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WINNSBORO, S. C. Thursday, March 21, 1878. It. ME AN$ DAVIS, EDITOR. JNO. S. ICEYNOLDS, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. The Democratic Constitution, and Primary Elections. In our last issue we published the Constitution adopted by the State Executive Committee, togeth er with the additions mado by the Executive Committee of Fairfield county. It will be submitted to the County Club, which meets on the fifth Saturday in M'arch, for adop. tion or amendment. As the greater portion of it has been provided by the State Committee there is but little room for change, besides which, in our opinion, there is little need for it. The provisions are comprehensive and at the same time enter into detail, so that no contingency may arise that cannot be settled coiistitutionally. The new and distinctive feature of the instrument is the provision for primary elections, a feature recommended by the State Execu tive Committee, only the details having been left to the care of the County Committee. We have adverted to the matter on several occasions before, but in order that the scheme may be Lhoroughly comprehended we will again explain it. The fundamental idea pervading it is that the people shall directly nominate the candi dates, that every voter shall exorcise this right for himself without delegating the task to others. Be fore Reconstruction, when party lines were unknown in South Caro lina, every candidate submitted himself directly to the people, and the one receiving the highest num ber of votes secured the office. In those days no consideration pre vented the scattering of the strength of the whites among any number of candidates. But among the evils of Reconstruction, came the neces sity for parties, and the necessity also of each party concentrating its strength upon one candidate. Par ty nominations were then in order, and will so continue as long as parties exist. Then, first, the sys tem of nomir.ating conventions camne into vogue. But the people had never been accustomed to suil'or others to choose their candidates for them, and hence arose comn, plaints about a convention dictating nominations, and about caucussing and wire-pulling. To meet these complaints, whether jusat or unjust, the primary election has been pro vided. By it, every Democrat goes to the polls and votes for his can didate. Every Democrat's vote is worth as much as any other's, and every candidate stands upon his own merits. And as the Republi can party is almost solidly com posed of persons who never voted before the war, while the Demo cratic party comprises all those who did, it follows that the Demo cratic primary is almost p)recisely analagous to the regular election under the old regime. The only difference is that nowv at second election is necessary to p)ut the party candidate into oflice. Let be Democrats be solidly united, under candidates chosen, not by a convention, nor by a club, nor by a committee, but by a majority of all the voters-and the State election in November will be a mere matter of moonshine. The only objection we have heard made to it, is that it is more trou; blesome to the voter than the present system. This, on second thought, will be found to be an error. In order to elect dlelegates to a convention it is nocessary to have a club meeting ; and is it not just as' easy, after coming to the club, to vote directly for candidates as to Ytote for delegates to choose candidates?' But it may be argued that in case of no choice, a second vote is necessary. This is trgeo. But persons of intimate acquah)th ance with the workings of thje system say that-if the primary is held just before the election; in preliminary campaign, weak cnidi dates will drop off successively, until, when the primary is held, there are practically only two candidates for an office in the field, and the contest is decided there, without necessity for another vote. Besides all this, when the campaign is so near the close, and the weather and the enthusiasm of the members of the party have alike warmed up, it will not bo deemed an irksome task to attend even a second meet ing of the club. Indeed, weekly meetings towards the close of the campaign will be the rule, primary or no primary. Lastly, every good Democrat should be willing to take some extra trouble in order to secure unanimity and satisfaction. There have been times when the people would willingly have attended a dozen primaries in order to secure harmony. And when it is renem bered that the sole object of the schemo is to obtain a fair, square, clean cut majority for any candi date, in order to remove all cause for caviling about party intrigue or caucus dictation, the plan should recommend itself at once. It is not a now thing. It was devised long ago to mcet the very questions now arising hero ; and Fairfield, in adopting it, will be abreast of many of her sister counties, and of Georgia, Kentucky and other States, North and South. The plan needs only to be understood in order to be appreciated. Let it be unanimously adopted. THEl ST A TE L EWSNLATURE1. MONDAY, March 18, 1878. Sl:\a-rE. The conference commi.tte on the bill to provide a coUnmiss:ion to codify the laws reported t,hat they were unable to agree, and asked for a conmnittee of free conference. The coumnitteo was appointed aac cordingly. '1'lo bill for the protection of sheep passed it third reading. The special appropriation bill was discussed without final acion. Adjourined. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIvES. A resolution was adopted that the House moot daily at 11, a. in., and adjourn sine die on Friday, the 21st inst. The bill to divide the State into Congressional districts p)assed a second reading. [Theo provisions of this bill have already been pub lished.] Tlhe bill to fund the floating' debt of the State passed a second read mng. .Adj ournedc. TUrEsD,AY. Marclh 19, 1878. SENATE. The President ap,pointed Sena tors Witherspoon and Taft, on the part of the Senate, as a conference committee upon the bill to revise, digest andl re-arrange tho statute laws of this Stato. Bill to regnlate insurance in the State of South Carolina was laid on the table. Th'le aippropriation bill was taken up, and the amendment by Mr. Kinsler, that $5,000 be appropriated for the use of thme commission to control the Columbia Canal, .s stricken ont. The bill was then p)aned to a third reading. The governuor returned a number of acts with his approval--among them an act to amend the charteor of the town of Winnsboro. Adjourned. HoUsE OE REPRESENTATIvEs. Mr. Aldrich, of the committee of confercnco to ap)point a committee 'to codify the lawvs of the State, ro Iported thai thay had failed to agree, and asked for a committee of free conference, which wvas granted. Mr. Orr presented the rep)ort of the committee of conference on a bill to amend chapter 310 of the Code of Procedure, in relation to real estate, which wvas adopted. Mr. Petty, in behalf of the comn mnittee on edlucation, off'ered a reso lution to p)rovido for the payment of teachers' pay certificates in Newv berry county, which was adopted. Mr. Muller submitted the sixth chapter of the report of the commit teo on frauds, which was ordered to be printed. A joint rolhtion from the Senate, wvith amendments, to levy a half'. mill tax to pay past due school claims of Riciuland, Clarendon, and Sumter counties, was enrolled for ratification. A joint resolution" providing for the adjustment of the' public debt, and hiqiidating and settling the . ame, wranns lad n h 4tbe rAJID n TIMlES. A Westorn Merchant's Lott3r to a Philadelphia Firm. By tho grace of God and a silver Congress I am again pormnittod to insert my quill into the inkhorn to tell you that I have raked in anoth - er hundred. Times are hard out West, and the mud is crotch deep. The grangorl, are blue and poor as skim milk. They sit around and talk reslluption, politics, religioi' Ingersoll and on many other sub jects of which they Ire us dun as mules. If they would talk less and tickle the ground more they would get along better. They want to eat and drink and be extravagant at somebody else's expense. I have tried for thirteen years to teach them better. I would go hungry to pay my debts, and, indeed, now an oyster or a bite of turkey would astonish my stonmach. I am so collapsed now that I cannot tell whether I have the colic or the backache. I have great hopes of the future, and when the genial rays of the sun dry up the mud and the grangers crawl out of their holes and venture to town, I will pursue them liko a hen after a grasshopper, and when I get one down I will never let him up until I accomplish mly hellish design-to get what green bax and coin they have in their old elothes. I am going to have somlle of the dollars of the daddies or blood and hair. I havo a hope that reaches beyond the vale, and is well grounded. I will send you some more collaterals pretty shortly, or as soon as Dame Fortune favors me. Woefully thine, * * * A -1 APPY ThlouGWlr.-The question of introducing the Moflett bell punch into Chicago is being agitat ed there. The city is bankrupt, and something is necessary to be done at once to raise some money. It is a happy suggestion that a tax on whiskey could bring the surest and speediest return, and perhaps yield enough revenm to nake every ring official a millionaire in the course of a few years. It is esti matel that there are somethiung like thrco thousand saloons in Chicago, which dispenso abut four hundred and twenty -seven .hous:nd drinks per day, i11n1 a tax of . one cent a drink would produce an annual revenue of a mnillion and a half of dollars, which is ten times more than tho present license sys tem turns in. This is the kind of argument that will mnake the bell punch popular if anything can. AORoS5 'TIrrK WiATER. Aftairs in EnropO .'re still unset tilt. Russia, however. seers to have gotten all she wsants, while Eng; hand's wrath is subsiding. A Con gress will soon be held to discuss and settle the p)oliticail bla.neo of power. WVhat with the cession of some of the Turkish provinces to Russia arid the independence of others, thei Ottoman Empire hams been reduced to a small strip of territory and her power is inevita* bly gone. What is loft of her is nowv ready to abanrion England and make fm iends with Russia. Ini the menan time England hais vagueo hopes of ac(iniring sovereignty over Egypt. Rus. s bird in the hand is, however, worth England's two in the bush, and as none of the Other powers seem invclined t.o hike a hmandl in a war, it is probablle thatf the British lion will be mutch c:nh . rassed in the future by the Russi tau b)ear's encroutchmnents in the East. TuHE PENETRTIN'uo W~iNDs incilen t to this season of the year are a severe ordeal for the lungs. Th'le neglect of a hard congh generally leads to a wveakness of the lungrs, which, not infrequently, results in Consumption. ScuENcCs PoJMOsIC Svmnur wvill at once relieve and loosen a tight cough and is such an agreeable remedy1 that children will take it without being coaxed. A cold on the lungs, if consuimption is not already de0velopeLd, may be easily mastcred by thme use of the Pulmonic Syrup, toge their with Schienck's Mandrake Pills to clear the sys tem In more serious cases, wvhere the dliseaisi has become deepjlysaed and the patient suffers from loss of appetite, weaknoss andi emaciatiom, Sehenck's Sea Weed Tonic sho/ld be used in connectioni with /the abovo mentioned rnemedies, to atbmu late the alppetito aind brip'g the digestive powers into heahtZiy action thereby sustaining the pirongth of the p)atient and enabling him to resist the progress of the, disease until the Pulmonie S rijp may por. form its healing nd cleansing work. The use of the standard renme dies according o the direct,ons which accompan them, cannot fail to produce mw t satisfactoty re suilts. A lett i addressed to Dr. Schneck Corn' ~r of Sixth and Arch Sts., Philado phia, asking- advice, will promptl receive the Doctor's personal atten tion, free of charge. Schenok's edicines are for sale Iby all Di'ug ' s. There are prospects of a heated campaign in Indianla this s1umer. The Pittsburg Post rays that the pre:=ent Legis are of Pennsylvania is a disgraco to tho State. Congressman Beverly Douglass, of Virginia, is said to be continually in a state of intoxication. Rumors are again current that diSaiflected Relitblic,ans will combine with Democrats to oust Hayes and seat Tilden. A Louisua r remarks that just now Mr. s drawing the first quarter i .ilent Tilden's second year's - ''ho friends o4 President Hayes claim that notwithstanding all the clamor raised against him, the morale of the Federal officials has been greatly improved. Contested elections arO decided in Congress according to the alpha botical order of the States, and as South Carolina is last on the list, Messrs. Till,nan, Richardson and O'Connor will have to possess t.i,;"ir souls in patience. An effort is being made to bring the Democratic Congressmen into the traces by means of caucus. Owing to the small majority, the Republicans have several times controlled legislation through Democratic abseuteeism. Ben Butler is very much dis gruntled over the removal of Simmons, his henchman, from the Boston Custom House. As Ben 3umler has the biggesi following, and Simmons is the best political organizer in M- ssachusetts, a faint odor of brimstono is being smelt in the Bay State. AN ANECDOTE oF TilE LATE Por. A beautiful anecdote of the late Pope, told by an English clergyman, reveals the truly sweet id catholic heart of him. Two English women, sisters, had an audience of the Pope, but as they were withdrawing one, a convert to the Roman Church, lingered. The Pope, observing thii, recalled her and asked her as sl kneeled, what she would ask. "The prayers of your Holiness," she said. "that my sister may be converted from Protestantism, and thlat we may not be sep)arated by death." Tao Pope, pla:ing his hand upon her elaIps;ed hands, replied -Daughter, those who love God will not be separated in the next world." Even Pr,testants can believe that Pims .X. w is infallible in that uAter ance.-Boston Transcript. 2llUXI.C1'A I XoMIN.I TIoNS. L'ssrs. Ei%tors :-Pleaso an nonnee the following ticket for our next Town Council: Inten;:dant. JNo. J. NEr~m.. R. J. McC.inr:v. The ab:sve n-untei-aro) active, rep resenltamt ive young men, and1( we feel s.itisflied that all tihe varied jnterests of the community will be protected and1( promnotedl nnder their adrinis,115 trationt. \Mr ch 14- 1 M.1v Fn IEN Ds. SPRTCi G00D. ----o WX E harve .ist r.euni ved au new anid Ypret t.y assortzm(nt of SP1RING OALICO)ES AND CAMBRIICS. te picns will snit the times. (1al1 and look at them: t hmy wimll bi-anr the close.0 ifn'%eetionl, and wec take phianiure in sho wi ng them12. " ill rece~Qive ini a few i'ay a ul assrn)itf altlh goodi ini our McMASTER & BRICE. 0.. .... FRF.SHMEDICINES, Drops, Exutraict of Ihuchut, Cattle Pwes toughm C',ndy', Chmorry' Peetoral. P.rownm's Congh Mi .un,ro, Arnina Lin.imnt, I.ls senuce of Ginxger, Elhix ii. of (irindediai for Asth ma, WVorm LJozenges. i r Rr~ storer, Essence of LeontO, T1ooth Powders, &c. 'These Medicinos will connla end them.. H(lves to phy13sicianfs and1( to thoso piorsons. who~ desire to knUow what thov are awal lowing, since the recipe of each is p)rintedl upon its label. .MobitASTER & BRICE. '1)1MOCRATIC COUNTY CLUB. A meeting of the Fairfield County Democratic .lub, will be held on the fifth Saturday in March. The Club will be composed. as heretofors, of five dele gates from each local or subordinate club. The purpose of the meeting is the coasideration of such measures as will place our county organization in accord with the form presented by the State 1)emocratic Convention of August, 1876, and also of such rulet, and regulations for the government of our county organi zation as wili securo its fullest support of its own nominations, guard it against the dangers of discord and internal dis sen sicns, fill its ranks and strengthen its lines for the campaign on which it is about to enter. These preliminary steps, wisely and d<liberately taken, will place our party in the strongest position possible to us, and 'enablo us to adopt promptly any course that the onergoncies of the cam paign ..ay require. JNO. BRATTON, march 2-xttd County Chairman. OTTO F. WEITERS, Wholesale Grocer -AND Commission Merchant, Nos. 110,112 and 181, JE.A.MT 3E3.A' !MisT CHARLESTON, S. C Oct 4 Ayer's Hair Vigor, For restoring Gray Hair to its natural Vitality and Color. A dressing which is at once agree able, healthy, and effectual for preserv ing the hair. Faded or gray hair is soon restored to its original color, with the gloss and freshness of youth. Thin hair is thickened, falling hair checked, and baldness often, though not always, cured by its use. Nothing can re store the hair where the follicles are destroyed, or the glands atrophied and decayed. But such as remain. can be saved for usefulness by this application. Instead of fouling the hair with a pasty sedliment, it will keep it clean and vigorous. Its occasional use will prevent the hair from turning gray or falling off, and conseqjuently prevent bald ness. Free from those dleleterious sub) stances whlich make some prepara tions dlangerous and injurious to the hair, the Vigor can only benefit but not harm it. If wanted merely for a HAIR DRESSING, nothing else can be found so desir able. Containing neither oil nor dye, it does not soil white cam bric, and yet lasts long on the hair, giving it a rich glossy lustre and a grateful perfume. P'REPARED BY Dr. i, C. AYER & CO., Lowell, Mass., Practical a,sd Anaslytical Chemits SOLD BY ALL DRIUGGISTs EVERYWUERN. J.E.Mger& Co., 137 and 139 Meetinig Street, CHARLESTON, S. C., FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC iADWVARE, Cutlery, Guns, Sad dihery, Bar Ironi and Plow Steel, Cucum ber Pumups, FAIRBANKS' SCALES. Agents for South Carolina for the Patent Steel Barb Fenucing, and the celebratedl Farmer's Friend Plows, on, two andl three horse, at reduecld prices. i4ber'aI Terms1 to the Trade. Large assortment of Agrioultural Im plcnts. A gricultural Steels a specialty. Bull Tong.es, Turn Sho-vots, iScooters, Sweps, 1he0l Rolts, also, rough steel Shapes, &e, State Agents Tredegar HIors'o and Mulo Shoes, jt All'orders sh receive prompt and careful attention, J. E.AD *R&C00., 137 and 1$ eeting Street,