The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 04, 1882, Image 1

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THE StTMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, IS50. Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1 Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." STJMTER, S. 0., TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1882. THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, 1SG6. New Series?Vol. I. No. 36. Published every Tuesday, ?by the? Tatchman -and Southron Publishing Company, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS: Two Dollars per anEum?in advance. advertisements. 0?e Square, first insertion.$1 00 Every subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private ttterests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes *>f respect will be charged for. Marriage notices and notices of deaths pub lished free. For job work or contracts for advertising Address Watchman and Southron, or apply at the Office, to N. 6. OSTEEN, Business Manager. CHERAW 'AND DARLINGTON AND CHERAW J AND SALISBURY RAILROADS. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE, Socifty Hill. S. C, May 23, 1SS1. ON AND AFTER THIS DATE. TRAINS on these Roads will ran as follows,?every except Sunday. Leave Wadasboro........ 840 a m Leave Bennett-*...._ 9 00 a ia Leave Morien. 9 15 a in Leave ItftrFarlan_.. ?. 9 35 a ua Leave Cheraw_._.- 10 15 a m Leave Society Hill_. 10 50 a m Leave Darlington.... il-35 a ia Arrive at Florence. 12 10 p m up. Leave Florence..-. 12 10 p m Leave Darlingror:. 1 20 p m Leaye Society Hill. 2 10pm Arrive at Cberaw-.- 2 50 p m Arrive at Wadesborv. 4 15pm The freight train will leare Florence at 6 30 A M every day except Sunday: making the round | trip to Cheraw every day, and to Wadesbyro as often as may be necessary?keeping out of the way of passenger train. ? D TQWNSEXD. President. NORTH-EASTERN R. R. 69. SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, NORTH EASTERN RAILROAD CO. Charleston, S. C, Jan. 23, 1882. On and after this date the folio wir g Sche dule will be run, Sundays included : Leave Charleston. Arrive Florence. 8 00 a. m ..._.12 55 p. m. 4 40 p. it_..._......... 2 00 a m. 8 15 p. m.1 30 a. 3t. LeaTe Florence. Arrive Charleston. 2 40 a. m.6 50 a. m. 11 35 a. if.4 35 p M. 12 10 a. 3?.9 20 a. m. : Train leaving Florence at 2 40 a. m. will stop for way passengers. J. F. DIVINE, Gen! Supt. P. L. CLEAPOR, Gen'l. Ticket Agent. SOUTH C?E0LIFA C3HT3AL S. B. THE FOLLOWING DAILY SCHEDULE will be ran on this Road, from Monday. March 6th, 1881, until further notice: Leave Sumter. 9 30 am Leave Manning.10 30 am Arrive at Lanes.12 00 m Leave Lanes.12 30 p m Arrive at Manning. 2 00 pm Arrive at Sumter... 3 00 p m H. T. PEAKE, Sup't. Direct Importation. PJBBUfTAX GUANO, Direct from the Agent of the Peruvian Gov ? - ernment. -FISH GUANO, 6@3 per cent. Ammonia. NOVA SCOTIA LAND PLASTEE. South Carolina Ground Phosphate, Fine Ground'and High Grade. For sale bv HERMAN BULWIMLE, ; KERP.'S WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. _ Jan It 3m THE OLD RELIABLE! - : . ?O N E O F? THE "BEST A^WSPAPERS *': IN THE SOUTH. -o No- Sensationalism! No Immorality! ATTGUSTA Sitte M liiiil 1882. STJBSCBIBE FOB IT! THE CHRONICLE AND CONSTITU TIONALIST is the oldest uewspaper ia the South, and perhaps the* oldest in the United States, having been established in 1785. While thoroughly Democratic in prin ciple, it is liberal, progressive and tolerant. The Chronicle contains the latest news from rail parts of the world, and is recognized as a first class paper. As an advertising medium, it covers the country iu Georgia and South Carolina tribu tary to Augusta. We endeavor^ to exclude sensationalism. We publish n?'-^ticles of an immoral charac ter. TERMS: Daily, one year.$10 00 Tri-Weekly, one year. 5 00 Weekly, one year. 2 00 Address, WALSH & WRIGHT, jan24-td_ Augusta, Ga. PAVILION HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. THIS POPULAR AND CENTRALLY located HOTEL having been entirely renovated during the past Summer is now jready for the reception of the traveling public popular prices S2 and 2.50 per day. Special rates for Commercial Travelers. E. T. GAILLARD, Oct 25 Proprietor. THE AIMAR HOUSE, CORNER OF Vanderhorst and King Sts HAYING BEEN LEASED BY 3ML"iss& XX-eirio-t, (Formerly of 190 Meeting-St.,) IS NOW OPEN for the accoaiia'vlatic.? of Boarders. Parties visiting Charleston wit! find this House conveniently .situated for busi ness, and directly on the line of Street Railway. Terms, per day, $1 50. Feb IS HILBEBS HOUSE. 284 King Street, next to Masonic Tem ple, Charleston, S. C. Rates $1.50 per day, reduced rates by tho week or month, According to location of rooms. This bonse, so well and favorably known as being a strictly first-class boarding house, is centrally located, accessible to wholesale and retail stores, theatres, and places of in terest, and especially desirable lor business men or families visiting the city, uothing be ing neglected to make its guests' comfortable. Ask for carriage at depot.?Respectfully MRS. 3. HILBERS Propri*t3ess Sept 26^1881. _ WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA R. R. COMIENSEU SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Dated March 5, 1SS2 No: 42 I No. 4S, I No 40 Daily, j Daily. | Daily. Leave Wiiuiiugton j Ar've Fleroingtonj Ar've Marion.... Arve Fl wren cc. Ar've Sumter...., Arve Columbia. 1! lOptu 12 17 2 01 am 2 47 " TRAINS GOING NORTH. No. 43. Daily. No. 47, Daily. No. 45. Daily. Leave Columbia.. Ar've Snmter. Ar've Florence.... Ar've Marion Ar've Fletaington Ar've Wilmington 1 25 pm 2 13 " 4 21 " 5 55 ' 10 00 pm 12 07 " 1 36 am 2 3S " 4 54 " 6 20 " 5 55 a m 7 01 " 9 43 '? 11 40 M No?. 48 and 47 stops only at Brinkley's, Whitevilie, Flemiagton, Fair Bluff, Marion, Florence, Timmonsville, Sumter, Camden Junc tion and Eastover. Passengers for Columbia and all points on C. & G. R. R., C, C Jb. A. R. R. Stations, Aiken Junction, and all points beyond, should take No. 4S Night Express. Separate Pullman Sleepers for Charleston and for Augusta on trains 4S ano 47. All trains ran solid between Cbaileston and Wilmington. through frei6ht trais. Daily, except Sundays. Leave Florence. ......... 1140 p m Leave Sumter. 2 2S a m Arrive at Columbia. 5 30 a m Leave Columbia_.- 5 00 p m Leave Sumter. <.-. S 20 p tu Arrive at Florence.11 10 p m l^cal freight?(Daily except Sunday.) Leave Florence.:. 6 00 a tu A:rive nt Sumter.. 10 55 a m Leave Sumter.11 40 a m Arrive at Columbia. 4 00 p m Leave Columbia. 7 00 a m Arrive at Sumter.11 15 a m Leave Sumter_.12 15 pm Arrive at f lorence. .. . 5 10 p m JOHN F. DIVINE, General Sup't. A. POPE, General Passenger Agent. Columbia and Greenville Rail Road, PASSENGER DEPARTMENT, Columbia. S. C August 31, ISSt ON AND AFTER THURSDAY, September 1st, 1 SSI, Passenger Trains will run as ! hereivith indicated, upon this road and its I branches?Daily except Sundays : No. 42 Up Passenger. Leave Columbia (A).11 20 a m : Leave Alston._.12 26 p m j Leave Newberry. 1 21 p m Leave Hodges. 3 52 p m Laave Belton . . 5 05 p m Arrive at Greenville. . 6 27 p m No. 43 Down Passenger. Leave Greenviile at.10 33 a tn Leave Bel tun.11 57 a m Leave Hodges. 1 12 pm Leave Newberry. 3 47 p m Leave Alston. 4 40 p m Arrive at Columbia (F) ... . 5 50 pm Sp\rtanburc, Um?n & Columbia R. R No. 42 Up Passenger. Leave Alston..~. 12 40 p m Leave Sparenburg, S U & C Depot (B) 4 03 p m Arrive Spartanburg U <? D Depot (Ej 4 12 p m No. 43 Down Passenger. Leave Spartan burg R & D Depot (11) 12 48 p m Leave Spartanburg S?iC Depot (G) J 07 p m Leave Union. 2 36 p ro Arrive at Alston. 4 36 p m Laurens Kail Road. Leave Newberry. 3 55 p tu Arrive at L:uirens C- H. 6 45 p m Leave Lnurer.sC H. S 30 a m j Arrive at NewVerry.11 30 a m Ab3KVillk Branch. Leave Hodges. 3 56 p m I Arrive at Abbeville. 4 46 p m Leave Abbeville.,.12 15 p m Arrive at Hodges. 1 05 p m Blue Ridgs R. R- <fc Anderson Branch. Leave B-ilton. . 5 OS p ra Leave Anderson. -.5 41 p in Leave Pendieto?. 6 20 \i m Leave Senaca (C). 7 20 pm Arrive at Walhalla. 7 45 p in Leave Walhalla. 9 23 a m Leave Seneca (L>). 9 54 a tu Leave Pend'etoo.*.10 30 a tn Leave Anderson..11 12 a tu Arrive at Belton..II 4* a tn On and after above date through cir? will be run between Columbia and Hendersouville with out change. Connections. A?With South Carolina Rail Road from Charleston: with Wilmington Columbia <t Au gusta R R from Wilmington and all points north thereof; with t'harlotre. Columbia & Augusta Kail Road from Charlotte and points north thereof. B?With AshcvRIe & Spartanburg Rail Road for points in Western N. C. C?With A. & C. Div. R & h. R. R. for all points South and West. D?With A. <fc C.Div. R. & D. R. R. from At Santa and beyond. E?With A & C. Div. R. & D. lt. R for a!l points Soutn and West. E?With South Carolina Rail R<>ad for Char leston ; with Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta Rail R<;;id for Wilmington and the North : wi h Charlotte. Columbia <te Augusta Rail Road foi Charlotte and the North. C?With AsbcviUei Spartanburg Rail 3oad from Hendersonville. H_With A. & C. Div. R. & D. R. R. from Charlotte & beyond. Standard time used is Washington, D. C, which is fifteen tuiuutes faster than Columbia. { J. W. FRY. Sup't. j A. POPE. General Passcnsrc-r Agent. August W. ISSl. tf. j South Carolina Railway Co, i COMMENCING FEBRUARY 13th. 1882. Passenger Trains on Camden Branch will ruu as follows, until further notice: east to columbia. Leave Camden. 7 40 a in i Leave Camden Junction.~ 9 50 a m j Arrive at Columbia..12 13 p m I wkst from columbia? daily except sundays. I Leave Columbia. 4 05 a in:.. 4 15 p in 1 Arrive Camden Junction. 12 II p tn... 6 OD p tn \ Arrive at Camden. 2 15 p in... 7 13 p tu ! east to charleston and augusta. Leavu Catuden. 3 00 p m Leave Camden Ju::c*. 4-19 p m Arrive at Charleston. 9 00 p in Arrive at Augusta..' 7 35 a in west prom charleston and augusta. Leave Charleston. 7 45 a m Leave Augusta. 4 45 p m Arrive Camden June".12 ?l p m i Arrive at Camden. 2 15 p in j connections; Columbia and Greenville Railroad both ways, j for all points on that Road and on the Spar- ! tanburg. Union and Columbia and Spartanburg j and Ashville Railroads, also with the Char- j iotte. Columbia and Augusta Railroad to and j from all points North by trains leaving Camden j at 7 40 am, and arriving at 7 15 p to. Connections made at Augus'a t;> all points i West and South; also at Charleston with . Steamers for New York and Florida?on Wed- j nesdays and Saturdays. Trains on Camden Branch run daily except Sunday. On main line, Columbia and Augusta : Divisions, trains r^n daily- Pullman Cars are .' run between Charleston and W?>biiigton-, on I trains arriving at Columbia 12:13 and depart- j ing at 4:15 P. M. Local sleepers between j Charleston, Columbia and Augusta On Saturdays ROUND TRIP TICKETS arc j sold t?# and from ail Stations, at one first class ! fare for the round trip?tickets being g.?,d till j Monday noon, to return. Excursion tickets | good for 10 days are regularly on sale to and ! from all stations at 6 cents per mile f??r round j trip. THROUGH TICKETS to all points, can be purchased by applying to James Jones. Agent 1 at Camden. * D. C. ALLEN, j General Passenger and Ticket Agent. JOHN IS. PECK, General Manager. Charleston, S. C RUBBER STAMPS" j -I NAME STAMPS FOR MARKING CLOTHING ; r with ihdollible ink, or for printing visiting j caru% a od I STAMPS OF ANY K!XI> j Call on C. P. OSTEEN, At the Watchman and Southron O?ce. 1 WHAT I LOVE. I love the playful little lamb? I love him broiled or roast; I love the feathered songster, too? I think him best on toast. I love the fish that swim the sea? Fresh from the frying-pan ; I love the retired oyter, too? I'll eat him when I can. I love to see the squirrel brisk? Through the top sights of ray gun ; I love the gentle, lowing kine? In tender steaks, rare done. I love the bird, I love the fish, I also love the beast; 0, give me all I want to eat, I'll have a grand love feast. ?Boston Transcript. HANDS ALL ROUND. Mr. Tennyson1 s Latest Poem?A Thoroughly Patriotic Ballad. Mr. Tennyson's poem upon the escape of the Queen from an attempted assassination has been telegraphed across the Atlantic. It is as follows : First pledge our Queen, my friends, and then A health to England every guest ; He best will serve the race of men Who loves his native country best! May freedom's oak forever last, With larger life from day to day ; He loves the present and the past Who lops the moulder'd branch away. Hands all round ! God the traitor's hope con found ! To the great cause of Freedom drink, my friends, And the great name of England round and round. To all the loyal hearts who long To keep our English Empire whole! To all our noble sons, the strong New England of the Southern Pole I To England under Indian skies, To those dark millions of her realm ! To Canada, whom we love and prize, Whatever statesman holds the helm. Hands all round I God the traitor's hope confound I To the great cause of Freedom drink, my friends, And the great name of England round and round. To all our statesmen so they b^e True leaders of the land's desire! To both our Houses, may they see Beyond the borough and the shire. We sailed wherever ship could sail, We founded many a mighty State, Pray God our greatness may not fail Through craven fears of being great! Hauds all round ! God the traitor's hope confound I To the great cause of Freedom drink, my friends, And the great name of England round and round. THE MOON AS A HABITA BLE PLANET. BY P. A. TOWNE. In consequence of its proximity, we know more of the moon than of any other body connected with the solar sys tem, save the earth itself. It is ooly about 240.O?? miles away ; so that, were one of our lighting express traiDs able to speed through the space that separates the earth and moon, no more than one hundred and sixty-six days would be required to pass from one body to the other. It would take about fifty bodies of the size of the moon to make one equal to the earth, the satellite being about 2,100 miles in diameter. One face of the moon is constantly turn ed towad the earth, so that the average length of its days is about fifteen of our own. If there is any atmosphere at all on the surface of the moon, it is ex tremely rare, since a star on passing behind its edge disappears instaneously. It has no water, and, cosequently, no clouds or vapor are ever visible, even with the aid of the most powerful tele scopes. ' When a telescope of high power is employed in viewing the moon, only a small portion of the surface is seen at each moment of} time and it is then that the advanced cosmical age of the satellite becomes strikingly apparent. Deep annular chasms come into the field, four of the largest of which have been named after the great astromers, Tycho, Coperni cus, Kepler, Eratosthenes. Tycho is an annular crater, said to be fifty-four miles in diameter, it is in the south ern part of the moon, and forms the center of radiations of luminous rays, running out in every direction. The crater is from sixteen to seventeen thousand feet deep, with a mountain a mile high rising from its centre. The country around Tycho is extremely rugged, indicating commotions of a gigantic nature in its formation. Copernicus is fifty-four miles in diame ter and 11,250 feet above the surround ing plain. Its height is easily calcu lated from the leugth of the well-defined shadows of its peaks, as they extend along the bottom of the crater at sunrise or sunset. Kepler is twenty-two miles in diameter, containing in its centre a rock 11,800 feet high, and it rises from 3,000 to 6,000 feet above the plains around it. These details are given to show with what untiring zeal the sur face of the moon has been examined. Everywhere upon that side of the moon preseuted to the earth, smaller annular craters are seen, and everywhere there is seeming ruin and' desolation. There is nothing now on the earth with which the general appearance of the moon can be compared. ]>ut let us imagine the earth carried foward in its history a few hundred thousand years?namely, to the time when its atmosphere shall have disappeared, and its waters, now cover ing three-fifths of its surface, shall have been 'dried up.' It ir a geologi cal fact that the earth was once almost, if not entirely, covered with water. Slowly but surely the land is gaining ! and the water losing surface. Time j will doubtless empty the great basins of j the Atlantic and Pacific. A scciie will then be brought to view not unlike that j now exposed to our gaze upon the moon, j The immense coral islands, coral rings, I chasms and irregularities, juow hidden ! by the waters of the ocean, will then j become the study of geologists, and pos- ! sibly. nay, probably, escite the atten- j tiou of the inhabitants of our little sate- j litic in the same manner as we are now excited by the appearance of a world in j the autumn of its cosmical life. As [ reasonable beings, we have no right to hesitate to look facts steadily in the face Our cwn earth is slowly, but with inevitable certainty, growing old. As its age advances?in other word9, as its physical characteristics change?its animal organisms will adapt themselves to the perpetually varying conditions around th-?ru, aud there is no reason to doubt that these organisms will continue to exist until they perish simultaneous ly with the death of the plauet itself. The physical conditions of the moon being so different from that of the earth j at the present time, its inhabitants must be strikingly unlike the beings we call men. To illustrate, if there is absolute ly no atmosphere on the moon, then what we call the sense of hearing is j entirely unlreown to the people on our satellite. Their organ of sight, the eye, is also of a very different con struction. Place one of our astrono mers upon the moon and he would un doubtedly see stars at mid-day. The sun would be an intensely bright spot on a jet-black ground, dotted all over with the constellations that sparkle so faintly in our own firmament. No such thing as twillight, or blue sky, or br.illiant sunsets exist in the moon, if the eye of its inhabitants is similar to our own. No 'bright, rosy-fingered morn' heralds the opening of day, but the sun rises suddenly above the hori zon, and as suddenly disappears on setting. But our reason forbids that we should for a moment imagine that the actual inhabitant of the moon is as uoadapted to his condition as we ourselves would be to such a situation All over the great universe the general law is that each organized being is so adapted to its position as to eDjoy the greatest pos sible advantage or happiness from the conditions of its existence. An infinite ly wise Creator could establish no other law. It is not possible for the wisest man on earth to imagine a change in the con ditions around him that would, on, the whole, be beneficial. Everything is ex actly right as it is, and continues to be right without the slightest need of any special Providence to adapt it. This being the case, we may quite safely in fer that the inhabitants* of the moon en joy their residence upon that little world just as happily as we do upon ours. We can readily imagine what must be the most important astronomical work of the scientists of the moon. What a magnificent spectacle must our great globe be to its inhabitants! What an object of intense interest to its astronomers! Dr. Dick, somewhere in bis works, recommends that an immense building be erected amid the bright snow of Siberia, which, by its contrast of color, might attract the attention of the observers on the" mooo. The sug gestion may not be impracticable. It may have been anticipated by lunar astronomers. In 18G6, Schmidt ob served that the deep crater, Linne, had disappeared, leaving only 'a little, whitish, luminious cloud.' The diam eter of this crater is about five and a half miles. Observations were made in October, November and December, and during the latter part of this last month the crater was again distinctly seen. Who can say that some Dr Dick of tho moon may not have been engaged in an attempt to attract the attention of the earth's astronomers ? Possibly, it may have been a practical effort to clear up such speculations as the rapid growth of cities like London, Paris, and New York, must have orginated." Put one of our telescopes upon the moon, and an eye no better than that in the head of man would detect the gradual enlarge ment of such a city as New York. All kinds of speculations wouid be rife as to the causj of these slight modifications in the appearance of our globe ; and as the astronomers of the moon must be far in advance of our own, we may infer that work such as that suggested by Dick has long since been initiated. Perhaps it has been begun and abandon ed a thousand times, and the conclusion reached that, after so many futile at tempts to discover the existence of any thing like intelligence on the earth, it could not, even if existing at all, be in a condition of development sufficiently advanced to be able to respond to any such mode of communication. Though the method suggested by Dr. Dick may not be the one by which the fact of the inhabitability of the moon shall be demonstrated, it may be safely assumed that the day is not far distant when home kind of communication be tween the iohabitants of the earth and its satellite will be established. The inventive genius that can practically send a word eight times around the earth in a second of time, will surely be equal to the task of demonstrating a problem so profoundly important as that of the inhabitability of the planets and satellites of the solar system. We are certainly now able to generate an elec tric light intense enough to be telescop ically seen from the moon when that body is in the shadows of the earth during an eclipse. Why may not elec tricity be the ageut, certainly common to both bodies, which shall solve the problem? A hundred such lights as will soon illumiuatc Union aud Madison Squares, New York, if concentrated into a space no larger than one of these squares on the moon, could readily be seen through a telescope of low power during a total eclipse of the sun. But tremendous as have been our recent strides in the application of steam and electricity to the needs of our rapidly developing civilization, we must not lose sight of the fact that we are still on the very threshold of what may be expected in the future, so far, at least, as electricity is cunccrncd. That it is to be the agent through which we may i ' i i t telegraph to 'other worlds than ours.' j is certainly an idea growing naturally i ' enough out of what has already been j '. accomplished through its ir.stramcn-j j tality. It is safer to affirm than j to deny that, the inhabitability of I \ planets will s-ocn pass out of specula- { s tive problems aud into the domain of i( science. Sergeant Mason has beeu placed at f work in the shoe shop at the Albany j ( penitentiary. Nobody will be allowed ? to speak tOvhim for one month. Iu \ i giving his^^^iription to the prison j i authorities^H^^ted that be had do , I religio. - 11 / [From the Enterprise and Mountaineer.] Gov. Perry on the State Con stitution. Mr. Editor?T propose to submit j some reasons why the people of South Carolina should call a Convention for the purpose of adopting a new State Constitution. Every people in a Re public have a right to form their own j Constitution and organize their own form of Government. They may do this as often as it shall seem proper to them. The first Coc^itution of South Carolina, adopted immediately after the Declaration of American Independence, was thrown aside and another formed during the Revolutionary War. A third was made after the ratification of j the Constitution of the United States. Again, a fourth was formed after the close of our civil war, and when the State was reconstructed by Congress, the negroes, carpet-baggers and scala- j wags met in Convention and formed the J present one. This was done when j almost all the intelligent property-hold ers and prominent citizens of the State | were disfranchised, and not allowed to | vote for delegates to the Convention, j Since that time, circumstances have [ changed, and now the Government of the State is in the possession, once more, of the white race. Is it right, is it proper, is it patriotic or honorable, that we j should continue to live under a Consti- j tufion formed by rogues and scoundrels, and which wc had no agency whatever in making ? All the other Southern States, after the overthrow of the Radi- i cal regime, have adopted new Constitu- j tions. South Carolina should do the \ same. Honor aud self-respect, as well j as patriotism and wisdom require that j we should discard and trample in the dust this badge of negro-capet-bag-scal- j awag rule. This alone should appeal [ to the pride of every one for a change, no matter how good the present Con stitution may be. But there are many more defects in it, some of which I will now proceed to point out: In the first place, the decla ration of rights authorizes the Legisla ture to confer on any petty officer 'the power of suspending the laws, or the execution of the laws!' This is a most dangerous feature in the Constitution ; and I suppose was intended by the Rad ical Convention to defend their usurpa tion, protect their criminals, and thwart the Democrats in bringing some of them to the gallows or sending them to the penitentiary. Again, this declaration of rights em powers the Legislature 'to subject per- I sons to martial law, and to pains and j penalties by virtue of that law!' This j provision is so much at war with civil liberty and Republican institutions, I that it may be pronounced monstrous and diabolical. The twenty-eighth section of this de claration of rights authorizes too Legis- f lature -to keep up a standing army in time of peace,'contrary to the Consti-! tution of the United State, and for the I express purpose of protecting their in- J famous oppressions and exactions over the property-holders of the State. Judges are 'forbidden to charge the: juries on matters of facts,' when it is important in many cas^s for the presid ing Judge to .give his views of the facts, leaving the jury to find as they may think proper. The Legislature is forbidden to pass any law. denying the right of suffrage to criminals convicted of perjury, rape, larceny, burglary, arson, and many j Dther infamous offences ! The Radical j party foresaw that thousands of thf-ir Followers would be convicted of these offences and ?hey did not wish to lose their votes. It is a shame and a dis grace to the State, that criminals should be allowed to vote for members of the Legislature, Governor, members of Congress and Presidectal electors There is also a provision in this Con- j stitution, that no one shall be deprived j :if the right of suffrage, on account of j my conviction of any infamous crime whilst he was a slave! The Constitution guards, likewise, igainst disfranchising any one because be had not paid his poll tax or other :axes for the education of his children ! Section 10 of Article 10 iu the pres ent Constitution declares that all schools md colleges in the State supported iu :he whole or in part by public funds, hall be open to all pupils without re gard to race or color! It is true this tmalgamation feature of the Constitution las never been attempted to be enforc ed, but it may be, and will give trou )le. For nearly two hundred years from he first settlement of South Carolina : lp to the reconstruction of the State, 10 divorce was ever granted by the } i Legislature or the courts. The present j i Constitution provides for the separation ! )f man and wifr by divorce. The evil I ; :onsequences of such a law may be seen j n some of the Northern States where ; i here is one divorce in every ten mar- | i iages! j I The Constitution provides that repre j i icntation in the Legislature shall be ap- I ] )ointed among the several counties mil proportion to their population, ignoring j j )roperty entirely ! Governments arc or- i < janized to protect persons aud property, : md both should be represented, as was he case in all the Constitutions of South . I Carolina previous to our civil war. Un-! 1 ess property is represented it may be , ] iestroyed or oppressively taxed by non ' >ropcrty holders. ! < A new Constitution for the State' i hould disfranchise all convicted crimi- < lais as unworthy of sharing in the gov- j ] 'riiment of a Republic which is founded . j >u tb'j virtue aud intelligence of the j j icoplc. And, women, owning proper- ! < v to the amount of five hundred or a I liousand dollars, in their own right, ' J md paying tuxes for the same for the ; support of the government, should, iu :< us t ice, be allowed to vote and represent < lor property. Such a provision would | jccurc a majority of white voters in the < State, and remove all apprehension of ; | >ur having to live under such a govern- i | nent as wc did ton years ago. The Governor should be elected for i j 'our years instead of two. as provided ; \ or in the present Constitution. ITe |, should have, with the advico r.nd con- ? >cut of the Senate, the appointment of i most of the State officers, as is provided | for the President iu the Constitution of' ( ;hc United States. B. F. PERKY, j A Daniel Come to Judgment. The editorial correspondence from Washington of the Chronicle and Con stitutiovalid gives the following from the lips of a Republican Senator of the Pacific slope: The most remarkable speech of the ! day was made by Mr. Jones, of Nevada, i He is a short, stout man. His features j are blunt but very intelligent. His j complexion is ruddy. His large head j is partially bald. The hair, moustache j and beard are silvery, wit!i just a com- j promising shade of brown. He has a bulging brow. His voice is excellent, clear and lusty. He spoke without notes of any kind, and appeared to be as full of his subject as a Leyden jar of electricity. He went a long way be yond either Miller or Teller iu planting himself squarely on the platform that this is a white man's government, and would be all the better if it were purged of all dark races. He proved that the Chinese were not an inventive race al though adept at the pilfering of the dis coveries of Western nations, where it suited their purpose. None but favor ed nations like the Caucasian can main tain free institutions. The Chinese know nothing of freedom The peo ple of the Pacific Coast would not re cognize the equality of Orientals to please New England ideality. He scouted the pretense that the Bible taught unit}' of race, in the common acceptance of that term, as applied by the Massachusetts Senators. The pur suit of happiness might be an 'inaliena ble right,' but it must not cross the lines of another man's happiness. The Chinese were not diffused in this coun try, but massed in one part of it. Chinese cheap labor was not an under stratum lifting up American working men, but a destroying ageut. Ameri can labor had to descend to Chinese conditions or starve. He noticed that tbe people who were so much in love with labor degradation were also advo cates of a protection tariff. The Amer ican laborer of the future would demand an open market?not free trade, but fair trade. Cheap labor and poverty j are twins. China had the most cheap J labor, and was the poorest couotry in ! the world. England built the only | railroad in China, and that was torn up J by Chinese. There is no wealth with out intelligence. The forces of nature are inert till quickened by the wand of genius. A foul stream always pollutes a pure one. No man would welcome negroes to this country if they were not already here. The couutry would be j better off without them. They were and are a curse to the South, and the t South would be incalculably better off if j she could be rid of them altogether, j White men would settle the South and j make her rich and powerful but for the j presence of the blacks. The negroes | made labor dishonorable, and kept white men at a distance. Anybody who j thought this race problem settled was grievously mistaken. He veutured to j predict that the African race would j never again rule any Southern common wealth. Negro suffrage was a dismal failure. Mcu bad tried to change an edict of Almighty God in this country ; i5 but God was not mocked. Omnipo- j tence had made the white man superior j and the negro subordinate. It is one thing to aspire to freedom, and another thing to have the intelligence to main tain freedom. The negroes in the South, if left to themselves, could not preserve their freedom for ten years. They would relapse into the barbarism j ' from which they had come. No negro I would ever have been permitted to enter IJ this country if the founders of the Re- j; public had ever dreamed of the possibility j of their enfranchisement. The North j \ would be no better off than the South if negroes were as common there as in South Carolina. This might be heresy to Republican ideas; but he did not j 1 care if it was. It was the truth, and he 11 stuck to it. Wisdom would have ex- j( eluded the negro, in the first place, wisdom will exclude the Chinese, be cause they are more dangerous than the negro. All dark races are obnoxious to white men. He deprecated race troubles and did not want another civil war; but there would be trouble enough without his stirring it. The negro question at the South was no more settled now than when the first gun was fired at Sumter. Jones' speech fell like a bombshell into the Republican camp; but there was no reply to him. It is one of the i revenges of time, that the Pacific Coast is Senators who had once helped fas- ' teu the fourteenth and fifteenth amend ments upon the prostrate South were now appealing to that section to come to their aid, and protect them from their ov.'u insanity. Time at last, makes all things even. A Republicau Senator, in Lhe year 1882, has risen in his scat and ! t bodly announced that negroes ought j c1 never to have been allowed to vote ; t that their presence is a curse at the j a South : that the white man's govern- j ? aieut is the only one fit for the ropub- j a lie; and that reconstruction was a j \\ blunder and a crime! Aud not a man j 1; In that Senate, on the Republican side, j 1 lured stand up and challenge this bold ; C xnd startling declaration. Even IToar . Ll sat mum and dumbfounded. If Jones i \\ :ias not sounded the alarm that rings ! t ike a fire bell in the night, I would i o like to know the meaning of his lau- ! t guagc. What will come of it we i (, shall soon know. Butit needs no sage j ]] to rise from the dead to prophesy that! 'J iither the Pacific Coast is drifting to i a Democracy or that, the Republican party is about to 'shoot Niagara.' George of j t] Mississippi, and Jones of Navada, have i v llasped hands over the black chasm ! ; J. 11. R. i The president does not. intend to con-' h sider the question of pardoning Set-i s ijcant Mason or reducing his sentence, ! c for six months at least. If there is a ' a Jemand then for it ho will consider, j a but will not do so now. In the mean- p time this may prove a blessing iu dis- ' 4 guise for Mason, for subscriptions arc j being made quite freely in many sec- li tions for the support of his wife and : v children It. is thought that these sub- t ?criptions will run up to four or five s thousand dollars. Mrs. Mason is just v now in need of money. None of the ; expenses of Mason's trial have yet been | paid. ' i Two Women Fight for a Lover. Wilmington, N. C, March 20.?-The inhabitants of the beautiful valley of Ty ron mouutain were this morning startled by the discovery of a tragedy, startling, sickening and romantic in its details, it being no less than a deadly duel be tween two women, to decide which of i the twain should have solely the affec-1 tion of a man who had been paying at- j tention to them both. Last night they j met, and, after a desperate hand-to hand conflict, one was left dead upon the field, although as the sequel proved, her defeat was encompassed by means of foul play: Robert S. Elby, a young farmer in humble life, lived near the scene of the tragedy. A year ago he was an ardent suitor for the hand of Miss Gracie Mills, who lived just over the South Carolina line; but. although he courted her fre quently, she would not marry him. Some months since he met Miss Jane Jackson, who lived in the valley of Tyrou mountain, here in North Caro lina, and he gave up his long struggle for the hand of the South Carolina mai den and transferred his affections to Miss Jackson, upon whose' heart, after more than one assault, be appeared to make some impression. As soon as the South Carolina woman discovered this she entertained violent hatred toward Jane Jackson, and the feeling was re turned by her rival, who had succeeded in getting the love of the man which had been rejected by the woman who was now vexed at not taking it when she had the chance. Both were robust country women, and it was thought that there would be trouble between them, as each bad on more than one occasion defied the other. Last night Miss Jackson was sitting in the house with a friend, Dora Spen cer. Just at dark a voice was heard from the road calling Jane Jackson. Jane got up and went out, and never returned. This morning when search was made the searching party came upon a spot which gave evideuce that it had been the field of a desperate battle for life. Sticks and stones were there, and the ground was torn by the tramp ing of feet, while the soil had been turned into gory mud. Fur ther search revealed a trail showing that a body had been dragged, and fur ther on in a creek lay the body of Jane Jackson, stiff and cold, and in one of her clenched hands was found a turf of the hair of her assailant, which indica ted that she had made a desperate strug gle for her life. From all the evidence that could be elicited it seeems that the two women met out in the road that night. The tracks show that Gracie Mills was ac companied by a man, and when she tvas getting the worst of the fight ber male partner cam "; up and struck a fatal , blow with a fence-rail upon the head of j' Miss Jackson, and the two together proceeded to murder her. The hair tvhich the dead woman clutched in her band was that of Gracie Mills. Who ber male accomplice was is a mystery. The murdresc has fled, and there is no slew to her whereabouts. The affair :ias caused wild excitement.?Cincin nati Enquirer. The Bank Cashier. Once upon a time a man became nuch discouraged because his salary cvus not as big as a tobacco factory, so je borrowed $3,000,000 of a bank, md forgot all about paying it back. Lie had neglected to mention to the sank people anything about the mat ter at the time he had negotiated with iimself for the making of the loan. There came a day when it was neces sary, in the transaction of business, x>r the bank to make use of some of ts alleged money, and it was then discovered that the funds had disap peared. Of course the bank folks were Tiore or less perplexed over this state )f affairs, and the cashier who, by the ivay, had taken the missing wealth, svas questioned concerning'its where* lbouts. lie frankly acknowledged hat he had erred in making the ap propriation, and was perfectly willing .0 pay it back ; so he examined his pockets and could only turn up $1.13. The cashier was real sorry about not peing able to settle ; he paid he had ost the money, but that he had no in ;ention of doing so at all, and that as ;oon as he fouud it he would bring it igrht back to the bank lie said he vould noi like to have the matter go my further; hi.? Sunday school class night hear of it, and think strangely if him; and, altogether it would be ?est, he felt, if the whole matter were tushed right up. An Important Decision. Judge Pressly has lately decided hat the Probate Court has no juris-1 liction to marshal assets and sell land 1 o pay debts, upon the complaint of . creditor. In this case the action vas brought in 1877 by a creditor gainst the administrator and the ieirs-at-law of the intestate, and the v?d was sold to pay debts in 18TS. he widow brought her action in the Jircuit Court last year to have the ;eed of the purchaser set aside and jr homestead. The Judge set aside he sale for want of jurisdiction, and ;ave the widow her homestead in . he land. The case will likely go j ^ o the Supreme Court, as the matter i 9 as never been decided by that Court. J K 'he Supreme Court has decided that L' :i administrator can go into the Pro- j a t?te Court and "nave lands sold to pay A febis: but has not decided as to c rhcthcr a creditor can do so.?Xac- s crry Ucr.;lJ. P - mm ^?.^33?i - { 3 Scene?Augusta's boudoir. Lttey ; I olds an open letter in her hand, and j1 ays: 'Well, you see, dear, I only h act.him at Mt. Desert this summer, j a nd we did flirt desperately, but it's too j ii bsurd, his writing to me now aud pro- ; t osing. now isn't it T Augusta?j p Awfully bold, I think ; but then, it's ! p ust like a man. Shall you accept; v dm ?' Lucy?'Well! I don't know ; a rhat to do. lie don't deserve it, but, j 'J hen he's awfully handsome, and be- ; 1 ides I really think I would be a good f rife. I can make splendid corn bread.1 j i Indiana has a Greenback State ticket j t n the field. 11 NEWS ITEMS. Judge Blatehford will take his seat on the Supreme Bench April 3d. Rhode Island votes in April for State officers. Oregon next in June. Bills pensioning Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Polk and Mrs. Tyler passed the Senate last week. Last week foreign immigration was high. In four days 11,000 immigrant* arrived at New York. The editors of the north are raking in the dimes for Betty and the baby? Sergeant Mason's wife and child. The great need of this country is more offices ; there are not enough to iccommodate one-fortieth of the candi Jatcs, Every newspaper in the country is wisely and solemnly giving forth the information that 'now is the time to plant corn.' The planters are doubtless thankful for the suggestions, else they might overlook the important fact. The Presbyterian Theological Semi nary at Columbia, South Carolina, will reopen in September, after a suspension. ;>f two years. An endowment of ?150, P00 has been secured. They have an aggravated type of gold fever in the mountains of .Virginia wrest of Lychburg. The gold is said to be very abundant, and will lay Califor nia in the shade when the mines are properly developed It is said that it will require about ?100,000 to make a complete survey of the phosphate territory of this State as required by the Act of the Legislature, ind the appropriation made for that purpose is ?1,000. A Mrs. Browu, of Allen county, Ky., gave birth to twins, as follows: There was only four minutes difference in the ages of the pair, yet one was borR in 1881 and the ether iu 1882; one in December, the other in January: one do Sunday, the other on Monday. Superintendent Jackson of Castle Gardeu, states that 2.400 refugee Jews bave reached New York from Russia, md that they are a good class of immi grants. Most of them speak several languages. About 1,000 more are op me way, and it is expected that large crowds will continue to come during the pear. Mr. Blaine thinks that Peru has suf fered much by the settlement made by Frelinghuysen. Mr. Trescott was pow erless, and only stood by as a witness of the spoliation of Peru by Chili. Mr. Blaine expresses his views freely in the Post, and they are not very compli? ruentary to the present administration, tie thinks eertain bondholders and men interested in the Guano Islands dictated :he policy pursued by the United States, Last week a young lawyer of Spartan burg defended a colored youth, indicted for burglary and larceny. The father Df the accused was present, and when ;he verdict of 'not guilty' was read by the clerk, so full of gratitude *did the paternal heart become, that he kissed, he attorney who saved his son. A ccr fain young lady hearing of this, said in i moment of abstraction, if that was 80 she would never kiss "his lawyer again. The bill to prohibit Chinese emigra :ion for a period of twenty years, is now n the hands of the president. It will loubtless be signed; for the president .vill not care to offend the Pacific slope, acluding Nevada and Colorado, by keep ng its great port open to a tide of eprosy and prostitution. He will not >are to offend the workingmen of the ;ountry by bringing them into competi ion with a class that work for a song md live in the most degraded manner. Mr John D. Cunningham, Jr., . lrives leisurely around bis gigantio jeach crchard of 50,000 bearing trees, iear Griffin, Ga.; observes with satis* action that the buds are not too pre tocious, and complacently remarks: *I. hink this is my year.' He says that iis is the biggest peach orchard in the porld; but, lest some jealous grower hould presume to dispute the assertion, le iuteods to set 200 more acres next all. 'This is the only region in too rorld,' adds Mr. Cunningham, 'where a ierfect peach can be raised.' The poet Longfellow's funeral was >rivatc. None but relations and near riends were present. The attendance lumbered about fifty ladies and ;enilernen, and aside from the Long* ellows, Appietons and Danas, relatives f the deceased, included persons promi nent iu literature, art and science;: moug them Oliver Wendel Holmes, fcalph" Wal do Emerson. W. D. IL-wells, Sronson Alcott, Richard H. Dana. John. J-. Whittier, Louis Agassiz. George Villiam Curtis, Professor Chasetat Mor on, Cyrus A. Barton and Professor iuijri Monti. The casket was neat ut plain. On the coffiu was a bunch f passion Sowers. His brother, Rev. famuel Longfellow, performed the sim le services. The poet, like his broth r, was a Unitarian, rejecting the )iviniry of Jesus. He was buried at louut Auburn Cemetery in the midst f a snow. Gifted men stood around tic grave?the most gifted indeed of' le American literati. There are at this time scattered: trough the mountains of California two. 30u*and prospectors. Their lives are i>cut in looking for signs of gold* 'hey arc poor, and their dress pro laims it. They live oo hope and scan y* food, and never refuse to 'takesorae ning ' Pick in band, their sharp eyes re quick to spy a speck of gold in the ragment of quartz turned up. The p-jntry is covered with their little trial hafts and with stakes marking their re-emption claims, always 1,200 feet, long the supposed out-cmp of the vein.. )f 1.000 so marked perhaps one or wo may amount to something, and one I one huodred of these adventurers, ftcr a life of privations, may succeed ii realizing a small competency. But. hey average happier lives than most eople. They imagine themselves pros pective millionaires. A bit of quartz, rith three specks of gold seen through . magnifying glass sets them wild, ['here's millions in it. Put their gypsy ife and its happy cxciieir.ent unfit them or quiet ei:; yment. In age some give t. up and go back to the wilderness and o the excTrement of prospecting adven ore.?Son Francisco Correspondent off he Baltimore Sun.