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VOL. XL] WINNSBORO, S. C.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 1,1876- [NO.. 3 Ii THE =l''1 ~ E 0 1 iI - 'J*1 t Ii a ll1is I) i ' KI.Y BY W I L L IA M S & A V IS. 7+rmns.--The A/ /I 1/) it pubtished Week y in t-he 'l wln o' Winnu bost-o, aOt $.00 } ti arrbrly ains at/ance. OW,"All 1 rtIn ent : irt1!oi menL t,'o be -1' -1 I)I !.[n Ir-l'/ V.) N . n0441i1ia1,ry Nuii -e 41a1d Tribute's $1..001 peIr 14111u1 . -LEGISLATIVE t4%OCEEDINGS. Wednesdnv, Februn '23. sKNA'r. The business before this body was the trial of Judge Montgomery Mloses, upon the following charges : 1. That he obstructed, hindered and delatyeCd the execution of the law in Spartanlurg county in 1874. by refusing to allow the grand jury to make a presentlent concerning the official misconduct of certain public ofioErs. 2. That, at various times and laces, ie corruptly demanded money from litigants in paymenlt- for decisio)ns sin cases heard before him. ;self. 3. That he eorruptly denmandd and received, from oflieers of the rourt, pubile moneys entrusted to r them. promising to interpose his udicial power to screen and protect i .thca frotm ptunishmiient. 3i. That, for abou. fo'nr years, ho has wilfully neglected to perform the diutie. of his ollice, causing delay. IO l1oss and damage to suitors , jurors anId witnesses. {5. 'hmat he has, at varions times ani places, Wilfully neglected his duties by refusing to sign orders in ilts presented to himi by consent of the litigants. GThat heo has arbitrarily and per.eniiptorily compelled public oflicers to violate the law by issuing evidences of puplie indebtedness contrary to law. The committece presented two ad ditional chiarges, setting forth, in mih stanuce, that the acicusocl unlaw .fully discharged a grand jury at Mpartatnburg inl June. 1875. Judge Mloses is represented by Messrs. Riol, Baxter, Youmns, Johnston, Pope and Campbell. The accused, tir-oigh his counsel, claimed that he was entitled to have, from the managers of the impealh ment, fill speciicattims, as to per (sons'a, datdes and acts, under each of the chargers p referred. The nana gers ('denied this right, an id pending thIie discussion of the pomnt, the senate adjourned. The house was not in session. '.'hursday, February 2.1. IEN.Al;. Mr. Clinton reported ready for a third reading : Bills to incorpor ate the South Carolina Mutuil Aid .Associat.ion of Patrons of His lnid:-y : to charter the South At intic! Ibihtailra Conumay -to in Lo1an Assoc.iaitioni: to~ incorporate amen(Id "Ant act to co)ntracet for sup plies4 for Lith xt'eiutive' departments of thet' sta~te( go)vernmenit and for the g eneral assemly." .9 tesgeNo. 33of his excellency the ovaorre'rning with his ob'ject ions anl act (en1titled "An act to amen~ld a joint resolution anther izinig the cou~nty coiss115ione(rs of ileauifort coutyt to levy la special * tax,' approvedl Febrftary '2(. 187:3. On thme question 'Shall this act pass, the objections of his exeellen c'y then governor to the contrary, niotwihtsanding~ '"1The yeau and iiays we're tatken, and1( reso J ed as .follows: Yeais, 2: nays, 25,. So the senailte re3fused~ to' pass~5 the net,. The senate agreed to meet nt 11 o'clck dilyon ad ater this day. The prlesiden1tanom dth hour airrivedc for* theo' spec(ial order for 1 P. Mt., whichl wvas the's trial of' Whiittoreio~ 1 nhmittedl at res(hl tion setting forth that the answer made(1( b y th1e( acened is idaisf hict and that his praver for miore sopecifie charges1) h e eied, AdIop'ted,. T[he furtheri h08aring. of thme case wa:s t heni' potp.Jond tilli 1March 7. A4 hJil 11o ann n . ntte 'A~n act to. provide for the settle 4' iment, anad pmayment of certin claims aigain'st thle t~te' wais taken 1'p and engrossed,. A sentelt hill 10 prov'ide) for pur elhasers andl lessees of land att .SahCm madeI1( for non1 palyment~t of taixes being~ pnt into possessi of thme :same was fiinen up. anid thei enall ing clause stricken out. A se'nate bill1 to amend an ae. enititledl ".\n act, to redulice 1 all ct41 and1( parts oIf actRs providling for the( a5tssment0i) and1 taxation of propel' ty into one ac't, andt to mnttond the amo10," was taken up and~ en'gross id Asente bill rolativo to the plates of the hills of the Paiuk of Ite Stalte of Sonth Carolina wastaen np and( passed to a third vadling,. A sonatlte hill relating to the man ner of the paymient of all claims naainsmt the state of South Croina and for other purposes, Was taken up, and the enacting struck out. The sergeant at-arms announced a message from the senate that it was ready to proceed with the im pOachmenllt. The house refused to attend as in committee of the whole, and pro. ceeded with legislative business. 'rho report of the committee on privileges and elections on the case of Mr. J. D. Robertson was con sidered until adjouinment. Friday, February 25. sENATE. -A bill to incorporate the South Carolina Mutual Aid Association of Patrons of Hushandry was passed! and sent to the house. The re port of-the committee on finance . n a bill to make appropria tion to Ioet the ordinary expenses of the state government for the fiscal year commencing November 1, 1875, received- its sewond reading. Mr. Iayne intros uc .d a concur rent resolution th, t this general assembly take a recess from the 26th of February to the 6th of March, at 7 P. M.. Ordered for -consideration. Adjourned. HOUSE or ErRESENTATIvES. A !Message was received from the igovem 'nor, saying that he had. sap -proved ai number of act.:--among wvhichi is one to amend tin act to vastin the trustees of Ridgeway Academy the title to a certain tract of lhnd. Davis introduced a resolution re qluesting the governor to use liligenceo in bringing to pl)unishlment certain unknown parties recently engaged in whipping a family of nefraEns in Edgoiold county. A resolution was also introduced, re (uesting him to furnish the house with all information in his pos Session concerning the "dastardly outrage." IJoth resolutions wore adopte I. A senateihill relative to the platos of the bills of the Bank of the State of South Carolina passed. The recommendation that Mr. J. D. R)hert8tn he removed as a mom. her of lte Text Book: Conmission and that he be expelledt as a member ofthe House, was adopted by ia vote of 5ft to 25. Adjoluned. Saturday, February 26. SENA E. A munber of new bills wcro in. trothree 1, ren-.! by their titles, and re ferred to aIproin iate comminiittees. A bill to minke appropriations to ueet the ordinary Oxpienses of the state governmtent for the fiscal year commnlolirillg Novembe: 1, 1875, was aLnd'1led, passe(d, and returned to the house. A bill to provide for the mainten anco of the state ponitentiary was ordered to lie on the table. A resolution that the general assembly take at recess from Fobrua ry 26 to March 6 was laid on the 1 table. Concurrent resolution to appoint! ai joinit commuittee to investigrate cer'tain ebjarges atgainist F. J. M~oses, Jr., WV. J. Whipper andto J. P. Rteed wvas hbrlid o thet tale~l. TJ.he htouse 'o~lnurrenlt resoluti ons relative to oultrag'es in Edgefield counaty werie co~ncuirred in. Blill to provide for the eduention of minor children in the city of Cohunb ia ande county of Charleston w ias (changed to an act. .A.djournaed. HOUSE OF aEPR'fESENTA'riv'Ps. A few newv bills were introdueed, readc by their titles andl pr1operly The hlouse resolved itself into 'ommliittee of thie whole upon tile r'~eent alleged (outrages in) Edgofieldl co un ty. After (debaite, thte com1) miittee wasI (idischaged from the fu rthotr co(nsi deration of the sub ject. 'lThe governor retrn'ed, Zithout lhis approval, an act to incorporate the town of Groor's in Greenville county. Thie veto was unanimiously A bill to providoi for the relief of Edward ..k Wesley was laid oni the Th'ie senate returned thie appro priiationh bill with sundry amenid imenits, almost all of which the houseI reje(( ced Adjourned, Yei5. 'ivomen~1 areV an1rOnsionle( and you mayl have~r remiatrked that whient one oif them~ .sit-s downrl in a now silk d1ress on1 1 amir wVhere( ai lit ble boy wo)rthi*4f iaffy. she will go'( on abthli it just as bad as if it were two dol lars' worth, It is said that H-olkar, the mahbara-. jah of lIdore as11. Otore4d up in his paLIlaeo not less than ?,000,000 sterling, Among the things wvhich tihe managers of theolate Freedman's Havings JBank regiit most deeply, is the fact that they didn't got thew mahiarajaht of Indore to doposit wvith Did it ever occur to you, kind maimmas, whlile trotting your babies on your laps in such a vigorous way that if somo giant about ten times your al'o were to trot you in similar style, the breath would be veryap to be jounced out of vonr body ? l~ OENThNNIAL BORROWERS. Finanolal Incidente of the American Revolution. Outsido a limited circle of anti quaries ant close students of the history of the American revo lution, it is not known that George Washington expended : a portion of his private fortune to do. fray the expenses of the great strug gle, and that he was reimbursed in " the exact amount of his outlay at the close of the war. Although ubiquitous in the opinion of the one my, lie had always personal funds at ha nd which he disponsed economi cally. His position as a cashier of his own revenue led many of the American patriots, less fortunate, to call upon him at various times for money. They had made advances in the cause of the colonies, and Washington was always ready to cash their calls. In support of thes facts we find in Washington'. ac counts, as presenited to the first congress, the following intoresting items : July 6, 1775.-To the account of Thomas Claf flin, Esq., for money . expended by him in the journey from Philadol.. phia to Cambridge, in which the expenses of Glen. Lee, Col. Reed and lothers were included.. ?129 8 2 Sept. 7, 1775.-To Mr. Sparhiawks on account................ 2210 Oct. 30, 1775 -To Moses Fessender ....... 6 0 0 Oct. 30, 1775.-To Josiah Fessonder .........5 4 0 Nov. 5, 1775.-To Nv5,17.T George B3aylor ...........3 94, Tho "Baron do Woodlito appears to have boon often "short." We find ; that Washington inserted his nameu' as follows in his accounts : March 27, 1776.-To cash: the Baron do Woodlite..... ?3 12 0 ' . .The accounts further show that Thomas Patton, 'Mr.; Auston, Wnj. Hollingshead, John Stansbury, Capt. Oakley, Majors Carey aud Harrison, Captain Gibbs, Colonel Needham, Benjamin Henning and others obtained various sums of money from him, they not being able to get paid for their services from the Government. One item is worthy of special at- ! tention. It sheds light upon the ( statesmanlike ability of Washington i to conduct secret negotiations dle signed to circumvent the enemy. July 15, 1775.-To $335 50 given to to induce him to go into the town of Boston to establish a secret correspondence, for the purposo of con voying intelligence of the enemy's movements and designs........ . ?100 0 0 A footnote marked thus says "The names of those who are en ployed within the enemy's lines, and who may fall within their power, cannot be inserted." Washington's payments to tonse rial artists sem to have been pretty - liberal, as appears from the follow mng: Dec. 5, 1775.-To my bar bor at sundlry times.. .. ....?6 10 0 March 31, 1776.-To) my barber.................?41 10 0 a April 1,1776.- Io expeonses on visiting several isl ands in Boston Harbor - after the evacunationi of the town by the enmy ?8 15 0 A cENTENNIAL cURio.SITY. Washington. hofever, was not able to cope with the enemy in the disposition of funds. TPhe friends of King George woreosnugly ensconced in in.eraitiv'e pos)itions, ats we find fr~om the following article, which ap pogrod in the Middlesex *Jouralg of Jan 1'2, 1776-one hundred years ago. "As Lord North has owned in (tho Briitishi) Par'liamex t that the (English) Ministi'y has been misled and (deceived by American informers, it is but justice that the p~ublic should know thoem. Here they are :Wentworth. Governor of New Hlampshiro ; futchinson, late Governor of B~oston, penusionelr on I ~ireland, .E1,000) a year :Benjamin Hiallowell, a Gonmmissioner of Cue toam at Boston, ?600 a year Rug. glos. one, of the ( ouncil of Boston, ?200 a'year,' pension ; Moilit, (Iustom-n house o'licer at Now London, ?300 a year ;Wmn. Smith, ani attornoy, of New York, aind a connselor (who got many "roforenco:s" fromn the royal judges) ; James Delaney, a captain I in the army ;John Watts, contrac tor, with Harley & Oliver Delaney; H tockdon, an attorney and counsel lor at New Jersey ; Fratnklya, ov ernor of Nowv Jersey, a son of Ben jamiin Mar'tin, brother toTrgt Glovernor of North Carolina ;Joina: thaun ,8owell, a schoolmaster, of Boston ; .Judlge of the Admiralty, I I priest." Anchmauty wais rector of Trini ty Church, which was under Tory rule and influences until thme inai defeat of the British. We see by the ablovO how King Georgfo used the Custom- V house against the people. A Vermont mhan returned home the other day, after an absence of eleven years, and( found that neither of the three husbands his wife had < married and buried had fixed the 1 LION TAMING. Prone Paris the other day came a t story, half grotesque and half re- I volting, of a cruelly ingenious show- l man to Whom therU had occurred the igea of getting up a Liliputian 1 exhibition of tig'rtaming. Ho pro cured four cats, whoso bodios e i painted orange4awny, with black i1 stripos, so as to be closely imitativo I of the hide offeli* gris, and then I he engaged a little boy, who, clad I in tights and spangles, was to emitet - the part of a beast tamer, but' who, it prior to his appoarancE in public " was shut up in a cage with the eats I and instructed to reduce them to r subjection, and to teach them a variety of tricks by means of rigor, r ens chastisement. If, however, the i poor little tiger king was pi ovided g with a switch, the four Liliputian tigers had been endowed by nature with a duo complement of claws r and they so worried an4 tore the * unfortunate lad that, had he not b been able to make his escape from i the cage, fatal results mights have i followed. He ran shrieking intco ! u the street, pnursued by his master ; a but the police interfered, and the ti Correctional Tribunal may possibly I eave something very serious to say ! to the barbarous promoter of il Liliputian tiger-taming exhibitions. sarcely, however, has the echo of al this afiir died away ore we hear of a two very alarming accidents which tI kavo occurred to a pair of wild beast tamners of some notoriety inl P'rance. At Havre the lion king i B3idel has had a sufficiently narrow eC *cape from a horrible' (loath. It ti wvas this performner's custom to go is nito the cage of his wild boasts bear- 'l ing with him a sheep which, (I hrough the awe inspired by his to >rsence, was kept safe from mc estation on the part of the fero- ti iouts inma'ites of the den. On a f< ecent occasion lie entered the t! ion's cage and placed the sheep on h he back of the lioness-i feat it vhich he had often before accom -i )lished with- perfect safety. No " ooner, however, had'he done this b ] han a lingo lion sprang upon the d umfortunate sheep, burying his ti eeth in its body. There was a ci meneral commotion and panic ti unong the crowded audience, but n ho undaunted .Bidel stepped for- . yard, and with a heavy bludgeoe to lealt Leo such a tremendous blow at ver the jaws that the boast, titter' at ig a yell of pain, was completely ci owed, abandonod his bIcoding I W rictim, and crouched hunbly at the b: eat of his master. The sight and tit thrall of the blood of the sheep were pi iowever, too much for wild beast ! matuure to bear. The other denizens si >f the cage 1eganl to howl in an ci )ninulsi nimner, and with singular rt ulainimity of teeth and claws theyA ittacked Monsieur Juidel, even as w \Lr. William Nye went at the Ie dleathn Chinoe. The beast tamer j mot i whit terrified, chased the first bi ion into another cage, fought his W ,ay back through the romaining ta 0 )ultos, and, rescuing his wounded O. heep, issued from the den. D' Ye another accident to a lion. tli amer occuirred in Paris oni Monday to ight. At the Theatre (of the am 'olies Blergeres OneO Dehnionico hasi si faiml great p~opuhu-iity as ai queller pi >f wil basts ;but accidents will in mpnj)i in. the hest regulateud (dens, c mud oni Moniday 41 highly tratined( Si ion1casf got bor instructor inito aii ~orner and severely mangled one of at1 is handsH There was tremendous 2 -xeii'mount among the audience, and A ,be cuirtaini was let dlown, A fewv pi uioments afterward the rep~ort of a se auiisket was heaird, wvhich, of courso, s< auiised the agitation of the public fu o grow miore intensej. Tranquillity, lai owever, wats restored when Del. "I nonico mamde his appearance at the ot 'oot lights, apparently none the "< verse for .his encounter with the iir ioness. Now, it is quito possible o1 ,hat ini the account of both t'ueso dla :asualties there may remain somlfe to hinag to be read beOtwoon the lines. at WVild boast tamnors must necessarily Itil >e men of anllinching courage, and of Iti< mlerring prsono of miund, but they th uio likewise, as a rulo, somoething of als-they are showmion ;and the he nusket shot may have been a more h WEup de thetre. In any case .t is mi muarstood that the Parisj police th~ lave proh)libited any future pori- th ormuances on the part of Del- thu nonico ; nor is it unlikely that hi he always dangerous and fre la 1inontly fatal odhibitions wvill be d< heinitoly suppressed by the lawv in broughout the whole of France. TI t would be certainly h)onoficiall to , f ho initerosts of civiliz~ationi and ~in mumanity if similar measures of cc eopres4sion were adopted in Eng- th andl. Quito enough is known at Jig his Limo of (lay about the habits, art annmer. and characteristics of the so ~ing of beasts. From the days of in kristotle to those of JRufl'on, fromli ,bo time of Ciuviur to that of Prof. hc ) wan and the late Mr. Gordon ar Jumming, fe~s o lhas been do- ar cribod, figured, and criticised from frn LImot every possible view, until a here aire no0w only two items on tit vhich the natural historians are at hi ssue with resp~ect to the monarch th >f the forest. Hunters have not cc inito made up their minds as to s vhether the lion is really a valiant,w fenerous, and magnanimona'animnah, Id< >r whether lie is a sneaking yet hi >lood-thirsty coward ; while men ij ,f sence have naot bOnn m1iiteu able m 0 determine wuother or not th< ort of caw or prickle at the tip o lie lion's tail, the existence of wliel iricklo was first ascertained b] llunerrach, was given to this nimual by iIature, with tho intent o eting tar a goad, when, wishing to tiullato himself t) rage, he ishes his sidet therewiti. B3 it i. may, the anatomy of the lion as beon exhaustively studied ; h< as been magnificently motleld ant ainted b3 Snydeis, Sir Edwir and seer, and Mr- IRiviere. Thlen( a illicieney of leonine specimlei t the Zoological Gardeus in th< tegent's 'aik, and in the menage ies of every European capital ; and Ill time scems really to have at ivod when those who are aT1xioml )r the preservati<.n of peaco anJ ood order in society ato entitled tc lui e whether traveling wild beast hows havo not bleon0u al anach misit, and mor especially whether ny exliibition of what is called wild east taming. should not bo tade illegal. The subjection of the most ferocious brutes was an art ndeniably prac ticol. aunig the Lcient 2Perians and other Uriemn ils, and among the Roiman of old. ii the East, where the combats of ivago boasts are still a favorite Luesmenit with "barbarous" or barbaric" potentates, tr icks of lion ad tiger taming maliy yet occasion ly be witii's*ed ; bu, in Europe 1o abolition by Constantine the -reat of the sanguilinam y sports of Ie aml)hitheatlc put an end for any ages not only to the en >unters of the gladiators, - but to lo cun.ng of the wild b)east fellers. An illustrated mnuluscripmt the AmIbrosiaIl Library at Milton ionstrates, indeed, that in the nth century tihere was a shownan ho used to leadlt tamiio lion thiroug.hI tu streets of Constantinople, and reel the brute to performI i varie " of antics ; but throughout the [iddle Age1;s, atltl.cwgfh every .Princo Ettope possessed his nucuagerie, tempts Were rarely iade to tanie ty of the royal pots more formid. u than woives or bears. '1'he mncing boar, as an object of exhibi )n in the public thoroughfares, imC doi to our own ines, anti e popular belief was that the ani :l had been taught the terpiseho atn art in his youth by being made foot it on hot metal plates ; while country fairs the wretched Brain, rongly strapped down in an arm mir, aurrryed in feminine garb, and iih his rmuzlo closely shaven was an audaciously inpudent i1p)os .re maeo to personate the imythidcal g faced lady. Nearly 40 years have elapsed ae the attention of the whole vilizu I w.);ld w. i irresitibly di e-ted toward the exploits of alt nerican named Van Amnlbu gh, ts lions aidio tigers, panthers atnd iardu\ 'Tle trium 11phs which lie hieved over feral nature invested mn with world-wide renown ; nor is anlay class of the eonmlun)uIity 1111 sceptiblc to the attractions of his traordinmary feats. Over the grat ake of Wellington, in partieulau, L bato tamnors cxtibitionr sentuiued exerc15is kind of fatscination : i the hero of Waturlbo connis mned Edwin Landseer to paint a eturo repirestin ~~ g Vani Amburghi the enjoyment oh is fuzll stuprema over the beasts in his dlen, while aci niilar picture wats paiited of Hler ajosty. 13ets to prodigious omnts ere3 maudo in Laondoni andu iris on the contingency of Vanm nbuirghI heingt oe dayi torn) in cocs by his savage pupils But he 01m1 to have escaped without a ratchi, and some years inlce peaice ily retired on his well-earneid tirels. On the exploits of Carter, he( Lion King" and of numllierouis her "kings"--and we regret to add] ueens"--who, with more or loss (cess, have emulated the powers Van Amuburgh it were needlesuis to i'ell ; but the public will not fail remocumber that thie violentV dea thu iong wild beast quellors in modern nos have equalled the fatal casual is among aeronauts. As regards oeoxhibition of women in the daumu wild beasts, such displays, we >pe, would no longer lhe tolerated public opinion. Yet there are my lion kings eaozt tered through e prinfce, and at any moment at 0110 of thios heroic but fool rdy imen has beein hiorribily miiuti led or hastm met with ai dreatdful nth. WVild beast t:uninug, indeed,. volves cruelty of a double kind. mere is potential cruelty to the pr1 r'mer, who literally carrie~s his life his hand, and whose risks aire rtainly at times greater than oso( incurredl by the Spaunish bull lhter, whlo, before hto enters tho, ena, is confessed and receivos aib lution. It also means1 actual and le fensiblo cruelty toi animatls. Thie i, suavage and ferocious beast as is, has after all his rights, Wo at entitled to chase himu, to kill him, a to extirpate his racooaltogether >m tho face of the land, bocauae lie is auisance amnd an1 onomy to civiliza mn. Julce (lorard and other daring intoe really deserve the thanks of 0 world, since as lion~ slayoirs they ntributed to thin theq stock of the ngninary and troachmorous brutes 10 dlevour cattle and (doer, and will your mankind if they can, But ving caught the lion, we have nto th$, to tame him into becoming a persuasion of rod-hot pokers, crow, f bars,, spikes and merciless scourges. It is wi.th such instruments, we fear, thatt wild animals have been rendered docile- by the successors of Van I Amuburgh, and society canwell aftord to be rid of exhibitions of (locility which can only have been .produced by systematic and unrelenting bar barity to nortally untaiineablo erca tures.-Londond Tle'legrap/t. The Carpet-Baggers Rebuked.. Senators Spencer, Patterson, West, Dorsoy, Clayton and Alcorn, and Representatives Morey, Purnan, Stowell, Haralson and Hayes are in great tribulation. They moet almost every night in solemnir con clatve and grieve bver their wrongs. A few nights ago they held a meet ing, the object of which was to unite upon "sonic plan for a revival. of the drooping prospects of the ropuibhfcan party in the Southern States, which,. judging by the tone and sentiments of these partisans, is only to be ac con1iplis.ihed by carrying out the bloody shirt policy, to do which the aid of the admninstration is to, be invokod. Patterson related the cir cunstltnces of a recent interview between himself and the attorney general. during which Patterson ex pressed the opinion that unless 'Federal troops are used in the South, anal the United States supreme court sh1:all declare the constitution ality of the enforcement act, the South will be hopelessly democratic ; and he assorted that this fact will be developed in the next general elec tion. Mr. Pierrepont is said to have made the significant remark in reply that he had noticed that in South - ern States where the (lemUocrats have control there is no serious dis order. and no calls for troops have c0111 from them, andl he added his belief that the remedy for the troubles complained of by the re plublican1s could and ought to be found in the courts." The Judge and Jury. Sever( sickness in our family pre vented us from presenting in our last wook's issue a full record of the proceedings of the Court, or of noting several other items which would have been of interest to our readers at that time. A corres pondent, hower, filled much of our space which we gladly yielded and we again in this issue devote roomi to another conimulienation upon the same subject from a hghly intelligent source. The ini. (lignatioIn of the citizens at Judge IMackey's Course towad the O rand Jury, seems to be mWven-J. W were not lreeItt in the cum thouse, antd consequently (ld not hear the Judge's reinntrks, but from wIliat we have hearLd since. and his summary dismnissing of the Grand Jury before they had submitted their report and trioiuszteti'd the busiiness of the term, we regard as highly improper in al J udge upon the Bench. The ex atminatiim of the two negroes, (who testified before ithe Grand Jury) in open court by his Honor, was Ia s(cne n.ever before witnessed in a coiurt of justice inl these parfts. Anti sneh a course by the Judge too k thec Grandl Jury') at a great~ (is ad~vantajge, for it lmtters not wheth er thes.e willing witnesses testihied before 1he Grand Jury ats they did bfefore thet Judge or not, any 'grand jurymuam who would have opened his mouth. yeaL or nay, outside of the jury room, woudd lhace perjured The miajor poto fthe gran jury are intelligenlt and honiest gen selves to c'orrupit .influences for g: i, tfavor or afluetioni ; and we believe thazt they would not hlesita~te to do their duty consentiously in every mutane andunderalciuman ces. Henc'e, we b~elieve his Honlor di hmgreat injuasti('e ;and as lhe is Ia very impJulsivea man, andi occa sionally becomes a little irritable from excessive work, we have rea son1 to believe that lhe too regrettedl his hasty action. As "Citizen" in tiumated in his communhnien'tion last week, it is an tufortunate affair, and for the good of all the people it would be bet ter that harmony were0 restored. Uut to bring aibout this state of feel'nor. tihe people (10 niot (expect, nor1 wouild they have, the GIrand .Jury to make anmy con ('essions as to their authority as oficers of the Court, or other'wise. -Laneuster LedgerP. "Will your H-onor' please charge the jury)," aisk td an.1 Arkansas lawyer at the conlclusion of a horse thief trial. "I will," replied his Honor; "the Court charges catch jurymnan one dollar for drinks, and six dol laris oxtrai for the one who used( the Court's hat forn ai 5pittoOnl during the first daiy of the sessionl." A (distance east or wecst of four' or five miles, in California, ofton) makes a d1iference of ten~ or fifteen degrees of teumerature. A French wvriter' describes a young lady ats one who kisses bher geni tliaimon friends till she is six vearLIsi 01ld, and~ then leaves off until she is "Talking to her husband in a loud tone of v'oice" is enon1gbhat senad aI P'ersiana wife to jail for thirty Wool Cotton.. A bale of cotto such'as:hasi evor been seen,inthis market before by. I the oldest cot ton-buyer. was recived yestorday,-by eissrs.. Oatos Bros., from Isaac Ilarris,.Esq.,.of' Vor.os. ville,. Iredell county. It is' of the exact toxtur.of'w.ool and i1 greasy, and feols to. the. touchl just .at wool; it hais almost i) staple. at-aU,, and whilo. certainly a spocios of this staple,, has very- fw: of; its qualities. Handfuls of.'it have. boon, brought here before by the. farmors,. among whom it is knowit: as. vegetablo wool cotton,.but this is the first balo ever seen here. Ib has no inorchan table. value. in: thi's market, and will be shipped by MAssrs.. Ontes 3rotlh ers to 1?hiladvlphia,.. Mr.. .1 arris. expects- to realize. a large price for it,. but cotton. men here doubt if he will' bo. ablo. to. d4, this;, since the. growth cannot be adapted to the uses to which either eotton- or.wool, strictly speaking, is. aqplieik. It is Uo far fhrom being cottou that no classifivation- cnn be found for it, and it is Ist as far from being wool. Chartte (N .'.) Observer. SUccSS I S-UDY.--sThe reason why one gets a lesson so much more quickly than another, we think, is. because he controls his thoughts and contros them for the time intensely upon his lesson, to the exelusion of all other matters, When Dr, Johnson studied, ho lost all oonseiousness of external surroundings and becaie completely buried in the subject be fore him and thus it was that he couIld repeat wholo poems, or whole chapters of a book, after reading them once. Henico we say, if we judiciously employ our time, intense ly apply ourselyos when we study, we may have loisuro. And in. deed if wo did not care for leisure, yet it is better for the mind to be worked intensely while it is worked, than carelessly and loosely. Nineteen out of twenty milk dealers who were indicted for selling an adulterated article wore arraigned in the court of special sessions at New York on Wednesday. Two of them pleaded not guilty, but the attempt to prove their innocence re sulted in the first of the pair being fined one hundred dollars, and the second being sentenced to one month's imprisonment. The re maaining seventeen then pleaded guilty, and wore lot off with a fine of fifty dollars each. The remaining one of the twenty indicted has fled from the city. In the evidence it appeared that the milk was not adulterated with anything worse than water. WON THE MoNEY.--"Bet half i dol lar I shall fall down ! But half a dollar I shall fall !" murmured an old chap onc evening as, loaded to the muzzle with forty rod whiskey, lie was feeling his way down Smith street. "Bet half a dol.-" Just here the old boy's heels flew so high into the air that his head and shoulders beat them back to the ground. Ris ing to a sitting posture, lhe took upl his hat, rubbed the back of his head and then said :"Won the money, by thunder ! And it is the first heOt I've won this winter !" Congressman Landers. of the First Connecticut District, is re ported to tell this on himself: Seime one introdluced him in WVash ington to a Southern member who immediately asked him to take a drmnk. "I never dIrink," froplied Mr. Landers. The other eye~d him over and then inquired :"Are you a Demnocraut ?" "Yes, sir." "And don't drink ?" "Yes, sir." The man looked at him with great contempt and then remarked :"Then, by ---, sir I advise you to change your poli The Danbury Ne~ws has found out how marvelously careful a man is with a new garmont. When lie comes in he is at great pains to hang it on a hook entirely by itself, and woe to any one who hangs anotlher article over it. At the end of a week the garment is being picked up from the floor or chairs forty times a lay, his wife says. .An exchange remarks that "some pdlople are wholly unable to appreciate irony." We have ob served th is ourselves, particularly in the case of wash-women and shiirt bosoms. A breed of (logs without tails has been discovered in Africa, and how the mnischievouis hoys there 'autilize old tin kettles and fruit cans, wo. cannot pr'etond to saty. One cent per~ bushcl makes a dif forence of ten millionis of dollars in the value of the annual crop) of corn in the Unimtedl States. 'Hail, gentle Spring !' says Thtomp - son, and gentle Spring hailed, andl snowed too. Yen can't speak ini a balloon with out having high words, but it is dea~h to fall out. "Old Man Afr'aid.of-his-Wives" ian what the Indians call Brigham Young. A San Francisco paper recently headed its leading editorial, "Thue Trui'th for a ('hang e.'