ght~~ alms1111e trl WINNSBORO, S. 0. Tuesday, February 20, ; : : 1877. I. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, JNO. B. REYNOLDS, Associate Editor. The would-be assassin of Packard ought to have remembered that a thing to be Wel-don should be done quickly. To point a pistol at i man's head and then inquire calmly "When can I see you," is to furnish first-class evidonce for himself of insanity. Mr. Hayes, if inaugurated, will go into office loaded down with three Returning Boards, and bearing a title covered all over with fraud. Ho will have a Herculean task be fore him, to gain the respect of the people. The Radicals depend upon impudence to carry them through the additional term they have acquired by fraud. Dr. T. C. Robertson has collected in York county about five thousand dollars for Governor Hampton ; while ex-Treasurer Watson has bagged only twelve dollars for Chamberlain. Newberry has paid over six thousand dollars to Gover nor Hampton. In Barnwell county eight hundred and five colored men have paid taxes to Hampton. Chamberlain's tax is still in ,ubibus. Elliott proposes to provO by E. W. Ml. Mackey that Governor Hampton was not a citizen of South Carolina at the time of election and was therefore not eligible. The Radicals are in great straits if they are compelled to rest their case on any such ridiculous position as this. Elliott might be more profitably engaged in searching for witnesses to prove that he is Attorney- Gener - al and that Mackey is Speaker, or still more so in packing up his plunder preparatory to a final exit from the State. The quo tvarranto cases - are dragging their slow length along in the courts and seem no nearer a conclusion than ever. The Supreme Court would simplify matters great ly if it gave a speedy decision on some of the mooted points. Judge Willard seems anxious to hurry up the argument, and has reprimanded Elliott and the other Radical counsel for delay on s-veral ocea sions. The Democrats have the law and the facts with them, and the sooner they are recogniZed the better. The people do not propose ever to 'recognize Chamberlain agamn. Senator Sherman was in New York on Wednesday. In an interview with a reporter of the New York Herald, after expressing his convic tion that Hayes would be counted in he said: "South Carolina is by' the Demo crats themselves admitted to have returned the Hayes electors. It does not matter how the vote be counted Hayes must come in winner ; if all the ballots which were cast be counted, the Republicans will come out with a majority of 700. Wa~de Hfampton has8 beenl elected to the Governorship." This remark of yohn Sherman's is significant. He represents the ex treme wing of the Republican party, and if he acquiesces in the election of Eampton, then are Chamberlain's chances desperate indeed. The appetite of the Hayesites on the Electoral Commission improves , daily. Florida required a consids erable sprinkling of pepper and ~mustard to make .it go dlown ; and 'Bradloy gagged percoptibly. Bunt Louisiana was swvallowed on Satur-. .day, horses, hoofs and all, without 'coremouy. Not a wrxy face wvas made as the tough objections of the :Democrats wvore gulped downi in quiek sneqossion. .Testimony was offered to prove that the Rieturning Board was-illegal, that it had no power to count the Electoral votes, that it nover canvassed the election retumnna, but merely aggregated the nupervisors' returns, .that .afldavits were forged, that reun were altered, and that two of the Electora wera ine1lihbl. The nepublica. voted solidly to exclude all testimo ny, and then scored Louisiana for Hayes. They refused even to exam-. ine into the ineligibility of the elec tors, as they had examined in the case of Florida, for the simple rea son it offers that two Hayes electors from Louisiana were ineligible, whi'e none was in Florida. Oregon is possibly counted for Hayes by this time, as the Commission is making indecent haste. A Greensboro', N. C., firm made a shipment last week of 45,000 rabLit skins. John Bright believes that crimi nals are too harshly dealt with. If a foot-pad should hit John Bright on the chin and take his watch the humane Englishman would want the follow hung. Governor Vance, of North Caroli na, is in receipt of a letter from the Secretary of War, demanding the records of the office of the Adjutant General of that State for the years 1861 to 1865, inclusive. Governor Vance has replied, refusing to com ply with the demand. Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Washing ton, is now 78 years old. He has spent $200,000 on the Corcoran Gallery and the ground on which it stands, aind $100,0000 on the origi nal collection of pictures and statu ary ; and for an endowment fund lie has given 8'J000,000. When the next edition of Web ster's "Utabri iged" appears, we may expect to see this addition to the ever-expanding volume of the English language-thus: v.i a. The act of bull dozing; the condition BULTL-DOZE, of beingibull-dozed, as it were; to be the victim BULL-DOZING of a bull-dozer, so to I speak, [Colloq. and J vulgar.] A meek-eyed married man offered as a test at a spiritual seance, that the medium name the articles in his wife's upper bureau drawer. The medium said the spirit would repeat the contents of Webster's Dictionary, or do any other light task, but that life was too short to attempt the task proposed, and the rash proposer was hustled out of the hall. His PURPOsE.--A policeman dis covered a boy in Justice Alley yes terday in close proximity t> a car riage and buffalo robe, and he called out: "Boy I what are you doing here ?" "Resting," replied the lad. " Was it your purpose to steal that buffalo robe ?" demanded the officer. "No, sir, it wasn't. There's a feller out there who wants to lick me and it's my purp~ose to wait here till lhe goes awvay, and then I'll pur pose uip home and got my brothers and our dog, and we'll come back and raise the awfulest tragedy around here you ever seen off the gilded stage I" He was permitted to wait. Deetroit Free Press. Subscribe for T HE Nnws ANiD HEn AU), and be sure to have the ready moneyv. JfCJQTICID. I have this day pufrchased the entire stock of Johnston & Petticrew. Feb.15, 1877. F. ELDER. The above business will be conducted at the old stand by ROBtRT PETTICREW, feb 20--2t Agent. NOICE. OFFICE JUJ OF, oF PnonArrF, Winnsboro, Fob 19, 1877. GUIARDIANS. Executors, Administra tors and Trustce3 in arrears in their annual returns and accounting to this o0i1co are requested to do so as required by law. Failing to disoharge this duty, they wvill be ruled. 0. Ri. THlOMPSON, fob 20--11x J. P.F. 0. DIssolution of' Copartnership. TIHE firm of JOhNSTON & PETTi CRWis this day dissolved by mutual authuorized to settle the business o ths Feb. 15, 1877. RcDRTETT~oEW. 'j can still he found-at-the-old sland,and .all porsons indebted to the late fbir of J.OHNSTPON & '1ETTICRE W are requested to come ump and smeule, or they will und their noeounts in the hiandssof.an attorney for colleotion.