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Orangebnrg, S. 0., Feb. 26, 1874. LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE COUNTY. fo change Contract Advertisements, notice just bo given before MontTay noon. Our friends wishing to have advertisements inserted in the TIM KS, mns| luuul them in by Tuesday tnorning, 10 o'clock. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at tho rmtQ of one dollar and u half per .square for the first insertion, and one dollar per square fer each subsequent insertion. Liberal terms jr 'de with those who desire to'advertise for three, six jr twelve months. ' V?u Marriage notices and Obituaries not exceeding one Squnrv, inserted free. Henceforth, all Inegal Ad- J ^^rtieerrimit.s. of County Interest, whether notices or othern, will be publish ed ibr the benefit of our readers whether they are ? paid for or not. SUBSCRIBERS Will hnve their papers regularly mailed. Send us new names, build up ,our paper, and let every household iu the County be a supporter ol our enter prise. THE TAXPAYERS1 CONVENTION Assembled at Columbia as by appoint ment, and realizing the grave duties involved, proceeded to business, conscious of the right it rcprcsentcd,and hopeful of a peaceful success. Years of waiting, but added to years of degradation and pain. One and another appeal has been made by the press, by the people, and by the more moderate of the Radical faction to cheek tho reign of unbridled and licen tious power, yet in vain. With cool, defiant, ahauiclees arrogance its gang has been intent on plunder, and sneered at interference, backed as it is with legisla tive, executive, and judicial friends; until the people resolved to test the rights they held as subjects of n state, paying ullegi ance to a government, which promises > equal rights, as it demands gupport from all its citizens. Tho address of the Hon Wni. I>. Porter was a niuBtcrly produc tion, and iuVo]ved th^iB^^rtnVii^wtev '^?TliliX'South Carolina being a State of the Union, the fundamental law of the land, is bound to give her a government where taxation, and representation shall go together.". "That the preponderating vote of non tax payers, is banded in col lusion with the rulers to oppress the tax payers." "That the proprietary in to rest of $170,000,000, is taxed ADLiniTUM, without its conscnt,hy and for the benefit of those who feel no weight of taxation." He recounted items of enormity in appro priation, of hnpnralcllcd assessment, of frauds in every department, that sum up a picture of bankruptcy and ruin. His more special advice was to ecourago im migration, organizo taxpayer's clubs for the discovery of official misconduct, and to memorialize Congress for relief. Col. R. Lathers delivered a characteristic ad dress worthy of the man, and full of sage counsel. Gen. M. C.Butler, f ol. E. S. Keitt; Col. C. W. Dudley and Mr Mau rice of Williamsburg, all joined in pre renting views of discreet judgement. The appointments of special committees were made with the following chairmen: Gcu. Cliesnut of the executive committee, Col. Simonton on taxation, Gen. Gary on immigration, and Hon. A. Burt on the me;nur nl to Congress. A resolution en dorsing the action of Treasurer Gardozo for refusing to pay ti n vouch ed claims,was offered by Mr. J. G. Thompson of Beau fort, this resolution also requested the Sfatc Treasurer to fumiali the Convention with copies of vouchers for pr.il ling bills of 1K73 amounting to $331,000. Mr. Thompson proceeded to carry out his appointment, but was 'Snubbed" by the Treasurer who refused to exhibit his vbttcheni. The effect of the Convention is yet to be seen, and from it the people may reasonably expect great good. Gen. Kcrshaw prepared au address of great force to the pcoplo of the State, recom mending taxpayers to organizo clubs (a plan of which will he submitted here after.) These clubs in force in every county are to perform a work, which is to demand the co-opcralioii of every tax payer, white ami colored, who wishes reform. It is to put a stop to unlawful assessment, and fraudulent taxation. In this work there is to bo no load shifting to any shoulders but those of tho people to be benefited. Let all then be prepared in mind to assist tho plan of work to be published by the committee, and may we before another year, be prepared to de mand that the great steal shall stop. A RErLY. We received the annexed chnrges of Col. Higginson from some unknown sourco, and reply to them that both views may be seen. Tho status of the "South ern women," needs no defense here against the invidious contrast with "Northern Ladies.1' En. Col. T. W. Higginson. in tho Independent, tells how the respectable Northern people who went South to settle, at the close of the war, were driven away, leaving be hind only those whom the people of that section (the South) called "Carpet-bag gers." The writer for the Independent "knew many of the northern men who remained South after the war, or went there to settle. As a rule there never wont a better class of emigrants. The South needed in the colonels ideas," an infusion of uew energy, practical education, and capital, many of the emigrants had the requisites, and lost all they had of capital by coming South." Besides this "they lost health, aud time." He knew "gen tlemen of high character and cultivation, who took Southern plantations, went to reside on them, a-id- ?1?i~>.^ij branded with social ostracism, as if they had committed a crime." "Ladies with their husbands were avoided by Southern women infinitely their inferiors in all the refinements of life, who refused to eat at the samo tables, and drew aside their skirts to avoid contact" &c, &c, very insolcut. The fact will go permanently into his tory that as soon as the war was over a healthy stream of emigration began to pour from the North into the South. Those who went, rich or poor, found themselves socially ostracized, hoc/ever carefully th'ey held their tongues about the issue of the war. If they opened their lips, as they had a perfect ri^h^ijL.djgv thcrowjis /iften ..nfidoa-Thro excitement of The Ku Klux persecution. A few months or years of of this wero enough. The tide turned and the better part of the North ern emigration receded, leaving the worst part behind. No scoundrel was driven I out by this policy; no mean man suffered j Such men lived und throve, like, Shake spare's Shylock, comforting themselves by cheating their tormentors. "Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew bauds? . . If you wrong us shall we not revenge?" The only persons who were banished wero those whom the South absolutely needed to retain?men of character, cultivation and public spirit. It may have been very natural in the late secessionists to adopt this course. I know too well?even from the Borrows of my own kindred?what they suffered who risked their all for the wrong and lost it. But truth is truth; and I only point out that two and two make four, and that those who allowed themselves to engage in this work of so cial ostracism have thereby made them selves responsible for tho carpet baggers. For the peace of the two sections, lately far removed by the hand of bloody war; a war brought about by maligunnt perse cution, and jealous prejudices, it would have been well if Col. Higgiuson had suggested a remedy for the ills the South is enduring by being overrun by "carpet baggers" rather than pander to tho pas sions, as he has done with a most "self righteous complacency" on his part and that of his frieuds, in attempting to infuse new energy &c, to the South. The South ern women, and men, claim no moro human nature, than that possessed by the people of the North, and Burn's ro buke "to sec ourselves ns others see us" is a good lotion for the writer so wrapt in self, to the exclusion of the natural re pugnance cherished by an oppressed peo ple for their oppressors. Wo need not refer to the army of adventurers, specu lators, and others who came down like I "wolves on tho fold" after the war, to infuse new energy, by buying up confif catcd homes, and vitalize tho South, by hogging tho negro, and poisoning his mind with the mu, that thcy,and not the Southerners wore his tritd and truo friends. It is only necessary to point to tho bleed ing State, stricken in her woes, wasted in her struggles, and shackled with a cursed negro rule, and ask tho Colonel; who did it? and if his people, his govern flicht, as lie must admit, then shall we be baso enough to thank you Mit. It 18 not our desire to tear open io wound, nay let time heal it, aud let g< d will re turn between us, but so longest ye who claim that the "Union must ail shall be preserved" would dcgrado jiur race beneath the foot of the negrolso long must we chargo you with being m enemy, and the gesture of contempt is excusable. Wo know even so late as lastkuminor, where the pulpit in New Hampshire, was used by a Rev. D. D., to ineultthe feel ings of a lady from Charleston v 10 went on the Sabbath to hear the Wo i. We know of Northern ministers \ 10 have been compelle<l to abandon tie sacred desk,1 nther than make itan elcctun buck sterago for the ruling party. "V\e know and feel that our race h?a been degrade.!, our liberties taken away, ond ourjjroper ty confiscated by the will of the n&thern people; what we have for long yeajs felt, they now begin faintly to see, anfcto cry out against, Shame Shame; The tone of northern sentiment is putting on ii more kindly hue, and we rejoice in it. ?Tu did not expect the gulf of animosity! to be bridged at the bidding of a partyAior to be healed except with time. *Mjt the North has much to undo, n:;d as much to do; her part is to be ningnnnimnV, we are the conquered; the band of friendship will never bo spurned by men whine re cord on the field, was as gencroujr to n ioe, as it was unflinching. Thntsome came nfter the war to settle we ifehmt; that they lost money we know, but u wns due to their egotism in supposingthat iney could "infuse new rnorgy" inXo m, inanimate people, aud undertakiuriMrhut the did not understand, bom tti? "rocbv^, of the soil and the negro, they pawd the penalty of being overwisc. Then tooUthey hod the aid of the agitators of thoJTirre pressible conflict" to help them, nnm that completed the disaster. We v.hol were robbed of everything, and hud no Ivoice of protest, being unable to help oursfwyes, could scarcely have been expected^ to help even our friends. Col. iliggius&n is on the wrong side of the question, iwv? as a soldier, should not aim at a full ^J!irfti^8*"u'mi?.'' itiet^lTTni tlrop the probe, and try the salvo of "fellow feeling" and wo will assure him that all true men and women from the North, who eschew polities will find a safe and welcome home among us. Napoleon tight ened his grip because the Prussians re fused to illuminate their cities on his approach. Porus demanded of Alexan der to be treated as Iii? equal, aud we claim only and justly the terms of Lee aud Grant at Appomatox. [For the TlMKS.] A Fine Opportunity. Mr. Editoii:?I was surprised to learn, at a late meeting of the stockholders of the Orangeburg Agricultural, and Me chanical Association, that the stock had not been all taken. Surely the matter must have escaped the attention of such of our citizens as have capital to invest. How otherwise can we account for the fact, that such shrewd, men of business as we know ninhy of them to be, havo allowed such an opportunity to remain unim proved. This stock must certainly prove an excellent investment. No one who reads the highly satisfactory Report of the President and Directors, for tho past year, can doubt that handsome dividends must soon be realized. The receipts of the first Fair were very considerable, thof that Fair was held during the worst period of a financial panic, which par alyzed the business of tho entire country, and rendered ready cash almost unattain able oveu by men of large means. It cannot be doubted then, that in any ordi nary time the income from that source will be much larger, and lender the stock very profitable as an investment, and fc'.v investments aro as safe. The value of the Land owned by the Association within the corporate limits of one of the flourishing Towns in the State, would, even if unimproved, bo sufficient to secure the safety of the investment. And how much is iliat security increased by the enhanced value of tho land from the new Fair Building upon it, the finest, it is said, in tho Hate? a handsome, well planned, and substantially built structure the rentals from which during the inter* vala between the annual Fair, already constitute an additional uource of incomo to tho Association. And the value of this property, already so considerable, is increasing every day. The business affairs of tbe Association havo been most admirably managed. Its able, and most estmablo President Dr. W. F. iiarton, whose sterling quali ties of mind and heart have impressed all who know him, as a host in himself; and he has been ably supported by an efficient and zealous board of Directors. Tbe Association has been made a success, Orangcburg is justly proud of it; aud the President and Directors, at the late anuual meeting of the Stockholders re ceived, as they deserved, a hearty vote of thanks,and wore unanimously reelected to office. So far, I havo appealed only to tho self interest of our Citizens iu a marely pecuniary point of view. An appeal on higher grounds may be made, to which as good citizens, those who are able, will respond. Tbe Institution is promotive cf great good. Besides iiie stimulus it furnishes to Agriculture and the Me chanic arts, its main object, aud sufficient of itself, to entitle it to the heartiest sup port, it is highly promotive of the most kindly social feeling, nud neighborly good will among our people. This is true to such an extent, that if it were productive of no other result it would bo worth all its costs. Here is an opportunity then, to all good citizens, who have the means, to promote, at one and the same time, their individual pecuniary interests, and the moral good of tbe community in which they live. H. Tue white people of South Caroliua have at last hit upon the only scheme which promises to relieve them from ne gro domination; that is, to invito immi grants into tbe State by such inducements that they can not decline them. There are now in South Carolina about 350,000 negroes and 250,000 whites. Many of ? he negroes are emigrating South. As the hind in the State is now almost worth '?'s from the excessive taxation imposed by t?.s m.groes> the whites can afford even to give a>.,v much of it in order to obtain political allies .SmHh Carolina has about the same extent <*turritory a3 ireiHIld, and can abundantly stWiu jmlf M manv millions of people upon Iica ro\\ ^ g],c now hits hundreds of thousands. "White immigration is tbe only thing needful i.r South Carolina. It is the only *urc rem edy for her political ills.?Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer. *HB PJHENIX IKON VYOKKS HAVE for Hale the following ENGINES, BOIL EltS and MACHINERY. Will be sold cheap for cash; 1 New Eight-Horse Power Portable EN GINE and Boiler, (Cylinder (> by 12,) mounted on wheels, complete for steam. 1 New Six-Horse Power Portable Engine anil Boiler. (Cylinder A by 10,) complete for steam, but no wheels 1 New Twenty-Horse Power Horizontal En gine, (Cylinder 10 by 18 ) 1 New Eight-Horse Power Portable Boiler, (Locomotive.) 1 New Steam "Winch to hoist 1,000 pounds. 1 New Saw Mill, Wood Frame, with 50-inch Saw, 2~i feet Carrage, and 50 feet of Track, with 1 Head Bloeks,(a great bargain.) 2 New Eightccii-inch Circular Saw Benches with Saw. An inepecdou solicited, when information as to price will be (riven on application at this office. PI HENIX IKON WOK KS, Charleston, S. C. 4t fob. 1U 3 p O > W CK O & O s a* ?i o d p ?a p o ft ? w g 2 O 3 W ? CO C5 ^ ? H. E: 1 ? If B 3 V. < O t? w w w rj CO TJ1 i 5? p b b ?< o o O c o a ?n T. -. B 3 IS r to era Ci> 3 SO s'2. x 5! ?d M W ? 6 I H 3 H 1 ACADEMY FOR 13 OYS and <? IT* in the basement oe DUKES HOTEL BY Stiles R. XtZellichamp. English, French, Latin, Greok aud Music taught Ilouns from j) a. M. to 2$ P. M. ??rSurvoVing will bo strictly confined to Saterday, and the afternoons, after 3 o'clock. S It. 31. OB?NGBB?RG ACADEMY FOR GrIHJL,S and BOYS AT THE NEW FAIR BUILDING. TERMS TER MONTH. Primary Department.$1.50 Intermediate.$2.00 English.$3.00 English with classics.$1.00 Music Extra. JAMES S. HEYWARD, Principal. MISS* E. FOG ARTIE, Music Teacher. Jan 8 1874 tf N?TIGE OF COPARTNERSHIP, THE undersigned1 have thin day entered into Copartnership under the name and style of DEM A RS & WOLFE, to carry on the Retail Liquor business and Rilliard Tables nt the ''En terprise Club Rooms" Ornngeburg, S. C. F. DEM ARS, Z. M. WOLFE. January 1, 1874. 61tf. HAS JUST RECEIVED A SUPPLY OF EARLY ROSE p p. Yellow Pink Eye SEED POTATOES, RED SPRING OATS t? 3 P* Over One Hundred varieties of fresh Garden Seeds, among which are Beet, Oauliflower,Cab bage, Onion, Lettuce, Turnip, Squash, Tomato, Radish, Collards,. Melon, Beans, Pens, Celery &c, &e. ALSO, A variety of Garden flower seeds. ALSO IS prepcared to buy Rice, Pea* A:c., at highest l4-?rket rates. JOHN A. HAMILTON May 20, Irr.* ]5 tf THE Subscriber offers for sale the well-known, Plantation "McCant's Villa, situated in Orangeburg County, filfeen miles due east of the Court House, on the five notch Road, containing seven hundred and fifty-seven acres, more or less, with the privilege of two hundred acres more, recently conveyed to my son. The latter place having on it a single story dwelling, four rooms, one fire-place, kitchen, stable, barn, etc., and about twelve or fifteen acres cleared land. On the larger place is A TWO STORY DWELLING, EIGHT ROOMS] FIRE-PLACE in each, GIN HOUSE. SCREW, BLACKSMITH SHOP, And every other building necessary on a well-settled plantation; Fencing in very good condition. For further par ticulars apply either to Messrs. Izlar & Dibble, Orangeburg C. H., S. C, or to the undersigned at McCaut's Villa, Or angeburg County, S. C J. C. EDWARDS, Mnrcb 0, 1873 3 lantOm A Southern House. GBO S HACKER'S DOORS, 8 A SH And Blind Factory, King, Opposite Cannon Strett, Charleston, S. C. The only house of the kind In this City owned and maungotl by a Carolinian. A Largo Stock always on hand, and sold at 20 per cent, less than Northern prices. ADDRESS, Geo. S. Hacker Charlest on, S. C. P. O. BOX 170. Oct. 30?ly PROSPECTUS OF THE New York Weekly Herald, -:o: JAS- (KORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. BRO ADAVAY AND ANN STREET. \ THE WEEKLY HEKALD is p?blMied uvery Saturday, at five cents per copy. An nual Hubcription price:? One Copy . . ? . Three Copies . . . ? . ? (6 Five Copies . . ... . . & Ten Copies.- li> Postage five cent* per copy for three months* Any larger number, addressed to names, of subscribers,'$1 60 each. ft A u extra copy will be sent to every club often. Twenty copies to one address one year, t; 2*3, and any larger .number at the same price. Two "extra copies will be sett to clubs of twenty. , , These rates'make the Wccklv: 'Herald the cheapest publication in the country. Terms easl/iw ailynnee. ' Money sent by r.-..-.i! will be at the risk of the sender. A gencrpos portion of the Weekly . Herald / will be appropriated to Agriculture. Horticul ture, Floriculture, Pomology and the manngc mcnt of domestic animals." Partieidar atten tion will be paid alHo to Reports of tho ilarkcLic^. The nim will be to make the Wceklv H?> ald superior to any other agricultural ami funiily news-paper in the country. Every number of the Weekly Herald will contain a select story and the latest and most ' important nena by telegraph from all parts oT the world up to tiie hour of publication. During tbe session of Congress the Wecklv Herald will contain n summary of the proceed ings and the J?test News by'.telegraph fron? Washington, Political, Keligous, Fnsliionabky Artistic, Literary and Sporting Intelligence; Obituary Notices, Varieties^ Amusements, Edi torial Articles on the prominent tonics of the day, a review of the Cattle and Dry Goods Markets, Financial and Commercial intelH- \ genco and accounts of all tbe important' and interesting events of the ?eck. The Herald employes no agents in the eoun try nor in distant cities to canvass for tmbscri hers, as none are necessary. Anv person i pre tending to bean agent: for the Weekly 'Herat should be treated as a common swindler. Ttf club system has abolished the agency system. It is safe and chean. " ] ' The price of subscription, whenever practica ble, should be transmitted by Post Offiew orders. It is the safest mode of transmitting money by mail. At small Post Offices in the country where Post Office Orders cannot be obtained ' money may be remitted in Registered Letters. Advertisements, to a limited number, will be inserted in tbe Weekly Herald. Price of the Daily Herald, four cents a copy. Anual subscription price, SI2, ajwr^s in ad vance. Write the addres-on letters to the New York Herald, tu n bold and legible baud, and give tbe name of each subscriber, of l\>st Office, County and State so plainly that no errors in mailing papers will be liable to occur. \ltr&cket3$rvrU fUil,li?!mfcrt, Wirt diianlt,' S/aieand Af&rileM&vlfcj; flooriruWuia] TdinjrjWhite Pine, Wd'nn! Rjieyfumitry &&inetifdAerjfineWoodx&.c. All WorkWarmntcd. LOWEST PRICES. SendfbrPriceLut. I. M. HALL & CO. 2, <!;G, 8,7ft NdrAet Street. 22S, J?aatB*y, CHARLESTON, ?, G, This cut entered according to Act of Congre in the year 1873, by I, H. Hall & Co., iii the office of.'/the' Librarian of Congress, at Wash* ington- ..-,?;.. ?. , ,;v: :?U ill Tho recent test of Fire-Proof Safes by tho English Government proved the superiority of Alum Filling. No other Safes filled with Alum ami Plaster-of-Paris. MARVIN & OO.p 265 Broadway, N. Y., 721 Chostnut St., Phlla. ? ?:-Li K. C. STOZiXi. Agt., Wholesalo and Retail Dealers in Dry Goods, AT Tili: OLD .STAND, 287 KING STREET. HAVING made arrangements to continue the business lately conducted by the firm of 8TOLL, WEIH1 ACo., 1 respectfuiy inform my friends and customers of Orangeburg comity that I have now in store n large assort ment of goods, bought mr cash, during tho Panic, which I urn offering as low as any House in the city. Thanking my friends nod customers for the patronage so liberally be stowed upon the old firm. I hope by strict at tention to business to merit a continuance oe the snmo. I will urihe.? tttirtlo to the one priet ayitem. Respcctfullv. 'IL C. STOLE, Agent, Successor to Stoib Webb & Cq.,# 287 King Street, Charleston, S 0. Nov. 13, 1873 30 3m.