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THE ORANGEBURG NilEWS TilAD. C. ANDREWS, Editor. ?x-oitfei? boi.iyeh, FINANCIAL Alii) Rl.SINF.8S M?NAOKR. ftittciai Paper of the State ami ?t>f Oraiigeburg County* jterrJ/e oranger urg news has A larger circulation than any other paper in the co un TY. SATURDAY, AUG. 22, 187M BBeeegBaeaeH_ji_ g i-a AN HONEST AND UNCORRUPTED MAN. FOR GOVERNOR. Hon. Daniel H. Chamberlain of richland county. Mr; Chamberlain Speaks. Tho .Hon. D. II. Chamberlain has spoken, and the clear and manly way in which he answers the charges made against 11im by the Muses organ of Charleston, should put to blush the elastic consciences of the editors of that journal. It would scorn that the manner of attack employed by the n-wx anil Courier, against. Mr. Chamberlain, in the interest of Moses, would have brought forth some bitterness from the people's candidate for Governor; but we find him, instead, the same cool and dignified gentleman that he Iibb ever been. He deals with the issues of the day, and the charges of his defnniers, with that calmness which no one could main tain under such circumstance-, except he be conscious of his own absolute innocence. Ho denies, in emphatic and manly wonts, any responsibility In the Land Commission, Sinking Fund Commission or Agricultural J.ond Scrip frauds; and yet he has the courage to acknowledge some mistakes in Iiis official life, unlike Moses who endeavors, nt every hand's turn, to saddle the blunders of Lis administration upon some one else In summing up bis statement, Mr. Clinmberlain speaks with so much frank nits und honest pride that we give his own words .? "Not only have I not received pecuniary profit from any transactions in which 1 have had un official duty to perform and not only have 1 never been interested in any scheine which was hostile to public interests, but I can say, with honest pride, that no man ever yet in South Carolina approached me w ith a bribe in any form or solicit cd my cflicirl or personal consent or co-operation in any dishonest measure or action. Such a degree of respect has at least been shown me While denouncing mc in public as a coriupt official,' my detainers have never ventured to solicit the aid which they would now convince the public 1 have been swift to extend to all corrupt and fraudulent mcatuicH. The little property which I now posects I have acquired neither by corrup tion nor speculation, but I have earned it by honest and honorable labor, and 1 defy the world to produce evidence sufficient to excite a shadow of a presumption to the contrary. I acknowledge mistakes, and I regret the consequences of some acts in my official career. I desire to see those conse quences repaired, and 1 desire it all the more because they have resulted in part from my acts; but to every specific and every general charge involving moral delinquency or conscious wrong in my official action in this State, I give my abso lute and solemn denial." No one but un honest and upright man would speak in such plain terms to the people Mr. Chamberbiin is before them for their suffrages, and he takes tho right viiw of the situation and leaves nothing un said which properly they should know. Moses took a different course entirely. With the aid of bis father, he prepared for the publio a long and ingenious speech, full of sophistry und with plausibility enough to deceive the uneducated mind. Behind that stupendous Sun:tor oration he intends to full whenever attacked. Replete with mis t?kes, and denounced by .Judge Andrews as being a base tissue of lies, it is yet the six mouths work and digested defense of tho present. Governor of the Stale Mr. Chamberlain does not resort to fine rheto ric and obscure allusions to history to cover up or apologize for his record. He comes down like a man, speaks in plain and in telligible langungo to the people, and tells tbcm whnt he has and what he has not done But to draw a comparison any further be tween Chamberlain and Moses, would make the contrast so unfavorable to the latter as to render n dose of stomach bitters neces sary. One is open, honest and intelligent, thoroughly endowed with the finer traits of life, while the other is a shrewd, un scrupulous man,?a type of the worst pos sible phnse of a degraded humanity, and treats well nigh with equal derision the most pure of virtues, ami tho most odious of vices?dead alike to tho beauty of the one, and the deformity of tho other. And yet ho wants to be re-elected. Get thec into obscurity, Moses, with yoiiv young blood and fiery passions. Wo will publish Mr. Chamberlain's state ment in full in our next issue. Question and Answer. [From (lie Oraugeburg Nhws, Radical.] Did not Chief Justice Moses write tho articles which recently appcard in the News ami Courier against Chamberlain i After tho father of tho Governor wrote tho first editorial, did he not return to Columbia for documents and then go back to Charleston und finish up the work for his son 1 What will t lie Newt and Courier get this fun 3 ? $20,000 ? We answer, Out Chief Justice Moses did not write the articles which recently ap peared in the News and Courier against Chamberlain, who is the candidate of the Orangcburg News for Governor of South Carolina, for which high oftieo be is emi nently qualified, by reason of his long con ucction with the frauds of the Financial Hoard and of tho Land and Sinking Fund Commissions. And, to make the answer complete, we say further that the articles in question were written by the editor of the Nfics and Courier; that no person, outside of our oflice, knew that they would be written, or gave any assistance in writing thcin, or furnished any material for them ; and that the only information that was had is con tained in the published reports of vnri ous Radical officials and committees, and came, in no instance, from a Con Bcrvativo source. Hut if any itadieal or Conservat ive has any facts about Chamberlain which will supple men! those wo have laid before the public, we shall be very glad to have them. Lastly, what the Newc und Courier gets for the articles on Chamberlain is?thcthnnksnnd approbation of the honest people of the Slate. Is the Orangcburg News sat it tied??yews unit Courier. No wc are not satisfied ! The News and Courier must answer us one more question first. Will its editors tell us whether or not tho Chief Justice was closeted with them, for two hours and a half, just the day before the first article against Mr. Chamberlain was published ? Come, now, wc want the whole truth about tho matter. Of course it makes hut little difference to us whether .lodge Moses writes for the News and Courier or its editors. Hut for a little curiosity in this matter, we .should not have said u word. Oar Broad Street contemporary calls itstdf the roprcsonla tivc organ of the Conservatives, and we desire to know whether they apj rove of its wholesale sidling "out. It is a good ucw* t'l'j'rr, we admit, but utterly destitute of character. It turns whenever and wher ever there is any money to be made. That it is the paid organ of Moses, and bound to support him, we honestly and sincerely be* licvo. No newspaper would go to work and print olf thousands of the speeches of its political opponent, and send one to each of its subscribers, without price and without money. And, too, a speech like that of the "Hobbcr Governor." It is n lame excuse for his sins, replete with lies from begin ning to end, and yet the ' great representa tive organ" would have the Conservatives lo swallow it down as a complete vindication jf as mean a man as ever "scuttled ship or But a throat." To hell with such shameful hyjiocricy, wc say. Show your band, Messrs. I'dilors, and let the people know at once that you arc n wolf in sheep's cloth ing. You cannot take an extract from any paper condemnatory of Moses, aud print it, without showing your cloven foot in a coin nent to the effect that Chamberlain is no licltcr than the Governor. Is it this that you are paid to do? Did Moses tell you hat ho would be satisfied if you raised him o a level with Chamberlain ? If this is the jonsidcrntion you are to render for value received, let us warn you of the utter use tessness of your task. You can't accomp lish it. All the newspapers in the world Lhnt "don't care n damn for principle" jould not raise Moses to the proud and tonest position which Mr. Chamberlain lolds in the eyes of the American people, icr bring the latter down to the low and filthy cesspool of slimo and corruption occupied by M iscs. Ono is Moses and the jtber is Chamberlain. Can the News und Courier distinguish the difference between ii moving muss of rottenness and a stately and dignified personage of intelligence and lionor'} There are many of the opposite party who have dallied with corruption in ionic shape or other, but the N-ws und Courier, the. "representative organ" of the Conservatives, has clasped her naked form to its bosom in the person of Franklin J. Moses, Jr., und revels and riots with n hellish glee on the money wrung from tho Widow mid the Orphan. Conservatives, behold your great newspaper. The Assessment of 1871. Tho impression on tho public made by reading the late Tax Act, in which the pow ers of the Hoard of initialization tiro defined is, that said Hoard can't reduce the aggre gate value of real and personal property in the County below the aggregate value there of as returned by the County Auditor, with additions made thereto by said Auditor. This is a mistake. The bill originated iu the Scnntc, and on its passage the !Jd paragraph of section 0, was stricken out. Tha Hoard of Equalization will be governed by para graphs 1 and 2 of section t?, of tho Act, which reads as follows: 1st. They shall raise the valuation of such tracts und lots of real or porsonal property as, in their opinion, have hcon rc turncd below their true value to such price or sum as they umy bolicvo to bo tho true value thereof, ami due notice shall be give on to tho owner or agent of such proper ty 2nd. They shull reduce tho valuation of such tracts and lots of personal proporty SB in their opinion, bavo been returned above their true value, as compared with tho ag gregate valuation ol* the real proporty of such County, having due regard to tho rela tive situation, quality of soil, improvement natural and artificial advantages possessed by each tract or lot of real property. Melau citoly Suicide. On Sunday last a Corroncr's inquest was held in Charleston OYCi" the doud body of .? young gentleman named Vf, J. Oxner, a citizen of Winnsboro and son of the Tost Master ut that place. 11c was desparatcly in love with a lad}- ofllnit oily, the daughter of a well known citizen, whom ho met while on a visit to Winnsboro in 1873. As tho acquaintance grew his lovo ripenod until linully he seems to have made up bio mind to marry the ideal of his nffooliohs, or take his own life. About 3 o'clock Monday morning the father of the young lady (who was not acquainted with the young inun) beard a noise in front of his house, and on going out found Oxticr there, and thinking that he was sick, sent his son to the Guard Ilousu for the Hospital wagon. Hut if was too late. Laudanum had done its work, nnd although he was taken to the Guard house, ami received every attention possible the vital spark soon became .extinct. Tho young lady's objection to him, it uppca rs, was his addiction to strung drink, a fault which he frankly acknowledged in (he fol lowing note, and his utter inability to resist its influence. A it. vsT 15, 1S7-I. My Darliiuj?Good-bye. I am going to die to-night. The only fault I have is diinking. I have tried hard to stop it, but 1 do not think I can. When I die I will die thinking of my darling. Kiss ra? after I am dead, auddo.kcop the ring, I liav> on my lit tle finger to remember Willie. Good-bye, my darling. I am now yours. Wili.ik. l'.ury me by little Florence. Upon his person was found a letter to u Mr. Aikcn of Winnsboro, written the day before he committed suicide. It is Full o f sorrow, and must have been penned with a lull view of the awful death he Intended to select for himself. Hero it is : *" Ciiaui.kstok, August 1?, 1871 Jack?I am going to kill myself to-night. I can't stop drinking. I hope '? K? lu heaven. I will die to-night. Ask - -and-to stop if they can. I will try and die ns happy as possible. 1 never loved but one woman. except my mother. Ii er name is -. 1 will die thinking of her. Bid my father and mother farewell for nie. 1 can never 8t op drinking, so I am willing to die. I am going to die on the seat where I and my darling - sat on Thursday evening. .John, when 1 die 1 will have in my pocket a pistol 1 took from your drawer when 1 left lYinnsboio*. Ask Miss -, for my sake, to keep I he gold ring 1 have on my little finger. I don't know if [ will go (o heaven or not. Hope so. I have tried to stop drinking, but I cannot; so farewell, dear John. Von have always been a favor ite of mine. Tell your brother Ed., and Welker Brown gocdabyc for me; ulso, .lohn MuCrcight. Yours I am, who will die to-night, Wll.l.lK J. oxnku. He is said to have been a line looking man and from a good family. The remains were S?nt to Winnsboro for interment. Thus it ij that whiskey serves the be<t of men. Here a young life was cut short, a mourn ning family left behind und u young und tender hearte 1 maiden to grcivo over a departed lover who acknowledged that she woiil i receive the deceased, provided ho would leave off drinking, li is too late now. The Stenographic Copy. The .V.i. </..i/ Cuurler refers to a Steno graphie copy of Hoy. Moses's speech which they have in (heir possession. No doubt of it. Why did they not publish it ? Do they intend to sell that to the Chamberlain inter est ? We know there was two versions of that speech. One was prepared a week before the delivery at Sumter. We knew it at the time. Another was the stenographic ver sion, in. taken by their reporter on the day it was delivered. We arc not a Chamberlain man, but we like a dry joke, and if Senator Andrews, of the Ornngobuog News, will call and see that stenographic copy as the organ invited him to do, und carry u live hundred dollar note with him so as to insure his object, ho may get a much coveted document in the cam paign by tho Chamberlain party, and the "native young Governor" may ruminate upon the duplicity of friends purchased w'nh money. That new shirt of Ihc organ on the 12th instant was made large enough to cover Mosos and the thanks of the honest people ?it had eleven yards in it?and If it does not prove similar to the carmen I which used up tho last man who over lived, it will be a strange story.?Charleston Daily Sun. -?i.n-i ? - - awy?? ? The Netra and Courier say>s the Sita-shinc hurt? its tender skill. Verb ju tap. ? - -?-. i . . ?'1 s T* A Query for tlie News und Cour- j icr. Did not. Chief-Justice Moses writo the articles which recently appeared in tho News and Courier against Chamberlain? After the father of the Governor wrote the first editorial, did he not return to Columbia for documents and then go back to Charles ton and finish up the work lor his son ? What will the News and Courier get this time? 20,000??Oraugeburg News. The paper to whom this was addressed answered on yesterday that the Chief Jus tice did not write the Chamberlain articles which appeared in that paper, that they were prepared by the editor of the AIcim ami Courier, and what they are to get for it is the "thanks and approbation of the honest pcoplo of the State.''' There is nn issue of veracity between these two papers on the subject of the Chief Justice as the author* We will not attempt to decide the question. The Oraugeburg News has authority for what it said, for wc have heard this allegation from several llcpublienns. Hut if the Chief Justice did not write them, we venture this assertion, upon the credit we havens a literary critic, that those articles arc in a style strange Id the columns of t he News timl Courier, and that wc can take our pen and point to tho lines where the strawje style commences, and where the little public a<l cuplatulum cracker of the editor commences on the tail end of nach article. If we are w rong, we will submit our judgment to any utibiasel ex pert in the city. As to their remuneration, there is such a thing as trying to kill two birds with one stone. They might have thrown for$2 1,000 of Moses's State-stolen money, and the pub lic thanks at the same time. Hut when one does this he must have tho two in a range, anil be a pood shot, or lie will miss both. We think they bugged one beforehand, and missed the other entirely, and if it don't liseup and fly away from them before they can get another shot, it is a bigger fool than we can possibly believe it to bo ? Charleston Daily Sun. A ii noun cement. The many friends of It. TL' UN Ell take pleasure hi Announcing him for Probat e Judge of Orangeburg County. MANY VOTE IIS. 1 Respect fully announce myself as a can didate f"r Sheriff of this County at the coin ing election. .1. I.. HAST. NOTICE. OFFICE COUTY AUUtTOIt, OltANUCllURll Col'NTV, S. C, August '21st, 18? I. NOTIt'F. is hereby given, that the County Hoard of Equalization will meet at this Office on MONDAY September Tili. 1874, for the purpose of EQUALIZING the Real and Personal Property, Moneys and Credits of this County. Said Hoard will meet from day to day until all the Returns shall have been examined. The following named citizens and tax payers of this County have been appointed by his Honor Judge Graham: .Joseph A. Keller, F.. J. Felder and .toe O'Cnitl, who to gether with ih" County Treasurer and Coun ty Auditor, will constitute the County Hoard of Equalization of Orangehurg County. JAMES VAN TASSEL. County Auditor. aiig 22 1874 :l Sheriff's Sales. By virtue of Sundry Executions to mo di rected, 1 will seTl to the highest bidder, nt Oraugeburg C. II.. nn the FIRST MON DAY in September next, FOR CASH, al ihe Bight, Title and Interest of the Defend ant* in the following Property, viz: All that plantation or tract of land con taining 400 acres, more or less bounded by lands now or late of Ann Berry, Jno., P. Berry, N. 0. W heist on and W. F. Fairy. Levied on i.s the property of R. G. M. Berry at the suit o!' Susan Dukes, (Hearer.) A LSO All that plantation or tract of land con tainig, l?OO acres, more or less, hounded by lands now or late of Charles Thomson, .los. D. Tri.'.cvant, and the San lee River, ami know n ns ??Spring Grove." Levied on as the properly of the Trust Estate of Wil liam R. Albert, Mary Anna and Emma Tailor; iu the cases ot R. B. Illicit dr., vs. G. M. Crosswell, and (i. M. fr .-swell vs R. IL Rhett Jr. A LSO On I uesday the 8th day of September, at ! the residence of T. S. McGrew, one IIor.se, one Mule und five head of Cattle. Levied on ns tho property of Margaret M. McGrew at the suit of Wnde Hampton. A LSO At Fort Moiie on Tuesday the 8th tiny of September, "no lot of Machinery for Mill. Levied on as the properly of John A. Mc ? Ken/eat the -nit of John Alexander. Sheriff's OJIiec, I E. 1. CA I .V. Oraugeburg C. II. S. C, [ S. O. C. Aug. Kith, 1 ST I. J nug 21 ;;t PRIMARY SCHOOL. The Exercises of Mis- EVAN'S SCHOOL will he resumed at the residence of Mr. P. V. Dibble, Belleville Road, on Tuesday, the fust day of September next. nug. 1 ?> 1871 ot UTICF. OK CO., AUDITOR. .Inly, I Oth, 1871. TO MRS. E. M. JACKSON : 'fake Notice, that Mrs. E. A. Bozard has paid into the County Treasury the tax, costs and penalties on the bind purchased b} you at Delinquent land saloon the lHth day of May 1ST I. JAS. \ AN TASSEL. County Auditor. Ullg. 10 1874 lit WANTED IMMEDIATELY ! WOOL, WAX, HIDES, HOUGH KICK, CORN, PEAS, KG OS, RAGS, &c, &c. To be had, for which the HIGHEST CASH PRICES will be paid at the GRANGE STORE, Opposite where Whittcmorc's Soap Factory used to bo. C. D. KOETJOHN IIAS A FULL SUPPLY OF Groceries, LIQUORS, TOBACCO & CIGARS. C. XX KORTJOHN. TARE DUE NOTICE TH.A.T THEODORE K0H1T & BEO. Are now CLOSING OUT their en tire Stock of SUMMER WEAR to make room for the immense Fall BtodP Which their Mr. HE1TEY K0H1T is Purchasing in the Northern Markets. YOSE & IZLAR vj And "buy your QUO OERIES, and thus save yourself the trouble of pricing elsewhere. Si&" GOODS DELIVERED. All the 1874 Sale Under Mortgage. | Notice is hereby given that by virtue of u unti lgage of the personal property of J. W. I Hobinson gi\en to Oeo. 11. Coruelson, I will sell at public auction on the 81 at August next, at the plantation of J. \V. Hobinson, '_' t'ov.s, Calvess. ;] Yearlings, 1 Saddle, I (inn and Plantation 'loots. W. II JOlNKtt, Agt. atig 15 1871 ? Laud for Sale. Twenty-nine hundred ("JtKH)) acres on Sanlce Kivor, in Ornngcburg County, bouud ed by lands of K. Y. ^ huler, James Felder, .1. Q. Parlor, and by tho Santoe river. Terms, one fifth cash, balance in four equal annual instalments, secured by bond with it terost from date of sale and mortgage of premises. Purchasers paying for papers and recording. Will be sold in whole or iu parcels. Apply to I1UTS0N & IIUTSON, Attorneys. nug. 1") 1871 -It Road Notice. Notice is hereby given that in three months from dale, the Hoard of County Commissioners will "appoint Special Com missioners to Lay Out and Open a Public Head, leading from Howe's Pump to Howe's Bridge, known as the Swamp Bond, running through the lands of M Hobinson, Dempscy, W C Heeves and William Ash, unless in the meantime cause be shown to the contrary. Hy order of the Hoard. GBO. BOLIVER, Clerk County Connuisl ioi.ers. County Commissioner's Office, May 1th, 1871?'J 3m. Mr. Editor:?You will please announce the Rev. THOMAS PHILLIPS a Candidate for Scliool Commissioner for the next term, subject to the action of the nominating Convention. NUMEROUS VOTERS. , August 1st, 1871. FOB TITE I.BCriaiiATUBB. Mr. Editor :?Please nnnounco Capt., O. J. JAMISON, of the Fork, a Candidate for the next Legislature, at the Gomnig election and oblige, MANY FRENDS. For tlie Legislature. Mr. Editor :?Please announce Judge B. C. FREDICK, of tbo Fork, a Candidato fori the Legislature at tho coming election and" oblige. MANY FRIEND8. Notice of Dismissal. B Notico is hereby given to all concerned that on the :27th day of August, 1871, I wilt File my final account as Guardian of Ellen ora L. Rontz and Alice T. Kotitz in the Pro bate Court of Orangoburg County and will Petition for my fiuul discharge. JOHN C. HARVEY, july 'J")?It Guardian. NOTICE. DR. OLIVER03, ] THE DRUGGIST, Has a FRESH SUPPLY of TURNIP ond^ CABHAGB SKKDS for Fall planting. All Seeds warranted.