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BBBSW^HPi^BHIHHM9HH?^HMnRSi^HB9HHBKfll ?H?MDXV, JANUARY 28, 1879. 03a For subscription, f 1.50 nor annum, strictly in advance; lor six months, 75 couts. (?3* Advertisements inserted at one dollar per squaro of one inch .or loss for the first insertiou, ?nd ;?fly cents for oach subsequent in sertion. (Q* Obituary Notices exceed ing five linos, Tributes of Rospect, Communications of a personal character, wlion admissabto, ?ind announce i ?iou ts of Candidates will bo chargod for us advertise monts. i '(tjb lob Printing neatly and cheaply executed. Otr 'Necessity compels us to adhere strictly to tho require ments of cash payments. Commorcial Fertilizers The country for years has been plundered rings und tho fumier is gonorally tho suf-. feror. Money, in a groat measure, controls the government through tilo influenco of bond holders and wealthy corporations, and interest in ooin is exaoted on dobts which cost tho holdore from thirty throe to forty cents on tho dollar. Railroad rings and combinations control freights against thc interests ot tho produolng clag?. Speculating Yinga control the'p'rioes of cotton, raising or lowering it ?Cdb'rt?ing ns their interest rcquiros, nod thc far di Cr ls not consulted or considered by tho junto of speculators, Ho toils and sweats through the summer and in tho winter drags ihisuropto market, through mud and snow, 'for the profit of ovory class moro than his own. Wo now huvo a now combination, which, by raising tho prioos of fertilizers, strikes directly nt tho farming class. Tho iprioe af fertilizers, which, for years, has boon too high, has been raised, while labor and tho products of labor havo declined. At a rooont mooting of tho manufacturers of commercial fertilizers, held in Augusta, Goorgta, it was resolved to incroaso tho prico of fertilizers, anti that for ovcry ton of nm? moniated fcrtilizor delivered nt^thc seaboard, ^ 500 pounds of middling colton, and for ono ton of acid phosphate 350 pounds of middling cotton, This, it Booms, puts tho froight both on the fertilizar and the cotton on tho farmer, .and largely increases tho cost of tho fertilizer. This action of tho manufacturers has boen mot with counter movements by tho farmers 'in some sections, and wo think every county and township in tho Stale should take steps to resist it, rofuemg, if necessary, to buy nt all at mich figurm. Corn, cotton, meat, tho cost of materials, machinery and labor entering into tho manufacture of these fertilizers, have .nil declined, and thc result should bo a largo ?reduction in thooash prico of them, and ccr 'tninly no increase iu tho prico with cotton Option. What profit has tho farmer now utter deducting expenses io growing cotton? is it not bettor to refuse to buy these fertili zers at tho incroased prico, trusting if less crops are raised, prices will bo batter, than to become slaves to thoso combinations? Now ?hove all tither times tho farmers need intel ligent concert of action,'and with a thorough .Orango organization, they could cither buy ?at fair prices or break up those companies. Tho companies bnvc largo capital invested ?in those manufacturing enterprises and wc :aro Willing to accord them honost profits, bul if they ee?k to exlort moro than a lair profit a determination of tho farmers not to buy their fertilizers would break tho companici .or seouro a fair reduction in prices. Gan wt ?o this? If wo farm without fertilizers, w< can expect only a small yield nnd a sinai income If wc farm willi thom, theso com? ,pnnios and not tho farmers get tiie profit Tho result is tho same, only that such nctior Would work out fair dealing and rcasonabh profit to both farmer and mnnufaoturor. The companies represented in tho Angust? meeting woro obicQy Southern manufacturers ?nd whilo wo prefer to buy from those, can' we got some ngenoios for ?altimoro fertilizer! .established in tho county and trump (hit .combination with its own card? If tho price: now demanded bc adhered to our people shouli at onoo plant loss cotton, making their owi ?mnnuro and seeding their surplus land. Wi -mast grow cotton to socio extent, but there i -no wisdom in growing it for tho benefit o .others, reaping none of it ourselves, Oottoi at the preeont .prico hardly realizes moro thai the expense to tho farmer, and the prospect i better for a reduction than nn increase o prico next fall. To show tho increado of prico wo quote th ?prices of tho Carolina for two years pasi 'which wo rogard ono of tho best fertilizers i 'the market. In 1878 tho Carolina was so) ?for 470 pounds of middling cotton ot 15 conl per pound, this price including tho freight; This year tho samo fortillizer is hold nt 54 pounds of middling cotton nt 13 cents, th including froight?, showing an inoronso i .tho cotton option prico of sovonty-six pouni of cotton. In 1878 thc cash prico, froigh included, was $53, and this yoar it ia $5< Aoid Phosphato in 1878 waa sold at $38 casi froights included, and is now offorod at $3 The declino in the onsh price is a trifle, whi bacon and other provisions aro sixty to oighi per cent, lower than in 1878. Tho prico th< was too high and tho inoronso only shows tl greater wrong. A f?Vf years ago lawyers and doctora several counties united and established cysteni of fees, but tho farmors and poop generally soon squelched out tho oorpulo fee bill thus ostnblishod. By proper noth .and union thoy can bring theso fortilizii rings to terms.. Will (hoy do it, or will th mouth and complain and finally submit? In many counties of Georgia meetings hu been hold with a view to lower, or at lein keep at the samo figures, tho prico of fortil ?es. So, too, iu SODIO parts of our State sin Jar meetings have been hold: Tlio fnrmore of "Oates Township in Groon" ville ootuity h dd h mooting list wook und' adoptod tho following preamble nnd r?solu, tiona: Whereas, Wo loam through tho public press that at n recent mooting of manufactur ers of commercial fCrilizors, hold at Augusta, Qa., it wan resolved by tho said mnnufuoturors to largely inoronso their pricos for tho various grados of fortilizors, as herotoforo oxohauged for cotton, and'that they establish thc follow ing ns their basis of exchange in thc futuro, to wit: For ono ton of nmmoniutod fertilizer, dolivorcd ut tho senbord, GOO pounds of mid? diing cotton, nnd for ono ton of noid phos phate, 350 pounds of middling cotton; and. wbei'oas, It is tv faot, patent to every farmer who has over bought commercial fertilisers for tito purpuso of making cotton that tho prices wo have heretofore paid, nnd thc exchanges wo bnvo herotoforo made aro to tho fullest extent all that can bo afforded by far? mers, unless wo dovoto tho whole of our ?arning? to tho benefit of others; thorofore, be it resolved, 1st. That wo, tho farmers of Batos Town* ship, beroby plcdgo ourselves, individually, by affixing our signatures to those resolutions, that wo will not pay, during tho present year, oit ber by oxohangc of cotton or othorwiso, any additional rate for tho same grado of com mcrcinl fertilizers above that paid by us du ring tho post year. 2d. That wo boliovo farmers havo as much right to combine, and aro ns capablo of united action in this matter, as tho manufacturers; therefore, tho chairman of this meeting is instructed to appoint a committoo of twelve, consisting of both white and colored, to can? vasa this township, and obtain signatures of far mors to the plcdgo contained in the first resolution. 3d. That wo call upon tho farmers through out this -county nod throughout tho wholo State, to immediately hold meetings lu every township, and tnko measures to obtain sig natures lo a similar plcdgo. 4th. That wo rccommond that meetings be held by tho {armors at thc county goats of every county in tho Stato, on salcsday in Pobuary next, to take into consideration this subject, and that tho lists of signatures pro vided for in thc last resolution bc reported to said meetings. Tho preamble und resolutions wore unani mously adopted and signed by H. W. Ander-, son, B. C. Cunningham and 32 others. Will our pcoplo by townships or by a gen eral meeting ut tho Court House take suitable tunion in the matter? Paper resolutions will accomplish nothing, but if tho farmers will put forth their manifesto, nnd stand to it ns coo man, they will win. Labor. Thc farmer has many difficulties lo contend with at the present time. In many instances ho is in debt, for money loaned or nrticlos purchased at a time when money did not have moro than a third or at most a half of its present purchasing price. To p?y one hundred dollars now requires products to an amount that three years ago would have readily brought from two hundred and fifty to throe hundred dollars. Ooo effect of thc contraction io thus seen to ruin persons involved iii debt, which before tho contraction they could have paid without milch difficulty. The fees and salaries of officers nnd Stale and county laxes have not hoon materially reduced, while Ibo value of thc products, from which thc farmer gels money lo pay thc^o assessments, has greatly decreased. Tann products arc now so low that it is natural for farmers to reason that it is cheaper to buy than to raise (hem. Think of bacon, clear ribbed, dry salt side? nt $3.60 per hundred pounds, and shoulders nt $2.20 lo $2.50 per hundred, nnd the question at once suggests itself, can I n llb rd to raise moat nt that price? Think of colton at five lo seven cents por pound and corn at farly lo forty-live cents per bushel, and where cnn lhere bonny profit to thc farmer? These arc thc articles the farmer makes and from their salo lie must gel thc money lo pay his laxes, buy his supplies, clotho his family, pay his doctor bill nnd occa sionally toko a drink or smoke. Unless bc grows them lie cannot handle any money, and therefore can't buy anything for Ibo support and comfort of his family. These low prices dctei many young men from entering into Ibis avoca lion, thc most pleasant and most boah hy of al pursuits. There is, however, one thing favora ble lo every avocation, and that is, thal UK fluctuations in money and produc?s, which have deceived us for thc past len years, are not li'.a-ly lo occur again. Thc price of gobi and green back is now tho name, and wo have a fixci standard cf value. Besides many articles ol necessity, and luxury, loo, havo declined in proportion to thc decline in value ol' farm pro ducts. Themis, however, ono arl ?clo of expcusi to thc fnrmor which has not declined in prioi in proportion lo other articles. Wo refer li hired labor, which, in this county, is almost ai high as when cotton brought fifteen cents am corn ono lo one dollar and fifty cents per bushel Labor must como down, and its reduction in prie ! can only be accomplished by firmness and unie-: among tho farmers. We lay down the proposition that a lahore in this county nt tho present prices of fan products cannot make more than live dollar per month, on good land, clear of expense Wo say, therefore, labor must fall (rom il prosont demand ol* ?10 per month or lilt oontfl per day. If a good hand rents lan and pays one third for tho rent, and make 300 bushels of corn nnd two halos of eottoi worth seventy dollars, thon ho would hu\ 200 hnshols of oom and $40.07 in mono; His corn at tho crib is worth ^0, makin Ins crop worth $120.07. His oxponsos woul bo 60 bushels of coi II for horso feed, wnrl $25; 12 hnshols for broad, worth $5; 1,0( bundles of fodder, worth $10; 200 pounds bncon, worth hero $12; blacksmith uceooi $10; guano, $10, interest on valuo of bor and wear and tour of tools, $6; nggrogati? $78, tho profit to him hoing but $-18 07. Til is on tho supposition that ho has good lon good horso powor and onsh to lay in his sn] plios, which must bo of tho cheapest kin lc is truo n land ownor has many other sou COS of income which enable him to pay mo for labor than it ooo Id mako gonorally i rented lands. Tho hmso Inboror. who hus i money or horse powor or cash to buy supplii lind bottor hiro ot fivo dollars a month th] to try to farm. Thoy would do so, too, wo it not for tho lion law, which, enables thom koop soul and body togolbor and to feel fr to roam by day and night. When they dosii Wo want to seo it repented and labor brou? down to fair figuren, ? Gov. Hampton Interviewed Tho Kditor of tho Oolumbiu Register ha? interviewed Governor U ump too on a variety of subjeols. Wo glvo below tho Govornor'8 viows on tho political situation: TUB Tl'. I.I,K ll INVESTIGATION. Correspondent-'Governor, I would bo plcused to know if you fool well onough this morning to on tor- tho list and tulk with mo n little ou publie iitTiiirn. It is not (lottery to ?ny to you how much your own pooplo roly upon your counsels, ana how muon wo fondly believe tho wholo country, without reference to party lines, rospect your frank, outspoken views- Whilst thorofuro 1 Imvo dono myself tho infinito pleasure as citizou and friond of culling upon YOU this morning, (smiling,) I yet mean a little bosinoss, if you aro confi? dent ol' being equal to tho task," Governor-"I don't think it will hurt rn? n bit, nod ivlmtcvor my hnmblo opinions aro worth, I feel tho country is entitled to thom just as they uro." Correspondent-'Well then, Governor, what have you to say touching tho Rla'rno Toller investigation?" TUE U0TT0M FACTS WANTED* Governor-"I have no earthly objection to tho investigation itscli, if thc right to moko it is concoucd. Of course undor tho prcsont circumstances, wo could not lodgo an objec tion touching tho unwarrantable espionage involved in this measure without hoing mis construed, and 1 think Thurman, Lamar and lintier and others with them reooived this mcuHuro with most becoming spirit. Now that it has been undertaken, I wish to see it go to tho bottom. Whatever wo hero havo dono amiss, let it bo shown, llowover it may expose any possible dereliction of ours, it must do us good in tho end. No good citi zen, no wiso man, no good patriot can alford to cloak and covor np lraud or corruption in elections. It goes to tho root of our institu tions, mid it dost roys tho fruition of liberty itself. But wo have ii right to ask that the Teller Committee shall tell tho wholo story and not tho half of it. Whatever comfort thoro is in it, and I confess it is ii vory poor ono, duo and honest investigation will dis cover as much irregularity on tho Republican sido of our household ns tho Democratic. And this much I may say, that so far as in? tituidation is concerned, there was literally nono whatever on our side, whilst on tho Republican sido there aro tho most unques tionable evidences o? gross intimidation. Two cases of ibis kind happened with two of thc employees of my son-in-law, Colonel lluskoll. Two of his .?hands" wero sadly beaten for voting the Democratic ticket. So, too, ibero were instances of unquestionable intimidation on tho part of thc Republicans all over the Stale Till") WOO ir. ore or less to bo locked for We had nil the surrounding inllucneos of superior wealth, social and po> litiotil power on our side, which, naturally, without actual or undue constraint, excretes a great control over the average voters of thc country- When, then, tho Republican party saw power slipping from their hands like water from tho broken vessel nt tho well, they first denied it and then put tho thumb screws on their colored partisans to hold them to their old political reckonings whether or no. Every sensible man. North or South, will at once recognize this condition (d'things, and tho unvarnished truth cf tho relation thereof. Hence, though I have not been per milted to exercise the exeeutivo functions of my office sineo the election, owing to thc un happy accident tillich befell nie, the executive of the State, in tho worthy hands into which it has fallen, will be found, I doubt not, recog nizing facts as Ihcy are, opposed lending itjolf to useless and unworthy recriminations on thc colored Republicans in thia matter. Our courts arc fully open to all parties, and cur State laws will bc lound amply provident and sufficiently penal touching this whole matter. Our judges are gentlemen above roproaeh, nm) will know neither Republicans or Democrats^!! thc discharge of their linties, and whatever fault might bo found with juries on tho score of pa rt ??an bias, cither on one side or the oilier, there would bo the evi dence taken under the control of unpartisan judges and sent to tho jury under thc ebargcR which could not and would not squint at fraud or intimidation How happens it, then, that no complaint touching the elections are lodged with our courts? Why, plainly be cause the Republicans know that "those who livo in gla?s houses should not throw stenos." Correspondent-"Governor, do yon frankly acknowledge, then, (hat them were irregular* itics in our Democratic household?" Governor-"I do unquestionably, It seemed impossible lo prevent it in view ol tho terrible moral obliquity visited on out people by the Radical rule ll ruler which they have lived since tho war. This is a far grealci curse to us than al! tho thefts thal have been perpetrated on us, ii bare catalogue of which lilied columns of on? newspapers. No ont can regret more than 1 do, and no one conk have strivon harder to impross its wrongful ness and absolute impolicy upon our people than I have. And I now hold ns ever il: utter impolicy." THU DEMOCRATS IN KU Mi C >NTItOL OF TU K STAT fl Correspondent-"Governor, what havo yoi to sny OS to thc actual Democratic strength o the State?" Governor-' It is unquestionably and over whelmingly in tho control of thc State Henee, even the poor excuse of being neccs. sary to thc preservation of civilized rulo i' wanting to any irregularities put afoot on out .side. 1 have no disposition to shirk investi gation, and I want it, ns 1 have said, to go li tho bottom of tho matter. If wo can havi such an honest investigation as ?hall keep it eyes wide open to election irregularities, ii nil parties, in all parts of the Union, it is wei and moro than well. So far us tho practica bility of such an investigation is concerned is anothor question. Yet, without ibis, wha of the fairness of an investigation in a conic when tho hustings ovorywhore olso aro 'fol of dead men's bones?' Why in vosligoto oler lions in tho Soul bern States, whero irroga lu ri tics have sprung like thistles from Radien sowing, when tho government department p. Washington and Federal officials all ovor lb Union aro openly and shamelessly tuxod fe Republican campaign funds? If tho amour taxed on these officials is not ncecisary t their support, then it is so much ol tho peo pie's money taxed for thc maintenance < parly rule, which could liol ho rithorwid maintained, and if it could be uthcrwh maintained, then it is so much squandered I satisfy partisan greed. All we want is n fa mid square effort before (he people of tl cour.''/ lo purify the political atmospher mid we aro e?..)lciit and moro than content i take all tho il! cnw-qi onces urning to i immediately, in view of Vin* OiVJ) ultima good, and the groat g iud to the wholo COU n ir which is no less our country UOimtiSO WO H Southerners mid Democrats." lloro tho convocation r,t. tho hands of tl corespondent was torr cd for n whilo in pleasantries of no material moment, so ns rest tho distinguished invalid, who, it w feared might overtax hinisolf without boil awnro of it- Having tul kori along quiet for some time, tho governor was thou nsko ?RGENJIAOKS OR ll Aim MONRY. "Governor, I presumo wo will havo to t you down a? o hard molloy lunn.?'' Govornor-''Of the strictest HCIIOIII. I not comprehend tho greenback philosophy nil. If I had boon in Cangros? at tho tit I should Imvo voted against the rosumpti measure, not bco.lilsO I would lin ve bc opposed to resumption. I havo alway* i cognized ros um pt io ii as nooossnry to hom monoy and actual payment of tho pub obligation?, which must bo met dollar dolhii" in oonstifutioniil monoy und in go .. -A ,'..??; . . - ? k^a?fe,, ^y::Xilv. fuith, ta tiifl lotter nuiltiio spirit of tho law. ai woll UH necessary to tho paymont uf oil hoaotitdobts. But yet I w??.ld, to uso Mr. Tilden'* phrneo, iiuvo got roiuly to ros u mo,' and biOro or less invited into oo-operation with the government tho wiso providence of tho bu ni u OBS circles Of ibo country, und per mitted tho business necessities ot tho country, with ila shaping hand, to disontauglo tho fi nu oem 1 Web which Republican et i ,tc s mansbip lind wound round and round tho groat industries of tho country d?til it stood iiko the lion tn tho meshes. Tho (?muH ope rations of daily lifo, gradually -butting mesh uftor mesh, would in duo timo, dud with wiso providence and pationoe, relieved tho dint ross, of tho oountry, naturally rtrttl permanently. Sudden resumption, in my viOw, cost tho people of tho country too much to bo adm itted. I should hiuio preferred more of what the doctore call tho tentativo pruooss than tho enormous physicking through which tho country has boon put. No ono omi tell tho countless IOBS and sorrow ?brough which tho pcoplo of this country havo passed in this rapid resumption measure, which cnn bo com pared to nothing else limn tho Egyptian unler to tho Israelites to make brioks without straw. Yet when the hard pan has boon roached, painful though tho process may havo been, it docs scorn to mo to bo unwise to go back and. perchance, havo unwisely to travel over tho same ground again. I do uot think it wisc for tho Democracy at this stage to sot back tho wheels of resumption. Let us rallier now tako advantage of whatever good may bc found in it. Tho past, with al) its sorrows, it would bo as well with all might and main to put bravely behind us, and look out to tho wido futuro boforo us. Tho truth is, resumption will provo a partial SUCCORS or failure boforo 1880. Wc,in our own'intorcsts, whether Democrats or otherwise, should wise ly endeavor to make tho most of it, and tho country has a right to expect this much at our hands." THC JACKSON DEMOCRACY. Oorrospotidont-"I bolicvo, Governor, you have always stood on tho platform of tho Jackson Domocracy." Governor-"Ever, and I stand thcro to-day. To InV view, wo should got back thcro ns fast us possible Tho truo Jackson policy, na 1 apprehend it. is to disontauglo tho businoss transactions of tho country from tho legitD mule financial conduct of government affairs. To mix tho two things is unwarranted by tho constitution and dangerous to tho last degree. Why, does hot ovorybudy soc, (rom what has transpired before us, that tho moment that thc government becomes involved in its finan cial operations with those of liio country at large, the monoyed men of tho country und the great industrial olussos become involved in 'an irrepressible conflict,^ oven moro terrible than that willoh thc great Now York politician of a former day pressed upon tho attention of tho country? Tho moneyed mon in their own interest endeavor to shape and' control the financial policy of tho country, more or less, as the necessities of tho cAso Or the greed of thc moneyed men might demand. Tho industrial classes at first unconscious of control, or patient under it so long as business prospers with the ni ns soon as reverses come-either arising from the exigencies of thc times or thc misshapen policy of tho government, il matters not-begin to howl against ibo undue control of tho moneyed classes, who in turn cry repudiation, until there is a lost confidence, u general lock-up of current note-, ?nd consequently universal stagnation in business. Thus inj attempting to join that together which ibo constitution has left apart, wo erect a dangerous propin quity of interests, which must lead in the end to anarchy, actual repudiation, if not bloody revolution. Thc Jackson Democracy, on tho contrary, puts thc conduct of tho financial affairs of thc business and industries cf tho country at large in its own hands, to expound and contract according to its own necessities and t!ie uncontrollable laws of trade moro or less variant in different sections, ?ind boneo more or less adapted to the wants and inter ests of each section. Tho Stoic Legislatures incorporated the banking institutions of tho country, which, in tho enlightenment of the times, will only permit snob variations Ironi the common standard of chartered privileges and requirements as t ti o special industries and necessities ol the caso may demand ?md j us ti fy. TUE CAMPAIGN OK 1880. "So far as I can see," continued tho Gover nor, "I do not recognise Ibo necessity just now of tho Democratic party laking on its back tho responsibility of tile financinl ques tion. Tho Republicans as a wdiole, have shaped nut the financial problem which they no w claim is a success. Lot us not mcedlo with it, hut give it iv fair chance of success. If they havo brought tho country to death's dour in achieving it let un at least not strivo to make it an actual funeral, whereas it will in snell un emergency become our funeral no less than theirs. Lot ns look to tho penna nene interest td" the whole country, and cn? douvor, whether wo win or lose, to deserve well nf tho w hole country. "I nm convinced wo can win in 1880, if thc Democratic porty of tho Union will have done willi mon of expediency and learn to too tho murk squarely and fairly on established principles, und ? know no better school than ibo old lino Jackson Democracy. Thon let us put good trusty men in nomination, fear lessly avow our principles, mid show our* solves worthy of tmst hy being willing to luke defeat nt thc lia lids oi' the pimplo should they disapprove of our policy. A constitu tional rule, scif government Una no sectionalism should bc thc sum und substance of our plat form, titted to good, honoiablo, trusted and tried standard bearers, it manors not whothor they bc from thc Dust or tho Wost. I havo no patience with an Eastern Democracy, and West ern Democracy, a Northolm Democracy and tho Southern Democracy. It is no Dc mocrncy at all that is not as wido as tho whole country. Until wo cnn find an Eastern constitution and a Western constitution, or Northern or Southern constitution of tho United States ?ct us have dono with tho soo tional Democracy, which moans and ought to mean certain defeat. Lot us trust ibo pcoplo with the matter, and I believe tho sober second thought uf Ibo people of this great country will go back to tho constitution of our luthers with one consent and (Ind in its wide bosom what wo nil want, with tho OX' caption ufa class of wicked mischiofmakors peace, blessed heaven-bom peace!" BT ATS FINANCIAL QUESTION. The Governor then, of his own accord turned to a consideration nf tho Stale dobt and its being met squarely. Ho said ho began li?M administration advising mid advo cating tho brond?st genorosity to tho public creditor in ibo intorest of tho pooplo of tho I State themselves. Nothing could make him bolicvo that the peuple of South Carolina, if Jct alone, would do wrong in this matter. Tho wh?io debt, just as it ?8, could bo carried by tho pooplo, and they" would find it more to their intorest in tho end to carry tho last dollar of it UH it stood than to repudiate or Boom to repudiate one dollar of it. Even if Ibero wan no other consideration, nu higher ono. wo wore loo poor not tn proteot our oredit even from scandal. Still further, tho political altitude of 1880 demanded that WO should not add to our troubles tho influence of commercial mon against us iq,, our final .druggie tor rightoous govornmont and homo rulo. "When I first wont to Washington to seo Mr. Ilnyos," said thc Governor, "tho oom~ moroial mon of tho North sont a delegation ahead of mo urging tho President to rooognizo my govornmont iq tho interest of intelligent and honest rulo. I found their good word had provon, ns it ought to havo done, putout with the Chief Kxocotive. It seoras to ma to como in bad graco from- our pooplo new to turn ''??'"?? . . T ' 1 tb?tr baot? flatly ngnlrfnt title ?arno claps which, vf bother our bonds wore issued rogo.* larly or Ir??gul?rly, ls lu posuossioh of them, shorn down Th not ou nt by an accommodation adopted during tho "Radical volo, botwoon tho S tit to nod lier enid i torn, HO ol to lou vo tho State two millions lees dobt than her utiquos* tionod obligations foot up. This is a faot wo can't got '?way from, and should wo bra vol y go forward and show our determination to moot tho last dellar, I om convinced that nrrnngoinonts cun bo mado through tho old English flnnnoial ngents of tho State tn cash all our obligations for $5,000,000, nod lund tho samo at n low rato of interest-thoa proving un actual, instant pecuniary reliof to our people, and saving our good mimo without a blot or. it nt tho snmo timo." "As I hnvo said," ho continued, "I shall go to Ohnrloston on tho 22d of February, and I suppoHO they will expect mo to talk to thom. If I am strong enough I shall do so. As thin will narrowly approach the timo whon I must retiro from tho Executive Chair, in which I hnvo honestly and faithfully endeav ored to serve tho bolovod people of my belovod State, I Khali conclude my trusts willi tho samo ndvico that I undertook thom and that is for our pooplo to mcot this obligation to tho full oxtent of tho lottor of tho law 119 woll ns its spirit." From Washington. WASHINGTON, January 17-Mr. Hendricks, of Indiana, bas been here for somo days in consultation with loading Democrats on vari? ons political issues nnd to comparo views, it is believed, with Rastorn Democrats on tho currency question in particular. Ho hus found these vory stiff und not in tho loast disposed to givo way to what aro supposed to bo Western CUrrenoy notions, nnd rumor say that ho has assured his Rattern frionas that Western Democrats will moot in the Eist on ground acceptable to tho Eastern or hard money wing of tho party. Ho is reported to boliovc that tho Wostorn Democrats oau bo united ou a polioy accepting resumption as a fixod fact, maintaining the issue of govern. mont notes, but depriviug those at an oorly day of thoir legal tender quality. Tun, if ho is oorrootly reported, ho regards as sound Democratic doctrino, holding that it is un Democratio doctrino to make paper money a legal tcn'dor. lt is supposed that Senator Pendleton will support this viow also, and it is possible that tho Ohio Democratic platform for next fall may on tho currency question toko this ground, favoring a oou tinued issue of treasury notes as a part of tho paper currency, but requiring that they bc deprived of their lcg-jl toudor quality. In that case tho Republicans would proba bly advocate thc entire withdrawal of go vcrnuient paper and the substitution of national bank notes. Neither party is in olined to say anything about silver. Erst em and many Southern Democrats, while they do not like tho continued issue of government notes or greenbacks, think it a matter of minor cons?quence if those notes cease to be it legal tender. WASHINGTON, January 20-Tho Demo cratic Sonntors held a caucas this morning lo consider what ocurso to pursue on tho reso lution of Senator Edmonds now pending in ia tho Senate in relation to ibo enforcement of thc thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, and to protect all citizens in thc exorcise of nil rights secured by tho laws passed for lhat purposo, Sta The Democratic Senators agreed upon a substituto for tho above named resolution, to bc offered when it shall bo taken up for consideration in thc Senate. While in this substitute they admit thc thirteenth, fourteenth and fif teenth nmendincnts to the constitution to bo of binding force and validity, they regard Senate/ Edmonds' resolution as proposing legislativo action in conflict with the decisions ol' tho Supreme Court of tho United States, particularly in tho Cruikshank case regarding those amendment:', nnd they quote fruin tho dicta of tho court to sustuiu the ground which will bo inkon in tho substitute-that tho United Sn les have no citizens distinctively their own; that tho constitution docs not omi fer thc fight to voto on any one, but simply confers tho privilego of freedom from any discrimi nation on account of race, color or previous condition, and that thc regulation of vu (Trago belongil exclusively to the several Slates. Springer introduced a bill to secure to tho people of every State orinal and just (minor ity) representation. I lo presented, in con nection with tho bill, a statement showing that under it thoro would have been elected at i he last November election from tho South thirty-four L'tcpublioans instead of nix, (or n Republican gain of twenty-eight,) while tho Democrats would have realized a like gain North; that the general result would have been tho same but tho Republican minorities at the South nnd thc Democratic minorities at tho North would hnvo been equally rcprsentcd in Congress, and that (ho four millions of colored population could control tho olection of twenty-two members in tho following St?tcs: Alabama 3; Arkansas I; Georgia 3; Louisiana 2; Mississippi 2j North Carolina 3; South Carolina 2; Tcnncssco 2j Texas 2, Virginia 2. State Laws. AN Ac: to reg?lale tho number of jurors win shall bo in allcndiinco on tho Courts of Com' mon Picas ami General Sessions. lie il enacted by tho Sonalo oin! House o Representatives of the Slate of South Carolina now met and sitting in Qcnoral Assembly, am by thc authority of thc same: SUCTION 1. That whenover, by reason o ohnllengo or otherwise, there is a deficiency ii the number of grand or petit jurors duly drawl and summoned at any term of I lie court in an; enanty of the Sloto, and said dolioicncy shal bc supplied as provided for by tho scoond sec tion of an act entitled "An Act to pr?vido fo tho drawing ol' Juries in certain coalition, an to amend tho law in relation to Ibo drawing C juric?.," approved Juno 8, 1877, thc numbor t jurors actually in attendance at Ibo court at an ono limo shall not exocod thirty six, exoopt i onso the deficiency is caused by thc number < challenges in any one case; in which ovont th jurors drawn to lill up tho places of thoso ebal longed shall servo only until tho verdict is ron dorod in said case. SKC. 2. That hcroaftor, when it ehall bone? ossary to supply any deficiency in tho numb) of grand or petit jurors duly drawn, wholln ooiiBOil by ohallongo or otherwise, it shall bo til duly of tho jury commissioner to attend in ope court, (ogethor with tho clerk of tho Court i Common I'loaa and Qcnoral Sossions and ll sheriff of tho oounty, ond. undor tho dircoth of thc Court, to draw such numbor of jurors I tho Court shall deem nocosuary to fill niioh dc: cieney, In tho samo miinnor as tdio board jury commissioners aro now authorised by In to do. j SKC, 3. That nil acts and paris of ads il ooasifctent with this act be, and tho ?nmo a lievoby, repoaled. Approved December 22, 1878. THK PATRONS OF lltruHAnoKt.- SeoroUty Holloway has issued tho following important circular: SBORBTAUY'S Orno?, STATE CHANUK, P. OF H., POMARIA, S. C., January 17, 1079. Tho members of tho Order aro notified that arrangements havo booti m ado with tko vail /ouds, as below, for reduced rates of passage for those attending tho mooting of the State. Orange, which moots in Charleston on Tuesday, 4th of February, at 10 o'olook A. M'. Tho Charlotte Columbia & Augusta, Wil- ' laington, Columbia & Augusta, South Carolina,' aud Orconvillo & Columbia Railroads will ohargo three couts por milo oaoh way. Tho Northeastern, Savannah & Charleston,' and Chcraw & Darlington Hoads will require full first class faro going, to bo returned freo. Arrangements aro boiug made for special rates of board while in Charleston. . TI10S. W. HOLLOWAY, Secretary. Tho Now Orleans doctors havo just bad a' roinarkablc caso of yollow fovor, which seems to npeot the idea that the germs of the plague uro hilled by tho frost, ns well as tunny of the theories of (ho doctors themselves. Nellie, tho five-year old daughter of S. E. Cary, of tho Crescent City, loft Chicago December 18, whon tho thermometer was two degrees be? low -/.ero, to return to tho homo from whioh sho had boon absent since last spring. Tho' house ut Now Orleans had boon cleaned, kal Romincd and frescoed whon tho family loft it soven months ago, and not a caso of yollow fever invaded it during tho sommer, but, in livo day? after their arrival, Neilin was taken violently sick with the fovor, und soon had tho dreadod black vomit, with all tho other usual Symptom?. This caso hnpponed in a' house which had boon subjected to n greater cold than tho 32 degrees above zoro, at which temperature yollow fovor poison has boon supposed to bo destroyed, and in a room where tho thermometer marked only 41 don grecs when tho child was token sick, though the doctors havo ni ways taught that nt toast 00 degrees aro required to dovolop tho fovor. Tho cuso is moro eccentric, indood, than any of tho many occontrioitios of tho summor'a epidemic, nnd it seems to shatter what few' theories survive that trial. New? and Courier: Hydrophobia is un- ' doubtcdly in existence in this oity, oud hos been for some time, a largo number of dogs ' manifesting symptoms of it having boon*' killed. One well known veterinary estab lishment, has had tweety oases under treat? 1 ment within tho past few months. Tho " disease is of tho species known os tho. .'dumb rabies," under tho influence of which tho animals, although not violontly aggressive, ore exceedingly dangerous, their bite being us fatal as in thc moro easily do-' teoted form. Thc symptoms aro a refusai 1 of food and water, moping, ko., ood ifrie* incurable. CINCINNATI. January 20. -A dispatch from Eltatibethtown, Ky., says: "Tho revenue 1 raiders, under Capt. Adair, roturned lust night, bringing seven moonshiners of tho" most dangerous character. They Vero cap-' lured on Otter Creek, Laroo County, nnd hud ? long defied tho authorities. The ofticorSV attacked their still house Saturday night, capturing four men. They found two stills . in operation, and destroyed tho material. Thoso parties have long boen the torror of tho whole country, and bold ly defied tho ofK ccrs." J. C. MIGKL?? WI-?ST jj N ION, THE LEADER , IN g LOW PRICE! o:o But nevertheless true, that tho Subscriber is now selling to his customers his /Stock of (roods, Bought since tho Fall Trade opened. It is useless to talk about others selling at lower prices and cheaper goods. Facts are st ubborn things, and any person visiting WEST UNION Can soon find out by watching thc crowd, where to go for tho liest Bargains In every class of I)Ii Y GOODS, NOTIONS, CLOTHING, SHOES, HARDWARE HATS, G Ii O OERIES, rf*. Any argument to tho contrary' is easily answered, in fact totally DESTROYED, By looking into the facts. A tro* mondons assortment of WASH POPLINS, ALPACAS, SUITINGS, CASHMERES, d>c Also, Large Stock of LADIES' AND MISSES' HOSE, GLOVES, FURS, UNDER VES TS, SHOES, HA TS, (Both trimmed and untrimmed,) v RIP Ii ONS, EMBROIDERY, And a Full Lino of FL A N TA TION G O 01) S, DO MUSTIOS AND GROCERIES) Just make a bill, and by com pa? ing prices, &,o, bo convinced of thc above statements. JOHN G. BUCKLER, WR8T UNION, Si ^ Deo. 20,1878 G~'?m