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Wt NS1%ORO, S. C. Thursday, February 15, ; : 1877. R. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, JNO. S. REYNOLDS, Associate Editor. TO OUR READERS. After an absence of a year, Mr. R. Moans Davis now assumes chief editorial management of THE Nzws AND HERALD, assisted by Mr. Jno. S. Reynolds, as associate editor. No pains will be spared either in the editorial department or in the busi ness management, to raise the paper to a high stand ard of excellence. The patronage of the people of Fairfield, which has boon so generously given in the past, is respectfully solicited for the future. Grant told Judge Settle that the Electoral Commission would seat Tilden. A considerable immigration has set in to Florida since the inaugu ration of the Democratic govern ment. Fairfeld will experience a similar revival when Chamberlain clears out. The Atlanta special to the Augus ta Constitutionalist says the new tax bill which passed the House is voluminous and embraces every thing. Is it improper enough to embrace the women ? The proceedings before the Su. promo Court for the past few weeks have not yet resulted in anything decisive. The Court is moving cau tiously. Th 3 aspirants for the State offices' are contesting the ground, step by stop, but the Demo crats have a very strong case and some of them, if not all, will eventu ally be successful. The guberna torial issue is still boforo the Court, but nothing has been decided. Hampton, however, is gaining ground every day. He has become the defacto governor, and is recog. nized every where. The people of South Carolina announced in No vember that they would have Hampton or Ruger; and this is still the alternative. There seeimg now no possible chance for Chamber lain. It is said on good authority that Governor Tilden i still quite sanguine of his suocess in the Presidential struggle. Ho is re ported to have used the fol lowing language to a personal friend, only a daty or two before the Florida decision :"Say to our friends that they have n o reason to be depressed if the Commission de cide against the Democracy in the Florida cade. I expect the decision will be adverse, but do not encour - ago despondency. The loss of Florida will not surprise me, but there are other points upon whieh I am confident the Democracy will -succeed." He is represented as talking very unconcernedly about the matter, and as saying, "I am a fatalist in so far asI believe, as the representative of the Democrats, ,hat the final decision will be in our favor." The Electoral Fraud. Tbe conduct of the Electoral Commission has been a source of great disappointment to those who relied upon it to set at rest all doubt as to the legalityof the elec tion of one or the other of the Presidential candidates. Every one knew that without going behind the actions of the returning board, Hayes would be counted in unless Oregon's vote defeated him. But what the honest people of the Union desired, was to know which candid~te had received a majority of all the legal votes east in each State. This knowledge could be obtained only by examining into all' the facts conn~ected with the election in the thr-ee disputed States. For' this task the Electoral Commission was specially appointed. When it refused to make this scrutiny, it fell far below what was expected of it, and instIead of unravelinig the In the Com1ulission, i'r. Jenks con ci ided by asking the Coiunic s'on to let tho truth slino upon the whole transaction. If you do, said he, there can be but one single result. The wisest of men, the strongest of men, cannot make the false true. No false god should be set up. If you attempt to blind the eyes of this mighty nation, your edict will be void, for history will know the truth and record it. No ; wo want to clear out all of this pollution, mnd to purge the nation of the dis' grace of the frau:lutent acts of this vi!o retui ning board. Mr. Hulbut, one of the objectors to certificate no. 2-the Tildon paper-after briefly reviewing the his tory of Louisiana for several years since, claimed that the Kellogg gov ernment has been officially recog nized by the President of the United States and by both houses of Con gre~;. John McEnery had not attenmted to exorcise the functions of govenor since 1874, and yet lho now comes forward and attempts t> give certificates to inon who claim to have been elected-the Tilden eloe tors. Mr. -luilbut read one of the cert iii cates to show its pecculiar" phraseolo gy, and that McEnery did not sign himself as governor, tand did not use the great seal of the State. He had no seal, nor did he have any office. The fact being settled that Kellogg is the only lawful executive of Louisiana, he would ask the Com mission whether they had the right or the time to investigate tho elec tion in t'ie State. He road f:- in the laws of Louisiana. Howe followed IIulbut on the same subject. OBITUARY. DIED, on the 1 th inst., at, the resid-mce of her mother, in this county, Miss MAnY AGNES GL-mnNEY, in the nineteenth year of her age. PURIFIES TIE Bi.oola, RENOVATES AND INVI'IoRA'ES TIE W IoLI S S YsTEM. ITS MEDICAL PROPERTIES A lir Alterati e, Tonfe, ,olvelt aniid Di uretic. .t 1 Reliab'e Evidence. MtneDu. H .SlIES Vegetine f l I will most cheer the great nulllher you hlave Vegetine already reeived in favor of your great and good medi cine, \'I:G:ri.NE, for I do nt Vegetine thin'( -cnough enn be Said in its praise,for I was troubled over thirty years with that Vegetine d rtndfJul di'sease, catarrh. aind had such had coughing Spells that it woul seem as Vegetmoe I th, ugh I 7ever could brcathe any more' and VJoETINE has enr11,01d Rue; and I do feel to Vcgetinc thank God ali the time that there iss' g~ood( ai IId icine ax Vegctino VI~(rrixE, and I ailso think it one0 of. the best micni ines for (coughs anid weak, sinking Vegtin felinigs at thet .st amaclh, anflo Vegetinea:lvise 'eerbody to take the V'E';lTINJ:, for I can assure Vegetine thiemu it is one of the best meicinles that ever was. MIlS. LA. GORE, Vegetine . Cor. Magazine and( Walnuitt St reet., Cam111bridge, Miass. Vegetine IE Vegetine Health, Strength anid Vegetine APPETITE. .My dlaughter' has received Vegehme great benetits f rom the use of VnE'rNnax. Hecr deulining het'fh waus a soureo of great Vegetino anxiety to all her friends. A few b~ottles of VEOr'.TiAu-: re stored her health, Strength Veio and appetite. N. Hf. TILDEN, Vegetine Insurance anld Real Estato Agent, Xo. 410. Sears unimiling, Vege~incBoston, Mass. CANNOT BE Vegotine 39.K 3.1 o c Vegotine I'"hA"' ESTown, Mar. 19,18(19. H R. S-rEVENS: Dear Sir-This is to certify ooiethat 1 have uised your ''Blood Veio Preparation" in my famly3 for several years, aiid thlinu Vegetino that, for Serefula or Canuko rouls Hutmores or Rheumatic .een aiffections, it cannot bo ex Vem celled; and as a blood piuriner or spring moedigine, it is the best thling I have ever used, Vegetino andi~ I htave( used almost evecrything. I canI chieerfuhlly Vegaetino r~eommRend .it to anly onie in ineed of such a medicine. Youris respecRtfully, Ve g on e MR S. A. A. DINSMOR E, -No. 19 Russell Stroet --PREPARED BY-' H. R. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS. Vegetlue is Sold by all Druggists. ONION SETS. WT ITE'' and Ried Onion Sets, also, VVfreah Garden Seed in great vaiiety, also Hlorb and Flower Seeds. Also, a hotof-'loni and other Blank. febB ,M. MA'r1ns'a' BUsma - NEW STOCK oF SrIGi GOODS WILL BE E E0 J JEIVED AT DAN NENBERG' DRY GOODS, CLOTHI\G; BOOT AND SHOE CALL AND SEE THEM. Jan 25 LADD BROS. \VEhiavo now comnpleted one of the best stocks of DRY GOODS, BOOTS and SHOES, HATS and CAPS, YANKE~E NOTIONS, CROCKERY, &c. IN THIE COUNTY. We will not be undersold. Let us say, however, that our best yard. We cannot sell them lower and have a uniform profit on all Goods. GIVE US A CALL. ----- TO OUll COLOLED FR END8. As you have always put cone dence in us, we will tate that you may dopend on getting goods at a regular even price. No baits hold1 ot tosao.. . THE NEIS AND HERALD WEEKLY EDITION, In I VDU8snD EV1ItY Wen)EUDAY AT WINNSBORO, S, 0. VT T$$ WINNSBORO PUBLISIIING CO. IT CONTAINS A SUMMARY OF THE LEADING EVENTS OF THE DAY. State News, County News, Political News, Etc. THE EDITORIAL D PARTMEET RECEIVES SPECL4L A'TTENTION. TIlE LOCAL COLUMN Is well filled with town and county newe The aim of the Publishers is to issue A FIRST-CLASS FAMILY NEWSPAPER. Termis of Subscription, payable invaria bly in advannce: One copy, onO year, --- -----$8.00. One copy, six months, - -- - - $l.60,. QOe copy', three months, - - - $.0 Five copics, one year, at - - - -$2.75, Ten copies, one year, at - - - - $2.60, Twenty cop~ica, one year, at - - $2.50, To every person making up a club of ten or more subscribers, a copy will bie sent free for one year. Tho'names consti tuting a club need not all be at the same post-office. JOB PRINTING IN ALL ITS DEPARTMENTS DONE IN TiUE BEST STYLE AND AT THlE LOWEST PRICES. We are prepared to furnish, on .short notice, BANK DHIECKCS, BILL HEADS, NOTES, ENVELOPES, LETTER HEADS, INVITATIONS, CAR~DS, LAW BLANKS, POSTERS, POSTAL CARDS, ETC., ETC., Terms for Job Work--CaSh ox IDelivery. All business eommunleations should be ddressed tp the. Winnsboro Pubishina enmy.i .... tangle, merely ad med a new com plication. The principle involved in the Florida decision will give Louisiana to Hayes if the Returning Board is a legal body, and this, notwithstand ing the settled conviction that Tilden carried the State, and that the Board violatedI every principle of law and decency in aggregating the returns. Witness after witness has revealed upon the stand somo new crime perpetrated by Wells and his coadjutors. Bribery, cor ruption, forgery, alterations and erasures of returns, trumped up affidavits, burning of re.e&ns-all these are in the catalogue. Wells acknowledged that the Board re jected ten thousand votes cast for Tilden, and his confidential clerk says that sixty-six precincts were thrown out, when intimidation was charged in only ten ; and yet, the Commission, clothed by the people of tho United States with the authority to search for and discover the truth, and thus to set at rest the disturbed minds of the massep, deliberately refuses to make any in vestigation whatever; and thus through the supreme power vested in it because of the peculiar work rc quired of it, makes a finality of tho action of the returning boards by not doing that which it was organiz ed to do. Haves will be counted ir, unless Tilden, who has been de fraudsd of what is his due, is count ed in upon a quibble. In either case the result is unsatisfactory. The cry of fraud will be louder thaun ever. The Commission, too, will sink into contempt almost as deeply as the boards whose acts it refused to review are already plunged. The inauguration of Hayes upon a technical quibble will destroy the small modicum of respect for the ballot box that still exists. r, The Louisiana Case. The proceedings in the joint ses sion of Congress for the past few days have consisted in counting and recording the votes of Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas and Kentucky for their respective cand.idates. When Louisiana was reached, the Presi dent of the Senate handed to the tellers three certificates, two of which covere2 the votes of the Hayes electors, e cad the third, signed by McEnery as Governor, those of the rTildlen electorii, There 'was also a certificate wvhich the Vice iPresident said he had received by mail, purporing to cast the eight votc s of Louisiana~ for Cooper and Cary. The electors mnenjioned in the docui meat were all n:uncd John Smit!, distinguished from one another by the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ani 6, and by "letter A," "letter B," and "lots her-Rip." The Vice Pr-esident asked and obtained unanimous con sent to suppress this certificate. which was clearly bogus and a bur lesque. The matter occasioned much reorriment. Senator McDon aid, of Indiana, submitted objections to the Hayes and Wheeler certifi cates. Objections were likeowiseI submitted to the counting of the votes of the Tilden electors. Theo case thus wvent to the Electoral Comn mission. The counsel for the Democrats are Messrs. Field, Campbell, Trumbull, Carpenter, Merrick, Hoadley and Green -; and for the Republicans, Messrs. Evarts, Shellabarger, Matthews and Hlaugh ton. The further proceedings of the Commission are as follows: Judge Clifford announced twvo hours for each sido, and that the Commission was ready to hear the objectors to the6 Hayes certificates. Senator McDonald op~ened, claiming that the Hayes electors were not leogally elected, quoting the statutes of Louisiana, showing two sets of electoral lawsa, and-wmhoe one law repealed the other,1 or whethor they should run together-t.he pro ceedings of the Louisiana returning boar'd were alike irregular and un. lawful. McDonald and Jenks re- making a strong case,_ and apparently a strong impression on the court. There is no change in -thb situation, as indicated by the expressions of confidence on each side. E&ch asks the other, "Do ou give its up.?'.' and each anaw., p.".