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WINNSUOtO. S. C. fatnrlay 1-ay 19, : : 1$77 R. MEANS AVIS, E'1Itor, JNO. B. REYNOLDS, Associate Editor. The scallawag COminings should be at onco'turned out of the Uni vorsity, and.muado to earn his broad somewhere else. 'Ho "hs been a pensioner on the Stato long enough. Some follow has takon the trouble to write all the way from Vashing~ ton to the Chronicle anil Constitue tionalist, to.say thalt Ben Hill stands a splendid chance of being the next president. Bei is a fine fellow and all that, but he will hardly be prosi dent. But that Washington follow will doubtless bone 'him for a loan of ton dollars next winter. E The law professorship of the Uni vorsity is now vacant. We suggest the namo of Chancellor Carroll, of 'Columbia, as a suitablo person for the position. A lawyer 'of unusual ability, a man of the highest char. actor and a gentlemnan of culture, he would fill the profcssa.rship with credit alike toJghimsolf and to the University. A dispatch from Baltimore says "The Reformed Episcopal church has resolved to elect a bishop for Great Britain." This church is the ono founded several years since by the late Bishop Cuminsil. The church of England will hold up its hands in holy horror at this pre smnption, just as pious Catholics 'wero shocked at the establishment of the English church in the eternal -city of Rome. Then. A Radical governor and a Radical lientenant governor, all IRadical Stt to officers, a Legislature two thirds Radical, and twenty-one Radical counties -out of thirty.. two. Now. A Democratic governor, a I)emos toratic lioutenant-governor, a 1)emo. cratic Legislature, all Democratic -State oflicials, and twenty-one Democratic counties out of thirty two. Glory enough for one year ! A Day of Thanksgiving. Governor lHmptoni has issued the following proclamation: As it is our duty as a Goed-fearing peop~le .to turn reverently to the Lord in our prosperity no less than im our adversity, and to give Hlimi humble and hearty thanks for all Hlis goodness and loving kindness * to us and to aoll men: I hereby appoint and set apart Thurisday', the 24th day of May, as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer to Almighty God. And I earnestly ahk thoe.people of' South Carolina, in puhlic andio prIi vate devotions on that day, to return thanks to our Heavenly Father' for all the blessings Hie has bestowed on us: to invoke His divine guid. ancc in the present, and to inplore His protection in the future ; .lpray mng with humble and gratefull hearts 'that He may give to us peaice,. pros ,pority and happiness. .It is hoped that the day thus set .apart 'will be ap prop~riately observed ;all ovantho State. . Tit~eld as an Example. *Thd Reputlnicans carried Fairfield county in 1870 by .1,509 majority. This was cut down last November to .673. On Monday theo Democrats, *at tfho special, electiou, carried the -connby by :1,200) majority. There was absolute peace and quiet. The *colored people feel safe. They. vote by hundreds with the Democrats. Who shall say that, with the right kimd -and s~luanutity of wvork, the Democrats cannot carry any and o very county ain the stato ?-.-Kews' *and (Curier. There are certalin cireumstances .not g4teerally' knownu, 'which make the - victor'y in,.Fairtield even more grati fyin~grthan it would at first appear to be. 1?romu the fact. that Fairfield is one of the ;nip-conmtry , counties, the vast disparity :oristing in 'the niumber of white and colored voters is not generally applreciated. It. is .onormnous. By the census of 1870, ,out of thii'ay..two coutnties in the State. .aioild aiunkt/w... in 'olatiye colored majority. Beaufort and Gorgetown alone loading her. We append the vote of several counties, and the ratio of the color od to the white voto : oEIN5Us OF' 1870. White'. C~o((. to Beam fo t t, 1,1I42. ,1'1. ,'" (eorgu'own, 597. 2,7.0. 1.110 FAlt 1Flsau, 1,2-15. 2,907. 1nint ir, 1,r(15. 3,171. 2.28 CharIestem,, (0,1)0-1. 1 '.19 . 2. 0 i6iu1iliuid, 1,6 . :1,771. 4.50 By thins table it will be seen that even tlh strong legro counties of Sumiiter, Charleston and liichland have relatively a less majority tharn Fairlield ; while taking into con sideration the extremiely sm:11l white vote of this (county, the gri'' t odds against which the Democrats here labor become apparent. Even by the cnsus of 1875, in which vast frauds wcre perpetruted in many of the lower counties, Fairfield stands fifth. There are other counties leading her by a very small fraction as the following table will shw' w ei:suos or 1875: W hitt'. ,I (ric. 1a i. GT'or.;c owns, 0413. 3,19 I.; Ilfiunfrt. 1,711., 8,"11. 1.71 Charleston, 7.:M9. 170'7. 2:; Sumter, 1,527. 4,31. Fanwn1' ..w, 1,-151. :.;4. 23 ltichland1, 2, I 42. ;. :t1:. 2.:;2 En a (Icirate ost.er f'I i!('11ihlnd. county, taken l"''ft O(e i rr, sI-howcd that, the Ialdie(,.l najoriy was not much more than half th at given in the c nsus. '1he0 (census of Fairifiel was found to be aplrI'nmIitely cor reet. Again, it can be proven that the reduction of the R:dical majority from 12) per cent. of the white vote in 1870, to less than lift y per cent. in 187(', was 11 victory equtal to that achieved by the Democrats of any other portion of t he State, not oven excepting ldgefield. If we remem(i ber arighit, the census taken by Gemeral ( biry for Edgelield showed a whitc voting populaltio n of 4,500, while Governor 11iinplon 1 received .(1000 vut:':s. it gain of nearly lift)' per cent. over the whitc vote. In .1airlield, the census of 1875 showed 1.450 white votL-rs. (over nor Hampton reecuived 2,155 votes, or about lifty per cent. oier the white votes of the county. In other words, the handful of Democrats it Fairfield county, by discipline, by devotion to ditty and by inttlonc'ipg the Colored Vote, madte a gains eqial to that whih caused t ho whole Stateo to ring with ludt~its for <Ihe gallant tight made1( 1by idgeliehl. In? the latter county, thme blacks were to thio w~hites! as live toi fouri; in Fairtield ats two anmd at thirdi to one ! lIadi the whites borne the samo pr'ops rtion to the blacks in Ya'iield, as' in E~dgefiel, te gain xmade here wou0Ild have elected the wholo Democ'ratic tic'ket by ai rousing inajordy. .lut the odlds possibile w'.as t~o r'eduoy- the mazijority. The wvosk, too, was pseeul, not a disturban~ice ocurring .in theo lountiy during the ca~mp1aign. Il n makinig this coiimais(on, i'e doi not purip.ose to dispiurage the inao nificent ser'vices reundfer'n by our brother' Demuocrat s in other locali. Lies. Our solo object is to shiow that Fairi'eld was no0 laiggard ini the great Novanber' battle, 'tnd that she was not D~emzocratic, only because to be Demotrat ic, in the f-tee of such1 tremoendous odds-, and within a fetw hiouris (1istainee from t he hlead-.(CIIenr of R~adicalim, was an imipossibility. T he election of the 1.4th of May only shlows that the ~Radical p)arty, onco defeated, falls, like Lucifer, never to rise again. .The fight that Firifield has made can be 'well held up to Charloston as an examnplo. Wi th at colored major'ity propor tionally greater by only a small fraction, and with an abundance ,o wealth, brains and determination, p)ossessing the addi tional advantage of being massed in a lai'ge city, Charleston can well cimulato ' her sister counties ..in repud~iating, as they have done, the Ratdical crew nlowinl p)owOr. And we predlict that if the Mackey Mob.bho unseated, the City by the Sea will send to Column bia a full lBomocratic .delegation ato constdlt with the r'eprcsontativyes of the other sect ions, ats to the welfar'o LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. ,WEDNESDAY, May 16. SENATE. Mr. Swails, from tho comlmitteo on privileges and elections, to whom was referred tho contestds case of Lipscomb es. Corwin, submitted a report of the action of tho commit tee relative to tho taking of evi dence, witlsihe request that, as tho parties to fihe conltest havy,} muituially agreed to liave said evidenco taken before a rjferce, to h) naied by themselves. and the coumnuittee gran ted f he request, the action thus f ake, 1by the conlauittee be ap. proved by the Senate. Agreed to. Several btills were reported back by colmmitLes aid laid over for future conlsiderationl. Report (favorable) of the con mlittee on education on joint resolut ti(on to provide for a reorgvanization of ile U'niv(ersity of Soutth Carolina and of the.State Normal School, was aImended and order id to i third reading. ''ho report (favorahdc) of commit too Onl ('edue:dion Oil bill to aILrmI)W 1111 act, incorporatii the Uniiversity of Sith Caoro lina, ;and to establish the Normal University of jiouth Caro-. lina, was post ponted to the Iex t, re'gu$lar session. A bill to amend ap. act entitled ''Au act to amend an act to provide for the rede'lmtptioll of forfeited land upon certain conditions ther ein mentioned." was passed and sent to the lloutse. Bill (House) to amnoed the charter of (Ga'uffacy City, in Spzartanburg county, Lwas ordered to a third A biil to declare and punih fraud inl the sale of pr'ihtee was ordered toa third reading. A djourned. IIoUSE OF1'j IERE1EN'ATI vr.S. Mr. Muller introduced ia resolution that the House hereafter hold night sessions, conlEnielng at 8 o'clock. Adopte'd. ir. O:r introdneed a resolution fLat the two I'mses meet un Friday 'at 1 o'clock to elect anl associate ju:tice. M1.r. (ary said the resolution was , ther premnature, ias Juiidge Willard had not yet vacated the seat cf ats Mr. Ri H. IR .mphill--It, is not yet sule that he will. I woul not ac r(pt the oflice of chief justice under the circumuistaces. The r'-solution was adoptd. 'Mr. Reed initroduccd a resolution that the General A semibly adjoLurn sine die oil [ay 21. ir. z lu Si.bmitted a petition of citizens of Marion county for a speeial tax to employ detectives. Mr. Autstin introduced it resolu tioni that all standing cotanuittees be instrlted to report on all bills and joint re3Soltion.s in the ordor inl wvhiich they are referredl. Adopted. Movs. li A. Gaillard and T. S Fairfield, appeared and wor0 sworn InI. w~lhi wi ere laid ' oerl uder tihe Th1 o approprmition bill was then taken upi. TVhe pen1ding mointion wals o strike ont section 15, p)rovid1ing :8300t,000 toi paty inltorest (fa 'onisoli dated lit nds1 andh stocks, id at siub st ilt tor this sectioni, prJoposing 8 I.00,040~ for deficienicien whicb may aijse d~urinig the fiscal year comn-. men~icinig November 1, 187G. PendIbo i ' the dliscussion 11 f the matter the House adjourned. Tf~w asniAY, May 17. SENA TIE. Severaigl commlifittoos malld(o replorts, wvhichi woro laid over for -Tuturo ac tiont. He veral bills were in troduced, read nly title aud pr1opl)'y r'eferred(. i le Senate tihein .proccededl in a body to the halil of the HIoumsc, for the plurlpose oft electing trustees of the State Un iversi ty. After thme e3lectioni the '-imijte adjommeed. Severau now ills~ were introducedl read by3 title, and pr'operly referred. TJho~ -commiittee on ways and1( meanlus rep~orted onl thle message of the Governor as to salaries of pro fessors in theoUnivormity,'and recomn mended that no0 appropriation be mnade this session. Mr. Allon, fromi the comnidttoo on Legislative libwary, :reported and calle(d attention to thme fact the robes and1( archives of the State had beon packed .up) arnfd deposited in the b~aseemnt of the Univeraity library; that they had been1 oponod by H. Jt. Haynie, and( tho records loft scat - torod over~ the floor, and recomn mended that the clerk of thme House be instructed to collect an~d classify them, and canse the0 .hnanuscrip~t journal1s to bo bound. .Tho report wvas agrood to. On..mnotion *)f Mr. Sheppard, .t.mo vote on tihe bill1 to r'ednlee and fix the siilaries of oertain offloors was ro considered, and the bill andl report l)ontOned till next session. The appropriation bill was taken up and discussed till the hour fixed for the joint assembl.v to olect seven trustees of the Stato University. The following 11nmed gentlemen wore olected : Rev. E. J. Meynardio; R. Wi. Boyd, of Marion ; B. F. Por - ry, of Greenvillo ; F. W. felaster, of Colum'bia ; C. H. Siionton, of Charleston ; J. D. Blanding, of iun ter ; James H. Rion, of Winnaboro. Adj ourned. A Brilliant Dall. A. correspondent writes the fol lowing of a hall given by Count Liucknew at, his pihirue il the viciUi ty of Dresden : "Nothing of its kind has been heard of since the days of Augustus the Strong, of Saxony. Thei atlair has created qulite at senseitionl inl th~e faIshionable world. From 150 to .100 persons were present. As the Count is an unmarried man, her ixcellc'y Fran Vot Fabtrico did tlhp honors by receivmg the guests. The road leading t(o the Sclost; was blrilliILt ly illiiimnated with large -on Iis of pine wood, ind the gorgeous intorior arrangemiienots were suh, t hait from the noimieint you etcle( the portal you were. tralnspourted into.: Ise reatlms of fairy-lal. T'hle iloial dleiorai tiuns9 of the Il:lls, roolmis and slair cases y':ero1 su perb. No end to ser valts in the Count's full livery. rhe large suit(', of rooms an2d the handsomeo hall rom were diazringly illhninnte d. Two sumpt1uu~s any pers were servedl up at 10 o'clock and at '1:3U 'clolck, 13oth were annone()ed )!by ieralds playing the I ''Aida" lllalre. The tables, dC('ked with] a hand som10 gold a1nd11 silver family plate. .A milit:iry hand of sixty pieces per' forme1cd a selectfion of the most rap turoi1s 11nsie. At 12) o'(lok ith11 heralds anue11elllid the cotillion the greIt tttractiol of theevening which was 1n(ie ill its kind. A blast of tliiplets allnouneed e.ch new igure, wChih Were so mnier. t that 1 canl onlyv men1t ion the pr1in1ei pal onles. A. large 11en, ittiing on a Iasiet full of golden and silver eggs, etch Coltailung a lrese it for the dancers. A. heavy snow-all olo foot dlee,), laisting; half' an hour1?, and co)lpletely c.)verinig the ladies and gentlemen (this sno1w wax, contained in 5,000 s~amll bags of l aper, which took two weeks to cut up.) Again al blahst of iir11111)etl;, when the ceil ing OpSJls axii anl Clectrical s1111 s ts rays ini the :r r' of she room, displaving the coat of a1r11us of Saxony and the Count's lmon l gizuil in 1n:1my pretty coullors of the surface of the sn1ow. tiurklen di;k 1Cs-reappearnlce of the sun, e:t., ing its rays at one end of the roqn on a teilcie. "l'n/, in) the lidcdle of which is a llm:gie fun !tain of many eOlors-HlaIlospiltechromo )iklrone(. 1ts it is cahed here. T' Idanlo ing con. tinutes, when the eeiling 01)118 Bll a ar ( th('ll d(escenids filled with pr'(een1tI-, sneh as fans:11, bra111 clts, une1k.-, of ory dlescrp't 01. A p mI: e -lnch lay receive an ap1 lIron, und je tehi gentlenuml a baisketI to tie onl hsis back. A bh!.t of trumlpets, whlen lo ! and behold ! there is a shower of thon mlost costly flowers for fuilly ten iniutes. So ended this prinicely on terta; inmenlit, toward four o'clock inl tihe morning. Manyuii of the gentlemen remiained to par take of ai 'rCeehe . breakfast, aind then~i to drive wvith thie Count ini his this baill cost him1 39,0001 marks, which is very likely." Thme old VanIclus1o Factory. i;n Edigefield county, is to bo0 ilnme dliately mebulit, work having al ready comm ienced on the new s tructure. It will contain ablont 10,000 spindles anid will occuipy the site of the old fatory, kniowni as tht. 'Old Nullifica tion Cotton Mill," from its having been conulnenced1 ablout the tne of the Nullifiention contest ini t his Satsoon after 1830. W'nP0 T PA lmN'Is.---Tommy is fond ot. ulgar, and asked is miother for some1) to eat with ii hi bhekheriesC. but adc~ded, gravely, "You knowv, et1'rnor ? T1here wasI a littloboy, and hus mtother would not give hinm any sug(ar on his blackborries, ana--" "Aj ""And next day 110 fell into awell," conclutded Tom my. Considerahle an'igty is felt for the safety of thie steamer "City of Brussels" which left New 'York twenty days sine, with at part'y of pilgrims to Italy. No tidings 'have boon received of her since she left. One of the last utterancos of-Par. son. lrownlow was a~ declaration in favor of Hampton for President in pr1ofer'onco..to any Northern Demo.. Crat. :Allen hfannah -was married in Nowv York to Miss Hannah Allon. Miss Hannah Allen is flow Mrs. H~annahi hannah, and that's whiat's the matter wi l ahn i,m NEWS OF THE DAY. Albert Sfeinway, Jr., partner of Steinway & Son, is dead. It is reportod that the Russian hoot is preparing to loavo New York. The peop)lo of Virginia are re ported to be rife for the breaking up of old -party lines. The etcLamcr Dakota, from Now York, has been wrecked ofi the coast of Walos. Nobody hurt. Attorney-General Devens is said not to bo in accord with the Presi dent, ind his xesignatiou is oxpect ,el. It is said that a filibustering par ty, coimmanded by one of the liouten ants of the fillibuster, walker, will soon move from California against the State of Son-:a, in Mexico. For souie years past dealers in cotton ill NOw York havo .boon annoyed by an organized system of petty robbery .carriel on by weigh ers, samplers, truckmen and others in the process of handling 1revious to shipment. This evil has growni to such an extent that the aggro ga'itol am1olunt annuall111y stolen at that port is (stilated at 10,000 bailes. Tb (lepartment of agriculturo will iio., issu;; its monthly :oflicial cotton report, Congress having failed to make al appropriation for tiat purpose. This failure will give additional importance to the reports of the Cotton 1 ehangge. Mr. Dodge, the statistician of the do. p:rtmiient, however, will furnish tho pross with unoflicial reports, tio first of .whioh- will appear about tho middle of June. Tho Southern Ra1ptist Convoution met in New Orlcans on the 10th. The following oflihers were elcQted: 'Jatues P. Boye, ). D., of Ken-. tilky, President; James C. Eyirmnan, 1). 1)., of South Carolina, T. G. Jones, 1). 1)., of Tennessee, W. C. Crane, D. 1) , of Texais, and T. J. ' vans, of Virginia, Vice-Presidents W. E. Tanner, of Virginia, and.J. F, Gregory, of Albama, tiecretaries. Sin- o the passae of the law .pay ing postmasters sisty per cent. comn In ss1011 on postage Stumps. it is elaimiiedc tiit.country postmxtasters in many parts of the Union havo been Felling large (llantitii s of stamps to peddlics, thus defrauding post masters of largo cities, and the govot inlenft. S%.cps have be tik. n to check the evil, imd offeudery .wi 1 he proIpLly removed. George H. Butler, a nephew of the Beast, and former consul to Alexandria, anid .who Mwas removed for habitual ittenlauen on the Eryptiomn Can-Can, has .gilgin como to:gricf. He wais recenitly appoint-. e(d mail agent in the t.o(3vitories, but on his way out lie usd such profano 1;:.glage and naursed a black bottlo yt) iassidnoisly, that a Methodist ( l(rgyman who was on the train repar(itCd him to hedquartcrs, and had1( hiiia re'moved. -- CVVN7 Ci L i THIOS, .R. ,ROBERTSON, Attorney at Law .AND TRIAL JUSTICE. . fr&' Ali husiness entrusted to him ip~ ejithr capacity will receivo prlomupt attenr Alice on WVashngion street, One d.,orI e'st of Wigu nsboro H~otel. I I. A G. Al .42 I. JNO, s. lt,: Ezo ;s QALLLARD & REZNOLDS, AT1.TO liN1YS AT1 LAW NO. 3 LAWU RANGE. A. M. MA(KEY, Ator'noy andl Comisellor at Law, No. T1, FLAW. ya.: WV~unsboro, S. C. fa, Special alt enifgn paiid to theopaedy collection of .claimis. .Will p~ractice .in all of' the coulrts9 of th is Stateanthenid States. ~ mdto~ie Best is Cheapcst 1 NEW'. WILLOOX & djupsB AITTONIATI C Silent Sewing Machine, Latost Invention, Prod,@cing Marvelous Rtesults. RI sul U')ing~m merit places ,t Jieyond all comn.. peitlon, ndl inakes it thm~e iennest, nlotwith.. SI thndig ihola int llecmentsO~ 8offered' by 5"I-lr ofI nIoisy, ln rimlig, tIrotqblexsome, two. thired, tonm~roln mal5ines. Ony acidne in the World with AutoaticFeaures an Mainge. ,,Writo by Postanl Oard for Prico List, List of Oflces, &e. 'W1ILCOX & G111BBS S. M. Co., (Cor. B3ond St.) 6%8 Broad way, N. Y. ,nyay 15-ly SIJAVINO SALOON. ?'ff[E undersigned talkes thuis method of I.iforming the public that he has opened, a Shaving and liair-cutting Saloon in the room two doors west of the post-ofilee, where he ill take pleaure ini Nerving all those who )~ay, favor him with a call. Evorything in'his line dono in the latest anid mmoaf faahionnbie eivl. j'nn laat .unW4nY TC..'.