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Consolidated AU?. 2,1881. New Series-Yoi. XIX. No. 6 Publishftd Swr? "BTedaes Lay, -BY ]> . C3r. Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. T8RXS : $1,50 per su ca m-io advance. A. D V t B T I 8 K K E fi T : CE ? Square first insertion..$1 00 JSvery subsequent insertion... 50 Contracts for .bree months, or longer wil be made at reduced rates. All comiaauie&tioas which subserve private interests will be charged for as adrertiements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be chai ged for. NIGHTMARE OF THE NATION. The Fearful Barden of the Pension Boll. i From H16 to Joly 1, 1899, the commencement; of the present fiscal year, the United States^ government bas paid in pensions to. soldiers and sailors of past wars and to their de pendents tbs enormous som of $2, 523,428,212 91. And yet the obligations of the government are bot little more than half fulfilled. According to c mci al ; computation $2,011,964,746 94 is yet to be paid to the survivors of past wars and their dependents, foot ing up a grand total of $4,543,000, 000, or more than twice the a m cu ct of money in existence in the entire country. This does not include the pension payments that will result from the Spanish American war of last year It would seem from the above showing that the proverbial saying that " Republics are ungrateful" can nave no application to this republic, especially in relation to its pension system. More money is paid annu ally by the United States government io pensions than by any other half dozen governments in the world. This ls the more strange when you stop to consider that under a mon archical form of government rewards may be conferred by the crown. Emperor William, of Germany, can promote a subaltern to a regiment for a slight service ; Qaeen Victoria cac present a crown jewel to a successful courtier ; Nicholas il, Czar of all the Eussias, can give a province to a favorite captain ; but in the republic of the United States Uncle Sam has no such prerogatives. Indeed, bis authority is so restricted and limited that he cannot confer a single dollar of the people's money upon an indi vidual, no matter how meritorious his claim may be, without authority from congress. Such is the difference between a monarchical and republican form of government, and yet the United States is moro liberal in the distriba tion of its bounties to its defenders than any nation in the world. In strange contrast is the pension system of the United States with those of the leading European na tions. When you stop and consider the enormous standing armies of Great Britain, Germany, France end Kassia, and compare their annual pension payments with those of. the United States, the situation becomes the more remarkable. The average peace strength of the imperial army of Germany is 479,229 men, exclusive of volunteer officers, surgeons, paymasters and other non combatants. Last year the pension payments of Germany, which are the largest of any Earopean country, were as follows : Prussia. 44,900,900 marks ; Saxony, 3,363,000 marks ; Wortenberg, 2,368,000 marks; Ba varia, 6,462,000 marks, making a total of 57.093,900 marks, or $15. 599,348 20. Germany's appropriation for naval pensions last year was only 13,692 marks, or $3,159. The pension system of Fraace^is very different from that in vogue in ibis country. Ail employes of the government receive pensions, which are paid from a fond derived from deductions made from the annual salaries of the employes The same principles apply to the army, where a 5 per cent d duction is made from the salary of the army officers for the benefit of the retired Hst. Direct appropriations are made by the British government for the pay ment of pensions for its soldiers and tailors, bot the amount is so insignifi cant that no comparison can be made with the pension appropriations of this country. The estimated pay ments for the fiscal year 1899 are as follows : Retired half pay officers, etc., 1,567,800 ; pensions for offi eera who have received wounds etc , 1,335,600 ; for the superannuated, etc , 177,300 ; making a total of 3,080,700 ; or, in -round numbers, $15.403,500. The estimated appropriations for the support of the British army, whicl cambers 163,560 men of al) rank, ii time of peace, for this year, including the pensions, is more than $50,000, 000 less than the pension paymenti of the United States for last year the amount being 10,220,500, o; $96,102,500 in round numbers. The pension system of this coun try, which has grown to such enor mons proportions, commenced it 1776, when the Continental Congresi resolved that all officers who shoulc continue in the service until the enc of the war should receive half pay foi seven years after peace was estab lished. In 1780 the provisions o this law were extended to the widowi and orphans of those who died in th< service. The half pay for sevei years was extended to half-pay foi life, 8nd subsequently commuted tc full pay for five years Pension* were granted under this law amount ing to $50,100 per annum, and in creased until 1791, until they reach ed the then enormous sum of $175, 813 88 Between 1806 and 1818 principle was established by whicl: ! all persons, whether officers or pri vates, who had been disabled in thc ! course of military service should bc I provided for at the public expense From 1791 to 180V there was a grad nal decrease until the pension expen ditures amounted to only $70,500 Under various legislative enactments the pension roll increased untii ir 1816, when it amounted to $286, 055 72, the highest figure thus fai reached On March 1, 1817, Con gress authorized the issuance of addi tiona! pensions, and in 1818, the ! pension payments amounted to $426 I 480. In 1818, thirty-five years after the close of the Revolution, a furtaei extension occurred, by which pen j sions were granted to ail the survi vors of the war, who for any reasoc stood in need of pecuniary assistance Under the provisions of this law the pension payments reached the mil lion dollar mark for the first time ic the history of the government, amounting in 1819 to $2,416,829 04 In the following year, 1820, they rose to $3,218 494 70. At this the gener al public became alarmed, the num ber of applications under the formel act being about 8,000. In response to the general clamor, on May 1, 1820, Congress passed what was known as the "Alarm Act," which required all pensioners on the rolle to furnish a schedule of the amount of property then in their possession. Many of the pensioners wbose sched ules showed that they possessed too much property were dropped from the rolls Pensioners were dropped who owned property to the extent oi 150. Under the operations of this law the payments dropped from $3, 218,404 in 1820, to $244,778 97 in the following year. This legislation proved equally unpopular, and OE March 15, 1822, Congress passed s law giving pensions to the commu tation pensioners, and to the widows and orphans As a result of this Acl the pension payments again rose tc nearly $2,000,000, but gradually de creased until 1828,when they amount ed to only $850,573 57. On July 7, 1832, forty nine yea after the ciose of the war, a general law was enacted pensioning all sur* vivors who served not less than sis months in the Revolutionary war. Under the operations of this Act the payments reached a new level amounting in 1833 to $4,598.851 44 Oa -July 4, 1836, fifty-three years after the termination of the war, an j act was passed granting pensions for j five years to Revolutionary war widows ; S providing they were married to the } soldier or sailor before the close of his last service, and that his service was not less than six months. Even under i this aod subsequent enactments, bow j ever, the pensions payments decreased I until 1862. wben they amounted to i mly $852.170 47. I It is a singular fact that nearly all j pension enactments became a law sf er j he o'icse of the war for which they ! were intended. The first law granting ; pensions fer service in the war of 1812 ! wa3 passed February 14, 1871. fifty-six j years after the ciose of the war. This ; act required sixty days' service, and : widows were cot eotitled to pensions i unless they were married to the soldier j or sailor prior to the treaty of peace, j Later, on March 9, 1878, sixty-three j years subsequent to tba termination of ! the war, an act was passed reducing the period of service in the case of widows. The first aot granting pensions to toe survivors of the war with Mexioo was passed June 29, 1887, thirty-nine years after the close of tho war No provi sion was made for the survivors of the Black Hawk, Creek, Cherokee and Florida war with the Seminole India is, which occurred from 180*2 to 1842, until July 27, 1892, fifty years after the period ioeluded in the war. The first general pension law was enacted July 14, 1862, in wbiob it was provided that any officer, soldier, sailer or marine disabled by reason of wounds or diseases contracted in the service of the United States and in the linc of duty, might be pensioned for such disability daring its continuance. It was also provided that, io case of his death from causes originating as above set forth, his widow or his ohildren under 16 years of age might receive pensions. Subsequent laws enacted down to and including 1890 further extended the system so as to include all soldiers and sailors who had been honorably discharged, who were suffer iog from wounds received or disease contracted as a result of their service, and made provisions for widows and orphans. In 1860 there were only 8,636 names on the pension rolls, receiving $1,102, 926.15 annually. In 1865 the pension roils had been increased until they carried'85;986 pensioners, who drew io that year 16,525,153. Io 1870 there were 189,686 pensioners who drew io that year 27,780,811. In 1875 234,821 pensioners, who drew $29, 683,116. In 1880 there was a further increase in the number of pensioners to 250,802, who received that year from the government $57,240,540. In 1885 345,125 pensioners drew $65,693,706 in 1890 537,944 pensioners drew $106,493,890. The pension roils for the fiscal year ending June 20 last will show nearly 1,000,000 pensioners and an annual expenditure of $147,000,000. Ic is an interesting, fact to note that from 1791 to 1876,period of eighty six years, the total peosioo payments amounted to only $339,376,536.29, or $43,000,000 less than the annual petfsion appropriations for the past three years. From 1876 to June 30, 1899, ioclusive, the payments have amounted to $2,125,090,'676 62. Webster Ballinger. Florida Whitecaps Give Bond Tampa, Fia., Aug. 30.-George E. Durham, Bart Smith, John Webb, Gary Smith, Horace Tupper, Harry Horse and Madison Barber, who were arrested Saturday night on warrants ohargiog them with whitecappicg Postmaster Cram, of Peck, Fla., were today released on bond ranging from $1,000 to $3,000. A preliminary hearing will be held at Peck next Monday. Postmaster Cram, who was so badly beaten, is improving and will be oat of bed in a day or two. Warrants were sworn out for 16 peopie charged with participating in the whipping, but only seven have been apprehended. Cat His Jugular Vein. Rock Hill, Aug 31.-A serious cutting affair occurred at the Man chester mill yesterday, the partici pants being Mr. Bob Jones, a boss weaver, and Howe, a spinner. It seems that Jones came to Howe, where he was at work,and ordered bim to do something or other, and upon Howe refusing Jones strack him Howe immediately went at his man with a knife, slashing him in the throat and inflicting a terrible look ing and exceedingly dangerous wound Jones had the presence of mind to grab up a big bank of yarn and wrap it tight around his throat, and well he did, for his jugular vein was cat through and had he not used the compress be would have died be fore help could arrive A physician was gotten in a few moments and he tied ap the ends of the severed vein. Jones is very seriously wounded, but the chances now with him are. for re covery. Howe was arrested and carried before Magistrate Beckman. He was released upon bond. The Recent Rains in Texas. To the Editor of the News and Courier : Having seen so much writ ten about the cotton crop, and so much wild speculation as to the re suit of the recent rains in Texas and their benencial effect upon the crop of that State, and having had a prac tical experience of ten years in grow ing the plant, I will venture to say a few words cn this subject. As to the effect of the recent rains on the cotton crop ; every intelligent planter is aware of the fact that when cotton ceases to grow from lack of moisture at least ten days will elapse, after the rain comes, be fore the plant will commence to grow. After this new growth commences it will be one month before the bloom appears, after which two months will elapse before the opening of the fully matured boll From these facts it will be seen that it takes over three mouths for the cotton to mature after the falling of seasonable rains. Now, how can any reasonable man say that the recent rains in Texas will affect the yield of the cotton now ? lt ia per fectly absurd. As as a rule the cot ton market is influenced to a great extent by the estimates contained in letters written by men who have no experimental knowledge of the nature and growth of the cotton plant. J E Barnett. Mayesville, Aug 29, 1899. Georgia Negro Rioters. Pour Troops of Cavalry to Relieve Infantry at Darien. Darien, Ga., Aug. 29.-Four troops of cavalry have been ordered to relieve the infantry on duty here since last Thor8day. The cavalry will be ander command of Col. Lawton of the First Georgia Regiment, and wiil remain as long as it is deemed necessary to keep troops for the preservation cf order. The tog Crescent City has sailed for Savannah with a gnard of 25 soldiers to bring here the 28 rioters ooofined in the jail at that place. There ors 18 rioters in jail here. The trials will begin tomorrow morning before a special term of the superior court The third Delegal was arrested today without trouble. The address issued by the negro leaders of McIntosh County to their race is having excellent effect. It is an able paper and signed by six preachers, the postmaster, the chairman of the Republican party, the collector of the port and one editor, all colored. It says io part : "With the unfortunate causes that led to the present condition of affairs, we have nothiBg whatever to do. They are matters for the superior court, and by that tribunal they will be adjudi cated. We are concerned only in restoring peace and in doing so as quickly as possible without the shedding of another drop of blood. "Avoid all fear and excitement on account of the presence of soldiers They are here for the protection of the lives of men and womeu of both races, equally, and to see to it that the law is upheld and obeyed. "Avoid every act that has even the appearance of lawlessness. Do not carry any firearms. Be very careful to observe the law with regard to the carrying of concealed weapons. Speak temperately about current affairs. "Let every woman abstain from all words that may incite to rashness or ujay be abusive. Let them stay at home. And by all means let every mao see to it that no colored woman shall show her face at the coori house or on the streets adjacent thereto, during the coming session of the court. "Wa most ooderstand that the courts are instituted for the settlement of all questions of right and wrong. The good of the entire people is paramount to the interests of any individual. The courts must be sustained and their offi cers, at all hazzards, most be respected aod obeyed ; law must be upheld/ Nothing Wrong With His Accounts. Wilmington, M. C, Aug. 29 - Business went on very quietly at the banking house of the Wilmington Savings and Trust company today. The individual deposits exceed the withdrawals, roany of those who called for their balan as yesterday returned the money today and couf deoce is now fully restored. The following telegram to Mr J. W. Norwood, president of the Sav ings bank, was received tonight from Harry Walters, vice president of the bank and president of the Atlantic Coast Line system. Newport, R I , Aug. 29 Wire me at the Cloister, Newport, if you wish me to send money. I will supply whatever may be requir ed IL Walters. The combination numbers being known only to the absent cashier, machinists opened one of the safes today and access was thus gained to the cash bos and the books. The cash balance of $807 referred to in these dispatches last night was found intact It was also discovered that Cashier Sloan had taken only the baiance of salary due him and 100 for which he left his note with ampi? collateral attached thereto. The Unvarnished Truth. The Columbia Record says : "The enforcement of the dispensary law in Charleston is a rough and knotty problem. It ought to be enforced there, but how is it to be ? Ile who answers that question is a modern Solomon." One of the reasons why the dispensary law is not enforced in Charleston is discreditable to the pub lie sentiment in that city, for the fact bas been alleged and admitted from the beginning that Charleston was to be recognized as an exception to the general rule. Pubiic opinion there has been encouraged from the outset to accept the theory that the dispen sary law was incompatible with Charleston's traditions, interests and surroundings, and hence the viola tions of tbe law are looked upon as more virtuous than its enforcement ThiV. is the plain, naked, unvarnished truth about the matter -Greenville Mountaineer. Yokohama, Sept. 1 -Six hundred lives have been lest by the flooding of a copper mine at Bistbi, island of SkU^su. p Mr. Murat Halstead Was Almost Mobbed. Lectured to an Audience of Red Hot Anti-Imperialists. Cincinnati. Ang. 31 -Editor Mu rat Elalstead lectured tonight by invitation before the Economic club The audience was miscellaneous in addition to the members of the club, which is largely anti-imperialistic. Mr. Halstead;s subject was the Phil ippines. After the lecture according to the rules of the club, Mr. Halstead was plied with questions. One of the questioners with decided sympa thy for Aguinaldo after his question had been answered, added the re mark : ' I hope Otis will be kept in and will keep on blundering till he and the whole army are driven into the eea or captured " Mr. Halstead said : "A man with those sentiments is a traitor to his country.'7 Several men jumped up and re marked : "Two thirds of this audi ence think that way." Mr. Halstead replied : "Whoever thinks that way is a traitor." Then there was a rush down the hail with raised fists toward Mr. Halstead, but a great number of men stepped in between Mr. Halstead and those who were rushing at him. There was a great noise and uproar, which disclosed the fact that ihs audience was composed of men on both sides of that question. Mr. Halstead was quietly led out of the church by a side door and taken home No blows Were struck, but chairs and seats were upset -and there were loud threats and great uproariousness - i i mm Capt. Chanoine's Path Mark ed by Wholesale Slaughter. Paris, Sept 1.-The Matin today publishes details of the investigation into the conduct of Capt. Voulet and Capt. Chanoine, charged with bar barous cruelties to the natives in the French Soudan, which led to the sending of an expedition, under Lieut. Col. Klobb, after them. Ac cording to the paper, the two officers mentioned, who were in command of a column of- troops, began their work of barbarity by beheading a native who had declared he did not know a road about which he was being ques tioned. Subsequently it is declared Voulet captured 80 natives of whom he ki'* d 20 of the wemen and chil drpq hot a soldier fot>-wasting am ii. on and burned a village of 10, OOO inhabitants. Chanoine, it is added, shot two of bis men without trial for not pursu ing a native, and, having lest six men in an engagement, rushed a village and captured 20 of the inhabitants, of which number he kiiled 10, plac ing their heads on pickets. It is futber charged that Chanoine allowed bis men to mutilate the bodies of the natives who were killed by cutting off their heads Darien, Ga.,Ang. 31.-Thirty-seven true bills were returned by the grand jury against the negro rioters. In 22 cases no bills were found and the pris oners were released. The rioters will be tried io blocks of five, and the tris,' will begin tomorrow. The Deleg is will be tried for murder next Tuesday. Austin, Tex , Aag. 31 -State Health Officer Blunt tonight, upon receipt of the information that there were two cases of yellow fever at Key West, declared a rigid State quarantine against that place and notified ai! Texas coast points to plaoo tn quarantine any ships cocuiog from Key West. The quarantine will be rigidly observed until ali danger is passed. Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 1.-The Southern railway daring the dull season cf 1S96 made a cut of ten - r cent, in wages of ali employes cn the system. Some months ago the wages of shopmen were restored, while the engineers also secured a slight inores.se. It is learn ed that President Spencer has decided to restore the 10 per cent, cut and that aoncuncemer.t to this effect will be made about Sept. 10. In Chattanooga and immediate vicinity at least 500 men are affected. Supt. Chas A. Wicker8bam of the Alabama Great Southern, which is operated by the Southern railway, will probably be put in charge of Atlantic division of the main line. BSOMJfEiyl Makes the food more de ROYAL GAK NG POW FILIPINOS WILL NOT SURRENDER, Frederick Punston's View of the Situation. Manila, Sept. 1, 8.10 a. m.-Of the troops about to, return to the United States the Kansas meo will leave OQ bord the transport Tartar, the Wash ington regiment on board the Pennsyl vania and the Nevada cavalry on the Ohio All three departures will occur within the next week. Eight hundred men of the Kansas regiment will return aad 200 will remain at Manila, 150 of them re-eoiisting. Three officers and 30 men of the Kansas were Killed and 19 officers and men died from disease during the smallpox epidemic, while 122 members of the regiment were wounded. Of the Washingtons, 875 men are embarking, while eight officers and 206 men will stay, most of those remaining re-enlisting in the new regiments being formed here. One of the officers of the regiment was killed, one was wounded and one died from disease. Twenty four of the men were killed, 128 were wounded and nine died. f Gen. Frederick Fuoston and Mrs. Funston are with the general's regi ment. Gen. Fuoston has undergone an operation necessitated by an injury re sulting from a fal; from his horse while serving in the Cuban army with Gen. Gomez. . thc course of an interview Gen. jjuusioD remarked that he would not mind staying in Luzon. He dislikes war but inasmuch as there is fighting be would like to remain and aid in bringing it to a close. Speaking of the future be said : "The only solution of the problem will be through whippiog the insurgents. I do not think they will surrender. When we begin active operations against them on a large scale io the autumn we will scatter them into small bands, and I think when the soldiers comprising these bands see that they are persistently pursued they will throw away or hide their arms and return to the pursuits of peace A ^ear heneo small bodies of armed men fill be able to go anywhere in Luzon. Tte island has always been infested with bandits, and was never safe fer Europeans to travel in. Prob ably after the end of the fighting the highwaymen will be moro numerous, I because the members of Aguinaldo's army, who have lived for years with guss in their hands, have acquired a taste for bush life and would rather continue as highwaymen than return tc work. "Cavalry is needed here The coun try, when dry, is superb for cavalry operation?. The insurgents have none. Ooe of their Btrong points is their abil ity to retreat rapidly. Cavalry would overtake and hopelessly scatter and punish them, and could subsist largely on the country. Wheo cavalry U once here it should be given a chance to go ahead and not be kept in towns for guard duty. Our greatest successes have been gained when the regimental commanders have been allowed to follow up the advantages gained in battle. Small bodies of Americans, separatiog freely asd oommaoded by officers of dash and energy conid easily break up the enemy. The capture of Aguinaldo by cavalry would be a less difficult proposition than the capture of the Apache chiefs io Arizona " - - Cali, see and bay, embossed or floral Crepe Paper. H. G Osteea & Co. - - i $ 9 -<??? BREAD. It lakes one barrel of flour to pro vide bread f r one person for a year. We bave two hundred under our care in the Thornweli Orphanage and will need 200 barrels during the ensuing 12 months. Can you not secure for us at least one of these ? If you cannot give it yourself, are there not neighbors of yours who wiil join in with you aud so send a barrel to the orphans ? We will cheerfully pay the freight. Who could refuse a gift of bread to the fatherless children ? We are net asking you to do it all. Although none of our orphans are Clinton born, our little town headed the flour supply with 18 barrels last year, and will do it again this year Send gifts of money to Rev. Dr. Jacobs, but 6end gifts of prevision supply to Thornweli Orphanage, Clinton, S. C. j BAKING POWDER rtyRE lidous and wholesome OER CO., NEW YORK.