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Oar trade in Doors* Sash Shd Blinds is larger than ever be fore because we sell them cheaper than thej can be or dered. H, R?RBY & CO. Jone S_ The largest and mod complete estaUisfttnent South fiEO. S. HACKES & SON, S 30 Manufacturers of ! - Doors, Sah, Wk Sesli h y JLST) BXELDINGr MATERIAL, j j OF y ICS AHD WABKROOitS, j ' King, opposite Cannon St red:, CHARLESTON, S. C. U Aug 10 o i, a 0. mm & BRa, ; COLUMBIA, K C. p SASH & BLINDSJ; LATHS, LIMB, j 1 CEMENT, PLASTER, j ! AND HAIR. i 1 Fm?ailAigricaifMo?tej; PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES. j * I ( v 1 1 j GARTER WHITE LEAD, Tbe Beet in tbe Market. j t _ j Special Attention Given to Orders , i >y Mail. C. 0. BROWN & BR0-, ' i * Opposite Post Office, j ' COLUMBIA, S. C. |r CAMPAIGN DAHN S?MTER. j The Most Exciting Meeting of the State Canvass?Governor Richardson En thusiasticaUy Received? Comptroller j General Vemer Covers Mimself with Glory?Earle Corners Tillman and Makes Him Take Water. Special Report of the News and Courier. S?kter, August 1.?One must look back to 1876 to fiud a paiallel for the State canvass meeting to-day ijUts interest and stormy excitement. T?e gau at 11 aT in , it continued fbf m'ore" than five hours, and its scenes for more than two hours before the close were intensely dramatic, as the inter est of the people here concentrated on the filial -passages^.at auns, as that of tbeicit&ed%|(? alette St?te^witf" doabtle% j?d. g | %f \ :M % The reports"oT the opening sp^ech?i must be cut short in order to bring the pages of this dispatch within the capacities of Snmter's single tele graph operator. The meeting was held in the shady Court House square at the.Tear of that temple of justice. The platform was low and broad and without a railing. Governor Richardson, Lieu tenant Governor Mauldin and Comp troller General Vemer, who had come from Colombia on the morning train, had been hospitably met at the depot by a committee of prominent citizens aud escorted to their hotel, and later to the speaking grounds, occupied seats upou it, with Gen. James WV Moore, State chairman, Capt. B. R. Tillman, and the following citizens: Attorney Geneial Earie, Col. John J. Dargan, A. Brooks Stuckey, Capt. E. M. Cooper, Richard Manning, Major Henry B. Richardson, of Clarendon, 11. R. Thomas, Capt. Tillmau's first lieutenant in Sumter County, and Col. H. E. h. Peebles. Many other citizens set upon the edges of the platform, and a crowd of fuily seven hundred voters stood on the sward about the stand during all the hours of the meetiug. The Sum ter colored band, gaily uniformed, reudered the music. About fifty colored men, chiefly Republicans, were grouped close to the platform out of easy view by the reporter of the News and Courier, and he is assured that they were among the loudest of the burrahers for the farmers' Moses. Capt. P. P. Gilliard, county chair man, presided and introduced first Gen. James W. Moore, of Hampton, Democratic State chairman. <3en. moore's speech. Gen. Moore, amid applause,explain e<} the purpose for which the meeting was called and held, and proceeded briefly to define-*he duties and aims of the Democratic parly, and to im press upon his audience the supreme importance of its unity, and the dan gers consequent upon: any division in it. The Democratic party in South Carolina was, he said, the world in which we ?ive, move and have our being. He begged his hearers to re member, still remember, the trials through which they had passed, the humiliations which they had endured, and the injuries which they had sus tained under the rule of Radicalism. He hoped that whatever issues might come in this campaign or any other before th? Democracy of the State, they would deliberately, wisely and unselfishly settle within the party, and march forward united against the e^emy. He confidently believed that the people of the State were too pat riotic to let South Carolina's true in terests suffer. Gen. Moore's shoit appeal was brightened by effective anecdote and brilliant metaphor, and was conclud ed amid cheers^ applause and the beating of drams. The county chairman for the com mittee on reception requested the au dieoce to give a respectful hearing to all the speakers to day. He then in troduced, as he expressed it, "Your Governor, your candidate for Gover nor, the man whose course in oiSce yon, the other day, endorsed, aud whose renomination you requested of the Democratic party, John Peter Richardson." [Long continued cheer ing and -music irotn the baud ] Governor Richardsoa, when the noise of welcome had subsided, ad dressed his feiiow-citizen6 of Suinte/ and of Clarendon, for he saw many familiar faces from both those coun ties. Many of the Governor's friends, you see, had come over to see Clar endon's favorite son triumph,and their presence cheered the Governor to make one of his most impassioned and effective speeches. In the beginning Governor Rich ardson referred to the honors which Clarendon and Sumter, sister coun ties, had done him: expressed his thanks for their handsome support, and said that he would address them in their interest as well as his own, for both were identical, and, Iiis .offi cial career ended, he would return to farming among them again. lie re tailed to them the scenes of '7-6, when the cannon of a negro mob ivere trained upon them in these ?ircets, and asked them to think 3f the contrast now, when the Democratic party, by which they :iad won success, was under accusa tion of gross mismanagement of the State. Was it not strange that when he appeared a3 the onij- open candidate for the Governorship, (he did not ac cuse any one of being a secret candi date, for he would not willingly evrong any man,) was it not strange that he should be met everywhere j md answered as if he were an en- j ?my of his party? Why was it? He ( ]id not demur at this. He preferred ! :he criticisms, because ho hat? conti- j ience in the fairness, the honesty and nanhood of the State, which would | see nothing but justice done. As in a sense the representative of he Democratic party of the State, he ! vas put on trial and required to prove j limself and the party innocent. In ! rourts of justice charges had to be nada and proved by the prosecutor. | Jnder the present plan he j night with equal fairness be ac- ! rUS?i -jX being a Mongoliaa or au j African, and required to go back to Adam to prove his genealogy. Ridiculous attacks had been made on "aristocrats," an imaginary "Co lumbia ring," &C, but the farmers had more sense than they were given credit for in some quarters, and the man who aspired to lead and control them would have his hands full. He wished be was a mouth? Briareus?and had a hundred mouths instea?d of arms, that he might speak to alt the people on the issues made. The Governor then reviewed the charges made against the administra tion and its alleged extravagance and replied ?bljr to them. Although not responsible for the acts of the legis lature in regard to certain appropria tions which had been attacked, he scorned to bold himself from criticism jn this way, and frankly avowed that be approved of them as necessary to properly maintained the government. He contrasted the records and achievements of the Democratic par ty with those of the Republicans. The State government was run eco nomically to day, and the colleges might be blotted out and the salaries of all State officers and Judges re duced one-half without effecting a saving of more than fift?en cents an nually to each voter, ninety cents for a family of six. He spoke freely as to tbe financial condition of the State, its debt and taxation. Tbe Governor then discussed the Clemson bequest as he had done in Chester. / Referring to the Charge of aristo cratic insolence made against the ad ministration, he asked bis Tellow farmers of Sumter and Clarendon whether he had ever been to them other than plain John Peter Richard son, the farmer. The Governor's speech lasted about on hour and was frequently and hear tily applauded. ?R. JTAULDIS's SPEECI?. Lieutenant Governor Mauidin spoke as he had done at previous meetings, briefi'y, plainly and well. He said in substance: He was an advocate of economy, but knew* that the Legislature was a hard working, conservative body, who fully earned their five dollars a day. Many members went to the Legislature with crude notions of economy^ but found out with knowl edge and experience that it was diffi cult to make jus* reductions under the present system. He advocated a constitutional convention in order that the government; especially the counties, might be made less expen sive. As to the Clemson college, he reviewed the *%unouncoment of his position already made in a previous speech. He was strongly in favor of a department of technology of the college, or school of technology else where. The Lieutenant Governor closed amid warm applause. The county chairman then intro duced Gapt Tillman as one who was here to-day by their own invitation. It was not a very enthusiastic invita tion, for Oapt. Gaillard does not ad mire the Edgefield agitator, but it was greeted with enthusiastic ap plause by the hundred or two farm ers-movement men who were massed to the left at the platform, and with a particularly long roll of drums by the colored band. CAPT. TILLMAN'S SPEECH Capt Tillman said that he took it for granted that the crowd was com posed of three classes, Tillmanites, haters of Tillman and curiosity-seek ers. Some had come to see what sort of animal he was. [Voices: "That's the truth." Weil, he had neither hoofs nor horns, but "copying Gover nor Richardson's famous speech at Horry," a simple, plain farmer like themselves. He reuewed his assur ance that he did not seek to make this canvass, but he feared neither Governor nor man and would respond to the call made on him. . Then be went on to say that the people of Sumter aud Clarendon had either surrendered their rights or been basely tricked out of them, for both counties had selected delegates to the State Convention before the cauvass had been commenced. These j delegates held the rights 15? Sumter, ! and in Columbia would snap their fingers at the voters, and say, "Ah, beys, we were too smart for you." It j was not honorable to take such a snap I judgment, and he wished ho had | those ten delegates before him to tell them his mind. [Voices: "Here's one- of them. Here's an other." Cheers for Tillman j "Will you range yourselves in front here?" Attorney General Earle, rising: "Here is one of those gentlemen, Mr. Tillman, if you want to eee him." [Long cheers lor Karle.] 1 Capt. Tillman, resuming: "Does j ' anybody SKppo?o I dou't know that j 1 Gen. Earle lias Sumter County in his i breeches pocket?" I 1 The Attorney General,impressively { and with a ring of anger in his voice: ! 1 "Sumter County is free and indepen- j ' dent and is in no man's pocket." [Ap- j pianse, cheering and confusion.] ; Capt. Tillman: 'I recognize your '> manhood and independence, Gen. ; Earle, and I voted for you in the last I convention." j i Attorney General Earle again de- j ' clared that the people of Sumter sub- j: milled to no dictation and governed j 1 themselves. While he had no desire j to interrupt, he must make thin an- j ; nouncement. He then sat down and the confusion was quieted, but Capt. ! Tillman failed to refer again to the j i lecture he was going to give the ten bad delegates. j i Capt.^FiFlman, proceeding, said in- ; stead that he-could pnt his hand on j i more sores, leaks and incipient ras- j cality in the government of South j Carolina than he could tell of in two hours No split in tue Democracy j was threatened, lie was no nigger j in the wood pile. You are so stag- j nated, he remarked to the farmers, i that the greets scum is growing on your heads. We have but one party in South Carolina. Would to (Jod we had another to match this one. But he did not want the Democracy beaten. This was only a family quarrel. U was mere twaddle to ?le fend the State government by com paring it with that of the Radicals It was a disgrace to make the com parison, and beneath .honest discus sion. [Note.?Governor Richardson, who had done this disgraceful thing, had [ retired, after his speech,to the Jervey Ilouse, as the heat affected him.] Renewing his charge of aristocratic rule, Capt. Tillman said that the aris tocrats now controlled the State con vention, which swapped and bartered our liberties. Mr. McDonald Furman inquired: "Is the State convention composed of aristocrats?' Capt. Tillman evaded this question by remarking that he %as not here to shoot snipe. [Applause from the Tillmanites.] The appeals of the Governor, he said, bad seemed the appeals of the dying civilization of the old regime to stop the car of progress. A grand social, political and industrial revolu tion had started with this movement. The people knew something was needed, but did not know what. This revolution would inevitably sweep the State. While he was speaking on the land scrip fund Capt. Tillman was inter rupted by his friend, Mr. H. R. Thomas, who reminded him that he had awhile since declared that he feared neither God nor man. "In this coun try we all fear God," said Mr. Thor?as. .'You meant the devil or man, dide't you?7 Capt. ITillman: 'I meant the devil or man.f [Note: It is curious, how ever, that Capt. Tillman at Chester, and perhaps at Hodges, denied fear of God or mau, and failed to correct himself] Capt. Tillman then undertook to speak more fully of the agricultural college question than he had done elsewhere. His arguments on this subject have been made familiar to the News aud Courier by his letters. Taking the attendance at the South Caroliua College last year; and the staff of instructors secured for the University during its yet unopened first year, Capt. Tillman announced that the college had twenty seven professors to one hundred and sixty students, or six students to each pro fessor. The statement drew laughter, but it was not corrector fair. He at tacked the agricultural annex of the old college, but did not tell his audi tors tjiat the University was now es tablished with its full college of ag riculture yet untested. The trouble with the South Carolina College students was, he said, 'they didn't sweat none the four years.' He added another remarka ble statement, that graduates came out of that college satuiated with the belief that labor was degrading. Un til, said he, that viper is uprooted (meaning the idea it is presumed) the respectable, honest man who la bors for a living will be fouud in fet ters of ignorance and poverty. Then came the declaration: ;The ' boy who comes of an institution with such associations will seak to live by the sweat of somebody else's brow.'' He announced that the lawyers of the State, and they only, stood in the way of the separate agricultural col lege. Nothing was ahead of the fanners but serfdom as long as not one in twenty thousand farmers was able to cope in the Legislature with the lawyers there. All legislation was conti oiled by lawyers. Lawyers were in the Legislature, supported by railroads, acting as chairmen of committees, who manipulated legis lation in favor of their railroads. In Washington lawyers were bought and sold by manufacturers and worked for them in keeping up this iniquitous tariff. [Note.?This is the first time that the writer has heard of Capt. Tillrnan's bad opinion of the tariff. He disagrees with Con gressman Tillman, it will be ob served.] The speaker next described the Clemson bequest. He hoped the for feited fifteen thousand dollars of Miss Lee's bequest would pay the lawyers in the will contest and that the fann ers would have thou seventy-five thousand left. He was not attacking John Peter Richardson, as the Governor suppos ed, but an oligarchy. He had no ref erence to the Governor in his Chester talk, about 'if aud and' statesmen, because the Governor had got off the bench squarely in favor of the South Carolina College as it is. The Gov ernor and the College men, while eat ing their cake buttered on both sides, told the farmers if they wanted bread they might go to the mill and grind the corn. The people of Edgefield, he said were getting mighty tired of ' supporting grandeur in Columbia. Our educational institutions were in tended for the rich only. It looked like a rich man's college and a poor man's iax. Did the}' wonder lie talked about aristocrats when he had two son%at liorae he was unable to send to school He wanted them to go t<> a eclmol it a cost (if a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five dollars each a year, and work every day in the year rak ing manure, chopping cotton or ploughing coi n, with a practical pro fessor at their sides in tin; lields in structing them. Ho dared any South Carolina College graduate to say that the education received there was of any good to him as a farmer. In his usual talk about the Colum bia Club ('apt. Tillman declared that members of the club would take a new Legislator, a green countryman, to the barber shop, have his hair cut in aristocratic Style, lit him at a cl. ?liier with a nice suit, and alter making him presentable lake him to the club aiid control him. They had boon told about the Radical barroom in the Stale Ilouse, which cost the | Legislature $L2?.O()0 a ^'car. He guessed that the Columbia Club cost the State now nigh as much. Poor j clodhoppers went there to be called ; colonel and major and considered j aristocrats. After such men had] been in Columbia a week or so $? a ; dav looked lifco small pay to them ! The speaker hi! hard again at the j railroad lawyers in the legislature, i declared that they had made worthless the railroad commission, commented and dilated on the Georgia system of treating negros in trains and thereby made the smiles on the faces of all his colored audience cease suddenly. He made light of.the eight box law as a pr?ventive of Radical rule, styled Charleston a robber of representation, hit the , Columbia Canal, although everybody ought to know that this State has not put a dollar or a convict on it since Governor Rich?rdson's administration began, ?nd that it is to be completed by the city of Colum bia and free labor, and advocated chain gangs for convicts. He next said thafhe knew the State expenses could not be reduced more than a hundred thousand dollars unless higher educa tion and the State House work were stopped. He didn't want to storj these institutions, but wished more educational light. Finally he warmly advocated a constitutional conven tion, the election of Judges by the people, talked about his inauguration of this movement and other matters. Capt. Tillman spoke for two hours or more, and so numerous were his attacks and projects that a page of the News and Courier wobld not hold them. He waa applauded freely by his supporters, who, however, were very much iu the minority. doHPTROLtE??. VEENElt's TTiTTY TALK. j Tben Comptroller General J. S. Veroer was introduced. He attacked j j the redoubtable .Ben in a yet untried ! way?? sporty, frisky, comrade like, baufering way. He caught and held the tired crowd by telling a good story. Then he pulled off his coat, hitched up his sleeves, asked his hearers to call him 'John 53m,' as they did in Oconee, and announced that he was raised on a farm and could plow a straighier furrow than the Hon. Ben Tillman himself. There was plenty of applause. He put it to his hetrers if there were not some other remedy f)r agri cultural depression than a farmers' college. He was altogether for the college and he wished it under stood. He was of counsel to defend the Clemsou will, and er.pscted to get tlie college money for the farmers without stealing, auy of it, as Capt. Tillman had suggested. Tillman: 'I didn't say you would steal, yoif fellows do that legally.' Yerner: '? don't know of any wrong that can be done legally.' Then he asked and obtained from Capt. Tillman a renewal of his ad mission that State taxation could only under the present Constitution be re duced one hundred thousand dollars. He appealed to the farmers to say whether the college would give them the prompt relief they asked. It might help greatly in twenty or twenty-five years, perhaps, but not sooner. Capt. Tillman said that he did not expect immediate results. He wanted to plant the 6eed though. Capt. Tillman had disclaimed imput ing corruption to the Columbia gov ernment, but only incipient corrup tion. The Comptroller General, who had the figures at his finger ends, mentioned the items which went to make up the ?141,000, which was all the executive, judicial and legislative departments co6t. The burden was elsewhere. We were paying $532, 000 for education and ?391,000 for State debt. Only about twenty thou sand could be saved by scaling to the lowest point all executive and judicial salaries. At some length, but very inter estingly, the Comptroller General proceeded to 6how where the great est burdens of the State were in his opinion. First. Outside ownership of forty one millions of railroad property and their constant drain of money from the State. Second. Outside ownership of half our phosphate and fertilizer compa nies and manufacturing stocks, and the total ownership by outsiders of telegraph, express and telephone companies, each making heavy drains upon our circulating medium. Third. The monopolization and strangulation by outside railroad mono polies of all lines attempting to cross the Blue Ridge and build up our ter ritory. Two millions of dollars of in vestments have been thrown away in these abortive efforts to reach the West. Railroad facilities and competition had rapidly built up A thin ta, Augusta, Savannah and Brunswick, while our cities grew very slowly. Every county above Columbia, except Oconee coun ty, was loaded down with lailroad debts We did not want flippant criticism distracting the attention of the people from these weightier pro blems. South Carolinians must stand shoulder to shoulder in the great struggle for existence. lie smilingly remarked that Mr. Tillman was a magnificent actor, and would make a capital circus clown Tillman: '1 am the clown of this circus.' The Comptroller General thought tiiat he was being made quite too big a man by abuse. Then he invited Capt. Delgar to ask two farmers in tin; meeting to ex amine their two sets ol figures, and decide whether he or Capt. Tillman was correct in their statement of the differences between the expenses of Uwb-Ti* ami ISJSG-ST. Tillman: 'Take General Moore and General Earle, both are respected.' Veiner: 'I will show tlie committee what a manipulator of ligures you are.' He read the correspondence be tween himself and Capt Tillman on the vexed question and Capt. Tiil ::>an's statement at Chester on .Mon- j day. There was a lively arid contin ued running lilt on (his matter be tween the two. Here is the sum ming up of it: ('apt. Tillman charged that Mr. ! Venier, in his statement of the dif- { fcrences between the fiscal years of IS7S-70 and ISSG $7, hail used the j Comptroller's report lor 18.^0* 7. and j the Treasurer's report for 1S7S y, and ' that he gave as a tiiflcreueo, after j taking off the funded interest of'! $192,000, only $27,000. Mr. Till-1 man claimed that this was done for partisan purposes. In the figures which Capt. Tillman gave the repor ter of the News and Courier, which were published yesterday, he claimed to prove that he had proven substan tially the correctness of his statement in the recent Democratic convention, btit when pressed by Mr. Vemer he admitted that he had culled out of the Ti'ips?rer's statement for 1878-79 the figures which he used to swell the difference to $237,000, they be ing included In the aggregate expen ditures for the year I878-79,as shown by the Treasurer's report. That is, he admitted doing just what he had charged the Comptroller General with doing. lie claimed he was right in doing it, however. Capt. Tillman and Mr. Verner al ternated in speaking on this subject and there was the liveliest interest among the audience aud much confu sion. The meeting was adjourned, but there were loud and continued calls for Attorney General Earle, who at last responded and addressed the meeting amid great applause. ATTORNEY GENERAL EARLE's ADDRE88. After a few words of exortation to maintain uriity and Democratic su premacy he referred to Capt. Till man's attack on the lawyers and made au eloquent" defence of them, showing their patriotism in 1860 1876, and in the election trials, lie mentioned the good work of General Conner, Fraser, Blanding, Youmans, Daigan, Lee and Haskell, and of But ler and Gary in Edgefield. lie ad mired Capt. Tillman'8 pluck and in dependence and agreed with him in many things, but his talk about law yers sounded like dernagogism. He (Earle) did not go to the South I Carolina College, but to Furman University,' yet he must declare that the College had turned out some of the grandest men that this State or any other had ever produced. The Citadel Academy had done a great good. There were bad men among lawyers as well as among men at other professions, but not more. He was himself raised a farmer, aud had quit that profession because he could make more money in another. Who wouldn't ? Yet he claimed only to be a lawyer.. He did not think Captain Tillraan intended to disrupt the party, but lie might unconsciously stimulate a feeling of revolt. The .people must keep their eyes on the matter and preserve the party. . Gen. Earle had now concluded, but in reply to questions from Capt. Till man said he was glad to have the opportunity to give his views as to higher education. He was in favor of the University aud the Citadel,and as he had said two years ago, of the agricultural college. Yes, he favor ed taking the agricultural funds from the University and giving them to the agricultural college. He favored technological schools. He had no idea that the Qlemson will would be broken. It was a very difficult thiug to break wills in South Carolina. 0 This talk about reducing taxation was demagogic. If legislators were untrue to the behests of the people let them be turned out and new men put in their places. Again, in answer to Capt. Tillman, he said he was willing to abolish the anuex so-called and give its funds to the agricnltural college. Capt. Tillman announced that the Hatch fund had been stolen from the farmers and that the agricultural board did uot represent them. Col. Earle dissented from Capt. Tillman's position in regard to the privilege tax fund. That should not go to the agricultural college. It belonged to the people. Tillman : "The agricultural board don't represeut the people." Earle : "Put them out then." Tillman : "But the Legislature is manipulated." Earle : "Then put out the members. Capt Tillman watnot the State. He mustn't expect everybudy to trail after his opinions." A KEBCKE TO TILLMAN*. After a lively passage beyond the, reaeh of reporting. Gen. Earle said : "I approve many things yon advo cate, but do not abuse people without cause. Do not charge a class with wrong doing and array class against class.' Tillman: 'I've said harder things against farmers than lawyers. I've called I hem fools and puppets.' Karle: 'You cannot point to a single South Carolina Representative in Democratic days who has stolen a dollar.' Tillman 'I don't know about that. There are some fishy things.' [Great confusion, the entire platform being : covered with excited men crowding about the couple. Cries of 'Put him up to testify.'J Earle : 'Come out openly and say it.' TILLMAN* REPEATS BIXCHAM's FALSEflOOI). Tillman, with hesitation and look ing awkward : 'A reputable man in Marion charges (and then he repeated Bigham's slander about Governor Thomson.) 1 don't endorse it, but 1 was in the Ilouse myself when Dean made that report Bigliam says he did. The News and Courier this morning has a reply mentioning a lot of things in the mansion, but that is uot con clusive to me. ' Vemer excitedly: "That schedule was copied from records in my office. There is not a scintilla of truth in tiiat accusation ; riot a scintilla.' Tillman, doggedly : 'Glad to hear some one deny it.' Karle : 'Then th? thin-- that looks lishy has disappeared. With all re spect t<>r Governor Thompson, if a ; man will make an allldavit against ! * him I will have him fTougni to S.mth ; Carolina and tried But don't let us j have these accusations.' A SEVERE CROSS EXAMINATION*. Tillman: "It's not my charge, not my business," Knie: "Not your business when a j Governor of the ?State is accused of theft?" Tillman: "I would be ashamed to make the charge?." Earle: "Ashamed to aecuse Gover- I nor Thompson and not ashamed to ! accuse the Legisltire of stealing agri cultural funds?" Tiliman: "Am I under cross-exam ination?V Earle: "I ask you specify and prove?" Tillman: "I'am satisfied about Governor Thompson, but the people are not." Mr II, R. Thomas, Tillman's lieu tenant, interrupted with some sneer at Gen Earle's showing off his ability a lawyer. Earle: "I am fishing for trout, not for minnows. While I respect Capt; Tillman, I think he has got one the poorest lieutenants I ever saw/7 The meethig ended amid great con fusion. The excitement ever since Mr. Ve rner's departure had been intense. J Calls were made for Col Dargan, but ; he had left. Capt Tillman left imme diately after dinner to spend the night with a friend in the country. Governor Richardson was "sere naded by the band and received visit? from many friends during the evening. The prevalent opinion here is that Capt. Tillman came out at the small end of the Terner and Earle discus sion, but the public can judge. This report is as accurate as the rapid talking and confusion would al low. Capt. Tillman said that he had never attended stich ame?tmg except : in '76. You ?ec heretofore he has had the last word. lie did not to day. >JIe left' the stand before Col. Earle had concluded. N. G. G. From Sumter to Tesas. Moody, Texas, July 1(5, 1888. Mr. Editor: According to promise I will give you an account of my journey to this place and my impressions of this part of Texas: Go Wednesday morn ing, July 4th, about 5 o'clock, I left Sumter for this point. Augusta was reached about 11 o'clock a. m.. and here we bad about one hour to wait for the Atlanta bound train. For beauty this city, cannot be surpassed, and with its broad and shaded streets it looks like apark. From this city to the "New York of tbe Stnnb," Atlanta, tbe country is very poor, and nothing of in terest is to be seen until Stone Moun tain, which is a short distance from At lanta, is reached. This mass of granite rock towers six or seven hundred ?e?t above the surrounding country, and is said to be 1,700 feet above sea level. At lanta was reached about sunset, and after having liJet Mr. Fred. D; Bush, District Passenger Agent, to whom I had a letter of introduction from oar friend 'Capt.--' Brand, he advised that I tako the Southern route via. Mont gomery, Mobile, New Orleans and Houston, as being . the quickest . of three, although some further. After: purchasing a through limited ticket I decided to stop over at Mobile to see my old friend Mr. Wm. C. Dukes, if possible?and upon stating tbe fact to ' Mr. Bush, be, with unsurpassed cour tesy, fixed up a document with which I would have been graoted a "stopover" for twelve hours. On arriving at Mobile I was met by my friend at the depot, having wired him, but I found a brother and sister of bis quite ihV.BO I decided best to put op with a fifteen minutes chat with bim and journey on ward. For tbe information of bis friends I will say that William. looks quite as young as when be left Sumter eight years ago, and the rapid inquiries be made about maoy of them is evi dence that he has not forgotten them. / But I find I am at Mobile before I have left Atlanta. Here I had to wait for over six hours, and I put in some of it strolling about the city by electric and gas light. To one who never saw other than a few of our Southern cities, Atlanta, with its six and seven story buildings, is a novelty. Leaving this city at 12 a. m. nothing could be seen .of Western Georgia. Across Southern Ala bama, where properly worked, crops seemed two or three weeks ahead of South Carolina crops, and good. At Montgomery I took the Louisville . and Nashville road with uo more change of cars Until New Orleans is reached, about sunset oa Thursday, the second day of my journey. Mobile was reach ed about 2 p. m. on Thursday, and as I have already writtcu up that place above, I have simply to state here that I was much disappointed in that city, or what I could sec of it from the rail road. At New Orleans we were put across the great Mississippi on a transfer boat, part of the train being pat on too. And, landing, we boarded the Southern Pacific road with a straight dash for Rosenberg Juuctioo, Texas. It now being dark ( arranged for a nap, and when I awoke we had crossed the Sa bine and were on Texas suil, at Orange. At this point begins the interesting p*it of my journey, for on looking out much , water could be seen on the ground, and j it was at this place that the mail agent i oo oar train was it.formed by the same | o?cial cu the East bound train that we | would picnic between that place and i Beaumont, a distaee of 20 miles As we rolled along, soon we began to hear , an uausu'.il .sound, and advancing to ihe car door to our surprise we saw the | track L-uvered w*;? wa??r, and as we ad vanced it Lveu-two det por, and our ' j train came to a b~lt. Then came the j other than cheeriog news that the water j, had entered the lire box and that we j would go uo further. This, however, j proved false. Our engineer soon j , pulled on again at a suail's pace until \ , we reached Terry, al ?':40 a in., Fit- ; day, but not until he had pulled his I, train through water eighteen iuehea or i two feet above the rails. Meanwhile! the rain, which begun at ha?i-rai-t four j ihe m'riling before, was coming down ! as raia was neve;' >ccn to come before ( by and called vy those in thai see- 1 tiou a "cloud burt>c. " This .state of af- ! ] fairs continued until about l<* oclock, ; { when the ' section boss," with his hands | :ud our baggage master, put a hand i | car on the traok and uudcrtook the pas- j sage to Beaumont, nine miles off. to | , rc}0tt to headquarters, taking with m them a!??o uiauy dispatches from passen-i rs to friends and relatives. While ': waiting for the return of our pilot I | will relate how we fared at Terry, j ; Terry, always to he remembered, is '. simply-a turnout with one couutry ?store and one or two house*; and one scant ~ ineal was about all tbat store could af-* ford, tbat consisting of old crackers aod a few cans of pears. Bat it was re markable bow aft seemed to accept tbe situation, and what interchange* of lunch, cigars, aod io some cases.some* thing stronger, took place. It most be remembered that we were now .on the plains of Texas, and for miles not h trig but one vast body of water could be. seen, with now and then a few- scrubby trees standing, and large herds of cat-.< tie mo?ing lazily about with water up to their sides. A few bogs and rabbits - could also be seen swimming about look ing for some place on which to rest. It is now three o'clock 2nd oar little. party of explorers have returned aod? report the road impassable, and with no instructions from'railroad authorities, as to what to do, so ws quietly made up. oar minds to have to spend the night billing musquitoes, or to be nearly sap-:, ped of all our blood by ibetn. Amid all this hard luck, however, we beard? that the "section boss's" wife bad baked, twelve large loaves of bread the day befora, -and could furnish us $npper,and ; and about 5? o'clock out train backed., down to her. Welcome board. This over about sunset, a headlight could be . seen in the distance moving slowly to-; wards us, and tbe glad news that an . engioc from Beaumont was coming to try the track and see if we could not possibly make that point. Go its ar-.; rival the Assistant Superintendent of, the road instructed the conductor , to make ready to undertake tbe passage, > aad by dark we were moving it tbe * rate of about two miles per hour, until the worst of tbe road was passed over..: E?en at this hour some of tbe track was covered in places,and the water was , steadily rolling over tbe plain to tbe gulf. Before passing on will tell how {he boys on the baud-car got along* .. Leaving us about 10 o'clock (tbe hands) waded and pushed tbe car along; re-< moving cross-ties and.other old.timber, tbat was floating on th? road, thus making Beaumont in about three hours, j and passing through water tbat entirely . covered the car and deep enough to wet a tall man standing on it above boot tops. ..->; *... : Beaumont being reached, the road on : to*?louston was ia good condition, and we moved rapidly along until that-city ? was reached. At this place the ring, ofj tbe hammer against the car wheels told of their inspection,; and after a short. delay we moved on to Rosenberg Jone- - tioo, an unimportant place as to popula tion. It now being 4 o'clock a. uw> Saturday, and having - to wait until 9 o'clock I procured a bed;, and after foot > solid hours' sleep I was. called for a breakfast tbat would tempt the. appetite of a god. This - was at E. Bell's jwtel?i and I would advise all parties coming out here to go and do as I did. % At 9 o'clock I boarded the Gui ^Col orado and Santa Fe train, passing over a prairie tbat is said to be tbirty-iive > miles across, and without any timber as-. is usually found in this part cf Texas,* on rivers, and creeks. Thousands of cattle could be seen, and the Texas cow boy with his jaded pony occupied a-, place in the picture,. Tbe traditional Texas steer,- with his gigaotio horns, was seen io bis glory, and for tbe bcoe?'-: f?t of those, who never saw one t will, say that any I saw could easily pass through a "twelve foot gate. - From Rosenberg we travel North ward .and pass ever country similar to that as seen many places ia Sooth Car olina, bot as we get higher up we strike black lands, and a beautiful, undulating. country, upon which Providence has. smiled this year as regards the grain , crop. Cotton is small and not near up to .my expectations, but it is said thai, this is. doe to late planting caused by a wet spring. : *: About 4 o'clock Saturday afternooot I arrived at Moody, where I was met and welcomed by myoid friend Pickeos:. P. Yaoghan, who runs a lumber yard and a furniture and undertaking easi ness, and with whom I bave a situation. I have already consumed too much of - your space, aud will, therefore, defero my impression of this country in detail uutil some future time. ^ Tku WatchSats and Soctiirojt : reaches me 00 Sunday afternoon and is always a welcome visitor. Yours truly, \Ym N. Ratkisxa. mwr>~ III? The Main Stem of the Three C'g. Messrs. A. II.. E>kridge & Co. com- . pletcd their grading contract last Moo day, thus finishing all the grading between Kock [I2H and Yorkvilic. Messrs. J. T. Rboddey & Co. haviog practically finished their contract be tween Hock IIill cud the river. They, have yet several days work to do int.. making the roadbed - s moot ho and will then be rcadv for the traiu. Messrs. VTbitner J*rcs. h-ve about'. en days more cf v/crk to do on their contract just without the Eastern su-., burbs of town. Messrs. S>kridjre & Co's force will help them out. When' this worli :s dene the grading will then have been completed between tho Catawba Hiver and Yorkvilic. Between Yorkvilic and Black's tho ?radin?: is nearly all completed. Tbc bed will be ready for the iron by the time the track livens reach .here. .Owing to the failure to arrive of the tools to put the sheet iron cover on the rive: bridge, that structure was not so . completed as to permit the train to pa^s over to the Yorkv?le bauk last. Monday as was expected. The work is now progressing finely, however,-, aud it is giveu out that the bridge will be crossed to-day (Thursday) without joubt. If so, track laying will be pushed vigorously to trestle No. 13, two and a half miles disaut, That point will bo reached Saturday night A. . week or ton da>s will be consumed iu : erceiiug the trestle there. When this? work shall have been doue the : track., layer - will have no other obstuc?os -and^. 3au push their work to Black's wiiheui. hindrance. The traiu will perhaps . run into Bock Hill between the 5th and" , 10th of Auguet, into York-rill three, weeks later and t each Blank's between:. the middle and last ot September ? Kock HUI Herald. -?-<>->- - BW ?- , . $00,1*00, the highest price ever paid ici a horse, was bid at Lexington, <>n the 31st. for Bell &?y, ? tw??-vtax Uvl trotter j time 2 -q\