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ft he (ixilfthlu iilnion ftintes J K. M. STOKES, Editor. UNION, FRIDAY, FKHIIUAHY 20, 1880. 1 SUBSCRIPTION?82 00 PER ANNUM. ADVERTISING. All liyal itilvrrlis, iiu-tii.s ar?' | ?>I>i<1 at llic rate* uI'MTilN ?| liy I.ih . Tho Cotton Market. ! '? 11. I- Salt-> foi III" ni'i'li liiA l>.ilr? I'riri-* ; '. jlow iukMIiii^, 7;? , i>i<I' 111ii^ > , gomt iniHilllii^ S JDs?" What about the Steam Fire Engine? Union ought to jionsesit <ne ! lf*?i Aflir ('..url :iil 11 > 11 r 11 h tv? slinll ri'iliice our subscription list i>y cutting oil all names over six months in arrears. - OMa- Wo understand thai the Town Council of Jotiesville have indicted several parties for selling whiskey tu that town. [ CD' We are reiptcstcd to state that the Concert for the henelit of the ltaii'1 of Hope will be given in the Court House this (Friday) eveuing instead oi '-dinnig Court week. ' - Mr. William U. Havis. und family, have gone to Florida We are sorry to hear of Mr. ltavis's removal from this place; but we hope it is the best lor iiitu. as Ins health has almost given away. Our best wishes follow them in their new home. JtaV Aiimtig the Proficients reported in the Sophomore cla-- of the South Carolina College, we are pleavrd to -ce the name of our talented young friend. \. F. Mcki.-sirk. Foster i- a good hoy, a g I -Indent and has all the iiialifunlion in him i make a good and valuable eili/en. IItl*"h of key-, evidently helollgilig I /? :i ^ . . ^I. .. ha- been left at our olliee for the owner. 'I hey were toni;.| hy a colored man on the eolloii platform at the railroad last Tne-day. There are two keys and two Masonic emblems on the ring, tin <>iiu of the latler is -tamped the name of a hotel. Mtr merge!!< \ottng merchants. Mc>r?. I Sui tor A i t Iiiii* will again "come to the t rout Io.iiuiitow or Monday. in their nmv store upon liie old Htnii'l oil Mailt Street. Voil can't keep Mieii young men in the rear very long. Fire can't keep them down, nor can you dtowu tlieiii out wuli water The tact is, li.ey are lull nt' business from tiieir lots to the lop hair mi their head-1. O SIX?" .Mr. Tin-. 11. t lore ha* l-eeii appointed I 1.v the tin\erimr a N1.1iii v I'lildie. Tlii- givehrnllier limr :i little advantage ever hi- competitor in the matriniotiial tare, fer he i-i new nrined ami etpiipped. net only to serve a friend at. a moment - warning, hut in ca-e of a yum/ nihr he may invite the girl to the floor mid tie the hymeiiial knot hard and fast I'or liim-elf, Infore -lie ha- time to give a solior -eeetid thought u poii the risk. IPm. k ittle we ure always pleased to meet | friends an I visitors in ottr sanctum, purlieu- j lounging * and talking. Printers cannot ttilk and set type at the sanie tiiue. <?f course we do not object to any one calling on our employes on business. W lull we ask is, that they "transact their husiness promptly and go ahont their business.' Persons culling to pay their subscription are always welcome. - * - Go to th Concert. Wv hope there will l>e a large crowd in the I'otiri llo.l-c l" liiglit. to hear liie delightful t ' iirei'i ! given l>y -everal of our most tie. i-nopli-lie I lady performers and -ingcr-. \\ ? know it v ill he a i h.iruling entertainment, for we liiixo ? 11 li*louilig I" lite rehearsals, ami we further Un-?\v iii.it tin* l.nlie* who aro managing it never i-nuagc in an inferior performanee. 1 In! |*r??jiramine will ! ? varieil ami inter-1 ??r r-t-> I wnli i ut -1 c-i in;; rr< it :i; i<m?. Personal Mentiou. Ciij't. an 1 Mr*. J IV. Mel.lire liavc gone on <i visit to t'liester. Mn-iir ll rlieti Miitiro lias rctiirncil home from iV,uniliia. 1 ley W. l-'uiit ivas in town this week, lie ie> representing a i'rug Homo in t'mrloston. Mr. lieorge II. ?'et /.el has gone to itrooklyn. New York, on Iniiiness Court Week. Next Moinlay the March term of t'oiirt for this county wii! tie eou.eno'i His Honor, .lil'lge.J, li. Kei -1 nv to [iresiile. We hear of vii'y one ease of hoiniciile to he irie'l. hi.( there arc a niiiiiher of exciting eases nj les-er '.'rile-! mI ii line.>:i I lit* docket, from neiri v ail jiirt-i-f I lit* county, which will, no doiiht. compel! a very largo at tendance during ilic lir.-' week If | . tfrihu*, wo -h.ill eivo lull report* <-i a 1 tiie :inj> 'rtit 111 ta,-oa tried on the tesMolls docket. No Move on Credit t A lew i . o11:!i- :i *i? we indulged four or live ' j er?n!i* by sending then, the paper on credit, I under iho promise that tiiev would pay us as I soon tie tiiey : i cotton iti nearly every in- l .- iijie ilic?e ge:tt?.eiut n tiavi kept tlieir }?roni- < i?cs, in whole in j ut, very -ntisfnclurily to u*. i ins Iviiieney < i, our j ni: opened the door * |.<r a i.mill er in tti">e neighborhoods to get I upon our ho d - under the same promise, hut < wo iegret to -into the result Iiih not been at ?' ail sad-fact uy. and having to tarry so many * < } i names on our books who are greatly in a arrears w? ate unable t iiicrcii*c the load l>v ii'i<tiii^ tu ilit- j m:. payment, at least, will ic iKju'.rctl truin nil new .-iibscriberi' hereafter. , A Good Ono-horsc Crop. Mm friend \. Franklin. "f t'ro-s Keys t town lii|>, *! . ? I :t! "in -anctiim a I'etr ?Invs ago ami. like iim progre-?ive farmer that he i<, c renewed his subscription i ? ilio Tim as, making s us happy to lint amount. In cour-o of convermilioii. we lirt'W 1 rout liiin tin- result of ins last t yeir's labor upon the one-horse firm lie culti- I i rated. Mti.-.i Met-me. ler tar above the average I and niioWK tout .Mr. I'ninkiii. is .1 working live I at-home firmer. 'Jhu follow ing is Ins crop, male by liim-e.f without hiring nny help . 1 1^ ball's of Cotton, I I loads of corn, .Vl bush I ols sweet pitutoi's, bushels when ami 1*>" 1 to/., bun lien ' I cats. ?li l'i ink in 1 u-' tlrj: he ha 1 not bought totu 'oil; v.'irici tiit o ?r 1 In Old Railroader. F. 11. Counts, our excellent Agent at this place, is perhaps anions it' not the oldest railroad man now in harness in the Slate, lie lias been continuously in the service <>f tlio Spartanburg an I I'liiuu Railroad Company for the last twenty-.-i\ years, entering the service of the Company when a hoy of sixteen years, in lhte', as assistant agent at Alston. He was appointed agent at that -tat on in August, !> <',I, which j osi'i >u he tilled until January. when the fre-het and Sherman s rai 1 destroyed that portion of the road between Alston and Slulton. In February, 1 Mi.'i, lie was elected Secretary ami treasurer ol the <out pauy to till the vacancy caused by the death of .1. I>. Keinan. wuicii position lie tilled until February. 1ST'-', when the 'ScotI Iting ' | nrchased the run 1 ami moved the ollicc to t'olunibin, Mr. Count a being then appointed comluctor. In August, 1 S7-, an injunction was tiled against the Scott ring ami the Company placed ill tlie linmis of a receiver. The late lamented exCov. Titos lb .leler was appointed receiver, ami took Mr. ('mints into his ullicc as Hook-keeper. In Fchy. 1>7T. the Company was again aohl ami purchuse<l by Me.Wen, In man and Austell. The new organization elected Mr. i'mints Secretary and Treasurer which position he held until they leased the I'.oad lothe Ciyde I'yndicate in June ISM. when the Companies were consolidated. Mr. founts then accepted the Agency at this place made vacant by the '/ rmcr Agent resigning. Mr. Counts sats there have been many j changes in Itnilmading since he I:r-1 entered the service. It then took from m to ten days to get goods from Charleston to Cnion, whereas now they come from t'hicago ami New York ill from five to -seven days. lie thinks llie writing lie has ?lone in the past twenty-six years would he C'jual to a "double truck' around the glohe. Boston Soldiers Paid UlF. 'I lie visit of the National I.nicer-', of Boston, to the city ot Charleston la?t week was one of the tinst brilliant and pleasant episodes in the history <>f that proverbially hospital city. After the l.aucers "fell in just before leaving t'harl'-ston they were paid otF in tlie following manner : fit msi.kston . S. l-'ebruary 1'.', IhNl. (iiihrut (>r>t>r.< A>>. |.I,? 1-1 . '1 lie time ot service, la the Slate of South t'arolma, of the National l.aucers of Boston being about to expire, the piitrtertnaster of the command will be furnished with funds to pay the otlicers and men. By command of t ite i itizrs sin.i>ii k\ "i en Aiti.rsioN. Approved : B. B. ^ . t'. The funds which, by the way, were furnished by Major I'l. Willis, were thereupon d.sliibnted l>y Major Kmery?each idlieer receiving 5-otlO and each private s-lOU in bright, crisp treasury notes ot the < 'ontederale f-liiies of America. ? Firo in the Country. Mr. I! F. Itay, who lire?" near Padgetts 'rook Cliiircli.in t'ro?s keys Township, had the iiiiMt'oi'l tine lust fMtnday Dior it i n<r to hnvc his dwelling, smokehouse nu<1 lumherhotise burnt. It seeius tlint Mr. liny hud kindled n lire just before lenvmg and locking up the i louse went u? to the church ' ?*.tJVcov ered to be on tire by a lady living near by : but before assistance could arrive the houses were all burned down, and with them four bales of cotton. 'Ibis sad occurrence is a heavy loss to Mr. Hay , and our sympathy goes out to bint in bis trouble. We .lid not learn wbother Mr. liny was insured or not Tho Consus Bill Constitutional. Mr. Iliu ton :?Thus far. thete being no further development of the third division. I return to the second, which claims 'that the lull is not only uuconsiituiiou i! but i- not as etlective in point ..f time, .\c. The constitutional objection being investigate 1 under the t'.i st division, there remain* t i be t...t.. .-1 t!... ..I.>?.. : .. ... . ..... r I into. '1*ins objection seems t>? have originated from the belief by sumo that the a r( i > it in?- it t could bo lawfully made in ilio Spring or curly enough to have tiio representation of counties in the next Legislature according to utt enumeration after lite manner of the <'oustitutioii This i.the strange!"! objection of all. Whether it nrose front tin! desire to take from t'harle-ooti or to give to up-countics at the enrliesl period possible, I cannot conjecture. The constitution reads, as tvo have seen, that the representation shall be made in a certain proportion 'by act of the tirucra! Assembly, at the session immediately succeeding every enumeration.' According lo this it could only be by an extra session that an apportionment could be made, so that each county would have it correct representation at the next regular meeting of the Legislature. This, however, couM he done with the I rate I States census as liar basis of apportionment . for the I'uitc I States census is tlready taken, and if there ivern an extra sesliou it would only l>e necessary to use the 1 titled States evnsu- an 1 make the apportion- ; ncnt as in tin* former cn-o. Therefore, Mr I lit or, I vriil say of the bill .vliich makes tin* I' n it <*>1 States census as I lit* msis of ftp J rtiouiiuMit, tbnt: Is!. It isconsrituionnl : *_M. It is effective in point of time .'J.I, t accomplishes the enumeration lit the lens? :uxt |>.?->-. an i l:!i, It accomplishes it ns sorrcetiy a* t*. This writing about the constitution is not ?uly unnecessary but superfluous to the ir.irueil: ! nit it is not nnlten for them, it is written for lie honest voter who iloes no! know about the oustifitioti that he may not he misled by those vie. wish to jiiare political funds out of the icti"iis ot the I i-t Legislature. M. (.Tubs Keys Farmers' Club. Mi I'.fiion A few ??f the fanners of this own*hip met at t'ross Keys nn Saturday, the I :!i . f. r the purp< -e of organizing a Farmers j lub. tin motion I1 timhaiii was callel to the hair and ' l> llobo was requested to art as ceretary. 'i'lle chniniinii briefly ma'ed ilio object of he luceiin^. \ c->iif*i 11?it o 11 w av i lieu read vii i 'j'j lllllllcs (iii ! .vll. a i'criniiiirnl oi^miiuim on- then firmed i?y cli'ciiit}* < l"? llotio ;'ii ?iu ..i .1. i' itniloy intt\ icc 1'ics., 11. 1! s cw.vr: \'n 1 \ ice i'ro., ! i*. 11. ijul i> see \ > i". d> irea*. an executive column ire delecates 10 the c nuiiy club were n|i|>oinu- i the club will meet ill i'a l^ou'.s t'reeu hi :':i in i |:v\ i!.v ' *!i i m :il'i_ll. ill ? ih'cii i' m . i' 1" . tv. t : i Law?-a-Mai?ey ! Preachers and Wimmina' A-Ruintn' Union! Mi.-rm Kiuti n :?If yon won't loll on me, I thought I would *eat myself ami urup your paper a file line* : hut I am mighty sheered le-t some of thetu fellers in Union might find me out, and then they would git mad at me, and then this would hurt me mighty m ch. folks what riles for papers tells me you has to tell the IMit ir who you is, hut he aint ohlight to tell nobody who it i-. and I knows you hnint a-gwine ter toll. Now. I aint no merehntit, so if they does find out not aidy can t come in mi swnre they aint a gwine to trade will me any more. nii< 1 just wind up their account and move oil' forever, so I uiiit sheered aliout that. Well, 1 wish I was a I'reaeiier. so I could slmvr I aint skcered of no hody s saving they won t go to hear me no more; an you know that must liutt a Preacher mighty, an make hi tit awful pellicular, an feel ail the time like a teller a-svtlin on pin?, an' it might make s??me preachers ipiii. Well, mv -on John goes to Union, he is a good hoy, and he tells me a good deal ahout the town, and he says they hav grogshops that- one in the hotel huilditig what* Mister Wallace use to keep his store, an' one lower down, and one on a corner, an one hy the rail rude, an things are getting on mighty had ; an' lie heard of a hig man down there what said ; 'The winimiiis and preachers is a gwine to ruin the town.' My Lord ! thinks I, winimiiis and preachers ruin the town ? Why. 1 never heard of such a thing. I know there use t^ he some mighty piitv an mighty good v\ i in in i ti in Union, an' I did not think them winimiiis eottld he the mothers of such chillerns as would ruin a town. An' the preachers ii-ruinin a town ' Well. tvi*l 1 ; I just luffed at lite idee. I kunwed tlie iiM man wlial preaches for the Methodists a good while, and I never heard of his hurling anything g I, or of anybody- saving they would not hear him preach, till he got to I'niou, then I heard sich. Think- I, so much worse for the man who -liels himself oil' from such a g I cliatiee for hearing preaching. I know lie i* mighty agin the old snrpent an' had tit him all hi- life, and that he has done a world of on,,,) iin was a ehojiient an' powerful man. and I just eould not see for my life how lie i- u-ruiuiu a town. And then thinks I, I never herd anything in mv life agin a Carlisle, from that one what used to write an' was so famous i Mr. IMiIin*, i- he dead, au >1111111 he live in your eoiiulry'.') down to the-e ones here ahouls. A nd then I always thought that all good Met ho. di-ls huilt up towns. Now. 1 don t know the man as well what- at the llaptist ehureh, lutt I know the ehurch i? a huihling up. an 1 git- tlii- mighty strait. an>l all I hear good people say of him i- lie i- mighty pin in. ami awful down >>ii wickedness of all kinds, even t<> the terrible siti of mishehnving in ehureh : and I don't know a greater disgrace than tor anybody to misbehave in (bid s Ionise: 1 never done it littt mice in my lite : an 1 wain t fulfil that night ami that preacher. smut lie was a little Melhodi-t preacher, mighty sniart. a gi!i<lerate of Wofli>r?l t'ullcdgo. I tell ymi, he Cniihl talk. I wants a preacher t?> be plain. Well, s.avs I. that man i- tint a ruinin the Inwu. IV ell. I has hearn that tuan preach what hn<l that pirty church for the I'resbytcrians lutilt. ami 1 don't think there is anything about hi hi to ruin a town: hut what I hear* ahont his skiml ami the awful pirty girls there, think* I. that man i- a powerful help, lie aim a-rtiiiiing anything. Ami the l'isCnpnl preacher. 1 hearn they've got a new one, ami I ?lon't think he has heen '.sarin: ariif I don't flunk AM.s r|*.A (lJ"eV<Mf want to ruin towns. Then I thinks of mv powerful old friend what i' hoss of tlie public skuols?uiy good. jolly ?dd friend, and 1 just lull's to think that he would ruin a town. Well, says 1. John, if yott can spare the critter 1 will go to Cuion.' So 1 goes, and i goes to see what is wrong an to find out what is ruiiiuing things there. Well, in two or three hours we got there, an' 1 Inched the critter an it was ma long before I ?ce** what is the trouble. It was more than a year senee I was in the town. Then 1 saw eight or more bans a working on the street*, and a tall man with hi- buggy an horse standing near, and some -trong fat mules an earls ju-t a haulidg piriv w liit? sand and a putting ii all over the walks, an tin- shovels ju-t a-tlyimr. "id they all worked like we do in fodder pulling times. ! did not see any body drunk either, lint this time says I. 'My, my John, this aint 1'niou I never -aw a hau mi the streets.though I looked around generally. anil everything looked so l?I ami worn nut ?the Innii looked vo <ick ami like it wanted a doctor. <>ii tlie streets I siw in front of the corner harrnnm up ami down tlie sireel* a crowd what looked like earrnii crows. what's eat a- tmieli of a dead eritter as they can hold, and i* a junipitijr and a. picking at each other; and a Happing their w ings and a puking and a gaping around. I won't write any ahoul white wine and red wine, tin some other had things what is known ahoul these har-rooms. Speakiu' ?d white wine makes me think of what 1 herd of a tipsy feller ?ayin on the train totlier night, lie said lie got Some white wine outcn the rail rode har. an it wa? the best corn whiskey he ever tasted. He said he asked for whiskey at the hotel bar-room and the liar-keeper told him. 'there i? a doctor, he will give you a subscription.' and he got one for a ijUnrt. The bar-keeper told him he could take half now and come hack tor the rest. Now. this i* just what lie called them, liar-rooms and 'har keepers." It aint the piny, sweet w iiiitniiis. nor it aint the preachers what is a ruining I niou, hut it is the aw ful whiskey simps which have been <n unlawfully opened in the town. I wants lite preachers and all the good people to cry aloud and spare not. I have liearn whiskey men say many a lime that preachers ought to let politics alone ami preach the gospel. .lest like preachin agin whi-kev wan t preachin the go-pel. t M coiir-e . i i..! .. . ..i ; i . - . . I...... Ill I \ U llill III JM I I S - , .1 I Ml I .III * I ii" men in ('iii>ni hut what will je-t set down jural 1?* i tlic town ! (' mined \\ here are the t'iiy Father- Why ili'ii t iltey cb-c tlie barroom? 11,;,i s wliui wo country folks wants. It I iii->n <l"ii t change it is gwiuc icr ruin ilit* proa< her- and winiiiiiii ami chillern. instead "i ihcy ruiiiiii tlic town. It ii-' present condition aim a -1r? i?_c argument cii fa a or of |il>iIi<>n. liiciiyoii ma\ shoot inc. I'd hap- (lie Solicitor ami lirainl Jure will look inter the mailer at nest w eek - coin I. 1 lt.i|>o nobody will git 11: - I at liii- letter, nit tlic tnitli. I wants icr write a;in ?ooii ami I'etcli "lit soinc More tiling-. I S< I I St. Santuo Farmers Club. Mit. lint in is.?At tlic cill "f the 1'resi lent pro'.fH. Mr 1'. t' Ihivis sereral of our fanners j met ami organized t!ie Young Fanners ('lull of j Sanluc. on tlio k'ntli inst. The in oc ling was I callc 1 to order l>y Mr Kavis, ami I'. Fleming j was chosen societal v / / >, >. ?. Alter opening the hooks for -ubsciibers we 1 went into an election of officers. which resulted as follows : J. \V. tiregory, l'rcsident, Ivldio Jeter Vice j l'rev J. II. Knmlnlph. Treasurer. .1. I> Fleming ! Secretary I'm-ntu (vmiiHft". the President, ! Vice I'resi leut and Secretary i>r. .1 I'. Thomas. J. Sartor, .l imes Jen kins and the President were elected delegates to the meeting at ' nioti on Monday 1st of | M arcli. The meeting then adjourned to meet next ! Saturday We hope t > report one of the !nr?. I csl c!uls ii the c unty soon. ' I>. i t.r.:tiNi- ec t. For the Timks. Watchman. What of the Night A third of a century ago, tlie producers of I'niou County gave me their trust, anil mnde me their Watch nnd Ward, in I lie legislature of the State. When 1 returned from Columbia, last Christmas eve, to acquit myself to theui of the trust they bad so long confided to rue, the question which heads this article was put to aic--"Wittclimnti, what of the Night?"?and replied to the 1st of Jan. last. When I had hoped for the dawn of biigiiter days, shadows fell, and in place of tlie light of morning, darkness fathered and thickened over the conn ciIs <>f the last (lenerai Assembly. For the first lime, tlie mandates of the constitution in this State, the will of the people plainly ex. pressed an l the principles of constitutional right ignored, as in one of my previous communications has been indicated, as also the remedy therefor. We cannot hope that though the shadows hide, the good angel will guard and protect our future, hod helps them who help themselves. The pro Slicing classes (farmers and mechanicsi must help themselves by organization and united effort. They must rouse themselves from the slumber and the dreams | of a quarter of a century, break the chains which have, and are now fettering them, rush up the high grade which sej araies them from other purscy sand professions and stand abreast if not in front of the first and foremost among them. Our remedy is self re'iance. Confidence in self is the vital want of the farmer. lie has been so uccuslonicd to receive aud submit to the treatment of a poor man ai a frolic, and look on to the scene of passing events with o| en mouth and gullible .simplicity that he has become very much of an auto intoti and slave to frivolity aud iinpertinancc. From this degraded acquiescence in inferior position he must rouse himself to the assertion of his manhood, his imp irlatico, his usefulness, his prov l'lence, ins itidispensiblc necessity lo the movements of society ami the very existence of civilization, and place himself in :lie attitmlc of a thinking, intelligent and irrepressible element and factor in all the relations of life, instead of the submissive creature, beast of burden-like, yoked with the hrute and fettered to the soil. In life preservation of both human and animal creation. how long would the world exist without the tanner.' Not only the sound of the telephone and the tlasli of the telegraph would cease hut the breath in the nostrils of its operators would stop, and many of the heists of the held and the birds of the air would fall down forever. Again, let the retleelive observer turn back through the tide of time and mark il? revelations. They will see that every amelioration ami liberation that has relieved humanity and disenthralled servitude, ha-, procecde I from the roused up energies of that honest, humane and conservative class. The followers of Alfred the tireat, the l>.irons ol Uuiiuymedc. the Ironsides of <'roiuwell, the followers of Washiiigton were all of that class. They all submitted to wrongs until wrongs were intolerable, they then asserted their rights and, as they thought, secured tlieni by charters and constitutions: hut human institutions alas are perishable. And human oaths and human obligations ar. con nine' tlie- fires x>f huunui aurbi or s waiicfai \-a up. in irrr given ot liii'iriu avarice. Tanners of Union, behold yon* condition now?rimki- 1111> until ical inn of il>? ?I I - I'O teaching* of history to yourselves. Are you not in want, are you not depend lit, is your industry rewarded, are your rights of property, arc your taxesjusi; are not your public servants your masters, are not the great curses of humanity. ignorance and poverty, impending over your children ? And who is to li'atuc Whose fault is it ? It is not only the otliccrs of government, hut it is the corporal ions, mi l ns-ocialiuns and professions.ami all the artificial pursuits of men recogni/.cd by legislation : each and every one eiigineere I by a wiley and unscrupulous ageni : each and all living on the same victim, the farmer ! iie knows it, but not to its full extent : neither does he think <>f his remedy and his power: nor has lie resorted to it. Is it not lime that lie had l.'an lie not profit by the example of others .' t'vn lie not be impelled by lite same faith thai others are ? t'au lie not be fired by ihe same love of freedom his fathers were , t'an he not be supported by tho same hopes, and inspired by the same God, feeling as he inns' in his very soul that he is innocent and honest, and knowing as lie docs that lie has the power to enforce his will and overwhelm his enemies whenever he will unite with his brothers of the same calling. farmers, llnnk. resolve, act oreanixe n nrc compel! ft convention <>f the - did men of vour State. Demand a new charter of your rights , ti new constittiiion to suit your own rice, your own color,your own condition, true r.nii faithful, which belong to you by inheritance, sanctioned by the deeds of your lather.1, and a sacrc l deposit with you. to tr.inviiit to your children. 1 tint tempt" 1 to n >!'. tiie comments and sugires;iv>ns of the newspapers and their correspondents? "M," f>r instance, which may gtiiud for Minion. Myttnidon. Does lie not know that the eonsliinlion of the 1'uiled States provi-les spheres ot not.mi for each separately and independently, an 1 what the constitution of the State deurin I- that of the I'niied States cinno' countermand or excuse the fulfillment of, and that taxation without representation is alike ahhutrmt to both constitutions, r?n 1 (be creation <>t a pri\iligo-l class gnarled against .specially by bub, and also that where the rights of the ps >pb? are involve I the saving of cxpcir-xt in their defense t?y the at I of a friend instead of an enemy. The lender cin never ho sulhcicnt excuse for any ?>ne to whom i public trust is commute 1 to turn from a path or uio\e from the po.-t if dtuy. tit "t alauius and his coiiimani.-ni.oi I vvoul I 'ay iti.it his ooi/i / j'lmtii rrinimls me of (*:illiiit 11 -, n- i rcmr ly for cliolic in cliiMrcn, ami h ih?r t^imy jicncrally, an l is also too signilicin) of <lownf;ill ami 'lisnstcr as well, ami |iiigorniicc ol Mr. Calhoun's place of e lticatli'll ai hlJ Vli'liilie thrill of higher e lite itioil, loftier tli an tlie if", ami only coiiceivuMc in (lie iintiiC'i Ircaui'i, in tlie *1 reams 'if a learncil visionary, convinces me that he is a I topian professor of I kt employment in some 'Iciiominatioti il college of learning. 'lie rose-c ilorivl iilca j' farmers clirn having nothing to ?lo witli politics i< so tnconccivalily alisnr l ami riiliuuloiis an I s p transparently ilm wish nf those who arc n >t their fncmls liuat no comment from mc t- rc'iuirel. 15. II. Ilnr. ()v;-tor SupiKT :u tin; Union i lot ^ 1. Tncsil;i\ . Mitreli lM. at b.oO 1'. M. 'Subscriber' te 'M.* JoNBsviLi.r, Feb. 2', lx^C. Editor Union Timet:?It would seem to n close observer that your correspondent 'M.'s' most promioent faculty is that which impels him to give names of ridicule an J sarcasm to those who have chosen to disagree with him on the census question. This time he cnils them a 'Howling Mob!' Or, what is about its equivalent, he says their opinions arc such ns one might expect from a howling mob. It wouhi bo well for '.M's ' spirit of fairness if lie would tell your readers that this ' Howling Mob is composed of a majority of the best journals in the Mate, logctlier witu senators and ttcpresentatives, among whom is our own It. II. Ilice, with an experience in the legislation of the State of more than twenty years. For perspicuity of style your correspondent does not regard himself with confidence, for it will nppear on examination that his last article is a recapitulation of his first, with afew quotations thrown in to save appearances, while loth his articles leave everything about as ' clear as mud, except his proposition, and that is veiled in great obscurity. There arc but three points which have been developed in this discussion by those to whom our friend refers in such dignified terms : 1? That the Constitution has not been complied with, by reason of the failure te provide for taking the census. 'J. That such failure of compliance was due to sectional influence. 3. Thnt this influence was exercised with a desire to maintain tin lue advantages. Our friend takes issue and claims that the Constitution has been complied ".vith. We will now take his arguments from the labarvntb of obscurity in which lie has placed tlicm i?nd subject tlicin to analysis. In ilie lirst place lie says a great deal about some bill being passed by the Legislature enabling the State to adopt the United States census. Will our friend inform us where we may find such a bill ? We know that the Legislature passed an act provi ling for an amendment to the Constitution authorizing the apportionment of Keptescntativcs 011 the basis of United Stales census. This, then, must be what he means when he says so much about a bill, for I take it for granted that he knows the difference between an act providing for nn amendment to tho Constitution and a statutory law. Well, taking this view of it. how docs iiis argument stand ? it is as follows : The Constitution has been complied with, because the Legislature at its last session provided f r an amendment to it. which amendment, when sanctioned by the people in general election, will make it lawful to adopt the United States census as the basis of representation. I?id anybody ever sec a more illogical conclusion than this ? Tlmi 10 jirori'h fur <m iimrmlmrnl to th, I'ciitrlihiliun 11 iiiuinilrnt hi ruiiiiilinurr nit}, itu rsjilirit rtquirtm>ul v f that Constitution.' An J yet this is just our friend's conclusion when stripped of its obscuring habilamcnts. This is like declaring that a debt has been paid because some change has been proposed in the stipulations of the original contract ! Then, again : Our friend, with a show of argument which is absolutely overpowering, gives us a quotation from the Constitution on this point, cither overlooking jhe fact that it desIika validity of oil ~ - a? anil spikes his cannon, or supposing that his readers would fail to seo it, surrounded as they are by so vast amount of smoke as lie has in some way succeeded in producing. Wc will repeat his quotation, and sec how it serves his argument : * An enumeration for this purpose (apportionment) shall be made in iSt'.O and again in ]8N.">,' and shall be made in the course of every tenth year thereafter as shall he by law provided. I>y this clause of the Constitution it will be seen that the census should have been taken aud apportionment made in 18Sj?last year. The fact is, the census was not taken then because the Legislature failed to mako the necessary appropria'ion. In (he face of this fact our friend concludes that the requirements of the Constitution have been complied with becnusc tlie Legislature lias provided an amend meat to the Constitulion which, in case the people should sanction it, the I'nite I States census may he adopted nnd apportionment made about tho year 1S8S. Our friend says ij* his lirst article, and repeats it in his second, that the Constitution is def-nitc as to the fimt of taking the census, and knows that the titno has passed ami that the cenaus hat not been taken, and yet claims that the Constitution has been complied with ! Hut then there has been an amendment proposed ! (), my ! It is amazing that a writer with so little logical acumen as our friend has here manifested should have the audacity to apply such an epithet as 'llowliug Mob' to such men as our venerable representative, who has more than twenty years experience in the halls of the House of Itepresentutives, and to Statesmen and Ivlitors in all sections of our Commonwealth who have complained that tlac Constitution has been disregarded, and a breach made in the wall which is the only safeguard to human liberty. St'ii"iKinrn. Jottings From Kolten !>?:.\tii or .4 lioon man. Mr. Hampton Huckaby died Sunday, "1st . about 1<) o'clock n. m.. and was buried at Skull Shoals on Monday. The funeral was preached by llev. 11. !\. 11/.ell to a largo and attentive congregation. Mr. lluckahy w.a? 7'? years nnd 1<> months old. and died within a mile of where he was raised, lie was a hard working substantial citizen, who thought that to pay one's just items was preteraiue i ? rryut ; to Keep |>:icc with style nnd fashion at ilie expense of some one else. lie provided well for liis own house, was benevolent and a good neighbor. He leaves a second wife and daughter, and many near relatives, with whom their many friends north of Par ale!, and elsewhere, will deeply sympathize. k m.thn i anmk.k.i ri.rn. Last Saturday. 'JOfh inst., the farmers ot this seetion met and organize I tho Kclton Fanners Cltth, and elected the following officers. I?r. Pobert Little President. T. N. Kelly Vice President. .1. II. Spears Secretary. \. A. tlault Treasurer. ! About ! "> names were enrolled, and many others will yet, no doubt, be added, as the matter was not generally known and understood. The next meeting will be lud l the 1st Saturday afternoon in March. Mr. Howell, of the lirni of our enterprising young merchant-. Spear Howell, is now in his new house, with his new and accomplished young w ife, and he smiles and looks happy. (Ml to market goes!he cotton, and back comes the guano. It seems that the people are going f ??ry en* ton a?jain even at (iie low juices it I MSI.V. Jonecville LocalsHymen.borne on wings of lleetness, pai l our little town ti vi>it a f"w days since. .Mr. J. S. Crawford, formerly of Union. 8. but now of Uonhatn, Texas, made a flying trip to his nutive town, and while here conelti led not to return alone, and took from our midst one of tlio best and most popular young ladies. Miss I.oula Liltlejohn. Word* are inadequate to express the regret which her many friends feel on losing such nil cstitnnh'e young lady. They left for the "bono Star ' .State the I'dth. Our best wishes attend them. Miss Carrie Sartor, of Santuc, has been spending several days with Miss Lula, and is now visiting iicr friend. Miss Nannie M ood, of l'acolet. MlHS S.llllP 111* of Vttir Inwit liau .* ing school here. Messrs. t>.i\vfor<l \ Long have recently opened up a ucw drug store. "muinosrttk.'' [Me hope ".Mignonette"' will give "locals"' from Juiiesvillc every week. Fn Timi's."] - Bivki.kx's Anxiiw Hvi.v::.?The lies' Salvo in the world for Cuts, llruises, Sores, Fleer, Salt Kheum, Fever Sores, Tetter. Chapped (lands. Chilblains, Corns, and all skin Kruptions, and positively cures l'iles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction. or uiouey refunded. Frice "Jo ceuts per oox. For sale by J. \V. Foscy <S: llro. July ly Sah Dkatii <>r tiir h int or Fkok. \Vali>?.? New Haven. Conn.. February ?The wife of Frof. Leonard Waldo, of Yale Observatory, while labor tig under a lit of temporary insanity this m rning. escaped from her nurses and left her home on 1'rospect street. For a long time Mrs. Waldo has suffered from various troubles, and last night she passed without sleep until 4 o'clock this morning. iSho was first missed about i o'clock. A hasty search revealed the fact that the lady had scantily attired herself in a wrapper and, with nothing hut slippers ou her feet, had left tho house. Frof. Waldo was informed and with lti<j kprvvuilt Kc.irclitv 1 tln? oliSFiYiiltirv i*rou ml s_ Ily o clock litis afternoon nearly six hundred students and at least two hundred citizens were searching in all directions for Mrs. Waldo. About 4 o'clock one ol'the searching parlies found her at l'iue llock, a few miles from tlio Waldo rcsidenee. As the party approached her Mrs. Waldo was trying to ascend the face of a rock which is nearly perpendicular, and they called to her to hold on until they could conic to her ns.sistnuce. .* t that moment 6hc was seen to slip on the rock and fall headlong down the precipice striking among the rocks at the feet of her friends. Hie lived hut a few minutes after being picked up. Mrs. Waldo was thirty-live years of age and leaves two young children. IjOok orr fun iVi.'sTEitirt r Sii.vku Dollaus. ? Lat'rosse, Wis., Fcbuary I1.'.?Teller lleudcrsoii, of the I.a' rosse National I'ank, has discovered a counterfeit silver dollar that is pronounced by all bank people in this city absolutely the most dangerous ever seen. It is a standard silver dollar 1S>1. The outside is silver and the die is in every substantial particular as clear a-- (he original. It stands all microscopical tests, and the only possible means of detection is by weight, it being exactly forty-seven grains short of the standard, ami is estimated about fortyithrcc grains short 11" the average. 31AKKI I :JL>. KlTl.'llUN ? McNEACK. Married, nt the residence of Mr. 1>. W. Owen, at Santuc, on T tursday, the lMh inst., I?y llev. J. M. Friday, M.. is .. ... \i:.? .iivitciiuf. - * * am/j' v 1 - < .J BUSINESS LOCALS. HciiieiiiLer licit JAS. II. KOLMjlMl |'>.VS 'be highest cash prices lor dry 11i l?v-^. ? ?! ? will lmy a first class N<?. 7 Ci><?k St<?vo, complete, with piece*. from JAS. II. KODGEK. Yam Potatoes. \I.< ?T ol" nice sound Yam Potatoes for sale, . Apply to T. L. II AMES. Feb, i!ti, t- Hi, SPECIAL NOTICE. DKSItilXG to make a change in ottr bit'ine.'s we offer our present stock of General Merchandise ut cost, to cash buyers, from this date. 111'NTKll CO. Feb 'Jo > i in CONCERT! \ T iii i: COURT HOUSE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 7.30 P. M. i?y the Voting Lulu'* ami Leruemeii of I'liion. ? Admission, - - - 25c. o 11 cut'I - ?;?!? :it the 1 moil II ilcl. Meeting at Jonesville. r 111II eiii/.cns til' ,lt)iicdvil!o Township are to _I_ tjiicslctl to meet i\! - o:?osvilc on Saturlay ?to-uiorrow? 'JTtli February, to organ:?. i :m Agricultnr il Sioiei v. by rcpiest of t. i.. ii a m i;s. Fol?. b It. TWO YOUNG HORSES FOR SALE. 3 II AY 15 two Into y?niiii boiuses which I will 1 noil ;ti toil* price- lur rash or approved pap r \\. A. Mi'lli >l,Si ?N. Feb l'.? 7 -_'t Grand Republic, CIGAUR< >! *, ? -and OUR TRADE MARK, at A. 15. S'i't >KF.S \ t'tt.'s. A Iiit tit Very Superior Flour ju*t receive! l?y A. I! STOKI'.S ?S: *'<). Tltt' State of S?>n111 (Jurolinii. corsTV OF rsms. |5y JAMKS M OKI-:. Iw| .!'ft.I?:it.r .In \ \ 7 11 lilt I'.AS, .1 oh n IV Th una* lii- in ile \ V unit tti 1110 It) grant bint loiters of A'1 minis trillion on tiie list ate ol ami cllecls el' liii/.aItcllt F. Slriblilim?. ileeet-e.l. These :?re, therefore, 10 cite ami n<liii)itii*li nil and singular the kimlrrl anil cro'lilur* ol I In- s:iitl Kli/.ahelh F. Si rilililing.ilccraso'l.lhat I hey beau I appear. before me, in ho Court of I'robale, I > lie hold at In inn <' IISouth Carolina,on the 'J<?i li I y of March next, after puhlicaiioa beteof, al i 1 o'clock in ihc forenoon, lo shew cause, if any they have, nliy the sa". i .Vloiinm: ruiioi) .should ti >t he granted. <liven nmler my hand, this 'J'Jd ilny ol February, \iino 1 > o in i ii i, 1 SSi>. ,iAMI.S \i ni:i:, Judge 1'r.iliate. I'ii! !i?he 1 i :> the "J -tit 1.?v of I ebrusry in :h?* Weekly 1'iiioii liin-s. KvbU'. S -i.