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-i--f---., : E. 13. MURKAY, Kdttor. THURSDAY KORNINfi. MAY 2. IR7B: B?*~LJ."-L-1 _Lil - , i_ fc?r tf we hoe our own row we will do well. We can afford lo differ on local affair?-euch a? the fence law-but we can not afford to be divided on State matter?. Some tay that I patted the fence law, but I had nothing to do with iL Your County wa? the first to adopt the system of primary election?, be governed by it? result, and al low no independent? to run. Independent? may sometime* be good men, but now they are our worst ententes.' Be united in thi? grand movement, and ?end your bett men to the LegislaUire. I urge you to be united. Do this, and you will find South Carolina inmutably redeemed. I urge you to doit rt tike one thing most important.-Ertract froai GOT. Hampton's speech at Anderson. PRIMARY ELECTIONS. The circular of the Democratic State Executive Committee, which we publish ed two weeks ego, upon the subject of primary elections, seems to have been very generally misinterpreted in this and in other portions of the State, and with a view cf informing oar readers as to ;ts scope and effect, we again refer to iv To begin with, we would say that the State Executive Committee has no power whatever to bind the different counties by any action they may take upon euch matters, and they have not at tempt*? ta tbe action ?aien to bind any person. They only recommend to the various counties, and they can adopt the recommendation or reject it as they may please. The object of the Committee was to give to the counties a skeletar of a plan which each caa reject, alter or adopt as it pleases, thus securing a dis cussion of the subject, which will cause intelligent actiou upon it. There are some of tho recommendations of the Commltte which we favor, and some which wo think innxpedjnni for this County. In other words, we favor ad hering very closely to. the plan of elec tion which carried us through the last campaign so successfully. The first re commendation of the Committee is that candidates shall not be nominated by the several clubs before the primary election. This bas already been adopted by our County Convention, and therefore the various clubs from Anderson County ought to abstain from making any nomi nations unless the neat County Conven tion rescinds tho action already taken upon thia point Next, the Committee recommends : Each aspirant fer the position of can didate, wbon ho accepts tho nomination so made, shall imraediatly notify the County Chairman In writing of the fact, and in tho same communication state that he is a member of como local club, and subscribe to tho following pledge: "I agree to abide by and support the nominations of the Democratic party, and not to accept either a nomination oz an office from any othor source than the regularly constituted ^socratic organi sation." At least five days before the primary election, tho County Chairman snail no tify the Democratic Clubs of the aspirants who have thus qualified themselves for . the position of candidate, and votes cast fol' any other person cr persons shall not be counted. We favor this recommendation, as it is * virtually the same as the rule adopted in Anderson County in 7.376. The follow ing was the rule prescribed upon this subject before : Resolved, That no candidate shall be voted for in said primary election, and il voted fer, such ?oto shall QC? be counted, unless such candidate shall, at the time of the ?lectif, be a member of some Democratic { iub in Anderson County, and pledge himself to abide the result of the primary election and support th* nominees of the party. It is necessary for ns to pledge J very candidate fe -\b*de by =H? support the result of the primary election, for if we do not do so it will only be used to assist independent candidates, and would be th? stoat dangerous form of nomination which could be adopted, for the dissatis fied element could centre apon the man who received the next highest voto to tho one nominated, and by uniting the Radical vote to the vote which he could command, secure his election over the nominee.: The primary election ia a fair mode of nomination, and any man worthy of an office would be willing to abide, by ita result, especially when the . dangers which threaten us are aa great aa thote before us to-day. When the candidate takes thia pledge he only ex presses bia willingness to abide by ?he choice of tho largest number of the voters in his political party, and if he ls not willing to do thia it is simply be cause his love of office is stronger than bia love for the Democratic party. Thia is the most important feature' about a primary election, for if the candidates are bound there "srili be no trouble af terwards. Every ono who is at all familiar with elections knows that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred all tho opposition to nominations comes from designing and disappointed office seekers, who have to arouse opposition to secure the.r ono advancement Wo believe in a thorough canvas* of mea, but it should be had .before the primary j election and not after it, aad every man who participates as a candidate for norn- ' {nation in the primary election should bo pledged to abide ita result The next recommendation ia : 4. On voe day nxed for tho primary election, each local club shall hold an election for candidates of the Democratic party, and report the result in Writing over tho rJgnatares of the managers to tbe County Chairman. At thia election none bot members of the local elabe shalt vote,'?ad each member before he? frig allowed to vote shall ts* . he follow ing pledge 14fl solemnly affii ?* that I am a duly enrolled member of this Demo oratio Club; that I have not voted at this I _>_ut_j _ i_i T ._:u .Lt > - - -* ? enntw, mn* r-umm m. *tiu nimio VJ MN scatahi all nominations mads br Sha Democratic party, whether for Federal, fttate or.ccunty officers." ti tho cl ?b? h a ve the proper pledge io their Gonstftnricn, as all of our ciu.be have, tbU.pjftdiP of tjie voter is only a repetition, and bad,. therefore, Jo our opinion, best bo omitted. The eighth article tit the Costitution . Af op-dubs is os follows : T*.'. members of rbis club pledge thcra ct&y&i to each other and to the Demo cratic part/ to abido by and sustain the nsmin?ss of ?he party for all oiPoea, : hoi NatioualvBtate, County or Mu nicipal, arrd will dUcouhUmanca every .effort on tho part of individuals to die net our counsels and diyi&a the veto ? mm i ?-?a-a-?-a_aB-M^ upon independent candidate^ whom we will regard hereafter os giving aid and comfort to our political opponent?. Thia pledge in strong enough, and for Anderson County we favor the re-adop tinri of our provision cf 1575 cn this poiut, \r?i?ih wan: Resolved, That ouly member* of the Democratic Club? ?hall be entitled to vote in the primary ?lection ; and tho Secretary of each Club ?ball hare the roll of bis Club at the place of holding the election, and all legal voter?, who are not member? prior thereto, upon joining the Clubs on tbe day of election shall be entitled to vote by rigning the Constitu tion of the Club. The last recommendation of the Com mittee I? : No one ?hall be declared the nominee of the party unless be shall have received a majority of all the votes cast in the primary election. Should no candidate for any particular office receive a majority of the votes cast, the County Chairman shall so declare, and order a second election *o complete the nominations in sufQcieut time before tho general cltction. Ca the principle that we had bel* rr let well enough alone, we do not favor thia recommendation for Anderson County. In the election of 1876 the candidates re ceiving the highest number of votes were the nominees, und r.o believe it will be safer to retain the old plan. Where a majority of all the votes is required it might become very difficult to nominate at ail where there were a large number I of candidates running, and at beet we would have to hold the elections early to have plenty of time for two or three elections, in case of a failure to nomi nate. This would be bad policy, for it would give the Republican? timo to worl up a canvass against us, and would als< tend to dissatisfy our own people, for it the elections subsequent to tho first tin attendance might be small, and the can didate defeated would think a full turi out would have changed the result There are other objections to this recom mendation, but the ones given will, w have no doubt, be sufficient to proven its adoption in this County. Tl.? -t.nl? ...,lvw^.t ?f -lAmfnat-tAH - ----- Tr - i _ _ .-..j*."? v. uviu lilnvtvu ought to be loft to each County. Thor are some counties which will no doul hold on to tho convention plan, and i the counties where tho primary elcctio is adopted it will be conducted on tli plan which may snit tho particuh county. For our part, we are not di posed to favor any change of tho goner plan adopted in this county in 1876, ar our people may rest assured that wha ever plan is adopted will bo fully at carefully considered by the proper a thority in this County. WHO 18 PRESIDENT ! Rutherford B. Hayes has for mo than one year occupied the White Hou in Washington, and has been excrcish the functions of President of tho Unit States. He is de Jacio President, b i from tho very beginning ho has be considered a fraod and the representati of a grand political swindle. Tb pi pie hnve always felt that his trina.i waB the triumph of military tyran; over a free people, of corrupt return! boards over free ballots, and of politic trickery over tbs constitution and la , of the United Stalea. Since his inaug ration he has removed the United Sta! troops from South Carolina and Ix briana, for which tome politicians, eitt from a lack of thought upon the subje or from other influences, have been d posed to render his fraudulent admin tratlon a quasi support. We have ne> felt that Mr. Haye? was entitled to a ?i_di? for thin course, ii was eviden a part of tho bargain by which bo v, counted ic as President, and in tho nc place honras compelled to do it from t tact that the Democratic HOIIBO of Rt rasentatives in Congress refused to vi him any lacney to sustain his army t Lat- he did withdraw tho Uoops. This the only act he has performed at whi bia Democratic ft ieiuls can point to cia credit for him, and it waa performed 1 cause he waa obliged to do BO. Sir then he has loaned his influence to si Kellogg and Corbin, and has appoint the Wells, Andersons, Stones and Poi arda to lucrative offices when he kn they nero morally unfit for positions public trust. The people of the natl have seen and felt that Mr. Hayes is 3 tie better than a time-serving demagogi and that he is filliug a position to whi ho is not entitled. This opinion 1 boen founded on inferences drawn fri circumstances connected with the 1 election, but the Florida cxpoaur an account of which appear elsewhe dissipate:! any lingering doubt whi may have existed, and presents Mr. Ha} to tho country as tho embodiment of t greatest political crime ever commit! in a free country. That tho republic party carried the elect'.on by bribo forgery and" infamous corruption, thi io not the shadow of a doubt, and 1 developments go far in the direction connecting Mr. Hayes with that frai What will be done about it is hard prophecy, ti is not the light mat which some .facetious journals pretei It involves principles underlying I very security of republican inatitutio If fraud has triumphed, and althou exposed, is still allowed togounpunhd and noredressed, the step to a miiiu despotism ia by no means a longo We believe the passage of tho legialatl by Confrres? necessary to give force tho resolutions of tho Maryland Gene Assembly, known as the Blair reso tiona, and a thorough investigation the last Presidential election upon merita by the Supreme Court of < United States ti the only adequate re edy for the present attitude of the fra If Mr. Hayes was elected, the gn charges against bim should be hush If he was not elected, he ought to turned ont of office, and the man n __?_?_ i _i-. i_ - i ?nan ?nwt-I lUUHIU tro MI-KCgUnM It fat simula jnauV.* thai thia should done, anet Cor this reason we favor i investigation. _ SAVAKfttl? TAILBY RAILROAD i A meeting of thc corporators oj ! above railroad company, under tho cb ter granta at the late session Of Legis?atare of thia State, is callad ?dnveue at ?oWndesVille on Wedcssd the 8th of May next, at IQ o'clock a. A fhll meeting of tb? corporators is v important, and it ia hoped that evciy < will endeavor to' bo present. JAM?9 H. L?TIMEB, 6*., President pro ten, HAMPTON AND TUE UP-COUNTRY. On another pago wo publish an edito rial correspondence to the Springfield Republican, which, tbougb professing to compliment ene government of Governor Hampton, is a vile and groundless slan der upon tho people of upper Carolina. Tbe letter was written from Charleston, and this feature may account for the sec tional complexion which' it assumes, and the actual ignorance which its writer displays in speaking of the "ignorance and poverty" of che ?.'t*to lying in the "up-country," which it saserts is con trolled by "Bourbonism." Perhaps he had been rei. ding Mr. Memminger's speech about the South Carolina Uni versity, and believed his wholesale state ments about the ignorance of our people, or drew hi? 'aspiration from men of sim ilar bigotry aud lack u' practical infor mation. This article has been copied in the Charleston dailies and in the Colum bia Register, and neither of them takes issue with the statements it contains. Therefore we deem it proper as a repre sentative journalist of the ?cetion it tra duces to protest against the truth of a portion of ac statements it makes. It is a contemptible slander to assert that our people did not expect Hampton to j I;'.rp ibu pledges he made during the canvass. It was our representatives. who made tho platform of principles upon which Governor Hampton was nominated, and his promises in the can vass did not not go beyond those made iu our platform. The letter very evi dently Beeks to belittle tho people of South Carolina by intimating that they are doing right simply because Goverr or Hampton makes them do so. Th ic we presume is considered a compliment to the Governor, and as far as it gees in that direction we agree with it. Gov ernor Hampton is a con-;cientio>'..<, high toned and honorable man, 'ext ho does not bavo the misfortune to bo the only man in tho State with those virtues, nor ls it a fact that they are confined to the lower portion nf South Carolina. Gov Iernor Hampton neither presides over a party of hypocrites nor fools. He is the exalted leader of a high-toned and hon orable constituency, which extends from tho mountains to tho sea board. Gov ernor Hampton does not make the peo ple of South Carolina what they are, but on the contrary they, by their noblo 1 course in 1876 and the eventful days that bave followed, have made him one of tho ' greatest men of his Suite. The support which is given Governor Hampton in the upper counties is as genuino, as Btrong and as hearty aa ?hat given him in ar-y other quarter. Wc do not object to any praise that ls bestowed upon tho Icw i country Democracy, for they have acted t nobly against immcuso odds, and deserve ; the most sincere commendation, but at I tbe samo time every eonsible man in t South Carolina, who ia at all familiar i with State politics, knows that the State ? could novcr have been redcemod from . Radicalism without tbs up-country, and i that tho low-country could not to-day rc r tain control of the State without '.1- in r fiuenco and strength which is extended 1 them from tho up-country, which the i Springfield Republican sneers at for its . iguorance and hypocricy (?). We be I lleve that tbe Democratic party througb . out the enure State is composed of pa r triots and gentlemen of intelligence and , honor. It has always been BO. In the . days that are past the up-country boasted . of its Calhoun!), ita McDuffies, its r O'Neals, ita Wardlaws, its Orrs and other r great men. who were tbe peers nf the r Haynes, the Rutiedges, the Lowndes, i tho Legares and others of the low-couu t try. Geographical lines do not mark the ? diffuBion of ability in this State, aa we . might easily prove by an enumeration ot i the prominent men cf the present time. . There ia no delegation in the preecnt i General Assembly which has rendered i more efficient and valuable services to i* the Democratic party in this State than , tho Anderson delegation, and to term i them "ignorant and Bourbons" ia io ap ; ply the same terms to Governor Hamp 1 ton himself. The letter of tho Spring i field SepubHcan is a pack of ingenuous ' misstatements, clothed with enough truth ? to give it tho appearance of fairness, and i was evidently written under tho iuspira , tion of some one holding local prejudices. , Our daily papers should correct such i errors, in order that persona abroad may i not have a false and unfavorable im pression produced towards our State. Although comparisons aro odious, there seems to be a disposition to contrast the management of the late Centennial i Exhibition with tho manner in which the Paris Exhibition progressing is *o be conducted. The Centennial waa most liberally conducted, so that exhibitors were at as little cost and annoyance as possible, but tho papers say that tho Paris Exposition is to bo more economi cal in these particulars. Exhibitors will be required to pay for transferring their goods to the various departments to which they belong, and to pay for sweep ing, the water used, and BO on. The representatives from the different govern ments will alto be limited. The United States bas appointed about one hundred and fifty commissioners, and it is not now thought that more than three of this number will be granted free admittance, The nujiber ls ridiculously large, and a slur upon our nation, but tho action of the management of the Exhibition ia p?v?tyu?ian and ridiculous. lt will no doubt, however, be a very .grand success. It ls stated that the Russian govern ment ls preparing to purchase and equip vessels of war in the United States to attack the British navy and commerce. Russian officers have bien commissioned to raleo crews to man these v?aselo, and If war should come the British commerce will no doubt be riddled. In addition to this movement the telegraph eunour.ccs that it is reported ia San Francisco that arrangements are being made in that city to flt out a privateer to depredate upon British com?ame. Capt. Waddell, late of the wracked .'Pacific," and who won considerable celcbracy RS comman der of the Confed?rate privateer, "Shen andoah," ia spoken of ts the probable captain. Letters of marque and reprisa) fjr?rn tho Russian government are already thoro in blank awaiting a declaration pf war, when they will bo immediately r?U?d out The samo is no doubt true of many of the other leading pom of the world, and if so a declaration of war, would ia ell probability at once di ?si pate British commerce. The Meturs. Waison who were charged with complicity in tba Sawyer murder at Aiken by thc confession of Aultman, who WM informed upon by McEvoy, .Ter? brought before Judge Mciver upon ? wm of hohem corpus and, after a hear ing rf the evidence, discharged upon one thou ?and dollars bail. This does not look like there was much truth in the charge, and the Messrs. Watson will no doubt be acquitted. Aultman has con fessed to the crime, and is now trying to save his neck by implicating others. His etforta do not appear to meet with much success, and in all probability he will have to pay the penalty of his life fer the one which he admits that he aa&hted in taking in a very brutal man , ner. 1 A special dispatcN from San Antonio, j Texas, says that the better class of Mexi cans in that city are very excited f .'er Mexican affairs, and all are in uympathy with tho contemplated movement against Diaz. The presence of Gen. Escobedo in Galveston, and the various telegrams he is sending to different parts of the Sta'e, indicate business of ? serious na ture. Col. Paul John T. Marsh, now here, yesterday received a commission aa Brr: idier General from Lerdo. It ?H said that this officer and Escobedo are pro curing arms and ammunitions for the Lcrdiats. Great secrecy is maintained, but enough can be seen hero to warrant the belief tbat a great rebellion will occur in Mexico ai no far distant day. The General Conference of the Mctho< dist Episcopal Church South met ir Atlanta on last Wednesday, and wil! continuo so as embrace the following Sabbath. It is a splendid body of men having a membership of over six hun dre.?, and will compare most favorably with any similar body of men in tin world in point of ability and exnltei character. At the present session ther will be a very large attendance, and som of the most vital subjects connected witl Methodism in the South will he preaent ed fer discussion and action. Tho se? sions of this body are always marke with great interest to tho entire denomi nation and to the Christian world. The Washington Star says : Tho stat? mont of failures by tho mercantile agenc for the first quarter of 1878 in the easton middle, southern, western and Pacif sections of the country, shows the nun ber to be 8,355, as compared with 2,8.. for the first quarter of 1877 ; the liabil tics in tho failures for these two pcrioi are $82,078,826, and $54,538,070, respe lively. The Pacific section is the only or in which the number of failures and tl amount of money involved havo bec reduced from last year. Tho figures the statement furnish a proof that w 1 hardly needed of tho extreme severit . as far as business is concerned, of tl past winter._ _ _ The Franklin Murder. ABBEVILLE. April 25. Your readers must havo been atartli during the last Chrismast holidays opt hearing of the murder cf George ai and Drusilla Franklin, near Greenwc? in this county. The circumstances we very similar to those of tho Hanni murder in Edgefield two years ago. Tl 1 victims in this case were an aged broth and sister, living by themselves in houBO with two rooms ; they were knot , to have money ; they were pennriot and all their circumstances were such to attract the cupidity of the mone 1 loving murderer. On Friday morning, Decombor ' i 1877, the two helpless inmr.tes of tl , house were found dead ; one, the broth having fallen just where he bsd bc sitting at Bupper, and the sister in t room adjoining, where ehe bad fi? probably, when the assault wan ma upon her brother. The instrument UB to effect the butchery was a pereiram club, freshly cut from an adjoining wo< This was found in the house after t murder, and was produced here in coi yesterday, bearing the ghastly evideri of its use upon it in the gray hairs the murdered victims still adheri to the rough bark. Trunks, buret drawers and other receptacles were fou rifled of their contents, the search bei evidently prosecuted with a view to curing money. News of this torrible occurrence ht ing spread, the neighbors gathered numbera and proceeded to do what th could to secure the murderers. The Ci furnished a clue, which was followed c thus : Knowing from thu character of bark that it must have grown ic suital soil. _-? finding tracks leading towa? a thicket near by, tho parties follow them up, and soon came upon a fresl cut persimmon tree, to which the. cl was adjusted, and it was found thal certain hollow in the club fitted exec into a continuation of the same in t remaining stump, and the top lying fitted id size the other end or the eli Thia then was certainly identified. Pursuing the tracks they were led the house of one Jeff David, who * taken along, and after walking towa the tracks that led in the direction where the club had been cut, he i asfeed to put his foot into one of t tracks, ana it was seen that it fitted i actly. Seeing this himself, Jeff cr cut : "For Gou'a sake don't murder n give me a hearing." He was then rested. Jeff waa then asked for knife, and it havia-** been produced, < blade was found to be stained in a cc which the acid of the persimmon p duces on steel. Upon these accumu ting evidences of complicity in the m der, Jeff was arrested, along with wife, son and another man. all color and lodged in the county jail. These facts were elicited yesterday the part of the State, represented by I licitor Cothran. On the part of the fence, it was shown that the pipe wh was exhibited in court had been foi in the house of the Franklins on morning of the murder~-the bowl lu room ?her? tK- &?~**- cf -Dru;1.1.!- r._ lin was found, and the stem between < of the plundered trunks and the wal the house near where tho trunk ate The pine was identified as the prop? of ono McGarvey now in jail here o Charge of burglary ind larceny, it h ing been seen in his possession so lau ' last November. The fact that every \ tide of the evidence waa circa ms tan waa urged upon the jury, and it was c tended that as to all of the parties cused, except Jeff David, there wa? AvirlfinrjA t/> ?O-nsSCt th"~. with tbs CS mlisien ef thc deed. Thia waa virtui admitted by tho Solicitor, and the c was finally given to the jury about o'clock last night. They returned, a j dist about 3 o'clock a. m. to-day of gui aa .to Jeff David, not guilty as to others, . The d?i?uv-) rna abiy conducted two young practitioners, Messrs. W Benet and Samuel O. Gason, who ti appointed by the Court to defend prisoners. They did their duty wei Correspondence Xcws and Courier. - On tho 22ad ultimo, .tbs citlxen Lode, ph lo, gave a dinner in hone Lerner Griffin, on b>$ ooo hqndred nineteenth anniversary of bli birth* The elderly gentleman ?-y? his . ? walked aune distance to tte hotel wi th? festivities took place. ? KAYES? FRAUDULENT TITLE. THE rtOTTOM FALLS OUT OF Tl-E FMMUUA CANIS. TK= tPrss :?swiium u? tn? way itt which ?tu .?.Idas?/ WM? Htolva by th? Bftdlt [C. etpoitdente of Ihr Sttti York Herald.} JACKSONVII.I.K, April 23, 1878. lu accordance with orders your cor respondent reached this city a few days ago. After a patient and careful investi gation he iscnabled to report the follow ing, which may be relied upon, nothing being stated but what there seems to be the most perfect authority for. For sev eral months a capable agent bas been at work in the State of Florida, securing such evidence as would go to show that the Stat-} went for Tilden and was fraud ulently counted for Hayes. It is impos sible to say in whose interest or by whose orders this investigation has been made. The rgent has been well supplied with funds, bas accomplished things that usu .1 y require money, has worked sys tea apically, and has had a heavy cor respondence with Washington and New York, writing to evideutly fictitious names. It is said on ono hand that he iain high Democratic employment, and by others that he represents who anti-Hayes wing. That be is at work for some pow erful and determined organization is cer tain. He bas worked with the utmost secrecy, and perhaps not half a dozen persons outside of those directly interest ed suspect what he bas been doing. He ? declines to say a word, oven in regard to matters that I have traced to his very fingers. Ho was in Florida during the Returning Bo arr ?ampaign as a Repub lican official, a./ bas since then been North. One thing is certain, he bas suc ceeded in getting from the managers of the count the most complete confessions of the fraud they committed. Enough bas been confessed to give the State to Tildcu by a large majority. THE STATE WENT FOR TILDEN. McLin, fi lirman of tho Returning Board, has written an affidavit in which he says that he is now convinced he was misled in the count, and that the State really went for Tilden by 500 to GOO ma jority. He says Noyes, of Ohio, offered him all sorts of preferment and reward if be would only stand up to Hayes, adding that bo was authorized to speak for Hayes. McLin says, influeo ,cd by this pressure, by his strung partisan bias and by this tremendous stake at issue, be was misled and gave the State to Hayes when it should have been Tilden. His affidavit is general in its nature, and is a mere promise of what he will say when the occasion offers. Two copies of this affidavit are in existence-ono in New York and one in this city. THE ALACHUA GIANT'S CONFES81.0N. The most important admission is made by Dennis, the little giant of Alachua, who bas confessed in a written statement to the fraud of Archer number two, where 219 votes were a Jed bodily to the Alachua vote. Dennis ~ays that ho se cured election returns signed in blank before the election. That night he had Vance aud Black at his house and they destroyed the real returns'and filled out those that were signed iii blank, adding 219 n..rnc3. The whole details of tho work are given in the confession. I bave not seeu this paper. The mysterious agent, I am informed, failed to get it, and it is denied that it is in existence. I have tho most positive information that (here is a copy sealed and in the hands of a prominent Democratic official await Iing a certain contingency. I have seen two men who have seen this confession. I am told that Dennis disclosed it to General Butler (who is his friend in Washington), and that he possibly has a copy of it. I am also reliably told that Dennis read it to Senator Sargeant and demand ed a good position at the hands of Hayes. Threatening to publish it if he waa not satisfied, he received, a few days ago, a commission as revenue egent in Ohio. DJ the meantime there were seven indict ments against Dennis in the State courts which his friends claim were political prosecutions. Against these cases a nolle pro :equi was entered on the 10th irvBtj by State Attorney Hocker. About that time a fuli confession of Dennis as to Alachua went into the bands of a ?rominent Democrat, and is there yet. t ia said that Vance, the negro member, who swore BO stoutly in the Alachua case, has niuo confessed and made a statement. I cannot vouch for this, however. Vance is now in a department in Washington. Dennis' lawyer claims that be did not Want tho cass suspended, and that the State did so because it could do nothing with them. A few days after the election a sealed message was sent to Dennis asking him to "add more names to the list, as there isn't enough." He n..id, impatiently. "I've added all I have to it already, and I can't add another name." I hive this from the moat undoubted source, and it is a part of Deo ula' confession. Green F.. Moore, who swore in this Alachua case to the fraud and then donisd it, and then resworo it, was killed the other day. Floyd Duke, a negro, who swore all the time that it was a fraud, still elicka to it ; so do Black aud Belton. The Alachua fraud, therefore-a plain and proven fraud-when first brought before the Board, now stands confessed or avowed by every one of those who participated in it. BATOR COUNTY FRAUDS. The Baker county case is shown np quite as completely. It will be remem bered tbat this county, reliably demo cratic and near to the capital, was held back until the very last. The official re turns gave the democrats 95 majority. By a strange coincidence - the State waa just evenly balanced on the prima facie returns without this county, so that as it stood Tilden would have had the otate by 95 majority or just his majority in Baker county, lt was, of course, important that Haves should have the prima faci? victory so that there would be no appearance of changing the verdict of tho people. Ac cordingly a new justice of the peace was appointed, and a new return made by dropping out two precincts, so that ft five Hayes an apparent majority of 43. be Democratic nanagers were astoun ded ct this disclosure, made only on the day of the count, dramatic scene occurred when the falso return was read. McLin was forced to produce the original return, but the falso return was adhered to, and it waa adopted in ibo finul count The whola story is now made plain through eh. ^?fb-J-r. of ?ra partim pauta ; ' at least, two of the three have made written affidavits, ?nd, I think, the third one also. The law in Florida re quired that tho re ut rm of tho various precincts in a county should be canvassed and certified by the clerk of the court, a justice of the peace and either tho county judge or sheriff as a third party. In Raker county a local politician, so the confession rn ns, agreed to hold the re turns back until it was decided what was needed to cai ry tho State, and then to so canvass the return? aa to meet the emer gency. It appears hs bsd perfect control of tho judge aud sheriff, so that when tbe clerk and justice, who had superin tended the election, applied to each of them to assist in the canvass and certify to its ccirectness, they declined. The canvass was then made and forwarded by the clerk and justice. When ii w>i? dis covered what was needed a new justice was appointed jost for the occasion, and a false canvass was made and forwarded. EVEN Tin: T5QOTJ8 JUSTICE CONFESSES. Tho new Justice now writes a confes sion and says that be was approached by a politician, who asked bim if he didn't want to be a justice. He agreeing, tho uan pqiled out hie commission ready made add handed it to him. He then told him that unless tbe:retorna from Baker were properly doctored the Dorao crats would neat them. After some per suasion Green went into the scheme. The three men caucuwcd, and were noti fied that a difference of about one hun dred and fifty -otea wan needed. They thereupon looked the return? over and selected at random iwo precincts-rDar by ville and Jobnaville- which gare the Democrat* just 143 majority. Finding that this number would be sufficient they threw out tho two precincts entirely. Ho swears that the first return was the true and correct return, ?md that the last one was false and was mada especially for the purpose indicated. This affidavit is backed ny a similar one from the Sherill", who participated in the false canvass, and it is said by the Judge also. The affida vits are precise, strong and definite. COLUMBIA COUNTY PBAUDH. In Columbia county quite as serious frauds are confessed to. I learn that an affidavit bas been procured from a man who ?weals that he was sent into Georgia and procured 179 negroes to come over and vote in the election. He was to bo j paid $500 for this and secured $300. j Thc Leon county count i? a'io ripped up and exposed. There are, I learn, j throe affidavits bearing upon this subject, definitely acknowledging the frauds and giving the manner in which they were accomplished. This is the county iu which Bowes' "little jokers" were used, they being thumb nail tickets, which were hidden in the largo tickets. It in volves a loss of ul out two hundred votes to Hayes. There aro numerous other cases opon which affidavit? have been obtained, but I cannot write definitely of them to-night. It is certain the whole State has been carefully recanvasned, and in almost every case that was attacked by the Democrats evidence of a direct sort bas been obtained. It is usually in the shape of a confession or affidavit' from one of the participants. 8TBIVINO TO SHUT OUT TUE LIGHT. It is impossible at present to get pos session of any of the affidavits or copies of them, or even a look at1 '?em. The parties who have made them jay it will all come out after a while, .n attempt is being made to-night to suppress it ail, and there is a closing up ot avenues of information. Tho Democrats appear to know very little of the Utter, and the Republicans not much more. I was in formed to-night,by a prominent Demo crat that the contest over Bisbee's seat bad been kept open until now ?imply for the purpose of carrying these new devel opments before the people if all other efforts to get them before Cor, ress failed. Another informant, who told me of Den nis' confession, eave that that paper was given with an understanding that it was not to be used against Bisbee. DOES NOT BELIEVE DENNIS WBOTE A CONFESSION. I have just seen an intimate friend of Dennis, who declares that be does not i believe Dennis has given any written statement at all. He was in Gainesviilo when the cases were suspended as Dennis* lawyer, and does not believe any paper was passed then or on account of those cases. I have, however, the best of authority for my statement that it is now in the hands of a Democratic official, and that ho received it at Gainesville. If it is denied, I shall particularize r.nd give names. I have not yet been able to see Dennis, but he will be here to-morrow. There is no doubt that be has prepared one or moro confessions, the oniy doubt being tes to whether or not he has yet delivered any of them. From the nature of my information I believe that his paper is nno in Washington. Dennis, it must he remembered, did not swear In any of the cases before the Returning Boara. In the present "sup pressed" condition of things it is ex tremely difficult to get any information. Each man that ta willing to talk knows only an item or two, ana is in the dark as to everything else. Those who do know the truth will not talk, or speak f?v 'sively at best. I will report to-mor row upon points of importance, that e. determined, systematic and very success ful attempt to uncover the secrets of the electoral count in thia State has been made. It cannot be doubted that thia effort is widespre*.d, well organized and powerfully backed. I am enabled to state, from information j ant received that is conclusive, that Dennis' statement, full and explicit, is ' now in the banda of certain parties in Washington. It waa forwarded by W. D. Bloxham, Secretary of Stat? of Flori da, who received it from Dennis. He had it at Gainesville. He has retained a copy of it. It is believed thal OagiU is preparing a statement on the electoral count in Florida. He was in this city a week ago, and is said to have made some im portant revelations. The lightning is 1 striking around his hoad pretty close. The whole bottom has fallen out of the republican case in Florida, and there will hardly be found any man to defend it. I believe the case is fully made up. ?Telegraphing between this point and Wasnington and New York hos bees very brisk to-day and to-night despatches aro flying rapidly to and fro. The only desiro of tho local politicians seems to be to save Bisbee, the Congressional contestant. Newspaper? from various cities are telegraphing at a late hour to night asking for specials from local jour nal;! here. THE BANKRUPT LAW. The following is the text of the Act repealing the Bankrupt law. It has passed both Houses of Congress, and ia probably a law by this time : Be it maded, etc., That the bankrupt law approved March 2,1867, and all acts in amendment or supplementary thereto or in explanation thereof, be, and the same is hereby repealed : Provided, how ever. That such repeal shaii in no man ner invalidate or affect any case in bank ruptcy instituted end pending in .any court prior to the day when this act shall take effect ; but as to all such pend ing cases and all future proceedings therein, the acta hereby repealed ?hall continuo in full forco and effect uutil the same shall bo fully disposed of, in the same manner as if said acts had not been repealed._ -. A correspondent of the Union Time* thinks that the colored free schools should be taught by white teachers, for the rea son that colored teachers are so generally incompetent, and consequently unfit for the important ?nices. The argument ia a *TA rrtz, -7.? "c wuu?? ?iks to seo the suggestion of the Timei correspondent adopted in every case where it ia possible. There are some colored teachers who arc competent, but they are Very ?caree. Aa a general thing the colored teachers of the State ought to be studying the very rudiments. If we expect to makev the expenditure of public money profitable to tho colored people, by advancing them intellectually, BO as to make them better citizens, it can only be done by giving them befer teachers. At pr?tent there ia a prejudice against whits >wnns teach ing tn colored echccls ia isl? mais, and | this would make it difficult to secure the class of teacher? needed. If, however, the chango could be made, thia prejudice would gradually pass away.. To secure this will bo the work of time. - Dr. Condemn, of rori Lee, N. J., j recently began an examination into a number of peculiar cases of sickness among the people of Fort Lee, and found that fresh ?bad bad been eaten Ly fVem. He subjected it to a thorough dissection, and found in the viscera and muscles of the shad numerous parasites which, when placed nuder a microscope, assumed ?Imnat ferocious proportions. Thia the loctor believes to ht.ve canned thc illness of his patients. The fish examined by the Docto* had not been out of tho water an hoar Trhen be berta his examination. -JV. Y. Herald, 24/1 uti. f'. '" ; y *\' ? :?' c.- ": ' /- ; . SONS OF TEMPERANCE. Froccr?'qg? of the Qo*rl?r3y MwUng of thj Orand iMvlnton. Tb? Oraud Division met ?0 '<?'><? lud? of Palmetto Division, Charleston, on Wednesday, and was called JO order by the Grand Worthy Patriarch. The following committee on Creden tials was appointed : Representatives Watt, Townsend, Bailey, who reported favorably upon credentials of James M. Payne, of Anderson, No. 1 ; J. W. Moore, of Washington, No. 107, and lissington, of Wateree, No. 9. They were then duly initiated into the Grand Division. On motion, it was ordered vbat the Grand Division meet at 10 o'clock, morn ing, 4 o'clock, afternoon, r nA 8 o'clock, evening, and adjourn at will. The regular order of business was re sumed, and the G. W. P.'s report was read by himself, which was referred to a committee consisting of A. B. Towers, W. U. Bailey. Samuel Proctor. Tho Grana Scribe's report was read and referred to a committee consisting of A. J. Watt, J. W. Moore and J. M. Cotchett. Representative Bailey extended an in vitation from Palmetto Division to attend a public meeting at the Academy of Music, Thursday night. Several memorials and quarries were presented from different divisions. Dis cussion deferred until night cession. Col. E. W. Edwards and H. Cronhoim, President and Secretary of the Friends of Temperance, were present, and on motion, thoy were invite 1 to participate \n the meeting. Some very appropriate remarks were made by ?". M. \V. P. Townsend upon the cou-J i ti on of the order, who was followed by Colonel Edwards, extending fraternal greeting, &c. After remarks from other represen tatives, the Grand Division adjourned to meet st 8 o'clock p. m. THURSDAY.-The Grand Division was called to order by G. W. P. Murray. The Grand Conductor reported the following persons in the ante-room for initiation : W. P. T. 8. McCarrel and P. W. P. Marjenhoff, of Palmetto Division, No. 4, P. W. P. J. R. Goodall and Bro. Basington, of Wateree, No. 9. They were introduced by the G. C., and duly admitted into the Grand Division. The committee on G. W. P.'s report submitted their report, which was adop ted with alight amendments. The committee on Grand Scribe's re-1 port also offered thoir report, which was unanimously adopted. Several memo rials and queries from sub-divisions were discussed at length and acted upon. Tbe regular order of business was GUS fended to initiate Bro. Albert Prince, of 'almetto, No. 4, into the Grand Division. Bro. D. M. Bethune, from Lynchwood, No. ll, was introduced as a do vrato from that Division. A committee of two was anne meed in the ante room from the Good Templars. They were introduced and iriendly greet ings were exchanged. Another commit tee was also introduced from that order, who stated that they came to hold a con ference in regard to the blue ribbon movement. A committee from the order was appointed to confer with them on the subject. The committees then re tired, and a committee of two were ap pointed to visit the Good Templars and express fraternal greetings. Bro. Townsend offered a resolution that tho G. W. P. and G. Scribe make extraordinary exertions to induce a full attendance upon the summer session at Anderson in Jnly; which vras GB??i mously adopted. The following committee was appoint ed to visit the C rder of Friends of Tem perance at their annual session on the 1st of May at Swift Creek, Darlington County : B. D. Townsend, A. M. Kenne dy, W. Z. Leitner, J. W. McCurray, S. ai. Richardson, E. B. Murray. Various matters were discussed, after which tho following resolution was adop ted unanimously by a rising vote : Beaolvtd, That the thanks of this grand body be tendered to Palmetto Di vision, No. 4, for the use of their hall, and especially to the members of that Division who have attended our sessions for their many acts of kindness and friendly greeting to the delegates. The Grand Division then adjourned to meet at Anderson on the fourth Wcdn " day in July next. THE BOSTON DINNER PARTY. Southern Congremaw Feted by Hour Englanders. BOSTON, April 25. The delegation of Southern Congress men, consisting of Senators Gordon, Morgan and Jones, and Representatives Carlisle, Ellis, Yeates, Whitthorne, j Clark, Hooker, .? Young, K??ey and Goode, who were invited to visit the city by the Boston Commercial Club, arrived to-day, and were escorted to the Hotel Brunswick. After breakfasting, the Southern guest? visited the State House, the wife of Senator Gordon and the daughter of Senator Lamar accom panying. Gov. Rice, surrounded by bis staff in full uniform, received the party In the executive chamber, each member being separately introduced. After go ing over the State House, the city ball was visited, wheie the mayo? and several aldermen greeted them in an informal and hearty way. Old South Church and Faneuil Hall were next visited by the Southerners, members of theCom.ierc'il Club acting aa escort to all these points of interest At 8 o'clock a large number of the party accepted an invitation to dine at the Hotel Brunswick with the Commer cial Club at their regulay Saturday gath ering. Gen. Gordon of Georgia, Senator Morgan of Alabama. Senator Jones of Florida and Gen. Chas. E. Hooker of Mississippi were present, together with the majority of the visiting party. The club turned ont in full force to do honor to the Southern guetta. Tho Hon. Jobo W. Caudier, president of the club, tilled the chair.' Among tbe most prominent Bostonians present were ex-Gov. Rice, ex-Gov. Gaston, Mayor Pierce, Collector Beard, and others. Mr. Candler welcomed the guests of tho day and expressed the belief that the new era of goodfeeling between the sec tions would result in strengthening the common country, and at no distant dato in reviving the commercial prosperity of the nation. Senator Gordon made one o??*he nrin cipal speeches of the night, but entirelv Haunt** cf ?pzHi'tiM\. bearing, rle wel comed the return of fraternal relations between the North and South, and took a most hopeful view of the national fu ture. Its rer- -s, he said, wore limit less, aud r fi '. peace and union the indus try and trade of the nation could not fail to be built up on a permanent and enduring bask. Gov. Rice, speaking for Massachusetts, extended to the visitors a warm and sin cere welcome. He spoke eloquently of the advantages which must ensue from these friendly visits, bv which raes of boin sections were brought into personal sympathy one with another. Senator Morgan, of A'abaraa, followed; and gave utterance to similar sentiments Mayor Pierce, of Boston, echoed tba Governor's welcome. Senator Jonea of Florida, Mn Whit-1 thora* sf Tensase, Collector J?sard of Botton, Gen Hroker of Mississippi, ex Gor? Gaston and Mr. Elua of LonMana, followed in the tame strain, politics be ing entirely tabooed. Gen. Hooker's speech was one of tho most striking and powerful of the even lug, He rpt*e of the industrial resour ces of the South in glowing terms, and alluding to the approaching emancipation in the West Iudlee said that when that event came, as it would, the resnlt would be that tho great trade from sugar pro duction would pats largely if not wholly to the South, where they had many year? tho start in the organization of free ta? bor. He concluded by predicting a oom. merdai future for tbe wbolo country of almost inconceivable grandeur. nnA . Ulai tbe North and South would br ii?ited ?H wiih hook* of sfierl in the common bandi of material in terveta a? well aa of fraternal concoid and m?itr. The company did not break up until nearly ll o'clock, AU the members of the club expressed themselves delighted with the liberal views of thc Southerners sod the latter appear equally gratified at' their reception. Y. H. C. A. CONTENTION. Tho meeting of the Y. M. C. A. Con vention of South Carolina convened tu Sumter on last Wednesday night, the welcome meeting being heid in the Bap tist Ch a? eh. The address was delivered by Dr. J. S. Hughson, of Sumter, and was a master stroke of elocution and or atory. Ho waa followed by J. H. Elliot of Augusta, Ga., and R. C. Morse, Secre tary of the International Young Men's Christian Association. On Thursday the first business meeting j was called to order in the Baptist Church I at 10 a. m. by Vice President John A Elkins. On motion, a committee on nomina tions was appointed; also, a temporary business committee. A recess of ten minutes was then taken for social intercourse, when the temporary business committee reported that a three minute? speech be allowed from one del egate from' ercb association represented. This report was quite interesting, and showed the workings of the associations had been the means of acccmpliahiug I much good. I The Committee on Nominations repor ted the following officers, which was adopted : President-John A. Elkins. Columbia, Vice Presidents-Dr. J. S. Hughson. Sumter; T. W.Btanland,Cba?eston; G. F. Tolly, Anderson. Secretary-F. 8. Dibble. Hrangeburg. Executive Committee-A. f. Smythe. T. W. Stanlahd, G. W. Mciver; J. Roth well, F. 8. Dibble, W. A, Templeton, C. C. Brown, G. F. Tolly, D. McKay, D. L. Boozer/R.^C. Oliver, W. E. James. The President then appointed the fol lowing standing committees : Business-F. A. Schiffier, L. N. Zea less, li. C. Moore, J. C. Burgess, E. H. Gasque. Devotional Exercises-H. F. uhrietz berg, W. M. Graham, J. Wilcox, H. B. Font, J. H. Fowles. Resolutions-L. B. Austin, A. M. Boozer, W. H. Evana, C. H. Prince J. L. Mcttn. The committee on Credentials reported 57 del?gales, besides a number of corres ponding members present. On motion, the privileges of the Con vention were extended to H. Elliott, of Augusta, Ga., and R. C. Morse, Secretary of the International Convention. Anderson, Orangeburg, Charleston and Spartanburg were presented as the next filace of meeting, and Anderson was se eded. Greetings were exchanged by tele graph between the Convention of this ?tate and the Convention of LouiaLja. Numerous interesting subjects were diBcuRscd, and the uttermost harmony and brotherly love prevailed. The farewell meeting was held in the Methodist Church on Sunday night, and very great interest was manifested in the speeches by tho large assembly of citizen* who attended it. The next annual meeting will be held in Anderson on the fourth Wednesday in April, 1879. _ Tho Antecedents nf Disease. Among tho antecedent* of dUeue aro lt:-r!uc-j in tho circulation of the blood, an unnaturally at tenuated conditior of the physlquo, Indicating that tho Ufo curreut ls deficient In nutriUro properties, n wan, haggard look, inability to d'Vt tho food, ?oas of appetite, sloop and strength, and a . sensation of unnatural languor. All those may be i regarded es among the indicia of approaching dis I ease, which will eventually attack the system and I overwhelm lt, if i'. is not huOt up and fortified In advance. Invigorate, then, without Ima of time, making chotee of tho greatest vitalizing agent ex tant, Hosteller's Stomach Biller*, ctn elixir which i= gi??E M?axts and vigor to myriads of ts? sick . and debilitated, which ls avouched by physicians and analysts to ho pure as weU as effocUTC, which is immensely popular in this country, and exten sively used abraad, and which has been for yean past one of the leading medicinal staples of America. NOTICE. X herebv fcrowam all persons from pur JL chasiug any Cotton or other crops raised upon my plantation from any other person or persons than myself, without my consent in person or writing. CLARISSA JUNKIN. April 29, 1878_42_~L*_ VIRGINIA HOUSE No. 41 Main St., Hur State Hosie, I COLUMBIA,_- - s.e. A. J. DODAMEAD, Proprietor. Terms, $1.50 per day. Ba ti? faction guar I antccd. B. A. WILSON, Manager. May 2,1878_42_ To Grangers and all Others. IHEREBY givo noUoe that I will Sito? Horse* cm? Melon tor One Dollar Chasis. Honey is ?caree, and tho Horses and Moles must bo shod: to I offer to do it cbeaoly. I can tack on Shoes for a lesa snm, but it ls well known that ? do tho best Shoeing, ond thcrcforo solicit the pat 1 ronage of the public at tho above rates. D. WHITE, Old Horse Bhoer. May 2, 1878 42_3,_ Vt* Krna**j .* OM UK? CtactwT. Barham'* Infallible PILE CURS. itaasmU-Hei S^???i..???iJM?n0y BIS BWMWJE MO* 19 N. 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