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SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all tue Ends thou Aims't at, bo thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's " THE TR?B SOUTH RON, Established June, 186?' Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1 SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUOTST 22, 1888. New Series-Vol. VIII. No. ? He tSatt^maB v? Saat Jim Publish.^ ?Tory Wednesday, BY N. Gr. OSTEEN, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS: Two Dollars per an nam-ip advance. . 1DT?RT18SMKHT8. One Square, firs: insertion.$1 00 Every subs?quent insertion. 50 Contracts for three montfes, or longer will be made at reduced rates. AH communications which subserve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect ?will be charged for. Absolutely Pure. . This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More ?ccaomica? than the ordinary kinds, and can ?ot be sold in coe?petition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or'phosphate Swders, Sold only in cans. ROYAL BAK G POWDER CO., 106 WaH-st., N. T._ ELY'S Creak B Cleanses the Nasal Passages Allays Pain ase1 INFLAMMATION CATARRH Restores toe SBNSES?FTASTr and Smell. _ m CAT AB SH ' is a disease'of the mucous membrane, gener? ally originating io the nasal passages and maintaining its stronghold in tne head. From this^_poiut it sends 'forth a poisonous virus ?to the stomach and through the digestive organs, corrupting the blood and producing <rther troublesome and dangerous symptoms. A particle ts applied into each nostril and is agreeable.. Price 50 cents at Druggists ; by mail, registered, 60 cents. ELY BROS., 56 Warren Street, Kew York. The largest end mast complets estaUishment South m. S. HACKER & SON, Manufacturers of Bil A3tD 3UILDITO HATSBIAL, OFKICE ASO WA Si SC SO OM S. ? King, opposite Cannan Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. Angip o ll 0. BROWN I BRO. COLUMBIA, S. C. SASH h BLINDS, LATHS, LIME, " CEMENT, PLASTER. AND HAIR. FiBHGi ana Amgricas ?inuQ? Glass, PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES. CARTER WHITE LEAD, The Best io the Market. Special Attention Given to Orders ! hy Mail. 0. O. BROWN & BRO., j Opposite Post Office, COLUMBIA, S. C. Oct 5-o BLANKS LIENS, TITLES, MORTGAGES, BILLS OF SALE, j BONDS, j Ait? Other Blanks in Variety, j 7 0 R 8 A L s AT THIS OFFICE. FOR SALE. . AD?S1RABLE SUBURBAN RESIDENCE ! AND FARM; within one-qnarter of a ! ?ile ol the (Jity of Sumter. Comprises 55 j .cres, 'vith good fruit orchard, and stock of i Hogs. O-ows, Ac. will be included if desired. ; The residence bas six rooms, tvith kitchen and ! pantry, and the premises are all in good con- j dition, sud supplied with, barn stable ear- ? riage souse, ?c. For further, iuformatioo Spply ?t the Watchman and SonthronO?ce. . I llid Hflrgllatthe Newspaper Adver I J ?ll? jJB gg aaln* A ^rv7 of Hms jL ?Y. AYf H A ?Of*, our authorised a?eou IN EXILE. I would I were the happy wind, That still is free to follow His heart about the world to find The summer and the swallow. Out to the pleasant north he goes, Where I fain would be going, Through lands where violet and rose About the path are blowing. Still northward, northward o'er the seas, With flowers ?nd sunny weather, Till he can bear the murmurous bees Among the purple heather ; Till he can hear the ripple play About the nodding sedges And breathe the fragrance of the May Upon a hundred hedges. Wind of the South, if it were mine With thee to go a Maying, In lands of olive and of vine, No more I'd be delaying, But from my weary exile freed, Through sunlit ways or shady, . I'd follow where my heart would lead Until I found my lady. Ah, happy wind, fly forth to-day, Fly past the flying shirs, And in the pleasant northland lay My kiss upon ber lips; Then shape the music of the birds That sweetly sing above ber, Into an ecbo~of my words To tell her how I love her. -D. ?71 Robertson. THE COTTON TAX. Address by Br. J. II. Fnrman, ddiv ed at Spartanhurg on Tuesday Au? gust 7, and at Sumter on Thursday 'August lQih. Gentlemen-You who have called me out, have you a purpose io so doing ? Perhaps so ; I koow Dot, but m answer? ing to your call, I know I hare a pur? pose and to me it is a grand one. My friends, many years ago, so long that some of you, at least the younger ones may have forgotten it, we had a great war on this mighty continent of ours. Some said between those who should have been brothers. Ah ! broth? ers ? And the gallant boys of this our own beloved Southland were dfcrerwhelm? ed, not conquered Not by courage, nor by manhood, but by the prestige of a mighty government, by money and by foreign mercenaries ; then what follow? ed ? We being overwhelmed the design of our brothers (?) was to keep us under, and they planned keeoly and from their stand point wisely, but they perpetrated a great wrong apon as, and the constitution of the nation ! for their Congress passed a so-called law, impos ing an iniquitous so-called tax upon all our Southern cotton, which was our sup? port and our very life's blood at the very time that we most needed it, which was sold during three years, much of which was made possibly by the labor even of previous years, '66, '67 and '68, 3 cents, 2 cents and 1\ cents The amount go? ing into the Treasury being one thing and that collected being ahotner> The estimates of the one, being about sixty millions, those of the other running up from one to somewhere in the vicinity of two huudred millions of dollars Only think, for a moment, of the immensity ; of the amount, and then remember that it was forced from one agricultural pro-1 duct, in three years-the cotton of the South, and by unjust, iniquitous- and u neons ti cation al taxation. Gentlemen, was not this enoughvto Wast the agri cultural prosperity of t!?e~Srju!h ? Ay ? and more than that, for by bringing poverty upon the young men in its train came the lien-law, and demoralization, for my friends, do you know any one thing that will demoralize a young man more surely than a just debt, which he cannot pay. He starts out, bold and confident. He marries a beautiful, but delicate women, then comes sickness and perhaps a little baby, then mer? chants' and doctors7 bills, and many other things, which call fur money, then comes debt, he goes to the Lien, the lying Lien, and that piles it on, still heavier; but he says, 'Sir ! I -ire an honest man V 'only give me time and I will surely pay you. He gets it, but j the next year brings drought and he j falls more hopelessly behind until at last, he is discouraged and dishearten? ed and losing ail hope, says iu his des? peration, 'Well I don't care, for I can't do it,'-takes to the bottle and dies in j the ditch, and all this because the cot ton tax took so much of his little patri- ' mony from him, that he had not enough ! left to carry him through. Ab I gen- j tlemen what a picture, but it is, alas, too j true. But you say what are we to do? j I say as it was unrigteously taken, so let it justly be returned. You have to see to it-that your rep- j resen?atives do their duty, their whole duty, and nothing but their duty, aud ! if they will not, then put better men in j their places, for we have their, they may be found, then be up and doing. ; I cannot explain it all to you now-the j how, the wherefore and the why-my letters of the past and to come, will do ! so; then carefully read them, make up your minds, and act like men. And gentlemen, rest aseured that until this' thing is accomplished the bloody chasm j will not be fully bridged over, the great Northern and Southern hearts, cannot beat in unison, for we cannot love those who trample upon our rights, nor respect those wc trample upon, j But to make us a mighty band of j brothers ! let them do us justice, then ! may we love them, but not until then ! And gentlemen though 8 out of 10 of those to wbom this money is rightfully due, may be reached through the states by whose hands alone it should be con? veyed to them, still there must be a considerable surplus left, as wberc par? ties have died, leaving no heirs, ic, which money can be appropriated to gra?d and laudable purposes, such for { instance, as the establishment of well i appointed Agricultural institutions, j end thus would there be more accom- ! plished in one year, than by the carry- ! ing out of all the miserable little expe- I dients of Mr. Tillman, and his satel- I lites in on . hundred years, for he has simply made a very common mistake i which is ofttimes made by'commoti lit- | tie hunting dogs, in barking up the wrong tree ! And yet it is not so much the barking up the wrong tree, that is objected to in Mr. Tillman, but the ; ring (for that there is a ring, I have j not the least doubt, having both seen ' and felt it, and it is indeed a sorry, sel- j fish and mische vions ring;) but itfis the j troth he sometimes tells which goes ; home and pinches. Ah ! gentlemen, as was our beloved eountry almost ! broken down and ruined by these atro- j cities, so will she bloom forth, and j Boorish-as til rose bc sweet and com-1 ----I- -_;_ ley to look upon-then will, peace ac amity, concord and agreement reign si preme, when justice and right-dealic stand side by side. Ah ! gentlemen ! could I but live see these desires of my heart accon plished, indeed would I die happy. The would I see our dear old states, gathe ing their robes aboat them, and bavio placed back upon their fair brows t their gallant sons, the sons of agrien curists much of the inalienable crow State sovereignty, and standing fort upon the bill tops of" deliverance, gb rious personifications of liberty. - - ? > - - Kobbery by Law. Some Fact? For the Consideratio of Workingmen. If a young man buys a suit of cloth? for $23 the amount of protection b pays for is $9. The clothes withot protection would cost ?14. If be buys a $1 hat he gets 40 cent worth of hat and 60 cents' worth < protection. If a young couple just beginnin housekeeping buy a yard of Br?ssel carpet for $1 they receive 45 cents i carpet and 55 cents in protection-o say for a whole room, ?12 worti of carpet and $18 worth of protec tion. With free wool $18 would b saved. If the young woman pays $9 for shawl she gets $6 worth of 6hawl only the other ?3 she presents to the man ufacturer to 'protect' bim. If ehe buys a dress for ?18 she get ?12 worth of dress and $6 worth o protection. If, however, she wants a pair o shoes which formerly cost ?4.50 ti ?5.50 she bas only to pay ?2 50 o j ?3 50, according to quality, because some of the 'protection' has been taket of hides from which the leather in th? shoe is made. If she pays 50 cents for an iron po or pan she gets 30 cents in goods an( 20 cents' worth of protection. if she buys a clock for ?3 she re? ceives ?2 worth of clock and ?1 wort! of protection. If she wants a sewing machine anc pays, .say ?20 for it, she gets $11 worth of sewing machine and ?9 wortL of protection. If she pays ?16 for a watch, ?1$ represents the timepiece ; the other $-1 go to 'protect' somebody. If she buys a lamp for $1 there is oz cents in lamp and 45 cents to 'keep thc pot boiling' for some 'protected' indi vidual. If she has to buy a range or stove foi $25 she gets $17 in goods and ?8 worth of protection. If she buys a dozen steel knives and forks for $3 50 she gets about ?2 in knives and $1.50 in protection. If she buys a dozen glass tumblers for ?1, she receives in glass 55 cents and 45 cents io tariff. If a young farmer buys ?100 worth of implements to start out io farming, ne jets ?55 in machines and ?45 in tariff wind pudding. With the Mills bill passed he could get a horse and harness, as well as bis implements, for his $100. If a farmer purchases a barrel of salt for ?1. be gets 64 cents in salt and pays 36 cents in protection to compa? nies in Syracuse, Warsaw and Sagi naw. Look where you will, follow the whole tariff list now in force down, article by article, and you will 6nd the band of the public robber reaching for your pocket, to steal from every man, woman and child in the country, Since each j must consume something, so each must be robbed. The essence of high protection, as a ? recenf writer said, is the placing of ob I stacles in the way of trade. People are ; expected to build ships, to promote im I portations. invent machinery to increase ; and cheapen production ; then the tariff ?'steps in to prevent the one and defeat the other. The inventive genius of the nation is called upon for scientific ap? pliances to annihilate time, distance and other natural obstacles to commerce, and forthwith every protection obstacle that can be devised is brought to bear to prevent the country from receiving any benefit whatever from its skill and labor. Nobody can deny that since 1883 especially this has been the policy of Mr. Blaine and Mr. Blaine's igno rant followers, who must be educated. And just DOW his G. O. P. declares that the maintenance of such a policy will be thc salvation of the country. Yet three of its greatest men-great? est in courage, intelligence and honesty - Grant,Garfield and Arthur-time and time again called attention to the dan? ger and folly of encouraging progress and prosperity in the mechanical world, and then deliberately, by statute pass? ing all the benefits over to other Dations. Thev believed., too, in educating the generations up to that line of 'protec? tion' which was the greatest good for the greatest number. General Grant urged the purchase of San Pomiogo, because he saw the ad? vantage of uninterrupted trade with that island. President Garfield wanted Cuba fer a similar reason. President Arthur implored Republi? cans in Congress to reduce the barbarous tariff taxation and pass a n?easurc to re? lieve working people engaged in woolleD, iron and other 'protected' industries. But the Anglo-American 'rings' con trolliog iron and steel, and tho Anglo Franco-Ameriean rings controlling the manufacture and importations of fioe worsted goods and cassimeres, said : Oh, no. If you reduce tho tariff the poor laborer w ill fall to thc lowest depths of pauperism.' By fraudulent representations and barefaced lying the tariff iniquity of 1 883 was made to impoverish the mashes 50 that a few might be enriched. And I cr the frau?s and falsifiers who went to ; Washington and bulldozed Congress when that measure was passed are the same 'disinterested gentlemen' who now shout : 'For God's sake, don't give thc workingman cheap food, cheap rent, cheap clothing and better wages ; give bim cheap whisky, something to de? grade him and keep him from think- i ing toe much, and a 'free chaw' of to? bacco.' The highest wages which the 140,- ! 978 laborers, skilled and unskilled, | got for their work in the iron mills ; during thia year was ?1 15 per day on | an average, worked out by such clear? headed meo as Mr. Abram S. Hewitt, now Mayor of New York, and Mr. Swank, of the Iron and Steel Associa? tion. Note this is the 'average' for those earning the higher pay. The ordinary unskilled laborer, the rank and file, received no more than 80 to 85 cents a day. Certainly a grand showing for labor in so highly protect? ed an industry ! On the one band pro life millions, on the other band honest poverty, the red-shirted laborer working six full days or six full nights-for, bear in mind, those big iron works run day and night, iuoluding Sundays-for the munificent sum of ?115 at most on which to maintain themselves and families. And, of course, they were expected to return thanks for the 'ben? efits of protection' and vote on election day to keep the G O. P. io power. A New Ticket Complete. What "a Country Farmer" Propo? ses for South Carolina in a Geor? gia Newspaper. From ike Auguste Chronicle. ORANGEB?RG, Aug. ll, 1888. Dear Chronicle : We Carolinians know that you have no connection with any rings. Therefore we appeal to you. The State is ripe for a new deal and clean sweep. Our home papers are afraid to move for fear of offending the State offi? cials. Will you please allow space in your columns for the suggestion of a j ticket to be nominated by the approach- j ing State Convention ? It represents all ages and all classes. It combines the wisdom and experience of age with the ardor of youth. It is a representative ticket, and one that would be popular everywhere. Here it is : For Governor-Johnson Hagood, of Barnwell. For Lieutenant Governor-Knox Livingston, of Marlboro. For Secretary of State-R. W. Simp? son, of Anderson. For Treasurer-Joseph Walker, of Spartan burg. For Comptroller General-W. H. Delgar, of Sumter. For Attorney General-Y. J. Pope, of Newberry. For Superintendent of JCducation J. L. Weber, of Charleston. For Adjutant and Inspector General -G. W. Brown, of Darlington. THE CHRONICLE'S COMMENTS. A correspondent, who signs himself 'Country Farmer,' nominates a full tickeT'for Governor, Lieutenant Gov? ernor and the State House officers of South Carolina. Governor Richardson makes an excellent chief magistrate The opposition to him will end in harm? less talk. He will receive, as he de? serves, a renomination for Governor from the State Convention. It is safe to predict that Governor John Peter Richardson will succeed himself as Gov? ernor of South Carolina. Calhoun's Lecture to Thur? man. During the recent visit of a Rome committee to Mr. Thurman the con? versation naturally turned upon the greatest of Southern statesmen, John C. Calhoun. Mr. Thurman was ask? ed if he had known Mr. Calhoun in public life. The reply was interest? ing. -Yes,' said Mr. Thurman, *I knew Mr. Calhoun in the closing years of his political life, which were the opening years of my own. I was quite young when I first entered Con? gress, and my uncle, then a United States Senator from Virginia, took me the first thing to see the great South Carolina statesman. Mr. Cal? houn received us kindly, and, from the first, devoted his attention*to me -a young man-to a certain extent ignoring his colleague, my uncle.' 'I believe, Mr Thurman,' said he, 'that this is your first term in Congress, and from your youthful appearance I should say you bad not long been out Cf college.' Mr. Thurman admitted both propositions 'Well, sir, while you were in college I hope you stud? ied the history of Greek Republics I Did you V Mr. Thurman gave him some enumeration of his studies, in which general history was included. .But 6ir, as a public man, looking for? ward to public life, you should have studied the history of the Greek Re? publics.' " -And then,1' said Judge Thurman, 'for a full hour he turned his attention to me, and I'll guaran? tee that lhere never fell from mortal lips such a lecture as the venerable and distinguished statesman deliver? ed to mc, an audience of one, upon the subject of the Greek Republics. It was a profound volume upon gov? ernment.' Judge Thurman further said that no living man was ever more luminous in argument and more im? pressive in his sincerity than Mr. Calhoun. The republic never pro? duced a greater intellect.-Rome (Ga.) Tribune. - - -?BW?II - Take Your Choice. The following is a complete list of the candidates who have beon nominated for the national election ia November next : D?mocratie-Presiden t., G rover Cleve? land, of New York ; vice-President, Alien (jr. Thurman, of Ohio. Republican--I* resilient. Benjamin Ilnrrison. of Indiana; Vice-president, Levi P. Morton, of New York. Prohibition-President. Clinton B Fisk, of New Jersey ; Vice President, John A. Brooks, of Missouri Union Labor-President, A ?7. Streeter, of Illinois; Vice-president, Charles E Cunningham, of Arkansas. United Labor-President, Robert II. Crowdrcy, of Illinois : Vice-president, W. II. T. Wakefield, of Kansas. I r.-.I list rial Reform- President. Albert Iv Redstone, of California; Vice-Presi? dent, John Colvin, of Kansas ivjual Rights-President, Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, of Washington ; Vice president, Alfred li. Love, of Penn? sylvania. Besides these, there is an American party, mostly io California, that threat? ens to put a ticket in thc field. mm -??. -i A newspaper published in Florence, i Italy, says that 'during President j Blaine's Kuropean visit Congressman ? Cleveland has been in charge of the White House. Our State Contemporaries. Bring Out the Bushwhacker. Barnwell People. Lightning has killed a good roany men this sommer, bot there is a fellow over in Orangeburg county who hasn't received bis share yet. The Augusta Chronicle should give his name to the public so that his chances for gettiog his dues may be improved. Sunday's issue of that paper has a letter which, over the signature of 'Country Farmer,' makes the following extraordinary statements : 'The State is ripe for a new deal and clean sweep Our home papers are afraid to move for fear of offending the State officials,' and goes on to nominate a new full State ticket of thoroughbred Democrats. ID justice and courtesy to the press and people of South Carolina the Chron? icle should give the name of its corres? pondent. There is hardly a newspaper in the State that would have refused to publish 'Country Farmer's' ticket, although every one of them knows that his pictures of affairs were incorrect in every particular. The only correspon? dents not recognized by Democratic papers on this side of the Savannah are those who once belonged to the Repub? lican party and who are still ready and auxious to stir up political trouble. Is 'Country Farmer,' as he calla himself, in that category ? No New County Representative Wanted. Darlingtor. News.' If the people of Darlington County place the seal of their approval upon the new County question by sending to the Legislature a man who favors that measure, they will find to their sorrow in the fall that it will be a difficult mat? ter to persuade the General Assembly that the majority of the voters in this County are not- in favor of the County of Florence.' We therefore appeal to the people of the County by all#tbe love they have for it, and by all the pride they may feel in hearing it justly desig? nated as 'the best County in the State,' not to send a representative to Colum? bia who will vote for its dismemberment. The 'new County movement' is far from dead, and we will by no means, have heard the last of it unless this advice is heeded. The lower part of the Coun? ty is entitled to a representative, but he should not be one who will legislate for the interests of that 'lower part,' in opposition to those of the County at large. Democrats of Darlington, re? member this ! Stamp out the 'new County movement' forever, while you have the opportunity ! I Tillman's Speech in Charleston. Charleston Sun. Charlestonians do not often hear the plain, unvarnished truth spoken with such directness and power as they beard it from the lips of Capt. Tillman last night. The Captain was not so eloquent as his facts, and be scattered broadcast last night seed which will, bear fruit in the opinions and in the conduct of his listeners. Perhaps the first impression received by the mind of a spectator and listener last night was that his opponents have a wholesome fear of Tillman. They dread his fearless tongue, which burns like a flame, and his inexorable facts and their remorseless logic. They at? tempt to meet his figures comparing the economic administration of Hampton in 1879 with the administration in 1887, by comparing present expenses with the extravagances of the radical despotism, as if the spoliation of the State by the robber party could be justly compared with an honest Democratic administra? tion. To his charges of 'incipient rot? tenness' and 'flunkeyism' they reply by calling the bead-roll of Carolina's dis? tinguished men, and asking if such men can be accused of being corrupt, that such honored men should not be called 'aristocrats/ and that Tillman's effort to* arouse the people of the State to a watchful guard over their best interests is a perilous enterprise and may raise a whirlwind which he may be powerless to control. Rut they do not answer the charges or explain away the testimony of the figures he arrays agaiost them. We fear that we cannot expect a free and unprejudiced expression of the will of the people so long as political candi? dates appeal, for thc suffrages of the voters, to the records of the civil war, to ante-beliam traditions, and to the rescue of thc State in 1876; instead of standing firmly upon the questions of the day and their own fitness for office. Our candidates do not express their opinions upon living issues. Thc rec? ords made in civil strife and participa? tion in the restoration of 1876, are still the dominant issue in South Carolina politics. It has been carried to such an extent that Hampton's mantle is borrowed to cover the bare record of smaller men. Against this, amoDg other objection? able features in our political method?, Tillman has taken i.ssuc. As other j thoughtful men, he wants war records, ante-bellum tiaditions and 1876 put a little in the rear, so as not to dazzle thc eyes of the people in selecting fit and able men to administer public affairs. Of Tillman himself, thc man's fear? lessness in facing men and issues first strikes one; then his familiarity with the matters under his relentless analy? sis. The man has been belied and ma- ! ligned until he is, in tho popular con? ception, a wild terrorist and reckless agitator. His calm speech last night, had none of the disagreeable feat tires ascribed to his utterances hy the News and Courier, bin villifier The man has been frightfully and wilfully misrepre? sented. There wa.i no doubt, of that, after thc first few sentences had fallen calmly from his lips. Thc audience showed an appreciation of and a sympa'hv with Tillman which was due to his deliberate and couta geous manner, winch it exhibited to no other speaker. They wanted to hear j some plain truths, and they knew that they would hear them from Tillman. A Wonderful Man. Orangeburg Times rind Democrat. In some respects Capt. R. R. Till? man must be a most wonderful man. | If we believe what lias been published j about him in the Neics and Courier [ and some other papers we can arrive [ at no other conclusion. According to . these accouuts, Tillman has repeatedly ! from the platform misrepresented things terribly, which misrepresentations have been replied to by such men as Gover? nor! Richardson, Attorney-General Earle, Lieutenant-Governer Mautdin, Comptroller General Verner, and other eminent gentlemen, besides editorial broadside after editorial broadside from the News and Courier^ in refutation of these vile slanders, as our Charleston cotemporary calls them, has been hurl? ed into the teeth of the Edgefield re? former. Yet, strange to say, the re? doubtable Tillman went on capturing nearly every crowd he spoke to, not? withstanding the fact that all the power of elequence the above named gentle? men could .command, as well as the great ability of the editors of the News and Goutier, was used to crush him out and prove false his assertions. Tillman even went to Charleston, and so impressed those who heard him there that he came away the victor. Now, we don't believe that Tillman .or any other mao could so sway the honest yeomanry and business men of the State uuless there was some truth in what be tells them, and we think it would be wise on?the partjof oar politi? cal leaders to calmly and dispassionate? ly investigate and remedy the evils complained of, if they really exist, rath? er chan to dismiss them with the remark tba; they are only the idle vaporings of a demagogical mind. A Missionary Field. Abbeville Medium. Some of the citizens of Charleston propose to formally invite Ben Till? man to visit that city again 'and show the Democracy how to correct Demo? cratic abuses and purify the Democratic party.' The Neics and Courier eau lions thc people against signing the invitation 'inasmuch as the so called request is full of untrue and exagge? rated statements.' Our contemporary seems to have a prejudice against the Tillman family. Judging from its ac? count of the Charleston meeting one would suppose that it was a failure as to Tillman. This movement puts the matter in soother light. If Gov. Rich? ardson's speech, Capt. Dawson's pre? sence, two earthquake panics and 'John Sam's' railroad speech could'nt 'down a plain farmer from Edgefield who quit school when he was sixteen years old his cause must be a very, good one and full of positive strength. Charleston is good missionary ground. If any one there is unconscious of the existence of a riog in that place he must be blind indeed. There are all the signs of a big ring which dominates the city and has estranged many sections of the State from the metropolis. In her 40,000 inhabitants there must be some fair-minded people who know that Charleston has an unconstitutional number of representatives. Knowing this they most oppose it. If there is such a sentiment it has never been rep? resented injhe halls of legislation. Charleston needs ? reduction cf faxes if any place in the State does. A great reform can be made in this respect with? out injuring the city. Io fact it would be to her advantage in many ways. The people in this section love Charleston and they wish to tear down the Chinese Wall which bas been built around her and renew the business re? lations which were once so cordial and so profitable io both sections. Almost any plan of the farmers' movement would be of advantage to Charleston. She needs new life, new ideas, new purposes. If Ben Tillman cannot do it all ^by himself there are others in the State who would join in the labor of love, duty and patriotism. The Question of the Farmer. Abbeville Medium". The 'Wallace House' left a model Democratic State government. It fixed the expenses at the lowest possible sum to be efficient. For 1878-79 the total appropriations amounted to $048,126 in round numbers. This was enough to pay all the ordinary expenses and the interest on the public debt as it now stands and leave about ?30,000 in the State Treasury. The appropriations by the last Legis? lature in round numbers was about ?949,000. The difference in the two years is about $356,000. Still some persons cannot see how expenses can be reduced. There are many ways if one cares enough about the matter to look into it It is this wonderful increase that thc farmers wish explained. Away With the Dude Factory and Clemson's Scheme to Make Room for a Girl College. Lancaster Ledger. It was our intention to express the views of the Ledger upon the Clemson bequest iu this issue, but for want of time, wc defer to a future day. And besides, it appears that all our candi? dates fer legislative honors 'have swal? lowed tho whole hog from snout to taiT as if it was ground into sausage meat, without in our judgment giviug any good reasons therefor Colleges can't be run without money. Where is the money to come from sufficient to make the 'so-styled" Agricultural College a fixed institution. Not from what is kDOwn as the Hatch fund, which is only ?15,000 a year. Not fron? pro? ceeds arising from (he Clemson bequest, for it will take ail that, and ?nore, to erect the buildings, establish the library, &c., but from thc pockets of the farm? ers, and others, thc iaxapnyers. uill the \ money br forced by tho necessary leg? islation. 'Watch Tom1 was once thc j campaign cry in Lancaster. Farmers, J .Watch old man Clemson's bequest,' ! loss you'll find yourself environed with j another tax that will slip up on you like I the $100.000 County Roods issued in aid of the Cheraw and (.luster road. We would not have oar readers think ; that wc are not a friend to education, j To dav the ?Mate appropriates over | $200,000 more for educational pur- j poses than it once took to run the j whole State Government. What goes j with this enormous sum of money?! ?25,000 of it goes to perpetuate sod j support what is termed a 'dude factory,' ? the S. C. Military Academy, located at j Charleston ; about the same amount to . the Claflin University, a negro instiu- > tioo supported by the laboring white tax pavers of thc State : the South Car? olina University, with its annex of seveu ur eight additional professors elected by the last Legislature, gets it* lion share, while in the rural districts our poor children are given three months schooling out of the public 1 funds. Shame! Where is the wisdom ( of our rulers. We make the assertion 1 and defy contradiction, that there has not been apoor loy, in the true meaning of the word who has received any ben- ; efit from the University or the Citadel i Poor boys can't get there for several i reasons. The competitive test will de? feat them every time, from the fact that he is unable to prepare himself for it. Abolish the Military Institute, and if I we are to have State Institutions estab lish two grand institutions of learning, locate them ut Columbia, one for the ( young men, aad one for the girls. More , anon. - Twisted Politics. Greenville News. ? This Is a funny kind of State cam paign we are having. It looks as if the State government is to be overturned without a visible individual opponent. Kershaw county bas sent anti-Richard- , 8<fn delegates; Orangeburg has dc-oe likewise, defeating General Izlar be? cause he is a Richardson man ; Ander? son followed on the same line, and Ab? beville and other Counties have elected Farmer's Movement delegates who are ready to make matters mighty interest? ing if occasion offers. For some reasons we are glad to see all this. It is proof of the strength of the fueling and movement against the methods of our State government and the plans by which it bas been man? aged. Bat outside of that, it is useless. Nothing that we can see is to be gained by punishing Governor Richardson for unknown sins. The place for the peo? ple to put their strength is in the pri? maries and conventions for members of the Legislature, i With that body all right the State is all right. If it is wrong a governor on the right side can do no good. A Sufficient Objection. Hews and Courier. Ata campaign meeting'which was held in Sumter County last week, the advisability of having a .Constitutional Conventioo was fully debated. One of the speakers said that when the people voted for constitutional amendments very few really understood what they were voting for, and that, "if we have a new constitution, it will have to be ratified before it can be adopted." We differ from the speaker in think? ing that tbe people generally are less likely to understand a specific amend? ment which is confined to one part of thc law than they would be likely to comprehend a new constitution in its entirety. It appears to be natural that the difficulty of understanding the law would be in proportion to its volume, and to the number of subjects which it covered. This, however is not the most important poiut. The.speaker, at the meeting in Sum-,, ter County, asserted positively that the new constitution, when adopted by the Conventioo, would have to be ratined by the people before it became a law. If this were the fact, it would lessen the . objections to a Constitutional Conven? tion. The simple truth is, however, that none of the prominent advocates of a Constitutional CohVention bas pro? posed, or admitted, that the constitu? tion should be submitted to the people for their ratification. On the contrary, the assumption has always been that, in accordance with old precedents in South Carolina, the constitution when ordained by the Con? vention, as a sovereign body, would be the supreme law of the State. The theory always was that the State Con? vention represented the people in their sovereignty, and that its action was the action of the people. One of the main reason? why the News and Courier has always opposed a Constitutional Convention is that there is no intention, on the part of its tdvo cates generally, to submit the new con? stitution to the people. This, to us, has always been a sufficient objection. ? II-j I I UMmm What is Dynamiter1 This has become an article of such common and deadly use, especially in Europe, that many are asking for infor? mation in regard to it. Nitro-glycerine is produced by the action of the mixture of strong nitric and sulphuric acids upon glycerine. By a blow or violent jar it explodes with tremendous force Pound for pound it will produce three or four times the ? effect of gunpowder, It is extremely j poisonous and exceedingly dangerous to handle except when frozen. Dynamite, sometimes called "giant powder," consists of nitro glycerine ! absorbed by some porous solid. The ' best material i* a kind earth found in ! llanover, lt will absorb three times its ' wt-igbt of nitro-glycerine. Made from this earth, dynamite bas the appearecce J and consistency of heavy brown sugar It may be compressed into a solid, so J that fou'- or five pouuds of it-a tremen? dous force when exploded-eau be carried about one's person without attracting notice It will not explode spontaneously, and will stand much more of a shock than pure nitro-glycer? ine. -imo ? v - ? mtm- 1 EugU.ih landlordism ia Ireland oe- 1 casicnally attracts the attention of Con ' gress, hut officia] documents sent to that : body suggest that English landlordism 1 in the United States is worth keeping * iu view. Two English syndicate's hold ! in Texas alone an aggregate of 7,500,- : OOO acres. A third syndicate bas 1,800,000 acres of American land. : Sir E Reid, K. C B , has -2,000.000 ! acres in Florida, and a Scotch syndicate ' 500,000 aeres in that State, Thc 1 London firm of Phillips, Marshall & ' Co , has I.oOO.OOO 3cres in this couti- ? try; another London firm 1.750,000 acres. A German syndicate owns ; 1,100.000. seres. An Euglisb com- ] pany posesses 700, i Kit) acres in Missis- 1 sinpi ; another has 750,000 acres to its > credit. A dozen other foreign compa- I nics or individuals have acres figuring : iu the hundred thousands. 1 Richard Johnson, now in durance t vile at Lu m ber ton, N. C., confesses, I .to the best of bis knowledge,' that bc ' t has fifteen wives living. We dou't I blame Kichard for living in jail.- ( Orungeburg Times und Z>emocra.t. ' 1 NEWS ITEMS. ? recent enumeration places the .lumber of inhabitants of the city of Columbia at 12,267. Total white ex? cess of population 97T. Never report a young lady as engaged without you know you are reporting* the truth : many a worthy girl has lost her opportunity of securing a husband by such reports. ? great deal is being said about* what newspapers ought to do for the people, [t now and then might be proper to ' hint that the people ought to do some? thing for the newspapers. The Phrenological Juma]'says, ?,In' choosing a wife, be governed by ber chin." A man is apt to be governed bV the same thing after he gets a wife. It is said that all the delegates elect-' ed to the- State Convention yesterday'., are opposed to the renom i oat ion of Governor Richardson, and would sup? port any other gcod ?an that would' run against him.-Orang^Jarg': Time's and Democrat. In bis speech in Charleston August 3d, Comptroller-General Verner said" many men in the State hold mortgages* upon which they pay ca taxes, and that this is due to the practice of nominating" county auditors and treasurers by pri-" mary election. There is food for" thought in this suggestion/ 'Ethel,' asked a mother of her daugh? ter, as the fair young girl sat down at a late .breakfast, 'did George leave anjT package for me last evening?' Ethel blushed and said falteringly, *Wby, no/" mamma! what made you ask T 'Oh, ' nothing, only I heard him say at the door as he said good bye : 'Now here's^ one more for your mother,' and I didn't' know but it was that pattern for lace' lambrequins that his mother has prom? ised me.7 Erhel said nothing. -. According to the New York Herald it costs ?41,000,000 a year for the. housekeeping expense of the Grand ' Turk. This effeminate extravagance, ? upheld by" exhaustive taxation of the Turkish Empire, seems to be an unparal? leled waste without sanction of necessity.' Rut how much worse is it than the main? tenance of an oppressive tariff that robs the common people every year of ?150, 000,000 of their bard earnings to enrica' an arrogant lot of manufacturers? The fuss over the bagging trust sug? gests some important matters. The Montgomery Advertiser simply voices the sentiments of every farmer and friend of the South when it declares the South should make all the bagging needed for its cotton crop. Southern, merchants are selling over 50,000,000 yards of baggiog every year.- Af the old price of 7 cents per yard this bag? ging was worth ?3 500,000. At ll' cents it is worth ?5,5C'CO0*O, ?nd ?ver/ cent it goes up means" another ?600, 000, and the poor farmer iaTrar^e toi' pay for. the whistle. ""*" ? sad vicissitude of fortune occurred in the career of Mrs. F. A*. Scott, wucf died from poison in great poverty in** Memphis. In early days she was rich ' and well known. She was the daugh-' ter of Gen. W.? A. Sparks and fcoY' widow of the late Gen Scott, an ex-Con? federate commander, of Louisiana. She was but fifty three years old. She was"^ buried by subscription. Her husband' wrote the well-known poem, 'Some-' body's Darling.' He wai also an edi? tor. She lived a wretched Kfe by sew-' ing. Sa$, sad indeed I It is more than eighteen years now" since the wisest Republican leaders-* Morrill, Dawes, Sherman, GarfielcT. Arliscn--began to warn their party th^at the tariff was too high, that the repeal of the internal taxes the tariff was made' to offset left no excuse for a large part* of the duties, that it was.oppressive Uf American industry rather than protec? tive. How has that warning been.!, heeded ? Jfot at ail. The majority of these in the party who have any intel? ligent views on the subject undoubtedly" believe, and Eave believed for a doten?" years, that there should be a reduction. . There has" been- nor.e. A , cut of l(f' per cent was made in 1872. It was restored in 1874. A reduction was at? tempted in 18S3. It resulted in an ad- * vance on the average, and the only^ change really made was in certain arti des where thc duty was, and romains, \ prohibitory. These are facts. They7 arc not inferences or assumptions. They" are plain facts of the record. They' are followed now by a Republican Con? vention's demand for prohibitory rates sud for thc repeal cf the liquor tax * rather than a surrender of tariff taxes." They are followed by the absolute inac? tion of the Republican Representatives'' in the House for seven month3. They" ?eem to us to show that, whatever the Senate may propose, thc Republican' party is helpless to reform the tariff,'' that it is bound hand and foot by the' Dig protected industries which are in " practice monopolies, that its will is ss * iopelessly gone as that of a victim of; ilcoholi^.m.-Nexo York Times, Indi' Rep. --<?MS*- -???. Bm - An important and timely resolution-' ?vas infroduccd in the United States^ Senate on last Monday by Senator' Jones, of Arkansas. li instructed the ?ommiuee on finance to inquire into the\ 'act of an alleged combination or pool of he producers of cotton bagging : what" companies and individuals compose iueh pool ; i h vi r methods of combina? ron ; thc eil. ct of the pool on the price'' >f the articles, ere. Ile spoke of the'" as of three cents a pouno" on cotto'tf is costing thc cotton producers of the' jountry a million and a half of dollars,' ?nd said within some few days thc price lad been raised (under thc .operations jf thc pool and without the slightesl*, .eason) from 7 cents a pound to Hf ^ents. He suggested thc- entire removal >f ihc existing duty on cotton bagging'. rho resolution was, at the suggestion"' . f Edmund.-?, who said he sympathized* ivith it, laid over until Tuesday, when"1 twas taken up and adopted. Leta*' ;iope, now, that the proposed investir* ration will bc pron.pt and thorough j* ind that the iniquitous scheme of the* monopoly may be nipped in the bud*. ft will doubtless be shown at once that'"* he newspaper reports arc correct, iud'* hat the proper aud most effective rem-' ?dy is to remove thc import duty from ' )3gging at once. U is high time that" "?ongress should accord ttte* ftfOpje'^a^ ?tle proteoUoir.