The Newberry herald. (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, July 17, 1878, Image 2
Tbhe iHer ald.
THOS. F. GRENEKER, EDITons.
W. H. WALLACE,
NEWBERRY. S. C.
WEDNES1DAY, JULY 17, 1878.
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
The Herald is in thehighest respect aFti-a
ily Newsnaper, devoted to the material i m
terests oi the people of this County and t he
State. - It circulates extensively, and as an
'Advertisin- medium offers unrivailed ad
vantages. 'or Terms, see first page.
FOR GOVERNOR:
WADE HAMPTON.
The Liberia Emigrants.
MR. WILLIAMs' SECOND LETTER TO THE
NEWS AND COURIER.
The first letter of A. B. Williams,
the correspondent sent to Liberia
with the emigrant ship Azor, was
noticed by us last week. It was
sent from Freetown, in Sierra Le
one, three hundred miles from Mon
rovia, the capital of Liberia and.
the place of destination. The sec
ond letter, which was mailed from
Monrovia, June 2nd, was printed
in the News and Courier the 9th
instant. We are sorry that we have
not space to give this letter, as
well as the former one, in full.
When the ship reached Sierra
Leone twenty-three emigrants had
died, there. was much sickness still
on the vessel, and . provisions had
ran down very low. Capt. Holmes
feared that with the calms then pre
vailing it might require eight or ten
days for the Azor to reach Monro
via, (the Azor is a sail vessel,) and
the consequence might be many
more deaths. He therefore made
arrangements with a steamship to
tow the Azor from Sierra Leone to
Monrovia, which was done in two
days the steamer charging for its
services ?210, equal to $1,050,
which has to be paid by the Liberia
Exodus Association. They reached
Monrovia June 2nd,'forty-two days
after leaving Charleston. it was
expected to make the trip in twenty
five days at most. Mr. Williams'
description of Freetown, the Capi
tal of Sierra Leone, is well drawn.
"The laboring people of both sexes,"
he says; "are very erect and well
shaped, and are very strong. Al
most all the overland transportation
is done on human heads, there be.
ing only three horses in the entire
colony. A woman will walk into
town at a good pace from miles in
the country, with a clild swinging
at her back, and from thirty to
seventy pounds of produce on her
~head, carrying herself as well and
showing as little fatigue as an ave
rage American or English woman
would after a mile's unemcumbered
stroll. What the men carry I am
afraid to say. I saw one carrying
two huge iron pots on his head,
weighing probably 150 pounds, and
he looked as if he hardly felt them.
The town proper (Freetown) con
tains about 3,600 population, and
the colony of Sierra Leone extends
some thirty miles back of the coast,
and contains between 30,000 and
40,000 people." The total number
of white people in the colony is
about 200. The colony is ruled by
a Governor and Council appointed
by the English Government. They
are all white men. The name of
the present Governor is Rowe.
Some of the petty officers are col
ored.
The laborers get about 25 cents
a day, and a good clerk or shopman
$15 to $25 a month, and they seem
to live comfortably and contented
ly.".
There is no need there of the
"XVth Amendment." On this point
we let Mr. Williams speak his own,
words:
"sTRUCK ALL OF A HEAP'.
An English gentleman, with
whom I became acquainted, invited
me to his house for dinner. He
was a prominent man, and there is
no doubt as to his business and
social standing being of the best.
On going to his house, I wasj
"-struck all of a heap" by being in
troduced to his son and daughter,
both unmistakably colored. In the
expressive language of Mrs. Gamp,
"You might 'a knocked me down.
with a feather." BIlue Moses !
Here was I who had never, never,
never, sat at meat with anything
but pure Caucasian ; who had
never called colored man or woman
"Mr.," "Miss" or "Mrs." (resorting
oftentimes to ingenious devices to
avoid doing so without giving
offence, such as asking a boy crn
i!i~ to the door "who lives )aer~ ~ I
-onfronted with this appalling pro
blem. Of course there was only
Dne thing to he done, and I went
blindly and recklessly in and did it
-that was pretend that there was
nothing unusual, and that 1 didn't C
know white from otherwise. She I
did the honors of the table very e
gracefully, and afterwards per
formed several airs on the piano
with correctness and taste. I was
so afraid she had noticed my in- 0
voluntary start at first, that I as
sured her with tears in my two (
e'en that her music was the sweet
est I had ever heard.
A LITTLE SUPPER.
I met there an American-a New
Yorker and a "Copperhead." who
had been living five years in Sierra i
Leone, and he carried me off to a
"little supper," in a delightfully
cool upstairs room somewhere,
where a miniature fountain played
from among green shrubs in the
centre of the table, and we ate
roast fowl and salmon, and drank
claret from porous clay utensils in
company with two men black as
crows, one of whom addressed my
friend by his last name. There's
social equality, and nobody seems
to feel or see any difference. My
American friend says "You soon
get used to it." The fact is the
colored people in Sierra Leone are
so thoroughly Anglicized in every
respect that the English find no
difficulty in forgetting their skins.
I ain't English. I learn that the
colored daughter of my English
friend is a leader of the Freetown
ton. Indeed, while I was in the
house, the wife of a major in the
army came in and paid a sociable
visit.
In regard to the pecuniary con
dition of the emigrants Mr. Wil
liams says: "Several of the steer
age passengers started from Char- i
leston with actually not one cent. f
Others had sums varying from $1 1
to $10. One told me: 'I gave the <
last $5 bill I had when they told :
me the ship couldn't start without
more money,' Another, who came
away without a dollar in his pocket,
holds claims for $1,200 against the
Association. I don't think more
than five of those aboard have over
$50 in clear cash. The managers
kniew this too !"
Agricultural Society.
We are glad to see the efforts
made by some of our people for se
cring a County Agricultural Socie
ty, and have no doubt that they
will be successful. Monday, the
5th of August, a grand mass meet
ing in this interest will be held at
the Court House, where the people
of the County will be addressed by
'distinguished speakers.
-A Chinaman applied the 10th to
Judge Choate, of New York, to be
come a citizen of the United States.
His application was denied, wnder
the decision of the United States
Circuit Court 'for the District of
California, in the case of Ah Uup.
Where can the law be that allows a
German, Frencthman, Englishman,
or Russian to become a citizen, but
not a Chinamuan ?
About Stamnps.
There are 700,000,000 postage
stamps sold annually to the people
of the United States ; 96,003,000
of these are sold at the New York
Post Office. They are all made on
Prince Street, New York City.
Their manufacture requires delicate
handling, and therefore young girls
of dainty hands are employed by
the government to make them.
With this assurance, what man will
object to licking a postage stamp ?
State News.
Five whites and one negro were
sentenced by Judge Thomson at
Georgetown last week to be hanged
for murder.
Wmn. Springs, ex-deputy mar
shal, was convicted of grand lar
ceny last week at Greenville, and
sentenced by Judge Kershaw to the
penitentiary for three years.
Robert Smalls is understood al
ready to have declared his intention
of being a candidate for the next
Congress, and ex-Judge Wright is
to locate in Beaufort for the pur
pose of becom~ing a member of the
next General Assembly from this
Count y.-Beaufort Tribune.
Harvey Terry, a memb.er of the
Columbia Bar, was iined $500, or
six months imprisonment, by Judge
Aldrich in Columbia, Saturday, for
contempt of Court. The contempt
consisted in his publishing in the
Charlotte Observier, somne time ago,
an abusive article agahast udg.e
Shaw for deciding against him in
his "B3anki jills" case.
The Charleston Bgg,ng Factory
has been in operation only a aew
weeks. Th.e Company employed
unskilled laboter-s in their own city,
rather than send North. for expo I
rienced hands, preferring to help i
home people. These laborers have
The County Convention Saturday 1
ras a harmonious one, and augurs
rell for the success of the party
bis campaign. The rearrangement i
f the Township delegations, don
Pling the number, and giving to! 1
ach Township a fixed and certain i
umber of votes, are features that 1
aust commend themselves favor
bly to all fair minded Democrats.
The delegates to the State and
,ongressional Conventions are men
vho have the confidence of the peo
>e-a better selection could not
ia.ve been made. No County in
he State can make a better show.
ng, and we hope all of them will
o, though they have to do it at a
acrifice of time'and expense.
Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Sierra Leone where the Azor first
topped is a small country on the
Nest coast of Africa, adjoining
iberia. and on the North. It was
stablished by the English. through
he father of Lord Macaulay, as a
-efuge for negroes, many of whom
scaped from the United States.
rhe Capital is therefore appropri
tely named Freetown. The gov
rnment of Sierra Leone, as Mr.
Williams says, is administered by
hite officers appointed by the En
rish Government.
Liberia-and that name too sug
rests freedom-is also inhabited al
nost exclusively by negroes-in
leed no one but a negro can gain
:itizenship in Liberia. The gov
Nrnment is elective, and is formed
>n the model of this. The gover
ior is elected for two years; he
ippoints, with the approval of the
genate, his Cabinet or State ofli
,ers. Senators are chosen for four
years, and representatives for two.
3o the emigrants can have as much
olitics as they want.
Editorial Correspondence.
PHE BEST WX CAN DO--HOT, HOT
TER, HOTTEST-MUSQUITOES AND
IiAT CATCHINO--STILL HOT--TE
GENERAL oPINIoN-CARHEGR
& CARSON-AT GLENN'S
MORE EPSoM SALTS THAN
EVER-EFFECT ON sUN
SIE DRINKERS-A
BREAKFAsT 0 N
TIME-E. S. C.,
WANTED, &C.
%iLENN1 SiNq s, July 10, 1878.
Without the ingenuity of the 1Frceh
yoo'k who could prepare a delicious
soup out of such scauty materials as
rock with a few condiments for sea
oning, or a greasy leathern apron, we
md it anything but easy to serve the
readers of the HERALD with a dish of
ossip of an appetizing character out
>f the limited materials at hand, but
we yield to the necessity of the case
rnd will do the best under the circum
stances. Leaving Newberry on Fri
iay last when the temperature was as
pleasant as a May morning, and which
endition it was hoped would continue,
e got into a torrid gone before reach!
ig Columbia. hot the three let
ters making up the little word are not
dequate to a proper understanding of
the character of the weather. 9Add
our mnore and make it hiottest, then
over it all over with dust, fill the hair
with cinders, as well as the eyes with
ome of the same and a tolerably cor
ret may be formed. Of course it
would be pleasanter in the city.
Not a bit of it, the extra steamn
enerated on the day before-the glo
rious Fourth-had not yet cooled off,
ind ts effects were seriously felt by
your correspondent and sadly exhibit!
d in a general look of wilt. All this
bhough could be borne, for were we
rot full of pleasant anticipation of
ountain breezes, laden with aromatic
dors of balsam and fir, wafted over
green pastures and fertile valleys ?
Vo be sure. Even the desperate at
backs of Richland mosguitoes on that
ight, did no,t make ys gnhappy; no,y
:he several wakings,eggsed by a whole
ale rat catching indulged in by ths
~miable family with whom we lodged
-who it appeared. had been vainly
trying to trap them for several nights
efore. On this occasion they were
~ingulary fortunate in catching seven.
ach wars a aeparate catch, and as this
ntersting family slept with og.e eye
d both ears open, each snap of the
tap brought them quickly to their
'eet, and eaich age geijing a weapon of'
,ome. kind and rushing pell mell down
tairs, overturning chairs and tables in
heir way as with exultant shouts they
ept for the unlucky rodent, it may
e eaanly im,ined that.the writer
houht several thin g&, ntj east of
whih was that he was caught in a
retty tolerable big trap. This was
epeaed 3.ye gles; first a snap, a
queal', a sound o'mr'ey -ee a r"ing
h#o,thoigo e o .s r,sh
h og thowin gs end on osars~
og. stio- toet iast th death$
~aeh striving to get ~u at ~
bat coming down, with the difference
:hat it was more so; the higher we
vent, and the nearer to the mountain
-egion the hotter it grew. Spartan
>urg reached At 5, and in the shade,
yut not in the cool. The first native
net said, "aint it hot ?" and so did
,he next and several others. There
.s no use in disguising the fact, it was
sot, terrifically hot, and we do not
blame any one for saying so, Fearing
it might grow hotter, we hastened on
to Calcutt's refuge for the weary-the
Hampton House. On the way, and
)n the porch of the "Piedmont,"
itood Chase, who kindly informed us
that it was hot. We thanked him
For the information. Water from the
North side of Calcutt's well reduced
dust and grime and produced a better
feeling, which with a capital supper
restored body and mind to a happy
equilibrium.
Monday morning, in one of Carrier
& Carson's best carriages, with Glenn
Springs as the objective point, and
which wis reached at eleven o'clock,
with more experience of the heat. By
the way the gentlemen above named
keep the best stables in Spartanburg,
and are always ready with good stock
and comfortable vehicles to speed the
weary or sick traveller to the Spring,
or whatever other point he may wish
to reach, at very reasonable rates. Do
not forget them.
At Glenn's, and after a two days
sojourn what can we say more th'an
has been so often said, that. it is the
place for all who suffer with liver com
plaint, dyspepsia, kidney affections or
cutaneous diseases. Hundreds of cures
testify to the truth of this, but with
regret we record the fact that the two
days past have been hot, and our ex
perience is that the spring is at least
a third farther from the hotel than
during any of our previons visits, the
hill steeper and rougher and the water
stronger and more akin to Epsom
Salts than ever before. The effect of
ali these things combined are seen to
a marked degree in the faces of the
two score of people who have come
here for the water. We see it plainer
and hear more of it in the early morn.
ing, for it is they who visit the spring
at sunrise and take their rations early
who receive the most benefit. Par
tiularly noticeable was this fact this
morning ; several shadss of brown and
black had disappeared during the
night from the faces of the sunrise
drinkers, long faces seemed inches
shorter, smiles were dispensed freely,
steps were lighter, and not a few dim
ples were seen on rosy cheeks which
before had been- strangers to anything
so attractive. The change was strik
ing and pleasant, and the interchange
of experiences was refreshing to hear.
This one's pains had flown away in
the night, another had lost that~ full
ness in his head, another felt as "brisk
as a bee and light as a fairy," another
knew that his liver had been touched,
while all were as hungry as wolves,
and it was a sight after the return up
the hill-that terrible hill-to see
their onslaught on the breakfast. It
is a fact worthy of mention that even
the cook~s and waiters-who all drink
freely of the fountain-eve:t they
seemed infused and enthnsed with a
new life, for the meal exceeded all
other meals 'both in preparation and in
serving. The hash was introduced in
round dane~measure, the steak with a
quick step, fried chicken came in on
the wing, bread and battereakes on the
double quick, while coffee, tea and
milk requiring more dignity and ease
of motion came in to march time. It
was a gala occasion. The genial pro
prietors. father and son, #ith the
yoiggr scions of the family, were in
oclated, and were even happier and
more attentive than ever-in short the
effects of the water on Tuesday, July
10th, were wonderful to behold.
A change had come over everyone's
dream, and we fetched a sigh-the
only one breathed on that occasion
that our festive friend, E. S. C., was
not here to enjoy it, and if he has not
started for Glenp's ere plhy !etter is
made publie we hope phat he will hy~
ten, for several of the fair ladies who
were here last season are again in the
picture, and wait with charming iw
patience for him.- We feel ever so
much sympathy for the dear creatures
-gay youths are exceedingly scarce.
Old married men, old fogies and all
of'yspegge; make up the book, and
the girls unfortLnateg annot make
anything of them however bright thei,r
eyes, sweet their sm4es or chm
their tojlebtes.
Newberry is at pres,en# representc4
by Messrs. John Cannon and David
Hipp, of Pomaria, J. S. Spearman and
W. F. RobiBson, of Whitmires, 3. P.
Kinard, of Four Mile House fame, and
your humble correspondent, but this
aferno&n rge lo for a happy increase
in number from thie baar.eg Dgnty.
The cabins are all occupied this season
by Laurens and Spartanburg people,
and ig:ors are coming in rapidly
t 'r.vshaga pgand othe,rs
on thie roa-now as the abccepjtedtime
--co 1.:!And ea .I te
FoR THE HERALD.
A Few Suggestions to the Dem
oerats of the Country.
The Democratic party of this Coun
ty should by no mearn feel secure of
success in the campaign row opening.
They should bear in mind that all the
efforts of 1876 resulted in a partial
failure, and that our victories in July,
1877, and in January of the present
year, were achieved when there was
no Republican ticket in the field, and
were only in contests with an ill-or
ganized Independent party.
Now we have to apprehend and to
guard against both Republicans and
Independents. There is no likelihood
that we shall encounter at the polls a
ticket of candidates from each one of
the two; but it is more than probable,
as appearances now indicate, that we
shall have to contend against a deter
mined effort ou the part of one or the
other. of them, or of a fusion of the
two; and we must therefore provide
against both of them.
The Republican party is not near so
thoroughly broken up as many of our
people imagine. It would besingular
if it were. For it is an organization
drilled and compacted by ten years of
constant struggle and discipline, it
reckons as its adherents a race having
a majority of near twenty thousand
voters in this State, and it is managed
by unscrupulous and desperate leaders
whose followers hitherto have been
their very slaves. It is well ascer
tained that this party, under the di
rection of its National leaders, will
make a determined effort to elect mem
bers of Congress in the South in every
Congressional District where there is a
negro majority-which is the case in
every Congressional District in this
State-in order to increase, by any
means, the strength of the party in the
House of Representatives in Congress.
It is equally, if not more important to
them to have a majority, on joint bal
lot, in our State Legislature, so as to
enable them to elect a United States
Senator, next winter, to fill Patterson's
place-and also to control as far as
possible the general legislation of the
State. It is generally believed that
they will nominate no State ticket this
year; but we have only their state
ments, and our opinion of their gene.
ral satisfaction with our State officers,
to found this conclusion upon. The
former of these we know to be utterly
unworthy of belief, anid the latter is
not such a thing as should at all satis
fy our minds. They might-if they
should despair of overcoming Hamp
ton's strength with the colored voters
-run a ticket .with him as their nom
inee for Governor..
B3ut however these things may be,
that party is still under very good or
ganization ; they are now holding
meetings with the evident purpose of
thoroughly re-establishing themselves
in the State ; they recognize the great
importance of having a majority in the
Legislature ; and the writer has such
information as leads him to expect
that they, either' as a separate party
or in connection with such indepen
dent organisations as may arise, will
run a full ticket .in every County in
which there is a decided colored ma
jority. We must therefore be active
and alert.
But the chief danger to us seems to
be in the way of an independent tick
et. There is in this County, as in al
most every section of the State, a set
of persons who have fished for offic
and been disappointed or who* know
that it wo.uld be useless for them to try
for office in the regular Democratic
party, and also general grumblers, mal
contents and Ishmaelites (their hands
being against all organization) who
are ripe fov almost any movement
short' of going into Radicalism, by
which pour organization may be de
feated. And to this thoroughly bad
element-which is, I am happy to be
lieve, small in numbers-there may be
added, unless we exerciseagreat cai-e,
a much more respectable class, both
in character and in numbers, who, be
ing Democrats in their principles, may
yet fancy that perfeet justice and fair
ness have not been practised by our
party, and who therefore, and because
they apprehen4 no dangeF from the
laials, may seek t.o pontrol thp
Conty by ap'indepsndent movemaent.
Te form-atipo of sageh a party will 4e
pesd largely upon the Re&publicau
movements. If the Republicans inau.
gurate early a campaign of their own,
we shall have no independene' move
ment; if they do not, it will depend
very much upon our action whether
such independent movement is under
taken or not. If a Republican cam
paign is postponed till late in the sea
son, and then rushed upon us, no
doubt all independents will come over
o j ygih.e r4ere g'ill have been
a division amongst our own race which
cannot- but prove injurious. If the
Republians put no ticket in the field,
their people will unite, in large num
bers, with the independents-anything
to heat the regular Democratic party.
With such possibilities staring us in'
the face, and in view of the importance
of the things at stake in the cam
paiga, both as regards the filling of
offices now and the effects upon the
gNat~ fr'eie4ial camupaign to take
ae in 1.$50, je'eannot agor4 'pd e
igher rash or idle. Qn tlhe coptrary,
wp rpast s4; g.o work to thoroghy dr
ganize god .solidify gg~r regglai- Demo
cratic party, to enlarge ir.g ni4mb0r
and harmonize its members, to infuse
enthusiasm and unselfishness into their
minds. With such a body of workers,
and by exercising due vigilance of our
adereg whoever they may be,
there-is 'nb rinda' why we s'ioud not
achieve a complete 'vfctor~ i6 sh
County. Without such exertion, we
gud .in gr'at danger of.f disgraceful
En gsasrogsqefea. An ! he soon
~v' ~.pi nnderstand our situation the
Democratic County Convention
This body met in the Court House
Saturday, 13th instant. A Consitution
was preseted and adopted-(see else
where.)
Delegates elected: To the State Con
vention-James N. Lipscomb, C. H.
Suber, W. M. Dorrob, L. B. Maffett.
Congressional Convention--R. L. Me
Caughrin, Geo. Johnstone, W. D. Har
dy, Jonn McCarley.
Col. E. S. Keitt offered the following:
Resolved, 1st. That the citizens of
Newberry County have unlimited confi
dence in the wisdom and integrity of
His Excellency Governor Wade Hamp
ton, and will give him a full support in
his re-election to the same high posi
tion.
Resolved, 2nd.- That we are as much
satisfied now with the platform adopted
in 1876, as we were then, and instruct
our delegates to the State Convention
to vote for its adoption.
Unanimously adopted.
J. F. J. Caldwell, Esq., offered the
following:
Resolved, That the Democratic Clubs
of each Township of this County be and
they are hereby ordered to furnish the
Executive Committe of the County by
the 1st day of September next, a roster
embracing the number of white Dem
ocratic vQters, the number of colored
Democratic voters and the nuiber of
colored Republican voters in their re
spective Townships, as accurately as
the same can be ascertained, arranged
under separate heads.
Adopted.
C. H. Suber, Esq., offered the follow
ing:
Resolved, That the four. delegates to
the State Convention, and the four dele
gates to the Congressional Convention,
shall act as alternates, the one set for
the other, in the order in which they
are chosen.
Adopted.
Constitution of the Democratic
Party of Newberry County.
CLuBs.-There may be es many
Clubs as may be desired, except that,
with the exception of Clubs now in
existence, no Club shall consist of
members who are residents of different
Townships, and that no Club shall
consist of less than fifteen members.
No person shalLbe a member of a Club
who will not at the election next suc
ceeding his admission be of the full
age of twenty-one years. Clubr shall
adopt such Constitution as they may
desire, not inconsistent with this Con
stitution and, the principles of the
Democratic party of this State.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.-There
shall be an Executive Committee con
sisting of eleven members, one of
whom shsll reside in each of the Town
ships of the County. The Executive
Committee shall bold their offices for
two years and untit.their successors
are appointed. They shall be elected
by thme County Convention that first
meets after the first day of May in
each succeeding two years, beginning
with the year 1878, which said date
shall be the period from which their
term of office begins. Any vacaney
in the Executive Committee shall be
filled by the County Convention meet
ing at the time of, or next after, the~
occurrence of the vacancy. The Ex.
ective Committee shall select its own
Chairman. It shall elect a Secretary,
and may remove him it pleasure. The
Secretary of the Executive Committee
shall be the Secretary of the County
Conventions.
The Eecutive Committee shall have
a general supervision of the affairs of
the party, affd shall call together the
County Convention whenever tksy
may deem it necessary, or whenever
requested to do so by any five Clubs.
It shall provide for the taking of ros
ters, and shall direct all matters con~
nected with the organization and man
agement of the party sod the conduct
of the camnpaigns not otherwise erx.
pressly provided for in this Constitu
tion or the County Conventions.
A County Treasurer shall be electe4
by the County Qonyegtion at the same
time ps 4he 4Egeentive Committee.
e shall hold his offee for the same
period and dating from the same. timie
as the members of the Exeutive Com
mittee. A vacancy in his office shall
be filled in the same manner as in the
Executive Committee. He shall col..
let and pay out all moneys on the or
der of the Chairman of the Executive
Committee.
COUNTY CON VENTION.-The Coun
y Conyepngpp shiai not he a prma
nent body. It shall be called together
for the purpose of nominatf~ng candi
dates for office, for sending delegates
to State, Circuit and Congressional
Conventions, &c., and for the purpose
of considerin3g the condition of the
party, and its decision on all matters
pertaining to the affairs of the party
shall be supreme. It shall be called
for a spefi[e purpose or puirposg,
whph a all be statig in the call, bpp
it may wIkhu previous gotice ae)
ppp apy mttef of detail or any urn
foreseen exigency. in considering all
matters authorized to be acted upon
by it by this Constitution it shall have
full power to adjourn from time to
time as convenience may require.
$xcept the offcers now in existence.
and with' t'io ediep'tion of the .Secre
tary," each" ConvehtionAhdi eliet ils
:N ofcr,whieh' shaldt be ~a Presi
on o~cers, *-~~V-~
Township No. 1, 22 delegates.
't " 2, 6 "
" 3, (5"
" 4. 8
8i 7 6 (
" 8, 6 "'
" 9, 16 "
" 10, 10 "
4 11, 12 "
No more than this number of dele
gates shall be admitted to the floor ol
the 'Convention. Each delegate shall
have one vote : no more ; no less
but in the absence of a delegate or al
.ternate from a Club or Tuwniship the
wellbers from that Club or Townshi[
shall be allowed to east the full vote ol
the Club or Township. The differenl
Clubs in the same Township shall
agree among themselves as to the aum.
ber of the Township delegation that
each Club shall send up or elect
Each Club shall regulate the term ol
office of its own delegates.
A'%ENDMENTS.-Atmedienits and
alterations may be made to this Con.
stitution by a County Couvention by v
vote of two-thirds of the -tdiiibern
present.
"OR THE HERALD.
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
July 10, 1878.
Between those Republican paper.
which wish the Potter Investigatiot
to dama-ge Stanley Matthews but noi
to injure John Sherman, and thos(
which wish to injure Sherman but noi
to damage Matthews, the readers o:
Republican newspapers will get a littli
understanding of the real importanci
of the testimony so far given and tha
now being taken in New Orleans. I
is being made clear that, the electioi
if Louisiana was a peaceful one, tha
the negroes in the Felicianas hai re
solved of their own will to vote th
Democratic ticket, and that the Re
publican managers, knowing this fact
had resolved to hold no election it
those Parishes. But the elections wer
held, were perfectly fair and free, an
Anderson and Webber, election off
cers, were bribed by the New Orleans
politicians and the visiting statesmer
to make false protests so that the vote:
of the Parishes might be thrown out
If these facts are not already estab
lished no facts can be by human testi
mony. Mr. Reed, of the .Louisian;
sub-Committee returns to Maine, an<
Mr. Cox, of Ohio, takes his place
The sub-Committee will sit for a mont]
or more yet. Nearly the full Com
mittee will be there after 10 or 1
days.
The Gen. Fitz John Porter inquir;
decites great interest from the fac
that partizan considerations were b
lIeved by many to have influenceet
memnbers of the Court at his trial
A side from this it .would have interes:
because of the great services rendered
by the accused during one of the Sevei
D)ays battles on the Peninsuila, when
having charge of the Federal Artille
ry -he was credited with saving Mc
(Clellan's army from destruction. Bul
other parties convicted by Court Mar.
tial have the same right to a hearing
that Gen. Porter has. A board o1
Army officers, ex-volunteer Army offi
cers or civilians ought to sit in Wash,
ington for the purpose of hearing.any
ex-soldier's statement of his case and
excamining the record of hj trial
The arbitrary rules of the regular arm~
were applied to a mob of fissh younw
men who left their homes'7for a pa.
triotic purpose, and thousands of then
saifer to-day undeserved punishment
for petty offenses coimmitted in igno
rance. The Board could tecommend
to Congress relief in casesiere relie
seemed proper. I have in mind the
case of a Maine soldier who, returning
fromf furlough, lost several days time
on acceunt of a storm whieba prevented
raloa travel: Arriving at Augusta
on $he day that lbe shonuld have reach.
ed Washington, the sharks who flour.
ished in that place arrested him, goi
$80 for it, and sent him here to be
tried. He was tried, convicted of de
sertion and sentenced to loss of pay
and imprisonment. The imprison
meat cannot be wiped out, but simple
justice requires that the money earned
by the soldier should be paid him,
and that the Government reords
should show, somewhere, the facts in
his case. There are many thousands
of eases like this..
fndinetge: Democrat will be sc
far misled by the Radical attaer just
now at its fiercest against Speaker
Randall, as to forget the leading part
he had in forcing that party to loosen
the shackles of the South and in
bringing National Democracy out of
its worse than Babylonish captivity.
Nor will honest men, heretofore acting
with the Republican party, be deterred
from t.heir purpose .to find a more con
genial home and associates with their
late enemi4es, by the effor nOW geing
ma.4e all along'the eglia line:to
smirclk Mr. IRanda1l because he ~red
to ea4 the attention of the count,iy to
the s;%dy prgs qf thne Bemnperats
in Congress under his lead; inAring
ing down appropriations to a /reason
able figure and gradually working the
old ship of state.around to hei' ancient
Democratic moorings. Whatever per
sonal preferences may be, the inherent
love of justice and fair play :that has
always kheaeateried the grdat maso of
the Jefferso~nnar embra'#,vill lead
its memnhersdo rent this mnrononed
4eNO A oWiseeUaneons.
Quarterly-Report of the Clerk and
Treasurer of the Town of A'ew
be?ry. from Ith A4pril, 1878, to
16th July,1878.
RECEIPTS.
11-13alance 16th April, 1878, 8 48 76
Special Licenses, 6 00
Street Exemptions, 51 00
Market, 142 40
Taxes on Real Estate and
Persunal Property, 1,331 68
Fines, 37 00
S31e f Luiuber, 60
G-sts collected from J. W.
Sto'mn.i, 36-00
S1.653 44
EXPENDITURES.
Police, . 6397 00
Strews. '. 349 55
John S. F:fr as
Eiec:iQU Man
ager( 3 00i
Newberry. H EFt
ALD7.51 90
NwberryNezcs, .31 00
D. Henry Wheel
er, 100 00
J.W.Stockniau, 42 50
Clerk and Tre:is.
urer, 76 00
SundryAccounts, 321 24--1j37279
Balance with -terk- and '
Treasurer, July 16,
1878, $28065
C. B. BUIST,
Clerk and Treasurer.
July 17, 29-It.
Prosperity Rifles respectfully noinate
Capt. A. *H. WHEELER for Lieutenant.
Colonel of 1st Regiment S. C. V. T., at- the
ensuing election. Re was a faithful sol
dier during the war, and we recommend
him to the Regiment as a gentleman, and
he will make a good officer. 11 .
CARD OF THANKS.
MESsas. EDIToE-;: The Nesberry ies,
twenty-one in number, who were entertain
ed last Thursday night on their:-jirg to
the Picuic and Barbeem
Church the day following ost-espiectfully
beg space in your columns to.
grateful aaknowledgments rous
host and hostess, Gol. an -V. Gist,
for the genuine hospitality eiended - to
them on the occa.4". Their.Adamn FRill
long be remembered- by tfeW*berry
Rifles. 1.
INotice to Property (owmers.
The Board of Equalization wili meet on
Monday, the 5th Augst; at the out
IAudlitor's Office. W11eqnualh t:al
Estate of Township No:1,on the 5th and
6th ; No. 2,. on the37t1; No. ., on the 8th ;
- No. 4, onthe 9th ; No. 5, on-ihe10th; No.
. 6, on the 12th ; No. 7, on the 13th ; 'No. 8,
- on the 16th, and Nol ii,:on the 17th. -
B. 4. RANA1GE, - -.w
JA COB K. SCHUMFERT,
SAM'L. W. CANNON,
o~ -df Eiiation.
July 15, 1878--29-2L. -
]!kecutors' NNojice.
All .persons having demands against~ the
Estate of John Sattcrwhite, deceased,' are
hereby notified to present -their-^denuanda,
Sproperly attested, to the - or
some' one of them,-'or to Messrs. Soe
Caldwell, Attorneye for the .Estate, en or
before the fifteenth day of A t
Iand all persons indebted to said Rtte are
.requiired to taake. paument to the under
signed by that day, if they would save costs
of suit. ELIA 'IT W T34
DI. S. SATTEERWHTE,'
D. S. SATTERWHITE,
July 17, 29-df Executors.
Guardfau's Notice,
The undersigned hereby ives noiIiethat.
he wilmake afalset&lemerttin the 2jro
bate Court for Newberry County, on Satur
day, the 17th day of August next;ss Gnar.
-dian of Anna 3M. Boyd, and immediately
thereafter apply for a fimal dica- a
such Guardian. - -ha
JOHN R. SPEARMAN, SE.
Guardian. of Anna-L.Joyd.
July 17, 29-5t.
UNITED STATES D1STRICT . COURT.
DISTRICT OF 80UT'H CAROLINA,
- In Bankruptcy.
The creditors of John W. Folk, Bank
rupt, are hereby notified. that a meetin
for the purpose of finally establishing -l"
claims against said;estteg -an4decaig
a dividend, will be held bfre .the nder
signed Register, at 1Newb)erry Q
~rolina, on Wednes4ay, ~e
Newberry, 16th July, 1878. 20.-8t
FOR THIR'TY DAYS
MV$iENITEW@TCK
-OF
S)MER 6 OnS
WILL BE RUN OFF
s~? Wilt Cgmjyace the PUb:
If you~ want the fglI value of your msoney
with fromething over uow-is the C'une, an4
the plae 4g it -
C. F. eA &~
COLUMBIA,. .
July 10, 28-f.
As there- seenr. to b a ndrad
amuns
opinioir Th ring Deports a Method*bf .~
Presetviok lkuit. ~ e~tabres,1 h~ebj ~