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he 1w i1 att y neit. WINNSBORO. B. O. Saturday, April 20, : 1878. R. MEANS DAVIS, BDITOR. .1NO S. REYNOLDS, AssOCrATE EDITOR. THE UNITED STATES Senate has passed a bill, with only six negative votes, to repeal the bankrupt law. Bankrupts had better put in their claims at once. WONDER if Williams exported to Africa that mountain howitzer he used to intimidate Radical corre spondents with in Columbia ? If so, Stanley's elephant gun will be no where. Tua Regi8ter explains that the Blue Ridge Railroad is assessed for $72,000 in Anderson county alone, while the more valuable portion of the road is in the mountains. We stand corrected. Still, millions have been sunk in it. If feasible, the plan of completing it with con vict labor should be adopted, as in this way only will the State recover her losses. N - A New Stanley. The Liberian Exodus Association dispatched from Charleston on Thursday its firstship load of emi grants, some two hundred in number, to Liberia. These are of the bet ter class of colored people, who carried with them a stock of sup plies and necessaries. It is proposed to make these trips every two or three months until all those desirous of seeking their fortunes in their native land can be accommo dated. One of the features of the occasion was the departure of a reporter of the News and Courier to the promised land. Journalism has lately achieved its most conspicuous triumph in the remarkable expedi tion of Stanley through the heart of Africa. While not attempting to rival this feat, the News and Cou rier, already so noted for its en ter prise, has determined to secure, both for the colored people here and for all others interested, a trustworthy report of that land concerning which such conflicting accounts have been received. Its messenger has been well chosen. Mr. A. B. Williams is a Virginian, quite young, but possessed of talent, vim, courage and that pecculiar knack so necessary to constitute a good newspaper man. He came to Charleston when the Journal of Commerce was founded, and was employed on its staff during the Hampton canvass. As its Columbia correspondent during the day3 of the dual government, his enterp)rie was unquestioned. Subsequently he became a valued member on the staff of the Newos and Courier. He is a wide-awake fellow, sees every thing and knows well how to toll all about it. His letters cannot- fail to be full of interest. We wish him Ion voyage and a safe return. A Shower of Gold, Gold has coma down to a pre mium of only one-fourth of one per cent. ;and a number of banks are already resuming specie payment to a limited extent. It is thought by good financiers that resumption will soon be a settled fact. Some curious results are predicted. Heretofore a large amount of gold, estimated at $200,000,000, has been locked up in vaults, to be bought andl( sold as a commodity. When the premium vanishos it will be neces sary to put this money into circu-. lation in order to utilize it ; and the result will be an inflation of the currency to that extent. A gold inflation will beat irredeemable greenbacks or interconvertible bonds or even the silver dollar of our daddies all hollow. A second prediction is that this will make money easier to get and that busi - ness will revive. Already stocks and bonds are enhanced in value at this prospect, and it is believed that investments of all kinds will look up. The experience of the last few months has made us feel much bettor. All along e suffermd -nder the unmistakable yet painful con viction that we know nothing about finances, and we hold our breath with mixed awe and admiration, when we read profound treatises on the subject from editors and Con gressmnen. With them, the manago ment of a thousind millions or so was a mere matter of moonshine. But alas ! the facts have utterly demolished their figures. Every one who has elaborated his financial views has been compelled to write himself down as an ass. The inflationists shrieked against re sumption, affirming that it would squeezo the life out of the people. Now we are told that it will secure an inflation of a couple of hundred million dollars. On the other hand gold men swore that the silver bill would close gold out of the country, ruin tha sale of bonds, and disgrace the government. Now we are tol.l that bonds are in domuand, and that the silver bill has boon t1h3 very means of effecting resumption. It is time for financial authorities to take back seats. They know no more than any one else. THE DEE1CHElR SCANDAL REVIVED. A Confession by Mrs. Tlton--Prompt Donial by Mr. Boochor. Society in New York and Brook lyn has a.ain been thrown into a fliuttl by the appearance of the following lotter : Mr. Ira B. WVheelcr : MY D1:An Sin--A few week3 since, after long months of mental anguish, I told, as you know, a few friends. whom I had bitterly deceivod, that the charge brought by my husband, of adultery between myself and the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, was true, and that the lie I had lived so well the last four years had become intolerable to me. That statement I now solemnly reaffirm, and leave the truth witl God, to whom also I commit mnysel f, my children and all who must sufler. I know full well the explanations that will be sought by many for this acknowledgment; a desire to return to my husband, insanity, malice, everything save the true and bnly one-my quickened conscience, and the sense of what is due to the cause of truth and justice. During all the complications of these years you have been my confidential friend, and, therefore, I address this letter to you, authorizing and requesting you to secure its publi caition. ELIZABETH LI. TILTON. Brooklyn, April 13, 1878. Mr. Wheeler is a lawyer and a gentleman of good standing, and is a friend and connection of Mrs. Tilton. On being interviewed lie declined to say more than that the letter was gentline, and thiat '11ton knewv nothing of it. Mr. Beecher writes the following denial: To the Edit or of the Herald : I confront Mrs. Tilton's confes Sion with an explicit and absolute denial. The testimony to her own inno - cence and mine which, for four years, she has made to hundreds, in private and in p)ublic, before the court, ini writing andl orally, I declare to be true. Andc the allegations now made in con tradiction of her uniform, solemn and un varying statements, hither to made, I utterly deny. I declare her to be innocent of the great transgression. HIENRIY WAnD BEEcHERi. Waverly, N. Y., Mi~onday evening, April 15. 1-lre the matter rests at prosent. Those who believed in Beecher's guilt are now sure of it ; while his friends say that Mrs. Tilton is ipisane, and that she has been bullied into writing the letter by her husband. She is said to be in desti-tuto circumstances ; and the opinion is general that s'he has be-, como reconciled to her husband. The "Baby's Best Friend" is tho most approp)riate title for Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup. It is absolutely free from Opium, Morphia and other powerful agents, is perfectly safe and reliable under all circumstances and by allaying the usual Stonmach and Bowel Disorders of babyhood keeps the child from fretting and crying, so injurious to itself and annoying to all. Price 25 cents. * A German dealer in fruits rebuked a young clerk the other day, wvho took a single peanut from the stand, with the remark, "Young mans, we don't sell dose by de picco any more. You don't understand, hear me 1". The Wisconsin Legislature has refused to make insanity a cause for divorce. It believes if ever a man wantb a wife It is when he is crazy, or words to that effeo* P1N PICTURES OF SENATORS. Blano and Gordon the Magnetic Mon of the Senate--How Patcerson Looks --An Era of Good Fooling. C'olonel lcClure in the Phil/rclphw Ti'L'm. Tho notable feature of the Senate, to one who has been familiar with the body ten years ago, is the many now faces to the extreme right of the chair. There are Gordon and Ransom and Maxoy and Morgan and Hill and Lamar and Butler and Withers, all ex-Confedorato chiefs, now legislating for the government they rebelled against, and thoy rival their opponelts on tho oppositu side of the chamber in conservative national views. ''ho mngnetic men of the body evidently are Blaino on the Republican side, and Gordon on the Democratic side. Dj.th1 are of the nervous temperament, genial in intercourse, keen at repartee and ahvays ready for the fray. Blaine, Gordon and L:ntr are sitting in a group, the great Republican leador leaning over the desk of the Georgian warrior on one side and Lamar bending to both from the the other side, chatting in a manner so friendly and jovial that the de votee of the bloody shirt would chill in his hero.-worship of .Blaine, could he see how fraternal the blue and the gray can be in the amenities of the Senate. Conkling enters from the rear of the chair and his finely chiseled features, graceful bearing and unconcealoi sense of superiori ty could not fail to arrest the atten - tion of the visitor. His golden hair has lost its lustre as the frosts have been busy at their wou:i, ,I."d ho lacks the ruddy freshness he broug. t into the Sonate, but he is umm, paired in vigor and imperfous as only a Conkling can be since the days of Clay. He beckons toe youthilful looking Allison, of Iowa, to a private talk, and the two take a good old-fashioned couttiy lean against the do,r-jamnb waiio Counkiing tolls his story an,l parcs the n il.i of h.s exqumsitcly-inodeled liagr.. Dick Oglesby, the rollicking cam paigner of Iilinois and one of the bravest of warriors from the pam:itio land, sits quietly in his seatt. His head was whitened like the un sunned snow, but his face is yet fresh and unplowed by age or care. Ferry steps in from the eastern door like a dancing-m.tster, stroke., his long glossy beard as he o fruts along the aisle, pauses to give amp.e time for the play of the adui.aul of the galleries, and then takes his chair with self-satisfaction written all over his by no means strong f we. Patteison comes in with hurrio.,. defiant step, his head t.arown b~c. over the perpendcular line, ail drops into his seat unnotic;d. Ifs wealth of golden hair. is deeply silvered now, and his features are sharp and pale as if they knew aiLtle of health or' content. OlIY to his right is the round, dusky face of Bruce, of Mississippi, the youngest Scnator, I believe, and the ony rep)resentaitive of the colored race i the body. He is a light iuhLtto, stout, self-possos ed, intielligen.i and graceful in all his mnovemeua Lamar, his colleague, looks slug gish beside the restless Gordon. but he is able to cope with any in d'a a. L arnsido came in without his .ska I cap, displaying his shinig bala crowvn and snow,-white Burside whiskers. Hie has grown umncom fortably stout, and wadd les abut the Senate d uck-fashion, although his stateliness of form and faultles. ness of attire remain with him. Cameron is absent--off to New Yoi k to prep~are for bis coming niariiage with the beautiful and cultivated Miss Sherman, of Ohio, but Wallico is in his place and looks fromi the gallery like the youngest of the mnemrbers. His quiet, dignified re serve well becomes the Senate, and he is nowv one of the leading party oracles in directing the Democratic side in all emergencies. Thurman is esteemed abler, but he is slug gish and only once in a while is great, lie moves about lazily and swings his red silk handkerchief awkwardly as a well-to-do country farmer. T he Senate is qui te thin, most of the Republicans being oibsent, and Sargent, of California, has the floor on somne naval bill that is undergoing amendmen t, and the only p)articipants in the work are the Senator and Vice-Presiden t, who declares Sargent's vote to be the vote of the Senate. WVhoeler presides with little grace and wears an uncomifortab)le look, b)ut nr may be that *Washington life does no(t agree with him. lie lacks the ability of Colfax and Wilson as a presiding oflicer. "Maria," obsorved Mr. Holcomb, as lie was putting on his clothes, "there ain't no patch on themi breeches yet." "I can't fix it nowv, no wvay, I'm too busy." "Weoll, give me the p)atch, then, an' I'll carry it around with me. I don't want peo.. plo to think I can't afford the cloth." The Germas tet the purity of milk by dippin~ a well -polished knitting,needle Into the fluid. If the milk is pp re some of it will adhere to th4 noedle, but if water kn haaen aAA I ll noHte. AN INTERFs'PINc S'rrEET CAR Ex P1ER' EN.--Tl'Lrl,hottt tli winter the iecond Avenuo R-tilroad: C''m pany l a I been experinienting with a car (h1' .1: - olimpressedl 11i!, Coinltled i . : a :Ihlar steam re ceivers p1l :e. ,:'t the car. The experiments w\ ve been made on the aip: e o.t of the track, where tiu gralcdes are very steep, are said to have )o11 coin plc)tely liatisfactor'y. The car can be started and Stopped by one lever, and the eutiro ileehanical ar'atlgement is very simlple. 'T'lie direetors also assei t that they can store suflicient air in the receivers at one Lini': to enable them to make ia coillpleto circuit of. Manhattan Island if necessary. At present several hours are occupied in el lging the receivers, but na chinery has been ordered which vill, it is expected, perform the work in one minute. If the expeiienlt continues to be successful we miv s1on SCo street cars runiling with oti horses or steamt either. Tihe operation of the c'oi)ressed air is noiseless.-,.ew ork Post. President ''om SCUtL testilied be fore the legislative collimit.teo at Philadelphia that the losses of property by the company ill the July riots auiiotnted to> 82.000,000, wiile the entire loss, ineinding ierchanildiso, etc., is estimated it $5.000,000. lie said there had always been trouble wvith the Pitts hurg people, who say there is a discrimination in freights against them. lie denied that he made a requisition for troops. The trouble, lie though t, originated from disco n tentd ni1ll all over t ie counltry, aid I not on railroads alone. Teacher with reading class: Boy (reading)-"And as she sailed down thme river-" th ie-To choer-"WVhy are ships calle.l si:e !" Boy (precociousi v alive to tllc res[x>nisiiis ij of his sex)--'Be ca uis;e they need mln to manage themS." u'111, E x (utouwxs 'r: Work. Laira (with novel :) Oh, if Gii.- (:ae were only trie, and 1 wer the hecoine ! Kato : What ! wi her pers;eeutiois, her iniarv -? La nt. : Ahl, butt then, dear, remnmbwin!r she d'S get a liusbatnd after all ! Fuin ny 1'>lrs. A colore 1 m:an dropped dnead Stimd y afternoon in Atlanta, while in a fit of rane and ms;n . XE,"Ei1 AGAL.. I. l'P' ,away" an.o;ig tl b,anti!ll iili W\ iwr 1, tbo : o i l n Ul.i" ani.l the Whlere the hiQogh ' r tin-god with the Whos0M ro" eate tints kiss th va ~les anIl rills, la i ' , '..o s of t'-o hom > T ove so wr.hl Amil I'y~ het ri sI o'0:t with a t:irob of a " 't . Ol 'oe ! i e a A ! y bars - fllin ra:.1 Thtb ltt ri . 2 . 2 orottw - T.wt g'leam i t O I Ii * :l--/. as t m?orir, ",unliht will co to mit -S' 0eer U,i. EL~T, 18 ROoK.. "kelle tie, A pril, )878. COME AND) SEE ! -0 100 piecs Spring anid Stummner Plrnts, just arriv'ed1 Pr'in ts, just aririredi. 100 p)ie'es Spri'ng and Smmerci Pints, just arrived. at J. F. McMASThiER & CO.'S. Centennia1 jl SIiripot Pique1. spnnifs, D)rills, O)snaburgs, etc. Just rceCived i.t J. F. 'MeMAST'E.R & CO.'S. Sping and Snnemr Cassimercs fromi thle ClanIlottesvir.o Woolen Mills. Just arrive rd at J. F. McMASTER & CO.'S. A full line of (Gents' Furl, Wool and Str'aw IHats. Just arrived at J. F. McMASTER & CO.'S. Gents' and Boys' Baltimore made hand and Machine sowed Shoes. Just received at J. F. McMASTEiR & CO.'S. BESTr Dry GoodaR H1ouse In the Houth B All express freights mai whe'ro thme order is $10.00. Writo a 'osta for Samn pies and Prico LISt, V. 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Mairl isrcd Pearl Grist always tresh cic an d evey thlin u .tsualIly foundI ini a Ii rc. elads Groicery Ilionse. ALSO, The fcinest Win's. lBrandi's andl Wi-. kics that e. '1 h had. All kinds of cool rn.ks luepareinc the most taOIcscy man15 nerat IR. J. McCAIiLEY'S, auri! 18 JT c. II. Aikcn'sc 'Id stand. TOTaL ABISTIIENOE SHVIN WINE TILL IT IIPS. There is a curious story about some native winaes which are extensively advertised nowa days, and have only recenatly been put upon thce market. Dr. Underhill, the well-known grapc-grower of Ci oton Point, died in 5871. Some of his heirs entertained temperance views of such extreme kind, that they were unwilling to allow the stock of wines then on hand to be sold or any more to be made. 'The grapes have sometimes been sent to market, and sometimes left to decay upon the vines. It is onily now that the othier heirs hacvc suelcce in arranging for a settlement of the estate and the sale of the wvines on hacnd. Ainoong these is a wvine of the vintage of 1864j, described as a c"Sweet Union Port,'' but suggesting the Imperial Tokay more than any other European wvino, and being wholly unlike any other wine of American growth. Its purity, age and mellowness are remiarkale, aind both physIcians and wine L.c2ers have a special interest in it as the chiest native wine now accessible in any con siderable rluantity. The whole stock is in the hands of the wvell-known wholesale grocery house of the Trhurbers.-N, Y. Tnfoung, Nov. 19, 1&;'7. The above speakcs for itself, but we would add that this is the pure juice of the grape, neither druged, /iguord nor 'watered; that It has been ripened and mellowed by age, and for medicinal or sacramental purposes It is unsurpassed. It can be obtained from most of the leading Druggists throughout the United States, and at wholesale from the undersigned, who will forward descriptiye pamphlet, free of charge, on application. Respectfully, etc., H. KC. & F. B. 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