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ORANGKBUR?, S. C. MAR., li, 1S74.
STEPHEN H. FOWLE ,
EDITOR AND BUSINESS MANAGER.
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE COUNTY.
fo chnngc Contract Advertisement^, itotics
aeit bo given before Monday noon.
Our friends wishing to have advertisements
Initortcd in the TIMES, most hand them in by
Tuesday morning, 10.o'clock;
Henceforth, all Inegal Ad
vertisements, ol' County
Interest, whether not ices
or others), will bo publish
ed, for tlio benefit ol' our
readers whether tliey are
paid lor or not.
SUBSCRIBERS
Will- have their papers regularly I
mailed. Send us new names, build up
our paper, aud let every household in
the County be a supporter of our enter
prise.
\ '~ '
COL. RICHARD LATHERS.
The address of this gentleman before
the Taxpayers Convention is one thnt
covers all our complaints against the pres
ent government. It shows conclusively
whero the faults lie and their remedy. lie
docs not attempt any high flown rhetoric,
or farfetched metaphors, but deals with
hard facts; He is not too violent, yet it
makes his speech more telling. He takes
in all the points of dispute and by his
logical conclusions points to the only mode
of redress. The speech has made a stir
and well it might, for his arguments are
uncontrovcrtiblc. The State has reason
to be proud of Col. Lathers, for only by
such men can she ever be raised from her
present position.
THE HON. NILE& G. PARKER,
Late State Treasurer, owner of Parkers
Haul aud much other real property, ac
quired since moving to "cur beloved
State," has thrown a bomb-shell intj the
radical camp, and caused no little com
motion. A recent letter of bis published
in the New York Times, calling attention
to the corrupt condition of the present
State government, and advising those
holding certain State bonds, (lately de
clared to be fraudulent by tho Legisla
ture), to make no compromise, but to
exact the last farthing, has brought that
remarkable body about bis cars like
hornets, and a resolution has been adopt
ed to institute legal proceedings against
him.
This blow coining from euch an unex
pected quarter, is keenly felt by his former
friends, and the climnto of Columbia is
likely to prove too warm for hint. "Eh tu,
Brute"! cry they, and t;o von him. He
is accused of deserting to the Taxpayers,
hut they can not claim a3an ally one whose
hands arc filled with ill-gotten gains,
wrung from themselves. Parker states
that he owns no bonds of the State,
whatever, which makes it difficult to
assign a reason for his already famous
letter?hut reason there must be. What
is it?
LEGISLATIVE.
Synopsis of the proceedings of the
Legislature of South Carolina.
in the senate.
Friday March (i.?The following Bills
were passed and sent to the house?Bill
to relieve the bondsmen of the late Coun
ty Treasurer of Greenville, J. M. Allen.
Bill to validate all payments made by
the County Trensun r of Ed gefiel d county
under and pursuant to the provisions ol
a joint resolution, and to declare the in
tontof the said resolution.
Joint Resolution providing for the re
assessment of real estate in 1874.
Joint Resolution to make an appro
priation for repairing State House &c.
There is bill before the Senate (so says
the Union-Herald) to help I he depositors
of the Citizens Savings Bank.
The Legislature bus resolved to ad
journ on Saturday March 11th.
II. W. Purvis, Adjutant, and Inspector
General sent in his resignation in a lively
letter. It was resolved that the Governor
be requested to receive the resignation.
An act to incorporate tho town of Port
Royal, nnd tin act to regulato the lees ot
Trial Justices and Probate Judges were
ratified.
The Struggle of tho Races in South
Carolina.
It is said to bo tho deliberate desigu ol
the negroes in South Carolina to so mis*
govern the Slnto as to drive tbe whito
people out and have it all to "themselves.
For thnt purpose the taxation for some
years has been so increased as to amount
to a practical confiscation of real estate.
A large portion of it, in fact, has been of
fered for sale by the Sheriffs of the differ
ent counties. The whites who can sell
for any thing are doing so, and with the
proceeds emigrating from tbo State. The
present governmental South Carolina is
an anomaly in the history of the world.
Kolbing like it was ever before seen. In
all civilized communities wealth, educa
tion, talent and experience have had the
main control of public affairs under any
political system that has existed. In
South Carolina all this has been reversed.
Ignorance rules intelligence?poverty
rules wealth?talent and experience give
way to inexperience united to stupidity.
In her Legislature there is hardly a man
who is worth a dollar in property. Many
can not read or write, and very few have
any acquaintance with but the rudiments
of knowledge. Those who do not pay the
taxes impose them, and of course they
putthcin on heavy. The expenses of the
Stale government are ten times more
than they were before the war. Aston
ishing salaries are paid all the officials.
The educational endowments arc upon
the most magnificent scale. The pass
port to office is color, and the previous
condition of seivitude, Three-fifths of
the people are negroes and two-fifths
whites, but the influence of tbe latter may
be represented by a decimal fraction. In
vain have the people who can read and
write and who possess property forgot all
former differences and united as tax
payers in order to have a voice in the
election. Despairing of any homo relief
they are actually pleading that Congress
shall territorialize the State and govern
it by officials appointed by the President
and Senate. Such subjection is infinitely
preferable to the base and ignoble gov
ernment that now lords it over them. But
of course, to this Congress will turn a
deaf ear. While the( majority in that
body have no political principnlcs that
would stand in the way of territorial ism
they would, in this case, refuse to exer
cise it from motives of policy?the policy
being to put the Southern black over tbe
Southern white. This degradation and
prospective ruin of South Carolina is not
contemplated by us without deep pain.
We can not forget that she was one of
the old thirteen Stales that carried us
through the Revolution. No State has
produced aller or more eminent men in
every department of effort. Her conti
but ions intbat respect have been valuable
to our National history. It is melancholy
to reflect that the land of the Bum tors,
the Marions, the Pinknoys, ihbLowndcs,
the Checves and the Jacksons is to be
given over to the descendants of the bar
barous negro slaves wdio were imported
from Africa. However we may regard a
superior driving out an inferior race?
the white the Indian, for instance?it
seems to he opposed to the law of nature
for the whites to be pushed out by the
blacks, the civilization of the United
States to s opr. lull led by that of Liberia.1
Who can look with complacency upon a'
struggle in which there is nothing but
numbers on one side, and every thing
else upon which society should rest is
upon the other! That is the state of af
fairs now in South Carolina. "Where
there is such and antagonism of race,
such an immense difference in the wealth
civilization and general character as in
South Carolina, it is impossible to apply
tbe same political principles thnt we do
in communites whero the white constitute
the entire or the main portion of the
population. There mi'st be something
besides a mere majority vjfe. Since the
tests of race and color arc forbidden by
tbe Fifteenth Amendment, the whites in
the Cotton Stales will have lo make edu
cational ami property tests of suffrage or
they will go to the wall. But in South
Carolina they can not obtain the power
to make such tests, and the negroes will
not. The only hope is in inviting, if
possible, white emigration to an extent
that will give tho whites a majority over
the negroes. The land of the former has
become valueless, and they might just as
as well give portions of it away to actual
settlers, who will in return give them the
necessary voles they need in order to
gain the supremacy. Such a policy is now
strongly urged in South Carolina, and we
believe commissioners haw been sent to
Europe to obtain emigrants upon the
most liberal terms. Only those who are
in favor of political miscegenation, and
prefer a mixture of blac k and white
Stales, will not wish success to tbe strug
gling whites in South Curo'ina.?Cincin
nati'Weekly Enquirer. |
Improvement of the Savannah River.
p Recent able nnd interesting articles
appear;tig in the Augusta Constitutiona
list have revived many rccoleetions in
connection with the Savanuah River.
Auterior to A. D. 1787, the little State of
South Carolinac'aimed territorial'rights
to the Altamaha river, nnd netually is
sued grants for many tracts of land ex
tending fur beyond the Savnnnah River.
Upon this, Georgia petitioned the King
of Great Britain to put a strip to these
alleged encroachments, which resulted in
the convention between these two Stntcs,
held at Beaufort on tho 28th of April,
1787, which fixed tho Savannah River
as the true boundry. In 1791, great
furor prevailed among the pccple of
South Carolina for the improvement of
nnvorgation of tho various streams, nnd
among others, commissioners were ap
pointed to open and improve Kcowce,
Tulalo and Savannah rivers as far south
as Augusta. Again, in 1795, commission
ers were appointed to clear out and re
move obstructions between Vienna and
Augusta, and empowered to draw one or
more lotteries for that purpose, provided
they do not rniso more than ?1200 net.
The present graud improvements were
doubtless thefruits of this early enter
prise of our forefathers, add afforded
some little advantages to many persons
on both banks of the river.
When Mr. Calhoun was Secretary of
War be made n report, recommending
the Government of the United States to
connect the waters of the Savannah and
Little Tennessee rivers, at Rabun Gap,
for the purposes of commerce, and we be
lieve, until railroads were becoming com
mon in the country, still entertained
some hope of seeing this work undertaken
and completed. We remember, ns late
as 184?-(i, ho .summoned many of the old
and experienced pilots on the river to
meet him at the junction of Seneca and
Tugalo, und spent some days iu collecting
information as to the bight and length
of the various falls and rapids, and the
probable labor and expense, it wou'd re
quire to open u channel for light-draught
steamers. From this time, it is believed
be abandoned all idea of improving the,
river, and devoted himself to advising aud
urging the construction of the Greenville
& Columbia und Blue Bulge. Railroad^ 1
I Alter this long lapse of time, however,
j we still find persons nnd papers advo.a
ting and urging the old project?the
latest being the following resolution
adopted by by the Georgia Legislature -
but a few da) s ago: ? < <
Mr. Walsh introduced a resolution
which w is ageed to asking Congress to
investigate the expediency o! slack water
navigation on the Savannah fiver from
Augusta to the bead waters of Tennessee
n? of national importance to the develop
ment of commerce in Georgia, South ami
North Carolina and Tennessee; asking
an appropriation for the suyny to be
made under United States Coast Survey,
urging the Kepresiitativcs and Senators
of States above named to use their influ
ence to secure tho appropriation, and
requestting the Gi.vernor to transmit a
a copy of the resolutions t-> President
Grant, the Speaker of the House and
President ol the Senate.
Of n surely, tho rich and fertile valley
of the Savannah both needs and deserves
quicker and cheaper transportation.
Whether it can be accomplished by water
or rail we leave to those who are to turn
' ish the labor and money to decide. H.
I-iic-.-q^.
A Lock of IIaiu.?Major John E.
Osborn of this place has in his posses
sion a lock of "old Hickory's" hair, clip
pep from tho bead of the old hero in
Marek, 1843. Such a relic of departed
greatness is prized as it should be. 'ibis
lock of grey hair teaches many a w hole,
some lesson. We wonder how many of
our present groat men wll have locks of
their hair preserved. We doubt weather
wool will keep.?Abbeville Medium.
The death of ex-President Fillmore,
which occurred at his home, iu Buffalo
on Sandy night, leaves Andrew Johnson
the only living cv-Prcsident of the
United States,
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STATE ITEMS.
The Abbeville Medium has been swin
dled (so it says) by the ''Brother Johna
tlinn."
It is reported that Mr.S. T. Poincedof
Spa it an burg, will be the next candidate
foi Governor of this State.
Row Ellison Capers has resigned the
charge of the Episcopal church at Green
ville, and accepted the call to Caindcn.
The farmers in the vicinity of Asbury
Chapel (Anderson County) have formed
a Grange. It will be known as Deep
Creek Grange.
Lexington has organized an Im migra
tion Society with the following officers:
Pres. Capt. S. M. Roof,
Vice " J. B. Kysor,
Sic. W. J. Assman.
Trea?. A. D. Ilaltwanger.
At a meeting of Phyexciaus in Lewis
ville on tho 17th of Feb., the following
preamble aud resolutions wero submitted
by a committee and adopted:
Whereas, We tho mcmbors of tbe
medical profession, engaged in practice
in tho upper portion of Orangeburg
County ,fecl the urgent necessity of adopt
ing somemeasuro whereby wo may secure
to pursclyp a just and proper remunera
tion for our services in the future.
Therefore, be it resolved:
1st. That we keep and exchange with
each other accuratelists of all parties who
do not pay their medical accounts, and
will withhold from the same all aid in
the future.
2nd. We will be governed in making
our charges by the regular established
fee-bill, and will not discount any bill
under twenty dollars.
3rd. We will not make contracts with
persons for practice.
4th. We claim a settlement of our ac
counts on the first day of November in
each year.
5th. We wiii stiii extend the usual
charities* of our profession to the deserv
ing poor in our respective communities.
Cth. That the public may know our
proceedings, we publish these resolutions
in the County papers
Drs. A. T. Darby,
Win. L. Pou,
Charles S. Darby,
M. J. D. Dantzler,
Thomas Keller,
W. T. C. Bates,
C. R. Tnbor,
F. J. Geiger,
J. H. Smoke,
W.C. Whetstone.
0BITUA11Y,
In memory of
Frank E. Myers, who died in Orangeburg
Febiunry 13, 1874, in the seventh year of bin
ago, at the residence of his grand father Mr.
T ('. Uubbcll.
To eulogize the dead is common and expected,
but every one who knew little Frank will hear
testimony to hi> noble trails ef character, espec
ially for one of Hitch tender years.
Under tbe mysterious ruling* of P.oyidcncc
it was his portion to he deeply afllicted during
life, hut in the midst of all his Millcrings hi
fortitude resignation and cheerfulness attracted
general attention and admiration.
His whole life seemed to ben preparation for
death. Unusual an it U for the yoiinir, he de
ligliteil Ui uiiifie of heaven, and his dead mother
who had pr<eeeded liim.
In Ids umnscmcnts his companions loved him
for Win amiiibiiity; in his duties his parents
loved him for his fidelity, and in his devotions
his Savior loved him for hi- Rihcerity, and has
finally plucked liiui from a world of sin and
trial, and transplanted hiiu in Heaven where
hisspiriltl 1 nature in ly ho fully developed in
a world of eternal !>'.i: s.
It is here that we aie to view him hereafter
where with the white, winged angels of Heaven
he is singing anthems of peace and love, and
not upon earth where nothing remains hat
"Only a litt'c grave.
liy weed! lialf hidden;
(hllv a loving tear,
That comes unhid Ion;
Only two little hands
Kidded together;
?. - Only two violyt eyes,
Mow closed forever;
Only a pale, paleface,
And years not seven;
Only a lifeless form?
All else in I leaven,"
,S. Ii. M.
JCreSII ax i) oentjin*
GARDEN SEEDS and ONION SETS, Jusi
received from I). Laud ret h & .Son, and for sale
by k. KZKKI IOIj. Sign of the Dig watch
NOTICE.
Members of the diderent (iranges wil' he nop
plied at Grange prices.
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ACADEMY
FOB
BOYS and G IRLS
IN TilK HASKMKNT OK
DUKES HOTEL
BY
Stiles R. Xffellichamp.
English, French, Laim, Greek and
Music taught
Houns from 0 A.M. to 2j P. M.
??SP*Survcv$ng will ho strictly confined to
Saterdav, and the afternoons, .".fter 3 o'clock.
s R. 31
rpHE PHOENIX IRON WORKS HAVE
A for unle tho following ENGINES, BOIL
ERS and MACHINERY. Will be sold cheap
fur cash:
1 New Eight-Homo Power Portable EN
GINE and Boiler, (Cylinder 0 by 12,) mounted
on wheels, complete for steam,
1 New Six-Horse Power Portable Engine
and Boiler, (Cylinder 5 by 10,) complete for
steam, but no wheels
1 New Twenty-Horse Power Horizontal En
gine, (Cylinder 10 by 18 )
1 New Eight-Horse Power Portable Boiler,
(Locomotive.)
1 New Steam Winch to.hoist 1,000 pound*.
1 New Saw Mill, Wood Frame, with 50-inch
Saw, 25 feet Carrage, and 50 feet of Track, with
2 Head B!oeks,(a great bargain.)
2 New Eigbtccn-inch Circular .Saw Benches
with Saw.
An inepcetioiisolicitod, when information as
to priee will be given on application at this
office. PIKENIX IRON WORKS,
Charleston, S. C.
feb. 19 4t
0RANGEBU11G ACADEMY
FOR
GrUULS and BOYS
AT THE NEW FAIR BUILDING.
TERMS PER MONTH.
Primary Department.81.50
Intermediate.$2.00
English.$3.00
English with classics.,.$1.00
Music Extra.
JAMES S. HEYWARD,
Principal.
Jan 8 1874 tf
JOHN A HAMILTON.
has just ke( .:: ved a supply op
3?3 roSP I { ATES,
SI *
ATLANTIC ACllV,
a r?ko
Peruvian G uci.no,
At lowest market rates for Cash.
john A. hamilton
Mjiv 2? i, ISTIl . 15 if.
ftpilE Subscriber oilers for sale the.
fi well-known, Plantation "MeCant's
Villa, situated in Orangeburg County,!
iiilcen mile* due cast of the Court House, I
on the iivc notch Load, containing sewn
hundred and litty-seven ncres, more, or
loss, with the privilege of two hundred
acres more, recently conveyed to my sum.
The latter place having on it a single
story dwelling, lour rooms, one fire-place,
kitchen, .-table, barn, &o,, and about
twelve or lift ecu acres cleared lamb
On the larger place is
A
TWO StORY
DWELLING,
EIGHT ROOMS;
FIRE-PLACE in each,
GIN HOUSE.
SCREW,
BLACKSMITH
SHOP,
And every other building necessary
on a well-settled plantation; Fencing in
?very good condition. For further par
ticulars apply cither to Messrs. I/.lar &
Dibble, Orangeburg C. IL, S. C, or to
the undersigned at McCant's Villa, Or
angeburg County, S. C.
J. C. EDWARDS.
March 6, 1873 . 3 lamOm
A Southern House.
CHB? S HACKER'S
D?OR8, S A SH A.nd
Blind Factory,
King, Opposite Cannon Street,
Charleston, S. C.
The only bouse of the kind in this City owned
and managed by a Carolinian.
A Largo Stock always on hand, and sold
at 20 percent, less than Northern prices.
ADDKKSS,
Geo. S. Hacker
Charleston, S- C
P. O. BOX 170. Oct. 30?ly
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Alum and Plastpr-of-Paris*
265 Broadway, W. Y.,
721 Chestnut St., Phila.
H. c. &Tm*i?, Agt.,
Wholesale arid Retail Dealers in
Dry Goods,
AT TlijF QI.D sVAND,
287 KING I'sTREEt.
HAVING made avrangenu nts to coutinuo
. the business lately conducted by the firm
of.STOLIi, WEB? ?;Co., I respeetmfy inform
my friends and customers of Orangcburg
count) that I have now in store a large assort
ment ".if goods, bought for cash, during the
Panic, which 1 am Offering as low as any
House in the city. Thanking my friend*n?d
customers for the patronage so liberally be -
stowed upon the old firm. I hope by strict at
tention to business to merit a continuance oc
tin-same. / in'// adhere xtrirlly to the one pricf
M/s/cm. Respectfully,
H. C. STOLL, Agent,
Successor to St?ll, Webb & Co., '287 King
Street, ( bail.-ton, S C.
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