THE FAIRFIELD HERAL Pithlish - d Every Wednesday it JIV8SBOROIP , S. C, BY DJESP'ORTES A WILLIAM:l TERMS-IN A L VA NCE. One Copy orie year, $ 3 Five 4 - 12 Tea e ' - .25 dictiitont tnd Arlillglon Life lInsiirni - I0ol1uaily, RIiCh o:ild, Virginia. This coumpaly being the lirbt Sout orn' corporation to erter the Easte portals of insuranco has naturilly traoted our attointion in ]ecating general agency for . Pennyl vaniu, Philadelphia. It is iso about knock at the doors of the New Yo and Massachusetts departI nu through which it can have ito diflie, ty in passing, so far as its chiatnc for ioiesty ot purposo and conditA, for soutidness nid re.iability are c Ccelned. II ftet, ty ntexamplt prosperit3 of the Piedminiit, a Ariington, fr ow its you It am (1 worlakiigs, nbubt, U.iuse a1t1ot.ish;t the tunitds ofd thoze uho liave htithi' thought there was n14 insinail.cn \ i; ity inl the 8ontil. Oic doctrine, frequently preicld, thi t all sectic should stn id by their on i solvt companies fir.t, it tiferelce to 6. cign ones, infy exempI liedb tl comllipatly, adilw a 1e ghl to nite t f as ait ruwinder to othur howaliti for it is a recogtiizod prituciple business that, to be ecsful abrot character and confid eice should Ii be obtained at home. 'T'his compa has attained said po:,itin of* emit as it comes .ldastward with tho markablo growth of double the bi ness of other compaiiiesof four ye old, both in 1nit1in1,0r of polic ies it amouit of riaks. It. has isstied I 500 Policies, mnd its 111t anul itnom $1,500,000. ''he ratio of expemo to incoto 18.83, less thant half the aver ago < pens. of sote irt4y cominputties batIe alge, or 100 per cett. less. it iegard to moritlity,t lie losset n beensix per cent. less in uimbor to averago Iosses of other companic tlhis, too, in. foee0 of the feet of $9 000 from acecidthou to by falling in ite cap ital at Iiuimotn, ai I I otl speoial Iaccideits. Tbe cotuipany is now upon the onsh plan, which it It.dopited sol moniths sinee. Ovor $200,000 of expenses m charged off tor itcidrital losses, tired capital, (33,933,) anti spee expenditures which eaimot exist aga . There is a dii is i be st rp Is of th 1 teci per cent . lare er than tihe dii ble surpli oif tost Cominpanies. 'I dividen ds aire now to be dereased order to reIch a.d atttin a four 1 Cent. hasis Its ooni as posjible, ali largor irplus in tie futuro. A. to strength, the "Piedmont a Arlington" hus $1.2.1 assets to $1 liabilities as applied to policy ho0tl or $I.1-1 to stockholders, nit avera of tent per cent. moro than tle re tivo number of other companies. The total Outgo to tot al inent fifty-five per coat., anit acrage of t to fit'ten poe cent. I'ss than ninny he1 ing comtpaies. ( IThe anual statement of this co pany for I1870 is befoi 0 us,~ 3et htavo written ' fromn a mnore thtoroil and( detailed invest igat ion of cmpatny'si affairs tha It et 1 fort h the in. We desire to iknow whethera Sout hern i life i nrneo comitpa coutldl ho ru coinmeinded by us to pubtlic, anid as this coinpanty hais I thoecouriage to ho tho pioneer in fuovemet to t he"lin h, of critici and prejudhice," wre are free to thait w hen others fiomt that sect enmflt in the 'itiiai ctnd itiont as "Piedmiontt and Atrling tn' t heoy shi havo our coutetnan lce, because ti merit not only it, but thart of'i i'The early staunch condition, of t enmipanty port rays t he tfact t hat. President, W. . X(.iingtotn, Yi President, Joit iiE. Elhvidti 8.ere' ry, Daniel .J. Iias~ nttak, Actuai Prof Edw~ard ii1. Sm:ith, andi (niu B. C. hlaiteo ak, aren a.1 thoiuig| skilled int the scienee itl litue inm and we many addf tit. thle ii t COmtpriso prtOiueit and e-teen whitom arc mtostItfavorably known and wide. Th'Ji ctulA lany has pass.ed the spectionl o' th' T isuraneo Depa Kentucky,aind~ hats a dep.,isit of' ;10 (000 wvithI t he pi per' an hIii t ics R1iehm noid . It w ill not fail t here < to be iadumitted, upon atpplication, i: New York and 1lnaechuseutts. ToX tjel~ude, as the comupatny progressive, prospterous1 and prom1 Its e xpetn r s attt nd 1,se stnal t vestmtelnts secure, its reserve ant its sur'. us good , and its imantiem OogervaYtive and skillf'ul, we hig] recommendII itheIt 'PiedounIt lt and i linigit,"' of Virginia, its dei'tvi the8 patro! agei~ of iusieris. Thelo (L *ra.1 Ago't in PhlilIadelphliai is J. 'h ird sieret,, from13 whom f'uler pm: oulars tmay ble t.thimed if deire PhilqIphio Un darwr'iter. * Republcan itAi; to ltcpublirans. .T.It order' to hlt tho bronehI ai Telutdte thto wvinfs 'ft he chpulicu p ty . Now Yoirk Tan s thIinks thtd I b6fIe f'or t at ida pl' 11 comm iitteo ba t6 oj ts su htt-shalf fra mef or I nixf os9lon8 a itu in- tove'npo tar ditHgs.,Ieid exiulugivo 'referoneo' lighietni Sh'e' hit,dans of to eti and at the namo t ime raibing ieven tt'o ee all the' dtemnds oif the Trt, uty. Under such a tnriff' the Tin thiinksa they could go beforo the eot tr e in .the ret :r..hd....helcot. [J and eari-y everyy hing' o tlio . I The pain Etaglisi: -t is i, s be th avannah 'irpublidian&or th to. .Tuli lans to abliudud't 4ir o* . eiple' aitd policy 1n ad pt the prin. . iples atild 1olicy of the Democrats. 1 This itelf coidenation. It con f c(Iede that DemIlocratic policy is Csen . 00 tin1 to the cotitry' tind Rep'tlidAW * poicy rino ? 'Ifthis be so, why no1t. aboisiho thle lepulican pr1 ty I I lc iemoteratic principles are to be ear ried oit inl the government, we thini tie pep.le will clhooe M.wuocrats and h. not RA publicnnts to put them in..opemA rn: 4)ion. It is at ne-w i-lea inl politi.!n that t. tlhe wo haIi 0 %Ve steadily ImI:( war' a1 1up)(0n1 certainl doctrineC. of govermilent ait shoild ie t rueted to catry them into to pratical effvct. rk -- ---- a The Negro Bond Cases. A letter received from a dittin- I er guishc'd Il(lIber of tO vaslingtoi "ha coit itis tl feollowintg expblton . of the decision rendered by the St. dprelim Coulrt i f t e United States, a t rep)rtCii by telegriapii, i'ustaining tihe l valijdity of hotads given: for (the pir- I cl htise of slavo!-4: 'to "'heit Sit-e Court. has not deci 1 4dlm fih l T-sti.,n of the Validity (.f N 0 otes give for .0Iaves. he cotrt has il deid1ed, in tile vase of Genieres vs. ,li('ampiell, on a teciical point, the t r n. tof a proper bill of excepti ons. liFo'4r this rvam-) and- this reason iloe, 3 hsle (he judget of, the (ourt below, u-1staining. nlegro debts, is confirmiled. "The metrits oif this greet rue-stionl are rt Ily cc WlfSBORO. t3 Wed'lnes;day Mornitng, April 5, 1871 lid is The inited States Urmlly whenl it is get's to Sutili Carolina and d iscovers that l'residcnt (rant's proclamation of 4 onily a -ilelninl pieltide to a 'possumill hunt, uill. doubtless, "rise," as the Is (Charleston ll- I tilican so gra ely j s; phras11os it, ";,o the0 mlomlentous iosules 0' (itf life aal deaith to 'llostullls) of this of ttful hour." Now possum hunting may or iay nta he a good aital proper all d. ing for the hcl'resident anl the alily. no It is, however, true, that (our1 color ei fellow'citizens'" consider, and al. re e roways did cionsider 'possumtt.hunt ing a ial Capital thing, itand, Ito doubt, Grant I it. has taken their recotnendation oil ir- the stiuject, ais laid before him by D. D 11. Chaimberlain, L. C. Carpenter, T. f ' J. Rlobertson and others, speaking, for ill >er them, of its various elia mi ani ad I a vantaiges asi a sport. This is, indeed, c a% st atinge world, and it would be shin " galar, though not surprising, if, as 'rs these gentlemnen assured him, a pos. gv smhn down inl South Carolina ha sh- A i I.. F- popular with the armny a I)I I. i a C ..., to Ie !oet ('rant as " President of the United States. Tli edl then:, is the last ra:d ical selsa Ion. Thi'i South 'iCarolina 'possiun 1unit, it mn- is believed, wvill "firo the not tihern w: hear,' and v indlite the d ignity of th' balil: ot itn 1 872. O) ftempora I () no mjores !' ihe The Illotnorable U. G. Mommn intger, atd inl a letter of the 24:1h to (t'overnlr iiScottI, recommelnitcidi a Staice 'onven-~ . t in f'or tile purlpose of a:unend ing t he on Staite consiitituItion so 11s to mtako ai he propet-y iand an educaetional qtualifi-i al1 eation the condition o:f suffrago. Noting enn hei more reasoenabie than Itis sugge.t ion of a pro(perty or lat his lealst an1 I liducatiotnal test of suffrage, lhe but that anly South (;arolina negr'o ' Coi.t'Cvetion~ wAill ever aidopt it, is nost e,~t to be 'tretn: iute td agin b llIy Co''gr ess, n' pract ietl r'econsutr uctionl by the white peei Ie of t he Sta:to, int some1 formn 01' ogot her, whtther' by get ting conltrol of tuari t he LIeg isla:tuIre , or' (of a (Con:vent ion, ; orI what not, we Cann1 ot say. We onily it* nwi'.t is a tailutre, and thero' must be a ebaCitige (of som1e sort. 'rThe olltection atof taxes~ will be a diffieult matter,] rnot, only net' fall , bt next year, if "an ouatra~ged puiei sont imntt is niot, in mowy, oniliate d. Thi:is vile, rot pt, ten, wi'cke'd, cor'rupt antd degr'adinog re it y'me mus.t lbe re'fot'rmed OF over.thtvtnn, II, -.ind we see nto pr'at'tical mtet hod of ac ' compilii'biiug it except by somei fotrm of rev'oluIiton. O)f canie h'o are niot ttg " > insano~ as to meit..n even i to Itint coi- ti m. liSioni withi tiitt United Stcates Govern -. mnent. TIhetro cant be very offectiv'o Srevolution, like thant whjib, in' Colb. __niial time is, fluntg oil the Propiy Qoernm i ient ; without any such ollis ion. A refu'tsnli, in solid phailatnx, to pay furithter t axes, for iftlihee; would :td fluing light upon thn'itunation. Espe.. ar. eially would it 'bz Ing to l igIt. lhe the re'al ditspiosition (f ith-e 'i~derali fo Cr granted will forevor ,Cublt jyio' rai iaco, robbery, degraidtiont antd riioi to We mnust 'give Congrebs another- 4 "bChance ( foar roc'otcatinlcttin, or' ti' adurT1' isa at it 4~rs~vg. Ti1oedg~ease C n.) ("ommttiotioni hiere, it, is, tr'ne, somne e n i :t~h, W thatrctngthen II th -mrdMIl pDy M . tjst - it d t t the entire cou y t gp ;radical fanatic '1Ojp0 u' art, owever, to cU0 ,to con~quefiae ut to do our duty )arlessily. ''heTg s a God of justice, M ho will raioe up friq da to help us. 4 Dcatha Iaiow to Rituaiaa. SIFew itetmspf ovsof, frop1, peros,.tie n PeAO gave vhjVt&ue1 n, peri jo(tko 'I le.. Peotest:1j1uas.theAygujg ent of the roe t u -chw.' Hene e ag rge on tot're ent' lot satter d rop.N "'. He P. ceting of the Chamber of Commerce - j4c Stat c Debt- psgggg a Cho g -Proposed State Couventin o ' - The Charleston Cbamber of Coim roe h4old a special ueeting.. ,APV last lu1fsdpy'at the-ball to 'tekp it# cop ideriation the financial condition of hlZ_ftrae. - The in 'eting *AenkAl',thtf r4er by Vioo.l'resitl-ni 8... Toppv, rho, in ia f&w plunted reutarks, ex. lain ed il.th object of tie. tnecting. le reverted to the oppres9ive tinxatiot iJ0h % IaiC1a fw i oiIf) .1 holdere wfere ur'thened and tho prispeot of its outiued inerease, and atted thlat tho evying or expenditure of the publie nouey by a body in which neither -the Veailth nor intelligenee of t country rero repic mited was in its br aidest 01s1e Ilie '"tyrinny of taxation." He onicluded his retal ks its follows -. - 'Dico'.uiet. prevailS throughout the ntire Comtonwoalth. Crine, rob iery and corruption stalk boldly be. ore us and g. unpunished.. The vihite, man and proporty -holder being 'irtugily excluded from all legisla ion, i., pvwerless to resist or refori he maial-adlinistration of public af airs. We haive niet together, gentle nu, as inerchants and property iolders, not. as p'liicians or office eokere, nor inl the interest of any aurty, to consider what can be dono 0 unite the conservatism, the intelli ;enee and tax-p:i3ers of the State iq om1e moveulent to check tho rep.4ity if goverin~leltoflicials, and repair the :inlt of which we oui1tlaiu." Air. Tupper's renarks were recuiv d with apiplause. Wi. linnoel, Esq., ros and said hat he fully concurred in the views it the Chai 1inn of the Chamber, and vou!d siubo it a preanlble and reoolu. ions whicb, he hoped. would be ound to represent with propriety the entiinents of the bodv. Mr. Rave el then read the following preamble nd resolutions: THE 1RE8OLUTIONS. Whereas, Under the (peration of he present btate Governmont, the najosity of the property holders and ax puyers of the State, from whom lie publio revenue is rmninly derived, it excluded frorn any poiter in the egislation of the Stite, and from any >rictica l influerce in the iunpocAtion if taxes ; and, where, tihe moneys aised by taxation are improvidently lid co:r unptly used and expe rided by >erSiins Who .old office unlder the atc Gover' ment, and the suma ap. iropriated fir alleged publie uses .re cecessive and ext; avagat4 ; an'd, vhereas, t he credit of the State' ba. >ee,ple Iged illegally, a1nd it i, now >'oposed to pledge ther cedit' of the ai e for further loans, by a new i-Mno t botnd., ubich a:y be negotiated in tc miarket toi pe rsons who may take hem, io Igruorance of the cirui. t tmees Mnder v hich they are issued. 'herefore, 1. R- oo'ved, Th It we, the p-opertv olders and tax I ayers of the St'ato, esidingr in the City (If Charleston, o hnereby deem it our duty to de lame ttt the bonds heretofore issued -ithei. lega'I sanction, and tho so. aled .sterlinag loana, or any o: her bonda r obIligatio~ns hereafter Issued! pur or inrg to be uinde r, and by vir tie of ie authoerity of the present State rovercmemnt, will not be held bind ig n u.-, nel thatt we shall, .i evei y u;nner and at all timen, resist the afmwent thereof, or theo enforce - wiet of afiy tax to pay~ the, same by ll '2itiamate mn ns wit i ila our pwr 2. It.eswived, TPha't we deoi it our tyto 'tarn all persons not to' re eive, by way of p1rdhanse, i'an or thei wise, any bonrd or oblition ereafter iisued, purporting to bind Le property or pledge the' eredit, of hie State ; and that. all snub~ bonds or bligat finns will be held'hy 'us 'abe 1ul 3( an od as having been issued a deih-gamtien of the rights of that ortion o the peop'le of thin $tate viant whomur the pubhli burdens' are i-do to rest.- ,. :3. joesolved, That the tax payevs f the( Statec are hereby *segnested to aeet~ in their respedtije'counitfcs for he coni.sideration (If this tlject, andC tbc enormouas tax levies of the cur eut yeair, and for the appointment of wo) dele'gates to represent eachi Connty a a Sttet Conventioni, to be held in 30an.Lia on t'he second Tuesday in lay next, for tihe samea 'pukpoec. 4. Resolved, That thim State Con entiona of T.x-payera be requeted I colnfer with His I'xcellencey, the lov ernor, onl tihe dangeroti fiseal eons ition) of the St;,te and tequoit his fliaial aiad and eooopemation Ina the itn. estigaitioni of the aecoura.4 of 'the oiiproller and the State Agent ln ecw York, so that the aaothit' and h~aracter of the botidad debt avad'all ther liabilitiesof the' St cst' 'b'o learly stiated with a vlev to stuth uther action As indiy b etieocessaty fdr be proteetioa of the putie c'rediltors ndl of the t'axpafrs 9tbe Conaumod.. enith '1 John Ilanekel, Esq.,'iose to ledtPId o idltidn'r M et ee t tgit imaftesaffair'of tp~Satd 'TWi' - a protectIott ha1 t1h Mtk . *~~ aat tayation atpa faese6i~4tf6' afq gother. '1n'the- pss' deaf 1 itijoti'fas abb'ise6, 'l 6t hat a 3t rddihdti~ i~ Its. t~ a0 $ Lahed wioni.eit| . J'T oga'4t ni tt.us th" and said hie 4Ptol Ah ol f o1 allsti-cet. No 'York t p of the ny t a, pass ed by bribery and c rrup on. Theodore G. Bark rq'-4.-a,:a'rnest ly advocated the passage ot the pre cArelly con'deicd an rawn. He inirt that- en r. . of opin on o th' hambet' suldgo foith I as its calm and deliberate judgment. a T~e ret l~ae eoou Ai .00e Afen put,'ad litfahil usy'alopted. . 4 -On-motio..itswa.. .roovedethat a ( i9py of the preamnble nnd resolutions I be sent to the oaid of Tride, a.id i almi be published it the p'per.p .; Messre. Nsano Hyne and Thaddudetit Klly were uuunnously elected meni be e. Vice President Tupper referred to the vppointmett of Messrs. Frost I, 12Il and D4wson, as a otmmittee ont the part, of the Chamher,' on the < weather reports, published doily, and stute-l that the Signal Office Depart ment in Wushington had written him, t with acknowledgments and recogni F tion of the ap'poiitinent. Onl motion, thi metir.g adjourned. AAM t STOO:E 0FV r t Dry Goods, It Dress Goods, t r Notions, &C. d OPENEI TO-EAY, ti d tl WIOOD)WARD & LAW, C WINWNSBOR O, S (. " n pril4 , Ice~ l Icei Ice!i Tiij~' ('olumbnia Ice liouse is tnow (openl for u StH~te eso, and prepared to soti toit al l.\RI-K IE, at from 1 to 1 i cnls per prund recordhng to quantity. -This ice is fr prefe'r'ble to anty mnanufactu red or prepatred by ettemicqal ptrcss J. D). TTAT1nf -\N, A gent, ti 4-1m Columbia. . C. t & Car koadw St. Louis Corn,n n N. C. Oats, ti Loutisvill Flour, all grados, Wlhile and Smioked C. Rt. Bacon, N. 0. Ihoney, Golden no-I Comrson Hyrutp, t~ Crushed, A, E.C, C, Demarara- and I Brown Sugars, by 01 dnnr D. DR FLENNIKR s Carolina Life Insuirance Comparry Own. A. Q. BU7'& R~e R. Agia for 5.. 0. *Duilose Egleston, Agent, * 'Wsaneno, 8.0.'b - wsites the rioat upp'roved pollie." Afa'o sf the sarretnder Takte PolIey-a new featare. By7 enadenl oyb .sturnder valtae feb 28 ..t111Z oorNtit !aroiin ijay feb 2 Ari esn- ngel mar ou- e iuQ ., EU, N LAT 'ADI . LONDON, \ i