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WINNSBORO, S. 0. Saturday, January , : 1878. I. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, JNO. S. REYNOLDS, Associate Editor. Corbin as a Briber and Swindler. The Colunbia, Register completo Ty explodes Corbin's claim that the money he advanced for paying off' the Mackey Mob was a loan to thei State, made by hin in conseu(ionco! of an injunction preventing Cardozo, from using public money for that purpose. Tho Register showix that Corbin made the payment boforo Cardozo was enjoined, and further shows that no entry of the allegod loan or of the payment of the Mackeyites was made by Cardozo on the books of the State treasury. Moreover, Cardozo hiiself said that this arrangomont with Corbin was a privato mattor. All of whieh is proof conclusive that Corbin paid the Mackey nentbers out of his privato purse, or out of State funds in his possession as a privato in dividual, and that his purpose was to bribe the inembers to elect hii to the United States Senate. As measures are on foot to appoint a Legislative committeo to inves.tigato this transaction, it is hoped that Corbin will Hoon be shown up. Moreovor, Corbin's protonded ex p1anation of his failire to acconnt for $28,000 collected from Phos - phate Royalties on the score that he was authorized by Comptroller Dunn to pay himself cortain fees duo as attorney for the State, is denounced very properly by the Register as a fraud, Dunn pos sessed no authority to divert this royalty to the payment of fees; and Corbin was shrewd enough lawyer to know it. Civil suit has already boon instituted to recover this money; and if a criminal proceed ing can in any way be tacked on, it will be still better. Lot Corbin be pursued. If there is any one mo: e obnoxious to the people than Pat. torson, it is Corbin. Let him be garnered into the prnitentiary if that desirable result can in ray way be accomplished. The Election Law. It is the duty of the Legislature to bring the State, as nearly as possible, back to her old moorings, and restore old customs, which the Radicas for their owvn vile purposes have alTered. Principal among those is- the constitutional provision regulating the time and mnner of holding elections. In the good old days of States' rightsi the State and Congrossional elections were kept separate and distinct. But the Radisals, in order to stile the voice of the people by the uso of the bayonet, jumbled them all into one, and even required the use of but one box, so that now theonames of all candidates,. from president down to coroner,. are printed on the same ticket.. By this device the provis ions of the bayonet bill were made to apply to all cases; and the Federal government, under the pre tence of seeing fair play in Con gressional elections, has not only bulldozed the people in that respect but. exerted terrorism even in the elections for petty county offices. The Legislature should not sleep until measures have been initiated to upset all this Radical machinery. It is idle to urge that Hayes will not interfere in State elections. The mighty contest now waging against him by the Radical digni taries, whatever be the motives assigned, arises simply from his doctrine of non4interference. In dications are that he must succumb to party dictates, or desert to the Democracy. One alternative is as probablo as the other;y and in case hoe accepts the former, the scenes of the campaign of 1876 in South Carolina will be witnessed again in 1878 and 1880. The only security against this is a smashing of the mnachine-a duty devolving per emptorily upon the Legislature. e are informed that a bill will bintroduced to change the day of holding Congressional elections, so that they will not be coinoi nna with tho election of Stat and county officials. This would be well enough, wore it not that the Prmdential and the Stato electiois would still be hold on the samo day. Tho best courso would b the submission of ia constitutional am11onhmnnt changing the Stato election back to the mune day in October onl which it was previously hold. Ia tile mintimo the Logis lature should mo imtiend the election law am to provide for separato boxes at eatch procict, ono for Foderal and the other for Stato oices, the two to be kept ontirely distinct. This would be z reto-ration of the old custom, and would frusrate any attempt oil the part of the Federal governmont to control State ulo-tions. Will the Legislo turo please attend to this little matter itt onceo? SO UTHf CA R 0 N1,IX.A NI I'S. There havo butn . un11111ba1r of robberies in Sumt r 1to.couny 1eCCIlet. - ly, and the impressiol is tlm0 tiey Wero COMM itte.d by, in organize... banld of thievse Tho comlliSSioers of lecion for Sumter county iav(i docbar(d 1-he rcenlt oiectionl for a lillmlbr of tho Legislhture inl favor I'f Jo hn 13. John-fistol, tie lLadicalon:11 . Another inceildiary firo has o( cui-red inl Kistrec, troying the stores of L1. BenjmnlnlIdi Epps. Tho coliui.ouso wvas in lam twice. but wau saved from Dmeh dmamge. Christmas seems to liave' been spent ill aln untiu-sti. ly ti1ot V.ty all over the StIIto. There was :a Iot ieable Falling off in tho iAtieit fls and other difictiesics hcrctofore o eurring at that time. Thin -Polored people in Ci.harloston co(1 lobrtedl Iaipai'ij)tion 51 .I:m-Jan Iuary 1--with a parale, rollowcd by appropriate addreo-s-es. TheIll cvi' bration is said to have been the most orderly andi(1 generally credita blo alfair of the kind sinIco tho warl. Several days igo a party of tw:lve or fifteen men crossed t ;ioA from Colleton into Benufort couitv, a1nud forcibly Irrested IL Cer1ain young iman who it is snid had pli,ho ed his faith to it youn h?ldN, led him to the al-tar l en' and had the ari iage knot tied. s A colored man n:med Jim Stum mer was recently drownled inl New berry county while iu the act of recovering a wild goose which another negro hiad s11h0t. Ho wVas -warned not to make the attempt, 1t in spite of all entreaty he per sisted, with the moelanchtoly result stated. A fewv nighits ago, a white sailor whlo had1( been stopp)~ing att a board, inig hiouse in Chartlesf.mn for severai daiys patst, while snftering from de lirum treenls ralised thme saish to his wintdowv situated on the third floor of thc buiki( - ing, ando dIeliberaitelv jumtiul out iln mid air, falling wtith ai farfului crash1 upon the paVemlenIt holow, disloenting his~ jatwb~one, br1eaking~ his armnd1( sus11tiinlg serious in tornal inj uries. One daty last week a party of rovenuo collectors in Union coun - ty, seizedl the miules, wagon aniTd tobancco of a Mr. ill], undler the pretext thalt tihe tobaco, bxsworo 110t pr1oper'1ly stam11ped. They likowise seized Mr. Hill, hand c.ufl'od himt, anld procoded to take himl on to Spairtan burng-meain while treating himt in a. imost insultiung mnannuer. Wh en a short d istance0 from Spartanhurng, the party cae:io up with a squad of Volunteer Stato Troops, aRsemTbled for purpxo:es of drill. Here thc:imltia, without ro. Bolting to violeuco,. rescued Mr. Hill from his captors-who hadl seized hiuni without any wairraint of law. Tho facts seem to make out a clear case of outrageons abuse (of power by the revenue officials. The matter will undt rgo judicial inves . gation., A most burutal murder wats com1 mnitted in Chester on the night of the 28th nIt. BorTgen Conger, a whito man from New Jersey, r.e quested a necgro to shuow hlimi to a boearding- house. TheIi negro assen. ted ; and while oni the way ho dealt the white man several blows on thec head with a bludgeon, which felled himt~ to the groundl. He wasi1 thlen robbed of whiat little money he bad -eleven dlollars atnd a. 1haIf. Theo unfortunate man died of his injl rios on Tuesday mnorninig. B3ob Crosby, a negro, was suspeotedl (If having (lone the bloody deed, and on beimg arrested mado a ftull con fession. Great indignation p)revails in Chester, and tihe negro b)ruto is threatened with lynching. Judge Mtackey has ordered a special term of the Court. of Sessions for Chester county on the 18th inst., when the murderor wml be naaned for tra. NEWS 0 P THE D A Y. The treasury disbursoments for the month of December wore four teen and a half millions. Several prominent Now- York donf.-,imts. wi) havo gro-wn gray in the profonssion, Iare given up their pralctiq", in disgust,. becutse of the arsenal of strmge and formidablo implemntsnb now rotquired. Cella .ewis, a pretty Jewess of Now York hats sued her husband for divoreo. beeInSO lh0 Obtlined her under falso pre.tences. Now it ap. pears that he is a CIristian, and '3ho wauts to get rid of him. At Bothlehem, Pa., on Thursday John 11-lddovk, awol. tventy one, st-Ihbed and instanthy killed Lizzio D;avis, aged Iin-tevin. at her loe(b, 11a1 retinIlilg l homlio shot himself throtigh the heart. Jc:Ioiy was the callso. Governor HolIlid-t.y. of Vir.ginill, Was inanl''IraIto-1 w%ith pomlp un1 o(tualeI sine Colonial days. He c"iMuded lis llruess with -t decla ration of hif belief i.i Virginia's ability to imeet her oblig-itions w-hich 'was received vith. gr.t ap plainse. The jondon /h/y! / Parki dh,pIa th :uy: -The Sp:mish Ami ho1; :14dor herc he.L, form.1l1ly niolified MiirWathlington ht thJ.Ce Sim i!h- venen.asb-le oi" all wVhomIII it reg.i :m ins:me0. She willinever bc- p. rmitteod to rAttun to Spin." A short time ago whilo ir. Win. McKinmeY, or OZ.11rk, Aliss., ws IK:-ossing Pianther- (kueek, near51 that~ t'wn. i!l a w.igoti O1iLi%Lii- his wife e..1f livv clillrn, the )ody of th1e' wvol we. lifted from its ca-rritiage by the foreo of the water. and ear, i(d (mwn the sIram 111:1(d broken to p nice.', :d all he lmIty drownle'd except M2r. M,-K11ieY, VhIo very narr1Owyly oeav;pe!d. Thie v First National D.ink, of Charl;t tv, N,,. C., bwnlm yin out the 11::diean; siivrI dl:r at the opening o buio on New Yar's D.1y. anid by. night. tie City w.is flooted with the-m. The o!er baikn have orderiedxi th"is ctin. They vay Ili nety--seven centsi for it, and thus m'le thre cen n the-e dvea, l ess a half a 1en (-,lt p ihe cost of getting i1. The 'irst First Nation :I] rviecivcd a ba-rel of this mone (5,000,) an u1 huin-. the d:ty dispose'd of all but $1,501 of it." Tr. G. Liamibert, epresidt of the Ainrican Popilar ife Instu ance Compiny, of New York, who wNas Coivicte(1 of swc:lring to ia false ann11ui2al repIort, 'as arra1-igned for sntnce on Thuirsd;y. He spokt for two holrs, Claiming that he was hli(Ldd down by the prss, and in1tted Ho asked for the light est seniten(ce piossible. Judge Bra; teced((h im to five yeur in the State prison. General Grant is said to be goet ting fat. Is that the shadow of a third termt ? Th'Ie Pinte Irnitians- are~ one ah)eadl of the white man. They have a1 ganmo called eight-up. The s-nowv stotrms in the Ba;lkans portunities for "sleighlintg." En~igland wanft~s anl "underlsXttand ing" abont tis tIhng, andii ha;s ordered 30-,000) pairs of shaoes for her soldi-ers. Th'le (Courier-Journal imaflgines thait (Georgo Washlinlgtont was a11 great hand to koop) is muonth shutt. Showed his good senso. *What ails old Texais ? That is, ho0w does it- happen that twenty.. eight Texans surrendered to 400 3Iexicans? Something incons istent Tho man who wvill coolly go to work and get upj a cat shuow, and then lot all the eats return safelv home, should be avoided by all re speetable meun. Youang Indies in Romao will peCti tioni CIongress t.o paisa anI E'nabling Act, to entable old folks to go to bed at inol o'clock Sunamday eveni)' ng-Rome i&tinelw'. A Washslington corresp)ondenlt wr'aites that S~enatior' FerrVy is ats cold1 as8 ice, as haritd as~ matrble, and( ats digntifiedi as the top) gratsshloper on a~ head of cabbage. Whena Samn Holmoe5, of Kentucky, looked into the mlelZls of four shot-guns tho other day ho re marked: "It's your turn, boys-I'll como down 1" And ho camne Now Yorkers have discovered a dye by which poor tobacco, can be mande to look like the best Havana. When you call for a cigar p)erhaps you had better take a pipe. The man who goes armuid buying farms and getting change for a $20 counterfeit bill is now abroad in tho band. When ho coios along loit,vo your foot.,prints on him. Slippers for Christmas prosents to ministors are w 4ked in navy yollow beads, with tw Altra-marino red instep, on sky.'oen cloth slippors three sizes to smiall. Under the :Lw6 of P(nns'ylvani Ia seamstress Pan takc n. dress not paid for, off the back of har dolor. This is one reason why dress maker's bills am prolptly palid in thatt Stato. Ameria now supplios Europe With becf, flour, apples, pot.-t )s. butter, cheose. Who says sho I.ty not claim the proud title of "the F,odd er-land ?"- ()o/nnercial A d vert.er. A Cin.,innati. dyer Sa-lid ho could dye Mrs. Patteison's purple dress a pllm.l color, )uit ho dyed it green and had to pay eighteen dollars and costs of trial for being so far out of plum. A Swiss profes!sor says that trees with springs un ir them are the imiost liable to he struck by liglit,; I ning. Pull up your trees anlC re 1movo the -Prings, or elso get ready to dodge. Canv 1. suspenders now seem to be worl by most all ladies. TVhere's no "give" to themY. and that's tho realson you oC'.1ionally. h"ar a buttLon fly off vien a lady grabs for hcr skirt. A mass of nd,ive gol, weihing twenty four polnd., is vorlth oly about T5.000. The hero of the dime novel in m1do to pick np a nugget a.- 1i as his list and leclaro his frtuwfl made. It wT is at the Pishlrgh 1'esy, 1"ry that a learned ldivilo was lir-st inforinedI that genitlemeon put their 1!ms.1 .1r1oim1d ladies when danin1 g wiih theml. He hIadi; lived in the ba'kwo<( us, either. At Pl:tim'-re paper ha,; discovered01 C!at flt sil-kal!A 11 11mhrs ahIC%va tlv haVe the hand1,if:,, b:bis a1t the exhlibitionsm. 1f they hadn' th..M.vN VoIlhd ik ast enoug 'ii ak th'e jUdges bl'ieve they l;id. Wasliin:;ton ecmn!y, New York. Eas lost its tall ti;v. He ws near.Iv seven feet hi-h, vol.od the sitraght DI)'mocrat'ie ieet, and aways raisedt hi ha to a l when she raised her bonneut to him. Donn P latt Spr.akIs of tho Vor, mnon)t "niator a: "thi caption and quer':lo-ms 8-nator E.hnund,,vvi wo iild of aflmissimi to t.he Epi(copal r-hurcb, because he Im;)V( ; aImcIiments to (hirty nin aiti clos." Judge Jrv. Plv.-k not onily chews plg 1-obacco, buit. hu is in the liabit, of spit tinl. llt annult himm) earilng, nIt wI: 1 It hits. When he is out valli!.1 and w:mt to b. "'real nice,' hie takes~ his hai aloG1 anid sp i ts in that. Bil1l Shunto wa's a1 miemlber' ofl the cro'wdhal ar:uound itohI ld . bit t tlm reen t rion 141, 13Ull, wI i 44n irr'e proi',hile honor~ui, en:ed~ out:" ys 1 on no) speakon' buit there's a' blar. ed sightl mm-' . ' : m here than It is now a u:i;k. w iedged1 fact, that~ CaxsemmN i: u m. It hias of casies (some of thiem apparentIly desperatoc ones) by bt'henek's Puil, mloni( Siyrup1 alone, andl( inl otheris by the same me~dic'ino in connectionl withi Schienek's Sea Weed T)n ic and' MXandraiiko Puil, 01ne or' both necord'( - ing to the r'equII'irents ofl the case. The oild supiposit.ionl that "Cons suptioni is ineulrale~. for luany~ yearsi dotorred Phiysicie.ns from at tOmp11ting!. to find a remio.ly for that d iseas~e, and11 patients afiioted withi it r'econci led themselves to death without an oil'ort beCin. ta to s::ve thewi frm a doom which wa's c)on sider'ed inocvi table. Dr. Schomnck himself was suipposed1 at one0 timuo to be0 at tho ver'y gate of death, hiS plhyicians. hav.iing pro4 nounced his caso( hiopeless and abanidonedl him to his fate l.ie was -conoEl by thio aforesaid iniioils, and( afterward enjoyed unin terruupt od good1 hiealth for imore than forty years. Th'lonsanids of pe(3)opl1 have uise, Dr). Sehenek's preparationls -.vith the same recmnarkabhloucess. Schonek's Ahnianae. ('ontalIiningc a hi (a1 ph>.1 titat e enI Ccnsnuption. Liver Comupaint, Dyspepsia, &.c., can 1bo had gratif; of any druggist, or of J1. [1. Schene(k & Son, Philad(1el ph ia. Fu'ill dlirectionsf for the use of Schene's meCdicinles aiccompany (each p)ackage. Scheok's Pulimonic Syrup. Sea WVeed Tonic, and1( Mandrako PiIls areO for sale by3 all dlruggists. * D)r. Baxter, one of the p)hysicians! attending Senator Pat te rson, says 1h0 sees no reason wvhy the seonator will not bo able to resume his seat in the Senate upon the reassombling of Congress, as his improvement is steady and satisfactory. Since this opunon wvas- oxproesd, P attorson has had a relapse-but hie's getting better nanin. PASITTON NOTES. Gilt and silver buttons are much vorn. Sr.owlls aro the most stylish lowor for half-mourning. Flowerp are bunlced for th bhroat, waist and pockot. The now fnuger rings aro separat d liko tiny bungles and banded ,ogothor. The Japaicso doll, with its LiIlond-shapel eyes. is tho fash .onuble doll of the period. Soal-brown stockings, clocked in ibs and cheks, with red or bluo ;ilk, are sought, for. The novelty in shoes is to have ho high French 1els utuddod with Mnall silver stars. Round hats, made of camel's hair ,o match tho costume, are very Atylish for young ladies. Enamelled sleeve-buttons to rep< resent white linen ar very fashion ible for evening dress. lZubies aro the favorito precious -toncs now, alnd are considered noxt .0 diamonds in value and boauty. ')myrna or Torchon lace is ve y nuIcA sought after. This style uf ae vears w.lAl and is not expon '.h 1 most fashionablo ev(eningV '(0.ts fo the solason ar crown, clsu, and compltely civered with G:rs. AlI sorts f em b-o;1erios ar3 -.Iuch in vo . Tili; f:.shion of [-rvui.liil Ol woollun bands is very hlandsomle. Whito silk pochet--handkorchiofs with wIde hem stit(cled liem and Ll.rge colured ilitials, arc -the choico COr !genltl0mIIel. The new style of children's trgh-s is of the new Th"rcules wool Init in at sh rt in tovals; Hle prutest aro of gniy and sear N back- combic s l are m.Aitic in W-dgn ; lpy is Sle who has,1 trnca''Arcd her gret-gl-n "(rhIrithor's m, for she will be th Cnvy of all. Spanish laco an1d Spnih n4 ottinr Iro now importd for ovordres.ies f,r evning toilets. This nut is een in b",e Colors, ats w-oll as black antid white. Ou some of Che ilportel dresses for evening wear, overskirts are frefIlijtly seen composed entirely 0o 1 ILMAw0k O f cheilijjC, ciubroidcr-. ed with gold or silver. L-u(lder trim'-.4 g, or Successivo IowS of Fron.'. :e, with a siovy 'Ialoonl for ia headinl"g, is a novelty inl tho. waly of trilliminlg tho Side, or f of silk j;inese toilets. The newv nmWsY areo very smnail,, un-asme are of novel design. T2hose wvith mlonogramns wlorked iin> p.o wmI areOuS consi ideed handi 55ine 11,ut lihoso m1:1:do entirely of feathr are5 the .1 most eleganIit. A b)rido rectl y received from Paris e' nI .hiuisi te while sa( tini roise, w1itha siIler ili..ree h'.!aves and buds(1. This ciun he wvorn for a brooch, an~ .rsmnmt for t ho hair, or fastenod ArEn's A.MI.TCN A 1uunaI is now red (frdivery by tedruggists, brnd wve are' freo to S 1y tha2t we have reatd ti . weomisitor510 wi ith sat isfact.ion1 andi prlolit. It continis anf tstoishing amount of informnation wVhijch is nisoful to everybiody, and1( hIows) how to~ treat nlearly all the dis use fro 01which pepi suffer. It nvaiAbly rec~onnuend:1cs thIe best O'eedies; toc h)i (employedc <, irrespeC--. hivo of Ayer's .Fniiy MedCicinos, and IIurn.ishes(0, indC eed, t,he bes me I idical ulviece by wvhich a groat maVjor'ity of ihIcenIts e, ni bo tr1eated sucess. mdi jokes are0 the best comi)jlation Lhat coes10 unmd(r oui1*rnotco, anId tho boo,k is a1 refresinig conttributjin [to11 our enjoyments over*y year.-&t. C4lair COb>or"r. 1W Love illh fid out a way. At DtIWa not lon ago ab mafi den, whIose pa)l wasI opposed to her mar. riage, invited all her friends to be presenit at ber weddling at ma Ih mignat.ed chiurc.h anid hour. There wasH a11n unen so atttendanmco, in dhtding thue furious father, and wiihlethe was waiting to forbid the banns the shy girl elippod off to mnotherw churchi, was married and iet off on hier brid1al tour. There are threo murder cases to be tried at. the speial term of oourt ordlerodlI"'y Judgo Mackey for Ohes tor connty. ~L\TOTIo-E. Iilslatatinath-store room of' R. L.Dannnbor,agt on aturdiay,all, the romaningm goods ,RIuch as is gend"lally had in a Dry Goods store, for t.he bneollt. of the creditors. Parties will find it to their advantage to ciall I will continu o the salo unitil evovythinig is sold . jann .DEnPuAIen