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tHE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1$50. Consolidated Au?. 2, ISSI,] SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 8, 1890. Sew Series-Yol. IX. M 22, Published every ^Tedacsday, BY N. GK ?STEEN, SUMTER, S. C. TH RMS : Two Dollars per annum-in advance. AO VS8TIS??SNTS. One Square, first insertion.$1 Oft j Every subsequent insertion. 50 j Contracts for three mont-hs, or longer will I be made at reduced rales. All communications which subserve private interests will becharged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. R. W. BRABHAM, Wheelwright and Blacksmith SUMTER, S. C. IAM PREPARED TO REPAIR AND j Rebuild, as weil as to buiid outright, ail kinds of Vehicles. HORSE-SHOEING A SPECIALTY. Also repair all parts of hrok?n Machinery. Keep on hand a stock of Check and G?o**?e Valves and Fittings. Also keep Pumps on L-and and put tiu-m down. I handle the SMITH'S SONS IMPROVED GIN. j which is aa good as any on lae market, and , gives entire & tisfactioa. Aug 21_ PRACTICAL HARNESS MAKER, i SUMTER, S. C., Has now in Stock, H trness. Collars. Saddles. Bridle?, Halters, Whips, Buzey Cushions, Buggy Aprons. Hames* Oil, Harness Dress? ing, Pads and Sweat Collars, -ALSO Saddlery Hardware and Horse Goods of all description. Repairing done at lowest possible prices for cash. Sept 25 IMPERIAL EGO FOOD, FOR ALL VARIETIES OF POULTRY. Will MAKE YOUR HENS LAY ! It keeps fowls in best condition, and m?kes poultry the most profitable stock on the fa-:.:. When the Ic.peri?! Egg /ood is fed accord? ing to directions, sick and drooping chicks will never be seen. It supplies a!; t!.e need? ed material for forming hone, muscle, and fea'hers, and by its gentle tontceffect strength? ens the digestive organs and ia\s the founda? tion for vigorous, healthy, and therefore, profitable fowls. They wi;l also be fitted f?>: market a mouth earlier thau by common treatment. For sale bv Dr. A. J. CHINA. Marcb 20. h P. W . iteLOi?Mf , Agent. -DSALEK IN TOILET SOAPS, PERFUMERY AND ALL KINDS OF Druggist's Sundries USUALLY KXPT IN \ FIKST-CLAbS DKU<? STORE. Tobacco, Snuff and Se?ars> GARDEN SEEDS. &<_:., -ALSO Paints, Oils, Varnishes, GLASS, PUTTY. &c. DYE STUFFS. -o Physician's Prescriptions careful!} compounded, and orders answered j with care and dispatch. The public will find my etock of i Medicines complete, warranted g^nii- i joe, a?d of tiie best quality. Call and see for yourselves. HPAT RONIZE ! HOME TALENT, j Life-Size Portraits in Crayon, i MADE FROM PHOTOGRAPHS, SUMTER, S. C. -BY MRS. E. J. DUNNS. Also prepared to teach a class in I Drawing and Music Jan - 30. Dr. T. W. BOOKHART, DENTAL SURGEON. Office over Bultman & Bro.'sShoe Store. ENTRA y CE OX MAIN STREET. SUMTER, S C. Office Hours-9 to 1:30 ; 2:30 to 5. April 17-o G. W. DICE, D. D. S. Office ove-Bog! n s N<*w Store, S .YTHAN CK OV MAIN STliKKT, SUMTER. S. C. Office Hours.-9 to 1:30 ; 2t:30 to 5. Sept 8 BTGTGIBSONr COTTON BUYER. HIGHEST CAS il PRICES PAID j Office at W. H. Yates' well known I Grocery Store, Main Street. Sept ll IOTNG EVCIIINES ! REPAIRED, RENOVATED, REBUILT, j Glass Lamps mended. Satisfaction Gt?aranteed. MAIN STREET, SUMTER, S. C., Opposite Court House, next door to Kicker?. | Second-hand Machines in good order tor gale. }iof. 6-3m. OUI! NEW STOCK is We are Chock Full -OF BARGAINS -IN AU Departments. Call and get our prices before j nu relias in ir. ALTAMONT MOSES M? mma We are Agents for several large F i rt E ?BSQT?nec Compai?ies. We take lvi>ks on GINS and GIN HOUSES, RESIDENCES, &c. B?RTOW WALSH Would inform the public th u he has accepted the Agency tor the saie of "Dr. Sire's Iloyal Sermetenr," the best Proprietary Medicine ever sold in this country, for Dyspepsia, Sick Headaches, Indigestion. Summer Complaint, Choiera In? fantum, Insomnia and all diseases arising from an impoverished condition of the blood. A few bottles will make you feel like a new person Cures ??!! Female Complaint? and i* a specific for Chills ar: i Fever, and all sk i ri diseases from Itch to Eczema. Wo:.ld reter yon to 'tie following persons, who have used il either for themselves or families : J D. Craig. J F? Roach. N. P. Lenoir, C. F A. Baltman, W. Murray, ii. Brad -.veil, L. W. Folsom, ?i. R.N;<J>. C '. With? erspoon, I> M Richardson. W. H.Brvan, Rev. C C Brown, L. I. Pnrrott, C.* L Stubbs, J. N. Brand. E ii Rharn*, (;-(>. F. Epperson, A. P. Levy, C F. ??. Buitrean. L. E White. L, I). Jervey, Jam*-s Gaillard, Rev. John Kershaw. A. B. Stuckey, E. B Shaw and a number of others who arc usdug it now. nod from whom I have not learned the result 1 have jriven il a thorough t?-=; HiVSelf before attempting to sell it. flavt sold 43 gallons in two months, and no adver? tisement until ::"'.v Th: re ;.- r.o'iiir,?: ?ike i;. No family should he without it, "Germe tetjr cures PileSv" Put up in 2 quart bottles, at $1.50 per bottle. ii iRTOW WALSH. At Bnitman ,v Bro.'s Shoe S'ore. A nc 21. Sportsisai?'s Hsa?lGiiar?ers. F. W. KUSEMANN, GUN-MAKER, COLOI I>I A, S. G. DEA LEK IN Guns, Pis?ols and Fishing Tackle, Agent for Haz ird and A tlas Powder Com nanie3, also Agent i'>: ? ?efe ?.er Armss Co. AMMUNITION <:;." A!.I, KIXDS. Shells Loaded by Latest Improved Machir.fr. First-Class Gun Work Guaranteed. PRICKS AS EOW AS THE LOWEST, ffcis" Give me H call at Sportsman's !?>-i->o qaarter.?. < ><.' Z*i o WILLIAM KENNEDY. Fashionable Barber. MAIN STREET, Next doo! to K -le & purdy's Law (?ihre. SUMTER, S. C. 1DESIRE TO INFORM the citizens ol Sumter and viciniu that I have opened business on ray own account at the above old Stand, an<l trnt wi?h competent and polite assistants. 1 will be pleased to serv? them in any branch of my business in the best st) k ol the art. Give me a call. WM. KENNEDY. Oct. 19. ?! ULM Jilli inti AT BOTTOM PRICES WATCI?M m soonm m mia This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and can? not he sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cons. ROYAL BAK? ING POWDER CO., 106 Wall-st., N. Y. kTARRH y5s Cream Balm Cleanses the Nasal Passages. Al? lays Inflammation. Heals tho Sores. Bestores the Senses cf Taste, Smell and Hearing. A particle isnf?;di?-d into i?nch nostril and is ajcrecsible. I'riee?iOe. nt Druccim* or hy cta?. ELY BKO*i7?E??S.50 Warren St..New York. THE SIHOSDS NATIONAL BASK, OF SUMTER. STATE, CITY A NI? COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, .SUMTER, S. C. Paid up Capital .$75,000 00 Surplus F.ind. 7,500 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful atteution given to collections. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Pepos?*? of Si and upwards received. in? te; ?V. ai lov. ed ?t the rate of 4 per cent per .ii:!.i.:n Payable quarterly, on first days of Jutiuarv, Auril, Jnl\ and Octoher. ' K. M. WALLACE, Vice President. W. ALSTON PRINGLE JR., An 2 7 Cashier. ii mi i ma SUMTER, S C. CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY. Transacts a general Banking business. Also hf? A Savings Bank Department, Deposits of Si 00 and upwards received. ?nielr?l calculated ;tt the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, payable quarterly W. F. B. HAYNS WORTH, A. WHITE, Ja., President. Cannier. Ans 21. TAX RETURNS FOR 18S9-9? r)KTURNS of Personal Property, Polls ^ and Rt-nl Estate will he received at the following tim*-s and pinces; Ou Tuesday, January 7th, ai Tin? dall^ Store. On Wednesday, January Sib, at R. [. Manning's. On Thursday, January 0th, Wedge? field. On Friday, January 10th, at Gor? don's M i il. On Monday, January 13th, tit John- ; ston's Store. OD Tuesday, January 14th, at Shi? loh. J : On Wednesday, January 15:h, at Lynch burg. Ou Tbnr.-day, January 16:h, at Ma* ?J :/l itt. OJ Friday, January 17ih, at Mayes uile. i)n Monday, January "20th, at Cor? bett's Store. On Tuesday and Wednesday Janu? ar) 21st and 22nd, at HishopviUe. On Thursday, January 23rd, at Man? ville. On Fri lay, January 2-1:"hf at Spring Hill On Saturday, January 25th ;;t Mc-j chantcsvillfi. OJ M md-ty, J itinary 27ih, at State barg. On Tuesday, January 2Stb, at uk>.1. On Wednesday, January 2Dth, al ; Rem bul t's. On Thursday, January .*><!tii, at Scarborough's Store. And At the Auditor's Oiltce in Sumter on all other days from January 1st to Feb 20th, j inclusive. As th:s is th?' year for returning I K'-ti Estate, Tax-payers are requested to make ' full returns of all Real Estate owned <>n 1st j January, \ 6'.< >. and notices of any transfers. I W. R. DELGAR, Dee. ? Feh 20- Auditor Sumter Co. EXTRA FINE SWAMP TIM? BERED LAND FOR SALE, i i :? . o \, ;. : ,.f r.i,,j<, TIM HERE I) LAND i situated neat Claremont I'-?.ti!, Camden ! /'ranch South Carolina I! lilwu; W . ll wood? ed willi Oak. Hickory, llollv, Sweet O'lm. Black Gum, Poplar, Maple, Ash and Cypress, j Tins is a splendid body of Land, lying ? most conveniently tor tran por talion. The tract is known ns the Samuel J. Brad- i ley Land-is bonnded liv the Wateree River j on the west and on the other sities hy lands ; of Hons.', Bradley, Pinckney ?Hiwa$see}j Caldwell and Brayton. 'I itles clear and per- ; feet. Pial or: record nt Sumter Court House. For terms and pric? apply 'o j " E. W. M Ol?- E. Dt c. lo Sumter i'. C. | An Historical Warning. The Looting of South Carolina by a Combination of Criminality and Ignorance. National Democrat. History is made 6o rapidly in this age aod country that great events sooo lose their impress upon the popular mind. In the olden times a revolution -a radical change iu government made an impression that was transmitted from f-ither to son for generations. But now, that the electric telegraph through the press, heralds the news from every quarter of the world, and presents it to us each morning, telling of the ravages of war and pestilence, of fire and flood, of empires overturned and republics founded ; there is little time left to dwell on the events of a past generation. And if this oblivion of the past were confined to thiogs that should be forgot? ten-to strifes and hatreds between nations and peoples of the same nations, it would be well. But unfortunately oblivion obliterates the memory of events which should be treasured up as thc results of experience and which should serve as beacon lights to warn or to guide the nations in future times. Of this character were the eveots of the period of reconstruction. The people of the South, indeed, will not soon forget the humiliation to which they were subjected ; but the Northern majority, it would seem, only remember to deplore the loss of the power which inflicted, and which might renew it. The reconstruction acts were con? ceived in malice and brought forth in iniquity. For, while they stripped of every political right the governing clashes of the South, that is to say all who had ever been entrusted with re? sponsible office, aud all who professed a competency, they clothed with these franchises every ignorant and illiterate black man who had just beeu released from slavery. They were as far as possible removed from the sphere of statesmanship, and history will assign them to the category of crimes committed in the name of liberty. Their authors who survive bhculd hide their faces for shame as often as they are named. Better a thousand times to have held the South under military rule thau to have subjected its people to the ignominy of being governed by their former slaves uuder the crafty leadership of the Northern demagogues who overran the country. The authors of the act had DO con? stitutional scruples about the appro? priation of moDey for the education of the negroes, as was shown by the establishment of the Freedman's Bureau professedly for the support and educa? tion of the destitute aud helpless class, but which was used as a political ma chiue, and with such views of the powers of Cougress the slightest tinc? ture of an honest purpose would have prompted a liberal appropriation for the education of the utterly illiterate aod ignorant freedmen, before conferring ou them the right of suffrage aod of holding office. The Congressional majority were aware that in two of the Southern States io 1800 the negroes constituted a decided majority of population ; that in South Carolina the black majority amounted to nearly two to one ; that in Mississippi there were nearly three blacks to two whites ; while in Louisia? na the races were nearly equal in uum bers ; that in Alabama and Virginia the difference io uumbers was not great, and that in the other States which were required to pass under the coudiue yoke there were large numbers of negroes constituting considerable mi? norities. The first election under the recon? struction act, for the choice of delegates to conventions to remodel the State constitutions, to elect Governors, all State officers, Legislatures and Con? gressmen, were ordered and supervised by the military commanders, while the polls were watched by the soldiers. There was in every State, at the same time, an army of politico-military ad? venturers, who made it their business to teach the negroes to distrust and hate their ol tl masters and to put their trust in themselves. These Northern ad venturers, who went South, carpet bag in hand, to recruit their fortunes, found followers, not only among the honest Union men of the mountain districts, but among the meaner sort of secession politicians, who had clamored loudest for secession and slavery while secession and slavery were in the ascendant. TUE SUBJUGATION' OF THE WHITE RACK. With these appliances, the recon? struction acts were eminently successful in the accomplishment of the purpose for which they were designed, viz: the subjugation of the white race to the tule of their former slaves. Every State succumbed. Society was turned j upside down, and downside up. Thc carpet-baggers, alien it? feeling, from distant States, having nothing in com- i mon with the people uf the S"Ulh. I dictated constitutions, laws and lavish I appropriations ; while they themselves i took the bist offices, or divided them j with native apostates to the cause they j had professed to love so much. The impoverished States were plunged in debt to the extent of seores of millions, by the appropriations tor railroad com? panies. Bonds were i.-su'<l, commit? tees chiefly composed of carpet-baggers | were sent to New \ 01 k to sell them. They wen; placed on the market, and pretended sales were effected, by pass? ing them from one to tin: other. At length they would be disposed of, never for so much as tiffy cents on the dollar and som; times as low aa nine or fen cents. The proceeds were then paid out to syndicates, or stolen, and the j roads were never built. In North Carolina -onie twenty-live million* were ! thus disposed of, and to this day, Mor? ton and Bliss, of New York, are sucing j the State for a trifle ol three millions j worth of such bonds, issued tn violation of the Constitution which the knaves had themselves made. The United States Circuit judge at Haleigh, two years ago, gave a decree in equity for the payment of these fraudulent bonds, with compound interest running for twenty years. The Supreme Court of the State had declared that elass of bonds to have been issued in violation of the Constitution, and therefor? void-. The United States District Judge, a native of Connecticut, dissented froc the decision of the non-reeident circui judge; but the dissent of the dtstric judge goes for nothing; and now, fo more than a year, the case on appea by the State, has been before the Su preme Court of the United States. A CORRUPTION SYNDICATE. Pending the decision of the conven tion st Haleigh in 1868, and of th "Legislature" elected at the same time under military order and supervision there was established and maintained a Raleigh a syndicate which was endowet with a corruption fund amounting ti ^241,000, to be used, and which wa used in purchasing Legislative votes il favor of railroad charters. A subse quent investigation two or three year later, when the Democrats secured ; majority in the Legislature, proved tha nearly every prominent man in the bod] in 1868-'9, when the charters wer granted, was bribed. The commissioi consisted of gentlemen of high character and their report is styled "The Fraut Commission Report." It is a mine 0 valuable information upon the practica working of the reconstruction acts. But the most Oagrant acts of misruh under the reconstruction acts is pre sented in the history of South Carolin! at that period. The Legislature of th< State consisted of 33 Senators and 12 members of the House of Representa tives. Of the 33 Senators elected it 1868, 9 were negroes and 24 wert whites, and of the 'latter class 7 wen Democrats, or white men in sympathy with the white people of the State The House of Representatives con aisled of 124 members, and of these 48 were white and 76 were negroes and of the whites 14 were Democrat! or men in favor of white men's rights OD joint ballot, therefore, the negroet were in a majority, namely, 85 to 72: and the negroes and Republican white: amounted to 136, while the Democrats who represented the white race and their interests, aroouuted to only 21. This is the condition of parties which the Republican leaders now propose t( re-establish in South Carolina, by the passage and enforcement of rigid laws for the conduct of elections. It maj be true that they will not attempt t( regulate State elections at 6rst, but we see no reason why not, since it may be alleged that Uuited States Senators are elected by the State Legislatures. At any rate, since it happens that the State elections are everywhere held in con? junction with Congressional and Presi deotial elections, the supervisors to be appointed from Washington will be ex? pected to exercise a wholesome terror over the voters. CARPET-BAG FINANCE. Rut it will be interesting to the generation that has grown to manhood sioce these events occurred to learn how the negro Legislature, under tho leader ship of the carpet-baggers and native Republicans, managed affairs ; and we find in the "American Annual" 'Cycol paclia" a statement, from year to year, some of the fact* to which we would draw attention. The composition of the Legislature has already been stated. The volume for 1868 has a statement of the financial condition of South Carolina when the literally black Re? publican party came into power. It is sufficient to state, in brief, that the bonded debt of the State was ?5,407, 000. and that the annual expenses of the Legislature, under the rule of the white race, had been about ?45.000. In 1866 the receipts into the Treasury had been $477,743, which was perhaps something less than the expenditures. This was the year before the military authorities took cootrol of the State Government. When the negro Legis? lature came into power they began to run up the scale of expenditures and of appropriations. The Legislative ex? penses leaped up from ?45,000 to ?400.000, and the auuual cost of the State Government from half a milliou to about two millions. "The Governor, in his message to the Legislature of 1871-72."says the Cyclopscdist, "which convened on the 22d of November, charged this L?gislature with gross extravagance. He stated that the sum nf ?202 556 34 was expended in print? ing alone ; that $29.814.05 additional were drawn on the order of the Presi? dent of the Senate and Speaker of the House for "contingent expenses'' and that the appropriations, including those vetoed by the Executive, aggregate a total of ?480.000. "The financial condition of the State is represeoted as "deplorable. The bonded debt has increased several mil? lions .since 1808, exactly how many is a question ol dispute, and the revenues of the State are inadequate for its sup? port," On the 5th of November, 1371. the Governor, lt. K Scott, Treasurer Niles G Parker and John }i Dennis, chairman of the committee of S^ate ac? counts, made the following statement : To the PiiliHc : Many false repr?sen? t?t ions and statements have been made and published against the credit of the State of S'>uth Carolina It is true that ?20.040.000 of bonds have been print Jd, of which amount ?9.000,000 have ! never been signed or issued, nor were they printed with the intention to in? crease the State debt, but aie ttl the j possession of the State authorities ; also ; So 500,000 sterling bonds have been printed, but. not is-u.-d. aud ?2,5?0,-1 OOO ol registered stock ate now in the hands of the Treasurer of the State, j being a balance of ?5,040,000 issued.'' ? The Governor fails to explain in this ! eau], why these ?23.540 OOO State bonds were printed lint in his annu- ; al message, according to tile statement j of Cyclop;^list, tho reason is made plain. For it is said that, "regarding I the alleged over-issue of bonds, he said ?hat, by the combined effort of thc op- i potents of his administration, including 1 the Chamber of Commerce and H ?ard ? . d Trade nf Charleston, tn depreciate ' the bonds heretofore issued their purchas? ing value was seriously diminished, and if was necessary to increase the amount of bonds to raise the given amount of! moo ev called for by thc several laws of thc Stales " WA TER KB SECURITIES Here we have the explanation. If a j nominal five millions of bonds would ; < not sufiice to raise five millions of j money, twenty-three millions five hun? dred thousand niigfof answer that end*. But whether the bonds should* sell at . par, or at twenty ceDts on the dollar, j the tax payers of South Carolina were | < to be required to pay interest on, aud j < redeem the principal amount of twenty j aud odd millioos. i The Secretary of State of South Car- ? olina, Cardozo,a man of color, "refused I to affix the State seal to certain bonds I issued and signed by the Governor, and I an order was obtained on petition of the Governor and Treasurer from the Cir cuit Court at Columbia, commanding him to show cause why a peremptory writ of mandamus should not issue com? pelling him to do so. In his reply, Mr. 1 Cardozo said that he was not authorized to affix the seal *o any bonds 'except 1 for the conversion of bonds or stock ! already issued pursuant to law/ and that the pretended bonds of the petition . ers 'for the conversion of which bonds of the State are now sought to be sealed," were not issued pursuant to law. He '. further stated that be believed the pre? tended bonds of the petitioners had been already once converted into other bonds of the State ; and that he had sealed bonds for the purpose in June, 1871. And, finally, be says, in his answer, that the bonds were unconsti? tutionally issued." Cardozo further stated tba' the Gov? ernor had issued and signed six millions of bonds in violation of law, and appro? priated them to unlawful purposes. Cardozo was overruled by the Court. Mr. Gary, the State auditor, was re? moved for the reason that he had re? fused to levy a tax to pay interest upon the fraudulent debt of the State. Com? mon houesty was at as great a discount io South Carolina as the State credit in those days. The public debt ia South Carolina bad risen, at the close of the year 1873, to $20,333,901.10. The election in 1872 for State officers resulted as follows : For Governor, Franklin J. Moses, Jr ; Lieutenant Governor, Richard H. Gleaves (colored) ; Secretary of State, Henry E. Mayne (colored); Attorney General, Samuel W. Melton ; State Treasurer, Francis L. Cardozo (color? ed) ; Comptroller General, Samuel L. Iloge ; Adjutant aod Inspector General, Henry W. Purvis ; Superintendent of Education, Justus K. Jillson. IGNORANCE IN ALLIANCE WITH KNAVERY. The career of Moses, the Governor, from the time he left the Gubernatorial chair, is more familiar to the police of the Northero cities than tc the public. The fact is known to the world that his Excellency has honored more than one Penitentiary by bis residence, but how many, it would be necessary to examine files of the Police Gazette in order to determine. Of the other high officials of South Carolina at that period it is sufficient to say that their management of the finances of the State sufficiently attest their worth. We refer the ques? tion to the consideration of Mr. Chan? dler, when drawing his bill, the object of which is to bring about the halcyon days, when ignorance, in alliance with knavery, held sway in the sunny South. The fact cannot have escaped the notice of the New Hampshire Senator, that, his party friends in South Carolina showed their appreciation of the peculiar talents of Mosts, by promoting him from the empty and inconsequential position of Adjutant and Inspector General of the Militia, to which he was at first assign? ed, to that of Chief Magistrate of the State. lu 1875, at the expiration of the term of Moses as governor, he was elected one of the Circuit Judges of the State by the Legislature. But the bet? ter elements of society had been gain? ing ground ; and public meetings in Charleston and other places passed strong resolutions against the continu? ance ia office of Moses and W. J. Whipper, another of the judges-elect. Chamberlain, a respectable man, had been chosen governor in place of Moses, and Chamberlain had refused to com? mission Moses and Whipper on the ground of their notorious corruption This refusal of the governor to commis sion these judges mei- wi*h the hearty approval of the Democrats aud respect? able Republicans The Legislature at the same time elected J J Wright, a colored man, as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ; but in this case, as in others, the negroes elected or appointed to office were not the worst of those upon whom honors were conferred, its legis? lators, they were the mere creatures of the carpet baggers and native white knaves to whom they looked up for ad? vice and guidance THE STATE'S HKCOVKUT. The history of the restoration of the white race to the control of affairs in South Carolina is interesting, but need not be told here. Suffice it to say that General Wade Hampton, after an ex? citing struggle with Mr. Chamberlain, was swum in as Governor, December 18, 1870 ; and that, being generally recognizi.il by thc civil and judicial officers of the State, Mr. Chamberlain and his associates soon after surren? dered the control of affairs. The President, in the meantime, having j withdrawn the army of occupation, | Chamberlain stated that, ho yielded to superior force. The following state? ment of tlie condition of things in South Carolina, at the end of the first year of thc white man's rule restored, presents a striking contrast to the ablive sketch of carpet-bag and negro rule. The statement is taken from the Aouual Cyclo* sedia of 1S77 : "The condition of affairs iu South Carolina during the year 1877 appears j to have been satisfactory. In his an-J nual message to the Legislature, Gov- . crnor Hampton states ; 'Our ^tatc is j rehabilitated ; peace prevails through- . ont our borders ; the laws arc impar- j tiaily enforced and fully respected ; j I good will between all clase?; rs rapidly obliterating the animosities of the past : : ? health blesses our people, and thc ? l labors of tho husbandman have bc<.n? crowned with abundant harvests. ! ' The receipts of thc Treasury up to November 2(5, 1877, amounted to ?755, ? S85 90 : the expenditures under the < present Administration, to $232.820, * made op by the following items : Sala- ? ? ries. $83.715 ; Legislature, $89.456 ; * sontiugent. fund. $18 S-15 ; lunatic asy? lum, $32 521 ; public prin ing, $8, 792" ' 1 "The cash balance in the Treasury, ob t November 26,. 1877, was $310,185 92." , s The history of reconstruction in the | nher niue recotfstructed States is full j )f interest ; and may be noticed at mother time. But the above sketch of :he operation of the acts in two of the States will servo to show the state of things which Mr. Senator Chandler and I bis followers are striving to revive throughout the South. The Negro Alliance in Soutfc Carolina. The Negro Alliance in this State was 3tarted about two years ago, the first ! lodges being formed in the eastern counties of the State. The order has made even more rapid growth than the white Alliance, and now has organiza? tions in nearly every county, with a total membership, it is claimed, ap? proximating sixty thousand. The ob? jects of the Negro Alliance are similar to those of the white Alliance, and from what we have been informed the order is now in a healthy condition, and is now is addressing itself to the work be? fore it with intelligence and zeal. At their annual meeting to Columbia recently, two or three hundred delegates were present, and the most important business before the body was the per? fecting of plans for the conduct of their State Business Exchange, which has been organized and established at Charleston. Col. Paul S. Felder has been elected mauager of their Exchange which will soon be in readiness for bus? iness. The meeting in Columbia was at? tended by Gen. R. M. Humphrey, of Houston, Texas, the National Superin? tendent of the colored Alliauce, and en route to St. Louis we were informed by bim that the order has a strong con stituency in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina. Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and South Carolina. Exchanges with good capital have been started in Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and Charleston, and in some particulars their success has been even more signal* than those conducted by the white Alliances. The annual meeting of their National Alliance was held in St. Louis at the same time that of the National Union was held, and was attended by about .20 delegates. From the annual address of Geo. Humphrey, we make the an? nexed extracts : In politics the Alliance does not claim neutrality ; it only claims that siuce we have men of all political par? ties in our membership, we ought there? fore to exclude all parties and issues from our meetings, so that our mem? bers should be asked no qnestions as to whether tho belong to the Uuiou Labor, the Republican or the Democratic par? ties. We hold that each member is a free man, a citizen of the United States and of that State in which he makes bis home, and that it is his right freely to exercise his owu judgment in all polit? ical matters and vote according to his convictions. Yet it must not be for? gotten that the x\Iliance has for its principle the cleansing and regener? ating of all the political parties of this country. All of us know that at the present time there is too much of class legislation, 60 that the money of the country is turned over to the National bankers, and the termers and laborers mu t pay heavy interest for money for which they and their labor stand as the only proper securities, and which there? fore belongs to them and costs others nothing. Such a system of iniquity and robbery can not much longer be perpetrated upon a free people. We say nothing of those laws and enact? ments that render trusts, combines and monopolies the reigning evil of our time. You will cousider carefully the political conditions of your country. Remember that you are citizens, that on you rests the duty as well as the privilege of leaving to your children, and your children's children, thc glo? rious fabric of free American institu ficus. I can see clearly that many of you to-day thiuk that I ought to sug? gest some political party through whose means the country might be regener? ated, and with whom you ought to as? sociate and vote. Any such effort on my part would be an effort to ?lacc the Alliance in political barnes?, which thing would be most repugnant to me as well as to every true man. In your wisdom you will determine the course of political action you believe best adapted to your interests, and I doubt not that your recommendations ro-day to your race in this country will largely influence the future conditions of government. Our relations with the Farmer's Na? tional Alliance (white) should have your special attention. A year ago that ex? tensive community bestowed an honor? able r?cognition upon you, and arrang? ed a platt of i ?ter-race co operation. They have since that date united with the National Wheel, and it can not be doubted but that they will in their pres? ent session extend to you the utmost comity and good will. It is hoped that in this, your day of success your wis? dom and discretion will incline you to the heartiest co-operation and good will towan! your white brethren.-Cotton Plant. Census Taking. For the purpose of taking the census more quick iv and economically the Cen? sus Bateau h is divided South Carolina into f.Mir districts, as follows: First District-Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Laurens, Oconce, Pickens, and Spartanburg counties. Second District-Aiken, Chester. Ridgefield, Lexington, Newberry, Rich? land, ?'nion. and York counties. Third District -Barnwell, Beaufort Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Hamp? ?n and Orangcburg counties Fourth District-Chesterfield, Clar .udon, Darlington. Florence. George own, Florry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Marron., Marlboro, Sumter, and Wil iamsbnrg cono ties. J Of course these Supervisors districts, j is they are called, will be subdivided < iud these subdivisions ngain subdivided ? ;0 that s "heap" of us can get a ! ?U3ck.'' Send along your applications 'or subsupervisorships. - mm - -rn- ? * -- Thc negroes are leaving Williams )UTg County by the hundreds for th? j urpentine farms of Georgia*. Soliciting [gents are numerous and untiring. MIXIONS OF THE M??X SIGHTS AND SO* .'NOS BELONGING5 TO NATURE BY NIGHT. Bird* Whose Sweet "Notes Are KeveV Heard1 by Those Who Bctir? Early-Four Footed5 Midnight Prowlers vriili r?i-Jght' Eyes and Keen Scent. To all inhabitants of great cities'," *and: to many dwellers even in the rural dis-' tricts. the night sights and sounds by' ! river, wood and field are quite unknown. - For, during the hours when the wild* things so hidden by day are at large,' and tlie birds whose notes are Sot dis-' tinguished in the ful! chorus of the day. are at their sweetest, the majority of people are asleep, or at any rate in bed. Yet the summer nights, brief as they are, are full of life when'the darkness is* most complete, with a fullness which is* vivid in our memory of many of tho' "small hours" passed in the meadow or by lonely wood under the starlit' sky. And first of ail to be mentioned is the' amount of bird music to Ix? heard air night by those who are present to hear it. Nor need one go afield for all-' though sonic of the rarest will' Only be' found ia the solitudes-for some cf the" songsters in the stilly night pour forth1 their music in the garden-that one" compensation, however dull or common-' place the locality, to all who really "lice* in the country." NIGHT'S SWEET SINGERS. Tlie nightingale, as every one knows; is a nigh* singer, whose exquisite gush' of melody in the "ivory moonlight,* while the air is fragrant with the dewy' flowers, is subtly soft enough to touch' toe dullest hearts with some echoes of" romance. Beginning nearest home; in lue quaint garden, the shrill yet soft and vivacious"' trilling of the wiiitethroat meets the ear' -a bird not very generally known, but a haunter of the same spot year after* year, loving well an evergreen on a lawn1 as a home, at whose base its weil feath? ered nest is built. It is a bird? of lively song, contrasting in the moonligut withr the most musical, most melancholy flut? ing of the nightingale. Step forth from the garden, and tra? verse the more remote ground by seques-* tcred coppice or double hedgerow, where* ancient trees entwine, and the rich music of that shy songster the woodlark, which is as little popularly k?own as its rei*'* ti ve the skylark is. generally floats out on the night. Cross the meadows, over" which echoes in every direction the^ harsh cry of the landraH-, toward the" winding river, rippling through its rushy margin on either side, and shining like silver in the moonlight. Pause, and you" will hear the humble but pretty lay of of the reed sparrow seldom recognized by day; and what is far rarer, and can' indeed be said to'have been heard but by few, the merry carol of the water" ousel, that snowy breasted little bird which has such quaint ways, poising mo? tionless in the day on some rock OT stone, and then darting under water, where, orr the shallow gravel, fora brief moment it can be seen running. MIDNIGHT PROWLERS; Ho who" wanders' rrr a summer night ere dawn has shown its earliest 6ign by* ..meadow, grove, and stream,** will see* strange things, riot to be seen, save by rarest ?hance,- in the hours of day. This is the time when the otter-little known: of fera natnnie, yet far more plentiful than supposed, mdved; orre Mgr? anfn'?ir ity says hardly a stream exists now with-' out its otter, albeit he be rarely seen-" makes his journey for foraging purposes. Far and away from his**holt~up stream' comes the swift, shadowy, stealthy am? phibious creature, nearly always" g^?S"? down stream, yet leaving that strong scent behind wherever he touches shore, which the hounds hours afterwards dis? cover. He makes his journoy, feeds, and retires again always before dawn. - At certain points he leaves the stream, and traversing the b3nt re-enters lt fer- " thor on, and usually shows a curious" preference-just as the hare* will in the* "runs" in a hedge-for the same pr?trise" spot of exit and re-entranCel Here' and there lie may l*ave a fine fish' with' his pet piece bitten out of the shoulder-the "otter's mark." Much rarer, but still, especially in the* wilder and more solitary parts, to bo' met with is thc badger, a fine young s->ecimen of which was found among the timber loads deposited some time ago on I a timber wharf by the ?"anal at the City j road, London. The badger burrows in the most lonely and isolated recesses' of woods and hills, and those who have ex j plored one of the burrows can say wha? ? a fine specimen of engineering and sani i tatton this cleanly and calumniated:' j beast-for "dirty as a badger" is simply ! another exemplification of popular fal? lacies-presents to his superior, maa. The badger is very little seen, being, perhaps, the most retiring and conserva? tive of r>ritish beasts, pursuing the even tenor of his way much as when Caesar landed in Kent. But it is of his appearance as one of tho night wanderers we would speak, if you are lucky enough to be in his lo 1 cal itv in tho small hours, you may see 3" j grayish creature curiously like a littlo ; bear waddling and grunting in tho ! moonlight, verv uneasy if to vour lee ; ward, as its scent is keen. It goes long ; distances at night, when humanity and ! most of the animal popu' ttion with ! which man is familiar are, a9 Carlyle 1 puts it, "lying in horizontal swathes." Of the fox as a night traveler it were* J trite to speak, everybody, and especially in the case of fowl keepers or farm yards, knows about him. Weasels are" j fond of gliding across roads, and along ditches too, during the witching time, and, like its tame town relative, t*hc cat* j that has taken to field life, poaching andf j evil ways generally, is always a most prominent feature in'nature by night. Chambers' Journal. Stsrnlflcant. fie Ca property holder)-How much d& you love mo, darling.' She-Lots.-Time. ?A*?TTlO>' TO ."flOTHERS. ?rery mother i.? caarion*d against giving her ebild laudanum i>r paregoric: it creates ar. nnnntoral eravin?; f?>r stimulants whieh loila* the mind or tl e child. Acker's Baby SoCther is specially prepared to benefit children and1 cure their pam?. Ti ii harmless and contains* no Opium i r Morphine. S"!d bj S. F. Wv L>c Lorine. I.* Cors?umptioh incurable? "Read the following : Mr. C. II. Moms, New-, srlr. Ark-, says : 'Was down with Ab>ce*s of Lung?.and friends and physicians pronounced; me an ir.cnrat.le consumptive. 3<gnn taking Dr. King's New Discovery for c. usiiUiption, am1 now on mv th'rd bottle, a::-' Vire tn oversee the" vt oik ?.n my farm. It is the ?fiie?t medicine'" ST KT mn ile " Jesse A'idii'sw.irr. Peenisr. Ohio. ?ays: "Had* it not been foi \ r rung'* New Discovery for" Consumption Twoiibi havedi?d'of luhg^irotrb?esV Was given .up by doctors. Am now1* iii the W>?* f health." Try i?. Sample bottles free at J.* ? 'V. Lorine's drugstol*. V