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^uoerswtr girtentjewer. Thursday Morning. February 10th, 1870. B&* Jons T. Sloan, jr., is the regular author? ized agent in. Colombia to solicit advertisements and procure subscriptions for the Intelligencer. jgjT W. H. B. Toud is duly authorized to act as agent for the Anderson Intelligencer and the^ Rural Carolinian', and will receipt for subscriptions to either of these journals. -.-<t? BST,The Newberry Herald appears in an en? larged form, and with a neat and becoming suit of new type. We like the improvement, gentlemen, and congratulate you upon the tasteful arrange? ment. ? THE TOIOH TIMES, We observe by the last number of this spright? ly journal that B. W. Shand, Esq., has disposed of the entire establishment to R M. Stoiles, Eso>, so long, and favorably known for bis- connection with journalism in this. State- We tender to the outgoing and the incoming our most hearty wishes fax future success. -? BkB*o?*B.?Mr. Walter M.Gibsos, a former resident of our District, who was lately on a visit, a company with his daughter, to their relatives near Pendleton, arrived in San Francisco by the overland route oa the 19th January. His daugh? ter sailed in the steamer Idaho on the 22nd for the Islands, in company with many frionds. Mr. Gibson remains in San Francisco until the 26th of February, engaged in organizing a company who are going with him to the Islands to cultivate sugar on shares. There is great activity in the Islands on account of expected reduction of duty on sugar. The King has appointed all Americans for his Cabinet. This looks to annexation. The prices of passage to San Francisco are now fixed:( By steamship from New York, $ 100 first cabin ; $50 second cabin, including all expenses. By overland, first chss from New York, $160; from Washington City, $189; second class $100 and $95. Emigrant ticket $75, all payable in cur? rency. ? Briet Mention.?Another considerable snow ?, fell in this vicinity on last Monday afternoon. It was followed by sleet and rain, aud rapidly dis? appeared. Monday was a gloomy, disagreeable day, yet notwithstanding thero was a large attendance of people, aud much business transacted. The sales excited some interest, and property brought good prices. Only siigh-3 evidences of the presence of old John Barleycorn, and this was rather laflfcin the afternoon. The attention of those intenested is directed to the fact that municipal taxes must be paid during the present month. Otherwise, the penalties for non-payment will be enforced. The business of the Court continued until Tues? day lost. The juries were dismissed oa Sat urday, and the Equity docket was then run over for the adjustment of such causes as did not involve liti? gation. Maj. E. W. Everso.v, Assistant Assessor of In? ternal Revenue, gives timely warning in another column as to income returns, gold watches and sil? ver plate, &c. The County Treasurer, Daniel Bbowx, Esq., announces the collection of State taxes to begin on the 15th of February. It is understood that the taxes must be paid within the time specified, as there will be no indulgence granted. Although there are three tax items contained in this "brief mention," our readers must noL think we have that subject on the brain. -* Editing a Newspapeb.?Editing a paper is a very pheasant business, says an exchange. If it contains too much political mattes, people won't have it; and if it contains too little, they won't have it. If the type is large, it don't contain enough reading matter; and if the iype is small, they can'-t hardly read it. If we publish a few jokes, people say that we are nothing but a rattle brained fellow; if re omit jokes, then we are an old fossil. If we insert an article which pleases the ladies, men become jealous ; and if we do not cater to the wishes of the fair sex, the paper is sot fit to come in their houses. If we remain in our office and attend to business, folks say we are too proud to mingle with our equals; and if we go out among the people, they accuse us of neg? lecting business, and wasting time from the profi? table- employment of working for their benefit. If w-e do not pay all bills promptly, some folks say that we-are not to be trusted; and if we do pay on demand, others aceuac us of stealing the mon? ey. If we abuse lire administration, folks say we are too reckless; and: if we speak well of any act of the ruling powers, they think we are not "sound on the goose." Whatever an editor may do, persons are always ready to? find fault, and swear they could beat him all to pieces at his own calling. Hence, it is decidedly pleasant, agreea- . ble work. But among all the grumblers it has been our fortune to encounter, the man who never pays for his paper is the worst. Iu fact, since we come to think of it, subscribers who pay iu ad? vance never annoy ns in this ridiculous fashion, and are geuerally ready to make due allowance for oil shortcomings. --o Skxbibie Wobds.?The editor of the Ktowcc Courier, writing from Columbia, thus refers to the great necessity of placing honest aud capable men iuto office: "We have to live under this govern? ment until it is modified by the growth of public virtue and culightenineut. Whatover change may then be effected will not be 3uddeu, as if by mag? ic, but gradual, aud by earnest effort at the ballot box. The good time when principle shall prevail will come, if at all, in this very wny. Until the oountry is prepared for this, let us have as good a government as possible." Jusos Obb,?The Columbia Phoenix thus com? pliments our distinguished townsman : There is one good thing, at least, to be credited to the present Legislature, and this is the election of Ex-Governor J. L. Orr to tho Judgeship. We ?re aot surprised to find the Dar of this circuit paying repeated tributes to (he manner in which Judge Orr discharges his duties. The circuit in which he work* is fortunate in having a Judge like him. Though never fully in accord with Judge Orr in bis political programme, wo have never doubted bis ability and devotion to the State. .-? ? ?--. Another Swindling CoxcBHx?The annexed circular explains itself. A gentleman in this county has kindly placed it at our disposal, and we give it publicity, in order to repeat our warn? ing against all such unscrupulous parties ; l Dear Sib : We got your name from Wogau & Co., 73 Nassau street, who were recently in the business, and who were obliged to burn up all their stock to escape detection. We have now ready for circulation $75,000 in 50 cent stamps, the best ever got out. If yc-u think you can man? age the matter, we will give you a good margin for profit. Our price is $20 per $100, $200 per $1,000, $1000 per $5,000. If you desire to see sample we will send it on receipt of 25 cents, and will then write more fully about the matter. By all means ke*p this secret. Address plainly, ; p. W *TERML?0.,.?7Broadway, fl. T THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY?PROGRESS, LIBE? RALITY AND RETRENCHMENT. The tone of I he State press is decidedly in con? sonance with the views expressed in these columns last week. It ui admitted and agreed upon that the future of the Democratic party must be di? rected to more practical ends, and that its objects must embrace a wider scope and greater breadth of political opinion. The masses are being edu? cated in the belief that the issues of the past do not concern the people of this State in the future, and that a sensible, prudent course is entirety ne? cessary to the full development of all the opposi? tion to the corruption and profligacy of the pres? ent administration. In our judgment, it is proper to recognize the fact that the downfall of slavery and the estab? lishment of universal suffrage has brought about widely different viewsi among the people from those prevailing here anterior to the war. The political power is now in the control of the labor zag classes, and by this wo do not intend distinc? tion between race or color. Rota races are de? pendent upon individual exertion for the susten? ance and support of life, and only through this agency will be evoked the powers and resources of the commonwealth. Industry, then, being the foundation of future wealth, contentment and happiness, the party of reform and political re? generation must stand pledged to the furtherance of every measure intended for the benefit of the laboring classes. All grades of society must be considered as standing upon a just equality, in a political sense, and. the Democrat ic party cannot hope to achieve success unless this theory is acted upon. With this broad and liberal plank as the begin? ning of a platform, it is an easy matter to con? struct the remainder. Opposition to plundering office-holders, the general demand for an economi? cal administration of the Slate government, the lessening of taxes, and the reform of all abuses growing out of the unbridled rule of corrupt offi? cials, will suggest themselves naturally to the hon? est of all parties. It may be possible that this new departure of the Democratic party will alienate, for the time being, persons- of vrealth and intelligence, who have not yet overcome their prejudices. We do not think it probable, however, and firmly believe that every while man in the State, not already al? lied to the Republican party, will unite in this movement for the redemption and prosperity of the whole peeple. Indeed, the safety and welfare of every man is intimately concerned, and we do not see how it is practicable for men to be blinded by prejudice and Bwayed by passion against the dearest interests of their own homes. Rut if there be any such, and especially among those who have heretofore led the people, we shall part with them "more in sorrow than in anger," and turn to the young men of the State as the only hope to secure political reformation and bring about a healthy condition, of public affairs. -e ! P/jtlKO Coroser's Jtrors.?A bill has been introduced into the Legislature, which provides for the payment of Coronor's jurors for services rendered. It has met with an early death, how? ever, as will be Been on reference to the annexed report, which was adopted by the Senate: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill to provide for paying Coroner's Jnrors, have considered the same, and recommend that it do not pass. This service has always been rendered gratui? tously. It is a duty that every good citizen owes to society, and, so far as we are informed, it has ivei been done cheerfully in this State, to attend, at the call of the Coroner, and inquire into the causes of unnatural or violent deatlM. We can? not think it necessary or wise, contrary to the cus? tom uf almost every State iu the Union, to pay jurors attending a Coroner's inquest the sura pro posed. It will add largely to the contingent ex? penses of the counties, and the people will really gain nothing by the expenditure. A Preoictios.?The Louisville Courier Journal contains u noticeable article on the political situa? tion, in which occurs (he following paragraph : "Every one of the Southern States reconstruc? ted under the fifteenth amendment will fall into the hands of the Democratic party, and the Re? publicans cannot risk a division in the North. On suffrage they can hold together?not on any other proposition concerning the negro. Suffrage being settled leaves the ultras nothing to do but to agi? tate for social equality, which cannot be made to work as a political instrument. Resides, the dis? appearance of the negro question as a live and progressive element in our politics will clear the field for new divisions and combinations upon fi? nancial topics, from which the Democrats have everything to hope. So that the jubilation in radicaV circles over the fifteenth amendment is pure effervescence and amounts to nothing at all. A very few months of universal suffrage will develop the truth of this most thoroughly." Fkaser, Trenholm & Co.?The following dis? patch from Washington is published in the North? en papers: Three years ago the Government made an agree ment with Frnscr, Trenholm & Co. in settlement for the effects they had on hand as agents of the late Confederate States, and which were claimed by the United States as public property. This agreement, if consummated by the agents, would have placed in the Treasury half a million dollars in gold. An agent of these parties is now in this city to irkluce the Government to compromise the matter by taking their promissory notes for S8D, 000 in currency, and dismissing all legal proceed? ings against them, both luve and in England.? Eraser, Trenholm & Co. have, it is said, several million dollars worth of landed estate in South Carolina, all of which is under injunction by order of the Court to satisfy the claim of the Govern? ment. Is on Orr.?The New York Herald puts it thus: "Southern States were required to ratify the fif? teenth amendment, as a condition of restoration to the Union. As they could not be trusted to come in and theu ratify it, they ratified first and then caiao in. They were, therefore, not in the Union when they acted on the Constitution, or else they were never out-of the Union. Either, theu, all the reconstruction laws of Congress are Invalid, or these Southern ratifications of the fif? teenth amendment are invalid. If the States were in the Union, there was no need to admit them; and if they were not in the Union, they could not participate in making laws for Stutes that ore in." Plast Corn.?Planters are now about commen? cing to "pitch their crops." and we urge upon them the propriety?nay, necessity of planting an ample breadth in corn. The present and prospective price of this indis? pensable article should admonish planters that, however large a crop ot cotton they may make, their net profits will be small if they have to pur? chase any considerable portion of their corn.? Planting largely of cotton will lend to reduce the price ofthat article, and thereby lessen their abil? ity to purchase provisions. Every one should plant corn enough to insure a full supply the coming year.?Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel. ? France and England are just now at loger heads on the subject of a renewal of tho Anglo j French Commercial treaty. The allegations are I that France has suffered in her linen, cotton and [ iron industries from English competition, while England has found her ftilk trade nearly ruined by the influx of French fabrics, her wooleh man? ufactures in certain fancy departments altogether transferred, and some branches of her cot ten ' trade injuriously affected. Statesmen on both j sides of the channel are endeavoring to effect a 1 eompromipe. > WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. Washington, February 4. In the Senate, a bill was passed, ordering the Secretary of tho Treasury to withhold monies due defaulting States. A resolution was passed, cal? ling on tho President for information regarding Georgia. The franking privilege wo? up. In the Senate, the proceedings of the Cooper Institute meeting in New York, asking recognition of Cuba, were presented. Franking was resumed, and Sherman moved an amendment, that the-bill should nob interfere with the free circulation of papers within twenty miles of publication ; no ac? tion. Adjourned to Monday. In the House, the Committee on Military Affairs was ordered to inquire what members of Congress had offered for sale appointments to the military or naval academies. A bill for the relief of the poor, authorizing the Secretary of War- to issue rations, passed. The House meets to-morrow for debate only. The following important action, showing a softening with regard to the test oath, is reported fully: Mr. Bingham, from the Judiciary Commit? tee, reported a bill to relieve Francis E. Shoeber, Representative from the Sixth North Carolina Dis? trict, of the necessity of taking the iron-clad oath, and that he be admitted to his seat upon taking an oath to support the Constitution. Paine made the point of order that this was not a private bill, but it affected' the organization of the House. The Speaker overruled the point of order. Paine ap? pealed from the decision. On motion of Mr. Oox, the appeal was laid on the table. Paine said the matter was now before the Election Committee, and thus proposed to relieve Mr. Shoeber of his disabilities. Bingham said the Judiciary Com? mittee had investigated the matter, and was satis? fied Mr. Shoeber labored under no disabilities im? posed by the fourteenth amendment to the Consti? tution. He was a member of the North Carolina Legislature, and could not, therefore, take the oath ; bis course had always been that of a friend of the Union. Dewees said Shoeber was not subject to any disabilities under the fourteenth amendment. The Chair, in answer to inquiries, stated that the passage of the bill would not prevent the Election Committee from further examining Mr. Shoeber's credentials, and reporting upon his right to a seat. Annell moved to lay the bill upon the table; agreed to?ayeB 89; nays 78. Among the nominations to-day, Dr. Samuel Bard, late of the Atlanta Era, Governor of Idaho ; Gabm, District Judge of Florida. Washington, February 5. Cumback declines the Portugese mission. In the House, there was a general debate. Sheldon, of Louisiana, spoke on finance and the tariff, arguing from facts and figures in favor of retaining the present tariff on sugar. The Senate Committee on Commerce held a meeting to-day and considered the levees of the Mississippi. The matter was finally referred to a sub-oommittee of Senators Buckingham and Kel? logg, y Washington, February 7. Bullock lending one and Bryant another Geor? gia delegation, have arrived. Both claim to be Republicans. Hoar is to be retained in the Cabinet. Peter T. Washburn, Governor of Vermont, is dead. Senator Morton presented doouments declaring Georgia had adopted the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. ?. In the House", Ridgeway introduced a bill to re? peal the Act prescribing oaths of office, and a bill for the removal of the political disabilities of the people of Virginia. Walker introduced a bill to discontinue the Frecdmen's Bureau. The resolu? tion offered on Monday lost, declaring that consti? tutional authority to levy taxes does not include any power to impose duties other than for the col? lection of revenue, and that the tariff levied for any other purpose than that of revenue, especially if levied to foster and encourage one section of the country or one class of citizens at the expense of another section or class, is unwarranted by the Constitution, unjust to the great body of the peo? ple and injurious to almost all industries, and di? recting the Ways and Means Committee to prepare a bill accordingly, was laid on the table by a vote of 89 to 77. Tho Indian appropriation bill was reported and made the special order for Tuesday. It appropriates $3,000,000 ngaiust $6,000,000 last year. The amount estimated for was $5,000,000. In the Senate, petitions were presented favoring an additional amendment granting female suffrage. A bill was reported to encou?-age telegraphic com? munication between the Eastern and Western Con? tinents. It gives the American and Asiatic Tele? graphic Company the exclusive right, for fourteen years, to the telegrapic cable from a point in Washington Territory. Government vessels are to assist the enterprise. A bill to protect Congress? men from importunity and preserve the indepen? dence of the several departments : also, the census bill were discussed, but without final action, ad? journed. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear the conservative Republican delegation, on Wednes? day, regarding Georgia. Trumbull has notified the Bullock delegation to be present. The Senate Elections Committee has indefinitely postponed the matter of Segar, who claims a scat from the State of Virginia at large. The death of the late Mr. Hoag was announced in both Houses to-day. Despatches to Fish, from Havana, say one American citizen was killed and two wounded, yes? terday. No particulars. The delegation of Georgians, representing the Bullock faction, called on Grant this morning. The interview lasted an hour, and the political sit? uation was fully discussed. The President stated that, although his first impressions were that the action of the Legislature, previous to the expul? sion of the colored members, was legal and bind? ing, nnd the election of the Senators was to hold good, he was satisfied after more mature reflection, that the present legislative organization was the first, and that all action should be commence! de novo. He inquired who the Republicans would elect Senators, to which the delegation responded that no nomination bad yet been made, but that they would probably be made on Monday, and the election hold on Tuesday. No doubt but what they will be loyal Republicans. The President said both he and Shermau had entire confidence in Terry, and he would fully advise them of the situ? ation in a few days, as he would be here on public business. The delegation also expressed confi? dence in Terry's judgment and ability. The Cotton Crop op 1870.?The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail estimates that nut more than 700,000 negroes are in the field, aud that this force will not produce more than four bales to the acre, or 2.80U,000, which will not be equal to the crop of 1809. It rather thinks that 2,500,000 will be a full crop, and even this the result of an extraor? dinary season. This is the story of every year? deficient labor and deficient crop. We predict? and one prediction is just as good as another at this early day?that the crop of 1870 will not be below that of 1809. It is true that women have pretty much left the cotton fields, and that the force of men is much reduced; but when cotton costs 20 cents a pound, it will be grown in great quantity. Moreover, white labor cau cultivate it in many of the States, and the stimulus to grow so nice and profitable a crop will stimulate both whites and blacks to do all that is possible. The active demand for labor in the cotton-grow? ing States indicates a fair cotton crop for the pres? ent year, especially for Louisiana, Texas and Ar? kansas. Indeed, the cotton belt is likely to have an undue share of labor, compared with other sec? tions, though none too much, while States like Virginia and Alabama, each well adapted to white labor, will lose many of their colorod population. Wc look for an increased crop of cotton, from year to year, in the cotton States, and for an increased crop of sugar in the sugar States, though it will be a long time before the product of free labor are equal to that of u slave population. Freedom works two ways?first in emancipating negro wo? men from the fields, and secondly, in producing that idleness which always accompanies a lack of thrift, and which also is a natural attendant of ig? norance. Example, good pay, ambition for a bet? ter position, will do much, but not all that is re? quired to regenerate the negro laboring population of the South. We were once promised 10,000,000 bales of ootton, if slavery w?S abolished. It is abolished, and the crop is less than 3,000,000.? yew York Express. . -o ? The correspondent of the Charleston News mentions the following gentlemen in connection with the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Boozer, of the Fifth Circuit: W. E. Earle, of Greenville, T. H. Cooke, of Orangeburg, and J. Seett Murrey, of Anderson. ITEMS-EDITOEIAL AHB OTHERWISE. , . ? Walhalla is about to organize a Hook and Ladder Company, and have it incorporated. ? Dr. J. H. Dogan, an aged and estimable citi? zen of Union, died on the 2d. ? The majority for the Texas Constitution was 67,439. The total number of votes against it was 4,928. ? Several capitalists of Chattanooga are en? deavoring to havo that city annexed to the State of Georgia. ? Mrs. Henry J. Raymond and family, and the family of Hon. Ren Wood, arrived in Charleston last week. ? A dangerous counterfeit $20 on the Market National Rank of New York has been circulating in Charleston. ? The lower House of the New Jersey Legisla? ture rejected the Fifteenth Amendment by a vote of 82 to 27. ? The Directors of tho South Carolina Railroad have determined to begin the payment of quarter? ly dividends in July next. ? The Chicago Times says : "Farnsworth is af? ter Rutler. Ringham is after Rutler. Dawes is after Rutler. The devil, too, is after Butler." ? A convention of the editors of conservative newspapers in Louisiana has been called- to meet in New Orleans on the 28th inst. ? The Williamston Hotel was sold on the 31st ult. for the sum of $2,525, and was purchased by a company of gentlemen from Greenville. ? The Directors of the South Carolina Institute held a meeting on the 1st instant, and resolved to hold a Fair on the 15th of November next. ?? The Election for a Judge of the Fifth Circuit bas been postponed until to-morrow (Friday,) 11th inst. It is thought that S. W. Melton, Esq., has the inside track. ? The Augusta Constitutionalist states that the postmaster at White Pond, in this State, has been detected in stealing money letters, by means of a decoy found in bis possession. ? Suit has been instituted in the United States Circuit Court against the sureties of Taliaferro, late postmaster of New Orleans, for nearly $29, 000 deficit in the sale of revenue stamps. ? The Tennessee House of Representatives unanmiously adopted resolutions deploring the death of George D. Prentice, and tendering sym? pathy to Kentucky in his loss. ? The Governor has approved the act to au? thorize Administrators, Executors and others to sell certain evidences of indebtedness at public sale, and to compromise in certain cases. ? Mrs. Rallie Hammond, widow of Col. LeRoy Hammond, both of them prominently and honor? ably identified with the history of old Edgefield, died recently, aged 87. ? Rev. Henry H. Spann, for thirty-five years a, zealous and faithful local preacher, and most wor? thy citizen, died at his residence in Lexington on the 24la of January, in the 62nd year of his age. ? The Wolhalla Courier says that the latest news from the railroad authorities is, that a con? tract for the building the Blue Ridge Railroad to the North Carolina line has been entered into with responsible parties. ? A drunken man recently went into the store of a lady in Camden, and made nse of some inde? cent langnage, for which offence she administered to him a thorough thrashing with her own fair hands. ? The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives has ^decided, after eighteen months' investigation, that they will report against impeachment of Busteed, U. S. District Judge of Alabama. ? A bill has been introduced in Congress to re? duce the pay of Congressmen from $5,000 to $3,000 a year, and to reduce mileage from 20 to 10 cents a mile. This would make a saving of $1,000,000 a year. ? Revels, the newly elected colored Senator from Mississippi, is a native of Fayetteville, N. C. His old acquaintances about that place promise to be reticent in regard to some things, if he will conduct himself properly. ? Wright, elected Associate Justice, has resign? ed his scat in the Senate, and entered upon judi? cial honors. The counties of Abbeville and Beau? fort are now unrepresented in the Senate. Other counties are misrepresented. ? A concurrent resolution offered by Doyle (Democrat) bas been adopted by the Legislature, requiring State Constable Hubbard to report, with? in ten days, the names of all persons murdered in this State during the post year, as represented in his official report. It will puzzle Hubbard, in all probability, to comply with the resolution. ? On the nineteenth of this month, the emanci? pation of the Serfs of Russia will be completed, as from that date they will be allowed to have their communes, and settle in any part of Russia they please, instead of being adseripi glebcc, as hitherto. The most disastrous results to the bar? ren Northern provinces arc feared from the emi? gration southward, which is expected to ensue. ? A few weeks ago the assets of the bank of the State of Georgia were sold at public outcry in Savannah, r.nd a lot of worthless securities were sold in a heap to the highest bidder for $365. In this lot of "worthless trash" was $40,000 in bonds of the Blue Ridge Railroad, of South Carolina. The day after the sale the buyer, a well-known Atlanta broker, sold the Blue Ridge Railroad bonds for $20,000, reserving the balance of the trash for another turn. ? Congress proposes to abolish the Agricultu? ral Bureau in Washington. A bill has been intro? duced and read twice in the House to sell out the establishment and turn over the proceeds of the sale to the Treasury. Judging from the reports which havo reachod us from time to time from that bureau, embracing as they always did, much val? uable and interesting information concerning the progress of agriculture in every section of the Union, wc think Congress will commit an unwise act in abolishing it. ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. An Act to Desuinate thk Officer by whom Sales Urdibkd nr tub Courts or Common . PlHAS anb Jl'DflES thereof, anu the courts or Prouate, shall bk made. Skc. 1. Be it enacted by tho Scnnte and House of Representaves of tho State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That all sales of per? sonal or real estate, or other interest, hereafter ordered to be made by the Courts of Common Picas and judges thereof, or Courts of Probate, shall be made by the sheriff of the oounly in which said real or personal estate or other inter? est is al the time said sale is ordered. Sec. 2. Thai in all sales by said sheriff, under the order of Courts of Common Pleas, exercising common law jurisdiction, or under the order of Courtb of Probate, the fees of said sheriff shall be tho same as now fixed by law, for sales by sheriffs under executions issuing from the Courts of Common Pleas, exercising common law juris? diction ; and that in all sales under the order of Courts of Common Pleas exeroising equity juris? diction, the fees of said sheriff shall be the same as those now fixed by law for sales by sheriffs un? der executions issuing from Courts of Common ' Pleas exercising oommon law jurisdiction. ' Approved 27th day of January, 1870. ' The Democratic Pasty?la it Viotobt ok Defeat 1?Tho Anderaoo lnietligencer wants to know if the Democrats of this State intend to be active and progressive, letting "the dead past bury the dead," and looking forward with manly resolution to the things before them. If tbey do this and address themselves to living issaes and practical propositions, it intimates victory. ^ If not, defeat. We answer that, in our own opinion, the Intelligencer need have no fears on this score. We believe that those composing the Democracy of South Carolina, from one end of the State to the other, are thoroughly united and folly in ac? cord with the hopes of the Intelligencer. We fed satisfied, from the intimations that have reached us, and from our own observation, that the Demo? cratic party of South Carolina intend to be a pro? gressive party?a party of genuine reform?a party of practical aims. It will, we assume, mnko no unnecessary issues?it will concede all tb.r political rights given to the freedmen by the law. At the same time, in behalf of the interests of all classes of our mixed population, it will demand t? reform of existing abases. It will go for the in. flux into oar State of labor and capital. It will go for the encouragement of all the indostrie? It will seek to secure in Sooth Carolina that har? mony and good will between the whites and color ed people, bo promotive of the general weal. It. will place upon its banner "reform and work." When, therefore, the Intelligencer asks: "The Democratic party?it it victory or defeat f" we re? ply, the Democratic party, liberalized, invigorated, energized?it is principle?it is doty?-it can Bi victobt.?Columbia Phoenix. The Phosphate Bill.?This bill has been amended in the Senate and sent to the Heose. The word "exclusive" bos been stricken therefrom and "twenty-one years" inserted. The grant is made upon the express condition that saSsi grantees shall pay to the State of South Carolina the sum of one dollar per ton for every ton of phosphate rock or phospbatic deposits dug, rained or removed from the said navigable rivers and waters of the State. And that said grantees shall pay into the Treasury of the State the sum of five hundred dollars as a HcenBe fee before commencing busi? ness under said grant. Before commencing ope? rations the grantees and their associates shall file, in the office of the State Auditor, a bond in the penal sum of fifty thousand dollars, conditioned that said grantees and their associates shall make returns to the State Auditor annually, and often er, if required by the State Aoditor, of the num? ber of tons of phosphate rock and pbosphatic de? posit dug, mined, and removed by them from the beds of the navigable streams and waters of the State, and shall pay to the State Treasurer, semi annoally, on the first day of October, one dollar per ton for every ton of phosphate rock and phos? pbatic deposit by them dug, mined and removed from the beds of the navigable streams and wa? ters of the State daring the six months preceding. The Bubal Carolinian fob Fbbbuaby.?In a few short months the Rural Carolinian bos, by its attractive appearance and varied contents of nev? er failing merit, become a standard Agricultural Magazine, and is this day as anxiously looked for and attentively persued by its thousands of read? ers as if it had been poblished for a century. Its devotion to the practical and scientific develop? ment of Soothern agriculture give it a peculiar character and value, not only to the people of the South, whom it more immediately affects, but also to Northerners and Europeans, to whom the Sooth is a sort of China or Japan, bot recently opened to their investigation. The number now before as is a splendid illustration of what brains and en? terprise can do when aided by the sympathy and interest of oor entire people. With sixty-eight pages of reading matter (four more than the usual number) it bos not an article in it that would not please the most practical farmer, and yet there is much to entertain and instruct the general reader. The illustrations are useful as well as or? namental, and the likeness of DeLesseps is worthy of being preserved as u life-like representation of a .great man, the moving spirit of a wonderful achievement. The typographical execution is su? perb, and the publication, as a whole, is one of which our regenerated South may well feel proud. ?Charlctton Daily Aw*, Feb. 1, 1870. -4? Special Notice.?To parties in want of Doors, Sashes and Blinds, we refer to the advertisement of P. P. To ale, the large manufacturer of those goods in Charleston. Price list furnished on ap? plication. 4?9m Special flotitts. HIRAM LODGE, No. 68, A.*. F.*. M.\ A REGULAR COMMUNICATION OF HIBAM LODGE will be held in the Lodge Boom on MON? DAY NIGHT, Feb. 14th, 1870, at half-post seven o'clock. Brethren will take due notice ana govern themselves accordingly. By order of the Worshipful Master. E. FB AN KLIN, Sec. Jan 13,1870 29 4 Pendleton Lodge, No. 34, A.*. F.*. M.\ AKEGULAB COMMUNICATION OF PENDLE? TON LODGE will be held in tbe Lodge Boom on SATUBDAY, Feb. 12th, 1870, at 3 o'clock p. m. Brethren will take due notice and govern themselves accordingly. By order of the Worshipful Master. W. H. D. GAILLABD, Sec. Jan 6, 1870 28 2 Living Arch Chapter, No. 21, R.\ A.*. M.\ A BEGULAB CONVOCATION OF LIVING AEOH CHAPTER will be held in the Chapter Room on SATUBDAY, Feb. 12th, 1870, at 7 o'clock p. m. Companions will assemble withoot further notice. By order of the Most Excellent High Priest. M. L. SHABPE, Sec. Jan 6, 1870 28 3 jjj gfarbfa. ~~ Anderson, Feb. 9?, 1870*. Very little cotton has been offered doring the post week, and to-day prices range from 22 to 28. bt tuesoat EVENlS?'S mail. Augusta, Feb. 7,1870. Cotton in fair demand, with light offering sales 430 bales at 23} to 23}. Charleston, Feb. 7,1870. Cotton easier and quiet, with sales of 400 bales; middlings 24. New York, Feb. 7, 1870. Cotton quiet at 25J. Gold heavy at 20. jppicneal. MABBIED, by Bev. W. P. Jfcrtio, January SO, 1870, at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. Wm. N. Hammond, of Anderson Village, and Miss Mart Hamilton, daughter of David Bogers, of Anderson county. _ ?Mhtarjj. DIED, of Diphtheria, on the 10th of December, 1809, Mrs. Lauba Cox, wife of David Cox. The subject of this notice wai a daughter of Kenon Breaieolc, deceased, who was well known to many citizens of this county. Mrs. Cox was born July 27th, 1807, and joined the Baptist Church at Friendship in September, 1832. She subsequent? ly removed her membership to Shady Grove* church, near Calhoun, where nhe remained a con? sistent member. She leaves a kind husband and five children, with many relatives and friends to mourn her lose. Phoenix ^ Guano?Four unguanoed rows yielded forty pounds, ana four guanoed rows 101?believes it the best Fertilizer used in his section. Men si wethee Cp., Gam Dec. 4, 1869. Messrs. Wilcoz, Oibbs $ Co.: I used one ton of Phoenix Guano with the following results: I left four rows by the si do of that which was guanoed, and from these fonr unguanoed roars I gathered forty pounds cotton, and from four of the guan? oed rows on same soil, and cultivated alike, I gathered one hundred and one pounds. / believe the Phoenix is the beet fertiliter that has been used in this section this year f it stood the drouth better than any I saw. The land I nsed it on has been, cleared thirty years?it is a light gray soil. I used 200 lbs. per acre. Where I used the Guano the crop stood the drouth better than where.there was none. Respect fully, J, D. C?LPEPPER. An Imports at Consideration. Dr. Tutt's Lirer PTrfs are PURELY VEGETA? BLE and are adapted to young and old, male and female, and may be taken at all times, without re? straint of occupation, without change of firing, withoat diet ani without the fear of taking ooFdf during all kinds of weather, and in aR c?mutes. TREY CONTAIN NO MERCURY. New Advertisements. Administrator's Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned hereby gives notice thai he will make application to the Probate Judge of Anderson county on Friday, the 11th day of March next, for a Final Settlement of the Estate of Wm. Williamson, deceased, and a final dis? charge from the administration of said Estate. MASTIN WILLIAMSON, Surviving Adm'r. with will annexed. Feb 10,1870 83 6* ; Prayer Meeting Convention THE next quarterly meeting of the Convention of Prayer for Anderson county, will meet at Cross Roc.d Church, on Thursday before the first Sabbath in March next, at nine o'clock a. m. All Circles are requested to send delegates. AH Ministers of the gospel, and all others friendly to the cause, are invited to attend. A. O. NORRLS, President. A. P. Hubbard, Secretary. Feb 10, 1870 88 2 Sheriff's Sale. John L. Williams vs. Mrs. McDa7id and busband, Robert McDavid, John R. Mattison, et aL? Bill for Payment of Dthis, Relief, Src. IN pursuance of the Decretal Order of the Cir? cuit Court, sitting in Equity ia the above stated case. I will expose to sole on the first MONDAY in March next, in front of the Court House in Anderson, within the legal hours of sale, All that Tract of Land,, Situate and being in the County of Anderson, within or near the corporate limits of the town of Belt an, containing One Hundred Acres, Mom or less, on whioh B. D. Dean now resides,, adjoining lands of Ira G. Williams and others. Ti kms.?One-third cash, the balance on a credit of twelve months, with interest from day of sale, purchaser to give bond with approved sureties, and a mortgage of the premises to secure the pay? ment of the purchase money. Purchaser to pey for papers and stamps. WM. McGUKIN, Sheriff Anderson County. Feb 10, 1870 88 4 Sheriffs Sale. In the Common Pleas?Equity Side?An? derson. South Carolina. Catharine D. Norris, Executrix, vs. Samuel H. Langston and wife. Lacy J., and others.?Bill for Construction of Will, Relief, $e. BY virtue of a Decretal Order in this case, I will sell at Anderson Court House, on Saleday ia. March next, the Tract of Land Described in the pleadings, known as the James Burris8 Tract, situated in Anderson county, on waters of Oenerostee creek, bounded by lands of J. F. Wilson, A. R. Broyks and J. C. Keys, and containing 305 ACRES, More or less, of which 67 acres is ? lease of the Wadsworth lands, having about 18 years to ran. Terms of Sale.?One half cash, and the balance on a credit of twelve months, with interest from day of sale, the purchaser to give bond with ap- ' proved surety, and a mortgage of the -premises to> secure the payment of the purchase money. The purchaser to pay for papers and stamps: WM. McGUKIN, Sheriff Anderson County. Feb 10, 1870 38 . 4 NOTICE! UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE, Assistant Assessor's Office, 6th Division, 3rd District, South Carolina, Anderson, S. C, February 8, 1870. I am now prepared to receive the Annual Re? turns of Income, Gold Watches, Gold and Silver Plate, and other articles enumerated in Schedule "A," for the year 1870. Strict conformity to the requirements of the law in rendering these returns will be required. Under the ruling of the Honorable Commission? er of Internal Revenue, no Return wiU be accept? ed unless mode out in detail, that is, with the proper entry opposite each item of the Return, and tho whole subscribed and sworn to. The form and manner for declaring that a per? son is not possessed of & taxable income, under the proviso of Section 118, of the Act of June 30,1864, amended by the Act of March 2, 1867, is prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to bo the Blank Return furnished, prop? erly filled up, subscribed and sworn to before me.. For the purpose of expedition and promptness in response to these requirements, the following; is stated for convenience of tax payers: I will be at Walhalla from the 10th to the 15th of the month of February; at Pendle too, from the 16th to the 19th; at WiUiamston, from the 2lst to the 24th ; at Belton, on the 25th and 26th, and the remaining portion of the time at my ofBce nt Anderson C. H. ER AST US W. EVEBSON, Assistant Assessor. Feb 10, 1870 83 3 PUBLIC SALE. WILL be sold, at the late residence of Major James Gilmer, deceased, near Roberts' Church, on MONDAY, the 14th day of February instant, the following Personal Property belonging to the Es? tate of said deceased1., to wit? Two (2) Four-Horse Powers and Thrashers, Set ot Surveyor's Instruments, Blacksmith Tools, Buggies, && Terms cash. J. J. GILMER, R. A. GILMER, Agents for Legatees. Feb 3,1870 82 2 JAMES H. TH0RNWELL, Attorney at Law, ANDERSON C. H., S. C. Office in the residence immediately oppo? site Dr. Ciller's, on Main street. Feb 3,1870 82 Sm Notice to the Public* I HEREBY forewarn all persons whatsoever against crediting all and every person on my ac? count, without a special order from me. JOHN B. EARLEs 1'cb 8? 1870 32 I