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ORANGKBUR?, S. C. MAR., li, 1S74. STEPHEN H. FOWLE , EDITOR AND BUSINESS MANAGER. LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE COUNTY. fo chnngc Contract Advertisement^, itotics aeit bo given before Monday noon. Our friends wishing to have advertisements Initortcd in the TIMES, most hand them in by Tuesday morning, 10.o'clock; Henceforth, all Inegal Ad vertisements, ol' County Interest, whether not ices or others), will bo publish ed, for tlio benefit ol' our readers whether tliey are paid lor or not. SUBSCRIBERS Will- have their papers regularly I mailed. Send us new names, build up our paper, aud let every household in the County be a supporter of our enter prise. \ '~ ' COL. RICHARD LATHERS. The address of this gentleman before the Taxpayers Convention is one thnt covers all our complaints against the pres ent government. It shows conclusively whero the faults lie and their remedy. lie docs not attempt any high flown rhetoric, or farfetched metaphors, but deals with hard facts; He is not too violent, yet it makes his speech more telling. He takes in all the points of dispute and by his logical conclusions points to the only mode of redress. The speech has made a stir and well it might, for his arguments are uncontrovcrtiblc. The State has reason to be proud of Col. Lathers, for only by such men can she ever be raised from her present position. THE HON. NILE& G. PARKER, Late State Treasurer, owner of Parkers Haul aud much other real property, ac quired since moving to "cur beloved State," has thrown a bomb-shell intj the radical camp, and caused no little com motion. A recent letter of bis published in the New York Times, calling attention to the corrupt condition of the present State government, and advising those holding certain State bonds, (lately de clared to be fraudulent by tho Legisla ture), to make no compromise, but to exact the last farthing, has brought that remarkable body about bis cars like hornets, and a resolution has been adopt ed to institute legal proceedings against him. This blow coining from euch an unex pected quarter, is keenly felt by his former friends, and the climnto of Columbia is likely to prove too warm for hint. "Eh tu, Brute"! cry they, and t;o von him. He is accused of deserting to the Taxpayers, hut they can not claim a3an ally one whose hands arc filled with ill-gotten gains, wrung from themselves. Parker states that he owns no bonds of the State, whatever, which makes it difficult to assign a reason for his already famous letter?hut reason there must be. What is it? LEGISLATIVE. Synopsis of the proceedings of the Legislature of South Carolina. in the senate. Friday March (i.?The following Bills were passed and sent to the house?Bill to relieve the bondsmen of the late Coun ty Treasurer of Greenville, J. M. Allen. Bill to validate all payments made by the County Trensun r of Ed gefiel d county under and pursuant to the provisions ol a joint resolution, and to declare the in tontof the said resolution. Joint Resolution providing for the re assessment of real estate in 1874. Joint Resolution to make an appro priation for repairing State House &c. There is bill before the Senate (so says the Union-Herald) to help I he depositors of the Citizens Savings Bank. The Legislature bus resolved to ad journ on Saturday March 11th. II. W. Purvis, Adjutant, and Inspector General sent in his resignation in a lively letter. It was resolved that the Governor be requested to receive the resignation. An act to incorporate tho town of Port Royal, nnd tin act to regulato the lees ot Trial Justices and Probate Judges were ratified. The Struggle of tho Races in South Carolina. It is said to bo tho deliberate desigu ol the negroes in South Carolina to so mis* govern the Slnto as to drive tbe whito people out and have it all to "themselves. For thnt purpose the taxation for some years has been so increased as to amount to a practical confiscation of real estate. A large portion of it, in fact, has been of fered for sale by the Sheriffs of the differ ent counties. The whites who can sell for any thing are doing so, and with the proceeds emigrating from tbo State. The present governmental South Carolina is an anomaly in the history of the world. Kolbing like it was ever before seen. In all civilized communities wealth, educa tion, talent and experience have had the main control of public affairs under any political system that has existed. In South Carolina all this has been reversed. Ignorance rules intelligence?poverty rules wealth?talent and experience give way to inexperience united to stupidity. In her Legislature there is hardly a man who is worth a dollar in property. Many can not read or write, and very few have any acquaintance with but the rudiments of knowledge. Those who do not pay the taxes impose them, and of course they putthcin on heavy. The expenses of the Stale government are ten times more than they were before the war. Aston ishing salaries are paid all the officials. The educational endowments arc upon the most magnificent scale. The pass port to office is color, and the previous condition of seivitude, Three-fifths of the people are negroes and two-fifths whites, but the influence of tbe latter may be represented by a decimal fraction. In vain have the people who can read and write and who possess property forgot all former differences and united as tax payers in order to have a voice in the election. Despairing of any homo relief they are actually pleading that Congress shall territorialize the State and govern it by officials appointed by the President and Senate. Such subjection is infinitely preferable to the base and ignoble gov ernment that now lords it over them. But of course, to this Congress will turn a deaf ear. While the( majority in that body have no political principnlcs that would stand in the way of territorial ism they would, in this case, refuse to exer cise it from motives of policy?the policy being to put the Southern black over tbe Southern white. This degradation and prospective ruin of South Carolina is not contemplated by us without deep pain. We can not forget that she was one of the old thirteen Stales that carried us through the Revolution. No State has produced aller or more eminent men in every department of effort. Her conti but ions intbat respect have been valuable to our National history. It is melancholy to reflect that the land of the Bum tors, the Marions, the Pinknoys, ihbLowndcs, the Checves and the Jacksons is to be given over to the descendants of the bar barous negro slaves wdio were imported from Africa. However we may regard a superior driving out an inferior race? the white the Indian, for instance?it seems to he opposed to the law of nature for the whites to be pushed out by the blacks, the civilization of the United States to s opr. lull led by that of Liberia.1 Who can look with complacency upon a' struggle in which there is nothing but numbers on one side, and every thing else upon which society should rest is upon the other! That is the state of af fairs now in South Carolina. "Where there is such and antagonism of race, such an immense difference in the wealth civilization and general character as in South Carolina, it is impossible to apply tbe same political principles thnt we do in communites whero the white constitute the entire or the main portion of the population. There mi'st be something besides a mere majority vjfe. Since the tests of race and color arc forbidden by tbe Fifteenth Amendment, the whites in the Cotton Stales will have lo make edu cational ami property tests of suffrage or they will go to the wall. But in South Carolina they can not obtain the power to make such tests, and the negroes will not. The only hope is in inviting, if possible, white emigration to an extent that will give tho whites a majority over the negroes. The land of the former has become valueless, and they might just as as well give portions of it away to actual settlers, who will in return give them the necessary voles they need in order to gain the supremacy. Such a policy is now strongly urged in South Carolina, and we believe commissioners haw been sent to Europe to obtain emigrants upon the most liberal terms. Only those who are in favor of political miscegenation, and prefer a mixture of blac k and white Stales, will not wish success to tbe strug gling whites in South Curo'ina.?Cincin nati'Weekly Enquirer. | Improvement of the Savannah River. p Recent able nnd interesting articles appear;tig in the Augusta Constitutiona list have revived many rccoleetions in connection with the Savanuah River. Auterior to A. D. 1787, the little State of South Carolinac'aimed territorial'rights to the Altamaha river, nnd netually is sued grants for many tracts of land ex tending fur beyond the Savnnnah River. Upon this, Georgia petitioned the King of Great Britain to put a strip to these alleged encroachments, which resulted in the convention between these two Stntcs, held at Beaufort on tho 28th of April, 1787, which fixed tho Savannah River as the true boundry. In 1791, great furor prevailed among the pccple of South Carolina for the improvement of nnvorgation of tho various streams, nnd among others, commissioners were ap pointed to open and improve Kcowce, Tulalo and Savannah rivers as far south as Augusta. Again, in 1795, commission ers were appointed to clear out and re move obstructions between Vienna and Augusta, and empowered to draw one or more lotteries for that purpose, provided they do not rniso more than ?1200 net. The present graud improvements were doubtless thefruits of this early enter prise of our forefathers, add afforded some little advantages to many persons on both banks of the river. When Mr. Calhoun was Secretary of War be made n report, recommending the Government of the United States to connect the waters of the Savannah and Little Tennessee rivers, at Rabun Gap, for the purposes of commerce, and we be lieve, until railroads were becoming com mon in the country, still entertained some hope of seeing this work undertaken and completed. We remember, ns late as 184?-(i, ho .summoned many of the old and experienced pilots on the river to meet him at the junction of Seneca and Tugalo, und spent some days iu collecting information as to the bight and length of the various falls and rapids, and the probable labor and expense, it wou'd re quire to open u channel for light-draught steamers. From this time, it is believed be abandoned all idea of improving the, river, and devoted himself to advising aud urging the construction of the Greenville & Columbia und Blue Bulge. Railroad^ 1 I Alter this long lapse of time, however, j we still find persons nnd papers advo.a ting and urging the old project?the latest being the following resolution adopted by by the Georgia Legislature - but a few da) s ago: ? < < Mr. Walsh introduced a resolution which w is ageed to asking Congress to investigate the expediency o! slack water navigation on the Savannah fiver from Augusta to the bead waters of Tennessee n? of national importance to the develop ment of commerce in Georgia, South ami North Carolina and Tennessee; asking an appropriation for the suyny to be made under United States Coast Survey, urging the Kepresiitativcs and Senators of States above named to use their influ ence to secure tho appropriation, and requestting the Gi.vernor to transmit a a copy of the resolutions t-> President Grant, the Speaker of the House and President ol the Senate. Of n surely, tho rich and fertile valley of the Savannah both needs and deserves quicker and cheaper transportation. Whether it can be accomplished by water or rail we leave to those who are to turn ' ish the labor and money to decide. H. I-iic-.-q^. A Lock of IIaiu.?Major John E. Osborn of this place has in his posses sion a lock of "old Hickory's" hair, clip pep from tho bead of the old hero in Marek, 1843. Such a relic of departed greatness is prized as it should be. 'ibis lock of grey hair teaches many a w hole, some lesson. We wonder how many of our present groat men wll have locks of their hair preserved. We doubt weather wool will keep.?Abbeville Medium. The death of ex-President Fillmore, which occurred at his home, iu Buffalo on Sandy night, leaves Andrew Johnson the only living cv-Prcsident of the United States, ? ? ? - STATE ITEMS. The Abbeville Medium has been swin dled (so it says) by the ''Brother Johna tlinn." It is reported that Mr.S. T. Poincedof Spa it an burg, will be the next candidate foi Governor of this State. Row Ellison Capers has resigned the charge of the Episcopal church at Green ville, and accepted the call to Caindcn. The farmers in the vicinity of Asbury Chapel (Anderson County) have formed a Grange. It will be known as Deep Creek Grange. Lexington has organized an Im migra tion Society with the following officers: Pres. Capt. S. M. Roof, Vice " J. B. Kysor, Sic. W. J. Assman. Trea?. A. D. Ilaltwanger. At a meeting of Phyexciaus in Lewis ville on tho 17th of Feb., the following preamble aud resolutions wero submitted by a committee and adopted: Whereas, We tho mcmbors of tbe medical profession, engaged in practice in tho upper portion of Orangeburg County ,fecl the urgent necessity of adopt ing somemeasuro whereby wo may secure to pursclyp a just and proper remunera tion for our services in the future. Therefore, be it resolved: 1st. That we keep and exchange with each other accuratelists of all parties who do not pay their medical accounts, and will withhold from the same all aid in the future. 2nd. We will be governed in making our charges by the regular established fee-bill, and will not discount any bill under twenty dollars. 3rd. We will not make contracts with persons for practice. 4th. We claim a settlement of our ac counts on the first day of November in each year. 5th. We wiii stiii extend the usual charities* of our profession to the deserv ing poor in our respective communities. Cth. That the public may know our proceedings, we publish these resolutions in the County papers Drs. A. T. Darby, Win. L. Pou, Charles S. Darby, M. J. D. Dantzler, Thomas Keller, W. T. C. Bates, C. R. Tnbor, F. J. Geiger, J. H. Smoke, W.C. Whetstone. 0BITUA11Y, In memory of Frank E. Myers, who died in Orangeburg Febiunry 13, 1874, in the seventh year of bin ago, at the residence of his grand father Mr. T ('. Uubbcll. To eulogize the dead is common and expected, but every one who knew little Frank will hear testimony to hi> noble trails ef character, espec ially for one of Hitch tender years. Under tbe mysterious ruling* of P.oyidcncc it was his portion to he deeply afllicted during life, hut in the midst of all his Millcrings hi fortitude resignation and cheerfulness attracted general attention and admiration. His whole life seemed to ben preparation for death. Unusual an it U for the yoiinir, he de ligliteil Ui uiiifie of heaven, and his dead mother who had pr<eeeded liim. In Ids umnscmcnts his companions loved him for Win amiiibiiity; in his duties his parents loved him for his fidelity, and in his devotions his Savior loved him for hi- Rihcerity, and has finally plucked liiui from a world of sin and trial, and transplanted hiiu in Heaven where hisspiriltl 1 nature in ly ho fully developed in a world of eternal !>'.i: s. It is here that we aie to view him hereafter where with the white, winged angels of Heaven he is singing anthems of peace and love, and not upon earth where nothing remains hat "Only a litt'c grave. liy weed! lialf hidden; (hllv a loving tear, That comes unhid Ion; Only two little hands Kidded together; ?. - Only two violyt eyes, Mow closed forever; Only a pale, paleface, And years not seven; Only a lifeless form? All else in I leaven," ,S. Ii. M. JCreSII ax i) oentjin* GARDEN SEEDS and ONION SETS, Jusi received from I). Laud ret h & .Son, and for sale by k. KZKKI IOIj. Sign of the Dig watch NOTICE. Members of the diderent (iranges wil' he nop plied at Grange prices. Mar. |3, 1S73 tf C/3 C3 O ^s V3 OK C5> fr.% s 3 V 0 3 CQ C QC -. ? i n o p o o o o c H % hrj % ? OS, as c?1 o w ? srS 5' _ V'. n V. ?j. 5,<9 X ? o ? = :x> > bd W Q O H H H r b U o. Cb ACADEMY FOB BOYS and G IRLS IN TilK HASKMKNT OK DUKES HOTEL BY Stiles R. Xffellichamp. English, French, Laim, Greek and Music taught Houns from 0 A.M. to 2j P. M. ??SP*Survcv$ng will ho strictly confined to Saterdav, and the afternoons, .".fter 3 o'clock. s R. 31 rpHE PHOENIX IRON WORKS HAVE A for unle tho following ENGINES, BOIL ERS and MACHINERY. Will be sold cheap fur cash: 1 New Eight-Homo Power Portable EN GINE and Boiler, (Cylinder 0 by 12,) mounted on wheels, complete for steam, 1 New Six-Horse Power Portable Engine and Boiler, (Cylinder 5 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 pound*. 1 New Saw Mill, Wood Frame, with 50-inch Saw, 25 feet Carrage, and 50 feet of Track, with 2 Head B!oeks,(a great bargain.) 2 New Eigbtccn-inch Circular .Saw Benches with Saw. An inepcetioiisolicitod, when information as to priee will be given on application at this office. PIKENIX IRON WORKS, Charleston, S. C. feb. 19 4t 0RANGEBU11G ACADEMY FOR GrUULS and BOYS AT THE NEW FAIR BUILDING. TERMS PER MONTH. Primary Department.81.50 Intermediate.$2.00 English.$3.00 English with classics.,.$1.00 Music Extra. JAMES S. HEYWARD, Principal. Jan 8 1874 tf JOHN A HAMILTON. has just ke( .:: ved a supply op 3?3 roSP I { ATES, SI * ATLANTIC ACllV, a r?ko Peruvian G uci.no, At lowest market rates for Cash. john A. hamilton Mjiv 2? i, ISTIl . 15 if. ftpilE Subscriber oilers for sale the. fi well-known, Plantation "MeCant's Villa, situated in Orangeburg County,! iiilcen mile* due cast of the Court House, I on the iivc notch Load, containing sewn hundred and litty-seven ncres, more, or loss, with the privilege of two hundred acres more, recently conveyed to my sum. The latter place having on it a single story dwelling, lour rooms, one fire-place, kitchen, .-table, barn, &o,, and about twelve or lift ecu acres cleared lamb 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 cither to Messrs. I/.lar & Dibble, Orangeburg C. IL, S. C, or to the undersigned at McCant's Villa, Or angeburg County, S. C. J. C. EDWARDS. March 6, 1873 . 3 lamOm A Southern House. CHB? S HACKER'S D?OR8, S A SH A.nd Blind Factory, King, Opposite Cannon Street, Charleston, S. C. The only bouse of the kind in this City owned and managed by a Carolinian. A Largo Stock always on hand, and sold at 20 percent, less than Northern prices. ADDKKSS, Geo. S. Hacker Charleston, S- C P. O. BOX 170. Oct. 30?ly PROSPECTUS OF THE New Torh Weekly H?rald* JAS GORDON BENNETT PJtOflUETOIL. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, THE WEEKLY HERALD is published every Saturday, at live cent* per copy, A^-* nual Ktibcription price:? One Copy . . ? . . ?55 Tlirec Oopies . . . ? ? |5 Five Copies .. . ? . .] [ i ". '8f Ten Copies . . . \l 1 .> ?}Xi l\? Postage live ec-nts per copy for three. w?flth?*u Any larger number, addressed to names of subscribers, ?1 CO each. i ]| *|T An extra copy will be sent to every club bitch. . Twenty copies to one address one year, ?25, and any larger number at tbo Harne.price. Two extra copies will be sent to clubs of twenty, These rate* muko the: Weekly! .'Herald tfio cheapest publication in the country. Terms cash in advance. Money sent by mail will be at the risk of the sender." A generous portion of the Weekly Herald, will be appropriated to Agriculture, Tloriieitl- ' ture, Floriculture, Pomology and tue manage ment of domestic animals. Particular atten tion will he paid alto to Reports of the Markets. The aim will be to make the Weekly; Tictri aid superior to any other agricultural and family news-paper in the country. Every number of the Weekly.-^Herald will contain a select story and the latest and most important news by telegraph from all parts o I lie world up to the hour of publication. ' During the session of Congress the Weeklv Herald will contain a summary of the proceed ings and the latest News by telcgiaph from Washington, Political, Religous, Fashionable,' Artistic, Literary' aiid Hportsng Intelligence; Obituary Notices, Varieties, Anmscihciity; Edi torial Articles on the prominent 'topics of the day, a review of the Cattle antf Dry""Uooda Markets, Financial and Commercial iiitelH-2 genee and accounts of all the important-and* interesting events of the * eck. The Herald eihployes no agent* in the <oun try nor in distant citie* to canvass for subscri bers, as none are neec-sary. Anv peivon pre-* tending to be, an agent for the, Weekly Herald should lie treated as a common swindler.? Tbo club system has abolished the agency *>>tcuu> Ii is safe and vheao. _ _ , .. .i ? <Ul?V ' Thi' pii.v ofs'.i!>- r:i>tii n, whenever practica ble, should be transmitted by Post Office orders. It is lb; safe.it mode of trafisitiiitillg money !.y mail. .-.it . ?. ?: At small Po*tOffices in the country where Post OHiee Order.; cannot In obtained, inolicy may be remStte.J in Itegistered LeiiH": ' Advu tiHeinci.t*, to a limited num....:. will 1 u inserted i:i the Weekly {IcrUid. Price of thfc I'iUy I icr.iM. :'o.ir cent* h<o|y. Ami d ; ..V. i\t j iricVj 3i2, ::.v, i m ad vance. Write thoaddr?s*o:i letter.- ti t!:c Vcty York Hcr-dd, ina held ami legible ba..d; and sdvo. the name of t ieh .-.;h er.?er. of i'o-t OIulv, i'onuty a;td .San; s.'> plainly that no errors" in maidisg paperawill bo liable So oivii\ 111 : I P$fj| mm. Xns?dmJf.irijtyit* it '"??>; ?'>' ^}f, :-'jrrrr, ; 'i".-.i ?!?-..'?,!? / '.' ', ?.? U W {'??u:U;\.. St i leandM&Mc?. 'it i;ftoeritFL 0*tish *, y^/:/^?^l^.;';^?/Y?.v<ir.V^v;;^^^???>/.e^/^7 % AH Worn W.iK JHh-d, 't 3 LOWEST i>HiGBS.-k Sen d ferPrice L <\> ?? ? L H. HALL ? CO. pj Hin?fitturihi !\ ]}r;-.-rs. a 2.-7., ?, J. 10. ?\l fhet Sirie(\ ! ' U2J, U&atlUy, : cJ/Afii ziiro.v, s. cjVv This cut entered neeording to Act of Congre in the year 1S7 4, by I, II. Hall & Co.. in the office of the Librarian of Congre*?, at Wa.?h? The recent test of Firo-Proof Safes - ^ by the English Covernment proved t the superiority of Alum Filling. No - other Safes filled with Alum and Plastpr-of-Paris* 265 Broadway, W. Y., 721 Chestnut St., Phila. H. c. &Tm*i?, Agt., Wholesale arid Retail Dealers in Dry Goods, AT TlijF QI.D sVAND, 287 KING I'sTREEt. HAVING made avrangenu nts to coutinuo . the business lately conducted by the firm of.STOLIi, WEB? ?;Co., I respeetmfy inform my friends and customers of Orangcburg count) that I have now in store a large assort ment ".if goods, bought for cash, during the Panic, which 1 am Offering as low as any House in the city. Thanking my friend*n?d customers for the patronage so liberally be - stowed upon the old firm. I hope by strict at tention to business to merit a continuance oc tin-same. / in'// adhere xtrirlly to the one pricf M/s/cm. Respectfully, H. C. STOLL, Agent, Successor to St?ll, Webb & Co., '287 King Street, ( bail.-ton, S C. Nov. 13, 1S73 GO 3ni.