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THE GREEN VILLE - ENTERPRISE. lj? ' 5 g - - - v. f ' "'" m ' <ir>alf i >v ^ ^,^1 " t^LM **a) ^Ut4^iMHjjlV Dcuolci) to Heu)s, Politic, ^irfgUtyntcr, flttir % 3mprotwnntt of % Stoto onb Coimtrij. "loaTTBAILEY; EIMTOT^RO^"" ^^RIEENV^LE,^8oilTB C A RO LIN^ ^^5^"^:irWl'^sCafc'ia=i*^'^ i i ii i i l?*fc*^dMlfcd'i ??p?^?? i i+m*tm*mmm i i i ? 7 . _ ^ eer^X _ - ' --m. V ^ viJ %!^ ^ k?t? .? ' - ' ? * ? ' tfVMOHFTioif Two Dollar? par annum. Advbrtiskxknts inserted at the rates of one dollar per square of twelve Minion lines (this sise I type) or lees for the first insertion, fifty oenta each for the soooud and third insertions, an J twouty-flve cents for subsequent insertions. Yearly contracts will be made. A'< advertisements must have the number of insertions marked on them, or tboy will be insiruiii till ordered oat, sad charged for. Unless ordered otherwise, Advertisements will invarialily be " displayed." Obituary polices, at.d all matters inuring to to the benefit of auy one. are regarded as Advertisements. POETRY*/ It Noter Pays It never pay* to Tret and scold Wben fortune seems our foe ; The Hotter bred will push ahead And stride the hoarier blow. For luok Is work. And those who shirk Should not lament their doom ; . Hut yield the play, And clear away, That better tnon have room. It never pay* to wreck the health la drudging alter gain ; And he ia eold who think* that gold la cheapen bought with pain. A humble lot, A oosey cot, Have tempted even king* ; For station high, That woalth will buy, Not oft contentment brings. REMINISCENCES OK PUBLIC MEN. Bt EX QOVKKNUK B. F. FEltKY. [CONTINCKD KltuM LAST week.] JAMES KENT. Chancellor Kent is known to the wliolo civilized world a? a distinguiohed jurist and coiniiieiiia^ tor on English and American law. Llis decisions are quoted and his Coinmeiitai ics read wherever the common law is kuowi. and practiced. Jb ew uihii ill America or England have let; oeinnd liiem a inure enviable reputation as a Judge, Chancellor and judicial writer. lie presided in lite Jaw Court of Mew Vork sixteen years, and leu )ea>s a> (Jlnot Justice.? lie was liieu elected Chancell ji' ui thai great blatc, and cuiiliuued to serve in that lugu oiiice till he arrived at the age ut sixty, wLeu he had to retire truiu the bench, under the provision ot tne iSuue Constitution, limiting the judicial term tu that age. Lie then became I'lotessur ui Law in Columbia College, Mew York, and delivered a series ot lectured to numerous classes tor several ) ears. Those lectures were aher winds published in lus ' Cum inentaries on Aineiican Law."? Mo law work ever published in the United bluU-s had such a run us these coin men tut'lea? ihev passed through ten edil.ons before the deatii ot ttioir author, i'liey be came to ilie American lawyer what biackstuiicV v>t)imneinai les bad been to the English lawyer. Chancellor Kent was born in (lie 8iate ot Mew York. i'uiiiaui Count), J ulj 3i, 1703. Uis father was a lawyer, and tor.a number of yearn Surrogate or i'robaio Judge of Jttcnaaeluer (Jounty. lie graduated ai Yale College, iu his oigh teetitl) year, aud wan admitted lo tbe liar in 1785, being tiieu twenty-two years old. it la said that lie *'60011 became remarkub-e among bis contemporaries for bis legal learning and literary attainments.' lie was elected a member ot tlie Legislature iu 179U ainJ 1792,'aiid became an active and leading Federalist. Tbe iieX? year be was a candidate tor Congress, in Dutchess County, and defeated. Thereupon, be moved to tim City of New 1 ork, and in X79U be was again elected a member ol (be (State Legislature from that city, in early lite be was tbe fa* vurhe of such men aa Cbiet J uatieti Jay aud Alexander Hamilton, lie died in tbe eighty-tilth year of bis age, aud remaitjed in full posses sioii of his health aud mental posy era up lo the period ot his death, In 1821 be was a member of the Slate Convention of New York and took an active part in tbe do bates on their. uew Constitution. In 1886 there was considerable discussion in South Carolina or the subject of our judiciary. J was then a mem her oi the l*egiela ture, and thought it would Ibe t great mailer to have the opinioi of so distinguished and e*perienc ed a Judge as Chancellor "Kent oi the question of atnalgauiatiug tin Courts oi Equity and Law ; and al so as to the propriety ot a sepurah Court of Appeals. I was tnysej in tavor of blending the jnrisdic tion of Law and equity in om Court, but keeping the practici and proceedings in Law and Equi ty separate and distinct, thougl administered by the same Judge 1 was also in favor of a separai Piiiirt .it' A uiw?ala tA IioQl* all an vwu > ? v? AA^I'VWIV^ vv I1VMI OH up peals in Law and Equity, instem i>f the Circuit Judges meeting t Hear appeals at law, and the Chan 1 cellors meeting to dispose of ap- t peals in Equity. I thereiore wrote c to Chancellor Kent, asking him to \ give me hie views on these impor- i tant questions. Iu reply to my a letter, lie kindly wrote me as foi- e lows, but with the injunction that r I was not to publish his letter at r th^t time; but I can see no ftnpro a (iriety now in giving publicity to s the views which he then express a ed. They will be read with inter i est by those who have given any e consideration to the establishment e of our judiciary system. Mr. Pet- tj igrn was a member of the Legisla- a ture at that time, and bitterly op- d posed to uniting the two jnriedic o tiona in one court. He was em- h phaticnlly a conservative in all I things and had the highest regard t for the Englislfrsystetn of jnrispru p deuce I well remember the dis- o satisfaction l-e expressed as Chair t! man of the Judiciary Committee, 6 when my Bill to blend tne Courts i of Equity and Law came up for ti consideration before his Commit* n tee. He said, u Have we at last v come to the humiliation of consid- ii cring ilie question ??t "amaigama h ti >n !'" What would this proud t< ??ld conservative lawyer say now, a it* ho weie alive, to the Radical ii changes which have been made in i a our luws, our practice and our g courts, under the present regiino c in Soui h Carolina ? t Nkw York, Aug. 4, 1836. v Dear Sir: 1 have the pleasure v ol acknowledging your obliging 11 letter of the 20th tilt, and I should h have d<?no it sooner, had riot my a absence from the city for some ^ weeks declined the letter from me *' until a day or two ago. 1 have attended to the questions ^ you state, but I have a ver> great.,,* reluctance to give my opinions, c unless confidentially and privately, ^ "on great political and constitution ^ al points, and measures which are \ to undergo public discussion. If J sue!) questions came before mo in 11 any situation and under any char- ;8 ac er in which it became adutj' to 11 speak, no person would do it witli 8 more promptitude and frankness; 8 but I do not like to be intrusive, r or appear to set any great value 11 on iny own speculations. The two 8 questions you state are very grave 1 and debatable questions The first a question is, whether the Couits of ? Law and Eunitv ought, in sound 8 wisdom and true policy, to he ^ blended in the same tribunal, though under the restriction of r keeping the suits and proceedings ^ in Law and Equity distinct, as r though they were tno records of two distinct jurisdictions ; or whether they ought to be totally distinct tribunals, as on the English model. Now, I do'not think it would be ; come me to bo dogmatic on this question. Statesmen are much divided in oninion concernincr it. and our opinions are very much the creaturea of education and practice. . i I \vn6 c located in a State which t followed closely the English model i until 1823. and I have tried prac 8 tically both systems, when kept ( perfectly separate, being ten years t Chancellor without any chancery r power in the Supreme Court any 8 more than in the 0. B., and being c ten years Chancellor without any i more connection with or influenced bv Courts of Law than the English I Chancellor. It was to be exacted c that I was for that system, and 8 would be adverse to the scheme 1 introducer! by the New York Con- f font ion, in 1821, of blending the * systems in a partial degree. My t speeciiefl in that conventi^h were j against it, and they are to be eeen I in the debates of New York Con- t ventiun, published in 1321. That t ' convention left the Chancellor as i he now axists with much abridg- I 1 tnenf of his sole and vest Equity t 1 powers, and with a deposit of part 'J 1 of it concurrently in circuit Courts, t held hy common law judges. This t mixed iurisdietioii urevails to this t "r"pf ' " 1 day ; but, wbatover be the cunse, < ' the administration of justice in t 1 this State in Equity is extremely t dilatory. and not popular with the I profession. Nor is the adrninis i 5 t rat ion of justice at law so efficient j ! and influential and popular as it < 1 was formally under the nisiprius ] system, when the Judges of the ' 1 Supreme Court rode the circuits, i 1 There is 6o great a diversity in the < organization of ttie Courts of Law j 1 and Equity in the several States, j 3 that wecatinot resort for authority I ' to the practice in oue State, for in i 3 the very next State, perhaps, wo 1 meet with a contrary authority.-*- , 1 There are but very few States in 3 which Equity jurisdiction resides i 3 so absolutely in one tribunal as in |N England, to a great degree ; and i J as itdid iu New York most entire - ? ? J ?ci tlm uiLaIa t i mo IV HUU ?U*VIU?W/, ?M? ? ? ? 6 I was Chancellor. It is certain, that 1 am for the 11 old system, both as to chancery o and as to the nisi frit* system at aw; and it is equally certain that ho current of the times has set detided ly the other way, and it we vere to have another convention n this Siate, I believe they would ibolish the conrt of chancery as a eparate tribunal. The times aie evolutionary?alarmingly so. All >ld principles of law abd liberty, ,nd all the notions of the ancient ages In this country and elsewhere ira H inoo rrtort ann Haantaa<t onrt iltraium is the spirit of the day in verythin^. I endeavor to stand uper aurtquas view, and adhere to he notions of Severn men t.and contitutional ptdicy, and jurisprulence that swayed the wise men f. this country from 1787 to the aginning of the present century. Jut 1 stand iu comparative soliude, and almost all my containtorariee who entertained the same pinions that I did, and imbibed hem from the same fountains, are wept away. I perceive that I hate anticipaed your second question also; and iow, as to what I would do If I pere in your place, I should bo i nfluenced by circumstances, and trive for the best practicable sysem The mixed tribunal of Law nd Equity prevails in Scotland, i u the English Court of Exchequer, nd iu the Courts of most of the hates; and I should not be tena* ions ot my .own views, if I found hat they were not palatable ana rould not be adopted. Just so virh the nisipriua system. I have 10 doubt that Judges ot the Sn>remo Court riding circuits, and cting singl), gives vigor and des?atch to business, and adds weight o the Court and saves ereat tron >le and delay when they are at the 3ar to explain on motions for new rials, and on points reserved. It ertainly worked admirably in "few York, not. only under the )olotiy administration, but since he Revolution, down to 1823, and udgcs of the Supreme Court had nuch greater influence and re pect than the loeal circuit judges mw have. However, I am not tire that we could go back to that ystem, if we had a convention to eview our system. The other ;s note popular because more diffuive, weak and accessivo. It is trobably as good as the doctrines iiid impulses of too times will tolirate, and I should be willing to Lcquiesce in any plan that will :eep us from more radical changes. I write confidentially for the .easons already suggested, And I >eg leave to add the assurances of ny respect and esteem. JAMES KENT. B. F. Pkkby. > ^ [OONTINGED NEXT WEEK.] FARM AND HO?E. from me i,uurti\4v\iu iieruia. What wo Need in the South. Mr. Editor :?I expect to deal n Some unpalatable truths, but if heshofe.tifS us we ouj?ht unflinch ugly to bear the pain, until we ire wise enough to reform. We Jarolinirtii8 have been affected vith monomania In our agricultu<< nl pursuits. We go into a thing md rnn it to the extreme. We lo not have great enough variety n our crops. If our main Btaple ?cotton and corn?fails, we are >adly injured, not having any >ther food crop to fall back upon, md no money to purchase with.? iVe depend upon the corn-crib to bed our horses, hogs, (if we have my,) poultry and hands; the coton to buy bacon and flour and >ay taxes, Doctors* and guano >ills. Ilow can we stand up inder such a continual drain upon liese two crops? We must sow nore small grain?wheat, oats, parley and rye, nnd grasses to eed our stock, hands and families, fbese crops will not be near so ixpeusive to cultivate, and so ix'iaustive to our lands. Wc can ;hen dispense with some of our ?xtra mules and hands, and lessen ho expenees. We keep entirely ioo much stock on our farms, uii oss we improve them by introduces better breeds. Wo must plunt a greater variety of root >rope and fruits. Tbero are plenty of these small crops that will pay us more money to the aero than cotton, with less expense jf cultivation. I have now in mind a good old farmer who has not, to iuy recollection, in the last twenty years made but one hale ol cotton iu a single year ; always baa plenty grain, milk and butter, and good fat stocknever in debt ?pays as he goes, Take ope small item. Lie sells annually, I will sa>, $50 worth of seed potatoes. 1 never kppw him to fail jln keeping seed, and his yams are renowned Jbr sweetness and size. What is the cause ot his continued success iu farmiug t It is this: tie has never dabbled much in cotton, and has alwaye ' uiade his own grain and maat, with a good surplus to sell. Next, we have as good water* powers as there is in the world ; and agriculture and manufactures should go band in band. Our land ought to be filled with machine shops and cotton factories. We have the timber and cotton, and ought to work it at home, iif order to lessen expense of trans-! portation and encourage emigration of uMIImI lnhni* Every farm of any size, qhogki have a workshop attached, to put up their own tools, aud learn the young men good trades. And during the winter months and r?iny days, tbey can always be profitably employed. N<?w, I see young men rooming through the country, fishing, hunting, visiting orchard and watermelon patches ?have nothing to do.. The crops are laid by, and they.are patiently waiting tor gatluering time, and all expenses have to come out of these crops; while if tfaey would roll up their sleeves and go into some honest occupation they would make it profitable, instead of being a nuisance to their work-' ing neighbors. Their parents Are Badly to blame for this state of affairs?for not encouraging their children to labor. Work never has, nor never will be, a disgrace to any man. I recollect before the war it was almost considered a disgrace to be seen at field labor that nobody but negroes ought to do such drudgery 1 .Times have changed?the reality of honest labor is upon us. We will have to go in with a willing heart, or be counted worthless drones upon society. Our agricultural tools and stock are a disgrace to any intelligent farming community.? Horses so poor that we are ashamed to bo seen in public riding them. How can it be bettered ? Only by commencing a revolution in our farming. Our cows are still the long horned, sway-backed and slab sided stock, our fathers had forty years ago. In wintor,) unsheltered?so poor they can hard/y stand up?-nothing to f^ed ] them on but shucks. Mr. Editor, it would take a man of powerful stomach to drink this milk, if be would only take a peep at the cow that gives it. During the war I counted 26 calves in passing one of -my neigh bor's, and saw the milk-maid returning with two blue buckots, not full of milk. In the natno of common sense 1 what is the rise in keeping such stock ? No milk, no butter, no beet, save a little unsavory stuff in grass time. Now, for our hogs. Tho same old-time breed?long-nosed, landpike stock, that, look like the last running ot shad. Why are they so poor, and such a nuisance to crops? Because we don't have good pastures to keep them regu larly. In the winter we put up tho frames to fatten. It takes just twice as much corn as it would to fatten a close, round made breed of hogs 1 A deep drain again upon the corn crib. Is this economy and good farming ? Again, why are we paying such exorbitant prices for fertilizers! It is because we do not pen our stock, and save their manure.? How can we succeed when we are so wasteful, and will not take advantage of the means that kind Providence has so lavishly thrown in our way ? It makes tne sick at heart to see our indolence and wastefulness, and hear the continued complaint of hard times.? The times are inst as good as they avap wafa. Wa nrn tnnnrl want. ing ourselves. A word on the education of onr childrenJ Now, farmers, quit making slaves of yourselves to raise np yonr children in indolence. Learn them to labor regularly as well as send them to school. Qnit the old role 6t sending them to high schools two or three years, and to college three or four years?keeping them at school from infancy nntil they are grown ; and when thoy come out, they are not fit lor anything but aotuu profession. No health, no muscle, no training in agricultural pursuits, We cannot all live iu the shade- Some must live by the sweat ot the brow- What an amount of money has been spent on education 1 .Jrarenta have stinted themselves for dm purpose of making their children shine in society. who come out so fine and polished that they are really ashamed of their old-fashioned ancestors. I am highly in favor of education 't bur mix a little of the phya ieal in with tbo intellectual?make ihciu fit for the occupation you wish them to follow. Don't try to make them all John 0. Calhoun's?brains or no brains. It is uselessly throwing tnonev awav. I was talking not long since with a yonng man who wa* edu catod in the beat inatitution of the < land, who unhesitatingly affirmed that the monejr, expended ou his i education bad better been thrown into the sea. Lost health,, bad , morals were no compensation for. i the outlay. One of tbe most eeti- i uiable ladlca in tbe country baa ' often told me she neror looked tor ?? > mn.k I I *? ?/ "vi ?v wmv vi u?r uaugui^n when tbey return froro college.? ' They were ashamed of honest la? bor?only thought of dressing two or tbfte times a day, and reoeff* Sm, ddtypany. . Ooght these; things to .be so? Who are to blame! Thfe parents, for tl?e manner in wfriah they have their i children instructed 1 " By sending children to school 1 so much from home, one ' may make them highly iiftelftgent; but it is not worth, much for the prac 1 tieal elide of life." vIf WO would jndickuisly nse some of this 1 money in adorning and beautify ing our homes ana improving our farms, we would make thorn .at- ' tractive, and a home'indeed to tlnim: but by laying it ont in college learning, fine clothing and jewelry, we are sorely laying the ground work of discontent in their J minds, and rendering tbein dissatisfied with their old homes. . There is too much of the repeat 1 er style and whisky-bottle fi urisli 1 in our young men. Too much encouragement in our young ladies I to such conduct. The hind will mourn until there is a reformation. SALUDA. What Next??In the upper part of Leo county lives a gentle- r man who had a bull dog of the female persuasion which nad five puppies. In a fight with a huge moccasin she was bitten several times and died of the wounds.? The pups were only twenty days old. lie prized theui muchly, and devised the following fur their support. He had a female goat which had lost her kids. He caught the goat and taught the pups to draw their daily lecteal rations from her. But he had to catch her first with another uog 8he became shy and wouldn't come about the house, so he had to go with his dog after her, in a few days she learned what she had to do and now all he. does is to see her, whistle for his dog and she makes for the house, leaps i.1. . I t - ?' me yuru ienco ana cans up uer strange nurselings, and while in the yard she will not allow the dog to approach them and appears very much attached to them.? The pups should be uatned Romulus and Remus.?Swnter Repub lioan. Guard the Weak Spot.?All incn, however ..strong, have a weak spot, like the rhinoceros, which, though planted like a monitor, is vulnerable to a spear thrnst below the places. Satan is not such a fool as to attack the Strong defences ; he would be sure to thrust at the vulnerable points. Some, indeed, think they have no, weak place; and such people are right, for they are weak all over^ and no part, therefore, could be called weak in particular. The J>olar bear has a weakness, which s for blubber, and his hunters knowing this, coil a piece of whalebone like a watch spring, wrap it in blubber and freeze it.? They then drop the tempting morsel in the way of a bear, who swallows greedily ; but as soon as' the blubber melts in bis stomach, the whalebone springs oat. The bear then rolls over in agony, and *- j I'll i _ mi mey, come up arm kui uun. Anus it is when a man yields to an easy in, it will Cut them asunder. [Dr. H. M. Set'dder. An exchange eays that it knows of a boy who accidently swallowed a silver half-dollar. They gave him warm water i\pd tartar-emetic, and antiinonial wine, and poked their .'fingers down his throat, until the boy thought he would throw np his toe-nails. After awlnle a doctor came along who nnderstood such caSes. lie administered a small dose of patent medicine, and in less than ten minutes the boy threw up the half-dollar in five-cent pieces. Science is a great thing. Toe seven wonders of the ancient. world, were the Colossus at Rhodes, the Temple of Diana at Bphostts, the Sepulchre of Mausolus Ring of Caria. the 8tatne of 1J rifnter by Phidias, the Great Wall of Babylon, the Pyramids of Egypt, aud the Palace of Gyrus. "?* Avoid those who tako pleasure in exposing others to contempt by jeering, mocking or caiinicing.? K..Ark nflf from snoh as from the Iioui?ot? horse that kick* all noar I r'?' i General Kil pat rick \b stumping for Greeley and Brown, 1 i T-1 1 ' Proceedings of United States Court. Mowsay, Avgut 58th, 1875. n>? Court vu opened at 11 o'olook A. M. Frtittit t Hod. Coo. 8. Bryan, DUtrfct Judge, presiding. The Jhrere ana wo red to their MmM'a* on prarrtoaa day*. The Qrand Jury returned into Court with the following rrue Bllla t The United State* *. WOllaua Hrana?retail liquor dealer without paying special tar. The Untied States ti. Fanny Kelt;?retail ltftuor dealer without paying epeelal tax. The United Statee *. laham Moeeley?rea.ft en? -a- ? urn nquor ?Min without paring epeoial tax. Tba UoiUd BUtfi vs. Herbert Germany? ! distiller without paying special tax. Tha United State* vs. Ooinell? wholaaala liquor doaler without paying spes ofal tax. Tha "Wlte4 8tataa ve. By 0. Haok?illegal removal and eonooalment of diatilled spirit*. Tha United State* ve. John Mull and Marlon Britton?fraudulent removal of diatilled spirits--W. A. Stone, Aasiatant District Attorney for United State*; flon. 1). F. Perry for Defendants. Motion was made for eontinuaaaa, which waa resisted by the Government. After hearing argument, the Oourt ordered: That continuance be allowed on ?ondition of testimony of United States soldiers being ta- I ken da ban* aaaa. The United 8tates vs. W J Harbin, $200, 1 Principal; J U Barns, $200, Ball; J M Brown, j |200, Bail?default of recognisance to testify. Scire Facias discharged, witnesses reporting before service of writ. The United 8tates vs. J H Burns, $200, Principal; J M Brown, Bail, $200; W J Harbin, Bail. $200?default of rocognisanee to testify?same order as above. The (Ailted States vs. J M Brown, Principal, $200; J if Burns, Bail, $200 ; W J Harbin,' Bail, $200?default of reooguisaace to testify?same order as above. The United States vs. B F Qant, Principal, $200 ; W D Holland, Bail, $200?defanlt recognisances to testily?same order a* above. The United States vs J A Gaines, Principal, $250; E N Bynnin, Bail, $250?default on re? cognisance to answer, and not appearing to receive sentence. The Defendant baviDg failed to comply with condition, on motion ef District Attorney, Ordered; That a writ of 8cire Facias Issue, returnable September ?, 1872. The United States vs Jocoph McJcwell? distillation without paying special tax. Verw diet, Not Quilty. On motion of Arthur for defence it is ordered : Tbat Defendant be discharged, and his reooguitance be marked satisfied. The United States ex parte John J ilousoal, creditor, in re Motte A Tarrant, debtor?Petition of involuntary bankruptcy?Baxter A Johnston pro pet. Ordered ; That debtors shew eauso 9th September whey they should not be declared baukrupts. The United States vs Isham Moseley?retail liquor dealer without paying special tax. Verdict, Guilty. Sentonced to six months' imprisonment and to pay a fine of (fl,000) one thousand dollars. The United States ex parte J T Peterson, Assignee, in re M Chapin, Bankrupt?petition for salo. Fair, Pope A Pope pro pet. Ordered: That the Assignee pay the Creditors as roported by Register. Court then adjourned till to-morrow at IX s'elook A M. Tuxauar, August 27, 1872. The Grand Jury returned into Court with the following True Bills : Th# United States vs Jas II Jennings?illegal concealing ot distilled spirits. The United States rs Willis Bruce?illegal removal and retailing of distilled spirits. Tb? United Statos vs Jeremiah Tinsley? obstructing revenue officer. No Bill was r?turned in tbe following cue; . Tbe Baited Statee re Jne Scott alias Jack Scott?retail liquor dealer without paying peeial tax. ' Tbe United States ?? Wm Erins?retail liquor dealer without paying special tax. July charged with this cue returned verdict of Guilty. Ordered: That a Bench Warrant issue to bring Wm Bvins into Court, and that scire facias isiue on his recognizance to an* ewer. The United States vs Fanny Kelly?retail ltqnor dealer without paying special tax. Verdict, Not Guilty. The United States vs John Foster?distiller without payiog special tax. Jury rendered ysrdict Guilty. Sentence?aix months' imprisonment and one thousand (1,000) dollars' flue. | The United States vs Mcrida Trammel? I elding in the fraudulent romoral of distilled spirits. Verdict, Guilty. Wkd5xsp.it, August 23th, 1873. The Orand Jury returned into Court with tho following No BUI*: The United States vs Jacob Scott?illegal removal of distilled spirits. The United States vs Thomas L Binder? retail liquor dealer without paying special tax. Truo Bill Wat returned In the follow lug oaae : Ths United States vs Darld Davis?Illegal eodeealmeot of distilled spirits. The United State* ri Joel Hughe*?found guilty ti)d MOteeced for violation of Internal Revenue Law. The United Statea va Willie Druoe?retail liquor dealer without paying apeoia) tax. Verdict, Guilty. The United Statea va Terril J. Pott*?fraudulent removal of diatilled spirit*?Section 36, Aot July SO, 1WS. Verdict, Guilty. Th* Onxiow aim Fxkliso Nobtii ?Col. Wm. Johnaon ha* returned home, after en nheenea af aome tan daja. He vialted tht Greeley Executive Committea lo Wathiogton and New York, They are active, en< . urge tie, and confidant of aueeeea. Th< whale North ie ablaxe with enthueiaam foi Greeley. He met very few, Indeed, wh< were for Grant; one oL the few, a ah odd) millionaire, gave aa a reaaon for oppoeta| Mr Oreeley that he he* always favored th< noor man and Uhnn* 1K? Unntli In St poverty, will not object to him oa tha Mora. Tha Colonel that a atraogai oonW malic* tha change* going on. Th deaaat man of tha Republican party ar rapidly leaving Grant. [CharlotU (AT. C.) Southern Horn*. i That Kythioal "Armed Force." In February, 18(59, the Qeneral Assembly puwJ resolution authorising the Governor | to arm and eqnlp a company of ono hundred I wen for the defence of the Stat*. Under this resolution a body ef constabulary Was organised, and a large sun of money was expended. There being no further use for the " armed force," If there ever was any, It was supposed to be disbanded. It appears, however, that sinoe the first of November last $82,423.30 have been drawn from the 8tate Treasury on account of this very armed fores; this huge disbursement being made, as Judge Willard vt ui oapreme court says, "in a year which ao necessity f or a resort on the part of the State to military " foree la known to have existed, and when the resources of the State are inadequate to meet the current expenses of the government, or to provide for a proper administration of Joatioe." For our own part, we do not believe that the Armed Force is in existence. We believe that the money was oorruptly used by Governor Soott in staving off the linpeaehtnont resolutions last winter. The list of persona who received the money tells the talo only too plainly : J. Mooney, (unknown) .$25,545 00 D. H. Wilson, (unknown) ... 12,500 00 F. J. Moses, Jr., 8peaker Ho. Repp., 11,000 00 J. Leggett, (unknown) 10,000 00 R. B. Elliott, col., Mem. Congress, 10,500 00 John B. Hubbard, Chief of State Constabulary 5,800 00 Employees of Adj. General's office.. 1,015 00 8. L. Hoge, ex-Congressman, exJudge, Ao 1,000 00 U. Q. Worthington, Hoge's law partner 600 00 Mqjor Louis Merrill, Fourth United States Cavalry, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel United States Army, 500 00 Robert Smalls, colored 8tate Senator from Beaufort County 500 00 C. L. Anderson, Assistant Adjutant General 380 00 Greenville and Columbia Railroad VUlupHDJ ?... 316 25 T. Sullivan, (unknown) 321 00 J. Kennedy, (unknown) 300 00 Prince R. Rivers, colored Repres scntative from Edgefield County.. 300 00 E. Cain, colored Representative frou. Abbeville County 270 00 Rev.Wm. M. Thomas, colored Rop. rosentutive from Colleton County, 125 00 F. J. Maddocks, colored Represent tative from Colleton County 125 00 R. W. Cousart, Radical Representative from Lancaster County 100 00 Sam'l J. Keith, colorod Representative from Darlington County.. 100 00 J. A. Green, Radical Senator from Orangeburg ; Chairman Senato Finance Committee 100 00 Dr. Patten 00 60 John Lilly CO 00 C. D. Lowr.des 50 00 M. W. Allen .. 50 00 W. J. Whipper, colored Representative from Boaufort; Chairman House Finance Committee 48 00 South Carolina Railroad Company, 19 65 C. M. Wilder 19 60 D. A. Jones 16 25 F. Y. Harper 13 50 C. H. Greeno 10 50 John C. Dial 5 89 Total $82,423 30 So the Spoaker of the House gets $11,000. Congressman Elliott gets $10,500. Chief Constable Hubbard gets $5,866. Ex-Congressman Iloge gets $1,000. Members of the Leg* islaturc get from $500 to $48. Unknown persons, presumed to be men of straw, receive sums ran a in <? fmr* eot m *- *""* 0?? 10 ijuu. vvtint did those men?the reel men?do (or this mom ey f Is Moses, or Hoge, or Elliott, or Whip., per, or Wortbington, a member of the Armed Force? We do not believe a word of it.? They have now the opportunity of explanation. Let each man of them come forward and show what service, If honest service, ho has rendered. But they can't do it. Tbey will await in trembling the vigorous proseoution which will prove, by the reeords, who was the briber and who vera the bribed. In Columbia it is universally believed that nearly all the " Armed Force " expenditures were consumed in bribery. And, with the names and figures beforo them, it is hard to see how any scnsiblo person can reach a different conclusion.? Charleston A'ctcs. - - ? ? -* ? STATS AND OTHER ITEMS. Mr. Britton Allabrooks, a citizen of Cla* rendon coonty, was born in 1777, is conset qoenlly in his ninety-flfth age. lie is hale and strong, being able at this Jimc to put op a wagon, cart or any other vehiole unassisted. Dakota advices tell of grasshoppers in sueh vast swarms as to obseure the sun, cov. er the earth an inch thick, and eat up twenty five aere crops clean in a single afternoon They ara no better than eaterpillera or carpet-bagger*. There were forty deaths in Charleston for the week ending (he 17th?whites 13 ; colored 27. M?j. T. Jarinan Elford died at Union, on the 9th inak He was a member of the Palmetto Regiment during the Mexiean war, and will be remembered by the members of Jenkins' Biigade at the efficient commissary of that command, during the late war. A nombti of tha Orant ore?n? ?? *? -1 ready aeleeted Oharlea O.Conor, of Now York, as their oendidata for the Presidency at the coming 8tr?it-o< t Convention at 1 Louieville. These Grant organa, by the 1 way, oannot find warda auffiaiently expreaaiteof their admiration of the magnitude and importance of this atraigbUout ocheme. Mr. Wa?. Petty, of Union County, 1o?t hie four children within eight day*. The flret, aged nine year* died on Saturday, the 8d inet; (he aeaond, aged eleven, on Friday, the 9th ; the third, aged four, died the eame day about an hour after the around ; and the fourth, aged fourteen, died the day fo'lowtng. The laat three were bu-j ried on the eama day. The dlaeaae waa , probably Cerebraipinal Meningilia. Cotton picking hi* commenced in dead earnest ahont Barnwell.