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lewis m. grist, proprietor.! ^it litbepenbcnt Jamil} ftetospapcr: Jor fjjt |)romotio!t of % political, Social, Agricultural anb Commertial Interests of % j?ont|. |terms?$3.00 a year, in advance. "VOL. 18. YORKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1873. 3STO. 36. Ihc Jfow icUer. a"stage-c6ach~story. It was a cold Spring day, nearly ten years ago. The snows were melting, and the frost m just beginning to come out of the ground ; m consequently the hilly roads of Maine were in W a perilous state?deep mud-holes alternating ' with old snow-drifts, and treacherous spots which seemed frozen, but were merely a crust covering the porous mass below. It was nine o'clock in the morning when the stage-coach which connects the little village of B , on the Kennebec river, with the railway terminus some twenty-five miles below, drew up before .1 -1 " l_i;_ l ?1 TJ tne aoor oi me puuuc-uuuse, wneie naive; Middleton stood waiting. That gentleman watched its approach with some doubts concerning his own chances of a seat. It was not a coach, but a thing called a "mud-cart"? a kind of wide open wagon, set on strong elastic springs, and having several low-backed seats, which extended over the wheels to afford more room. Every seat was full except one on the elevated perch of the driver, and thither Middleton clambered with some difficulty, and wrapped himself as well as he could from the cold. He was just recovering from a rather severe illness, which had detained him a fortnight in that out-of-the-way place. A busy Boston lawyer, with an office full of cases calling him home, he had not borne the confinement very patiently; and not feeling | really well enough yet to bear a tiresome stage J ride, was just in that state of nervous irrita- J bility to be annoyed at everything. As he ' mounted to his place his ears were greeted by : a woman's laugh?a hearty, ringing laugh, too ! loud to be exactly lady-like, but with a pleas- J ant sound in it, for all that. At least hej might have thought so in a more amiable I moment; now, however, he turned, a little disgusted at the boisterous out-break, aod, while settling himself in the fur robes, took a rapid survey of his fellow-travelers. They were none of them of a class likely to please his fastidious taste. On the back seat | was a sharp-visaged Shaker, who had pestered him to buy a washing machine at the public house that morning, a sleepy-looking elderly farmer, and his wife. The latter was a nervous, restless woman, who had in charge three baskets, a bundle, a shawl, an umbrella, and her husband, and seemed equally anxious about them all. Four red-shirted log drivers, on their way down the river to start a big "jam" at Carratunk Falls, filled the front seat. They were decent men, though rough, and rather disposed to treat the other passengers to a good deal of chaff. On the middle seat were three persons. The first j was a country youth of the hobbledehoy age, but with a pleasant, intelligent face, interesting in spite of immaturity and freckles. Next i him sat a pale, tired-looking woman, with a J sad, girlish face, who carried in her arras an enormously fat and incredibly lively baby. The other occupant of the seat was a young woman of certainly striking appearance. She seemed about 24 or 25 years of age, had a tall, showy figure and a handsome face?very handsome, Middleton admitted to himself, after several surveys. A brilliant complexion, an abundance of black hair in shining, satiny bands?it was before the advent of "frizzles"?clear, strong gray eyes, a well-cut nose, and a handsome, though somewhat large mouth, filled with dazzling white teeth.? Plainly it was that mouth from which had issued the ringing, boisterous laugh which had j so offended Middleton's fastidiousness. Her j attire was remarkable. She wore a handsome blue silk dress, a velvet coat richly fringed and braided, a light silk hat with feathers, and a lace collar fastened with a showy brooch. Gold bracelets on her wrists, and lemon-colored kid gloves, completed a costume, which, though certainly becoming, could hardly be called appropriate for a stagecoach ride in a muddy Spring-day. Middleton's taste instantly pronounced it and its wearer hopelessly vulgar. She talked constantly, not only with the youth at her side, who seemed to belong to her in some way,! but with all the other passengers. Her voice | was a pleasant one, though its tones, like her j laugh, were so loud as to jar disagreeably on j Middleton's ear. Ordinarily it would not | have occurred to be thus annoyed; indeed,! his sense of humor might have been pleased i by the young woman's shrewd and often wit-1 ty comments ou the incidents of their ride;! but to-day he was ill and nervous, and her loud tone, her unpolished and occasionally ungrammatical speech and vulgarly showy dress displeased him. He bore it as long as he could, and then his impatience broke out. Not loud enough, however, to be audible to the object of it. It was to his companion, the , r\ AvnlnimAfl Ami n rl fV\of 1 Uriver, tuau ac CAV/iuaucU) vuuiuuuu mat i woman's tongue! Is there no end to its infernal clatter ?" The driver looked at our friend with a surprised and half-offended glance; but in a moment he answered, in a tone rather patronizing and tolerant, as though the person he addressed could really not be supposed to know any better? "Well, stranger, I guess you feel kind of outo' sorts this morning. You don't look well, I snum. Been sick, ain't ye ?" "Yes." "Well, it beats all how 'most any thing will kind o' hector a fellow when he don't feel just right. Now, for ray part, I'd rather hear Lymp Tucker laugh than to hear preachiu': there's something heartenin' in it; would cheer a fellow up if he was blue as Moxey Mountain." "I beg your pardon," said Middleton. "I did not know she was a friend of yours, and I X - _ 1 J) meant 110 narrn any way. "Oh! well, there's no offense. Lymph ain't anything to me in particular; but she's a girl I always like to have behind my horses." "What did you call her ?" "Lymp Tucker?short for Olympia?Deacon Ben Tucker's daughter; oldest of six." ** "Are they all like her?" If there was any hidden sneer in his words the driver did not perceive it. "Not much," was his emphatic reply. "They're a pindlin' set. She's as strong as a threshing-machiue, and as smart as chain lightnin'." "Indeed ! What can she do ?" "Well, I should like to have you mention anything she can't do." Middleton's good-breeding constrained him to express an interest in the driver's theme which, perhaps, he did not wholly feel. The latter went on confidentially. Their seat being higher than the others, the loud rattle of the wheels kept their words within bounds. "You see, sir, Deacon Tucker he haint never been a strong man, and was always rather behind hand with his farm in'. Then j they've had a sight of sickness. Two of the I girls died of consumption, and Mrs. Tucker I ; she fell down stairs and hurt the spine of her ! back, so that she has scarcely done a day's work since. One year the deacon's crops j failed, and the next he had bad luck with his i cattle dying; and so, what with sickness and j I all, he'd had to mortgage his farm, and it j only had three years more to run, and every-! body reckoned he'd have to lose it. Then ! Lyrap she said that never should be, for she j should earn the money to pay off the mort-, r.i il 1 I i ' I gage, one was eigiueeu uieu, uiiu n?u uvuc I all the work at home pretty near since she ! could run alone. She went out spinning till j she got money enough to pay her fare to! Lowell, and then she started to the factory. | I carried her down to the curs in my stage,' and I happen to know that she didn't have ! but one gown to her back when she went j away. "Well, she got a good place, and she work- j 1 ed straight along, and sent home money? : I seven hundred dollars?and cleared off the j mortgage, and took a deed of the place in ! her own name, to make sure against accidents. J That was six years ago, or more, and to-day j you would never know 'twas the same place, i The house is all fixed up, and there's new furj niture in it, and the deacon's as chirp as a I cricket, and proud of Lyrap, you'd better beI lieve." "He ought to be," said Middleton, heartily. "Didn't I tell you ?" asked the other triumphantly. "And that ain't half. She hires! a girl to wait on her mother, and she's sent j the younger children to school?she never had any chance for schoolin' herself?and then . You see that boy back there with her?" "Yes, I noticed him." "Well, that's her brother John; all the boy the deacon ever had. He's seventeen, and smart. Lymp's puttin' him through college, going to make a doctor of him, she says." "She's a noble girl." "Well, she's got the grit. You can't discourage her. She's bound to laugh right through everything, and that kind always have good luck. Not proud neither, though she's got money in the bank, and can afford to nave things nice now. Some difference," he continued, proudly, with a backward gesture, "between that velvet cloak and the day I took her to the Falls with one dress. All bought with her own earnings, too." Middleton did not smile; he felt rebuked. Even the velvet cloak and dress hat in the stage-coach became respectable to him in connection with that cheerful, courageous, unselfish spirit. If the girl had pleasure in '.iese things, why should she not enjoy them ? The driver went on, lowering his voice to a tone still more confidential: "They say?I don't know how true'tis? that Squire Dan vers is kind o' hankerin' round ! Lymp. He's a widower, well off, and got a nice place. But Lymp don't take a shine to him. She told my wife she didn't fancy second-hand goods, no way. She reckoned matrimony was best fresh; she'd rather not take hern'n warmed over." Middleton's laugh was almost as hearty as that which had so annoyed him. But the driver's gossip was here interrupted. The coach stopped to let off the four log drivers, i and Middreton gladly availed himself of the j seat they vacated, it being more sheltered from the cold wind than the high one he had occupied. This movement brought him face to face with the owner of the laugh, and he could not help surveying her with a glance of curiosity. He had heard of the genus factory girl, but perhaps had never before been knowingly in company with a specimen. There was nothing rude in his look ; and the girl, observing, returned it with a steady, unabashed gaze in which there was no shadow of boldness. It was more as one man regards another : and Harvey's eye was the first to fall. The road was in a frightful condition. Sometimes the wheels on one side sank to the hubs in soft mud, while those on the other i were tilted up on a snow drift. The jolts and | lurches were as painful as alarming, and Harvey, in his weak state, could hardly endure them. He leand back and closed his eyes, but the deadly pallor of his face betrayed his suffering. In a moment, a pleasant voice addressed him. It was the factory girl, who said : "You do not seem well, sir. Perhaps it is disagreeable to you to ride backward. You are welcome to my seat, if you would like to change." "You are very kind," said Middleton, surprised. "The seat is very well, I believe; only I have been ill, and the road is rough." "Why, it is dreadful for a sick person. Pray take this thick shawl of mine. I am sure you could make yourself more comfortable with it." "Thank you very much, but I would rather not deprive you of it." "I do not need it, sir; my cloak is very I i warm, and you can make yourself a pillow of j | it. .Please take it." And she leaned lor- j j ward and arranged the shawl herself in a ; | manner so comfortable as to be its own recora- j j mendation. He had not energy to reraon-! ; strate further, but leaned back and again i | closed his eyes, thinking the while how very ' j handsome hers were, and what a gentle touch j i she had. i He lay thus for some time, paying little j heed to anything; but after a while his atten-1 j tion was attracted by those in front of hira. i The pale woman with the baby, was question-, j ing Miss Tucker concerning Lowell and its j j factories. She had a timid, nervous manner,; ; and spoke softly, as if frightened at her own j ! voice. She had been pretty once, but now ! her face had a weary, hopeless look, which | I touched Middleton's sympathies. Miss Tuck-1 ' er answered her questions with ready good j nature, soon drawing from her the fact that; j she was on her way to Lowell in the hope of, ! finding employment. "Have you any friends in that city ?" she presently asked. | "No." | "But what will you do with your baby if; | you work in the mills ?" "I thought perhaps 1 could get some one 10 > ! look after him, if I had the luck to find work." i | "Haven't you any friends where you come | from that would take him?your own folks?" j "No"?rather hesitatingly. "I haven't any folks?at least they don't care for rae now." "Where is your husband ?" was the next 1 abrupt questiou. A fiery blush spread over the woman's face, and her lips contracted as if with a sharp spasm of pain, but she made no answer. Miss Tucker regarded her for an instant with surprise ; then a sudden, swift lifting of the eyebrows showed that she comprehended the case. She leaned forward and said, in a low tone: "I understand ; your husband is not living. I am sorry I spoke of it. What a fine healthy baby yours is!" - xi- 1 * mere was a genue, womamy uuueut m uci voice, which did not escape Harvey's ear ; and the ready tact with which she had covered the poor creature's embarrassment, turning instantly from the painful theme to that which would naturally be most consoling, pleased and touched him. He look at the over-dressed, loud-voiced factory girl with more of genuine admiration than he had ever bestowed on any woman. Indeed, he was not an admirer of women in general. A bachelor of forty, well born, good looking and rich, he might well have been a mark for managing mammas and designing daughters, had he chosen to put himself in their way. But he was not partial to female society. The truth was, he had iu his youth, when not so prosperous as now, been rather badly treated by a beautiful but worldly girl, who, after encouraging his suit, suddenly jilted him for a wealthier rival. The experience had possibly somewhat shaken his faith in women in general; at least it had given him a distaste for their society. He had two married brothers, but their matrimonial luck was not of a kind to make him envious. The wife of one was a very high bred woman, a model of elegance and propriety in externals, but with the temper of a demon ; the other was an amiable fool. So, on the whole, Harvey was content to remain as he was. Unfamiliar with women, he was, as a rule, rather unobservant of those with whom he might be accidentally thrown, and indifferent to what they chose to say or do. So it was, in fact, an unusual thing that he should be listening now with interest to the talk of these two, one of whom was evidently no better than a social pariah, and the other of a standing and culture so inferior to his own. He observed how the latter, though evidently comprehending the truth with regard to her new acquaintance, showed no shrinking or hesitation. She saw only her need, not her fault, and gave her all the advice in her power, in a tone of grave but respectful compassion. They rumbled and jolted along, the road growing more difficult with every mile, till, indeed, it was nearly impassable. The old lady with the baskets grew crosser and more frightened with every fresh jolt. She scolded j the driver incessantly, as if he were somehow responsible for the state of the roads, and seemed out of patience with all the rest for not being as much terrified as herself. Her wretched husband slept continually, but managed to lurch forward every moment against the youth in front of him, till the latter very nearly lost his temper under the infliction. | The baby fretted and cried ; and as for Har-' vey, he grew so tired he began to think he could go no further. But discomfort and annoyance only seemed to bring out Lyrap Tucker in greater strength. She laughed merrily at each fresh mishap, rallied the old lady out of her fears, and helped her to straighten her bonnet, which had come to grief from the jolting stage. She joked away her brother's ill j humor, and produced from her satchel an orange, which quieted the crying baby, and gave her weary mother a brief rest. Her unfailing good humor and cheerfulness had an effect upon all; even Harvey partly forgot weariness in the lively talk in which she engaged him. She chatted with perfect frankness and some disregard of grammar rules; but the quick wit and shrewd common sense she displayed made amends for much. A x i--t J 1 U.M1 AV.O, ?n iii jhsi, in going uuwu a luug inn, me catastrophe which the old lady had been looking for came; the stage sunk with a sudden lurch into a deep rut, and one of the wheels snapped like a reed. Fortunately the vehicle was not upset, only stuck fast; but they could go no farther. Here was a cheerful state of things! The nearest house was half a mile away, and they had the alternative of walking to it through the mud or of waiting there in the bleek March wind for an indefinite time, till another conveyance was found. The former course was plainly the wise one, and all scrambled out accordingly. Lymp Tucker drew up the skirt of her gay silk dress, thereby making a liberal display of ankles and under-garments, but the comely shape of the one and the spot-1 less neatness of the other made it excusable. Then, taking possession of the kicking baby, and bidding her brother give his assistance to Middleton, she led the way across the fields, the whole company taking up their line of march behind her. Arrived, after considerable difficulty, at the farm-house, they had the satisfaction of learning that they must wait at least two hours for the repair of the broken wheel, and that they were still five miles short of the half-way house where they had expected to take dinner. Of course, they were all nearly famished after riding so long in the cold. The good urnmon nf fVio Vinnoo eppmprl topII rliunnqpd t.o supply their wants, but she was alone, and her larder somewhat lean. "I don't suppose you'd want fried pork," she said, dubiously. "I might kill a couple of pullets." "That would take too long altogether," said Lymp Tucker. "We should eat the baby before they would be ready." "Well, I guess Jones's wife, down to the corner, would let me have some ham ; but I, ain't got no bread baked, then." "Oh! never mind that. Give me the things i to do it with, and I'll have the bread made by | the time you get back from Jones's." "La, now, said the hostess, looking doubtfully at the fine apparel of her guest, "do you suppose you could?" "You bring me the things and see," replied the other, laying aside her velvet cloak and light kid gloves. The woman obeyed at ouce. Miss Tucker turned up the silken sleeves from a pair of large and handsome white arms and tied on a big checked apron, while the hostess flung a shawl over her head and took her way across the fields to "the corner." The only fire in the house was in the kitchen, so all the passengers sat around it and watched the preparation of their repast. The impromptu bread-baker flirted a flour sifter, twirled a spoon in a pan, made several passes J over a board, and in an incredibly short time had produced a large panful of biscuits, which she set in a tin baker before the open fire. ' The hostess soon returned, and presently had ready a smoking dish of hot ham and eggs, , which, with biscuits like snow-flakes, made a j very inviting repast. ; By the time the meal was well over, the ' driver returned, with his wheel mended, and i they took the road again. Harvey, who had ! para his entertainer liberally for his own | dinner, noticed the pale young woman ap1 proach and offer to do the same, i "That's all settled," said the hostess, and motioned with her hand toward Miss Tucker. i Harvey felt mortified that he should not ; have thought to do that kindness himself. He j overheard the poor woman's grateful murmur I of thanks to her new friend and the light laugh with which they were turned aside. He I W1 enrtip to likfi thesound of that laugh quite as well as the driver. He was not sorry when, ! on resuming their places, he found Miss Tuck; er seated beside himself. He could no longer j bear to be only the recipient of kindness, and ! he exerted himself to show to his companion j all those small courtesies of the road which j occasion allowed. He talked very little, how: ever, though he talked his very best; and his grave, respectful demeanor offered no index of the feeling, as new as it was delightful, 1 which really thrilled through all the pulses of | his being. It was not merely respect for the j fine qualities he had discovered in her, nor wholly his kindling admiration of her rich and glowing beauty, but an emotion commingled of and far transcending both?a delicate and subtile pleasure in the presence of a large and gracious womanhood, which his whole man's nature acknowledged and bowed down to. The rest of their journey was accomplished without accident, though not without delays, and it was quite dark before, weary and mudspattered, they reached the town where they were to part and go their separate ways. I They had left the stage, and Miss Tucker stood I in the piazza of the public-house giving some directions about her luggage, when Middleton approached and, taking off his hat, addressed her. "Pardon me," he said, "if I use too great a freedom. You do not know me, but I have seen too many proofs of your goodness to-day not to feel that I know you. I see that you have kindly taken under your protection the poor woman and her child who rode with us, and I am anxious to share with you the pleasure of assisting her. Here is a small sura of money, which you will oblige me by spending for her use, and a card with my address. If at any time I can be of further service to her, you will do me a favor by letting me know." The young woman took the card and the crisp bank-note that accompanied it, and ex! pressed her thanks with a dash of embarrassment and timidity which she had not before shown, but which Harvey thought become her wonderfully. "There is one more favor," he added, with a little hesitation, "which I would like to ask of you. Would you object to give me your address ?" "Not at all," she answered frankly; and gave it accordingly. lie thanked her gravely, bowed again as he might have done to a duchess, and walked away. The next day he was at his office in Boston, and she at her busy, responsible post in a great Lowell mill. For just one week Middleton turned things over in his mind. The result was a resolution and a letter. The last was addressed to Miss Olympia Tucker, and contained a distinct and straightforward proposal of marriage. He recalled himself modestly to the lady's recollection, referring to the journey they had taken together, and declared that | the impression which she had that day made upon him was such that he ardently wished to journey through life in her company. He told her who and what he was, his family, business and fortune; inclosed the addresses of several persons through whom she might, if she wished, satisfy herself in regard to his character and standing; and concluded with an earnest request that she would permit him to visit her. The letter, notwithstanding its abrupt and rather business-like character, was one which almost any lady might feel flattered to receive. When it was sent he waited in a veritable fever of impatience for the reply. A week, almost another, elapsed before it came. He tore it open : his suit was rejected. The keenness of his disappointment almost surprised himself. He had hardly been aware how deeply his feelings and his fancy were interested in the woman, whom he had known but for one day, and who had begun by offending his social prejudices and his fastidiousness almost to the point of disgust. He took up her letter and read it again. It was written somewhat stiffly, as if it had cost its author a great deal of trouble, and now and then a word might not be spelled quite correctly; but it was a modest, womanly letter, dignified from its very simplicity. She thanked him sincerely for the compliment of his preference, though she felt compelled to decline his proposal. She had not done so [ hastily; she had considered his offer well. She did not even affect to conceal from him that it had been strong temptations for her? a poor, hard-working girl, struggling singlehanded with the world. But she did not think it would be right for her to purchase ease and enjoyment for herself in that way. j She was not educated for the circle to which he belonged, and if she were to take him at his, perhaps, hasty word, he might regret it some day. Then, too, he had the right to the love as well as the respect of the woman whom he should make his wife; and she could not pretend to give that to a man whom she had j never thought of in any such relation. She ! should always feel grateful to him for the honor he had intended her, and she wished him all manner of prosperity and happiness with some woman better suited to him than she. Harvey read this letter over a great many ! times. He thought he saw that it was not so much positive objection to himself which had ' decided her rejection of his suit as the woman shrinking from so hasty an arrangement with ! one of whom she knew so little. The naive j confession that his offer had been a temptation i touched him. Her life was laborious and full j of care; there could be little brightness in it. ] Yet when he thought of all she had done and j been to others, and recalled the gay courage ' [ with which she faced her lot, the cheerful i j helpfulness, the gentle kindness that never j i failed, his heart swelled with tender admira-! tion. "She is the only woman on earth for j me," he exclaimed, "and, by Heaven, I will j win her yet." And he set himself to do so as earnestly, j though not quite so precipitately, as before, j He went to Lowell every week till mid-suraj mer, and then he astonished his numerous friends, including his sisters-in-law, by the anj nouncemeut of his marriage. Curiosity ran high in regard to his choice, but it was baffled ! for a time, tor he took his bride abroad imme! diately, and they were absent three years. You may well believe those three years were I not wasted by a woman of Lyrap Tucker's en! ergy and ability. She had shrewdness, tact, ! and readiness of imitation. She only needed ! good models to shape herself into a lady. Indeed, all the essential elements of a lady's character were in her to begin with, and ed ucation drew them out. Accordingly she is at this present writing not only the handsomest woman of my acquaintance, but very nearly the most elegant. She does not laugh so loud as she did, but her smile is dazzling. Her voice is pitched somewhat lower, but it I has lost none of its heartiness. She has a J leaning toward magnificence in her dress, but is quoted as a model of good taste. She is the | pride of her husband, who has been growing i younger all these ten years, and the fond i mother of three little boys. Her sisters-in-law refer to her as a kind of oracle in all questions of taste and good-breeding. She is a gracious and hospitable hostess in a luxurious home, and a living illustration of the fact that there is no place a Yankee girl will not fill as if she were born to it, in spite of the most unfavorable circumstances. jtotttlt (toUtta ffliiticsi. PLATFORMS OF THE S. C. REPUBLICANS. PLATFORM OF THE "REGULARS." The Republican party of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, hereby declares to the country that it stands, in the coming campaign, upon the following platform, and will demand of all its representatives in the State government the the faithful maintenance and practical enforcement of the policy and principles herein enunciated: PLATFORM. 1st. We affirm our earnest adhesion to the platform of principles adopted by the National Republican Convention at Philadelphia on the 6th day of June, 1872, as embodying the true ideas of American progress, impelled by the spirit of the American Union. 2d. We supi .A, for President and VicePresident of the United States, U. S. Grant and Henry Wilson, knowing that the safety of the nation and the rights of all American ? 1 .1 . i citizens will be secure unaer tneir administration. 3d. We pledge ourselves to effect instantly a financial reform in the State government, by suspending the payment of the interest on every bond of the State to which there can be attached the shadow of a suspicion, and providing for the punctual payment of the principal and Interest of the unquestionably valid debt; and that the members of the legislature elected by the Republican party shall be pledged to carry into effect the meaning and intent of this plank. 4th. In the interest of financial reform and good government, we pledge ourselves to throw around the State Treasury every safeguard necessary to ensure the faithful application of the public funds solely to the public service, pursuant to just laws, enacted in the interest of the whole people of South Carolina. 5th. As essential to the reform herein guaranteed and imperatively demanded by the people as the vital necessity of the State, we shall require that the public expenses shall be reduced within the public revenues to be derived from a moderate system of taxation, based upon a fair and equitable assessment of all property liable to taxation under the constitution. To effect this needed reduction in expenditures, we insist that there shall be an immediate reduction in the salaries of all public officers, from the highest to the lowest, in the State and counties, and that there shall be a judicious reduction in the number of the public offices themselves. 6th. Experience having proved that the general license law, although honestly designed by the legislature to relieve the burdens of taxation on real estate, is, in its practical operations, odious and oppressive, we pledge ourselves to its instant repeal. 7th. Believing, from said experience, that it is a necessary safeguard to the public treasury, that all its transactions should be constantly open to public inspection, and always under the eye of the people, we pledge ourselves to secure the enactment of a law providing that no moneys shall be paid out of the treasury, except in pursuance of an appropriation specifying the amount to be paid, and such payment shall be made only upon the warrant of the Comptroller-General, duly countersigned by the Governor and State Auditor, and requiring the Comptroller-General and Treasurer to publish daily a statement of the : transactions of their respective offices, showj ing what warrants have been drawn, and the | receipts and disbursements during the past j twenty-four hours. 8th. We pledge ourselves that the government of the State shall henceforth be so administered in all its departments, that neither i the public schools nor asylums of charity ! shall be closed for want of proper mainteul ance by the State. 9th. We maintain the authority of the genj eral government to interfere for the preserva| tion of domestic tranquility in the several I States; and we acknowledge with gratitude I such interposition in this State, and with the ! j hope that the example lately presented to the ; civilized world from within our borders, will i avail to assure to our people the enjoyment of I free speech and human rights, we invoke for j such as were ignorant and undesigning viola! tors of the enforcement act, the merciful ex! ercise of executive clemency. 10th. We shall demand the due enforcement of law and order in every section of the State; and here assert that we believe that these can be best secured, and an enduring peace established in South Carolina, by the cooperation of all classes of citizens, in a mutual respect for all rights of property and person guaranteed by the constitution and laws, and a considerate and just toleration of all differences of political opinion, each citi-1 zen being free to assert his own rights and privileges, while solemnly bound by the laws of our common country to scrupulously respect the rights and privileges of others. 11th. We pledge ourselves for the enactment and enforcement of proper laws for the liberal encouragement of immigration to our State from all quarters of the world, to the end that the arable land in the State, three-' fourths of which now lie fallow, may be j brought into speedy cultivation, manufacto-1 ries established, and our grand material re- \ sources be developed under our beneficial sys-! tem of government, which recognizes, as be- i tween citizens of South Carolina, no discrim-1 ination on account of race, color or nationality. I 12th. With full faith in the justice of these j ; principles, confessing our errors of legislation } and administration in the past, which have ; wrought grievous injury to the State, we appeal to all true Republicans to unite in bearing our candidates to victory, and to prove to | the world that, in South Carolina, Republicanism and good government are not incon I sistent with each other. PLATFORM OF THE "TRUE" REPUBLICANS. The true Republican party of South Caro! lina enunciate the following platform : Whereas, gross and flagrant abuses in the administration of affairs of the State of South Carolina have grown up in the executive and legislative departments of its government, and have become an intolerable burden on the Republican party and the State; and whereas the State Republican Convention had put in nomination for Governor Franklin J. Moses, Jr., who is responsible, with others, for many of the abuses, and who, as Speaker of the House of Representatives, fraudulently issued pay certificates for an immense sum, has received large sums from the "armed force" fund, when no such force was in existence, and has corruptly controlled much of the legislation of the State; and whereas the Republicans of the State have generally demanded that those who have been guilty of corrupt practices shall be ejected from office; and whereas the Convention, instead of making ' ?J DAnnkli'/ian nArv%InnflAn I ; UI1 HUHtQt auu blue lVC|iUUiiv?au uuuiiuavivu) has by its action shown that the corruption and incompetency which have characterized the present administration are to be perpetuated ; and whereas we, a portion of the general Convention, have felt that, in view of this condition of affairs, and of this breach of trust on the part of the Convention, it is our duty to withdraw ourselves therefrom, and by the selection of a ticket thoroughly Republican and honest, to go before the masses of the party for the justification of our course; therefore, be it Resolved, 1. That we declare our cordial acceptance of the platform of the Philadelphia Convention, and pledge ourselves to the earnest support of its standard-bearers, Gen. Grant and Honorable Henry Wilson. 2. That inasmuch as the notoriously corrupt and imbecile character of the present State administration has brought disgrace upon Republicanism everywhere, and is now a heavy burden upon the National party, impeding, if not endangering, its success, therefore, the Republicans of South Carolina owe it to themselves to elect such officers as will insure an honest administration of government and thus assure their brethren all over the land that the disgrace which attaches to the party in this State shall be removed. 3. That we pledge the honor of the State to the payment of all debts which have been le gaily and honestly contracted; but that we will not hesitate to repudiate that portion of it, which is illegal, and, therefore, null and void. 4. That we pledge ourselves to inaugurate and carry out an honest administration of the affairs of the State, and to resist the payment of all fraudulent pay certificates and warrants upon the treasury. 5. That we pledge ourselves, so far as in our power lies, to an immediate reduction of the enormous taxes under which the people are groaning, and that we believe that this can be most speedily accomplished by introducing honesty and economy into the management of the various departments of the State government. 6. That the pledges made by the Convention nominating Franklin J. Moses, Jr., must be judged of in the light of his record, and of those who sustain him, and that when thus viewed, the people of the State will not hesitate to say that pledges from such a source have no value, but are simply intended to blind the eyes of the people to the true purposes of those men, which purpose must be in the future, as in the past, the accomplishment of purely selfish ends, regardless of the welfare of the State. 7. That, in our judgment, the beet safeguard to the public treasury is the election of honest and faithful officers to the various departments of government; and that the history of the present administration shows that no statutory safeguard will protect the treasury with Franklin J. Moses, Jr., at the head of the government and his willing tools in the other offices. 8. That under our constitution, we believe any other than an ad valorem system of taxation to be null and void, and hence that the general license law, passed at the last session of the General Assembly, was in violation of the constitution and of the rights of the people, and could only have originated in a desire to extort from the people of the State still larger suras of money, to be corruptly used by the men who controlled the government. 9. That we blush for our party when we remember that, under this administration, the education of the people has been so shamefully neglected, in consequence of the failure of the government to pay promptly and faithfully the appropriations made by the legislature; and that we pledge ourselves to apply a remedy for this crowning disgrace in the ' future. 10. That every encouragement which can legitimately be given to those endeavoring to develop the natural resources of the State should be extended, and that the interests of the laboring men in the State concur with the interests of capital in the demand for an earnest effort to develop new and varied industries within onr borders. This we regard as the means of improving the condition and increasing the wages of those who form the bone and sinew of the State. THE "REGULAR" OR MOSES TICKET. SKETCH OF THE CANDIDATES. Said Major Louis Merrill, the monarch of; the ku-klux country, and supporter of the < bolters' ticket, "I am thoroughly disgusted < with the present aspect of things, and my faith j < in the fitness of the negro for the suffrage has 1 almost been touched. Should a change for ; < the better not occur in the next two years, I ] for one, will advocate the return of the State i to a provisional government, under control of i the United States Government." So that it \ will be perceived that the war-cry of both ] parties is reform in the State Government. < And it is acknowledged by both sides that un- < less reform be effected the party must fall to pieces of its own rottenness. The materiel of the Convention was not of such a character as to hold out bright hopes of any great revolution in the management of affairs. It was composed in a great part of the old hacks of the last legislature, and many of the most corrupt men in it; an evidence of the fact that tnese same men control the vote, and that they can and will elect the "straight out ticket." It is true that many influential men in the party have joined the bolters, and it is also true that the bolting ticket is supported by all the influence of the Federal Administration, but it also cannot be denied that the movement was seriously in - - ? 1 r* trr ar ?, jured by the defection of Judge o. vy. jneiion who was to have been placed at the head of the ticket, and who is said to have consented to the arrangement, but who was incontinently bagged by the Moses party. A State ticket with Judge Melton at its head would have carried many Democratic votes, and would have been acceptable to that large class of the colored people who are not controlled by the hack leaders. But the State House faction saw this and immediately captured Judge Melton with the Attorney-Generalship on their ticket, and so completely took the wind out of the sails of their opponents. The Moses ticket, I may mention, is a somewhat strangely colored concern, as regards color. For there is not a single black man upon it. The following is a brief sketch of the candidates: f. j. m08e8, jr., The candidate for Governor, is well known in the State, and it will be unnecessary to allude to his past history. He is one of the shrewdest leaders of the party, and despite the influence of the Grant administration, to be used against him, will undoubtedly slip into the Executive Chair in November. The platform of his party was drawn out by Judge T. J. Mackey, and when it was first printed, a prominent Conservative was heard to say: "That platform is a perfect man-trap for Democratic votes." r. h. gleave8, Of Beaufort, the candidate for LieutenantGovernor, is a mulatto of rather prepossessing appearance, and about fifty-six years of age. He was born in Pennsylvania, but at the breaking out of the war went into the Confederate service as a captain in a colored regiment that was enlisted in that city. At -* * " ? *v ^ i i l J t_ _ the tali ot new urieans ne cnangea nis uniform and joined a Federal regiment of colored troops. His first appearance in this State, was in September, 1866, when he came to Beaufort, where he has lived ever since. He was a Commissioner of Election in 1870, and, was, with Langly and Williams, of that county, indicted and convicted of stuffing the ballotbox. The other two were sent to jail, but Gleaves, through some informality in the trial, was granted a new trial and acquitted. He is at present Probate Judge of Beaufort county, and is a man of intelligence and influence among the colored people. It is generally conceded among the State House delegates that his name gives strength to the ticket HENRY E. HAYNE, The candidate for Secretary of State, is like the present incumbent of the office, a fat mulatto, but has a fair skin, and a much more prepossessing appearance. He is about 31 years old, and possesses a moderate education. He was born in Charleston, but during the war escaped from the city and became Commissary Sergeant in the 33d United States colored troons. At the close of the war the ? x? -? -future Secretary of State found his way to Marion county, of which he at once took charge, and became the factotum of the colored voters. He was a member of the Chicago Convention of 1868, which nominated Grant, and has served four years in the General Assembly as Senator from Marion county. SAMUEL W. MELTON, The candidate for Attorney-General, is a native of South Carolina. He was born at Yorkville, in 1830, and was educated at the South Carolina University, whence he graduated in 1852. During the war he served the Confederacy, first as an Aide to General Bonham, and afterwards as Adjutant-General on the staff of Major-General G. W. Smith, and still later, in the War Department at Richmond. In February, 1870, he was elected to the Bench to fill the unexpired term of Judge Boozer, and at the last session of the General Assembly was chosen to the same place for the next four years. During the present campaign, Judge Melton avowed himself in full affiliation with the Republican party. p. L. CARDOZO, The candidate ibr State Treasurer, is well known in the State. Like the generally accepted ideal of a widow, he is "fair, fiat and forty." He was educated in Glasgow, Scotland, and is a man of undoubted ability. His career in the office of Secretary of State, which position he has occupied for the past four years, was very fully ventillated in toe discussion in the Convention, and need not be commented on here. SOLOMON L. HOGE, The new candidate for Comptroller-General, is one of the roost restless specimens of the genu? homo carpet bagger that hi to be found m the State. He was a Captain in the Sixth United States Infantry, from which regiment he resigned, and wentinto politics in the State. About this time he began to develop strong symptoms of Republicanism. So strong were these syraptons that Judge Mackey, in his speech in the Convention supporting him, said that he was tha only Republican officer in his regiment. Soon after Mr. Hoge embarked his future on the sea of political life in South Carolina, he was chosen an Associate Judge on the Supreme Bench of the State, although it is said that he never exhibited any peculiar qualifications for the place. He ornamented tne Supreme Bench out a short time, when he was ' called to another sphere of usefulness in his election to Congress from the Third Congressional District It is not known that he exhibited any marked talents in the position which he held only for a short time, when he was forced to retire in favor of R. B. Elliott, the present incumbent Mr. Hoge is a young man of about thirty-five summers, is rather good looking and dresses H. W. PURVIS, The candidate for Adjutant and InspectorGeneral, is a young mulatto of about twentyfive summers, with a fair, ruddy skin, and of about the medium height He was born in Pennsylvania, but his father was a native of Lexington county in this State. Purvis was a member of the lower branch of General Assembly in 1868-'69, but since that time haa held no office. - ' J. K. JILLSON, The candidate for Superintendent of Education, is a white carpet-bagger, and has held the office for the past four years. The only black man on the ticket is Daddy Cain, the candidate for Congressman at large, with whose many virtues and shortcomings the people of Charleston are perfectly familiar. It may be mentioned that the State delegation in Congress will consist of fear colored men and one white man. The fbur colored men being J. H. Rainey, from the First District; A. J. Ransier, from the Sec)ud District; R. B. Elliott, from the Third District; and Rev. R. H. Cain, from the State at large, who will, of course, be seated inder the new Apportionment Bilk The one vhite Congressman will be from the Fourth Digtriot, and will probably be a Democrat? Columbia correspondence of the Charleston Courier, ' . ?.'