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AN AGT Authorizing tiie Attorney General to Commence Proceed ings aoainbt the commissioners of tii k Sinking Fund/ Whereas, an Act of the General Assembly of South Carolina, approved March 1, 1870, entitled "An Act to provide for a Sinking* Fund and the mnngeineut of the same," did create a Sinking Fund Commission, with certain powers and duties, to dispose of certain real estate, assets and effects belonging to this State, not in actual public use, etc.; and whereas large sales have been made, and large amonnts realized by the said Commissioners ; and. whereas the said Commissioners have failed, as by law they are required to do, to make an annual report to the General Assembly of the condition of tho Sinking Fund,. and all sales and ether transactions con nected therewith; therefore, Section 1. Bc\it enacted by . the Souato and HoUBO of Representatives of the State of South Caroliua, now met ? and sitting in General Assembly, aud by the authority of the same, That the Attorney General be, and hois hereby, authorised and directed .to institute, immediately upon tho passage of this Act, such proceedings us will cause the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, created under an Act entitled "An Act to provide for a Sinking Fund aud the management of the same," approved March 1,1870, to make a full aud corn-, pleto report to him of the condition of the Sinking Fund, and all sales or other transactions therewith, aud all revenues derived from such sales, and how tho proceeds of the same have been applied to the extinguishment of the publio debt by investment in the publio Securities of the State. Seo. 2. That should tho said Com miesionerB of tho Sinking Fuud fail or krefuse a full and complete report of all their transactions in office to tho Attor ney General within ten days from tho passage of this Act, the Attorney Gener al is then authorized and dircctod to commence at onoe suoh legal process ngainat the said Commissioners of the Sinking Fund as will best protect the interest of tho State. Seo. 3. That tho Attorney General be, aud is hereby, authorized to employ suoh assistance as ho may need in defending the interest of tho State by the prosecution of tho said Commission ers of the Sinking Fund ' Approved January 25,1873. >AN ACT to amend an Act entitled '?An Act to Provide for the Election, of the Officers of tue Incorfoiiated Cities and Towns jn the State of South Carolina." He it enacted by tho Senate and llouso of Representative-* of the fitato of South Carolina, now met and sitting in Gener al Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That Section, 3 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for tho election of the officers of tho incorpor ated cities and towns in the State of South Carolina" be amended on line three, as follows : Strike out "seven" (7) and "five" (5), and insert-"six" (6) in lien thereof. . ' Approved January 25, 1873. AN ACT to Majch Appropriation tor the PaXMBNT OFTHEBaIANOB ?f tub SALARY or the Members or inte General Afl bbhdly, Salaries or Subordinate 6m 0bbb AND ?hFL0T?ES, AND. THB ExPZHDlja Incidental Thereto. SeoriON 1. Be . it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the St.it0 of South Carolina, now met and Bitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That 'or ' the payment ot the balance of the salary of tee members of tho Gehoral Assembly, salaries of subordinate officers and employees, and iucidontal expenses, tho sum * of one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars bo, and is heroby, appropriated. Seo. 2. That for tho payment of the current printing of this session of tho General Assembly, the sum of fifty thousand dollars bo, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to bo oxpended in accordanco with an Act to provide for. the publication of the Acts, Reports, Resolutions, Journals and other papers of the General Assembly. Sec. 3. That tho Clerks of tho House of. Representatives and Senate be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to furnish to each member oi their respective bodies a pay certificate for tho ' amount of salary remaining unpaid. Seo. 4. That the subordinate officers and employees of the General Assembly shall, in like manner, be furnished with pay. cert incites in such amonnt as shall pe fixed by. that branon or too uenerui Assembly to which such officers and omployees shall respectively bolong : Provided, however, That the pay certifi cates for services rendered, common to the two Houses, shall bo signed by the President of tho Senate, and counter signed by ' the Spoukor of the House of Representatives. Sec. 5. That such certificates shall conform' to tho provisions of Section 23, Article XI, oi tho Constitution of tho State, and shall bo certified by the President of the Senate, and attostod by tbo Clerk of the Senate, for all Bicmbcrs of that body, and by tho Speaker of tho House of Representatives, and by the. Clerk of the same, for all members of that body. Seo. 6. That the Treasurer is heroby authorized and directed to pay tho Baid certificates at his counter prior to any other claim or claims whatsoever, and to ? hold tho certificates as his vouchers therefor; and he is also authorized and directed to retain in the Treasury suffi cient moneys from taxes to meet tho demands of such orders and certificates. Approved Jauuury 28, 1873. AN ACT to Require Statu and Couhty 'Officers Elected dy tub People to QuALirr within TninTT Days after Receiving Official Notification There of. ? Section 1. Be it enacted by tho Son atc and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now mot and sitting in Genoral Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That from the passage of this Act, it shall bo the duty of each and every State and Couuty officer elected by tho people to qualify within thirty days after receiving official notification thereof; and upon tho filing of such bond, and qualifying recording to law, he shall enter upon the duties of said office. Seo. 2. If any officer, eleoted by tho people, shall fail to qualify and enter upon the duties of his office, as roquired by the provisions this Act, he shall for feit the offico to which he shall have been elected, and tho Governor is hero by authorized to order an election, to bo holden within ninoty days, to fill tho vacancy. Sec. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with tho provisions of this Act are heroby repealed. Approved January 29,1873. AN AOi? t6*Bxibh? thh Ti?b for Onricsss I I xo QoAtirr. . ,1 ? i - " ? I . ?? a ,? hi Section 1.' Beit enacted by the Sen ate and House of Representatives of tho State of South Carolina, now met^ond Bitting in General Assembly, and by tho authority of the Bamo, That all officers elected at the recent eleotion be, and they are hereby, allowed twenty days from ihe passage of this Act to qualify , and enter : upon tho duties of their re spective offices ; and on failure to qualify within" the specified time, their respec tive offices shall be declared vacant by the Governor. ? Seo. 2. That this Act shall take r effect on and after its passage. Approved January 2'9,T8t3. -??? ? -"? ] [for the times.] THE STORY OF A QUEER SCHOOL, ? OR . . - ? . ' . ? ? V .? _* the sights master know nothing saw at the great nineteenth century mundane academy. ?; [concluded.] "He spoiled everything," said Mary; "if we had been by ourselves, wo would have had a nice time." > "Do let us go somewhere whero wo can/ look at things by ourselves," said Master I Know Nothing. . 1 "Let us go and see the Philosophical. I Mirrors," said Mary. ? "What arc they ?" asked Frank. "They are looking glasses that Bhow tilings in all sorts of different ways," said J she. j The room into which she now led him seemed at first to be full of children; hut I Master Know Nothing soon perceived J that they were all only different jaflaflfl tiono of himnclf and Miss 'BrightTEyHB in the looking glasses that word hung all I around. Tho one nearest the door made j things appear much larger than they J really were; he was alarmed at seeing I two monstrDus beings, which ho presently found out wero only himself and his little j friend. Jn the mirror next to this every I thing was made to look small and their figures were only an inch high. There I was one in which everything was turned upside down and they appeared to be standing on their heads ; in another thore wcro a hundred or a thousand little figures instead of two. One looking glass caus e'd people to look ten times as broad as they really were, but no taller; another j made them look tall as steeples, but not more than an inch broad ; others magni fied ono part of the body, tho head or the feet, or some featuro, nose, mouth, eyes tor chin, while all the ether parts remain ed as they wero; it was enough to make ono dio of laughing to see tho queer figures. Presently they came to ouo which they did not like bo well, it was contrived to make everybody look like themselves only much uglier; tho pret I tiest people wcro made to appear homely, and those who wero naturally plain look I cd really hideous. "What a frightful crcaturo 1" exclaim ed Miss Bright Eyes as she looked in it. "Why, it is you, yourself," said Frank; "it looks like you too." j "No," cried she indignantly; "for that little girl lias red itair and my hair isn't red." "It has some red in it; for I heard I Aunt Susan say bo the other day," said Frank, ' "And I am not freckled," said she; "while that child's face is covered with freckles." "You have not quito so many, but you have some, for I can count them,?one, tWo, threo,"?and Master Know Nothing went on counting; (which was not police I in him.) I You must not suppose that Mary Bright Eyes was really an ugly little girl; ?he was in fact pretty; her freckles were no larger than tiny pins' heads ; as for hor hair, it was of quito a pretty I brown color and only looked a little red I dish sometimes*.when the sun was shining on it; everything else about her was pretty. People had often called her a little beauty, so it was very provoking to her, now, to be told such things and no wonder she did not like it. "You had better look at your own pic ture, sir," eaid she; "I dont think it is I.'BN'*.'. 1 -?- * -7^-~" ajiy belter looking than mine." v?as nbt indeed. Have you over sltfjn a picturo called Slovenly Peter ? It vf:c; much like that. ; "My hair does not stick out#iri that ^ra.y," said Master Know Nothing, rather "Yes it docs stick out pretty far," Miss BrighfclyEyes informed' him; "besides, yW are really too fat, I always thought BK>j and now I see it plainer than evor." ^ Then,.I regret to say, they began to iiugh at each other, ?getting more and Etoro angry every minute; till at last |tiss Blight Eyes declared that ho was a horrid, rude littje boy, and shp meant to l ave nothing moro to do with him and (rftvor to speak to Irim again. "Little indeed, Miss 1" cried Master luiow^?thing, "I am biggor than you, 'don't care if you never do speak racfte again. I am going homo right off, I dont want you to show me any n^pro of your ugly old sights.) ( "However, as he was turning round to no cauglit sight of a figure in another giass which made him forget all- about afyout tho quarrel. C " What a pretty little girl! Just. look, ijCaryl" cried he; and "Oh! what a nice lutle boy ! sea ?Frauk!" exclaimed she, i Ivo next moment. "Why that is me 1" they then both cried, out at tho same time. This looking-glass had been invented to make people seem pretty. By some m igic, .nothing ugly could be reflected I if. it; tho ugliest people therefore looked :ing in it, and pretty ones looked like a~ lovely little fairy; not a sign of a :lo w?3 to be seen on her face, and hair appeared of a beautiful golden lour. As for Frank,?he was just like ?^ those dear littlo curly-headc.d, jMfcjd faced cherubs, you sometimes see \ u n from tho roof of. a church. ??pMeYeTSavrctmutcn Detter jnws^o tnuS they were with this looking-glass ; I tiiMil: Miss Bright .Eyes would have stayed at least two hours before it with out getting tired. Master Know Noth ing however began to look wearied at last for .some other amusoinent; peeping out oi the door.of the room, he saw some boys in another apartment who appeared to be playing some noisy game. He beg ged so hard that Mary would go there with him that she could not refuse;? though she told him he would find that it was no pleasant game they were at, but learning Political Gymnastics. "What are those?" asked Frank. "Horrid rough exorcises for boys," said she: "climbing crfeeping, jumping over the things and bawling as loud as one can. I am glad girls don't have to do such things." They went to the climbing room first. Here thero was a cap, with a bell fasten ed to the top, which was placed on a high" polo; whoever could climb up and take tho cap off was to have it to wear. Some of the boys were trying to do this; but many moro were only looking on, clapping their hands and hurrahing for whoever appeared likely to win tho cap. Such pushing as thero was around tho bottom of the polo for a chance to climb! The bigger boys would not lot the littlo ones get near, and if any boy was so lucky as to get fairly on the pole, all joined together to pull him down by tho hcols. There was one little boy at length who was so quick and clever that ho managed to climb of the shoulders of the crowd and get on tho polo; after he was once thero, he climbed so fast that no body had time to catch hold of his heels to pull him down, before ho was out of reach and so high up that overy one who was looking on hold his breath for fear of Boeing him fall. Now ho had almost reached the top of the pole and was stretching out his hand for the cap, when a cunning boy crept up with a long fish ing rod with which he managed to snatch, the cap off the pole, and then ho placed it on his own head. "That was not fair. What a mean thing 1" cried Master Know Nothing, who had been watching the little boy's progress up the pole with most eager in terest. "Yes, it was very mean," said Miss Bright eyes. "But I wondor at their all boing so stupid as to try so hare? after ] that cap, when after all it is. nothing but a fool's-cap." Next they went iutc the Creeping Room, where there Was ft large barrier built aoreas the middle of the room ; on one side, were tho children, and on the other side there were cakes and sugar plums on the floor, and whoever could creep through the holes under the bar rier, was to havo. them. Frank 'asked Mary if she would like him to try to get! aomo of the sweet thingB for her, but.ehe j said she would not touch tho dirty stufig I and he would havo to eat them by .him self if ho got them; she thought it waersi Shame for the boys to creep so low for suck trash ; so he concluded it was riot, worth while to try.. There woro a great many more'boys here than in the climb ing room; for more people are .willing to creep than to climb*. . The next place was tho Jumping Room where the easiest v-of leading' over' great high bars, 'child Constitutions, were practised ; . after ,mvda they- went intq room where Republican Institutions ] wore studied and illustrated. The teach er was hearing a lesson when Master j Know Nothing and Miss Bright Eyes entered the room. "What is Universal Suffrage," he ask ed the scholars. "Where everybodyBuffers,"' said one. "Where everybody is suffered to do as pleases," said another. "Where nobody suffers. anything," said another. The smartest boy; of all said: "It was matter of opinion^' which tho, teacher said was the right answer. "Now you Bhall Bee how it'.ls ' done,-" iaid the teacher.. "Look at these toys and nice things on tfifc table. Now, who ever is of opinio'n that black is as good a color as white, niUBt say?BlaCk\ and whoever thinks white is the superior color must say?White; and whichever ido has the, most children for it, can have these things'to divide. Now let all One, two, threo f* Some shouted white and seine black-^; it was hard at first to say which had it. The teacher said he thought the* blacks had-the best of it, but they must try over to be certain. At that aU screamed out black or white, much louder, than at first; but still it was doubtful. ' The third time, somo of those who' had cried White before, as they now thought-black was going to win, joined in with those who cried black, so as not to be .cut out of all the good things; therefore', al though the whites bawled till they were black in the lace, and although Master Know Nothing and Miss Bright Eyes, pitying their case, joined in to help them, the blacks were certainly, the loudest. So all the nice things were distributed among them, while the poor whites wero much dejected and there was even some talk of their getting a whipping all round. "I would havo given it to the others if I could," said Master Know Nothing, whep they had left this room. "I couldn't help joining in to help tho whites," said Mary; "though I don't thiuk it is exactly the'sort of thing for girls to do." They next wont to the Singing School to hear some songs which had been com posed by tho deaf, sung by the dumb; these were quite equal to the pictures painted by the blind; a cat's concert was nothing to the noise they made.? After that, in another room they saw all sorts of things, dono in the most surpris ing manner, by idiots. They now thought of going into tho big girls' rooms. In tho first they 8Rw one being finished off by sovcral ladies and gentlemen. She wvs seated on a barber's chair, njid tho gentlemen and ladies were all busy with her head. Each one had a brush, a little pot of gum, and a slip of paper with something written on it, which they stuck on tho outside of her head with tho gum. Tho children could spell somo of tho words on the slips of paper,?such as Botany, Chemistry, Modern Languages, (including slang) and several ologics and onomies. It was astonishing how many strips could ho pasted on one head; it fact it was very hard to find room for some of them and to make them stick j the teachers bad to keep begging the girl to sit still. "Isn't it very disagreeable?" asked Mary Bright Eyes. ^Very," answered tho big girl, giving a tremendous yawn, which disturbed scv ? ?Ml of the ellpsbf paper so that thcyfell off and fluttered to tho floor. "But one comfort is.", continued tho girl, "that after they aro all done with me, these old things will drop off of themselves and ? t^en I can enjoy myself." In the room next to this there -were several young ladies who wore already finished off. I'he room was arranged like a shop and tho young ladies wcro ranged on tho counter and the shelves undor glass cases labeled "Girls of tho Period." ' If anybody wanted, to look at them, they were quite willing to como out and display themselvec., '? "Are you not tired of being, shut up there under a glass case?" tho" children asked of one of them. "Very tired," she said. "I would get down if I knew how." They offered to assist her and then JMaaten. Know Nothing found a.. high stool and he and Mnry helped her to step off tho counter on it and then down to the floor. "When she was there she said she hardly knew what to do with herself, sho.had been idle so long; finally, she concluded to try to sweep the room for amuspment, nmd when she had got a broom began to make the dust fly a good deal i A young man now came in and began ? to look at the young ladies. The show man fetched several, of whom tho young man asked such questions as "Do you know how to bow on buttons ?" "Can y?? keep a house?" <fcc., at which they looked very contemptuous, and .answered ", ??No l" Then he asked r , "What are you good for then ?" and one of them said she conld. wear a. half a bushel of hair on her head, and another, that she could.wear fifty flounces on. her dress, and another ^tUat she could spend' as much money iu a daY a? h? --- ' * "*^v. in a week, and moio too. mo," said the young man. He was Ijgbfj ing off disappointed when ho chanced to spy the young lady who was f^eeping the, room. . "Ah!" cried he^'this is the girl for. me." . ? 'then he asked her the questions he had asked the others, to which sho answered that she had ifever been taught those - things. Then he asked if ehe was willing ? * to learn them, for his sake. She prom ised to try, with which ho was quite ??.t isfied; so they went off together, arm-in arm* quite happily, after giving Master Know Nothing and Miss Bright Eyes an invitation to their wedding, which they both promised to accept, if their mam- r mas did not.object. By, this time, although they had not spen half tho wonderful sights.of tho Great Nineteenth Century Mundane! Academy, the children thought they had had enough of it for one day; so they went home to tell the people there all' about it." cnippmas. . ?Young Wal worth received his con vict suit of striped clothes, and was made stock clerk at the Sing Sing. Penitentia ry. - ?,rC . * ? .- ?': i & &f* .?The Rev. Cliarles Manly of Green y/Uc has declined a call to the Staunton Va., Baptist Church. ?One article upon exhibition at the Vienna Exposition is a specimen of God Grants' tanning. ?Salem, Indiana, is prominent i. lynching. A prisoner confined in a cell was assaulted by a largo crowd. Afrai< to enter the cell, they threw flaming ball of cotton saturated with petroleum a him. Thus disconcerted ho was shot a twenty times, then knocked in the heat with a rook; ho was then dragged" bourn eo a- railroad bridgo, his request to offei a-prayer was refused, and there he wat hung. ?Father Ryan tho celebrated South cm poet, and catholic editor, is" ou against Gen. Beauregard's new Schern? of compromise. ?The GermnnB will entirely evneuat* Franco by the 15th of August. ?Jack Grant, of Beaufort County shot his father, undor tho impression thn he was a coon. ?An engaged couple while out upo a boat ride, went over Niagara falls.