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VOL. XLVI. WIXN'SBORO. S. W^ESDAY,^^ ur., 18S9. ^ ^ ^ v ' NO. 22.. ' t | OUR LAWMAKERS. HOW THEY PROGRESS IN' LAWMAKING. Some Account of the Work cl'llic *?e??ate uuu iar nuiinn ?"?vi Oflicer* Elected. Below will be found some account of the important proceedings of the Legislature sinct; our last report: THE CLEM SON COLLEGE. The passage of the Clemsjn bill to its third reading did not end the discus lion of its provisions. ludeed, the warmest debate of the session arose upon the question of it3 final passage. The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier reports as follows: Mr. Haskell, who, with Messrs O'Brien and McKissick, ha J- gone to New Or leans to represent the State at the funeral of Mr. Davis, was agaiu with bis colleagues in.the hall whau the Cleiuson College bill came up for its final reading. He took the opportunity, which was thus afforded, for placii g himself upon record in regard to t be bill, aod for expressing his opinion as to the manner in which it had been pressed during his absence. When the question was put as to ^^?^jether_the _bill should be passed and sent to the Senate -Co). Haskell said that he had hoped at the opeaing-al^the ses sloo tnai suca a ui:j woum pa-s as ise | could vote for.* He must saj1 a few v words now to show why be-could not YOte for the bill ic its present shape. , Last week when he, with two other j members, was seut to another State to perform a sacred duty, he felt so certain j that the managers of the bill would | ATprcisp nrflins.ru narliiimcnrarr ennrtear WMV* > W ? ~ J f """ _ J J | by postponing the consideration of the bill for a day, that he did not even t pair upon it. Having been denied the , privilege of being present to discuss j rits provisions as they came np [amendments are not allowed on the final read- ' ing] he must take this opportunity io J place himself upon the record. He was willing to appropriate not j only $98,000, but $19$,000 for the College, but be would not consent to free it ^ from responsibility to the people whose j money it would use. He would demon- t Strate tnat aunouga iae appropnaucms s were indirect, they were nevertheless " paid out of the pockets of the people. He would ask this ?eelf-appointed ^ Moses of the farmers, who advocated ? this bill against those who were born in ^ this State and fought and bled for it ^ 1 before he bad even heard*of it, why he, with his knowledge of the law, put pro- ( visiors in this bill which would prevent the State's regaining control of its funds! * With a great deal of irony Co'. Haskell read from the News and Courier ? Mr. Benet's reply to Gen. McCrady, a j lawver of thirtv wears' exoerience. that in regard to tbe rights of Miss Lee in j; the Clemson estate "he was satisfied.'- ^ He defied auy lawyer to gainsay Gen. McCrady's declaration that Miss Lec bad uot lost her rights to a part of tbe estate. It was unanswerable. t - Col. UftsSeTI" aissectecT the bill and [ - made objections to it in detail. j Mr. Irby apologized to Col. Haskell r for daring to consider the bill during the s absence of that gentleman. < Every face was turned toward Mr. ( Benet as he rose to reply. f Mr. Benet said that ne was sorry the gentleman from Kicnland had not been \ present during the debate, for be would s then have learned how gentlemeu could ] conduct a debate without personality. c It was a mean thing to taunt him with f not being a native-born Carolinian, and ^ with not having been in that noble 'L army which, when be was a student at ^.,4 4- a A A 4UA buuuui, fcuai tucu uuu tu ucicuu mc j rights of the South. He hud lived in t South Carolina for twenty-one years, a e time long enough to have enabled him s to be born again here and become a , oter. 5 The gentleman knew well that the j ones who were dearest to him on earth j were South Carolinians born. I* was r true that be had found Abbeville a t pleasanter home than the gentleman t from Richland seemed to have done, t [Col- Haskell was raised in Abbeville.? Kep.,] and that he had been elected to ? this House by the good people of that county, vr'no had given him the largest { vote ever cast in Abbeville ror a candidate. The gentleman from_fj|jpMonH would have been proud te^Tjathe leader of the farmers' if he had not j been on tftfc wj^trg side. : He wastry sarcastic in his apology { for thet-action of the House in not sus- ? pending all business while the gentleman \ from Richland was absent. His lieu- . tenants should never have consented to S go on with the bill without him. / He made farther explanation of-.his i discussion with Gen. AlcCr&dy on the legal points involved in the Clemson bequest. Iu conclusion he begged pardon of the House for siving way to natural inA:gnation at the "unmanly taunts'' of the gentleman from Richland. Col. Haskell said that the gentleman from Abbeville had misunderstood a pait of bis remarks and misstated the remainder. He bad not taunted the gentlemen from Abbeville with being born in Scotland. That was absnru. Scotland was a good country to be born in. ism ne oojeciea 10 xoe lone ne nau assumed toward men who ventured to oppose him?men of proved devotion to the State. Anything for the good of this State he would work for in the future as in the past. He had net charged the House with discourtesy. He bad bten told that the other side hsd been asked to wait because. three gen * ? - 1J t J I tiemen wiw wouiu imvu upuuseu me bill were absent in New Orleans, but they had peremptorily refused. The votes of those three members would have changcd the result of several of the amendments offered to this bill. Mr. O'Brien, ere of the returned dele gate?, said tnat ne Daa ne&ra do one offer to apologize to him for goinq; on with the Dill in bis absence, but that was all right. He ventured to assure the gentleman from Abbeville that he had made a mistake ia attempting to "dry nurse" the horny-handed sons of toil, lie would tind himself in error as to tbeir wants, lie did not teel called upon to apologize for not having been born in Ireland, and found it a good place to get away from. < As to this bill, it was not the fair, open, honest bill to support the farmers' college which he had expectei, and would have voted for. He represented a countv of farmers, but he could ODnise this bill and be returned to the Legislature with the approbation of the farmers of Colleton. And he would defy any member to stump Colleton on that issue against birr.. He had as much right, to feel interest in this college a? the gentleman from Abbeville, but the people ought to have the right to pass upon it. 31r. Bvcct thanked Mr. O'Brien for his pleasantry, and said that he proudly I accepted the position of dry nurse to the farmers' movement. He had a healthy charge and a full grrwn one. He declared to the gentleman from Richland that he k jew nothing of any appeal for deiay on account of the absencc of the gentleman- at New Orleans. He heard nothing of any such request, and asked the gentleman to state his authority for the assertion. [Mr. Haskell was at this moment entering the hall.] | Mr. Brawley said that be was responI ?:KI? t Vl O f t V> G PATlClfl. I | 5IU1V 1UI C^ua* CLUCM V tiiuu vwuw*vt eration of the bill bad been prematurely forced last week. Lie had gone into the conference with an earnest effort to reach an agreement on the bill which would be satisfactory to all parties. The conferences were interrupted, he was UDable tc say why, but not broken up, and on Friday, before any agreement had been reached, the gentleman from Abbeviije, to his surprise, had carted up the bill. He had objected .to its immediate consideration^ not on account of the absence of the gentleman from Richlaod but rn order to obtain time lor iurtner thorgbt on the subject. That delay had been refused. Mr. Bean saw, in what he c illed the *" itter opposition" to this bill, an attempt to prevent the farmers from getting their college without bu dening the State with taxes. A slip of the toogue by woich Mr. Bean alluded to the "horoy-heaied son8 of toil," set the House in a lauch, which lasted during 1 4.u- _ J?xl u:? IUC rtruiHiuuex vruj> icuuaixvs. Mr. O'Brien was perfectly willing to : admit that the gentleman from EdgeH Id fuily represented the variety of farter he had happily described as t "horD^iieaded," but h % Mr. O'Brien,, undertook^ to speak for the "horry- i banced." \ " ! Mr. Bean expT&i^ed lie was very I j aoarse, and hadjnot*Ssed the term attributed to him, He was sure the reporters ] jad put him down c rrectly. * i Mr. McKissick felt it due that he shruid make some short remcrks. Had i je been here ?e would have voted for a < ^lemson College, but not for all of th3?e j 1 provisions. He begged to remind some j gentlemen in tbis House thac he had )cen a ploughman wh n they had bee^ sucKmg tneir nngers m miancy, ana nar. lejwas not going to be put oat of sympa- ^ by with the farmers. He cautioned the arrrers agaist selecting poor lawyer eaders. He did not expect to re'urn < iere, but some one would who would ! , ;ee thousands of dollars ea zn up by this , ;cliege ia its present shape ^ Mr. Beaet expla:.ned that the bill had ; )een called up not becauso the gentle- nen were absent, but uecause it would iave jeopardized its passage to have va'ted any longer. c Mr. Brawisy said that he did not :narge unfairness. s Tie bill then passed its final reading, ? ts opponents not calling for the yeas r ma nays. The contrnversy had been a hot and s tloquent one, and for a time it looked as f trouble would come of it. But the I iisputants had beeu Gloved to laughter >y the mishaps of Mr. Bean, aod the t var cloud floated away. ? MIOHIBITION DEFEATED. C The bill, with an anfavorably report. \ a., prohibit the sale of intoxicating ] iquors, introduced by Mr. Childs, of ftthland,.was called for by that gentlenan when it was reached on the calendar, ? md he made a gallant but u-availing ( ight for it. Mr. Childs said t~at South j Carolina had always been found in the ront rank of advancement against anv , :neruy threatening its rights, its liberties, c ts peace or its -welfare, the empty f leeves of many of the members of the louse attesting their devotion ':o their :ountry's cause. To-day she vras conronted by an enemy that checked her i jrosperity. retarded her advancement and licdered the progress of Christianity. t PKil/lo oil a n r/>n f vuiiuo c Li v u an Li-io ai^u- w nents for and against the prohibition of he liquor traffic, and said that it was ( svidcnt that the fiowiog tide was on the ide of temperance reform, and that it vas the next great question that must be ettled by this country. The bill be had 1 ntroduced did not affect the question of ndividual abstinence, but was openlj * neant to check the evils resulting from 1 he liquor traffic. High license, he con- 1 ended, could not check or control the c ,hing. He then appealed to the Christianity ; md moral sentiment of the Legislature ^ o throw the weight of their influence on he side of the bill, and let the State J I RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN. Sweral hours were consumed in de- 1 >atin<f-tbe question of the rights of mar- 1 led woraeti, a9 develo^sg-m two bills to , imend a certaia"section of tbe General , Statutes, and to declare the law relating to the separate estates of married \ women. J Tbe substance of tbe bills is in relation 1 to the right of married women to acquire . by purchase anv species of property in ; her owu name and to take proper legal ' conveyances therejor, and to contract and be contracted with in the same manner as if sbe were uDmarried, and that all uuuuuu u&e jyrmai instruments of writing, executed by a ' married woman, shall be effectual to convey or charge her separate estate, 1 whenever the intention so to convey, or charge such separate estate is declared in such conveyances, mortgages or other instruments of writing. The bill was umavoraoiy reportea. a general aeoate ensued on the motion to indefinitely postpone, and the bill was finally rejected by a vote of 23 to 9. The bill to limit the right of dower was rejected by a vote of 20 to 10, after a spirited debate. funds kok controlling diseases. The memorial of the executive committee of the State board of health, relating to the control of contagious and infectious diseases, was favorably reported, and the committee recommended that the aid asked for be granted and that the amount of $500 be appropriated for the purposes mentioned in the memorial. The report was adopted. lilt, .Ml lCUl JtlAXIU^so. Tbe Legislative appropriation bill was taken up,, and passed a second reading with but little amendment. The contingent fuDd of the House was ! raised to *2,500. The pny of Mr. R. M. Anderson as Reading Clerk of the House was raised from S2ofi to $350. The sum of ?250 was added for such extra clerical services as might be needed . 1 .3 ^ . . . * >n ine engrossing ueparimenr. The general appropriation bill was then 1 taken up. Section 9 of the bill was amended" by adding at the end of it an appr? priation of $:>,000 to carry out the provisi >ns of | the Act to quarantine the State against. : infectious diseaees. An amendci' nt offered by Mr. I1.;an, I appropriating $300 to aid the Clariosoi nbic Society of the S >ufh Carolina Uui ? vcrsitv, whs v^ted (Jowd. Mr. II iz ird moved to increase the appropriation for the mechanical depart ment of the University from $2,000 to $5,000. Mr. Whitlock moved to lay on the table. Lost. Mr. O'Brien moved to substitute $4,000 for ?5,000. Mr. Hazard accepted the amendment; and, in this shape, the increased appropriation was granted by a voie oj u.) ?? tv. Mr. John Gary Evans, of Aiken, moved J to strike out the appropriation of $5,000 to Chifiin University. Lost?99 to 9. Mr. Gary then moved to reduce the appropriation to$1,000. Tabled?80 to 19. Mr. Peurifpy, of Edgefieid, moved to strikeout ?32,500 from the appropriation for the schools of the University, and substitute ?20,000 in place thereof. Tabled?80 to 19. Mr. W. D.Evans moved to strike out the $15,000 appropriated for the brick building for the colored insane, stating that he did so in order to raake the bill conform to.the action of the-House in passing the joint resolution providing for a commission to seject a suitable site for said building. The ameudment was adopted. Mr. Hazard offered an amendment which was adopted, appropriating $5,000 from the penitentiary earnings to erect a hospital within the walls of the penitentiary. An amendment was also passed providing for the payment of salary due Lieutenant Governor Mauldin for the month of November, 1SS8. The bill was then passed without any further material changes. Senate. "When the bill to provide the method :>f voting in stockholders' meetings. J which had already caused such a bard j 5ght cme up for a second reading, Senator Ferguson moved to indefinitely j postpone. The year and nays were demanded and resulted: Yeas23, nays 9; so the bill 1 - - A ^ J" ivas rejecieu. ' [This bill sought to "scale" the voting n corporate bodies, so tb&t one person j >r body controlling a bare majority of j ihe shares could not also have the man- , igement of the concern. j THE USURT LAW. Quite a stubborn fight was made over * i bill to amend the statutes regulating ( ;he rate of interest. An nmpndmpnt hv Senator Edwards 1 ;hat the provision should not apply to 1 :ontracts or arrangements prior to March 1 L, 1890, was adopted. t The yeas and nays were called on the ^ ;hird reading and resulted: Yeas 18. jays 16. MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES j Among the important bills which be-- ; :&me Acts upon their third reading were* j Bill to provide for the payment of a , alary to be paid to the Sheriff of Fafr- i i<:ld County, and to provide for the man- ^ icr in which the same shall be paid. ' Among those which passed and were n-nt in thp TTrmQA wprp Bill to charter the Chesterfield and ( vershaw Railroad Company. j Bill to prevent the killing and destruc- , ion of fish in the fresh waters of this . >tate by the use of dynamite, giant powler, or other explosive material. ? liill to amend an Act in relation to for'eitedlj^nds, delinquent -lands, and col- ( eotion of taxes. j The following bills were rejected: t Joint resolution providing for a sub-- ] icription by the State to the Annotated ] 3ode of South Carolina, prepared and /"Y,? , W JUUU?UCU U V V/Z1II UUV4 TT DUVUUUUU. | Bill to secure rent to landlord in case t >f neglect, abandonment of crop, or < ieath of tenant, and providing manner * br proceedings thereunder. < . ACTS RATIFIED. Among the Acts ratified are the fol- J owing: . Relating to the opening and closing of . be polls for municipal elections in the , own of Ridge way, in Fairfield County. ' To recharter Davies Ferry, across Intflwha Rivpr. in f!hf>9tprfifild Ooiintv. THE CLEMSON COLLEGE. j The Clemson College bill came up in ! he Senate on Thursday night. < Mr. Kennedy, of Chesterfield, moved < ,o indefinitely postpone the bill. He lrged tb^t the separate college -was un- ' lecessary, and that the people did not f lesire it. The motion to indefinitely postpone j vas opposed by Senators Pope, Smylbe, < 3uist and Donaldson. Senators Kennedy, McMaster, So- 1 ;oumer and Smith spoke in favor of the '< jostponement. The yeas and nays were calied on a notion to table the motion to postpone, ind were as foljows: Yea?Messrs. Bell,Buist,Howell,Moore, [)onaldsoD, Magill, Munro, Elwards, ; ilason, Patterson, Ferguson, McCall, 1 Pope, Fields, Meetze, Ready, Moise, R. '< M. Smitb, bmytbe,- Soujourner, Wilson, ] [21). i Nav?Messrs. Bjrd, Dozier, Erwin, 1 Kennedy, McMaster, Moody, Rbame, Sinkler, Jeremih Smith, Vsrdier, Wood- J ward. Senator Hemphill was paired, on the bill generally, with Senator Murray. 1 Mr. Kennedy moved to strike out sec tion three, appropriating the privilege tax. Mr. Smythe moved to amend by appropriating ten thousand dollars, ' which would be equivalent, he declared, to the sum obtained from the sinking fund from the pa3t year's collection. 1 Mr. Patterson offered an amendment appropriating fifty thousand dollars in- i stead of the sinking fund and tag tax 1 funds appropriated in sections three and four. Lost?22 to 10. Mr. Smythe's amendment appropriating $10,000 directly in lieu of the sinking fund funds was adopted by a vote of 17 tn 1fi Mr. Kennedy next moved to strike oat section five giving all the property of the Department of Agriculture to the Clemson College and authorizing tbe .sale of the two farms. The motion was carried by a vote of 18 to 14 and the section \>'is stricken out. " 1 A motion to strike out section four, nrSvinrr thref-fifths nf thr.tficr tav tn fhr* college was killed?19 to 12. An attempt to strike out that part of the section giving the three-fifths Tor future years was defeated by a majority of one vote. -5 After further amendments the bill was passed to its third reading by a vote of 20 to 32. The bill as thus passed had the section appropriating the sinking fund proceeds is stricken out and the. words"$l0,000 be appropriated"inserted. '>n _I rnlofincr m tKp nritrilorto fov i Jt.j i\/iuviu^ vv JVI i ? nv^v yt? ^ proceeds, was so changed as to appropriate three fifths of such moneys as are now on hand and three-fifths of what will be coliccted for the fiscal year ending October 31, 1S00. The entire, fifth section, appropriating all the property' j of the Agricultural Department, was j stricsen our. j The bill came up on its third reading. j u whs amecaea ry gniu^ tne v;oue<je, i ; instead of a three fifths of the fertilizer] ! tax, $10,000 from the cash now on hand, j j and $15,000 tioai the collections of the I next ymr. The House refused to conI cur. A committee of conference was appointed, and they recommended that the House concur in all the Senate amendments, and that the direct appropriation be raised from ?10,000 to $15,000. This was adopted by both House and Senate. The bill, as thus completed, gives the Clemson College about $47,000 to begin with. MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES. Among the bills passped to a second reading are the following: To prohibit members of the General Assembly from accepting free posses from any railroad in the State or doing.business within the State; to extend tbfe jurisdiction of trial justices for Hampton and Beaufort Counties resident at or near Y?:massee and Ridgeland; to amend an Act in relation to forfeited land, delinquent land and i ?a1Iaa*a? ei Oith T^PPPm, v;vjici;iasj ui iuacc, a|/piw*vw ber, 1887, and the amendments of 24tb December, 18^; to provida for the prvision, digest and arrangement of the staiute Ihws of this Slate; to pay certainj expenses of elections in t'uis Sraie. Bill to prohibit the sale or furnishing or giviog or providing to minors of cigarettcs, tobacco or cigarette paper, or any substitute therefor,, and to provide penalties for thu same, was passed. Joint resolution to authorize and direct the comptroller general of this--State to drawn his warrant on the State treasurer to pay the Rev. John Johnson the sum of four hundred dollars for .one hundred full bound conies of his recently pub>:. i a ?: ? i ?:? ~r libufu jjisiunuui uniiauvi: ui uc4?.ucv of Charleston harbor, .including F^>rt Sumter and adjacent islands, to become the property of ihis State, and to be placed in the libraries ?>nd other public institutions of this State, was passed. Seoator Pope secured the passage of an amendment to this bill requiring these oooks to be distributed to the libraries )f all the colleges in this State, both male and female. Joint AMScmbly. The Senate and House of Representatives assembled in joint .session iu the aall of the House at eleven o'clock Wedjesday morning. "Lieutenant Governor tfauldin presided." - -.l: *ae urst eiewon? wcrc iui juugco ;he First, Second, Fourth and Sixth Cirroits. ' v . . Eugene B. Gary, of Abbeville,' nomilated Gen. James F.-Izlar for judge of ,he First -Circuit. E. G! Gravdoa,. of Abbeville, nominated .J. F! Fickftn,. The >allot resulted: Total vote cast 143: 1 rt1 -"Pi/vlron A.(\- Aahpr T) flnhpn i. Genera! Izlar was declared elected. The Jballot came next for the judge of he Second Circuit in which there had >een an exciting triangular ract between rames Aldrich," General J. TV7 Moore ind Judge J. J. Maher. General Moore ieas nominated by Senator Y. J. Pope, Hr. Aldrich by John Gary Evans and Judge Maher by Col. J. G. McKissick. Fhe result of the vote was as follows: rotal vote cast 145; Aldrich'75; Moore LI: Maher 25; George Croft 1. ' Mr. Al irich was declared elected. Judge EIudsoD and Judge Witherspoon were jnanimously re-elected for tbe v Fourth ind Sixth Circuits. A. P. Butler was re-clected Commissioner of Agriculture with no opposition. Five vacancies in the Board of Agri:ulture were filled by the election of the "ollowiog. incumbents without oppo&i;ion: General Johnson, Hagood, Johu jawton, H. L. Buck, R. A. Love and B. ?. Crayton. E. R. Mclver was elected Staf.e Treasiror anr? Phflrlps ITprrigon. Jr.. "Rpwis? rar'of Mense Conveyance for Charleston bounty, neither having any opposition. For directors of the penitentiary T. 0. Sanders and J. J. Sarratt were elected. The last and most tedious ballotting va9 for six members of the board of .rustees of the Clemson Agricultural College. The ticket agreed on in the ""lwiMcnn rinllAorp nanmis was nominated Mr. Brawley, of Charleston, who said: 'An era of good feeling having arrived, ! beg leave to place in nomination the ollowing: B. W. Edwards, of Darlingion: J. L. Orr, Greenville; E? T? Stacklouse, Marion; T. H. Harden, Chester; Ulan Johnstone, Newberry; J. E. Tiniall, Clarendon." Harrv Hammond, of Aiken, was n?miaated by John Gary, Evans, and J. L. Shonklin. of Oconee, bv Senator Mason. rhe regular ticket was eleteed. though Messrs. Hammond and Shanklin both received good -votes. This completed the - elections set for the day and the joint assembly, a little ifter three o'clock, adjourned. Notes of the Senwion. Mr. D.antzler, for the committcc on battle flags, submitted a report, which was unanimously adopted, and which provides that the battle flag presented by the First South Carolina Volunteers, md all others which may he hereafter presented to the; State, sball be placed in charge of the Secre'tdjy.of State, and kept by him in glaiss cases in the State Library, The . resolution further instructs the Adjutant General to corres-. pond with surviving officer^ of regiments in the Confederate .service.-from South Carolina, and if .p09aiblef father up al the battle flags, to be kept .as above stated. The sum of $200 is by tbe resolution appropriated for tbe purchase of the glass cases. Tbe Senate afterwards concurred. Both houses^iave passed the joint resolution for the ^appointment of ? com mission to inquire info "and' import upon suitable localities for the establishment of an asylum for the colored insane, and also to call tor donations of land for such purpose. Thecommission is to consist of one Senator, appointed l?'y the President of the Senate, one member of the House,'appointed'by the Speaker, and the president of the board of regents. They are to call for oilers of land, nut less than 300 acres, on which to erect the necessary buildings, and* in the absence of such offers, to ascertain the cost of such land,r together with such building?; : ' ' ' * " " V-A Remedy l*r 1}H>lirlierin. Tba?: malignant enemy of children? the diphtheria?is again prevalent in various localities. Dr. Field, a cele.-: brated physician of England, when the disease raged ja that cdui>tr^,''several years ago, was very succcssful va treating it. by.the .application of a simple remedy". He used nothing but common .flour of sulphur? a teaspoouful mixed with the finger in a winegl&ssful of water, glyen as a gargle. In'ten. minutes the patient wis outrof danger, and the doctor never lost a case ot the disease. In extreme cases, where a gargle was not practicable,dryisulphur was blown-down the throat through a quill, and was' eq.iallv elective.? Chicago Journal. The Icaninr tower of Ptsa-fa'-lifcing of fered as t^>e prize 'of a monster lottery. Pisa is so poor that rpoDey must. Be raised at once, ana tae municipal auiiiyrmcs expect tbtir famous tower *to realize :i :hit;hir"pVice than any-otherlhe city monuments. ?. / THE DEATH OF DAVIS. BILL ARP WRITES OF THE LE ADER OF THE CONFEDERACY. * Wliai Dtiiiit'I VVebwter Snid of.lolm (!, ('?! hotii? Could Willi !*ropri?*iy In* Said of Uzvih. Old Father Time is a wonderful doctor. ]t i?a real comfort to the South to rear! the kind words of tna Northern p-<\ss toti.:hin^ the death of JeO'erson Davis. My faith is that the spirit j oi tne illustrious aeaa is reading tnem j too, and is comforted. Kow sweet and ! tender are ihe benedictions upon the | dead.. This is right, and it is Christi-} anity- for when a man has gone before j ;;his -ilakcrit becomes all earthly jud- ! grsta be-silent if they connot begen erous.. "Kow would we. be if Ufe," who | is the top of judgment, should but j judge us as we are?" The New York Sun dares to say: 'There is now-no one revile and th^re are many to hon. r <rT i or ana respect ins memory, ne nas j outlived sectional enmity and pers >nal j detraction." Is tlfat so? I wish that I could be licve it. The Sun says: ''Many years of peace have been required to couvincethe men who fought and sufiered for the Union that Jefferson Davis was j entirely sincere and. was poweriuuy ; fortified by teaching arid esainple, and j the ill starred president of the South- i ern Confederacy Ujd but carry to their , conclusion tbe doctrines formulated j by John C. Calhoun and avowed by ! such representatives of New Eng- j land as Timothy Pickering and Josiah i Quincy." * . ' Yes, and he might-have nnmed scores of other Northern men who were of the same Slate's right faith, and then include the Hartford convention which made the first secession irom the un ion. New England never produced a nobler, grander man than Quincy, and he was in all respects of the faith and principlesof Calhoun and Davis. Young men of the South, listen for a moment to what the greut Webster said about Mr. Calhoun: "He had the indispensable bacis of all high character, and that was uti ; spotted irtegrity and unimpeached honor. There was nothing grovelling or low cr meanly selsfisli that came near the head or the heart of Mr. Cal- ! lioun. Whether bis political opinions were right or wrong, they will descend to posterity under the sanction of a great name. He is now an historical ; character. We shall indulge in it as a grateful recollection that we have lived in his age?that we haye been his con, < temporaries?that we hav reen himlieard him. known him? we shall deliglftr to speak of him to those who are 1 rising up to fill our places. And when ( onf;aiier anotner we snaii go w our graves we shall carry with us a deep , of his honor aud integrity?the ' purity ot'his private life and of his ex-, alted patriotism." Isn't that splendid, and'yet every word >f it fits Jetferson ' Davis. You might substitute his name for Mr. Calhoun with the utmost propriety, and Webster would be it if he were here. Daniel Webster had no prejudices, and his great regret was : that his people had not couquered theirs. T-Tr?H' we all do love and honor a great man?a pure man?men like Webster and Olay and Calhoun and Jefferson Davis. It used to be a triumvirate, but another name has now to be added and Mr. Davis will go down in* to history as the peer of those historic names- He wa* their equal in everything that makes a man a statesman and a patriot. He was their superior in one thing, for he was a great soldier, and illustialed his patriotism on the field as in the forum. "Papa, what did Mr. Davis do that makes everybody talk about him so?" "My boy, I will tell you in a few mi ,V 1 ^ 1- J n T -3 words, xne ^onn.aua jne couin xiau been quarrelling lor fifty years about the negroes and the tariir and the rights of the States. At last they concluded to-fight it out and JeSerson Davis was chosen as our leader. He did not seek the place, for he was a mcdest man, but we made him take it. He believed- that the States were <rreater than the government at Wash ington, for the States created that government as their agent. But the government at Washington soon became very bold and powerful and began to control th'e States. It wras a question whether the dog should wag the tail or .the tail wag the dog. Mr, Calhoun and VIr. Davis and most allof us down South were for the rights of the states, but the people up North thought th'e.gcvcrnme'nt at Washington was1 a bigger thing and ought to control anri-so the quarrelling- weut on for years and years and at last it broke out in a war. . We left the union and ^ wanted to gc back where we were be fore we went into the union, but they whipped us and so we are in the union still.. It was much like little children who gather together to play and' s: me of them get mad and say,'I'm going to take up things and go home ?you don't play -'air and I shan't play with you'any more.' Then the others get mad, too, and say: 'We do play fair and you.shan't go home,' and so they take hold of them and keep them and make them stay whether tbey wish to or not. And so the States had to give it up and now the tail is wagging the dog." The. Ohio river is before me while I write. This is a part of Mason's and Dixon's line that I nevr saw until yesterday and I wondered how a river could make such a dllferenee in peo pie "Do your people in Maysville mix and mingle with those across the I liVCi au ^1.1/tmvtu. cm?v?. jl. ?j I not at all. They never have and they lucver will. They don't like us and WB^fon't like them. We pass-and repass like the fellow did his Jersy bull but we don't affiliate noi associate nor j assiniilate nor amalgamate. The fact; is our negroes won't mix: with them, j There are not a dozen negroes over there, but there are 2,000 here in Majg' villei' When our negroes cut up and misbehave we threaten to run then across the river and it has a good effect upon them. Now in Cincinnati you ' * -1?1! -Ir/J ' 1\ Af can't narmy ten uie uiuereucc a yankee and a Xf-nluckian, but out in the country there is a b>? difference." "But I don't understand," ?aid i, ;jwhat you mean by the difference. In -what respect do those peopieorer the river differ from you Kemuck-iass? are they not good citizens?;' "Oh, yes." said ir.y Jrieud, "tht-y are peaceable ejcuah, but \ hey are as cold as an ieebci'jr, Tbi-y are selfish audstiojry and pickayu. ish. Tb*y live close and work their wives an.i daufjht. rs for all they are wortn. They don't like us because the UK.-s.ru does like us, and because we # - make the negro do what they have to do for themselves. Oh, I can't 1 ell you exactly what is the matter hut we want them to shinny ou their own side of the river? "I do not like thee, Dr. Fell; The reason why I cannot te'l." ! "Are the negroes giving you any ! trouble?" said I. ">'ot a bit?not at ; all. The negroes never gives a gen! tiom#n anv trniihlft. He resnectt him j and loves to live with him, but just ! let a man level himself with the nejiro and then comes the trouble. The race problem will never bother old Kentucky. The lines are drawn and they will stav^rawn." "Well, what abo'it the negroes voting heie? I see that Mr. Harrison is still harping upon the suppression of his vote." ".Not a word of it true, sir?not a word of it so for as this portion of Kentucky is concerned. We thought that Harrison was hittihg at you people down iu Georgia." "Maybe he was," said X, "hnr, T lidvft been dilicent-Iv hunting for the place where the negro vote is suppressed, nod I have not yet found it. Mr. Harrison'-smessage upon that siihiAnt. h.i? lor. him rir?o,*n at, the South and vVanamaker' appointment of negro postmasters has widened the breach. The admisistration have wantonly insulted our people and hence theSouth w.ll remain solid. If a negro was appointed postmaster in my town the Republicans then: would mob him. Many of our b*st citizens are Republicans, but the negro question is not a political one. It is a social one and there is roi i. white man in the town who would submit to it, and there is not a nerso who would dare to ask for it. The rights of the States are fast fading away under the piwer of federal domination, but the social status of the people will fye maintained at all hazards.-' A DEBATE OF THE NEGRO QUESTION IN THE SENATE. Tlie Race Problem Will Set the S?tate*iaen S?peuki;ig?Senator Butler's Views---A Republican Senator Favors Wholesale Colonization of Negroes. Washington Letter to The Baltimore Sun. The speeches of Mr. Cleveland and Jlr.Grady at Boston, but more particularly the speech of Mr. Grady, have excited wide and interesting comment 'PI^a xtms r? lor.YA flm LICi C. JL VYao til uW'iuauu X\ja. tuv Sun, which printed a more complete report of .Mr. Grad y's speech than any of the New York papers. Since the assembling of Congress there have been evidence of awakening conservatism in the midst of Northern Congressmen and remarks of Southern men couched in such terms as those of Mr. Grady will inevitably strengthen 3uch tendency. Of all the Southern men who spoke on the subject there was not one who did not heartily echo his assertion of the impossibility of devising any scheme which can throw the Commonwealths of the South back into the control of vice, vii^any and ignorance ThePena;)-. Representatives of the North are fast finding that their people appreciate the situation at the South better than they do, and are not to be cajoled into any endorsement of schemes which have no other than poli final nurnose. The propositions of this character already submitted will be followed by various others of equal or perhaps greater enormity, but it will be a long day before any of them are passed. Democrats in the Senate and Democra s in the House are in the minority, but it is a minority powerful in numbers, and, on this question certainly, strong in conviction, solid as a rock, earnest in aggression and invincible in defence. Any and every force will be resisted inch by inch. The House Republicans have put in the Chair their best debater and their best fighter. They have really no men on the floor capable af copiag in debate with any one of a dozen who might be named on the other side. The Democrats have no fear of locking horns with the majority on election bills, ior they are not only conscious of their own power for resistance, but are assured they will have public sentiment behind them, not only in the South but in the North. It is noticed that petitions have already been presented from Louisiana and other Southern States io favor of a new national election law. Of course every one can see that this is the old dodge renewed. These, petitions can be easily manufactured by the bushel, just as those of like cuaracler have been in the past. Mr. Ingalls has presented some of them in the Senate. He is now preparing a speech on the Southern question which may. be loosed for with interest". Privately the Kansas Senator freely admits the difficulties which surround the South in dealing with the negro race, but mKotVioi. Vi o will (?TnrA?K t.hft SfeS.TIlfi >Y JU LU^/i . jLk\j if *.*.+ views publicly may be a matter of doubt. A memorable debate on this whole subject, lasting for weeks in the Senate, is now plainly foreshadowed, and continuously crowded galleries, such as have not been seen for years, may be anticipated, in tne iignt 01 facts and by the force of reason it is not an impossibility that division in the Republican ranks may be developed before the debate is ended. The large majority of the Southern- Senators will inevitably be drawn into it, and their views on tie material aspects of the problem must be ot value as coining from those whose information and deductions are based on association and experience. Senators B.utler, of South Carolina, <""5 flihcon nf Louisiana, are stanch advocates of at least partial deportation. It is settled beyond any dispute that white labor will not go where there is a preponderance of biack, and the blacks are increasing so rapidly in many sections of the South as to cause absolutely a glut in the labor market. Senator Butler said that it would be an absolute relief to South Carolina if 250,000 of its negro population could be withdrawn: that with this diminu* I tion there would be the greatest abun- | I dance of labor left. Ke said in the I ! black districts of South Carolina, I ! wbgj^the negroes have cot the benefit I of contact with the sunerior civiliza-' | xion of the whites, ihelr condition is j - pitiable ir its destitution and its dei T-I a ATr Trio-alls if l-iivyx v ^ j his Stale would not like to have some j of the b'ack surplus of Soutq Carolina, ! a lid 2Ir. Ingalls quick!}- replied they i had enough in Kansas no^* nnd 'lid ! not want eny more. Another Western ! Republican Senator said he would he ; willing to vote tor any appropriation, i however .large, to transport and coloi nize the- entire negro race in the j United States. ' \ A CHRISTMAS JMMJSK. ' SHOWING THE STRAITS AND DEVICES OF WAR TIMES. A CoulTaxt Bfiwcpn Iho Krtnlar Cbiiat? n:nM Stylo and Iho War-T?jne Dlnlco Ilomc* antl Farm.In the Old Dominion, as well as in the "Mother Country," Christmas Las alwa\s bten the f-eason devoted to feasting-and good cheer. Since "the good old colony times," plum puddings and mince pies have made the frosty December air fragrant with their spicy odors: hut, though the knightly sirloin of beef is_ever welcome on the board, yet the crowning honors in Virginia, are allotted tc the lordly" turkey r~.as.trd tr> n brown rAi?n>(?ni; of the onions and sage liberally mixed in the stuffing. For weeks before, his majesty has been fed, morning, noon and night, to bring him to a proper state of fatness, and of all that summer has allowed us to store away for winter, the best ;s chosen to add to theCnristmas dinner, while the winter hog-killing furnishes o cQiicon-o on/3 nffAn tVio c* VilOil V/1 >7MiVA?U^Vj tt?4U VAVVM VMV and ?parerib3 Sgure on tbis occasion, as, it overlooked by the "white folks,"; they are warmly appreciated by .the i expectant group that, swarm in the kitchen? Last of all, a mighty bowl of foaming egg-nog-finishes the repast, aud. if used in moderation, assists the overburdened stomach to digest its contents. With the memories of such dinners, reneated vear afitr \:ear, can you won tier that 1 keenly felt the hardship of the experience I am going to relate. I belonged to the Fourth Virginia Cavalry, under Gen. Wickham's com. maud, statiou in the Valley of Vir-. ginia, in the winter of 1864, though really it was scarcely - a stationary condition, as we were constantly sent OUO Oil LUC majui. At 2 o'clock on Christmas morning we received orders to mount and march rapidly eastward'to intercept a party of raiders, reported to be advancing up the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge section of the country., We were not allowed time either to eat or to pack up any food to carry with us, but were com lor ted by the assurance that wef would lind rations awaiting us at Ivy Depot, more than thirty miles distant. As I mounted my horse in the dim, cold starlight, many a thought passed through my mind of the days gone by,; when I thought it. a great hardship to be awakened so early on the night-of Chri3tmas Eve t y the impatient little ones, rushing long before daylight to examine the hanging stockings, while ' outside the explosion of the Cnristmas toy, the firing of the Christmas gun* .1 s\P '^nvicfrv*oo * i U.UU t'UC U.\J.-.Oy V.JI J.C.3 Ul vuiiowiiiMo i^iiu . I Christmas gii'tP heralded the approach t of Christmas morning long before the. first rosy tinge of dawn. But then, I' could turn over, in my luxurious feather-bed and take another- nap after the hubbub ceahed, secure that on rising I would take my place at a breakfast table loaded with all the good things one could desire, while at each plate the "grown lolks" were sure to find their Christmas gifts. How different now! I even envied the infantry fellows, snug in winter quarters and rejoicing in Chrismas boxes from home, while the cavalrymen we left in camp were sure to forage around and add something like good cheer to the scanty rations which, then, were all our bankrupt government could bestow On we rode, however, through the cold and the dark, making up our minds to bear it bravely ; and make no complaint. Some oF the boys were jolly enough to brighten the passing hours with singing, and the wild, romantic clifts of liock Fish Gap re-echoed with "Lorena" and "When This Cruel War is Over." When morning broke we halted, and rations of corn were distributed to our horses, hut nothing could be', given to the poor, hungry men, as there was no time to stop to lorage in the neighborhood; and an appeal to the generosity of the residents, who would doubtless have given us what they could, though after nearly four years of waj* the homesteads of Virginia could no longer spare much to the soldier for fighting her battles. . Still, but little ceremony was observed when we had time^ and the . henyards aud cornfields were made to pay tribute to our needs, whether theowners were willing or not.'* I think;-! however, they were generally willing We bore patiently enough the absence of any breakfast, for such bad been our.iuck many a time before though to the regular old Virginian, a good breakfast on Christmas day seems as much one of the inalienable rights of man as a good dinner, neither.of which rights we could hope to enforce, on that day. At noon, we halted again to feed our weary horses, and by this time the gnawings of hunger were not to be resisted, so we parched a portion of the horses' corn and satisfied ourselves we:l as we couldin that way. Such was my (Jbnstmas dinner tnat . year, but I had the most delicious feast that I ever tested. When we had reached our place of destination, we learned that the raiding party bad returned, so that our long, lorccd ri<Te was unnecessary after all.Neither were the rations on hand* so parties of us were sent out on detail to forage for man and beast, as wen trie com had given out. ' I went to a neighboring farm house and received a kindly response to my request for corn, after which I put in mv own claiml' The farmer's wife handed me a cold hog's head, yet untouched, and a huge pone of corn-, bread, but it was sojate and dark T could not eat much thcnr, so I threw my bag of shelled c">srn on my ioxse's back and filled my haversack with my ; treasures. I lost my way and ha4 t<>,! swim * creek. I was wet. and cola? . too, when I entered camp afoeprJ# o'clock. The men were sleepingj*aicefully, but a. glorious fire was burning, and after I had tied my horse and j given her a liberal feed of cora/1 ' seated myself against a tree ne^r the j tire, and as I basked in its general, I ii-drmfti artfl rlripr] mv wpt. nrwl frnron J garments, I miihchcd away on my cold j. hogshead a c <1 ; corn bread, thinking] that surely no food was ever go de-j 'licious. I cau recall now most vividly! my sensations of p-rlect bliss, as 1 re-' chned lazily against my tree, and: 1 listened to the crackling flsmes and i 1 the peiCeM breathing (I migh', say J snoring)-of my comrades. At length it was all eaten up. I had ' devoured at one meal what would uave oeon consiaerert a sufficient ;B j share of n;eat for our whole family at fl| j home for a dinner, and a goocflyr^part 'm ! would I ave been sent out jo the kitchen, too. *' - H Sleep now began to assert its claims, and I rose, and scraping away some of the show from a convenient hollow chosen by some ol my companions, I i ]\r ^AU'n 1? , ?J V.VT** IA1.M VVI?lbU lUJOCit Ellllgiy with lay blanket, with my feet turned toward the lire, which was near enough to give oat a kindly warmth to the j sleeping group. At-various intervals j during the night some one would : arise and heap on more wood, and woe to ! he farmers' fences if our resting I places at night chance to be near. > ! An axe, however, was the regular j equipment, of the soldiers on march to provide himself with camp.fire3 at short notice. The noble forests, the growth of centuries, which were felled by both- friend and foe, are not the least of the losses thatTirginia has to mourn, . *_ j Next morning we again had parched' corn for hrp^Vfacf- h?r. moas- supper,-f could .better end are cue meagre J are and I hope that" nay comrades were equally as fortunafie in the expedition of the preceding night. Ai.no04.we reached - the point wbere.our. rations awaifed us* and. to. = each mess was. '/or one day,, attached.- oae pound of flour an<j a half pouact of meat. Wt- Tinft^A lln * Via" nukes, with soda, salt and water,- and cooked it .in the ashes, grieving much over the quantity ot bread we had to lose, when we washed off the coatiDg that stuck to it. But no French rolls or fancy bread of any kind c^n ever. taste so welf, as we ate with the keen relish of of: men whose appetites were sharpened by exercise and a life in the open air. ' * ' 1 n?.re are many happy hours in such f a career. The hardships and fatigues only make ret?f more ^delicious, and when gathered around the camp-fires afcer a long march, the jeets and songs are as bright and gay as if at a festal scene in times of peace; and I doubt if the well-fed, well-clothed Federal soldiers had any jollier times than wc "Johnny Rebs" over pur ash-cakes and scanty allowance of ;meat. Hunger is the best sauce after all, as we found out. > :? r ' ? ' ' 1 * THRASHED IN OPEN COUKT. ' A P?DB8rlrania Justice Glr^a a Wll> Dc?er<er a (iood Dentins:. ^ / WiLtESBA-Ea^PA.t-Decembfr Injustice Donohue of this city hates wiie "beaters and deserters as much as. he does snakes, and woe be to the man. who comes before him vu VA1W AUV> O S charge.. x . V ~ ' Yesterday George Shiner, a boiler- w maker, was unfortunate enough to fall into the hands of-.the Justice. He wa3 charged with deserting his wife and six children! The -justice;/v?as very angry, and, after hearing thp evidence, said*: "There is no'use'Of my seeding you to jail, because while incarcerated your family will suffer.; But' I'll tell you what I propose to do, I intend to -?: give you a good'thrashing right here, '> _ :\ so pull off y.OU'f coat/' v. fchiner':was dumbfounded, bat the justice insisted that he must get ready. The alderman . u 11VUI judicial bench, rolltd up his slee^eS^ And, after counting three, waded into his prisoner. Shiner, however, showed more skill as a pugilist than was expected, and at first it looked as though he would knock out the justice. The latter is a 1 - *' n?a,vy nmn wicn a true aLdermanic corporation,.but he finally managed to get bis man in a corner, where he pummeled him in great shape. The justice let go bis right and left in quick succession, and would not let up until Shriner cried "enough." Then the justice straightened himself ap for breath, and said.: "Now, you scoundrel, will you go home and support your wife and Httle clhee SVirir.oi* ^^ " 'A ?" v 11 oaiuj in iiuiuuiC - DOQ6S} IDS! he yrojild. . "All right, then," replied jb.e justice, as he resumed bis seat. "This, case-is dismissed." This evening Shriner brought suit againstr Donohue.for assault and battery. He says he suffered terrible punishment at the justice's hands and cannot work. '/ Xn Esrptian Qseeo. - The Khedive of Egypt-is not 10 an altogether eoviable position. He Js a subject of. the Sultan of Turkey, to whom he pays an enormous tribute. His country is enormously in debt, and he b-? to.iev.y . enormous taxes on the nen ,pi ..-Iq consequence, he is" ubout the* most bated man in the world. But to . bis credit btr is' a monogamist, and to bim-more Than"any one "else, is due tbe partial emancipation of -native women from tbe thraldom of ancient customs. Neyertbeless women/still ;occupy a very restricted sphere in Esypt, and many of tbe old habits and Customs are still vo vogue. Tbecurious dress of centuries ago is still worn. The -Khedive is much in . love with bis. wife, who/wears a modem cosiumc, while their children dress like Amv?ri/>onc c??J-?* lug. -ixumivcD, as -she is culled, has her harem, or womea-servaDts,-by scores.- She is ac-. companied-. whenever she poes out to ride or drive by some of her. numerous eunuchs, and she keeps up a big establishment separate from that of the King. When she sits down' to dinner or breakfast it4s not with the-King, hut with her ow.n Jadies. The King eats with his own officers, according to Mohammedari etiquette, and "his apartments, or .the salumlik, arc: separate" from here. Both. 9he and her husband have done much to break down tbe rigidity of Mob.'im'tned.m social customs. Their rove ior esca other and the example of -the Kbeuw-in*having bill one wife is cat citing, ariii many* of-tbe other noble Arjtb,gentlemen are following it. - ?Mr.-Brower, of North Carolina, has Jfe .introduced in the House "a bill provid>?? ing for th?> rep^.t of the inte'imf "revenue t jx.-upon fybacco. Ee' claims, that tuciurberof Democrats from Yixginia, | rfMatfssoe and h'.s own State propose to ] t<#pport this measure." " ?Robert. Browsing, the eccentric p'-ct. <?.ied in England dou ..Thursday aicht. A site", in. Waatmi??tpr Ahh*? * has b?ea .tendered for his remains- but it iVbdicved the family prefer him- to be pliccd beside his wife. ' v : i ' : - ?YeHowstone Kit;- a stylish "vendor of patent medicines, has had trouble io Mobile. lie hud some'sort "of. exhibition 4 eaca ticKcis lo.wmca entitled tbe bold-' er t > :i chance in a gift---distribution-. Kit was thereupon charged ' with ' running a lottery, -and was tiHei 51.^00," ?Col. J. H: Rathbone, founder of the order of Knights PVtiiias,*died atljimt, O., on Monday. 4