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* ? " ' ' ^-1 - - JL. l Uir?,nrJ fe Jsurtutl \V. I). TBAKTHAM, Editor, CAMDEN, S. 0., OCTOBER 80, 1877. ? ? === Tho Taxes. Comptroller-General Hagood lias ex* tended the time for ll.e payment of the Slate and county taxc*. without penalty, , to"November 15th. This will be welcome ncwi to thousands of tax payers. C -.radon's Opportunity. ^ Just previous to the war, the subject ?f a Railroad froai Camden to Lancaster, and thence to some other point, was pretty fully <. iscusscd; uud had not that unhappy conflict come on, it is probable that tan people of tU up country would now enjoy couimuuieatioa by rail with the outside world. "What ka 1 theu well nigh blown into a lane has since been nearly extinguished ; but, from the uaturw of things, the inbject cauuot be h?ot sight of. Many of the men, who were foremost in the movement with their means and ^od will, have pi-ied away, and it is Ml for the coming generation to be advised aud urgsd to embark in an enterprise which canr.ot but result in lasting benefit to the whole of Kershaw and Lancaster counties. Everything must have a beginning. Nothing will ever be accomplished, unless something is attempted. The people oFChestcr, with an rye to their interests, are pushing to completion the Chester aul Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, which will afford an outlet for the most productive regiou of North Carolina. The intelligent men of Lancaster having long felt the netd of a Railroad, and being determined to impiovc the opportunity, are exerting themselves to have the Chester aud Lenoir Railroad extended to their village. And, while this is going on to the north of us, our neighbors on the coast are not merely idle spectators. The people of tGeorgetown, Williamsburg, Clarendon and Sumter counties arc booming aroused to tha importance of constructing a narrow gauge road from Georgetown, whose port is superior to that of Chaileston, to Chester or Lancaster by the way of cumtcr and Camden. Indeed, it is said that work upon the lower end of the road can be commenced on the first of January, 1878. Experience lias demonstrated that the narrow gauge road is the most advantageous for mountainous or rolling districts, where speed is made subordinate to other requiicments; and tnat the cost of construction is greatly in its favor fixing the cost at $S,00(Tper mile, which is a high estimate, less than a quarter of a million of dollars would be required to bu:ld the road from the Sumter to tho Lancaster lino. This amount could be raised by our people without very great inconvenience.? ^ JJuild this rori, and no one can com i p*? Uto good that will rssult there^ fiwa. Compctitioa with the South ti?*a?iaa Railroad being established, wo weuld be able to ship our cottou and receive in return our freights at lower rates: Kershaw and Lancaster would soon become banner countios ; and Camden would resume tho position which she formerly held as one of the princi. pal towns in the State, a?<l io which she It justly entitled on account of her history and geographical position. It is hat left to the pooj le of Camden and Kershaw county toplaccthomsclve* in an attitude of encouragement towards this enterprise. If vre improre not this opportunity, Camden will never grow bc-| yond her present proportions, while the people of the up-country will, for many generations to come, he compelled to labor under many of their present disadvantages. ... Pur.siDX.nt IIavku finds some difficulty in keeping on good terms with his party. Iiis Southern policy is distasteful to many extreme Radicals, while his general order forbidding that Federal Ijffico holders thai],participate iu politiHPh|^ivc<gdmost universal dissatispart leaders. But Mr. tim? vindicate course. ^^HH^^^Rjrookednesa. from the Columbia the Charleston -Veir? an exhibition in.which the affairs of ^^^^^Punty wcro'conductcd during met ion period: Ti' n l it. ^^^ fomittcc to investigsTelfie mocntitichlmi J county reported to the the report heing Incorporate'! ^^Presentment of the Gram! Jury. The HHftec timl. in substance, that the ad^HPratinn /if aaiihIu i> ft'n I i>a ?, w thn nnol es extravagance. rendered, the (lie Also the commissioners, the commissioners ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Vrecommendcd the charge be disallowed H^H^^^H:::i'l The alleged overcharge is about $12,600, and the legal penalty is so overcharged. county indebtedness r.ow estimated at $30,000. report ill" acted upon, reduce Strikes among the laboring classes arc now heard of iu England. So such i disord ts are not [eculiar to American l 'N^ A i The One Thing: Needful. All that is needed to build up the waste places of our S'a'e and inake our j people prosperous sud happy as once tliey were, is enterprise. Nature has done a? much for South Carolina as for the same area to bo found anywhere upon the globe. Though the utmost exertions were put forth in their development, her resources would be still inexhaustible. Hut., while this is true, it furnishes us no excuse for tho want of enterprise which characterizes the prevent generation. On the contrary, the fact of being thus endowed should serve as a stimulus to action?as an inducement to higher achievements The great barrier to our prosperity is the general apathy ou the part of our people, who seem content to trudge along iu the same old beaten tracks, to move in the same old grooves, in which their ancestors trudged and moved, and for uo olh?r reason than that their ancestors did so. From our standpoint, the man who plowed with a forked stick was wise. He did the best that he could uuder the circumstances. All will admit the vastness of our resources, thn nhlbratinn to irjDrove thcin, "uu *"v "" a ? ? r anil yet evinc? no disposition to take the initiative in any movement looking to that end. It wouid be no easy matter to find an area ot from one to three th )u-and square tniles more richly fa* vored in every respect l?y Providence, and yet whose inhabituuts enjoy in so small a dogicj thos: blessings, as that portion of Fouth Carolina which lies east of the Watcrcc rivt r and mWh of a line drawn from Camden to Chernw. The soil i9 varied and fertile, the climate genial and favoring, sites lor mills aud factories numerous, lumber of every desjription abundant, and the people honest and indastrious; but there arc no signs of progress. For the hist half contury the planters have raised tremendous crops of cotton, hauled the same from twenty to fifty miles to market, sold it for fair prices, bought tbeir supplies, and, after an absence of perhaps a week, returned home short of fundi). And though such is the ca.<e at the close of every year, and tbey nc. knowledge that it is fo, they turn right around and do the some thing over again?bicau?c limy lack the enterprise to lift th<m out of the old ruts, and to suggest a new and and lc9s expensive plan to them.' All will admit the folly of such a policy, but hardly a man can be found of onough boldness and origir.ality to institute anything of a practical und novel character. And what is said against those who make the growing of cotton a specialty may be ur^cd with equal propriety againtt nearly all others. We arc pursuaded that our people arc thoroughly tirqd or this treadmill way of doing tilings, and that they would gladly embark in any reasonable undertaking looking to their material Improvement. They need to Le moused to a just appreciation of their Interests. i Georgetown Moving. At a meeting of the citirons of Georgetown County, held ou the 22ud inst. for the purpose of ascertaining their views in tefcrenco to lending tho credit of the town and county to the construction of a railroad from Georgetown to Cluster or Lancaster, S. C., resolutions were adopted pledging the county for $100,000 and the town for $50,000 for the construction of their cud of the road. It was further understood that the ad. ditional sum of $50,000 could be raised with ease by private subscription. IIoo. Richard Dozicr addressed the meeting at length, explaining how the road must pay, and [ roving conclusively that ?othing but a railroad can or will ever build up Georgetown. lie said there was enough material lying along the route of the proposed road to insuro the pecuniary success of the enterprise, und cited instances whoro narrow gauge roads have proved paying investments kxAAfl ?>nii/le M H I V UVff UIU UIUUVI H'UUJ, i'l A'I'd* HI also demonstrated that the contemplated road would, in the course of two years, be able to meet the interest on its bonds, and accumulate yearly a sinking fund with which to pay off the bands?so that the peoplo wouhl not. have to he taxed for a longer period than two years to pay the interest upon the bonds that may bo issued. A Central Committee of nine, to co-operate with similar c m-., mittces iVom other counties, and nn cx" tra committee of twenty, to prcsouUjOTr subject to the people of. Gtcfftrown county, were appointed*.* In speaking editorially of tho meeting and its work, the Ceergctown Comet says: Now that the credit of the town and connty liutf heen pledged lor ?oO,OOOnud JllKl,tiuO respectively, nnd now that an able nud enthusiastic committee bus been elocted, j nothing else remains to lie done, save to build our end of the road. Of course, we will have lo gel (lie sanelion of the legislature, but that is a mailer of minor importance. The idea now is to go ahead mid rush the thing through, gaining momentum ami velocity at every slop, liml this town and county been able to have built a railroad such as the proposed one, by private subscription, not even then would we have favored that mode of constructing it. We arc well aware of the fact l lint dollars make the best wheels upon l which to roll auy enterprise along, but we I ire uot two oblivious to tho fact that a J i r*4 if ,,, railroad controlled by private individuals would be conducted with nn eye single to the irteves' ??r those individuals; aye, even | it" it warred directly against the welfare of the country at large. Wc want (if you j will allow in; to coin a compound adjective) a pro Lj.ki pu'.Uc"> railroad ?a j copies' railroad, and uut one controlled by gentlemen of a clique. /Editorial Items. JunfiE Kershaw was holding Court 1 io Wiunsboro' Ia?t week. I Judge H. ]J. Carpenter 1ms resumed the practice of law iu Columbia. IIo.v. John J. Maker is announced i a.s a candidate for re election to the Cir? cuit beneli. A RILL rep' alir.g tlio bankrupt law | has hoen introduced in the U. S- .Senate ! by ^Ir. McCreary, of Kentucky. Tikcucalyptns trees planted at Nice havo sjmiventcd, during the last two ycarffthc malarial fevers usual in that c;ty. aIid now both oh! Simon Cameron and General (J rant are spoken of in connection with the English missi-m. A change iu the law, in regard to the election of President and Vice-President of the United States is probable. Tuck Liils have been found by the grand jury of llichland against Con. irressman Smalls for brilmrv. and L C. O " ? v Carpenter for forgery. The Triennial Convention of the Er>isc->pal Church, whiuh had he n in session several weeks in Boston, ad' jou.-ued.on b.-t 'Ihursday. TifK latest news from the seat of war is favorable to the BusMuns. It in not improbable that Plevna will fall at an early day. Mr. Tilden, ex-Secretary of State Bigelow, and Congressman Hewitt, wife and daughter, arrived recently in Xew York from Europe ou the steamer Soy thin. TnE great two and a half mile race over the Pamlico course near Baltimore, bstween Ton Brooch, Tom iQehiltrci and l'arolc, was, contrary to , expectation, won by the last named Senator Morton still lives, hut cans'. . not, it is thought, ever resume his seat in tlm ^<^n lln Tf iw nntorctimil the Senator lies abated in some degree! hisiiatrcd of ilio Southern people, and ho now endorses Hayes' policy of recon. ciliation. No Itss than fifty witnesses, all exmembers of the Ovneral Assembly, have testified before the Investigating n o . pomu.illee to the fact of having been ; bribed by Patterson to vote for him for' United States Senator. The evidence? # is overwhelming, and Honest John will 1 certainly go to the penitentiary 3ooncr or later. It is understood that a joint resolu. ] tion, declaring that, with ono or two; exceptions, the Circuit Judgeships are I vacant?the incumbents having been < elected run tore, whereas, the constitu- ' lion expressly stipulates that the elec- i lion ahull Le by a joint luf/ut of both ( houses of the (jcnorit! Assembly?and } providing fur an election r.3 prescribed by the constitution, to fill such vacan- i eics, will be pn sen ted wben the Levis'1 laturc shall meet again. I An noncet Confession. Professor Seelye, recently a llepubli-1 can member of Congress from Muhw- | chusctts, now Proddehtof Atnbcrst col"! lege, and one eft lie timet distinguished | scholars and statctmen of tho Union.; made a telling s.pci eh at a Haves rntifi* I cation meeting, held at llolyokcon the' night of the ll'th. Approving of the j President's dealing with the South and i treating of the Southern question g^n-1 cral.'y, ho u*ed those memorable words:! ' On this question the Republican i party has made a prodigious mi-stake ! front the end of the war. We carried J on the war on the ground that the j Southern State* were ?:i integral part of the Union. When the war closed wo j abandoned this high plan for exactly! the opp' site grottn l. We said those : States had committed suicide?the; States whose citizens wo had been fight- ; ing to prove tho Union indivisible. If, we wore light in treating ilie Southern rebellion as a rebellion, then when the rebels trcfo conquered, their States had as much right to representation in the national Congress and all the privileges of goxcrnment as ever. Had this policy J beentaken, we should have escaped , the Jfcnd ers and crimes which have | tnadp reconstruction painful and peril-) ou^PV/e remanded thiso states to a J tejw^nri.il condition and tent them mil-' jtii'ry Governors. We could hardly! Jnivo devised a better way to keep up i *itrcd and increase hostility." It 5:t? tei*. C1IIOICE Goshen Butter, f<>r pale low hy I ) 15AU.M HUMS. Soap, Soap. pf/h BOX IIS Soup for sale low t?v JW BAU.MIJUOS. j Feed and sale stables'. Every convenience on the spot. Always put up at a it mSTitox (; 's ro >j m o dioms STAl.LlvS on DeKulli Street, flood pump well on; premises. Animals well fed and properly [ cared for by accomplished hostlers. j PRICES VKlil'MOPKllATKHorses and mules always on hand nnd j for sale cheap. Jioii't forget (lie place. j j. A. ARMSTRONG. #3^ Bal tics indebted to me are request to be prompt in making seMlciuent. Collcclions must he mudo or I shall be compelled lo adopt severe measures. /? you Buy (he lie.**! ! . BOOTS AX BOOTS AX BOOTS AX HATS AND HATS AND HATS AND I I Gents,' X^iivnij Gents.' JK'uriii# Iftenis/ 4 A s W. Xj. .AIR W Xi. AIR W. L. A!R I j J. J. 31 y* BEF< Purchasi ng ELSKW You ojtn Hiivo { Buyiug* it he iia ISS1SS thnt lias evsr been brought to Cnroilen. CHEAP IS TII11EADBAI I ft'ILL Til LR mm I MY s: DRY GOODS, HA JL$ Arc Hqtml it to any I have ever ha<l to offer. ALL Or WIIICI AS CHEAP AS THEY CA1T Tli# Stock hae been uiosteArcfuIlv svl-cto-I, Robe; $100 WORTH 0 TO TBI3 At Astonishin CONSIST] Dry Goons, Clothing, Iliils, Shoes, Hardware, Saddles, Hanie; Groceries, Ties. We Siill Pay Above Mai Bi \ j , I CAN / asul Choapcsi 1> SHOES, I) SHOES, D SHOES, CLOTHING, CLOTHING, CLOTHING, atfii ng (floods, 1 in g; Good?, ^lilsag GOOCIQ, T ;THUR7S /TZBCTTIR/S .THUB:S. Ls OjST l. O K .A, V Furniture IIKiii, SO per Cent, by <(>111 Ilim. S THE 1 & T 0 a K oc'.-i?Sm. 0 o< >:i js a 8UBJECT : only announce rocic op CLOTHING, TS, skoss idOt Saperio!' 1 I WILL Slfl.L BE F0U1TD ANYWHERE* and tin inspection is solicited. j tarr fr n re jji. iienneay. !,0G0 SOIxD isf Low Prices: Nli OF vS, Bogging, I lu t Price for Cotton. | AUM BROS. CAMDEN MAM Dry Goods and DEPOT One of the Largest In IS KEPT ttY I leg to call attention to my large and varied new ready for the Fall and Wintei SILKS, DRESS GOODS, SHA I {.'asiiiiiicres, Douu'sUcn, Blankets, Lnces, Hosiery, Glov And a full lino of LADIES' TJLTDEI No effort has been wanting on my part this S most atraclive, and beyond do The Cheapest Ever Control I beg to call the attention of the Ladies to the ported Corsets: The HELENA at The BiANCA at The SENSATION at The IMPERIAL at The OOO at Since my introduction of these Corsets and p to 3oll them. KID GLOVES AT 5< My Stock of DOMESTIC GOODS is com BLEACHED AT C1-4 CENTS ; a BETTE1 the Loom at 10 Cents, and all other brands of and COLORED COTTON GOODS proportion! Clothing, Clothing, For Mcr:, Youths, Boys and Children. My Stock is the largest and most convenient in C: planished. Men's Suits From $4.00 Upw Cassimerc Suits From $3.00 l In this line particularly I can show the large.' sizes, and at the LOWEST PRICES that have den. 100 Dozen Men's, Youths', Boys' a : HATS, HATS, I , So much reduced in price that my customc Low Price that is Here asli > Boots? BQC To fit an?l suit everybody. $10,000 worth ol ferou for talc by me at prices that defy competi market. Gents' Furnishing One Hundred Dozen Undershirts, from a poor for a T") cents Undershirt, the quality of which i WHITE SHIRTS?tbe celebrated Unkund your special attention to these. A GOOD SHIRT, ALL MADE, AT A LETTER SHIRT, ALL MACE. A THE BEST SIIIRT, UIs EQUALED,. A Full Line of Ties, Cravats, Bows, of the GENTS' HOSIERY AND And a full line of VNDERtt CARPETS, CARPETS, RION, RlfiS, RU WINDOW SHADES, WINDC A full line of TABLE OIL CLOTHS, in \Y< Black, in Muslin. Drill and Duck, for Carriage '1 the largest store, the largest store, the largest store, the largest stock the largest sto< the Largest s'i Call and fee the ail vantages offered at my eati you cannot lind, I will not press you to buy. H. 13 oct 2 Mf / * < # ; J MOTH Clothing i a the State, \ DH. I slock of DRY GOODS, rlVade! WLSj CLOAKS, Flannels, Quills, os, Corsets, JWE AB. eason to make the stock led in Camden. following brands of Im* 81.OO 1.25 1.5? 2.00 2.5? rices, I need oul^to skoir 3 CENTS! pletc in every line. 4*1 I CLOTH than Fruit of BROWN, BLEACHED itely cheap. Clothing. new Department for th's mi Jen, and constantly re-ards, Upwards. t assortment in styles and ever been known in Caiu? tnd Children's IXA.TS. rs often wonder at tbo cd for a Hat. 89 rre, Boots. * Shoes and Boots arc oftion in tLis or any other Goods. ' ' to the best make. Call irtll be astounding to you, ried Shirt?I would cad V pj 75 T 1 00 AT 1 25 ,,y Newest Make, GLOVES, "EAR. _ (JAKPEToj GM, )W SHADES, >od an 1 Figured; Abo 'riiniuings. IX CAMDEN, IX CAMDEX, IN CAMDEX, iblislimci.t, and if snob, ARUCH. H