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Hardly a Pair Deal. Governor Northen Writes to Cleveland and Publishes the President's Reply, without Publishing his own Letter. ATLANTA, Ga. September 27.-The Constitution to morrow will print a letter from President Cleveland tc Governor Northen, in which the President states his. position on the financial question at some length. The letter is in reply lo one written by Governor Northen on the 15th inst. The Governor refuses to give his letter out for publication, but it is known that is presented a graphic condition of the political situation in Georgia and thc South, and urged upon the President the expediency of a public utterance from him more comprehensive than his recent mes? sage as to the proper policy to be pursued by Congress, upon questions affecting the stringency cf the times , and the needs of thc people. It is understood that in his letter Governor Northeu pointed out the inroads being made in the Demo? cratic ranks by the Populists by rea? son of the neglect or delay on the part f the Democratic majority in Congress to meet legislation on the line of the party platform and pledges. Ile dwelt especially upon the finan cial condition and political interest of the farmers of the South, who con? stitute so great a proportion of the Democracy. The President's reply to the letter was received this evening, and is as follows : EXECUTIVE MANSION, ) WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 1893. J The Hon W. J. Northen-My Dear Sir: I hardly know how to reply to your letter of the 15 inst It seems to rae that ? am quite plainly on re? cord concerning the financial ques? tion. My letter accepting the nomi? nation to the Presidency, when read in connection with the message lately sent to the Congress in extraordinary session appears to me to be very explicit. I want a currency that is safe and stable in the hands of our people. I will not knowingly be implicated in a condition that will justly make me in the 'least degree answerable to any laborer or farmer in the j United States for a shrinkage: in the purchasing power of] the dollar he has received for a full dollar's worth of work, or for a j good dollar's worth of the product of j his toil. I not only- want our cur-1 rency to be of such a character that j1 all kinds of dollars will be of equal purchasing power at home, but I want it to be of such a character as will demonstrate a broader wisdom and good fath, thus placing upon a firm foundation our credit among the nations of the earth. I want our financial conditions and the laws relating to our currency so safe and reassuring that those who have money will spend and invest it in business and new enterprises instead of hoarding it. You cannot cure fright by calling it foolish and unreasonable, and you cannot prevent the frightened man from hoardiug his mouey. I want good, sound and stable money, and a condition of confidence that will keep it in use. Within the limits of what I have written 1 am a friend of silver, but I believe its proper place in our cur? rency can only be fixed by a readjust? ment ot currrency legislation, and the inauguration cf a consistent and com? prehensive financial scheme. I think such a thing can only be entered upon profitably and hopefully after the repeal of the law which is charged with all our financial woes. In the present state of the public mind this law cannot be built upon nor patched in such a way as to relieve the situa? tion I am, therefore, opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver by this country alone and independ? ently, and lam in favor of the im mediate and unconditional repeal ot the purchasing clause of the so-called Sherman law. I confess I am astonished by the opposition in the Senate to such prompt action as would relieve the present unfortunate situation My daily prayer is that the delay occasioned by such opposition may not be the cause of plunging the country into deeper depression than it has yet known, and that the Democratic party may not be justly held responsible for"such a catastrophe. Yours very truly, GROVER CLEVELAND. Bandits Meet Their Match. ST JOSEI'?T, Mo., September, 25 The Kansas, St. Joe and Council Bluffs Road foiled an attempt to rob one of its passenger trains, killed two of thc bandits and captured three others at Francis, eleven and a half miles from this city. The offi? cials of the road had been notified that a robbery had been planned and they notified thc police. When the train arrived here a dummy train was made np and sixteen police offi? cers, under comnrand of thc chief of police, weie put aboard. When the dummy reached a point two miles north of St Joseph it was stopped by six masked men. One mounted thc engine and presenting a | revolver at the engineer's head and another at the fireman, held them in subjection while thc other five men hurried to rob the express car. They ordered the messenger to open the j door, which he did Three bandits! entered the car, leaving two lo keep guard. The police secreted in the car ordered the three men to surrender. The robbers w?r?'t??fen by surprise, but opened fire on the police. The police returned the fire, and a gene? ral fusillade followed. Two of the robbers,Hugo Engel and Fred Kohler, were shot in the head and killed. Three robbers, Charlea Fredericks, N. A. Hurst and William Garver, were captured. The sixth man, Henry G. Leitze, escaped. None ol the police were injured. The Book of Zeracchaboam. I. Now when John the Senator bad greatly deceived the people and sat in the seat of Wade, the just, he perceiv? ed how iittle he appeared in the eyes of all wise men. 2 But being exceedingly great in his owo conceit, be did sound bis trum? pet before him as the hypocrites do. to be seen of men. 3 He did also seek te delude bil followers by sending forth false writings through all the land, so that it might be thought that he was a mao of wis? dom. 4. And he did fall upon Hugh, the Captain of the Hosts, and others io authority, and spoke despitefolly of them. 5. However, the people were not misled by his much speaking for they knew a Weaverite though afar off. 6 And Hugh did prepare a great writing against bim, wereby he showed that a fool was known by his folly, and John the Senator was sorely troubled io mind and answered not again. 7. There came also one Janes, called "Craddock.*' who showed the wicked practices of John the Senator, so that he became a jest and a byword among as many as knew bim 8. It chanced, furthermore, that John the Senator, went in and ou; among the vendors of strong drink, who be re fit him or his reason. 9. And as be journeyed he fell io with an Ethiopian, a servant of the carriers of travellers. 10 When he had fallen in with this son of Ethiopia, they drank wine io the moruing and did mingle strong driok all the day long. II. Low, when he was folly drunken the little reason he possessed departed from bim, and he did beb ive himself unseemly among the people. 12. And when he had come auto the city of Benjamin, the Tillmanite, be did pot as many as beheld bim io great fear by reason of his warlike act ions. 13 Having entered into a chariot he put the driver thereof in great fear so that he fled away from before bis face and did hide himself from t se wrath of John the Senator. 14. But when a deep ?deep bad come upon him, the driver of the chariot, nothwithstand!tig his fear, did convey him unto the house of Benjamin, bis master. 15. When he had arrived at the bouse of Benjaman, The Tillmanite, John did salute his brother, saying, "'All is lost. I bring unto yon bad news, eVen evil tidings." 16. Nevertheless, being east down by much wine, be disclosed aot the nature of the tidings which sorely did rend his soul. 17. When Benjamin, the Tillmanite, had beheld him stretched out upon tbe chariot, and the driver thereof stricken with great fear, he was much troubled in spirit and lamented greatly. 18. And when Benjamiu had deli? vered unto him a bottle of s ron g driok he s tra i g h way dismissed him unto his own house. 19 Then were the Till ina nit?s mach troubled, and reasoned one with an* other, while many repented them that they had despitefol?y treated Wade, the just, and set an evil mao io bis stead to bear rule over them-The State. The Great Triumvirate. Referee Murphy, of the Sao Angelo Standard, voices a true sentiment io the following : "A preacher recently said that a newspaper that told the troth, oed the whole truth, couldn't be a pecuniary success The minister who will at all times and under any circumstances tell the whole truth about bis members, alive or dead, might not occupy the pulpit more than one Sunday, and io some cases might fiad it convenient to leave town The press and the pulpit go baud in hand with the whitewash brush and pleasant words, magnifying little vi tues into big ones. The pulpit, the press and the gravestone are the saint-making triumvirate." Electric Bitters. This* re m div ts becoming so well known and s<> popular as to need no special mention. All who liave used Klectric Bitters sin; the same song of praise. A purer medicine does not ex? ist ?nd it i? guaranteed to do all that is claim? ed. Kledric Bitters will cure ali diseases of the liver and kidneys, will remove pimple?, botts, salt rheum and other affection* caused by im pure blood. Will drive Malaria from the sys? tem and prevent as well a* cure all malarial fe? vers For cure of headache, constipation and indigestion try Klectric Billers--entire satis? faction guaranteed, or money refunded. Price 5? cents and $1 per bottle at J. F. W. T>e Lortne's drug store. 5 For Over Fifty Years, Mas. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP has been used tor children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cares wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diar? rhoea. Twenty-five cenis a bottle. - - ?-+--+-~~^mm Drink Glenn jSprings, Water for headache indigestion and general debility. For kidney and liver trouble Glenn Springs water ie a cure. On draught at Hugbson k Co's drug store. .-mt - Many Persons are teano, flown from overwork or household cacea. Brown's Iron Bitters Rebuilds th? system, aids digestion, removes exceaoffcflt, and cures malaria. Get the eenuine. Hipans Tabules cure tho blues. Highest of all in Leavening Power.-Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PORE LONG LIFE Is possible only when the blood is pure and vigorous. To expel Scrof? ula and other poisons-from the cir. culation, the superior medicine is AYER'S Sarsaparilla. It imparts permanent strength aud efficiency to every organ of the body. Restora? tion to perfect health and.strength. Results from Using AYER'S Sarsaparilla. Mary Schu? bert, Kansas City, Ks., writes: "I aro convinced that after having been sick a whole year from liver com? plaint, A veris Sarsaparilla saw d ?iy iifel Tiu* best physicians being tmahl? to help mc, and having tried three other proprietary medicines without benelir. I at L?t took Ayt-r's S:.r<iq.ari?l:i. SHie result w?fc a roinph-te cure. Since then I h:\ ve '.vViirm. ii.i.-d this nifc:?rtne to others, and ai-.vavs wi:h sn? ress " Sarsaparilla Prepaid hy I>r. J. C. %er 5:.r;,., Lowell, Mitt*. Curesoihers,wi!icureyou _- . _i_ Rrpans Tabules ai e of great value. Office ?od Mills at Jut J*BiCARR9 Contractor and Builder, Sumter, S. O. DEALER IN Rouph and Planed Lumber, Doors, Blinds, Sash, Laths, , Cypress Shingles, Lime, Glass ?Od General Bu?din^S Mill Work Of all kinds made to order, such as MANTLES DcOR. ?ND WINDOW FRAMES, STORE FRONTS, MOULDINGS AND TURNED WORK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. C. k. A.. andC. S. & N. R. R's. THE SIMONOS NATIONAL BANK OF SUMTER. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI v TORY, SUMTBtC, S. C. Paid op Capital.$75,000 00 Surplus Fund. 11,500 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. &3&?%?XB?. DEPARTMENT. :^8Pp?i? of Si and upwards received. In? terest allowed ' at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of January. April, July and October. KM. WALLACE, L. S. CARSON, President. Aug 7. Cashier. TDK BM If SH IM, SUMTER, S. C. CITY AND COUNTY" DEPOSITORY. ." i Transacts a general Banking business Also has A Savings Bank Department, Deposits of $1 00 and upwards received. Interest calculated at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, payable quarterly. . . W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, W. F. KHANS, President. Cashier*. H. A. HOYT. MAIN STREET, SUMTER, S. C. GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, FINE DIAMONDS, &oc?s, Jewelry, Spectacles, MERIDEN BRITANIA SILVERWARE, &c. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Feb. 1 A. WHITE & SON! Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED 1866. Represent, among other Companies : LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE, NORTH BRITISH k MERCANTILE, HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y., LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,000,000. Feb. 12 NOTICE. npHR SUPERVISOR OF REGISTRATION I will be in his office on Salesday of* each month, for the purpose of issuing certificates of Registration to ail persons who have be? come twenty-one yenrs ot age since the last General election. Also transfers to those who have changed place of residence. W. S JAMES, Supervisor of Registration. Dec. 7. OTTO F. WEITE RS, WHOLESALE GROCER, LIQUOR* DEALER, OFFICE AND SALESROOM: 133 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. ! Nov. 7- o e. w. DICK, D. D. m Office over Levi Bros.' Store, ESI BANCR ON MAIN STREET. SUMTER, S. C. Office Hours-9 to 1 ; 2.30 to 5.30. Liberty Street Next to P. O. SPECIAL ATTENTION Given to Compounding Prescriptions VALUABLE PREMIUMS ^--GIVEN AWAY. Ropp's Calculator, A valuable book for a Farmer and Business Man. A BEAUTIFTL COLUMBIAN SOUVENIR SPOON. ie Weekly Jews' aid Courier. THE GREAT SOUTHER^ FAMILY -N E W S P A P E R, |?_ers to every yearly subscriber EITHER of the above Premiums -ABSOLUTELY FREE I The Weekly News and Courier, 1 year (with Premium.) $1 00 The Weekly News and Courier, 6 months (without Premium.) 50 -S_NB FOH- . SAMPLE COPIES AMD CIRCULARS, Address : Tiie Weekly Nfs lil Courier, CHARLESTON, S, C. Order Your PROVISIONS AND GROCERIES FROM' & Wholesale Agents, Charleston, S. C. -Agents for MOTT'S CIDEE, SED SEAL CIS ABS, and DOVE HAMS. LANDS FOR S?LE. LARGE PLANTATION of 1500 acres, with two-story dwelling house and numerous tenant honses-7J miles North of Sumter C. H., and known as the "Lee Plantation. All arable land now under lease to first-class tenants If not sold by Novem? ber 15th will be withdrawn in order to renew leases for ensuing year. THE "PUGH PLANTATION" of 900 acres in Privateer Township. Comfort? able Dwelling house and about 200 acres arable land, now under lease; balance in choice pine timber. Will be sold at a low price and on long-time. THE MIDDLETON or Jaffray /land of j 1700 acres, OIL the Wateree River ad? joining the HanMase place and others. Prin? cipally timbered land. THE RAMSEY PLANTATION nf 1700 acres in Manchester Township-partly under cultivation, balance in timber. THE WELSH or J.K. McElveen tract of 125 acres in Shiloh Township-partly cleared and under cultivation. THE HAMP. VAUGHN or Moran tract of 98?J acres in Concord Township-partly cleared and under cultiv?t ion. THE R E MULDUOW tract of about 150 acres-adjoining lana's of J." E. Mc Catcben and otbers-mostly . I en red and un? der cultivation. Parties desiring to purchase may call on or address, John J Mnldrow, Esq., Wisackv, P. <) FARM OF TWENTY ACRES, adjoin? ing lands of Geo. P. Epperson, Estate of William Lewis and others, beyond Turkey Creek. Cleared und under cultivation 486 ACRES fa Providence Township, known ns the "Corbett Place," about one half in cultivation, h.-tlance it* timber. If not Sold by November ISttt the same will be with? drawn and lenses renewed for coining vear. Apply to LEK k MOISE," AI Torneys at Law. Aug. 2-3m. nm\imM fm. AT B OTT O Iii P&ieE^: | WATI1HMA* l*B XlllifflW ht Vfff?ii SUMTER, S. C Colored Labor and Cotton Factories. Some of the textile journals a managers of textile mills in the Noi have been diecussing for some til and with lively interest the questi of whether or not negro labor cor probably be used to advantage Southern cotton mills, to compe with the lower class of white labore largely employed in the Northe mills, and especially in-New Englan We have not thought it worth wh to take any part in the discussion existing conditions in this State, whe there is enough available white lab to supply the present demands of t mills, but it appears that the questi< is beginning to. attract the attentii of some of the mill managers in tl Southern States, and as the Baltimo Maufacturers7 Record has taken pai to obtain the opinions of a number them, it will probably interest owne of factories and others who.are co cernean o?r f?caf?nd?str?es to lea w"hat his been*5 sam on fte* subjec We give only an outline of the lette which the Record has received ai printed. Mr. Otis G. Lynch, superintende of the Enterprise Mannfaeturir Company, Augusta, Ga, says that tl articles of wearing apparel, as well ? the many other articles of househo use and adornment made by slav? under the direction of their iSl tresses, proves "the ability negroes to be skilful operative under proper direction, tor th manufacture. of coarse and eve medium goods," and that "many these articles, made "entirely I hand, .exhibit ingenuity, '-skill ar persevering effort ot a high "cha acter." He adds. : "Heretofore there hasrnot appeare to bc any necessity for discussing th feasibility of making good factor operatives 'out of r?egroes, and I d not think the time has arrived whe it is necessary to 4o so.. For myse I should have no hesitation about tn ing to run a-miH successfully in th South on plain or medium goods wit colored labor." Mr. F. P. Toof, generel manager c Bluff Ci ty Mills, Memphis, Te un , en ploys colored help in the picking root and - at the cards and rope makin with satisfactory results." He ha [never introduced them* on slut ? bers, fly frames spinning and weaving but "has no doubt they wool make efficient hands with th necessary training." He adds : * "But taking the question in it broadest sense with colored hand operating a cotton mill entirely certainly, in the personal experienc I have had, Would not recommend mill to be built with the distinct viet of employing colored . operatives: believe such a venture would prov? disastrous before the labor and dis cipline could be brought up to th* standard of a high production o quantity and quality, two very i m por tant points to be atained to make ; mill profitable in the close margins o manufacture that now prevail." Mr. T. L. Wainwright, superinten dent of the Stonewall Manufacturing Company, Stonewall Station, Miss, thinks there is not the least necessity the ?w?b, as theresa -a*gleat abun dance and a superfluity of the bes white labor willing and anxious tc work in cotton' and wollen mills." Thc negroes, he says, answer every pur pose as firemen, sweepers, pickei room help and outside laborers in the yard,- but . he "would not think o working them in the mill as spinners, weavers, etc, especially as there ie not the slightest necessity therefor.1' The Muscogee Manufacturing I Compamy, Columbus, Ga , have had no experience with colored labor in the mills and "do not think, it would do. It woujd not be practicable tc work them along with the white operatives, and it would take a long time tq. strain the colored operatives, if it could be done at all, which we very much doubt. Colored opera? tives for Southern mills are a remote possibility." The view here present? ed as to the necessary and absolute separation of the . races and the consequent difficulty of traiuing colored operatives, it may be said once for aH, is shared by all the managet s. > Mr. M. G. Stone, super in tendeo t of the Spartan Mills, S par tan burg, S. C., has bad no experience with colored operatives, hut thinks "ihe^coiored peo? ple arc physically and men telly com? petent to do mill work .if properly trained." ,.. ,, .. Mr. J. F. Hanson, treasurer Bibb Manufacturing Company/ Macon, Ga, thinks "it. ie very doubful if a mill could be successfully operated with odored help all the way through.' Mr. William Eotwistle, superintend? ent of the Fee-Dee Manufacturing Com? pany, Rockingham;' County, N. C. "does not think the negroes are adapted ta the. ci?se.confinement-or capable of conforming-to the system and discipline iucid?ui/to factory labor." ,"Ip,dud-. trious rural life," he adda, 'MB in all respects best suited to the welfare aud h appia ess of the colored race." Aud we thiukihat all intelligent observation goes to confirm ;the truth of hts Yemark. All Afiica is a'faruf, arid the negro, as. a rule', fails aijd*<i?es when.be leaves the country for city or towu life. Mr. F. S Morton, superintendent Clifton Manufacture Company, 8. C., has employed great uumhers of colored people ou other work and his opinion is "tljaLihey would uot-be a success" in a ; cotton mill Mr*. J. F. lier, superintendent Pied-, moot Manufacturing Company, Pied? mont, S. C "I have never worked them as opera? tives Hattie mill, ba? I worded, io. mills< with them when they were slaves. They were*-very bard to manage .eveuf then, au<3 we 'could Dev?f gei them (o' do the work as it ahuuld.h?v.e h?eu tfo'ue. . I am of the opioiou that the-y- would oot make first class help in cotton mills.'1 Mr. G. W. Williams, president aud ge nara 1 manager, ?j w j f t, M an uf acj ur iog. Company/ Columbus', Ga : "We see no reason Why colored labor would not fill eaob and every place about a cotton mill if so trained. Many of i them are very apt and quick to learn and would make, with proper training, excellent mill hands M The ?wo races would not work together in the same mill.- - Mr. Byrd Douglas, President Ten? nessee Manufacturing Company, Nash? ville, Tenn : "We employ quite a number of colored laborers as yard hands, firemen and teamsters, and also colored women as sweepers and scrubbers, and, so far as our experience goes, we do not think that they show capability ami intelli? gence sufficient to become skilled opera? tives." Mr. J. M. Scott, superintendent of the Nashville Cotton Mills. Nashville, Tenn, believes that it is possible to train and employ colored help, and that the experiment will have to be tried if we keep on building cotton mills as rapidly as we have been doing. Mr. Z. T McKinney, superitendent of the Trion Manufacturing Company, Trion County. Ga, thinks that for ordinary work, such as opening cot? ton and feeding openers and clearing floors aod walls, they will do very well, but for carding, spinning, weaving and finishing "they would prove a failure." "They require thc closest kind of watching to keep them straight'' in the orninary work they are set to do. Mr. McKinney has spent thirtyseven years inside of cotton mills and has lived all bis life ' amoug colored people He would not undertake to run a mill vmh colored help with whom he bas come in contract Mr. H. H. Hickman, president of the Granite ville Manufactory Company, Augu8?a, Ga, does not believe that cot? ton factories will be run successfully by negroes in this generation. "Very few of "them will ever become skilled laborers in a cotton will." If employ? ed they must run the mill alone," and Mr. Hickman "would shrink from being the owner or president of such a mill." .'If we concede the fact of capa? bility, unreliability would be sufficient cause for not employing them. Cot? ton mils to succeed uuist have few holi? days and regular hours daily ; this can? not be obtained with negro operatives." This is the substance of thc testimony and opinions presented by more than a dozen of the most competent witness and judges on the subject to be found in the South. We do not think it neces? sary to add to what they have said beyond the single remark that the most sanguine of the number concede that the negroes cannot make satisfactory operatives without long and careful training, and all agree that the two races will not work in the same mills. .How thc negroes are to be trained in such circumstances it is not easy to imagine.-News and Courier. What Does it Mean. During an off year in politics loyal members of any party strive to keep peace io their ranks and strengthen their lines and preserve harmony, so as to be the better prepared for a united effort for victory when election year comes. How does the matter stand in South Carolina ? . In Washington our Congressmen do not pull together. In our State there is much dissatisfaction and evidence of a disruption iu the Democratic party. Any one who is not blinded by preju? dice, or deluded by false advisers may see that there is great lack of harmony amongst the white voters of the State. Part of them are willing to stick to the Democratic party and stand fquarely on its platform as long as there is a plank ?eft. There are many others who regard the teaching of their leaders and the principles enunciated in their special conventions as of more importance than the Democratic platform. That is they go with tin; Democrats, because, up to this date, there is no opportuni'y for bolting and going to another party. There is going to cornea little mixing up in 1896, if not next year. The more perfect organization of the Alliance, which docs not now claim to represent the farmers ouly in a political way, shows that they mean, business. Every meeting and every public utterance of their leaders shows unutterable hostil ity to Cleveland and his administration. Congressman MoLaurin well repre? sented that faction when be said in his speech : "By the Heavenly God, we will not stand it." Then in South Carolina loyal Demo? crats are going to stand by the party and they are not all in the anti-Tillman it sa ranks, for many of the Tillmanites remain in the party. Some of the Alli? ance people and others who do not be? long to that organization will go to the Populists, because they believe they can secure what they want there. Spartan. -mm*- .?.? - The Roanoke Riot. KOANOKE, Va , September 26.-The coroner's jury rendered a verdict to? night as a result of their investiga? tions into the cause of thc death of the eight men who were shot down during the reign of mob law on last Wednes? day night. Their finding is to the effect that the men came to their death "by weapons in the hands of men or soldiers of the Roan? oke Light Infantry under the command of Capt. John Bird and other officers," and that the .evidence showed that ho waa acting under the instructions of Mayor Trout. The jurors think it. bent to recommend that the grand jury or other competent Court authorities take charge of and investigate the legality of thc acts of the said official Capt. Bird was cross-examined hy the jury. this, morning and reiterated his statements made yesterday. that he con? sidered himself dealing with a mob and not citizens. . Ile had given the order to fire in a low tone of voice to the four men called'to the window tonkin" out upon Mi?''door, which was being battered in by The mob. V "was produced in the evidence of another witness that Eddy, one of the boys wounded, had just thrown a rock through the jail window before hoing shot, and that John Mills was among the mob near the west side door, where the demonstration was the loudest. The verdict, is received with general favor here, it beir.g considered, in faet, all that the jury could justifiably find from the evidence in the case. Receiver Chamberlain ] clines to Comply With th? Demands of the Rail? road Commission COLUMBIA, September 27.-It wo appear that some of the railro have to be kept in hot water all time to please the Administrati This time the South Carolina R way is under the ban in the matte the Camden Junction, lt may? that the commission, realizing h little it has accomplished, wishes make some kind of au impressi Receiver Chamberlian has reitera his position and has writen to commission. He writes to Col. D can, as chairman, and after stat that he thought the matter had b< finally settled, adds : "The matter, however, being n presented again, I have again c sidered the subject in view of y< suggestions that it would be for interest of our road to comply w the wishes of those who havebrouj the matter to your official attentii and in view of the various argume presented by Mr. Thomas in separate letter. As the matter is n presented, it seems to me to arnot to this : The South Carolina R? way is now asked to make a vi considerable outlay of money establish facilities for a transfer freights generally at Camden Jut tion, it being conceded that this \i result in a large loss in revenue the South Carolina Railway. "The present laws of the State not appear to require the South Ca lina Railway to do this, and thc quest of the railroad commissione especially the letter of Mr. Thora; is an appeal to the South Caroli Railway to do this for the alleg benefit of certain shippers of cott and tobacco. Upon this statemc of the case it seems to me that would be entirely improper for i to accede to. this appeal. The Sou Carolina Railway is bound to comp with all valid existing laws of t State, but I am advised by my couns and I reach the same conclusion ] my own examination of the statute that the laws of the State do not present require the South Caroli Railway to do what is now asked it by the railroad commissioners, must therefore, respectfully decli to do more than I agreed to do in n letter to the railroad commissione of March 23, last. "Yonrs very truly, "D. H. Chamberlian, Receiver." The News and Courier. The Cotton Crop Short. There is no doubt of the fact that tl cotton crop is short again this year, sa the Augusta Chronicle. The.wisdom of the farmers in redu ing their acreage has been supplement* by unpropitious, conditions, and the ere of this year will fall short of last; yea which was itself a small crop, when coo pared with those of recent years. A geutlemao of this city, who kee) h is eyes open wheo he travels, has ju returned from a trip of more than thr< thousand miles, and he declares unhes tatingly that the cotton crop is benin about three weeks and does not loc promising. It is not our intention to attempt 1 bull the market, but under existi?^ coi d it ions, everything looks favorable I better prices for cotton. This opinion shared tu by conservative men of exp? rience both as plauters and sellers < cotton. Thc farmer wiio has raided a be needs to live on at home, and ha cotton to sell besides, will be on velvei Clam Shells as Money. Rather a strange statement to make but one which is nevertheless, histor cially true, that for the first fifty year in this country, clam shells were use? for money. And we had free coin?ig in clam shells too ; there wa3 no Gov ernment stamp upon them, but an; one could go to a clam bed, dig hi clams, live upon the edible portion and rub down the shelis until they be come round and smooth, when thc; would become "Wampum," and pasi for money. Originally in New Yorl six pieces of "Wampum," or clan shells were worth a Dutch "stiver," o: two cents, but when the Dutchmen ii the goodness of their hearts told the Purita:i8of New England of their val ue for trading purposes, the Puritanf made so much money, or "Wampum/ that the value rapidly declined, until twelve, fourteen or even sixteen pieces were only worth a stiver Then the Dutch Government of New Adm8terdam attempted to regulate the value of clam shel!, and said six or eight pieces should pass for a stiver, and precipitated the first com? mercial panic in America in 1653, resulting in great distress among the poor then living in New Amsterdam. The Government was finally com? pelled to accept the commercial value, as the actual value, and thus the financial panic of 1653 became a matter of history. The value of the clam shell gradually de dined, until it finally became refused as money, but not until many com? plaints are made in the church records of New England, as late as 1730, of chipped and worthless warn pum, which was put into collection boxes of the meeting houses on the Sabbath to pay the minister. "One who runs may read." Substitute in this little piece of history the word silver wherever clam shells appears, put the Colorado miner in the place of the New England Puritan, the government of to day stamping (io cents of ??Iver, and making the poo pie take it for a dollar, and it reads like a Chronicle of lo day. We know a man living in an adjoin? ing county, who owns a little farm-he is a Tillman man A year or so hack he put a mortgage on his little farm to get money to speculate it? cotton futures -his speculation panned ont ar tho wrong end, and now there is some probability that he and his little farm may part company. We just mention this to show that, all thc speculators don't livp in that hell-hole of a place, Wall Street.-Easly Democrat. 7th. That the Sherman act did not drive goid out of the country. 8th. That the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act will not bring about international bi-metalliem. 9th That the amount of increased production-of ail ver over gold in late years has been greatly misrepresent? ed, and that, although the product of each metal has at different periods been greater, or less, there has for cen? turies been a wonderful equilibrium of production between them ; and that the commercial ratio between them remained practically the same during all that time, until silver was demonetized :n this country in 1873, in Germany in 1874, and recently iii India. J 10th. That if gold ia established as the only money of redemption in every country the stock on hand, with the annual additions, will not be anything like sufficient to supply the demand, and therefore there would be incalculable ruin all over the world. lltb. That the enormous growth in population and production in the United States demands an increase of the circulating medium. 12th. That the associated banks of Boston, New York and Philadephia control the currency of the country, and that the National Bank currency of the country, instead of being in? creased, as it ought to have been by a very large sum, has actually been contracted by nearly two hundred millions of dollars, (although it has been increased since the panic began) and that any proposition to legislate upon questions particularly affecting them, or even lo inquire into their violation of the law creating them, is promptly squelched by the men who j have for years been trying to establish gold monometallism in the United States. These propositions haye been established, in my judgment, both by weight of argument and evidence, and therefore it would seem that the right thing to do would be to couple with the repeal of the Sherman act, such legislation in regard to the currency as was promised in the money plank of the Chicago platform. It is a fact-a most significant fact to the people of the South-that, eighteen out of twenty-two Southern Senators, and almost the same proportion of Soulh? ern Representatives are opposed to the repeal of the Sherman act, unless so coupled with other legislation, and that the "other legislation" is more important lo their constituents than the repeal is. These constituents, of whom the great majority do not live in towns, are faithfully represented by those Senators and Representa? tives, and they regard with increas? ing anxiety-to use no stronger word -the situation in Washington, and the reports which are in circulation as to the practical repudiation of party pledges, and the use of Ex? ecutive patronage in connection with legislation. A timely compromise may save both the Democratic party and the public interests from disaster ; the failure to effect such a compromise and the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act, without further currency legislation, will produce results which will be most lamen? table. At least such is my honest conviction. A. M. WAD- XL. September 18th, 1393. - ?- ? i i The Rise of a Boy. This boy goes to business ana at his business begins hy simply doing the things he is told to do and doing them in a common and ordinary way If he stops here, he remains all his lifelong a drudge But if he begins to see that business has a significance; that his life is not merely sweeping the store, not merely writiog letters, not merely selling goods ; if he begins to see the higher life involved in business ; if he begins to see that busi? ness is a greater instrument of benefi? cence than what we call beneficence ; that trade is clothing thousands of men where charity clothes ten ; that agri? cultural and milliog industries are feed? ing thousands of men where charity feeds ten ; if he begins to see how the whole history of the world is linked together, and is God's way of building up humanity, and serving humanity, as he gets this larger view and enters into it, life is enriched and becomes itself the minister whereby love is en? larged and conscience is strengthened, the school wherein he is educated out of the lower into the higher... Re has now risen, or is rising from that which is mortal into that which is immortal and eternal-Dr. Lyman Abbott. _ - M^^1 Representative Maddox, of Georgia, says: "tuc people of this coutry must have and will have in the near future, a system of finance that will render it impossible for a few individual* to wreck the country at their will We owst wrench this power from Wall street OT the existence of this Republic will be short lived." The Greenville News charges the Reform paper of the State with a want of manliness in refusing to con? demn the Cotton Plant for accusiog Judge Hudson of being mfiuenced in his decision in the Darlington Dis? pensary case by the money of the Whiskey Ring. Speaking for the Dispatch we regard Judge Hudson's reputation for uprightness, purity of purpose, integrity, and spotless char? acter sufficient refutatiou of the silly charge, and to have denied it would have been giving color to it -r-Lextog ton Despatch 7th. That the Sherman act did not drive goid out of the country. 8th. That the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act will not bring about international bi-metalliem. 9th That the amount of increased production-of ail ver over gold in late years has been greatly misrepresent? ed, and that, although the product of each metal has at different periods been greater, or less, there has for cen? turies been a wonderful equilibrium of production between them ; and that the commercial ratio between them remained practically the same during all that time, until silver was demonetized :n this country in 1873, in Germany in 1874, and recently iii India. J 10th. That if gold ia established as the only money of redemption in every country the stock on hand, with the annual additions, will not be anything like sufficient to supply the demand, and therefore there would be incalculable ruin all over the world. lltb. That the enormous growth in population and production in the United States demands an increase of the circulating medium. 12th. That the associated banks of Boston, New York and Philadephia control the currency of the country, and that the National Bank currency of the country, instead of being in? creased, as it ought to have been by a very large sum, has actually been contracted by nearly two hundred millions of dollars, (although it has been increased since the panic began) and that any proposition to legislate upon questions particularly affecting them, or even lo inquire into their violation of the law creating them, is promptly squelched by the men who j have for years been trying to establish gold monometallism in the United States. These propositions haye been established, in my judgment, both by weight of argument and evidence, and therefore it would seem that the right thing to do would be to couple with the repeal of the Sherman act, such legislation in regard to the currency as was promised in the money plank of the Chicago platform. It is a fact-a most significant fact to the people of the South-that, eighteen out of twenty-two Southern Senators, and almost the same proportion of Soulh? ern Representatives are opposed to the repeal of the Sherman act, unless so coupled with other legislation, and that the "other legislation" is more important lo their constituents than the repeal is. These constituents, of whom the great majority do not live in towns, are faithfully represented by those Senators and Representa? tives, and they regard with increas? ing anxiety-to use no stronger word -the situation in Washington, and the reports which are in circulation as to the practical repudiation of party pledges, and the use of Ex? ecutive patronage in connection with legislation. A timely compromise may save both the Democratic party and the public interests from disaster ; the failure to effect such a compromise and the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act, without further currency legislation, will produce results which will be most lamen? table. At least such is my honest conviction. A. M. WAD- XL. September 18th, 1393. - ?- ? i i The Rise of a Boy. This boy goes to business ana at his business begins hy simply doing the things he is told to do and doing them in a common and ordinary way If he stops here, he remains all his lifelong a drudge But if he begins to see that business has a significance; that his life is not merely sweeping the store, not merely writiog letters, not merely selling goods ; if he begins to see the higher life involved in business ; if he begins to see that busi? ness is a greater instrument of benefi? cence than what we call beneficence ; that trade is clothing thousands of men where charity clothes ten ; that agri? cultural and milliog industries are feed? ing thousands of men where charity feeds ten ; if he begins to see how the whole history of the world is linked together, and is God's way of building up humanity, and serving humanity, as he gets this larger view and enters into it, life is enriched and becomes itself the minister whereby love is en? larged and conscience is strengthened, the school wherein he is educated out of the lower into the higher... Re has now risen, or is rising from that which is mortal into that which is immortal and eternal-Dr. Lyman Abbott. _ - M^^1 Representative Maddox, of Georgia, says: "tuc people of this coutry must have and will have in the near future, a system of finance that will render it impossible for a few individual* to wreck the country at their will We owst wrench this power from Wall street OT the existence of this Republic will be short lived." The Greenville News charges the Reform paper of the State with a want of manliness in refusing to con? demn the Cotton Plant for accusiog Judge Hudson of being mfiuenced in his decision in the Darlington Dis? pensary case by the money of the Whiskey Ring. Speaking for the Dispatch we regard Judge Hudson's reputation for uprightness, purity of purpose, integrity, and spotless char? acter sufficient refutatiou of the silly charge, and to have denied it would have been giving color to it -r-Lextog ton Despatch 7th. That the Sherman act did not drive goid out of the country. 8th. That the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act will not bring about international bi-metalliem. 9th That the amount of increased production-of ail ver over gold in late years has been greatly misrepresent? ed, and that, although the product of each metal has at different periods been greater, or less, there has for cen? turies been a wonderful equilibrium of production between them ; and that the commercial ratio between them remained practically the same during all that time, until silver was demonetized :n this country in 1873, in Germany in 1874, and recently iii India. J 10th. That if gold ia established as the only money of redemption in every country the stock on hand, with the annual additions, will not be anything like sufficient to supply the demand, and therefore there would be incalculable ruin all over the world. lltb. That the enormous growth in population and production in the United States demands an increase of the circulating medium. 12th. That the associated banks of Boston, New York and Philadephia control the currency of the country, and that the National Bank currency of the country, instead of being in? creased, as it ought to have been by a very large sum, has actually been contracted by nearly two hundred millions of dollars, (although it has been increased since the panic began) and that any proposition to legislate upon questions particularly affecting them, or even lo inquire into their violation of the law creating them, is promptly squelched by the men who j have for years been trying to establish gold monometallism in the United States. These propositions haye been established, in my judgment, both by weight of argument and evidence, and therefore it would seem that the right thing to do would be to couple with the repeal of the Sherman act, such legislation in regard to the currency as was promised in the money plank of the Chicago platform. It is a fact-a most significant fact to the people of the South-that, eighteen out of twenty-two Southern Senators, and almost the same proportion of Soulh? ern Representatives are opposed to the repeal of the Sherman act, unless so coupled with other legislation, and that the "other legislation" is more important lo their constituents than the repeal is. These constituents, of whom the great majority do not live in towns, are faithfully represented by those Senators and Representa? tives, and they regard with increas? ing anxiety-to use no stronger word -the situation in Washington, and the reports which are in circulation as to the practical repudiation of party pledges, and the use of Ex? ecutive patronage in connection with legislation. A timely compromise may save both the Democratic party and the public interests from disaster ; the failure to effect such a compromise and the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act, without further currency legislation, will produce results which will be most lamen? table. At least such is my honest conviction. A. M. WAD- XL. September 18th, 1393. - ?- ? i i The Rise of a Boy. This boy goes to business ana at his business begins hy simply doing the things he is told to do and doing them in a common and ordinary way If he stops here, he remains all his lifelong a drudge But if he begins to see that business has a significance; that his life is not merely sweeping the store, not merely writiog letters, not merely selling goods ; if he begins to see the higher life involved in business ; if he begins to see that busi? ness is a greater instrument of benefi? cence than what we call beneficence ; that trade is clothing thousands of men where charity clothes ten ; that agri? cultural and milliog industries are feed? ing thousands of men where charity feeds ten ; if he begins to see how the whole history of the world is linked together, and is God's way of building up humanity, and serving humanity, as he gets this larger view and enters into it, life is enriched and becomes itself the minister whereby love is en? larged and conscience is strengthened, the school wherein he is educated out of the lower into the higher... Re has now risen, or is rising from that which is mortal into that which is immortal and eternal-Dr. Lyman Abbott. _ - M^^1 Representative Maddox, of Georgia, says: "tuc people of this coutry must have and will have in the near future, a system of finance that will render it impossible for a few individual* to wreck the country at their will We owst wrench this power from Wall street OT the existence of this Republic will be short lived." The Greenville News charges the Reform paper of the State with a want of manliness in refusing to con? demn the Cotton Plant for accusiog Judge Hudson of being mfiuenced in his decision in the Darlington Dis? pensary case by the money of the Whiskey Ring. Speaking for the Dispatch we regard Judge Hudson's reputation for uprightness, purity of purpose, integrity, and spotless char? acter sufficient refutatiou of the silly charge, and to have denied it would have been giving color to it -r-Lextog ton Despatch