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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-18
HON. BEN HILL.
whnS He Thinks of the Late Election.

/ WAsHINaToN, November 10.
The New York Tribune, to-day, con.
tains private letter from Senator Hill,
of Georgia, to Hon. j. e. Chittenden, oil
Brooklyn, furnished by the latter for
publication, with Senator Hill's consent.
The following are the most significant
ports of the letter:
"Well, my friend, the most anxious
event in our history has become fact
a solid North against solid South. No
language eau express to you the view /
take of this event for evil. 1t can have
no logic, if continued, but disruption into
several monarchies or absolute consoida-
tion of all States into one empire. In
either event our constitutional system
will fail. In my opinion the time has come
when the great question for real States
men to consider is how to speedily break
up this sectional solidity and organize
parties altogether on other issues. The
Democratic party is hated at the North
and, therefore, it ought to be disbanded.
The Republican party is hated at the
South and, therefore, it ought to be dis.
banded. Whether this hatred is just or
not, makes no difference. 1 would be
glad to see great National Union party
organized, for I believe that the Govern
ment formed by the Constitution is a
Nation; true, it is limited Nation, but
within the powers delegated to it by the
Constitution, it is as much Nation as
any on the globe. really like Garfield.
l sincerely hope he will have success.
full administration. He has ability for
crisis. He must feel keenly the fact that
he is elected solely by Northern votes.
But lie has n great opportunity, and he
can, if he will, easily and consistently
destroy all sectional animosity and So
lidities, and be chosen for second term
by majority of the States, North and
South. This opportunity is far greater
than the Office itself, and, if utilized, will
give the fame which the Office could not
give him and which no previous Presi.
dent attained. But will he do it? I
greatly hope he will, and greatly fear
be will not. see movement to make
an issue on the result in New York, with
a view to defeat Garfield in the count by
Congress. There would be great danger
of this but for one fact, and that one fact is
the South will not countenance it. The
poor, divided and abused South, if neces-
sary, will once more save the country
from a revolution, and, as before, will
get no credit for it. The Republican par
ty will take the Presidency peaceably,
because tue South wills it, and at the
next election the leaders of that party
will tell the people from every stump
and pulpit in the North that the South
must not be trusted. Nevertheless, we
shall avert all revolutions-not to win
Republican praise, or 10 avoid Republi.
can abuse, for either is impossible; but
solely because it is right, and we are de-
termined to preserve the peace of the
country. How long human nature can
bear this do not know. 1t is injustice
unparalleled, and wrong that ought to
cover the North with bushes"
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"Let Us All Hang Together"

The future is by no means so dark and
hopeless as many seem to think. 1t is
only necessary for the solid South 10 pur.
sue pacific course and hang together
with greater tenacity than ever, and her
redemption from Radical rule is certain
at no distant day. Who can tell what
political changes will be brought during
the next four years? The singlequestion
of the tariff is more than likely to prove a
most distracting element of division be.
tween the agriculturists Of the West and
the intoerant protectionists Of the East.
But this issue will make no impression
upon the united South. Here, the adyo-
Gates ofhigh protective tariff arc a mere
handful in number, and likely to contin-
ue so for many years. Financial ques.
tions, also, may prove disturbing agen-
cies, to say nothing of railroad complica'
tions and the commercial rivalries
between the two sections. If, through
all these agitations, the South remains
true to itself and as solid as ever, who
can reasonably loubt that she will hold
the balance of power and regain her pres
tige and rights in the Union?
Again, if the Democratic asccndancy
in the Senate las is most probable) should
be continued. the gratifying fact remains
that Gar6eld's election will be powerless
to do US harm. That conservative body
will eGectually block the chariot wheels
of Radical progress. On the whole,
therefore, though smarting under defeat
and greatly disappointed at the results
of the l.. ;e general elections, our people
should not despond, but, thankful for the
blessings oflocal government, hopefully
reman in their lots and await with pa
tiencc the issues of coming events
Macon Telegraph and Messenger.
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- Mr.. Love was married the other day
at Ithaca, N. Y, at the age of eighty
three. 1t was an old Love affair.
- No display of strength WAS made by
the Greenbackers in Charleston County
at the late election. Major Blair, the
candidate for Governor, received just %
votes, out Of II, ,4s9.
- Matthews, of Mowryville, Iowa,
rises early every morning, and rings a big
bell at S o'clock to awaken his workmen.
Pinney, who lives close by, likes to sleep
late, and he begged Matthews in vain not
to sound the bell. He never goes to bed
until 12 o'clock, and now at midnight he
fires cannon to disturb the slumber OF
Matthews. Between the midnight gun
and the 5 o'clock bell, the inhabitants Of
Mowryville curse both Pinney and Mat
thews.
- Blessed is the man who knows
enough to keep his mouth shut. Some
people live sixty years without learning
the art. Indeed, the older they grow,
the wider their mouths open. A man OF
woman who is gabbler at forty.five is
dreadful affection to a house, or church,
or a community. There are two things
this age needs to lcarn-when to say
nothing, and when it says anything to
say it well. eff any man among you
seem to be religious, and bridleth not his
tongue, this mans religion is in yain."-
MHrTGy.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-18
Horatio Seymour on National Prosper.
ity,

Ex-Governor Seymour, of New York,
in q recent conversation On political top
les, expressed himselfas being anxious to
dispel the illusion that national prosper
ity was due to the acts of any party or
administration, and not to the indus
tries of the whole people. Any such be.
lief, he held, was not only untrue in bus
iness, but false in morals. If it were true
we oug ght to look to government alone
and not to labor and intelligence for the
rewards Of business. But the argument
was false, aud wuch more familiar in des-
potisms like that of Russia than in coun-
tries like ours. We sell more than we
buy; we are growing rich, not because
of things done or left undone in Wash
ington, but because our abors lave yield
ed more than we need TO consume. Our
previous distresses came from the false
notion that men could get rich by
schemes and speculation in place of hon.
est industry. But the panic exploded
these; we have learned economy and
wisdom, and thus prosperity was brought
back. Before the Presidential canvass
began there was no thought Of attributing
this to the effect of political measures.
Industry had revived and the activity Of
one branch of trade helped another from
the slough. The farmers and !heir crops
restored the railroads, the increasing re-
ceipts of these in turn revived the stock
markets, and our foreign exports gave the
people with which to buy the prod
ucts of manufactures. AS the ex-
Governor said: "The money paid to our
farmers for grain and provisions has been
expended by them for merchandise, for
the improvement of their buildings or
other objects necessary to their comfort,
or in facilities for cultivating their land,
The cost of these has been paid out
10 other classes and has given activity
to mechanical and manufacturing
pursuits" Here is a complete
circle of mutual helpful industries,
in which politics plays no parts at
all, and in which The prime factor in
promoting the revival of prosperity, agri-
culture, is just the one which has least
concern for or interestiu the mainten-
ance of special legislation,i of veryshigh
and prohibitive tariffs especially, Great
ing taxation beyond the necessities either
of Wholesome production or of revenues.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-18

RIOT IN CHARLESTON CoUNTY.-A
special dispatch to the News aud Courier,
dated Summerville, November 10, says
Information of a serious riot, which
occurred at Cooper's Store precinct,
Charleston County, few days after the
election, has just been received here.
Isaac Finkly, a colored Democrat, was
brought here late this evening by an
armed guard of fifteen white men and
delivered up to Trial Justice R. W.
Perry. His statement is that on the
morning after the election on returning
home he found his house occupied by an
armed band of colored Republicans and
was Immediately attacked. In the fight
which ensued he shot down one Hamp
Williams and made good his escape.
Since the occurrence his house has been
besieged, obliging him to take to the
woods to elude pursuit. Every possible
avenue of escape was closely guarded
and when rescued by party Of white
men yesterday he was found in state OF
absolute physical exhaustion. His state
ment has been verified by the accompa-
nying guard, who say that the outrage
has thrown their neighborhood into a
state of violent excitement. Fifteen
warrants have been issued, and the par.
ties will be probably brought to justice" !"
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- An upstart-A mushroom.

The grub makes the butterfly when
the grup is hot biscuit.
- Philadelphia has a mendicant who
begs in seven languages.
- The young man of the period is one
whose career has come to full stop.
Ten thousand Cinnamon are pre,Ar
ing to 60 to the Louisiana sugar fe'Is.
- And now q physician says Tat long
walks before breakfast bring on dyspep-
sia.
How to turn peoples Heads-come
to concert late in a pair of squeaking
boots.
: - The Prince of Wales life is insured
for 100000. His annual premium on
this sum is $4,000.
Senator Chafee has presented his
son-in-law, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., s4OO,-
900 in Government bonds.
There is romance in figures. A
young man met girl, Ter, married her,
and took her on wedding Ger.
- Gen. Garfield, President. elect, was
chief of staff to Gen. Rosecrans, just
elected a Representative in Congress from
California.
John Terrence found the body Of
his newly buried wife in the dissecting
room of the Kansas City, Mo-, Medical
College the other day, and one of the
faculty kindly explained that they did
not usually take the bodies of those hav.
ing friends or relatives in the city.
"A St. Louis family named Boogher
claim Baltimore property worth $50, ,O00,.
900, and are going to law to get hold Of
it. The Booghers are descendants Of
William Richardson, one of Penn's COM
panions, who formerly owned $50 acres
where Baltimore has been built, and, as
the 90.years' lease of the property has
expired, they propose to get hold of their
own.
- Mary Pyatt rejected John X. Ar
nold's offers of marriage for long time,
at Kimberly, Pa, but he was persistent,
and at length she consented. There was
great wedding, and the couple went off
on tour. After q week the bride re-
turned-to her home, declaring that she
had no recollection of anything between
her last refusal of Arnold and her
awakening to find, to her great surprise
and displeasure, that she was his wife.
She insists that she was out of her mind
during the interval, and declines to even
see her husband.
- A miner had wonderful ride in
tin pan in Colorado. Being at the top of
mountain, and desiring to get to the
hottom of the valley. he knew that q
tedious and circuitous walk of fifteen
miles was necessary by the ordinary
route, while the distance straight down
the snow.covercd incline was only three.
He had such a pan as miners use in
washing out gold. Squatting down in
this. away he went, faster and faster
until the solder of the vehicle was melted
by friction, and he was almost insensible
from lack of breath. But the trip was
quickly over, without any n,ishap, and
'Ie passenger now declares that he en-
joyedit
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-18

- The oldest house in the United
States is supposed to be at Pembroke,
Mass. In 1922 Mr.. Peleg Barker's
ancestors built fort of stone and mortar
as defense against the Indians, and it
has been used as q dining-room foryears.
The main building is only ten years
younger.
- President Hayes was asked by u re-
porter of the Washington Post what inn
pressions of Washington life he would
carry away. lie replied: "In the main,
very pleasant. The first two years were
hard, as hard, perhaps, as any year Of
Lincoln's administration. / have said
this frequently before, and l still think
so. The last two years have been as easy
aud pleasant as perhaps any President
has enjoyed. In my case the sunshine
has followed the storm and clouds"
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: 1t is stated on most reliable autho

= 1t is stated on most reliable author
ity that Gen. Hancock on Saturday ad-
dressed letter to Chairman Barnum in
which he said that he had be- consulted
by several committees WITH reference to
proposed revision of the vote cast on
last Tuesday, with a view to contesting
the election in New York State in his
interest. He had also seen the same
course commended in certain Democratic
newspapers. He wished to say that the
movement did not meet his approval, as
it appeared to be based upon unprovable
assertions and inadequate grounds, and
further, because the r ovement, 80 far as
it concerned him personally, was open to
the insuperable objection that, under no
circumstances would he consent to be a
technical President.
- It is proposed to establish near st.
Louis National Colored Home for poor
and feeble old negroes of both sexes.
This enterprise has grown out of SYM
pathetic recognition of the fact that
emancipation left without homes and
with very scanty opportunities to earn
their living a large number of colored
persons, many of whom are now old and
feeble and without means of support.
The association has been incorporated by
the State of Missouri, and has secured
about fifty acres of good land, with suit
able buildings, at 4 cost of $4,000, of
which $1,000 has been pledged in Mis-
souri,. on condition that the rest is OBJ
taincd elsewhere. The object is ap-
proved by many persons Of national rep
utation.
- California has some very rich es-
tates. In San Francisco Leland Stanford
is assessed at s19,7l9,000, Chas. Crocker
s19,lS7,O00, Mark Hopkins widow ST.
211,O00, James G. Flood S10,600,000, j.
w. Mackay $l0.600, 1000, Senator Sharon
S4,470, 900, and james G. Fair 81, ,220, 900.
The Nevada Bank is assessed at $780,
600, and the Bank of California $6,900,-
900. There arc dozen or so of estates
which range between two and three mill
ions each, a"d twenty that are one mill.
ion and ur yards. This accumulation Of
great wealth in few hands, however, is
attended with q corresponding great pow
erty among the laboring classes, and this
is the secret of the discomfort of the CAL
ifornia workingmen and the ill-regulated
political notions they cherish.
= One of the steel works at Pittsburg.
Pa, has just cast the largest anvil block
ever made in this country. 1t is eleven
feet high and eight by ten wide. and
weirhs 1G0 tons. It took seven hours to
run the metal into the mold, and it will
be four months before the metal is cool
enough to move.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-18

CENSUS MEDIrAT1oNs-South Carroll
ma has long been relatively decadent
State. During the ten years ending with
1860, the increase in its population was
only 5.25 per cent, while the gain for
the.whole United States was 554 per cent.
During the decade ending with 1870, the
increase was strictly nominal, being only
about one-quarter of one per cent, while
the increase for the Union was 22.63 per
cent, the rate of progress having been
seriously interferrcd with by the war.
Within the last ten years, however, pop
ulation within this State has taken a
bound that will be generally regarded
as surprising. From total of 705-
Cos in 1870, the number has risen
to 955.306 in 1880, an increase at
the rate of 1905 per cent, or con-
siderably larger than the average rate
for the whole country is likely to
prove. Ofathis increase, 101, ,404 has
arisen in the white population, and 1885,
42l in the colored, or, to state the facts
in the percentages, the increase in the
white has been IS per cent. and in the
colored 45.3l per cent.
These figures are the more remarkable
because South Carolina during much the
better hal fof the last decade has been rep
resented as in an intensely suffering con-
dition, its land and property owners hall
bankruptcd by excessive taxation, and it
colored population driven 20 other States
to save themselves from starvation. 1t
has also been freely represented that the
negroes were subject to political op.
preston, which had driven large numbers
to seek refuge outside the borders of the
State. The fact, however, appears to be
that during this period the class that
might be expected to suffer most severly
from these influences has increased its
numbers by nearly one-half.
During the decade ending with 1860,
the white race in that State was increas.
ing more rapidly than the colored, the
gain in the former being 6.06 per cent,
and in the latter 4.G6., whereas, during
the last ten years the comparison is re-.
versed, the colored having gained very
considerably upon the white. 1t is impos-
sible to evade the conclusion to be drawn
from these facts to the effects of the
abrogation of slavery. Instead of the
colored race proving to be unable 10 take
care of themselves and decaying in the
absence of the supervision of white
ownership, their emancipation has been
followed. by amazing development OF
fecundity and growth. suggestive of new
reflections as TO the possible destiny
and importance CT the negro race on
this continet.-N. Y Commercial 1dver'
tier.
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N1ncluding, in AbbeyiIIe County, IN
dians; in Aiken County, 6 Indians; in
Beaufort County, Indian; in Charleston
County, 8 Chinese and Indian in Chester
County, Indian; in Collcton County, 10
Indians; in Georgetown County, ! Indian;
in eTeenyile COUNTY Indians in Hdsmp
ty, II Indians; in Lexington County, In.
Sna2anSusr San in maoor coonv csqn Gans IN 1on
County, 3 Indians in York County, 60 IN
dianS
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-18

During one month this summer the
Philadelphia Mint coined 100000, and
how they all 60 past us without our see
ing one Of them is what astonishes us.
= Kissing "is the art preservation OF
all hearts"
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ALMOST A MILLION. ISL
EThe Official Census of South Carolina.

The following official statement of the
population of South Carolina has just
been published by the Census Bureau.
The county with the largest population
is, of course, Charleston, with 04,S25
inhabitants, and Edgefeld is next, with
1886. Pickens has the smallest popu-
lation, 14,391, 'and Horry.the nextsmall-
est, 1854. Outside of Charleston the
largest white population is in Spartan.
burg, 26,370. The smallest white popu-
lation is in Beaufort, only 2,438 to 27,752
colored. The largest colored population
outside of Charleston is iii Edgefeld,
29,S25 to 16, ,921 whites. Edgefeld, Barn
we'll, Colleton and Horny have each few
more males. than females, all the rest
have a feminine majority. The greatest
disparity between the sexes is in Charles.
ton, where the feminine majority mounts
up to 1921. The statistics published do
not enable us to state in which race this
disparity chiefly exists. The foll,wing
are the official figures:
TOTAL POpr1ATIoS
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Secretary Evaris believes that the
Republican victory was due to the Solid
South and the tariff. He appreciates the
advantage accruing to the Republicans
by the nomination of Mr.. Grace. He
anticipates quiet, peaceful times. The
bitterness of the campaign, he says, will
be forgotten in a month and good nature
will prevail.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-18

HUMBuGGED AGAIN. saw so much
said about the merits of Hop Bitters, and
my wife, who was always doctoring and
never we'll, teased me Sc. urgently to get
her some, concluded to be humbugged
again; and I am glad did, for in less
than two months use Of the Btters my
wife was cured and she has remained so
for eighteen months since. I like such
humbugg;ng.- H. T., st. Paul.-Pionecr
Press.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-03-05

We caution all persons not to buy
the extra large packs of dust and ashes
now put up by certain parties and
called condition powders. They arc
utterly worthless. Buy Sheridan's Cav
nlrv condition Powders If you buy any
they are absolutely pure and immense
~ valuable.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-03-05

rms standard article is compound
/ with the greatest care.
It's effects are as wonderful ana rs
satisfactory as ever.
1t restores gray or faded hair to its
youthful color. . :..,,;x
1t removes all cruptions, itching
and d:,nduG. 1t gives the head
cooling, soothing sensation OF great
com:nrt. and the scalp by its use
becomes white and clean. -.
Hy its tonic properties it restores
the capillary glands to their normal
vigor, preventing badness, and max
inc the hair grow thick and strong.
As q dressing, nothing has been
found SO ctfcctual or desirable.
A. A. Hayes, Nj D., State Assaycl
Of Massachusetts, says, 1.-The con-
stituents are pure, and carefully SC,
lcctcd for excellent quality and
consider it the BEST PRErARATIos
for its intended purposes.
Price, Ono Dollar.