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- -*-< K ESTABLISIIED 1805. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1890. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR Letter fromt Loui.iana. [Correspondence Hl-r:ld and Ncwms.] aloMAN CrrY. LA., M1ay:l. e morning last month as I walked down from Fedk-ral Avenue to First Street, everybody I chanced to miet was inl the best of spirits. All were confident of security notwithstantding the un usual tides, of the previous week, which had flooded the lower portion of the town, surrounded the hotels and the United States Custom House. There was nothing alarming in tide water. On the following day when the train pulled up at the depot, before I had time to get off the train, I saw the fallen countenances, hopeless; the light of security which beamed out so brightly the day before was gone. The loss of father and mother, brother and sister would have induced no greater expression. Sad! sad! I know what made them so cheerless. The great Iorgauza was a ruin, and an unmueas ured volume of water was rushing through the gap, and was hurrying down upon the -Teche country. On the heels of this information came the news of a crevasse N)4 feet wide at Labdelt's Landing, from which the water would reach us in forty-eight hours. And immediately after, it was announced that the whole Point ('onper front was gone. In the year 1St there were fewer open erevasses than here reported, and in that year there was not a dry spot for miles. No wonder the inhabitants of the Brazierine island were cheerless. As soon as the news settled upon us a's a reality, we began making prepa rations to meet the flood. The town authorities anchored the bridges, foot planks and wooden banquets. The Southern Pacifc men secured their platforms and low switch tracks. Workmen not employed in this man ner were busily engaged in building water crafts. Men on every hand were supplying themselves with lumber to be ready to insert raised floors. Indeed the town presented a very lively ap pearance. Merchants were busy but trade was dull. On the sugar plantations every avail able person was hurried to the levees. Shovels, spades, wheel and hand bar rows worked day and night. New drainers were ordered, the old ones repaired, so that the inside canals might be cleared of water as fast as it came in. And well might the sugar planters marshal all their forces upon their private levees, for a fair estimate shows that between forty and fifty mil lion dollars worth of property lay in immediate track of the flood issuing fro:n the Mississippi River on Point Couper front. It is of equal importance to the poor people that the sugar erop succeed, for upon it all ultimately de pend. Even the lumbermen who find the flood their harvest time, also find isugar planters some of their best customers. The approaclhing water produces a peculiar sensation upon one unusedl to it, almost u nnoticed, slowly, noiselessly it creeps 'up, gaining each day a few inches. Thie wharves little by little are submerged, the canals and ditches are filled. Then across the common, ereep ing stealthily through the grass, mug ging the ground as if to avoid notice comes the waters, nearer and nearer each day. No resistar"e avails, no threat drives it back, no demonstration causes it, so much as delay its move mnent. From the fens and bogs, from the woods and swamps, unbidden, uin welcome, comes this monster, wither ing the fresh grass, fading the tinis from the roses, and1 replacing the per fume with strange filthy odors. Help less we stand and behold the approach ing despoiler ; in vain we bid him stop,: - in vain we attempt to stop him. Fortunately the head wvater soon began to decline, and the water here has been on a standI fur about a week, wvith the promise of an early decline, in fact the recession has already comn menced. The damage has been-large but not so great as at first anticipated. Our streets are tilled wvith water crafts of every kind, varying~ from a floating bridge with a drygoods box upon01 it, to the finest finished skif'ini the market ; including some of the a i lightest and prettiest parogues I have a -ever seen. Everybody rides in water oCing vessels, no need of hacks, busses, yor any thing like that, just take a boat, I use a boat to go to my meals. I just walk dlown to the corner of First Steet, and Railroad Avenue. Then I take a boat and ro .v to the hotel, pass in the front (door, make miy boat fast to the stair case, and land on thle stairs three or four feet above the first floor. I haven't seen the first floor in thr eeI weeks. Whien I camie to Louisiana 1last year,! I was told tha:t this was the richest counitry in the world, that it was uni surpassed by any State in the I'ioni inl culture enlighitennimnt andI charity. Ju tst now~ I finid that no0 spot on eart h, not even thle red hills of South ( ar< - linia is halfW so poor, and that noipopl ini the worild nieed edutcaitionial anid charitable institutionis half so badi' as the peole of Louisiana. Theli t wo leado - ing dailies of the State are miaking the poorest mouth~s I ever heard of. They have recent ly discovered that all the w orldl is po it inig the tinge&r of sc(orni at the emiipty treasuiry of thle St ate t lie negle:ted asyluums anmd worthlek t::ols. J umt ly t hey h ermo an thec de radat ion of thle State. I .ask whv uchjel s.tartlinmg discoveries? Why such udden reverses ? The LoAtteryv'o prpssto buy for itself an other leaise of life, and the mlajotrity Cof the 1Cpeol are CJpposetd to the iniquiitous instilu tion while the papers are in the paiyo he I.ottery ( o. I have niot read a untainted to"luiii of water news si ice ti the 11oodi began; nor a good wliolcsomeri w-s edito,ri:d in :nioniths-. All seemI en- jSt cba itel by tlie glittering sheckels of bi tiis nioister ionopoly. It o.lers a t million dollars a year for a new lease se oiif . This accounts for the suddlen it transition from fabulous wealth. t> ex- pi tremie poverty ; from unequi1aled intel- sI lectual at tainients to actual public st igioranct : suddenly a sense of shame a. has taken huld upon miany of the lead- tt ing newspaper men. A million from m the lottery, they say, would wipe out fi all these sources of sl'ame. A million d from the people directly would be less desirable, for it would seriously iu- tc poverisli our people, and yet from the y data I have gathered from those in ni favor of the lot tery, I conclude that the di people pay an average of not less than h $2.50 per capita to the lottery company ; that this amount conies not propor ionately from the wealthy, but almost exclusively from the poorer classes; that these poorer classes are the enthusias tic supporters of the lottery. The argu ment used by these classes is, "we want that third of a million which is offered to our schools to educate our ehildren with, for without it, it will be c impossible to educate them." Ycu tl readily see the economy of the plan ai when you remember that the popula- T. tion of the State in round numbers is p( one million. To the casual reader of in our leadingdailies it may appear that it S is all one way, that but a handful of cc fanatie_, and preachers were opposing iu a united people calling upon the legis- fu lators to give thei the money offered by the lottery, while in reality the fuss hi and fury of those dailes in a large S measure represents the united "boodle" a of the lottery people instead of the r united demand of the peiple. There is el a real contest, and nice work will have s: to be done to remove this foul blot from r the fair name of this State. It seems to strange that a million a year should be a any temptation to the noble born, s. high-winded, heroic sons of this dear r old South land to take up and wai'iii to fr life again the child of alieu parents, at born to our disgrace, nursed by our et:e- i lmies, in its infancy, and trained 1y e innate selfishness to despise our vir- w tue, asking with flattering lips th:e of bread of our children, and instead of ai thanks it repays with mockings and curses. Yet for a million a year many are willing to own this child of in- pc famv. Yours .. h J. M. HENRY. - - -at A LETTER: TO LATIMEI. p: ful Co,. John J. 1)argan and Capt. l'En Till- C0 man. sr The following -correspondenee will fu be read with great interest just now er BELToN, S. C., May 22, 1S90. ui Col. J. J. Dargan, Sumter, S. C.-- pc Dear Sir: I see fromi the News and er Courier you prop)ose to be in Anderson oh on tihe 1kth, and props to ask the he people to hear you in vindication of c~ your courisc iin this camp)aign anld to r hear what yon shlall have to say of MIr. A Tillinan to his face. Now. I write to say to you in behalf of the good peo- st ple of Anderson, that if you are a can- ti didate for any -office in the gift of this ta people, then wve wvould be glad to hear at yout; btut, if iiot, then tile press is open al for you to explaini your position, anId if a thtere is a difference between yourself and1( Mr. Tillmanl, you know where to W findl himi. The course yon propose can- th not result in any good to youirself or to be the D)emocracy of this county, and 0l1 might be the mxeaus of a row and blood shed in our miidst. I therefore insist fu that youl desist fromi the course pro- h: posed, aiid notify you now that I shall if do umy utmost to t,revenit aniythin~g re that shall lbe calculated to produce discord aillong us. f Yours respectfully, id A. C. IaATriMER. In1 -..-th SrTirEnna, S. C., MIay 24, 19(0. at MIr. A. C. Latinmer. Belton, S. C.- A< Dear Sir : Your favor of 22d inst. is at fu hand. I must adnmit its conitenlts a b surp)rise to mec. I had not suspecte'd vt that plain, honest speech in refutation 18 of slanderous charges, made in my ab- fe sence before a p)eople to whiom I am little know without the least pertinen- p' ev to the issues under discussion, would foi sa offend "good people'' as to bring on fu a "row"' which might result in ''blood- to shed.'' I :am unwvilling to believe the on good people of Anderson so backward TI in civilization, so devoid of the in sticts and :principles of justice, so out I1) of the way of thme ends of true Demiocre- tr cy. as to refuse to hear hothI sides of all 27 poliescal controversies with calmI dig~ nity, and( to accord a grossly and gra tuitously reviled citizenl a word in his To ownl defeciie. Btut 1 confess, frankly, that your declarationl, couphled with he iniarvellous display of gravity with which the assembly at your recent metinig, witnessed the miannlishn me Onl the stage whien a grown-up person' was calling for somie one to look hiim in thle eve and asserting himisel f iiot afraid of'this, that $nd the other, like li-year old on a base ball ground, is not reassurinlg. Stirely there was broad smiile on the faces of '"the good"' while all this was passim:,. whtich tihe rep orter failed to write- t Hiowever, until the conitrary fully tu :ppears by sub sequtenlt occurrIenes JA will nlot be persua~dedl that von repre ent any large body of your peop)le in Adersoni whlen y'ou bespeak rowdlyisniT for them. I shall hatve to risk myiself~ t your miass mieeting on June 18 ttihi I feel that I lust p)rise yon undler the circuimstances that, if your fears and imisgivinigs arie generally en tertin.id, I sha:ll niot venture anl ad dress to the crowd, lest tkbeomfe in co sonic measure responisible for blood-let-. an ng am1ong a people so excitable and tlh so little s.lf-control. If I find clh to be the situation, I can patiently de mv tine until Mr. Tilliman comes uiter. Here my friends and my If and all the good people will see to that he is fully and fairly heard in ?esenting his charge: against me. I iall, of course, he granted an unre rained reply. This is all I have ked or wish. We, of Sumter, unfor tiatelv have a few rowdies in our idst, but I trust an efficient police ree will keep down any disturbing monstrations on their part. I extend to you a cordial invitat ion attend the Sumter meeting that )u may witness the conspicuous fair ?ss with which your "utanied" can date for Governor will be treated by is determined opponents. Respectfully, JOHN J. I)ARAN. THE TREASURY RESERVE FUND. r. Sam paon Pope, of Newberry, Thinks he ha% Foand Honey in the Lion's Carcass. To the editor of the News and! aurier:-The General Assembly of tis State at the session of 1S6 passed h Act creating what is known as "The i reasury Reserve Fund," to be coni sed as followed: "Funds of thi .;ink g fund corn mission, S46,647.18; United bates dlirect tax, $39,244.3~9; school and unty taxes paid under protest, S229.76; terest appropriated for bonds not yet nded, $186,000. "SEcrION 2. That said fund shall be d by the Treasurer of the State of >uth Carolina, to be used in payment all interest due upon ,the bonded bt of the State, and appropriations ade by the General Assembly, in uding salaries of all oflices vhose lanes are payable from the State reasury. Provided, there be no other uds in the treasury applicable there . And when the taxes are collected id paid into the treasury the treasurer iall at once, from said collections, place the amount of said reserve fund hich has been used, after first paying am said collection all other claims due id payable by the State, and lie shall each annual report inform the Gen al Assembly whether such reserve nd has been sufficient, :md if not, hat is the deficiency; or if in excess requrirements he shall report the nount of such excess. Said fund to used and replaced as herein before rectel in each succeeding year. "SECTIoN 3. If at any time any ex mditures on account of any of the ob ets for which the sums aforesaid have retofore been appropriated become ?cessary, the Treasurer is hereby ithorized to apply to such objects any irt of the reserve funds, or any other nds, in his hands, or which may{ me ipto his. hands, not otherwise ecifically appropriated." Thus it will be seeu that here is a id amounting, at the time of its eation, to $272,121.:3 with no power ider the Act for its increase, but with wer to decrease it ifat "any time any :penditures on account of any of the >jects for which the sums aforesaid tre heretofore been appropriated be me necessary." But, as I take it, a p)ort should be made to each General ssembly showing. First. Whether the reserve fund was fficient, without borrowing, to carry e Governments through until the xes wvere paid, and, if so, what nount of the reserve fund was used; id if all Was used and there wvas still deficienicy, thien what amioun t. Second. What amiount of the fund is paid out on the "objects for which .e sums aforesaid have heretofore en appropriated," specifying each ject and each payment thereon. Third. The amount retuirned to the nid from the taxes and which is on 12d( on 81st October of each year, and not yet returned, the amount to be turned. It was attemipted ini ]985 to use this 1 lid which was lyinig in the treasury. le, but not so large as in 1880, to assist redlucing the tax levy for 1886, but ose in favor of doing so failed in the templt, and( the next, year, 1S80, the at above set forth wvas passed- It is a 1n( which before 18S6 benefited the I ,nks alone as it was deposited in their( ults, and wvas used by them. Since S3 it only remains with themi for a 'v mon this ini each year. 1 have searched the Treasurer's re *rts of 1887, 1388 and 1880) and find the [lowing reports wvith regard to this nd. which amounited when created(1 $272,121.3:;, atnd which had decreased 31st October, 1889, to $170,531.4S. [EASURER'5 REPORT, oCTOBiER, I8S7. Tile balances to the credit of the fol wmi1g accounts, which constitute "the >asuiry reserve fund" under Act No. I of last session, are as follows: nking fund comimission.. 2';,7:o ;4 iited States direct tax proceeds-.-.---------...... 27,3 08 ixes paid under protest (school and county)...... 41 00 terest appropriated for bonds not yet funded, (st imIatedi at-------.-.... 135, 00 00 Total...............974 72 noun it of reserve fund ex.. pendecd during past year to be replaced out of Xo. 4. A\ceolint treasury ,srv fn T'he noin(lhal bialanrces to the cr (lit of e followi.r accounts, which conisti te tihe treasury reserve fuind, undi(er -t N o. 271, of Issi;, are as; followvs: ited States dlire(t tax .s paid undi(er protest ~s,chool and( county ......29g 7 tere-t appropriakted f<.r boluls not vet tunded, eu iuated :tt................. 120,512 00 Total...............70,119 47 Thei whole of this amount miight be usidered ais practicaly exhausted, d to be repilaced (out of taxes to bet1 4r collected, for 31i t,1511 las been bor rowed on loan and $1,621.0 deposit in flank of Sumrter is not now within our reach, and our liahince on hand is but $77,120.63. As a fact, however, the :miounit to the credit of the .sinking fund conrnis eion is actually on deposit at t he b:niks to the credit of the sail fund as a por tion of our "ca: lh balance on hand" reported. T'1-:EAsUr:l-:n's 1{.:I'at . No. 4. A(count "treasury reserve fund" created under Act 271 of 1886, on October 31, 188): ('redits. Sinking fund con miission...$ :;2,12 G! Iiiited States direct tax proceeds........................ 22,722 Taxes paid under protest...... 229 71i Interest appropriated for bonds notyet funded, es tim ated at...................... 115,454 0i Total.............. 170,531 48 The amount to credit of the sinking lug fund commission is t lie only actual credit, the others being actual only when there are funds in hand to meet these appropriations, which is not now the case. Thus it will be seen that this fund bas decreased about $102,000 since its creation in 1S86. SAtPSo PoP:. Ew13ERRY, S. ('., M1ay :30, 1800. 'Mi. POPE FIND.s A MARi's NEsT. [Editorial in News and Courier.] The letter of Mr Sanipson Pope, of Newberry, calls attention to the de crease of the "treasury reserve fVd" ii such a way as to make it appear that there is something wrong, or at teat mysterious or unaccounted for, in the manner in which the fund has been disposed of. Now Mr. Pope knows, or at least he uglt to know, that the original itreasury reserve fund" was created in 3uch a manner that its decrease was naturally to be expected. The origin of the reserve fund was this: Owing to the abolition of the spring collection )f taxes the State was obliged to bor row money to carry on the Govern inent until the taxes were collected in the fall, while at the sane time there was in the treasury a large amount of mnoney appropriated to specific pur [)oses, and therefore not available for current expenses. Accordingly the Legislature of 1SSt;, in order to avoid ither a resort. to spring collections or orrowing money, created out of the 'unds ying in the treasury a special und called the "treasury reserve fund," rom which money could be drawn for urrent expenses, said money to be re ,urned to the "treasury reserve fund" when the taxes were collected in the all. The funds composing the original 'treasury reserve fund" were as follows: sinking fund comnission...$ 46,547 18 Direct tax proceeds.............. 30,244 39 1'axes paid under protest...... 229 76 interest on bonds not yet funded, estimated.. 186,000 00 Total ..................$272,121 .33 The 3d section of the Act creating ~he treasury reserve fund provided that 'if at any time any expenditure on ac ~ountof any of tire objects for which he sums aforesaid have heretofore een appropriated become necessary, :he Treasurer is hereby authorized to ipply to such objects any part of the 'eserve fund or any other funds ini his rands, or which miay comre into his ands, not otherwise specifically ap >ropriated." Thus it will seenm that when any >art of the reserve fund was used for ~urrent expenses the amrount was after ,vards to be returned out of the tax col ections, but wvhen it w'as used for the >urposes for which thre original funds vere specifically appnlropriated, such ise caused a permanent reduction of he fund. That such reduction would >e made was to be expected, and that t has been made is shown by tIre jompltr'oller's reports as qjuoted ty Mr.1 lope. Thre reduction and its causes, how ver, will probably be more readlily un erstod by the average readler from the ollowving detailed statoment: )riginal anmount of reserve1 fund........................$272,121 :3 I 'ash paid or payab)le Onl de mand for bonds funuded si nee 186: 1S87, $12,411.29;i 1s88, $3,400.10; 1889, $7,029, interest on same, January 1588), to July, 1886, inchi- - si ve, 39 per cent.............. ,907 75~ :as actually paid for inter est out of "Interest on bonds not yet funded," under Acet No. 308, Decem ber 24, 188li. (This wvas formerly called fundable consolidated interest andl was for 1874, .January to July, 1878, inclusive)...14,1::: ::; niterest which has ceased to exist, inicludled in the ab ove, $18i;,000. "I nterest on bonds not yet funded" was 5 years' interest on $11 0,5.54.81. Fun dable con solidated interest when it wvas fundable, becomuing( payable, tis in terest, July5 1578, to July, LSS3, at 48 per ('ent on 8110i,554.81, t shoulid lbe deducted from tone $1S6,K0................2,00G 30 otal interest to tie elimrinated$7;,107 41 'ash actually paid from thre sinking fund conhnnissiont -balanceel)eember, 1SS80,t wholly exhausted.......$ 46,047 18 'ash actually paid ouit of dlirect tax fund, expeCnd(i thures 1S87, 15S8 and h1889...$ 16,522 3'; 1 The treasury reserve funi"'' balance (Ocitober ::1, 15s9. . .$1:2,844 3N I This statement is comipiled fromi the 'reasurer's reports, wvhich include alli hat is required bty the Reserve Fund ! tet, "'which menrely directs that the C 'reasurer shall ini each annual report I aiformr the General Assenibly whether uch reserve fund has heen suflicient: r if in excess of requirements, he shall eport the amount of such aeess. If, however, Mr. l'ope really thinks, is he says, that such accounting is not utlicient, and the the Treasurer's re -hould contaii each individual item of 'xpeiditure of the reserve fund, it :eeimns to us that his complaint is both late and out of place. Mir. Pope was a miiember of the Legislature's reports it was his duty to call attention thereto from his place in the House, and to u:Yr a resolution calling on the Treas urer for a detailed report. The report having been accepted by the Legis lature, the people have the right to be lieve that it is correct, and it is not the proper thing for Mr. Pope to try through the press to cast discredit on the State Treasurer for the report which he failed to criticize in his place in the House. ADVICE TO THE ALLIANCE. Senator Carlisle Gives His Views on the Sub-Treasury Plan. WAsHINGToN, May 31.-To B. F. Howard, of Tuskeegee, Ala., Senator Carlisle has written a lengthy letter in response to Howard's request for the Senator's views upon the agricultural sub-treasury proposition, as contained in the bill; before Congress to provide for a system of warehouAes for farm produce throughout the country, to be ,,riginated Iby the government, which is to issue its notes upon the products torel therein. Senator Carlisle said that Howard's statement that he and those associated with him were "in favor of equal jus tice to all and especial favors to none" mibodies the Democratic doctrine and f it had been strictly adhered to in 'ongress in the past twenty-five years, he evils of which the farmer and >thers justly complaia would have een averted ':d the vhole country would now be prosper>us and eon ented. "But," says the Senator, "the armers have been taxed so iong for the ,enefit of other classes and have seen o nueb legislation for the aggrandize lient. of corporations and syndicates :hat their patience is exhausted, and inding it impossible for the time being it least to abolish a systemt which has )ppressed and despoikd the greatest ndustrial interest of the country, they ire now demanding that that policy which they have heretofore denounced is unjust and ruinous shall be applied :o theni or rather a part of them for no ;chenie has yet been submitted that vould operate alike upon the farmers. "But no evil can be corrected, no wrong can be righted by increasing its nagnitude and extending the scope of ts operations. There is but one effect nal remedy for the evil which undoubt Adly exists and that is to reverse the ?olicy which produced it." The Senator, after rehearsing the eatures of the sub-treasury plan and '.oting the facts that the farmers them ;elves will pay more than their fair bhare of the cost relating to tihe ware )ouses and that the officers connected with them will be p)artisans of the ad ninlistration in power, says: "There are more than 2,400) counties a the United States, but not miore than mec-third of thenm, if that many, pro luce and sell annually miore than ~500,000O wvorth of corn, oats, cotton and obacco and, therefore, not mor-e than >ne-third of thenm could possibly avail hiemselves of this plan, if it were Idopted. It will be Scenl, therefore, Lt the v-ery outset, that it is a plan to :omipel tile government to issue and listribiute mnoney for the benefit of the eople- living in r-ich and productive :ounties at the expense of the people iving in poorer and less producti' e mtes. Moreover, it is a -plan to enable mnscrupulous speculators to take ad ~antage of the farmers' pecuniary nie essi ties and extort exorbi taint prices or food fromn the people who reside in lie cities, towns and villages and from lie p)eople who reside in the countr-y ut do not own these particular agri Lltural products. "No farmer will subject himself to he labor and expense of transporting uis piroducts to the public ware houses mnd to all the other charges which lhe nust pay for storage, for handling and or taking care of themi while there vben lie has barns and granleries at tome unless he is in debt and needs lie moniey which the government is to dvance and if he is in that un1 fortu tate condition firm what source is he >ffered to redeem the produ--ts b)y re urnting the money andl payinlg the varehouse chariges-? In the majority f eases lie will never be able to recdeemu hem but will be forced to lose the re uiaining twenty per cent. of the value f his product, oir sell his war-ehiouse re eipts for whatever he can get for it, vlhich will be very little, for it must >e remembered that after he gets his rops ware hioused he has remaining all nterest of only twventy per cent. less lhe storage, and this is all lie (-an dis lose of. IIe will find the timec rapidly caching when he must hav-e nmoney to edeem his 1)1oducts or sell his small cemaining interests in thiem or allow hiem to be sold at pubiic auction by he government and methiinks this v-ill be ai goldeni opportunuitv for those encits who will swarm all ov-er the ountlry readly to take ware house re ei pts fromt embal:trrassedl owners for icrely nominal sums. The receip)t is iimply. a p)rivilege of reemptioni like a awnbroke-r's ticket and the farmer ecing himself I unale to redeem wilIlibe irced ultiumately to dlispolse o,f it at any rice offecredl. I don't think that any onsiderable numiiber of inrtelligent peo> lec in this country- will uiiite in asking lie grovernimnt to establish a systemn iehl will compel them, in a large unmber of cases, to sac-riuice the piro Senator Carlisle argues at some length to show that the annual expan sion and contraction of the currency provided for in tl'e bill would result in absolutely destroying the market upon which a farmer must depend for the sale of his crop, and Lhat the cotton farmer would be an especial suflerer. "No such facilities as this scheme will aflord for controlling the n'arket for purely speculative purposes have ever existed in this or any other coun try and no more perfect system for the oppression of the people could be de vised. The exact quantities of products on dep.it in the several public ware houses will be known in every commu nity. That there will be combinations to purchase and hold the receipt, it may be accepted, especially when they can be procured by the payment of a small per cent. of the value of the de posit." In conclusion, Senator Carlisle says: "I have thus given you as briefly as the nature of the subject would permit, some reasons why I think the proposed plan for the relief of the farmers would be injurious instead of beneficial not only to them but to all the other peo ple jointly. But it would be uncandid not to say distinctly before closing this communication, that even if it could be conclusively shown that this or any other similar scheme would be purely beneficiary to any class of our people, I will still be unalterably opposed to its adoption, because, in my opinion, it would be another wide and danger out departure from the principles upon which our political institutions are founded. It would be, in fact, the longest step yet taken in time of peace towards the consolidation of power in the har.ds of the Federal Government and the subjection of the private af fairs of the people to the supervision and control of irresponsible authority. You and I are Democrats and as such we believe that the government should scrupulously abstain from all unneces sary interference with the personal and domestic concerns of its citizens and confine itself strictly to the admiuistra tion of purely public affairs. It is a cardinal principle of our politi cal faith that the people are best gov erned when they are the least governed, and that they are most prosperous and contented when left to the free exer cise and inanagement of their own busi ness, subject only to such occasional interference as may be necessary to preserve the peace and good order of the community. These propositions are fundamental, and we cannot aban don4heu.withoat-rejecting-h-tradi tions between constitutional govern ment and paternal despotism. The Farmers Misled. [Augusta Chronicle.] It is a source of wonder to thinking men, who have the courage of their convictions andl are not afraid to say what they think, how the farmers of the South can so blindly and fanati cally advocate the sub-treasury bill. Apart from the considerations that the bill is unconstitutional, undemo cratic, visionary and impracticable, which seems to have iio weight with the infatuated farmers who are clanm oring for it; apart from the fact that it would entail an army of offce-holders, andI almost endless expenses on the government; apart from the fact that the tendency of the bill is to encourage and build up adebtor class and make farmers more dependent than ever apart from all these considerations it does seem that the simple law of self preservation would teach Southern farmers that they have no interest in this bill. In no efTbrt to be censorians and with no desire to offend, hut guided by our sense of duty to the farmers of Georgia and the South, to say things which we know it is not popular to say, and which we realIze ai'e not appreci ated by those for whose good they are intended. The Chronicle with all def erence must believe that many farmers are being carried away by popular clamior to endorse a bill whose terms they have not digested, and whose ef fect upon themiselves, if passed by Con gress, they have not properly con sidered. What is the feature ot the bill which so strongly commends it to the farm ers? Unquestionably the one which will enable thenm to store their crop in the government warehouse, receive 80 per cent. of its value and hold it theme for higher prices. But what crop would the Southern farmers have to store? Cotton, and only cotton. They don't imake enough corn, wheat and oats for their own use, and certainly have none t> store for sale. This is true of South ern farmers as a class: there are, of course, individual exception. But Southern farmers dIont need to pass the sub-treasury bill to secure this wheni they can get exactly the same accomo dlation on their cotton crop from the cotton factors in any oftthe leading cotton mna;kets. The factor is secured by the cotton, and will not hesitate to advance 75 per cent. of its value and hold it subject to the farmer's pleasure. The growers of the cotton cr01p already have all that the sub-treasury bill could give them,'and can hold their cotton for higher pirices and buy cheap food from the Western grain markets. Why thenm advocate a bill that will p)ut the grain growers on the same financial platfoirm with themselves, and thbus enable Western farmers to run up the price of foud so that it will beggar Southierni farmers to b,uy it? Trhis is very sinmple b,u-iness propo -ition wh ich mxust -trike hiome to every farnmer wvho eaihnly con-i lers the bill and its results. But this is not thme only view of the aewh ich should control the Southern I farnier. Congressman Mills, in his letter to the Texas Alliance does not mince matters, but says: If the agricultural products are housed for advance the mining and manufacturing products, in periods of depression, will ask for similiar favors, and all the intricacies and dangers of a paternal government will be invoked to save the planter and miner from bankruptcy. * The price of farm products themselves will rise and fall with this waving sys ten, and the farmer will share in this diastrous vacillation. The currency of this country, in fact, will be subject to the perils of speculation, and the food and fabric products of th-, country, capable of being cornered, will cause untold suflering among the people. 0 Mr. Mills is justly surprised that the Southern farmer should be caught by such a scheme. The Western man who hoards his wheat and bacon will have at his mercy the southern farmer, who is more or less dependent for his food supplies. But the cotton factories at home and abroad can afford to shut their mills and wait a year or so on their raw material. In this game of freeze out the Southern planter must in the end be worsted. Senator Carlisle speaks with equal eiphasik in condemning the bill, and says: There are more than 2400 counties in the United States, but not more than one-third of them, if that many, pro duce and sell sell annually more than $500,000 worth of wheat, corn, oats, cotton, and tobacco, and therefore not more than one-third of them could possibly avail themselves of this plan, if it were adopted. It will be seen, therefore, at the very outset that it is a plan to compel the government to issue and distribute money for the benefit of the people living in the rich and productive counties at the expense of the people living in the poorer and less productive ones. *c x * as It is evident that no farmer will sub ject himself to the labor and expense of transporting his products to the public ware-houses and to all the other charges which he must pay for storage, for taking care of them while there, when he has barns and granaries at home, unless he is in debt and abso; lutely needs the money which the government is to advance ; and if he is in that unfortunate condition, from l what source is he afteward to acquire the means to redeem the products by returning the iioney arid interest arih paying the warehouse charges? In a a great majority of cases he will never be able to redeem them, but will be forced to lose the remaining 20 per cent. of the value of his products or sell his warehouse receipt for whatever he can get for it. * * The annual expansion and contrac tion of the currency provided for in the bill would result in absolutely destroy ing the market upon which the farmer must depend for the sale of his crops, and that the cotton farmers who are supporting the "sub treasury'" plan in the writer's estimate would close every cotton factory in the country.. . ... ... But it would be uncandid not to say distinctly before] closing this communication, that even if it could be conclusively shown that this or any other similar scheme would be peculiarly beneficial to any particu lar class of our people, I would still be unalterably opposed'to its adoption, be cause in mty opinion it would be ano thter wvide and dangerous departure fromi the prlinciples upon which our polhtical institutions are founded. It would be, in fact, the longest step yet takeii in time of pcace toward the con solidation of power in the hands of the Federal governmient, and the subjec tion of the private affairs of the people to the control of a central and irrespon-1 siule authority. With the emphatic opin ions of these leading Democrats so earnestly and forcibly argued why will Southern farmiers continue to advocate this bill? A FLAG INCIDENT. startling Rtesults from aC. 0. D. Express P'ackage from Richmond -The Ne~w . York Mail and Express Office Mag inificently Decorated and its Columns Rhetorically Ailu min ated. (Greenville News.] While in Richmond recently the editor of the Greenville D)aily News shipped to Col. Elliott F. Shepard, of the New York M1ail and Express, per sonally, a Confederate battle flag. The article was sent C. 0. D. for the pur pose of giving the doughty warrior a temporary pang of anguish, but half a dollar wvas enclosed within the package to act as a salve and consolation. The M1ail and Express of the .'1st, prints the the followi'ng: There is in one of the front windows of the ofliee of this newspaper the rebel cross Ilag alluded to in the follow ing polHe letter of the editor of the (;reenville S. C.) News, who sends it: "RICH MOND, VA., Mlay :29. "To the editor of the MIail and Express: "Dear Sir-I send you herewith a( (on federate battle flag, such as is being e swunig by the thousands over all the thoroughfares of Richmond to-day and being cheered fronm tens df thousands ~ of ex-rebel throats. i "You wear the title of 'Colonel,' and g, are', I believe, of full age: yet, accord inig to the information we have here, this will be your tirst view of the much 1 hated 'rebel' battle fla,g. I sincerely b itust that the fact that yo can con temiplate it free fronm all risk of the 'rebelI' bullets andl bayonets that once accomnpaniied it will be a source of deep I gratification to you. No doubt, sir, i the reverse of a well-known couplet is true and 'The runny-est are the bitterest, The hating are the fearing.' I "The package is sent 'collect' for the purpose of taking all the revene-iust 11 alf a dollar's worth-the Soutern petople desire for your recent editorial anhes. T> prevent disaster, however the salve is inclosed to q.ickly heal the' wound. "You-can never appreciate, 'Colonel,' that love and loyalty to a dead and beaten cause are entirely consistent with love and loyalty for a triumphant and living country. You are not built that way. In your philosophy defeat and disgrace ar s% "!onym>ous en deavors to insulte the dead constitute highest elements of statesmanship and desertion from and denunciation of a lost cause are the best developments of courage and honor. We of the South, and, thank Heaven, the manly men of the orth, are not yet, however, pre pared to accept your views and stand ards. "Accept my assurances of profound contempt. "A. B. WILLIAMS. "Editor of the Greenville(S.C.),News." Our correspondent is mistaken in one of his positions. About the twentieth rebel flag which we saw was the one captured by the "Shepard Rifles," Fifty-first regiment New York voluntre:"-, under Colonel (now Major-General) i'errero, when it took Roanoke Island from the rebels February S, 1S62. The writer is also mistaken in think ing that he accomplishes revenge in the name of the Revived Cause, by send ing us the new rebel flag marked C. 0. I)., for he unrevenges his revenge in sending us as the salve the munificent ium of fifty cents, whereas the express age was only twenty-five cents. So we are twenty five cents in. What shall we ao with this twenty five cents? It is silver. It bears the name of our country. It bears the American eagle. It bears the beautiful shield of our whole country, with the glorious name :f "Liberty" athwart all its points. It bears the graceful figure of America, with the Phrygian liberty cap on a rod -liberty for black men to rule as well as to be ruled, like their white fellow ritizens throughout the country. Shall we return it to Mr. Williams? That would be ungracious, since he sent it to us. Well, we will put it into the fund for the Grant National monument at Riverside Park, in this city. This will immortalize that quarter of i dollar. But our gentlemanly correspondent is wrong again. Loyalty is a living principle impelling to action. It is therefore utterly im possible "that love and loyalty to a lead and beaten cause are entirely con 3istent with love and loyalty for a tri umphant and living country," for the loyalty to the beaten cause would slay the living country. And that is still the pith of the rebel organitation. It. is just as it was in 1860-the rebels wish to take possessicn of this country, and then flaunt out that this is the same triumphant and living country to which they have been loyal all along, for which they fought~for four years, and which at last becomes worthy of bear ing the proud, and holy, and war sanctified, and immortal Southern Cross and Stars. The stars and stripes would then f~orthwith be consigned to the grave of Lincoln ; laws would be passed forbid ling the manufacture, use, display or possession of the heavenly banner, and leclaring every one a traitor who should even pronounce the names of Liberty, Freedom of Union. The leopard does not change its spots. The cancerous spot of secession will Dot out. The Congress of the United States of America should forthwith act in de rence of the stars and stripes. It gives us a certain amount of pleas are to accept the highest assurances of ifr. Wiliiams' profoundest c<ntemipt. Yesterday the following additional response-evidently from' one of Colonel Shiepard's enlighteaed and patriotic eaders, was received here, addressed to "Air. A. B. Williams,. " Editor S. C. Greenville Press. " Grecnville, "South Carolina. "New York, "June 2, 1s90. "Dear sir i was looking over some of your remarks i am a Southerner i will ;hough protect the American colors where ever i am do you thin k of 1890 ted 1861 ! again i am tired of hearing tour rebel yell down with the stars and ars up with the star spangled banner we can get an army of one million men n one one days time dont you forget it eeder i never expected to hear from ~his letter to live among you rebels ~gain you will see my address as many imies as you write to me i will presen he blow i wished to God President harrison w' uld call for a million of nen to go ini those otlous Southern ~tates i have got one old war relic in ne now i am getting putty well over it am ready for another attack. "J. J. NEwTON. "!93 west 3d st "Newv York City." THE CoLONEL As AN ADVERTIsER. New York letter to Richmond Times.j For the past two days curious crowds iave gathered in front of the oflice of he Mfail and Express opposite the post ffice. In the window is displayed the little on federate flag wheih A. B. Williams, ditor of the Greenville, S. C., News, ent to Elliot F. Shepard with his "as urance of profound contempt." There a printed sign tacked under it in >rming the public that all such "rebel aianifestations" are to be suppresse y act of Congress. It will, of course, e allowed to "pollute the air" of the ious Colonel's sanctum, until its rawing powers as a enriosity cease. le thinks it a first class ad. at present, 2 spite of its polluting presence. The olonel has a mind that- would double iscount the lamented Mrs. Gilpin in -ngality.