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and so different from, each other, as to render it no easy matter to. decide whe? ther any of them, and if any which, are entitled to tho appellation of judicial dis? tricts. North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Arkansas and Iowa are tho States referred to-" ,? , Tho primal judicial districts, consti? tuted immediately after tho adoption of tho Constitution, wero all completely or? ganized. Thoy all had the proper officers necessary to tho character and functions of a court, judge, clerk, marshal. Their jurisdiction was independent, nbsoluto, exclusive. Based upon tho Status, and in largo measure upon tho distinctive and several laws. and law of each State, they wero necessarily limited to the ter? ritory of each State; and even when, from the immense and sudden increase of population and business, certain States had of necessity to be divided, and inde? pendent, jurisdictions created, the}' still, of legal necessity, (us we hnvo seen, based on State laws,) had to bo adminis? tered as United States Courts, as for the different States in which they were held. They could not escape from this distinc? tion, so intimately connected and blended were the State and Federal jurisdictions they represented. The profession and the Court art* greatly indebted to tho defendant's counsel (Mr. Edward McCrady, Jr.,) for his exhaustive, critical and elaborately technical essay upon the history and character of the peculiar courts wo have to do with in this case. With this ac? knowledgment, gratefully made, tho Dis? trict Judge is compelled to say, that after the most careful perusal and considera? tion of it and the legislation to which it refers, he can see nothing in that legisla? tion?nothing that has been done und all that has been omitted to bo done?which could furnish stable ground for tho con? clusion at whioh he arrives: that South Carolina is divided into two independent judicial districts, and that the Western District (so-called) is a District by itself. This conclusion is an inference drawn from legislation defective, uncertain and contradictory, if regarded as a whole, and to be used as furnishing a rule and standard by which to (est the character and jurisdiction of this Court. it would seem something moro certain, inevitable and positivo wore required to sot aside the practice which has obtained since the institution of this Court and the other Cirouit Courts of tho State, and the great weight of authority which sus? tains that practice; it having received tho sanction of Mr. Justice Wayne for moro than a quarter of a century on tho bench, as also the late Chief Justice of the United States, and also tho learned and distin? guished Judgo who for so many years ad? ministered tho Federal justice of South Carolina. And when we consult expediency, and look to the work that this Court and tho other Cirouit Courts havo to do, it will appear that only as a whole and parts of a common system, can they best effect the end for which they were created. It can? not be wisely forgotten that the Federal Cirouit Courts wero instituted to furnish to the citizens of the United States in every State tbe same justice in each State that the citizens enjoy among themselves, and equal facilities for obtaining that justice. They have to compete with the Circuit Courts of the States, and provide for their Buitors not only the same reme? died but these remedies as promptly fur? nished as by tho State Courts. The United States Courts must do this, or cease to be effective and fail of their ob j ect To apply this: If tho Cirouit Courts ore, limited to Columbia and Charleston, suitors in these Courts have but two terms in the year in whioh they can ob? tain justice; and if the Circuit Court held in Greenville is shut up to Greenville, the Buitors in this Court have but ono opportunity in the year, and a continu? ance works a year's certain postponement of .the cause. When it is remembered that the Circuit Courts of the State of common jurisdiction havo three terms a year at whioh judgment can bo had, it will be obvious at what disadvantage suitors, even in Charleston or Columbia, pursue their remedies in the Federal Courts; and those in GreenviUe have such scant opportunity, and so tardy, as almost to amount to a denial of justice And if, besides this, the jurisdiction wero exclusive, and suitors compelled to go there, the Court might woll be considered on asylum to all defendants, and a delu? sion and a snare to all plaintiffs. In connection with tho idea of equal despatch in tho Federal Courts, in com? petition with tho Stato Courts, as ontor mg materially into an etjual remedy in the United States Courts, as contemplated in their institution, it is a pregnant fact that wherever, by the law governing tho Stato Courts, an imparlanco is allowed in the Stato Courts, an imparlanco is, also, by F?deral (1st Brightly, p. 794, Sec. 10.) enactment, allowed in the United States Courts, and vice versa; thus insuring per? fect equality in the progress of causes in oitber class of Courts, and scouring, in the vital element of timo, like opportu? nity to suitors in both judicial forums. Holding this fact in view, what can bo thought of a United States Court, which, not standing alone, as in a territory, but established in an anoient State, with a . complete system of oourts, fully organ? ized and of common jurisdiction, with regular triennial sessions?what can be thought of such a Court, and of what avail could it be to suitors, looking to the fact that I have stated when such Court holds but-one session in a year? Judge Bond, in the dooroo in this case, states, as his .opinion: "That Court, (namely, the Court held in Greenville oxorciaing its Circuit Court jurisdiction,) held by tho Distriot Judge, has Cirouit Court powers within the territory pre? scribed by law for its jurisdiction, whioh any person legally entitled may invoke at pleasure; but there is no authority at all for removing oauses originally brought in the Cirouit Court of the United States to that Court, against the oonsent of par? ties, except in . certain criminal oases at the instance of the District Attorney." Judgo Bond does not state whether, in his judgment, the suitors, who can sue . in .Greenville, can. also sue in Charleston or^^Coiumbia; in other words, whother tho Cirouit. Courts held in Charleston 'and.Columbia are limited to tho territo? rial limits of tho Eastern District, or whether thoy possess oommon jurisdic? tion with the Greenville Court of the Counties opmposing the Western Dis? trict;, and can issue their process against theinhabitants of those Counties whilst in these Countimf,-, Has the Cirouit Court jurisdiction only of th? Eastern District, ?i'/ajj ??? ffaduu ? '???'') ? or does its jurisdiction embrace tbe en? tire State? If the Courts held in Charleston and Columbia have 'common jurisdiction, and a caso brought in Charleston against a citizen of one of the Counties in the Western District, can bo transferred to Columbia, and upon a continuance.; or incomplotod can be further prosecuted there, then will the snitor in these Courts have the ohonces and bene?ts of two terms in the year for tho prosecution of his caso ovorany other. suiter who may sue in tho Greenville Court, and thus that Court bo put to tho additional dis? advantage of contending against tho United States Circuit Court, with its two ; terms a year, as well as against the State Courts, with their thrco terms a year. ! Where is the equality of remedy, either as to tho Stato Courts or tho United States Courts? But if the Court held in Greenville possesses exclusive jurisdiction, and suitors of tho other States are compelled to buo tho inhabitants of tho Counties composing tho Western District in that Court, (with its ono term a year,) and when they go there must stop there, and cannot transfer thoir cases to Columbia, but must bo hindered for a wholo year in tho further prosecution of thoir coses, what becomes of their equal remedy, either as against tho suitor in tho Eastern District or suitors in tho State Court? Is legislation with'such nnjnst conse? quences and so opposed to tho whole theory of tho United States Courts, as tho organs and instruments of equal justice to tho stranger, as against the citizens of any State between thomselves, to bo acoeptod as tho legislation of the country? Is it to be supposed that Congross could havo done anything so unequal and abortive? On the wholo, looking to what Con? gress has dono in reference to this Court, taken in connection especially with what it has not done?tho provision it has mado and tho provision it has failed to make?tho conclusion seems to bo inevi? table that it can only be effective as an organ of Federal justico when accepted (as it has hitherto been) as ono of tho three Courts constituting a system, insti? tuted by tho country, to sccuro equal justice to tho citizens of tho United States. So held, it is a necessary, or at least a most helpful, complement to tho Circuit Court previously established, by furnishing a third term in tho year, and thus putting the Unitod States Courts on an equality with the Stato Circuit Courts. Thus regarded as an integrate portion of tho Circuit Court system of tho Sbite, all confusion disappears, and tho Federal judicial administration, whilst reduced to unity, gains both in completeness and efficionoy. And does not this view re? ceive emphatic confirmation from the fact that tho mero doubt'of tho sound? ness of this construction, of so recent birth, of tho character of this Court, and tho place it holds in tho judicial system of the State, has put the whole system afloat, and introduced chaos and per? plexity where thero had hitherto been neither question, hesitation or disorder. Whilst, therefore, concurring with the Circuit Judge as to tho validity of the judgment in question, upon tho narrow technical ground of the special and ex? ceptional pleadings in this case, (saving tho jurisdiction of the Court.) upon which he rests his jndgpient, I havo not felt nt liberty to withhold my dissent from tho novel viow which he has felt called upon, in the discharge of his duty, I to publish for tho benefit of the profes? sion, as to tho rognlar, normal jurisdic? tion of tho Court in which this judgment [ was had. Mr. Beecukr as a,Missionary.?A New York Herald correspondent informe us that kissing is unknow in China. Civili? zation in that countrv has never been considered to be as fully developed as it is in tho East, and the Chinese are un? doubtedly ignorant of much with which younger nations aro familiar. Human nature, as Mme. de Stael says, is tho same everywhere, and there will be found nothing all over tho world but men, women and children. To Ameri? cans kissing seems to be sq^stnral that we ean hardly understarm how the Chinese are ignorant of tho art. Indeed if we should physiologically enter into an investigation of tho subject, the mys? tery would become more profound. The intelligent correspondent proposes that, as the art of kissing appears to be en? tirely unknown to tho Chinese, mis? sionaries should be sent from this conn try to give them tho proper instruction. He wishes to export the ltov. Mr. Beechcr as the champion kisser of tho United States. Paroxysmal, paternal, sisterly, reconoiliatory nnd inspirational kisses rtppenr to bo as familiar to Mr. Bcochor as household words. The honorable de? fendant, according to his own account, has done a great deal of kissing. He has kissed Mrs. Tilton, (sisterly,) Mrs. Moulton, (inspirationally,) Mr. Moniten, (experimentally,) Mr. Oliver Johnson, (unwillingly,)* Sam. Wilkeson, (una? voidably,) Mr. Evnrts, (professionally,) Mr. Sherman, (indignantly.) Bessie Turner, (fatherly,)and Theodore Tilton, (^conciliatory.) After this extraordi? nary experience in oscnlatory perform? ance, Mr. Bcechor should certainly bo fully qualified to teach tho barbarians all that they are ignorant of in the deli? cate art. Brooklyn might probably miss him, but Pokin would be the gainer. If he should, after tho trial, consent to go to China in tho capacity of a Plymouth missionary, he might conjugate the verb "to kiss" with greater success that ho has done at home. The conjugation "I kiss Tilton, thou kissoBt Tilton, he kisses Johnson, Johnson kisscth us, Wilkeson kisBeth Bowen, Bowen kisRcth Beech er," might have wider application in tho experience of Oriental climates. But as Mr. Beooher has kissed almost everybody in 'Brooklyn, it would bo a ?ity if he should go to the home of the rother of the Sun and Moon and loavo the unkissod Mrs. Morso out of tho category. Some economical Parisicnncs recently attempted a new mode of revivifying their old ball dresses. Tho gentlemen at a prefeotoral ball found that as they danced, their dress suits became white from head to foot It was no novelty to get their coat sleeves and shoulders dusty from contact with tho powdered shoulders and arms of their partners, but how did this happen with tho rest of the clothes? [ On inquiry, it was discovered that tho Parisian holies had deluged their skirts with voloutino, .to make the, ?e4ed an4 4lrty. 4*?*""?? look fresh again, COLUMBIA; S. C. Saturday Morning, April 84, 1875. The Charleston Libel Caae. Bulwer represents Eugeno Aram as frequently drawn by en irreaistible in? stinct to tho scone whero ho had com? mitted the crimo of murder. , Whether it wan injured innocence which defied accusation, or the working of that mys? terious influence which appears to forbid that a man shall lose tho memory of any groat wrong ho has committed, which induced- Bowen, Sheriff of Charleston, to brave a suit at law, in which the de fondant would have the right to repro? duce the facts of his lifo, and to show the proof of his crimes, it is likely to prove equally unfortunate for him. In tho libel snty which he has instituted against the editors and proprietors of the Charleston News and Courier, the de? fence unhesitatingly admits the publica? tion of the alleged libel, admits it to be a prima facie libel, and assumes the burden of justification. Mr. Corbin, who assists the Solicitor on the part of the State, refers to sections of tho Bill of Bights, incorporated in our State Consti? tution?tho first guaranteeing freedom of Bpeech, writing and publication, with responsibility for the abuse; the second, being in the following words: "In prose? cuting for the publication of papers in? vestigating the official oonduct of officers or men in public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public, in? formation, tho truth thereof may be given in evidence, and in all indictments of libel tho juries shall be judges of the law and the facts." Commenting upon this lost clause, tho counsel admits that "theso publications are privileged, that is, every newspaper publisher has a right to publish, if the matter is proper for publication." It would be for the defence, he said, "to show, if they could, any legal excuse or justification for the publication." The defence accordingly has maintained that tho matter published was concerning a public officer, a man in public capacity, and of the deepest interest and necessary for public information. The proof which it has produced has been of the most overwhelming character as to tho con? duct of Bowen. The testimony of Eli C. GrimoB, as given in the proceedings of Wednosday, is a staggering blow, from which it would scorn impossible that any man could recover. It prostrates Bowen, but it remains to bo seen whether it will bo allowed its full force as justification of tho plaintiff. From the glance which wo havo been able to take at tho proceed? ings, the trial appears to be proceeding upon this basis. Tho celebrated saying of Lord Mansfield, that "tho greater the I truth, the greater tho libel," would ap? pear not to be applicable to tho class of cases to which this ono belongs. The clanse from tho Bill of Bights, which we havo quoted, seems to make a special do? main, whero the principle of justification, even in criminal prosecutions, rightfully comes in. In other words, the publica? tions concerning Bowen were directed against him as a public man, were proper for public information, were not, in the technical sense, malicious, and so their truth may be shown and given in evi? dence, By his imprudent appeal tn the law, Bowen seems likely to work himself into the place of the defendant, and to quit the Court with his bad reputation made worse, and with the old matters against him so freshened and so strongly brought out, that ho will have to face them, not as justifying another, but as fatally criminating himself. Spautanbi'RO News Itrms.?From the Herald, m-o learn that Messrs. lt. E. Cleveland and Joseph Walker have pur? chased of Mr. A. Tolloson a half interest in the Palmetto ITouso for $8,000. Mr. Cnlcutt remains in charge. Tho dam across Broad River, at the Cherokee Iron Works, was washed away by tho recent heavy rains. This will clear the way for shad and other fish to make their spawning bods higher up in tho head waters of this river. A reduction in through rates from Spurtanburg to Baltimoroand New York, havo been mado by the Atlanta and Bich mond Air Line Railway. Spartanburg is now on the same footing aB other through points. Colonel Clayton, contractor on the Spartanburg and Ashovillo Railroad, has about finished the grading on tho Wind Mill section of the road, and will Boon commence to grade the section nearest to town. Getting up in a cold room to mako a fire is liko getting up in life. If you crawl timidly out of bod, go on tip-too to the stove, and allow tho shivers to got control of you boforo tho kindling starts, your fire will probably bo a failure, and you will half froozo to death in the ope? ration. But if you jump out bravely, btiBtle around, pull on your clothes, knock over a chair or two, and pitch in the stove-wood, you will probably bo too warm by tho time tho flro getfl to burn? ing, and havo to open a window. So in life. Attack it timidly, and you will fail. Grapple with it, hurry up thingB, stir around, conquer fortune, and you will be a success. State Treasurer F. L. Cardozo, of South Carolina, iB stopping at the West? moreland Hotol, Now York. ? >? ,.u . I >? ? h /? ? ?-? ? ? ' ' ??*? - - ? The Country Not a Preserve for the Self styled Loyal. What Speaker Blainc said at Hartford, about the indispensable consequence to tho country that the party which, as ho phrased it, had saved the Union, should continue to hold possession of tho Go? vernment, ho will doubtless become ashamed of bofore a grenl while. He a man who ought to come out of those ruts of projudice and narrow section? alism. Radical State Governments South can only stund when propped up by military power. The radicalized Republican party of the whole country is equally weak and dependent on force and fraud. Salt can't save it. It has betrayed its trusts; it has become a con? geries of rings: it has elevated and pre? fers bad men; it is a foe to constitutional government; it has no respect for the rights of the citizens; it lives on spoils. Its stench is oppressive. It must bo put j out of the way. It won't do to pretend that it baa any enduring principle, any inherent vitality. Vice-President Wil? son, who is not an enlightened, but, as men go, not a bad man, may bo pardoned for this sort of namby-pamby talk, for which Rhone has no excuse. Says the Vicc-Prcsident, "the loyal people of this country are. rootodly averse to allowing the reins of government to go into the hands of the men who did all in their power, both at the North and in the South, to overset the Government. I am for the largest liberality to the South, but am not willing that it should again get possession of the government of the Whole loyal country.'" Polly! Stutf! The anxious V.-P. has had no glimpse yet of the day to come, when the "loyal people,-' so-called, will be the ones put on their defence, and charged with high crimes and misdemeanors. The charla? tans who lead them and have deceived them will yet call upon the rocks and mountains to fall upon them and cover them from tho sight of their own folly, their own avarice and' their foul wrongs. The whole loyal country will sure enough speak, ami whenever honor and princi? ple have been illustrated, they will r. - ceive their <lue meed of recognition. Mr. Wilson is nearly at the end of his row. His follies and his platitudes can carry him but little further. The St. Louis llepuNkan prates about what the Southern people staked and forever lost in the war, and must perforce admit to j the "superior North." The South lost precious lives and somo property. It lost no principle and forfeited not its honor. It stands nnjmpeached, and in spito of captious critics and timo-serving politicians of the over loyal sort, will re? cover its duo influence and considera? tion in the national councils, and con? tribute its full share to the prosperity and glory of a common country. Peak Station. April 23. Mr. Eorron: 1 don't propose to offer any competition towards Mr. Diercks, but believe I can beat him on the rat question. Upon the removal of a lot of old forage in an out-building near my corn house, on yesterday evening, with the assistance of a small rat terrier, killed ninety-three; several looked as though they would weigh a pound or upwards, aud a pair of the varmints were weighed, and the two weighed 2] pounds. So much towards the good of our country. The farmers generally arc behind, and from appearances think more of us better kill ruts to some extent. J. C. SWYGERT. It needs no prophet to predict that the reign of King Alfonso, in Spain, will In? cut short by a popular revolution. Spain i.sstaggering under an increasing burden of debt; tho Carlists are as vigorous and defiant as ever; the politicians who con? trol the King know no liberality, and are pushing extreme measures against every semblance of liberty; Castelar, Salmeron, A/.carat and other men, whose wise counsels might save the country, have been banisln-d. Cpon this volcano, strange to say, the Government is fid? dling like Nero amid the names of Rome. Amid all tin'changing Heenes of the past vearor two, the Spanish architects have been employed to exercise their inge? nuity upon the construction of a vast bull-ring at a cost of $ 1,500,000, where the brutal sport of bull-baiting is ex? pected to charm the multitude away from any realization of the condition of tho country. Thus, while Cuba is being wrested from the Spanish crown, while Don Carlos is wounding the body politic from the rear, and tho credit of the crown is going to tho dogs, and the pomp of royalty is kept up on borrowed funds, and" tho fatal "hand-writing on the wall" seems to gleam through tho shadows, Alfonso and his ndhcrents will gently recline upon the velvet seats of the richly ornate boxes in tho now bull? ring and smilo as tho bulls wrestle with tho agonies of death and the peninsula is entering upon the throes of a new revo? lution. Thore is a colored man in this County who owns a fino tract of land, four mules, all necessary farming imple? ments, cows, hogs, Ac, and has over $2,000 out hearing ten per cent, interest. The secret is, hnjs no politician. Whilo others are running about attending poli? tical meetings, drinking political whis? key and ranking fools of themselves generally, he is at home, making money and onjoying the respect of his neigh? bors of both races aud both political parties. He's sharp, too. Wo asked him if he would not like to bo a member of tho Legislaturo, and he mado tho follow? ing pertinent reply: "Well, boss, they say tho Legislature men steal. Well, I ain't food at dat. I's afraid dese fellows about ere would flteal more from me whilo I was in do Legislature, dan I conld steal down dero, so I guess I'd better stay home."?Union Times. "Spellozootic" is the latest name for it. Crrr Mattebb. ?If you are asked to lend your Pnatinx, suggest to the would be borrower that ho had better subscribe. Rending matter on every page. Ruin, rain all yesterday. Fig Fino Cut and Smokers' Festival all the go. Tho swimming season comes up slowly. Fig Fino Cut and Smokers' Festival all the go. A run on "tho bank of dowers** will soon set in. Fig Fine Cut und Smokers' Festival all the go. The Schuctzen Committee havo re? turned highly delighted with their trip. Fig Fino Cut and Smokers' Festival all the go. A dry goods business--selling salt cod? fish. Lady Washington will have a corps of distinguished generals at her tea party. Yesterday was cold, wet and dreary, and in every way a generally nncom fortablo day. Fig Fine Cut and Smokers' Festival all the go. The peculiar weather does not affect ^eegors* Henry in the least -ho keeps hot water and ice, and can give you a stimulant at any temperature. Fig Fine Cut and Smokers' Festival all tho go. The price of admission to the Tableaux Vivants has been reduced to fifty cents. Refreshments will be offered during the evening. The annual meeting of the stockhold? ers of tho Greenville and Columbia Rail? road Company will be held on Thursday next, the 2'.?tb inst. Mr. W. ii. "Burke, who was formerly connected with Mr. C. J. Laurey, is about to open np on his account as a commission merchant, having leased one of the stores under the City Hall. The children who are to take part in tho Tableaux Vivants, are requested to meet at tho Opera House, to-day, at 12 'o'clock?bringing a portion of their cos j tnincs with them. I The tableaux vivants, in which fifty children take part, and which come off on Monday evening next, in the City Hall, will be well worth seeing. Tho participants are practicing energetically. Persons desirous of contributing to the refreshment table at the tableaux will please inform Mrs. Ooleman Walker or Mrs* Buchmun. Contributions of milk, ice cream or cake will be accepta? ble. It is understood that tho different rail? road presidents havo agreed to furnish free transportation to all thieving State officials, who may wish to "flee from the wrath to come." Step ont. Messieurs? the Slate can spare yon. Several eggs, which look as though they had been cracked and then re fastened, havo been exhibited to us by tho Messrs. Hcndrix. A committee of examination report that thoy can assign no other reason than that there was a flaw in the hen. The eggs arc curiosities. We arc pained to record the death of Mrs. A. Ij. Solomon, consort of Audit? or Solomon, which sad event oc? curred yesterday afternoon, about I) o'clock, from that terrihlo disorder, Bright's disease. She leaves a husband, seven children, an aged mother, and other relatives to lament her untimely decease. Prrsonai?. The Richmond I)Li)><it<'h, of Wednesday, has the following: "On yesterday. Col. Thomas Dodumead ten? dered his resignation as Goneral Super? intendent of Transportation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, and ('apt. W. M. S. Dunn was appointed to that position. Col. Dodumead had never severed his connection with the Green? ville and Columbia Railroad, of South Carolina, though acting as Superintend? ent of the Chesapeake und Ohio Bail road for several months past, and find? ing that he could not make satisfactory arrangements to leave South Carolina, he has felt it his duty to resign his office here." Tin. Newspaper.? The newspaper is the chronicle of civilization -the com? mon reservoir into which every stream pours its living waters, and at which every man may come to drink. It is a newspaper that gives to liberty its prac? tical life, constant observation its perpe? tual vigilance, its unrelaxing activity. The newspaper informs legislators of public opinion, and informs tho peoplo of legislation. And this is not all. The newspaper teems with most practical morality; in its report of crimes and punishments, you find a daily warning against temptation; and not a caso in a polico court, not a single trial of a wretched outcast or a trembling felon, that docs not preach to ub tho awful les? son how imprudence leads to error, con duots to guilt; how guilt reaps its bitter fruit of anguish and degradation. The newspaper is the bond that binds to? gether man and man?no matter what be tho distance of tho climate or the differ? ence of race. The newspaper is a law book for the indolent, a sermon for tho thoughtless, a library for the poor. It may stimulate the most indifferent, it may instruct the most profound. At a recent examination of a class in chemistry, in a professional school, tho first two questions were: "Define tho wordWfehemistry' and tho word'atom.'" On collecting tho students' books tho fol? lowing is all the professor found written in ono: "Chemistry, a vory important study, in which I have not motto suf? ficient progress to warrant my attempt? ing any solntion of its riddles. An atom may bo said to express, in a figurative way, the stato of my feelings when I re? flect that the Confession implied in the above statement is as true as it is humili? ating. Credit.?The why of it is this; A man. writoB, "I want yonr paper, bat era not willing to pay in advance for it. If you are afraid to trust me for a year, I am afraid to trust you. How do I know that you will send me the paper for a year?" Suoh conundrums mark the conservatism of at least one careful man. There is no reason why he should trnst us with two dollars?perhaps it is best that he should not. There is no reason why a druggist should, ask pay for the mediciuo he sells before it operates, or that a railroad com? pany should ask pay for a ticket beforo the ride is finished; or that a carpenter should ask pay for building a house till it is worn out and the owner moved away. It costs me.ny thousands of dol? lars to buy a good printing office, and make ready for printing a newspaper. Paper, ink, labor, and all these little accessories to a paper cost tho money in advance. We have not the means neces? sary to furnish 50,000 persons each with a newspaper for a year, then to employ a score of men to collect bills all over tho country, unless we charge at leat ton dol? lars a year for the paper. It is better for 50,000 men to pay each two dollars a quarter in advance, than for us to have $100,000 scattered all over tho country, two-thirds of which wc cannot collect. A man can easily forget to pay what ho owes for tho paper. He can move away and never be found, no matter how much that publisher may be in need of the dollar or two tho subscriber may owe. It is not easy for a newspaper to dikap por. The editor who has tho earnings and reputation of a life-time invested in a business, and who has built up a news? paper to a large circulation, is not npt to cheat a man out of two dollars, more or less, for an unexpired newspaper sub? scription. Another thing. We should never take a paper edited by a man wo oould not trust with the price of the paper. H you have no more confidence in us and our business honesty than to be afraid to trust us, keep your money. We cannot afford to give credit to everybody, and it would bo unfair to discriminate. For more than twenty years we have been printing a newspaper, and never yet have failed to send the paper each week to the persons who have paid for it It is not likely that we shall commenco being dishonest now. We cannot with? out making a great, change in our man? ner of conducting business, give a dribleting credit nil over the country. Wo aro not afraid to trust our corres? pondent for $'2, but prefer to have him read his own paper than one ho has not paid for. Ho buys a pound of tea, and partakes thereof day after day till it is used up. He purchases a pair of boots, and for a year has tho wearing of them. Ho pays the minister $5 for performing the marriage ceremony that unites him to his wife; but, nccording to his own rule, he should not pay tho marriage fee till his wife expires, so he could have the use of both wife and money. Will tho man sell us a barrel of pork and wait for his pay till the hist pieco is cooked and eaton?. If so, we can tell him where he can find just such customers for all tho pork bo can raise. ? ? ? ? List or New Advertisements. Free Lunch at Little Mack's. Columbia Typographical Union. I W. B. Burke?Card. J? D. & B. ?To-Day and Every Day. Annual Meeting S. G. A C. B. B. Co. Bank Notioes. Hotel Arrivals, April 23.? Whceier Hqusc?Benson Ferris, Jr., N. Y.; Mrs. O. F. Dutcher, R. I.; Chas. F. PhUlips, Mass.; Foster Blodgett, Newherry; E. Tweedy, Mrs. M. Broilnax, Ga.; D. E. Stalnaker, W. Ya.; Lee Hagood, city; N. G. Ostcen, Sumter; John A. Weir, Miss S. Weir, Pa.; L. F. Fronmur, D. C. Beard, N. Y.; Pat. Duffle, Charleston; J. J. Kammer. Gadsden; A. Fugle, Africa; Chas. P. Walford, Va.; John S. Cham? bers, Chester; G. Sv. McLaughlin, Md. Hendrix House?W. W. Scott J. W. Dennis, Atlanta; A. Webster Smith, Baltimore; P. P. Pease, Louisvillo; J. F. Stanford, Tennessee; W. C. YounR, Doko; Mrs. J. C. C. Feaster, Rose Hill; S. A. Woodruff, N. C. Backward, Turn Backward.?Tho ad? vent of tho centennials of American in? dependent seems to have produced a complete revolution in the habits of thought, speech and action of tho people of this country. "Backward, turn back? ward, oh, time, in yonr flight," is the burden of the song and tho events and incidents of n hundred years ago are usurping the cares and troubles and tho trials and tribulations of to-day. Every? body is reading up on American history, both State and national, and we livo in the midst of musty tomes and antiquated newspapers, rendered almost illegible by ago and decay. Sectional differences and sectional animosities and strifes have boon laid aside, and tho memories of the united struggles of tho olden time are tho inoitors to Christ's doctrine of peaccT and charity and brotherly love. It is tho prayor of all good men everywhere, that the nation may emorge from its first grand anniversary with tho public heart chastened and subdued through the sor? rows and misconceptions of the past into a kindly feeling of brotherly love that shall sweep to the winds the last vestigo of tho sectional hatred that has so terri? bly warped and distorted this fair land of ours. Let the dead past bury its own dead, and let a reunited peoplo rejoice together over the grave where their dif? ferences have been buried, let ua hope, forever. The Washington Chronicle having charged that the revonuo cutter Harriet Lane was used under Democratic rule for pio-nio parties and Government frolics, at the expense of tho people, a corres? pondent of the Philadelphia Times Bhows that only on ono occasion was the Har? riot Lane used for an oxoursion down tho Potomac, and then Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury, paid every cent of the bill of expenses ont of his own pocket. President Buchanan had insisted upon paying for the trip him? self, but Cobb anticipated him. That "frolic," ohampagne included, did not cost the people a cent Has Cameron settled the bill for tho late Senatorial frolic on tho Dispatch? Polonaises, after having been popular so long, are losing ground. Everything, flounces and all, is mado to lie as flat as possible, knife-pleatingbeing much worn. This ia more becoming to short, stout figures than to tall, slender ones.