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r - f I +1, ' 4 4 ' ESTABLISHED 180 . EW BERRY , S. C. . TLWR'SDAY, JU Y 1,.8 0 THE SC1;"TrEA-Ut] SCHEME. C,i1. Ellion S. Keitt Take Isue With senator i:tler. [National Eeoaomiist.j The sub-treasury seems to be an issue in South Carolina polities, despite the fact that the candidates have as vet not been asked to declare their views upon it. The Greenville News says that Mr. Tillman, the farmer c:tndi date, favors the repeal of the lien law, and argues that lie must favor the abolishinent of the homestead law, else how would the farmer of moder ate means be able to secure credit? The News adds that the sub-treasury plan would render either unnecessary, but pronounces it imhpracticalIe. This paper wisely refrains from further dis cussion. Recently Senator Butler sp!)ke at Leesville, detailing the material work ings of the plan proposed in the sub treasury rather lamely, closing with an argument as to the right of ('on gress to pass the measure, as follows: Now, I maintain in the first place that ('ongress has no niore right to build an operative a warehouse than it has to send and have your and my cot ton hoed. The treasury has no right to loan money to individuals on in terest. It is not a bank. Its powers are like those of the State treasury, limited to the collection and disburse inent of funds. There are many ot.ber objections to the bill, but the constitu tional one is sufficient. Following in line Senator Hampton visited his State from Canada to speak in Columbia a few days later, and among other topics finds time to say something about the sub-treasury. He mixes it up in a jumble with other matters, giving his opinion on the Iot with an assurance which indicates that he expects his opinion to be a cepted as orthodox by all good Caroli nians, and caring not a stiver what in diterent Carolinians may think: My friends, you have seen that they have proposed in Congress somhe neas ures that they call the sub-treasury, the warehouse system, and our distimi goished Senator from California, Stai ford, introduced a bill the other day by which he proposed to lend money to the farmers on a mortgage of I per cent., and then he very innocently said that the farmers could make money by lending it out at 6 or 7 per cent. I hardly think that Stanford, when he was a railroad president, would have conducted his business on that line. I hardly think the scheme is a good speculation. But it can not pass, because both measures are abso lutely unconstitutional. You would hardly expect that any of your Repre sentatives should violate the Constittu tion, which they swore to obey, by voting for these bills. The Charleston News and Courier publishes a letter from Colonel Ellison S. Keitt, a prominent planter, taking issue with Senatbr Butler, giving an argument upon the measure: [Froi the News and Courier.] I have read with surprise the speech of Senator MI. C. Butler delivered at the Leesviile Institute, occupying the position that he does and comning di rect from the seat of Govermett where the chosen leaders of the Alli ance have just completed exhaustive arguments upon the sub-treasury bill before committees of each bran chi of our national Legislature. It might have been expected that in disc'ussing the bill he would at least have touched upon matters that affect its merits. Judging from his speech any intelligent Alliance man in the State could have given the Senator valuable information upon the bill. The arguments he used are trite- thread bare from reputation-the parrot's talk to Congressmen's constituents. It is, indeed, humiliating to Alliance men to be told by a United States Senator that the sub-treasury bill, upon which so much hope is centred-a measure that has engaged the earnest thought of the leaders of more than three mnil lions of agricultural voters-advocated by Polk, M1acone, Livingstone, Robert Beverly and a host of other patriots resembles the "oflsp)rinig of a crank." It is surprising that one holding the iighest political position in the gift of the State should, with so much assur anice, undertake to advise upon a measure of such magnitude, when it is evident that he has not given the sub - jct even an ordinary investigation. Aluigto the warehouses, the Se na tor says: "When built thme products of my friend, Jack Bates, and miyself, corn, cotton, wheat, oats and tobacco, can be placed in one of them, we re ceiving a certificate to the amount of S0 per cent. of the value of the p)roducts stored, and that we can send the eer titieate to Washington and get treas ury iiotes at 1 per cent. interest.'' Th is statemnen t is entirely erroneous. The plan provides that upon receipt of the products a certificate of deposit shall be given, showing amount, quial ity, etc., and that 80 per cent. of value in legal tender notes has beent ad vanced: these notes to be paid at the stub-treasury, not at Washington. The Senator exhibits miuch prejudice against the scheme. The Alliance does not claim that either bill is perfect, and our C'ongressmen are so informed. It - is, however, the best that tihe ablest man of the ordIer could p repare, ando any iniprovenient upon it will be readily accepted, provided the prinei pIes set forth by the Supreme Cou ncil att St. Louis are retained. It is admiit ted that the (Cottoni Belt enjoys upe riragricultural advantages. Btut tIhe farniers of South (Carolina are subjec to the same conditions that fore t he Westerni farmer to sell his co,rn at eemis per bushel, and it is mlocker when the honorable Senator initiniites~ that there is 1no cause for comiplait that cannot be remedied by the tarii. In the same issue of youir paper, .\d r. Edio, tat ..ontains Senator Butler'sj -pe:ing on the silver lll, in savii' that I' bl:(\s tle vuhii:iie of mnIyl"1+ in cirulation in tli;s( country1. in 'le..s thau ,,"U.o+;1,(r1,"' ,r about p:"r capita. I:1 I;; Ve had a per capita circulattionl of . '5. I.'imt \''l ie sinlce that time its been steadily conltited. Ih donlation11 h igres to the la tionlal I:uiks of ti lexclusive privilege to i.ue pltper mouney, the demlton1etiza tioln of silver and the withdrawal from circulatiol of a large anmount. of the g.reeniacks, all operated to contract the Volume of miloney". This conltraction h:s not only ell hanced the value of money enormiously ani prodiucel a corresponding depres sion ill the general prices of all agri cultural products, but it has given to capitalists the power to exact further tribute from the farmer by speculating, without risk on li.s products. \Iillions of dollars have been forced from the cottol producoer since the war On account of c++rporate control of t he mn10Iey. 1 ith price "f cottol inistead of being regulated by the natural laws of supply a:oi delland and fixed upon its act uail v:ile, hI:Is fluctuated every 'eso."he prlice is dlepres'sed Nwen the larlie i obliged to sell, :aul rises when tiet speculator has the C itt((11. The sub-treasury bill gives the farm er aimple protection against this evil. ('ap;italists opose it because lv its en actnent they lose control of "the power of 1inon1ey to oppress,' and+l their r1ion1ey bec"lles les' prf,itald. Thie tarifl can.not give the relief sought by this bill. Legislation 111011 it C'IAIt add one dollar to the eirculating vol umle of monley, neither can it protect the farmiers agaist the manIpulation;is of sieelators to rob them by depressing the cotton mnarket when ther are obliged to sell. If the Senator has not vet learned that tbis condition exists lie may probably itilire of his farmer constituents. If the Senator is ig!Io ranlt that this Condition is the result of national legisiation, deliberately 1lan Ied and seeured by foreign and Amier ican capitalists, he can be supplied with proof. The farmer:' dleland for relief is imperative. Co:gressmen who are true to the:n will be renlelbere(l. But it is not in the power of a man longer to deceive the people, or check the tb that is now risin1g to submerge every vestige of legislation 0 that diseriI inates atgailst them. We hope that further investigation will reconcile the Sena or's conscience and lie will support the bill. SonIe of the Senator's con titue:ts would be pleased to know his reasons for pronouncing it unconstitu tional. They cannot believe it. It is human to err, and farmers are beuinning to realize that it is safer to rely upon their own intelligence than Upon faith. Besides, we rem:enber the agitation of the road law' a few years ago, when no0 less a personaige than our distini guished Seiiator advised an increase of the poll tax. The State press took it up, and( Senator Butler wvas the hero of future good roads in South Carolina. The people were dlelighted1, when lo! a trial justice in the State rises and ex plain11 thatt it is unrconisti tutional. ELLISON S. KE ITT. Enoree Plantation, S. C., .June 12, TILE SU1-T11WAsuRuY itILL. SenaLtor Vance Out in a Letter Sayin;r hie Cannot Support It. \VsIJi lwrox, D). C ., .June 80.-Sena tor Vance has written a letter to El ias (arr, president of the Farmers' Alliance of North Ci(aroliina, ini oppositioni to theC sub-treasury ware house bill, lHe states that hie procu red a hearing by .Messrs Polk ando )*hieuine for the bill before the Senate Comminittee, but lie says: "My own position remlails the samie. .I canniot su1* tort the bill ini its present shape, ,but I ami not opposed to thle proncipte and purposes oft lhe measure."' He poin1ts out that the way to benefit the aigricult ural classes is by reforming the tarll . HIe is opposedl to the featutre of the bill whlichi provides for the loan ing of mi oney to peIople by thle (Governi mient on thme deposit ofgraini hut thinks governmenit ware houses at ports might be utilized for the reception of domestic articles anid certificates issued for the samie ulpon whi*h mo)ny could be bor rowed, lie says that the Farmers' )lovemient at this timie amounts to little short of a revolution, and that oippressedl free men hecomie impiat iet anld thait impatient men01 are ofteni un wise. The D emiocrat ic party ale, lie says iln favor of the legislationi which lie All ianice is fightinhg for, lie calls at tenitioni to the conitest. in South ('aro lina, wbhcih "can onily have the result of put ting that State back unider AXfri enn rulec. TIhiis, too,"lhe exclaimhs, "among mieni who profess to agree upon01 n~atters of priniplehd," reduct ion of taxation 'n the niecessarics o,f lif>--for at reductioiio itheii expendi*itures of the Go;ivernmhient--o an1 inicrease oft the currency and th le price of fatrmi produ ct s by the coinage of silver and the rest ora tioni ofits full legal tender character: for a repeal of the tax upon f- tate banks: orte reuathali of the trahisportalntn1 rtsby railroad commliissioni: andu last, but nIot least, let us earniest ly cioil''nd against that spirit of centir:iliza:tioni wichtl is coinstalilly thireat.cnii-.I to absorbll thle local self-g )veri n ineit of the people 0f the States.' The State Camzpaign. Benniettsville, Tuesday, J u'y 15. I.arlinigton,, Wednesday, J1uhy 10. larioni. Thlursday, J]uly 17. KingstrIee, l'ridayv, J1ulyv 15. Geolrgetowni, Saturday.,. Julv 1 (Chlarlestoni, Thfiursday, July 21. halnnin.g, Saturdhay, .July 2'. )ranigeburg, T1uesday, Ju ily ::'. It aufrt . Saturday. Autgnu,t :. I ( PI OFITS IN FA MING. ..000 Net fron :.oo Acr e of Land Near N~rfolk The 1'rices of Land that Yield Such lIeturnr. Noiwo a, ., July 4.-Nothing surprises a Northern iiianl nlore when making his first j:iurnley ilto the .autherti States thanl the enorinous prolits which some Southern farmers reap very year. lie has read from his ear liest youth up about the run-down ap pearance of Sout hern farms- their bush growln ience rows, the dilapidated buildin;gs, the lazy nigger farm hands, and the slotehy owners smoking their pipes on the great house porch while the weeds grow up and all but bury themii-and he cannot conceive of any profit being made by such farmers. Moreover, he has read about the crops imortgaged in advance of the maturing and the: enormous interest paid on the loans thus obtained, and so lie looks upon his own neat home, his well rolled meadows; his sleek stock, and his full grain binls and hay mows, and thanks (God that his lines have been east inl pleasant places, and perhaps that he is not as other Ien, even as he po.r devil of a typical Southern farmerr. But let the dairyman from Orange county, the hay grower of the Mohawk valley, the corn grower of the Ohio valley, and the wheat grower of the Dakotas, not to mention the boomers of Nebraska and Kansas, and OkIa hiama and Texas, corne to Norfolk, and then, after looking over the Chesapeake lhay farms, take a run through North Carolina, and get knowledge if not wisdom. There are f1armers and farmers, and sonic of the outhern farmers can make tore 1noney smoking a pipe on the porel on the shady side of the great house than others can grubbing roots, loading hay, husking corn, or riding a reaper inl the heat of the afternoon sun. For instance, there is Farmer Ballen tirle of this counutv. His farm is 400 acres inl extent, but lie has been farm ing only :ii) acres, because the other hundred was only bought last year and it. is not cleared up yet. It lies about. a mile from the city limits. It is a level piece of ground, althougih it rolls enough for good drainage, and the soil is iixed, being partly clay and partly a sandy loam. Farmer Ballen tine runs that farm not from a seat on the porch of the great house, but from his oflice in the Ballentine block, one of the handsomest brick structures in the city, built by the farmer out of po tatoes and kale and spinach and straw berries and cabbage. The story of Far mer lallentine will serve to illustrate what other Southern men have done. lie n:as a Tarheel by birth, was a na tive of Currituck County, N. C., but has lived in this county so long that people here count him a good-enough Vi rgiuniani. As a young man, having no rich inheritance, he went North and learned the machinist trade, remain ing there for eight years, the greater part of that time being passed in Al bany. Theni he wvent back to North Carolina, and a short time before the wvar moved to this county. He brought here, including farm implements, household utensils, and cash, a capital of about $1,500, if a liberal value be allowed to the outfit. He bought a part of the land which he now owns and set some colored hands to work. They were slaves, of course, and there fore less profitable than ,free help, as everybody down here now admits ; but MIr. Ballentine p)rospered so that when Piresidenit Lincoln freed the slaves he took $27,000 worth of human chattels from MIr. Ballentine. The war left MIr Blallentine with nothing but land ; still lie Inight have been much wvorse ofl'. He kept ott cultivating the land, birinig the dark ies, where lie had previously owned them, and making money faster than ever. It is commonly said by so cialistic speakers t at no man can make a million of nu sey in the span of a lifetinme save by speculation that is tainted with unrighteousness, but if MIr. .ltlnine lives ten years loniger lie will have the umillion, having mi ade it out of the soil and by investitng the profits in suceh real estate as was offered to himii at what seemed a reasonable price, atd in improvetment on the land. lie is now worth $~>00,000, anid his ini cotme this year from 300 acres of land alone is about $27,000) accordling to his books, which lhe willingly sho{wedi to a Siun repuorter. The process by which $1,500~ has swollen to $:500,000J( is as simple as pll I itng weeds. 3Mr. Ballentinme con fi ties his rops to roundm or frnish potatoes, kale, siniach , eanbhlages, and stra wberries. Thiese er.ops ate chosen because found well sutited to thle soil. They are rotated thius :lieginnting say withi 5j)pich, a 1r1 tat matures late in, thle fall, lie cuts antd shiips it along through the ni iter as the miarket (New York and lI oston, will take it until Apuril. in the spittach fields lie planits potatoes ini rows four andi( otte-htalf feet apairt, with rows o~f strawberries between the rows oft potatoes. The potatoes are ready for the market the laust of .1 une and are dlug and shipped, heavitng flue field to lie strawberries utitil the next year, when ini May the strawberry erop comtes ont and is pickedl. Whi in jicked the fiel is phoughued up andtm kale fol lows, the initetntion b)eing to putt itt ant other <:rop, of somttethintg as soon as oune er. p has beenci garneQred. TIhe ildea of al lowintg a field to 'lie fal lowv is conisidl credl tid i(-ulous in thItis couttry-. In the tiatter oif fertilizers 3lr. Bal P!mineiC is a liberal but close buyer-lib eral to' the land and close with the dealer. This last year lie paid $';,7o2.i2 fori uianio andl 6l52 for fish sc-rap. In \-orfolk guano sells for $c,i a ton cash down, or $55 to he paid after t he e"r1, is sold. Mr. Balletitine buys in sueh a large quantity that by paying ea,h with the order lie gets a fair per eent. ofl the '50. The aiouiit p,ur'icha:-'i was spread over ] 'ci acres of p1t:t ,. 50 acres of kale, 9:) acres of sp,inach,o acres of cabbages, and :;t acres of tr: w berries. Just to show what he mul do he gave a little extra att"notiii to one four-acre bed of spinacl, :ci,al in consequence gathered and sOb, 1h i iJ barrels from the one patch, m aki ig ie neat sum of $10U an acre. That, su far as learned by the reporter, was ti~ largest profit inade by any farnoitrfrom similar extent of landlabout Nor'lk. l The chief advantages which :.1 r. 1:i entine finds in th is vicinity as a l tion for a farm are its contvciet;e to the markets of New York and lioston, the abundance of good cheap lab.,r, and the kindly cliniate. Spin:ch rut on Monday moriig is on the in:rkc t Tuesday night in good coldition. It. is shipped either by the Old Doniniiin line of stearners, the Buston line, or the Cape Charles route of the Penn sylvania Railroad, a road not ltng since built down the hngth of the \'ir ginia peninsula for the express purp:,s of catching the truck t ratle of th:e Chesapeake Bay country. Kale, bages, and sl.inach are carried for 17 cents a barrel. Straw berrit s are enr ried for 1 cent a basket. 3'r. l>:alln tine, who has been on Long Island to look at the competing truck farms there, says he gets his crops to ::iarket at a much less expense than Suillalk County farmers do, and that he can, in fact, compete in that respect with farms lying so near to Brooklyt ihat they are worth $1,001 an acre. Ie cause of low freights the faiiiiers about iNorfolk ship thousands of barrels and crates of string beans, peas, radishes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and, in fact, all sorts of vegetables and berries to New York with immense profit. The laborers are all negroes, aid \r. Ballentine praises then, highly. 1ie men work for S12.50 a niontl or cents a day. The woien, who are about as good field hands as the iien:, get 60 cents a day. They board thei selves as these prices. The hands hired by the month have neat, whitewashed cottages furnished them. Mr. Badlei tine keeps about fifteen hands eiploy ed by the month. The rest come from the city and work by the day. lie employs two white men as foremen or superintendents, and they have great houses, to use the Virgina term, to live in. The negroes have to be looked after constantly, but a gang of negroes at 75 cents a day, with a white fore man, are much cheaper laborers, Mr. Ballentine says, than the samie numi ber of white men 'tt New York prie,, for farm help. As to the climate, it needl only be noted that this is the sunny South, and that the sun is tempered by the sea and the bay. The climiate is suech that if the wild western boomers coul( only get hold of it the vocabulary as laid down in modern dictionaries would be insufficient to sound its praise. The crops of this region are azll brought to the piers ill Norfolk, for even those bound North by the rail road must cross the bay in a steamer Mr. Ballentine carries his to the piers in market wagons, but hundreds of farmers on the western shore of the bay use sloops of about the size of the oyster shoops of New York harbor. When the great steamers lie on one side of the pier and a fleet oif little sloops on the other, the scene is one of intense animiation, aund the sounds are beyond description. The pier shed becomes a bedlam, peop,led with scurry black imps, and resound ing with such cries anid yells and shouts and songs and laughter as can be heard nowhere else. Barrels anti crates are tossed up f:romi the stoops by the negro crews, grabbed by the negro roustabouts, and carried on the run across the pier and tossed through ports in the black sides of the ship to negro deck hands ini waiting, who instantly disap)pear in what seems a yawning eaverti. By 6 o'clock the ship is loaded -often crammied so full of' the stuff that only the spaces reserved for work ing the machinery remain emipty he tween deeks. With that the darkies on the nmos qfuito) fleet rush for the halliards ind get oii jib and mainsail and cast ofl t lie hines that hold themi to the pier, andh away they go, by the score, in such a race down the river as would stir t lie soul of the most ennuied spectat or. No miore enthusiastic or capable sailors of shoops thani these darkies can be fmaii, andI with their sweethearts peredt on the little cabins to uruge t hiemi ton, tIle negro piliots setal thiri littl e yacht ts driviing down or beatinig upl to windi ward, withI a relish for victory hz:nl a disregar<d for thle rights of coimpet(' it iton that are stuning to beholdd. Le~av inzg Norfol~k afteir an exainaiii - tion of thle t ruck farm ers t' Nothn n agricuItuist, sihouldt go tot hirbu iiiitor to )xford, North ('arolina, aznd look at the ttobaccto phlaitaitins. It is in thle regions rno undhah'ut Its,'i tos Ithatt the veryn linest Itlobacc in Ihe' worltd is growno. North I ('*arohinaz: hi:s a few gt,bt mine4s, andt onl a certatini tcca:sioin laist fall downlh in \lotgomt.''ery ( 'tintyv, a oni ThIe SaurmIirWs farm:z thI at pannted out $5o,i004 ini a week. But Tlebe Saunders is now here in luck compjared with the moan who t,wns and kowAs how to cultivate a stretch of thie white sand of Durham or (Graniville co)unlti's. For instance, there is F'armitr F. H. Knott, w~ho lives near Ox ford. V-armer' K. came out of the war without a tcent. and what was worse lie had no elut'a I ion. But lhe was a shrewd iian inl ttne cheek for iluoo,i~it. lie got hold of s:ne of the Granville sand, and began t( r:J'i,e tobace). For a timl:e the to b:a() Ile ti ;t, uthel's of the sectioli ra:eil was inrki:ed at a very small pr,it. It wett to lichmrionld. and it was of the li_hlt i ;n ye llow, riot then Vry Well knowl as in great delmand i'te Iliark.t. IbW it was as as inc as ,ilk-literally as fine as silk-and it 11:ae a dem:andl that is now world wide. The mna,rket has shifted to the townts in the section where it grows, and railroads have been built to trans port the (rop. (n ) the Iiarket day the plalters brin1g in the stuft by the hogs Inal a d roll it oil the wagons to wide floors to wareihoust"s built for the pur pose. The igSi ea'ls are opened, the tobacco dumnped out and assorted, and al autct:oleer gets up an(d wants to know how muh lie is ofered, and a!tl bu: ers fIm New York and all other Imanltufacturilg centres tumble over each other ill their anxiety to an swer tie (luest ion. Foyrt cents a pound is a conmon price for the leaf, and seventy is often reached for choice lots. Last year \ir. hii>tt had some ehicie lot-i ad so manV of themi that ie (leared Sfn;!11 at :ire froml ten acres. There w<-re several other planters in raIIvi!!e counltv who( id as well, while a 1lcnty of them made oo an acre the top proilt imi:ile by Mr. 13alcntine on htis choice lot of spinach on his trtiuk farm near Norfolk. The baceco crot, reqiires intelligent care, hut there is i, Yankee farmer worth a forkful of daisies who couldn't learn to grow the (rot) in one season. The seed is sown in a specially prepared bed in Feb,ruarv. The plants are trans plante(d to the field in May. From 4,50') to 4, it plalts are put on an acre, and a diarkv, who eosts the planter about 14 a ,nonth all tohci, keeps two and a half acres in p,rine orlder if he is looked after proIIpelY. The yield is from 709 to 1,20o p)r,uil, an aere, al( the money for it should be in the planter's pocket within ninety davs from the day the plants were set out, after which lie can go a fishing or see his poor or rich re latioin or d aIn thing else that pleases himh. I f, aftei' looki:ng over such farms and such roll Is as :re actunally made here, the man who hms been lightinig potato hugs about the haenlw:ter, of the Ilud s,n or dosing the hog cholera in the Mississippi valley or wilting uider the hot winds of the Western country doesn't think there i6 money in some kiuds of farming he-is a curious sort of a farner. Not all farms nor all planters make such profits, but there are grades in farms and fariers ill the North as well as in the Souti. Probably the first thing a Northern f;rmer would ask about these Southern lands is the price. Around Norfolk farmls that arc well located cost $2iO an aere. That will buy a farni of good truck land with gooJ buildings, andif properly nmanaged it wvould yield $100 an acre ini pJrofits. The best kind of farms for tobacco culture in the gohlen tobacco belt are to be had at S$25 an acre. This price is for land which shJJuld yield, under pro per eultivationi, from four to ten times its cost in1 prof its ever'y year (depending onl the weather at certain stages of the growth of the cropl), anid in rare cas~es $SO0) an acre. The buildings are of a kind that would not meet the apprdval of a thrifty Yankee, nor would the (Jon dlitioni of tihe fences please himli. 'But the land is all right for tobacco. Thiere are p)lantaltionis of from 500 to 6010 acres in North Carolina which the owners try to manage, but no planta tion of that size, of which the reporter could learni, was profitable. The small p)lantations carefully pllanted and well fertilized and eultivated were lie ones that made their o)wners rich, if inicomies (of from $,(J0J to $10,000) a year niet be counted the iilnicms of rich lilenl. As onl the truck farmus around Nor folk, the labJor is and must be done by niegroes. Thle whiitet mlan cannot afford tJo work for the price (of a negro, and tae Northerner whol( goJes South wvill make a mistake if lie does m.t devote his timle to "'encouraiginhg the niggers"' isteadt ofI ht hoIe. It is appiarenlt, thlerefore, that the souith is not the plIace forI a muan withl no) capital at all, buIt, a very goodJC pl:ie forI a miain of sliinll means11 inul thirift. It is better to gJJ South tiihail West. slvi-:D L.ON(l:1t TII.iN JA4COl;. AJ (.reen,uville, (Cooity Man Waits Until (the [ Fromi the (Greeniville News.] W\. .\. P'ollard. a farmier who lives ill this coJunty, was ini the c'ity a few (lays nIuJ, andii to some1 Io(f his frieiids he told tlhe fJoJll owlig storyI'. whiichi is vouchied forI bJy thoJse living ini his neighborhood: Al bo ut 1nineteen years5 ago Mr. Pollard hiired huuiiself tJJ the late A-lex. Spillers, awell toJ-dJo fariimer Jof t hiis county. he Ii rst mont11 h heI reeei veil a suit ofJ clothes ivpa. M Ir. Polla hrd 1 wa thiCeni ployed permanJeniItly' :s at fairm hiando. H-e had bee tlwith Mr l. piilhlr bult a short time wVhJen a girl ehii was horn to Mrs. Spiullers. Ani hioir after' it was born Mr. IPoJIllard askeod Mir. Spillers t o give him1 I lhe chiild as his Wife when'i shIe arrived at thle properage. Mtr.spJillers conlsented andIJ saidl if M1r. P'olardl staved wvith hlim lie shouhil have his daughiter at sixteen. ThirJJughi si xteenl years thle youn'g mall worIkedl Wit hi hiis emlJoyer and at six leeni elaimedco the younilg lady as his iiane andJ wais soon1 after miarr'ied to hier. Hie is nlow thle fat hier (of two child ren, andio at Mr. Spi ler's's death he left h iis son-in1-la1w .J inil cash for the ixteen) years heI h1:1d s J pat ienly l waited for his wife. IDist re'-s a fter o'ai ing, heartburn, sick loc:v!aehe, andJ indCigestion are curedi by Drl. .1. i. ibean's Liver and Kidniey P iilets little pills.i :"ic'k hleadaeche is thel bane of riuany lives. Thiisannlhoyinig omlainiut mlly tbe eu red :and( preventd h~l v the ocJ"asio ioa1 n-e of Ir. .J. It. McL an's Liver OrR GIFT-T.IK:ING PREsI DENT. The Political History of 1enjamin Ilarri son-Ilis Greed for Office for Him self and Family. [New York Sun.j WAsHINGToN, ). C., July 6.-Gen. H-arri on has been one af the most per .istent offiee seekers the State has ev"r known, having been a candidate at al most every general election that has occurred within the past forty years, when he did not already hold an oflice: and he has not been satisfied with hold ing ollice himself, he has been most persistent in securing oflices for his own and his wife's relatives. He was one of those pure-niinded patriots that criticised Gen. Grant because he ap pointed relatives to oflice or accepted presents; but no sooner did he acquire political power than he adopted all the methods of the machine, and let noth ing escape that lie could capture for himself or a relative. He permitted his wife to accept a cottage at Cape May from persons he has bestowed favors upon, and who will doubtless continue to receive them during his official terin. In 1"S;O he becane a candidate for Reporter of the Decisions of the Su preme Court of Indiana; and was elected. In 1G' he became Colonel of the Seventieth Indiana Volunteers, and retained his olice, which was filled by pro::y, for two years. while drawing his salary as Colonel. After tii; close of the war he was again elected Reporter, and served until 186S. In 1s72 he was a candidate for the Republican norniiation fur Governor of Indiana was defeated by Gen. T. M. Browne. In 1'76 he was the Republican can didate for Governor of Indiana, but was defeated by B!ue Jeans Williams, while his Republican associates on the ticket were elected, and Grant carried the State by a handsome majority. After his defeat for Governor he was an applicant for a place in Hayes Cabinet. He was appointed by Hayes one of the Mississippi River Commissioners, and received $,Q00 per annum for four years, but did not devote one week per year to the duties. In 18 i he was elected to the United States Senate and served six years. In 18S4 he was a candidate for the nomination for President, and resigned his place as )elegate-at-Large from Indiana in the National Convention while the Convention was in session at Chicago and returned to Indianapolis, expecting to be nominated, but his name never was mentioned in the Con vention. In IS86 he was a candidate for re election to the Senate, but was de feated; whereupon he immediately went into training for the nomination for the President in 1888. He received the same and was elected. By the end of his term lie will have held office thirty-four out of his forty years in public life. In addition to the offices he has held himself, he obtained pilaces in the Gov ernent service for the following relh tives: Carter Harrison, his brother, who wvas a Revenue Supervisor under the Garfield-Arthur Administration, and is now United States Marshal for Ten n essee. Russell Harrison, his son, was ap pointed assayer at the mint at Helena, Montana, as soon as he heft college. Clew Morris, who married his sister, was appointed to an important place in the revenue service at Indianapolis as soon as H airisoni became Senator, and remained in said place until re tired by a D)emocrat after Cleveland be came President. Since Harrison be came President he has been appointed to a life oflice in the pay department of the United States Army, and is now stationedl at St. Paul, Mmi. D)r. I. W. Scott, his father-in-law, was appointed a clerk in the Pension Ollice in i8s0, as soon as he became Senator, and remained in office until after MIr. Harrison became President. H-eniry Scott, his brother-in-law, was in the Revenue Service on the Pacitic coast and died in that service. Mrs. Scott Lord, his sister-in-law, was for years a clerk in the office of the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury. She was specially favored by being permnitted to do her work at her hiomie. Major Scott, another brothier-in-lawv, was a paymI1aster in the army, and is now superintendent of a p)ublic build ing that is erecting somnewhere on the Pacific coast. He is a small lawyer, and no one cee pretended that he pos sesses qualifications for the post. He ap)poinited V-raink McKee, Baby McKee's uncle, to an) irmportanlt place in the custoniis service ini the West. He was scarcely of age, andl was wholly unfitted for the place. D)uring the early days of the Admina istrationi lie detailed Lieut. Parker, who is the hiusbandl of Mrs. Harrisoni's niece, to a nice berth wvith the Samioan Commnission that went to Berlin to settle the Samoan dilliculty. Tfhiis list emulbraces every known rela tive of Harrison or his wife, except1 John Scott Harrison. of Kansas City, who is a Deniocrat. Hie has for soume reason iiever been on very good termis with the P'residenit or his family, or lie would doubtless have been ini thme en joy menit of a lucrative (ollice. If von feel unable to do your work aind 'have that tired feecling, take D)r .1. Hi. McLean's .Marsa parilia: it wil ma :ke yo~u brigh it, acti Ve arid vigorous No liniment is in better repute or miore widely known than Dr. . H. ecLean's Volcanic Oil Liiment. It THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. Bill Arp Talks About American Indepen dence-Quarrels Among Ourselves When Can we Have Peace? [From the Atlanta Constitution.] I asked an intelligent young man to day about the 4th of July and what it meant, and he said "Our forefathers had a big fight with old England and whipped it, and after it was all over the colonies got together on the 4th of July, '70, and formed a union and made a declaration of independence." A good many young people have an idea that this day celebrates the whipping of the tight, and the beginning of a new government. This is a mistake, but it is a very reasonable supposition. The (lay of a great victory that closes a war and secures peace and independence is a greater day than the one on which it was declared. "Let not him boast that putteth his armor on like him who taketh it off." The surrender of Cornwallis at York town virtually closed the war on the 19th day of October, 1781, and the treaty of peace was signed in Paris on the :" th day of November, 1782. This treaty for the first time acknowledged and established the independence of the United States, and the day it was signed should be observed as a very notable day. The 4th of July was not the beginning of the war. The colonies had been fighting for a year or moie all along the line. Bancroft says the battle of Lexington that was fought on the 18th of April, 1775, was the begin ning of the revolution. The battle of Bunker Hill was fought in June, 1775. The colonies had rebelled from Maine to Georgia, and had organized for re sistance. Old North Carolina held a secession meeting at Mecklenburg in May, 1775, and passed a declaration of independence. The second continental congress met in Philadelphia the 10th of May, 1775, and issued $2,000,000 of continental money for war purposes. Canada was invaded and Montreal was taken in December, 1775. Our fathers were getting along pretty well with the war long before 4th of July, but the colonies were fighting on their own motion, and had not cemented any settled union. Some of them thought that England would soon get tired and beg their pardon and invite them back, and perhaps they would go back, but on the 7th day of June 1776, Richard Henry Lee introduced resolutions in the continental congress that cut the last cord that had bound the colonies to Great Britain. The resolutions were passed and a committee appointed to draw up a more formal declaration of independence; and so it was done, and was reported to congress and was passed on the 4 h of July, 1776. It is well for the children and youth to understand these things, so that when they are asked what all this racket is about, and these annual cele brations and fireworks they can an swer. Richard Henry Lee was the personal friend of Washington, and when Wash ington died Lee was chosen to pro nounce his eulogy, and it was in that address that he said of him: "First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."Don't forget that. Those Lees were terrible rebels. When Cromwell was dictator they rebelled against him and passed a declaration of independence for Virginia, and so Cromwell sent over a fleet to subdue them, but he couldn't do it, and had to recognize their independence and make a treaty with them. The Lees were born to rule, and they have been ruling for 150) years in this country. It is a grand old family. Henry Lee, a cousin of Richard's, was the father of our General Robert E. Lee. He was known during the revolution as Light Horse Harry. His father must have been a very extraordinary man, for he and General Washington loved and courted the same girl, Miss Lucy Grymes, the "lowland beauty,'"andLee outgeneraled the general, and history says that Washington never wholly recovered from that defeat. Some years after lhe tried a widow with better luck. She had one son, and that son married and died, leaving one daughter, and our 1B0b married her. The Lees all had personlal pride and pride of family. They scorned to do a mean thing. Their self-respect wouldn't permit it. The stood up and sat down and rode ar anid walked with a princely dignity that commanded respect and admira tion. William Preston Johnston says in a recent letter that he never saw General Lee take an ungraceful posture. No matter how worn or weary or sick or sad, his bearing wasgrace and digni ty refined. This was not affected. It was his nature. A man with a great mLinid and a good heart can't help being dignified. His body partakes of the nobility of his mind. He becomes god. like, as was said of Daniel Webster. If a man's body is the temple of the living God, as the scriptures say, then it be comes him to be dignified and graceful andl courteous. Some folks affect to despise all this, but they donot. They are fooling themselves. Just let a man or a woman sit or stand before the camera of tihe photographer for a pic ture andI see how they fix up for it, and how careful to take a good position. They will do their best and look their p)rettiest every time, especially a wo man. Light Horse Harry was the most dashing cavalry officer of the revolution and Washington depended upon him as General Lee depended upon Jeb Stuart in the late war. He was a de voted friend and a magnanimous foe. After the war lie happened to be in Baltimore where a mob had gathered to break up a newspaper and whip the editor, a man who had been his friend, and he rushed to his rescue and got wounded in the fray and was injured internally and never recovered from it. He went to Cuba for his health and came back by Cumberland island to rest awhile with General Green's fanii ly and there he died and was buried. Georgia was honored wi:h his bones. I reckon that t!'e 4th of July is the fittest day to celebrate, though it was not the day of the nation's birth, nor the beginning of the war, nor the day of the last great victory, nor the day when peace was made. It is a singular coincidence that the battle of Lexing ton where the first blood was shed in the old revolution, was fought on the 18th of April-the same day of the same month that closed the late war, ninety years afterwa:d. Sher man and Joe Johnston made peace on that day at Durham's station, in North Carolina. In the beginning of the first revolution eleven of the colonies se ceded. In the second revolution eleven states seceded. Secession and rebellion began with the fathers and ended with the sons. It began in defense of a principle-a little tax of three pence a pound on tea. All other duties on imports had been removed, and King George declared that he would keep a little tax on tea, not for revenue, but to show the colonies that England had a right to tax-that was all. Where there is a will to fight, excuses are plenty. The colonies had been quarreling with the parent government for years and were tired. So it was with the north and the south. They had been quarre ling for fifty years, and the fight had to come. It wasn't the election of Lincoln, but it was the pent up bitter ness of a half century that had to ex plode. And we are quarreling again, and if we keep on there will be another fight some time. Human nature is the same now that it was then, and there are more causes of quarrel than a little tax on tea. What is the matter with this American people? I wonder if these farmers can't stop the fuss when they get into power. For the Lord's sake, gentlemen, do start us on an era of peace and good will, and let the next Fourth of July celebrate a victory over hate and prejudice and the inordinate love of other people's money. BILL ARP. Miss Winnie Davis. [New York Sun.] The popular Interest in Miss Winnie Davis, who is usually referred to as the daughter of the Confederacy, has ex tended into social circles. Siice the re tirement of the renow aed New Orleans belle whose name no longer appears in the papers, and the marriage of Miss Anderson, Miss Davis has been the most popular representative in the North of Southern womanhood. Her engagement to a Northerner has called out a great amount of feeling in the South, but it has become pretty well recognized at this stage of the world's history that women in America no longer marry for patriotic retisons. Her beauty is of a delicate and gentle type, and it is in marked contrast to the somewhat assertive manner of New York society women. Her sojourn in New York will be short, as she is booked to visit Newport, where a great deal of her time will be spent as a guest of the Whitneys. A Mountain in the Atlantic. LONDON, July 7.-The English steam er Clan Alpine reports that while mak ing soundings in the Atlantic ocean about twenty-six miles north-west of Cape Frio, on the southwest coast of Africa, it suddenly struck bottom at a depth of only 24 feet. The discovery is a remarkable one, as no shoal had hitherto been suspected to exist in those waters. On all sides of the p)oint where their sounding was made the ocean bed sinks rapidly to its normal depth in that region. It is evident that a peak of a submerged mountain has been d?s covered, and if it were elevated a little further it would form anisland. The place where this discovery has been made is a little south-west of the Por tugese West A frican possessions. A Goat Bombards a BrIdegroom RICH.MOND, July 7.-A special from Christiansburg says that during a mar riage ceremony in one of the churches there a goat deliberately walked in and interrupted the ceremo,y by giving the groom a grand send-off with his head. The bride fled to the pulpit for safety. An Aeronaut .Meets with a Fearful Death S'r. LOrIs, .July 5.-A special to the Republic from B3eardstown, Ills, says that Prof. Samuel Blac~k, aeronaut, met with a horrible death at that place yes terday afternoon. WVhen at a height of 400 feet in ascent, he signalled he was about to descend, but something seemed to have gone wrong with his parachute. A few minutes later', a thin streak of smoke was seen issuing from the para chute, which in a few seconds burst into fiame, severing the parachute from the ballooni, and the wcronaut was seen falling through the air at a frightful speed. A half hour later his body was found horribly niangled about two miles from the scene of ascent. It is supposed that the parachute caught fire from a spark from a mill near by. S3,7so a Year Eno igh for Infant Whialey. [New York Sun.] Judge Beach yesterday confirmed the report of Referee William H. Willis in the matter of Francis Marion Whaley, the infant son of theJate Louisine M2e Cready Whaley, un4er whose will he received about $600,000. The child has been living with his aunt, Marie Wha ley Chisholm, at Edisto Island, near Charleston, S. C. The Judge thinks that $3,7.50 a year will be ample allow lance for the support and expenses of the