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TRAVELLERS' GUIDE.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Charleston, S. C, June 28, 1872.
On and niter SUNDAY, June 29, the
passenger trains on the South Carolina
Railroad will run as follows:
FOR AUGUSTA.
I/cave Charleston - 0:00 a m
Arrive at Augusta - - l;4? p m
FOR COLUMBIA.
Leave Charleston - 6:00 a in
Arrive at Columbia, - 1:50 p m
FOR CHARLESTON.
Leave Augusta- ? ' - 5:30 a m
Arrive at Charleston ? - 1:10 pm
Leave Columbia. * -' 5:20.a hi
Arrivo AiX?ianlaalitn - .1:111 n in
AUGUSTA NIGHT KXPRESS.
(Sundays excepted.)
Leave Charleston - 8:10 p ro
Arrive at Augusta - - 7:15 am
Leave Augusta - - 0:15 p in
v Arrive *t CharleeWii - 0:35 a in
COLUMBIA NIGHT iSXPRFSS
({Sundays excepted.)
Leave Charleston - 7:10 pm
Arrive at Columbia - 0:15 n ru
Leave Columbia - - 7:15 pm
Arrive at Charleston ? - 0:45 a in
81'MMERVILLE TRAIN.
Jjcavo Summorville - 7:35 a in
Arrivo at Charleston - 8:30 a m
Leave Charleston - 3:35 p in
Arrive at Summcrvillo ut - 4:40 p in
CAMDEN BRANCH.
Leave Caindcn - - 3:55 a m
Arrive at Culumbia - 8:30 a m
Leave Columbia ?> ? 10;40 a m
Arrire At' Camdcu - 3:25 p m
Day and Night Trains connect at Au
gusta withMacon and Augusta Railroad
and* Georgia Railroads. This is the
quickest and most direct roulc, and as
comfortable and cheap as. any other route
to Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago, St.
Louis alul all other points "West and
Northwest.
Columbia Night Trains connect with
Greenville and Columbia Railroad, and
Day and Night Trains connect with Char
lotto Road.
Through Tickets on salo, via this route
. to all points North.
Camdcn Train connects at Kingyillo
daily (except Sundays) with Dav Passen
ger Train, and runs through to Columbia
A. L. TYLER, Vice-President.
? ?. B. Piekeus General Ticket Agent.
. Scp 27
DIL THOMAS LEGAIiE,
LATE iie8iDENT mYSJCIAN TO the ROTER
AND CITY IIOSPirAIi OF charleston,
OFFERS his professional Fcrviccs to the
community ol Orangcburg and to the pub
lic at large.
Office Houns?From 8 to 0 a. m., 1 to 2,
and 7 to 9 at night.
Office, Market Street, over storo of Jno. A.
Hamilton.
aug. 14 1873 2G Cm
MOSES M. BltOWN,
BA
"OTMCTI"*
JLVjEJPXUJ.V.
MARKET STREET, ORAN0EBURG, S. C,
(NEXT DOOR TO STRAtS A STREET'S MILL.)
HAVING permanently located in the town,
would respectfully solicit the patronage of
the citizemr. Eyery effort will be used to give
satisfaction.
?JnnellS, 1873 .18 ly
an act to provide for the
Administration of Dks&ulvt Es
tates.
? ?''?''? ^*
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representatives of
the State of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in Gencrral Assembly, and
by tbo authority of the satno, That
whenever it shall come to the knowledge
of any clerk of the Court of common
Pleas of any County in this Stato that
tho ostato and effects of any deceased
person, as to which administration could
legally bo granted by the Judge of
Probate of. bis County, remain, for the
period of six months, entirely or
partially unadministered, either by
reason of no application for letters of
administration, or from-any other cause,
zo that thcro is? no legally appointed
representative of such deceased person,
it shall be tho duty of such clerk of the
Couri to make application to the Judge
of Probate of the County for letters of
administration on the oatato of Such
deceased person, accompanied with a
statotuent of the nature, condition and .
.value of the said estate, so far as it may
be known to him, and.- thereupon, it
Bball be tho duty of such .Judge of
Probate to insert a notico of such ap
plication, in the usual form, for forty
days, in some public newspaper publish
ed in such County, or, if there be none
such, in some adjoining County, aud
also at the door of the Court Hours,
aud, alter suck notice, to grant to such
clerk of the Court lotters of admistra
tion ou tho estate of such deceased per
son, with tbo will annexed, incase there
be a will, and such clerk shall give
bond, with two sureties, for tho faithful
discharge of his duty as such administra
tor, in such amount as would be ire-.
Sf.O. 2. That, upon the graut of such
letters of administration, such olerk
shall bo entitled to all the rights,
powers aud authorities, and nball be
subject to the same duti es and obliga
lions and responsibilities, in relation to
said estate aud the administration there
of, as arrfnow provided by law iu ease
of administrators, and shall be entitled
to five per centum of all moneys collect
cd by him, and, in addition to tbo filing
an inventory, appraisement and account
in the office of tbo Judge of I'rdbatc,
shall also keep an official record of the
same, and all his proceedings therein,
in bis own office, which shall bo sub
mitted at each term of the Court to the
circuit Judge ; aud tbo said clerk shall
havo tho right to possession of any of
the goods aud chatties of such deceased
person, and may, by authority of the
Judge of Probate, sell and dispose of
the same; and uny sale so made, in
pursusnae of such order, shall bo good
and valid, to all intents, at if regularly
mado by any othcr%administr.ator
Sec. 3. That whonevor, after tbo
grant of such letters of administration to
j such clerk, any other person who would
bo entitled to letters of administration
I on 'such estate, as specially designated^
j by law, shall ?1 ply to tho Judge of
Probate of the Comity granting tho
same, and bo ready to give the required
security, the letters of administration
previously granted to such clerk shall
be revoked, and tho same be granted to
such person so . applying for tho same ;
but such revocation shall in no wise be
held to annul or impair any act legally
done or right acquired previously uudor
or by vfrtuo of such admiuistratiou
j ? Approved February 2G, 1873.
-an ACT to Encourage and Pro
vide for the Incorporation of
Agricultural and Mechanical
Societies and Association for
the Promotion of the Arts and
Sciences.
Section 1. He U enacted by the
Scuato aud House of Representatives of
? the Suite of South Carolina, now net
and sitting in Qonoral Assembly, and by
the authority of tbo same, That seven or
more persons within this State, having
associated themselves by agreement, in
writing, lor the promotion of agricul
turo, mechanics und Otner ijadustry ari|
ingenuity,'and for fcho encouragement rjf
the arts and sciences, or for any o.f
these purposos, unjjor.any nanioby them
aesumod, and upon/cotsiprying with tho
provisions of this Act,-shall, wUli tngn.
Buccessors, be deemed a body politic nu 1
corporate,- factur|, and ,,shall have
capital of bno hundred thousand dollai
in shares of ten doliars.eaoh.- .
" Seo. 2. That - saidr corporation
purchase, and hold real citato, such
may bs required for tho purposes thdi
of, or such a3 they,Hiaytbe obliged
deem it for their interest to ta o in t
settlement of any debt due the 6a
corporation, and may dispose oil
same; may suo and be sued in <
Courts of this State ; may have and ij
a common seal, and make such by
for. thoir regulation and government
they may thin proper : Provided,
samo aro not inconsistent vrith
Constitution and laws of tho Uorj
States and of this State.
Sr.c. 3. That said corporation shil
have the right to.ercct a dam across tl|
Savannah River,' bplow tho mouth'
StcAcns' Creek, in tho County of Edjj
field, terminating on the opposite si
of said river at any point not oxceodlj
one thousand yards below the mouth
Red Creek: l*rovided, There ahall l|
loft in Faid dam Cab ways for the IV
passage of migratory Gib.
Seo. 4. That said corporation ma]
into operation whenever a majority'
the stockholders may determine,
after one month's publio advertisom'c
in .the newspaper published- in
County of Edgefiold, to be designated!
tho PrcsideQt. ? -
Sec. 5. That* George C. Robins]
Samuel J. ..Lee, IM. A..Ransom an
Robert R. Reed, may open books an
take subscriptions for the capital st?r?:.
la sucn manner _ as tney, utuj C'.-,
expedient, at such times and pUcei
they may designate in a publio advertise
meut; and the btockholdcrs,-having hi
two weeks' publio notice in a newapapj
published in the vicinity of tho establisj
ment,' may meet and proceed to elect
auch Directors and other officers as they
may deem, neoesnary for conducting tHo
a flairs of tho company, which Direotors
shall elect a President from among their
. number; all of such Direotors aiid
officers to hold thoir officers until thiir
successors shall bo elected, and to
receive such compensation as tho stock
holders, at each annual election, ahall
determine. *
Sec. C. Tho officers of the company
shall submit aunualiy to the stoqk
holders a written statement of the affair*
of the company. .
Sec. 7? That this Act shall b e deem
ed a publio Act, and ahall continue] in
force twenty-five yearn.
Approved Fobruary 27, 1873.
AN'ACT to Abrogate and Sink all
? that Portion op. the Debt op the
State ok South Carolina Incur
red in Aid op the Late Rebel
lion-Against the United States.
Whereas Article fourteen, in amend-;
ment of the Constitution of the Unitod '
States, in Section four thereof, among
other things, enjoins that neither the
United States, nor any State, shall
assume or pay any debt or obligation
incurred in aid of inaurrection or rebel
lion against the United States, or any
claim for ? tho less or emancipation of
any alavo; but all such debts, obliga
tiona and claims Khali bo held illegal and
void; and whereas the Constitution of
the Stato of South Carolina, and
Articlo nino, Section sixteon, enjoins
that no debt contracted by this State in.
behalf of the late rebellion, in whole or
in part, shall ever be paid; therefore,
Section 1. lie it enacted by Senate and
Houso of Represent at ive.-i of the State
of South Carolina, now mot and sitting
in General Assombly, and by tho
authority- of tho samo, That all of the
indebtedness aud obligations whatsoever
of the State of South Carolina, coming
within' the constitutional prohibitions
aforesaid, as contracted or incurred iu
aid of tho said rebellion., or whioh-avo
covered or described by or under ouch
prohibitions, or either of them, and all
authority, for incurring or assuming
suoh indebtedness or obligations on th?
part of the said State, are, all and singu
lar, hereby abrogated and declared and
held to ho illegal and absolutely null
und void.
. Sec. 2. All such indebtedness and
obligations of the said State ns are men
tiotied in the next proceeding Seetion
shall be immediately dropped and
excluded from the debt of this State,
and shall nevor he reokonod with nor
form any part of the s&mo.
SEC 3. Whoever shall violate this
Act shall, on conviction, bo puuished
by a fine of one thousand dollars, or by
imprisonment in the Penitentiary for
ono year, or by both suoh fine and.
imprisonment, at the discretion- of the
Court. . -
Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect up
on its passage.
Approved February.27, 1873.
Letter from General Early.
Editors Petersburg Index and Ap
peal :?Having just returned frohi tho
mountains, 1 take an early opportunity
to thank you for your very manly .edito
rial (so promptly written) in rcferouce
to the brief speech made by President
Davis at the Montgomery White Sulphur
Springs. It was what I would have ox
pected from tho soldier editors of a true
Virgihia journal. I will "improve tho
occasion"' by adding a few observations,
which, I trust, may not bo out of place
It seems thai, the utterances of Mr. Da
vis before the Southern Historical* Con
vention have greatly stirred tho "bile"
of "loyal" northern journals, and that,
by a sympathetic, process, the serenity
of a foiv of our excessively discreet Con
,servative organs has been disturbed, cau
?sine tbom to protest their dissent from
Mr, Davis' viotvg, and to express their
apprehensions that, the 'harmony of the
Conservative party of Virginia may. be
interrupted, and its success jeoparded by
his indiscreet declarations.
I will not insult the gentlo sex by cal
ling these fears womanish?thoy arc,
in fact, unwomanly, as woll aa unmauly,
being puerile, childish and ridiculous.
What is it that Mr. Davis has said,
which has rendered some of our faint
hearted editors so eager to purge them
selves of all complicity iu his sentiments,
after (and not until after) northern jour
nals had indicated their disapproval?
Why, ho said that "wo were cheated
rather than conquered," and he declared
his opinion that if tho results of tho sue
cess of tho Washington government aud
of our ovorthrow, which have taken
place, could have been conquered 1 He
had roferenco to the resolution of ^.bo
United States congress, tho diplomatic
circular of Seward, and the proclama
tions of Lincoln, declaring that the war
would be conducted solely with a view to
a restoration and preservation of tho
Union, and that the State governments
would remain intact, with their constitu
tions the samo as before; and it was in
this connection that Mr. Davis said ma
ny of tho people of the south had been
cheated. Is this not true? If it had
been anticipated that it was tho purpose
of tho Washington government, not only
to abolish slavery' but also to destroy tho
regular State governments of tho South,
ymfranchiso tho negroes, and subject the
^vhite people to their rule, does any sauo.
man, north or south, doubt that tho Con
federate government and its armies in
tho field would have been far more thor
oughly sustained thau they were? Nay,
is it not more thau probnblo that, if the
truo objects of tho war against us had
been boldly avowed in tho begining,
many thousands of thoso who took sides
against us iu that war would have with
hold their support from tho federal gov
ernment, if they had not given it to us?
In that event would not our chances
of success have been fur greater than
they were, if not indeed a certainty ?
Where, theu, is tho harm or tho impru
donce in Mr. Davis' declaration of his
opinion, that, but for tho fraud prac
tised wo would have l)cen successful ?
Tho pitiablo attempt to. distort this de
claration into an assault uf>on tho fame
of Cfcncrals Lee and Johnston, is too
absurd to rcquiro repetition. No ouo
who hoard Mr. Davis* utterances had
the remotest conception that such, an
idea wag intended.
refutation. *
The other declaration objected to, is
the one, that he had never seen a south
ern woman who was reconstructed; and
though the men of the present day may
yield.the principles for which they con
tended/the children who succeed them ]
will chetish and maintain them. If any
have the right to complain of this re;
mark, they are the women of the sdutb,
and they make no fuss about it. How
is the Conservative party in this state
to be injured by it ? Not only is Mrij
Davis not a citizen of this state, but I
havo the best reason for saving?nay, I
am willing to take my corpora! oath?
that he did not intend to include Gen
eral Kemper, Colonel Withers, Mr.
Daniel, or the Central Conservative
Committee, among the unreconstructed
"women"- of the south. As to the first
two, I feel well assured that, like all
who know them, he regards their man
hood as having been fully established
and vindicated on the battlefield as well
as at home.
But, are wo willing to acknowledge that
we did not contend for the principles
of civil and constitutional liberty? If so,
then we were rebels and traitors; If we
did fight for the principles of ?civil and
constitutional liberty, then where is the
Virginian who will dare to say, that he
docs not desire that those who are to
come after us shall cherish and main
tain those principles.
But it is said that it was imprudent
for Mr. Davis to gay anything, because
his words were likely t? bo -seized kold
of and distorted from their true moan
ing. Really this is a strange doctrine
for a country claiming to bo republican
in its institutions and where liberty of
speech has been regarded as one of tho
great bulwarks of freedom. Edmund
Burko said that, "prudence When carried
too far degenerates into reptile virtue,'
which is tho moro dangerous for the
plausible appearance it wears ;"and this
remark* has been cited by . the Now Eng
land Lexicographer, Webster, (or his
editor,) to illustrate difference between
tho words wisdom and prudence. The
prudence rccommcudcd by most politic
politicians very often now assumes the
shape of a '??reptile virtue. Why should
we care what journals such as tho New
Yory Herald, New York Times, Wash
tou Chronicle, et id ojtne, etc., say
about us ? Are not all our acts, sayings,
customs, etc., the constant theme of mis;
representation, perversion and abuse in
the daily papers, pictorial journals, peri
odical licrature, and books of tho north?
If wo cauuot have political independence
of thought at feast.
And now let us say, that if there be
somo time-servers who are willing to
yield tho principles for which we conten
ded, there are still those surviving who
believo that good government can never
be restored by an abandonment of prin
ciples involved in our late struggle and
the motives and conduct of those who
fought to maintain them. Resides the
appeal to tho source of all powor and
justice, thoro is another appeal from the
so-called "arbitrament of arms,, and tho
judgement of those who aro over-awed
or seduced by power, which lies before
iho judgemont seat of foreign nations
"and posterity, and that appeal will bo
taken. It was the purpose of tho conven
tion lately assembled at the Montgomery
Wbite Sulphur springs, to inaugurate
that appeal, and if there be treason is
that, thou let the adherents of lawless
power make the most of it. Let the U*
uitcd States government, if it thinks
proper, call into requisition its whole mil
itnry and naval power to quell tho un
reconstructed women of tho south, and
suppress "tho truth of history." Ma
ny of tho adherents have good reason
to. dread tho latter, certainly, but phy
sical power cannot crush it;- It is fear
ed that the late proceedings in Mont
gomery will cause the fedorai author
ities to interfero in our elections.
Do wo not know that all possible means,
foul as well as fair, will bo employed to
control them anyhow ?
In rgard to myself, I havo this to say,
when, with all.the ability I possessed, I
was trying to avert the conflict between
tho two sections of the country, tho jour
nal for which the present Radical candi
? - r
.... t ?
date for governor was supposed to bo ft
writer, designated me as a submissioniat
of the deepest dye, and Very plainly in*
sinuated that a commission as brigadier*
general of militia, "which Gov. . Lejtcher
had bestowed on me, would be used for
riveting the fetters on my own people*
Afterwards, when I was in the'Held to
defend the State' against invasion, the -
present chairman of the Badical central
committee, then avowedly an ultra se?
cessionist, in a letter to the Richmond
Dispatch, signed "Ithuriel," very strong
ly insinuated that I was disposed to
betray our cause by a sacrifice of my
command to the enemy, (whom he de*
signated as my "friend ;') in the first
battle of Manassas, when my brigado
I made the movement, which both Gen,
Johnston and Bcauregard -have1 said
turned the tide of the battle. If die
party of which these persons axe now
I "loyal" members and shining lights.
Icharge me with plotting treason; it ^
may appear a little curious, but what
need I care ? And ii* some Miss Nancy
I of the conservative press of tho Stato
I shall become frightened at a. shadow,
I what- difference will it make-?tt thou
Lsnnd years hence? .'
I Respectfully, your obd't servant,
J. V. EARLY,.
j ? Dying.
I Tlicrc is nothing with which wo axe
I so familiar and yet of which we know so
{ little as tho process of dying. The great
I mystery can only be fathomed in the act.
I Wo ait by the side of friend or relative
I in his last extremity; we -watch' the dark
I shadow as it steals over his face, shut
I ting out aU of earth; we suffer with him
I in a corresponding degree the agony of
separation: but wo can never know what
I is pasting, at the awful - moment, in hin
mind. "Of what do the dying thinkf*
I says an "English writer. There are mo
menta when tho anguished faces -that'
j bend over them would givo much to
solve that problem. They know that
death is creeping nearer and nearer.
They hear him in the restless tick of tho
I clock; in the sobs of the children, in tho
desperate anguish ofthe watching mourn
er. They -know that yet a littlo yraile
land the moving shadow on tho pane,
the twitter of tno birds, the dying eon
light, and the weired sigh of the winds,
I will cease to be for the sick man?that a
I few more* hard-drawn breaths will bring
I him face to face with unfathomable
J knowledge* They know that they ra$j.
never, after to-day, get one more living
I kiss from his Rpa, or gain the balm of
I recognition from his eyes, and as they
j yearn for a look or sign, his eyes look
beyond them to some invisible presence.
His faint gostures arc not, addressed to
I them: his hands wander in search of
I something they cannot give.Mm. ?* Ib the
face; to which ho beckons that of. friend
or foe? Are those flowers he would fain
I pluck from somo aerial cluster of bios* o
J Boms? Does ho hear theVeeping? Poes
t he guess how near is the solution of
earth's mystery ?
Private TutUe'^ Last* Snot.
I The hostiles, hoping to divert atten
tion from the movement, opened fire
again heavily on tho river. Gen* Cos*
I tar returned to. tho woods and took a
few rnoro shots. Private Tuttle, bis
orderly, taking up his rifle, dropped
down behind a tree and opened on some
of tho Indians who wore defiantly expos
ing themselves on the other side. Ho
had been firing in the morning and ^bad
J got the rango'of the river very well.
He was one of the finest shots in the reg
iment, and generally admired by all his
comrades for his skill with the rifle. Col.
Hart's orderly and another man^ were
I with him, concealed behind a large* tree
I "I want to drop a few more of them* fel
lows," said ho, "before I leave here. I)o
you waut to see me drop that ? Indian V*
pointing to one on his pony who had
como out of. the, wood. He brought his
rifle to his shoulder'and fired. The In
dian dropped from his pony. Three or
I four Indians ran to Him.- Tuttlo took
I auothcr shot and dropped anothor man.
j A short interval and another man fell
from his pony. This was Tuttie'a last
I shot, Tho Indians brought their best
men forward anu openned a cross fire on
tin *troe behind which he was concealed.
Ho turned his head a little on one side
to take.another sight, when a shot struck
I him in tho forehead and pierced his -
' brain.?TmnuNE Letter. . *?&??.
