Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-:Sf' : ' 1Ui^L J... -1 _'^ ..... _,^._1_.J, X_JJ , | ,., ? ? ?. L^3>'!'.B.? .LuU-im.1- L.Jl.. .u..U.'JU+'< . U, li.,.. !.-....l. _ -1...-1. ..^ THE ELECTION LAW. FIVE ASSASSINS LYNCHED. J CLOVES. HOG> AND OOU * I An Act to alter and amuntl thn lni? -? A n;*hnK~*.i t>i~. " * "" lation to elcotious. Section 1. Be it enacted hy tho Senato and House of Representatives of the Stato of South Carolina, uow uict and sitting General Assembly, and by the authority of tho same, That cueh clcctiou hereafter hold in this State at which there shall bo voted for members of Congress and Presidential Electors, it shall be tho duty of tho proper Hoard of Commissioners of Elcotious for each county, to provide boxes for each oleclion precinct, and . two sets of Managers shall be labelled and Presidential Electors," and tho other, "State, Circuit and County Offioers," and they shall be kept, while tho voting is progressing, separate and apart and not in the same apartment. Sec. 2. There shall bo two tickets, writton no ? -?*' ' v. vt |r. *uwu, vta pumjf vvnuca and partiy printed. One ticket shall contain the name of the person voted for rcpresoiitft. tive in Congressional District, and also the names of persons voted f^r as Presidential Electors ( \vlth a proper designation attached lo each name, as to whether ho is voted for to represent the State at large, or a particular Congressional District?"ftnd shall bo deposited in the box labelled "For Members vof Congress and Presidential Electors;" tho othor ticket shall contain the names of the persons intended to bo voted for as State and County officers, and tho offices to which such persons are intended to be chosen, and shall be deposited in th# box labelled "Stale, Circuit and County Officers." Sec. 3. It shall be tho duty of the Governor, and he is hereby authorized and empowered, at least sixty days prior to any such election, to appoiut two Boards of Commissioners of election, consisting of three member each, for each County; both political parties shall bo represented. One shall be appointed and designated as Coptuiissioncrs 'of Election for "Members of Congress and Presidential Electors," and tho other as Commissioners of Election for "State, Circuit and County Officers." 8ec. 4. At the close of the election the Managers shall count tho votes and make v?. v^iuui utuiu jiuu wpj ?i me result, and within thee days after the day thereof the Chairmuu of the Board of Managers, or one of iheui who may bo designated by the Board, shall deliver to the Commissioners of Elections for "Members of Congress and Presidential Electors" tho poll lists and boxes labelled fix "Members of Congross and Presidential Electors," with tho original containing the ballots, and within tho eauio time, and in like manner, shall be delivered to tho Commissioners of Elections for "State, Cirouit and County Officers," tho poll lists and boxes labelled "State, Circuit and County Officers," containing the ballots, with t similar original of the result of the vote. Sec. 5. That in addition to tho Board of n ?jvoi.c vuuvaaacrs bow provided Dy law, it hall bo the duty of the Qovcruor, and ho is hereby authorixod and empowered at loo& sixty days before any such election as is above mentioned, to appoint a Board of State Canvassers, consisting of five members, ono from each Congressional .District, to bo known and designated as the Board of State Canvassers for "Members of Congress and Presidential Electors." Sec. 6. It shall bo the duty of suoh Board of State Canvassors, upon the cortificd copies of tho Board of County Canvassers for "Membors of Congress and Presidential Electors," to inako a statement of the votes cast and deolaro tho election of members of Congress and Presidcntian Electors, as is now or hereafter may be required by law. Sec. 7. That tho polls shall be open at eight o'clock io the forenoon and close at fivo o'clock in the afternoon. Sec. 3. All acts or parts of ?ots inoon sistent with this act be, i^rtba sam^uce hereby, repealed. Approved March 22y<WW # ? Baby's Influjenox.?No man who has nob tried it understands how restful it is to play with the baby. In the oivilixation of our time one of the commonest wants is Something to beguile the time of ono set of aas, or while awav the cares of another act, from cares of business of politics or whatever the ordinary worb* niay be. To this numerous olass, ioclduing both the wearied and tho bored, wo say, "play with KaKv '' Mt\k iKo kokn in Kta* tk* wuv WMWJ VMV WM i;j an viisio, UIIV iUU young animal man when it has arrived at yhe ago which in its lifo matches tho tiuio when the puppy gambols foolishly or tho kitten plfcys with its tail. Who dan loll how much we miss by not knowing how to , 41 play with the baby?" We aro always thinking that children sro noi?y nnd rough, that they make impertinent remarks, and leavo doors opon or bang them. Just so j but this is exactly why so much pleasure is to bo got attkof thcui, if wo try to rise to a comprehension of their naturo on J feolings. It is not their fault if they are disagreeable to us, but our own fault, and inisfor tune, too, if wo are dull to nil the beauty nod loveliness of theirvohnruiing tricks and follies. Souie unhappy boinga never know real ohildhood, and they lose a great deal of iqqoceqt jdens'iro in consequenco. m. iui to j-jscaousn JNegro Supremacy in Louisiana. A special to the New Orleans Democrat, dated Bayou Sara, Juuo 6, tells that on Sunday night last, June 2, as Dr. Wm. B. ' Archer was returning to his home from the house of his neighbor, Major Burton, about 10 P. M., about midway between the residenc<?of Copt. 0. Lejcunc and his own, he was fired on by six negro men, who wore lying in ambush waiting for hiui. Fivo of tho negroes had doublo-barrcllcd guns and onjMi musket. Dr. Archer was on horecucgrocs fired'aa Chollobt^yrns posting these trees, his clothes being riddled with bullet holes and ho was thrown from his horse, but fortunately not much injured. The assassins took toYhblr heels, running in different directions, but it was ascertained whg the parties were who had attempted tho foul act, and on Tuesday morning a largo number of citizeus collected together at llaccourci, where the net was committed. A jury of twelvo of our best citisens, tho most of them gray haired men, was chosen, who after a lengthy and thorough examination found the prisoners, fivo in number, one having made his escape, guilty of having shot at Dr. Wm. B. Archer with intent to kill. Manv witnpssoH wom .i -- ?j ?- nwu vauuhucu, an colored, and two of tho prisoners ware allowed to niako their statements, having requested permission to do so. They stated that they intended to kill Dr. Archer on Sunday night, and after making away with him they wero to kill Mr. O. Lcjeune, Mr. William Picquct and Mr. Frauk Burton.? They stated also that they belonged to an organized club, the object of which was to kill the leading white men in the county and establish a nation of their own ; they ' gave the names of many members, the names of their president, vice-president, and a general expose of their plans. After the examination closed the prisoners wero couducted to a shady grove, by all the citizens present, and after a mature deliberation it was resolved to turn them over to the law. The prisoners were placed in charge of a party and started in the dii rectiou of the Court House, but bud uut proceeded far before they were interrupted, taken by force and hung, all five of them. Words of Wisdom.?A great deal has been said in the public prints on the subject of amnesty to the public plunderers, who for so long a time held high carnival in the State. Governor Hampton, even, has not escaped the animadversions of some of tho newspapers. We have no association or connection with Governor Hampton, except that which results from agreement in nrinninln nnd n ilno!"" ?- . ?i- - g J.?, MVOKV W U1UUIUIU ' tliC I best interests of the State. What we say i on tho subject is, therefore, without authority, and only expresses our own opinion. The Legislature, at its late session, by its 1 action left to tho discretion of Governor I Hampton tho prosecution of individuals who were charged with fraud. We think this aotion was proper and wise. We have not the least doubt that tho Governor will cxerciso the discretion committed to him to the advantage of tho State and its citizens. As t^what he is willing to do, or proposes to do, we have no knowledge or information But for ourself wo say, that, if he is able i to carry out a plan by which he will free j citizens of tho prosecutions for offences | growing out of the political condition of thiugs in tho pust, and deliver from prison ' those who aro now suffering from the same causo, and by which the Stato will fofovcr got 1 id of tho villains who wero tho authors ot this crime, it would bo a happy thin?j for our people. Those thieves aud robbers have fled the Stato, and will probably novor return within her borders, except by a reauisition from the Governor. By bringing lem baok, they would probably bo convicted aud sentenced to the penitentiary.? This, they undoubtedly deserve as individuals, responsible to the law for their crimes. But if Governor Hampton, by a wise exercise cf his discretion, is ablo to relieve our own citizens from persecution and imprisonment, by a wise exorcise of clemency ou his part, why should it- not be done? Wo do not understand that ho favors uuivcrsal amnesty; ncithor do we. But an amnesty, by which ho can securo the ends of justice for our own people, and get rid of the scoundrels who so long infested the Stato, we do favor, And, in the proper exorcise of tbo discretion reposed in him by tho Legislature, wo havo entiro confidence; and arc willing to say to him, ^Usc tho power conferred upon you according to your best judgement for tho intorests of tho Stuto." ? Greenville Newt. It was very careless leaving the parrot in the parlor Sunday evening, but she never thought anything about it until Monday morning, whon ho roused the whole house by making a smacking noise and crying, ''Darling Susie ! Darling Susie." lie kept it up all day, too, and the old folks arc much interested in the case. - > A girl may read about heaven all btr life, but Bhe never has anything liko a correct idea of it, until she gets her first beau, j I raised and gathered, last year, 1.400 bushels of corn from twenty %cr*e. One of tho fields, just ten acres, produced 750 bushels. It was a clovor sod;; lid been in cloyer ono year. The nlovernBa mowed for hay the second Week in jtt|K and the last week in August was mowap for seed. When mowed for hay a light^fcesaing of barn-yard manure was scattecpalo^r half the field. When mowed foi'Vofe, in September and October, the otmfi. half was lightly manured with stablo manure. The field was plowed in April, hanpowed twice, and planted on the 3d of May, in drills iMtaiUBohaaJipati. %0nthe-iBth add 16th of May it was planted over, ta^wiug to cold, wet weather, a great deal of the seed had failed to germinate. The field was cultivated thrco times with a two-hoed cultivator, and hoed by hand one timo. The corn was ripe enough to crib by the 1 fWV> nf ' 1 ?... -. wivuvi, uuu vtua rcuiarK.iDiy solid and perfect in every respect. The soil is a yellow clay mixed with gravel, and has been cultivated fifty years. The common 1 avcrago of the field in good years was forty bushels per acre. I found tho field, five years since, ir barley to yield about twelve bushels per acre. I sowed to clover, had a poor catch, not enough to mow next year, and very litlf<Fpasturc. In tho Full dug a well in one side of tho field, and fattened forty hogs in it, and scattered somo manure over about two acres. Next year planted corn and gathered from half the field at the rate of forty bushels per aero. I ran a fence accross the middle of the field and turned hogs upon the corn of one-half, aud then fattened them upon it. On the other half I scattered manure and put the field in corn again, and harvested at the rate of forty-five bushels per acre. I then sowed wheat among the corn and next y^iir harvested 100 bushels of wheat?ten; Iwshoftiper acre. I then seeded to clover with the* result stated.? Cor. N. Y. Tribune. The No Fence Law.?Tho traveling correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle unci Constitutionalist writes as follows concerning the operations of the stock law : Anderson County, in South Carolina, aud Mecklenburg County, iu North Carolina, having adopted the negative side of the i..?. ? *1 ituw iu?t, uiu iiiuruugmy testing the plan. It ia said ?hat ninny pctSOUS who Werc^VCry active in their opposition to tiieTheasuro Fre warmest iu praise of prcscut and prospective good results, said to bo the uatural outcome of the plan. Numbers hav3 discovered that it is wiser to substitute one good cow for a half dozen inferior ones ; that the trouble incident to the restricted rango of the cow referred to is haudsomcly offset by a larger quantity of richer milk; that the amount annually saved by the adoption of the fence law must largely exceed the most liberal estimates. The elimination of this itom of expenso has transformed fields long abanduned to weeds into attractive oat plats. Ono cannot fail to.^mte, gg.yEt^ MW," cvidonces of the fact that tne fuPtaers are hard at work ; that thoy managed wisely last year, and that thoy are working systematically as well as bard this year. There is among them a scarcity of money, but I am told that no small number of tfom have flcar, bacon, corn, eto., in quantity in excess of tboir wants. Let the course abovo mentioned be move generally adopted South, and we shall speedily arrive at that point whore confidence is restored and monetary stringency is removed. Looking out over thobroad. the South?Ijcr rolling ^round*a]|ejfc.--inen or women given to thought must bo enraptured of the grand possibilities of the sunny portion of this great cofifttty. Thanks to a kind Providenco, these possibilities are, little, by little, developing inUfppi ebabilieits that will by and by ripen iu^^c^alities. Few nieu who handhThordfrgfve proper attention to the feet and IcaP Especially is this tho oase on farms. J^uch time is dj/ouv vi a uiuiiiiu^ 111 ruuu^g, UrUBIUUg, and smoothing thft hair on tho sides aud hips; but afc no time arc the feot examined and properly cared for. I|pw, be it known that the feet of a horse require more care than tho body. They need ten times as much, for in one respect they are almost the entire horso. All the grooming that can be dono won't avail anything if the horse is forced to stand where his feet will be filthy. In this case the feet will become disordered, and then the legs will get badly out of fix; and with bad feot aud bad legs, there is not much else of tho horse fit for anything. ?? Tho most vonerablo couple in Texas, perhaps in tho country, aro'Mr. aqd Mrs. llobinson, of Mountain City. 11% is reputed to be 103 and sho 102 years did, and thoy were married .in Kentucky eighty-two yoars ng? Mr. .Robinson says ho never ^awore bui ono oath. has uev?.r borrowed bnt fifty cents, and never gave a note. He and his wife are like children in their devotion to each other, and after any separation shed tears on ineetiog. Recently they were presented with a comfortable house by a generous neighbor. zfA young uiau of 20 reoerttly cook as a wifo a Pennsylvania widow of 50, the sole proprietress of a couple of paying petroleum wells. He loved not wisely but two wells. \ % # v 4 MfitUXKB AND EMPLOYED. . Whenever cither employer or employed forgets that there is a community of intercat bctwonc the two, both are sufferers.? This is true of all kinds of business in Which the two classes come in contact.? The employer who has no other interest in his help thanto get out of them all that their strength will permit them to do, will soon find that his employes will become equally as selfish, aud uot only the least possiblo amount of labor that will prevent their discharge will be done, but that what is done, will be imperfectly porformcd; and tho employe who has no other interest than .iO SfOt his Innnpv in n '~ _ - ?I If H rvw^iuvyli IV UUJ LUilU -who employs-him. Iy,sofee satofrHahmcnts and on some farms, a stranger would be unable to tell, from the language or actions of the help, that tbey wcro employes. Whenever thoy speak of the affairs of their employer, they don't speak of them as if he was wholly responsible, and that they had uo responsibility whatever, but their language convoys the idea that they feel their owu responsibility, aud that the success or failure of the business is a matter of auxicty to them ; and their actions accord with their words. Nine out of ten employers greatly appreciate such a manifestation of interest, and It really seems to lighten the burden which always necesssarily rests upon a business mau. If nn employe has such an interest in the affairs of his employer, there is no mistaking it. It will show itself on every conccivablo occasion ; and if lie has bccu so unfortunate as to find a man who docs uot appreciate his merits, they will not long go unrewarded, for others will sec them, and be glnd to avnil themselves of them. It is, uo doubt, the caso with human nature. that it is selfish in all of its relations of life, and perhaps the great majority of uieu are too apt to slight their duties, instead of doing everything upon honor, and performing services for others as they would perform the same service for themselves; but there arc men, and a great many of them, who arc strictly conscientious iu the performance of their duties as employes, uud it is such men who will always win.? Western Rural. A Tornado in Canton.?A letter received lately from au American recent of Canton, China, gives an account of the crcat destruction of life and property caused there by a tornndo on the 11 eh of April? It swept over the city iu a north-easterly direction, leaving ruin along its track, and it is estimated that 8,000 or 9,000 houses were blowu down and as many persons killed The Island of Shamccn, where the foreign merchants reside, was visited dy the gale, which caused great duuiage to several of their fine dwellings, and blew completely down three large business houses, besides uprooting and twisting iuto strange shapes about two hundred trees. Not one foreign SBident there or in tho city was killed, alough several had very narrow escapes, or were slightly injured. One of the missionary school buildings fell down upon itB inhabitants, who were all taken out alive without serious injuries. The other buildings belonging to the different missions were only a little damaged, and not one of the Christian natives was killed. The storm began as an ordinary one, with thunder, lightning and hail, then a cloudy coldmn was seen rapidly advancing, accompanied by a rumbling sound, and its fearful work was done in less than ten minutes. F!C0B broke out in itvanl nlutui for iIia wind scattered the burning wood and coals as it tore down the dwellings, and tho streets whero the full power of the storm was felt were filled with the dead and dying. The Chinese authorities were prompt and active in their efforts to restore order as far as possible, but whilo tho ruins yet lay on every side a flood caoio down upon Cautou from the breaking of a dyke fifty miles above the city, and incrcasd the distress of the people by filling the streets with water. It was abating when this aeoount was written. The people seemed to feel that this was a year of unwonted and rapidly succccdiug troubles.?News and Courier. Tiie Earthquakes of Fifteen Centuries. Minister Bingham has sent from Japan a very interesting paper, by a native savant, the earthquakes that have occured in that country during the past fifteen hundred years. The number of destructive earthquakes recorded is 149.? The ninth century was most prolific in these, reaching twenty-eight; in the fifteenth century there were fifteen ; tho same in the seventeenth ; thirteen in the eighteenth, and sixteen in the present century. The recorded average is oue great earthquake every ten years, but the nineteenth contury gives one every five years. Unusually high temperature and strange r.tmospherio changes have been noticed as ^reonrso;., vf great convulsions, especially in the earthquake whieh desolated tho city of Yeddoiu 1855. ?Scientific American A six year old, who was found putting himself outside of various good things at t rapid rate jnst after complaining of inward griping, explaiucd to his wondering parenl that he didn't mean to "leave any room foi that stomach ache." f HENDRICKS ON THE OLD-TIME MILLER. The Millers' National Convention was held in Indianapolis last week, and on' Thursday tho delegates went on an excursion. A welcoming speech was made to' thorn by ex-Governor Hendricks, and, among other things, he said : "As a boy I was acquainted with the miller, and I thought him a great man. When ho raised' the gate with such coiSpfsuro and confidence, and the tumbling waters drove the machinery ahead, I admired his power.? Aud then he talked strongly upon all questions. He was very positive upon politics, religion, law and mechanics, and any ono bold enough to dispute a point was very likely to have a personal argument throwu into his face, for he knew all the gossip among his customors. [Laughter.] He was cheerful. I thought it was because he was always in the music of the running water and the whirling wheels, lie was kind nod clever?indeed, so much so that he would promise the grists before they could he ready, [laughter], and so the,boys had to go two or three times. He Iras a chancellor, aud prescribed the law. Evorv one in his turn. The millor, standing in * the door of his mill, all white with the dust, is a picture ever unon tho mnmnrv nt ??? this generation, it is a picture of a manly figuro. I wonder if you, gcntlcuion, tho lords of many runs and bolts, nrc ashamed to own him as your predecessor. It was a small mill, sometimes upon 'a willowy brook, and sometiuis upon the larger river, but it stood on the advanced line of the settlement, with its one wheul to grind tho Indian corn, and one for wheat, and in tho fall and winter siusou one day iu the wcok set apart for grinding buckwheat. It did the work of the neighborhood. Plain and uupretentious, as compared with yourstately structures,. I would uut say it contributed less toward the development of the country and the permanent establishment of society. So great a favor it was, and so important to the public welfare, that the authorities that day invoked in its favor the highest power of tho State?eminent domain. That mil! and miller had to go before you and yours, and I am happy to revive tho memory of the miller at the custom mills, who, with equal care adjusted the sack upon the horse for the boy to rido upon, and his logic in support of his theory in politics or his dogma iu religion." DEATH FBOK OLSffMM. - _ Iu a neighborhood in Bullitt county, Ky., about four miles from Shcphcrdsville, glanders has recently prevailed among the horses iu very violent and fatal form. Some three years ago Mr. Wm. A. Nally, for many years a well known citizen and business man of Louisville, purchased a faun , near Shcphcrdsville, removing to it witu" his family. Recently, all of his horses were attacked by glanders, a disease of the mucous membrane, and usually very fatal in animals, and, when the death of one of them occurred, deemed it best, in order to prevcut the spread of the disease, to burn the animal. & While engaged at this it is supposed the virus from the dead horse was communicated to a sore on Mr. Nally's hand. Inflamation of a very violent character rapidly foMowii)g Uiis came ra^id ^S^SeSfbn 'Thnreday*]astf23d instant.. His sufferings were intense, and all the symptoms were exactly the same as those developed in tho dead horse during its illness. There were the same usual ejections, of a most offensive smell; the same choking tho throat, as in the case of tho horse. Mr. Nally's feet and legs had to be bandaged to prevent their falling off from mortification, such was the virulence of the gangrene. Altcr*i>lr. Nally's death all the horses on the farm, five in number, were shot by order of tho physician, in order to provent further spread of the disease in the neighborhood, where there was great excitement. The News reporter has known of cases of glanders in men communicated directly from an infected horso by inhaling,... breath of the animal, and where tfiere was no communication with the body either before or after death. Two deaths of thischaracter occurred only recently about twelve miles from the city. It ia alwayslllA tiafnuf nlnn in 1?I11 J ? (jLUUVLtVCHUCI kill ?,UU affected animal or separate it entirely from all contact with other animals & men.? Any communication with a glandercd horse by other horses is sure to spread the fatal infection.?Louisville Evening News. The five year old son of a family the 1 other day stood watching his baby brother, i who was making a great noise over having his face washed. The little fellow at length 1 lost hispatienco, and stamping his tiny foot, he said, "You think you have lots of trou I Die, bat jou don't Know anything about it. , ' ? !?' A couple of young men were'out fishing the othor day, and on returning were going paat a farm house, and felt hungry. They ; yelled to the farmer's daughters : "Girls, i havo you any buttermilk f" The reply was I gently wafted back to thoir ears: "Yen; t but we keep it for our own calves." The r boys calculated thdy had business away?I and they went.