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Letter of Hsyee to Got- and , Ma Ohamberlala. '* A*Ot ?* COMrKOIIISK OS lOOft The resells of die eonaideratiett ty tkl'Cabiuei of the South Carolina- nutation ha^O been the sending af a letter Is Cbamt&rUdn nail Hampton, inviting then here in pel son, or by delegate, to confer with the President ea thooltution of effeire in that State. The following in . e copy of the letter: -P t Exaotrrrrn Mauioi. tf iiBixuTox, March 2ft, 187?.' 1 Sin: I am Inatnacted by the President to bring (o your attention hU patpooedftake into lame- ( dints consideration Ike ytAa of affairs in South Carolina,of determining the i Course whioh, MdlMpviWtitHtion and laws of the United States, if may be hia duty to take in icfereooe to the situation in that Slots as he < finds it upon succeeding to the Presidency. It , will give the President great pleasure to confer ( with you in person, if you shall find it conreu viii iu * in 11 wasnmgion, *nu siihii concur vr it 11 liim in thinking such a conference the readiest and best uiode of placing jour views as to the political situntiou ill your State before hiin. lie 1 would greatly prefer this direct communication i of opinion and information to any other method j of ascertaining your views upon the present | condition und immediate prospect of public interests in South Carolina. If reasons of weight with you should discourage tiiis course, the j I'resident will bo glad to receive any communication from you in writing, or through nny delegate possessing your confidence, that 1 will convey to hint your views of the iiu ] pedinicuts to the peaceful and orderly organi. ( cation of a single and undisputed State government in South Carolina, and of the best methods of removing them. It is the earnest , desire of the l'resideut to be ablo to put an end as speedily as possible to all appearances of in- < tcrvention of tbe military authority of the Uui- i ted States in the political derangements which { nfTect the government and nfllict the people of South Carolina. In this desire, the President cannot doubt lie truly represents the patriotic feeling of the great body of the people of the United States. It is impossible that protracted disorder in t lie domestic government of any Slate can er should ever frtil to be a matter of lively interest and solicitude to the peopleaf the whole country. In furtherance of the prompt and safe cxccutiou of this general pprpose, he invites a full communication of your opinion on the whole subject in such one of the proposed forms as < may socjn to you most useful. By direction of the President 1 have addressed to the Hon. Wade Hampton a duplicate of this letter. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. K. Uookrs, ! Private Secretary. To Hon D. II. Chamber la ik. ? I The Sitpation in Locisiana.?New Orleans, , March 24.?A general meeting of the New Or' " us potion Kxchnnge, the largest ever held, j 1 ? v.- ?...... .v?."..nn* enuorswig ( the Sichol's government. . The Commissioner has fllcd a claim IntUa CirrlntsTsIS"vring macl.ine warAttorney L^rk^c^L' Lampai(?n;. u,s,rlcl, thot the services were performpro? of right and justice. He pleads the win*?." were issued for politicnl purposes, and with a v'evr to the pe.uuiary benefit of the plaintiff. 1 he proceedings of the Cotton Exchange meeting were telegraphed to President Hayes. It is sta'od meetings will he held by the Chamber of Commerce, Merchants' Exchange, Stock Exchange, Hoard of Trade and the Clearing House Association, in contra-distinction of the fied with Packard for Governor. Meetings are called here and throughout the State to endorse and pledge support to Nicholls. . ' The Roiiiiins Hox."?IVm. Hush, a colored man, whose name is signed to the famous bogus returns from the above mentioned precinct, has written a letter to the Ilarnwcll Sentinel, denying that lie voted at the election, or that he superintended the voting, asserting that lie only signed the returns to gel his money. He further says : < !>?? aval-> Binaa hoan ?nrr* Hint I did sign , 4lie returns. 1 believed it to be wrong, and so .expressed myself, which 1 suppose is the reason ' why I have the censure of my own race: and, as 1 proof to the true and honest citizens of the 1 county, I have been tincc times carried, and as , I thought compelled to go, to Columbia to testify iu regard to the Ilobbins box, but have never ' been allowed to do so, as 1 have always spoken freely when asked in regard to this box what 1 i would testify to?and I suppose thnt was a rea- , sou whv tlicv did not want inv evidence when I was carried to Columbia. I do here say that I havo never been sworn in regard to tbe voting at the llobbifis box, and, if ever I am, 1 will swear to the truth." - That Commission.?On the subject of the > Southern Commission the N. Y. Herald editorially says : "Of what use, or authority, or force, or consequence is thecommission ? One thing the President may depend upon : when he sends a 1 Commission to Louisiana he pleases every dema- 1 goguc who hopes to keep the Southern question i open for another four years, and ho disappoints ( every man who wants to see the country safe under the shelter of the Constitution." The World opposes the sending of a Commission to Louisiana, and ridicules the idea of sendding Wheeler and Hoar as non-pnrtis'ip* ' '. believes the ,v,'t decline the 1 in.iixion to act on the Commission. The Pern- i ocrats have had enough of Commissions and ( compromises. The only way to end this confusion and corruption, once for all, is to establish ' what is right, obey tho laws, withdraw the Fed- 1 era! troops, anil leave the Southern people, like the Northern people, free to manage their own , nftairs within the Constitution. Who Tiif.y A nr.? Here is a list of the carpet- < bag delegation which called upon Hayes to rep- | resent South Carolina and her interests the other day. There is not one of them I ho mention of whoso name is not calculated to make any man ' who loves South Carolina blush to think that such i men wero ever permitted to tread her soil:? J. J. Patterson. "Honest John," who bought from a corrupt Legislature a seat in the United i States Senate; I). T. Cor bin, Munchausen; G. s I. Cunninorham. Mavor of Charleston ?/>alIn C7 ' ' * " ' " "h? J .lolin Wiosmith, scallawag; C. C. IJowcn, the bigamist ; Worlhington, Low itnil Waterman, T and last, but not loast, the Mormon Canton, ox- t army officer, ex-local of Chamberlain's dirty |j little pap< r. From such as these and all of their f kidney inay the good Lord deliver us.?6'olumbin Register. n n The letter to Mr. Chamberlain from President Hayes, is another stumble in the dark. The people of the whole country are becoming weary T of lliis temporizing, l'ecksniffinn policy. Either t Chamberlain is a much maligned saint, and en- v tilled to what he claims, or else the opposite proposition is true. Mr. Hayes should hesitate no longer. There is no middle path between ' right and wrong, and if the President is the man t his friends claim him to be. he will act promptly and decisively. A truce to temporizing. All linmpton and the people of South Carolina want t Is to be let rtlone.?Journal of Ounmrrcr. t, a Steve Anderson, who, for safe keeping has been romovod to the coll recently occupied by 9 Adam Johnson, aroused the jailer and his family s about one o'clock on Monday night last, with jouii cries lor help. Un repairing to iiis cell, (] tho jailer found liiin in a high state of exeitr- c inent, and on inquiring the cause, was informed by Steve "dat Adam Johnson's ghost cum in do * cell an' kotch him by de head an' beat it up h agin de floor; and if dey didn't took him out oh b dat cell he would broke out an' nebbercum back no ino' as long as his name was Stephen, sartan u sho !"?Alien Journal. * Zacii Ciianplrr mai.k him Prmidrnt.-? d "Why," aaid he, refe.Ting to Hayes, "the dam- M nod fool wouldn't havo been President at all but for me; it waa I that gave him the votes of South Carolina, Florida and Louisana." And '' we guest; /.nth spoke the trnth. a <Uhe ^jHfehlu Union ?imw. ufllON, FRIDAY $7. U .7~tmu? or ^TI i 1 Or>pT, one year, m xfTAtim,'^ |UI k 1 Copies om year, " " 5JK> C " " ?. ? " " 1I H ^10 ' "HHG2Ke&*U 80.00 and others adrerIshtaKAxesoeOeer by the year. Obttnary Notteee ef Ma lines or loss, lamttd free. " M orer tea llnrt, charged aa Adrertlee Mate. |Ctr 30 per ceat additional for advertleemente ordered MK to appear In ooaaeeaUre lasts > We understand that Judge Northrop ad>urned the Spartanburg Court last Monday, and irent to Washington. His psesenoeat the Capia was requested by Chamberlain and his friends ?so we arc informed. 9Sf A fire occurred in the woods near Sanuc last week anil did a great deal of damage te cncing and timber. We hare not heard the >articulnrs, and as no one at Santuo is able, or ins had time, to write, weean only state the fjoi. .?. ? 8S^~ Times are looking up a little. A gentle rues J ay nnd renewed his subscription, in cash. Hint's about the Gth siuce the7th of this month. Encouraging, nin't it? out of Flour and wood, loo. Toney Murff, n well known colored minister, will preach in the Court House next Sunilay morning, nnd requests us to invite the white citizens to attend. Toney has many frienTTa among the white people in this community, and we hope they will attend his meeting. Services to commence at 11 o'oloek. . 8?"* Last Sunday morning a "drizzly drozzly rain" commenced here, but before Monday morning it grew to be a regular "trash-mover," washing gardens, hill-sides, streets and roads into gullies. It was the third of the kind during March nnd we are thankftil there is only one day of that month lefl, if it can't do any better. ? .?. - BQL. I" the Columbia Register of Wednesday we find n letter from Gov. Hampton to Mr. Ilnyes, in which he accepts the invitation of the latter to meet in conference at Washington. It contains nothing new or important relating to Ihe present status of our State government, consequently we have not .-epublished it. BeOur esteemed friend, Mrs. Grant, still :ou:iiiues her levees at the White House. She >aa just received a fine selection of chuioe Millinery, of the latest styles. ller Hats and Trimmings arc truly handsome. If any of our Ladies wish to present themselves in the most becoming style, wo advise them to try Mrs. taste in trimming lints. &rv" If nuy per?~. ?uhcs to sco a truly excellent piece of work in the way minting, we advise them to examino the counters of It. F. Briggs, which aro now being completed by Mr. J. W. Miller. We consider it as good "grainiug" work as wc ever saw. The oak paunulling nnd walnut rtiios arc perfect imitatinn?JL*n>I ,i:? played shows that Mr Miller is n first class w -rLuian. B&ST Joseph Thompson, Bricklayer and Well Digger, of Abbeville, who proposed to take his ;nmmand of oOO men to Columbia and settle the mu.lJlaJo ttva lUiif*!'''"" nf ?ll iJiA ueo J ale, announces to the Kditors of the Columbin Rrgiitrr that he has subsided for tlie present.? 1 He says Gov. Hampton has "poured oil on the waters and lie is reposing in the profoundest peace and quiet". In closing his letter he says : "Let Daniel beware of the day when Hampton removes oil from the waters. Touch the wire and we will be down." Mr. Judd, the I'riuce of Photographers, announces that lie cannot retrain with us after the '20th of April. Let those who are delaying their visit to his rooms take due notice and govern themselves accordingly. He has taken nearly all the young Ladies in this town and every one makes a pretty picture. If it were not for a contract wo made with accrtain lady, over'thirly ycarc ago, we should fall in leve with theyicturrjef every young Lady he has taken. We(lhink his picture of Gen. Wallace, in con'.^derate Uniform, as pjrfect as any we ever saw. K?fX. A licit widower, by the name of John B. aiva in iMuoxtyn last January, left a codicil to his will providing liberally for the widow and children of John Ashe Allston of Charleston S. C., and the widow and children of I he late Gov. 11. F. W. Allston of Georgetown, S. C., and for other relatives in the South. It is so seldom that the rich folks of the North think of their Southern relatives when they make their wills that we cannot help thinking that John E. Allston hml considerable Southern Dlood in him. It is said that his will gives "the greatest satisfaction to his large circle of friends ind relatives." That makes his will the more remarkable. B@u It has long been our wish (o secure an nteiligent correspondent in I lie North Pncolet icction of our county, but "somehow or other" leretoforc we have been unable to find one vlio could or would take sufficient interest in he growth and properly of that grand and proific portion of the Piedmont region of the .State o help us "write it up. At last we have found , man who voluntarily undertakes the good work nd wo give his first effort In this week's issue, ver the signature of "L." We hope "L' will lot "weary in welldoing," but continue to write ip the great advantages of North Pucolet, until ve shall all sse that sectim rejoicing in a large lopulation of the right sort of citizens and the ands worth fifty limes more than they will sell or now. A correspondent of the Spartan informs bat paper that ou Friday evening lust a desructive fire occurred at Woodruff's, destroying .Imost the entire possessions of Mr. II. J. Pearob, amounting to between eight and ten thouand dollars. A new dwelling house, almost completed, the welling in which they lived, smoko house, corn 1 rib All.1 all their contonls unil I ivn u-o^nny i II consumed. The fire was set by a pipe in the J and* of a colored man in the shavings under the f uilding. < The neighborhood of Woodruffs has been very 1 nfortunate lolel/^from Are. Only lost week 1 Ir. Lentherwocd** Mills, Cfftton Gin, &c., were i cetroyed. The animated loss of Mr. Leather- i food is $3,T00. < ' * I Add to the firo fiend, the depredations of liievcs, and the fyurtan't correspondent shows ] sad conditon of affairs at Woodruffs. * 1 42V i . ./Vr f . , / W * ! * & >M?UMO * 1 Spoilt Carolina, thtt many peoplSCte beghfriac |g believe thai auoh recognition U jummy to * established Got. Hampton's (Ma ioT&^Aaa, 1 aotwlthalsnding a Majority oftle "totes of Jthe 1 people elected him to U. ' : J No doubt the boodhoItUcs fygd Republican j office-holders of the country woeW be yleaaed ( if they could make the people believe such recognition was not only nccoaaaryy bnifvfroMeflj^ai te the country. It would be a aa^gg^^fhrda (We^tablishment of a*consoKde(l^^wmiie?t j over the United States, and, for them, the pree- ] ent is the most propitious tints. By the most glaring high handed frauds they have wrested the government from Jhe people, and feel safe in thelrcontTolling power for the next four years. ' Wipe out Stato lines and State rights and consolidate the whole machinery of government at I Washington, now, or during the administration | of Hayes and the power of the bondholders will , be irrevocably established. If the people of any State once submit to the fatal dogma thai a Governor of a State must ' be recognised as such by the President of the 1 United States, it will be but a quick short step, 1 for the marplots of the party in power to lake, ts convince the people that a Governor's Com- , mission must be "signed, sealed and delivered" nt Washington, before he will be allowed to perform the duties of his office. This delusion of Presidential recognition reaches even further back than that. It snys to over volar when his goes to the Doila^"you mw deposit yortr ballot for whom you pleitoevhaVlecc the inan of your choice Governor, but unless that choice shall be in accordance with the wishes nnd interests of the party in power at Washington, he will not be recognised, and therefore, will not be your Governor." Hayes has no more to do with recognising Hampton as Governor of South Carolina than the Queen of England. A majority of the people of this State elected him, and they arc the only parties to whom he has any right to look for recognition. He knows and appreciates that as well as nuy man can, and it remains for the people to ratify their votes nt the ballot box, by clinging to hitn, with all the ardor of true citi zens and all (he means at their command, until his enemies and the enemies of good government shall be compelled to remove nil obstacles to the full exercise of his authority. Such, in our opinion, must be the result. The vacillating policy of Hayes an I his advisers may protract the day, but the delay is becoming irksome to the whole country and theTnjustico will not be submitted to much longer. The delay in removing the troops from the State House (and that is all that is necessary to he done) is, no doubt, in the hope that some compromise tnny be affected by which Chamberlain or some of his followers may sccviro some prom4??ont position, eithor in the State government or in the u. s. Senate. In every political compromise ',Cl^?ijre democrats of tlie South have lost every inch ots . ground they had gained. It is not the policy of the Republicans to entertain a compromise until iliey find they have all to gain nnd nothing to lose by it. The Louisiana compromise, four years ago, gave the Republicans the fraudulent Returning Board that manipulated the vote of that State for llayes, in defiance of 7,000 majority against him. The compromises made in this State for ten years came very near annihilating Ulfijdemocratic Darty ; and now that wo have fair- s, ly nnd honorably elected an honest and acceptable State Government, it will not do to give ono iota of what we have gained. It is very clear tlint a majority of the voters elected Hnmpton Governor of South Carolina : and it is equally clear that a Majority of the voter? did not elect Hayes President of the United Stales. The people of South Carolina recog- I nize Hampton as their Governor, and they will | have no other. Mr. Hayes is not so sure in his position, nnd before he assumes the prerogative of recognizing Hampton, he should ask himself whether the people of the United Stales truly acknowledge him as their legally elected President. Ilad Tilden been supported, after his election, with the same devotion and unanimity, by the Northern Democracy, as Hampton is by the people of South Carolina Hayes would not now be assuming tho functions of the Presidential office. One disgraces the whole country by accepting its omce inroiiglt perjuryand fraud, the other is an honored representative of a devoted majority of a sovereign State. The people must set their faces as flints against any compromise whatever. Hnmpton is opposed to it, and we must stregthen his hands by a united determination to stand by him at every hazard. We must determine to pny no taxes to any but the Hnmpton government, to recognizo no appointees but those holding Commissions from Hampton, and in every other way possible the people must recognize no government of this State but that of which Hampton is the head.? And this determination must be so united, so firm and so unmistakeable that neither Hayes nor Chamberlain shall be encouraged to hope that any compromise will be submitted to. Let the people stand firm ; let all the people stand firm. We give this week a letter from Hayes to Gov. Hampton and D. II. Chauitierlnin, asking the two latter to meet the former In Washington. either in person, or by a confidential delegate or letter, to convey to him (your) their views of the impediments to the peaceful and orderly organization of a single and undisputed State government in South Carolina, and of the best methods of removing them." There's a rat in the meal tub, sure. Hayes knows just ns well as Hampton does, what the "impediments" arc, and he knews further that he could remove those "impediments" in much quicker ti ne than it would take Gov. Hampton to go to Washington or write a single letter. All he has got to do Is to authorize his private Secretary?if he is the proper person under the red tapo rule?to order the removal of the troops from the State House, at Columbia. In tweutyfive minutes from the promulgation of that order at our O'apitul "a single undisputed 8tato government in South Carolina," would bo "peacefully organized," and the pooplo would almost forget that Hayes' friends stole tho nflice of Presilent for him, in their great and great gqjoioing. We sincerely hope Oor. Hampton will not go to Washington. As Gen. Butler says, he "can do no good" there. If, however, Chamberlain re. iponds in person to Hayes' letter, we should prefer having Gen. M. W. Gary to meet him.? If 9, perhaps, would not he so discreai as Gov. Hampton, hut we are sure his language would be inote forcible. i " ' The second annual meeting of the Uuion Building: and uoan Association was held in :ho Town Hall last'Tucsday evening. The i reports of the finance Ootniuittce and Sec- ' reUry and Trensurer shows a highly satis- 1 ractory condition of the Association aud re- , Iccts credit upon the efficieuoy of those , dfioero the in general management of the i financial affairs. i ^TU^old Board of Directors wore very 1 ptlidently re-elected No men oould be.Selected who would be more efficient and prompt in the performance of the duties required of them, and a more honorable set >f men could not be found. A few weeks ago we read an account of the failure of a Building and Loan Asaooilion at the North, and the reason assigned was that, after the first two years, tho As jociatiou very imprudently changed its officers at each annual meeting, consequently, ignorance of duties aud iudiffcrcuce was tho result. Up to the close of the second year the Association was in a flourishing conditiou, but uftcr that it began to decliuc, and ut tho end of the fifth year it closed up disastrously. Tho Union B. and L. Association have good officers who understand their duties, perform them promptly and altogether for the best iuterests of the Association, aud they should be kept there to complete tho good work they have so satisfactorily commenced. The reports to the Association will be published ucxt week. 86B- W? regret to stole that theCily ofGreonville was visited last Saturday morning by a very destructive fire, which consumed valuable property to the amount of $50,000, partly insured.? Among the greatest sufferers are Morgan, Davis & Co., Burgess & Oilreath, J. B. Miller, W. A. Long &Co., Westmoreland & Sloan, W. C. Owings Mrs. C. A. Mauldin, Thos. W. Davis, B. F. McDavid and O. W. Barkings. The fire was undoubtedly, the work of an incendiary. We truly sympathise with the our neighbors in their calamity, aud while weeannot restore the losses, we sincerely hope the villuin or villains who caused them will bo caught and receive summary punishment. i "e Agricultural Department gives notice Hint the issues of seeds for this season has closed. Well, that will be no loss to the South. For years past nearly all the seeds sent to this section, at least, have gone into the hands of ignoruut negroes,?most of them not owning a foot of land?who only valued the seeds as so much saved in buying their supplies from the ' ^jTssecds by (lie Agricultural Departuieut h" ()*^a perfect humbug. Old A. S. Wallace scMobley as his medium through whom seed^H^Ji.ribUlea !n.,his C0UD,y nna wo have not w''itc Farmer ever received a Gov. Ilainptou left Colum^^^T^ "s''* ington last Tuesday uiglit. What he ha^il^f^ called tliere for can only bo conjectured. Thtq JitqitUr aptly pay* I. Govornor Hampton cannot admit that there i is any tribunnl at Washington authorised to sit ' in judgment upou hi* rights, or to decide tho question of his clcciiou. llo cautiol concede that his title is any way questionable. His own rights and the rights of the people are equally involved in his standing like a rock upon the certainty that lie was duly elected Governor by tlie highest number of votes, and that tho judiciary of the Slate has so aflirmed. Higher title than this can no man acquire. If he is wanted in Washington to plead before a supposed superior power, if lie is to be understood as a party appearing in a suit with proofs and arguments to sustain his side, his presence there would be infra dig., and a positive injury to hiscnuseand .the cause of the State. This point was raised by Senntar M. C. Butler uiul Juugc Mnckcy in a coi versution on Friday evening wiih Secretary Thompson. Judge Mackcy said : "As Hampton holds that his title is unquestionable, the courts ha.'itig decided all contests n Heeling his claim in his favor, of course he could not make it the subject of conference and controversy." Secretary Thompson replied : "Not at all. Governor Hampt n is invited bore not to engage in a discussion of his title, but to hold a conference with the President." The question recurs, what is tlie "conference" to be about, if not about the election ? ***#??" But lie will stand immovably upon the result of the election by the people and tlie determination of all questions growing out of it by tlio judiciary of the State. - - As Ex-Auditor Ousted.?Ex-Auditor Spencer, of Marion, who, with the instincts of a drowning man, clutches a* funny docilmeut styled "Chamberlain's commission," has been i wrongfully occupying the grand jury room iu the court-house as au "oflice." Last week lie surrendered it to the grand jury, as is usual when the court convenes. The jury having concluded their elhcient labors, delivered the key to its proper custodian, Clerk of Court, Clark, who immediately accorded the use of the room to Trial Justico Evans and .School Commissioner Ed. Johnson. Spencer applied to tlio Clerk for the restitution of his office; but his impudent claim was very properly ignored. And so the matter stands. It will be remembered that no appointments hare been made by Governor Hampton for the County Auditorskip; oqd it is probable that the oflice will be nbolihsed us an expensive au unnecessary sinecure. Wake Up the 1'koplk.?A spicy correspondent of the Columbia lit jitter, sgtyds the following to that journal: ,,. Don't underrate the enemy; he is hydra-headed ; has liine hundred lives and is "fainted, and when smashed into a million atoms, its capable of sustaining life ad infinitum. Constaut dropping will wear a stone, and by impudent, dogged perseverance they hope to win. l'ul on more steain, sound the alarm, wake up the people 1 -a. The Situation In I-ohisia.na.?New Orleans, March 23.?Nine of Vackards's recruiting officers brought before Judge Wiiitetaker, of the Supreme Criminal Court, on habtat corpus, were sent back to prison, the writ being refused. j lie nouse or Brooks. or Boston, owning set* oral millions of property in New Orleans ; Burnside, the largest property holder in Louisiana, and many large property holders, hare paid taxes to the Nicliolls tax collectors, i Dkath or Hbv. Bamubl Fubmax, D. D.? Again has our community been saddened, by the death of this aged miuister of the BepUsS'denomination, who departed this life on Monday last, at the residence of his son-in-law, Ker. K. A. Kdwards. For some time past he has endured muqfc pain and suffering from paralysis. In a few Ays hs would hare completed his 85th year.?Shmter Watchman. Jooob II. Wells, festtf.',-an old resident of Columbia, departed this life, on Wednesday last, i nt the residence of his daughter in BcnnettsTllle. 9 V > in.* mm 1 ^ 1 Por the Tit? i hitart or du hit ?A a Am sea far Mm From the published proceedings of the lote mooting of the Stat* Grange, In Columbia, It la evident .that tho collapse of tin* or(UiMUoo, lately no formidable to "middle on," Rnilrond Kings and politionl Hooka, la not hr distant. It is only one morn illustration of lbs difficulty of ooonring oO-op?ration among i formers. fhe difficulties sro almost lnaurinount- 1 able. Tbs sparseness sf our population, tbs strong prejudice against what is called "book farming," tbs aversion to reading Agrieultnral papers, the disinclination to most socially and discuss such agricultural topics as bring about that mental attrition which stimulates enterprise, begets emulation and loads to experiments and improvement; all these things are in the way, ana inane up a mountain ei aimcumea in the way of reform. Every intelligent farmer who has had any experience in Agricultural So cietiee, Granges, Agricultural literature, or encouraging tho introduction of improved implements, or the propagation of new ideas, will bear me out in the assertion that his efforts have been thankless and unappreciated. Every sort of organization has been tried, with about the snmo results. .We have had State Agricultural Societies, State Fairs and County Fairs, where Premiums have been most liberally awarded in all the branches of industry. We have had speeches and Essays ai d Scientific analyses, Geological Surveys and Agricultural Surveys, 8;ate Granges and County Granges, Lecturers and Agricultuial Magazines, and after al| the Agricultural pro pcrity of the Cotjntry has declined?tho production of the grains and grasses has dccronscd?"pay as you go" hasheen exchanged for "credit as long as you can get it," and uolhing but cotton is relied on for the support of the country. Can any sensible, cool headed, observing man gainsay this T Can any man who has rode over tho country say that the farms are more wisely cultivated, the fnrui buildings in better order, the fences, gates and draw-bars in better condition, the farm stock in better condition, the transportation department in better trim, the corn cribs better filled, fodder lofts and straw pens well stacked, the farms better stocked with cattle, hogs and sheep, and the owner less in debt than five years agoT That is the way t< put it, if you want to get to the bottom facts. It makes but little difference whether this state of things wmc brought nbout by bad govern' mcnt too much politics, or too much cotton, to( much credit, too much cnrpct-hnggcrs; tin fact is patent to every on#, not blind to the situ ation, that*wo ore on a downgrade, and apr?ttj steep one at tbat. Hayes' Southern policy, unexceptionble aa it may be, Hampton, Home Rule and Reform thorough as it may be, cannot restore u?. Th< lime for praying to Hercules has passed?*" must put on tb# brakc^**8^pyT**'<'ni l*omc on the plantation. Well, what shall we do? * 1st. Curtail expenses in ev*rJ w"/ possible W. 'lltnnt less cotton."" Hal?"the preften*-v. _ would bavo brought the same money. Wo ca beat the world at cotton. Improve iiio qualit us uiuch as you can, put il up in good orderno false packing, watering or sanding?butkee the surplus down?avoid over production. Sd. Re shy of investing in Fertilisers. Don be tempted by credit and payment in cotton i whit Fall- The shrewd Yankees who are ei grtgHNjfc'bis fertilise Manufacture would n< be apt tomhjjfcitheir money in il if it did n< pay. and payintoi^t wny you may, tlicy wi be apt to get the greatcJfc^irudt. 4th. riant more grain, pay^i^re ntteution t your truck patches, so us to snvo tlie corn cril Devote more attention to grass. If you grow. Clover or Herds Grass, try Swamp Grass Hermuda Grass, Crop Grass?Droomscdge. 5th. Rely mere upon Green crops for fcrtilti ing or restoring your land. The l'ea can b made of great scrv^fe ; anything?weeds, gra= or wliut not, turned under, will improve. Don't be tempted by flutcring accounts of big prices for cotton of next crop?consumption g?, i g ahead of production, aud all that. Then are the old tricks of our masters?the Wa Street wreckers* who aunually manipulate ou business for us. . A very pluuqibly written article appeared, few days since, in the New York financial C/iroi icle, demonstrating how Cotton can bo grown i 0] cents per pound and yield a net profit to tli Planter of 2 00-100 cents per pound. Nov every Planter ut ull familiar with the subjc< knows how many "ifs" aud "amis" cuter inl the cost of produefng a pound of cottou, uu that the uiau who figttred ottt this financial prol lcui had an uxe of his own to grind. This i only one of the avant couriers sent out auuuall to s'iinulutc tbe Planter to put in a big crop < cottou. MORE ANON. Bvhulau Shot a.nl> Kili.ku.?Friday uioruiu ahopl 0 o'clock inforuiaiiou was given to tli lieutenant on duty at the station house, by SiU Sinitli, that he hud heard- the report of a gu and saw a person stagger and fall in Cordei steel, just south of Vendue Rauge. t hai tester Policemen, with a lilttor, were immediately -dei patched to the place, and found lyiug ou tb sidewalk tbe body of l'aro Garret, colored, sbt through the breast and abdomen. Mr. Peterman, at 23 Vendue ItAuge, says tin for some time his place bas been entered from window iu Cordcs street by thieves aud buco stolen therefrom. Thursday bo fixed tt double barrel shot gun for the^purpose of shooting tli luiruucr. AUe gun von placed on a box in lin wiili (be window, about twenty foot froui. lli sauio, and two strings leading froui the trigge lacked to tbe bottom of tbe sasli, so that whe , tbe sasli waa raised tbe gun would be discharged Tbe window is on tbe second story of the bulls ing in the rear, and was reached by means of ligblniug rod tliat ran up tbe side of tho bousi about a foot front tbe window. Tbe burgla evidently climbed this rod, and was about ae tering tbe window when tlieguu was dischargei ?New and Courier. Skn atuii Mokoak on T'usd. Dovolass,?I ws a candidate ou the tyeuiooratio electoral tickt of Alabama. I solicited tbe voles of blaok inc and obtained themlo the namberjpf 10.0UU, an now, when the aanie of tbe moAfeniiuent re{ roaentativo man of their rsoe is presented for th sheriffalty of a district Ave miles square, shaft go buck to the qolored people of Alabama, whoa votes I solicited and received? and tell*them refused to vote for bim.for,ao other reason cj cept that be is a colored man f No, air ; I car not perforin auoh an not. I know not wha may be (lie opinions or policy of others i this regard, but I do know that 1 hay# no 'that would draw tTie'coTot tTTfB mtwk^lttwMlv nomination, particularly in the view of Mlioni events that are now transpiring.?/VossMorgan' Speech on lfouyla**' Confirmation. ? > < . - -. Mrs. I D. Withorspoon, of Yerkvltle, moths of the present Htate Senator from that ooimtj died oa Monday evening aftar a protracted ill near ?ne ?ii in* roothcr-in-Uw of lit* Hoi II. H. bickaon, whooo deMlt wo reported in week. / * .1 An In Una ting Letter from Werth Faoelet. ^ TmoKKTrrt B. C., March 26, Eoiten Tikis?As North Pacelet, embracing a representative portion of Uniol^ County ia deud to ths outside world, so far as newspapor correspondents ia nsnoernod, 1 bars concluded to giro you a few penscrapings from that dark and quiet coraer. As you justly say you cannot giro County news without correspondents, so we who wish to get the news of the County should be willing to oontnbute our mits toward# furnishing it, and not complain at what is flttr own negioot. i do not know bow or where to begin to famish newt, but shall beg your readers neS ? to critiolss my informal efforts in this my first attempt at "Editoral correspondeace." That portion of our County demonstrated "North Pacolet," lays between Broad and Pacolet rivers and South of the Spartanburg line, containing about one hundred and fifty square miles of Territory?once the finest farmiug and mnsi nrn/liinii vn nnrl ion nf t U a fVttinfv 1\??i r - ? being traversed by several water-courses, the prinoipsl of whioh are Thicketty, Uilkie's and Abingdon Creeks, it is very hilly and broken, except in a few small central elevations. Consequently, under cotton culture, it is now much worn and washed ; yet it is claimed to possess more rich bottom lands to the area than almost any other section of the Piedmont region of South Carolina. A large per cent of it is not itr ^ cultivation, or only nominally so, from neglect in keeping the channels of the streams clear of ebatsruclioa. Since the close of the war llio corn orcp has been of secondary consideration and the caro necessary has not been bcstgjved in the drainage of these fine lands. This neg- , lect is most conspicuous on Thicketty and Gilkie's Creeks, on whic't streams, frein Thompson's ^ Mills to the shoals above, there are about fifteen hundred acres of the finest ItoMom lands, haff ef which is entirely swamped the other nearly so, not produoing more than fifteen thousand bushels of corn, when, with good drainage it ** would average thirty bushels per acre?making .^^B a difference in favor of drainage of thirty thousand bushels, usually worth one dollar per bush' el. Quite an item in favor of drainage?enough 1 to attract the attention of those interested in J hcine supplies. ' North Paoolet eontains an active and energetic population?mostly poor, because its efforts are ' made in the wrong direction. The whites are in the majority now, though 1 at the close ef the war the opposite was the case. Many of the nogroes have gone somewhere, I can ' hardly tell where, but I know they nre disap5 pearing from our midst, while the white population has been increased by many front the old r North State, who came te better their condition by raising'cot ton, and have given us a valuable I ' additien to our numbers, being peaceful and in- m > dustriouecitesen*. Formerly tho farmers of this B 1 sestion followed nixed husbandry, but of lutcit. J ' is different, and there is a visible chango in the ' conditien of the people, from cash to credit, from ml I>ivmj IV Haul, (III arc turning. necCSSIiy Only will fore* a return to the old style of fnruiing, ' which is the best for our suil and latitude; and we will never prosper until we conform to th e ?' Ulions by which natural laws work. _ ' oats were sown last Fall than _ U8Utt ' U* '-^prospect is gloomy.? Farmers are busy pM^,#r aunimer crop3f 1 and the weather is fine for nBa,., ,, ~?Jorecotton than ever Is the motto with most of ? . ^tranj,a jnlt I true, under the lights we have, ttisa , n '. 6 *^J*Bople going thus. Jr 1 The utmost peace and quiet rcifgff through 3b? )l our section,?except now nnd tiien there is a * ,l skc daddlc among tlio whiskey peddlers, whom ^ the Hampton T. J's are down on, ns they will not be allowed, as othors forinorly were, to share ~ 0 in the proftts thereof. As for local news there . is a dearth. Dr. Mason Smith had a genuine < ^ a close of Maningctis a few days past, in a littlo K boy, and succeeded iu thwarting the fatal monster. I fear an epidemic of the disease. North ^acolet is blessed with ten physicians?six of 0 whom aro practicing medicine. * 1 will inform you of nny note worthy event in future, if you cau spare room in your valuable 'l Journal for my feebleattcmps at correspondenceL ;o ii Tiik Oud Man o.n the Kiuiir Sine.?Washington, March 22.?The odd nian is on the Demor cratic side of the fence this time. The Cabinet, after talking through twoscsionste-day aud keep* a ing their teeth more tightly closed than usual in . their communications with newspaper men, have agreed to a different policy in the Hampton* * " Chamberlain case from that decided upon for i? Kicholls and Packard. The odd man who made t, the vote stand four to three to-day, in favor of ct withdrawing the troops st once from the support of Cliainberlsin, was Thompson, of the Na0 vy Department, but it is understood that Do vena d | also had a strong leaning towards the ilammon )- aide, which was unequivocally espoused by js Kvurta, Schurz and Key. The CabineCOsme to tlio definite conclusion to withdraw the troops J at once, but even after this conclusion was reach>f ed, so radical was the views of Sherman and Me^ H Crary that it was thought bost, in deference to tlieui.touiulccan effort at compromise, and for this g reason they decided finoll} that before the order ie was given te withdraw the troops the rival Govts ernors, Hampton and Chauiberlsin, should themu selves be Summoned to Washington and before ?? tlie Cabinet. This is to be done in the hope that I. when Chamberlain is brought here the princi? pies of the 8tautly Mathews letter will be more e directly applied to his judgmeut, and he will d be induced to withdraw out of a patriolio regard for lha embarrassment of the administration, d and probably additional inducements will bs ofa fcred him.?Philadelphia Tw\t*. n I* IIayks* Hope*.? Ths hopes of Hayes are thai s he will be able to get an Administration majority e iti the House, through a discreet use of his. o Southern patronage, and by promiaes of Urge r expenditures of publio money in Southern iun ternal improvements. The bargain he is tryipg I,. te make le utterly discreditable, and it is gratik fying to see that so far the Fraudulent President a has not succeeded in purchasing his men. It is >, of the highest importance to the welfaro of the ir South, to the cause of Government economy, t- and to the interests of the whoje country, that I. the Democralio majority in the House shall work together, and bear uuceaeing testimony to its a hatred of the frauds by which ihe people ware oheated out of an aleotiou.?.Y, J*. Sun. J CHICAOUS STUMTS ULOUKKI) WITH SNOW. CMCHgo, March 20.?Driving snow fell during the g entire afternoon, and blockaded the streets to -travel except on beaten traolir, which were partially cleared by snoyv ploughs, run bj the street car co ui oaniee. On the sides of the streets the snow is piled up three or four feet higk,and " the street earn run with great difficulty. 1'he 1 air to-night Is moist and the snow is heavy. A Strain stortn and a flood are not improbable. Hain " in heavy showers is reported iu the Bouthern and L rtnSni portiowa of the Mtate. j =?:? _M On Monday afternoon the dwelling house oe- -?^ ottpiad by Mr. llolman and his son-in-law, Mr. lloke, at Yorkvllle, caught on flrejnnd was burnt r to the ground. 1- Mr. R. 8. Torcher, Special Agent, has colleo'. ted In Oconee County, up to date, $l,AtMi 80 of it the tea par cent, contribution. One thousand and thirty persons have phld.