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Job Printing 1 Job Printing i T r i-W e e s.ly , ---4E AT \ j iiII\J I flIIIA1VISITING CARDS, W I N N S B O R 0,8S. C., N~~- ~ ~ '''~','WEDDING CAR), L E IAD bBY ECEIPf6 BRIEFS, BLANKS, Desportes & WilliaIfs BUSINISS CAIRD's, TERMS: $4.00 per annum, in advrnco. ~ INV1ATON F A NCY D'OARD'S, ~NVY~A Transient advertisenunts in'scrtcd a ... . . .. . 'L s PROGRAMME8; $1.00 per sQunre for the first and 50 cents - -SC O CR U, eaph subsequent. Insertion. VOL. VIII.] WINNSBORO, S. C., SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 9. 1871, 1O7 C . - - ECUT.ED WITH DISPATOC About to Spring. The telegram ib our yesterd;ty's -paper showed that the tiger of the gov ernment was preparing to spring at South Carolina. That poor State the object of the sympathy and on miseration of every intelligent and considerate person-a monument of misgovernment and perseoution-i to 'be struck at to inspire the "wholesome alarm" spoken of by the Radicals t-trhghout the south That is, to ill the "uthern public mind with dismay and restrain the southern people from oppo sition to the war party now in pow. er. Martial law is to be deolarod in certain districts. What do those who declared that the kuklux law gave no such power to the 1'resident pay to that I The chairman of the Committee to Investigato '-Soathern OutA'iges" suggests to the Pr-ident the p'o riety of this measure. lie Understands what is authorized by the kuklux law, and so does Genera" Grant, not that he is a lawyer, but that he kno*vs what powers he asked )Con gess tb give bim, and th.at was 0nr ' them. Poor South Carolina! IIer case cannot be made much worsb. She Would be glad to be remanded to the territorial condition ; and Congress has much right to rematid her to this condition as it h"d to pa'st the kuklux I%* utde1r whieh the l'resideot - pro fose'b'nows to act. The ttrsitoril ggeinment would be in6nitefy,pref Se t.t.h. rule i iam. It is re negos v'' d ... - Sto nog?o power in tha'istrict there couldohe no Peace tor rest witho'ut b change of govern 1net', abd they did not hc'itate to make the ohan,;e. But South Caro lina is hot to i-eceiia the b ne1it of any considerate measure of R3dioal jam. She is reserved for penalties and punishments.- to be exposed daily in her huinittio l and t,, re oeive her allotted stripes-to Ah6 the power of the victor and to strike te'r ror through the land. Well, this relointless war p3rty cannot rule always-nor, let us all devoutly trust, will it be permitted to rule the country tAore the for a brief period. For the sake of the 'ountry and humanity. its days should be soon ended.-Richmond )ispatch. The Pesillence Fly in Canata. Following on the Colorado beotle; the neat infliction to note in the order . 'f insect life is the appearance of the "pestilence fly." The arrival of this insect, which is rarely or never se'on ipo dinary years, is b'eli'ved to be it he forerunner of pestilence, and it is said that it was the last noticed in great numbers in this latitude provi ous to the breaking out of the cholera in 1854. Th'e ibsect, sp'ecimens of which have been exhibted to us by a citizen who credits the supposition above cited, is little less in size than the common house fly. It is jet black on the back and wings, the latter being round apd shodi; thb bel ly and under side of the wings are stri,ed with yellow, while the legs arq, yellow, tipped black near the feet. .[t is certainly an odd lookin g insect, and one which we do not re. inember having seen before, It is 'found mingling with the common flies, and Cs it is represented to be quite comon at present, those who are hqrions to examine the new corner Wih have little dificeulty in capturing bpecimnens, As regards the supposi tion,4or dthelwise theor'y; that the ap pearattoe of thih By ls an in'dlcative of Is pestilential *easbn, we are rnot prepared to express an op5inion .At 6 ii events we shall give way to bo blarming appr'ehensions until we have borne assuraboe from the files them belves on the subjet t.-IlaImiltoR ( C 5V.) Spectator. SThe host safety match--marry ing a lob wife. A Bolt from a Clear Sky-The Miracu lous Escape of an Attic Sleeper. Early last Friday morning, at Erie, 1'., a thunderbolt descended from an almost cloudless sky, doing much damage. The Republican hays : On the north side of Fifth street, near State, is a double brick house, the western half occupied by Ion. Alfred King. The families were startled by a report which seemed as if heaven and earth had come together. After the shock was over, Mr. King, sleep ing below, arose for the purpose of ascertnining what damage had been sustained by his household, being sat isfied that the bolt had fallen upon that building. Ashe glanced through the various rooms upon the first flour, he found them filled with soot and dust, but no appearance of demolition. He pass ed up to the next floor above and found the same state of things. IlIe then started for the attic, in the southern portion of which his son Ken nedy was sleeping, and as he looked in at door of the apartment he (saw the light of the morning streaming through the roof, and Kennedy almost bul ied in the debris. Ile had risen from the m%s of plastering and splinters of rafters and shingles, which had fallen over him, and was sitting upright in bed, trying tavlear the dust from his eyes. The, tmort'ar was a'lmost an inch in thick npeiono pie " of which weighing bQut'fiftoen pounds, as well !a a large amount of sm ller partiele'tEnd ;hJnted timber,Tell upon him, au ihself almost. buried be. y hq ' f'uly as smgular,. ainnyfhi 6fi at Ors,a e contmumbatedo the materf w was almost as dry as powdor, as f1rW dtop ofriain fell at the time. A New Party in alassaclhtuse'tts. It is reported that in response to a call of a committee prebiously appoin. ed, a convention, composed of some 200 delegates, met in New Erra Hall last Friday evening, with clos ed doors, and adopted a series of re 'oliuti'ons as, a platform for the "American Union Reform Party." The first resolves gives the new party its name ; the second accepts the amendments to the Federal Constitu tion ; the third dechires the perpetui ty }f the American Union ; and the others declare fo'r the maintenance of the Bible in our common schools ; for civil and religious liberty; against a union of Church and State and the use of iubli' money for the support of aeccariait,sehools or churches ; in favor of general riforrii in Natldnial; State, and civil governments; by a rcprcsen tation of all classes of pooplo ; opposi. tion to all class legislation ; a full and impartial consideration of the great reforms of the day, etc., winding up .*ith a dcelaration to support po mnri for office who will not pledge himself to carry out the above principles at all'hpzards. The executive commit tee were instructed to make arrange nents for the e.illing bliomeet ing at an early day, the tation to be extended to the libera tmen of all partieq. No nitmbs are givbn; not even of the committee by whom the convention was called. The betroit Free Press takes a gloomy view ,of things. It saps : "No sane man will not sew ori a joutrney by rail or water, without first closing up all his business affairs and arranging his papers so that his executors can find t m and kissibg his wife and child n a last farewell. If he comes back all right, he can claIm an inter p osition of Providence. If he comes baek in pieces, his friends can claim that 'they told him so.' ' A butobbiaq has get off the beat thing on the New York Orange-HIi bernian row :"If dey wants some fgt,let em go back te'de blaces dey omefrom and glt all de fightings dey wants. What do tyvil hiave we' IAmericans got to do mit der oranges and lemons and sich dinga." A bying Scoundrel. Here is a specimen,of thq damnabl, lies published in the New York Trib une, and furnished it by th, 'thiovinl vagabonds in this State,4who trav. el about under the guise of drum mers and agents, but who are hire< spies and pimps for the Federal and State govsrnments There aro many countte; in WVhit arrests can be made only at the peril of life by the United States Marshal others in which they wouid not dart attempt t6 inak6 aniy .without t mili tary force to support 'them'. In som( places, where small bodies of troopi are stationed, it has been found neces sary to take the same precaution that posts liable to sudden attacks by at enomy always take. Reports to this 9ffeot have been abundantly verified by sworn testimony before the Con. ressional Investigating Committee, and by the confidential rep,>rts rmade to the War Department by command. ng officers. It is shown that not lone in Mississippi, but elsewhere in he South, are the Ku-Klux move nents so dangerous that the War Do artment has grecently been compell.. d, as a matter of rea>nable precan tion against possible ir,surrectionary iolence, or, at least, resistance to the igorous enforcement of Ku Klux et, to make such dispo' ip of the orcei at its disposal as d l make )ossitle a speedy conoentra4 n in any peo' locality.-Brandort (Mis.) kt lcanr., ilitary sekok,10 e atose of the war tlhis ad sri ' as b undor 'aejuteadily tn intained lob as one of the best the cosntry. We are n~a J ito learn that after the $rot SJafiuary next, he will have asso tated with him, as co-principal, Col. fohn P. Thomas, of Columbia, who vill then make Yorkville his home 7oi. Thomas is possessed of the large *porience necessary to the successful nanagtnet of such an institution sis he King's Mountain Military 8oh'ol, 10 having been for a number of years he Superintendent of the State Ar e1al .Acadepty at Qolumbia. We iongratulate Colonel Coward and the )atrons of the school on the happy ombination. and.our citiz:ns goner 'ily on the f.c tthat Col. Thomas is to secome a . 'deiht of our town. Yorkville 1 'rci. Outliw Killed. Washington Dollard, a negro out. law, was killed a few nights since in llarendon. There were several war. rants out against him; but he hh;l ucoessfully resisted arreqt-in one instance choking the Trial Justice, tad in another leveling a double-but. rel gun at the ofier who tried to take him and who, thereupon, backed out and allowed him to escape. le is laid to have been Ku Kiuxed by his )wn color, the party surrounding his house and being fired upon by him, it is rumored, with some damage to the assailants. He then made a dash for the woods and was fired upon and killed. lie was a brother of Jim Reed, rdontly killed by Constable Weeks, an'd he and his brother were both from Cllrenddn. They were run Ti from there and came to this Coun ty where they continued their course of crime until the country became tot hot for them. Both are now dead. Sumter Wdtchm,a,. A terrible kerosene accident occur red in Altoona, P'a., on Tuesday last: A woman named Mrs. Brown, in re, plenishing a lamp with oil while the wick was burning, cauised it to ox pldde, scattering the burning flid over here'elf abd sister. She ther ran up stairs, communicating tUk flames to her hus'"and and also every. thing in the honse. Th house was burned down, the woman and h6i sister have died, and the husband recovery is doubtful. When wil: pepelanthe dangerous nature a From England. * LONDON, September 6.--Eighted thousand emigrants left Mersey for - America during August. Quaaso*N, Septenpber 7.-The steamer Loader, from Dant.ig; hither is wrecked and about twenty-five Are iost. LONDON, acptcmber 7.-The new United States steamer Juniata, ree. cued twelve persons from a capsized boat in the Sebaadt. From California. SAN FRANCrsCO, September 7. California haw gone Republican by fromn three to five thousand majority. The entire State tieket is elected. The result in San FIe.noisco is in doubt as to the Mayor, but the pros. peots is now strong that Alvord, the candidato of the tax-payers, is elect ed. From Wi Au; MILAUKIU, Sep ber 7.-Gold smith Maid ma " hn fastest mile over trotted; an tho fasteat three t miles on record'; imo; 2:20. 2:17 , and 2:20k. . 1Ne ork, I ouoH>ErsIE, , Septemb 6. Qounterfei - ' a on Me fiant's t .National I e'e shove o da. .AL" ber'A. D ne' t eotiste u on -has beetgoall ed for Qoto -. ...n .8yr oa t'1': 'Ai ti" r tAt Q tidzlar i v Your; ttember -6.-Ac aount-.of the city and county-of New York will ge Abniitted to tfie Coi-. mittb' nextr Moday.- ( From Jamaica. p KINGSTON, September 7.-A hurri cane and ealtbquako damaged Turk's Island. Many vesbcls are ashore. From GeorgiA. SAVANNAu, September 7.-Ar'range- a ments for the first annual fair of th'd s Industrial Association of Georgia are I being made on the most extensivo scale. Twenty thousand d'dllars are offer cd in presbiu'%s. Indications are that it will be one of the most sue cessful expobitiuns ever held in tla ia Sopth. Competition for the premiums is open to Georgia and the world, t Arrangements for the accommoda- a tion of visitors and exhibitors will be e colnplete in every parti'cular. t Cordial invitation is extended to all bections. From. South Carolina. CHARLESTON, September 7.-Twen ty six of the most prominent citizens of Spartanburg county, including the United States Commissioner, the Uni- L ted States AFsessor, Probate Judge, Sherilf, Clerk of Court, and the coun ty Representatives in both branohes i of the Legislature, publish over their t own signatures The following.letter: < SPARTANDURO, September 4.-HoN. t JOHN SCOTT, CHAIRMAN Ku KLUX < CoMtMMIT+:: We, the undersigned, citizens of the said state and county, having seen through the newspapers that ydu had received ita ement and affidavits that outrages upon various citizens have been committed in this county since the committee of which you'are chairman, lett the said bounty, niid that you bad ih'ereijon recom. -miended the deolaration of martial law in this eounty, we feel oonstrain ed to make the following statement: We have made stiiig6nat inquii-y, and havb been unab lo lo heai- ef a dangle 8dttage ~izig been dommitted in this edifty since your committee loft, and 9 t lgcontrary it is in state of pro fouDdi Gace and quiet. The ej$attsn county newspaper in publishing th e above says : "This statement ought to ho sufficient to prove to the ruinid of Senatot Scott that he has been imposed uboli by tb'b ommunuioations and affidavits upon vhi.oh he founds his statements made o the President, ani his reocommen. Lation that martial law be dcelar'ed in e county. Furthermore, we learn at leading tadioals hero admit that io outrage has occurred in Spartan >urg since the Ku Klux Committ'o were lere." There ha'o been three fever deaths u the last twenty-four hours. Market Reports. NEW Yon , Sept. 7.-Evening.a Jotton strong ;uplands 201 ; Orleans !lt ; sales 1,935 bales. Gold 13j. CIIAn LESTON, Sept. 7.--Coton firm -middlings 18 ; receipts 81 ; salei 5 bales. Livr:Pdor., Sept. 7.-Evening .otton closed exeited-'uplands 9j i )rleans 9- ; sales 25,000 bales. gteamboat Boilers. Inspector General Joseph Belknay t is stated, is now continually receivy, rig letters from the principal ports of he country, calling his attention to the mnsafe condition of the steam vessels 1gaged in the pa'ssebVer traIli. ''he eling of insecurity is so extensive hat the people, it is remarked, seeM D have turned out almost in mass as sformers. Even if only one If 9f lie ascertions bontainod i " era are true, the stem ta ountry thus be n -le tre ar o' d of te erry lo -e rill bea in ection, Letters from to* 9rleat) n4 the principal towia long thb Mie,iss pipsqert that h'o scent explosion fth boilers of ccan WVave, at Iobilq; may 'bp . eated any day. Inspector Belkna is reported, will shortly issue a eries of stringent instructions under he recent act of Congresr' an4 iooa nspectors will be direbted to subje'ol he boilers of all boats in their rea ective districts to the most careful erutiny, and con'demn them in all in+ Eances wh're'they arpoar to be i4 th' .ast defective asworn from use. .Opinions of Witnesses. The .ew York Court of Apy'als as recently decei'ed thtat gitn'esses ip t lal before a Court of Law must tate facts and 'ann t draw conclusion or iVe o'pinions. he case in which his' deciaion was gi'ven, arose in an otion on a policy of iusurance to re over for a loss by fire. The plain'. if who, under the New York statute;, ras witness in his case, gave his own pinion as to the quantity as well a the value of the goods destroyed. o this evidence the Itisurance Coil:' any, which was defendant, excepted rd carried the case to the Court of ppeals, whore the decision of the ourt below wasreversed, the evidencd eld inadmissible, and a new trial rdcred. The Codrt of App'eai in lelivering its opinion stated tliat the nstances in which the opinioii of wit. esses can be admitted, constitute 'ez. options to thb general rule, ana that bse exceptions are not t'o be extehd d or enlarged so as to include new ases except to prevent a failure of astico and when better evidence 'cad ot be obtained. Convenil0 oni CdIored NeuI. The colored men of the United Itates will bold two conventions of a ational eheraetor this fall. The firsp~ a called a Natio'nal Con vention.. ahid will meet in St. Louis, oh the 22d of leptdaber. The becond is called a outhern Convention, altbough It Is 1-odght that nearly all the States will >e rep presiet.ed. It wil meet 19 Codlm-. S .C., on the I8th of October. rhjs avowed purpose of each1 is con u t ation ti matters contieeted witti he welfare of the colh red race. A coupl wer "eurijd down id W(amne last week wnone ages wer8 evenby.elghit and eipity years.