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Vol. VI. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 22, 1872. No. 21. TIt ALD 16 re3IUr.Da ggY WEDESDAY MORMNG, At Newberry C. I., By . Pt, I. areneker, Editors audProprietors awire $e Pat #Mwx Invariably in Adance. 4 Tu PU a t.the ersrala of arr e Poopexiation of sub scription OFTICIAL. Aets and Joint Resolutions .A hJ , GenKeratdA mBW 76uti-Car4thia lglar Session, 1871 and L.&7 A2M ACT TO INCORPORATE THE EDIS TO. CAW CAW AND WAITES' CREEK CANAL CoMPANY, OP SOUTH CARO Scroi 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represents. tives of the State of South Carok. .a, now met.and sitting in Gene ral Assembly, and by the authori ty of the same: That Aiard K. Gain-,Timothy Hurl4i, c . W therly, Da vid Mket, .oh'C. Downing, B. A. Bosemon, A. J. Ransier, W. M. 4d Small, E. D. Holmes, Robt. Tarl to L .a %- 2:P. p Hed ncMch other persons as they may asso th-an, h are constituted a body corporate andpoljic, byqbk i style of efistoCC an Waites' Creek Canal Company. And they are hereb - made orporate in, law, old(kM*&ase -and -pos and tom akesale of the same, or any property acquired by them, as a comny to carry; on thd" li b ^ -i,eadig )h9sXt4S that~ Aa on :their ands, to erect houses, mills, ma .hine shops, manufuctories, dig *ut and tlearfaway any obstruc jions which may:be necessary in order to complete a navigable wa ter coursefrom the Edisto River to the Ashley River in this State conveying water, lumber, wood, barges, rafts, boats, or any craft that may be necessary to carry out thadaesign of said company. They may also convey fresh water to the city of Chaileston~ by such steans as they may deem beat, and ime s shbe mseigi ,and4W&rlt liRve auithority' to ,.,suell.a toll,1 essels, foats and as - d proper(fr us ,Thpaptal atock.of this shaft be nye hundi-ed thousand doilars, divided i n t o shares of ten ($10) dollars each, anize betenshous an s abe sibacri6ed and pad in, either in cash or lands, ' j ,, dskor jing inerig% m ge deemed of equal valaet said company, which may becapplied in its opei-ations. SEC. 3, There shall be held an Eialmeetings of the stockholders to elect a President and Directors; there shall be four .Directors, who shalU.hold -th-ir offices hr- one year. Sic. 4. Each share shall repre sent one vote in all elections for offlegm.. SEC. 5. All transfer of shares shall be made in. accordance with bank ~uEa4for making transfers of sT'ares~ The Directors shall make alpneedful by-laws for the govers ment of the company, and alter and amend the same at pleasure. SEC. 6. This company shall have water eOmsuuication from. the Edisto River through Bull Creek, and the most direct route through eaw4Caw swamp, water lead to WaItes' Creek two handred feet~ vide, and may appropriate any l'ands on the said route necessary to forward this enterprise and fa-, cilitate quick transportation: Pro vided, That they shall pay a inst and easonable compensation for all land appropriated for said pur pose. SEc. 7. That they, and their suc cessors, shall fix and establish any toll, and receive the same, on all be~w~dbots fiats rats, o any means of transit through said canal, and any party refusing to pay said toll, their goods may be detained till said toll is paid. SEc. 8. The said company have athority to issue coupon bonds, bearing eight per cent. interest, redeemable in ten and twenty years, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars. SEc. 9. They shall have power to commence work immediately on its formbation, and may make puiblication of the same, and keep open their subscription books at sueb time and'place as they may. determine. SEc. 10. 'that this Act shall be. deemed a public Act, aEd shall re main in force f,r fifty years. Approved March 13, 1872. .ToINT RESOLUTION To AJTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE 00OMPTRoLLER GENER AL TO DRAW A WARRANT TN FAVOR OF C. WEE~NEE, ON THE STATE TREA8URXEl, WREN CEE eTAIN~ REQUIREMENTS ARE FUL SWhereas a.Tomt Resolution was ao~- p4esed in 1856, appropriating five lt housand doffhr towards parohas pg the cast iron Palmetto tree a a mnnent to te4esd 4itb# Palmetto Regiment; and whereas j on the 20th of December, 1858, an- c other appropriation of one thous- ji and dollars more, as additional ' compensation, was passed; and d wh-ereas Mr. C. Werner was only paid four thousand dollars; iP Be it Resolved by the Senate and r House of Representativeq of the t State of South Carolina, now met v and sitting in General Assembly, s and by the authority of the same: r That the Comptroller-General e be authorized, and is hereby di- I rected, to draw his warrant on s the State Treasurer to the amount a of two thousand dollars, in favor s of C. Werner: Provided, Mr. Wer. ner makes arterations on the pan- a els, as directed by the Commission- sl er of the State House, as reported I by the Committee on the State House, on the 20th of December, sI 1858. P The State Treasurer is hereby < authorized and directed to pay the a1 same, upon the order of the said b< Comptroller-General, out of any o moneys in the Treasury not other wise appropriated. h: Approved, March 12, 1872. r< AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SOUTH tl CAROLINA REAL ESTATE, PLANT- S' ING AND MINING COMPANY. le SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the 94 Senate and House of Representa- c( tives, of the State of South Caroli- s1 na, now met and sitting in Gene- C ral Assembly, and by the authori ty of the same: That B. F. Graham, hdward K Reid, George Kline, M. E. Hayne, B. F. Briggs, S. A. Swaits, W. A. Grant, W. B .Nsh, Edward Iic key, 0. R. Levy, William Elliott, J. A. Bowley, Barney ffu6phreys, Jordan Lang, C. C. Bowen, Timo thy Hurley, T. A. Davis, N. B. Myers J. B. Bascomb, S. Green, J. S. Mobley, and their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby cieated a body politic and corpo- < rate, under the name and style of ti the "South Carolina Real Estate, ni Planting and Mining Company," ra for the purpose of securing foreign ty and domestic capital in the pur chase and improvement of lands G and other property, and for the 7, working of the same,-and -for sell- a ing and settling the same:.Provi- jii ded, however, That the said corpo- F ration shall be organized and go ce into operation within two years a, from the passage of this Act. m SEc. 2. And be it further provided, of That the capital itock of said cor- ho Doration shall be one rmillion of o1 dollars (81,000.000,) in shares of one-bundred dollars. ($100) each, with the privilege of increasing A the same, from time to time, to the extent necessary for which said company is.formed, said in crease not to exceed-the sum of five millions of dollars ($5,000,000,) and said increase to be made onlyS. at a regular meeting of the said t. company, upon a ite of . two-li thirds mn amount of the stock for 1 the time being in favor -of such in crease. SEC. 3. That the said shares ~ shalt be deemed personal property, c and shall be transferrable only onb the books of the company.t Sxc. 4. That the said corpora ion shall have power to purchase, a acquire, hold, use, work and dis pose of real. estate, in any of theb Counties of thbis State, to work - and operate mines, to work and ai operate farms and plantations in within the State, and to dispose, geneily, of the products of the same. S SEC. 5. That the said corpora tin-shael aso have power to make A all, by-laws necessary for the dis position of its property, and for the managements of its affairs, for the regulation of the term of office of its officers, and prescribing their duties, and to carry out the gene ral objects of the corporation, and the same at pleasure to annul and at repeal: Provided, That such by- o1 laws, rules and regulations, shall ~ not conflict with any laws of the A United States or of the State of o1 South Carolina. SEC. 6. That said corporation al shall have power to borrow moneyt by issuing interest bearing bonds, 9 secured by mortgage of its proper- ni ty and franchises, or of any por- ai tion of the same; and, for this he purpose, may issue bonds for ster- r ling, gold coin or currency, paya- he ble in London, News York or tc Charleston, secured by mortgage fo to trustees for- the payment of the tj said bonds.; and, also, may pur.-d chase land' for cash or for bond, o secured by mortgage, or partly for W ash, and partly for bonds and 01 mortgages. Provuided, That the 0o stockholders- of said corporation 01 shall be liable to the amount of C< their respective share or shares of te stock in said corporation for .its. fi debts and liabilities upon note, bill, di or otherwise. The books and ac- sC counts of said corporation shall be tr open to inspection under such regu lations as may be prescribed by law. Szc. 7. That said corporation A shall have the power to establish agencias at such place in Europe and .America it may deem dlesi inl for the carrving out of its oh. S, icts; and may, also hold and par base tha stocks or bonds of any )int stock or inorporated compa ies, and the bonds of private in ividuals. SEc. 8. That, within the time rescribed for the going into ope ition of this Act, a meeting of e said company shall be held, at ,hich meeting fifteen Directors iall be elected by the said corpo ition, which said Directors shall ect from their own number a resident and Treasurer; and they iall also elect such other officers id agents as they may deem neces try for effecting the object of the tid corporation ; and, annually ter the said meeting, the said ,ockholders shall elect twelve irectors. SEC. 9. The 9aid corporation iall have succession of officers, 2wer to adopt and use a corporate al, to sue and be sued, to plead id be impleaded, to defend and defended, in any Court of law of equity. SEC. 10. This corporation shall ive the right to establish wagon >ads to and upon its property, ith the privilege of connecting ie same with any roads in the ate, and shall enjoy all the privi ges that are awaaded, under the neral lan%s of the State, to any wporation, together with the iecial privileges awarded by this iarter. Approved March 13, 1872. T ACT TO REPEAL AN ACT ENTI TLED "AN ACT TO CREATE A DEBT,1 OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLI NA, TO BE KNOWN AS THE STER LING FUNDED DEBT, THE SAME OR THE PROCEEDS THEREOF, TO BE EXCLUSIVELY USED IN EX CHANGE FOR OR IN PAYMEVT OF THE EXISTING PUBLIC DEBT OF SAID STATE." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the nate and House of Represent-a 7es of the State of South Caroli 6, now met and sitting in Gene 1 Assembly, and by th e authori - of the same: That the Act passed by this Ineral Assembly,approved March 1871, entitled "An Act to create debt of the State of South Caro 1a, to be known as the Sterling Inded Debt, the same or the pro eds thereof to be exclusively ed in exchange for or in pay ent of the existing public debt said State," be and the same is reby repealed, as to each and all its provisions. Approved March 13, 1872. i ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SA LEM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCI, OF WADMALAW ISLAND, SOUTH CARO LINA. .. SECTIoN 1. Be it enacted by the nate and House of Representa res of the State of South Caro is, now met and sitting in Gene .1 Assembly, and by the authori -of the same : That Thos. Middleton, Rolling athas, Abram Deas, their asso ates and successors, are made a >dy corporate and politic, under e name and style of the Salem resbyterian Church, of Wadma w Island, South Carolina, with I tbe powers now granted to or sted in such like corporations r law ; to sue and be sued, plead id be impleaded, and to have a immon seal, to alter at will; and ake such rules and by-laws to >vern the corp.oration aforesaid,4 >t repugnant to the laws of this ,ate. SEC. 2. This Act to be a public et for the term of twenty-one ~are. Approved March 13, 1872. f ACT TO ESTABLISH A PUBLIC FERRY IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY. SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the Sen e and House of Representativcs 'the State of South Carolina, W met and sitting in General' ssembly, and by the authority 'the same: That the ferry commonly known "Rocky Mount Ferry," across e Catawba River, in Fairfield >unty, shall be, and the same is ~reby, established a public terry, id vested in James Johnson, his ~irs, executors and assigns, until' pealed, with the privilege of col eting the following rates of toll, -wit : For each wagon drawn by ur horses, mules or oxen, seven -five cents; for each wagon -awn by three horses, mules or cen, sixty-five cents; for each agon drawn by two horses. mules -oxen, fifty cents; for each wag i, carriage or buggy, drawn by ie horse, mule or ox, twenty-five nts; for each man on horseback, n cents ; for each foot passenger, re cents: Provided, That chil -en going and returning from hool, and voters going to and re rning from the polls on election y, shall be passed free. Approved March 12, 1872. ~I ACT .TO INCORPORATE THE REEDY RIVER BAPTIST CHURCH, OF GREEN VILLE COUNTY. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the anate anrd Honne of 'Rnresnta. tives of the State of South Caro lina, now met and sitting in Gen eral Assembly, and by the author ity of the same: That T. W. Roe, Stephen March banks, Barnet Hawkins, and their associates and successors, are here by made a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of t h o "Reedy River Baptist Church, of Greenviile County," with all the powers and privileges vested in such like corporations by law ; to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in their corporate capacity; to have a common seal, and alter the same at will; toi 3nact such rules and by-laws, for the government of their body, not repugnant to the laws of the land. SEC. 2. This Act to be deemed a public Act, and in force until re pealed. Approved March 12, 1872. rhe "Industrious Knights" of Georgia. 5ENTENCE OF TIE PRINCIPAL-A NOTED DESPERADO BROUGHT TO .TUSTICE-TIHE CONFESSIONS OF AC COMPLICES. The doings of one Captain Dharles V. Hamilton, formerly a, resident of this State, were in part oticed in these 'columns a few veeks ago. Last week this out aw, togrether with some of his ac .essories, were tried before the upreme Court of McDnffie Coun y, Georgia. Hamilton -las sen cnccd to ten years' imprisonment. [ncidental to the trial were con essions, among them the follow ig, which we take from the col Imns of the Augusta Chronicle and entinel of yesterday. Hayne Williams was one of the men prom nently connected with the Lau -ens riot in 1870. The Court then called upon rhomas H. Willis to show cause, f any he had, why the sentence of ,he law should not be passed upon iim. Willis arose, and addressing be Court, made, in substance, the bllowing statement.-Columbia Union. WILLIS' STATEMENT. The first time Hamilton men ,ioned the subject of robbery be :ame to me one day and asked me f I would not like to make some noncy. This was last January. told him I would. le said there vas a man in South Carolina diddleton Smith-who had five >r ten thousand dollars in gold. le said he would go and get it. le and I, Tutt and Musgrove were o go. I told him I didn't care to nake it in that way. He said if t man got into the secret of the >rganization to which he belonged ie couldn't back out, and if I was et into the way it was to be done, [ would be killed unless I went. Prightened by what he said, I1 hen told him I would go. I start ~d wit.h the party a short time af erwards; when we got within a -ile of Smith's house my heart ailed me, and I refused to go;~ hamilton said he had come once >efore to make that trip, and harlie Wilkinson, who was along, ~ad backed out at the same place; bis was between sunset and (dark; tried to play off as being sick, aving the colic ; he pulled out a >istol and put it at my breast arid aid, "If you are not going on say o, and you'll go in the creek ;" I ~ould say no more, but got up and vent on ; we all went to Smith's, nd I went ahead, by Hamilton's >der, and told Smith I was a to decco man and asked him to come o the lot, where the party was ~on coaled ; I told Smith ; he said ie had' no fodder to spare-I asked or fodder-but would let me have alf a dozen bundles; Smith and I vent to the lot; Hamilton and the thers were sitting in the fence ~orner hid ; as soon as Smith got here Tutt and Musgrove came up mnd whispered to me, "throw him lown," but I wouldn't do it; Mus rove run up behind him and threw im dowa ; Tutt tried to gag him vith his handkerchief to keep him rom hollering ; they then let him 2p and told me to guard him while1 ~hey went to the house; I and mth sat down and talked while ~he party was gone ; soon te ~ame running back and said come n; jumped up and came away vith them, having heard a pistol hoot in the yard; we all started tnd made our way back to John on's Turn-Out, on the Charlotte R'ad; we had no money, and had o pawn our pistols to get to Au ~usta; as we started from Augus ~a, I went and talked to Musgrove >n the train; I proposed to tell it ll when we got to Thomson, and; ave Hamilton arrested ; he pro mised to do it; he then went tol Eamilton and told him what I had raid; Hamilton came up to where [ was on the car, and said he wanted to see me; when we got~ >n the platform between the cabs, he presented a pistol to my breast, and said, "I suppose you talk of livulging this thing ;" I begged off and promised not to tell; he in rormed me that whenever he said "go" I won1rd ha it to rdn (t.he prisoner here turned to Hamilton, and said, "Captain Hamilton, if I have said anything about you which is not true rise and say so: (Ifamilton kept his seat.) I never joined the band voluntarily, but was forced into it by Hamilton's threats, and keptin it by my fear of him; I know and deeply regret the sorrow and shame I have brought upon my poor old mother and on my flamily. THOS. H. LONG'S STATEMENT. Last January Capt. Hamilton asked me and Ramsey and Charlie Wilkinson to go to South Carolina,! and make arrangements to bring his wife over; after we left Augus ta we went to his house in Edge field ; he told us after we got into South Carolina what he wanted us to do; he wanted us to rob Middleton Smith ; Wilkinson and I determined to have nothing to do with it, and went ahead and broke up the trip; he made ar rangements to come back in ai week for his wife; we came. back to Georgia and then went back again to help bring her over ;after leaving Thomson he said the money had to come that time; Wilkinson and I went ahead after crossing the Savannah River; we had our understanding again to bicak it up; we did break it up, and Ramsey and Hamilton went on to the latter's house; I and Wilkinson stopped at his brother in-law; his wife came to Thomson with us; in about two weeks Ham ilton wrote a note asking me to meet him down town, that he wanted to go back and rob Smith; I met him and Tutt and R-msey, and told him that I would have nothing to do with it; he said Wil lis would meet them at D-aring; when I declined he went after Wil lis and brought him back and post poned the trip; Hamilton and Tutt went off, Hamilton saying he was going to Southwestern Georgia a few days afterwards; about two weeks before the Evans robbery he and Ramisay asked me to go and rob Evans. The evening before the robbery he ordered me to go with Ramsey and Willis; be told me that a man was coming the night afterwards to go to South Carolina to rob a man there; this man-Capt. Hayne Williams-had been in Thomson before and told me himself he was coming; he was from South Carolina; I declined to go to Evans'; he told Ramsey he would lave me to kill ; and Ram sey told me about it afterwards; Hamilton told me that he was go ing to kill Wilkinson for breaking up the trip in South Carolina; I told Wilkinson what Hamilton said he would do Hamilton also told me, after his arrest, that be would get out on bail and go to Thomson and kill Geo. Stovall, Wilkinson, Ramsey, and Capt. Thomson. About two weeks be fore Evans' robbery, Hamilton told me of the plan of the organi zation; a man named Beck was present at the time ; he said there was a regular organization extend ing from Hillsboro, North Caroli na, through Georgia and South Carolina to Sand Mountain, Ala bama, the object of which was rob bery and horse stealing ; the name of the band was the Industrious Knights. When I joined an oath was administered by Hamilton and Beck; I was to obey all the Cap tain's orders, and if I revealed any thing I was to be killed; Hamilton and Beck were the Captains. The recogrnition sign, when one of the. band met another, was for one to ta'ce his right hand and pass it carelessly three times through the hair on the right side of his head: the answer was for the other par ty to do the same thing' with the left hand on the left side of the head. Hamilton once proposed to me to go with him, and ,getting them off by themselves, force Usry and Sturges to give a check for as much money as they had in the bank in A ugusta; the men would then be kept prisoners until Ham ilton could come to Augusta and get the money ; if the money re alized was a large amount. the band was to divide the money and leave the country; if it was a small amount Usry and Sturges were to be killed, so that they could tell no tales. I would never have joined the band, nor had anything to do with it, had it not been for Hamilton's influence over me and my fear of him. I would have disclosed all I knew before the robbery of Mr. Evans, but was afraid Hamilton would kill me if 1 did. Long's statement and its as-I tounding revelations were listened' to with great attention. He and Willis were each sentenced to five y ears' imprisonment in the peni tentiary. In justice to this man Williams, implicated in this affair by the confession of Long. we will say we regard the statement as to him, as a base fabrication. Williams, like every other man, has his faults, differing, perhaps in degree from the majority of men, but we cannot believe him capable of hold ing, any fraternal relationns with. this new Order of outlaws. We have known Williams personally I many years, and his besetting sin, his greatest fault consists in the habit of drinking too much liquor, and the strange fatality hanging | over his business operations, though eminently a business man. I Every business operation he ever r embarked in failed, and of course I injured, pecuniarily, some of his c friends. Hayne Williams' war I record is good. He was a gallant, a dashing fellow, both as a soldier 1 and as a private citizen. He must, f however, have his fun at any cost d as to money, yet, as before inti- T: mated, we don't believe him a ct- t throat nr highway robber.-Lau- I rensville Rerald. t CAPT. CHARLES V. HAMILTON DENIES IMPLICATION WITH THE M'DUFFIE r ROBBERS. c Yesterday our reporter had an interview with Capt. Charles V. b Hamilton, the alleged leader of 0 the band of robbers, and who was j" convicted at the last term of Mc- h Duffie Superior Court, and sen- h tenced to ten years' imprisonment r in the penitentiary for robbery. I Capt. Hamilton said: I wish to si make a statement in regard to A the evidence of Long and. Willis, 0 and also in regard to the previous n character of those men. I was a 0 tissue of lies from beginning to end. Long's statement was identical with a pass.ge in a book called "The 1 Fancy Man; or, A November Day ir in Boston." Long had this book e1 here in jail with him and learned w that passage before the trial took U: place. Long stated that this rob-I f bery was his first offence. That bi was not true. He confessed to me, b: when he was with me in this jail, c( some time before the trial, that he w had been implicated in a number jC of crimes during and since the war. sc In 1864 he stole a horse and ex. fa changed it for a mule, which he n sold to a Mr. Lanier, in Abbeville County, South Carolina. He said that after the war, in 1865, he was hired by several parties to kill Mr. Lanier, for which service he was : to receive $100. Before he got to Lanier's house, however, he con cluded not to kill him but to give him a good whipping. Lanier was a horse doctor, and Long sent a man up to his house to tell him that a gentleman had a sick horse down the road, which he wanted t] attended to. Lanier went to B where Long was, who gave him P 300 lashes, almost killing him. n He was next in with a party who n robbed an old man named Roun- t tree, in Abbeville. Long was to h kill Rountree with a sledge-ham- ti mer, but as he made a blow at him b the old man dodged, and the ham- s< mer slipped from Long's grasp. d, Rountree then jumped to his gun o: and the robbers ran off, taking with them about $600. Immedi- t. ately afterwards, Long, with two ba others, stole a lot of guns, pistols, a: watch, and $150 in money from a party of negroes on Little River, ti in South Carolina. Finding that e: be was getting under suspicion, h e1v said he came down to Edgefieldjy and hired himself to SerIes & Hew- P itt, who were working a gold mine. t While there ho frequently stole li gold, which another person was c suspected of taking. He and an- a other party went to rob a negrob on the Savannah River, but ash they entered the house the negro t< struck at Long with an axe, cut- al ting open his shoulder and nearly p cleaving him in twain. He after- tl wards tried to make it appear 'I that it was the Elam boys, of Lin- v coIn County, who were concerned in this robbery. At Dorn's Mine, ti S. C., Long robbed the United p States census taker, in 1870, of his ra books and money. He said that s there was a man named Harriss v came to him afterward, and told him e that if he gave up the books he o might keep the money. He told Harriss he knew nothing about the c robbery. Harriss then went to a n man who was concerned with Long p in the affair, and told him Long had a confessed. The man then gave up - the books. Again falling under p suspicion, Long said he went to h Coweta County, Ga., and after v wards located in Thomson. He b also stole a horse from a man b~ named Black,velI, in Edgefield a County, S. C., and sold it in Glas- d cock County, Ga. Willis, who t tried to make the impression that a I had induced him to do wrong, b was as bad as Loag. He helped o to murder Atkins, besides being p engaged in other crimes. Ram- e sey, in 1866, went with a.party to Lincoln County, and searched the h house of an old negro man, named o Henry Cobb, for money. Failing si to get any at this house, they IC went to the house of~ Cobb's son, I whom they hung until he was r nearly dead, to make him confessd where his father's money was. p They then went back to Henry p Cobb's, where they were fired up-IT on by a party of negroes. One of' a Ramsey's party was killed and the c others were all wounded. Last t spring Hamsey went to New York s to get counterfeit money. His z expenses were paid by fnnr citi. i ens of the Ccunty, whose names [ never expect to make known. Reporter-If you are innocent, ,apt. Hamilton, why were you -onvicted? A jury of twelve hon. .st men tried your case. Hamilton-I was unable to em >lov lawyers until the last mo nent; consequently was not pre >ared. If I had had a chance, I ould have proved that Long and Villis were induced to testify gainst me, and could have estab ished my innocence to the satis action of every one. That which tid me the most harm was the re >ort that I was a United States de ective, trying to ferret out Ku [lux. If I was that, I was cer ainly a dangerous man in the ommunity. Reporter-Long's evidence in elation to you, Captain Hamilton, ,as very straightforA ard and con lusive. Hamilton-Yes ; but, as I said efore, he took every word of it ut of the book he bad here in I til with him Long stated that 1 e was twenty years old, while < is real age is twenty-four years. 'his he told me himself. Mr. i |vans, who was robbed some time I ince, has repeatedly said he -ould not believe Long on his ath. I am innocent, and am i iade to suffer for the crimes of I thers. Hamilton then stated that he as born in Spartanburg, S. C., in 347, and served through the war i Gen. Forrest's command, as I iptain of a band of scouts. He t as married in Edgefield, in Jan. j iry, 1867. Hamilton is a power- t Lily built man, and has anything it a pleasing countenance. His i ire statement that he is inno mnt will hardly be believed, s ben twelve citizens of MeDuffie r ounty, which was the principal f ene of his mis-doings, after a ,ir and impartial trial, have pro- r >unced him guilty. 1 [Augusta Constitutionalist, 8th. I - - - - + - - -- t Our New York Letter. t [GHT SCENES IN NEW YORK-THE t CELLARS AND THEIR CONTENTS- I BLACK CROOK IN THE CONCERT I HALLS-HOW THE WOMEN DRESS AND ACT-GENERAL NEWS. -NEW YORK, May, 1872. There is nothing in America 2at can compare with a walk on P roadway, say from the City Hall ark to Twenty-third Street, after ightfall, when the bustle of busi- J ess has ceased, and the glare of 3e gas lights has drawn out the uman moths who flutter around 1 ie flame. Go with me on a rief mental stroll, and let us ob rve some of the ordinary inci ents,-the public scenes that are pen to all. Step around the corner from 2e Tribne, Times or World cildings. Within a stone's throw re to be found some of the worst poor men's hells" that exist in 2o metropolis. They are cheap sting saloons in damp cellars, rhere, if you were sleeping alone, on would be eaten by rats. rinters go there for lunch, and >wards morning thieves and bul es gather to get their fifteen ents worth of poisoned whiskey, nd six cent plate of pork and eans. You will probably see alf a dozen broken-down repor ~rs and editors, once men of char eter, and still intelligent but now urposeless, seedy, and soggy with he strong potations of the place. 'hey are "night owls" and mostly ithout homes. By-and-bye they rill tumble forward, and with heir heads upon the greasy tables, ass into cheap oblivion. To-mor ow they will gather stray items, all them to the city press, and, rith the few cents thus earned, ke out another twentyv-four hours f existence. We return to Broadway to en ounter another multitude-the ight courtezans, with their hard, ainted faces, flaunting toggery, nd ribald talk, and see them seize -when they dare to do so-a asser by, and attempt to enveigle im into some neighboring den, rhere in all probability he would e drugged and plundered. Gain lers, "pimps" and "stool pigeons" re gathered in and around the oorways that lead to the faroI able and keno bank; and now] nd then some poor devil trem ling~ with the first symptoms of f delirium tremens, stops you to lead in mercy's name for money nough to buy him a drink. Reaching the vicinity of the otels, you will find on both sides f Broadway brilliantly illuminated igns, announcing this or that oncert Hsll. Enter one of these. t is a sample of the rest. The oom is probably a hundred feet eep and forty wide. An elevated latform holds a band of a dozen erformers, and the music they lay is select-the only pure thing bout the place. Two or three hun red people are gathered around he little tables, and they repre ent every age, condition and basi. ess of life. The crowd is waited inan hy fifty or oe ahandonad ADVERTISMC RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rafotf $1."0 pe %ae-enach--frAmtaaerdoa,and $1 for each subsequent insertion. Double column advertisements tenpercenton above. Notices of meetings,obituaries and tributes of respect, same rates per squame as rinary advertisements. Special notices in local column 20 euts per line. Advertisements not marked with the Iu= ber of insertions will be kept in till forbid and charged accordingly. Special contracts made with large adver tisers, with liberal deductions on above rates JOR PairZow Done with Nestness and Dispatch. Terms Cash. women, all distinguished by some grace of form, and all so dressed in tigbts, plush velvets and span gles, as to exhibit the same to ad vantage. You are no sooner seated than one of these creatures is at your side to take your order. "Two lagers." "Ain't yergoin' to treat?" sxclaims the coarse imitation of a Black Crook angel. "No"! She brings the lager in a huff, and sits away to find more accommo dating customers. Her "treat" onsists of three fingers of sarsa parilla, and she leans against the glass with all the nonchalance of in old toper, laughing in her 5leeve, meantime, at the bewild !red greenhorn, who pays his forty ,ents, under the fond suspicion ,hat he has contributed to her welfare a glass of real brandy and ind water. Of course the damsel ,ockets the difference. The sal ry of these miserable women is Lbout seven dollars a week, but )y swindling and commissions they nanage to make fifteen or twenty tollars. Leaving this disgusting plaec, vemove on to one which is thorough y German, and respectable. The Attendants here are men; the [rinks only beer, and the music, vhich nightly attracts several mundred people, is furnished by a emale band, who came to this ountry from Austria, and for a ime made a sensation in the reg Llar concert room. They play the iest Geman music and the enter ainment is akin to that which ay be seen in every city and own of the Faderland. Past troops of people now com ng from the theatres, past beg ars, organ grinders and street 7alkers by the thousand; past estaurants aglow with light and lied with ladies and gentlemen; ast bar rooms whence come the iuffled sounds of cursing and con 'ersation, we reach the up town otels and come to anchor. But he Great Spirit of Unrest is even here', for if it has been a busy. ay on 'Change, Wall Street is ransferred to the corridors and 'estibules. and the roar of the ionetary tide terminates only ang after honest folks should be bed. The engineer has touched solid oundation for the New York side ~f the great Brooklyn wire bridge, ~nd has commenced the masonry york within the caisson. Berg, he animal philanthropist, has ust had a man sent to the Peni entiary for tearing out a horse's ongue. The Mercantile Library s now open on Sundays, but the mthorities had first to secure a iberal speech from Beecher, to yave the way for public opinion. L'he Aldine for May is just out, ~iving further proof of the won lerful progressive power of its ~onductotra, both in the art and iterary department. It is, indeed, i triumph for America that its routhful civilization has given to :he art world a pr.hlication so inique in conception and so ex :ellent in its development. It is published by tho well-known house >f James 4ptton & Co., 23 Liberty street. The fever and ague is flourish ng in upper New York and the suburbs with more than ordinary rim. The low grounds around ientral Park especially seem idapted to bring on a personal ~arthquake and were it not for an y1d Knickerbocker remedy known mnd largely used in this vicinity is the St. John Pills, the doctors night reap a harvest. There is some peculiar aggressive virtue about the preparation however, which in nine cases out of ten wins the fight with disease, and niakes the people of the afflicted ocality go for their pill boxes with religous regularity. As they lo not belong to the family of iostrums, but are a well known >rofessional staple, it may serve ~ome unfortunate to know this ~act. They are at present con ~rolled by Messrs. Joseph A. Mor ~an & Co., of 198 Greenwich "LONG MAY Ir WAvL."--A young nother was - n the habit of airing ,he baby's clothes at the window. Eer husband didn't like it, and >elieving that if she saw her yractice as others saw it, she would desist, he so directed their ftrnoon walk as to bring the aur--ery window into full view 'rom the central p art of the town. Stopping abruptly he pointed to bhe offending linen flapping un :onsciously in the breeze, and asked, sarcastically. "My dear, what is that display ed in our window?" "'Why," she replied, "that is the dag of our unmon." Conquered by this pungent re tort, he saluted the flag by a swiag of his hat, and pressing his wife's arm closer with his own, said, as they walked homeward : "And long may it wave." 3apan has purchased $400,000 worth of boots and shoes in this mannter this year