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TRI-WEEKLY EDITIO.N1 AVINNSBOIRO. S. C,S' U) O1OEU 88 VT..N.O BEN HILL ON TIIE SITUATION. -0 - TIL D114OonATiC 1'RTY W1,1., WJ VER DIE. How the Georgia Senator Reads the Signs of the Times.-The Radicals Will Never Again Have a Majority. [Extract From a Iecend Spcech.] First, I wish to say to this audi onco that the Republican party is dying. Io is blind who cannot see it. If we arise, it will soon pass away; and the places which have known it so long will know it no snore forever. There are philoso phical reasons for tho death of the Republican party, which it cannot avoid, and which it cannot escape. In the first place, the Republican party was always a sectional party. It was formed in sectionai issues, and had professedly a sectional or. ganization. In the second place, it Wias always an unconusUtitultional pal' ty. It had its organization in an avowed attempt to change the con stitution of the country by force and it did it. In the third place, it is a party which has been mainly devoted to the improvement of classes. It is a sectional party, a party unconstitutional in its princi ples, and class in the charactor of its legislation. It cannot live long in America. It would be a refllc tion on the virtue and patriotism of the people to believe otherwise. The Republican party has accoin plishod all the purposes of its ex istence ; and it would be as fooiish to suppose that a dead man could be brought back to life as that the Republican party could be restored to power when it has accomplished the purposes of its existence. The time never will come when the Republical party will have a majority in the House, The char acter of the next Senate is fixed, and it will be not less than six nor higher than ton Domocratic majori ty. After the year 18' T, there will never be another RMpublican presi dent of America. Thank God for that I They have a Republican p )resident from 1876 to 1880 created by fraud, and we have submitted rather than break the peaco of the country. Then naturally, philoso phically, the Republican party must die. What party must take its place? What party will be in power after the Republican party has passed away? The indications are just as clear what the party is. as that tho Republican party must pass away. The party destined to control and regenerate the interests of this country for a generation to come is the Democratic party. In the first place, the Democratic party is a national party. In tho second place, the Demoeratie party is a constitutional party, It intends to aamnmator the government accord ing to ah constitution, You have heard agreat many definitioi s of Democracy. I will tell you the best definition. We have the geni * eral government for general pur lposes, the local government for local purposes ; we have the general government fromn the constitution, the local 60yernnment by inherent I! authority and reserved powers, which remain, and are not delegat~ od. The Democratic party is a party that keeps and respcCts the * rights of the Federal government and the State government within their proper bounds, and adminis ters the State and general govern.. nient not for the interowt of any section or class of people. You cannot kill the Deocoratic party, because it is the outgrowth and representative of our constitution. *You cannot kill the Democratic party until you kill the constitution out of wvhich it derives it strength and existence. I say this, being an old whig-and to this I want to call your attention a moment. Before * t~he war there was no difference be~s K tween the Whig and the Democratic party as to the character of the government as it now exists, We differed as to such measures of * nullification and secession. The whig party has passed away, and the Democratic party absorbs the intelligence and patriotism which once existed in the whig party with perfect consistency;: and every raan ; our country who is in favor of the constitution~ is, by the very force of 0froumstanses, a Democrat. Fellow eitizens 'You need n~ot dor*ht it, you need riot question it. The Democratie party is going to tot*Jolhla governmenit for nm'Vn oration. Thoro is no party which can control it ; no nation on earth can control it. I bogin to think that the Domo cratic party canl never bo killed. So cession (lid not kill it, the war has not killed it, fraud has not killed it, it has not killod itself, and it will not dio. Hero is the point to which I want to direct the attention of my friends. It is natural that after this soctional Republican party has been in power olghteen years it should have passed a great many things that bear heavi ly on the prosperity of this country. You hear of disaster, sorrow, do, rangement, confusion finanially and otherwiso all over tho country. That is true. They arc results of Republican rule. They aro deep, wide-spread, terribly as I consider it. A sectional, unconstitutional class legislating party cannot domi nato Over this country eighteen years without produing misery to the people, and the Republican party has produced theso results. We are all anxious to remedy those results. Wo want to restore prosperity to the country. .But it is natural in seeking a remedy for these great evils that wo among oursolves should dil'or. Independ ent honest, thinking men on such queitions as this will differ. Take this financial question. Tile R1opub, lican party deranged it, and the trouble which sprang out of the war kept it deriged. When we come to remedy this, one Democrat thinks that one mcanls is bettor than another. What do we differ about ? Not in the belief that the evil exists; not in the belief that tihe country is suffering ; not in the belief that a remedy isnecessary. All that wo dif for about is, what is the remedy. That being the caso, what I wish to siay is this. The only power in this country that can give efliciency to any of these remedies, is the Demo cratic partY, You cannot expect it to come from the Republican party, because it produced the mischief. You cannot expect it to come from the third party, because to have any), strength it must be composed main ly of the Republican party, and what the Republican party cannot cure in its own name, it cannot curo under any other, and no party can givo relief to the country but the Demo cratic party. And here is my pro)o - sition : If you and I (ifer as to tile remody for these ovils, let u1s agree in this. that we will stick to the party. You cannot carry out any remedy otherwise ; you cannot hope to accomplish it otherwiso. If you do not proposo ..o do to by the Democratio party. how will vou do it ? You must do it by somno other party. What other party must you rely on ? As I said, y ou must go to the dying Republican party or organize a new party, to be composed largely of tie Republicezn party, and its controlling element to be of that party. MADE TWENTY FORTUNR AN) DiE; Poon.--A vian named McNulty died reently in California wvho had b)een rich and poor, it is said, at least twventy timnes, dying poor at last. Ho had been very shrewvd and an, terprising, but somehow he could not keep a fortune after he had acquired it. An example of his sudLden concep)tion and execution is mentioned at Sacramento, twenty. five years ago, when the entire businoss part of the town was burn-~ od, Ho was then wealthy, and owned many of the largest stores there. As he saw his property vanishing in flames, instead of grieving over tho disaster, ho wenmt to the nearest livery stable, hired a fast horse, mounted him, rode all night, and before nine o'clock th)e next norning had bought overy foot of lumubor and every sawv mill at Grass Valley and Nevada City. He gained another for tune-making four times as much as he had lost by the sale of his lumber so sud denly contuncted for. It was eminently like an American to ride off by the blaze of his burning houses into the night, and turn his calamity literally into cash. A man of such fertility of rosource ought to have staid a millionaire ; but his inability to do so is only another illustratiorn that the capacity to get money is entirely different from the capapity to retain money after it has been got. 14oNulty's character was one that is not at all uncommon in the republio, especially in the west. Queen Victoria is in Scotland again, for the second time this year. She hea boen to Ireland twico in her life. He who says what he likes, must bear wht~ be don't flike 2111E GAf11lED #1A 1) ' WI NCES. Governor Rice, Repuidlatod by Massa chusotts, Hidos Himself Bohill a Falsohood, and Adds Insult, to Injury. Governor Rico doelines to piut Governor 1-1am1pton's le.tor r(la,t,ive to tho Kimpton matter upon tho fiN of the executivO departMent. Heu has forwardwd the following coi mntu icatiol inl roply : u Bosro, September 30. Iis Axeellcncy I'ade 11<imptont, Uovernor, (.'olumSi, . (". : Sm-I received On Sa-turdiy last an extraordinary official coinnlluniioa tion addrossed to me over your signatire, the contents of which I had road inl tho new-spipers thro day s before. I bog to remind your Excellency that aly attOIpted rebuke of Massachu-ett s for non-observance of constitutional or statutory obliga tions is a refinemeont of sarcasm which renders any other defeneo of tho former Sato unnecessary. 'Vhe treatlieit of the case of Hiram H. Kimnpton by the authorities of this Coin)non Voalth was uininluenced by any personal or political coniidera. tions". Mlassachmuset. s had no quar - rol with South Carolina and no friendship for Kimpton, but was bound to extend to each their re spectivo rights under the laws. Evory courtesy, oflicial and personal, was extended to the representatives of South Carolina. Unusoal care was bestowed upon the inivestiga, tion uld considerationl of tle ca, and its decision was roched upon grounds of perfoet, impartiality, in accor(dance with haw an I facts, and with convictions of public dluty. Inl comkmniilicatinlg. the dcisionl to youlr Excellency, iy Statement th-t the object of the requisition did not appear to be for the pliposo of trying Kimpton for the crinjo charged agailnst him, but for a dif forent purpose, it was simply a recital of ftact contained in the re port of the report of the attorney general, a copy of which was fur nished with tiy letter to you, and in his opiiio:i and mino, clearly established by evidence. Yonr lxcelloney's letter requires no argummen t in reply. It is sulli cient to say that it contains stal.e, monts to mislead tihe plublic whetv the facks ar un kiown. Its hum1 gil go an1 untime!yp 1mbliation are ollelsive d 1ij ist ili;ible. y de clinlo to accept it, or perumit it to bt. pl!lced ulpoll the ;lle-; of tho 1executive Dpa-rmlen(t f hm o mon WeNal th. It is Ierveithl re turinod. Your obelenti. strv.nft, ALEXANDr.R 11. iCE:, Governor. Mits. Lixoof,\'s Two T .u LioNs. Mrs. Lincoln, of Bt)oston, has two filam lions-Vrett, t,.L\lv, h:aLntlsomle beasts, about two years and a half old. She took them when they wro flirst bor-1n, and ;has broulgh't thom iu Ias household pwts. Until very lately thvy v(r in bor pa.rlor and went about the house as freely ats a (log woul, biut t he city :Im thoritjin regomc tedi that they shoahl be kept under sonme restrainit. They now live in a roonm backc of thme parlor, and( opening into it by a gratedl door, which is said to be strong. but wich is oftenm open, as Mrs. Lincoln goes in aind out of tihe r'ooml, playing with the lions, pot ting them, and( making them do their tricks. "Whmen Ii saw thecmi," says5 a corrOsp)ondent of the Wor, cester' AMpy, tIWilly, as the lion is called, was eating his b)reak(fast anxd did not like to be disturbed. How ever, at Mr's. Lincoln's command, hue stretched upon his hind pawvs, to shmow hmow big he was, rolled over, and did other infantiie tricks. M'm. Lincoln then opened the lowv parlor window and callIed1 pleasantly, 'Mar than, little girl, come hloroe,' andl( up trotted the lioness, w',ho was taking her morning walk in the yard. Both lions kiss Mrs- Lincoln, and she hmad no fear of them. They seom to her so thoroughly tame, in spite of their hearty diet of rawv meat, that she cannot underatand how any visitor can be afraid." TurnsovT.-A "hard case" was ini torrogated, the other Sunday, biy a friend wvho had just seen hinm at church, butt wvhiom ho now found swallowing a glass of brandy and water at a public bar-room: "I saw yrou in church this morning listen mug to a discourso upon righteous ness and temperance; how comes it that I now soe you hero drinking ?" "I always thirst after righteous neoss," was the answer. Subscribe to THlE NvEW8 AND HanAmnD. IBI CA UG IfT A CRA 1i, ISho sat upon a rock, fishing for 0rabs. She had her dog with hor at skyo torrior-such1 '1 0110 as a 1roadway vondor would chargo you tonl dollars for. His hair was long 1111d aH soft a1s silk, b1110 ribbons Iimg from his ears, and his neck wias u-ecrcled With ai nlickol-phltfed collar. But all that counted noth1 ing ats atgainst tho fearful scene f.lIrough1 which Ie was about to pass. Io lay closo to the baskot into which the Fifth aveniuo bollu dropped the crabs as fast as shlo caught thoi. Ho was no doubt dreaming of his happy hoio f.r away, where h1e was Wonit to talko his daily 11ap Onl a $1,000 sofa. Now and thell at groen bot tied 1ly skipped from ear to oar or lightel uipon his back, whero the pirp cotildn't reach hiii, and at such tillis he whisked1 his tail wildly till the intrudor won L away. Oin on of these Special occIsionls, aftor whisk ing 0"'I the Ity, 0h0 littl3 HilkC0n til rested 111)011 the edge of the Crabi) basket and the vi)d of it droppod ill sid, :latiLudo forty-suven, longitudo Sixty-two. The feathery edge of it struck a crab ill tho eye, anild the ciaws clos'd on the appondago t-i-i -u-I -t-a----s-1-y ! The d(og, oh, whero was lie ? A yelp, a hlowl, anld chu'n inl silvery tonles the "i vi" ats the astonished Pill) sailed over the plain anild through the clover with ai string of crabs col noeting him with the 0111y boild ing basket, and all thoir claws ('lutchCld 0110 with t1h(3 other, and for a miniteto ther'e was a' 111Xied scolo of dog, crahs, basket, duSt anlid flying gravel, and the tail was told. iThere w'110s nO More er21.h fishilg that d .y.-Pou;*h!ep.e A'agle. TiE NiA Si vo A unOiM 11o. James If. Slater, Democrat, who beenl elected 'United States Senator from Oregon, to stecuced J olin H. Mi eblOl, Iepublican, wilose trm cxpires Mlarch 4, 1879, was born ill Saallonl coniity, 111., ill 1826. His eoar ly edication wais liml-ited, but he i-icceedled in 1111s eri ing the intriacios of the law, and I i.1s beon at suecessful pract,itioner at the bar. :1e eii-rate1 to Oregon many yvars ago, and hats been ia proinnet Democratic politician ther for :1th past score of years. Ho was elected to the TorriLtorlal Legislahure in 1857, and afgin ill I A 1157, 1d a-ainl in 1858, allI i bon becaie a 1mniler of tic le ns11Io of the first State Legisia ti e. In 18G6 he 11was clectedl iiet A torny fr th1e Fiftll iial Disf riet of Oregon, aund fi11ed1 that oflico two years. In 1870 lie wats electe( to represent the Stato in Conlgrss, but was not ren1om011inated for it recond tormi Mr. S!ater resides- ill tho (aste111 port.i onl of the1 StA lto. le doecares himself an opponent of illiatioll, but 14vor's tho sulbsti ilt uion1 of green baeks for natioll:d ballk loks, and helieves thialt the c111rrlcy sllili bu phaced 1uon a coin basis. A:m . SLeIa.-A monkey at the Alex:m1drlia. PalalOo was5M nflerin g f rom1 t)othacho1, so thiey putt hjimI mllto a1 b ag wVhienco ontly hisi head p)rotrluded, and htanded himIl over to the dentist. Pug scr'(aeamo and snapp)led, and t hreat.ened to b)0 very troullesomeI11, but whent th10 dentist inanaged to get hmi.s hand1( on the a1bscoss andti gave relief then mon)1key's doe-metor lhanged entirely. HleI held( hIis head1( down quietly for cit almination. and without the use of the gas sublmiitted to the removal of ai stmlIp andit a1 toothl as8 quitly as possibl. A large bear aIt tho IBerlin Zoo had hoCcomIo blind through cataract onl both~ eyes. They strapp)lOd him nyj, chloroform)ed him, Ihad himt troalted by anl oenilist, and1( whlen~ nost he wals allIowo( to comoI it.to the light anid noticed that ho could see cleal'y, the groat bruto winked and capoCred inl cestacy. It 11as transpired that WV estley W 1Tishop, of Norwich, CJonn., charged with poisoning is wvifo, Ha1rriot Bishop0j, and( Chas. M. Cobb, Jr., has 11ad(1 a1C cofossioni imnp1licatting Kate M. Cob)b in hlis guilt. Bishop con1 fosses criminal intimacy with Mr's. Cobb and procuring poison for Mrs. Cobb with wVhiCh to destroy theo life of hecr hulsbalnd, and( 1his knowh dgthtshe administerod it. Ho deniesthat 1h poisonod Mrs. Bishop, and impl1utes the crimo to the womnan. Lo.ssing, tile German phlilosopheor, beig very absent-mlinlded, knocked at iis own door 01n0eovoning, when tihe sorvanit, looking ont of an upper winldow and not reooognir.ng him, said. "The Professor, s not at hiome." "Oh I very wvell," replied Lossing, composedly, and walkin away;: "I shall call anothm. time" COICoi'rE oF MUI)ER.-The trial of Hoko C. Scorest, of Union coun-, ty, N. C., charged with killing his wife and child while traveling through Burke county in that State, in Iarclh, 1877, onded on Monday afternoon of last week wi,th a verdict of gi'ilty. The pIrisoner has taken an :.Ipeal to the Supremo Court. An array of oininout counsel was retlinod on both Ridos, and the trial attractod considerable public atten,. tion. Tho circumstances attending the case aro as follows : Secrost and the widow Stinson resided in Union county and wore neighbors, Socrest was in tho habit of visiting Mrs. Stinson's houso. .E0arly in the spring of 1877 Secrest and Mrs. Stinson and her little daughter left Union county in a buggy. The next board from thom was the announcement of their marriage in Catawba county, which marriage toolk place on the 5th of March, 1877. Soon aftor that Socrost was not .soon any more in that section, i but the do:d bodios of his wife and the little girl were found buried in the woods just in the edge of Burke county, noar the Catawba line, Socrost aftorwards appeared at his home in Union county and reported to Squire lhs that he had bought I all Mrs. -,tinson's property and that she had gone to Texas, which state ment was a false one. Hence, Soecrost was arrested undor suspi-, cion of having murdered the womat an(d child, and his trial resulted -iij conviction. LUNA ANT IAUNATIC.-In a murder trial at Raleigh the defence wan insai-ty. The evidence was of occasional fits of insanity with lucid intervals, but- there was no evidence of insanity at tho imo of the kill ing. One of the counsel offered to show that the killing was at the change of tho moon. The court interrupted by saying that it would not go that far back in the listory of tho world as to tio Idea that the imoon afl'cted lunatis ; that it would as soon allow proof of witch-, oraft. The jury. however, hold for the moon against the jtidge jind acquitted the prisoner. Gov. H ArPTo's PROVOsiox DEo cLINED.-,It is announced from Washington that Coiamissioner Ramn, to whotu the mnatt.er waf referred, has declined to entorstain the novel proposition of Governor HMapton, who requesto(i thq, - the Stato athorities be allowed to col let United States internal rovenue taxes in this Stato on account o1 the great difticulties experiQc0d\ by United States revenuo oflicQrs jin the performance of that duty. B.-si Musio.-To be aroused fron swot and delicious Rhmber by a "a.t seronade," is on a par Wit being- annoyed in church by the steady backing and coughing . of individuals who neglect to take -Dr, Bull's Cough Syrup. TOWN QRDINANCID. Ax OiunrA 'r"Clo RLAIra SUID.IjIE$ woR TIJI 3E IT l ENACJ'D1 AND ('RDAINED, . )hy the Intenda:jt andl Wardens of te Town of WVislboro, S. 0., in Ceotn cii nut, thaUt 1.For the purpTh)Os of raising supplies for the year' coremncing.the first ef A ly il, 1878, and end ing the first of April, 18 1,a ev o the sums and in the mnain nor'i heI(lreml eentionedt sihall be raised ,1 an mi no the treasury of the said remL npon0 evriy dollar of the yalm~ ' all lhe real and persona) prnopo*t withi4 the corp jorato limits of tho said /Town of Wmnsboro; three dollars to ho. pail .by (overy male inhabsitanuts of ,jald town, 'be. twoo~n the ages of eighteen and fort.y-five years, ini lieu of workinag .upon t,bo aRteetq of said to)wn; and three per cop$, gpo~ the amount of all salo% at a4etiot4.. 2. All taxes assessed and- payable under this Ordijnnee shall be paid- 14 the following kinds of funds andl no other: old and sllvbr 4did,' United States Currency and:' National JDant Notos. r 3. All taxes assessed hproin shall cuo Vv and payabl e betwveen the first a o - October, 1878, and the thirtieth day o November, 1878, inclusive; and -all txes , remaining dueC and1 unpaid op the drsat ' day of Decomber, 1878, shall pp collected 'I by distress or otherwimso, a ri nowp'ro, scribod by lav', together with all . )og costs. 4. All persons holditng propertindho ~ corp)orato limita of the said T r o' ' Winnsboro, ato roqguiroa betyeo~ iet first day of~ August, 1878, and the ' x~ toontth (lay of Septemb~pr, 1878, to rnak ( swvorn re ur~n of said pr,0peyty go,ta"'' tion, to the 1fwn Orork, a44 bp Tow~n Clork. js .hereby' requir~ec,' o~j p)roprt~yAholdlers' fail or refuse to'nak saidl swor~n return, to add tiftys pQ1.,gen..' tumn to the retu;r4 of the provipp aq Ipal year. * SDone In Counojithie the'th 1 *ty-frsi day ofJ,uly & , said Tow4 oJiimil,' ' Attest: $ae W?I N. CJIANDII,B,r , -xk