this,. .ate Pr ovided, That at the first reg strit tion under this constitution and U. to January lst, 1898, all male persons of voting ag- w ho can read a clause ii. this constitution or understand and explain it when read to them by the - registration olieer, shall be filed, one Copy with the d11ik of Court and one in the office of Seeretary of State, on or belore January Ist, 18h#, and such ps'011 811all remain through life (ualified electors, unless disqualified by the provisions of section U of this article. The certificate of the Clerk pf Court or Secretary of State shall be dullicient evidence to establish the right of said class of citizens to regis trationl and 1he franchise." "Now, lot us analize this section and see w hat it means: In the first place here is a Sweeping clause positively d isfranchising every white man in South Carolinat who is not able both to read and write, or owns and pays taxes 111n *-300 worth of proverty in our StIte. 'Tn1is language is boo plain to be mislundersto'od. It is a total disfranchiseint of the poor and illiterate wite iman as well as the negr'o laboring under the same politi cal disabilities. But there is a tail this suifrago kite, in a proviso that holds good until January 1st,, 189)8, which permits the registration ofiieer, if he sees lit andi proper' to (10 so, to grant a pardon to sachi voters as ho may see lit and pro p)or, subject to his amnesty--for the hienous imi oIf being poor arnd iiliteratu-anid thus pllace them upon a poliitical eq Iuahtby with the ed ucated negro and)1 who1 has acecumlulatted prop-P crty. hut, even tils proviso is ioup) led with a priovIsion so ignonmnous and dlegratding that a p~roudi sir~iited Anglo Saxon votlei would soonler' lose his r'igiht of sutflrage thbin to acept, such political char'ity. I-ure is what Sena 101' rTillmain's r'eport, says : "' A separ-i ato r'ecord (of all ill itera~te personsi) bl tus registeredl, sworn to by bne registra tion olileur, shall be filed, one copy)~ with the Clerk of Cort, one cop)y wVitli tihe Secretary of Statr', etc." In otli-r worids, for' ia poor and uniid ucatedi man to vote after this latw passes ia pal1 paiule and bare face fraud luist, be coijitttedi andi thon the name (of the beneficiary of this pard(oni mu Lst, be Ii led as a public rccor'd, bo1th at his cour t, house and1( i, the Statte Caitol oif Coluii~a. It will *boe a1 pulblic ad1 perpetl,ual d(eumoint, of famdys 3 namiois ini South Carolina, anud te0 des.cenidants forj~' iiera'tionis t.o comle (of taiese parannedit~( voto ro n ill IiavIe thbu -fact thirownin hI heiri tei2 i that tiieir' auoa'~CJlb'AihiS a?:;/anti i l.'torato was~ perfiittedl to votO in(h diret (1on11ilet wmth the spirit of bheiri 3tue Coin-,t tiod, thirotigh a pairdon andit 1pecial aet, of suffraige. "Why, no brave 1and proud spir'itemi white roan in the old Palmoetto Stratm wiol acceptbuYreage an1 any such coindi tions, and1 wouild sooner' lose his i'ght to veto and be shoved off Ina the same boat with tho sea Island negr'o li would then indeed be a politIcal exile in the State oIf hi's b~irth, but, the hlonest name that lie wihll bequeath to his children and his children's children would not b)e 111ed ainong the arci'elves of South Carolina as are the names of pardoned convicts. "I am respoInsible, for the calling of our' cons,itu tionlal convontli.i leldged the white voteirs of South jarolia that riot one of themi should - lose his ballot on aerount of lgno'rne or provertly, arid I shall sacrodily keep this solemn convenanit; and It It Is brokon by Senator Tillman and tho' conlventon,- It wtil be with my de nunciation (If the infamnous plot ring ing in the ears of the delegates. What bravo und self-roslpecting white man desIres his name handed down to future generations ats boleini so POVOerty strIcken and ignorant that a, separate claue h ad to beO (engraifted lito the constitu tion of is State to enable him to vote. But this pardon fog illitra and poverty is"only temporary. Here another clause, in Senator Tillmal report, that oven removes the pardt tug power two years hence, and i quires a strict educational and pro erty qualification to become a voti Road it carefully, and then tell E now this concides with the pledge th B. R. Tillman made the peopio, th if they would call a constitutional co vention and trust him that no whi man should be disfranchized: " Any person who shall apply I registration after January 1st, 1898, otherwise qualified, may be regist< ed : Provided, That he can both re and write any section of this constil tion, or can show that he owns and b paid taxes during the previous year property in this State assessed at $3 or more. " Managers of election shall requl of every elector offering to vote any olection, before allowing him vote, proof of the payment of all taxe Including poll tax assessed against II for the previous year. Let the convention adopt this repo and after Janua'y let, 1898, only t% years hence, a voter must both re and write any section of the constil tion, or show that he owns and ya taxes on $300 worth of property. Iv the right to pardon in this section denied. Tho blackest convict in o penitentiary can have his disabiliti removed by the Governor, but t honest, but poor and illiterate whi voter must remain disfranchized. Now, let me ask what will become those thousands of poor white boys, years of age, now living in our Stat and whose parones are too poor to gi them an education, or endow the with $300 worth of property. Th are already enlisted on the side of t Refoi m movement, and while t young to vote have thrown up the hands and cheered and worked for t election, success of Tillman, myst and other Reform candidates. The youths are the coming voters wl must uphold our Reform principlh and continue our party in power. B they are struck down to a man wi the most ignorant class of negro and their right to a voice in the gc ernment of their native State tak, from them. " Lot this law pass, giving educat, and property-owing negroes the rig to vote, but denying the poor unlette ed white man that high privilege, ar you will see our ballot boxes saturati with blool. in two years' time y( can't educate every white youth South Caolita both to read and writ for the impoverished condition thoumbands of poor white farmers ai laborers will not permit them to spa the time of their sons to go to scho( And then, what is the result? The ballot is taken away from them, a they will have no more voice in t v ornment of this State than t m that they Plow or dumb catt that treVR t ' highways. They mi stand off and lo6.Amn, while the et cated or property-owijitg negroes, I ing in our towns and citie,--r ho ing to rule and govern our State4 a are making laws for those poor %vlj. men to live under. "In 1861-'45, when those poor whi men were being urged to the front, t question was never asked, could a v( unteer read or write ? or did he ov $300 worth of property ? Neither we those conundrums expoundel in 18' when those poor and unlettered Den cratic voters donned the red shirt a roscued the government of our Sta from the negro and Republican. A in 1890, when Tillman was preachi political equality before the peo) pleading with those poor uneducat white men for their votes, he did t then ask did they have $300 worth property, or could they read the co stitution of their State understandin ly ? But nowv that neither his lii b:ood nor his vote Is needed, he nt be struck down-thrown aside likc sucked lemon, or passed through political inquisition. "I denounce that recport~ of t) Right of Sutfrag'e Committee, which Senator Tillman is chaimrma monstrous ; and for' our Reformers the convention to pass any such i wouIld ho the basest trecachery an0(1t dleupost-dyed ingratitude. When th replort is brought before the conve Lion 1 shall fight It to the bitter en I don't believe it will pass-I km that it should never pass. I pledg the poor' andl uneducated white m of Souith Carolina that I would pr'ote them in their right 1,o vote, and p)1 tect, them I will, or I will go down defeat and humiliation with them. "The right of suffrage is the hig est prlivilege accorded a free-bo American citizen, andl no degradii UonlditionIs should b)0 couled with til right. "llut it Is claimed that such prov ions are necessary to preserve white premmacy in South Carolina. Now, will prove to you, and to every intel genmt and thinking man, that so f from the adoptioni of Senator TIillmnal replort by the con vention 'p~resoryi w lite s.upremamcy 'that it will have diirctly oipposito effect, and make toe negro a p)olitical arbiter in o State, and Vest in his hands t' balance of power. With a fresh rig of franchise the negro leaders will to work and amarshal at least fil LIaL.pand legal voteors. They clal that there are 72,000 blacks in Sou Caritolina .whIo can reaid and wrIte, b thiero, aremdoubtedly fifty thousa' negroe(,,s whi~o "Jen vote uinderi this pi po1~ned provision.' The Conservativ no0w have betwv&,lth thirty-five a forty thousand voes 'a~ of whom w be) il i liedl for sifra~L~g;', hile t, Recform ranks there are at least io,t men who can not read or write.[ pi)lve them of their suffrage, and I, two factions tare then' neartly equ with the negr'o vote larger than eiith one. This would give the electoi vote of South Cariolinma, divided as in whites are, to the llepublican cana damto for President. Lot, oither' facti remain out of the next Demiocra primary, and with the assistance -the negro, the other' would absolut< control the politics of our Sta White supremacy indeed ! it meni either negro supremacy or' Conseri tive supremacy. I dislike vetry mu to have to speak so'plainly, but it is tally necessary that sonme one shiot sour~d a nots of, Warning and ar the Reformer and thepornn this State to tite dandd~r thatr m na< them. This is 'Qhe redeon why I w anxious for an aurnment ofth is vention-to give the people a chance I i's to catch their breath and strangle this. n- political monstrosity. le- " Mississip p is hold up as an exam-.] ip- ple to South Carolina. There is no I >r. analogy between the political condi- I ne tions of these two States. In Missis- ] at sippi the whites were not divided, but i at working together. There was not a ( n- faction there standing ready to appeal v to to the negroes, and use him at the lirst I opportunity to crush the power of the V or farmers. But in South Carolina our i if white people are divided, and will con- < ir- tinue to be divided. Turn 50,OOU negro i ad voters loose upon our State, and you 1 ,u- can't manufacture a magnifying glass < as large enough to discern the remains of ( ,n the Reform movement. 00 But let us divo still further into this ( report of Senator Tillman's suffrage re committee and we will see where. fron f at the hour of its adoption, that the poor to white voters in our towns and cities is, are disfranchised. Here is the clause t m that speaks for itself. At any special elections inl inlor- I It, porated cities and towns of this State i vo o0rthe purpose of bonding the same, I ad all resident owners of property in said a u- cities and towns of the assessed value I ys of two hundred dollars, who are u an qualliled electors under this constitu- a is tion, shall alone be entitled to vote. t ur " It matters not how honorable and t es intelligent and upright he may be, a i le voter living in Spartanburg city can a te have no voice in voting on the issuing i of bonds unless he is worth $200. c of When you begin to restrict the I: 19 suffrage of white men there is no toll- f e, ing where it will stop. There is whore s ve the danger lies. Only a few days ago t m Senator Tillman worked for, voted for, o :y and carrIed through a measure . per- c le mitting the incorporated towns to ex- I no empt manufacturing enterprises from ' ir taxation for a series of years. The e i2 poor laborers in1 those mills had no I llf such clemency extended to them. ( se They must pay their street and their n io poll tax, and even a tax upon their v is, pot, kettle and mattress, while the 1: ut rich Northern investor is allowed to I h go scot free. Now I can not see what t is, consistency Senator Tillman can say v v- that those operatives, who honestly I )n sustain the government, shall not vote d in a Certaii election because they t d have not $200 worth of property, while g at the wealthy stock-holders in that mill, i r- and who were exempted from taxation, 1 ad have a right to vote? This is not in i ad keeping with the address that Senator t >u Tillman made upon the stump when he t in wanted olice. I e, " 1 have unsheathed my sword and i of thrown away the scabbard. I am in r id the battle to the end. No poor and o re uneducated white man will lose his u )l. vote, if I have the power t> provent it. g ir 1. shall denounce this outrage upon the a Ad floor of the convention, and I shall do- u aie nounce it upon the stand before the C aie people. We can preserve white su- i de premacy in South Carolina without tst either disfranchising or humilating a u- single white voter. Th reportof Sena v- tor Tillman's committee certainly vin- 1 p. dicates the position of the Piedmont nd Headlight when it opposed the calling te of the constitutional convention. It would have been a thousand times bet to ter never to have had that assembly lie meet than let it pass the suffrage qual I )A. ficatioh proposed by that committee. vn You will find every 'Conservative ap re plauding and endorsing this plan, for , the simple reason that it will strike o- down the vote that they could neve ad secure, and give them political control to of our State. ad 1 I believe that soni of the members ag of the committee signed this report, LU, at the earnest Solicitution of Senator ed Tillman, without due consideration or ot appreciating its danger. l (10 not Of know how a single member of the con ,n- vention stands upon its adoption, but g- you can say to the poorr and uneducat e- ed white voters of South Carolina that st they have in Johan L. AI. Irby a friend a who will stand by them to the end, and a will light this monstrous p~ropositioni to the very last ditch." ic "Senator, why did you vote for the of name of B~utler-, for the new county, in-j n, ,stead of Saluda?'' in " I am glad you have asked me this f w question, for i dlesil-e to state my posi- I me tion and my reasons in language so0 i .Lt plain that all may understand. I did nl- not desire or intend to honor the name II dI. of 10x-Senator M. C. Blutler, but I hadi w in my mind at that time the name of a Md William Butler, one of the most gal- ae 3r. lant soldiers of the Rlevolution, amnd a a' et hero from whose loins' sprung a long I 0- line of the ablest statenmen and war in rior-s that our State'has ever produced. I Did WVm. Butler, the founder of this a hi- illustrious family, today survive, hei en would be a Ref ormoer. When our statoe i.g was a howling wilderness, Butler left a is VirginIa on horseback, his wife riding behind him, because lie could not hold' is- his own wvith thec rich and aristocratic I u- families of the Old Domiinion. lHe ( I built a cabin upon the Saluda river, Ii- and wheni the war oIf thue{~ %'eoutionl I am- brok i out, dhid heroic battle for his a a's country. Trwo of my great uncles full ig lightidig in his command, while a numn a ber of the family names in time uplper~ I oIf section (of our State are linked with a ur that of hutler. Mly great uncle ma 2e ried Wviaiam Butler's daughter and it her (lust now reposes ini the family go bur'ial-ground at Iced Bank, in Saluda s tby County. Pierice Blutler, another her-oic im soldier (of this name, fell lighting be- I th sides aL brother- (If lien Tilman's att uit Cherabusco, Mexico. O)ther (If that, id name have occu pied hiIg h and d isti n 'o- guished p~ositionis in our State, andi a es have reindered their peoaple faithfult id and vallent set-vice. When Ml. C. A Ill Butler was a youth (of 15 year-s, George le D. Tillrmani was elected for the Leg- j ur islaturo from I0dgeflold County, (in the 0(0 creation (of this new county, to be known as Butler' County. ["or -45 years I i ~~peole of that section contended be, fo h name, the committee unani-' norsW~~ted0 the naL neC of Butler. aand I voted ' rth. Bul invew at h ur (lid noIt have M 'hy I) Tilmaan e Ii- the tIme, and Mr. '.- Statd uponl tme I in pressly and distinctyAt muat the namilO1 ,ic floor of the convention o 'r to M. C. of was not intended as an hioi -Qmmont Isi ly Buller-. Thiais R.eform mior ' is not .o. foundi~ed on gareat pr'inciples. , i or on nis founded on passIon, on hatae ouls, a- prejudlico. We are rnot a set (If trh atnd uh tn dig up the bones of the (lead -,ie vil- spit uplonl and~ spurn them. It is [ ld hionored~ name of Butler for- whimc (318 so east my balmot. I have neither regi vh t of to oicir nor a polog ies to) make. I fou .*te es Butler' for five years in thme Sen e as and I fought his re--election last yi n- Ho was defeated, and Is a poor tma' vho had to leave his native State and a ,o elsewhere to seel: employment by l vhioh to make a support for his family. ii do not belivo in insulting the dead or LI iounding down the living. Senator l 3utler di. wrong when he became an t ndependent candidate, and he was b 'obukod by his people with a crushing b lofeat. Lot us now leave him in peace, c nd emeinber that he left a portion of i kls body upon the hattleloied of Vir- p jinia. If Serator Butler aspired for - 111co today I would oppose him, for ho oes not represent the sentiments of e nyself or my people. [ condemn his I nrdepenlentcandidacy as imuch as any n n10, but nothing that M. C. iutler can t o will casta rellection upon those old w erocs, statesmen and patriots whose c ust repose in the soil of Saluda. n " Senator, do you expect opposition o or re-election to the United States bi lenato ?" c " I i Cally do not know. I understand g hat a secret caucus has alresdy been old, ,and a slate ticket formed In Co- s, umbia. But I do not care the snap of i1 iy fingeir for the mach ination of the si oliticians. I have anchored my faith i1 mid my hope in the people, and when S get, the people on my side I can buy I p all the politicians I walit at 50 h piece. Next year -we imust go before IL he people, and they will decide who w hey desire to represent them in the a eniate. I am willing to trust them, ti lid if they say that I must stay at ome, and they prefer to be represent- w d by some one else, I will gracefully ci ow to their will and earnestly wor'k ti ar the nominees of mii party wiil the ti aine loyalty and devotion that I gave ti ) Senator Tillman when lie wanted i flice and to Gov. Ivans when he ispir- It (I to the position h1e now holds. I U ave made war on no one. When the uo 'illinan -- Hemphill - Barnwell - Evans d1 aucus was held, I denounced it because ic knew that it meant ruin to our Ite- st )1rm1 m10oement. F~venl senatol IllII- nI ian afterwards confessed that I was I iglt and he was wrong when le re- S udiated the agreciterit entered into. ft worked for the calling of a constitu- Ii ional convention, pledging our white d oters that not one man should lose al is suffrage. I never have iisled or ecelved the people, and do not intend V :). I may be struck down, but I shall tl o down holding aloft the Reform ban- v cr, and advocating the same princi- o let; that Tillman and myself advocated C 1 1890. I have an abidining faith in b he loyalty, wisdom and patriotism of c1 he Reform voters of South Carolina. a shall stand by them as loyally and as w evotedly as they have stood;by me. I do h oL propose to truckle to any politician a r bo-called leader lor olice. I place b ly trust in a sovereign people--I shall o before them and )le'ad my cause, tl nd gracefully bow their decreo, what,- h ver it may be. I shiall enter into a ' omabination with no mam or set of il nun to secur'c re-election. I shall run t ipon the record that I have made in I ,ie Senate, and upon that I shall stand )I go down. I have never betrayed i ny people or sold them out,, and never t hLlI.'' I GEN. MAHONE IS DEAD, t L'ME NOTb01) VIRGINIA WARtRIORt f AN) POLITICIAN. bisiortn liies (liat ,Followedl IIIs Clos- c Ing IDays-Hlowv He Lost Political Power an1Mi Foltune. Gen. William Mahone, of Virginia, c id on the 8th inst. at Chamberlain't :otel, Washington, ). C. l1e was t tricken with paralysis October Ist, u ,nd gradually grew weaker, losing o soisciousness the day before his death. s le und came peacefully and almost s< mperceptibly. I, Gon. William Mahone was born in ti boiuthampton Count~y, Viriginia, ini b 82(6, and comes of llighting stock. His fi athier and1( grand fathe'r, who wer'e si rishmen. were noted as soldiers, hiis g rand(faLthert serving wvith distinction, I ii the Will of 1812 and his father coin- aL liandinig aL m1iltiaI regimenclt in the Nat cl 'une insuirrectioni. u William Mahone wvas tutored by his F' Ithier until lhe entered the Military ii nstitulte, from which he graduated fi ii 18-17. Until tihe outbreak of the si iv il war he was a civil engineer', and u t thlat timio cingagedl ini that caIpait~iy g ni the Nor'folk andil Petermshm-rg raiil- 'I cad. He joined the Con federate p rimy antd was cotlmissioned lieuten- e nt-coloneil of the Virginia Volunteers. N In was priomioted to colonel of the ii Oixth Virginia Infantry, Hie was a 'resent at the capiturc of the Norfolk S avy yard in April, I 8(1, palrtici pated t1 n iicost. of the battltes of the petniiu h Itr campaign, those on the Rtappahan- ni ock, and]( those ariounid Petersburg, c 'here he won the sobr'iqueot of the d Hero of thin Cratur "for his splendid t: ravery at, the time tof thle explosion aLt h raznt's Minel, urI.dorneiathl Leo's out- ni oi'ks. It is known that General e A10 ho~ld him in the hiighest C5stuum dI ndl as aL brigadier commalilnder inferior s1 n hy to Stone~wll J 1akson. c Geune ral M ahonit was commlinisiodll q riga~dier-gunierail in MIarch, ,l18t61, andi b iaijotrgfneral ini A'uguist, for dIistini -uishied ser'vices arond lt ~ 'ltisbug, b iter'war'd ho commande~d ia division in I. LImIbrose P. 11ill's corp', anud whe lee GC( ur'mendlered was at I ermnuda [lundlred. 1 At the termination oif the war MaL- ft one dlevoted himself to railrioad mat- I. (Irs, and became pre~sident of tho Nor'- hi ml k and '[en nesseo railrioad L ater' ' lo toomk an1 aictive interest in politics nl ,d endeavored but fai lcd to secure ta he nomination for' Governor of Viir- a inia11 in 1878. 1 lHe becamne the leader (if the i'eiad- p uister parity, an~d was ected Untitedi tates Senator inm 188n. H~e served mltil 1886I and waLs deifeatedI at the The WaVIshi ngton corrtespondent of .'ho Chicago Timfes-Hora.ld in a letter utitten Ia few days ago about Gen. Ma one and his mnisforu'L'o said :IHis Is fani; 'l fgurme here, .iith his trilled hirt-hoimr aLnd eniiTf, his gr'ay slouch h mit, his womnanl Ike foet in thie dain lest of fine boots. T1his man, ex iieator Will1iam Mahlone, of Virginta,h s the finest exaicth of mar'tyr'dom toa mis part'ly to be found In all tile land. I 'resident Andtrews, *in the cetl mmhe oi ii'(f Scr' ~ie's8, tellIs most Inter estinugly a pat't of the Mahonie stoiry, yut the most vIvidly dr'amatic par't of t 1ha1 nleverI been in pr'int. President * Xtndrew's latest chaoter of the history )f the last quiartemr centur'y gives an, Lecounitt of Mahone's iappearanice in the t [Jiiited States Senmato In 1881. The V dastnelan does well to say that Mahne d t once attracted national atteution. lot only had he been a striking figure I inilitary uniform, but he was pecu- O ar and utique in civilian's garb. loreover, the party confliot raging in hat body immediatoly contored about tU ti. Always a Democrat, bravest and lb oldest of the Confedorates, an aristo- to riat fromu Virginia, he hid neverthe %s been chosen to the Senate by 1o- 7t ublican and negro votes Thou gh the or cinato it that moment chanced to be nt tie, a1nd accident gave him the pow- liI r to organize it as a Democratic or to epublican body, few of the Southern w1 ion then uppermost in the councils of in ieir party dreamed that Mahone (1 ould cast his lot with the Hopubli- th ins. He did so, however, amid tre.- bi iendous excitomont, and in the facp tih f all sorts of threats, and through im the llopublicl party rotained aii ntrol of the upper branch of Con- w4 ress at a most critical moment. th Bofore passing to the almost tragic w ,quel, a word concorning the dramat- ro incident, President Androws do- nc xribes it well. Naturally there was ki itenso bi,terness among the Southern vc enators when Mahone deserted them. WI hoy felt that they had be betrayed co y one of their own lolh and blood. iory Ben Hill came to the attack di ith bitter irony. " Who is that oa an ?" he eried,.amid laughter from w1 10 Ruepulicaun side of the chambor. th VWho is that man so ambitious to do t1b hat no man in the history of this in Juntry has ever done-stand up in lic xis high presence and proclaiim from el is proud eminene that he disgraces sh to commission h holds ? Such a co an is not worthy to bo i Democrat. la1 lie worthy to be a Republican ?" oil ut little Mahone, with his flowing tm mrd and spindle legs, was not intimi- if kted. Taking the Hour, amid broath- ro ss silence, he declared that he was yi ill a Democrat in principle, but was sux )tindebted to the Democratic party for ke is lacLe in tih Sunate. " I want the tal nator from Georgia to know, henCe- "pr rth andl(] forever," he dec-lared, ve- 11 3niemetly, " that here is i m1an who su tres stand and dufend his right tLu rainst you and your cause." an Cen. Maione walks the streets of i lashington bankrupt. hopeless, 0u ioigh not wholly friendless. l is toi irtually It piiSioner. ou the generosity t,i r one of h6is Ol11 associats, Johln Co hamiberlain, the innkoeper. Too w( olorable to run away from anxy just 1111 upon him, too high spirited to or 5tompt to save anything out the .ti reck of his own propirty, Maione im as nothing in the world but his pride txe id the hxome in Petersburg which di: -longed to his wife beforo their imar- TI age. Contrast this with his condi- re on Whenm lie entered the Senate and iml roke a tic inl favor of the Iepublicans hlen he wais, perhaps, the richest man w4 I Virginia. ile had the outcm and aL lie society of all the tirst families. il Us name associated with a n(w enter riso wits iL guatranteo not only of good r( atili, but of success. The loading ci non of th Stale wore proud to claim is friendship an xxd partake of his prod- a; gal hospitality. llis lino old place gi Va.s almost balrlonial. Dozens and pc Cores wero oftei it his table, oating a hie produce of his farm and garden, Ia munous for tihe quality of their meats, w& -am111 Atad vegetableb. The inembers se f his family were in tho highest be ircles of a society always aristocratic if nd exclusive. The daughter of the Li1 ero of l'otorsburg wits welcome in voryw here. ti When Gon. Malone cast his lot with pi ho Republicani party in the Senate a Cl hange like that, of a devasting lood co r1 a recurrence of tihe glacial epoch fa wvept over his home, his famifly, his to acial position, 'his business. iromn t liat moment ho wiaas coLlipl toly os- p 'acized in Virginia as lie would 1iav eon had hxe comm itted IL cr1imo. [His hlL wmifer atssociatej spoke to himi in the lIc ,rect,. but did( not shaiko his haxid or be Li to hit: ollice save whlen ncesity thx ift no altexrnative. No one w ho cared dii nxything fox' the (xpinion of society wi 'ossed his throeshold, over' whiebh so hi any had just before been proud1( to stop1. er: rom the midst of social activity most p xcessa~nt andf dllighitful Gon. Mahxone's sit tmnily suddenly found themselves wrangers in the miiidst of those who lha eroC oneo theirx friends. The grass pr1 row in the palth lead inxg to thiir door. rib hle arm~fy of servants found noe comn- r'a any to wait uxponl. The many guest ril hambers~tP were utetnalntedl. Mr's. lahone's friends (of a Ii fetimox cut, hxer w< public. Miss Mahmone's comn imxons pe pplealred to forget, her exist.-nec. The : exnator's husi ness aglairxs fell utider Iri xc same blight. Elverything in which ly e wa~s interested was shuinne'd by tile ph. mon who1 had formerly liee hilxis asso iiLn tiiad partneriCs. 'ori it timlo resi- ca enxce in Wash ingtoin and ser'v.ico inx In xc Sonate amade thbese blows fil less no cavily. It was thought that time might soften themx and removo iLl I ain- so ir, that the ostr'acismn would break 1(1 own through slheer inljustice. in- Lb eadL~, it, hxas sur'vived all the piassion or I thxe times, hxas outl ivedi ali the re nmestions then under discussion, and re as continiucd till the pre'senit, day. d( Th]is sociatl and business boycott pi rought Gen. M ahiono to ban11kriupltcy. ,ast, winter' hie essayedl to sell to the m overnmnent a piece of land in Wmshi- ei igton. iHaid lhe succeeded, his failing fo wm'unels might have been retrieved. m jut the Opposition met with at the of ands of Souxthern Senatiors iand f.top- hi asentattives was so r'elentiless that othing could be done. Geni. Mahono, >s ave the righ ts of h is cred itors, made n atssignment. Hie is today a bank- ini upt, a1 fitdixng but still a1 prouid and IP ugnaiteous old mxan. t -- - of --An editor' who died of starxvation Lii as bei ng oscor'ted to heaIveni by an an- i ei whxo had~ been sent fox' that purp'hoso. co May look at thxe othxer plce beforo flia 'e alscond~ to eternal hait ness'13(5" asked re 'xo editor', ''Yes," sid the angel. So dii xtxy went, bilow anld skirmished th round taking in Lthesights. Th'le angel ey ust track of the editor' and went bi' round Ha~des Li) hunit hximi ip. lie mund hximn by aL big furnace fanning imsxelf and gazIng with rap~ture upon lot of peoiol ini the fire. There watsc sign (on tixe furnace which roead "'Do- ci nquoneit Subscribers." "Get a mnovem b~ 1 you," said the anigel, "we moust go." P Y'ou go on," said the editor, "I ait Al a coming. Th'is~ Is heaven exiough i w1 me." d Constipation axid sick headache posi- i s voly cuirod by Japanese Liver Pellets, th urely vegetable, small and mild. Fif ty th THI', WEATHER AND CROPS. osilng Bulletin of the Season-The i'ffect of the ecient Droughit. The following is the final report of 0 weather bureau forutho season of 95, and will be found of unusual in rest to the farming community: The week ending Monday, October 11, was COOI'?r than1. usual vhOVOo W tiro State, the doparturo from the I irimal having been greatest on the 9 'st throe das when it ranged fr om 8 < 12 degrees por day below, after 1 lih there was a gradual rise Lo nor-. t ti or abovo on Sunday and Mlonday I Ai and 7th). The temperature for C o week ranged between 12 at Colum- r . on the 7th and 3:I6 at GrCenvill Oin at 0 ist. t There were frosts on th ist, 2nd v d 3d. ieaching from the extreme e !sterIn portions of the StatO into S 0 contral and IortheastLen counties t lore, however, but little or no injury I sulted. In the western 3 nd extreme 0 irthorn counties the frost was heavy, lling pea-vines, sweet potato vines, v ry late corn, and what, cotton leaves 0 it rotuaind green, but it was not I Id enough to injure cotton hlols. e Thoio was an outiro abseine of ri ii Lting tho week and thu drought be- I me greatly intensitiud. Over the I role Stuto there has not bon more I an at best a trace of rain sincO fromni e 9th to the 12th of September, and I many places there has been no beno- I lal rain since the 231 of August. The - ect of the drought has been to cut I ort the pea crop : stop the growth of I tton and cut off the top crop ; proven t oe corn from lining prorI ly ; to out, j the yield of sweet potatoes, esti Ltedi at from I to A ; to greatly rod uce. J not make an entiro failure, or falt 3 At crops in) general ; to reduce tileI t Aid of molasses from sorghuin and e ar-cano ; to ruin fall gardens ; to at oL) back the growth of wintel vege- C >l on tIIO Coast truck farms : and to f avont the bowing of sill.I grains - 1wever, the long cont ii ned dry, t, aIny weather gave excellent, oppor- S lity for making hay of all varietie. h d a very large fodder crop was saved e the very best Uonditioi : for dryIng \ t and housing corn ; for picking cot t, I, which made rapid progress, amid 3 lint has het saved in a beautiful t nlition : and for general harvest t, Irk. PIhCre were showers over the wcst- 11 m and contral counties during the I) ,ornoon of tibe 7Li and early imorn r of the 8th (TtesdIty) that will be n ticial to turnips, etc., but likely i icolored open cotton to some exteut. C M amounts that fOll have not been t porI.ed to this ofico, but. the rainfall I places was heavy. 'Theo was almost continuous clear i ather the whole wuk,' on the 7th 1on was the sky obsedred by clouds i the western portion. The condition of tL'i various crops unains practically unchanged at, thbe id of the week. Rjpi(l progiess was made in picking id harvesting cotton, so that it is merally reported from the eust(rn >rtions of the Stato that at, least two iId'(ls of the crop has b03n lickI'd and large proportion of it markoted. hatI romains in the fields, in that eCton, is all open, anl picking will finished in from two to three weeks, the weathor remains favorable. In 0 western portion of the State pick- C is less advanced, but even there arly the whole crop) Is open, and I iiking and marketing is being pushed. o provaihing satislfctory prico ci tton is causing the frimers to sell as v ,t as gathered. As picking advances V wvards completion the sialLllness of L crop becomes inore and more ap- I rent. 'here is little mote to add to what s been saidl of corn in pirevious bulI ,inis. ilIuskinug a.nd housinrg has 3 en carried on to some extent, but 1 ii weiittber has been such ,that corn I I not domanlLId immeiidia~to attention, I is, in fact, better conditioneod in thei sk than it, would have been in the I b. The copI is large enough to sup- ji. ,' the needs of ithe State, with pus- 3 ly a surplus. I'oo entire season'has fave'd thme rvostinug of rice, and tbat, work is actical ly comp jletedl on the coast, anmI rer' plantationis, upl)1and rice fai led r pid(1ly (huring Se ptemb er, andI is (2 cuning very untsa~tisfacetori ly. 5 Peas of late planting didl not filli U 1l, and will be a shmort crop). 'iiarly t as yielded well. swee1t poutatoes and1( secowl ' crop~ of c2 sh potatoes are yieldIng very pour generally, although (uite well in tees. ['ho growing seasoni is now practi-< lly ended and little chanire can occur the condItion of the dilferent crops t yet entirely gathered. IL is unnecessary to review the sea ri as a whole, as a ille of these but ,ins is a better r'ecord, oxceplt to say at, every th ing considered the farm - U of S'outhi Carolina have ab~n~udnt ason to feel satisfied wvithl the season'o suIts, for while some cropis were unm ubted ly short otheri were coirree inding large. Although the wenthber eondlitio' s ay not have boen perfect, and the ops inight have bten larger, yet 1 w, if any, States fared notter, whiile any fared worse. Tho entire absene destructive storms of windl, r'ain, or uti is wor*.hy of not~Ice. -.James i 4ongstreet. the only su rv iv-t g ex-Ilieutenant-guneral of the Con Jeracy, was given an informal recep mn at Orins's HallI, in Washington on i edniesdlay (lveninig .by the meomhoris i the Con fedeorate Veterans' Associa >n, and a largo nonbior~e of Southern lies. The hall was handsomely do 'iated for the occasion, and besides gs, plant and Ilowers, imany pictures, lies and war decoratIons were pen nt from thme walls. The hall was ronged all the evening, prohably cry Southerner oif note in the city mng present. -Governor l'vans has tilled the va ney existIng In the corps of physi ins at the State lunatic asylum, catused the resignation of Dr. ilrby', by ap itIng a woman, Dr. iar'ah 'Camipbll len, a young lady who halls from arleston, wvho has attaIned a splon 3 reputatIon as a physIcian, and his Lion will doubtless meet with univer I conaldor'ation in view of the fact at the need of a woman physician for o care of the many female patients1 8 lng been felt. IN H1ONOl OF JUDGE BRIYAN. Preamble and Resolutions Adopted by tie Greenville liar, October 7th, 1805. In looking back upon the history gf >ur State the most casual reader must ecognize that to the members of the egal profession belongs the credit of ome of our greatest and best reforms, md that to thom we owe a debt of rratitude for the extrication of the col ny as well as the State from some of or greatest perils. In the early his ory of the colony, 'or instance, at a e'riod when It seemed that the little oimunity, surrounded bys avages and omoto from the mothee country, was bout to be corrupted and lost under ho influence of the gold of pirates, it ras Chief Justice Trott who by his ourso upon the bench aroused public entiment and finally succeeded with he aid of the bar, in bringing the adors to justice. Again, at the close ithe war for indepondence, when.the ietorious party was bent upon re enge, and, the State fast drifting to ivil war, it was the voice of Judge urike, from *the Circuit Bench, that ailed a halt, and by the fearlessness ,f his conduct and impartiality of his ulings, brought all right thinking non to a realization of the danger and ontored pewaco and prosperity to the ountry. These are but two instances if to influenco of the bench. Many norO might be cited, but none more tri'ing than the judicial careerof the ind, good man In honor of whom we ,ro issembled here to day. We say ais judicial career, for while other udges in this State have been called pnoi to mot particular emergencies, udge Bryan for fourteen horrible eatrs stood the principal, and at times lie only barrior between us and the neroachmnonts of power. Having been loonsistent opponent of secession, he uld with truth take theath that he Ot no sympathy with a war for seces 01, but his hoar. was over and at all mes in deopest sympathy with the ilferiigs of hib people, and absolutely >y'atl to the cause of constitutional lib rty and the rights of the citizens. V ien ie took his seat upon the bench were sat at his side a circuit judge in ill syimnpathy with the dominant par . A..c the( door, we might say, were le hiayonets of the United States rny. Noar by was a military tribu a! climing jurihidiction in all crimi al matters. in Washington a con rea d ter in ied to revolutionize the tato governmont. The question was nmediltely presonted whether the ivil power had priority over the mili itry, and Judge Bryan met it in a man or worthlmy of IL1l praise. Although irevoited by brute force from enfore ng the process of the court, yet his o1rsO w.as such as to arrest the atten i'm of the North and to set in motion ,hose mhiluences which finally brought isrelief. In opposing the efforts made ,o drive the bar out of the courts, the nfatnious onforceament act, the attempts ,o deprivo the citizens of the State of ho right of trial by jury of the vicin ge-in all these struggles (each of ,em of vital importance to the coun ry) .Judge Bryan was a tower of itrength in behalf of the right. Not inti I the election of a Democrat to the >11110 of president of the United States lid these prosecutions come to an end, md only then did Judge Bryan think >f retiring. This he determined upon n 18A6. lie had reached the age when 'oposo is the ruling desire of man. Plough his mind was still sound, his nowy locks and slightly bent figure ttested that he bore upon him the voight of years. H enjoyed the love madt veneration of his family and riends. lie had the right by law to etiro upon full pay, and amid the >laud its of tihe entire State he stepped lown from the seat he had so long Ldornetd. After his retirement he re urned once more to the quiet, modest ate of which he was always fond. 'Sur oundedC~ by a devoted famnily the down vatrd pathl of life, though accompanied y physical ''labor and pain," the comn non1 inheritance of all mankind who ,ttain to four score y ears, was strewn .'thl many flowers On the 28th of sepitembor, at his summer home, he asseu away lin the midst of those he .)ved. It is this event thlat we have tt to commlemorato. In doing so we o htonor not only to hitn nut to our Llvos, oumr lprofossion and our State fwhich hie was a dlistinguished na ive, and a worthy example to all men. Therefore bo It resolved by the bar i Gree(nville County: 1st. That in the death of the Honor .blo Georgo S. Bryan, late United states District Judge for the District if Southt Carolina, the State has lost ime of hter maost distinguished citizens, lbe value of whose service to the coun ry can not be over estimated. 2d. That we consider it due to him mud to ourselves that, we put upon re sordl ourt adminration of his virtues and ailents, our pride in him as a fellow Jaro'intian w hose name must pass into mstory as one of the greatest men of inr State. andl our sorrow at parting *... oie ver w ith one whose plresence among as was always a poeaguroe. :4l. That we olfor to his widow and :htildren our sincere sympathy in this hb.irxbreavomnent. *th. That tine Greenville newspapers Llo Charleston News and Courier and le Columbia State be requested to >ublish this preamble and resolutions ,ad thtat thte Secretary of this meeting 0o m stru'icted to send a copy of the same o theo family of the deceased. 5thi. That the chairman of this meet ng presont thteso resolutions in open ourt at, next term of the United States )istrict Court, in Greenville and re nest that they be spread upon the tinutes of the court. J. S. COT'H RAN, Ch'n of Committee. Mu-. F. ANSEL, THIOMP'SON i. COOKEi, A. BrLYTHmE, .JLIIs H:. HafywAIU). ---Tihe declaration in South 'Caro mna's 'now constitution against divorces a attracting much attentI0u in the oewspap~ers. The matter is dealt with .3 a new departure, It does not seem o be generally knowni that such has >een the law in South Carolina all the JTohnsonl's Magnetto Oli is the great mst intek'atI reinedy for cramps, colio hnd all internjal aches and phis for nan or beast. Large bottles, 26 andi iO ots.