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Zile "j'flum liltd 'erjatd WINN.ADMIO ,. C. Tuesday, July 31, 177. R. MEANS DAVIS, Ediltr, JNO. S. Rhy NOLDS, Auisouito E ditor. -DEMOCRATIC TICK E'T. Fon CL,ERiW O F COURT, W. 11. 1KERR. FOJI R)UN'Y COM MssION Elt., R. E. ELLI,60N, SR., JOHN A. HINNANT, CORNELIUS R. MEANS. vo havo icvdr bIId it satisfacto rily 0Xplalilsd how Ia defeat of the Emilocratie tickect now ,is ggf)- to lead to a Radienl deaft-in 1878. Tho foloWi.g is tho /atis at present of the ox leaders-of tih lite Radical party: IN JAII. F.J. -Moses, Jr., S. ;J". Lve, C. WV. Monitgomery,F A. 0. Jonici '111,I"D THE S'T.A'I., 'I F. Whitiemore, Niles e. Parlwr, . P. Leslie, G. . Gleavo', 11. E. Ilaynle. AWAITING TRIA. 1. cass carpenter. .11-13PPIPAJI lL. 10. L. Calozo. MAl'lmTlJ:,) IN Il l ILA DEl'.:I i, Josephlu; Woodruff. -CONVE.N IEN'iLY All -.NT. D). H. Ch1 amllain,) .T. Corbin. - . Trii ANXITS BENCil, All Ohe rvsf.. Let the band play. Come to Grief. 'The0 MRIStid the p-o(di are griinding it 1ii, Lay; h, imd nlot lHo slowly oither. The investigating coimimlit teu has not delved amoig the odif 0rou1s archives in the Stato .1Iouse for naught. A respectable batch of scoluldrels ai in jail now, or on t.ho way there, while the rest aroseeking coolor Climes north of jr-ason )ixon's li. F. J. Mofos and S. J. Lee, as spaker1a3f the House of Reprson'. tatives, and C. W. Muntgomery, as presideit pro tMi, of the Honate are chlarged with isngframidulenlt legishlive pay--eertifice to-a largo amunut. A. 0. JOnes, -clerk of the H ouse, has abl o beenil)f omi tted to jail, and WoodrnfifT,' -clerk -of the *Sinate, who fled from (rha/lest.on by b)oarding' at T hi9delph.ia hound *steamer in the harbor, has been ar - rested, at the terminial p)oint of his voyage, an d by tis time, we r sume, has joined his villainous cou frere in jadl. The two clerks appear to have *bCeon the .greaItest thieves un the whalo gtwg. They occupied *a dual position, as5 elerks of the Leg. - islature, and' as meimbersn of the Re publicaIn Pi'inting Coinpanly. As clerks thn.y -gavo oMT contracts for p)rinlting to themseh'es, as. piinters, and then cortified to'Vhe correctness *of their own bills. In this way they *stole, in 'all ab6ut a million -dollars. The particular noet whIoli has causecd them to swelter in theu Richland jail during thle- present heated term was coIImitted in 1872. Thy a p)rinted 350 cop)ies of the Ku--Klnx tri dl-, for whI ioh they charged $22,. 894, an enormous fraud to begin * with. Thon,01 under p)rotonse that they wold be'paid in Blue Ridge Soript at fifty cents on tihe dollar, their claim was doubled. 'They then pro~sen~ted t.heir el im to tho State - treasur-y, and received this dloublo sum, not in script at' flYty cents on the dlollar, but in groo'nbaoks at par. This was a clean steal of $22,894. *Similar c,hums were doubled and - at par, so -that tho whole bonanza * r(4fghla( $55,000, outside of tihe swind1d in the original charges. T'his is but a singlo-spoeimon thf- the way t,hies thieves wvorked. Jones, it is -. saidl, used to eat out of a servicec of -solid gold. His pampered stomachl w ~ill doubtless revolt at the sighit of . Shoriff ,l)n's in platos. The othor fug.it.ivos (vill 'be locked up, rnd boforo long,-wiHi also-bo on'. joying the pastime of bronking stone in the Hotel Parmelo. Our readors shall be advised of further develope - .nanta. - If indpenntO action nad pior. vailed over straightoutism last fall, vould Moses, JoneH, ice, ct ad, be wi% jai!, or in olice ? Some Pertinent Questions. -.The issuo in Fairfield has passed beyond personal considerations. It is i question now whether a legal, binding Dlemocratic nomiiiiation for clerk of court and counity cois - sioier 'i! to b supported by tegularly enrolled Dohiocrets who participated inl th township Cleo tions and in the c6nvelltion m hether. 1,ho -whites ol Fail.Mbbl proposc,i in tho future to b)e )emo oratie, or to -1lapseinto tho 'c"C6; servative," indepoident rut in wvlich 'they jogged along sogi1tienltly, ial 8o l41wly from, 1868 to 1876; whether a Radical ticket, shall be elcct-d ii 78, or whether Radicals shall (lic'tate 'to the iielligeno aiid and t rperLy c ~ the coin ty who shall hold olivo. These i serious queStionls, anld wo(, ask every3 one0 iinterc.s,d ill tho* fuiturt, of the( pomo p)e to lay asidt all pres'ont coiid erations aad aiuswer them. Wo hIam faithfully lldefavor-ed to con line ourllv~s strictly to arginont and porsusiol, avoiding -dJunicia tion, for the issue is -so qravo that we do not wish to add in the least degie to any prejudico or irrtCtitu lhat might becloud the reason of any one, or blind him to a - just appreciation of the im)erative (uty denlul1ded of him inl this crisis. Toovauch passion and bitterness has already been displayed in this m1attor. So wo awbk cvery on() who hais any ubilt abl.ut his' foalty toI the party, to get off to.-I"vool place, if lie can -find one, fa himself .q;.ietly for a quarter of in hor:r iid then soberly ask himself, "What Nwill I gain by casting a vote in op position to the Democratic nomina tion ? Is it, the mass of DemocraAs or the nui rs of Radicals that dr' sirtos the 'efeat --of the Iemocatic ticket ? What cor.se(luelces Would Dem,ocratic defeat entail ill thc fnture-? Vlat future Democratic nonittia-tio .:ill be - binding - on any' one who may hereafter ha defeated kn the Democrafic Convention, bu.t.-I c:ml fall back on anl "iniDpeiditt. ticket ? If m1y1. choice is noiilate.1 next timo, why wvill not my (op ponenits play the samiO gamo ne me 11 thiat I am1 no0w trying on thienm ? In that cnnge, whtat -will be tho -usrecf working for a I)onocratic. nom11inaiitiont ? Whly not disb'and the Democratic .party at onee, 'and( in. the future: knock at the doors of ther R adical convention ''with a re quest thiu~.hey make ou4r Momfhii lions for us? WVhat will be the result of - adhical - suprema.cy in) future upon my buins i Even if I should aid the'Radicals 'now in electing the plurest and bet me~n to ofliec, in) opposition to the Demo crats, what guarantea hamvo I that the Radicals, once revived, will hiave anything more to deI with good men)? Whien I charge the opposite wing -of the>~ part y with 'wire pulling, anm I certain that I and nmn are niot amenable to the same charge? TLastly, I fad I noQt .n.much hettr stick to tho>party in the present emo)r gency. and thon, after ensuring Democratic' supremacy by a D)emo eratic vietery,, co- operatn wKith alli (Ilets in matin g;an more por~ feet system- of nominating ?" Let any one0 ask theso questions 'with unibiase~d mind)(, atid we wager .a round sum that lie will agree to "abide by the nomination." IPhe Citilzens' Tickot. The presenit "Citizon iT(eo now in the field for county officers is certainly an anomaly or at misno. mer, one or the other, and it would make two Philadelphiia lAwyers quar. rel to tell wvhich. The idea of a dish of Republican hiash,-simply sprinkled over with a-little Demnocratie peppar, merely to give 'it a'slight savor, "boie= ing-souIvod up .for .good ,old..Demo-, cratic Fairtleld to Bswallowiseert,ain. ly lndicrous and must prove a little "to.) thin" for any -STnAOnrouT DEMoCRAT. L OUR COUNTY POLITICS. Major Woodwnrd's R-jointor to t,ho RIplY tO M0136r-d; Fitlt and " arley. .3le88)"r. J.ditors : A earvfl 1f perlsa'1l of 1 luftcer from11 Mussrs. FanIt and Me I A, Carley, in ~ reply to a letter from me, deolopus tho fact that I had boonl guilty of a 1ii'sstateloont, Iwhenl I intimated thAt they 'ere the fathers of the "Citizom TiAket" movement. -1 had liard at . g - tema1 say that he had seen thmln preparing the ticket i) a cert<in. sto>re, ai-d I had soon what pirported to) be tho original raper, whiich I kinl had been hai:dcd in to the R3adical convention, atid which was said to h) il the haid-writing of ijor Fiant.. Those cilcumlistallenes, I tholght, warrainted the assertion. But wvith hat inl had. T m1akce thlo (IIld, bon)or61b'e. and m-ceyt., of colr-se, their owvn .0b i!i ent. Th I Iey informed mo that, -Itatr l'aving de Kpaired of tho Republ'o, anld ju."i P. their patiiotie. palting souls were sinikitig wearily wN'ithinl themll at (h.) aWt ion 0-T "a nn(eidd, sell.;h nwb." wh"I they were "about Luo give " --he ghost, I suippose. t'mLlll could hope for "nothing beCtAPr tha n1 tO SOU a itadical clerk for the lirst ' titno inl Fii-feld," "this 11<1py thou(/ht Smulestcd it(.11, to)> !: ethrirwmn /h' RIjmt bi(en pit/y." Well, -e : I s1spectcd till alonlg, fliat a good deal of wool hiad"l bcen valled -over p.ople eyes in this; inlo1v011ent, 1hat11 I was realily o imprepared to hear this lb1 106. Vdlissionl 'onI 011u, 11S. Julst as you prefer. 4f vouirsv, buit( would sutgest that- 11i futire0 you had het.(er not sp k sI 'liniIy. Md not puL youtrselve so sIly 1-cl N. - po14 paper (it isa dancgerous .ra-tic) but indulge Moo freelyv in mindy, 1i'li give ai hvt,ter chmwtc f'or dodging. , Nono but r<tw rewri/s ever cmmitit iuclh inl"iseret i0ls. 0ne m tore bl der like this will kiok the bottoImI out of prllw party. It is, theln to the "mu11chly ilarel'icd, noble Prince" and not to you, that om- gratitide is duo for iving, ill this vinier geney of the old Doimrcratic sip, cutclunly d thl helnl, an)d broug1.i her safely in to 1)1rt If this be 1o, would it not h1e aipro priate, in fact doo. not gratiti(le de mnd, that rowognition of his ser vice bo 'made ? I sigget thal, inl honor of tho 0 .'nt1 . y $1 clIh.-.c the10 xw.im of your parly.. Ah heiice forth it Imay bCnowI s the ;c.ol ored citizens' ticket party," siime y )II aICknW1ledge that it c )lo-61 Ir. ml is the origin.Ator of it.. L-t us hea. Dcon un mi pighlead ish1nelts with "tirmness'Ht,"I prany you. Shioul I the mnatter' comubn..011 itself to youriI plyi;; yourselves to be infletnced t/h onceW by intn, and1( ma2ke the chanmge. It is ai gr'eat mistake to say the Repubi-cans are Tmitedl anin1 2a coin dition 4.0 do i's harmn. They still dlesiro to do so. I kn-ow. But I ha2lI) ponl to 1no. Vsomlethling as wel as you, and I speauk but the truth whe1in I say~ t hait they wore exeed,tl inigly aniouiis to makelc a nomfinaItion, hut (cotrdd fimid nlo 0one able to mai:ke a b)ond who would or coiPdd accept. There wa';s scarcely at man in town or' inl the country, w[-o could ha.ve raset hunidro~d dollars', and a thtree gallon jug, who would have failed Lo secure this inominmation had 1h1 tried I honmestly believe that I coultd have gotten -it myself, rnot withlstandl(ingL uy "speech iln fr'ont of the market." When the County CJhairmnan said that he wan ted Captain CJlowvney for tis office, lhe simpirly sta1ted.. 'V Lnt. was nmot so ;and1 lie said tius muiich to other' parties before he left town. W~i~hi of these statements is true? I bewlievo tihe latter, for' I happen to knw thlat there is strong personrl antipathy between them, and you are ertaLinly' not p)reparlIe to urge p)oliticad aiftiiation. Ho)w then could this chiai)nlan seenlrC that thel colored 1)eop)1 inl my sootion, and( inl other sections that I know of, not only say that they will not vote y'ourl ticket but assert thamt tihe 1tepublican chairman haus .pledged himself to carry seven hiundr'ed votes atgainst you. Hfow un1fotustf" niate, then), that. you shlouldl hav'e supplied the Repulblicani party w*ith at candidate and a p)rogrammlne, just whIen thmey woro floundlering abiomt an) the stoa of ignoriance with no0 to' fur'ansh the sintows of warl for them. Whaieu -too they have beeni instructed tha&t 'Bs a. p:ty they no0 longer exist, but mutst -watch for the movemnents of bolters beifore they cani accomnplisth any morei' of their hellihdesigns. :'Che -Ipub. lican chairmanr could 'have informed you of. this, for' I' know -whan nnd where he got. his - directions. i He and I have conversed -more than once upon this subject, and he ad - mitted to me in Columbia that tihe Republican am.y wa. dad, a thatt this was .their progranme for tho future. Hadi You lfA Itheml al'one, tint. thi., wouldlu( v hcclut thet Nst conven1tionl of thlis killd which e,Ve" -0o1b, have assoimba d inl ihe ..mil ty. Tihe greater tihe iniaake, I here fore, viieh yoult have Iml:le, tal cn - Heyuently. the s tricter th1e Itcoliltal bility to which you will be held for your mistirke. 14 what the of voiint,y coimlis Sioners? )di "II, rince" advise the chanoge here Ialso ? or is this patrioti project the cmalin of vonr o n wt 1 Irtilv brin1" ? [k< i, uot e u h tihat to slynd---by the giau of thi-; long stilloiri pcople- -ovelupy it swat ill our1 . L;slaturo, that ww of Ihis fathers-in law dhi ld have sue. ec(eded tho other in Cho '-"Sini(, where ie propows to dl violf-Onmoe to civilization, ma to outaigo deceit prol.riety for four yu.irs ? D6 ot ihe R-puiblicanl p.-tty chitim that they havo ele(t(,l 11ve oil of eight oliciahs And yet you would appens t tle;.' reasclnabl, p1e-ople by allowlilg thei to select thr-ev in for of tlie o!lices i still vacant I aM 11not lvelse to) t policy of conciliation, I have < vcr -!e re it-s I n eStand it, tmward mlur c-lored c.i4ies n 11i1d )m"n Who will say Ihat I broght ovr mo-re olred vilizenn to I famip .m f,han b,oh i yvit ; ev finid m:uy colmred ien wio consider me a fIwl of their r;ce, as 1 1111. But if ii be the priv, --tig -- :ti -ovs' Tichoct"- flhen I preferstaihtut Is. Tou; ~L t< < ( n it evil conlse - Ilellcus attindig st r:i tot pill (-iple!, 11nder suich leadlcrs. as I un"il if Ko- it, -was only as M1oswes viewed tlh promisd laind, at a r'-pect:hlo dist:icw. f1. nuit".hwrof you Alowed anyunu".a alavvilyv inl your. mlove Ilwnits hts,; Near. wholn ,%o sadly Me0 14d V I '1 _'ViCs. (~.In1ed it. is said tht the writer of your ar-Octl wavts oily Iladt. i ll beir of tile Dlmrantiv plkIrtv 11hr-ce days before oWrri chib nvule its slection of delk' (Vate t,fo thI e r-funt, coluntyv lb Anld wve thlin. it tinlfortunmato that you shil-il.t have kivkeA oult of [thec tvaices so sooll for as it ol Ilave playod so nive a pr-actical.jik cem usw i rfr< e to (1mr nOInalltion,! ithere will be those--lo there 11 alwa 11ys n:o - n.i d( in--'r1 11louzs mnen inl everyN par-ty-who wvIll bo aftaiI to risk yu inl tle fiiture. You are dIi.isposed 1 to give tle t.hinking people of tle county Credit "or havit more ( ensq1180 thanl to sm> i)0oe we ennli "Jh' " anyt.linlg yet by "kstraighilt-ut. policy." lot ennk di" pose o: 1h- nuitter as you lease. I am inlJined to ..ive the people of Fnilieh ld Iht, ilwh mher they he thkinl men ( > - of o..,y "ing g 1to1 erly/tof/ism 4/on i. dte t.he Itsplseiol iN wh1'ii h amvl bleen 11l(1eve I I ~'iJ tre ~ione peint in what0 thir 8o diee ie1 heretof, Wit wel is ha th sti htou nmven-t -ou it which' younr h aod mo.1( the wthe o nle (oly wlie 1th'ing that t-hasiihbeen don lince .teu war. and1~i (un and Ca3rdozo til nd11 Les)i' anold Wli'im, imp( 118risgee osest(i tillajc ;ad ifri th oe noi morteilt thardoso the0.Iose v\ie ost s, ituuas (well oth toheistrem, idn efforits hmdo fore oft. 1 1utCil tdo Hamp eon,iBuler, yonnor, Ia(lid andt allmi tht ouereo mfer o 1)11einti1 olico thri *o/uhou1 t 1 t he Sta t co us Gaillar anoO~id Bric, helLi nllOtrepro senfltaof' woltatI have d inc 18IVC8, reduced 11 ttaes'an hoia tegenerate thpemwhley Stte m t mountiains to the seoal bofrd. Why gontlemen1, bth of you. Arount yu sel. havo sme of our poitica lieh firoito enlihton for.I I didmot hItin'k -ta o wre afouter pertrating an - thedok ttUioius, IwouldI sy vrthat mere1~ nor leissll thaadliea t:an donenallt(' fa that wse 1av1(1h ined, andJj/ Cf a voluntary(0i,i rturn etom negroI supremst)ley,lo was1(4 the oslt (1aran to the eop its pthoismn county. hy,i all parts of the coun,ta fres from the peopiled (the/l/i, n Cofl new dnoli,. nako acionforuotye Demcatpar- o dityo'itho 1con Teir.i action,i marcdo sotanimos nd 'by writter contrclutilw ase yihiing iupot hsom tontop,intruwth ith "Citizens ,,Ticot" nomination. Conio back, wlyward brethrell, you havo I illiply l1utdo. a mistake. I tm sutio ymu initent-1 no harm. Wo cannot spare at', good mun itas wo know you lr-f ir oinr nIl) . T. W. WoonwAnn. A Pidtuvorr Otln ADVANCINO CIVIT.1 Z.mIOx.-A Boston correspondont if the Worcemter Npy -Nirites as fol lows : One proof of our advAnding civilization must, bo fatisfactory to 1.he niu1rolus travolurs' who havo for years ext,ilhI tho clriuti of streot )Msie in foreign1 citio.s. 4Wo havolt 110>w froinl carly morning till lato ein)', brass ba6s11 which will wvail inu mnotirn maleii your -winddiws imnd nako da.v Il,dv(;lt (to Roho ilul1sical lovors f iit) ; muildorgans of evory size, wi,h hablcs attlched in T'vagem1 tops, and1( with moiikeys hAs'ixuri.. antly provided ; fiddles undby-it c ranlk ; accordeons tt shlrick in (very known key ; harps and tain boutrinlem : sing-ing. mlen anid singaing WoMIlun, aid silging boys and girls, wiVth; larsh, til cracked, and strain-. cd voicVs : difefent ill' niationality ad inl evorything else, excpting the dipper o: paymlent. Tho br+ s I had are Cxceptiols ; they dol't I are, tinl dipperl't'., and apparently laor fromt I)ulr' . ph1il2tfllhropy. VIhien on11 Ihs b6i'ln hln involuntary listner to all this, for a few days, onC can. lardlly help romcinboring tho "curso of a granted prayer," and tinking '1mdly of Leipsic, tho only ciy, Ih.lieve, where hand organs hind st oet mui-sic aro )ot hilowed ;'proba bly out of regard for the nurves and t elrplrs of the itumerous students iHampton R 1 tND SPI1ING OPENIN'G, D y Gonls., FluIcy Cloods, ntid f ' F I 4I p I IM..0nhi )(d full fill o 'tebst j"ulh ll uinig and1t -summellr .\!71ilor rY 1111( F11n11y Goods, cons'.isting In par ofLades' -\isses' a 'Cildren's Irihu tred I Its,- Flovcr-4, .L-bbons, Silks, Nets. &c. A I'lgo lot '> (a divs' Co Ia.ettes, Fichlus aid (t her fan ' Altie'es. .1 Ispectioll of hu La.dies and publiC gerrerrilly solicited. We will (,n deavor to pltelso the Ilno.t fis. tilimis. All wo ask is that you aill, and see J Or yourselvs, an1d give uts a trial. Nr.W Si'ingPts. Cenitenniald Stripos, erS. Corsets 'I lesiry,' Gloves,. Notions, Clothiig, . l1at4, Shoes, A. Age t fr llutercks r e t -paplr pattvirn . Ladrlies', \(is l'n h ilrdi'CU'.4 .o1 CWli i P th ll h ocer i,Con m irst il i s hous o. th id A lo Io I-'n t'Y, Lah' Shoii s, &c Lu .e low CLr U EY. JAS.J..OHARVAY. A. N.ECEOWNTY. JON HINNANT, Th Aom atic NI) ly Brush CONORA CFORT.j~R COME.AND0.T ON