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JSPF2BS0N DAVIS MEMORIAL. Bematks Hade on Presenting and Seconding the Resolutions Adopt ?. ed by the Meeting Held in Sum- j ter on the 11th Dec. BET. JOHN KERSHAW. Mr. Chairman : As we gather here j this morning to pay our tribute of res- j peet to the illustrious deud, whose ob- ! seqoies are even aow being performed j iu a distant city, it is a thrilling j thought that all over this So at hern laud, io oity, towo, village and hauilet, the people are gathered, like os, to express their seo3e of veoeration for "the man without a country?" aud their conscious? ness of lossio his death. The taking '.off of co other mau could call forth such ^..universal expression of mingled emo? tions, ss that of Jefferson Davis Mem? ory, avjurofal for the most part, recalls the nation born amid tbe throes of im? pending civil coofiict, nurtured on the breast of grim visaged war, and dying j with the paems of victory from the ex? altant conqueror and the bitter wails of ! the vanquished, ringing in its ears. The warrior's banner that took its Sight to join the warrior's sou!, when Lee, and Johnson, and Kirby Smith surren? dered, had no stain upon its starry folds, bat like the infant Confederacy whicb it represented, it went to its resting place, immaculate. Soon, over every Southerner, but * one, the Stars and Stripes were again nnforled, the emblem of a nation's pro? tecting power, the symbol that strife and bitterness, and all the horrid brood of war, were gone by. But he, the sole exception, the' man singled out j time and again as the scapegoat of the j whole Soar hem people, was not allowed j to daim its protection, or stand under] the shelter of its imperial aegis. Bereft j of country, deprived of citizenship, re? garded as an alien a:>d stranger in the noose which he and his fathers helped to build, yet bearing himself more nobly j ander the pressure of these many adver- ! sities, than when the star of hope was io the ascendant, exhibiting greater j heroism io passive endurance and silent submission, than when he stood, our foremost mao. in the midst of stirring ; activities and energetic achievement ;- j it is thus that Jefferson Davis has bow- i ed the hearts of all the people of the ' Sooth, eveo as the heart of one man, and aroused their warmest sympathies . for that lone being, who, like the leper of old, was banished from the assem? bling place of his people, and was ad- j judged by an unforgiving government | to be guilty of the unpardonable sin j As no other man could. Jefferson Davis 1 represented and stood for, this whole j people. What was done to him under j, the stress of the passions engendered by j the war would have been done to us ail, j had it beeo possible. As our head and j ?chief be has borne for nearly a quarter J of a century, the punishment which was ; oar doe, according to the judgment of , those who had the power so to decree. ' it is this that makes the tribute which the Sooth is paying to-day, so worthy, ?o eminently deserved, so entirely pro? per. We would be recreant to the promptings of the highest impulses and faculties of oor nature, were we to re- 1 fase to render to the memory of Mr. Davis, the offering of our sincere re- j gard, ocr high esteem, our truest ap- j predation of all he has suffered on our behalf. Let others say what they will, j ! We come here not to fan into flame the ' flying embers of a bygone strife, but to i sonor the memory of the man who 1 stood as sponsor for the Southern Con- j federacy and its people, and suffered as 1 the exponent of the Lost Cause We ' bonor ourselves io honoring him. and we have no apologies to make. Gen? er?os men, who differ from os in opiu- ' ion, wonld not ask or expect it. Bot while paying this tribute of re? spect to the dead, let ns not withhold oar sympathy from the bereaved widow, the worthy helpmeet, and the orphan ? 1 child, separated from those nearest and i I dearest to her, at this supreme moment, j < by thousands of miles of land and j ; water. For them let our prayers as- j 1 cend. oar tears fall. Next to the coo- ! < solation which God alone can bestow, most be the knowledge of thc fact that fae Sooth to-day, white expressing its j i sentiments towards the husband and j i father, is tendering spontaneous and 1 i . ?B? versal sympathy to the widowed wife ! and the fatherless daughter. Tbe man so long without a country j bas found a better, that is a heavenly, j < Mr. t}bairo?an. Be has gone home,' bis spirit bas entered the portals of his Father's house. "Fur op the Everlasting hills, In God's ovo light it lies, Hie smite hs T*st dimension fi:is, With joj that never dies." There let os leave him in peace, at ' rest, forever, free from corroding cares, ' Sheltered from the cruel sha ts of io- j justice and calumny, and breathing an atmosphere that is luminous with luve In view, Mr Chairman, of the pur j poses for which this meeting has been j called, an i as an inadequate expression ol oar thoughts and convictions on this j occasion, on behalf of the Committee, i I beg to offer the following preamble j and resolutions : [The resolutions were published in Ja?t issac ] COL. J. D. BL ANDING. Col Blanding spoke without notes sad we give the best synopsis we can Averse as be was to eulogizing even our great dead (prefering that their deeds j wooid speak in history for them) still he thought tbe present occasion au ex- j oept??a, because of love for the man -and not mere admiration of the gen>u-< 'and patriotism of the bead of the Lost 'Cease. He felt almost alone, unique, in this large assembly.. All of you kaevr of bim wheo he became a great leader io the councils of the nation, Governor, member of Congress, Secre? tary of War and Senator of the U. S.. and then best as President of the O o- ; federate S'ates. Of these positions he j woo ki leave others more competent to .peak, and recur to Mr. Davis' early days, when he was his comrade in Mex- j ico When Gen. Scott was pressing I tba siege of Vera Cruz, in March. 1847, tole official report of Gen. Taylor reach- | ed camp of the brilliant victory of ? Buena Vista on the Kio Grande, "?'2nd \ February. Col. B read extracts from ; ?bat report to the effect that the Mts- j sissippi Ri Semen under Col. Davis | were as conspicuous for gallantry and ateadioess throughout the battle a* vet? erans, "that Col. Davis, though severe? ly wottoded remained in the saddle > ootil the close of the action and his dis- ; tinguished coolness and gallantry at the bead af bis Regiment entitled him to j ticuiar notice of the govern- ! j t action Col Davis violated the '? first rule of warfare, not to allow yo force to be in a position to be flank by the enemy. Like Napoleon, \ genius flashed a rule for himself i the moment and he carried 1 Mississippi Rifles to the apex of t iuverted V of the enemy four ti tn his numbers, broke through the poir turned upou the flank aud iu a fe hours the Mexicans were in full retrea There came to Vera Cruz with tl official report a camp report that 'o Zieh/ who had uot spoken to Lieu Davis siuce he had, several years befor run off with Vis daughter iu the* Wes ern wilds, weat to him as he lay wouu< ed and sat:i, you have aided much : this victory to-day ; I am now convia ei that Dolly was a better j'idge of true man than I was. Ile would leave to others, who wou! follow, to speak of our chieftain in h distinguished career iu after life. B? he conld not refraiu from a few wort on that which he conceived to be ti; true greatness of the man. Our repa? lie is one of Confederated or Unite States, and whether wholly or partial! sovereign, if the union is to stand, must be based upon some true politic; principle, to be a-Jhered to by alt. II believed that principle was first prop erly enunciated by Mr Jefferson in th beginning of the ceutury, seconded b Mr. Calhoun in its secoud quarter an Mr. Davis became the martyr to it i: the third quarter of the ceutury. it is that organized communities have th . . rr . ric-ht to regulate their domestic affair as each shall think best for itself I is the divine rule which God has estab lished between State and family, be tween State and Church-the least in terference in these affairs bj outsider, the better. It was to this political pria ciple that Mr. Davis devoted his life, ii the hope, not to sever, as the Nortt. traduces him, but to save this grea Republic. History repeats itself. Th( violation of this principle by degrees brought the Roman Republic to the Empire, to be ruled by Neros and then be blotted from the map of natiorw^by invading hosts. There was dimioutiuu of cohesion to the parts by rea>on o! the concentration of power ia the cen? tre. The French Revolution was but 2 repetition of this principle violated One day lately brought about an asser? tion in Brazil that the Skates would take care of their own domestic affairs, and the empire was no more and Dont Pedro is iu Europe seeking protection from those who have never understood or will not comprehend the idea of local self-government. Jefferson Davis was the embodiment, the incarnation to us of this principle. Ile was recognized by all, North and South, as grt-at in the wars and counsels of a great, people be? fore 1861 ; he i-3 beloved by u< and will be by our posteiity, as greater in his devotion to the fortunes and misfortunes of a greater people, the Confederacy and will by civiliz a na'ions, in the near future, be esteemed greatest, by his sacrifice of himself to the rights of States. He has gone beyond all con? tentions, but the rights, and his words remaiu with us-the principle must pre? vail or Republic? will ever be failures. Col. Blanding closed by alluding to his passing from this arena of political ?nd civil strife and could have nothiug more to do with war, and said, let me warn you, that if our government, to which we are now as devoted as we were to the Confederacy, c<nticuesto absorb power at the centre as it is do? ing, some of you within the sonad of my voice will see this great Republic shattered into fragments as was the Ro? man Republic. Mr. Chairman. ? lay my humble tribute upon the bier of Jefferson Davis. True to his G 'd, to his country, to his family and there? fore true to himself. I second the res? olution and move that they be adopted by a rising vote. W. F. B. HAINSWORTH. * ! There are some here who can rome m ? ber how. nearly 43 years ago, the na- ' Lion was electrified by the tidings of the [ iesperate battle of Butma Vista, where j 1 Southern general led our men to a . brilliant victory over a greatly prepon- j derating Mexican force, to which Col. ; Blanding has so eloquently referred, j [n the words of a Northern editor, pub fished this very week, it was the gal- | lantry of Jefferson Davis and that of ? the regimeut which he commanded that wrested victory from aa immeuscly su- ' perior force. From that day to his death he oe copied a commanding position before the country and the world. To all ''? these engaging qualities and character- j istics which con?titu;e the highest type j of the Southern gentleman, there were ! added in bim a brilliant intellect, great stores of learning, luniinou-ness of mind, ; fitred by its knowledge of the past and ? its clear conceptions of the present to gt asp and muster the great political questions which present themselves to the American statesman His truth loving nature lifted him above thc plane ' of the mere politician. His splendid oratorical powers w?re never debased by efforts to achieve mere party tri? umphs or personal aggrandizement He appreciated and espoused, for his : guidance as a statesman, tho-c great principles which lie at the foundation and are the only safeguards of Repub? lican institutions These were his com? pass and chart in all bis course. IL. earnestly strove in his public life to im? press upon others, whether Seuatoi or people, the necessity, if they valued their instaurions and their liberties, j thei.- country's safety and prosperity, o' adherence to those great principies which were so marvelously united in th" fundamental compact of the free Stares of America ll ? and ali like him were the true Un i'm men of the nation IL: loved hi?, con nt ry and hil? people. He desired that they should ; not only be great in inteibgeuce and enlightenment, tu material prosperity, \ in wide dominion and cxhaust'ess re? sources, but that their greatness should be enduring ; that as long a* the sun should rise upon this fair continent it should shine upon a virtuous and hanov * liv and free people He, with others, s^rv the dat ge rs that were pressing; how the c.??ed <.;" gain and power was pr??sf?tu \n? patri? otism; how those to whom the grea' in? terests of the Republic were inrr-i-t- -1 were sapping their very foundations ; how ott one side and another were i;: ir-g undermined the pillars supporting the fabric; how those who administered the great powers of the general government were reaching forth to devitalize the sovereign States which ord lined the Union, and to concentrate at the mis? named Federal centre the powers rav? ished from the States, and thus control, for the aggrandisement of one portion at the expense of another, a mighty ' governmental mechanism which might ? prove a resistless engine of despotism crushing out the true life of a free peo? ple. He, like our great Calhoun, was maligned as a would-be-destroyer of the best government the world ever saw, when each was a lover of the Union as its framers intended it to be and as it would be if its priceless principles were faithfully administered.' Ile did not masha! an unthinking multitude to destroy thc temple of liberty. Ile strove with Herculean efforts to beat back those who, knowingly or not, were undermining i's foundations, and wheu it was evident that the champious of liberty and political truth were power? less to preveut the steady encroach? ments, it was the grand people of the South who cut the ties that kept con? stitutional liberty manacled to political trickery and despotism, aud resolved to erect a glorious structure where they hoped that true freedom might be en? duringly enshrined It was that peo- j pie, with their high aspirations after j the greatest public good, that selected ! Mr. Davis as their representative aud put him at the front Ile did not exalt himself to thaf5 high position. His truth and virtue and unselfish patriot? ism as a man and his wisdom as a statesman, combined with his warrior's record to mark him as beyond question the one to whose direction tbs destinies of au imperilled people should be com? mitted. Ile did not seek command, but was sought for it ; and at once all the malignity of the new Nation's foes was concentrated upon him. To the con? suming cares and labors of his responsi? ble position was added thc venom of j the enemies of the Confederate South, who mouthed upon tiiat pure and noble j man as if he were the impersonation of i ill wickedness. We all writhe still as we recall the indignities he had to endure for us ; while even above our indigna? tion at his persecutions there rises in )ur souls our admiration of his greatness io adversity. Indignities could not humiliate him. They could only dis? grace their perpetrators. His people idmired and trusted him before. They oved him thea and since. How gra? cious has the Great Disposer of events j aeen to a disappointed people that he iias preserved among them for so many pears this illustrious representative and Memento of The Lost Cause, who in his ! ?aforced retirement from public duties ! bas, by his graud integrity, b?3 serene j salience, his fearless adherance to the ! ieathless principles of right, obscured j :he triumph of those who struck bim ind his people down. How glad we :iave been, year after year, that we ;ou!d be so proud of him. He was our .e presen ta ti ve, and the light from Beau- ' 7<>ir shed a lustre over all this Southern j and. And now. as the tidings of bis ieath are Sashed fi om land to land, the vorld uncovers in reverential solemnitv. J:*(Fenton Davis I Numen darum et m renentUe. GEN. E W MOISE. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle neu: Standing as we do before the! jpeu grave of Jeiierson Davis, it be- | looves us to seek Diviue aid, that we j nay elevate our hearts and minds to ! ;outemplate aright, the true dignity of j ,he mighty dead. We are not here for the purpose of ? )ro:u;uncing or hearing an eulogy. "The ? iviug man scorned faisons adulation, I p. . . . i tnd his living spirit, if permitted to be j vit h us now, to hear our words and! o perceive the pulsations of our hearts, ! sould reject any testimonial which j ;ou!d net bear the scrutiny of time or he pure test, of truth." Although the ! ife of Mr. Davis had been a varied" and j irilliant one, vet his true place in his- ] ory must be determined by a single ict of that life. The question which j he historiar: UJU.4 determiue is a short me: Was he a patriot? or was he a raitor ? Did he seek to elevate his ; :ountry, or conspire to work her ruin 'I \ IVt-re his "intents wicked or charit- ' ible?" * I:: order to consider these questions j gravely, wc must endeavor to under- ! tand what was his true po-itiou when j wentv-nite vears ago, he withdrew 'rom (ho Senate of the United States, ! aid down his rubes and returned to his ; sate. Mr Davis had rrc rived his military j ?ducatiou at West I'jiut. As his mau- j rood was developed, so was love of ! :ouutry cultivated iu his heart, and ' iufy to her impressed upon his mind. ' The training which Was thus imparted j o him found its fruition in his soldierly j ton duct as au officer in the Florida and ' Vir sieau wars. That he had done his duty well was ! 'ecogntzed by those io power, and he was j ilevated to the high position of Secretary ! ft War. lt is conceded that he nobly j performed his part in that dignified >ffice. Io his keeping the fame, of his j jouutry '.moulted no leather.1' Such i .vas the estimate placed upon his ser- ' rices that the people of Mississippi free- J y gave hon the highest position it] their ; >ower. Ile was made, by election, : senator from that State, in ,c highest ! council of the Nation. In this lofty ttarton he commanded thc unbounded : respect of the people of the whole ' [ niied Stares, and his natue was freely j used in connection with the very highest ! dfice which is known to our laws It was the privilege of thc humble citizen who now addresses you to hear the lion. \> V. Burler, of Massachusetts, ;a-t hi* vote for Mr. Davis for Presideui j ?f the Uuited States a very large uuui k-r or times in the great Democratic Convention, which assembled in tho city jt Charleston in the year D5G J, a con? vention ever tu be memorable as the une which mad'- the mistake of dividin? the i Democratic party, by which L'ai error ?lone, the election ot Mr. Abraham Lincoln became a possibility. At that lime Mr. D^vis' private fortunes were pr ?sperous. Tnus he stood, "JV* years ago. in all that makes life dear, with every hope, /very aspiration and every memory bound up in and wedded to the honor i?f his country-the United S'ates. The glorious flag of the American ("mon was to hiiii the symbol of all the houor lie had woo, and under its '?.airy folds !?.; had shed his blood and earned his fame. The future glory of his country ! beld all the promise ot life, and tu is for? tune to IO.T meant ruin to bim. Such w;?s Mr Davis' relation to the United S ates Government when the Presiden? tial i lection "f ! came ou. A mar; wfi on the people delighted to honor, rite pride .?' h's country, aird th" lead? ing citizen of his-State l?'?t to this bright picture there was a dark sha low. The people of his State either were, or deemed themselves to L?\ in mortal I he institution of African slavery (now happily passed away forever) was so deeply ingrained in the warp and woof of Southern State government, that the minds of the ablest men were ; dazed before the question, of how it j could be severed, without such horrors ! as the haman mind could not calmly ! contemplate or analyze, nor was any i mode of solving the problem offered j from without. The Southern people j were noe the originators of the system ; j it had been foisted upon them ; their i sister States had emptied upon them j their fortunes of that class of popula ; tion, and when once free from such ia ? cubus were actively engaged in a cru? sade against the system itself or any ex? tension thereof. Slavery was coiled around the South like the python, with its two venemous fangs, insurrec? tion and murder, ready to strike at her vitality, and encouraged by such fan? atics' existence as John Brown, of Os sawattomie. To circumscribe its area was to intensify its dangers and render eternal vigilauce the only salvation of its guardians. The natural consequence was that, as it was attacked from with? out, if.| became more closely guarded from within, aud for every assailant it found a defender. This fearful coudition culminated in the election of Mr. Lincoln. Ile was the author of the sentiment, that this was a ''government of the people, for the people and by the people," yet he owed his elevation solely to the crystali zation of public opinion at the populous North and West against the extension or perpetuity of that institution, which was peculiar to the South. Mr Lia co!u teccived no vote at the South. He was, for all practical purposes, a stran? ger to them. Yet he was placed by a miuority of the people of the United States to rule over then), on the basis of his fixed resolution to limit and cir? cumscribe the area in which their pe? culiar institution could exist. There seems to have been but one way in which the millions of slaves, held io the South, could have received their free? dom without jarring the States to their very bases, or risking the relegation of their civilization to the status of Hayti and Saint Dominigo. It is possible that had the policy of the General Gov? ernment taken the line of disseminating the colored people over the whole im? mense territory, acquired from Mexico, by the blond of as many slave holders as others, the Government might easily thereafter have purchased and emanci? pated the slaves by successive and lim? ited acts, whereby those communities j which desired to retaiu the slave would have had so many less that they would not have been placed in such awful peril at the prospect of their sudden emancipation, aud those who desired to | bc rid of them could always have found i a purchaser io the Government. It is u.-eless to speculate on what might have been. NJ such programme j was proposed. The South was left to j combat the adverse public opinion of | the rest of the Nation, which daily grew more aggressive and vindictive. In this dreadful condition was his State when 31 r. Davis had to determine as her foremost citizen what was to he done to save her from the untold dan? gers which then threatened her. and re tain to her those liberties for which he and his fathers had fought and bled. Let us follow him to bis closet and j see him there, as on his knees he proud? ly asks the aid of his Heavenly Father to show him the path of duty. He pravs : What conscience dictate? to be done, Ur warns nie not to do; Tiiis teach me mure than bell to shun Thxt more than beaveu pursue. He rises from that silent commune with his Maker, and, taking his staff in j his hand, ho goes forth. Behind him he leaves all that makes life worth liv ing, and moved by his sense of right, 1 turns his back on the arena in which i his fame has been made. He goes forth j iu'o the darkness of new paths, with no other guide than "the pillar of cloud by day. the pillar of fire by night " Constituted of a metal so pure that it could not be alloyed with gold, he goes forth, leaving wealth and comfort, peace and plenty. in leaving the Senate of thc United States ami casting his lot with the State -upon her withdrawal from the Union -Mr. Davis but followed in practice the theory of Government, which he had always held and which had been I implanted in his breast by the fathers j of the Republic. It may have been i error, it perhaps was a mistake, but it was the contentious conviction of a conscientious man. Did Mr. Davis desire to injure the the United States? Oh, no; he simply u.ked to be allowed to leave his father's house in peace. The fu: ure historian will perhaps rhap-edize a little on this question : If history be philosophy, teaching by ex? ample, may one not believe, that hat! the advice of the commander-in-chief of the annie- of the United Strifes been taken, and had the Southern States been al? lowed to "part in peace,7' the probable result would have been a new Union, freedom to .-?ave and peace to country, with a million of human lives rendered happy, and millions of property saved (Vom destruction, with all the horrors of war avoid? ?! and the dark and bloody stain removed from American civiliza? tion. If Mr. Davis was a traitor, then should ali tho monuments be ereeted to Con fed; rate den] be >nuk into the earth until their summits could no more be .-eco ?if man. lie wa- a natural leader of men ; of ti.ie education ami gentle manners, he was yet earnest in convie'ion and stead- ! fa.-*t of purpose. Without rhe brilliance I or scintillating genius of Hobt. Toombs, | yet IOO?JOS was nj those who>e votes ! elevated him to the highest position in 'In w born State N\' i r h ? ? >J ' tin- splen? did rn- i:i or mi ?ital y skill of 1! bl K Lee, y t L e was willing to serve under iiirti VV'itlum' the wonderful prescience of Alexandel li Stephens, yet Steph-ms held second position in a government ol which Mr l>ivi- was the h- nd With- I out the inspired erm fi lett ce of "Stonewall j Jackson, he yt had tl tat ?rm faith in ! his cause, whirl-, caused him to invoke the blessing- oj heaven upon every im- ' p ?rtant :n-r of hi.- most ?ventful life. Ile ! guffe ; h is wor k i done '.|'" W i? i n>::t t il.;e M in for :l!I in - 'I. I .-li ti! not look upon hrs like ? ? >in " i "No fm t!i. r iM-eli his mei i ts io disp<>s?% Or draw his inti]':irs from theil Cread ..hode. i There ihet ahke m tremniiii? hope :< p 'Se, The Oosom of h is Father and his (?.id." A 1)V i( E TO MOTU ER'S. Mrs. VYi'ig.ow s Soothing Sirup should ! al wa vs Ix- used for children teething. It ' soo:lies the child, softens thc gums, ?Hays all ! pain oo.-s wind colic and is thc best remedy I for diai rhm i. 'I <. a hottle. -?-.????- - Sei.d Twenty-Five Cents T.> "The [?ispatch," linvksburg, S. C., and ? receive thai large, well-printed paper two mouths on tria!. It lei's all nhoui the rapid ' growth of that magic city of Smith Carolina, j -1-? -.????? Wi Piush (?nods in eudless variety at J. A. Sch wert D'S. Best work in Photography at Winhurn's j Gallery. i DON'T RE The summer is past Harvest time is upon us. A good crop j has been made and cotton is bringing better prices than for years, j BULTMAN 5 PROPRIETORS OF "The Sumter Shoe Store/' inform us that thc yield io the Shoe cr?.p this season is IMMENSE, but in prices ^ (unlike cotton) they are cheaper than ever ??^-^^^TN^ before. If you will drop iu and look a^ their stock, ami let them quote prices, you JP w''' De impressed with the idea that X^5L "SHOES MUST KOW ON TE SIS." Wk*. "^5?::5S5S^^^^S^ This old firm does not need any intro I!M?1"'1?''^' M^ijhti duct ion to the old residents of our City and ^^^^??gjf?gfr^^ County, but the pr-pulation 3nd business houses having increased so rapidly they deemed ir wise to use a small space here to inform people that they have not been croicded oaf, but are thoroughly pre? pared to meet all competition in the BOOT AND SHOE TRADE at wholesale or retail. They sell the Light Rucoing "White Sewing Machine on easy terms, and keep always in stock a complete assortment of Trunks, Valises and Traveling Bags. BULTMAN & BRO., Oct 2 Opposite North side of Court House Square. rmvwww BIG GROCERY STORE Main Street, Near Jervey House, MEAT, LARD, COFFEE. SUGAR, LYE GRITS. CRACKERS, MOLASSES, CD SOAP, STARCH, R?E, 5r*Eg^l OATS, j 2? ggf ?UT, rffc^l FLOUR, ti1 ?2? i MEAL, ? g = l MATCHES, - gd I CHEESE. SALT. SCHWERIN & C Near Jervey House. 0 Oct. 23-v. ares* ATTENTION, PARENTS AND CHILDREN ! Santa Claus' Beadauarters. TOYS, TOYS, TOYS IX ENDLESS VARIETIES. J. A. SCHWIMM STILL ix Tin: LP.AD* AU of my Toys and Fancy Gooi^ are new. No old stock ou hand. Presents suitable for old as well as for the young. Come one. come all. and see for yourselves Also a FINE LINE OF BRIDAL PRESENT?. Of merchants, our town has bad many Of fortune, cf fame and renown, But never a combination Made np of a Brown and a Brown.. Thc aforementioned rare combination has brought together a stock of pure, fresh and popular goods, staple and substantial, good to eat and good to wear-all of which goods are enhanced in value by the men who are putting them before the public, for lt gives us pleasure to say The fa m'ly of Brown reaches backwards, Aud is kin to the kings of old time ; But the climax of fame is accomplished in this year of our Lord, eighty-nine. The climax referred to is the low price at which our goods are being sold. In SHOKS we. are running a line of specialties, and the open-eyed amazement that smites our customers as they behold our lay-out, is equal to a seventy-five cent show. And further, We stand in the end of the ages, A Brown by the side of a Brown, And declare to the town and the country, We'er not seeking gold, but renown. To enable us to lay a foundation for the said fame and re? nown, we have put down a solid substratum of low prices and formed new purposes of honesty and uprightness in the hand? ling of FLOUR, BACON, SUGAR, COFFEE, and GROCERIES of all kinds. Tn the line of DRY GOODS, we have displayed our best taste and are prepared to knock out- all competitors in four rounds of four minutes each. We are cosmopolitan in principle and philanthropic at heart, with a strong leaning towards the doctrine of man's universal brotherhood. We believe in the Alliance, in Free Trade, and Protective Tariff, and in Tariff for Revenue only. We accept all the creeds and isms of our cus? tomers, and we believe heartily in the nebular hypothesis, and meanwhile endeavor to keep our stock full in every depart? ment. Store on Liberty Street in rear of the famous Clothing Store of Brown & Chandler. Our clerks are models of politeness and affability, a supply of good manners and mavifcr in modo having recently been im? per ted from France for their individual use. Sept. 18. ff G OUB NEW STOCK -is ARRIVING. We are Chock Full -OF BARGAINS - IX F I All Departments. Call and get our prices before purchasing. ALTAMONT MOSES. We are Agents (br several large FIEE insurance Companies. ? "We lake Risks on GINS and GIN HOUSES, RESIDENCES, &cJ ALTAMONT MOSES. Scot. 4. fi rp ?lil ?fi l's A T POINTER. WE CARRY THE Largest and Most Complete LINE OF FURNITURE, WALL PAPER, SHADES, PICTURES, <fc> EYER SEEN IN This "Section of the State, and Buying direct from the Largest Factories Are enabled to sell at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION. An examination of our Goods and Prices will convince you that THIS IS A FACT. Don't forget our Prize Suit* DURANT & BELITZER. OF DOLLARS! CAN BE SAVED BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTY. NOW IS THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY ! Stoves ! Stores ! Stoves ! PUMPS ! PUMPS ! PUMPS! HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, CROCKERY, GLASS? WARE, HARDWARE, WOODEXWARE, CHINA, FANCY GOODS, TOYS, TINWARE, in fact our immense assortment of JSTOW Fall and "Winter Goods is now in stock an l opened for inspection and offered at extremely hw prices. While maintaining ?l e uniform standard of qualify and excellence by good management, careful buying and being content with ?MALL PROFITS, wc have raised the standard and lowered cur price, until it is now a fact that th* 3jCc?s{ cod.- of ^oods in this section is uow bein? offered f>>r sale by us for the least money. GOME AND CATCH ON NEW GOODS FOR EVERYBODY. GREAT VARIETY TO SELECT FROM. Roofing. Tinning, Guttering and Repairing done at short notice. Pumps put down aud taken np at lowest rales. Sole agent for the Safety Tether Machine for grazing stock. Thanking thc public for their past kind patronage and soliciting a continuance cf the same, I remain, respectfully? T. C. SCAFFE, Sumter, 3, Ck Aug. 28