WINNSBORO, S. 0. NATURfDAr, OCrODER : 6, 1878. it. MICANS 11A 1-IS, EITOR. JNo. . tE,YNO1,D8, Ass0ouATF EnITon. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. For Governor : WADE HAMPTON. For Lieutenant Governor: W. D. SIMPSON. Vor ecretary of State: R. M. SIMS. For Comptroller General: JOHNSON HAGOOD. For Attorney General: LEROY F. YOUMANS. ler State Treasurer S. L. LE APHART. .Por Supeorntendent of .Education ; HUGH S. THOMPSON. For Adjutant & Inspector General: E. W. MOISE. For Congress--Fourth -Distriet JOHN H-. EVINS. D1>IocA TIC COUNTY TICK17'. For Representatives: 11. A. GAILLAllD, THOS. S. BlICE, It. C. CLOWNEY. For Judge of Probate: J. it. BOYLES. For School Commissioner: JOHN BOYD. FATER ItY410Wh wlo (ied of yellow fever at, Chatianooga was not, the poet, Father Rya)i, who wrote "The Con quered1 B er. Ti RPUBLICANs have carried the pocket borough of Colorado and are immensely elated over the first success of the year. Colorado has always beei Republican. ELFC7loNs WILL, nE held oil the 8th instantt, in Ohio, hidiana and Iowa. IIn indina anid owit the Legislatures elected will cach choose a United States Senator, the one to succeed Voorhees, Dmilocrat, and the other to succeed Allison, Republicai. In Iowa, which is Republican by,forty thousand majorityv, the D)emocrats and the Greenbackers have joined teams. GOVFnNon RIEn, of Massachusetts, refuses to receive Governor Illamiptoni's merited reb)uke in the Kuipton mat ter. lHe endeafvors to standl on his dignity, biut that is a very slender foot prop)osed for renoinzation, wh'lileci attorntey-general, Traini, was dlisgracc fully beaten. TIhe D)emocratic coni vention endorsed the course of Gov ernor Hampton, and demanded( in -' ~ their platform "that Massachiuset ts shall observe her obligations to other States, so that our commi~onwealth shall not be made a safe asylumi for refugees from public ,jnstice." .All this is rather rough on Rice. THE SAT? INrET.IGENcE. reaches us that Jndge A. .J. Shaw died at his residence in Sumter on Wednesday after an illness of two months. Judge Shaw was one of the ablest and most beloved members of the State judicia ry. Elected through a split in the Radlcal party, hie wore the ermine as becanme one of Sonth CaFolina's purest Il~ sons.- Whzen Moses was elected to succeed him, Judge Shaw refused to yield up thte office, on the ground that his terma bmd not expired. A fterwards when the Supreme Court decided that election vriva vo was unconstit ut ion al, Judge Shawv was re-elected unani * ~mouisly, lie held the last termi of * court at this place, and having lpre viously visited thme county as solicitor of the circuit, he had many wvarm friends in Fairfld who will deep)ly A mxourn lds untiinely death. rrj ~ Charleston, who has heretofore beeni n P Madame Roland said, when being con as do tarmy (gendarmes)of ohbry rios, "Oh, Liberty, what tyrannies are com mitted in thy name." Hewolsa * n fow: "Oh, Republicans, whIeni It be Z comes down to the Investigating comn prlo~ mittees, what in the namre of God Is to Publ~'~ become of us." This bon mnot was a.grooted with great, app)lauso. The au Colonel then wentyn to state his views that, While he was an honlest Republi cau, he didn't propose in the future to allow ai half'-dozei second-hand earpet. baggers aid third-rate white m11ei to take a nigger froin the corn field, with the mud oi his tieels, and send him to (oltuinbia an1Jud represelit. hii with all his ability and intelligence. San hasn't iny) in hiluence, but his conceit is inunense, and he thiiks Ie is a great, acquisitioln. Let him Coie. We nleed his vote. Hampton in Charleston. The Neirs and Courier of Thursday is filled with the report of the monster ieetiig hield oil Wednesda by the unterrilied Denocracy of the City by file Sea. Hlampton, Simpson, ltWler, I lgood, Moise and O'Connor mde telling speeches that set the people all aglow. IllImpton, of course, was the central figure. Charleston lore thaii ally other portion of the State groaned under Radical thraldoi, and to her II1amptoni is at deliverer. The gover nor's speech w%,as of a t enor siiilar to most of his efforts. lie, however, 1made an allusion to National politics, as follows: I would throw out o1e other sug gestion while oi the subject of lntional loliics. I have been' looking"' and eainestly striving to see South ( Oaro lina 1ake lie place which she used to hold inl the couilcils of "thle Vkep)ul1iC," I don'i like to say "Nat ion." I wait to see her take that, place iinusin-the platce which by hereditary right is hers; I want to see her give her wise advice io her si* -rs of the Soith, nid, in my judgm-ent, if she wants to sho , that :;he is strutolingo. flo principle, anlld not. for plice-i I we of t Iet, South want to show nlild prove tha, L should say to our delegates to tlie next. Na tioial ionvetition to prochtim to their brethren o lthe Nort i and West that we are th(lie Solid Soth we are sOlid; we staid togethier. and we wmt Ito show volit ilit we a're not lightinlg Ior phice or positioln, buth. tVl he site ee of th le great Dvilloerntrie pivi y; anlld to show tHall. we are sincere, we ask vou to take onlle 111M ftromkl tle North and one rom tlie Northwest, and 11 alliog we have the ight to ak lor -I plac (Iht hat 1icket. oii accItli ot,oir eleoral Sirvigth, vet we preler to show that we are Iihbing tor pmWNy, not Ior phice. Let our people of tlie Soth c0111 out 1indi do 1 lat(. LetC themi show that we are not ae wiateld witlh a desire Vor spoils or pitnder, ail, Imiy wordl for ii, we shall have the wh0l'e North and Northwest. aiding with rldoub)led ernestness ili the great Democratic fight. As Governor IIampton is one of those most prominently mentioned in connection wNith the secolid plice oh the ticket, his remrks lire a sort of indirectl declilntion of that hion1or. Atihough no one more tha ourselves wotil rejOice to see himi tillitng thc sCcolid office in tie gift of t he people. still we,must conlcur ill the propriety of 011c0 more yie'ldinhg to I hei. North and11( Northlwest the nminat ions, It. is enoutgh ihr thle South as y-et to wield a conitrolling'. itnllueiice in niationmal poli tics ini at (luiet wayv. A refusal to claimi oflee would lbe a not her miark of moderalLtioni t hat would compille'teoly taike the windo ouit of the saiils ot thle Radical hiowlers at thle NorthI. This, howvever, is ani eplisode0. L'The addl(resses del'ivered0( ini Charles toll by the oth1er speaikers were able1 etlorts. Gotvenior SiIipsoni, especial ly, suirpaissedu himlself'. At the same11 time the enihluisiasmi evoked among thle 1peopl1 gives good1 grounid lor' the belief that C2harlesin will suicceedi in electinig ai straiighit D)emocratic Legisla tive t ickt, ailthoutghi thle odds are so great . andt dlespit e thle lict that the dreadl ot coun lt ry fe'veri prevents anly camaitlgni in thle coutr y or Over On the I uiuans until afuter tfrost id Is. Thliis is thle miost serioius obIstacle in the0 wl,y of D emiocrat.ic success ill tht 1Radical Stironghiold. soU-rr c'anoLrxA xxj ws. (Cha rleston1 ha:s conltribu)td up ilwards01 of thiirteeni thioiiuand six hiundrved dol) hars for thle yellowy lever sutlieers. Mr. J. 11. Fishier, thle receiver (of thle South Caroliina liailroad, ha~s takeii formanl poissessioti ot'thle cerneei. A Mr. Motntory, whlo lived( four umi los ablove Lainclaster'i vilIlage, conunIllit tedl suiidhe oni hist. F.u(iday morin g by taking strychinie. A proinient cit izeni of' Kershiaw, and ai manil of good thresight, pr'edicts Ithat the D emtocraits will caurry- the counlty by seven hundred matijority. .11 The oIgta ge deblt oft lie South Caro Iinha ,itilroa , aiccordinag to d1udge Rohnds (elcsioni rendelredl lit HallIimiore, is 86i,00,000o, and( its floatinlg indebJlte,d ness nearly $1,200,000. The11 Met hodijst, conrgtigoni ini Cam deni ha~s re-adopted thle old1 "elaiss mieet mlg," which wais in vogue many years ago ; anid hiereaftet r the classes will hold( ireguitr mieetinigs lat applouinted timies. There is ai palrrot iln Charleston whlose enthi;a'm tfor I Jmion 1 and( straight out D)emocracy is made41 known by in e('ssai chiecringI", andi( passers-by never fail to hiear imn say, ''Poioly Is a stra'iightoutI Democrat ! " "IHurr'ah for IIampton i" Ex-Solicitor C. W. Rluttz has returned to Charleston, anid wanIts to represent that district in Congress. From a t the Ind(litions it appears that there will beh a trianguhlar Rlepubli an light between Taft, Mackey and Buttz,. Sonator J. L. Duncan, - coloired, and E.- A. WMbatot mifugpstatra Oralgchurg, have been arrested oi charges of luiberv to procure oillie Webster depositeil svven hundredl dol lars with t Clerk ol,'the coi.-t. as coI lateral for bail, an, gooids malitlneu red by tha laitory, and1 have nu)ill( i Ship1IC' accor'dliwglv. It is rat hera si.-Iilicali aceet that 0le ol' lie coloties ot I rell i Itiin, a cou ry whi- 1. , is alway prided i..ell,' o' its Ina.x-flac uine should be looking ill this directiol for etion roOds.I Mr. Jaies M. Staggers, Sr., an oil gelillvinl o' aboul. seveiit v-vive vear ol'age, nal f ile presei, int:4i 1itt. 6i' th tow) ol hingst rve, dolled It I' d shirl last week, nioiinte< a charger, alld t< I ltlk alloll I he bravest antinlost activu Ile lookedX like It bov ot'twelit-olte Williaishiirg inyav w(l be proIld 4 snch a loblo "iliziel. an11tl youilgerl, nie mIvay well follow himn as ani (Ixtnitlpe. CoL. AsbiryN ('oward deelines lh loiilato bol es wve l on liiin 1w ih I lliocrati' Coniiv ConveltiO'*1 ( 'Vork. I Iis rea,onls'ar. th'at he eninel -.WVCe t I le Leg4 islainr NN,e wi I Iout a Seri Otis Sacrilice ol' his lrivate inlterest. til([ that, Ie was willing, in the tirs instance, to lve his naim11il u(onilly I preserve thle imenalonv ot' tlie(- parts 'hil'l inliionV now seems to be pe It'e.-Allotier Conventioi has 1>eel called, to till ilie vacanev. Col. S111I Dickersio, the ceIlebratel colorel lawyer in charlson, was si captivated with ( Meniral Mois's spece at th gral