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___41IL be_Aubt5eaft TRI-WEEKLY-EDAffic) Nei- WINNSBORtOo S. C., SArUltDA'Y, JANUARY 11, 1879 {NOL.2 & A RIC1 INTERVIEW. 0 HOW JONES, OF XVNEADA, TIEWS TIX H1LUTUAION. Not Pledged to Grant for a Third Term--A Lively Description of the South as Been, Through Northern Sp ectacles. ["Gah" in lte Ciininali 1qitirer.] "Senator, do you regret that General Grant signed the veto of the Inflation bill following your gold speech in the Senate ?" "I believe that at that time lie thought he had done the great act of his life. I admit," said the Sena tor, "that I applauded Grant's act heartily and spoke in favor of that step. I think now that lie and I made a tremendous mistake. When I advocated specie and speedy re sumption I was only in the vestibule of later convictions which have made me believe in nothing but the money of intelligence." "Are the people on the Pacific side rather well disposed toward the Republican party and Grant for President ?" "There is no doubt," said Senator Jones, "that General Grant is enormously the favorite among the people at large. He is my friend, and I have a strong admiration for his good, strong traits of charac ter. At the same time I do not know whether enough votes might not be cast againrt him among Republicans to beat him. It is probable that he could be elected, but there is a risk in it. I confess myself that it gives me a little re sentment to have people say that nobody but Grant can run this great country. When I hear that said I feel like exclaiming, 'Well, we'll see if there ain't! We will just have it ruined for fun by another man!'" "Then you are not certain in your mind that Grant is your first choice ?" "I have not made up my mind at all yet. There is no person who thinks more of Grant than .( do. If we were in a very bad condition -threatened by socialism, with great railroad strikes, with inse crity, insubordination and rebellion in sonie one section, I think the people would almost unanimously cry out for Grant, believing that in his superb poise, his intelligent insensibility at the proper time, and strong, physical way of facing dis order, he would be unequalled as a magistrate. Yet it seems to me that we are in no such straits. Ours is a country seeking for in, telligence, for mildness, for the government of thought." BLAINE. "You are not much of a Blaine man, I believe?" "No, I have no political respect for him. I p)refer Conkling to any other public man in the Republican p)arty that is named for President. He has the added lustre of victory just now. Able at any time, he has fought his point out and is recog nized as a victorious leader." EDMUNDs AND FIsH., "Senator, why cannot the Re publican party go wholly outside of the persons discussed and nominate some such man as George F. Ed inmnds?" "There is no objection to Ed munds at all. I doubt, however, if he has the warmth of disposition at any rate, whetheir he would satisfy the wants of temperament of the party." "Well, here is Hamilton Fish, of New York, who has as much in-, fluence in this State among quiet people as anybody ; how would he "Thaot st-.:es me as a first class suggestion. In my ,judgment he could carry the majority of the electoral votes more readily thain any other person I could name. Everybody who wants General Grant would vote for him, and those who do not want Grant would find Fish a happy alternative. I should see him nominated in the confidence that he could carry the country. There is some idea, be sides, that New York had better present the candidate. -That is one reason why I mentioned (Jonkling's name." "how do the people where you have been look upon the Southern question t" "THE soLID SOUTH 1" "I think the general feeling throughone tha-North),and extend., ing as far as the Pacific coast, is indifference about the South. Our people seem to have made up their minds that the South has always been overestimated and does -not contain sincere elements of patriot.. ism or good behavior. I do not know that there is any bitterness toward them. The feeling is rather disgust, as toward some worthless kinsmanu' "Have you been through the South recently I" "Yes. I have been down during the past year. I have some inter ests in Atlanta, Ga., and I went there and to New Orleans, and as far as Texas. The only portion of the South that struck me with much promise was Northern Texas, where it is inhabited by our own Northwestern people. They will make a new Kansas of it, with the institutions and feelings of a good civilization. As for the rest, I think very little of it. I don't think I would live in the State of South Carolina if they were to givo no the entire Commonwealth for a barony. It is impossible to get a good meal of victuals in the South. They have not learned t he first rudiments of cooking. Wher ever you go You find your meats fried in boar's fat. There is one spot, at least, where I am delicate, and that is in my stomach. They have plenty of good ga'me in the South, but have no conception of how to prepare it. They gave us in Texas fine prairie chicken, which had the promise of making a delicious meal, but suddenly it would be returned, all baked in sow's fat. 'For God's sake,' I said to the cook at Atlanta, 'can't you take that and have a little butter put on it and cook it like a Uhris tian ?' "Another thing struck me in almost every part of the South the vicious, surly looks of the young men. Throughout the whole North the young men have genial, con - siderate, kind countenances. In the South the young men too often look at you as if to say, 'What in the devil.are you thinking about me now ?' They look ready to burst out and cut some body'for a fancied slight. Such a state of society is far fr6m amiable, when at the very brink of and hopefulness of life you see the young men wearing coun. tenances like Absalom. I noticed, also, that they have great numbers of military academies, where they are drilling and wearing uniforms. THE REBEL YELL.. "In a certain place in Texas I was taking an evening walk along the road at the outskirks of the town, when I heard somebody walking behind me, and found it to be an athletic young man. Suddenly he raised a yell like an Indian which made my blood run cold. I turned about to investigate this savage, and he paid no attention to me until lie got right up opposite to me, when, without saying a word, he raised another unearthly yell. I then turned around and said, 'What do you mean, sir, raising such a scream as that at my side?t' 'By God, it is a free country, and I reckon I can yell ?' 'No, sir,' I re plied ; 'I don't see why you should choose this hour of the evening when you come up to a person you don't know to shout like an Apache.' "Now, I suppose that young creature was merely practising his rebel yell, as the highest intellectual and social form of amusement he knew anything about.* "I looked at their country, cov ered with pines and occasionally showing a lean pig and I thought to myself, 'My God I Did we leave 500,000 of our young men and $600,000,000 in such a country as this ?' " . _______ The Garrote is the instrument of death always employed in executions in Spain. Moncasi was its latest victim, and i t lis stated'- that since the restoration of 1876 nearly fifty persons in Spain have felt its dead ly clutc h. The executioner is a bull fighter named Hernandez. TIhe execution is in .p'ublic, the conk. demned being seated in a chair with the clamps of the garrot about his throat ; at the signal the executioner whirls round the heavy handle that turns the screw, and the man's throat is instantly com, pressed, while an iron projection at the back is squeezed with resistless force into the nape of the necle. The body remains in view for some hours, surrounded -' "by ptaying monks in penitential garb What a Duit as :E hav9e be* 1sellin~ - D-. 'Slii 'C ough S u orae years, and it has y tmbttr satisfadti . thkan y oher cough remedy.' A. G. Sebmidt. Apothecary. Haovr 11a. ROME NEW ETA ATUT EM Acts Passed at the Recent Short Sea sion of the Legislature. The following acts have been ap proved by Governor Simpson, and are now laws: AN ACT respecting the fillig of va cancies in County Office Be it enacted by the Swate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: SECTION 1. That wheneveik at any time any vacancy shall oclur in any county office by reason -of death, resignation, refusal or neglect to qualify of the person elected or ap., pointed thereto, expiratioii of the term of office, removal from the county, or from any other cause, the Governor shall appoint soibe fit and proper person to fUl the vacancy so caused, and that the person so ap., pointed shall hold his office, in all cases in which the officer is elected, until the next gcnoral election for members of the General Assembly, and until his successor should qualify, and in cases of persons ap pointed until the adjournment of the General Assembly at the regular sesion in 1880. Provided, That the Governor may for cause remove any person appointed by him under the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 20, 1878. AN ACT to amend and Supply an omission in an Act to Provide for the Custody of Official Bonds of County Officers and for the Exami nation of the same from time to ' time, approved June 9, 1877. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, 'now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same : That the following shall.be as a third section of said act, to wit: "That it shall be the duty of the county commissioners in each and every con2ty in this State to make an annual examination into the sufficiency of all the county officers' bonds within their respective coun ties, and within ten days thereafter report to the comptroller-general, to be laid before the State board for its action, according to law, any that may in their judgment be in sufficient : ProvideJ, The first ex amination under this act shall be made on the first day of January, 1879, or within ten days thereafter: And provided further, That this act, so far as the said first examination is concerned, shall not apply to the county officers elected at the gener al election in 1878. Approved December 19, 1878. AN ACT for the fuathei protection of Landlords in the collection of Rents. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representives of ' the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same : SECTIoN 1. That the lien provided for by an Act entitled "An Act to secure landlords and persons mnake ing advances," approved March 4, 1878, shall extend to all crops raised on the lands leased by the landlord, whether the same be raised by the tenant or other person. SEC. 2. That subject to the liens provided for in said act and enforci ble in the same way as therein pro vided, the landlords shall have a lien on all crops raised by the tenant for all advances made by the land lord durin~g the year. SEC. 8 That in case any portion of the crop is removed from the land rented or leased, and the pro ceeds thereof not applied to the payinent of the rent for -the year, or other liens provided for in said act and in this act, and this fact shall be made to appear by affidavit, per.sons . holding liens as provided for by said act and under this act shall have the right to pro, ceed to collect the amounts which will become due for rent or advances in the same way as if the same had become due according' to contract before such removal. Approved Decamber 28, '1878. Mr. Lewvis Swift, the Rochester astronomer, after a careful examina tion, has -decided that, during the recent eclipse, four intra-mercurial planets were discovered, and that the two found by Professor Watson are distinct from those discovered by himself. The fact, if it be so,oan not be verified during the lifetime of the discoverer, but he is willing that his belief'- shall be made a matter of record. Pay fvour subscription toi the una ma. in [0From the & Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 23.3 "What is your opinion of Mr. Hayes and his administration ?" "Mr. Hayes made a mistake in appointing Democrats to office, thus making the party a hybrid organiza tion. It is not the idea on which the government is based. It is the prevailing idea of our people that the party is the highest inanifesta tion of the will of the majority until it proves a failure, when it is supplant ed and another takes authority and offices. Mr. Hayes has under taken to run the office to which he was elected by ono party in the interest of both parties, and in try ing to please everybody lie has pleased nobody." ORANT TIE NEXT PRESIDENT. "Who is likely to be the next president ?" "I have little doubt that Grant will be. He has many good quali ties-integrity, intellect, will, pa triotism-and he was thoroughly unselfish. He has discarded the old idea of Stato rights-the idea that a State should regulate its own affairs in any other way than as a part of one great whole. Conkling I also believe in thoroughly. I re gard him as a man of character and of a high order of intelligence. He is well balanced, unselfish, and if elected would act for the interest of the whole country, without party prejudice. He represents the very highest order of American intellect. If he were from Indiana, Illinois or Ohio he would be the nominee of the Republicans without doubt. The Republicans will elect the next President and control both houses of Congress, and, further, the inter ests of the North and the great West will soon override all section alism. Among other possible candi dates are John Sherman and Blaine. The last I deem to be a little too much of a partisan to have serious chances of success." DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES. "Who are likely to be the Demo cratic candidates ?" "Tilden is out of the field. He never can be President. Bayard is a man of integrity and a good repre sentative Democrat. Thurman can never be elected. He bids for the Presidency, and no one who bids for it ever can obtain it. Hendricks is an able Western man, who would make, a better Judge than President. He is to all intents and purposes younger than Thurman by at least ten years. As, however, there is little prospect of electing a Demo crat to the Pr6sidency the task of considoring is an ungrateful labor. FATALLY INJUREDI- ATTEMPTING TO STEAL A RiDE.-Abe Poag, colored, an escaped penitentiary convict, received fatal injuries last Sunday, by attempting to steal a ride on the freight train when it was leaving Woodward's station, in Fairfield county. He ran between two of the cars and jumped on the bump ers, when, being discovered by some one who told him to get oft, he endeavored to do so and before get ting from between the cars fell to the ground and was run over and his leg and arm badly mashed by the wheels. He was brought to this place by the up passenger train Sunday evening anid left on the platform at the depot, where lhe lay for three hours, when he was carried to the house of a colored man in town. On Monday lie wvas visited by Dr. Crawford, who found his injuries so serious in one leg as to require amputation. Monday night, having summoned to his assistance Dr. Watson, of Chester, and Dr. Fewell, of Rtock Hill, the operation wvas performed, but as was feared, it wvas too late, and in a few moments the patient expir cd.-R?ockc J1il Herald. ElNJOY LIF1u.-What a truly beau tiful world we live in I Nature gives us grandeur of mountains, glens and oceans, and thousands of means for enjoyment. We can desire no better when in perfect healih; but how often do the majority of peo ple feel like giving it up dishearten'. ed, discouraged and worried out with disease, when there is no oe casion for this feeling, as every sufferer can easily obtain satisfac tory proof that Green's .August Flower will make them as free from disease as wvhen born. Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint is the direet cause of seventy-five per cent of such maladies as lUiiousness, In-. digestion, Sick Headache, Costive-. ness, Nervous Pr.ostration, Disi ness of the aead, Pal pitation of the Heart, and oth.er distressing synlp tomns. - -Three doses of August Flower will p rove its wondetful *e#eot. Sample bottles1 10 cenits Try it.* THE HAwKyE MAN AND THE BOSTON AIAN.-"My ancestors," he said "came over in the Mayflower. But yours- ?" and he looked at me with a rising inflection. I tried to slay him with a look of silent scorn, but she missed fire. "Your ancestors, I take it," said the man, "did not come over in the Mayflower 7" And then I turned upon him. "Sir," I remarked, "this Mayflower, I take it, was a sailing ship 7" "She was," lie said, . vainly en. deavoring to stifle his emotion, "she was a sailing ship." "Then," I said, haughtily, "most assuredly my ancestors did not come over in the Mayflower. It has never been the misfortune of my family to be compelled to take pas sage on any ship of the merchant marine. My ancestors came over in a Cunard steamer, first cabin, no steerage passengers carried, only ten days from Liverpool, and the minute they landed in New York, they went up to Mrs. Astor's tavern %nd took front rooms on the parlor Floor." I thought I had crushed that man but may I be blessed if he didn't act is though he pitied me.-lawkeye. NEW GOODS! CHEAP GOODS! GOOD GOODS MESSRS. J. F. MeMASTER & CO AVE now in store and are receiving w.ALLooekly new, cheap and good goods, Clothing, Boots and hoes, Hats, Trunks, and Valises, Satchels, Umbrellas, &e., &e., &o., &o., &e., &o., &., &o., &o., &c. A full stock of Gents Furnishing Goods. Complete line of Ladies' Misses' and Childrans' Ilosiery and Gloves. We have niarkod down t) the very lowest figures our stock of Gloves, in which we are offering great bargains. Linen and Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, in great profunion at very low prices. In Boota and Shoes, we are preparod to offer special Inducements. Blankets ! Blankets ! GROCERY DEPARTMENT. Now Buckwheat Flour, Fresh Buckwheat Flour, Elegant Now Crop New Orleans Molasses, the genuine Simon pure artiolo, Sugar, Coffee, Lard, Syrups, Soap, Starch, Candles, Canned Goods &a. Full stock of Woodonware. Our constant aim is to keep up the reputation already gained. We invite the publie to call.to-day and overy Iay and take a look at our stock which will always be shown with pleas ure nov 23 EXCHANGE! COME TO-DAY, COME EVERY DAY, And Exchange YOUR CASH for DRY GOODS, CLOTHING AND HATS, BOOTS AND SHOES. GROCERIES. Coffee at from 15 eta. to 20 ets, per pound. Sugar at 12 pounds for $1.00. Parched Rio Coffee, Ground Coffee, Brown Sugar, Extra 0, Granu lated Sugar, Pulverized Sn-. gar, Candy, Crackers, Cheese, Macaroni, Raisins, &o. GOOD GOODS AT L OW PRICES Remember those substantial Boots and Shoes, the "Bay State"~ stan--. dard screwed and wire sewed. J. M. BEATY. If you detest a bursting lamp buy he Vestal (41. If you like a bril.. ant light by,y the Vestal Oil. dec 24- '. M. BEATY.. BOOTS AN.D SHONS. NOW arriving,a large and well selected stock of Boots and 'Shoes, direct from th4 Manufcturee 'which I can . pa, and I will.not be undersold UWp ea cAllbefore.yolumake br pur. 1i R,..MeOAR.BT,