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* rlHE S JEPLE. L 7 7- -19' PICKEiNS, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 1, i897. ONE DOLLAR A YEALt m, U, UULER REPIES 10 TILLMAN, A WAIRM IfEJOINDl1t TO THE "REVISED IETElt." The Ex-Senator Asks Ills Successor to Answer a Plain Question-The Issue Cannot Be Evaded. To the Editor of The State; I.obser ve in the "modified state ment" of B. R. Tillman, published in The State of the 23d instant, he lugs my name into his labored etTort at vin dication. The statement from begin ning to end is more in the nature of a "confession and avoidance" than a vin dication. Expletives and slanders, his favorite weapons of controversy, will not satisfy an inquisitive public, which is getting down to a more serious form of enquiry. He says "when these stale slanders about rebates under my administration were put into circulation by the news-I papers and taken up by General Butler in the canvass three years ago, I met i them promptly and vigorously at Union and elsewhere, and last winter I joined 1 with Governor Evans in asking that I the legislature should appoint a com- I mittee to look into the dispensary's management and sot the charges of corruption at rest forever." t This is very general, evasive and er- ? roneous. In the first place the "stale I slanders" were not "taken up by Gen- a eral Butler" by anything derived from f "the newspapers." Here is what oc curred at Union. I had received a i communication from a gentleman in i Charleston, not a newspaper man, in- s forming me that by the terms of the e whiskey trust agreement, every mem ber of the trust was bound to pay a re bate of seven cents a gallon to all who purchased a thousand gallons or up ward, that is to say, was bound un der,the trust agreement to pay back seven cents on every gallon thus bought; that the Mill Creek distillery of Onto was a member of the trust, and there fore bound to return this rebp.te; that as Governor Tillman, as chairman of the board of control, and understood to be the sole responsible head, had pur chased large quantities of liquor from the Mill Creek distillery, he ought to have received large sums from the Mill Creek distillery, running up into the thousands of dollare. This is substan tially the informat:on I received from an entirely reliable, experienced source. This communication got into The News .nd Courier and can be found in the flies of that paper of that date, be fore I had an opportunity to use it on the stump, in this way: At a meeting preceding the one at Union. I do not now remembbr where, Mr. Kohn, the correspondent of The News and Courier, asked me if I had any manuscript I expected to use, 1 would let him have it in rdvance, so thai, he could wake a copy at his leis ure, and thereby save him the labor when sending otf his dispatches. I gave him the memorandum furnish ed me as above stated, enjoining him not to publish it until I had embraced it in some subsequent speech. Mr. Kohn, through inadvertence, I suppose, b forwarded it to his paper, and it was 2 published before I had an opportunity to refer to it. d Mr. Kohn afterwards told ,,t ie bail informed Governor Tillman it had been published without my authority. Notwithstanding this information, Governor Tillman having the opening speech at Union. made this publication the text for a violent, coarse, vulgar a attack on me, stirring up the passions of a few rullians and blackguards in the audience, and then when I got up to reply, the ruffians attempted to brow beat and howl me down. When the excitement was at its height and trou ble seemed imminent, Governor Tiii man, as usual, left the stand and sought a place of safety. In the course of his, ribaldry and vituperation he deniea having collected the rebates and en deavored to take refugo from the awk ward dilemma in which he found him self by raising other and false Issues, having no relevance to the rebate question. When I replied, I said, i aixrong other thIngs, that there wort- a but two alternatives, either Gov. Till- j man had collected the tbousands ci a dollars of rebates from the Mill Creek a~ distillery and not accounted for t,hem, e or had been guilty of a grave and con- u surable dereliction of oflicial duty in a not collecting the rebates and turning them into the State treasury for the i benefit of the taxpayers.t No charges were made, but a simple enquiry which any taxpayer had a e right to make, and any honest man $ would have invited and answered die- a passionately and frankly. There was y no occasion for such an outburst of p coarse ribaldry and unseemly passioD. The controversy stands to-day wher. t it was left off at Union nearmy three years ago, except that the suspicion of ,a crookedness in regar-d to the rebate, has been intensified by a remar-k which Governor E'vans, his friend and cola borer in the dispensary business lia eharged with having made to Mr. Mix eon, late chief dispenser, to the etiect,i that "Ben Tillman had lined his p0ck ets witn rebates." And further, by re cent intimiations and suggestIons on the same line from some of G'overnor~ Tillmnan's closebt, an1(1, as is generally supposed, most cof id nt,imo pjerlai and political friends. Now, the simple I and only quest,ion as Lo OILS oraneh of 1 the dispensary management involving I hundreds of thousanus of dollars to the taxpayers, is, were the rebates of sev en cents per gallon colle,cted f rom the Miil Creel disti!lery and other whis key dealers, and if not, why not. Governor Tillman cannot sidetrack this momentous issue by tirades of abuse against newspapers and any and every body who crioses to exercise1 their rights as free and unterrifledl cit izens. It, is the duty and business of news * papers to inform the public of current .svents, and it is the business and dut,y of lIbert,y loving citizens to hold every public ollicial tom the strictest, account ability for his official act,s. The news papers have never, and can never, im pair the oileial integrity of any honest, officIal. The ollilal himself may be oioudl andl besmirch his owvn reputa-. -tion by evasion, irritability and pas sion under legitimate criticism a:id enquiry. TLhe stiu: fanthsdspnay db dale have reached the acute stage an its founders and promoters owe it t themselves and to the people of the State generally to probe it to the bot tom, let out the foul eflluvia, "or hush.' That is what Governor Tillman has re cent ly advised the United States Sen ate to do. Legislative committees aro very good things in their way, when they are in earnest, but when men have said "the horse was sixteen feet high" they will scarcely turn round, eat their words, and admit the horse was only sixteen hands high. If the whiskey dealers who have sold whiskey to the State could be brought Into court and forcod to testify, some reputations would be much better or worse off. It is about time the people in the State were taking matters in their own hands, stop listening to twaddle )nd nonsense and have a general over hauling of their affairs. Prejudice and passion and resentments may be very iandy weapons for charlatans and dem igogues to boost themselves into office, >ut they are getting to be very expen iive luxuries. Taxes which wero romised a few years ago to be re luced, have been increased, and are ikely to be still further Increased if a talt is not called, and the taxpayers ave to pay the piper while the dema ogues dance. Public offices were promised to be educed, but they have increased In umbere and the taxpayers have to ay the salaries while the increased ficeholders dance. This, I say, is etting to be a pretty expensive lux ry, especially when considered in the ght of the falling off of revenue from he phosphate royalty, an' other ources which'helped to meet public xpenditures. It was promised that the dispensary rould pay a half million a year into the tate treasury and ought to have done o under honest proper management. Vhat a pitiful showing has been made! M. C. BUTLER. Washington, D. C., May 25, 1897. RULES OF A MODEL HOTEL.-They rere sittng in the lobby at Murphy's alkin& about the striking peculiari les of some of the hotels they had cen up against in the course of their ravels, says the New York Herald. In the party were a red-headed rummer from Arkansas, a traveling ailroad man and a spindle-shanked aan who sells oil out of Pittsburg. .e deal got around to the man from Lrkansas, and what he had to say was his: "I've had to stand for some queer ules and regulations in my time, but he most unique code of rules govern og a hotel I ever had sprung on me 'as at the Tallewanda hotel, in Col age Corner, 0. 1 remember each one f them distinctly to this day. They rare posted in this order : "1. Board, $50 per week, meals xtra. "2. Breakfast at 5. dinner at c. upper at 7. ' 3. Guests are requested not to peak to the dumb waiter. " 4. Guests willing to get up with ut being called can have self-raising our for supper. "5. The hotel is surrounded by a ,!autifui cemetery. Hearses to hire' 5 cents a day. 6. Guests wishing to do a little riving will find a hammer and nails in he closet. " 7. If your room gets too warm pen the window ana see the fire ecape. "8. If you are fond of athletics and ke good jumping lift the mattress nd see the bed spring. 9. If your lamp goes out take a 3ather out of the pillow ; that's light nough for any room. "10. Anyone troubled with a night iar" will find a halter on the bedpost. '"11. Don't pick a quarrel with the leirk. His brother is the chief of olice and his fatner mayor of the wn. "12. Don't worry about paying our bill. The house is supported by .' foundation." BORNi IN WHITE HIOUSE.-Mrs. Mary !.Wilcox, who er.joys the distinction fhaving been born in the White [ouse during President Jackson's ad uinistration, called on Secretary Gage t the treasury department for the pur ose of resigning her clerkship in the flice of the auditor of the war depart ient. She is the widow of Representative Vilcox, of Mississippi. She entered he government ser'vice in September, B82, as a $900 clerk and has gradually Isen in grade until she now holds a 1.600 clerkship in the oflice of the uditor for the postoficoe department. he was a great friend of the hero of low Orleans and proudly exhibits many relics of her childhood days in he White House while he was presi ent. She is now over 80 years o)f ag~e nd in fooble health. Thle resignation as entirely vo.untary and was due to ecr inability to work to her own satis action. Secretary Gage received her cordial y and liste~ned to her story with great sterost. H .i accepted her resignation o take effect August 1, and gave her 'cave or absence until that date, being he extreme limit allowed by law. --Josh Buli ngs says ho knows peo a1o who are so rend of argument that hey will stop* andi d.apute with a ruide-board about the distance to the iext town. -" As diamond polishes diamond," ays a German writer, "so man is ormed by man." And we may add, as liamond cuts diamond, so man is flee d by man. -Our fellow-eroatures can only judge >f what of we are from what we do; >ut in the eyes of our Maker what wa* :1o is of no worth except as it flows rrom what we are. -Date vinegar has been made by bhe Arabs for aagee. It has recently 3een put on the Enogilish marks't, and she English say it is far superior to any )ther vinegar. --Johnstown, Pa., which was prac Aically swept away by the fl.soils three ir four years ago, is now more pros porous than ever, and has a population af 36,000. -Compensation is the law of the' sol ow n onlvutA. if you would M'I.AURIN HAS BEEN APPOINTD SENATOR HE WILL RUN FOR THE UNNX i'lltED TERlM. A Sketch ofllils Brilliant Career- Hii Popularity as a Public Man. John Lowndes McLaurin was born It Marlboro County, May 9th, 1860. Hhi father's name was Philip 13. McLaurin a lawyer of marked ability, who diuc at an early age, leaving the subject of this sketch, Thomas and Margaret, Tbomas died when about twelve veart old and Margaret is now living in Miarl. boro County as Mrs. Crossland. Hit mothcr was a daughter of T. C. Weath urly, who was prominent in public lift before the war. W tatever of political ability and taste t+iat Mr. McL'auris has is from th a side of the house. Mr. McLaurin's father was elected at the very early age of twenty-three to the general assembly. lie was just old enough to be eligible. On this side of the bou e there was marked intellec tuality and culture. His father died from illness contract ed from exposure in the army in 1864. In 1867 his mother married Mr. Win. S. Mowry, of Charleston. Mr. Mowry was a very wealthy gentleman, and the family lived for several years in .Mlarl boro County and then moved in 1873 to Englewood, N. J. Mr. Mowry has since that time been a very succesful mem bor of the cotton and stock exchange in New York. Mr. and Mrs. Mowry, and live half brothers and sisters are now living at that place. All Mr. McLaurin'e half brothers are in business in New York.city. In those days the school system of South Carolina was defective and "Jon ile ana Tommie" were sent to Bethel military academy near Warrenton, Va. Tomipy died while there and John, the enator of today, was then taken to EngleIwood and sent to school there un tlI he was 15 years of age. Ha was then sent to Swarthmore college near Philadelphia. A Qaaker school didn't suit his ardent South Carolina temper atnent and after two years. Colonel Weatherly, his grandfather, concluded that a military school and a disciplina rian like Col. John P. Thomas were needed to properly train and hold in check the promising young Carolinian. lie remained under Colornel Thomas in nis school at Charlotte, N. C., until he graduated in 1880 He then went to the University of Virginia and took the law course, and in 1882 went to Ben. nettsville and began the practice of law He hung out his shingle. Soon ar opportunity came along in the sbapo o cases brought against 32 road hands known since as the Hebron road cases it was a kind of a feud in the county The prosecution employed all the lead Ing attorneys in the county, includinj the present assistant attorney genera of South Carolina, ex-Judge Townsend Mr. McLaurin was alone for the de fense, and many had advised the "c cused to plead guilty. After five dayi of legal fighting, Mr. M'-Laurin wo. it every case by appeals to the jury, th< law and evidence and prejudice of the people beinv against him. Judge Town eend was attracted to the bright young lawyer and offered to take him int, partnership. This copartnership wat formed in 1883 and continued until Mr McLaurin's election to Congress, the firm being recognized as one of the strongest In, that section of the State. On the 19th of February, 1883, Mr. McLsurin married Miss Nora Breeden. of Bennettsville, rho daughter of Mr r. J. Breeden, and a niece of his law par tuer, Judge Townsend. They hav* "ix enildren, four girls and two boys, rho marriage has been a most happy and congenial one, and Mr. McLaurir attributes his success in law and poi tics to the iriluence of his life partner. His friends are told that he has never taken an important step) In his life without consulting his wife, and he has even discussed his law eases with her. In 1890 ho was elected to the Legisla. tare. in a very few days Mr. McLaurin made a speech that developee the fact that h - was one of the coming factors in South Carolina p)olitics. At the second term of tbe Legislature At torney Genceral Pope was elected asso ciate justice of the Supreme Court, and Gary, Wib,on, Townsend and McLau in were candidates for atAorney gen eral to succeed Pope. McLaurin had an easy victory. Hie plunged at once into the sea of litigation. H is recoro as 'attorney generalI was good. D)uring the campaign of 1892, the main fight upon Tillman was made by Col. You mans. IHe was a very eloquent, fluent and forcible speaker. There were personal diff.eronces between You mans aand Tillmnan, and the latter re fused to debate or ecognize him in the campaign at all, w hichi threw the light, -o) far as V uumans was concerned, upon. Me Lauirin. R't rely has such a debate ev.-r taken lace in any cam paign in his State. It, was of such a character ' to A e'xe:t the k.un...t public interest, yet the two mn came out of it, t,he best o friend, p)ersonally. The result crea ted sueri a wave of public lavor' for Mr. McLaurin that ,whcn Mr. St,ackhouse died in June, 1892, nothIng could pre vent the people0 of Mr. McLaturin's dis trict from electing him to Congress in Novembor following. He was seatedI When the fifty-second Co.ngrchs convened in 1892, in the monti, of D)ecembe~.r. Mr. McLauerin's fi rst ut terances u,'on thei llircrw g reat atton. tion to hima all ever tihe couintry. It was his remiar'kable eulogy on his deceaseo predecesbor. LIe came to Cong ress a buct the time teat Bailey, fBryani, Sihley andl others of equa&l note made their en trance upon the Congressional stage, and immediately began to attract at tention t,o himself as a debater. Uir speeches there have attractedl national attention. M'lAUIN ACOEPOSE TilE HIONORt lie is Willing to) Tiirust I lie Pe(ople andl( Wnsa Prlimary linetr ion. lion. John L. M iLaumrin hats acetpted the appointment as United Sitt's S n sitor in the following letter to Go'.vernoi E.ter be: D)ear Sir :Your notificatIon of my ap pointmont to the Senate of t,bu Units' States to 1111 the va aucy caused by tan sad death of Senator Earle, has beer The pride andl plasure at the recelp of such a dlistinguished honor is sad tmWas' representative of the culture, intelli gence and refinement of Southern civ ilization. With a profound consciousness of the responsibility involved and an honest dotermination to represent as far as I amJ able the interests of the entire 1)people of the State, I accept your ap pointment. I desire, however, to say that I believe that United States Senatorik should be elected by a vote of the peo$e ; and as the constitution debars us that priv ilege, I sincerely truat that the Demuo cratic State executive committee will, at its convenience, order a primary, and give every Democrat the chance of hav ing a voice in the selection of one to iill this, the highest oflice in the gift of the people. . If I am selected, I will have the proud consciousnoess of knowing that I am, in fact, truly the representative of d the whole people of South Ca-olina. It is peculiarly gratifying to inc to receive I this apointment at your hands, but had , not the exigencies of the situation in thv c Senate demanded the immediate ap r pointment of one somewhat familia with the situation, I would have re- s quested you to hold the matter of ap pointment In abeyance until a primary f, election is ordered, which I 1".r. th executive coin"t e w ,- , t , .. do and other uuuuates see lit to enter. e I shall at every meeting insist upon n no one votirg for me merely because I at have been up pointed to the position. ti I resign an ellice but little inferior in j dignity and honor. If I am to be con- t tinued in the Senate, I want it to be d given me in an election where every o citizen, however humble he may be, f can have an opportunity to say so at the a ballot box. Nothing could give me more pleasure o than to represent South C trolina in the s Senate chamber of the United States, a after a free expression from the people e themselves. JOHN L. MCLAUiN. - --..-------- v REMINISUENUE: OF EARLE. t The Impreeioai he Made Upon a Boy- 1 lim Splendid Fight in 1890. f' Columbia State. d Tne life of man is woven of mingled d shade and light. M .ich shadow clouds d the brightness; excess of light banishes the shadow. When a career like Sen ator E.irle's has closed and we read the stainless roll of his achievements, con viction seizes brain and heart that his public life redounded to the honor of the land, as his private life had ever illustrated the shining virtues of the Christian gentleman. In a time of ovii men, of foul speaking, of wickednes rampant and blatant, of a social up heaval, he "saved his crown of spirit ual manhood" and followed not "a mul titude to do evil." I-I is coursc fore shadowed a brilliant career in the halls of national counsel-brilliant and yet founded on the rock of unremitting la bor. "3ver there in tho 'undimmed light at last you love and know" who fought the fight and died like a Roman sentinel at his post. F * * a * * * * Sixteen years ago one dark night a boy lay on a cot in a little canvass tent at Back Forest, North Carolina. Ttje tent faced east where lights twinkled in the windows of the hotel. As the boy lay half dozing a tall form filled the doorway, and in the half-light be came visible the form and features of a y splendid man. Ab, heav-:n, what eyes : Tne voice '-tamped the impression. It was my lirst sight of Joseph E>rle'. Nothing has over dinmed that recol lect,ion. It was an era in my life. Cot onel Earle become a paladin. I fancied his ringing voice calling mail-clad knights to battle-himself the knight liest figure in the turong. That boy ish enthusiasm helped to a htter un,der standing of the man. There was really no oficeo nor station that he would nloL have graced and dignilied. * * * * * *t There was in the man a forced re aerve that signi ed uncommon mental strength. South Carolina was seething like a hot caldron in 1890. Evory thing ran like a milirace for Imfoirm. TIlman~ was the it'ol of to masses. Against all that l'Carlo lifted up his voice. He fought ( the hydra of revolution at the mouth of its lair. Hoe failed, of course, as any l man must have failed ; but he won morn h gocuine resp)ect from Recformui-s them suives--from the best of them-than" l'illIman could inihpire in the pilonitude *j o)f his power-. The effect of his superCib b light was his election as judge, foilow- t *ou later by his election in the Domno- P eratic primaries to the United States' g senato. io conducted that campaign " on the highest lane. The unbiasedu judgment of news paper men at the time .vas tnat it was the only campaign of iducation they had ever witnessed in the State. Mon heard with attention d( went away instructed upon the grunt Isbucs that engaged the atten .lun of the country. Had he done no umore than to pitch the standard Ui pub . ic debate on that lofty height, he Nouldi deserve an apot,hcosis.a I met Senator Earle in the campaign of 1812. HIe was return)ing to Colum bia from a business trip). In response to a question he gave his judgmient to tine uifoot that the opp)osition would fail aLnd th)at Tillmanism would wane slow iy if upiright men were p)ut,forward ,anti~ elected to ollice. Other-wise, it would quiiei{ly pass and South Carolina be the o.eiter for its passage. A fn.cr his e I ction to the senat.e hio wrotc mec fronu Beuau fort-, in answee io a conigratul si,ory note, say ing t hat, ho Voulid strive t,o fuilfiii the) exphectatio of his friends, but that,!t,be isue.ea in God's hands. Prop)hetic thought, Po. tent, utterance : "Die alitur vum" alnd new hoe lieb asleep, sontinelled 1y C the blue mounitains in the "Pearl of tao Piedmont." Thousands will render tiribut,o to his C worth, and will paty fitting rebptet t,o his memory. I joine~d O.ne ta rong to lay I this one ilower- uplo n his hier- and now saiy farewell. J Ais li ia Nic Hliu:i, Jnt. -In Mexico the renoi:tchildron who 'nave done beet are nuowedi to smiokc cigarettes w hic ieprsuing their lessoh'i, it is suosed)0C that thmis i done in or d er that, tine br'iht neholar-s shali b)e orougno down to tne conmnon level. -An observing politician says that i he differene bet,ween those going in -in i tho,e guing out, of <i lile is m iinly t,hitb'.Oo,rmer arn worvn In, and toe 1 ttte eoot w'ear tri. , [HE DESTRUCTION OF THE TOMBS PRISON IN ANCINT LAND>MARK OF NEW YORK. blany Noted Crininals Have lIcon Confined in its Cells and Foul Tales of Crime lave Been lleard by Its Walls-A Fine Sample of Egyptilan Architecture and a So cure Prison. Jew York Evening Post. The demolition of the Tombs will re uove one of the city's most widely :nown buildings. It is not too much o say that it was the most unique tructure in the city, and scarcely an ther was as imupresbive. It has been eseribed as the most perfect specimen f Il'yptian architecture outside of ,iy pt. Interesting as it is as a piece f architecture, and part as it is of the ity's history, no one suems to desire to Lrpetuato the existence of an edifice peaking from every stone of crime and lioring. The Tombs has long been inadequate )r its objects, both in character and --ommodations, and year after year Itirts have been made to secure its ndemnation and oroplacement, by a todern prison, but the legislature ud the city ollicials have always un I last year found other public pro 3ets more seductive of immediate at mtion. When something had to be one in the past to provide for the vorflowing prisoners they have pre srred the method of patching and dding, as in 1885, when a now wing as balit inside the walls. But not nly has it been inadequate, but it: to according to Coupotent testimony. as iil chosen. All that section of the ity was formerly a beautiful lake ith a navigable outlet into the North ive r, and the Tombs stands in the ery middle of this region, which when ie lake was drained off, was gradual r filled up with rubbish of the city. 'he building had to be erected on piles, ) the soundings recently made could iscover no solid foundation even at a epth of 150 feet. More than one war en has complained of th. prevailing ampness of the place, and it has boon o uncommon thing for ceils to be ov t flowed with water which was forced ack through the drain pipes. The uilding has also on more than one oc asion been pronounced unsafe. Although the day of its complete rasement has only now arrived, thi mportance of the Tombs has for some rears been diminishing. For a long ,me after it replaced the old Bride veil, the colonial jail-out of the ston(e >f which, by the way, it was largell onstructed-it was the city's solo plac< jf confinement lor prisoners, but grad lal growth necessitated the erection o Aher prisons, and for many years now t has divided honors with these out de prisons, notably that forming parl )f the Jefferson Market ouilding. Ther t was not only a prison, but a "Rail of rustice," and as such was, until the ast few years, one of tho most fre luentoi and thronged of the public mi.dings. It containod the court of pecial sessions, the Tombs police ourt, and one of the district civit ourts. When the new criminal court utiding was occupied about three ears ago, the court of special session was transferred there, and after a de, my of about a year the police court ollowed. Then the civil court migra ed, and those desertions divested the lace of the greater part of its bury spect. An interesting history espe. tally hod the old Tombs police court. t was thoro that the legal oracle thom Tammany placed upon the ench displayed their wisdom, nun shed rivals and enemies, and adlvane (d generally the Interests of the great rganlzation which enabled them and housands of their ilk to fatten on the ublio revenues. During the long perniod since Its erec on in 1838, the criminal annals of the rowing city have centered in the 'ombs, and the records would opi1tom e the darker side of the cit,y's life and svelopment. Thousands upon thou onds have been immured in its dar-k alls, and in its yard many have been anlged upon its scaffold. The records tie wardens are imperfect,, unsumn arized, andi at p)resent inaccessible, that exact lig;uros may not be given, ut it, is roughIly estimlat,ed that some lirty or forty persons have paid the analty of their crimes wit,hin those ioomy walls from 1838 down to 1889, hen executions there weoro discont,in ed In cousequence of the plassage of io law reqjuirtug the death plenalt,y to ii administered by electricity at the Late prisons. One of the last, eeci ons was mcemorable on account of Iree criminals being hanged at the tine time. One of the earliest of the most fa cous cases having tile Tombs as a sckground was that of John a . Cole., bookkoeper and tceher of ornamen tI penmanship, who, on Sept,ember 1, 1841, in hlis ollice at Chamb ors greet. and 13roadway, killed Samuel adamis, a pinCt,e, alt,er a disput,e. Hie aeked the body in a box, salted it, rid tried t,o ship it to New Orleans. no vessel was dolayed, and tbe pres co of the body was discovered. Colt 'as arrent,cd and throw IWlinIto the '0mbs0. TherlUe, ias hoine ot,ber prIison rs he fore andi I,CI Iince a l one, hle vedl luxuriu,1 y. is r- es pectable and eah,by relativyes e: used him t.o be an 'I IuunSe b(ensation). lie was the, cieft ieW of tile neCw.papors and town tik. After a trial asting ton day cit was tonicti,ed of murnder- in t,he rst dlegree. l iusuaily strntuous ox rtions were mladO to save himn, but in ala. Then he wrote one of tile most rt,istic confessions ever penned by a rlminal, which mnade hlim mocre than vor tile subject of all cooversation, 'our hours before tile time set for his xeutionl, lhe wats martiried to h15in mis r5ss, who wa 1 accomapaniud to Colts ell I y Johni liowardi l.'ayne, tbu autibor foimo Sweet, Home." Ju tst as the our of the e.xecuition arrivedl a cry of ro was raisedf In the Tombs, and tile upmola was seen to be ab,laz. in the 'xOtt mui'nt Cuil was left, alojne and un ~tehud in his cell, andi when the of ceers returned to take him to the ga ows t,b'uy fouind him dead upon his bed vith a doagger in his hand. P?er. aps few cases ever excitedl ir-otar aet,1ent,ion thlan the brutui mur iqr ,en 4.p0 ?i,, of plen Jowcet a wo'm&C i f gidw hdenu ,t a,d .mc Too Trhat is, we are too bus Low Prices keep us busy. The Racket Store is th ways buy what you want cl. we mean wtiat we say. Uur coin)etitors call us acknowledge the charge am of this county to say wheth store has been a benefit to as goods as the best. Bought at Low Prices, and our customers rejoice t Racket Store is doing for ti Asking that one and all to " Underbuy and Uiderse Yours in detu NEW YORK R 1'a1Sley, t ('. P. S.---Still remember ti will get a nice carriage this I mental vivacity, but of notorious char actor, wYho was well known to Inumhoril 10 among ber acquilntances illy 111en 1romiincnt in the life of that day. Her murderer was tichard P. Robinson, who endeavored to conceal h is erime by burning hor body. The proachers of the day (I1seou1rsed on the case vig orously. Dr. Brownlee, a noted divine of the time, made from the pulpit an appeal for the murderer, and accord ing to one historian, "coolly looked upon the blotting out of lielen's young life as a deed to be commended." in short, popular sympathy soon verged to the murderer's side. Th trial was ia great sensation. To the amazte ment of all, the prisoner was nequitted, and it was afterwards practically proven that the jury had been bribed. Tho assaitsin went to Texas and never returned. Another prisoner was John Stovens, who was one of the first wife poisoners in the history of the city, and who in 1860 was lani,ed in the yard of the Tombs. A cell was also occupied by Daniel Mclarland, assistant asse'ssor of the city, who on Noveomber 25, 18t69, shot. and ki!led Albert 1). Richardson, of the Tribune editorial stall'. in the ollice of which paper the tragedy took place. While Richardson was :lying he was married to the divorced wife of MAUFarland, the cremonv being per foinmed b1)y Henry Ward Beecher and 0. 13. Frothingham. In the end McFar land was acquitted. Few occupants of oells in the Tombs over became more notorious than Prank H1. Walworth, who on Jun-A. 3, 1873, shot and killed his father, Mans iold Tracy Valworth at the Sturte vant House. The young man's life was narrowly saved. and he was sen tenced to life imprisonment at Au hurn. Then followed, as the prisoner whose deed has excited the most wide spread atteptfon, Elward S. Stokes, the slayer of James Fisk, Jr. More re etent tragedies which have peopled the2 Tombs with prisoners were those for which the wife murderers Carlylo W. [larris and Dru. Buchanan p)ald the ex treme penalty at Sing Sing; the poi soning for Insurance money which sent Dr. Meyer to life impIirisonmenjt, and r,be death of Mrs. liss, for which her dlaughter, Mrs. Fleming, sp)ent many months In t,he prison under an indict mont charging p)olsoning, of which af ter' a long and senisationial trial, she was acquitted. IBILL AltP T1A1IMS POIlI'TIeS. The GeorgIa P'lallosopher DI)scuasses ile LeadersH o't lhe R1epulicani Par.y in General--lie D)oes Not .00t 0 on) Horace said1 in) one of hiis phil osoph ie odes that ''anger is a brief fIt, of luna cy." Then I am ready for the asylum right now, for I am mnad-mnad with McK intcey, andl Buck and l)lock, andl the Grand Armiay, and the lI epubl ican piart,y, and every bodiy else wvho is try ing to impose05 on our peolo. The Gratnd Armoy do.nands the p)ublish ing of a1 school hist,ory that will mnake Southern treason odious to tile generations to come. TIhis is not, tihe Grand Army for they are about all dead except, the p)en stoners, but It is thne grand army of pol itical plundlerers who dlon't want any peace with the South. Gen. Granit said: " L.t us h ave peace," and LInocol n said1 so, too, bitt these p)oliticians are afraid of peace. P'eace would wet all their am munit,ion. It, is a very lat.3 date to r.: vive this cry of treason. T1he ar'gumttw u as been lonig intce exhausted, and now nothIng is left, but, disgust and1( conitemnpt for the pol tita sch' eors w ho seek to per'pa tuate discorid. Treacison is a favo r toe ctry among pretetnded patiriots. At haliani murdered tho sons of the king aind usut pued tho throne, and when the prlop)het ordered her t,o be slain she rushed forth and cried treason, treats on ! When Patrick [lenry In his lrst groeat speech dlenouln,ed George the IV tbe judges cried treason, treason! well, I ireckon that Patrick Henry and Bun Fr anklIin, and Jefferson, and Aduams, alnd P'ayne were the first tral tors this-country p)roduced, atnd we don't mitnd beting in their coimpany. Inl fact, we are.t prtoud of it. I get awful mac when I read the vile slanders of the Northern papors. The ScrIptures tell us to love our necighbors, hut thoso foi lows up) there are not our1 neighbors, and it is not for biddon) to hate an army, M /contemp)t for that grand army is rnot limited b)y time Or dist ance Or the statute of limitations, bu1t [ had made up) my mnind to let them alone if they wQOd iot~ me, plone, Of coqrree th~ere are s-omo olavne m'en be..-~n'g ng to usy! y to write very much. Our e place where you can al lcup. When we say cheap, by cheap names, and we I leave it to the good people or the New York Racket them or not. Our goods are so let our competitors weep t the good the New York me people of this county. remember that ouri motto is I,' we are I earnest, ACKET STORES CLYI)E & NAI,L,Y, Proprietors. e Surry offer. Some one a1l FRE E I just like there are sone clover men In the lRepublican party, but that don't prevent tme from hating both of thve concerns as organizations, collectively and categorically. Schemers and plun derers, and scalawags and slanderers run bot,h. Nobody but an unprincipled politilian would Meek to put a negro In the post olice at Augusta or in any otler Southern town. It is an insult to our people and there Is no excuse for it--no palliation. of all the oillces in the gift of the government there are noie about which the people have such moral, social and political rights as the postollees. :very man and woman in the community should be consulted, if it Were puosible. B ut as it is not, then the uublie sentimnent should be consid erel and the busi net s men be consulted and eobody should he appointed who woild not he atcceptabie to a large ma j i ty of the people. In fact, there should be no partisanship about it. In a )emocratic community a repmhlcan who could not get a majority vote should not, ask for nor receive the ollice, but inasmuch as the rule now is that to the victors belong the spoils of course we must submIt. Wo in the South imausi, take the host. It-'publican we can. find, but no President who is a gentleman will seek to put a negro in this ulli .e and no poiitician who Is a gentleman will ask him to do it. It is an ollice that emphatically belongs to the peo ple of the community. itconcerns thera and them alone. No doubt but that 90 per cent. of all the letters and papers and money orders that go and come from Augusta aru to the white people of that city. Beside" this the color line is drawn at the South, and McKinley knows it, and so does Buck and Bul l.;ck, and they cannot wipe It out. When will our people q uit running after these scalawags who would stab us with the bb do of Joab while they embrace us and say : "How art thou, my broth er ?" What Is thore that a polit,ician will iot, do for ollie? wheni the Sexton t,brow up a skuull Hamnlet saId :'"Per haps It Is the( pate of a polit,ician, one who would circumnvent God." And it doest seem as if they become hardened to all sense of the p)roprletles of life. A hundred years ago Sheridan wrote: "Conscience has nothing to do with politIcs." Our p)eople have been doing tbeir best to think well of McKInley and esteemed him as a clever, up)right gentleman, but1, the fact that he enter talns the idea of appointing Lyons to Augusta hais wiped out, all respect for him. 'hoi mugwump Democrats who voted for him have all become cross nyedl and can't, look you straight in the face. Why did lie single out that bright little t,own of IIogansvillo to in suilt lier p)eop)le with a negro p)ostmas ter'? why does he not appoint negroes to the Northern towns where they claim t,bere .~ no color line ?-towns whose white and black go to the same school and sometimes Intermarry. And now there is another trouble here in Cartersviill. A Michigan man mloved hero not long ago with his fami 'y and wont Int.o partnership with a negro blacksmit.h and they all live to gether on t,ermis of soci equality and eat, at the same table, and as the Mich igan man's children go to our. public school, he has been notified that they cannot go there any longer. So he has taken his chIldren away, and says he don't care a damn what our people think and he will do as he pleases, for it is a free country. Well, that le hard on the children, but the time has not yet passed when the sins of the father will not bo visited upon the children. ieo may conclude to send them to the colored school, as that would be more consistent with his prIincilples, but It Is hoped th at he will pack up and go back to M ich igan. T1he line .Is drawn and will remain. Trhirty-.four years have passed since freedom and there is no change, neither In hotels nor' churches nor p)ublic conveyances or places of amusement. Both races would be con tent if it were not for the politicians. As long as the negro has a vote he will be made a fool o. by the candidates. Ti ey say that Lyons is moral and capa ole. Suppose that he Is-he le an fim puidenit idiot to want to thrust himself where he is not wanted. No gentlemanl will do that, either socially or politi cally, and no gentleman will help him do~ it. Thank heavon, we will now be rid of Buck for four years to omo. I. wish that more of his sort would leave the country for their country's good . And now I think I feel better. . BILL4 ARP. -The cit. ACIn of B ifast, [relaad,. are toereet a statue of Qtoen Victoria, tb' 6th e tdI 'e y h irreg~