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1 yUtu 4 '.RAII '111W ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOE'1_88 RIE$.0AYA THE SUNNY SOUTU. Judge Kelley says it is the Eldorado of a Bright Future, and it will Readily Support a Great Population. (Correspondence of The World.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.3.-It is won derful how Judge Kelley holds his own, both mentally and physically. He camie to Congress twenty-eight years ago, and he has been a leading figure in every Congress since then. He has for years been the father of the house, and now in his 75th year he is thor oughly posted on every move upon the political chess board. He studies not only Washington matters, but those of the whole United States, and he has as much interest in every part *of the country as though Uncle Sam's do minion all belonged to him. There is nothing of the pessimist about him, and he thinks the present the best of times. He has faith in the growth of the country, and especially of the south. I talked with him last night about the conflicting interests of the United States, and asked him for his views of the general outlook. He replied : "One who has s' t as much as I have of dangers overcome and of the country's growth in wealth and pros perity, of the ability of our people to meet as it arose any emergency, how ever great and terrible, and deal with it suceessfully, and of their adaptability to constantly changing conditions, can not doubt as to the future. Compared with the task of the past, under all its difficulties and dangers. the work of the future is but child's play. The results achieved since 1361, under all the stress and loss and destruction of war, and through years or disturbance following the war, are wholly unparralleled and unapproached in the world's history. The rewards which the future offers us, if we wisely take them, will be, com pared with those of the past, in pro portion as our greater strength in ex perience, skill, capital and labor to do with, will be to the lessened difficul ties to be overcome. To doubt that we shall take what the future holds for us is to distrust the common sense of the American people and the overruling kindness of Providence." "But," I asked, "have we not already taken up and occupied the largest and richest part of our field?" "By no means," responded the judge. "We have barely laid a foundation for broad and harmonious development. When I first came to Congress we were two people, with interests and feelings as hostile and with conditions as an tagonistic as those which divided the Spaniard and the Moor. To-day we are one people, our interests are com mon, and every day is making this more clear and real to all our people. We are everywhere at work on this foundation. Oui greatest and miost * varied natural wealth, that of the South, is almost untouched, but it will be opened to enrich and develop the South antd to be exchanged for the products of other portions of the country, while the great development oi the North, and particulariy of the Northwest, will be found to form only a broad and solid foundation for still greater growth. The agricultural pro ductions of the West and Northwest, like the manufactured products of the East, are in excess of a present mar ket, but the development of the Souti w ill give to the West and the North west a new market in which to profita bly exchange its surplus bread and meat for timber and minerals and the earlier and different productions os southern soil and climate. Southeri development will also afford to the Eastern States a profitable market fo. its surplus capital and manufactured product by like exchange, and t.o all -parts o: 'ie North a field for its surplus "Do you think the Southern field broad enough to afford a development sufficiently great and rapid to meet thi necessities of the North?" I asked. "Most assuredly," was the reply. -"In the closing paragraph of my little - book, 'The Old South and the New. questioning. I say there 'wealth alid honor are in the pathway of the new South,' and again, 'she is the comine Eldorado of American adventure. My friends have thought me too san guine. But the States South of the Ohio and East of the Mtississippi witi their half mil.ion square miles of ares contain a wealth great enough for continent, a wealth so vast, so varied it its its elements and character, so ad vantageously placed for developmen1 that these States alone can sustain population far greater than that of th4 United States to-day. Their product would be so different from those o: other portions of the country as t< * afford the most profitable exchange ad vantageous to all. And it is in these States that we must find tho new and I. greater market for Northern surplu whether that surplus be in the shap< of the accumiulated labor of the past, oi the future productions of labor, or o: labor itself, because in these Southerr States more than elsewhere the natura conditions of success exist. "As to the rapidity with which it car be done the past growth of the Wesi furnishes the best answer. It was the building of an empire in the WVest thal relieved and enriched the East as wel as the West. The enormous energies -the 'plant'--used in that task, un paralleled in the magnitude of the work and ~the greatness of the rewart to all, is now seeking a new field of in vestment, add there is no spot on eartl sufficient for it anld within its reacl = but the South." you weigh climatic influences, the niountanious character of large por tions of the South and the labor sys ten, so largely composed of the colored people, as obstacles to Southern growth?'' "I have traveled much in the South since the war," said Judge Kelley, "and have always been keenly inter ested in every step of progress she has iade, and eager to learn all I could of Southern resources and advantages. I have urged my friends to go there, and my son is there now, with all that he possesses embarked in a manufac turing enterprise. I do not consider that there ever existed in the West, great as its wealth is, or in any other portion of the country, anything like the natural wealth of the South. A very large part of the South is blessed with a climate unexcelled if equaled elsewhere in the world. As to the mountainous region of the South, it is richer in natural wealth and in advan tages for the development of that wealth; it has a finer climate, better water and higher conditions of health than any region of which I have any knowledge, and is withal one of the most beautiful regions in the world. Whoever will read the little pamphlet written by Mr. Geo. B. Cowlam, of Knoxville, Tenn., 'The Undeveloped South,' will get some specific informa tion that is valuable because based on accurate knowledge and facts, and when the present local and scattered development of the South shall give place to such development as Mr. Cow lam suggests, not only will Southern manufactures be consumed at home, but they will need to be vastly increased and of a character of more highly finished product, and it will take the surplus of the north to supply Southern demand." Southern manufactures to-day are largely based upon local conditions favoring cheap productions, but with out local demand, and this forces their product into northern markets, where as a more general development, based upon the building of such railroads as would convert the wealth of the moun tain wildernesses of the South with its valleys, and its existing railways sys tem, and thus with all portions of the country, would lay a foundation for such diversity and magnitude of mining and manufacturing industry in the South as would at once diversify South ern agriculture. When this is done the last and most important of the causes which led to the attempt to es tablish the Southern Confederacy will have disappeared. It is as important to do this as it was to abolish the Confed erate Government, because so long and so far as the South may remain solid un der the domination of the ideas which founded;and controlled theConfederacy, so long and so far does the Confederacy vote in the Congress of the United States. "So far as the race question is con cerned, there is but one way the South can settle it. It must outgrow it, and it will. Every new industry will dimin ish its relative importance until by in creasing the foundation the negro will cease to be a controlling factor in any industry and become a valuable ele ment in all. "It will," Judge Keiley continued, "certainly be more pleasant to develop~ the wealth of the South for the good and profit of both North and South and for the defense of the Union, than it was to fight the South through the long and bitter years of the war, which removed the greatest material obstacle to Union-human slavery-and opened the way for the completion of the work. This is wvhat I mean when I speak of securing the results of the war. South ern men are fighting the battle and we must re-enforce them. The develop. muent of the South is not a Southern but a national quesu'>n." Judge Kelley is in earnest as regards Southern matters. Hie has demon strated his faith both by word and deed. His son, as he tells me, has large interests in Alabama, and a large part of the iron regions of this State are owned by Pittsburg and Philadelphia people. The development going on in the iron regions of the South is having, say men here from the different parts of other Southern States, an influence in the general stimulation of Southern enterprise and at no time during the past twenty years have the Southern people been more alive than they are now. Many of the Southern cities are holding expositions yearly, and tbese are having a radical influence. The New Orleans exposition, while not a financial success, was a success in the education of the people and in the stimulation of industries, anmd the ex positions at Atlanta have done much good. T. J. TODD. THE GEORGIA ELECTION. RepubHicans~ have Even Less Showing than the Demiocrats in Maine. ATLAN-rA, GA., October 4.-The re turns from the State elections come in slowly. So far as known the onil votes against Governor Gordon were cast in Spalding County, wvhere a ticket bearing the namre of the colored Bishoj Turner received some votes. The Republicans elect two negroes to the House and one white man to the Sen ate. Several counties send Independ ents to the House, but they are all Demnocrats. DEFEAT OF THE AMENDMENT. ;An interesting feature of yesterday's election was the defeat of the constitu tional amendment increasing the num her of Supreme Court Judges from 3 t 5. The defeat was brought about b3 concerted action on the part of the 'inrmer' Alliance. LEANING ON A BROKEN STICK. The Plumed Knave the Last Hope of th Republicans-A Cheering View of the Field for the Democrats. ]Special to News and Courier.1 NEW YoRK, October 4.-Like flashing meteor, the Blaine show ha come and gone. It vanished in th, direction of Michigan on Monday af ternoon. Within the next few day. the slow-going conservative Scandi navians, who have lately been driftini over to Cleveland in a way to seriousl alarm Matt Quay and the Repnblica! bosses here, will hear the magneti, music of the "Plumed Knight's" elo quence as he harangues them upon thi tariil-the only theme, apparently, ol which he is to be permitted to speak it the canvass henceforth. His "great effort" at the Poll Grounds in the city, of which so muel was expected, seems to have fallel quite flat; hardly an echo of it is hear even in the Republican newspaper The reason of this was that the speecl was neither new nor brilliant, beinj merely a barren and brief exposition o the protection theory. It gave th< organs no catchword to charm th voters, and up to the present time, i has not been considered of sufficien importance to send out as a campaig document. GOvERNOR H[ILL'S WESTERN TOUR. The Democratic managers are look ing forward with much interest t Governor Hill's Western tour. All tb talk of a coolness on the part of th President's friends toward the Goveruo has subsided and the best of feeling an mutual confidence now prevails. Spe cial interest is felt in Governor Hill trip to Indiana, where he will spea before Blaine's arrival in that-State. H will be succeeded, by Judge Thurman who comes East on Saturday for , short stay, after which he will proceei direct to Indianapolis, and *iU be of the ground and speaking to larg Democratic audiences probably abou the same time that Blaine is whoopinj things up there for the Republicans Should they happen to appear in publi simultaneously, a thing not at all un likely, it will be an encounter of th giants such as has not thus far hal pened in the present campaign. Thurman may be induced to speal either in New York or Brooklyn befor he leaves for the West. On Sunda, next he will visit the President at Oak view, this being probably the last tim the two standard-bearers will meet be fore the election. IT IS THE PARTY OF THE PEOPLE. Wonderful success has followed th opening of the popular subscriptioi list at National Democratic headquar ters here. Although the individua amounts contributed have been small in a majority of cases ranging from S to $20-the aggregate now, ten day after opening the books, is over $65,00( From one hundred and fifty to tw hundred letters are received daily, an all contain words of cheer and er couragement. Many are from Repul licans who will, next month, vote ft . Cleveland for the first time. Workini men, however, contribute the mainsta of the popular subscription. Apart from this source, substantial checks are rt ceived from other quarters, not a fey strangely enough,coming from the miar ufacturing districts in Pennsylvani where Matt Quay, aweek ago, fried om his half million of fat from the coal an iron barons and protected manufa< turers. All the Democratic manage1 are full of energy and express then selves as confident of the result of th battle. AN ERIE CANAL CA3fPAIGN. A novelty in political campaignin; and one which strikingly recalls tli famous voyage of the Tile Club equal] with William Black's "Adventures< a House Boat," has been suggested b Ex-Mayor John Boyd Tfhacher,.< Albany, New York, and approved b the National Democratic campaig committee. Mr. Thacher is presidet of the National League of Democrat! Clubs. *Within a week he will start f< Buffatlo, in company with a number< distinguished Democratic orators, ir eluding Congressman C. K. Brecki: ridge, of Arkansas, and a stereoptico man, a brass band and a glee club, on mission to convert the Republicai along the line of the Erie Canal. F< their accommodation a large canal bo: has been equipped furnished and han< somely decorated with flags, bannel and transparencies, including por trail of the national and State candidates. will be drawn by eight horses and wi stop at every available point, en rout between the two cities. With the dee for a platform, the statesmen will sun mon the farmers, canallers and dwel ers in the towns and villages to heti able expositions of the Democratic do, trinie. Challenges will be issued they pJroceed and many interesting di bates may be expected. Albany will I reached on the 18th inst., when ti: voyage will conclude with a nmonsti reception by the Democratic clubsi that city. THLE MA YOR ALTY CONTEST. Pressure from many quarters is beirl brought to bear on the local Den< cratic factions in favor of a union ( the mayoralty. A Citizens' Convei tion meets in the latter part of tI present week for the sole purpose< placing Mayor Hewitt in renomnin; tion, and its action will probably I endorsed by the County Democrat wvho hold their Convention on Satu day next. Tamimany's Convention h: not yet been called, and it is uncertal whether the Wigwam will accept M] THewitt in onyeavent. R 'anld it, ho' ever, place in the field either M: Flower, Ex-Comptroller Andrew I Green, Gen. Newton or J. Edwar Simmons, it is not improbable that M Hewitt may decide not to run, as 11 has already intimated that he woul retire in the event of a good candida being selected, unpledged to any fa tion. The next seven days will ce tainly end the anxiety on this mucl vexed question. There is some talk < dark horses; but thus far none ha materialized sufficiently to cast eve the nearest approach to a shadow o the political surface. The Republica choice of mayoralty lies among sue men as E lihu Root, John F. Plumn and Alfred R. Whitrey. There h been a good deal of 11k about Coc gressman Cox accepting a nominatio from Tammany, but his friends repud ate the idea and say that the highe, ambition of the brilliant Congressma is to die in the legislative harness. A MODEL MAYOR. Apropos of Mayor Hewitt's cand I dacy and as illustrating the sturd character of the man, an incident o< f curred on Tuesday which is worth rn a latlug. When the Mayor left his offic e at the lunch hour his ears were assaile t by the sounds of a wordy squabble i t the City Hall Park. Several loaferisl i looking fellows were raising a row o the plaza and one was getting a mere less pounding when the mayorjumpe . into the melee, He thrust the con , batants aside and then looked aroun e for a policeman. Seeing two par e officers, or "sparrow policemen," r they are called, he summoned ther i and inquired why they hadn't inte: fered to stop blood-shed. s "We were talking together about tl escape of the prisoners for General Se. e sions," one explained. "You were, eh?" sarcastically ol served the mayor. "People might t killed around here and you would t standing by talking about soniethin e else. That's what the city pays yo t for, is it?" . They walked away shame-facet while his Honor trotted off to hi e lunch. - THE WAY THE BETTING GOES. e The News and Courier corresponder was a witness to a big game of Reput lican bluff at the Hoffman House th i other night. Col. Swords, the Repul e lican sergeant-at-arms, came into th V cafe, and flourishing a bank book ei - claimed: S "I've got any way from $100 to$20,00 that says Harrison is the next Pres dent." Instantly there was a commotion. e dozen Democrats and as many bool makers surrounded the Colonel. Ban bills of large denomination and soli wads of greenbacks were displayec their owners all eager to take the offe: But Swords was not ready for such Sdisplay. He hesitated and finally sai he had no money, but would have: at the Garfield Bank in the morning " Here," said Mike Farrlin, a note book-maker, "are $10,000 which I wi put even on Cleveland. Now put u ror shut up." "To-morrow, gentlemen." pleade Col. Swords. "Here's $200 which I'll lay to $80 ( aCleveland and the Old Roman," said Demoerat. "I'll see you to-morrow," said tl a Colonel, as he dodged out of the doo it way. d He hasn't seen themi yet. G. H. S. 'sA Nine-Year-Old Heroine. e PAnsoNs, Kan., October 2.--Georgi tenine-year-old daughter of G. Williams' saved the life o.f her bat brother on Sunday night by her r 6 markable nerve and presence of min *e During the temporary absence of h< Y parents a burning lamp fell into ti >f crib upon the sleeping child, and Geo y gia, the only one present, instantly >f cured a blanket from an adjoinir y room, palled the baby from the blazir nI crib, and smothered the fire out ofi It clothes. She carried it into the yar tc and then turned her attention to t] >r fire inside the room and beat it o1 )f with a piece of carpet. Trhe girl at 1- baby were not seriously burned. n Dear Bread Next Winter. a - 's MINNEAPOLIS, October 2.-Flour h: sr advanced here $2 within two montli Lt and it is pretty clear that it will tout I- $10 a barrel. Charles A. Pillsbury, ti o5 head of the largest milling firm~ in tl Ls world, said to-day: "We have ha Et quite a little squall in prices, but th 11 is nothing to the cyclone that is comni a later. My reason for this is the fa k there is not enough good milling whe 1- in this country to supply our loc 1- demand for good flours, to say nothit r~ of the foreign demand, which cutsi figure on the present crop, as no nmatt Is how much they would offer for 01 Sflour our home trade must have it 'e higher prices." 3rA ;eaf Boy Killed by a Train in Spi ni tanburg. (Special to News and Courier.) SPARTANBURG, October 4.-Ji gBrown, a deaf colored boy, 17 years ol was killed this afternoon by the paa enger train of the Spartanburg ai SUnion Road as it was backing from tj ie Air Line depot to the Main stre crossing. Peter Barre, an employee Sthe road, was riding on the rear plh >e form, and seeing the boy walkii s, ahead of the train, called to hirp to g r- out of the way, and his warning beil m unheeded he put on the brakes, but n was too late. The verdict of the co: r. ner's jury was that the death was r.cidlntal, the road not being, blamab ,r HOW PENS ARE MADE. d Young GIiott's Eye for Business-Details r. the Pen Making Industry of the Present Time. d (Chicago Times.] The first steel pen was made by a r- Englishman named Wise. It wi . cylindrical and adjusted to a bone ca, >f for pocket use. It was too expensivi e however, to come into general use, an n was a clumsy instrument at bes n Various attempts were made to in n i upon Wise's invention, an h aniung others working to this end wt r a Birmingham Jew named Meye Ls Meyer had a pretty daughter ju. - going through the interesting process < n falling in love with a young cutter b _. the name of Gillott. In her paroxysn at of emotional insanity she would te n her lover all she could learn during hE rational hours of her father's progres Young Gillott encouraged this coni dence, having an eye to business f well as to the girl, and the result wi y that after securing the latter, he ant cipated his father-in-law, and starte a factory for the making of the ver e kind of pens the old man had sper d years in devising. The world knov n what Gillott has done-by the way, i England the first syllable of his nam n receives the accent. Birmingham i to-day the steel pen trade center of th d world, though there are three pro perous manufactories in this countr3 d Birmingham could readily fill an ordh k for four or five hundred thousand gro. at a week's notice. U How are the pens made? Take sheet of Sheffield steel six feet long, tw and a half feet wide and one-sixteent .e of an inch thick, and cut it into stril each large enough to make two pen: Anneal these strips by placing ther into pots with clayed lids and leavin e them over night in the "muffler," < e oven, which is kept at an intense hea g When they are cooled scour them wit u acid to remove the scales and brighte them. Roll them to the gauge desire and take them to the cutting shop t s be transformed into blanks by han presses worked by women, who mat from ten to twelve English shillinE t per week at this, their first work in factory. Thence they go to the piercin e shop, where a hand press makes th - slits in the sides. After being cleane e in sawdust to remove the grease the go to the hardening shop and spend : second warm night in pots in the "mul o ler." Next comes the stamping roon -_ where the firm name and trade mar are received. Thus far they have bee lmerelp flat blanks. Now comes tl transformation scene. In the raisin k shop they are given the semi-circuhr d form that makes them pens. After , brief incarceration in the "muffier r. they are given an oil bath, shaken in a revolving colander till the dripping d are removed and saved, and then wipe it pry in drums with a sawdust towel. ~. may be mentioned incidentally, and d an indication of American enterpris 11 that almost precisely the same revol' p ing colander arrangement in use for d cades in-England for removing the c d from steel pens has been recenti patented in this country as an origin: n invention, and is doing duty at most< a the Chicago distilleries' seperatir shops. eIN THE TEMPERING SuoPS. In the tempering shop a hundre gross are put in a single drum am turned slowly over a charcoal fire, man with a long handled ladle watc] ing the changing color, scooping thei up at the proper instant and spreadir Sthem on a cooling pan. In the scou mng shop they again encounter sawdu iy in a drum; in the slitting shop a har press makes the slits in the pointsi . 'the grinding shop they are treated 3r either straight or cross grinding, ti ie latter being considered preferable. Ti r- back of the pen shows readily to whic process it has been subjected. TI glongest stay is in the. polisbing shop two days-the time being spent in ti ts most intimate intercourse with the ru bish known as "pot," and in revolvir 1e drums. They emerge polished at twith the sharp corners worn off tI dpoints. Then another trip is made the tempering room, where they a given a blue, light, dark straw, or at other desirable color. Into a thin va nish of alcohol and sehellac they a as plunged, and spread on a perforatb ~and heated iron plate to dry, at thence to the looking over room, whe me girls hastily inspect each pen, rejectic me all defective ones. They are very pa Ld ticular as to this part of the process, at a bad pen, like a bad egg, will spoil ti greputation of the entire box. The fin ct processes are counting in gross lots ar at boxing, when the product is ready f al the trade; and after going through gthese manipulations the comiplet< Spens are sold to dealers for about ertido etapiece. ir Soon after the peni of steel had b. at come popular ingenuity went to wo: to discover something better, and pe: of elastic material, with durable ai therefore extremely hard points, we contrived. Glass, horn, tortoise she and other substances were tried, ac m the numerous experiments culminat< d in the gold pen with double diamor 'points, first made in England by Isa dHawkins, an Americani residia Lie abroad. Subsequently the same mn et found that iridium was about as go ofas the diamnond, and it is now us< -almost exclusively. It is found ini cc nection with gold bearing quartz in t: et mines of California and Ruissia. Un 21844 gold pens were split with scisst it and rounded up with mallet and stic The price was then from $5 to $10 a pe e-After John Rendell invented machine .that would do the greater portion of t work the price declined rapidly, and although much of the work is still done f by hand a good gold pen can be pur chased to-day for from $1 to $2. The best are manufactured in this country, and exportation is quite large. n AN ESSAY ON MAN. s - . Written From the Standpoint of a Vassar Girl Who Deserves to be an Old Maid [Student in Home Journal.] d Men are peculiar; they wear No. 10 boots and snore. This is what makes r it easy to recognize a man when you it see one. Men wear hats they are care ful of and carry umbrellas they are not careful of; when not losing them they are poking them into somebody's eyes. Men don't gossip, but they do go to their clubs and talk over the "news." Men don't paint or powder (often); but they raise whiskers, that make them s look like Scotch terriers, and coax little hair moles to grow on their chins. Men are not vain, but they never like the d young lady who says they are not hand some. t en are consistent. They like to see the dress of a lady plain and sensible, n "hate furbelows and fiummery," but if a lady in a plain, sensible dress enter a scar she may stand an hour and not one e of them will offer her a seat, but when a lady enters arrayed in the height of fashion every one of them will spring to his feet and glory in the honorof stand s ing for her sake. Men never find fault with them a selves, not if they can help it. Adam o showed them how they could help it h and they have profitted by his instruc tion. Men take cold and think they are going to die, and when you carry them a bowl of herb tea they turn pale g and ask if you don't suppose it would r do just as well to take it next week. Men are always wanting a clean h shirt and when they get one they are n always ready to swear that there is not d a button on it, when all the time the 1 O buttons are there, only they can't find d them. Men can never find anything. e They pull off their boots and forget where they put them, and pretend they a remember all about it, add after they g have rummaged around and turned e everything upside dow., and looked on d all the shelves in the pantry, in the y sewing machine drawer, upset your work basket, sit down and remark that this is a deuce of a house; a fellow < never knows, when he gets anything k off when he is going to set eyes on it n again; and when you bring his boots, 1e that you have found right where he g laft them, he hands you his slippersand u- wants to know if you "can't jam them a into some out of the way corner where " the old Scratch wouldn't look fcr 'em.'" a Men think they know a lot, and they do sometimes. Men are a trouble but d they are handy to have in the house rt in a thunder shower, or when the wind is blows and they are not afraid of mice. e, I know this is true because I once saw r-. two men chase a mouse around a room e- for an hour (more or less), and neither i appeared to be in the least alarmed. To ward the close of the chase one of the 1l men stopped to wipe his brow and re yr marked that it was warm-an exceed g ingly cold observation in my opinion, as it was cold and uncomfortable upon the head of the lounge where I was. 4 Polygamy Must Go. a [New York Herald.] 1- WASHINGTON, September 28.-The a majority report of the Utah Commis g sion, signed by G. L. Godfrey, A. B3. r- Williams and Arthur L. Thomas, re st news the recommendation of the last d annual report that Utah should not be .n admitted to the Union until such timeas to the Mormon people shall manifest by ie their future acts that they have aban ie doned polygamy in good faith, and not h then until an amendment shall have ie been made to the constitution of the -United States prohibiting the practice ie of polygamy. The report adds that the b- convention which adopted the pro ig posed constitution upon which an ap id peal was made to Congress for admis ie sion to the Union, was held without to authority from any proper source. It re is further asserted that the proposed ry constitution is silent with respect to r- the crime of polygamy and the com re missioners are of the opinion thiat the 4 government cannot afford to surrender Ld the great advantage which it now holds re and which has been severed at much ig expense and trouble. Th ay also think *r- .that no harm can result from delay in as the admission of the Territory. Will ie Mr. Blaine explaini this? al. - - - . id A Colored Prophet Spreading Alarm. or -- di GtrroN, GA., October 2.-There is a ed panic among the colored people of a Guyton, and negroes are praying who were never known to be devout before, e.. The village has a Wiggins in the per rk son of Simmons, a tinner, who claims as that voices from heaven have told him id to warn the people that Guyton is re shortly to be visited by an earthquake 11, unless the people stop their evil prac ld tices. Simmons has written out the ad warning in detail and goes from house id to house reading it to both whites and ac colored. At the African Methodist ig Church, during the temporary absence mn of its pastor, Simmons occupied the >d pulpit, and took the predicted earth ed quake as his text. Thbe congregation n.. was worked up to the highest pitch by tie the fervid oratory of the speaker. The til negroes have taken Simmon's pre rs, dictions as true, and their effect on' the 'k. ignorant has been such as to demoralize n. them, and many who are in service ry have refused to perform their duties he until Simmons' earthquake comes. LEXINGTON'S PRIMARY. enator Wingard Contests the Nomination of Major H. A. Meetze for Senator: The Grounds of the Contest. [From the News and Courier.] LEIxINGTON, October 2.-The result )f the primary election in this county ias already been published. Senator S. P. Wingard, who was a andidate for re-election, by his coun el, Mr. Crawford, of Columbia, pre ented a formal protest against declar ng the election with this result on the round of fraudulent and illegal votes, oting numbers of Radical and drunk n negroes at many of the precincts, mnd other gross and scandalous irregu arities. In presenting this strong and arnest protest to the committee Mr. ,rawford made a brief but eloquent md telling speech, which found an .cho in the heart of every honest and )atriotic man present. Major H. A. geetze replied in his own behalf, tell ng the committee that though frauds nay have been committed he was not esponsible for them, and that they ould not do otherwise than accept the ace of the returns and declare the re ult. It is estimated that more than seven iundred fraudulent and illegal votes were polled in this election. It is need ess to say that it has caused great and )rofound dissatisfaction. The decent and honest white people of the county. who are largely in the majority, feel hat their rights have been outraged mud trampled upon in this election, by eckless and unscrupulous persons, in a way that calls for speedy and effective edress. Of the seven hundred illegal rotes by far the greatest part were Rad cal negroes, who had no right whatever .o vote in a Democratic primary elec ion. These votes were thrown exclu ively for the successful ticket, as is hown by the large majorities of Major feetze over Mr. Wingard at those oxes where the negroes were voted. Et is contrary to Democratic usage and yrinciples in this county, and always ias been, to vote Radical negroes, re >eat and stuff ballot-boxes in our Dem >cratic primary elections. This thing has been winked at and ccepted by men calling themselves Democrats, and even Christian white nen. Staid and conservative old Lex ngton, the banner Democratic county >f the middle portion of South Caro ina, noted for the industry and thrift mud law-abiding character of her peo ;le, has been covered by this thing ith disgrace and infamy so deep and lamnable that it will take years of well loing and patriotic effort to wipe it out. D. NOT ENCOURAGING SO FAR. Editorial in the News and Courier.] There is not much encouragement for ~hick and thin advocates of the primary system in some recent events in differ mnt counties in the State, which have miade it unpleasantly evident that, whatever its advantages, the system Eurnishes a tempting opportunity for every kind of political malpractice. It need not be said, of course, that objec tionable methods are not always em ployed, and are not generally em ployed; but this is not the fault of the system itself. The temptation and op portunity are everywhere present, and when this is the case it cannot fail to result that distrust and suspicion will aslways find place on one. side or the other, and, whether well founded or 'iot, will make just the kind of trouble which it is most desirable to avoid in the Democratic party in South Caro lina. There have been several examples of what is meant in the present canvass in the State. The primary in Newberry to determine the choice of a candidate for State Senator was followed by sweeping allegations of bribery and fraud. It is not probable that such charges would have been made if they were not believed to be true, and there must have been some basis for such belief. Whether true or not true, how ever, they were loudly asserted, and certainly the Democrats in that county will feel decidedly less confidence in the primary system, and in each other, for some time to come. It was the same in Marion County, where Bigham was the defeated candidate. There was intense dissatisfaction likewise with the result of the recent primary in Spartanburg County, though no charge of fraud was publicly made, we believe. Considerable bad feeling was developed, again, on account of the charge, which was publicly made, that whiskey and money were-freely used to infiuence vo ters in a part of the 4th district at the recent primary in that district for the nomination of a caddidate for Congress. On Saturnay last a candidate for State Senator was nominated in Lexington County. Charges of fraud at the pri mary were promptly and deliberately made, and although the validity of the nomination was sustained by executive committee, after investigation, the charges are still repeated and will re main a cause of future irritation and dissension. It is not wise to disregard these sig nificant and widely scattered evidences of inherent weakness, and worse, in the primary system. There is enough ine them, at any rate, to make thought ful men pause before adopting the pri mary plan for all times and occasions, and especially before accepting the pri mary election, with its unlimited op portunities for abuse, as the panacea ior all political evils. The convention system has its objections, no doubt; but it has not yet been shown that the primary plan is any better, or even as ONE OF THE LAST CARGO OF IMPOBT ED SLAVES. A Passenger of the Wanderer's Last Trip as a Slave Vessel-His Narrative of His Abduction In Liberia. [Augusta Chronicle.] Probably the most interesting char acter hereabouts is a negro man w ho was one of the cargo of the "Wanderer the last slave ship to bring to -this' country a load of captives from Africa Lucius Williams, as he was christened by one of the young ladies of the family into which he was sold, or "Umwalla,'' as he was called in Africa, lives in asok f small hut on the outskirts of Hambur. across the river from here. Since free-." dom he has earned a livelihood work ing gardens, sawing wood and white washing. He was a little surprisec when asked about his early life, but talks well once he has begun, requiring to'be questioned frequently, however As Umwalla, he was born in Guinea according to his story, not far from Liberia. One day, when he was about. ten years of age, he was sent to -his aunt's to carry her some pindars to plant. When he was going through the woods two strange black men seize him and bound his hands. He terribly and they soon gagged him:; They sold him to a native who took him to Liberia. There, for the time in his life, he saw a white man,. and he was terribly fright, -ed at him. Among his people there were no A Sundays. Some of the men of his tribe : had two wives and some had three. It. was death to any one to show any de signs on the wife of a neighbor. Umwaila was then taken to the Wanderer, where a large number of_. captives had already been stored away in the hold. The passage over was fraught with untold terrors to the young savage. A storm was encoun tered, and for days the hold was fas tened up, and numbers of the negroes - died from sickness caused by the foul-., air. There were a number of ferocious men among the cargo who had to be kept in chains. When the Wanderer approached the South Carolina cost she was sighted by a government boat and given chase. During the night she dropped anchor off Potataligo, and the cargo of negro men and women was debarked. Umwalla, or, as he was soon after wards called, Lucius, was taken to:; Carolina plantation near Beech Island and put to work there. Lucius is very fond of the "white , folks," as he styles the family of his old master and mistress, and frequenti cails to see them-walking miles to do so. The style of p ment followed among his tribe was break the culprit's neck by a. sudd wrench from a forked stick. Lucius tells, in his quaint way, of interesting features of slavery. No Z gro woman was permitted, hower. gorgeous her toilet otherwise, to wear a veil or gloves. Negro men were neither permitted to carry a walking cane nor smoke a cigar on the streets. They could not remain away from their quarters after 9 o'clock at night with out a permit from their master. - Lucius says he is glad he was brought to this country, as he has learned the way to save his soul. His ancestors have suffered greatly from the cold. He says many of those who came over with him died of consumption. He is not lonesome here, for on 'a neighboring plantation-on, Capt. Ben . Tillman's place-are many negroes ) from his old home, and they frequently meet and converse in African. They - do not attempt to impart the language to their children, he says, and of course all vestiges of it, save what they have engrafted on the Southern patois, mus soon die out. He we asked about the amusements of his folks at home, and said the danc ing here was very much like in Africa, only there they had war dances. which3 were marches with chanting. He says some of the songs sung by the field - hands (the air), are very much like those of his people, and when he hears~ several voices singing together one of those wild, weird refrains his thoughts are carried across the ocean to his home among the primitive scenes of his youth. Lucius was delighted with a picture of himself, and opened his eyes in amazement at the crude executions of the artist, who caught a m.her good *' likeness of him while he was talking, -. showing how he wears his goatee, platted after his African ancestors' cus tom. Convicts Leased at a Dollar a: Day. (Special to News and Courier.) COrLUMA, October 4.-The Board of Directors of the Penitentiary held a meeting to-day. The directors visited all of the farms which they were plant ing on shares. and found the condition of affairs fully as bad as at first reported. The Penitentiary will get very little -' corn or cotton. The directors are sick of utilizing convict labor in planting on shares. The loss to the Penitentiary has been very heavy, and next year it is ' probable that the number of convicts -- worked in this manner will be much - decreased. An application was received from Mr. Pringle for two hundred convicts for his phosphate works. The directors leased him one hundred at $1 a day each. A committee from the Canal comn- - - mission went before the board and ap plied for from fifty to five hundred convicts to work on the Canal. Then board took the matter under coa-d sideration and in the meanwhile - directed the superintendent to lease for work upon the Canal all sn all surplus convicts at 70 cents per An application from Mr. W Fort Motte, for fifty convicts shares, was not granted.