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IHK SP?TER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1 THE TliUK SOUTHKOX, EstabUslke* June, 1S66 New Series-Vol. TI. No. II. &]}t S??aitjnnan mt?r Sont jjraa Pttbliahod ovary Tuesday, BY OSTEEN, fS^MTJSR, S. C. TKRM6: Two Dollars per annum-in advance* ADV KB, TI 8 SUB HTS . One Square, first insertion.-...?..$1 00 Every subsequent insertion..... 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will br made at reduced rates. AU communications which subserve private ?terests^willbe charged for as advertisements. ?Crt??af^e'and tributes of respect will be caarge^Yor^ z TAX NOTICE. rpaS A?^&A?F StTilTER CO?N I TT gives notice that his books will be froeiTb^ilFTEENTR DAY OF OCTO? BER, 1886, to Ue" FIFTEENTH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1886, for the collection of Taxes for the Fiscal year commencing No? vember 1st, 1885, in Sumter. County. The following are the rates per centum of t?ielevy: * " ~* 1. For State purposes-five and one-fourth mills on every dollar of the value of all taxa? ble property. 2. For County purposes-three mills on every dollar of such value, of which the pro? ceeds of two and one-half mills are to be ap? plied to prdinary County expenses, and of one-focrth of a mill to paying the de? cien c?es of th^> fiscal year ending October 31, 1835, and <rf?ttes-fourth of a mil! to the payment of opening and constructing a public ?way- from Privateer Township across P oto t aligo Swamp to Concord Township. 3. For support of public schools-two mills o& every dollar of such value. 4. One dollar on each taxable poll, (to wit between the ages of 21 and 60 years.) ^Ke?feasurer will in person or by deputy att?pj?*t the following places and times for the collection of the said taxes : ' ?Stareburg, Tuesday, November 2. r*Ji?JSanders* former office in Rafting Creek ""Township, "Wednesday, November 3. Smithville, Thursday, November 4. Scarborough's Store, near Tirzah Church, Friday, November 5. -Privateer, Saturday, November 6. .Mayesville, Monday, November 8. Reid's Mill, Tuesday, November 9. Lynchburg, in Lynchburg Township, Wednesday* November 10. X Shiloh* Thursday, November ll. Lewis Chapel, Friday, November 12. J?echanicsville, Monday, November 15. BishopviHe, Tuesday, November 16. Mann ville, Wednesday, November 17. .^'Manchester, Friday, November.19. Wedgefield, Saturday, November 20. Andros the other da vs, from October 15th to December 15th, at hts office at the Coucty aeatV W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, Sept. 28. Treasurer of Sumter Co. C&TTON GINNING ? AT $1.50 PER BALE. j?aU? NOW PREPARED TO GIN COT X ton with despatch at my Gin near town for $1.50 per bale. Patronage solicited and satisfaction jruar ?r?e?d. . W. ERVIN BRUNSON. jgSept. 14._ 'f ; GIN INSURANCE. /"^WTHITE &, SON are prepared to . take Insurance Risks on Gins and rittHbuses, in first class English Companies *ng 31_ Attention Farmers! ;MBS. &. C. BACOT & CO, COTTON BUYERS, Are paying very highest Market - .' Prices for Cotton. . Farmers will do well to see them before .selling. Office over B. J. BARNETT'S Store. \ G. C. BACOT. H. SCHW ERIN. ; Sept. 21. " - FOR SALE ."The following Second-hand Mncbiaery, in good repair: ONE'SIX-HORSE ENGINE, (New York Safetv Steam Power Co ) ONE FORTY-SAW WINSHIP GIN, with Feeder and Condenser. *f ONE HAND-POWER COTTON PRESS. For particulars address. W. J. JENNINGS, Sumter, S. C. AN OBDINANC?T Entitled "An Ordinance to Raise Sup plies for the Fiscal Year, commen Jnne 1st. 1886, and ending &i*tyim:' Be it enacted and ordained by the Intend? ant and Wardens of the Town of Sumter, in Council assembled and by the authority of the same. ?I .SECTIOS I. That the following Annual Taxes, as provided for and authorized bj and s -under Section VI of an Act of General As .- sembly of the State of South Carolina entitled r"An Act to Re-charter the Town of Sumter," approved 24th day of December, A. D. 1883, be and the same are hereby levied for the /oses and purposes of snid Town, for the Fiscal Year^ commencing 1st dar of June. A. D. 1886. To wit : Forty (40) cents on the value . of each One Hundred Dollars of Real Es? tate, and Forty (40) cents on the value of each One Hundred Dollars of Personal Prop? erty, within tnecorporate limits of said Town, excepting such property as may be exempt :frota taxation nuder the constitution of this 'State, and the taxes paid and collected under this Ordinance, shall not exempt any prop? erty opoo which such taxes are paid, from taxation, after 30th day of September A. I>. 1887. Ssc. H. The phrase "Real Estate/' as used in this Ordinance, is co-extensive with all lands, tenements and hereditaments, and the phrase "'Personal Property," is intended to mean and include all money, goods, chattels, choses in action, and all evidences of debt. Ssc. III. That all persons liable to taxa? tion under this Ordinance, shall make pay? ment to the Clerk and Treasurer of Town of Sumter, during the month ofjNovember, 1886, and upon failure to make such payment, the person or persons so in default, shall be sub? ject to a penalty of twenty per centum upon the amount of taxes due by him, her or tnem, and it shall be the duty of the s:u'd Clerk and Treasurer to enforce the collection of all taxes and penalties due said Town of Sumter, and for th?3 purpose, he is hereby authorized and empowered to issue Executions under the cor? porate seal of said Town, directed to the Sheriff of Sumter County, S. C., requiring him to levy and sell of the property, real or persona), of such person or persons so in de? fault, sufficient to pay all such taxes, penal? ties, charges and coets. Ssc. IV. That this Ordinance shall go into elfect on the 1st day of October, 1886, and all Ordinances, or paris of Ordinances conflict? ing therewith are hereby repealed. Done and ratified in Town Council assem? bled, and under the corporate Seal of the Town of Sumter this 17th day of September, i . D. 1886. ?L. a.} MARION MOISE, C. M. H?BST, Intendant. I Clerk acd Treasurer. OUR STANDARD BEARERS. State Ticket. For Governor. JOHN PETER RICHARDSON of Clarendon. For Lieutenant Governor. WILLIAM L. MA?LDIN of Greenville. For Secretary of State. W. Z. LEITNER of Kershaw. For Comptroller General. W. E STONEY of Berkeley. For Treasurer. I. S. BAMBERG of Barnwell. For Attorney General. JOSEPH H. EARLE of Sumter. For Superintendent of Education. JAMES H. RICE of Abbeville. For Adjutant and Inspector General. M. L. BONHAM, of Abbeville. County Ticket. For Senator MARION MOISE. For Ute Legislature. W. 0. CAIN, H. F. WILSON, H. G. SHAW, A. MOSES. For Auditor. W. R. DELGAR. For County Commissioners. J. M. ROSS, T. J. BAKER. J. 0. DURANT. - For Treasurer. P. P. GAILLARD. For School Commissioner. . J. T. WILDER. For Prolate Judge. T.T. WALSH. OH! 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C. Assisted by an able corps of Ediiors. The patronage and influence of all friends af Temperance is solicitad. Terms only GO cents a year. To advertisers desiring; a wide circulation, it offers an excellent medium. On business, address N. G. OSTEEN, Publisher. BEYOND. Around ihe bend With idle oar and flapping sheet ? float And, hopeful, o'er the shining vista gloat, As current-borne creeps slowly on my boat Around the bend. The water's surface will be smoother there, The arching bows will frame wide views more fair, My white-bleached sail will bathe in parer air, Around the bend. No rudder will I need my skiff to guide, No tempests o'er my sky will wildly ride, .No rival keel will graze my vessel's sids, . Around the bend. Down Time's broad stream T feel my life-bark swing The future will but care-free langhter bring, And all my ways with songs of praise will ring, Around the bend. ***** Around the bend My boat goes on with jarrings much the same, Here beat the storms that up the river came, The view is changed in naught except in * name, Around the bend. My life is still the same unrest for me, My course is not more bright, nor quick, nor freej The joy I fondly hoped I cannot see, Around the bend. - Charles Moreau Harger, in ike Current. Written for the Watchman and Soutitron. Recollections of Potter's Raid? NUMBER XIV. For a moment I was alone. It was a moment of anxiety. There were three men who then walked in. They were officers in full uniform with their swords at their sides. One of them was a short, stout man, the eldest of the three. They called him Captain. The other, in his very black eyes and dark complexion, reminded me of a Span? iard. He was a thin visaged, meagre, wiry fellow. Of the other I have al? ready referred. (T will have to call him the cigar soldier.) They shut the doer after they entered the room, and I was now in the presence of United States army officers. 1 kept my eyes upon them, and the cigar fellow again commanded me to get op, and even more emphatically than before ordered me to do so. But I made no move to obey him and they became angry and asked, "Are you going to get out of that bed ?" There was too much se? verity in their tones now for me any longer to hesitate. But still I delayed and ?iid, "What is the necessity for this?" 'Get up sir, instantly.' 'But 1 am a sick man, and all the town, will assure you of this. What have I done ? Wherein have I offend? ed Y 'Get up instantly,' the cigar fellow said, coming to my bedside and looking as if I might expect to be dragged oat if I did cot do as he ordered. I saw now I had to get up. Being afraid of them, I hoped that if I could keep in bed, I might possibly escape personal injury and having Ind fever for davs and not desiri?? nourishment I was very weak. I did my best to re? sist their orders but I could do so no longer, and as they repeated their or? ders io the shape of a question 'are you going to get up or not V I made the first effort to get up, and staggering in my weakness, reached an armed rock? ing chair a few steps from my bed, and fell into it. My mind was now divided between what these creatures purposed doing to me, and what treatment Mrs. -was being subjected to, now in the other room, under a guard of negro soldiers, and the door closed between us The Spaniard-looking fellow was the first to speak. 'You know this d- rascal who shot one of our advanced guard in the street after he surrendered." *I am positive that I do not know him. He had ridden into the town in the earlier part of the day with another soldier. I saw the two ride in from my window/ 'But you do hnoio, and you are thc d- coward who did it. Our men say so, and that you ran into a white blouse. They say you have been hanging around here while all the other ineu have left to save the gold and silver which has been put in your care/ Said I, 'This is a great mistake. I could not have 6bot this man, for I have been iu this bed for days, and all thc town knows this is so. You have al? lowed yourselves to be imposed upon. I have been closely questioned on all these matters already by Lieut. Water? man and he is perfectly convinced of my truthfulness.' 'Has he been here ? What brought him here?' 'To make the inquiry you have and to advise me how to save what little provisions we have to subsist on,' point? ing to the bag of rice and the pieces of meat on thc hearth. The short stout fellow said,' 'We don't care if Waterman has been here. It is a d- lie. Treasure has been brought here and put in your care by your parishioners, you cau't deny it. One large box has already been carried off, and there is more here.' (I pre? sume he referred to the box containing Col. D.'s uniform.) Said I, 'Gentlemen let mc assure you, no treasure has been brought here by any one, and no treasure has been carried away. You must believe me. I have been taught to tell the truth from my childhood, and it would be strange for me to begin to lie prostrated and sick with a negro army surround? ing my doors. You have suffered your? self to be imposed upon. There is nothing in this house but what belongs to me. Til is is church property. This furniture is mine, all but that picture, which was sent here by a friend for mc to protect. They heard that Sherman j protected the parsonage in a town in Georgia and they thought it would bc protected here.' They remarked, 'So you have heard of Sherman ?' 'Yes, he swept through this country about fifty miles above here/ 'We don't want your-pictures, but thc gold and silver that's in this house It has been brought here, and you can't deny that some of it has been carried off. Where is it?' I began to fear that all my protesta? tions to the contrary would never con? vince these robbers but that I had se? creted treasure put in my *? keep. My sickness and seer' -?kness seemed in no wisc to f ings towards me. They continued harsh and vindictive in their abrupt and wicked remarks. Such a trio I had never met before. They continued to insist that I had gold aad silver in my keeping, and one of them, after go? ing to the window and looking around and ;then at the ceiling of the room, broke out in a new direction. He said .There's an up stairs to this house.' This amused mc and I replied, 'I wish there was. We have always found this house too small.' 'Well, we are going to see what's here.' Said I, 'every thing here is in your power to go where you please. You can very soon satisfy yourselves as to that. I have seen the bats fly out from between the shingles, but there is no up stairs. The house is built on brick foundations high from the ground.' And now I began to feel sick and like I must give up. And I said 'won't you permit me to lie down Y This started them on a new thought, and the cigar fellow asked'Where is Dr. Ingram.' 'I don't know.' 'Does he live in town ?' 'Yes, In the white bouse next to the Church.' 'Is he in the army ?' Did he go in ; the army?' *I may say he is connected with the army as having to do with the sick I have seen him with the Medical Direc? tor officially on duty several times.' 'You don't know where he is ?' 'I presume he left the town when the citizens left yesterday.' 'You have his gold and silver in your care. He sent it here for you to pro? tect and he has gone off. Some of it has been carried off. Where is it V Along here I must confess to consid? erable indistinctness in my memory, for every thing turned dark about me, and when ? again became conscious, I found my head and face saturated with water. I had fainted, and which of them had thrown the water in my face, I have not yet found out. When I had rallied they began again. They were hard? hearted and unrelenting. 'When have you seen Dr. Ingram last V 'I can't say exactly. He was in to see me a day or two ago.' 'Well, where is his gold and valua ables he put in your hands?' 'He has never committed any of his business to me ; there are others who can see to them better than I can. I don't think his accumulations are in gold and silver. They may be but he has never confided his business to me.' 'But he gave you them to keep, while you remained at home. Where are they?' 'I replied. I have seen a good deal of the Doctor and have eaten at his table, but I am not sure now. that he even had silver forks, used at his table. He has no treasure hid.' 'Is he not a prominent man here ? they tell us he is.' 'Yes I may say he is ; taring part in all mattets which concerns,the pub? lic welfare He has represented this District for a long time in the State Senate.' I was exhausted now and begged to be allowed to go back to bed. I became unconscious of what was going on, but rallied to find the Spainard fel? low's mouth close to my ear and in a subdued tone with his hands behind his back he said, 'come produce this gold, and silver and do it ouick and tell j where it is for it is the last d-lie you ll ever tell, come quick' tell us, we have been here longer than we wanted to be, where is it ? I saw, I felt that I had reached the crisis, and wondered now what they would do, but I thought ? was to be handled and perhaps beaten ; when thc one they called Captaiu sprang at him and raising his voice said, 'hands off, hands off. Don't you touch him You shan't hurt him, but be must pro? duce this treasure and we are going to have it if we have to search h-for it.' The raising of his voice to 6uch a high pitch alarmed Mrs-and she ran from the other room to my side and stood by me. Her negro guard did not follow her. I said, 'I warn you how you touch my person. I am the am j bassador of the Lord Jesus Christ, and His hand may fall on the one who in? jures me to-night. Mrs.-also spoke, she said : 'You are dressed like gentlemen and you ought to be gentle? men. Don't hurt my husband, no gold or silver is here. He hus told you the truth in all he has said. Please don't hurt my husband, please don't hurt him ' B-_^a<io__3-mi_i_ Lee and Grant, It must be admitted that when the two great captains met face to face upon thc liapidan, in May, 1$G4, Lee's re? putation rested upon more battles fought, bloody, terrible battles, and victories woo agains t^reatcr odds, than could be claimed for Grant. For three long years the whole power of the Federal government, with its unlimited resources, had not been able to reach the capital of the Confederacy, and when Grant took command of all the Northern armies, Richmond scorned to bc really less in danger than Wash? ington. The maxim, 'better is the place of the defendant,' is.as true in war as in law, and is especially applicable in a country like that between tho liapidan and thc Janies. Moreover, modern earthworks, defended by modern artil? lery aud repeating rifles, are much more difficult of successful assault than were Rodrigo, Badajoz, or Al huera, where Wellington won so much rcnowu in his Peninsular campaign. When Grant crossed the Rapidan he found he had a different army, under a much abler leader, to contend with than aiiy he had met before. In the battle of thc Wililernc-s, after repeated attack?, iu which thc Uuion troops, led by tlie ablest corps and division com? manders, displayed prodigies of heroic, stubborn valor, and covered tho ground for miles with the dead of both armies, Grant was repulsed, defeated, and com? pelled to retreat, and leave the field in possession of thc enemy ; and thc killed, wounded, and missing of the Union army largely outnumbered thc Confed? erate loss. But Grant was determined ; he was unused to defeat ; he proposed to 'fight it out on that iiue, if it took |fcummer/ regardless, seemingly, of the fearful cost. For the first time in his life, however, he tried to avoid the enemy, and by a flank movement to reach Spottsylvania Court-house. But when he arrived there and was prepar? ed to assault, Lee was ready, intrenched, and awaiting the assault, which was as heroic, as persistent, as deadly as that in the Wilderness, and as unsuccessful. At the expese of over fifty thousand men Grant learned that in that kind of warfare Lee was invincible. The bat? tle at Cold Harbor, fought within a month, ended the bloodiest campaign in history, and the Federal General, abandoning the attempt to take Rich? mond by assault, withdrew to the south of the James, and began the long cam? paign of siege and starvation. He could have placed his army south of the James three months sooner than he did, and without the loss of the six? ty thousand men who fought their last battle betweeu the Rapidan and the James, and that, too, without danger to Washington. After the siege of Richmond began the repeated and unavailing assaults of the Union army upon the Confederate lines, extending as they did for a dis? tance of over thirty miles, and defend? ed by less than fifty thousand men, are the best evidence of the skill of their commander, as well as the valor of the besieged. Not until the following year, and until bis base of supplies was threat? ened by other converging Union armies, was Lee compelled to evacuate the city Had it not been for approach of Sherman from the south, and the bril? liant and effective campaign of Sheridan, in which he easily routed the force sent by Lee to protect his communication with Lynchburg, there is no telling how long the Confederate capital might have held out. The defense of Richmond will always stand out in history as one of the most remarkable military achievements of any age. It is true that Grant's men had con? fidence in their commander, and in this ultimate success ; it is uot true that they had equal confidence in his strategy, j His pounding methods, so prodigal of life, inspired no personal enthusiasm or attachment. Lee on the contrary, had the profoundest sympathy, eves the heart-felt affection of his men. They would die for him even sooner than for the cause on which they had staked their all. He embodied their ideal, both of manhood and military skill. The Confederate camp waa foll of stories, true as well as false, proving bis personal sympathy with them in their sufferings, and bis masterly supe? riority as a general. This entbuiastic confidence in a measure supplied: the place of numbers and achieved victories where only defeat seemed inevitable. In this highest military quality that inspires the unquestioning devotion of hts soldiers, Lee was indeed one of the most remarkable generals of any age. In comparing the military career of those two men, the historian of another generation will say that they were strikingly alike in those characteristics that lie at the foundation of military success, in quiet conGdeuce, in that combination of moral aud physical cour? age, that heroic persistence which no calamity can defeat, which feels the assurance of victory in the very hour of disaster. He will also say that in men? ta! power, in the capacity for rapid com? bination, in strategic invention, which is seen in the skillful disposition of his troops before and in battle, in the genius that enables a general with inferior numbers to gain the stronger position, and to have more men at the critical point and moment, and especially in the power of personally inspiring his men to endure and achieve, Lee was be? yond question the greater commander. -A Northern Soldier, in October Bivouac. --- ? - - The Plymouth Rock Sold. Merry Life on the Old Boat During Jim Fisk's Time. The famous old steamboat Plymouth Rock, redolent with memories of Colo? nel Jim Fisk in his palmiest hour, of the great reign of shoddy at Long Branch in 1871. of the famous coach? ing rivalry of Fisk and Helmbold, of Jay Gould and Black Friday, cham? pagne and oysters, Jarrett and Palmer, and mysterious petite soupers in gilt edged state rooms, has been sentenced to death. She was sold at auction on September 22 to Butler, Clancy and Co., Boston for the sum of ?5,100. They sent Captain Riley, a crack steam? boat skipper, and their junior partner, Mr. II. Fitzgerald, here with a crew to take charge of her. This morning at 8 o'clock, in tow of the big tug Cyclops, she will move out to the east? ward through Hell Gate, and bid fare? well to the Bay of New Ydr% forever ; for wheo she reaches Boston she will be broken up and sold for old juuk. She ran fifteen years on the Sound before Colonel James Fisk, Jr., saw her and foil in love* with her. It was at the time when Fisk was in his glory as a railroad and steamboat, manager and the proprietor of Grand Opera House Ile was also Colonel of the Ninth Regiment at the time* he formed thc idea of becoming a commodore, and he engaged the regimental band to play onboard the steamer. Ile himself used to appear iu lier saloon wearing a yachting cap heavily trimmed with gold bullion, a blue reefing jacket with black buttons, and white trousers. Just be? fore reaching the city or Sandy Hook he would disappear into his stateroom aud presently emerge clad in hi* street costume. On the same boat traveled Dr. Helmbold, then full of wealth and ambition for display. On arriving at the Bran eli the Doctor was always met by Iiis conch, drawn by six bay horses and whirled to his splen? did mansion in Chelsea avenue Fisk had three cottages on Ocean avenue, near Bath avenue. Ile occupied one himself, while the other two were ten? anted by several beautiful youngwoman who appeared to be very well acquainted with Fisk. These enchanting creatures used to meet the gallant Colonel at thc train, whither they went tn a handsome landau with gold trimmings, drawu by bay horses with gold mounted harness. Fisk himself used to ride xii an enormous dray drawn by a crossed team of six blacks and grays. Ile had a coacbuiau and a tiger on the box and two footmen on the rumble behind. All the wealth and fashion of the Branch, from John Hoey and Charles J. Osborn to old Jeremiah Curtin, the fath? er of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and Russell Sage, the grandfather of puts, calls and straddles, used to travel ou the Plymouth Kock in those days ; and with the music and the champagne and the gilt-edged staterooms with spring locks, every trip was a picnic, menagerie and a sideshow thrown in. After a checkered career stories got afloat that the vessel was unseaworthy, and Scofield, who then owned her, lost money on her as an excursion boat. Then he built a great platform on top of her, put an awning over it, called her a floating skating rink, and ran ber up the Hudson. Rut she failed to draw, and on November 12, last year, she was put up at auction. Scofield bought her in for $7,875, ibd owned her until she was sold last week. Her career has euded, but no boat ever bad a merrier life of lt.-JV Y Star, Sept. 29. What Our Editors Say. Camden Journal.^ It is asserted by the anti silver men. that the restoration of the free coinage of the silver dollar, though it be of same weight and quality of silver as it existed from 1792 to 1873, would turn over the great body of the agricul? turists of the country to the "tender mercy of 'speculators and money sharks." If such be the result, it is remarkable that the "speculators and money sharks" do not favor the move? ment. Asa matter of fact, they are unanimous in opposition to the free coinage of silver. Charleston Uplifted. Augusta Chronicle. No men have recently given mdre encouragement to Charleston than Col Frank Coxe and certain influential and wealthy friends who propose and are bound to build a system of railways from that Atlantic port to the mighty West. This is a short line to that sec? tion, shorter by 158 miles, and runs through some of thc finest mineral and agricultural areas of Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and South Carolina. The building of this road, which is to connect Sumter in South Carolina, with Ashland, Ky., on the Ohio river, means wonderful de? velopment not only to Charleston but to vast regions of thc South. It means the pouring into several States of much money for construction. It means the industrial resurrection of a thousand localities. It means, to some extent, the stimulation of other lines of trans? portation. lt means, perhaps, that Augusta is not to remain in the back? ground much longer for want of a nearer cut to the West. Colonel Coxe and his partners mean business. The road will indubitably be constructed The lamp of Aladdin is in their possession. The man who made a castle of enchantment rise al? most magically at Asheville, transform? ing the whole scene beneficially, is the man to realize Calhoun's dream of a railway from Charleston to the West. It was a grand thing for him to have gone to Charleston at this time and virtually said to the people there: 'These ruins will be the foundation of a nobler fabric. The old city will stand erect again. The solid men of the North have faith in her commercial future, and join hands with enterprising men of the South to substantially accom? plish the faith that is in them.' We hold it as an omen of potent significance that as Calhoun's statue arrived at Charleston, Col. Coxe met it half way reverently. The Past and Present en? countered each other. The dead dreamer and the live man of action were in startling juxtaposition. Charles? ton will not forget the sun that has gone down, but nevertheless will she welcome the sun that is rising. The evolution of Calhoun is Frank Coxe the man of the new time. Greenville News. The News and Courier seems to be disposed to talk reason on the eduia tional question and now offers the op? ponents of the existing system a com? promise, in place of the ridicule and charges of demagogy and foolishness heretofore so liberally bestowed on them. We republish an editorial article taken from thc News and Courier of yesterday. It is encouraging as an indication but in no way satisfactory as a conclusion or as the basis for one. If the News and Courier and those who think with it will understand the real ground on which the bulk of the opposition to the State college and the citadel is based they may prepare and submit some proposition that will be a basis for agreement between those who honestly differ. The mass of the people who oppose the college and citadel do so because they believe those institutions to be not absolutely necessary and hold that in the situation of our Srate and people \ it is wnmg to spend any public money except for things that are absolutely necessary. The opposition to the col? lege is thc more strenuous and bitter because it is felt that that institution is a useless luxury and will become ac? tively harmful. Not only does it enter : a field already fully occupied and un? dertake to supply what wc already have, but it threatens to kill the denomina? tional institutions and leave adrift many | students whom it can not care j for. Thc abolition of free tuition will j be a step toward a reined}' inasmuch as j tuition fees will make the competition of the State college with the other in? stitutions nearer fair than it is now. That is alt. We no not bc Heve tho proportion to ? remove opposition to the citadel by es- | tablishing an agricultural college will be seriously eon.Mdered. Thc people want the taxes lightened and do not want them increased. Compromises in politics arc rarely permanent because they arc rarely satis? factory. It is better to fight it out and bc done with it. Thc people will in the end know who is right and who ts wrong, and settle ali great questions hy the rule of common sense. Rut we [ believe rn this matter and at this time J the oppououts of the existing system ! would be williup to leave the citadel as it ii? and have the State college an agri? cultural one, conducted ou a practical plan by practical farmers and for in? structions in practical farming. That, was the avowed purpose of its reorgan? ization. Ex President Davis's Letter. Wilmington Star. Wc read with much satisfaction the long, vigorous and conclusive letter of ex-President Davis in the Baltimore Sun of Friday last to which we referred on Saturday in a brief paragraph. It is a most complete refutation of Gen. Sb erman and a very thorough exposure of his mendacity, meanness and viciousness. It is a very damaging document, and if generally read would leave old 'Cump' in a most uncomforta? ble and perforated condition. While the letter is severe, it is not too much so. Mr, Davis is too much of a gentle? man to descend to low billingsgate, but he does not hesitate to characterize the vindictive and spiteful old sore-head as a 'liar.' Mr. Davis is dignified, but he shows a proper appreciation of the low fellow he is dealing with. He not only makes a thorough reply to Sherman's attack upon him by dis? proving all that his assailant says, but he shows how he has assailed others falsely and how the stigma of slander and falsehood has been fastened upon him. What effect Mr. Davis's very strong and admirable reply will have upon the Northern mind is not hard to anticipate. There are a very few pa? pers that will do bia justice and give him a fair hearing, but the great mass of newspapers will ridicule him and talk as if Sherman was the most honor? able and veracious man in the world, and that, too, in the face of the fact that he had been convicted of absolute lying in the controversy with Gen. Fry, in regard to Col. Stevenson and Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, and in regard to Gen. Wade Hampton and the burning of Columbia. Keep Out of Debt. Cotton Plant. Now that the season of the year is at hand when our farmers will begin to realize upon their crops, we desire \ to impress upon them the fact that the ? first thing to be done if possible, is to keep out of debt, and 'stay out.' In | this connection we clip some suggestions from New Farm> which we think are appliable jast here. It says; 'Be careful what you spend. No matter how much money you may earn, if you spend all you earn you will al? ways be poor; or^should you spend more than you earn, worse than pover- ! ty will befall you. There is more in knowing how to spend than there is in how to make money. Is takes only a very small leak to very soon empty the till. The little expenses that are con? tinually eating very soon make you wonder what bas become of your earnings, When you are buying any? thing for yourself or for your home, do not get it because it is cheap, or showy, but look to the usefulness of it and the amount of comfort you will get out of it. Iiemember, you are not buying for other people's eyes. Try and lay by something, so as not to come by 'wilful waste to woful want.' If you have any surplus do not throw it away or spend it foolishly, but try and save it tb help you along next year and next fall you will have triple the amount you save this fall. Your farm bas to have advances and if you, the owner, can make them so much the , better. Do not forget though to pay for your agricultural journal. Whisky Did It, Pee Dee Index, Our sister town of Florenee has re? cently had another fearful warning against the whisky traffic. Young Douglas, seemingly ao orderly, quiet citizen, goes out from home on Satur? day night. Between 12 and 1 o'clock pistol shots are beard and he welters, a corpse in bis own blood. And where does it all happen ? Right at a whisky den, which at that unseemly hour was ready, open and willing to deal out the poison to frenzy the brain and cause one man to dye bis hands iu the blood of another. Only last Christmas, we be? lieve, in a similar place in the same town, one friend accidentally killed an? other. What an abject lesson is all this to the people in that town and others, who insist on legalizing the traffic of this liquid fire, to say nothing of those who by degrees are being drag? ged down to degradation and ruin. If it be fanaticism to oppose that which makes such crimes not only possible, but glaring facts, then count us among the fanatics. If this is work fit only "for long haired men and short haired women" then let us share their reproach. When we read of such crimes as that which robbed Douglas of his young life, may be caused the light of joy and peace to go out of the life of a fond mother, scuds a soul to meet its God may be unprepared, the instincts of hu? manity cry out down with the rum pawer. The Gas Wells in Ohio. The State geologist of Ohio, Prof.. Edward Orton, bas recently furnish? ed lo the N'?w York Mail and Ex press a statement in regard to the usc of natural gas rh that State, and of tht; extent and value of this new source of industrial wealth, which is of interest to every one who is not familiar with the history of its dis? covery and development. When the gas was first used on a huge seale in Pittsburg, -Pennsylva? nia, three }rears ago, it was speedily proved to be very much cheaper than any other form of fuel, and the man? ufacturing towns that were fortunate enough to be able to command a sup ply SIHHI made competition almost impossible on the part of less favor? ed communities. This fact caused a thorough search for natural gas io be made at once in Ohio, with the result that it has been discovered in the western part of tho Stat?-, and in other soot ions where its presence was not before suspected. High pres sure gas was discovered in in Findlay. Hancock County, al a d?-pth of 1,!00 fret The surface sijrns of. gas were very obvious and abundant in that comity, but the source had not beeni discovered nor even conjec? tured. Jt was a complete geological surprise to find the Trenton lime? stone-one of the most widespread and important strata of the lower Silurian age in North America, tut which nowhere rises to the surface in Ol)io -a source of gas, and later of oil. The well at Findlay is the pio? neer in that section, and from the first shot up a flame that indicated what a powerful source of light aud heat had been discovered. I n view of the great value and im? portance that is now attached to the possession of this gas, it is very re? markable th.?t it should have been 8 > long neglected. Its existence in Findlay, we are told by Prof. Orton, has been certainly known for fifty years, having been frequently maui* fested during that period in the wells, cisterns and sewers of the town, and in the springs and rock crevices in the surrounding country. It is a well known fact, indeed, that a citi? zen of the town, Mr. Jacob Carr, had lighted his house with gas collected from wells on his premises since the year 1838. The fact that explosions frequently occurred in wells wherein the natural gas had accumulated, however, made the people afraid of .it, and its use did not extend beyond Mr. Carr's premises. About three years ago the Findlay Gas Company took alarm at a scheme proposed by an intelligent citizen, Dr. Charles Oesterlin, to organize a new com? pany and drill for the natural gas, and itself acting on the Mut sunk a well with so marked success that the natural gas was turned into the eily mains in place of the artificial product. Quickly following this experiment the proprietors of the machine shops and manufactories drilled wells and used the gas to run their machinery? The third well sunk yielded about 80,000 cubic feet of gas per day. The first and second wells yielded nearly three times as much as the third. The fourth well proved to be much better than the rest, and the anemometer measurement showed that 1,296,000 cubit feet were escap? ing each day. There are now seven? teen wells or more iii use in and around Findlay. Two of the seven? teen wells were failures. The others were productive, eleven yielding dry gas and four yielding gas and oil. Of the last number, one is an oil well exclusively, but there is gas enough in it to raise the oil once in twenty-four hours, the flow averag? ing thirty-five barrels per day. The other towns of Northern Ohio lost no time, of course, in siukiug drills, after the example of Findlay. Their expectation that, as they too overlaid the upper Silurian limestone, their chances to obtain the new fuel were as good as those of Findlay, proved to be, for the greater part unfounded. The occurence of gas and oil in Findlay is associated with an anomulous and most surprising departure from tlie regularity that.in general characterizes thc rocks of the State, and the whole question is a geological one after all. Bowling Green, the county seat of Wood County, twenty-four miies nortb of Findlay, was one of the fortunate places. The gas was found by a drill sunk a mite from the town,, and is conveyed in pipes into the corpo? rate limits, where it is famished; at rates about one-third less than the cost of wood or coal to do the same work, not counting the saving of trouble and expense attending the use of the new fueJ. Another well receuth^snnk at Bloomdale, seven m?esf^m- Posto r?a, has proved most fbccessful, its daily yield amountiug to very nearly 3,000,000 cubit feet. The gas wr?i be "piped" to Fostoria, and to other places thirty or forty miles dis?an* from the well. At least fifty otltei towns in the western part of the State are industriously boring for the gas, being encouraged by the dis? coveries above mentioned. The pro? ductive territory lies in spot? The gas wells of Findlay find their sup? ply where the limestone lies between 305 and 350 feet below sea level. The great gas wells of the field are thus far included in the interval be? tween 330 and 340 feet below sea level. The manifold advantages derived from the use of natural gas is by no means confined to mills and manu? factories. When enriched by pass? ing through a naptha bath, it h made available for supplying houses with light, and fuel for cooking and other purposes, al a low cost. Some of the charges to householders at Find? lay are given as evidence of its won? derful cheapness, and certainly com? pare favorably with the expenses of the residents of less favored towns anywhere in the world The cost of lighting a house, for instance, for one month, ranges from 15 to 39 cents ; cooking stoves consume a dol? lar's worth of gas in the same time } sitting rooms are warmed at a cost ot about 5 cents a day, and boilers for . steam engines are supplied at the rate of $150 a year, lt is not sur? prising, therefore, ibat the new fuel is sought wherevei there is- the slight? est chance of finding it, since its dis? covery means a saving of many thou? sands, and even hundreds of tliou sands of dollars, to a Community every year. In the spring of this year a great deal of gas was una? voidably wasted at Finlay the amount being estimated at 16,000, 0?/0 cubic fret daily, and causing a loss of at least $1.230 a day to Sie town while the waste continued. The effect of the employment of this gas in the iron industry has been felt in every part of the country. It has already given to the iron manu? factures of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, an advantage v h ich cannot be mea? sured in dollars and cents, and the sinking of every successful well, anywhere, adds materially to the prosperity of the Stale m which it ia located -Netcs and Courier. _--m^m??^- P-? - - As KNVIOUS KDITOR -Mary Ander? sen if? g ?ing to Killarney to kiss thy blarney staue. Happy bWuey StOD?, -Bari in'jto A Fcee I'rtss