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Tbhe iHer ald. THOS. F. GRENEKER, EDITons. W. H. WALLACE, NEWBERRY. S. C. WEDNES1DAY, JULY 17, 1878. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. The Herald is in thehighest respect aFti-a ily Newsnaper, devoted to the material i m terests oi the people of this County and t he State. - It circulates extensively, and as an 'Advertisin- medium offers unrivailed ad vantages. 'or Terms, see first page. FOR GOVERNOR: WADE HAMPTON. The Liberia Emigrants. MR. WILLIAMs' SECOND LETTER TO THE NEWS AND COURIER. The first letter of A. B. Williams, the correspondent sent to Liberia with the emigrant ship Azor, was noticed by us last week. It was sent from Freetown, in Sierra Le one, three hundred miles from Mon rovia, the capital of Liberia and. the place of destination. The sec ond letter, which was mailed from Monrovia, June 2nd, was printed in the News and Courier the 9th instant. We are sorry that we have not space to give this letter, as well as the former one, in full. When the ship reached Sierra Leone twenty-three emigrants had died, there. was much sickness still on the vessel, and . provisions had ran down very low. Capt. Holmes feared that with the calms then pre vailing it might require eight or ten days for the Azor to reach Monro via, (the Azor is a sail vessel,) and the consequence might be many more deaths. He therefore made arrangements with a steamship to tow the Azor from Sierra Leone to Monrovia, which was done in two days the steamer charging for its services ?210, equal to $1,050, which has to be paid by the Liberia Exodus Association. They reached Monrovia June 2nd,'forty-two days after leaving Charleston. it was expected to make the trip in twenty five days at most. Mr. Williams' description of Freetown, the Capi tal of Sierra Leone, is well drawn. "The laboring people of both sexes," he says; "are very erect and well shaped, and are very strong. Al most all the overland transportation is done on human heads, there be. ing only three horses in the entire colony. A woman will walk into town at a good pace from miles in the country, with a clild swinging at her back, and from thirty to seventy pounds of produce on her ~head, carrying herself as well and showing as little fatigue as an ave rage American or English woman would after a mile's unemcumbered stroll. What the men carry I am afraid to say. I saw one carrying two huge iron pots on his head, weighing probably 150 pounds, and he looked as if he hardly felt them. The town proper (Freetown) con tains about 3,600 population, and the colony of Sierra Leone extends some thirty miles back of the coast, and contains between 30,000 and 40,000 people." The total number of white people in the colony is about 200. The colony is ruled by a Governor and Council appointed by the English Government. They are all white men. The name of the present Governor is Rowe. Some of the petty officers are col ored. The laborers get about 25 cents a day, and a good clerk or shopman $15 to $25 a month, and they seem to live comfortably and contented ly.". There is no need there of the "XVth Amendment." On this point we let Mr. Williams speak his own, words: "sTRUCK ALL OF A HEAP'. An English gentleman, with whom I became acquainted, invited me to his house for dinner. He was a prominent man, and there is no doubt as to his business and social standing being of the best. On going to his house, I wasj "-struck all of a heap" by being in troduced to his son and daughter, both unmistakably colored. In the expressive language of Mrs. Gamp, "You might 'a knocked me down. with a feather." BIlue Moses ! Here was I who had never, never, never, sat at meat with anything but pure Caucasian ; who had never called colored man or woman "Mr.," "Miss" or "Mrs." (resorting oftentimes to ingenious devices to avoid doing so without giving offence, such as asking a boy crn i!i~ to the door "who lives )aer~ ~ I -onfronted with this appalling pro blem. Of course there was only Dne thing to he done, and I went blindly and recklessly in and did it -that was pretend that there was nothing unusual, and that 1 didn't C know white from otherwise. She I did the honors of the table very e gracefully, and afterwards per formed several airs on the piano with correctness and taste. I was so afraid she had noticed my in- 0 voluntary start at first, that I as sured her with tears in my two ( e'en that her music was the sweet est I had ever heard. A LITTLE SUPPER. I met there an American-a New Yorker and a "Copperhead." who had been living five years in Sierra i Leone, and he carried me off to a "little supper," in a delightfully cool upstairs room somewhere, where a miniature fountain played from among green shrubs in the centre of the table, and we ate roast fowl and salmon, and drank claret from porous clay utensils in company with two men black as crows, one of whom addressed my friend by his last name. There's social equality, and nobody seems to feel or see any difference. My American friend says "You soon get used to it." The fact is the colored people in Sierra Leone are so thoroughly Anglicized in every respect that the English find no difficulty in forgetting their skins. I ain't English. I learn that the colored daughter of my English friend is a leader of the Freetown ton. Indeed, while I was in the house, the wife of a major in the army came in and paid a sociable visit. In regard to the pecuniary con dition of the emigrants Mr. Wil liams says: "Several of the steer age passengers started from Char- i leston with actually not one cent. f Others had sums varying from $1 1 to $10. One told me: 'I gave the < last $5 bill I had when they told : me the ship couldn't start without more money,' Another, who came away without a dollar in his pocket, holds claims for $1,200 against the Association. I don't think more than five of those aboard have over $50 in clear cash. The managers kniew this too !" Agricultural Society. We are glad to see the efforts made by some of our people for se cring a County Agricultural Socie ty, and have no doubt that they will be successful. Monday, the 5th of August, a grand mass meet ing in this interest will be held at the Court House, where the people of the County will be addressed by 'distinguished speakers. -A Chinaman applied the 10th to Judge Choate, of New York, to be come a citizen of the United States. His application was denied, wnder the decision of the United States Circuit Court 'for the District of California, in the case of Ah Uup. Where can the law be that allows a German, Frencthman, Englishman, or Russian to become a citizen, but not a Chinamuan ? About Stamnps. There are 700,000,000 postage stamps sold annually to the people of the United States ; 96,003,000 of these are sold at the New York Post Office. They are all made on Prince Street, New York City. Their manufacture requires delicate handling, and therefore young girls of dainty hands are employed by the government to make them. With this assurance, what man will object to licking a postage stamp ? State News. Five whites and one negro were sentenced by Judge Thomson at Georgetown last week to be hanged for murder. Wmn. Springs, ex-deputy mar shal, was convicted of grand lar ceny last week at Greenville, and sentenced by Judge Kershaw to the penitentiary for three years. Robert Smalls is understood al ready to have declared his intention of being a candidate for the next Congress, and ex-Judge Wright is to locate in Beaufort for the pur pose of becom~ing a member of the next General Assembly from this Count y.-Beaufort Tribune. Harvey Terry, a memb.er of the Columbia Bar, was iined $500, or six months imprisonment, by Judge Aldrich in Columbia, Saturday, for contempt of Court. The contempt consisted in his publishing in the Charlotte Observier, somne time ago, an abusive article agahast udg.e Shaw for deciding against him in his "B3anki jills" case. The Charleston Bgg,ng Factory has been in operation only a aew weeks. Th.e Company employed unskilled laboter-s in their own city, rather than send North. for expo I rienced hands, preferring to help i home people. These laborers have The County Convention Saturday 1 ras a harmonious one, and augurs rell for the success of the party bis campaign. The rearrangement i f the Township delegations, don Pling the number, and giving to! 1 ach Township a fixed and certain i umber of votes, are features that 1 aust commend themselves favor bly to all fair minded Democrats. The delegates to the State and ,ongressional Conventions are men vho have the confidence of the peo >e-a better selection could not ia.ve been made. No County in he State can make a better show. ng, and we hope all of them will o, though they have to do it at a acrifice of time'and expense. Sierra Leone and Liberia. Sierra Leone where the Azor first topped is a small country on the Nest coast of Africa, adjoining iberia. and on the North. It was stablished by the English. through he father of Lord Macaulay, as a -efuge for negroes, many of whom scaped from the United States. rhe Capital is therefore appropri tely named Freetown. The gov rnment of Sierra Leone, as Mr. Williams says, is administered by hite officers appointed by the En rish Government. Liberia-and that name too sug rests freedom-is also inhabited al nost exclusively by negroes-in leed no one but a negro can gain :itizenship in Liberia. The gov Nrnment is elective, and is formed >n the model of this. The gover ior is elected for two years; he ippoints, with the approval of the genate, his Cabinet or State ofli ,ers. Senators are chosen for four years, and representatives for two. 3o the emigrants can have as much olitics as they want. Editorial Correspondence. PHE BEST WX CAN DO--HOT, HOT TER, HOTTEST-MUSQUITOES AND IiAT CATCHINO--STILL HOT--TE GENERAL oPINIoN-CARHEGR & CARSON-AT GLENN'S MORE EPSoM SALTS THAN EVER-EFFECT ON sUN SIE DRINKERS-A BREAKFAsT 0 N TIME-E. S. C., WANTED, &C. %iLENN1 SiNq s, July 10, 1878. Without the ingenuity of the 1Frceh yoo'k who could prepare a delicious soup out of such scauty materials as rock with a few condiments for sea oning, or a greasy leathern apron, we md it anything but easy to serve the readers of the HERALD with a dish of ossip of an appetizing character out >f the limited materials at hand, but we yield to the necessity of the case rnd will do the best under the circum stances. Leaving Newberry on Fri iay last when the temperature was as pleasant as a May morning, and which endition it was hoped would continue, e got into a torrid gone before reach! ig Columbia. hot the three let ters making up the little word are not dequate to a proper understanding of the character of the weather. 9Add our mnore and make it hiottest, then over it all over with dust, fill the hair with cinders, as well as the eyes with ome of the same and a tolerably cor ret may be formed. Of course it would be pleasanter in the city. Not a bit of it, the extra steamn enerated on the day before-the glo rious Fourth-had not yet cooled off, ind ts effects were seriously felt by your correspondent and sadly exhibit! d in a general look of wilt. All this bhough could be borne, for were we rot full of pleasant anticipation of ountain breezes, laden with aromatic dors of balsam and fir, wafted over green pastures and fertile valleys ? Vo be sure. Even the desperate at backs of Richland mosguitoes on that ight, did no,t make ys gnhappy; no,y :he several wakings,eggsed by a whole ale rat catching indulged in by ths ~miable family with whom we lodged -who it appeared. had been vainly trying to trap them for several nights efore. On this occasion they were ~ingulary fortunate in catching seven. ach wars a aeparate catch, and as this ntersting family slept with og.e eye d both ears open, each snap of the tap brought them quickly to their 'eet, and eaich age geijing a weapon of' ,ome. kind and rushing pell mell down tairs, overturning chairs and tables in heir way as with exultant shouts they ept for the unlucky rodent, it may e eaanly im,ined that.the writer houht several thin g&, ntj east of whih was that he was caught in a retty tolerable big trap. This was epeaed 3.ye gles; first a snap, a queal', a sound o'mr'ey -ee a r"ing h#o,thoigo e o .s r,sh h og thowin gs end on osars~ og. stio- toet iast th death$ ~aeh striving to get ~u at ~ bat coming down, with the difference :hat it was more so; the higher we vent, and the nearer to the mountain -egion the hotter it grew. Spartan >urg reached At 5, and in the shade, yut not in the cool. The first native net said, "aint it hot ?" and so did ,he next and several others. There .s no use in disguising the fact, it was sot, terrifically hot, and we do not blame any one for saying so, Fearing it might grow hotter, we hastened on to Calcutt's refuge for the weary-the Hampton House. On the way, and )n the porch of the "Piedmont," itood Chase, who kindly informed us that it was hot. We thanked him For the information. Water from the North side of Calcutt's well reduced dust and grime and produced a better feeling, which with a capital supper restored body and mind to a happy equilibrium. Monday morning, in one of Carrier & Carson's best carriages, with Glenn Springs as the objective point, and which wis reached at eleven o'clock, with more experience of the heat. By the way the gentlemen above named keep the best stables in Spartanburg, and are always ready with good stock and comfortable vehicles to speed the weary or sick traveller to the Spring, or whatever other point he may wish to reach, at very reasonable rates. Do not forget them. At Glenn's, and after a two days sojourn what can we say more th'an has been so often said, that. it is the place for all who suffer with liver com plaint, dyspepsia, kidney affections or cutaneous diseases. Hundreds of cures testify to the truth of this, but with regret we record the fact that the two days past have been hot, and our ex perience is that the spring is at least a third farther from the hotel than during any of our previons visits, the hill steeper and rougher and the water stronger and more akin to Epsom Salts than ever before. The effect of ali these things combined are seen to a marked degree in the faces of the two score of people who have come here for the water. We see it plainer and hear more of it in the early morn. ing, for it is they who visit the spring at sunrise and take their rations early who receive the most benefit. Par tiularly noticeable was this fact this morning ; several shadss of brown and black had disappeared during the night from the faces of the sunrise drinkers, long faces seemed inches shorter, smiles were dispensed freely, steps were lighter, and not a few dim ples were seen on rosy cheeks which before had been- strangers to anything so attractive. The change was strik ing and pleasant, and the interchange of experiences was refreshing to hear. This one's pains had flown away in the night, another had lost that~ full ness in his head, another felt as "brisk as a bee and light as a fairy," another knew that his liver had been touched, while all were as hungry as wolves, and it was a sight after the return up the hill-that terrible hill-to see their onslaught on the breakfast. It is a fact worthy of mention that even the cook~s and waiters-who all drink freely of the fountain-eve:t they seemed infused and enthnsed with a new life, for the meal exceeded all other meals 'both in preparation and in serving. The hash was introduced in round dane~measure, the steak with a quick step, fried chicken came in on the wing, bread and battereakes on the double quick, while coffee, tea and milk requiring more dignity and ease of motion came in to march time. It was a gala occasion. The genial pro prietors. father and son, #ith the yoiggr scions of the family, were in oclated, and were even happier and more attentive than ever-in short the effects of the water on Tuesday, July 10th, were wonderful to behold. A change had come over everyone's dream, and we fetched a sigh-the only one breathed on that occasion that our festive friend, E. S. C., was not here to enjoy it, and if he has not started for Glenp's ere plhy !etter is made publie we hope phat he will hy~ ten, for several of the fair ladies who were here last season are again in the picture, and wait with charming iw patience for him.- We feel ever so much sympathy for the dear creatures -gay youths are exceedingly scarce. Old married men, old fogies and all of'yspegge; make up the book, and the girls unfortLnateg annot make anything of them however bright thei,r eyes, sweet their sm4es or chm their tojlebtes. Newberry is at pres,en# representc4 by Messrs. John Cannon and David Hipp, of Pomaria, J. S. Spearman and W. F. RobiBson, of Whitmires, 3. P. Kinard, of Four Mile House fame, and your humble correspondent, but this aferno&n rge lo for a happy increase in number from thie baar.eg Dgnty. The cabins are all occupied this season by Laurens and Spartanburg people, and ig:ors are coming in rapidly t 'r.vshaga pgand othe,rs on thie roa-now as the abccepjtedtime --co 1.:!And ea .I te FoR THE HERALD. A Few Suggestions to the Dem oerats of the Country. The Democratic party of this Coun ty should by no mearn feel secure of success in the campaign row opening. They should bear in mind that all the efforts of 1876 resulted in a partial failure, and that our victories in July, 1877, and in January of the present year, were achieved when there was no Republican ticket in the field, and were only in contests with an ill-or ganized Independent party. Now we have to apprehend and to guard against both Republicans and Independents. There is no likelihood that we shall encounter at the polls a ticket of candidates from each one of the two; but it is more than probable, as appearances now indicate, that we shall have to contend against a deter mined effort ou the part of one or the other. of them, or of a fusion of the two; and we must therefore provide against both of them. The Republican party is not near so thoroughly broken up as many of our people imagine. It would besingular if it were. For it is an organization drilled and compacted by ten years of constant struggle and discipline, it reckons as its adherents a race having a majority of near twenty thousand voters in this State, and it is managed by unscrupulous and desperate leaders whose followers hitherto have been their very slaves. It is well ascer tained that this party, under the di rection of its National leaders, will make a determined effort to elect mem bers of Congress in the South in every Congressional District where there is a negro majority-which is the case in every Congressional District in this State-in order to increase, by any means, the strength of the party in the House of Representatives in Congress. It is equally, if not more important to them to have a majority, on joint bal lot, in our State Legislature, so as to enable them to elect a United States Senator, next winter, to fill Patterson's place-and also to control as far as possible the general legislation of the State. It is generally believed that they will nominate no State ticket this year; but we have only their state ments, and our opinion of their gene. ral satisfaction with our State officers, to found this conclusion upon. The former of these we know to be utterly unworthy of belief, anid the latter is not such a thing as should at all satis fy our minds. They might-if they should despair of overcoming Hamp ton's strength with the colored voters -run a ticket .with him as their nom inee for Governor.. B3ut however these things may be, that party is still under very good or ganization ; they are now holding meetings with the evident purpose of thoroughly re-establishing themselves in the State ; they recognize the great importance of having a majority in the Legislature ; and the writer has such information as leads him to expect that they, either' as a separate party or in connection with such indepen dent organisations as may arise, will run a full ticket .in every County in which there is a decided colored ma jority. We must therefore be active and alert. But the chief danger to us seems to be in the way of an independent tick et. There is in this County, as in al most every section of the State, a set of persons who have fished for offic and been disappointed or who* know that it wo.uld be useless for them to try for office in the regular Democratic party, and also general grumblers, mal contents and Ishmaelites (their hands being against all organization) who are ripe fov almost any movement short' of going into Radicalism, by which pour organization may be de feated. And to this thoroughly bad element-which is, I am happy to be lieve, small in numbers-there may be added, unless we exerciseagreat cai-e, a much more respectable class, both in character and in numbers, who, be ing Democrats in their principles, may yet fancy that perfeet justice and fair ness have not been practised by our party, and who therefore, and because they apprehen4 no dangeF from the laials, may seek t.o pontrol thp Conty by ap'indepsndent movemaent. Te form-atipo of sageh a party will 4e pesd largely upon the Re&publicau movements. If the Republicans inau. gurate early a campaign of their own, we shall have no independene' move ment; if they do not, it will depend very much upon our action whether such independent movement is under taken or not. If a Republican cam paign is postponed till late in the sea son, and then rushed upon us, no doubt all independents will come over o j ygih.e r4ere g'ill have been a division amongst our own race which cannot- but prove injurious. If the Republians put no ticket in the field, their people will unite, in large num bers, with the independents-anything to heat the regular Democratic party. With such possibilities staring us in' the face, and in view of the importance of the things at stake in the cam paiga, both as regards the filling of offices now and the effects upon the gNat~ fr'eie4ial camupaign to take ae in 1.$50, je'eannot agor4 'pd e igher rash or idle. Qn tlhe coptrary, wp rpast s4; g.o work to thoroghy dr ganize god .solidify gg~r regglai- Demo cratic party, to enlarge ir.g ni4mb0r and harmonize its members, to infuse enthusiasm and unselfishness into their minds. With such a body of workers, and by exercising due vigilance of our adereg whoever they may be, there-is 'nb rinda' why we s'ioud not achieve a complete 'vfctor~ i6 sh County. Without such exertion, we gud .in gr'at danger of.f disgraceful En gsasrogsqefea. An ! he soon ~v' ~.pi nnderstand our situation the Democratic County Convention This body met in the Court House Saturday, 13th instant. A Consitution was preseted and adopted-(see else where.) Delegates elected: To the State Con vention-James N. Lipscomb, C. H. Suber, W. M. Dorrob, L. B. Maffett. Congressional Convention--R. L. Me Caughrin, Geo. Johnstone, W. D. Har dy, Jonn McCarley. Col. E. S. Keitt offered the following: Resolved, 1st. That the citizens of Newberry County have unlimited confi dence in the wisdom and integrity of His Excellency Governor Wade Hamp ton, and will give him a full support in his re-election to the same high posi tion. Resolved, 2nd.- That we are as much satisfied now with the platform adopted in 1876, as we were then, and instruct our delegates to the State Convention to vote for its adoption. Unanimously adopted. J. F. J. Caldwell, Esq., offered the following: Resolved, That the Democratic Clubs of each Township of this County be and they are hereby ordered to furnish the Executive Committe of the County by the 1st day of September next, a roster embracing the number of white Dem ocratic vQters, the number of colored Democratic voters and the nuiber of colored Republican voters in their re spective Townships, as accurately as the same can be ascertained, arranged under separate heads. Adopted. C. H. Suber, Esq., offered the follow ing: Resolved, That the four. delegates to the State Convention, and the four dele gates to the Congressional Convention, shall act as alternates, the one set for the other, in the order in which they are chosen. Adopted. Constitution of the Democratic Party of Newberry County. CLuBs.-There may be es many Clubs as may be desired, except that, with the exception of Clubs now in existence, no Club shall consist of members who are residents of different Townships, and that no Club shall consist of less than fifteen members. No person shalLbe a member of a Club who will not at the election next suc ceeding his admission be of the full age of twenty-one years. Clubr shall adopt such Constitution as they may desire, not inconsistent with this Con stitution and, the principles of the Democratic party of this State. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.-There shall be an Executive Committee con sisting of eleven members, one of whom shsll reside in each of the Town ships of the County. The Executive Committee shall bold their offices for two years and untit.their successors are appointed. They shall be elected by thme County Convention that first meets after the first day of May in each succeeding two years, beginning with the year 1878, which said date shall be the period from which their term of office begins. Any vacaney in the Executive Committee shall be filled by the County Convention meet ing at the time of, or next after, the~ occurrence of the vacancy. The Ex. ective Committee shall select its own Chairman. It shall elect a Secretary, and may remove him it pleasure. The Secretary of the Executive Committee shall be the Secretary of the County Conventions. The Eecutive Committee shall have a general supervision of the affairs of the party, affd shall call together the County Convention whenever tksy may deem it necessary, or whenever requested to do so by any five Clubs. It shall provide for the taking of ros ters, and shall direct all matters con~ nected with the organization and man agement of the party sod the conduct of the camnpaigns not otherwise erx. pressly provided for in this Constitu tion or the County Conventions. A County Treasurer shall be electe4 by the County Qonyegtion at the same time ps 4he 4Egeentive Committee. e shall hold his offee for the same period and dating from the same. timie as the members of the Exeutive Com mittee. A vacancy in his office shall be filled in the same manner as in the Executive Committee. He shall col.. let and pay out all moneys on the or der of the Chairman of the Executive Committee. COUNTY CON VENTION.-The Coun y Conyepngpp shiai not he a prma nent body. It shall be called together for the purpose of nominatf~ng candi dates for office, for sending delegates to State, Circuit and Congressional Conventions, &c., and for the purpose of considerin3g the condition of the party, and its decision on all matters pertaining to the affairs of the party shall be supreme. It shall be called for a spefi[e purpose or puirposg, whph a all be statig in the call, bpp it may wIkhu previous gotice ae) ppp apy mttef of detail or any urn foreseen exigency. in considering all matters authorized to be acted upon by it by this Constitution it shall have full power to adjourn from time to time as convenience may require. $xcept the offcers now in existence. and with' t'io ediep'tion of the .Secre tary," each" ConvehtionAhdi eliet ils :N ofcr,whieh' shaldt be ~a Presi on o~cers, *-~~V-~ Township No. 1, 22 delegates. 't " 2, 6 " " 3, (5" " 4. 8 8i 7 6 ( " 8, 6 "' " 9, 16 " " 10, 10 " 4 11, 12 " No more than this number of dele gates shall be admitted to the floor ol the 'Convention. Each delegate shall have one vote : no more ; no less but in the absence of a delegate or al .ternate from a Club or Tuwniship the wellbers from that Club or Townshi[ shall be allowed to east the full vote ol the Club or Township. The differenl Clubs in the same Township shall agree among themselves as to the aum. ber of the Township delegation that each Club shall send up or elect Each Club shall regulate the term ol office of its own delegates. A'%ENDMENTS.-Atmedienits and alterations may be made to this Con. stitution by a County Couvention by v vote of two-thirds of the -tdiiibern present. "OR THE HERALD. Our Washington Letter. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 10, 1878. Between those Republican paper. which wish the Potter Investigatiot to dama-ge Stanley Matthews but noi to injure John Sherman, and thos( which wish to injure Sherman but noi to damage Matthews, the readers o: Republican newspapers will get a littli understanding of the real importanci of the testimony so far given and tha now being taken in New Orleans. I is being made clear that, the electioi if Louisiana was a peaceful one, tha the negroes in the Felicianas hai re solved of their own will to vote th Democratic ticket, and that the Re publican managers, knowing this fact had resolved to hold no election it those Parishes. But the elections wer held, were perfectly fair and free, an Anderson and Webber, election off cers, were bribed by the New Orleans politicians and the visiting statesmer to make false protests so that the vote: of the Parishes might be thrown out If these facts are not already estab lished no facts can be by human testi mony. Mr. Reed, of the .Louisian; sub-Committee returns to Maine, an< Mr. Cox, of Ohio, takes his place The sub-Committee will sit for a mont] or more yet. Nearly the full Com mittee will be there after 10 or 1 days. The Gen. Fitz John Porter inquir; decites great interest from the fac that partizan considerations were b lIeved by many to have influenceet memnbers of the Court at his trial A side from this it .would have interes: because of the great services rendered by the accused during one of the Sevei D)ays battles on the Peninsuila, when having charge of the Federal Artille ry -he was credited with saving Mc (Clellan's army from destruction. Bul other parties convicted by Court Mar. tial have the same right to a hearing that Gen. Porter has. A board o1 Army officers, ex-volunteer Army offi cers or civilians ought to sit in Wash, ington for the purpose of hearing.any ex-soldier's statement of his case and excamining the record of hj trial The arbitrary rules of the regular arm~ were applied to a mob of fissh younw men who left their homes'7for a pa. triotic purpose, and thousands of then saifer to-day undeserved punishment for petty offenses coimmitted in igno rance. The Board could tecommend to Congress relief in casesiere relie seemed proper. I have in mind the case of a Maine soldier who, returning fromf furlough, lost several days time on acceunt of a storm whieba prevented raloa travel: Arriving at Augusta on $he day that lbe shonuld have reach. ed Washington, the sharks who flour. ished in that place arrested him, goi $80 for it, and sent him here to be tried. He was tried, convicted of de sertion and sentenced to loss of pay and imprisonment. The imprison meat cannot be wiped out, but simple justice requires that the money earned by the soldier should be paid him, and that the Government reords should show, somewhere, the facts in his case. There are many thousands of eases like this.. fndinetge: Democrat will be sc far misled by the Radical attaer just now at its fiercest against Speaker Randall, as to forget the leading part he had in forcing that party to loosen the shackles of the South and in bringing National Democracy out of its worse than Babylonish captivity. Nor will honest men, heretofore acting with the Republican party, be deterred from t.heir purpose .to find a more con genial home and associates with their late enemi4es, by the effor nOW geing ma.4e all along'the eglia line:to smirclk Mr. IRanda1l because he ~red to ea4 the attention of the count,iy to the s;%dy prgs qf thne Bemnperats in Congress under his lead; inAring ing down appropriations to a /reason able figure and gradually working the old ship of state.around to hei' ancient Democratic moorings. Whatever per sonal preferences may be, the inherent love of justice and fair play :that has always kheaeateried the grdat maso of the Jefferso~nnar embra'#,vill lead its memnhersdo rent this mnrononed 4eNO A oWiseeUaneons. Quarterly-Report of the Clerk and Treasurer of the Town of A'ew be?ry. from Ith A4pril, 1878, to 16th July,1878. RECEIPTS. 11-13alance 16th April, 1878, 8 48 76 Special Licenses, 6 00 Street Exemptions, 51 00 Market, 142 40 Taxes on Real Estate and Persunal Property, 1,331 68 Fines, 37 00 S31e f Luiuber, 60 G-sts collected from J. W. Sto'mn.i, 36-00 S1.653 44 EXPENDITURES. Police, . 6397 00 Strews. '. 349 55 John S. F:fr as Eiec:iQU Man ager( 3 00i Newberry. H EFt ALD7.51 90 NwberryNezcs, .31 00 D. Henry Wheel er, 100 00 J.W.Stockniau, 42 50 Clerk and Tre:is. urer, 76 00 SundryAccounts, 321 24--1j37279 Balance with -terk- and ' Treasurer, July 16, 1878, $28065 C. B. BUIST, Clerk and Treasurer. July 17, 29-It. Prosperity Rifles respectfully noinate Capt. A. *H. WHEELER for Lieutenant. Colonel of 1st Regiment S. C. V. T., at- the ensuing election. Re was a faithful sol dier during the war, and we recommend him to the Regiment as a gentleman, and he will make a good officer. 11 . CARD OF THANKS. MESsas. EDIToE-;: The Nesberry ies, twenty-one in number, who were entertain ed last Thursday night on their:-jirg to the Picuic and Barbeem Church the day following ost-espiectfully beg space in your columns to. grateful aaknowledgments rous host and hostess, Gol. an -V. Gist, for the genuine hospitality eiended - to them on the occa.4". Their.Adamn FRill long be remembered- by tfeW*berry Rifles. 1. INotice to Property (owmers. The Board of Equalization wili meet on Monday, the 5th Augst; at the out IAudlitor's Office. W11eqnualh t:al Estate of Township No:1,on the 5th and 6th ; No. 2,. on the37t1; No. ., on the 8th ; - No. 4, onthe 9th ; No. 5, on-ihe10th; No. . 6, on the 12th ; No. 7, on the 13th ; 'No. 8, - on the 16th, and Nol ii,:on the 17th. - B. 4. RANA1GE, - -.w JA COB K. SCHUMFERT, SAM'L. W. CANNON, o~ -df Eiiation. July 15, 1878--29-2L. - ]!kecutors' NNojice. All .persons having demands against~ the Estate of John Sattcrwhite, deceased,' are hereby notified to present -their-^denuanda, Sproperly attested, to the - or some' one of them,-'or to Messrs. Soe Caldwell, Attorneye for the .Estate, en or before the fifteenth day of A t Iand all persons indebted to said Rtte are .requiired to taake. paument to the under signed by that day, if they would save costs of suit. ELIA 'IT W T34 DI. S. SATTEERWHTE,' D. S. SATTERWHITE, July 17, 29-df Executors. Guardfau's Notice, The undersigned hereby ives noiIiethat. he wilmake afalset&lemerttin the 2jro bate Court for Newberry County, on Satur day, the 17th day of August next;ss Gnar. -dian of Anna 3M. Boyd, and immediately thereafter apply for a fimal dica- a such Guardian. - -ha JOHN R. SPEARMAN, SE. Guardian. of Anna-L.Joyd. July 17, 29-5t. UNITED STATES D1STRICT . COURT. DISTRICT OF 80UT'H CAROLINA, - In Bankruptcy. The creditors of John W. Folk, Bank rupt, are hereby notified. that a meetin for the purpose of finally establishing -l" claims against said;estteg -an4decaig a dividend, will be held bfre .the nder signed Register, at 1Newb)erry Q ~rolina, on Wednes4ay, ~e Newberry, 16th July, 1878. 20.-8t FOR THIR'TY DAYS MV$iENITEW@TCK -OF S)MER 6 OnS WILL BE RUN OFF s~? Wilt Cgmjyace the PUb: If you~ want the fglI value of your msoney with fromething over uow-is the C'une, an4 the plae 4g it - C. F. eA &~ COLUMBIA,. . July 10, 28-f. As there- seenr. to b a ndrad amuns opinioir Th ring Deports a Method*bf .~ Presetviok lkuit. ~ e~tabres,1 h~ebj ~