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Misrule in South Carolina?Mr. Memmingers Remedy. We cannot expect our counsels or suggestions to have much weight in SoutlCarolina; but such as they are we will venture to offer them, We believe tha a tolerably good State governmei. mi^ht be- organized without taking titsu ft rage from any who now possess it Tht present government cannot stand ; the people are so agitaied and indignant that unless a new government is con structed the State will be plunged into the horrors of civil war followed by anarchy. We are not intimately enough fc?nfStn<*nf. ClUljMUl llLt;? ? i 111 lliv; pwuuv South Carolina to perceive that there would beany insuperable opposition to ?i revision of the constitution embracing the following points, which, if accepted would-probably rescue the State i'roiu its present deplorable condition. JFirst. The State should adopt so much of Mr. Mem winger's proposition as is practicable; although no immedi-ato advantage could be expected from the modification which we suggest. Let the Massachusetts qualification be adopted to apply to all voters hereafter 'admitted to the right suffrage. In ten years or so, it would revolutionize the character of constituencies without excluding from the elective franchise any citizen who had ever possessed it. This "wonId, indeed, be only a provident jjii'aauit; iuuKiu^ tu uic luuiie; the present evils to be Coped with in nil their magnitude. But the problem, difficult as it is, should not be given up in ' despair. Second. Introduce into the State constitution a provision that, for the ensuing ten years, the members of the Legislature shall serve without pay. This would not encounter such torrent of nrejudice and demagogue invective as Mr. Menuninger's proposition to immediately restrict the suffrage, and it might perhaps prove even more effectual in elevating the character of the Legislature. Every negro would vote just as freely as before, and be equally ift 1 ?lf? tn cvci'v Jiffiw lint llip r.i'iHsl:! ture would consist mainly of men of property and public spirit, who had a srake in the prosperity and a pride in the fair same of the State. The electors of each district should be permitted to choose whom they pleased, going out of the district for their representative if they could find a litter candidate in any other .part of the State. With such a range of choice neither party would have any dilllculty in limling members who would fairly represent their views and be patriotic* enough to serve without compensation. The advantages of this plan over Mr. Memininger's is that it would bo practicable, while his is not. in\ru. JDven n an unpaid legislature (which seems to us the most promising remedy) should be disapproved of, there are still other expedients that might have some mitigating eftect, and perhaps be worth trying as accompaniments of any scheme of legislative reform. Let there be a prohibition to incur any State debt previous to the year 18S0 except lor the purpose of subduing insurrection or replacing the public buildings if .they should be destroyed by fire. J^ourth. Let a fair estimate be made of the reasonable expenses of the State government, and insert in the constitution a prohibition to raise a greater sum by taxes for a period of ten years. The Legislature knowing exactly the amount of money at its disposal for the expenses of each year, and being prohibited to authorize'loans, would nave to confine their appropriations within the prescribed limits, Fifth. Give the Government an abso jute veto oil dims passeu oy me legislature, requiring him in every case to utate his reasons. Its might be well to associate with him in the exercise of an absolute and final veto some of the higher judicial otiicers of the State, as under the New York constitution of 1777; but tliis would probably be too j cumbrous. The Governor should have authority to veto seperate items in sip- j propriation bilis without thereby defeating the whole bill. tiixth. The appointing power of the Governor should extend to all thesubor-j rfiimfp pvpp.utivo and all the iiidioiul i cere of the State. Undoubtedly, more or less inconvenience might attend the operation of some parts of this plan ; but the State is reduced to-a choice of evils, and in its actual situation we doubt If any better can be contrived than an unpaid Legislature, an absolute veto power in the hands of the Governor, and strict limitation of the debt-incurring and tax-levying power for a term of years. With the Massachusetts qualification for all l'eturc j voters, the gradual improvement of the constituencies would render it safe to I make the restrictions on the taxing power and loan power temporary, and after a while to pay the Legislature as in other States. But we should regard an attempt to make a sudden change of the constituencies as unfortunate, both because it. would certainly fail and because it would raise prejudice against other modes of reform which might be at-. tempted by the same parties.?Jf, Y. World. ^ Washington News. "Washington*, April 9.?The proceedings of the Judiciary Committee, yesterday, have been kept secret. A very reliable statement, however, is to the effect that the bill has been amended in several respects, so as to make it more in accordance with judicial tests; efforts to make punishment follow more speedily upon the heel of offen'ens, failed. The kill as amended is not more stringent, * but is only more in accordance with legal logic than the House bill. Washington', April 10.?The Senate is discussing iiiocigett ana uoiutnwaite. The Ku Klux bill was reported from the Judiciary Coruinitiee, with a verbal amendment, "except that the law terminates with the next session of Congress." In the House, Hale's bill for a nearly universal amnesty, was referred to the Commmitteo on President's Message, the only Jive committee in the House. ' An early and favorable report is proba ble. ' In the Senate, the Democratic side will be brief in arguing the Ku Klux bill, which will probably pass by Thursday. Proceedings Indicate adjournment Saturday. Scott spoke in opposition to seating "Blodgett; Sherman opposed both Blodgett and Goldtbwaite. Adjourned without action. In the House, hills were introduced allowing the Memphis and Savanuah Railroad to enter public lands and granting lands to the Selina and Gulf Railroad, and the Kansas City and Memphis Riilroad. The amnesty bill was pawed, under suspension of the rule, attended ^;th appfause an the floor and in the galLeries. A bill withdrawing public Jands from- market failed by 57 to 102. The following was passed by 130 to 21: flexolved. That this House re-affirms the resolution adopted on the 12th ol December, i?7by the House of Representatives of the Forty-First Congress, declaring tnat me true principle ot revenue ;reform points to the abolition of the iuternal revenue system, which was created as a war measure, to provide for extraordinary expenses, and the continuance of which involves the employment, at the cost of millions of dollars annually, of on army of assessors, collectors, supervisors, detectives, and other officers previously unknown ; and requires the repeal, at the earliest day consistent with the maintenance of the faith and* credit oT the Government, ol all stamp and other internal taxes, and that properly adjusted rotes should Be retained on distilled spirits, tobacco and malt liquors, to long a.s the legitimate expenses ot' the Government require the collection of any sum from internal taxes, The amnesty bill which passed tlic House this evening by a vote of 134 to 40, excepts those who were members ot Congress, oftiers of the army and navy who left to joiu the rebellion, and mem wt-Hii-f ? ! i wr ii* fli iiip j?w?? 1 nili | nil 1 . hers of the State conventions who voted j for the ordinance of secession. The bil j was supported by all the Democrats ami i many leading Republicans ? anion; them Banks, Dawes, Earned, Earnworth, Ciartield, Lynch, Hale, Scotieh tvolley, Finklenburh and Sheld?, Among the Southern Republicans w Toted nay were Maynard, Wallace, I' eraud Elliott. CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE. We make the following extraol from the poceedings of the United "floor, in the course of his speech j 8ai<): i He (Mr. Blair) proposed now to give some extracts from radical pafpers of South Carolina. Mr. Blaii | then quoted from various Republican ; payers of South Carolina, severely [commenting upon the venalt.y of the ; Legislature. He a!*o quoted from the remarks of Gov. Scott, that ono ol !the greatest curses afflicting-South j Carolina was the horde o unscrupii,lous adventurers from the North, coming down therefor purposes of plunder. Mr Blair, further read an account of the personnel of the South j Carolina Legislature. Of that whole jhodj but thirteen were white, and 'of the remainder, all blacks, but ninejteen could read ntid write grammatij cnlly. j Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, admitted !that the Legislature of South Caroii' na had behaved shamefull}', but he [would ask the Senator what remedy idid lie propose ferit? Did he favor | universal amnesty? because if he did, lie (Sherman) would probably agree. ' Did he propose to tuke tlie suffrage ifrom tho negroes? because if he did, [that would be a subject for debate. | But if the Senator proposed no remc jdy, he had certainly no right to bring ! those matters in here.Mr. Blair said he' had a right to do 'it. lie had aright to arraign this : body lor sti iking down the very vital i principle of free government, for desitroying local self govarnmeirt j Mr S iwyer, of South Carolina, corjroboratcd the statement of Mr. Shertman, that every one voted in South Carolina, and said there were not j ^ " over 2,5U0 in the State debarred from holding office b}' the fourteenth amendment Mr. Blair thought the Senator was iveiy much mistaken. Ilo believed there were a great many more. Mr. Sawyer, said the position of the Democratic party in South Carolina was such that no considerable nut.ijber would accept tne proffer of office. They Were influenced by the attitude of the Democratic partv in the North and the Broadhead letter of the Senator, to refuse office for a sentiment. . Mr Blair?For a principle. Mr. Sawyer ?A Sentiment. Mr. Blair?A principle It was a principle; and he was glad that the Democratic party adhered to pr ncipie, in spite of the leaves and tishes. lie was giao usai me A/emoeraue party refused to snare the plunder wiln tho carpet-baggers. Mr. Blair continued in review of tho condition of other Southern States, the debt of whi< h, he said, had been so enormously increased undee Radical rule. lie said that he knew Gov. Wartnouth, I of Louisiana, well; that he went [from Missouri ragged and naked, and without inaney to pay for his breakfast; now he Jived in a palace, and was rolling in wealth, and he (Blair) umis informed that ho never signed a Mil without a price. In regard to the ease of Yerger, whieh had been brought into this discussion by the Senator from Onio, (Sherman,) he desired to allude to the aspect of that ease as yet not touched upon, lie then read from a statement of one o\ the cotins. 1 Jo prove that the case had been kept out of the Supreme Court because of the fear that the reconstruction Acts, under authority of which Yerger was committed, would be declared unconstitutional. The Radicals had thus confessed that those Jfets were unconstltuti nal, and vrt without them thev would be in a minority in both Houses of Congress .t.o-uay ?and a minority of a minority. The men who came in by virtue of those reconstruction Acts had, in caucus, given tho votes which deposed the man who built up the Radical party, the Senator from Massachusetts, (Mr. Sumner.) Without concluding, Mr. Blair gave way, and the Senate, ul 4 40 o'clock, went into executive session, and then adjourned. o-#-o PUBLIC MEETING IN GREENWOOD. A pu,blic meeting of tax payers of Abbeville County was held in tLe publ'<c square at Greenwood, on the 1st of April, 1871. Both races were well represented, and evinecd the Ingi est sense of the wrongs imposed upon the people, and the ruin about to befall us. On motion, Mr James Bailey was called to the chair, and W. K. Blake, Esq., requested to act as Secretary. On taking the chair, Mr. Bailey luniil iii v) li.i'linir si 11 (\ ini ni'tJSrtivU .-4%..., ... " ...w?v , manner, he rejoiced-that we hau one right left us, cm which there luid been p aced no tax. or other restraint a* vet, he thought, and that was the right to assemble quietly and peaceably to protest against corruption. Il that right was restricted, wo would demand, at least, the right to coin plain, llis .position as tax-receiver had brought under his observation man}* instances of extreme hardship A family, dependent, in gr^ai meas ure, on the daily supply of milk from their.cow, have been forced to sell her for a trifling sum, to pay the tax demanded of them. Others had been forced to sell of t heir scanty suppl) .?** r\i<nt7wimiK t.lius donrivihjr tht'il , "? }' v J - ~-r - - r, children of bread. to raise the ta> which is filched from ihe public Treas jury. Many others are unable to pn^ 'anything, and, in some instances, thi jinxes to be icvied exceed the value of* the entire property taxed Undei 'such a state of affairs, he wished t( j i know how long would we have, neei of a tax collector, or be able to pay i 11 tax? Who would he able to employ (laborers or render aid to the poor , lie could t>ee nothing to cheer us it f the l'utuie. Every intere t was pros I trated, labor deprived of employment ; and a fearful state of confusion engen | dered- all of which was the result o official corruption. lie was a nativ< ( arolinion?expected to live here, am h?>pe<J not be enshrouded in sucl ; corrupt.on as now prevails, when h< shall have ended his career. .j W. K. Bluke, Esq, offorod tho fol lowing resolution; I Itesolved, That wo endorse the prc' ainbie and resolutions of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce^ a(j0ptu'd m the 31st of March, 1S71. capt. J. T i'ark*, in seconding the iove resolution, made an earnest .nd icetive appeal to the colored citizen*. l- urged liietn to awaken to a sense their duly, theip respo 'sihility and uaijger, in cotmiiun with their white jfellow-cit1^'11^ That they were responsible for the tnal-administration ['of the State government and impend. I ing ?^uin, by maintaing in office dishonest and designing men. They 11could comprehend now, the meaning J of the earnest entreaties and admo.jtions given them by their native . white friends, since the}* were experiencing the bitter fruits of their incredulity. He urged them, when an , opportunity is offered, to hurl from , office the public plundeier, and elect none hut men of integrity. Above II I r I 1 * * 1 I* I kn ! liiii, ne snu', icc uie wmie men 01 mu jState stand us u unit, hound by the .! indissoluble ties of a common interest and a common destiny, for weal or woo. Let there he a calm resolve to mai-tain forever, by all proper means, a pure ami honest government, just land equal laws, lie extended, in the i name of tho people of Abbeville Counhyandof South Carolina, an invitai Lion to all actual settlers from the jXortli, East or West, to con;c among us, with full assurance of a cordial j reception. | The resolution was adopted unanij tnously. On motion of Captain Parks, X mil, 11IC |iI xi*uiiig,P "I |this meeting be published in the Columbia Phoenix and in the Press ui.d Manner. W. K. BLAKE, Secretary. PASSAGE OF THEKU-ELUX BILL. A Snecinct Statement of its Provisions. Washington, April 9. Tin* fTniMO nnsscil t hti modified ICil Klux bill to-day by a vote of 118 to 91. Tho fallowing is a succinct statement of the bill as passed, with omissions and additions : The substitute strikes out tho second. third and fourth sections of the original bill. The second section ol the original -made it a felony for two ar more persons to conspire togethui to do any act in vio'ation. of the rights, privileges and immunities sccured by the Constitution of the United Slates, and punishable in the United States Court. The third section provides that iri ail cases of insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combinations or conspiracies, which so far obstruct the .execution of State laws as to deprive any portion or class (if people of the rights, privileges and immunities Hecured by the con.-tilution and laws,' arid if ari}- State, through its proper authorities, fails, or neglects, to.apply for national aid, the President may use the national forces to suppress such insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combinations and con piracies, and to arrest offenders and deliver. them to the marshal of the district. The fourth section provides that whenever such combinations become so powerful as to overthrow, or set ai defiance the State authorities, and when the punishment of offenders, and the preservation of public safety,! shall become impracticable, it sha I be deemed a rebellion, and the President may, after proclamation, suspend the privileges jf the writ of hanoas corpus, wnicn provision snau continue in force until June 1, 1S72. The substitute for the second section makes it a felony for two or more persons conspiring together to overthrow the government, or to lev)- war against it, or to o ppose, by force, the authority of the United States, or by Ibrce to take or seiz.- the forts or property; or by force or intimidation.' or threat, prevent any person from accepting or holding any federal office, or to prevent him from discharging the duties of the office, to t.>. ? <? < l?.? Cl ulik /? sliottiis.fr1 Mk) IVUV l? IIAV kjlcliv; VI Uir?u H b ?? UViU Ji*r? dtitiff* ma)* be lawfully performed, or injure him in his person or property, on account of ihe lawful discharge of his duties, or threaten to injure a witness or juror in the United States Court, or conspire together to deprive any class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, and confers upon the party injured the right of action] for damages. Suits to be brought in . the United States Uourts. The substitute for the third scction provides that in easo of insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combinations, conspiracies that shall obstruct or hinder the execution of the laws of the State and United States, so as to deprive any class of persons of the riu-htn. nrivilei.-os and immunities *.-*? 7 t i n ? named in thi.s act, and the authorities of the State shall he unable to, or fail from a.r?y cansc to afford protection, and shall fail or neglect to apply to the President for aid, bitch fact shall he deemed a denial of the equal protection of the laws, and it shall he 1 lawf'tl for the President to employ the national forces to suppress such ' disorders, and to arrest offenders and mkmiwi infill iu iin; iiiuiMiui The substitute for the fourth section ' authorizes the President, after proclamation, to suspend tho privileges of 1 the writ of habeas corpus until the ' 1st June, 1872, whenever in any Stale ihe unlawful combination shull be so I numerous and powerful as to be able l>3' violence to overthrow, or set at ' defiance. the authorities of the State. 1 or when the State authorities arc in complicity with such combination All persons arrested under suspension ol habeas "orpus must be taken before a judge of a Federal court, and, if no indictment le found at the pending or first subsequent session, the prisoners will be discharged. The law requiring the iron-clad j I oath from petit and grand Federal jjiirors is repealed," but the judge duty | j demand an oat h from the juror that . I he don't belong to t lie Ku-Kiux. I In the Senate the morning hour was 1 j employed, without result, upon the ~j Goldth waito and Blodgett election ' j cases. The joint outrage committee " occupied the balance of the day. 1 The Illinois papers say that never, i pi rha; ft, in 'he history of the State } were'he prospects of n wheat crop i-o splendid at '.his season of the year - as tht'y now arc throughout Central I Illinois. v 'an important move among thei colored leaders. A curious political movomcnt i now on foot, which, whetlu-r it > v ilikely to eventuate! in anything of ii !portai:Co or not, certainly indiea1 ' thai the situation is fully appreeiai by leading colored men. J When Robert C. DeLargc was 10 elected to Congress, it was known to many of hi.s friends, although not uti published during the canvass, that he was strongly in favor of, and would lJl1 ad<-ocutc, general amnesty. As a na live horn Carolina colored man, he is probably the best exponent of that i.h?4. nfiu* !ir?inii<r flin iif-itivi'S ^ |"*v' " o from this State If we add to this a frequently expressed determination L'' by him to move, at the proper time, 'il in behalf of Conservatism, as distinguished from the Radicalism which c" has been brought into this Slate by j-'1 outsiders, we have some reason for 111 I believing tnat he is about to ma leu "good his declarations and lend his lrl i fluenco to the organization of a new party. It is, furl her, well known that Ransier, Nash, Wimbush, Stnails, jv< and other Hadical colored men, have just returned from Washington, .and a conference with "the powers that be," and their programme of the fa- 1,11 tare is thus mapped out: 1. A proposal to the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade to repudiate the entire indebtedness of w' t he State. p1' 2. A convention, within two months. for the organization of a now party. 00 based strictly-on intelligence and in- t0 tegrity '6. The exchange of mutual guaranties between the races, wherein the |jit colored leaders only ask that their present civil and political rights shall j1'1 trjt be disturbed, and tliat they shall 01 have a lair represent at ion in the >Zl offices of the State (jovurnment, if. l'> return for which the}* will pledge L'> themselves to unite with the whites in the. election of the best men to p? office. 4. The nomination of James L. Orr in< lor Govern r in 1872, or any other i"( man who has the confidence of the two parlies. th These are, in all seriousness, the ?le propositions which are now agitating '^i; a coterie of individuals who have St done more to keep the Radical party tf() of thi* State intact than any other pc members of it, and, coming from a so conference with the DeLarge, and ^o possibly with the Conservative liepublican Congressmen of other States, more importance may be attached to I hem than to the ordinary curbstone move .rents which are born among our local cliques. . The parties referred to arrived in f.'hnrloston full of their scheme. Thev interviewed Republicans and Democrats. They invited the eo-oaeration of sundry officials, and avoided others of their own kith and kin as they wonUl avoid the Egyptian plague. . The result yet rernaii s to be seen. ^ Runnier has opened his batteries, and Ull discusses the situation with a calm- ST< nossihat is in striking contrast to ,le some of his past speeches, while his jj brot her politicians set by and scan n|l and endorse every word that flows 0)i from his pen. tie Whether there bo earnestness, in "r this new movement, or whether it is J'1 ja trap set by Ben Bnfcler or Charles tj, Sumner to catch an unsuspicious peo- en pie. of course, is only a matter of sa surmise; but it will doubtless strike every thoughtfuf person that a propo- M -ition to repudiate the entire indohtedness of the State is either a very Qi wild bid fur popularity, or it is in- se tended to draw forth from the Hoard ljl of Trade and Chamber of Commerce ' what is already sufficiently published j,j ? namely, that their recent action TJ was not to convey the idea of rcpudi- lei atlng any b'uid of the Slate for a debt that has been honestly contracted. * tl 1 It is supreme nonsense to suppose to that South Carolinians will ever repii- "j diate any of their just debts. Kone ^ know the fact better than these very w colored men; and, therefore, we are pj hound to assume the proposition, if C< made at all, will be made to conceal H some ulterior design. ^ As an offset to the above move- ot ment, we understand that it has oeen determined, by Parker, Neajj^le and 0j! other members of the State Government, to organize what will be here- di after known as (>the respectable Be- p? publican party,"?AVws. hl <?? H' ui THE' MAY CONVENTION. ' J" l.l b! So great is the agitation among all to claasta of the people upon the subject of Debt and Taxation, and so geneial is the determination to lind away?straight m or crooked?out of the dilllculties and ni dangers which beset the State, and the! re Convention invited by the Chamber of is Commerce ana ,L>oara 01 iranem unanev, u< t?>u will no doubt be held, and will, it isj"< hoped,, be a worthy exponent of thejso views and desires of the tax-payers ofjw 650111h Carolina. There is no political!m axe to grind. The plain purpose is to bi give those xvho |tay nine-tcnth> of the taxes, while they Ime no \oiceiu imposing them, an opportunity of couisling together; so that the people may obtain, 11 possible, some security against a v< j continuance of the proltigalc legislation J which is fn.-!t ruining the rftate, and has |';i j already brought thou.-ands to the ill res- 0| i hold 01 the poorhouse. ^ That the Convention, if composed of m the right men and acting in the rightij spirit, will do good, there can be no;, question. The people, groping about!"* in darkness, ask for a guiding light. |R They demand that, if there be a peaceful j tl remedy for all of our troubles?and weLt believe tliat mere is? mat me renieuy i shall be put before them. Unless this , be done the youngei* citizens of the!'0 {State, driven to despair, will not be re-|<' strained from cutting the knot which hi their elders fail to untie. 0] Of all times, this is the time when the le grave anil thoughtful representatives of tl the wealth, intelligence and virtue of n, South Carolina should ae.-enible in {> Council for the salvation of their people, . But that their words may have weight!'1 and {tower, the delegates to the jNIay.S Convention should be chosen with sej'u-1K nulous care. Tliey should be staid, re- s. sponsible men, or' high position atuir. moderate opinions, recognized through-!sl out the Suite as citizens who do.hotjS: weigh personal ambition in the scale ii with the public good. Such a hotly will s. command respect, at home and abroad. I hs recommendations will not be idly I made. Audit' the Convention should jV succeed in solving the social and linan- fi cial problem, its members will, indeed, have deserved well of the Commonwealth. They may tail, but is their duty and ours to exlmu^t all the means which tt suggest themselves for redeeming South Carolina from the incubus of .ignorance 0 'and vice, social disturbance and financial h I rouble For what may come thereafter, ui ' his people canuot bo held to account.?. tc ? harleeion flew.'. ' c< ???? THE FINANCIAL BILL. P'< ta: to The following protest was prosent- tin 1 and entered on the journal of the 110 iiciLc on tb'e 7Hi of March: j' We, the undersigned, mem )ers ol jJ( 0 Senate, protest against ihe paw- nn ;o of a bin entitled 'a bill to create r. ^ra bt of the State of South > arolina, Cl" bo known us the sterling funded mt bt, the same, or the proceeds there, to be exclusively used in exchange r, or in payment of, the existing ^ iblie debt ol' the Stale/ for the foiwing reasons: . Co "1. Because to creato any further| It bt at the present time is unwise and j 1 necessary. ra^ '2 Because 'the existing debt ol tin e State is unknown, and a correct re| lowlege of it can not be obtained tin ' 3. Because it is admitted by the "c ampion of this bill, and its- friends, jat ilI lIih fii.aneiiiL rnan:i",eps named !in> ~ - - o | *" its text arc not the proper personsjsal bo clothed with t>ueh a tiseal J3t" uM ' i. 3ecauso it will increase the bur- jj. n of taxation, now already oppress- no *, and swell the Aggregate of tlu* tu teres t on 'the existing' and 'the jrling funded debt' to the amount .\? ?1,U00 0U0, or at tho rate ol six lis per dollar per annum upon uli th< e property of the State of South Ke iroliua. '*u '5. Becauso the agent or agents '!*! [io are to negotiate and manage the Ior oceeds of the sales of the ?6,UUU;UUU tio sterling bonds for twenty years to me, mo not required, in any way, give security of any kind for ttie ormous trust confided to them. -G. Because the question of such a ge indebtedness, viz.: $t>,0(JU,00O gold, th largest ever, at any one ] ne, in the history of the legislation nn the State of South Carolina author- w jd, should have been submitted to jj'J e qualified voters of the State tor S1M eir approval or rejection before lhi* i,'e( merul Assembly put it beyond theii tin wcr to control, vv' "7 Because the crcdit of the State ist be invpaired as the column of its- wj JobtcdneSs is increased. jec -8 Because the excessive taxation '*ai at is to follow this new created bt will produce disconttent and {satisfaction throughout the whole C()l ate, and inspire an opposition totln> rw veriimuut that will disrupt the th< -..ce and increase the disorder now threatening arid deplored in our mmuuities. in, no ? TCrrrTTrunriD " i>. r . > t iii 1 i jii.tivitu, lin E E. DiC'KSON, . no . W. E. HO LOOM BE, V1 J01IN WILSON, v j G. W. DUVALL, D. BIEM -N, J. FOSTER." so ' tot FjOREISN NEWS. Pr 1," du London, April 10. al< Hie Government troops now occupy, de strong force, (be towns of Boulogne, .'K tucres and Sabatonierth. They have 10 >masked numerous batteries between Pr Miilly and (he ramparts. Many Paris Pn wspapcrs exhort the people to abstain ^' >m voting {o-day, and thereby give a :l ) ath-blow lo I lie Commune. The Coin-!'.'f unist are barricading the Rue de Iiiv- 'n: i. The Commune made an indirect I!ll( maud that foreign ambassador* should vfl range the quarrel with the Versailles >verninent; who, however veluclaut accept the responsibility, slated thaj e breach at Porte iMelot would give !ll< sy access to the assailants. The as- -\ult is expected to-day. ' of The Tribune had a fecial Sunday eve- lja ng," which said there had been cannon- SI ingall day. The Champs Elvsees are c-'J1 mpletcly deserted. The National .i:ij-ds arc hiding in the cross streets, bl< eking protection from the shells,which w' il in every di reel ion? many clo.-e to wl e American legation. The Versailles 11,1 )ops have crossed the Seine, and occu- de ' Sahatonvilk' and Long Champs, le drawbridge and floor of Port MailLt are broken. The Commune Jiullc i announces that the Versailles troops ive been driven from Neuilly bridge, rn, id that the National Quanta are eager advance, but,are forbidden; The Ca- SP edral of Notre Dame has been Hacked. Dchelbrt vainly endeavored to save it ?ir um pillage; nearly all the valuables |<j ere plundered, 'lhe Archbishop of A iris lias been transferred from the mciergeric to Mosas prison. General a(' enry has not cscaped; he was sent, to II elle Isle, 'lhe Commune is contiolled st ,* a secret committee, which arrests ^ her members. It iww no known chief. . igot declares, in to-day's Venguer, that 1 ie suppression of newspaper is an act .1 the Committee of Public jaie.y, und th it of the Executive Committee. Sun- |,j av's sortie against" Chatillon was re- a lined with heavy Jo.^s. An incessant c re is kept up from Forts Issy, Vanvos, \ .??. I .il I U A /^nmrtivii /l/uin 10 Ill Mill biJV UUIIIU^V UV/IIV 10 ight. Gen. Vinoy will keep command m itil Tuesday. A deputation of Paris w ercliants to Thiers returned without p| suit. Conciliation is believed impossi- cj e. There was no sitting of the Assom-i j yon Sunday. The majority have gone ja i mass. pj Paris, April 10. ^ Unless tho Germans save us, Paris 0] ust soon swim with blood. The Com- V| line hourly grows more desperate, and sorts to fierce excesses. Conciergerie ^ filled with priests and nuns, who have r, en arrested on warrrnts calling them jitizens, styled the servants or a per n called God." Archbishop Durfoy as stripped nuked, bound to a pillar, 01 id scourged and mocked lor hours by a ,u md of 200 Reds. ? That Spkecii.?Tho *Her >ld says - - - ^ i i*.. II-.. :ry iruumiiij; _ It is mo longer Fred Douglass, the imous ])ioneer in the cause his race "freedom and equal rights; it is no ng-r the eloquent Downing, F. R. S. ^ Vied, roasted and stewed,) t he cele- L rated tuid successful Oysterman; it no lo gcr the reverend Senate.* r evels, as tho colored successor to j ic seat of Jeff Davis among the Con- ^ rript Fathers; but it is the new colred representative in Congress, the ~ arned arid-logical Elliott, from South arolina. Since the 4th of March he as made two speeches in the House ~ f Representatives, and has written a - ti_.. n n i ... , Iter lO ilie nun. udiiicv unxin uii n> ie Ku-Klux Klaus and a general amesly, in all of which he has proved j irn.sclf a man of decided and welli)proved abilities. IIin speech aturday last on the Southern Ku-1T IIux outrages and the remedy was > marked in iis le^al and logical r,! ren^th that the Democrats were p itistied that there is only one man IM i the House who could write such a |(jeech ; that General Butler is that s( tan. and that ho mu.-t have written iis trenchant speech which was read p; 'urn the manuscript by Elliott. ?<?> A Wnshingtnn telegram of Thursday, . > the Baltimore Sun, says: "The iin;in<"ial condition of Foith arolina is such, that a letter receive 1 r] ere to day represent'a growing desire f nong the'axi? vers o appeal directly > Congress* asKiug tuat body to resume] jntrol of the State and shield the peo ; in i ja there from the continuance of o sation which Js amounting practically confiscation., It is proposed to show at neither hostility to the govemmen. r partisan considerations have allying to do with present troubles there, was noticeable thai De Large, one 01 a colored members from booth (,'aro- 1 a, appealed to the House to-day to i int universal amnesty as the proper ( .irse to restore confidence and liar>ny iu the South:" Why Connecticut is Bound to ' wjc a Repuki-ican Majority.?The 1 :w York World makes allusion to an ' on?aly in the representative system of ( mneclicut that is liotgenefally known, otters a satisfactory explanation of i? ditticulties of the Democrats iu that ( ?te, who, though they might be in a 1 ijority of oO.Odl) on the popular vote, i Republicans, under the present unjubhean arrangement, could control 1 i lower branch of the Legislature. 1 'preventatives are not apportioned <. long the towns on the basis of popuion. To show how wrongfully this jquality works, one instance will * lice. The Republican town of Simsry polls but 334 votes and has two ( presuntatives in the Legislature, die the Democratic to^n of New- ' iven polls nearly !},oi)0 votes and has s more. If Simsbury is justly entitled . two, New Haveifshould have fiftyree Representatives; Jlnd this is just ( w it is that the Democrats are swin- . d out of the Legislature. Gov. Ensh lias an actual majority of votes in - State.-and yet the returns give the 1 publicans from fifteen to twenty-five IJ ijority in the House of Representa- [ ea. The Democrats. have not been t le to secure a majority the Legislature i sixteen years, owing to the inqui- t us, anti-Republican arrangement. r ~ Modesn Swords. ( [From the London Builder.] [t would probably be impossible for y English smith now to produce such j -i k as some of the better specimens of ieuiated armor in the Tower of Lou- t 11. On the other hand where for < . (rial purposes, special attention lias t L'ti given to the manufacture of iron, , > result is satisfactory. We question t let her Toledo rapiers or Damascus ires would stand uninjured, taking jiii one witii anoiner, me rum: icsis u? licit Mr.'Wilkinson' of Pali Mali, nub ts hIs I?est; swords. It is true of these refully nmde blades we have seen reeoiit of lour damaged in the tent. , if the one wliic'i passes is a weapon to i lich a man may safely trust. If any J rselet now worn in European warfare iistj its thrust, it is the fault; not of e blade, but of the arm that wields it. preparing iron for s}H'C.aI purposes, i chemical character of the water 3d in the factory appears to be very porfant. It was an old byword in ? steel trade that a good sword could t be made at SheiHeld, nor a good life at Birmingham, the sword being ? boast of the latter town, and the life of tho former. rAE QtTEE>f AND HE? DRAD C'ON- ' rt.?Referring to the mausoleum erec1 at Windsor to the memory of the I ince Consort by his wil'ej at a cost ol j lOU.oOi'l, a correspondent says: "Each y Queen Victoria visits this place i >nr* TM^nr iht. tomb is nlaced a lame! ep basket filled with wreaths <>l ' antiiul fliiwew. At hand is a smail und table on which area Bible and a ayer-book. From these she reads and uys fervently, kneeling the while, it'll she rises, and taking the wreaths van cos to the sarcophagus, in the lid which a small sheet of [date glass is erted through which she can see the ;e and form of the departed. But the bi ts of the eilibalmer have not been uroughly succe.-sf'd, and the features i ut were so beam fir in life are in death i irred by discoloration. Still it is his ] ;e, shrunken and palid tbough it be. jain she prays, thinking of the years happiness she lived with hi/n, long ssed away hut never to be forgotlen. ie stands gazing there till she can ze no more with tears. Gently she tick's the forget-me-nots upon the mar e coflin, takes one hist liujrennn looK th her dim eyes, and slowly retires, lile from above the bell tolJs out a L'lancholy requiem for the melancholy ad." Mississippi?170 Persons Killed ' ' Neuhoes within Two^ Years.? i ie Memphis Appeal Jackson, Miss., i ecial pays: 1 In two years, in all ports of riotR | id rows, about 170 people lmvc been lied by negroes in Mississippi. Tho nvrrnor will publish a list of these cidents and incidents in a few days, e has before him accurate tables of a'istics of Mississippi murders, hen the amiable Ames reads them i will < <> fens ihat he has been duped 7 lying scoundrels who furnished ic facts on which ho (Ames) based s absurd littlo speech a few days jo iii tho United States Senate. Mr. Calhoun's Remains.?The reain9 of this great a:id good man, which ere entombed in the graveyard at St. hilip'aChurch, in the brick vault es pettily prepared there at the time of his ?atii, were returned there Saturday ft, in the presence of the Rector, Asstant Rector, Vestry and Wardens of le church. They had been removed, ) the breaking out of the war, and ;ry wisely too, to the Eastern end of le graveyard, so that they could not be und by the spoiler.?Charleston Con er. ?4S>? "Gay without toil, lovfly with:-t aut," are those who use as a Tonic ui Restorative, Sumter Bitters, the real cioulheru Tonic. MARRIED. MARRIED, on the Sth Aprii, 1871, by le Rev. Francis Brown, Mr. 8AMUEL OYD and Miss MAGGIE W1LIAMS, both of this County. MARRIED,on the 7th inst., by the ev. Francis Brown, Mr. JAMES A.CKSON and Miss NANNIE HAR IS, both of Abbeville County. CO!SrSIGlSTEES. Tuo following named portions have eight in the Depot,; Baker & Clinkscales, J D Chalmers, J Cunningham, H 8 Canon, L C Clinkrales, J H Cooper, J A Dickson, MD retinon, John Enright, E Edwards, C Haskeli, Hughs & Co, G T Jackson, iy & Bradley, C Loafer, Win McCombs M Mitchell, W D Mars & Co, Win [athia, J A Norwood, DJ Neese, P& o, Pool & Wilson, Q, P &, Co, L II Rus>11, J W Trewit, Dr S II Walker. No goods delivered until freight is aid. J. W. MARSHALL, Apn:. The following persons have packages 1 the Express Oliict;. Alice A Wait, W PDuBoso, D A Mooy, J Mtir.nw, W M MlCusiili, L> Oi'.wird, J D Seabiof;!*. C. V. HAMMOND Agent. Markets. g Abbeville,- April 14.?Cotton 12. ? New Yohk, April 12.?Cotton quiet, uplands 15; Orleans 15}; Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat'quiet and steady. Join dull .and drooping. Pork steady, it 19.75@19.81. Gold steady. 0 7 P. M.? Gold; lUi(&10jj. Cotton dull ind heavy, with suies oi. 2,650 bales, a 14J. Southern flour unchanged Wheat quii't, winter red 2.G202.6J _ Joi n 1c better. Pork 19.50019.75. Charleston, April 12. ? Cotto: * juiet?middling. 13J014: receipts is >ales ; sales 300; stoek 20.341. Augusta,. April 12.?Cotton ii v Homnnd. but prices easier, a UUUVJUIV V4V... ? , 4 3^ for middling; sales 420 bales; re :eipts 109. / Livkupool, April 12.?3 P. M.?Co:- J oji quiet?uplands 7|@7J; Orleans 7|. Livhkpool, April 12.?EveningJntton quiet?uplands 7jj@7A; Orlean g; sales 10,000 bales, including 2,000 foi f peculation and export. B500 Reward.* 8T WILL. PAY the above Reward l| 3. for the apprehension of the thief or * neives, (with proof to convict,) whoenered my safe on the night of the 30th ilt. I will also give ten per cent, of he amount of the stolen money which nay be recovered. _ fl L. H. RUSSELL, * bounty Treasurer for Abbeville County, i April 4, 1S71, ij <> 1 $5,000 Reward. TH53 above Reward will be paid J tor the recovery of the money .uracil from the Safe of the County I'reasurcrof Abbeville, on the night of .lie 30th ult.. or a proportionate Reward or any part of the same, or any evidence 7 hat will lead (o the arrest and convic- * lion of the thieves. J. B. HUBBARD, Chief Constable State South Carolina. *1 April 4, 1371, tf J j Dsntistry! Dsalistry! Dentistry! s t< Cl DR. W. hwwm J WILL be at GREENWOOD on the 10th of April, and will remain r there several weeks for the purpose of [_ practicing-Dentistry. Public patronage is respectfully solic- ? iterl. Terms reasonable. H References: YV. B. Milwee, C'apt. Robt. * Tarrant. Apr 7, 1871 50?2t 7 1? 8 n . . n T T? 1 T\ _ J .1 bstate oi jane iteia, ucca. (] v tl PURSUANT to order of Reference. I q hereby jrive notice to all parties ini crested in the above mentioned Estate, that a statement of the accounts of the . Executor, with a view to a final settlement, will be made before me on Monday, 8th May, 1871. a ' WM. H. PARKER, Special Referee. Apr 7,1S71 50?It & COTTON FOOD!i PRONOUNCED by Dr. Means, Ag- / ricultural Chemist and Inspector t hi' Guanos, at Savannali, the highest standard or Forty different kinds of Commercial Fertilizers submitted to his analysis. We have on hand a small uuiiyiny wiiicxi we areuiijkiuua in iiiudtnee, feeling assured that when tried r>nee it will be called for largely attain. In Newberry, where it was used last year i9 pert'erred to all other manures. WARDLAW & EDWARDS, Agents. April 7, 1871, 50?tf . ' NEW STYLES | oWsge BoisU&is, at LOW PRICES. AT J. D. Chalmers & Co's April 7, 1871 50, tf . " Would iuform their friends that the] JOMlis For tlioil? 1 WE ASK you to call and e; think we can suit you b of' GOODS. April 7. 1871. SO-tf Have Recei NEW SPRII WHICH THEY A iiias i OUR Friends and the Public ; | and examine our STOCK and pr: QUA3LE.3, IE ^ Airily 1871, 60- tf V -masons , n. mg FECIAL ATTENTION IS CAX>L?p TO Santa's Steam j^tHPrf" Barglar M_ Proof Sals, f which we are aGEN.TS, and a specimen of which cun b& seeu at our Store. Undoubtedly the best. Call and ox >.s..rV "These are the times that try iens' safes. iFardiaw & Edwards, AGENTS. April 7,1871,60?tf 1 Large Lot o p IHuICE FLOUR, t ' Made of pure . ENTUCKY WHITE WHEAT, . just received and for sale, by f ARDIAW & MM, April 7,1871, 50?tf I0TTAGE BEDSTEADS! l Good Article, at Six Dollars each, Complete! f. 9. Chalmers & Co. April 7,187X 50, tf :c?i ice! ice! [he Columbia Ice House j"S now open for the Season, and pre[ pared to sell Natural Lake Ice, at om 1 to cents per pound, according > quantity. This Ice is far preferable > any manufactured, or prepared by lieinical process. J. D. BATEMAN, Ag't, Columbia, 8. C. Apr 7, is<i OU-II ilTILlMS IN EXCHANGE FOB )0TT0N, at 15 cts. per lb. ' 1/ffESSRS. WILCOX, GIBBS & CO 7 tS have authorized us to sell their *' uaiios on a oredit till 1st November oxt, without intercut, and take in exmuge "Middling" Cotton at 15 cents i>r pound, delivered at planter's nearest root. " Should the Cotton market rule higher inn 15 cents for "Middlings" in the all, the planter to have the benefit of ic excess. in these Liberal Terms any Planter can Afford to In vest in... Guanos. Their "Manipulated Guano" is guar* nteed to be one-fourth :Chincha Island Peruvian," ind we can show strong certificates of a bcnefioial results. A full stock of these Guanos and other 'hoaphates on hand, and for wile on tisy terms, by LIKEN & WALLER, GREENWOOD, S. C. Apr 7,1871 50, St A: LOT OF CHOICE IMPROVED BOTTflN SEED, 4C FOR SALE; LOW FOR CASH, BY* Quarles, Perrin & Co. March 17,1S71, 47?tf ROBERTSON 7 will have open in a few days, a E STOCK boSs ;:o.J3;p ? otion. famine for-yourselves. and we jth in PRICE and QUALITY SSI & CO, ved Tlieir NG STOCK, KE SEL.LI3TG AT generally are requested to call . es. ItRIN & CO.