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. im T9Lri ?C?TKR WATCHMAN, KstmbtttM* April. ISM* "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thon Aitaa't at, be thy Country*, thy Ood's and Troth's TJ?? SO?THKON, ZeUitfiie? jun?, 8?<5? Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.? SUMTER, S. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1886. New Series^-ToL VI. No. I?. 4. y - ? -; ?-j 1 NBUhoA every Xuet?Lay, BT * CK OSTEEN, S?MTER, S. C. tkrms: Two Dollars per an nom?in advance. 1dvirti8i?kst8. ?? Square, 6rst insertion.._....$1 OO Bverr subsequent insertion_. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will ba atto e at reduced rates. All common ioation s which s abser re private ntaretta will be charged for as advertisements. Ofcitnaries end tributes of respect will be "for. CSTTSS UTTISt MATTE ?mgmxR ws spend almost half of our life should be made as comfort at' possible,and for the purpose of J , siding this food work,, aod making some ^eaower- Ve now offer the best COTTON BAT T!?G??ATTR?SSeTer put noon this market. Three (redes now made?$5.00, $6.00, $7.00. ?atopte and felt information at Store of Treasurer, a. Moses. Satisfaction guaranteed in every case, or refunded. . . cotton mills. WELCH & EASON. Family Grocers. 7 US aad 18? Meeting, and 11? Market Sts. CHARLESTON. S. C, Iante attention to the following eC7W?rSC??% Ujlbs. for $1. GRANULATED SUGAR, 15$ lbs. for $1. ! CONFECTION ER'S SUGAR, ibi lbs. for $1. SX. C. SUGAR, 17 Tbs/for$l. HOBT BROWN SUGAR, 19 lbs. for $1. tGtQOp BROWN SUGAR, 20 lbs. for$l. . 1 TOMATOES90 cts.adosen. S lb. TOMATOES, $1.10 a dozen. GOOD SEGARS, $1 for a box of 50. - These are only a few of the many attrae? rions we are constantly opening, and house keepers will find it greatly to their advantage to sender* copy of oar monthly Price List aadx^SsnJE it always. No ebarge for packing or drayage. Importers and Wholesale Dealers in CHARLESTON, $ C, Are receiving by steamer and rail from the North aod West full supplies i_each, week of UCB APf CBS, PEARS, LEMONS, PO TATOES, t/A 3B A G ES, ONIONS, CTS M*h KINDS* Stc^ Etc. lerrsolicstad andpromptly 5Ued. ?PtRIAaT TD HOUSEKEEPERS! I HAVE OPENED A GREEI? G-BOCERY ON IJB?Ts^STREBT, NEAR MAIN. I wilt keep constantly on hand Fresh Tennessee Beel; * lHMtK, EA ^ MUTTON, AND SAU8A6ES. Give mea call and save time and money. Goods delivered free. I. D+ WESTON. * . 9 li Sumter, S. C. ?M? AND WINTER MILLINERY. fc:im m m mm Are prepared to furnish their friends aad patrons with Trimmed and U o trim med HATS AND BONNETS FEATHERS, FLOWERS, RIBBONS, Ac, . in great variety. . ZEPHYRS AND CANVAS. Good* shown with pleasure. Calf and examine our stock before par ?hasta* else where. ' October 26._ J. D. CRAIG, 1BLHHEB 18 ?. FORNITURE DEALER a an UNDERTAKER, Maw Strxtt, SCMTKB, S.C TTTOULD THANK HIS FRIENDS aad IT the public generally for their liberal patronage in the past, and hopes by low prices and mir dealing to merit c continuance of the He has received al read a large and varied assortment of HOUSEHOLD 3F*"IX V XX ?XXL JT ? for the Fall Trade, to which weekly additions ara >sing jraade, and there can be found UTHiS WELL STOCKED ROOMS as great a display of FURNITURE OF ALL GRADES at in the Srst-class city houses. ?B? has bought bis goods DIRECT FROM TBS FACTORIES, at lowest prices to be had ani proposes to give bis customers the full benefit of his bargains. PARLOR SUITES. w - . ? - ? - - Wood and Marble-Top Bed Room Suites, Bedsteads, Mattresses, Spring Beds, Chairs, Sideboards, Solas, Lounges, Bnfm, Bureaos, Wasbataula, Pfctfcres, Pictore Frames. Window Shades, aod 98 other articles supplied by the furniture ?f i % ; ?amo,?r ; '*1&3?W: GtASS AND PUTTY. Call at bis store aod be coorrnee? by a per sonal examination of goods and prices that these assertions aea trae. He takes pleasnra in showing cos to mere around. TRE ONOERTAIf ? DEPARTMENT, Is complete with a large number of styles of Coffins aod Caskets, from the smallest to the largest aises made, and at as reasonable prices as the same can be bought anywhere. Calla, promptly attended to, day o* night. J. D. CRAIG. 0ct5 FOR SALE. milk COWS * always ON HAND< H. B. Thomas, Wedge?eld, s. c. lllglTKCM ofot*er?.whow?hto< Hpymiwow v?% i*?*.* ***** ik jul iiltfi^H'*1 aiis? ~ CMcaga wM find it enfili ? ?sd toils ?ed? ? - "AFFINE FLOIIDA TONiC! Mr. FOSTER S. CHAPMAN, One of the .landmarks of the Georgia Drag trade, bow of Orlaodo, Florida, writes: "I c?n hardly select a single ease of the many others to whom I have GUiNN'S PIONEER BLOOD RE NEWER, bet what have been satis - ftedf nodi Hod it the best remedy for all Skin Diseases I haTe ever told, and a Fine Florida Tonic. "FOSTERS. CHAPMAN, "Orlando, Fla." A CERTAIN CURE FOR CATARRH! A SUPERB Flesn. Producer and Tonic! GUIHirS BLOOD BENEWSR Cures all Blood and Skin Diseases, Rheuma? Um, Scrofula, Old Sores. A perfect Spring Bediene. If not in jour market it will be forwarded on receipt of price. Small bottles $1.00: large bottles $1.1$, Essay on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. MACON JfEDICINE COMPANY. Macon. Georgia. For Sale by De. A. J. CHINA. July 13.g Su m ter, S. C. TAX RETURNS FOR 1886-7. RETURNS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY AND POLLS will be received at the tol lowiog times and places : Prireleer, Tuesday, January 4tb. Bino? Hill, io Manchester Town ship. Wednesday. Jen aery 5th. Wedgefield, Thursday, January 6th. Stetehoqj. Friday, January 7th. Gordon's Mill. Friday, January 7th. Mayearille, Monday, January lOtb. Magnolia, Tuesday, January 11th. Lyochbnrg, Wednesday, January 12A. Shiloh, Thursday, January 13th. Johnson's Store, Friday, January 14th. Scarborough's Store, Saturday, Jan uary 15th. Reid'i Mill, Monday, January 17tb. Bishopville, Tuesday and Wednes day, January 18th and 19th. M an ville, Thursday, January 20th. Smith rill e, Friday, Jan uary 21 st. MeehantesYtlle, Setardey January 22nd. Senders* Depot, Wednesday, Janu ary 19th. M. Sanders* former office, Thursday, January Sfch. asD At the Auditor's office in Samter on all other days from 1st of January to 20th Fab ruary, .mchmre. Parties asakteg Returns by mail or by an other person will please give foil first name of Tax-payer, aad the Township the property is io. W. R. DELGAR, Nov. 30. A od i tor Sum ter Cou o ty. THE SUMTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOYS, Affording superior advantages in ENGLISH, MATHEMATICS, and the CLASSICS, will reopen MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1886. L. W. DICK, ? Principals. A. C. JCcINTOSH, J TUITION?From $2 to $5 per month. BOARD?with the principals, $12 per mo. For further information apply to PRINCIPALS SUMTER HIGH SCHOOL, Lock Box No. 49. Aug 3-v Sumter, S. C. THE TEMPERANCE WORKER, Rtmovtd j om Columbia, & C. A Live, Temperance Paper, Pu Wished Semi-monthly in SUMTER, S. C. Under the Editorial management of Rrr. H. F. Chrkitzbkrg, e.w.c.T. or . . . . or s. c. Assisted by an able corps of Editors. The patronage and infloence of all friends of Temperance is solicited. Terms only 60 tents a year. To advertisers desiring a wide prcalation, it offers an excellent medium. On business, address N. G. OSTEJ2N, Pehtisher. A HUMBLE THANKSGIVING. We cannot show a grand array Of toothsome things Thanksgiving Day The day so very near ; Our little pantry will not boast Delicious viands by the host To every palate dear. 'Neath weight of all the good things known Oar little table will not groan, No, not the very least ; Our little home will not be blest With many a welcome, joyous guest To help us at the feast. Yet, notwithstanding what we lack, We'll not regretfully look back And sigh for better days ; But we will 611 in every part The spacious storerooms of our heart With gratitude and praise. We' II count onr present blessings o'er, And we shall fi od they comber more Than ail our trials do : Our happy, thoughtful hearts shall be Delightful guests?right royally They will reward us, too. To seats we once did occupy We'll not look up with wistful eye And covetous unrest ; But bending low dowo our gaie To poorer homes, to sadder ways, Thank. God we are so blest Thank God that tbongb our home is email, It still contai na the dear ones all, Rich in affection's wealth ; Thank God we have enough to eat, Thank God for clothing warm and neat, Thank God for perfect health. Thank God we feel the fire's warm glow, While many cold and tireless go Io . jany a cheerless home. Oh, yes, most gratefully we'll lift Our souls to God for every gift, And trust for all to come. I Thus 'round our frugal little board With cheerful hearts we'll praise the Lord I Aod keep the jubilee; Nor shall there anywhere be found, Within the Nation's utmost bound., A happier family. 607. RICHARDSON'S ADDRESS. Gentlemen of (he Senate and Bouse of Representatives ; It is with a deep sense of the ; responsibility and obligation I as sume, that 1 have just taken in this solemn presence the constitutional oath of office as Governor of South Carolina. I With no ordinary emotion, and with a heart full of gratitude to the peo ple of this State, through whose partial kindness I am the recipient of this exalted honor, I this day enter upon the discharge of its high dirties, to the faithful, honest, vigilant and patriotic execution of which I pledge the honor of a devoted son of Carolina. Sincerely distrustful of my own abilities, 1 confidently rely upon you, their chosen representatives, for such wise, liberal and conservative action as will render the progress of the State in material prosperity rapid and the executive administration of her affairs easy. To the most unobservant and in different it m net be apparent that these are times fruitful of vast and pressing problems, social, industrial and economic, both in State and national affairs, which demand for solution the ablest talent and most unselfish patriotism. Notwithstand ing the dual nature of our institutions and government, investing the citi zens, as it does, with varied duties and interests, the peculiar condition of our State, socially and politically, during the dark days of reconstruc tion, rigidly confined the attention of our people to the seemingly hopeless and Hercnlean task of wrestling from a chaos of corruption and venality in all their hideous forms, and of universal malfeasance in official life, such as had never before disgraced the annale of a civilized community, order and good government. How successful, how marvelously, this has been accomplished, ueed I attempt to describe ? Surely, it can never be possible that the deep, soul burning humiliations, the crushing tyranny, the ruinous taxation we so long endured, the bold effrontery of loathsome vice in high places that stalked in open daylight through the streets of this beautiful capital, have so soon passed out of mind and been forgotten like the idle terrors of a dream, amidst the quieting, restful surroundings of the renewed peace, order and good government we now so bountifully enjoy. To the people of Carolina, I verily believe, oue of the greatest misfortunes that could occur would be an oblivious disregard of a former experience that, upon the least cessation of vigilance on their part, might, and would almost surely, again become a terrible possi bility. The same elements of evil are here, the same forces present, though laten ; but to this generation, who are the witnesses ot and the euffeters from certainly the most anomalous and extraordinary condi tion of political and social life under which a people ever lived, I do not think there can ever come any deluge of Lethean waters so overwhelming aa to sink into oblivion the bitter memories of the past. Sad, indeed, would be the eure results of criminal forgetfuluess of a lesson so roughly taught, so heroically learned ! No, this can never be. We are again in the house of our fathers, as masters and rulers, and we are here to stay as such for aH time ; but to stay inspired by the true instincts of liberty and animated solely by a high and patriotic purpose to dispense even handed justice, to maintain the purity of our institutions, and to secure to all classes and conditions of our citizens every legal, constitutional and inherent right of man. With the inestimable advantages of good and honest government once more surrounding U3, like alifc-giving atmosphere, how briglut the prospect for rapid advance in all the arts of peace and in the accumulation of the wealth to which our wonderful re sources of soil and climate so juetly entitle us ! True, we are just at this time in a condition of great business depression, common to every interest of the whole world, and in no way peculiar to ourselves, save, perhaps, in complications arising from the transition pitase, tWrough which our agricultural industry is now passing. To this great interest we should certainly give promptly that attention which its importance to the general welfare so imperatively demands. Wc should approach its consideration with that calm n?es of judgment aod freedom from paeeiou so essential to reaching wise conclusions. The Department of Agriculture, to whose charge its interests have been intrust ed, and whose development has been the object of such earnest, faithful and successful efforts, should be sus tained and rat ered. All laws upon our statue books tending to the re tardation of its development, or cal culated to direct its energies into unprofitable channels, should be at once repealed, and such measures only as are absolutely needed for its proper encouragement should be enacted. Perfect freedom of action anil judgment is the most efficient incen tive to successful exertion in all the occupations of life. This it is the duty of government to insure to every citizen, whether walking in the patlis of commerce, following the profes sions, or gathering the wealth of nature from our teeming forests and causing our fruitful fields to yield their abundant increase. I speak as a farmer, who loves his calling with an ardor inherited from ancestors devoted solely to the tillage of the soil, and whose instincts, affinities and sympathies are, therefore, natural ly and warmly enlisted in the success ful furtherance of that first, grandest and noblest of pursuits. A fair field, untrammelled opportunities, exact justice, freedom from discriminating legislation, and such encouragement as is entirely within the legitimate sphere of government, is all the American citizen ask6 or needs, and constitute the very fundamental prin ciples of the liberty for which Wash ington fought and conquered, and in defense of which our heroes crimson ed the countless hills and vallies of the Sunny South. May the genius of liberty preside forever over our destiny and direct all our efforts to -the accomplishment of so glorious a triumph in govern mental science. Amidst the abundant causes for congratulation, we certainly possess one in the restored credit and im proved finances of the State, brought to renewed life, as it were, from a condition of almost absolute decay and death. We should not forget to scan closely the expenditures of the government, and restrict them within the limits of a wise and liberal economy. This is but simple justice to the tax-payer, who, however cheer fully and uncomplainingly he may pay his quota of tribute, should not be subjected to greater burdens than the necessities of government imperative ly demand. But it should also be remembered that the smallest and fewest appropriations are not always the wisest economy. Government is business, and, like any other busi ness, requires for its successful con* duct the use of money ; such, for in Htauce, as for the adequate compensa tion of officials, the proper mainten ance of charitable and penal insti tu tutione, the prompt payment of all public obligations, the liberal support of common schools aod higher Insti tutions of learning, the necessary expenses of legislation itself, and the numerous other incidental purposes that foot up no inconsiderable amount. We have already achieved much in the way of economy, having reduced expenditures to a point that places the government of this State among the cheapest, if not the very cheapest, of the States of the Union. com parison of our expenditures with those of any other State will, I am sure, fully justify this assertion. While looking, then, with contin ued care to the exercise of this cardi nal virtue of economy in the adminis tration of our affairs, especial attention should be paid to maintaining the credit of the State, now at a point of excellence nevar before reached in the history of her finances. If this credit is fully sustained the opportu nity will soon be presented, by the early maturity of our securities, of refunding them at a much reduced rate of interest, and thus relieving the taxpayers, by a single transaction, of an annual burden of perhaps one hundred and fifty thousand dollars I This surely will prove a measure of ! economy that would be sensibly felt i as a relief to every industry and oc cupation, and should enlist, therefore, for its accomplishment, the active sympathies and co-operation of all. A practical test of the feasibility of this project must soon be made in the case of our deficiency bonds and stocks, which mature as early as July, 1888, for the refunding of which timely provision, will have, of neces sity to be made. But however rigid the ideas enter tained upon this subject, however great the apparent necessity for re trenchment and reform, there is one direction in which they cannot be ex ercised without stifling the youug life of the people and sapping the very sources of our material and intellec tual strength. I allude to onr public schools and the system of colleges we call the University. The one is the essential complement of the other, and neither can accomplish the full measure of its usefulness without its necessary coadjutor in the grand work of education. In Ike cobmuou schock are to be laid the broad foimdatiotia, and in the institutions of higher learn ing are to be reared the beautiful and lofty structures, of intellectual de Ye I opinent, that render a people pros perous, happy, great and respected among the nations of the earth. [Ap plause.] Such institutions are not like mushrooms?the growth of a night. They require long years of patient sacrifice, o? patriotic effort, of liberal and unstinted support, to attain their full stature and grand proportions, where their pinnacles, reaching to the sky, will shed a beam of transcendent brightness over the Und, vivifying every industry, and warming into, ac tive life every dormant energy. In the matter of education we can not afford to contract. The true pol icy should be to broaden,, to deepen and to widen a? the resources of the State perm-it, until the Vast vestige of rae at ai darkness ? swept from our borders, and every child in the State Hhall become the recipient eX Ihm be nignant influenc?e of thorough in struction. The accomplishment of this great work, with us, can only be gradual, for none bat the wilfully blind can fail to see and feel the prevailing embarrassment, so wide spread and universal. Bat at least, no step backward should be taken. The march moat be ever onward, with the steady determination not to be outstripped in the race by our Bieter States of the Union, who are bending every energy lo the moat complete and perfect development of their edu cational syatema. South Carolina/among if not the first to establish ? system of free schools, imperfect though it was has the added incentive of a noble ambi tion to maintain her ancient proud position among the most advanced and progressive of the States. Nor will ?ie fruits of inch a liberal policy be either meagre or destitute of a cer tain and abundant .compensation. How richly baa she in the past reap ed the reward of her liberality to her institutions of learning Need I tell of the illustrious names that have il lumed her annale both in peace and in war ? Of how ber sons, trained in these institutions and imbued in every fibre of their being, with Carolina sen timent and Carol?ua devotion to prin ciple, have carried ber flag often to victory, but always to glory, and have won for her a r?putation for loy alty, learning and eloquence not bounded by continents or oceans? How the heart thrills with emotione of the loftiest State pride as we read of the men who were indeed giants in those days, the acknowledged peeis of the greatest: and best in the land. Not to mention a hundred others almost equally famous, I have no hesitation in asserting that the pro duction of two such men as McDuffie and Thornwell, both poor boys, would fully compensate for every dol lar expended in the maintenance of the institution which nurtured them. The South Carolina College and the State Military Academy, as the cap stones to a perfected system of com mon schools, and aided by other in* stitutions of a similar character, will most assuredly prove, in the not dis tant future, the unfailing source of prosperity, happiness and advance ment in all that elevates and ennobles. From their gates will issue an annual stream of cultured Carolina youth, with hearts fined with grateful love of country, whose genial and refreshing influence will permeate and spread through every nook and corner of this fair and beautiful State, and will, like running waters in a desert land, cause to spring up everywhere new life, vigor and wealth. But theie is another direction in which we must look with thoughtful care, if the tritereste of the people are to be protected against burdensome and unequal taxation, and are to be relieved from the unnecessary and unjust impositions that are crushing them to the earth. With two sepa rate and entirely distinct centres of power in our most happ'ly conceived form of government, there is a con stant necessity that neither, in the exercise of ite functions, should ever escape the vigilant watchfulness of the citizen. The momentous events of our recent past, teeming with the clash of armies, political convulsions and mighty problems yet unsolved, have contracted our range of vision, and bounded our interest almost wholly within the limits of State lines This should no longer be the case, when, as now, the overpowering cause of pressure baa nearly ceased to exist, or, at least, its incentive. The time has, then, surely arrived when our attention should be directed with careful scrutiny tu the operations of that central government in our du plex system which is so far removed from popular observation as to give it comparative exemption from respon sibility. In its remorseless absorp tion of legitimate State functions, in the cruel exercise of ite dangerous powers of taxation, all the more dan gerous from their insidious nature and manner of operations, there is well founded cause for vigilant and anx ious solicitude on the part of the peo ple of the State. Consider for a moment the matter of Federal taxation and expenditures, and the imagination, accustomed to regard simply Slate revenues, is ap palled by their immensity, amounting to nearly 32? millions of dollars, about one million for every member of the Federal House of Representatives, six dollars per capita for every mm, woman and child in America, and, therefore, six millions for this little impoverished State of South Carolina. How insignificant, then, in compar ison, appear the expensee of our own State government ? But, add to this vast sum, that paid through the opera tion of the present unequal and ini quitous tariff to monopolies and pro tected industries, and who can fail to recognize the great, if not chief, cause of the widespread unrest and discon tent pervading all classes and cond? lions of the people of this Union, ex cept, of course, the beneficiaries of this onerous and unjust system ? The admittedly correct calculation of three dollar* tribute to protection to every one of revenue that actually reaches the coffers of the general gov ernment, inak?n the annual golden stream tuai flows unconsciously Northward from the boundaries of South Carolina a constant (Drain from oar m-hUt. From fifteen to eighteen million of dollars, not a single ime of which is ever returned, save the p*il try amount of meagre appropriai ions so grudgingly given to our rivers aud harbor*,- sud the few salari*'* pain* to Federal facia Is in our midst. Such au enormous drain upon lue resouvces of any community is of iIseil sufficient to sap the very life blood of their prosperity* and, unless put a stop to, must inevitably consign tuet?, with the resiattese power of Sate, to a con dition of endless and hopeless pov erty. In closing those purposely general n-ULarks, which have insensi bly exceeded the limits ocigiuatly iu ! tended?;! would bespeak your cairo,, j dispassiuuate coasid*?rali*M* of tUe ? many grave matters of SlaJe pressing ?oi aUculUMJu 1 pledge tuyscitt to an t earnest, active, unwearying coopera tion in all your efforts for the public weal, and shall, as far as ties within the scope of the authority with which I have just been invested, give faith ful expression to popular will, and see that the sacred honor of South Car olina is preserved in all its unblem ished pnrity and integrity. Gentlemen of the Assembly, tre 1 have a high and glorious task before us, in which no loyal son of Carolina should fail to do his full duty, tfittf unflinching and self-sacrificing devo tion. We have rescued this beloved State of ours, the heritage of our fathers, from the ignominious rule of the stranger and the alien ; but it is left us yet to make her restoration perfect and complete, nor should we cease, each in his sphere, to regard his life services as consecrated to this holy work, until we see her again re habilitated in all her ancient and res plendent garments of wealth, pros perity, power and honor. [Immense applause.} The address was heard with rapt attention, and it produced a most fa vorable impression upon all. Occa sionally during its delivery the speak er was interrupted by generous marks of approval by the audience, and when he concluded the applause was vociferous. Before taking his seat Governor Richardson received the hearty congratulations of many dis tinguished citizens, among whom was the retiring Governor, Col. John C. Sheppard. WrUttnforthe Watchman and Southron. Recollections of Potter's Rail. NUMBER XXII. It would be impossible to describe i.he alarm and terror, felt by the people of Suroter, as from their windows and piazzas they beheld this army of blaek soldiers and the multitude of negroes accompanying it, aj they entered the town. They apprehended all that was horrible. The officers quartered them selves upon the people of the town. In one instance only, did I bear of eny permission being asked. I have not heard that any compensation was ever offered by any of them to the families where they quartered themselves. We shall see where one of Sherman's Army Corps Generals offered liberally of shining gold to the family whose elegant borne bad sheltered him, and we have seen where two pale sickly boys offered us gold for syrup or sugar which they begged for ; but Potter's officers in their finery and show never offered or made any compen sation for the food they ate or comforts they enjoyed. They began at once their work of de struction, and their purpose was to be gin with the torch at the Court House ; but it was occupied by the sick and wounded, and was used as a hospital. The Jail, the Depot, the large end commodious Kail Road shops, with much expensive machinery, all the pub lic stories, acd a vast amount of cotton, were all destroyed. The private shops were broken open and their contents given to the hungry, clamorous negroes who thronged the streets. Gen. Potter had strong pickets post ed entirely around the town, and the army occupied the town in their camps; one on Main Street, not far from the Depot, another near the Methodist church, and the third on the road lead ing to Providence. Tbey seized the Sumttr Watchman office belonging to Gilbert and Darr, and at once publish ed and distributed the "Banner of Free dom.*1 In this the utter uselessness of further resistance by the Confederate States to the U. S. Government was set forth, urging the citizens to accept the inevitable. They then destroyed the press and demolished the office. ?s we have said, the town of Sumter aas a coveted poi ut for Potter. It may have proved a bonanza to him if all be true which is said, as we shall see in the way of hidden and found treasure, ! I have beard of one who was successful in hiding ber silver spoons. When the news reached her that Potter had crossed the mill, she put her house in o;rder and awaited further developments, frier husband was with the troops of course. The few silver spoons were her trouble. Where to hide them was the question ? in fixing the are place, the thought struck her to hide with the wood these spoons. This she did among the kindlings. Towards night certain officers at the gafe asked if they could occupy two rooms of the house, assuring ber that she sboal ? not be molested. She wanted protection from the black troops and she readily assent ed. Tbey made themselves very agree able, and asking for water to wasn with and food to eat ; these requests were quickly granted. Pointing > the fire place asked if they'd bave a little fire kindled Y Ob, no, madam. It is too warm for fire. While eating, the ugly iron spoons ( and the broken-handled pewter spoons in use bothered her, and she apologized saying have others, but I have hid them/ Hid them, why did you hide them V 'Because I learned you'd *t??al every thing valuable you could lay your bauds upon ' Of course they could do nothing but laugh. I am sure these officers were not of ihe stripe who were at my house or else that fire place would have been looked tuto and tifose kindlings u[?'et. The spoons would have been found without doubt. It is said (hat one of the citizens ventured to show Gen. Pot ter the pit in which lie had purposed to hide away what he wanted to save. The Generai was much interested in it all, as he saw the flour ami sugar and meat aud lard and tobacco and meal, etc., all snugly stored away, and remarked that is all very nicely stored away. but. it strikes me as being too much for oue man tu have all as bis ewa, while there aie so utaay hungry months around in this time of ?carcitv, and he ordered it all to be distributed to the resiles?, hun gry negroes crow dbg the streets. At the risk of being tedious I must be al lowed to give an incident; After seve ral officers bad been quartered upoa the h*?ily, the wife bad become verv mis erable as to the whereabouts of he* bus baml. Night was ewa?ng *?; he had left for Dingle's Mill in the early day da-wu.,. and aho had heard nothing of hire. She ventured to knock at tbeir door. One of thera appeared f be proved to be Col. Cocoran, of the 108; . Y, Regiment which had flanked our forcee at the milt. She inquired of hirrj if be knew anything of ber bou batid, a minister who had been in the fight, if he was wounded or killed ? He listened very respectfully to what she asked and then assured her that no clergyman was hurt or killed in the fight. He positively assured her of this, a fid then he went on to say, that the U non forces had been for a long time durrog the fight under the full im pression that they were fighting a strong picket line j that the main force was Hti?l to be fought. A force of Gen. Lewis' Cavalry had been in sight all the time causing this belief. Ho seemed to take pleasure io bearing his testimony to he bravery of our troops. It was a part of this cavalry which covered the retreat of our men from 'the mill, and which saved many from death and cap ture. It seemed the purpose of the ioTedioj* J army to keep under guard audio their possession the negroes, men, women and childreo who bad followed tbe army. With these all the negroes of Sumter were gathered into two lots near the Depot and were kept under guard. There were four men ; and only four, who were not carried off when they re tired. Andrew Spann, Ransom Hoyt, both bouse carpenters, James White who was known by all to be a preacher, and who maintained a good character, and Stepben Haynsworth. They when put under guard, would slip away and when caught would slip away, and though repeatedly caught yet in every instance would elude tbe vigilance of tbe guard and escape. These were the only negro men left in Sumter when Potter retired. As we have seen, the army marched into the town Sunday afternoon tbe 9th April, 1865. They remained until 110 o'clock Tuesday, when they took op their Ime of march directly on the Wil mington & Manchester Rail Road to ward old Manchester. No picture of the horrors of war can , be overdrawn in this destroying march of Potter's army. Among tbeir first acts of violence was the otter destruction of Mrs. S. J. C. Elliott's floe residence about a mile from Manchester. They left nothing in the way of outbuildings, gro bouses, barns, &c. It was ruthless and evil disposed io the extreme. At Manches ter, the army spent eight days, or at least this was made a rallying point and from it parties to devastate and destroy were sent. They did tbeir work effec tually in every instance. Tbe negro troops seemed to bave at this place all the authority they wanted ; and in their I raid for many miles around tbey would return with tbe negroes eoffeeted from the various plantations which they would visit. There were thousands of these people of every age and sex col lected there. These were eight days of horrible dread and terror to tbe wives and rela tives of the soldiers, who had to remain at their homes and meet the insults and abuse of this multitude of utterly de moralised negroes. - They stole every thing they coold lay tbeir hands on, having undisputed and unrestrained ac cess to any and all tbe houses they chose to rob. They ransacked drawers, trunks, clothes presses, nook and comer, in and out of every house, up stairs and down stairs, leaving actually nothing that a negro man or woman would have. Tbey took literally everything, good, bad or indifferent. Blown Into Eternity* Mr. Joseph C. Lynah, travelling agent of the Ilazard Powder Com* pany of New York, met with a hor rible death at Galveston, Texas, on Sunday last. Mr. Lynah was a brother of Mr. Arthur Lynah, book keeper in the People'* National Bank of this city, and a nephew of Dr. Lynah. The details of the ac cident which resulted in his death are as fallows.: Mr. Lynah went to Galveston to negotiate the sale of a large quanti* tv of powder which had been stored for seveial mouths in a magazine be longing to the Brown Hardware Company. Failing to negotiate the sale of the hundred or more kegs to the Brown Cowpany, Mr. Lynah called on Mr. C. S. Wood & Sons, and transferred the powder to them. The Brown and the Wood magazines are both located three miles down the island beyond the city limits, bit about a mile apart. Mr. Lynah personally superintended the transfer of the powder. The employees of both firms remarked how exceeding ly careless he was in throwing kegs around the magazine and lettmg them fall violently from the wagon wftile making the transfer. Lynah discovered nineteen damaged kegs, the esni tents of which had become lumpy on account of moisture. He left tito damaged puwder in Brown's magazine, when he visited the magnziue in company with Thos. A. Crew, an employee o$ Srown,- for the* purpose of destroying the damaged powder. They carried the nineteen keg-j about fifty yards from tbe ma gazine to the bank of the bayou. Lynah kicked in the heads of three or tour kegs, examined the contents and piled the powde* en- top of the unopened kegs. As he tool? ? match from his pocket Drew protested against his lighting 500* pounds of powder without making a> trial or lighting a slow fuse. Lynah* repf?e? that ho would touch it off, whereupon Drew became alarmed and ran at the top of his speed. He had scarcely proceeded 500 feet when he heard a> terrible explosion, and at the same instant was thrown violently on his* face. Turning over quickly, Drew looked toward the spot where he had left Lynah, and saw him spinning around like a top, about thirty feet in the air, Uis clothes and hair all ablaze. Lynah fett nearly a hundred feet from where he we?t up. When Drew reached Uim li.fe wa? extmet* and every particle of clothing asxi hair had been burned'from the unfortunate j man's bodyr?Afeira and Cowrie*** December iU. I What Our JSditoir Say. " Th? Charleston Way of Eoirjg. Manning Time*. When" a Charleston mem1?er de velops into a' stilled debater tmcf parliamei.tarian he ht. -kept Hiere, retti mod time after time till age unfits him lor further service, or then, he is elevated to a higher sphere. There are men from Charleston" who have grown old and grey since their first election, and these sages of Solon will be kept there, and their power contin?e to be feit on every important occasion. It will be well for some of the count ice ta profit by the wisdom displayed by Charleston in this respect, and maybe we would hear less grumbling about Charles ton members working for Charles ton's interests. ; Anderson Leaves the Bain Tree Away Behind. Anderson InieOxgtneer. Anderson County iavetitf ahead, and is bound to keep in' fTie lead. After other places had produced trees I that rained, she came- forward with a tree that snowed. That, however, was not sufficient, and now she can produce a tree that bellows like a cow. This tree is located a few miles north of the city, and was first discovered by a little boy, who informed his parents of it. Several persons have visited the tree, and our informant states that they say it bellows at intervals like a cow. Prohibition in the Legislature. Chesterfield Advertiser. Our esteemed cotemporary, the Charleston News and Courier, is gen erally right in all matters pertaining to the welfare and interest of our co mi try, but we cannot, agree with it on the subject of prohibition. It enter tains fears that the prohibitionists in the Legislature will insist so strongly upon their measures that they will grive birth to a reactionary sentiment that will not stop short of a repeal of the law as it now stands, even if the Democratic party be shattered in ? the effort. We cannot see how the agitation of the subject will effect the party, but if the Democratic party stands in the way of prohibition we say shatter it. Gossip Fiends. Abbeville Medita?. The meanest of all people is.the gossip, one who' goes about and knows more about the affairs of his neighbors than they know about their own. Never mind bow ill-news is to be got, whether from servants or by prying, tlw gossip will have it. Such people are to be little trusted in anything. They certainly mean no good to anyone and saciety should eh ut down on them absolutely. A person who is always rooking out ? for tl?e short comings of their neigh* bors and telling each one met, hj strict confidence, of these short-com ings, bas a heart that is not free from blackness and one that is utterly de void of Christian grace and benevo lence. Gossips never repeat any* thing that is good of anyone, but they are careful to paint the short comings of their neighbors in vivid colors. Too often does the gossip, un'der the guise of friendship, give the deepest stabs to their friends and neighbor*, No such person should be allowed to enter the house of a respectable per son?nay they should be shunned by everyone and made to feel the odious ness of their position. We have the utmost contempt and loathing for any person who is always prying out dis agreeable things about others and telling them as though he was doing a great public service. We alt hare short comings enough without look ing after those of anyone.. No one possessed with this desire for gossip, can have one tree spark of Christian* | ity in bis or her heart, The great delight of the gossip ie to injure the reputation of some one. They desire to pull all down to their own low sphere. 1 ; Hard Labor for County ^risonersv AVtri and Comic*. Senaitor Murray's bi?Tte regulate the sentence of prisoners to the Peni* tentiary looks in the right dt?ec??oiv The Penitentiary is crowded now,, we believe, and there is certainly not room, with the utmost crowding, for all the eeovicts Who* ought to* be* within the walls. According to the laet report, 17T convicts- in ilio Feni*' ten??ary were under sentence for one year, and 90 for less than a year. The proposed biH:, therefore; cs>a<* average, might be expected' to relieve* the Penitentiary of half of the whole number of convicts. By transferring, the one year set** viete to the county jails, the ex penses of the counties will, of course, be wcreaeed, but only in proportion to the number of crimi nals furnished by the county. This, in itself, will? fend to put tlie burden where it belongs. The loatf. more over, will* not be wwroee, if power be granted to worfr the county con victs on the public roads. There te rcem there for the work of more than the number of convicts* tlmt the counties will be apt to have, suo* improvements can be effected by convict labor that the counties can? not aSord to undertake with freo labor. There wft? be no ?Vfriment to* laborers in general, if the' con viete can be occupied* m improvements* which' would' not be undertaken* at alp if ordinary laborers Were to be hired? for the purpose: 'Did you have a pleasant time?*' asked a New Yoik mother of her daughter, who had jjist returned ?rom a $ew Yeat's dinner at a1 friend'a house. 'WeH-she,' she replied', 'we hatf a beautiful dinner, and it was delight fully served, and everything would, have been very pleasant but for that horrid M'iss Snooks, who sat just opposite me* at tlte table.' ? What didi she do V iaqoired the mother. Why, she afe her soup-front* ino end of her spoon* instead1 ?'f fro>** the hide, and it quite'tool? atfsy/ ajy ?npo?tc, the vulgar thing- !*