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?? ttaps anil partis. ji ? It is computed that $500,000,000 have been j j paid out of the United States Treasury in \ revenues since 1800, but that is a very small j, su,m in comparason with what must be paid i, at the Kite at which the (tension list is being , increased. ? Stonewall Jackson's army horse, called "Lillie Sorrel," is twenty-six years of age, and still kindly cared for by Gen. Jackson's father-in-law Dr. Morrison, of Lincoln county, ' X. C. It is the horse on which Gen. Jackson received his death wound. ? Several men, who were concerned in an i attempt to murder Deputy Collector Stewart, I of the internal revenue service, were convicted at the present term of the U. S. Court at At-, lanta, Ga. After the verdict, one of the prisoners drew a revolver, rushed out through the crowd and made his escape. ? Eighty Frenchmen, assisted by 1,400 Afri- , can laborers, are about to commence the eon-! struction of a railway between the Niger and Senegal rivers. Their operations will l>c protected by a military column, which will plant i the French Hag and erect two forts on the Xigor. ? There is one honest and self-respecting i1 man amongst the able-bodied pensioners of the [ l government. Corporal Ayers, of New Jersey j gives up bis pension because, he says, he is ; able to make his own living without govern ment aid. If about 100,000 more would do ' the same thing they would both unburden their conscience and the public treasury of a l very heavy load . '< On the :k?th of June last there were on the ] tensions rolls 285,005, persons, of Whom 78,401 ] were widows or minor children of soldiers or sailors, and 7,134 survivors of the war of 1SI2, . There are now pending, in addition to the above, 290,006 cases, the larger portion of j which will be passed upon favorably, from ' which we may gather some idea of what the Iiension expenses of the government will be in the future. ? The twenty-second annual fair of the North Carolina Agricultural Society was held at Raleigh last week. An opening address was delivered by Governor Jarvis. The exhibition was the Itest ever made in the state, particularly as to live stock, machinery and farm products. All the departments were complete. An unusually large attendance of l?eople was present from all portions of the state. ? Says the Gastonia (N. C.) Gazette: Mr. Win. McLean, lives in the extreme of South Point, in Gaston county, N. C., and from his door step one cau see two States, two rivers, three counties, three branches, two springs and three points within a point. He is 71 years old aud has 14children. Ilis 14th grandson, 8 years old, can pick 100 pounds of cotton l>er day and weighs 45 pounds. The old gentleman plows on land cleared in 1770. ? There are but few places in the United states where water is more valuable than petroleum. Garfield, the new Pennsylvania oil town, is perhaps the only such locality. There is 110 water, and the supply for human existence has to be brought from a spring some distance from the town. It costs sixty cents a barrel, while oil is only worth fifty-six, and the water venders will not give a barrel ol water for a barrel of oil. ? A Philadelphia jury was called upon to decide in a customs case whether a jewsharp is . a toy or a musical instrument. The question put to the expert witnesses was, "Is the jews- ( harp capable of producing a succession of harmonious sounds ?" One witlmess played to the jury "The heart bowed down" and "The Skids are out to-day," and the reporter says that the jury seemed restless and depressed. Their verdict was that the jewsharp is a musical instrument ? Birmingham, Ala., is a conspicuous example of the rapid industrial development now ] going forward in the South. Teu years ago I the site of Birmingham was a cotton field, surrounded by virgin forest. Five years ago i the population of the place was only 2,500, < whilst the present population is estimated at i 11,000. The amount invested in the manufac- ; ture of pig iron alone in the district of Birmingham will aggregate the handsome sum of ] S3,350,{>00. Other manufacturing industries are also flourishing there. ? In Charlotte, N. G'., last Thursday, W. II. i Bailey, Democratic- candidate for the House, from Mecklenburg county was assaulted by A. B. Gillespie, Revenue Agent, and badly * wounded. Gillespie struck him with brass knuckles, cutting him to the bono on the fore head, over the eye and on the lip. The attack was made because Bailey stated that he 1 was informed that Gillespie was one of the nit* 11 \>ik) was uaiug uiuiiev tu uaiiy tut? nw t ion in Mecklenburg for the Republicans. On 1 Saturday, a son of Mr. Bailey's attacked Gil- , lespie, but the combatants were separated before either inflicted a serious injury. ? The inquiry into the alleged insanity of Mrs. Scoville, the wife of George Scoville and sister of Guiteau, was begun in the county court at Chicago Thursday on complaint of her husband, who api>eared on behalf of the prosecution. Scoville in his statment gave a history of the Guiteau family, claiming that insanity ran through it since 1790, and that of eleven children of Mrs. Scoville's father, five died of insanity, and two of diseases closely allied to it. Mr. Blanchard, Mrs. Scoville's attorney, in his statement charged Scoville with inhuman treatment of his wife, and stated that he, instead of her should be in a lunatic asylum. ? At one o'clock last Friday, Reddick Pow- ; ell, Simon O'Gwin, Joseph King, Robert Donalson and Ella Moore, negroes, were hanged in the jail yard at Easton, Ga., for complicity in a riot which occurred at that place on August fith during a camp meeting, in which an innocent young white man, named James Harvard, was set upon by an infuriated mob, and, after being shot by one of them, was beaten almost to a jelly by the others. The woman raised the first howl which excited the mob to the desperate work. Seven negroes were con-1 victed and sentenced for the offence, but the j Governor respited two of them. The execu-1 tion was conducted quietly. j i ? Great excitement was caused at Reading, ! in England, the other day, by the grand open- < air demonstrations of the Salvation Army. ' The procession was headed by eleven girls ' dressed in the style of Italian peasants, carry- 1 ing tamborines, with which they accompanied 1 the singing. One of them, who had been : lately turned out of doors localise she joined 1 the "Army," caused a great deal of notice by I wearing a large white pinafore, upon which i was written a text of Scripture. The feeling 1 shown throughout the service was intense, i The singing was accompanied by a piano, liurn nnrnMq trn?nitnc /Iriimc oiwl fifnc thci i maidens occasionally executing a war dance. ? Surgeon-General Hamilton, of the Marine i Hospital service, furnishes the following summary of the progress of yellow fever at Brownsville and Pensacola during the past week : During the week 15 cases of yellow fever and ( 2 de&ths have been reported from Brownsville, making a total during the prevalence of the |; epidemic of 1,951 cases and 114 deaths. From j) Pensacola, Fla., official rejiorts by mail have ! ( l>een received as follows: October 12th, 35 cases, 15 deaths ; 13th, 40 cases, 5 deaths; 14th, 58 cases, 2 deaths ; 16th, 70 cases, 3 deaths ; 1 17th, 50 cases, 3 deaths ; 18th, 50 cases, 3 1 deaths ; total, 377 cases, 24 deaths ; previously ] reported, 1,389 cases and 125 deaths. Fiftytwo new cases of yellow-fever were rei>orted at ; Pensacola last Saturday, but only one death. ' The destitution and distress at Pensacola are , not diminishing, but increase with the duration of the epidemic. Quarantine will continue for some time according to present indi- i cations. The expenditures for relief are very j heavy, and contributions with some local ex- j ceptions are very small, causing much uneasi- j, ness to the Board of Health, which is also j almoner for the community at large. j * ? The kindly words of the New York Herald, j t in its comments on Ilubbell's quotations from the garbled report of Gen. Hampton's Staun- j t tort speech, will draw every ex-Confederate ?*loser in feeling to the Union and strengthen j faith in his fellow-countrymen. Abuse of the j Confederate leaders, under whom and with ! whom the Southern people fought, does no ! good to the North aud hurts the South. We do not expect those who fought in the North-' em army to give up any part of their beliefs , | and loves, and we will not and do not give up j ours. The Herald realizes this when it says that "a soldier of the Confederacy who did not * admire Lee and "Jackson would be altogether f a rather pitiful spectacle," and that "through- t out the country, throughout the world, they i are regarded as magnificent evidences of the lighting qualities of the lace, and while there is many a nation that might fairly envy others 11 the possession of such heroes, the North will t hold that such men, though we regret their er- 1 rors of opinion, are not merely Southern men, j tmt Americans." These are blessed words, j How sjmI it is that so few of them roach our cars and so touch our hearts. 'It were so easy, j l>y justice and kindness, to renew in the South the old fervid love of the Union ! <?he ?0rfeiiUc (inquirer. YORK VILLE. S. C.T~ THURSDAY MORNINU. OCT. -2G, 1882 DEATH OF BISHOP PAINE. At the ripe old age of &{, Bishop Robert Paine, Senior Bishop of the Method ist Episcopal Church, South, died last Friday, at half past four o'clock, at Aberdeen, Mississippi. Bishop Paine was born in Xorth Carolina in 1791), removed to Tennessee in 181:1, in 1810 ; joined the Tennessee Conference of the Meth- j odist Episcojttl Churcli. was President of Lagrange College, Alabama, from 18:10 to .1840, and was in the latter year elected Bishop. He j was chairman of the committee of nine ap- j pointed to prepare a plan for the division of , the Church, and was a prominent member of ; the Louisville Convention in 1S45, which or- j ganized the Methodist Episcopal Church, ; South. As a preacher and as presiding oltieer j in the Conference, he has long l>oen distin- j guished. As a presiding officer and Bishop, ) he was always prompt, firm, dignified, but genial, and ever commanded the love of his j brethren in the ministry who were subordinate ; to him. He was present at the General C'ou- j ference held in Nashville last May, and was J the recipient of every mark of esteem and love and veneration which his brethren and friends i could bestow upon him. THE COXGUESSIONAL (IAXVASS. A rousing Democratic meeting was held at i Elizabeth Church, Mount Croghan township, i Chesterfield county, last Thursday, at which ! there was also a gathering of veterans, survi- j vors of Coit's Batteiy, who held a reunion. Among the speakers were Senator Hampton and Hon. John J. Hemphill, the Democratic nominee for Congress from this district. Mr. Hemphill was the first political speaker, and J he was followed by Knox Livingston, of Marlboro, and Senator Hampton. Mr. Hemphill's speech covered about the same ground as his speeches made in York county. In reference! to his competitor he said : I don't come before you in my own name, I but I come with the endorsement and as the j nominee of all these good people. It is your j duty to vote for John J. Hemphill not as an ! individual, but for Hemphill as the candidate \ of the Democratic party. When I was nomi- j nated I had two opponents in the field?Col. j Cash of this county, aud Thomas Jefferson j Mackey. Mackey soon found that he was not as big a man as he fancied himself to be, and retired from the scene early in the action. Now only Col. Cash is opposing me. I come endorsed for Congress by your representatives and be by those who are not your representatives. Every man who runs for office has to j take the votes of the political party in which j he runs. Col. Cash has not been nominated i by anybody, but he comes with the endorse- j ment of the Radicals. When I come out with j the nomination of the Democratic party 1 J come expecting to stand by its principleseconomy and honesty in the administration of j all our public affairs and justice to all men. i It is a misfortune for any man to have at his ! back a people or a party whose records a?e j not right. I don't stand here and support the ' record of the Radical party, and I do not come i endorsed by it. So long as it retains its power j in Congress no reduction of the taxes can ever j lie secured and domest ic peace and social order I can never be assured. Col. Cash was present during a part of the | time, and of his demeanor at the meeting the i correspondent of the News and Courier says: j Col. Cash was on the ground, but he did ! not speak. Major Coit went to him and offer-! ed to allow him to speak at any time during j the meeting, to precede Hemphill or to follow him, only reserving the right that if he should I misrepresent Hemphill in any way that Hemp- \ hill should have the privilege of replying. To i this reasonable proposition Col. Cash refused j to agree, although several days ago he asked : for "a division of time.'" lie said that he j would speak if he were allowed to speak last J and 110 one were allowed to reply to him. This j proposal was so unfair that Major Coit would j not agree to it, and Col. Cash would not speak i at all. He did not take a seat on the stand, ! although a place had been reserved for him, but I during the speaking occupied a position at some ! distance from the stand,^and for some time lis-! tened, with his hand to his ear, to the sound i Democratic doctrine expounded by the Demo-| cratic candidate for Congress. He made no i sign of dissatisfaction, and while Mr. Living- j ston was speaking left the ground in a buggy with his son and one outrider. There were j not in the large crowd present a half dozen men who will vote for Cash at the election, j rt?wl /vn/v f flmcn u?liAm lia \\*\a havatn- ! CUIU UUU Ui t>:u Ul Uiuot n tivui uv mu? uvivvv- | fore counted upon for support were happily j converted to-day. It was a disappointment to | many that Col. Cash did not speak. The I)em- i ocrats accorded him a fair hearing, and would i have answered all his arguments conclusively. ! hut he "couldn't stand the racket.'' and left j without attempting to define his position or saying why anybody should vote for him. This meeting will do a great deal of good in j Chesterfield county. It has made all true! Democrats more solid and determined than j ever, and will have a happy effect on those j who have felt some soreness over imaginary i wrongs. Chesterfield has a registered majority of about eight hundred white voters, and ! the colored people will not give Cash their full ! mpport. The indications are that he will be j ueaten badly in his own county, and it is con- j ildently predicted that the meeting to-day in- j aires the election of the Democratic candidate 1 for Congress in the Fifth District by a large i majority. STATE POLITICAL ITEMS. ? The Darlington (ireenbackers have nomi-1 lated a county ticket. ? It is rumored that a straight-out liepubli-1 3an ticket will be placed in the field in Union i VUIIIIV. J ? It is reported that J. II. McLane, the head ind front of the State Oreenback ticket, has ' made another mysterious visit to Washington 2ity. ? Shall we, just when we are going to gain ill the fruits of our hard work, when every-; jody else is turning Democrat, shall we turn ' Radical ??Wade Hampton. ? If the people are not satisfied with the j Stock and Registration laws, can they remedy j :hetn by going into the camp of the enemy ?? [ LVorlo T-To mnfnn ? The Republican Congressional Convention i >f the Third District met in Anderson, Octo- j >er to, and, after repudiating the money prin-? ;iple of the Greenback party, heart ily endorsed j T. II. Russell, the (ireenback candidate for 1 Congress. There was only one white man in j he convention. ? Dr. Cooke, President of ClafHin Universi- j y at Orangeburg, savs that during his Sum- j ner travels at the North he heard the highest j ommendations of Colonel Thompson on eve-; y side, in consequence of his labors in the :ause of the education of the masses. lie is J egarded as one of the ablest and most culti-; 'ated Superintendents of Education in the ; Jnion. ? Ex-Cadet Whitaker has written a letter to | he Xetrs and Courier, explaining his political aith. His letter contains much sound advice j o the colored people, and concludes as follows: T owe Radicalism nothing, and with the re- i i ords of the advocates of Radicalism before ne, I would lie to my own conscience were I 1 o vote, write or speak to bring a return of I ladical rule in the South." 11 SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Abbeville county, according to Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken, has shipped 300,000 bushels of oats. ? Jack Rawls, a citizen of Columbia, and a violinist of some note, was found dead at Mayesville last Thursday morning. ? Several of the extreme upper counties are discussing the project of forming a Piedmont Agricultural Society, which shall hold an annual fair at Greenville. ? The elegant residence of Colonel 11. V. Gist, known as the Rutin.. ud Homestead, near Ne\vl>erry, was destroyed by fire, October 17. Loss ?10,000 ; insurance $7,500. ? General Manigault has prepared in pamphlet form a small "Sharp's Rifle Manual" which will Ik? issued to those companies of State troops who are supplied with that arm. ? Mr. \\\ J. Cotton, who had his linger torn off and arm lacerated by a gin a few j days ago on Mr. James Jones' place, near Blackstock, died from his wounds on Tuesday of last week. J ? The Lancaster Review reports the recent burning in that county of eleven bales of cotton Itelonging to Mr. R. T. Dunlap, and nine bides belonging to Mr. J. V. Welsh. The burning in botii cases is sup|K>sed to have been caused by sparks from the engine of the gin. ? At a recent meeting of the Charleston Exchange. after considering figures showing tinjust discrimination against that city by the Clyde Syndicate, resolutions were adopted calling on the Legislature for relief from the oppressions of that monopoly. ? Mr. I). W. liar re, of Newberry, gathered three hundred bushels of corn last week from less than seven acres. His corn this year was all good, and he says lie lias made enough to last him two years, liesides making about twelve bales of cotton to each mule. ? A large proportion of the colored people of Abbeville village have refused to pay their commutation tax for working the streets, and as they declined to work the streets, executions are to be issued against them, when they will either have to discharge the obligation or go to jail. ? The Rock Ilill Herald says Mr. T. R. Faulkner, of Fort Mill, has invented a motor for running sewing machines and other light machinery. It is after the principle of a clock, and is so constructed that a machine can be run for four four hours at any speed and stopped at will. An enterprising Northern firm lias offered ?0,000 for the right to manufacture and sell the motor in three Northern States. ? The Columbia Register of Saturday says: Colonel Royken, the Commissioner of Immigration, lias returned from New York, where he perfected arrangements for the selection and prompt forwarding of immigrants to this State. The continuation of warm weather has kept open the stream to the West, which will be checked on the first indication of cold, and directed to the South, when the orders now on hand from the State for more than fifty families will be speedily filled. ? The fourteenth annual Fair of the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Association will open at Columbia, November 14th and continue consecutively till the 17th. All articles intended for exhibition (race horses excepted) will be transported free over the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. Parties sending articles must prepay freight at shipping point and upon presentation of receipted freight bill, and certificate of the Fair Association that the article has been exhibited, the money will be refunded. ? A serious accident occurred on the G., C. & A. Railroad last Thursday. The freight train which left Columbia about 1 o'clock that morning, going towards Augusta, ran into an obstruction on the track near Leesville, and the engine and several cars were wrecked Tom Mitchell, a colored fireman, was killed, and the engineer, Mr. McCullough, was somewhat scalded and bruised. A rail had been torn up and several crossties placed in a cattle guard on the track by some unknown persons, evidently with the intention of wrecking the train. ? On Tuesday of last week, at Carver's field, four miles above Spartanburg, Bob Sumner colored, was killed by Henry Stevens, colored. While the father of Bob Sumner and Stevens were quarrelling over the hauling through the cotton field of the former, Bob's mother precipitated a tight, in which were engaged Bob, father and mother and the brothers Henry, West and Game Stevens. While stones were flying Henry plunged his knife between Bob's shoulders. Henry Stevens, with his brother West and Game Stevens as accessories, are now in jail. ? The Reporter of last week gives the following notice of the Chester fair : Chester's fourth annual fair opened on Tuesday, 17th instant. The day was taken up chiefly in arranging articles for exhibition. In a few departments, notably, horses and mules, cattle, poultry and textile fabrics, the exhibit is quite full and creditable. In one of its main lea tares, exhibition of field crops, the fair has not been made what it should be. The atendance thus far is not up with the average of former years owing in a great measure to the gener- j al prevalence of sickness. ? We learn from the Reporter that in the case of Julius Mills, ex-treasurer of Chester county, Judge Witherspoon signed the following order at the late term of Chester Circuit Court: U])on motion of T. C. Gaston and A. G. Ilrice, attorneys, it is ordered that it be and is hereby referred to J. E. McDonald, Esq., as special referee, to take testimony in this cause, to state the accounts of the defendant, Julius Mills, as county treasurer of Chester county, covering the period of his last term of office as said county treasurer, and to report said testimony and account, with his conclusions of law and fact. - ? ? GENERAL POLITICAL NOTES. ? It is predicted that the Democrats will carry New York State by 25,000 majority. ? The Radical party managers are now looking to the South with the hope of recover- ] ing the loss in Congressmen from other sections. ? No less than five hundred colored voters went with Democrats in Cincinnati. They were tired of being slaves to an ugrateful party. ? Governor-elect Stephens of Georgia, declines to permit his name to be run for U. S. Senator, but warmly endorses Governor Colquitt for the position. ? The Prohibition State Convention of New Hampshire met at Concord on the 17th and nominated Josiah W. Fletcher of Nashua for j Governor, and passed a series of strong prohi-! bition resolutions. ? The Philadelphia Press says there are now I two vacancies in the Alabama delegation in Congress, the last occasioned by the death of I Mr. Lowe, and it fears they will both "be j captured by Bourbons." ? The Philadelphia Utcord says the Republicans have given up the State ticket in Penn- j sylvania, and are now working to save the Legislature and as many Congressmen as they can. ? The home of Mr. Rutherford B. Hayes went Democratic last Tuesday by eight hundred majority, and the home of the late President Garfield gave a net Democratic gain of 30 votes. The homes of some West Virginia Democrats went the other way. ?Senator Bayard expresses the opinion that ! the political conscience of the country is being I aroused. He feels very well satisfied with the ' present prospects of the Democratic party, and thinks they have seldom been more favorable. In New York he regards them as particularly favorable. ? The importance of a single vote is well illustrated hv the latest returns from the con i gressional election in the Second District of I West Virginia, which indicate the election of | Mason, Republican, oyer Wilson, Democrat, ; by nine votes. In Ohio three of the Republi- E ; can candidates were eiected by 8, 15 and 39 ; ^ i majority respectively. H | ?A press dispatch from Cincinnati an1 nounces the election of Neal, Democrat, in j | the 12th Ohio district, over Heart, Republi- J can, by a majority of three on the official ^ count. This makes fifteen Democrats to six j Republicans as the count' now stands, and if I Wallace in the eighth district makes good his j contest against McKinley, which he probably ! will, it will stand sixteen to five. i ; ? Gen. Butler is about.to storm the Massa- j ! chusetts State House for the sixth time. In j P j 1859 he ran against Gen, Banks. In 18(30, he i j tried it again ; also in 1871. In 1878 he failed ; of nomination. In 1879, he polled 110,000 v I votes, the largest vote ever thrown for a Dem- t oerat. He is worth five million dollars, and J has a law practice worth seventy-five thousand \ dollars a year. I ? John Kelley has, in the name of Tammany, yielded everything for the sake of hnri mony in the party. The forlorn hope of the j | Republicans was that Mr. Kelley would split! z' ! the municipal ticket and thus endanger the State nominations. But Mr. Kelly disappointed the common enemy and Democratic unity means Democratic triumph in New York. f ? Orlando Hubbs, the sitting member, who claimed to have been nominated by the Re- n publican Convention of the Second North Carolina district, ha* -pHjblished a card withdrawing from the race with his colored Re- y publican opjionent, O'llara, who likewise lj claimed the regular nomination, and con- ji eludes : "Nothing but the firm belief that a "\ nrmtinnprl qtriifnrle will trivft the district and a ~00*~ Q- - - ? the State to the enemy could cause my with- I drawal." 1 ? The political contest in Indiana is l>eing h waged with great earnestness on both sides, j] all the home speaking talent having been brought into requisition, and this is now being supplemented by imported speakers. The re- j suit in Ohio has given the Democrats renewed ^ confidence, and such leaders as Voorhees, Hendricks and McDonald confidently predict j the election of the Democratic State ticket ^ and a gain of several Congressmen. A correspondent of the New "York Tribune, who ^ has just completed a tour of Indiana, concedes ^ that the outlook is not encouraging for the Republicans and prdicts Democratic congress- v ional gains. ? The five States. in which Congressmen have been elected thus far are Maine, Vermont, Oregon, Ohio,- and West Virginia. The delegations from these States in the pres- " ent Congress stand 22 Radicals, 8 Democrats I and 2 Greenbackers. The (treenbackers have o been wiped out, and they now stand 1(5 Radi- 1 cals and 10 Democrats. Ohio has in the pres- ^ ent Congress 14 Radicals and G Democrats. s She gained one-membpr in the new apportion- ment and the recent election reversed the pro- ? portions by making the delegation stand 5 h Democrats and G Radicals. The Radicals ex- h l>ect to lose one Congressman each in Wiscon- 1 sin, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Massachu- 1 setts, and two in South Carolina in place of ^ the two they forced into the present House by | A *. t\ l.. TU. M.:n I unsealing iwu j'euioci<u?. mm win uiiinc a gain of 14 fir the Democrats, and a loss of 12 t for the Radicals in the next House. If the 0 election of a President shall devolve upon the q House of Representatives, as some anticipate, h a Democrat is bound to be elected, for the p States cast one vote each (to be determined by * the majority of each delegation,) and Ohio is ! already in the Democratic column. 1 ?.?, .? a Sober Counsel.?We may well hope that f( the exhortations of Senator Hampton in his address to the Charleston Democracy on ^ Thursday night will tie heeded by the people ^ of the State. There is a candor and simplicity t in what he said that will commend it to every c honest heart.. t. Gen. Hampton tells the people that the dan- a gers which menace the State are as great as j, those which were confronted in 1K7G. They ^ come in more insidious shape, in the guise of j< Greenbackism and Independentism. But the ^ Democratic party is "the only party that can give you justice, equality, right, good government and honest rule.'1 These are Hampton's words. And these: "I tell you that he who is c not with ne, with that party, in a traitor to the State." Gen. Hampton spoke highly of the patriotism and conscientiousness of Republi- " cans he had met in the North, and said truly G that it is a slur upon the name of Republican- v ism to apply that term to the hybrid, mongrel c opposition party in South Carolina. The peo- y pie who oppose the Democracy now, using the Greenbackers as the platform on which they " shall mount to scale the walls of the Democratic citadel, are the same "who stole the u State Government of South Carolina, who t< held it by the aid of the bayonet, who confiscated her wealth and brought shame to the S) cheek of every honest man in the State." Can a white men justify themselves, to themselves, S( in following a course which if successful, (j would make South Carolina, once more, the H Prostrate State V \ TIomnfA?i ovnlainflfl fhof flia fnnHamon. \TCIJ? liaill|'kWll rA|/I(UllV\l VIIUV VliV ?f| t;il Democratic doctrine is submission to the t< will of the majority, and that any mistakes in h legislation, if there have been any, can and a will be corrected by the Democracy. The w I Greenback-Negro party has no power. It ? cannot aid its misguided adherents. The only k, I way to right a public wrong is by sending to w I the Legislature Democrats wlio are in accord a] [ with the wishes of the people. Much stress was laid, too, by Gen. Hampton on the importance of the Congressional elections. When Republican States are becoming Democrat i] will South Carolina become Radical ? None has a better right than Gen. Hampton to offer advice to the the people, for he is prudent, disinterested and patriotic. The peopie, we hoi>e and believe, will hearken to his pi counsel, close up the ranks, bring in the strag- tl glers and push forward to complete victory in November.?Xeics and Courier. ? ? - " A Knoxville Horror.?At Knoxville, -A Tenn., on Thursday last, General Joseph A. SI Mabry, Major Thomas O'Connor and Joseph jl A. Mabry, Jr., were killed in a shooting affray, j. The.ditliculty began.oa the previous afternoon J iM.I uy C?eil. ..UilUiy iUlrtUKJUg itiuj. yj ^/UIIUUI aim threatening to kill him. This was at the Fair Gronnds, and O'Connor told Mabry it tl was not the place to settle their differences. Mabry then told O'Connor he should not live, m It seems that Mabry was armed and O'Connor jv was not. The cause of the difficulty was an / old feud about the transfer of some property from Mabry to O'Connor. Later in the after- a5 noon Mabry sent word to O'Connor that he tl would kill him on sight. The next morning as Maj. O'Connor wasstandingin the door of the fc Mechanics National Bank of which he was President. Gen. Mabry and another gentle- ' man walked down Gay street on the opposite side from the bank. O'Connor stepped into in the bank, procured a shot gun, took deliber- to ate aim at Gen. Mabry and tired. Mabry fell dead, being shot in the left side. As he fell q O'Connor fired again, the shot taking effect , in Mabry's thigh. O'Connor then reached into the bank and got another shot gun. ?L About this time Joseph A. Mabry, Jr., sou of Hi General Mabry, came rushing down the street. Fi He was not seen by O'Connor until he was $ within forty feet of him when he fired a shot m from a pistol the ball .taking effect in O'Connor's right breast and passing through the V1 body near the heart. The instant that Mabry ?L fired, O'Connor turned and discharged the G< shot-gun at him, the load taking effect in i D young Mabry's right breast and side. He | ^ fell pierced with twenty buckshot and almost! instantly O'Connor fell dead without a struggle. Young Mabry tried to rise but fell back dead. The whole tragedy occurred within a two minutes and neither of the three spoke an after he was shot. General Mabry had about ex thirty buckshot in his body. A bystander! e.A was painfully wounded in the thigh with a! , buckshot, and another was wounded in the j aD arm. Four other men had their clothing I pierced by buckshot. The affair caused great ca excitement, and the street was thronged with foi thousands of people. Gen. Mabry and his; son Joseph, were acquitted only a few days ago of the murder of Moses Lusby and Don , Lusby, father and son, whom they killed a | M< few weeks since. Wra, Mabry was killed by : ! Don Lusby last Christian. ! le\ LOCAL AFFAIRS. < NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ] !. C. Kuykendal, Mattliews, N. C.?For Rent. . j V. B. Smith, J. B. Pegram, J J. Smith?Distio- 1 lution of Copartnership. ! Kennedy Bros. A Barron?We Offer for Inspection and Sale, I. Strauss?Information. ohn 0. Kuykendal?Important Notice. I . M. Adams?How to Save Money. ! 1 '. M. Dobson?Lost, Lost, Lost?It Is a Fact. i j Vithers Adickrs?We claim to Have. . Herndon?For Rent. ] FARM PRODUCTS. j Mr. Martin Swann has favored us with some , pecimens of his farm products in the way of j irge onions and a sweet potato weighing five | ouuds. THE BAR. ! Besides the resident members of the York- i ille bar, we notice in attendance upon the < lircuit Court, ex-Judge Mackey, of Chester; < ohn J. Waters, Esq., H. E. Jenkins, Esq., 1 V. B. Wilson, Jr., Esq., and John P. Gage, I Jsq., of Rock Hill. I YORKV1LLE AT THE CHESTER FAIR. The following premiums were taken by citiens of Yorkville at the Chester fair : , Best stallion?T. M. Whitaker ; two premiums, ?10 each. Best mare and colt?R. II. Glenn, ?10. Best brood mare?tt. II. Glenn, $10. Best single-harness horse?Tlios. II. Glenn, ' IU. Best set of single harness?James II. Tim-1 le. silver. \ + i NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRACY. We are requested to give notice that there rill be a grand Democratic rally and torchight procession at .Steele Cheek voting precinct, u Mecklenburg county, N. C., Ave miles from Vright's Ferry, on Tuesday night. 31st intant. Governor Vance, Col. II. C. Jones, Ion. W. II. Bailey, Hon. A. M. Waddell, Col. 3. C. Grier, and other distinguished speakers, iuo Ivun inwitoil anil are oriwptwl til ........ ...... ..... ?J . resent. CHURCH NOTICES. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks, 'astor. Services at Philadelphia Church at 1, A. M.; in the Church at Yorkville at night. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. *ithan, Pastor. Communion services on Sunay. Preaching at 11 A. M., Saturday. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor, lervices at the usual hours, morning and vening. Episcopal?Rev. Augustine Prentiss. Serices at the regular hours, morning and even?g. CHARLESTON WEEKLY NEWS. The publication of the new serial story, The Cavalier and the Puritan, or Love and royalty," by "Rose Ashleigh," of South C'arlina, will begin in the Charleston Weekly Yeics on Wednesday, November 8, and in the hmday News on the following Sunday. This tory was written expressly for the Weekly Vacs by the accomplished author, who, as a outh Carolinian, expects from the people of er own State at least as cordial a reception as as been given her in the North, where her wriings are well known. The price of the Weekly Vews is $2 a year. Subscriptions received by Ir. Sam M. Grist at this office. THE HIGH POINT TRAGEDY. We publish on the fourth page of this issue lie result of an informal legal investigation f the unfortunate tragedy at High Point, N. J., by which a young man lost his life at the ands of a fellow student. The result of the investigation clearly exonerates young Mobley rom any criminal intent. Of his bearing in he trying situation that he was placed by the ccident, the High Point Pioneer speaks as allows: The noble bearing of Frel Mobley since the ad and fatal accident which occurred at the arracks of the Lynch School is, indeed, wor- 1 hy of emulation. Instead of despairing of his ! o'mpanioiPs life, whom he had shot, he hasened to the telegraph office and sent immeditely for the best surgical aid in the State, at , is own expense, besides rendering every assisance possible to his dying friend andcompan- I )n. His name deserves a place by the side of I he greatest heroes in the hnnalsof history. j MARRIAGE OF L'IKUT. WALLACE. 1 The Saint Paul Pioneer Press of the 12th, 1 niif.imu o i<nti/<o nf th? mnrriarrp in that. nitv. n the preceding evening, of Miss Caroline, aughter of Hon. George L. Otis, to Lieut, reorge 1). Wallace, of the Seventh Cavalry, j rhicli ceremony was performed in Christ , Ihurch, by the rector, M. X. Gilbert. Lieut. ' Vallace has the congratulations of a large ( umber of friends in his native county on this, j lie happiest event of his life. The Press lakes the following complimentary allusion J 3 the happy couple : < Miss Otis is the daughter of one of Minne- i sta's most honored lawyers and gentlemen, < nd has been so great a favorite in St. Paul jciety that her departure will be long and i eeply regretted. A bright conversationalist I nd a warm-hearted American girl, Lieut. 1 Vallace may well esteem the congratulations i lowered upon him well bestowed. The lady, 3o, can well feel proud of her choice, since < er husband is the favorite of his regiment, I 1 1 a...m L?n ? nrti/iAi?a l [Ill KIJUW11 iUUOIiy HIS UlUlrllCt UlUV-Cli) HCJJ- J rhere as an excellent embodiment of the terms i officer and gentleman." That the two may . e as deservedly happy when Lieut. "Wallace i ins his eagles as they now are is the wish of 1 II who know them. CIRCUIT COURT. J October term of York Circuit Court, his ; [onor Judge Witherspoon presiding, convened t 110 o'clock A. M., last Monday. Mr. Solic- J or Gaston, the terror of all evil-doers in the \ Kinds of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, was j. romptly on hand, and all the other officers of j le Court were at their respective posts. c The Clerk called the list of grand jurors, > ho answered to their names as follows : Jas. j .. Watson, Foreman ; John A. Byers, J. A\ tewart, William White, G. L. Cobb, Jordan [eachatn, J. L. Starr, R. A. Steele, S. W. 1 ickson, Ben Galloway, It. J. Gould, J. B. 1 eely, M. L. Ross, W. S. Wilkerson, Dennis $ [organ, J. M. Robinson, J. M. Biggers, An- * lony Clinton. < His honor submitted no formal charge to the i and jury, presuming that they had previous- I been instructed as to their duties. After s ielly addressing them, in a cursory manner, t i to the most important duties devolving upon j lem as the grand inquest of the county, he y iked the Solicitor if he had any indictments ;i ir the consideration of the grand jury, where- ? 3on that official handed up a number, on the [ erits of which the errand jury were properly I structed by his Honor and they then retired ?their room. The petit jurors were then called by the lerk, and the following answered to their imes : N. B. Campbell, Andrew Farrow, J. Hagins, J. D. Gauldin, W. D. Brown, Wil- j: im Frew, Wilson Massey, Patrick Barber, g elix Quinn, J. W. Love, D. T. McCarter, J. c Mintz, Amos McLeave, Sylvanus Byers, ,J. i , Harrison, Samuel L. Latimer, W. It. l)a- * s, J. M. Morrow, C. S. Wilson, A. E. Black, ? J. Dunlap, T. C. McMakin W. J. Durant, 2orge Torrence, J. M. Ford, L. J. Crawford, , W. Fowler, Perry Martin, Larkin IIous- j " n, E. It. Mills, Franklin Rosborough, J. II. i j! awford, W. B. Byers, Wm. Whyte. j f Mr. Hagins was excused from attending as ? juror, on account of sickness in his family; o d for the same reason Mr. Durant was also ii cused, proper affidavits having been made in n ch case, as to the grounds on which leave of ^ sence was asked. | , The contingent docket was called, and the n ses thereon either continued or passed over T r the present. . > The grand jury reported a number of true Is, and the following were disposed of on ^ onday: a] State vs. Taylor Jackson and Madison Bai- iv r, colored ; larceny of grain from field. Pros- ,S icutor?William Ferguson. Taylor Jackson pleaded guilty. Verdict of guilty as to Bailey. Mr. Solicitor Gaston for the State ; no counsel for the defence. State vs. Chambers Davidson and Jordan ! Blair, colored ; assault and battery of a high ! md aggravated nature. Prosecutor?Taylor j Edwards, colored. Verdict, guilty. Mr. So-1 licitor Gaston for the State; Mr. Bell for defence. State vs. James Wylie, colored ; house-breaking. Prosecutor?Jos. T. Nunn. Verdict, guilty. Mr. Solicitor Gaston for the State ; no counsel for the defence. The whole of Tuesday was taken up with the trial of Smith Reid, Moses Hemphill, Josh Hemphill, Alex. Archie, Peter Robinson, Allen Waters, Levi Waters, Rachel Reid, Hannah Workman and Margaret Waters, all colored, charged with riot, on the premises of M. Jerome McElwee. on the 1st of last September. Prosecutor?M. Jerome McElwee. Argument had not been concluded at our time of CfOing ro press, .Mr. aoucuor uuston ior me State ; Messrs. Bell and Waters and another man for the defence. Yesterday was occupied with sessions business. The grapd jury made their presentment and were discharged. It is due to state that but little business will probably be transacted on the civil side of the Court, owing to the fact that his Honor, the presiding Judge has heretofore been engaged as counsel in several pending causes, from a trial of which his sense of propriety would cause him to shrink. Aware of this embarrassment., Judge Witherspoon would have preferred to exchange circuits with some other Judge, but the assignment of Judges to the respective circuits being made for a year, it was found, on investigation, that such exchange could not be effected. This explanation is due to the Judge, who is blameless as to the delay of hearing any causes with which he has heretofore been connected as counsel. DEATH OF A WOOD MAN. Dr. It. T. Allison died at his residence, near Hickory Grove, in this county on Saturday night last, in the 85th year of his age, having been born near Henry's Knob, on the headwaters of Bullock's Creek, in York county, on the 17th of August, 1708. He graudated from the South Carolina College in 1821, and four years later took the degree of M. D. in the medical college at Lexington, Kentucky., after which he settled down in his native county, devoting his time to the practice of his profession, farming and for a while was engaged in merchandising. Of a retiring disposition, he nevertheless always manifested an interest in public affairs, and in 18:18 he was elected a member of the Legislature from this county, serving in that capacity for two terms. He was also a member of the South Carolina State Convention of 18*30. Dr. Allison was a good man and a good citizen. In the course of his long life he enjoyed the full confidence of his fellow-men in all his acts as a representative of the people, and in his conduct as a private citizen. He was buried on Sunday afternoon, at Beersheba (Presbyterian) Church, of which congregation lio inia on ol/lur tin. funeral servient! HV/J1 uu fia?J Oil VJV4Uj HIV, AUUVAM* WV4 ? WW being conducted by Rev. R. A. Ross, of tbe A. R. P. Church. JUDGE MAC KEY'S POLITICS. Judge Mackey permits no occasion to pass without giving expression to his political opinions and preferences in the present political canvass, and when on the court house green or the street, lie has no difficulty in drawing listeners whom he entertains and amuses, though he may fail to carry convincing argument in all that he says. He is not an Independent oandidate for the Senate from Chester county, nor is he a candidate for any position ; but to the contrary, he says he will support the Democratic county ticket in Chester, and also the State Democratic ticket, not, he says, because he thinks the latter ticket is as good as it might lie, but because he does not want anything worse. He supports Col. Cash for Congress ; out the McLane Greenback State ticket he says he cannot swallow. He looks upon it as the outcome of a dreadful nightmare superinduced by Durham's bad whisky, and says the entire State ticket is enough to nauseate the Morgan statue at Spartanburg. Cotton Planters' Association.?The National Cotton Planters's Association was >11 annual session at Little Rock, Arkansas, :>n Wednesday and Thursday of last week. T. C. Moorehead was reelected President; [7eorgeMcL.n1, of Mississippi, Treasurer ; S. It. Uockrell, of Arkansas; R. M. Patton, of Alabama ; H. R^ Lucas, of Louisiana; II. It. Jackson, of (ieorgia; A. r. miner 01 oouin Carolina; M. MeGehee, of North Carolina; Er. I). Shands, of Mississippi; A. Bradford of Florida ; E. Ensley and P. W. Kidd, of Texis, and K. IT. Love, of Indian Territory, Pice-Presidents. President Moorehead submitted his annual report and a paper on cotion and land syndicates, by S. R. Cockrell, was read. The President was authorized to ippoint several traveling lecturers. The Association resolved to hold the world's centennial cotton exposition in 1884 that year jeing designated because of the seizure by the King of England 1784, of eight bales of cotton is contraband, it having been charged that iVmerica could not produce so large a quantify. It was decided to establish a Planters and Farmers Mutual Life Insurance Company, uid resolutions were adopted urging that lie Commissioner of Agriculture be made a Cabinet officer; approving the plans of the Mississippi River Commission and thanking ;he President and Congress for their action in he matter; asking a reduction of the tariff ind appointing a committee of one from each State to consider tjie proposition to establish i cotton" land syndicate and for an alliance letween the Manchester spinners and American cotton growers. The next annual meeting ,vill be held at Vicksburg, the time to be letermined by the Executive Coramitte. The Convention then adjourned sine die. We Must Elect Our Congressmen.-?The Democrats of this State should work zealously or the election of the candidates for Congress as for the election of the candidates for >tate officers and for the Legislature. They 1 - * >110111C1 (10 IIUS Ut'CclUae, nunuut a i/cuiu:ratic majority in Congress, tliere is no assuance of tranquility and of immunity from mrtisan and sectional legislation ; and they ihould do it likewise for the larger reason hat the United States government is our govirnment, and we should be unwilling to enoy its benefits and shirk the responsibilities md obligations of citizenship. It is no longer in alien government. It is our government, md we are false to our government when we lIIow the duty of representing us to fall into he hands of men whose objects and aspira- j ions are wholly different from our own. The ! tower and opportunity to elect Representa-1 ives to Congress is a public trust, and the ! vliole people should regard it as their business o send to Congress the best and truest men i hey can find who will co-operate with the ! nembers from the North and West in making j his country as clean in administration as it is J ;reat in resources. The victory will be in-: omplete in November ft the Democracy j n this State do not elect Dibble, Tillman, j Uken, Evins, Dargan and Hemphill to repreent South Carolina in the Congress of the1 Jnited States.?News and Courier. ] I rVTV.r.I.IflRVCR AND wealth will rule. ] 'My colored friends, let me tell you, that so j Dug as grass grows upon the soil of South i Carolina, as in the past so will it be in the 1 uture, the intelligence and wealth of the ' tate will control it." These are the words j f D. J. Carter, Esq., of the Lancaster Ledger, i 1 his address at the Independent Greenback < leeting at Lancaster on the -27th ultimo, < rhich so incensed the negroes that they not i nly offered violence to Mr. Carter but in- 1 tigated a terrific riot in which four of their I umber were killed and several wounded, j 'his is a sad record, and as suggestive as sad. i fr. Carter's sentiments represent the sober J amnion sense of the world. Wherever men j link at all, they must think just as he does. 1 .nd the unthinking rabble throw themselves 1 gainst such a sentiment, in their perverse 1 eedlessness, only to be bruised and broken.? i ovthcrn Christian Advocate. i THE NEW COUNTY QUESTION. THE PRESS ALIVE TO ITS IMPORTANCE. Lancaster Ledger. WILL VOTE NO. All Democrats in Lancaster county will vote against the Constitutional amendment, passed at the special session, in relation to formation of new counties ! Pickens Sentinel. LARGE COUNTIES. The Saludu Art/us says that Abbeville county is forty miles square, which makes it contain sixteen hundred square miles. If this is true why does the Argus advocate the new county amendment so strongly? The Anjus can have its new county under the present constitutional requirement, and leave Old Abbeville with plenty of territory, and some to spare, 1525 square miles is small enough for counties, any how, and the Aryus had better commence the advocacy of a new county under the present constitutional requirements and let the new county craze go. Newberry Herald. TITT? i MWVIWIWV'm i tnrj \s\J\j ill i AJiAi.il/Jiriii A* As to the projiosed amendment reducing the area of counties, we do not think it should be adopted. The smallest county now contains 510 square miles, the largest 1,900?the average size is 887 square miles. Should this amendment be adopted it will not, of course, form new counties, but wrll only make their formation possible. There will be a constant wrangling between different localities for the choice of being county seats, and the people composing these sections will insist on having a Court House and all its appurtenances regardless of the expenses it will entail, which will be great. The present minimum of G25 square miles may be too large, but 400 square miles is certainly too small. We agree with the Press anil Banner that it would l>e a piece of unwarranted presumption on the part of the Committee to dictate or even advise thepeoplehow to vote ou the Constitutional Amendments. Barnwell Sentinel. THE STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS. If the State Executive Committee members have been properly represented, they have shown that they are going out of their way to encourage an evil which a large majority of South Carolina tax payers are opposed to, and all will receive that condemnation which their conduct merits. Any one sided expression at the ballot-box resulting from a corking up process, designed by the Executive Committee in behalf of the office seekers and their friends throughout the State, will certainly result in untold injury to the only party which now insures to us all peace and prosperity. This new County dodge for creating more offices ami heaping additional taxes upon our people, will be made to mature by the fudging of the State's Executive Committee, if the eyes of our voters are not opened before the election comes off; so we deem it our duty to warn them of the fate which awaits our county boundaries in case they are not posted when it comes to voting on this Constitutional question. Now in case our county is Hooded with the tickets containing the word "Yes," let every man erase it and insert the word "NO." Yes means to cut the county into as many parts as office-seekers see fit to cut within the bounds of the law?so many square miles, &c. No means that it shall not be cut, or any way divider!. Our County Chairman occupies a place however, where he understands the sentiment of our people and conforms to that sentiment. So pronounced is the opposition here to the formation of new counties, that not the first candidate in our recent primary election dared to express himself in terms wliinli in the least favnrpd this new scheme of creating offices and increasing taxes by the formation of new counties. It is a very good rule to let well enough alone, though it seems that the result of too much progress on the part of i>oliticians in this State for the past two years, has had but little or no effect on those who are recognized as planners and leaders of the Democratic party. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Reader, when you go to put. your ticket in the ballot box in November, if you wish to protect your county boundaries and keep down additional taxes, see that your ticket reads "No" on the new county question, for if you make a blunder and the county is divided, you will be responsible to that degree for making your burdens more burdensome. From the estimates made by the Abbeville Press av.d Banner, it will be seen that the l>eople would be taxed (every year) the sum of five hundred and thirty-four thousand and live hundred dollars to sustain just the public officers, and one million sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars for the erection of public buildings and office equipments. Every voter may now decide for himself whether the people of the State are in a condition to shoulder this tax. We had better surrender our farms, houses, stock, stores and merchandise at once, J and be done with it, then the desire for more taxes will have been satisfied and our people freed from the anxieties of raising the money. Abbeville Press and Banner. ERROR OF THE HEAD AND NOT OF TIIE HEART. We know the Executive Committee are true and loyal men to "the party." Their every acton proves this. And their zeal is commendable and worthy of a good cause. The only difficulty about them is, in our opinion, they are laboring under a slight delusion as to who are "the party." Their action, which speaks louder and more forcibly than words, indicates, beyond a doubt in our mind, that they regard "the party" to be the gentlemen who engineered the Constitutional amendments through a caucus, and which caucus in turn forced them through the Legislature. As yet the people who, under ordinary circumstances, are admitted to be part of the Democratic party have not been consulted about this most important measure, and the Committee, who are working for "the party" would deprive us of our birthright. We are of opinion that "the party," to which the Committee is so loyal, does not consist of more than half dozen names, all of which we will take pleasure in furnishing to our readers, as soon as they are obtained. To have a full list of "the party" of gentlemen who have such absolute control of our Executive Committee would afford interesting reading for the great mass of our Democratic brethren who have heretofore been presumptuous onniiffli trt Ihintr that lliov hud flip riorllt. tn tuvu^u vv viiiiin vuttv v??\,j ???v* vmv <w ? vote us their conscience dictated. ARE NEW COUNTIES TO BE NAMED FOR OUR BULLDOZERS ? So far as we have been informed there seems to be little change in the political situation hereabout since our last issue. The question of which we now hear most is the new county movement, and the quiet manner in which the Executive Committee have acted in reference to the tickets. When questions of such vital interest are at stake, and when so much depends upon a faithful performance of their duty, it is wonderfully strange that nothing can move the Executive Committee to break their silence by a fair and manly statement of what they intend to do, and what we may expect of them. It is idle for the Committee to think that we in Abbeville are such tools as to be satisfied with tickets in the negative on constitutional questions, when the necessary tickets are denied to the people of any other county. We want a full and fair vote, even if each of the different members of the Executive Committee should fail to have a new county named for them. The gentlemen who engineered the movement through the Legislature, as well as the gentlemen comprising the Execuiive Committee, will have to seek some other mode of perpetuating their names. We cannot afford this extensive olan. There would be about enouerh new counties under the proposed constitutional amendment to immortalize these gentlemen, with a few left over for special chairity favors. We believe that "Tom" can do us but little harm now. It is the Executive Committee that we should watch. "WHO ARE "THE PARTY V" Last Winter in deference to the wishes of a few prominent gentlemen, (who, we hope, were not seeking cheap immortality in the matter of new counties,) the Democratic members of the Legislature met in secret caucus, and without respect to the wishes of their jonstituents, and by a vote of that dark meeting, bound the minority to remain silent when the question should come up in the Legislature. The Constitutional amendments it was pretended at the time should be fairly submitted to the people. But now the "State Democratic Executive Committee regard the rmendmeut as a party measure." What we ? want to know is, who art; the "party ?" Is it these three or four very wise gentleman, who would not have counties named for them, or, is it the Executive Committee ? Tha "party" referred to are certainly not the people of the