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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
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It within the reach of all, we' have fixed
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(4 b e cpy will be 'tont 'hy aindIl
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