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WINNSBORO, S. C. Tuesday, January 1, : 1877. R. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, JNO. S. REYNOLDS, Associato Editor. The Public Debt. We have herotoforo forborne to take any part in tho discussion rola ting to the public debt, becauso tho wholo question is involved in so much obscurity thitt the roport by tho investigating committee is necessary for the predication of any definito conclusion in the matter. But as a diversity of opinion has arison, perliaps it may be well to oxpress what wo tako to be tho sentiment of most of the people. It is this : 1. Thu honest debt of tho State should bo paid dollar for dollar. 2. The fraudulont debt of the State should be ropndiated dollar for doliar. In the hionest dobt we include Cho anto-reconstruction dobtj; and anly debt subsequently incurred, tihe proceeds of which went to the be,o fit of the State and not into the pockots of thieves. Conversely, by the term "fraudulent, debf," wo mean not only tho conversion bonds and Blue Ridge scrip, which rested neither in law nor equity, but also the debt, regularly incurred by the spurious Radical Legislature, and yet the proceeds of which were fraudulently appliod, so that th(e State and the masses derived no benv lit whatoveor therefrom. In this mattor we differ from the views of The News and Courier, which are thus expressed : In our view, every bond and cor tificatO of stock issued il Confor-mity with the provisions of the Consoli, dation Act is a binding and valid obligation of the Stato. The objeet of the Consolidation Act was to make a final adjustment, or settle. mont, of the debt then outstanding, and it was so rogarded until the uni wise cry for readjustment was raised last sumnmor. As a final settlement, the holders of State bonds and stocks accepted the Consolidation Act ; and the receivability of the coupons and intorost certificates of the Consolidation debi for taxes, and the annual levy of a tax for the payment of intorost, can be enforced by procedings in the Courts. Apart from this, tho Democratic party in South Carolhna hais, again and again assented to, or acquiesced in, tihe settloement under the Consolidation Act, and the Democratic candid-ites could not have been elected in 187(G 0on a Republican platform, or' on a platform with a repudiation plank in it. Whatev~er irregularity therme was in theo modo( of issuing liho oriinal bonds was5, iln our1 view, condoned by the Consolidation Act, and by the as.ient of the peop)le to that Act. It is understood to be the purpose of the Commnission to rep>ort the classes of original bonds affected by irregularity, and to leave it to the Legislature to say whether such bonds shall be rejected. If the Legislature determine to reject them, the Consaol idation bonds or stocks representing any of the bonds so b)ranlded or rejectedl can be rejected, thme argument being that if thle original bonid was fraudnlent tile taint of fralid attaches to it in its very change of form. We do not accept this conclusion, as either necessary, legal or just. Ally duplicate Consolidation bonds or stocks no0w outstanding, andl any thlat huave been forged, will probably be east out. So far, we have no0t heard of one such11 bond or certificate of stock. The Con. solidation bonlds and1( stocks funda b)10 under the Consolidation Act, aind issued inl strict coniformity withl that Act, are unlquestionlably valid and binding. Now, we hold that in consider ing the public deb)t thme Legislature should resolve itself into a quasi court of equity in behalf of the do frandled taxpayers ; and should not suffer a mere technuical legality to saddle a fraudulent burden on the people. The Consolidation Act can 110 more remlove tile taint of fraud than could the notorious Validating Act give life to the Conversion bonds and Bluie Ridge Sorip. And if the people acoepted the consolidating act, it was only as. they accepted Chamberlain, because they thought it was the best measure that could bie obtained from Radicalism. At te time, this was the reason givei by the Democrats for their half h~earted acceptancoe of a compromise that placed honest obatons n . par with fraudulent debts and scaled them iliko, fifty por cont. It was acknowledged at tho time that this was gross injustico to bona /ide creditors. Now that South Caro lina it herself again, sh11 should wipe out this stigma on her fair name. Her honest debts should be paid. The fraudulent issue should be unearthed, even be it through the mazes of a dozen "Consolidation Acts." Thisi is equity, an, there fore, substant.ial justice. The Northern speetilators were advised of their risk at the time. PartieshI at home needed no warning. A thousand other Iethods of invest ment offered themselves. There was no necessity for citizens of South Carolina to purclaso bonds issued by knaves and vagabonds, but payable by tho bono and sinew of the State. If their hands be burned in Common with those of AWa1ll Streot brokers, we are sorry. But I they shlioulI have beell more careful how they pulled Radical chestnuts out, of the fire. Let them1, if they ! chooso, tako thier h!ist'ed fingers into the courts. There shoild be no0 balill of Gilead for them in the Legisla ture. SOUT t C tfRO LINA NEW."S. LCa,cse village his sevol h1un11 dred inbiimitants, and not on nmed Sumithi. Th (-iLy counoil of Columbia levies a tax of ten mills, and re duces licenl;is on1 ' alf. Tito Abbeville Jl dium says the M1nt,im611tt Of Ie)ldiattiOn is gIowilng iln t,hat. cot .. It is propos.e(d to have a grand military and civic display at Abbe vlle on the 22d of February. N. I. Clawson, Esq., of Yorkville, for i my years registrair in bank ruptcv, is dead. 'Thoro are fourteen prisoners, all colored, ik tlie Abbevillu jail, waitt ing trilI for their offenses agaillst the laws. Amy Smith, a colored woman liv ing near Upper Long Cane in Abbe ville county, is said to be 1.50 years old. Jiidge Mavkoy delivered aln eO.. quelit orat ion at, the Masonic instal lation in Cohimbia on the 27th of Doemnber, the subjoet beig "Wo lanl ill M.ionry." The delinquent tax list in Now . berry Col nty vomllprises only seven pIIels of land. In Riehland the list covers over four columns of small typte. Mtr. John Hlolon, of Pi(ekon4, was throw'n from his w igon on O'oneo Miountair, and killed, on the 14th inst The accident was caulsedl by a runaway horse. TPhe Newberry D)emnocrats have nolmnatedI George Johnostone, ai son of' Chancellor Johns11tone, for the Logislature. He is ai prtomiing young lawyer. Rev. J. C. Boyd hals booni nominated for school comins sioner. 'VTh split in the party is saiid to 1bo honled. A or'iouls stabb1inrg aiffraty tookiplaoe at Hoenea Patth on) Satturiiday be twoont Scott, a 1roinenlflIt andi activ() Demo erait last year. Ini the fracas Scott wvas djiembowolod, andl( will proba bly not rcover' from this rathier severe test of his digestive appa ratus. The cmmissioners1' of election of Sumlter .have d!cideCd, fromI secontdary oviden)Ce, t hait Johni B. ] Johnston, Rep)ulicaLn, has been olele~d to the House of Representa-i tives to 1111 the vanteanley occasionedI by tihe expulsion of his brother',i Thonmas B. Johnston, for' refusing to apoloigizo for his acts in the Mackey House. The Spartanhurg IIera/disays that 0on last Tllhursday there was a dlifli. culity alt the residencee of Mr. James Drununond, in Rteidvillo township, beOtwoon1 Mr. Drummond andl twvo of his tenlantis, Daviud and Harrison Vaughn, father and son, in1 which Mr. Drumnd 01( was seriously in jured, being severely cut inl the breast and side by tho younger Vaughn. Angus Nioholson, of Chester, indictod for the mnur'der of James] Ferral, in an affray in 1878, ro* j tuned to that p)laco on the 24th< instant, after an absence of nearly< five years, andl surrender'ed himself < to the shii. He flod1 inmmediate - ly after inflicting the blow, whilch was5 givenl with a small picco of 'fenc(o pailing, the wounded man dying five (lays after receiving tihe injury. Nicholson wvas at tile time on I about 16 years of age. The doeonso1 was regarded as a desperate negro, and -Nioholson claims self .dofenco. He hits been bailed by Judge Mackey in thd m nof throo unma..d dolar KE VS OF THE DA Y. Tho Turks have boon defeated in overal minor ongtageients. Russia has ordered twelve hun trodI Krupp field guns. 'The regular weekly failures of avings banks are reported. It is rumored that the Pope vishes to make frionds with Gor nany. Beecher has been suod for $20,000 lamages for not completing his 'Life of Christ " Hayes and his Cabinet are con idering the question of recognizing ,he Diaz government in Mexico. Fifty of the largest imanufactories n America have already begun to >reparo for the Paris Exposition. Mrs. Chisholm, of the Kemper ointy, Mississippi, tragedy, will mvo an olico in the treasury and -ducato her son at Washington. The troops have had a fight with ndians ill Arizona, defoating them aid killing about twenty, besides apturing a number of horses. The case of Alonzo Dell, assistant ;ecretary of the interior vs. the New Vork 'u for $100,000 damages, leSilte( ill a verdict for the defend tI The libel was that Bell en cred his wifo under her maiden mtne as a olerk in the department. A duel was fought near Colum ms, a., on the 27th, between (. W. Guslin and W. H. Dosan, two roung lawyers of Macon, Ga. After Axchlallgilg two -hots w itlh pistols .e aflair was amicably arranged. Neither hurt. A -eis Bucharest dispatch say.i ;to bii:Ago across the Danube at ikopolis was totally destroyed by .cc on Wednesday. Tho dostrue ;ion of tihe bridge at Sistova must 'ollow, iless it. be immediately re noved. Tle weather arrested the Russian onward movement. it )(gins to look as if tho camp.aign s over for tile year 1877. Win. E. Chandler, the "Republi-, mn Statesmai1n," who went to Wlorida to "watch the count," has written a letter d1enouncing ilHays bitterly, and alleging that Sherman id otiers pledIed support both to Packard and Chamberlain and [Rampton and Nicholls. Republi ans and 'Democrats mentioned ill Jhe letter both give it the lie. and y that Chandler is merely trying Ao m1ake capital so as to succeed Wadleigh in the United States i,n.te from New Hampshire. The Tennessee Leislaturo having leached no result in the settlement f the State debt, has adjournied. rleh Senate bill to compromise the stat deb.ot at fifty cents on the lollar, with graded interest at four, 'ie and six per cent., was defeaited ni the Houso after an amnendment ~o make the inlterest four por cnf. ~or the first lifteen and six p)or cent or' the next fifteen years--high tax non voting against it becanso it was not inl compIlianfce wit,h the )rop)ositionl of thme bondholders, xlhich was fifty cents at six por Mr. A. Oakey Hall is dceribed y the Bioston Hekrald as talking hnus to its rep)orter :"After my .ecturoe season is over--and I am >ooked to deliver lectures through mit tile country tile omiung winter -I shall probably take charge of a oew,York daily paperi as managing 3ditor. I may samy that I like the xhilaration arising fromn the con - ciCousness5 of thme power thlat a man )0ssesses whol~ is ill ai position to lay mit plns for the opetrationls of an rble staff ot' writers for a public. ournal, and to wvatch the effooct of lis policy upon01 puiblic op)inion, and mean to try it. My friends are tverse to my going back to lawv, so hlat I shall probably settle down C1'rmanently to the life of a journal st-a lifo that, more than any othcr', ias always had a fasclination for me." IHrs Dum.ur.-Somo (lays since a nitizen of' Dctroit named John Wilmncr hlad a rifle stolen from his 101us0 while the famlily were absenlt. I2l'e wvas 110 clue to the tiif, hbut NIoniday night of this~ week Mr. Wihnmmer dhraed that he met the n1un inl tile Windsor who took the fun1. Hie sawv the thief so p)latinly 1n his dream thlat he0 immediately wrossed the river in search of him. Wonderful to relate, lhe met the nan of his dream on the street, and 21( dlid not hesitate to collar him. SIoro wvonderful to relate, the man )roved to be a respctaiblo eitizen >f the towvn, and, indignant at being lalledi a' thief, he knocked the h'oamoer (down and stopped on hliml >roetty badly. Mr'. Wilmer is not ntenuding to puisih a dream. book. Wolves are beon'ing so plenftiful mud ravenous about River Falls, Wis., that the heaviest sheop raisers iro selling off their stock, and either unigrating or going out of the busi loss. Pay your . subscription to TaN NIWA A14D HEI ALD. HE DIDN'T TAKE RIi. -At a hap py spot where a mim, .f negroes reside, an old rog ..I beard call ing out to hs Nvito "Manda I Is you got (1m ebickens shut u11) in (10 smoke house, liko I told yor ?" "No; an' Id liko to know what's do niatter with you, dat you'r so tickler 'bout domn chickens all at once? " she ro plied. "Nober you mind; I know what's do inatter, i' dat's nuft' till dem chickens is housed. When I hear dat dem niggers ober dar in do next yard is gwino to 1ab a party to-mor ow night, I wants to bo shore my chiekons doesn't tend it." -Chicago Post. A man from Boston would not, confess astonishment at anything ho saw in Nevada. As lie wias passing a hotol in Vilginia City tihe cap blow from the top of tho chimney. It was a circular piece of sheet iron, pointed black, slightly convex, and the four supporters wore like logs. The wind carried it down street, and it went sraddling along like a living thing. The Boston man asked what it was. "A bed-bug from the hotel," was the reply. "By George, I never saw anything like that-" he began, and then added, "outside of Boston." STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF FAIRrIELD. Court of C(onunin. Pleas. Wmll. 11. Kerr, as Clerk of the Court of Cominon Pleas for the County of Fair field, Plaintiff, (tainst Martha J. Means, Fanitio A. Me, Maria 1). Means, Martha Means, Sarah T. Means, John C. Means, (abrifllt Means, T. RosH t.,berts,n and Geo. W. Williams& Co., Dofendants. To the Defundants, Maitha J. Means, Fannit A. Means, Maria 1). Means, Martha Means, Sarah TI. Means, John C. Mais ('abriella Mmas. T. Ross I:)bertson ant G,eo. v. Williams & Cc). Y T'U aro heroby summoned and rc quiired to answer the complaint in this action, which is tiled in the office of the Clerk of Comrmo Pleas, for the said county, aid to serve a copy of your answer to the said comlplaiit on the subscribers at their oflice. No. 3, Law Range. Winnsboro, S. C., within twenly days afterthe servicm lreor. exclusive of tho day oftsuch servico; ani if you fail to answer the cotpliaint. within the tine tforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will appl.y to the Court for the relief demand ed inl the conmplaint. (AWAILLARtn & RWYNOLDS, Plair tifl's Attornoys. Filed December 31, 1877. Win. 11. Kerr, C. C. c. P. F. C. To the Defon(dants, -Martha J. Means, Fannio A. Means, Maria 1). Mtuns, Martha \i eans, Sarah T. Means, Johu C. Means and Gabriella MeAns: TAE NO-TICE that the summons in this action, of waich the fortegoing is a copy, wa%s filmd in t uc office of th-' c:erk of Court for Fair -eld county, on the 31st day of Decembcr, A. 1). 1877. GAILLA It ) & 1REYNOLDS, jan 31-xlawG6v Plaintiff's Attorneys. SHERIFF'S SALE. T2Y virtue of' stundiry executionis to me .1~ aircetid, I will 'dTer for satle before the court-hgousse door ist Winnsboro, on thte ,drst Monal;y int a.ry"ti next, with int ti1r h'a~l ih .:s< - (t.e high -t b der~ fir c.' A: the: de'scribecd p,:opertfy, to wiat; 2 dozen jugs, I 2 chi . 6'. tables hat-rac:k and jwnsh-st .5.11, 2 stove:i and lixtures, 1 bagatelle talo and batlia, I hilliatrd table andI 2 sets btall'.,15 pictur' I safle andi desk, 8 demtijohns, ; 1)bs. ryn whiskey, i htbi. corn1 whiskey, 10) gaillons apple brandy, 10 gallIons blaie.-berry brand y, 20 gatllons N. F. rum, .3 gallons she.rry, 1 gallon Catawvba wine, 5 gallons seu ppernong wine, 5t gatllonts :.tra aberry' syrup, l'I gallons ginger brandy, 1 ie chest aind water-cooler,. 4 dE/oen bottles potr. 2 dozen bottles Miwaukee beer, 2 dlozIin bott.les assort.ed sauces. 5001 eigars, bar-ro f,01 ixtutrest, 1 Ohtnlietr, 2 lights, I screen, 2 window shaides, 2 lampIs, 2 carpets-all levied on as the prope)rty of ,Jto. fl. McCar'loy, atth suit of Nathan Bros.. R. J MeCarley, Gleo. P. TJrigg & Co., J1. L. Winter, 1-. K. & T1. B, ''Turber~ & Co., WV. M. 'Jacobs as survivor, against, Jno. D. McCarley, de fendant. S. 'W. RUFEF, Rheriff's Offee, 13. P. C. Wannsbtoro, H. C., 1877. Decembler .22, 1877. PATEKTS. TIO InltelltOP'S 1nt1i', ManufIactur'er8. Es TAflBMsH En 1805. Gilmore, Smith & Co,, SoMo[ITORs OF PATENTS AND ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Amerloan and Foreign Patente. 629 F? St., Washlngt on, D. 0. No fees in advance, nor until a Patent is allowed. No fcees for' making /prelimina~ry Special attention given to Interferenne Cases before the Patent Office, Infringe ments Suits in thte different States, and aill litigation appertaining to Patents or Inventions. Rend Sfam,p for Pamnple4 of aLdyj payas. AUGUSTA HOTEL, Corner of Biroad and Washtington Streets, AUGUSTA, G 4 T AS been thorough ly renovated, re L., modeled and newly furnished. It is located in Jhat centre of biusinoss. Tielegraph OfIco . in the 'Ilotol. building. Ex press Office in the same block. Vest Offce only one block off. All ether pub lie conveniences close at hand. pir' The Office of the Hotel will be open (during the night, and guests will be received) or called at an~ hour. W. W, MOO E, Proprietdr, Tates .or madna.00 pen .day. SHERIFF'S SAL E. BY virtue of sundry executions to me directod, I will offer for sale, before tho court-houso door in Winnsboro, on the first Monday in January noxt, and the day following, within the legal hours of sale, for CASH, the following describod pro, porty, to wit : Four bales of cotton, five hun. dred pounds of seed cotton, more or loss, sixty bushels of corn, more or less, live hundred pounds of fodder, moro or ksa, and sixty bushels of cotton-seed, more or less, the proporty of Thomas Richardson, Robert Manigault and,. William Rabb, at the suit of Mrs. M. A. Faucett. ALSO, Twenty bushols of corn, and five hundred pounds of fodder, all more or less, the property of Thomas Kelly, at the suit of Mrs. M. A. Faucett. ALSO, Nine hundred pounda of seed cot. ton, more or less, and small lot in field, the property of Aquilla Har rison, at the suit of Samuel McCor mick. ALSO, One hundrod and thirty-fivo bushels of corn, one thousand pounds of fodder, two hundr'ed pound.s of hay, and seven hundred pounds of seed cotton, all more or less, the property of Frank and Lemuel Craig, at the suit of A. K. Oraig. One hundred and seventy-five bushels of corn, and one thousand pounds of seed cotton, alil more or loss, the property of James W. Stewart, at tho suit of F. Elder. ALSO, Seven hundred pounds of seed cotton, and one thousand pounds in field, all more or less, the property of Frank Adatuson at the suit of T. H. Davis. A Lao, Ono bale of cotton, three hundred Pouuds of fodder, and six hundred pounds in field, all more or loss, tho property of Ned Drayton, at the suit of J olin R. Martin. ALSO, One thousand pounds of seed cot.. ton, sixty bushels of cotton seed, more or loss, and small lot,of tops, and three hundred pounds of fod der, more or lesr, the property of Aquilla Harrison, at the suit of A. F. Ruff as Executor. ALSO, Six bales of cotton, fifty busholn of corn, five stacks of fo lder and hay, the Property of King and Simon Nelson, at the suit of Jas. P. McFie. ALSO, Fifty bushels of corn, twelve hundred pounds of seed cotton, three thousand pounds of fodder, thirty-fivh bushels of cotton seod, aNmore or less, the property of Charles Goings, at the suit of W. R. Doty & CJo.. S. W. BUFF, Sheriff's Office, S. F. CI. 'Winnisboro, S. (I., E Decembor 22, 1877. SHlERIFF'S SALE. pY virtue of sundry executions to .Jmed directedi, I will offer for sale before the court-house door ' in Winnsboro, on t.he first Monday in January next, within the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder, for c 'su, the following described prop erty,*to wit : Six mules, one four-horse wagon and harness, one carriage and harness, lot of plantation tools, one gin and belt. seventy.. five bushels of corn, more or less, fiftt en hundred pounds of fod fodder, more or less, eight hundred b)ushols of cot,ton seed, more or less, and fivo thousand p)ounds of cotton, more or less, in field, the property of R. E. Ellison, jr., at the suit of George WV. Williams & Co. ALOO, One bay horse, two cows and one calf, the property of Mrs Rebecca Dolleny, at the suit of R. T. Yar borough, for another. A.ll the right title, and interest of John Morrison in and to the follow-. ing property, to wit : 0 mules and harness, 3 wagons, 1 cart, 100 pairs shoes, 2 pairs boots, 17 pairs pants, 26 coats, 8 dozon p airs socks, 10 p airs drawers, 7 shirts, 10 boxes Mustang Liniment, 8 vests, 125 tobacco, 12 pounds soda, 8 coffee pots, 1 bog boxes lye, 8 bolts cloth, 3boxes unidershirts, 2 bolts cotton goods, i box soap, i. dozen straw hats, 80 boxes.cofllars, 8 boxes sus penders, 1 dozen bottles castor oil, 10 bottles sweet oil, S paira blankets,4 1 bolt tieng 4-bolts sheetltg, dozen axes,1dondipr lve on as the property of u.Morison, at the suit of laohel 1Engat. 8, W, 1MFF, Sheriff's Of1cc 8, p'. Winnsboro, S. (; Decem~ber 22, 8~