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ruL' i and ?ji era t WVINNSBOIRO, S. C. Tuesday, February 13, 1877. JNO. S. REYNOLDS, Editor. Cupid vs. Cameron. No m-m tan bG considered happy until after death. Aud tho Senato rial octogenl:ari'n 'oml Pennsylvania is n) exceptioll. im-mIl)f Cameron has just been in vlt the (ofolldant in a suit for b)e v"ih of promise, one of thoso caso3s in which the laceration of the tender fomale hoart heart, mnd the perlidy of the Lithario are always dosicribod with such htrrow ing details of time and placo. The plaintiff is a Mrs. Mary Oliver, a native of Georgia and the widow of a deceased Confedorate officer, and until recently a clerk in the treasu ry depirtm3nt at W.vslingt mn. The facts are that Mrs. Oliver, through the influence of Senator Camoron, received this a)pointment. Ho says h assisted her because she was the niece of an old naval oflicer a fri nd of his, while the fair plaitTis modesty induces her to believe that her own personal charms were the superindiucing motive. Sho alleges that on the 7th of December, 1S74, just while the tidal wave in politics was sweeping o'er the country, another tidal wave or something of that sort had so softened or dis solved the flinty heart of the old war Senator, that it blended with hers in one homogeneous mass. It is not an improbable supposition that Mr. Cameron, while fleeing in disgust from the Charybdis of poli.. ties into which his Ol pals. Carpn ter, Chandler, Beast Butler and oth ers of that ilk had been submerged, thus stranded on the Seylla of a matrimonial engagement. Of course Senator Cameron denios the soft im peachment, claiming that he is too old to marry, that his kinness was was disinterested, and that the woman is a beckmailer, treading in the steps of the other worthless women who have figured as plaini tiffs in similar suits against Vander bilt and other millionaire bachelors and widowers. Still there are doubters who shake their heads and quote the testimony of Mrs. Chip pins, given in another caus ee/ebre, that "The old tuns are the wust." It is proposed to refer this case to the Electoral Commission after the p~residential case is disposed of. If they decide not to go) behind the returns, siy old Cameron is in a bad way. Fifty thousand dollars are asked by the widlow to heal the wo~und that honor feels, while the Senator says lhe "won't payv a d--d cent. The Disputed States. Florida has b~een scored for Hayes. The Commission 1elused to go be hind the returnis to inv'estigate the facts. As it has been well express. ed, two things were p~rcschted to the Commission, one a lie signed b~y Stearns ; .the otheri a truth signedl b~y Drew andI the Supreme Court. Tfhe Commiission said "AWo hiave not time to investigate the matter. The truth comes too late. The lie must stand." The Commission voted by party lines, and has thus lost all that confidlence which had been re,. posed in it from a belief that the judges would not be swayed by political bias. Charles .Nordorff telegraphed to the New York Herald on the 9th inst., a report of the acts of the Commission, which we append1 as an evidence of the views entertained of the mattereby an honest Republ'can. Hie thinks -that the Louisiana caise .involves a different question. He says : "The Eletoral Commission had a :loitg anud anixions day of discussion, and-came .to a vote a little beforeo si.X. Three propositions were intro-; duced, but. only. two- were voted op. The resolumtion..that thie . ineligibility of Humnphreys, one of the -electors, was not proved did not come to a vote, as it was not necessary. .It would have been unanimously adop t ed if it had been voted on. The resolution that -the Tilde~n .electors were entitled to cast the .vote of ethe State was rejected by 7 ..L0A4 A~ par-~ thaan division. Then caa~ Nars. lution that the Hayoi 1eectors were entitled to cast the vote of the State and this was adlopted by 8 to 7. Mr. Justice BrlJey voting in each case with the Republicans. After the re cess the report was (rawni i), sign ed by the eight members wio sup norted it, the seven others not sign ig it. of o irse. TIhe ground taken in this report is sulb:Latially that nainttiin by the Republic.tnls throughoultie discus - sion. It is that the Governor's cer titeandli the certifi -ate of the .1 Ret.ui ling Board are finl and (on clusive; that, they cannot be locked behind, and1 thit the IHayes electors having these they cast the vote of Florid a. It was urged on the other side that this was to give to the Retuin. ing Board, consisting of h>tt three men, all of themzi subordinate ollicors imlen of lo high or latintgl functions, and of evaneseant oflicial character a power dangerously great ; th:tt it )laces them[ abI)ove the Supreme Court of the State, the higlhist and most peCrmnent, judicial ollicersH within it ; that it gave them greater powvr and mude themn superio. to the Legislatml e, who are the people of the State, and that it bet a prece, dent favorable to corruption and dangorouu to the em:otatry. All this did not avail, The Republicans adhc:el to their simuple proposition that the acts of at returning board are not subject to revisioni by any authority, whether of the State or the Corgress ; that when the three officers of that Board in Florida declared the t1iiyes electors chosen that was 1"1al, and it was even as sorted that the Board it.elf could not lawfully rover se or ieconiider its own decisionl. T'.he Co)nunissioin of course examined with great care the thiee (cert-ificates and the accoa p nying documpen ts. It w.s shown in those of the Tilden electors that the Supremeu- C'urt of the State had decided agii the right of the H tyes electo rs and in favor of the Tldden electors. ''he recanvass of t'ie vote by the order of the Legis lature was a'so shown aid the re sn't certiied in det.til, proving that the Tilden electors had a nuijcrity of votes, as well its the action of the G)vernor, certifying the action of the Legislat.ure. All this was gon[, over 1:t efully, yet the Republicans were iinnovaible. They still adher ed to their propostion that all this was vain und of no account, and in deed took the ground of Judge, Matthews that, no matter what rights or wrongs were shown by in vestigating, no mitter how clearly it twis proved that the Tilden elee tors had a majority, and were there fore de jure the electors, the simple declaration of the three men who) constituted the Returning Board, th mth contrary to acknowledged t uth, was final. It was shown furtherioro that the .1Returniing Board had openly confiessed fraud i:n the change it made from Stearns to Driew in its recatnvass ;tha~t this correction, pI inly made because1~ the Returning Bo13ard saw that a fraud directly andl c'e irly provabl)e in the State courts was sure to be exposed and reme died, cast just siispicion upon01 the declaration in favor of thme Hayes electors andu made it proper' that prloof shoul I be aiuitted of fraud ill that coiurt. But the r'epulicanls still atdhceed to their position that the ac tin of the Returniiing Board coul not be imnpeached, could not bet looked int, and was finial and conclusive of the whole matter. The dliscusionl wasi earnes3t but not bit ter'. The Demnocerts careful ly explored and laid bieforo their fellow mnembeis the whole facts in regard1 to Florida, and those were considered from every legal and conistituitional p)oint of view. It is not known that the Repub~lierns set up1 any denlial of th so facts, which indeed are estal iished on competent ev'idence, and show that the State was undloubtedly carried for the TiIdeni electors, and the Returnini Board, by omisions and changes of votes, all contrary to the law which created and (delines its duty, gave the vote to tihe Hayes electors. To all this the reply was that tho action of the three oflicers who constituted the Returning Board, and who hav ing given the vote of the State to Hayes, at once disappeared from from the p~ublic viewv-that their act was final, incontrovertible ; irreversi-. by any authority wvhatever, whether State or ,national, and could even be inquired into It is a little curi ouis that the position thus taken was furnished to the Republicans of the coimmission biy Judge Matthews, who is a near relative of governor Hayes. Hie held in hit argumet as follows: .That the body of electors which, witba a Ipparenut righmt and a proper title and in pQossion of the func. tion, franchise or QI1ee, actually exercises 'it, is, 'for the -purpose of this tribung1, the lawf'il body whose Vottes must :be -coun ted. Jt is not necessarily the .body evhic11, spon subsequent procee<tpge, may be ascertained to have .had de jurec title, bnt it is that body which by the' color -of non~e having th fs-. external proofs or authority, Was in poit of fact inducted into posses sion of the power to cast that vote, and who did it. In other words, who, under the law of Florida, were on the 6th day of Docemi o -, 1876, dce/cto electors for that State. It is said that Mesirs. Morton and Garfield carried on most of the dis, cussion on the Republican side, the other Republican merabers saying comparatively little. Nearly all the Democrats took an activo part in the discussit n During the after noon Gteneral Garfield came into the Senate several times and held con sultations with Senator Sherman. Thu Commission adjourued this evening until three o'clock to-mor row. The two houses meet at ten and the joint meeting will reassem b'le probably shortly after twelve, to proceed with the count. The first motion will be to agree to the report of the Comm ission, and on this the two houses w2l separate. The Demltocr's will love to non e:>ncur, :n1d in the House it is prob-able that a lprotest will b offered again st the Commission's41e cision. Only two hours are allowed for dobate on this motion, however, and as the concurrence of time both houses is necossary ro upset the Conmission's deision, and as this cannot be got, of course it will stanl. The ground taken by the majority of the CJomnission in Florida case cose, would, if it were applied to all the States. substantially be equiva lent to letting the Vice-President count the votes. It is the opinion of the ablest Democratic counsel and of several mnwibors of t'le Commif sion that the Florida decision does not at all alffet the Louisiana caso. Iu that case the question will be whether tauo eturning Board I ul any au thority under the State la'w to count the electoral vote. Proof wi 1 also be offered that the vote of the State was sold, and that by a board which had no authority to count or declare it, and which, even if it had, was const.itutd jij violation of the law, which exprosly conmnands that its members shall be live in num her and selected from all parties, while it had but four, all Iepubli (Yms. Miscellany. A Colorado woman has collected fifty hushels of grasshoppers, and -,1ed and hied them for winter chicken feed. A young woman in Rochester, New York, has suic} for damages a man who kissed her. A man who can't kiss a woman wit' nut damag ing her ought to pay for his awk wardness. It is sad to reflect that the young woman who was this Christmas working a green bull log on her Charles Henry's pink slippers may be0 working a 'blue basement to his black panits next Christmas. Such is life. Norwvich Ihid/etin :JKate Claxton was saved at the Brooklyn Theatre by having a petticoat with her. This confirms our opinion that no right-. minded young man should attend an entertainment without one. Anna Dickinson isn't very hanppy in love scenes ; but when it comnes' to) mopimg aroundl under the bed in the next act for :the tyrant whom she ma'ried just before the curtain fell, thme critics burst into tears and the galleries focus their sympathy on the p~lace where the dluet :ia stirried up. Antelopes, as w~ell as buffaloes, are being rapidly exterminated on the plains of western Kansas and eastern Colorado, by systematic hiu~ing for the market. The hiunter's ont out the saddle weighing somne 20 p~ounds., -for which they obtain.8 cents a pound, and wastefully throw the rest of the car'cess to the in satiate cayotos, A young man who was courting a Boston girl upset a can of kerosene upon01 her p~et dog. In the flurr'y of his anxiety to repair the misfortune he picked the animal up Endppt it before the stove to dry. The ex perimient could not haveo been en tir'ely sucessful, as she wi'ote him that night-: "We have met for the last tiine. You can't eytract any more of .the squareo root of my affec tion." George liott's owrnings by lit~ torary~wnmrks : "Scenes of Clerical Life, '41,000.; "Slas Mar'ner," ?1,500 ; "Adami Bede," ?3,500 "Mill on the Floss," .?4,000; ?4,5000; "Spanish Gypsy," .g00; "iMiddlemarch,"- ?8,000 ; "Jubal," .fA,00 ; "Daniel Doronon;" ?6,000, onaling ?32.400 in all, or abo~ut $165,000 in our curirency. This ise api average of $9,000 a year for the eighteen years in which she has boon .syimig. '"I newdid. like nyutton with cespers," Brown said, as he brushed his clothan after .. autokfr. South Carolia Nows. The Lexington jail is without an immnnate. First class field handa in Marion get $6.50 a month and rations. The barn of Mr. Win. Cooper, near Mayesvillo, was dostroyod by fire on Friday last. Incendiary. One of thd aolliors in Columbia fatally stabbed one of his comrades on Thursday night. The names are not given. General McGowan's war horse. "old Charley," died on last Tuesday morning from something like heart disease. Mr. Thomas H. Adams, near Bon knight's Ferry, N.ewbcrry coun ty, raised last year over one thou sand bishels of oats on thirty acres. Mr. Joseph Foster, one of the oldest and most respected ers chants of Spartanburg, died itn that town on Wednesday last. Wi. Black, Esq,, a promhiout citizen of Lancaster county and formerly a representative of the county in the Legislature, died on Sunday before last. One thousand two hmidred and fifty-nine of the taxpayers of Ander son county have paid $3,409.95 of their tax to the Hampton Govern ment. About one hundred of this number were colored men. A narrow gauge railway from Spartanburg to R utherfordton, N. (., is now talked of. The North Carolinians have already held a pre liniinary ineeting. Joseph Young, Jr,, Jury Commis. sioner of Spartanburg, is still absent, and no jury is drawn for ALrch term of court; consequently there will be no court. The oats crop in AIbovil:o county has been badly used up by the severe weather had therp, The farmers are resowing their fields and hope to succeed Letter with the se Ond crop. IBenjumin Hughes, eq lore(1, has been recommnissioned a arial justice for Abbeville by his Excelleu;cy (Gov ernor Hampton. At the last elee tion Ben voted the full Democratic t'eljet and did what he could to help the cause along. Father Folchi, of the Roman Catholic Church, is to visit the Lowndesville prisoners now in jail at Abbevi li under sentence of death. It will he remembered that Jerry Colinan was attended at his Q .ecu tion, last August. by the Father, an:l that he (lied in the Catholic faith. Six new buildings are in course of constructicn in Aiken. lie work men employed on these are nearly all colored men, and yet the fat cor respondent of the New York (Com )cp'(il A dlerCtiser complains that the "poor negrees ennnot find work enough to furnish them with breaid.'' An int~endiary fire .occy:194 at Manumng on the morning of the 31st ultimjo, resulting in the total de-. struction of the b~ooks and records of the .sheriff andl county .commnis sioneprs offices, also the law library and sonme law papers of R. MI. Thompsion, Esq., and the records of the office of E. G. DuBose, Trial Justice. The building burnt was isolated from other buildings, which prevented the extension of the fire. The Lowndesville murderers keep) up a terrible racket at the jail and are almost constant in their devo tions. Their songs and prayers are very loud and they are trying to improve the short time allotted thema to rpake their peace with g~od. It will-be remembered that these same fellows, whlo now so pitifully sue for uwey, shot Clayton Allen down in cold blood . and without a mojnen t's warning. STREKT CAR DIA~ooUE.-It was in a street egr that wvas comfortably filledi. Tfhereo was a blockade in the street, and the car was broumght to a stop. The attention of the occu pants was attracted by a spruce man what sat in about~ the middle of the car who was poking in the sidles with his cane a bright little boy on the opplositesido, The boy sat by the side of a stern looking, coarse featured womnan. "Your boy ?" asked the young mani The woman nodded. ."Handsome boy I" the young man said, looking round to see that all were listening. "He'll be President one of these days." The womnap avis as impeurbabl as a sphmnx "Yes, you know that ,wbo Grant was a small boy, like this one, thoe pe3ople ali told hiu ,parents that hpo was a hendsomne child and would one day bie President." "Well, all T'v ot to say i.s. if that ore boy don't do better'n he has, Il tan hifl lude every day so long as he liyes " Subscribe (or 'Tux Nzwa A1D fEn A, and be sure to have the rea A New Fractional Ourroney--A Sharp A few days ago it was announced that the pQstnmanter at Statesvilles N. C., had resigned his position. As this is generally considered a pay itng position and as Radicals are yvry fond of such, thin very singnlar conduct could not be explampa, An explanation has, however, boon recentily vouchsafed us,wl'ich is not (ily amusing but exhibits a degree of shrew d ness on the part of coun try postnasters, which it was not supposed that such individuals p mscssecd, It seems that recpitly there has been a falling o% in the sale of postage stamps at the States vile office and consequent liimin, t ion in the salary of oflice, which is regulated by this-the post nast;er re3civing 40 per et I. of all reyor q from this source. While this wvais true, many of th postmasters throughout the section of country north anld west of that town wero increasing their salaries. An in vestigation revealed tho fact that they were selling them to country merchants, who in turn paid them for goods bought at itatesville. S tatesvillo nerchiait is deal largely with this section of country, an<) ik this way the whole town was sup plied with postage stamps. In other words, stamps supplied the place of fractional currency. So far as known, there is no law forbid ding this, and tho busine s contin. ucs, but what is fux to the country postnaisters is death to the one in Statesville. Tho work of the oflica is as heavy as ever, wyhijQ the pay is le s tht.n half as much it pg foy' merly. The disgusted P. M. says he won't stand this and has resigned and it is now said that nobody will have the position.- alelcigh ANet e. A farmer's sleigh, in which wore seated a man .nd a woman, tipped over in the snow on Cass avenua yegerday. as the horses turned out o pass a load .Qf wood. Three or four peIestrimms righted the sleigh tend the farmer warimt a moment clinmbi.ng back into tiro seat and starting off. y;ien he was a block away the yife was discovered in the SnOW and .pulled out. About that time the team turned around and 'ame back, and as tho farmor drove lip the puzzled look on his face changed to a smile, and he called out "I swar t) > v.vii ns ! but I'm glad T happenad to look around and find I had loft sonithing ! Olimb up here, Mary, and I'll maul the hainess right off that nigh critter --Detroit Free Press. TRf1LNOUS FXmTJ ITfYMENT OVERl-. THE UNP1ECEDENTEDg jNOW .PICES OF Uoots, Nhoes, T'nks,Se. PR..Leetch& Co'x, STlirjo, of N otions ip, the . Cosnty. Gents' Furnishming Goods of best qoality, Blankets, Shawls and Bouiovaird Skigte, at the loweat pr1ices. Special attention called ,p. the larg~pst and best sel3cted Stock. Offe~ntueky jJeaUs ,ever befpr.e q~ered to the WaIrfleld_ public. Ladies01' ahommir fats in -N'yegt~ variety The above. goods .will be sold either a$ Wiolesale or Retail, 4Jf goeds offered lo,w for' CASEf GALL AND $EE US, WE DEFY COMPETITION. R. F. Leeteh A Con