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VOL. XXII. ,{$: ^R r.W iNrRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMIERI 15, .188. - : ruinenern Jroi.tors. NO. 49 Reduction of Salaries and High 'Ta'xes. There is a bill before the General Assembly the object of which is ti reduce the salaries of various officers of the State, as well as the salaries of the Supreme and Circuit Court Judges. There is no one who is more anxious to see and have econ. omy in our State government than ourself, but, while this is the case. we like to see every man and officer paid what his work is really worth. There is such a thing as false econ omy and it appears to us that our law makers and reformers are about to fall into this error. Our Supreme and Circuit' Court Judges do not receive one dime more than they are entitled to. Should their pay be cut down the result will be that these high and responsible positions will be sou;ht, only by second and third rate ability. If we are to keep first class judges on the bench we must not cut down their pay. While we admit that some re. form is needed and that our people are by no means rich, we do not ad mit that we are too poor to pay our judges their present salaries. But few people realize the amount of work done yearly by our judges. It is not our taxes that are making us poorer every year. Our taxes are but a drop in the bucket to other matters that pull us down and over which we have complete control without asking the aid of the General Assembly. A man who pays three or four dollars in taxes will spend i hundred in a manner that he should not and then blame his ill success on luigl taxes and extravagauIt public oflicials. We are of that class of men who believe that the prosperity of our people is in their own hands and that we must rely upon individual exertion and economy for success in life. It appears t at our plepc will never learn that all this cry ab--ut high taxes is, simply, in very nearly every case, the cry of the demogogue and the politician seeking ollice. No nskit in South Carolilia can stel to the front and show that high taxes since 1876 has kept him from becom ing rich or from making noney in a small way. No man in this State is now poor from heavy taxation. It is an easy matter to show that so many hundreds of thousands of dollars have been collected in taxes from the pockets of the people looks big and is apt to draw in the unthinking and make them believe that the coun try is being ruined by taxation, but what do our taxes amount to per capita, when divided among one mil lion of people. The rich pay most of the taxes, yet they do not make any outcry about it. A negro who only has one dollar to pay in taxes will keep scveral worthless dogs that will cost him a great (leal to feed and still lie will grumble at his one dollar tax and never dream that it is his worthless dogs that are keeping him poor. lIe will not attach uny blame to himself, but is always willing to cry out against our government and taxes. It is a well known fact that we will not, under any circumst,ances, if we can avoidl it, lay blame upon0 our selves. It is human nature to ascribe our shortcoming, of. whma tever nature, to anything else than ourselves, and in this way when the times amre hard we shlove t,be blame from our o1wni (loors andl lay it at the door of the General Assembly. This is our view of the matter andl in it is contai ned our reason for op posing a reduction of' the salaries of our judiges, as it would be false econI omy and would be anm injury to thme State.-Abbeville Mhedimn, D)ec 9th. Jud(ge of thle Eight Circuit Is the most ab)sorbming eletion be fore the Legislature. The candilidates have, until last, Saturdany, been in Columbia t,he greater portion of t,he time, andl most of them all of time time, since tihe Legislature met. 'Thle friends of Col. Norton claim that lie is consideraly in the lead, while the friends of M1aj. Whitnier and Col. Parker (10 not concede this claim. The fact is, we think that each of' these gentlemen have a number of strong frIends, and tihe conht,est is close andl uuncertain en'Lough? to ilmke it decidedly interesting. We think Maj. Whiitner has gaine(d steadlily on the Legislature, andl would as so 01" perhaps sooner, take his chanlices tIhan that of any other canidluate. Mr. Graydoni, of Ahbheville, will also make a very crc itable race for a young man, and1( Col. D)onalson willI get some votes. .Judge Cothran will not resign before thme fifteenth or twentieth of this month, and hene the election is at least, ten (lays oIl In that period very many changes may occur, and1( hence tihe friendsn of' each candidate will b)e required to give no little time to keeping up their fences as well as to securing acquisitions. - Senatdor Murri, in Antlarsna J,ntollinnon Moving 311indly, j ti The reasons why the changes in, o the present organization of t lie de. 11 partment of agriculture asked for in l the memorial of the late Farm;r's d Convention, are unnecessary and \ should not be made, have been set P forth at length in a previous article. I No developments have been madec ri nor reasons given to ca.u-se any C change of opinion on this point, We only desire to calI the attention S of' our law-makers to what seems to d us a noteworthy fact, the marked dib. r agreement between the views of the ti farmers' convention, as -expressedl in i their memorial to the General As- i sembly, and the views of the lobby- a ing committee appointed by that con. r< vention, assumi;ng, naturally, the bills a presented in the House by a prom,i- I nent member of the convention v L embody such views. The memorial, as far as it relates to the department in question, urges, for the purpos:. of divorcing the ad- h linistration of our agricultural in- ti terests from "polities and politicians" C and obtaim;nt a board "at once clii- It cient, zealous and representative," 1) that the farmiers' association alone a should selcet the board of a;ricul 11 ture, instead of their being appointed, ex of/icio, or elected by the Legisla " Lure. 01 The Committee does not seem to V agree with the convention as to tli b propriety of this request. The frst bill presented in the House gave, it ti is true, the nomination of the mem- Ii bers of' the board to the farmer's as sociation, but it also required that ti the General Ass-mbly should confirm ti such nominations, and that if any it nominee shoibl prove unas:i'isf;ctorc- li his place shouMl.l ie supplied by ' ' General Asseh;lOy. The coinur,ittee, thouit more Conservative in thi '.ar ticular than th- body it was appoint Ct cd1 to represent. in otiicr r:: ects a went beyond the r euc i: !t T body. It propos'led to d,gra: '.h t" department of a'ricultur:e fr tie o emninently3 proper p:ositionh of a d1. ti partmLcut of the State governimnet to A that of a mere corporate body ; it pro posed further to take away from the b. General Assembly the election of the 01 Commissioner, a bonded and com. a missioned oflicer, and place it in the gi hands of the board. is Nowhere does the bill offer a sug. a' gestion of any value for the improve- ti ment of the administration of our mo t gricultural affairs. The committee lb seems to have realized the manifest pl imperfections of the measure referred p to, and have endeavored to obviate 0 its certain defeat by procuring the Ll introduction of a bill to aime nd tVhe t! act creating the present department, the amendment,s proposed being the tc substitution of the title "The South ci Carolina Board of Agriculture" for c that of "The Department of Agricul. mt ture," the election of the members of m the board-all to be agriculturists-- al by the Legislature, without the inter- - vention of the farmers' association, C the election of the commissioner by bi the board after the expiration of the it term of the present commissioner, tih and a crumn; thrown to the hundredls p)1 o1f meinb)ers of the State Grlange and g State Agricultural anmd M ech'unical Cf Society by allowing th,bem five repre- oh senlta:tives each at thme annual farm- ml ers' con vontion to lbe heldl unider thme m auspices oh the board. This p)roject CC has beenI made thie special omrdemr for ia to-day, aund will be sjubmnitted, unless at some fu rther cihange occurs to the~ C minds of the commlIittce, which may e'nab)le thmend either to attalin thmei'r tI views inr a still more indi rect mannter ci or to givye thema up ent,iriely ando sub- a etitute others thierefor-.w Will the Ge neral,Assembly for-get :e hat this comnmitItee is not set,t.in Bv fort,h even the views of' t,he conlven- s.1 Lionl it was appoi ntedl to represent, f( andI that it has sugg'ested nothiing to til Iilmprove but priobab ly muchel to imiir Pn the elliciency of our agiricultnural ad- it mlinlistrat,ion ? - C'olu,inhin Rei erC, l*) D!ec-.11l/h. ' ir M'dajor B)radlhey, the (Collector-, wh'lo wvent into om~ce by3 the iappointmenlt of Mr. Clevelandl to succeed Major I;rayton, tie e-publ ican Col lector-, fountd inl his oflice Capt. J. L . Little, anl ack nowledgedl Replubl ican of the dleepest dye. lie at on1ce d ischarged( o' hiim for reasonls satisfaictory to him self and the puldic and( appoim3tal .\r. W. MIcH. Shani t) succentk him. On L,he 8!uth Novemiber M\ajor- Brad ley reua~ted Mr i. Siloan to resign.-I Mr-. Sloan1 decl ined to accedle to the request, without reasons for- hiis (1d i elharge, Lhe oinly reasonis hav inigLe n given that& lhe was enigagedl in other business, which virtually admiut,s (lid not interfere with his buisinuess as deiputy collector-. Mr'. Sloan havinag decli ned, Major Br-ad ley ap)poiniiteol Capt. Lit.tle to succeed hiim, and( vir- w tually kicked Mr-. Sloan out of the S ofilce. PuIblic oillcials are alwvays the subijects of legitima: e criticis'm, 1E and( what we and( thousands of other a citizens of South Carolina e n- L )ms to know is for Major Bradley > explaii why he turned Capt. Little If. It for sufficient reason, why he as been reinstated, an acknowledged 1 epublican, and a good )emocrat i ischartged to make a place for him. t 4as there no other ' )emocrat com etent to fill the off- - ? If Capt. ittle was competent, and no other jason existed for his discharge ex- t ept that he was a Republican, why , as he discharged ? If suflicient r^a ns existed for his discharge, why 3 i:-charge i colml)etent Democrat and a instate Little ? We want light and t ie public have a right to and do do-o and an explanation from Collector I iadley. We acknowledge that we i re opposed to civil service reform 1 >ot and branch, but the above is not question involving that subject. e want, liglit.--Firield News and a erult 1. Dec. 8th. he Iresideilt and the Supreme Court. It iYl not at1 all improbable that the 1 )oh irtiiient of a majority of the jus- i ccs of the United States Supreme e ourt may fall to I'resident Cleve- . 'id. Indeed, this is altogether a robable if Mr. Cleveland is to serve a second term. Justice W1'oods has a :At app;ared on the bench this sea m, and it is a serious question t itlher lie will ever return. Of the y her members of the court four- d Taite, Miller, Field and Bradley-. we reached that age-seventy-: , hich they are entitled by law to re- t re with a continuance of salary for a fe. t Should President Cleveland have j Ce appointilent of five Justices-. n ley being a majority of the court- s would be an event which, we be e, has happened but once in the f, st half century it not since the orig- ' a1l o)rganization of the 'ourt. Pres- . eni Linco).n appt,inte:l five Supreme e murt .Jum ices, of whom two-Miller t id Feild-are still en: the bench. t his we believe is a :eater number hi i iu has ever heen selected l4 any s e President. Grant appointed c rec, Ilayes two. C arfield one and Lhur two. ti The iniluencb that may be wielded a r the President--with the consent n the Senate---in the appointment of , majority of the Supremc Court is v 'eater and more far reaching than v. generally supposed. Few are vare of the vast power exercised by lr at tribunal. It can make or nn- s, ake the fundaleital law of the I md. It can enlarge or restrict the tl 'erogatives of the President or the a >wcrs of Congress. It can increase r< diminish the centralized power of ,u e nation. 1t can extend or curtail u e dominion of State sovereignty. d in theory this vast power belongs a the people alone, and can be exer- b sed only by them by virtue of their c elusive right to make, unmake or nend their constitution. But, as a Li atter of fact, it can be, has been e id still will he wielded by five men 6 -a majority of the national Supreme u urt. That tribunal is a final ar ter of the constitution, and while p has no authority or right to change fi e constitution, but only to inter- a, et its mneanling, it has repeatedly w~ v'en to that instrument a for-ce and( j 'eet never inltendled or even dreamedl by its fr'amners. TIhie constitution ,y cans just what the Sunpreme Court ay say it meaCans, anii when the mrt has spoken its edict becomes a w that can be c'hangedI only by inend ing the Con stitution or by the E >urt reversing its own (decision. Illustrations are abundant. Ini r e D)red Scott case the court (de- " aredi that a negro was nmot andi couldl >t, become a citizen. Thlat decision t as denounced by the ablest jurists hibeing contrary to thme Constit.ution. ~ ut the principle remained in our -'tem tilauw till eradlicat,edl byV the ' urteenmth amend ment. The "court ~ -st delatred that Congress has no F >wer to i.ssue legal tend'vrs. Then ~ declared that, Congress has such i! >wer. In one or the other of these t stances the court changed the Con itution andl enlarged or restricted1 t e poweCrs of Congress. A t first the C murt gave to the fourteenth amend. Y ent an interpretation that greatly " irtailed the p)ower of' the general 9 >'ernnmnt aind enilariged that, of the .1 bates. It has since adopted aL conl ruction that. curtails State sover. ginty and extenids th e pinhciple of C 'ntrailization . W hatever view it .~ ay tahke, i! s deels on iepresents t he C .w to he observed hby thle Presidenit, ongriess, St ates anad thei peoplde. d Sueh is the power that maiy be ~ ieldedl by five of the n ilne men sit- n nig ia a small I''om of the Capitol at ~ fash inigton. 'iT1. naming of the s'e to sorve for many years to comle r ay possibl hfvallI to one man-,Grio 4c. lith. t Patent134 s Mmued ini Monthainoliina. F! Onm D)ecember 7th 1886 a patent . as issued to Mr'. L. F'orst.er D)uncan, ii pal'anhmurg County, S. C., for a I' muitiUvator-" and to W. B. Simpson f ichburg,Chester County, S. C., for' F "sed lanter and fer-tilizer (dis- t 'iutor."' 1.~ A Revolting Murder. About sundown, on Tuesday artt week, on the plantation of' Vm'n. E. Good, who lives withii burth a mile of Broad River, in restern part of this county, Was cc nitted one of the most brutal in lers, and tot the least apparent cam hat has ever been our lot to reco Ulost in broad day light and i uore than tw o hundred and ti 'ards froin his parents' house, lit olon Lee Good, a lad of only ab( welve years of age, was cruelly in lered. lis father was absent fr< LOme at the time of this occurren aving; gone to the mill, but his or help was heard at the house, nmediately his mother and a lit egro boy hastened to the scene, n open field, where a shocking si, as presented. In a narrow dil r gully, lay the mangled body he poor wounded boy. His sk ad been crushed, his mouth mashed in, and every eviden:ce slt d that lie had been 1m(1st crue eaten. 'T'lhe ground was tralplh nl well defined tracks were not( nd lying around were stone:3 snesr nd spattered with blood. The dreadful news spreai rapil birough the neighborhood and an estigation was begun almost imu intely by Trial Justice J. P. Blv eting as coroner. Tle theory upon which the inv gation is being conductel, a ph ible clue having been obtained, hat somlie of the negroes working I Ir. Good, or other negroes in i eighborhood, having plotted to st( nmie baskets of cotton to be pi osely left in the field, approach >r the purpose of taking the cott< 'lhen unexpectedly they met the I Ic boy and as means of preventi xposure killed him, probably 3nding to conecal the body irowing it into the river, only t 1111(1redl yards distant; but, " f'ro )mc can se were prevented from th omlpleting their I1loody work. E; idenen :a to the miotive see, > be satis:':ctory to all, thouI_h thr re other theories advanced, cri: ating only the suspected persol hich in the preseht, light of the i estigation, we (1o not deem it isable now to print. On Wednesdav, Trial Justi lair committed to jail Mose Li 30mb, Dan Roberts and Bail owdle, all colored, charged '"wi le murder of John L. Good or beii 3cessory thereto." and they we !ceiv"ed by the Sheriff and lock p on Wednesday night; and on S rday, another neg;ro sined 're ent-of-the-United Scott lhOpii)sc Fis 'rint 'Ihompson, w as colhitt. y Trial J ustice Blair on the s,m Iiarge, lp to Friday night, the 'i'ria:l .I cc, in conductin g the in(ques, b; sanilned abont twenty wit.ness, hen lie adjourned the in vstigatii util next, Friday. Since the above was written a1 Lt' in type we have received a lettl 1om) Bullock's Creek, giving soh lditional particulars of' the atroi hichi we prinlt iln anolther cohann i. orke cilke Er~t( iir, DI)c. Nh/. lhe 311ississiippi auu<i Sout hi C~aro,illuna A rieualturil colleges. 'Thle one is an establishled thin ie other is a pr'opositionl-now I )>re our1 Legislature. Anid as yadt the extracts-punbl ished in r ther columinn-f'rom the Report of t. I ississippi College for' 1884--'85> al ICCe l c nut's thaertoni, we can ii (dp thiniking seriously, almost pai lily, of' this mnatft'. A mid simull eouisly the newspapers f'rom inam IIl)parts of our State bing omni no ows of' the inability of' the people ay their taxes. Is not the first, et f' the agricultural college estimint t f'romn one hundrilied tliHhosan iree h iundredo thousandl dollari V hen we calculate the int,erest upi uis first, cost, whether it he $100,0( r $200,000, or $300,000, and add early alprop)rial,ion of someC $41,0( 'e caninot, help askinig ourselves wh. io Divine Alast,er me'aint, by thei inctin that a man shuotih) provi r those of' his own hious~ehohl. 'T tate pays its six per cent. intere very six months ; and it is inot,bi ut.just it, t,bat, should be comnpoundi vecry six mxoniths. We are aft I ~iend( of ed1ucation ; andl beyond; oubt wve need 1better agricualturial< cation. But when it, c"inis to mitter' of' taxation, let us thionk w, four clii r ' in the coming yem a' in thlese coining years, wh round( to the dust to satisfy the< innds of' the tax-gatherer, we f ur children wouldl ret urn sin; banks to, or feel little reverence f< lie parents who had laid upon01 th< uch a burden. 'Thei Chiroicle does not opposet eparate agriculIturadl oge. ItL si 13y warns all p)artie's and all pool rom iminmatuire action in the pire es. L1et this matter lhe studied dos o the very ground.--Edaqel<l Ch/r dc,l. 8th. 1-or ithe iiii{-i.. At Nr.ws More Abotit (hat l iale. ot \tit. IttTuolt: lin your issute of Dee. . th, l 1i11( ain art ih' he:(l1ed "A l'rnrir 'I After a lale of Cotton." and msti, say a that the only mnatter of surprise about he the wholte ala;tir is, that so inany muis tu1- st:itcnel.ts of facts could be compressed u r. into ont . inall article. Why was not t facts, and only facts, pihislied ? Truth i.is always mniglity and will pre!vail. Now rt(-.here. is : plain statenent of facts. Oin lot Satuttirday Nov. 27th, U. M. Able brought, fty a bale of cotton (t Prosperity antd soldl tie it, to Wise Bros., who gave 'Nr. Able II credit for the value of the hale on his "t(Ontit. 'l'hei oil Montday the 21th li It ' Noveinber, Mr. Gallian c:ime and took il out :i ttachment on the Wile. Wise cc, liro<. tient said as Mr. Gallmiani was also ry itldehted !o themn, rathcr t1hian have any li trolhle, they w oultl take the crelit frotm 31r. Ahle and tive it, to \lr. (Ialli:, not. only for the valite of the' hale of cot iu ton, bit. for the flill amnount of Mr. Call hIt inan's debt, which was a note for $71.26. c Tli' Mr. (bilhiin refiseil to do, Saying, ot he woltl I:ive nothiltr' but (lie cottol. .il I'his note was iutl( payable to tht' Bank of Newberry, S. C., atnil went. to protest, as atil wa' p ai by Wis Bros. w. The following alilavit of Mr. Abl' lly will >.how I lie uidler-t:iniliiig uii1lei' which ,, tlie hale of cotton was sold: ., S'I'A'1Tl: ()1-'501"l'lI C AR101,NA, C(I (o'Nrt 01-' N-: iii:lt;uy. P?ersonally enane before mue, (I. 3. lv Able, :in maltl' oath that Mr. .1. J. (lall .uian r;ave hilu pernii-sion Io sell the bale in- of cotton sohl by me to Wise Bros. on ic- the 271Ii Nove"mier, :iind that. I bal the jr, tilert:rsiunling wit h the sai(I .1. .. Gall miian Ihat. h11ie proieed; of sale were to he applied to tle acconut "of William " : II'mol, colored, w it h W i.e lros. il- Sworn to before mn' tlii- th l.iy of I) is mentbir, 1"(I. A. iI. KolIN, N. 1'. S. C. G. M. A h1I1'. hie Willi ('atuo worked withi \Ir. A be, who hatl lai teatetl froun Mr. .. ,J. (;illna. 'l'he cottonl wa4 sold by pernis Ir- sion of Mr. G.illhn:ui. h1Ien \r.(IallIan el came oi the 2!thIi Novetuber antd took ti ,n aLtachmieit, W1ise liro.' ,ave the ustal i bidi, whichi was draiwn for l.00 aid signctl by ,. Lawsuii Wi.e, Alln I. 11 > 1Wis( aind Jamet" 11. \ 1,'(Yt Alv. In- G;allmiai refit-el to --rept ti-, a: goo by bon1. If Mr. (lalliiau n was so r:InlmiIli ,vo for' hi : hale'. why <11 lh - in0 1-t 1 he' ait tl ta('hin-"nt :lt"r":uly etin oIt ahon,'. 'The lnui w:as as goo<l as l iihila. of Nl'w U.) hl'rr'\ f -r. the :114nlnut o; !te h IoI-h - it .-, I, h:al h en otlter" , .71.- f,.' li s ld,, in,arly lolbl its vuiile". What to 1100 ctultd ie wish. I1' lie was on Ihe h1i- nt11 f, r at litt te eb1:en .;lot ii . e I. per-. ftet ly uielcotne to aill ne :ai or h s m:atlt. If Mr. Gall:uaii h.tl t, phlae :giirl over l- hi- ulde wliilt' the Trial . a- w c 'li d(- gagedI prep,arin; 1 :IItr,, hw wa" it he got all the way to Newberry to have e other ollicer lake out, a new allicli ment. The' hade must. have got a little t/tune. All that -I,I111'abo1t, 'i-len I was }' spie<l, Liii' cottol, aol tih. (dumpinpjg (ill LIt aid ith(' ribbin. oit the Iigiures" I wilI )or leave to the weiglii to explain. 'I'he N.'ipher at .'rosperity lis a rtltutt:Iion 1or honesty an1d fair ile:Iling hat cannot be s(IhIl"l b,y:any ,11("1 in-iintious. The lt- Tri:l .ist icc a l'roslurity litl ivery si t,hi ., for 3Mr. (::llhuan1 that the htaw at alowed b'm1 to d!o ; he does not propose to 'Ii go ollt-,ble of lm law to l,le-a, the whilus of : iia,' :ti, if li, is ot (lit' liiiiii. of :I b.tc of .iol. 'l'he 'l'rial .'iistice dil tt"lI MIr. (:lu:hn:u to mncet, hinm at I'ros s- pecrity the next mornting, amel he (lilt ,d ilrive out of itowl hat miorning to his farn-, ausi;'e it-re w:1s lire in the woods , tha' wa.: lilkt"ly to <lo him g;riL taiiuag;e, f:tlly at n,h as the vIlaw of : i /, Ie IwtI to look after this tire, aui iiot1 idl I.o c. eape from t he p,res('nce of Mir. G,all-. r , Ia on the hiit of his hale. An<l I ne wotd Sly, h liti r. (iens comeic to y' aidl, Ilhe pro'(baIliiy is fIll . ,n ra fame.i ii hyOtt it tuni if " lii- thers emi Iof town. li llutili thl liiwa moh-rii golodt/ bondwj beforea i I tlet I nbloty 1 he.t sai. abovf N hI wi'M. (Glaia o lt' many i r lned Ii.iaI' iat lyt wt t,othe w andi thley li- ' it'inno r, iihve nt iui,i Io do. <h-neii, but thle endi i, iot et - . 11 llal I'luThe Pri-dentI'si. Mecsa,e. us5 - to l' autal ofliicial connliuiintin st, of 'res idient.(It Clvlandt toLi Con gress, ed1 which we linlt ini fll, is a comIiplet,e to andt compr)ieheive~' StaLe papetr. It, 9? tomilts ntinig imphj ortanit, touches 'I upon niothinlg trivial, andisi 1clear1 1t0, aind decisiv1 e inl its rtecotinfie ndla a Liiolls. 0, M ltreover', it is IDemoocr'atic to t,he at core-a str'ong patlrty ldoc uet, whlichl ni- LteI peol e whoE ltedto IMr. Cl evelIand lie tenitmen'lt. ig foundited upon01 thle p ieial inqiuir'ies Ill awol suiggentionls otf the hilwis ofi the at. vaios01 deparcI itm1enit who i'ompoiise dl Mir. C'h-velandli 's Cainet, showiing hi's di- eloe iiiiervisioni of' t he ':ral: Ifunie a tionsi5 oit an e(oniiiaiIl ate I flit uti ;; ilo ll d inistrative pi 3 be- which pertLains partienilairly to) the ex. ar ceutivye lhead ~ L it'e t ilio-ouar 11i for'eign r'ela tionis, the fisheries, hot,n. tm iand copy1'righlt I teat ies, LIhe Larii', tIhe co)inagE, pen isionis, 'i vil serv-ice and1 lie the go verinmenti of Lthe l)istrict of' m- Columblia,ii-\lr. (ClevebaooI l dvoLes a ie mlor'e perisoiial aind pirofound)i atten iii- tin. v-n AlmoI(st as8 impolErt.at, ias his tarifT' ,m- rectoiflnend(atins arle thec Prtesidenit's viewsl 011 thit c'ltoln- (if c.pit.l ...d labor, which we discuss at length in another column. We await with some amusement the criticisms of the opposition press upon this message. It leaves them less of a handle than would suffice to lift the weight_ofl' a good man's col science. The people know that the country is exceptionally happy and prosper ous. The message is simply a mol est and straightforward statement of what has been (lone to preserve such a condition, and what_mnay;be done to improve it. His apparent leaning toward free trade the Star hails with delight. It rests with the people, through their representatives in Congress, to take or leave the further benefits which a )eiocratlc administration, with such a chief, prolers.-Newn York Star, De,-c. 8th. For the ii1nA UI AN NE:ws. (lynplivllle Section-Along the 13road. It will be remembered hv the inhab italits of this section aid( by no one longer than myself, that about the 20th of la4t May our lands were flooded by higher and swifter waters than was ever k1lown to low along the now innocent looking;' streaml of Broad river, not only was the crops, the fenviig, and noch of the liv" stock of our neighborhood swept. away, but our lands rendered un lit for replanting this year, and in many ,laces rtuiining them forever. Eight days later we had a most terrific hail storn, completely destroylug tie re 'a"inder of our crops, and damaging the hods to such an extent as to place the people, inl an almost, helpless condition. MusteriIg ill) courage through the con I inuous rains, inl the iud anti grass, tie crops were replanted-taking on more cou rage, the battle for a crop was fought bravely, manfully, but, the in favoab le se:isoan has caused us to lose the prize we were striving for-a fair crop. The crop [4 a failure. Some of our farmers will not average one hale of cotton to the plow and little or no corn. '.'lhis may seet a lit,tle exaggerated to I.1he reader who did not meet, with the mi:fortiune of having their first, planti,ing dea :royed, hbut with us it, is only too tru(, and our n'nile are certainly in a depl( ral)l con(ditioa. Not. only has t.he mlaoney ben1) exh:ttsted with (he crops but. ti' aiit, (if this section is gone with it. and we begin to fear that the worst has aot come yet. We have divided allnost. the last with our laborers, the negro looking forward with anlxious heart,s to Chiristuas, as a time to rest of these pests for awhile. Buit when we tliinlk of tir being turued away with outt. mt1oney or the necessities of life, we are at a loss, al can only exclaim, what are we to do ? while the echo answers what. COUN'I'rYMAN. A zi lgaieesliagl L le"' fiott uilanat .ie:lnm . "(ialhhmm Acaemiey"' School opened 1adnlay vwith sixt( t lipils, Mliss .11elc' 1 I l(ldges teacher, at good opiniiig owl hr1" h( bri Weat 11'r aill muIddy ron(IH. 51o will have :iu or 55 pmpils when all enn atterl. 'Tio hoiso is finishedt as far as iuinti led fur the lpe sonit.. We havo not ipatid oIn 4olltir for work, our boys of tho s("hool paid most of it. LTawson1 and Erin (at Fm'eli's, Eblio Long and IItbI1)iu Neol did imo:t of tho work, Shockley Jfrotllers ean't bwat it muela theso yor1'.1g m11on1 siy if wo get tho paint they will try their 1h1iis neighorhood hai imp roved won dearfulhly witini the hast. fewv years thei pubil it ' rads', aonte leadinjg fromait Nowwbor, y bt Pomrit . iii netl from tProsper~ t'it y, ini lho <b r'et iton of M;ayb ittnS, OneO lsuing fi ait Ito Ptaia't r'oiit tao the Ridge ro ad, gi eat iinpro'vemen'ats htave. bie(einimido ailonig tea-o road s. Messrs. Toma ani td Kiardl eted'tt( fhmio houses oni Ihto P omartiroad i'(t Mra. .JeoI' Qttiittleb atmia a wi~ork shop tat is hoIse ariul aloes aill kindas of (enbintt woirk, Mr'. W. N. Long has mado gretat ianpjroverneint, Ont his ptltaeo withi mu ho last fewI V 'tatrs. Maessrs-. Mtart in tamtIi Mamuda St ir t so hiavae bilth. a t heirI i haiSO for thoa ronvaiten otlit)(f th ir Anunt., Mris. A rgronio, inc lih'eriti returin ifrom O)rtagebuinrg. M r. Mat till I . Mootr hias b.ailt, two nico lit Ita c'atttige's fotr tenanijts, ona theo Prosperity rada . TJhae (hln inan's live batenla ii liing whieirever thieso, ratdtt touch theirni. 'Mdr. ('targte Itiriflini htat just finiishaeda ta little bIt' iea r ih'o it Prosplerity3 roatd, it. wviIIlaba t<.'euttlied by3 Mr'. (. (Chitiaua, Mr. ,J. Cad vit Ne' I has nidae his ilwollinig now, oraily used1 hIs cald frtamo ; sawiedl fte hiber onm h is ownt tatnd. Mtess's.. P orry tad Beta li Iftao~ h iavo a grist mill tind 5. 11. Fel.. lamrs & Cot., hiave ta st at ioary coattont gin, t whaichl a 34ti('il got yaour gr'aiin grondc tand .'vouri ttonaa gined. Godl thi Cannona (real iiek lurc has cl ientiado nowv firoma bteginming. tatoaand. JlThe Rlidlg roada( cam-. miiirity hiav'o htuled hunbiler toa butild a hchtII' iart Mr. Willitam IBobbls which will beacommnieed sooi, wo htavo tall tho Mr. WN. WN. GIrilini's littlo sn Elbiert will seI yo ~ti a lbox aif good liver ptills tat your altoora for twenty-five cenit-. ,If you wishi nmlsie Ma'. Rieasoin Weath-. ar's will iakt yout ma banijo if y'ou will go te iirtthuig wit h himit Ch1risatmtas as ho is mliakitng tsto fori thie cctionl. I !n showied mei s-aothaing ho hiad mnado tat opaien attonu t'ows, whliebi 110 said is allr-ight, ho an tha tanast any)thintg. .I h ted t ho tleasur~ otf' v'isiting Mrs. Dr. Norri'i a few datys tago, over'y thing abotnm her plaen~ seems to lead tt ptraaperit.y. WNo le'arn t hat soim oif the neighblois otf Rlidget Rad Academy, harvogiveni thae Gatl hneun Atcdetiy thle ntimo oif theo "Irish Stirutiurem ." Th'lo Irish anro gont peopletl, woa freealy' forgivo themn, they' know nt wht thaty) da, their intntioni is to wtard til' somtte of thos-o good duttch peoplo fromt se'nding their (childiren toa our schlool, but thocso god(ld( dutteh peopalo have more oaf tho "goodi old times" taboumt them, theoy kniow ltat thmoso good Trish people who tia thaeir' next dboor ineighbors would give them a hnnarty wnlome. i. . ,.