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TO THINE OTO SELF AND IT ^MUST FALLOW AS THE ^NIGHT THE DAY, THOU CANST NOT TH F N BE FALSE TO ANYMAN BY KEITH, SMITH & CO. WALHALLA. SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1879. VOLUME XIV.-NO. IO. THE Columbia Register. Daily, Tri-Wockly and Weekly. BEST NEWSPAPER EVER PUBLISHED AT THE CAPITAL OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Circulation fcLnrgc and Con stantly fiiico'casiiig'. WK rospootfully invito tlio uttontion of tho rending Community to tho excellent newspapers wo (ire now publishing in Colum* bin. THE REGISTER ia tho only paper evor published ut tho capital of South Caroli na which is conducted ns uro tho leading dailios of tho principal cities of thc country. Wo havo an able and distinguished corps of editors'-gentlemen woll known all over tho Stato for their learning, ability and sound Democratic principles; men who have served tho State and tho South on o very occasion whon the demand arose for their services, and who may bo safely depended upon ns rcliablo loaders of tin; Democracy in tho line of jour nalism. Tho Daily REG I STE lt is a twenty-eight column paper, 24x38 inches, printed on good paper and with hugo clear cut type, contain ing tho latest telegraphic nows, full market reports, editorial mutter on lending ooouronces of tho times, and repleto with interesting misoollnnnoun reading. The local news i.? full and ititorusling, ono editor devoting his time exclusively io that department. Our correspondence from Washington und other piucos of note gives un entertain" resume ol nil thc importun! events ol' tin; day. Tho Tri-Wcekly EKGPTNIt, with some minor change??, comprises the ooiitonls of the daily at $2 60 loss per year. The Weekly Rogistor M u large, handsome ly gotten up eight pa^e paper, HOx-12 Inches, containing fortyvoight onlnmns of reading matter, embracing all ibo news nf thu week mid thu most important editorial nod local nows. TRUXM-'iN ADVANCE. Daily ltogistor. 1 year $7 Ot) " " G months 3 5U " " 3 mouths 2 7? Tri-Weekly Register, 1 year ? 00 " *' ? months 2 50 " 3 months I '_';"> 'Weekly Rogister, 1 your 2 00 " " ? months 1 Ol) 3 mouths AO Any pierson sending us a club r.f ten sub Bcribors ?it ono limo will receive cithor of the papers free, pi>stago prepaid, lor ono your. Any person sending us tho money foi s twonty subscribers tc thc 'Daily may retain 'if his services twonty dollars nf tho amount twenty subscriben: lo tba TrirWookly {i dollars id' tito amount; und tor twenty [ribora tn tho Weekly, live dollars of tho Jj Advertising .Medium, tho R KO I ST G lt inequalied faciiiiies, having n large 'ion, end numbering among its patrons I todo pcoplo of IIK; middle and upper of the Stute; Terms reasonable, 'any information desired, address ?AIJVO & I'ATTON, INmPKIKTnK*, Columbia, S. 'J. Parties desiring copie?) of the REG* ISTER to exhibit in canvassing will bo sup pliod on application. State of South Carolina, IN T1I.K COURT OV COMMON PI.KAS. Leander. B. Johnson, Plaintiff, against Wm. II. Toy, Defendant- SUMMONS. To tho Defendant. Wm. H. Toy YOU aro hereby summoned and required to answer tito complaint in this action, which is filed in tho ellice of tho Clerk ol' thc Court of Common Pleas for said county, and to serve a copy of your answer to tho said complaint on tho subscribers nt their office on tho public squaro in Walhalla, S. C., wilbla twenty days after thc sorvioo hereof, exclusivo of tho day of service. If you fail to answer tho complaint within the time aforesaid, (he Plaintiff herein will apply to tho Court for judgment against you for tho sum of forty four dollars and forty-six cents, with interest on sixteen dollars Slid forty six oent? from tho 1st day of July. 1872, and on twenfy-oight dollars from the if I Kt day of De cember, 1873, and costs of this action. NORTON & STRIBMNG, Plaintiff's Altornoys. Walhalla, S. C., Dooomber 2 llb, 1878. J. W. STIilUMNO, COP To Wm. H. Toy, Defendant herein WAK 13 NOTICE, thal ibo complaint and thc I summons (of which the above is a copy) in this notion, wore filed in the nineo of the Clerk of tbc Court of Common Pleas tor Oconee county on tho 21th dav of December. 1878. NORTON & STU I UM NO. Plaintiff's Attorneys. Deo 26, 1878 0-6t THE FOR LAUNDRY USE. Nov, 21 1878 lr it? NOTICE TO FIDUCIARIES, &C. THE Law requires all Exootttors, Administra torc, Guardians, &o., to moko their annual returns during the month of January in onoh year. ilewaro lest you should bo in default, and suffer the penalties of tho law. I must do my duly In tho premises. A word to the wiso is eufflolent. .RICHARD LHWIS, Judge of Probnlo Coonee County. January 0, 1870 8-lt Stato Laws. Joint rosulution lo grant liouuse to dig mino and remove phosphuto rook from tho marsh lundi) ond non-navigable streams belonging to thc Stale. f?e il enacted by tho Senate nnd House of Representatives of thu Stato of South Carolina, now met and sitting in M?nerai Assembly, aud by tho uutherity of tho s i mc: That tho Comptroller General bo, and he is hereby, authorized to is<uu to persona or bodies oorporate (which aro now enjoying us cl usive rights in tho navig'tblo streams and waters of tho State) license to dig, mino and remove phosphalic deposits from snob of thu marshes and creeks (not navigable) lying therein, ns may contain phosphoric rock which bolong to, or are the property of the Stale, which have not, hoon previously granted, upon said persons or companies executing bond, with security, in tho penni sum of $5,000, conditioned for the payment to the State of tho royalty of &1 per ton so dug, mined and removed, and ti report to thc Oom pt roi 1er General, monthly, tho amount of phosphatio rock dug, mined or removed. SKO. 2. That thc said licenses shall bo for tito tenn of ono year, re* wanto ot thc pleasure of the Comptroller General, Approved Doce ut bor 24, 1378. Au act making the Judge of Probolo eligible to the office of Alaster, providing for a Master for ouch of tho Counties of Sumter, Newberry, Kershaw, Greenville, Marion. Lauron S and Anderson, and itr.> kitlg provision forenses now ill tho hands nf i oleres. f?e it enacted hy the Senate and lions? .d' Representatives of tho Stato of South Carolina, now met an.l sitting in General Assembly, and by thc authority of tue same: SUCTION I That there sholl ho appointed ny the Govt ruor, in und for tho Counties of Sumter, Newberry. Ander-mn, Kershaw, ( Jrecn ville, clarion and Laurens, ono .linster, whoso official bond shall ho ci^ht I thousand deli us, and who shall, in ali other respects, ho?il his ollice, have thu 8anio rights and duties and re?oive tho same CUmpciiyati?ll as provided h-r by and act oiilith'd "An not to'repeal the 294th, 29?th, 200th and 430th Sections nf (ho Godo Of l'ioui'ilur j" within the counties herein ti.en lioued, so ns tu abolish the use of referees in said counties and io establish in their stewd tho oil!ec of m uster, and that Ibo terms of said act, except ns herein provided shrill apply io thu County ol'Sumter SKO 2. That this aol shall not. affect casos under reference to referees at tho date of its pi sane, and that thu not herein amended bi; further so amended, that it shall not apply to cases which at tho date ol its pialligo were nuder reference to referees appointed by thu Courts of Common Pleas, but that ?s to snob onuses tho said referee shall Itavo authority lu disuhiirgo their luucliuos under snob urdorn and io mubo (InnI reports in thc snit) aaUSG.). SKO. 'd. That tho Judge of Probato in any county shall not hu ineligible to the office of m ister, provided for in this bill, SEC. 4. That all nets and parts of nets inconsistent with this act bc und tho sanio arc hereby, repealed. Approved December iJ l, 1878, An not to protect the lands nnd crops of thc citizens of Abbeville, Union, New berry nnd Laurens Cuuutics from Tres pass by Stock. SEOTION I, .f?e il enacted by thc Sen ate and House of Representatives of thc State of South Carolina, now met nnd sit ting in General Assembly, and by tho authority of the s une: That in thc counties of Abbeville, Union, Newberry and Laurent) it shall not be law ful for t hc owner or nm nager of nny horse, mule, ass, genet, swine, eheop, goat or neat cattle of any description, to permit the finid animals, or any of them, to run nt large beyond tho limits of their own lund. SKC. 2. That in s dd counties, whenever any of thc said slock shall bo lound upon thu lands of any oilier person than tho owner, thu owner ol' such stock shnll bo liable for all damages sustained, to be reco vered by notion of debt in ?ny court of competent jurisdiction, and the stock oaus ing the damage shall he held liable for the same in prefiicnoe to all other liens, claims, or encumbrances against tho samo. SKO tl Any person who shall maliciously unlawfully or negligently, permit any of sai l stock to go upon thu lands of other parties shell bo elliott} tl guilty of a misdo inennor, .nd, upon conviction thereof ina competent court, shall bo lined in a sum of not exceeding thirty dollars, ur imprisoned tor nut more than thirty days, in thu discre tion nf t he court. SKO. 4. That tho County Commission ers of said counties respectively, arc directed to erect, a lawful fence on the limits of said ooiiotios from all incursions of Stook or cattle from adjacent counties, and for that purpose enter thu lands of any person in said counties and erect fences thordon without being guilty of any trespass windover; and tho said commissioners shall havo power to construct fences ncross any publio or private road und erect gatos on all roads; nnd thc County Commissioners uro hereby authorized and ompowcred to moko such arrangements with tho owners of proporty contiguous on either side of said county lines ns may ac complish tho objcol of protooting tho coun ties from tho incursions of oattlo and stook. SEO 5. That any porson who shall wil fully Olid unlawfully leavo open any of tho aforo.sai.il gates, or do any wilful damage to tho g?tes or fences erected for tho purposes aforesaid shall ho dcomod guilty of u uns? demeanor, aud cu oooviotion iu nuy couti of comp >tont jurisdiction sh ill ho fined in u ?sum not exceeding twenty dollars or impris oneil not inure than twenty days. SEC. 7. Any personotherihau tho owner or their ugcntrt, removing or destroying any portion of nuy fence intended to inclose animals of any hind, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, mid upon conviction thereof, shall bo punished by a lino or im prisonment, or both, ut tho discretion of thc court. SRO. 8 That the county commissioners of said counties, respectively, shall bc au thorized mid instructed to levy and collect a tax upon tho property of said county to defray the expenses of erecting mid main taining siitl fences, s-aid taxes to be coL looted ut the Mime time and in thc sumo maiiiier ns tho State and county taxes are levied and eolloetcd. SEO U. This act to tako efl'cot immedi ately and tho fences required to bc com* ploted by the fourth (4th) day of .March n xt. SKO. 10. That all acts mid parts of nota inconsistent with this act bo uud thc same ure hereby, repealed. Approved December ll, 1878. Tho Noxt President. 117// lit: bc Tibien or Cirant-Montgomery Blair's Estimate oj thc Situation. To Samuel M. Shaw, Esq., Editor Fi ec m mi's Journal, Ocopcrstown, New York: My Dear Sir - L have beeu ill ever since your letter of the. 11th ultimo caine lo hand, mid only re id it day buforo yester day. 1 am not well yet, but the subject, so presses upon me that 1 must attempt a brio! reply. Thc most obvious fact in tho polit o il history of our general ion is thut our contests have been druggies for sectional supremacy, in wi.?eli the Democratic orgtn iz iii.ni h is been regarded mul treated by t!ie p opio of the North as the instrument of Southern dominion over thom, lt was jealousy of power-us natural ti? communi ties ns to individuals-and not sympathy for tho slave, which solidified th? North t< install and maintain tho Republican part) in power. The Abolitionists were not t corporal's guard till, by tho uso of tin slave question, the Soutn had been consol idated, and, by its control of thc Democrat ic organization, made thc governing powei of tl c Union. Then it wus that Du staunchest Democrats ii. titi* North brok? ?way from the national organization, une tho strongest Democratic districts and couti ties ol New Voile and Pennsylvania, mu ..ilnr great. Northern Democrat io States became the idrongesi. Republican district! uni ci unties, and made tho North solidly Republican. This was tho assertion for the poople o the North, by the then recognized leider: .d' the Dumoeaalio party Ibero, of the groa Democratic principle of the right of self government, und this it. was which vitalize* tho Republican party. Ry thc Wilina proviso they sought to prevent our accessio? of territory from aggrandizing the politics power of the South; and when that powo was strengthened hy the addition of th vast territory of Texas, they were tho mei who pressed on the war for the uoquisioi of California und other free territory to up hold tho power of the North; and they hep orated themselves irotu the Demoer.iti party in 1848, oarryinit with thom in N?M York a great majoiityol it; and defeated i in tho election of that year, to pre .ont tin South from dictating l li o settlement of th territorial question iii the interest of it party. Relieving that, tho question had bee finally souled, and the rights of the Nort secured by thc act o? 1850, admitting Cali Jornia as u free S'.uto in tho Union, th grout majority of these then returned lo th party and restored it to power in 185? Tho renown! of tho snuggle by thc repot of the Missouri compromise, the Drud Scol decision, mid other mensures, curried th grouter pirt of them nguiu into opposition Those who remained with tho patty who tho war caine on wcro Democrats, and rcn dcred inestimable scrvioo to tho Union b preventing thc alliauco of tho party wit l li o rebellion. Of those, Tilden was th chief, nod, having stood by thc North i thc war, as well as in tho nntocodent Strug gio under Van Rurcn and Wright un Preston King against Southern supremacy his nomination in 1870 enabled us so fur ( withstand tho pressuro of the sectiouul issu ns to carry four of tho Northern Stute? Tho politicians of tho Southern school luiv ing allowed his cleotion to be set asido an making no scorot ??noe of their prefercno for Hayes, wo havo lout three of tims States, und will lose thc other in 1 SSH i Southern uscendonoy (us tho nbniidonineii of Tilden will unmistakably indicate to b tho purpose) is again to bo tho watohwor ol' tho party. No ono, indeed, cnn ooncool from hitnscl tho fact that, our success depends ultogethc upon tho question whether tho politician who obtained position in tho party whilo i was dominated in the interest of tho Soutl ?bali continuo to control its nomination and policy. Their persistence tn attempt ing to do so will only show that they prefc personal power to party suooos.. Hut tako pleasure in saying that this is not tru of this olassof politicians gonorully. Tho aro, for tho most part, pntriotio mon, and was G-ovornor Seymour, thoir rooognize loader, who lod tho way to tho nominado of Tild?n. Uo understood so woll tho im omtiblo powor of tho sootional issue agaim j hi? clusi of public mon, that ho wis able to foresee its etfeol oven to his own coso, and was, t hore foro, sincerely disinclined to accept the nomination thrust upon him in 1S0S. ; And it is far more liouoruble to Governor ? Seymour to hove comprehended tho neoos ; ity of yielding thc leadership of the purfy j to the head of tho opposing faction, so us to j secure its triumph, und to have hud tho i inngnouimitv to uiiiko tho surrender, than j to have b.-i-u himself elected to the Prcei ? denoy. Thc people arc utterly indifferent to tho j dissensions of our party chiefs, growing out. i of their rivalry. What tho people of thc j North ia concerned about is whether the i men who have stood up for tho rights of the j Northern States and thc equal power of the j citizens of those States in the control of tho j National Govern ment shall continue to be ! proscribed by th? party organization. That j concerns their own rights and tho rights j and dignity of tho community to which they beloog. Tilden belonged to tho dom ?nant wing of tho Northern Democracy when that pirty, hy its control of the great Northern States, was essentially a national party. The over!brow of that wing of the party hy tho South through its control of tho national organ iza t ion lust tho party all power in tho North, mid mudo it essentially II Southern sectional party, lt is manifest I hut it cnn only become national nguiu by reinstating ns its leaders tho school of 6tat. soten who g'lVO it that character. This is the feeling of tho groat mass of tho party North and South, end tho nomi I nation of Tilden wan made in accordance j with that feeling. Dy udlierooeo to this j WPC and patriotic policy, wo cm eliminate j sectionalism from our politics ;;nd restore ] efficient and honest administration. Oilier ; wiso, Grant will be re-elected and ll-idicul ! ism perpetuated, Ynurs truly, j M?NTGOMH Y BLAIR. !. Rolativo Earnings of Capital and Labor. rho Tribune r. Washington correspondent gives tho following report ot u statement on thc relations ol' labor and capital recently made hy .Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Heston, before tho oommittco on labor, of which Mr Abram. 8. Hewitt is chairman] Mr. Atkinson presented interesting sta tistics obtained by nie researches of Mr. Carroll D. Wright, chief thc Massachusetts Statistical Bureau, and from tho returns of tho assessors ol State faxes, which, talton together, furnish as to Massachusetts (th richest State in tho Union), the basis tor a pretty close approximation to thc truth in regard to the uuuuul product of labor nod tho value of accumulated property. In 1875 the amount of property returned was as follows, values hoing expressed in cur roney, gold nt thc lime being worth il.12: Heal estate ?1,311,000,000 Personal property 530.000.000 Savings bank deposits 238,000,000 Property of corporations taxed directly by tho State 81,000,000 Property returned under bank tax 31,000,000 Total 52,194,000,000 On account of property subjected to dou hie assessment, as in the oasc of mortgages, Mr. Atkinson deducted 3650,000,000 from tho returned value of real estate, and on account of mortgages, notes and other paper merely reprinting titles lo property ho dliduoteJ *514,000.000 from Hit! aggregate amount nt personal property assessed for taxes. Tins loft SI ,000,001),000 as th? not aoouiuul dion of thc actual product of i .bor during tho two centuries which have elapsed since thc Massachusetts colony was founded. He next considered the product of indus, try in the Slate foi' 1875, which ho set down us follows: Manufactures ?592.000,000 Kisherios 7,500,000 Agriculture and mining 43,500,000 Total annual product 8613,000,000 In this amount, however, there were nu merous duplications. Thus to somooxteut, tho samo cloth is reported 0000 ns in pos session of thc manufacturers und again as Clothing On the shelves of thc dealer. Af ter nil deductions on account of duplications, Mr. Atkinson set down tho net annual pro duct of tho industry of Massachusetts ut a maximum of $500,000,000 or a minimum of 8300,000, mid pointed out that the ag gregate accumulation out of the lubor of two centuries is equal to the annual pvoduot of only two, or, nt most, a little over three years. As a partial explanation of tho extremo slowness of tho prooess of accretion, Mr. Atkinson poi0tod out the destructivo char acter of invention in its ? (feet upon existing capital. As nu illustration of this he men tioned a cotton mill which in 183H produced u given amount with tho I.ibo: of 226 men working 13 hours a day, un i in 1878 pro duces thc same amount with the labor of 90 mon working 10 hours u day. It bo longs to tho Haine corporation, is roprosontod by the sumo shares of stook, nnd to all np pearanjos is tho same mill now ns in 1838, but within tho forty years from that date it has been twioo re built hom tho foundation, while its machinery has been again and oguin replaced by improved dovices, devices which have increased tho productiveness of labor in tho dogreo indicated by tho figures just given. This destruction of capital to raak? way for new inventions, said Mr. Aikinson, is tho low of progress, and it is to tho iuoroatio of production thus brought about that tho working dusses must look j for tho improvement of their condition. Ho next prooocded to show by statistics I of distribution how sundi is tho share of tho j unnual product of industry that goes to oapi- j tal, and how much smaller still is thc per- j oenttigo which capital con devote to luxuri- j ous uses. lu a normal condition of trade j manufacturing capital may yield ten per ' cent, lt uannot yield moro, because any ! industry iu which it yields that percentage j draws so much capital into it that the profits are kept down by compet? tie e. For home year;; past it has yielded much less, and speaking for tho cotton manufacture, it would not now be yielding anything ut all except thc utilization of mate ri il formet ly wasted und oulysuved now in consequence ol services to which the wits of the manu facturera hnvo beou stimulated. Taking . ton per cent, as thc yield of capital in ordi- I nary times that amount has to bo used to replace worn out machiucry and machinery made useless by new inventions, lt lins also to repair building, day insurance, and | cover various other expenses, und in the aggregate the amouut taken out for these several purposes reduces tho ten per cent, to sis. Of thia live pc cont, is used in tho payment of domestic mid other service employed by thc capitalist and in thc supply of the actual necessities of thc capitalist and his family, leaving only one per ccut that can possibly bc devoted to tho increase of capital or to luxurious indulgences. To sum up he deolurcd as tho result of I.is researches into thc statistics of industry that out uf tho eu tiro annual product of industry in Massachusetts, from 95 to 98 per cent, is distributed lo labor, and all thc remainder, except ono per cent., goes to tho maintenance and replacement cf capital. ll is out of this ono per cent, alone that capital caa lind anything io udd to tho per centage received by labor, and the only way in which the earnings of labor ern bc in crease I appreciably is through the inoreuao in llio efficiency of production which new mechanical inventions are continually pro ducing Mr. Atkinsou then went on to discuss the services which tho capitalist renders to society iu return for that ono per cent, which is tho .solo source of al! the great fortune ruado In manufactures or oom meroo. In reply to a question ns to the rresent ten dency of capitalist* to invest in industrial cn tcrprises, Mr. Atkinson f>oid ibero is little inclination to do so, and that no improve ment in this particular is to bc anticipated ns long as there remains any uncertainty in regard to thc Uuit of value, ile, however, anticipates n prosperous future for American industry. He disliked even to think of difficulties in store for British industry and the distross likely to overtake thc poorer classes of the British people, and bc r.utici pated within the next live or ten year? immigration from Great Britain to this country such as that which followed thu Irish famine of 18-16. In reply to a ques tion from tho chairman he expressed tho opinion that English enpital also would bo transforod to this country in large amounts. The PubUc Schools Since tho adjournment of the Legislature the Slitc Superintendent of ?ducation has addressed a circular to tho School Com uti?* pionera of tho several counties, which con tains mutters of intore-t to tho trustees of freo schools und thc public generally. From the circular wc take thc following: 1 lu making thc apportionment of thc school fund for thc present year, County School Commissioners should toke eure not to exceed thc a in ju nt which will probably be collected. Boards of trustees should be OAUttoncd not to make contracts in exoess of thc school fund of their districts. All such contracts aro void. 2. One of the evils of thc public school system in thc past, has been tho establish ment of too many schools. The results of this error have been to divide thc fund of tho School Distriot into smaller portions, thus reducing tho salaries of teachers and thereby impairing the efficiency pf thc pub lic schools. Tho smaller the number of sohools in each District thc better will bc tho pay of ibo teachers, und tho more effi cient thc work which will ho done. Tho schools should bo so situated ns to afford all proper facilities to tho pupils of thc differ ent localities, but it is believed that in ninny instances this can best be done by reducing tlie number ol' sohools heretofore established. The salaries of teachers aro not rognlated by law, nor would it bo practicable to do HO. Tho salaries which cnn bo paid must depend upon tho amount of school fund, which varies in different Sohool Districts, and upon other conditions which Hoards ol' Trustees must take tuto consideration. As a general rulo, I would advise that thc rate of pay allowed teuObors bc os liberal as possible. Tho services of competent teachers cannot be obtained for inadequate compensation. 8 No amendments (0 tho Sohool Law wero made at the recent session of the Legislature Sovornl ods and joint resolu tions wero passed ofieoting tho sohool interest of certain Counties in the State Their purport cannot bo indicated in a circular. lu answer to repeated inquiries on this subject, 1 would suy that I know of uo law prescribing tho agc at which pupils shall bc allowed to avail themselves of tho bene nt of tho publio sohools. 4. Tho schuid fund eollooted for tho past fiscal year was 8310,197.10. Taxes whioh will be hereafter oollootcd by execution will increase this amount It is probable that tho school fund of this year will be at least oqual to thut of thc past year. Thc proper expenditure of this large ?um imposes upon thc various school ofGuers a high and important trust. The pooplo of this ?State havo a right to expect that the school fauds shall bc expended bot only honestly, but wisely. To secure those cuds, County School Commissioners aro earnestly advised to spare no effort to obtain thc hearty co-operation of their subordi nate officers, anti tty all menus in their power to urouso among tho people of tho several Counties an increased interest in tho cause of public education. Very respectfully, HUGH S. THOMPSON, State Superintendent Education, S. C. WASHINGTON, January ll, 1878. Although Southern Democrats no moro cato about tho payment of thc Southern war claims than they do about the distribu tion of the Geneva award, it is olear that these so called war claims ore to bo au im portant factor in thc next Presidential elco? lion. This moy scum strange in thc light of thc fact that a Republican Senate has so far failed to follow tho exam plo of the lluu.su and adopt tho 'joint resolution pro hibiting their payment by constitutional amendment, but it is noverthclosB truo. Oue of these claims now before the IIoiioo constitutes and interesting chupter of tho war history. It is that of A. L. H. Creu shaw, of Missouri, who wants poy for fifty livo mules and other property un lawfully taken from him by United Slates officers in 1803. Mr. Cobb, a Republican, iu reporting eu it iu the forty-third Con gress said Cronshaw was the victim of u conspiracy by Lieut. Lindsay, of tho 11th Kansas infantry, Wiley Aiken, Major Plumb, then provost martial, und now United States Senator from Kansas and others to rob him of his property, The report of Mr. Reilly, from tho Committeo on War Claims to the present llouso, states that Crcnshuw is au old man, cud a lioensod cotton dealer was bunded two letters by ono of thc conspirators, uud that ho put thom in his pocket without reodiug thom, uot baviog hisglassc8. Ooo of tho letters pur? ported to bc from a Mrs. Page to her hus buiid in thc Confedeiato service, a faot whioh Cronshaw did not know. Ho was sooii afterwards arrested, imprisoned aud threatened with death. The outrages and terrors to which ho was submitted, iu order to force him to surrender his property, aro recited iu detail, and aro derived from the report of military boards and officers. Ho offered finally to give them everything if they would not kill him, and did make a conveyance to them. At one time he was told to make his peace with God as they intended to kill him. This is n specimen of thu war claims thu Republican party holds tho South responsible for. SCARLET FfiVER -Every mother hos a peculiar dread of this woll-known disease, aud thora is scarcely any malady of those commonly known to tho people that she wouid not prefer to seo in tho house. There, is hardly a family in whioh thero is not sonic fatal story of its ravages, and tho chronicle of two or three or more children dead on tho same day is not an uncommon one. Some dootors report that in this, as in other diseases, they "nov.-ir lost a case." Perhaps they aro in thc position of tho doctor whom an over-sensati ve father called for his first-born. He wanted a doctor who saved his patients, and ho obtained somewhere or other a m-igical mirror, io which ho could see, as ho stood on caoh doctor's door-stop, tho list of that dootor'a victims in their shrouds Amazed ot the processions he saw in his glass as he stood ut thc doors of tho most famous doctors, he went from houso to house in thc hopo of better results Ho htond ot last at tho door ot a doctor at whoso ?amo thero Op penrod only two tender little victims. Ho Oiillod this physician, lost his child, and found that by subsequent investigation that when he coiled Ililli that the doctor hod been in proclice two dnys and had had just two patients. If these two had not tho ?mallet fever he had not, up to that time, lost a caso of that diseuse. [New York Herald. _... - -<*...%- .. . TUR KAHM RUS.--Agriculture, commerce and manufactures aro tho three pursuits that unite n country-but tho greatest of these is agriculture, for without, its products tho spindle cannot turn and tho ship will not sail. Agriculture furnishes the conserva tivo dement in socioty, and in tho end is the guiding, restraining, controlling foroo in government. Against storms of popular fury, against frenzied madness that seek collision with established order, against thc spirit of a na rob y thnt. would swoop a?;; {'ne landmarks and safeguards of Ohristion society and Republican govern ment, the farmers of tho United States will stand as tho shield and bulwark-them selves tho willing subjects nod thcreforo ? foroing all others into quiet submission. Thero is nothing liku a short hand repor? ter to take a man down. It is perfectly safo to havo Homo mon owo you a grudge for they oovor pay any thing. Qovornor Wado Hampton rcoeivod cloven wounds during tho war, ono of them a saber thrust. It is estimated that Colorado's gold and Hiker yiold for 1878 is in tho neighborhood of $45,676,808.48. Tho savings banks of Vermont now hold over SS,OOO,OOO on deposit, an iuoroaseof ?87,000,000 sioco 1800.