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Jicvitps ami rfacts. j In Georgia, no cotton or woolen mills | that mav be built in the State during the i o next two years are to be taxed. It is charged that negroes by hundreds | have been run into Pennsylvania from Mary-! land to vote on election day. The Democrats and Liberals of the 6th | Massachusetts Congressional District have nominated Gen X. P. Banks for Congress. The Memphis Appeal, an anti-Johnson ~e JMJJUl, tile Vltn l?l lllJUilU? IHU ^A-l Itsr dent's prospects, publishes his political record since 1861. It fills ten columns of the paper. A citizen of Wilmington, Del., ninetysix years old, who, within the past year or two, has proposed marriage to over fifty ladies, has been advised by the Mayor to take a rest. A full Liberal ticket has been nominated in Arkansas, consisting of three Republicans and the balance Democrats. Audrew Hunter, Democrat, was nominated for Governor. W. B.Schell the candidate for Governor of the Labor Reform party in Pennsylvania, withdrew from the canvass in favor of Buckalew, the Democratic candidate. The Straight-Out Democratic Convention of the State of New York met in Albany on the 3rd instant. Twenty-five delegates were present. A full electoral ticket was nominated. The State Executive Committees of the Liberal Republican and Democratic parties of Ohio have caused a complete registration to be made of every voter in the State, and on comparison they say the State will vote overwhelmingly in favor of the Liberal movement. Although there was an election held for Congressmen in West Virginia on the 22d of August last, the same election will be held again for Congressmen on the 24th of this month. The dual elections are the result of a partisan construction of the election law of that btate, the same candidates contesting in both. A newly elected Squire in North Carolina having occasion the other day to perform the marriage ceremony for the first time, got the affair considerably mixed, and wound up by sayiug: "Suffer little children to come uuto them!" At which the bride remarked: "Thank you. John let's go; that's all we want" A Northern man, Mr. Salisbury, who located near Old Fort, N. C., has sown a field of fifty acres in turnips. It is expected to yield at least 50,000, bushels. The gentleman has made the experiment to convince his neighbors that other food besides corn and fodder can be grown for stock, and that turnips, to be profitable, must be sown on a large scale. ? Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Nebraska voted last Tuesday. An election was also VipIH in D.ikota Territory for delegate to Congress. State elections will occur on the 5th of November in the following States: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin. It is proposed to connect the Tennessee river with the Atlantic ocean at Savannah by a canal, and the engineer in charge of the survey has made his report. The projectors desire government aid to the amount of $17,000,000, and the engineer's report will be presented before Congress early next session. It is believed President Grant will, in a special ; message, recommend favorable action on the matter. Ex-Governor Curtin, the most popular Republican politician of Pennsylvania, has just returned to his home after an absence of three years. The citizens of his town gave him a public reception, on which occasion he made a speech rather favoring the election of Buckalew, the candidate for Governor of the Democratic and Liberal parties. He did not express his sentiments in regard to the Presi< L^r-i f i o 1 /"> o n o " ^ ^ ofoym'i'n rr fViot qc ho co id tn VKUbiai uuii v MCO uviviiiuc uiui, ?*v cwiv?} wv a more suitable occasion. Much anxiety exists among the politicians as to the Governor's position on the Presidential question. A good many years ago a Kentuckian went to Cincinnati and drove a cart at low wages until he had saved up seven hundred dollars. With this he bought a barge load of! coal which sunk at the landing the night it! was delivered, and he had to sell it for four hundred dollars. The party who bought it | failed before paying, but Anally compromised by giving two and a half acres of land for the debt. The land is now in the business centre of Cincinnati, and is worth over one million five hundred thousand dollars to its owner as the*price of that load of coal. Robert Dale Owen, in a recent work, endeavors to straighten out the Scriptures and correct ideas which have been entertained by religious men fcr the last few centuries. Among other things he makes the statement that the ancient years exactly correspond in length with our present months, so that, when the Scriptures say that Methuselah was 966 years of age, he was only so many months, or something more than eighty years old. Mr. Owen may possibly be correct, but will he please look along a little further and explain the following verse: "Shern was a hundred years old and begat Arphaxad." By the above standard of Bible dates Arphaxad would have been a little more than eight .11 .1 _ a ? XT 1 *1 1 > years om at ine time. iMinor, ADranam s grandfather, by the same reckoning, became a father at the tender age of twrnty-nine months, and died at the age of twelve years, the father of a numerous family. Will Mr. Owen look after this at once ? In the town of Washington, N. C., containing a population of 1000, there is a family of office-holders?a nest of genuine Nepo-Republicans?who are a credit to the National Government, the President, his brothers-inlaw and all. The head of the house, Hiram E. Stilley, is United States Assessor of Internal Revenue; next is Stephen W. Stilley, Clerk to the Assessor; then comes Sidney F. Stilley, who is Postmaster; and fourth, Henry D. Stilley, Deputy Postmaster. William Stilley, junior, was, until recently, mail-carrier on a sheep-skin route from Washington to Goose Creek, but is now out of employment, though he confidently expects to be provided for before the Presidential election. A brother-inlaw of all these Stilleys is Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue, and was recently elected atip nf tViP Knnrrl nf f!nnntv C'nnimissinnors. The people of Washington think Grant's disease has come upon them with a vengeance, while some are so uncharitable as to believe the Stilley family is in some way related to the Presidential household. For several weeks past a number of wild Indians from the plains of the extreme West have been in Washington city, the authorities having deemed it a stroke of policy to defray 'heir expenses across the continent, in order that they might see the great resources of the country, and, taking a hint from the knowledge thus acquired, learn the folly of warring with the pale-faces. Many interviews have taken place between the warrior braves and President Grant, whom they style the "Great Father," and on Saturday last a final interview was had with the President by "Medicine Bear," chief of the TetonSioux, who called for the purpose of having a "big talk." Medicine Bear was introduced by Geo. Cowan, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, and before commencing his speech, he laid his huge pipe on the mantel-piece, removed his feather head-dress, and deliberately proceeded to take off his shirt, to the no small astonishraet of the white persons pres- j ent. After divesting himselfof his nether garment he advanced towards the President, and holding it aloft, was about to put it ovei the Great Father's head, when Gen. Cowan took hold of it, and placing it on a chair, told | Medicine Bear, through an interpreter, not thinking, probably, of the happy "hit" he. was making, that the Great Father would not: wear it just then, but would accept it as a pres-' cnt. This was satisfactory to Medicine Bear, who, it seems, wished to divest himself of his war-shirt in the presence of the big chief of the pale-faces, as a token of the great estimation in which he held him. The interview was satisfactory to all parties, and Medicine Bear bidding the President a final adieu, departed for his native hunting-grounds. ?0t'Mlc Ghnpum. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 10, 1S72. Watch the Figures.?The dateon the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish theirpapers discontinued, the date must he kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance JOB PRINTING. Having determined to devote more attention hereafter to job printing than we have done in the past, we would inform the public that our office is now well supplied with new type of the latest styles, and the best machinery in use; and with a choice stock of inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to execute as good work as can be done anywhere in the United States. Orders for Ball Tickets, ! Freight Billheads, Bank Notices, Labels, Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks, Bill Heads, | Law Briefs, Business Cards, i Letter Circulars, Certificates of Deposit, i Letter Headings, Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads Checks, Note Circulars, Deposit Tickets, Note Headings, Drafts and Notes, jProgrammes, Envelopes, Policies, Firc<fc Life Ins., Election Tickets, Shinplasters, | resuvai uckcis, |?uuiuii(; wnuc, will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction as to quality of work, guaranteed in every instance. Particular attention given to fine work in colors. POPULAR ELECTIONS. It must be clear to every reflecting man that the American system of obtaining office is either fundamentally wrong or greatly abused. Office seeking is a trade?a profession ; and office holding is a source of wealth and pecuniary emolument. Every four years the whole of the United States is tossed by the contest for the chief magistracy, like a forest visited by a tornado or an ocean by a tempest. Every two years the same thing occurs in our State. An incalculable amount of bad feeling is engendered and fostered by these contests; much time is spent and fabulous suras of money prodigally wasted. The system now almost universally prac ticed to obtain office is, essentially, both in spirit and practice, opposed to the principles of republicanism. The whole affair is worked from its inoipiency to its completion by by leagues, conventions, caucuses, packed committees and rings. Incredible sums are spent to obtain nominations. Merit consists in a full pocket. Not long since it was declared by those who are so situated as to be able to know what they affirm, that a certain individual could not obtain thenomination for Governor of a certain State for a less sum than one hundred thousand dollars. It makes one tremble to think tff such a state of things. Clerks about "Washington, we are told on good authority, frequently give thousands of dollars for the appointment to positions which pay them an auuual salary of only a few hundred dollars. It is not croaking to say that there is "something rotten in Denmark." Reform is needed. The whole system needs purging. The Presidential term of office ought to be extended and the pay reduced. It would no doubt contribute much to the peace aud prosperity of the country if the Congress of the United States would meet less ! frequently and be required, like the members of the British Parliament, to pay their own expenses. It would be an incalculable advantage to most if not all the States if their legislators and senators were chosen for two terras, and the General Assemblies convened j only once in three years. Senators and legislators ought to be allowed no pay. The position should be one of honor?not of profit, j Such is the case with the British Parliament. ; The members are allowed no pay?not even ' their expenses. In the State of South Carolina the expense of the legislature is onerous j in the extreme, and the advantages gained j by its labors little. Sometimes no good, but i much evil is done by its labors. The fewer officers a government can have the better it is j for it. In the State of South Carolina there j is an office for almost every thing, and all, or 1 nearly all are salaried officers, and some of ! the salaries are most extravagant. Several ofi fices might be safely merged into one, and the ! salary of any one of them be sufficient to pay j a man handsomely to do all the work which | is assigned to several men. The three Comj missioners of York county cost the county during the last fiscal year the round sum of | thirteen hund.-ed and twenty-six dollars. All | the work they have done could have been done, j and done as well as they did it, for nothing, : by some other county officer. There is no crvff r\? ncn Cnr fVrnco of loocf wifVi ciir?Vt : CVl V V* UOU IWi IUV-CU y UU 1VUCI/ HlbU wuvil i enormous pay as they receive. The more of| fices we have to fill the more office seekers we i will have, especially if every office is accompanied with a fat salary. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. j ? Dr. Thomas Lake, an old citizen of Edge: field, died at his home in that county on the 24th ultimo. ? F. II. Frost, one of the members of the ! m House of Representatives from Williamsburg : county, died in Charleston on Wednesday of j last week. ! ?An old bachelor of Darlington county, offers a fine silk dress to the best preserved ! old maid, to be awarded at the next Darling! ton fair. ? Rev. J. I. Bonuer, President of the Due West Female College, has declined accepting the Presidency of the Female College in : Charlotte, N. C., which was lately tendered him. ? Gen. E. P. Alexander, formerly Superintendent of the Charlotte Railroad has accepted I the Presidency of a Georgia railroad with his ' headquarters at Columbus, Georgia, instead of Columbia, as announced last week, i ? Adam M. Riser, who has been imprisoned i in the jail of Newberry county for nearly two I years, under sentence of ten years for robbing ; the mail, was last week pardoned by the President. ? The Laurens Herald of last week announces the deaths in that county of Rev. Joshua Gilbert, aged 90 years; Harris Riddle, 70 years; and Mrs. Eliza McCliutock, aged 60 years. ? The "Bolters" and Conservatives of Union county, last week nominated the following ticket: For the Legislature?General W. H. i j Wallace, B. H. Rice and Allison Smith, col- j i ored; County Commissioners?Y. S. Bobo, Henry Hardy, colored, George Martin, colored ; Clerk of Court?Capt. F. M. Farr; Proj bate Judge?Joseph F. Gist; Sheriff?Robt. Macbeth ; School Commissioner?W. H. Norman ; Coroner?John Tinslcy, colored. ? The Spartanburg Spartan of last week furnishes the following information in regard to the Air-Line Railroad : "The Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway is now completed to Black's, forty-eight miles this side of Charlotte. A passenger and freight train i .. J \ir.i Will leave unariotie every xuonuay, w euuesday and Friday, at 7. 30 A. M. From Charlotte to Garibaldi, the first station on the road, is thirteen miles, to Gastonia twentytwo miles, to King's Mountain thirty-five miles, to Whitaker's forty-three miles, and to Black's forty-eight miles. Mr. L. M. Genj try will run a line of hacks from this j place to Black's, connecting with the train at | that place 011 Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays. This route will be the shortest, quickest and cheapest to all passing between this place and Charlotte." TOPICS OF^THE DAY. ? Ten policemen in Atlanta, Ga., have been arrested, charged with intimidating voters at the recent election. ? Francis Lieber, LL. D., formerly a professor in the South Carolina College, died in New York on Friday last. ? On the 4th instant a gin house at Bayland, Texas, containing 20,000 bales of sea island cotton, was burned. ? George C. Langhorne, late postmaster at Cloverdale, Va., has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the Albany penitentiary for robbing the mail. ? The Liberian Minister (colored) has commenced suit against the Arlington Hotel in Washington city for refusing to entertain him. Theamount of damage claimed is $5000. ? A San Antonia dispatch of the 4th says that a party ofTexans followed a band of Mexican cattle thieves into Mexico and at: tacked them at Newton. Two Texans and several Mexicans were killed. ? The bricklayers of Chicago have demanded $4 for eight hours work, and 50 cents per hour for extra work. One thousand men have obtained their demands, though work is suspended on several large buildings. ? A great storm occurred on the northwestern lakes on Saturday night. Much damage was done to shipping at Detroit, Buffalo, Toronto and other points. The storm was accurately foretold by the signal service bureau at Washington. ? The vote in Georgia last week resulted in a complete Democratic victory. The official report of ninety-nine counties show a majority for Smith, Democratic candidate for Governor, of 40,013. As Representatives in the Legislature 139 Democrats and 6 Republicans are so far reported. ? A fight took place in Macon, Ga., on the day of the election between the white and the colored voters. One white man was killed and several whites and blacks were wounded. It is alleged that the negroes endeavored to prevent the whites from voting by crowding them away from the polls, and hence the origin of the difficulty. Disturbances also occurred in Savannah. ? An advance in the price of kerosene may be soon expected. The Pennsylvania wells had become so prolific that the cost of producing exceeded the profits, and the proprietors have ceased operations. In order to prevent the working of the wells, they have been plugged and the engines destroyed. Much excitement exists among the operators and laborers, in the oil region, and trouble is apprehended. ? Three passenger coaches on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad fell through the trestle three miles from Greenville on Wednesday of last week. The cars were wrecked and a brakeman instantly killed. Twenty-seven passengers were wounded. of whom four will probably die. The train was crowded, and the escape of the passengers from instant death was almost miraculous. ? Mrs. Laura Fair, who two years ago murdered Col. Crittenden, a noted lawyer of San Francisco, has stood her second trial for the offense and been acquitted. She was the paramour of Crittenden, who was a married man, and shot him in the presence of his wife as he was landing from a steamboat on a crowded wharf. On her first trial she was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to j be hung. ! ?The Washington correspondent of the N. Y. I Herald says it has just transpired that young I Shotwell, one of the leaders of the North Car! olina ku-klux and now confined in the Albany J penitentiary, proposed to a prominent member of Congress that if the President would pardon him, he would take the stump and labor for the Republican party. Finding that Shotwell was disposed to plead for pardon, it was pro: posed to ask if he would give evidence against j the principal leaders of the klan in his State. ! This he declined to do. The North Carolina i papers doubt the truth of the story. ? A meeting of the directors and stockholders of the Andes Insurance Company, which suspended operations a few weeks ago, was held iu Cincinnati on Friday last, in which stock to the amount of four-fifths was represented. The directors regarded the action of j Superintendent Church in suspending the J functions of the company early last month as j without the warrant of law, but decided not j to take steps to resist his order before the ani nual meeting next January. The directors re! ported a deficit of ?221,000 in excess of the . liabilities over the assets and the stock all ' gone. They resolved to postpone further as-1 scssments until the January meeting, and to make every effort to avoid abandoning the company. The belief is expressed that the company could be upheld if the stockholders cooperate. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Cotton is received in the Raleigh market ! at the rate of one hundred bales per day. j ? Nancy Smith died near Old Fort, McI Dowell county, on the 20th ultimo, aged 115 ; years. ! ? Davidson College opened the present sesj sion with 95 students?the largest atten1 dance for years. ? A destructive fire occurred in Salisbury on Sunday morniug last, destroying six stores ' in the husiness nart of the town. The fire is i said to have been accidental. | ? Five printers in the Raleigh Nexus office j have recently joined the Good Templars. | The editor congratulates himself upon the prospect of au early decliuo in the price of, j the ardent. I ? Peach Tree Grove, Nash county, is to be ; j the scene of a gladiatorial combat, on the 3rd Sunday of the month, between a Missionary 1 Baptist aud a Universalist minister. The dis-1 cussion is to continue three days. | ? Only forty-six counties of the State have made official returns of the August election.! | ? I Forty-five counties are yet to report officially.! The law requires that the returns shall be j transmitted to tho Secretary of State in a! seal jd envelope, directed to the Speaker of the House, by whom they will he opened on the , day of the organizing of the Legislature. ? An effort is being made to establish an orphan asylum at Oxford. The subject of establishing an asylum for inebriates has also been discussed. Tlfe State Medical Society i at its last session strongly recommended such , an institution. ? Dr. J. Brinton Smith, a teacher in Ral- j eigli, died very suddenly one morning last i week, just after taking a seidlitz powder.. Suspicions are entertained that he was pois-! oned, and the stomach of the deceased has been scut to Philadelphia for examination. ? Mr. Jackson Scales, long and favorably 1 known by the traveling public as proprietor of the Southern Hotel at Greensboro, died I suddenly near Houston, Texas, on the 18th j ultimo. His hotel was destroyed by fire last; summer, and he removed to Texas with the ; view of bettering his fortune. ? Forty-eight colored youths left Greens-j boro on Sunday night for Hampton, Va., at; which place they are to be educated at the expense and under the direction of an English j society of Friends for teachers?this being the ! condition on which they are to be educated gratuitously. ?The Raleigh News learns that Judge Merrimon has indicted Hon. John Pool for the cir- i culation of a campaign document headed "Read and Circulate," which was extensively circulated under Pool's frank during the gubernatorial canvass, and contained gross personal reflections on the private character of the Democratic candidate for Governor. ? The case of Thomas Gilchrist, charged with the killing of W. B. McClennan in Robeson county a few weeks ago, came up under a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Russell in Wilmington on Saturday last, and after a full hearing of all the circumstances of the case, the prisoner was released absolutely and without condition from further arrest. ? A Raleigh merchant has brought suit nr*ni'nc>f f r*l ft n V* rtr\ rr\ t-* n * * ^a1 1 AtU tllw V^UUljJUIlJ UU tuc Ivllv ?? | ing grounds: He had cotton in store with a firm North, awaiting his orders. He telegraphed, "Hold cotton." The operator in Baltimore, in repeating the dispatch sent from Raleigh, made it read "Sold cotton." The consequence is the firm North sold the cotton, whereby a loss was sustained. ? A knotty question arises in Catawba county. A number of persons of that county are bound over, on charges of ku-kluxing, to the United States Circuit Court, which convenes in Statesville on the third Monday of this month, who are likewise bound, with different securities, to the Superior Court of Lincoln county, which convenes at the same time. ? Congress, at its last session, established a United States Court for the Western District of North Carolina, but failed to make any provision for the appointment of a United States Marshal. As no Court could be held without a Marshal, and no money could be drawn from the treasury to pay the expenses p .i . n . .1 _ _ i _ J? r _ai i._ or ine uouri in me aosence 01 sucn omcer, to meet this unexpected emergency, Marshal Carrow, of the Eastern District, has been appointed a disbursing agent of the Department of Justice, and under this appointment has drawn ?20,000 to defray the expenses of the Court. This makes $249,000 as the total amount drawn during the past twelve months for this purpose. Heretofore the annual expenses of the Federal Courts in North Carolina have not exceeded $10,000. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. FROM UNION COUNTY. Never has there been such a favorable fall for cotton picking. It is earlier than usual, and on upland it will soon all open. Farmers are hurrying off to market with it, notwithstanding the depression in prices. By the first of December our whole crop can be picked; and perhaps three-fourths of it will be sold by that time. Much complaint is made against the weighers in some of our markets. In some instances bales weighed carefully at home and hauled immediately to market will lose from five to twenty-five pounds. The farmers would prefer a smaller price and just weights. No doubt there is room for grumbling on both sides. It is just as bad to cheat in packing cotton as in weighing. Honesty and fair dealing would prove better for all concerned. Our corn market has opened at 50 cents. This will rise as soon as corn becomes dry. The largest crop made for several years is now on hand, but the need is greater for it than usual. Too dry to prepare wheat land. This should be sown, to insure a good crop, before the 10th of November on well prepared land. Five bushels of seed put on a well prepared lot, is better that twice that amount carelessly put in. The Tappahannock is the best variety of white wheat that has been tried in this community. It ripens from the 1st to 10th of May and weighs 62 to 66 pounds to the bushel, and makes the highest grade of family flour. The white Tourelle, a French variety, is the largest and whitest grain we have ever seen, but it has not beeu tried by us yet. The last crop was about one-third the quantity required to j supply the community. It does seem that we I should make enough for home consumption. The county is not thoroughly aroused on ' > ' . - 1? .1 1 A 1 i tne political questions 01 me any. auuui uur | village the office-seekers are very earnest; and i even in the county the same class of persons j do not permit grass to grow under their feet. I The desire for office is growing on our people, j and as that increases, good solidmun ly princi: pie grows weaker. It is bad for a man, mor: ally, when he settles down in the convictiou j that the country cannot get 011 without his | services, and that he cannot get on without I some office. Out of ten such persons nine I are generally unfit for the most humble office 1 in the gift of the people. The colored people | are indifferent as to what party wins. Many | of them will not vote. They have lost confidence in all parties, and many of them will ! be "lookers 011" at the election. P. 0, That I Were Beautiful I is the unspoken j ! wish of thousands of women to whom nature , I has denied the charm of a pure, fresh trans- j parent complexion. To gratify this wish Ha- i ; can's Magnolia Balm, was introduced, j | Thecosmetics of the day had been pronounced J poisonous by the most distinguished chemists,! | and it was also found that their ultimate ef-! ! feet was to wither the skin as well as to par-' alize the external nerves. The ladies hailed j with delight the advent of a healthful, herbal, and floral preparation capable of imparting ! to their faces, necks and arras a porelaiu i smoothness and a tinge like that of the finest oriental pearl. They soon discovered that it was a "new thing under the sun," incomparable and unapproachable. Unquestionably the Magnolia Balm has been the great toilet j success of the present century. SI,000 Reward is offered by the proprietor of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, for i a medicine that will equal it in the cure of all i severe cases of "Liver Complaint" and all 1 diseases arising from impurity of the blood, J as Eruptions, Pimples, Blotches, Boils, etc. : LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. M. Strauss A Son?Great Attraction?Shirting, Ac.?Plaids, Ac.?Hoots and Shoes?ReadyMade Clothing?Caps and Hats?Hosiery, Gloves, Ac.?Sewing Machines?Shawls. Carroll, Clark A Co.?Now Goods. It. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sales. T. W.Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?In the Matter of Eiisha N. Coleman, Bankrupt. W. L. Grist, News Dealer?Mako Your Selection. E. Dickinson, Agent?Millinery, Fancy and llair ((nods. S. I J. Hall?Judgo of Probate?Citation?L. S. White, Applicant?Joseph F. Whito, deceased. C. A. A F. H. Youngblood?Administrators' Notice. J. S. Mratton and R. S. Hone?Administrators' Sale. Simon Ferguson?Candidate for County Commissioner. Jona. N. McElweo, Jr.?To the People of York County. T. M. Dobson it Co.?Now is tho Time?Ladies' Hats?Shoes?Cassimercs?Shawls?Blankets? Kobes and Shawls?Boulevards?Opera Flannels?Miles' Shoes?Gent's Hats? Shaker Flannel?Rcady-Made Clothing? Crockery?Hardware?Cotton Flannel?Notions?Umbrellas?Underwear?Trunks. S. B. Hall, Judge of Probate?Notice to theheirsat-law of Isis Bates, deceased. J. S. R. Thomson, Administrator?Application for Discharge. J. M. Kirkpatrick, Administrator?Application for Dischargo. T. \V. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?Tn Bankruptcy?In tl\e matter of W. B. Haines. James F. Hart, Plaintilf's Attorney?Notice to R. L. M. Camden, Defendant. W. B. Wilson, Plaintilf's Attorney?Notices to the South Carolina Gold Mining Company. Miles Johnsan, Trial Justice?Notice to R. L. M. Camden, Defendant. John G. Enloe?School Notice. Adickes A Black?Dress Goods?New Goods Arrived?Shoos?Cassimercs?Hard waro. James Bynum?To tho Voters of York. RE-APPOINTED. Gov Scott has re-appointed Miles Johnson, of Yorkville, a Trial Justice for York county, vice John McManus, resigned. A CITIZEN OF YORK KOBIJED. Mr. James A. Glenn, of Zeno, in this county, was robbed at Happy Home, N. C., on a! _ _! . P ll _ riAil ..1A? - P i. tne nigm 01 ine zxjin umrao, 01 au overcuat and several other articles of wearing apparel, and a pair of pistols. He alleges that the theft was committed by a strolling ventriloquist and sleight-of-hand performer, who called himself Professor King. FREE SCHOOL STATISTICS. "We have been furnished by Miles Johnson, Esq., School Commissioner, with the subjoined statements in regard to the free schools in York county: Number of white children who have attended free schools from October 1, 1871, to June 1,1872, 1723. Number of colored children who have attended school within the same time, 1205. Total, 2925. The amount paid to teachers by County Treasurer, which was derived from poll tax and school district assessments, is 85,048.36. The amount due the county from the State appropriation is 89,722.22. SALES-DAY. On Monday last, the Sheriff, under the order of the Judge of Probate, sold for partition, lands belonging to the estates of Samuel Faris, Leroy A. Ferguson and Monroe White, as follows: Faris Land.?One hundred and forty acres?purchased by F. M. Walker at $2.25 per acre. Ferguson Land.?On^hundred and ninety-six acres, known as the "Home" tract? purchased by Wra. Ferguson at $3.10 per acre. One hundred and forty-six acres? purchased by Wra. Ferguson at $3.25 per acre. Wiiite Land.?One lot at Fort Millpurchased by B. F. Powell, for $735. The "Home" place?75 acres?purchased by Rev. Win. Banks at 834 per acre. One hundred and ninety-three acres on Catawba River? purchased by D. H. White at 820 per acre. One hundred and thirty-five acres on Catawba river?purchased by L. M. Culp at $16.60 per acre. MANAGERS OF ELECTION. The Commissioners of Election for York county, have designated the following persons as Managers of Election at the precincts mentioned below: Yorkville?John G. Enloe, J. S. Lewis, Jerome L. Wood, J. Ed. Jefferys, Gilbert Dillard, John A. Newton. Bethel? R. L. Simmons, Nelson McCall, Robert Torrence. Blairsville?W. J. Wilson, Reuben Nance, W. J. Rainey. McConnellsville?E. N. Crawford, W. H. Clark, Allison Reid. Clay Hill?Wra. Sahras, J. D. Currence, Sam Simril. 77/iv/ Tlfilfa?Af fVf!nnnp11 T?. E_ Pnwfill. Nathaniel Adger. Coated Tavern?J. J. Shaw, D. F. Schooley, Thomas R. Hamilton. Pride's Old Mill-?T. K. Rates, ? Kidd, Lewis Hiles. Rock Hill?Thomas "Wood, 0. Sitgreaves, Allen Jones, Henry Steele, George Miller, "Wesley Brumfield. We have been unable to ascertain the names of the persons appointed for Bethany, Boydton and Wylie's Store precincts. EX-GOVERNOR PERRY'S SPEECH. On Monday last we had a larger number than usual of our country friends in town? the occasion being an expected address from the Hon. B. F. Berry, who is the Democratic candidate for Congress for this District. The ex-Governor looks hale and hearty, and stauds as erect as a youngster of twenty-five. He thinks he will be elected, and is, of course, in good spirits. At tne time appointed ior the speaking, the Court House was filled by persons anxious to hear the first Democratic speech that has been made here during the present canvass. The audience was aii acceptionally good one, and comprised a 'fair representation of the intelligent and well-toyeomanry of our county, with here and there a considerable show of dusky faces in the crowd. The remarks of the speaker were listened to throughout with close attention, interrupted now and then by marks of applause. After an introduction by W. B. Wilson, Esq., Gov. Perry said: Fi:li.ow Citizens:?I am happy to have the pleasure of meeting you here to-day, although I ? txAwunnnllir fArmni- Htiinci KIIOW DUIIUW ui.vuu [ici.iwimuj. << ami better days I was better known to prominent citizens of your county who have passed away, and wiio have been spared the misfortune of seeing the distress and misfortunes which have come upon our beloved State. I have recently received tho nomination by your convention for a seat in tho United States Congress. Tho nomination was unexpected and not desirod by me. My age, health, and disinclination for public life, were strong reasons for my not accepting it. But in times like tho present, everyone who loves his Stato should work in whatever place the people think lit to place him. For that reason I accepted the nomination, and now appear before you to discuss with you tho condition of the country, and to express to you my opinions as to the course which should bo pursued by our peoplo. We have had four years of radical rule and of tho administration of General Grant, and what is tho result? What are the consequences of tho rule of the Radical party in this State? It is uncertain what is the exact amount of the State debt; but there is no doubt that it has been increased from ten to twenty millions of dollars. And what is there to show for this vast amount of debt? What single improvement lias been made in the State? Not a single railroad has been built; not a College or University endowed; no charitable institution supported ; no provision made for tho poor and | unfortunate. As the Radical party themselves i admit, the money has been squandered, embezzled { anil stolen. In addition to this, we have been taxed to the amount of millions of dollars. Although we have less than one-third of tho proper- I ty we had before tho war, our taxes are live-fold greater than they formerly were. And yet tho j State Treasury is empty! The Judges and other I ! officials have received no salary for the last nine | i months, although millions of dollars have Ihmmi , I paid into the Treasury. Large appropriations | I were made for the education ol both whites and i j blacks, hut the funds have been stolen and the free ; schools are closed. The Lunatic Asvlum is now j dependent upon private charity, and but for that, ! the poor unfortunates confined there would be | I turned loose upon the world or starve. The ap| propriation made for them was large; but the money is stolen. Largo appropriations were also ; made for the Penitentiary; but the Treasury is i empty, and the convicts are being farmed out, in | preference to letting them loose upon the community. I Seven hundred thousand dollars of your money ! I was appropriated to buy lands and homes for the poor. This money, too, has been squandered and j embezzled. The small amount of lands that were purchased is perfectly worthless. The land commissioner purchased lands near Charleston for $'.10,000, charged it to the State at ?120,000, and him- I self pocketed $100,000 on that transaction. In t Greenvillo county, in order to save a Northern j creditor, I purchased, at Sheriff's sale, some poor J worthless lands at sixty cents per acre. The lands were so poor and worthless that the creditor de-. sired meto dispose of them. I sold them to Mr. Cleveland at sixty cents per acre. He sold them tn tlm T.mvl I Vmi miss inner at $5.00 nor acre: the ; (lends to theStato were made out at $7.00 per aore, and the difference of $2.00 per acre was pocketed by the Commissioner. The high officials of the Radical party are themselves charging each other with all kinds of fraud. G'ardozo, the Secretary of State, says that soven or eight millions of dollars of bonds have been forged and put in circulation. These bonds were sold in New York at thirty, forty and fifty cents on the | dollar. Our State bank bills were selling at ten cents on the dollar. Our Ohio Governor, with others of the ring, purchased and bought up these bills, and then, as Mr. Corbin says, bribed tho Legislature to pass an act funding these bills at par. In the same way, an act was passed requiring the interest on these bonds to bo paid in gold, in order to give market to the bonds in New York. It is said that this ring sold out these bonds at eighty and ninety cents on the dollar, and invested tho proceeds in western lands. Governor Scott is said to have invested largely in this way, and to have built himself a palace in Ohio. He" is said to lie worth a million dollars now, although, according to Judge Carpenter, he only paid tax in Ohio a few years ago on a bob-tailed horse and an old sulky. And although he is now rolling in wealth, his salary as Governor of the State is only $J500 per year. Tho Legislature, too, has made an immense number of petty offices in order to increase the strength of the party. In tho olden time tho duties in regard to bridges, froe schools, etc., were performed gratuitously' by our citizens. Now they are all paid for. The County School Commissioner ot each county gets $1,000 for disbursing school funds in their counties. In Pickens county the school fund is only $1,400; but the School Commissioner gets $1,000 of it for disbursing it. This same Legislature has created an army of pages and attaches, and theexpensesofthat Legislature at its last session amounted to one million of dollars. Every committee of tho Legislature had its clerk. A member of the Legislature informed me that one of the committees had a colored woman for its clerk and paid her ton dollars per day. I was a member of the Legislature for thirty years, and was chairman of various committees, and never before heard of a clerk being required for a committee. Our employees were a door-keeper, a messenger and a reading clerk. For our services during the session wo received from seventy to one hundred dollars. I have unvpr rpj-flived more than one hundred dollars lor a single session. The Legislature have lately put the salary of their members at six hundred dollars, and although it should not be over two hundred dollars, still I am glad they have given themselves a stated salary, as it will now bo to their interest to have short sessions. , I do not know it myself, but I have heard of wide-spread bribery in the Legislature, and that many of the members have received their thousands. Mr. Edward, of Virginia, told mo that he formerly owned a colored woman to whom his family was much attached, and that when she was emancipated she moved to Columbia. Four or live years after the war, ho met her in a store there and she invited him to visit her house. He did so, and she showed him her magniticently furnished rooms, her silver plate?more in quantity than he had ever before seen in a private family? and her $200 casket, with its contents of diamonds, watches, Ac. She told him, "Mr. Edward, all this never cost me a cent. Thoy were presented to my husband for passing bills in tho Legislature." .Her husband was Elliott; then a member of tho Legislature, and now a member of Congress from this State. This same Legislature made an appropriation of $70,000 or $80,000 for what was callea the "Armed Force." When the Governor was about to be impeached, it is said that he bribed the Legislature with this fund. Exhibits lately made go to show that 310,000 of this went to Moses, ?10,000 to Elliott, and various amounts to other parties. You have here the disgusting scene of tho Governor bribing, with the people's money, the Legislature to drop tho proceedings against him. In regard to the Congressional election, I desire to say a few words. For four years you have not been represented in Congress. The liadical party havoat present all tho members from this State. Your property and your interests are not represented. With' sixty thousand voters, representing almost wholly the'wealth and intelligence of the State, you are without representation in Congress. You h'avo 110 one to correct misrepresentations that may be made to the President and to Congress. The consequence of this has been that these misrepresentations have induced a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and a practical government of this section by tho military. Under the Constitution, Congress alone could suspend the writ; but they, nevertheless, delegated that power to tho President. It is true that there have been disturbances, riots and tumults in the nine counties in which the writ h:is been suspended; but at tho time the President issued his proclamation the disturbances had ceased and the country was in a stato of profound peace. I defy any one to point out an instance where any officer was over resisted in executing his warrants and making arrests. At any time, any person charged with crimeeould be brought before the State tribunals without difficulty and tried for his oflenso. But this did not nunHin miHintMHesin Washington. Ninecouiities were proclaimed in rebellion, the insurgents were ordered to disperse and go to their homes, as though we were assembled and in arms, when, in truth, we were at our homes working in our fields and our shops. On the heels of that proclamation came the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. The military made arrests of innocent and guiltless men, they were thrown into prison, carried to Columbia, tried by packed juries with perjured witnesses, convicted and sent to a distant prison. If Victoria had attempted such acts as these her throne would have toppled from under her. The Anglo-Saxon is devoted to civil law; lie especial I3* holds inviolate the great writ of habeas corpus. But by this act of Congress, the prisoner is denied the opportunity of showing his innocence. Ho must lie in jail until the authorities see proper to release or tryjiim. But I have the satisfaction of telling you that the Hon. Reverdy Johnson has said to Governor Vance, of North Carolina, that the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that this act is unconstitutional; and that as soon as that Court assembles?which will be in December?that decision will bcannouneed. That will be an end of these prosecutions, and those who have been imprisoned will be released. I11 addition to this?nut not with any reference to this statement?the Attorney-General of the United States told a gentleman that no further proceedings would be had in the United States Courts against parties charged with violating this act of Congress, but that these parties would be turned over to the State Courts for trial. And here, amidst one's peers, is where a trial should bo had. Mr. Jefferson stated as one of the reasons for the declaration of independence, that citizens wero taken from their homes and carried to a distance for trial. Parties arrested under this act have been carried to Columbia, or Charleston, J or Greenville, and tried by jurors who knew neither them nor tho witnesses who testified against them. The beauty of trial by jury is that the jurors are supposed to bo from *tlio vicinage, and to know tho character of the witnesses. In Columbia or Charleston tho jury do not know the witnesses from here, and any one who tolls them a glib story is credited, "flie trial for a crime should bo in tho county where it is alleged to be committed. At this election this State will elect five representatives to Congress?one from each of the four I Congressional District and one from the State at large. The white people of this State have a right to elect one of these to represent them. Tho Radical party themselves should be willing to allow this when they have the other four. There is no opposition to their candidates in tho other three Congressional districts, or to their candidate for tho State at large. I ask you, therefore, not to bo lukewarm, but to turn out and vote. In my county (Greenville) four years ago the people were inactive. They said tlie negroes have tho majority; lot tho State go. The State did go. Enormous taxes wero imposed, bad laws wero enacted, the State debt was increased, ofiiees were multiplied, the salaries of officers were increased. The people sawtheir policy would not do. Atthelastel'-tion I they participated in voting, and elected better 1 men. They are more active now than ever. The j same spirit prevails in Spartanburg and Laurens 1 and Union. We have a majority of more than I three thousand voters in this Congressional district. Let there be a general turn out 011 the day I I of election. | Tho colored voters, too, should come to the res- 1 I mm Tlmv Imi-e si deen interest in good govern I meat. The taxes of the country are paid by la-J | bor. The tax on property is the same as the tax } ' on merchandize. Go to a merchant to buy a yard j ' of calico. The merchant will see what it cost him. j | He will then add 011 his cost for transportation, then his taxes and then his profit, and the purehas- j i er will pay for all. The same way with the farm- j : er. Land that he could afford to"rent for ?2 per j ! acre before this, he must now charge $3 for in or- [ [ der to meet the tax on l.is land. The party who | hires laborors, where before he was able to pay $10, j 1 can now only pay $8. In the end the laborer pays I the taxes of "the country. Wo are all equally inI terested in a good government. I am dependent | on you for labor, and you are dependent upon me for land. We should befriends, and we would be if it woro not for men from the North who have I tried to poison your minds, and urged you not to > trust the white poople. They say if you elect us to office, you will be put back into slavery. But j they know they are speaking falsely. They know j that your freedom is guaranteed to you by the j amendments to the Constitution. But they say this in order to get your votes and get into office ! and steal their millions. Y011 elected your Gov- j ernor and I10 steals his thousands, and how are , you benefitted ? You and I are interested in this thing?we are in the same boat, and weshould rally together and put in office only good and honest men. These carpet-baggers have taught you to distrust throe of the best friends you have ever had. Those friends are Horace Greeley, Charles Sunnier, andCassius M. Clay. These men have done more to abolish slavery than all the rest of the radical party. These men ask you not to band yourselves together, as a race, against the whito people. But you turn your backs upon theso iiien in consequence of the poison which has been instilled into your ears. It is time for you to think of this. How much better off are you now than you wore when you were first set free ? And how much better offis the white man now than he was then? Both are crushed with the taxation, and you will be kept poor all your days unless you nave a bettor government. The land-owners are but the agents and overseers over you for the benefit of this government at Columbia. You may work day and night, but the surplus that is made goes forjtaxes, and is embezzled and stolen by the government. Ifthere is manly spirit in you unite wit!. ur>. and let us give a long pull, a strong pull, and a pui! altogether, and see what we can do .to restore an honest goverhmcnt. A reform movement has been initiated by the Liberal Republicans?the honest Republicans of the North. They determined no longer to tolerate such a President as General Grant, and nominated Horace Greeley as their standard-bearer. They charge Grant with attempting to centralize all power in the general government; with subverting the rights of the State; with acting in defiance of the civil laws and the constitution; with attempting to govern the country in military fashion ; with lobbying measures through Congress. He especially attempted to bribe Senator Schurz in the San Domingo matter?an attempt which, if it had been successful, would have been a death blow to your race there. He sent a messenger to Carl Schurz and told him he would give him all the patronage and offices he wished If he would support tliescheme. But Schurz said "no" to the proposition. What would our ancestors have thought of Jefferson or Madison or Jackson had they sent such a message to a Senator? Notwithstanding their great services, the whole country would have cried them down and damned them. This reform movement at the North comes from the Republican party. I saw the other day a list? and it was like tnelistof an army?of the Generals I who were supporting Horace Greeley in preference to Grant. General Grant is guilty of the grossest nepotism; not only in reference to his own J family, but also with the kindred of his wife. I n??.l ??? nr.Unrl Uim mtYlAITft Mu V\mt V* Of.! M. I UIHIU 111UII mill IAS 1VIIIUTV liio vtwuuwt ... law Casey, but ho was not removed. Grant is surrounded by corrupt men. Bowen, the Post Me iter at Washington, who stands high in the Radi- ^ cal party, and who was the friend of Grant, says ^ that Grant has defrauded him of $20,000?that lie has none of the instincts of a gentleman, and is most at home in drinking whisky and talking horse. Grant was elected President on his military reputation. If I am not greatly mistaken, history will make that reputation small. I defy any one to point to a battle in which he was engaged in which he did not have an overwhelming superiority in numbers to the Confederates. He lost one hundred and fifty thousand men in conquering Lee, who never had more than fifty thousand. General Grant graduated at West Point and graduated low. He then went into the army, but soon contracted bad habits, and when about to be cashiered for drunkenness and unofllcer-like conduct, resigned. Ho then went and stayed with his father-in-law, Dent, until the war broke out in Missouri. At that time he was negotiating with the rebels to take command of some of their troops, but receiving a commission as Colonel in the Federal army, abandoned the negotiation. He was a Democrat before the war and voted for Buchanan. When he went into the army ho said, "I draw my sword in defense of the Union, but not to free the negroes. If this war is for the purpose of abolishing slavery, I will sheath ray sword and go back to my farm." But for thirty years Greeley has labored for your freedom, and has always been your friend. But these carpet-baggers, who are unwilling to do anything for you, try to prejudice you against ^ those who are your friends. A gentleman told me a few days ago, that he was on the railroad and a black man was trying to borrow money to pay his passage. Ho went to Carpenter, the editor of the Utiion, who is always anxious to get the black man's vote; but Carpenter wouldn't let mm nave the money, which, however, he did get from a poor Democrat of Laurens. And now, my friends, contrast the life of Grant with that of Greeley. Horace Greeley was born in poverty. As a poor boy he worked on a farm in Now England. Ho then went as a workman into a printing office, and worked his way up until now he stands one of tho first journalists of the world. No journal in the land lias a higher character than that which he controlled. The speeches which hehaslately made in his western trip show that he can speak as well as write. I am amazed at tho wonderful versatility and genius shown in thoso speeches. Gratz Brown says that Greeley has a grand head. I agree with him; but say, too, that Greeley has a big heart?one always ready at the call of charity. When the Federal cavalry, about the close of the war, made a raid into the up-country, they took away two horses from a poor Baptist preacher named Gwinn. Mr. Gwinn wrote to Mr. Greeley an account of the way in which he had been treated, and although Mr. Greeley certainly has no cause to be partial to South Carolinians, he sat down and- sent Mr. Gwinn a check for $200 In former times we South Carolinians haveabusedMr. Greeley roundly. Judge Orr said to me tho other day, "How cau you support Greeley, a man that you have been fighting for thirty years?" I told the Judge "I woulu supports man whom I had fought for thirty years 011 issues now dead, rather than one I had 'boon lighting four years on live issues." I feel like the * Democrat in Alabama who was asked by a big unuicai now no ouuiu Buppvit nun? o ui?.vn,j who had done so much to set all the negroes free. The Democrat said, that "Horace was such a good hand at freeing folks, he wanted to see him elected so that he could set the white people free!" Hut my friends, the Republican party were not willing for the white people to be free. Until lately, I, an old Union man, was disfranchised; and if I had been elected to the Legislature as some of mv friends wished, would have been unable to take my seat. I was opposed to secession ; I felt that it was imprudent and told my friends that se- I cession was the death-knell of slavery. But when the State did secede I went heart and hand for my country. And after the war, as I couldn't take the oath of office, I was disfranchised. But when the Republican party saw the monster meeting in Cincinnati in favor of amnesty and reform, tney said we must checkmate this movement. They, therefore, repealed this disability law except as to a few hundreds of persons; but they never would have done had it not been for the Cincinnati Convention, But what was Horace Greeley's record on this question of amnesty? The next morning after the surrender at Appomatox he came out in his paper in favor of conciliation. He asked that the conquerors be magnanimous and that such measures bo adopted as would make us all brothers again. But for seven years General Grant and his party have opposed him. They haye appealed to the prejudices of the North; they have spoken about thqdanger of rebels being in power and surrendering the Government into thehandsof rebels. Their object was to lire the Northern mind, and keep the North and South from coming together. The Democratic party at the North are our friends and have had to encounter much prejudice. I was in the Convention at Philadelphia in 1887, and when I graspod the hands of Democrats there, I felt they were my friends. They told us how much they had cnclured for the sake of that friendship. But they were jeered at and scorned by the Republicans, and called sympathisers with rebels. The Democrats replied that they had fought in the war, and now the war was ended they wanted harmony, and wanted us back in the Union on equal terms with themselves. I told President Johnson that as South Carolina had first left the Union, it would Ik? a matter of pride for me that she should be the first to go back. The old man was delighted, and so was Mr. Seward. The magnanimous treatment of our State proposed by Mr. Johnson was at first hardly believed by many in our State. But Congress put an end to it. It determined on "reconstructiori." The whites and blacks were getting on too amicably. About this time there was a meeting in Columbia at which u-iL / ?????! TIrt.?,?GAn rtr\A Wovorlv QTVilffV I MHU UL'UUliU llrtliijjwn turn "v . .j r- , highly complimenting each other. The Radicals were alarmed. Thev saw that if the whites and blacks became friends, the South would be stronger than ever. Congress passed the reconstruction laws, and the South was flooded by a horde of carpet-baggers. These carpet-baggers were all poorsome not even able to pay their passage on the cars. Many of them were'men of no character. Tliov told the negroes if they voted with the whites [ they would be put back into slavery. They instituted Union Leagues and swore their disciples to vote lor the Radical nominee. These Union Leagues have been broken up and the United brotherhood substituted, the object of which, as I am informed, is to make Moses Governor of the State, and put Governor Scott into the United States Senate. Fellow-Citizens, both white and colored, you should feel it incumbent on yon to go to the polls and vote, and to vote for honest men. The great convention which was held in Columbia some time since was the most disgraceful afl'air I have ever heard of. The members charged each other with being rogues, liars and scoundrels. When Chamberlain was put in nomination, the friends of the candidate defended him by saying he hadn't stolen as much as the other candidate. When Tomlinson was put forward he was denounced for bribery in the passage of the Phosphate bill. Cardozo says Tomlinson admitted it to him. Tim Hurley made a speech in the Bolters' Convention, which sepcrated from the Regular Convention and went ofl' to themselves. Tim made a good speech, as he is well able to do. He exhibited his tax receipt of $2t>00, for his property in South Carolina?said this thing couldn't be stood much longer?it would break the State. A black man?a stone-mason in Columbia?replied to Mr. Ilurley, rcmindinghim that when he came here a fi>?' hn wiwn't wnrtlm rlnllar and wanted to know where Jio got ail his money?didn't he ^ steal it? It is very prating on the feelings of the poor honest man to see these carpet-baggers riding about in princely style, with line horses and rolling in wealth, all procured fraudulently. It is your duty fellow-citizens to remedy the evil as far as it lies in your power. You should instruct your members of the Legislature to repudiate this fraudulent debt of fifteen or twenty millions of dollars and these forged bonds, and to crush this Illue Ridge Railroad swindle of 82,000,000. This swindle Mr. Corbin has exposed, and Judge Willard, who is one of the most honest men of the Republican party, enjoined the Scrip from being issued or passed, anil thus defeated Patterson anu his ring for one time at least. This army ofofliees, too, should be swept away. We should go back to old times, and lot gentlemen of intelligence and honesty manage affairs relating to our schools, our roads and bridges. We should drive out the swarm of pages and at- ^ taehes, and thus save hundreds of thousands of dollars. In olden times our taxes in Greenville county were only 80000 or 87000. Now the expen