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ISSUED KV BUY SA : CC.DAY MOKNINC UV Till: OKANUKI'I ! (I NKWSCOMPANY. :(ii:o. r.niiiviii:, business Manager. Toms of Subsci'ijitioii. One Copy t'HC Year.$:! 00 " " Six Mvttiltx. 1 on Itiilcs of Advertising. Oio- Sijuorc \a( Insertion.?1 CO Hitch Subsequent " . 1 t)0 Notices inserted in Local Column at ?Oc per .Loir. ' yl// Subscriptions and Transient Advertise ?nicnts t<> lie jititd for in Advance. IP'S)'" No Jlecipts for Subscription or Adver tisements arc Valid unless Signed byJiusiiicss Jifiinagci\ j ^'e nrc in no way responsible lor Ibis views or opinions of our Correspond ents. . . ,M SATURDAY, JUNE 3.~io7G~ Capt. F. V/. J)&wson's Address to (he Press Associati n. Tho Press Association of .this Stale met in SpnrliUiburg sonietimo since, and whs addressed by Captain F. W. Dnwson of the 'Nats and 'Courier. The Captain's remarks were eloquent, and defined tho mission of the j on na list from Iiis standpoint to a gnat's heel. Put what a pity. it is that the qditorials'-iih tho^Ncicti 'and Courier do'fiot chime >\iih the advice given . .by its editor to ? the, I'i\ss Association'?, IIe preached one thing in Spartrtnb'urg and practices the opposite in Charleston. We make the following extracts from tho address, giving, as we pass along," our opinion of *' their consistency willi the course of bur contemporary : ? ? "More than 8,000 newspnpers are published on this continent, and each and every one of them, in its degree, quickens or retards the growth of the human race in public intelligence and private virtue. For, tho news paper press thinks for those who care not to think lor themselves, cuckoos whose chosen hcsl is other inch's opinions, It formulates and crystal i/.cs opinion, clothing it in the garb of winning or rcpcllanl words. It may not create public sentiment; 1 it it shapes, ilcvclopcs and directs it." Which is just what the Nietes and Courier wauls. It doe. n't care to "create" if it can "shape" and "dircvl." "It forbids whatever can deli Id or debase; any dalliance with impulily, any gloating over sickening stories cd" crime." "It forbids" &c. What didyeu write that for Captain? Have you forgotten that tho people regard Frank Moses, Cardo/.a, et id ijcuus oiuue, men whom you have over and over again clasped to your palpita ting bosom, as the princes of the "de?lers" and "debascrs" of our fair Slate? And then you speak of "dalliance with impurity." Where is your consistency ? Why you have helped more Radical rascals out ol trouble than all the Republican papers ol the State put together. Forbidding, the mischief! You fatten on it. "It matters little, in these disjoint ed times, whether the community ap prove or disapprove of what is wt it ten; whether the newspaper repre sents or misrepresents them." Jess so. And herein is the News and Courier faithfully photographed. How lifelike,^ oh, how lifelike, Captain, you have painted 11 i? course of your "great journal" in the aboyc extract. Toll you, you'll get credit for consistency if you keep on in that line. There is no doubt about it. It will ooiuc as .surely as the night follows day. "A day will come, perhaps, when lips need; not ho sealed; when manly indignation and hohl rebuke will hot be misunderstood.. That day has hot come yet, and until it docs coiho the conscientious journalist must think lirst of the welfare of his public, and last of his own inclinations." Through which two sentences you should have drawn your "Reform" pen. You see, such a "gush" as that might injure you with your friends. "A day will eoiiio" &c.*, induces one to suspect, that when the Democ; als, siinor.-puro, attain to p.v.vor again, you intend to ' unseal your lips," turn Slate's evidence, and .-end a whopping crowd of Radical rascals to the Penitentiary. Now we don't like that. Wo enter our prole if, in behalf of tho** "powers that bo," against any .-uch intention, and urge you, Captain, if you are "conscien tious" in your "manly indignation," and mean that il shall not be "mis understood" on a day "that lias not yet uQiiicy! that you follow your "inclirtsvltoii.j" instanter, and quit "dallying" with the Vdefiiers" and "dohtisers" in the liadical parly. This is oflicial ! "No recognized cheat or fraud should he t.llov.id to make the press I its instrument orVecoy. The ingeh^ ins knaves who prey on the public have little scope unless, through un accustomed or unsuspected channels, they can reach the public car." We didn't know tint U'.c Ncta and Courier had failed all this time to Uli llerstund the true characters of some of its friends. That paper is neither an "unaccustomed" nor an "u tsiis pected channel" for a great many "cheats" and "frauds," and their "scope" to ''prey on the public" is as ample as the resources of their "uri stumcclcd channel'' is far-reaching. "It is not, however, the place of the Journalists to pldy the pedagogue;' and,(reut She.-public,- in nfiministcritig the naked truth, ris child run who can be ".kept i:i" or birched, if they mur mur or sulk. It is his duty to rc monstrnlc, to rebuke, nnd to - con demn when peimicioitstplaus'tlro aibot and pernicious .cpuusnls., tlu'calcn ..to prevail; when .yVhut .is clearly and palpably liiVd or injurious (s ndviicd or contemplated. Tln.s ' is no pleas ant task. It is easier to float with the>' popular tide limn to pull against the stream " We wish \yo could trust yon, N tcs and Courier.hto; pull w.ith .the pari)? of "moral ideas" through all time as faithfully as yc-u have boon doing that glorious work for the past year or, more. Ours is the "popular tide," ami -jiu- can "Hont" upon it a< cus^ as .you please. f Drill on,. friend, tupd if present "aiTatigtinenls," don't "bust," you'll bp made fpttito prjntcr as.sure as you are n "pedagogue." This is also bllic-ja), and was telegraphed flb llic Grand Cyclops ol this County on the 1st day of this Centennial Year. "Continued unpopularity, however gained,ensures failures in journalism. Shall the journalist then unhesitating ly say and du what, in his judgment , will ruin the business of his newspa per, cause the loss of its capital, and dep live him of the. menus of serving and aiding the public ?" No sir! A thou, and times no!! Uuii't you lot 'em scare you away from that principle, Capiaiii. Its the life of your excellent journal, and wo beseechingly advise you not to ruin the "business of your newspaper" by going back on your coalition rc forih plut'urm. If you mean business don't bother with tlie Democrats any more than you can help it. Write an editorial of Centennial gush* for thciit now and then, but as a rule you hold mi to that "popular tide," and you will lind it to bo the winning one. "Whit is wholly true will live, and the newspaper that preaches and practices iL will live likewise. The pretended truth will '.lie." Which ought to have been left bill of your speech. You don't want to set people a-thihking oyor ypur "pro tended truths," do you? Of course you don't believe that your present policy will prevail in South Carolir.it for 'ill time to come, but you know it is u part of "the arrangement" to make the people think ko. So you ought to have drawn your Kcibriu pen through "them sentences/' Cap lam. "Iii my judgment, and speaking iui the South Carolina of to-day, it is wiser to hire the whole time and thought and work of a far inferior person. The hitler can be i ml open dent, and, except in rare instances, the former cannot. Supppsu for sake of argument, that the Judge of this Circuit is tyrannical, incapable, or coriupt, ah I .'no newspapers in the Circuit arc edited by lawyers who arc dependent on their practice at the bar. Dare those lawyer journalist to expose the fut'ts of that Judge, and condemn I hem as the public weal rc rpiiies that thev be condoned '! To denounce the Judge is to be out of favor willi him; Lawyers known to bo disliked by a Sutlgo n'o shunned by litigants. What these want is lb gain illicit* causes; and they naturally incline towards tJie lawyer who is sup posed to hnyc the etir of the J.udgc, and is familiar with ll>3 Court House backstairs. The lawyer journalist in the ease I have supposed, is forced to choose between bold speech for the sake of lite newspaper which amuses him, and silence for the sake of him self ami his family. It is lo bo /ex pected that, under such circumstan ces, the lawyer shall think always of his ditty lb the abstract public; and never of his obligation to himself V" Which forming no purl of the gen er il plan to' 'carry the. State," we pass over without making any com ment, "When then ujournalist publishes what he (Iocs nut believe, or defends what in his hear! he condemns, or cringes to prejudice for his own or his parly's good, he is.as many times :t falsifier and deceiver a-i there are fihcols on whiclrhis words tire printed. A journalist, of course,.should be loy itl to the political party with which he is in sympathy." Mixed up again, Captain, IniL no matter whether-your sympathies are with the Democrats or not, so long h.3 ybu continue, your r(dr of "deceiver" l>nr rxreUanee, wo shall not quarrel over your "loyalty" nor inquire ''?.vi al's iii your heart." "Of what worth is such a newspa per, a journalistic chameleon that takes the hue of what it feeds on ? We don't know exactly, but (lap tain report says that your editorials are "adieap'of 'worth' to your friends." And ofcour.se they must feed you. The laborer b worth}' of his hire. "Wc who are Democrats, and arc guided by the principles of the Dem ocratic parly, are confident that our principles, and none other, nrc true. "Which can't be reconciled to the course of the News anil Courier, and knocks the bottom out of an other- [ wise good coalition Itcform-ltepubli C. n speech. Wc have no idea, though, that the last scntimCut quoted will be allowed to interfere with the general pluu for "carrying the State." ,--Signs of the Times. This is a subject upon which wo coulll write, enough, , to fill up our entire papor, but us thcic is nothing in it just now that is cheering, we shall dwell upon it very; briefly. Signs of tho times! "What arc ,lhcy?( What is tho status of our ,agricultual, educational, commercial and financial interests? Bright or gloomy? What prospect is there of a better government ? What chance is there of ridding this Slate of the stranger ihicycs who urc here sucking the lifo blood of the taxpayers? To the first of these questions we must answer, that bur agricultural, educational, commercial and financial interests are all in as mad a state of complete stagnation as they could be. Many places people arc starving for want of bread, with no prospect of immediate or remote relief. Edu cationally we have been bankrupt since the war. True, large amounts of money have been annually appropria ted 'or iho maintenance of the Free School syslnni, but the appropriations have been gobbled up by worth less nil incompetent officials, and the children allowed to grow up in ignor ance. Instead of selecting the best men morally and intcrlcctuully for the office of School Commissioner, as a general thing the most ignorant embodies have been foisted upon the public. The School laws are ample and efficient,hilt they cannot lie carried j out bv tf\ovelinK idiots. II(dice, our i Schoo! status is not good, and does hot promise a .-ingle sign of imprqfag mer.t.* v pnnniercially wc nie hot much better oil. There is no money in the country and consequently lid trade, is going on. What few goods are sold, are bought oil time under liens, and these latter in the Fall will swallow up the entire crop of cotton and leave the people us poor as they are to day? The condition is simply this: Our merchants owe their factors, our farmers all owe the merchants, and when the cotton crop is gathered it will go to the merchants on the liens for advances, and from the merch ants to their Factors lor credits. In this winde transaction will there be any money handled ? Not a cent ! The young cotton crop is already sold, and hence we say thai our con ditio n will not be bettered by the cot ton crop that will be made this year. And wc will continue in this same flat-footed condition .from year to year on to the end of our lives if our people do hot pay nioro attention to the cullivaiion of corn, rice, wheat &c, and to the raising of their own bacon. Just think of it, it takes now two pounds of good ordinary cot ton lo pay for one pound of bacon in some places. How much more will it require next year this time ? Let our farmers change their tactic?, and make more provisions. Financially we arc "dead broke." /There is no money in the country, and no prospect that there will be any for a long time lo come. The State Government is bankrupt. The penal and charitable institutions will have to run on a credit after this month, ^if they run at all, for the balance bf the year. There will be n deficiency lo be made up in the next tax of over Ivo hundred thousand dollars, and where tho money is to come from Clod only knows. And yet many of our people are going about their business looking as cool as a cucumeer under the delusive hope that better times arc "coming, and thinking and believ ing that wc are living under a Re form Government of tho first water. Dream on, friends 1 It is our impres sion that you will he aroused by the next-tax levy to a tune of twenty-one or two mills on the dollar. Hence our financial condition is blacker ihan Egyptian darkness. As to the prospect of n belter gov ernment and a riddance of the E ;?thievos who luivo besmirched and bo Voulcd every department of our State 'Government, we see none save in the resolution of honest. men ?to drive them ii'?m power. Hour people will rise up in their mightnud swear tlvtt the desecration of our Jtiiul shall stop, and hurl the robber band to the dust, ?a belter day will nt once dawn upon us. Until that is done, wo cannot promise a belter outlook. Strike in the Low Country. The laborers on the rice, planta tions along the Cuinbahcc .struck fur higher wages a week or more ago, and went about tho country compell ing nil the hands in thai neighbor hood lb quit work. Jl sc'clris that the regular price paid per hand was forty cents a day, and the laborers doinah-' ded more. The outbreak threatened to be serious at lir.st, and a large num bet:of rice planters materially injured, but by prudent ami peaceable action' oil the part of (he whiles, the laborers were kept within tlu law and at this writing are said lobe, resuming their work at the old pfiec.' A few centennial gits hers arc trying to put a political aspect upon the strike, but the cilbrt will be an in glorious failure. Forty cents a day is hardly enough for a day's work in the rice (ields of the low country, and we suppose as freemen the laborers quietly resolved among themselves to ask for more. They failed, but that is no reason why the. aet should he put down as a political trick. OKANGEBURO ACADEMY AM) KINDERGARTEN. On Monday Juno 'J?th Rev. J. .Baehman llaskcll und Sisters, will ope:i a SCI IOOL at their resident's on Russell Street. In connection with above a KIX j lUJKUA 1;TI;N, (for children lib I ween the ages of three (o) ami Scv^ri j (7) will i expelled MS sOotl as the pro per material can he procured :.? :i the North. Apolieati.. is Tor both Sehpb's iv cciveil 11 Saturday nud .M itdUy bet v. et a tlic hours of ten t 10) ah 1 t (&) J. HA CUM AN IJA? K El A . _ ._I_j AITENIION LADIES ! Mra. Julia Winlii re, r? l <> tfully intbni ; ilie Ladli s <>r t iraupehurj lli?i die will hpen mi Kxhibiti'iii Moiidsiy one "ejiif0 Mr,!. Oliverns' l)tiiidini>, it lieautiijd :is.*nri? in. ni >>l" bodied L'liilerweor. Knilm <li :?j Infant* i Cloaks :i?d ?'.-ps. ?? ?MaVVtili.a), :k large variety of Sill- :ir..l i.i ? ? Neck 'l"u s, Ivihln.us liiid a urea I mi h.y other ariielcs. ? These goods will lit'fohl atAuetiph oh Tne.Mhty .lane ' (itlt, rtimuieiu'ing :i! I?J o'clock" .\. M. Thanking lor the past patronage and invite tho public to ntltiid this sale; M It*. JULIA H;.IXfl*I2It<-. juue o It ORANGE?UKG, S. C. June 1st. I will be at tlic following named places to receive Returns of Personal property for the year 1870, as follows: At Lewisvillo Manday and Tuesday June 12th 13th. At Port Motte, Wednesday, June 14th At Rowesvillc, Friday, June 16th, At Branchvillc, Satu day June 27th At W. E. Lewis' Store (Poplar) Tuesday, June 17th. At J. F. Ways Store (Goodbys) Thursday, June 2yth. At Knotts Mill, Monday, July 10th. At Col- 1). Livingston Mill, Tues day, July; 11th. At W. L. W. Rilcy's, Wednesday, July 12th. The 'Oilice at Orangeb?rg, will b?' open for the same purpose until the 20tli day of July -1876, . after-, which - time tlvc 50 -per cent penalty will be charged against all delinquents ? JAS. VAN TASSEL, Co. Amrron. ouLnuebuiu^ ^ In Common Pleas. Oliveros vs. Oliveros, ct ah For Sale, the Lot, and Residence on Rnssrll Street rpcontly creeled,, between Mr. 1'ike's. and Mr. * Scovili'aj with the ornamental material for finishing the piazzas, Ac:, in handsome style. The houfe has French roof, three ija'v windows, and Wiichenjexton.sion, ami baa eleven Rooms in all. The Lot extends ba?:k to U lover Street in the rear, lias outbuildings and a fihii Well of water. For further particulars, applv to Mrs. Rosa Oliveros, Kxeculrix, or the undersigned, who will receiw pro posal* for the purchase of the saine. I The time for proof of claims ngalnt the I Instate of the late Ksidro I. Oliveros has been n'xteiVdecl to August 1st, 187(J. I'v Order of the Court* 'C. R. GLOVER, Referee. jnne 3 ? m ?3m. Western Corn. I .Six linger grain r'. ad!- -- j i-( received Al.-O ' ? r ear loa I of VW^V. CORN*, which \.< oil! red a*, low priec- !'- r''.i l . AU(a.:.-;TA K.ijtlLf FLOIIL n.iCSII ilKXt IillTJ, Arc., run s.u.:: nv ? .'MUX A. HAMILTON, Stolen faoji My Office.' f'.r?> S5<>*iVar<l?rV.r the ltv.v-ry of my' priv.ile Atlor ?<?;.?'.- !> ?ekei M ?.vhi.h v\ -s M'iileii faftl.'tayhftta 1?;<Vtifc M.i>:!-v S?pnne f.'ohi liith ? ?'?? p'ril last, i v. til ji.iv die -> e '! \< .o d. The name of "<*?. j :;. Ihdt" is lutprihU1! i?ri the back of the ' I took in gilt litters. Thue were a number iif j11-i.;i:?- papers also in the doekel-, which ran hi- of service tu no one hut imvelf I and which I wish Retuhiiil with the Rook U.S. RUM* i may '27 11 11| |1? & ho ? b 11? I! Eil--? f 4 I vM ? tr i f #11^ I B to - irr? 3 5 ?? s S>* ?^ sc ? *3 i # st-1 5 v ?? o JL ? # j? HAS REMOVED TO T. D. WOLFE S OLD STAND With a full stock of Groceries, Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos. Gall on him and he will do his best to please you. I : m ? v7 SIX and QUARTER Cents! SIX AND QUARTER CNNTS 5 1 .SIXTEEN YARDS : FOR ONE DOLLAR SIXTEEN YARDS }"'. FOR^NEDOLI^R! SIXTEEN YARDS1'1-' ' lwnlf,i FOR ONE DOLLAR! ill Just received ' ' ?* ^ J '!', I fi '?.}.? MM One Hundred Pieces. CHOICE. P^T$ r*>? r-3 / At. Jf, i^. ;J{J T, KOHN & BROKER'S Which will sold At the above HARD PAN PRICES: Xe\v Spring C*oot\r?tit,l^w pi'i'.'x.'-' ! N*-\v" Spring T*i\i.-t\f?olrtllX \V?- ni:i-r. also, full liZVS IcidhlJ; l<mntte I,oii? Clothes* at ihr |WVrc?ti inaiihfaititrrr!?' ptic-;" Ami. filiert* ,] iMjir- lvi!i?rv 4<<?t toliKt Towels, S.iii ?Mi '?':??. liiivK. Erish ?.im*u*-, i i meres, i. otfon* sides. itl* Mtu.is, 'of the best nmkesat jnieM Hut cannot fail to pica***. ... \.f\v Ciiijliiitjjgl New Sty los i I Wudr r.rc l'"i]iiii*s all hovers id\Spi'lltff Clothing; to examine our good.-* Ul.f?re.purchaMrigi Our stock, of Clo&hinff csceil in varifetjr extent, Style, (Quality and teonomy: "\\T also have m stdr'ca iargctrfriety-.br latent fashion* In I.mliert, Gents* .fit <>* h and Girls Straw IKats . Ktid every Other ntyle df Hats lit vogue. Stationary* itUse* Hall*. Hats* Pistol (tira tridgeM and thousand* df other articles tco numerous* td com1 ineuce to mention, pnr chased at the prevailing Low Priceu, nnd Kill be Bdld *d cordingly. Shoes and Gaiters in Leather 6r Serge for Men* Women and Children, in large assortment of the best makes at price* to suit the times. All we Oak of the kind public is to conte and see us, bring along the Silver or Greenbacks, which is at par with each other. T. KOHN & BROTHER.