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?wr1 - <u . ?j.uujaz? - _. i? wiawv TII i: POUT i:< ?vai.. STANDARD and COMMERCIAL jV. Ci. THOMAS rditor, . | Benfort, S. C., Jr.ly 6, 1676. SrBSCHIPTlOXS, One Year, S) 00 ! Six .Mouths, 1 Of i Advertisement* will ho inserted at th< rate of Si 50 per square. 10 Nonpareil j lines, for the first insertion; subsequent ! insertions t>y contract. .TOE, PlilXTIXfS AND STATIONERY. TYe have one of the Ti? M c .TOT. OFFIt"!*"5 n the ?-rte, an I <! ? work astro!! mul at as low prices j fcs in the cities. Our stock of STATION KHV islurgc* vl Triil fc? so'il wli-Jrsale aiul retail, as low as in Charlatan r.m! Savannah. PeoO.r anil larr Muik.- in ;jrr?a( variety. Oifrial Paper of Beaufort Comity, j . , FOE PRESIDENT, RUTHERFORD 0. HAYES | OF OHIO. F03 VICE PRESIDENT, WILLIAM A. WHEELER, OF NEW YORK. Theory and Practice. Reform is necessary and can never be effected but by making it the controlling issue of the election.? Theory of the Democratic platform. It was openly proclaimed that James had said he would carry the county or break his bank. He has probably succeeded. Such a shameless use of money, such open, barefaced corruption, has rarely, if ever, been witnessed even in the City of New York. The riff-raff twirled the greenbacks around their fingers as if they were sweepings from the streets; the roughs rushed, or rather reeled into James' Bank crying *' more ones and twos, John and the debauched, purchased rabbleshouted " Hurrah for Jeems!'' while thc. ?-V?,\l.. ofrv?.A2t\Vio?v> ww with tl?p 91 HUiV UUMV-pwvi """ %"v j .grogshop's fumes, and a whole city dis- j graced by open bribery- James simply j bought his success with money.?lJrac- ; ilce% as illustrated at the nomination for the gubernatorial chair of democratic Georgia, at Atlanta. Speaking of the nomination of Hayes, the Sumter Watchman (dem ) says : We regard the nomin .tio:i a good one and M' we fail iu the election of ou own "Uncle Sam,'' we feel assured that we will have reform from the Republican candidate. What we owe as a Nation. Tire recapitulation of the statement of, the public debt of the United States for the month of June, 1876, just issued, is .as follows ; Debt bearing interest in coin bouds at six per cent, $984,999,600 ; bonds at five percent. $711,085,800 ; t-. t 1, $1,090,685,450. Debt bearing inter- ( est in lawful money : Navy pension fund at three per cent,, $14,000,000. Debt on i which interest has ceased since maturity, ' $3,902,470; debt bearing no interest old j demand and legal ten ler rates, $ 369,SS9- j 201 50. Certificates of deposit, $32,850- j 1KX). Fractional currency, $34,440,59535 ; coin certificates, $28,681,400 ; total $465,407,197 89 , total debt, $2,180,395,067 15 ; interest, $38,514,004 54; total ylebt principal and interest. $2,218,999. ' 071 69. Cash in the Treasury?coin, | $73,G25,5vS4 97 ; currency, $13,004,141-1 73 ; special deposits, held for redemption of c riificates of deposit, as provided by j law, $32,840,000 ; total, $119,17i6 70. i Debt less cash in the Treasury July I, : 1870. $2,099,439,344 99 ; debt less cash in the Treasury June 1, 1870, $2, 103,-! 3-20, 742 55. Decrease ot debt during ' the mouth, $3,881 397 55; deciea-e of J debt since June 30, 1875, $29,249,381, 33. Bounties. I Hie bill proposiug to equalize bounties which we meuii nod last week as havin passed the House and been sent to the | Senate, has been read twice, referred to j *(,i, f. if r,if> nn mjlif-irvr ?i fir-iire find lias been reported by theui back to the; Senate with amendments. The bill as it now slauds leavu* out Sailors and Marines aud those borne upon'thc i o!h as slaves and Indiaus, it also has the word * enlisted " before wagoucr and private Soldier, and ic does not take into consideration any bounties paid by States, but ouiy provides lira deduction from the proposed equalized county of any bounty paid by the United States. ? ?v>? j ( Of the great West, Tilden only counts , on three States. Indiana, Michigan an J i probably Wisconsin. , i f j IIkxdrick's, the democratic candidate , for Vioe-P.esideut hao not yet, formally 1 ] accepted the notuination. i i Party govct niuent is essential to a ' constitutional country, and when jour- ; ^ lials profess to have " no party " it is ( u-ually because they have no principles, j Ltiion-llvrsiid. j j ??> ? | # Three of the four candidates in the ' j field on the two tickets presented for j 1 President and Vice-President are Gov- I 1 e'nors of great States aud now in office. 1 Mr. Ilayes, for President on the Rcpub- v lican ticket, is the Governor of Ohio. 1 lloth candidates on the Democratic tic- 41 ket are Governors?Tiiden of New York 1 and Hendricks of Indiana. o> 1 s ?.' ?* Prof. II. T. Greener, of Columbia | was in town this week. We understand e his imnieron-i lr: mis are urging upon e to ;|!(i\V !> it * I r i * 1 1 oil! !<>!'-.Y;tJ?d t ogrv^v^r?.1 L 'T?rr.-irrrrt-UB Con of Smj.i. of ".?. a j.o Com that iiis culture preeminently qualifies him." ?? ? PORT IJGYAJ. HAHiJOlt. Til.- fiiJr.rf livt vjK'ol rf tlif Vni(?(l ?tir iM'iiici<i'l ro his sunt *? I'll-.-Siij. 'onnrcii < !! for iirt-ef Tnuic ivilh 1 {? "?VciUl.* Port I Joy:;] harbor is situate.I between Charleston and Savannah on the coast of South Carolina, its entraneo is the most sate anil easy of access to asiy harbor it: the United S\.te ; a tine light !> u c lias lately been erected on the north point ol Hunting i>ia 11. nonhea.-t of the lightship lying at the entrance of Port Royal har~" bor channels, whore vessels drawing 2f> feet can go in and eoiue out of the harbor I at mean low w iter. And over 33: n 13"> t high water, without a pilot. Con cress has just appropriated >'4<U>00 towards erecting a light house at the entrance of the Bay, where the rendezvous of the North Adanti squadron of the United States is stationed, and which will soon be the summer rendezvous of the European na- j vies. For IS months the U. S. fleet has been stationed in Port Royal harbor, not a single ease of sickness nor malaria caused by local influences, has occurred among the several thousand men of the navy, and the healthfiilncss of the location is thus described by the health officer of the fleet, which official reports is ahead of any seaport on the whole of the United States oast: U. S. Steamer (Ironclad) Dictator, | Port Royat,. S. l\, Oct. 1. 1ST5. " The ships' company has enjoyed remarkable freedom from malarial fevers dnting the summer and autumn months of this quarter. Owing to insufficient berthing space below, half of the crew of the Dictator is oblige! in warm weather j to sleep on deck unde r the awning, and ; her people are in consequence specially exposed to any malaria there may be in the night air. It therefore seems that the remarkable health fulness of her crew, under the circumstances, affords good evidence of comparative freedom of this i locality from malaria.' No large body of i fresh water empties into the rivers here. ! so that the river water is nearly as salt as I that of thj sea. The sea breeze in July, August, and September begins by foi a. m., and continues till midnight, blow- j ing generally quite fresh. The mean j ?1-.,.:..^ l : i:,? r.., u. 1 leiautc !uu;;ia*n ivi uif Uiifc j been found to be 70 day and night, i which considering the proximity of the j sea and extent of swamp lands, shows! that the climate of Port Royal is relatively a dry one. It is possible the above I natural causes furnish an explanation; as to the healthfulness ot tho. waters of j Port Royal. (Signed ) Joiin C. Spear, Surgeon U. S. Navy. Report to the Medical Inspector, Samuel F. Cones. Unitt'd S!at;s San/. ! dlarj Ship Worcester. Port Royal harbor, by its geographical ) Position is far better adapted to the I practical development ofquick'nnd cheap | transit of direct trade between the cen- j tral port'ou of the United States west of j Cincinnati, and all points of Europe, j Africa, Asia, the. East India, South 1 America and the West Indies, than anv ! . * port in the United States, including New York, aud even shorter distance byover 1000 miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific, for the commerce of China, Japan, Australia, and the Islands of the Pacific, via San Diego, for which business the south Pacific Railroad will be soon in J working operation between San Diego, j and Port Royal?its Pacific and Atlantictermini. Port Royal harbor is actually connected ' by railroad to Augusta, Ca.. the centralizing points of all southern (for cott- ti transportation direct from the ihd Is,) | western and eastern It. R., aud conn ects , vo W! nut WieP vi'.lo Mom i T iU .AO Al.< (i U iiU ? > ll>. II tilV M It 11 ^ill phis, St. Louis ami the west, at an ad- j vantage of 300 miles or 25 per ceut. ! against New York, and the United ; States Central Kailway Cuuipatiy, lately i chartered by Congress, will soon connect ! with Port lioyal harbor at a still greater j saving in the distances with Louisville 1 St. Lonis and the west, and with Ciir j ciunati, Indianapolis, Chicago, and the t great granaries of the north west, via Kuoxviile, the distance between Chicago and Port lioyal being short of MX) miles while it is now i>oU to the present nearest port of Palthnoie and nearly 1 -1 (JO miles { to New York. A charter has been granted by the i legislature oi'South Carolina, and ratified as a national charter by Congress, for the building of a shipping city at a uiost appropriate location of Port lioyal harbor, ! where a large tract of building laud has i been secured with a deep water frontage j of over lour miles, for the building ol I Jocks, whuivos, warehouses, grain elevators, the dryness oi the climate being most : appropriate lor such shipping improve- | meets, cotton pi coses, marine railways, Jry docks, ship building, steamship and ; banking business, under the title of the I Port lioyal Docks, Warehousing, Trans- I oortatiuti and Baukiug Compauy, with a I ;apital, stocks and bonds, of six million 1 lobars, which will be thoroughly eumula cu i:i interest with the different railroads taving the deep water harbor of Port; 1 Royal as tlieir Atlantic tcruiini, and will ! ' a consequence oi' such consolidation oi ' uterests, be always prepircd to cuter j ' lito the best arrangements for cheap and 1 plick transit of direct trade to and from ' ill ports of the world, thus enabling them 1 hrough such co-operative combination- j * >f railroad and steamship transportations; j he advantages of its own docks, v. arc-if . louses, gram elevators, cotton presses a teaniships and banking f:i *iii ies, t?? i rroiiiote the practical development of' oinnicrcial intercourse upon the most 1 \< micai and conjointly reliable ba>is. , hat no separat or ptival into.? ' e >mM i .? 11 ztju ? :.vv -- . I' i't :?'?v:?! bar-or. 1> v if-- g'-o -Taphieal j? po-ition is !:: ') t ad .:.u!::g-on.Iy located ( to carry on direct trade or importation : and exportation with the world, and being the nearest deep water shipping point < to nine-tenths of the territory ol the United Sous. irons the Atlantic sea-- .1 hoard, ih'sten. New oik. Philadelphia and RuStiinorc, the o;d Atlant e direct ' trade shipping points, being only ctjunl distant with Port lluya 1 harbor, south of Raitini >re towards Norfolk, and we-t , towards Cincinnati, which docs not ; extend over -Ob miles south of Raltiuiore and oJO west, v.hile the new Port Royal ! harbor, has the shortest access to all the ' south, south west, west and northwest of ! nine-tenths of the whole of the territory which are naturally tributary to the new Port Royal harbor, as the nearest shipping point on the Atlantic, and being nearer to China, Japan, Australia, the Past Indies, South America the Pacific Islands and the West Indies. , Thus placing geographically and by law of nature, (lie new and commodious deep water harbor of Post Royal in lirst rank as the most economical shipping termini of all steamships lines and railroad ! connections between all ports of the north and the interior of the United States, ! thus realizing the fact that ihe location ! selected on Port Royal harbor, as a deep j water shipping city, wiil soon become ' tnrougr? its natural an vantages, the , future Liverpool of the United Suites. . Peter Papin. . PAVES AM) WHEELER. Ratification Meeting. i On the fourth at Beaufort, at the i Town Ilall a meeting, ratifying the1 nomination of R. B. Hayes for President, j and Win. A. Wheeler for Vice-President! was held. The meeting was opened by j prayer by the R v. J. B. Middleton. j The first speaker was Senator Samuel; Greeu, who refe.red to the centennial year, and the proclamation of indepen- j denee which through the action of the I Republican party had now a meaning to i every citizen particularly the clause that i declared ail men born free and equal, j He urged them strenuously to allow no ! opportunity to pass theui of deriving in- I formation as to the men that party had j nominated as their standard bearers, and | by illustrations of the condition of repub-1 lieans in Mississippi, and other States in the South that had once been republican, which had been lost to the party by the negligence of the voters who had failed to respond to their duty at the polls, he '111 pressed on his hearers the importance of allowing nothing to stand in their way ' #v w " ? on the third of November to respond 'o ; the call of their party to support the [ nomination of Hayes and Wheeler, whom he was satisfied were worthy of their confidence, and they would thm j show to the world that they were not I ungrateful for what the Republican party j hail done for them in the past. Lieut-Gov. Gleaves, read a letter from Prof. R. T. Greener, regretting that i 1 consequence of a prior engagement to speak at Winusboro' lie could not ad dress tbcm as announced. He ex] ressed his warui admiration ot the nomination of Ilayes and Wheeler. Major P. L. Wiggio, spoke of the p- r pose of the gathering on the hundredth anniversary of the declaration of independence to ratify the republican nouiina" tion, iir the tv.o highest positions within the gift of the people, and to express 1 their entire satisfaction that this choice liad fallen upon men in every respect so worthy to bear the standard of the great | republican party in this centennial can- 1 vass as Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, and William A. Wheeler, of New York, who were good and able men of unques- j tinned integrity and unimpeachable j' character: just such men as were needed I ' to unfurl and bear on to certain victory j that banner upon whose folds are in- j 1 scribed in burning letters, those precious and golden words " E |ua! rights to all " j ?" to all the equal protection of the 11 1. u. " 1 AilW He thought the selection of such a day !' ? " 1 for the ratification was most opportune as I ihe republican party had, for sixteen !1 years, striven to enforce and carry i 3 oct the grand idea that the fathers of! their country enunciated a century ago, J and its success was shown by the fact j that to day not a slave clank*: his tetters upou American soil. He thought the ticket was the very | ( best that could have been placed in the ! j Sold, it having thoroughly re-united the j. party, and the repulican party had uever j. opened a political canvass under mote . . favorable auspices than at present. All 1 that was required was to work aud win jC ! ( as there was victory in the air and ; triumph in the ticket. Lieut. Gov. G leaves, was next intro- I j d iced, and as a delegate to the Cineinna-! ^ ti convt ution, explained the workings of j that body, and hew Hayes was nouiina- ' a 1 - . 1 1 .1 x . _ 1T* 1 led, ana urge a upon uiem iu ui?o\v j nothing to stand in their way to prevent j 1 them coming to his support. They were i * not ashamed of their candidates and r kuew that nothing could be said to their j iLtriuicut, and the names of Hayes and j a Wheeler will swoop the country in No- ! v comber next that would give them good L'ovcrnmciit and protect thorn in their ^ rights to the ballot, lie then referred; to the war record of h'ov. Ilaycs, and mentioned' his patriotic reply to ? ;hoso who desired him to leave the army a o electioneer for Congress, " that any ' jian who would do so deserved to be j scalped. " ! B Hans. T. E. Nliller, S. Jones Bainp-j "l ield, Thus. II. Wheeler, and others also j cf idure.-seu the meeting, and the following si esolutions were unanimously adopted. rb Tin: Republicans of Beaufort once '"t irv.o assembled as the conservators of, ite :?ul !-,c we.i', and desirous oi coiuomratur; ?:i an appropri :to manner the ; -v .. . * 1 ? T 1 t .no.i.i ^4 viucr:;#ua Jii? Impendence. an 1 dedioatin_' itself anew to 111osc; .i!': !i-l principles Set. forth in I innnortia] declaration published to the world one liiindred years ago do de dares as follows ' First: We unanimously endorse t lie Cincinnati platform and the candidates placed thereon, and hail said nominations a- the messenger of continued peace and the presage of prosperity to our common country. Second : That the ptaing before the people of two such stanch patriots :s Hayes and Wheeler the Republican Fatty of the country thereby give renewed evidence of its determination to bring about at the earliest nraticable dnv a re sumption of specie payment as well as a strict fulfillment of pledges heretofore made to national creditors. Third : We heartily tender our thanks to our deligation to Cincinnati for their aid in giving us such invincible candidates as tho<e we hereby ratify and solemn]}* pledge ourselves to support. Ol'R WASHINGTON LETTER. Editor Standard <C* Commercial: I will hasten this time and send you my letter before the first of July, lest che United States mail be stopped for want ol sufficient appropriation by Congress. How would it suit the purposes of your journal and of its readers and the 14 miliioi s of people in tnis country to be without a mail? Vet such a disastrous occurence lies quite within the range-of probabilities, thanks to a Democratic majority in the House and its Democratic committee on appropriations wh ch holds the strings of the people's money-bag. For the sake of partisan ends and to entice the taxpayers into the sweet belief that their greatest aim, their most hoti. estpidicyis retrenchment,, the Democratic House has offered to our Republican Senate for concurrence such appropriation bills as will never suffice to carry on any portion of the executive busiuess of this great government. That the Senate cannot and will not assume the responsibility of crippling the military, naval, postal, financial, patent, pension, diplomatic and Indian service of'the United States, the people expect of that body ; moreover can the Senate, in whom the duty of the final examination and disposal of all bills coming from the House is vested, and which is consequently more directly responsible for its results?not dispose of such a large number of bills of such vast importance in the short time which has this year been alotted to it by the democrats of the House. Still the Senate worked night and day to bring about an adjustment between tiie two Houses but to no avail; the dciuo r.ts of the House decline o 'eld and in few hours the first day of the new fiscal year comes in and by the intention, miscalculation and fault of the Democat* the wheels of the government machinery may have to come to a temporary stop to the disgrace of this country in the eyes of the world. Another reason why Washmgton is all aglow with excitement is to be found in cue rourth ol Ju.y celebration which bids fair to take a prominent place among historical events on the record ol rhe nation's doings. All Washington will once more betake itself to Philadelphia where at old Independence Hall the two Houses of Congress will hold a short commemorative Session. Business in the government departments, and pro bablv almost all private establishment* will be suspended from the "first till the Oth of July. Your correspondent hopes to le on the spot and send you a graphic account of the proceedings there. What with the democratic convention it St. Louis, which lias just proclaimed the result of its excited labors?and what with the effect ot the Cincinnati Convention and the daily organizing of new Hayes and Wheeler Clubs?and what with a temperature of more than 9U decrees during the four days you may well imagine that our, at this season, usually juiet and deserted city is filled with all he heat creating agencies : witli cxciteucnt, 'expectation, patriotic feeling, and od-hot weather. A. II. G. The Fourth Aboard the Fleet. The nations cen tennial was honored in mr harbor by th e various ships on the Station, which, with their variegated Minting, as old Sol lazily showed his irow above the Eastern horizon, greeted lis majesty with 84 guns from America* ron-clads, proclaimed a nations' natal lay. The old Hartford, our Farragut's iwn. led the van. and with the first enn he old blue, at the main of the Hartford md New Hampshire, kissed the rosy ieht of early morn. At noon eightybur more peals from our cannons hert ilded the meridian of our centennial jirth and as day god's majesty dipped he western horizon, a peal of eightybur more guns greeted his departing ays. The grand finale was graced by avely woman's welcome presence, nd until the hours of night began to cane into midnight's depth, the light antastic toe caused all present to forget he dear ones left behind them. MARRIED. CIIUIETZBERC.?LLOYJ).?Married at tlie Tros yterian Church, Florence, S. C., by the Rev. Tames . Dun lop, on Monday evening, June 26th., A. shley Chrietzben*. to Julia, daughter of Cap!. E. *. Lloyd, formerly of Charleston, SC. PROBATE NOTICE." v Ridley K. Cari.etox, Esq., Pkouate Jcdgk \fliereas, Henry (i. .Tudd. Esq, hath made suit to me to grant hint letters of administration ' the derelict < statejiud effect* of Jas. E. Karris. These are therefore to cite and admonish all and ngiilar the kindred and creditors of the said is. E. Karris, deceased, that they be and appear, here me, in the Court of i'rohate, to l?e held at Iteau- i it, in said eonnly on the Sth day of July, next, i ter piiliHeation hereof, at 11 o'clock in the fore- : mhi, to mIomv , ause. it any they have, why the said t I in i ii is-t ration should not he granted. (liven itndci' mv hand, this 24th dr.v of June ' iino Domini, 1.-76. I ill I) LEY K. CAKLETOX. ' ^uIy.C-2 Probate Jud0-c. I I. S..MAIL.: ? I: SOUTH CAROLINA. p POST OFFICK DEPARTMENT, ") J Washington. I>. ('. r May 20th., 1876.) v PROPOSALS will be received at tin* Contract Of- ? lice of this Department until ;t o'clock p. ra. of w I 13th of July, lxTii, ito be decided by the 31st July,) d 1 for carrying the mails of the United States from Oc- h tol?cr 1st.. 1S7C, to June 3), 1830, on the following u routes in the State of South Carolina, and by the p | schedule of departures and arrivals herein specified | viz: r 11213.?From Charleston to Legareville, 20 miles a and back, once a week. a Leave Charleston Wednesday at 6'a. tu; Arrive at ]*egareville by 3 p. m; v Leave L.*gareville Thursday at 6 a. ni. Arrive at Charleston at 3 p". m. e Bond required w ith bid, $500. o 14216?From Graham's Cross Roads, by Singletary- a ville and Imliantown, to Carraway's 30 t miles and back, once a week. Leave Grahams Cro-s Roads Saturday at 7 ' a. m. c Arrive at Carrawav's at 6 p. nr, I.' ave Carrawav's Friday at 7 a. ni. Arrive at Graham's Cross Roads by 6 p. in. ' Bond required with bid, $400. \ 14217?From Nicliol's by Rage's Mills, Wanl's and t Alfonlsville, to Shoe Heel, N. C., 44 miles j. ami hack, onte a week. Leave Nichoi's Thursday at 6 a. m; s Arrive at Shoo Heel by 8 p. m; t 1/oave Shoe Heel Friday at Gum; t Arrive at Nichoi's by 8 p. m. Bond required with bid, 8500. 14218?From Greenville C. II., by Ashmore's, Ster- ' ling Grove, Cak Lawn, and Wilson's t Bridge, to Williamston, 25 miles and back, j once a week. Leave Greenville ('. H. Thursday at 8 a. m. Arrive at Williamston, by 5 p. in. 1 . L *ave Williamston Friday at 8 a. m. c Arrive at Greeuvilie C. H. by 4 p. m. ltond required with bid, 8300. 14210?From Edgefield C. H. to Abbeville C. II. 41 ^ miles and buck, once a week. Leave Edgefield C. II. Saturday at 6 a. ra Arrive at Abbeville C. II. by 7 p. tn, C Leave Abbeville C. II. Friday at 6 a. in. Arrive at Edgefield C. H. by 7 p. m. Ho ml required with bid, $500. 11220?From Woodrutft, by Barley wood, Enoree, and Tylersville, to Clinton, 27 miles and back, once a week. Leave Woodruffs Thursday at 8 a.m. Arrive at Clinton by 6 p. in. ( Leave Clinton Friday at 8 a.m. Arrive at Woodruffs by 6 p. m. Bond required with bid, 8300. Instructions to Bidders aid Post- r masters; ,J a Containing also conditions to be incoiporated in the contracts to the extent t the Department may deem a proper. c a The Postmaster General warns bidders and their a sureties to acquant themselves fully with the laws c of Cougress relatiug to contracts for the carrying of the mails, (the important provisions of wbieh are i cited herein,) and also to familiarize themselves I with the instructions and forms herein furnished- { before they shall assume any liabilities as such bid- * ders or sureties, and to prevent misapprehension or cause ol complaint thereafter, I Postmasters arc required to make themselves fa t miliar with the laws and these instructions that . they may be able to inform and direct others. < 1 Seven minutes are allowed to each intermediate I office, wheu not otherwise specified, for assorting the mails. t 2 On routes whore the modes of conveyance admits i of it, the special agent of the Post Office IX-partiucnt 1 also post office blanks mail bags, locks and keys are 1 to be conveyed without extra charge. ? 3. "Way bills" or receipts, prepared by postmasters or other agents of the Department, will accompany the mails, specifying the number and destina- i tion of the several liags, to be examined by the post- .? masters, to insure regularity iu the delivery of bags and pouches. f 4. No pay will In- made for trijw not performed- t and for each of such omissions, if the failure tie oc- t easioncd by the fault of the contractor or carrier t three linns the pay of the trip will be deducted. For > arrivals so far behind thin* as to-break connection ? with depending mails, and not sufficiently excused- r one fourth of the compensation for the trip is sub- n ject to forfeiture. For repeated delinquencies of ' the kind herein specified, enlarged penalties pro- / portioned to the nature thereof and the importance e of the mail, may be made. 5. For leaving !?ehind or throwing off the mails, t< or any portion of them, for the admission of pusscn- e gers, or for liciug concerned in setting up or run- i ning an express conveying intelligence in advance t< of the mail, a quarter's pay may be deducted. 6. Fines will l?e im;>oscd, unless the delinquency r bo promptly aud sati-factorily explained by ccrtifi- b eatcs of {Histmasters or the affidavits of other eredi- h ble pjrsons, for failing to arrive in contract time; si for neglecting to take the mail from, or deliver i; into, a post office; for suffering it to bo wet, injured- p destroyed, robbed, or lost; and for refusing after do- c< mand, to convey the mail as frequently as the con tracer runs, or is concerned iu running a coach e car, or steamboat on a route. w 7. The Postmaster General may annul the con- n tract for repeated failures to run agreeably to con- n tract; for assigning the contract; for violating the a post office laws, or disobeying the instructions of the Department; for refusing to discharge a carri- It er when required by the Department to do so; for S running au express as aforesaid; or for transport- l? ing pcr.-ons or packages conveying mailable matter out of the mail. The Postmaster General may order an increase ti of service on a route by allowing therefor a pro rata n increase on the contract pay. He may change schedules of departures and arrivals in all cases, and F particularly to make them conform to connections with railroads, without increase of pay, provided the running time be not abridged. The Postmaster General may also discontinue or curtail the service, in whole or in part, in order to place on the route superior service, or wheuever the public interests, in bis judgment, shall require such discontinuance ^ or curtailment for any other cause; he allowing, as ^ full indemnity to contractor, one month's extra pay on the amount of services dispensed with, and a pro ^ rata compensation for the amount of service retain- tj cd and continued. s; 9. l'a\ments will be made by collections from, or gl drafts on, postmasters or otherwise, after the expiration of each quarter?say in November, February, May and August, provided that required cvi- ^ dence of service has been received. 10. The distances given arc believed to be subit slant ially correct; but no increased pay will be al- gj lowed should tbev In- greater than advertised, if the o rt points to be supplied .are correctly stated. Bidders must inform themselves on this point, and also in reference to the weight of the mail, the condition of bills, roads, streams, Ac., ami all toll bridges, turn pikes, plank roads, ferries or obstructions of any kind, by which expense may be incurred. No claim for additional pay, based on such ground, can be consider*si; nor for alleged mistakes or misapprehension as to the degree of service; nor for bridges destroyed, ferries discontinued, or other obstructi()U.-*cauMiig or increasing distance or expense oc- ^ curritig during the contract term. Offices establish! cd after this advertisement is issued, and also dur- f'J tr ing the contract term, are to be ylsited without ex- ^ tra pay if the distance be not increased. 11. Bidders are cautioned to mail their proposals in time to reach the Department by the day and hour named in the advertisement, as bids received ! after that time trill uot be considered in competition ? with bids of reasonable amount received in time. H Neither can bids be considered which are without the Imiid, oath, and certificate required by section 2b">, act of June 23, 1874. 12. Bidders should first propose for service strictly according to the advertisement,and then, if they desire, up-irately for different sen-ice; and if the regular bid be the lowest offered for the advertised ' service, the other propositions may be considered. 13. There should be but one route bid for iu a proposal. Consolidated or combination bids ("proposing one sum for two or more routes"; cannot be J on considered. 14. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the 1 pr? name and residence of the bidder, (that is, his usual j t/c post office address) and the name of each memberof j 3 p a firm w here a company offers, should be distinctly I the stated. j '] l.j. Bidders are requested to use,as far aspractica- ; del ble, tlie'priute.l pro|?osals furnished by the Impart- | J incut, to write oui iu full the sum of their bid?, and 1 t>ra to retain copies of them. ma Hids altered in the route, the s tvIc.\ the yearly | ay, or the name of the bidder, by erasures or in- I rlimation?. -hould not be submitted; and if so ; ibmittcd will not be considered in awarding the j )ntracts. No withdrawal of a bid will l>callow.-d ! t rless the withdrawal is received twenty-four hours j 1 rcvious to the time fixed foropening the pr >p<?al*. t 16. In case of failure of the accepted bidder to ex- ! ji L-ute a contract, or of the abandonment of service b uring the contract term, the service will be re-ad- i ertlscd and re-let at the expense of the falling bid- ' i or or contractor, and any accepted bidder who shall j wrongfully refuse or fail to enter into coutract in a ue form, and to perform the service described in j is proposal, may be deemed guilty of a misdeme. - I >r, ami, on conviction thereof.be fined and itn- a risoned therefor. 1 17. The Postmaster General reserves the right to i eject any bid which may be deemed extravagant; < nd also to disregard the bids of failing contractors J nd bidders. No contract for carrying the mail shall be made " vith any per?ou who ha* entered or proposed to nter, into any combination to prevent the making 1 f any bid for carrying the mail, or who has made I iuy agreement, or given or performed, or promised ' ogive or perform, any consideration whatever to a nduco any other person not to bid for any such 1 on tract. s No bidder for carrying the mails shall be released 1 roin his obligation under his bid or proposal, not- 1 vithstauging an award made to a lower bidder, uo- < il a contract for the designated service shall have 1 >oen duly executed bv such lower bidder and bis 1 u re ties, and accepted, and the service entered upon. ] >y the contractor to the satisfaction of the Postnast^r General. By regulation of the Deportment, no carrier can * >e employed who is under'sixteen years of age; and 1 io bidder will be accented who is under twentv-one ' lauor, or iniug rotating to me man service, rncy 1 re the trusted agents of the Department, and > mnot consistently act in both capacities. > 2G. In case the route is not supplied with pouches icks, and keys, requisition must be made upon the ' L-cond Assistant Postmaster General for the same cfore the date of beginning service. I -Proposals altered by erasures or interlines- a ons of the route, the service, the yearly pay, or the h ami of the bidder, will not be considered. " n ORM OF PROPOSAL, BOND, AND CERTIFI- P CATE. ? Proposal. The undersigned , whose post office * idrcss is , county of , State of , propos> to carry the mails of the United States, from Oc?bcr 1,1S7G, to June 30,18 , on route No. ?, ptweeu ?? and , State of ?, under the = lvcrtisement of the Postmaster General, dated May ), 1876, "with celerity, certainty, and security," for je annual sum of dollars; and if this propoil is accepted he will enter into contract, with iretiea to lie approved by the Postmaster General, 1 ithin the tiiue prescribed in said advertisement. This proposal is made with full knowledge of the ditnce of the route, the weight of the mail to be carried, t1 id all other particulars ?? reference to the route and J nice; and aim after careful examination of the laws xd instructions attached to adcertiscmcnt of mail p.r- ^ ce. Dated , Bidder. alh required by section 245 of a* art of Congress approved June 23, 1874, to be affixed to each bid for carrying the ma it, and to be taken before an officer I qualified to administer oaths. ' I . of , bidder for carrying the ail on route No. , from to , do swear at I have the ability, pecuniarily' to fulfill niy ligation as such bidder; that the bid is made in m <m1 faith, and with the intention to enter into conact and perform the service in case said bid shall : accepted. |( as Sworn to and subscribed before me, ? for the of , this day of ?, A. D. 187 , and iutcstimony whereof [seal.] J* hereunto subscribe my name and affix my kial seal the day and year aforesaid. g* su J! wl m Note.?When the oath is taken before a justice Of rj e peace, or any other officer not using a seal, ex- 41 pt a judge of a United States court, the certificate ^ tbe clerk of a court of record must be added, unr his seal of office, that the person who admi the oath is duly qualified as such officer. nil Bid* muitbe aecompaniedhyacertijicdcheck,ordraf Pi some solvent national bank, payable to the order of Pout ma iter Gene;al, r fatal to 5 per centum on the > sent annual pay'on the route, when the present pay gh red* So,000; or in case of new terrier, not less than m er centum oj the amount of the bond accompanying bid, if fu'd bond eicee<U $5,000. ' ha riie proposal must be signed by tbe bidder or bid- 'w >, aud the date of siguiug allied, J direct to the "Second Assistant Postmaster Genii Postotlice Department, Washington, D. fI irked "proposals State of South Carciin-.' 1u oars of age, or who is a married woman. 18. The bid should be seabed, superscribed "Mail Proposals, State of South Carolina," address^ "Secind Assistant Postmaster General, Contract OfBce.'i 19. Every proposal must be accompanied by a bond rith two or more sureties approved by i postmaster, and in eases where the amount if the bond exceeds five thousand dolars ($.>,000) by a postmaster of the first, second ' >r thinl class. Bids for service, the pay for which it the time of the advertisement exceeds five thouand dollars, ($5,000,) must be accompanied by a certified check, or draft, payable to the older of the 'ostmaster General, oo some solvent national bank if not less than Gve per centum on the amount of he annual pay on such route, and in caae of new >r modified service, not leas than five per centum of he amount of tbo bond accompanying the bid, if he amount of said hood exceeds ($3,000) five thouand dollars. The amount of bond required with bids, and the >resent pay when it exceeds ($5,000) five thousand [ollars, arc stated in the advertisement under the ippropriate route. Sureties on the bond of a bidder must take an iath before an officer qualified to administer oaths hat they are the owners of real estate worth, in the iggregate, a sum double the amount of said bond, ivcr and above all debts due and owing by them^ uid all judgments, mortgages, and executions igainst them, after allowing all exemptions of every iharacter whatever. 20. All checks deposited with bids will be held intil contract is executed and the terrier commenced >y the accepted bidder. Check* will (hen be returned >y until, on the written request of the bidder, or defirer d to any one oh hit order. 21. The contracts are to be executed and returned to the Department by or be/ore the 'lath day of September, 1876 dherwite the accepted bidder will be considered as horny failed, and the Postmaster General may proceed to ontraetfor the service with other parties, according to dv. i Assignments of contract*, or of interest in conracts, are forbidden by law, aud consequently can* tot be allowed. Neither can bids, or interest in >ids, be transferred or assigned to other parties. Itiddcrs will therefore take notice that they will bo xpeeled to perform the service awarded to them hrough he whole contract term. 22. Section 249 of the act of June 8, 1872, provide hat contracts for the transportation of the rnai ihall be "awarded to tbo lowest oiddor tendering ufficiont guarantees for faithful performance, wiih>ut other reference to the mode of such transportaion than may be necessary to provide for the due derity, certainty, and security thereof." Under his law bids that prjpose to transport Ihe nulls ( vith "celerity, certainty, and security," having been tecided to be. the oidy legal bills, are construed as providing for the entire mail, however large, an-l whatever nay be the nxc-h oj conveyance necessary to insure its 'celerity, certainty, and security," and have the pretrencc orer all otters, and no others are considered, xcept lor steam boat routes. 23. A modification of a bid in any of its essential erms is tantamount to a new bid, aud caunot be recited so as to iuleifcrc with regular competition, faking a new bid iu proper form is the only way a modify a previous one. 21. l'ostmastcrs are cautioned under penalty ornoval. not to sign the approval of the uondof any idder before the bond is signed by the bidder aud is sureties, aud not un entirely a is led of th0 iifficieney of the aureti t. ( No postmaster, assistaut postmaster, or clerk em f loycd in any post office, shall be a contractor or * uiictrned in a contract for carrying the mail. i 25. Postmasters are also liable to dismissal froni * ffice for acting as a.'cnts of contractors or bidders, ith or without compensation, in any business, ' I a BOND. Directiont. Mi Insert the ouuenoftbe principal and surcie* in full in th-i lrtxly of tho bond; ai?o tbo date 'he signatures of the bond should be witnessed, and he certificate on the inside should l>e signed by a nstlce of the peace, adding his official title, or if ign-d by a Notary Public, he should affix his seal. Know all men by these presents that , of n the Stite o! , principal, and and of , in the State ?.f , as sureties ire held and firmly hound unto the United States of America i i the just and fall suiu of dollars awf.il money of the United State*, to be paid to t h aid United Mates of America or its duly appointed >r authorised officer or officers; to the payment of rhk'k traly to he made and ^>oc vc bind ourselves iur heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and everally, irmly by these present. Scaled vith our seals, and datid this day of .187 . Whereas, by an act of Congicsi approved June27* 1874, entitled "An Act making appropriations for be service of the Post Office repast urn t for theiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred md seventy-five, and for other purposes," it is pn>rided: "that every proposal for carrying the mail iball bo accompanied by the lend of the bidder, rith sureties approved by a postmaster," in purunin ce whereof, and in compliance with the provlsiocs >f said law, this bond is made and executed, subject lo all the terms, conditions, and remedies thereon In the said act provided and pre-?cribed, to accomps 1 ay the aforegoing and annexed proposal of the said Now, the condition of the mid obligation is auebt that if the said , bidder aa aforesaid, ihall, within such time after his bid is accepted a* the Postmaster General has prescribed in said adrertisqgient, enter into a contract with the United States of America, with good and sufficient sureties to be approved by the Postmaster General, to perform thw service proposed in hit said bid, and fur tm-r?nau perioral saiu service acconlltig to tils contract: then this obligation sha.l be void, otherwise to be in fall force and obligation in law. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our tiands and scats this day of ?, 187 . , [SEAL.] . [SEAL.], . (SEAL.) , [SEAL.] SVitnesr ?? . Any alteration by erasure or interlineation of I material part of the foregoing buud will cause it to be rejected, unless it appears by a note or memorandum, attested by the witnesses, that the altera-. lion was made before the toad was signed and lealcd. When partners are parties to tbe bond the partnership nam? should not be used, but each partner ihould sign his indiridaal na.ne. STATE OF 1 :OL MTT Or ) On this day of , 187. , personally appeared before roe ? ami v lurcties in tbe aforegoing bond, to roe koown to he the persons named in said bond as sureties, and who bare executed the same as such, who being by mo duly sworn, depots ami says, be bos executed the within bond, that his place cf reside ace Is correctly stated therein, that he is th>: owner of real estate worth the sum hereinafter set again**, his name orr and above all debts due and owing by him, and all judgments, mortgages, and executions against him, after allowing all exem ptions of every character wbstcrer, the total sum *.hus assured amounting to (| ) dollars, bring double the amount of the foregoing boml. 1 1 Subscribed and sworn bet Ore me this ??day of ,187 . ??? ' ' Note.?When tbe above oath is taken before a justice of the peace or any other officer not using a seal, except a Judge of a U. S. Court, tbe certificate of a clerk of a court of record must be added, under his seai of office, that the person who aituiinisierod the oath is duly qualified x? ?u .h officer. STATE OF ) * f* COCXTY OF -J I ....... ehrk of tbe , the tame being a Court of itecwrd, do hereby certify that ...., whose g-nuine signature appears to the foreguiu^ affilnvit, w. a. at the tiias ?f dgniug the sauie, a justice of the peace iu and for the County and Slate aforesaid, duly quaiifi d, and that ail his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit. In tcstimouy whereof, I hare hereunto set my land as clerk, and affixed tbe seal of said cou.-t, eu his ......... day of .. 187 . [L.S.J ..?Clerk. CFHTIFICATE OF POSTMASTER I, the undersigned, poet-uaster at State if _, after the exercise of due diligence to in'orm myself of the pecuniary ability and reapoasi. diity of tbe principal and bis sureties in tbe aforegoing bond, and of tbe uuiucumbered real estate jwned by them, respectively, do hereby approve aid bond and certify that tbe said sureties are suficient?sufficient in my belief to insure the payuent of double tlie entire amount of tbe sail bond ; tnd I do further certify tint the said bond was duly ilgned by_ .?.?, bidder and ........... , and his sureties, before igning this,certificate. ? TWaxirfer. )ated 187 . For forms of proposals, bond and certificate, and Iso for instructions as to the conditions to be emraced in tbe contract, Ac., see advertisement of his date in pamphlet form inviting proposals for nail service in Maine, to he found at the terminal est offices of tbe above routes, and to bo bud so ppllcatioo to tbe Second Assistant P. >1. General. Bids i boa Id be sent in seated envelopes, superciibel: uMail Proposals, State of 8outh Carolina,' nd addressed to the Scccud Assistant Postmaster ienend. MARSHALL JEWELL, Pot vatier Gconoi. OBXTXLN^XaXu EXCURSION TICKETS, 'ICKETS FOR~?PHILADELPHIA . to the Centennial Exhibition and ream, can be purchased at Port Royal or Jeaufort, by twelTe different routes, ood for sixty days for $42.50. P. Hamilton, Ticket Ag t P. R. R. K. Offirial Itotifts. IS S ESS ME NTFORI87T * OFFICf: COUNTY AUDITOR. Beaufort, S. Cn May 22,1S76. The assessment for the fiscal year 197C will con* icnce ou I THE FIRST DA Y OF JUNE. id continue until the Stithday of July next. The isewment will be for PERSONAL PROPERTY ONL Y. it those failing to assess lands last year, or rlM ive sold or purchased lands ?.uco the last a?eaa. ent will note said change* on tbeir returns, toil her with any chances that may bare taken place the boundaries of tbeir lands, consequent on ch sale or purchase, with a statement as to hether said lands so sold or purchased is plow, eadow, or wood land. This statement is neeessa in erery case where lands hare changed hands, id will save taxpayers much trouble. as well as nduce to the correctness of the official record, and eatly facilitate the the payment of taxes. | EACH L.4XD 0W.\ER. u*t answer the questions on the returns as to his wt-office, in a legible hand. a? this wil render corspondence between this otfiee and taxpayers ea?y senever Inquiries are ne< cs-nry. ' The boundaries of even tract ? f land most be ren this office (where the saine has not already en furnished.) so that the Auditor may know the A act locality of every piece of land in the county^ In making returns great care must he taken to" ve Ihem eorrvet. as errors in returns invariably j hen not discovered In this office) get on the Tax J iplieale; often proving expensive to taxpayers, as 1 *11 as troublesome to the Auditor. B l urilu-r notice will be given in due time. m L. S. LANfiLEY. 1 Coauty Auditor v I