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| WM. H. Parker.,| 2 or more tracts, of which plats will be ex- | of governments organized under the law, | [[?]] | The only pertinent inquiry is, whether | in every street and public assembly | ALL A SETTING. - Old farmer Gruff |
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| WM. H. Parker.,
C. E. A. D.

Commissioner's Office,
Sept. 10, 1868.}

J. B. Armstrong vs. Eliz. Armstrong
and others, 

PURSUANT to order of Court, I will sell at public outcry, at Abbeville Court House, on Sale Day in October next, the Real Estate of Wm. Armstrong, deceased, as follows:

1. The Winter Tract-280 ACRES, more or less, in Anderson District, bounded by lands of Mrs. Cowan, Widow Robinson, Mill Tract, and others. 
2. Tract No 2. (Wilson & Armstrong Tracts) 210 ACRES, more or loss, bounded by lands of J. Armstrong, A. Cowan, Robinson and others. 
3' Mill Tract, 6 1/2 ACRES, more or less, bounded by lands of Estate of W. Pearman, dec'd, Tract No. 2 and others. 
4. Another Tract, 370 ACRES, more or less, bounded by lands of J.M. Branyan, W.Y. Walker, Geo. Alewins and others. 
[[image]] pointing hand [[/image]] Terms, Credit of 12 months with interest. Purchasers to give Bonds with two good sureties and mortgage, pay costs Cash and pay for papers and stamps. 

WM. H. PARKER, 
C. E. A. D. 

Commissioner's Office, 
Sept. 10, 1868,}

Alston vs. Pettigrow.

Pursuant to order I will sell at public outery, at Abbeville Court House, on Sale Day in October next, (5) the tract of land near Willington, known as "CHERRY HILL," 1802 ACRES, more or less, bounded by lands of A. Burt, O.T. Porcher, and others. [[image]] pointing hand [[/image]] Terms, half Cash.-As to other half credit of 12 months, with interest. Purchnsser to give bond with two good sureties, (with right to pay the whole in cash,) and pay for papers and stamps. Titles not to be delivered till payment in full is ready.
WM. H. PARKER, 
C. E. A. D. 

Commissioner's Office, 
Sept. 10, 1868,}

Merriman, Ex'r, vs Clinkscales. 

PURSUANT to order, I will sell, at public outcry, at Abberville Court House, on Sale Day in October next (5) the Real Estate of George B. Clinkscales, deceased, 1200 ACRES, more or less, in TWO OR MORE TRACTS. Surveys will be made and platts exhibited on day of sale. 

[[image]] pointing hand [[/image]] Terms, half Cash.-As to other half, a credit of 12 months, and interest. Purchasers to give bonds with two good sureties and mortgage, and pay for papers and stamps. 

WM. H. PARKER, 
C. E. A. D. 

Commissioner's Office, 
Sept. 10, 1868.}

Trustees of De LaHowe vs. Brownlee. 

PURSUANT to order, I will sell, at public outcry, at Abbeville Court House, on Sale Day in October next, (5) the Real Estate of JOHN BROWNLEE deceased, 1200 ACRES, more or less, bounded by lands of B. W. Williams, J. W. Power, and others, IN TWO OR MORE TRACTS. Platts will be made and exhibited on day of sale. 

[[image]] pointing hand [[/image]] Terms, half Cash. As to other half, credit of 12 months, and interest. Purchasers to give bonds with two good sureties and mortgage, and pay for papers and stamps. 

WM. H. PARKER, 
C. E. A. D. 

Commissioner's Office, 
Sept. 10. 1868.}

Wilson vs. Rykard. 

PURSUANT to order of Court, I will sel at public outcry, at Abbeville Court |

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| 2 or more tracts, of which plats will be exhibited on day of sale.
Also the Remainder, in the Tract assigned for Dower, 250 Acres, more or less, bounded by lands of Capt. Cresswell, Thomas Coleman, J.A. Partlow, and others. 
Terms, half cash-As to to other half credit for twelve months and interest. Purchasers to give bonds with two good sureties, (with right to anticipate payment) pay for papers and stamps. 
Titles not to be delivered till payment in full is made. 

WM. H. PARKER, 

C. E. A. D.

Commissioner's Office
Sept. 10, 1868.}

Hodges, Adm'r, vs. Higgins. 
PURSUANT to order, I will sell at Abbeville Court House, at public outcry, on Sale Day in October next, (5) the Real Estate of W. W. Higins, dec'd, on Watts' Creek, 158 ACRES, more or less, bounded by lands of A. Agnew, A. M. Agnew, S. J. Hodges for Dower, bounded by lands of John Higgins, A.M. Agnew and others. 
[[image]]pointing hand[[/image]] Terms Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. 

The State of South Carolina
ABBEVILLE DISTRICT. 
IN THE COURT OF ORDINARY. 
By William Hill, Ordinary of Abbeville District. 

WHEREAS, application has ben made to me by Phares C. Martin for Letters of Administration of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits of Phares Martin, late of Abbeville District, deceased. 

These are, therefore, to cite and admonish the kindred and creditors of said deceased to appear before me, at a Court of Ordinary for Abbeville District, to be held at Abbeville Court House, on Friday, the 2d day of October, next, to show cause, if any, why said Letters should not be granted. 
Given under my hand and seal this 17th day of September, 1868.
WM. Hill, O. A. D. [SEA L Sept. 17, 1868, 21-tf

SOUTH CAROLINA, 
ABBEVILLE DISTRICT. 

By WILLIAM HILL, Ordinary of Abbeville District, S.C.

WHEREAS, application has been made to me by Nathan A. Edwards, for Letters of Administration, with Will annexed, of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits of William O. Pursley, dee'd, late of said District. 

There are, therefore, to cite and admonish the kindred and creditors of the said deceased to be and appear before me at a Court of Ordinary for Abbeville District, to be held at Abbeville Court House, on Friday, the 2d of October next, to show cause, if any they can, why said Letters of Administration should not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal, this 17th day of September, 1868. 

WM. HILL, O. A. D.

Sept 23 47 2t

PAVILION HOTEL, 
CHARLESTON, S.C. 

The above popular Hotel is open for the accommodation of the travelling public.   

BOARD PER DAY, $3.00.

Mrs. H. L. BUTTERFIELD, 
Proprietress. 

A. BUTTERFIELD, 
Superintendent. 
April 10 24 tf

PATRICK MALONE, 

A WHITE MAN and a good DEMOCRAT, will dig or clean WELLS in Abbeville village and the surrounding country, at reasonable prices. Any orders left with Mr. W. C. Moore will receive prompt attention. Give him a trial. 
Sept 16 46 tf |

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| of governments organized under the law, and whose validity Congress has recognized, the overthrow of constitutions which have been ratified by a majority of the people, the disfranchisment of the freedmen in defiance of existing law, and the restoration to power of rebel leaders in spite of the disability imposed by the fourteenth amendment. * * * * *
Will the World give its opinion frankly touching the practical application of the Blair doctrine as to the dispersion of the Southern governments and the disfranchisement of the freedmen by the mere order of a Democratic President? Will it explain how it reconciles its professed respect for law, and its acknowledgment of the de facto authority of the new governments, with its support of candidates who are pledged to defy and violently to overthrow both?
To which "insidous question" the World makes "frank answer" as follows:
This strain of remark and request for information proceed upon the unwarranted assumption that General Blair's letter is a part of the Democratic platform. But there is no process of fair reasoning by which it can be made to appear so. The Democratic National Convention adopted its platform before balloting for candidates, and without any expectation that Mr. Seymour would be its nominee for President or General Blair for Vice-President. Whatever candidates had been nominated, their acceptance would have bound their personal honor to the support of the platform, although it might have conflicted, in some respects, with their own declared views. Governor Seymour, not long before the Convention met, made a noteworthy speech on the payment of the public debt Does the Times believe, or does anybody believe, that in nominating him the Convention indorsed all the views expressed in that speech? On the contrary, everybody admits that Governor Seymour, by accepting the nomination, yielded whatever in his previous views did not fully accord with the platform. The same reasoning applies to General Blair. He is bound by prescisely the same obligations of personal honor, if there is anything in his Broadhead letter inconsistent with the platform, he renounced it in accepting the nomination, just as Mr. Seymour made a similar renunciation if there was anything inconsistent with the platform in his financial speech. The candidates of a great political party stand in a representative capacity. Their honor, which forbids them to accept the nomination of the party unless they have previously agreed with it in essentials binds them to sink minor differences. Whatever the Times may think of the ethics of such matters, it cannot be permitted to make a different rule for the two candidates of the Democratic party. Our contemporary must either hold that the Democratic party is pledged to all the previous views of Mr. Seymour, or else admit that the party is pledged to all the views expressed by General Blair previous to his nomination. The Times may take which horn of this dilemma it pleases, but we shall force it upon one of them.  
In our opinion, the contingency contemplated by General Blair in his Broadhead letter is never likely to arise. The |

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| [[?]] have announced their intention to disregard it. They claim to be judges of law as well as of fact, and will heed no opinion or decision at variance with their action. What, then, can Congress do? May not the Senate and House in turn assert their supreme control over elections and qualifications, and respectively refuse to admit the senators and representatives whom Georgia will send to the next session? The inquiry is not extravagant in view of the fact that Georgia regained its privilege of self-government, in part by ratifying the fourteenth amendment, which, without that vote, would still be law. The act of ratification, however, in the Georgia house, was carried by the votes of the colored members who have been expelled as ineligible. If they had no lawful title to seats they could have none to votes; and after striking them off, the motion to ratify becomes a failure. Interpreting the action of the Legislature in respect of the amendment in the light of its recent proceeding, no special pleading would seem necessary to justify revision by Congress on the ground of fraud. For if what purported to be a ratification was really not such, admission obtained in reliance upon it was in fact admission by false pretences; and Congress may vindicate its integrity and punish the fraud by refusing to receive the Georgia senators and representatives. That step would virtually be a declaration that the reconstruction of the State is still incomplete. 
Now, whatever may be thought of this remedy in other respects, the Times must perceive that it cannot work when we come to have a Democratic President and House of Representatives. All that Congress could do at the next session, would be to stultify itself and make itself a laughing stock, by expelling the carpet bag members it has just admitted, and covering with derision the first plank of the Chicago platform, which congratulates the country on the perfect success of the reconstruction policy. But as soon as there is a Democratic House, the Republicans are checkmated. The joint resolution readmitting the States and sanctioning their governments cannot be repealed without the concurrence of both Houses; and, until it is repealed, neither can refuse to admit members on the ground that there is no valid State government. The Times must therefore see that its party will be bound, hand and foot, in fetters of its own forging There will be no necessity for demolishing the gallows erected by Haman, when he can so easily be hanged on it himself. 

A LATER DECLARATION.
The New York World of Saturday last has another leader on the same subject as the above,and even more unmistakable in its drift. We quote the more important portions of the article:

THE GREAT BUGBEAR.
The chief topic of Republican invective, since the opening of the canvass, is the imputed intention of the Democratic party to disperse the carpet-bag governments by force after the inauguration of Seymour and Blair. The Times, if we understand its rejoinder to the World yesterday, admits that this imputation cannot be sustained unless it is a logical sequence of the Democratic platform. This puts the con |

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| The only pertinent inquiry is, whether the Times' inference is well drawn; whether, in other words, a declaration that the Reconstruction acts are "unconstitutional revolutionary and void," pledges the party to disperse the new governments by force. It is an accepted principle of logic that an argument which proves too much proves nothing. If the reasoning of the Times proves that its editor is pledged to abet the the overthrow of the Radical policy by force, he will perhaps recoil from his own conclusions, and admit that his formidable inference is ill drawn. 
The World then addresses the editor of the Times, Mr. H. J. Raymond, in a powerful argermentum ad hominum, reminding him of the strong protest which he himself drew up against the Reconstruction acts, and which was adopted by the Philadelphia Convention, and contrasting his positions then and now. The World then concludes as follows:
But we need no assistance from the Philadelphia address to confute the pretence that the Democratic party is pledged to destroy the new State governments by force. There is not only nothing of the kind in the platform, but nothing which can bear the construction in the action of the Southern people. Wade Hampton himself is trying to carry his own State for Seymour and Blair through the agency of the carpet-bag government. Everybody knows what has been done in Georgia. In all the reconstructed States they are attempting to effect a change by political action which recognizes the usurping governments de facto, while denying their validity de jure. The example of Georgia demonstrates that this peaceful method of will be successful if endorsed by the public opinion of the country in the Presidential election. No force will be resorted to- none will be necessary. The same majority which suffices to get control of the present State governments will also suffice to alter the State constitutions. With a Democratic President and House of Representatives, Congress cannot interfere to prevent the change, and immunity from such interference is all the Southern people need expect or ask. 

THE OTHER SIDE. 

It must not be supposed, however, that the views of the World given above have been permitted to pass altogether unchallenged. Brick pomeroy, in his New York Democrat, takes up the cudgel on the other side in earnest. In Friday's issue of the paper, we find the following characteristic editoral, which speaks for itself:
HONESTY THE BEST POLICY.
If there is anything in his Brodhead letter inconsissent with the platform, be renounced it in accepting the nomination.
[World.
None but a recreant Republican could have written that sentence. None but a member of the bread and butter brigade would stoop so low and lie so basely as did the man who wrote that line. 
The World knows, we know, every member of the Convention knows, that Frank Blair's letter secured to Frank Blair the nomination, and made him the favorite with some even for the first position on the ticket. Stand by your guns, if you have |

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| in every street and public assembly in England. If respectable newspapers could cease to give the gambling news as they give the markets and the debates, it would greatly discourage the vice of which we complain. It is fast getting to be one of the recognised institutions of the country Some of our pulpits would be doing more good than they now do, if they were to give us less polemical declamation and more faithful preaching against the moral evils of the day, [[illegible]]
have to do battle with every hour. A few of the London papers - conspicuously among them the Methodist Recorder - are inviting attention to this growing curse of gambling Hastings' and St Leonard's News. 

A CAT CHARMED BY A SNAKE.-

The Pensacola Observer tells the following snake story: "A young lady living in the city had a valued cat, and a day or two since, losing sight of it for an unusual length of time, was induced to make seach for the missing pet. In a short time, to her suprise, she discovered the truant under the shade of a shrub, with a snake coiled around its body. The reptile stretching forth its pliant neck, and curving it to the position of a vis-a-vis, held the charmed feline spell bound. The neighbours-several in number- were summoned to behold the scene. Finally, a lad seized the snake by the tail, and placing a forked stick on its head, uncoiled his folds from around the cat. This done, both cat and snake lay with their gaze fastened upon each other, nor was the charm broken until the serpent died. As several ladies in the city were wintessess of the above, its reality will not be questioned."

The accounts of the earthquake which have been received state that at Inquois six hundred persons were drowned by the tidal wave. At Aseguipa the tower of Saint Catelina was the only edifice left. Nearly all the inmates of the hospitals and prisons perished. The course of the river was changed, and Mount Mystic discharged lava and mud, and a sulphurous odor was noticed. No one has gone to the place where the city once stood, and the people are living in tents. 

At Pancanphata hundreds were crushed by the falling houses. At Arica an American bark laden with guano, was swallowed. At Taejuin one hundred and fifty persons, mostly children, returning from school, were lost. 

WASHINGTON. - Neither the State nor the Navy Departments have received any official reports of the earthquake, though its occurrence is fully confirmed by private letters. 
The crew of the Fredonia, reported destroyed, consisted of thirteen petty officers and fourteen hands, none of whom were of American birth. |

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| ALL A SETTING. - Old farmer Gruff was one morning tugging away with all his might and main at a barrel of apples which he was endeavoring to get up the cellar stairs and calling at the top of his voice for one of his boys to lend a helping hand, but in vain. When he had, after an infinite amount of puffing and sweating, accomplished the task, and just when they were not needed, of course, the boys made their appearance. "Where have you been. and what have you been about, I'd like to know, couldn't you hear me call?" inquired the farmer in an angry [[illegible]]
shop settin' the saw," replied the youth. 
"And you Dick?" "Out in the barn [[?]] the hen." "And you sir?" "Up in Granny's[[?]] room settin' the clock!" "And you young man?" "Up garret, settin'the [[?]]." "And now, master Fred, where were you settin?" asked the old farmer of his youngest progeny, the asperity of his temper being somewhat softened by this amusing catalogue of answers. "Come, let's hear!" "On the door-step. settin'still." replied the young hopeful, seriously. "A remarkable set,I must confess, added the amused sire, dispersing the grinning group with a wave of his hand.

JEWS IN NEW YORK- This body of men are fast abandoning the practices of their fathers. Going up on Fifth Avenue is a Jewish temple the like of which this country has never seen. It is to cost over a million of money, and is being built by the wealthiest Jews of the city. It is to be the home of the Reformed Hebrews who are leaving the old Jews behind. Th custom of perching the women up in the galleries, as unfit to be in the sanctuary, is abandoned, and pews are to be erected in which families are to sit together as in a Christian church. The old rams horn, or tin horn or horn of silver, with which worship was wont to be conducted, gives way to a magnificent organ. The chants of David yield to modern melody, of which the Jews are very fond. Sunday-schools are established to keep the little Jews from Christian schools. Even the diet which has kept the Jews to themselves for so many centuries, yields in this city to Christian food. Cincinnati hams, Shrewsbury stews, and other prohibited food can be found on the tables of wealthy Jews. Intermarriage with Christians is a very common occurence. 

At the final interview between the Tennessee Legislative Committee and the President, the President stated that he had given their application mature consideration, and concluded to instruct Gen. Thomas to furnish whatever troops were necessary to maintain peace and sustain the present Tennessee Government. 

Some one has beautifully said: "Let prayer by the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

The town of Shigra was swept away, only twenty of five hundred inhabitants escaping.