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The Democratic Nominations.
gfn. prank. blair's letter accepting the
komination for vice president.
Omaha, Nebraska, July 13, 1SC8.
Gm. Geo. W. Morgan, Chairman Commit?
tee National Democratic Convention:
General : I take the earliest opportu?
nity of replying to your letter, notifying
mo"of my nomination for Yice President
of the United States by the National
Democratic Convention, recently held in
the city of New York.
2 accept without hesitation the nomi?
nation tendered in a mannorso gratifying,
and give you and the committee my
thanks for the very kind and complimen?
tary languago in which you have con
vejred to me the decision of the Conven?
tion.
I have carefully read the resolutions
adopted by the Convention, and most
cordially concur in every prinoipJo and
aentiment they announce.
My opinion upon all of tho questions
which discriminate the great contending
parti os have been frooly exprossed on all
suitable occasions, and I do not deem it
necessary at this time to reiterate them.
She issues upon whioh the contest
turns are clear, and cannot bo obscured
or distorted by the sophistries of our
adversaries. They all resolve themselves
into the old and ever-renewing struggle
of a few men to absorb the political pow?
er of the nation. This effort, under
every conceivable name and disguise, has
always characterized the opponents of
the Democratic party, but at no time has
the attempt assumed a shape so open and
daring as in this contest. The adversa?
ries of free and constitutional govern?
ment, in defiance of the express language
of the Constitution, havo erected a mili?
tary dospotism in ten of the States of the
Union, havo taken from the President the
powers vested in him by tho supremo .
law, and havo deprived tho Supreme
Court of its jurisdiction. The right o?
trial by jury, and tho great writ of right,'
' the habeas corpus?shields of safoty of
every citizen, and which have descended
to- us from the earliest traditions of our
ancestors, and which our Revolutionary
fathers sought to securo to their posterity
forever in the fundamental charter of our
liberties?have been ruthlessly trampled
under foot by the fragment of a Congress.
Whole States and communities of people;
of our own raco havo been attainted,
convicted, condemned, and deprived of
their rights as citizens, without present?
ment, or trial, or witnessos, but by Con?
gressional enactment of ex post facto
laws, and in defiance of the constitutional
prohibition denying oven to a full*and
legal Congress the authority to pass any
bill of attainder or ex post facto law. Tho
same usurping authority has substituted
as electors in placo of tho men of our
own race, thus illegally attainted and dis
. franchiseti, a host of ignorant nogroes,
who are supported in idleness with tho
public money, and combined togothor to
strip the white race of their birthright,
through tho management of Freodmen's
Bureaus.and the emissaries of couspira-;
tors in other States; .and, to coraploto
tho oppression, tho military power of tho
nation has boon placed at their disposal,
in order to mako this barbarism supreme.
Tho military loader under whoso pres?
tige this usurping Congress has taken
refugo since tho condemnation of their
Schemes by the freo peoplo of tho North
in the elections of tho last yoar, and
whom they have selected as their candi- 1
date to shield thomselvos from tho result
of their own wickedness and crime, has
announced his acceptance of the nomina?
tion, and his willingness to maintain
their usurpations over eight millions of.
white peoplo at tho South, fixed to the
earth with his baj'onets. Ho exclaims :
"Let as have peace." ''Peace reigns in
Warsaw," was tho announcement which
heralded the doom of tho liberties of a
nation. "The Empiro is peace," ex
claimod Bonaparte, when freedom and its
defenders expired under tho sharp edge
of his sword. The poace to which Grant
invites us is tho peace of dospotism and
death.
Those who seek to restore tho Consti?
tution by executing tho will of tho peo?
plo condemning tho reconstruction acts,
already pronounced in tho elections of
last year, and which will, I am convinced,
be still more emphatically exprossed by
the clsction of tho Democratic candidate
as the President of tho United States,
are denouncod as revolutionists by the
partisans of this vindiotivo Congress.
Nogro Buffrago, which the popular voto
of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio. Michigan, Connecticut, and other
States have condemned as expressly
against the lottor of the Constitution,
must stand, because their Senators and
Bepresentatives have willed it. If the
peoplo shall again condemn theso atro?
cious measures by tho election of the
Democratic candidato for Presidont, they
must not bo disturbed, although decided
to be unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court, and although tho Prosident is
Bworn to maintain and support tho Con?
stitution. Tho will of a fraction of a
Congress, rcinforcod with its partisan
emissaries sent to tho South and support?
ed there by tho soldiory, must stand
against tho will of tho peoplo and the de?
cision of the Supreme Court, and the
solemn oath of tho President to maintain
and support tho Constitution.
It is revolutionary to execute the will
of tho people! It is revolutionary to ex?
ecute tho judgment of the Supreme Court!
It i3 revolutionary in the President to'
keep inviolate his oath to sustain tho
Constitution ! This false construction of
the vital principle of our Government i?
tjio last resort of those who would havo
their arbitrary reconstruction sway and
supersede our time-honored institutions.
Tho nation will say the Constitution must
be restored, and the will of tho people
again prevail. The appeal to the peace?
ful ballot to attain this end is not war,
is not revolution. Thoy make war and
revolution who attempt to arrest this
quiet mode of putting asido military
despotism and the usurpations of a frag?
ment of a Congress, asserting absolute
power over that benign systoin of regu?
lated liberty loft us by our fathom This
>r)x>.at be allowed to tako ito course-. This.
is the only road to poaco. It will como
with tho oleotion of the Democratic can?
didate, and not with tho election of that
mailed warrior, whoso bayonets are now
at tho throats of eight millions of people
in the South, to compel them to support
him as a candidate for tho Presidency,
and to submit to tho domination of an
alien race of semi-barbarous men. No
perversion of truth or audacity of mis?
representation can excoed that which
hails this candidato in arms as an angel
of peace.
I am, very respectfully, your most obe?
dient servant,
Frank P. Blair.
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The Wages System of Planting.
Tho ?raogeburg News publishes the
following thoughtful article on the subject
of the "wages" system of planting. We1
I agree with the writer in saying "what we
need in this district is progress in farming
as in everything else:"
After a careful notice of all tho various
systems- which have been the subject of
experiment iu our country since emancipa?
tion, in order to make tho labor of the
freedmen available for the cultivation of
our lands, and after numerous conversa?
tions with the most successful and unsuc?
cessful planters in our vicinity, it seems to
us very evident that there is but one sys?
tem of agriculture that fully remunerates
the planter for his outlays of capital and
superintendence, and that is a system of
wages by the mouth, aud leave to dis?
charge or to quit at the extpiration of any
month upon a reasonable notice. There
is no use in arguing about the laborers
sharing the risk of failure in the contract
system;?strip it to the naked truth, it is
a copartnership between employer and
employees. As well might a merchant
agree to give a set of clerks, picked np
Eromiscuously here and there, a share of
is profits instead of a stated salary. And
although you may say theoretically, in the
contract system that the omployeo shares
tho risks of failure, is it really the case
practically ? By no means, for, on failnro
of the crops, the laborer Has to live; and,
at the end of tho year, the employer will
Snd his hands indebted to him, and unable
to pay, or that his corn has been stolen in
his fields, or his barns broken open, to make
the freedmen come out square and to throw
the loss on the employer.
It is fast becoming a self-evident fact
that the contract system is a curse to the
community. It is the fruitful sourco of
half the stealing in the country. Does any
one suppose that the freedmen, if found
by their employers in rations, and paid
small sums of money through the year,
will indulge in as many burglaries and
stock-killing scrapes as is now the case?
By no means. Let the employees be fed
by tho employer, in stipulated rations,
and let him pay them even a portion of
their wages monthly, and you will Bee a
completo change for the bettor in the
whole agricultural system of the eountry.
But one will say, that ho has no money
to pay wages. The objection is worth
nothing. Many a man has had no corn
and provisions on which to commence his
farming operations; did lie uot get advan?
ces? And if ho were destitute now, would
ho not apply to some source for advances?
Well, he can get advances of money, as
well as of corn or bacon, aud probably at
cheaper rates. J
We have lately visited by invitation the
plantation of Dr. William F. Barton, who
has tried tho wages system this year with
marked success. So completely satisfied
is ho of the advantages it possesses over
the "contract system," that he says he
would rather quit the country than return
to so unprofitable a plan. ? Dr. Barton has
under cultivation fifty-three acres of corn
and forty-one acros of cotton, besides rice,
potatoes, &c.,and all in the most complete
order. We walked over his "plantation,
and were much interested in the narration
of tho experiments made by him, iu the
uses of improved implements, and iu the
adoption of new systems of culture. For
instance, Dr. Barton has planted one-half
of his ootton crop in checks, instead of in
drills, and has worked it with the plough
both ways. In breaking up ground, instead
of relying on the old home-made plough,
he has found, by trial, that the "Brinfey
Plough," a Kentucky invention, is the best
for our Southern soil, and that he saves
timo and labor by its use. His success is
tho best evidence of the correctness of his
views on planting. His fifty-three acres
of corn will, with ordinary seasons, yield
at least eleven hundred bushels; and his
cotton will easily make a bale to the acre.
In another particular, the example of
Dr. Barton is worthy of imitation. It is
the judicious use of fertilizers, and the
adoption of every expedient to make as
many of his own manures as possible. To
this end, his own stables are well arranged
to save every fertilizing element; and
every old bone is saved, because, by being
treated with sulphuric acid, at a trifling
expense, a valuable fertilizer is obtained.
^ What wc need in this district is progress
in farming, as in everything else. And let
us have an agricultural Bociety, where
practical men can talk these things over,
and diffuse valuable information on these
subjects. Who will start the ball in mo?
tion ?
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Is Tins Godts Judgment.?Mrs. Surratt
was hung fpr being an accomplice in the
murder of Lincoln. The testimony on
which she was convicted was that of four
men?Baker, Montgomery, Clever and
Conover,?precious scoundrels. Baker is
now dead?Montgomery is now in prison
for embezzlement?Clever has been con?
victed of an infamous oflence, while Cono?
ver is serving out a term in the penitenti?
ary. Preston King, who provonted Mrs.
Surratt's daughter from seeing the Presi?
dent in behalf of her mother, committed
suicide by drowniug in the North river;
while Lane, who supported King in his
conduct towards Miss Surratt, shot himself
in St. Louis; and now Stanton, who kept
all the records of that trial from the Pres?
ident, at last sneaks out of the War Office
like a miserable hound that has been de?
tected in stealing sheep. God's Judgments
are sometimes slow, but they are very sure.
The Radical party that upheld this infa
raoiiB crowd in its rascality, has yet its
judgment to receive. That will bo done
iu November next.
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? "Has tho railroad got in ?" asked a
gentleman of an Irishman, standing at
Lhe depot, thinking to quia him. "Oun
intl hns, sir/' was Pat'a reply.
From Washington.
Washington, July 27. 1
The President nominated Alexander
Co turnings, of Pennsylvania, Commis?
sioner of Internal: Revenue.
Three more express robbers have been
hung by tho mob near Seymour, Indiana.
The bill reorganizing Mississippi, Vir?
ginia and Texas, came up in the Senate,
and on motion of Conkling was tabled.
A bill was passed relieving tho disabil-1
ities of Nelson Tif't.
General Young was seated as Repre?
sentative from Georgia.
Both IIousos are adjourned to tho
third Monday in September.
All bills affecting the South of aggres?
sive character havo failed.
Nelson Tift, from Georgia, has been
admitted to the House.
Simoon Corley, from South Carolina,
has been soated in the House.
The Senate confirmed the appointment
of Gen. Rosecrans as Minister to Mexico,
Enos D. Hodge as Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court, and Lewis Wolfley as
Assessor of Intornal Revenue of the First
District of Louisiana, and rejected Simo?
on M. O. Johnson as Assistant Secrotary
of the Treasury.
The President has called no spcoial
session of tho Senato, which leavos many
important offices vacant.
All bills were signed, except the Fund?
ing Bill, which, however, can bo signod
at any time within ten days.
The Eepublioan membors of Congress
have signed an agreement that they will
not bo bore in September, unless advised
to come by Senator Morgan and Repre?
sentative Sohonck, of the Congressional
Bopublioan Committee.
Washington, July 28.
The radicals are considering, favorably,
a plan of electing Presidential electors
by the Legislatures of the Southern
States.
It is understood that the Prosidont con?
siders the commissionership of internal
revenue vacant, and will make an ad in?
terim appointment in a few days. Efforts
to, re-organize Fedoral offices in New Or?
leans failed. It was found impossible to
compromiso conflicting party interests.
It is positively stated that tho Presi?
dent will continuo to act as heretofore,
regarding tho Reconstruction Acts. He
will conform to tho law until modified by
Congress, or nullified by the courts.
Blaque Bey, the Turkish Minister, is
offended by the Congressional resolutions
of sympathy for Crete.
Tho Chinese Legation took their for?
mal leave of tho President. Burlingame
is delighted with tho treaty.
Howard is dismissing many bureau
functionaries, giving them a month's
leave of preliminary absence.
This evening's Star has tho following
concerning the electors in tho South :
"Tho Southern membors of Congress,
within the past few days havo, in confer?
ence with tho Republicans horo, decided
that it will bo best for the Presidential
electors, in the re-organized States, to be
chosen by their respective Legislatures,
in tho same way as South Carolina has
always chosen hers. This, it is held, will
romovo all fear of tho disturbances and
frauds, which have been apprehended.
It is probable these views will be carried
out by tho Legislatures, in whoso hands
the matter rests."
Washington, July 28.
Tho following order has been issuod
from tho War Department:
Commanding Goncrala of the Second,
Third, Fourth and Fifth Military Dis?
tricts having officially reported that Ar?
kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Florida
have complied with tho Reconstruction
acts, including the acts of Juno 25; 1S68,
and that consequently so much of the
acts of March 2, 1S67, and all acts sup?
plementary thoreto providingfor military
districts, subject to the military au?
thority of tho United Statos, as there?
in providod, have -bocomo inoperative in
said States, and Commanding Gonorals
liavo ccasod exercising military powers
conferred by said acts, therefore the fol?
lowing changes will bo mado in tho or?
ganization and command of military dis?
tricts and geographical departments:
First. The Second and Third Military
Districts having ceased to exist, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala?
bama and Florida will constitute the De
jpartmentof the South. General Meado
! to command, headquarters at Atlanta.
[ Second. General Gillem will command
I tho Fourth Military District, composing
I Mississippi.
f Third. General Reynolds willoommand
I the Fifth Military District, oomposing
Toxas, headquarters at Austin.
Fourth. Louisiana and Arkansas will
?onstituto tho Department of Louisiana.
General Rousseau commanding at Now
Orleans. General Buchanan will con?
tinue in command until relieved by Gon.
Rousseau.
Fifth. General Goorge Cooko relieves
Gonoral Rousseau in the Department of
Coluraora.
Sixth. General Canby is reassigned to
command tho Department of Washington.
Seventh. General Edward Hatch, Co?
lonel of the Ninth Cavalry, relieves Gon.
Buchanan as Assistant Commissioner of
tho Bureau of Refugees, Freodmen and
Abandoned Lands in Louisiana.
Washington, July 29.
Twenty-five radical members of Con?
gress had a private meeting last night.
A member of Grant's staff was present.
It is stated that the President was weak?
ening under approhenston of impeach?
ment in Soptcmbor, and would not ro
.movo Rollins. Tho opinion is oxpressod
that under yostorday's order from tho
War Department, the Southorn States
would undoubtedly go Democratic, and
tho removal of tho Prosidont; so far as
, these prcsont could go, was determined
upon. The prospect looked gloomy to
most members; but Grant's election was
rogaidod a patriotio necessity, which
must be achioved.
Washington, July 30.
The Stoto Department has issued to
the Russian Minister a treasury check for
?7,200,000 in gold, which closed tho Alas?
ka transaction.
The South Carolina and Georgia Leg?
islatures, in the recent elections, which
indicate tho abandonment of extreme
views, creates consternation in radical
circles hero.
Tho Republican Executive Cummittqo
have unfavorable accounts from tho South.
Major Mooro, of tho San Antonia Ex
presSj who haw just arrived, says there is
little hopo for tho reconstruction policy
in Toxaa. A member of Gov. War
mouth's staff, just arrived from Louisi?
ana, says if tho Prosident does not ro
j epond to the call for troops, which tho
Governor will raako, in compliance with
tho resolution just passed by tho Legisla?
ture, the Stato will bo practically in ro
bollion. Ho says the Western part of
tho State is wholly under tho control of
the itu Klux Klan, who rido about open?
ly by dny-l?ght. Several of tho former
rebel cavalry regiments havo boon re-or?
ganized and called "Soymour Knights,"
and tho infantry compacios " Blair
Guards."
Preparations aro making to reduce the
navy, in compliance with tho reduced
appropriations. Two veseels will be
withdrawn from each foreign squadron.
A Republican, who favored Johnson
during impeachment, has boen proposed
for Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
in whose favor Rollins will uncondition?
ally resign.
The new tax law halts, on account of
differences between McCulioch and Rol?
lins. A compromise is regarded necessa?
ry and probable, which will continuo the
commissionership in Republican hands.
Largo numbers of office-holders have been
discharged, on account of moagro appro?
priations.
An Intelligent Englishman's View
of Radical Policy.
The following letter is from a well
known English author, (Anthony Trol?
lope), now on a visit to the United States:
"WASniyGTOJi, June ?, 18G8.
It has been deemed by Congress that
each of these States shall choose a new
constitution for itself, but that in choosing
it all men, blacks and whites alike, shall
have an equal voice, except that white I
men known to havo been leading rebels,
and that other white men who will not
take a test oath so worded a6 to be utterly
irreconcilable to tho feelings of a South
em white man, shall bo debarred from
voting at all. The upshot is, that the
framing of the State constitutions is to be
given to the men who, four or five years
since, were slaves, and who are still negroes.
But it must not bo supposed that these
black men have really been asked to framo
their constitutions, or do anything elso
than vote. Their constitutions have been
sent to them by post, and consist in an
undertaking on the part of the State in
question that all men shall hereafter vote
alike. It will, therefore, go forth to the
world that Alabama, Georgia, and the
others have themselves declared that white
men and black men shall be the same for
alt political purposes, and that on this
basis the States have been "reconstructed"
and restored into tho Union. I hold that
tyranny never went beyond this. It may
bo as well at first to point out that in none
of the great Western States can a negro
voto at all. In Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and
Missouri none but a white man can voto.
In Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan
white men and Indians can vote, but
never a negro. In tho groat Eastern States
negroes aro kept away from tho polls,
either practically or by actual rule. In
Pennsylvania no black man can vote. Li
New York a negro can vote, birt net
without a veal property qualification and
three years' residence. In the States of
New England, excepting in Connecticut,
negroes can vote ; but their number is so
small as to make their votes of no possible
value. Yet it has been ordained by these
victorious Northern States that in the con?
quered Southern States all political power
given tho whites Bhall be put into the
hands of a race of men who yesterday
were their slaves. For myself I am pre?
pared to argue, if it be needed, that a ne?
gro is not fitted by his gifts and nature to
exercise political power amidst a communi?
ty of white men. Ile is so naturally sub?
servient to tho white man's greater power
of mind that, when passion is over, he will
always do as somo white man Bhall instruot
him. But putting aside tor tho present a
subject which is very vast in its bearings,
and in which mon have and will dispute
loudly, here has been made a provision for
a war of race& with the express object of
keeping down a people, in order that that
people may be debarred from all political
power in tho empire. It must be remem?
bered that government in the United
States is Stato govcrnmont for the most
part. In Georgia thc black men, on these
lines of reconstruction, would havo the
power of making all laws for the restraint
of tho white. They would bo enablod to
enact that a man should be hung for this
or that so-called crime?a white man, if
you will, for not taking off his hat to a
black man. But it has never been for a
moment intended really to entrust this
power to tho negroes. Tho intention is
that, through the negroes, all political
power, both Stato power and Federal
power, shall be in the hands of members
of Congress from the North?that the
North shall have its heels on the South,
and that the conquered shall be subject to
the conquerors. Never has there been a
more terrible condition imposed upon a
fallen people. For an Italian to feel au
Austrian over him, for a Polo to feel a
Russian over him, has been bad, indeed ;
but it has been left for the political ani?
mosity of a Republican from the North?
a man who himself rejects all contact with
tho negro?to subject the late Southern
slaveowner to dominion from the African,
who was yesterday Iiis slave. Tho dun?
geon chains are knocked off the captive in
ordor that he may be harnessed as a beast
of burden to the captor's chariot. But it
will not be so. There will in theso South?
ern States be a war of races ; hatred from
tho white man to the poor, timid, uncon?
scious negro; Buffering for both, infinite
suffering for poor Sambo, who will gradu?
ally begin his appointed task of disappear?
ing; there will be rapid death of negro
children, negro want, and all tho following
of negro vice ; but tho white man who
lives near him will gradually resumo his
power. There will be an influx of North?
ern men into theso States, and they will
gradually become as tho white men of the
South. Thoschomo after a while will fail;
but in the meantime all the hatred of a
conquering and a conquered people will be
maintained. Such, sir, aro my ideas of
"reoonstrue?on.1'
Judge F. J. Moses.
The election of tbis individual to the
position of Chief Justice, by tho Legisla?
ture last greek, renders the following
sketch from the Sumter Watchman peculi?
arly appropriate at this time:
! The fact stated by our Columbia corres?
pondent, on another column that Judge
Moses is now engaged, heart and soul, m
the extraordinary work of seeking office
at the bands of the so-called Legislature
now sitting in that city, banishes any
doubt which may have existed in the pub?
lic mind in regard to his position, and de?
volves upon us, as public journalists, a
grave and imperative, though it may be
unpleasant duty.
When, in 1860,^ Judge Moses declared,
in the presence of his fellow-citizens in the
Court House at this place, that if South
Carolina did. not secede Sumter Distriot
must do soj and when, subsequently, as
Commissioner of the State, he so aroused
the dormant energies of North Carolina,
and assisted her to execute the work of
secession; and when, at a still later period,
with the fires of Southern patriotism so
burning in his bosom, to avenge the
wrongs of his injured section and drive
back the invaders of his country, he back
led on the trappings of war and joined
Gov. Wise in the mountains of West Vir?
ginia ; and when, yet at a later day, he so
urged his fellow-citizens on to the battle
field, and finally, in the excess of his ardor,
became the dashing eommander of a com?
pany of home cavalry to assist in protract?
ing the rebellion, it was but little believed,
even with a knowledge of his antecedents,
that he could ever cast himself into the
position he now occupies. And this belief
could have been but strengthened when,
in consequence of his zeal in behalf of the
war on the part of his State and the South,
he was invested by a late Legislature of
his State, with the dignity of a position
among the honored Judiciary. But it has
been reserved for him, at this vital crisis,
to betray and forfeit every hope and claim
of confidence, and to perform his crowning
act of recreancy. 'As a politician, since
'32, Judge Moses has ever trimmcid his
sails to catch the popular breeze?now
upon one side and now upon another?now
halting to watch the tido, and now leaping
forward abreast its foremost wave, when
its direction was distinctly seen. This has
been borne with quiet submission by the
people of his District, sinco ho has been
regarded abroad as the exponent of their
sentiment, until, at length, they may no
longer remain silent and preserve their
self-respect?their character for intelli?
gence, honor and independent thought.
We speak for Sumter District?the mass
of her intelligent citizens, who, notwith
staning such examples and such influences
in their mid6t, are unmoved from tho path
of principle and truth, and will, at all
hazards, maintain their honor and their
respectability.
The above brief exhibit of this honora?
ble gentleman's public antecedents and
performances, and of his present position,
has been submitted solely with the view
of removing an impresion which outside
the limits of our District may prevail,
that his Honor reflects the political con?
victions and integrity of our people. The
day for such influence on his part has long
since been verging to its ciose?it has now
set in the shadows of ev ening. The wand
is no more in magician's hand.
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Ad Interim Appointments.?The follow?
ing is a full text of the bill relative to ad
interim appointments, which has recently
passed both Houses of Congress:
Sec. 1. Be it enacted. rC-c, That in case
of the death, resignation, abscencc, or
sickness of the head of any executive de?
partment of the Government, the first or
sole assistant thereof shall, unless otherwise
directed by the President of tho United
Stales, as is hereinafter provided, perform
the duties of such head until a successor
shall be appointed, or such absenco or
sickness shall cease.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
in case of the death, resignation, absence,
or sickness of the chief of any bureau, or of
. any officer thereof, except tho Commission?
er of Patents, whose appointment is not
in tho head of any executive department,
the deputy of such chief or of such officer,
or if there be no deputy, then the chief
clerk of such bureau, shall, unless other?
wise directed by tho President of the Uni?
ted States, as hereinafter provided, perform
the dnties of such chief or such officer,
until a successor bo appointed, or such
absence or sickness shall cease; and no
appointment, designation, or assignment
otherwise than horein provided in the
cases mentioned in the first, second, and
third sections of this act, shall be made
except to fill a vacanoy happening during
the recess of the Senate.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That in any of
tho cases hereinbefore mentioned it shall
bo lawful for the President of the United
States, in his discretion, to authorize and
direct the heads of any other executive
department or other officer in eitherr ofi
tho60 departments whose appointment is I
by and with the advice of the Senate vested
in the President, to perform the duties of
an oflice vacant as aforesaid until a suc?
cessor bo appointed, ur the sickness or ab?
senco of the incumbent shall cease; Pro?
vided, That nothing iu this act shall
authorize the supplying as aforosaid a
vacancy for a longer period than ten days
wbeu such vacancy shall bo occasioned by
death or resignation, and tho officer so
performing the duties of tho office tempo?
rarily vacated, shall not bo entitled to ex?
tra compensation therefor; And provided,
also, That in case of the death, resignation,
absence, or sickness of the Commissioner of
Patents, the duties of said Commissioner,
until a successor be appointed, or such ab?
sence or sickness shall cease, shall devolvo
upon the examiner in chief in said office,
the oldest in length of commission.
Sec. 4. And be it further entteted, That
all acts heretofore passed on the subject of
temporarily supplying vacancies in execu?
tive departments, or which empower the
President to authorize any person or per?
sons to perform the duties of the heads of
any executive department, or of any offi?
cer in either of the departments, in case of
j vacancy therein, or the inability of such
j head of department or officer to discharge
J the duties of his ollico, and all laws ineon
j eistent with lue provisions of this act, tho
sain/: are hereby repealed.
PENDLETON FACTORY.
TIIE WOOL CARDS
AT (his plnce are now in coraplote running order.
All the Wool offered will be carded into Rolls ef
the best quality at short notice, at the folio-wing
rates for cash:
All Wool, Plain and Mixed Rolls, IL^c. pcrlb^
Mixed ofton and Wool Rolls, 16o. por lb.
Bacon, Lard, Corn and Cotton will he takon at
market rates in exchange for carding. Wool may
be sent to tho Factory from any points on the
Railroads, through the agents, and the Rolls de?
livered by them as soon as tho Wool con he o&xdad.
and returned.
AN ASSORTMENT OF
?????ii TABS,
OF A SUPERIOR QUALITY,
Will be kept on hand at the Factory, and euste
mers supplied promptly, at as low figures as tho
market will justify.
Dealers will find it to their interest te gif? U ?
trial before buying elsewhere.
Respectfully,
WILLIAM PERRY & CO.
Proprietor*.
Oot. 9, 1867 IT?tf
Keese & McCully,
dealers ik
GROCERIES, HARDWARE?
Brokers and Commission Merchants,
ivo. lO GKLjIlIVIXEI row,
Anderson. C. H., S. 0.
April 15, 1868 43 tf
8HARPE & FANT,
BROKERS,
No. 7 Granite Row,
AHDEESOBT C. B>, B. <7.
STOCKS, Bonds, Gold and Exchange ofi New
York and Charleston, and uncurrent Bank Bill?
bought and sold.
State money always on hand for sale But *?
pay tour Taxes.
Feb 12, 1868 84
Charleston Hotel,
THE undersigned respectfully informs his friend?
and the travelling pnofiev ho has taken charge of
tho above well-known FIRST CLASS HOTEL,
and refurnished and refitted it, in all its depart?
ments.
The celebrated ARTESIAN WATER BATHS,
HOT, COLD and SHOWER, at all hours.
Coaches run to and from all RailroAdi and
Steamers, with attentive Porters. The patronage,
of tho travelling public is respectfully solicited..
J. P. HORBACH, AjreM.
Jan 28,1369 82 Prefrtatoi.
PAVILION HOTEL,
CEAELESTOJT, 8. IG?
BOARD, PER DAY, ? - ... ? 83.00V
Hu. II. L. BUTTEEFIELD.
A. BUTTERFJ KD, Proprietress.
Superintendent.
March II, LSH8 88
WICKERSOFS HOTEL,
EST" Passengers conveyed to and from the De?
pots, free of charge.
T. S. NICKERSON, Proprietor.
Ron't. Hamilton, Sup't.
Octl6, 18C7 18 ly
E. Fe M??KAU,
Painter, Glazier and Paper Hanger;
BEGS to inform his friends nnd the publio gen?
erally that he has resumed work, and is prepared
to fill all orders in his line, with promptness and
dispatch. He will bo found at this place, when,
not engaged in tho country, and all orders ad?
dressed to him at Anderson C. H. will be attended
to at once.
May 20, 1868 48 8m
WEITNER & WHITNER,
COUNSELLORS AT LAW.
WILL practico in the Courts of Law and Equity
in the Western Circuit, the United States Courts
for South Carolina, and pay particular attention
to Bankruptcy.
Feb 26, 1868 86
Change oLSchedule on the G. & C.
Railroad.
ON and after FRIDAY, the 6th instant, Pasienger
Trains will run daily, Sundays excopted, as fel?
lows :
Leave Columbia at 7.00 a. m.
" Alston at 8.55 ??
" Ncwberryat 10.36 "
Arrive at Abbeville at 8.30 p. ml
" at Anderson at 6.16 "
" at Greenville at 6.00 ??
Leave GrcenviUe at 6.00 a. mv
" Andcrsoa At 6.45 "
" Abbeville at 8.45 **
** Newberry at 1.25 p. m>
Arrive at Alston at 3.00 *'
" at olumbia at 5.00 "
Trains on tho Blue Ridge Railroad will also- run
daily, Sundays excepted, connected with tho up
and down trains on the Greenville and Columbia?
Railroad, as follows:
Leave Anderson at 6.20 p. m.
" Pendleton at &.20 "
Arrive at Walhalla at 8.00 ?'
Leavo Walhalla at 4.00 a. m.
" Pendleton at 6:40- 4r
Arrive at Anderson at 6.40 "
The train will return from Belton to Andersott
ou Monday and Friday mornings.
JAMES 0. MEREDITH, Gen; Sup't.
Dec 3, 1867
Greenville & Columbia RailroadCo*
THIS company has now for sale, in lieu of
"Season Tickets," a Ticket which eutithis a pcrsor*
to travel over the road
1,000 Miles for $40,
Within one year from date of purchase. Th&
Tickets can be purchased from tho Agents at Co^
General Ticket Agent O. & C. R. R.
May 20, JS?8 48 1,0