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The Electoral Bill. 1 9 We give below a few extracts from a long and powerful editorial in the New York Sun of January 31st: = Now it is known be.forhand, with about as much certainty as the hour and minute of the rising of the sun are foreknown. that fourteen members of this commission of fifteen will be equally divided on all material ques tions which will come before them. In reality, therefore, everything will be determined by the fifteenth member -the fifth Judge of the Supreme Court. Be, in fact, will elect the I next President. It is only a mere = difference in form that the whole mat ter is not referred directly to him as . sole arbitrator. * * * * 1te That the two Houses of Congress St possess, under the Constiiution, the ! right to decide questions pertaiuing to I electoral votes, is a doctrine which has received the sanction and support of a large majority of the greatest names b that have illustrated and adorned the annals of Congress. * * * le If they possess that power, why it should they not exercise it, directly, eo as has been done heretofore ? The answer, as we have already remarked, is that, on this occasion, it was appre- w headed that the two Houses could not ti agree. Very well, what then ? There S+ would have been no election. * * th In such a case, the Constitution provides how a President shall be chosen ; and, in case of vacancy, the ti law provides how the Government al shall be carried on until a new election. T The methods are all as peaceful as the C< sleep of an infant on its mother's breast. But what do we behold'? Ao 4 attempt to evade, to change, to over- it throw the.provisions of the Coustitu- se tion, not~in the prescribed method for b< amending the fundaniental law, but w by a simple, hasty act of Congress ! We are told it will save trouble and expense. In reply, we ask the Ameri can people for what sum are they willing to barter the Constitution of di their country ? C The President of the Senate shall open the certificates in the presence of c the Senate and the House of Repre- Pc seutatives-so says the Constitution. A Evidently it was intended that the gl Senate should be there as the Senate, et in the plenitude of its power, urshorn of any of its jurisdiction; and the m house, as a distinct body, with all the P powers of the House of Representa- b tives. But what are we to have under - this bill? The Senators are to be fc present, but not the Senate, for the Senate has, for this occasion, perished c by its own suicidal hand; or it has ti gone into voluntary bankruptcy, ma- U king this fifth Judge the assignee of i all its authority ; and the House -has gone and done likewise. It was an unworthy act on the part of both ; but more ignoble in the House, because freshly sprung from the loins of the p4 people, and bound by the most direct and nearest ties to defend their rights bi by maintaining its own. Joe B~radley Our President . Maker! tli iIn So the fifth of the Electoral Arbi- ce trao rs is to be Judge Joseph P. Brad-. ley, of New Jersey, Judge Davis hav ing for personal reasons refused to to serve. Judge Bradley is a thorough- :th going Republican, and his appoint-| de mnent makes eight Republicans to seven Democrats in the Board. Some of his antecedents are interesting. m: Judge Bradley was appointed to the co Supreme Court by President Grant to for the well-understood purpose of re versing the previous decision of the Court agairast the constitutionality of ed the Legal Tender act. In that case R he did what was expected of him ; C< but this neither redoonded to his glo ry nor to that of the President who selected him for such a job. a Another remarkable act of this an jurist was to hold Chambers in the fr' city of Newark, pretending to hold them in Texas, where his judicial dis- th trict is. This was done in order to accomplish a dishonorable transfer of G1 the Transcontinental Railroad. For i this act Judge Bradley should have been impeached. We should add here er that, previous to his appointment to D< the bench of the Supreme Court, he had been a railroad lawyer; employed by the Camden and Amiboy Company,d yet no stranger to Col. Tom Scott. d His skill in drawing legislative bills, sol whose provisions would bear construe- in tion in two or more ways, was highly b3 esteemed by his employers. It is also worthy of recollection that he was the ~ first President of the New Jersey Mu- ce tual Life Insurance Company, which has just gone up in a disastrous explo- of sion. It is not surprising that the Repub- su .licans should think the chances of w~ Hayes' election very much improved sta by the selection of Judge Bradley. we IHe is the man who is to make the te< Presiderit, and from his decision there appears to be no escape except by the united, concurrent, and almost impos- vi, sible action of both Houses of Con- 29 gress. Joe Bradley our President maker ! 6 To this complexion we have come at 6, last I-N. Y. Sunl, Jan. 31. an - ~ - to THE SEMI-TROPICAL for February, a muonthly journal of 63 pages, devoted to agri culture and kindred sciences, is published by toi Chas. WV. Blew, Jacksonville, Fla. Terms: $3 a year; single number 30 cents. su Among the best articles for this month Ri are "Forty acres and a mule," showing how an energetic young man, with one horse or Cl mule, can make five or six hundred dollars a year above necessary expenses. "Gardening an all the year round"-this article only gives directions for February ; tbe directions for re other months will be given in regular order ap at the beginning of the month; and "Politics th of Agriculture," something every faimer in the countly ought to read. Our candid, un- les bought opinion is, tbe Semi-Tropical is the best journal of the kind Sonth, and we have never seen its super'or from any quarter. CC ra. THE.rouTn'rERN CULTiVATOR for February Lhe HeralId. 'HOS. F. GRENEKER, EDITORS. V. H. WALLACE, NEWBERRY. S. C. EDNESDAY, FEB. 7, 1877. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. he Herald is in the highest respect a Fan Newspaper. devoted to the material in rests of the people of this County and the a.te. It circulates extensively, and as an ivertising medium offers unrivalled ad ,ntages. For Terms, see first page. Who are Responsible? The Supreme Court decided Decem ,r 6th that the Wallace House was the gal House of Representatives. But, the face of this decision, the Radi .1 Senators, refused to act with that ouse, and the very next day united ith the Mackey House in inaugura og Chamberlain. If those Radical mators had acted according to what ,ey knew to be law our troubles ould have been settled long ago, and Le government would have moved ong peaceably and prosperously. hey acted, knowingly and maliciously, ntrary to law. The Supreme Court ight certainly to vindicate its author y and punish every offending Senator verely. A fine of $2,000 apiece, to appropriated to the public expense, ould serve them right. The Telegraph. A petition is being gotten up from fferent parts of the country, asking ongress to pass such a law as shall rry out the provisions of the Act Lssed July 24, 1866, entitled "An ct to aid in the construction of Tele -aph lines, and to secure for the gov nment the use of the same for postal, ilitary, or other purposes." The titioners say the Telegraph ought to long to the Post Office Department -they believe by that means a uni rm rate as low as twenty-five cents n be made for messages throughout e United States. The Western nion Company are willing to sell eir lines to the governmenat. Editorial Review. The English poet Martin F. Tup r, is now in Charleston So far the New York Post Office iilding has cost $9,006,417; it is >t quite finished. The Scientifie American estimates at the East River bridge, connect g New York and Brooklya, will st $20,000,000. WASHmNGTON, Feb. 4.-The Elec ral Commission are now at work on e Electoral vote of Florida. No cision vet. Dr. J. C. Ayer, the great pill iker, is hopelessly insane. His in me is said by the New York Sun be $2,000 a day. Chief Justice Moses has reappoint A. M. Boozer, Clerk, and J. S. G. ichardson, Reporter of the Supreme >urt for two years. The Colorado legislature has passed bill providing for a constitutional lendment in favor of woman suf ge, to be submitted to the voters of e State at the next election. Pay certificate to the State House iards-"The State of South Caro ia will pay to - out of the Gov or's Contingent fund Ninety-two llars. T. C. DUNN, Comptroller-General." The Constitution of North Carolina fies the right of suffrage to any per 2 in that State convicted of steal , and a Bill has just been passed the Legislature making it a misde ~anor to carry deadly weapons con led. Mr.. Joseph Foster, of Spartanburg, the firm of Foster & Judd, died idely January 29th. Mr. Foster s one of the oldest and most sub ntial merchants of Spartanburg, s widely known and universally es ~med. Moody and Sankey began their re ral meetings in Boston January th. Ten minutes after the doors re opened, the building, which seats 00 persons, was completely filled, d 10.000 went away, being unable obtain admisasion. Judge Mackey decides that Hamp is Governor. Gov. Hlampton is ed a pardon January 31st, to Amzi seborough, colored, confined in iester jail under sentence for assault d battery. The jailer refused to ognize the pardon. The prisoner plied to Judge Mackey, who decided at Hampton is Governor, and re ised the prisoner. WASHINGTON, January 30.-The >mmission for counting the Electo iVote : Senate-Edtnunds, Frelinghuysen, I FoR THE HERALD. Our Washington Letter. LOUISIANA RETURNING BOARD AGAIN -ITS MEMBERS AND CLERKS COMPLETION OF THE ELECTORAL COMM\IISSION-WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING-THE CONGRESSIONAL LI BRARY-POLICE BOARD - IN TER ESTING TO PENSIONERS-LIFE IN SURANCE - DEMORALIZATION OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE-GAMBLING, ETC., ETC. WASIINGTON, D. C., January 31, 1877. When any member of the Louisiana Returning Board appears in public here, there is a scattering of those who have valuables about them. These men are, as men go, of uuusual ly vicious personal appearance, so much so that the fact is noted by all who see them, and is as much a subject of remark as the weather, or the Presi dential election. Kenner's counte nance is a history and a prophecy of fraud. His equivocal, contradictory and self-convicting testimony as to the performances of the Board, fits his features as an eight-button glove fits the wrist. The same may be said of Wells, the President of the Board. Luckily, the whole four of them are under arrest here, and the Electoral Commission can see them before en dorsing their manipulation of the Louisiana vote. Littlefleld, a clerk of this delightful body, testified yesterday, after having once refused to answer, that he changed the votes in three precincts in Vernon Parish by order of Wells. There bad been no charges of fraud or intimi dation in these precincts. "Make the changes," said Wells to Little field, "and we'll have the affidavits prepared." This class of evidence, known to have been in existence for some time, is just being made public. There's plenty of it. Yesterday the Electoral Commission was completed, and is as follows: Senators, Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Morton, Thurman, Bayard ; Repre sentatives, Payne, Hunton, Abbott of Massachusetts, Garfield and Hoar; Justices, Field, Clifford, Miller, Strong and Bradley.*These are excellent men for the purpose, with one or two ex ceptions. The omisssion of Conkling, and the election of Morton, will be re gretted by all who desire to see a peaceful and satisfactory settlement of the Presidential question. Happily, however, it is not likely that two or three radical and unreasonable men can prevent a happy event. The House yesterday (30th) passed. over the President's veto, the bill abolishing the District Police Board. Probably the Senate will follow suit. This bill was passed unanimously in both House and Sexate a few days ago, so great was the indignation at the employment of the police by the Board for dishonorable and partisan purposes. The House also passed the bill giving~ Capt. Eads his first $500, 000 for his improvement of navigation at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The remainder of yesterday's session was occupied in electing the House members of the Electoral Commission. In the Senate, enormous petitions were presented asking that pensions granted to invalid soldiers of the late war shall cornmen4e at the date of the soldier's discharge. It seems that they now commence only when the claim is established. Also numerous petitions for a Constitutional amendment giving sffrage to women. Senator Howe introduced a resolution to keep the ongressional Library open a greater umber of hours than now. Practi ally this fine library is inaccessible to many. Ex-Attorney General Black will manage the "case" before the Elec toral Commission for the Democrats, and Mr. Evarts will perform the same service for the Republicans, unless the rascalities in Louisiana and Florida, ow being exposed, shall make him :ecline. One or two more Life Insurance Companies have collapsed within a week, to the great loss of innocent policy-holders. Of the assets of one f the companies over half were worth less. It is ~found that the limited State control over these institutions is insufficient, and as a company judi :iously managed to-day may fail to morrow under the control of ineffi ient or wicked men, there seems to be no security at any time. The suggested plan of having each Company invest a portion of its assets in Government bonds, to remain in the U. S. Treasury, and in a similar1 manner invest a fixed percentage of its yearly receipts. would seem to be as good as any. The Companies can ot be compelled by the Government to adopt it, but if one or two strong companies took the lead the others: would have to follow or lose business. It seems proper to state that the demoralization brought upon the va rious Departments by the exciting elections of last Fall still continues. All who have business with the Gov rnment are suffering from it. Recent reports of the police show that in Washington there are seven ty fve "policy shops"-small gambling - ~ L~ some reason or other he got out of that line and disappeared from New York altogether. Sypher appears to be his legitimate successor, but Sypher is a greater than Chrysler; no such collec tion as Sypher's can be seen in Ameri ca, and not a great many such are to c be found in the cities of Europe. It c is a vast maze of wonders, a museum f of miracles. Could all these old things speak what stories they could tell of s the past ! Before me is a mighty punch-bowl, it is rimmed and bound with silver, solid and strong ; in it is a in assive silver ladle; and both bowl and ladle, rich and costly, look like an imperial gift. What stories of wine and wassail it could tell; what ro mances of love and war have been re hearsed around it; what foaming beak ers have been filled from it; what z brave hands have upheld it; what i gentle lips have kissed it; and the songs in its praise awakening the echoes of the night have made the old rafters ring with the roar of the revel ers. Here are love's gentlest tokens, gifts on birthdays and at marriage feasts, all for sale now to the highest t bidder. Alas ! the giver and receiver perchance have both passed away, and as love tokens they have no further I value. Here is a dish by Bernard de Palissy presented by the Duke de S. to his daughter upon the occasion of her marriage with the Count F., at that time attached to the Russian le- ] gation in Paris. In less than a year the lady ran away, and the Count blew his brains out on the Bois de Boulogne. Yet here is the bridal gift of the Duke worth its weight in gold. It is simply a collection of fish, and nothing more -but such fish; on top is a trout, just pulled froui the water; you catch the changing sheen of his color, as his life ebbs away; beneath him are a i mackerel and a perch, and just beside them a wicked-looking pike, not yet so far gone but he would willingly go for a fly. A knowing-looking frog sits on the side of the dish, in appa rent distress at being found in such t company; and a little water-snake is s wriggling about-seemingly not veryv much at home in his uncomfortable quarters. Here are rare old clocks and quaint old carvings from baronial halls in England and France and old castles along the Rhine.. That blue ormulu clock on the glittering pedestal once belonged to Cora Pearl, the beau tiful courtezan of Paris; that carved buffet graced the boudoir of the lovely but unfortunate Eugenie; and that field-glass was worn by the nephew of his uncle whose unlucky star was ex tinguished in blood on the terrible field of Sedan. Still further on is a relic of the Imperial Cosar himself, the man of destiny, who held the fate of Europe in the hollow of his band. He who made and unmade kings and emperors ! Yes, here is his coach, the identical one in which he made thatt last fatal ride to Versailles-when Blueher and Wellington, red from the field of Waterloo, were thundering down upon the walls of Paris. Gobelin tapestries of priceless value hang, covered with dust, against the walls.d Rare pictures and costly statues meet you at every turn, and scattered about t on the table, in endless profusion, are t rich articles of bric-a-brac and majolica, t the value of which is estimated by ~ their weight in gold ingots. But I ~ must tear myself away from this inter esting collection to return to it again at an early day. All kinds of busi ness seems to have taken a start; the weather has been bearable, and that t is all. Last Sunday, Dr. Hall of Holy n Trinity, Brooklyn, gave a splendid and il exhaustive sermon on dueling, which ~ has won golden opinions from all sortst of people. He gave "slim Jeems" ~ (as the aristocratic proprietor of the r, erald is sometimes called by the ungodly) particular fits. Talmage dis- ti coursed to the actors, and had a y rowded house; the typos caught it o from him a week ago, and everybody ' thought he was going to swoop down I upon the heroes of the sock and buskin 3 like a wolf on the fold ;" but behold you, me lud, he "roared me as gendly * as a sucking dove," and now every- a body is swearing that Talmage is sorry n e did not go upon the stage. d The latest sensations of the week a are the discovery of a starving child a which had been abandoned by its a drunken mother, in one of the wretch v ed tenements in Baxter street. It o was alone in a freezing room from a Sunday till Tuesday, and when dis covered had sunk into hopeless idiocy, a having gnawed off its fingers to the 5 bone. Wall s'treet has had a lively t shaking up in the shape of a $64,000t forgery, on the UTnion Trust Co.,-on cheek drawn on the New York Lif ti [nsurance Co. So cleverly was th thing done that the fcrger got off with A $40,000 in gold certificates, and yet c o clue has been discovered of his ci whereabouts. CommodoreVanderbilt's ai six daughters, to whom he only left e: the paltry sum of $500,000 apiece,n finding it impossible to live on such a miserable stipend, are preparing to con- e test the will with brother W~ilhiam' in ~ ~ ~ the~ir 1itt1~ ~takos un to d Fon THE HERALD. Broadbriua's New York Letter. NUMBER Two. A sharp biting wind swept down Broadway last Sabbath morning just as the bells were ringing for church. The sidewalks were filled with the usual pious multitude who, wrapt in fur and silk and broadcloth, with prayer-book in hand, and with coun tenance subdued, were wending their way to the different churches of the city, the costly spires of which seem to mock the ragged misery that shiv ers and dies at their very corner stones. It was a strange sight ; al most keeping time with the tolling of the bells-tattered regiments, brigades and battalions, with broom and shovel and pick, filed down Broadway, and fell to work on the great highway to prepare it for the commerce of the morrow. I told you in my last letter that Broadway was never in such mis erable condition,-this was brought about by the Police Commissioners who have charge of this work, and who wanted to get a special appropri ation of $15,000 to clear away the snow, under the pretense that snow was not dirt and did not call for the expenditure of the money appropri ated to cleaning the streets-well, the appropriation for street-cleaning pur poses amounts to $2,000 per day, so they never touched a broom to a street for two weeks,-laying up nearly $30, 000,-and Sabbath morning, while the church bells were ringing, two thousand shivering wretches were turned out in the frosty air to clean the great thoroughfare of dirt and snow, which for the last two weeks have made it almost impassable. We are used to wretchedness here in New York. Misery meets us everywhere. It is not only in the bucket-shops of Cherry street and the vile dens of Baxter and Greenwich streets that starving poverty stares you in the face, it jostles against you near the palaces of the Fifth avenue and the proud mansions of Murray Hill, and its cry is heard sharp and shrill above the deep diapason of the grand organ which rolls out praise to God from beneath a frescoed dome which cst half a million, awaking the sweet response of the minister of Christ, whose paltry salary is only $20,000. I looked with tearful eyes upon that emaciated and miserable host,-two thousand of them sweating and shiv ering in the snow and ice from -morn ing until night, and only a dollar a day. Ohi, how starved they lookedi, and how ill clad they were ! Tne utting wintry blast swept pitilessly down the streets, but there was no respite for warmth, for perhaps little ones at home were waiting for food that the dollar would buy that had been so bitterly earned. On Saturday morning the 13th, Mr. Bennett showed us the full front of his back, but not as the* Times has it for England. He was transferred from the Herald steam yacht to the deck of the French steamer "Amer ique" and is now on his way to Paris. It is said that hawks won't pick out hawk's eyes, and this is the reason I believe that he has been let off so easily by the press. The Bohemian crowd who eat clam chowder at Paff's agreed to say nothing about it, and so the matter has been kept as much as possible from the public. Much in dignation has been expended on Mr. May for his so-called cowardly attack, but remember that Mr. Bennett stands ix feet in his stockings, that he is a rained athlete, skilled in all kinds of xercise with dumb bells and clubs, ad a fightest from the word go. It night reasonably be expected that at he time he was attacked, he had a pair of derringers .in his pocket; all of his crowd carry them just as they do heir pen-knives and tooth-picks, and May took his life in his hands when he undertook to give Bennett a thrash nag. The heir of a million of dollars, with the control of what was once the miost profitable journal in the land, he has disgraced his position, and frit ered away the grandest opportunity ever offered to any living American. [ have no word of sympathy to waste n the worthless representative of so magnificent a fortune, who has delib rately descended from a high estate :o the level of horse-jockeys and gain lers. It is just such examples as his that debauch the young men of Anme *ica, and make them believe that in social estimation, gold is everythiing d character nothing. I trust the ude awakening which this young nan has had from his reveler's dream nay serve to make him wiser and bet 1er; if it should, tbe scar of May's riding-whip which he will carry to his ~rave may not be too dear a price for stopping him on the road to ruin. Stolling down Broadway the other lay, I stneppe into Sypher's, No. 593 FOR THE HERALD. C MT. BETHEL, January 27, 1877. t EDITORS OF THE HERALD :-If some t eminiscences of other men and other I imes in this section of country would be t >f interest to any considerable number t f your readers, and if the vitalinterests i if the covntry will allow space in your a :olunns, you may publish the following t acts and fancies: Long, long ago, when the heads now ilvered by seventy and eighty years vere joyous, bright-eyed boys and girls, r he natural appearance of our State, vith its genial clime, aptly emblemized y the Palmetto tree, was quite different r rom what it is now. Our own county, too, then a district, alled, perhaps, from its attractiveness, 'new berry," has undergone a like ransformation in its natural features. 'or has the face of the country changed nore than the manners and customs of f ts inhabitants. But it is not of the state nor of the County that we would peak, but of that portion of the County ying on the Calmes Road near its ter ninus, known as the Mt. Bethel neigh )orhood. We are not one of those who ire always contending that the former t lays were better than the present, bough we do think that some of the terner qualities of the former tacked n to the progress and refinement of the resent would be a decided advantage; >ut we would that we could pen a true liistory of this locality and its inhabi ants, with their manners, customs and 7 loings, giving it that pleasing charm of -omance that it has always had for us. irom a little child we have listened vith keen relish to parents and others is they told of the simple manners and ocial glee of the pioneers and settlers of his neighborhood. How often have we nadvertently drawn our maternal an :estor to give us the history and legends )f the women and men who felled the I rirgin forest and gained food and com orts by industry and assiduous toil. So )ften, that to name Matthew Hall, Sr., famie Caldwell, Frank Wilson, Thomas t t Jrosson, Nathan Brown, Charlie Erskin, famie Wood, Charlie Alexander, or nany others, in an interrogative way, vould provoke a smile on her face. hese were men who passed from the f irena of life before we entered it, yet in he ideal we know them well, have een them often and been in their con erse. Theirs is the age of which we 2ropose to speak. Many of our citizens iae an ancestry starting just back here, of which they know little more han its emanating from North Ireland >r Scotland, of which ancestry they are. ustly proud. Truthful, manly and ternly just.. As late as 1790 or 1800 this country resented much unbroken forest, spar ak, white oak, hickory and dog-wood, nterspersed with chinquepin and other hrubbery. A traveler from here to the Jourt House would have been in the oods all the time, scarcely seeing ai abitation. This wilderness was en- f ivened by an abundance of game. f arge herds of deer could be scen start- t ng from their lair or steering their huge ( ntlers through the brushwood. Num- I >ers of black, glossy turkeys could be een or heard gobbling and yelping in he spring time., The large fox squirrel 3 nd the little grey squirrel chattered nd leaped among the luxuriant foliage ' n countless numbers. Crystal strearns an here r.nd there uncolored by the lay from plough-scarred hills. Thea hannels of these little streams were leep, giving abode for the finny tribe, vith which they were replete. Some- j hing of a pleasant dreariness was given i o t:hese expansive wilds at night, by d be bark of the fox, the hoot of the owl ; nd the cries of other nocturnal beasts a nd birds. On the bluffs and hollows, near to vhere some spring of pure water gush d from the hills, surrounded by one or ore small fields, were the rude but ~enerally comfortable homes of the set lers. Logs and clap-boards were the aterial, and sometimes the earth for looring and carpet. Do not ridicule C rhat would now seem to be odd, for c iey were nature's noblemnen, bravely , ndergoing these things to secure an ti onest living and to obtain political and is eligious liberty. We do not now pro- e ose to be personal, but to speak of ii dem as a community. Their industry b~ as directed principally to the rearing a f Indian corn, wheat and the cereals. d he soil was not so fertile as that on a ndian, CanRon and the larger creeks, ~ et sufficiently so to give ample liar- 8 ests to diligent labor.C The manner in which they did much f their work was eminently social and Ii ttractive. When any one desired open 2ga field from the woods-which they - id -almost every year-his neighbors h nd friends, to a considerable distance. rere invited to come, equipped with an 6 e, on a certain day. The "gude t< rife," too, perhaps, had a quilt to quilt, I r rolls to card, for which purpose the h romen were asked. All necessary pre- te arations were made for entertaining t ie workers. This consisted in having p, 2stantials of bread and meat, getting tu ie luxury of sugar and coffee, whicha ere not of such general use as now- i leir use in many families 1%ing con- ei ned to Sabbath morning and sickness. .gallon or two of what a friend of ours A ills "the overjoyfal" had to be pro- c, ired. This could be obtained almost Gi Pyhr nte iiiya atiln epense. inThe vicinit bate on tilinds ry CpeonsedbCo. ThemC. brnhs. Bown, ladsG itMhi ueossol n a-n des furnied byCelentC faiiS. Bron G ithleis theinues sanots wer ca-m ides, furnished excellent facilities for AfiE stilleries. These and others were m - - p ould be heard. At the house all was ustle and business-needles, thread, fl iimbles and the quilt were discussed. (a 'ingers moved briskly, and the long % breads sang as they were drawn gr hrough the fabric intended for a cover- j ag. In the kitchen, boiling, baking Iii ,nd stewing engaged the "gude wife's" me. At a certain hour, pies, coffee, of sc., were sent to the workers. The overjoyful" went round, jokes passed P vith peals of laughter. Mirth was ampant; all was joy. Soon again the xes were plied with will and muscle. tt Jfter the day's work was over and m Light closed in, likely the young men r nd maidens had a dance or a play. to 'heir tender emotions may have been 4 xpressed in what the -bon ton" would at all an uncouth way, yet they were au Lone the less dear. Much of their labor P.1 vas performed in this way. We might t ,row prosy to tell of their reapings, tb odder-pulhngs, corn-shuckings and f ther sociabilities. tc Only one more thought and we are a lone, that is, their piety. They accepted t bristianity as a truth. They believed } bat by faith in Christ men would be i, upported in this life and saved from e curse of sin in the next. They be- lit leved that it was incumbent on Chris- p ians to follow scrupulously the precepts tc nd example of the Babe of Bethlehem. p They saw the beauty in holiness and oped for eternal life in the end. This eccounts for many of their acts which to therwise would be unaccountable. tb hey worshiped for the most part at 01 [ing's and Cannon Creek churches. On eY Sabbath morning their better suits of di omespun were put on, their horses ridled and saddled, and off the whole %mily went to church. If horses were = ot convenient a staff was gathered, nd from one to twelve miles walked bat they might publicly worship God.~ fu Thus they felt the injunction, "Forsake c( Lot the assembling of yourselves to- ti -ether, as the manner of some is." It as often been related to us of a wo- N nan, the mother of a worthy progeny, . hat she walked eight or ten miles to Cing's Creek Church with her little afant-now an honored son of New- a ierry-on her hip. These acts -and cl rivations must have been done by faith ul and heroic hearts. The family altar p as a sacred place. Duly evening and I norning the great family Bible was P ~rought down; a psalm was sung, a hapter read and God's blessing and - irection invoked. Their influence has A ot been lost. They are dead, yet they le. Trom scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad, 'rinces and lords are but the breath of kings.d 'An honest man's the noblest work of n God." J. G. M. FoR TEE HERALD, P1rosmeahm'!, S. (7., Feb. 5, 18717. Messas. EDTRS: Some time has elapsed b ince we raised the quill to "drop" a few eas for public inspection. _But.we have nally concluded to grasp old time by the ore-lock, and give you a few ideas as to he prosperity, progress and welfare of our uiet "ville." Like all other places our a eople have had their troubles to contend pa rith, and ones that would seem insurmount ble to an observer. In 1872, as many of our readers are aware, our town was en- .. irely destroyed by fire ; nevertheless, with n unfinching spirit and Herculean energy, ur merchants, although bound down by e, he shackles of a corrupt government, have p, wept away the debris of the confiagration hi td erected commodious store-rooms. The di olitical fever has somewhat- subsided, and s the sun of honesty has once more made is appearance in the eastern horizon, and g as begun to caist his golden beams over a J. own-trodden State, and the vultures that reyed upon the vitals of our State are eeking their dens, not in the e.lysium witb Tl Pluus" but the companions of "Locke," Ii re think our people will be able ere longN retrieve a part of their lost fortune. .' 'he days of 1776 were depicted more forci ly to our conception in the last election han ever before. We are informed the eteran youth of those days breathed an tmosphere of liberty, while . in the cam aign recently passed by, every youth that at ould lisp the name of the venerable leader ( f reform seemed to inhale a sweet balm, !len that of Chamberlain was noxious to e taste and detestable to the ear. But itda Sby no means surprising that such a spirit ould manifest itself, not only in t'ne open-C ig buds, but in the aged sires who have eard no cry save the cry of oppression rd taxation for the last decade. Bound own and ruled by the rabbles of ignorance SI id vice, men that would suffer our be- L >ved country, once Doted for refinement id liberty, to be rocked in the cradle of a blivion for the sake of their own lucrative ol an. Then, is it surprising that a people' ihaling such a noxious air shoul,i be jubi- pa ut when they behold an auspicious "morn" bout to burst upon them and give birth to etter days. When we take a retrospective [ew over the last decade of our country's - istory and trace up how affairs have been S aged the heart grows sad and the soul rows faint. When we turn ang pursue e pages of both ancient and modern his iry, nowhere do we find among the cata gue of rulers such a spirit of tyranny dis- b *ayed. Nero, with all his diabolical deeds Di aped up against him, was a star of the wi rith magnitude compared with some of e monsters of the last ten years who have en swaying their scepter over an op essed people. And now as the scale has" rmed and things are beginning to assume different phase it only remains for our ople to use economy and energy, and ere rig they will be able to secure their wont I position. J. B. L. RRLs Ar POOL'a HOTEL. S. N. Henderson, G.. Whitney, .. R.P aG,W .Nac,W . aw . K1I as-, Dr. F. Mace . orH. Ge-a .ucer s rcy FtW. W. Chick,A.-oesT.P rean, L. Woore,ck; . athes, Tewbi ; L. D. Petsch, B.HEasthr, .eC.J/D. J.D esh atOQ,S . ~D eyer, C. Y. Richardson, D.,d. McKay White, E. Hawkins, G. W. Bomgr, Vincent Mil P m, Charleston; W. K. Penniman, N. Y.; C. Taylor, Jas. Wood, no0. Willis, Edge d; Jno. H. Evans, BalA-more; J. A. Ise in, Ninety-SiL; W. MJ Crookshanks, W. T,nyAln.*1) ~ (,nh~ "WADE HAPrON, GOVERNon O SouTs nOLiNA," is the subject of an exquisite any life-size engraving, just published ad now ready) by our enterprising friends, alk-er, Evans & Cogswell, Charleston, S. C. 'e congratulate these gentlemen on the and success they have made of so noble a bject. As a work of art it stands unrival i, but still its chief merit lays in its being a e-like portrait. It is the first product, on large a scale, of a new and secret process sed on photography, having the advantage great truthfulness. As the photograph is superseded the oil-painting, because of exact reproduction of the subject, so this ocess is bound to take the place of steel en avin., or any method which depends upon tistic conception and execution for re;ults -we mean for the production of portraits. 'hat tie people want in a portrait is truth ey do not wish the artist's conception of a an, but the face and features of the man as a is.'-and by no other means can this grand salt be attained than by the means of pho graphy, and this new process based there i. But while these great advantages are cured, it admits of the embe:lishments of t, and a portrait is produced possessing all e truthfulness of a photograph, with the tistic eCect of the steel engraving. The iblishers have been ertremely fortunate in eir selection of the mode by which they ve to all admirers of the great statesman e noble, generous, manly features, which 'eak so plainly the great mind, elevated eling, and generous heart of Wade Hamp n. Those who worked for the grand cause, lampton and Home Rule," who have paid xes to the government of their choice, csin >w place this picture at their iresides, as ey have placed its subject in their hearts. must become one of the "Penates" of South rolina. Those who sympathized with this gallant tle State in the strurgle against such tre endous odds, will be pleased to have this rtrait in their homes-a glorious memen of a peaceful, noble effort of a liberty-lov g people to redeem themselves from op ession and misrule. It will be sold by subscription only, at $2 .r copy. Agents wanted to canvass every city and wa in the land. To those who cannot be reached by agents, e publishers will supply copies per mail, i the receipt of the price. We trast that this thoroughly Southern iterprise will receive the encouragement it serves. .nw # .1isPeUasems. Private Boarding. MRS. J. HARTWELL BLEAS& respect. 1ly announces that she is.prepared to ac. mmodate regular and transient Boarders moderate rates, guaranteeing satisfac Dn. Residence the Thompson Brick House. early opposite TBMrs.-Whae Feb. 7, B--m. NOTICE. Having assumed and accounted to the igned estate of J. F. Speck for the targes for repairs on watches turned over me as assignee I notify the owners of id watches that if they do not call and iy said charges before the 20th instant will sell said watches for the purpose of Lying said charges. JOHN 0. PEOPLE. Feb. 7, 6-2t. DEINISTRAT OR'S NOTICE. All parties indebted to the .Estate of ayne D. Reid, deq'd., are called upon to ake settlemnent on or -before the 2d day March, and all parties holding claims ainst the same will present them proper attested to the undersigned, as on that y a settlement of said Estate .will be ade. -D . . EENTZ, Feb. 7, 6-3* AdiniitW. NOTICE. The copartnership heretofore existingn ~tween W. G. MAYES and J.?N. MARTIN, a been this day dissolved by mutual con January 1st, 1877. All persons indebted to the late firm of AYES & MARTIN, must settle the same their earliest convenience. J. N. Nartin one is authorized to receipt for all moneys iid in on account of the old firm.. W. G. NAYES, 3. N. MARTIN. Feb. 7, 6-tf. (0tioe toTrpaS8. Notice is hereby given by the undersign I landowners that any person found tres asing on their lands either by fiehing, mting, or in any other manner, will be ~alt with to the fall extent of the law. r. P. M. Cromer, 'S. C. Hargrove, r. S. F. Glasgow, IM. K. Buford, .W. Cromer, W. H. Whitmire, .C.GCromer, IJ. A. ar,. R. Swindler, IS. L. Atchison, G. Houseal, J . C. Hargrove, D. Abrams, ~Joseph Duckett, m. Ray, S. P. McCracken, os. P. Abrams, -B. Duncan, . T. Abrams, Lewis Ducket, S. Abramns, Alfred Denson. I. Suber, jFeb. 71, 6-8t*. ExIIU 1Rg 8AIA In accordance with the directions of the il of Robert Caldwell, dee'd., I will sell public outcry, n Sale..Day, the Fifth of March Next, I the Real Estate of which said deceased ed seized and possessed. It comprises ne -Hundred and Sixteen Acres, ore or less, lying in the Oonnty of New ~rry, and is bounded by lands of John P. oan, John P. Buzzard, Mrs. Louisa C. ster and others. It wili be sold IN .THREE SEPARATE TRACTFS' d aplat of each will be ehbitd ond day sale. The terms of sale will be cash, purcfsiiers ying for papers. A AD'EL E'or. of Will of Robert Cal4tw1l, dec'd. Feb. 7, 6-4t. 7 eeds! ~ A Plants! -BUT4NS-~ nt r n-.L, to 'y Post Offee. Assort" mnt Ia.-ge, prices oderate, and selection it. Sw0 FO P4ca LisTs. Merchants, uggists and D klers supplied at lowest oesale rates. Ej!W'D J. EVANS & CO., Nurser7Ien and Seedsmen, York, Pa. 'DURYE AS' IN GLOSS STARCH. TRY IT! e it once, and you no other. DURYE AS' ?POECRS ,eRO,Ey COrNao SET RTEMA onATOuNA Lusf EXOITIT PaTrisNA7 toIOA bEXPSTIhe Pri~S7 PRR Tobe tF A TY' ~EBFECTION OF *IJALITT.'~