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THE FAIRFIELD HERALI Pnblildied Every W ednesda at W7NNSBOR O, S.(, W'ILL A.21 IS <5 D./IT 0 TERI?18-IN A 1) IVA NCk. One Copy one year, -$ 3 leo ". " 6" - - 121 Ten I' - - 25 'Taxiyers Convention-Atidress.of 1 'rusidleit- MemorilI to tngress. The opening address of the Ic Aent of the Convention, Ilon. V. I Porter, was a masterly expo.-,ition < the corruption and fr.ands of ti State Govcni6'ne nt. Want of t-pac will not permit us to give it in ful The chief points, as given by the rT .poijter of the Clialeston News an Ucurixr, are as follows : , 'I h 6t the bad faith of the Sin Government and tle public oorru tion and extravagance la,] made til reassembling of the convention Uec< sary. The tax-payers are indespai They have no civil freedom, but a tho subjects of a plain and nake4 de potitim, t lie preponderance Qf'poljiti power boing in the hands of non-ti payers, who rnfuse the taxpayprP fair representi tion for their rrote (ion. The prcperty intore'st, repr senting one lundred and seven million dollars Of property, is taxi ,ad libitum, without its 'consent, I those who bear no burden and enjt the spoliation. Governor Port showed by facts and figutfes th whilo the taxable property had d ,clined froin five hundred millions .9no hundred and seventy million the taxes 4had risen from $400,o to over $2,500,000. The people a virtually required to pay twen times a ninch as before the wi The bonded debt is trebled and t 'onint of the floating debt is u known. The legislative expeni have risen fiom $40,000 to $300,00 000. lIe suggested that the conyc tion should encourage imiigratia organizo thu tax-iaiyers in eve county and ie Ilorial ize (Congress : a ro I ress of grievam-es. By resoli troris and acts tlie Federal Goveri nent can do much to improve o 011d ition, for t lint gove.r' ment is t only power the wrongdoers. Ila croft, the historian', had saig ti South Carolina founded the Ame can Union, uidor tle lead of Uni ,den and Rutledge and Lynch. 8 was the first to answer (lie cgli Massachusetts in 176'5. \yith her no American Congress woi have been le d. One th ing I American people may be dispoed remneiber againbt South (arolil but there are niy thingi ,thoy ci not afford to fo-get. .et Is app to the Aminirio an pteople, and if ti aiul heed tle call. '110 adalress 1 reecivod with ,eh appIlause, e oially the reference to imiigrat I ..d to the part played by Stul C&rJina in ili war of, inOidependeti .\I r. Armitead 1 lurt siuinbmitted followinig memorial to the Conigres, .the United States, whieb was ado o d : To the Senate and IlIonse of Rep r-entitives of the Congress of United States: The imemorial of the tax-pay and othler cit izens of South Carol res ectfu llly s ho weth : 'iha~ t alien the .reoonstruct ion the Staite (1ovornmtenut, andu ther ,in ission of Senators an d Represei. t ives into Congres.s of thne Unil States, it was doubtless intended CJong os, as it wan expeted by th that they would become partalter, the rights enjoiyed by citiiens of 1 United Sttes and of other at~ Governmients. 'The history of I coutitry teaches that taxation wi out representation is tyranny ; e Ievolutioniary fathers combined to bist such tyranny ; anid we feel assi ed that it waIs never tkto intlnt ion the sons of those mien to allow t1 v'ery systein to ic fastened uip any' of their fellow citizens. It hi 1ver the less, come to pass that U overnmenut established in Sot Carolina, under the legislation Congi ess, has been iiiade the, ipst ment ofefl'ect ing this mnonstrous pression. That department of State Governmient whlichi exercises taxing power* is administered those who own a mere fraction oft property of the State. Seven yea have elapsed since the reonstruoti of thie State Government ; and duri that period, of the p~roperty taxc a majority of the members of t Legis[ature owvned no part whiatos iand tho remaiiining mnembers owncd little that their pay as me bhe counterbalanced their< tire interest as property hiolde 'Ihe result is thiat those owning t pro'perty have no voice in theo Govem went and thiose imposing the taxes share in the burden thereof - t taxes have advaned~ yearly unt ii, maniiy cases, they corsume more th one-.half of the income from the pi pert-y taixed. 'Vho annual expenises the Government have advanced frc $'400,000 before the war to 2,501 00 ait the pr eseint time. The follo ing c*omiparison 0. leadi~g ites expendituro will best exhibit t change: Palairies~ $ 76i,481 03 $ 21 0,791 Public Pini. t ing . 17,446 66 U31.945 LeCg'li ive ex.. penses 61,837 00 291, 39 Pulblic A sy hums 26,897 00 128,i32Q C'oat ingent -In nd 6,092 90 75.08 Sudres 831.413 31 298,008 $260,068 59 $1,356,216 DeficiencIes 54b,828 ) These facts exhibit the unproceden ted spectacle of a State in which the government is arrayed against pro perty;., It has been openly ayoweda by prominent members of the Legis'. lature that the taxes should b@ in creased to a point which will com. pel the sale of the great ) body of the land, adil take 50 it away from the former owners. . Thle fruit of thi.i policy is sho'a in l the fract stated by the Comptroller General in his oflicial report, tlnt for default in the payiment of taxes for . the year 1872 ulone, 268, 23 acres of land were forfeited to tho Stat '. f And this result proves the fallacy of the belief that them policy pursued promotes the elevotioa of the black population arid the acquisition by t.nerp of the lands thus vrtuIally oon' d fiacated. The reverse is the heces.sary result. Lands are unavaliablo as egeuri to ty ; mortgages in defikult of pay mcnt P. connot sell ;. wages have declined : 0 the cost of living is ruaide grCatec by 8 the addit ioin of the tazes to the price r. .of commoditicti ; tljbe poor are in..do re poorer, and reindered every di y more . incapbJle of, Trchsiny lands, itnid .l more hopeles .of rising :.bovo the LX .ohdition of more laborei:. It won d a have amoliorated the condition of c. your petitibers. if thtu effect of th is 0. policy had been 'to ereato an acLive demand for lands on the part of this d laige clas of our population. But ly while .tho o*n.rs are, by vpprotaivo Y taxation, driven to sell, others for r the same reason are disqIa- ified from itbuying.. . Tb . abuses in the Ligislative De to partmncit that have been desoribed, are not confined to the inoro rai.sing )0 and expeudituto of revenues but. re they pervade the entire cond'ict of the departinont. Schemes have been ., dovised for issuing State bonds anid e for contracting other loans, by 'whi'h 1, the public ilebt has in six years been C raisol from $5,000,000 to $16,100, 000, and that with advanicing any public work, adding one dollar to the , publio proparty or to the payment of the bi*io debt. L-rgo as tie or sum 01 the pab ia debt is ndiitod tto be, tile,. ,., reason to believo it . does not reach the true amount ; it is r found i possiblo to useertain t1e lie naturalsuiy of the obligations that n- have boon issued. Schemes of pub. at lie pluinder have been openly ad no i ed by otrupt measures, of which one 1s- single exlpl.e will sullice. Iwo ie Ole ks of. the Legislaturre, in their of icial capacity, tiade coitran'ts with ut themsel ves, as private persons, for i the public printing. The r.ppropria. he tions made in one year for work done to and ji be dtmo by these two aufficials in amounted to $475,000, exclusive of in $100,000 for publishing the laws. A'l A\ud in thotiEcal year 1874 there was oy actuidly paid to thorn for painting $1334(00 tno, n. n n. larn Sa viim ,ail as3 " I., 4I y .i ato.. And :this, .nolinh 1W)t06% 11th nvoital of ,he 01 twoofnicials the msi1elves, that tie work ith done was worth no uoio than $100, 000, and the teetifidiiy of others he that its value ivas. ouiy $30,00o. of he slt upondois ftriud involved in this and similar modes of miaking the leg1itimate iObjectS of publ41 ic expend i re- tie the t medium of plundering the 1 rea.sury, Cannot be better illhe4trated .ethan by. the, following facts~ The to Li ta aippropm taions for publio printing~ i mado by t he legislatuLre of South Carolina, during a period of. it of years, from 10. to 1 850 is $271, dl 180. D~uring the last yeur the ta- ag netualIly expendedl for p ubl ic printing by the present Liegislit ure bywas $33l,(15. That is $60,755 more th nan it cost ,thle State for aixty of years before tihe w.. hie CommiiritteOs have .ieceived large it sumis as compensations for reporting hie favorably on pirivato bills ; and th. strong reasons..ex,ist for believinigth at ur a large amnoun t of State batik .e bills, funided by the State to djechage hrer liabili iy, have been reissued by of~ those erltrustedm by the Loegrslatur'e ,itith terncellatLion theoreof.. on lai tihe Judiciary JIepPirtinenit, evils e, egnally grievous have been prodluced he under the preoseint State Gjovn,rnme nt. Lih The Jurdges held their oflices for of short terms. Tfheir contiunnce in '.oicdependsl upon the caprices o ,the legislators. The result is, that he the dluties of their highl office are dis he charged utnder- influences aind re. by sponsibilities nreossaily ad(erse to be tire indhependenit admninistration of ., justice. Th'le jurors, moreover, are Lin selected by three offioials, of wheom twoi arc the appoinrtens of tihe Gov dernor. TIhe conser1'rtonce is, that tihe h' defcat of an oibnoiatons litigant may li e made certain by the selectionm of so the jury. Or if no sp'eeial ohject be ~. contemplated by thueo col.ials, the n. choice is frequeontly made, simply re. for tire anniril pay, of meni who are unt eable to eithiel jead or wifte. In neihreasei tihe eiida of jubtice are defea.te d.. lie In teExecutPhe tiepartment, all t*es eisculiniinate. It is openly assortedl and1 believed that d*fiees ar'e the suibjret of barter f and1 the nmtrn. I fner tn whieb such~ ofibes oe admrinis n bored proves thrat iualification lies little influenC rce ini tire appointmon elts. .Y In mat ters. nder the controj ,of a of sindio individu'al, it is dialeilt to ae prove corruption ; but there i.' one atato of facts that alwys stand for. proof. .A farge expndituraeof mon-. so ey byan offlcipl,,whio is withourt any estate aind receives but a. noderate 06 salary,-establihres' Geyond a ,d b ~ 47that tihe money miust coime from somei i rregular sou rce, Qn this principle, n~ 1i the tw~o governors cleated tindehr the ~ preseut (konstitution st and condemned t in publio opinion. To detect anid 1, punish these crimes is impossible ra the Governor controls the avenues >0~ ofjustice. indeed, the entire system r - is oneo of self surstaining and self-pro Jt mosit of the States, there might )e som chunce of redress, through ti bebal lpt..box. But here, aoain, the o (tto Govcrnient interppses Un in- tl superable barier. Tho elections are n >onducted by persons appointed in D ,be.interodst of the ofiluials, ar.d the a -eturns are under the absolute oon. I rol o[ the parties in power. Under b uch circumstauces,vo.tiog is a fora a ind slections a mooker'y. p Suffering undor s uQh griq.Vnnces, h di6d despairing of relief from this a ,overtJ lent, your niemorialists -coFe esupectfully to your hopfoable body or red c-. The eo r'un:Keia *hich hus oppresses us was virtually es ablishod by oangreass ; and while. wh 1 >elievc they did not foresee the evils v o)whieh it has giveni ride, we caniot r 0144t tihlat they will assist iti, ronov. tag thelm 1-t soon as they Dye datir-fied it tlir exhtaenco. Ali that we iaive P s!.erted i' cupable of proof; but 0 Mnowing as we a.o that the evils or 1 iIb weom palitin are certain in heir exi.,te, aindar mor;o likely o iaaere'- c tfnt li'mini.d your mem- r ia ,ar' i tost earnctl(jak your aid I, NW1ov-iing Ohe prel er remnedy. il 2,000 caopies ol the mnemuriAl were U irdered prinited, in form to rcceive ti he signiatures of the nemtbers (of the oanvetinai, and copie: w re ordtered o be soant to the Governioria of the everal State, andl talso to the Presi lent of the S. nato and Speaker of Ite latae of Represontatives of , 3outh Car-lina. . The consultation room of t'be MIas. esippi Sanpjremtae Court mtumt be a ive!-y plce and witno.-ses sotine igh ,ld noenes occasionally. The t biefJu-tice nnd one of his Associ. b 6'cs are at.id to ha on 'ertms the re ,eise of good, and a scetne reFort ed a I e other Iay aows tlt heCy mtanLi-, t est their di slke for each otler in a ( nantner extra j idiuial aind nqt .sty iaed bay thu 1.ighe.a authtoritie. t was betw (. a Chief Ju.astico Peyton atd Juidge T.,rbell, while they n ere onub t!:ig over at caso. Tbo (1 31f it usie tat*o Iadsit ant exaspeoratin rtu mrk,- e tal Julge Tabll itac'O a t'ovemient, h vierepon tlhe learned Chief Juitice Irnew hi kaife andal was aboa't to try ta cutttig ( anlit ioa on Tarbell, who le third Jistice intorfered and pre. I1 oteld blooiIbed. We have heard it >f caNgs which were ala cided by h 'big i' ,curguaas knocking the lCser lown, but thle Missismippi style of >ut.ing a julicial knife itto at broth- a 'a Judge is prestmed to be sonae- e hinag of an tinanaovatiota on the dignity and decormta of the Supreto Bench. l'he , Icksburg Herald reports the aets. LONDON, elbrnary 28.-The trial )f the Tohborna !aimtaat, On charges A perjury, cominittcd during the trial for posscssion (of the estate, ".: . t..... ... .. r---P-.n ,i w a,-.a af 180 days, was bronght to a close tls manorning, and retilted in the cona victiona (of the tacused 'Ties jury, fter being out a lhort time brought in a verdiet. of guilty of the charges itad the claitant wvats sentenced to ai fourteena years petni servitu de. c ''laero is great excitematent over the verdict and extras anrnounoing it have been issued by ths pajpere. e Rtiholaanod, Vir'ginaia, is about to be utobbled upi by ta gotenean in M ties insippi. TPao Ljouaiville (.\isaisaippi) Hananer, of tihe I14t~b. inatanat, stays: "Ouar old fri itnd, C olonel~ \VW. S. Boll. itng, i hforjias us tha.alio inase ree~' iead a letter froin hais ador:naey, in wich (al het statesa that thare cani be tn) doubt buat that thea Colonel will rocover thec )wnnershaS tored'arly one0 hta'. of thea yity of' Itichmosind, Vi~rginaia. . if hlao ga ins thao .suit lao will beo worth motaere t h~at t atn naillIions~ of dioll arsn.,'(n Coo aol1 Wia lliama K" Bolting ithe in ymr f thet little towna of Louaiaihae ll ad. Th'ie \alastne htunt~ legt-.1 ature hase htada iL atteation attra'tet i to then 1ow.phg ieni canditiont of th Ic ~il-~ d a d Cait r~ s~1 aule5d ita ai.e nE lls in thnat state, asnda to .rnrmo~dy -it has e in' t p)-a'eaI a la (ordliddiantg the eInI- e riloy nent by at y-m aaakutnfnurhag. cor. poratiqnot of tionten, or chal dreni tuder I8 .i eaur.a of tage maoi o th ant sixty htourt. at anyi (ane wvock. S arty haoatrs a wveek1 iA teat hourst a day. rThe blassa-. ilausettsa tat-k-'Unetce must be ian aa'satiatblo'saet, it' thaey caannot be statis.e ied with ithat maucha labor from theso ender empleI Ia / Professor of Pbelonay .was reitent- h ly at rested itn Cindeitnati. 11lie natpe wits John Carnaey, atnd a maanansor'pt "' vas (funad ena .hinm entitled a "Lee. at Lure to 'lhieveaa," witha a schedule of r >rietes for one0 hutndreud ,lessoans, as v (16# For high waayniaeon, $15, roblers', $20) ; foqttonds, $9 ; piek. c taa, $90i ; alaopl iftersi, $200. tanecl thic'. es, '$1I50.; bu rglIart', $5,tatI I :orI iideICnee' mea, $,00 : O I l unrroterst 53till taapers, $25 ; counater htop. at aaer s. $h2 f, hota'l thliaeves, $6 ;'h tain oll bInc , $3.a00. The Pa (fesasor talsto >roaposed to .aa e'io, ka "the w Ay to ob thenir emploaa .aiad M.qt..ro it up) 5. aj otn their 'oaks.', . p oneta Wof, tihe war ohief of- tile 'aiwas, .a'aco:aapar.atively civilir..'d C naail..he laately hea.ardi of tine death of ii nis son. l~e land an amabulatnco and o pair of rmuales, and said lho was try. tag to live itke a whirto mana. Th0 oan wats kill ed whaile raidinag in T'e.taas; ' aoneO Wolf drew htis revolver, shaot b is mules, birokle up hais wagont, piled b i atad hai is dge .on top o* ti tat mules. nda burned thte pile. l1b shaved oue ide of his head, stuck a black feathtera ohind hais ear, and started his fob- ft >wers on the war path. ti An Iowa farmer, whot has been mar.. ied only seven weeks and has.. had to. h qy a wig, offers to bet that his wife 1 an whin a panthe. An extraordinary piece of daring I A >ok place at the shootiog gallery ,j a Saturday nighL. The . .actors in i ie scene. were c's-Policelnan New- l an and Mr. Morri's Hennessy. Mr. ,ll eOwman, pith stirprising uer'te, bold 'i4 n orange upon his head while Mr. S( lennes y shot at it twieo. hitting it uth times. Mr. Nowm.u also held u.'empty guti-cap box in a depon'dirig Oitiou from hatid, the uaiSksian la ittilig th.L-also, amLley uiar the Irk in~t i .--D s, ( Taa*) HeralId. W The estill atod nber of Mexican f >l.diors niow .uivivitng i6 36 57b. p be.:c ari alo e-timatrd to be a' out w 4, O0 widow,. of tie lMexiesn war dr eteran, mifw survjyig. The qwkpunit <(iiied per nnfaitn to p *y tho pOP mix memorializ-ni for will be $5,. 40,760, and thu iggrugate sum to hi ly them for thi r average duration A life "ould the itu.uunt of $67,. i 30,36.b Coniressa has pas.i-d Senator Mer men's bill increasing the National nriency by $40,00' 000. on' linit. g it to $400.000,000- -,-'nfor 1)bertsni of South Carolira votod for VC se lbi.I. Ci Ca B e R1. MEANS DAVIS, Editor. W Wednesday Miorning, Maich 4, 1874. Ov The Lr;isl tire and the Taxpayera. The Legilliture is offed<.d with a .x taxjiiers. The acts adt forth r y Lt rCeeit ConvCLtiln were titie i.d -so outrageou-s that the Lagi.,laI. ne i's tretti ling for the effect on e-1 on gre: and the people of thl hU1n;t. h Id State'. Lik, crin.iials they foel ta tnt, their day h-is come, aid now, t. the elev. at h hour they are repei.t- it ig, not from any detire for a better *t ourse bf ife, w% e fedr, biut it o' der to . ave another chaice of di'ing into hi o Stote treasury. Th0 specebes it >ado by keveral of our virtuous aS iwgivers on the question of presert- w iga cour.ter miemorial to Congress, sP lainly vidence the fact that they g% re riled. The titnth hurts. Thy a< rniver the wholesile charge of in- P, yHImeteLey venali:y anid partizin. b3 lip with a fie acot-ation. that a a ow consivatives )ought them when vi buy filly offered themselves for I ale. The Radical piarty will iotdgi >e vifidicated by imipttecliig the hi haracter of a few Conservatives. 'he latter were private. citizetis, ir he chosen a-istodiais 9f the trenurre p n! honor of the Stato. An inai..i T idual will do many things in private J ire he would tcorn to do if laced in tI n official position. The liadIicals are Of asilysatidied if they en emsole W hempelves (vith this itlwIiitesimal 1 rumb of comfort. It will be of lit- I le service to them when they are el alled 1,efore the bar of Justice. i Th~ Tate William HI. Me~aw. P ,There is an old adage, "Whomi the e sods love, die young."' This w'as a xemnpified in the unfinaely death of as Viliham !t. McCaw, who in the0 fullI ti iride of man~hood, with- Idiurels thick- tII y elustel-ing around his brow, wa pa ailed up-on to iield !its buighit life K~ uto the.hiands th at ga ve it.. t Tfhe subject of this sketeli was nn oi *t'inary man. A mong the many ei ifted sone of Carolit nhose, names w re initerwovent into her history, there r I nlOne who in) his youth grive bright- j r promise of a brilliant and us'eral I] aroer, and none whose lo~as will be as tore deeply felt. ai Mir. McCaw was born in A bbevil le pi %i.;uty. ,Both at school and ini col- s1 ige ho evinced at brilliancy of talent g' tat won tihe adminiration of his teach- si re ; while his genial temnperamnent J, arar~e ociial qualities endeared eri i-n to bia fe~llows. Aftergradiiation to e enteredl the profession of law, bu;t J. >eig abandoned it for the field of jour- Li alismi. Jhero his chief serviees were j midered, and hero h is laurelsg were p 'on. lie entered ardenitlj into the wi ruggle itn iehalf of jtis peopeIt, and Ia obly did bie battle fci their rights.- gr n the dlisordered statu of the cou - y, htontosty and tvuth wereott , jad w, m ndi. fratfdl an&l crime ntatlke:l boldly at high places. But Ottr fr,iend ,pos gr msed the talent ini nerve to cairry gJi ci ala~ost r-ingle handed the d.--e arate conliet . J' ebew ir tall that er 'as me~an anid low, his incisive pe or it like a Damascene blsde. po~netrait- ar g every disguise a,pd la~ying bare ~Tj rruption in all its htideousnss,--.. to efore the onslaughts of this youn>g arrior, th,e pbaktny of erime fell fe ick dlistnayed and1 appalled. The su uiwarks that had been reared for th~ roteetion were ruthlessly .. swept ri1 'my. To save thiemselves they of- Ti red hint bribes of *very nature, in 11 e most alluring forms. But al.a ba ough he felt the panes of poverty, m 5 pure nature indignantly spurnled pa em all. "I will accept nothing If30 om those T am agiondto ath." ,,a d t'las kvith the watchword "9u #1 ve," he stood as ,a entinel. Through W thQ State learned of the infa- t ous conduot of ter officials. irodth him th'b governmeut of >uth Carolina buecqe a byword of proach uinong'al1 hone4t men. Ile is.bi1ginpiag to ase the fruits Qf lia bors.ripening into maturity, when ah instant', without a word of arning', he wns cut off. The fell e fl'en, us iffn i'ztie nith the dWero of diirkiss igainst whom le us warring, ctfoldied . hi in her i ead embrace, anad hii bi ight spii it nged itself to better worl'ds. -6 gher eloomium can be passedt upon f u than thin tp died qit his pos/.. t the Iast Woieut, idhilti his lifeI is fluttering between 'two worlds, 9 cry wiasr still, 'Oi the 0ui rive, on e qui vive." It is a glorious spectacle to sec a niqueror with his battlo scarred teraus marching to victory. It is; glorious specofele to see a stato.s an in the forum imaiitaininig the use of right. But it is sucbi ume to e a sing.le individual throwing Lim. If into tlhe breach, sarn defrinjg the hole . machinery o; government, *urnirg every bribe, con i onting 'cry danger, and dy Iig 3,t ht!, po, poor honeet man. Peace t,> his Judge Carpenter aun the Press' Judge Carpenter ha., b.c'1 guilty of traordiinary conduiet of iatu. Firs Silelaed six uttoriio-,s at law Io kiri a stc' thAt was nipported by 0 decisions of two Uitted Stat:ns idges and a Circuit J udge of thi, tte. SeC.Idly, he (liseharged a r'y fur inoampetei,ey, although We .v ncve'r yet disc ,vered the a uthor y ha pOss'ssed tjr 1r> doing. B1t this was erring on the side of right 001: im ded his actioi in this re. ect. l3ut he has recently be. n lity of an act nhieh we regard as .irecot attack upon tho liberty of the i 0ss, and as auch we cannot pass it in sileice. The Trua Southron, paper publi,bed in Sumter, in ro ewing the Judgo's ecoiduiit in the Lvings Bank ca-se, used harsh lan inges;.and we..have heard, tLt not ving seen th. bamptismal register pun which ih Cristian name of this idicial functionary is we itteni, it ubbed him with the cuphoaious Up0 ellaition of "Rob f.n k'' Car enter. his roused. the ir'e of the learned udge, and he attached Mr. Kennedy, ie editor of the Ti ue Sotithron, for >ntempt of Court. t'he. case will ill be heard Ln the 31 Marcl.-. t'*, bow'ver, we may disapprove of ic custom of bestowing opprobrious ilithers up in in hid~ulials, whet her I publiegi; J~ivate lif'e, he ,eontend *at tihe :nordy pcr.@osed by .Judge arp'jenter is not the proper',one to be urnued, and t!iat in rtnthing for iemnpt instead of proseccuting for libeld, lie hasi beenl gniitry of such n nwarranted stretch of his au cority as Judges as to call upon himn 'q indignanet rebuke of every indce ai espaper in thle State. Mr. onnedly was not, in Judge Car pen r's Court. Ili wa-i attending to hits litorial deitIes aI. home, in aunothlier reuit., if guilty of auiything, hie as guilty of libel, and should be gguiar'ly indicd befor'e a graindi cry, and tried bcy t welve peers. utt Jud1ge Carpenter cin hi. arrogant sumption of piower, proposes to not prosecdtor,' Judge an d Jury, .i~e oposes to exercisee the saeine eensor ip of the press as the mnot despotie cverniiint in Chrcstendon). At a iceh of his pen he cn silcece every >minal in, the State that daers toc iieise him. This is an indignat1 which the press will not submilt. .Jge Carpcenter forgets that the me has long sineo,pcasred whien tihe dicial, hegislativo, or,. executive >wer could thnrci tle thle pss5 at I1. Tihe pre'.ts is a pocwer ini the ud, arid its freedom of c'14eeh i., carunteed b~y t he t'oeeztitutioni. No mlean van &tat.(i~ girt its fuln inationsc. Before its atta'oks,'factionus dc d3 nastiese havo crpocbled. The oat neubioan pairty, of wvhich] idge Cargcoeter' is a smiiall port ion, is I no0w gcicng docwn bef'ore the fierce claughts of Jour'nal ism, and1. cani] eO 1man the'rw himself in t he breach d arrest the tide ? Wo think niot, ec press speaks withl a mlillione nguos. 1t pelnitrates into every vil-. go and hlamlet, and its wrath is a irful thing. On whatever other bject n'owspapers m'ay be divifled,, ey are o unit in defenoding their ~its against tyranny and op'pressian. icy will not spare Judge Carpenter. e belongs to that swai mn of carpeti ggers who are denounced,. in un-i ensured terms by every respectablef per, Radical or Demnoerat, North or uth. Tfhe people of South Carol i- f have anffere indigite lo , miiugh. Their wrath is boilirg over, o .nd it behooves the officials in power .uI ,o have a care how they rouse them. 8 . few more kots of Qppression will I )recipitate genel'al ruin upon the t ;oveimnentand all'oonneoted with it. We givo warning, if that warning is1 tot heeded we- are not responsible t or what may comb. In conclusiota. vecealll upo every newspaper in the I state to res't this indignity. Quecty-Why doesn't Judge Car )enter attach for contempt, the leg slature who iisarduced atni.les of a mipeughtnlt ag~lnst him. . P lf.a Judge can commit a news lger al or coniseipt of court, wivy did J uge -la wkins prosepute the Now 0leans a Pienyuno for U'4? Why did not. Judge Busteed attach the newspaperU hut charged him with fraud? Why did lot Durell muzalo the pIapers bifore I bhe5Y.ht'-ught hiin to grief ? Wiy does not Judge Carpenter at. aeh the Tax-pay(ers wh' riddled his lecision ? Why . is Judge T. J. ,lackey still permitted to run at atgo. There are questinis we wish siuweied. rho Government and the Taxpayera Jon- ' .iention. . .I The shining lights of Radicalism Z in South Carolina are sorely dis- h (; ar. t led. The action of the Tax- 1 iayer, Contventi n hurt thema badly, a r~d heyi nye roaoing toevery mean I 0 leu raii.e its etfct. Their quirm i-g is ludierous. Our Revereind young G3overntor ias been holding 11 ligh tli cauclbses with hi suppor t iri to devise soime plan 'or red--mtp IUl. But the way, otit of the Ia' .krinth is not near lo easy to disejv 31. c,4 the w:y in. The first expedient .hey have tried is the denunciation of he Taxpayers memorial, and the pre. paration of a counter m.emoral to Con.. yress. This counter uiecorial would be~pn admirable document were it.in .erded for the ignorant nasses of the t 3tate, beiug a compilation of clap trap argumintu t and fustian. But we Are amazedt at the stupidity or the nudacity of.the nuthori of this me mI in in'.)rporir nch r a rgu ments in a political ui eument that must undergo tha. seutiny of such men is Thuruan, Shur , S.umtier, Bl3;k, Cox, Gorde'n and other icders of the -ipoaition.g Benstvllutler, even, with all his braown effrontory will blnsl at the defenece made by hi. confres in South Carolina,. Tiagine [ie Senate of the United States gravely coateii-lating the followiLLy prop osition. . The.free po,putl.tion be. fore the wAr enn about ";3o0,000, andi? the taxes then wore $2.07 per caput.. At present the free . population ih $700,000 and taxes are $1.C7 per eaput , therefotre the expenses of gov- F urnmient are mouch less than formierly. ~ A bare footerd school boy could detect the fahJoy in. this coursc of reason t ing. Compare the btatementt of lion,. W. D. Pir ter, int his opening speech C nI the~ Con vent ion. "The.. property ~ >f' the State in 1860 ounzted to $5'(0,000,0o00 and to the taxes $-100,-. 3)00, whjie ii. 1873 p'roperty had de- t areat-ed to $1 60,000,00ui, and taxa tion had inicreas~ed to $2.500,U00." Wichl oIf these stat ements will he mnost appreciated by Congress / We e aea stiggestion to the Republican t party. .Don't try t~o stuff such non ienso down thie throats of *dongress notn, or you will be convicted of want ti brains as wuell as want of. inutegri 7. Furthtermore, when the miemorl L5sassy that the tax at present is but 1.67 per hed~ they are utterly at ariance with. facet. The State tax ilone, on * 176,000,000,. at I12 mills s$2,1l2,000, while tihe county tax iarries from lahge to five mills; mnak inc at least $600,000 mxore, (not in. tludhiag loeal tar,) oir a Oran-5? hggre. int-o of $2,7 12,000 ground from an mapovgri--ljedt people. This divided a y 735,000, the poputlation, gives a per ajpity tax of ,$3.60, in 1873) o~tint $2.07 in IS8T0. Thoi memiorial I 1.-s ato convicted by their own a rgu. e nients. . Again, in their tn lular statemniit teimparing tI e expenses of govnn.11 aeit under the t wo regimes, they3 ft iav'o an htem of $d0.000 ltr jury and ' t'nistabhle tickets bef'ore the war, and p corre--ponding bldib. spce itn the atter day exi enditures, evidently viuhing t9 beguile Congress into the C ond belief that present ju.rymnen and ~ otistables serve their Stiute frmn I >uro patriotism.. The fact is that ~ utdicial expenditures hlave quad. C< uplod since theo war,' beitng row paid to 'y tho counties insteaQ < f the Stat o.. he mnemorialists will please thefeofore " .11 this blhankc by inserting an item of n bout $160.000. The County ox. enditures must be added also,'swell. ng the aggregate' to an enormnous ~ gure. The memorialists gloat over the act that never was there toore than 80.000 appro.:iaeb the Dni rats for education, whiie $300,000 re annually appropriated for the LI'q.. porposo by the R'publicans. y oewo unaocountable oversight c' neglect to noution that over 300,000 were emnbezzed by the Ing abd that aghIool certificates are -cely hawied about at ten and twen. f cents otn the dullaIr. ,.This speaks ell for the "party of education and rogress," and should, by all means, u inserted iu their 'defence." The ino:norial denies that the veroge yearly expenses ofrhe 4Sa.to revioub to the war, vere *400,00C ; id in support of their ia-ertion, lug i approl riations for the State House Ad other woiks of improvement, for. utting that the.e weie 0 anl investment. Ie auoneys derived from taxation efore the war may be seen in the k.te Iluuse, tho Univeisity, the Asy. 14ns and the. court houses thirough the Late i while.the moneys raised of ite by ruinous taxation and fraudu -ut issues of bonds, may be seen in 'urkers' 1ntt *, I.urleyville, the Goy. riaors vanion, and the bank so ounts of lead ing luminaries. L:stly, the nemorial hoots at tho ssertion tbat not a dollar of the State ebt has been paid, and boasts that - ctually the enormous amount of ueo hundred and lwehe thoussand dol. irs have been taken from the debt. link of.tls. Eight inillion, of taxes, td tei 'iiiilions of bonds required uspay t wo hundred a t weil 'hous Wl dell.rs ot deit Every doll,. aid, u. s' the State $84 - dd ins I 6D other p-tty bUt, the "p:arty Ut r gisee" would feel soeio delicy Ia i n! ilg this exposition of its fi..au erit:y nh:aity. Snco prev,aats us giving Upgn leso nio' mek of th- facts hih thle, liepublican adinits. a-t. siutd r bon61t forth and South. E.litorial Notes. There is "ometbing ainusing in the act that whi1-e the 8d'ite Adininis. rat .on is endeavoring to vindicato from thea charge of extravagtaice lad di-honesty, (Thigres-ena nn Elliott dmnits. that the tirty has becooe t tInch in tho nostrils 'of the. eivilize( ?orld. A house divided against ts< If cannot stai.d. We ars, alo truck with the pertinent -inquiry f lutp ner t of Darlington, "Haven't Ce Congre.smen lIaided deselves be. ore dev tell us to unload " Tim Hurley say..he came to South airolinlfa penniles.-, rud now pua s miore iutc'-th1n. the itire tax pajers Cont etiI with the excption (.f five cubers. The F.,ifield delegation Iy taxes <n $117,560. Let the m11ount j1aid by every deleuntiou ie iven. We cnu then-by addition dis over hov mnelh Tin does pay, and 'hether he is guilty of grand or petit PrceIy. Cardoza refud to s how the tax nyers' (hommittee the vouchers for 331,000 he) claimas to have paidl for rintineg. on the. ground that he can.. att, ow thema to any but duly auw iorized <-fliciials. Some colored men ia th~is Counaty recently lost a bale of ot ton, and suspecting-another color.. dl man, asked permiission to search is ginehouy.o. lie- denied having the >tton,- but ref'nsed the permission be. tuse the lawv "didn't allow one man search another's pretises without warra nat.'" A wntlrrp nt w as procured hn. the missing balo was dliscovered MoraI-Dona't stand on technicali. ies when your character is -imapoech dl. You wvill be found guilty every Tis uinrivaledl Monter h em i nedy I l arnted not tu containr a single particle of lercury, or, any inaJnrioums mineral sub nce. baut is . -* PURELY VEO ETABL4E, antainintg I h~ose~ SantIhern lieos and lterbs lich n aill -wise P'rovieen has placed In' mnit iee whte Liver Diseases ini'ht., revnil. It with enre all Diseases caused i LDeraneen or i6- Livay. -. TIhe symeptnos of Liver Cormplaint are a etCr or b~adh raste in~ Ihe mon.h ; Pain in itainc, i1-1es or .Joints, often mnsaen'~ r ilhetnnitarb : Sonr 8ltmach, -Loss of pptetite ; liowels nitern~atelv coiOllve and C ; ilcendee; Loys of fnenry, willh a' tinful sesrn 6f h'avine failed to do mnmeing~ whichh ought. to have been done ablilify, Low Speiribs, ai thick yellow sp. ~arance of the $kin and Eyes. a dry. utgh ofei it mistakf'n, ?or' -Co'nimpeIo4' >metimes many ofithesQ.5ymptora 'ttend e disense, ni. othos'" erv few ; bit thg yer, Ilhe larkeit organ .Ir the body, is rerally te seat cr tbitt. ee, and if not eglsulne In time. gt~rat suffering, wretch, nos~ and Decag h will ensue. This Great Un falnfr Specific will not be nndme the least. tlutplensann. For Dyr y'sptln, Cohnst irarior., Jlnundia,* lious anmanks. Sick Jfendnehe, Colio, peression of Spirits, Sour St omaeh, lie.urt irn, &e., &e. iMMlON'SLJVER REIIULATOII OR alEDI. (:INE, the Cheapest, Purest. aind Best Family eiene in thec Worad I Maniufactured ronly by J. II. ZIIN & CO., r .Macon, Ga.. anad P'hlidha\ Price, $1.00. Sold by all Druggi'ets, sane 2'A