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Tev ahu ntd Mprald WINNSBORO, S. C. Tuesday, September 11, : 1877. R. MHANS DAVIS, Editor, JNO. S. REYNOLDS, Associate Editor. THE OLD STORY about the capture of ex-President Davis was given a short time since in the Philadelphia Times by one Gen. William H. Wil son, and of course it told all about Mr. Davis' being disguised in the garb of a female. The imaginative Wilson went fully into particulars, with a view, as he said,:to show that ho know all about the matter. But he was only carrying out the precept of Boocher, that "the only way to lie correctly is to lie sublimely." In the last issue of the Times is a let tor from Hon. John H. Reagan, postmaster general of the Confed orate States. Mr. Reagan was with President Davis at the time of the capture, and of course knows where, of he speaks. Alluding to Wilson's statement, he says emphatically that there is not one word of truth in it all. In short, Wilson, or his in formant, has simply lied. And the lie he now repeats has been believed by a large number of people all over the North, for more than ten years ! It is about time for the truth to bo known and accepted. THpE is a great deal ot noise being made now, over the so-called "persecutions" af ex-officials in this State. Several of the Radic 1 newspapers of the North go so far as to assort that there has boon a breach of faith on the part of Gov ernor Hampton. They pretend to say that he promised a general am nosty for all past offenses. This, of course, is altogether untrue. Governor Hampton simply pledged himself that the removal of Federal bayonets from the State House would result in no breach of the peace on the part of the Democrats. How sacredly this pledge has been redeemed, it is needless to say. But there is no thing wrong in following up the thieves who grow fat on the people's money during the eight years of Radical rule. They deserve the very worst the law can do for them. And it is shecer folly to call it persecution wvhen they are made to answer for their crimes before a court and jury. No attention should be paid to those silly partisans who are now * endeavoring to make political capi tal by exciting sympathy for the most abominable gang of thieves that over got possession of other people's money. Let them all suffer-and suffer the severest penalties of the law. TEINsTRUOTIoNs of the comp troller-general, with regard to the less cause a pang of disappointment in the breast of many an impecunious ex-auditor who once reveled in the greeabacks so abundantly given him for the comparati' - y little work ho had to do. But these fellowvs should not complain. On an average, they managed to get, by hook or by crook, a very handsome living, and it is time they are satis fied. True, they did some wvork voluntarily-as, for instance, the entry of of the levy made by the Mackey House last winter. This work was done in Fairfield ; and we are in informed by experts that considering there was never the barest possible chance for that tay to be collected, the work was ver creditably done. All the differeni items were accurately-that Ia t< say somewhat accurately-made out and there was only wanting the tax payer who was foolish enough t pay money to Chamberlain. Foi the work thus done, the auditor an< his assistant are entitled to th< gratitiude of-Mr. Ohamtberlair They were loyal to him, to sy thn least. They even had an idea, i would seem, that he was governor They were mistaken, as it wore .1 and have had their labor to nought. Maybe the Legislature wil do something for them'yet, and miay RAILROAD MATTERG. Another Interesting Communication L*om "Fai-feld."--The Cheiter and Georgebown Raroad. .Aees. Editor8 : In summing up th6 ' faciliit.ies opened to our town and county by the proposed rai-oad, I failed to mention still othe' competing lines between Asheville. N.C.,and Winns boro, viz: the Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad to Spartanburg, the Air Line Railroad to Gastonia, the Chester and Lenoir, and Chester and Georgetown to Winnsboro. This is, you are aware, a virtually completed line to Chester. Again, the Carolina Central of North Caro lina, which from Charlotto gives us an air line to Wilmington, is about to extend its road from Lincolnton to a junction with the Western N. C. R. R., at Hickory. This gives us still another competing line, via Lincolaton and the Chester and Lenoir to Chester. Lastly, the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge and the Air Line Railror.d, give us d.eoct communication with Atlanta and thence to the entire 'Western and Southern country and the metropolitan cities of St. Louis, Cincinnati and New Orleans. With the projected railroad com pleted only from Chester to Winns boro, it is hard to conceive of a com munity more completely fortified against oppressive freights than this will be, toward the north andwest. Let us now survey our position toward the south and east. suppos ingi the Chester and Georgetown Narrow Gauge completed to the sea at Georgetowa. First, then, at Camden we reach the South Caro lina Railroad, and secure a now and direct route to our beloved old "city by the sea"-a route almoat as short as the C. C. & A., and free from the interminable ;differences and com plications that seem to characterize the relations between the two roads -a state of things that has, we be lieve, done great injury to them and to Charleston; and, we know, has wrought' unspeakable inconvenience and vexation to this part of the State. Surely, Messrs. Editors, this one connection would justify us in making the effort necessary to se, cure it. At Camden, too, we get not only a now line to Charleston, but another outlet, via Augusta, to Atlanta, St. Louis, (Jincinnati and New Orleans. But another short link, through a fine ridge country, brings us to the important and flourishing town of Sumter. Here we cross the Wil mington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, which affords a,direct out.. let eastward to the port of Wilming ton, with the great advantage of new and independent connections with all the great freight lines to Baltimore and New York. The same road gives us still another route,Zvia Augusta, to all points south, west and north-west. We now enter the great pine forests that offer inexhaustible stores of timber; and, running along an almost Iunbroken ridge, reach a poirt on the North-Eastern Rail road at either Lane's or Gourdin's stations. By the North-Eastern Railroad, we reach Charleston in one hundred and sixty miles from Winnaboro: it is one hundred and sixty-.seveni via Columbia. But should the North%Eastern Railroad be at all refractory in the matter of rates-a contingency rendered most unlikely by the condition and pros pets of that road-we have only to go on thirty-six miles to our termi nus at Georgetown. There we find a good port with regular lines of vessels to New York and Baltimore, and a first class line of packet steamers to Charleston, besides the freight steamers that piy regularly fromz Charleston up the Santee and the Pedee river. The citizens of Georgetown will, no doubt, at the proper time, set forth the advantages they can offer in low ocean tariffs, small port charges, &o. This I leave to them. It is surely not claiming to: much, Messrs. Editors, to say that it has been demonstrated that the buildig of this line would plact Fairfl s, the :ontire county -absolute and forever beyond the reach ofunjust or oppressivt rates. And In leaving thi branod I of the subjectlImust again call at tontion to the imortan6 and en couraging fact tha each link in thi cbain of road affords tea6 aiga. pal pable advantages for te fu4ure, ai - well as certain and Iimediate relle a sonn a complet.) Thus be gining t Chester, should either our energie, our means, or both. be come hausted in building the road Winnsboro, we could, as has bee already shown, well afford to stop here-at least for a long rest. ut once refreshed and strengt oned by the relief and indo pendn brought by our first effort, nothingpoould stop us short of Cam den, an4 our new line to Charleston. Thence to Georgetown, we need trouble ourselves little about the project. Let us bid our con federate "Godspeed," and good cheer. They can and will do the work. At another time, if you desire, Iwill treat of the cost, ways, means M FAIRFIELD. "*EWS OF THE DAY. Postmiaster-General Key will not resign. Congress will meet on the 15th of Octoler. E. P. Stanton, son of the late Secre tary of War, died on Saturdy in a lunatic asylum The people of Georgia seem gen. orally -ery well pleased with the proposed constitution. The Tammany and the anti,. Tammaty Democrats are getting ready for a big fight this fall. Alvin Adams the founder of Adams' Express Company, died in Watertown, Mass., last Satur day night. Brigham Young left nineteen wives, seventy-threo children, and a property of seven millions. An imperial edict has boon issued prohibiting the smoking of opium in China, the order to take effect three years from date. The Chicago Tribune says that Admiral Raphael Sommes, who ro cently died, was a kind husband, a fond father and an estimable pirate. It is stated on the authority of a Washington dispatch, that General Longstreet has filed his application for the Marshalship of Georgia. It is estimated that the late strike will cost the State of Illinois $200, 000, which is cheap compared with what it will cost the State of Penn sylvania-$8,000,000. A negro woman of Waynesboro,Ga., whilst violently whipping her child last Tuesday evening, burst a blood vessel and diua soon after wards. A London correspondent says that the Pope has definitely resolved to restore the Roman hierarchy in Scotland. Cardinal Manning will shortly go to Rome on a confidential mission in that connection. The postofIice department has received letters from a number of the principal newspapers, refusing to publish advertisements at the rates allowed by law. The railroad rioters convicted at Harrisburg last week have been sentenced to the county jail for from two to eight months, and f3ined fr-om $20 to $500 The Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany having been for five years within six miles of the Cumberland coal region in Maryland has decided to extend its tracks so as to com pete with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Sergeant Bates, of flag-carrying notoriety, attempted to commit suicide the other day. His family are living at Saybrook, Illinois, in perfect destitution-the objects of public charity. A boy, supposed to be Charlie Ros wasbroughtlast week all the way from Ohio. The resemblance was so great as to puzzle members of the Ross family, but the parents did not identify him as their lost child. The governor of Wyoming Terri tory has issued a proclamation for the election of members of the ter. ritorial Legislature, September 11. The women vote in that Territory. * Wendell Phillips has been nomi nated for governor by the Massachu setts greenbackers. As there will be four other gubernatorial candi dates in that State, it will be seen that Wendell is running for princi ple, not for office. Senator Conkling's fri ends vehe mently contradict the report of a Western newspapen that the .nexf Republican State convention in New York, under his dictation, will con. demn the policy of the administra tion and place itself in antagonism to civil service reform. Justice Bradley, in a letter to the editor of the Newark Advertise, denies in toto the charges against him in connection with the Electoral Comisiuon. He says he did nol road or eipress an opinion, as charged, to Justice Field. He de, nie that there were calls. at- hiE home, and declares he decided the eleetora, .,ote honestly and freE The army worm is devastating the cotton in the counties adjacont to Momphis. Many planters stato that tboir fiolds look as if a firo had swept through thom. It is be-eved that sorious damage will result to the crop in that district. Rome is not to remain an open and unprotected city. Fortifications are to be constructed in the out skirts of the city, and 130 guns of large calibre are to be brought from the arsenal at Naples for their armanent. The marria- ) of the Prince Im perial with the Infanta Ma':ia del Pillar, daughter of Queen Isabella, a pretty girl of seventeen, is, no cording to Parisian autLority, likely soon to take place. Just before leaving Boston for Europo, Professor Graham Bell, of telephone fame, married the daugh. ter of Orrdinor G. Hubbard, a deaf mute. He had so carefully in structed her that she uttored dis tinctly all the responses of the wed ding service. The latest returns from the California election indicato that the Democrats have olected ton senators and fifty-soven a-sumblyinen, -and the Iepublicans ton sonators and twenty -three assomblymen. In cluding the hold-overs the Demo . crats will have thirty-eight majority on a joint ballot. This is a defeat for Senator Sargent. Crazy Horso died on the night of the 6th instant, from injuries re ceived while on.1eavoriu,; to escape from the goard-houso at Camp Robiuson. His peoplo took cha':go of his body. At last accounts, everyting was quiet, and General Crook telegraphs that the death of Crazy Horso is the eOd of all the trouble as far as the Sioux are con corned, except Sitting Bull. The Public Schools. Judge Kershaw has boon holding court in York. Among other things at the request of the State Super intendent of Public Instruction, his Honor instructed the grand jury that it is within their province to examine into the public school system of the county; to roform abuses; look into the intelligence and character of those charged with tho instruction of the youth of the county; and if they find incom petency, it is within the range of their duty to make presentments, and lot the places of incompetont instructors be supplied by persons better qualified for tho position of teacher. He hoped, however, there is no occasion for such present.. ments in York. There nevor was a time, remarked his Honor, when educational facilities were so much neld by the white boys and girls of South Carolina as the present. So far as his observation extends, the colored people of the State have, with commendable zeal, avail - ed themselves of the educational facilities extended to them, deriving therefrom great advantages; while it is lamentably true that white boys and girls are growing up in ignorance. The time is not far distant, ho continued, when the colored children will be as wvell educated as the white. The public schools ought to be, and his Honor thought they wvouldl be, equal to all requirements, presenting, if pr'lor use be made of funids :set apart for that p)urposC, greater advan tages than private schools; and there is no reason why there should not be a goodl school in overy school district of the State. LIVE R CUR E. A ense of Liver disease, i years stand ing, cured by the uso of Simimon's llo latic (Compound. te o (entlemnon:-I think it teduty o eveirybod(y that cnn ronder asqsistaneo to the aillictedi to do so, therefore I tak great pleasure in testifying from my o wn knowlIedge to the great efllcacy of your Simmons ,Hoeatie Compound. I comn mencod using it in my family in a ease of Liver disease of 31 years standing~ which it has en(irely cured, its wonder fuil eil'ects in the i'iuodiato euro of Sick headache, dispopsia and chills and fevers, I am glad to say, has been fully reailized in m.yr family frm the use of a tow bott los of this medicine. My wife has been sub ject to severe spells of headache for more than two years, and has boon entirely cured by using a~ few bottles of Simmons' HlepaticoComnpound and hias determined to keep it always in our house. We con sider it an ialuablo family medicine. Years truly, 1O0 ISEtT E. WE~L clH. Burko ounty G eorgia, M ay 187C . --ronBSALE BY W.VE. Azunw McMAs'TEn Bntoue, Win.Dh~bor9, 8, 0. E.W. Bnxu & Co., Weodward's, 8. 0 DOWIE & M%OISE, Proprietors, cMa,ster & Brice -0 HAVE greatly teduced the prices of HAMBURG EDGINGS, INSERTINGS, LACES, PIQUES, TRIMMINGS, LINEN EDGINGS, COTTON EDGINGS, FRILLINGS, COLLARS, CUFFS, TIES, &c. Call and examino their "Cheap Show Caso" of "ODDS AND ENDS." july 28 CONGRESS STRE ET N E W G 0 D S I WINNSBORO, S. C. NEW GOODS AT U. G. DESPORTES' AND BARGAINS DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, WINES, LIQUORS, fob 3 Etc., Etc. Best is Cheapest NEW WIL~LCOX & GIBBS AUTOMATIC Silent Sewing Machine. Latest Invention, Producing Marvelous Res~ult& ets s1rasin mek it lce heboyond al com selh'rs or noisy, h trd(-runing troublesomne, tw thr'ead, lenion maachines. Only Macine in the World witit Automatic Features, and With no Tension to Manage. Writo by Postal Card for Price List, List of Offices, &o. WILLCOX & GLBIBS 8. 1M. CO. (Cor. Bond St.) 658 Broa&dway, N. Y - may 1-y Establishe di 16509 .CHARLES MUJLLERI Has romovod to the store next to Francis Gorig's. WA ATOnES, Clooks ana Jewelry no Vprno<d, and satisfaction guaranteed to overybody. .Those indebted to ; me for work on jewelry will please pay at once, afor THamptoni Is JElected. CHARLES MULLER. fob 3-tf IL. 3. M~cCarley B~EGS to call attention to his new S.) tock of 1)0 ots and Shoes all sizes and at lunprecodenitedly low prices ALSO, An entirely nowv Stockc of Groceries. Sugar of all grados,Cofroo, Rico, IHominy, Firio Senet Irish Potaoe Ta,t Choicest Brands of Flour. Best Con and ilyo Whiskey in towun Tobacco and Olgane, Molasses, Land, Baon ams&o -Lwest inarket prices.