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NIGHT THE DAY, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN VOLUME XIV.-NO. iiivririTiiBffri??Ti " '9 , Says a Boston physiolan, "bas no equal as a blood, purifier. Hoariug of.. its many wonderful cures after all ?tbor romodios bad failed! I visitod tho Laboratory, and con vinced myself of its gonuino merit. It is t>repnrod from barkB, roots, and horbs, caob ef whioti is highly effective, and thoy aro compounded in suoh a maimor as to produco astonishing rosults." . ls tho groat Blood Purifier. "Will ouro tho wors\ oafioi of Scrofula. VEGETINE Is reoommondod by,physicians audnpothcoa rief*. VEGETINE Has effected eomo marvelous cures in oases of Caucor. VEGETINE Ouroe the wornt casoB of Canker. VEGETINE Mosts with woudorful success in Mercurial diseases. VEGETINE Will eradicate Salt lihou ni from tho system. -VEGETINE Removes pimplos and Humors from tho face. - VEGETINE Cures oonptipation and regulates tho Bowels. * VEGETINE Ia a valunblo remedy for Hoadncho. ? VEGETINE - ? Will euro Dyspopsin. VEGETINE Restores tho cntiro system to a hoalthy con dition i ' VEGETINE Removes t|io cause of Dizziness. ? Wilf?ll Relieves faintness ut tho St?mnoh. Cures pains in, the I .nek. Effootually ourcs kidney complaint. VEGETINE Is effectivo in its euro of Femalo Weakness. VEGETINE ls the groat romcdy lor General Debility. ...VEGETINE' ls acknowledged by ull olasHOH of peoplo to bo tho Lost and most reliable blood purifier in Hup world, Preparad by H.---R." STEVENS,' Boston, Masa. Vegetine is Sold by all Hruef?ists. SPINIONS WHEEL HI ROW away your old Spinning Wheel and buy ?RYCE'S NEW PATENT. Spins twenty five lianks overy day. Mada of iron. Hun by friction. Will last a lifetime. Nothing to wear or break. Can be ruu in any position and only oedipien ft Bpnoo of eight by twelve inches, Price, $5.00. Call on or address DR. J. P. HARRIS, Agent, West Union, S. C. Oot 3, 1B78 4?-3ra ?0GLCiEDING. O?R WOOL CARDS RAVE BREN NEWLY clothed and pul iu thorough ropnir for Ibo Fall Carding. All WOOL brought to n's wilt bo promptly carded atid satisfaction guaranteed. Wool loft with C. L. Rum & Co. will bo carded and returned lo tho Blore al namo price ns nt Fnotory. Prioo 10 cents por pound for v. hito und 12? conts for mixod. . Tho Factory will bo run by Mr. W. J. Suttlcs an oxporicnood carder. Wool bought at tho market prioo. NEVILLE & HOLLEMAN, WA i,i i AI. i. A, H. C. August '22, 1878 40-3rao "WM, BI. TC? l>f? '1L\B RKSUMKD TUB AOKNOY OP TUB Singer Sewing- Machine, ;\ IN UCO?10E COUNTY. T?VERYBODY kr?ovys tho SINGER. Priocs Ju'groatly rcduood. Plain $86, Covorod $10, Drop be af $15. cash. A fow plain Wilson Machines on hand at $2/j cosh/ Apply to tho above, or at / MRS; OKORO E'S, Walhalla/ Cot 10, 1878 4l?tfa / 8MII..E WHENEVER YOU CAW. Whoo things don't go to suit you, And tho world seems upside down, Don't waste your time in fretting, But drivo away that frowo; Sinoo life is oft porploxing, 'Tis much tho wisest pinn To beor all trials' bravoly, And smile whene'er you omi. Why should you drend to-morrow Aud thus despoil to-day? For when you borrow trouble, You always huvo to poy. It is a good old maxim, Whioh should bo often preached Don't cross tho bridge beforo you Until tho bridge is reached. PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE. COLUMBIA., November 26. 1878.-Tho Geuornl Assembly convened ' to-day. .In the Seuato, lion. T. 15. Joter, of Union, was elected Prcsidont. . Mr. T. Stobo Farrow, of Spartanburg, WOB eleoted Clerk; ll. A. Goodwin, Heading Clerk; and L. R. Marshall, of Nowborry, .Sorgoniit-ut-Aruis. In tho House, Mr. J. C. 'Sheppard, of Edgeficld, was elected Speaker without op position. Ile said: GENTLEMEN OP THE HOUSE OV RBPUE SENTATIVES: I return you my profouod thanks for tho high honor con torro d upai? mo by your generous confidence mid osteom. This ro-eleotion to tho exalted office of SpcslFer of thc House of K^prosontativos is to mo n vindication. Gratefully recogni zing thc f?ot that 1 owe it to your most partial und liberal judgmonts, 1 boro plod ge myself that I will, ns best I cnn, discharge its duties with impartial Gdolity to' thc trust reponed io mo, and will endeavor with your kindly aid to merit tho approving sanction of thia honorable body. But gentlemen, there is something even moro precious to mc and more grateful to my honrt than tho power ond honors of clo vated public opinion stution. Fur beyond those do I vnluo thoso unbought graoes of life, the honor and magnanimity of true manhood. Thono aro tho lofty qualities displayed by my worthy competitor in thc canvnos for the Speakership, who generously SCOOndod my nomination, whio?i you have so generously ratified by your suffrages. This, indeed, odds lustre to suecos, und nd omni,in s mo so to diaehurgc my duty as in 8OU10 mensuro to deserve it. Gentlemen, great duties lio beforo us-duties that iuvoko the best efforts of tho head and heart of every true representative of the people of South Carolina. They can hept bo performed by restoring -"those exact methods in tho transaction of tbc luo-huva of the General Assembly, and by diligently cherishing that high and fiiuglc purpose to to legislate for the common good of tho people, that marked tho notion of our logifl Intors prior to tho war. Tho Democracy of South Cutolina have orectcd a high standard, nnd by that stand ard wo must be measured. To meet thc just demands of thc people our delibera tions must ho marked by hurmoiiy and hy ao earnest dovotioc to duty. V?'licn I speak of the Dcoiooraoy of South Carolina, I mean the Democracy wheeo prUoiplcs ?nd approved methods of notion pro embodied in tho platform of 1870, ronflireicJ io 1878; that Dcmooraoy whose principien illustrated in purity nud economy of governmental ndiniuistrotiou ruled the State of South'Ca rolina for nearly one hundred yoirs in prosperity nnd honor. J recognize no Hampton Democracy, no?' do ? recognize no Edgofield Dcmooraoy. Tho mau who noscrts, nuy peculiar' Demo oratio creed, or methods of notion repug nant to our platform of 187(5, camps beyond tho confines of tho Democracy of South Carolina, aud ia untrue to it? declared orccd. s Again, assuring you, gentleman, of my sincero gratitude, I announce tbo ilouso of Representatives of tho Stat?? of South Carolina as now ready to proceed to husi ncse. Mr. John T. Sloan was oleoted Clerk, Mr. II. M. Anderson, Heading Clerk, and Mr. John D. Drown, Sorgcnpt-at-Artus. Mr. Simonton introduced tho, following resolutions, which was ton?idcrcd immedi ately and was agreed to: /iesolocrf, by the House of Ilcrosontatives tho Senate concurring, That the present condition of the.people of the State ond ?'f the publio finances demands tho most- rigid economy in ovory brandi of the government; thrt to this ond it in cxpodient that the sessions of tho Goucral Assembly should bo modo as,short as may bo compotibio with tho publio interest; that tho com.nittoca of both houses bo, and they aro hereby, in structed so to forward tho musters .Worrcd to thom that the us-?go, uninterrupted from tho formation of thc Stuto government to tho beginning of tho wa/, may ?gnin prevail and tho Gonoanl AsfWmbly may adjourn beforo tho .Christmas holiday season. COLUMBIA, Novombor ?29.-In tho Son ata, nothing of ibiportAD'?o JrojlHpir.c'd. In tho Ifouaiy'thc ejanding eoimhilte?ri wero annouoqfcd'* .;? ; j?, \ Jjjj M, SJ jUommittOcq ,on Privileges and Elootioii -Messrs, JoWn D. ftonjiody, E\B. Mur ray, C. J. t). Hutson, I. G. MoKissiok, Charles it Miles, B. P. Barron, A. M. MnntgaaU, J. H. Earle, James Collison, O.Jk'. Cassidy, W. M. Dorroh. /" Committees on Wnysand Moans-Messrs. Georgo M.j Buist, Goorgo Johnstouo, \V. C. Clovch/nd, 0. Burbor, J C. Haskoll, Thomas J/. Davis, J. G. Bluo, John F. Fiekon, Jilin B. Olovoland. Committees on Judiciary-Messrs. Sam ucl McGowan, Charles M. Simonton, B. H. llutlcdgo, Ju ines Aldrioh, ll. W. Shnnd, John 10. Bacon, John J. llomphill, Honry A. Gaillard, John J. Dargan, T. H. Cooko. Mr. Cherry is on tho Committco on Claims aud the Comuiittcoon Engrossod Aots Mr. Board is on tho Cotnmitteo on Stato House and Grounds. Tho Govoruor'o mcssago was road in both houses. Col. Livingston is on tho Committees on Charitable Institutions, Enrolled Bills, Mines aud Mining, Hoads, Bridges and Vences; Rotrouolimont; Contingent Ac counts, and Publio Accounts-Sovou in all. Settee Um, or besace Oui! EVILS OF THU FKNCB LAW CLEAR r. Y ANO VIGOROUSLY EXPLAINED. To the Hom. li. F. Cray lon, J. N. Lips comb, li. ll. Massey, J. IV. Walls, W. IC. Bradley and other Agricultural Mattiers of thc Slate Legislature. GENTLEMEN-Yon oro nil farmers and law-makers. That you will advocate the cnuotmcnt of laws favorable to agrioulturo no ono can doubt, nor would 1 for a momcut bclicvo that you would do so in advocacy of special or class legislation, but upon thc broad ground of legislating for tho greatest good of thc greatest number of our citi/.ons. Thon, os a farmer writing to farmor, I address you, nnd respectfully urge you to present to tho Legislature some bill propos ing a ohdngo in our existing Fence law. Prac lioally/Wd havo no law upon tho subject, for if there is such a jaw upon our statute booLs, it ia so nearly obsolotc that no far mer knows what aro its provisions, and doubtless most of our lawyers would havo to turn tho leaves of their dusty tomes before they could ad viso ono certainly whether this or tlint act was in violation of it. At any rotc, tho progressive farmer to-day erics aloud for a change, and his reasons for tho demand are unanswerable. Shall I enum?ralo thom? Look you first ot tho cost of tho fencing VO South Carolina. 1 think it reasonable to say that onc-two?fth of thc timo of tho laborers on our farms is consumed in build and repairing fences. There must bo over one hundred thousand such mon in South Carolina. Value their sorvioes ot tho low figuro of five dollars por month, and there ia a direct tux upon tho labor of tho State of Luif f. million dellars annually; mid I moy appropriately ask eui brno? Km ploy this labor in making manure, ploughing under green crops, or otherwise in improv ing our farm?, und who cnn estimate the material benefit it would bo to tho State? In my opinion they had belter bo idle con sumers than extravagant employees. In tho next placo tho continued and in creasing disposition of our farmers to de nudo our most fertile land of the magnifiai ccutoovoriug which nature gave themis annually, aud with increasing Certain ty, sending millions of money to thc sea in the shape of soluble fertilization, Our already open hinds arc oapabk; of producing two fold heavier crops than wo grow, if skilfully maoagod. Enlarging this area docs not increase our crops, but pimply Jnys bare that much more of the surface to bo baked by the nun, whilo tho scarifying process goes on to impoverish thc freyh lands. J. behove, and no ono eau refute it, that this exposing to tho heat of our long Bummers so much of our surface soil, causing an un duo evaporation of moisture, is tho prime couso ol' tho deleterious drought'} from which wc now suffor annually. But again, what ?H tho chief requirement of tho existing fence law?? lt is that wo shall protect our growing crops against tho depredations of rambling stock. Thc annual agricultural produots of South. Carolina aro perhaps worth thirty millions of dollars. What is tho stock worth against which wo have principally to fonoe-*-oattlo, shcop and hogs? Thoy aro gonorally a disgraoo to tho Stato. Two thirds of tho iotrudors . in Abbeville County aro worth little more than their hides, and I have no reason to boliovo thut they aro inferior to thoso of tho other counties of tho Stato. Aud us worthless os they oro thoy oro mado still more worthless by thc methods of torture resorted to to prevent their jumping Who has.not seen, timo and again, a poor oow with her horns tied to her forofoot with a chain, perhaps throe foet long, to prevent her jumping, and beforo abo hud spout twenty four hours iu this puinful position both her nnkle and forohoad will hove bo como ohafod and swollen? Or o scrawny pig with n hickory witho around his neck .tO-proVorit^Y crawling through the fence whore tho crooks woro not thrco inohes wide? Ycey I ouce saw a herd of goats that had tho front foot of cooli ono of them dcliborutely ohopped olT "to provont their jumping into tho cotton putch." Why, provontion of cruelty to dumb brutes de mands that wo should chango our existing , fenoo laws. The cxporionoo of soinq of you is an argu ment in fuvor of a oliungo vastly moro ?Otcotthan I can ndduoc. Anderson mid rork Cou.itien both have tho existing laws rovursod and what is tho ootiscquonao'f If nono other, this one is sufficient, thut tho people nr? dolightcd with tho chango. I havo frequently met mon from tho fow oountioH in tho State whoro stock aro foncod and not tho orops, who havo told mo that thoy Wore greatly opposed to tho chango at first, but thoy would not now havo it other? wiso. Is tiiis not suflioiont? If it is profit oblo for tho tanners of Anderson, York, Chester and KuirQold to ouoloso their stock rathor than their crops, it will bo equally so to adopt this s-imo polioy in ovcry other county iu the State. I know that iu our mountain counties and in tho soacotist counties farmers will contend othcrwiso; but their cxperienco is is a defence of only one nido of tho question. Not ono in a ii und rot! of thom knows how small an area of enclosed land will sustan a cow or hog during those months io the yoar on which they do not hare to bo fed. And my couviotion is that there is not a land owner in the State but that would Gud it both moro economic d and more pro?tublo to preparo pastures nnd enclose his stock than it is to allow them to ramble far and ncir in re ireh of food, it matters not how luxuriant their rango may bo. L know that there aro mon, and perhaps some of them may bo members of our Le gislature, who will odvaaoe tho plea of tho demagogue in opposition to a "Stock Law," nod say it is injurious to tho poor man. Away with such hypoorisy. Legislation enacted for tho benefit of thc Stato is what we want, and not for or against any sot of men. A mun PO poor that ho can afford to own nothing but a oow or a pig will soon find out from experience thal he is enjoying sn expansivo luxury. And if ho persists in tlio enjoyment, it is his privilcgo and right, und nono can gainsay it. And thoso who employ such men can, of course, ar range as easily to pasture an employee's oow as they ono their own. A system of labor contracts would soon bo adoptod thut would meet nil mich oases, and no doubt tho result would bo, that "thc poor mau'' aud his cow would both enjoy the chango. Allow mo to suggest that wo dou't want any moro township or county laws upou n subject of such State importance. Givcus a law for tho Stato. Let tho proscut luw upon tho subject of fencing be ruvorsed, nod make it simply tho law, that no stook of nny kind shall be allowed to run ut large, and then, if any county objects to it, grant them thc privilege, if you please, to rovoreo tho new law in practico, provided thoy croot a legal feneo on their oounty linos. But I did uot intend inflicting so long o lottor upon you, nnd munt osk your pardon] toy only purposo was lo oall your utlcntion to this groot want of the farmers of South Carolina, believing that you oould enact such a law ns would bo of tho grontest good to thc groatcst number of our people, whioli the oxistiug fence law is ocrtaiuly not. With much ostccm, gontlctnen, I out your obedient servant, D. WYATT AIKEN. Tiic "GrnMPUupper*? (Damuiissiou. Sometime ngo Congress made an appro priation of 813,000 to defray tho oxpouset of n commission to investigate the churaotci and habits of the locust, that committee snob fearful depredations in tho Southern and Western States within tho last fe? yon rs. This is showing some commendabh interest in behalf of agricultural progress Tho oom mission has published its first report, from which it appears that an uroi of ovor 2,000,000 of square milos hus beer occafioually visited by those inecots siuo? 1818- ofwhioh tho last tinco, in 1878 1874 and 1870, were mnoh tho moot de sdruetivo, having damaged tho country ti tho estimated value of ?200,000,000. Tin commission thinks that thu insects oom< from large, hot, barron wastes, and tho pro vention of their oppoaranoo may doponi upon tho settlement and cultivation of th sandy plains of tho Weat. Thoy rooom merid certain mensures of prevention to bi observod by tho farmers rcaiding in tba section, which has boen oondonood by tin Hartford Post, as follows: It hts boon ascertained that, ns n rulo tho invading swarms do not make timi appearance in tho Mississippi valley uuti the latter part of July or first of August By thin time wheat, Inrly and oats hav< generally roached porfeetion and been har vested. Tilia fact renders it possiblo ti anticipate thoso swarms and provont soriou injury by relying ohietly upon tiieso crop when thcro is reason to foar their incursions And if the hatching grounds of tho insoot bo definitoly ascertained, ond tho nationa government, hy moans of the sigual servio corps or otherwise, will Uko moasuros ti give notioe in odvnnooof heavy ogg dopo posits in tho orou, tho farmers, by plant inj small grains, may thus prevent nny soriou injury when they arrive. It is also advise* that greater attention bo paid to grazing The grasshoppers do not do much injury ti grasp, honen Ptockraiscru and herdsmen cai look with comparative indificronoo on thesi visitations. Thorc oro other remedie suggested, BUOII ns thc enoourugomcnt o animals and insects that food upon th pests, thc destruction of tho eggs or un Hedged insects ly harrowing, plowing tramping, irrigation, burning, oto., am sovorul preventive measurer, against th mature or winged insects. WASHINGTON, Novombor 27-'Tho In ternal J levon no (Join missioner, in his report argues earnestly against tho proposed rn duotion of tho tobacco tax. Ho viows un favorably a renewal of tho plan of grantioj amnesty 80 violators of revenue laws, ns h does not think it has worked satisfactorily Thc Commissioners estimates the revenue for tho proBont fiso.nl yoar ot $115,000,000 Considorublo spnoo is given in his report t tho condition of affairs in tho region of th South whore Mini, distilling has prevailed and additional legislation for tho protooto of revenue officers in recommended. (From tho N. Y. SUD.) South Curoliun Warned A(?iilu. IQ reply to a lotter of iuquiry from tho Hov. Lyman Abbott of tho Chr?tian \ Union, Jehu Sherman writes that all ha? | boon done by Hayos that could legitimately bo dono to procuro tho liberation of tho four rovoune offioora now lying in jail ut Greenville, rv O , under indiolment for tho murder of Amos Luid, the moonshiner. Tho Aoting Commissioner of Iuternal Kev enuc reports to him that ho finds on tho filos oopics of many letters and telegrams i from his superior, Mr. Oreen J3. Ilium, to the United States District Attorney ?nd other officials io South Carolina. In con sequence of these, a writ of habeas corpus w ,H obtained, a deputy Marshal took con structive possession of tho prisoners, and thoy aro now awaiting tho action of the United States Girouit Court. Jobu Sher man adds, hy way of comment: Thc difiioulty of cuforoiug tho laws of tho United Stales in South Carolina has boon illustrated during the reocul canvass and election in that Stato, whoo organized bodies of meu, fully armed', broke up public meetings and bullied uoarmed, unorganized aud defenceless oitizons who aro invested by tho Constitution with the right to moot aud discuss political questions aud vote for the candidates of their ohoioo. When thoso proocediugs wore not sufficient for 3UCOC83 thoy cheated thu poor blaoks of thoir franchise by tho meanest tricks of ballot-box stuffing. Such offences aro moro degrading and dangerous thau resistance to tire Kovcnuo luvro. You must seo that il is dillicult for tho exocutivo officers cf tho United States' crippled as they aro by reoont legislation, to moet this formidable opposition to tho execution of the laws. All thoy can do is to try and ch fordo tho laws through tho courts; and if tho machi nery of public justice is so oorruptcd by local prejudice that it cannot punish such Offenoes, thc ouly romody is in com bining the political power of all thoso who will tolorato this new form of rebellion against national authority. In this way a remedy will bo foumi ur made; and its application viii bo hastened in proportion ?a tho truo stato of uiTairs comos to bo understood. Tho disgraceful inoidents of tho late canvass at various points in that section will hut give additional strength to tho feelings that all tho rights of nil oitizons, guarantcod by tho Constitution must be socurod. A Strange Story. Thc oaso of Perry Coleman, now before tho Supreme Court of tho United States in Washington, is briefly ao follows: Tho prisoner, in company Jamos Cham bliss, a relativo, (who wus shot to death while resisting arrost for tho crime,) visited the house of Mr. Hell, an aged citizen of this county, on the night of March 7th 1865, for the purpose of robbory. Tho two attacked tho old gentleman, aud after k nooking him sonsoloss wish an army .pistol and boating him most cruelly, a daughter in torferedto eave his lifo and implored his assail anttodos?8t. Levoling a pistol at the head of thc lady, ono of tho two fired, and thc ball wont orushing through her brain, killing her instantly. Tho fathor meantime, re mained unoonsoious, and apparently liiolcsn upon tho floor, while the murderers pro occded to rifle the promises, aud then fled, satisfied that both wore dead. Such, in brief, is a hisiory of tho horrible primo. Tho prisoner wa? indicted in tho Griminal Court of Knox county on tho 2d day of Ootobor, 1874, of murder in thc first do groe. To this indictment, bc pleaded "cot guilty, former conviction, o noe in jeopardy, no jurisdiction," ?fcc. l?o was dofoudod on the ground that the aot of Congress March 3, 1803, had provided r. spoojal juris diotion-that of court martial and military commissions-for tho trial of ali offen oes committed by Unitod States soldiers "in time of war, insurrection or robolHon," and having boon a soldier, and, in fact having been triod and oonviotod by a mili itory commission, tho defenoo set up thc pica that tho Stoto OOUrtS had no jurisdio lion in the oaso. The substance of thc issues sought to be made in tho pleadings was that tho aot of Congress givipg jurisdiction to military courts, hod taken from tho Slate courts tho right to try and punish United Statoa sol diers for offences committed by thom while in tho service in time of war, and tho of fence having hoon committed whilo tho prisoner was a soldior, ho could only bo punished aa proscribed by Congress. Tho trial procoodod, nod the prinonor wa? con victed of murdor in tho first dogrvo and sentence of doath pronounce '. upon him. Tho prisoner appealed to tho Supremo Court of tho Unitod Stotos. Pending this appeal thc prisonorsuod out a writ of habo ns corpus in tho Unitod States Cironit Court, whioh was determined in favor of Coleman. Tho oaso subsequently oamo up for hoaring in thc Supromc Court of tho Stato, and that tribunal aflirmod the action of tho Criminal Court sentencing tho priso nor to doath. L'roin tho action ol this oourt the ouse was appealed to thc highest tribunal, in whioh it hns boon continuad repeatedly, whilo tho prisoner remains in the county jail awaiting tho result. Chin Lan Pin, tho Chinoso Minister at Washington, tolls somo toa merchants who ask iiim to discourage tho exportation from Iiis oountry of artificially colored teas, that thc ChiooBO will gladly atop tho colored article, whioh is both loss palatable and more expensive. WASHINGTON, November 24.-A strik ing illustration o( the extent omi cxeolleneo of tho arrangements for international mail service, which hove resulted froai tho Postal Uoion, is given in nu official publioation reoeivetl hy our Superintendent of foreigu mails from tho Herne central bureau. A resident of Ghotunitx, Saxony, mailed at that placo, nt 7 P. M., ou. tho 2 Ith of May last, a postal card addressed lo himself, carrying the request to all postmasters to dispatch it successively, and without loss of timo, to Alexandria, Singapore, Yokohama, San Francisco oud New York, and thence to Chomnitz, hia object being to win o wager that, with tho existing postal arrangements, the circuit of the world could thus bo mado by po-;tal matter within ono hundred and twenty days. The request was complied with, and tho card nrrived in Chemnit?* from New York on the ono hundred and seventeenth day uftcr tho dato of tho original malling. The postmaster gencrol of Germany has cause.1 this card to bo pho tographed, and transmitted n copy to tho Perne, International Bureaus, with tho remark the if it had been posted ono hour curlier it would have accomplished its journey in ninety six days instead of ono huudrcd and seventeen. RICHMOND, VA., Novoraber 26-Tho National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry which Ins been in session herc for nearly o week, adjourned until Thursday in ordor to give the delegates nu opportunity to ao oept thc invitation of Churehlnnd Grnngo, of Norfolk County, te visit them. Nearly every member loft on tho steamer Wyanoko this afternoon, c?i route for Norfolk In to-d ?y's session, Mr. Harden, of Mis sissippi, in advocating resolutions sotting forth moro directly and distinctly tho pur pose? and principles of the order, said tho people of this State felt no ill-will towards the people of tho North. Had any evor existod, it had been dispelled by tho kind sympathies of that section towards tho South during her reoontly plaguo strickon .condition. Ile wanted tho Northern peo ple to remember that during thc ooraing political struggle what politicians might say towards arraying ouo seotion against tho other was not a true reflection of tho farmers of the South. Muon business has boen dono by tho National Gringo, look tug to the general good cf the order. THE DUELLO.-A dispatoh receivod in Columbia yesterday about midday announced thc fact that Mr. George M. Saunders, of Claremont, Sumter County, and Mr. James L. Wilson, of Vorkville, the two gentlemen who reoontly nttempted to pass through Columbia on their way to Georgia for tho purpose of fighting a duel, and who woro proveuted from carrying out their designs by the Columbia police, met nt a point in North Carolina, oloveu miloa from tho State line yesterday, and exohangod four shots. The dispatoh was not a t definite ns it might have been, but we aro left to iofcr that no serious damage was done to either of tho principals, and that through tho intercession of friends the affair waa settled satisfactorily to all parties -Columbia Register. James Murray has taken his family from Gilbortvillo, N. Y.. to his South Afrioao farm of 8,700 acres, which is stocked with 1,000 ostriches and o00 marcs of rare blood and pedigree. Murray was n classmate of tho Prince of Wales at Oxford, and now finds ostrich raising so profitable that ho reoontly sold sixty birds tit Cape Town for ?27,000. and a pound of feathers for SS60, or $8 a feather. Tho difficulty encountered his been that of hatching the oggs, artifi cial inouberators proving useless and thc old theory of hatching the oggs io tho sand false, but this was finally ovcroouio by watohing the birds and separating mates from tho flock at pairing time, when thoy took eire of their own eggo and young. MOONBHfNHIlfl IN NEW YOUK.- About otoven o'olock yostorday morning an old salt house, situated i? Tompkins street, between Delaney and livingston, waa en tered by Special Agent Hanley and Deputy Marshall .Jeffries, Jones find Hubert, and they found a whiskey still in notivo, opera tion, two barrels of rum, eight bnrrols of molasses and 5,000 gallons of miali. ^Thoy also found a hofco leading into tho rotftifyiug establishment of a man namod Ly nob, whioh had been closed by tho government early last summer. No ono wan found on the premised and, therefore, no nrrost wore mido. The mat?riel found showed a capac ity of manufacturing about fifteen barrels of whisk oy por day.-A'. Y, Herald. Aa linn been thc case heretofore Mr. Ste phens has held a porfvt lovoo "ince his arri? val in Washington, The stream of vi?itors nover oonsos, and all, whether old friends or strangers who eal! t.> pay the'.r re-peots to tho distinguished GoorghiO, nie recoiled with sonorous, old timo courtesy, lt may bo fairly doubted whether any puhlio man in this country could honst of moro, or moro dis.tinguishad visitors. An agriculturist nt Aigle, in Switzerland, h.1*' raised this year a fino crop of sugar cano, well matured. He will plant largely next year for a similar crop, and will bo imitated by ti large number of neighbors. The total estimates of thc Scoretnry of tho Troosury fer tho lineal v?rtr muling Juno, 1880, aro $276.?37.250 04. Tho aggrogato for J878 was #?8M88,706,88, showing a reduction for the noia. lineal vear of $5,051, 545.4?.