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ahe almsu R111 Xe~1 WINNSIIOUO, 8. 0. Saturday, IDecember 15, : 1877 R. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, JNO. S. REYNOLDS, Associato Editor PAHsIDENT HAYES has treated Mr Northrop very shabbily. Having nominated him for district attorney thereby causing him to resign his judgeship, ho now, in obedience tc Conkling and EdmundH, throws Mr. Northrop overboard to make way for tho arch-onomy Corbin. Mr. Hayes is losing all his former laurels. Ti UNITED STATES SENATE, afte a heatod debato, refused to confirm Mr. Hayei' appoiatmentH for Now York, which would have supersedod two of Conkling's frionds. Five Democrats voted with Conkling, while half a dozen Republicans and the rest of the Democrats present favored Hayes. Conkling carried his point by sovon majority. This is a bad blow to the President, and ho0 iti ropresented as being very angry. It is not casy to see, how., (.Voe, how ho Call 101p himself. Had he thrown his influence in, favor of seating Butler and SpolTord, he -would now have been ablo to ride roughshod over Conkling, instead of boing tossed about at the mercy of either party. The Logislature should now pass a law for the bonelit of the londer, providing that any on who borrow.4 monoy and pays le. than the legal rato of intorest shall bo put into the ponitentiary. This would be pro cisely the convorso of the usury law, Lot us so how it would work. Jones noods a little money. HIe says to Brown. "Lend mo a hun-. dred dollars for a week." Brown lends it at the rate of sovon per cent., for he is debarred by law from lending for nothing. At the end of the week Brown wishos to collect. He calculates the intorost. It amounts to thirteon cents and four tenths of a cont. If he demands a hundred dollars and fourteen cents, he is a usurer, under the first act and loses all. If Jones pays but a hund rod dollars and thirtoon cents, he pays loss than tho legal interest and must go to the Ponitentiary under the second act. People may say this is a red --u 7 c - ad al>surdum, Yet it is a poor rule that won't wvork both wvays, Senator Butler Speaks--Sound Advice. Sonator Buitler' was1 serenadUed in Columibia on Wednesday evening, and made a telling speech. which was loudly cheered. In reporting the particulars of huis recent contest in WVashingt;on,. hIe assortoa that it was a question wvhether ho should bo admitted or sont back for new cedontials. In that ease he wolda have come back for the p)eoplo to do with him what they plensed. Ho continued : The real issue was whether I should be seated or Corbinm Some say that, tis was impossible. That there was no law to seat (orbin; ho has no constituency an1t no lawv. But, my friends and follo.w..citizons, does a desperate- Radical majority, dIwindling (lay by (lay out of ex. istence, stop) to considet questions of law or right? Waa -thore any ILw for tile adnmision. of Kellogg from Louisiana? 1 t was a flagrant outrage on that gallant sister State of ours. There was no law for that, and no to seat Corbmin ; b)ut I tell y'ou that I know wvhoreof 1 speakl when I say that tihe Rtadical majori ty of t.he boniato hlad tdotermlinled to soat (orbin% And I now say with reluctaLnco that ai mian, wuhomu i thlink I aml not stigmatizing too severely when I say that he procured his present position, through fraudulent methods, throw tile entire weight of is adminis4trat ion, backed by his friends,, to plorpotuate t.his outrage 'o South~ Carolina, and1( seat tis man Corbin, of whom it has been said that he has drawn more tears and pangs from the peoplo1 of South Carolina than all othors- put totheor-,-sont him and p)erpetratc "This outrageoOn South Carolina. * And yet the President of the United States, personally and can only suecceed hereafter by the same unanimity of action, and by frowning dowvn absolutely all e1Yorte at organizing what are nowY tor'med "independent movements." We must stand together. The Democ ranv of snuth Carolna must an-g themselves in the most contral compact and unbroken affiliation, through his friends, attenpted to do it. I say that I mako this ro - maric with somo regrot, becauso, in all that he was doing, or assuming to do, to help the South and tho country, I felt bound to sustain him, although his position was pro cured >y questionablo means, and I was (1ito willing that he should atono for tho crimos of his party by a virtuous and constitutional administration of the laws. But when tho supromo moment camo and its issue was miado squarely and sharply betwoon the onomics of constitutional liberty in South Carolina and its friends, he throw his weight in favor of the enemies of his country. This is a serious chargo that is brought against the President. We might have thought that Senator Butler was laboring under a mis approlonsion. But tho opposition he mot with from the Administra,. tion Senators, and the recent an nouncement that Corbin is to be reinstated aa district attorney for South Carolina, aro cuuilativo ovidonco, forcing u3 to bolievo that Hayes has haed down from his Southorn policy and has surrender od to tho carpet-baggers. In connection with this S<nator Butler gave the following valuablo advice to the South Carolina Democracy: Lot mie commend to you for tho futuro the lesson of the past. We with the groat consftitutional party of this country, the National Doimocracy. Something has boon said in different quarters of the country about a now party. As a matter of policy, it would be mid summor nadness, pol.itical suicido, now that the Democracy is about to achieve the control of the gov orinunt, that wo should attempt any now party in the South-to say nothing of principle. For threo quarters of a contury tho Demo, cratic party has preserved, protect od and guarded constitutional and Amorican liberty on this continent, and wo must keep fully in accord with it, if wo would expect to reap any of the bonefits of tho govern ment. [Applause.] If you had soon what I have seen within the last two months in the City of Washington, the disposition of the Radical revolutionary olement, you would stand appalled and could not be surprised at any act of theirs to prosorvo their party power. Senator Butlor reads correctly the signs of the times. Hayes' conciliatory policy was destroying the Radical party with wondorful colority; and the party loaders havo again hoisted the bloody shirt, and are prep)aring for another bitter crusade against the South. It is absurd to say that we are safe in South Carolina, anid that it matters not how National politics go. A partial victory is often worse than a defeat. \e must push on and rout the enemy fromr the last ditch. The Senate wvill be Democratic in 1879 ; but the House may not be. The slender majority of thirteen in that body can be reversed,,.and will be, if the Democrats divide, or run off in pursuit of strange gods. It is as certain now as anything in the future can be, that a desper~ ate effort will be made to run Grant in 1880, upon a bloody shirt, hard money, platform. The former feature will secure the West; the latter will earry New York and New Jorsqy if the Democracy relax for an instant. The Democrats must be on the qui vive. This is equnally essential in State politics. Senator Butler never spoke wiser words than wvhen he p)ictured the evil of inidependent candidates here. An. Independent ticket leaves the Radicals with the balance of p)ower, and the negro will again be sought as the potential fac tor in polities.. We rejoice that Mr. Fleming's ticket in Charleston re ceived such an ignominious rout. So should it be ever. Let all can didates-have a free fight for the Democratie nomination, but let it be understood- that there the fight must end. In union lies our only hope of safety. ~ .h STTE LECGISLA T U1RK. WVEDqEsDAY, Decomber 12, 1877. SENATE. A number of bills woreointroduced and referred, among them being a pr~oposition to charge a royalty of two) dollars a ton for phosphates, ins tead of ono dollar. M~r. Oritnnnn of the committe on Fedoral relations, to whom was referred a concurrent resolution from the House of Representatives rolating to tho election of J. J. Patterson to the Sonato of the United States, roported that as the courts had the mattor in chargo, they doomod it unwiso in the Sonate to interfure with a co-ordinato branch of governmnont, and suggest ed that the resolution be tabled. He also introduced a rosolution recoinmonding Congross to subsi dizo steamship lines, which was laid over. Mr. Lipscomb sont to the desk and had road a communication from the National Grango, Patrons of Husbandry, relative to the cultiva tion of ten, which was recoived as information. Adjourned. HOUSE OF REIIRESENTATIVEs. A rumber of potitions and bills were introduced and referrod, among thom ono altering the chart or of Columbia, and providing for a now Iulicipal Clection, and pro venting the prosent. counsol from levying taxes. A bill recomuonding the taxing of (rinks and tho 11so of tho MofTott bell punch was read the first thuo The judiciary conitt-ee reported unfavorably on the bill extending the lien law. A bill was passed dividing Beau fort iato two counties, Beaufort and Palmetto. it goes to the Senato. Adjourned. TulIsaY, December 13, 1877. SEArE. A number of bills recivod a third reading. The only one of general inltoes0t is the bill to authorizo the county commissioners of the several counties in the Stato to allow the eretion of gates upon the highways of the StLte, witenovr in their judgment the same may bo expedi ent. Report of the committec on Fed~ oral relations on concurrent rosolu tion of the House of Representativos, relating to the dketion of Hion. J. J. Patterson to tho. Senato of tho United States, was adopted, and the resolution laid on tho table by the table by tho following voto Yeas-Byrd,, Bowen, Buck, Can non, Carter, Crittenden, Duncan, Evans, Gary, Kinslor, Lip-sconb, Maxwell, Myers, Taft, Williaims, Wylic-16. X(tys-Coker, FrIasr, Howard, Jotor, Livingston, McCAll, Metze, Walker,. Witherspooi-9. The following resolutions. woro offered by Mr. Jipscomb, and woro ordered to lio over for considcration to-morrow : Resolved, That it is tho senso of thia General Assombly of South Carolina, as expressed by this joint resolution, that Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks were fair ly and legally electod President and *V ice-President of tihe United States. Jtesoined, That the delegation of the right to couint and determino the:electoral vote to a comnutfteo, comp)osed of inmmbers of thme Su promoe Court of the United States. Senate and House of Re~presenta tives, was in violation of the con stitnution of the United States. and the spirit of American liberty. Resolv.ed,. That the action of thec majority of the members of the E lecto ral Comiittee:, in i.efurling to hoar evidence in regard to alleged1 irregularitics and fraudus in the elec - tion for President and Vice P'resi dent, was the rosalt of a promnedita ted and welldevoloped scheme of fraud. Resolved, That the manner in which thoy obtained possess5ion of these oflices, under a color of law, umade them still guilty roeip)ients of the usurped andl violated liberties of the people of this great and glorious republic, and equally as culpable. as- the baso- conspirators who conceived: and executed this gi gan tic fraud. .Resolved, That the aotion of Runtherford B. H-ayes, since-his pro tended inaugurationi, has been one of treachery to the party whlo placed him in power, and his open attempt to infhience- lenders of the Demo cratic p)arty by the use excutive pat ronage, as well as hi efforts to in augurato.a new party by a dismnem bermoent of the- national Democracyv, and esp)ecially the solid Democracy of the South, is a gross insult to the members of this great and growing party. The Senate concurred ini the House resolution to adjourn from December 20 to January 16. Several bills wore reported back by connmittees ; and several were introduced,, read by title, aud prop erly referred. Adjourned. HOUSE 01' REPIsEWikrIV ES. A numiber of bills wore intro duced, road by title, and properly referred. Mr. Gaillard presented a pietition of citi'zons of' township no. 8, in' Fairfield county, asking the benefit of tbo new fence law. The joint investigating committee on public frauds and the election of Hon. J. J. Patterson to the Senate of the United Rtatna madn a ranm.tc and recommended that the evidence taken in the caso bo forwarded to tho Senate of the United Statos. The matter was lal over under the rules. The following bills received a third reading, were passed and sent to the Sonate : to require iotail liquor dealers to pay a sp3cial li conso fee, in addition to all other charges for the last fiscal year ; bill to amend the statuto relating to the punishment of forgery ; to extend tho time for paying taxes and relief from penalties attached to lands ; to restore all lands forfeited to the Stato for non payment of taxes to their formuer owners ; to amend the constitution of the Stato of South Carolina relativo to the office and tenure of the Justices of tho Su proine Court and the Judges of the Courts of General Sessions and Common Pleas ; to repeal an act entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of a school in the Stato penitentiary;" to allow the Greonwood and Augusta Railroad Company to pay their indebtedness to the Stato for the hire of convicts in the stock of said company at par. The usury bill was next brought up for final consideration. Its va rious sections wero read and the question put-"Shall tho bill be passed and sont to the Senato 1" 'Tle yeas and eays wero called, with this result--yeas, 74 ; nays, 30. Mr. Bice, of Fairild, voted "yea: Mr. Gaillard, votod "nay." Adjourned. AN EDITO11S ISANCTUM. A few mornings ago, just after we hId svepL up and made our bed look as 1plimiP as a soda biscuit, we were surprised at hoaring- t modest rap i at the door. Cullers seldom rap)-they usually kick. When wo answered the suimmons we found two ladies awaiting entrance. They told us they'd always had a curiosi ty to Sec how1 an editor's sanctum looked and begged the privilego of entering and looking 'round. They spent the next half hour in ex travagant praise of our furniture, otc. "How spotlessly clean lie koops his Biussels (iarlt-it looks as fresh and bright as if it had just como from the loom," said ono; and the other chimed in with "Yes, and do look how sweetly that bed is nmde up. Those pillows look like "now heaps and the symmetrical ph1i1mpness of the bed is solmewliat wyonderkul." And thus they went on, now hestowing the most ox travagan t laudations upon our statuary and oil paintings, and then oilg into ocstacios over tho dia inond studded chandelier. They looled wit.h admiration upon our goldi-mlounted s *ttoons and won dered where we got the enchanted soap with which our towel had been washed. They fairly shriekod their appreciation of our beautiful lace curtins and1( stared in mu Li ad, miiraitioni before our golden-f-ramod full-length mirror. ".Is this i'ndeod im editor's quarters, or arc we in f'airy-Lmd~l?" one of' them gasped, id the other, sink!~ing on thme luxu r~ious sofai, sobbe'd. "I dlon't kinow -I am bewildeir the miagni HeIigho I Tht .u:. e, alas, is inerely a fable. It isrrue that we were called uponl by twvo ladies, but o gods ! what a spectacle' met their gazo. Whenm they entered we arawled under t he bed among the Ald booEts and sardino cans and re amaied thiere till they left. Their lorisive laughiter still rings in our jars. Their sarcastic remarks still acerate ouri bosomn.--Frank,,lin Hi1Y1'ICK!LA L. MlA R1tdED, on tie 12t'1 inst., at the reslilenco )t Iraniis1I P'ope. Esq ., bty th,- R1ev. w. w. Mills, i. JonN (CI.oW,NEY to M, Iss A LIL'EJ. UlitIj.. 6.11 of Fairflck. MiARR1IEDT, on the 11th instt., at ti.he r 4lene 'f wI. F. Janckson. Esq., by i. bc 1Rev. J. M Iio dI, a:i. iionirru CAM1ACK to 1.'s INK?' JACK soN. All of F'ailehl. Notice to (Ceditors.l ltimand on4 )1 the 8thI day of knuary (aIl II, befre, the Probato Juidgeo at W,Vimn.boro., SIouth Ci(arolina,. 0. R. T1'HOMI'SON, d'e@ lL&d-aw3w J. P. F. C. Prepare for Chruistmas. rji1HE proprietor of OUJR HOUSE begs tinomhis OusHtolier and thei putblic generally that. he has tho largest amid best slock( of' goods in his lino ini town, consisting of: I tard, Dnypny & Co.'s, Cognaio Brandy, Pure old1 Jamtaica lium, O1l earHollandc Gin, Lynichburg Ryo W hiskey, LinicolIn cou'nty Rtyo Whiskey, Old Virgmnia XXX Rye Whiskey, Old KonLucky Ilourbon, .Bythewood Pure Pech irandly, N. (I Poach and Ajppio Brandy, N. C.; Sweoo Mash Corn \Visako,v, S-tono Monup Sour Mash Corni WhiUikoy. ALSO, G., 1I. Mlutnin & Co.'s, Chmaimagno. WVinos, Ales, Porter and Lager fleor. Tom and Jerry, Hot Scotch &o. P"rosh Oystors and froeh N. 0. Pork Saumsage. always ou hand. Re'spootfuilly, den 13 J. n bI.runL . SPECIAL NOTICES. Two Miles Before Breakfast. In a noighboring city in Georgia, thero is a married woman, wio, after her third continoment, had ulceration, with all its repulIsivo symptomns. She tried in vain all the nostrums; her husband car ried her to all the famnous mineral springs, went with ber to Nw York, Philadelphia and other places, to consult ominent obstotricians, to no purposo. After tho uso of the fifth bottle of R1gu lator, she has been fully rostored to her former health and happiness, and Is now the joy of the housohold-is able to wall two niles before breakfast, dec 4-2w SHERIFFS SALE. The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD. in the Probate Court. John Chanipman, as Administrator of Estate of Rlibtird Dove, Sr., vs. Nancy Dove, Richard C. Dove, dl. al. N pursuanco of an order from. the Court of' 1'robato for Fairileld county,. made in t.ho above stated casoi I will offer for sato beforo the Court Houseo door in Wiunsboro on the first M,onday in Junuary next, within the legal honrs of sale, the following described property, to wit: All that plantation situatod in Fairileld county. on waters of Littlo Rivor, con tainiIg ON1 111UNDR ED AND FIVTY oNE ACtI:S, more or loss, now occupied by Richard 0. Dove, and boun-led by lands of T. P.. Mitchell, Rt. C. Clowney, Robert Stoven son, James Ware and others. TERMS OF SALE: One-hrlf of the pu rehase money to bo paid in Cush; for the balance a credit of one yvi with interest from the day of sale- the purchaser to givo his hiond with a mortgago of tho premisms anad to- pay for all necessary pa pers. S. W. RUFF, Sherit'm of)tee, S. F. 0. Winnsbloro, .4. C., Devoin ber 12, 1877. dee 15 -tds SHERIFF'S SALE. The Stato of South Carplina,. CO NTY OF FAIRFIELD. iu the (Comnon I'leas. G!"ort W. Wi limm vs. Eobert E. El it oi., Tr. ' N pirsuance of thA order of the (ourt of it.omuinonl Tle:u made inl the abov-i). enlitld act ion, I will ofMir for salo beforo the (j'ourt Jiuse door in Wminnshro on the first Monday in- January noxt,. within the leg.il hours of salo, at public o-tery to the highest bid'Acr the follow. ing described property, to wit: All that certain pir.ce, parcel or tract of l1nd, lying, being ami situnto in the . y airiclh and State of South atrolin:a, aflortsaid, on the vaters of. Jackson'; Crook. c',Oltalinling oNI- T1OUSAND AND IlrEi nUNDRED AN] siXTY ACRES, i we or less, and houn,led on the north by lands of Samuel Uathcart and Dr. J.. It. N.eMaster,on the east by lands of J. S.. Cathcart, and Dr. T. B. Maddon, on. the south by lands of Dr. W. E. Aiken, ard oi tle west. by lanIds of Thomas Jor dan anld DIavid Campiell 'erm1s of Sal-CAsU.. P"urchas or to pay for papers. 8. W. RF., SherifY's Office, S. .F. (C. Winnsboro. S. U., Ducemnher 11, 1877. dvc 10,i - awtds lNTOTIc-E. Ri. J. M eCARLEY begs to inform (very 0one indted to him, that, '1as ho iitenda selling out, it is imperative that all aiccounts lbe paid on or before the first. dasy of January, 1877. After that dlato those who have not paid up will pIlaSO call at the onlico of A. M. Mackey, in whose hands alli accouInts wvill be placedt for celletion. decc 13 .AT COST I To Change investment I I Tr will sell my13 entire stock of larilwqro J.. for the next sixty days at cost to close ount the buies Merchants and Plan tors wvill find it to their interest t.o call sion and secure g cods they may be need ing, as I intend t.o sell them ofY as early as5 possible. Any pierson wlish2ing to con tiauo thme busl.iness will be0 furnished with particulars, andf will bie given liberal termos on ap)plication. All' persons in-. deb.ted are requested to call and settle at on1ce. I hasve ton Shares of Building..and Loan stock, which I will also sell on good~ termis. dec I l-Im J. M. GALLOWVAY. Columbia Business Cards, T~ ~EAI)QUAl'TERS$ for (lhea post Gre. .l.L (tories and .b.rdware in 'clumbiia,, to lbe f.ound at the old1 reliblo hmousa of ...L oscopes , &c'. All old pictlures ecopied. Art Gaiillery3 Building, 12-1.4 Main Street,. Colunmbia, S. (3. Visitora are cordially invitedl to call and examine. G 1 ill RES ELIAS, formerly of Camden, kJhas mioved to C3olumia, an 1 chpened, a large stock, oif Dry Goods and Notions, Boots; Shoes, Tirunka and Valises, Satis - the Whleeler Iliouse. Portraits,. Phlotograp,hs, Amlbroty pes and F?erroty pea fimshed in the latest, style of tihe art'j Old picetue copied.1)0( and enlarged to' any sizo. W. A. REOJKLING, Proprietor. * ~ IERO KS & DAVIS, import'ors and. ..L deal orsII i tchos, Clooks,Jowolry Silver and Plated Ware, Ilouse Flirnish lng (Goods, &e. N. ]B.----Watehos and jow 011r' repaIred. Columbia, S. C, oc6 27-y flOld E AND CATTL.E POWDERS,