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- -.~, -to - -~ - -. ,. I I - - I 9 *1' - - - II *2 *1 .. . 4. Thars Downs A YEAR,I FOR TIE DISSEMINATION OF uSEFUL INTELLIGENCE. (INVARIABLY Is AbnYCR.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1869. NO 11~ THREM ERALD - YRT WDIISDAY YORNING, it Neiwlerry C.. ., - rUe. 1. a a. K xfsfS aa -rtz AI IN CUERBENc O.PROVISIONS. . pas,ItrgtI iusblyi advance. .hr Invitatfus, Obi w*.aui 4-r..uu-...inS mb-vigsuivate. ~~ "eet.arearea avTwo n s- 1 . 11tWilling Witness. rT LIBEL o THE WGNQOO )P - S ovi' ARo,LINA UPON THE PEO .iroir SOvT OEROLINA. We. g eetscts from the sorn ep.ony of Governor Ad Hrd. e "bsioa D confe*sted,.election case. -Vg tyo aquestion by S. L. H1oe G4Vernor Scott says: I a GovernorR. K. Scott, Gov ernor-of the State-was so in July, Aty , September, October and Miovember, 1868-inaugurated 9th July, 186% and hi6- been Gover nor~ oM,reet_tieL Da ting peih@ political con - tNbe Abbeville, ? sdreoH ad Eddeld was one -of -great exciterent; The laws could not be enforced, and W e not epbfei-ed in these coatities. T ' tgetion of law came from the t' t'at political organiza tions se.at defi*nce the ofes of W . The, organizations were blican and the.Democrat Ta Demperatic or wedthe iD Orma tion as Governor that- the Demo erage laiiy 'was organized for the of preventing the officers from enforcing the law sgainst any of their partizans,and for-t: puajae of centrolling the fhetionsttakeplac on the 3d IFT "Aigit6e in the- i1terest of t jry one. Thee political orgseisations armed themselves - in ordbI-t carry out the objects andtposes-of their organization. I was informed'-"by nen who ' ere: ding themselves-with sixteen shooters ea, ith ti a do of first controlling t ldetisS keeping the- ne gp-e ivepp rom the polls and if resistance tras-anad they would sboot thenegroes down and there yret the more timid from a at al thI&# did with ti owl2-- - *iwto the State maS~ tides in accordance eerd~,.lrationis. There wast slestion for Cngr in lathis: .The'WSode itimy duty ~~~reas.Csnmiiinnesof gaoeac eeely; tfMo of es4Edetapited weitwhite ginsd-Mat odlored zinn of * eiity Thie whiita men ob - cjto serve. because. that par -.necolored man was a member jii bayard X accordinglg ap ydniath%e other. commisipers, on*9.worn was a *r; Boot, a uem ~~ oftthe present House of ~.~poiIieforthe board to serve bhaunae it required all of his timp tposve his life. .Slaat hMibad beeurwbot at twice in d@iMrera ett Wrting to me &uemoglace of conebalmett in the samp. ~It was too late before antelection could be held. The generalr g g political affairs in that counity, as far as the - coung Pope objected to the otfir e upon- such iri formation.) I think ther-e 'wai * scarcely.a mail received.in the Ex ecutive - Depardintr during the zmnuRtA pf $ptemnber,.October and Egl 1bs868, that I 'did not - onesietltters; reporting o'ftlz6is oftthe conna - nied inhe letters to bemu :i a :nseq80uene tof their--ylitinal 'opimiiory, or other ourgscommitted on them, and * of moneAo send a milit4ry - ilie. ceunty to .give apo tegpgaganstlawless men. QidWhat was the -condition in A as to otittises;i also, of &..-The same-as in Edgefield. In Abbevlle county I have re ptgon file of nineteeti murders. ~l6emurders were also commit ted.W4rethe Novemiberelections-. Judgig ftom. the frmer -election in Apri, and, making 'de allo* .. antes for natural changes and in fluences that might legitimately have been brought to bear, and judging furthermore by the state ments of men from the county of both political parties, it is my opinion th'atthe Republicans would have carried the county by 1800 or 2000 votes. I mean by Repub liean, loge's: majority for Con gress. As to Newberry County, in a fair election, I can only judge of it from the same information I had as to Abbeville. The major ity in Newberry could have been from ten to twelve hundred, same as f6r the' Legislature. The vio lence in Newberry was not to the -etent as in Abbeville as to murder, but the same intolerance "eisted'as to coloi-ed men. voting. There were two eases of murder in Newberry-Lee Nance and a man 'by the IIame of Johnson Glass gow-,prominent colored men that I now rec,lleet. Examination by J. D. Pope, Esq., for J. P. Reed: Q.-How many white. men of any party in South Carolna sup port.d you for Goaernor, do~ you -think? A.-I have no means of know ing. It was a matter of indiffer -ence to me whether I was voted for by white or colored men, nor did I regard it as important to the 'esult, .so long as there was a fair eleetion, and the voters had the right to exercise the. privilege guaran'teed to them by the laws ofthe country. Q.-That may be true, but was it -not the fact that you were elec ted by colored voters almost- en tirely? A.-I have no means now of knowing the relative number of white and colored votes east for me, but I know as a matter of ne cessity,. that I received nearly all the colored votes cast in the State, as~they were Republicans from neeessity, and voted for the Re publean candidates. Q.-During the canvass- for Con gress were you at any time or times, and how often, in the Third 1 Oongressional Distzic out ofthe humfy 6fRieEdiif -A.-I was never out of the City of Columbia to visit any portion of the Third Congressional Dis trict during the canvass. Q.-Were you in . any of these canties before the canvass'? A.-I never was. Q.--have you been since ? A.-I have -not. My duties here have rendered it almost im possib'I to leave the capital. Q-:-our i'nformation, then, is defive<Tfr'om others ? A.-Y4sa..y information is de rived from. information of citizens ~living in tiidser counties, from civil offiers of-the State government,-] and miilitary offiers who were on duty in these countlies.. Q-ToU say that the resistance to the laws was entirely by Demo cratic organizations. Who. gave you this information ; Democrats or Republicans ? A.-Both. Many men -of the Demderatic gartyypre opposed to them Deiotritic 'organizations; for the:prpose of resisting the law and setting at defiance the authority of theT .State govern ment.: Q.-Pray name some of these Democrats who gave you this in formation ? A.- smnot~it -libbr'ty to bame, them, as they enjofned confidence claiming that if it were known that they gave the information whereby the' parties might be brought to justice, their own lives and property would be in danger. Q.-.-ou. say that~ Democrats oid" g'6u that 'sixteen shooters were unported to keep the ne grsQm the polls. Name some who told you this ? A.-Memibers,of thes Demnocrat ic club told 'me this.. It don't fol low that they are Democrats be ca6se they 'belonged to Democrat ic clubs. A:ji.Mr of~ Republi cans joined Democratic clubs in order to discover what object they had in importing these destructive weapons. I do not for precaution ary reasons feel justified in giving their names to the publie. Q.-Would you believe the tes tinhony-of any man who became a' umenber of a Democratic club for th.e purp'ose of communicating to outsiders what he there saw and heard' ? A.-When surrounding circum stances and results .corroborate testimony fuilly,; I -would- beliste them. Q'-You spokge of white mnen be ing armed, Do you not know f that there were armed bands' 'of negroes in Edgefleld' and Abbe vile, and were you not applied to these arms? . And what did you do to prevent it? A.-t do not know that there were such armed bands in these counties, nor do I now recollect of aby report of such armed bands being made to me from Abbeville. It may, however, have been made,. as there was a general rumor of armed bands of negroes. Q.-Do you know that the im portation of arms into the State, was brought about by the fact, that every negro man in- the State was the owner of a fire-arm, and the white man alnost entirely un armed? A.-On the contrary I know to the reverse of that. You would scarcely meet a white man who did not have one revolver if not more, and a double-barrel shot gun. It is true that many of the colored men were armed with shot guns and old muskets, but not more than a large minority of them had even these arms. I wish to say that I gave the white of the State the credit with more in telligence and knowledge of the negro chanacter than to believe that it was necessaryin any emer gency to rovide themselves with the zestzctive weapons in a time of profound peace. Q.-You think then and testify that the sixteen shooters were im ported to kill negroes? A.-I believe from evidence that I dare not regard as worth less that it was the belief of a par ty or a large number. of men in the State, that Seymour and Blair would be elected, -and thereby a decision would be given against the Reconstruction policy of Con gress, and it was the intention of those to inaugurate civil war and )verthrow the governments that fad been established in the-South. [ will give as one reason for this elief: Conversations were not incommon among those who were nost actire in importing these trms, wherein they expressed ful y and openly their plan of opera ;ion, in which they stated that ;hey would bring about. riot; in is event-they would be prepared ind kill of the leading Republi rans, both white and black, and that it would be an easy matter after they were disposed of, to 1ontrol the rest of the negroes, with' these guns in their hands. The State officert disposed of, they would call a new election, when they. would have the whole mat ter in their own hands. In an ;wer to au inquiry whether - they lid not fear that they would be salled to an account for this wholesale work, they said : "Who ver heard of anybody being pun shed for a riot," and referred to emphis, Camilla, and New Or eans in 1866. Q.-You think then the sixteen shooters were introduced for an ather rebellion and a new seces don ? A.-I think it was intended for aother rebellion, but not a new secession. The New 'Cabinet. wniosior LEADNm NORHERN JOURNAL.S. (From the New York Tribune ( Rad ical) -of Saturday.) Mi'- Greeley, now in the City of Washington, Telegraphs as fol lows in reference to the new Cab)-. inet:. The new Cabinei; means busi ness emphatically. Each man was chosen by General Grant express ly to aid him in carrying out the programme of ec~1onmy .and in teg rty ertmbseied.in th.e naugural. The'flon; E. B. Wiehturn has fohghti so, vigorously a y1 suqeeb fully in Congreiss against corrip tion and prodig~ity 'hb!cud not be spaN'd froma a rbrining Cabinet. His health is very poor, nd he is most reluctanit to take s~y appointmient that .keeps him in Washington. On these grouidds be at first resolved not to accept, bt it is hoped that his . unne will be overcome, 'eveu hough; he should not be' ablq{ to serve through General Graut's term. Probably -no single member of the Cabinet had' any rehson' to upposo h,iss name oni the islat e til it went-into the Senate so-day (Pronw the New York Thmes ( Re publican) of SaturMayJ Th&Cabinet as a whole will not commend -itself - to the' favoinof politi~tissbecale ! it has np been tilkan froii thieir i-anks-- not are the men 'who cotnpestit stiffl eiedlyI 611ell x to, the. pdblio at large, to qommand ic ande4nee thedl'cndetceofth0c#nrta nity3B~t in 'the" very insshness of itgeh,ara,oter,;i : the 'fi6t -ti its' meu%,r r are .bggens men ..ae tn'oliticians. :ad are likely to make the practical inter ests of the country their first care, we see ground for believing that the Cabinet wi!l by its prac tical working, vindicate the wis dom of its selection. (From the New York World (Dem ocrat) of Saturday.] This is President Grant's do ings, and it is marvellous in our eyes ! In our commetits yesterday on the Inaugural Address. we had oc casion to remark that it contained nothing which was not borrowed from the Republican newspapers. We cheerfully admit that the same charge cannot be made against the selection of the Cabi net. Nobody will doubt that Gen. Grant's whimsical pretence of composing his Cabinet without anybody's advice, was quite sin cere. He has not only deviated from the beaten path, but devia ted into absolute oddity ; having made such a Cabinet as no politi cian would have advised, such a Cabinet as no newspaper could have conjectured, a.Cabinet which fills lis political opponents with wonder, and his political friends with suppressed dismay. Take it all in all, the new Cab inet is "fearfully and wonderfully made." The only hypothesis. by which we car. explain its forma tio.n is, that General Grant means to be the candidate of the Repub lican party for a second term, and will tolerate in his Cabinet no statesman from whom he would have anything to fear as a rival. [From the New York Herald (Inde pendent) of Saturday.] The Cabinet of President Grant, promptly confirmed, will puzzle the politicians. He has chosen his men for business and as his subordinates, and with not the remotest idea that tbey are tQ be his masters or his co-equals in the administration. He has utterly ignored the Cabinet theory of Mc Clure, and has selreted his men as his friends, his assistants and, his secretaries, and-etch mainly in reference to the'spqcial duties of is department. But the moral of this Cabinet is that it is President Grant's Cabinet; and that he intends to be the master of his administration." (From the New York Times," of Sunday] There is a key-note on which the' harmony of President Grant's new Cabinet depends which does not seem to have been fully ap preciated: that is, the absolute independence of every member of it upon any merely party ties. -As no one of them is a~ representa tive of a class or clique to whom he owes his place, they are all untrammelled. Their first "loy alty" is due the country, their second very properly, the Presi dent whose political family they now are. He is responsible to the people, and his Ministers to him; and we have his word that if his fir-st choice should .prove in any case unfortunate, he will not hie'sitate to make a second or even a third trial, with the advice and consent of the Senate. Grant's judgment of men and selection of tbe right man for the right place, has always been his strong point. It would be strange if he. should. fail at this day. We can afford to wait and see. (From the New York Journal of 'Cominerce.] The public curiosity in regard to the Cabinet is at; last satisted. Th'e President has failly vinqicated is prediction that the .nomina-. tions would take the countr~y by surprise. Never before since the formation of the Government has 'o large a proportion of ,thes.e. ap pointittents - lieen composed .of thoge not previously namned f6r thie office.. As a whole, the Cabinet will dis appoint the politicians. The num inees for the State and Intei-ior Departments are the only protni ent party men on the liat.- This is but two out of seven, a small p roportion to satisfy theohord4? hangr-y expectants who are wyt ing for party favors. The masses of the peop1e, irrespective of party, ill regard the list with mndre fa vor. New York has hiery r-eaeon to be proud lofIher position in the Cabinet. -Fitnancial questions twill be the most important that carn cone before the country, and~ the Scretary, we believe, will :prove himelf equal to the emergency... Prom the New York.Evening Post .(P*publican) of Saturday.] * The professional-pOliticiens8 are 'vbry generally disappointed; thay resent this attempt of a rh;ident tr. carry on the Government 'th out thein. Nd6t *onry.~t$st, iiey" and declare success impossible. The political ",% ar horses" are fu rious, and prophecy defeat. The people, on the whole, are pleased with the novelty of the experi ment. They do not know wheth er it will succeed ; but they hope it will. In the eyes of the people, a government carried on without subje'etlon to the politicians, but on the same plan as any other great business, - would be perfec tion ; they wait to see whether it can be done. For ourselves, we are content to hold the President responsible for the Cabinet, to put them to the best uRe.; to change them if they do not ans*er; and to see that they serve the nation properly. The responsibility is, after all, upon him. [From the New York Sun, (Repub lican) of Saturday.] The first impresion caused by this Cabinet is one of surprise. It not only differs entirely from all previous conjectures respecting its composition, but it departs from the usage of all our former Presi dents in tikpmall number of gen tlemen that it contains who enjoy a-tional reputation as statesmen, trained by habit to legislative, ex ecutive and political affairs. In deed, while three of its members Washburne, Creswell and Cox-. may be classed as belonging to this category, there is but one of them, Mr. Washburne, who has for any length of time performed a conspicuous part upon the politi cal stage. The others are men of business, because General Grant regards them as eminently fitted for the duties to which he has as signed them. This is a working and not an ornamental Cabinet. [From the Washington Star, Inde pendent. General Grant was right in sup posing that the announcement. of his Cabinet would surprise a great many people. The politicians cer tainly weretaken abaJk, and they do not seem yet to have quite got the bane of the thing. This, we take it, is a good sign. The worst Snd weakest Cabinets of our politi cal history have been those which were nade up by the. political traders, or to -suit party exigen cies. The new Cabinet is com posed of men thorongbly in unison with the Republiean party, but who have other tests of fitness be side that standard. They are men having no gpecial kinks or idiosyncraeies to interfere with their -usefulness or capacity to work in harmony with each other and with their chief, and, one and all they are just the 'men to aia President Grant in carrying out his favorite ideas of retrenehment, reform and purity in the public service. (From the Philaidelphia Inquirer, Republican.] Take it all in all, the Cabinet of Presidenit Grant represents. the good seni and patriotism of the country. It doe not contain any emninent politicians, unless that dis tinction can be awarded to Mr. Washburne and Creswell. It..is.a solid sti6stantiel convocation of business men, and it will be in its cbaracter and acts eminently prac tical. [From the Philadelphia Post, Inde pendent.] .0Grant has not promoted.the offi ers, but has taken his comynaod ers of departments from the rank. and file. Grant has chosen the men he personallg. preferred, .and. af anyg.rte has avoided the error o( submniting to political dictation. There steno professional offeo seekersin thle eabinet.. This Cab inetswiRl bekaeepied by. theRe pubcan par, batit ill n.ot be appryisil,agntd italoharacter is bet ter knows.. . Utried, lnktiown, a hoVelt~Tansd a. surprise. it standis before: the contry as a gigantiv ' yolitical ergbrimet.. Vast. re spo'nsiblities are iinposed upon its members, anrd .as '.hey discharge them so will they be judged. ADvmr~Rrsem TEsrxo.-An At lanta papei, in the course of,anu artid'le on th~e value of advertisDg to business men,- says: .A merchant in Myeon;#66 bad been sanesM?ffy6ars, oncluded at the beginning.of the year thatt he would try the virtue of adverti srig. T'hat year he speut eigh-. teen hundred doll'are with the p-inters, anid his owp testimong is lipj did three tunes, the aoof business that he even' did before in the same length of tine, lie still keeps his name and bgsiness prominent in -the' ~ tpsd and finds his p+ofits 1stedl "in creasirgg Othermorasfs Va bk6use folnoed its ekample, and a Dow the Macon papers are among the best patronized in the State, and the business men of that city are among the most.substantial in the .South. We happen to be able to testify to the truth of. this statement in every particular. For the size of the place, there is more advertising done in Macon than in any other city of the South, and hence her extraordina ry prosperity since the close of the war. The name of nearly every merchant and business man in the city is to be found in her daily papers T not occasionally and con lensed into the smallest possible space, as if the parties were afraid somebody would find out where they are, but regularly, .systemati mally and prominently, and in many instances with-an apparent di.regard of cost. They know what they are at, and go into the papers and stay there because it Days. The result is practically de monstrated in the rapidgrowth of business and accumulation of Eortunes. The Schoolmaster's Promise. A correspondent tells the fol Owing anecdote of his old school master, old Haskins: "Boys !" said he, smilingly one day. What's up, thoutrht we and were all attention. It was like a sun-peep through a heavy storm ,loud, when "old Haskins" smiled, and the phenomenon was unac ountable. "Boys," said he, "I am about to ba gain with, you for. good be havior," (a change of tactics, ver ily;) "I desire that you will con duct yourselves with decorum for Dne week, and I will promise to show you a curiosity-what no man ever saw ; and, having shown it you, what no man will ever see again." "Yes, sir !-"Agreed" I - "I'yi, sir l" and various other expres sions of acquiescence came from every quarter of the room; and, as a preface. to the new state of things, the school was dismissed at an early hour, leaving the boys to.gaze into each other's eyes in astonishment, as if to divine ineach )ther's intuition the answer to the riddle which had stolen upon them as a pleasant dream. An anxious week followed-a week of curiosity, bewilderment, hope, and pleasure in embryo. Dat of school it was all the talk 'what no man ever saw, and what rio man shall ever see again !" rot eQer the terrible author of he compromise. What could it be? Another and another day, until at last the identical named one lawned upon the gladdened young iearts.' Nine o'clock came-every ur hin was at his post-books and slates, all'in readiness for the lay's battle with the demon .of arkness and ignorance-every ~ask fully committed to memory. Atoether, a charming state of affairs! An activ-e mind not wed ied too close,. to orthodox ideas, ould have divined sat once the geat advantage of rewards and u.ndnesa over oppression and cru sty But our old tutor was in rincible. Unmike him ? Never. fou.could not alter his plains an dta. 'Tingle ! .tingle ! sounded the i,tie bell-that bell had a voice as well as a tongue. Boys, all itention ! - eyes, ears, month agape ! momentous epoch! Old. faskins raised the lid, of 1s,4esk~ and drew the wonderful ling.forth-adjusted his ominous ooking spectacles astraddle his asal projection aiid proceeded to be sQlemn ceremony. "Attention, sehdol!" roared the ~eacher. A single order was all tha4 was ~ecesary-you might have heard pm.drop. "The hour has at length ar ived! l 2ehold in my upraised fin gers a 'single almond," (terrible aspense!i "In this almond is a ternal," (ceremoniously .breaks he shell an~d exposes the tiny hing.). "This no man.ever saw'!" then pening his capacious jaws, ex losing -an internal array of der wiving ivory and rawflesh, that emiided us of the mouth of .a Bengal tiger-he. thrust, in the nystei-ious kernal-crushed and wallowed it !- - "Boys," exeltimbed 'he, w Ale re4 asipbasis, "boys,: you twill ever-1 will never-no nman wili wer -see that kernal agarii .T urou lessons youX rs caIs, -every og of you!I" 4lady .in New Yorktan p abilbt ;$,00 for drss goods lir threemnths d ran her husband into. bankruptey. WHY I$ THE PRESIDENT INAUGUJ RATED ON THE FOURTH OF UARCH ? We remember many years 'a , when a child, (says tbp. :Y s burg Berald,)to have. heard " is interrogatory answered . in the declaration that in consequenoeof the change occasioned by tbe ad dition of one day every; bianzWs or leap year, the 4th of Marh occurred less often on nday than any other day of the ireek, and for this reason was selected, Curiosity has prompted 'as - to make the examination, and.. Nu find that, in thirty Presidential terms, from 1789 to 1905, inclu sive, the.foui-th of March has, and will have fallen oftener on Sun day than any other day of .t3 week except Tuesday. Tbus, we have the fourth of March in tboe years coming four times, each, en Monday, Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and Saturday, and five times each on Sunday and 'Tue day. The Federal Constitun was adopted on the 1st of Mared, 1780, but the first President, George Washington, was not in augurated until April 30, 1789. Washington's second term, com menemg on the 4th of March, 1793, fell on Sunday, as did also the term of James Monroe, 18I, and Zachary Taylor, 1849, all of whom, we believe, were inaugu rated on the 5th of March, $be following day. The 4th of March will also be on Sunday in- the years 1877 and 1905, oompletintg the thirty Presidential terms entn merated. BLUFPING AN AUDIENCE.-di Palmer had a very long part in. a new play one evening, and ws,fet down in the bills to speak the pro: logue. Trusting to a quick study he kept postponing his attentiots to both. until the last moment-and when the bell rang, went orlfbr the prologue without knoanig word ofit. The house waspacke, and of course in a terrific -prosg, as always at the commencemeuti# a performance. The .indomi*aLde Palmer, amid the confusion, be-,m! to move his lips and gestietlat% as if delivering his inds."'l nobody heard a syllable, 'the'>re# of "Silence," '"Hear the prologue," "Down in front," "Order," rey doubled from every quarter. He ceased his motions, and with.thie most graceful dexterity, pretendet to be greatly disturbed by the die order, and made a token to tb, gallery as if to indicate that he' could not proceed unless that.pgrt of the audience became quiet. This stratagem set the pit howlii at the supposed offenders in the' upperragions, and amid the i-iotebk clamor w hich ensued, Palmer camer. forward, moved his lips and geati-. culated as before,, and just as the Babel was ce:si-ai rade his bow and went off. BI'e performed his part in the play with equal suce, though he knew no more of the language in it than of the 'pro' logue.__________ IMPROVEMENTs IN YELOc!IPYDE -It will be strange if ingentity does not contrive a Velociped which will be of practical ire~ The instruments which nowur:nt are fit only for floors or, er smooth and level roads, they -may .remain for awhile a fashionable' luxury, but they answer no' r eait. iseful end. It is stated, however, that a number of ingenious mea chanies i. different parts of ihe country are at work upon improv.!e ments which they expect' .41 make the Ve?ocipede practicaly useful. What is needed for thla coun try is a Velocipede which can be used on country roads with comfort, without too great ex-. ertion of strength, and :at .such moderate speed that men *doin~ buisiness in town-may use-Veloci 'pedes in goirng between the dep and their homes, or other'wse,, The 'man who contrives s~ik: a. machine will make a largeM'srune by it. NOT MRI..-noeof tho. 'edurts, a few days since, a very pretty young lady appeared as4 witness. Her testimony was like-. ly to result unfavorably - fbr the client of a part young lawyer;)p. addressed her very supercilioudy with the inquiry "You di-e married, I believe ?" "No, sir." "Oh only about to be marie4d "Noe, sir." "leIealy,I don't know. Would you advise such.a step Z" "Oh, certainly~ l .am a mar ried man mayelf." '"Is it possible 7 t nrever shonid have thoiugh't it Iis' your wife -blind or' deaf?. 'Itis sea?celf'hecessary to -add, that the discorrdited attorniey did uot vogqe6Af a regi~'