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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c Vol XIZ[. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST2,187No34 THE HERALD 1$ PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry, S. C. BY THOS. F. GRENEKER, Editor and Proprietor. Terns, $2.00 per .Innin, Invariably in Advance. r The paper is stopped at the expiration of time for which it is paid. 27 The > mark denotes expiration of sub ecription. Professional Cards. GEORGE JOHNSTOXE. F. W. FANT. JOHNSTONE & FANT, Attorneys at Law, NEWBERRY, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Garolina. July 25, 30-1m. W. H. WALLACE, Attorney -at-Law, NEWBERRY, S. C. Office over Harmon's Store, adjoining HERnAL Office. Oct. 25, 43-tf Drugs J Fancy .rticles. BLUE GLASS! If you wish a soft, pleasant light to read by, get a Blue Glass Lamp Chimney, or a Combinati9% Chim: ey and Shade from POPE & WARDLAW. DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES. We have just received a splendid assort ment of HAIR and TOOTH BRUSHES, TOILET SOAPS, from 5c. a cake upwards, and an entire new supply of DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES and FANCY GOODS in gene ral, to which we invite the ai tention of all, more especially the ladies. Our stock of BRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES. PAINTS, OLS, YARNISNES,' GLASS, SEGARS, TOBA0C08, PIPES, CA NDY, Brandies, Wines and Whiskeys For Medicinal purposes, Is full and all recently purchased, which we will sell as LOW A.S THE LOWEST, and upon reasonable terms. PEESCEIPTIONIS COIPOUNYDED at all hours by our Dr. D. S. Pope, who can be found at night in room over rear por tion of o.ur store. * Respectfully, POPEN IVADAW, No. 5, !ollohon Row. Newber-ry, May 15, 1877. 20-tf. DR. E. E. JACKSON, DNGIST AND CllE1IST, COLUMBiA, S. C. Removed to store two doors next to Wheeler House. A full stock of Pure Medicines, Chemi cals, Perfumeries, Toilet Articles, Garden and Field Seeds~, always in store and at moderate prices. 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Address "The People's Journal," Portland, Maine. *33-1y SCHlOOL BOOKS JUST RECEIVED. McGuffey's, Wilson's and Sanders' Read ers. Spellers and Primers. Histories, Dictionaries, Grammars. Geographies, Arithmetics. Copy Books, Slates, Pencils. Chalk Crayons,.&c., &c. Just received at , -. e HERAt) BOOK STO1| Aug. 8, 32-tf. -...~ ATL ANTA M ~COLLEGE, ATLM A, CA. The Twentieth Annual Course o Lectures -will commence ,Oct. 15th, 1S77, and close FCULY..G. Westmoreland, W.F. West moreland, W. A. Love, V. H. Tallaferro, Jno. Thad. Johnson, A. W. Calhoun, J. H. Logan, J. T. Banks; Demonstrator of Anatomy, Send for Announcement, giving lull in formation. JN. THAD). JOHNSON, Dean. Aug. 8, 32-im. MARTHA WASHINGTON This institution, beautifully situated in the mountains of Virginia, on the Virginia I n TeUDneseRiod hvgacmo dtn onee ihnde angit aborders offers for ongle underi andtades ffers to young ladies superiOr advantages 4.~~11t,he branchesofa lihO C tr.t FIRST-BORN. BY MARY E. BRADLEY. Seventeen years of shine and shadow, Since the rosy light of morn Made the sweet June roses redder In the hour that you were born Hour that brought to flesh and spirit Such an ecstacy of pain, Such a rapture of rejoicing As will never come again! I remember how the tender Rose of morning flushed the gray, How the sun, with sudden splendor, Changed the dawning into day; How the dappled clouds went sailing Clear across the summer sky, How the robins trilled and twittered When I heard my baby cry ! Seventeen years, but I remember Still the passionate delight Of that radiant June morning, After all the weary night. Haply, born to-woman-nature, It may come to you to learn, With your own child for a teacher, Such a story in your turn. If it ever does, my darling, May the time be rosy June; May the robins trill and twitter Such another happy tune, And the child that. God shall give you, All I ask is, may it be Just the daily joy and comfort That my first-born is to me! tIcttc ftor~. UNDERTIlE BED. o "My hair must, I think, have turned white in a single moment. Let me tell you about it," and Mrs. Hartley, a lady of thirty or there abouts, with a pleasant and singu larly expressive face, her head cov ered with a luxurious mass of hair, silvery white, commenced the fol lowing narrative : "Ten years ago, this very day, I was married. My husband's busi ness was such that he was not able to leave the city for any considera ble length of time ; so my dreams of a wedding tour on the Continent were unrealized, and 1 was com pelled to conteet myself with a few weeks' travel ifthe West. "After having visited several of the principal cities we came across an old friend, who, with his wife, was also in search of pleasure. One evening, at dark, vie found ourselves at a little settfement a few miles from Milwaukee. It had commenced to rain, the night bade fair to be very unpleasant, and to complete our miseiy, we discovered that the driver we had hired to take us to Milwaukee was either terribly stu pid, or a little.intoxicated-the lat tr seemed most probable. My usband, after questioning him in reference to the locality, found that a short distance further was a tav e, where we could spend the night. "This was very acceptable news to me, for 1 had grown exceedingly nervous at the approach of the storm, as well as at the lateness of the hour, and the singular behavior of our guide and driver. ."My husband's 'Shall we stop or go en ?' met with a hearty 'Stop by a11 means,' from the wh.ole party ; and after a few moments more groping among the dripping trees, we halted before a little wayside inn, which, at first appearance, pre sented rather a comfortless aspect. The room into which we were ush ered was large, square and well lighted ; a cheerful fire crackled. upon the hearth, presenting a strik ing contrast to the chill, dizzy out side. "It did not take long to remove our wrappings and order supper, and in a few moments a good, sub stantial repast was laid before us. After having sat an unprecedentedly long time over our coffee, our friends, Mr. and M~vrs. Withers, were placed at one end of a long hall, or passage, and we at the other." "This is cozy," said Frank, pre paring to retire. "The whole get up of this place reminds me of our country houses at the East. I haven't had anything to taste so good since I left home as my sup per did to-night. Plain, clean, sub stantial and enough of it, and this ain't bad," glancing at the snowy dimity, and high feather bed. "But what's the matter with you ?" he continued, amazed at receiving no reply. "A strange nervousness had all at once taken possession of me, and the sensation was so new that I was absolutely frightened. It was the first time in my life that I had ever experienced such a feeling of fear, and I was too proud to admit the truth, so evaded the query by de claring that I was utterly fagged out, and needed sleep. Just then a knock was heard at the door. My husband answered the sum Imons. 'Would you be kind enough," Isaid a voice, which I immediately --rcogize as our landlord's, "to come with me to the next house ? A poor fellow has sent for some one to read the Bible. He is in the last agonies, sir, and I am sorry to say no one here can do it, and I have made bold to come and ask you. It seems a shame to have a poor fellow step out withoi.t a single crumb of comfort.' "I'll be with you in a moment," replied Frank ; and with a "Thank you," which was altogether too cringing for my taste, the man turn ed away. "But, Frank, you are not going !" I exclaimed, in horror, as he drew on his boots. "Why, Lis, what a question! who would refuse such a request ?" he replied, without looking at me. "Of course I am going. It isn't possible my little wife would say a word against so simple an act of kindness? God only knows what straits we may be reduced to in our last hours. 'A cup of cold water in my name,' and 'As ye do it unto the least of one of these,' remem ber." "With a sob, which I could not restrain, I hid my face on the pil low." "Well, I declare, you are ner vous," he continued, leaning over the bed to comfort me. "You are actually . trembling. Now, be a good little girl and bolt the door after me. It isn t at all probable I shall be gone over an hour," and without another word, he slipped his watch,pocket-book and one of his pistols under my pillow, and was gone. "Oh, that dreadful presentiment of evil, and nothing else, that made me so unwilling to be left alone. I tried to say, 'Frank, I will not al low this ; if you insist upon going, I will accompany you;' but in some incomprehensible manner, I was withheld, probably my anxiety to stand well in the estimation of my husband caused me to restrain fur ther exhibitions of timidity. "He told me to fasten the door, but I dreaded to step out of bed. It seemed as if some great, black hand was all ready to grab at my ankle ; but I knew it must be done, and after a moment's hesitation, I leaped out, turned the key, drew the bolt, and with the speed of an antelope, tucked myself down into the comfortable feathers. "Sleep ! I might as well have tried to sleep in the regions of the infernal, couldn't close my eyes even. There was a painful sensa tion of its being necessary to keep myself close together. My feet seemed so far away from my head that I was compelled to draw them carefully up, and when at last my knees touched my chin, and there was no further curtailing possible, I tried to define what I was afraid of ; but the more I tried the more wretched and perplexed I became. I could see nothing-hear nothing; but a warning of danger had been wafted to my soul, which that soul felt, but could not understand. "A cold perspiration started from my face, but I dared not lift my hand to wipe it off. Every sense seemed preternaturally acute. After a space of time, which seemed to me like an eternity, I distinctly heard a slight rustle under the bed. Still I stirred not. Again and again it was repeated, and at last I discovered that somebody was try ing to move from his hiding-place. The cause of my horror was then plain. What should I do ? Rush for the door, and attempt to Alarm my friends at the other end of the passage ? To save my life, I could not move an inch ! Still the strange movement beneath me. It appear ed as if my right hand were taken, without the least volition of my own, and laid upon the little de stroyer under my head. "My eyes seemed riveted on the 'foot of the bed, where, in a little while, a hand appeared-a long black hand, which grasped the rail, as if in this way to assist its owner to his feet. "Slowly, as I had seen figures appear before a trap-door on the boards of a theatre, the horrid thing assumed proportions. Not for a second did I remove my eyes. "The head was small, covered with long, perf&'tly straight black hair ; tiny, bead-like eyes, glistened like those of a serpent. The crea ture's mouth seemed liteg~lly to spread from ear to ear, while t he thick, crimson lips gave a crowning hideousness to the most terrible countenance I ever imagined. "My hand clutched the murder ous little weapon. "The wretch moved slowly to ward me, keeping his horrid eyes fixed on my face, while a leer im possible to describe, proclaimed that he thought his job an easy one." "Gold,lady-gold--watch-gold! Right away, igow ! Then Bill hug gy you!I" muttered the brute, ad vancing another step. "With a steadiness that would have done credit to a professional shooting at a target under ordinary circumstances, this right hand drew out the little pistol, fired, and in a second's time the giant, with a n;i-;in shriek reele and fell. "It appeared to Lae that a legion of men came running up stairs. They tried the door. "This I thought a part of the plot, of course. My husband had been beguiled into leaving me, and I was in a den of thieves. So there I stood by the door ready to shoot the first person who crossed the threshold. "They entreated to be let in. "Whoever attempts to enter this room is a dead man !" I answered with my mouth to the key-hole. "Let me in, Lis, please!" said a well-known voice. "Bella, open the door. What can be the matter ? There is nothing to hurt you from the outside, Bella, darling; open the door !" "And I did. "My God ! What is this ?" came from every member of the house hold, as the dead body met their view. "And, my God ! what is this ?" said my husband, taking my hair, which had turned perfectly gray, which hung about my shoulders, into his hand and bursting into tears, "Oh, darling ! why did I leave you !" was all the poor fellow could utter. "The man was a villain who had several times escaped the penalties of the law, on account of what it was pleased to term his idiocy. "So there was no conspiracy ?" I ventured to ask, after taking a long breath. "None at all," replied Frank. "The poor man we went to visit died while I was tl:ere." [Cricket on the Hearth. Mtisteilrntins. USURY. AN ESSAY READ BEFORE THE SUMMER MEETING OF THE STATE GRANGE AT ANDERSON, S. C., ON THE 8TH OF AUGUST, 1877, BY E. L. ROCHE, ESQ., OF ASHLEY. GRANGE, NO.1. The laws regulating interest are among the earliest found in the statute books. In Greece, as far back as five hundred years before Christ, money lending was a recog nized occupation, and 18 per cent. was the legal rate ; but -36 per cent. was charged for mercantile loans, and as much as 16 per cent. per day was paid by doubtful borrow ers. The Roman law, called the laws of the Twelve Tables, allowed interest at the rate of 1 per cent. per month, or 12 per cent. per an num; but the Roman laws on this subject were frequently modified and altered to prevent evasions, but apparently without success. In the year 408 the legal rate of in terest was reduced to 5 per cent. Justinian made a further reduction to 4 per cent., but exempted mer chants, who were allowed to pay and receive 8 per cent. The usu rers, however, under this reign are known to have taken as much as 60 per cent. where the risks of loss was gireat. Stringent laws against usury were passed in subsequent years by other rulers of the Roman Empire ; but the money lenders contnued to evade and render them nugatory. In the year 740 the Roman Senate again ratified a law making 12 per cent. the legal rate of interest, and forbade Sena tors to engage in the business of money lending. Again later, we find, under the Emperor Theodo sius, 24 per cent. as lawful interest in Rome. By the laws of Moses, Jews were pr~ohibited from taking interest from each other ; but were expressly permitted to do so from strangers. The canonical laws gov erning the early Christians also forbid the taking of interest from *their brethren- Thiis idea was taken no doubt from the Jewish laws on this subject, as we do not find in the New Testament the practice of taking usury condemned, but ra ther commended, notably in the parable of the talents, where the slothful and unprofitable servant who hid his lord's money in the ground and failed to put it at in terest is punished, but the servant who traded with the talents com mitted to his care, and gained by that means other talents, is reward ed by having given to him not only what he before possessed, but also the talent which the first had failed to profitably use. Evidently the prohibition of the canonical law of the early Christians was intended to regulate the intercourse among "the brethren," that is among those who were to be the conspicuous leaders, just as the apostles were sent out without money to pay board, and the brethren were ex pected to provide for them in their journeyings ; all their goods were in common. Of course society gen erally cannot be regulated upon such a basis, and it would be as absurd to pass laws now against people char-ging board as it is against their charging hire for the loan of money. After the fall of the Roman Empire, and during what is called the dark ages, no interest was permitted, but a sys t+-i cae rents was practiced, whereby borrowed money was re turned yearly in small sums. As we approach nearer to our own times the rates of interest are found I to fluctuate, but still, upon the whole, becoming steadily lower. During the reign of Henry VIII in England, 10 per cent. was the law ful rate ; under James I, 8 per cent.; under Anne, 5 per cent. William and Mary borrowed at 8 per cent. from the Bank of En gland-at that time a new institu tion recently established. Money can now be borrowed in England at from 2 to 5 per cent., the cur rent rate being regulated entirely by the abundance or scarcity of the article in the hands of lenders. From the brief review of the his tory of interesj laws, which I have given above, one fact is clearly de fined, namely, that no law, hereto fore enacted, has been stringent enough to prevent what has been designated as usury. Nay, even in the laws themselves we find a redognition of the adage, "Neces sity knows no law," and that an crease or decrease in the interest obtained on loans must be governed by the individual wants of the par ties to the contract. In one instance merchants are allowed to pa3 and receive 8 per cent., but borrowers engaged in other pursuits pay but 4 under one ruler ; 36 per cent. is named as the legal rate under a succession of others; the ranges of lawful interest run all the way from 24 to 2 per cent. This proves that when the people were prosperous and money plentiful, and the risk to the lenders reduced to a mini mum, they were willing to accept small returns for the use of their capital. But in times of difficulty and danger, either from internal dissensions or foreign war, when the tenure by which property was held became impaired, and the pro ductive energies of the people crip pled, money, like corn, clothing or any other valuable thing necessary to the comfort or convenience of domestic life, advanced in price; in fact it was worth more, and those who had it to lend required to be paid according to the risk run and the demand - growing out of the necessities of the situation. The people of South Carolina are to-day in a position similar to this ; they are, so to say, in a transition state, and have been so for ten long years ; nor have they yet solved the problem or settled what they will do with it. Trained in the management of one kind of labor, namely, slave labor, the landed proprietors were, without preparation, called upon to organ ize a new system, and make the former slave profitable in his new relations as a free man. What was possible or impossible in this di rection no man knew, and expe rience could be the only teacher. The land owner was driven by the necessities of his position to accept the situation and ta?ke the risks, be they great or small. But the cap italist, who was called upon to ad vance the cash with which the ne cessary stock, tools, fixtnres and labor was bought, could have no inducement to embark in this busi ness but the hope of gain, nor could he have been expected to do so for a rate of interest of 6 or 7 per cent. per annum. The abnormal political condition of South Carolina also intensified the difficulties under which her people labored, and the frightful shrinkage in values, not only of real estate, but personal property also, operated seriously against the introduction of capital from abroad, and it was only the high rates of interest and prospective profits that could induce moneyed men to take the risk incident to so disor ganized a state of society. Under the circumstances, the repeal of the usury law was a wise and ne cessary measure, freeing the land owner and capitalist alike from an1 impracticable and useless incum brance. With the absolute need to borrow or starve, the land owner found his ability to furnish ade quate security vastly curtailed, but by this repeal the former was ena bled to borrow on the produce of his land, and the latter to obtain security from the same source. The system of taxation hereto- 1 fore pursued by the dominant po litical party in this State has also i compelled bankers and mogiey lend-] ers to demand high rates of inter- 1 est from borrowers. Private indi-1 viduals are, in many instances, en abled to evade taxation on personal1 property ; but bankers and banking i houses are, from the nature of their business, under constant surveil lance, and it is almost exclusively 1 from institutions of this kind that < planters, factors and agents obtain the funds by which their crops are ] cultivated and their produce moved. The united taxes levied on these institutions, I am credibly inform- 1 ed, together with the expenses of management and working, will ag- 1 gregate 9} per cent. on their cap ital. A law, therefore, limiting in terest would either close these banks, or force them to resort to evasions, which would complicate bsin-e i an he morally wrong, even when beyond the reach of legal remedies. Re-enact this law and the trans actions of ordinary business would be hampered by numberless subter fuges ; agents, brokers and middle men, would reap a rich reward from the necessities of borrowers, and in place of a fair and open trade in money, by which all loans would be governed, and a known market rate of interest established, a complicated system of commissions, exchanges and overcharges would be devised, and result only in increased ex pense and annoyance to the unfor tunate borrower. The old usury law formerly in force in this State was, as is well known, a dead letter before its repeal by the Legislature, so tniversal had become the prac tice of evading it. The temptation to do so would be greater now than before the war, as the moral tone in business circles is infinitely lower and practices recognized as legitimate that would not then have been permitted. I have heard the argument used by the advocates of a usury law that one of the chief objects was to hamper the farmer, prevent his borrowing money, and in that way confine his operations to the narrow limits of his own labor and the labor of his imme diate family. What progress or im provement can come from a scheme so narrow and contracted as this ? These legislators would tie the bands of the man of energy to the plow tail and hoe handle, give him no chance to hire help to till additional acres, to fertilize his fields or improve his stock, by restrictinghis undeniable right to go into a free market, and make his free contracts for what money he needs, and pay for his cash, just as he pays for his labor or supplies, that is to say, no more or no less than what it is worth. Besides, all men in South Carolina are not farmers, or even re motely connected with agricultural pursuits. It is the manifest duty of the Legislature to make laws for the government of the merchant, the man ufacturer, the mechanic and the pro fessional man, as well as for the land owner and farmer, and it should also foster and care for the material inter ests of every class. To move the crops and supply the multifarious wants of society, the merchant must have either from his own stores large supplies of ready cash or be perforce a constant borrower. The manufac turer has to meet daily his expen.ses for labor, raw material and repairs. o, too, with the mechanic Wvho con tracts for work, and to whoma the journeyman looks for daily bread. Banks were originally designed to meet the wants of such as these, and without exception every member of bhe classes enumerated above will tell you, "Pass no usury laws, leave us ree to make such contracts for money is seems best to us." They know ~hat the rate per cent. for loans is xed by the laws of trade, and regu ated by causes beyond 'the reach of ~eneral laws. In former years in the State of outh Carolina money was not worth ore than 6 or 7 per cent. because apital was abundant, and a greater ortion of the labor necessary for con luting agricultural and mechanical peratons being performed by slaves, eady money was but little needed, md a few dollars went a long way in ;hose halcyon days. The banking sapital alone amounted to $15,000, )00, and the banks were allowed to ssue bills to the amount of $5,000, )00 more. They were also -estricted o 6 per cent. interest for discounting 0tes, but could buy and sell foreign md domestic exchange. Now mark he workings of these institutions With all the advantages derived from ssuing bills upon which they paid hemselves no interest, but upon which 1hey received 6 per cent., they found t still more profitable to transfer a arge part of their capital to the great noney centres of this country and ~urope, and employ their money in raling in exchange, untrammelled >y usury laws. A. T. Stewart, the great dry 'goods nillionaire of New York city, bought large part of his foreign exchange rom the agents of the Bank of Char eston. What immediate benefit was his large capital employed in New ork to the agricultural community in outh Carolina? Did it make money ~heaper ? No farmer or planter, as a ule, had bank credit in those days in ny ordinary city or country bank, for hey all did their business more in Tew York than at their local offices; he presidents carried the banks in heir pockets. The planter requiring mdvances was forced by the above sys em into the hands of the commission nen who knew the ropes, and although per cent. was the rate of interest that ppeared on the face of the bonds; no hing was said of the commissions ~harged for finding the cash. The ef ect of the re-enactment of a usury aw at the present time would be to erange and obstruct the whole finan :ial machinery by which the agricul :ural and mechanical industries of the 3tate are carried on. Confidence in he integrity of the people of South Jarolina is being re-established. and ,iso in their ability to meet their lia. iities, and the dictates of wisdom would be to interfere by legislative nactments as little as possible with ah ,.conize modes of tra'nsacting business. No law which could be en acted would or could annul existing contracts. These must expire by their own limitation. The signs of the times indicate that from natural causes interest here in South Carolina, as elsewhere, must decrease. Already has money fallen from 12 per cent. per annum to 7 or 8. With an in crease in our material resources, a fur ther reduction is certain; confidence will bring out the secret hoards now unemployed, and the lenders become numerous and the borrowers .ompara tively few. The great principle which underlies this question is one that has always prominently influenced the minds of Southern men, and particularly men of South Carolina. Legislative inter ference with personal rights have at no time found favor in this State. The usury law may be placed in the same category with the Puritan blue laws and the modern Maine liquor and pro hibition laws, with which you are all familiar. I for one do not desire to see the Grangers of South Carolina putting themselves on record as advo cates of such measures as these-laws simply enacted to satisfy popular clamor, which neither those who cry out loudest for their passage or the legislators who enact them intend to obey. The Grange must rise above these petty considerations, and look to the true interests of the whole people ; not to those which are supposed to benefit one class at the expense of the others. A law that cannot fail to em barrass the mercantile and mechanical classes must also in the end bear hard ly upon the agricultural, and no legal enactment regulating interest can make money plentiful and lenders of it ac commodating. But a good govern ment, honest officials, .indrastious far mers, and prosperous 4erebants, with home manufacturers, making a home market for the produce of the soil, these are, and have been, the wants of South Carolina, and these alone can bring capital into the State and true prosperity to her people. THE BOOK OF EXODUS. It is gratifying to the moral sense, as well as instructive and anmpsing, to review the list of radi cal politicians who once held high carnival in the State House and ruled South Carolina with iron rods and brazen brows. Of these the first to depart was ex-Treasurer Niles G. Parker, against whom, du ring Chamberlain's term, the State obtained a verdict of $50,000 for the fraudulent issue of Conversion bonds. He escaped fro1n jail, was recaptured and released under ha beas corpus, and is hiding in New Jersey. After Parker, the, roses ung sturdily upon their bushes, ntil the coming of Hampton, when they begun falling thick and fast. 1. The first under the new order of things, to disappear, was ex Land Commissioner C. P. Leslie, who came to the conclusion that when the Hampton Government was firmly established he could no longer clear his own skirts by threatening his accomplices. 2.. After Leslie, and immediately pon Chamberlain's surrender, went . H. Jones and E. V. Glover, car pet-bag legislators of Georgetown County, who foresaw the wrath to ome, and fled before the face of the sheriff. 3. Governor Hampton took for al possession of the State House n the 12th of April. On the night f the 11th of May, Mir. Daniel H. hamberlain took his departure for ew York. 4. On the 13th day of May, A. D. 877, B. F. Whittemore, the fat fiend of Darlington and State Sena tor, departed for his home in Mas sachusetts, and has failed to re spond to the affectionate request that he would come back and re ove certain stains upon his es utcheon. 5. Mr. L. Cass Carpenter, for erly Editor of the radical organ f this State, '-ex-Congressman and ex-Revenue Collector, was arrested, n the 28th of June at the instance f the Investigating Committee, harged with forgery, and is now out on bail awaiting trial. 6. Jonathan J. Wright, a Penn sylvania negro, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, has been im peached by the Legislature for hab tual drunkenness, and now awaits trial. 7. Y. J. P. Owens, ex-State Sena tor from Laurens, who accumulated large fortune by manipulating oupons and certificates, has mys teriously disappeared from the ken of South Carolinians. - , 8. The lovely form of R. K. Scott, for two terms Governor of this State has also vanished amid the storm of investigation. 9. F. L. Cardozo, mixture of ne rro and Spaniard, ex-State Treasu rer and member of the Returning Board, was arrested on the 21st of July for fraud, bailed in the sum of $20,000, and has disappeared. 10. Henry E. Hayne, mulatto, ecretary of State from 1872 to 1876, and a member of the Return ing Board, has also fled the State. 11. IR. H. Gleaves, mulatto, ex Lieutenant-Governor, has fled no one knows whither. 12. On the24t nstaant S. J ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements Inserted at the rate of $1.00 per square (one inch) for first insertion, and 75 cents for each subsequent insertion. Double column advertisements ten per cent. on above. Notices of meetings, obituaries and tribu:cs of respect, same rates per square as ordinary advertisements. Special Notices in Local column 15 cen:s per line. Advertisements not marked with the num ber of insertions will be kept in till forbid, and charged accordingly. Special contracts made with large adve! tisers, with liberal deductions on above rater. -:0: JOB PRIAwTING DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCHf. TERMS CASH. Lee, colored, ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives and So licitor of the Second Circuit, was arrested, charged with the fraudu lent issue of pay certificates, and awaits trial. 13. On the same day ex-Governor and ex-Speaker F. J. Moses was arrested in this city on a similar charge, and conveyed to Columbia, where he awaits trial. 14. On the 25th, A. O. Jones, colored, ex-Clerk of the House was arrested on a charge of fraud and perjury, and taken to Columbia, where he is awaiting trial. 15. C. W. Montgomery, ex-State Senator, is under arrest and await ing trial on the charge of fraudu lently issuing pay certificates. 16. Josephus Woodruf, ex-Clerk of the Senate, fled the State but has been recaptured, and brought back for trial. The charges against him are complex and the evidence is de lightfully complete. 17. Ex-Judge and ex-Congress man S. L. Hoge, of Ohio, has left South Carolina. 18. D. T. Corbin, of Massachu setts, the former holder of a dozen different offices, great ku-klux pros ecutor, and United States District Attorney, has gone to Europe, and it is asserted that he will not return. Those of the old Iing who yet remain are E. W. M. Mackey, Speak er of the Bayonet House, W. N. Taft, carpet-bagger and State Sen ator, C. C. Bowen, Sheriff of Char leston County, C. W. Buttz, ex Congressman and ex-Solicitor of this Circuit, T. C. Dunn, ex-Comp troller General, 3. L. Neagle, of Massachusetts, ex-Comptroller Gen eral, W. J. Whipper, a black carpet bagger, ex-Member of the Legisla ture and would-be Judge, W. H. Stone, carpet-bagger, ex-Attorney General and member of the Return ing Board, R. B. Elliott, black, car pet-bagger, ex-Speaker and ex-Con gressman, H. W. Purvis, mulatto, ex-Adjutant and Inspector General ma member of the Returning Board, R B. Carpenter, ex-Judge, S. A. Swails, mulatto, State Sena or, Sammy Green, black, State Senator, Robert Smalls, colored, Congressman, and Daddy Cain,-eol red, ex-Congressman and Preach er. The probability is that of those left many will be, ere long, struck by the reform lightning, and in a year from now there will hardly be a vestige left of the most powerful, mncrupulous and corrupt Ring that eer oppressed a people. [News and Courier. In June things are-are exceed ngly nice ; we can prove it by a Graphic paragraph : "This is the onth when Emilie 'thrust among be thorns her little hand.' This s the month when Juliet leant from the balcony and dallied with lowers. This is the month when ilton's Eve stood half veiled in fragance 'so thick the blushing oses round her blew.' This is the onth when, as Lowell reminds s, nature lays her ear to the earth ,o see if it be in tune. Lilacs lossom. Oysters-rest and medi ate. Little boys admire the beau eous honey-bee, and get stung ainfully on their pan taloons. The appy milkmaid hies her to the owing herd, singing as she goes, nd gets kicked over the fence by bhe cow with the poke on. Hens row on the front stoop, and lay - beir eggs in the other man's yard. ['be frog chants his evening an hem from the contiguous pond, nd the gorgeons robin whoops 'er p when you want to sleep in the norning. Fruit begins to appear n the stalls of the rural market, ut fish-balls will be found safest or a steady diet. The air is balmy, weltering, half-hazy, and the Bun olls over, red as a billiard ball. ow cats wail their platonic bal ads on back fences, and this, oh, his-is the season when it isn't Iite safe to be a dog." "Now, my boy," said the exam ner, "if I had a mince pie, and boud give two-',welfths of it to on, two-twelfths to Isaac, two ~welfths to Henry, and should ~ake half the pie myself, what ould be left ? Speak out loud, so ~hat all can bear?" "The plate!" ~houed the boy. She said it was a very bright idea. e said he knew a brighter one, nd when she asked him what it as he answered, "Your eye, dear!" Phere was silence for a moment ; ben she laid her head upon the ~im of his ear and wept. * ~* T,nv.AI.,Aiy ~ kr,ovAn~,- urhn b~