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?^??HI'U?U?^?MU'IIIH?'U'IK'WH?^H'I O U.'?.Jl"'" M.11 .,<?,)i?.'../<,.'... I, I >l.' I .<.., ..,,<?, .?.?.ll >.....? .?.?! sra?."R.'WBI8OB, EDGEFIELD, S. C. /; R 18, 1878. TO OIL CLOTHS,. CURTAINS. FALL TKADE, 1 JAS. G. BAILIE db BR New Carpets. Body .Brussels, English Royal Yelveta, English*.Tapestry Brussels, All W?flTltteeFlyvAll Wool Heavy In grains, All Wool Low Triced Ingrains, JBeaattfril Patterns of Cheap Carpets, Stair and Hall Carpets, Stair Rods, Ottomans and Hassocks. C?rpete made well and laid with dispatch. Floor Oil Cloths. - English and American Floor Oil Cloths, 24 feet wide, and of the liest Goods mann factored. .Do, you want a real good OH Cloth ? If so, come, see and get the very: best. A foll line of cheap Floor Oil Cloths, from 60 cents a yard up. Table Oil Cloths, all widths and; colors. Oil Cloths for'Halls or Rooms cut any style and laid promptly. jj. Lace Curtains. French Tamboured Lace, "Exquisite;" Nottingham Lace, "Beautiful;" Tam boured Muslin, durable and cheap, from ?fS "50 a pair upwards. Cornices and Bands. Rosewood and Gilt, Plain Gilt, Walnut ar 3 Gilt Cornices, with or without Centres. Curtain Bands, Pins, and Loops. Cornices cut and made to fit windows, and put np. Window Shades. 1,000 new Window Shades, in all the new tints of color. Beavt?fnlGold Band Shades, $1 50, with all trimmings. Beautiful Shades, 20c. each. Store Window Shades, any color and any sile. Window Shades squared and put np promptly. Walnut and Painted Wood Shade?. ?ECTFTJLLY .ask your attention to a large stock of the following DESIRABLE GOODS, just opened, and offered by them for sale: Rugs and Boor Mats. New and beautiful -Rugs. Door Mats, from 50c. up to the best- English Cocoa, that wears three years. 100 Sets Table Mats, assorted. matting:. New Goods, Plain and Fancy, in all the different widths made. Mattings laid with dispatch. Wall Papers and Borders. 3,500 Rolls Wall Papers and Borders, in new patterns, in gold, pannels, hall, oaks, marbles, chintzes, &c, in every va riety of color-beautiful goods and"cheap; Paper hung if desired. . Chromos. 500 new Chromos ?ust opened. Hair Cloths. In all widths required for upholstering. Buttons, Gimps and Tacks for the same. Curtain JDainasks. Plain and Striped French Terrys for, Curtains and Upholstering purposes. Gimps, Fringes, Tassels, Loops and But tons. Moreens and Table Damasks. Curtains and Lambraquins made and j put up. Piano and Table Corers. English Embroidered Cloth Piano and j Table Covers. Embossed Felt Piano'and Table Covers. Plain and Gold Band Flock ed Piano Covers. German Fringed Table | Covers. Crumb Cloths and Drug gets. New Patterns, in any size or width wanted. To all pf whick we ask your attention. ALL WORK DONE WELL AND IN SEASON, by I JAMES G. BAILIE & BROTHER. Augusta, Oct 1, 3m 41 Chas. Cr. Croodrie?, -DEALER IN SADDLES, HARNESS, Leathers of all Kinds, Shoe Findings, Belting, TEUNKS,BKIDLES, WHIPS, And a Full Stock of Well Selected Goods. Also, The Well Tried . Indianapolis Wagon, Either Iron or Wood Axles-The most satisfactory Wagon now in use, and W ABB ANTED IN EVERY RESPECT. . Augusta, Aug 27 6m 36 Fall and Winter Goods. J WOULD call the attention of the public to my stock of Fall and Winter Goods, consisting of '.rt->.> V ? Dry Groods, (Groceries, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, isroTionsrs, Tin Ware, Crockery Ware, &c. Prices to suit the times, and as reasonable as any other House. Oct 8 S. H. HANGET. tf 42 li ll I /I iii BOOTS, SHOES, HATS. Trunks and Umbrellas, j-- ?i>U v'fefj ,yj -.j.e.: 222 Broad St?, Opposite National Bank Augusta, Ga. Sept 24 3m 40 W. I. DELPH & CO., 324 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.. --DEALERS IN COOKING STOVES Heating gtoyes, Hardware, Tinware, Woodware, And Fiiraisfciiig Goods Generally, They have in Stock the justly celebrate^ " COTTON PLANT" COOKING STOVE, Manufactured bv Abendroth Brothers, New York City. It is a first-class, square-top four-hole Stove ; the Oven is large, the juints are filed and fitted with great care and exactness ; the beauty of it? finish cannot be surpassed. THEY HAVE THE "BARLEY SHEAF ? Manufactured by Stuart, Peterson & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., This is also a first-class, four hole square-top Stove, with a large Oven, Doors tin-lined. Their stock of Prenr'nm or Step Stoves is complete. Each Stove sent ont is warranted to give perfect satisfaction. Thev manufacture Tinware in all its varieties. Wholesale orders solicited. Job Work done with neatness and dispatch. All Goods, sold at reasonable prices. W. I. DELPH & CO. Augusta; Gar.,, Sept. 24 _ _ Opposite Planters Hotel, 324 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. 3m :ran mm .JL~" 40 ?WL S; 'Doodle'and Single, ?t>?*a; ;u^^,;MV(;/?a,1the.be8t makes, at positive Bargains,. ' - :: ; ' 'J. wf TURLEY. f ' ?ME?ttN? \U10ERV?8TS,-; nest unkev for. MAU, Women.* Boys.-And Gitfe^ail ?ites.^^1 .>. . ' <??>.!..'???.' u?? ? i INNOCENCE. She rose from her untroubled sleep And put away her sort brown hair, Ajad, in & tone as low and deep Aa love's first whisper, breathed a Jliprayer; ; ff?/' Her snow-white hands together pressed, Her blue eyes sheltered in the lid, The folded linen on her breast Just swelling with the charms it hid ; And from her long and flowing dress . Escaped a bare and slender foot, Whose shape upon the earth did press Like a new snow-flake, white and mute; And there, from slu moor pure and sweet, Like a young spirit, fresh from heaven, She bowed her slight and graceful form, And humbly prayed to ba forgiven. O God, if souls unsoiled as these Neea daily mercy from thy throne If sh e, upon her bended knees Our loveliest and our purest one She, with her face so clear and bright. We deem her some s tray child of light If she, with those soft eyes in tears, Day after day, in her first years, Must kneel and pray forgrace from Thee What far, far deeper need have wo ? How hardly, if she win not heaven, Will our wild errors be forgiven ! The Giant Printing Swindles. The Port Royal Commercial ia a Radi cal newspaper which has a wide-awake Columbia correspondent who is "one of the staunchest Radicals in the State." This staunch Radical analyzes the lately published report of the state treasurer : He finds that, in the first place, taxes were last year three mills more than any year of-the previous administration, and were five mills more than the average yearly tax levy under the Scott regime. The next discovery is that the Printing for the year 1873 cost $640,006, and the legisla tive expenses $360,842, making a grand j total of $1,000,S48. The correspondent says : " The receipts by the state treasurer are reported at $1,719,728 37 ; all of which has been disbursed according to appropri ations, and- there remains due and un paid, for want of funds under appropria tions, $829,527 27; a total expense of $2,549,255 64 for the fiscal year of this ad ministration. " In this immense amount it will be ob served -that there are only two items for interest. One of them is for $7,672 paid on the agricultural college bonds, and the other is'a somewhat mysterious item of $4,440* payment bf imprest on land commission bonds ; a total payment of in tel est of only $12,112. There was also paid of deficiencies of previous year $90, 815 for schools, $21,89? 30 for legislative expenses of .1870-'71-J72. The. total ex ?jense then of this first. year of the re brm Republican party o'f South Carol! -na. making the above deductions is - $2, 414,971. " In 186S the Legislature spent $180, 000 on it jielf, and thc >c to ?ax was 7 j mills ; now it spends ? 'zr. is 12 mills. The ex caused the organizat: Klan. C?n we afic Boss Tweed to the j going to do abou' i< collects a State ta: twenty millions of rtfir* tijnw.ouxJxyzbe l?gislative ?xpeuses more than onetenth The proportion of " ; ii a hundred to one against us. Each year these two drains upon the State have be come more and more. It can be shown that thepuid and unpaid printing claims have swallowed up marly thc whole amount raised from taxation duriny thc past five years The other expenses had to be met by the sale of bonds.' ? This is the evidence of a Radical, not of a Democrat. The Legislature and the Printing have swallowed up nearly the whole amount raised from taxation. It is time that the hand of every honest man was raised against legislative extravagance and against the Credit Mobilier Republi can Printing Company, the Fa ther of all Swindlea, the fertile source of corruption. Break that Ring, and Reform will be pos. ?ible. Let it roll on, and in a few years Clerks Jones and Woodruff will rule thc State as autocratically as they now, as they say, rule the General Assembly. Charleston News &, Courier. sam Things are daily narrowing down to a final struggle over the Suite Treasu ry. It is the central point ol* interest. One class of people put money in it, an other greedily hastens to take it out It ls not in human nature to stand it much longer. The people who have yeta rem nant of their property are willing to pay a reasonable amount of it in taxes and to sustain an economical government; but When taxes approach confiscation ; when the money wbjcb they pay in is not ex pended in carrying on fae public insti tutions, or advancing the public interests in any wajf ; when ita chief use is to pamper in idleness and luxury a good for nothing set of greedy officials, stran gers to honor, virtue and decency, they may well ask themselves tho question if that is to be their hard fate forever?-Co lumbia Phoenix. THK NEW YORK OUSERVKR talcos a 1 'old stand against gift enterprises in the shapo of picture- premiums, offered to subscribers and said to bo worth HO much more than the price of a periodical. The Obsurvcr does not publish pictures but publishes news. Any person desiring a comprehensive weekly newspaper, filled with just tho news that every family want*, and free from any' clap-trap, or ()bjeetioT?able matter of any kind ; will hardly'ck) bettor than by sending $3 to 8.1. Prime * Co., 37 Park Row, New York. pgr The December number of WOOD'S | HOUSEHOLD MAGAZINE is replete with good reading-entertaining sketches, sto ries, poems, dec., etc. Its table of con tents embraces the following articles: "A Better Country," Mary Hartwell; .4? Engineer's Yarn, Albert Williams, Jr. ; Our jtyrty f& gea, Rev. J. S. Breck inridge ; Two Enthuat^sls, H. M. Lew tral ; Presence of Mind, Rev. P. W. Hol land; Our Babies, D. A. Gorton, M. D.; Blessedness of Riches, Tenoroon ; Hans Doodledee, Rudolph Mentel ; installment of Max Kramer, author of Jessica's First prayer; Codfish and Potatoes, Chapter il, by EJeanor-Xirk; Misery Jlppeau, Chapter VII, VU,}, by H. V. Osborne. In addition to these articles are several pretty pooms, a charming little Cottago Design, and editorial departments em bracing Our Housekeeper, Correspon dence, Literary Notices, Laogblng Stock, itv., ote. The engraving for this month is entitled "Old Folks." All the above for only one dollar per year-or with chromo YOSEMITE one dol lar and a hab*. Address, WOOD'S HOUSE HOLD MAGAZINE, Newburgh, N. Ti .fy ihet?^lpk a TJoyfan ? iyhp ^i^the.fpr ' tnnate'naStheiM Aye b?btes i?-^ne 7?0jf -threebpy? Hif^qary? an^wo girls In December, In Favor of Resisting Unjust Taxation* Ari intelligent correspondent of the Ai ken Journal, over the signature of "Tax payer," is evidently in favor of resisting the enormously heavy and outrageously unjust taxation our Radical task-masters are now plotting and planning to heap upon the already too long oppressed tax payers of this State. Like him, our peo ple are willing to pay a reasonable tax. but no farther, and "will resist to the bitter end." No people on earth have ever long submitted to unjust taxation without murmuring, and resistance ; and by the Eternal, we have borne the unnec essary and base exactions of the tax-cor morants until patience has ceased to be a virtue. We would counsel to wait and Bee if our Legislators levy a tax beyond our power to pay, or in excess of former tax assessments ; and if they do, then let us speedily call a Convention of the tax payers of the State,-and let said Conven tion devise the proper course for the peo ple to pursue. But of this, more after the passage of the Tax Act. We commend the following extract from the communication of " Taxpayer," in the Aiken Journal, to the readers pf .the Ad vertieer ? .1 am among those who believe that the time has arrived when the taxpayers-of our State should unite and say to these thieves, '" Thus far shalt thou go, arid no farther !. That we are willing to defray the expenses of an economical administration of the State Government, and pay the in terest on all honest obligations incurred legally, but anything farther, we will re sist to the bitter end." In carrying out such a detern-ination, I believe that we would be sustained by the government at Washington and the people at large. The government of our? State has become a bye-word and reproach all over this land ; the Governor puolicy accused by his allies, white and black, carpet-baggers and scala wags, of having robbed the State ; the Su preme Court openly charged with receiv-1 ing bribes by thosi. nigh iri authority n? their own party. But, Mr. Editor, we come now to our own county, where we have a white ma jority of more than three hundred. We with folded arms, allowed at the last elec tion negroes, aided and abetted by" a few of their white allies, to elect'our 'county officers. Now tell us, who is to blame for this but ourselves? While we may not be able to control the " Robber Band" now assembled at Columbia, we can prevent the misapplication of money raised for comity purposes ; for instance the paying of $15,000 for t|ic Gregg Mansion, that would not today bring $0,000; to.say nothing of numerous misapplications of county money for other purposes. Thc County Auditor furnishes thccuuuLy Rad ii - :?|. ? m. ? nf the tax duplicate orr --??? the people are tnus <.? ~ hard earnings gathered and squariaereorr $600,000 squandered in one session in pub lic printing at Columbia, three times as much as is required by the great State of Georgia, with three times the population and three times the taxable property. There is no Slate north of tho Potomac River the people of which would have quietly submitted to be robbed and plun dered as we have without resistance. The State organ here. "The Aiken Tribune,1' sometime since said : "Num bers of Northern entlemen, who have invested in lands in this vicinity, ave now offering to sell them for much less than they cost," offering as a reason for their doing so, that they were fearful that sonic time during their absence their agents might allow their lands sold or forfeited for non-payment of taxes." What a frivo lous excuse did he put up ! A true state ment is simply this : Quite a number of Northern gentlemen came South in search of a milder climate, and being charmed with that of Aiken, purchased lands in the vicinity and others homes in the vil lage. Those who attempted to farm found the labor demoralized and almost worth less; the State Government in the hands of thieves, the like of which was never seen before ; our juries composed of igno rant jurors, with aa little idea of law and justice as a Comanche Indian ; corruption extending through the whole system of government, from the constable to the Su preme Court; members of the Legislature who, but a short time back, were cutting wood at fifty cents per cord, living at the rate of $10,000 a year ; corn field hands transferred into statesmen, with just sense enough to take all that is offered and vote as they are told ; is it strange that these Northern gentlemen want to sell, or is it strange that t ho purchasing of farms around our village has stopped, as long as the present state of thingsexist ? Capitalists will shun South Carolina as they would a plague. Senator Sprague purchased wa ter power at Columbia, but was too sharp even to break ground for a mill ; althoucn himself a Republican, he was not of the South Carolina school. 'Tis a waste of time for the clan at Columbia to pass laws exempt ing capital invested in manufactures from taxation. When capitalists go abroad to make investments, they scrutinize close ly the character of the people who make the laws. A glance at the assembled law make of our State wonld cause a man, who had auy money about him, to clasp his hand on his pocket-book and make for the first train. Had we such a gov ernment as our neigh bor across the Savan nah River, I really believe that our little village would have had by this time a population of 5,000 or more. The North ern people are too sagacious to make in-' yestmepts aj.)4 ps&t their lots with oura, until 'sale-guards ar/) thrown around prop erty ; when honest men 'shall' goy?rn, apd rogues be made to puffer for their misdeeds. The Western papers are full of the de tails of the recent terrible prairie fires in Kansas and Dakota. The flames spread devastation through twelve counties in Kansas, so that the extent of territory ravaged may at lea>t be reckoned by hun dreds of square miles. Eye-witnesses say that the fi?mes .came upon jhem in the shape and almost'with the speedof ? ^or nado. Distant clouds were -first seen, the air grew still and sickly, then the wind came in moaning puffs. But, when near er, there was no mistaking the character of the visitation. The. inhabitants were pompelled te flee for their lives while the fire raid hold upon barns, hons??, belia of timber, wood pile and fences, and convert ed them into heaps of blazing embers. Hay ricka, wheat aud corn shocks and straw stacks have been annihilated. Smoke smears upon stone buildings show similar havoc, and an occasional carcass of a horse or ox makes the resemblance to the battle field almost perfect. To form a general estimate ofilia loss to the State would.'be impossihie-?t'nr?sent,d3ut it witt be* bonht ed hy hundreds of thousands of dollars, if . it' does ?ot raouri t-into /huilions. ' Themar mere ?r> Mt,Without,:.anv?hlrig l'fo'Tead . fcejr sk),ck,:>yhiflh.ttiey ;#?l ,be;forcer, td .'.sell at a>great 8awficer,'XnoJiakqtaytbe fires ewe?t overdesa /terri toiy, huilla toi rcr occasioned by tho flame* WM Boarcoly less. At VeraiU efforts of thecitizj ploughs and axes, whole country in over, ann it is fea ? been.lost. .Thee': appalling. Wonn 1 crazy with fear, ?. ed with smoke a . difficult. Speech . Mr. Stephens ; cious beginning . ?he back salary ri Sreat. blunder p : oes violence t< him to Congre; . fend this legali Treasury, nor < dent Grant, h Thursdav, and . fended the bac. and just, both s We shall no phensnextapj champion of I :.t Stephens' adie i ,. ?'. -his high aa . pleased to ter his wonderful bili MK' the President': State of Louii . . task, but ap .. guished Repr .i ? to appear in ! as the champ' is now well k private cor ? comiums o: His spee : .. * elicit from cially from1 i\ . prompt anc j Mr. Stephen; propriatedl . paid for at -. our compre!. ? tice. The regulating ; Li services to ', ble and can \ emergency ? there was r the Forty members bl . crease in sa!. ture service . cate and op-. - '.. - justified; b . . ; liberately tf v.-. of the incre . scandal of propriety, denounced b] tions with?i I Stephens hi k ta; in defending terizes as " . ?ist?t will meet, a of the peor. . ... Sentinel. ' An AddrcK baud . GENTLEM zens ot out . . The burdu.. e*'%\? , ,_? pian for relief, is simply iliTs : To devise the Lest iou]/ by which ouiwhile popula tion van bc greatly incrccsed i" ?he short est limo by thc bringing bto our Stale of\ thc best possible classes d' citizens. Tin" can be done only by cure'ul thinking and planning, by a general cooperation on the part of all who desire sviih an object, and by an individual eil'ort ont he part of each one. .' The Granges have tin organizations the intelligence, the patriotism and the means to inaugurate suc| a movement as will tend to immediate rflief to our peo ple. The plan which I wjuld present wi;h deference, to the consider.tion of the Pat rons of Husbandry, is asfollowa : Let the Granges of eaci county organ ize a body composed of delegates from each Grange which shallappomt a Presi dent, Secretary and Treaorer, for thc pur {>ose of obtaining white liople from abroad br laborers, tenants unupurchasers of the respective counties. In/this way 1,000 white people might be setled in each coun ty within twelve montht Let it be the duly of these oificeis to record all lands ollercdfor sale in their j respective counties, anddso receive orders for tenants, labor?is, &., and hold the money sent up to defrar the expenses ol' the same, making tho.arrangements in their power to have inmigrants brought to them. t ' Thousands of absent Carolinians might be induced to retun. ad settle in their | native State could tley ?eageneral move ment on our part to re?ue their Mother State, and were suff.cien inducements of- j fered to them. Hundrels of thousands of | people are emigrating furn the Old World and settling in parU pl ?he country which do not compare favoraa; with South Car olina. The reason llwydo not come to us is, that we have nohnade an eil'ort to get them. We shoulhow make a bold j and united effort to Irbg them to our j State. I have matured arrflfements by which great numbers can h nought in io the State. I shall take leisure in serving my countrymen, whni desired, in this great work. Orders ir Jaborers or immi grants of any kind wi! L;e filled promptly. It is necessary to adance S10 a-head to wards defraying tho ?penses of persons ordered. What it cos ?ore than the S10 advanced will be collcted after the arrival of the'Immigrant*, ad all- be paid out of | their wages. As I e.vect to go on to New York and fill orders vhh great care,- 1 trust I shall be perntued to serve many persons in this cause. Granges ordering trough the officers can hold the wp,110}- jflffffij to drafts for immigrtt'nta'act'|iany ?rft'arde?. Individ uals >vho'order ^vill Fa.se forward $10 a head with each oVJero' ? TILMN R. GAINES, ColumbiaS. C. A Novel Ioposltlou. P. S. Fielder, a ^respondent of the Charleston Nws al Courier, writes to that paper, from web we clip tho fol lowing paragraph : .f There Bhfiuld TOR housps of rep resentatives o ie Represent the color ?d race,'arid bb t?iusiyeiy elected by th'eniV Th? other ^represent the white race, and exclbslvy elected by them. All bills introduceohould bb passed by each house, separaty. They should sit separate. Jn that se each, class would haye a Veto' poyern tho. government, hyVfa m&ftns 'c?lW ^PfoteoT itself against the oppressn of the other class. I think, if the coled race would act with wisdom, it 'JUld be willing and anxious for a cha? in the constitution to this eftect. The'hito race having tho whole civilized ^rid to recruit from must ultimately come the majority, and then the. coif** race would have this privilege or rut which we ask for now. When the Vite Taco have a voice in the' ^verttmej-when they have, some small share* political rights, of I which they hBVe-JlJ^Jtj*** w<Aua ? Se;^SS?V woulpay. tne.flffoa^uoh a more1 cheerfully, wi -.believe i tho two I race*1 would bo^bw aa^pt^to live in itpeace.and harmon-. But as ifcis uow, L 1 feel no more bouibjMfc?obligation?of thin ttttt Thr*"T'<M>"L ?' 1 "\.e White' Man's Government Bcne ' ficial to the Negro Race. Fte census of 1870 throws/some'ligiit n on the future of. the; '-negro race, which - :. ? .would be well for. .both, races/ to. pay ne>heed to. It shows the percen . A je*of increase of negro' population in e States bf the South to have .been-, aa /.dows: .' F Alabama-Prom . 1840. to 1S50>about , percent;'from 1850to 1860, '37 per . at. ,- from 1860 to 1870; 13-per cent. . Arkansas.-Prom 1840 to' 1850; 238 per nfc. ; from-1850-to 1860; 134-per- cent. ; - .Lan 1860 to 1870, l?-percent. ?Florida.-From 1840 to. 1850, 54 - per tnt* ;^from 1,850. - to I860, 47 .per. cent; .' fj om i860 to 1870, 47 percent-. ? . ' . Georgia.-"Emin. 1840 to. .1850, 33 per ., int. ; from 1850 to I860,. .21 per, cent; .om 1860 to 1870^ about 17 per cent. North Caroona.-From 1840 tb Ifeef ? .8 per cent/'from 1850 to 1860 14'pet ent. from;1850 to 1870. 9 percent. Souihi&$Mna.-From 1S40 to 1850, '. .^rpei^m?fftom 1850 to 1860, 5 per ; . rom-1860"% 1870; less ; than 1. per cent. - : ,? Tennessee.-Prom 1840 ..to 1850, 33 per ftnt.; from 1850 to I860, 15 per "cent; i "rom 1S60 to 1S70, 13 per cent.. I ' " Texas,-In 1850, fifty-eight thousand : from 1850 to'1860, increase 200 per cen ty . from' 1860 to 1870,100 per cent. ; " Virginia.-Increase* from 1840 tb 1850, : 6 per cent. ;-'from 1850 to:1860, 6 per cent; i from 1860 to 1870, . about ?7 per cent, 'de crease. - ' Louisia?ia.-Increase from 1?840- to 1850; about 30 per cent.; from 1850 to 1860/30'per cent.; from I860- to 1870, -..about 4 per cent. Kentucky.-Increase ?from 1840 fo^ifiO, 30 per cent; from 1850 to. ,1860, 15 ! per cent. ;. from 1SG0 to 1870, 7 per cent, de crease. ' ?Mississippi-From '1S4? to 1S50, 70 per cent; ;1i"rom 1850 to 1860. 40 per cent.; from 1860 to 1870,-abb?t 1"- per cent. It will be seen tba4-, thc drift of the ne gro population is t?wahls'the Gulf. The border States are, gradually. losing the "colored element/'-.but for several pa tent reasons.thia >was to have beea expect ed^ White labor always has that effect .where'it.'compotes on even terms with that of tho blacks.- lu the border States white, laborcan,''and does, secure those terms'; here, the black' man has a Vas'i 'advan tage. Hence the drift, of which mention has been already made. . ? But the most singular feature of this 'exhibit is the fact that : it shows, tho per ccntage of: incxease^u. thc inegro popula tion to be smallest in those States, where, as an element of political strength, the negroes aie "all-powerful.- Take,Sou th 'Carolina,''Mississippi and ' Louisian?'^na compare each with 'the Stales that lie side by side' with it.. Here is the . table from which the necessary facts may be drawn : ~~ ^"ch-PhMUliA-TION .IN. 1860 MD. 1870. ' Mississippi. In Georgia, ruled by a " White Man's Government," we lind the increase from I860 to 1870 to be 17 per cent.: in South Carolina, dovetailed as it is between these two white States and controlled altogether by negroes, the increase has been lesa ?han one per cent. In Alabama, where the white man predominates in numbers, and where his influence in the Government is always felt, the increase was 13 per cent.; in Arkansas it was 10 per cent.; Missis sippi, sandwiched in between these.StatfSi shows but \i per- cent. As slated before, Arkansas showed 10 per cont, increase from 18(iO to 1870, while Texas, i he strong est while man's State in the country, showed 100 per cent. M? anwhile, Louis iana, which ever since the war, has bern a s ?rt of Liberia, showed four, pet' cent only .' Is ?li?rc nothiii:* in these ticun s (ft afford the negro food for reflection? Thc Kural Carolinian. A BEAUTIFUL IIOT.IP.YY GI KT.-Weare in receipt of thc December number of Uie "Rural, Carolinian,1' which tully maintains its well-established reputation ol' being one of tho best and most practi cal agricultural publications issued in tho Southern States. It is neatly printed, and never fails to present to its readers a fund of useful and practical information of far more value to tho agriculturist and general, reader than, the nominal pnce charged for subscription. The publishers : announce that they lune changed their Chromo scheine, as published ill previous numbers, in order to make a more liberal utfur to their subscribers, in the form of a GIFT CHKOMO, in connection with that gem of Chromos, "Tua UNCONSCIOUS SLKEriin," which is still olfered at tho exceedingly low price of Two Dollars, mounted ready for framing. Thc Gift Chromo is a beautiful Vase of Flowers . moat artistically and naturally grouped, ; entitled "Tho Jewels ol'Spring." It is highly finished, in oil, in eighteen colors < -or rather twelve colors and six tints und by one operation peculiar to Chromo Lithograph}', thc surface presents tho ] exact appearance of having been painted ? rm canvass. So fur as appearance and i tjtlect aro concerned, it is said to be fully equal to an oil painting worth many j times its retail price-six dollars. This ; Bxquisiito gem is 151x21 inches, ana wiTI ; bo furnished to all subscribers who have paul up their subscription, wyr the price . of mounting. Willoh is only fifty cents. Thus tho publishers allbrd an opportu nity to all subscribers to the Rural to take tho choice ol' their gems, eithor ono ot'which will mako a beautiful holiday ] present. Thoy also olfor to furnish nciit . frames for eithor of the Chromos, at \ prices far below what they can bo pur chased at retail. Those intending to make application for Canvassing Agen- < J?es, should do so at unce, as the season < is now at hand to commence work. Ad dress Walker, Evans tfc Cogswell, CW- j leston, S.C., who will supply all Infor mation desired. iNhos'e who "are not?t- < ready subscribers to the Rural, should send for/a specimen number at once, and t secure One of these Holiday Gewis. The Wilmington (Del.). Ropublican says : " Tho To^-n of Middleford, in Sua- - iojf. County, we are informed; is now un inhabited, and the houses are tenanted by bats and owls, without a single human t being residing in them. It used to con tain flourishing milla and ship corn meal " ind flour to Europe. The mills are now \ idle, and Goldsmith's deserted village finds ' i counterpart in Sussex County." The Wilmington Commercial adds that " Mid- ( dloford bas been in a very dilapidated con lition for many years, and the Methodist Dhurchj'the only ' one there, was abandon-: .' ad more than ten verna, ago. ^he-town ( was owned, hy a single ; mau-r-James Eal- ? avon. * Ii contained about thirty houses, and possesed, .tho finest .water, power in ! tbo'Slate;" " ' * I ....... ? y 't't^^.^_ m ' ? ?., 'iS^Belle-pf York, Granger'?nd'Lady - W?^?irgi?? Hver?* thewinners'bf the first -: d1iy'B'raMsJiir,toden, last week.' ' Brevities: ant? L??lit.i-. ' "pSr- The following (j ?'estio? is suggest ed for ii debating society : " Which was first-the egg which' 5>rortne?d- tti? ,fira? chicken, or ?ioeh?ckeii' winch produced th'? ?rst'egg?" -, J2S^ An ' Irishman-was ence (alien tc see. tho wonders of Niagara Fulls. Ile did not seem rc- think it tremendous af tor alb. His friend a*ked lam-" Don't you.think it a wonderful thing ?" "Why is it awondorful thing ?:,.as^nd tho^Irhih* mari. " Bon't you sec,".. jyddkUi friends . ^?a,t..J.nvne?so body of 'water, rolling down ?Lsprecipico?' '. Says lip-Jj What's to hinder it?" ; ^3f"^Some grAceless . wretch,, ashamed to. sh ow his face or boro anybody-with addrossj .tootadvantago of our absence yesterday, to sbp the following, under oai;office door: ; Marriage reminds us of the din . I . Flies keep against our winder pane ; Those out aro buzzing to.get in,''.^ . Those iii buzz to get opt agaitb A Hartford gen tl email/who bad ' tarried late ?tra wino" supper, found his . wife 'waiting'fi is * rotura: in a Iiigh'stiite^pf nervousness. Said she :/-"Hero i've been waiting and rocking Ht'the diair till my head spins Tonnd like ? ia top !" " Jes so; wife, Vhere I've been,'' responded he,, " it's in the .atmosphere !" .. ?5?"? A. cynical lady, 'rather inclined to flirt, says most men arti like a cold, very easily caught,' but yeiyhard to get rid of, jZS3-:'Conundiuin-:?5?i.kL ahoy : "That ?hap, reader, is my brother, and this girj. is his. sister, ?nd yet jshB is no relation of mine." Answer-Tho boy hedt , ^r-Er A little boy in .-Georgetown ran into tho house the .'otlier day^ .crying at tho Lop of his voice because another; little boy v.-ouldn't let him put mud^n ?higj head with a shingle." Some children ere j st' like their parents ; 'no aecommoda ti n about'them. '. '?r-'A Chinaman' came down .ono of; tin nain streets of MDlcrtori, Cai.j'bni el?Ci on day, in a" state.of inebriation, and aus delivered, himself: "Hoopla! me/?U'same Mclican man. 'Hair CUL short, and dlunk like h-ll ! Hoop la !": $21- "I hate to dip-I wanted...tg/wcaj? my bluo, redingote to .Sirs. Geor^e's.paf -I ty," were tho.dying words, o???he- belle" of Kau^H .Cityv:, ,?^2i?r.A c(nvardJy>.-tbllow having kicked'' a newsboy, for ;pe^jrihg. him to.'^uy au) evening newspaper, the. lad..waited .tili' another.boy accosted tho "gentleman," and then shouted iu tho hearing' of all .bystanders, "it's np uso to try him,- Jim,, he. eau'tread." ..> .??f- A good old .-elder of a chnich who was given lo extravagant exaggeration, was at last, called to account for .his df ienses'hrthat rcapeet,'and admonished tho SUJ-EIIVJ TIJT'I'LTS^ZE^J O-A-JAT now lu Jut SDUi jcar, cujoyi mc w.&r,' circulation of iuy weekly newspaper o:' lue kind m Um world. A HUM volume, commence:. Junuurj t?, liT4s lb uouteuU embrace lit? latest uuii mo.il ruW?iating information pertaining to tho industrial, ^uclinuicai, nuil Scicutnic L'rugru?* uf.lho World; Deicripboiu, util Beautiful Kiilrrnviniis, ol' Nc* invention?, 2ft w Impl?iAetiU, ami tJruce?a, ?nd improved Indcatrfoi ol' ull kindn; L'tcAil Nulli,, Ucdpu',.Suggcsiious und Advice, by Practical VTri'.crs, lor Wurku en and Em |ilu\en. iii all itu- various url?. 0- A.-INT hi "i? ciieujioi and beal ilituirdleil irt ? K ly paper published. Every number contains irort lo lo lo original engravings ol' new liuich.licry Mid novel inventions. ENGRAVINGS, Illustrating Iui pruvojuentB,Jjiaeuverie?,and important \vi,rk:, per taining lu tit'il and Mechanical kiigiuufering,Miling, Mining and Motaluiriry ; Ueoords of. Ibu ian-*. pr?. iituM in Hie Applicaiioua "f Steam, Steam Kngliieer liig, Uai'.wnjs. ship-IJuiidinc:, Xuviguiiou, Tub i^fujili Kii?ineeriiu, Ki>-tu'ic.iiy. Magnetism, Light and HMM. FARMERS, M.Tlia.,Li.Ktieniecrs. In ventor*, wiuunteturera L/uetiiIi>U, Lover? .<!*Science* Tfnchcn, Clcr^ynii ii, Lav. MTS. and 1 w?pli> ? f a!! l'r< R-SS?OIL? wiii liiiil Uieepuucnrtr: AUKUIVAN usel'ni lu I bein. Il?b< ?ii !d liayua place, ?n I >>...-.. K....... . Library! S'iiily,*()IUir'yahdCounting Kcwm: in ovrry Uuidiiig 1:MU?, CuiUfgis, Academy, nr.Scbt.ol. A year'? mimbi rs contain s:;.' nag a an.i SK. r.i-.w. Uranium KX'GKAVINIM; Tbuu^andj ul* volumes arc pruscrvetl for biiiding;anil referwice. Tuc practical r?ceipla ure well wnrili ten linns Inc MlbscrljttlOti I>ricc. Terni? fi! a yearl)} nii.il. Dikfrinut to ( l il,.-. Specimens scut free. May bc bad ol' all Ncwa Deal ere. PATiTJiJTQ lu connection willi the SCIKN I ri I CIS I O. Tine A.M::I:IOAN, Meura. Mc;.:. it Ot?, aro SulieibM* of Arnerican and F?irMjjn l'a 1- nts, and have the largest MtabHabnlen! in lin world. Mure Ulan, lilly lliiioaalld uppUciltiutl? buvu been Hindu fir pniufiti lhniuj:li their tgetiey. Patenta .-ne oUaintil on UM b:v>i lenni, .Models of N'e'.v inveuliou? and skciclies examined and advicu friie. All patents are published in th? ScicntiSu Auuricar. Inc woek Uley lame. Send for rutnpblet, lin p..ces, coatabdng laws and full directions for ?.b [alitlqg I'.itenis. ' Addrem for the I'aper, or conccrniuj Patenta, MUS N .\; C")., ST Tar!; Kow. N\ Y. l'.rancii Offley .nr. F ami "l!i St.".. Washingtnii, 1). C. Dec. tl" If 51 "THE WIIML\GTGS STAR. ESTiBLISlieTS'SiX YEARS! D?TLY STAR. ' HAS tli?LARGEST CIRCULATJOX ol' a::y Daily Newspaper \v. tho "Unto, and a (?ircniatiiiu in Wflniiugson dearly Twice a* i.arge as that of any /tlier paper. All ?he news of tho day will bc found iii it, coiVdchscd wlien unimportant, at length when of moment, andaiwayspre ten.ted in aclaar, iutpjUgpntand bater?st^ i. ug manner. W, 1 1 SUUriCHlPTIOV^it. Advance): ! Duo Year..,,.,,.I six Montlis,.:....:>.">o rhi-eo Months,.2.00 j WEBKLY8TAE. ' PRICE REDUCED. THE WEEKLY STAR is now corni nncd With tilt? CAROLINA FARMER, ind is one of tho cheapest papers in tho iountry, at thc following ItUlJUCED HAT li?: Duo Copy, One Year,.?1.50 )no Copv, Six Months,.1.00 j a ^- Clubs of 5 to 10, Ono Year, \ { >er copy. -Clubs of 10 or more, One Year, inly ?1.00 per Copy. -Sped men, Copies sent on applica ion. Address, WM. H. BERNAU!), Editor ct ProprictoXx WILMINGTON, N. O. Nov. 26, St -li) Land for Sale Cheap. rH? Subscriber offers for sido a valu able TRACT OF LAND, lying near Liberty Hill, containing 313 Acres, and j idjoining lands of Frank McBee, Jos. j ? Fennings, J. PI. Yeldoll, Earlo Williams ! : iud others. ! * For tonns, etc., apply to Mossis?. Gary fe Garv, Edgefield, S. C. . THOS. ANDERSON. Alston, Oot 29 . - tf . 45 Onion Sets! Onion S^s ? T?' yon want to make lar^QOnions, now L is tho best timo ta plant. Just re ceived a fresh lot red and white ONION SETS, at G. Ii. PENN & SON'S Drug Store. Oct 15, tf . 43 USE PENN'S OAMPHOR ?CE. Only 25 ets.'a box. tf L'S. 7W A. Wines, Braire^ ; Ayo'.respectfulljr aiu?ouiice to our friends B?3 .j^tr*ons-ih$f we H Jive added- LARGB-LY to^qur Stock oiy .... DRUGS ivISD GBOCEBIE^ ?nc? will He pl eased to show them at alic times. -.Ac. - . /Mow in store "a spjendiir^?,---and embracing ev?ry/?rtic?? usually-kept, in^?-^st^l^si^ff^^'^^^61^"' ""V " ? CLISBY" &: LYN CE; are' often ng; th^nio?^f?fo*' Hnis^'f That they ev?fc&'^W vite th?;?iteun??n';a'nd in/^ee^on ? of the- ladies' and 'G(mtfeg? of.' '?dg-^el^. -an cl vieipity. , ' ' ; ^ .: .100 Lbs^Di^H^^SM?)5ING TOBACCO, ;. The best" article mad?i^^^W?rv^^Wl;fesaie. by^ - . : ; --ri ; rc;, GLI^Y'& LY^Gf?. The largest and bbi_ now-; on-exhibition -and'fufrisate at:; Tm PEOPLE'S ENiP?RlUItl T JAS. A. DOZIER. ' D. 1?. VAUGHN. JOHN RAINSFORD. Dozier, Vaughn 4 Co., : FINE HOUKE B>KB*4J>T, ?*.?., RESPECTFULLYnnhounc? to the people oP Edgefioid. ?hit they now in! ve in Skuu a tremendous Stock .of Goods, which were selected in person with especial care as to the Wants of the people, and which Stock embraces lil II?I I CLiTIIIi F?SSY GuQDS Af?D ACTIONS, DOMESTIC;^ B OTB, SH.OT?B, . Groceries, &c, &e. Our .selection of h';:?; ional.'.* DR?SS GOODS, SHAWLS. HATS,. &c, ?bc;, is jje'rj'ect ly superb, and prices .fifi J?w ?is they cnn be ho ti ghi in any marketa in the line of WHITE GOODS, FANCY GOODS, and NOTIONS, we lefv competition. . Our CLOTHING DEPARTMENT is complete, and at prices to suit the bard times* Our DOMESTICS are from ?lie '.. si ?w? . "id-urers, and marked down to ;he lowest figures. We h.ive oh hand ?in extensive" >'d v wied collection 'of Ladies, Gents, disses; Boys and CViil?Iren;^ Bt )OTt . nd SHOES-all first grade goods, and ill .is cheap as any House pan uflord t" sei! them, "We also are receiving hy every -train a: Immense Stock of Groceries AND Plantation Bnjyplies ! -Cm.sistine in part of BACON; FLOUR; SUGAR, OOF FEE, LARD, CORN, OATS, MEAL, MEATS OF ALL KINDS, .SALT, SYRUP, CHEESE,. M-V OK E REL, SOAPS, &o., &o. ? . Also, BAGGING and TIES, a Large Supply. All of which we propose to sell to Gish Customers at, brices equal to any darket in the South. We take especial pleasure in in iormina tho many friends ol ??',i) . WY H. DRUINSON-au excellent merchunt and thorough gentleman-thai ,ue has ?nlisted himself in our Rouse,, and has charge of the Dry Gooas De} ?irtznent, ,ud where, soKcitiiig the presence and patronage of his old fnemta, lie will ie glad to see and servo them. That popular and accommodating gentleman, Mr. R. A. LYNGfi, will Iso be found on hand at our House, ready and anxious to serve every one. SSfrWe ask a liberal share of public patronage, and will promise satis action to all who favor us with their trade. VAUGHN & CO. Pine House, Oct. 1, Sm .41 WM. E. BENSON^" 229 Bro.ad Street, Opposite Masonic Ball, HAVING received his FALL AND WINTER GOODS, and secured the services of ?a .IflRST CLASS CUTTER from New York, he is fully pre pared to compete with any House in the South. -With many'thanks to the people of Edgefield' for their liberal patronage heretofore extended to the "old firm of Whitman & Benson,-he, as their' ?uc?essor, earnestly solicita a continuance of the same. A?guBtft, Gfiu, Sept. 21 . 3m 40