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.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
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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.
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Hie bill proposiug to equalize bounties
which we meuii nod last week as havin
passed the House and been sent to the
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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."
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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 !
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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 .?
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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.
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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 !'
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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
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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
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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.
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I. S..MAIL.:
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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
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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