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WINNSBORO, S. C.
Tuesday,. September 18, 1877.
R. MEANS DAVIS, Editor,
4NO. S. REYNOLDS, Associate Editor.
A sTRON fight, will be mado over
Senator Gordorn seab from (leorgia
this fall. The gallant Gordon has
won a second term by his patriotic
an( able record. Especially
gratifying would his ro. election be
to the many South Carolinians who
met him last winter in Columbia
during, thoso trying times.
THIs TALK of persecution in con
nection with the trials of the Radi-.
cal ring thieves is all fal-lal. The
Inst one of the scoundrols who are
guilty ibould bq sent to the poni
tentiary. No compromiso should be
made with them il colsidlrtion of
restoring their stolen property. A
State can with no more propriety
compound a felony than can a private
individual. The people who have
been so grievously oppressed
domand that the Lhieves, both great
ud small, shall be sent to the
penitentiary.
Tilden it 1880.
For some time past a heated dis
cussion has ben mintainod in the
Democratic papers of New York,
whether the present State oflicers
shall be nominated or whether
there shall be a now deal. Thc
acrimony and hoat evolved in this
discussion.upon a subject apparently
so trivial are inexplicable to an out
sider. But the New York Iferald
offors a solution which is, to say the
least, quite plausible. The Heral<d
naintains that the real issuc, though
both factions studiously endeavor tc
coneal, it, is whether Tilden shall
be renominated in 1880. Thc
present oflicials were chosen by Mr
Tilden as his agents in defeating th(
canal rings ad otlxcr opp.osing fac
'inn XUJLk'ht1f "Ifl"II 1181pni
Ol the other hand, Tainaiy, the
canal ring, and other oppononts of
1Mr. Tilden do-ire to defeat his fae.
tion by securing a new dl in the
Stato oftices, and thereby gaiininv
the prestigo in advance of th
struggle in 1880. The Democratic
Eixecutive Committoe has callci
the Convention to meet at Albany
a circumstance which the .ierale
construes into a victory for TYildlon
as the State officials can, at Albany
manipulate the Convon tion, wyhik
they wvould not (lare to leave their
iblic business, and go on this or
rand to any other city. In cornnc
* ion with Mr. Tilden's candidacy the
following extracts show the diversi
ty of opinions existing in New York,
which are,. the more important,
because the renomination of the
defrauded President wvill probably
only in case of the unanimous de..
mand for him in the Convention b)
New York. Hecre is what the lleralc
says :
According to our Saratogn, letter
printed1 this morning, Judge Church
pBRerts that the controversy over
the State ticket has no relation to
Mr. Tilden, because he is so evi
dently outside the pale of choice for
another nomination. In amusinc'
contrast to this the Brooklyn i?agfe
o,f last evening contends tIhat it is
ridiculous to suppose that this
vehemen1t contest has any relation
to Mr. Tilden because he is so abso.
lutely e-ire of thoe- next Democratic
nomination. The Idagle says :
"If Samuel J. Tilden is living and
capable of p)erforming the duties of
President of the United States he
will be the next Democratic candi..
date for that ofleo and our next
President, with the hearty assent of
all citizens of all parties who desire
to right a groat political wrong
through the just elevation of the
man who most directly suffored by
it. This is a question which may as
well bo accepted by politicians."
These contradictory reasons ex.
plodo pach 6ther, and merely prove
that both factions think it politic, in
boatmen's phraea, to alook one way
and row another." But, in spiip of
strateglo donials, this angry conflict
prVoceeds from a pro-Tikfoen animus
on, one side and ami alti,TLiln
anmmus on the other.,
# The Rochester In~ion, whuch
sidvocates a nowv ticket, indulgJes'iii
very pleasant reflections on Mr.
~oc.
The Troy Press, which i.s a chain
pion of the prosent State officors,
vigorously deun00111cos their oppo
neitg as onomics of M. Tilden.
It is too evident frum this mutual
exchange; of. ijvoctivo that Mr.
Tildun and his hopes arc the real
pivot of the quarrel. No fusilade
of denials can mask this plain ffict.
In tho light of these facts, the
contest in Now York will be worth
watching. The fact is indisputable
that, however wanting in other ro
spects, Mr. Tilden would mako such
a President as has novor boon seen
in tihe White Iouso. His adninis
tration would be a in-rvel.
HAMPTON AND CHAMBEIRLAIN,
What Dozn Platt Thinks of the Carolina
Promeoutioms.
Wa(shiwjlim (br. Oicinnati Enqire-.-.
A gentleman answering to the
geological cognomen of Stone turn
ed uip herO yesterday, in response
to an, invitation tendered him by
G(eneral Devens to resign his place
as United States At.torney for South
Caiolina. lie brought his resigna
tion with hin. This was pru dent
on the part of the geological speci
ll', for he is a Carpet-bagger, anld
the same line of financial conduct
that made his resignation nveepta
bile to the President made him ex -
tremely disagreeable to lie nw
authorities of South Carolina. Hie
tells m that Holp me-God la fpion
is tmaking it very hot for the late
friends of mi (colored) of that
State. The H1. M Or. Governor is
dead in vnrnest, and has committees
and grand juries hard at work in
vestigating the conduct of the late
flienids of man (colored) put in
olliee there by the la,c administra
tion, and lie is especially warN and
active in his pursliit of his late
oppoleit, ChImiberlain). Stone
says that if Help -ie-God Hiampton
g(ts hold- of said Chamburlain lie
will have an opportunity tendered
him of serving the State in a manner
more useful than ornanental.
Wo now comprelend tle, moaning
of that poQ.tieal puotation of tihe
eloquent Chamberlain at thme Ulaine
DoNwen Fourth of July Celebration,
when he said:
I hoir Ia VOi1 yOni enlnot hear,
Thlt, biql, me not to stay;
I Hev a 11iit1,1 Yo i caii nit 4e-!,
Thit, beckonls ie awaly.
It. was the voice of the sheriff,
Cr'-Ml m fa'oth6- tn a_NmY.'l " .-A
And Ro we learn that these fel
lows of South Carolina. Florida and
Louisiana, who followed thie armly
into the South, and wh, so long in
vower and on plunder, have, at the
moment the an1nv W18 withd1a11wl,
"folded their tents like the Arabs
stealing, by the by, that is sanction
ed by the peole of the United
States. In their desperatoe efforts
to secure the electoral vote for the
Republiean candidate they were, it
now appears, not only fighting for
place, but to keep from thue peniten
tiary. It is a little hard on the
poor devils that, after selling their
worthless souls to the dlevil, the
ver'y administration that they
fought so hard to put in power
abandons them, nmot to their ceneis,
but to that blind Jlustico whose
evenly-adjusted scale weighs, and(
whose sharp swvord puiishes', with
out fear, affection or favor.
In an altereation ang several
mon01 in Baltimore on Fridlay,
Andrew 'Weiner was knocked (down
and brutally kicked about the head
and neck. He died within ten
mlinlutes after being conveyed to tihe
station -house. Tlhomnas F/reeze, his
alleged asstiilant, ran off, but wvas
soon1 (-iptulred, and along with him
two other men, named0( McDon11ald and(
Breeken, who were concerned in the
quarrel. McDonald is an1 ex- police
officer, and som1e two years ago was
senItenlced to the poenitentiary for
shooting and killing a negro m amred
Brown, but owing to a flawv in the
indictment, he was released before
his term of service exp)ired,
]?x-President Grant has been pros
sented wvith the freedom pf the city
of Edinbumrg h. The scene was a very
impressivo. The Lord Provost said:
'tHech lad, since ye thmocht to coom
across frac tither sio, just coom ini;
wve'll all be unco0 youckie to hear a
land o' your gab. Ganmg your alint
about the town, but mind ye when
ye get ebeennge for saxpowneo, ift's
soonj slippit awva." The General's
VOice0 was so) choked with emotion
that. tihe reporters copl1d n'ot catch
his answer.
'Tm a good deal spryer than I
thought I was," saidl an old 'gentle
man wVho had passed his three- scorn
and ton. "H-ow (lid you find it out ?"~
asked one of his grand -children.
"By neigh bor Johnson's bull trying
to interview me1 as I cwnol( through
his pasturo- this morning," quietly'
relied the old gontle-man.
En'l IowIes thlink tat Demo
".ac Gaston may beat Riepublican
Rice for Governor of Massachusetts,
SOUTH CAROLINA NH'WS.
Diphtheria 1)rcv:ils ill somlo F;ce
tions of Darliiigtol Collity.
Goorgetown has a sklip on thet
stocks named "Liberia."
Cotton in Chester county has suf..
fored sovorely from the drought, but
a mlagnificont corn crop is realized
Abbeville peoplo ne alIlictd with
sore oyes, but deny that the largo
crop of peach brandy has anything
(10 with it.
The residence of Mr. G. 13. Rogers,
nicar HrirnR oads, inl Darlingo
ton couity, wias destroyed by an
ineen liary ic ol jTIIq%day m'orninlg.
t now Alger College, tit Wal
halla11, Was opened onl the Gt inlst.,
With cighty-four pupils in attond
The governor Ieis ordered a spc
ckd election for sIeiifT of Oconeo
county, on tie 20th instaut. The
vacancy was callsed by the doath of
the flrmor iumipit.
Tho ninth aiwmal meeting of the
York, Bapti.-( Associqtionl, com
menced at (a tawha 01hurch, live
miles south of Roek Hill, on Thurs
day.
Tle colorid people hold a mass
meeting at 11,;ek Hill, recently, to
diScISS thI phl of a goneor'al (nIi
gration to Tc:m,as. They don't like
Liberia.
Everybody about Georgotown i.
tiking an active iltoeiest in the
roposed iailroa, in--l nearly all
will subscribe lIbendly.
Rev. Harris Dcnnison, a colored
preacher, while lislin.g at North
Islanl, near GIoirotown, was stiuing
in the fooLt by a iay, and (ied of
jetinus in loss thai a week after
boinlg wound,ed.
General 1. W. Moise will deliver
the annual mIdre-s before tihe Barn
well Agricultiral and (1ehanital
Society, nt the next county fair,
Which begins onl tihe 21st of No
vember next.
Th11e comimt ftee appoiated by the
Democrativ I' of A neron havo,
u1nder instrict iom. of the clhib, taken
out warrialits for the whole of the
p?rsons chiagod with illegal voting
in., the1% late town olectionl.
Ezekiel M-yiiew. a i rd man
imWith solmie !it!! 'dIltlioll, and for
Ierly a scit ol tenohor in Cane Creek
town1sh1ip, 1 :mester col.(i ount', left for
Liberia on Monday hefore last. He
land, and is. to retiu ni iu,d report his
observations.
Mr 1arfeld- Po0"s, living in
Georgetown county, jumpt<,l a benr
o11 the 6th instait, b.ut failed tIo kill
him, owing to an undue leoVu
excitement. Mr. S. J. Goudo was
mmor'e sn.ecessfulI, and c slew tile aniimal,
it is salid, att the risk of h.i.s life.
A personal difficulty took lafce at
Newbgrr'iy on Tuesd:ay last, in which
Mr. T. C. Summe'l was ser'iously
shot by Mr. S. 1). Pelhaum. It is
climed by~ the latter's fielids that
the shooting we.s in se,lf-.de fcnse.
T1hie w~ounmd is not miecessairily dan
gerouis.
Ex-Tr'easu,rer Watson, of York
county, r'etur'ned home from Ohio on
.T'uoSday. Onu bQing informed of the
legal prioceedings which had 1)een
instituted against him, hie is said to
have (mxressed himself' as ignorant
of any irreCgularities in is accounts,
and as)beig perlfctly willing to
have hiis official conduct undergl'(o
jud(ical investigation.0
O.n Saturidaay.night last whiile thme
good p)oo1 1 3of Cartorsiill. D)ai ling.
ton county, were at durecb, a
thirsty thief bored a hole thrloulgh
the war'e-hmouso floor andc into thme
head of a keg of wvhiskey an<, drew
(lut the entire contents, twenty
gallons, with which 11e made off, t'o
enjoy a goodl and free drunmk.
The negro Joo IIendersonm, who
was to h)o hanged at Edgefield 0on
the 21st instant, has been respited
1)y the governor for1 two weolks.
The dlay now set for his haligincy is
F?rid-y, October 5th. This reSpito
is grnted~ while thme governor has
undei' considerumation a nuilmerousxly
signed petition for' ai commuiltation (If
sen tenco.
Fr'ied Baxi~trum', color'ed, who wa'ts
triedl at the last termi of the gener'al
sessions c)ourlt for Lancaster' county,
for' mlurder'ing is ollest son, anm'd
waIs aequiitted, camlIO into townt on
last Wednesday on the hunt of a
doctor to have a load of buckshot
piced out of his unhloly carcass,
which, as lhe ta'ted,' had beCen p)ut
mio him by his next oldest son.
Fred's injurnie.s arq not serious.
On -Saturday before last abioult
tyonty-oighmtof thsi color'ed militia
Dar'linigtomi comuoty 15155ed in ro,
view, before Ctoj. J. A. .Law, on the
ubhei squnare. They dlid not pass
ms8peton, and their arms arid ac.
soumtremenmts were t.akon awvay, to be
teld utitl they are able to (1( better.
ilho rifles dleliveood aro' lioti of tho
hnest owvned bly the State, said to
havo cost.about sixty dollars apicco.
NEWS Of. THE DAY.
Tile Pope's health is improving.
Woodhu1ll 1111( Claflinl aIre going
to lecturo in London.
ThQ Bank of England had only
two depositors with larger credits
than Brigham Young.
Two representativos of the Italian
press aro supposed to have been'
killed inl the lato combats betwoon
the Turks and the Iussian insur.
geiits.
Dom Iledro has completed his
tour of Europe, anlid is now at
Lisbon, wheice he vill soon embark
on. his return to Brizil.
At OpAlika, Ala., on Friday morn
ing, Einiest Doughty, aged thirteen
years, was run over by a raihvay
t.riain, and his head and body were
siparated by the whiool,
Ilev. Thos. J'. lkooncy,, a 'woll
known Catholic prit,of New. York,
1111(1 a former chaphlin of the 69th
Regiment, died' on Friday, froi
injuries reecived by falling from his
carrigo on the 11th ins"tait.
MHavor Pairsons has, decamped
from Birlingto), lowia. Thero is a
heavy deficit ill the school fund.
The Merchants' National Bank loses,
fifty thousand dollars, and there aro
The commiiosioners. of the Frood
man's B1ank have funds, to, ply a
,dividend of ten por cent., and sug
gest an organized movement to
induco Congress to llthorize the
puir-chaso of certain property to
)nable them to pay twenty per cent.
A colonization convention of four
or live thonsamid colored people was
lately held in Corinth, Miss. Tie
African scheme vas not favored.
but New Mexico, Arizona. and
northern Texas were considered.
At a meting of ti.e Anglican
Synod, at Montreal, a motion em
powering the clorgy to use at their
diseretion certain prayers takeu
from the prayer book of the Amen
can Church was discussed and
finally voted down.
Tile third boat belonging to, the
.'hip P'-l. whic1hib e.olliled Twith the
ship l'(1ira/(he in the Enlglisil
('ha1nniel, has w:rshed whore All
hope of ail", Illore suirvivors is now
abanlMidonedl.
There are further cases of in,
timid:tion by the striking miners
1(')rte(d in PeInsylvanita. All
attjnlts to elYect at coLLprOMisC
. rlkinig mnimncra vu
Tho operators annonn011lie that
nothing further 'will be done by
then. to urgo resumption.
Thle Boston and Alban; crshp
vere burned or Thursd nght
Causo A n. ?nfteen fre4lht
cars and four locomtiivs were
burned, Ls, O7500 to $100,000).
The lii~hunded ienC ar10 out of ema
ployimen t, Ii fty of whom loso thir
chests of tools.
In the first (lay's shooting for thle
Centenniual t rophIy, at Creedmioor,
the Americans ledl at overy' range,
closing 26)1011L point hd. T]hie grand
totals are: Amnericaml 3,38-1; Br3i tish
3,212. The Amerivou s win by 92
poinits TUhis gloses thme interna
tional match.
A son of the late Hion. John Y
Mason, of Virginia, is a captain in
the French army. At thirtoen
years of age he was the bearer of
dispatches from Napoleon's Court
to thme Conlfedeorate G')oeriinmet, and
subJsequenftly ser ved on Gieneral
tMaryptoI)0M' staff during the civil
A dlispatch was received ill Augus,
ta' on Friday from New York, an,
nonen the sudden death of Wmn.
HoeHull, of the foramer city. Mr.
Hull was one of the oldest and most
p,rominen 1~t lawyerIs inl Georgia. It
is thonght by some that lhe wvas
plisonedl, and( by others that lie
died of apoplexy.
It is l.ranispm ing that all the
Cabim,t speeches made'iicc ini New
En1gland1 were'i set, and1( .Ko(y's followv
Cabinet ofhic'ers, ais well' as the
President, ar'e not disp)osed to
all tw him to palm off' his utterances
as5 joke's. The Pickcwickian sense
w~hich hey wishes attached to his
apostrophe to "erring briother11 aIpd
vilost sinners" w' as an afterthought.
That v s an e.tr'aor'dinar'y yield
of rice on the Esthorvillo. p1ane,
Gorigetowvn, plan tedI by Mr. Arthuri
Manigault. A fourteen acre fiold
hand been plan tedl with white rico.
It waIs harvested latwo, (tho
first in the county), thr'eshed andI
ponnded. The yielil was 994 bush
els, or' an average of 71 bushels por
acro. Another field of eight aeroe,
0on the( same place, hasi been1 harvest.
ed, and the estimated yield ia 00
lifhrhols to the acro rThe quiality
of the rico is pronlounced'fir'st gr'ado.
Tho ChQster dologatos to tihe State
Liberian Convention weore not fa
vorably impreI'ssied with' the schome
and its managers, nind have so r'o
ported at home.
BRIO.A-BRAO.
A now Chinese theatre is to be
erected on Nshingto stroot, San
Francisco, at a cost of $30,000..
A Palatka, Florida, preacher was
driven out of his pulpit rocontly,
during a sormon, by mosquiLoos..
Tho foroman of a Texas jury which
lately granted a divorco to a woman
married her the samo day.
Six thousand ebildrn have boon.
fraught to swim in two years by the.
Ipondon Health Society.
A man in Chamborsburg, Ill., has
een sued for destroyig property
by spitting tobacco juico oil the
floor of a Church.
Some Europeans think that Eu
ropo can take 2,000,000 American
cattle overy year, beemuso some of
the old countries havo roiched the
limit of cattle-raising.
A post-mortem examination Oil
the body of a New York man who,
IA died of consumption showed
thtft the heart was on the right sido.
and the liver on. the left.
Many of tho Wagons going to. tho
Black Hills iare (Irawnl, by cows,
which furnish sufficient milk to pay
th0 tolls.
Threp good-looking young ladies
the other day stood beside a grocor's,
sign which ioad: "Don't squeozo
those peqlghes."
Turkish soldiers are taller than,
tho Russian, and will averago at
least five fet an1 ton ineos. They
wear full boards, but have their
heads shaved, or the hair cut very
short.
Gen. Tom Thumb's house has
lately been raided by thieves, who
took away il his shirts under the
impression that they woro mnaking a
hl of handkerchiefs.
Judge Buchanan, of- Georgia, re
fused to take his per(I diem as a mom
ber of the constitutional conven
tion )ocause 11 was drawing from
the Stato his salary as judge of the
lprweme cou,r4.
James G. Imnn, a pwismer in the
Tennesseo penitenAtir, received
Swen ty I.ve lashes, in t le presencee
of t!.-i a )1sembieconiviets, for coin
iig 1coulnterfeit IIoLloy inl his cell.
The cot on-seed oil trade has
increavsed greatly of lato years. The
i article is largely shipped to Europe,
wheneo it is reshipped to, this
country in the guise of "pure olivo
oil."
UTrpr & Bro.thers, who publish
George Eliot's books in this country,
have sold over 50,000 copies of.
'"Dauiel Deronda." Th. sales of tho
editions in Englmid are estimated at
twieo that num.bor.
Josu BILL1ma108 says:. "Paupers
snil'or less than miizers do ; thme man
who don't kno whare he is going to
gi t his next dinnorl suffers less than
th.o one who is. anxious to knowv how
muteh it i4 going to kost him."
In the United States in 1776 there
were only nine public libraries, with
45,023 volmnes ; in 1876 there were
:,;82 puldie libraries, containing
1'2,076,914 volumes and 1,500O,000
I'amphlets. Of theso libraiis, near'
ly 3,00Q have bern organized since
A bridegroom in Payton, Town,
refused to provide refreshments for~
a serenading parity, wh er'uiponi they
pulled him out of bedl and carried
him through thme village aRtr'ido a
rail. Th'Ie bride hurriedly dressed
hoersomlf, aroused a sheriff, and effect
ed the r'escuo of her husband as well
as the arrest of several of the mob.
A Scranton, 'Pa., business house,
whilh was asked by a muinors' cons~
mttee to contril)ute to their rolitif
funid, generously offered to assign
to the funid $10,000) in accounts duo
thenm by3 miners,, which accoung
they have been for' years unable to
collect. Them subscription was do-.
olined with thanks.
Fifty young lharbers reenintly left
Copenhagen for Russia, wvhero they
arO apploinlted medical assistants.
E'very ba.rbor in Denmark bas to
pass an examnination i the elements
of surgery. They wore accompa
nied by a hteoreo~ whorking butchers,
who are also to )o attache(d to
the Russianaiy
Ang Brigham Young's numor.'
ons wives thor'o was not one who
could be ranked as a real l andsomq
woman. They ombracod nearly all
tho' varieties between blonde and
brunotte, but progented no spocimeil
whose goodl looks rose to the averago'
of female loveliness displayed in al'
iost any p)hotograpier's show.
case.
Ono of the most succlesful ship
builders in .Bristol, R. I., hmas never
seen a ship, nor the waters on which
it floats. Hie haes been blitnd fronm
infancy, yet thi.d has not doterred
him froin reaching tho foromost placQ
in his business. By passing, hi8
hand along the timber's and occasions
ally rapping it with his knuckles,
hooping his ear close to'thie wv'od, hQ
can tell its imnper'fections, botter
than nv who hna their sigt.