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G. G. ALEXANDER, Proprietor. CAMDEN, S.O., AUGUST 27, 1878. Our Ticket, For Governor, WADE HAMPTON. For Lieutenant Governor, W. D. SIMPSON. For Secretary of State, ROBERT M. SIMS. For Comptroller General, JOHNSON IIAGOOD. For Attorney General, LEROY F. YOUMANS. For State Treasurer, S. L. LEAPIIART. For Superintendent of Education, HUGH S. THOMPSON. For Adjutant Inspector-General, E. W. MOISE. For Congress, from the 4th District. HON. J. II. EVINS. Our County Convention. Tho history of Kershaw County from the days of our earliest settlement down to the present time, shows that she has always been a prominent part of the integral in our State. Hci jurists havo adorned the bench; her sons, as soldiers, have added new glory, lustre and renown to the American name. When* ever and wherever, in all the crises through which we have passed, never has her fair name been tarnished, and to-day her every son is proud to bail from her. It is mete and proper, then, that this unsullied name and reputation be kept up; and we are free to say, without hesitation, that much, very much, depends upon our approaching Convention to keep up to this high standard. He can do it. It must be done. Since the closo of the war we hare Leon subjected to an irresponsible rule, owing to the overwhelming preponderance of Radical numerical strength. Our voice has been stifled, onr people misrepresented, end the gloomy pall of misfortune has capped our every undertaking. The long lane, however, is being turned; the sunlight succeeds the black night, and all danger dow comes from our own camp, This must be met, and where can it be more effectually done than in our County Convention 7 Let us go into that body with all personal ends subordinated to public weal. Let us bear upon our standard three simplo words, Unity, Merit, Action. Let no bickerings, crimination or recrimination, invade our ranks; and surelv. as an armv marching with ban J J V ners, we will be victorious. Deeply and profoundly do we regret to hear it said, day after day upon our streets, that the Convention will last perhaps a week. Why this ? We have too many pood men ready to accept office, and who will reflect credit upon us to allow this stir and commotion. We therefore urge, earnestly urge, this Convention to meet in a spirit of public good, to reject all wire pulling and chicanery?select promptly your best men?go to your homes?work for them and elect them. Swails. We touch the very name of this sweet scented scoundrel as the surgeon does the putrid corpse that lie is about to dissect, and only wish to give bitn prominence in a striped suit with his photograph dangling in the rogues' gallery. But bis recent utterances, bis bravado, bis impudence and overwhelming au dacity, force us to ask our brethren of Williamsburg: Is this felon to be tolerated ? The compromise that was made with him by the State authorities, we knew at the time, was done for the best, (as they thought;) and when this bird of prey covered his head beneath his wiDgs and sought the retirement of his own home, abandoning office and power to escape tho penitentiary, it was thought that lie would never aguin show himself. But what do wc see ? This fellow standing in the State House at Columbia charging all kind of fraud, violence and depravity to the Democratic party?arraigning Gov. Hampton himself, and from his fetid breath hurl* ing against the good people of our State everyinuendo that he could. He struts with au air of importance tho streets of our capital; declares that bis voice shall ring from every hilltop to every valley in this State; and further declares himself a candidate for office from Williamsburg. Can this be submitted to ? Aro we to turn over the hard fought battle of "iG to such knaves ? It strikes us that it won't do, and we know the County of iViliiamsburg too well for one moment to believe that be will ever again misrepresent her in the halls of our legislature. Meet him face to face, hurl back in his face and to his teeth his infamous lies, and drown with sound reasoniug that Voitfe wbicb laMBBHHHMHIMBaMaa^MHaaaHHaHa he boa.'ts will "ring from hilltop to valley." Such cuttle come to the i surface by the results of a mighty storm, i and never again can be tolerated with I us. The Democratic Executive Commit- 1 too met in Columbia on the 21st inst. ( and made arrangements for a vigorous 1 and active campaign. John Locklear, Neill Lochlear, (white) and Pompey Easterling, (col'd) were hanged in Bennettsvillc last Friday for the murder of Frank Brycc, the Irish peddler, in February last. On August 10 an election was held **< in ueorgeiown couuijr iu uctciunuu whether or not the county should leud its credit in bonds to the Georgetown Narrow Gauge Railroad. The total vote was 953?853 for, and 100 against ?only one-fourth of the possible vote of the county. Whites and blacks both participated in the election. Tiif. following interesting statistics and wonderfully accurate prophecy of ; the population of New York city, are to be found in ''The Traveling Bachelor," published in 1828 by J. Fennimore Cooper : 175C 13.000 1790 33,000 1800 00,000 1810 90,000 1820 123,000 1825 100,000 182S estimated 200,000 And a calculation on that basis of increase that the numbersin 1860 would be 900,000. The result of the prophecy was almost as accurate as the ascertained statistics of the ccdsus of the past. NEWS ITEMS. Queen Christina died-on the 21st iost. at Saint Adresse, near Havre. Five steamships have left San Stefano (or Odessa with Russian troops return; ing home. Queen Victoria has given a pension of $500 to the widow of the artist I Cruikshank. Tiie Texas Greenback platform calls for the issue of two billions of dollars in paper money. Kearney writes to labor clubs that wherever he goes he wants the expenses of two men paid. The powder mills near Negawnee, Mich., exploded on the 21st inst., killing four of the employees. Three men were killed and eightyfour wounded in the recent election riots in Hamburg. Germany. The Prince of Wales has accepted the honorary membership recently prof! fercd him by the Ancient and Honorable 1 Artillery of Boston. The Spanish Minister of Finance has declined the loan offered by Peveral : foreign capitalist?, as the treasury has ; resources sufficient to meet its engageI meets. The remains of Montague, the actor, ' are interred in Lester Wallack's lot at I Greenwood Cemetery, New York. The services were performed at the Little Church Around the Corner. The Qaecn, desiring to form an estimate of the value of the latest accession to her empire, has commissioned a photographer to obtain for her a series of views of the island of Cyprus. Light* vigiiants entered tho jail at Ripley County, Ohio, on the 21st in6t, and lynched Tom Boyd, who was confined on a charge of rape. They fired seventeen shots into his body. David Aiken and Frank Williams, , two colored men, for their faithful services as servants in the Sixth Regiment : during the war, were made regular ' members of the Survivors' Associa- , tion.? Winmboro News. The Berlin police have been obliged to interfere to save the Lime tree in , Untcr-den-Linden, pierce bv some of; < Nobeling's shots, from being torn to bits' by relic hunters. It is now enclosod by an iron grating. Joii.v Rf.VELS and his brother Xeill, of Marlboro, tried to kill each other in jail the other day, and would have succeeded bad not the sheriff interfered and put them in different cells. The dispute arose as to who shot the peddler first. For the first time since the FrancoGerman, war a number of German ofli. i cers will be present at the autumn manoeuvres of the French army, on the invitation of the French Government.; French officers have been attending?the German army manoeuvres for sev- | eral years. . \ J j Tiie congress for the reform of the international lawB has adopted a resolu-1 tion favoring the freedom of tho Suez Ganal and similar works in time of war. Mr. l'eabody made a speech expressing his approval of tho new international relations promoted in London by the ( Chinese and Japanese.ministers. I The International Congrsss for the J prevention and repression of crime, in- c eluding penal and reformatory treat- fi ment, assembled at Stockholm on tie r 21st insl. M. Van Bjornstjerna, the ! Swedish minister of foreign affairs, was elected president, and E. C Wines, of u tho United latest, honorary prcsidcut. | k Prince Milan,of Servia, hns issued i proclamation formally annouueing the independence of Servia and the reduction of the army to a peace footing. The Secretary of War tenders free access to the Southern Historical Society to the Confederate archives in the custody of the War Department. Returning the courtesy, the Society extends the government a similar privi. lege. GARinALDi, old and crippled as he is, urgently advocates another war with Austria on the part of "Unredeemed Italy"?the unredeemed consisting of the handful of brethren inhabiting Trieste and Trent. At this rate France and England hold some of the aforesaid, if the maps give the ownership of Malta, Nice and Corsica correctly. ? * .1 j j)r. INobemng, wno recently provca to the world that a university gentleman as well a? a traveling tinker can shoot at an emperor whenever he likes, attempted three weeks ago to commit suicide by cutting one of his arteries with a pair of scissors, but was stopped by his attendant and heavily fettered in order that he might be reserved for the headsman's axe. No Rain for Thref. Months.? There is a little strip of country, not more than three miles wide, between the six-mile and twelve-mile creeks, in Union County, on which no rain has fallen since the 19th of last May. The stricken territory extends to the Clay Hill country, iD York County, S. C., and everything in it is, of course, burnt up. There have been good rains on both sides of this dry strip, but hardly a drop has fallen on it.? Charlotte Observer. Enterprise is meritorious even in the loquacious race of barbers. Truefitt, the London hairdresser, has already established an agency in Cyprus, and received a dispatch the other day to the , effect that the first Englishman who had j landed on the island had been cut and i shaved by his representative. Yixere fortrs ante Agamemnon. There were barbers before TrueStt and Englishmen in Cyprus before the days of IJeaconsficld, but what has an advertisement to do with facts ? Tiif. London police are seeking an increase of pay, and it is said that ihcy 1 have threatened in very plain terms to J strike in a body unless their demands are acceded to. The chief commissioner, Col. Henderson, has issued a deprecatory circular, in which he says the question of increased wages is too serious to be settled in a moment, und assures the men that their request will nice) with immediate and careful attention. The present pay of a first-class constable is S7 50 a week. An Aerolite?A singular looking and irregular shaped flint rock, weighing about twenty five pounds, having the appearance of a molten mass under intense heat, was picked up on Ladies' Island, below Heaufort, by some colored persons and taken to that town. It is said to have fallen as a blazing meteor j during a late storm. It is pure flint throughout, except the outside surface, which has a thin coating as if of lava. The Savannah excursionists who called at Croftu's storo to inspect it thought it a great curiosity.?Xetct and Courier. Address of the State Domoccrotic Executive Conimitte. APPOINTMENTS FOR TttE CAMPAIGN. WILT. HE IN CAMDEN SEPTEMBER 18TII. The State Executive Committee announce to their fellow-citizens that the State canvass will formally open on September 10. Already the counties, are ready for action, and the committee cannot doubt that the campaign will be as brilliant a9 brief. Throughout the canvass the Democ racy of South Carolina will have but one rule of conduct. The platform of 1876 adopted and reaffirmed in 1878, is the supreme law of the Democratic party. Ily it the lowest and highest arc bound. NTo person or body of persons, other than a State Convention, can chance or modify its wise provisions and patriotic declarations. Within the lines of the platform of the Democracy all arc safe. Outside of it, and beyond it, there is no Iruo Democracy in South Carolina. No issue not made in the platform, and inconsistent with it. can ho raided. N'o issue made in the pint form and consis tent with it can he icnor-d. The platform of the Democratic party af South Carolina is at 01100 a history I ind a prophecy. It is the record of I what is past and the assurance of what is I to come. In it arc declared IDmocratic i principles and Democratic practice. 1 The issue in South O'arolinn, ns mado < by the Democratic party, is not an is- ' ?uc of race. On I ho contrary, the ob iects of the Democracy in retaining eon- i :rol of the State, are to complete the ! reform of abuses; to punish public criru...I.. . ? ,1... 1 ?L.!1 11ui, *, in uiuiniaiia ? iic j'ui n > uuu iiuiity of the government in ull its branches o lower the rate of taxation anil lessen lie burdens imposed upon the people,, ' o ensure peace and concord, aud, inrludinjx all else, to give equal and com- i dote protection to overy public ;pid i irlvate right of person and property, in j rder that the government, in the hands | if the Democratic parly, rhsll he the ;overnmcnt of no one section, of no one a ace. of no one class, but of the whole j) icople of South Carolina, without Inn. n tation or restriction. So far as lime and oppoitunity have dmitted, th?- Dfumcralic party has ept to the letter, aud iu spirit, every pledge or promise made in the platform of 1876. The State officer* elpetcd two years ago are again the candidates of the party. With the same platform snd the same candidates, holding bene ficmt possession of every department of the State* government, the Democracy of South Carolina deserves success, and can command it. Vigilance is necessary. Active and incessant work is indispensable* Unity must be had. They who slumber on in false security, they who postpone the preparations for the fight, they "who encourage or permit dissension and division, for any reason or upon any pretext, are as much the public enemies as are the political lepers whom Democratic rule drives into the penitentiary or out of the State. Malcontents, laggards, disorganizes shall not pull down the Democratic party, although they may multiply its difficulties and make the struggle harder and more depperate. And when the ?I?II v.. i U ? TV Dame is won, as u ?uau uc, mo i/cmu' cratic party, for its own sake, will pass sentence upon any who, not being with us, arc against us, and make them for all time political outcasts, despised by Democrats of their own race and shunoed by the colored Democrats who have been tried and have kept the faith. For the whife Democrats, the State Committee arc sure no other exhortation is needed.* They know full well that Democratic rulo ia worth having, and that what is worth having is worth keeping and will be kept. Dy the colored Democrat*, as tho State Committee believe, the solid advantages of an enlightened and honest government are thoroughly appreciated. They have seen sod felt the difference between integrity and rascality, between lofty justice and partisan rule. The hope is thai the colored people, in larger number! than ever before, will march beneath the folds of the Democratic banner, ami so assist the Democracy in perfecting the work of governmental reform and industrial restoration. The reign of ignorance and vice ir South Carolina is past and gonp. Vir tue, intelligence and elevated 6tates manship shall, as during the lost tw< vpnp< cnnlrnl fhp ntihlir affairs of Snntf ? j r Carolina. For this the people faugh' in 187G, and the sceptre then graspec fcr the first time in eipht years, by pun and stronp hands, will not be laid dnwt and shall not be wrested away. The Democratic County Nomina tinar Convention. Camden, S. C., Augus 12 h, 1878 In pursuance of a resolu ior adop ed by the Democraic Execu iveCvn"nij3 FCjmuV 1?ii y, at a mecing held on he 9 h of Jul) ult., a convention of the Democratic party of said county is hereby called to meet at the Court House in Cam den, at 11 o'clock a. m., on Thursday the 29th of August instant, foi the purpose of nominating candidates for county officers, and transacting such other business as may be deemed proper. Basis of representation?one delegate from every club at large and one additional delegate for every twenty-five members. Each dele gation will be required to produce its credentials, which shall consist of the certificate of tho president and secretary of the club from which it comes, setting forth that it has been duly elected, and also of the list of members of its club who are roters. certified to be correct by the president and secretary of the club. J. D. Dunlap | Wm I). Trantuam, Secretary, J Chairman Albemarle Female Institute, Charlottcvllle, Va. $200 for Board and Literary Tuition for Nine month*, beginning October lat. Music. Drawing and Painting extra. For Catalogue* address, K. H. KAW'LINviS, M. A., l'realdeut. nTTnTTTT classical and militauy acaukmy, HH. H Ml NEAKWARUKNTON Va. Uij A11JJ.U Prpnarea forColleire. Ulllveraltv or Business. Recommended for Location. Health, Morality. Scholanhlp and Discipline. TERMS? Hoard and Tuition per half session $?5. For Catalogue address Maj. a. (1. Smith, Supt., Bethel P.O., Fauquier County, Va, "" T H 0 M AS V lUTFEMALE" COLLEGE, DAVIDSON, CO , N. C The W?l Session begins August ssth, 1978. Board and Tuition In English per month fin. A first class Institution unsurpassed for beauty of location, health.and every requisite. Eight thoroughly qualified live teachers. Unusually extensive and thorough course. Three grades of Diplomas. To accommodate the steadily Increasing patronage a large addltlou to the building Is In progress For catalogue address II. IV. REINII ART, President. VANDERBILTJN|VERSITY. Forum Session opens Sept. 1, 187-' an,i C|0ses tune 1, IS7?. Fees in Literary and Scientific Department ?C5; Law *100; Medicine ?% Theology $15. Board and Lodging per month $10 to $?>. Professors. t~\ Instructors, 9; Students last year, 4h(S. For Catalogues address L. C. OAKLAND, Chancellor, Nashville, Tenn. EXECI TOR S NOTICE. All persons holding claims against the Estate of Thomas W l'egues,deceased, will present the same properly attested to the undersigned within the time prescribed by law, and all persons indebted to said Estate will make immediate payment to augi!-lm J. T. HAY, Executor. M/ni.ltS DINJIIMSOKY. Notice is hereby given tlint one month from dnte 1 will npply lo tbe Honorable James F. Sutherland, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County, for Letters Dismissory as Administrator of the Estate of J. L. Tiller, lecensed. oug (i 11. M. PEARCE. gfeBfegg m ?n J Morphine hshlt cored. 1 rill ImRtmOriginal ?b iodIt?'uoIui? I ||VII |Hf| Cl'Rl. scbd f.T l>vuk oa III 11 IIWI Opium Kitlna li? W. B. Hqnlra, VI IVI V I WurlMufU.0. liricuo lol. JOO Sacks Liverpool Sail, For snle at $1.26 per sackuoy20 2t 11RASINQTON k NETTLES. To Rent. Three Stores In CLYBURN'S BLOCK, nd two wooden stores on Ilroad street Immeditely South of Clyhurn's Block will tie rented on avoratjle terms. Pwstsalou given Immediately i t desired. W, CLYBTRV, | uyHO 'TS-tf. Agent. ? Tlio Rfttl RntiPi*. Cheese, Maccaroni. &e . for sale by febl2l'f K1RKLEV 4 1 Crockery, Glass Ware, &c. We have just recjved a fine assortment of CROOKERYWARE, OLASSWARE, Brooms, Buckets, Flour Pails, Baskets, &c.f which we will sell at greatly reduced prices. Lamp Chimneys, all sizes, very cheap, K1RKLEY & SMITH. S. WOLFE, CHEAP DRY GOODS STORE. ALSO, Buys and pays the- highest market price for green and dry cow hides, sheep, fox, otter, mink,'raccoon and rabbit skins. Also, rags, wool, tallow, beeswax, old iron, K**aoa AAnnaw J(? a v inn! if U.V. J Always on Hand. Choice Family Groceries at lowest fibres, by KIRKLEV & SMITH. BOOTS, SHOES, &C. The undersigned respectfully informs his friends and the public generally that he may still be found at his shop, one door west of the postoffice, where he is prepared to execute promptly and in the most stylish nnd durable manner all jobs that may be given him. He will also make or repair i harnass. or in fact anything else in his line. He only solicits n call. ISAAC YOUNG. Aug. C?tf ! THE STEAMER LILLINGTON % t'apt W. W. SKIV^F.It, ? Having been overhauled and thoroughly , repaired, will now make regular trips on Wateree River between Parker's Landing and Acton, stopping at all intermediate landings. SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS to I shippers of freights by this line, i No goods dcliverea until all freight | charges are paid. In no instance will there I be any variation from this rule. L. M. BOS WELL & Co. I apl23-tf ! Dr. ZEMF ) Begs to call atttention to his large and carefully selected stock of I DRUGS AND MEDICINES! I My 9tock is made up of the best and purest, consisting in part, of Drugs, Medicines, Oils, Paints, Dye Stuffs, Glass, i "Putty, Turpentine, ^ Soaps, Fancy Toilet Articles, Choice Perfumery. Lamps, Burners. , Patent Medecines, Trusses, I Books, Stationery, Paper, Envelopes, Faucy Candies, ^.PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS ! accurately compounded, and solicited from All part* of the country. |1 julydO?tf. "W. Clyburn, 1 COTTON BTTYEB. The undersigned begs to inform his friends and the public generally that he is still on hand, and will be able to BUY COTTON more largely during the coming season than ever before. Always in the market, and alwavs prepared to give the HIGHEST MARKET PRICES in CASH for the article. Remember my stand, Cly burn's Block, CAMDEN, S. C-. july 30tf A ?r_ m ? licur suuii tf aier AND GINGER ALE. THE ARCTIC SODA WATER FOUNTAIN is now dispensing this beautiful and delightful Beverage. A la^c and varied ussorlment of PURE SYRUPS always on hand. K/.v,KLKr & Smith. Tobacco! Tobacco !! .1 choice lot of Fine and couunon Chewing Tobacco Consisting of Cable Coil Navy, Twist, Fine and common, Plug and Fine Cut, just received and for sale at bottom prices by KIRK LEY & SMITH. Vtf iitf COUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. CI1 A NOB OK SCHEDULE. Columbia, March 3, 1878. The passenger trains on the South Caro. lina Railroad will run as follows ; 1?ay passknflkr train. (Sunday morning excepted.) Leave Charleston 6.00 a. in. nrnvc in ooiumina lU.fiU a. in. Leave Colrmbia 6.00 p.m. Arrive at Charleston 12 15 a. m. atmiT express. Leave Charleston 8.80 p. n>. Arrive at Columbia 7.45a. m. Leave Columbia 8.00 p. m. Arrive at Charleston C.45 a. in. accommodation thais. (Sunday morning excepted.) Leave Columbia 5 30 a.m. I Arrive at Hrauchvillc 12.25 p. m. Leave Branchville 12.50 p. m Arrive at Columbia 7.p. m. Accommodation Train connects daily at Kingsvillc with Train for Camden, and at Branchvillc with lb?y Passenger Train to and from Augusta and Charleston. Passengers for Camden leave Columbia daily on Accommodation Train at 5.30 a. i.i., daily (Sundays excepted), and passengers for Columbia leave Camden daily (Sundays excepted 1 at 5 a. m. 1 s S SOLOMONSlt Supt. 8 11. Pickens, Ucu'l Ttckvl | FOR THE CAMPAIGN! :o: THE CAMDEN JOURNAL, < Established in 1827, HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION < of any paper ever issued in Camden, and is the ONLY PAPER IN KERSHAW COUNTY . , . THAT IS PRINTED AT HOME. Published Every Tuesday Morning AT C^IMIIDIEJIsr, S. Cm BY I G. G. ALEXAMDER. :o: The JOURNAL being one cf the oldest papers in the State, and having an established reputation for reliability and fidelity to the interests of the people, it needs no introduction to the public. It is the wish, however, of the present management to extend the sphere of its usefulness by putting it into the hands of every reading man in Kershaw County. ;o: Striving always to advance the interests and to improve the condition of their people in every conceivable way, and recognizing the fact that the campaign just opening marks a crisis in the history of South Carolina, the Proprietors of THE JOURNAL will spare no effort to make it indispensable to the reading public of this section of the State. TO ADVERTISERS. As a medium for reaching the people, THE JOURNAL is unsurpassed in the up country. Having a large and constantly increasing circulation in the counties of Kershaw, Sumter, Darlington, Chesterfield, Lancaster, A Fairfield and Richland, it is prepared to offer EXTRA INDUCEMENTS o advertisers. 1 TERMS?Payable Strictly in Advance: j TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. 1 For tho Campaign?and until January 1st, lb79?GO CENTS. :o: ENCOURAGE HOME INDUSTRY I