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CIAL 8W8I0*<0??8nT An Act to reduce and fix the salaries of certain officers. Skction 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by tho authority of the same, That the public officers hereinafter named shall receive the annual salaries hereinafter mentioned, respectively, to wit: The Govornor, $3,500; the Governor's Private Seoretary, $1,275; the Governor's messeny ?r> $300; the Lieutenant Governor, $1,000, ( ) to take effect after the next General election; the Secretarv of State. $2,100 : tho Chief - Clerk of the Secretary of State, $1,275; the Comptroller General, $2,100 ; for clerical services in the office of the Comptroller Genera], $2,550, if so much be necessary; the State Treasurer, $2,000; the Chief Clerk of the State Treaeurer, $1,475 ; the bookkeeper of the State Treasurer, $1,000 ; 1 tho Adj utant and Inspector General, $1,- ' 200 ; Clerk to the Adjutant and Inspector 1 ^ General, $900 ; the State Superintendent of ^ ' Eduoation, $1,875; for Clerk to Superin- ' tendent of Education, $900; the Attorney ' Genoral, $2,100; the Clerk of the Attorney ' General, $1,200; the Chief Justice of the ( Supremo Court, $4,000; the Associate Jus- ' tioes of the Supreme Court, $3,500 eaoh : ' the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme 1 Y . Court, $1,000; the Clerk and Librarian of the Supreme Court, $700; the attendant on ^ the library and room* of the Supreme Court, ( $200; tho Circuit Judges, $3,500 eaoh; the Circuit Solicitors, $1,500 oaoh, except in the First Circuit, which shall be $2,000, in lieu of all charges against the State and countios, ' and of all fees received from defendants; 1 the Keeper of the State House and State Librarian, $500 ; the watchmen of the State House and grounds, not to exeeod two in number, $300 each ; the Superintendent of tho Stato Pcniteutiary, $1,600; tho physioian of the State Penitentiary, $300 ; the :T. Superintendent of tho Stato Lunatic Asy* lum, $2,000 ; the health officer of Charlcs.te?v $1,000 ; the health officers of Georgetown, $-100 ; Hilton Head and St. Helena Sound, $600 each ; tho Keeper of tho Lazaretto, $400 ; the Librarian of the Univcr- 1 sity of South Carolina, who shall have charge ( of tho buildings aud grounds of the Uni- 1 vcrsitv. $500. 1 Sec. 2. That the County Treasurer of 1 oach county shall reccivo commissions upon all taxes collected in their respective counties, as follows : Three per cent, upon the 1 first $10,000; two per cent, upon the next $10,000; one per cent, upon the next 1 $10,000j one-half of one per cent, upon all amounts colleoted ovor $30,000 : Provided, The same shall not exceed $800 or be less than $500 per annum, oxcept the county of Charleston, where the commissions shall not exceed $2,000. For clerical ser- ' vices in the office of County Treasurer of Charleston, $800 ; Provided, further. That nothing herciu contained shall apply to fees and costs allowed County Treasurers for making distress and sale of real or personal property. Sec. 3. That tho Countv Auditors of V tho several counties shall receive the annual salaries hereinafter mentioned, respectively: Tho County Auditor of Charleston, 82,000: Provided, That no additional compensation shall be allowed for clerk hire ; the Ccuuty Auditors of Abbeville and Richland, 8700 >^ach; tho County Auditors of Aiken, Anderson, Barnwell, Beaufort, Chester, Colleton, Darlington, Edgefield, Fairfield, Creenvillo, Laurens, Newberry, Oraugcburg, Spartanburg, Sumter and York, 8600 each; tho County Auditors of Chesterfield, Marion, Clarendon, Georgetown, Ilorry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lexington, Marlboro, Oconee, Pickens, Union and Williamsburg, 8500 oach. And in addition to the salaries of the Auditors, as hereinbefore provided, the County Auditors, shall receive, to defray the expenses of assessment of property, such sums as may be necessary, but not to exceed the following, to wit: The Auditor of Charleston County, 8000 ; the Auditors of Abbcvillo and Richland, 8500 oach ; the Auditors of Aiken. Anderson. Baruwell. lleaufort, Chester, Darlington, Edgefield, Fnirfiold, Greenville, Laurens, Newberry. Orangeburg, Spartanburg, Sumter and York, 8100 each ; the Auditors of Colleton, Clarendon, Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Marion, Marlboro, Pickens, Oconee, (Tnion, Williamsburg and Chesterfield, friOO each ; and the County Commissioners of the sevIf - % oral counties, as aforesaid, shall, upon tho application of tho Couuty Auditors, draw their checks on tho County Treasurers for tho several amounts to whioh the Auditors may be entitled under the provisions of this section, and the County Treasurers shall pay tho said checks from tho first col- < lection of county funds of the fiscal ] year in which the work shall be performed, i But no such cheolc or order shall be paid by the County Treasurer until the Auditor 1 shall have filed with tho County Commis- 1 sioners an itemised statement of tho servi- 1 oes rendered by his assistants, tho number 1 of days each of said assistants were em- 1 ployed, and tho compensation they were ' severally to receive, which said statement shall bo examined and approved by the said ( Board of County Commissioners: Provided, < That no member of tho lioard of County { Commissioners shall act as Assistant Asses- * sor. That the County School Commission- 1 era in each of tho several counties of the ' State shall roceivo for their compensation $3 per diem for the time in whioh thev are ac- e tually engaged in the business of their respective offices : Provided, The nurnbor of j days in each and every year for which said compensation shall bo allowed shall in no caso exceed 100 days, except in the county of Charleston, whore the number of days ^ shall not excoed 150 days. Sxc. jk All salaries provided for in sec- ^ tion 1 of t?is*act 'shall b6 payable quarterly, and bo paid upon tho warrants of the Comptroller General upon the State Treasurer. See. 5. That all aots or parts of acts in- 8 consistent with this act be, and the same arc hereby, repealed. Sxc. C. That this aot shall take effect * immediately after its passage. Approved June 7, 1877. the millitia law. ^ Au Act to unioud an act er titled "An act ^ supplementary to chapter 15, title 4, part v 1, of the general statutes of South Car- g olin^ relating to tho militia, and for tho g better organisation and government of the same." 3 Section 1. Be it enacted by tho Senate v and House of Representatives of the State ^ of South Carolina, now met and stittiug in 1 Gcueral Assembly, and by the authority of ' the same, That in addition to tho body of c militia known as the "National Guard," the Governor, as Commander-iu-Chief, is here- 1 by authorized to rccieve all suoh bodies of c citizen soldiery as may have tendered or. c may hereafter tender their services to the c State, to constitute the Volunteer State ^ Troops, and to consist of suoh companies, a battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions ? as may be organized by the authority of the 1 Commander-in-Chief. These troops to uni- 1 form themselves, and to be subject to all I such regulations as may bo prescribed by 1 the Commander-in-Chief and issued from 8 the office of the Adjutant and Inspector 1 General and published. j Sko. 2. The Adjutant and Inspector 1 General shall appoint an Armorer, who * shall take charge of the State Armory in 1 Columbia, and keep in order all the arms 1 and munitions oontained therein. His sal- ( nru iiKflll V.a ftORfl nnwiii*. * J HUM4k WV V^UV |/gi HUU UUI Sec. 3. Tho organization known as the 1 Fourth Brigade, South Carolina Miltia, ( consisting of tho Sixtocnth and Seventeenth ' Regiments of Infantry, the First Regiment ' of Rifles, and First Regiment of Artillery, ' with tho Charleston Light Dragoons and Ger- 1 man Hussars, shall be received and cmbodiod ' in the State Volunteer Troops. Offiocrs of equal grade shall take rank in accordance < with the period of time in which they shall ' have served in any branch of tho military ] of the State. The field officers of the said { Fourth Brigade, and their successors, shall { be deemed in law the successors of the orig- ' inal field officers thereof, and shall bo enti' ( tied to hold and joy all rights, franchises, and property which were of the said field ) officers thereof. 1 SEC. 4. Immediately alter the passage of this act, the Governor shall call in all arms, i equipments, and munitions which are in the j hands of any persous not authorized by law to hold the same, and shall requiro all commands lawfully holding any such State prop- , crty to file in the office of the Adjutant and i Inspector General a full statement of such 1 property, with the authority under which 1 it is held, and the present condition there- * of. The Governor shall have authority to permit the sale or exchange of any miliary J. li ?i i? i qf? property of tho Stated for tho purpose of 1 obtaining other arms, equipments, or muniments, or munitions more suitable to the ' wauta of the State. Sec. 5. All field officers of battalions, ] regiments, brigades or divisions, shall bo i elected by tho commissioned and non-com- ( missioned officers and privates of the same J respectively. Sec. 6. Nothing in this act contained j shall deprive any soldier or officer of tho^Na- ? tional Guard" of any right to which he r may be entitled in that organization. The * jaid "Natioual Guard" shall continue to ex- ' ikt, and shall be a separate and distinct body. , ? SEC. 7._A11 commissions iss-u^J jffico of tho AdjutaVt aud Iuspector Gen- v ?ral shall be charged for at the rate of SI ' sach; the fund thus raised to bo devoted to ? lofraying tho expense of getting iu, repair- ? Dg rud reissuing the arms and muuilious ? lelonging to the State. o Sec. 5. All acts and parts of acts incon- ? listent with this act are hereby repealed. Approved June 8. ? \.n Act to auicnd section 15 of chapter 39 ^ of the General Statutes, relating to the fmwer in school districts to levy aud col- n ect special taxes for school purposes. c Sec. 1. Be it enacted by tho Senate and e ifouse of Representatives of tho Stato of n south Carolina, now met aud sitting in c general Assembly, and by tho authorit3* of ^ he same, That section 15 of chapter 39 of ho general statutes be, and the same is w tereby, amended, by striking out all of u ubdivisitfn 4 of said section. Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts incou- a isteut with this act, bo, and the same are ^ lercby, repealed. a Approved June 8. ( t! Famine and Drouqut in California. ^ ?Tho accounts from California aro very y lismal iudced in regard to the bad crop 1: >rospccta in that Stata, tho ruin wrought by v rhich is to bo added to the bursting of the j=j ilvcr mining bubble. Doubts are expres- p od if the entiro San Joaquin valley, will i; dcld 100,000 bushels of wheat and barley, g rhich yielded last year about 10,000,000 l: mshcls. A California correspondent of tho t 'few York Graphic writes under date of p Jay 18: "All the news from tho Pacific p A. !- J! A. T Ml 1 su:i8i is uisasiroua. x win give it as my ao- u ibcruto opiuiou that we will have a famiue ? u this State before the season is over. The t Irought has killed all our crops, aud ucarly ti lostroyed all our cattle. This is the sec- u ind great drought siuco tho settlement of ^ Jalifornia, and the memory of thoso two will ^ always be a cloud upon tho business horizon a if this wonderful State, for capitalists will not p nvest monoy in ranches and cattle, and run e he risk of a burning season, wlicu all their j losscssioons will be devoured and uuuihilacd by the sun and dust. I fear you will p eon hear of more business disasters of & 1 nost gigantio character from this coast.? t filings were really in an unwholesome state 8 fhco ltalston died, but the difficulty was ^ hen averted oulv to end in greater calam- a ty and panic. It is a fact that people who p vero millionaires six months ago, are to-day c lager to secure situations as waiters and arui laborers. The drought alono nearly c ruined the State, but occurring siuiultane)usly with the bursting of the mining bubt>le, it has proved more than the people of die State can stand. Starvation literally stares the whole farming population in the race, and in a few weeks more they will have acither meat, fruit nor grain." Tiie Confederate Dead.?Baltimore Juno 13.?Washington Ccmetry, where the Confederate dead, killed in the battles of Antictam and South Mountain, are iutorred. was formally dedicated, yesterday, with ippropriate memorial ceremonies, aud the graves strewn with flowers. Au oration nas delivered by Gcu. Fitzhugh Iiec, of Virginia. About 4,000 persons were pres- ' snt. The cemetery was incorporated in ' 1870, by tho Legislature ot Maryland, with 1 iu appropriation of 85,000, whieb'has since been iucreascd to 810,000. The States of Virginia and West Virgina have also made 1 appropriations. Handsome marblo monuments adorn the graves in which about 2,500 Confederate dead aro buried. John Southworth and Mrs. CaTr eloped ,i from Pownal, Vt., and rode in a carriage i across the line into New Vork State. Mr. I Carr pursued them on horseback, and over- 1 look them in Rensselaer County. He drow 1 a pistol, seated himself in the carriage by ' the side of his wife, and returned homo I with her, compelling Southworth to walk i ahead all of the way. Once back in Ver- i uiont, he had the offenders arrested. i SOUND VIEWS OF^ VICE ^PRESIDENT HEN New York, Juue 13!-?Mr. Hendriclu having returned thanks for the honor done him, alluded to the Prosideutia! election and aid the result as declared iu Louisiana and Florida aud at Washington, is not and canlot be made satisfactory to tho country for ibvious reasons; that it was not tho truth. K great aud sincere people will rest their iual judgment only upon thiuth, nover tpou frauds, successful through technicality. Oven should the President and his Cnbiuet idopt apart or tho whole of tho policies aud mrposcs for which the Democratic part} las becu contending for many years, aud rhich became so distinctly defiucd lust year ?even that cauuot remove or quiet tho ublio discontent. Democrats will make uo ucligua opposition nor seek to embarrass a ;C'fiioU> udiuiuifttV.ion, but will aimruiu it in rhut is right, because it is right and for ear of tho eouuliy, and not at all because f auy fealty to the party that stands deleaed aud coudomned by tho people. The eoplo cauuot allow the selection of their )hief Magistrate to become a thing of chance r sharp practice. The fraud lirst triuuiphut iu Anioricau history must huassigucd to Ls proper place among the crimes against opular government, auti made so odious hut no party wi.il daro attempt its rcpetiion. lie who is elected President must uot e inaugurated uutil that is settled aud lade positive. No Democrat can be seducd from his devotion and allcgiauce in any ray?uot by tho allurements of oflice, nor veu by the stroug appeal iu tho abaudouieut by the Administration of vicious priuiples aud daugcrous policies aud tho adopiou of belter doctrines and just measures. >emooruts will not eutrust their most ohershod principles to the keepiug of a power rhich is 'atiaiued by vicious aud corrupt icasures. They will rather coutiuuo their nith iu tho right of tho majority to rule, iu ccordauco with the constitutional proviious. All Democrats rejoice with uubouucd joy that free Republican governments re once more allowed to the States of South laroliua aud Louisiuua. They rejoice iu ho good fruits that must follow. They uow that peace aud good order will proail ; that capital will be made secure and tbor contented and happy ; that enterprise rill revive, und tho cruel hurdeus of the pverumeut and public corruption will be [fled from the shoulders of labor, aud that rouucuou win increase aua laud advance a price; but they know that, in the ian;uagc oi'Gov. Morton, it had become ineviable. Good goveruuieut iu the Elates was iot a free will offering upon tha altars ol he country. For years the ]'eurocrats iad contended iu Congress and before the eople, for free -Republican States throughut tho South, and liually it became 4iineviablc," becauso t'uc right and truth were oo strong to be louger >uppressed. ] u this, he Democrats hud a reason to stand wore irmly; with their party out of power, with 10 patronage to dispense and no money to listribute; but au.mated by the spirit of >ur institutions and inspired by the scntinent of the right of local self-government s inherent in tho people. The Democratic tarty, during the past teu years, has restord one State after another, until now the read of tho soldiers is heard iu uo Legisaturo; but iu ercry State the people are governed by laws of their own enactmont,aud ty law-makers of their own choosing. Mr. Iendricks concluded with tho duclaratiou hat this occasion had more than a personal iguificancc?it proclaimed that we had uo ectioual sentiment, no Eastcru or Western >olicies; tho East and the West, the North iad the South were one. A wise and just Kilioy would alike promote the prosperity >f each. #? Frequency of Suicides.?The number >f suicides in the United States during the iresent year is said to be unprecedented iu ins country. Fiance and Ueruiany, where nfidolity hasb-cu more prcvaleut than in alnost any other countries, seem abo it to yield heir unenviable distinction in this respect o the United States Uno of the leading :auses is thought to be the hard times, and t is remarked, "fathers of families wlic rave boen out of work the whole winter md who have managed to support thorniclvcs and their households on the little tarings of years, in the hope of obtainiug employment in the spring, find their hope* flighted, and in a moment of despair seek .. i:.i- r a _* .1. n ? .1 ?i CIIU1 JIUIII IIIU UUICS U1 LIIU WUUU 111 Utiillll. rhcre in nothing of heroic character or ol noral fortitude in such conduct. It is -ather cowardice of the basest kind, be:auso it desorts and leaves to deeper misery ,he objecis of a man's highest concern for ;he pusillanimous reason that ho cannot bring limself to share the fato of poverty and ruin which he has been uuable to avert.? It is, inoroover, a crime against the Crea tor, who gave life, and will tako it back irhen Ilo, in ilia infinite wisdom, deems il best; a crime against the family of the su icide, which has a right to his life and tc ill that he can do for those of whom he it the natural protector; and a crime against himself, for he has no more right to take his own life than that of any other man.? 1'here are many things in the world hard tc bear, but whether they can be improved bj ihaiigiiig them for ills lh:?t wc know nol of," is a problem which no one in his sen scs would like to solve by self-destruction Do Spirits Communicate??If the i skeptically disposed aro proue to question 1 the following story of ghostly communicatibn, we refer them to the editor of tho Oswego Times : la a Tillage in Oswego oouaty, says that jourual, there resides ao intelligent widow whose husband was a Methodist clergyman. A few years ago she lost a much beloved daughter, a young lady at the time. wlioso roimrius were deposited iu tho Tillage churchyard. Tho mother was for a long time iuconsolablo, and agaiust (ho remonstrances of friends, was in tho daily praotioo of visiting a ad weeping over the grave of her daughter. This she would do no matter liouVli wis sapioiulj) vnpnvi!n/1 fKio . .! One day, after sho wa% npparclod for her daily visit to the graveyard, all at once her daughter, just as sho appeared when iu full health, stood Leside her, and looking iuto her mother's faco said sweetly and as naturally as sho had ever spoken, 'Mother why do you risk your health by these unseasonable visits to the grave-yard ? I am not there. It is only the dust of the human form that moulders thero. Tho spirit which you loved is iu a far happier slate of exist .1 - _1 Ill in.. 11 - * onco uma wncn neia &uu icitereu oy mac dust over which you ahed unavailing tcaisj Your duty, dear mother, is to the living, not to your dead daughter, who has been mudo far happier by this great change which soon all must meet.' And after u few consolatory remarks the daughter vanished from sight as suddenly as she came. 'Now,' concludes the Times, 'this lady reports this as having positively occurred. Sho was not % dreaming, because shejwas not sleeping, but attired for hor daily visit to hor daughter's grave, and in a moment more would have been on her way to tho couaetery.' Builwei "Going West."?Washington, May 26.?General Butler always has a surprise of some kind in storo for the public, and now lie is "going West." It is said to-night that he intends emigrating to Colorado, turn sheep farmer and como to Congress as Souator of the Centennial State.? It will be remembered that tho Supreme Court recently awurded to Colonel Craig, the patent or title of an cxtonsivo tract of i i :_ i ht.i. i?i i L liinu tu V/Viuiiiuu, wuiuu iiuu Jong uceu lu dispute. The story ruus that General Butler has pu.ch;isodfrom Colonol Craig 73,000 acres ol* this estate, and that as soon as he can arrange some of his private business ho intei.ds to settle upon it and engage in cat. tie raising. Forney's Chroniclo explains his motives i in the followiug editorial: "The faot is New 1 England is politically worn out, or rather the appreciation of its people, aud in oonsequonco her limits are getting very narrow , and contracted. What Butler wants is room I and fresh air, and Colorado is just tho place to fiud these two essentials to human happiness. The chances of politics are seventy-five per cent, better thero than in Massachusetts, and this is a weighty considers tion to a man who hates criticism aud newspaper men as the devil does Christianity.? The healthy recreation of cattlo raising is another iuduccincut, and will go a great way toward tempering tho humor of thoold man for the new honors that are sure to wcloomo such as he. Two years' residence in Colorado destroys all the identity of a carpetbagger, aud entitles a man to all tho privi leges aud rights of those to the manor born. "General liutler is yet a young mau, and thrown into a new country with money enough to bccomo a largo land owner, coupled with his extraordinary ability and perseverance, there is no telling tho oflect of | the transformation his presence will produoe both in the substantial wealth and politics of the State. The people would soon see this, and be quick to recognize it bj conferring upon him the highest honors in their - gift. Wc, therefore, prediot that General Butler will be one of the next new United > States Senators from Colorado, and the mo' merit he is the State will become one of the most prominent in the Union." An assistant of a druggist reoontly put . up a prosorption of a doee of castor oil for a > young lady. She innocently inquired how 1 it could be takon without tasting it. He ' promised to oxplain to hor, and, in tho moan' time, offered her, courteously, a glass of , flavored and scented seltzer water. After ' she had finished it, ho said, triumphantly, 1. "You see, i.tiss, yon hive taken your oil and - you did not know it." The youug lady screamed out, "It was for my mother