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Ex-Governor Orr Hauls the Democ;
racY.0Her the Goals, ~.

Governor Orr, Of South Caphnaj who
is now in this city, has been giving some
of the leading Democrats here a piece
of his mind on the bungling-sway the
Democracy have beenmanaging matters
of llate.' To one of them, who was a
delegate to the Tammany Convention,
he said that the nominations of Sey-
mour and Blair were both great mis-
takes. Seymour, because he represented
impracticable and obsolete ideas, and
Blair on account of his revolutionary
letter. Besides, Blair was military
man, and the Democracy set out with
the idea of having a great civilian states
man, and they should have been consis-
tentin thatidea. 5Pendletonwa was equal
ly Objectionable on account of his iden-
tity with old worn-out policies. If the
Democracy had nominated Chase, the
Governor said his name, so long identi-
fed with the abolition Of slavery, would
have enabled the Democracy to carry
every Southern State. Now, they might
possibly carry Georgia and Alabama
the rest would all go for: Grant. He
further said that it was a great mistake
for the Southern Democracy to insist on
being represented in the Convention !;
that the crowd of Confederate Generals
there had bad effect ON the public
opinion of the North, and bad influ-
ence onthe Convention. Wade Hamp-
ton, for instance whom he spoke of in
high terms, had come home, and public
ly Stated that he had procured the in
sertion in the platform of the declara-
tion that ' the Reconstruction ,Actswere
usurpations, unconstitutional, revolu-
tionary and oid,,!and SO the Cenfeder-
ate element in the Convention openly
arrayed itself against Northern senti-
ment and re-opened all the. old issues:
Much sensible talk Of the same kind the
wise and patriotic old Governor adj
dressed to his hardsheaded friend, but
with as little practical effect, we fear,
as his sagacious counsels to his head
strong brethren in South Carolina We
learn that Governor Orr has Just been
appointed a Circuit Judge in South Caro-
lima, but that he has determined to take
up his residence in ST. Joseph, Mo, in
order to resrme the practice of his pro-
fession under more favorable auspices
than the disturbed condition Of affairs
in South Carolina admits of.-St. Paul
(Minn. Press, 18th instant.
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for your work; if you stick by the; yes:
sci You shall have $1,000, SO you see, itris !ris'
your interest to stick by. her, to The last,
Make up your minds for we must abe
aout,of this in a, jjhiffy." Tommy beckon-
ed me to one side, and as we were ofthe
same way of thinking that the sooner
we were out Of the schooner heibetter
for us, we spoke up and said that we
thought we would leave then, if there
WIS no objection, SO the captain went
below and got some money and handed
us twe.ty-three ounce-pieces each, at
the same time asking if any one else
wanted to throw away5six hundred dol
lars by leaving the vessel; but no one
did not speak, and Tommy and I went
into the forecastle and got a shift of
clothes, and shook hands with one or
two of our shipmates, and stepped into
the boat, and were pulled ashore. BY two
of the men. .i.5i5 sas - ~
We stopped on the rock for while
after the boat landed US, and seen the
schooner weigh her anchor, and get nn-
dersail, and standou sea. We scarce
ly spoke to one another. for5we felt, at
least, / did, as though we had been cut
ting some man S throat for the few 'doi-
lars that were tied upin an old shirt at
our feet. -
The schooner was ast-crawling out to
sea, Tommy and I turned to climb the
.hillbehind us, thinking a good deal
about whether we were thieves only, Or
thieves. aud 1nurderers' too. We laid
down under a tree at the top of the hill,
and at daybreak started on foot for Ma
ta1rzas, good long walk, if you'll look
at the map of the Island.
But at last we got there, and what's
more, got a, berth in q sugar-dugher
bound to Bristol. 'i'
What became of the schooner l don t
know, but I reckon if she'd been lost,
or captured. you folks here would have
heard more of it, for she was owned
here, so Lheard; guess the schoon-
er that was burned off the Double-Head-
ed Shot, Keys about that time, must
have been her. The crew, I was told,
was picked up by a brig and taken to
New, York, all except two, and them the
mate report to have been lost overheard.
Them two was Tommy and /.
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BY A. S. WELLINGTON Il CO.
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been compelledto succumb to financial necessities
We gratefully record this evidence of the appre-
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been, ONE AMONG THE LEADING COM
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it easily within the reach of all who desire
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In rurtherance OF this purpose We now issue
the Daily and Tri- Weekly Courier to our Sub
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annum respectively. = ss'-' -
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UPON the most reasonable living prices.
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-i ttE5Salik hiit--s I'onnte Dfae rag.
&C.,. ff.l$ ..:'a
~; Arise, ye tried Democracy, ,aactie;<
The campaign opens fair; .s9. rps,:
Arise and strike giant blow .,.., !,
For Seymour and for Blair .. 80
Arise ID all yo1r majesty, 49,. - -
Arise in all your might, ..a -.
Arise, and show the ,scalawags :,
.:5s x You're 9 belted" for the fight!
si,-..,i. 81 c,,o,ro; r,o;l,,.yi4-l. ,.;daf i.i.. =
5Sss5 q 10 OhohUs. .isi.ys51,oa - 10
- ~ Huzza Huzza! ,,o,s 4
WeAasan to do and dare: :.
We,Hstand our ground through ev'ry round
ForiSsynour and for Blair!
:. The spirit of cid chivalry,
s,sIs waking from the'tomb, 49,
And in its gray, like dawn of dag,
Dispels the long-night gloom:
The morning star of Hope, once more
Beamsin the Eastern aky;
The sun Of old Democracy
~ WIN soon be blazing high!
- cHoRUs-Huzza, &c.
The Mongrels boast.n motley host
i ~ Of yellow, black and white;
=! The platform of Democracy.
e; Is Freedom, Truth and Right!
From North to South, from East to West,
i.ss.I Our cause is rolling ON;
bGSWell have no peace, we'll have;no rest,
,.I1s Until the battles won! ie..
. ,sis so2' cuonus-Huzsa, &c.
"a We Democrats have built upon = :.
Men firm Us adamant;
The Radicals have" squatted" on
Their UnigersaL Grant;
Those toTers.tuilt upon the rocks, - T
The Gercdst storms withstdhd;S;
Bot how the cool November shocks ~
I Will squash thoseraised on sGnd
assg .saaCHoRUs.
sse< Huzza J.. Huzza! - -
We mean to do and dare; :.
Well stand our grouod through cv'ry round,
For Seymour and for Blair.
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THE OLD WIG PARTY.

My friends, old-line Wings, like you,
I used o.believe the old Wings were the
salt of the earth, and I'm sorter of that
opipionsyet. But the party is dead and
buried, and the tombstone placed over
it, and don't care about spending the
balance of my days mourning at its
grave. A sincere Old Wing, when his
party died-if he was. true to his princi-
pies or bis prejudices7-would inquire
for party nearest like it., Which is
that party2 Is it Bill Holden at the
head Of $4,000 negroes ? a negro boy
once caught a;large-si2ed catfish, and,
sticking it in the bank, passed up. the
creek. Another negro coming along
that way, and, having aesmaller sized
fish on hisstring, snapped cats. After
a Bit Jake returned for his fish, and,
pulling it out, exclaimed, DE great
Lord, is dis my cat? Yes, here's whar
l stuck him; but amt he saOa1mki' Il
Henry Clay could rise from-the dead and
sound the bugle to summon up his par
ty, and then look at Holden and few
half whipped, mangy-looking fellows at
the head Of $4,000 negroes as they cry
out, "Heres your Wing party, Henry
Clay ~ Great God would ,exclaim
that statesman, chow the Wing party
has shrunk !"
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The FATE OF TIE NEGRo.-The Rich
mond EGanuinea concludes an article on
the subject of the iate3of the negro, with
the following truthfal remarks, which
we commend to the attention of the ne
groes: "There is:no party in the North,
nor any party, which secretly-desires to
see the whites Of the South ruled by ne
groes;; and the Southern States made
negro provinces. Fdrless do any avow
it. In.the long run, blood is thicker
than water, even among the most un-
principled men of the whiterace. Moth
ing is:clearer, in the future, than the
fact that the negro will be cast aside by
the Radicals as soon as he has served
their purposes in the present contest
And it is safe prediction that the ne
groes will have no more implacable enc
mics than those who now profess toibe
their peculiar. friends, just so soon as
these professions are no longer pro6ta-
bic. If it were necessary to sustain this
-toIii opinion, which, is based on general prin7
ciples, by specific proofs. nothing is en-
.siier than to point to the, course of. the
Radicals in the Georgia Legislature, and
even the conduct of the Radical Cen
trad Committee in this city"
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County Commissioners Notice.

" NoTIcE is hereby given to all County ofiicerf,
and all citizens having business with the County
Commissioners in reference to the County over
which the County Commissioners have control,
will hereafter send all Communications, petitions,
and other matter addressed to the Office of Coun-
ty Commissioners at Hamburg.
Also. all persons retsilipg Liquors. or intend
ing to do so in the County of Edge6ed, whose
License have expired, ,or those wishiug.to procure
License, will apply as usual at this Office. Those
falling to do will be dealt with according 60 Law.
FRANK ABNIM, Chair. C. C.
JuIy2I tt 20
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s@ Governor Fletcher, Of Missouri,
is havingpeace" by distributing thirty
thousandstands Of arms.among the Rad
cal plug-uglies. of that State. These
thirty thousand muslSets are to control
the Missouri election in favor Of Grant,
or atleastthat is the intention, but there
is many slip. &c: .g
sar The Radical papers assert that a
son of Hon. Stephen A. Douglasi is about
taking the stump for Grant and colfax.
-i1f so, let his first discourse be from the
memorable saying.of his distinguished
father: :" This is white mans country,
made by white men orwhite men and
their postcrity forever.
agA down east paper says: "Gen.
Grants utterances are few but remark
able. So are those of an Andalusian
Jack.@]N. o. Times"
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The Retart Of a Fallen DeSpet.

One Of the sublimest Of satiros was
uttered with the dying breath Of one of
the meanest of the Roman emperors.
Tacitds relates that when vitellius, af-
ter this fall, was staggering under the
blows and imprecations Of the mob, he
replied to tribune vino taunted. him
with his misery, Nevertheless I have
be en- your emperor" If he was so vile
and detestable wretch, what was to
be thought of the people who had ac-
ceptod him as their ruler, who had. paid
him honors only aittle lower than those
accorded to the gods, and with whom
his edicts had been as unquesticned
and potent as the nod''of Jove him
self if
There is something in this historical
example that comes home with terrible
significance to the case of the American
people in relation to the rule which has
been over them for the past several
years. However Indignantly they may
repudiate this rule hereafter, history
will adjndge them to have been part
ners in it's shame. The whole combi-
nation of llnaves and fanatics who have
been harryingt plundering and running
the country, are destined doubtless to
fall from their opprobrioys eminence
and sound the lowest depths of popular
execration and contempt. But in, that
event may they not all retort upon the
people, as Viteflius retorted upon the
insulting tribupel::ey" Nevertheless, we
have been your rulers. We have had
despotic sway in your land. We have
done our will with your laws, with your
government, with your money, with
Your very bodies in war or peace, and
for years you we're Jealous and proud
to do our bidding. You bowed down
to lift us to supreme authority, as an
elephant lSnecls 10 let his puny rider
mount Had YOU not been sclf-abased,
we had not been exalted. Ii we have
been architeets.ofthec country ruin, you
have furnished us with the implements
and. the materials for the work. Fool
ish, blind, impious, mad, prot1lgate: and
reckless as our rule may have been
what is mall these aspects but arehec-
E,tion of your image? a.
The Roman tribune had no. answer
for the overwhelmingretort Of Viteflius
Are the American people any better
prepared to neeta like retort from their
fallen despots The sequel showed that
the Roman mob, willing to change ty-
rants, was asincapable Of destroying tyran-
tiy. What willathe sequelashow in the
case of the American people2 They
have it in their power not only to hrrl
from power their detestable rulers, but tc
drive despotism to its last covert and
extirpate it from the land. Will they
| do SO 2ANew Orleans Crescent.
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Fancy Articles.

Highly Perfu,ned RICE FLOUR for the Toilet
Pure LILY WHITE.
Inbin's TOILET POWDER,
Fancy PUFF BOXES,
Gazin'. SHAVING CREAM,
Military Shaving SOAP.
TOILET SOAPS nf al. kinds,
The very best TOOTH BRUSHES.
Fine assortment Of HAIR BRUSHES,
Hat and Clothes BRUSHES,
Dressing COMBS, Fine T"nih COMES,
Tooth WASHERS and POW DERS, &c.
..ALSO--
Constantly on hand large assortment s1. OF ,
LAMPS. Lamp CHIMNeYS. BURNERS, &c.
PURE KEROSENE OIL.
NURSING BOTTLES. improved style,
PENS. INK. ST TaTI0NERY,
Faber,s LEAD PENCILS, &C., DC.
eas-A,l sold for the most reasonable price. but
STRICTLY CASH.
T. w. CARWILE,
~ At Sign Golden Mortar
J,ne % If 26
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. - . = y
>. AN ACT W1rHoUT.A PRECEDENT. !"
Under this heading, the Augusta Re
publican, bitter Radical paper, edi-
itorally raps our model Legislature in
this wise: g y ar ;lA.-h..e, '1.fa2
We are ashamed Of the South Carroll
ma Legislature, It's recent suspension
of State senator for q period. of asix
months, for some alleged misconductiis,
we believe, without precedent in parlia-
mentary law. Weimagine temporary
denial to Mr.. Leslie Of the privileges
ofmemberslip is matter of small con-
sequence to him. BUTT is not the sena-
tor who. has a right to complain: The
people have done nothing to merit pun
ishment. Hissuspension leaves his con-
stituency in ON anomalous. condition.
They have -not,a senator There is no
vacancy and there is:no senator.4rThis
is absurdly unjust. The Legislature of
South Carolina will find it best in the
send, to regulate their actions BY old
rules and preeedents.i They are loyal
men, and wise, no doubt, but we doubt
their ability to improve on the wisdom
of ages. They simply make themselves
ridiculousin making the attempt.
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A Red Pepper Speech From Ex-
Governor Vance.

. The Milton On. G. Chronicle of the
17ths gives the following; sketch of a
speech recently delivered at Ruf6n by
Ex-Governor Vance:
LADIES AND FELEow-C1TIzENsc am
exceedingly obliged to'you for this kind
reception, and more than happy to meet
soEmany Of my fellow-citizens together
Afgreat many things give US cause to be
thankful. lam sthankful that amid SO
much ruin, we are still left the freedom
ofssspeech'; the freedom to denounce ty-
ranny; and the freedom to meet together
fora free exchange,of our political opin-
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INSURANCE AGENCY.

FARTIEs wishing Ito Insure their Dwell
LINGS, GOODS. &c, can do soon the loves.
terms, and 10 the BEST COMPANIES, by call
ing on The Unasgaigned.
D. r. DURIsOE,
Agent for A. G. HALLS Insurance Agency.
Ian a1
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IS DiXie.''
From The N. Y. Democrat.

Yesterday afternoon Mf. fomeroI
left the city to fill engagements on the
stump in the interior. and has played
us nice trick. Finding returned SOL
dier on the street with an old hand-or-
gan on which he pays ten dollars a: year
license, whichsgoes to the.support of the
bondholders, he hired him to come to
the Office of fsthe.Democrat, and from one
sfifl four eIscr ate ifioon Eiassss
And 4lere he is under our window.
We like it, but the editors of the Sun
are outraged! One Of them says it is'a
id nuisance Another says it%is
damnable! And there he sits and
sgrinds,
s"oh, 1 wish L was in Dixie, ,1i< y
Way down South IN Dixic!' !. 81
hour after hour. ,sTheman won't move,
T for he saws Pomeroy hired him by the
week. fhe ,Su,sfollss don't like it. Pas
sers by wonder why in thunder he don't
change his tune One man, from Go
shen, Orange county, stood there an
hour to-day, waiting to hear thcnext
tune a.But no other one comes oft Of
the horrid instrument! And there he
sits, grinding. lss
"Wny down South in Dixie;
Oh wish was in Dixie"
Yesterday Pomeroy had row about
the matter. A radical, ,siwhose office is
close by, came down and ordered. the
soldier to move on. -
Can tldo it, replied the cripple. :;
Why2" - -, .',.
''Cause I'm hired to stay here on
these steps, under this window, and play
this ere tune y sae ssss.t Z
+" Well; I'll see, land upstairs came
the excited radical. He 'raved and
swore, threatened arrest, and all sorts
OF trouble. Cant help it, said Pomc-
roy "that man. was a soldier; he
fought he pays ten dollars a year to
grind his machine; l have hired him
for the season, and l shall have him
play that same tune day after day, to
remind the workingmen that,
"way down South in Dixie"
are a lot of mggers, scalawags, and car
Epet-baggers they must support. And,
| said he, "if yoWtouch that soldier Ill
mash your loyal head Il rent these
prenlises-that soldier has paid his Ii.
cense--I pay for the music, and I'lfh have
fit Just as lwant It'll" .,
And the man is still grinding away
! + !, "'wsy.down South in Dixiop' ssa.s
How long -heis togrind at that mill
God and Pomeroyonly know. But it's
q funny idea, compelling us to sit here
hour after hour to listen to that soldier
grinding out Of observation-disclosures or
gan,f!l 81
"'way down sorth in Dixie"
ID We tried to coax him to change his
tune, but lie won't He says Pomeroy
hired him to grind it till his,return. l
he will hasten back, we'll pay the, bill
and call it quits. IS -.
+. AN ACT WITHOUT PREcEpENr.''
Under this heading, the Augusta RE
publican, a bitter Radical paper, edii
itorally raps our model Legislature il
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LOYALTY AND. JOE BROWN.


A respectable term can be made use
of till itbecones the synonym of every
thing contemplate and dirty Come all
We ends of the earth and repent in favor
of the Chicago platform and the woody.
head of the negro to the straight hair of
the white man-and, though your sins
bo as scarlet they shall be as white as
snow--loyal white Joe Brown, Of Geor-
giia-who was he? An old original lie
secessionist. When the war was first
got to be talked abouthewas SO hungry
for fighting that he took a,snack before
breakfast and seized Fort. Pulaski. In
1860 and 81 if you had thrown him
into branch you might have heard 9 !lI him 2.
siizzle three miles. During the war he
ate fire till he was as hot as a black
smiths furnpce-and since the war he
has eat dirt till by virtue of it he has
become freeholder.. >. -;,ls; -s5y
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For the Handkerchief.

LUBIS,s GENUING, ,EXTRACTs--assortcd
BURNETT'S FL0RIMEL, 80 t5Es
Genuine RELL COLOGNE. ~
NIGHT BLOOMING CEKEUS, DC,
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HOW no BECOME Loyal.

Just go for Grant and-lo ll-you are
loyal. / could make a loyal man out OF
myself ina few seconds by simply tele-
graphing that I would support the Grant
and Colfax ticket. My sins would be
forgiven and they wouldte me n, to ode
part in peace" like a buncombe magis'-
ttrate Of my town, the other day. A
couple presented themselves before him
TO be married. He was a pompous sort
of ignoramus and was smartly bothered
!" how to doit," as crowd of town boys
had collected to see the fun. After he
had battle-whanged them through and
tied them as man and wife, there was a
kind of pause: The couple didn't know
sit was all. over. So, STRENGTHENING
himself up, one arm a-llmbo, my
friends" said he "depart in peace and
/ GIN ncy more -,G3 80. 80
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EDGEFIELD, S. C., OCTOBER I, 1868. s..'.. :

proclaimedin the Legislature-"I'don' t
care damn how much taxes are laid on
the people of North Carolina, my con-
stituents don't have them to pay |
want to put you in the humor to spend
the last cent of your property before
you will have it stolen from you l am
very heavy on fgures-like the little
auack doctor who was called in to see a
Sick child. He looked at the child-felt
its pulse-and shook his head. 81 don t
exactly understand this child's case,
said he, but I tell you what I can do I;
T can give it some medicine that will
throw it into fits and I am hell on fits p
Now I am good on figures, and have
figured this thing up. Your State debt
is twenty-eight millions; and the interest
is million and half. How muchwill
it take to carry on the State government?
In my time it took three hundred thou
sand dollars, and now the salaries of all
the officers are doubled. What else?
Public schools. In 1860 when only the
white children attended school, and q
large number of them not sent to free
schools, but educated at the expense of
their parents, it took two hundred and
forty thousand dollars per annuln; now,
the negroes have to be educated, and
none of them are able to send to other
schools it will take, four hundred and
eighty thousand, and twenty thousand
of this goes to that man from Cape
Fear who sings Old Hundred through
his nose. t,-.s-. ...,.. 81. s,s a.
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NEGRO SUFFRAGE. y 3

I have never had the chance to say
whether I was in favor of it or not. l
am in favor Of giving the negro limited
suffrage, and I-believe it will not be,de-
MED him rby any present. My grand
father was at Kings Mountain, and his
old musketis now at home; l can just
reach up. and. Lay my hand on the muz-
zfe. / am lineally descendedfrom him;
have been your'Governor and worn the
first honors, yet can't vote! But if I
mprmur single word against the boy
who BACKED my boots last night, and
who is running for Governor of; your
State. as he:has o. right to do, ".HELL!
eBLooDl FURYl ITHJNDERF' cry
these radicals; you are dlsloyal;' "you
mean WARl@@ Now, fellow-citizensi J.,
ZBBULON VANCE, ,tellyou this truth ::
I don't intend to live in a land where I
am disfranchised, and Cont intend to
leave it. The negro is naturally an aris-
tocrat. He hates a scafawag as badly
as we do. Did you ever burn q! dogs
nose with a cigar? Every time he sees
you with a cigar m he'll tuck his tail and
travel. They have fooled the negro once.
Promised him forty acres Of land and a
mule He hash' t. got Che mule or the
land-though he Is oyerstocked with
Eiackasaes-- and the. next. time one Of
these fellows approaches him, he'll rea.
son this way: Dat white man done told
me a lie once, i ain t. got no more to do
wild him