THE BICHAHDSON MUBDEB. Synopsis of Mrs. Richardson's Statement, as Published in the New York Tribune of Wednesday. * THEIR EARLY MARRIED LIFE. I married Daniel McFarland in 1857. I was a girl of 19, born in Massachusetts, and educated in New England schools. I had been a teacher, and was just beginning to write a little for the press. Daniel McFarland was an Irishman of 37 or 38, who had received a partial course at Dartmouth College, and had, seven years before I kn?w him, I been admitted to the Massachusetts bar. When I I : married him, he represented himself to be a mem- : ber of the bar in Madison, Wisconsin, with a flourishing law practice, brilliant political prospects, i and possessed of property to the amount of $20,000 to $30,000. He also professed to be a map of tern- | per&te habits, of the purest morals, and, previous to j snnurA/l n?ithnr intftiriDerate. nor 1 brutal, nor profane. SCSPIC10SS or INTEMPERANCE. I went home then in less than throe months after marriage. He gave me no directions where to ' write him, and for fourteen days I never heard from him. Nearly beside myself from anxiety, I , went to New Haven, and from thence telegraphed to a friend of his in New York for news of him. ' He appeared in two or three days in answer to the telegram. Then, for the first time, I bad a vague suspicion that he might be intemperate. But I knew nothing about intemperance. I had never in * all my life seen a man drunk, except some acci- ; dental drunkard in the street, and I tried to dismiss the suspicion. < SUSPICIONS VERIFIED?HIS "BRAIN ON FIRE." j 8ome of the time?perhaps half of the timo?he | was good to me, and professed for me the most ox- 1 travagant and passionate devotion. But he here first began to come home intoxicated. Ho would also come home sober, bringing with him bottles < called "So uedatn Schnapps," containing a quart 1 or so of vile liquor, and would put them by his ! bedside, and drink sometimes the whole before morning. When I begged him not to do this he said "his brain was on fire," and this made him j sleep. This is the first time he began to tell mc ] about his "brain being on fire," which was a favor- 1 ito expression with him after he had been drinking, , and to which so many people have testified to bis < using, on the recent trial for his life. MAKES LOVE TO HIS WIFE'S SISTER. In November my sister came to visit me, and . then I sent away my servant, and we did the bouse- ( work. During her visit Mr. McFarland took her | to a matinee at the theatre; left her and returned at the close of the matinee grossly intoxicated. made love to her in his drunken foolishness, and frightened her- exceedingly. I MBS. U'PARLANP LACKS COURAGE. I will not enter into the details of his treatmen : of me daring these three months; bat it was so 1 bad that I went back to my father's in October, , 1859, and remained almost a year, till August, 1S60, < At this time, in October, 1859, when I returnee home, if I had bad courage to have told my mother and father of my troubled life, I should probably < never have returned to this man. < Part of this time, for the first and only time ir ' my married life, I paid a very small sum for my board, which was all I ever paid in my long and reneated visits to my father'sJ?ouse. I mention r - ? this because Mr. MoFarland claims to have sup- i ported me while at my home. Two of my children i were born at borne, and the expenses came princi- ' pally on my father, although at the birth of my youngest child I paid my physician's bill myse'f , with the results of a public reading which I gave < for that purpose. I? SENT BACK TO HER FATHER'S. I was sent back to my father's with my baby now six months old. Mr. MoFarland soon followed me there, and be stayed till February, when he told me again to get ready and go away with him. He bad at this time $1,200, which was the largest amount of money I ever knew him to have at any time, and which he said he had got from the sale of a piece of property, put out of his hands at the time judgment was obtained against him. WKART. But I was so thoroughly weary of the terrible vagabondish life I had always lived with this man, that under almost any condition a home I could eall mint seemed delightful to me. Mr. McFarland 1- ?k:u ?n \f Uillonn A* ftP -?Afi never am aut ?ui& nunc iu ^? any money. I lived with extreme economy, and he had $800 or $900 left when he reached Madiscn, which, with the addition of $200 or $300 mere which, he received from the sale of a tract of land which he owned somewhere, bought the fnrn'tcre for oar little hoase, and supported as for the fourteen months we lived there. drilling for the stage. Am ?"v ? in t.hg flrsjof tae_ _ places, Mr. McFarlaud began dril.ing me for the stage, which, I may say here, was the first and only instruction of any kind whatsoever he ever gave ine; and he also sent me to take lessons of Mr. and Mrs. Uoo. Vandenhoff, to be fitted for the stage. I also began to give readings this fall, and paid our board during the fall and winter with my own earnings. m'farlaxd sells his wife's jewelrv. On this occasion Mr. McFarland took with him all the little stock of jewels I possessed?my rings, brooches, watch and chain (which bad by this time been so frequently pawned and repawned that I did not care for them), and sold them all in Boston. These were the last jewels I ever possessed, except a plain gold ring, which is the wedding ring placed od my band by my dead husband. nis un'sPEA K able cruelty. Mr. McFarland was unspeakably cruel to me ibis fall and winter of 1862 and 1863, while we boarded at No. 58 Varick street. We occupied the only sleeping apartment on tbe parlor floor, and be could give full scope to bis furies without fear of being overheard. I was all tbe time working hard to study for the profession for which he had designed me, and to make a success in dramatic readings, by which I was supporting both him and myself. threats of suicide and murder. I was still very young, and very proud and reticent. I bail a most unusual cheerfulness and elasticity of temper or I never should have lived through so heavy trials. He would lock himself into the room with me, and give way to such torri- j ble furies that only the extremest pride and selfcontrol prevented me from making my misery known. Ho brought home what he professed was prnssic acid, and threatened to take it and to force me to take it. He would snatch my scissors from my work-basket, and, tearing open his breast, he would brandish them about, swearing he would "let out his heart's blood" before me. He told me (then a shrinking girl) that he kept loaded pistols, with which he would at any moment shoot me. Ho left me one evening, declaring he should shoot a gen- j tleman because he had invited me to join himself and wife and another lady in a party to some public picture-gallery, although I had the most general acquaintance with the party and refused the invitation as soon as made. A TRI E WOMAN'S DEFENSE. My conduct gave him no shadow of a cause. I owe it to myself to say that in my long and painful life I have seen many happy women, shielded by home, by loviug and good husbands, and all that protects and guards a woman's honor, and that never have I seen one thus guarded and cherished who was more faithful to her wedded vows than I was to the unhappy marriage relation in which I lived, under the protection of a drunken and brutal master, and obliged again ana again 10 leave me boarding bouses I called homes to earn tho means to pajr A/i Itlcir ebcltci. Bo antik T aktll M.y. OVen at the risk of seeming overbold in saying so. And in all my journeys away from Mr. McFarland, when I went alone to read in public, my prudence protected me even from gallantry or compliment. A COWARDLY BLOW. One morning during this winter which I am now describing, after Mr. McFarland had been out nearly all night in a drunken orgie, and had risen from bed in one of his worst tempers, I approaohed him as he stood by the mirror finishing his toilet, and began to say something soothing to prevent the outburst of ill temper which I feared was soon coming. He turned around and struck me a blow across my face which made me reel backward. i 8CBJCUATIOX. After this, whenever he was in one of his paroxysms?as he himself called them?I never moved or spoke, but, keeping perfectly self-controlled as far as I could, I sat quiet, always keeping my eye od him because I always fancied as long as I looked steadily at him ho would not do me any mortal vi >lence. And I believe now as I believed then, that * -> ,-^ir my ii:e nas oeen savca vy iuis oucuuo ?uu ?uwutrol. Ho has sometimes approached me with his baiids extended, the fingers bent like claws, as if be were about to clutch my throat and cried, " How I should like?like to strangle to strangle you." Or, II your life is bound sometime to end in tragedy." Or, "your blood will be on your own head," and has, as I think, been restrained because I simply looked at him without saying a word. M'PARLAND'S Fl'RV. In these furies he would often Beize and break anything which was at hand?lamps, glasses, mirrors, and sometimes the heavier furniture of.the room. Often he would rise from bed in these unjontrollable attacks of passion, tearing away all the bed-clothing, tearing in shreds his own nightclothing, throwing anything be could find which was breakable crashing about the unlighted room, till it has seemed to me as if there could be no Pandemonium worse than that in which I lived. And all this he would do without explanation or even a pretext for complaint against me, and when I knew no more what excited his frenzy thana,, babe mborn. mrs. Sinclair's kindness. During the winter of 1862 and 1863 I had met Mrs. Sinclair often at her oousin's, Mrs. Cleveland's, and she had shown me many and great kindnesses. She had given me her parlors for one of my readings and had sold the tickets among my friends. At the time Mr. McFArland received his appointment in the Provost Marshal's office she used her influence and her husband's influence to get him appointed. No person living has a stronger claim an the gratitude of this unhappy man than the ooble woman whose charity he has so abused. In ?in?w Af isfis and 1864. while we lived in Lpmartine-place, we were Mr. Sinclair's neighbors. Dne night while there Mr. MeFarland came home to braised and bleeding from some street broil?a iSllijM luWl tor a'J in'getttDg"' bim in bed. It was only three or four weeks before the birth of my youngest child or I should not have lone so. m'farlasd's shiftlessxess. From the time he got his place in the Enrollment Office in '63, until the fall of '64, Mr. MeFarland sent me home three times, and moved me to eight different boarding-bouses. If, for ono moment, I was peaceful in the possession of a shelter, his habits or his dissatisfied temper drove him to change. At last, in the fall of 1S64, Mr. Sinolair offered us, rent free, his unoccupied farm-house on the Hudson River, and we moved there for the winter of '64. During this year my youngest boy Danny had been born on one of my visits to my father's house. borrows monet from his wife's father. I stayed at Croton, in Mr. Sinclair's house, all winter, and, during the summer, in a small tenement which we rented there, and which I furnished -1??i? ?.; !* *onn K/-?wwnrcorl Ktt Afr MftFar* very cueajMjf mm fiw, land from my father. PUBLIC READINGS. He informed me one day that he was out of a place, and had no money. Then I told him I supposed I should have to give public readings again. As usual, when I made such suggestions, he swore at me in his terrible way,but made another answer. I went on and made my arrangements to give dramatic readings ; gave several before leaving Croton, and then, with some of the money I had raised, I went to my father's, who had now moved to Massachusetts, and from his house went away to give several other readings in New England, leaving the children with mother. At this time I paid the bill to the physician who attended mo at Danny's birth, now IS months old, which had been all this time unpaid. THEY LIVE OVER A STABLE. From Boston I went back to New York, to occupy some small rooms over a stable in Thirty-sixth street, which Mr. McFarland bad hired. This winter I made a desperate struggle for life. I had my two babies?the younger jus&weaned; I had tBto oiMr *wM uf aha 4imm Timing hamn intoxicated, and I had nothing but my woman's heart and hands to look to for support. I gave all the readings I could. I did all my own housework when at home. I took faithful care of my children, but I often sank into such utter despondency of heart as only God knows and can pity, when he sees the poor human soul sinking under it. AN HONEST FRIDE. On one of these days Mrs. Sinclair came in. I had never said a word to ber about my troubles, and she had been too delicate to broach the subject to me. When she went away she put a little paper in my hand, and after she had gone I found it wa3 a $50 bank-note. Next morning came a letter from her inclosing another $50 note, which she said was a present from some other friends of mine. I confess I could not endure such a wound to my pride. I had been reared in comfort and plenty, and in my veins ran some of the proudest blood in Massachusetts. I knew not one of my kin had ever taken alms. I bad to use some of the money sent me, for we were absolutely pinched with want at that moment, but the next week I sold all our furniture, which was bought with money borrowed of my father, and parted with many articles of comfort which had been sent to me from my home, and ~:?u nw,n?o/)c nf salps T was able to send back the money to Mrs. Sinclair, telling her I could not as yet receive alms from my friends. m'farland's more of raising stamps. In May, 1366, Mr. McFarland came on to my father's, bringing with him $1,000 in money. He had got this money from a wealthy owner of oil lands in Pennsylvania, residing in New York city (whose name I do not like to mention), by threatening to expose him for some irregularity in paying his income tax, and Mr. McFarland told me this man bad given him the money if he "wonld not trouble him further." He also told me that he had "several other men under his thumb in the same THE REPU way." The manner of getting this money was in- I expressibly shocking to me, and I told him so. ' THE WHITE SOCXTATX EPISODE. It was agreed, however, that I should go to a small farm-house iu the White Mountains, where I knew Mrs. Oliver Johnson was gui*g to spend the summer, and that lie should pay my hoard there? I which was to be very cheap indeed?for myself and ' the children. In June, 1368, T went from my i *1 1/3 rnri td QhnlKui-rin V II j IttlUtT fi TTUU IUO vutiuivu W uuvivmuv, ?... MM..) among the mountains. I remained there till Sep- 1 tember. During this summer he sent mo $160 in a check, signed by Mr. Sinclair, and I had $50 on arriving, which he had given me, making in all $210, with which I paid my board and washing . j bills for myself and the children during my four , months stay in Shelburne. MONEY MATTERS AGAIN. He paid my fare to Boston, and then told mc he was out of monty, and asked mo to go to H. 0. Houghton k Co.'s, whom he knew was going to 1 print my little book that fall, and see if I could ] get some money. I did do this, and got $50 while i in Boston, where I stayed nearly a week. Mr. ] McFariand's niece, a daughter of his brother Owen, bad been at the White Mountains with me, j and was with me in Boston. After getting the , money from Mr. Houghton, I gave McFarland half ] of it, and with $25 I went with Miss Mary McF&r- ' land to Newark, where her father lived. MRS. CALHOUN. , While here, in the winter of 1S66,1 had met Mrs. L. G. Calhoun, and during this summer at Shel- 1 burne, I bad corresponded with her. I have been ' most fortunate in my friendships, but I never . knew any woman moro loyal to affeetion, more i overflowing with tenderness, more ready with help- 1 ful sympathy than she. My whole nature, usually ' reticent, went out to her in confidence and friend- , ship, and I had written from the Mountains ask- i ing her aid in getting an engagement on the stage, i She had succeeded in arranging an- engagement at ; Winter Garden, the theatre which Mr. Edwin 1 Booth controlled, and a place which wo both con- ] sidered particularly fortunate for a lady to be con- i nected with, on account of Mr. Booth's position as a gentleman in private life, as well as his eminence in his profession. ( THE BEGINNING OF THE END. < About 1 o'clock in the night McFarland came J home in a state of beastly intoxication. He was \ past talking then, but toward daylight, while I was i readv to take the morning train for Boston, ' O"** O */ - W I roused him, and told him I had been intending to | take Danny home, but now I thought I would take . both the children and leave them with mother till I could do something better, and come back and separate myself from him entirely, that I could not possibly work as I was doing and bear his habits j any longer. On this he professed great penitence, , begged me to try him once more. Said he would f do better if I would give him this one trial, ..> ALr_ ki. :. .ni^nn. inflicting a severe but not dangerous woun<1 in the thigh. As soon as he had done this, he fired two shots in quick succession at me, hut without wounding me, is Mr. Richardson had told me to run as soon as he felt binwlf hurt. THAT LETTER. At this time I heard first of the intercepted letter IroraJIr. Richardson to me, which he had written from Hartford after the conversation which had taken place between us. I never saw the letter or knew its contents until it appeared in print. The letter was a mixture of jest and of sentiment, which anyone who knew Mr. Bicharason would readily understand. 1 shall not ?o oo to explain it point by point, hut the allusion to bis love for me being the "growth of years" was simply i sentimental exprasion, as in point of fact I had known bitu only a few months, and had been acquainted with bku not more than four months. MANLINESS. Just after the shooting, while I was in the great distress or mind following such a horrible occurrence, Mr. McFarland went to my rooms in Amity-st., and, gaining access to my rooms by snch representations as poiamtlUfce minds of the landlady and the servants igainsF~tuc fto whom, of course, I had said nothing ibout toy affairs,) he broke open my trunks, took out Ul the private correspondence I had preserved during ny whom -life, ritJed my writing-desk and portfolio, md evenwearched the pockets of my dresses. He took Qot onU" my letters, but all my accounts and receipts by which!''could show what raon^y I had earned, the aoticeu and advertisements which I had preserved of my dramatic readings, and even robbed mc of all the MSS.,and odds and ends of literary labors, some of which I bad a long time had on band, and from that day a) this I have never seen any of my private papers of all kinds. He also succeeded in intercepting two or three uor-i l'.'^jtrs from friends out of town. STErS FOR A DIVORCE?ADCLTF.RY OF ll'FARLAND. It was in the Spring of 1868 that I attempted to see Percy. After the outrageous scene, which nearly broke ny heart, my friends all said one thing?that I must at >nce take legal steps to get free from Mr. McFarland. I lecided very soon to go to Indiana. The laws there, as [ found oi consultation, permit a divorce for drunkenless, extreme cruelty, and failure to support a wile. I tnew beyond a doubt that Mr. McFarland had comrnitid adultery while I lived with' him as his wife. I had >een offered proof that he had committed that crime igainst marriage since I had ceased to live with him. THE DIVORCE OBTAINED. On the 31st of October, 1869,1 returned to my motblaiTQiiv jr the decision of one of the States uuderthe Constituion which affirms that full faith and credit shall be riven in each State to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other State. AFTER RASHNESS, CAREFULNESS. D .ring the long time, almost three years, that eniued betweeu uiy former separation from McFarland ind my legal divorce, my acquaintance with Mr Richirdson bad been most carefully guarded. We agreed, ind all our friends agreed, that we had been rash and bolisb. After I returned to my father's in March, af:er Mr. Richardson was wounded. I did not see him for nonths. Then he came to my father's house in this ivfce: Mr. John F.Cleveland of New York, an old friend of Mr. McFarland, came to Mr. Richardson and old him that Mr. McFarland desired that he should go >n to see me and see if some settlement could not be nade. Mr. Richardson, supposing this a trap, at first refused to ro, hut finally, after consulting his own lawyer, Mr. John Sedgwick, and on Mr. Cleveland giving lis pledge as a gentleman that no mischief was meant, VIr. Richardson came on to see me at my father's. This vas his first visit to me, and these were the beginning >f the offers on McFarland's part which led to the division of my children. After Percy went a way when I was nost sorely grieved and troubled, Mr. Richardson visit>d me again at my father's, in the Fall of 1867. When [ went to New York in the Spring of 1868, before I left for Indiana, I saw him occasionally in the presence of 'rieudsof his and mine. During ail my stay in Indima, and in all his frequent journevings West, I never taw him once, and be carefully avoided passing through he city where I stopped, to give no shadow of a cause 'or scandal But on the 31st of October, 1869,1 came lome free. On November 17,1869, Mr. Richardson raroe ov bW mother's bouse in Med way to Thanksriving. Thanksgiving evening I me.t him at the jnlrivd as he came from his aged mother's. 1- HLX-t'-Ve* 1 ." .-.-. jfl-Mf Ijpfy 1 fn ]sg7. 1 WglRfU ffiinnim id me airvci. iu : i JJ^Tufe w j had entered no place ot amusement toHrJtr, ai?i l ad only once met accidentally atone evening ? "iirtf at the house of a mutual frond. It seemed is if for The first time I had a right to talk freely and in reservedly to him, so carefully had our acquaintance vitl each other been protected.* A MARRIAGE AND A DEATH. Just a week after he left, a dispatch came that he was nortally hurt, and I came to New-York to nurse him ill he uied. When I came he asked me, if there should seem at any time to be no hope of his recovery, f I would marry him at once, and I said I would. )therwise we decided to wait till he recovered. I supjosed he wished to be married that I might have a inner legal right to take the charge and rearing of his hree orphaned children; and also because he could die uee peacefully having made me his wife. As for myleif, it I had bad ten thousand lives, I should have jeen more than glad to have given theiu up for him ivho was dying for the crime of having loved mc ; and bis lightestwish in the matter would have weighed irith ioe_against ail other motives in the world. So whenTt became plain that he must go away from all the hearts that yearned to hold him here, we were married. SUMMING UP. This is the whole true story of all that has happened to me. I said when I wrote it I should tell the whole if it were guiltier I should have told it just the same. * * ' ? - ? ?_ * a anw [ think the same ining migm uavc Uappcucu bu ?u; man or woman who lives, without bringing to them either remorse or shame, and often without bringing my reproach. ESTIMATE OF M'FARLAND. As to Mr. McFarland himself, I believe now, as I have believed for years, that he was a man born to do a murder. The fact that he was always uttering threats of bloodshed does not so much convince me of this as the fact of his temperament, which, partly from hereditary causes, partly from his nationality, and partly from bad education, had become one oi uncon* trollable violence. 1 believe he feared this himself. FINIS. I bave written all without malice or hard feeling against hi in. Mr. McFarland married me a girl in vears, a chOd in experience. In every way he abused his claim in me, he turned my love to bitterness, be took all the bloom and sweetness from iny life. When I went away, and he found I had begun, perhaps, to feel a hope of happiness, bis wounded vanity and desire for reveage turned his naturally tjiad temper into blackest madness. He swore to uiy friends, by all the fiends, that be "would rob me of my reputation, my children, alll held dear." He has done so, and I pity him from mjrsoul. * * * * * I have tasted to its dregs the cup of justice which, in the nineteenth century, men Inrn of women mete out to one whose worst crime was the* mistake of marrying a man who *as half madman from natural inheritance, half brute fmn natural proclivity. Of the justice I have received let those who read my story be witnesses. Gen. Longtttrcet nud the Amendment. Tho New Orleans Commercial takes occasion to berate Gen. Longstrect for daring to appear in the ratification procession of tho colored men of the Crescent City on the 30th ult. It says : Tn the ereat credit of our people let it be said that in this black precession there were but five or six men who were known to have been opposed to Radicalism, and who risked life and sacrificed property in their efforts to defeat its encroachments. TLose of this class who attracted most attention were, first, General Longstreet, of the Confederate army, who rode in a carriage literally covered with the "stars and stripes," souio of them, perhaps, trophies of his own gallant troops in Virginia, thousands of whom are now lying in their silent graves, while their once beloved commander is here consorting and fraternizing with tbei. slayers. The saino paper is frank enough to say, however, that "the occasion was one eminontly calculated tc elicit the enthusiasm of the negroes, as the Consti tutional Amendment specially iuvested their rac< with political rights heretofore denied them. Tbei rejoicing4, therefore, were natural and proper, an< to their credit wo say it, their conduct on the occa sion was very commendable. Good order and decorum characterized their proceedings, and all ove the city their procession was undisturbed." STATE NEWS. The Chester Reporter says: A militia company of this place, styled the " Yocum Guards," perfected an organization on the 10th inst., by the election of the following officers : Captain, John Lee ; First Lieutenant, J. C. Reister; Second Lieutenant, John Lilley. The Keowcc Courier states that Mr. F. C. Brown, of thatconnty, died suddenly on sales day last. He wa9 at Walhalla during the day, returned home, ate his dinner late, and, in the midst of lively con"vcWiuiun, Ml fctmj his chSTl- to the floor and expired immediately. The same paper says : We regret to learn that Mr. John Schumann, whilst employed on the steam saw ... . .. ? i n.!. _l *v.? lA?k I mill 01 iiir. rarser, near mis piauu, vu tuo ivw instant, was canght by the machinery, drawn under the saw, and horribly lacerated. lie lingered a few hours, dying from the effects of the hurt. The deceased was only nineteen years of age, and could not speak a word of English. His parents reside near Pomaria, S. C. The Winnsboro' Xeict man, not satisfied with the reputation won by his All-Fools' Day hoax, representing an interview with Horace Greeley, has interviewed an aged Georgian. The antique Georgian thinks there will be another war between the North and South, because Sherman's soldiers took nil the silver he had but what was on his head. On Sunday afternoon last, James Bracy and Levi Wood, convicted at the last term of the Court of Sessions of grand and petit larceny .respectively, made their escape from the jail in Camden. The census return of Greenville County for 1869 is published in the Enterprise. The total number of inhabitants is 23,096?males, white, 7,071, colored, 3,884; females, white, 7,793, colored, 4,348. Last week a violent hailstorm, sweeping along the borders of Greenville and Laurens counties, did great damage to the growing crops in the neighborhood of Clear Spring. On the 5th instant a colored man on the plantation of Mr. Lawrence Johnson, in Edgefield, while in the act of mounting his horse to go to the field, was struck by lightning and killed on the instant. The horse was also killed. ? - -Tv vn n n .ii ?al The residence 01 ur. v. v. cenacu, lugeiucr with the smoke-house and kitchen, situated fifteen miles below Qreenrille, on the Laurens road, was entirely consumed on Saturday night last, with Dearly the entire contents, between $1,500 and $2,000. The Edgefield Advertiter says : A few days ago Captain Kennedy and his constabulary force arrested Abram Landrum, colored, charged with killing 'John Bush, colored, living on the plantation of Mr. Jerry Qardner, on the night of the 2fith of April. It appears that Landrum went to Bash's house, called him out, got into a quarrel, an altercation ensued, and thereupon Landrum fired upon Bush with a loaded musket, killing him instantly. Landrum is in jail. Love and jealousy, it is said, were at the bottom of this unfortunate affair. REPUBLICAN VICTORY IN GREENVILLE. The Party Candidates?Short Time?Great Success?A Look Ahead. Greesvillb, S. C., May 7, 1870. Tu the Editor of the Republican S for Sobool Trustees, two sets of candidates were pat in motion: James P. Moore, Esq., Colonel E. S. Irvine, James Birnie," Esq., by the " Citizens' Reform Party," (if I may set them down with that party, that is Moore and Birnie; but, as the churchman said to the preacher, when he asked ' him if he belonged to the church, he said no, but said be, I rather lean that way. I think they rather lean the other way.) Charles T. Hopkins, Esq., M. K. Robertson, and Richmond Williams, of the Republican party. The election of the Republican ticket by a majority of 102 is the result of the day. And I may further state that up to the sight of the 4th the Republicans had made no pretensions to an election. On that night a meeting was called to consider the subject of putting in motion nominees for election. Speeches were made prq and con. Some thought it best to nominate; others, that perhaps at that late hour, and only having about thirty hours to canvass the township, thought it best not to make any effort. But, said a very large majority, we will give them a fight any how, and so the nomination was made, and thus I am glad to say that success crowned our efforts, and that victory, on this occasion, has given vitality and energy to the Republican party in the moantains of the old Palmetto State; and I hope that the Republican party will continue to grow and increase, and result in the final triumph of justice, equal civil and political rights. The cry is let us have Scott for Governor the next two years. Timothy Trrcs. Fifteenth Amendment Celebration In Wlnusboro"?Old Fairfield Alive. Wix.isboho' S. C., May 9, 1870. To the Editor of the Republican : Sir: At an early hour this morning the sweet strains of the Columbia brass band were heard, and groups of persons were seen coming in from all parts of the country to participate in the celebration. At about half past 9 o'clock the procession was formed in front of the A. M. E. church. The officers of the day were Messrs. Joseph Phillips, Aaron R. Boyd and Joseph Thompson. The proession marched to Mr. Cathcart's woods, where a nice stand had been erected. As the procession reached the woods, it was loudly cheered by a large crowd of persons who had collected at the grove, The procession then- broke up, and the persons composing it mingled in the crowd around th< speakers' stand. The stand was draped with the i national banner. On the platform we noticed the following persons: Hon. H. Johnson, Hon. G. W Barber, Rev. H. Young, Mr. James Batteas, Mr W. J. McDowell, Mr. M. S. Miller, Mr. Joscpl Cones, Mr. Richardson, superintendent of col ored school; John H. Rowe, Mr. M. E. Edwards school commissioner from Columbia; and others , At 10 o'clock the assemblage was called to orde t by Hon. H. Johnson. Re*. H. Young offerod up a very eloquent am j appropriate prayer, invoking the blessing of Goi r upon the Government and upon the peoples. 1 Mr. II. Johnson then introduced to the audienc - Mr. M. S. Miller, a young native white Republicar who read the proclamation of the Fifteent r Amendment, and spoke for a short time. Hon. 8. B. Thompson, from Columbia, was the 3^ called upon, made an excelleat^addresB, and at Mt close was loudly cheered. The next speaker was Mr. C. D. Loundei, frem Columbia, who made several good points, and was ' loudly applauded. Mr. Hampton Mima, from Columbia, spoke next, and was well liked and loudly cheered. Mr. M. E. Edwards, School Commissioner, from I Columbia, was then introduced, and made a short address, urging the people to oducate their children. The next speaker was John H. Rowe, heretofore known as a colored Democrat. He made a good Republiean speech, and was loudly applauded. Mr. Joseph Copes spoke for a Short while, with good effect, and was loudly cheered. Mr. Aaron Boyd then made the closing speech. The ntmost enthusiasm prevailed. We are all wide awake in this section of the country, and we know that when old Fairfield tells her tale this fall, it shall be "glad tidings of great joy" onto all the people. As to the Citixens'party, we all say to it, "Shoo, fly, don't bodder me!" H. | CURRENT ITEMS, ?The woman question?Is he married ? ?Terre Haute, Indiana, claims to have the biggest mosquitoes in the country. ?Rev. W. H. Milbarn, the blind preacher, hi lecturing in San Francisco. ?Ex-Confederate General Wigfall is at Central City, Colorado, representing an English mining oompany. ?Mr. Fane, one of th? secretaries of the British legation at Washington, has made a match to walk 32 miles on the road in 8 hoars. ?Governor Wannoath has appointed General James Longstreet Adjutant-General of the Louisiana State militia, vice Sheridan, resigned. ?A man registered his name at a Detroit hotel, and added: " The man who is the word and spirit of Christ." The landlord made him paj in advance. ?The Tonng Men's Christian Association of Indianapolis are making extensive preparations for the international convention to be held there in Jane. ?Washington society is ^gog on the approaching marriage of Miss Downing, colored, and a Frenchman, white. The invitations include Senators, Judges and Congressmen. ?A would-be suicide at Cincinnati was palled off the track before a coming train by a railroad man, who warned him against trying to " muss op the engine any such way as that" ?The Board for revising the artillery tactics of the United States army, eomposed of General Barry, General Seymour, and Colonel Dnpont, is in session at Fortress Monroe. ?The anniversary celebration of the Union League at Philadelphia, on Thursday evening, was the most brilliant socidl entertainment aver enjoyed in that oity. ?Captain J. H. Johnson, formerly connected with the Lonisville Courier, and a writer over the signature of "Yuba Dam," died in Lexington, Ky., on Thursday. ?Mrs. Marsh, who recently murdered her four little children in Baltimore, at last realizes that sha is in jail, and not in a hospital. She, however, oontiauM to inquire ofler hor children whom *ho US US Idea thai they are dead. ?Mr. Edward Paddleford, of Savannah, who recently gave $10,000 " to be nsed to aid in the construction of a suitable building or bnildinga for aecommodation of the sick poor, and the aged and infirm colored people," was formerly a resident of Taunton, Mastf. ?At the session of tbe National Encampment, G. A. R., on Thursday, resolutions were adopted deploring the death of General Thomas, reoommending the observance of Decoration Day, the establishment of State Homes for soldiers' orphans, and an asylum for colored veterans at the South; also, the donation of land to volunteers, etc. ?The volcano of Ceborueo (stone mountain), Mexico, continues in full eruption. Red hot stones are thrown up from the crater to an immerse height, and at night the sight is grand. The fair is filled with ashes for a distance of fifteen leagues. The inhabitants in the neighborhood of tbe mountain have been terror-stricken, and hare abandoned their homes. ?The Colony of Victoria, Australia, is about the same area as England, and has a population of 690,161, of which .391,146 are males and 305,01S females. On Deoember 31st, 1868, there were 63$ postoffices open.in Victoria, of which 59 were sdse telegraph offices. The population of Australia, including Tasmania and New Zealand, is estimated at 1,600,000. ? a Riinuitmi. P*.. editor. who "has seen the costly splendors of the Eastern world, the Mosque of Omar, and the Golden Palace of NenaJSahib at Calcutta, as well as the regal dwellings of the Queen of England," is of the opinion that the house of an American citizen, just ereoted in Scranton, "far exceeds thom in the wonderful combination of ntHity with eleganee." ?The latest dispatch from Captain Selfridge says: "We bare finished surveying the Dariea route and found H impracticable for a ship canal. I am now at work upon the line from the Gulf of San Bias, about eighty miles east from Aspinwal), with better prospects of suocess. I expect to get through so that the expedition can return to tha United States about the middle of June." The health of those with the expedition continues good. i ?On taking the obair at the Women's Suffrage , j Association, held at Steinway Hall, Hew York, on i Thursday last, Rev. Henry Ward Beeeher said the , | world had been fed fat with error. They had had , | to grope their>ay to civilisation, and even to the s j elements of religion. However, there was nothing !> _ 5 j that could be true tea wiui murv <;ci MUIWJ MM mmmmr? ? i man nature, for it was human government thai . i keeps governments np, and gives to laws their vitality. He was in favor of giving women the j ballot, because it would make them purer and . nobler. i, ?A dispatch, via St. Louis, from Allenville, on ;. the Iron Mountain railway/ gives an aceount of a r bloody affray there on the lltb, between two men J father and son. on one side, and j UttUiQU uvuubvhj ...... ? ? ? 9 J two m?n named Cnmmings and Comstock on the J other side. Yonng Johnson received a mortal wound, whereupon he shot and killed Cummingt. e The elder Johnson then beat Comstock with n olnk i. until be was senseless, and he will probably die. h The affray grew ont of a disagreement in the settlement of a business matter. Camming! aai n Comstock made tbc first aseaalt.