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DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND rO THE GENERAL INTEREST OF TUE COUNTRY. vo. v1. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 18T"O. South: Carolina's Vote. FATS ELICITED BY THE CoNGREssIoNn AL COMMITEE. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-The South Carolina committee returned to Wash-t ing early this morning, after an ab nence of about a month. A vast amount of testimoncy has boon taken, most of which is still in the notes of the stenographer. 1t has not, there fore, been fully examined by the com mittee; hence no formal action has been taken as to what conclusions will be reported to the House. The ru -0 mor, therefore, that the committee will report that the Hayes oloctors were legally elected has no foundation in any action tho committee has tak en, and must have boon based merely upon a remark by individual mom% bers of the committee. Mr. Saylor, the oairman,. says that the testimo. 4 iny taken by the committee will de monstrate, to the satisfaction of all reasonable men, three facts. First-That Wade Hampton and the entiro Democratic State ticket, and a majority of the members of the House of Representatives, were elect. ed by majorities ranging from 200 to 1,100. Second-That the intimidation was almost exclusively on the part of Rad ical negreas against those of their own eolor, who announced their in tention to vote for Wade Hampton and other Demopratic candidates for State offices. Third-That the riots at Cainhoy and other places were instigated by the Radical leaders, their object be.. ing to arouso Northern prejudices against the Southern people. So far as he was able to ase ertain from the precinct returns, Mr. Saylor is of opinion that the Hayes electors were clected. H1e says, howover, that there it some doubt about this, bc eauso of the difficulty of dotormining whether or not cortain precinct re turns shou4d be regarded. There were abou forty precinct raturns missing, d they had to go to ece ondary s0fres to ascertain what the vote was in those precincts. e thinks they approximated the result at these missing polls, and in ordor that what over doubt there was might bo given to the Repubhcan side, his committee would doubtless admit the choice of ~.the Hayes electors. About the elec tion of Hampton, however, there could be no doubt. All of the decent Re publicans in South Carolina admit his elction, and say that is for the best interests of the State and the people that he should be recognized as the legitimate Governor. The witnesses * produced by Chamberlain and United States District Attorney Corbin werc, with one or two exceptions, negroes, and before they were sent to Saylor's committee they were instructed in CIorbin's office. They all camo with stories committed to memory, and some ludicrous scenes occurred when 'they got their tales mixed up. The army officers who were called as wit~ nesses-by the Democrats, without ex ception, testified that within their knowledge not a single outrage had been committed upon negroes by the Democrats on election day. In almost every instahce where negroes testified to acts of violence by the whites, army officers commanding in the neighborhood, who were present at the time these occurrences were said to have taken place, testified that they had neither seen nor heard of any such outrages. CONTEMPT.-At the meeting of the Court of Chester, on the 8th, Judge Mackey, after the customary charge to the grand jury, stated that if any official of the county read in court a commission signed by D. H. Chain borlain, &ited after the 14th of IDe,. Scomber, when Wade Hampton was inaugurated as the lawful Governor of the State, such official would bo placed in the common jail of the county for *con1emYpt of court. Affairs in Columbia remain un changed, and will likely remain so untit the boss "bull-dozer" goes out of the White House, The Ransom Tax. The Seal of South Carolina has this motto, "Animis Opibusque Pa. rati," which may be freely rendered: Ready with heart and band., The sentiment embodies the whole duty of good citizen, who is not only to love and respect his State, but is also to contritute to her support of his substance. In politics, as in re ligion, any one can cry, Lord! Lord! but in the one case, as in the other, the true man is he who testifies by deeds, and not by words only, to the good cause. When the barons of England extorted from an unwilling King the great charter of their lib erties, which lies even now at the basis of our own South Carolina law, they made it a portion of the chart er that in the new form of govern ment thus established they would do their part by contributing to its sup port; and so, when the fathers of this republic announced its political in dependence of Great Britain, they pledged to the support of that de claration "our . lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." In each case it was well underp stood that those who desire a good government must not confine their approbation of its principles to a simple heartfelt wish. They must be animiis opibusque parati-ready with heart and hand-and ready they were in either era to an extent which showed the depth and intensity of their purpose. In Magna Charta we read that the King says at the end of the articlos wvhich were there after to be the basis of England lib erty; "And for this our gift and grait of tieso liborties, the arch bishops, bishops, abbots, )riurs, carls, barons, kniglt6, frceholdurs and the fitteenth part of all their moval)les;" that is, between six and seven per cent. of their entire personal prop eity, arms, horses, cattle, plate, illu. minated manuicrij)ts, vestments, etc., etC., all classes freely bestowing of their subetance for the enfrachise ment of Eungland from governmental usurpation and opp)ression. it might turther be rcounted1 how in other times a faithful observance of the motto of this State has mairked sutecessful struggles in behalf of good government, but it is needless to multiply examples. It is not our purpose to urge the citizens of thiu State to pay promptly that portion of taxes which Governor Hampton, by the instructions of the House of Repr'esentatives, has called for, be cause in the old phraso, "It needs not to spur the willing steed." The p)eople of South Carolina will supM port the government of their chtoice. w ithout pressing. If it live, it lives for them; if it die of inanition, the shame is their's; but it will not die. The money now requested while called a tax, is, in reality, a subscrip tion fund to hold Hampton up and put Chamberlain down. It is South Carolina's liberation money, and where is that man who will not pay for the ransom of his State? Let every one pay what Governor IIamps ton a3ks, and call it Carolina's ran soi tax.-Jgurnal of Commerce. CoLUunus, Ohio, January 9.-The third resolution of the Democratic Convention reads: That, while in the conviction that Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks have received not only a large majority of the popular vote, but a majority of the electoral vote, and are, therefore, elected President and Vice-President, we yet declare that any decision made by the Sen ate and House of Representatives will be cheerfully acquiesced in by the whole; and that any attempt to inaugurate a President simply upon the proclamation of the President ol the Senate will be an act of usurpa. tion that will be resisted by the peo p)1e to the last extremity, even should that extromity bli an appeal to arma, Governor Hampton's Letter. Democratic newspapers, in both the North and the South have taken Governor Hampton to task for writing to Governor Hayes. Why should he not write to Governor Hayes, and to President Grant to boot, if, by so doing, he can advance the cause of the people of the State I The South Carolina Democracy, represented by Governor Hampton, are not hewers of wood or drawers of water for any political party. They are in affiliation with the Na tional Democratic party, because they look to that party for the restoration of the supremacy of Law, and for poace and unity throughout the land. They are not office-seekers. They are not currying favor with Govern or Tilden or Governor Hayes. Their paramount object, in every political movement, is good government at home. This was the key note of the last political canvass in South Caroli na. We believe Honest Home Rule to be, to-day, the aim, hope and de sire of every true Democrat in the State. They who feel differently, if there are any who do, should have made their sentiment known during the canvass, when it was proclaimed at every cross road in South Carolina that what we sought was, the re demption of the Statel Governor Hampton stands now where he stood then. For South Carolina he made the fight, and for South Carolina lie fights to-day. What he said in his letter to Governor Hayes was wise and just. South Carolina does want peace. Beyond that Governor Hampton does not go. The people of South Carolina do "condemn any solution of the existing political prob lems that involve3 the edhibition of armed force or that moves through any other channel than the prescribed form of the Constitution, or the peace ful agencies of law." When the National Republicans shall try aruk rd force at Washington, and shall seek to override the law, the South Carolina Democracy, with the Con stitution at their back, will go as far in sup)port of the Constitutional Pres ident as any Northern or W%stern Democrat will. We know what war is, aud we don't talk about it, threaten it, or invite it. When the time comes for South Carolina to place her bat talions in the field, under the "Old Flag," she will do her duty; but we pray that it may never be in interne cine strife. Meantime, as we said at first, the character of the liome Government is more important to us than the complexion of the National Government. We see that one newspap)er, a small one, charges Governor Ilamp ton with being willing "to sell out his party and coadjutors, throughout the country, for the success of his party in his own State." A Southern man should blush to write such words of Hampton. The very negroes in South Carolina would 'not make such a charge as this. T1he heaviest blows usually Come from those who call themselves our friends 1-Charleston News and Courier. The leading Republican organ of Florida says of the late recount by the Returning Board, that "it Mar cellus L. Stearns was defeated in the late contest, then the electoral vote rightfully belongs to Tilden, and juggling will deceive nobody and satisfy no one who is worth satisfy ing." With faith in the honesty of Governor Hayes it says he cannot afford to receive an oflice won by such means. Mr. Gladstone uses postal cards. No matter what the subject upon which a corresp)ondenIt writes him, the cx-Premier sends a few lines upon a half-penny card, which, a few days afterward, duly appears in the newspapers. The National Crisis. Nzw YowK, Jan. 6.-The Post Washington correspondent says, re lative to what course acting Vice President Ferry will pursue on tb second Wednesday of February i regard to counting the electors votes, the following may be regard ed as semi-official, although not au thorized by Mr. Ferry or publisbe with his knowledge: :I the Senate and House of Repre sentatives agree as to the course t be pursued, Mr. Ferry. will act strict ly in accordance with such agree ment, be it what it may. If n agreement is reached by the &ccon( Wednesday in Fobruary, Mr. Ferrj will proceed to open and count th votes of all the States exceptin those from Oregon, Louisiana, Sout Carolina and Florida. The ques tion of counting the votes from th4 four named States will be subrnitte< to the two Houses. If they agre4 that the Republican or Democrati< certificate from one or all the Stat shall be counted or rejected, Mr Ferry will abide by such decisioi and act in accordance therewith ir counting or rejecting the cortificates It by the 3d of March the concur rent action of the Senate and Hlous4 is not had in regard to the foui States, Mr. Ferry will then procee to count the votes of said States an< to declare the result. Mr. Ferr) will not attempt to exercise judicia power, or to decide which are prope ortificates from the States of Oregon Louisiana, Florida and South Caro lina, unless the Senate and Hous tail to agree, but in this event h will proceed to act in accordanc with the Constitution as he inter prets it. The Rev. Dr. Ty ng, Jr., recent], told his congregation that, if th ladics of his church would give ul their three button gloves and wea one-button gloves instead, eniougil money would be saved to suipport i orphan house, whecreuponi, some o the ladies suggosted to their recto the possibility of saving out of th cigar money of the male member of the church, from the rector down enough to carry on one or two asy. lumns. They suggest also that thre button glove, do not make a dirt o an unsavory color, and that the, have no deleterious effect on th nerves of the ladies who wear theou while, on the other hand, the broth ren would be cleaner, sweeter an healthier, if they would quit the us of tobacco, and give to the cause < the orphans the money they now es pond on this carnal gratification. But the brethren cannot see it throng the smoky clouds exhaled from the] incinerated Havanas.* PREs1DE~NT GRANT's BLUNDECR. Hlis suggestion that illiterates an foreigners who havo not lenrned tL American language should be d is franchised for the future may or ma~ not be a reasonable one, but it: certainly most inconsistent as corn ing from tihe chaief of a p)arty whic insisted on the enfratnchisemont of th] negro. The lowest and most ignor ant emigrants are far better fitte for political privileges than any but very few exceptional negroes, an those who would be disfranchised b the requisition of knowledge of th language of the cornmtry would be n< the lowest but the highest class < emigrants; not the Irish peasantr; but the educated, sensible, sober an reasonable emigants from German and Scandinavia--with the excep tion of a certain proport ion of Eng lish and Scotch setler s the very be of the foreign elements whichi Euro1 constantly contributes to the popa lation of the United 8tates.-Londt Standard. In nunion there i s irn . South Carolina.. s How can Charnberlain hold on to - the office of Governor in opposition - to the tax-payers and respectable e people all over the $tate, defeated at n the polls and' coanted in by fraud, l and inaugurated by an illegal Legis lature? Of courbe he could not re main a single hour in the office but I for a body-guard of Federal soldiers which President Grant keeps around him. iIe cannot reinain thus long. Deprived of all authority by the do% cision of the Supreme Court, as be - will be, and utterly derided by the people, what can he do?- le can I appeal to President. Grant, and what r will he do? .If lie proceeds further a to bolster the illegal government he ; encounters the decisions of the courts i and the public verdict in many forms, - and stands forth boldly as the usurp D er still defying law and right, and I treading iato-dust every principle of a liberty and self government. It , would be, well for this issue to be set, 3 tied. Grant does not rest soundly. . upon this South Carolina business. i It is worse than the murder of a i man. It is the murder of a whole State. How to "trammel up the - consequences," that's the matter at the White Hlouse.-Richmond Dis patch. BULLY FoR NEWBERRY.-A corros pondent writing from Newberry to the Greenville says: "Our Hampton Treasurer, Mr. U. B. W hites, opened r his books on the 11th, instant, at 11:30 ' a. m., and when ho closed at 5 p. m., - he had received two thousand and t slxty -two dollars and twenty conts, 0 This amount, which he collected thik e morning, will -be romitted to day tc - Governor Hampton. Everybody ie responding to the call-both white and colored. Thero was an incidont y that happenned in the Treasuror's of 3 fico yostorday worth recording. An ) old colored man seventy odd years r old, came into the office, and said that ho did not own a cent's worth of proert in the world, and had not ~paid any tax in four or fivo years, but ho came to give one dollar to tho sup, port of the Itampton Government. That was noblo and patriotic, and a well worthy the imitation of others. - TnE DUTY OF MEssRS. IIAYEs AND a WniHEELR.-The- withdrawal- of Mr. r Hayes and Mr. Wheeler from a on y flct in which they must perceire that e victory would be dishonor is scarces 'ly, perhaps, to be hoped for, but at - least it may be said that two public men coming at the same time to a o generous and straightforward rosolui if tion have it in their power to break -through the cobwebs of technicali - ties and trickery. Their country, we hi are sure, would not forget so noble a r servico. The P*residential election, whatever the formal result, showed a p)opular' majority of somec 300,000 votes for the Democratic ticket, and d the withd(rawal of the Republicani 0 candidates would only give effect to - the wvill of the people. It would be y for the advantage even of the Re is publican party itself, which under - a new IRepublican adminiistration h would irretrievably go to pieces, but e which in opposition may hope spoed - ily to renew its strength. The~ rati d fication of Republican policy by a a Democratic Government would be d no unimportant gain, and it is certaini y that Mr. Tildon will be as little abl e or willing to disturb the constitu 't tional amendments of the Conserva. >f tive Administration as the last thire< r, years was disposed to reverse th< d legislation of Mr. Gladstone's (Go Y ernmnent.-L-zdon Times. .. JuDGE MACKEY AND THE Ex-Gov it ERNoR.-It is reported that JuadgI SMac'k ey has addressed a letter to ex Gov ernor (Obamberlai n, warniing hini to withdraw from the conitest, am n1 threateiig to publish certain doeni. mients ini the event of his~ refus~al t do so,) which will entitle him to lodg inus with Suncrintendent ParmaeI Ak-the public meeting held atAli, beville on the elk inst, for the ofh. doreement of the flamptorn Gover"a mlent, the Hon. A. Burt spoke as follov : ."I cannot forget the pleasure and enthusiasm with which you recelive any intelligence from Wade Hamp.. ton. I hold in my hand a private letter from him addiessed to a citisen at this place. The following in re ferenco to our situation is an extract from that letter, and is what W4de 11ampton says: "Our success is only a matter of time, and the people need only go on steadily to insure the victory. * * * Nothing but United States troops can defeat us." Mr. Burt continued, and asked that he have the privilege of being one of the first to pay the installment asked by his old triend. He considered it a privilege to pay. le wanted no other ruler, and the peole would have no other. We will have Hampton or we willhave a military ruler. If there is any man claiming to diso charge the duties of any *fce by virtue of a commission from Ohomo berlain since the seventh of Decem ber, that he should be treated as an. enemy and driven from the country. This is the first time for nine year that we have had the privilege of paying taxes to a government of our own choice. We are poor, but the spirit of freedom is not lost. Rally around the government with all your force and means. We can and will beat thei out. We must starve them out, freeze them out, squeeze themoa out, and if Governor Hampton says s0, we will kick them outl On the 18th the old Barnwell house at Laurel R.y, on the Port Royal Island, was totally destroyed by fire. It was a large brick building, front ing on Broad River, in one of the mpst beautiful localities on the sea islands. It was once the residence of lion. William Barnwell, and ia said to have been built by Lord Cay!. ton nearly two hundred years ago, The plantation was sold in 1863 at United States direct tax sale, and the house has since been used as a school house and dwelling of the teacher. The avenue of live oaks ~which leads to the house has long been famous for its beauty, the trees having been planted with regularity tor a halt mile on each side of the road. Their branches, covered with gray moss, overlap, making a dense shade on the brightest summer day The immense frame of the Barnwell house on the next plantation on the river was8 burned several years ago. '[he live oaks on the latter place were equally famous for their im. mons1o8 size and beauty.-Clumbia Register. Thlo following is tho ap)pointments by tlio Mothodist Conforonce for' the Groonivil o IDistrict: UIREENVILLE DIsTRLIcT1, 0. A. DAR. nmy, P. .~-Groonville station, A. Coko Smith. Greenville circuit, A. W. .Jackson, J. A. Wood. Reidvillo circuit, J. R. McCain, 3. F. Mozingo. Fork Shoals circuir, J. Finger. Williamston station, S. Lander. Brushy Crook circuit, ~J. 3. Work man. Anderson station, HI. F. Crietzberg Anderson circuit and mission, Ab nor Ervin. Sandy Springs circit,, J. Attaway. Pickens circuit, A. W. Walker. Pickona circuit and mission, El. M. Morritt. WValhalla and Sonoon City circuits J. 3. Neville. Oconee mission, N. P. Moadors. Westminster circuit and mission, 0. D. Mann. S Shallow .Ford circuit, Tr. P. Phillips Pondleton, 8. B. Jones. F4I~astidio::s Michiganidors now call ~. livery stableo "horseo hotels."