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gfumowttf Department. From the Cincinnati Times. THE FAT CONTRIBUTOR FOR PRESIDENT. The hour has arrived. I can wait no longer. The highest interest of the nation demand that I present myself as a candidate for President of the United States. I have waited for some one else to bring me out, but in the multitude of candidates no one seems to have thought of me. I don't think very much of myself; but a man don't want to think of himself to be a candidate for" President now-adays. If he had any self-regard at the outset he would think very little of himself by the time he got through with himself. I arn one of the people?I might say, one of the boys. I came up from obscurity, and I have brought up a good deal of obscurity with me. I never had any politics?or much else. I am "Liberal" to a fault, and ready to receive votes from any quarter, although I am not ready to give quarters for any votesAs for a platform, suit yourselves, gentlemen. The lecture platform would probably suit me as well as any other. Having stood upon nearly every platform in the West, it would be hard for you to get up one I could not stand on. In the absence of a platform give me four acres, and I'll "stand" on that. I am the special friend of the laboring man. No one likes to see a man work better than I do. In fact, I had rather see a man work than work myself. I am not only averse to working more than eight hours, but I am opposed to working a single hour! I shan't even work for my elevation, leaving that for the men who want the office. I am in favor of paying the national debt. It 5q in fW thorkniv Hpht f am in favor nf nav ... J -? ? I?J ing; aod rather than not see it paid daring my administration, I will pay it out of my own pocket. In the matter of civil service reform, I intend to do the civil thing by the nation if the nation does the civil thing by me. Being civil is so rare a condition now-a-davs in the varied walks of life (to say nothing about the runs) that reform is urgently called for. Retrenchment i3 my motto. If you can't put a retrenchment plank in the platform put in a board. I am ready to work without any salary, but I shall insist upon my board. I am rather inclined to free trade, prefering to feel free to trade wherever I please; but if a tariff is necessary to ray election, put it in. I shall not get on a tariff if I ain't elected. Pledge me as strong as you please to the temperance men. The temperance pledge won t hurt me one bit. No relative shall hold office, no matter whose relation he may be. I shall appoint none but old bachelors, childless widows and orphans. Any man who has a relation in the world need not apply for an office under my administration. I have a few relatives of ray own holding office now, but they shall be promptly kicked out as soon as I am elected. One brother-in-law has a little coal office on the river. He must give it up. A third consin on my neighbor's side drinks too much occasionally and gets office foot. I shall give him notice to quit. Another relative has a hankering after George Ells's "office." It won't do him any good. You see I am determined to reduce the "relative" expenses of the government I engage not to accept any gift, unless it be the highest office in the gift of the people. .If I am ever called "our present chief magistrate," it won't be a chief magistrate of presents. Not being a man of commanding presence anyhow, there would probably be few liNM/Mita that T nnnlrl iu .mmQ nrt Wligt fdiv natural gifts I may have, however, I shall endeavor to retain. They are not worth making any fuss about. I am not only in favor of woman's rights, but of woman's rights and lefts. I am in favor of women voting, provided they vote for me. I see no reason why a woman should not hold office, except, perhaps, the difficulty of getting hold of it. Nor should there be any bar to a woman's accumulating property and supporting the family if she wants to. I may be asked how I would treat the Indians. I wouldn't "treat" them at all. They have been treated too much and too often. My private opinion, however, is, it will be a treat when there isn't an Injun left. I stand by the old constitution that has been tried. Few men have tried their constitution more than I have mine. I accept the amendments, every one of them. When it comes to amends, I am ready to shout "amen" as loud as anybody. I understand there is an ambitious man named George Francis Train, who aspires to be President on his promise to free Ireland. I engage not only to free Ireland, but to make Irish whisky free in the bargain. I shall at least be able to tie George Francis in the popular vote, unless one or the other of ? 1 i. C 4.U? ?II- TJ u T us is lit:pi away iiuui tue puns, iiaug n, a believe I could tie the Davenport brothers! I shall inaugurate a wholesale emancipation business as soon as I am inaugurated. No goods retailed at the White House when I ana President. I engage to emancipate woman from the thraldom of fashion, to give the "boys" theirYights, and to abolish the custom which excludes children in arms from the elevating and purifying influences of the theatre. I have pledged myself to free Ireland and to free postage; to free housekeepers from the tyranny of servant girls, free pews, free passes and freebooters. To free soil, to free tickets to shows, free drinks, free press and "J. N." Free. I trust I am not making myself too free. ? ? The Horse Swap.?A Kentuckian and a Yankee were once riding along through the woods, the former on a fine black horse, and the latter on an inferior animal. The latter wanted to make a "swap," but he did not see how he was to do it. At last he conceived of a plan. His horse had been taught to sit down like a dog whenever he was touched by the spurs. Seeing a wild turkey, the Yankee made his horse perform his trick, and asserted he was pointing game, as was his custom. The Kentuckian rode in the direction indicated by the horse's nose, and up rose a turkey. That settled the matter; the trade was made, and saddles and horses were changed. After a time they came to a deep and rapid stream, over which the black horse carried his rider with ease. But the Kentuckian, on the Yankee's old beast, found great difficulty in getting over, and when he had reached the middle of the stream he was afraid the horse would allow himself to be carried away, and so en.1 j x. l: x_ ? ueavoreaio spur nun up to more vigorous action. Down sat the old horse on his haunches. "Look a here!" shouted the enraged and partially submerged Kentuckian to tne Yankee on the other side of the stream, "What does all this mean ?" "I want you to know, stranger," cried the Yankee, preparing to ride away, "that that there hoss will pint fish just as well as he will fowl." Put on another Plate.?A good story is told of two farmers who lived a few miles apart. One day one called on the other, happening around at dinner time. The person called upon, by the way, was rather a penurious old fellow. He was seated at the table enjoying his dinner. The visitor drew up to the stove, looking very wishfully towards the table, expecting the old farmer to invite him to dine. The old man kept on eating. "What's the news over your way, neighbor ?" Still eating. "No news, eh ?" "No, I believe not." Presently a thought struck the visitor. "Well. ves. friend. I did hear of one item of news that's worth mentioning." "Ha, what is that ?" "Neighbor John has a cow that has five calves." "Is that so? Good gracious! What in thunder does the fifth calf do when the others are sucking?" "Stands and looks on just as I do, like a fool." "Mary, put on another plate." IWttg'g Department, j TOO MUCH TROUBLE. "Come, Dicky! time to get up; the one | that is ready first to build a fire finds a cent | on the top of the stove, you know," said his father from the next room. Dicky groaned and turned over. He wanted a cent very much, for he was saving his 1 money to buy a pair of skates. But then i there was the taking up of the ashes, putting \ in the shavings, and chips, and sticks of wood, j and going for a match, and looking at the , dampers. The kitchen was cold, too, and besides, he might get some soot on his hands 1 J ' ~ " Ulrt 1.AIM "MV. f Tfr TIT a Q fftn ] HUU SUIUC oanco Ull Mia nau. Xll/? AV ??uu tuv I much trouble; so Dicky turned over again, 1 and lay counting the roses on his wall paper ? till breakfast was ready. { "Come, Dick I Hurry up! Mother says ( you will be late !" cried his younger brother, bursting into the room. "I got the cent this 1 morning, and it wasn't a cent, but a dime. ( A real silver dime! Want to see it ?" ] Dicky started up in such excitement that ] he was carried through the trouble of dressing j without stopping to think of it. "I would ( have built the fire for a dime and been glad to," said he regretfully. "Do you suppose father is going to make it a dime every morn- ( ing ?' } "0, no ! only just once to courage us," re- 1 Elied Benny. "And see here, I've got my j oots all blacked and my hair all combed j ready for school. You will have to hurry like sixty." Dicky hurried, but he did not get into the ( breakfast room until after his father had s asked God's blessing upon the food, and he I never felt right to eat without hearing that, j So the day began under a cloud. < "Dicky, you haven't greased your boots | in a long time," said Aunt Susan after break- . fast, looking sharply at them through her glasses. "They are red and rusty, aud the ( first you know they will crack out and be ruined." "O, Aunt Susan, I can't grease my boots, it is too much trouble; besides I haven't time. It only wants five minutes now," replied Dicky, strapping up his books. Then off he ran to school; but it was too much trouble after he got there to look out some words in his Latin that he was not quite sure about, so he missed his lesson and was marked imperfect "I could read the whole excepting that one sentence, and now I have lost my standing, and there is no use trying. I think it is real mean," said Dicky, wishing for the moment he was only two years old, so he could cry. "No use trying for what ?" asked Dr. Gabriel, who had a way of appearing unexpectedly. Dicky looked around, a good deal surprised and a little ashamed at having been overheard, but he said, "Trying for the highest mark, grandpa. I meant to be ten in my Latin." "I wouldn't advise you to stop trying. Nine and a half is better than nine," replied Dr. Gabriel. "But I know something better than marks to try for. I will give you a motto to help you at it: 'The first stroke is half the battle.' See if you can think what it is." Then the doctor turned in at his own gate, and Dicky went on, thinking as he went. "I suppose he means something about making up your mind square to a thing, and then the worst is over," said he to himself. "Hut a fellow can't always do that; it don't pay." "Dick! Dick Gabriel!" called a voice far behind him. "Wait for me." Dick stopped and looked back. Directly a small, red-faced boy came up all out of breath. "Skating!" he gasped, as soon as he could get his voice. "It is jolly down on the pond. Got your skates yet ?" Dick shook his liead. "No. I expect I might have had," said he, dismally, "if I had got up soon enough this morning and gone after Aunt Susan's thread. She offered me five cents if I would go, but I thought it was too much trouble to go way down on Main street for five cents. I might have had a quarter, too, if I had shoveled the paths last week. I wish now I had." "Can't you borrow some of Benny ?" asked the red-faced boy. Dick shook his head again hopelessly. "No ; father doesn't allow us to borrow," said he. "Besides, Benny never has any to lend. He always spends his." "Too bad," returned the boy. "There wont be any more skating after this week. A man said so. But I've got to run home after my skates, for we are going to have/un." Then away he ran, and Dicky concluded to cry this time, although he was more than two years old. It seemed as if he might have learned, after so many lessons, that laziness is in the end more trouble than anything else; but there is nothing harder than breaking off a habit. It is almost like leaving off breathing. But t every time we give up to it it becomes a little and a little stronger. "Aren't you going to meeting?" asked 1 Aunt Susan, coming in the sitting room one Friday evening with her bonnet on. "No, ma'am, I guess not," replied Dicky, 1 who sat in one rocking chair, with his feet in 1 another, and a book in his hand. i "Why not?" asked Aunt Susan. i "My boots are muddy," answered Dicky. | "Well, what of it?" persisted Aunt Susan. "Why, they don't look fit to wear to meeting, and it is too much trouble to clean them 1 in the evening," whined Dick. "Richard Gabriel! Do you think the Lord ' is going to accept any such excuse as that in 1 the great day of his coming ?" said Aunt Su- ] sail, solemnly, looking at him with the light ( shining on her glasses and Hashing oft' as j though she had eyes of fire. Dick dropped his own eyes, awestruck and 1 ashamed. "There isn't time now, is there?" 1 he asked timidly. But he put down his book, i and his feet went off very fast for his muddy i boots. They were not as hard to clean as he j expected, for "the first stroke is half the bat- j < tie," and he was quite in time for meeting , after all. "And he also that is slothful in his work is j brother to him that is a great waster," read s his father from the desk. ( "Why that means me," thought Dick. For j at last the Holy Spirit had touched his iudo- ( lent heart, and therefore everything seemed as though he heard it for the first time. "I have always felt so good because I don't ( spend everything like Benny, and I am as < bad as he, and a great deal worse." i Dicky felt really very unhappy, and that j was the first step. While we think we are jjust right there is no hope we shall be any j better. But he did not stop with such a feel-1 I iug. After this there was never a time when '; 1 anything seemed to him like too much trou- j i 1 ble, but that a voice sounded in his ear, "Do i j you think the Lord will accept such an ex- i i cuse in the great flay of his coming ?" ( It was only after a long time, though, and , ; with much praying and trying, that Dick " | drove quite away the fox that had so nearly 1 spoiled his vines.?Advance. < ? ? ? Suddenly Delivered.?A man who was a confirmed and hopeless drunkard, being ! about to go out to the fishing banks with a ' fisherman, proposed, before they started, "to take a drink." "No," said the fisherman ; "I don't drink." "Don't you drink anything?" "No; I don't drink anything." "Why not?" "Because I am a Christian." "What!" said the man, "does Christ keep i you from drinking?" j j The fisherman, at first, confused by the j ! novelty of the question, hettated a moment,! I then answered, "Yes !" "Christ keeps me! i from drinking !" I I The poor inebriate was struck by the reply. He thought, "There is help that I didn't think I ! of." He went home and into his room, and j knelt down and said, "0, Lord Jesus Christ, keep me from drinking." His appetite for f liquor suddeuly left him. He was delivered, r parting for the faMrath. CONDUCTED BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN. [ Original.] THE GOOD MAN'S INHERITANCE. Christ taught us by his example, and plainy declares in his precepts, that his kingdom s not of this world. The universe is his by ;he best of all titles?the right of creation. By him all things are preserved in being. His title to all things is then founded upon ;he double right of creation and providence. Notwithstanding this, Christ carae not to esablish an earthly monarchy, such as is delired by ambitious men. On Calvary he won i victory, the results of which eternity alone ,vill be able to recount; but it was a victory, lot over earthly forces, but a glorious triumph iver the prince of darkness and the allied powers of death and the grave. Christ did lot come into this world to procure for his peoile wealth or fame or pleasure; but to deliver hem from the spiritual thraldom in which ;hey were involved. Those who take up their ;ross and follow Jesus need not expect their lortion in this world. Their inheritance lies beyond the flood. They must live by faith 'or a few years, that they may enjoy an endess eternity of exstatic fruition. In this .vorld, however, the good man gets a glimpse if his future inheritance. God gives him iometimes a Pisgah's view of the good land ;hat lies beyond the Jordan of death. He inds God in Christ Jesus a present help in jvery time of need. In the blood of Jesus le finds that which cleanses from all sin. The ;rials of the truly good man are.many, duc in lue time God brings him through them all. 1 ? [Original.] "OUR CHURCH." The above caption is a favorite expression vith many persons, and especially with the iditors of religious newspapers. There is one sense in which the expression "our church" nay be used in perfect accordance with the teachings of the Bible. The church belongs ;o every believer in ChriBt Jesus. The blessed saviour established the church on earth for the good of his people. But this is not the svay in which the expression is popularly jsed. As generally used, it is calculated to make the impression on men of the world that the different denominations of Christians are like so many political parties, laboring and itruggling to break down each other and build up themselves individually on the ruins sf their opponents. It is not the intention of those who use these words to produce this impression; but the world has a perfect right to iudere of the intentions of Christians by their words and acts. Paul admonishes us to avoid the appearance of evil. That evil does a;row out of the loose way of using the word 'church" and "our church," no one, of much experience and observation, will deny. Paul, 30 far as is now remembered, never said "our church" or "my church." Neither of these expressions sound well. They lack dignity. Compare them with the expressions used by Paul, "Church of God," "The Church," 'Glorious Church." "Our church" sounds like a man speaking of his private property, and is, we honestly believe, unwarranted by the Scriptures. It may be said no harm is designed by the expressions "my church" or 'our church." This we believe is true; but it matters not what our designs or intentions are, :f our words and actions are objectionable. When we desire to distinguish betweeii the different denominations of Christians, it is best to say what we mean, and not assign a meaning to the word church which is not warranted by the Scriptures. When those ndividuals who are not posted in the loose way in which Christians use the word church, lear of the Presbyterian church, the Baptist jhurch, the Methodist church, and so on ad 'nfin.if.um_ t.hev are liable to conclude that ;here is more than one faith and different Saviours, whose claims are advocated by each of ;he8e denominations. It may be said that this vhole affair is a little thing. Be it so. The greatest evils spring from the smallest beginlings. Not unfrequently the simple appearmce of evil and nothing else does much harm. Dne of the tendencies of this is to cause, uninentionally of course, many individuals to loose light of Christ and the church he planted, in he pompous expression, "our church." [Original.] WHY ARE NOT ALL MEN CHRISTIANS i When we contemplate the benign influence vhich Christianity has upon society in gene al, and upon all individuals who come under ts influence, we cannot but wonder why all nen are not Christians. If Christianity disturbed any of the social relations which exist imong men, then there would be at least an excuse for embracing it cautiously. Such, lowever, is not the case. The man is made setter with respect to all his earthly relations 5y becoming a true Christian. Not only so, Dut he is deprived of none of the innocent joys )f this world. He is not forced to go with his lead down like a condemned out-law; but he s permitted to rejoice in the great salvation - 1 \T 1 1 . 1 which Uhnst procurea. lNoaouot angeis are imazed at men rejecting the gospel. It has ilways been a subject of grief to good men ;hat wicked men run on in sin and keep not Sod's word and obey not the Gospel. Such, nowever, is the case, strange as it may appear. Amazing as it may appear, it is true to-day, ilways has been true, and always will, no loubt, be true, that a large minority of those n Christian lauds are not, in the Bible sense )f tho word, Christians. Various reasons may be assigned for this leplorable state of things. Many men, in the jxercise of their free wills, place themselves !n situations where the converting and sanctifying spirit of God rarely goes. It may be isked if there is such a place? Is it declared ;hat God's convicting, converting and sanctifying spirit is omnipotent? This is true; but t is not the whole truth. We are not war anted in saying that God does anything without a plan, or contrary to a plan. He ioes many things that we do not understand; Dut we dare not say, because we do not unierstand these things, that they were not done n perfect conformity with a plan. There is, jeyond all controversy, a plan of salvation, rhat plan is laid down in the Bible. All ;hose who put themselves beyond the reach )f this plan, are depending upon what is some;iraes called uncovenauted mercies, which an jrainent divine calls "no mercies at all." rhose persons who never read the Bible or ittend upon the preaching of the Gospel, may i?m nnnvint.inns : but thev cannot be saving y converted, and never can be saved. This s not limiting the power of Christ to redeem linners, nor of the Holy Ghost to convert them iny more than it would be limiting the power >f God to say that cotton cannot be grown in Greenland. Convictions may be produced iny where and under almost any circumstan;es. Still, if we will consider the character >f the convictions which men have, we will ind that the covictions of God's Spirit, are tot of the same kind in all men. JUfo at the pcgislatwre. OFFICIAL. AN ACT To Charter the Greenwood and Augusta Railroad Company. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: That for the purpose of establishing a railroad, on the most practicable route, from Greenwood, in the State of South Carolina, to Augusta, in the State of Georgia, which company, when formed, with the conditions herein prescribed, shall have corporate existence as a body politic in perpetuity. Sec. 2. That this charter with the rights and privileges incidental thereto, is hereby granted to and vested in J. H. Jennings, M. M. Aiken, S. P. Boozer, P. H. Bradley, C. L. Blair, J. D. Talbert, W. K. Bradley, Nick Merriwether, J. D. Neill, Wra. L. Parks, J. L. White, Wm. K. Blake and G. J. Sheppard, of the State of South Carolina, and Robert H. May, Thomas Phinizy, John D. Butt, Edward Barry, Austin Mullarky, W. A. Ramsey, T. Jefferson Jennings, Joseph T. Smith and Wm. P. Crawford, of the State of Georgia, and J. A. Barker, Lawrence Cain, Everidge Cain, and T. M. Talbert, of the State of South Carolina. Sec. 3. That, for the purpose of raising the necessary capital stock of said company, it shall be lawful to open books of subscription, in the State of South Carolina, in the counties of Abbeville and Edgefield ; and, in the State of Georgia, in the counties of Richmond and Columbia; and in such cities and towns as may be deemed for the best interest of the corporation, under the direction of the corporators, to an amount not exceeding one million dollars (81,000,000,) in shares of twenty dollars (820) each, to constitute a joint capital stock, for the purpose of constructing and carrying into operation the aforesaid railroad, or any part thereof. And it shall be the duty of the said corporators, or a majority of them, to open books of subscription as soon after the ratification of this Act as may be practicable, of which twenty days' previous notice must bo given in any newspaper or newspapers in the States aforesaid; and the subscription books shall bekeptopen for sixty days; that on each share of stock subscribed, the said subscribers shall pay two dollars (82,) or its equivalent, in currency, to the corporators, who shall give a certificate for the same; and, on the non-payment of said installment, the subscription shall be void; the corporators shall deposit the money received by them on said cash installments in a solveut bank, in any of the States aforesaid, and at the expiration of every thirty days. That when the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars (8150,000) are subscribed, the said corporators, or a majority of ' them, shall give notice of the time and place of meeting for organization in some public newspaper in each of the States aforesaid. But if the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars (150,000) shall not be subscribed 1 within the first appointed time, the said cori porators may, for the purpose of further subscriptions to the capital stock, keep the books open for such time, and at such places, as they may deem proper: Provided, That the corporators shall not keep the books open for a longer period than one year, at the expiration of which time the right to solicit and receive subscriptions shall vest in the President and Directors of said company. Sec. 4. Whenever the said sum of one hun dred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) is subscribed, in the manner herein prescribed, ' the subscribers, their executors, administrators and assigns, shall be, and they are hereby, 1 declared to be, incorporated into a company, by the name of the "Greenwood and Augusta Railroad Company," and may organize as herein provided. Sec. 5. The said company, by its name , above mentioned, shall have perpetual succession of members, shall hold real and pereo nal property, may sue and be sued, may plead and be impleaded, may have and use a common seal, which they may brea^ and use at i pleasure, and make all such bylaws, rules : and regulations as they may deem necessary for the well ordering and conducting the affairs of the company. Sec. 6. At the first meeting of the said company, to be called by the corporators as above stated, and at all subsequent meetings, it shall be lawful for any stockholder to be represented by proxy, whose appointment shall be in writing, signed by such stockholder; but a person not a stockholder shall not represent such proxy. A majority of two-thirds of the stockholders present, or represented by proxy, are empowered to transact any and all business connected with the company. At the first meeting of stockholders, and annually thereafter, at such time and place as may be appointed by the by-laws, they shall elect, by ballot, to serve one year, and until another election, a President and ten Directors. No person shall be elected a President or Director who is not the owner of twenty shares, which must have been held for three months prior to his election; but this does not apply to the first election herein provided for. In the election of President and Directors, in the establishment of the by-laws, and all other acts to be done by the stockholders, in their corporate capacity, each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for every paid up share of the stock subscribed by him. Sec. 7. That, for the purpose of acquiring such lands, or right of way, as they may require for the location and construction of the said railroad, with such depots, warehouses, stations, wharves, and other necessary establishments, or for extending or altering the same, the said company shall have every right, privilege and power heretofore granted to, and which now is or has been used or enjoyed by, any railroad company heretofore incorporated in either of the States aforesaid; ana shall, also, be entitled to the use and benefit of every process and proceedings provided by law for enabling railroad companies, in either of the States aforesaid, to obtain such lands, or rights of way, as they require, in cases in which the consent of the owners cannot be obtained. And the said company shall have the same exclusive right of transportation on their railroad which is possessed and enjoyed by any other railroad in either of the aforementioned States. And persons tresspassing, intruding, or willfully destroying any of the property of the said company, shall be liable to all penalties to which persons willfully destroying, damaging or obstructing any other railroads, or parts or parcels thereof, are made liable by any law in either of the States aforesaid, And the said company shall have the same presumptive right and title, and to the same extent, to lands through which their railroad may be built, in absence of any agreement with the proprietor or proprietors of such lands, which is possessed or enjoyed by any other railroad in the States mentioned above, as to the lands through which their railroad mav have been,or maybe, constructed, in ab senee of any contract with the owners thereof. Sec. 8. That it shall be lawful for the said company to increase their capital stock to any amount not exceeding two million dollars (82,000,000) by receiving subscriptions for additional shares, on such terms and conditions as they may think proper to prescribe; and also to borrow money for the purposes aforesaid, on such terms, and at such rates of interest, as they may think proper. Sec. 9. Subscriptiens to the stock of said company shall be payable by installments of five dollars (85) on each share, after paying first installment as aforesaid, and at intervals of not less than ninety days, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the by-laws. Public notice of the time and plaoe of payment of each installment shall be given at least twenty days beforehand; and, in case any installment or any share shall remain unpaid for the space of 30 days after the time for payment thereof, the share shall be forefeited j and vested in the said company, and the dei faulting stockholder released from all obligaI tions to pay the amount unpaid on the for feited share. The shares of the capital stock of said company shall be personal proDerty, and shall be assignable and transferable, in such manner, and under such regulations, as may be prescribed by the by-laws. Sec. 10. The President and Directors of! the company shall have authority to execute all the powers hereby granted to said company, subject to such limitations and restrictions as may be imposed by the by-laws. There must be an annual meeting of the stockholders, at such time as may L appointed by the by-laws, at which the President and Directors shall make a report, in writing, of the affairs , and condition of the company, which report shall be published in a newspaper of each of the States aforesaid. Other meetings may be called by the President or Directors, when they deem it expedient, and, also, when twen ty stockholders, representing three hundred shares, shall demand the same in writing. The corporators, herein appointed, shall give a written account of all funds received by them, and of the disposition of the same, at the first meeting after the ratification of this Act. It shall be lawful for the stockholders, at any meeting, to remove the President and Directors, or any of them, from office, and elect others in their stead. The President and Directors shall have authority to draw out the money deposited in bank, by the corporators, for subscription to the stock of the company: Provided, That the same is only used for the interest of said company. Sec. 11. This Act shall be in force for the term of forty years from the ratification there-' of, and shall be deemed, and is hereby declared, a public Act: Provided, That the work, for the execution whereof the said company is formed, shall be commenced within two years from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, and be completed within eight years thereafter: And provided, further, That said road shall be subject to the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to declare the manner by which the lands, or the right of way over the lands of persons or corporations, may be taken for the construction and uses of railways and other works of internal improvement," ratified September 22, A. D. 1868 : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to exempt the said company from the payment of taxes. Approved March 13,1872. APT ACT To Incorporate the Darlington land Joint stock ana loan association of Darlington, Mouth Carolina. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly and by the authority of the same: That Richard H. Humbert, T. C. Cox, S. J. Keith, J. A. Smith, William Braley, J. A. Williamson, P. C. Fludd, Alfred Hart, Edward Mickey, A. P. Ford, Richard Ford, F. J. Pugh, Adam Briston, Wra. Grand, J. D. Warley, A. L. Singleton and J. W. Thomas, together with such other persons as now are, or hereafter may be, associated with them, be, and they are hereby, declared a body politic and corporate, for the purpose of buying and.holding real estate in the county of Darlington, or at any point within the county, or the State of South Carolina, and making loans of money, secured by mortgages of real estate, and the hypothecation of bonds, stocks, and other choses in action, and personal property, to its members and stockholders, by the name and style of the "Darlington land joint stock and loan association of Darlington, South Carolina." The capital stock of said association to consist of five thousand shares, of the value of twenty-five dollars per share; but as soon as two thousand shares shall have been subscribed thereto, the said association shall organize and commence operations, said shares to be paid by successive monthly installments of one dollar on each share so long as the said association shall continue; the said shares to be held, transferred, assigned and pledged, and the holders thereof to be subject to such fines, penalties and forfeitures, for default in their payments, as the regulations and by-laws of f Ka on J /I nooAAinfiAn mntr kn tut; oaiu accuuiabivu mar |jiloliiuci Sec. 2. That the saia association shall have number and succession of officers and members as shall be ordained and chosen, according to the rules and by-laws made, or to be made, by them for their government; and shall have power and authority, from time to time, and at all times, to make such rules and by-laws as are not repugnant to the Constitution and the laws of the land ; to have and keep a common seal, and to alter the same at will; to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity in this State; and shall have and enjoy every right and privilege incident and belonging to corporate bodies, according to the laws of the land. Sec. 8. That the funds of the said association shall be invested either in the purchase of real estate, in the county of Darlington, South Carolina, or in any county or sub-division of the State of South Carolina, which shall be rented out or leased, or sold and conveyed, to the members and stockholders of said association upon such terms and conditions as, from time to time, may be prescribed by its rules and by-laws, or be loaned out and advanced to the members and stockholders thereof, upon the security and by hypothecation of real estate in the county of Darlington, or any other sub-division of the State, aforesaid, or bonds, stocks or choses in action on personal property, on such terms and conditions as, from time to time, may be prescribed by the rules and by-laws, aforesaid. And it shall and may be lawful for the said association to hold and enjoy, for the mutual benefit of its members and stockholders, all such lands, tenements and hereditaments, as may be bona fide, purchased by, and conveyed to it; or as may be mortgaged to it, by way of security, upon its loans and advances; or as may be purchased by, or transferred and conveyed to it, at sales under ; 3 i.~ ? j ~i. ?A l jUUgLLieuis ui ueuicea, at iavr ui equity, iui securing, or recovering, or in compromise set- : tlement of any debtor debts due to it; and to sell, alien, barter, exchange, convey, mort- ! gage, or otherwise dispose of the same, from time to time, and whenever deemed expedient. Sec. 4. That if any of the funds of the said ! association shall remain unproductive, or uninvested and unneeded, or uncalled for, for i the space of two months, by its own members and stockholders, it shall be lawful for the 1 said association to lend out what moneys may 1 be on hand to others than stockholders, at I such rates of interest (on such security, J whether of mortgage or real estate, choses in 1 action, or other personal property) as may be 1 agreed on, to be safely invested, and to be re- 1 paid within one year, 1 Sec. 5. That whenever the funds and assets 1 of the said association shall have accumulated ( to such an amount that upon a fair division . thereof, such stockholders, for each and every J share of stock held by him or her, shall have | received, or be entitled to receive, the sum ' of two hundred dollars, or the value thereof 1 in property or assets, and such division and distribution shall have been made, then the ' said association shall oease and determine: ' Provided, however, That in case the said association shall not have closed its operations and affairs, as above provided for, within a * shorter period, then this Act shall not contin- j ue in force beyond twenty years. J Sec. 6. That if any officer or sub-officer of ( the said association, shall use the moneys of ( said association, other than those prescribed by this Act, he shall, on proof thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and sen- i tenced to pay a fine of twice the amount of money so appropriated, and imprisonment for a term not less than six months, Sec. 7. This Act shall be deemed a public , Act, and be given and reoeived in evidence without being specially pleaded. Approved March 13,1872. AN ACT J To Renew and Extend the Charter of the Roman * Catholic Church, of Saint Mary's, Charleston, t Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and a House of Representatives of the State of South f Carolina, now met and sitting in General As- a sembly, and by the authority of the same, That the charter heretofore granted to the Roman Catholic Church, of Saint Mary's, Charleston, be, and the same is hereby, extended and continued until repealed ; with all the rights, powers and privileges heretofore granted, and the official transactions of the vestry and corporators of the said church, since the expiration of its charter, so far as consistent with the powers granted thereby, shall be legal and valid to all intents and nnrnnftefl. Approved March 13,1872. AN ACT To Incorporate the Merchants' Building, Trust and Loan Association, of Aiken, South Carolina. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Ca rolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: That vV. H. Jones, H. J. Maxwell, J. A. Bowley, P. R. Rivers, E. P. Stoney, James Major, Joseph Quash, M. J, Hirsch, C. D. Hayne, John C. Ford, E. Fergnson, James Johnson, J. B. Bascorab, J. S. Mobley and E. M. Sumter, together with such other persons who are now or may hereafter be associated with them, be, and they are hereby declared a body politic and corporate, (for the purpose of making loans of money, by certificates or otherwise, secured by mortgage on real estate and personal property, of any and all description, or by conveyance of the same to their members and stockholders or other persons,) by the name and style of the "Merchants' Building, Trust and Loan Association, of Aiken, South Carolina." The capital stock of said Association shall consist of twenty-five hundred shares, to be paid by successive monthly installments of one dollar on each share, so long as the corporation shall continue ; and the said shares to be held, transferred, assigned and pledged, and the holders thereof to be subject to such regulations, for defaults in their payments, as may be prescribed by the by-laws created for the government of the corporation. Sec. 2. That the said corporation shall have power and authority to make any such rules and by-laws for its government as are not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of the land ; and shall have such succession auu number of members and officers as shall be ordained and chosen, according to the rules and by-laws made, or to be made, by them; shall have and keep a common seal, and alter the same at will; may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any Court of law or equity in this State; and shall have and enjoy every right, privilege and immunity belonging to corporate bodies, as guaranteed by the laws of the land. Sec. 3. That the said corporation shall have power to take, purchase, hold and enjoy real estate, and to sell and transfer the same, as may be deemed proper, to its members and others, on such terms and on such conditions, and subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by the rules and by-laws of said corporation. Sec. 4. That the funds of said coporation shall be loaned and advanced to its members and stockholders or others upon the security of real and personal property, and used in the purchase of real estate for the benefit of its members and stockholders, on such terms, and on such conditions, and subject to such regulations, as may, from time to time, be prescribed by the rules and by-laws of said corporation ; and it shall be lawful for the said corporation to hold such land, tenements, hereditaments and personal property as shall be mortgaged or conveyed to them in good faith, by way of security, upon its loans and advances, and may sell, alien or otherwise dispose of the same to its members, stockholders or others, as they, from time to time, may deem expedient. Sec. 5. That all the privileges, rights, and immunities conferred upon any and all chartered banking corporations in this State be, and the same are hereby conferred upon the Association hereby incorporated, and they shall be, and are hereby, authorized and empowered to adopt any and all such charters to facilitate them in carrying on the business contemplated by the Association. Sec. 6. That this Act shall be deemed a public Act, and continue in force for the term of fourteen years; and the same may be given in evidence without being specially pleaded. Approved March 13,1872. AN ACT To Charter the Spartanburg and Port Royal Railroad Company. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sittiug in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: That for the purpose of establishing a railroad from Spartanburg to Port Royal, a charter, with all the rights and privileges incidental to the same, be, and is hereby, granted to W. J. Whipper, R. Smalls, N. B. Myers, Jas. M. Baxter, J. J. Patterson, James N. Hayne, H. C. Corwin, H. G. Worthington, G. Cannon, B. A. Bosemon, W. H. Jones, James Miller, H. W. Duncan, J. S. Mobley, J. A. Bowley, D. R. Duncan, Timothy Hurley, Win. Munro, R. M. Smith, S. J. Lee, J. H. Evans, J. T.B. Jeter, L. WofFord, F. S. Jacobs, R. J. Donaldson, Hardy Solomon, L. D. Childs, S. A. Swails, T. J. Moore, J. C. Bonsall, S. L. Hoge, C. D. Melton, J. M. Allen, Thomas Steers and W. J. Wilkins, and their associates and successors, who are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Spartanburg and Port Royal Railroad Company. Sec. 2. That the said company is hereby authorized to construct a railroad from Spartanburg to Port Royal, by such routeas shall be found most suitable and advantageous. Sec. 3. That the capital stock of said company shall be one and a half million dollars, with the privilege of increasing it to two and a half millions of dollars, if found necessary, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each; nn/t Fnv fVin nnrnnoo nf vaiuinrr on/il-i /lanitnl AUUj IV/A l/livy |/Ui |/V^V VI lUIClUg UUVI1 V/l?|/IVUI stock, it shall be lawful to open books of subscription, at such times and places, and to keep them open for such periods of time, and under the direction of such persons, as may be determined on by a majority of said company. That subscriptions to the capital stock may be made in land, at a rate, per acre, to be agreed upon at the time of subscription; and that each and every person subscribing land shall execute a deed to the said company; and that all amounts subscribed in land or money shall constitute the joint stock capital for the purpose of constructing and carrying into operation the railroad provided for by this act; and the said railroad shall have power to mortgage its property and franchises, and issue bonds on such terms and conditions and for such uses and purposes of said corporation, as the board of directors thereof may ieem expedient. Sec. 4. That the said railroad shall be sub- < ject to the provisions of an act of the general < assembly of South Carolina, passed Septem- : ber 22, 1868, entitled "An act to declare the manner by which lands, or right of way over the lands of persons or corporations, may be f ken for the construction or use of railways and other works of internal improvement:" Provided, however, That nothing herein confined shall be construed so as to exempt the said company from the payment of taxes: Provided further, That nothing herein confined shall be construed so as to exempt said :ompany from the provisions of section 1, :hapter*63 of the General Statutes, Approved March 13, 187& AN ACT Co Incorporate the Churches of Antioch, New Hope, Bethel Grove and New Bethany, of Laurens oounty, South Carolina. . Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and rlouse of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General As- t embly, and by the authority of the same: j That the churches known by the names of Antioch, New Hope, Bethel Grove and New s Bethany, of Lanrens county, South Carolina, < >e, and the same are hereby incorporated, and < he corporators thereof are hereby vested with .11 the rights, privileges and immunities con- erred on certain religious institutions by an ,ct ratified on the 16th day of December, 1851. Approved March 13,1872. 1 mi I itWil >HI illirm J. Walkkh. Proprietor. R.H. McDomsld* Co., Druggists ud Oen. Ajf'tn, Sua Fraurisco. CaL auil 3S and 34 Commerce it. N.Y, i MILLIONS Benr Testimony to their Wonderful Curnilvc Effects. They ore not s vile Fnucy Drink. made of Poor Hum, Whiskey. Proof Spirits and Re- 4kr ^ fane Liquors doctored, spiced and sweetened to ploaae the taste, cnllcd " Tonlca." 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