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Wit two andi trald, WINNSBORO, s. 0. saturday, May 4, : 1878. . XJFANS DAVIS, EaDTOS. J2f0 B. REYNOLDS, AsbooIATR EDITO., A Cheerful View. Secretary McCrary of Hayes' cabinet has been interviewed on the subject of the Florida revelations. He is disposed to be as jolly as a Mark Tapley under the circuistan. cos and says : "If it were practicable to enter into a thorough and impartial in vestigation of all charges and coun ter charges of frauds, violence and intimidation in connection with the Presidential election of 1876, the result would, in my judgment, prove to be eminently satisfactory to the republican party. Such an investi gatic1l as this I speak of would un doubtedly bring to light, nrt only the great wrong by which Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina were attempted to be carried for Tilden, but also a successful system of in timidation and outrage in several other Southern States whereby the will of their people was smothered, paralyzed, bull-dozed all away. I am also inclined to think that such a thorough and impartial investi gation would bring to light some things concerning the election in Now York, New Jersey, Connecti cut and Indiana, not to speak of Oregon, which would startle and enlighten the country." The detected thief always charges other people with crimes. It is strange that the Rtopublicane with all their astuteness cannot lay hare the Democratic frauds. Secretary McCrary will have to. make a better show than this. ohn Morrissey. Senator John Morrissey, of New York, died on the 1st of May. Thus has passed away one of the most remarkable men of the co'n tury, than whom there has never been a more- conspicuous example of the possibilities affordedl by the peculiar genius- and political insti tutions of the American people. John Morrissey sprang from the tower classes of society. In his early life he. was known chiefly as a rough and a prize fighter, in which hle he achieved quite a reputation. His first prize fight in California, in 1851, against one Thompson, he won by a foul blow. His next fight was with Yankee Sullivan, in which Morrissey was severely beaten at first, but his great powers of en durance saved him, until his antagonist failed to come to time and Morrissey won. In 1857 Mor rissey fought Heenan for a purse of $2,500, and the .champi6nship. Here, too, Morrissey was badly beaten at first, but his endurance was- so wonderful that on the eleventh round Heenian> threw up the sponge. In one of his en couers the flonorable John lost the bridge of his nose,- which badly disfigured a mug never very comely.. After this, Morrissey abandoned the prize ring for the' pofltical arena. He rose- rapidly into power in. New York, and' at one' time was elected to Congress0. it is said that shortly after reaching: Wash-. ington,. ho sought a privato inter view with Speaker Colfax. Pro senting-him with a cigar he asked how he liked it. "Superb," an swered the: Speaker, "I nover' smoked a better." "Then," said Mor.rissoy, "if you wish I will send you a box of them." Colfax was profuse in- his' thanks. "Yes," said Morrisseyr. "I.ll send you a couple of boxes.. Now, Mr. Colfax, I have a little: favor to ask. of you." "S-ir ?" responded' the Speaker. "I say I want you to do me a favor." "Name it,"' said Colfax, in great trepidation, fearing some job on the part of ble visitor, or 'some important re quest he could not grant. "Well," said Morrissey, looking somewhat embarrassed, "Youa see I don't know anything about this business, a' nd I've come to ask you please to put. ae onai. meQZU commxittee where I wn't have anything to do." ~ Ah I" said Colfax, much'- relieved, (*~ ~'~e~Mor f in ta Washington and returned to New York, where he ran political con ventions and gambling houses with equal success. His gambling hall at Saratoga was a perfect Afaddin's palace, and challenged the wonder of every visitor. Similar places were conducted, in Now York city. It is claimed for Morrissoy that he played a fair game and was content with his enormous "legitimate" gains. A few years ago John Kelloy and John Morrissey were supreme dictators of Tammrarry Hall, which in turn dictated to the city and State of New York. But these illustrious leaders quarreled, and Morrissey throw down his tona, hawk, washed off the Tammany war paint, and organized an opposition wing. In 1876, Morrissey was the most con'picuous supporter of Tilden at the St. Louis Convention, and his argum)nt at that time was the well known "Put up or shut up." After Tilden w.as no:niuatod, the Honorable John worked like a beavor for hii. He it was who originated the presidential pools in Now York, the reports of which, it is remembered, were so eagerly looked for day after day, and which had considorablo influence in turn ing the floating vote over to Tilden. It was charged that Morrissey and Sammy Tilden wore bulling the pools. The magnitude of the operation will be understood when it is recalled that when bets wore declared "off," a million dollars worth of pool tickets were redcomed in cash. Last year Tammany and anti.. Tammany both sent delegations to the Now York State Convention, one faction headed by Boss Kelly, the other by John Morrissey. It was expected that a compromise would be made and a part of both delegations would, be seated. But Tamamany ouch rod their opponents. Anti"-Tanmany was rejected and John Morrissey and his braves re turned to the city breathing slaughter. In the elections Mor~ rissey boarded the lion in his den. He ran as an independent candi date for Senator ;. and instead of choosing a district in which. success was certain, he offered for the seventh district, that portion of the city emnbra cing Fifth Avenue and all the aristocratic gnarters, and in. which Kelly and the other Tam many magnates resided. Tamnmany made a desperate effort to crush him. Augustus Schell,. ex -chairman of the National Democratic Comnmi ttee, and one of the bluest bloods, coming from anr old Knickerboeker family, and rich as Crosus, was pitted against him. More interest was excited by this contest than by all the balance of the State-election. The Republicans rani no candidate, but for p)arty's sake, in order to weaken Tammany, supported Mor rissey in a body. Such. men as the Astors, Hamilton Fish, Jr., and- the Royv. Howvard Crosby, besides many saintly Republicans who had so bitterly invoighed against the domination of rougha and Catholics, and especially the power wielded bfa professional gambler, were found on this occasion leavmng their aristocratie abodes to deposit openly their ballots for the os prize fighter and gambler, against one of the most courtly gentlerpon of their aegnaintance. The result was the election of MVorrissey by a vote of at least twvo to one. But this last triumph of Mor rissoy cost his li.fe. His over-taxed constitution gave way and Bright's disease claimed him as a victim. He went to Florida for a change, but was compelled to return home. HIe, h1owever, rallied and took his seat in the Legislature. Here he had an attack of paralysis. Ballying again, however, he was pronounced out of danger one day. The next he was dead. In running- such a career as this it is uselesa to deny that Morrissey possessea many good qualities. A thoroughly bad man would hav9 gone don before 4hd tprin that prosro W4 0~~c4. lower classes, with whom he was en idol. Now tlat he is dead lot his imperfections be forgotten, and orly his good qualities remembered. His career, like that of Tweed who has proceeded him but a few weeks, will serve to point many a moral. TIlE PLC ESIDENCY. What Tickets Will be in the Field in 1880. ["Galk" in Philadelphia Times.1 By present indications, Thomas A. Hendricks will be nominated on the first ballot in 1880, unless the party organs and leaders sell out for cash in hand and Tilden wins again. Tilden and Hendricks may extinguish each other and Judge Thurman succeed. The Vice-PI'esi dent will be almost certain to be a Southerner, Tom Bayard having a chance, Gordon or Ransom the probability. In Washington, Hon. dricks is the favorite of the Kelly wing, to which belongs Lieutenalt. Governor Dorsheimer, and Bayard continues to be the pet of the Bel mont wing. The latter accounts for Belmont personally arraigning Hendricks on the money question. There is no Eastern candidate but McClellan, and his possibilities are not above the Vice-Presidency. The certainty of Democratic success will make the nomination hard to purchaso.. It was sold to Tilden because it was not thonght to be worth nmuch. The Presidency as a sure thing, is not priceable ; in a lottery it can be computed. There are $22,000,000 to he spent by the President and p trty every ye.tr, of which oneshalf is in their absolute control. Mr. Tilden would proba bly be as obnoxious to the cormor ants of his party as Hayes has beeii to the Republicans. Tilden, be sidos has shown an apparent dis position to treat with the uneasy splool-tortured Conkling, so tlh:t many think Tilden would be a part of Giantism. GEERluAL BANKS ON THE STUMP1l. He is a Stalvart Republican Again this Year. The tone of the campaign, as it is to be conducted by the Republican leaders at - the North this fall, was indicated by General N. P. Banks in a speech deliv ,d by him in Bos ton, on the 20th inst. On that occasion le 'said : "Our only ene mies are those who have been discharged from the rebel armies, and who are still undaunted by their defeat, but filled with longing for revenge. They alone are the one; mies of this country ; they alone threaten its existence ; they alone peril its future. Shall we yield our rights to those men who come ip from a section lately thirsting for our lives and plotting our annihila. tion ; whlose lips are yet trembling withl the oath of perjury ? We must conquer them. This is the victory we must win, and which, once wvon, we must.hold firmly and forever. Since the horse of the Ro3man Emperor was made First Consul and treated with almost divine hlonor, no war steed that we know of has received the attention paid "Comanche," tihe sole survivor of tile Custer massacre. He belonge:1 to Captain Keogh. General Stur gis, in a general order, commands that this anlimal be kindly treated by every member of the Seventh Cavalry ; that comfortable quarters be provided for him, and that "upon all occasions of ceremony (of mounted regimental formation). Co man ch e, saddled, b ridled, d raped in mourning and led by a mountedl troop)er of Company I, will be paradcd with the regimnent." This order is countersigned by Adjutant Garlington, who .was appointed to West Point from the Atlanta Dis trict. CAUsEs FOR. gmIcIDE.-Poople are colmitting suicide on all sorts of pretexts. A Troy (N. Y.) woman took strychnine becdaulse her husband wouldn't run in debt to get hIer a velvet cloak ; a Chicago youth swallowed an overdose of morphine because a bad woman locked himi out of her miserable heart and house ; a sixteen; year old Kentucky girl took rat's--bane because all old married man told her he had no business to lovo her ; an Arcola (Ill.) man hung himself in thle smoke- house because he possessed only $10,000,. and feared he might come to want. And so it goes etc., etc., etc. Yet all tile fools are not yet dead?, and ~the newspaper man daily watchea for more to follow." In 9 nursery.wherein all is life and laugh iMtead of crying and fretting, there is sure to be found Dr. Bull'd B3eby Syrup.. Price '25 cods&bott~. - SOUTH OAROLINA NEWS. The artesian well in Charleston pours out 150 gallons of pure water a minute. The boring still con tinues. The Democratic convention of Newberry, by a vote of 37 to 17, voted in favor of primary elections. W. D. Hardy, Esq., was elected county chairman. Prof. Carlisle delivered three in teresting lectures on astronomy in Spartanburg last week in aid of the Y. M. C. A. A handsome sun was netted. Mr. Win. Dale, of Illinois, an ox Abbevillian, who has been living at his present home for fifty years, is about to return to Abboville with his nine sons and their families. Several persons are mentioned as competitors of Col. Evins for his seat in Congress. Besides the honor, the office brings a trifle of five thousand dollars a year by way of salary. Mrs. Mauldin, of Abbeville county, recently committed suicide by hanging herself. She was left alone at home by her husband, and when he returned found her hanging by the neck to one of the joists of the house. Col. Thomas Y. Simons, of Charleston, died in that city on the 30th ult. in his fiftieth year. He was well known throughout the State as a lawyer and politician. For a number of years he edited the Ch:rleston Courier. He had been in bad health 'for several yeara. rLaurens rejects the primary election system, and provides that each town ship shall be represented in a nomi, nating convention by fifteen mem bors, who shall be chosen not more than two days previous to the meet ing of the Convention. Maj. B. W. B:tll was elected county chairman. Hampton and Simpson were unani mously endorsed for re-election. Bishop Clarson states that the Russianr. settled in Dakota 0 egula ly burn hay in their houses for fuel, and find it cheaper than. fuel. ""I was told that a ton of hay was fully equal to a cord of wood for heating purposes, and a ton of hay can be cut and put up for from 75 cents to $1, and then it can be done. right at home, and stored up for winter use. It is the solving in a great measure of the fuel question. The Amnori cans, after they saw the Russians using it, got to twisting hay like a rope and burning it in aommon stoves. I was told that a piece of hay so twisted would would produce as much heat as a cottonwood stick of the same size."-St. Joseph 11er, aid. If a body see a body 'propriate his hat, must a b)ody kick a body just for doing that ? Delaware's tax laws, like those of Georgia, virtually disfranchise the colored populationi. BEAUTiFUL LAWS, BEAUTIFUL LAWNS, Fast Colors, at 10 cents per yard. BEAUTIFUL LAWNS, Fast colors, at 10 cents per yard. BEAUTIFUL LAWNS, Fast colors, at 10 conta per yard. BEAUTIFUL LAWNS, Fast colors, at 10 cents per yard. BEAUTIFUL LAWNS, Fast colors, at 10 cents per yard. BEAU'91FUL LAWNS, Fast colors, at 10 cents per yard. BEAUTIFUL LAWNS, Fast colors, at 10 cents per yard. BEAUTIFUL LAWNS, Fast Colors, at 10 cents per yard. BEAUTIFUL. LAWNS, Fast colors,. at 10 cents pe yad BEAT,Ti L.A WNm f r. 3. C1ondinin , BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, WIN8BOito, S. C. LYON'S Patent Metallic STIFFEN ERS PREVENT Boots and Shoes rom Running.over, 'ariug of o1111h Sid and Ripping in the SEAo march 2( n Building and Loan Association. \ T a regular meeting of the Board of ..t Dir:etors, the following nas adopt ed: Be it resolved. That the Treasuror be in structe,l to receive from any borrower any unpleilgoc shares at par value as a payanont on such borrower's bonds; and that any member may retire his un pledged stock by bidding off the money at a regular meeting and turning over his stock at its par vaLue, less the pre nium and interest for one month. D. It. h'LENNIKJ(N, April 12, 1878.-tf Sec'y. and Treas. TOTAL ABSTINENCE SAVING WINE TILL IT RIPENS. There is a curious story about some native wines which are extensively advertised nowa days, and have only recently been put upon the market. Dr. Underhill, the well-known grape-grower of Croton Point, died in 187r. omne 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 only now that the other heirs have succeeded in arranging for a settlement of the estati and the sale of the wines on hand. Among these is a wine of the vintage of 1864, described as a " Sweet Union Port," but suggesting the Imperial Tokay more than any other European wine, and being wholly unlike any other wine of American growth. Its purity, age and mellowness are remarkable. and both physicians and wine fanciers have a special interest in it as the oldest native wine now accessible in any c on siderable quantity. The whole stock is in the hands of the wel I-known wholesale grocery house of the Thurbers.--N . 7Triun,. Nov. 19, 187. The above speaks for itself, but we would add (hat this is the pure juice of the grape,. neither druggcd; liquored 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 leadinf Druggists, throughout the United States, -and at wholesale from the undersigned, who will forward descriptive pamphlet, free of charge, on application. Respectfully, etc., H. K. & F. B. THURBER & CO. West 13ntadusay, Reade and Hudson Shremts Naw-YORC. Ayer's HairYV(qor, For restoring Gray Hair to its natural Vitality and Color. - ~ A dressing which is at * 0onc0 agree able, healthy, * and effectlual for preserv ing the hair. Faded er gray, hair is soonr *.restored to it original color, with the gloss and freshness of youth. Thin hair is thickened, falling hair checked, an)d baldness often, thongh not always, Cured by its uIse. Not.hin can re store the hair where the follicles are destroyed, or the glands atrophied and decnyed. But such as remlalin can be saved for ulsefhilness b)y this~ alpplientionl. Instead of foulling the hair with a pasty sedimnit, it wvill keep it clean and vigorouIs. Its occasional use will prevent thle hair' from turning gray or falling of,. and consequtenItly prevent baldness. Free from those deleferious sub stances whlich makle sonme prepara,. tionis dangerous and injujrious to the hair, thme Vigor Canl only benefit but not harm it. If wanted merely for a . H-AIR DRESSING, nothing else can be found so desir. able. Containing neither oil nor dyo&, it does not soil. whlite camfl brie, and yet lasts long on the hair, giving it a rich glossy lustre and a grateful perfume. PitBPAJIIgD BY Dr. J. AYER & CO., Lowell, Mass,, Ps'ai.e(aMed Analytkal Chemists'. . sono at Am, W1UGaarats Kv5IntwUaa 160"teg. Fire Test, TTI ofsnp?i.r ualty,uin ~gb,