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Wyatt Aiken, ron this.District, said : "I wish to call the attention of the louse to one or two points that I hink will induce a majority to ap )rove the ameidment of the gentle nan from North Carolina, [Mr. cales.] The amendment is neccesary, Mr. ipeaker, if it serves only Ihe. purpose P checking and curbing revenue of icers In the exercise of the authority iow cDnferred upon them' by law. There is no section of the Uniod in Vhich the undue exercise of a little iower has created greater confusion n communities and brought more )pprobrium upon the whole people han in my own district. All the vio ations of the revenue la"s that hAve >een charged upon my constituents ire based simply upon the fact that he representatives of the Govern nent there have never for one mo nent questioned their own authority o trespass upon the rights and >remnesis of any and everybody, be hey innocent or guilty. They never on11sider the constitutional require ieut of having things done accord 11g to law; that they must have a xarrant or writ, or some other offi :ialIaper, authorizing their entering pon private premises to arrest, ii teed be, to handcuff, shackle, - or orike down the citizen whom they 3harge As guilty of violating the re venue laws of the land. Put a short ime ago, sir, it the local p ess is o be creditcd, one of my corstituents, ying ill of disease, was taken by orce and at ins from his sick bed aid arried to a cold, cheerless jail, and iere incarcerated without even the :omorts of a bed, because lhe was :hbarged by one (f thteso representa ises of the Internal Revenue depart i'ent with violating the revenue laws. [here was no warrant issued or other tiicial paper shtown authorizing such 2onduct on the [.art of' this agent of he Government. Sir, the local newsplapers received but yesterday tell me that an outlaw rom an adjoining Common wealth, who has beeun charged with frequent vitlation ofth e revenue laws, and wven with the crime of tmurder in my wn district, is confined in one of t he ails there and put on exhibition, as Barnum would exhibit the hairy man, >y one of these ravenue officers as a muriosity because they accuse him of taving violated the revenue laws imne and again. I do not pretend t~o lefend any such creature, and while believe the full measure of legal mntIishment should be meted out to im, I can but feel that he should be eld as innocent un til proven guilty, ~nd no agent of the Government btould be allowed to violate the law >y thtus inflicting an illegal and un A n incident that came under mny >ersonal observation, and is not elated from hearsay', will illustrate lhe ainbitrary cond uct of t hese reCVe mue agents in executing the law. Two urmmers ago two strang~ers came to he county seat of my e mnty, where here are over twenty stores, and go ng intgevery store asked for sam les of tobacco. Tfhe mechtanit sup. Jlied them, and after' testing the uality of each handed bauck the amples, w hieh were thrownu by the uierchtants toward the boxes from wbich ther were taken. Suome were brown into the boxes, but others fell poni the shelves upon which the oXes were respectively placed. The eventue law requires the merchant a keep the manufactured tobacco in oxes uip .n. which the stamps are een, Is this inistaupo all those cases were noted in which the pieces of to.. bacco were thrown by the merchant towards the loxes but did not reach the box, only falling and remaining on the shelf outside of the box. The next morning each of these mer chants, and I think there were eight of them, were arrested for violation ( the revenue laws and carried off to Columbia, one hundred and five miles distant, and arraigned before a United States judge, who demanded hat this wilful infraction of the law could only be appeased by the pay iment of from one to two hundred dollars by e;aeh tot these merchants. That is the way your revenue laws are .administered and executed in portions of my district, and such ii stances are of frequent, almost daily occurrence." Is There no Remedy? Notwithstanding the committee of the Grand Jury of Pickens County appointed to look after and bring to justice i evenue officials who abuse their privileges, outrages by brutes in human form, who armed with a little brief authority take delight in making their power oppressive, cons tinue of trequent occurrence. Scarce ly a nail comes from the mountain ous section of this State that does not bring some complaint of the insolence and tyranny of United States deputy marshals. To-day. we publish from the Greenville News an account of a high--handed ontiage committod b one of thesefellows and his compan ions up< n a respectable citizen and his family. Surely there ought tobe some way of putting a stop to this persecution of the people. These undes'rapers, when they are ar rested aid prosecuted for tNeir mis 'deeds, at once have their cases tranls, ferred to the United States Courts, 01) the )lea that the offence with which they are charged has been commit ted in the discharge of their duty. No matter how absu rd such a plea may be, the State Courts ar e not al lowed to jutdge of its relevaincy, but the United States Court claims juris <iict ion, and once t here thle offenider is almost sure to escap'e, for t wo rea SOns- he has the sympathy and Bup port of his superiors, and it costs too much for the p)oor p~eople who have been injured to prosecute their case. ( in tihe other hand, it the people undertake to defend themselves, and punish the rufhians who assault h em, they are arrested for resistance to the United States officer's, and carried befor'e the United States C )urts, and for the eamie reasons that a revenue official escapes when be is prosecuted, the man whom he has injured goes, for a shorter or longer period, to Al bany penitenitiary. This is a cryirig shame, anid one that will exist as Jong as thbe people in the mountains are left to their own feeble efforts to remedy it. Tre~. is no hope of redress from the United States oflicials; they are all Republi cans, and as such banded against the rest of' the community. Hampton possibly, but not probably, migmt have influence enough at Washinigton to compel th'e United States Marshal to remove objectionable deputies, it good cause were shown, but even the removal of these officers would be very inadequate satisfaotion for such outrages as that narrated by the Greenville News. Trhey ougtit to be punished, and punishe~d severely.-' The Af'torney-General should ,be au, thorized, at the expenseof tihe State, to prosecute all'offenders under color of the United State authority against thes ights and liberties of tihe people, to the full extent of the law. If the same splendid talen s and weight of legal lore that were brought to she defence ,f the Ellentou prisoners were used in the prosecutions of these revenue ruffians, they would not iuch loniger go untwhipped of justiee.-Charlestou Nens and Vou nrr A Precious Document. Major Julius Mills has handed ue the fpllowing letter, says the Chester Reporter, which lie picked up from % lot of rubbish left among the effects f the Treasurer's office, as transmit, ted to him. It is a fit and striking aommentary on the times in which it was written-the days of robber rule in South Carolina. Just think >f ill The private Secretary of the Lovernor of the State writes from Ihe office of the Attorney General proposing to an officer charged with bigh and important trust, viz: The ,ollection and disbursement of taxes, 1o join him in wholesale thieving 3iealing moneys belonging, in most instances to helpleas orphan children. It is'needless for us to say that "Dear Ben" is none other than that conen mate scamp B. G. Yocum, Chamber lain's Treasurer of Chester county, who is now, we know not whete; but he can never receive his desserts until he wears the striped garb and cropped hair of some State peniten.. tiary, with Noah and Chamberlain to bunk with him. The following is the letter: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT OFIocE OF ATr0RNEY"GEN1ERAL, Columbia, S. C., Feb. 5, 1875. Private. Dear Ben: I have an idea that on reconstr uction in this State, guard. ians, tristees and others came intc court to settle their accounts, and paid in the assete thereof in Confed crate money, bills of the Bank of the State and other trash, or what wai at that time considered so. If ther( were any bills of the Bank ot the State paid in, whether war issue oi not, they should or ought. to be there, at)d if e cai get possession of them by book or crook, we can make soAle imoncy. Look this matter up, and advise mle at oicefas I can make a sale of tie same. Your friend. [Over.] H. NOAI. If there are aniy, as suggested on other side, Co:.federnte money <au be suIbtituted th erefor, and nothing ever' be known oif it, or even it no substittionui is made. In this regard. it. would be well to get the Clerk of the Court to join with us. An Awful Holocaust. The prticulars of the fire at Tri entsin, China, are horrible. Tfhe n umber of' r'etngees who _have been collecting at thiis point bas beeni aulgmentinig by daily additions, i'ntil tfie aggregate was variously estimna sed at anywhere from 50.,000 to 150, 000. A few weeks since an addi tional 80111 disp ensary was opened :m a piece of' ground known as the lower garden of the K'ang family. When this relief depot was establish r.d, the whole premises were sur rounded with a strong fence of reed and millet stalks, plastered with mud. As the place was to be occupied only b~y womnr anid children, the greatest :ae was taken that all communica :ion between the inside and outside be prevented. The alley on the west tide was fenced up at its'north end, had the only gate of the soap yard wvas at the south etnd of the same al ey-a gate about six feet wide. About 10 o'clock on a bitter cold' norming an alarm was given that a ire had broken out ini the ref ief y ard, -oofed with inflammable mate, and 3rowed with human beings. Crowds ft people began to gather on all sides >f the yard, and tear down the high ence. The moment that communi sation was established between the nside and the outside a considerable inmber of outsiders leaped into that iart of the inclosure forming the a!l ey to attempt to rescue those who were struggling to escape. ThJe icene w it h ins was aw ful. 'I he long theds had already melted into smoke tud ashes, and only the poles were still Burning-yet not the nole alone, for beneath stretched long lines of g something only indistinctly seens, and v which, between the gusts of flames t and smoke, could he recognized as I the heads, arms and bodict I human 1: beings, all liuddled~within the limits b of their former compartments, ani ti just as they were caught by the fiery y sorocco. Not one in twenty had d time to move a yard before they v were met by flames- and suffocated k where they chanced to be.' In front li of the locked gate a large number of A poor wretches were caught and Im- n prisoned by the flames. Th'ir wad- I ded or skin garments caught.fire and %v could neither be taken off nor extin- b guished- scores of poor women were II reduced to a condition too horrible ft to be described-absolutely roasted g on one side, and utterly helpless to w escape. 01 The greater part of those who were n burned must have perished instantly. p Within five minutes of the time the Y fire broke ont it is probable that fr those who failed to escape were suf- n focated in the flames. Long after ti every seap of mat and wood had h been consumed the bodies of the vic. a time continued to burn and smoulder. P The corpses were most of them re-- 0 duced literally to cinders, utterly be. p yond recognition. Many of the stir" vivors on the day of the fire, and the three following days, while the bodies were being taken out, wandering , about, uttering the most piteous ]a.. mentations, striving to discover their children; husbands came to institute j a hopeless quest for their wives.- ( Nothing was left upon the ground but horribly mutilated c'rpses, fragments v of half burned clothes and broken U pottery. It is definitely ascertained t that the numbcr who perished is C somewhat more than 1,400. . An Interesting Episode. That august body, the General ti Conference of the Methodist Episco a pal Church, South, which assembled pj in A tanta, Ga., on the 4th instant, ti adjourned Friday last, to meet again a im .Nash ville, Tennessee, ini 1882.- ti The proceedings of the Conference a were exceedingly inlterestin~g, some-. e times stormy, but before the adjourn a memit the most perfect harmnony and t] brothe1 v love pr1evailed. The day before the adjournment a o)f the Confe.ence was thbe occasion 1 of a novel and interesting epi:ode in a the general routine of business. Fra-. ft ternal Messengers of the African y Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. 1 W. J. Gaines, formerly of Columabus, 2 and Rev. W. B. Johnsor, formerly I of Savannah, both colored, had ar- p rived in Atlanta, and on that day C were introduced by Gov. Colquitt to 1 Bishop McTyere, presiding, and then d to the College ot Bishops and the si Conference in due iLrm. Rev. Mr. h Gaines, who is represented to be a Ii light colored handsome man, first A addressed the Conference,. and made p a most favorable impression. His A Speech was full of humor and fre'. i quently ap)plauded. C lie was followed by Rev. Mr. sl Johnson, who is dark colored and it not attractive in appearance, but his at address was full of fine sentiments ti expr essed in eloquent style. Both C the r-peeches. expressed the kindliest b, and must fraternal feelings towards el iheir white brethren and wh ite race. ol Rev. Mr. Johnson was most happy'1 in his exordium, which we publish E below. We would give his wholeJ speech if we had space. We may k( hereafter make extracts from it: a Mr. Chbairn an, Bishiops and Brethb d ren in Ciist: Let me here state a It circumstance which has just rnow f< occurred. When in the vestry there F we were consulting your committee, h among whom was your illustrious o Christian Governor, the Hon. A. H. Colquitt, [applause,] feeling an unDA usual thirst, and expecting in a few b momenta to appear heforaen umo.- c htlessly I asked him if there was rater to drink, He lookfig abont. e room, answered, "There is none% will get you some." I insisted not; ut presently it was brought by a rother rivister, and handed me by ie Governor. I said 'Governor, ou must allow me to deny myself this istinguished favor, as it recalls so ividly the episode of the warrior ing of Israel, when with parched p he cried from the rock cave of Ldullan, '01 that one would give ie drink of the water of the well of etblehen that is at the gate.' And hen three of his valiant captains roke through the hosts of the ene-, by and Veturned tc, him the water, ir which his soul was longing, re irding it as the water of life, 'ha ould not drink of it,, but poured it at to the Lord." [Applause.} "So ay this transcendent emblem of urity and love, froma the hand oft Lur most honored co-4aborer and iend of the hbman. race, ever ren iain as a memorial unto the Lord of ke friendship existing between the lethodist Episcopal Church South, ad the African Methodist Episco al Chlrch, upon the first exchange r formal fraternal greeting." [Ap lause.] he Disaster in the English Channel. The sinking of the iron-clad Gros Br Kurfurst, (Grand Elector,) flag Hip of the German epiadron of evo Ition, by collision witb the iron clad [aker Wilbeln, in the English )hannel, adds another to the list of :rvat disasters for which the British waters have been famous. In this nfortunate instance the collision ook plaee in broad daylight, in a aln sea, an1d the necessary inference that it was the result of blunder ig seamanship. Tbe statement ot n eye witness is to the effect that ie Kurfurst ported [ier behino clear passing bark, and the Wilhelm nlling too suddenly apart str'uck ae Kurfurst forward of he'r mizzen inst. The loss of lives by this ca. istrophe is estimated at 300 or more , rid it naturally recalls many great vents of the kiud, late and remote, mnong which .mnay be enumerated e following: By the sinking of the British frig te Royal George, off Spithead, in 782, A dmiral Kemnpenfeld t and 600 aen were drowned. The British -igate St. George and Defense were recked offY the coast of Jutland, in 811, involving together a loss oft ,000 lives. The British troopship ~irkenhead struck Upon a pointed innacle rock off Simon's bay, near ape Town, Africa, on Fcbruary 26, B52, and 454 of the crew and sole. iore perished. The British troop lip Lady Nugent foundered in a urricamne, in May, 1854, and 400 ves wore lost. Tihe boiler of the ustrian man.-of-war Radetzky ex oded on February 20, 1869, in the driatic Sea, and 342 lives were ist. The United States -teamer 'neida was run down by the British eamer Bombay, in the Japan Sea, January, 1870, and 115 officers dmen were .lost. The British irret-ehip Captain foundered near ape Finistere, France, on Septem. 3r 7, 1870, 500 lives were lost, in oding Captain Cowles, the designer the vessel. On Novomber 24, 377, the United States steamer lurona was wrecked on the coast of Forth Carolina and 104 lives were est, and on ther same coast a little teot the steamer Metropolis foun-e ered, and over 100 lives lost. The aet disaster of the kind was the iundering of the British troop ship urydice, off the Isle of Wight, on [arch 24 of this year, with the loss f over 800 lives. Six vessels, in all, will bp pecured efore the Rossiani qgents leave this anntry.