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ggcotgd lo Sflritullurii, goriituliurg, gomgsiit fieonomg, fjolite Jflfijrature, jjolitiea, and the (furrent gteujs of the gag. VOL. XVII?New Series. UNION C. H? SOUTH CAROLINA, JUNE 4, 1880. NUMBER 22. SENATOR BUTLER OR FREE TRADE. A Gradual Reduction in tub 1'Amirr Favored Ikrr Nor Adsolute Free Trade?Tuk Adoption or tub Internal Revenue System Advocated. United States Senate. Washington, D. C-, May 20,188G. Prof. 11. Means Davis, Chairman Executive Committee Free Trade Association of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. My Dear Sir: Souie time ago I received from you tho following letter : [Senator Butler thon quotes tho letter sent him by the Froc Trade Association on tho 4th of March.] ?i? -< ??uuQiM?iug kiiv ui your association or any athor number of respectable citizens of South Carolina to know my opinions on all questions affecting the public interest, I cheerfully respond in this form, not haviDg the tiocc for public addresses as suggested by your letter. You will permit mo to say, in passing, I am much ploascd at the prospect of a full discussion of this most vital subject, about which so little is understood, and I trust it will bo condnctcd in a spirit of candor and toleration worthy of the topic, and free from thoao unseemly personalities and aspersions which of late enter into controversy that arises. It doos not strengthen the forco of any man's argument or views to impugn the motives or sincerity of tlioso who differ with him, but often degrades the controverey and loads to pernicious consequences. The question of taxation is, and has always been, one af tho most difficult and complicated problems of civil government. Taxation is a necessary evil, and how to lay taxes, and wh<>ro, and when, upon what objects and persons, so as to make the evil as light and as little burdensome as possiblo. ? ? and operate with justice aud fairness, has always been most perplexing and troublesome to tho minds of thoao whoso duty it has been and is to deal with the subject. When it comes to determino what shall be the objects of direct taxation, you are constantly confronted with compilations and difficulties. In South Carolina we have tho ad valorem system, which appears to bo tho fairest and most simple, that is, that a man shall pay accordiog to the value of bis property ; and yet there is always room for complaint of under valuation or unequal valuation, whether joxx should tax mortgages and at tho same time tho thing mortgaged, chosen in action, moneys in hand, &c. Theso and others of a kindred character are all subjects that havo baffled tho best intellects of the ablest statesmen and political economists of this and ovory civilized pountry. The internal or oxoise system of Federal direct taxation has always been tho moat odious of all forms. The army of agents and inspectors, employed to provent and detect fraud ou tho public revenues are oppressive to tho poople and uurepublican under tho mildest form of administration. Tho powers of tho Fed v ri. . ? * - oral ana otaio governments in regaru to taxation, except as to imposts, are concurrent. Both may tax tho samo object at the same time, and each must have its own agents, Bepasato and distinct, to collect taxos for the support of each. Under tho (iArticles of Confederation" it was found that tho Federal government could not rely upon the Stales for the resources and revenuos for its support, and hence, chiefly, tho necessity for tho 'more perfect Uuion," formed under tho prcsont Constitution. g0- that, when we tallt about supporting tho gov??raaient by a system of direct taxation, you per^i*6 8omc 'be obstacles in the woy. As I h^e observed, all forms of taxation aro onerous vexatious, and the vital question is, whic.'1 * 'be least so? I have been led to submit these oVv?cr" vations from a passage in your letter in wbioh you say : "Wo have, therefore, resolved to urge Upon the people of South Carolina in publio moetings the propriety of demanding of Congress a speedy abolition of the artificial bsiriors and governmental tollgntos k?* aKiaK tlin trnffin af* tVta nnvl/l m <1!?Aa v J "u'v" *"w ",u " u,TO'ted from its natural channels, and man is deprived by man of his God-given right to reeeivo the fulleat returns to bis labor.? If you mean by this the abandonment of the system of laying taxes on merchandise imported from foreign countries and abolition of custom houses, I oannot join you in the demand. The collection of duties on imports has been in practico from { the foundation of the government, and is V much the safest and most efficient modo of \ seecuring revenue for the support of the a n 1 I? !I.J ? 4 government. v^uugrem hub rarei) uthiiuu lm itself of that power under the Cons'ituthn which provides thai direct taxation "shall I be apportioned among (he several States jM fcrcordiog to their respective numbers"? K never except on occasions of great emergency, as at the beginning of the late war? The framcrs of the Constitution evidently calculated that duties on imports would bo the chiof reliance for revenue, because by the second clause of the teoth Section of Article I. it is provided that "no Stato shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports except," &c., &o., clearly showing that this power was left exclusively for the Federal government. Direct taxatiou was resorted to by tho Federal government at tho beginning of the late war, and many of our best and most respeotod citisens in the low Counties can testify to the spoliation and confiscation under it, which made them paupers. Tho present internal revenue Bjstem of direct taxation is a hcritago of tho war, and if I had tho power I would wipe out the lost Tostigo of it, as I would the war tariff and imposts. If, oq the other hand, you moan by this expression the tariff laws should be so oquitably and fairly readjusted as to raise the necessary revenue for tho support of the government, and at tho samo timo as nearly as may bo operate upon all alike, I will unite most cordially with you. How that can be best and justly done is a very grave problem. About tho sum of $300,000,000 must bo raised annually by taxation?partly internal and partly external. Of this sum 8181,500,000 in round numbers was raised by dutios on imports, $112,500,000 by internal rovenue taxation, and tho balance of tho 8323,500,000 (total ordinary receipts) was derived from sales of publio lands, patent fees, taxes en natioual banks, seigniorage at the mint, &o. Now the presont consideration is how can this 8181,500,000 derived from imports bo so imposed as to bear lightest upon consumers, or how can it be levied to raise the necessary revenue and unfetter trade and oommerco. Many of the industries of this country have grown up under the stimulating or speculative influence of a high tariff, protective in many instanoes, and yet raising large revenues, prohibitory in others, and not bringing a dollar into the treasury. As unjust as this is and has been to the unprotected classes, it would not be wise or proper to knock the props from under such industries with oue blow and bring them down in' a crash. It would bo more unwise and wrong to continue this oondition of things. What then is to be done ? My idea is that tariff taxation should be gradually and surely reduoed until we have reached the point when each article will produce the largest amount of revenue, and then leave off, transferring from timo to time such articles to the free list as should bo found from experience to be most conveniently spared from the revenue list. Take for instance the article of sugar. I insist that the present tax of 11 eents a pound?tbe average?is the revenue standard, because it raises about $50, 000,000 annually, paid into the treasury on a total value of 973,500,000 worth imported?70.98 per cent, ad valorem. It is claimed that this tax is protection to the sugar planter. Grant it. So much tho better for the sugar planter, and that is what I call incidental protection. He receives a very small percentage of protection, while the Treasury is replenished with the tax. And so it is with rice, which pays into tho Treasury 81,619,523.24 on a total value of 82,134,188.74 imported, 75.88 per cent, ad valorem. Now let me call attention to the duty on cotton tics, as that is an article with which all of our people ate familiar. The duty on cotton ties prior to the last tariff revision was 35 per cent, ad valorem, and that is the duty to-day. It pays its share of revenue iuto the Treasury at that rate. V..'*t what the amount is I will not ston to " ^ f inquire, ^ 1 m,J My > ? very fair duty. The Tariff Cu?m,M'oa recommeuded an increase of 50 per ??n&* on cotton ties, which would hare made 85 per cent. What would have been the effect *hia ? Not a cotton tie would hare been imported, and consequently not a dollar would hav? boen collected on this article for the Troasury, because tbe tariff would hare boen absolutely prohibitory. But about $800,000 would have been paid by the farmera into the pocketa of five or six hoop iron manufactures in Pennsylvania, not a dollar into tho Treasury. The 50 per oeat, was not added because it was strioken out of tbe bill, an 1 of oourae this did not happen, but I advert to it to illustrate in a striking manner how iniquitous a high proteotive prohibitory tariff is. Thero are mauy articles on the list just as glaring as this throatened to be, und it is to rsoiif/ suoh wrongs and equalities * that every fair-minded man ought to address himself. Your association can accomplish much in that direction by an enlighted agitation and discussion of the subject. It is a great fallacy to suppose the oountry prospers or that labor is protected by a high taritf. Just the reverse is true, and in my opinion tbe recent stagnation and depression in business, and the restlessness, dissatisfaction and unhappy condition of tho laboring classes in this country are duo largely to tho present high rato of tazntion. The duty on imported merchandise entered for consumption in the United States is 48.660 per centago ad valorem on dutiable articles, higher than in 1867, when it was 46.667 per cent.; higher than it has ever been from 1791 to 1885, except in 1824, '25, '2G and '27, when it reached 50.21, 50.54, 49.26 and 53.76 per cent, respectively,and 1829 and '30, when it went np to 54.18 and 61.69 respectively, which latter provoked the Nullification agitation in South Carolina. The compromise measures that grew out of this agitation reduced tbo tariff gradually until it had gone down to 25.81 in 1842. Wo are now paying higher tariff taxes than what were known as "war taxes', of 1865 (66.67 and 68 per ocnt.J accumulating a large surplus in the treasury every year, which must lead to profligacy and extravagance. It encourages the most disgraceful squandering of money on so-called, pensions, public buildings, rivers and harbors, so-called aid to popular education, subsides to steamships, railroads, &c., &c. ; all of which is wrong, demoralizing and pernicious. Is there patriotism enough in the country to reduce the war taxation and relieve the tax payers of these unnecessary burdens ? We shall sec. And I rely confi dently on tho efforts of your association to contributo largely to that end. Very respectfully, M. C. Butler. Cultivating Corn.?He who says that shallow cultivation or deep cultivation is always the best for corn, that tho double diamond or the toothed cultivator, should always be used, simply shows that while he may be able to give corn on his own land the proper cultivation, ho is not fit to instruct his neighbors. Cultivation should vary with the soil, tho season and tho stage of growth of tho plant. Further, while I am thoroughly convinced that in general the toothed or shovel oultivator should be used rather than the double diamonds, I am yet certain that in some seasens the use of (ho latter is the better. Bach person must exercise his own judgment, and yet there are some general prinoiples to aid in reaching a decision. Thus, upon heavy, clayey soils the cnlti ration should be deeper than upon light, sandy ones. On the former deep cultivation is necessary because without it soils will not warm enough, and where cultivation does not reaoh the grouad will be so solid that roots will hardly penetrate. Deep cultivation in such soils is also essential to proper drainage, and stagnant water in the. soil is always hurtful. But in light, sandy soils deep cultivation, instead of being benefioial, will be hurtful. For these are liable to be too dry, and deep cultivation will break them up until the sun and air will take away too mnoh of their moisture. Shallow cultivation is better, for it will not release tho moisture drawn from below by capillary attraction. For the same roason shallow cultivation is best suited to a dry season, and it should be frequent. Per contra, deep cultivation is best in a wot season. For it will tend to dry the soil. But it must be understood that deep cultivation is meant to be deeper on a heavy soil than on a light ono, always. And always a heavy soil should be plowed deep, no matter what the season may be. On heavy soils, especially if the spring is oold and wet, the double diamonds should be run close to the corn as soon us it is two or three ioohes high. The plow should bo Mi to run rather deep. This will leave tho corn on a narrow ridge, and also throw tLe middle ground into a high ridge. Both will dry rapidly and warut up npidly ; the roots of the corn will not be injured, and it will assume a darker green and grow thiriflier than if the shovel cultivator is u*ed, whioh leaves the surface level, with the C?W? wet earth all around tho oorn. After a da* or two the earth should bo put back, using a cultivator. Unless the grouod is very oold or tho Mason very wot, the diamonds should be used but once. The latter cultivation should be level and shallow also, unless thero is some good reason for making it deeper, as given above. Ridging the dirt high up against tho corn at the last can nevei, in my opinion, bo rcoomtrended. In the above I take no acoount of the hoe, as its offioe in the oorn field is well (understood.? Cor. Weekly Pre?. . [Published by Request. A GRAIfD AND HEROIC POEM. On the train that bore Mr. Davis and his party from Montgomery to Atlanta, a letter was handed to Mr. Davis, which he read long and earnestly. Handing it to Mayor Ilillyer, he said : "This is front Paul Haync. It is a grand and heroio poem." Mayor Ilillyer then read as follows : The sounds of tumult have ceased to ring, And the battle's sun has set. And here in peace of the new-born spring, We would fain forgive and forget. Forget the rage of the hostile years, And the scars of a wrong tinsbriven ; Forget the torture that thrilled to tears The angel's calm in heaven. Forgive and forget? Yes ; be it so, From the hills to the broad sea waves ; But mournful and low are the winds that blow, By the slopes of a thousand graves. We may scourge from the spirit all thought of ill In the midnight of grief held fast; And yet, O brothers, be loyal still To the sacred and stainless past! She is glancing now from the vapor and eloud, From the waning mansion of Mars, And the pride of her beauty is wanly bowed, And her eyes are misty stars ! And she speaks in a voico that is as sad as death, " There is duty still to be done, Tho' the trumpet of onset has spent his breath And the battle been lost and won And she points with a tremulous band below, To the wasted and worn array Of the heroes who strove in the morning glow, Of the grandeur that crowned "tho Gray.'' ^ 0, God, they cone not as once they came < In the magical years of yore ; ( For the trenchant sword and the soul of flame, > Shall quiver and flash no more ;? Alas ! for the broken and battered hosts ; g Frail wrecks from a gory sen, . Tho' pale as a barfd from the realm of ghosts, Salute them ! they fought with Lee. And gloried when dauntless Stonewall marched ^ Like a giant o'er field and flood, When the bow of his splendid victories arched ' The tempest whose rain is?blood. t Salute them ! those wistful and sunken eyes Flashed lightnings of sacred ite, 1 When the laughing blue of the Southland skies 1 Was blasted with cloud and fire :? t Salute them ! their voices so feint to-day, Were once the thunder of strife, 1 In the storm of the hottest and wildest fray, < That ever has mocked at life 1 i Not vanquished, but crushed by a mystic fate, Blind nations against them hurled, But the selfish might and the causeless hate, Of the banded and ruthless world : Enough; all Fates ore the servants of God, And follows His guiding hand ; We shall rise some day from the chastcner's rod, Shall waken, and understand ! / But hark* to the ^|Mt as she murmurs " Come, There's a duty a*ill to be done, Tho' mute is the dhim, and the bugle is dumb, And the battle is lost and wou !" No palace is here for tho heroes' needs, With its shining portals apart ;? Shall (be/ find the peace of their " Invalides," 0, South ! in your grateful?heart! A Refuge of welcome, with tiring halls, i And Lore for its radiant dome, Till the music of death'* roreille calls The souls of the warriors?home ! KRirmo Farm Accounts.?The farm account , shows to the farmer at the end of the year, bis profit which he riews with pleasure, or his loss which produces an altogether different frame of mind. While the first may be the most agreeable, it is necessary that we know of the loses, if loses there are. The successful farming of the future will be book-farming; not only in tjie sense in which that term has been generally understood, but in addition the ledgor and day book will be in constant use.? I believ# that a farm aocount is necessary for Euocessful farming. What is successful farming ? I will give my definition. It is so tilling the soil and raising stock that with the proceeds of our labors we can pay all bills contracted on the farm, and still have a little left and our land in as gwd or better condition than it was at the beginning of the year. i prupuoo iv uitiuc iuv auiijcci iuio turec divisions, and hope to prove the necessity of keeping aecounta. remove some of the obetaelea in the way, and show some of the waya in which it can be done. The average farmer says "we have what we have and no figuring will make it more or leas;'* true, but if we keep accounts with the different divisions of our business, and gather them on a balance sheet at the end of the year, we shall aec where the losses have come in or the profits been made. As the general who has his army marshalled to attack the enemy is sometimes obliged to entirely change his line of action, so the farmer may sometimes be obliged to change his method of farming, either by raising diflerent crops, cultivating them differently, or raising different kinds of stock, provided his account for each year, for a number or years, shows him it is for the beat. For this reason a farm account for ten or fifteen years, divided into, say, four divisions, vii.: dairy, sheep, swine and poultry, would be one of the beat presents that*, farmer rntlli) criva In lit* ann aim *r.? <> ? starting for himself on a farm, for it might prevent him from changing his stock every tim e that the wind blew from an unfavorable quarter , for he oould see by it that in different years different branches of hie business brought the profits. An account with each farm crop enables us to see whioh our land is best adapted to. If we can make more raising grass than wheat, or oats than corn, or see that we can buy our butter and milk, poultry and eggs, and de, vote our time more profitably to the raising of | the email fruits for market, is it not for our interest to do eo although it be against the advice of cur neighbors, and the traditions of our 1 fat hers I " Does farming pay T" is the question that we as praotical farmers want answered, be the answer yea or nay. Fabmino in Scotlabd.?Working on a farm in Scotland is a different thing from farming iere. There we hare got to learn from a ?oy up as we bare to handle all sorts of mashinery. Some of the farms ara 600 acres in sxtent and employ a man and double team for ivery 60 acres, so that on some, ten mcu are kept the year round. First-class men get from thirty to forty pounds a year and free house, fuel, &c.; second-class men get from ?26 to ?30 and eo on down to the tenth man, with the unuersianuing that only the foreman is married, the rest living in a room fixed ofT for them on the farm. In another article I will give a deicription of the help, their fowl, &c. When I same to this country six years ago the oldrashioned way tho majority of the farmers cultivated their lands, the piling up of stones in the fields and spreading them out again when ploughing, the slow laborious way in planting pototoea and other things, struck me as funny. [>a some of the larger farms in Scotland as nany as 100 acres are planted in eight to ten lays. Potatoes follow oats, and after the land I s thoroughly harrowed two teams begin on one tide of the field and with double mouldboard >loug! s make drills 24 inches wide ; then come he manure teams, two to three abreast, each hrowing the manure into a single furrow as he horses walk along ; after this persons with imall forks spread the manure more evenly in he furrow. After the potatoes have been denied, which is done by a machine planting wo rows at a time, the potatoes being cut by land first, two more teams split the drills right n the middle so as to cover the manure and leed, the drills being as straight as an arrow. iYhen the potatoes are above ground they get >ne or two cultivatings then are hilled up again, hardly any hoeing being done,) with the mould >oard plow. In the fall when harvesting we ise a machine with two horses attached ; beginning on one side of the field it takes one Irill at a time and goes backward and forward hrowing all tho potatoes on the surface.* There ire a number of women stationed along the Irills with small baskets which they fill and impty into larger ones whioh are removed by he teams as they get full. As many as six tores a day can be done this way. Tho machine constructed so that it has two big driving vheels, one on either side of the drill; from he centre beam there is fastened a big steel soulter, which goes under the drill; a wheel sith sixteen spokes revolves very rapidly right >ver the coulter throwing the potatoes and dirt igoinst a strong netting side of it, the dirt passing through and the potatoes dropping in a row ready to be picked up. C. Cordaville, Mass., April 5th, 188(1. A Western correspondent senda tha' following: I recently listened to a debate in one of tha sohool lyoeams of this oity, upon the nowel and momentous question of "woman suffrage." The debater upon the "anti-woman" side, was doubtless engaged in his first effort ; and this fact, together with a slight impediment of speech, and a most original erica of arguments, combined to produce one of the funniest and most unanswerable speeches that I had cvsr beard. Hare it is, almost in full: "Ladies and gentlemen, the first thing to find out is w-w-what man was m-uiade for, and what w-w-woman waa mado for. Glod created Adam first, and put him in the garden of Eden. T-then He made Ere, and p-put her there, too. If He hadn't c-c-oreated Ere, there never would have been all the s-s-ain there is now in this w-w-world. If He hadn't mado Eve, she never would have p-p-pioked the apple and eaten it. N-n-no, she never would have picked it and g-g-given it to Adam to eat. Paul, in his Epistles says w-w-women should k-k-keep still. And besides, 1-ladies and gentlemen, women couldn't fill the offices. I d-d-defy soy one to p-point out a woman in this city or c-c-couoty that could be a sheriff. Would a woman t-turn out in the dead of night to traok and arrest a m-m-uiurderer '( I say no ! Ten to one the would elope w-w?ioilh himr And amid thunders of applause and laughter the gallant defonder of man's rights triumphantly took his seat.?Harper ? Magazine for Mag. . Montgomery, Ala., May J20.?Francis M. Taylor, Ihobate Judge of Winston County, was impsaohed in the Supreme Court of Alabama yesterday. It was chargod that he wilfully nogleoted to send in lists of the licenses issued and to pay over to tho State the proceeds thereof. A plea of guilty was entered by the defendant through his counsel. The Court rendered a judgment deposing him from of fice. ? ? Cattania, 3ioily, May 20.?Tho erup tion of Mt. ifttna is increasing in proportions, and thero is serious danger to the town of Monte Ilosso from tho flow of lara. Measures are being taken for the resoue of the inhabitants. Vast columns of flamos are issuing from the crater of the roloano and present a most imposing spectacle. Tho trustees of the Slater fund for the education of the colored pooplo met in New York Wednesday. South Carolina will get $2,700 of tho fund, North Carolina $3,600, Georgia $5,100. DOMESTIC RECIPES. Suet Puddino.?Take a piut of cream or new milk, three egga well beaten with a little salt, grato in half a nutmeg. Mix your cream, eggs and nutmeg, stir ns much flour in as will make it very stiff, then skin and shred half a pound of beef kid* ney suot very fine and small, and stir it in until all is very well mixed. Flour a cloth or butter it vory well. Boil two hours. A Cinnamon Rice Pudding.?Take half n pound of rice, two quarts of new milk, half a pound of fresh butler, the same of currants, the same of stoned raisins. Butter your dish, throw half the rico over the bottom of it, then throw over your currants and raisins, then tho rest of your rico. Melt y:>ur sugar in your milk, add a little salt, pour it in your dish, tho butter at tho top all over, grato some uutuicg over it and bake four hours at least. hreakeastno! 1 Best Corn Cake. Creamed Pork! Baked Potatoes. Cold White Bread. Apple Sauce. Coffee. Best Corn Coke.?One egg, one-half cup of sugar, ouo cup of Bwcct milk, one cup of Iudiau uioal, ono cup of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, two tenspoonfuls of cream-tartar. Bake in a squaro loaf or in a thin sheet in a dripping-pan, and cut in squares, or in small tins. Creamed Pork.?Fry some thin slices of aalt pork ; when done pour all the fat out of the fryiug pan, lcaviug the pork in it; then pour a cupful of thin sweet cream over it, and let it just come to a boil. Apple Sauce.?Soak good dried apple a fow hours then stow carefully uutil soft, with a handtul of raisins, or n few slices of lemon ; ka.jp it covered closely, and do not stir. Turn carefully out into a dish, keeping the slices unbroken, aud scrfe wheu cool with powdered sugar, or sweeten whilo cooking. DUE AK.FAST NO, 2 I Plain Omelet. Myra's Muffins. Dry Toast. Lettuce. Coffee. A Plain Omelet.?Too eggs, four tablespoonfuls of milk, one-quarter teaspoonful salt, onc-balf tablcspoouful of butter. Beat the yolks until creamy, add the milk and salt, and last the whites beaten to a stiff froth. Melt the butter in a small, smooth frying pan, and pour in the mixturej it should at once begin to bubble. Cook thrco or four miuutcs, slippiug a knife under it now and then to prevent burning. When tho top begins to set, fold it ovor and turn on to a small hot platter. Myra's Muffins.?Ono egg, one-third of a cup of sugar, ono teaspoonful of butler, two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar, ouo teaspoonful of soda, one cup of milk, ouo and three-fourths cups of flour. Bake iu small tius. Lettuce.?This can now bo had from the hot-bed. Keep it fresh and crisp iu cold water. Break apart the leaves aud arrange on a plate in the form of a rosette, tlio stems all meeting at the centre, and filling it in with the smaller leaves. Vinegar, sugar, or a made dressing are used as preferred. The devil must not be allowed to monopo lize all the fun or to do all the laughing. Piety docs uot consist without sobrioty nor in sobrioty. It is as godly to laugh as to cry?and godly to do ueither in an ungodly way. The theatre, tho opera and the dauce, now too often possessed by seven devils, arc not to bo forever pre-omptod by the lower world. The day is coming when A the play-house will be tho gate of Heaven Jr instead of the gato of hell, as it too often is to-day. The dramatic and musical fac- f ultics belong to God, in their best development, as they were alleged to belong to Ilim in the great feast at which the Galileans were won to Jesus.?Lcioiston Jour nal. . Fakmf.r Mukdrreii Bt His Soss.?Mountain Grove, Mo., May 20.?Sunday morning Wayne Anderson, a wealtliy farmer of this county, was found murdered here. He attended the Masonic Lodge Saturday night, leaving the hall about 12:30 a. m., and started homo, two miles and a half florth. He was found Sunday morning lying on his back, shot in the throat and breast. Yesterday, during the Coroner's inquest, two sons of the deceased, Ed. and ll.nr. ??<1 * 1 L'_: o a?vui j f <4 mm wuipuivil unuiou DRIIdors, coufcssed the crime. lr at First You Don't Succkko.?Right of ths applicants before the Supreme Court for admission to practice, who wero granted further time, to wit, untilthe 1st of June next, asked to be examined yesterday afternoon, which application was granted, nnd they were examined hy a committee appointe I by the Court at once. . They passed a very creditable examination, and were complimented by the Chief Justice. John L. Sullivan will visit Australia and other English colonies professionally.