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WILLIAMS DI A Fauiily Paper, Devoted to Scieice, Art, In ly, Industry aid ateritir. [TERMS---$3.00 Per Annum in Advance. VOL. X.] vv INNSBORO, S. C. WEDNESDAY fORNING, AUGUST 26, 184. INO. 14 PAu ~THE A I1 itri l 'A I 11 R Ej A L 1) 8 l i t. Un i.t im I) W Ii.n I.Y ntY .W I L, A I A M 8 & 0 A V P .4. ierms.-The 1ERAL/D It publilied Week ly in the'own of Winnsbero, at $3.00 snvariabig in dyghc. gW- All trans'cit advertiouniots to be :PA ID IN A'D VA NCI. Obituary Notices anid TrtIutes $1.00 er 1 qunre. Grant and the Third Tert. A Long Branch norrespondont of , he Now York Herald Wrtijta inder date of August 8: A few days ago a leading Liberal epublionu of tIe NWv8t, enooraged by in.struotions that President Urant was strongly iMjlined tp a now p,liti. cal inoven6ut Yor A third terfil,' azto po Long Brircltnd called upon the President at his cottage to obtAip his viqws upon the subject. Tho rC61lt of this ouifercuce, as .giv;n to the writer from a third party, an intelli. eut and responsibl' nan1, were these After the usual introductory furiali ti,s the Liberal Republicti.emassa dcr having stated the object, of his yisit and his his desire for a free in. torulhaig of thlou;,ht and mqi(suCions, he lresiCnt said t ha, thu country iad inuifestly idA enough of the rule of the Republican party; that .the party had fullilled its mission n:id outlived Its gsefilness, and that the people, t-Lred, of the corruptions and demorahiatidus of th lIepublican party in Congress, and tired of its pxtreuio sectional measures; were ready and anxious for a .hangv. Next, in .the cot-rse of the convera. tion the President suggested that if the Li ,eral RepubliUan Jarty WoU dI lke the le,i .1. nomitI'atini" h!i'i upon the platform we have indicited, he had no dotibt of the uccess of the movement. Tho liibural lepublican Qt4b ittor submitted,, however, that it; party Was but a handful of men, and th .t of theumselvx, as a party, they could do iothIng., The Proai 4ent replied that they were a respec table body of independoot menti that tkeir principles were acceptable to the people, and that in moving for his re-election in opposition to the egular Re.puibloan party they would first b.ing ever the Democratic party, aInd that inl the next placo all the Soutlibrn States would .upport the moveraent ; pid, again, the moneyed interests of .the coubitmy, desirous of ,avoiding. any dangerods viaoges or byperilLents in our linaneidl aystomj' yvill support a new party which, while .iming to displaco the Republicans, ,will suppoit the 1'resident for apoth er termt as the national standard bearer of this new orgatiii:ation. The Prosiietit also subinitted that the 3"xecutive patronage would provo an clement of poisiderable weight in this new party undetaking, and that, with all the forces to ba-k it which he had indicated, defeat would be impossible and suCcess Cortaini. ,"Urthermore, we are, infomod thtit ,yhen these high contracting pai ties poperated it was the promise on the pne.p4t.tl4at .the Liberal Republi cans, so far a3 directly rcjresemted ii ois conference, Wi movo in be. . Grant for a. ihird term, g Iwithz j)rQiasq oim hj~a part that to Atyespgthen thio.oveioniA the Presi dent will veto the Civil ttights bill if passed at the coming sessionl of Con. gross ; will insist upon civil serviec reform, notwithstandsng thme objoc. tions of this Congress ;will urge .a universal amnesty ini lis next annual rnesrago, amid to the extent of his power and iesnurces -will .olpar out thme carpet-baggers and prove himself a true friend of the South and of SIkthorn rights under the CJonstitu tioh, ,.W felhavp t s inAformuationl, we reppat, from a~ )ptell igont and re skepsible man, who says btt .th.os $hing.,e tr#ie, andi ..wlo ,believes that under..the programme we hmave outugd. Genegal 1Grant daln, and ro.bably r"ill be ol?oted fordi, t1iN ,rs(ntial perm sms tlic oau.didato of the eommibe~d . opposition forcm agajpst the party in power. Thi~s aitfole has >bon pronounced Eta'hi.-. Weo give it for what it i Soloe Riehard Ton Broocik, wolf-tdipw,p, horse-owner, was shot ## is repottqd zuortally wounded, a G ilmpn's Station,, Kepntucky, on Sat turday last, by (General Walkci WVhittakgr, a lawyer .of ..Louisville 'The.particula:s of th'o6 aftair are no liill'ed t.v9 men, and is regarded as desporsaLto Dharactgy. What can be nmore startling, aski t e Wymashington Star, than ,to see, delic'ate tifd fascinating young ladj with a long train suddenly -turrn arolin'd; without. giving the unsus pedting individual behind her' ang ivirning whatever, gently stoop reach back with her right foot ani okcdes'peratsly ? She is going -t< qrcss the street; and is merely switch ing off her train in the new diroc tion. The ball at Glenn Springs give: for the benent of the Stato inonu diental association n'*tted $125. A Trogic End. The 'Charleston Sun conlt:ins the following account of the "ad death of iMr. W. J. Oxncr. Abou,t hiLlf-past three o'cloc: yes tcrday morning information reached the G uardhouse that a young man was lying dangerously ill on a door step in Queen streot. Orderly Ser geant llarrison,.who was Oil duty at the time, dispato'hod 'an ulibilanco for him iitniedi''.toly,and on his ar. rival at the Guardhouse sent qfY for a physician. Dr. 13i.loy was soon in attendance, but the unfortunate young man was beyond all hope of Inedical aid. The particulars .of his melanhli death are ao follows : While at his home, in visboro fiotio time ago, ho formed the no q.uailtance of a young lady . of this ci'ty. then Onl a visit to that town. It appeai- 'that thi.'.old formality of .n acquaintance soon ripened, on his pirt, into deep and forvent lovo. A fcw days ago he appeared in our city aid requested permission to viait, the y.>ung lady, viich was granted, and on two or three occasions was cor diaI.y.received at Ler ho'uso, but on Sat tirday evening becanio impressed with the idea that he could 1no l0ngerl hope to retuin,i a suitor for ber hand. During (he evening he stepped .into the d rug store oi. the corner of Iring and. Bro%d atreet3, and called for twut vn cents worth of laudanum. Dr. Sliwettmann, not carin to s0l a stranger that amqunt of poisonl, in<quired the use he intended to ikalie of it, to which Ie replied lie *r.Aed it to troat a sore. )r. Soh wett ann, however. c%)mpromised with hil, and sold hii teD ocn.s worth of th) atile, .6, qiuantity n'ot 25u".oieit to ci.ulsa the d.pati of an adult. le by some means obtained more laudanum, for two bottles bear ing the labels of Dr. Schwettuann one pUrchased that evening and the other moin tieIo t)rev;ous-woro found upon his person. As before stated, whon conveyed to the Gturd lious., he ws in a d1ing condition, an1 breathed his last aboft an hour ai t6rward . At nino b'clook yes"er (lay morning a jtry of inquest was held over the body, and rendered a verdict of' voluntary doatlI by ppison. We are informed that scme years ago li i.ado an attempt to take his life by ilaoling himself with a pistol, 1lut was prevented. H1is name, W. d1. Oxitor, wa. urittetiponith 019bo subn of his 3hiirt and certain letters found on his person are . now in the hands ofthe coroner. Be was the sonl of the po9tii:ster at .W11ns1bo "ro, and was only nineteon years of ago. A di..patuh was sent to Wilnnsboro yesterday muorning,.and i portion of his f'atily are CxpeCtetl down this morNing. The body was kept on ice yesterday, and every attention paid to it by the officers of the po!ice. [Charleston Sun, Aug. 17.] fli fiai 6111011.. It is most iiportant that the county Tax Unions be organized with. out delaty, and that the delegates to the State Tax Union bo elecote4 at once, The first meeting of the (ti,.O Ta T:x Un.ion wiIl b held at such time at a y.bo appointed by (Goe.. Che.st. nut, the Chaiyman of Alho Fxcutive Comjni.ttee of the Taxpayer .Con voention, and, in view of the pcssibili ty that a meeting .ray be ordered seen, it, is advisable that the Subor-. dinate and County Unions should comvplete their organization, not a day later than the fi.st bMonday in Septombeor. ([News (anil Courier.] Fashion at the French seaside rigorously requirea :--First, a beach dress ; second, a br'eakfaist dress; third, a morning dress ; fourth, ,an e,vcming dress .an.d.as o~ lady cannot woar the sanme d ress ovcry. morning anid evening, there muust be .*several of each sort oeept the . begehl dress. At least thirty for a month's stay, and not more than three in a trunk. *A,b.ovolent phlysioien in apr' county, Ind., gave a fourth of .ly picnic to seven hundred children, not oven such dlicaciosm as cake, ntraw.)oerries, anid ico creamt being onitj.od. Ilo got back his outlay in colips, however, beforo the wockc was or. TJhorc are said to bo 800 paper muillIs in operation in the United States, with a capital invested of .jV0,000,000, anid a total production of$10,000,,000., Theose millsgi emiploymtent nominally, to 20,900 peeo I plo, whlose earningn are footed up a $10,000,000 annually. ~2axes," said Doadi Swift, "arc t,he i,nvitablo consequences of being too feond of glory." IIay made nsummer is muel oheaper than to buy it in the win ter. A cow, when well sheltered and watered, can be kept on~ loss thar s one.half of the feed req'uired whet . eft to the exposure of the witel itorms. ''hat "Artful Do(ger!"' There is i susp,lcion that the R1 publioan managers of South Carol1) to not mean what they say who they join in the demand for r.'eform A larmed by the indignation of th country at the ialadminstration o the men-whoi they have placed i .:wcr, they add their ,ory.,t 'that < the crowd ih 'Pursuit of the thieve ,hilo really they are concealing th fugitives. There is a suspicion, w repeat. that they are Iying.the pai of the Artful Dod,er and hiscowpai ions. To speak plainer, it is sai that the Republicans who laiel Lisued the noble manifesto.for refoi coiteuiplate noiiinating one of th old conspirators for Governor. The Charloiaton News and Courie CxpOsOs this scheno in *a nianci.-tha will attract attention. The Now and Courier is a Democratio journal but its charges are so speoiflc that.'Ui counter-chargo of partnership cal satisfy the public. The man wh wants to be Governor, and for wpo01 the State Commii tico are said to b workiig, is Mr. ). 11. Chamberlain who was attorney-General of the Stat 6nder Governor Scott. It was du ring l;!is adniuistrationi that the Stat debt increased so raildly, and ihi ring leaders grew wealthy so mysteri ously. The News and Courier say that., as a member of the land 00111 mnitsion, lie is rerponsible for "1tl outrageous and enrlious s.'vindl o which a committeo of his own friend in the Legislature denounced. .13 virtue of his olieo lie also had a ban( in the misapplication of the agricul tural land lcrip ; he was responsibl for the flraiWs upon the State by th( sinkiniik funO1 cojn'sion.; and . U should be held accountable for th losses caused by the ineflicient ani corrupt means adoptod td nogotiate the bonds of the State. It, is notorious that Mr. Chamber a;i was ia iiieii)ber of a corrupt Stat governent, with the other inember of whieb he was on good terms, an( the Republicans of. South Carolin who are really for reforh should re fuse to. -upport him. They uhout dIemna nd new i12en, as wvell as a: entire cbange of polioy, as a guarant of good faith. If the party persist i nominating objectionable men t offioe no matter how or wha the may "resolve," they ought to be (10 feated, and with proper effort we be hove that they can, be, oven in Sout Carolina.--N. Y. Evening Post. iouth Carolfitab In 'Unionu County there are twelv townships and twelvo .Tax Unions. The liack *men got up a row at th depoL in a ron,villo on iFriday and gol)pral stimpeao Onsued. Hop. . G. MoKissick has bee informally renomiated for Qot gress. lie was "counted out)" fuu yeara ago. The formation of a sabro club i in progre,s in Chestor. Applicatio for a charter will be made at an ear ly day. Last week wa.s thol,hottest of th sca"i p in Aiken. The thermomete reach .ed .02 in the shado for thre successive days. , The subordiante .Tax Unio.n U.nionville Township has alreadey memnbership of one hundredi, includin several colored men.. ip pio .a of machinery arrive .I Greenville daiily, for-.parti,cs in th city aind county, showing the peoph are all becoming interested in manu facturinjg. - . The bronze palmetto monumnei to the Palmetto Regimnent is bein r-epaircd, and will soon occupy position opposite the North front < the State capital. All the Radical papers in th Stpto cicept (fio.bNew. Era, of S pai tanbur-g, have turned the c.old. shou dcr omttheir- not Mioses, and are riir ning in Chamberlaing grooves. Six thousand persons were presen at Spartanbu'mrg, at t1oo (,rsngo. coie brationi. , .Mr !.otel ..wasB erowdec and the wagoi-pe.ds.and vacanit 101 were full to overflowing. A Coutheil bf thiD #oedd et 'Ion prnewas organized at Socict 1111, a few days ago, under very flie tiering auspices. A nmber of ladie hayc b)een admitted as associate mn bers. Mr. TIhomias Nattox, of Anderso was killed last week at Hlerbin's sa mill, lIe became entanigled in ti machinery, fell oni the saw, and li head was split in two in an instant. In Oconee County this weather f~ the past week has been very favor ble for crops of all kinds. .Ror from all parts.of the county repri sent the prospect for corn and oott< very good.* - Thirty th,ousand portraits of ti Prince Imperial, nmade by a ne process, have been seized in Par They.were printe4 on car.ds whi< seemed to be blank ; but if. the car were wet with water a lihotogral r of the Prince became apparent in 'few seconds. svecii or Mi. T. W. WoodivArd, P:-est i,ut of Ihe S. C. Agriciuit/al anld Me C111-01 ch8nciS'clet) b)eliverel. A Spar 16-1n6turg, Auigust, 12111. 0 tion of our organization will furuia.l f the substaneo o( my reniarks upoi I hias. ooasiqp. .I wilt de.oowAtra'to it f to be of ulolient i ur"..nco in m ,, opinion, to absorb no ineonsiderabIc o portion of your uos sc.iois busiust e thoiglht. A bHof rctrospet into odi -. ir! is necessary fur the proper un . derstanding of the sita.tion. .t had d been demionstraite th ait tho State y Agricultural and M.lechanical Society as heretofore managed, . iutit4ingd o only a l1reParious existence, deeit. ent upon gate foes; and liable r to disruption, oven by contingencies t of minor import, certain of bankrupt a cy in the Pyent of a rainy week- da, ring thp. tim.e or the holding our 1air. In considoration of these facts and of others, to which I shall allude, it W4s deenied, qxpedient to, ctiraft tio Joitit Sto6k feature upou our 3 scheme, which, it was thought, by raising 15 to 20,000 dollars in. cash snbsoriptions for so-3k, would pay all - dobts,and loave a large balance to be investod in real estate and improva eineiits which had been . f.oLnd. to bo - i:ecessary for the succeasful proseoot. t tion of our jizth , and which, by stop ping at once the absorption of large Sanount- fron the revoinues of jiir week for improvements, would ake , the institution not only self.sustaia ing, but it was beliovod, and it be lieved, wodldjust-ify the doolaring of remunerative dividends to stockhold ers. So much, gentlemen, for this "woll laid scheme." I can give no better synopsis of matters, prior.to my ad. 3 ministration, than to (jtioto rrom the speech of resignation of my predeces. sor, Gen. lagood, who, in allusion to this very uatter says : "As the scheme now stands, some , $13,000 have been subscribed, -of which no part has been paid in ; and 1 $5,000 have .4eOn subscribed and x paid in by .three gettlemen." . I consider it oppropriato t vp.b'ntion I just hero a fact KnQwQ olly, to those of you who wore immediately con neoted with ..the private husinces i management of our epmpany. But ) for the very liberal subsoription of V these distingitishod, public-spirited -oitiiens, your efforts had proved fu - tile, your enterprise had fallen still 1 born inj the very inception, and we would have had presented tile misera ble spectcle of a peopla .peciliarly rural in their tastes, .:trictly agt ioul tural in their pursuits,, without a single institution inl the State for the B protection or promotion of its inter ests. As a private citizen, I tlkank 0 then, ior do I transcond the bounds IL of prlopriety, when, 1u you hoar, I inake public acknowledgment of the a service rendered us. The list of subscribers ,'6ie this r .ine has been augmented, and, but for the recent panics which weighad a so heavily against our farmers, I have 1 reason for saying that our cash capi tal would 1)ave about reaobod the amount dosired. . As it is. the books of our late treasurer, Mr. Shiver, ao r credit subscribers with $10,000, leaving unpaid in subbcriptious and promised subscriptions, an anmoun t of not less thanii $10,000 more. . 'f 1t is then, gentlemen, not .diffioujt a to offer an e~ltlatZin for our em g barrassed condition, nor evenl an apology, wore it necessary, for seem Sing want of judgment uponi thd part oyoroflicers. Iftois to be borne inmind that the . only property transferi-ed from the old society to tile new, was thio -grounds and building ceded by Coun o il4 to the west of the raco coUtso; g that woe were dependerit :popn tilte kindly forbearance and public I' spirit of that most estimablo gentle in'an, Mr. Yhearden, for the use of hijs o lot for tho purjhosos of our stock, anti .that even this was inadlequate being .too smao,ll,. whilst the purchase of . more grounds and the creotiori .of other buildings, was thio principal featureo,af the nsefy schemne, renudered so by the action of the radical 00otin oil of Columbia, who Dot, only dispu ted the right.of their predecessors to a cede the property, but actually comn minnod proceedings in the couirtzi for - its recovery, and it was generally y known that we would be deprived of -use. B- You uwderstand, then, tho iioti-vo a- which prompiedc( as nct only to invcAt our entiro a.vailablo. capital, but this ,being coansitdiu'.l, to' borrow money, v relying as.wc had a right to do, upoi e the amuounltu pledged by subscription, a~ The following stntomionit of indobt ness, whilst not strictly accurato, is near enough. so, for our purpose at r this time. Weo owe various amounts, Saggregating $7.203. ..This stato m ent 1s based upon data recently -fnrnished from books .of the former n treasurer at a mnpeting of the Exoou. tivo Commiattae, w,ith such.other in, te formation as I have been able to pro w. oure, and , .whilst some .matorial r.' changes have been effected in. oum ib favor,.as will appear from imy.bookts Is still tile balane has has boon about >l) ro-ostaliuhad by payment of taxes a osa and. incidentals which ,will ,b anoticed in their course, TLhe visibli aswt re e' follows: Land from Martindale, $5,000 - paid up inter. est on lauda. of A ea'rdon, $2,100 ; 8ran4 .amid, $3000, othe"r buildings And feiiaing, $800 ; notes, $800 ; n1provements in gr.a,ling course, &o., ~, '700 ; in all,$4,0. This, you will observ'c, is the prop orty of the ttooksholders of the Stato Auxiliary Joiut Stook Company, and .tI whloh muay be added., the .property of the old State , AgrXoqltu,al and Alechunical 8oiety, viz : building ereoed during the Mayorthip of Mr. McKenzio, $8,000, and added to by the S6oiqty to the amount of $2,500, which, with tlle grounds %yhich I shall p6tmato at only , $.,.0', makes S15,500. Aggregate these amounts, and we have $29,900 as the value of assets which have boon estimated at cash cost, and which aro bolieved to hmte ,I)nere'ipod ill .vlue,s!ne our pur. cba.e, booausu of an iunclina'lon upon the part of CitizeL to orect houses p,nd. make improvements in this quar ter' of the city. Your indebtedness, then 0u vlowed fron thig ste pd point, is far froM des perate -but two Circtstances mut not be lost sight of. First ; 'ho prouerty 9f the Statb Au*ilia,ry -oiit Stock.: Company is under mortgage and parties are pressm ing. 6econd : The property transferV'dd by the State Agrioeilt%.ral and Me. caunical S.Joiety i.s not available as assets bot is held by us, under an agre.mneit, with tie Cityl Couliell contingent upon our liolding. or Fakr nnually inlthe 'City.of .0 oluin bia, and when .ihese ccase, :the pro pcrty, reverts to the city. The fol lowing then would be a more correot statenuent. Available.aLst.ts $14,000. Liabilities $7,203-or ati-indebted, ness of more than half our capital, an aminodt,till insiguilicent,. when: it is known that with a contribution of les than twenty-five conta from 1each agrioulturaliat of the dtate, we Would bo perhaps the most prosperous .com. paniy of the kind in the South, but of mountain magnitude, when we. con template the fe4ifdl aathy, exhibi ted and the uttei indillerence with which this matt6r bts bee. troatod by our farmers. It is believed that. with the practice of igiid~boonomy at the approacliffg ,0air, with many of our wants of inprovementil suppliod, and with the consequent incromclnt in our av!ings, no iuponsiderable per tion of this debt cari.hP P,bi6dated. But it is, (r .you.to ony, that the life of this company ablll be longori risk ed in the power of sume who have ever beef zealou4 of. its existence and of others who from..neoessity, will suo for their money regardless of oonse. quences. You have had writs enough seived ubon you, and know humanity too w.l,.Lo trust further to the mor cies of our ciediitirs. Misunderstanding has heretofore prevailed. upon the subject of . taxes. la a spiouch before the State Grange in the i4teraM of the . Company, in Feebruary last, I nentionled as,a fact that w.e wore eupnpt from ta_ation foi.hc years. Boiig.rocently lcavi ly pressed by the tax comorants, for arrenges, I had \lr. Thett aLtrney for the Company to look up the aqt of supposed exemption,, THM following us a copy,.of itts 7t,h soction,. ,. Sec.. 7. T1hat the said company shall receive fronA~ tijd. -a nairy of the State, on th first day of Janua ry, inm each year, a bomius cequal- to;thec St,ato tax assessed upon the neoessary buildings,. oiid ilprovemonts . to be erectod Qal.tho.lands now. owned or hei-chfter to be purchased by said corp)oraition, syach bomp~ ;,to bp con tinued for f.vo years after thepaag of this Act. - . This menam ini plaiin, language, that the comupany shalil cz.oham:ge green baciks, fur perhaps worthless. Stato paper-so far as relates to buildings and imuprovem.eats, whilst iujon our grounds, we *oneoun$ten .the ruinoudi rates of city ialuaftion. It lsi a qurious co.mmeptpry uypon t,he .tiios in which we live,. but nevertholess a part of the biatory' o.f thi s ,Company whichm jou have a right to.kn'oN that at the tiume i-our Qrg4ni*ation it was a law~ of:tho.land that. par.tios desire ing Charters, umust make application to the Legislatureo, and thaut custom hmad .niadel it e(fuallyca law . that foes should be paid to miembers for servi-, es rondored in.procrinmg said Char., tern. .i'Tho books of this pasociation show,~ that our eorporation, whmoso ob, jeet asset, forth ini time act itself are To'.develope and provote time agris cultural, umecianical, manuufactuinmg amnd mimoral resources of. the State for thme promnotion of imimigr&tion thme elevation of la.ber and laboring people, thme encouraging of stook rais, mng, and the toemperato advancement anud cultivation of .turf ani. . field spor.ts, was allowed DnO de parturo from.the establised usage. It adds nothing to the colori ng to say. thnft in this case it was stipulated .th at phmeso same, Legislators should .see that, in consideration .,of .the, . ..itblia good intended by uts a. olaus6 was to be inserted*.xopin.our r5oisarty from.tax ation.for five years; npr does It mitigate .our.opinion .ofithoe orfi,d p3saeensa, end ageoisil Ignerazuoe oIf tim ~a .infamous body. to state, that Lu't for an secident the charter of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society bad fared even worse. For inl thil Imstace a .11jrity of igro politioians and of vile capet-baggers and scala. wags were added to the list of incor. porators with a view to the intro. ductions of politic3 so scrupulously eschowed . by:. us herotofore ; but who lacking that ordar of litelloqt which enao .oven Godr creeping ureatures to spit thjoir., slimo end dirct. t1ioir Ve6uom vipon ti '6bject of their hate, thia ancient.and honor. able organization, was savod;from its horrible fato by the, blunder .of a misnomer in the not of-intendod coportiotli. , It is to be hopeol that you will takn ' such action at this uleting as will enable us to place our Company beyond the miachina tions of,.all snch onemies of civiliza. tion. IV ith only a mo'derate. amount of energy upon our parts '; expended in efforts to procure subscription to our Stock, commencing hore at the mountain 40iies. of t hello,.CarQls iAdst public apirited and hospitable people and extending through the State to ita metropolis, that glorious old city by the sea, now so wide a*ake, t6 the ii1terest aid develop. ment of- olr products, I- havo no hesitation in sayiIg that now that the panic1);a6psDO4( alid . vit.1 tho fine prdniso of crops 4nd with that general feeling .of puoyancy now nanifestod the natural resul.t .f a- deteriiination to better the present (' >lornble con. dition, we will be sna.blodi.to pro cur. .bvery , dllaE nocdcd ru this enterpriso ; which. i allowedi to, foll through now, after so much has beon apoomplisodby the hurculean efforts of a very. fw of you, and just as we have nearly reached. that juno ture for ,which you have battled so manfully and for which, with all nece:;sary iinprove,nients inished, and witk all our difli"ultic. -with . the Counoil, of. Columbia satisfactorily arranged,-and -with dur .ioj o ,for thp future brighter your nurplua, earl, ings.would be returned to you in remunerativo dividends. I warn you that withaut proper oxertions, your Con a.iy.gbO down aid 11iuA it.will cost you,yoars of toil- and. thousaindi in money to re,establish it upon its p,rent even imperfact basis. , It is my-painful duty to. aniounce to you that since our last.inooting one of our dirctoro atu.forinor Troasurer Rt. C. Shiver has pad, tho deb of nature and been called to his final account., lie was distinguishod by an ardent patriotidl aiid in the ser. vice. of his coutry know cithor fear nor rel.ucitioc. In heat or anow, in battlo.or on tli march wherever duty and service called him he.was endur. ing and untiring, bri-e, and collected and determined. In poaco and in war he was full-of .Indiistry, and energy; with .no other . capital than - his own manIy;. qualities, with ocaseless activity . and a dedioation to success that braved.and overcame all obsta cles, he rapidly built up a splendid business in Columbia just after the war, and net an examplo of courage (aith and,persoveranco which had im portant offeot upon that ruined city. lie amassed fortune, ho extended his name, lie became identified with pub lie enterprise, with high spirit he en tered into the scheme of our agricul ture enterprise and took .a conspieII, ens part in our annual exhibition. Ile throw his,.soul into this mnatter, and his executivo ability, his cirganI,.. zing mind made themselves felt in our deliberation, and in the - sugges. Lion of nmeasuros which increased confidence ,respet, and interest in our noble service throughout the.: State. TIho. death of much a man is a public loss. It is a lou'whic h wve particular ly fool .from. the agreeable,-relation which lhe suotained to us, and fiomi the deprivation which it brings home to lis of his wise counsel, fertile edgeontionand undaunted confidene in every extremity. It is emninently appropiiate that we place oa re<ord our Appreciation .of his worth and our sense of loss of a genial 00om1 an. ion and a wise anud eflicent o-adjn tar IIis.oxamplo remains to teach an in, structivo lesson.. .Iis memory will long be chorished in the hearts oh his fr ienuds. The night elerk of the Burlington lhotel, was startled about II o'clock t be other night, by the following con versation, at a time when lie suipos ed he wvas alone in the oflice "Gome along, you .hoodlum', 'let's go; up stairs." "Go nothin'," s.was the re ply, "lot/s .. wait till the imidnigYit traini comies in ; there's nothing ,you can get blood out of, ..n. the iouse, now." . And the ama:sed and horrifi. edeclerk oguldasee tnothing but two old gray mosquitoes, (dozing on a Saratoga trunk... .We make the greater part of the evil oliumnstanees in which ,we are *plaeA~ ; ,and ' then we fit ourselvos for those oli.catancest by a process jof degredation.-.-8outhey. In Boston, whoeoit is caid that nine men out of esvey ten answer to the title of "Professor," such signi as."Turtel Supe Hoar". *ra . net~ tiun ,o.mmo6. Too many cookjs spoil .the broth. A Naked Bride. Montpelier Argus.) .Py-a strange perversion of legal principles, it was supposed by our ancestors that .whosoever married a widow who was.administratrix upon the estate of her deceased husbanct represented inaolvent, r.nd , should thereby,poooess hinsolf of any proper ty or-thing purchased by the doceas. ed husband, would become an. oxecu tor de son fort, and would thereby mako himself liable to answer for the goods of his predeessor. -Major Moses Joy-became enamored 'of Mrs. l1aunoh, Vrds ,widow, of Williana ,WVards Nho died in 1788, 'leaving an insolvent estate, of which Mrs. Ward was adjuiniatratrix. To avoid tho urpleasa4t penalties of the ' law;- on the morning-pf her uarriago with Major Joy,,,Mr. Wrd. placed her. solf in a-closet, with a tiro woman who stripped her of all her .clothing and when in a perfectly nude state she thrust her fair round arm through a dilena hple in the door of the closet, the gallan MARor clasped the hand of the buxom widow, and was married in due form by -the jollies6 parson in Vermont, At-the close of the ceremony the tiro-woman dressod the bride in a otnplote -wardrobe Which th. Major had 4 ovided and cais'd to be-doposited in the closet at the commonoetnent of the ceremo' ny. .Sie n-nie out elegantly dressed in silk, satifi. and laco and there was kissing all 0-.ound. A Counter-Irritut for tih Negro Malady. [H. '. Rodfilla Letter to Cincinuati - .Commercial.] If the negroes vro. equally dis tributed over the United States, if t.he North had a pro, rati share -with the South, the quostioiji bould be easier managed. .Iut ufortunatoly the section having-no negrQee is pos o.qssed with a mania for i logislating fQr the soutioii that has them, - and everlasting discord ana turmoil Is tho eoueouoio. I have little hope thiate:th1e."nogro question" will over be settled. - It. will pop-up its black 4edd in onp shipo or-another, a veriA table apple of -discord. - The -only thing thut will divert . our- attention is to have Avo or, ton millions of Uhinese dropped in among us, and than we will hava a "Chinese ques, tiou" on the boards for variety. We already have a sprinkling of them on the Pacific slope. and .: why should they -not vote and hold office T There can be no .reason - giveni that docn not apply to the. nais - of the negroes, except that our brother of the chopastlcks and pig-tail i.Zuightb not voto the Republican tiW'kot witit healthy regularity. "A New Hampshiro mar.!Olaims to have invented the fing. ozh$" And we nave no doubt that a tiv Hamp shire man might clain to, have first felt the necessity for usiiig .t. "The Timne," says the New Or. loans Picayune, "has-a moral.depar. ment now." Tlcin the editor of the Tinmes shou.d i all means give his character the benefit of it. "What,'' acks an -ehange, "do they w,ant..of a cannon which .throwd a' ball ,weig~hing 1,000 pounds ?'" Why, to throw balls weighing 1.000 pounds, stoopidl. The "inocident-al oxponses" of Con gress show that each member has eighty-four pounds of toilet soap per sessionl. The soap must be, of - a sin. gular ly inferior quality, for the numi bar of dirty hands among the .momm bers is one of the most remarkable p henonmona ini the history of modern legislation... The Saluda.Sunday School Con~. vention met at Belton on Ithe '?th instant, and elected the following officers: R. N. Pratt,, superin$dd cnt ; F. C. V. Borsteog vioe-superin tendent; 0. E. .IIorton, eeooretary ; Rov. M. 13. McGeej tthesur9r. . , The Rad-iotl negroes-in Darlington County,.under the lead -of:- Whuitte. mer e, thos cadetsip seller and -kick., ed .out Congressman, -are forming aniti-talLpayers' lesgues tinder . the nanie-of 1Wide. Awakto RLepu-blican Clubs. It is needless, to add,- tha.t WVhittomore is bellowing for .reform. On pundady,:the btlm instant, Aaro Clark, a eolored msni vas 1(illede bA his son,.Jo Clark, on the pantatiott of Mr. .. fa1tun, la Mg-arlboro' County, The bld than vwas :ewippig one0 of his smaller children when -. tisi son, dJoe, who is grown, knocked him on the bead-' with'- an.. aze, .killing4 hi.m in a very short time, and then TPhq Baluda Baptist Asseeiaticth held a1t fifty-third an9ua.l poaioni with thme ehif6oh st.1bton,'b'eginning on Thourtday, tl4 0th, and- ending en Sunwday. Thero,was was a,full .dele.. gation present from nearly all the -churohes, and the orgaiilation result-. ed in the re-election ofe the" offioeta .of ti previous year, vis : ERay. .A ant clerk and treaparor,