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' / i ' X'. ; > v ' i f. % ? " lite ^IMBe SfessttiiM^ VOL. B. ABBEVILLE. S. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1886. NO. 8 * The Eastern War Cloud. I.onuon, November 13.?The British lion having delivered himself of a most stentorioun and free-shaking roar of defiance, listens now for the echoing answers which shall tell him he is not alone in his desire to brave the Russian bear. Thus far one only hears the yelping of the jackals, eager to follow at a safe distance and snatch up what the a?.Atlo TKft Kl<y?vnr A Ivll IvB ? ? O U 4 VUO DpVUO. 4 MV ^ 1 O D beasts compliment him on the splendid ^ volume of his voice and the clearness of his challenging note, but there is no sign of that spontaneous rushing to aid him in the fray which was expected on their part, and the lion has no idea of fighting alone. The truth is that Austria is afraid. The polyglot character of her dual monarchy is not more marked than the mixture of heroic aspirations and craven apprehensions which paralyzes Austrian action. The Emperor is a disappointed, melancholy man. He dreamed in his youth that he was to be a second Ciesar, restoring and augmenting the ancient glories of the Hapsburgs, and finds himself instead a humiliated deputy of Bismarck, forced to pocket alike warnings from Berlin, sneers from Pesth, and bullying insults from St. Petersburg, and to pretend that he likes them all. Vienna talks even more of the new pamphlet declaring the Austrian army .j, worthless than 01 ivainoicy's buttery evasions of the point at issue. All the reports I can get affirm that the army is in a wretched state despite Bylandt's official assertion that it can be mobilized now in less than half the time it would j have taken a decade ago. Six weeks ago a journalistic friend of mine, a war correspondent of repute, was asked by the editor of a London daily to write two articles on the state of the Austrian army. The first has appeared and the second has been suppressed at the request of the Austrian minister here because the showing is so bad and satisfactory denials are impossible. Still it remains possible that Austria will be compelled to fight willy-nilly, but it is clear that she will do all she can to avoid it. I hear from Berlin that it is believed there that the Czar, while giving Germany and Austria ccrtain conditional assurances, intends taking steps to force England into the position of a principal in a duel with Russia. No doubt Lord Salisbury's outspoken words afford abundant opportunity for this. There are rumors here in diplomatic circles,which have already become open reports in continental capitals, that de Staal called on Lord Iddesleigh on Wednesday, immediately after the Guild Hall speech, and expressed formal disapproval of it as discourteous and hostile. He then added his personal characteristics of it, which moved Lord Iddesleigh to a hot retort, and sharp words were exchanged. jlc wouia not ne surprising 11 tne result was that the Russian minister is recalled on an indeBnite leave of absence, just as the Czar recalled Mohrenheim from Paris when he wished to manifest displeasure with the French Republic. France was in too great a terror of complete isolation to openly resent the a treatment, but England would not be an a1* a iS am -? wt?buuviu ??j ou\>u m uuuomtri iftiiuii iruui answering this indignity in kind with interest. If the Czar is so minded he can find it a very easy matter to provoke England in her present temper into a single-handed combat. If he can be sure that it will remain single-handed the temptation to do this will be very great, but the balance of probabilities still favor England's finding allies if the worst comes to the worst. It is difficult to recognize the fact, that Bismarck's organ has veered around to abuse of Russia and thr<.'?teu8 that her insolent career in the Balkans will be checked if she goes further, with the reported accession of confidence on the Berlin Bourse that peace will be maintained. Bismarck's friendship, genuine or otherwise, has heretofore been Rusai4(a flKoaf annkAV Tt KA 4K?A??o ? ? ? UMVW MMVUVI* Am M?J IIV TT l*MB UTT O off the mask it will seem to be clear that Russia mast either hack down or light. If there were a likelihood of the former the confidence of the Bourse would be intelligible, but nothing ih more certain than th|t the Gear will re* fuse to retrace a single step. He is resolute in rejecting any and all candidates proposed by the present Sobranje. Exactly who his own candidate is it is hard to say. The Russians for the week have been talking of Nicholas of Mingrelia, one of the swarm of Caucassian chicfs whom poverty has driven to accept living as subalterns in the Russian army and clerks in government offices. Today there is a report that the real favorite of the Czar is Prince Blazo Petrovitch, a cousin of the rulor of Montenegro. It is safe to say that England and Italy will veto either of these, even if Russia allows the present Sobranje to elect him. But I fancy that neither of them is seriously put forward. Russia has no plan save to create chaos, which would compel an occupation. London, November 15.?The Standurd says: "The plain English of Count Kalnoki's declaration is that Russia shall *\nf aaaitmr R ill nrfl o T f rl aao pkn JlVb uwup | UlgUI ICt . XI OI1V UVCO Oiiv will have to reckon with Austria and England, and, in case of need, with Germany." The Sermon of an Infitlel. The Free Thinker and Secular Unionists closed their congress of the past week at Ohickering Hall last evening. Col. Ingersoll was introduced after the Chairman had announced that the Union had decided upon keeping up a regular Sunday evening meeting in this city, to open next week at No, 28 Lafayette Place. The text of Mr. Ingersoll's talk, as he described it, was in the grandest prayer ever uttered by man, to be found in the gravest tragedy ever written, { "King Lear." It was when the demented old King prayed for those out in the storm and for those who had not felt the smile of fortune. There was something altogether wrong, thought Colonel Ingersoll, when there was so much poverty and so much wealth concentrated in separate hands. "No man can own five millions of dol lara?tne dollars own him," said the speaker. "He becomes the key to the ; safe in which the shining pile is hoarded, i He is up in the morning early to see I that his fortune is safe and he stays up ] late at night to sec that no one gathers < it in. He loses his friend, his home be- i comes a safe deposit vault, and he is i miserable in his surroundings. What j would you think of a man who should < gather in a heap a million coats, and in \ another warehouse a few million hats, i and then over the w ay another mountain 1 of a dozen million of cravats, and then, < how ridiculous you would account hiin j if he got up and worked all day long for another necktie?[laughter]?and i yet that is just what our rich men are doing and just what the civilization of the near future will say to them in no uncertain tones, 4Thou shalt not do.' We have in each of our cities the West M 1 J il 1 * a. V J jiiuu anu uie r^asi ruiu, mi; pari wnore the proud palaces of the rich arc reared in ostentation and the part far away removed where the hovels and tenements of the poor are huddled together in wretchedness. This is wrong. The poor have to learn that pity rather than envy is what the rich need from them, and the rich have to learn that true and honest hearts beat beneath rags. "Anarchism is the protest against tyrann/, and that is out of place in this country, where we have, despite all its shortcomings, the greatest and grandest Government the world has ever seen. Here the rich and poor can and do meet on one plane?it is the bench where rests the ballot box. There the questions of the future will be answered, truthfully and quickly. It will speak in no uncertain tones, saying that the land which God put outdoors is free to every child of nature. No man has a right to own more land than he can use, and no man who wants land to use ought to be deprived of it. Why, I think if the air about us could be bottled up we would have a big syndicate forming the great American air-bottling association and thousands would die becauso they had not money enough to pay for air to breathe. That is what is going on with the land, and it must stop, but not by any rash means. When a man prcaches justice and advocates robbery a* a way to get it, I suspect him. I do not blame tho rich for what they have, and would not take a pennyworth from the richest of thein except at a fair valuation, but I would take it until every man and woman born in the world had a chance to live through hia or her days hore in comfort and happiness. "Great inventions were never intended to pile up great fortunes and curse the laborer. No, nor will strikes settle anything. The first successful strike will be the last, for the people will rise and show that the grain of the laborer ty? runt must bo kept from the thron^of capital just as sure as the grinding heel of monopoly must not he placed upon the prostrate form of toil. I am an individualist, and the majority has no right to crush my manhood out of me. When we have a nation of homes of these centres where love reigns, where the race is not for riches, but for happiness, then the goal will be reached and content prevail. The unfair test of supply and demand will not be urged when labor is to be paid, but the hired ma'n will be given a living compensation and be a free man among freemen, the peer of any of his fellow-citizens."?_ZVcw York World of Monday. The Seed. Cotton Thieves. To the Editor of the Neivs and Courier: Q.ueslions of vital importance to the agricultural interests of the btate are boing almost daily discussed through the columns of the News and Courier. Ever since "Farmer Tillman" declared himself to be the "Agricultural Moses," and assumed the task of leading the over-burdened tillers of the soil out of the land of Pharaoh and his burdensome task masters, the agricultural question has been especially prominent before the public. Reduction in taxation, the establishment of an agricultural collego, the prices of fertilizers, the oppressive system of the cotton faotorage business, &c., have been, from time to time, very forcibly brought to the attention of the public, all going to prove that the farmers of our State are beginning to awake to their interests and are willing to embark in any enterprise which promises to belter their impoverished condition. In view of the fact, I beg to bring to Lhe attention, not only of the farmer, but of every citizen interested in the material welfare and prosperity of his State, a matter beside which all others, previously discussed, pale into insignificance. I refer to the growing evil of the seed cotton traffic; it is essentially a curse to th&sfotton planter. I think it safe to assert that at least 5 per cent, of the cotton made by the honest farmer is stolen and goes to fill the cotters of i these seed cotton buyers, who open their shop^ at every road crossing in the country about the first of September, and offer inducements to the negroes on the surrounding plantations to steal all the cotton that they can. This, plainly, is an enormous drain on the industry of the country. Five per cent, of the gross cotton production of any planter will pay his taxes for at least two years, or buy a ton of acid phosphate for every plough he runs. But this is not the only loss incurred. This seed cotton traffic increases the price, and heightens the independence of the laborer. When the cotton field begins to array itself in its robe of snowy whiteness, the darkey draws the robe of idle dignity about his shoulders and says, give me fifty cents per hundred or your cotton will remain unharvested. The farmer is forced to concede to this unreasonable demand, and then the probability is that he will Incp a. lnrn?n nnrcflrfnoro frnm mocta fni> .www ~ -ft- r Vl" |UI what negro will hurry himself to gather cotton at fifty cents per hundred in the dapr when ho car gather it at night just as easy, and by carrying it a half mile to the nearest shop realize $2.50 per hundred ? This is not only a great evil, but a growing evil. During the days of Radical rule in the State there was a great deal of cotton stolon, but even then it was confined to sections very near to a town or village. Dating from 187G, however, it has steadily increased, until now it begins to assume alarming proportions. Even the negroes are beginning to open shops. A negro will commence with a capital of $10, with which he will purchase a meagre supply of groceries, which he takes to the plantation on which he lives, and while the planter sleeps and sweetly dreams of brighter days that he will never see, unless he stirs himself from tho lethargy into which he has fallen, these groceries Are exchanged for 500 or 600 pounds of his cotton. Now, what the people of this community wish to know is, why is this condition of affairs allowed to exist? Is the law-making power of the land impotent i to protect us from this system of plunder? Is the midnight cotton thief and his accessory, the midnight cotton buyer, entitled to more consideration at tho hands of the law than th6 honest, hardworking farmer? The people of this I community say emphatically no ! Ami unless some stringont law is enacted at the next session of the Legislature to put down this iniquitous traflie, our representatives will not carry into effect the wishes of their constituents. On the 8th of last September the citizens of this place and the surrounding country held a meeting for the purpose of considering some plan to abate this evil. They formed an organization and went earnestly to work. The associa tion now numbers nearly two hundred men. Every merchant in the plncc stands pledged not to buy a pound of seed cotton, and there are at least two hundred square miles of territory surrounding, on which there is not a seedcotton shop. "We feel highly gratified at the result attained, but are not fully satisfied. We do not think it just that we should bo called upon to spend our time and money to protect ourselves from robbery when wo pay taxes to support a Government for that purpose. B. St. Matthews, Nov. 9, 188G. The Colored Man in Congress. jFrom the New York Enterprise Negro Organ.] There is something significant in the defeat of Messrs. Smalls, of South Carolina, and O'llara, of North Carolina. These two gentlemen have occupied seats in Congress as representatives of the African race a number of years. Both Messrs. Satulls and O'Hara have been until this year repeatedly returned to Congress. Just why Mr. Smalls should have not been defeated before now lies in the fart that the black voters this district are in the majority, and it Smalls, though ignorant himself, was justsmartcnough to gain their con fidenoe and support by his outward seeming and flattery. His record in Congress is anything but complimentary. There is not a single instance in his political history .'as a member of Coogrese whore he has ever put forth a measure to promote the interest of his race. We are told he was I more of a target for ridicule than a statesman; we are told also that he could always be found in low grog shops lounging around on lager beer kegs, while the other representatives were enjoying tho esteem of society at their hotels, and other respectable places. This is a nice record with which to seek a re-election to a seat that a man of learning and self-respect should occupy. Mr. O'Hara's record was little better than Mr. Small's. We do not know of his patronizing grog-shop lunch counters, and telling plantation yarns in negro dialect. Although he did not do much for the race while in Congres, he commanded respect as a Representative. A Congressman can do a great deal to elevate the African race, and when we elect one we oxpoct him to do what he can toward that end. It appears that whenever a representative of our race is placed into office he forgets all about the race until the time for re-election. What did Bruce do either as a Senator or Register of the Treasury?. What did Smalls or O'Hara do? What have all the rest done? Comparatively nothing If that is to bo the order of things, it is better to send white irien to represent us and let the black men stay at home; the white men will surely pity our condition and help us some, as the record shows. But we will not lose confidence in our black Representatives, bccauso wo believe if the right person wne cont tn P.Ar.w?noo uotr n T wv*> ?v wvM^a VOQ} a y 441/rv man from New York, something will bo done to better the condition of the AfricoAmericans. Wo shall expect a little more from Mr. Abbott, who was elected to Congress from the Second district of Nort Carolina, than we got from Bruce, Smalls, O'Hara and'the rest. He will be the only black man among the arfuy of white men but he can make Rome howl if he has a mind to. A Fatal Bird Hunt. Newbkrry, November 13.? Robert B. Holland, a son of President Holland, of Newberry College, while bird-hunting near town this afternoon,nccidentally shot himself. lie had just killed a bird and was reloading the empty chamber when the other barrel exploded and ho received a load of shot near the naval. He will possibly live tewenty-four hours. He is an only son, about 13 years of ago. The accident is deplored by the whole community. i Subscribe to Thk Mkbssnoer. ???wmu The Andorer Controversy The New York Times of Mondaj' says The quarrel of the younger and older theologians at Andover concerning the proper way of converting the heathen was discussed by the Rev. Dr. Robert Collyer at the Church of the Messiah yesterday morning in a sermon on "Christ nnd Calvin at Andover." During his sermon Dr. Collyer said that it had been his busiuess to watch the course of thejtrouble at Andovoer. "It is to be carried into the courts, said he, but whatever the law may sa)\ the Gospel, as we understand it is to be the gainer beyond all question. These men who hold the new wine in new bottles, as I take it, are there within the fortress that was built to maintain the ancient rule of faith. They will notfinaintain it because they do not believe it true. Bright, eager, and'honest men'can bo silent no longer, nor hide their light, but set it in the candlestick of the pulpit the teacher's chair, wherever they cnn find a coign of vantage. Tlicy who have begun to affirm the new mode of believing say that, after the way they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers.' "The trouble about the hapless heathen seems of be the spark that has struck the fire. The followers of the old creed say there is no salvation except through Christ. The heathen has no konwledge of Christ, and is therefore to be cast into hell. Our reply is that such an idea is^a terrible impeachment of the Divine goodness. Can wo use the word theory for that which would consign millions of mankind to everlasting woe? We do not believe that, while the heathen have not light enough to save them thev have light enough.to damn them. "We believe that those who know not of God's love in Christ here in the body will have such knowledge after they die not only those heathens, but all men. It would not be just for God to condemn men hopelessly when they have not known Him as He really is. We will not believe that a thing is right because God wills it, and that, 1 may say in passing, is the whole foundation of the old stern faith, but that God wills it because it is right. That is the stand they take against the old cruel dogma, conviction of the Divine sobriety?the sobriety, say of loving kindness and mercy. In the truth they try to tell, touching the Christ again, they show us how very far they have marched away from Calvin and his school, and how near they stand to unrist's own hurt and ours. 1 hey hold that to deny the teachings of Jesus is to deny the essential qualities ot His humanity. They say that there is no divinity in His words which does not find expression through their humanity, and to deny their humanity is ta^e away their divinity, but the best medium for canveying Gond's truth to the world is a human life filled and inspired by the truth." The Coining: Stcrm. [From the Washington (D. C.) Gazette. | Massachusetts has a small area of territory, but a very dense population? much over two hundred to the square < mile. Her people are intelligent and educated, and the State contains a larger number of thinking men than any other ] in the country in proportion to the pop- j ulation. Jt was a remark of Alexander i Hamilton, well remembered in Massachusetts, that the genius of the Repub- j inctifMtinnu rlnmnntla fnr fKnir nrn. ........ ."? ?.?w. 1" V" , nervation a sparse population to the square mile. The problem thus pre- ' sented to Massachusetts is whether a re- < public can exist where there is a dense ] population, and consequently where the competition for existence is intensely j strong and active. Massachusetts be- ] lieves that in the proper administration < of the Government lies the solution of i this problem?that as Republican institutions are sufficient in themselves for existence and development in thinly populated countries, so when the num- i her of people has become great and ' dense, men must step in to aid the in- 1 slitulions. Under the "spoils system" 1 nil things might do as in 1860, when the i United Stato had three mililon square i miles and twenty-three millions of peo- 1 pie, and Massachusetts herself less than < a million population, but the ''spoils system" is fatal when the population of the whole country has nearly trebled 1 th6 amount named, and Massachusetts 1 shows over two millions of people in i her limited area of sevon thousand eight 1 hundred and fifty-six square miles. The i first ailcmpt^to introduce purity in the administration of the Government, to remove the stain upon Republican institutions consequent upon the corrupt and bitter partisan "spoils system''?the first attempt, I say, to purify the Government in its political methods, was made by Mr. Cleveland. That attempt was successful. Tho thinking men of Massachusetts see this and know that in Mr. Cleveland they have that happy combination of firmness, wisdom and practical common sense necessary to eccompliah tho result they are satisfied munt bn ??? aomplished if tho Republic shall live.'^Si For this season, among others, did the old Federalists blood of Massochustto, through its best families, give Grover Cleveland a reception worthy of tho President of fhe United States and warm enough to express to him the high consideration and estimation with which they regard him personaly. The defender of" the Constution, the purifier of the national politins. the champion of the Republic as opposed to to a monarchy or a despotism. Mr. Cleveland cannot fail to see, by this enthusiastic reception in the great metropolis of New Kngland last Monday, that he struck tho right key of the chords of the popular heart, and that the people are with him in the most earnest sincerity. High and low, rich and uoor. nil nl<L-o -- ! 7 ? ?"W #*11 interest in the perpetuity of th?> Republic, and all alike welcome Clevland as their representative men. Use the Bayonet, Olonel. In an article on Stonewall Jackson in the Southern Bivouac for November, Thomas M. Boyd tells of his appearance on the field of battle: I never was close to him on the field of battle )but once; that was on the hill not far from tho Henry House, at the first battle of Manassas. He was ex" tremely pale, but his eyes glared with an unnatural brilliancy. It was on that occasion that Colonel Baylor, of Augusta County, rode hurriddly up to hiin and said, 'General, my men arc armed with the old flint lock musket, and not half of them will fire.' He replied, if you will examine it, you will find that old musket has the best bayonet in the world. Use the bayonet, Colonel.' In a short while the Federal troops began to give way and it is'possible that this circumstance turned the tide of battle. 1 have seen the statement somewhere that General Bee said to him, 'General, they are beating us back,' and Jackson's reply was, we will give them the bayonet, sir. This may be true, but it is probable that the remark made to Colonel Baylor was afterward claimed to have been made to General Bee. I will never forget the terrific fighting that evening about three o'clock? the roar of artillery, the screaming, bursting shell, the rattle of small arms. The smoke blinded me; I stopped lojr. _ to see how to lead my men. We were almost exhausted, and burning with ^ thirst. Beauregard galloped by; this gave U3 some hope, and we cheered hiin nnd pressed on. The Federals fniicrhfc O-- desperately. At last I saw .Jaskson, and 1 felt safo, for his presence always inspired his men with confidence. That evening he wns shot through the bridle-hand. General Imboden apnvnonKnil V* 5 ? a ? A!_ - ' * vaucu iito okveniiun to ine lact, und suggested surgical aid. Jackson *aid, 'It is a mere scratch, sir.' His hand was bound up with a sash, he continuing on the field until the engagement ceased. He then repaired to the place where the wounded had been collected. The surgeons were busy, of course. One of thein seeing General Jackson, approached and offered his assistance. The General insisted that the surareon ittend to those who were more seriously hurt than himself, soyingj he preferred tvftiting until the private soldiers were relieved. . A Shower of Blood in Hampton; "" A correspondent writes: On Tuesday morning, 4th instant, just after sunriso, Mr. Jeff Dowling was hoeing in a Field, some distance from the house, ' when he heard something like rain falling on him and on the grass around. He nvestigated and found it to be blood. He looked about him and overhead and sould see no clouds, no bird flying, and .A Ah- 1- - * ' IV ncu naa ill unjr ysrilH Oi 1110 BPOt. rhe blood was thick and soon clottod on bis hand and coat, when he went to his v, bouse and his peoplo saw and examined the substance. They pronounced it blood, and no ono can explain the phenomenon.?Hampton Guardian*