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f ,1 1 ~ 4A~ -. * * *,'b ~ ii ______________________ ~W1NNsBoRo.~s7 C.. _ 3~FA~727NO.13~ A SOLID BOUT". Congressman Ellis, or Lout sana on the Political Situation. 0IZCII4T1, November 26, 1878. E. John Ellis, member of 'Congress from the Now Orleans district, pass ed through this city to,-day en route for Washington. In conversation with a New York Herald repre sentative he said :-"With a good nomination and a good platform I see no reason why we, the Demo cracy, should not carry the entire South, with Ohio, Indivqia, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin in the next Presidential contest." Mr. Ellis favors a conservative platform one that will unite all the wings of the Democratic and greenback par. ties. He believes that either Thur man, Hancock or Hendricks will be the next nominee of the Democracy for the Presideucy. When. asked which of the three he preferred he answered that that depended on cir cumstances. If Grant was nomina ted by the Republicans he favored the taking up of *Han-oek by the: Democracy ; if the. Republic-ns nominated a civilian his choice would be Thurman. Hendriq4s he thought to be the least availablb of the three. Tilden he thinks entire ly out of the question as a candidate. "Sam Randall is his residuary legatee, and the succession will be solved by the coming Congress. WHO WILL BE SPEAKER I Speaking of the organization of the next House of Representativee, Mr. Ellis said :-"I have always heretofore been ir. favor of a North ern or Western man for -tL Speak ership. My reasons were that the South was not then prepared to go that far to the front that if we of the South, seized by the accident of having a m&jority in the lower house should insist upon approprial ting the organization of the Housco and its control it would be consid - ered by the people of the North A too soon evincing a desire to be come a controiling element in national politics. Hence I vote( for Kerr, of Indiana and supported Sayler, of Ohio, for the speakership of the forty-fourth and forty-fifth Congresses. A SOUTHERN cANDIDATE PROBAIBLY TO BE CHOSEN. I observe that modesty is a com nodity which does not sell well in the market of the Republican party.. We of the South have beon blamed and held responsible for the line of' policy pursued by the r"orty-sixth Congress;-I am now in favor of accepting that responsibility in the fullest. 'I favor the election of a Southern man for Speaker, and I believe that we should officer tL principal committees of ttie Hou.-o with Southern men. Then, ith the co-operation of a De nocratici Senate, we will be onab ed to give to the country a wise, broad, patrio. tic, national and economical adimin istration of affairs. If Mr. Hayc. chooses to veto measures adopted for the relief of the people and f6r the public good, the responsibility wi'l not rest with us." WThen asked whom he thou .fat would be presented by the So)uthi ern representatives as a canidate for the speakership he answered : "I think that the names of Houseo, of Tennessee ; Carliulo and Black burn, of Kentucky ; Goode and Randolph, of Virginia, and Reagan,, of Texas, will be earnestly, auvag4ey by the represenltativei of the bSouth, and that one of these will be select ed for the speakership. Vermont is, by law, the most barbarous State in jhe Uniion. When she finds one of . her citizens guilty of murder she does not exe cute him at onceas in other civilized comimunities, but sends him to the penitentiary for two years, and at the expiration o: that time badige him .It has always been thoughit that the dleath penalty was the most severe that'could be indiicte.l, but Ver'mont-addN to this twvo years in the penitentiary at hard labor. The state of mindif the wietes 'durng the two years preceding the conclusion of their punishment may be imagined. ___ By.an 'icIll fie i 40 ourred on his plantation at Stiluda, Gen. Johnson Hagood lost a large amount of produce, consisting prin.. cipally of rice and baled hay, valued at $800. The perpetrator -of- - the crime is probably known and will be arrested. The motive is supposed to have been one of political spite. means first ; hence when the baby is suffering from colio diarrhce etc. use at acrfMsimk Syrup and observe its remarka~l .an* idad ben4ficP4e' ENGLAND AND .1FGHANISTAN. That Great Britain has sent an army into Afghani4tan, readers of recent cable d18patches know; but the reason for this attack and its probable reault Pre not so clear. Afghanistan is a mountainous terri - tory in isia important only because it separates British India from Russian torritory. Both Great Britain and Russia look with jealous eye upon the Amoer of Cabool, and whenever he smiles on England Russia gets mad, while the least co quetting with Russia drivc-s Eng land to despotin. Of lat i the Ameer has boon to. frienliy with Russia, and he brought matters to a climax by refusing to receive an English envoy. BOaconsfield has theref6re decided-to whip him into friendahip. The Afghans are a war like race, and have all the advantL, gos of position, Once before, Eng land found thom too much. She overran Afghanistan forty years ago, but found she had caught a tartar indeed. So after two years of occu pation, and aftor having an army or two cut up by way of diversion John Bull took thi back track to Indria. At the present writing the English claim to be earrying every.. thing before them, but their bulletins read like one of Gon Pope's dispatch es during the late war, or the Tribune's reports the (ty after an election. Many leading English - men think that Boaconsfield has blundored, and that Russia will stop in if necessary, just as England stepped in to savo the Sultan. Sir Georgo Campoll, ex-governor of Bengal, and a member of Parliamnent, says that Afghanistan is cqual to three Bosnias without a Christian population to assist, and he is utter ly oposed to raising the animosity of her brave people. As Beaconsield, however, has been over whelned with abuse at every step, and has gono .on stadily wiining fre,sh laurels, it is bettor to defer judg ment.until the position of the con tondiig parties and of Rassia can be moro oarly defined. GovAnNOR HAuToz's Ki.N) HEART. -GovornOr "Ham'jtai's T'eIling for the colored race is illustrated by a writo In the Springfield Republi can, who declares that the Governor is "all soul." This writor nays that Hampton, when riding, during the last campaign among tho rico, fields, had his carriage Utopped by a furioqs colored who hold ia pino knot in her h:ind, ituid awore sho'd kill him. "Tuo G.>vernor- took :, 5 noto and handed it to the wretch. 8he gazId at him an1d thenl at his money. 'Aunty,' lie said, 'that is not to buy your vote ; women Can't votc.' 'What in it for ?' asked the stupelod womlan. 'I, as a Child, slept many an hour in my old eol ored nurse's arms, and I feel kind for your race. I am your friend, womnID, but, you do not know it.' Tears ran down that swarthy fao ; she ran to the field near by with all bor speed, and led hor husband back by the hand. 'Man,' she urid, 'Gover'nor lHmptoun gib me dis $5. .I'is do fust mnoney I lhab gib to mue since freedom. iLebol or no rebel, God bleoa kin If you 'dlon't wvote for him, I'll quit you.' Sueli is the man. Ho is all soul." Ta~ HIOMEi.iEHr MANl IN TnE WORLD. --A few years ago there lived ini an adjoining county ;t phaysician, who, though not- an Adonin, was not tue less resp'cted for his professionmal attainments than' admiled f',r his social qn.ualities. On one occasion, tafter. a consultation in a neighbor ing county, 'and while at dinner with his hosts -he asked himn if he ever saw his (the doctor's) wife, and was, answered in the negative. "l'hon," said the doctor, "will you do ppo thme favor to call on her. the first time you go to town 1" "Cer' tuabilg, sir, if you wish it," said the host in somne siurprise, "but why ?" "Why," repihited the. doctor, "why because my wife insidts that I an the homolhitst man in the world, pnd one loou at you will convieo her of her mnistake."-Blingh&ton Re publican. 'POAToFoEs ti Tn UNTED~* STATEs. -The whold nuziter of postofices in the United States,' as shown b)y the report. of the First Assistant Postmaster'-Genera),drN. TAynr, 'for the year ehidi J'uh''80, 187,^ 'wag 89,258-anr' increase over38177 ,of 1,918. Th6 iimb6r of' 2pmb(dentiid offices is 1,576,'"Wtid the number .ander the conty9j4 btl ppstmp~s-, tes he amo.n i 2patrona'gsmi'ten to, actKei K 4 The numbb86f tIIWaf d on - theaoint nt office dorinaq 't i'fak rjjI4N HOREn AND LOCOMOTIVE RACING. The following incident, noticed in Prof. Blackio's work on railroads. illustratos in a striking manner the progress in events: "In 1830, at the time when Mr. Georgo Stephenson, the inventor, wis introducing his first locomotivo in England, the active mind of Peter Cooper was ilso busy solving a like problem in this pountry. H had constructed a locoxotive that iwas to outrun a horse. IThio Coop er envine could hardly" be cAllo.1 more thau a working IRdol, as the whole weighed only a td,' and WaF of about one horse power. The boiler, about the sizu of a modern kitchen boiler, stood upright, and was fitted above the fni'naco, which occupied the lower section. The cylindIer was only 3J inches in diameter; the whoels were moved by gearing. In order t' get the requip-.'- pressure of Spam inl so Smail a boiler, a sort of blowcr or bellown was provided; rhich was kept in action by mea3ns f a drum attached to one of the r wheol, over which passed a Ird which turned a pulley, which i tix4 work ed the bellows. "Whou all was ready t.e trial and test of the engine tgains the horse took place on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and res4ltfd in a victory for the horse.z The- horse won the race, not by tpq#tIg on the one side or a sell on the other, but by In accident-q-Uh slipping of the cord that moved the bellow. "Mr. Cooper, vho wa4 his own Ongine driver, strugglo-' hard and mai-fully to replace tie lor1 with out stopping hij engine,but beforo he could do so the horco had won the race. Thero wa-i however, 01nough done to prove that the locomotive could outrn the horso, because the former was ahoad of th1 horse when the accident occurrod." T w nearly fifty yoei:- ago, aid the wan who did it, -till lives among us, still active, hoioted and respected by all. A RtkvoLUTro.N INDEND.-During slavery I owned one of tLi blackest as vell a. meanost negro men in I South Arkansais. He was knovn in the neighborhood as Crow -Sam. I used to thia-t"h SaIml about twice a wook. Steal ! h'd steal from him. nelf and then deny it. Woll, when the war cmae on ho was one of the first to turn against me. le went into the army aitd served till.the i utirrender. After peaco was made I novu over in an adjoining county and w(ait to work, trying to repair my broken fortune. . One ,49y_ a negro that I had working ;ior.- me knocked down one of myhorsp,which so onraged mo that I struck -him several timn with my can0. IJe went away and returned with a constable who summoned me to appear next day before a magistrate. Officers were not quite so. nime roIn then as. now, and the: magis trate's oflick was several mileq tAway. WeII, sir, when I got there who' should I sco on the b.Ich but old Crow Sam. Hie wvas fat id' greasy and had on umn on',i mous1 pair of >ew tacleis. When everythitig hqdl eeg' made ready court was oponed; antT ol a,iving mok a searchinglIodk,' remarked :. "'Pears that I've seed you Afore."' like to be mrixed up this way. drv to settle this-affair'without malio.., "Do law is gwine to h b its direck cours$3,"' lid Sam, '' lu'g hab kinder -changed since vo '.as' in business tdgedder, brat tB pr'hil' ciple of de nigger havmi't revoluted. Dis nigger is as big a rp2cal as I used to be, so. 1ara John, I'll,dig charge you and fling dis h4laclf mape in de cost."-Little Rlock ( Ark.) Gazette. .. ONE MIsTAKE OF WIxLHELEJ.-XVe have hoeard but onie adverse br1tia cimon WilheImj since he reaqhod this country. A Wecst Hill mpan heard him play in ' Clevelind, and says, "ho don't put.oenough robin 'o his bow." In the' smidst :0f tihe warm showers ' of' -p>aise, that 'havb been rained uipon ,d m, ;this pst fall on the hearu4 of Logroat fiddler' like a snowstorm in August.'--.J4ur' iington& Hae,kee.' - In Nebraska the ltepublica4 ~a' jority~ this year was only 5,060 as agaippt 18,000 at the eleepign, o ~87O. 4.The Omanha fIel,.. alwAya saigtjne. thiks th Demgg'a6f could hav? carre eS eQ of te -emp )g a hd A,been" more d relsve and mnore careful in, pp s 'eiont of 'theth ddaiddes? " I EGZ8L ATIPH -PBoQ.7DINJGM. 1Vin&Y, Nov*bor 29, 4878. SENATE. The Sbi inet at the su1al hour.. Mr. Lips'oiAb Prcsontod an afflavit from W. M. Mounts. ex-auditor of Orangeburg, that in 1876. ,Sonfator Duncan (colorod) of that 3ointy htd brlbed Mountn ind H.- A. Webster to securo his nomination by givihg thom a written promiso to appoint thom severally auditor:and.,trAasu1 or, and that that tho Atxxgi% waa carriod o.yt op bqt)j a1l4g, Wpvrpd to the elections comkn4tve. 1!..n1y1U_ bor of bills am(j pettioin, vor. r-. sented and'17ferrod, au*n* jbem one by Sonator Gaiy to ,reppal tho dobt-compro'mise of last session and to abolish tl special c6tii. . The House rosolution 'to adjokirn 'ina die of the 23d of December vap agrood to by a.vot6of-30 to'1, Taft voting in the ogatiVo.- The Setiate then adjouruedi-), ~USE. In the Wqpp Ur. Brown, of An derson, en;tmeo a p rQtest against the adjnispi(n of Gajtt, of Beaufort, on-the Igr,ound that ovidence exit of his having been bribod.1 eforred. A large numbor of bl .wore in troduced, among theon one by Mr. Ficken to provido foe'A regiat-atioi of 4otdrs ; by 'Lir. Austin, to abolish] the offico of audito'r ; by Mt. Gail lard, to extend the ake- of rb:ad duty. to fifty five year.-tato ituiANl-T law in regard to the payment Qf. debts of decodents iby lIr. Gunza" les, to ropoil the phosphate. muonopo. ly act ; by Mr. Muller, to reduco the pay of members ; by Mr. E tr1o, to extend the lion law another year. Adjourned. SATURDA7, jovombor 80, 1878. SENATE. k numbor of bills and resolutions worf introduced, road by title and proporly referred-among them the following: Bill to creato a board of railroald, pommisbioneve au1 to, regulate their poLwors i ill 0 p e vent mad dogs from going at large bill to repeal n act entitlod "An act to provont the sale of spirituous liquors within one milo of any church, school house or collegG within ti,stat," s ed 18, 1876..; Adjoarned. HOU3E OF REPRESENTATIVES. The Senate sent to the House a concurrent resolution that the General Assembly do adjourn sine die on Monday, the 23d dAy--of Do cembor, 1878, which was ordered for' conidoration on Monday next. : Mi. Wilson introduced a bill to reduce and fix the per diem and mileage of uombors of thq, qpneral Assembly. ; d road by title anA properly i-oforred -aMiong them the following: ByJA1r. GLi larjl---4. bill to an Actqutitlo "J4 4'ct to) e W uniformity id the sessions o the circuiti courts ; also, a -bill .to. ai . thorize and require the county comn mnigsioiners of the county of Fairfield ,fy.. special .tu, in, coti townships of said co;inty,, ,tp, meet. past due claims for building public fence,it st:i,l county. I, n Mi. Edens-A b3ill to amend and contLinie of foigg pii,aoegtedc "An act to saeni-e landlordls and persons miking advArges'- als,9, a ,ill'to-mrakd jury tickets for attend, ance upon the circuit courts of the ~tgp a4 d f. wipps ,bound.oi'er: sessiofis .reeiyable. fo,j ises .due the county in which. said :servi4es are ren~dered. . , Mr G.iillard, frota~ the comdIiibes on the judiiary, mladQ a. favorable, re~putt on a bill to alter and amend the law in relation to the paymen t of debts of docedents. Aigol othade a;iUdhfavorab)le report, on at .hbill to abolish the 9Ae fcounty auditor, auch deQvolve. the powers tild :.duties:I thereof upoh the county treasurer. A bill to punish .assaultoor.haseault' 'and bi ttory,wMh firo-artns amt ted o .public thoroughfares, streetI; anid laces of public resort. A ourncd4ei; a a 7/.1! il1 ew r,has retgre resume, the thetil n"bWi upon him,:hr ibe reei jiet in'Ahabit;saone, as the re., oen ef simp t h Mee in nnt. TLt1! 1KCEXT DVEcL. Some Account of its Causes--The Do tai of the Hostlfe Meeting. U? ock'HIDfaImpon Merald, Nov, 28.] At hoon yesterday, the rumors Which iad been rifo in this comma nity for more than a week that an aftiir of honor, known to have aris ei between Mr. James L. Wilson. of Yhrkville, and Mr. Geo. R. Sanders, of. Hnotor, would result in a resort to tho last altornativo of the. Code, culninated in the announcement by wJre that a duel had been fought near.Pineville, N. C., in which both partios enggped uninjuired. . - UpN tho arrival of the traii -t alipti 12:30, p in., this news, mgch t the griatitication of Mr. Wilban's' Many fi:ionds. itfkis. >lace, was fully nfirmed, asall p*10s to the af fair -caxe upon this train-Mr. Wilson and 'his friend st.oppin; here, -While Mr. Sanders wita his scotid . proeeded to Columbia. The limited- iinaand. space at our domMInUnd proohide the idea of fall details, and a cry brief account of the affair is &ll we can givo. During the icont fair at Colum% bia tIho6 eIItl6iebti Were together on the fair grounds, haviyfg been schpolnaits a' few years ago at Yprkille, and'out of the discussion of some - trivial nAttr grew a dif-. for6ndewhicbresulted in Mr. Wil, soi addresting Mr. Sanders a note iUviting ;aat gentleman to m11et hini ugsi.Mr. Sanders rephod ncceptipg th"o.itvitation, but before lvi*6ould get off to Auguslta, whither V Wilson with his second had gode, an ollicer stopped him, and tUis for a few days the matter was at aL stand-still. Finally it *as arrangod to meet at Pi'evillb, N. C., and accordingly all - parties passed up on aesdar fternoon's train, and about 10:80 o'clock'on Wednesday raorn ing ainieeting Mtvs 6fectbd abdut' a half nile west of Pitieville (Morrow's Turn Out) on the side of the publie highway. near-, Ra's' inill. Adcdin panying. Mr', .Wilson ,'were bIs Occond, Dr, WallaceIBIBnd; of Edge field, and Dr,.Jr R. .Bratton of York ville, dijsqWgeou#,n&d,on& ior- Wo other jNeA4& ,!Irx --Sandbrs' wds accompqpjed'oly by -i second, Mr6 Manigat41 jynif of Darlingtou. Th 4istance,,twenty paeosi -be i f t6pped'o&, the piincipals, cool (V ndaunted, each holding in his .a regu1ir, pfi ol,- tpok position., an. a.or . rM usual pre liminariee4 LDn rind gave the wdtd -"Gorktemen, Aro you ready I fire I Due, twQ,, pe"'+-aud;all Was over. A.t the !o .'ue " Mr. Wilson fired ; a q ,yprd Iftwo" Mr. Sanders ired-t -kal, of ', eqch passing iarinlesi by tie ireas$ of the oth 3r. NoU, & gmI'an ioved. A&~ this" J11ti~ 4014uo~, bl mon ero c, as Wa their right) de I4 thi the adir had reached an ofirable sohtion to both princi [alh, joitdd hiiia, ad thus ended nattor Whii6lf has fqr days beeni sourc6l of 'M6gt' painftil an. dty to*"the fiierds '"of each of >f the' gentlernen. Now that Lhe agony :Is 'over' and- the affair settled amicably4 and' in a m'fanner sntiiey shonorable to both,' May 'we ndul*o the hope that lessons of omniay; be its teaehing. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. o :PnIon~Tr JIncF's OPFIOE., WINN8BoRp,U8W 0.'NovoiD fer U18, $$7. \. LL portions haviz claims against the Iestate of J1apies . Aiken, deoceasled,. are hereby notlftdd thlat theyt, mnet establishi b)e same befot'. the Juldg4 'of Pkobate of F'aiieneld eg.U $yiat.lis offibe;on or befo-e. bag,.fof dn th ae 2o I-tiawow 'J .' P.' F. 0. a'TRE T EAOIHE R." IN JANUARY noxt we will issue the . rst number df "THE TE~ACHER," A monit)h journal dov'otedl to the in ioests .o1'Pkoh'or,'e " ols, 'and the daI11A'f'Ed U nU6Wt'fnn he'ml. To bring It within the reach of all, we' have fixed then pubnot-iptioni prior at.thy low rate of Fzrm Cuwrs Pin Attr. (4 b e cpy will be 'tont 'hy aindIl pr i nreeiApt of a aIve centsam. j9ToecheW dvl i do Well to send for -.- * 9EOEG B -- ATET '~h~ 4qsebt 'them. .Pamn~R go; Paet.B'. 18.