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mr ~ ~ M;2AL A L-cA)---_ WI .NNSBOPRO, S. C,.-, WEDNE,SILAY.l -MORNINOO, sETMR2184IN.5 THE liI BYI M1 8h# HER A L D IS PUnI18RD W K b - W I L LIX A ft 8 SP A V I S. Termo. -The HERAL D ip published Weqk e T%ri1f T?. sboro, at, $3.00 fnvartuti in advance. 1 A"*aonnsient, advertlaotents to be P.AD 11 N AD10e N00 Obituary Notier, itd 'rrutes $1.00 "The Arkansas rvareltr.) 1KRTCOIt OF TilE LIFE 01r Th'u- .AT COL. ANDY FAULKNR9 TIH O\6. NAVj'WWntAYOR OF THE POPULA]k STORY. [Lit ie Rook U.zet'Vd, A ug. 5.] Yesterday afternoon btr oity was Aho6*4'.'ver tb new's of the death of Col. Sandy Faulkner, who. died at 1,11,1ejobio0oo, on the corn r..Tf Cu'Ul Nn'roo and Afth'sCN , o'clock of gastric fever. A brief 6lQtoh of his life will not be uninter4ctiing.. Col. Faulkner Me born in Georgot'wn', *toott coun. tf Kentucky, March 3, 1803, an' 7as 8eVAIty.one ypars of ago at his kleath. le0 came t; X rkqpsas in 1819 'and settled in Chicot county, on the Missiasippi river as a cotton plan It is well kYnow'n th'oughout 'tie Southwest that Col. Faulkner was he original personator of the '-Ar anoss Traveler," and it was his fpride to be* known as such. The pory, .t is savd,, W'As founded 6b. A little iboldent which o'ocurred In the' 'bampaiga of 1840, when ho made the tour of the State in oonpady with he Hon. A. 1. Svir, Governor Vulton, Chester Ashley and Govor. Vior Yell. One day, in the Boston mountaiiis, the party approached a quatter's, fol- informat.on of the route'; and Colonel I'8andy" was made spokesman, of the company, And it was upo his witty responses the tune aid story were founded. On the return to Little Rock, a pTand banquet yas.givon in the fa. mons "bat-4oom" Yvhich used to stand sear the A'dthony House, and Colonel .'ISandy" was called on to play,. the one and toll the story. Afterward It grew in popularity. When he ubsequently we6t to New Orlean, the fame of tAe "Arkansas Trave.ler' had gone before him, ind i' a ban 'quet, amid olukit glasses and brilliant toasts, he was handed a vio lin by the theit Governor of| Louisia na, and r.i4es'ted to favor tfiem with 'the favorite Arkansas tun'o At tIe td 8t. Charles Hotel 'L sp~eoial room *as.devoted to hia' ise, b'earing in gilteltters over the door, "Arkansas Traiveer." Duing the war.fetween the Atates Pol. Faulkner was ca'ptain of ord nance at the arsenal in this city, until the place was abandoned to tio .Federals. From bore ho went to Tyler, Texas, ivh'ro be still held the gosItion of ordnance officer. At the tlose of the war he was at Marshall; 'Feias, bit rettirned to this 6ity. He was com'plimented at the first ior i, 6f tfie gAisting Legislature by the naniirig after him of the flow S'ountydf Faulkn ' r. , At the, e Oonstittioinal Oo 'veto ho was leote'd door kooicr, which pqsition ~ogether with .tnigistrate for Pulaski bodp1ity; he held at t..5 tiute of his Throughout the State his death Will be sorely felt, for he wvas a gootd man, the very center of a b},llliant sooial circl esteemed tifid boloved by all wid nie him. F IataUiluitake. 'hbte isisorn6 pi5spe6t of fighting between the black and white people bt South Carolina, and the white m'Si'ofGeorgia are prepnruigto6 joidi fui the' bdnilidt: Too tdi charity can fdt be eerdnde d to the wihite men of Soutti,Ca olina, so long as they stop:short of b'iddd-slied, .ekeept in eel f-defense. WVhen thoy do otherwise they will make a fatal mistake, and due tilat will alienate sympathy from tifld atisfdd than it can be manufac tard4 ti any ddnadlat of the blacks. I t is yet too sodn to say that all .tlie 16gal miednd of re dros for thme w.hite medt in South C arofina have been oxhadstod. [ Ciago 'A'r*ibuI,Kl Inldej)i<|ld. ]f tdoggia's eo066 Will p'u( In its next appearancoe it if6 is not drawn aside from its orbit .b'y s6'n6 . iitrg-,4 at. traction, in the year 10,8395 By that time the Idat Waiiington'a sor vants, and the last pensioner of the war of 1812, will have been gath4red to their fathers. .I19braska has all at once sPn'Dg inte a firsf/61ass wheat growing Sta'te. Ia 1869), when the culture appemlrs to have comenoncd,ber total ptoduct of wheat was but 148,867 bushels ; in l'8'73, a poor year for agriculture, she taisegS3QQ,000 bushels. The whd!% Is also. io a very good favor) *asike only second to California in bread .m*'king qualities, and in the 8t. Louis amd Chicago Markets,.take the lead in pdida. Potilcal NOWe5. Vermont holds an election on the Ist SepteMber. Judge Porter in the. democratic nom.int.ee for Governor of Teunisee. - The Alabama 'Conservativos do ,Pounce oivi r'ights. The fRads dodge the cuestion. drant carried 32 counties in Ten nessee in 1872. This year the con. servatives carry every one. 1'ho n0y CoYimtit1ition for Ohio which cost the State thousantid., has been rejected by the people. The New York Times and (tio P-ening Post have 6een %tting into D. II. Chamberlhin pretty hea'vly. In NeW York, the liberal repub licans hold t1& balance of power and the radicals are utaking overtures to Senator Fenton-. The Pennsylvania R-adicals repudi ate the idea of a third term, and pro. pose Gov. H1artranft.for PrusidCntial candidate iu 187A. They are in 'ayvor of a fe3uniptiou of specie pay ments. In Georgin, the consqrvnti?os havo thus far ntninate for Coingre., Smith, for th'o 2nd district, Ca.ndler for the 'th,. Blount for the 6th, and MoMillan for the 9th. Col. Mosby has been arrested for endeavoring to fight a duel with a gentlemon na'.ied Payne. Poiti'e the proballe cause. Thi3 vill disv (rancohiro Mosby, if convicted. It Smacks of Ki Kluxism. Dispatches from Washingtoa state t.the Attori.oy-Gencr:t is in r..q 't daily of, ltters frop Arkan. Sh1 Teas, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina, com plaining of the unsottled endition of affairs. The negroes declare that wages duo them from whites are ai-bitrarily withheld, that personal violenbe is inflicted upon them, and that they are disc,imninated against in the ordinary business of lite. On the other hand, the whites complain that the negroes are coipl'ctely or ganized throughout the South, and that they are liable to break out in armed opposition to the.i at any ho'r. ]th parties appeal to the President for protection. During the reconstruction period, when the Ku Klux were performino the mur derous wdiks, reports caime constant ly from the South; 4oiniething after this fashion : "The negroes created a 4isturbance and threatened a riot, which was suppressed by th6 deter mined action of the white ; live no gro'o. kiMIed." urdering negroes by the score and appealing to the Federal Government for protection against apprehouded violence at the hands of the colored people smacks of Ku Klux.times. [Inter- Occan, Republicon.] The attempted murder of Trum pi.:r of Little lock, Ark., on a Nordh River ferry boat, a fcw nights ago, attracts conAiderable attout"on in Now York. The would-be victim lost two fingers lii thp t.ruggle. Justice WaVddell, of the Tombs P'o.. lice Gotirt, held llenry II. Clark (aho is charged with attemnptinig to throw Trumple overbord) in $l0,000) ballh Trumpler Is a guinsmith, aind ivas on his way to the city to .pti ebase arms for the Arkansau Stamto oficials. .Prominent men are sus occtodl aiid the trial will be an ex eiting one~ T1he fatal duel in Lou isian a, rcepor tea day or two.ngos and tie Alony Payneo afar shows that th'e Code of HIonoi- still has its devotees. A rijgid etnforoment of pi law will de Pmore to prevent. du telIling than anything else. Duelling has beeni legalized ina the German A rmny. A regular Cort of Honor has been establi.shed. Them Arltiy and Navy Gazette, the milita rf- orgin of thei Unrite,d states, aidvo.. cates the establiabinent of aueni a court in this cuntry. Public senti went may yet take a turn in this matter. At present, it is decidedly against d uellint. [ Charlotte Observerc.j Uncle John hlarper, the famom Blue Grass turfman, and owner o Longfellow, died at his home, in Wbodford County, Wednesdoy. lie has flocn il for a long time, confined to the roonh anid ocecupying the very bed in which his sister, Betsy lHar per was murdei-bd two years ago. Hoe das an old man, markod by many pe6uliar traits of character, and po pular anyiong stock-raisers and spor-t muon overywhe,re. The Harpor home itead, near 5f idway, is one of tl.e finest demiosnes in the woild. It came to the family with the early settlemo#t of Kentucky, and hams never bebu out of iti. A more old fashioned placo and a more old fashioned master could not be con oeivedl. The State Temperance convention assembled at Hfarrisburg Pa.,on yes terday-forty delegates in atten dance. A Vivi(I Duclciplioi, The following, sa'y thd St. Louis Rop'ublioan, is au ektractfroi (a let. ter written by Mrs. S. D. Barratt, formerly of Cambridge, Illinois, but now residing. 'in Neaha bonity, Kansas. - lor home is in the track of the northern colunin of the devas. tating grasshoppers, and we presain' her vivid descriptk"nm of "the se will give our road'o'rs P" claror idea of (lie magnitudo of the post than they have hitherto been able to form. "it looks very sad and dreary to me to-day. Tho sun is quite hi,ddeu by the clouds of grasshopper6 flying all a-ound and Alighting on .every thing. They are polting against my dours and wi idows as fast as hil stones ever came. I can scarcely. see through my screen door for thonl, pnd to look out as far ds eye can see it looks like a snow storn-as they fly their wings look white like flakes of snow in the air. They destroy everythiug they alight on. They have destroyed acres and acres of corn, and now they arc going in our corn fields by clouds, and will do stroy all inl 1 day. Every shrub nid (reo is co% oled with them. You know we read of Plharaoh's plague, where the inucets got into the knead. ing troughs. I t,hink this is one of t.hemi, I went out by the door to try drive thoin off, ald they Ilew all voer tin, and L had to change my dress to get rid of them. Instead of rain we are having showers of of' rais.i,oppers. Our six windows are completely covered witlh tie and, as I writa, they ar.o po,dr Inig down the chimilecy and coming do wu the stove-pipe. "Father has just coma3 in. Ie cannot work out dours, for tficy blind him and they are coming faster, and are now eating the net ting off my dcors and windows, and the hcat and close air are atifling. I never saw anything so terrible in ny life. The ground is now com pletely covered, and they cause such an offensive seell that but for an occasional breeze to carry it o , I kniow not what we siiould do. "l?leato excuse mnistakes, as I feel so bad and nervons under this awful scourgo and desulatiun." The Cowditiou of the StIMh-A Cabinet eleting. W:siroN, August 22.-The condition of iffairs in certain portions of the Southern States is becoming so critical as to excite tihe greatest anx iety and alpreheOnsion in the inind of the Attori.ey General, who believes that the isues of the next election in the South Will turn on tie ques tion of race thiat on oon .lind the w;li*tes will endeavor to prevent the negroes from voting, or, tat least coml. pol them to vote at Heparate places anild, ol t he other Iiatnd, the negroes wil! ini.,t upoim their rights under th co!stitutional ame n d ti c n tt Judge Willianas thitiks fioli the re ports he has received, and they ai'o of a very alur:hing description, es pecially from Alabania, Tennesseo and Noriern . Louisiana, that the practici of amsssAtination will be re sorted to, andl that the numbber al rea.dy killed in the. South is buit a nmallI portion of ,tho iuaber that will be murdered in the near future tinmle.s ome nmans are devisead to stay the tendeney toward a confIliot of thea races. Thola governmment is ap peale~d to by botlhasidces for protection, b.ut aside from g'iying. additional ini. :rtuaiohs to the UJnited( States attor laey andu maarrthals t,o exercise every pr'(ecauhtioni to p)revenlt violence and airrest anid puanish olfeandera, thme (Gov ernmnent is poweorlest. In saoin cdea commniaationms to the Governamet are froma nilitary officers, anad these are less likely to be prtejudicod- Theo facts will ho bronght to the at ten tion of thme Presidenat tand his 1.Jabinet by the Attornaey-General at their next mheetinlg. This is a.n endheavor to manndfac turc pubii sent imient. Sajtihllellhlcv6 of a d arpet..bnger; [New York Tri bnae.] Tihinmg3 have co.no to a pretty b>ad pass in the carpct-bag 1governmaentof Lonisianma whena a State oficer, rae tually in possesasiona, insists upon get. ting ouit because of thae disrep)utable chairauter of another State officer who las been renominated. Menm who could nerve.ttnder Kellogg anud get along thrus fatr have stomachs ?fIt can stand a good deal. That an oflicial las been found so disreputa ble as to miiake even thei,r gorge rise is, take it all ini all, is about the most astotnishing thing we have yet heard from or about the burlesque of Re publicana government which has so Ionag lholdt the boards at New Or loans. J. Proctor Knott was recently nomainated at Louisville, Ky., as a candidate for Congress from the fourth distriet-D)emoeratic. The best tailors in 1aris..are said to be English men, anad the best nmil liners in London are from Paris. The- P%tiinlof fHybandr have established in aeon, da., a 0 ratnu .Warehouso at Ag,:ncy. In Wilkinpoi County, Ga,, Anti Masonry lpti4s ssiailad the 0 ranges as a secret society, but the . Grauge elrment in the church carrItd 'the day. - Tile Grfng4i of Simpson coun't.j MTiss;, are riAIng $5,000 Yr the pufpose *tk stnPting,- a co-operative store fur the bopeit of . the Patrons. They also expect, to start a 9raijk factory soon, iVrd a capital of $200,. 000,to bd rali6d o joint .'eiIk -pViu pipI'os, 0rind MaAt'erAllon, of Missouri, wag-bven tniorb"opliit than usual.,in; his deolurations,at Windsor, Hepry county, whpre i; addras'dd- the Granges o 'th'o s'ubjeot of polities in the grange. lie doolared "that. the mouibers oi n'o'grange oquld pall off: their regaliao t%pd poganizo into a so called citiken's ineeting for the pur.. pose of discussing politios, withqut committing a'igraint and dirop i. lation of the Idlia of the o'rder." The St. Louis Globe has been say ing that the "Patrons of 11usbanIry all over the land are denounoing the grasping monopolists who cotbine to extort their own prieea from thu oppressed farmer, and solemn'ly. re solving to stand-shoulder to shoulder, sold not pay havost laborers more anan $1 50 a day. Consistefioy is a thwel that might with advantagO be added to tho. Qranger. regalia." Whareupoi the western Rural hands the lobe. n return, saying : "The Western Rural has only heard of a few instances where Patrons have combined to keep down the price of labor, and, in most oases, th, have been unsuccessful. A nd it they had done so generally, wl'ioi they have not, the wonopolists and their organs would have shown m.oro sense if tliy ladnot found fault with the Q range for taking a leaf oiit o'tfie monopolists' books. Consistency might be added to the many virtues of the monopo lists, were there not danger of over. loading them with righteouaness." Put Oht of Sight. The Union Herald, in its selections front the Northern pres, u'hado in order to show what it thinks of South Carolina; is oal-eful to valk round and keep at a respectable di6tance from the %iolumns of the New York Times. For awhile; the Times was its Boan - C-gos. But now it lets the thunder er alone. It has struck Chamberlain bald, in saying in one issue, that "some better Republican bandidate than has yet appeared iliust come to the suiface of South Carolina poli tics." In another, it calls for "a candidate who4e election honest colserivativies and honest. Ite publicans can unito bh." This is heavy, heavy indooil. fi is not good for the wholeqomo of..the U.-H. Imagine the clique who make up its company pondering in .conolAve over these damnaging deumands, and. con cluding as the best liey iado under the circumst4noes; not to lot them see thb light-in the columns of the virtuous and blessed , Chin berlain ir gan.-- Plac nix. . Oere are the fastest. ,recor'ds' of horses now alive Goldsmithu Maid, PototUel Pre efEeIEy Scahdnng. Potatoes have been. well prospr yed by simnply scalding tshein for tw.o or three niintte and t hein well drying themu. 'ty will keep wvell and store wcll also on shipboard'. dreenvillauunty can. bdast of seven largo cott factories in aber bordlers, Sullivan'' Bat eville, Ljos ter's, Pavid'e, Sanb s&n .hall & Co.'s, Morgan's and WVhilden's, with the Piedmont soon to be completed. Mujo)r-(dtieral Simytt,.yfith I 4,000 ~oldiers, epocountered rand whipy~ed l'in.oo Ed ward of Sax Wemar ' With 15,000, at Woolmeor, England. No b'ody hurt. .Thmey call them autumn msanoouvrcs oven in August. Speed lIn Occan Voyagbd, The shortest timeo over made in.an ocean voyage from England to New Y.ork iv s by the steamer Adriatic, of thd'Whito Line, in MIay, 1872 the voybgo fromi cauoetitdw,i to.San, dy ,ll0ok hq.ving been in 7' (lays; 1~ hopars and 0,5. inutes. -The Shiortth time from MeyYork to Engsand !was mado in .l anuary, .87..b ,tbe .Stehlmor bialtic, of; theo j~bite Star L'aine, which arrived atQueoustown is '7 days, 20 hours . ad 9 minutes. TIhe shortest titno of th'o steamer Scotia, of the Ohunard line was from Queenstown to No w York, iis August, 18'70, in 8 days,3J.'hours and,28 mwin utee.- .u A man -named- HIoury Yo, he been arrestedi in Portsmouth, Va., for rtnning sway with his mothcr-in-law. Just tlinkU of it. Terrible Exelcielset Amonk the RUdiql orficiuls-Skedhiddlitfg. "The wicked ioe wien no man pusue. h," sayoth the Scriptures, and such was the case on Vednesday night, 26th, when Governor Moses, Eon4to'. Phdterson, teneral Dennis a'rd 'other prominent Radical offlue holdprs, .bacarie badly scared and aought PNteotion from Uihe United Stiatdo1iers. As the story goes, .a report reached the Executive cars that.a party of seveny mounted nion, from Qeorgia, had arrived at GrInb; on a special trtif,.and were going to pro ciapitate themselves upon the do. fensoless e#iads, d "clean 'th*m out.) This" t6*ibld 'infori-mation w1is brousplt by a colored woman fronm the viviaity, w1o.doclared. that she ha'0 equted then%j_ ,Th4 only fotAu tIU6fori'the report, as far as. ivo can l.? arn,4ds that!'r. John Long, with two other citizens,-yere on a fox hunt on the Lekingtoh aido of - the river ; An'd tb sound of. their horns inciting the dogs, created the idqa of a detacfmdet fdv*liY,. accoupani ed.by inuutilbralo bouldrs. .It appears that the o vernor was entertaining Senator Patterson, Gen. Dennis and Treasurer Noagle, at a 14to hour of the. niglit, when, like the warning td Belshazzar ,adeu the not; fication of th Miticipated raid. Mes. seDgers were immediately sent to,t.he garrisn;hoadquarterst' and Capt, Og den, acting Qmmtandant of - the Post, %yas spmmnedto the residence of Dr.' N..gle, wher the frig htened party hd'dongregated.. The Captain was rtquested by the onato'r to put the garrison under aris ; btkt- this he declined to do-his directions be. ing to avoid any interifereuce in po. litioal or other alLirs, ex-jopt upon direct orders from Washington. "Vell,N' said the -Senator, "would ydu see a,mitj yuird -red, Without in terfering !" "I could not help it," was the reply. Conversation and 4nAuiry of this nature was kept up for some.tito, when in rushed Col. Charles, Minort, heatpd and breath less. A glhks of .tilaer revived him. "Well,",. deba'nded the Governor, ,h&tha;o you to report I" "I have had my skirtishers out." "How far V "About a mile and. a .half." " W hat wai discovered ?".-M"oth iny," was the pron t response. . Q1ap. tauin Ogden retired shortly, after wards; highly aIu3ed at the ridiou. 1o0gY proceedings. General Dennis had previously re moved his family to a place of safety, aInd, upon the breaking up of the con fereuce, departed for the Penitentia ry, whore, i,t is bupposd, lie .safely locied hituself up. Dr. Neagle dis. appeared and was not heard of for five or six hours. ,The Governor And the Senator obtained shelter with Captaiin Loyd, (where, In a single bed; they passed the remaining hours of thb ,ti g h t. t o g o t he r..) t. 'aes Carpenter w.an seen festerday morning, strbalng it for the depot, in ordei to carry the terrible : intelli gence of the raid, and what myiht pecu, to. the authoritio at ,yashing. ton, after the style of hij celebrated Ku Kit:k stateniehts. Later in thi day, Mr.. boLig . ad . his two f,rjenos; . accoip.aniud . by their hounds, arrived in the city, and wore much surprised to learn of the ex *cItement they had created. And so ends the celebrated fQx hunt, or thb second battle of Gren by., ( Columnbia Pheconix.] Al1teipeit Spirit, * tereo was it gatheiring of soisinual $ets.at a~ private residende a. few Oven, ings ago, at~ which the,. spirits fronm the other world were sunmmnommed, in large numbers. After ,somoeconver sation with a long agrrag .of demad aunts, itpeles, ganrd fathers and oth ea, ai 1eeal optionist called up the spirkop$4 eujtain cnptsinh who was drowned In Ynllejo wgora- by fallIng off a sinall raft whuile 1p a!) intoxica ted condition, about a year ago. Tho. L. O. tried to mtko a point by .ask ing himn if he had not become stis fled of tho.evils of .inatoinperance lhy dieo.manifer of liis death.. * Atis wor-"90, it .wimsi't w1biskey that killed me ; it was too mutch wa ter. I haven't drawn a sober breath Binoo I left your world," Q.-" Where are you.now ?' A.-"Ohi, I'm dowp he.!e.'',. Q. -"WVhat pl~ace is '"lown here 1'" A-" I domj't know what the nmo of the place is." (The interrogated was, of course, ashamned to tell.] tQ-".W hat ,do you.do..wlhere you are?,"What kind of a'life do you fond .f '. A-We don't do much of any thing ; we just float around in noth. ingness like so' many balloOWt e . Q -"Is there any brimstonue where you are ?"-' *A.ioh;. jesi thbre's lots of bmhrn stope, but.I. tell yod the boys are inighty ear pful., htpw. ,they rub .up) against it ; it ges. o f Iike,a. match when they do, and inakes it miighty hot." TeJ) ,dpparted-mariner hero efu~d (d helji apy. further opnversatiohj and left, . . . . * This is.te nmoet coherent and valuabla sta tenent thant the Spiritual ists have obtained from the other Side vet.---alleJo ('aL.) Ch'onicle. Tho Proper Spiri. Capt. Henry A. Gaillard, of Fair. field, has boon approached by sundry colored men who desire a good repro. lvntativo for that county, asking him to become a candidate for the Legit. Inturi, and complimenting hiu upon %!hat his fairness and justico might a1n.ticipa3. In a letter to the Winnsboro News he an3wers this re'uest. Io is will. in1g to serve his fellow.oitizens, but he is not willing to snorifleo his self respect in entering into the dirty and dapgrous serean of a politi'al cam. p igu, sholl as is now going op, un. ess thero shall be further assurances i of a desire upon the part of the col. ored people to harmonize with the I white people. ITe s.ays hot, the son. timents wh'1oh nctuato hia letter are I shared in by niany whIto citizens, I and if the colored people will only I respond to those of their rac3 who t have add'essed thq original proposi. I tion to him, equal justice to all class. I es 'iay be the result. Does this look like ahtagoniin, or I does it 14ot prove to the colored pooe t ple that those whom they know they I can trust for good government-tho I young men of the country-are will- < ing to-recognize their rights, and to t assist in, ixng thl n froth t e* trou- I bles into whch thy and their ad. venlturous friends have , precipitated , them ? Rt tnight h4ve beq'n proper I for Capt. Gailliard to* have said, "0o f on robbing me as you have dope anid t as you &re adviped to do, and. the s hext session of Cqugress will put a I stop to it and relieve We of oppress; -on by circumscribing your sutflragea ( -you have put yourselv2s in this 2 con4ition,llo.w get out of it your- t selves." But he does not do so. D9. r siritg harmony, ho.is willing to pssit ' in rcLouiug a drowning man who has t fallen overboard in his drunken de. ( bauch of crime. -h eton Sun. oil the Situtilon,s I To Edi(tor C harleston 8tun:.. E Within please find extract of a ietter to me, under date of 10th July, 1874 written from one of the very ( strongest Republican States in the i Northwesti by probably the strong. r est member.of the Republican .pprty west of the Mississippi, and indiyidu ally the wQst infAuential member of the Houseof Ioproscntatives in the Forty-Third CongreEs. July 10th, 1874. 'Miy D.Ain Sjit-L have received your favor of the 4th ipstant. * *~ _* * -A *~ *i #. -!t I do not, however, lsi,tato.to say to you, Os a crsonal frietid and fellow Republican, that you ought to insist upon reform inside of the party if possible, but if not possible., there, then by an incepend,ont movement.of j thu beat:men ip all parties. I would never allow party drill to compel me to sustain corruption and rascality. The Republicans of the West, and of the patiop, 9an only uphold the party in) the South, in so far as it makes honesty and olicial integrity para. thount to everything else.,e .''I have boon in hopes that an earn est caort.on the part of the leaders I of the colored people in. the South might be made to. impress .upon tho t nmids of that pcbphe the vast impor ,ta.noe t.o them of tuch a reform as will a sweep away at once and forever the corrup)tion and dishonesty which now disgrces come of the Southern States and b.rings reproach upon.the Rtepublican pai-ty therein. The eel ored people ought to be adv'ised by thmose in whom. they htave, confidence : that their rights , and. Jiberties; as well as oevery interest which they ought to hold dear, are endangered by a long continuanco of malad min istration of the local, .$tiblio affairs, 'fhiey origlit to. be assured that pro fligacy in puiblic ofliciuls, the oppres sion of the people with enormnous and unnecessary taxes, the constant in crease of tho public expenditures ned of p'ublic.indebtedncss, and t)m I destruction of public Oredit anust very soon loadl,to. the, couimon ruin of.all~ andi the colored man must suf fer with the rest. "Very ti'uly yours, "To Charleston, South Carolina." Whore does9 alhe oplim go to I Are we becoming, a nation of opium-- 9 eaters?. .'.ho ineroasq of its use in 1 tis country is truly alarming.. Tlo inmportation of.opium now amounts to nearly 260,000 poufida annually, ten .timas tnore than . thirty years -ago i and it is the opinioni of physicians and dre'gj;sts that not nmore than f ens third, of the qiuantity is use.d for medical purposes. In , other .pords, moro than 160,000 pounds of this drug are now uscd for stImulating] ppr[oses in this posintry- If the re forumers could get r,id of the .opium, Seone othi.r stimulant would not ,be found to supply its place. The infiu. I n,00 of this drug on the human system is fearful to contemplate.. "My notion of a wife at forty," said Douglass Jorrold, '"is that a man should be able to .ohange, her like a bank note.'for two twenties. A Banner IAh Atrange Dvice. Hurrah for Sam flee ! le was the nan who iutroduoqd and carried in he Moral Convention, in spite of the cnock-down arguments of tt e portly )flice-hqlding C#rdoza ,., resolutions ihich expressed. nnalterabla opposi ;ion tq "apy member of the present or preceding.State Administroitiop being )lected . Governor of, t e State j" ,hioh said that ip .s "itterly. useless .o expect a true reform. from those Nho have been recognized as ,leaders n the past." ,That is the only man y Repipblicati voi1e wbiqb has been ioardfor kform ye,t. .i'here,i more a those sentences than in a cart load >f Union-Heralds or. Moses. pp. Jhamberlain speeches and addresses We arQ plkeafed q aeo .tbat Le eOps h)s b6aver.. u a d .olds .Wis >anner aloF..,. le has. prociured the assage of a set of excellent rosolu. ions in the township of Sumter, (the ubliat.ao.p, .of .whi , by-the-way,, ras doolied by the niot-Ierald.) l'hey go.to the root of thp matter. lore is a standard bol'be.,by, ono of heir race, to which tho colored peo: q may: rF0ly, and .here is. the rese. ution which may yet Oe the . deatli if both Cham er,1siq and bioses. and he who e State House ring of office olders "Resolved, ThAt we are positively pposed, up apart of the Republican ary.of this State, to the n.Mination or Governor of this State, of eithor'9f he (ollowlugperstis,. who have be. pokon of As . oand idates before , the !epublican State Conventioeu veto frankliu, . -..oser,, Jr., Daniel 11. Ohamberlain, Robert . Scott, J. L. (nglp, or any ot4er of -those Anown D be monberg ,of the ."State . House ing;" and tliat wo. -o hevaby in truct the delegates ftom this rnepting o east ,their votes. in .the ounty lonvontion only for.,home.. who are penly opyosed.to .the above named ersone, and who will pledge them olves to use their, votes and. influ noe to, defeat the nomination of ither of the said persons, from first D INAs." .(Ph fn ix. ] The annual State Lirt' lonvention mot at Souti. r1Dininfh1j fass., yesterday. Their was a or Dprosentation of wenith, bu, tteat endanoe was not as large as usual. Cig r's.Cigars. LNT1 P. REAT CIT 500 ''s.Iaay 0OO of those olobrMed FIVEl NT G1 GARs, just rooelved. Now is lie time to CIIE A.P S MOKE. Can ad try ihom. To be found only at i une 20 JUST tiCEiVEDI Car load NEW Flour all rades. Oar load white Corn, .1 Bolted bleal, Pearl Grist, NElW Maekerel iii bbls. ~nd kits. pgolke Gun Powder Tea. 01l1 govei'nzient 3avai and .io 00ffeeo.c Cut Loaf granulated extra 1. and brown Sugar4 Choice N. 0. Molasse8. Very best S. 0, llama, BY ,* D R. 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