The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, June 13, 1872, Image 2
ANDERSON C. H., S. C.
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE IS*, 2872.
Our Agents in Charleston.
The Advertising Agency of Messrs. Walker,
Evans & Cogswell, represented by Roswell T.
Logan, Esq., is the only authorized agency for
this paper in the city of Charleston.
Refreshing rains fell in many ^portions
of this County on Sunday and Monday last,
including this immediate vicinity.
JB?* We are requested to state that Rev. J.
S. Young will preach in the Presbyterian
Church this (Thursday) evening at the usual
hour.
The Cheraw Lyceum,
The Chesterfield Democrat announces that
the Rev. D. E. Frierson, of Anderson, will lec?
ture before the Cheraw Lyceum on Thursday
evening, 20th inst. Our friends in Cheraw
may rest assured that they will have an intel?
lectual feast on that occasion.
Fine Wheat.
We have received several heads of wheat
from Mr. D. B. Greer, of Honea Path, which
indicate a good variety. He informs us that
this wheat is of a new kind, which he sowed
on old land, without any manure. Some of the
heads contain one hundred grains. If any of
our farmers can beat this showing, Mr. Greer
promises to- come again.
Instructions in Penmanship.
Our readers will observe an advertisement in
this issue, which announces that Mr. C. G.
Haddon will begin a course of instruction in
Book-Keeping and Penmanship at an early
day in our town. Mr. H. is a graduate, we be?
lieve, of the well-known Business College at
Baltimore, and brings recommendations of the
highest order as to his capacity and general
character. Parents cannot confer a more last?
ing benefit upon their children than to have
them properly instructed in these useful and
important branches of education. Persons
wishing to join the class can leave their names
with Messrs. N. IC. & J. P. Sullivan, at whose
store there are specimens of penmanship and
articles of agreement.
Rot Represented.
The counties of Marion, Marlboro, Chester?
field, Laurens, Spartanburg, Oconee and An?
derson were certainly not represented in the
State Democratic Convention, which met in
Columbia on Tuesday last, as no meeting was
held in either of the Counties named for the
purpose of appointing delegates. So far as we
know, the counties of Clarendon, Collcton,
Barnwell, Edge field, Fairfield and Beaufort
were likewise unrepresented. Several of the
delegations from other Counties were under in?
structions, which savored strongly of opposi?
tion to any representation at Baltimore. Be?
sides, there is every evidence to believe that
Bome of the delegates were nearly self-appoin?
ted, as the attendance upon public meetings
for that purpose has been notoriously slim and
lacking enthusiasm. From these facts we con
dude that the white people of South Carolina
are not in favor of sending delegates to Balti?
more, or taking any very active part in Presi?
dential politics just now, whatever may have
been the result at Columbia.
Fatal Accident
A terrible accident occurred at the Anderson
Depot on last Saturday afternoon, resulting in
the death of Mr. Sanders Smith, a well known
school teacher of this County. It seems that
Mr. Smith was desirous of taking the train for
Belton at 2} o'clock, and went to the Depot for
that purpose. He. was considerably intoxica?
ted, and went near the edge of the platform.
The cars were being shifted at the time, and
the freight cars were ran out on the track next
to the platform with the intention of leaving
the hindmost car. When this was "cut off"
from the train, one of the hands called out "all
right" as is customary, and it is supposed that
Mr. Smith concluded that this signal meant to
get aboard, which he attempted just as the
train moved rather briskly, when the car
striking him, he was thrown down next to the
platform, and was caught between the car and
the platform, in which position he was turned
round several times within a space of less than
six inches, crushing him most horribly, and
breaking his left arm and right thigh. Al?
though the alarm was instantly given, the train
could not be stopped until the entire length of
the car was passed, with the unfortunate man
being crushed within this narrow space. His
mangled body was taken into the reception
room of the Depot, where he breathed his last
in a short time. A telegram was sent to his
friends at Belton, and the up-train brought
several of his relatives, who took charge of the
body and carried it to Shady Grove for inter?
ment
Delinquent and Forfeited Lands.
The sales of delinquent and forfeited lands
in this County, advertised to take place on the
first Monday in June and days following, have
not yet been made. We are informed that fur?
ther delay may be expected, but it would be
unwise for parties to postpone payment, where
they can possibly raise the money, as the sales
can be made at any time deemed proper by the
authorities. Mistakes have been corrected to
some exteut, and numerous parties have paid
the taxes and costs, thus reducing the adver?
tised list very considerably. The result of
these sales in other places is shown by the fol?
lowing extract from the Keowee Courier:
Tracts worth one thousand to fifteen hundred
dollars were bid in by the owners for one dol?
lar, thereby settling taxes amounting to seven?
ty-five to one hundred dollars. The instruc?
tions from the State Auditor did not permit the
redemption of forfeited lands by payment of
past due taxes and-assessmcnts, which several
parties offered and desired to do before the sale.
We know of one instance when ninety dollars
were tendered for taxes for three years on a
good tract of forfeited land and refused, and on
the sale the land brought one dollar. By this
course four or five hundred dollars, which
would have been saved, were lost to the State,
which must also make up deficiency in cost of
sale. From the sale here, we judge the sale of
forfeited lands instead of replenishing will far?
ther deplete the Treasury, as the aggregate sale j
did not pay the expcn.-e? wf advertising,. &c. >
Result of this Philadelphia Convention.
The nomination of President Grant for re?
election does not take the country by surprise.
The Philadelphia Convention was composed of
his friends and adherents, and it is nothing
strange that they were unanimous in making
him their standard-bearer. Indeed, any other
course would have excited surprise, since the
delegations were selected for that particular
business. Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachu?
setts, is the nominee for Vice President. This
selection was made for various reasons. Mr.
Colfax does not possess sufficient strength in
the Republican party, and has given offence to
numerous influential persons during his career
as Vice President. His residence was in the
West, and as Gen. Graut is supposed to repre?
sent that section, the East demanded a place
upon the ticket. Besides, the nomination of
Wilson is an implied rebuke to Senator Sum
ner for his recent assault upon their chief, and
is likewise a strong bid for support in New
England, where it is neseasary to neutralize
the effect of Stunner's damaging opposition.
Altogether, the Radical ticket has been strength?
ened by throwing Colfax overboard, and selec?
ting Wilson in his place, as the latter is espe?
cially strong among the working classes of the
North and East.
It remains now to be seen what the Balti?
more Convention will do. The nomination of
a third ticket will insure the re-election of
Grant, either by the withdrawal of Mr. Gree?
ley from the contest, or in consequence of the
opposition being hopelessly divided. Between
Grant and Greeley, the South will choose the
latter, and if a Democrat is put in the field?
there will be dissensions everywhere. Without
a Democratic nomination, Grant will gain
many accessions in the North. Hence, in any
event, the political situation is in a very mud?
dled condition. In South Carolina, there is no
prospect of defeating Grant, and we firmly be?
lieve that wisdom dictates an entire abstinence
from the Presidential contest on the part of
Grant's opponents.
Congressional Proceedings.
Congress ended its regular session on Mon?
day last. The proceedings of the last three
days were spicy and interesting, in consequence
of the efforts made to pass amendments to the
Ku Klux and Enforcement Acts. On Friday,
the House reftued to pass the Senate bill ex?
tending the suspension of the writ of habeas
corpus until the end of the next regular session
of Congress. In the Senate, the Sundry Civil
Appropriation bill was amended so as to extend
the provisions of the original Enforcement Act
to all voting precincts. This action on the part
of the Radical majority was scathingly rebuked
by Democratic Senators, as they were only al?
lowed five minutes in which to debate the
amendment, and ' for the stronger reason that
the proposed amendment was not germain to
the business before the Senate. Senator Pome
roy was in the chair, and ruled that the amend?
ment was in order, which ruling was sustained
by the majority. The Senate was in session
the entire night, and on Saturday morning at
nine o'clock passed the Appropriation Bill and
its amendments, including the Supplemental
Force Bill, which extends Federal regulations
to all voting precincts, and which now apply to
cities of not less than twenty thousand inhabi?
tants. These regulations authorize the Judge
of the Circuit Court of the United States, upon
the application of ten citizens of any Con?
gressional District, to appoint two supervisors
for every voting precinct at which a Represen?
tative in Congress is to be voted for, who are
empowered to overlook the proceedings of said
election, including the counting of the votes
In other words, the passage of this amendment
gives the Federal authorities an espionage over
the ballot-box in every voting precinct, instead
of the large cities, which created so much dis?
satisfaction iu several Northern States last
year.
The Sundry Appropriation Bill, with the
Senate amendments, was received in the House
at noon on Saturday, with a resolution that
the Senate insisted upon its amendments, and
asking for a Committee of Conference. After
a heated debate, and many efforts to defeat
the objectionable amendments, the House
agreed to a conference, which resulted in the
withdrawal of the Democratic members from
the committee and the adoption of a modified
I bill.
On Monday, the House rejected the action
of the Conference Committee, and the eession
I was prolonged from hour to hour, until finally
the bill was passed, retaining the amendment
i to the Enforcement Act in the form already
? stated.
In a Nutshell.
Maj. Theodore G. Barker, of Charleston, in
a note to the editor of the Columbia South
Carolinian, regarding his views as to the wisest
course for our people in the pending campaign,
thus forcibly expresses concurrence in the pol?
icy recommended by this journal:
It has been my conviction for some time past
that the minority in South Carolina should ab?
stain altogether from organized political action,
and that the beginning, the middle and the
ending of the politics of our property holders
and tax payers should be to cast their weight,
individually, at the polls and elsewhere, in
support of the best ticket or men put forward
by the Republican party of this State. To
make this influence effective, onr people should
remain uncommitted on every point, until they
come to vote, and then be prepared to sustain
the Conservative men of the State Republican
party?if any such can be found. If not, re?
frain from voting altogether.
Anterior to the above expression from Maj.
Barker, a correspondent of the Charleston
News over the signature of "W. L. T." strong?
ly urged similar views. His initials point to
one of the foremost young men of the State,
and we presume that our talented friend, Wm
L. Trenholm, Esq., is the author of the articles
over this signature. His argument in favor of
non-action i? condensed into two short para
' graphs, at the conclusion of his letters, which
we take pleasure in re-producing as follows :
1st. That we make no organization whatever,
and have no meetings or conventions, and eon
duct no discussions concerning the Presidential
election. It is a matter in which we arc pow?
erless to accomplish auything, in which our
interest is remote and minute, and about which
we really know little, and may well care less.
2d. That in the calm thus produced good cit?
izens use their best exertions to harmonize old
antagonisms, to improve the character of che
local officials and members of the Legislature
to be chosen in October, and to bring into the
public service at home or in Congress the best
of the available men. ,
Brief Mention.?How any man can look
upon tho present sized, so-called spring chick?
ens selling in our marke t for 20 cents apiece,
and then claim that the world is growing bet?
ter, is beyond, our dull comprehension as to
the "eternal fitness of things."
Preparations were making to gibbet several
weather-prophets, when the welcome showers
of Sunday and Monday suspended operations
in that direction. Their predictions had so
often failed, and their favorable omens disap?
peared, that even members of the Lazy Club
were beginning to grow indignant at the false
prophecies.
The Radicals claim that the deficiency in the
State Treasury is mainly owing to the fact that
the people have not paid the taxes promptly 1
On the other hand, nearly all of our exchanges
are boasting that there are so few delinquents!
Somebody is lying, and we don't believe it is
the newspapers this time.
An Indiana editor makes a pathetic appeal
to his readers in the following words, which
we would ask our subscribers to apply in the
right direction: "If there :is anything you
know that is worth knowing,.that we ought to
know, and you know we don't know, please let
ns know it, you know."
Horace Greelcy is a printer; Gratz Brown is
an editor. Ulysses S. Grant is a tanner; Hen?
ry Wilson is a shoemaker How nearly akin
by occupation I Greeley might set the type,
while Gratz wrote for the newspaper, and Grant
might tau the hides for Wilson to keep on cob?
bling.
There is a blacksmith in town who "always
strikes while the iron's hot," but he takes good
care not to heat the iron in this sultry weather.
He is a member of the Loafer's Club, and the
rules strictly prohibit exhaustive exercise.
An extra communication of Hiram Lodge,
No. 08, A. F. M., will be held on the 24th inst.
for the purpose of presenting a Past Master's
Jewel to Bro. James A. Hoyt. The fraternity
I generally are invited to be present.
A corroner's jury was summoned yesterday
morning to hold an inquest upon the body of
an infant child, which had been found in .he
vicinity of the Poor House. John E. Brea
zeale, Esq., is the acting Coroner,
j We have received a couple of eggs?the
production of a pullet eight months old?which
weighed three and a half ounces each. Mr.
Peter A. Keys is the fortunate possessor of this
promising chicken.
The Public Schools.
It will be seen, on reference to the proceed
| ings of the Trustees' Convention at their meet?
ing on Saturday last, that the public schools of
Anderson County are to be re-opened on the
first Monday in July next, which is the begin?
ning of the scholastic year. Tho majority of
public schools, we believe, have been kept open
the entire year, and the exhibit of the County
I Treasurer on last Saturday showed that mauy
I of the School Districts have funds to their
credit, after paying the teachers and de
; fraying expenses. The poll tax and local
school tax, together with the State appropria?
tion, have been carefully handled by the School
Trustees, and hence this gratifying result. In
this connection, we observe that the State
Treasurer has written a letter in explanation
of the financial pressure upon the public
schools, which we find in a late number of the
Columbia Union, and from which may be con?
densed the following points:
1. That the appropriation of the $300,000 was
not made till March 13th, 1872. That prior to
that date the superintendent could not make
the apportionment to counties.
2. That at that time there were no funds in
the treasury, all received from taxes having
been exhausted in paying appropriations made
by the Legislature while in session, and amounts
due on previous appropriations.
3. That since the adjournment scarcely any
taxes in currency have been paid in.
4. That an appropriation by the Legislature
does not put money in the treasury, but simply
provides how it shall be used when it comes
in.
5. That the present embarrassed condition of
the treasury is chiefly due to the fact that for
the past four years only two-thirds of the tax
levies have been collected.
The Treasurer also promises to pay these
claims as soon as there is money with which to
do it, and hopes to be able to pay something on
the appropriation from the past due taxes now
being collected.
Superintendent Jillson has also addressed a
circular to tho County School Commissioners,
in which he calls attention to the annual meet?
ing to be held in the various School Districts
on tho last Saturday in this month, and ear?
nestly advises that each School District levy a
liberal tax for the support of its own schools*
which he urges upon the following grounds:
1. The State appropriation made for free
common school purposes for the current fiscal
year is insufficient to supply the educational
wants of the people, and much doubt and un?
certainty exists as to the time when the same
will be realized and made available.
2. The amount of poll tax collected in each
of the several school districts is insignificant.
3. The local school tax raised in any school
district will be of great service as auxiliary and
supplementary to the State appropriation and
poll tax.
4. The local school tax is paid into the coun?
ty treasury, and is directly subject to the order
of the board of school trustees.
An Unavailing Effort.?The following
dispatch was received in Philadelphia last
week, addressed to Messrs. Jas. L. Orr, F. J.
Moses, A. J. Ransier and other delegates from
South Carolina to the National Republican
Convention. It appears, however, that this
effort to induce the 8outh Carolina delegation
to throw the weight of their influence in favor
of R. K. Scott for Vice President was totally
unavailing, and we are left to mourn the la?
mentable failure. The dispatch doubtless
emanated from the fertile brain of Tim. Hur?
ley, who loses no opportunity of poking fun
at the estimable Governor of "our beloved
State." Here is the dispatch:
Charleston, June 5, 1872.
Can you arise to the occasion and make a
sacrifice for your common country? If so,
press Scott for Vice President and relieve the
btate of his presence. Appeal to the conven?
tion ; tell them of all his virtues outsideof the
State; of his decrease of the State debt; of
his opposition to every scheme of plunder that
has ever passed the Legislature; of his un?
broken pledges; of his abhorrence of a pros?
tituted judiciary ; of his sacrifices for the good
of the State; of his refusal to take his share
of Blue Ridge, Greenville, validating, and
any other fraud that has been committed in
this State at his solicitation. Tell them any?
thing that will procure his nomination. The
State will freely part with him as a burnt offer?
ing. Of course to mention his name is agreftt
sacrifice of your self-respect, but do it.
Many Republicans.
? Ex-Congressman Thoraas L. Jones, of
Kentucky, is out in a letter favoring the in
uui-ran.nl of GreoL.v audLioNii.
For the Anderson Intelligencer.
Anderson, S. C, June 8,1872.
In accordance to the call of the County
Board of Examiners, the Convention of School
Trustees met at Anderson Court House on this
day, and was organized by calling Maj. John
B. Moore to the Chair, and electing C. C. Reed
as Secretary. The chair explained the object
of the meeting and declared the Convention
ready for business.
On motion of P. R. Browne, a committee of
five was appointed by the Chair to wait upon
the County Treasurer and ascertain and report
to the Convention the amount of school funds
in his hands at this time, and the amount paid
out by him for school purposes up to this date.
On motion of Col. W. S. Shaw, it was
Resolved, That the school year commence on
the first Monday of July next, and that the
Trustees approve the services rendered by
teachers from and after that date.
The committee of five made their report.
Upon motion of T. F. Anderson it was received
as information and the committee discharged.
On motion of Col. W. S. Shaw, the following
resolution was passed:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this Conven?
tion that every effort should be made by the
School Trustees of each School District in the
County to procure competent teachers for the
colored children.
Inquiry was then made for information as to
the amount each School District was entitled
to receive under the appropriation, upon which
Wm. H. Haynie, Esq., School Commissioner,
gave the desired information to the satisfaction
the Convention.
On motion of T. F. Andereon, it was
Resolved, That the proceedings of the Con?
vention be published in the Anderson Intelli?
gencer.
On motion, the Convention was adjourned
sine die.
C. C. REED, Secretary.
ITEMS-EDITORIAL AND OTHERWISE.
? Specimens of corundrum have recently
been found in Rutherford County, N. C.
? Ex-President Johnson is said to be op?
posed to the election of Greeley and Brown,
and in favor of a straight-out Democratic nom?
ination at Baltimore.
? Nazareth Church, in Spartanburg County,
will celebrate its centennial anniversary on
next Saturday. Dr. B. M. Palmer, of New Or?
leans, will deliver the address.
? The Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, nave recommended that from
the 11th to the 18th of August be observed as
a week of fasting and prayer.
? The dwelling, kitchen and smoke-house
of Mr. Charles Thompson, of Pickens County,
was burned on the 31st ultimo. It is supposed
to be the work of an incendiary.
? In reply to the query, "What ought the
Baltimore Convention to do?" the Louisville
Courier-Journal thinks that, before proceeding
regularly to business, it ought to adjourn.
? George W. Sturgeon, who was recently
elected State Senator from Orangeburg, has
been committed to jail upon a charge of forging
an order on the County Treasury for #137.
? A negro was lately shot in Lake City,
Fla., and the coroner's jury after careful exam?
ination concluded that he came to his death by
having his heart pierced by thirteen leaden
bullets.
' ? Dr. H. V. Westmoreland, of Greenville,
recently had a ball extracted from his right
side, just below the shoulder blade, which he
received at Upperville, Va., on the 21st of
June, 1863.
? The examination of pharmaceutists,
apothecaries and druggists, under the recent
law in relation thereto, hy the Medical Faculty
of the University of South Carolina, began on
the 12th inst.
? The annual examination and concert of
the South Carolina Institution for the educa?
tion of the deaf, and dumb, and blind, located
at Cedar Springs, Spartanburg County, S. C,
will be held on Thursday, June 27th, 1872.
? Prof. James Woodrow, of the Theological
Seminary at Columbia, and editor of the South?
ern Presbyterian, has been compelled by failing
health to give up all labor for the present, and
has gone to Europe on a tour of several months.
? Very Rev. T. Bermingham, Vicar-General
of the Diocese of South Carolina, died last
week in New York, whither he had gone to
seek recovery of his failing health in a more
bracing atmosphere. He was a native of Ire?
land, and had just completed his 75th year.
? Gov. Scott, on Saturday last, released an?
other batch of prisoners?twenty-four in num?
ber?from the Penitentiary, making forty du?
ring the past week. Their terms of imprison?
ment had! nearly expired, but scarcity or funds
for the support of the institution was the actual
cause.
? The Grand Chapter of North Carolina
met in Wilmington last week. A resolution
was adopted to resume connection with the
General Grand Chapter of the United States,
which relation was severed in 1857. Hon.
John Nichols was re-elected Grand High
Priest.
? The Washington Capital, in an article
upon the political situation, says: "The wisest
thing the Baltimore Couvention can do is to
seperate without action, and, being the wisest,
is the most unlikely and uncharacteristic."
National or State Conventions are not apt to
do the wisest thing.
? Tho Philadelphia Press, of Friday, shows
how tho "newspaper syndicate" defeated Mr.
Colfax. It says that Mr. Colfax snubbed the
newspaper men, who had dono so much from
1S63 to 1871 to help him; that they entered
upon this warfare to defeat him, if possible,
and that they are entirely satisfied with the
result.
? Hon. Charles R. Buckalcw is the Demo?
cratic candidate for Governor of Penusylvania.
He is conservative in politics, and is widely
known as a strong advocate of the cumulative
system of voting. When in the United States
Senate a few years ago, Mr. Buckalew acted
with the Republicans, and it is conceded that
he will poll a large share of the Republican
vote.
? Gen. Longstreet has recanted his opinions
in favor of Grant, and now comes out strongly
on the side of Greeley. He was under the im
Eression that Grant agreed with him in politics,
ut the President's course in reference to Lou?
isiana affairs has drawn an impassable line be?
tween them. Longstreet believes that the only
way to hit the golden mean between centraliza?
tion and disintegration is to support the Cin?
cinnati platform and ticket.
? The Laurensville Herald learns of a seri?
ous difficulty, which occurred recently in that
County, in which Dr. A. C. Fuller was struck
two heavy blows upon the head, with a bar of
iron 2J feet long, and weighing some 25 or 30
pounds. The difficulty was between Dr. Fuller
and one of his employees named Joseph Bald?
win. The wound is serious, but not dangerous,
and Dr. F. was doing very well when last heard
from. Baldwin has been arrested and lodged
in jail.
? In the United States District Court at
Atlanta, Judge Erskine rendered a decision
last Saturday in the case of H. W. Hcndricks,
arrested for kidnapping, and brought before
the United States Court on habeas corpus. The
decision was that the writ of habeas corpus be
sustained, and the prisoner released on the pay?
ment of costs. Attorney General Hammond
at once gave notice of his intention to appeal
to the United States Supreme Court, and Hen
dricks was ordered to be kept in custody until
10 o'clock on Monday morning, which time was
appointed f*r wLoii'iubon the question of bail.
Platform of the Republican Party.
The Republican party of the United States, j
assembled in National "Convention, in the city
of Philadelphia, on the 5th and Gth days of!
June, 1872, again declares its faith, appeals to
its history, and announces its position upon the
questions before the country:
1. During eleven years of supremacy it has
accepted, with grand courage, the solemn du?
ties of the times. It suppressed a gigantic re?
bellion, emancipated 4,000,000 slaves, decreed
the equal citizenship of all, established univer?
sal suffrage. Exhibiting unparalleled magna?
nimity, it criminally punished no man for
political offerees, and warmly welcomed all
who proved loyalty by obeying the laws and
dealing justly with their neighbors. It has
steadily decreased, with a firm hand, the resul?
tant disorders of a great war, and initiated a
wise, humane policy toward the Indians. The
Pacific Railroad, and similar vast enterprises,
have been generously aided and successfully
conducted; the public lands freely given to ac?
tual settlers; immigration protected and en?
couraged, and a full acknowledgment of the
naturalized citizen's rights secured from Euro
ean powers. A uniform national currency
as been provided; repudiation frowned down ;
the national credit sustained under most extra?
ordinary burdens, and new bonds negotiated
at lower rates. The revenues have been care?
fully collected and honestly applied. Despite
annual large reduction of the rate of tax, the
public debt has been reduced during Gen.
Grant's Presidency at the rate of $100,000,000
a year. Great financial crises have been avoi?
ded and peace and plenty prevails throughout
the land. Menacing foreign difficulties have
been peacefully and honorably composed, and
the honor and power of the nation kept in high
respect throughout the world. And this glori?
ous record of the past is the party's best pledge
for the future. We believe the people will not
entrust the G overnment to any party or combi
| nation of men composed chiefly of those who
resisted even' step of this beneficial progress.
2. Compl iberty and exact equality in the
enjoyment oJ: all civil, political and public
rights should be established and effectually
maintained throughout the Union by efficient
and appropriate State and Federal legislation.
Neither the law nor its administration should
admit of any discrimination in respect of citi?
zens by reason of race, creed, color or previous
condition.
3. The recent amendments to the National
Constitution should be cordially sustained he
cause they are right, not merely located, be?
cause they are law, and should be carried out
according to their spirit by appropriate legisla?
tion?the enforcement of which can safely be
entrusted only to the party that secured those
amendments.
4. The National Government should seek to
maintain honorable peace with all nations,
protecting its citizens everywhere, and sympa?
thizing with all people who strive for greater
liberty.
5. Any system of the civil service under
which the subordinate positions of the Govern?
ment are considered rewards for mere party
zeal, is fatally demoralizing; and we, therefore,
favor a reform of the system by laws which
shall abolish the evils of patronage, and make
honesty, efficiency and fidelity the essential
qualifications for a public position, without
practically creating a life tenure of office.
6. We are opposed to further grants of the
public lands to corporations and monopolies,
and demand that the national domain be set
apart for free homes for the people.
7. The annual revenue, after paying current
debt, should furnish a'moderate balance for the
reduction of the principal, and the revenue
receipts, so much as may be derived from tax
upon tobacco and liquors, be raised by duties
for importation, the duties of which should be
so adjusted as to aid in securing remunerative
wages to labor and promote the industry,
growth and prosperity of the whole country.
8. We hold in undying honor the soldiers
and sailors whose valor saved the Union.?
Their pensions arc a sacred debt of the nation,
and the widows and orphans of those who died
for their country are entitled to the care of
such additional legislation as will extend the
bounty of the Government to all the soldiers
and sailors who were honorably discharged,
and who in the line of duty became disabled,
without regard to the length of service or the
cause of such discharge.
9. The doctrine of Great Britain and other
European powers concerning allegiance?
"Once a subject always a subject"?having at I
last, through the efforts of the Republican par?
ty, been abandoned, and the American idea of
the individual right to transfer allegiance hav?
ing been accepted by European nations, it is
the duty of our Government to guard with
jealous care the rights of adopted citizens
against assumption of unauthorized claims by
their former Government, and we urge contin?
ued careful encouragement and protection of j
voluntary immigration.
10. The franking privilege out to be abol?
ished, and the way prepared for a speedy re?
duction in the rate of postage.
11. Among the questions which press for at?
tention is that which concerns the relations of
capital and labor, and the Republican party
recognize the duty of so shaping legislation as
to secure full protection ana the amplest field
for capital; and for labor, the creator of capi?
tal, the largest opportunities, and a just share
of the mutual profits of these two great ser?
vants of civilization.
12. We hold that Congress and the Presi?
dent have only fulfilled an imperative duty in
their measures for the suppression of violent
and treasonable organizations in certain lately
rebellious regions, and for the protection of the
ballot-box, and, therefore, they are entitled to
the thanks of the nation.
13. We denounce repudiation of the public
debt, in any form or disguise, as a national
crime. We witness with pride the reduction
of tho principal of the debt, of the rates of
interest upon the balance, and confidently ex?
pect our excellent national currency will be
perfected by a speedy resumption of specie
payment.
14. That the Republican party is mindful of
its obligations to the loyal women of America
for their noble devotion to the cause of free?
dom. Their admission to wide fields of use?
fulness is viewed with satisfaction, and the
honest demand of any class of citizens for ad?
ditional rights should be treated with respect?
ful consideration.
15. We heartily approve the action of Con?
gress in extending amnesty to those lately in
rebellion, and rejoice in the growth of peace
and fraternal feeling throughout the land.
16. The Republican party propose to respect
the rights reserved by the people to themselves
as carefully as the powers delegated by them
to the State.
17. It is the duty of the General Govern?
ment to adopt such measures as will tend to
encourage American commerce and ship build?
ing.
18. We believe that the modest patriotism,
the earnest purpose, the sound judgment, the
practical wisdom, the incorruptible integrity,
and the illustrious services of Ulysses S. Grant,
have commended him to the heart of the
American people; and with him at our head,
we start to-day upon a new march to victory.
? A despatch from upper Sanduskv, Ohio,
giving the particulars of the terrible tornado
at the village of Quincy, in Logan County,
says two children were killed and several per?
sons wounded?some of whom will die. Hous?
es in the path of the tornado were leveled to
the ground. The Methodist and Baptist Chur?
ches were demolished. Large trees were
snapped off like pipe stems. The tornado ad?
vanced through the town of DegrarT, where the
terrible scene was repeated, and, if possible, the
destruction of property was greater. In sever?
al instances, children were caught up by the
wind and carried some distance in the air.
Thp destruction was terrible, and the people
need relief badly. j
Judge Orr in the Philadelhhia Con?
vention.?The full reports of the first day's
proceedings of the National Republican Con?
vention, held in Philadelphia last week, con
tain the following synopsis of the remarks
made by Hon. James L. Orr, of this State :
A delegate from South Carolina expressed
the gratification with which he had heard Ger
ritt Smith, and now asked that the South be
heard through ex-Governor Orr, of South Car?
olina. Governor Orr took the platform and
pledged his State for the ticket. He referred
to the slanders to which President Grant had
been subjected, and compared his experieuce
in this respect with that of Washington and
Jackson, and eulogized the President, whose
re-election he considered a necessity. If Grant
had failed as President, he (the speaker) liked
such failures. He claimed the administration
was a success at home and abroad, dilated at
some length on the operations of Ku Kluxism
in South Carolina, sustained the Ku Klux leg?
islation, and claimed that the laws had been
firmly executed. President Grant, he said, did
not act until the Legislature of South Carolina
passed resolutions calling upon him to send
the forces of the United States Government
there togive them protection. With reference
to this Ku Klux law, President Grant has to
execute the law. It was in the statute book
and he was called upon to execute it by that
tribunal which had the right to call upon him.
He didn't pass the law. How did it come to
be passed ? Was it not in the thunders of the
New York Tribune day after day, and week
after week, rung into the ears of Congress, de?
manding that they should pass some such law
to give protection to them, and now when the
law is passed and has been executed in mercy
and firmness, how stands my old friend Gree
ley? He has turned around now and denoun?
ces Grant and the Ku Klux law for its enormi?
ties. Judge Bond, who has discharged his
duties with great fidelity there, has adminis?
tered this law firmly and mercifully, and al?
though you hear so much clamor of people be?
ing cast into prison for their not being able to
procure bail, what is the result of the trials ?
There have been about seven trials at the two
courts?one an acquittal, one a mistrial, and
five convictions. These are the results, and
yet to show the extent of it, and how conclu?
sive the proof was, this was not made up of
manufactured testimony, testimony of suborned
witnesses. More than sixty of these unfortu?
nate people who have been indicted have vol?
untarily come forward and pleaded guilty to
the charges preferred against them. Now,
when the facts come to be understood, I should
suppose that so far from being an element of
weakness against the President, it would be an
element of strength. He closed with the pre?
diction that Grant and his associate on the
ticket to be nominated would be triumphantly
j elected.
? The proposed amendment to the Consti?
tution of the United States providing for an
election of the President by direct vote of the
people, introduced in the Senate by Mr. Sum
ner, although it contemplates no change in the
existing tenure of the Presidential office, ren?
ders an incumbent of that office forever after
ineligible for re-election. It is provided that
the qualified voters shall assemble at their usu?
al places of election on the first Monday in
April, 1776, and choose by ballot the President
whose term begins March 4, 1877, and that
Congress shall prescribe the necessary rules and
regulations governing the election. Such an
election shall be held each fourth succeeding
year. The office of Vice President is abolished,
and the Senate is.to choose their own presiding
officer. If Congress be in session at the time
a vacancy shall occur in the Presidential office,
it shall meet in joint convention and elect a
President, who shall serve out the remainde?
of the unexpired term. If it is not in session
at that time it shall be convened immediately
for that purpose.
? The Marysvillle (Tenn.) Republican, own?
ed and edited by negroes, has declared in favor
of Greeley and Brown.
? The Charleston Republican is of the opin?
ion that, with proper effort, South Caroliua can
be carried for Greeley and Brown.
? Mr. W. T. Walter, a well known and
highly respected citizen of Columbia, died at
Cleaveland Springs, North ^Carolina, on the
7th inst.
ISXECUTOR'S SALE.
IWILL SELL, at public outcry, at Ander?
son C. H., on Saloday in July next, certain
Choses in Action of tho Estate of Hiram Coo
ley, deceased.
B. F. MAULDIN, Executor.
June 13, 1872 49 3
FOR SALE.
THAT desirable property belonging to Mrs.
Hurkamp, situated between tho Metho?
dist and Episcopal Churches in Anderson, with
Dwelling-house, Kitchen, Smoke-house, Fowl
house and Stable, containing about Si acres.
Persons desirous of purchasing will pleas?
confer with Mrs. J. Hurkamp, Charleston, S.C.
June 18, 1872 49 3
Book-Keeping and Penmanship.
ME. C. G. HADDON,
LATE of the Bryant, Stratton & Sadler Busi?
ness College of Baltimore, will commence
a courso of Instructions in the above Brandies
in the town of Anderson at an early day.
Specimens of Penmanship and articles of
agreement may be examined at the store of
N. K. & J. P. SuUivan, No. 12 Granite Row.
June 13, 1S72 49
Hiram Lodge, No. 68, A. F. M.
A A SPECIAL COMMUNICATION of
5f the above named Lodge will bo holden
/V\ on MONDAY, 24th of June instant, at
3 o'clock., p. m.
A Past Master's Jewel will be presented to
R. W. Bro. Jambs A. Hoyt by the Worshipful
Master on behalf of this Lodge. Tho members
of this Lodge, and the Fraternity generally, are
cordially invited to he present on that occasion.
Bv order of the W. M.
J. BAYLIS LEWIS, Sec.
June 13, 1872 49 2
Cotton 24 Cents in Anderson.
Still ahead of Competition.
WE are sub-agents hero for Thos. Wynne's
Improved Open-Throat, Curved-Breast,
Doublo X, Self-Ribbed Cleaning Seed. Pre?
mium and Diploma COTTON GINS. Sample
Gins always in store. Sond for a circular, and
when yon hear what others say who have tried
them, you will bnv the best and save money.
WATSON & BROTHER,
Anderson, S. C.
June 13, 1872_49_
CONCERT!
At Eeidville Female College, June 21,1872.
THE Young Ladies connected with the above
Institution propose giving a Concert on
Friday evening 2Lst Juno, at 8 o'clock, in be?
half of the "FlorideCaihoun Literary Society."
Admission 50 cents. Persons connected with
Literary institutions, 23 cents. Ministers of
the Gospel and their families free.
Miss LULA TODD, President,
Miss M.vttie Hutcuesox, Sec.
June 13, 1872 40 1
4th July Sunday School Cele?
bration.
THE Colored Sunday Schools of Anderson
Village will celebrate the 4th of July next
at this place, and all of tho Sunday Schools
throughout the County are respectfully invited
to attend. Speeches will be made by the fol?
lowing named gentlemen :
Rev. J. Scott Murray, Maj. John B. Moore,
Col. R. S. Hill, James'A. Hoyt, Esq., Samuel
Johnson, Jackson Humphreys and others.
EI JAS CALDWFLL. Chairman.
June 13. 187:2 49