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enrocr Vol. II. ORANGEBURGr, S. C, FRIDAY, .SEPTEMBER 24, I88O. The Great West. Editors Orangeburg Democrat: It is a trite hut true saying of the .Latin poet, tcmpora mutantur et nos ifiutamcr in Ulis?the changing times ?bring changes to us. The disintegra tion and subversion of our social and political systems, which followed as a Bequence of our failure in the war of secession, and the attempt to remod el them after the models of New England, and the disastrous conse quences to our country of these ill considered innovations caused many of ojir beat citizens to look to other climes and lands for homes. At one time it was even thought that an uni versal hegira of the white population was inevitable, and many good men did go. But wickedness and fraud and falsehood in high places could not.'endure forever, and with the changes in the administration of the internal affairs of the State have come moBt beneficial changes in the social and domestic relations of the i people, and the alternative of ruin| here or emigration no longer exists. Having passed seven months of the! present year in the rice and sugar! lands of Sou'hwestern Louisiaua, it has been suggested to me to present! to our people through the medium of your paner a few facts gained by in dividual observation and experience. I was induced to go out there through representations of the surpassing richness of the lands and the assur ance of an oasily acquired competen cy, if not a small fortune in a lew years. So far as the land is concerned throughout the Delta of the Missis sippi it is absolutely superb, but the drawbacks to success are so many and so great that I found that too of ten where one man succeeds five fail, and that frequently success is as much due to adventitious circurn stancca as to any other cause. Near ly the whole country might be called ?'bottom land" for it abounds in bay our,, little and big lakes, mantis Jlotantts, (tremb'ing prairies,) and frog ponds,and the arable land is only tho ridges between these bayous, lakes and prarcs. Well-nigh the en tire country is liable to be overflowed by crevasses in the levees of the river ami numerous bayous, and the area of laud above overflow is very rarely in the market, and when it is, from $o0 to $100 per aero can hardly touch it, for it cannot dc surprised for cotton, corn, sugarcane and vege tables. The general health of the country is good, which is surpassing, but! there is ever present apprehension of yellow fever or cholera during the mjinmor and autumn, and there is not a store or house in tho country that has not cholera medicines in it, and itinerant venders of patent cholera remedies are frequently passing. Mosquitos, yellowflies, gnats, alli gators, crawfish, frogs and snakes are prodigious iu size and quantity. It is necessary for weeks ut a time to make a smoke after sunset around the houses for protection against the mosquitoes. In some sections horses and other stock have to be kept ciled to proteot them from winged and orawling insecto. It is a fine country for people of wealth for they can go to the many attractive summer re sorts on the shores of the Gulf and avoid these pests and sponrgos. The water, which is execrable, I believe! to be the exciting cause of tho cholc-1 ra. Throughout my tour of travel I j conversed with all grades and classes j of men, and from close observation and experience I have loarnt that the i great West is immensely overrated, and by a comparison of advantages and disadvantages that South Caro lina in an desirable a State to live in as anywhere else. Considering her social, educational and religtous ad vantages, transportation facilities, public improvements and multifllied resources and industries, and the fer tility of the soil, which is yearly im proving and increasing in value through the more judicious modes of fertilization and cultivation now be coming more generally adopted. Considering tiiese conditions, it is unnecessary for her young men or any of her citizens, who have the means of earning an bonest livlihood here to look beyond her limits for any royal road wealtb. One feature which struck me with great force and wnicb is characteris tic of the people of tho West, except in Southern Lousiana, where local nttnements of the people are wonder ful, is their nomadic character and in clinations?there is so little perma nency, so iitiie fixedness of habita tion. No matter how well settled a man may be, what his improvements are, the fertility of bis soil or the ex tent of bis herds, bis place is almost invariably for sale, and he has bis eyes fixed on some point further westward. Can there botany proper dovelopment of the industries and re sources of a State when this wander ing, unsatisfied spirit is inherent in her population ? We have beard of the immense ag ricultural as well as mineral and other resoueccs of some of the newer States ot the great northwest-Minne sota, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, and the tide of immigration is pour ing into those States in ustonisbisb ing and constantly increasing vol ume. Bu; liiere is always something the matter with those States. In one season there is the grasshopper, then the Colorado beetle, potato bugs and every otber kind of bug, that destroy every vestige of vegetation?then storms and hurricanes and cyclones, Iben snow six feet deep, and then a year of drought and consequent starvation to thousands of poor set tlors who were induced to settle in those great lands of promise by high ly colored railroad show bills and circulars. Nothing of the kind ever happens in South Carolina. My advice to any one who con templates moving westward is to go on there and stay somotimc and get all the points of the situation be tore moving peimanently. Take no| man's word without the evidences of your own senses. D. R. Jamison. Biaine, Blaine, the "plumed knight" of Maine, is unhoiscd of the glittering armor that erst he wore, bedraggled, and generally sorely discomforted. Jim Blaine, as be is called by the friv olous non-respecters of persons, has experienced another severe fall. lie is nearing the bottom of the hill, and bns leisure to look back at the distance be has descended since four years ago when bo bad only a hair's breadth be tweon him and the Presidency. With the most unflagging and vigorous ef fort, be has failed to carry his own State. Ho is slipping further and fur ther back from his goal every year, and must realize that fact. With all his successes ho has missed the object of his life, and therefore will occupy a prominent place in the immense col lection of failures. In common with the otber leaders who attained leader ship through strife and hate, he is be ing forced into the back ground by tbe peuce and good will that extend the circie of light every/lny, bringing confusion and weakness to Blaine and the bats who lived upon darkness and desolation. Tbe ruins arc being re paired, and those who prospered among them must give way ns tbe now Union is built up.?^Greenville Nnoa. Oflleinls who alone arc entitled to the prefix of "Honorable" in free America. Tbey are as follows : Tbe Vice-President of tbe United States ; the heads of department of tbe United States government; United States Senators and mombers of tbe lower house of Congress ; Lieutcnant-Gov er.iors of tbe different Statee ; Judges of Courts ; Mayors of oitios. In no State in tbo Union are members of the Legislature dubbed "Hon" save in South Carolina, and here only by ig neramusses. South Carolina can also beat tbe world in captains, majors and Colonels. Tremendous Energy. The tremendous physical constitu tion and energy of the Southern peo ple, at least of the mules, is some thing enparallcled in history. That they spend a good portion of their nights in riding about and engaging in murder, arson, robbery -and other orimos is conced.ed^by every Republi can newpnper and preached from ve cry Republican stump. An ordinary race of men would of course, rcquirer sleep and rest during tho day-time; but no sooner do these Southern ban ditti arrive home and takeoff their mu.'.ks and put away their pistols than ithey bogin the work of the day timo by raising cane cotton and other products to a larger extent than before the war. Some of them too, after a bard nights ride, their hands still covered with blood, go to work manufacturing the cotton which the other Ku Klux have raised. They oven send to the hated North for machinery. A Northern newspaper says that the Lewiston (Maine) Machine Company's works were uever so busy as now. Looms are being made for mills in Georgia, North and South Carolina, and the shops are run at the fullest capacity to fill the orders. Hence we say that a people capable of manufacturing and raising -001100 by day, and, in the classic words of Horr, of Michigan, "hell" by night, are at once the most vigorous and the most industrious of any people on earth.?Detrit Free Press. Ths Old Folks. Do young people ever think that they will be old ; that they will soon ccel that the grasshopper is a burden and fear is in the way? Onlj' a few short years ago that aged man and feeble woman were, young, strong and full of lifo; their young hearts were gushing witli tenderness and care for the little ones who stand in their places. Do not jostle that aged cou ple out of your pathway, but rather lift them with tender care over the rough declining road. You may have forgotten how they kept your tiny feet from stumbling and with what care they watched your advancing steps.- But they have not forgotten, aud the time will come when you are forcibly reminded of it, by the love you have for your little ones. Will they hand you the same bUtei cup to drink that you put out for that aged father and stricken mother. Verily, "with tho measure ye mete, it shall be measured to yon again." Think of the anxious days and nights your mother has watched by your sick bed ; remember her loving care ; her pati ence and long suffering with your frctfulucss, and than let the blush of shame dye your brow, that you should be impatient or unkind to her now that she is old. Old folks are such a trial! Yes, they know it; they feel it and so will you be such a trial to your children in tho days that will surely come ; aye, and you will re member, too! Tho Campaign As It Stands. Senator Wallace says Hancock will carry Pcnnsylaniu. Colonel John G. Thompson hesi tates not to assert that eleven demo cratic congressmen will be returned from Ohio at the coming election. Mr. English predicts a democratic majority of 15,000 in Indiana. Congressman Ellis announocs that Hancock will have 75,000 majority in Louisiana. Governor Matthews states it as his deliberate opinion that West Virgin ia will give Hancock a majority of 20,000. General Benjamin F. Butler thinks the democrats can easily elect four congressmen in Massachusetts. Senator Farley foresees a majority of 10,000 for Hancock in California. No well inforraod democrat expec cd to carry Main last Monday, Arkansas elected the democratic state ticket by an immense majority. Hancock will be elected in Novem ber by a popular majority of 500,000. ? Washington Post. * Postoffiocs in South Carolina. Thcr*o arc G82 post olliccs in this State, divided between tho counties as follows: Abbeville, 28 ; Aiken, 2G ; Anderson, 25 ; Baruwell, 23 ; Benu jfort, 14; Charleston, 23 ; Chester, 14 ; iCbestOrfiehl, 25 ; Clarendon, 14 ; Col 'leton',^25 ; Darlington, 1G ; Edgefield, 40 ; F^irfield, 14 ; Georgetown, 7; Gree?ville, 84 ; Hampton, 20 ; Horry, 15 ; Kcrhliaw, 9 ; Lancaster, 19 ; Lnu rens, ?7 ; Lexington, 24 ; Marion, 29 ; Mariborougb, 9; Newberry, 14; Oconee, 28; Qrrmgeb?ig, 17; Tick ens, 18; Ricbland, 10; Spaitanburg. 41 ; yfumter, 17; Union, 25; Wil liams^urg,-19 ; York, 23. Spnrtun burg has tbe largest number of offices and Edgctleld next. Georgetown has tbe smallest number, and Kershaw and Mariborougb stand next abovc ber and then Eiehland. Spai tanburg has shy offices and Edgefield live more than Georgetown, Kershaw, Maribo rougb and Kiebland combined, ll will be scon from Ibis statement that the distribution of mail matter in tbe sev eral counties of the Stale is by no means equal, and wo think it a duty tho cilj/.ens iu the destitute districts owe themselves that steps be taken at ae early a day as possible to reme dy the matter. In this day of advan cement and enligbtcnraeut, going ten fifteen or twenty miles to a postofllce, for a paper or a letter once or twice a month) looks like a lack of enter prise.' We have no doubt tbe people are more to blame than tbe govern I mcut for the deficiency. Colored Men Read This. The colored Republicans of Patter son, N". J., are irate, and threaten to bolU" the Gni field ticket nnd form Hancock campaign e'.ubs. They are augered at the action of the white members of Ibo Robinson Battery of tbe Tjhird Ward. The organization was named after Dominic Robinson, cx-Asserrblyman, and a defeated as pirant for the nomination for Con gress, and the white and black ele mcnts fraternized. Tbe battery soon became a formidable political coterie of voters of all hues, and until tbe ambition to have a procession mani fested itself, tbe meetings were har monious. Tbe whito brethren were slightly in the majority, and when the desire to parade was advanced, they began to reason that, they would compromise themselves by walking with arms linked to tbe negroes, and accordingly judiciously arranged to have all tbe while members present at tbe last meeting. Tbe motion to parade was made, much to the de light of tbe colored members. Tho next resolution altered their feeltugs, n? the whites resolved that the color ed men could not parade with Ibein, except as a distinct body. "No man will ever prosper who has tbe curse of a ruined women, upon hiui. The murderer of the body can be tried and executed by the world's laws, but the murderer of the soul 19 tried by heaven's law and tbe execu tion is as sure as divine justice." Aunt Betsy said this as she folded the white bands of a beautiful girl and put white flowers and green leaves about tbe marble cold forehead. There was a tiny baby beside the girl mother. The bouse was hushed and there was mourning such as few know. Half glad that tbe mo" her and child were dead the rest of the | family must perform the last sad office of burial and bear the family shame. A haunted house ! A ruin led home 1 God tbe architect and man ! the spoiler. Tbe curse is there, and the destroyer cannot escape.? Wo man't Juunuxl. It is reported that in Jasper Coun ty, Go., last week, a Mr. Goolsby who bad been missing watermelons from bis patch,, determined to catch tho thieves at all buzzards. Hence be procured a quantity of arsenic and in jected it into a number of bis melons, and tho next morning there were four dead negroes in the patch and" a sack of watei melons laying by each. November. November brings no sectional war, No bate our prosperous days to mar, No autocrats, no would-be King, No subsidy, no swindling King, No stifling of tbe public voice, No plots against tbe pcople'e choice, No fraudulent Returning Boards, No rulo of armed and lawless hoides, No theft of honest freemen's votes, No Fraud, with all tho word denotes, No insolent Eight to Seven job, No games, tbe public purse to rob, No cannon at Congress aimed, No grabs or steals, however named, No centralizing despotism, No deadly heresy and schism, No petty tyrants, loud and coarse, No bayonets, no rulo of force, No haughty, donineering few. No venal, base and selfish crew, No policy of false pretence, No small ofilcial insolence, No Indian wars, no fraudulent claims, No mean and hypocritic aims, No tangled paths anil crooked ways, No Schurz, no Sherman, no Hayes, No bribes or loans of fees to pay, No trace of Credit Mobilicr, No pavement jobs, no salary steals, No blocking of the nation's wheels, No move in wrong direction further, Nj slippery Garfleld and no Arthur! Why Don't They Take Him Up. Mr. George Wilkcs, the well-known editor and proprietor of lue New York Spiiii of the Times, in a letter from France to the New York Sun, of the 3d, says : ?*! have the right to say I uever made a bet in my life, except for pride of opinion?never on a horse race, never at a gambling table, never on a purely gambling venture, never, in abort, except upon elections. But, now that we are talk ing about betting, I will bet my old friend Thos. Murphy, or any other man, $10,000 that General Hancock will be elected next President of the United States. He (Thomas Mur phy) or auy one reading this offer may close with it instanter by depos iting $10,000 with Drexnl, Morgan &? Co., of 'Wall and Broad streets. That distinguished house, if I am not giving it too much trouble, will accept the signature at the bottom of this letter to the editor of the Sun as my guarantee that they will be at lib erty to pay the above named amount to any depositor of like sum in favor of the converse of my proposition." Nick Wright. Nick Wright is a notable colored man of this County. He lives near Little Mountain and carries on a blacksmith shop aa well as cultivates' a small farm. Nick has always been a Democrat of the Jelfersonsan school and casts his vote with the property and intelligence of the country. Nick reads the newspaper, lie was among the first to subscribe and pay for the Medium, and has continued to pay for it up to the present time. He takes both County papers and keeps posted and is raising up an intelligent fami ly. In this he sets an example to many white men who take no paper at all but sponge on their neighbors. Nick drives to town in his own buggy and dresses decently and stiil has money enough to buy him a dram, which ho takes with moderation. The other day ho showed us a fine white vest which he was wearing and told us it was a present to him from Colonel W. M. ijaddnn, who fell all head the of Orr's Rifles in 18G4. Nick has worn it for twenty-three years and it is good yet. It is by such economy that he gets along in tho world.? Abbeville Medium. General T. L. Uosser, of Minnea polis, who fought s.ga'nst Hancock at Gettysburg : "One situated like my self might be excused for thinking that the'millennium'is at hand, for when I see the Southern 'rebel' soldi ers earnestly at work under the Han cock banner and remember what we were doing sixteen yoars ago I can but realizo that wc are living a new life and ono of strong anomalies." Young man, don't waste your onor gtes in attempting to wear too deli cate a shade of clothes; Use gifla don't earn for them. Their ow:i fine ry occupies their attention. Subscribe to the Democrat. Elopement fashions. The fashions for gifls whoclopo jaai now are very . plain, i Some ' white t drapery, a convenient-Window? a lo?ig ladder, a dark night, a coach, a, tnin- ) ister, and the house, of a friend, and the elopement is over. Jf/the irate* [ father, armed with a doublo-ijairukd coal shpyel and a town, cohfttahie, doesi not pursue, the affair is1, although ' pictarosqne, not exactly a 1 successful ' elopement. If the father of the bride relents witbiiVtwo days the fooib^ couple are not happy. If it leaks out that tbe mother oftho bride by ? in tbe i > secret much of tho pleasure i of the- < trip is spoiled. If both tho father ?nid mother of tbe bride aru in the ;Becret'tR of her going nwny, and have actua^jP'1 eft tbe ladder near the windojy, atj|d [ 3 that fact is found out, the elopement is a failure. In the olden times ' the eloping bride packed all her portable goods on herself and went away heart* i l ly laden. Now, as abe is about to re- ? turn in a day or two in her lady friends dress, she goes awnv quite light. ! - - The Signal of Distress. A colored man was busily engaged sawing wood for a GalvesloQ gentler . man. The "man and brother" had a largo Masonic breast-pin,on his ehirfc bosom. . ' "Do you colored Masons and white"1* Masons alnliatc?"" ?' ' " 1 '-:<Y? ? i; ? ?- ,i d lid I "Don't Qllyale wuff a cuss. |)nni "What's tbe matter?" "Dunoo, boss, but l's tried it. Dar is a barkeeper in dis town what - toted dis heah berry same emblem. I was in distress ; hadn't had a dram in all dat morning. I came in and g?be de distress signal.** "Did ho respond?1' ' "He didu't respond right. IJa,/ made a motion at the doah wid one I hand and reached under the bar. I made tbe sign once moah and lie fotched me between de shoulders with de b?ng starter, jflss as I was gettin' out do doah." Tin: Abbeville Press and Banner says : "The impression has obtained . that the letter of Senator.Butler which ? I drew forth Col. Cash's- letter WAS a gratuitous one. Tbe feeling was that the Senator might well have let it alone. We now learn that that letter was a private, ope to Captain Dawson - and cot intenied for pnbUcsiloQ. Captain Dawson was absent- from ' the city when it came, and In some way it got into the it was not Intended for If the Prese and Banner's information' < is correct that probably explains ? Gen. Butler's meaning in bis letter in reply to Col. Cash whore he says;~ "Tbere are some things X might say about the publication of my letter, . bnt I shall not do so now." ? -i-??>tJ Secretaux Thompson will, ohort ly leave again for his home in Indiana ; to remain until after the Satoelectiop in October. He will probably niake r. r " ' i several speeches before tho end of tho campaign. A statement^ mado hero ? ? to day thai John ,C. Ne^ Secret^ of the Indiana Repub\i9ap,Gommittee has offered to vager 91,000 that In diana will go Republican next rnonUj, If Mr. New has made any suyh.offer, as this, it is simply bluff. HJvery lea- < ding Republican, speaker who has been in Indiana expresses doubt of tbe result, and even Secretary Shefp man, who has 'just come from there , while he professes to believe that the Republicans will carry it, admits that ? ' the contest is, tobe an exceedingly close one.-Wfcfcftimore '"' * . uuiue, - neu m tie paper. )tut r that puopogft.?, { Writing from moral nSstsachuietts to the Courier-J?urnaf, "ftay" says: "I find that tbe country farmer ex pects to have during bis life two or three wivps, Drudgery aud hard, work kill otf the women, and the'hUs band soon supplies hor place, for there must be a woman to do tho chores." Rural Massachusetts must be the Bohemia of the United Stales. -What a funny land where tho men kill the wives by bard work and tho women submit to it. Advertise in the Democrat.