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1tus~ n id I n d WINNSBORO, S. C. Tuesday,. September 18, 1877. R. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, 4NO. S. REYNOLDS, Associate Editor. A sTRON fight, will be mado over Senator Gordorn seab from (leorgia this fall. The gallant Gordon has won a second term by his patriotic an( able record. Especially gratifying would his ro. election be to the many South Carolinians who met him last winter in Columbia during, thoso trying times. THIs TALK of persecution in con nection with the trials of the Radi-. cal ring thieves is all fal-lal. The Inst one of the scoundrols who are guilty ibould bq sent to the poni tentiary. No compromiso should be made with them il colsidlrtion of restoring their stolen property. A State can with no more propriety compound a felony than can a private individual. The people who have been so grievously oppressed domand that the Lhieves, both great ud small, shall be sent to the penitentiary. Tilden it 1880. For some time past a heated dis cussion has ben mintainod in the Democratic papers of New York, whether the present State oflicers shall be nominated or whether there shall be a now deal. Thc acrimony and hoat evolved in this discussion.upon a subject apparently so trivial are inexplicable to an out sider. But the New York Iferald offors a solution which is, to say the least, quite plausible. The Heral<d naintains that the real issuc, though both factions studiously endeavor tc coneal, it, is whether Tilden shall be renominated in 1880. Thc present oflicials were chosen by Mr Tilden as his agents in defeating th( canal rings ad otlxcr opp.osing fac 'inn XUJLk'ht1f "Ifl"II 1181pni Ol the other hand, Tainaiy, the canal ring, and other oppononts of 1Mr. Tilden do-ire to defeat his fae. tion by securing a new dl in the Stato oftices, and thereby gaiininv the prestigo in advance of th struggle in 1880. The Democratic Eixecutive Committoe has callci the Convention to meet at Albany a circumstance which the .ierale construes into a victory for TYildlon as the State officials can, at Albany manipulate the Convon tion, wyhik they wvould not (lare to leave their iblic business, and go on this or rand to any other city. In cornnc * ion with Mr. Tilden's candidacy the following extracts show the diversi ty of opinions existing in New York, which are,. the more important, because the renomination of the defrauded President wvill probably only in case of the unanimous de.. mand for him in the Convention b) New York. Hecre is what the lleralc says : According to our Saratogn, letter printed1 this morning, Judge Church pBRerts that the controversy over the State ticket has no relation to Mr. Tilden, because he is so evi dently outside the pale of choice for another nomination. In amusinc' contrast to this the Brooklyn i?agfe o,f last evening contends tIhat it is ridiculous to suppose that this vehemen1t contest has any relation to Mr. Tilden because he is so abso. lutely e-ire of thoe- next Democratic nomination. The Idagle says : "If Samuel J. Tilden is living and capable of p)erforming the duties of President of the United States he will be the next Democratic candi.. date for that ofleo and our next President, with the hearty assent of all citizens of all parties who desire to right a groat political wrong through the just elevation of the man who most directly suffored by it. This is a question which may as well bo accepted by politicians." These contradictory reasons ex. plodo pach 6ther, and merely prove that both factions think it politic, in boatmen's phraea, to alook one way and row another." But, in spiip of strateglo donials, this angry conflict prVoceeds from a pro-Tikfoen animus on, one side and ami alti,TLiln anmmus on the other., # The Rochester In~ion, whuch sidvocates a nowv ticket, indulgJes'iii very pleasant reflections on Mr. ~oc. The Troy Press, which i.s a chain pion of the prosent State officors, vigorously deun00111cos their oppo neitg as onomics of M. Tilden. It is too evident frum this mutual exchange; of. ijvoctivo that Mr. Tildun and his hopes arc the real pivot of the quarrel. No fusilade of denials can mask this plain ffict. In tho light of these facts, the contest in Now York will be worth watching. The fact is indisputable that, however wanting in other ro spects, Mr. Tilden would mako such a President as has novor boon seen in tihe White Iouso. His adninis tration would be a in-rvel. HAMPTON AND CHAMBEIRLAIN, What Dozn Platt Thinks of the Carolina Promeoutioms. Wa(shiwjlim (br. Oicinnati Enqire-.-. A gentleman answering to the geological cognomen of Stone turn ed uip herO yesterday, in response to an, invitation tendered him by G(eneral Devens to resign his place as United States At.torney for South Caiolina. lie brought his resigna tion with hin. This was pru dent on the part of the geological speci ll', for he is a Carpet-bagger, anld the same line of financial conduct that made his resignation nveepta bile to the President made him ex - tremely disagreeable to lie nw authorities of South Carolina. Hie tells m that Holp me-God la fpion is tmaking it very hot for the late friends of mi (colored) of that State. The H1. M Or. Governor is dead in vnrnest, and has committees and grand juries hard at work in vestigating the conduct of the late flienids of man (colored) put in olliee there by the la,c administra tion, and lie is especially warN and active in his pursliit of his late oppoleit, ChImiberlain). Stone says that if Help -ie-God Hiampton g(ts hold- of said Chamburlain lie will have an opportunity tendered him of serving the State in a manner more useful than ornanental. Wo now comprelend tle, moaning of that poQ.tieal puotation of tihe eloquent Chamberlain at thme Ulaine DoNwen Fourth of July Celebration, when he said: I hoir Ia VOi1 yOni enlnot hear, Thlt, biql, me not to stay; I Hev a 11iit1,1 Yo i caii nit 4e-!, Thit, beckonls ie awaly. It. was the voice of the sheriff, Cr'-Ml m fa'oth6- tn a_NmY.'l " .-A And Ro we learn that these fel lows of South Carolina. Florida and Louisiana, who followed thie armly into the South, and wh, so long in vower and on plunder, have, at the moment the an1nv W18 withd1a11wl, "folded their tents like the Arabs stealing, by the by, that is sanction ed by the peole of the United States. In their desperatoe efforts to secure the electoral vote for the Republiean candidate they were, it now appears, not only fighting for place, but to keep from thue peniten tiary. It is a little hard on the poor devils that, after selling their worthless souls to the dlevil, the ver'y administration that they fought so hard to put in power abandons them, nmot to their ceneis, but to that blind Jlustico whose evenly-adjusted scale weighs, and( whose sharp swvord puiishes', with out fear, affection or favor. In an altereation ang several mon01 in Baltimore on Fridlay, Andrew 'Weiner was knocked (down and brutally kicked about the head and neck. He died within ten mlinlutes after being conveyed to tihe station -house. Tlhomnas F/reeze, his alleged asstiilant, ran off, but wvas soon1 (-iptulred, and along with him two other men, named0( McDon11ald and( Breeken, who were concerned in the quarrel. McDonald is an1 ex- police officer, and som1e two years ago was senItenlced to the poenitentiary for shooting and killing a negro m amred Brown, but owing to a flawv in the indictment, he was released before his term of service exp)ired, ]?x-President Grant has been pros sented wvith the freedom pf the city of Edinbumrg h. The scene was a very impressivo. The Lord Provost said: 'tHech lad, since ye thmocht to coom across frac tither sio, just coom ini; wve'll all be unco0 youckie to hear a land o' your gab. Ganmg your alint about the town, but mind ye when ye get ebeennge for saxpowneo, ift's soonj slippit awva." The General's VOice0 was so) choked with emotion that. tihe reporters copl1d n'ot catch his answer. 'Tm a good deal spryer than I thought I was," saidl an old 'gentle man wVho had passed his three- scorn and ton. "H-ow (lid you find it out ?"~ asked one of his grand -children. "By neigh bor Johnson's bull trying to interview me1 as I cwnol( through his pasturo- this morning," quietly' relied the old gontle-man. En'l IowIes thlink tat Demo ".ac Gaston may beat Riepublican Rice for Governor of Massachusetts, SOUTH CAROLINA NH'WS. Diphtheria 1)rcv:ils ill somlo F;ce tions of Darliiigtol Collity. Goorgetown has a sklip on thet stocks named "Liberia." Cotton in Chester county has suf.. fored sovorely from the drought, but a mlagnificont corn crop is realized Abbeville peoplo ne alIlictd with sore oyes, but deny that the largo crop of peach brandy has anything (10 with it. The residence of Mr. G. 13. Rogers, nicar HrirnR oads, inl Darlingo ton couity, wias destroyed by an ineen liary ic ol jTIIq%day m'orninlg. t now Alger College, tit Wal halla11, Was opened onl the Gt inlst., With cighty-four pupils in attond The governor Ieis ordered a spc ckd election for sIeiifT of Oconeo county, on tie 20th instaut. The vacancy was callsed by the doath of the flrmor iumipit. Tho ninth aiwmal meeting of the York, Bapti.-( Associqtionl, com menced at (a tawha 01hurch, live miles south of Roek Hill, on Thurs day. Tle colorid people hold a mass meeting at 11,;ek Hill, recently, to diScISS thI phl of a goneor'al (nIi gration to Tc:m,as. They don't like Liberia. Everybody about Georgotown i. tiking an active iltoeiest in the roposed iailroa, in--l nearly all will subscribe lIbendly. Rev. Harris Dcnnison, a colored preacher, while lislin.g at North Islanl, near GIoirotown, was stiuing in the fooLt by a iay, and (ied of jetinus in loss thai a week after boinlg wound,ed. General 1. W. Moise will deliver the annual mIdre-s before tihe Barn well Agricultiral and (1ehanital Society, nt the next county fair, Which begins onl tihe 21st of No vember next. Th11e comimt ftee appoiated by the Democrativ I' of A neron havo, u1nder instrict iom. of the clhib, taken out warrialits for the whole of the p?rsons chiagod with illegal voting in., the1% late town olectionl. Ezekiel M-yiiew. a i rd man imWith solmie !it!! 'dIltlioll, and for Ierly a scit ol tenohor in Cane Creek town1sh1ip, 1 :mester col.(i ount', left for Liberia on Monday hefore last. He land, and is. to retiu ni iu,d report his observations. Mr 1arfeld- Po0"s, living in Georgetown county, jumpt<,l a benr o11 the 6th instait, b.ut failed tIo kill him, owing to an undue leoVu excitement. Mr. S. J. Goudo was mmor'e sn.ecessfulI, and c slew tile aniimal, it is salid, att the risk of h.i.s life. A personal difficulty took lafce at Newbgrr'iy on Tuesd:ay last, in which Mr. T. C. Summe'l was ser'iously shot by Mr. S. 1). Pelhaum. It is climed by~ the latter's fielids that the shooting we.s in se,lf-.de fcnse. T1hie w~ounmd is not miecessairily dan gerouis. Ex-Tr'easu,rer Watson, of York county, r'etur'ned home from Ohio on .T'uoSday. Onu bQing informed of the legal prioceedings which had 1)een instituted against him, hie is said to have (mxressed himself' as ignorant of any irreCgularities in is accounts, and as)beig perlfctly willing to have hiis official conduct undergl'(o jud(ical investigation.0 O.n Saturidaay.night last whiile thme good p)oo1 1 3of Cartorsiill. D)ai ling. ton county, were at durecb, a thirsty thief bored a hole thrloulgh the war'e-hmouso floor andc into thme head of a keg of wvhiskey an<, drew (lut the entire contents, twenty gallons, with which 11e made off, t'o enjoy a goodl and free drunmk. The negro Joo IIendersonm, who was to h)o hanged at Edgefield 0on the 21st instant, has been respited 1)y the governor for1 two weolks. The dlay now set for his haligincy is F?rid-y, October 5th. This reSpito is grnted~ while thme governor has undei' considerumation a nuilmerousxly signed petition for' ai commuiltation (If sen tenco. Fr'ied Baxi~trum', color'ed, who wa'ts triedl at the last termi of the gener'al sessions c)ourlt for Lancaster' county, for' mlurder'ing is ollest son, anm'd waIs aequiitted, camlIO into townt on last Wednesday on the hunt of a doctor to have a load of buckshot piced out of his unhloly carcass, which, as lhe ta'ted,' had beCen p)ut mio him by his next oldest son. Fred's injurnie.s arq not serious. On -Saturday before last abioult tyonty-oighmtof thsi color'ed militia Dar'linigtomi comuoty 15155ed in ro, view, before Ctoj. J. A. .Law, on the ubhei squnare. They dlid not pass ms8peton, and their arms arid ac. soumtremenmts were t.akon awvay, to be teld utitl they are able to (1( better. ilho rifles dleliveood aro' lioti of tho hnest owvned bly the State, said to havo cost.about sixty dollars apicco. NEWS Of. THE DAY. Tile Pope's health is improving. Woodhu1ll 1111( Claflinl aIre going to lecturo in London. ThQ Bank of England had only two depositors with larger credits than Brigham Young. Two representativos of the Italian press aro supposed to have been' killed inl the lato combats betwoon the Turks and the Iussian insur. geiits. Dom Iledro has completed his tour of Europe, anlid is now at Lisbon, wheice he vill soon embark on. his return to Brizil. At OpAlika, Ala., on Friday morn ing, Einiest Doughty, aged thirteen years, was run over by a raihvay t.riain, and his head and body were siparated by the whiool, Ilev. Thos. J'. lkooncy,, a 'woll known Catholic prit,of New. York, 1111(1 a former chaphlin of the 69th Regiment, died' on Friday, froi injuries reecived by falling from his carrigo on the 11th ins"tait. MHavor Pairsons has, decamped from Birlingto), lowia. Thero is a heavy deficit ill the school fund. The Merchants' National Bank loses, fifty thousand dollars, and there aro The commiiosioners. of the Frood man's B1ank have funds, to, ply a ,dividend of ten por cent., and sug gest an organized movement to induco Congress to llthorize the puir-chaso of certain property to )nable them to pay twenty per cent. A colonization convention of four or live thonsamid colored people was lately held in Corinth, Miss. Tie African scheme vas not favored. but New Mexico, Arizona. and northern Texas were considered. At a meting of ti.e Anglican Synod, at Montreal, a motion em powering the clorgy to use at their diseretion certain prayers takeu from the prayer book of the Amen can Church was discussed and finally voted down. Tile third boat belonging to, the .'hip P'-l. whic1hib e.olliled Twith the ship l'(1ira/(he in the Enlglisil ('ha1nniel, has w:rshed whore All hope of ail", Illore suirvivors is now abanlMidonedl. There are further cases of in, timid:tion by the striking miners 1(')rte(d in PeInsylvanita. All attjnlts to elYect at coLLprOMisC . rlkinig mnimncra vu Tho operators annonn011lie that nothing further 'will be done by then. to urgo resumption. Thle Boston and Alban; crshp vere burned or Thursd nght Causo A n. ?nfteen fre4lht cars and four locomtiivs were burned, Ls, O7500 to $100,000). The lii~hunded ienC ar10 out of ema ployimen t, Ii fty of whom loso thir chests of tools. In the first (lay's shooting for thle Centenniual t rophIy, at Creedmioor, the Americans ledl at overy' range, closing 26)1011L point hd. T]hie grand totals are: Amnericaml 3,38-1; Br3i tish 3,212. The Amerivou s win by 92 poinits TUhis gloses thme interna tional match. A son of the late Hion. John Y Mason, of Virginia, is a captain in the French army. At thirtoen years of age he was the bearer of dispatches from Napoleon's Court to thme Conlfedeorate G')oeriinmet, and subJsequenftly ser ved on Gieneral tMaryptoI)0M' staff during the civil A dlispatch was received ill Augus, ta' on Friday from New York, an, nonen the sudden death of Wmn. HoeHull, of the foramer city. Mr. Hull was one of the oldest and most p,rominen 1~t lawyerIs inl Georgia. It is thonght by some that lhe wvas plisonedl, and( by others that lie died of apoplexy. It is l.ranispm ing that all the Cabim,t speeches made'iicc ini New En1gland1 were'i set, and1( .Ko(y's followv Cabinet ofhic'ers, ais well' as the President, ar'e not disp)osed to all tw him to palm off' his utterances as5 joke's. The Pickcwickian sense w~hich hey wishes attached to his apostrophe to "erring briother11 aIpd vilost sinners" w' as an afterthought. That v s an e.tr'aor'dinar'y yield of rice on the Esthorvillo. p1ane, Gorigetowvn, plan tedI by Mr. Arthuri Manigault. A fourteen acre fiold hand been plan tedl with white rico. It waIs harvested latwo, (tho first in the county), thr'eshed andI ponnded. The yielil was 994 bush els, or' an average of 71 bushels por acro. Another field of eight aeroe, 0on the( same place, hasi been1 harvest. ed, and the estimated yield ia 00 lifhrhols to the acro rThe quiality of the rico is pronlounced'fir'st gr'ado. Tho ChQster dologatos to tihe State Liberian Convention weore not fa vorably impreI'ssied with' the schome and its managers, nind have so r'o ported at home. BRIO.A-BRAO. A now Chinese theatre is to be erected on Nshingto stroot, San Francisco, at a cost of $30,000.. A Palatka, Florida, preacher was driven out of his pulpit rocontly, during a sormon, by mosquiLoos.. Tho foroman of a Texas jury which lately granted a divorco to a woman married her the samo day. Six thousand ebildrn have boon. fraught to swim in two years by the. Ipondon Health Society. A man in Chamborsburg, Ill., has een sued for destroyig property by spitting tobacco juico oil the floor of a Church. Some Europeans think that Eu ropo can take 2,000,000 American cattle overy year, beemuso some of the old countries havo roiched the limit of cattle-raising. A post-mortem examination Oil the body of a New York man who, IA died of consumption showed thtft the heart was on the right sido. and the liver on. the left. Many of tho Wagons going to. tho Black Hills iare (Irawnl, by cows, which furnish sufficient milk to pay th0 tolls. Threp good-looking young ladies the other day stood beside a grocor's, sign which ioad: "Don't squeozo those peqlghes." Turkish soldiers are taller than, tho Russian, and will averago at least five fet an1 ton ineos. They wear full boards, but have their heads shaved, or the hair cut very short. Gen. Tom Thumb's house has lately been raided by thieves, who took away il his shirts under the impression that they woro mnaking a hl of handkerchiefs. Judge Buchanan, of- Georgia, re fused to take his per(I diem as a mom ber of the constitutional conven tion )ocause 11 was drawing from the Stato his salary as judge of the lprweme cou,r4. James G. Imnn, a pwismer in the Tennesseo penitenAtir, received Swen ty I.ve lashes, in t le presencee of t!.-i a )1sembieconiviets, for coin iig 1coulnterfeit IIoLloy inl his cell. The cot on-seed oil trade has increavsed greatly of lato years. The i article is largely shipped to Europe, wheneo it is reshipped to, this country in the guise of "pure olivo oil." UTrpr & Bro.thers, who publish George Eliot's books in this country, have sold over 50,000 copies of. '"Dauiel Deronda." Th. sales of tho editions in Englmid are estimated at twieo that num.bor. Josu BILL1ma108 says:. "Paupers snil'or less than miizers do ; thme man who don't kno whare he is going to gi t his next dinnorl suffers less than th.o one who is. anxious to knowv how muteh it i4 going to kost him." In the United States in 1776 there were only nine public libraries, with 45,023 volmnes ; in 1876 there were :,;82 puldie libraries, containing 1'2,076,914 volumes and 1,500O,000 I'amphlets. Of theso libraiis, near' ly 3,00Q have bern organized since A bridegroom in Payton, Town, refused to provide refreshments for~ a serenading parity, wh er'uiponi they pulled him out of bedl and carried him through thme village aRtr'ido a rail. Th'Ie bride hurriedly dressed hoersomlf, aroused a sheriff, and effect ed the r'escuo of her husband as well as the arrest of several of the mob. A Scranton, 'Pa., business house, whilh was asked by a muinors' cons~ mttee to contril)ute to their rolitif funid, generously offered to assign to the funid $10,000) in accounts duo thenm by3 miners,, which accoung they have been for' years unable to collect. Them subscription was do-. olined with thanks. Fifty young lharbers reenintly left Copenhagen for Russia, wvhero they arO apploinlted medical assistants. E'very ba.rbor in Denmark bas to pass an examnination i the elements of surgery. They wore accompa nied by a hteoreo~ whorking butchers, who are also to )o attache(d to the Russianaiy Ang Brigham Young's numor.' ons wives thor'o was not one who could be ranked as a real l andsomq woman. They ombracod nearly all tho' varieties between blonde and brunotte, but progented no spocimeil whose goodl looks rose to the averago' of female loveliness displayed in al' iost any p)hotograpier's show. case. Ono of the most succlesful ship builders in .Bristol, R. I., hmas never seen a ship, nor the waters on which it floats. Hie haes been blitnd fronm infancy, yet thi.d has not doterred him froin reaching tho foromost placQ in his business. By passing, hi8 hand along the timber's and occasions ally rapping it with his knuckles, hooping his ear close to'thie wv'od, hQ can tell its imnper'fections, botter than nv who hna their sigt.