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-DITION.] WINNSBORO, S. C., SATrUIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, 1877 [VOL. 1. NO. 102 NEV ADVERUTISEMENTS. 25 RIA"ANT'CARDs, 110 two aike, with name 10Cts% Pst PaId. J. B. IIUSTM, Nassau Rons County, Now York. Revolver ani Cartrhlges for $3, "'A fine nickel plated, seven shot, pocket re volver ; a first-eass art icle. Sent C. 0. D., or On reCit1 or JiW. U. V. WI.L,is, P. 0. Box Y,118, Now York. YEGETINE. T'housands will bear testIinony (anl (10 I; volt=larily) that Vegeline 1.4 the best imedfical compounI yet plcedl before the public for renovatIng and purifying the blood. LADIES Elegant nTm, itation R o,o Corsnl Seaz, DBrespin and Pondant Drops, Sent r ~ Postpaldto aty roader r thil Paper for 25 cents. Three Sets for - *50 Oonts. In Cur rency or stamps. lbti 00.ownto or. TRIFLING With a Cold is Always Dangerous. USE WELLS' Carbolic Tablets, a sure remedy for Coughs, and all Dis eases of the Throat, Lungs, Chest and Muoous Mombrano. PUT UP ONLY IN BLUE BOIES. Sold by all Druggists. C. N. CITTENTON, 7 Sixth Avenue, N. Y. P U m HABIT CURED. A Certain anl Sure Cure. Large rediuct fon in .rices. A trial bottle free. lits. J. A. ')nof.I1Nuit, La Perte, Indiana. 3ox 1038. (Formerly Mrs. Dr.8. H. Collins). The only combination of the truetc Jamaica Wanger wi1thcho Mc A tes andi French Brandy, Is a dtl clous, harlsns, strength 10ing subttut.e for ill kinds of stinulants. It I l promptly relieves iyspp JAM1 IC 1. 1 .sh1, ollpreion after eating and(l every specles of 1 ndi eitton, corrects all (istur. taices of the btimach and lowels, and cur's Crapsi,). Uhjfti, Fe'vers, alnd Mai rin. Ask for 8A%yom)'.S G.W RUPTU RE. Those wishing relief an( cure for Rupturo sloui cousult, Dr. J. A. iNEltM AN, 5q 1road way, New York or send for ha nw b*ook, w1uh JIotographlic likenesses of wad eases lfore, , aim atter cure. Beware of c1t:i Wilo IreteI Lo furinish Dr. Shermaln's treatinent.. One of these,. fellows a 'erian Clerk, now Calling himself br. W. a. Cremide,n, is Imaleted -on complait of Dr. 8. ana awats Iril for .forgery and embemzlement. o0,2-im W. G. ROCHE, MERItCHANT TAILOR, H AS removed to tle storo next to the post-oflico, whero he will be glad to re ceive his friends and customers. A full line of Samples will be kept on hand, from which customers may make selections. Ho nowv has the finest line of Frenchi and English goods over brought to this market. He is also preopared to cut or to mak up goods for those who desiro. Oar ments of all kinds repaired and cleaned. .SEO 1aning aspo ci r.i Thankful to the public for past patron age, lie solicits a conltinulaneo of the same, and guaran tees satisfaction. sep)t 18 W. G. ROCH E. . J4cCarley EG8 to{4 lattention to his new ..J4~to~ Qj~1ot and Shoes, all sizes an ~9on dly low prices ~e~t~t~ALSO, An ~ y ~ Stock of Groceries. Su ,Coffoe, Rico, Hlominy, ~I~al,~6~ 9~ Soda, Popper, Tea, eto. P f lour. , eoid oli y Whiskey in town .L'obadoi~ brs, Miolasses, Lard, 'Baon\f ~ Lowest market prices. for ensh4 ,,/ mar R. tJ. MOCARLEY. W ni Ioi o Hotel. Tiw~ tMt4 ned takes 'pIoasnre in inforlml rionds and the publio that hp oved to that large any commo lidu i k Hotel. located in the centre oftbuihi a, whore, ho is prepared to accodmiodate the public with clean and welflnsbue4 t'oqms, aond a table sup, plied v(ithith( best that' the market afoerds. n He in s to deserve ao4l hopes to mnoive~ tib1li paLronago, dI L. ;BRBOWN, CONGRESS STRET N E G 0 0 D S t WINNSBORO, S. 0. 500 LBS. NEW YORK FACTORY CHEESE, Just at hand, and warranted to gi vo satisfaction. U. G. IESPORTES. Sept 18 D. R. FLENNIKEN IK-EEPS constantil or. hand a full sup ply of Choico FAMILY 111LOCERIES and PLAN'ATION SUPPLIES. His stock has recently been replenished, and he is now ready to supply the wants of all. oct12 PROF. N. SCHMITT, Piano, Melodeon and Organ Tunor, 238 Main Strect, Columbia, S. C. AVING an experience of thirty-five .. years in tunming and repairing Pianos, Meledeons, Organs and other Musical Instrumentc, both in Europe and America, is enabled to guarantee satisfac tion, or make no chargo. He has the highest recommendations from schools and colleges in tho United Statem. July 18-tf. Notice to Road Overseers. COUNTYf COl\f MsSrONEns' OFFICE, WINNsBono, S. C., Sept 24, 1877. T RE Roadl Overseers of Fairfield county aro herewith directed to ordler out as soon as practicable all per sons liable to road duty in their re speCctivo jurisdictions, to finishi upl the number of days required by law, where the same has not heretofore boen done. Defaulters must be promptly roer ted to this office for prosecuitioni, and all neglect of duty by overseers and other road officials wvill be summarily dealt with. Road Overseers are also required to re port to this offieo the number and kind of working implements in their respec tive diThriets. 3. A. INNANT, Chairman Board of County Corn mniisonors. opt 26-tf. ESTABL ISH ED 1874. GEO. B. EDW ARDS, Cotton and General commtsalon 31erchant CHIARL~ESTON, S. C. p ROMPT attention given to the sale of Cotton, Peas, Corn, lide and Pro due of all kinds. Merchandise bought free of commis sion. Being on the spot, and thorou~ghly posted on prices, can guarantco large saving to buyers of mnerchaindise. Agent at Charleston fo# State Line Ocean Steamships betwoon ;New York, Glasgow, Liverpool, Londoh.And all parts of Europe. Referenes: IBank of Chit'Ipston; Jas. Adger & Co., Oh arloston, S. 0, Ssept_22-xt3n_______ J-POE? SAI,ZE. 3pIHE plantation known as th "Thomp J.son ,Place," seven miles n6tth,west of Winneboro, onninin g throo hun dred and twenty-four acres, boundo by lands of James.Turner, Sr., Thomas' ob'ertson and W J. Heorron. There is a fair, otion, of origin6l, well timib.red wods the plaoe, alsoya large body of~ - Aioldipines, tho best in the county. F terms &c., apply to . sent 29-.im R. #RN. VEGETINE Rov. J. P. Ludlow Writes: 178 DAUrIC STRUET, 3ROOKYN, N. Y., Novenber 1.1, 1874. MR. It. 81TEvENs: r Dear Sir--Froia inironal bni'liell I'vei l by s Isit, swel ;ts troin personal kilwledg.. of tIlose whose cult's ItieIeby have-i -v.lled Ia Inot, filnlntul ous, I ai a0st, ImAy n11i 411sin eerily recminild tihe VlowriN for Ih(e .,o1imi pillits whil i is elatined to elrn'. JAM. S 1'. IXD')I . .it1e P Iastor calvary IACtptiIt church, SIla*IcaInto, Cal. Veaine. She Itests Well. SouT POTAND, ME., Oct. 11, 1876 MI. It. It. STEvus: Dcar Sir-I have been sik t,wO Yeal's withI ihe liver Comlaliait, a an m <1urIlg t1hi tine have taken a greiai. iniy tIffewknt inielles, but nole of thein (11<1 Ile iany' goomd. I was rest.less it iight, an<l had flo app;'tite. SI1e :a' 1ing iv V.-xixmg 1 rest well, mnid relisAl illy ftd. ('-all ICe011n11eind the Vegetine for Wht.l. it, .is 11,s donle for file. Yours re.spcect-u1ily, Mi. ALI-:;T Ricxii. 'Witness of the above, Alr. George M. Vaughan, Medford, Mass.. Vegotine. Good for the Children. BosToN HoME, 11 yler 8treUt, 13osoS, April, 187(. MAl. 11. R1. S-rEv:s )ear Sir--W'e feel that tile children in omr 1i1 h1a11 IUIve btelr greatly beae-.- by Lt.the VYo - -rfNh you have so kinily given us froin tilie to tilie, e s"peiLalLy those trotbledi% wit h the scroflua. ViIh 1espect.. aiS. N. VOICM ELL. Matron. Vegctine. Rev. 0. T. Walk'er Says PROVImENCE, I. 1., 161 .ransit Street. H1. 11. STEVNs, EsQ I feel bounal to express witli Iny signa111T tite higih %alt i pla c upon yup r o i'NPrNNH. My' t.111tly lave uselit. for the i1st tvo%l years. In tei tts itiebilli-y it, Is itvaltia 1o, anl 1 y*eeO - Incii it to tlt who ity need an Iovig(Ja'ati ng, aelioviatincg ionle. 0. 1'. WAjlAl-i1, Plast.ur of how)den-Sluaro Church, Boston. Vegcti e. Nothing Equiil to it. SOUTU SAL31, MA.tss., Nov. 14, 1876. MR. I. R. -'TEVEMs: Der Sir-I have bu(Tn I rou1bled With scrofula, Maliker, il liver eolitili no, foI three yeas Noilag ever did fine ooi 1itil I coililene IuSI thle V!get-fne. mln now gtIting aIlong tirst-rat.e. aulaI sill iUsing tite v tlano. I cot sider 1 Iere is hail 1ng etual to it or suitch m lints. Ual heartily recomliIen it to, ever-y 30 . N I jash.uy, No. 16,' Lagriango St., u61u0 Salom, 1ass. Vegetine, Recommend it Heartily. SOUTHu BOSTON. Mn. 11. R. STEvEXs: Demr S'ir- ave (:tken several bot tles of your. Veg"linle, and attm c(Illtec<l IL. is a vali uble remelliy for dlysp-pshi, kidney compliant, anl * enbratl bIlitY of the system. I c.n1 heart ily recomneid it to all stuftficers from thuo above compiallits. Yours s'" j lly)', AIRS. -11-NRON PARKEn. VEGETINE. -P1REPARED DY H. R. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS. Vegetine isSohld by alN Drugg ts. oct.-1-4w CONNOR & CHANDLER CAL attenton to thA failoc ---OF Watches, Clocks, Gold and Silver 'Watch Chains, Brooches, Ear i'ings, Studs, Collar and Slcove Buttons, Plain and Fancy Rings, Solid Silver and Plated Castors, S p 00 o n s, Forks, Napkin Rings, Goblets, Cups, .Butter Knives, Butter Dishes, &c. Specta cles, Cu tlory, Lamps, Lanterns, Glass and Crockery Ware, Vases, Toiletto Sets and China Tea Sets --ALSO Machine Needles and Springs. Sewing Maclines ropaired, cleaned and adjusted. Saug 28 - ~EOR SAL3D. A new Piano, made by one of the lead .ing manufacturers of the United States. Tihe insttrumen'it lans a comnpasseo deven "and one-third od(aves, and is Un4hod wvith-all the latest iprovemzents. rt Canf be0 b)ought at a gioat.youuci.ion~ from.retail price. Appily at th'e offie of T pNnwe ANn HJlAan. juno 23--t ORSON PRtATT. A BUIEP SKETCH O TilE GREA Cho Brains of Mormonism--HiB Foreign Caroor--Tho High Priost of Polyga my. Noticing Orson Pratt's return to nalt lke from England in conso juience of th1e death of Brighami Young. the New York Herald gives ic following sketch of his life as -oinnicekd with the rise and pro ;ross of Mormionism SKETCH OF THE APOSTLE PRATT. Sotting aside his record on polygaimy Orson Pratt is a gontle.. an. He is a profound studont and ti uxcellent scholar, the best speak., ir and writer in the Mormon church Alnd a great logician. His whole life shows that lie is incapable of decop tion and subterfuge. What h is not siatisfied with in debato lie never assumes to believo. Hie is a living evidence of the power of religious impressions upon a young mind, aInd ho gives to the world the dem. onstration of how a naturally powerful mind can be seriously oc cupied with trifles and absurdi ties, and hold them in sacred defer once as if they were the incontro vertiblo truths of experience and tangible fact. In his boyhood lie developed great thoughtfulness and inclination to study, but ho had at tho samo time hard work to perform, which prevented him from receiving much school education. When nineteen years of ago he became acquainted with the prophet, and there his des tinny was fixed. Smith had a won derful influenco over everybody who caine in contact wiGh him, and in no one was it seen more than in Orson Pratt. Was it magnotism, spiritual ism, psychology or what? The prophet had that influence, and Pratt camo under it, and his whole soul froni that time bocame ab sorbed in the revelations and claims of the boy prophet. He was soon unfitted for anything but study, preaching and writing ; lie could do no manual labor, and before ho had well reached full manhood he was named in a complimontary way by the Saints "The Gauge of Philoso phy." IE TARES A WIFO. He early married a sister in the church, of strong mental calibro, who devotedly supported and encouraged him in his missionary labors, and his lifo wvas for some years unclouded. When he hoard of polygamy his troubles bogan. Ho had been to Scotland on a mission, and returned to Nauvoo, in 1841, to find his wife's name a scandal in that city. Mrs. Pratt had openly accused, the proph et Joseph of cherishing an impure disposition, and he, in turn, assumed the virtuoso, and said that he had only acted the tempter in the ab~ sence of Orson to try her faith. It wvas a very trying time all round, but the p)ropholt's statements and arguments prevailed ; lie fully satis - fied young Orson of his own purity, and at the same time instilled into his believing, confiding mind the doctrine of polygamy, and the adoring disciple immediately became a victim to its Bible arguments as he understood it, and he has since devoted himself exclusively to its defence. A POPULAR wRITER. The death of Smith robbed him of his earthly idol, and his ,life has been ever since one of almost con trovorsy-with Brigham Young at home and with the opponents of the church abroad. He was the earliest writer among the Mormons of any consequence, and wvas ever ready to pick up his lance for a tournament with philosopher or divine. He eschewed polities, and published only one document out Bido of religious controvorsy-"An American Citizen's Appeal to the Nation"-when the Niormons were driven from Nauvoo. In 1848 he was appointed to preside over the saints in Great Briitain, and there he took his family to toside with him. in Liverpool. During that mission be devoted himself ali oat exclusive. ly to the pen. In adition to Mhi. ng the 2ZWen,nial Star'-the organ af the church-he wrote and pub lished a series of pamphlets, which rurnisihed the Mormon .ohurob all thn amrumi1nntativ9 brains~ it over had or over will have. Under his pro, lific pon and preaching Mormonism grow immnwisoly in Britain. PRATT TUE FIRST PROPOUNDER OF rOLYGAMY. In 1852 tho practice of polygaay in Utah, which had up to that time always boon denied abroad, could no longer be concealed, and Brigham solocted Pratt for its first expound or. The precious document, called a rovolation from tho heavens, which had long been locked up in Brig - ham's desk, was now carefully taken from its pigoon holo and conveyed to "the Bowery," their summer place of proachg,,. with all, the solemnity duo to the crowning of a monarch, or the reading of a decla ration of war. Thousands of Saints, young and old, male and female, wore assembled at the Bowery, and Brigham's clerk, Thoms- Bullock, road the revelation slowly, with great force and clearness. No* ono beforo this had furnished an argu. mont, an excuse or a defence. An obscuro glimmering only had been gathered from tho Biblo that some ancient revered name in Israel had had two wives. Brigham know his man, and "Orson Pratt was called to the stand" to make "remarks." Ho was thoroughly prepared for the task assigned to him, and for two hours ho dilated on "pliral mar riages." The Bible, Malthusianism, tho great social evil and stock rais ing were all placed under contribu tion, and that poor, ignorant mass was fully convinced that the world's: view of marriage was all wrong;. Poor souls! They needed argtt mont to strengthen their own ques,. tioning heads ; but little did they know that the joy of their present relief from suspense was only the forerunner of a life of after misery. But the work for Pratt had just begun. SENT TO ENLIGHTEN CONGRESs AND AUSTRIA. Eighty Elders were called to go on a mission to the Eastern States and Europo to defend the revela tion on celestial marriage, and this Pratt was to be the fountain and source of their argument, and with the :dness characteristic of Brig ham he ordered him to the seat of government, and under the very eyes of Congress lie was to propa-. gate the doctrine of plural marriage, and claim for the Mormons a con stitutional right to practice it as a principle of religion. Orson Pratt did so, and, in Washington, D. C., he openly preached and published in his journal, 2%e Seer, that de moralizing doctrine. Again Brig ham. called him home "to enjoy the bosom of his family" for a s'a, son, and agoin he despatched him to Europe-to convert the Austrians to polygamy and %,he Utah faith ; but Orson's mission there was short lived, and he found it more com fortable to spend his time in Eng land, where he was laboring -tt the outbreak of "the Utah rebellion." With. the leading Utah eld then in Europe, he sailed from T.4vei' dol for New York, under a false namlb, and remained in this city for several days concealed in the homes of the saints, possessed, as they all were, with the absurd rapprehension that the government would arrest themn. They were afraid to cross the plains, and to avoid arrest they made the long detour via the Isthmus to San Francisco, and p)assed . through the south of California incognito on' to Salt Lake. 11Is STRIFE wITH BnIGHAM. The apostle Pratt had attained to popularity everywhere, and -Briga ham wvas jealous of . his infinence. From the closing of the "Utah en" till Brigham's death the ' prophet never let pass5 an opportunity of grinding him to the dust. lie has tried to live by teaching 'branches of education for which he was emi - nontly fitted, but he was always pe culiarly embarrassed. He had only been sucoessful in polygamy. De death of Brigham is a relief to .hiii, and never will he submit agah'i"to mortal man. He goes back to Utah to be again the Orson Pratt of whom all who have hoard of Mor~ monism know niore than of any other manl.iii that community. An appropriation of $50,000VI pe asked of Congress to mr~ A preliminary survey for a from the Republic of vard, one or tw~4dAi ~~ n the interior of M ieb pd~ - ~ us Soyidi, azg4;to repj,~.r the counfr'y, ie, q)aIo, '1 productioi'hc o4M b.uch road, wbba !*'IY will ba mwlaik ftd kve of extendc1