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Ku-Klux Trials." Tu? UNITKD- STATK? COURT, FRIDAY, January 5, 1872.-Tho oourt mot ot ll A. M*, Judges Bond and Bryan on tho bouoh Mr* Corbin s tu tod to tho oourt that th oro were somo eovoutoon prisouors who dosirqd to ploul guilty to tho charge ol'conspiracy under the Ku ivhtx Aot. They wcro oallod iu tho follow order, end made u formal plo? of guil ty : Aaron ^i?aoll, Monroe Soruggs, Alexi ?rldgos, John Burnott, Stephen'D. Sphun, Marion Gardner, Chostorfleld Soruggs, lion ry Surrutt, A. Kird, Martin Hammett, Low is Henderson, Wm. Self, Charles Tato, John B. Tindull, Melvin C. Blaokwell, John L. Mooro, John Cantrell. Mr. Corb'u request od that tho oourt pass judgment ou tho pri soners. Aaron Ezoll was called up and asked what he had to say in extenuation of his otTcnoo. Ho statod that ho hud bceu forced into thc 'o'fder through fear ; had boon on two raids, .nd whipped thrco colored mon. Judgo Bond sontenced him to a Quo of 610 aud im prisonment one year. Judgo Bond called nil tho prisoucrs up, and charged thom os follows : You havo pleaded guilty to an indictment which charges you with conspiring with other mon throughout this Stato, to intimi date a certain class of voters by moans of throats, beating and even killing, because that C?olMof citizens were opposed to tho conspira tors in political opinion. \yo aoknowlcdgo,great perplexity iu. do termining vfHat punishment snail bo minted Ottt td you. Wp havo npwords strong onough to signify our horror at tho moans employed to carry out tho purpose of tho klaus. Our difficulty is personal to you. You have, as it appears from your state ments to thc court, been brought up in tho most; deplorable ignorance. At tho og of manhood, but ono or two of you can cither rend or write, and you havo livod in a com munity where tho evidenco scorns to estab lish tho faot that mon of promiuouco aud edu cation-those who, by their superiority ir) these respects, establish mid control publio opinion-were for tho most part participants, in tho conspiracy, or KO much in terror of il that you could obtain fif?m them'neither protection nor advice, had you sought it. Thcro is abundant proof of tho uaturo aud character of tho conspiracy Kvidenco of nightly raids by bands of disgn od mon, who bioko into tho houses of ncgroos and dragged them from their beds-parents und children r^-and, ticiug them to trees, unmercifully boat them, is exhibited iu every case. Mur and rapo aro not uufrcquout accompani ments, thc story of which is too indecent for publio mention. Tho persons upon whom these atrocities arc committed arc almost al ways colored people. Whatever excuso is given for a raid, its conclusion was almost al ways accompanied by a rcL iko for tho former exercise of thc suffrage and a warn ns to thc future oxcroise of tho right to voto. But what is quite us appalliug to tho court as; tho horriblo nature of theso offouccs, is tuc uttor absence, on your part, and on thc part of others who have mode confession here, of any scuso or feeling that you havo done anything\ery wroug in confessed participa tiou in outrages which ore unexampled out side of thc lud?an Territory. Some of your ocmradcB recito tho ciroun: CC3 of a brutal, unprovoked murder, done by themselves, with us littlo apparent nbhofoooo os they would relato tho iucidonts of a pic-uio j and you, yourselves, speak of tho number of blows with a hickory which you inflicted, at midnight, upon thc lacerat ed, bleeding bock of a defenceless woman, without so much us a blush or sigh of regret. None of you seem to havo tho slightest idea of, or respect for, tho sacredness of tho hu* mau person. Some of you havo yourselves been beaton by tho klaus without feeling n smart, but tho physioul pain. Thcro np pears to bo uo wounding of tho spirit; nt suoh of injury to yourself ns a man, us would bo felt by thc humblest of your fellow oiti eons in nuy other part of tho United Stutci with which I om acquainted. There tho citizen upon whom such outrages ?vero perpetrated, stung to mad noss by thc insult to his muuhood, would bo swift to fol low tho wYoug-door ti tho end of the work to make him atone for it. You inako excust for this in your stotcinctit to tho court thai you aro very ignorant; that tho klaus woulc liavo booton you, and oven killed you, hat you refused to joiu them in their crimes Some of you now particularly boforo mc havi actually suffered for your refusal boforo yoi really uuitcd iu membership with them. Tin court, ki an endeavor to recognize somo fea tui?s of humanity in you, has considcrci thea) fuels which you plead as excuses. Yoi hov? grown up iu a country whore slaver OJt?isted ?oiv a long timo,.and whoro tho whip ping-post wps a standing institution. To sec blacks ilagollatod was no unusual oe ourrenoo. Tho scene often viowod, with it novelty, lost its revolting effoot. And whe it came to bo understood that tho hu wian porson was not so sacred in tho coloro man as to socuro immunity from outrago, i ?id not tali 0 it long to loso its sa ci od c In rai tar io yourselves, and iu ?Il other men win toke tho--colored man, was obliged to labor. 1 muet bo from this cause that your utter indi (terence to- waronga which, among froenici would stir, a fever i? tho blood of ago, orisci t And thod yoU tell us that j ou differ froi many other portions of the country in tiri that1 it hos always boon obligatory upon yoi arid tho class to whioh you belong, to look persons of wcrlth and education for cominan iud that you, in your ignot a nco, had to fe low stbth ?persona implicity. ' It wrll appoar strange to your fellow-cou trymon, whe read ycur story and th ot you i* confederates,' however willing tin muy bc to believe you, that BO large a por tit af'thc young white men of your County c: bo in suoh a stato of abjcot slavery to tl men of property abovo them, a? to bc willit to commit murder at their command. In no oase has there boon any resistance those mid night raiders, exoopt on tho pa of tho odored pcoplo. You say somo of y< ?-?laid out" in tho woods night nftor4 nigl find have hidden yourselves in thiokets to c capo theso marauders. Nono of you, hoi ?veV, havo had tho manliness to defend y cr ??firesides from'thc assaults of theso luwlc ?io*;?'' Thora has not been, on your patt, far ns tho evidence shows, an ass mit ai ?battery committod in dofenoo of fumily ai too no an& that freemen hold dear. ' Admitting nil you have said to thc cou ?o ho tiUO^wbHo-tho story of your conditt ?nd of your participation in theso outrng jthrough foar Is parafai enough, tho foots Hot <*eoA? y0"' Thcy may Pn,Hnte'in *?r dvgrec; your offence, but they cannot jual! .von The pttnishmont tho com t awards y< & partly inflicted that you moyloaro that J V??? ,f.h.o", or fa,* punSlunont will' justify u lunn in unprovoked violoooo to an other, uulcss tho danger threatonod to tho wrong door by imminent or actually prosont at tho timo of his wrong doing, and oyon thon tho danger mast bo of present groat bodily harm, n?d of death itself, boforo somo of tho criminal conduct confessed would be justified. It doos not oxcuso you for participating in this conspiracy, and raiding upon inoffensive colored pcoplo,.. dragging thom from thoir bods, beating somo and hanging othors, that you had notico if you did not j otu j tho klaus would visit you. .You oro bound to run tho risk or sock means of protection, rather than do vlolonco to your neighbor. Thc law and your follow, citizens look to you to muko this threat of violcnoo difficult of execution, by n muuly ro sistauoo or an onforcomcut of tho law. You had no right, when you could escupo, to make tho prioo of your security tho violation of your neighbor's. You and your confederates must moko up your minds either to resist tho Ku Klux con spiraoy or tho laws of tho United States.-i Thoy Csu not both exist together; and it only needs a little manliness and courage, on tho part of you ignorant dupes of designing mon, to givo supremacy to tho law. Bo assured, it wiil not bc taken as an oxouso in your oasc, or iu any other, to hear it said, ''I slow this man because thief ordered it, and 1 was afraid," aud " 'brushed' nud rapod theso oth ers bcoauso I dreaded to bc whippod if I did not." Mr. Corbiu called John Harris, ono of tho colored mon whipped, who gavo a description of his boing whipped iu a severo luanucr by tho Ku-Klux. J 1 Muuroc Scruggs, was called up nod asked what ho hud to soy in extenuation of his of fence. Ile stated that ho had been on but ono raid, and had boen, too, forcod into thc order. Judgo Bryan stilted to him, that on account of his youth, tho court was iuolinod to deal as leniently with him as possible ; and after oharaotcrizing tho outrngos committed as unmanly mid unbecoming n truo son of ' South Carolina, and calculated to briug to ' shame hor fair namo, sentenced him to pay u 1 Quo of 610 aud bo imprisoned for six mouths. Alexander Bridges was next called, und scntcuccd Lo pay $10 fino aud bo imprisoned a year. John Burnett, a young nnin was sentenced to imprisonment for six months. Wm. ll. Buruott was scntcuccd to thc 1 sumo tomi of imprisonment. . Stephen D. Spluun was next oallcd. IIc_ said ho supposed t hat ho bolongcd to tho order, but ho luid never been sworn in. Mr. Prioo had brought him what ho (Price) said was tho platform of thc klan, That he (Splaun) read it und thought there Wus tin harm in it. Prioe told him that tho idea was to form n kind of a vigilance committco, ns had been instituted in various piucos, and that on or ganization for that purpose was formed, and ho put over it ns commander. That after wards, ho attended n meeting of tho Grand Klan, became pursuudod of tho lawlessness of their act3 and disbanded his klan. Thc court sentenced him to pay a fino of ?50 and be i in prisoned two years. Marion Gardner was scntonccd to impris onment for thrco months. Chesterfield Scruggs wa? sontenced to six months i tn prison in cut Henry Barratt, who '.datod that he had been whipped by thc klan before bc joined, and had never been on any raid, was senten ced to ono month's imprisonment. Andrew Ki rd was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Martiu Hammett was bouttnjod to six months' imprisonment; Lewis Henderson was scntcneod to three mouths' imprisonment. Wm; Self, who stated that ho had been on thrco raids; whipped tinco ucgrocs-two wo men and ono man-on tho first raid; there was nothing said ?bout politics. On the so cond raid, n man named Roberts was ordered to stop selling whiskey near a church, on church days; and tho third was to take n colored man back to his wife, whom he had left. Ho was sentenced to tinco months' impri sonment. Charles Tuto, who stated that ho had been on live raids, was sentenced to eightoon months' imprisonment. Junius B. Tindall, whosta'cd that ho had been on ono raid, whon a un d woman had been made to thrash ono another for illi cit cohabitation, and on another raid, to dis perse ii crowd of negroes frolicking on a wid ow lady's place, contrary to her wishes, was sontenced to ono year's imprisonment. Melvin C. Blackwell, who stated that he had boen on ono raid against Bon. Phillips, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Johu L. Mooro, who confessed to having bcon on fivo raids, was sentenced to imprison* mont for eighteen months. John Cantrell was sentenced to thrco months' imprisono)ont. Mr. Corbin stated that he had another batch of prisoners who desired to culcra pica of guilty. Jonas Vassoy was tho first called. Ho said that he had bceu chief of Horse Creek Klan, and hud been on two raids. Mr. Corbin tuid for him that ho had boen tho only ohiof who had voluntarily surrender cd himself ; that ho had given considerable information, and to thatcxtont evinced a dis position to break up tho conspiracy. Ho was sentenced to pay a fino of $10 and bo im prisoned ono year. Jamos Wall confesaed to having boen on ono raid; could read and writo, aud had been to Virginia during tho war. Judgo Bond said that us ho could read, and had been so fortunato as to have onco been out of tho Stato, ho should have known bet tor; that ho (Judgo Bond) not having been reared in South Carolina, felt somo compas sion for tho wifo and children of tho prisoner, aud would sontouoo him only to three months' imprisonment. J. C. Wall was scntonccd to thrco mouths' imprisonment. David C. MoLuro received tho samo scn tonco. Calvin Cook stated that ho had been on but ono raid, against James Lawronoo, a whito man; und, us tho witness thought, a Demo crat. Ho was whippod booauso ho was sus pected of couooaling stolon money. Cook waa sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment. Alfred Clements was sentenced to thrco months' imprisonment and a fino of 810. Phillip Cantrell was sontenced to tho samo term of imprisonment. Tho court stated that it would suspend judgment in tho coso of M. Turno,f Phillips, ns he had shown much penitonco. Gideon Cantrell, on old man of sfyty-sjx years-, ttho stated that ho had never boon on a raid, but had boco appointed ono of tho > - *tnrm*am.,, ,t, , m,.m,,*,""m,mmi ..unmm. i minn Kxcoutivo Committee of II orso Crook Klun, ' was sentenced to OHO year's imprisonment. Lowis Jolly's oaso was postponed oa ac count of sonic Buspioion in his implication in tho murder of Owens in Union. Wm. Blaokwoll wassoutonood to six months*'! imprisonment. William Jolly reooivod tho samo seiitonco; also, Alfrod Blackwell. Wm. P. ltamsay was sootoncod to thrqo months' imprisonment; Wm. F. Hobbins, six months; T.hos. J.. Price, si si months; Taylor Vessey, three months; King Edwards, six months; Christeubury Tate, throo mouths; Frederic Paris, six months; Alfrod Burke, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of illicit distilling, was sontonccd to pay n lino of 81,000, and six months' imprisonment. James ?Scruggs, for carrying on tho business of u retail dealer iu liquor without lioenso; received tho sanio sentence BY KEITH, HOYT & CO. THUMS.-For Subscription, TWO DOL LARS per annum stricll?/in advance ; for ?ix months, One Dotier. fl?3*" Advertisements at $1 per square for ten ines or less for the first 'insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. ?fciy Obituary Notices exceeding fi ce lines, 2W6 lites of Respect, Communications of a personal character toben admissable,aiul Annoitnceinrnts of Candidates, will be charged for as adwj&sc vtciits. j?ggr Job Printing neatly and cheaply ey 'outed ?@"" Necessity compels us to ad7ier< ttricll^.to the requirement of cas h payment. % WALHALLA, S. C. : - -- Trtilny morning, Jan. 12, int'*. SST" Thc first narrow guago railroad on this continent has boon completed and is ic iarod to bc n suoccss. It ruus from Den ver, Colorado to Colorado city, a distance,of 7G miles. Tho track is tinco feet wide. Carolina Fertilizer. Messrs. GEO. W. WILLIAMS .& Co., of Charleston, are tho proprictors^r?jho first alass Fartilizor-tho advertisement of whioh occupies a conspicuous placo iii our columns this week. Col. VANDIVEKE is tho Agent, and w!\ll take pleasure in ?erving his customers and tho public, nt tho very lowest rates, and at tho most reasonable terms. A Considerate Thief Anderson Beck (colored) aged eighteen years, in thc om ploy of Dr. B. W. BELL our County Treasurer, broko into a dosk in tho store of Dr. BELL on tho 5th instant and took therefrom thirty one dollars. Tho acsk con tained several thousand dollars, aud thc thief said ho would have taken more, but did not want to ruin thc Doctor. Twenty two dollars of tho money was recovered. Tho lui achy was committed whilo tho family was ut dinner. _-v*r'r- ? . fer Mexico. ^ Thcro is now cvory probability, that thc Juarez government will succeed at un carly day ?ti putting down the rebellion of Diaz. The revolution is nowhere making any pro gress whilo tho govgrnm-nt troops arc press ing tho leaders of tho r?bellion* steadily back. Tho entire Mexican Congress including tho partisans of Diaz sustains thc constitution of 18?Y, and tho election of President Juarez It little matters however as Mexico cannot gather many crops before another revolution will come. ?Such has boen tho history of that un fortuna to country. Cuba Spain is still shipping troops to Cuba and there seems tobo a determination on tho part of i?iug AMADEUS to regain and hold thc island. In thc meantime Captain Oencrul V?LM? SEO A'has issued a proclamation limit ing tho oiler of pardon extended to insurgents. lie now declares that cvory insuigctit captur ed after tho 16th January will bo shot, whilo those who surrender after that timo will bo sentenced to perpetual luvishmcnt. Thc ne gro mcu arc to bo treated the saino as tho whites. White women captured in thc woods after 15 January will bc banished, whilo ne gro women taken under liko circumstances wilt bc dolivcrcd to their owners and be com pelled to wear a chain for four years. Sudden Deatns Hov JOHN C. GALLOWAY, aged seventy ?oven, died suddenly at his resilience in chis County on tho 4th instant. Ho had forscv oral days boen riding in search of his s$oek, and on tho "night provious to his death oat hearty and went to bcd in ins usual health. In tho morning before day ho got up, toado n firo and returned to bed. On boing called nt bicnkfust, ho was found to bo dead. Ho had been Buttering for soino timo from rup turo, and this with tho infiumntion produced by riding is tho supposed causo of his death. Such was tho result of tho Corpucr's investi gation. lllOIIARI) DODSON, A veteran of 1812, who lind pussed his thrco score nnd ton years, died suddenly in tho road near tho high Falls in this Couuty, on Saturday tho 6th instant. Ho was a poor man, uneducated, a cooper by trado, slriotly tempemto and had boon for several yoars a consistent member of tho Baptist ohuroh at Now Ilopo. On tho day provious ,t<? lila doath, ho had tnkon some of his work to tho house of a neighbor, and had started homo oarrying thrco pocks of corn. In asoending n hill ho foll suddonly and a little boy, his grandson boing unable to got him up, returned to tho honso for help, but when thc neighbors readied him, ho wis doad. Dooonaed eorved in tho war of 1812 at Sister's Ferry, for fifty two days, lackiftg oight days of drawing ft pension, which ho greatly noodod. Tho ver dict b( inquest was that death ros??tod from a paralytic stsoko. IjQk. Wo lonrn from tho Tomperanoo Ad vacate publishod io Columbia, thnt nt tho luto Sossioo of tho National Division of tho Sons of Temperance, held in Boston, resolu tions woro introduced and adopted that there should bo known in tho order uo distinction on account of r<\oo, color, or provious condi tion, nod that it wns not oxpediont to organ izo in tho Hamo territory soporuto divisions for any of tko abovo ronsous.. This nt onco oroa tod great oxoitomcnt in (ho territorios of tho South and hos resulted in tho withdrawal of tho Grund Divisions of Georgia and Florida to bo followed perhaps by thoso of all tho southoro States. How thc mover of tho reso lution, Jackson of Mnino, could hnvo expect ed any other result, wo cannot conceive There is no moro intimato social tics, than must exist between monitors of ntl order, and our people ure hardly ready to admit brother Snmbo nnd sister Hannah. Wo doubt too If tho colored people South would not equally object with tho whites to tho arrangement. Sinoo tlioir freedom hus been gained, they hnvo withdrawn from tho churches of tho whites ond established organizations of their own. They liri vb noter desired mixed schools, and judging from these data, wc would say they would profor, if any, scparato ordere. Thc cause of tempor?neo is of paramount im portance to tho church, tho State and society, nnd ?honld not bc impeded or imperilled by thc old bane of political contention. Since tho immediate effects of thc resolution has been sc Injurious, tho mover hus disclaimed nny intention to insult tho order in thc South aud hopes are entertained of its repeal. D@u Tho following bills of general interest were introduced into Congress just before tho holidays: A Bill by oren. Butler, declaring women entitled to suffrage under the 11th amend ment to tho Constitution. One by Mr. Roberts, of Utica, authorizing tho payaient of ?ifty por ocnt of customs du. tics in legnl tender notes. One by Mr. Blair, of Missouri, to legalize polygamist mir ringed already contracted, nnd to dismiss nil criminal proceedings against polygamy in Utah. Ono by Mr. McCr. y, of Iowa, to estab lish n National University. One by Mr. Hazelton, of Wisconsin, to repeal Ibo Bankruptcy Act. And one by Talle, of Nebraska, for tho ad mission of Utah ns ti State Sumner hus introduced a supplementary Civil lights Bill, which is designed to give perfect equality to thc colored race. ?Sy* In Philanclphia and other cities of tho North, tho small pox is making fearful ravages; und is rupidly spreading. Tho Charleston Courier thus states its progress iii Philadelphia during the last six months. In thc mo:.th of July its victims numbered only five, lu August tho number of deaths was sixteen, mid iii September, eighteen In October it struck down 286 persons. In No vember it carried away 502; nnd in Decem ber thc amount of its victims was 1,094. Wherever it appears it becomes epidemic, lt is reported spreading in New ifork nnd Brooklyn, nnd accounts of deaths from it. arc recorded in newspapers from ull parts of tho South and West. In times past, we of thc mountains could sn ip our ?tigers nt all cpi demies, bul now they tm vii by rail mid may appear at any day wherever railroads run. fi?" Brigham Young delivered himself up on thc 2d instant, to tho United Slates nu. thoritics nt Salt Lake, und was taken into custody under thc charge of murdering Rich ard Yates in November, 18?0, bail being re fused. There being no jail for thc imprison ment of parties under charge in thc United States Court, and being an old man, ho wns taken to his own house, where bc will remain under olinrgo of the United States Marshal. - There has been a great riot ill Roches ter, N. Y. between tho citizens and militnry growing out of nu attempt of tho former to lynch a negro who had perpetrated a gros3 outrage on a little white girl. Thc military wore severely stouod nnd ou thc 2d ?ns tu nt fired into tho crowd killing several persons. Groat ox*oitonicnc prevails. A desp-'toh da ted tho 5th htatea**hat tho negro was tnkon secretly to court nnd being permitted to plend guilty was sentenced to twenty years impris onment in thc penitentiary. Tim GREENVILLE AND COLUMUIA RAIL ROAD COMPANY.-At a meeting, ou Fridny last, of tho Directors of this company, tho negotiations relativo to tho O reen viii" and Columbia Railroad wore closed- Under tho now nrrmigumont ?nd transfer, tho followiug is a list of oflioers J President-W. J\ Magrath, (yxen Fre derick Bush, resigned.) Vhc-Prcsidcut-J. J. Patterson. Diroctors-Hon. J. L. Orr, J. E. Marley, (vice II. H. Kimpton, resign ed,) jj J. Pnttorson, J. M. Allon, J. L. Ncaglo, H. T. Farmer, J. T. Sloan, {vice Niles 0. Purkor, resigned,) Thomas Doda mend, J. C. lion th, {vice Goo. W. Wntor man, resigned,) Coleman R,. Walker, (vice F. h. Curdozo, resigned,) T. Hurley, Jo seph Crows. -* Mr. Hood, tho courteous rnonagor of tho Southern and Atlantio Tclograph lino, lins furnished us with tho following list of numbers drawn in Charleston, yesterday, in thc Land and Immigration soborno i No. 00,178, *100 ; 37,062, 100 ; 10,019, 1.000 i 79,570, 5,000; 1?9.278, 5,000: 9-1,793, 10,000 ; 131,223, 6.000 j 27,2?3, 1,000 8,408, 1,000 ; 81.782, 1,000 j 80,002, 500 ; 0,259, 100 ; 88,205,100 ; 70,021,100 : ?20.20G, 100,000; 120,428, 000: 0,480, 100; 109,826, 100 ; 74,948, 82,040, 100; . 100,900, 600; 91,682, 600; 92,594, 100; 78,176, 100; 17,797, 100 j 84,856, 100 > 100,214,1,000 ; 80,469,600 ; 101,404, 100; 132,240, 100; 74,943, 100; 82,040, 100; 111,425, 100; 111,887, 100 ; 87,052, 100; 00,178, 100; 110,011,100; 21,1,30 500.-7 Vtamc. - Tho Air Liuo ll. lt-ia progressing vory rapidly. lu tho oourao of o fow wcoks, tho grading and bridging will bo completed between this town nud Charlotto, N. 0. Tho work between this ?nd Groonvillo is also ho ing pushed on vory satisfactorily. From pro oont indications there is good reason to believe, that by next 4th of July wo may start from | Spartanburg aud g? to Washington iu about tho samo tinto now consumed in going to and getting away from Columbia ; and n trip to Now York will cost not moro than two thirds of what it now coats. Tho local ndvuntages of this road will bo vory groat, but tho social still greater. These upper Counties greatly nocd inoroased population, onorgy, cntcrprizo and capital. Tho undeveloped agricultural) meohanicul, mineral and manufacturing inter ests aro fur grouter thun thoao now employed. Thia great Railroad link between Now York and New Orleans completed; pop ulation will naturally flow in, and tho wants ubovc pointed out, will bo measurably sup plied.- Carolina Neto J3ra. BQt, Now York is certainly a groat Stato. With on ndvalorom tax of a little over tivo and u half mills, thc total yield of thc Stalo tax for 1871 was cloven millions six hundred and tb iltoon thousand niuo hundred sud forty thrco dollars. Tho Govornor in bia message reports tho number of ohildrcn attending public schools to bo over ono million, and tho total receipts for school purposes at a little ovor teu aud a half millions of dollars. ' Thcro aro ovor seventeen thousand teachers employ, cd for tho full legal term. jt?T A colored woman, Jinnio, formerly tho property of W. L. Kurru died on tho 31st ult, near Table Mountain at thc advan ced agc of IPO yon rs. She was occustomcd to tell abo waa 10 yours old at thc time of thc revolutionary war, but tho old?citizens repre sent her agc na abovo. H?9u Despatches from Utah report tremen doua storms in thc mining districts. Snow is from 10 to 50 feet deep ond operation in most of|thu mines have been suspended : much distress prevails. Coal is Belling ut %>10 to $20 per ton. It is said Columbia contains over sixty licensed whiskey shops The Atloocatc says it is going to show up thc hellish work of tho rum sellers ih that city. Wo fear its labor will bo like throwing pearla before swine. - Continental joui nabs state the betroth al of tho Grand Du ko Alexis, of Russia, and thc Princes Mary Elizabeth, of Prussia, i.s soon to bc ullicially announced. Tho Grand Duke is twenty two; tho Princess-eldest daughter of Prince Frederick Charles (iud thc Princes? Murk of Ankalt-sixteen. In reference to tho purity of legisla tion Gov. Hoffman in his message to thu leg isluture of New York naya. ru it rr Y OF i.!:oisr.ATiov. Thc people cannot bc too fully awakened to tho dat'gc rs Inseparable from thc gro,\yth of moneyed power iii th\i country, whether wielded by individuals or corporations It makes itself felt every whero in our politics and aims to control, and too often does con trol, legislation in federal and Slate capitals. Wc cannot directly strike ut it in other States or at Washington, but wo eau begin at the capital (if our own Stato and set an example to olhets. There is a popular belief that much important legislation in past years hero has been influenced by thc directus', of mon ey. This belief is so general and widespread that it is due to the people that there should bo a prompt and thorough legislative inquiry to ascertain whether it is well founded. If it bc so, guilty men should be brought to jus tice under existing laws, if that is possible. If not, then proper laws should be passed ty meet eases which may hereafter misc. Tho people will bc slow to obey laws which they believe, are enacted by n corrupt Legislature Their demand to day is n d for municipal re form only, but for reform in every depart ment of government, State and federal, in which abuses may bo shown to exist. Au thority, whether executive or legislative, to bo cheerfully obeyed, must be respected und honored. REANIMATING TUE HAIR.-When tho hair ceases to draw from tho scalp tho natur al lubricant willoh is its sustenance, ita vitali ty is, as it wore, suspeuded, and if not prompt ly attended to, baldness will bo tho certain re suit. Tho ono sui o method of avoiding such uu unpleasant catastrophe ia to uso LYON'S KA TH AI RON, which, when well rubbed into tho scalp, will speedily ro animate tho hair and provont it from fulling out. liesides that, this inimitable resuscitant and stronghtoncr of tho Hair nouriehors nod stimulates its young aud tender fibers, removes all obstacles to their growth in tho ehopo of du nd ru If and dirt, and ultimately produces a now orop of huir, stronger, glossier, and twioo as abun dant ns tho old. Aa a hair dressing lt is no tabby tho most agrocablo, refreshing and ser viceable artiolo cvor, placed upon a droBring tnble. SYMPTOMS OF LIVER COMPLAINT AND OF SOM? OP TUF. DISEASES PRO?UOKP HY IT. A sallow or yellow color of skin, or yollowish brown spots on fuco and other parts of hedy ; dullness and drowsiness, with frequent head ache ; dizziness, bitter or bad toste in mouth, dryness of throat and internal heat; palpita* tion, in many oases n dry, tea dug cough, with soro thront, unsteady appctito, raising of food, choking sensation in throat ; distress, heavi ness, or bloated, Or full feeling about stomnoh and aides, pain in sidos, buck or breast, nod about shoulders; eolio pain and soreness through bowels with.? hont : constipation, al tcrnnting, with frequent nttnoks of diarrhoea j pilos, flatulonoo, nervousness, coldness" of ex trotnetics; rash of blood to tho head, with symptoms of iipproploxy, numbness of limbs, especially at night : cold chills alternating with hot flashes kidney und | ,Mrjnnry diflvcultics j fomnlo weakness, dullness, law spirits, unso? ciability mid gloomy forobodiitg.... X>uly- a few of ?hove symptoms likely tc bc^prcsent in any ease at ono timo. Ail who uso Dr1. Pierco's AJt. Kxl. or Median. Diaoavcry for Liver Complaint and its Cp(nplicntions, aro loud iu' its prafeio. Sold by till urt-olos? druggists. n'il?tfu?HiiiBjm''' .????.??'JM.IH.'IIM.U !'I?I>IJin > limn mm jfji?r A London correspondent of tito Now* York Harald writes that li? wns informed by ono in position to bo woll "ported regarding tlio ?corot sooioticH of I^uropo, that tho Prinoo of Wales jvas.uqt suffering from typhujd fo/or, but from jin uttoinptod assassination by poison? by n secret agent of tlicj?lutcrnutionajr/t??oio* ty." It is thought tho poison wii? irlfeod with thc ^contents oftthc Prinooty' pcflkot flask. If fite society Jill pot u littf?'trhf?W?y*^ from their eis Aliando brethren, thoro would ??bo no need of adding poison. . OOMMEROIAL. -?rr~'r~-;7.;-r-^rt?vT'~?T ~r"v*~~ " - OllAAkKSTOS. Jami iry 8.-Colton firm-mid dling 20 ; receipts 1,700 halos; s.iles?OO; stook di,1*17. - . AUOUSTW, January-8-UTonlnjr..- Cotton strong -middling 20; receipts OOO unios: solos OOO. NEW,VonK, January 8- Tl} ft. M..(?ot?o'd wonk} sales 4.?570 bales-uplands 21$ { Orl?nos Flour quiet and steady. Wheat, dull ami lowor winter rod Western, 1 ,iJ3?l.Q?, Cold I? J (QU J. LiVKnrbdt.,"January 8-Evening.-Colton exci ted-uplands 10J Orleans lO-J 1 sales 00,000 M bales ; ^population aiid tfxuort ^1 MARRIED, on Sunday morning, tho 17th ult., | by Kev II. N. Hays, Mr. Asunuuv Cox, and Miss Kt TT A CHANT, both of Ooouco. On Thursday evening,' tho 28th ult., by the? snnioj Mr. WYATT MATISON, of Anderson, anet I Misa ELIHAIIKTU HOPKINS ot' Ooouco. / On Wednesday evening, tito 3d inslant, by tlio same, Mr. Rioiuuo W. Avnnso.s, owl /^''MfctN, J QUST?S WILSON, both ofOconeo. Ifttl ?.mctm^xmin? ?.fumgtJgjCTcr?rVimm m iMMii m. II .. i ? iii ^J^>? Spooial ipST. ptipes. , ') ti Warning Words. Tho strength and nervous ciicivy of tho human bidy ou ?li I to bo inoronscd during tho wiptor, for I wo r?rt'sons; In Ibo firsllplao?,' diseuses of tho most deadly character, jany bo geneva!cd at tl\is Season ; and secondly, it is of tho lArbo?t imp?r ttinco thnt during tho cold wcnlbcr months tho system should bc put in a condition to withstand ibo effects of tlio sprjng miasma, and tho subso* (picul depressing heat of summer, ills thoroforo advisable, ?11 fact essential to to.uo,,rogulato and invigorate 'tho digestivo' and . Secretive Organs at this period of tho year, and of all tho stomaoliics and alteratives at pr?sent kuown, HOSTKTTEll'S STOMACH PUTERS is tho most powerful, the most harmless, and tho most agreeable Tho tem1 poraturo of whiter would lc in ilsolf a glorious tonic, If il did not, unfortunately, bring willi it a h-olniuc of chilling moisture and unwholesome winds, which luvvo a bad clfoet cn ibo skin and lungs. These must bo guarded against, or Ibero ls no security for health. Thc cifect of a courso of the Dil I CVS is to give vigor and lone to tho entire organist ilion - thc superficial muscles and norves, ns well as the internal viscera. A regular habit Ol' uody, a healthy and Hal ural (low of bil?, an ac tive digestion, a g<io<l appetite, pure blood and a rigorous circulation or (nat fluid, are. among tho blessings derivable from n persistent use of lios tctlcrs's Stomach Hitters, which not only moro than supplies tho place of iho best, tonios, cathar tics and antisppptics proscribed in their sep?ralo forms by physicians, but perform tho Ilirco-fuUL work ol' invigoration, regulation and purification at one and I he same timo. Jan. 1-lin litir<Tls??n.ortfi?, NO. oa, A. WI n. Jfk A REGULAR COMMUNICATION" V'^Vof niue Hidgo Lodge. No. 02, A.-, IV. /\^\M. " will beheld on SATL'UDAY, Jan. (iih. at 7 o'clock, P. M. Ilrethron will take duo notice, ami govern themsolvos ac cordingly. liv 01 1 \ of thc Lodge . WM. KORDER, Sec'y. _ I Li . Wathalla Clmpter, No. ?M, R, A. 1*1. A ilEOtJIiAlt CONVOCATION of'WnlhaL la Chapter. No. 28, lt.?, A.*. M.*.,-,wilrbehold at their Hall, in Walhalla, on MONDAY, tho 5th doy of Febunry noxt, nt candle light. Companions will be punctual iu their ntton dunce. Hy order tho Chaptor; t?. 1?. DENDY, Soo'y. Ria ii ii fit cl liri ii j ti II to ip risc lil Clmr loton. Charleston is fast becoming a manufacturing os well as a commercial eily. Tho largest muniifao lory ol'doors. bAslics, blinds, !?6?, in tho Soiillicrii States ie iha< of Mr. P. d\ TO.VLK, 00 Horlheak's Wharf in that- eily, sales rooms at No. 20 Hayn? street Mr. TOAI.K'M advertisement nppoors in another colunm. State of South Carolina OOO NEE COUNTY. Li * *t**- r*" J. W. Daniels, Clerk of Court, ! Complaint for Anderson County, to vs. J- Foreclose John lt. Cochran, lt. li. Scott Mortgage.' and J W. Harrison, j.) Y Virtue of a decretal order In mo directed, I 1) will sell, to the highest bidder, on Saleday in Fobruary next, at Walln.lla, that piooo, parcol JT THAT TRACT OF LAND, *. sltmto in boonoo Cornily, on' brandie's o? 'Oono ross Orcok, containing 'beb 'Aa'Rj?s. moro or less, adjoining lande of Qcovgo Frodo rioks, Derry Phillips, and others, and known as, the vi'-: 1! . 1 <"{. no in iii'1 ri ?fl TERMS-CASH. Purobaser lo pay extra fo? lilies and stamps. 1 rf ' r ' J. 'U. ROH?NS, s.0.0. ian.O, 1872 ... . : ; 4t --U-kJ-1-^-,_._i-:_vj-l-i Final Settlement* TtkTOTIC'fcVk?reby g?vW, ^ rtpVt?mnti'oni JL\ will \? mada tt>Sk^Drjftdy? lijscu, Judao ofFrobnte, ak Waihalla, <?n Wodrte?dt>y, tho 14th day of Pobrnnny, for loovo to make a final sottloinent of tho Kv Mito nf THOMAS P~ KKrCDKU,, minor;- curl to. bo .difiohr.rgod from all further liability as Guardian for si\id miu? orVi?istnto. .": .Yl'^ -wJpHOS: H. STttlDLJNGy Gumdtom. . ^f?^7^,/ jiVijL //4 . Final Set?lement? APPLICATION'v/?jl bo mado to S. P. Don> dy, Esq., JadiM pf'Froliato, at WalhalliL un xuosday VU'ljOTKy FohriWy, tsr^'fop lonvo to sottlo liimlly tho ?stato of S. 1^.' UBEDWR, Minor ; and! to bodioclmrgod tlioto? i rom logally ns said> Guardian.1 . * J. I*. HE? DHU, Gunrdlnnn' - Jan. 12, U .,4t,.,., -, Notice to, Pebtot?. - " VT IP. PEUS0N(S indulged tomo for Goods purohns? cd nt tho Kulis, will plcriso ooino forward, and pay : u p. . You have been : aoeoinfuodatod^ nnd 1 am now tho su??;orors',.Oi\IL*i1ftnd pftyvj, **$mt'iWft v?^A^ai?,ja,, J ? - ? ? > t A/? BS-. McC AUB Y.*