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WINNSBORO, S. 0. TUE'SDAY, JAUA"Y 14, S S1870, n. MHANS DA V1r, Evrrou. JNO. 8. JtYNOLD, ASSOIATH EDTOn. Ben Hill Broke Loose in Georgia. The Georgia Democracy are getting up a regular kilkeiny cat fight, the leaders o either sidu being Senator Blen 11111 and Goveriior Co4quitt. The cause has been given before but may be repeated. Several years ago the North Eastern liailroad, of Goorgia, desired State eidorsement for her bonds, anid the question aroso whether Governor Colquitt was authorized or not by law to make the endorsomeit. It was claied that, the road had not fulfilled the Coiditions as to length of track laid-no consectitive twenty miles, we believe, having been laid at any point along the line. Gover nor Cohillitt at first hesituted to sign the bonds, but times got hard and the Atlanita Rolling Mills were about to gobble up the road for iron furnished. As the occasion was urgent, Governor Colquitt, - after hearinig argument, decided that it was for the good of the road and of the State to endorse, and he did so. A few tonis ago, Senator Hill annoniced that he had discovored fraud ill connection with this matter, ill that onw Murphy, who is a clerk in the State treasurer's office, had re ceived eight thousand dollars from the president of the Rolling Mill with out the kiiowledge of its directors, for his services in procuring the sigiature of the Governor. Senator lll claims that, he made no charges whatever againlst the ijntcgrity of (ho Governor, but expected that on evidence, of this private contract being given, Governor Colquitt would immediately discharge Murphy. On the other hand, Governor Coquiitt defended Murphy, mainitaining that the paymncit wis inl the nature of a legal fee and not of a bribe,; and in a bitter letter demanded legislative investigation of the "slanders" against himuself. ThIel(, commnuittee exonerated the Governor from all blame, and also, to Senator lll's disgust, went, further, and founid that Murphy had been guilty of no wrong, yot recom mwnded that the Legislature in future make such transactions penal offiences. Mr. Murphy put oil his war paint oil his own account and sallied forth to slay his accuser in the streets, but refrained from executing his purpose and Senator Ilill at the same time. This affair has caused great commo tion in political circles. Sonator lill disclaims any feeling against Governor Co1uitt, while the latter says that Mill is a masked enemy, anid in striking at the Governor is aiming a blow at tihe "organizedl D)emocracy." Senator l11ll has just published a three column letter to the people of Goorgia, calling on thems to rise in their umight and crush this monument lfraud. Hie certainly argues from hihground, whatever be his motives, almiost every fraud has beeni perpe' trated, adtehnrd fivsia tions lately instituted by Congress have been made to consider just such cases as tile one in whlich Murphy figures. lie dlenies thlat Murphy was a lawyer. Hoe was but a salaried clerk of the State. The bondholders had such advocates as Toomibs and Brown and Jackson, while Murphy himself employed a lawyer, giving him four hundredl dloIlars. Hie adds, "Have we a Governor who needs to be enlight ened by a clerk ? D)id the clerk un dorstand the ofilcial duties of the Governor bettor than the Governor himself?" He continues, "If the troeurer's clerk can take money to iluhence the Governor, why may not the treasurer himself take it for the same purpose ?" The followinlg swoep ing accusation is made: Murphy Is not the only mani who has used imblic ofice for private gain and who as growinig rich on a smali salary. Like the ancient flydra, tils crune shows many heads already.I see in a report to the General Assemn bly, that State-house officials are actually parties to contracts with the State, and executive ofilcrs of the State are also lessees of the State I If the Legrislature will do their duty, in stead of spending their time investi gating irrelevant issues, trying to urm p ach honest witnesses only because they toll the truth, and that, too, by tho testimony of personal enemies, and allowing attorneys to fIsh for evidence to try their cases in court, they will not rest until they ferret out all these arrangements, by which State officials are using their offices to enrich thlemselves,-.whither by >)rac tising for money oui executive duties, or by contracts and leases wvith the State, or by other ways. And the will not compllete their labors until all who have thus used their offices are driveni from the Capitol, and honest men put in their places who wvIll be content with the salaries fixed by law. The whole line of argument, in tho abstract, is unaswerable. The public Conslcence has grown tough. It is the fashion, nowadays, to call every thing legitimate that the law cannot reach. This was not the rule in old times. Then an oflicial was compelled to be above suspicion. We do not see how this controversy can faiil to injure the party in Geu>rgia, especially as Independentisml has already raised its front in ti onipire State. Yet, however erratic and unsaf, lill may be, and however we sympathize with Governor Colquitt, we must think thq he Senator has the Governor by ta hip, and that the latter cannot escape detraction him self so long as he champions the cause of a clerk in the treasury departinent who takes an eight thousand dollar fee for his influence with the Gover nor. The whole essence of the con tract was that Murphy by his peculiar rela.ions to the Governor could have more influence with him than such brilliant lawyers as Tooinbs and Brown and Jackson who appeared oj)cly as paid advocates. We have devoted so much space to this subject only because ivis a Imatter not confilned to Georgia, but concerns every government a every State. A quickened public conscience is badly needed. Tihe result of this present contest cannot but be bene ficial if its puts a stop to "lQgitiinate" bribery under the guise of lobbyism and legal fees. SoU1 Ar1xIN-W x- wS. TUe National Bank of Anderson has declared a dividend of five percent. on its capital stock, out of its earnings for the past six months. Since the adoption ofthe new fence law in New berry county, soine of the firmners are selling rails for fire-wood. The Greenwood and Augusta Rail rood is rapidly progressing, and - the farmers are anticipating tle prospect of sending choir next cotton* crop to Augusta instead of to Charleston. A mass meeting of the citizens of Abbeville county is called to assemble in the court-house at Abbeville on Monday, January 27, to protest agIamist the stock law. While a ga,ng of laborers were ex cavating the earth in front of Dr. W. C. Fiish101r's (rug store, inl Colum.1 bia, on Friday, for th"e.- purpose of lay in" it water pipe, they came ancross the old railroad track which lia(d been used nearly forty years ago for the purpose of tralns)orting frei gh1t from Granby. The timber wus perfect.ly '-' (1 11 sound. Tho Tinmonsville municipal clee tion took vlace on Friday, and resulted in the choice of the following-naied gentlemen: Intendant, WV. W.Moore Wardens, J. J. i1all1-ord, .1. B. C. WVright, V. I. Deberry and Hlenry Perry, the last-named colored. The ''dry ticket" was defleated by a major ity of seventy-sevenl. 4verything passed olf quiet?y'y. Judge Hudson has decided that the (lock is not a '"relic of barbarism," but; a nleessary portion ot' the court uma chinmery, and that except ini cases of misdemeanor, w here the accused are out on bail, all prisoners must, (lur ing trial, sit within thme dock. In ac cordanco with this ruling a dock has been constructed and is now in use at Orangeburgr, wvhere the Judge is hold ing court. Col. A. P. Bntler, the newly ap pointed Fish Commissioner, is anm ac complished pisciculturist, and serves wihniter' reward than thme coni sciousness of the service he renders the people. Tlho Aiken Revlew truly says: "The i generosity of Col. But ler's efforts is most app)arenlt, when it. is remembered that Aiken county, from its elevationi, will dlerivo little, if any, advantage from the stocking~ of the rivers namedl. His interest is for the whole Stute, and we know he'll do his work well."' Harry Polite, a young colored man, aged twenty-one, a hand on thme Stool) Mtary , Capt. Bernardi Fitzpatrick, was sent off ini a small boat, on Thursday, with a line to make fast to a bank i Stono Rliver'. By the force of the stream, however, the boat was cap sized, and P'olito fell overboard and wvas drowned. His body was recov ered oin Fridlay, amid the case reported1 to the coroner, who gave permission to have the remains brought to Charles ton. Arthur, a little son of Wyatt Hlaw kinls, of Spartanburg county, about eight years of age, while playing with littl brother in the kitchen, went to run out of the door, and looking back as ho ran struck his head against the door frame, knocking hi mself down. Hie wvas mindful enough to go into the house to tell his mother. She asked him to let her assist in getting off his boots. lie said no, he couldl pull them off, lie very soon became senseless, and died in about half an hour, bc fore medical assistance could be ob tamedi. On Monday before last about sun down, Mr. Drury Snipes, an old1 man of about seventy years of age, while returning home and walking ulpoin the public road in front of the residence of Col. E. M. Rlucker, in Anderson village, wvas run over and almost in stantly killed by by some horseman who was riding In a full run. Mr. Willie Archer, two of Mr. Snipes' little grandsons, and a colored man were witnesses of the terrible tragedy, but nono of them knew the man who caused the death. Mr. Suipes' head was badly bruised in front and the skull was broken In tho, back so that he immediately fell to the ground and expired without uttering a word. The unknown ride rnlod In hi. horse a.d rodo back tq.tho. placo. whore Mr. tSnipo Was lying, whereupon Mr. Archel- said to him, "You havo killed that old man," and without saying a word the ima rode of' in a lo pe. T'he coroner suimmoned a jury an lield an inquest, at which tie testimony of the witnesse.l was takenl, anid from thle 0VideCe Mr. Aaron C. Sanders, of the Pork. was seit for, but proved an alibi so clearly tind conlclusively that hie wats im'iediitely discharged. There is at present no clue to tlhe per son who cnitted the deed, and froi his secrelilag himself from tile knlowledge o' the public, sent.imnt is strongly in favor o1' rerre(in-g the liat ter out anl( rig-orously prosecuting the case. Te rider had probably been drinkiig, and was inexcusably reckless ou this occasion. J EER A I G(OSSIP. The case o' Gen. 1. W.Custis Lee, to recover the Arlingt.on Estate, will beginl at Alex'aid'ia on the 2t.st, inst. Five emigrants, Clark ad Id ubbard anld his wif:0 an two children, en rout west froiml ShermanIM, Texas, were frozen to death on the night of the 6th instant. On Friday morning, just, after a gang of miners had descended iuto the POLitisylvania Coal Company's sha't, i No .1, near Vittshurg, Pa., a terrible explosion of gas occurred in the mine near the carriage way, by which sever al min are Supposed to have been killed. The ease of 1iggins vs. U. S. Grant, for false intprisoiimiet, with damages laid at $10,000 was taken up in the Circuit. Court at Washington last week. Biggins claims that. Grant caused his arrest and detention in an insane asylum. Tie testimony for the plain tillfailled to connect Grant with his ilmprisolilelt in any way whatever, and flie jury found for the defendant. Woani's Iights Convenition in Wash inlonloll, on Friday night, Purvis. a Pi iildelphia legio, denounced Presi ' ;it. 1yi-es and his Southern policy, and declared that the President is hand in hand with Senator Butler, whose anids, he said, are red with the blood of the I :inburg massacre. Fred Douiilass, however, gIvo PulrViR aI haadsomne ( uIbbinig, anditl Ilado a highly I conservative speech, which is much praised. Do not trifle with a cough, cold. I or al'ection of the throat, lungs or bronchial tubcs. Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is a positive cure a.nd provents nsump ill1-)t ion * S 6HOOL NOTICE. meeting of those citizens who return real or porsonal property in school District No. 14, (embracing an area of four miles sq.utre with tho em rt-houso am a cntro) is, hereby callo I in the Town Hrall or. Saturdav, January 18th, at 11 o'clock, for the purpose of consile ring the questi.'n of lorying a district school tax. A fal attoudanco is requested. o. R. Ti!o.iPsoN, Clerh Vloard ofl Trnsto's, No. 14. jan I Id PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. Jhave th,is day ass;ociated with mie, in -.the coninert of' my1 b,usiness, Mr. R M. IICUEL,and the l>usiness wtIl hereafter will be con duicted uinder the firm namei of F. ELDEli & (C0. All parties indebted to the oldi concern will leafse conmo forward andi sett,le, either by ensh or note, as I do not wishu to carry old1 accounts into the new booksr xtlnm January 1st, 1879. F. ELDER. DISSOLUTION. rr['HE firm of Cummings & Co., is this I day diissolved by mutual consent. II. L. ELLIOTT, JNO. P. MATTHIEWS, JR., J. ii. U'UMMING. Janun-~y 1,' 1870. The business will bereafter he con ducted under the firm unamo of Matthews & (Co., the membners of which fir ii are: JNO. P MATTHl NWS,JR. .J' H. CUMMINGS, jan 2-1m T. K. ELLIOTT.' 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 ets. to 20 ets. per pound. Sugar at 12 pounds for $1.00. Parched Rio Coffoe, Ground Coffee, Brown Sugar, Extra CI, Granu lated Sugar, Pulverized Su gar', Candy, Crackers, Cheeso, Macaroni, Raisins, &c. GOOD GOODS AT L OW PRICES< Remember those snbstanutial Boots. and Shoos, the "Bay Stato" stan dard screwed a,nd wire sewed. J. M. BEATY. If you detest a bursting lamp buy the Vestal Oil . If you. like a bril-, atit :light buy--the Vestal Oil. dan 24-. JI &t n-rATme This important organ welghs but about threo pounds, and ali the blood. in a livin1g pelson (a>out three galluns) passes through it at least once every half1 hour, to have the bi. lull other impurities strained or ilt-red front it. Dile is the iatural r pnrgative of the bowels, and if the Liver bcconics to d 1t is not separated frout the blood, but car ricithngh the veins to all pnrts of the syeln, and in try(ig to escape through the porcs of the skin, causes It to turn yellow or a d!rty brown color. 'he stomach becomte discaecd .nd Dys E4 pcpsia, Indigestion., Cnnstipation, lleadahe- Bili ousnev., Jaundice, Chills, INalarAl Fevers Eies, Sick tuid $our Stnatach, and geieral debifity fol low. Mnrit.LS 1H1AT4t, the grejt vegetable discovery for torpidity, causes the Liver to throw off front one to two ounces of bile cack time the blood pa%se.s through it, as long as thore is an cx cess of bile; and t'*e efect of even a few dorcs. up on yellow complexion or a brown dirty 'ookig Skin, Will astonish all who try it--they teing the first sysiprons to disappear. The cure of all bili ous diseases and Liver complaint is male certain by takiig liArAs1e111 In acconLtace with directions,. Hieadache is generally cured in twenty sniiostt, and no disoxic that aitses from the Liver can exist ifa fair trial s iv-. SOLD AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PILLS BY ALL DRUGOiSTs. rice 25 CtMts Cnd. $1:00 The fatality of Consumptiou or Threat and Lung Diseases which xweep to tho grave at least on-third of all death's victhnia, arises from the Opium or Morphinc treatnuent, wrhitch simply stu cc.fics as de work of death goes on. $Lo,ooo wiUl b paid if Optitn or Motrphine, or .ny preoaration f Opiunm, Morphine or Prus.ic A.id, can tie foutd in the GWt,olt 'LOWPt CorU Smrwi-, which has cured people who r.o living t.day wih 1ut one remainIng lung. No grentar ,-Aing can be done than to say that Cotsruiption is incurable. The G1.on1 FLOVIII CoUG a vanr will cure it when all other means lv.ve faled. Also, Colds. Cough, Asthrna, DBronrhitis, a.ni all dise:ases of the throat and Iigs. Read the teriimonials of the lon. Alexander H. Stephens, Gov. Smith and rx-Gov. lrown of 'a., lion. G eo. Peabody, as w6l as those of other renarkable cures in our book--fr-e to all at the dru stores-and be con-vinced the t if you wish to be cured you can be by tdting the GnP FLowIn CoXat STrUP. Take no Trorhes or Loaen,es for Solo Thruit, fr' when you can et Gr.ost FrLOWt STaUP at S,ns price. For spJe by all Drggime Prtzice Z5C entt and $c0o Grave nistakes are mnade in the treatasent of all diseases thr.t arise frorn iloi<. a I the blood. Net one case of Scrofula S yphitis, White Fw0lling Ulrcrous S nIres a:I: n~ l,isease, in a thousanl, 4 t.7tted Withot:t the u2c cf \lertiry in .orc fcrn. Mercury rcts the borAs, ad th d.seCs it pro sdncs ;o worse than any o4er kind of blov1 or Skin d lle im er. 0 Dr. Utxartoi's S-ri.1 gx CIA or DQL-tax' 1 ill-w is the only tiine -i u11>a whit1o a hop: of rec )% . -io-n Scroiia, Fy - i nl I( . -erc.:i'.l di s 1, 1ll sti.cs, can tc an r-a .onibly fouw'.1. nit t it w ir Con .ncer. i.* 11-l he pai-l hr 0' irqvri.orS if Mcrc.ry, .-rany : rtn,-t pd1y vcget.ble and harm. les ca M:l'a :vtini. ri'r:cr ix a.ll i Ie:;ts~ "tO.0 t .I, 1' andt Gt.or: llor;:. '0: a vi:,a- and! Mrr ta:::.h H r -. s :: rei x f.vu:a for sale by :il .-ua. A, . M1!T'.;.L ik co., Proprictorgi P-ILAD;LPHIA. PA. NEW GOODS! JHEAP GOODS! GOOD GOODS IESSR.S. J. F. McMASTER & CO LjAVE, now in store and are receiving .LLweekly new, cheap and god goods, 31othsing, lioots and sh1o s, laits, Trunks, rnd Vialises, Sattchela, Umiibrellas, &u., A. full stock of Gonts Furnishding Goods. Com plete line of Lad ies' .1 itSsea' andit Jhildrens' Hlosiery and Gloves. WVe have mnarkedi down t> the very owesit figures our stock of Gloves, in vhich we are (lflin'Jg great bargains. Linen and H-Iemsatitohed Hntdker*chiofa, n great profusiion at very lowv prices. Ini 1loots anfd Shoes, we aro p)reparoed tO offer spec'ial inducoments. Bilankets ! Elanlkets I GROCERY DEPARTMENT. gew Butckwheat Flour i, Fresh 11uclkwheat loeur, Elegant New Crop New Orleans Molasses, the gen~uine Si mon pure article, Sugar, Con'eo, Lard'(, Sy rusps, H-otsp, Starch, Candtles, Cannedl Goodsx &c. Full stock of Woodenwar'e. Our' conRtant aim is to koep up the 'oputation already gained. Woe invite the public to call to-day andi very day and lake a look at our stock rhich will always be shown with plens Iro nov 23 "T HFE T EA0H E R." rTN JANUARY next we wvill issueo the Llirst numbeor of "THE TEACHER," 4. montly 'ournal dievoted to the in Jaret of 'chclers, Schools, and( the auoofEuation in general. T1o britng within the reaeh 01 all, we have fixed lie subscription price at the low rate of FIFTY CNTa PERu ANNUMJ. Specimen copy will be sent by -mail >rop)aid on reeipt of a liye cent stamp. .pW Teachers will do wevll to send for uir Educational Catalogue. Please adidress ELDRDGE & BRO. 'ot 22-xt3m 17 North 7th St., Phila, BOOTs AND SHOES. TOW arriving,a large and wvell selected Lstock of Jloots and Shoes, direct ronm the Manufacturerse, whiich I can farranlt, and I wIll not be undersold live me a call before you inake your pur iot 17 .3J MOARLEY. SHOES AT COST palmn, abso'otely at oot. U. (A nnanna0 .. PIANOS & ORRANS! GRAND INTRODUCTION SALE. ONE THOUSAND Superb Instruments FROM THE BEST MAKE RS TO BE SOLD AT Manufacturers' Rates. SPECIA L ANNOUNCEMDNt. Ten of the loding Mantifacturor's of the U. B., have given us exelisive control of their In strutieits iI the solith, aid auIthorized us to I for introdiltlkn and advertfsoluenit, ONIC nI'OUSANM) of their best Instrinctits In repro - ntao 1 hon ijh< holds astI Factory WHOFIALEE HIATES. This GRAND INTRODUCTION SALE Connenced Nov. 1, and Nvill continuio until ail are 4old. I)on't, iniss the chance. It, Is t.ho only sale of tho kind ever yet attempted in Amierica. SEE THE PRICES. PIANOS I oet. 11 n RoseNwood Carved $125 h1i1 red mil d tn dllars. PIANOS '"sl wooI Crvd1 1IAO~ g~s. Caltitlogue Price?si$5 hitindred dollar.s. PIANOS Trt8"la i' $250 onle thousand dollari. $579 Sto. 11andsole ORGANS Cases. CJatulligue Pr1ice, two '.iUN 1un1dreI anidi sevent y dollars. $71 1aS( .eall"IORGANS hundrecd ant fory dollars. $86 in stops, stwerl) Suor ? ORGANS hiin1dreil and -'evlnty-live dol. AllI gtiarai t(mid ho trilinpits. -Maker's 11altiuo On (e. FIFTEEN I)AYs TI M if waila ed, wO ay the freght, If 110 sale. A iMal costs oting If list runlent don't silt. Don't hesi talte to Ord1er. t o%fei MASON & IHAMLIN ORGANS SMA'ON & 1iAiLIN (111,4111 111111 I' ao Organ,s. 1l-.st a n rI heapsv.vNews yles inelea %tCases. t Stos n -)3 $,W5. --- - E T.OU IIETr & PEr, T ON Organs, 6 ftops, ly $6-i- 10 Stops %Vhoh 110l Clines. oi Chokoring. Knh, eb, allet & )a vis M a lhis k, 1l0ain4s, 1M"Cle. Iese, 8ollherin (luiemand Favorite lPhu io, a! i nVIltlute0 In 1his sal- A clean s-evi) No reserve. All new Sistinuaents~ or iaiei ~ s. 8etld t .r I-. (d(t'i l 811 14ale Clic;llar giving ))I Ies it nd f111 I I 1r111111 .1 i In rMP]-l-oTaAjN1T- sl('ir 'fll ota til Ogal. V4.wil (t'lvr freight pald to anly 1t. It. polit ll. tihe South. LUIDEN & BATES, SAVANNAH, GA., W?lolle'O Pini an Organ Baa lti't. SILYVE RWA R E, S U1TABLE FOR --AT Collior & CIhaldeiu LIvES AREi OFTEN LOST PY tho uso of cheap Kerosene. Ge6 J.)one of our saf,ety LJai>s in which avon tho most dangorous ol is safe. $20,000 Saved Yearly to Fairfiold, When our far-mors learn to purchase Thhomicals andl( miako thoir own fortilizers. Dall and got a book telling how it can be (Ion e doo 28 McMASTERU & BRIICE . FOR THE SEWING MAOHINE. The Four WVheeled Automatic Caisters. HEnimachino always stands firmly, whie n ue.No meore liftmn heavy sowing machines. HIealhan<d labor Raved by using this caster. Price $2.60, Will fit any mlachino. To be had from* jan 7 .A,mnt fo. Poir,d