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WINNSBORO, S. C. Saturday, March 2. 1878. R. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, JNO. S. REYNOLDS. Assoolato Editor. TmE PREsIDENT vetoed the Silver Bill, but it was promptly passed over his voto-in the Senate by a vote of 46 to 19, and in the Houso by a vote of 196 to 73. NEWSPAPERS throughout tho whole country are petitioning Congress to remove the duty from typo, so that foreign manufacturies can comi)eto with native foundries. The duty at present is almost prohibitory. TuE REPUBLCANS in the United State Senate are reduced to sore straits. On Tuosday Vice-Prosi.. dont Wheeler was absent, and an election being hold for president pro tem., Ferry recoivedltwenty-ninc votes, to twenty-eight for Thurman One majority is a small margin te figure on. Ti MXICAN VETERANS are in Washington, and havo flattering as sarances that the old pension list will be revived. Joff Davis has written a letter reconnending that his name be omitted from the list, in order not to excite prcjudice against tho bill. REPREsENTATIvE 1IAILLARD's speech on the quiestion of the public debt is conceded to have been a very able and eloquent effort. He stnnds sqnarely by the Consolidation Act. We differ with him in certain points, as to the equity of the measure and the honor involved in the Act per se. But the two positions he takes are unanswerable : First, thit the Democratic party by its Executive Committee, and the Wallaco House, is plelged to accept the settlement; and fAiondly, that in what, evet way the Legislature may endeavor to avoid its terms, the courts will onforce them. The Adt is practically repudiation, inas much as it scales honest dobts te fifty per cent., and compels partice who, have heretofore refused to fan(d to accept half or nothing. But the quostion comes up whether two acts of repudiation are not worse than one, and whether the old1 settlemnent had not better be left alone. The power to enforce the Act in the courts. settles the whole matter. We wvould favor the repudiation of every fraudulent claim. But uin for tunately; we cannot in the face oi the law. Let the leek be swallowed, then, at once. Vindication of The News and Courier, Some' time since charges werc preferred' that The iecos and Cu-a rier-hiad been guilty og corrups practices in regard to the pulic printing. i'%e .News and (1ourie: promptly demanded an investiga. tion at the hands of the Legi sia, ture. The committee has made report,. completely exonerating '1%h News- and (ourier from the charges. The conuitiee, after showing the iniquities of the e publicanr press, say : Conxtrasted with: the accounts of the daily papers hereinbefore . r ferred'to,. wa submit the evidence taken relative to the- accounts of The .Di/t, A'eu' of Charleston. The contract made with the pro prietors of this paper was 25 cents per line for publishing the Acts in three papers, the .Daily,. Tri-Weekly and W~eekly News, which was 25l cents per line loss than wvas paid to the Charleton~ R~epublican for pub lishing the same Acts in the daily and weekly. All accounts of 2%e News wore itemied,. giving~ the title of the Act and date ~of p~ublica tion i the- three. papers owned by them, aund'the-number of lines con tained in each Act. C]omnt is uneesr ,' the evittence is in itseif a .uffliene trib~ute to the in tegrity-* of'tie proprietors of 'IThe News, and the iorreCctness of their accousnts. This is a gratifying vindicationaoo fIhe.?Note an? (kteer, and tihe e05avges sliaud ba }aid at rest. Oi the* iid.charges brought agarhst MesrTh1%ordan & Dawson, ian .Man been pr'oven,;. vhile all at admit that The Net.s and C7ourier began the- war against legislative orruption, when'ovem the 'straight. oats" were lying dormant.. Organization. General Bratton's call to the Democracy of Fairfield is well timed, and in it he presents the true aims of the party. The Democrats of this county have never yet won in a general election ; but they propose to enter into the coming contest in full panoply, with flanks all guard od. Precautions will be taken against overy emergency ; and the constitution will be mado so ex plicit, that no questiou of con structioln can arise. V, hear rumors of independent inoveients. it we do not credit them. Wo know the people of Fairfield too -well to believe they will do anythinii to injuro themselves or the State. That the people are true and lion orable has been proven in past years. They have a sirong sense of right and justice. Satisfy them that the party machinery is run fairly and squarely, and their solid support will be soeured. The do mand is for meritorious candidates, nominated by a majority of the Democratic party. Such candidates nood fear no indopondent move inents. It is with a view to secure this perfect organization that the Coun ty Club, or Convention, is called to meet. on the fifth Saturday in March. The State Executive Comn mittee has provided a uniform con stitution for the whole State, in order to prevent any irregularities from arising. The County Com mitteo will also present certain details applicable to this county, chiefly presenting the manner of securing the fairest possible nomi nations 1y primary election. The Convention is called to ratify and adopt the iiow constitution. So long as the constitution is amibigu Ous, honest differences may arise. But secure one porfect in its details and there cm be but one construc tion placed on it. ."Bolts" or "splits" cannot arise, unless actuated by base motives. Wo would suggest that as a new constitution is to be adopted, the subordinate clubs need not re organize hoforo the meeting of the County Club, as there will be a rc -election of officers under its rovisions. Great care should be exerciseod inl selecting persons capas ble of performing the implortant duties of such ollices. But of this, h ercaft or. 'We hope that the preliminary meetings of the clubs to choose delegates to the coming Convention will he largely attended, thait the campaign may be began under auspicious circu ms.tances. THE 1iSTATE LEGISLATUR~E. \MrDNEsDAiY, February 27, 18'78. SENATEi.. Thle concurr'enlt resolution to allow the governor to agreec with any par' ties for' combpenisation for services in atempingto recover certain: Car'olina by the United States, . was madopted. An act to amend an act to empowver the judlges of pi'o bate .courts in their respective counties to issue cxcentions, ap proved January 31, 1872, was or dlered to enriolled for ratification. Unfavorable report of committee on finance.. on bill to amend an act to investigate and ascertain the ac - tual bona .jidc lndebtedne~ss of the varimus counties, and to regulate the manner of paying the same, was adopted. Adjourned. HousE OF RhMPREsENTATIVEs. A motion to to meet hereafter at 10 o'olook was carriedl. It was also resolved that,. until otherwise or dered, thme' evening session be de voted exclusively to the calendar. Mr. Haskell pr'esen ted the petition of ex-Judge- Wright, relative to charges p)ublishedi against him in a Northern paper. After some sharp debate, in which several members. took part,. theo prayer of. the peti tioner was gr'antedi and' the matter was -referred to the. attorney general. .A memorial of the State.Grange, mreference to to the Blue Rlidge Railroad,. wa~ placed on the calen dir. The following bille passed a third readgng : To authorize the coupty .comnusIsioners of Chester to levy a axof one mill,. to pay past. indebt edaes t~oiandanoctio 2 '6a. POLITICAL NOTES. Hartford Courant :-"By and by Corgress will run violontly down a steep place into the sea and get choked. The preliminary inspira-'f tion is on it." , Tho Chicago Post terms the in- !9 troduction of Lamar's conscience in the deliberations of Congress "a c dangerous innovation." Inflation- r ists may well tremble at it. A Springfield Republican :-"It is becoming unpopular for a public man to h3 in the habit of getting drunk, and this marks a groat ad. - vance in publio sentiment." t Buffido EJrpreas :-The one shred H of legal reprobation of the rebellion 1i which remains is the inability of a Jeff Davis to govern the countiy which he tried to destroy. Ajr. d Lamar had much better hold his ; seat." a Cincinnati Gazette:--"'Tle Bland c bill as it now stands would be a 1 long disturbance and uncertainty, working great unfairness in the government payments. until the slow increase of silver dollars had brought all to the silver basis." L The Philadelphia 'ines treats of ithe financial revolution as a fore gone conclusion, and one which ' cumot be altered, while it suggests that the evils to be expected from it will not be unmixed with good, - which will be at least a partial compensation. TiE SvANDAnD REMEDIES for al diseases of the lungs are Schenck's Pulinonic Syrup, Schenck's Sea ( SWoed Tonic, and Schenc-k's Man drako Pills, and if taken before the i lungs are destroyed they effect a - speedy cure. To theso iodicinosa Dr. J. H. Schonek, of Philadelphia, owes his unrivalled success in the treatment of pulhuonary diseases. Tho Pulmonic Syrup ripens the morbid matter in the lungs, nature throws it off by an easy expectora tion,. and the patient has relic from ' the prostrating cough. The Maii-_ drake Pills must be freely used to cleanso and stimulato the stoimich and liver ; they remove all obstruc tions, relax the gall bladder and p start the bile freely, and the liver n is soon relieved. Sohenck's S-iv Weed Tonic is a gentle stimulant and alterativo : the alkali of which it is. composed mixes with the food and prevents souring. It assists the digestion by toning up the stomach to a healthy' condition so that. the food and the Pulmnonic Syrup. will w mako good blood; then the- lungs ( heal, and the paticut will surely get well if 'are is taken to avoid fresh cold. Full direction3 accornpuy each preparation. All Ivho wish to cons-:lIt Dr. Schenck personally, can d10 o at his principal office, corner of Sixth an~d Arch Sts., Philadelphi:i VLettersaY tothe above address, asking advice, answered free- of charge. Schenek's Medicines are sold by all druggists. A Luxa TES1TR..-We\ don t want a Moore township girl for a, lung tester. At a singing school there thme other night a young mnan was brogging about the strength of his lungs and invited a girl in the company to hit him in the breast. She said she was left-.handed ; hadio booni washing that day and was tiredI, and didn't feel very active, but at his urgent request she let go at him. When his friends. wvent to t< pick him up he said he thought he would (lie easier lying do''n. He had lost all recolletion of hiavinig any lungs, but thme young woman consoled him by admitting that she didn't hit him as hard as she might have done, baeauso she rather liked him.-Easton ( Pa.) F~ree P"ress. In Rlutland, Vermont, the Con gregaitionalists refuse to p'irtake of the holy sacrament fromn the- same cup with their colored' brothers and sisters. One cup wvas -passed alound to one hundred and one whlito men and wvomon, one of whom sat in the same peow with the four colored persons, and then another cup-a pewter one-wris served to the two men of Africean' descents WI~at would brother Gil Haven think of that sort of proceeding down South ? PALATABLE. MEDIbINES. - Ayer's, Cherry Pectoral is a honeyed drop" of relief ; his Cathartic Pills Mlide t1 sugar shod over the palate ; an-d his Sarsaparilla is a nectar that imparts vigor to life, restores the health and expels disease.- Waterfor'd (.Pa.) Absolutely free from Morphia anda other danger'ous agents, Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup is valued most highly g as a remedy for the disorders of t1 babyhood. Price. only 25 eents a bottle. Muoe Leather ! 8ole Leather II TUST Rooofqeed, 60 'lbs. Suero .l Mole Leather, ohoap for oasiL.P --ALSO Sfagy adetn ter 28, title 7, as to sureties on offi cial bonds. The unfinished business wats thei taken up, and Mr. Shaw, having the floor, muade a very able speech of at hour in favor of the report of the bond commission. He was followet bly Mr. J. J. Hemphill, who mado pointed arid telling speech on the oh er si do. The debate was continued b, Mr. Youmans, who spoke up to th hour of adjournment. TrunnAY, February 28, 1878. SENATE. Tho bill to organizo the Stat University was taken up. and it discussion consumed tho entire ses sion, morning and evening. The Houso attended in the Sen ate, and a number of atcts wor ratified--among thom "an Act t( secure landlords and persons mak ing advances. Adjourned. HoUsE OF rIEPRESENTATIvs. Soveral bills and resolutions wer( introduced, read by title, and prop orly referred. The special ordr--the report o tei Blid Commission-was the tak'. t up, and discussed during th entiro morning hours. In the evening sossion a numbe of bi'ls, of local or privato import, aice, were passed. A bill to authorize and direct tha treasurmr of the Stito to pay cor taina salaries due to the lato Pro. fessors of the University of Soutl Carolina and to certain other por. sons in said University was pro dictive of a long and animateI debate. in which Mossrs. I. R Hemophill, Callison, Gray, Pope Miller and sevoral others partici pated. Mr R. RR. Hemphill moved tha the enacting clause of the bill b( stricken out. Mr. Hamilton moved to indefi nitely postpone this motion. The yoas and nays were called Yeas, 55 ; nays, 31. The bill was then road section b3 section., sevenili amendments wor. agreed to, and the bill passed to : third reading by a vote of 55 to 35 Adjourned. D tIC-A-D R A C. Snoring is now politely describei as indulging in -Ihot music. About 20,000 Itialians annuniall imigrato to this country to settle Turkey's experience is that iron clad fleets do not amount to shucks It is said by men who have sailo a mile a minute on an ice boat that the sensation is like falling from building. A London paperO estimates tha during the latter 200 clays of 187 human blood flowed at the rate o forty gallons an hour. A Chicago German, who wanteo to add a postscript to a letter aiftei he had mailed it,. was found tryin to dig up the lamp p)ost. A paper speaks of a horse tha eats meat. H-arry says that he hia~ never soen a horse actually on meat, but has seon one running fo: a stake. A patent has bcon taken out upom almost everything of value-, bn there is a fortune waiting for th< man who patents a boot-jack tha will kill two Thomas cats at ou time. An Indiana farmer missed 360 pound1( hog' andl found him, afte> thart-fie ays, under a box tha hdfallen an-d caught him uder it The hog lived, but lie only weighet 200 pounds when found. There was a shower of worms ir Michigan,,ono day recently. Some days p~reviously there wvas a showei of fish. Anad now, if nature under stands her buin~ess, a shower o1 fishm-hooks is next on thme pro. grammo. A Frenchman. has annalyzed tin dust and deln'is of' the streets. o Paris- and Florence, and has found that thirty-five per cenit.. of thai collected from the roadway is ironi given off' by horses' shoes, and that from thirty to forty per cent. of that taken fromi the sidewalks is glue. He proposes to utilize both the iron and the glue. King Victor' E~mmanueI was es pocially fond of a fight. At the battle of Goito, in 1849, he charged at the head of a regiLment, ami Austrian battery, and showed th( same courage during the cighteer hours' strife at Novara. On travel. ing one day iis a~ carring~o without escort, to~ his eBateau of' Polenzoi he fontndanumber of gendarmes exchanging. shots with' brigands Victor Emmanuel seized the carbine with which he traveled, and aided tIoe gendarmost two of whom were killed at 'his 0 ide. The briganda who were not killed finally fled, The offi'er 'In command of th< gen~darImes was rmuch astonishd ,or lerm than;ke mn, *asbi DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CLUB. A- meeting of the Fairfield County Pemocratio club, will be hold on the fth Saturday in March. The Cub will o composod. as heretofore, of five dole ites from each local or subordinate club. The purpose of the meeting is the ryasideration of such measures as will laec our county organization in accord ith the form presented by the State 'emocratic Convention of August, 1876, Id also of such rules and Negulations w the government of our county organi ition as will secure its fullest support ilp own. nominations, guard it against in daingers or diw-ord and internal dis mnsions fill its ranks and strengthen its nns for the campaign on which it is bout to enter. 'Those preliminary steps, wisely and lihberately taken, will place our party the strongest position possible to us, ad Aenable us to adopt promptly any urse that the omergeneies of the cam aig.n ..ay require. JNO. BRI1ATTON, march 2-xttd County Cha iinan. RPAT REDUCTIONS. MT ord-er to make room- for our Spring Stock, we will from this- day soal our och of CLOTHING,. ASSIMERES, JEANS, DRESS GOODS, ad al' other wimter goodsi at greatly IREDUCED PRICES. We intend to sell thoso goods as cheap I they cn h boatglit anywhere Call ad examino anst "be convincet that we MEAN WHAT'WE SAY. We propose lceping a ful a-nd on. lete stock of lirtdwitre. and plliters in e'I of Pla-itationr Har:waro would do el, byciling arnd prieing before pur. mnsing. Onr str.tk of A.s, Plows, Iron, c., Is unuasually large-and -CHEAP. Wecaif especial attention to th-I "Ad. erhold Hoe," which wo 8el, it i.s just. hat the planters need, and is cheap and urable.. mar 2 McMASTER & BRICE. LADD BlOs. ?ANIC PRICES !! Tthe reqsuos6 of a great manty: per-. mns, particularly the ladies, who- desire select fi'on om' DRES8 GOODS,. NOTIONS,2 L A ES,, GLOVES,. RIBBONS,. FINE SHOES,, &c., &e. We have' conolud'edl tb post'pone tho luetilen Sales until.co~urt week. Goods sold at any reasonable price.. ad yet p~lease remember that we. don't itenil to giee tham, away. TmcOlgt to cost mark, "ALY CURETON," adl you can' abayour own buyilng.. Many mode, sold air less thna, coat, Bomne ofr iemna 60 below New York cost, Will, be glad Do-bye OTry Onleeandneo sa stocte