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[continued from fir* page.] . The Court?Had these uen trie(l 1 the Klan ? Witness?I don't k*?wMr. Corbin?Had the chief, John Mitchel been in the Conf^erate service ? Witness?was a Captain in the Co; federate St***3 army* Mr. Ooin?Well, go on and tell about tl raid. \Wtness?We went on then to Edward B; er place, and there we met the Rattlesnaf Klan, Wm. Johnson was the chief. W then went on together to William Wilson' We rode on, and the Rattlesnakes went bac and whipped him. They said they liked 1 have killed him. The next place we came 1 was John Thompson's. They called Williai Wilson out, and told him not to have an] thing more to* do with Radicalism; and thf if any more burning occurred within ten mih around, they would hold him responsibl nr. i xi T>..n_-i.'_ n i. __ it e ruue ou meu to jl>uhuck. s vrtrtJK, au there took off our disguises. Captain Mitel ell's son Joseph took most of tne disguise After that, there was a raid made on the treai ury at Yorkville. I received an order, bi didn't go. I didn't hear what the raid was t be for; but the next day, I learned that Mi Hose's, at Yorkville, had been broken int< The prosecution closed with the wilnes here, and he was cross-examined by Mr. Star berry. Q. Did you know of any acts of incendi? rism about the time of these raids? A. Yes Mr. Crosby had his gin house burnt. Mr. Cai ties' barn was burnt, and there were severs others. ^ Q,. Did you hear of any threats being mad< what were they ? H Mr. Corbin objected to the question as ii relevant; but the court ruled otherwise, an |W the witness stated that he hadn't heard an threats hitnself, but it was said that one c j?|^.<vithe negroes whipped had said he intended t K')' be buried in the white folks' burying-ground ~and another that he would kick a certain oh soldier. Mr. Stanberry. What was your motive ii joining the organization ? Witness. I was scared for myself; the; had shot into ray house. I kept a liquor e* tablishraent and grocery store. I suppos they wanted to stop-it. They left word tha they had the cold steel for my carcass. I wen up and confessed to Maj. Merrill and Mi Corbin. I was put in jail, and staid ther from the 13th till the 27th of November, got out under bond. I don't know the natur of the bond. Mr. Clawson got me out. was told to report to Lieut Noland, to ge transportation to come down here. I receive no reward or promise. My confession wa taken down. Re-examined by the prosecution. It was al ter I joined the Klan that Crosby's gin hous and Mr. Castles' barn were burned. The firs raid was on me, and shortly afterward th raid was poade on Pressly Holmes and th others. I don't know when Allison's mil was burnt; I heard of it, but can' tell wheth er it was before or after I joined. TESTIMONY OF OSBORNE GUNTHARP. I live in York county; have lived ther eighteen years. I joined the Ku-Klux i: August, 1868, near Ebenezer, in York; Dj Edward T." Avery initiated me. The genera import of the organization there was, oppos tion to the Radical party, protection of on another, and of widows and female friendi The penalty for the infraction of the oath wa TU /\ mflO ^/\ A1 n/ ucatlli x 11c lutcuuwu nao buwuviui tuu mvi tion at that time by intimidation. We wer to go to Rock Hill, and keep Radicals bac by crowding the polls. There was to be n J I thought before I joined that it wa tion, but found it was for politics and quit it; got discharged, northwest portion of the county, i Township. cammed by Mr. Stanberry. I ur he object of the association to b against danger. It'was rumore niggers intended to rise. When oath, I did not think it crimina ?as to bo used at the election. Th "-Idea was to crowd around the polls and kee the Radicals from voting, by not giving ther a chance. I attended the election last yea] There was no disturbance or interference; n< body was excluded. There were a good man at the polls, whites and blacks. The Derm crats were largely in the majority in Cheroke Township. It was Mr. Cathcart that told ra in 1868, that they intended to crowd the polli Re-examined by prosecution. It was r< ported, at the time I joined, that the negroe were armed and might do harm. I didn feel any fear myself. There was no militi in Cherokee Township. The whites wer three to one there. Some constabulary wer sent there in 1870. One house had bee burnt; it was said some white man burnt i Tom Roundtree was killed in 1870. I don know who killed him. Mr. Stanberry. Why did you join the Ki Klux? Witness. I joined so that in case thei v was any danger, I might be ready. This witness was then dismissed, and tli prosecution next put up Andy Tims, colorer TESTIMONY OF ANDY TIMS. Andy said: I live about nine miles froi York ; have lived there seven or eight years I knew Jim Williams about fifteen years; li lived in York county; I was manager of th 6>11 where he voted; he voted the straigl epublicau ticket; I never knew any hari of him ; I found him hung. That night, i about 3 o'clock, a party of men came up I my house in disguise. They galloped uj yelling out, "Here we are; the genuine K Klux, just from hell; open the door." opened the door, and they asked me for gun I told them I didn't have a gun, but thi there was one in the house that a member < the militia company had left; they took tl gun and accoutrements; they asked me whei Jim Williams lived, bade me good night an rode off about 200 or 300 yards and stopper I heard them whispering, and I became frigh ened and ran out. I got with two or thr< other colored men, and hurried on to Jii Williams' house, but he wasn't there. then went around to John Bratton's pla< and found some of Williams' company ther and we followed after the Ku Klux. "\\ saw some tracks leading to Mr. Mendenhall but his stable was locked. We went bac HWilliams' house; saw some hor jading off the road into the woodi them, and found Williams hangir a tree with a paper on his breas e foreman of the coroner's jury ne: : "Jim Williams on his big muster vca fnnnd tllA hndv. W6 Went into Yol A1VW4 UN/ AVWMva ^ .. -> ^ for the coroner. Jim voted the whole R publican ticket; he voted for Mr. Wallace. Cross-examined. Jim Williams was tl captain of a military company. They we armed with breech-loading guns, and had tv or three cartridges apiece served out to thei They had fired them nearly all away befo the election. I was not lieutenant; I was glei of the company. There had been no raids b fore this. The company went to the electioi voted at McConnellsville. They left the guns about three miles from the polls; dor know if they left any in a shop close b They carried their side arms. They had meeting the night before the election. I ha1 heard that Mr. Mendenhall was arrested 1 % the company, but I don't know. The coi pany met for drill generally every Saturda or every other Saturday night. I did he some firing about inrthe neighborhood at nigl but I don't know who did it. I never m any with their guns at night, till after threa were made of the Ku-Klux coming. I dor know if anybody felt any uneasiness on a count of the company. I have not heard th Jim Williams had any consultation with E Rose. I did hear that Jim Williams hi been told to commence burning houses, if t! killing commenced. Mr. Rose was Coun Treasurer of York, and was a Republican. I heard after Jim Williams was killed, that ] I \ said if the election went against us, he inte F Nded to kill from the cradle to the grave. M ' Bi^rawford told me that the night th< f cftfri&fbr the guns, three nights after Jin ] death, there was no interference at the elec>y j tions. We received the guns for the militia ; company on the 16th of August; the election I was on the 19th of October. The company |]}; drilled pretty regularly till about Christmas, when they quit. i a-! Mr. Corbin?Where is Ned Crawford? A. j i I don't know. It is said he has left the coun- [ le ' try. Q. How old was Williams ? A. He was v-! about thirty-five or forty years old; had lived [e ' in York about eighteen years. I regarded '1 re him as qualified to vote; he took the neces- j J 3. sary oath, and I received his vote. ' k By the defence?Q. How many were there 1 ;0 in the militia company ? A. About ninety. 1 a It was formed before the election. I don't f a know who gave the guns. They were said to i j. have been sent by the Governor. The cart- f ^ ridges came along with the guns ; two or three * js to each man were given out. I didn't know t e. who was to be shot with the cartridges; I J d i didn't know of any white company. There ? i- were other colored companies?one at York 8 s> and one at Rock Hill?that I knew of. The 3 5- whites applied to the Governor for arms for t it their company. One of them told me he was 1 ,o insulted by the way Governor Scott treated F r. him. It was on the first Monday night in 1 j. March that the murder took place. 3 >S J TESTIMONY OF GADSDEN STEELE. i- Gadsden Steele was nest called as a witness j5 by the prosecution. He said : I live in North i* | Carolina now. I was born and raised in 3- York County, in this State, and lived there ? 3- until last April. I voted the Republican d ticket. I voted for Mr. Wallace. The Ku . Klux came to my house on a Mouday night, j about 10 o'clock. I was in bed asleep. My . wife woke me, and said I'd better get up?some> body was coming. I looked out and saw ^ d them about ten feet from my door. They y called to me for my gun. I told them I had ^ >f none. They knocked me about, and jobbed o me in the face with a pistol. They then went ; round and called out Mr. Moore, the white d man with whom I lived, and asked him if I a had a gun or pistol, or belonged to Williams' -j n company. He replied, no; that I was a very . good fellow. They asked him what ticket I ^ y voted. I said the Republican ticket They >- said to me, "G?d d?n you, we'll kill you & e for that." Then they ordered me to go out in t the road to No. 6. I went out to him. He t bowed most to the ground, and hooked at me ^ r. with his horns. He asked me about the guns; n ? "? r , ill*, r .1! j 1 e if Jim Williams naa any. i toia mm i uiu q I not know. He asked me to show them to ^ e Jim's house; told me to get up behind?"HurI ry up, hurry up, we are got to be in hell beit fore day!" I got up and they rode on apiece, g d They asked me if I wanted to go with thera. ^ 8 I said no. The man I was riding behind hal- .< loed out, "This d?d nigger is too heavy," E- and then rode up to the fence and let me down, e telling me to go home, and that if I wasn't ^ it there when they come along at day-break, e they would kill me; that they intended to kill ^ e all us fellows that voted for Radicals. I then q II went round to the mill to warn the other boys, . - and stayed out there till day. About 8 o'clock next day, I heard that Jim Williams was dead. I didn't go to see the body; I was t e busy. Q Q Cross-examined. You say they asked you r# for a gun ? A. Yes. I didn't have any ; I . ] told them I didn't know, but I heard that Jim ^ [. Williams had the guns. It was about three Q miles to Jim Williams'. No. 6 didn't ask me 3< about anything else except the guns. ? s TESTIMONY OF ROSA WILLIAMS. q Rosa Williams, the widow of Jim Williams, f e was next called. She said she had been the k wife of Jim Williams, and lived on Mr. Brat- j( 0 ton's place in York; that Jim was killed on a the night of the 7th of March. Mr. Corbin. Well, tell us now all about it. J Witness. About nine or ten disguised men ^ n came into the house. Williams had got under the house, but he came out. They asked him for the guns; he gave them two and told t ,e them that the company had all the balance. ^ d They took Williams out, and somt^ stayed be- j 1 hind and searched the house. I beard Wil- ^ 1, liams making a gurgling noise. trlr?? be wnc t e strangling. started out but they stopped t n me. They took him off and I never saw him | u alive any more. I saw him next day, hung r> on a pine tree, dead. y. Cross-examined. They asked for guns and ? y got two; then they took him out and asked me a j. for more guns. Some four or five came in the n .g last time; I couldn't tell exactly. I knew r e that Jim was captain of the militia company. [ 5< He had been down to Chester to see Mr. B j. Reister about giving up the gnus. He got the g ?s cartridges from Yorkville; he had them in a s 't paper box and gave them out two or three B a apiece to the company; they were ball cart- 0 e ridges. He gave the cartridges out some time ^ e before he was killed. The oompany mustered, a n I think, in an old field of Mr. Wallace's, t. The court suspended here till 11 o'clock t 't! next day. v [continued on second page.] j, e I HisfcHattconis fMittg. \ j C 16 ! From the Columbia Phoenix. t | THE ARREST OF REV. R. E. COOPER. 1 g u i Ebenezer, S. C., December 8, 1871. g ;; Col. J. P. Thomas?Dear Sir: As the j ie fact and circumstances connected with my ar- c ie rest have already become a matter of such 8 it j publicity, and as there seems to be a question a ii in regard to my treatment, I deem it due to v it myself, the public and the truth, to submit a ;o the facts to an impartial verdict. y p, On the evening of the 30th November, I j u was arrested by the United States Marshal, t I j Russel, when my duties both of a private and J s. : public character imperatively demanded my f it I presence at home. I then traveled the dis- { if j tance of thirteen miles, through a driving j ie j wind and bleaching snow, and was ushered r re I into the presence of the "autocrat," Colonel j d Merrill, Commandant of York. During this t J. interview, Col. Merrill treated me with res- j t- pect and consideration, as he himself states, c ie so far as his conduct merely was concerned ; r m j but, at the same time, charged that I had ^ re i grossly violated the law, in complying with ( ;e the request of a lady of great respectability, ^ e, a friend, and a member of my church. With c re this request, as I stated to Col. Merrill, I j 's, most cheerfully and promptly complied ; be- ( :k lieving then, as I do now, that I was simply se in the line of duty, of privilege and of juss; tice?the said request being simply that I 1 ig ; should go and see one Isaac Foster, alias "Is- r it, I aac the Apostle," so-called, and ask him to 1 st i come to her house at once. Her object being r " : to convince him, not by her statement, but by i k credible witnesses, that he (Isaac Foster) was t e-; mistaken in his supposition (not a charge) of j ; her husband's connection with the crimes al- 1 ie ; leged. This interview, through my instru- t re ; mentality, was obtained ; and, upon the evi- s ro i dence adduced, Foster gave his affidavit of t n. denial accordingly. This, sir, was my crime, ( re ; and this the ground of my arrest. For this < i :k grave offence against this Republican Gov- j i e- : emmeut, this "land of freedom and of liber-; i 1; I'ty," "the best government in the world," I j ? iir | was arrested and required to give bond of; ] 1't i S2,000 for my appearance at court, if called j i y. for. The whole question then resolved itself \ i a into one of courtesy. Col. M. denies that he j 1 ire ! treated me discourteously. But is it no dis-11 jy courtesy to arrest a minister, even on good 11 n- j and sufficient grounds? Is it no discourtesy j I y, j to force one to see another whom he had no | ar : desire to see, and to ride through snow and ! I it, wind for such an honor and pleasure? Is it j 1 et no discourtesy to close a minister's church > i its without his voice ? This is certainly anti- j i 1't j Presbyterianism, if not anti-Republicanism, j ? c-1 Is it not even an outrage on his people to j I at' have them await in expectation of their pas-! < d. | tor's arrival for Divine service, and go home id j in disappointment ? Such were the facts? i he j this nignt in question being their regular time ty j for service. i < I Finally, Col. M. charges that I have inter- j' he ; fered with a witness; and thus retarded the j I n- j administration of justice. I deny that I have i [r. | interfered with a witness, and claim that I [! sy | have promoted the truth. Concerning the! j i's whole matter, I am forcibly reminded of the i < charge of the Ephraraites against Gideon, for \ ? lot being called into action against a few i ^ scattered Midianites, and his reply was : "Is ( lot the gleaning of Ephraira greater than the j mintage of Abiezer ? Ye have slain the Prin-! :es: I have captured a few fugitives." I have ' lot intimidated Foster. Colonel Merrill has ;ried to intimidate me. R. E. COOPER. ' ^ GOV. SCOTT AS A WHITEWASHES. ? Gov. Scott, of South Carolina, makes lame ^ vork in his message of trying to cover up the ^ jigantic swindle that threatens to bankrupt q he State. Here is the fact against which he ;' >uts his official head only to its injury. In P Oecember, 1870, he transmitted the report of a he Comptroller General to the Legislature, , * * r*. , ILi x_ x.1 x_ n wmcn tne ?uue ueut was suueu iu uc oi,- i . 165,908 ; he now admits that the debt is over | J' >15,000,000. This is an increase of more j 0 han eight millions of dollars in ten months ! n liet the tax-paying citizens of any northern j state try to realize the stupendous fact. To j inswer for so rapid an augmentation, it is ? hown that there has been no cancelling of i he previous debt of the State, although near- i , y six millions of bonds have been issued ex- e >ressly for its conversion. There has been no s aw passed by the Legislature authorizing a ingle dollar's addition to the public debt. *! fet the facts show, in explanation of so much if its increase, the unauthorized issue of near- ? y six millions of Conversion Bonds, but not r , dollar's cancelling of the debt as the legitiaate offset. It is clear swindling on a scale hat would appal the richest government in he world. Governor Scott signed these , ?onds, and they were then to be issued by the ' financial Board of the State, and only for 01 he retiring of the provious dobt, AuJ the . jj1 stouuding revelation is made, to which Scott 1 limself can offer no successful denial, that ? ut of ten and three quarter millions of these ^ ionds printed in New York, but about one nda quarter millions have actually been ised in the conversion of the debt. , Scott claims that there are a little over three nd a half millions on hand, or canceled. ^ .'he singular feature about this great fraud 1 3, that the Financial Agent of the State in few York is required to make his quarterly , eturns to the Comptroller-General, by the ct of March, 1869, yet that officer has en- ^ irely failed to obey the requirements of the tatute, no response having been received to be frequent notifications of the Comptroller, 'he latter likewise represented the facts to iov. Scott, and requested him to lay them 01 efore the Financial Board ; but the Governr has gone on signing the Conversion Bonds, 111 nd the Financial Board?composed of Gov. , cott, Attorney-General Chamberlain and , 'reasurer Parker?has continued to issue , hem to the extent of almost six millions, j rithout withdrawing any corresponding part j1. f the public debt. Collusion istheonlvin jrence that remains. The Comptroller-Gen- " ral is unable to make his annual report to he Legislature, as required by law, while the Jovernor steps forward with his whitewash tj irush. He contents himself with laying the p esponsibility upon his political opponents, and eeks to hide himself and his companions in a he smoke and dust of the Ku Klux excite- p lent which his friend Grant was only too eady to raise for purposes likewise his own. j2 A pretty pair of public officers?a Presilent and a Governor?ordering up the caval- v y and infantry to silence opposition and sup- o! tress the clamors of indignant citizens. And s if to punish the devoted people of South C( Carolina because he is detected in the act of ol obbing them, the Governor recommends to he Legislature to pass a force law for the colection of over due taxes, and compel the ac- jj eptance of the State Bonds at par for all prop- p rty purchased at these delinquent sales. 0 ?hus are the impoverished population to be ^i [riven out of their homes, and the Scott ring ' an dispose of the bonds, which they received tl ,t a destructive discount, at par rates, and hereby make immediate fortunes. And in his way is fraud to hold up its head, while e] iriving forth its helpless victims from their ^ lomes and their native State. Is there any-.:hing in JbJngland's treatment of Ireland worse 0 ban this ??Boston Post. ti REPUDIATION. c] ftl Repudiation, to say the least of it, is a dan;erous weapon. The cause tl^at can justify v , people in adopting a course so extreme, nust indeed be extraordinary. A century of n irosperity will fail to remove the stain from ^ heir escutcheon, and reinstate them in the fi- a] lancial world. It becomes us, then, to con- w ider well before we resort to a measure so ^ evere. We are all familiar with the Missisip- Qj >i repudiation and the result, and every reader f Swift knows that it is "damned to eternal arae." But the question comes home to us, ,re you in favor of paying the fraudulent t( londs? Certainly not. We say repudiate Y hem, every one. But right here is the rub? ir vhich are the genuine and which the fraudu- tl ent ? How are we to ascertain ? While we ,re unwilling that one cent should be applied G o unauthorized bouds, we are in favor of tc laying every dollar of the State's honest debt. )ur finances may have been badly adminis- J prpA We know that such is the fact, and t.r he indebtedness of the State is proof positive ; n till, if that debt was legally contracted, we tl ,re none the less bound in honor to pay it. f this is impossible, then, we have but one gi ourse left us, and discussion is useless. But rc uppose the illegal issue be fully ascertained, G ,nd the fraud satisfactorily exposed, how are ft re to rid ourselves of such bonds ? Repudi- C ,te them ? Every honest man will answer, j es. But where rests the power to repudiate ? E f we understand aright, it lies wholly within ft; he control of the Legislature, and that body, j litherto, has shown an utter disregard to the ft; Inancial interests of the State, and no mercy ft o the tax-payers. The property-holders are G n a minority, and for this plain and obvious lj eason they are utterly powerless. It is well 0 look the matter squarely in the face, and, v hat the tax-payers may not be misled, let ft hem clearly understand that they are wholly p it the mercy of a Legislature representing a C najority of thirty thousand, composed of ad- tl venturers and non-property holders. This is tl 1 sad state of things, but none the less true, and a vhile every principle of ethics bids us repu- Zi liate the legal issue, it is well for the tax- d laying whites to recognize the fact that repu- a liation must come from the negro majority. $] * jj "Important Disclosures."?TheColura- t( )ia Union, which is trying to produce the im- t| iression that Messrs. Scott, Parker and Cham- ^ lerlain are deeply injured men, with much nore of the saint than the sinner in their del- c cate and fine organizations, and which fur- t( ,her would have us believe that Kirapton is a jenuine cherub after all, has dark and terrible t] lints to throw out under the head of "impor- ^ ant disclosures." The Union has all the 1 iummer been hinting that a match was about j p ;o be applied to a mine, that was to blow up J ;ertain prominent persons. The mine has not j | >ppn pvnloded vet. We shall, perhaps, have j in explanation to make of the lion's threats J it an early day. In the meantime, when it ^ ipeaks of Gunns, good or bad, that go off so jj readily, let it also tell of the government wit- j less, Hope, who testifies that a certain meetng, called a Ku-Klux gathering, was really j 'or self-protection, in view of the threats of ;he massacre and incendiarism that had been j, mderstood to come from a certain portion of j( die colored people. We call attention to the purpose of the ring, ^ die Union and their sympathizers. Under die Ku-Klux cloud, surcharged by them with | in untisual supply of thunder, gloom, light- ' ling and rain, they hope to hide the mon-' itrous frauds of the State plunderers. But j they shall not succeed. If the United States i Government proposes to take care of Ku-! b Kluxisra, we and our co-laborers and adhe- i ii rents intend to hunt up and hunt down the j S State robbers who have Ku-Kluxed the finan-' it ies, the peace and the prosperity of the State.1 o Whilst Mr. Chamberlain goes in pursuit of h the so-called Ku-Klux of the up-couniry, let; i< us look to the State House monetary Ku-! I Klux, of whom the Financial Board and their, tl igent are chief, and of whom Parker is grand j tt lyclops?whatever that may mean.?Phanix. i C 1 legislative ?meeduifs.' THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. ! Monday, Dec. 11,1871. j In the Senate, a concurrent resolution to j rder and authorize the Comptroller Gfiaeral j ) commence legal proceedings to secure books, j ccounts, vouchers and papers of Financial j tgency of the State of South Carolina, was i sad. and after debate, participated in by ! lessrs. Leslie, Whittemore, Swaili^and malls, the further consideration was postoned, and made the special order for th$ 12th, 11 P. M. --at In tiie House, after reference of sundry ills from the Senate, the House took_?f> aj >int resolution to provide for the publication i f certain statutes of this State, and the jour- j als of the General Assembly, together.?ith a j lessage from the Governor vetoing the bill. : he bill was immediately passed over tJw&bxa. rnor's veto by a vote of 63 to 29. The j peaker announced that the joint resolution! ad become a law, the objections of his Ex- J lency the Governor to the contrary notwith;anding. Mr. Whipper, from the Commit*, e on Ways ad Means, submitted the fallowing report: The Committee on "Ways and Means, to whom as referred a bill to prevent certain orders om dealing in certain securities, or other /ideuces of indebtedness, beg leave to report iat they have carefully considered tha^Rtftw, ad recommend that the same do not pass, lor le following reason : The object sougk^to. 2 obtained by this bill is covered by alawmftv a the statutes, to which this act will add othing whatever . While ths-jQjj ave every reason'TtTDetteve that tranEJffreus f this kind are carried on by State and connr officials, they are carried l in a manner to ,'ade the consequences of the laws that4?cw cist or can be enacted. The Committee, lerefore, deem it unnecessary to encumber le statute books of this State." The rSpbrt* as laid on the table, and the bill ordered to e over for a second reading. During an excited discussion on a bill to mend section 279 of the Code of Procedure, o 11 1 ./? 1 l_ x le iouowing excnange or narsn itsrius uuuur;d between the members from Beaufort and rangeburg: Myers?You're a scoundrel. Byas?You're another. Myers?You called me a liar. You are ae. I will prove you a thief. < Byas?You are a liar and cannot exp&!5 ie; but I will expose you. They were called to order and a resolution ffered by Representative Bowen to bring them efore the bar of the House, for contempt; ut the offending members were afterwards, [lowed to apologise from their seats. A moon was then offered and carried, to expunge ie whole affair from the journal of the House. Tuesday, December 12,1871. In the Senate, a bill was read a third me and passed, to renew the charter of the, eoplels Bank of South Carolina. A joint resolution (by Mr. Barber) to take recess from December 22, to January o, 872, was laid over. Concurrent resolution to order and author;e the Comptroller-General to commence leal proceedings to secure books, accounts ouchers and papers of the Finanoial Agency f the State of South Carolina, was passed. In the House, Mr. C. D. Hayne introdusd a bill to fix the rates of passengers' fare n the railroads in this State. Mr. Jervey?Bills to abolish the office of Lssistant Adjutant-General, and to devolve ie duties of said office upon the Adjutant nd Inspector-General; to abolish the office f Land Commissioner, and to devolve the dues of said office upon the Secretary of Sta<&. Mr. White?Bill to provide for the relief oT ie widows and orphans of those killed by the [u-Klux Klan. Mr. Kennedy introduced a resolution, delaring the seat of J. Banks Lyle a*i a er of this House from Spartan Arbttf was passed to empower the Judjft f the Probate Court, in their respective couies, to issue executions. Also, a bill to de [are Hie use ui cerium wurus a luiauciucuuvi nd to punish the same. Senate bill to regulate the granting of diorces was postponed. A concurrent resolution to appoint a comlittee to examine into the sale of the Blue Lidge Railroad stock, owned by the State, od to provide for the recovery of the same, as referred to the Committee on Ways aad [eans, with instructions to report a joint resiution of the same tenor. Wednesdy, Decern mber 13,1871. In the Senate, Mr. Rose introduced a bill ) allow the citizens of Bethel Township, rork county, the right and privilege of turnig a portion of the Armstrong Ford roid for le purpose of keeping up a better highway. Baker's joint resolution for a recess of the reneral Assembly from December 22, 1871, > January 10,1872, was passed. The following joint resolutions was passed: oint resolution requiring the State Treasurer ) prepare an exhibit of all bonds and stocks ow in the hands of the State Treasurer, in le custody of the Secretary of State. The Senate then went into executive seson, and approved of the following appoint-lents of Jury Commissioners made by the rovemor: Abbeville, John Enright; Beatf>rt, J. C. Rivers; Chester, H. J. Pride; hesterfield, George W. Spencer; Clarendon, . E. Tindall; Darlington, P. C. Fludd; Idgefield, J. A. Barker; Georgetown, J. JX. [cDowell; Greenville, Wilson Cook; Horry, ohn Causey; Lexington, A. W. Geiger; [arion, M. K. Holloway; Newberry, W. G. [ays; Richland, John P. Adams; Sumter, r. W. Reardon; Union, Wm. Eller; Wilamsburg, R. F. Scott. In the Senate, Mr. Wilkes reported faorably on a bill in relation to giving or selllg spirituous liquors to drunkards and other ersons. This bill, the correspondent of the lharleston Courier says, makes it the duty of le County Commissioners of any Countypor le Mayor or Intendent of any town wherein | ny habitual drunkard resides, being cogni-1 mt of the fact, to designate and describejiMft-} runkard by a written notice commanding I ny apothecary, grocer, merchant^ distiller, I lop keeper, bar room keeper, or l spirituous liquors not to give or sell d such person under any pretext, except on j :ie order of a practicing physician. Heavy1 j nes and penalties are attached to the break- I ig of the law. All persons engaged in the j arrier or conveyance business are forbidden j d employ a habitual drunkard under a penlty of $20 fine for each offence, and so fast is j ae demijohn closed against the unfortunate j -ntornUv nf tnnprs that should one of .them ' et on a bender and smash up things general- j y, as topers will do sometimes, the person who i ave or sold him the liquor is held responsible ir damages. Mr. O'Connell introduced a bill to repeal jction 5 of an Act entitled "An Act to auliorize a loan to pay the interest on the p?l^J c debt," as relates to the appointment of a ; financial Agent. The resolution declaring vacant the seat of j . Banks Lyle, of Spartanburg, on account i f his being connected with the Ku-KJ?x j Clan, was referred to the committee on Privi-! jges and Elections, with power to send for ! ersons and papers. The enacting clause of the Senate bill to egulate the granting of divorces was, after onsiderable discussion, stricken out by a vote f 47 to 43. [continued on second page.] Proceeds of Confederate War Mate- i ial.?A special cable telegram states that i a recent suit at London of the United' tates vs. the Blakely Arms Company, decis- j >n has been rendered ordering all proceeds j f the sale of war materials belonging to the j ite Confederate States be paid to the Araer-, ;an Consul for the United States Government. I 'roceeding on this basis, it will be held also j bat the United States Government is bound 3 pay the obligations of the late Southern Jonfederncy to foreigners. i n : ?ejiartmc?t. From the Charleston New*. THE FENCE LAWS. Messrs. E. S. Hammond, Win. Pinkney Starke and Tho9. H. Whatley, three of the most intelligent farmers in South Carolina, have investigated the subject of fence laws, and present their conclusions in a report submitted to the Beech Island Farmers' Club. They show that the principle upon which fence laws are based is adverse to justice and the rights of property. Upon the owner of landed property is thrown the responsibility of protecting it from aggression. In cases of trespass, the sufferer must prove that his fences were strong, sound and of legal height, and if lis claim for damages is sustained?a thing next to an impossibility under the rigid requirements of the law?a trifling fine may be collected. While the farmer "can forbid any person from ranging or passing over his land under heavy penalties, and send the trespasser to jail if he persists, he cannot prohibit his stock, but at his own peril, except by a lawful fence." Fence laws, moreover, tend to annihilate the valuable class of small farmers by increasing the proportionate expense of small enclosures, These laws amalgamate the small freeholds, and bring them "under one fence and one master." This is a consideration which should have very great weight with the Legislature and with all advocates of small holdings. Ten square farms of ten acres each,not adjoining, require as much fencing as one square farm of one thousand acres. The committee say: W would nnt .every mer prefer to avoid the expense of fencing his crops, and get full restitution of damages if his neighbor's stock injure or destroy them ? Can any farmer choose voluntarily to be compelled to fence out his neighbor's stock ? A large proportion of farmers keep only work animals, milch cows for family use, and a few hogs or sheep, if any. Many enclose them all the time for security, convenience, as advantageous to the stock, and to save their manure. The miles of outside fences, if dispensed with, would save labor and expense that would enable all to have good pastures, or enriched spots for soiling purposes. It would also enable the farmer to clear good spots of land in detached parcels, as across public roads, along winding branches, between barren ridges, &c., jjlhich are often useless on account of the cost of fencing them ; or the good and the bad land must be taken as it comes, to get the fields in a body." It is difficult to estimate the total investment in the State, in outside fences. A careful calculation, based upon the census of 1850, gives the following result: 4,000,000 acres of improved lands, worth at this time 820,000,000, enclosed by 100,000 miles of outside fencing, the fencing costing for its original construction, 816,000,000, besides encumbering and rendering valueless 100,000 acres of land, "worth 8500,000. The duration of such fences varies from four to fifteen years, according tc timber and other circumstances, apart from casualties of floods and fires; but the annual cost of repairs cannot be less than 10 per cent., or $1,600,000, equivalent to a tax of 40 cts. an acre on all improved lands iu the State, or 8 per cent, of value, being just eight times the rated tax, State and county, we shall have to pay on the same property next year. To this should be added at least 7 per cent, interest on the original cost, making the tax 15 per cent., or 75 cents per acre. These statements may appear to be extravagant, but they are fully borne out by the experience of the whole county. Some years ago the cost of fences of the United States? "those unproductive monuments of art"?were estimated by Burknap at more than twenty times the amount of specie in the country. More recently their total first cost is placed at near $1,300,000,000, and the roadside and jjoundiujv fences as exacting an annual tax averaging 8^ 50 on every acre of improved Umd iuffile country. Nearly a generation ago, Mr. Biddle estimated the cost of the fences of Pennsylvania at 8100,000,000, and the annual repairs at $10,000,000. Yet Pennsylvania had then but about double the amount of improved land of South Carolina. General Worthington estimates their cost in Ohio at 8115,000,000. Ohio had about two-and athird times the improved land of South Carolina. With about three times the improved land in New York, its fences cost, according to Robinson, 8144,000,000. Mr. Prince estimates the cost of annual repairs on the twothirds of the fences of Maine that are madtfof wood, on farms of over twenty acres extent, - . i l l 1 at near 82,0UU,UUU. The total improved mnu of Maine is abont one-half that of South Ca^ olma. Illinois is said to have ten times-'ne fencing of Germany; and Duchess County, New York, more than all France. And in 1864 the question was summed up in the Illinois Agricultural Report as follows: "The fences of the United States have cost more than the houses,cities included; more than the ships, bnats and vessels of every description, which sail the ocean, lakes, and rivers; more than our manufactures of all kinds, with their machinery ; more than any one class of property, aside from real estate, except it may be the railroads of our country." ? THE FENCE LAWS. A correspondent of the Columbia Union, over the nom de plume of "Tenant," writing from Hopkin's Turn Out, in Richland county, says: "JSvery friend of agricultural progress will He gratified to see that the subject of fences has at last been mooted in the Legislature. Improved stock, improved implements and improved culture may receive a full share of our attention, but with all this, we will advance but slowly as long as the "Fence Law," as it now stands, remains a stumbling block in our path. The great revolution in our agricultural system necessitates a change also in this respect, and it is demanded by that great principle on which all good laws are based?the greatest good to the greatest number. Let us take for instance a plantation of eight hundred acres cleared land. The true maxim of a "few acres well cultivated" reqiurqg qbout half of this tract to be abaudon tT The owner and tenants, or parties renting the same, select the most fertile spots; but in order to protect the crops the whole body must be fenced or each tenant must enclose his own field. Would it not be more rational to enclose a pasture of thirty or forty acres for the benefit of all parties on the plantation. Indeed it would, but here is the difficulty? there is no guarantee that the occupants of the neighboring plantation will act so wisely, and the whole eierht hundred acres must be enclosed to guard against a few scrub cattle which probably are not worth one-fourth the cost of the fence. Again, how many plantations in this State are destitute of "rail timber." Itife a fact familiar to all axemen, that every tree is not suitable for rails. Many forests which still have an abundance of timber, have been worked over and over again with the maul and wedge. A law requiring every man to enclose his own stock will benefit the land owner, because it will spare his limited supply of wood land. It will benefit the tenant, because it will require les3 labor to enclose his few head of stock than to keep a "lawful fence" around his crop, and he will not, as is now often the case, be called from his plow to replace the fence which some careless "possum huuter" has burned. His stock being under his eye always, will be safe, and receive a greater share of attention. And lastly, it will benefit all parties, in the fact that it will abolish the most fruitful cause of quarrel and contention that ever cursed an agricultural community. "Every man shall live by the sweat of his brow, but his cattle shall live by the sweat of his neighbor's brow." Thus virtually stands the law of South Carolina 1 Shall we change it ? Shall we adopt what other communities have proved to be a wise, just,and good law? Or shall we : continue in force one which i9 every year hej coming more oppressive, more unjust, and j i rendering our beautiful land more unsightly, f We are told that we cannot get rid of the! fence, because the "bottom rail is on top," but,! | Mr. Editor, that rail ought to be the first one ; i to move. i :f | Ifir forhviUe tfnquim. 11 j TERMS?IjV ADVANCE: | One Copy, one year, 3 00 j ! One Ct?py, Six months, 1 50 . HnnfAnv Tltrnn nmntha 1 00 I / ...? ?, , Single Copy, 10 j i ! Two Copies, one year, 5 00 ' r ; Ten Copies, " " 25 00 j ja-To persons who make up clubs of ten or i more names, an extra copy of the paper will be j furnished one year, free of charge. ADVEIITI8EMENT8 C Will be inserted at One Dollar and Fifty Cents I j per square for the first, and Seventy-live Cents i i per square for each subsequent insertion-less than \ I three months. 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J , ( THE SOUTH CAROLINA LAND AND < IMMIGRATION GIFT CONCERTS will take place WITHOUT FAIL, on the day appointed. SECURE YOUR TICKETS AT ONCE! All Orders Strictly Confidential. 2405 GIFTS, AMOUNTING TO 9500,000. The chances are unusually good.?one ticket in ' every sixty-two is sure to draw a prize. . Orders for Tickets received up to the 5th of January, after which time no more tickets will be sold. SINGLE TICKETS, $5 EACH. > + NO POSTPONEMENT! Commissioners and Supervisors of Drawing : General A. R. WRIGHT, of Georgia. General BRADLEY T. JOHNSON, of Virginia. Colonel B. H. RUTLEDGE, of South Carolina. Honorable ROGER A. PRYOR, of Now York. Great inducements and reduction in price of Tickets to Clubs. Remittances can be mado to us, and tlio tickets will be sent by return moll by BUTLER, CHADWICK, GARY & CO., Charleston, ?S. C., or oar Agents. I General M. C. Butler, John Chadwick. 1 Genoral M. W. Gary. J \ December 14 50 tf 1 ESTABLISHED 1857. < L. H. MILLER, ] MILLER'S SAFE AND IRON WORKS, 1 BALTIMORE, MD. ( Wr SALESROOM: 265 BALTIMORE STREET, 1 (One Door above Hanover,) FACTORY: Square bounded by Henrietta, Claret, Fremont and Warner Streets. Every variety of the Best Fire and Burglar Proof Safes, Bankers' Chests, Improved Combination Locks, Bank Vaults and Doors. Send for Illustrated Catalogue and Price List. 12,000 IN USE?TESTED IN 200 FIRES. Near References:?National Bank, Chester, Smith and Melton, Chester ; John Agnew <fc Son, Columbia, S. C. June 8 * 23 tf DOORS, SASHES, BLINDS, &C. I*. I?. ^ALE, manufacturer and dealer, NO. 20 HAYNE STREET AND HOBLBEOX'S WHABF CHARLESTON, S. C. This is the largest and most complete Factory of the kind in the Southern States, and all articles in this line can be furnished by Mr. P. P. ' TOALE at prices which defy competition. Tirft- A namDhlet with full and detailed list of all sizes of floors, Sashes and Blinds, and the prices I of each, will be sont free andpost paid, on application to P. P. TOALE, Charleston, S. C. July 12 28 ly METALIC BURIAL CASES. THE undersigned informs the public that he has made arrangements with tue Manufacturers, to keep on hand a supply of FISK'S METALIC BURIAL CASES, of different sizes, which will bo sold at fair prices. He is also prepared, with proper materials, for furnishing WOOD-COFFINS of any quality that may be desired. JAMES E. SMITH. I Fobruary 9 6 ly Kinsman & Howell\ yactors and Commission , Merchants. Liberal Advances made on | Cotton and Naval Stores. ' Charleston, S. C. Septembor 7 36 4m ' ROSE S HOTEL. j A IN view of the influx of visitors ' ; ii to Columbia, occasioned by the I * ?^ iTnllnnr tc\ TTQr 1 ! BrtRKjL. prevaioiiuo ui mo jonV.. in Charleston, the proprietor of < ! ROSE'S HOTEL has concluded to re-open his es- ; ' tablishment for the accommodation of the public ; I at once, and therefore withdraws the proposals he | has heretofore made for its sale or lease. f ' | The Hotel will henceforward be conducted as a j FIRST-CLASS HOUSE OF ENTERTAIN- i j MENT, and special provision will be made for the i I comfort and convenience of families. 11 CARRIAGES AND AN OMNIBUS will be 1 | found at every arriving train. i W. E. ROSE, Proprietor. 11 September 7 36 tf I KTIWAW FE rHREE VERY SUPERIOR ARTICLES are of Company of Charleston, South Carolina, viz: ETIWAN A complete manure, adapted to Cotton, Grain am ore ottered at the very higli tirade of 15 por cent, di ion, as heretofore, of*Peruvian Guano, Ammonia i ore the 1st of April next, and $00 per ton, on time ate of 7 per cent, per annum. ETIWA.2ST C: A new article of the same high grade of Soluble Cotton Seed in such a manner, as to ensure one o ower price than the Etiwan Guano. Price 840 per >er ton, on time, with interest from the 1st day of i ETIWAN DISS Averaging from 18 to 20 per cent, of Dissolved B :omposting, to obtain two tons of half that grade a >er ton, if paid on or beforo the 1st of April next, lext, at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum. TAKE NOTICE, that all these Fertilizers are of lelp for more than oue vear. WILLIAM C. GENERAL AGENTS, < LONDON & JONES, 1 December 14 PROiSJpECTUS. rHE undersigned proposes on or about the middle of January. 1872, to issue a first-class veekly paper, to be called TH E LANTERN. THE LANTERN will b6 devoted to the Social, Political, Agricultural and Commercial interests >f the people. It will labor strenuously in the ause of Truth and Right, seeking to enlighten ind instruct as well as to gratify and amuse. Its :on tents shall be chaste; and naught immoral in nndanfty phnU fofouT its columns A friend to . rue religion, It wm/totho utmost or Its power, dd in the work of promoting the moral and intelectual improvement of mankind. AS A VEHICLE OF NEWS, it will contain a sarefully compiled summary of the Political, So:ial, Religious, Scientific and Literary News of sacn week, so that its readers may be kept well nformed upon all the important events and interesting topics of the day. AS AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER, it will sonvey useful information concerning Practical ind Scientific Farming, the breeding and raising )f Stock, the growing ot Gardens, Orchards, Vineyards, etc. * ^ A A T t ATT\ A DTTOTXTPOO AO A l/UM i*lHiIVji/1 U Ail u A uuoiii JJOO SHEET, it will publish whatever is of moment egarding the Financial, Mercantile, Commercial ind Manufacturing interests of the country, givng the latest market reports, and a weekly state* ment of the current prices of Cotton, Corn and )ther home products m the Rock Hill market. AS A FAMILY JOURNAL, it will contain :hoice reading matter of a most varied and interesting character, suitable for the home circle, and elevating in its influence?consisting of selections 'rom the leading Journals and Magazines of the vorld, and original articles from the pens of talented contributors. It will be filled with good hings for all who have a love for reading, or a desire for knowledge: short love stories, original or selected; tales for children, sketches of life and eharacter, instructive and entertaining essays, joetry and poems, waifs of wit and humer, striding and beautiful extracts from new books, etc. Endeavoring to maintain throughout a pure and jealthy tone, it will aim to be a tliorough-going Family Journal, a delightful guest at every fireilde, and a contributor to the instruction and enoyment of all. AS A POLITICAL PAPER, holding Intelligence, Virtue and Morality to be indispensable lupports to political prosperity, "THE LANTERN" will do an earnest advocate of pure prinslples?of law and liberty?of Justice, Honesty ind Humanity. It will take a firm stand against all aggressions lpon the Constitution and organic law of the and, and will guard the rights of the people with mceasing vigilance. Grappling manfully with the living Present, ind leaving in the grave of the Post the fossil renains of all dead issues, fallen hones, and defunct xfliticians, it will advocate Reform in every jranch of theadmlnistration, both State and Fecfiral. It will insist upon a sacred oliservance of the Constitution ; entire subjection of the military to he civil power; wisdom and integrity of the [jegislature; firmness and honesty in the Execltive Department, and even-handed justice in the Courts of the State. It will labor in the effort to have the Government honestly administered for the benefit of all larties, and not in the iuterest of any class or facion. It will strive Tor the restoration of peaceful reations between the two races in the South, and br the maintenance of public tranquility?believng that the attainment Qf these laudable ends Ttiuld bring about a new era of prosperity and rappiness to our country. wymuuiun PT opinion UUOI1 tn? -yim .7 svents and issues of the day, THE LANTERN will be bold, free and outspoken, wantonly as (ailing no man's conduct or character, and care'ully avoiding all bitter personalities. TERMS?IN ADVANCE: )ne copy, one year, $ 3 00 L'hree copies, one year 8 00 Bight copies, one year, 20 00 Any person who sends us $20.00 for a club of jight copies, (all sent at one time) will bo entitled o a copy free. Advertisements will be inserted ipon the most reasonable terms. All communications and subscriptions should ae addressed to JOHNSTONE JONES, Rock Hill, S. C. In the publication of THE LANTERN, Mr. Tones will be endorsed and supported by Messrs. London A Jones, J. M. Ivy A Co., Allen A Barber, iVylie, Roddy & Agurs, merchants of Rock Hill. December 14 50 tf J. WiLKSR. Proprietor. R.H. McDoxald AOo.,Dni**i?t?M?d Gen. Ag'ta, Sao Francisco. Cal.. and 3tuxl34 Commerce st. N.Y. MILLIONS Bear Testimony to their Wonderfal Cnratlve Effects. They are not a vile Fancy Drink, made of Poor Rom, Whiskey, Proof Spirits and Refnse Liquors doctored, spiced and sweetened to please tho taste, cajiea ~ ? uuiun, a^pqukio, Akvo^>w*o, v?v.t kU?. lead the tippler on to drunkenness and ruin, butaroatruo Medicine, made from the Native Roots and Herb* of California, free from all Alcoholic Stlmalants. They ore the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and A LIFE GIVING PRINCIPLE, a perfect Renovator and Invlgorator of the System, carrying off all poisonous matter add restoring the blood to a healthy condition. No person can take these Bitters according to dlrectlous and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poisons or other means, and the vital organs wasted beyond the point of repair. They are a Gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, possessing, also, the peculiar merit of acting as a powerful agent in relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver, and of all the Visceral Organs. FOR FEAUXC COM PT.UVT8. old, married or i-Ingle, at the dawn of womanhood or at the turn of life, theso Tonic Bitters have no eqnal. For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism and Goat, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Billons, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters have been most successful. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood, which is generally produced by derange* ment of the Digestive Organs. DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Headache, Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of tlio Stomach, Bod taste In the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the regions of the Kidnoys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. They invigorate the Stomach and stimulate tho torpid liver and bowels, which render them of unequalled efficacy in cleansing the blood of all impurities, and imparting new life And vigor to the whole system. FOR SKIN DISEASES, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Bolls, Carbuncles, Ring-Worms, Scald-Head, 8ore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discoloratlons of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name or nature, are literally dug up and carried out of the system In a short time by tho use of these Bitters. One bottle in such cases will convince the most Incredulous of their curative effects. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples, Eruptions or Bores; clcauso It when you find it obstructed or sluggish in tho veins; cleanse It when it Is foul, and your feelings will tell you when. Koep tho blood pure and the health of the system will follow. PIN, TAPE, and other WORMS, lurking in the system of so many thousands, are effectually destroyed and removed. For full directions, read carefully the circular around each bottle, printed in four languages?English, German, French and Spanish. Old prejudice! are dying out. New facts are killing them. The idea that invalids, weakened by disease, can here* lleved by prostrating them wllh destructive drugs, is no longer entertained except by monomaniacs. Ever since the introduction of Da. Walker's Vinegar Bitters, it bos been obvious that their regulating and invigorating properties are all-iufflclentfor the cure of chronic indigestion, rheumatism, constipation, diarrhoea, nervous affections and malarious fevers, and they are now the standard remedy for these complaints in every wo i tlon of the Union. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS. J. Walker, Proprietor. R. H. McDonald A Co., Druggists and Gen. Arts.. San Francisco, Cai..and 34Commerce St., N.Y. July 6 27 ly TO THE PUBLIC. 1 T1HE undersigned respectfully offers liis sorI vices to the public as an AUCTIONEER. He vfll give prompt attention to calls made apon him j this line, and his charges shall be reasonable, j Je will also give prompt attention to the COLLECTION OF NOTES AND ACCOUNTS placed 1 n his hands for that purpose. 8. SADLER. I November 20 47 tf > .... * ' :i UTILIZERS. H Tered by tho Sulphuric Acid and Superphosphate GUANO. 1 i Tobacco, being the well known article heretossolved Bone Phosphate of Lime, with the addiwd Potash. Price $55 per ton, if paid on or be, with interest from the 1st of April, next, at tho ROP POOD. Phosphate, compounded with tho elements of r f the l>est Fertilizers for Cotton and Grain, at a ton, if paid on or before the 1st of April next, $45 Vpril next, at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum. OLYED BONE. one Phosphate, and thus enabling the planter by fca t a saving of one half cost and freight. Price $35 . | $40 on time, with interest from the 1st of April ; 1 the highest grade of Soluble Phosphate, and must i|j !13EjEj <8c HARL^STON, S. C? ^ fl Vgents, Rock Hill, S. C. 1 50 2m 'B ^ R. R. JbC>* i RADWAY'S READY RELIEF ' * CUBES THE WO&ST PAINS 1 IN FROM ONE TO TWENTY MINUTES. NOT ONE HOUR - I] after reading this advertisement need any one j SUFFER WITH FAIN. ! 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RADWAY'S SA RSAPARILLIAN RESOLVENT Has made the most astonishing cures; so quick, so rapid are the changes the body undergoes, under tne influence of this truly wonderful medicine, that every day an increase in flesh and weight is seen and felt A THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER. \ Even/ drop of the 8ARSAPARILLIAN RE- . SOLVENT communicates through the Blood, { Sweat Urine, and other fluids ana juices of the system the vigor of life, for it repairs the wastes mm of the body with new and sound material. Serof- M tila, Syphilis, Consumption, Glandular disease, Ul- <. .? eera in the Throat, Mouth, Tumors, Nodes in the AI forms of Skin diseases, Eruptions, Fever Sores, V Scald Head, Ring Worm, Salt Rheum, Erysipelas, Acne, Black Spots, Worms in the Flesh, Tumors, 3 Cancers in the Womb, and all weakening and painful discharges. Night Sweats, Loss of Sperm and | all. wastes oj the life principle, are wiikin the curatiee range of this wonder o f Modern Chemistry, and a few days' use will prove to any person using it for either of these forms of disease its potent power to cure them, s . j KIDNEY AND BLADDER CQMPLAINT8, Urinary and Womb diseases, Gravel, Diabetes, -*' Dropsv,Stoppage of Water,Incontinence of Urine, Bright's Disease, Albuminuria, and in all cases , , where there are brick dust deposits, or the water \i is thick, cloudy, mixed with substances like the (J whiffl of an eaa. or threads like white silk, or -i there Is a morbid, dark, bilious appearance, and white bone-dust deposits, and wnen there is a pricking, burning sensation when passing water, and pain in the Small of the Back and glong the Loins. DR. RADWAY'8 PERFECT PURGATIVE PILL, n perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet gum, will purge, regulate, purify, cleanse, and strengthen. Radway's Pills, for tne cure of all disorders of the Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kid- 4 [ neys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases, Headache, Con- I stipation, Costiveness, Indigestion, Dyspeeia, ] Biliousness, Bilious Fever, Inflammation of the 1 I Bowels, Piles, and all Derangements of the Inter- I nal Viscera. Warranted to eflect a permanent cure. Purely Vegetable, containing no mercury, minerals or deleterious drugs. A few doses of RADWAY'S PILLS will free 41 the system from all the above named disorders. Price 25 cents per Box. Sold by Druggists. Read "False and True." Send one letter-stamp to RADWAY A CO., No. 87 Maiden Lane, New York. Information worth thousands will be sent 1 to you. ^une 29 28 ly NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITA!. EVERYBODY should have news from the Capital in a clearer and more intelligible form .. j than the fragmentary telegraphic dispatches to the ' Dailies throughout the oountry. 5* THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE contains a complete resume of proceedings in a Congress and the Courts, of business at the White I House, at the Treasury Department, the War, the Navy, and the Agricultural Departments, at the Pension Office ana the Patent Office, at the Bureau ? of Education and the State Department, with full 4 details of social and general lire at our great na- 1 tional and political center. 4 THIS GREAT NATIONAL WEEKLY is also . J a first class journal of choice Literature, Instruc- 4 tive information, of Domestic and Foreign News, J of the Arts, Commerce, and Mechanics, and of w Rural, Home, and Public Affairs. J Tems:?One year, |2; six months, $1; five co- I pies for year. $8.75; ten copies, $15. J Address "DAILY AND WEEKLY CHRONI- J CT,R.? Washington. D. C. October26 ~ 43 ?-tt * ORNAMENTAL AJfb USEFUL. I JR. SCHORB & SON bog to inform the citi- a , rens of York county generally that they are better prepared than ever to execute PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES of all kinds and at all i prices. As our silent partner, "Old Sol," will ^ probably be more attentive to our interest for the next few months than he has been lately, we may safely promise that none in want of good likenesses shall go away disappointed. We are agents for the celebrated "COMMON SENSE SEWING MACHINE," which has no superior, and is sold at the low price of $15. We warrant it to do all that is claimed for it. Come and see for yourself. There is now no need of , any family being without a sewing machine. We have also made arrangements with Mason, I Hamlin & Co. to supply those in want of a supe- J rior PARLOR ORGAN with their celebrated in- J struments at New York prices. Prices given on application. Call at our rooms in the Adickes building. April 7?tf KINGtS MOUNTAIN R. ROAD. "ITERE AFTER the trains over the KING'S ' 11 MOUNTAIN RAIL ROAD-on Mondays, j Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays?will run as 5 follows, making close connections on the above 4 mentioned days, with trains on the Charlotte and | South Carolina Railroad: Leave Yorkville, promptly, at 7J o'clock, A. M. j A rrivo at Chester at 94 o'clock, A. M. I Leave Chester at 2 o'clock, P. M. M Arrive at Yorkvilloat 4 o'clock, P. M. a All Freights must be delivered at the Depot by M 4 o'clock, P. M., on the evenings previous to the N departure of the train. I E. M. LAW, President. Octol)er 19 42 tf GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS. J WE have in Store a full supply of Groceries -Jjl and Provisions, which are offered at the *1 lowest market prices FOR CASH. J Daily expected?A few barrels choice North Carolina MULLETS. CARROLL, CLARK & CO. 41 CAffDY. M A SUPPLY of Candy on hand and for sale, at Mm the Stationery store of JOHN T. GRIST. M M October 5 10 tf