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Whikoy North and South. One rumshop for every 280 inhabi Innts in tlie sober morul.State of Mas sachusetts! Ono tor every 220 in Connecticut, that.proverbial land ol'. steady habits, and one for every 200 in that paradise of learning and true goodness, Ohio! Verily the demo" seems to be in no immediate danger of being exorcised just yet. These figures are loom the Internal Revenue rclurns at Washington, and are not likely to err on the side of exaggera tion. Although there are 155,850 retail ami '1,252 wholesale litpioi dealers in the United Stales, besides 1,053 rectitiers. This means that tberu arc more than a quarter of"a million of people directly engaged -in this trallic. It is a pretty large army for the temperance folks to cope with. j These statistics disclose some curb j ous facts. Figures have 'notoriously j no respect for theories. Many a time ami often have limy scattered, fond 1 delusions to the winds. Rural com munities were believed lo be more moral than the dwellers in cities, un til somebody under took to collect ami! tabulate the number of illegitimate births, when the too easy virtue, of pastoial simplicity became readily ap parent'^ .So country youths were re-' puled Lo ' make 'more hardy soldiers than those who came fr?Hi the more unhealthy towns. Tho lale civil war' showed the fallacy of thai ii'Vwel! as of other things. The Jiis.li labored for a long ?time undoi the stigma ol consuming more whiskey than any other people, until it was showu that the I'm'tlauical, church-going, jini'd headed, SablKilh-ob.-M': v'i?l; Scotch-, man drank thrice as t?nch as l^achiy* And now it nppeavs that on!? S,outii ei'u brethren paye {VlsO suiTo: ul a grievous wtong" while wo hero al the JS'orth ha\.been taking credit for a yirlue that -we-do not have;' ?' ' " In what part of tho Cfiflon ' is there the most druuUcnncss? liv,ery school boy will promptly answer, "At the South; iu Georgia and Texas and Alabama." Wrong, entirely wrong, il the number of retail liquor, dialers i-, an index to the comparative sobriety of a people 1 There ai'c two rum shops for ovcry man, woman and child- in Massachusetts for every one In these three Slates, ami yet liny together are, if anything, more thickly studded with them than the. rest of the late .Confederacy, Texas has one gin mill for every 120 inhabitants; Georgia one for every 500, and Alabama one for ever 000, the same-as South Caro lina, Aikausas, Mississippi and Vir ginia, whilo in NOrth Carolina there is but one to every $00, and even in Bouibou county itself there is one for every 1?0 persons. Contrast these figures with those of the North ern States. .Here in New York we have one bar, room for every 20') in habit mis?tho- same as in Ohio? and .Ibis seeing tri be about the aver age hereabouts, the proportion in ? Peonsylyaniay/Now Jm*ey* Delaware Maryland and Rhode Island, like ill at of Connecticut, vai; iug vi ry little from this. Maine and Vermont muUc a belter showing, the former having but one for every 1,000 of her popula tion and the other do for every 750 The natural inclinations of the people are, bowoyor, interfered with in these two communities to such an extent as to depirve the statistics of all value. Take those Slated of New England then, where the predilections of the people have something ?jco fx'ic \ ia\, nud the Middle ami as many of tho Western States as you like, and com pare them with tho Southern Slates. Tlie result will show neatly three ruin shops iu tho former for every one in the-Hitter. Weih New Voik, who have setup Uje drinks for the entire continent at some time or other, need not be ashamed lo acknowledge the fact, but it is a very hard dose for the gteat moial legion to (he northeast of ?us. They have/t^1' con.-.olalioii, such as it is, that Hoy are not iso bad as California where ? lh? ie is one saloon for every 100 inhibilanlH, and llie'y may also urge tl.at one Southern drink is equal in potency to two North,-: oru ones, and that tho whiskey here' being so much purer is so much more innocuous, and Ihcroforo not so sinful in tljo taking; .-But opinions will dif fer en* tins point, and until experts have examined and reported upon the question, tho weight of evidence will be, that there is more whiskey, drank iu the good North than in the wicked South.?Ac jo York Graphic! j 01 To the frort each and every Demo crat and there remain until the polls arc closi d on the 2d of November. Sacra (ices of time ami business must bo made, if we wotdd retain the po litical power wo now have. Givu.it up by our own lethargy and wanted enthusiasm, and we are unworthy of an honest and prosperous govern ment. A Correction. Editors Orangeburg Democrat: In looking over Reynold's Reader! I find tho following lines, ?'The boy stood on the burning deck, | Whence all but Ac had lied." 1 desire to know who is responsl i lue for such a gross mistake. J can not think fur one moment that ihe gifted DrT>itJ is at fault, and why? Because he was a ripe scholar. Free schools in South Carolina arc subject to a ?real, many inconveniences and impcif clions. The chief ilia whack, however, is the want of money. We ecilsinty have "tho science of the En glish language p'oi feet*," and have had j for centuries, and while we are read)*! to give all honor to LcContc, Fur man, Tie ton, La Borde, Martin, Tim rod and a host of others, wo say all piaisc i-> tho gifted; and -the pure liey'nofd.i, whose contributions to En glish Literature arc as chaste as die siio v is while. If .Justuss K. Jilson wet*- our cducacional head he would probably have said, ??Wall, ats right,.! 7 gass," or near enough f;r> to suit hiin, and it would . lie necessary to explain that tin; word ??but"' may be eithei one of three parts of speech,; according to meaning, and that when i wo can pit I "?except" in its plttc?Vjd becomes or is a preposition, and be-1 tng a proposition governs the objoc live case, consequently Ac should bo him in the foregoing lines. ,The late editors will \i\\u due notice and gov-l cm themreives accordingly. A. A. Coxnok. The State of South Carolina?the United Slates?calls upon all Demo crats to rally to the cause of a just, honest ami,economical administration of both State and Federal allairs. An issue is upon us in South Carolina worse than that of lsTO. That was j for tho mere redemption of tho State ; this is for the salvation of the nation. Cigars Lighted With Greenbncks. Mrs. Eiiimn Sims, residing at No. l.?-25 Fifth sttcet- Nortlnvc:.!, Wash ? ington City, but slopping in Balti more, dropped a pocket of notes, j amounting to $1^380, from her poek | et on North Gay streut, near Dallas sucot, about 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Tlio money, somewhat scat tered about, was picked up by Mr. John Myers, lie. remembered that it was the day of Ihe grand procession, nnd looked upon lue shower of green backs as a sham or some advertising delusion. He at once resolved to ! ujuka it a complete give away, und handed around tho money to all who desired it with tin abandon beautiful to behold. Scenes that were ludii , crdus in the extreme ensiled, though ' tllctr eirarng was serious; The idea of Mr. Mj eis took readily, nnd live con! cigars were cooly lighted with twenty dollar notes, nearly all the money being in notes of that denomi nation. Mrs. Sims informed olllcer Gibson of her loss. He hastened lo the spot, and managed to recover $M>??o? ti>o amu-mf. Tin; discovery of tho facts caused couslernauoD uniting flu>so wdio had so freely liiadO away with what they believed lo be bogus ticasti c. The ca n is (loci led? ly oiu: -of 'the most singular on re cord,, ? Baltimore &'?/?. The Republican Policy. Those who imagine that there is Hille or no coolest ibis ycur over the j Stale . ami electoral tickets in South Carolina are' very badly mistaken. Only a few days ago General Stol brnnd, tho Republican nominee for Congress in this District, gavo the following intimation ol Republican policy in this campaign : "AsRepub ? licahs. knowing air adversaries by their acts in.the past, it behooves us to prepare against Democratic arith metic in.the future, for it is by Ibis science that the candidates upon the Republican ticket have been counted out, "however largo the majorities given them at the polls. We must appoint at once cflicicnt enumerators in every' township, lo make lists of the voters, and designate therein all who arc willing lo disclose to the enu merator their preferred ticket. By repealing this classification of the voles at the polls, by taking clown the name of .every voter when in the act of casting his ballot, the enumerators aiul poll watchers will be enabled to make oath, not only of tho number of votes oast, but also to call before any investigating tribunal every Republi can vbtcr who appeared and cast his ballot at tlie election, and thus prove pur case arid prevent opponents, how ever expert-ill the Deiuocialic election arithmetic*, from such a w alk over, a by our no&lcct aik) default, they have had berctolbro." From this tl will be scon that tlie most through organiza tion is being cllecied by ike Republi cans throughout the State. The only remedy for ibis is a full vote by the Democrats and a careful watching of the polls. We can beat the Republi can parly and wc must do it. Every man owes his tiim: and service lo the Stale in this cause. It will never do for a' moment to run the risk of letting I the. old ihoives and robbers back in-j u/ power in South Carolina.?Anders i son Intel igenccr. The electoral ticket of this State is i in danger. The nation is dependingi upon South Carolina to do her duty.! The civilization and liberty of the' country is at stake. Tho Cash Trial. It is now thought that the disposi tion of the Cash case in Darlington last week is the last that will be heard of it in the courts. It was one that created a great deal of interest among tho people all over the State, an'd they looked forward lo this trial to solve the question whether or not ; the law against dueling was of any j force. Practically, it.has been tlo'cUl ! cd that it is noi. With tho evidence j that is before everybody and the ad missions of Colonel Cash himself, tho people ate at a loss to account fur the action of the Attorney Genera) i:i h'.s 'declaration tliat he cannot pro cure si Hicicnl evidence to make out a j presentment to tho grand jury against j him. To all' ot'otir citizens it is a mysterious atlair, and a great deal ! more light will have to be thrown, I upon tho matter before they trill be j lieve that everything is all right, j The idea that there is?uo evidence to I be found, or that there has not been sulllcient lime lo Und it is absurd to i all of them.?Camdan Journal. -4-. The citizeu of South Carolina who, at ihc coining election, opposes any candidate of the Dcmocralic party is his own enemy and the enemy of the I Stale. . j A love romance had ti sad ending in Lawinb?rg, North Carolina, on last Wednesday. It seems ' hat Miss Alice Ski rr, one, of. the beauties ofthat place, has been Otigcged to l!;o liov. John Kost Ofling, a young clergyman. 11c recently determined lo go to Chitin as a missionary. The young lady re fused to go with him, whereupon he said ho would go without her. Iii? , decision has caused her lo become a raving maniac. If Sou :, Carolina la lost to ihe Democracy '.ids year, we., may bid a long farewell to decent anil honest ] government. f ' T|Wiiite Men, Awake. \ ; ' Tuo-Demoernls have never had, si moi8 :<dnngcVoii5 campaign in thia State than the present one. The Re-" publicans arc malting coiistnnt and insidious elforts to capture the'Stale ; and yet it seems almost impossible to convince our. people that there' is- any possible danger. Their wbrk is qttict, Out \i is thorough ; and every portion of tho State wiUjbo catiVu'ised just at the Close of the campaign,, and afluf it is loo late for us elleetiveiy to hb do tha , (uischtcf .their mcctingsJ 'will work.j. They prol'css to run no ticket, bultlien the Grecnbackeas have given thelp a ticket lor State officers, which thejj will suppoitiT lbuml to possess any,strength. In fact, it looks to us very much like a;ba;gaiu bctweon the Republicans and <ibe Greonbackcrs, for Stic latter candi'ave no hope what everof* cai rying the State against the Democrats except by Republican voles.; They could not give ftnuion electoral ticket with the Republicans, Cor thaL would be too plain, so they nou/inale a Ail I'd set of clcctois; so that every man that voles lor them will be. helping to keep down the, vote for the Democratic electors, and as sisling the chances'of the Mate's vot,e being cast for Garlield. And this is . no .child's play, we have not votes enohgh- to -spaic any lo such move ments as thisj which arc only Radical rus'JS to divide the Democratic vote is ;rder that they may win. As Hi llens \vc may think of Rye ?iituhtton in South Carolina today, it is a grave, very grave oho, indeed, if thq Democrats of the whole Stale, and pr.^lieularly of tho middle and upper eoimlics, do not arouse themselves for l)ij"contest, and use. every possible c?ytlt lo secure the presence of every. J hMnoprajdc voter at the palls, ami to i?li.tngo-?a3 many Republicans as pos si we both before and at the clectitln. -WKh tv full vote, Utfci goorl^ofi-rnesl, i intelligent work, wo are safe, but with a failure to turn out, and an I over-confidence which amounts to in difference or lethargy, we will bcnt \ch. This wc cannot afford* it would he unworthy in us to allow it. Our, t - ? ? 1 j whole people should not lose an op portunity from this lime lo tho elec tion to make a Democratic voto, or I to persuade a Republican to stay [away from the polls. It is ...uc now I lo come down to good, steady work, systematic work. K\;ery Democrat should select out one colored man j and persuade him lo vole the Demo i oratio ticket in November. Show bun j the benefits of Democratic rule, and I the evils to come from the return to i power of the Republican party. As j we prizo good government, as we j love our country, and us we wish to ?promote our own and our children's 1 prosperity, we should work faithfully and cheerfully for an overwhelming j victory in November.?Edyijic'd Ad vertiser. Democrats arouse yourselves. A dangerous light is ahead. If the Democrats divide, the Republicans j will win. Mark this. As Mrs. Raelud Dedcrick of Cairo, jGieenu County, N. V., was ciossing a held of blackberry brush she was stopped by a queoi sound. Her ac quaintance w ith snakes sunn satisfied her that the lioiso was the whistle of a black sunku known as tho racer, and she started on a run. The souke soon overtook her, and immediately began coiling itself about her body. I With only a small tin palu ;b a wea- I pon ol defence, she fought desperate ly, but at a disadvantage, and the coils \vcrc drawn tighter until the snake got one a round bur ueck and throat and she fainted. Iler husband, having hoard In r screams, hurried to her relief, and found her unconscious bii tho ground. He killed the ."Make and carried his wife h?hte1?*buti shb curried, tor days a i>!t?<? mark'on her throat'. Thu snake was us huge around as a man's wrist and nc*hrly twclvo feet long. Contemplate our condition if we al low the Radical thieves to be rein stated in this Slate ibis year. . . The Census Correot^ It was asserted in every Republi can pnpcr.anc) proclaniod from ? every stump in ihedSortb that the late cen bus return's of the South, and particu laily those of Sduth Carolina, were grossly, incorrect and that very nearly .in every county there were evidences of fraud upon the face of every ro turn'. The strongest pressure was brought lo bear upon the Commission er .at Washington in order to have the work done over again . by 'Republican enumerators, ostensible td seChre'a ?correct enrollment of' the inhabitants of our Stale. . Recent' de velopetmhils, however,.indicate that ihls laudable spirit of right and of justice on the part of tho Republicans was prompted by a desire to increase tho strength of their, party, rather than to secure a true return of the in habitants. Hating and wishing to break) the i influence of tho "Solid South" they would supplement ballot box stutllng fby<-traudulcn*, manipula tions of census returns. This little jobj'h?wcver,' has been Jbruelly ex ploded by the reports of the.bdxpefts whom Commissioner-t ? AV.ulkcr sent here to investigate and examine the lists as,made out by our.own enumer ators. These reports prove not only, that the returns are correct in every particular, but that the census taken in 1870 by the Ru?ical, party ; was criminally incomplete?.the. ; veriest farce in the world?and made so in tentionally to serve dishonest politi cal purposes. Surely the Republican party will have dope with investigating Demo cratic actions since each investigation recoils upon their own pat?s with re doubled shame. Wrhclber the incom pleteness of the census of 1870 was due to imperfections in the law, does not signify anything because the law uuder which it was made was the work [ tho Republican partyj but. ilia lata enumeration was in a large measure the work of Democrats and is a cor rect enrollment of the population of the state. The discrepancy between them oulyrenders the fraudulent in leution of the first more apparent. Tho security which tho Democracy seems to feel is falso and deceptive. The hardest fought battle since recon struction will be waged on the second day of .November. The county ticket published by the Grccnbackcrs illustrate* its absence,of fixed principles and ideas of policy, except lo Unite with' any oute to de feat nil ins. In this short list we ; have a political wbat-is-it styling him self now an ''Independent Democrat," several Republicans, an '?Independ ent Republican," and the balance of Greenbackers?lour distinct factious, besides the countless variety of shades of opinion represented by Judge Cookc. We note with morti fication and regret, however, that the colored brother who is to do all . the voting is not even mentioned for an olllce. It's the Green back-Labor par ly with a vengeance?ihc while backs lo get the "greenbacks" and the blacks do the "labor." That ia ex actly where tho "Greenback-Labor" comes in.?Gr? nvV.h- News. Ornugcburg County will give 1,000 Democratic majority. But every man must do bis duty. Lot us all work {jay and night until our county and State is safe. Tjik lion. George W. Jones, of Tennessee, a strong State-credit Democrat, offers to be one of two ; thousand to pay Ihc State debt, re lieve his State of a stain, restore its credit, preserve;its honor and bring I about an era of progress, thrift and J prosperity. Iiis share would- bo , about $l'),/j00, assuming that the cred 1 itors would take iitiy cunts in cash, or about.08^000 on their oiler to take Sixty cents. Mr. Uo'rics' opposed the 'creation of ? hi'.'go pot lion of this [debt, but lie has do d?>ubt of its vatb 12... I dtty, The Democrats will succeed on the 2nd of November. 1 I.e... ? ?..?"! i I H . I A Sketch of Judge Cooke ] The News and Courier says of ex Judge Cooke: Judge Cook jjB?anativo of South Carolina. In 1874 ho waa elected Judge of the Eighth Circuit, and served upon the bench until the expiration of his term of office in 1878. He Was elected Judge* t>y a Republican Legislature as a member of the Republican party; defeating Gen. McGowan, who was the Demo cratic candidate arid bis strongest? op ponent.* He continued to act with the Republican party until the au tumn of 1876, when ho declared thnt he could not support such 'nominees as ' Chamberlain and Elliott, and at the meeting In Abbeville in Septem ber renounced his allegiance to the party of plunder and became a most bitter and uncompromising Democrat. In 1878 to failed to bo 're-elected Judge, and went into the canvass in Greenville County as a candidate for member of the Legislature land 5was ?elected by Democratic VoteaV"' He sate in the Legislature at the sessions of 1878 and 1879, and the opening of the present campaign 'published a card declining 'to'beconle a candi date, >alleging that the' Democratic party had not kept faith wi(b him. He is now a candidate*^'foVtbe-State Senate, and wilj be.sypimr'OS'd:try the Greenback, Independent .find Radical yo.ter*; of-Gteenville Couuty. , Even with this support he cannot bn elected but his pi cd eat desertion of the Dt> mocrocy shows how much fmth can be placed in the declarations of auch a man as ho has p: oved himself to be. On the bench and off it, Mr. Cooke was brilliantly successful a a judicial alcoholometer. Leading lawyers hold that, in other respects, he failed conspicuously. But he . delivered maudlin lectures on temperance to i the disgust of the grand jurjea to whom they were addressed. In the Leghjjaiure, lie .did ,noj.. originate a single measure of any public * good, and made only a third-rate member. The object nearest his pericadum waa to obtain payment of some arrears of salary as Judge which, fee claimed were due. n^aaw 11.w ik While the Radical party-was is power Judge Cooke waa in full fellow ship with the thlevce: and assassins of the period. In 1876 bei--waa a pronounced Democrat partisan, and us loug as ofllces were plentiful ho claimed connection witb this parly but now he has thrown oil his disguiso and like the sow of.the Scriptures, has returned to his wallowing in the mire. He affected to be politically honest in '76 because he. thought that would be the cheapest way - to'make a living, and now he hopes ?o get into otliee again by turning his coat and goinj; n'gaiiist the party he claims to have helped to get into power. Ho stauds before th? country So hi-.i true light at last, and is unW?rtby of the support of either pollticiV party or of any intelligent voter. , It were J better to give over the government to the Radical party at once than1 to be stow public cfTIccs upon ? m?rnl and political uncertainty of the typo ot T. ii.Cuokc.:/\'iTii ' \ .:, \ ifi Mil' lo fetfrtaildooftSI mAl i A pall of the blackest dtsffcdr will hang over South Carolina if iwe are defeated this year! We will be de feated if we fail to discharge our duty. xj 1 j Voters should not lose their inter est in the election on the 2d of nex*". November. They should remember that everything they bold near and dear and is worth living for in this State depends upon the results of tuo election. If they desiro the continu ance of good, economical and intelll jgent government, they should vote I the Democratic deket; but if they I desire a corrupt, vicious h\id ignorant 'government, they should voto tho - i:?Mical ticket. HonctUy arid intelli ig.nee stund upon tho one band ; ve? juuUiyaud1 ignorunto upon the other. Take.y our.cljojce.?I'icktua c$cntind. 1 ' Every thinking mane"cttrf-see the importance of electing a-?dWocrat to Congress from this DistricW d Let Or anjcbufg'cTb'n'er full duty^