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&he 1ew and rntt. WINNSBORO. S. 0. Saturday, May 25. : : 1878, i. MEANS DAVIS, EDITOR. itJNO B. REYNOLDS, AssoCIATE EDITOR. TuEr SAY THAT EARL RUSEL is not dead, notwithstanding the newspa pers buried him a week ago. THE COUNTY CONVENTIONS in North Corolina are instructing members of the Legislature to vote for Governor Vance for the United States Senate to succeed Merrimon, whose friends combined with the Radicals in 1872 and chiseled Vance out of the place. Zeb ought to have it. BALD MOUNTAIN, North Carolina, whose rumblings and mutterings caused a great revival in that region some years sgo, has created a new excitement. A few days ago it was rent in twain, a crevice appearing three hundred feet long, eight feet wide and of a depth unfathomable. No smoke or lava has yet appeared to give evidence of volcanic action. The people are anxiously awaiting the advent of Old Nick. Too Much Amn esty. The Beaufort Tribune conveys the information that Sam' Green, the ex-Senator of Beaufort, who was found guilty of bribery and every species of corruption, and who confessed his crimes and re signed to escape the penitentiary, is now haranguing the negroes of Beaufort, protesting his innocence and declaring that his only motive in resigning was to escape the persecution of a perjured jury. The Register devotes considorable space to the crimes and confessions of this arch thief, and continues : We have not devoted so much space to pillory the ex-Senator from Beaufort without an object. He is altogether of too small importance for the trouble. But we take his case as a specimen from among those who have received clemency at the hands of the Democrats, and who are now endeavoring to con. vince the negroes that their treat ment Las been unjust and unwar ranted by the facts. In other counties, we learn from various sources, the former leaders who fell beneath the weight of crushing testimony before the Investigating CGmmittee are seeking to regain their control of the ignorant and deluded population, and alleging that they wvere forced to resign their place in t,he Legislature wvith, ont being guilty of the charges preferred against them. It has been the constant policy of the .Register to urge clemency towards the minor lights of the Radical party, who were concerned in the peculation and robbery of the State, and to select the principal leaders for punishment. But the evident desire of these selfbiconvicted crimni nals to participate again in politics will make a continuance of this policy not only unwvise, but suicidal1 in the extreme. The evidences are not wanting that a movement is on foot for this class to regain position in the State. Soon after the Legislature adjourned, a secret conclave was bold in this city amnon g the Repub lican members, and only last week there was a gathering of the prin cipal lights from every portion of the.State. Cardozo has just re turned fronm Washington, and takes part in the consultation. Did he bring instructions with him from the central authority of the Re publican party? Swails boasted while here thiat he would carry Williamsburg county. Sammy Qreen is seeking to restore himself in Beaufort, anSI there are others Wiost active and industrious in other Cottaties of the State. The whole. criminal gang will rise froma &nerited oblivion, unless a cheek is sooTh given to their aspirations. A few warrants judiciously distributed a would tend to correct t.he growing evil. Tax NEws AND HERALD has all *~. long inaintained that the quality -of mercy is being severely strained, that there has been entirely too much amnesty, and that vigorous sneasures should be pressed against the leaders at least. Among these are not only Chamiberlain and his compoers, but such knaves as 'Green, Swalls, Nash, Maxwell, ~impkins adthe Cains. These sQoundrelA he~e not a spark of elightest lessening of the pressure will encourage them to snarl and growl and tear the hand that looses them. They are not such ] simpletons as not to be responsible for their misdeeds. They were all along as fully conscious of the enormity of their crimes as were Parker or Patterson or any of the rest of the white leaders. The vigorous prosecutions inaugurated by the attorney--general terrified these cowardly miscreants and they incontinently deserted their posts and hid their heads- But this talk of amnesty has emboldened them. They take advantage of Democratic magnanimity to conspire together and stab it in the back. What has been the result of all the labored investigations '? Simply to prove that the Radical leaders were thieves and villains. This was known all along, and acknowledged by the guilty parties themselves. No good comes from this, as far as the internal affairs of the State are concornod. Nothing short of actual punishment in the peniten tiary will be of any permanent avail. Yet what do we see? Cass Carpen ter is pardoned. Smalls, a convicted felon, takes advantage of an appeal to the Supreme Court, and actually enjoys a seat in Congress, whence he procures the money to defeat or retard justice. Cardozo is oltt on bail, while the occasion of returning to South Carolina to have his 1 appeal argued, is actually taken advantage of, to summon together the Republican State Executive Committee to plot for a rehabilita tion of himself and his co-thieves. Was there- ever moro consummate 1 impudence ? Dr. Ensor, who en joyod for a time the patronage of the Democratic party, sits in this conclave with Bowen and Elliott and Cardozo. Swails, instead of being chased breathlessly across the State line with a constable's warrant, sits coolly down and i boasts that he will carry Williams burg. At this rate we shall soon have a return of Leslie and Whitte more and Gleaves and Hayne, and, indeed, a second wholesale influx of carpet-baggers, while Patterson 1 will set his wires to return to the Senate. We are having too much amnesty. Brotherly love with scoundrels is2 misplaced. The liberal policy in augurated in the Carpenter cam paign and culminating in the sup port of Chamberlain has been confessedly a failure. Ctesar 's greatest virtue was clemency to the vanquished--and he was stabbed to death by those he had spared. A vigorous proscrip)tion wouh(l have1 obviated the scones of the Ides of March. Trhe victory of 1870 was won, not by honeyed phrases and friendly utterances, but by the tramp of men on horseback. A manifestation of power is necessary to preserve what has been gained. Against the masses no one harbors a grudge ; but every leader should be made to feel the weight of the. lawv. An example is needed. T1he colored masses flock to the strong est side. Let them dream that Radicalism can be revived, and the battle must be fought again. But a summary squelching of all such cattle as Sam Green and Swails will greatly simplify the coming cam paign. Let us postpone amnesty for the present. PUT' AGREEMENTs IN WRtITING. How many misunderstandings arise from the loose way in wvhich busi ness matters are talked over, and when each party puts his own con strnction, the matter is dismissed with the words "all right, all right."' Frequently it turns out all wrong, and becomes a question for the lawyers and the courts. More than three -fourths of the litigation would be saved if people wvould put down their agreements in writing, and.sign their names to it. Each word in~ our language has its peculiar moaning, and may, by its change into a sentence, convey an entirely diftferent idea from that intended. When once reduced to writing the ideas are lixed and ex tensive Jawsuit a.voidd.--American Rural Rome. *Therem@ peoploh altimore who AV0 AI 4 ~$O~l2ao Mu BRW-A-Bnat. The tired shoemaker waxes weary. Wheli Time is no mower he will ay away his scythe. If I were in the sun and yoli wore >ut of it, what would the sun be .ome ? Sin. It is a great deal easier in these lays to borrow trouble than to bor -ow money. Clock-work has been successfully rpplied as a motor to sowing ma ,hules by a mechanician of Vienna. Certainly, the state of matrimony. one of the United States. To ob- 1 bain divorce is to secede from the Union. Miss Susan B. Anthony is to lec ture, East and West, in aid of the Kansas German Immigrating So :iety. Tne mother of a recent bride in Brunswick, Dje., is ninety-two years :>d. Her daughter and son-in-law ire each about seventy. A saloon keeper down in Augusta, e., announces by placard that lie has for sale "siggars, towbacko, and ballony sawsig." Deacon Ezra Richmond, aged eighty-six married Mrs. Polly E. Woodworth, aged sixty one, in Ellery, Chautauqua County, on the t6th inst. Vermont is alarmed at the in 3reasing number of her divorces. 1'he ratio for this year is one livorce to overy sixteen of all mar L iagos. The Maharajah of Jheend has atoly had a carriage of solid silver uilt for him. He is not going to it clown and die of e':nui like the hkoond of Swat. Now for news from the Begum of Bhopal. The Boston Advertiser says that 'tho small boy began to go in swim nuing" in that city on Friday. Pro )ably it will take him a week or two o complete the operation. A national Microscopical Con ,ress will meet in Indianopolis, Ind., luring the third week in August, L878, on invitation of the biologi, al section of the [yceum of Natural Elistory of that city. A petrified crocodile, forty-six feet n length, has been exhumed near Jomo Station, on the Union Pacific Rtailroad, and shipped to Yale Col ego. The discoverers received $2,000 for their prize. At Hartford, Conn., the other day, iiss Mabel Gibbs, aged seventy uine years, was so excited by a visit rom a brother whom she had not icon for twenty years that she died yefore :he could speak. The remains of another mastodon lave been discovered in Ashtabula Jounty, Ohio The skull measures thout three feet in length, and two cet nine inches across between thme syes. The largest rib is four feet ive inches long. *^A ho tel-keeper in Lawrence, WIass., being taken ill, his physicion rirescribed whiskey, whereupon the sick man directed that it should be rocuredl elsewvhere, saying that he vould not dare to take that sold >nver his own bar. A silver wedding party was given iere recently by a prominent official Lt which the gifts were exhibited. ['he gifts were divided into two 3lasses, and a card attached to one alass convoyed this information: 'These are all solid silver."- Wash, :ngton~ Letter. An In dian Pince, Nadsor Radja ERing, who had gone to Italy to .ecover from wounds received while ion hunting, died suddenly at EU'lorence, and was cremated at mid. night according to Hindon usage is staff and the British Minister seing present. The salaries of some of our rail wvay presidents are stated to be as follows : Col. T. A. Scott, Penn. sylvania, $24,000 ; Mr. Isaac Hlink ly, Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore, $24,000 ; Mr. F. B. Gowven, Philadelphia and Reading, p30,000, and Mr. Hugh J. Jewitt, B?ria, $40,000. A female tramp was arrested re - mently at Manohester, Vt., and in one of her pockets were found a bhree-quart bottle, a pint dipper, three spoons, a knife, a beer bottle, .a razor, packages of tea. coffee, salt ma sugar, a lot of bread, soap, wire mdi articles of wardrobe--nearly balf a bushel inmall. One of the funniest and most ag, gravating typographical errors on r~ecord has just produced a hurri ane, accompanied by thunder and lightning, in t.he offiee of the Lynch biurg Virginian. Its editor, on glancing over his powerful leader at lAhe breakfast table on Thursday morning last, was astonished,to find lthat he was made to say~ that the !arnmevs would torg9 their "pantry md nura ~lb ~~~o a'ieard : u, A. FEAUFUL BLUNDER.---Tho' Oditor of the Montgomeoiy Advertiser wrote a funnny paragraph about a mlo. He also wrote an apologetio parngraph in regard to a mistake he btd made in mentioning.tho name of Capt. J. G. Winter. The intelligent "make-up" put the two paragraphs together thus : "We are requested to state' that in the proceedings of the county convention as published in the Ad vertiser of yosterday it would seem to appear that Capt. John G. Win ter was a candidate before the con vention for representative. Although Capt. Winter was twice put in nomi nation, lie eali timo declined, and was therefore nover a candidate. "It is never too late for a mule to serve his country. An animal of the kind, thirty eight years old; kicked a thief to death in Georgia the oth or night, and $15 has already been subscribed as a sinking fund to buy oats." We await the sequel. LAtaTEn.-Laughter of tei shows the bright side of a man. It brings out his happier nature, and shows of what sort of stuff lie is really made. Somehow we feel as if wo never thoroughly knew a main until we had heard him laugh. We do not feel "at home" with him until then. We do not mean a mere snigger, but a good, hearty round laugh. The solenn sober visage, like a Sunday's dress, tells nothing of the real man. He may be very silly, or very profound ; very cross, or very jolly. Let us hear him laugh, and we can decipher him at once and tell how his heart boats. Mr. Chas. A. Dana says in the New York Sun that Alexander H. Steph ens retired from Congress in 1801 along with Jefferson Davis and other "rebel associates." Mr. Dana is a little "off" on history, so to speak. Mr. Stephens left Congress in 1858, and consequently could not have been there in 1861. His successor, Hon. J. J. Jones, of Burke, was the I gentleman who retired with Mr. Davis and other "rebels." Let Mr. Dana study Stephens' School His toryalittle.-Augusta (Ga.) Charoni~ cl. A Southern paper says that Mrs. Gaixes trar, se l 60,000 worth of her propt her lawyer. Fol lows, so that.. - go upon her %ppeal bond, aw . . the lawyer has declined to c:urni the property, and made out a bill for services rendered to cover the amount, she has sued him, -James Robinson, the circus rider, has gone int" voluntary bankruptcy in order to be discharged from debts imounting to $12.288, contracted jointly with Frank Pastor, when they were running a show 'n the WVest in 1873. SPRING, [878. -0 - WE are now receiving a splendid hue of SP~RING GOODS. 130 pieces Prints. 10 " Crotones. A fine lot of Wasih Po.plins. beanutiful line rof white and figuredl Centennial Stripes. ALSO, Bl1eached ITomesipnmns. Sursuckers, Cotton D)iaper', Tab,lo Linen and Damask, anmd the prettiest aortmnent 'Table. Cloths and Doylies to match in the market, and many other goods wvhich ex;'mine. HATS. A full line of 8traw, Felt and Wool Hats. SHOES. We have always taken a pride .in our Shoe dep,artmont. WVe can now say that we have the most compIlete st'ook -Qf shoes ever brought to this miarket. GIVE~ US A (JALLX. NERCHANT TAILO'; R AS removd( to tlEoitiore IOIft in' the )ost-olico, whore he will be glad to re eivo his friends and customers. A fulllinro of Sampl'ea will le kept od .iand, from which catomers may make' ielections. He now has the fif'est li-i4 o( ronch and English goods over broughti o this matket; He is also prc'anred to out of to nik p goods for those who desire. Garments of all kinds repaired And leaned. pd- Cleaning a specialty; 'i'hankful to the public for past patron go, ho solicits a continuance of the maho, and guaradtces satistadtion. sept 18 W. G. ROOH1. TIlE iJNARLES1'ON 0-111111 Di .01111118# THE DEMOCRATIO DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISUED 11N OHARLESTON. Of lcial Journal of the City, -THE CHEAPEST DAILY NEWSPAPEN PUBLISH! D IN TIIE SO UTI ATLANTIC STA TES, DNE YEAR, by Mail ........... $8, IX MON'rNS................... $4. FmI-WEEKLY., perAln.ln ....... , --C,IRCULATES IN 'orth and South Carolina, Georgin, Florida and Alabama, ---, PUBLISHEDI BY TE lharleston Pubiishing Conpany, -0 A Democratic paper owned by the pea: 1o and publishod in their interest. ---o The latest news by naall and tolograplb ,rom all quar ters ofthe Globe. -o pe- SUBSCRIBE AT ONCE. - March 16-tI aret Reduction! -HO!I FOR ura.L Ico7s-z. ------- PUB~ E'e U.od in town to reduce' ..Wuim ~t* t.,ni torig. a hon.c, deer ~o live cenits a glass and Blilliards fif teen ents per game, Ilaving a large an d wvel eclected lot of Puire Liquors on han d of' v'hich the following are a few of the >rands: Pure old Kentuck y Bourbon, Cabinet,. KXXX and Biakor Rye, Sour Mash Stono dlonntaini Corn, a specialty, Cogane, Jalifornia, Peach and Apple Brandies. Jhampagno, Sherry and Port Wines, Jincinnr ti Lager Bleer always kept on c.e, and all sorts ot' fancy and cool drinks ropaired in the most tasty manner at OUR HOUSE. april 30-tt J. D. MoOARLEY. Best is Cheapest, NEW WILLCOX & GIBBS Silent Sewincj Machine. iatest Invention, Producing MitrYelous Besults. ItsE sulrpasng merttlaces it beyond all comn et,ition, and makes t the cheapst, not.wit. tanding the larg indcecmea Offered by ' olersof, ois, ,,achirunning, troublesonie, two~ )nly Machi ne in the World wiUh Atomic Features, and with 110 Tension to -Manage. Wito by Postal Card for Price List, List WILCOX & 011.BUS S. M. CO -4~ Co r. l3ond 51,) 468 Erosadway,)1. Y OFFIoE COUWTY OoMMIsozeERs, EALED proposals for' building,~ Qsuaponsion Bridge over Little Blve it Kipeild's F'ord,-will be recee4b .ounty Commissione-a up to Monda'~ 14th day of June next. The Bridge built of heart lunibor, and the contrc6top ao give bond and security for the ahfj performanc~e.of 4lo work, and waran for flye yea,rs. Te 13'idge to beovt4w and weathle-boarded. Tho ibmn use *batover mnaterial of jj Brdge thatpnay be suitable. The o'/ by CommIogeie reserve the right ' rIolina atibda If t.he an a. .