The Oranfgebui'g Times. 1ppukd ITVEKY SATURDAY MORNING. Terms of Subscription. Ove Copy one Year.$2 00 ** h Six Mouths. 1 00 . Rates of Advertising. Onr Square 1st Insertion.SI o0 Each Subsequent " . 1 00 Notices inserted in Loeal Column tit 20c per Line. All Subscriptions nnd Transient Advertise ment* to be paid fur in Advance. 9&" Na Tteeipts joy Subscription or Adnr lisemtnts are. Valid unless Siynctl by Itustness Jfanayer. We are in no wny responsible for the views or opinions of onr Correspond ents-. "jSAiURDAY, MAY 25, 1878. The Jury Trouble. A locnl in the Tu i s of weak be fore last on the above subjt cU pro voked a reply from Mr. Jervcy, So licitor of the First Circuit, to which wo have the following to say in reply : To meet an emergency occasioned by the ruling of Judge Cooko at the October term of last year, the Hon Samuel Dibble introduced a bill which became a law on 20th Decem ber, 1877. The first section ol which rends as follows : Suction I. That the Board of Jury Commissioners for the County of Ornngeburg, shall prepare a new jury list for the said County, as soon as practicable, alter the passage of this Act; and that grand and petit jurors shall be drawn from the list so prepared to serve at the next ensuing HCSMnns of the Courts of General Sessions and Common Pleas for said County; and that the grand a id petit jurors so drawn shall beheld and taken to be lawful jurors tor the courts aforesaid, in like manner as it the said list bail been pre, tired during the mouth of January last. lu this section after the word "Act," the first clause or member provides grand and petit jurors for the Courts of General Sessions and Common Pleas for the January term; nnd if the law had stopped here the ruling of Judge Mackcy would have been correct. The jurors drawn would have been special jurors for a special term; jaod, after the occasion had passed for winch they were drawn, such juries would cease to exist. The section however goes on an 1 says in the second clause : That the grand and petit jurors so drawn shall be held and taken to be lawful jurors for the courts aforesaid (that is the Court of General Sessions and the Court of Common Pleas) in like manner as if the said list had been prepared during -the month of January last. Here Mho- ojeucfite term, courts, is used in contrast ^with the specific term, ses sions. The jurors so drawn shall be legal jurors not for r7?i scs ions afore ? said but-for the courts aforesaid. Had the Legislature intended the jurors for tho January term or ses sions only, there would have been no necessity for the last clause of tho Act, and the Act would have stopped at the end of the first clause; but the last clause shows unmistakably that the intention of the Legislature vns to save tho jurors drawn from the list prepared under this special Act until another grand jury was impou nded in their stead drawn from a list prepared in January 1878. .Such is clearly the meaning of the section and such the intuition of the Legisla ture. Chap. 139, Revised Statutes, Sec tions 1 ami 2, contains the only law for drawing a grand jury for the Courts of Central Sessions, sind di rects that the Clerk of the Court of General Sessions in each county, not less than fifteen days; before the term ol the Court in each, shall issue writs of venire facias for eighteen grnnd jurors to be returned to that com/7, (that is the Court of General Ses sions) who shall be held to serve at each term thereof (that is of the Court of Gcnornl Sessions) throughout the gear, until another grand jury is ini panneled in theirstead. This makes it impossible to draw a grand jury from any pother list to serve at the January term 1 venli >ns, affording more sec I recy, furnish the opportunity for log rolling, wire pulling and intriguing. Primaries, being open to tho people, ring-masters are driven from tho field, through tho fear of detection and the difficulty of consummating their nefarious designs. These dangers, it may be said, so far as Orangeburg is concerned, aro imaginary. We trust it may bo so, but still wc are impressed with tho wisdom of the maxim : "Eternal vigilance i3 the price of liberty.'' Power is constantly going from tbc many to the few. The opponents of the primary sys tem seem to proceed upon tho prin ciple that the people can't produce a good ticket?that nothing good can come out of Nazareth. On this point I beg leave to differ. I have always thought that the people in a general way were more honest than their leaders, and in this opinion I am more confirmed since the recent ex ploit of the great Electoral Com mission in putting Mr. Hayes in the white house. The primary system will produce the best ticket, because it will surely produce the peoples choice. I said in my first communication that before the war men were nomi nated for office on a system parallel to the primary system and were voted for upon their merits ahme. To this "Hampton Democrat" makes answer that "belore the war the body politic was composed of but one element in our State; now it is a complete conglomeration." Now I am unable to see the strength of this objection to the primary sys tem. It is not proposed in this sys tem to conglomerate, nor to deal with any other element than the Democratic clement in our County. It is only a means of ascertaining the wish of the Democratic masses and then having the true voice or the party we go forward confidently in the general election to meet tho common enemy. . The conventions which I referred to in my last communication, as becom ing fashionable after the war on the advent of Radicalism, were Cou nty conventions for nominating County tickets, aud not State National or Congressional conventions as "Hamp ton Democrat" teems to imagine. "Hampton Democrat'' says: "I admit that the people should be the vehicle for candidates to ride into oflice, but sir, I contend what is every 1 body's wagon is nobody's wagon." To this we say we want no exehmve jjtfigon. It is contrary 10 tho truj spirit of Democracy. This is a free country, and the chances of cho-dug . and being chosen to oflice shou Id be open to everybody, which is the ob ject of the primary. I said in my last in answer to the fear that there would be too many elections, that it can bo so arranged that one primary will suffice. Upon this point "Hampton Democrat" says a great deal, which I confess I can not understand at all. What 1 meant was that it might he arranged, as it was in Lancaster, either that the candidate receiving the highest voto should bo the nomi nee, or that the primary should be used only as the means ot ascertain ing the true wish of the people and afterwards let the convention moot and select from among the candidates receiving the highest vote, aud thus make up the ticket iu all cases where a majority has uot boon receiv ed by any one candidate. "Hampton Democrat" says ; "Our farming fellow-citizens cannot afford to be running to and fro from now until November next &c." Nobody wants them to do this. No more running about is required in the primary than in the convention sys tem, and in fact less. In the convention system the far mer has to go out and stay somotimes to a protracted club meeting to elect delegates to the convention, and then sonic of them have to take, a long ride and spend a w hole day in Orangeburg to nominato tho ticket. In the primary system he simply goes to the polls, deposits his voto for such candidates asjho wants, and goes home and tho business is dono. If he prefers to ho need not stop to talk to a soul, but go back to his work. "Hampton Democrat" again speaks of some oath upon which he becomes eloquent. I repeat that each County arran ges its own details of primaries, and that whatever obligation rests upon a Democratin the one system is equally binding upon him in the other. The primary requires no more t ban the convention. In some Counties tho plan is simp ly to let evory registered Democrat vote at primaries. Besides, Mr. Editor, the advantage that there can be no fusion in the jirim arics, which is at lenst possi ble in conventions, I would slate another which I have not yet mentioned. It will have a tendency to briu g recruits to the party from among tho colored people, which soems to havo failed under the pre sent system. For instance, in many cases they will have a preference from among the candidate1 before the people, and will want to express it by voting, The answer will be : register as a Democrat, and you can vote. Every one w ho voted will thus be committed, und in this way wo may get a large accession to our vote in the general election against tbo com mon enemy. This Mr. Editor is the last I hope that you will hear from your "erring brother" on this subject. I now leave it with the people renting satisfied with their decision, having no person al interest in the matter whatever. In conclusion allow nie to express my appreciation of the pleasant man ner in which "Hampton Democrat" has so far conducted the discussion on his side. Democrat, [Fur the < Irangcliiirjj Times.] At a mee ting of the Rowesville Democratic Club, held on Saturday 18th inst., the following resolution was otiered by Capt. M Robinson, and uuuanimously adopted : Resolved, That the preamble and resoiut ions.of the mass meeting hold in Charleston on IOlli inst., in rela tion to the phosphate monopoly, be and are hereby adopted by this Club, and that the other Clubs of the County be requested to give them their consideration at their earliest convenience, and that the Orange burg papers be requested to publish them. Tbo following are the preambles and resolutions adopted at the mass meeting hold in Charleston: Whereas, from the Colonial period of this Commonwealth, until the late Republican misrule, our navigable waters have been free to all classes of our citizens, and all have enjoyed a right in common to appropriate tu their individual uses whatsoever they found unappropriated by fishing or digging therein; And whereas, during the Into Re publican misrule, special privileges, to mine and dig phosphate from the navigable waters of this State, were granted to certain corporations, ex clusive of, and contrary to, tho com mon rights of all men; And whereas, we had well hoped that with the restoration of good government, these rights, in common, would have been restored an4 no more exclusive privilcdgcs would be granted; Aud whereas, we have been sadly disappointed by the continuance and confirmation of these exclusive privi leges by the last Goneral Assembly. Thorefore, bo it Resolved, lat. That the right to dig and mine phosphate rock in the navi gable waters of this Stute is a pre scriptive right, vested in common in all the citizens of this State, which cannot be taken away from them by any act of the Legislature, and mil not be granted as an exclusive privi lege to any company or individual monopoly. 2d. That as a Legislative action, such an exclusive privilege, is con trary to the genera' interest and con sonant only with the advantage of a special class who are thus authorized to reap the benefit which belongs to all men alike. 3d. That we have an abiding con fidence in the sufficiency and anility of tho Democratic party to correct this error, and deprecate any dis organization ofthat party for selfish ends. 4th. That we recommend tho next Legislature to repeal all exclusive charters, as granted at the last and previous Legislature, and to leave claimants, if any there be, to litigate their 1 retensions in the courts. 5th. That we recommend to tbo Legislature n return to the rights which all citizens should enjoy in common, according to their ancient prerogatives and the Constitution of the State, 6th. That wo invite the General Assembly, after the adoption of the system of general rights, to affix as much tax, impost, cr royulty, as is reasonable, upon tbo phosphate rock which may be miupd in the navigable streams of tho State, regard beiug bad to tHfe value ol the same in the markets of the world, to tho end that such amounts may be realized as will relieve tbo people from the burthen of taxation, and may bo just and proper. Buy Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. It cures. To be had at all druggists for 25 cents. The Orangeburg Juries. To the Editor of the Journal of Commere : At tlirs October session of the Court of General Sessions, for the Couuty of Oraugeburg, Judge Cooke discharg ed the juries, setting aside the jury list' prepared in January, 1877, as illegal. This n ecessitnted action on the part of the Legislature to provide for a jury list in place of the one thus eet aside. Early in tbo last session, therefore, I introduced a bill on the subject, which became law December 20, 1877. The first section of this A ct is as follows : "Section I. That the Board o^ Jury Commissioners for the County of Oraugeburg, shall prepare a now jury list for the said Couuty, as so;>n as practicable, after the passage of this Act; and that grand and petit jurors shall be drawn from the lists,) prepared to serve at the next ensuing sessions of the Courts of General ? ess ions and Comiuuu l'lcas for said Coun t}*; and that the granii and petit jurors so drawn shall be held and taken to be lawful jurors for the courts afore said, in like manner as if the said list bad been prepared during tbo mo nth of January last.1' This section, in its last clause, (which refers to "the courts afore said," in unmistakable contrast to the preceding clause, which refers simply to the January session* of those courts,) gives to the jurors so drawu all the rights, powers and duties of jurors under the general jurj laws of the State," in like manner as if the said list bad been prepared during the month ot January," 1877. Ill accordance with its provisions, tbo lint Was prepared, and grand and petit jurors ^drawu ill December. 1*7 7. Ii has been the uniform practice in this c unty to draw the grand jurors of a year from the jury list prepared during January of the preceding year. This arose from the fact, that the ti.st session of I he Court of Gen* eial Sessions in each year, com nonce a on the first Monday in January, while the law requires the jury list to b* prepared during the tie nth of bum* ary. Consequently, the cleric issues the cmirc for gr.tud juror- before the middle of December, "not b'ss than fit' cen days before the com u^ticoiueilt of the lir.-t term