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(Tra>s:e.\t Hoard, $2.00 reb day.) & mplc accommodations. Tables supplied willi the best the Market* afford. Every attention paid to :he comfort of Guests. I "OriTt'i innected with the house is a lirst class Itur, which is located separately from the house, and orderly kept. mveyances supplied to guests on liberal terms, either for citv or country use. fel/t ly S. It. LATHAM, I'loprietor. T^ATTnlh House. BY A. S. ItODGKKS. Most Centrally Located Hotel in Town Terms M\5 P<?r Day. ! Commercial Travelers will have every attention pn:d to their cno for'. and he fur nishcl with SA.Ml'1,11 l'.DOMS 111 this , House: ami persons visiting t'uiruleu will fin I it a <|ttiet ami pleasant horse. Special rules ma le lor jariies traveling together, an'! for 1I103P who wish to stay ? week or more. In (Miineetion with the h >use i* a first ciass MVI1KY STARLK, where horses .ami vehicles ctin he had at t; 11 times for town or country use, at tue tiiosl reasonable rates. Conveyances to ami from the ^ depot nt i very train. tleclHli Candy, (anil,v. m tlOXKS assorted Candv for sale bv i'9 HA(".V BROS. * HccmI OalN. > g /WWA Bushel* Rust Proof Seed O.ata I. IfVW IVr ?al? by IfAt.M I k VOLUME XXXVI. A IMkETEHK* (iRAVK. BY BoBttilT UCCHIN.S. I'mler licr gentle seeing. In her delicate link* !i?n l. They placed the IJook of 1' itig To read and understand. The Book was mighty and olden. Yea. worn and eaten with age: {'hough the letters looked great and golden, She could not read u page. Tii?* letters fluttered before her. And all looked sweetly wild : Death saw her, and Ircnt o*' r her. As she pouted her lips and smiled. And weary a little with tracing The Ijix.k. she looked aside. Ami lightly smiling, ami plac ng A flower in i's leaves, site died. ONLY A DAISY. I purple to relate an incident in the biography of honest Ned Smith, tin highly respectable banker, who married u:y cousin Jane, the last time he was a widower. 'J he worthy gentleman told it t<? me himself, after n hunt dinner at Combe, d.i\rn at his place in the country; and I went away early on the following day with increased veneration for our young princes and our old institution^ I forget the precise language in which Smith related the adventure, I merely remember the sense he convv\c d, and some of the nice h.-rsoy tern s which lent grace to his narrative. It is r ally a capital worM to live in if one knows how to get on in if, and is earclul to t to ? fiend tin* dec tit pr-jn-Jicitof society? good useful prejudices they are too, by jiugo. it was midwinter when I paid tin last visit to Smith, who is a deputy lieutennut a magistrate of his county?a capi'al hunting county by the way. and C ..Ilk il? nil let1 t silfi.lt hilt that I* nothing to the purpose. He had got, I firmly belt -ve about ihn-o bottles ol burgundy on board when he began to talk of Wvuicn. and lie thus related to inc, with infinite complacency, the story of u trumpery little gitl whom he appeared to hav<- known in his youth. Tim.", or to this r fiber. sj> ike our mutual friend : "She was"?said Smith, thickly, and with a moist side-glance at a decanter? "an insignificant little thing who had no relatives wh' in site could count upon, j though she had goodish antecedents^'br I all wo know to the contrary, up at the hall. The parson of the parish, though he buried hiu self amongst (J re. k roots every day but Sundry, used to say. when lie talk- d in an ah-cut uinnn r about his flock, thiit she supported lor grandac. thcr, and very likely sln-d d 'I li?? gill trail a natural instinct U r making herself useful, and seemed to p s-uss fury fingers. She took In r work much more cheerfully than my pony, who had p rhap.?, however, rather too muih of it, especially after my attention had been caught by Lucy llawk. It was a str.mgc name for the girl, and no one knew clearly how she came by it. Her grand mother's name was Lclhbridgo, and tinstones at out the countryside would have it that she came of a stock who had long ago owned all the lani \ c could see from the highest of the haft viudows, and that was more land than w?- had ; for Lord Fitzursc's proper! j cut s'raight into our best grass farm mar Fallow field Mills. All we knew of the girl ' down at our village of !lar.Lbrook was that about fifteen y< a is before Kate Lcthbridgc, who liad, 1 fancy, gone >r*.x,,.r nn In.in,i nirnii, with a child " i""rJ 1HU,V ,,,v *>' in her arms. aud said it it u.-t be called Lucy llawkc. She did not say many words more, for she vrn-i quite broken down, our whipper-in told mo Mother Lethbridgc-?wc call lmr (1 runny Lctl.- | bridge now?got a bit of ground cut of my uncle who helped l.er to make belli en-is meet. It was my mother who began first to talk about Lucy, and she used to vow when she was vexed with her servants that (jninny Lctiibridge's butter was better than wins, and that Lucy was handier than any one of our three dairy maids. Sim wanted Lucy to take service with us, but she courtcsied in a pretty, bobbing way site bad, an i s.id, 'No, thank you. if you please, my lady. I be wanted at home, '"or granny's growing feeble like.' I take it my mother was secretly displeased with this auswrr. f<?r she had ratio r high Ways when ruffled, and did not like to see Iter proffer'<1 hem-lit* re fused. Lut though there was a subacid flavor in her remarks about Lucy alt-r this date, I am sure that -he meant well by llie little wench, and would have been sorry to sec any barm happen to her. I must have teen ab- ut nineteen years old when I fairly loll in love with Lucy, and this is liow it 1 appenod : ? The llnzdbrook titceplcchnse for pen tleuicn riders was poinp on. and I won it easily on my hay u are i.advbird. The mare tin.!; all her fctu-s kindly, and never weighed an ounce on the bit when she iieaied the water, while most of the other loos s rushed at their jumps and charpid the brook ! ke n ad thinps. It was a tidy leap, mra-urinp Something like two and-twenty feet across, with a flij?p> ry tank on each side of it, so that , tin re wt iv a pood many awkward falls there, and tie st of the farmeis and their t .iniliis took np tlo ir places by the brook -ide !o see the fun. A tablecloth inipl t have coven d us all as wo eaine within twenty yards of the water, hilt then tin- co-k-tads h -pan to -w ove; and lurninp round in my saddle, I saw I was ] adinp a li> Id of only three. Kepinald Kitzmse. lo ikiiippmri a- death, was poundinp alonp within i lenpili of iii? on the near side; and Johnny Neville, the county member's son, who broke his heck ut CJIitlteuliani, was rantiiip [upuua itar-guiicg brutxj witbiu tluco ca: tiic Ik s ?>I my oft k!ieo. As I. is bi^ h r.-e bucked with (he clumsy ft idle lo ad lie had <<n his Ik a<l, lie s'ruck the bunting clop I rallied to steer with smack out o.'" my hand, and it went spinning like a mill wheel into a pollard oak c.Ve by. "1 lunl given two pound ten l??r the stick. and never expected to see it more* though it turned up ngah. and hangs in my paddle room now somewhere. When ! I lu?ik> c; around, as I was telling y< u, j it u| pcircd not unlikely that we three lellows should cannon into each other ! as we jumped, and go to kingdom come | that way; but neither of them had their i horses in hand, while I knew that Lidybird would answer reins quite sweet- j I ly. Taking stock of my position, quick ; as thought, therefore, I drew sharp on , the snaffle to let Filzursc and Neville thunder by. and bang they went head i j over heels, floundering about like wild j: duck- who arc badly winged, a minute afterwards, Then 1 wheeled and made i : a stuiieirile to get the brook well under j : my mare's nose, andovtr she sprung i like a b:rd. Just then 1 became eon- j i scious that Lucy Hawk's eyes had been , ' tixed upon me, first with an expression 1 of fear as I rode at the brook in which 1 Jack and Reginald were splashing after l their tumbling; subsequently with a:: glance of irrepressible joy wheu I cleared | ( the big jump of the day and was booked t to win the race. As soon as it. was all j i over in the afternoon as I was canter- i ing home up^n uiy pony, you may be i I sure L looked out i"*r Lucy, ami I found ; i her, as I expected that 1 should easily ' t enough, for I had kept mv eyes upon 1 ' > i - - -i. - 1 * . . i < tier, ami Knew which ?ay me wuum in to Lc ready for milking time. Hesides. she had a trick ofgatheiing flowers while waiting for her cow, which Farmer Lougmead's buy drove home for her every evening from the common ; antl I had o!t<-n watched h?'r stooping auioog the cowslips and wild lavender , when I went out fishing. She was there ! as usual wh-u I pulled up my pony, who had been pattering along the hard road to the tune of'potatoes and apples;' | then I looked over the licdgo and \vhis- . tied, but Lucy did not move, and 1 | think now that she must have been ; blushing, for she stooped lower and lower, and looked like a tiuiid little blue shadow among the fitwers, as the shrill notes of my whistling went over copse and meadow and < ied away along the river. A startled hare sprang across my path, I recollect, then dashed into the tall ferns of our park and sat listening in her form. The hare, too, reminds me of Lucy. It was a very silent afternoon. For miles and miles the fields and woodlands seemed ail adcep, and nothing awake hut 1 and Lucy 1 have never known how it happened, but by-atid by she and I were j walking together, the pony following u* [ with his bridle slung idly over n.y left i arm, while my right was round Lucy's ' waist, and her talk was ns the cooing ol the wild dove in spring. I wonder even now what we said to each other ; she j' was such an empty creature, so frail, so ' I lair; 1 flash fiotu a grammar .shout, JI st vn^r as an ox and brown asa berry She j must have known nothing, \ct we that-' : ted on, and 1 sat beside her as she milked the old c<>w, though my father was Lord of lite Manor. It was ijuite night' al.cti 1 said good-by to Lucy at lu:t. ! and (he moon was rising over a era vol j {.it which had been just opened on the i outskirts of our estate. The gravel looked like gold us the moonbeams fell upon i', though it was hut poor siufT, , j as we lound out when we conic to dig deeper. 1 had got one font in the slitrup though 1 still held Lucy's hand, when 1 noticed a flower near my pony's hoofs, and stooping down, I picked it up and gave it to Lucy ? She stooped down and picked another ' bios* im. and as she did so our lip- met 1 for the first time. I took Ik r flower away from her, and gave her mine We were ! a very shy and shame faced pair of lovers ' "Lis only a daisy now. Master Kdward, I do declare !" said the girl, blush ing. and counting with arch simplicity the leaves on the wee flower. /".< a ! ilaisy. though, and daisies tell secrets.' Her arithmetic 1 am sure was satisfactory, for she smiled suddenly ai.d put her hand with a spontaneous gesture ! back into mine before wv parted. - > - c. .. I ..iv.. '"I lurjict now lill'Il W IIH.". ill IV.I ' that, but 1 believe my mother got wind of oui d ings through her French uiaid, ! about throe month* from the race day.; I and gave me a proper scolding. and made me promise to be a good boy.? She said it was bad enough tor Lucy's ' mother to have run oil with a Xotting1 ham pawnbroker who had marrird and I deserted lur, without tny biinging true, bio on the girl licrstdf. I do not know how my mother found out that Lucy's father was a Nottingham man i and a pawnbroker, hut she knew every1 thing that wis talked about in tin* ' country, though she kept such a still ; tongue in her head, except where I was! eoiiesrnco. I bad no end <d hot her in pelt ins; out of evenings to si e Lury after this, for my mother secme 1 to have eyes all over the paik ; and the manner in which ahe u.-cd at this time to say, 'Kd- ! ward! I aiu ashamed of you!' was a caution Indeed, 1 was so watched and 1 l addered that I got rather sick of the j j whole thin*;, and began to cast about | 1 for a decent pretext to lie oft from my 1 bargain. though I might havo let things 1 cone on. if the old lady hadn't slang- d Uie s . and kept Die out < t a scrape. At last, when 'lie j rotiiLcd to buy me a , second favorite for tin Chc-ter Lup. which Ncvdlc had for sale, il I wotlid give Up Lucy llawkt altogether and go salumn fishing a season in Norway at her expense. I was not rurry to get out of wliut was be^iuaiuy to h>ok like ft / MDEN, S. C., JANUAR bad bu*:tils< mi such profitable terms.' Of coursa I told Lucy that 1 would Meter forget h< r, and she said she: would never forcet me. We w -re sit-J ting together at our usual nieeiingplucc beside the brook wi cre first I had j learned to p ad the language of her eyes, j as we pave each other these promises, i and it was the very evening before 1 j went away to fish lor salmon in i\or-i way, 4 Whenever you tonic back, be, it night or day, Summer or Winter,! you will always lind me lo re, Master j I'M ward?Aeir, oh my darling!' she said, with a (|uiot voice and ail cijircs- j sion that 1 shall never forget. 'I was nearly two years away, and had capital sport. When the season was over in Norway, Neville, who had been hard hit at Kpsoni, a-ked nic tu go gazelle hunting with hint in Algeria, ind we raw lots of b;g game round Orao. i'hcu we went yachting in the Euxine, ind tnmbled into the in?crior of Asij is far as the waterfall marshes of Krz-room, where we bagged whole flocks of 5o!o:i geese, I was just thinking of he wild ass hunt in the Caucasus with Bariatindcy and some Russian nubs I j sad met, when my mother wro'o for, lie to come, home, because my father ! md old Neville had u.ade up their j juarrel on condition th it I should marry [; ny first wife, who was then the Honor-, tble Dorothy. We found money, which ! itc got from our bank and Government! justness; the Nevilles found blood, and j liy father was promised the baronetcy. J which lie got in another way through ?aiu Huckster ten yo-nrs afterwards j> "row Lord St1}'mouth. It was one af moon in July?for the Nevilles werej ilways glad to pet away from London *! tarly?that I saw Lucy again. as theii Honorable Dorothy and I were taking i i ride down that very Panic lane where [ had i'<?und the girl gathering wild i lowers after the steeplechase. I thought lie looked thinner, and I could tint get id of an uneasy impression I felt that j' .he might have been watching us and j tavo overheard what 1 said to the Hon- i irablc Dorothy. I had been coming it ' nthcr strong, too. if the troth mu-t be ,o!d. and had read her a copy of verses j vhieh I hud cut out of a song-book, in 1 lie first instance, for Lucy; and I knew hat she had learned them by iieart. J she used to sing them to some sort of nusic of her ow n, which was pretty in ts way, for she used to lead the choir it church when I firs?t knew her. I icknowh dged to myself that this was lot acting on the square by my old lame, and began to think {of it; and wor Loos wistful glance as we passed i<r fidgeted me a little. When the Honorable Dorothy was gone home, therefore, I put spurs t?a long-reaching1 jliestnut, which 1 was breaking for my! lather, and cantered down to Granny ' Lcthbiigc's cottage near the gravel-pit, j ivhiih was no longer worked. I could not get speech with Lucy, fbr Doctor! l'ougood's ramshackle on -horse chaise j ivas at the cottage-door, and the doctor! bad never been frieuds with me since I took up with her. '1 made sigus, however, which the girl understood well enough. and while I I pretended to lie worrying the doctor's j vixenish Scotch terrier 1 contrived t<> make :ni assignation with Lucy for Iwilight that very evening. 'Leave that' dog alone, young liuiitli, and he olf. j You have no honest business here,' i roared that Itadical beggar of a doctor as he came out, in hot wrath; hut 1 only grinned at his red lace and ill-humor, though he hates me to this day. '1 look care to be in time to meet Lucy, for 1 could not but own that. pale and Wan us she had looked that day. she contrasted advantageously with the honorable Dorothy, who was rather heavy in the shoulder and deep in the girth ft i mv taste; besides I % * ' did not seem to care so much about | breaking ofF Lucy us 1 had done when 1 was younger and more inexperienced. 1 >at down on il;o stile near the big brook, which was angry unci swollen [ with recent rains, for the Spring and early Summer had been unusualiy wet; and 1 whiMh-d 'Where arc you going1 to, my j rctty maid?'just as 1 had done! two years b fore wlicu I was waiting h?r her. Iiut she was generally first I before 1 went on my tiials, and now. when I looked at the handsome watch my uncle had given me. 1 was nettled: to see that 1 had been l> ft to cool my heels ten minutes, and Lucy appealed! lo have I'owtt. n il.at my governor was ; her landlord. I lit a cigar, and promised to give tlic jade a piece of my mind wlicn she coim; but she did not come, and at lust I got nervous and anxious about her. 1 half think I would have given up the Honorable Porothy ju-t then for Iter. Kvcry leal' that stirred, every sound that came IVoUl the distant fields an 1 hills, tlie gurgling noise of the brook as it eddied and hurried alone, the flutter of the bat, the call of the owls, had a magnetic influence upon me. Perhaps i ha I smoked ten much, and 1 walked backwards and forwards between the stile and the water, taking deep draughts of air. and net knowing that they were sigh-, or not confessing it lo myself, for 1 was half troubled half angry. At length my eje fell upon something stuck upright in the soft ground, and tied to it was a scrap of white stuff which fluttered on the night's wind, now rising faM. l>y <ieorg-\ sir, it was tire hunting-crop I had lost at the steeplechase, when Jack Neville flashed by lite, and to it was attached a morsel of paper on which was scrawled, in j a childish, straying Itat.d, 'I told you that you would always find mo here. Perhaps you have passed by without seeing mo as you did to-day. Look owe litcie beneath tire water. You Y 8, 1878. have given over loving me, Master Edward, and 'tis better so. God forgive me sir?and you. Something fell to llic ground as I unfolded the paper on which these words were traced. 'It was only a daisy.' 'I did not sec how 1 could have ac ted otherwise than I did. Lucy Ilawkc was buried by the parish or by Dr. T >0 good; I forget which of tlieui did it, but lb'? blanked Iladical was always poking his D'\se into things which did not concern him. For my part, I burnt the! letter for frarofthe coroner's questions, j an i cur family have always hushed up I t r ? I tnc stuiv. 1 nave never spoKcn 10 any one of it before during all ilu .se years,' and I don't remember* how the subject came up betwoi n us two this evening. [ Have some inure wine, Littleton?the ! night is wet and cold.' 'Ah, so was Lucy,' I remarked, with my usual l.aappiness of thought; but Sir Jviward Smith, baronet, banker, sportsman, landlord and churchwarden, did not hear what I said, because he was giving a hospitable order to his chief butler to warm some claret and bring up deviled bones. I thought that my moneyed friend had commanded a suggestive supper; but I had no appetite for it. and I left his admirably appointed establishment by the express train next morning. Tho Work of tho Year. There are years of promise. Such was the year 1S7U. Anil ihere are veari of uerfurmuueo. Such, in Soatn Carolina, was tlic year 1877. When the last moments of 1S70 were fleeting fast, the people, calm and resolute, looked back upon tw.-lve 1 months of mingled dread and eiul'a| tion, crowned at the close by an abiding conviction that the dawn was nigh, 1 and the suu about to rise on a free and puiiGed commonwealth. There was a reason and judgment in that conviction. 1 The usurpers were evidently losing ground. They had been beaten in every issue of law they had made. This, however, was not the greatest weakness of the Republicans, nor the greatest strength of the Democrats. The power of the Democrats lay in the pregnant fact that the people, high and low, paid no heed whatever to the orders of .Mr. Chamberlain or the acts of his sham Legislature* Ry such opposition as this, continued, systematic and universal, the strongest government- in : the world could have been broken down, i How surely must it topp'e over the | Chamberlain fabric, already so insecure. The opening of the New Year was signalized by the making of arrangements in the different counties for the payment of such taxes as were required j'or the support of the Hampton governniet. it had been the vaunt of the Republicans that the D-'uiocrais might be willing to talk far Hampton, am] even to light for him, but they would uevcr give his government practical recognition by paying taxes which no Legislature had levied, and for which no public oflicer could be officially re sponsible. The event proved that the I taxes called for by Governor Hampton were paiJ more freely mil tuny tnan , any tax regularly levied by any govern- , incut in (his .State since lrfliti. And if i we remind the people that Charleston j struck tiie key note; tliat Charleston | was lirst to declare that her citizens | would pay taxes to Governor llauipton, | and would recognize him. and none ; other, as Governor; that Charleston by the hands of the bank which worthily bears her honored name, advanced what money was required by Governor Hampton before the voluntary tax could be collected; that Charleston poured out money like water to aid the Hampton cause, before and during and after the election, we have no other purpose than to remind the State at large that Charleston, as full as any other county, did what she might and could. As the money flowed into the Hampton treasury, tlie last hopes ul the Republicans oozed away. Now cams recognition of Ilamptou as Governor by .Judge after Judge. The Electoral Commission did its work. Mr. Hayes was inaugurated. Then came the visit of Hampton to I Washington, and we p'Cill witti picas- j ure the fact that President Hayes nei- ' titer invited not suggested any com promis-*. The platform of Governor Hampton, declared on his way to * 1 111'.. Washington, was tiiat no uemunucu uir Soulli Carolina tho right of 8t If-gov-. eminent, to which every State is onti- j ilcJ under the Constitution. lie asked ! nothing more, and would accept nothing lens. Side by side with (lovernor j Hampton was a committee of Charles- I ton merchants, sustaining him by their 1 presence, their counsel, and their rep- j rcsentaiion of the woes unnumbered that would spring from any effort to j thwart 1 ho clearly expressed wish and determination of the people. Souu came the glad tidings that a bloodless victory was won ; that the troops were to Le withdrawn. As the clock struck twelve on April 10, the I'niteJ Stales soldiers marched out of the State ilou-o. Mr. Chamberlain surrendered at discretion. The Legislature was convened, ami the Democratic Stato officers uict with no further opposition. A won* drous revolution had been accomplished. This was more than six months ago. l'or more than half a year the Democrat ie government has held undisputed sway in South C.irolino. To what purpose '! Tho record shows. The mills of the gods have ground exceedingly small. Of the hand of robbers and sharpers who have degraded and plundciod South Carolina, none have escaped ignominy and public sh nic. Some, like Lee, Corwin and , Swailt*) wvid ullvwcJ to rcsigu. Other*, 'Hilt NUMBER 26 [ like Woodruff and Nash, made partial restitution of the yioncy they had stolen. Whittemorc and Kiinpton are fugitives from justice. Smalls, tried and convicted, avoids the common jail by seeking a new trial. Cardozo and Carpenter aud Parker are in jail. ExGovernor Moses is threatened by a Republican Judge with arrest- as a vagrant. Upon the shoulder of Mr. Chamberlain the hand of the officer has not yet been laid. The Committee on Frauds have made report concerning him. Mackey's occupation is gone. Howcn. however, is sheriff of Charleston. Of Patterson we could speak more freely if he were further from the grave. United States Senator as he is, he dare not plant his foot on 'lie soil of South Carolina. Scott is in Ohio. For Corbin tlie doors of the jail yawn. Itnl 1? f!ii:ii-lpsfnii hv his presence. Like a crushed egg-shell is the handiwork of Scott, Moses and Chamberlain. Hut the past year is not memorable for this alone. Side by side with the work of tearing down the false and base, goes on the work of building up the honorable and true. Upon the ruius of the Supreme Court of the days when everything had its price, is raised the Supreme Court of to day, where Mclver and Haskell sit on either side of Willard, whose acumen and devotion to right were the bulwarks of the Democratic cause, when, on the bench with hito, were i Chief" Justice Moses and the stupid and venal Wright. While the appellate tribunal lias bc< n restored to a high place in dignity, ability and purity, there has been a marked improvement in the character of the lower courts. Judges Kershaw and Wallace now sit on the Circuit liencli. And when the terms of the of the other Circuit Judges ex - i pire, or their sea's arc declared vacant,1 the place of every Judge who is iu-: competent or untrustworthy will be I lillcd by a jurist of the stamp of those- j whom the present Legislature has a!- j ready elected to similar positions. Meantime, those Judges who are least! likely to be retained are keenest in the j pursuit of offenders. These judicial i brooms sweep more cleanly now than : when they were new. The Legislature met in extra sessioD in April, and the regular session began in November. Little practical work has been done, but what is com* ; pleted. good or bad, is in accordance i with the demands of the people. The repeal of the lien law, and the enactment of the usury law. will render it more than ever difficult for small farm., c-rs to continue their operations. These measures, however, were loudly called for, and experience alone will satisfy the people of their un.wisdom. The ii .i. . r._. ?e . t._ u isiiL'u.nULiicaiuiu ui mu uuu.uw iu the Legislature is the apparent willing* ' ncss of the members to carry out blind- I ly the wishes of their constituents, even wheu they can see that harui is likely ' to come of it. This is not peculiar to South Carolina. The member of the Legislature is expected to lave more knowledge auil experience than the bulk of bis constituents and it is his duty to give them the benefit of superior information, and to serve them to the best of his, and not their ability. South , Carolina heretofore has not been wanting in independence of .spirit. Would that there were more publb men in the State to-day who dare to be unpopular. The present General A-s.-mb'.y is overwhelmingly Democratic, and we shall not complaiu if the members make haste slowly. It is difficult to determine at this moment how much of the public troubles are due to defective laws and how much to maladministration of the laws. This is a reason fur testing the working of tho present Constitution, with honest and intelligent administration, bef >re setting to work to recast the organic laws of the State. The llepublican party in South Carolina shows few signs of life, but is uot dead- There are still some 70,001) or 80,000 colored voters in South Carolina, and they will vote at the next election, if the issues are important to i them, and their votes will be counted as cast. The Democrats did not obtain control of the govcruuicr.t of South Carolina by counting in, and they will retain it by counting out. There will be no difficulty in carrying the State noxt year, if the Democracy are united. The elections in Heaufort and: Sumter show that the colored vote is; solid, when the white vote is scattered.: Oue man in South Carolina is un-j changing and unchanged, the same now | as during the triumphal marches of the ! summer of 1871>. as during the dangers i and anxieties of last winter, as duriug! the joy and gladness of the succeeding summer. The simple faith and truth j of Wade llauipton knows no change oft adversity or prosperity. To him, until tin? light he made was won. the people looked up with a reverence that approached to the dignity of worship. And their own is as sincere as ever. I Only in the eye or on the l:p of the politician is there any suspicion of tailing confidence, and there it is due to envy, or to jealousy, or to a failure to understand and app cciate the grand nobility of Wade Hampton's character. He grows upon those who knew him well I Never has lie been, never will he bo, 1 faithless to himself; and while be is ' (.lovernor, no lino in violation of the | pledges given by him and ratified by j the people, before his election, wid blot the Statute Book ir. this State, l'or long, long months his word was law, all the law wo had, in South Carolina. Weil will it be for the State, if the members of the General Assembly, upou their return to the capitol, counsel f.-ocly witli Governor Hampton, tti they ADVERTISING RATES. Timc. 1 in. j col. .] col. 1 col. 1 week, $100 $5(0 $0 00 $15 00 2 " 1 75 7 iU 12 CO 18 00 3 " 2 50 HOU 15 00 22 00 1 ? 3 25 10 50 18 ?V> 20 00 3 " 4 00 12 00 20 00 30 00 6 ? 4 75 13 00 22 00 33 00 7 " 5 50 14 00 25 00 36 00 8 " 0 25 15(H) 30 00 40 00 8 mos 7 00 10 00 35 00 60 00 ? " 7 75 21 00 40 00 60 00 6 " 8 00 28 00 45 00 80 00 9 ,4 8 75 35 00 60 00 100 00 12" 0 50 40 00 75 00 120 00 ta" Transient advertisements must be accompat:led with the cash to Insure Insertion. have not hitherto done, and familiar ire themselves with the views and opinions of one whose judgement is hsiJ in high respect from one end of the Union to the other. The future is not all bright. Sou'h Carolina is poor. The advent of honesty and intelligence keeps the handful if pence in the purges Of the people; it # docs not restore to them the millions of money t hat have been filched and squandered- It is a tedious w -rk, thin process of reconstruction rid restoration. The seasons cannot be lurried in their course, and by the operation nf the seasons, by the produces of tie land, in i heir raw and manafietur.il state. South Carolina must live. Any influx of laborers, multiplying iho means of production, will hastcu the revival of prosperity. Capital from abroad, supplementing that wnich is slowly aud painfully accomplished by our own effort, will give fre;4i vigor to every department of business. Souih Carolina, therefore, must either so demean herself as to attract both the utufcc!c and the money she requires, or she mast endure the tedious processes to which people are condemned who rely inclusively on themselves, ond have none to help them. They who have not lost heart when each day plunged South Carolina in the slough, will not fail now that her t>ack is turned to the dismal pis', end tier face is set towards the heights where rrign plcntoousness and :>cucc. I'lie one we have-, the other will cor^c. ^" I'nat it may couie so)n, even sooner ;han the most sanguine expect, is the greeting wo give, in wishing all our eaJers, A Happy New Year! C/curletion Xeics and Courier. An Important Ente:-prls3. It is stated that a company is ab.nt a Aintitniiikil iILwfnn I'lr iho nnr. i\J UC Ul ^Ulllbvu in 'vuiun vi - ./ ?! >030 of furnishing homes in the South md West to iudustrious immigrants who arc unable to purchase f'ot (hern-, lelves. The plan propose.! is to purthaso lands in large quantities in delirablc localities, to assist colonists to remove to thcin and to furnish them with necessary supplies for a limited :imc. (Certain portions of ibese lands will be reserved by the comnauiea, unj inch colonist will receive a bonJ for titles to the lands occupies by hiuisslf, titles to be executed when the advances ire repaid. The profit of tne company will be derived from the enhanced ralue of the lands reserved. Such an enterprise would be beneficial in vh.ee respects; it woulJ enable the peopbrf the North and East to provide for their surplus population, it would help the South to build up her waste places, in J we arc confident that it would prove immensely profitable to the company. We are prepared to w.'lc uie warmly all actual settlers, who come to cast their lot with u.s for better or for worse.?Greenville (6*. C.) fleic?. Why I Married Her. Where did you meet with your wife:* I said to a friend of mine who hud invited mc to his wedding. Ilis reply was: 'A year ago I was one of a large dinnerparty of ladies and gentlemen, at which a young lady was noticed notto'drink any wine Our host observed it. 'A glass of wine will you miss?' 'Excuse m?f sir,' said she. What excuse? Are you utc. jtiler? What! have we a teetotaler acre ! llu ha ! a teetotaler! Why, do yo i never drink wine ?' Never, sir.' 'Why not ?' 'From principle.' 'Nothing more was said. Her decision of character deeply impressed ait. I sought an introduction, satisfied tint one of such principles would nuke mo a good companion. I became a teetotaler myself, and now she is ny wift. That's why I marrrcd her.' As yon pass along the street you ruce t with a familiar face?say good morning as though you felt happy, and it- will i Li- .1., ?r WOlK BUOliniUiy III iuc mum VI jvui neighbor. I'leasuro is ehcip?who will not bestow it liberally? Lf there are smiles and sunshine all about us, lot us out grasp them with a miset's fist, and lock them up iu our hearts. 'Vther let us take them and scatter them about us. Tiik Fastidious Caksiiuls.?M. Du Chaillu concluded his lecture with a description of how the cannibals cooked human flesh. He said they preferred to eat women of about 16 to 24 years of age, and in variably roasted that delicacy, but people over fifty were generally boiled. 'I will not learn a trade!' exclaimed a young Chicago blood to his father. I Hut this business of learning a umJ; is only a matter of time, for ri'Iiin a year that young man was studying hrrnosa making in a Stato prison. The poor are only thoce who feel I poor, and poverty consists iu ledi"g poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and j among them the very rich, in a ti? ' search would be found very indigent and ragged. It is as liuo of newspapers ns of tho churches?those who coot to :,;act to their support criticise and And the most fault with their mana^em-nt. When a young lady offer* to l.ctn a cambric haudkerdhief for u ii"h bncke* i lor, depend upon it she tuc.ms to acw id order sbo may reap.