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A----- T ne Nlo;ue a arc !." Reform Lightning Striking the Robbers of the Ring---F. 3. Moses, S. J. Lee, A. 0. Jones and C. W. Montgomery Already in the Toils-Flight of Cardozo. COLUMBIA, July 24.-The Inves tiating Con nittee have caused war rants to be issued for the arrest of a number of the forwer State ofiicials. Among them are ex-Goveruor Moses, ex-Speaker Lee; colored, A. 0. Jones, colored, of the Republican Printin,t Company, the former clerk of the House, and C. W. ioniitgomery, ex senator and forwnerly president pr. tem. of tlie Senate. An in prtant ar rest is expected in Beautort. (Gleaves.) Ex-Treasurer Cardozo. who is under tire and bond, left this place yesterday. It is known that he sped away to avoid arrest on other and more heinous charges than those in connection with the payment of the claims of T. W. Price & Co. No arrests have been made here to-day, but exciting news from other parts of the State is hourly expected. THE ARREST OF F.X-SPEAKER LEE AT AIKEN. AIKEN, July 24.-A special con stable arrived here this morning from Columbia with a warrant from Trial Justice Marshall for the arrest of Samue.l J. Lee, colored, the solicitfr of the second circuit and ex-Speaker of the House Of Representatives. The constable, accompanied by Sheriff Holly, quietly arrested hi:n in his office at midday; but he will not be taken to Columbia until to-night, time being allowed him to procure .his bondsmen here. The warrant is based upon the afd davit of Senator Cochran, the chair man of the investigating committee, and charges the fraudulent issue by Lee while Speaker of the Ilouce, in March, iS73, of pay certificates to the amount of eight thousand dollars. Lee asserts his entire innocence, and says he is prepared to vindicate himself wholly from the charge.-DiSp atehes to the Veies and Courier. The warrant for the arrest of Moses and Jones is as follows : STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ) County of Richland. j Personally appeared before me, J. Q. Marshall, a Trial Justice of the said county and State. John R. Coch ran, who, being duly sworn, says that under a joint resolution of the Gene ral Assembly, passed on the 9th day of June, 1877, a joint committee was appointed to investigate and ascertain whether any improper or illegal use had been made of the public funds and credit of the State, and by whom, and to cause legal proceedings to be instituted against all persons imphi cated in the same; that the deponent is chairman of said committee.- That the committee have entered upon and are now performing the duties de volved upon them by the resolution, and this deponent says that at Cul umbia, in the county and State afore said, F. J. Moses and A. 0. Jones did defraud the State of South Caro lina of large sums of money by means of warrants drawn upon the Treasurer of the State, signed by F. J. Moses as Speaker, and attested by A. 0. Jones as Clerk of the House of Rep resentatives. That said warrants were - without any consideration, the per sons in whose favor they were drawn not having p)erformecd the services or furnished the supplies mentioned in said warrants and not having any just claims against the State and the said pretended claims never having been uudited or passed by the House -of. Representatives. That the said war rants illegally drawn as aforesaid are as follows: 1. Warrant for $405, dated Colum bia, S. C., February 16, 1872, in favor of Wilson Glover, for attendance as messenger. 2. Warrant for $405, dated Colum bia, S. C., February 16, 1872, in favor of James Wilson, order for attendance as messenger. 3. Warrant for $405, dated Colum bia, S. C., February 16, 1872, in favor of Washington Gilbert, for attendance as m~essenger. 4. Warrant for $405, dated Colum bia, S. C., February 16, 1872, in favor of Jackson Simouds, for attendance as messenger.' 5. Warrant for $405, bearing same date, in favor of Robert Gaillard, for attendance as messenger. 6. Warrant for $403, bearing same date, in favor of Edward Nalloy, for atte-ndance as messenger. 7. Warrant for $403, bearing same date, in favor of ~Henry Win us, for attendance as mcssenger. S. Warrint for $405, bearing same date. in favor of Winfield Uarris, for at tendance as messenger. 9. Warrant for $405, bearing same date, in favor of Jacob Cobb, for at tendauce as messenger. 10. Warrant for 8405, bearing~ same date, in favor of Baker Speers, for attendance as messenger. 11. Warrant for $405, bearing same date, in favor of D)uneau Ferris. for attendance as messenger. 12. Warrant for $405, in favor of Donaldson Singleton, for attendance as messenger 13. Warrant for $405, same date, in favor of Samuel Knox, for attend ance as messenger. 14. Warrant for $642. same date. in favor of Thomias Murcherson for p y as clerk in tihe Hiose of Rep re J 5. Warrant for $642, bearing date March 13, 1872, in favor of A. J. .Simmons for pay as clerk of the Hou?se of Representatives. 16. Warrant for 8642, bearing same date, in favor of Williaa Andrews for ay as c!erk in the Rouse of R.epre sentatives. 1 7 XX>irr'~t~f fcr S5~}2. bearinf.rsalfl'3 1'Warraint for S642. in favor (f eor,e A. Adaus, for pay as clerk in the Ilouse of iepresentativ's. 20. Warrant for $642 in favor of F. Marsh, for pay as clerk in the House of Representatives. 21. Warrant for $k42 in favor of Peter Turner, for pay as clerk in the house of Representatives. 22. Warrant for $585 in favor of Hal Mitchell. for pay as messenger in the House of Representatives. 23. Warrant for $535 in favor of E. I. Osmaud, for pay as messenger in the House of Representatives. 24. Warrant for $08, in favor of T1. Sanders. for pay as clerk of the IHu use of lepresentatives. Ihat at the time of, signinlg said warrants F. J. Moses was Speaker, and A. 0. Jones Clerk of the House of Representatives, and all of the said warrants were passed by the State Treasurer, and the State thereby de frauded of the sum of $11,455 25-100, the aggregate of said warrauts. JoNx I. COCHRAN, Sworn to before me, this 20th day of July, 1877. J. Q. MARS IALL, Trial Justice. The Flight of Woodruff. Exit, the Brazen Boss of the Printing Ring. The fall of the iron hand of the law upon ex-Governor Moses on Tuesday, and on A. 0. Jones, ex-clerk of the Hlouse'of Representatives, yesterday, has not been without its effect upon others, of the same stripe, who have grown fat by long inroads upon the public crib. Conscience makes cowards of them all, and, as will be shown by what follows, the Jackal of the Thieves, Josephus Woodruff, anticipating arrest and judicial proceedings which would deprive him of much of his plunder, and perhaps might consign him to a felon's cell, after settling his business matters as quietly and expeditiously as he could under the circumstances, folded his tent like the Arabs, and having stolen everything else he could out of South Carolina, he finally stole himself away to parts unknown. From good and sufficient authority it was learned yesterday that Woodruff, as soon as he understood that Jones was wanted, made his arrangements for eluding the minions of the law, whom he had defied for these many years. Not too proud to share the spoils with his colored pal during the flush days of Radical misrule, he was too weak and timid to share with him the just punishmeut of their dual knavery. In effecting his pasof escape, for tune seemed to lend Woodruff a help ing hand, and owing to the fact that the inevitable warrant which is now in course of preparation for him had not been issued as soon as the othiers. he was able to show himself, with much apparent fortitude, on the streets on Tuesday. With all his consummate effrontery, however, and assumed in difference, as he witnessed the arrest of Moses, he was all the while working secretly and silently to avoid going through the same performance him. self. His plans were well laid, and were successful. In the afternoon of Tuesday, as the story goes, he went down to the wharf and succeeded in procuring the use of a Customhouse boat and had himself conveyed aboard of the revenue cutter which was stationed off the bark Cuba at quarantine. He was introduced to the officers, as it appears, under an assumed name, and remained on board for some time. Later in the after noon the steamer Virginia, Capt. Hunter, came steaming down the bay, evdently by preconcerted arrangement, on reaching the neighborhood of the Cuba she blew her whistle and hove to. The stranger (Woodruff) then stated to Capt. Freeman that he de sired te board the Virginia, and asked if he would not put him aboard of her The captain replied that his position as a United States officer would not allow him to comply with his request, but that Woodruff's friend who had come with him could put him aboard, if he saw fit, with the Customhouse boa t. This course was finally adopted, and Woodruff thus safely secured his passage for Philadelphia, whence it is presumed he will make his way into Canada, if he be not arrested in the Quaker City. The person who accompanied Wood ruff to the cutter was introduced as Mr. Woodruff, and the simon-pure Woodruff was addressed as Mr. Fraser. This woiuld have thrown the captains of the cutter and the steamer off their guard, even-if they had suspected that anything was wrong. Neither of the captains knew the real character of their visitor. THE ARREST OF A. 0. JONES. At an early hour yesterday morn ing A. 0. Jones, formerly clerk of the House of Representatives, the warrant for whose arrest was published yester day appeared at the lower Guardhouse and delivered himself to the custody of the officers. He was assigned to the chief's private office, the same occupied by ox-Governor Moses the day before, where he passed the day. Many of his friends came in to see him, and help while away his tedious hours that must elapse before his departue for Columbia. Hie seemed in good spirits and took the matter ery coolly. He declined submitting to a interview, although affectionately pressed to do so. He remarked how ever, that lhe had never conisidered himself responsible for the pay cer ti!icates. lie felt somewhat aggrieved, he sag, that a constable had been sent for hin. He had told Mr. Cochran that if' he was syanted h,e woid come to Columbia iumediately; and hie thought this was an at4emnpt to umiliate him. Hie also comiplatQed of~ the statements made that he was ~'hidin~ oat" on the previous day, yesterday t hr t ex-Senator Montgomery, who was president pro to. uf the Senate, would vo!untarily gn to ('olui:,, bia by the first train and surrendl,r himself there, instead of awaitin*r any arrest here. The probability is that he went last night. THE SITUATION IN COLUM uIA. Comi.:M;A, July 25.-Ex--Go eIrn.,r Moses and ex-Speaker L,e were brought to town to-day and carried before Justice Marshall. That oificer, finding his court room too small ad journed to the Circuit Court room. Judge S. W. Melton appeared for the prisoners. Mr. Abney, the s.dlicitor of this circuit and Mr. l V. \ oumnaus l a)peariing f'Or the State. A recess was agrced upon by Counsel until 4 o'clock when a further recess was taken that counsel might confer together. Upon the reassembling of the court, at the request of the solicitor, the bail of each of the prisoners was fixed at S10,000; a preliminary examination having been waived. The prisoners' counsel asked that they be allowed until S o'clock to give bail. This request. was granted, but none of those who fawned upou the ex-Governor in the days of his power appeared, and he and Lee were committed to jail. The following is an extract of a let ter written by Moses to a friend just previous to his being committed to jail : "For the last five years I have been singled out by many of the leaders of the Republican party as a scapegoat, on whom have been thrown all of the odium which should have been dis tributed among most of those leaders. I have borne it all because I loved my party more than I loved myself. Hereafter my first duty on earth will be towards myself and my family, and my first step in' the performance of that duty shall be to wake atouement to my State for whatsoever errors, shortcomings, or even sins, may have been appai ent in my political career. Self-defence can shame no honorable an, and a just resentment against thoie who have sought to injure us can only be esteemed as part of a noble nature." The smiling, smirking Joe Wood ruff, who put on such a bold front and tried to make capital to screen his own rascality by audacious lying. is gone. He joined that portion of the flock of buzzards which have taken their flight. His little matter would have come up to-morrow but for his light. The committee must wvait a little longer. Telegraphie information says that cx Lieutenant Governor leaves has also departed or is hiding out. LIGU.T OL' G[LEAVES, TILE EN LIEU TEN ANT-GIOVERtNUR. 1B.;-oRT. July 25.-No arrests have been mde here. Ri. II. Gleaves, coor, d, who was Lieutenant-Governor from 1872 to 1870i, was wattd, but has abseonded to avoid arrest. Gleaves was a trial justice by Gover nor Uampton's appointment. The charges against him relate to the fraudulent issue of pay certificates as ex-officio President of the Senate. [News and Courier, July 26. Woodruff was arrested on the steamer as she reached Philadelphia. H. G. Worthington, Collector of the Port at Charleston, has also been arrested on charges connected with the election of Patterson as U. S. Senator. The State Grange. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THLE SUMMER MEETING WITH TIHE AGRICULTU RAL SOCIETY. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of th~e State Grange, Pa trons of Husbandry, of South C~aro lina, held at the Columbia Hlotel May the 16th, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted: In order to carry out the design of the State Grange at its last meeting, and to further promote the interest and object of the Order of Patrons of usbandry in this State, 1. Resolved, That the State Grange. Patrons of Husbandry, of South Caro lina hold their annual summer meet ing for the present year, 1877, at An derson Court Hlouse on the 8th day of August next. 2. Resolved, That the subordinate Granges of the State be urged to have a representative at this meeting, and that all Patrons bring for exhibition such articles as may be of interest. 3. Resolved, That the State Agri cultural and Mechanical Society and the Anderson County Agricultural Society be requested to meet with us and to participate in all of the dis eusions of the meeting. 4. R?esolved, That the following Pa trons be invited to either read ani es say or open the discussion by an ad dress upon the subjects named, viz: Dr. St. Julian Ravenel, on phosphates and fertilizers; E. L. Roche, of Ash ley Grange, on the usury law;~ Gen. Bratton, on cattle; J. D. Wylie, on bee culture; Dr. J. H. Foster, on poulry; D)r. Furman, on upland rice culture; Richkard Tozer, on plantation engines; Col. Thos. Taylor, on corn fertilizers; -- Russell, of Anderson, on railroad transportation ; Julius Mills, on immigration ; Balie Creigh ton, on fence law ; Maj. Wood ward, fish culture; R1. M. Simis, on fruit cult re. 5. Re'soiced, That the executive comittee of the Agricultural and miechanicl Society be invited to co operate with the executive comnmit.tce f the State Grange in mkng ar angewenits in detail for carrying out he object of the meting-alag and baj:n:o.mious meeting of the agri eculturalist of ;,hie ic R.ESDS Se. amd Memb9r- of N.Na r;i lit ?4~ The IHierald. TIIOS. F. GRENEKER, E O W . 11. W ALLACE, ETos. XEWBERRY. S. C. W EDNESDAY, AUG. 1, 1877. A PA PE. F (R' TI1E PEOPLE. The I erald is in the highest respect aFam ily Ne;wsp:aper, devoted to the muaterial in tcrests of the people of this County and the State. It circulates extensively, and as an Advertisineg medium otTers unrivalled ad vantages. For Terms, see first page. Independent Democrats. We readily acknowledge that the Republicans have a perfect right to nominate a ticket of their own, and to place on that ticket either Re publicans or Democrats, as they choose. The Democrat thus nomi nated can't help it if both Democrats and Republicans vote for him. But the duty of a Democrat elected in that way is plain-he should refuse to accept the office. This is exact ly what Col. Subef would have done had he been elected Thursday, as he says in his card in this issue. And it should be the positive understanding hereafter, about which there can be no possibility of doubt,that no Demo crat will accept office, though elect ed, unless he be the nominee of the Democratic Convention. Without such a feature in the party organi zation the history of last Thursday is liable to be repeated at every election. The Independent Ticket. .The circumstances connected with the election Thursday were peculiar and instructive. The Rad ical party of the County, knowing it to be impossible to elect A straight out Republican ticket, resorted to the fusion policy and attempted to weaken their opponents by stealing some of their thunder. Seeing that many Democrats were dissatisfied with the course pursued by the County Convention, they seized the opportunity to make a split in the party. To ensure success to their plans they placed upon their ticket a Democrat, whose high character, reputation'and popularity they in tended to use as a means to gain their own ends. Exactly how and by whom the independent ticket was gotten up we are not able to say, but we do know most positively that Col. Su ber's name was placed on it, in his absence from the County, with out his knowledge or authority, and that he would be the last man in the County to run on any such ticket. Mr. Crotwell was not a candi date, in the sense of seeking the of fice. Not being a member of any Democratic organization he had a right to allow his name to be used on the independent ticket, and he therefore let matters take their own course. The other man on the ticket, who is a chronic candidate for the office of Clerk, was one of the chief origin ators and manipulators of the move ment. He, too, not being a mem ber of th.e Democratic party, had a perfect right to run on the inde pendent ticket and to work for his own election-we say nothing about the propriety of the thing. There is then no blame, of a political character at least, to be attached to any man on that ticket. If there is any blame at all in connection with the matter, it must belong either to the Democrats who voted the independent ticket, or to the County Convention. We don't intend to discuss any thing just now, but to state facts. Still it is well enough to inquire into the reasons that led so large a number of Democrats to vote the independent ticket Thursday. There is only one explanation. It means that a considerable pro prtion of the party were not satisfied with the way the County Convention acted. The vote has proved beyond a doubt-to all who doubted it before-that the opinion that the delegates composing that Convention had no right to make the nominations, was not confined to a few. Numbers who voted the regular ticket, entertained this opin ion, but very properly and patrioti cay sacrified their private opinions forthe sak~e of maintajiig party uniy. There was no objection, sg far as we know or believe, to any candidate on the regular ticket. The entire objection was to the manner of their nomination. We sbmit, therefore, that it would be ~ a~ocJ ~mcidal. ic coLt~nue tion together again, let it adjourn sine die, and let a new Convention be called, to be composed of dele gates "fresh from the people," in the true meaning of that expression. If the different clubs choose to send back the same delegates well and and good ; but at least give them a chance to make a change, and thus I remove all cause, or pretense of cause, for disaffection in the party. Scott, Cardozo & Co. find Demo cratic administration somewhat dif ferent from the good old days when they held the high offices in the t State, rode in fine bretis and spent|1 thousands of dollars for champagne c and cigars. Times change. We desire to compliment the pro prietors of the Greenville Vews for their enterprising spirit. They now receive the telegraphic dispatches for their daily. FOR THE HERALD. Our Washington Letter. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 25, 1877. Deplorable as is the loss of life and of property, and far reaching and disastrous in its effect upon both capital and labor, as is the loss of confidence in ordinary business affairs, the great evil of the riots 1 now eisting in the country seems to your correspondent to be not in such losses but in the possible success they will give to the old effort to cement this Union of States into a centralism. The pernicious effect of the late war upon the different States is seen in the hearty calls made by Governors upon the Federal Government for assistanwe. This confessed or rather assumed weakness of the State Govern. inents, and quick appeal to the central power to enforce local police regulations, i argue ill for the spirit of independence and State pride vhich it ought to be the first object of the people to cherish and of their Executives to. inculcate. Instead of in creasing the Federal army as will be at tempted, an effort should be made by every State, if a greater force shall hereafter i seem necessary, to organize and support an l effective militia. To keep interference by i the United States Government within clear ly defined constitutional limits, and to dis courage even such interference in purely i local affairs except in the last extremity, is the duty of every patriotic citizen. It is| the strength of the States that make the General Government strong. From appearances to-day it seems likely the disturbances in the East will be over| within forty-eight hours. What course af-| fairs may take in the West ncne can y~et | tell, but the better opinion seems to be that without encouragement from the At-| lantic coast the Western troubles will be| brief. The presence of General Hancock in Baltimore was of signal benefit. The rioters had a healthy respect for him. Among the arrested men in Baltimore not one was a striker. Hardly one was a laboring man. They were rougha who took advantage of the strike to plunder and burn, and in other ways gratify their hatred of love and order. The laboring people of Washington are mostly colored men and though without| work or money they have never shown any| disposition to be violent. The fearful death rate among them-being 50 per annum in| each 1,000, while among the whites here it| is. only 20 per annum for each 1,000 must in part be attributed to the lack of suficient food. Yet there has been no at-| tempt at any time to organize violence. Assis tant Secretar y McCormick announces through the papers this morning that liej will resign his place on the National Comn-< uittee, and not his position in the Treasury.| This we are assured is done because Secre tary Sherman says he cannot get along without Mr. McCormick. We hear enough| about McCormick. Thme papers arc full of | McCormick. McGormiek is rapidly writing i himself into a bore in newspaper offices.| McCo' mnick cannot slee p o' njights unless] his name is ini the papers. It is a subjcct of conversation here amnon~ all classes that the cordiality of Secretary Sherman's relations with Mr. Hayes must ~e impaired by the trouble now abroad in the country. That M.-. Hayes published his change of mind on the silver question is well known. He was once a single stan dard mar, but now believes in a double .tandard with certain qualifications. Sec retary Sherman is now a determined friend 1 of the gold standard though formerly in favor uf a double standard. As the labor troubles will inevitably bring into imnmedi ate prominence this financial question, and as these two men differ radically upon it, the suggestion is not unreasonable that Mr. Sherman may retire from office before the fall elections are heid. Whether or not Mr. Hayes would take the occasion of Shzer man's retirement as a favorable one for the I further reorganization of his Cabinet is un-1 certain ; but there is no doubt a great pres-t sure has of late been brought to bear on him by parties whom he likes and trusts, in the mnterest of at least two other changes. RENt). FOR THE HERALD, MEsSRs. EDIToRS : The press of Charleston have just causc for con gratulation in that they have placed themselves . in daily commnunication . with the mountains, and deserve great praise therefor, but I most respect- c fully submit, Messrs. Editors, that ~ h needed reform, in which the gen- a eral public is more immtediately in- e terested, is the subject of exorbitant i frihts. For instance, freight for I Neberry, which is from 90 to 100 C miles nearer Charleston than Green vilJe, is thirty-five per cent. higher1 than to the latite place0. Wh~y js tiNsj so ? It may bescientifierailroilng but it is utterly impracticable and the general public cannot appreciate it. The press must accomplish this re- j dc.ion in fre.ight to a st standard, t FOR THE HERALD. 3road-uriim's New York Letter. No. 28. he Heated Term--Mrs. Tom-ri-John---Broad brim Interviews George Francis Train New York Swindlers-Their Tricks and Devices-Charity for the Lit tle Ones at the Sea-Side Home-Town Gossip. Hot, hotter, hottest-all nature wilts -even Mrs. Tom-ri-John the belliger nt female, who peddles the avalanche 'red hot"-whose scarlet breeches ud marvelous brigand hat have been he wonder and delight of our street .rabs for the last twelve months ;ven she has shrunk from her accus ;omed post opposite City Hall Park, Lnd the shrill treble of her cracked roice is heard no more. The gorgeous larkey who advertises Indian clubs, mnd whose resplendent costume would ave amazed Solomon in all his glory, rawls under the shadow of the Astor Iouse, and swears by de great boot, 'dat de like ob dis hab nebber bin een since de cremation." Wall street s deserted; the Stock Exchange looks ike the ghost of its former self; of he crowds which filled our fashiona )le churches a few weeks ago, not ven a shadow remains, and Broad )rim "feels like one who treads alone ome banquet hall deserted." The other day I strolled around ladisoh Square, and there, seated done in his glory, I saw George Fran is Train. He generally occupies a ;eat near the center of the square, nd nobody pretends to intrude on is privacy. Children and birds are ways welcome ; they appear to know Zii and understand him, and he Knows and understands them. Just 3efore I approached him, a sweet lit le girl ran up to him and kissed him; ;he little birds play at his feet, and pick at the strings of his shoes, as earless as if tb foot were made of stone. I greeted him with a kindly ;ood-day, and reminded him of the ime when we met on the shores of ;he Pacific over eight years ago; he remewbered it vell, for that visit was ne of the marked eras of his life. "Ha ha," said he, "all I. prophesied hen has come to pass; Ralston has one; the Bank of California has one ; I did not know mys4f then hat I was so much of a pYophet. You must excuse me, I cannot talk with you. sir ; I lose my vitality ; I bave in me two hundred years of life; you gain, I lose ; for three years, sir, [ have not shaken hands with any an, neither have I sat on the same eat with anyone ; it reduces me as it were to a species of equality with hem which I cannot endure; I am he healthiest man in the world; the ime will come when I shall be called o the dictatorship, and then I shall old the pr -er of life and death ; you will excuse me., sir, when next we meet if I do not speak to you ; I shall merely bow ; look here ; this is a dia ~ram; when the pendulum swung his way, they said Train was crazy, rd that it would never come back ; hey knew nothing about the laws of motion, but when it reached here ~hey ceased their sneers; when it reached this point they acknowledged [ was right ; when it comes to this point.I shall be called to the dictator hip with power absolute of life and eath ; this, sir, you will live to see." With this he waved his hand, and ;he interview was ended. Can this :e madness-or is it assumed for the ecasion ? If so, never was insanity ore rational; his cost~uwe is plain md his color a deep bronze, doubtless rought about by his constant expos ire to the weather. He seldom wears uis hat and he generally holds a umoranda in his hand in which he eeasionally writes. Is this madness reigned like that of the ancient Bru :us ? and is he waiting for some ~rand opportunity like that which farquin gave when he ravished the wife of Collatinus? His life has been stormy one; in person, handsome. ~ifted with brilliant parts; a scholar, linguist ; a clear, terse writer versed n all the schools of philosophy, a gen leman in feeling and bearing; one ~annot help but ask himself : Where the unsound part which has top >led the whole of this splendid fabric uto hopeless and unsightly ruin ? itting there alone on that park-chair, ld and poor, I could not but recall he time when listening thousands ung upon his lips, and thought that he words he delivered were little less han the inspiration of a prophet. It vas a strange sight close by the tur noil of New York's greatest thorough are. which surged around him like he waves of an angry sea. He sits lone. The thunder of wheels shook he earth; but within all was calm id silent and still as if he stood in he midst of the wilderness. He inly seemed to hear the chirp of he birds and the voices of the chil lren ; for these his heart and ears are ways open. To every outward ap ~earance, no life could be more tran uil or beautiful; the madness that lothes its visions in the supremest nd loveliest forms may surely be par oned and cherished, and the inno et and harmless life which obtrudes talf on no one, may in time teach uen t.o look mercifully and charitably n this drratie Bohemian, who, what. ver may have been his faults, has ajured himself more than any other ving being. This week the Murphy campaign airy o enIg in he city of New York. lother Stewart is here witli the ad anced guard, and the battle against rhiskey is to begin at once. Our xcise Commissioners are in trouble ; be inn clause in the Excise law about horses, and e-ach one has a bundle of hay and a bug of oats slung over it. But you must not imagine that Fran cis Murphy is ing to have it all his own way, for just now the lager-beer brewers are sitting in solemn council to decide a number of important ques. tions on which the fate of our much loved republic depends. First and foremost they want to find out who makes the best lager-beer, and second ly what is the possible capacity of the average Dutchman. A committee of 8; has been appointed who are ex pected to drink sixteen kegs apiece; the man who peeps through the bung hole of the seventeenth keg and sees bottom, will be expected to deliver a lecture at Concordia Hall on lager as an antiseptic and non-intoxicating fluid. For three days the battle has been raging, and thousands of kegs have been emptied by these jolly Teu tons. Several promising amateurs have been discovered who can knock spots out of a five-gallon keg, while a first-class professional drinker e6'n make a hig hole in a barrel. I have frequent inquiries' by letter and postal-card as to,.t'ife solvency of various advertising,schemes in New York. Now, i know New York is not a modelVcity. We have in addi tion to our own native stock of thieves and vagabonds the swell mob and pickpockets of London, the chevalier d'industrie and mouchard of Paris, the 'T achendieb of Berlin and Vienna, and unnamed scoundrels from every quarter of the globe; and I wish to say to my country friends that when evor aman from New York or anywhere elseboffers to give you something for nothing that he is a rascal or a fool, and in either case have nothing to do with him. A concern calling itself the Famez Sewing Machine Company, 853 Broadway, has been flooding the country with advertisements offering to sell a first class sewing-machine for eighteen dollars. Now there is no such number on Broadway ; the Do mestic Sewing Machine Company on the corner of 14th street is 851, and there is no other number on Broadway till you reach 17th street which is 857; these letters therefore are car ried back to the general delivery and there the swindler gets them without the remotest chance of detection. Another firm on Bond street offers to send out packages of jewelry, twenty dollars worth for five dollars ; strange as it may seem there are thousands of dupes who believe them; and on a single morning when the place was raided by the police their mail amounted to six hundred letters, most of them containing mon ey. A common doduze is to send a letter to a person in some distant State contain ing a ticket in a lottery ; they have been desired to send it by a friend who paid for it and did not want his name known ; with it is a long list of prizes-pianos, gold watches, rings, &c., &c. A few days after the time advertised for the drawing you receive a note informing you that ticket 3,594 has drawn prize 26, you look at your list and find it is a Chickering piano worth $750. They inform you that it will cost for packing, boxing, truckage and commissions, $32.50, on receipt of which you will get your piano. Now $32.50 cannot be considered dear for a Chickering piano; and here is a respectable margin of $717.50 to invest in real estate. You borrow the money, send it, and that is the last you ever see of the grand oriental drawing of the Hifiluten Octipus Association. Do not be deceived by these adroit swind lers ; they sit down here month after month, and year after year, and do nothing else but plot and plan how to get people's money. Some only want fifty cents in postage stamps and they will send you samples that will make your eternal fortune. Keep your stamps, or if you have any to spare send them to me and I will invest them in the home for poor children by the sea-side. I love to see the soft side of human nature, and when I say soft side I do not mean the side which is most easily imposed upon, but the portion which is glorified by the sweetest of all the beatitudes, charity. It is somethiag to know that in the midst of all the selfishness and wicked ness of this great city, there are saints, whose lives devoted to charity, would save it from the vengeance of the Almighty, if condemned as Sodom was four thousand years ago. There are angels of mercy who leave the ease and comfort and elegance of their own homes, to seek sick and dying little ones away down iin' the slums, where gaunt misery and despair sit enthroned ; their work lies among the dirty, ragged little waifs, who other wise would appear to be forgotten, alike by God and man. They take them and keep them by the sea-side. Think what the sweet breath of the sea and the fields must be to these miserable and suffering little ones. Sweet saints gather them in and min ister to them at the sea-side home, without money and without price; they dlepend on the gifts of the chari table to carry on this holy work, anid if the hearts of any who read this shall be stirred with pity for these hildren of misery, let them send their gifts to your offiee, and you will take pleasure, I know, iio sending them' to me. Perhaps the reward ma:y not oe back immediately; on this earth they may never realize a tithe of the glory of their gift, but the time wil oe to us all, nuless fate shall eut us off when "the almond tree shiall flour ish and the grasshioppier be a burden," and when balancing thie ledger of good nd evil deeds, and trembling at the hange from which there is no re rieve, we may hear among the chorus f angels who wait our coming, the roices of some of these little ones, leading for mere,y gat him, fpr he was erciful. I am, truly yours, BROADBRIM. ~ Thp An~iiSt The Summer Meeting at An derson, 8th Augu%t. SECRETARY'S OFFICE, STATE GRANGE, POMARIA, NEWL'ERRY Co., S. C., July 23, 1877. The Members of the State Grange and State Agricultural and Mechani cal Society are respectfully referred to the arrangement with the different railroad companies for a reduction of passage to Anderson, the sdie of tick ets commencing Monday, 6th August, and good to return within ten days from date upon' which ticket may be' sold, viz.: From Charleston to Anderson and return, $5 50 From Columbia to Anderson and return, 2 75 Intermediate points about three cents per wile. The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta and Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroads, three cents per mile. Atlanta- a - Richiond Air Line, I to point of dostiuatioyrenville, to be re turne -drce upon certificate. From alhalla and Greenville to Anderson, S1 for round trip. THOS. W. HOLLOWAY, Secretary. Vew X Jiiscellaneous. TRESPASS NOTICE. All persons are hereby warned against trespassing on my plantation-known as the Moon place-either for fishing, hunting, or any in other way. Any one found so trespassing will be dealt with to the full extent of the law. I. Z. ABRAMS. Aug. 1, 31-3t. NOTICE. On the first day of September next, I will apply to the Court of Probate for New berry county, for a final discharge as Ad ministrator of the Estate of Melissa E. Boozer. All persons having claims against stid Estate will render them in duly proved on or before said day, or payment will be barred. R. Y. LEAVELL, Administrator. July 30, 1877-31-4t. is not easily earned in these times, but it can be made In three months by any one of either sex, in any part of the country, who is wi1lng to work steadily at the employifeithat we furnish. $66 per week ii your own town. Yon need not be away from home over night. You can give your whole time to the work, or only your spare moments. We have agents who are making over $20 per day. All who engage at once can make money- fast. At the present time money cannot be made so easily and rapidly at any other business. It costs nothing to try the business. Terms and $5 Outt free. Address at once, H. HALLETT & o., Port land, Maine. Aug. 1, 31-1y* STATE OF SOUTH-CA.ROLINA, NEWBERRY COUNTY. By James C. Leahy, Probate Judge. Whereas, Daniel Boozer bath made suit to me, to grant him Letters of Admin istration of the Estate and effects of Wil liam A. Boozer, deceased. These are therefore to citeand admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, that they be and appear, before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Newberry Court House, S. C., on the 15th day of August next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to shew cause, if any they have, whly the said Administration should not be granted. Given uinder my hand, this 30th dsy of July, Anno Domini, 1877?. J. C. L A HY, :. r. N. C. Ayer's Ague Cure, For Fever and Ague, Intermittent Fever, Chill Fever, Benmittent Feve' Dumb Ague, Periodcalor Bilious Fever, &c., and indeed all the affections which arise from malarious, marsh, or misaw. matic poisons. This is a compound remedy, prepared,with scientific skill from vegetable ingredients, which rarely fails to cure the severest cases of ChDils and Fever and the concomitant disorders. Such a remedy the necessities of the people in mulari ons districts demand. Its great superiority over any other medicine yet discovered for the cure of Intermittents Is, that it contains no quinine or mineral, and those who take it ~are free from danger of quinism or any injurious effects, and are as healthy after using it as before. It has been extensively employed during the last thirty years in the treatment of these distressing dis orders, and so unvary.ing has been its success that it has gained the reputation of being Inaml ble. It can, be safely recommended as a sure remedy and specific for the Fever and A gue of the West, and the Chills and Fever of the South, which, once broken up by it, do not return until the disease is agair contracted. The great variety of disorders which arise from the irritation of this poison, such as lNeu ralgia, Rheumatism, Gout, IJeadache, Blindness, Toothache, Earache, Ca tarrh, Asthma, Palpitation, Splenic Affections, Hysterics, Pain in the Bow. els, Colic, Paralysis, and derangement of the Stomach, all of which become intermittent or periodical, have no speedier remedy than ATER's AGU'E CtitE, which cures them all alike, and protects the system from future attacks. As a preventive, it is of immense service in those communities whcrc Fever and Ague prevails, as it stays the development of the disease if taken on the first ap)proach of the premonitory symnp toms. -Travellers and temporary residents are thus enabled to defy these disorders, and fewv will ever suffer if they avail themselves of the protection this remedy afi)r.as. For Liver Complaints, arising from torpidity, it is an excellenlt remedy; it stimulates this organ into healthy activity, and produces many remarkable cures where other,medicines fail. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co, Practical and Analylical Chemists, LOW ELIL, MfASS. soLD DY ALL DRUGGIsTS EVEaYwnUE-E What One Iollar Will Do. -IS A PURELY VegetableCon-. D centration for keeping th e Bowels in nat L Rivu:nural motion, and cleansing the System of all Impurities, and a positive cure for Cos CUR E t%en* they may seem to be, are con ~ tinually at work to thwart our happiness, and destroy that for which we all pray so fervently-goo I health. The treat majority of diseases with which we re familiar,. are the result of negligence on he 'part of individuals who pay not the slightest attention to constipated bowels, arying in length of time from a number of lavs to weeks; this. of course. is criminality >n~the pa:rt of the sufferer, sq tg neglect t;he awsof his beinig. TrousADns og' -DLLARs m:p was$ed in >hyician's fees by the dyspeptic, the rheu inatic, the bilions and the nervous, when a lollar expended on thiata unapproachable regetable tonic and alterative-DEt. SIM MONS' lIE P ATIC COMiPOUND OR LIVER :CRE-would in ever,' case effect a radical tare.