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'WINNSInono, S. U. ''ae day, June e, : 1877. Rt. MIEANS DAV1IS, f'ditor, JNO. B. R1DYNOLDS, Assolalto Editor. Iauy ladios who at.tond church are1 too muchl occuoiodc with their own hlats to :notieco the deacon's ais he passer it around for a collou tion. Thue Couity Democraiti Excutive 'Commiit.tee of Charloston have recommItended that the Legislative 'lection ill that county 1)0 held on the 21st of Juno, so that the excite mont will have all quieted down before harvest time. 'ho Charleston nitiicipal 0lo tion bill has passed throe readings in the House and two in the Senate and its success is assurod. It ro quiroes previous registration, and providos that no person cal voto without producing a registry cortili cato. This prevents the wholesale importation of John's Island negros on election day. With a fair elec tion the Democrats can always carry the city. Since November, elections have boon held in Fairfield, Chester and Orangeburg, and three moro le publican counties have become Deotro'ratic. We give a compara tive statement of the vote: RepnMa. nent. Maj. rm. gain. Fairield 1>r gy i Ortutgebuirg, 1.i99 9'l t ,ste A gain of over six thousand votes in three counties in seven months is caleulated to make the heart of the average Democrat glad. It is a tinger board on the road to the thirty thousand Democratic majority in 1878. "Eight Hundred Dollars and Mileage." The Senate and the House are at. complete loggerheads over the appropriation bill. The former has stricken out the clause paying in terest on the public debt, but, has added over a hundred thousand dollars in the way of increased salaries. As has been remarked, this is poor teonomy. It is merely a postponemenUt for one year of an iuevit able paymenit, in order to create an ulnnecessary burde~n. This "ucans al pract ical increase' of a1 hun dred t hoiuand dollars to the heavv tauttionm the people already have to hear There is lit tie probabilityv of t he Seniate's receding' in the intrest of econm. .lt remuains~ to he6 what action the Hlouse will take It is due to the peopPle who have elected the representatlives, that theQse stand Imu ni aainst :u~v mn.. ecihmients on the trea;surv. es l\'illy aginst this emariy i imue. Eight hundred dliars for -vt days services in these dayvs of distre~ssing poverty is an enormous $1um1. Wetre the Staite rolling~ in we~alth we would not. be disposed to cavil at a handsome per diem and unlimited mileage for our Solons. We hold that all labor has ita price, and that the State abould employ first class talent and pay it. adequately --when aho can. Ini finsh timies a miemuber of the Legis. lature should have ample means to support his dignity. He abould have his wines liquors and eigars, with which to regale his conetitu ents when they visit the State capital. He should have his paletot for morning wetar, his Prince Albert' for the serious hours of thme session and his* faulthess spike a2nd patent levather pumps in which to pay~ court to bright eyed -damsels or comely ma(.rods at inauguration and commncement balls ad such like. flo should have all those attributes which iark the great muan; so that when lhe walks the Streets tbe undeeiaai pqsanut mnerehanta, .st Arab. and nonpaper tenders may, remark '#Ibene goes a member of the Legiklare," and then sita ithbbated hreath as in the presence of a supraoerrtrid beist. No such aoan tbougiba to the relatimce liberality witt Whieh the landlords' and innktenert mn thei. min at anise and oumlin should distract his attention from the woightior mattors of lawaunking. HIo should be placed above and beyond the terrors of oxorbitant hash bills. Indeed a being of such transcendent imiportanco should spuIn hash and all things thereunto belonging, or in any wise incIielnt or itpportainiIng, anti hit; only ipialms should be those of conlseiencJe, not, those of the stoutmach. 'This i4 a pict.ur of an ideal legislator, ia Solon of 1880, we trusit. But our presen t. Le(gislit ure iunist bo content- with less. Economy must begin at home---ini the Legis lature. The people are , watching with a jealous eye. They insist that while the masses receive less than the worth of their labor, legislators shall not receive more than tho worth of theirs. The acts of the moiubors are not done in a corner. And while grave Senators assort that the law says they must receive a cortain s:dairy, the people are determined that, they must receive a smaller collpensa tion. A senator announced a few days since that he cared not for the attacks of the newspapers, that. editors are paid to write one way or another. The senator is not wise. Does ho know who "pays the editors" ? T ho people pay them; the samo people who send the sena tors and representatives to Colum bia. And when the editors censure the lavnakers, they do so in behalf of the people who pay them to re- j port the proceedings of the public servants. If the senators have no regard for the warning voice of the newspaper man, the day mlay come, when t,hoir constit ients are after them, that. thov will wish they had p:uscd to listen to counsel. Senators may or may not take advice. But they shall not have the op portunity of saying that when they paid themselves eight hundred dol., lats for sixty days work, the press stood silently by. It is never too late to retrace a false step. Let the Senate recede. ' LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. FItXLLA'. June 1. Mr. (ary introduced a resolution to authorize the governor to effect a loan, which was laid ever. A bill to regulate municipal elee. tions in (Charleston was reaid a see ond t.ime, the amenchnonut ofth committee were rejected, the timei ef holding the election wals changed to the second Tuesday in Dce mber, and the bill passed tona third redg. Several biill i.f 1001 interest 'priation bill. having f - to a. rtc was dischargedl, and (arv Hi'I ad an~d C..rittenident were II ~ mnserting~ $105'.000 in u i~~ -100 for L~egislativ t. P- ~ the hill was ret urned to the H ou,.e. The subject of julicial vacancies was~ made a special orde'r for Sat ur Senate adjourrned. or or .hratrsNArrtrs. The speaker reaid the returns from Ornge burg, giving 1ThbJ (Dem.)h 2757 votes. Straker jRep.) 2536, and Mr. lDibble was sworn in as a ember of t he H ouse. Trhe bill to give the Mfackevie $100 each was killed.' The bill to utilipe conviet labor, and to reduce pay for dieting pris, oners, passed to a third reading. At the evening session, Messs Hood. lRamberg and Miller were ap pointed a commit tee on a free con ference with the Senate committee conernmng the appropriation bill. Judge Wright was postpone~d till Monday evening. After other uninmpoirtant business~ the House adjourned till 8 p. mn. Monday. Chamiberlain, having closed up his affairs mn Colunmbia, departed for New York by the '12:30 train Thursday. A Massachusetts Repiublican, on a vii to the Columbia, S.C., Legis. lature, was surprised at the fmne voies ndeasy. oratory and correct Engishofthe ne-roes, and equially~ surprised at thme lack of pith and logic in what they had to say. They did most of the talking, jump. img up and airiugg their elocution continually, bt the. - weight of thongeht *a alt ,uh) A AFFAIRS IN FLORIDA. -----. TJIE11J'VIT A BJI,' RlSU!,TS OFDEJIO. RA TIC I UL.' Stopping Leaks and Saving Money Liberal Appropriations to Educate the Peoplo--Reforming the Blacks--No New Party in Florida. Mr. Smalley, tho statf correspond ont of the Now York Tribune, whilo in Tallahassee recontly, had a long interview with Goveror Drow. The governor said : "Wo are fast straightening out the snarls ad1(1 stopping te leaks. Close economy is being int.rodlcod in all branches of the government. We shall save this year thirty thousand dollars in our court expenses, twenty- live thousand dollars in the cost of run ning the penitentiary, and a vory hairge gross sun in county expen1ses. Our Legislature last winter cost one-fourth loss thnl the year before, and the next session will cost still less. The bonded debt is about $1,100,000. It was increased at the rlate of $100,000 a year by the Radi cals to met ordinary running ex penses. Tho inmnenso fraudulent railroad debt which was put upon us was decided by our Supreme Court, you remember, to be illegal and void. WVe can easily carry our valid debt, and provide a sinking fund to lodeen it at the expiration of thirty years, when tho bonds fall due. The one -mill tax lovied annu ally for the sinking fund will wipe out tho entire debt. in eighteen yoars, and it was decided by the Legisla ture last winter to suspend its col lection for live years, but owing to a lisagreemnont between the two houses about other matters concern ing taxation this provision fell through. \We levy a total State tax of seven mills on the dollar, of which two mills are for iltterest ol the debt for the sinking fund, and one for t'olimn schools. ( orrespondent -What is the con dition of your public schools ? Are they as well initained as under t he Republican thlninist ration ? The governor-Better, I think. The counties are allowed to levy not to exceed five. mills on the dollar for school pulposes. In addition to the proceeds of the one mill tax. tme interest on a fund derived from the sale of the six. teenth section of land in every township is distributed by the State to the counties. The laws relating to the schools are the same as when the liepublicans were in power, but they are enforced with more elli einey. aind the .mnev is more faith fulvly appliexl. In somile of the coun ties the 111 heal county suipe(riuil ntd ents were incompetent and dishon es,. The former superintendent of this county is under indictment for stealing It:ec school fiind. He has cleaed out, and destroved or car. ried oft all the books and accounts of his i lizo. I hear- that he is hold ins a treasury clerkship in Washing ton. The-re is still some opsto to the public schools, and especiailly to negL:o schiools, on the par1t of the unlprogr-essivec class of wh-lites, but it is diinisinig all the time and is not .stronig enough to influence tihe act io:n of thle Legislature. Ouri 1es0 initelhgment, people are convinced that the education of the blacks is Sea to the welfare of the State. -and .I look~ t j see our schools con -tanmtly improve. The innds fom - lue ional puposes wvill be applied ' ih e 1ice impartiaility for thel ht : cto th it wo races. I.nmmr-p -ndent-How do the ne g:.s .s take the ordeir of things ? T.se g"-anor--At first they set med to think that somethin'g dre-adful was going to happen to them because the Democrats had got in power. Now that ther see their r-ight s are not inter-fered 'with I think they are disposed to be more imdustrious thain before, and quit pilfering. The curse of this section is the thieving propensity of the blacks. This used to be a good stock country.- but now y-ou can travel for miles without seeing many cattle or hogs. Planters canid no: keep stock, because the negroes killed ~them in the wcoods. Now I loirn that there is less of this done than before, the negroes fearing that the laws will be more rigidly enforced a. a nst them than under the Radical administration. The planters think they will be able soon to raise stock as they used to~ before the war, and stop 'the rain-; ous practice of buying their meat, which has been forced upon them by the depredartions of the blacks. Th'e trouble with the neg-roes in respect to their- pilfering, is confined main--I ly to the cotton counties in mid die and we-st Florida, wher'e Lhuey largely pre'domninate ov-er thme whites. In conclusion the governor said of fifteen hundred white Republicans in the State, one thousand voted for hime last year, while about ones thousand negroes did thme same.1 He belieres that the Republican party is dead. The ecarpet-baggers haeall cleared out, and the negroes will have no one to lead them. He says there is no new pa~rty yet in Florida, and he thinks there will not lanir tineiarft r SOUTH OAROLINA [NEW8. Darlington exults over a four logged chicken. The corn crop through George town doesn't look well. Too much cold weather. A number of citizens wore in at tendance at Yorkvillo last Friday evening for the purpose of taking the initiatory stops of organizing a volunteer militia company. About sixty names woro reported as already enrolled. EThe small grain crops in Yorkvillo are looking very line. As yet there is no appearance of any blight ; although the farmers say the crop has not yet reached the most criti cal stage of susceptibility to injury. Corn and cotton are looking well. Both crops are clear of grass and weeds, showing clearly that the planters have not been idle. Several meetings have been held at Society Hill for the purpose of organizing a volunteer militia con pany. On Tuesday, the 22d instant the organization was perfected by the election of the following named commissioned officers : W. H. Jainson, Captain ; W. W. Milliken, First Lieutenant ; T. A. Gandy, Second Lieutenant ; E. T. Coker, Third Lieutenant. Mr. James C. Gan'uey, a young na: of promise, was run over and killed on the trestle of the Broad River bridge, on the York county side, about 12 o'clock on Tuesday night last. Mr. Gatney lived in Spartanburg county, aand after eating his supper, left his house re In irking that he would go over into York county. The supposition is that while crossing the trestle the train approached, rendering escape, by moving in either direction, ilm Possible. When struck bvthe'locono tve, he was within thirty feet of the end of the trestle. He fell below the trestle, fearfully mangled, and was discovered by the bridge watchman eon after the occurrence. Mr. R sbc rough, the watinman, on making his usual inspection after the train crossed the bridge, discovered a coat lying on the track, which led to investigation, when he found fragnents of bone, and heard groans beieat h the trestle. He then called Mrs. Roseborough, who went down to the dying man, remaining with him, administering to alleviate 1 is sufferings until her husband could call together some of the neighbors. - ------ - - BRIC-A-BR AC. Some wit is t> he found amy 1 the penalties of the law. The Julge said, "Prisoner, vou can have thirty ds or25' The seedy nob'emn, who h:l yen's ago dropped the jew e' of his manh to I into a whiskey b.ttle, 1 eked out from inder his shmgey eyebrows andh answered, "Your' Honor, as I feel pretty poo lust now. I think I will take $25. Thank you." The salt Lake lm men'a .Ex;-onent says: "How mistaken the world are when they c represent Morim on women in bondage to men. There is no greater freedom than the Goa pcI gives to women. And it is this that makes Mormon women con. seions of ther' power. You think the Mormons an insigniticant body of people -they are mighty in spirit, and1( thit-: women are nnited in one .:rand solid y-halanx to help) build up Zion. to sustain their own instim t ations, educational and social, and wee be to him who dares to lift his hand against Zion. Cornell Univ'ersit y occupies a v'ery novel and preposter'ous position. It' was stasrtei as a neutral institntion, where, in the words of the founder, "a man can learn anything.'' It turned out to be an' institution where a man could learn anything except the facts of Christianity.] How to get a neuter gender for the0 chair of Hebrew was a problem. Professor Adle:' was at last chosen, as a man who came nearer to having t oinio on any religious subject thnn other. Now it is discov'.. ered that he has been delivering lee-' tures on Nothingarianism in New York, and that the Nothing anians are just as much a seet a tl'e Episcop~ah.ms or Methodists. So priofessor Adler gets a leave of ab sence. F'e cher Harper, the youngest, brother of the firm of Harper Bros., of New York is dead, aged seventy. two years. . Mooidy and Sank', t-he great re vahihad a farewell meeting i Botnlas~t wecek when Moody' Pleas-d the police of that city by offering up a prayer that they woul i become door-keepers in heaven. The Russians have a way of plac. ing torpedoes under the Turkish monitors and blowing them into atoms; and the Turks, to be re-j renged for the loss of their men and vessels, slice the calves off the legs of Russian prisoners. This, weo, suppose, is the 'Turkish modeso bulldozng '~ i ".i: 'I LaW :Lrc~m TIXOS. R. 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