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f?iV*S * * - -- - mii?! i ,m i ii i * The Xoventxe Collectors. Governor-Hampton has written the following < letter to Coltoefor llray ton t State or South Carolina* 1 Executive Chamukr, v ,} Columbia, February 1, 1878. ) Sir?Upon receipt of your letter, in which you offer to aasociato aa a special deputy collector ' some one named by myself, I referred the mattor to tbo Spartanburg delegation, and 1 now enclose the recommendation itiede by them. As they had to give grave consideration to this subject some delay has occurred, but I hope that t the imndidate presented l">s the necessary qualifications. If he has not, of course you will not Mm * |,i> iR onlv saeiresled in order to aid you in having the laws fully and impartially enforced. To this end I shall cheerfully lend all , my influence, and in cases of the violation of the law you shall have every assistance from . myself. Thanking you for the evidence you have given of a desire te ask my co-operation in 1 the Jischargo of yoa* official duties, 1 ? very respectfully yours, jtar . Waok Hampton. E. M. Drayton, Esq., Collector. ? The gentleman nominated is Mr. Starling P. , Sanford, of Spartanburg. Collector lirayton's reply is as follows : Usitko States Internal Revenue, 1 Collector's OrricK, District or S. C. V Columbia, February 1, 1878. J 1 Hit Excellency Qovtrnor Wade Hampton: i Sir?1 received your communication of (his ( ~ -r V llfn 'my WMfr'W 1HI Jill U?., tl JUSnSdBT * ber, I stated that it would be necessary for me te make the appointments I alluded to before the closa of last month, and had you been able to send me the name of Mr. Starling P. Sanford 1 within that time I would have been glad to appoint him and assign him to tho commmand of ( the force which I had been directed to organize. But not hearing from you I was obliged, at the 1 last moment, to make an appointment, and accordingly commissioned Capt. C. O. Hoffman as , such oflicet, and he has already gone to Greenville to assume clinrge. Of course, the deputies 1 to be associated with him had also (p> be appoin- 1 ted, which leaves1!** at this time without a-va- i cancy, . I will, however, appdiat Mr. Sanford nf iti fftw* hin urn-vims and ntv to com- ' mence on the first of next month, and a notice to that effect will be forwarded to liitn. The department at Washington approved ray proposition to you, and was so desirous of securing your co-operation in its efforts to enforco . . the revenue laws in this State, with the moral , W*' effect which would follow, that I was authorised, in the event you nominated the men, to appoint ^ i five additional special deputy mIImIiot, at a * Compensation of $126 per month each, to conetitue an independent foroe. This force would have been assigned te a separate field of duty where their services could have been tested and cempared with the operations of the present force. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ?. M. Urayton, Collector. w Principal and Agent. An Interesting Decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in an Insurance case. In the United States Supreme Court on Monday last the following decision was aunouuood : No. 16G. Southern Life Insurance Company vs. McCain. Error to the Circuit Court for Alabama. In this case it is held that where the assured was not informed of the fact that the agent of the company had ceased to be such, and paid him money, its receipt by him bound the company. Also, that where the company so received money without at the time notifying the assured mat me receipt tie una i?vea w?9 luaufQ- | cieat under tho rules nod regulations or the company it could not afterward rely upon the defect. No company, say the Court, can be allowed to held out another as its agent and then disavow responsibility for his actB After it has appointed an agent in a particular business parties dealing with him in that business have a right to rely upon the continuance of his authority until in some way informed of its revocation. To this effect the authorities are numerous, and the law is equally plain that special instructions, limiting the authority of a general agent, whose powers would otherwise be oo-extsnsive with the business entrusted to him, must bo communicated to the party with whom ho deals, or the principal will be bound to the same extent aa though auch special instructions were not given Yfere the law otherwiae the door weald be opened to the commission of the grossest frauds. Good faith enjoins that the principal sheuld be held by the acta of one whom he has publicly clothed with authority to bind him.? Neither is there any doubt of the law as to the silence of the company after the receipt of the premium by the agent with its knowledge. Af? fuu uiuicu, iu! u uanvc a- icm uvwici cvi nit ujm nun. It is a fact well established by unquestionable testimony that Hall's Hair Henewer renews, olennses, brightens, invigorates and restores to its originol color and lustre, faded gray or discolored hair, cheaply, quickly and surely. The poorest people prefer to buy it and use it, rather than to proclaim in a manner more forcible than words can delineate, through blanched locks or grizzly beard, that they are aged and passing to decay. A very short trial will convince the most skeptical that it does eradicate the scalp diseases which rob the hair of its color and life. Fort Scott (Fan.) Daily Monitor. Pi'ici'anino to IIesumb.?New York, January 29?The J'oit says the banks here,*or several ef them, have, since gold fell below 1.02, been buying large amounts of gold, thereby putting a part, and ia some cases the whole of their capital in gold. This they havo done so as to be in a position to encourage the uso of gold among their custoiaeta, with ? hope of creating suoli an estendad use for that metal in mercantile traneactiofts m *1x01 anake the transition from paper to a geld basis tke were reay when the proper time comes. J cut So.? If by chance you ere allowed to enter the composing room of a printing office, and wish to make tho printers furiously mad, just stand behind thein and talk to them while you read the copy upon which they are at work. They are generally too4>olite to object to your rudeness, but their wrath concentrates in the toe of their boot, with an itching desire to put that boot where it will do the most good.? Greenville Newt. The Keoxote Courier' rery sensibly condenses tho whole argument upon the Bonded Debt, in tbo following paragraph : "The bond question is being magnified. The people want no repudial ion. They will aland by the funding aet of a former Legislature, in reference to the antewar debt, and pay nothing but the debt created by law since that time. Any obligation tainted with fraud should be rejected." The Journal of Commerce of last Friday says: Ttad United States prisoners who were brought before that court yesterday for sentence, unanimously requested Judge Bryan, in passing the sentence of the law upon them, to baro them confined somewhere elsoother than in the Charleston County Jail, on the ground that they were so lnuoli annoyed and pestered by vermin that they eould not stand it, and were afraid of being eaten up. ' e ^ ? ! Cordova, one of the worst of the Rio Grande outlaws, has been given up by the Mexican authorities to the Toxans. i ylr " ihc "SBlcdtlu Union R. M. STOKES, Editor. ' UNION, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1878. ( TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. _ 1 r?P7. o?? year, ia advahcs, 52.00 ' 1 Copies one year," " 3.7* ' 10 ? " " 1&00 On# square Invrtlon, - $1.00 Each subsequent insertion, - -- -- -- 75 Liberal discount made to merchants and others adrcrlitnit for six mouths or by the year. Obituary Notices of ten lines or lesa, Inserted free. " " over tou lines, charged as Adyertlsensnts. ? KMX. Hon. Jus II. Rion i? on ft professional risil to this town. The Spartanburg papers announce tho leaih of Irene, daughter of Hon. Chns. Petty, it Limestone Springs. a Tho Moflfett Whiskey Punch Bill was killed, lead as llector, in the House last Friday, by a rote of 54 yeas to 23 nays, on the question to trike out the enacting clause. Hay- Air. J. i?. toiieson, one 01 no omcsi citizens of Spartanburg County, after lying in a speechless, paralyzed condition for some time, died at his residence in that County last Sunday Tho Legislature has a joint resolution now before it, authorizing County Treasurers to review the tax receipts issued by the County Treasurers of Chamberlain's, government for and during the fiscal year 1876. The Louisiana Returning BoardJudge Ilradly has refused to grand the petition of the returning board of Louisiana to have their cases transferred to tho United States Circuit Court, but reserve* to the board the right to take an appeal to tho U. 8. Supreme Court. The Cotton Xarkotllut little has been done in this market the past week. The roads are worse now than ut our last report. Only 186 bales have been sold during the week, and prices average about the aamo. We quote the market at 8@1CJ. . Judge A- C- Haskelltin* reaignnd his position aa a p? State Democratic Executive Committee, of which he was the Chairman. Qen. Johnson Hagood was elected to fill the vacancy in the Committee. A meeting of the committee will be held this week to elect a chairman. Grant Endorses Hayes. A letter has been received in Washington from a friend of General Grant, who was traveling with him lately, and who reports that Grant entirely approves of Hayes* Southern policy? thinks it was both judicious and necessary, and has no di ubt of its couiplclo success. New Furniture -^tore. The advertisement of Mr. R. B. Porter, who has opened a Cabinet mnking and furniture store in the building lately occupied by P. M. Farr & Co., is crowded out this week. Mr. Porta. ?? n Rna .varUmuu and reoairs all kinds qf Furniture in the neatest manner. His stock of Furniture is of tho most substantial and serviceable kind. IIo is an industrious, good mechanic, and should be encouraged. .?. Union Race Horses In the Charleston races last week wc see that two horses from this County were entered for the Handicap stakes of $200, i. c., the brown ch stnut horse, Tom Bacon, raised by Mr. C. E. onus, ?i ciniuc, ann nir. j. i;. nunici scnosnui cult, Govovernor Hampton. Tho raco was a in le uasli,, for a mile and a quarter.? Eight horses were emtered and the Union horses came in as follows : Gov Hampton, 3d ; Tom Bacon 6th. The race was won by a chesnut mare named Swannanoa. Her name indicates her to be a Western North Carolina nnimal. It is is thought they are net pushing Tom Bacon yet. ? The Prettiest Thing Out. We have just received from Geo. Harris h Son, Philadelphia, a few copies of the prettiest Cilendur we ever saw. It is a finely executed Lithograph picture of a beautiful girl descending a mountain, Shepherdess staft' in hand, dressed in bright red, and waving her hat, ap pireuil y to some friend below. We are so fond of lot king at pretty girls, prettily dressed, that we hare pasted one of the Calendars over our sanctum mantle piece, another over the office mantle piece, f;r the boys to look at, taken one home for the good wife and childroo to admire, and placed one in the Probate Judge's and County Commissioners, offices, for everybody to sec. Both Lkos Burned Ovf.?About throe weeks ago, Itichard, a colored man living on Mr. Samuel Baker's plantation in this county, fell into the firo while in a fit and burned himself so severely that death will probably result from his injuries, lie was brought to the poorhouse lost week, and is still there under the medical treatment of I)r. Parker. The poor man's WJgs are so badly burned that the physicians have found it nocessary to amputate both of them.? AbbevUte Medium. e An OtrrnAfiK Exploded.?Some time since one Peterroan, a specimen United Stales marshal, published a bugaboo story about a prisoner named Snow having been rescued from him by force at Heneca City. Mr. Celetnan, proprietor of the hotel at that place, testifies that I'etermsn went to sleep, and that no one knowing that the prisoner was a prisoner, he walked off. When the constable awoke he found that his Snow had melted, and he concocted tho rescue story to hido his own negligenee. Neoroka orr ron Kansas,?Yesterday afternoon twenty-six negroes, exolusive of children, left Gaetonia on the Air Line train, having for their destination the far oil State of Kansas, where they will settle for the purpose of engaging iu farming operations. Very few of the colonists were from Gaston, nearly ail ooming from York and Chester counties, 8. C. They were in charge of a passenger agent of the Atchison, Topeka and Sauta Fa Railroad.? Char. Observer, Jam. SO. Oottino Armay.?A difficulty occurred yesterday afternoon in Mr. John Freel's restaurant between Revenue Deotccfive Wm. Springs and Jerry Mocre, of this county, in which the former received a severe cut on the side of the neek,' nearly severing the right ear. Both i parties were drinking At the time.?/Srkens &enfitiel' "^iM^Cironlt Judges. Obb of the mtatoat blunders committed by he DemoorArajfcgislatyv??of thixBtate was in istening tottj&ifry of tlioextrciniHts of tIt? party, that the Repqflroaii Juflgest had not been legally sleeted u^]RW0Nii9H^>* ustcd. Upon a cyjfeil watching'of the pfigresa of tho niaveqfcflM^re compelled ts beliove that it ba& it* ^PiPjlaippt exclusively, among the members of the btt " And what gives it n Jiort disagreeable feature is the rush of the bar to the Legislature demanding the election of men from their bodyio fill,the,positions. We have jno complaint to make of the decision of the majority of the Supreme Court. We bclievo they _ acted strictly in uccordauce with the dictates of their owa convictions. They ure not thp men to sacrifice conscienoe to the extrcs.e1wishes of on/ party or class of nieu.? But what we regret is that the Legislature should have thought a technical error in the manner of theinelection of sufficient importance to disturb the workings of the judicial branoli of the government al lb:s time. We can tell the,Legislature now thai it is not the people of the Stale who are clamoring for a wholesale ousting of tho Judgos who have resigned,lb?h offioes in consequence of the dociMMW W^M^f tie ^ltiseis*oMhLs^eunty" would elgu a petition to reinstate at least two of them, and we are as much interested in the matter as any other County,_now that the rotati >n of Circuits is adopted. We are not afraid of any one accusing us of net being as full blooded-ja sL aight-out democrat as any uian in the State';wn when straight-out dctn6cracy demands us tq turn our back upon men of the other party who did as much as any democrats to elect the btiaight-out ticket, we are constrained to believe the demand is unjust and uuwise. li is estimated that Judges Muckey and Cooke influenced 10,000 rcpublicun votes to sustain the democratic ticket, at the last general election.? While wo think the number over estimated, we ask the Legislature and every intelligent man in the State Whether Hampton and the rest of the straightrqut candidates would have been "fTSctsdlYen tf ttTose"dfcen baUwjonrroTTW otrry one-fourth of that number? Through the blunders of the democrats, the republican parly is now bcing^reorganized, and not with Carpetbaggers at its head, cither, but with native .Squth Carolinians, against whom no chargesj>f corruption have been made. Now, suppose that Melton, Mackoy and Cooke take tho field against us at the next election, ot that Mockey and Cooke keep silont, - can we expect to elect a democratic Slato Ticket ? it should be rememtitred thai few republicans, if any, who voted the democratic ticket at il.< last election renounced their allegiance to th< republican pfcrty and became|reliablo democrats. They still claim to be republicans | and having pushed the carpetbaggers out of their pari}, arc again anxious ,to seo their old organization revived, nnd will vote as solid as aver for it at th< next election. All tliey want is astute leaders. Wa ara truly pleased to see the people moving right in the matter, even in opposition to so respectable and influential a body as the members of the bar. The people will not sanction an act of political ingratitndcany quicker than they would so act of Ingratitude of any ether kind.? They know the democratic patty is not so firmly established in the State as to allow us to risk the losing of any vetes or any influence. We h.tte serious dissensions in our own ranks, and it would be political suieide to drivo from us men of fctbe other party who can materially help us. Their active cooperation with, or theii silent endorsement of the republican ticket, at the next election would defeat us. We just say what we believe, and we hope the Legislature will act discreetly in the matter. j ..i |?.i?n?*?' * For the Times. The State University. Lonu Level, Feb. 1, 1878. Editor Union Times :?i noticed not long ag< an article in your paper vertu* the Stale Uni versify re-cstablishmcnf, now pending bef<m the Legislature. The writer advanced no verj forcible reasons, and certainly nothing new. It has always been one of the ad caplandum ar gmnent vs. the South Carolina College, that ii was an aristocratic Institution, and not the plac< for poor folks. 1 would be glad to see a list o the poor boys who have graduated at any of thi other colleges in the State, arrayed in compari son versus the Old South Carolina College boys 1 have never heard any graduate of that Col lege say that he wts conscious of any distinctioi being inado between students, as regards weald or family. Somo, yes, many, of the most distinguished graduates of that college were pooi boys. You may look over the whole South, aut you will find its graduates among the most dis tinguisfeed citizens. Your correspondent alluded to the vicos of Columbia. As to that, there i< more in the boy than in the college. If a boj has a hankering after low company ho can find it as easily in the vicinity of one college aboul sa well us another. If he wants to frolio and spend his money, he can always find amplt room and verge enough about any institution t< suit his tastes. Human nature Is pretty muck the same the world over, and when you get i crowd of young fellows together they will surt to plot mischief. ft is orguod that if the State aid is given totht South Carolina University it should also be given to all theother colleges. Per contra, it might b< said, if the various sects were unwilling to send their sons to the Slate University they should iK.i. ... (... L'.. <1.. 1.., du^ipui > iiioii wnii oin??iwu?. * vi iiiv llioi twelve year* the other colleges have had full swing and yet they are not in a prosperous condition. Now, jf?theground be taken that the financlal condition ef the State will not admit of tin reesieblishment of the college, or that the provisions ef the bill aro impolitic, it is a very different question. All arguments directed to thai point (financial) or to the policy of inauguratinf a dual University with the same curriculum foi all persons, irrespective of class, color or previ ous condition, are perlinont and deserves res pec!ful consideration. But the range of dcb?t< in tbe Legislature, as Mr. Hemphill of Chestoi said of c(Human 1st Hemphill, jnNAbbeville, hai convinced n?e more than ever or the neceesitj Of Ibe University. Meeting of Stockholders of Union County Fair Ground. At a meeting of the Stockholders of the Union County Agricultural end Mechanical As| uociatiou, hold at Union C. H., on Saturday, the j 2d of February, rt?8, fqy the purpose of dctising some moans to liquidate the debt now being pressed against the Association, Dr. A.?W. Thomson waa elected chairman and E. R. Rawls, Esq., roquestod to act as Secretary. Mr. Wm. Mnnro explained to the meeting that in 1870, ? loan of $1,500 was obtained from Mr. Jas. A. Tucker, to complete the buildings upon the Fair Grounds; that Dr. A. W. Thomson, S. M. Rice, D. 1\ (Duncan and himself, gave their note for said sum, with tho understanding that other names would be added to the note, and that, in addition, a mortgage of tho Fair Grounds property was to bo executed to Mr. Tucker; neither of which had been done. That J^cre \vu? now due on said note about $1,585 ; that Mr. Tuokcr had placed said claim in the hands of Attorneys at this place for collection. The Attornoys, however, had courteously consented to allow thcuMimc to call a meeting of the stockholders of the Association and others interested in the enterprise, to devise some plan loWiiilalc (lie debt, and also time to advertise and sell tho Fair grounds, if no i Oilier aTrangSlnW C&Ulfl M tmra^-oy th* AntF " elation to pay said demand. Mr. Munro further said that the property of the Association, to wit: the Fair Grouuds, consisting of 80 acres of land and the improvements thcreou, was amply sufficient, if sold, to .pay said debt. The land itsolf cost $000, wliich wus njow price for it, and that between $1,700 and $'2,000 had been expended in erecting the buildings, (fencing, &c. Several plans had been suggested, for thopaymcnt pf the debt, and .among them was this one : That fifteen, or any lnrgor number of persons interested in the enterprise, and who would feel secure in the Investment, nurchase the property and pay off litis debt of Mr. Tucker's. They could then hold the Fnev Grounds as a Joint Slock Company, and allow thorn Mbbeusad as heretofore. This, though probably feasible, was not desirable, MMjMIMtlt - Fiftl, those of the original StopkhoMers who failed to come into the arrangement would lose their stock ; second, ho was afraid that interest in the enterprise, on tho part of the community at large, would lag. lie thought it desirable that the whole county should be interested in tho eutcr, priso, and nu opportunity offered to all, and especially the old subscribers, to subscribe and pay off the debt and save the property. Mr. 13. D. Culp said, he thought it would be a great misfortune for the property of tho Association to bo sold and pnss out of the hands of the original stockholders?although there were , so few of them?the amount of stock paid in I not being much over $000. lie was afraid the cry would immediately be raised, "that it was , controlled by n few men in the town of Union." ' He wanted the farmers and citizens all over the County to hare and to take an interest in the ( success of the County Fairs. The success met with iiervtuf^rv o*IU4 f? 1U, , therefore, hoped an endeavor would he made to increase the subscriptions to tbe stock and therc, by extinguish the debt. r Col. D. 1*. Duncan offered the following resolutions, which were Adopted: Resolved, That the cliAirman of this meeting appoint a committee in each Township to solicit cash subscriptions to the capital stock of the Agricultural and Mechanical Association of Union County. Resolved, That said Committees, or their Chairmen, meet at this placo on Saturday, the t '23d of February, to report the amount of cash > received by them. Resolved, That an adjourned meeting of the Stockholders l>e also held here at thesaine time. Resolved. That if the amount of cash raised r by these committees should not he sufficient to ) enable the Asssocistion to save the Fair Grounds from being sold, the money subscribed to tlio committees will be refunded to the subscribers. The following are the committees appointed 1 ik. * 1 unucr i no nrsi rciuiuiiunua ; Union Totontkip?B. D. Culp, F. M. Farr, Jolm Brandon, H. 8. A. Pearson. 5 Santue. Q. B. Began, \V. H. Brings, Heubcn " Thomas, H. C. Fair, Dr. A. E. Font, s Fish Dam. J. C. Richrds, J. J. Welch, Dnr vid Thomas, P. P. Ilnmilton, Jr., *??. M. English. Go/then J J ill. D. P. Duncan, J. T. Douglass, * J. C. Hunter, K. B. I.yons, Robert Benty. Jr. t Croen Key it. J. R. Miutcr, Seaborn Dillard, B D. II. Sheldon, R. J. Bcisill, W. II. Norman, f Ifogantville. R. M. Robinson, J. F. Norman, Judson A. Gibbs, Asn Smith, Jasper Uibbs. 9 Jonrsville. F. W. Eisou, T. L. I tames, B. B. - Foster, II. F. Means, W. J. T. Glenn. I'inekney. J. C. Farrar, F. R. Cudd, II. T. Gallmnn, T. N. Kelly, W. A. Moorehead. Goudrytvil/e. 8. H. Walker, A. A. Sarrntt, J. 1 R. Jetferies, W. A. Whisonant, Dr. Wade Fowler, i Draytonvillc. J. D. J cileries, F. G. Briggs, A. F. Smith, F. G. Latham, John Barnhill. The meeting adjourned to meet again on the , ii3d Febreary, instant. 1 R R. BAWI4, Sec'y. I Heavy Judicial Loads. The Columbia correspondent of the Charleston Newt and Courier gives the following humorous description of the difficulties [encountered bj Judges Mackey and Cooke in their hopes of reelection . It is amusing to hear Judges Mackey and Cooke speak of their chances of re-election, and the difficulties under which they are laboring. Judge Mackey says: "I wouldn't for the world say anything against Cooke, but the fact is, he is a terrible loud for uie to carry." "And besides," says lie, "we are not all on tho same footing. My claims on the Democratic r,artJ are unquestionable." Judge Cooke, on the othhand, says : "This opposition from my circuit has done me an immense sight of good, it has put roy friends on their mettle, and they have taken off their coats and are working for me tooth and nail. 1 would not have the slightest doubt of roy re-election if it was not that Mackey is such a heavy load for me to carry. It is hard to make tho neonle see that we are hr nn i means in tlio same boat, and that my claims up on the Democratic party are undisputed." There is very little doubt that the delay has t proved very unfavorable to both Judges Mackey ; and Cooke, despite the good humored view that Judge Mackey takes of it, vix : "That the delay is highly proper, iu order that, the candidates may have the opportunity of studying up > a little law." As the matter now atands, I think, as a body, the House favor Iho re-election l of Mackey and Cooke, while, as a body, tho t Senate are in deadly opposition to their re-election. ? L. r* ^ k For the Ttmoai ? like Cheater Marrow Gange Road. Jan.Slat 1878. EditoB Timks :?What hns bccomo of the Jnion and Chester Narrow Gauge? Have thfe teoplo grown faint hearted or have the S. C. R. . V, Q & C. R. R. & S. U. & C. R. R's, reducod ransportation charge* to a A ?r??? MVgtFvofad to Chester would oorUinljr bring ibout a good deal of intercourse between see-* ions of this Stnto and North Carolina, now a\nost entire)/ cut off, and if suoh a line jsrere instructed, as a matter of course almost, would rollow an cktension of the line to Laurens 3. II., or some other Westeru terminus. If the statistics furnished b/ the Chester Reporter, as to the saving in actual money to the people of Chester, on freights, can be relied on, I don't see how or why your people should give it up. One thing is certain, the business of Union cannot compete with other points possessing cheaper transportation and other facilities for 'irawing custom. Whatever affects the merchants, also affects the fanner. Tho merchant cannot sell his goods rfcheap as merchants) at other points, unless he has equal advantaged, and the farmer can't afford to buy unless he can sell his produco at prices such as he* can gdt ..JL TMiiiwi an gnwljIriH ! ?anhw^-.-^ ? ? in to And IWat out ~ V Y After all, it a question of profits. Will it pny T Will it pay better to build a narrow gauge, which will give you a choice of routes, or submit to the^unjust 'taxation of the old Roads? All the people in the county are .interested in it. Every dollar tafcefe4V|M>f the county impoverishes it, to say ndltring of tho waste of time and wear and^ tear of animals and wagons. The moro prosperous the village, tho better able its people are to pay good prices fer country produce, and the more prosperous it is the better able it will be to sell goods choap, and tho better market it will always be for everything grown by the farmer or manufactured by the artisan. (notice that a billl is before the Legislature to tax urumnicrs lrora other Slates. Upon fire* glance I thought tho idea a good one. It would seem as if they should pay taxes if our own merchants did ; but on reflection I am not to sure of it. If it is intended to benefit Charleston, would it not be better fur Charleston to remove such restrictions upon trade as embarrass her prosperity? What about the iniquitous R. P. discriminations? What about the tax of wharfage (larger in Charlcstou than any where else, it is said) the draynge, and other incidentals I have heard our merchants talk about. Ought not tho Reform to begin in Charleston. FARMER. . For the Time*. Examination of Teaohera. The Roard of Examiners will meet at Union C. II. on Friday and Saturday, the 18lh and 10th oT January. All porsons who expect to teach in the Public Schools will meet tho board at that time. A. A. JAMES. Scb. Com. U. C. Mb. Editor : A case of some interest to the froe school publicly pepdiniy hgra, in which the ^ meaning of the a'boTe notice is involved. Tho facts are briefly as follows: At a meeting of the Trustees hold on tho ult., three persons applied for the same school ; of this number only one had a certificate from the present board. One of the others had neglected to attend tho meeting of the board, but held a certificate from a former board ; the other had never taught and had no credeutials. Under theso circumstances number three had n> claims whatever, and so the issue lay between number one and number tw?. While Trustees A and B decided that number one, having been properly examined, could ba selected, C, in presenting the claims of number two, contended that it was unnecessary for a person who held a Teacher's Certificate to be examined Again, but might take the School, and have the old certificate revised some ether time. The Trustees (Wiling to agree, another meeting was appointed. At the next meeting one of them failed to attend, and, of course, the two could not agree, consequently the school is without a teacher, and the teachers without a sohool. Mr. James has been written to and the Trustees aro awaiting his instructions. We hope, however, he will consider the matter of sufficient importance to make publie his explanation, as his decision will affect other schools sad tenolv era. TAX PAYER, Waiting for Confirmation.?Washington, January 28.? In the Judiciary Committee, today, the case of Mr, Northrop, nominated to be United States District Attorney for South Caroliua, was discussed briefly, but was laid over si the request of Senator Patterson, who wrote uvKiug mm no uennue action d? taken upon it -i until lia was able again to take bis seat in tho Sonata. Tbis he hbped to do in a few dajs, and it is inferred that he baa given up the trip to Pennsylvania which he bad contemplated.?What has induced him le change hie mind-ie not known definitely, but it is considered probable that his action is to some extent influenced by a report which has been current hore (or a day or two past, that Gov. Hampton had forwarded Vo the Democratic Governors of Maryland, Delaware and Ohio, through which States the Senator would hare to pass en route for l'cr.nsy W vnjia, requisitions for his arrest, on the,samo charges which were brought against him somq time ago. In the meantime, the friends of Mr_ Northrop are doing their utmost to base hirm confirmed, while Judge Carpenter and Ids supporters nro confident that he, and not Northrop, is the coming man. ?>e* Tsnnini.s Erincm or War.?London, February 1'?Baroness Burdett Couttes has received the following telegram from the relief agent who has been with Suleiman Pasha, dated Gaiipoli, January 30: "I have arrived here, after % march with the army to the sea. I will stop here to relieve 7,000 refugeos, who are in great distress. 1 have seen a vast number of refugees All over tlie country dying from cold and hunger. There le a greet movement toward* '1'? .? ca. The refugees arrive perfectly destitute, having generally lost half of each family. It is nations moving without tha means of transportation and without homes to go to. Englishmen cannot imagine the suffering, destitution and ruin of these lust three weeks l? nu inno cent and industrious people." ... . A dispatch from Richmond, Vs., snys Gen. Joseph K. Johnson has consented to run tor tkmgres# from the district now occupied by A Don. Gilbert C. Walket.