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From the Charleston News and Courier.] What Gave Those Senators Jolly Red Noses. CoLuMBIrA, August 21.-The fol lowing "aeounrts have been handed me. as SI ecimnsI of Some1 frauds which have come under the notice (f the investigating committee. Sen ator Cochran, the chairman, states that these properly belong to the class of petty thieveries which have been unearthed, and that they sink into insi,gnificance by the side of other transactions which have been discovered. but which considerations of prudence require to withhold froci the public for the present. These accounts are exact copies of the orig. inals, which were handed inc by Mr. Cochran, and were taken by him at. random from a heap of similar docu ments, turned over to the committee by Mr. Woodruff, clerk of the Sen ate, as his vouchers for payments un der the head of Legislative Expenses All of these "vouchers," it must be remembered, passed the Senate in their present fortm, and were approved and ordered to be paid. The mode of procedure in such cases, as I at informed, was-as follows : When the reports of comiittees were called for in the Senate the chairman of the committee on accounts would rise in his turn with a bundle of papers in his hand, and, selecting some one bona fide claim of few items and small amount, would read aloud such claim only, and "respectfully beg to be allowed to submit it and others." Another honorable senator, in inter est and in the secret, would at once "move that they be ordered to be paid," which comprehensive and eon venient motion was always carried without further ceremony. 'It remains only to be said, by way of comment, that these examples re late only to the transactions of the honorable senators, and are but as a drop in the bucket of the whole amount which might be obtained. The House has also its records of a similar nature, and as it was the larger body it is safe to assume that its proceedings of a similar character were conducted on a scale duly proportioned to its size, and generally conceded lower standard of respectability and honesty. It must also be said that, notwithstanding the truly formidable mass of such eviden ces which have been preserved, by far the greater part has been either de stroyed or rescued from the place of deposit by the persons most interested in having them "lost or mislaid." The largest claim, given below, is for $1,125, and was drawn in favor of "L. C. Jennings." This gentleman, it may be remarked, was without body and bones of his own, and is supposed to have had his purely nebulous being impartially distributed throughout the persons of a half dozen bibulous sena tors, who acted as his attorneys, and received and disbursed his fuuds for him to their own great gain and satis faction. COLUMBIA, S. C., February 15) 1873. Mr. J. WOODRUFF, for Senate, bought of Geoi-ge Symmers. Jan. 29. 1 gal whiskey, 57; 1 case -champagne, $45.........S 52 00 1 P Acheese, S3 50; 4doz qts leger, $28.. ... ........31 50 30. 1 box cigars,S10; 1 case wine, $45.................... 5500 31. 4 doz Bass' ale,$14; matches, 50c.................. 14 50 Feb. 1. 6 boxes cigars, $60; cheese, $1 25; crackers, $1 25.. 62 50 1ldoz ale. $3 50; 1ldoz por ter, $3 50; 1ijar ginger, 83; (Green)................ 10 00 a gal C whiskey, $1 50; 1 hot ~wine, $2; (Hollinshead). 3 50 .3 bots wine, $6; 1ibox cigars, $9; (Robertson).......... 15 00 4. 4 doz ale, S14; 1 gal C whis key, $3................ 17 00 Matches, 40c; 1 gal C whis key, $3.........-..... 3 40 5. 1 pineapple cheese, $2 50; 5 lbs crackers, $1 25........ 3 75 3 boxes cigars, S30; I gal whiskey, $7..... ....... 37 00 6. 1 pineapple cheese, $2 50; 6 hxs sardines, $1 80....... 4 30 2 boxes cigars............. 20 00 7. Bill rndse to Lee.......... 284 39 1 gal whiskey, $7; 1 gal C whiskey,$3; 1 cheese, 52 50 12 50 2 bots champagne.........7 00 8. 1 box St candles, S2 40; 1 gal C whiskey, 3............ 5 40 1 pineapple cbeese, $1.75; 5 lbs crackers, $1 25........ 3 00 1 box cigars, $10; 3 doz ale, 610 50................205 10. 3 gals whiskey, $21; 2 gals sherry, $14.............. 35 00 .2 boxes cigars, $20; 1 gal whiskey, S7............. 27 00 .11. 1 gal whiskey, $7; G W cheese,S1 63 ;crackers,$1 25 9 88 2 doz porter,S7; 3 bots Maras chino, $12; (Robertson).... 19 00 3 bots Curacoa, S12; 1 case champagne, $45;- (Robert son)................... 57 00 12. 1 gal whiskey, $7; 1 doz mnatches, 40c............. 7 40 1 cask,8 doz, porter, at $3 50 (Lee).................. 28 00 13. 1'gg i C whiskey, $3; 10 lbs cra&ctr, 82 50............ 5 50 6 boxes sardines, $1 80; 6 lbs cheese, a1 50. ........ 3 30 3 lbs Switze.r cheese, S1 20; 1 gal whiskey, '67.......... 8 20 Total...........-. --..... $861 52 Received payment by order on State treas arer. GEORGE SYMMERs, Per Wmi. Roy. NOTE.-HlollinShe2ad was the Senator from Abbeville; Green was the Senator from Orangeburg; Lee was Senator from Chester; Robertson was the member of the H-ouse who was expelled last session. F?ollowing this are accounts of J. M. Allen. L. Wibou.sh and A. J. Ransier for cigars, champagne and whiskey, to the amount of 8403. 58, and C. P. Leslie and C. D). Haynie, for furniture and dry goods, amount inig to 61,061.20. 'The next and last is simple and brief. It reads as follows: "CotL-MBA, S. C., December 9, 1873. Sear:e, to L. C. Jennings, . Dr. To sundries and transportation. ... $1,125 00 {)rdercd paid. .J- W-" VicK.-The Fourth Number of Vick's F!oral Guiide for 1S77 has come. In its spe cial line it exceis all1 other publications. Ai! who love flowers shouald have the Floral Guide. The publisher will isstie, begtnning in No vember, a mont:hly, in addition to his pres ent publica:ions, to be ea!!ed Vick's Illus trated Monthly Magazine, the price of which will be $1.25 a year. Address James Vick, locehester, N. T. SOUTHEts FARMER AND STocx Join xAL.-Tis favorite journal for September is r~eeive(:. ~zii as usual. COe~VIR~ ~ in The .Pen nsvlvania 1emocratic Convention met at Ilarrisburg the 22nd. Ion. Mr. Steuger is permanent Chairman. He said: "Gentlemen of the Convention. accept my sincere thank for the honor of being:; selected to preside over your deliberations. I con gratulate you that we meet with a full representation from every district in the- State. There is one striking fact about the Demo cratic party. It never dies. Others rise and fall-corme and go with the ideas that called them into ex istence, but the Democratic party I lives on amid all vicissitudes, be cause its piinciples are those of the Constitution. It has been defeated-laid out for dead--de frauded, (wild applause,) but it still lives, and our opponents may as well take notice from its vital ity, that while earth lasts, like the seed time and harvest, Demo cratic Conventions shall not cease. Defrauded I say, because I am not unmindful of the fact., that while I speak, the chair of Wash in(gton and Jefferson is filled by a man rejected by a quarter of a million majority of the American people, and a decided majority of the electoral votes of the States. The wisdom of the recent Demo cratic policy is being vindicated by the Hayes administration in two points. Especially in 187., a Democratic majority elected to the lower House of Congress, in stituted a plan for the adjustment of public difficulties, by applying the policy of economy, retrench ment and reform, They stead fastly adhered to it, and sixty millions of dollars were thereby saved to the nation. Every Re publican paper said the Demo cratic House was crippling the Government, and was cruel to its employees. But a few days ago, the financial Secretary of the Hayes administration goes to Ohio and claims credit for his party, because it has recently dis missed a thousand employees. It was compelled to do so by the Deiiocrat.ic House. and now credit is claimed by the-Hayes adminis tration. The Dem-cratic party urged the removal of the army from the South. It was felt that peace and prosperity would come to the Southern States only in this event., and that business de rangements only then would cease. The House stood firm as a stone wall against the proposi tion to pay the troops unless it was expressly stipulated that it should not be used to sustain the bogus State governments. It was a unit for the bill with t?his, against it unless it was included, anid now Sherman is pressing Hayes be cause he adopted the Democratic, policy. Another instance of econ omy, comnpelled by the Democrat ic policy, credit for. which is claimed by the Hayes administra tion. I do not propose to detain this Convention with an extended speech, but to follow the experi ence of my predecessors venera ble in Democ:-acy, if not in years, you are competent to discharge your duty, and in that way I in voke harmony. But why har mony ? We are the party of law and order, and in all history there was no grander spectacle than that of this great party quietly submitting for the sake of law and order and the perpetuity of our free institutions to the most monstrous political fraud of any age, for the act of the Electoral Commission was a foul stain upon our national honor, wvhich all the rains in the sweet heavens cannot wash out." The speech was very frequently interrupted by applause, and ev ery allusion to the act of the Eector-al Com mission was loudly cheered. WAsHINGTON, Aug. 22.--They continue to talk in New England. General Devens said a few years ago the church of which you are a part, here represented, was torn and cut asunder by the gre-at confiet of arms between liberty and slavery. Cer tainly now that the great questions revealed in that contest are settled, there is great reason to rejoice. The members of the church North and South arc again united. The President then said it is not best for one .bred to the law to at tempt to quote Scripture, but there is something like this, "there is more joy over the repenting one than over a hundred that liave not gone astray." We have with us a friend who was for years against us, and more recent ly made- the mistake of voting against me, but now on the question of the integrity and maintenance of the Union, and on the question of free onm and equality to all men-no man is before. .Judge Key, the Postmaster Gcue re, spokce as follows: It would not be spected that I should appear here without embarrassment-it is not with out feelings of sadness that I view this scene. I am carried back to my boy hood days, when in that far South, my sunny home. 1 attended meetings like this, for the MIethodist ar-e found in that part of the union, and my fe. thr was an honored minister in your chureb. I Ie has been gene now ten years, end you have heard how I, his own son, haye wandered. I will not attempt to quote ept4.re, for I migh t fail more significantly tiumi sis.e Presi dent, but I havxe heard an old byng that reads: "While the lamp lds ou to ben the vilest sinner may r turn" The fact that Gen. Devens and I are here together, shows that the principles of religion htave hold in th an if at throughout the their good behavior, and I am sure they will keep their faith. 'I thank you sincerely for this grecting. 1 ae cept it-not as a compliment to ily self, but as a mark of feeling you have for the South. The Hlerald. THOS. F. GRENEKER, EITORS. W. H. WALLACE, IAZ" -NEWBERRY. S. C. W EDNESDAY, A UG. 29, 1877. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. The Uerald is in the higrhest respect a Fan ily Newspaper. devoted1 to the material in tere4ts of the people of this County and the State. It circulates extensively. and as an Advertising mediun otrers unrivalled ad vantages. For Terms, see first page. Adger College. Attention is directed to the ad vertisehent in this issue of the above named institution, located at Walhalla, S. C. Railroad Again. The probabilities are that the mass meeting in the interest of a new railroad will be largely attend ed next Monday. Let those who feel specially int.Qrested examine and study the subject closely in the meantime in reference to the ex pense, the route and the manner of raising the necessary funds. The Sumter Watchman believes that the way to avoid Independent Democrats is to do away with noi inating conventions and we be lieve he is right. The only fair, just and satisfactory way to nomi nate men for office is by primary elections ; that is, each club in the county should vote for nominees separately, and the aggregate votes of all the clubs should decide the nominations. So long as the pres ent plan obtains there will almost always be found a set of men, or "c ique", who by bull-dozing., wire pulling, or otherwise will control the convention. 'Evil ComunIication.s. &c." Poor Key ! He never was mutch of a' man or he wouldn't have ac cepted a position in Hayes' Cabinet. And now he seems to have lost what manliness he did possess. and as for his Democratic principles and Southern pride, if he ever had any, they are gone. The emoluments of office and the blandishments of the Republican Administration have been too much for the poor, lone Democrat. -He has developed into a first class political flunkey. He has been traveling around through New England with the peripatetic President, and making speeches and such speeches from a Democrat and a Southerner ! At Bennington, Vermont, a few days ago, this ex-Con federate Colonel and professingDem ocrat, told the New Englanders that he accepted the cheers with which they greeted him "as an indication of fraternal feeling on the part of our Northern friends toward their erring Southern brethren." And again in another speech he told the New Englanders that he had for merly entertained prejudices against them, but since coming among them he almost wished he was a New Englander himself. (Amen.) This man is this, in his high place, misrepresenting the sentiments of his section and people. While the Southern people entertain no un friendly feeling toward the North, they are not cravens nor repentant rebels. The Postmaster General has forfeited all claims to being a representative Southerner and Dem ocrat. Mr. Key is a well-meaning man, no doubt, but he is soft, very soft, and his plastic nature has taken on the impress of his Repub lican surroundings. State News. The Greenville Agricultural Fair will begin the 16th of October. The Abbeville County Fair will be held the 17th, 18th and 19th of Oc T. O. P. Vernon, formerly Judge of the 7th Circuit, died at his home in Spartuuburg the 18th instant. Th firt bale of new cotton this season was shipped from Oraugeburg County to F. W. Wagener & CJo., Charleston. the 15thm instant. Gov. IIamopton has necerpted an in vitation to deliver an address before als WVinnebago County Fair, Rockford, Illinois, thle Uth of Septemiber. Piekens jail has oniy two inmates. and they were put in for only a few day by a Trial Justice for fighting. Happy ]"ikns e Jhaynn -Tailm-r ty Commissioners and the Coroner. The Judge of Probate can neither read nor write. These officers are all radicals. The Walhalla people, having se cured a Male College, have determined to have a Female College also. Dr. J. P. SIneltzcr, the former President of Newberry College, will be Presi dent. AnBEVILLE, S. C., August 22. Ben Williams, colored, died to-day from hydrophobica. He was bitten by a rabid dog about nine weeks ago, but he felt no symptoms until Saturday last. and did not have the first parox ysm until Monday. Seven other per sons were bitten by the same dog, and there is much excitement in the com munity. Williams was a good citi zen, and an active Democrat in the last campaign. The negroes in the lower part of the State are very much exercised on the subject of Liberia. Certain quon davi radical leaders are engineering the movement. The plan is to get up a joint-stock company with a capital of $300,000 by 30,000 negroes con tributing $10 each. With this capi tal they propose to run a line of steam ships between Charleston and Liberia. Rev. B. F. Porter, well known here, is "President of the Liberian Emigra tion Society." A Kingstree (WilliansburgCounty) correspondent writes as follows to the Charleston News and Courier, the 20th instant: "I wrote you in my last letter from this plaoe an account of tie trial and acquittal of Henry Baker, a negro, for the murder of Levi Brown, a white man, who was killed while en deavoring to save his property from thieves. The jury that tried the case was composed of twelve negroes. It was a nigger murder, a nigger jury and a nigger verdict. Here is an exact copy of the verdict as rendered on the trial: bend rey Baker not Gil try Marcus Green fo mon." .Editorial Review. Senator 0. P. Morton, of Indiana, is dangerously ill. Out of the thirty-cig.ht Governors in the United States twenty-five are Democrats. Brick Pomneroy is a much married as well as a much divorced individual. He has just gotten his second divorce from his second wife, and is already married again. "Seventeen Radical newspapers have gone up the spout in Louisiana since the first of January last. They died of intimidation-'skeered . to deth'-of course. "-Courier-Journal. If there is a more despicable wretch in this country than Postmaster Gen eral Key, won't somebody just point him out ? Contemned by the South and the whole Democracy. whose names he has disgraced, and despised by the North, for whose approbation he is fawning and cringing, his case is pitiable indeed. The Georgia Constitutional Con vention has been in session several weeks. The Legislature appropriated $25,000 for the expenses of the Con vention. This was exhausted the 22nd, and the State Treasurer refused to make any further advances. The Convention then passed an ordinance authorizing its president to borrow money to defray its expenses for the remainder of the session, to be paid by the next Legislature. Upon this Gen. Toombs lent the Convention $25,000. The Convention has fixed the Homestead Exemption at $1,600 -it was $3,000 before; it provides for biennial sessions- fixes t,he pay of members at $4 per day, and reduces the salaries of State officers to very low figures. There is seine probability that the people will refuse to ratify it. The Convention adjourned the 25th. "On the Fence." Two townships in Marion Couuty have voted on the Stock Lawv, defeat ing it by 5 to 1. The Stock Law was voted on in Anderson County the 18th, eleven townships going for and five against it. One township in Oconee County voted the 17th on the Fence Law. 17 in favor of fencing stock, 351 against. Elections were held in four town ships in Lancaster last week. Three voted to fence stock, and one to fence crops. ELEGANT FIAJI is Woman's crowning beauty, When it fades, she fades as well. While it is kept bright, her per sonal attractions are still maintained. By preserving the hair fresh and vig orous a youthful appearance is contin ued through many years. Those who grieve oever their fading hair turning gray too'early shculd know that Ayer's Hair Vigor prevents it, an;d re.stor-es gray or faded hair to its natural &do~. FOR THE HERALD. Broadbrimi's New .ork Letter. No. 32. History of the New Court House--Recollec tions of Watson, Tweed, Cardozo, liar nard and McCunn--The Stock Mar ket-A California Woman's Re venge---The Temperance Cru sade-The Weather The Markets, &c., &c. At the north end of the City Hall Park, and immediately on the site of the old Bridewell, stands a large un lnished white warble building known as the New Court House. Inside Fort William, in the British East Indies, stands an obelisk to mark the spot where once stood the terrible Black Hole of Calcutta. It tells a sickening story of brutality and suf fering. Yet it is no such monument of infamy as this. In Trinity Church yard is a mausoleum which marks the last resting-place of those who miserably perished of starvation and disease in the prison-ships =n New York harbor. Yet it i-ec,r,. ) tale of shame and sin which will equal the story of .this great whited sepulcher. In its rickety walls, and ill-begntten stairs, and villainous passage-ways, are entombed thirteen millions of the people's money. Nor is this all. Here, too, beneath the general ruin, lie the crushed hopes of thousands and thousands, mingled with a story of wickedness to which this world has fortunately few parallels. Cities in ancient and modern times have been taken by savage conquerors, and sacked and plundered and pillaged, but the robbery of this goodly city was effected by friends in a time of profound peace, and this great monu ment of municipal crime marks the spot where the infamy was consum mated. Those ragged curtains flut tering in the wind cost more than the velvet wonders of Lyons or the mirac ulous tapestries of Gobelin, and the price of the wretched frescoes on the ceilings and walls might have lined the building from cellar to dome with the rarest works of the Italian mas ters. From this place graduated that villainous trio which eventually reach ed the Supreme Bench of the State of New York. Here justice was aue tioned off as at a public mart ; here the widow was defrauded of her pro perty and the orphan was spoiled of his heritage ; might and crime tri umphed over justice and right, and the best law was given to the highest bidder. Over there, in those rooms on the east side, sat McCunu and Cardozo and Barnard when they chose to open chambers in the city of New York, and on the floor below sat Watson and Sweeney and Woodward dividing the city's plun dered millions among the band of the Forty Thieves. From here went out those terrible writs of mandamus and injunction which enabled Jim Fisk, in the light of open day, to smash the great safe of the Union Pacific Road, only to find that the plunder which he sought had gone where the wood bine twineth. Walk carefully up the iron stairs. Every step that you take is instruc tive. In the days of the ring each of these rooms along the corridor had a private history of its own. Many of them were fitted up with costly and magnificent furniture which has long since disappeared ; and here noted robbers and courtesans held high jinks away into small hours of the morning, washing down their deviled crabs and oysters with "Widow Clicquot" and 'Charles Hieidsieck," and then sleep ing off their swinish drunkenness on gorgeous couches of velvet and satin, which bad cost the city a thousand dollars apiece. Those were the days when a splendid wedding took place at a palatial mansion on the Fifth Avenue; New York held its bated breath in expectation of the great event, for an American princess was to be married., urn the day the entire business of the city was sus pended, and as the shadows of night fell cordon's of police 4eld all the ap proaches to the Emperor's palace, which for the time being was trans formed to a fairy bower, gorgeous in flowers and sparkling with jewels. The glittering buttons on the gaiters of the young bride were made of rare and costly diamonds, and .the display of gold and silver ware and precious jewels was roughly estimated by those who knew to be worth a quarter of a million of dollars. The bankrupt chair-maker, who in 1866 swore that ie did not own a dollar, had suddenly become a millionaire, and more than a millionaire, an autocrat and a despot with an army of hirelings and retain ers at his beck rivaling the retinue of a king. The wealth of a great State aggregating over two thousand mail lions of 'dollars lay at his feet as the spoil of his ~villainous conquest, and already plans were being formed which were to place this gigantic thief in control of the treasury of the United States. Let those who doubt the ex istence of an overruling Providence watch the tremendous sequences of this story. No mortal force seemed able to cope with the terrible power which controlled the executive of the State, which held in its deadly grip the sources and fountain of justice, which blocked every avenue to civil nd political preferment with bands of riinals and thieves whose legitimate sud was State's prison or the gallows, 'he 31st of danuary, 1871, broke sharp and cold and clear-a heavy fall >f snow had blocked up the streets, nd sleighs loaded with gay passeni ~ers, dashsed up and down the various ~rand avenues, filling the fashionable rives in the park and crowding Hiar em Lane. Late in the afternoon a ~oupe of fashionable bloods, wrapped u costly furs and driving a splendid mo'ca mn of blonded~ bays, stopped Mountain Boy and mate had just passed by, closely followed by Bouner driving the king of the American turf. Far as the eye could reach, either way, were spleudid equipages enliven ed with gold and silver bells, and glit tering amid jewels of snow. Sudden ly the two travelers of whom I spoke, leave the line and dash wildly up the mall. Screams of terror rung out from the affrighted crowd as they madly dashed along. Another madman heed less of danger is flying down in the opposite direction. There is a sud den crash, a wild cry of agony. One of the horses falls dead by the road side, the pole of the sleigh piercing his heart, and bleeding and torn, one of the gay travelers is dragged from among the ruius and borne back to his magnificent home and his agonized young wife to die. With that young life the keystone dropped out of the villainous arch, and when James Wat son died the rope of sand was broken, and you know the rest of the story. How the great thief became a wan dering vagabond, finding no shelter for his wicked head and no resting place for his weary foot, even in re mote and foreign lands, and at last worn and broken in spirit, he is drag ged back across the sea, and here in the city which he plundered and wronged he sits behind prison bars clutching the miserable remnant of his ill-gotten gains, and hopelessly waiting for that liberty which will come to him only in the grave. When Watson was killed thirty thousand dollars had been subscribed to raise a brazen statue to Tweed in the centre of the City Hall park. Part of the money was returned to the donors and that statue was never erected, a:d as lone as the new court house shall stand he will need no other monument. With Connoly and Sweeney, with Oakey Hall and Garvey, with Wood ward and Mike Norton and hosts of lesser thieves he will find himself en shriued in-infamy. They are waking an addition to the new court house now, which can scarcely add to its bad eminence. It is true that the present work is just and honest, and so far is worthy of commendation, but the rag ged villainy of the main building only has its worthlessness and poverty more powerfully illustrated by the excellence of the material and work. which is be ing put into the new addition. . The front of the building facing Chambers street has a bilious, unhealthy appear ance, as though suffering from a hee tic fever. No two stones seem to have come out of the same quarry, and you can readily imagine that some wander ing traveler am1ong the ruins of Pal myra or Balbec had surreptitiously come into possession of a lot of second hand material, and had afterward se cured a contract from the city of New York. There are scores of buildings in Europe from five hundred to a thous and years old which do not look more dilapidated and shabby than the New York City Court House. Yet, I would not have it other than it is. I hope to live to see it completed,, and when its lofty dome shall rest secuxrely on its massive arThes, and the figure of blind justice, with her evenly pois ed scales, shall stand triumphant on it.s summit, I would inscribe on a br-azen tablet on its front, "A memo rial fr-om the citizens of New York to the infamy of its municipal govern ment from 1868 to 1872." For the benefit of future generations, I would have it recite the story how vulgar thieves and harlots once got possession of the City and the State, that the American citizen of all cowing time reading the warning and the record may learn that honesty is the best policy, and that there is a just God who still rules the world. This week has not been very pro lific of news--Brooklyn furnishiog us with the only first-class sensation of the week. A damsel of fifty, and the mother of a good-sized family in San Francisco, came all the way from California to make minee-meat of a gay machinist who had formerly sus tained a peculiar relation to her not exactly sanctioned by .the church. She made an appointment to meet him in a dark street, though it ap pears he went to her house. They walked down-stairs quite lovingly to gether, when the lady whipped out a shoe-knife which she carried in her sleeve, and before you could say Jack, much less Robinson, that man was one of the worst-looking machinists in Brooklyn. He looked as though he had been attending a picnic in a sau sage-machine; and when the neigh bors rushed into the fray they thought they would have to carry the. machin ist away in pieces. The man was carried to the hospital and the woman was lodged in jail, but she hopes to' get out in the course of a few days, to carve up some other fellow if he says anything about her. The battle still rages between Jay Gould and the bulls and bears indiscrimintitely, -somebody is going- to get hurt. For the present the whole list of stocks has taken an upward start. A musical lunatic up town has been try ing to startle our police with the con fession that he is the murderer of Sa rah Alexander for which Rubenstein was sentenced to be hung over two years ago. There is nothing in the so-called confession to entitle it to a moment's consideration, and the only place for the unfortunate wretch who gulled the World's reporter, is in the inside of a lunatic asylum. The great temnperance tidal wave which we expected was going to sweep the city has not yet struck us; we hear from Ocean Grove, and other spiritual trongholds, of thousands and thou ands saved, but I strongly suspect that the majority of Ocean Grove onverts could not tell Bourbon whis key from Jamaica -rm, and would not know a gin cock-tail from a bran dy smash; we need the workers here among us sinners. It is not in the churches and gospel tents that you eighty thousand have profited by our public baths in the last two weeks. Fruit and vegetables of all kinds be gin to pour in on us like an avalanche. Business is reviving and our stray sheep are coming home. I am, truly yours, i;ROADBRDI. FoR THE IIERALD. Our Washington Letter. WASIINGTON, D. C., August 22, 1877. While Secretary Sherman was mak ing his political speech in -Ohio the other day, the Pennsylvania Republi 'can Association of this city was inak ing preparations to disband in accord ance with the President's civil service reform order. The Association was composed of clerks in the various De partments and gave an active and effi cient support to the Republican ticket in Pennsylvania, and to the National ticket. In the Presidential campaign of last year most of its members aban doned their official duties and were regularly engaged in sending docu ments to doubtful States. The de moralization of the public service here, as I long ago wrote you,.was complete, and through that demoralization Hayes came within stealing distance of the Presidency. Under Zach. Chandler the clerks in Washington literally flooded the doubtful States, like Ohio, with political documents. The last rose in the bouquet of whiskey thieves in Missouri, John A. Joyce, is with us. He is out of the penitentiary on habeas corpus, and does not expect t4 be confined again. He has in preparation a volume of poems, and a perusal of one or two of them makes oae believe that the charges of fraud in his case may after all have been false, and that his im prisonment was brought about by some Ieombination of people of literary taste in Missouri. Much could be said in extenuation of such a conspiracy. He has found a publisher however. Mr. Hayes is expected to return to us on Saturday next. It is not known here, however, whether he will accept Gov. Connor's and Senator Blaine's invitation to visit Maine. If he goes there his return will of course be de layed. The infinite assurance of that man Blaine, by. the way, will yet wake him a historical character. The State Senators elected this Fall in New York will hold over and par ticipate in the election of United States Senator in January, 1879. Conkling, Fenton and George Win. Curtis are named as Republicans who aspire to the honor. Fenton, when here in the Spring, was most cordially received by Messrs. Hayes, Evarts and others. The positions of Senator Conkling, 'the Administration, and the Republi can Party are such as to give peculiar interest to the comning election. ft is beginning to be believed that, of all the Republicaanjeaders who are dissat isfied with the Administration, he alone has the ability, determination, character and conscience to wake any considerable fight. The last despatches from the Indian war add General Sherman to Chief Joseph's list of victims. It was hard to have Howard out there in a place of danger, and apparently living and writing despatches only by the consent of the enemy, but to have one of the Sherman's fall into the hands of the Indians would be more than the loyal South or the strike-stricken North could bear. Let Secretary Sherman send Assistant Secretary McCormick into the Indian country, or the Gal pin family-there are eight of them in office here-or adopt some other moasure to protect Sherman and How ard. The world may shudder at such barbarous warfare, but it will not laugh. Geni. McClellan, who believes in a larger standing army, is endeavoring to show "that a sum greater than the expense of an increased military es tablishment has been paid annually for the transportation of men and mili. tary stores." If we should, as the General is understood to desire, sup port a standing army of '75,000 men, I fear the transportation of "military stores" would cost. much inore than now, and as numerous remote posts would be established in the far West, the increased cost would probably be enormous. The laboring men of Baltimore and other cities and large top.s of Mary land are organizing thoroughly for the political campaign. There seems to be a greater determination to .hold together than heretofore, an unusual earnestness and a disposition to ignore political parties. SOLON. WAsHINGTON.-One of the noblest charac teristics of the Father of hi.s country, was that in his boyhood whten he had committed an offense whlich was likely to bring the in fliction of the severest punishmnent, hie could not tell a lie. I grie~ve to say tha t ther e are reputable grocers and mneebants who will assure you that any other starch is as good as the Dur-yeas'. The awards of the great Centennial at Phtiladelphia have settled that question, and they have proclaimed that as against the starches of the world, there is none equal to that manufactured by the Dur yeas. They took the great medal at the World's Exhibition, and they pronounced their starch the best in the world. Al! re spectable grocers keep it. Ask for Durg'eas' Improved Corn Starch, and Duryeas' Saitinl Gloss Starch. Use it once and you will use no other. Memn, from Society Joutnal: "Mis - - ~ .iiIarried, On the 12th instant, by Rev. M. M. Boyd, Mr. ANDREW FULMER to Miss ELLBN CoN NOLLY, all of Newberry County, S. C. .Vew S wMiscellauneous. FOR SALE. 1,000 BUSHELS RED RUST PROOF OATS. For sale nine miles South of Ninety-Six, by J. K. DURST & CO. Cg' Sacked and delivered at Ninety Six, if desired Aug. 29, 35-3t. Fire Proof Roofing Paint. The subscriber is now prepared to apply his EUREKA SLATE PAINT to tin. roofs, and FIRE PROOF PAINT to shingle roofs. Sample for tin, J. P. AulI's.Mill and T. Q. Boozer's Bar Room, near Post Office. For shingles, H. H. Blease's Stables. GEO. NQRTH, Aug. 29, 35-1t. At H. H. Blease's. NOTICE. All persons holding Past Due School Claims against the County of Newberry, for the years 1875-6, will please register the same with the undersigned at:once. MUNSON S. LONG, School Con'r., N. C. Aug. 28, 1877-35-2t. ADGER COLLEGE. The Exercises of this Institution will.be opened at WALHALLA, South Carolina, on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th, 1877, with a corps of competent professors. - Tcrrox IN ADVANCE-$20 in Collegiate ; $10 in,. Preparatory? .and $6 ani $3. in the Primary Departuents, per session of five months. -* Board, including everything except lights and washing, Sl Oer menih, paybleimonth ly in advance. Location noted for henlth, pleasant cli mate and good watpr. For particulars ad dress J. J. NORTON, Chairman of Stockholders. Aug 29, 35-1m. PIANOS & ORGAN t$600 Yianos for $175,j"$200 Organs for $65,' 'Strictly first-class."t"The Best Made." Is it true? NO! Those who so advertise, offer Inferior Iistruments, priced at three times their.value. Buy from Responsible. Home Dealers,;and av6iddmposition.. . OLE sALE DEL oAtxsgNO No Co3misso; we sell V,iABir RU 'ETs,' fron 'EsT MAKERs. direct to pur chasers at FACTORY PRIcEs, [with .stool and cover]; :7.ct. $8; -ocT-$230; 7 OCT., SQrUARE GRAND, .$280. MiBON & HryMLI ORGANS. [with stool,] 3 sTops, $90; - 7 STOPS, $100; 9 sTors, $110. -Other Organs, 4 stops, $55; 7stops, $65; 0 stops;$75. -fteCn- days Lrial-written gane. Reduetion to Teachers, Schools and Churches. Fair and Square.dealing. Send for Catalogaes and Special Offers Sept. 1.1877. LUDDEN & BATS, Savannah Ga., Wholesale Piano and Organ haers. Aug. 29, :35-It. Cannot be equaled in the medical world for ali DISEASE OF THE LIVEER Bilious Complaints, Constipation, Dyspejsia, -, - Erysipelas, Low, Nervous and Simple Fevers, Gastric Fevers, Gripes, Hearthurn, Headache, Indigestion, Liver Complaint, ad alrarneaun ~arising from want of action in the Ibigestire Organs, - Difficult Breathing, Acid Stomach, Dyspeptic Consumption, Determination of Blood to the Head, Flatalency, Tneammnation of Vital Parts, Inflammation of the Stomach, Jaundice, &c. .Simmons' Hepatic Compound.has-nothing In its composition that can possibly1njure the most delicate.- Its taste is not unpleasant, does not nauseate or gripe, and yetr it ~Scts on the liver and bowels just as efcpU as calomel or any- of the preparatiohsof mercury, without m'njuring the constitu:tion or debilitating the system. - For sale Wholesale and Retail b POPE & WARDbrAW, DR. WV. F. PRATT, DR. W. E. PRTHAM, Newberry. DowrE & MoIsE, Proprietors,. Charleston, S.C. EDWARD SGHOLTZ, WATCHMAKER JEWEzL L ER, Is now to be found at the. store of Me. Fall & Pool, where he will M.tind to all business in his line with fidelity and dis patch. .. - - - Eg WORK WARRANTED TO GIVE SATISFACTION. .g1 Aug. 3,35-ly. . J. B. ADGE &C., 137 and 189 Meeting Street, CHARLESTON, S. C, WUOLES.1LE DEALERS IN FOREIGN and DOMESTIC IB V1RE ANDIfULERY, Gr-LTNS, BAR IRON AND STEEL, SADDLERY AND SADDLERY HARD WARE. State Agents for the Celebrated Farmers' Friend Plows. A full line of. A6RICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND STEELS. S tate Agents for the TREDEBAR HORSE AND MULE SHOES, rhich have been recently improved, and v'e now offer them to the Trade ithd entire atisfacetion. - Our entire m!ock is nos full and comn il'c, to which we invita theat,.eantion of