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um BY KEITH, SMITH & CO. TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE ^^^M^JMMM NIGHT THE DAY, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1880. VOLUME XXXI.-NO. IO. OLD AND RELIADLE. DJ. SANFORD'S LIVER INVICKWBATOB is St Staudard Family Remedy for dueases of tho Liver, Stomach ^rfS ?ul Bowels.-It is Purely .flfifif I Vegetable.- It uovor ^ Debilitates-It * ^ ^ Cathartic and Ionic. 1RY 'he Iii vcr Invigorntor . has been used \3ryt io my practico l*and by tho publio, for moro than 85 years, With unprecedented resulta. SEND FOR CIRCULAR. S? T?W? SANFORD, M.D., HSW?OBKOI?X AXT nnvaaiST WILL TELL YOU ITS REPUTATION ^Professional Cards. . S. UOTIIKAM, 1 Abbeville, ?3. C./ J. STHIIII.IKQ, Walhalla, S. C. COTHRAN & STRIMING Attorneys-at-Law, IVA lill AL. Ii A, S. C. WILL practico in all the Stato anti United Stales Courts. ?flico in thc Judge of Probate's Otficc. November (5, 1870 61-Iy ': J. H. PITCHFORD, iLttoruoy-At^ILiaw. OFFICE ON COURT HOUSE SQUARE, CLAYTON, GHEL., WILL givo prompt attention to colleo t ions and all other business confided to bim. Moy 15, 1879 26-ly Hy. EDMUND RAVENEL, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, ISTo. S Broad Street, CliarlostOii, &. O. -o:o DOT* Corrrcspondcnco from tho Interior invited. Will practioo in all tho Couits of tho State. July 17, 1870 35 WM. C. KEITH. JOHN S. VERN EU. KEITH & VERNER, ATT OR NE YS AT LAW A ND Solicitors in Equity, Will practico in tho Stato Courts on thc Eighth Judicial Circuit und in tho United ?tatos Court O?cc on Public Square, Walhalla, S O Jan 6, 187o 8 tf II. A. H. GIBSON, A T T 0 R N E Y - A T - L A W AND TRIAL JUSriCE. "V^*ill give prompt at tention -to any and all "business entrusted to h ina. Office on O o Tart House Square, Wal halla, S. O. February 12, 1880 13wly JOHN ANS EL, C A B INET M AK ? lt, UPHOLSTER AND HAS for salo and on hand what cvory ono needs sooner or later: COFFINS AN? CASKETS, CASES IIV CASKETS, COFFINS With Ol* IV I t li o ii t Glasses. Embalming Metall c Ilutiul casc? of the most improved pattorns in the Unitod States. Prices i oasonable, according lo tho times. Soplombcr ll, 1870 48-ly THE PAST, BY JOHN G. WHITTIER? Who, looking baokword from his manhood's primo, Sees not tho spectre of his misspent time? And through tho shado Of funeral oypress, planted thick behind, Hears no reproachful whisper ou tho wind From his loved dead? Who bears no traco of passion's ovil force? Who shuns tho sting, O terrible remorse? Who docs not oast On tho thronged pogoB of his memory's book, At times, a sad and half rcluotant look, Regretful of tho past? Alas! tho evil which wo fain would shun Wo do, and lcavo tho wished for good un done; Our strength to-day Is but to-morrow's weakness, prone to full; Poor, blind, unprofitable servants all Arc wc always. Yet who, thus looking backward o'er his years, Feels not his eyelids wet with grateful tears If ho has been Permitted, weak and sinful os ho was, To cheer and aid in somo ennobling oauso His fellow man? If he hath hidden tho outoast, or let in A ray of sunshine to tho coll of sin - If ho hath lent Strength to tho weak, and in nn hour of need Over tho suffering, mindless of his creed Or homo, hath bent. Ho hath not lived in vain. And whilo ho gives Tho praiso to Him, whom ho moves and lives, With thankful heart Ho gazes backward, and with hope before, Knowing that from his works ho never more Can henceforth part. REDUCING COSTS OF COURT. AN ACT IMPORTANT TO LAWYERS, CLIENTS AND OFFICERS. Ono of tho Principal Moasurcs Passed by tho Logislaturo in Extra Sossion. AN ACT to nmend an uot entitled "An act to regulato thc costs of Plaintiffs:' and Defendants' Attorneys and tho costs and fees of Clerks of Court, Probate Judges, Sheriffs, Triul Justices and other officers herein mentioned," approved March 22, 1878. SECTION 1. /ic it enacted by tho Senate and Houso of Representatives of tho State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly and by tho authority of the same: That thc act entitled "Au act to regulato thc costs of plaintiffs' and defendants' attorneys and tho costs and fees of Clerks of Court, Probate Judges, Sheriffs, Trial Justices and other offlcern herein men tioned," approved .March 22, 1878, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 0, 7, 8, 9 and 10 therein and inserting in lieu thereof thc following sections: SEC. 2. Plaintiffs' Attorneys' costs: For rulo on Sheriff or other officers of tho court, threo dollars; for issuing summons, four dollars; for issuing complaint, four dollars; for entering up judgment and issuing exe cution, throe dollars; whore special bail is required, ono dollar; for every subpoena, writ* and ticket, one dollar; for every re newal of execution, ono dollar; for every domurrcr or joinder in demurrer, three dollars; for every motion for a new trial when granted, fivo dollars; for every trial of thc cause in tho circuit, five dollars; for ovcry commission to examine witnesses or filing cross interrogations or for issuing writ of partition, eight dollars; proceedings bnforo trial on appeal from Trial Justices' Court, three dollars; for triul of tho causo, five dollars; when the amount sued for is under twenty dollars, only two dollars and fifty cents for trial; for oil proceedings in dowor, from beginning to end, twenty dollars; for oases in attachment in addition to common costs, ten dollurs; for tho jury in each ouse tried, ono dollar; for examina tion of a party or witness before trial, threo dollars; for issuing summons and complaint on tho equity sido of tho court and neces sary exhibits, twenty dollars; if for tho partition of real estate valued at ono thous and dollars or less, only ten dollars to bc ohtirged for tho summons, complaint and oxhibits; briefs for Circuit Judgo, five dollars; spooial matter and argument on thc circuit, fivo dollars; for the appointment of a guardian or guardian ad litcm for an infant, ton dollars; ono attorney representing all thc infants in a causo to chargo only ten dollars for the appointment of n guardian ad Utera for them; for exceptions to clerk's or referee's report, fivo dollars; for each doy attending beforo olerk or rofcrco on reforonco, fivo dollars; for making and sorving ti oaso or containing exceptions, ten dollars; for procuring on order for injunc tion, five dollars, on appeal to tho Supremo Court, fiftocu dollars; on argument in Su premo Court, twenty dollars. SEO. 3. Dofondants' attorneys' oosts: For giving notice of appcaranoo when necessary, four dollars; for answer or demurrer, four dollars; for entering up judgment ond issu ing oxecution, threo dollars; for trial of tho oauso on tho oirouit, fivo dollars; to tho jury, ono dollar; for motion for now trial, when granted, fivo dollars; for every commission to examino witnoesos or filing cross inter rogatories, eight dollars; for nil proceedings boforo trial on appeal from Trial ! Justico Court, threo dollars; for trial of the cause, livo dollars; when tho amount sued for is under twenty dollars, only two dollars and Gfty cents to bo charged for triul; for subpeona, writ and ticket, ono dollar; for answer on tho equity side of thc court and necessary exhibits, twenty dollars; brief for Circuit Judgo, five dollars; special matter und argument on circuit, five dollars; ouch day's attendance on refcronco boforo olerk or referee, fivo dollars; exceptions to clerk's or referee's report, fivo dollars; for making abd serving a ease or oases containing exceptions, too dollars; for procuring an order for injunc tion, livo dollars; on oppcal to ?Supremo Court, fiftocn dollars; on argument in Su premo Court, twenty dollars. SEO. 4. Clerks of tho Courts of Common Pleas ond Gcnerul Sessions: For signing and scaling summons, fifty cents; for filing complaint, fifty oonts; for filing cooli answer, demurrer or joinder in demurrer, twenty-five cents; for signing and sealing subpoeua writ, fifty, coots; for docketing n cause, ono charge ouly nt each term, fifteen cents; for attending tho triul of o cause, whether civil or criminal, and swear ing witnesses, fifty cents; for entering verdict or other order for fiuul judgment on minutes of tho court, twenty-fivo cents; for making assessment on reference, twenty fivo cents; for special order for bail fifty cents; for filing and entering on thc journal every rule or ordor for arbitration twenty-five ?cnts; for filing affidavits foi continuance when ordered by tho Judgo twenty-fivo cents; for signing, entering one enrolling judgment, seventy-fivo cents; for signing and scaling first execution, ii Ft 3 cent?; for signing and scaling each renewal of execution, twenty-five cents; for entering satisfaction on judgment, twenty-fivo cents for taking security for costs, entering ordc: therefor, if made, fifty cents; for rcoorditif judgment, ono dollar und fifty cents; fo recoiding decrees of foreclosure, partitioi und reports, per copy sheets of niuety words nine cents; for administering oath ollie than on triul of cause, proof of service 01 Sheriff's return, oath to jurors or by ordc of court, fifteen cents; for taking and fi 1 i ti j bonds in attachments, trover or in otho coses, one dollar; for signing and scolinj commission to examine witnesses, seventy fivo oents; exemplification of proceeding, o other office copy, per oopy sheet of ninct; words, niuo cents; recording plot of lam under order of tho court or copying th same, fifty cents; rule of survey, fifty cents each official ca ti lice to under seal of cour not herein specified, fifty cents; issuing wri of nttuohtnent for contempt or other specie writ, one dollar; signing und scaling writ c hub fuc. poMcssioncm, fifty coots; rcccivin and paying over money officially, two pe cent., if under three hundred dollurs; i over that BU tn j two per cent, for the firs three hundred dollars and ono per cent for tho bulancc; every appeal from Tri? Justices, all services inclusive, except fo entering up judgment and issuing cxecu lion therein, one dollar; on bill nol, pro: before given out, ono dollar; on bill throw out by grand jury, or found und no/, pros abated, discontinued or struck off, tw dollars; on bill found ?nd verdict by pcti jury, three dol?ais; all orders for bastard and taking recognizance, ono dollar; issnin bench warrant, writ of habr?s corj>us scii facias and each execution in sessions, 011 dollar and fifty cents;; for binning warrant) taking recognizance or other services in t!i sessions ns Trial Justice ex officio san. toes as allowed that officer; for each writ < venire /acias, including nil services inci dent to summon iii: juries, two dollars; f< preparing and issuing certificates for gran and petit jurors and constables and' fu tushing returns to County Commissiono for caoh term of tho Court of Comme Pleas und General Sessions, fivo dollar fur filing petition and signing writ de finial 1 co inquirendd, one dollar; for f?riiishin advertisements in cases of escheat, exclusif of printer's bill, ono dollar} for recordir whole proceedings therein, two dollars; f lioooso to an attorney, all services include five dollars; for filing and entering poll of alien's intention to become a citizen, Ol dollar; for filing ond recording report 1 u lien, ouc dollar; for administering oath 1 intention, otu; dollar, for filing and entorit application to booomo a citizen and odmi istcring oath, two dollars; forgiving certi cato (over seal of office) of citizenship, 01 dollur; for taking renunciation of dower inheritance, two dollnrs; for every sean fora paper found (not to bo charged to tl parties or attorneys when for papers in ouse pending,) fifteen cents, for every sean uccessary for a certificate that a paper not to bo found in office, twenty-five com for swoaring n Trial Justico or constat in office, taking constables' bonds ai giving certificates thereof, ono dolli for ovcry probato in writing, tweut five cents; for signing and sealing dedim polcstatcm, ono dollar; for official certifier to exemplification of record, ono dollar; 1 official certificates without, tho Bool, twent fivo ccnti>; each day engaged in holdi refcronco, ono dollar; making up and r turning report, but no moro than one repi in each case, threo dollars; deed of convo anco or mortgogo, two dollars; for offio reoord of esl ray and filing papors, 0 dollor; for recording ond copying deeds oilier papers, per oopy sheets of nint words, niuo cents; for entering sutisfacti on mortgage, twenty fivo oents; for rccor ing or copying plats of not moro than 1 cornors, ono dol'ar; and for ovcry cort over six, len cents; for granting ohortcr incorporation, two dollars; for grauti ?harter to ohuroh, ono dollar. SEO. 6. Sheriffs' oostB: For entcri ovury writ, summons, process, oxcoution or other poper in writ or execution book and milking endorsements thornton, twonty-fivo cents; for serving ovory writ, summons, notioo or rulo, not otherwise heroin speci fied, besides mileage, ono doll >r; mileogo from Court House to defendants' or witness' residence or pince where found, going and returning, per milo, fivo cents; commitment and n lease of prisoner, each fifty cents; issuing suoh venire for grand jury, fifteen dollars; serving eaoh venire for petit jurors, tweuty-fivo dollars; serving subpoena writ aud mileugo on eaoh ticket, fifty cents; sorviug bonah or other warrants, scirefacias from tho Court of Sessions, or wrty of at taohmcut'for contempt, besides mileage, ono dollar aud fifty cents; seuroh for person or goods not fouud and returned OD tho oxcou tion of non est inveutus or nulla bona, fifty cents; eaoh oxcoution returned to clerk's office on sohodulc, twenty-fivo cents; levy ing executions or attaohmeuts, besides mile? agc, ono dollar; dieting prisoners io jail, per day, thirty-five cents; oxcouting con viot, inoluding all charges for burying and othor expenses, twenty dollars; bringing up prisooor under habeas corpus, to bo paid by prisoner if able, if not, tho county, besides mileage and necessary exponaos, ono dollar; conveying prisoner from ono plaoo to another, for every milo going and returning, besides all necessary expenses, six cents; commissions on ull moneys collected by him if uuder three hundred dollars, two per cent., if over that sum two per cont, for thc first three hundred dollars and ono per cent for tho balanoo und ono half of ono per eei't. on dil sums puid to plaintif? ns ngent or attorney on execution lodged with tho Sheriff; execution lodged to bind with order not to levy fifty cents; for advertising defendants' property, in addition to prin ter's bill, ono dollar; drawing and executing a deed of conveyanoo or taking mortgage, two dollars; drawing and executing each bill of salo when required by purchaser, two dollurs; no sheriff shall charge moro than one bill of salo for property bought ot tho same salo hy thc same party; lor executing a writ of habere, /acias 2>os scssioncm, besido mileage, one dollar; transferring money, bonds or other securities for money to party, ono hu If of ono per cent.; for soiling land under decree of Court, in lieu of commissions and all other charges, except for advertising, two dollars; for serving notice on each set of managers of clcotion, besides mileugo, ouo dollar; summoning freeholders to try suggestions of fraud, fivo dollars; for every fine paid ofter lovy and before sale, ono dollar. SEC. G. Probato Judges: Vov a citution, fifty cents; for qualifying executor, admin intratar or guardian, issuing letters to cithct and re-recording* such letters, two dollart and fifty cents; for taking bond from ad ministrator or guardian and recording same ono dollar; for issuing warrant of appraise' mont and oath, fifty cents; for proving a will in common- form and filing und ccrti fying thc same, one dollar; lor proving t will in solemn form and filing and certify ing tho sanio, live dollurs; (or recording will probate und certificate, per copy sheet o; ninety words, nine cents; for filing and entering renunciation of executor, lift) cents; for dedimuspotcstatem to provo will or qualify ns executor, ono dollar; foi recording each inventory and appraisement o.t. uecount of sales, euch figuro counting for a word, per copy sheet of uiucty words nine cents; for receiving, examining mid filing tho annual or final accounts of eaoli administrator, executor or guardian, foi lirst your, three dollars; for euell succeeding year, ono dollar; for recording said ucoouuti per copy nhcet of ninety words, nine centSj tor hearing and filing petition of sale o personal estate and order, ono dollar; foi hearing und filing petition for guardiunshij and nppointmcnt of guardian or gunrdiai tul Hiern, ono dollar; for entering a cuveu or withdrawing the same, fifty cents; foi hearing every litigated case, three dollars for each day engaged, uot to cxeeed twclvi dollurs in uny ono case; for swearing an( examining each witness, fifteen cents; fo certifying copy of any paper on ii'e in hi offico, Gfty cent-*; for copying such pape per copy sheet of ninety words, nine cents for every rulo issued against defttultinj witness or party failing to account, tw< dollars; for ovory attachment issued on th return of such rule, ono dollar; for furnish ing and certifying copy of proceedings ii case of appeal, thrco dollars; for ever seuroh fifteen cents; for every certificate no hereinbefore specified, twenty-fivo cents for hearing petition to soil real estate ii aid of ossets and granting order thcrofoi two dollars; for taking administrator's o executor's bond, in each case, ono dollar for final discharge of executor, administra tor or guardian, two dollars; for proceeding in dower, inclusive of all charges, wher tho amount is under two hundred dollart fivo dollars; when over that amount, te dollars; for proceeding in lunacy, tc dollurs: Provided where proceedings i lunacy uro only had hy certif?calo of phys ciaos, thrco dollars; for proceedings on services setting off homestead, iuuludin titles, five dollars: Provided, that in cu? tho amount of estate in tho Probate Cou: docs not exceed two hundred and fit't dollurs tho costs to bc taxed on tho on.' shall not exceed one-half of tho ninoui abovo allowed. Receiving and paying ovt money officially, two per cent , if undi thrco hundred dollars; if over that sun two per cont for tho first three hundrc dollars and ono per cent, for the balance. SKO. 7. Trill Justices: Oath and wurrai in any crimina] onso, forty cents; cac recognizance, forty cents; each commitmci and release, twenty cents; administering nt certifying oath in writing, othor than ubov thirty cents; issuing writ of habeas corp, to tho two Trial Justiocs jointly, ono doll and fifty cents; issuing Aummons and oo] for dofenJunt ia oivil oases, t li i rt y ii vc cents; issuing summons for witnesses in any oivil caso, twenty oonts; taking examination of witnesses in writing ia any oasc, os pre scribed by law, fifty oonts; for giving judg ment un bearing litigated oaso, twenty five cents; for giving judgment in oaso not defended, twenty cents; for issuing execu tion or ronowal, twenty five cents; report of oaso aud taking bond to appo.il, sixty cents;' issuing attachment returnable to court or to Trial Justice, inoluding all notices, one dollar; filing return of garnishoo aud order thoroon, fifteen oonts; proceeding on behalf of landlord or lessor against tenant or lessee to tho two Trial Justices, fivo dollars, proceedings on certifying indonturo of appreutioo or assignment, ono dollar; for tho trial of any crimina! oasc, inolusivo of all costs, except for issuing papers, ono dollar; for every preliminary examination of any criminal case, fifty cents; proceedings on coroner's inquests as prescribed by law, eight dollars and Gfty cents; proceeding on CBtray of horse or mulo, fifty oonts; proceed ings on all other cstrays, ouch Qftocn'ccnts; taking and ocrtifying renunciation of dower or inheritance, two dollars; granting order for special bail, fifty cents; for quuli fying each appraiser in sotting off homer, stead, besides fivo cents per milo for all travel aotually necessary, twenty five cents; issuing summons for jurors in a criminal nasa twenty ono cents. SE?". 8. Constables: Summoning witness in n oivil casu twenty cents, for summoning freeholders to try question before Trial Justices between landlord and tenant, to bo p:iid by unsuccessful party threo dollars; for summoning coroner's jury and witness, to bo paid by tho county two dollars: for sorving u summons, rule or notice by a Trial Justice in a oivil case, no mileage to be allowed fifty couts: for serving attachment ou persons absconding or about to abscond, and making inventory and return, besides commissions of five per cent, on sale of effects, but no mileage, ono dollar: for eelliug estray fivo per cont, on the proceeds: for loving execution, advertising salo and paying over proceeds, besides commissions at five percent, on amount to bo co lc clod, lut no mileage, to bo puid by the defend nut in execution twenty cents: for CTcry day in soureh of stolen goods, to be paid by porty complaiuing one dollar: for serving warrant in any criminal caso besides five cents a mile for each milo necessarily tra velod ono dollar: for couvoying prisoners to county jail, five cents per mile, going ond returning: Provided, that thc constable bc reimbursed for necessary fen iago. SEC. 9. Jury commissioners threo dollar-, per day for every day's actual service per forming h s duties, such number of days not to exceed tho number of days the court for tho county sholl bc in session, together with five days to completo the lists and draw thc juries, and also (ive ucntn per mile for all necessary travel coing and returning. SKO. 10. That Sections 820, 330, 331, 332. 333, 334 und 335 of Titio 10, Part 2 of tho Codo of Procedure in reference to cost of plaintiffs and d?fendants, bc and the samo are hereby repealed. SKO. ll. That this act shall not apply to costs or fees of constables or Trial Justices in criminal eases in these counties whevo they uro entitled by ?aw to annual salaries. Approved February 20, 1880. ?Error in enrolment, should bo "recording." THE MOONSHINERS.-An Atlanta dis potoh of thc 23d says: A man suspected of being tin informer against tho Rabun county moonshiners, and who has been missing for threo weeks ariived nt Toecoa City yesterday. Ho reports that bc was driven from his home by moonshiners, and in tho fight was shot in tho arin and leg willi buckshot,. His disabled condition had forced him into concealment among friends until yesterday. John Jones, also suspected of being n revenue spy, wa.* called to his door Saturday night and fired at in the darkness, tho bullet lodging in tho door near his bead. This occurred in tho villiigo of Clurkesville. In tho vicinity of tho .same village on thc samo night, Mr, Clerke, a highly respectable citizen, but accused of being friendly to tho revenue officers, was fired at through a window of his dwelling, tho ball smashing n lamp on the tablo at which he and his wifo wcro sitting. Tho latest of tho moonshining atrocities reported to day was thc firing up on J. L. Cobb in a public street iu Toocon yesterday afternoon. Mr. Cobb hos often bcon employed on raiding servico, and is tho last object of tho lawlessness that scorns to bo hourly on thc increase. Judge Fiold, of tho Unite States Su? promo Court, is beginning to loom up as a probable Democratic nomineo for tho Pres idency, and his friends claim for him J.C oulinr strength beforo tho people. Ho is unobjectionable to thc South, was n strong Union mun and War Democrat during tho recent unpleasantness, can certainly carry tho Pacific slope in an election, ard per haps stronger in tho Stato of New York than any other man thc Democrats can nominate, from tho fact that ho is very ( friendly with both Tilden and Kelly, and' would bo cheerfully supported by both Ile has made an upright, foorlcs. and able Judge, commanding tho confidenco and respect ot till portico. His privato lifo is puro nnd honorable, so that tho opposition would, taking ovcrything into consideration, find him n strong niu; dangerous compet itor. You moy moot with twenty men io the day who stutter, but you never heard of tho woman who had an impediment in her ppecoh. Tko Blue Eidge Railroad. Wo aro glud to soo tint legislation fuvor ab'o to this loud hag been effeotcd nt tho extra session of tho Goucrnl Assembly. As to tho prui'tioal results that uro likely to bo accomplished by this action of tho Legislatura wo aro uonbio to speak advisedly, as wc have not boon admitted to tho soorots of tho inner temple, lint if lhere is nothing moro than is to bc seen on tho surface wo fear tlr.it tho work is not yet j much advanced. To build a rood costing ! such an immonso sum will require moro money than any half doz n counties can raise, lt Kooma that no provision has been mado to furnish that ?.'iiiorp?H? wit!? CO!? viet labor, and without convict labor, it is next to an impossibility for people to build a railroad aorous tho 13luo Ridge and along tho rugged lino as indicated to Knoxville. If our renders remember, wo urged several years ago the propriety of puttiog a largo number of convicts to work on tho tunnel. If that lind been done tho groat obstado now in tho way would huvo been ovoroomo ero this, and if in addition tn what has been done, tho State had directed tho au thorities to put a largo numbor of convicts to work removing tho grunitc, it would bo only a question of timo on to vr han tho greatly d esirod ond would bo accomplished. Few persons seem to oppreciuto tho importnncc and magnitude of titi? work. If tho Gen eral Assembly in tho December sessmn, had detailed tho convicts to work on this road instead of wasting timo on rho imaginary canals und magnificent factories which will never exist, except on paper, moro satis factory results would havo followed. Wo think that tho welfare of this portion of tho Stato and tho prosperity of Charleston, aro greatly dependant upon thc completion of this groat tine to tho Western markels. Whim tho legislation is not all that could bc desired, still wo aro indeed grateful for this much.-Abbeville Press and Banner; Tho Banks and Real Estate. Mr. O'Connor, Congressman from Charleston, has introduced into tho House of Representatives a bill authorizing Na tional Hanks to lend money on real estate UH collateral security und somo of our ex changes, notably tho News and Courier, ure very profuse in their endorsement of tho bill, whioh they allege will give a long needed relief to our planters. Thc position taken by Mr. O'Connor, iu whioh ho is so ably and so zeulously supported, moy pos ions all tho virtues whioh ho and they claim for it, but. of this wo havo serious doubts. We aro one of those who thiuk thut farmers should not borrow money at all, or go in debt except for tho purchase of property, and any temptation held out to thom to en ter tho arena with tho speculators has, in our opinion, always a demoralizing effcot, and is very generally attended with tho most disastrous financial results. For our own part, wo believe tho present lion law ss a very great draw baok to tho prosperity of tho country. Farming, as n rule, if properly carried on, is a safo and profitable business in this Stato, but when a men liles away the timo w'.iich should bo employed in sowing oats and wheat, and ia planting corn, and iu consequence, is after wards compelled to run to town ?ind buy out of tho scores at exorbitant prices thc very articles whioh ho should produce on tho farm, thcio ia ouly oti(: woy of winding up that m in's business. Tho bill of Mr. C moor will only make it easier for tho farmer to mortgugo his firm, aud in our opinion thousands of them will do so in order to ro'so money for spec ulative purposes which tiiey migbt do with* out. Under Mr. O'Connor's bill, in a few years tho banks will own many of theso fnrms, and tho farmer will bo homeless. Wo foil to sec tho unvant-ige of Mr. O'Con nor's bil!, to the farmer, but consider it of great advantago to thc bink.;, who will soon own so much Hal estito tlnough :ts workings.-Abbeville Press and Banner. --^ ? - - Tho Negro Voto. Tho Abbovillo Medium soys: John K. Tolbert, one of the old Radical loaders in this county, was in town last week. Ho thinks thot without n division in tho Dc mocnoy it is useiccs for tho Republicans, OB Republicans, to moko an; iignt in this county or State. Ho says that tho regis tration soborno will amount to nothing, and even if on oduoational qualification is tookod on tn tho suffrage billy it will not af/ect the negvo votcj for ii the oct should pass, there is not n colored man in tho State who would not karn to write his namo in time to register; that they vro?ld prac tico on tho plow handles with poknbeerics or writo in tho sand with' a sliok before they would give up theil citizenship, in obedience to any legislativo oniictmcnt. Ho thinks that tho J)einocrotio party is going to tho "domnition bow wows," and is very happy in 3ontoinphiting ils dying struggles. Having given up tho national idea, he declares that its dissolution is only a question of timo. Such talk from a Re publican who has never renounced his allcgianco to his party is full of suggestions to those in our own rank who affect a con tempt for anything like political opposi tion. Tho Athena (Go.) Banner learns that ono of tho Tocooa couples recently tho vic tims of what they supposed tobo o mook marriano in South Carolina, and mention of which occurrence was modo ot tho timo, havo concluded to aeoept tho situation and livo together as mon and wife. Tho other couple aro suing fora divorce. Marriuge is a bad thing to fuol with. Quit borrowing your neighbor's OOttTUEft and subsoribo for it.