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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-30
BOOT LICKING.

We have frequently read in history
of model sycophants in official stations,
particularly have we seen these characters
in monarchial governments, but candor
compels US to say that Mr.. Postmaster
General Key, of Tennessee, is the most
perfect type Of the abject fawning syco-
phant that we have ever seen or read of.
A Southern man by birth, and professed-
ly Southern man in principles and feel
ings, he has gone into Mr.. Hayes Cabi-
net, allufed by the lustre of cabinet
Office, and is seeking to build up a party
iuimical to the interests of the section
which has heretofore been his home and
done him honor. But the country could
stand this position of the cx-C Confederate,
and some would be disposed to accord
him sincerity of purpose in this Herculian
undertaking, and would at least sympa-
thize with the gigantic failure his ILL
timed movement is destined to sustain if
it were not for the disgusting pretenses
he SO blatantly makes of just finding out
what splendid people the Northerners
are, and almost regretting he was not
born on Northern soil, and such other
nonsense as he has been utteriug in his
speeches during the tour he has been
taking with the President through New
England. Mr.. Key had as we'll be talk
ing to SO many trees as trying to put such
nonsense into the heads of Yankees.
They are too shrewd to be taken in by
that kind of talk. Mr.. Key is making
no real friends at the North, and has for
feited the respect of the South. He has
shown himself to be time serving, simple
and ridiculous. We presume the Presi-
dent retains him in the cabinet to amuse
the country by keeping before it an ex-
ample of pettifogging politician who
has accidentally had unmerited greatness
thrust upon him.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-30

Ex-State Treasurer Cardozo, who, it
will be remembered, is under arrest for
malfeasance in Office, and who gave bail
for his appearance at Court, has taken
trip to New York, and one day last week
some of his furniture was found at rail-
road depot in Columbia for shipment.
1t was Immediately attached and its
transmission stopped, it is said, by his
bondsmen, who feared that the furniture
was all they would get with which to
pay his forfeited bail bond. The ex-
Treasurer's friends, however, say that he
will shortly return to Columbia, and that
the attachment of his furniture was un-
warranted. It is, however, believed by
the public that the name Of Cardozo may
justly be added to the exodus list of ex-
republican State officials, and that he
will forfeit his bail rather than come to
trial.
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THE PENITENTIARY.

Since Governor Hampton has been in
Office the worlpof pardoning convicts has
not been a prosperous one. Very few
men sent to the Penitentiary by the
courts get pardon from our Governor;
and hence, the criminals finding that
means of escape unavailing, have be-
come more active in endeavoring to es-
cape by their own efforts, and during the
past few months several have managed
to elude the guards and getaway. Some
of these have been of the worst type of
criminals, as in the case of two of those
recently sent from Darlington County
for burglary and grand larceny. This
has been too frequent and shows bad
management on the part of the Superin-
tendant. If his guards are not efficient
he should change them, and if he does
not do so then the public have the right
to lodge complaint against him. For our
part we have heretofore expressed the
opinion, that it is mistake on the part
of Governor Hampton to retain Col.
Parmellee, as Superintendent. He is
one of the Republican hoard who came
from the North to South Carolina to OBJ
tain Office under Republication, and
many of our people remember the
taunting and slanderous articles which
appeared in the Union Herald, from his
pen during the Chamberlain Greene can
vass. It was as reward for these arti-
cles that he was made Superintendent of
the Penitentiary by Ex-Governor Cham
berlain, and he remained true to the ex-
Governor until it was evident his star was
waning forever, and then with the tact of
shrewd yankee, Col. Pamellee enlisted
under another flag. he received and
spent the extravagant appropriation made
for the Penitentiary under Gov. Cham
berlain, and is therefore no fit exponent
of our idea of reform. He either used
more money under Chamberlain than
was necessary, or he is not sufficiently
economical manager to get along with
the institution under Democratic appro-
priations. In either case he should be
dismissed. |Again he is occupying a
place from which a Democrat was dis
missed on account of his political opin-
ions, and we think the Governor owes it
to the party which elected him to restore
to Office every Democrat who was dis
missed by Republican Governors on ac-
count of their political opinions: We
hope change will soon be made in this
office.
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Governor Wade HAMPTON has salt

Governor Wade Hampton has said
many good things within the last year
calculated to remove any doubts Of bis
entire loyalty and the loyalty Of his fol-
lowers, but he has frequently been sus-
pected tvgfy uh}ustly) of speaking from
motives of self-interest words which he
did not mean and which his friends
could not endorse. He is now the Gov
ernor of South Carolina, and under no
pressure to speak other than he feels, and
he recently responded to serenade at
the White Sulphur Springs, Virginia,
where the surroundings were calculated
to arouse any lingering trace of "rebel"
sentiments that be might have in him,
but his words were as bravely patriotic as
ever. He said that he was willing to
pledge the people of the North that
those of South Carolina would prove as
brave, honest and loyal in defence of the
Government and Constitution of the
United States as any people of this Re-
public, and he explained that when he
spoke of the Constitution he meant call
of the amendments and all they implied" J"
There will be small room for misunder-
ings between the North and South when
all the Southern leaders follow Wade
Hampton in speaking out in as clear and
emphatic style as that.-Phitadelph'a
Leioer.
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Terrible Tragedy in Georgetown.

A cutting affray occurred last Friday
evening, at Ceder Greek, near Eatman's
store, in Georgetown county, which for
fendish cruelty and cold blooded brutal
ity has no precedent in our hitherto
peaceful county.
It appears that J. B. Eatman had sew
eral hands working the road and among
them were two brothers, Henry and Gads-
den Rowell. In the evening the hands
repaired to Mr.. Eatman's store. After
taking two or three drinks, Gadsden
Rowell approached Samuel j. Cooper,
threw his arms around him, pinioning
his arm to his side, and commenced to
tussel in a playful manner. No sooner
had their unsuspecting victim been Sc
cured than the other brother drew his
knife and coolly commenced to stab Mr..
Cooper. He first planted his weapon in
his shoulder, laying his arm open down
to the elbow. By this time Mr.. Cooper,
who was muscular man, had been felled
to the earth by pole in the hands of
Gadsden Rowell. Henry then cut a ter
rible cash across his victims abdomen.
Then he stabbed the unfortunate man in
his face, the knife entering about an inch
below the left eye, and after one or two
more stabs delivered in the side, the
would be murderers left their victim for
dead, bleeding from sixteen wounds. We
blush to say that the bystanders, fifteen
in number, ignominiously took to their
heels. One colored man-all honor to
him-tried to dissuade the villains, from
their hellisb work, but finding himself
unsupported, was obliged to follow the
example of his cowardly associates.
As soon as Mr.. Cooper became con-
scious and realized his condition, he re-
quested that neither his would-be MUIR
derers should be harmed, stating as a
reason that, if he recovered from his
critical condition, that he would right
his own wrongs, and that in case of his
death, he wished the brace of scoundrels
to remain in the community, in order
that they might serve the cowardly fifteen
who had ignominiously taken to flight,
leaving him to his fate, in the same
manner.-Ne,0s and Comet.
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A Revenue Tragedy.

spARTANBuRe, S. c., August 81.
There has been another revenue TRACE
dy; this time, at Foot Mountains, eight
miles from Landrum Station on the
Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad, in
Greenville County.
The facts are about these, as far as can
be learned:
William Durham, a revenue officer, at-
tempted to arrest one Harrison for dis
tilling. Harrison resisted, and Durham
shot him in the face. Howard and Cos
ling, the only two others present, then
killed Durham with knives. Durham's
brother then rode up and shot Howard
and escaped. Durham was killed in
stantly. Harrison and Howard died yes,
terday. The parties are all related, and
much excitement prevails in the noun
tain region.
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REDuCri0N TN FREiGHTS.

We have ASSURANCES from Messrs. F.
". Wageher Il Co., of Charleston, who
have been foremost of the Charleston
merchants, in advocacy of reduction OF
freights to the interior of the State, that
their efforts have been successful, and
that in few days they will be able to
furnish us with all the particulars as to
classification, rates, &c.
The Journal Of Commerce, of the 2Sth
inst, publishes what purports to be the
long promised reduction, of which the
following rates for sixth class freights is
a synopsis of the charges from Charles
ton: From Ninety-Six to Golden Grove,
inclusive, 40 cents, instead of so cents.
From Pendleton to Walhalla, inclu-
sive, IS cents, instead of 30 cents.
This schedule does not give the rate to
Greenville nor to Anderson, and hence
we are at loss to know to what extent
the change has been made. The old
rate of freight to Greenville was 80 cents
from Charleston, for sixth class goods,
and if the South Carolina Railroad ex-
poets to leave this rate to Greenville, and
yet have Anderson and other nearer
points satisfied by lowering their freights
five or ten cents, so as to leave them for
ty or forty-fve cents, where Greenville,
further off point is only thirty cents,
they make a great mistake. 1t would
still be an unjust oppression of which
our merchants would complain. There
must be some mistake about the reduc-
ton as published, or it virtually amounts
to nothing.
When we receive the full rates as
promised by Messrs. Wagner & Co., we
hope to announce that they are perfectly
satisfactory, and that all the complaint
upon the part of our people against the
Railroad Company has ceased. And
here we would take occasion to urge our
merchants, if rate of freights is adop-
ted which will permit, to transfer as
much of their trade as possible, from
Northern and Western cities to Charles
ton. 1t is our city-the metropolis of
our State, and every Carolinian is in duty
bound to lend all the aid he possibly can
consistently with his own interests to
building up and developing this city.
Our money should be spent in it when
we can do as well, or when we can ap-
proximate as we'll as We can do in other
cities. We would like to see the entire
trade of the State transferred to Charles
ton, and are satisfied it could in large
measure be done if the railroads would
lower freights, and the Charleston mer-
chants would make greater efforts to Sc
cure this trade.
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ANDERSON AND AUGUSTA.

Mr.. EDITOR: At public meeting
held at Lowndesville, August 18th, 1877,
J. NJ. Latimer, ST., was called to the
chair, and DR.. Rob't. S. Beckman request
ed to act as Secretary. The Chairman
stated that the object of the meeting was
to take steps to secure railroad connec-
ton from Anderson G. H., to Dorn's
Mine, via Lowndesville, connecting at
Dorn's Mine with the proposed road
from Greenwood to Augusta.
On motion corresponding committee,
consisting of DR.. Rob't. S. Beckham, o..
r. Horton and J. M. Latimer, ST., was
It was resolved to publish the proceed
ings of the meeting in the Abbeviile,
Anderson and Augusta papers.
The meeting then adjourned until the
9Th proximo, at IL o'clock a. m.
]. NJ. LATIMER, ST.. Chairman.
RoB'T. S. BEcKHAM, Secretary.
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OUR CIRCULATION.

The Anderson INTELLIGENCER has the
largest circulation of any country paper
published in the State, and has more than
three times the circulation of any other
paper in Anderson County. We print
and circulate regularly 1776 papers.
Our list in the County has increased in
stead of diminished, and we hope to re-
ceive still greater increase during the
coming fall. We are willing at any time
to verify the above by an inspection OF
our subscription book, or our paper bills
or when desired, we will furnish adver-
tisers with an affidavit of the correctness
of our statement as to the circulation of
the INTELL1GENCER.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-30

The Grand Jury of Richland County
is in session this week, under Especial a
call, for the purpose of considering ques-
tions, relating to public peace and JUS
tice. 1t is an important session, and
will, no doubt, develope much Of the
work which has been done by the Inves-
tigating Committee. The evidence which
will be brought before them, it is thought
will secure thepresentment Of numerous
ex-State officials, and upon those findings
and presentments, requisitions will no
doubt be issued, to secure the presence Of
some of our former rulers who have SO
unceremoniously taken leave of us.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-30
THE WAR IN TURKEY.

Since our last issue there have been
several desperate engagements between
divisions of the Russian and Turkish
armies in Armenia and Bulgaria. These
engagements have not, however, changed
the statu quo of either army or led to any
decisive results. A desperate fight took
place on last Saturday near the little viii
lage, Kuruk Dara, about twenty miles
northeast of Kars. The Turks broug ght
on the fight by attempting to flank the
right of the Russian defensive position.
The two armies fought all day and the
Turks failed to accomplish their object.
The loss on both sides in killed and
wounded was very heavy. Gen. Melikoff
commanding the Russion army in Arme-
MIA, and Mukhtar Pasha commanding the
Turkish led their respective force. In
Bulgaria the fighting on Friday, Saturday
aud Sunday in Shipka Pass was heavy.
Gen. Radetzky with asmall force succeed
in holding the Pass up to Sunday against
the whole army of Suleiman Pasha. 1t
is important to the Russians to hold this
Pass to prevent the union of the forces of
Suleiman Pasha, south of the Balkans
with those of Osman Pasha, north. They
may not be able to do so, but if they
should fail the Turkish army will be 80
weakened by its repeated battles to force
the Pass as to render its efficiency very
much impaired before it can form union
with Osman Pasha. In these engage
ments the Russian General Doroschinsky
was killed, and Gen. Tchoutchowassoa
wounded. Such is the situation of the
contending armies, now facing each other,
that we may expect desperate fighting
from this time until winter closes the
campaign.
Affairs in Europe in consequence of this
war are very much complicated. Russia
is threatened with rebellion in Poland /;
Turkey in Crete, Thessaly and other
Provinces. Servia threatens to unite her
forces with the Russians and make a
common cause against the Turks, while
Austria declares her intention to occupy
Servian territory with her army, if Servia
should engage in the fight. Prussia is
ready with Russia and Italy to remodel
the map of Europe, by which the Ma
homedan power will be banished from
Europe, and the leading powers receive
large accessious of territory.
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The Nez Perces, Red Men, have been
giving Gen. Howard and the white set
tiers in portions of Oregon and Nevada
so much trouble that Gen. Sherman has
gone West to give the Indian war per-
sonal supervision. he telegraphs back
from Helena, Ark, that accounts from
Gen. Howard, as we'll as the Indians, are
too confused to make anything out of.
If Gen. Sherman goes to the front we
expect he will find so much mismanage-
ment of the campaign as to induce
change of commanders. The country is
tired of this bungling warfare. The
government ought either to yield to the
Indian demands or force them to come
to terms, and it ought to be done at once
for the protection of white settlements.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-30

The financial investigating committee
have been in session in the city of Col
umbia for the past two weeks and will
conclude its session during the present
week. They have examined a very large
number of State bonds, but the character
of their report to the General Assembly
is not at present developed. 1t is to be
hoped all bonds have been closely scru-
tinized, and that the commmittee will
discriminate between the bonds that are
valid, and those for which the State never
received any consideration.
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NO REPUTATION.

The repudiationists in South Carolina
ere mistaken if they think the people of
this State will consent to dishonor their
name in history by refusing to pay any
just debt. We only want full investi-
CATION of the whole Indebtedness of the
State, and insist that the bonds issued
since reconstruction shall not be paid in
any case where the money for the sale of
them did not 60 into the State treasury,
and that where bonds were put upon the
market at nominal prices, the owners
shall not be paid more than they brought
to the treasury. This would be a just
settlement, for the persons who bought
these bonds knew the circumstances, and
if they come out even they should be
satisfied. Persons who bought from them
should have no higher equities than the
first purchaser, because they were specu-
lating in doubtful securities, and if they
lose by it they are to blame. The State
ought to pay back what she actually got
with interest on it, but under the circuni-
stances equity would not require more.
The old debt which has been scaled one
half ought to be paid as consolidated,
and the new debt should be thoroughly
sifted and settled upon the just princi-
pies set forth above. 1t would not be re-
pudiation, nor have any resemblance to
it. Then we say let our Legislature set
tie our State debt according to justice
and equity, and not repudiate it. We
can afford to pay the just debt, and
ought to do it in order to preserve the
honor of our State.
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NO ICE.
OFFICE CotNrY COMMISSIONERS.

IN accordance with an Act Of the General
i Assembly, entitled IAN Act to author.
ise County Commissioners to stibttlit to the
qualified electors of their several Cot1nties
proposition to alter the Fence Law, and to
provide for effectuating the same,"' approved
June I, 1877, an election was duly ordered
to be held in each Township in Anderson
County on the 18th inst, the result of which
we hereby declare and publish to be as fol-
lows, to wit
Broadway, Centreville, Dark Corner,
Hall, Honea Path, Hopewell, Martin, Rock
Mills, Savannah and Varennes townships,
each having cast minority of its votes
"Fence in Stock" over Fence in Crop"
has thereby adopted the said Act, to take
effect January l, 1878.
Brushy Creek, Pendleton, Garvin,, Fork,
and Williamson Townships. each having
cast a majority of it's votes Fence in Crop
over "Fence in Stock" has thereby rejected
said Act.
In testimony whereof we, as County Com
missioners, have hereunto set our
GsEALl hands and official seal, this 2lst day
of August, A. D. 1877.
O. H. P. FAINT,
S. BROWNE,
J. C. CAN'T,
County Commissioners, A. c.
Aug 30, 1877
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cyTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
- ANDERSON COUNTY.
Blu ". ". Humphreys, Judge Of PROBATE.
WHEREAS, ]. P. Johnson has applied
to me- to grant him letters Of administra-
ton on the Estate and effects of Benjamin
Johnson, deceased. ~
,sh ali kindred and creditors of the said
BENJAMIN Johnson, deceased, to be and ap-
near before me in Court of Probate, to
he held at Anderson Court House, on
Saturday, 18th September 1877, after pub
lication hereof, to shew cause, if any they
have, why the said administration should
not be granted. Given under my hand,
this 29th day of August, 1877:
w. w. HUMPHREYS, ). +.
Aug 30. 1877
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Considerable excitement prevails in
Texas and Mexico over the organization
of State volunteer force of $500 men,
to punish the marauders upon, Texas
soil. At first it was thought this force
was to cross the line and attempt to pun
ish the raiders, but Governor Hubbard
says the force will only be used inside of
the State. He has found the United
States either unable or unwilling to pro-
tect the people of Texas from Mexican
depredations, and hence has taken the
matter into his own hands, and will try
the use of militia on the thieves.
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A most fearful toruadore passed over
portions of Iowa on the 25th inst, doing
immense damage to property wherever it
struck the earth. Fortunately in many
places it passed in the air without COM
ing to the ground, but at Council Bluffs,
on the Missouri River, it came down like
the swoop of an Eagle, and wrenched off
two spans of the celebrated iron bridge at
that point. They were 250 feet each in
length, and were totally destroyed. The
fury of the storm has seldom been equall-
ed in this country.
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NO MAN. WOMAN OR CHILD ExcEPTED!

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THURSDAY MORNING, August 80, 1872.

The Georgia State Convention ad-
journed sine die on last Friday, after
adoptiug new State Constitution. The
people of Georgia seem pleased with the
result of the Convention, and as they
have to live under the laws made by it,
we do not see that any person outside of
the State has any right to complain.