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RAnJ,RloAi ScIIEDUiM:.-.TheC follow ing arc the hours at which the trains on the C. C. and A. I. R, pass Winnsboro: REOULAR PAHsENER-NIoIIT. For Charlotte, 2.31, A. . For Augusta, 1.13, A. U. ACCOMMODATION FREIIHT--DAY. For Augusta, 11.45, A. M For Charlotte. 1.00, r. M Now Advertisemente. Dontistry-Dr. Joseph Quattle baum. Fairfield Fire Engine Company T. R. Robertson, Secretary. We are pleased to learn that there have recently been large aceassions to the ranks of the Fairfield Fire Engine Company. There wore twenty-fivo now members elected at the extra meeting on Saturday afternoon, and the mnaterial thus added is very fine. FAIRFIELD COUNTY BIBLE SocIETY. The fifty ninth anniversary meeting of the Fairfield Bible Society, will be held in the Presbyterian church in Winnsboro, on Thursday, May 3rd, at 12 o'lock, mn. The anniversary address will be delivered by Henry N. Oboar, Esq. The public are in'. vited to attend. JAS. W. LAW, Secretary F. C. 3. S. The Roy. Geo. Williams Walker, who has been pastor in charge of the Methodist church in Winusboro for more tlan a year .past, has been called to another field of labor in Charleston. He goes to till the pulpit made vacant by the death of the late Dr. Fleming. Mr. Walker has many friends and admirers in our community. In leaving now, he carries with him their best wishes for his success and happiness. DENTAL No-rIcE -Dr. Isaiah Simp Ron, Surgeon Dentist, Charlotte, N. C., respectfully informs the citi zens and public generally that he will visit innsboro, S. C., profes sionally, on the 24th day of April, 1877, to remain ten days or two weeks, and will locate there per manently in a few months. Teeth extracted without pain. Terms to suit the times. Satisfaction guar anteed. * 3w. The following is a copy of a letter recently received by Mr. M. L. Brown from his aunt, Mrs. C. M. Golding, of Spartainburg. The old lady is in the seventy,-ninth year of her age, but the letter shows that she is still fully alive to the great events transpiring arimnd us. The letter is as follows: "Let me congratulate you upon our success. I know that you ap preciate it as nmuch as I do, and a good deal more than some. I heard with pleasure of the great demon.. stration that was made at Winns boro. I thought at the time that you would hiardly realize wheththr you were on your head or your heels. I missed all that. I have not seen our lloman Gavernor, never heard him, but am willing to strust him at the helm of State, and had resolveod to acknowledge none other as ruler as long (as he was alive. I deter mined when I paid my tax that, let what go or come, woe must "Hold the Fort" for Hlamptop. I feel nowv as if I could draw my breath as long as from me to you. I am free. The Lancaster jail is full, York rejoices in the prospect of an abundant fruit crop. The colored Lancastrians have organized a debating society. The Pendleton cotton factory is to be sold at auction. It is a fine piece of property. Everybody in Marion has gone to work, and givon up law and poli ties. The camp meeting at Ladson's Station, on the South Caroiina Rail,. road, began on Friday. It is stated that Governor Hamp, ton has commissioned C. T. Hop1)s king, colored, as trial justico for Greenville county. General Gary denounces as utter ly without foundation the Columbia rumors as to his having made nego tiations with the Republicans. i Sam Crawford, colored, of Lan'. castor, has a cow which gave birth to twin calves last Thursday. Sam voted for Hampton~ and :1rovidonee smilos on him. THE STATE CAPITAL, --- --- SO.MN A CCOU\T I' , Mt ATTIW- (I-X llA 1LLJ. The Legislaturo then and now--The present body--Tribulations of the Mackoyites-.The Chief Justiceship, etc., etc. CorIxSProNIxxcs oF TUTS NHws AND IIVSrAt,. COLUMBIA, April 28. A visit to the Stato Capital at this time will amply repay any one of the many thousand taxpayers who have been burdened for so many yeaes with the weight of oppression and misrule. The old city has put on an appearlanco Such as has not been seen since the hideous night of Reconstruction begau. One realizes, on walking the streets, that Carolina once more belongs to Caro linians, and that the bottom rail, deprived of its bayonet props, is rapidly giavitating back to its proper place. Not that there are any signs of material improvement ; for trade in Columbia, as elsewhere, is practically at a standstill, and n oney is scarcer than hens' teeth, while a revival of business is not expected before autumn. But the ('videlce of the new order of things is seen im the countenances of the people, in their buoyant spirits and sanguine proguostications of future prosperity, in the groups of respcta ble citizens on the streets, at the hotels and in the lobbiei and on the floor of the State House, and last, but not least, in the presence of the ladies within the railing of the Legislative balls, from awhich they had been excluded by the force of circulnstances since theoverthrow of the Orr administration. In former days the Legislature was a favorite resort for .the beauty and chivalry of the State, aid many a grave Senator or Representative was wont to slip away from his seat on the floor to spend a pleasant hour of dalliance in the gallery. The reviv al of this custom marks forcibly the inauguration of the new era. It is also calculated to make one's soul rejoice to see the quondam Radical dignitaries flitting like evil spirits in and around their old haunts, with looks plainly betraying a consciousness that their day is elided and that the places that know them shall know them no more. They arc the same in name, but sadly changed since the days, when, reveling in ill-gotten gains and re gardless of a hereafter, they dis ported in luxurious equipages and wore an air of superciliousness and insolent bravado. The mills of the gods ground slowly, but at last they have ground exceeding fine. The avenging Nemesis has been at woi k, and the triump1h of the taxpayer is crowvned in th~e defeat and degrada tion of thme tax-thief. I visited THlE STATE IIOUSE this morinig. My last visit pros viously had been at the time when the Constitutional H-ouse and the Mackey Mob hadl joint possession of the hall, when I was enabled to pass the lower door only by cajoling a pr-ivate in the United States ar-my, and to gain admission to the hall, not as a citizen of South Car-olina, but as a corr-espondent of a New Yor-k paper. The scenes of those days are indelibly impressed upon all who witnessed them. On one side, the Constitutional House ; on the other the recalcitrants, the "twin Speaker-s" in their respective chair-s, a double staff' of officials, a corps of newspap~er reporters, and a fewv privileged visitors-these, with a general sprinkling of dirk and litter, and a background of bed clothes, concealing pistols and Winchester rifles, formed the mist en scene. A general look of weari ness and agonizing uncer-tainty as to the final issue pervaded the countenances of the patriots whc were guarding, as best they could, the- interests cf the Stato. To, (day, howv changed was the appear anice of things I DIGADE OF 00NyIOTs had scoured and scrubbed off the last vestiges of Radicalism. Thc building shone in all the beauty o1 cleanliness. The corridors were paced by respectable citizens, ne stacks, of bay~nets offended the eyes anid even the bronze statue oi Washington, near the entrance, had put off the nauseated ap pearance I fancied it then worse. This time, too, I was enabled to enter TUE HOUSE OF REPREsENTATIVEs without molestation, and discovere that Mr. D. R. Elkin of Fairfield w. a the tutelary die y of the doocr,Uice "Slim Jim" and the insolent barba rians who had arbitrarily slammed it in the face of decency during the Mackey usurpation. Speaker WVallace was in the chair and, having undisi puted possession of the gavel, was presidirg with gratignity. The ladies l)ronolyced him handsome. Upon the floor wero Senator Butler, Secretary Sims, Sup~eri ntendent 1opson)slnl and a nuber of distin gished visitors. 'lhe membrs of the House still retaiped the seats they had occupied in November, on the right of the Speaker, whilo the recent convorts, and thoso who wore waiting for admission, wore grouped on the left, the propor place for goats. Hamilton and Myors, the two colored delegates who had stuck to the right through thick and thin, were seated on the Democratic side of tho House, along with Maryo who was elected as a colored Demo cratic from Colleton and has stood by his party. Hanilton wore a rose in nis button-holo and evident., 13 felt his oats. About fifteen Mackeyites have 'been seated. The rest are on proba tion. THE SCENE P11VsENTED when they took the oath was mnost ludicrous. Each was compelled to make the most abject apology for his conduct, and if any faltered or spoke too Low or qualified with An "if" or a "but," ho was compelled to begin anew and go over it amid laughter from the other side until every one was satisfied. The Rbadi~ cals look badly. They experience all the pangs of baffled conspirators and feel that they are sadly out of place. No one would recognizo in them the ins >lent creatures who, in the halcyon days of the conspiracy, yelled thjemselves hofrso to the tune of "Hold the Fort for Hayes and Wheeler," and passed resolutions ordering new elections to fill the seats of the members of the Consti., tutional House. That resolution has proved a boonserang. By their own mouths they are now being judged. In this connection, it may. be mentioned that others of the Mackeyites will be admitted, while many will be summarily unseated. E. W. M. Mackey's chances are sim ply il. He was the head,front and backbone of the movement. With out him the Rump House could not have lived a week. He is said to ha.ve talked rather defiantly the first day of the present session, daring the Democrats to unscat any of his party, but when one or two wore rejected and the rest were put on the mourner's bench, he left for Charleston. Straker, a coal-black specimen of the genus hones who claims a seat from Orangeburg, will doubtless suffer for the prominent part he took in the conspiracy, while the whole delegations from Charles, ton, Darlington and Kershaw are trembling in the balance on account of fraud and terrorismn in their re spective counties. Prince Martin, of Fairfield, stands little chance. He acted with the conspirators from first to last in flagrant contempt of the court and the House. He is wasting time in Columbia, and sonm friend should advise him to follow the good example set b y Bird and Gibson, and resign. lie can make more at his crop than b~y hanging around1 the State House. But to return to the direct sub,. ject. On Saturday, Minort, a col oredl Mackeyite from Richland, w~ho is now sitting clothed and in his right mind, introduced a set of reso lutions looking to tihe IMPEAcHMENT OF JUDGE wRIoHT. Minort charges that during the recent complications the sable asso ciato justice was found lying drunk in the "dreans" of Colunbia and carried home by the police. He does not wvish his race to be dis graced by any such judge. Miller, a canary colored Mackeyite from Beaufort, offered an amendment to substitute the name of Judge T, J. Mackey for that of Wright. It was promptly voted down, and Minort's resolution to appoint a committee of investigation was carried. The mo tives inducing Minort to this course are not known. Charges wvill cera tainly be preferred against Wright, but whether the Senate will convict hlim is a doubtful question. Another bill has been introduced' to elect seven trustees for THE UNIVERSITY, wh>v shall close that institution for the present and mature some plan for its rehabilitation in the future. It is not known at wvhat time it will be opened for the whites. Certain it is that a summary stop will be put to the present system of paying colored students two hundred dol.. lars a year to enter its walls. Thme Legislaturo is not doing much yet, becauso no business is before it ; but the committees are wvorking like beavers, and in a few days the session will become in. teresting. THlE cHIEF FEATURES of the session wvill be the eleotion a chief justice, the passage of a tax bill and the reduction of expendi ture's. Of the two last it may only be said generally that great efforts will be made to lighten the burdens of tihe people. The office of jury commissioner will be abolished. The county .commissioners will receive less pay, and ile nollection of taxes will doubtless be consigned to a single official at a moderato salary An attempt will bo mado to abolish the school comlissioner's ollice, but I trust it will be unsuccessful. Who the chief justico will bo is not known, though chances favor Wil, lard, not so much boceuso of his legal ability, as thorn are many mom bers of the bar bettor fitted than he, but becauso thore seoms to be an idea on the part of many that sound poliey dictates the choice of him self rather than any one of his con pltitors. Messrs. Porter, Mclyor, Aldricj, Carroll and Kershaw are all mentioned, but no certain prediction can b mado. Such is a hasty sketch of affairs as they now stand in Columbia. The Domocrats, except in the Senate, have everything their own way, and with the outside pressure now brought upon that body it will not be dangerous. It is hoped that even the Senato will ere long fall into the hands of the Democrats. The Democrats are manifesting wisdom and judgniont, and their success will be moderated by justice. The future is bright for tljo State. Ettenger & Edmond, RzCJogeoID. VA. M ANUFACTUREIS of Portable ann Stationary Engines and Boilers of dLI kinds, Circular Saw mills, Grist Mills, Ni ill Gearing, Shafting, Pulleys fac. AMERICAN TURBINE WATER WHEEL. Cameron's Special Steam Pumps et 1 Send for Catalogue. RD TIMES ARE OF 20 TO GIVE OUR CUSTOMERS T,1E GIVE WITH EVERY POUND PACKA( POUND OF LAUNDRY STA Th.e Cuffee On3.y GREAT REDUCTION IN TI GROCERIES AN GARDEls -VERY SHOES At march 17La SOLUBLE PA THE above well known GUANO. Consumers of this guano will findi gave such universal satisfaction. F< CUMMINGS & Co., fah10.2m E. H. FROST & CO M.MASTER & BRICE WVOULD cull the special attentipnpfthe Ladies to their stock of Nausooks, Whito and Figured Lawns. Piques, Hamburg Edgings,j Neck Ruilling, Silk Ties and Scarfs, Hosiery, Gloves &co. GENTLEMET will find a full stock of furnishing Goo4q consisting of ready-niado Clothing, Hats, 14.0ta and Sliee, hosiery, Gloves, 5hirts, ~ Qiuzo 8hirt; Drawers, --A SO. Gassier's, I'weeds, 4nontDriils, &e. We iro daily receiving additions to our Stock of Goods, and purchasers in search of bargains will find it to their intorost te give us a call. Goods are Astonishingly Cheap april 14 G ET D'our Job Pinting lone at TlE NEWS AN HERALD Ofic, H1gH PIgES D ACCOUNT,, BENE FIT OF BUYING OF 1JS AWAY IE OF CO~'FE]3 ONE RCH 2 OtS. a P '.:.c.. IE PRICES OF ALL RINDS 0 DRY GOODS. IhE & CO. FOAM, FLAVORING -0---. EXTRACTS, ETC. SEEDS, CHEAP. (D BOOTS, -0 -OF CIFIC GUANO. AND OOMPOUND ACID PHOS8 .o following p laces in this county. L fully up to last year's quality, which >r circulars and prices apply to Winnsboro, 8. 0. ., ChadOtrlnta. (1I