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II 14^ M hMHKK llotton Buyers a - ARE PA1 , * Hig-ho? Price THAN IS PAID AT ANY POINT IN * $ state, HUMMEL,LEADED ' IS SBuL Dry OoodH, Notions mid Fancy Do " Not to be Equalled in FOR LADIES, CHILDR ' Dress Goods, Woolen effects, (W) 10 and 22 Dress Goods, Woolen, @ 15c. and 20o., wo SI?o pWrds^'l.lids, Armures. Mohairs, Ac. Black Cashmeres (a) 50o., 65c , 75c., 00c. n Colored 4-4 English Cashmeres, Superior C , Black Yelvotccns, best grades, 50c., 75c., Colored <% " " 21 inch wide ! ?) BLACK SILKS, @$1, $1.2^ Coraparo Samples of lliese with any m bo superior in Width, Quality and j HOSIERY, KNIT GO( From oheanest. to im?i ?.?'! '? ?us- i: ? ? Full Regular English Hose in Black and Colors. A Ladies' Mixed and All-Wool Under Vests, Silk * Cashmeres and Berlin Gloves, all colors. Mous Bootees. Jersey Waists in Black and Cardial. Si Magnihccnt liep. Dolmans, Elaborately Trimmed V PRICE NO HUMBUG IN THIS. YOU CAN GET WHAT ATED HERE IS I Calicoes. Good Quality and Style, 5c., Best Qu Kentucky Jeans, 12Jc., 15c., '20c., 26c., to 00c Red Flannel, 15o, 20c, '25c., to yard wide ShaV All Linen Towels, 10c., 12Jo., 15o.. 20c., 26o., " " Napkins, 55o. to 2.50 per doien. " " Table Damask, 00 inch wide, doc. Fruit of Loom, 10c., Londsdale, 10c.. Wainsutl Cotton Plaids, Factory Humespun, Ticks. Stri All Wool Blankets 10-4. 11 4 and 12-4, 25 per Mr. Beni. F. Sims, of Ilnlftn io wtfli ma Oct. 19. 42 NEW STORE! S :o:W. C. Wj Has opened up a Stock of Goods in the UNION 1IC BUY -GOODS; CLOTHING A BOOTS AN] GROCERIES AN 1 CROCKERY, SADD! Scraping the Teeth, r |j"tXOF.PTby n Dentist, should never he done, I JJj as the enamel once destroyed never reforms. ' au mains and discoloration* of the teeth can he readily removed by the use of WOOD'S ODONTINE, which contains nothing harmful, but on the con* irary polishes the teeth, hardens the gums and makes the breath pure and sweet. It is prepared from a formula of Dr. Thos. T. Moore, and is reccommended by him as a harmless and eftioiout dentifrice. 25c a Box. Trade supplied by For sale by W. C. FISHER. Dr. J. M. Qibdks, Wholesale Agent, Union C. H. Columbia, 8. C. March 9 * 10 ly NEW GOODS At Drouth Prices. WE take plcasuro in announcing to our friends that our fall stock i9 now open and ready for inspection. All are cordially invited to call and examine our goods before buying. Our prices are as low Its (lie loweat, and we take pleasure in showing goods, remember ttiot. Samples cheerfully sent to parties not able to come to make their selection from the store. Polite and courteous attention guaranteed to all. Very Truly, J. C. IIUNTER, & Co. Oct 5., 40 If 11TTO "171 PeoP'? are always on the look I . out for chances to increase * A?w 1 their earnings, and in time ) become wealthy ; those who do not improve their opportunities remain in poverty. We offer a great chance to make money. We want many men, women, boys and girls to t y work fbr its right in their own localities. Any ^ \ one can do the work properly from the first W & start. The business will pay more than ten times ^ ordinary wages. Expensive outfit furnished ^ fbe k free. No one who engages fbils to make money V rapidly. You san devote your whole time to the work, or only your spare moments. Pull information and all that is needed sent free.? Address Rtinsom & Co., Portland, Maine. Feb 23 8 ly Dental Surgeon. Dr. L. E. MEAPOR, a graduate of the Baltimore Dental College, offers his professional services to those who may reauire Denial Rn.. gery in any of its branches. ? Being.amply, supplied with the best instru* ments ana alt modern improved appliances, he fee's safe in assuring perfect satisfaction. He will be found in his office over Dr. Pokey & Bros'. Dnig Store on all days. Office hours 8 A. M. to d P. M. July 27 ' 30 tf SEND FOR PRICE LIST. MoKtree's Jewelry Palaoe, 354 King St, Charleston, S. C. Largest Stock, Low. st prices in the South. Repairing a specialty. Send me your watches. <>dl it*. ? ' ' b L it Spartanburg fIXG A for Cotton THE UPPER SECTION" OF THE AND I OF LOW PRICES iING p?I* Very In Fact at Price? tlaiM Same lection. EH MISSES. j, * rth ?5 coots. * P * ** popular prices. ^ y, Brown, Wlno, Nary Black and Xnxed nd 81.00. (uulity @ 50c. and 81 00. ,81.00. J ) AND $1.50 PER YARD. ' I arket.foryou will find them to I I Lustre. All I'uro floods. | I "I )DS AND GLOVES, erior Quality Silk Hose in Hl*ck and Colors Extra Qualities and styles in Woolen Hose and Lisle Gloves, all colors, Mousquetaires quctaires. Knit Socks, Hoods, Mittens am ?lin Dolmans and Circulars, Diaronal Wraps talking Jackets. Cloaks, &c., at low prices. IjIST : = I ADVERTISE. EVERYTHING ENUMER N MY STOCK, ality, 6-4. cer (a) 00c. , to 75c., each. la. 12* pes, and ali Domestic Goods, at bottom prices ' cent, less than last season, d will be pleased to wait on his friends. L. M. HUMMEL, Spartanburg. S. C I'm. TEW PRICES ALLACE 1TEL Store, consisting of ; NOTIONSr ND HATS, D SHOES, 3 IIAU1) WAR E , LERY, &c., &c. VittkowskT & Bamcli CHARLOTTE, N. C. OFFER EXTKARDINARY INDUCEMENTS TO PEOPLE WHO; ARE DOING THEIR TRADING BY MAIL. OUR MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT IS SO ARRANGED THAT "SHOPPING" BY MAIL"IS RENDERED EASIER AND IS OFTEN MORE SATISFACTORILY DONE THAN IN PERSON. LETTERS OF INQUIRY ARE PROMPTLY RESPONDED TO. SAMPLES SENT ANI) E8TIMATESGIVEN. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION?DELIVER PACKAGES FOR OVER TEN DOLLARS IN AMOUNT FREE OF EXPRESS O R M A I L CHARGES. WE KEEP EVERYTHING TI1AT IS NEEDED TO CLOTHE MEN, YOUTHS AND ROYS, LA> DIES, MISSES AND CHILDREN, INCLUDING A COMPLETE LINE OF LADIES' AND MISSES' UNDERWEAR, AND HAVE THE BEST DRESSMAKING ESTABLISHMENT IN THE SOUTH. SEND IIS A TRTAT. rnmwo WITTKOWSKY & BARUCH. An* 17 8.3 Cm. "OLD JOHN BROWN." 1 4 The true. iJhu meter of the Yillanowt oh I Murderer-. ? There has beeu a growing impression that the deeds ot" .I oh n Brown do not warrant pI) the eulogies that have beeu pronounced upon hiui. Kmcrsou spolco of him as die "saint .whose martyr loui will uiakc the gallows glorious like the eross." [As quoted iu lied path's "Life of Brown," page ? 4. The present writer would be glad tc know that Kuicrson did not use jus. this 4 language ] Thoreau said, "He could not have been tiied by his peers, for Ida peon did uot exist." Theodore I'arkw wrott; from Home, "Hrowu will die, 1 tlyjftk,* lik? a martyr and. also like a saint. - * * * Nouo.of the Christian martyrs died iQ^aio; and from Stephen, who'waq stonedIt Jenf^,?alepi.?to Maty Dye*. jpfom .our. ?tbe n hanged on a bough of 'the groat tree* on Huston Common, 1 thiuk there have beeu few spirits more pure ami devoted than .John Brown's, and none that gave up their breath in a nobler, cause. Let the AuicrL can State hang his body and the American Church dumu his soul, still the blessing ot such us are ready to perish will full on him, and the universal ju tieo of the infinitely perfect God will take him welcome home. The road to heaven is as short from the gallows as from a throne j perhaps, also, as easy." These ineu were the Radical Abolitionists of the time, to he sure, but their ' words and sentiments were adopted duriug ' the war period by the entire North, and j since thcu largely by the civilized world. Rut to the average citizen of to*?day such extravagant eulogy of a doubtful character is distasteful. The mention of the name of John Hrown no longer brings down the house, and for two or three years a spirit of doubt has been slowly spreading eastward from Kansas whether the man deserves any eulogy whatever. John Hrown was a disturbing influence in Kansas from the first, lie went to the Territory not as a settler, but to light. Ilis voice was always lot . war, and he probably was more anxious tc light Missouri than to uiako Kansas I'rec Those who had gone to Kansas to make homes uud build a .State naturally felt very differently. They would light if it became necessary in support of their principles. 01 iu defence of their rights, hut a general war with Missouri or the South was lasl aud least among the things desired or hoped for. It will bo remembered that the first Territorial Legislature was elected Iran do. Iontly by voters who actually lived in Mis souri. This body of law-makers assembled first at Pawnee iu July, 1<S(>5, but iuinndiutely moved to Shawnee Mission, neat th? Missouri burdyn'* whert^thoy completed tfifir 1 ahorTTn a pro-slavery ntDlO*phorc and iu the most shameless pro-slavery fa-!.ion ?establishing the entire code of Missouri as the laws of Kansas, and adding whatever beside they could think ofthat they believed would aid in the estabfshmeiit of slavery i:i the Territory. These were the "bogus" laws resisted :rotn the first by the Free State parly, but they received in due time the - approval and sanction of President Pierce. Then it became a very serious i|uestion what was to be dooo. A few extremists j were iu favor of resisting these laws to the bitter end, even to the point o| fighting United .States troops, liut the wiser and more moderate policy of submitting, for the present, and fighting out differences at the ballot box, finally prevailed, having all along had the support of the best cit izens, even the most earnest Abolitionists. John Hrown was among those who scouted the voting policy and urged armed resistance to the fraudulently enacted laws. Not that his voice was heard iu the councils of tin* time, as he was tben an unknown and unnoticed man, but it was after wards remembered that he bad always been numbered among the revolutionists. The leaders of this fighting party, so for as it can be called a party, were not citizens, generally, hut correspondents of Eastern newspapers, and poeplo who, in various ways, lived upon money sent from the East to help make Kansas a tree State. On ilio 21st of May, 185G,occurred what is known in history iih the sacking of Lawrence. The Frec_State llotel was shot through with cannon balls and aitorwards burned. The two Free State printing offices w?re destroyed, uiany private houses pillaged, and that of l)r. 11. ltobi.son, thin ' Governor," according to the Topeka or Free-State faction, burned. This was done by a band of nearly eight hundred men, partly United States troops commanded by Federal officers, but largely a mob of men from nearly all the Southern States, who had come on their own account to "wipe out the abolition town." There was no resistance, and nobody was killed except by acoident. A peace policy had bsen resolvnd upon, ami was strictly carried out by the FreexState nacu, though it cost them heavily that day. While theso events were taking place in Lawrence, two companies of riflemen were being organized in the adjoining counties of Franklin and Miami to come to the defence of the ill-fated town. Theso wore the Osawatomic company, commanded by a Mr. Davton, and the Potawatomio company, whose captain was John Bro.n Jr. Both companies started for Lawrence, and they met on the way aud continued their march all night; On ?k- ? : e - ?n 4 4 ~ vu >ais uiuruiug ui iuo Z-U old John ISrown was will) these armed men near Palmyra, within twelve rntjes of Lawrence. It in not quite certain whethor he started with one of the Companies, or whether ho met them on the way. On thisThursday morning they heard that Lawrenco had fallen on the day before, and were undeoided most of the day whether to go forward or return. It was toward the evening of this day, in the camp of his son's company on Ottawa Crook, that old John Brown called for volunteers "to begiu the war in earnest." lie wanted only brave men, and me n who would obey 4 liim implicit^.. Xfst'e was hardly any re: ' ponsc to this 6a}VSprh:tps not a single ina answered. * He p| Are sons present and i Miu-in-daw ; t&e^<*J$ast, he could com , m ind. John. JrsJAwevcr protested airaiu1 tlie movement, iffing that the men con! , cot be spared, fljMhcy were not near th . eueuiy. Then thljbther foitr sons, Owe i lirewn, Watson Xmotii Frederick Brow and Oliver DrownMb^the son in-law Henr , Thompson, went. ??Hj?anip hy themsclve : with their fathor arplfctpiain, and spent iiioj ; of the next day grinding tliei I sabres. , About ,?dWl?ld Johu Brow a wen to a uian by the uHljiit .James Townslej > Who was in .onc^JjK ?he rifle conipanie: > who had a wadju|jft<i teaui, and asked hit if he would, wrmHEwragou, take a couipan , -of wen back Co nEtfotawntomie that after p nano. Tow^aJew^SSlyJ0*V' wo? pot ^'*o^ i ir.g what was to hooone. So at about o'clock they started, with their rifles am i revolvers all loaded and their swords newl sharpened. It is said that they were cheei ed oil their departure by the rifle company which is not unlikely, as the nature <1 their expedition was not known. Joh Brown, Jr., however, said: ' Father, b careful ; do nothing rash.'' Towndoy ha in it is wagon only the Brown familv in i eluding the son-in-law, Thompson. Titer was another man in the cotnpuuy. whos name was Winer, who rode a pony. Whctht lie had volunteered and agreed to obey o not wc do not know. It is not probabl ih-.t any of the men at that time knew ej actly what they were going to do. It w; the Brown family obeying their father, a in duty bound, with a teamster in their en t pi ty and a neighbor joined to the cxpeditioi i probably because it was going toward It "home. When they camped that n'ght they wet - near the Potawatomie creek, and here ol . John Brown revealed his plans for tli ' war." lie asked Townsloy to guide then t up the crock some tour or five miles, intoth neighborhood where ho lived, and sho , them the houses of all the pro-slavery met saying that it was his intention to sweep th I creek as he canto down of all the pro?slaver r men living on it. Townsloy refused to hi > coutc even the guide of any such expedition On account of this rofusal the party stayc I in camp all that night and the next da\ talking the matter over. It scouted t | Townsloy, and probably also to some of th other young men, that this sort of kiilin ; was murder. Old John Brown urged th; . it. was necessary as a v.- ir measure ; it w i time for the war to begin in earnest; \va | there must be to abolish slavery; God ha . foreordained hint to begin it. Once a dee aivo blow was struck, the fatal peace polic [ inaugurated at Lawrence would bo nr. a end, and the Free-State men would ii obliged to unite and fight Missouri. Tit end of the matter was. that late on Satnrda evening Townsloy yielded, either to force < argument, and not.'.! n? .mill., nr.,... .... . ?M' ' A pod it ion much loss extensive than hud boo i origiitally planned, but sufficient, surely,! o, vor the untile of John Drown with infant forever. The first victims of this murJorous fora wore found in a family named Doyle, r< siding on Mos<|ui!<) Creek, which elliptic into the Potuwatomie. Hero Townslet Winer and Frederick Drown remained out side the house, while the captain and t: rest of his family entered and brought ou Jauies P. Doyle and his two sons, Drur and William. These "prisoners." were is ken along the road toward "Dutch llonry's for about two hundred y!?rd?. Ilcre tii captain gave the order for theirslaughtei but itwasoither misunderstood ordisobeye Old John Drown then himself drew hi pistol and shot the father. James Doyle, i the forehead. Watson and Oliver Drow then fell upon'thc younger Doyle, and Wi I lam fell dead at the first cut of onu ofth(>.? murderous heavy sabres. Drury Doyl started to run to the house, but was overt a ken by his assailants and cut down. Thev was a younger brother ot'tho Dovles, the sixteen years of acre, in the house, whos , life was spared at his mother's tearful en treaty. From this placo the "Northern Army, as the commander styled the little bam proceeded down the creek to the house < Allen Wilkinson, which was entered in tli same manner and by the same men. Mr; i Wilkinson was at the time sick with tli measles. When the men vapped at the don she begged her husband not to open il The men outside asked him to .come on , and show them the way to Dutch Henry'i Ho replied that he could tell them just a well without opening the door. Th > Browns then commanded him to surrende in the namo of the "Northern Army," an ' to open tho door or they would break i open. The door was opened, and four nic entered and searched tho house for arms > taking a gun and a powder-flask. The then told Mr. Wilkinson to put en hi MAll.no nn.1 ?,UU .1 IT- J v.u.ovo ..nil mum. lie prolCSieO saying that bin wife was sick and that h would remain nt home and he ready to am wer any charge against hiin wheneve i wanted. Mrs. Wilkinson entreated, bti the captain said ; "ft matters not," an inarched her husband away, without eve giviug him time to put on his boots, li i was killed about ono hundred and flit i yards from his house by the younge Browns, acting under the captain's order* At nbout 2 o'clock in the morning th party reaohed Dutch Henry's crossing an knocked at tho door of a house whero wer four men sleeping and a woman and childrer The name of the men were James Hurrii William Sherman, Jeromo Glanvillo, an John S. Whitcman. The "Northern Army announced itsslt as usual, commanded sui . rendor, inquired about pro^slavcry met about arms, saddles, horses, and whethe i the men present had over aided pro slaver i j men in coming to the Territory, or done th ! Kroe-Stato oarty any harm, or intended t j do it any harm. Satisfactory answers wer ss given by limns and Whttemaii, and they , n were allowed to remain where they were i a Found. William Sherman was killed in the; - same manner as the younger Doyles and 't Wilkinson The horrible gashes made by d the broad sworos or sabres of the Browns , in i "isve rise to the story hat the victims were | it mutilated ; hut there was no reason to think n that the bodies were hacked or cut alt- r y life was extinct. The "Northern Armv ' I s, now, with a single prisoner, Jerome (lien ' tt viile. retraced its steps to the camp of the ' ir previous evening, where the wagons and i it horses had been lell. They breaklasted j ' tllcl'l* nnil I" * in imiu|)iim nearly noon. j t, As the early light o? that Sunday innrti 11 i*ig, May 2."), 185(5. came over the new land. ! y so lately a wilderness, showing hero and 1 - there at wide intervals a cabin with a little V- o^tiUnlud , eiuuud. ^(^evoa^J live 2 ghastl^^Sfscf^^Tn^in I widows, with their fatherless children were y weeping over their dead. They knew then - what the world does not know even yet. f, that this was the work of John Brown. And d 1 the same, morning light found the stern n I commander of the army of seven in camp e j with his men and prisoner. As he iifls his d hands to heaven to ask a blessing on the food - the ' dried" blood ofthe victims is seen upon c them by the prisoner. The prisoner was e set at liberty during the morning, but was a !r little too free in wtiat he said about thr r | Browns, and was shot not long afterwards le I near Black Jack, while on his way to Ivant sas city in a wagon. is I The community was at first startled and s shocked by the reports ol thes?* midnight is murders. Old John Brown and his com* i. pany of seven arrived at the camp they is iiad left on Ottawa ('reek about midnight between Suuday nud Mouday after the n assassinations. The news was known the d next morning, and John Brown, Jr., im e mediately resigned his command of the rifle n company, mounted his horse and rode away c home. lie was soon after arrested for this w crime and severely used, it is said, being i, driven, chained, many miles in the hot sun, o until be became insane. His father used to y show the chain in the East on his inoney? raising excursions, and showed great omo i. lion in narrating John Junior's suffering.d and consequent insanity. Ho may well r, have shown emotion. That son suffered > for his father's crime, which at that very e time ho was hiding and denving. * * * Tl._ n- . ?? * - | i m: uiicci oi itivso murders was very 'i i great upon the community and on the forlS tunes of Kansas ; bur it was not at all what r the commander of the ''Northern Army" I anticipated, lie expected to precipitate a i- revolution, but instead of this, tho Aboli_ y t ioui.sts o! Lawrence, even, almost uiianiu tnou?l^> denounced the deed. I'nW'.c t?-w c lutions were p issed concerning the matter. lamenting it as most unfortunate. The Mi? y souriatts, however, came on. infumod with ir righteous wrath, hunting old .John Brown - and his hoys, ready to shoot them at sight, i Frederick they did shoot thus, and they 0 burned the cabins of all the Browns y and all their kin. drove away their stock, and took vengeance upon tlicin in whatever y way they could. Brown's resistance, and 1 | how he fought, at Black Jack, are well ^ known. It is not gonvtal!y understood, however, that ail this lighting at < bawatomie. - and Black Jack grow out of the Potawato. e uiic assassinations. The impression was it really made in the Fast at tho time, and v has prevailed since, that the Potawatoini - affair was in reinitiation for these abuses and outrages committed upon the Browns by e the border ruffians. * * * Tli<* effect '. of this crime upon the character atid'eareer d of old John Blown was pervasive, decisive, is overwhelming. After that night he knew o that his life was forfeit; and he fought, and n begged and planned with a desperateness horn of his (ohk/ap II" ' w....... .IW. I|?u III ?* I Kansas, lie could not live in safety or penceo fully anywhere. lie must fight onto the end now. The Huh icon was passed. 11? ?- cut oft'his long beard, prohaby as a disguise, " J and sought help in New England, reciting e the woes of his family, but concealing i* their cause. 11 is despera'o earnestness won the confidence and the hearts of some of " New England's greatest and ncblest men. I, Had they known fully what he was and if what he had done, or even what he intciie ded they would not have aruied and helped s. him as they did. * * * The real hero o of the Black J .ck was ('apt. Shore. Osat vatomie was not a victory, but a defeat of t. the Erec State party and no particular bra-, t very was shown by anybody. Old .John i. Brown ran away in time to save bis life, s which was ail well enough ; only there is a 0 popular impression that ho did great r things at the battle of Osnwatotnie." That i d light, the pillage and the burning, were in 1 conseqtii nee of his crimes, and for the whole 11 he deserves censure rather than praise. At i, the time of Brown's execution in Virginia, y which was called in Boston his public tuurs der, while the deluded Abolitionists were I, exalting to the skies a man they did not e know, a l?'reo Stale paper, tho Jkraht of' i Freedom, of Lawrence, was printing the r plain unvarnished truth about him, and it buying the Republicans of America not to d make a hero of him. * * * His real u object, from the fatal night on the 1'otawato* e one till his death, was to provoke the South y and to commit the North to violence and r bring on a war. lie did not do it ; and, i. dispassionately weighed after twenty years, e the verdict ot thoughtful unn must be that d his influence in bringing on the war that ?? -afterwards came was infinitesimal. The i. war was brought on by Nothern votes and ), Southern suco*sion. The war sentiment d caught up the name of Brown and glorified " it, but t.ie manhitnself was all wrong in s principle and practice, i, His principles were those of the Russian ir Nihilist--first, make a clean sweep of the y ! present c vili/.ution, nnd lot the future build c j what it can. Surely such a man is not a o | proper hero for the youth of our country to o | worship, nnd wo believe that as his true hiM'irv. tuo c??ii1. ! < ? ?>ii? - known, sulmiir:iti<>ti t??r I iui will be changi J t.i disgust, and disgust- to atlgur, t riat wo liavc been so long deceived. ? Proceedings of tho Lepislfttnro. WM'SKSIi.w, l?k? kmi(kll *?, lsst!. SENATE. The Senate met at 1*2 in., nnd was optic! with prayer l>y Rev. William Martin. Mr .1 T Mmire prwrntcil a petition from l.liOO citizens frmn I he counties of Spartanburg. Union and Warn well, praying lor I he prohibition of the <listillation of intoxicating liijin.rs in South Car. olina. Mr Monro?A hill to anicml the charter of the town of Union. Mr Simmons?A hill to ntncn<l section 8"iT of the General Statues, relating to the duty of Trial .1 usliecs. The hill to provide a punishment for bastardy ^'"'1' I""'el The further consideration of the hill was defcrrcd. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House met t -day at 10 a. m., and was opened with prayer by Rev Mr l'ower. The session was exceedingly dull, and no measures, apart from the hill from the Medical Committee, were of any great importance. 1 tie memorial of t lie Presidents and General \i r .i . - i-i ihit rail roans was received to tiny. It sets forth the grievances of the railroad companies under the existing railroad laws, hut makes no recommendation as to their own relief. Il asks for such relief as the General Assembly may deem proper, Sir Mclver reported, on hehalf of the Committee on Agriculture, a majority report in favor of the repeal of the lien law, an 1 a minority report against toe same. The Senate and Mouse met in joint assembly at half-past 1 for the purpose of electing a Com* titisNioner of Agriculture, two members of the Hoard of Agriculture and two members of the Hoard of Directors of the Penitentiary. Mr Mclver nominated Col A I' Butler for reelection to the oflice ol Commissioner of Agriculture. The wholo vote was 142, all being cast for the nominee. Mr l'carce nominated Mr W I) Johnson, and Mr liuist Mr S .i I'erry, for members of the Hoard of Agriculture. Mr Johnson received 137, Mr Perry 137 and M r Colcock 1. Mr Massey nominated Mr I) F Hradly, and Mr Simonston Mr Johu W Williamson for members of the Hoard of Penitentiary Directors. Both gentlemen rec vod 13*2 votes. Necessary to a choice (?8. I he following bills and resolutions received their first reading by title and wore refcrted to the proper committees. Mr Culp?A bill to entitle John Johnson, I.aura and Lulu Sprouse, children of John Sprouse and Carolina Sprouse, to all the rights and privileges of lawful legitimate children, the same as if they were horn in lawful wedlock. Mr Allison?A joint resolution to provide for calling a Constitutional Convention. Mi Hobo?A bill to amend Section 1740 of the General Statutes. volutin^ ?- -1-?i-?- *? granting of license for the sale of intoxicating liquors. Mr Crews?A bill to regulate drainage in the County of Laurens, un?l to define the duties of the County Commissioners iu regard to the same. Mr Yandiver?A bill to prohibit the sale of unsound meat. Mr Gary?A bill to amend the General Kailroad Law. m - l? ..l.:- ...... .'ti j.-^ivin?a diii io further regulate the sale of seed cotton. Mr Wall ? Hills to amend section 1040 of the General Statues, in regard to the beneficiary cadets nttending the South Carolina Military Academy : to provide for Siateaid in the higher education of the girls of the State of South Carol no; to encourage the cultivation of sorghum cane and the tnanufacturo of sugar from tho same. Mr Croft?Hills to amend section 1431 of the General Statues of South Carolina, relative to the General Hailroad Law , to prescribe tbe time in which the return and assessment of property tor taxation shall be made. The following important bills were read the third time and sent to the Senate. , A bill to require butchers and all persons who tnay hereafter be engaged in thebusiness of buying and selling live stock to keep ft record of the rtcsli and ear marks of the same, the date of purchase and the name and place of residence of the persons from whom purchased. A bill to secure tho payment of phosphate royalties. \ hill to declare it a misdeitieanor for any person to take and use any horse, mare or mule without the consent of the owner and without int uit to steal the same. ? p.. . ? imijij .Aiir s i iiaxkshivino.?Thanks* g.ving day served a double purpose at my house, for it was the birthday of one of our hopeful children, and we surprised him with a new {run. and of course he wanted to go out and kill something right away. lie brought homo a partridge and a yallcr hammer and a rabbit aud made the feathers fly out of a big hawk. These boys are always making the feathers fly, and they kill more birds they ean't find than what they do find. (Jive a boy a dog and a gun and he is happy. These birthdays come mighty thick in my family and Mrs. Arp thinks a heap more of 'em than I do ; but poor folks' children ought to all be born ou the 29th of February and 'taey wouldent come around so oftju. Nevertheless, we must do the best we mh ?'? ?1? - --- - ? and be thankful. 1 The Nutt TltlAI,.?Uniontown, Pa.f December 5.?The session ol' the Court tosday was entirely occupied with the examination of jurors in the Nutt case. The panel embrace* eighty jurors, fifty ol whom have been examined and but one secured of that number. Counsel for the prisoner stated this morning that they would baso the defence entirely opon the theory of emotional insanity, and they summoned a lonp number of witnesses to prove that the prisoner has been peculiar liom infancy, and that he was imbued with an uncontrollable desire to take life. The trial promises to be protracted and exoitinp. A chanpe of the venue was finally made to Alleirhany County, and it is thonpbt a trial can be hud in two or three weeks. -? ? An Anamination in Alabama.?Chattanooga. November '21 A special from Talladega, Ala., states that this morning while Richmond Simmons was at the breakfast table with his family at assassin fired a shot through the window, he ball crashing through Mr. Simmons's tempi* and killing him instautly.