THE THIEVE S CARNIVAL. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FRAUD. We uow proceed to show the cuoruious expenditures for other purposes. The first we shall consider is that of FURNITURE. Wo fiud that there has boon paid out withiu four years for furniture aluuo over two hundred thousand dollars, and of this amount Mr. Berry uud Mr. Eagan, furuituro dealers, testify that at the present time there is af tho State House only scvcntceu thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars' "JlrWIWl Tnn IvGlUuBS (three hundred nud twenty-five dollars' worth of furniture purchased by Attorney-General Mcltou, and paid fur by him out of his contingent fuud, and at*ihis tiuie is in the attjrney-gcucrnl's office. Mr. Berry ?ays.kfr'furuishcd a large number of Committee rooms outside of the State House, as well as bed rooms. He remembers furnishing the rooms occupied by W.J. Whippcr, T. Hurley, T. B Johnston, J. E. Green and others, and some of the rooms he furnished as often as three times ! lie also furnished rooms at Mrs. Randall's, i* _ o I \i . J ..1 i'. lur o|iUciKcr muaus, truui'u i uru 11 urc iu incuiLcrs for pay certificates, anil furnished almost all the offices in the State House, EVERY SESSION ! Iu contiuuatTof), he states that 4m. fui**> nished at least forty bed-rooms, but docs not ?' ?.?kn?w who in legislative pay corttncSfes: ? - . We ask rcl^renco to the evidence of Scrgeant-at-arms Williams, on the subje'et of furniture. He says he purchased a lot ot furniture from Mr. Berry, cousisting of chairs, tables, washstauds ifnd bed-rooui sets. Some of the tooma. thus furnished were occupied1 by Geu. ,W. J. Whipper, W. II. Jones and,Juuics A. Bowlev. lie docs not know what tfceame of the furniture, but endeavored to collect it, tind was told by J. B. Dennis, James A. Bowley, Benjamin Byas and Charles Miuort that he had nothing to do with it; consequently he troubled himself no more about it. ? lie says the rooms over the South Carolina Bauk and Trust Company were furnished also, and wcro occupied by Senator J. P. Owens, T. Hurley and W. II. Gardiner, and that ho also furnished Speaker Lee's rooms and OTIIElt PRIVATE ROOMS, at the boarding houses of members, with line carpets, stoves and other furniture, and that they were claimed as committee rooms. He says : "I cannot undertake to explain tho accounts of Mr. Berry. I know that large quantities of furniture were furnished Kit Ik tiki flAuoSeik n Ail flint nu *11011 n* IJJ II nil ? V* I Jr OtWIVII, llliu UUIl- HO I7VWII ao the General Assembly adjourned it disappeared, and I was compelled, under the ordjr of the Speaker or some committee chairman, to refurnish all the rooms as soon as the Legislature met." These rooms, he adds, 14 were OUTSIDE OK TilE CAPITOL building, and he believes the furniture was stolen by those who had charge of it." W. K. Greenfield testified that the rooms he rented were newly, thoroughly and, in some instances, most extravagantly furnished every fall, about the time the General Assembly convened, and that the furniture was removed by different persons, and not by regular dealers, and looked as if it was being divided up among them ; that he rented the rooms with the understanding that they were for public business, but they may have been used otherwise, and that he was generally paid for them with legislative pay certificates. JOHN II. DENNIS testifies that he purchased furniture for forty rooms, including the offices of the governor, attorney-general, comptrollcr-gcnerai, and the hall of the House of Representatives. His evidence proves most conclusively that a majority of the members of tho House combined against the persons who furnished these gooods and demanded t) be paid for voting for the claim. The LilLi mni*n mnrii llinii 11 < 111 1 # 1 nrwl nnrtiHrnitna A) \ I l ~) v vimn <tv>uwiv.vi un\i i i iiiviiiv; issued for them. The New York firms and .Mr. Hcrry received only the amounts quo on their accounts. Henj. Hyns, chairman /A the committee, who reported favorably ,on the raised claim, received a pay ccrtifi,cate te the amount of 812,310 5t>?the romninder was divided between. FIFTV otiikil mkmukus, ;as follows: W. 11. Jervcy had 82,10(1, which he was to divide between himself, 'i'. A. Davis, W. CI. Glover, J. .1. Hardy, 1*. P. Hedges, Abratn Smith, J. W. Lloyd, J. A. How ley and Orlando Levy, all members from Charleston County, except Howlcy, who represented Georgetown County. Humbert, of Darlington, received a certificate of an even (ink thousand doi.iiaiih, which he was to divide between himself, Alfred llart, S. J. Keith, S. Sanders, J. Long, Frank Adamson, Joint P. Henderson, Hastings Gantt, 11. Tnrlo?on and Fortune Giles. Asbury L. Singleton, of Sumtor, received a certificate for 81.lot), to divide between himself, K. Cain, II. C. t'orwin, K. Ferguson, 11. Gaither, S. Garoy, A. S. Holmes, Harney Humphries, S Melton, Win. Littlefield, .1. P. Singleton, Alfred Mere, K. M. Sumpter and dared Warley. II. II. HUNTER, FROM CHARLESTON, demanded and roceived for hiuisclf a certificate for $750 ; J. II. White received a certificate for $250 for himself; W. P. C. Gardner, 0110 for $1,500 for himself; 11. G. Vocuui, ono for $1,500; W. J. Whipper, one for 3,000 ; A. O. Jones, one for 1,000; W. II. Jones, one for 81,000 ; Joe Crows, one for $3,000 ; Lawrence Caiu, ouo for $500, which wituess says he bought from Clin afterwards, aud Caiu, in his evidence, admits receiving a small cousidcratiou on account of this uiattcr ; P. J. O'Coonoll received one for 81,000; 13. A. Nerltud, one for v,?, nnJ'rIJVoWlSPWf; Mitchell Goggins, one for 8100; S. J.,Keith, one for $100 ; Wm. Keuucdy, one for $100. p. J. MOSES had one certificate for $5,000, and does not know how many more or exactly the amounts. We have not (owing to the want of time) ascertained who collected all the certificates referred to above, but find that II. ilyas, 13. G. Yocum and T. Hurley collcc tea theirs, nuU that the live thousand dollar certificate given to Moses was exchanged lor a State treasurer's due bill for that amount. Accounts Nos. 33, 34. 33 and 30 refer to this claim, and are referred to in A. O. Joucs's evidence, when the vouchers pi^vo that tnorc than 817,000 was allowed as interest on 845,000 for seventeen months. Most of the certificates thus issued are in office* ayd^4ave Jaeeu paid. Uutr Hi^y do nol bear the endorsement m either of the firms named in them, to-wit: tficol, Davidson & Co., or Stewart, Sutphen & Co. Gen. Dennis says that more than 812,000 of these certificates were divided between Speaker Moses, Clerk A. O. Jones, Niles G. Darker, Tiui Hurley and himself. Your committee find that a large portion of the fraudulent certificates issued to pay the difference betwccu the legitimate amount due for furniture and the amount for which it was raised have been paid. After a careful examination of the furniture in the State House by Gen. Dennis, he affirms that there is not left there more than ouc-haif of what was purchased, and very few of the clocks, which were of the finest quality, costing from 8150 to 8000 each, and that out of several mirrors which cost 8000 each, only one remains. Prom the report marked No. 73, "Exhibit A," to which we referred in the evidence nf A O Jiinn^ if mnn-iix fliot limit ... ... , w...v *,v,..J. -"J."-, chairman of the committee, reported in | favor of the raised claim which defrauded ! tlie State of at least 815,000; but nn/ncor- ; ultly on so much of it as referred to paying \V. E. ltosc a small amount due him for | boarding the upholsterers, who were sent i from New York to place and arrange the carpctings, furniture, &c. Gen. Dennis testifies that "iu the spring or summer of 1800 c. i?. i.ksue, land commissioner, purchased a lot of furniture from Mr. 1 lorry, ostensibly for his office, but iu reality for his residence. Says he was in Governor Scott's office afterwards, and heard an altercation between nini and Leslie, which was caused by the bills being sent to Scott for payment. Scott swore that he would not pay them, but did eventually do so from some fund or other." The bills of Mr. Silcox, made out in Mr. Leslie's name, pioved that furniture was supplied by the State to some of her distinguished "statesmen'' as far back as 1800. Making haste to okow men. It is no longer a matter of surprise to your committee that members who only received six dollars per diem could, in a few weeks after their ariival iu Columbia, obtain elegant furniture for their rooms, and llrussels carpets I'or their floors, and recline on Oriental spring and sponge mattresses, while their constituents were being hounded down by the inexorable tax-gatherer to nay the price of these luxuries. Asa further illustration of the inordinate creed of this horde of robbers, we present the following, for nothing, however small, the Argus-eyed committeemen who so dexterously played the game of "addition, division and silence: Statu of Soctii Carolina Sknatk. 1871. To James M. Allen, Da. Sept. 21. Bookcase S 200 Sept. 21. Fitting closets :140 Nov. 21. Fitting up door frames 100 l>ec. 8. Partitions in cloak room 030 Dec. 8. Partitions in cloak room.., 050 ?2,000 15y refcrcnoo to the evidence of Mr. Wing, a master mechanic, it will he ttocn that the partitions charged for at each would he worth now about $25 each, hut at the time the account was rendered it was worth about one-third inoro. Wo also call attention to the evidence of several witnesses who testify that the account was raised by inserting the figure { 'A" in the item, "Fitting up closots," and the figure "G" in front of the two last amounts, thus making a gain of 81,5(10. We find that under the head of "Furniture" accounts were presented for mules, horses, 111(1(11 KS, CAHHtACK IIIIIK ANI? 1I011SK FKKI?. These accounts were passed upon ami certificates issued accordingly. Iu tliis connection wcfrcfer to the evb deuce of Mr. Pettingill,/(under the heai of "pay certificates,"} who was a dealer / horses and uiules, and who saySlie sold tlt^K 1 to differeut members, aqd was paid in kfr ? islative pay certificates, uaming Speaker^. 1 J. Lee and \V. II. J ones, of Georgeuwu, 1 as two of such purchasers, iJmLAat lit also received pay certificates for Imorsoi' food, ? buggy hire," &c. J ( Mr. Greenfield says he did uot yll - any 1 buggies or carriages directly io thi State, 1 but sold to the members aud Wag jpaid for 1 theui with pay certificates. He rguicinbers 1 which prd*?d to be | sell a largo portion of his stock Of carriages ' and buggies if he would umke out his ac- ( a ? ? it. _ n. . i cuuui against inc otaic ana receive pay certificates in payuioiit thereof, which lie de- J clincd. We also refer to thoevidence given s by Sallas ltandall, a committee clerk, who A testified that a house of ill-f/mc iu the City < of Columbia .vns supplied \yitli furniture at v 1 the expenso of the States Wc also refer to :l the account of Mr. LyBrand, a dealer in 1 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, 1 designated as No. 37 by A.-O. Jones, as an 1 evidence that, whilst revolting in their llac- 1 clianalian sports, tho Pluses were uot nog- 1 looted. The soft uiclody of tho niclodcon was invoked to inspire what spirits woul4 1 not. ' CAHl'ETIXO. , s We could not ascertain the actual amount 1 of caimcting purchased or used, but the 0 bills rctWeFoTl athoirtned to sevwn^titiouj?J -i dollars per annum. That some conception s may he formed of this cuormous expeudi- ' ture, we refer to the evidence of Mr. l'ursc, 1 who measured all the committee rooms, and 1 offices in the State House and ci^nmiltec :l rooms outside, and testifies that itj^Quld re- r <juirc only 1,300 yards to carpctall of them. ;l lly reference to the account of Stewart, 1 Sutphcu & Co., designated as No. 73 by A. c O. Jones, and reported from committee on 1 contingent account, it win lie lounu tliat * during one session alone they sold to the v State 1 4,G5S YARDS OK CARPETING) more than one thousand yards being finest j Brussels. Gen. Dennis and Scrgcant-at- p arms Williams both testify/that the com- ^ inittcc rooms were furnished with new earpels every session, which were carried away in the spring of tho year. Gen. Dennis ^ says he knows that some of it was shipped to Massachusetts. ? ? .?. ? u Women and Wine.?Of tho worst foes s that woman has ever had to encounter, wine ( stands at the head. The appetite for strong ' drink in man has spoiled the lives of more s women, ruined more hopes for them, scat- l: tcred more fortunes for them, brought them c more sorrow, shame and hardship, than all p other ovils that live. The country numbers 1 tons of thousands?nay, hundreds of thou- sands of women whoare widows to-dny and sit 1 in hopeless weeds because their husbands u have been slain by strong drink. c There are hundreds of thousands of v homes, scattered all over the land, in which fj women live lives of torture, laboring through all the changes of suffering that lie between f the extreme of fear and despair, because 1 those whom they love like wine better than they do the women they have sworn to love. There are women l>y thousands who dread to hear at the door the step that once thrilled thcui with pleasure, for that step has learned to re<d under tho influence of seductive poison. There are women groaning with pain, while we write these words, from bruises and brutalities inflicted by husbands made mad by drink. There can bo no exaggeration in the statement made in regard to this matter, because no human iuiugiiinntion can create anything worse than J the truth, and no pen can portray the truth. * The sorrows and the horrors of a wife with s a drunken husband, or a mother with a drunken son, arc as near the realization of ' hell as em be reached in this world at least. 1 The shame, the indignation, the sorrow, the a sense of disgrace for herself and her chil- * drcn, the poverty (and not unfrequcntly the ' beggary,) the fear and the fact of violence, 1 the lingering life long.struggle and despair, 1 of countless women with drunken husbands, I are enough to make all women curse, and ' engage unitedly to oppose it everywhere, as 1 the worst enemy of thoirscx. I Cii Ant <)A t, ton An i m aI.S.?11 is difficult * to doctor brute animals, because they cannot t tell what is the matter with them; and prob- ; ably three-quarters of the attempts made I to relieve them only make matters worse. I Generally they are sick from ovcr-cuting. i It is not uncommon for a horse or oow in . (he pasture to cat too much green clover or ' apples ; or something else disarranges their I stomachs; or in the barn they will get iuto I the moal barrel, and suffer fVom the effects, i In all suoh cases the remedy is pulverized I charcoal. Take it new from the wood fire, I grind it, and pour it down their throats.? i I t never can do any injury, and in hundreds of oases it has afforded ?pcedy relief. There is no animal that ovcr-e.'ts so often iq ?i nir* mill ns n rnrni I n f i v?<? ftf )ii<i ili<rp?. I"r> > - ^'r>? live powers, there is uothing so good as charcoal. It should always he kept in the pig-stye, and in small quantities fed every lew days, and it is worth more than the same bulk in corn,?Ex. ? ,?,? T?, rLAMAE S TRIBUTE TO THE SOUTH. The following is the eloquent conclusion jf Senator Lauiar's reccut speech. Alditjhgh w$ cannot endorse his views as to silver, we qliall not quarrel with him. lie s au honor- to the Senate, to Mississippi nid the South : Sir, go all tjfr way back in this country nid where have you found the steidy advocates of free trade, the oppoueuts of extravagant taxation, the opponents of moneyed uouopolics, the oppoueuts of those who are lot capitalists, but who by Congressional dander seek to make themselves eapaitlists n the passage of acts for the enrichment of jreat monopolies ; who but tho Democratic itrwy d?>>'iniitV> ?min . ,ry, the farmer of the West, the merchants >f the North and the plautcrs of the South? Why, sir, were not the planters of the South it the time they were ueuouueed as bloated slaveholders, as an effete aristocracy, alYavs considered as the eve of the Domocra :y of the North ? They flood by thetn. aud vith Jefferson and Madison and Jackson ind Polk. They always kept in the iuter- ( :sts of labor the power of capital from in- | erlaciug itself with the power of govern- ( nent, and they did draw the very distiuc- | ion iu their influence and their power iu | his government. ( I can never forget the closing hours of , hat power, for I was hero and saw it pass roui the hands of Southern Democratic | tatcsuicu into those who now wield the des- ( inies of this country. I remember here ( m this floor the then distinguished Senator eflui Ncay 3-'oj|k (Mr. Seward,) who has | iuce become more"conspicuous in tire cr?n? ul times that have occurred, declare that j tower had departed from the South ; that , lie sceptre was now taken from her hand, ud that thonccforth the great North, by eason of its superiority in numerical power , iud roll of sovereign States, would grasp j his power as her own prerogative and be- ] ouie responsible for the administration of he whole government. 1 am aware that 1 isteucd to him with impaticuce and perhaps i villi prejudice, and thoHght his spirit was < oo much that of exultation, not realizing s he magnitude of the great uudcrtakiug ( rhich was about to devolve upon him and 1 lis associates. It struck mo that he did < lot have the sadness and solemnity which i ouch the heart of every gicat man when j on fronted with the great eveuts and great i csponsibilitics involving the iutercsts of i infold millions. I shall never forget the answer that was undo ti) him hv a Southern Senator who :it near where my friend front Indiana j Mr. McDonald) now sits, lie was sur- , ounded by a circle of Southern Democratic i tatesuien, which, inability aid purity, will lever be surpassed in the history of this ouutry, whatever may be its glory?which [lory, 1 trust, will be always great among he nations of the earth. There was James , d. Mason, v.hose square and massive simtlicity of character and purity, stand moutmcutal in our annals. There was his acouiplishcd colleague, lltihert M. T. Hunter, i .hose clear and broad statesmanship found it expression in a scholarly eloquence that Irew into the same admiring circle his Yicuds and opponents in the same admiring Headship. And then there was Mr. Slidell. hrewd sad wise and prudent, and by his idc sat J. 1'. Benjamin, whose astuteness md skill, eloquence and learning, have since von him fame and fortune upon that high lympic field of mental conflict, the great ourts of Westminster. There was Robert I'oonibs, who never spoke without striking it the heart of a big thought and kindling he ideas of all who listened to him. There vas Albert (j. Brown, from uiy own State, vho never had a sympathy outside of the vants and feelings of his own people; who ret was never overawed by their prejudices >r swerved from his course by their paslions. There was another, Mr. Drcsideut?shall [ not be permitted to mention his name in his free American Senate, which has boon 10 free to discuss and condemn his errors '( ?one who has been the vicarious sufferer "or his people; who has been in prison cell, he solitude of whose punishment should itt him above tho jibe and jeer of popular jassion, whose words will ever remain as he sad and the grand memoranda, not of liumph, not of defiance, but of earnest purpose, the sincere motive of the gr^at struggle for representative liberty and constitutional governuiont. Among these and .uriniiili.it 11 v 111mil t li i- S>r*n:i (or ?in ik < to h is 7 "j -i associates ii? tortus which I have never rcau from that day to this, but which arc sUrcotyped upon my memory, and which, il" the Senate will permit me, I will repeat: ,lSirs,m *aid he, addressing his Northern associates, what the Senator says is true. The powir lias passed 1'rom our hands into your hands, but do not forget ? it cannot be forgotten ; it is written upon the brightest page of history? that we, the slaveholders of the South, took your country in her iufancy, and after ruling her for sixty of the seventy years of her existonee, we returned her to you without a spot upon her honor, matchless in her splendor, in com para hie in her power, the prido" and admiration of the world. Time will show what you will do with her; hut no time can dim our glory or diminish your responsibility." Sir, it is not my purpose to say what has been done with it; the arraignment of the f ljii. , Scuator from Iudiana ("Mr. Voorhccs) is still before the country. There is testimony, however, by u wituess who may bo regarded us more impartial than ho ; a judge sterner than he. 1 will read what he says. [Mr. Lamar here quoted from the remaksof Mr. Hoar, one of the managers on tho part of the House of Represcn'.nlivcs iu tho Belknap impeachment trial, iu regard to official corruption iu the Federal government, Now York city and various States ; the expulsion of members of the House of Representatives for selling cadctships, etc , and resuming his argument, said :] Mr. President, we, the successors of these men, are here toda?. Bj^ji policy which is a notoworthy ' j pr FT > to nnnglo with the repWSfSUtives from tno States of,this Union iu'a common oouncil for the good of this country. Wc come no longer lis representatives of the capital interests of the South. Wo come, not as allies of the laboring men of the North, but as laborers ourselves?every ouc of us and all our constituents taught the stern lesson of the necessity of earniug our subsistence by the sweat of our face. But, Sir, wo come with our convictions unchanged as to the necessity of the laboring class being pretcctcd in all their rights and all their interests, for when they sink the social fabric of society must sink aud crumble with them. But wc conic believing that they nro honest, that they are self-reliant and true to their obligations, and that what is their duty to Jo they will feci it to tlioir interest to do. We have differed upon this great question, but of one tiling the world may be assured, itiai no ?uutlicrn Ocmrtrjt^-xcptiitntttjg 4>? Southern people, will give a vote upon the one side or the other which is not designed to protect the laboring classes of this country alike with its capital, or, on the othcrhand, that will not preserve untarnished the sacred honor of America. (Applause iu the galleries.) Small f minus.?In order to make farming a decided success in the South wc must educate ourselves ia the way of giving more lttcntion to the small things connected with L - 1 T -I ' ,uu uusiucss. in oilier words, wc must t>rin?5 ourselves iuto the habit of "making svcry edge cut," and saving every tiling, no matter how insignificant, that comes within our reach. A strict adherence to this rule is what makes it pay at the North? the main profit coming to the Northern farmer grows out of his savings of small things?a ccut here and a cent there. Ouo hundred of these ccuts make a dollar, you see, and very often wc might save a hundred, and not uufrcqucntly several hundred of them in a single day, where we now permit them to go to loss. One hundred a day would be 8305 added to your year by profits, which would be no insignificant affair, especially to the person running his business on a somewhat small scale. In times past, when everything was flush, we were able to get along reasonably well without concerning ourselves about small things, so wc allowed tlieui to go by the board, as beneath our notice. Finally this became a habit with us, and we took upon ourselves a kind of false dignity relative to small tilings?thought it undignified to givo tlicm the least attention. Hut those flush times arc not hovering over this section of country now, and hence a change must ho made, and the sooner made the better for us and for the South in general. To uiako it will ho no easy task, however. It cannot be inaugurated by one fell swoop, as it were?the individuals making up our farming population must bring it on gradually, by commencing to practice it themselves, each throwing of) his false dignity without nward to what shall lie sni<l hv thi>? tary" or that. Each for himself alone most adapt and live up to that adage which teaches us that if we "take care of the dimes * the dollars will take care of themselves."? Mobile Tribune. Hints for the Orchard.?Pruning before Planting is of great importance.? No matter how carefully a tree may be takcu up. a large share of its fibrous roots are lost, and the top should be cut back in proportion. fho tree as received from the nursery will probably have four or five branches, and if planted as it is, only a few of tho uppermost buds on each branch will start. It should be out back to leave but three or four buds on each branch. Novices hesitate to do this, but it is all important to tho future welfare of the troo. At the samo time all bruised roots should be cut back to, sound wood. Mulching newly planted trees is often highly important, whatever will prevent evaporation from the soil will -answer. In some localities stones arc the most availablo mulch. Use bog-hay, pine needles, straw, or whatever will cover tho surface. Old Trees nuiy be renovated by cutting, out the crowded branches, manuring, and giving tho trunk and larger branches a wash of ley or soft soap, and scraping. Crops in (be Orchard.?A young orchard may be cultivated with manured crops, such as potatoes and root crops, but when tho trees conic into bearing, they need all tho soil to themselves.?American Agriculturist. It's the cooper who docs a staving business