City of Union and Suburbs Has r|^ 1 1 | 1 I T T / \ TT "? Jf T|"^ *^^^HpnteT^Suto|?? Mil \ FWe Large Cotton Mills, One Knitting g I I B J i \ fl fl I * M /fl '8J Jyflfaraib'.l .Schools, Waterworks, \ and Spinning Mill with Dye Plant, Oil D m H B System; Electric Lights, Tli?e \ Mill, Furniture Manufacturing ami fl I B J | 1 I 1 f aggregate eanital of tMO.OUp: * 1 Lumber Yards, Female Seminary. JL JL .ML^A JL 1 _ WL ^ 1'opolatio" 7,000. * V01,. L1V. NO 49 ?.rkofCoor? UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, rKll)^JjjpB%gfe?304. flflm ' HI I I I 11 ?BrinTvour Idle 4 ) t AND WE WILL y ?k A FAIR RATE 'f i ON TIME DEP( " Wm. fl, RICHOLSas THE CHINESE EXCLUSION TREATY. Scheme to Injure the Laboring Class. ^ An attempt is on foot to take away from the laboring man of this country the safeguards thrown around them by the congress to protect them against /N1 . . - 1 uninese competition, and to substitute for the law a treaty to be agreed upon by the secretary of state, and the Chinese minister, and be sent by the president to the senate for its ratification in secret session behind closed doors. The state department tells its own story in semi-official statements furnished to the press. The Washington Star of October 10 contains the following. It is given with the Star's heading. The Star is a thick-and-thin Republican supporter of the administration: chinese exclusion. * foundations for a new treaty nowbbJng.daid: , jgecreiary ^Hay^^gid Sir Chen' tung Liang Cfl^rJIlRve 'at last V&?fe|gun to lnjL the foundation for a \ - tion will be ready for submission ' to the senate at the approaching \ session in December next. The ! treaty win, it 19 understood, re-, f, place all existing law on the sub-1 .f\ ject, and under ordinary Condi's*: tions that fact might be expected to arouse antagonism on the part , of the house of representatives, which will thus be deprived of a share in the framing of exklus' \ ion measures. However, it is believed that a disclosure of the purpose of the new treaty will reconcile the house to the adoption of the method proposed to effect the exclurion of undesirable Chinese, I and will assure the approval of the treaty by the senate. It is the intention to continue in full force in the treaty the principle j the exclusion of Chinese cool-' ies, and the Chinese government itself is perfectly willing that that should be done. But the treaty will contain provisions re-. garded as much needed and, earnestly sought for by the Chinese 'government for many years, I looking to a more considerate, liberal and kindly treatment of the higher class of Chinese seek-; M \ ing to enter our ports. There ' have been constant complaints of 1 indignities heaped upon Chinese merchants and scholars and even high-class officials by the harsh I application of the existing ex-1 elusion laws, and the collectors of customs and immigration officials have uniformly answered criticisms on that point by the declaration that they were simply enforcing the law which it is now the purpose to qualify by the new convention." The Associated Press was furnished with the statement, and the department was at once bombarded with protests by telegraph from various sections. To allay as much as possible the hostile feelings aroused by this new departure on the Chinese ^ question, the state department made the following defense through the medium of the Washington Star of the 11th. * Read what it says "by authority'" EXCLUDING CHINESE LABOR. REASON FOR URGENCY IN DRAFT" ING THE NEW TREATY. Tne announcement that negotiations are afoot for a new Chinese exclusion treaty appears to have caused a good deal of agita Money To Us, | - ALLOW YOU * ;> >t * I OF INTEREST ? Y T >S1TS . ? | '4 & SON, Bankers, jjj tion in certain strongly anti-Chinese circles. To clear up apprehension which seems to exist on their part that the president proposes to open wider the door to Chinese immigration into the ' United States, it is stated on authority that there is no such intention. The subject was referred to at the cabinet meetingtoday and it was afterwards stated that the state department 1 i.L - J i-- - ' * anu uie department 01 commerce and labor, the latter charged with the execution of exclusion laws and treaties, are working in perfect harmony and in consultation with the Chinese minister here to frame a treaty that shall be cast upon the lines of the existing treaty, continuing the present rigid exclusion of coolie labor and simply moderating the conditions under which Chinese merchants and scholars may be admitted to the United States. Something of that kind is regarded as necessary in view of the fact that by direction of his government the Chinese minister last spring formally denounced the Chinese exclusion treaty. TVlflt. nntipp will folra On cember 6 next and there will be no treaty relations between the governments governing that subject until a new treaty is'agreed upon. It is true that the president Has decided to enforce the existing Chinese exclusion laws after the abrogation of the treaty, but there is just sufficient doubt in the official mind as to the extent of the powers that may be employed legally to effect the exclusion that a new treaty is regarded as desirable." The treaty of 1894 contains a provision that it may be terminated at the end of ten years from the date of the exchange of ratifications, if either party shall give six months' notice therefor. Ratifications of this treaty were exchanged December 7, 189K The Chinese government gave the required notice that the treaty would be terminated December 7, 1904. Congress was not in session when this notice was given and unless called in extra session will not meet until the 5th of next December. The treaty of 1894 contains the following liberal provisions in its third article: The provisions of this convention shall not affect the right at present enjoyed of Chinese subjects, being officials, teachers, . i . . _i i * * siuaenis, merchants or travelers for curiosity or pleasure, but not laborers, of coming to the United States and residing therein." | A new treaty could do no more, except to admit Chinese of other classes who are now excluded. The motive for a new treaty must therefore be to secure some advantage not contemplated in the present treaty or in existing law. The people will not know what it . contains until it. has been conisidered in secret session, behind . the closed doors of the senate. And yet it is to "replace all ex, isting law on the subject." I it is an extraordinary attempt to secure by hidden methods, what should only be considered in open session by both houses of congress. More than this: It is an attempt to secure legislation by the treaty-making power, which has repeatedly been refused by the house of representatives. i Our only hope is that twothirds of the senate cannot be dragooned into such a scheme, for the modification of the Chinese exclusion law demanded only by the Chinese government and by the American advocates of free trade in Chinese labor, i We are assured by the state department that the new treaty will continue in force ''the principle of exclusion of Chinese coolies," The existing treaty says nothing of "coolies." It speaks of "Chinese labofers" in all cases. If only "coolies" are to be excluded, it would be easy for the executive department to construe the word to mean unskilled laborers only. Indeed, that is its commonly accepted meaning. All classes of skilled laborers could then be admitted. So every Chinese laborer of whatever class might find that under the new treaty he could, upon his own statement, be classed as a scholar, student, teacher, traveler or other "high-class" Chinamen. Forewarned is forearmed. Let everv waire parnpr wntpVi tPo officials who sit in secret conclave with the Chinese minister to "-replace all existing laws" on the subject of exclusion, with a treaty satisfactory to the Chinese government, and to its allies in this country.. Appeal to the senators from your respective states to oppose such a treaty. o THE SOUTH S OPPORTUNITY. Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore, the exponent of the industrial and railroad interest? of the South, while in New York recently talked about the business conditions in the South. He said: "Optimism reigns throughout the South. The pessimist ha? been relegated to the rear, or.> rather, the pessimist has been changed by the abounding pros perity of the South to an enthusb astic optimist. . ''During the eight or nine years from 1891 to. 1899, iu whicl ? averagted * a low?e than ever before in the history of the industry except betweer 1841 and 1848, the agricultural interests of the South had tc pass through a period of gloom and hopelessness. During the worst of the depression the farmers lost probably as much a I $100,000,000 a year on cotton, the average New York price fo? , the crop of 1898 being only sir cents a pound ?far below tlu j actual cost of production. "Some years ago the Wes' went through the same conditio: of agricultural impoverishmen by reason of low-price wheat an< corn, but at that time the West had a larger industrial development to sustain its business in terests than the South had during the period of low-price col ton. "With cotton now back to th average price of the last 10- ] years, bringing to the cotton growers greater prosperity thai they have known since before the war, with rapid industria and railroad upbuilding, the South has entered upon a perio of prosperity which promises t< surpass the dreams of its most enthusiastic friends. In the last five years of higher-price cotton the value of the cotton crops ha: exceeded by $1,000,000,000 tlv value of the five preceding crops, notwithstanding the fact that tht gain in bales has been trifling. "In the past, conditions which prevailed-slavery before the war, reconstruction for 15 years after the war, the lack of knowledge of the South by the outside world?all combined to make it practically impossible .to turn immigration to the South. Now that the South has solved all of the perplexing problems of the past, and has demonstrated to the world its unoqiialed"ad vantage*? bs rr,h<yrfte*;'<V>r the! farmer, as a placd^f* for ' the merchant and manufacturer and of investment for "the -capitalist; now that it has accumulated capital'And experience in industrial development, it is ready to begin the real work of material upbuilding and of turning population southward. "With cotton at about present prices, the cotton crop will yield to the South about $650,000,000 a year. While its cotton is thus in value double the value of the | crop of 1808, which was the largest ever raised, its grain crops are showing up equally well com last {SKkL re por AgricMB^vSS^pSSt^il^MT value t-ji^ai ptoducts ! was it wiMy^o*^??|iPil$06^ of has in^Kg^xt:] <] j |l mines BillBattfth .''add w^TftsVfe v a totalJH ^>#00,0(^yjjp0 a \ as 50 ^per^^^^iore, entire ago. ^ At that timltlie Sout^^d t] >zi,wu,ouu. m?e4teci ih cotton |? nills, which consumed 225,000 (,a bales annually; now llm. Soutn fi has $200,060,000 invested in cot- * ton ttfflfi^nsuinigg^ 2,000,000 J >ales a y<wF. ^he*^J%rae^f- .'its ? lumber^products lias increased a from $39,000,000 in 1880 to $200,- P )00,000. and its railroads from s< iO,0Q0?ta|les to nearly 65,000 ? bile^ * ; H "Thifes facts are but indica* $ ?Ioiw?KVfhe genen&l trend ofrf nateri^f advancement throu fiftir"fl >ut the South; but, interesting is they are, they do not by any j nanner of means begin to teil , he whole story. They are simply j c indications of the future. All j c\ hat has been accomplished has ^ >een against the overwhelming l; >dds of poverty and misrepre-,sc ;entation, disorganized labor, 1. ack of capital and lack of skill, i 1 .vhich the South had to face 25 j v;. /ears ago, when it really began f1 its material upbuilding after the j1); :*econstruction days. j "Infinitely greater in its im- j* lortanee for the future than all / -hat has been accomplished is sj( he experience and backbone gained by the manufacturer and CJ1 -he operative, by the landowner ind the banker, and by the peo- j () ile of the South of every class, j ich and poor, learned and un- je earned. This experience, this lackbone, which was so much w leeded after the long struggle of {y .var, reconstruction and poverty; v -his knowledge of inherent u. strength in themselves and of xnindless wealth-creating possi- labilities in their country, have nj iispelled the hopelessness and r( he gloom of the past and thrilled .); the people with a quickening ;ense of their own power and of j-( the illimitable possibilities which it retch before them. p, "Great as have been the: 0\ achievements of the last 25 years, wonderful as has been the story al of the increase in manufactures, in in railroad construction and traf- ot fic and in agricultural advance- e( ment, the next 10 years will show 01 i far greater aggregate develop- |? ment than the last 25. We have jn barely begun to develop, we have i)( barely scratched the ground in ai the utilization of the coal and c( iron ore of the South, and yet w we find ourselves in coal and iron fr 1 i? ? production equal to tne entire vv country in 1880. "The prosperity of the farmer.} la brought about by diversified agri- c culture and bv tlie higher price a of cotton opens to this section the vi possibility of great immigration, which never could have been tl brought about with low-price f( cotton. r< "Population and capital alike seek the country of prosperity, g and not the country of poverty, ij So long as the South was poor r< immigrants and investors were shy of that section. Soon the jT South will be the most attractive t? spot in America, ar.d that means J roy^ jt t ^ ?RTV HOURS Vs ?W ft PUNqEON t TlUSfij|li? ,Storv of the Capture, imprisonment and Treatment of | Confederate Soldier,^: ' BY B. M. HORD, NASHVILLE* 1 was a member of Dobb^rs^ .egimient, Walker's Brigade ol irkansas Cavalry, and a ah or; ime after our fiasco at Ottl< lock, where our army abandohec strongly fortified position with ut firing a shot, except a iittU avalry skirmish below the town was captured bv the Eicrhtl lissouri Feheral Cavalry and, fter spending a few days in tin enitentiary at Little Rock, war 3nt with a batch of o'therprlsonrs to St. Louis and confined ir [cDowell's old Medical College diTch had been converted into i ederal prison. Shortly aftej w an unsuccessful *afe Jtnpt to escape was_irmdsL Jto itting througif a pnrtition wal rat divided the college from t Impel or schoolroom. I was ac jsed of being , in the plot and, ith a number of others, was romptly sent to Rock Island, >me four hundred miles above, This prison, located on an isnd in the Mississippi River, as a square inclosure of some ght or ten acres, surrounded y a heavy plank fence twelve or >urteen feet high, with a perafour feet from the top exuding all around on the outside >r the sentinels, and on the inde, ten or fifteen feet from the nee, there was a shallow ditch tiled the "dead line." Prison's were not allowed nearer the nee than this diPh upon penty of being shot without chalnge by the sentinels. Several ere killed while I was there ho thoughtlessly stepped over le line. Two, I remember, ere killed ?t different times ho, in the excitement ot a ball ime, chased the ball across the tch. The barracks were about inety by twenty feet, built of >ugh upright boards, with a irtition at one end for a kitchen, hich was furnished with a >rty-gallon kettle in which we (1 all of our cooking save the [ ead. The kitchen was presided ,'er by a sergeant of the baricks and his cooks, who were so prisoners. Wooden bunks i three tiers, one above the her, in which we slept, extend1 the full length of the building i each side. The barracks were jilt in uniform rows across the iclosure, with a broad avenue ?gilining at the main entrance id running directly through the mter of the prison. The houses ere numbered consecutively om one up to eighty-four. I as in barrack twenty-four. When we arrived at Kock Isnd, early in December. 1863, ol. Rust was in command with detachment of the Fourtn Inalid Corps. He was a kindparted old fellow, and just tc le prisoners; but unfortunatelj >r us the old colonel was soor jmoved, and in his place cam< 3 inhuman a brute as ever dis raced the uniform of any coun *y, one A. J. Johnson, with hi< jpriment of negroes for tfuan uty, leaving the Fourth Invalk en, many of whom had prrowi * middle age in the service 01 he frontier, for liK'ht fatigu< ARTHUR, Cashier. | inttlpNational Bank, I |!CrrV$(!R IJUSINP.SS. I ^jlty, jkutS as calling the roll of -k^to|norning and evening, n Matagof these old, battle-scarred I kYeteHmS^dnd their officers were ) ] Kimnflraijiposed toward us, but (tared npf show it beyond a word or look,, for every devilish device that, could be conjured up in the brain of'a savage to make us suf fer Wa# put in force by Johnson. Mefa ifrere brutally punished upon - the;.^lightest pretext. 1 saw tied np to the fence by i tn^Elmunbs, their toes barely f< toucnj^Kthe ground, in the hot, cbrpilitt?iun until theyj would ' famt, #id when cut down by the , guarcfe<;fWl limp and unconscious, while n0ie of us dared approach; I for theyi were next the fence, [t over the dead line, and grinning ^ negro sent aels stood just ahove : theW.with ready guns in hand. 1 We were no longer allowed the " privilege of buying provisions 3 from -tp<s_post sutler or to receive ' such JWmjgs from home; at the. 1 same, time our rations had been gradually reduced to less than J naif - jihe amount issued to us^ whealjje first reached the Rodk " Isla^Hb*ison. Hunger began to ->* d^yej^pbhe savage instincts thut ' lte cf^Rant in us all; men grew 5 ugly 14; temper, quarrels and fightetjrere frequent over their ' 'sfa^5Stte,t2L^efc this' was Sut - * o-zp^W^taste of what V$8 to coiW;>V'-' 1 In the summer of 1864 ^y,clye ^ t? \ barracks in the southeast corner " t>of the inclosure, near the main ; entrance to the prison, were ' fenced off, the occupants trans' ferred to other barracks; and at roll call one morning we were informed that the United States government htd opened a rej cruiting office in our prison, and that all who would take the oath and join the United States army would be moved into the new pen?cclf pen,- we called itfurnished good clothing, bountiful rations, paid one hundred dollars bounty, the post sutler permitted to bring in whatever they wanted to eat, and that they would not be sent south to fight, but out on the frontier to hold , the I Julians in subjection. Never, I since the Son of Man was temptI In; tllQ '!?<"! kjj i,.iv; vicvi|, >v<in Uisnuilur more cunningly devised or temptingly displayed- Quite a number jumped at the bait, mostly men who were willing to take the oath under any circumstances; ; but after this came the heroic struggle between patriotism and ' starvation, for our rations had been still further reduced under I the pretext of creating a "pris' oners' fund" to pay for mediIcines, caring for our sick, and to pay for such clothing as tlv* governmeht issued us, (See "Record of Rebellion," Series 11., Vol. 8.) But every few days , starvation would claim a victory. . It was pitiful, flaunt forms with the glare of wolfish hunger in ! their eyes, the very pictures of ; famine, could be seen going up [ to take the oath, tears streaming ; down their faces and curses 011 ' the Yankees from their lips, their , poor, shriheled Tesh showing beneath fluttering rags, for when one of this kind was starved into . submission, knowing he would soon be well supplied, he ex~ ' changed his clothes with some more needy comrade, /a \ ^ uo do continued) > ^ ' A Shakespeare Bible brought 1 $1,050 at an auction sale in Lon" don this week. It would have j brought more, only some experts 1 feared that it was Bacon and not 1 Shakespeare who wrote the autoQ graph on the fly leaf.