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ANS-. N. NNS ORO. S. C., T UESDAY, S.EPTjEMBER11- 3, 1878. 9 WIIAT BROTLIER ORVIL SAYS. o AN 1V NT Il.,It I*r 'T 11W W11'1'if ON t E, 1.' 11 A''OJnS 0 TI'E U tB. T 1 _p , ?I , Tho Post-Tradoer'sips, No Lougor Profit. ,aoble-O-ant Mighlit bo Incuced to - ako tho Nomination-f-JVol was' Ruwarded for Lyiig. [ 'rmn fii I L-on 1'os/. I A 'ost reporter happenod last ovening to run across Orvil L1. Grant, the o.-President's somewhat colobrated brother, who is sponding a fow days in this city. Mr. Grant ro Ueombles his brothcr to a groat ex tent, although he is taller and of botter physigno : but lie iFs unliko him in thiit ho talks frocly on current topic*. 'Tlho third-torm gitestion )ePing~ upern'.ost in the reporter's. mindl. he ti ,ontitrod to ask Mr. (r.if's o;,bviol on th:tt vexod top!)ie. Inl reply le ws i'iforlme. that the Cmoral h'l vittun to frenin lhro thnt he woul:l on no atccounti a 2Npt -i n ):ia ,1ioni for the l'i'101'letile Peiey."Ho doos0: not wxlm i t," said Orvil. And then lh added '"lat I think lhe could Ie cd.:ated up to it as hoeNvis w -oco .efo'ro. If hie o mild b i O to boli:n-o that he va.; the only mati able to savo the coun try or Ittrty, lie would, I thir k, aL.v hi-i n:11u0 to be used in tho 'onive'n tiona. I hin:k. omehlolv..at they will noliilIte him ; but that's only my own op ,inion)." A deofeat wohl '"kill" tie G ': rl Mr. G:'ant thinks, bit he (U. S.) would risk it if ie thought it possiblc to ayo the parlty. > 'Phio convers:dIoni then turnd on fragnran t ieiori( -: of the l:st Ad, mninistrationl, and Mr.. ('ntwas indnieed to s-ty that bis I.rodr ( aw Somne things now V!rit he couib] not be m:tle to se0 hulfor." In ot.r words, he nit, l 0ow scos Ialok in his treo light, nn.[ woli 1,0ver0 r-iv hii any more Pid or comfort. So, too, McLDon1adl, Jug o "l SO follows" would, if the Genieral be, came President again, "be left to go to the devil." S01mo of his old ad - visors would be recalled, aion g whom, if the Goneral agros with his brother, would be Z:cE. Chandler, as Orvil considejrs him "one of the best men we have." The rcpertcr. having touched on one tender sub - ject, and buon answerel, voitured to call up th post-tradlirship busi ness, inl wlich, as the country well knows,- the ox-Prouns brother has been largely involved. Ocvil was as willin-g to talk o iblis as on other smbjects, and proceeded to show a letter which holi hal just re coivcd. from one of hi!; parin..ors in the blmiucss) in which thu partner expressedI a great desiro to get out of it Its soon an possible. Mr. Gran averred that it was not a payimg Hie has, lie said, two p)osts, anid his mncomno from them has beeni only s 40o in two years. "I mado some little money out of theim." lhe .said "but my brother never helped moc to a ceno, although the fact that I was The residnt's brothr may have helped me with soee pi. Reverting to the GAeneral: the reporter imluired how mauch lhe was worth ini a financial p)oint of viowv, and was inf~ornmed that at the timo thn Conusolidatedl Vir ginia stock was high his~ property was valued at about4 $'200,000) ; b~ut now that thoc stoc); has depreciated ho is COmpaatively poor.' "Bumt then, you know," conttinuted M~r. Grant, "ho reooiveol nome valuable presenits-that houso in \Vashing ton, for instance." The house has been sold, but the Gun oral w ill, when ho retutrns in tho autumn of 1879, mako Washington his home, provided lho can afford it. It seem ed, however, (loubltfIul, in his broth or's opinion, whether the General wvouldI ho able to live without en gaging in some business. "JIt would bo," lie said, "ai great hiuiliationi to him to have to (do that--althiough he has only hitnself and wife to tako care of (for his yonngost son is old enough to shirt for himnselfI) --hut lie has high ideas of living, and would not bo content with a moderate in, come." Spoeaking of the General's "royal progress" in Eu rope, Orvil1 said that lie had received ai letter from himii, in wvhich lie expressed his wearLinessO of thc continlual feasting to wvhich lie is subjoeloed, and said that he intended to take a sea voy - ago for purposes of recreation. Mr. Grant didl not want to ox.. press8 his~ opinion on1 Hayes' Ad mmiistration. HIe had somno hbui .ncss pending bofore 8eeratairy Thompson, and if he said too much it m.ight cauiso his financial ruin. The convorsation then took an in crosting turn, as Mr. Grant went on rough-sketching ytirious public men. Stanley Matthows was a punlo to him ; ho could not see how so able a lawyer could make such a "damnod fool of himself." Blaine was a "true Republican," but the party couldn't alord to take up a cripple for a can didato - his railroad business had cripjplod him. 'Hoy Wais a rough, good man, but "if you soo anything showing ability signed by him, make up your mind that he didn't write it." "Ile is a botter Cabinet oflicor than Jewell, is he not ?" asked the reporter. "Bloss your soul, it's no compli ment to. say that." 'And then Brother Orvil proce(eded to walk into the ex-Postmnastor-General in the liveliost posxiblo mannur. As a business mtil, ho h:d 10 fatilt to 'Iiid with him, but as ia politician he was th wmallest kind of a potato. Then, warming with his sitbject, Mr. Grant explainod the mysteri-. ously sudden retiroiment from the Cabinet of Nov Haven's favorito standard bearer. Onto day while ho and hi-s. brother woro ridirg togothecr the conversation turnedi onl Jcwoll. when the President remarked, "The only trouble with Jewell is that he! don't know1 much." But Orvil soon after laid before his brother written proofs (so ho says) of a falschood on the part of the Postimaster. General, and the next day Ie was a1iked to resign. As Orvil explain-. ed it. Mr. Jewell hadl committed some Urrior inl hits departilellt work, and told the alleged falsehood to COver it. Soveral other public mon caie in for ci iticism. President Hayes was it lihI-toned, hoiorable gentlemInan, who was trying to do right, but his Administrationi was weak when there was no causo for weakness. Schmurz is evidently r.o favorito of Orvil's so the reportor judged after hoaring the latter talk some time about dynamUito and other exp1osives which the German Secretary was aleged to 'o in the habit of carry ing coneealed abontt his perso'n. For Butler he had always felt deep admiration. but his present course had lowered him in Orvil's ostina, tion. Kearnov was a blatherskito, a man:111 whomi peo)ple go to see, as thcy do O'Leary, for cuiriosity; and But lor had bmemaned Iii'self by making anl nIliance with such a fellow. Conkling was unexcelled in ability by any man living, and when lie imnmsked his battiries in the fall the Country w)uIl. heair seie of the hoa iest firing it has, ever heard. "If I were to bo mado President to-morrow-no, .I wouldn't go in onl a Friiay if I wero to be mado Presiidlnt (I don't clairm to be com potent for the place), you would see how many Cabinet oflicer's I w'ould make Send their portfolios to the offico before Monday morning," was the comprohensive remark with which M r. Grant cornudd his critical obsetrvationls on 'the politi - cianls ofh the daty. In reference to the Potter Com, mr'ittee. Mr. Grant said that its investigationi was a fizzle. ".Uut," he added, laughingly, "the Reputb. lican halxf of thlemr hate the Admtin - istrtion~i worse than~ the Domiocr'ats do." And then lie avowed his coto tmpt for "milk -and-water Re p~ublicans;' arnd announnced that his candidate for the ntext nominlatio)n wouild be a real party man. The Domocrats would p)robably olect the next Prosiden t, but it would not lbo 'lliTrman-no inan who- goes for the ofhico over gels it. Tildon should by right have the nomina tion. Inm an affiray at Lancaster, on Tuesday of last woek, Mr. 'W. H.j (Ghent, a young man about twenty--. six years of ago, was stabbed and instantly killed by Mr'. Robert Snipes. The p~arties camne to town together on the mor'ning of the affray, and were on their wvay horne in the evening, wvhen a dispute ar'oao betwooen them near the suburbs of-the town, about some1 trifling miatter, and both of them being considerably under tihe in,. fluenco of liquor, a fight ensued, which resulted in the death of young Ghient. Go( west, young man. It is at chiarmiing placo. Th~oso who (lon't freeze to denth in wintor, got sun struck in summer. The others gcmt killed by a tornado.--Norristown Absolutely free from morphia and other dangerous agents, Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup) is valued most highly as a remedy for the diacasos of baby, hmood. Price 25 cents a bottle. WASIINGTON 08SIP. Secretary Sherman's Speech in Ohio The Sherman Letter to Wells and . - Anderson-Donnia Koarney at the Capitol- -Mr. HowItt's Committeo. [CooIMtSroxNCK OrTitx NKxws AN) nanam.) WASHINGToN, D. C., A ug. 30, 1878. -Socrotary Sherman ilould havo coifinct his Ohio speech to tho filancial question. On tho details of that lie must bo supposed, froi his position, to have somno knlowl odge, and, as it is not strictly a. party question, ho may be nudor - stood not to speak ontiroly as a party mian. In going beyond the subject of tho financos, and discuss ing Louisiana affairs, ho speaks indeed with knowledge, but lio will not got crOdit among Democrat or intelligent Rep 1ul)icans with tolling the truth or attompting to toll the truth. On that subject tho record is well mado ny, anld hiis is not the most creditable figure among thoso who aided inl mIaking that record dii graceful to the I 1publicaln party. 4 e has a financial ilea, which is that specio restuuptionr should be brought ahmut as soonl as osiio. Whether he ieI(a is a goo.l one or not, it i- sh:trod by ma iy lZtbhabli cans and. Democrats, an i.1 the ques tion of morality is not involved. Shormn should confine himself to that, and let alone the dirty per formances of himsolf and other party loaders inl Lctisiana. Outshlo of coltosts ill tho Con - grossional Districts the subject of greatest political intorest is the Sherman letter to Anderson and Weber. A. rpisitablo paper inl New York stys this lotter will be pro duced ill October, whmen the Pottor Committee mots again. Lately a letter was shown horo, allefged to bo the original, which, upon coma.ori son with letters certainly written by Sherman, secmod to bo in his handwriting. If not written by him it was cortainly a countorfoit which deceived soveral who care fully exanined it. Dennis Kearnoy arrived here yes. torday. Ho will stay but a ffow days, expects to make but one spooch, and then goes to Massaculi setts. ITO says lhe shall spak throughout that Stato in the infor est of General Butler as a candidato for governor. Kearnloy will havo many hearers when he speaks in this city, but his reported utterances in other-cities have been such that no organization of workingmen will endorso him in advance. Unless he kas somothing practical to offer they will not endorso him at all. Koar noy called upoi Mr. Hayes and Mr. Hayes took great interest in him and made a note of what was said. Mr. Hayes doubtless tore tho ioto up as -son as KearUOy's back was turn'ed, as lie has done on more im portalt occasions. The testimony of occasional wit nesses beforo Hewitt's Committeo (raised to investigate and report ou the causos of the Iin:ncial and industrial depression all over the Union) seems like an oasis in the iionotonous stretch of desert sir, romu:ding it. John Roach wvho ha demncped ated his practical b~usiness capacity in tho develo pment of an in dustry--iron ship building-iut'ing the very hardest of hard times, that~ gives emplloymnent to thoumsands3 of) laborers, mechanics and artisaus, gives it as his belief that one of the most potential of tho contributing causes to the existing condition of bmusioss paralysis and1 consegnent distress, is to be found in the ex., travagant habits thazt naturally fol-. 1owved the inflation and finsh times of the wvar pdriod. When the crisis came it found almost overybody do moralized, and their prod igatl habits have only been abandoned to just the extent that poverty compo~lled. The observor of ordinary dliscern mont can~ verify the truths of Roach's statement b~y comp jaring the style of living- 'now among his or her acqu taintances, wi th that prac - tisecd twventy years ago among simi lar classes. Aus-rm. During the prevalenlce of the thunderstorm, last week, the resi dence of Col. T1. X. Ancrrim, in Cam den, was s truck by ightnfing, the bolt entering on tho north-east cellar room, and expending its force, appkrently, on the south-east roof, which was set on fire. Per.. sons preselt- succeeded in putting out tihe flames before any serious damago wams done. On last Sunday Aungelino Brewer, colerod, was arrosted in Chester on a warrant issued by Trial Justice RI. N. Cuip, e~harghuig her with the murder of a now-born infant, her own grandchild. The accused womian was committed to jail to await trial at the October term of -0 TILs? .ACIAJ 141 OF o1lT A LiTY IN OU L No Rift In the Cloud in any Direction Suiary of tho Fover During tho Week. Nr~w Onrans, August 31.-Dr. Stone tolegraphed from Grenada, Mis., yestorday, that the weather w.as lun1favorable. Thore is a sligh t docronseso in tho death rato, and no material sproading of the fover. Mii rumis, Auguist3 1.-ThieIweathcr this morning is: bright and warm, but the clouds of woo over our city show no signs of 1:roaking. Physi~ clans, nurses, visitors, druggists and undertakCrs are becoiling exhausted by constant working. Dr. Wise, an activo younug physicial, was taken dJwn this avornin-g at the board of he~alth offic.u Up to 1oo)11 only sovonl physicialns out of about twenty had made their reports of now cases, the number aggregating~ fory two. From this it will bo scen that not more than hudf the casos aro reported, and that the opidomic is m )re appallirg than tho oflicial rcports indicate. At the county jail there are about twenty Cases Of the fever. M. C. Williams, undcr sentence to the pcnitertiary for maurder, died last night, and Bizzll, a negro murdor or, under scnt'ence of death, is in a dying colition. At C:unp Joe Williams five or six deaths coccm' daily. Thu hospital coitains ahout twenty-ivo sick, and the worst is feared for the poor peoplo living inl tents. Some of them have become frightened and returned to their homes ill the city. Alex Hunn, of tho Masonic board of relief, is down, and Jas. Russell, of the Odd Fellows' relief boari, is very low. The undortakers report fifty -live yellow fevor interments up to noon to-day. MoiiLE, August 31.-Dr. E. P. Gaines rejport.s one case .and one death from yellow fover this morn ing--a white child nine years old. WasmNo-rox, August 31.-Ab strabt of sanitary reorts received during the past wek, under the na1ttional quarantino regulations Now Orleans--During the week, ending yesterday at noon, thero wore 1,201 cases of yellow fever and 233 doaths, making in all 2,877 casos mnd 8G7 deaths. icksburg-During the week 11G dc: t hs from yellow fever, making!' 185 deaths in all, 17 ol in hiih1 hativei occured during the last twentv four hours. It is cstimatcd that 800 cases of fever havo occurred to date, about half of theso in the past VeCk and 5It) no0W cases in the last twenty-four hours. Dr. Booth, in chargo of the pationts of the M[arino Hospital service, died'oin the 27th. Memphis- In the week 721 cases rand 241 deaths. Morgan City, L)uisiana- Tihe refugees rep~orted hust weok, sick of the yellow fever, died August 23d. Seven1 other casos have since oc, riurred, and four deaths in all to yes tordaLy 1noon. Ocean Springs) M[iss;.-Three cases yesterday miorning". No deathsi duiring the week. Waiter Valloey, Miss. -Two cases, both refugees ; on10 on the 12th is convalescent ; the second onl tho 20th terminated fatally yesterday. Holly Springs, Miss.--.Soven casos anid two deaths to yesterday evening, all refugees. Good health prevails in the city and in the United States m1ilit(ary campiil. St- Lonis-Eight cases during the week andi two decaths-all refugees. At qu arantino below St. Louis, there were six now eases and ono death, besides twenty doubtful cases ad - nitted dmiiing the forty-ig~ht hiours eonded yesterday ev'ening. LCLoil--S;inlco last report cloven refugees and boatmen have been attaceked with the yollow fever after arrival iln Louisville, four of whom have died. Cincinnati-Nino cases of fever and four deaths have occurred since last report. Two of the (oaths woro the cases reported last week. All oamoe from infected places southI. The work on tho Chester and Chorawv railroad is proggressing. The iron will be laid dowvn and the cars running to- Fishing Crook within the next two wooks. iPresi. dont Haurdin is negotiating ifor the building of a depot at that place. .A IWRD 01PA" 41 C. The Pooo of South Carolina Must Take Warning by tho Experience of Others. (1&onm the Charloic Observer.] In the light of our own recont ex porionco we aro prepared to give our South Carolina brethren a little advice which we trust they will ac cept in tii spirit in which it is intended. , The Republican party in our sister State is playing tlo samo sharp and effective gamo that it put im operation ill North Carolina, and its partial success here very likely lias something to do with its adop tion over tho lino. The North Carolina Radicals, socing 'that they could not carry the State in the August election, refrained from' putting ourt a ticket, and relied upon tho absonedo of opposition and upon n(lopondent U)emocrats to disor ganizo the Deniocratic party. Their scionie, it cannot be denied, was in soie measure successful. It is true that we carried tho Logislaturo by a largo majority-a majority, in fact, altogether larger than we have any n)ood of ; but at the same time we siustained loses and permitted the entranco of elements and influ. oncos which even yet (istract the party in some sections of the State. Had the Rep1ublicans put out a Stato ticket, and had theymade their usual light, in the usual way, through their own men in the sever al counties, independent Democrats would have been unheard of, and having the advantage of a thorough ly united party our people would have coio to the polls and swept the State by a majority greater than over before. In the conduct of the campaign the RIepublicans exhibited their usual tact and political sagacity. They knew they could not elect their judges nor carry the Legisla tare, so teicy detormined to do what wis next best to disorganize the Denocracy with a viow to whipping it im some of the congressional districts in November, and thus rendering its majority inoperative in the future elodtions. Subsequent events have shown that this was the object of the enemy ; it was sinccess~ ful, as stated, to the extent of re ducing our majority in the Legisla, LU"t. slightly, and Ur gi sing ba1mm hope in the congressional cam p)mign. Tho campaign in South Carolina indicatos a line of action on the part of. the Republicans, similar in all respects to that pursued in this State. Thore is no opposition to the Democratic State ticket. The immediate tendoney of this is to lossen the interest of the Democrats inl the camprign, just as was the case here. We shall see as the can% paign progressos if the parallel onds lero. We venture to say that it will not, but that in the decidedly Radical counties, straight 'Radicals will bo put up for the General Assembly, while in many of the close and doubtful counties, and oven in somo which are countod strongly Democratic, there will be mixtures of Democratic independent Demo cratic and Radical candidates, wvith hope in all these cases for the olec tion of tihe Radical. There will be no0 avowoed olposition to the Democ racy, but in all the counties except thoso conceded to the Republicans, a guerrilla war fare wvill be conducted with a view to disorganizing the Democracy, securing the election of tihe Radical canldidlates for'Congress through the divisions of the Demoo~ racy, and by thle saimo means so curing a sufbi.cient' powver in the General A ssombly to be able to name the successor in the Seonate of Hi cnet Johnl Patterson. The "annoumcement" columns of tile weokly papers of South Carolina give ominous signs. We have poiinted out to our friends across tho line the danger to be appre honlded ; they know for themselyds, without neooiYmg to be told4 the remedy. Their only hope ' is in turning out inifull force in support of their nominees. They are not yet so strong that they can afford to fight amiong thomsolves. .Their salvation depends upon unity of action. If they' flter they fall. BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. ri 3RE second mieeting of tihe County 1.Board of Eq1 ualiz'ationt, for Fairflold county, will bo hold at the Of11c0 of the County Auditor, commencing on Satur* dlay, thio '7th September,.piroxi mo, . . aug 20-td . Auditor, F. C, J. & P. C.OATS' SPOOI; THREAD. 5 f)Doze n, just received, for ande ..at, retail ati liu cents pecr dloztr. casih, nind to meruhants ab. New Yor* Trajide Price. uily 21 MlcMASTER & i3JUk.