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THE FAIRFIELD HEALRD. Iubliibed Every Wednesday a WINNSBORO, S. C, BT 1DESPORTES & WILLIAM. 0 TrERMS-IN AD VAC'B. Out Copy one year, $ g 00 FIVe '' '6 - 12 60 Ten o * *' 2600 A STATE IN RUINS. The deploraUle condition of South Carolina-Gigantic thefts, univer 8ul corruption, and a Government in the hands uf unprincipled Adven. ltrers. [From an Occatdonal Correspondent of N. Y. Tribune.) IN0u1I1NGTON, February 22.-The condition ur South Carolina is deplo rable. In the days of secession it was the greateit offender. In the days of RteconAtruciion its greatest sufferer. Tio Givernient of the State was furini ly in the hands of an aristoora cy. They were a body of men joal. ous, willful, dogmatic, but high-toued aid honorable. The roll of its repro. sentat ives in Cor.gress for near thiece, quartori of a century, the numes of the civio and military heroes in the war of the Rev, lutiou, shine with a lustre that, is undimmed by coipari 1on wvith the jen of ny other State. True to the souvenirs of its former history, it preoipit.tted the slavehold erS' rebellion, uad led its hosts to their doom. It sought in its passion as a bloody arbitrament on the field of battle, and a bloody arbitrament it bas had. Vith 60,000 voters, and 110 foreign pipulition, it put 70 000 soldiers in the field. The end oname and South Cirolina was black with de,olation. Tim smoke and the fire of civil war ascended from every hou.ehold, and the stain of blood wats on the gartentz of every burvivor. Its young muen had swiftly gone down to bloody graves till the dead outnum bered the living. The means of sup port were swept away as by fire and whirlwind. llavoo and spoil and ruin were its only gain. This is whero the end of the rebellion left South Carolina. What has beev its c01dition siico ? What is its condi tion now I 1Th1' pppulationl of the State is smiethiug over 400 000 blacke, and stnothlihng under 300,000 whites. The result of the war has maade a yet greater disproportion in the comparas tive numbers of the voting popula tion. These are ostimated to be in the proportion of 40,000 whites to 00, 000 black voterA, the aggregato being over 100,000. But in the Logisture, out of 124 muembers, there are but 13th iolresci-titives of the white mi nority. Tbo rest of the Assembly is black, with the exception that here and there is a white representative of a black con.tituoncy. There are enouigh of these, along with a few in. telligent colored people, to lead the great mass of ignoranco and barba rism of which the main body is com posed. Without going into details. it is enough to say that the men who lead and manage the Legiblature and the State 0ovornment are thieves and misaeroants. Tlhe great body of the [L.ogislaturo are the ignorunt and cor~ ruplt inst a umenits with which the lead ers work, and though the individuals composing this mass are bought uand sold like enttle in the market, their venality in s.omae oases is relieved of xiulh of its climinality by reasonl of tho denasenesas of their ignorance. Numbers of the blacks who oeoupy seats in the 14o..tjilaturo regard them belve~s eonly in the light of employees of tihe Govea nmnent. Their pay is $a day for the sossion and special pmay for their separato votes en every measure in which there is lmney. 'lTese votes are bought and sold without even a pretense of haid ing the fiagitiotus transaction. The n1ogro) himas4lt is hardly conscious of crimaialit y, w hila lie maak,es his bar gain, lie owns his mule, iIe sells it- lIe owns his chicken, iIe sells it. iIe consitders his vote just as nitchl a par of his personal propert.y as his mule anid his chicken. Why ashould he not soll it also 1" Ieo does ilI it, and ho naively wonders that anybody should compalain. Oif cours~e the scelo of pay varies. It is just according to ec mani's in. tellig.enee amnd raipacity. A few huna dredl dl lairs ini special grat uitie's is nlongh to satisfy the dean ds of a plantation negro. O.hers get tanore said mIOe , anud more. Onte of the Smalarter sort wvas aconsed th,e other day3 oni the floor of the llousae, lay a eel league, with then havting $12,000 of State bends in his pocket, corruaptly obttainted. And the chargo was not denied. Bun. mlhe evidence of gross and uni ver sil corrulption is palpable in the way everybody lives who has any.. thinlg to do with1 the Government. Thei o is a huapy-go lucky air amnong them all. Ii a black gets into the L-gid:ruae, that is enocugh. IIe wo k i no maije. IIe has no cocagjon. He hasg inoiey eiiough. It is the anaao wilh lie occenpanit (of the ex ecutive offa2es. All aire sleek and fat with theuia ill-*got tena gains. They are lhke pim ates who hateo captured a rich ly -ladena ship. They riot in the plun de r, a rinug not tat t all for, nor even thimnking of, thle owners. Bait the irrelraigible evidence of gigantie theft siam corruption stiands hae a moiuuaemnt in thme vast increase of the State debt, an increase for whichI oe is nothiung to show. Tihae State many be searcbed in vain to find where the money has gonte. it is in no public work. It is an no soheuaes of public imp rovemaent. It has sign ply been stolen, It has gene into the pockets of hi'gh way robbers who comi pose the legislative and the aenncuive government of the State. Behold the stupendous sum I In 18654he bon4. t ed tiot@cording to the report of t the 0tiAress Colatuittee who, have, lately returned frnu their investiga- C tions, wos, in roma4 numbers, $5,- * 058,000. In 1888 it was $6,454,000. 0 O.j the 20th of December, 1871, it had. risen to the enormous aggregate of $15,708,000. It was not even certain that this sum covered the whole llu bilities of the State. So much fraud 0 and complicity in corrupt practices by I the State offioials had -been deve I oped, so much chicanery had been unearthed so much will. ful concealment and apparent I ignorance of the amount of the robberies and issue of the State f bonds was manifested, that there was t no certainty that even the frightful I aggregate which was established E would not be augmented when all the t plundering bad come to light. But whether it be more or not, we have here an addition to the State I debt since the war of near $11,000, 000. And this sum has been, million I by million, dollar by dollar, delibe- i rately stolen by the villians who have I had possession of the State since that I period, with the exception of such r moderate sums as wero necessitated 6 by the measures of reconstruction. e The methods of roberry have been I too various and universal to be enQ- t merated in an exposition so general as t this. Suffice it to say that they have a involved everybody of any account v who belongs to the majority. It is a 4 treinblitig morass of corruption that 9 shakes under the tread of the investi- I gation. There is no chance to stop or punish the flagrant crimei that have been committed because every body, outside of a mere handful of I representatives of the tax payers, is implicated. W hatever villainy is ex. posed. or whatever investigation is threatened, silence is at once restor ed by threatening the threateners Q with an exuwination and exposure of C their own criminality, It is simply a % bmnd of obbers thre.ttening to tell on U one another. Was there ever s>ich a burle,que on free govornmnent 7 The State is mired, and there seems to be no standing ground for an eff.rt at extrication. And yet it must be extricated, or government is a fail. I ui o. As has been already said, there . are Lut 13 Represeutatives out of 124 members of the Legislature who are regarded as representatives of the I tax payers of the State. Of these, eight come from two upper coutities I adjoining Georgia. These Represea- t tives are tired of a hopeless struggle I against the thieves who have plunged i the State in bankruptcy, and threaten I general confiscation. Those two coun-< ties have petitioned to be set off to Georgia. As their excision would I just about extinguish the trifli- 1 minority of the Legislature, and leave I it a unit in its corruptions, it is sup- < posed the majoilty will grant the I the prayer. So that the last remnant of the holding ground of the tax pay ers seenis to be on the point of disap. I pearing. it is thus that 300,000 white poo. ple, more or less, composing the in telligence alid property-holders of the State, are put under the hool of 400,000 pauper blacks, fresh from a state of slavery and ignorance the most,denso. Guided by unprincipled, adventurers from other States, who wraking use of these freedmen as their agents for the most nefarious acts which wore ever committed under the shelter of Republican formts oft Government, this blind and unintel ligent muss is precipitated upon the intelligence and wealth of the State till they are buried out of sight. * It, is sometimes asked wh'y the whitea people of the State do not endeavor I to influence the blacks by kind treat. ment and pursuasion as to their true interests. Th'e answer is, that thea jealously of the black of his old mans- e ter is profound, unyielding, and uni-i versal. WVhere the kindest personal relations prevail, where the freedmen remain on the old plantations, and work t.he land on shares in content. C ment and harmony with the proprie-d tors, tihe testimony is that, so far as voting is concerned, the old master is utteily without influence, iIe can not obtain a vote or the promise of a vote. In this matter the black will listen only to the unprincipled tadven-t turer .who rides throuigh the countrya olaiming to be one of those who gave freedoma to the slaves. Conscious of their present liberty, the freedmen 's dread of Its possible loss makes him the moist anspicious and apprehensive of mortals. In poverty and sickness, in trials and troubles be resorts to his old, master and seeks his aid and enunsel with a ehhidlike confidence. liut iln voting he is steeled to his ad-C vice and will die before lie will take a it. Thus overwhelmed and helpless, what is the average property holding citizen to do 1 lie aims faithfully to get upon his legs, but the grinding I taxauon actually inwposed, and still i moethat which is threatened, makes fiscationi. lie would got out of the Stato if he could, but there is nobody to buy hisi property. On a visit to South Carolina a few years ago, j Senator Sprague of Rho de Island, attracted by the great natural ad van tages of a water power at the capital of the State, purchassd it, and spent I a considerable sum of money prepa-1 ratory to starting manufactories there. The development, soon after, of the corruptions and meaureless robberies of the State Goveranment, brought his A operations to a dead stand, and now Ir he only nwaits the forlorn hope of an 1 opportunity to extricate his venturer from the cilutches of the thieves and villains who have the State by the throat and are sucking its life's ( blood. I "Why don't you rebel again 1"jI shed a Boiton man who was laitely ravelliDg through the State. 14This Ine you would have a t$asoti. ,16s 1 why ? Subjected to oppressive Duditions, Oboh as it way safely be tid no State or community iu the Ivilized world Is to-day enduring, the 'hito ainvority in South Carolina are ulot and dumb. They have no life, 'heir sph it has 1rone out. Their iu. rtia amounts to it left the conquer. ra. Whether justly or not, they be. love that the auoeesful war has sown he teeds of corruption and death roadau-t over the k or(h. They be. ieved that the coroh had degaaded tmelf and lost its moul power ; that be salt had lost its suvor. 11ov far mots are justit)ing that cofwltmioll he North has un oppt-rtuoity tojudge. low, if you wan&, peaco with the louthern people, you must UbA.O1 be religionian of war. You must oueo to upbr,,id thei as inners. It ; hard for anybody to be called tia. erat by such IPoile as you a re c11. ioally publ:shiag y'urselves to be, low York oug.it to be very modett a the use of the word, onl the re. orts of demoralization in N- w Eng. ,id are odd acoUMp niluentv to imupe ous lecture agaillst motes in outhern eyes. Cease all this nou see. ^duit that Southern people ad as much right as your.elves to bink out an agreeablo meaning from he Constitution. Stop your cunt and dmit what everybody knows that the Far was a quarrel over materin in ier. #aI. Adwit-what the very geo raphioal prescription of opinion roves-that if your people had beei he slave-holders and agrioulturalistr aid the South the more numerous ianufacturtrs in free States, youj rould have been the seco-sioji-,ts, at rndoubtedly the South would have eon rea.dy to fight to the death fur be Union. In that case the clergy rould have been equally eager to de. lare the mind of God ; only the Go. graphy of the cotiflicting oratoleF rould have been reversed. For, if nything is settled by the history of 1hriatianity, it is that the clergy avo no divine assistanoe toward uakiug up a true decision in politica uarrels, and never do anything but boy the impulse that moves th< jeople to whot they mnin6ter. Wher ou got to this position of oommor ense the diflioulties of moral recohn truotion w*Il rapidly disappear. A1 ,resent the attit ude you present doet iot humble the Southerners, but nukes them think themselvessuperio o you. They think you itiferior in mlderstanding, as well as in all tha a broad and frank and generous i6 tuman cbaracter. Naturall, ihe) lo not wunt to have much to do wiil uch people ; and there is dangei hat this view of Northern charucte: )eoomto fixed, and be propagated fo ,encratiom to come, and remain a ause of trouble, as persistent and un, nanagable a4 the moral "rebellion' of Ireland. I could say much upor hissubject I but probably I have al. edy said muuh more than you wil >riut. WINNSBORO. Wednesday Morning, Maroh 20, 1872 Tme Late Legislature. We think we can, with great pro ariety, congratulate the people o him State upon the adjournment sinl lie of the late Legislature. With a few honorable exceptions ye do not believe there has ever as emabled in any country a more vii ainous and corrupt set of legialatot han those who composed the Genera issemblly just adljourned. Profli ate and abandoned, character r,ed by every known vie, und entire y regardless of their serious respen ibility, they pursued a recklosa ourse day after day to the greai otriment of the interests of thei onstituency, and in violation o very principle of right and honesty )pressive taxes have been levied useless expenditur3s incurred, ex ravaganoes of all kinds encoursgemd mid outrageous swindlos and fraudi pproved of and legalized. The card earnings of tax-payers have beet rxacted to enrich public thieves anc >lunderers, and the very vitals of the tate attacked to rivet the chains o >olitical slavery upon a poor, pere utod, people. illionas and million if debt have been fo.ced upon oui hou ders, aganet a just and indignani >rotest, anid our burdens increased a housand fold. Will any one saj his is not true in every particular lut the tale is not yet hal' told. I s so siokening and revelting that we hudder at the bare thought of it, and ometimes wish that we could blot ii ut from our umoniory. Th'le itcfamuous career of a large ma oity of the late General Asemrblj orms a part of the history of th< tate, aDd, as such, will go down t< utare generations. Carol ins's hu, niliation has gono out to the would uut, alias 1 she receives but little con. ort. The story of her woes is for. otten in a day, and she is left to thct o.ercy of demons In human form, wbc ave made of lier a barren wraste, ancd educed her sons almost to beggary. That this is the work of the late leneral Assenebly, no honest max an deny. It is sad to contemplate, ut nevertheleas true. ThrouAh corr upt practices it ha@ estalill,ohed a record for pt6fiaoy and viee, that has tio parallel ib the history oft any country since the foun4ation of the world. May God save the State from an other such body of law-tmakers. Our Next Governor. In a tecent issue of the Mirisionary Record, Rev. R. H. Cai, its colored editor, pretends to peep a little way into the political future of the State, and gives the names of those must likely to como before the Republio.in Convontion for . the Gubernatorial nomination. Of the extreme wing of the party R K. So.,tt, F. J. Mose,., Jr. and J. L. Neagle are the tuar piuui iont candiitex ; of the uoderatu Re publ in its, Judges Orr aud Mcit1. Wi'lh the exo. ption, probably, of Judge Orr, none of t1weso, to our wind, possess even a few of the quali. flsations noee-,sary to fi: a ian for so responsible a po.ition as that tf Olov ernor. Scotthas been weighed in the balance, and found shamnt ully want. ing in every prerequi.ito. Moes while possessing con.iderable intelli.. gence, has no force of charactor what. ever, and strong charges of corrup tion have tcen laid at his door. Neagle is scarcely inore than a cipher, and is believed to be corrupt and ve nul. Judge Molton has no experi once in political life, and does not cominand the confidence of either his own party, or the white people of the State. As to Judge Orr, we know that he is fickle in politics, and attangely inconhiscen, in many of his pul.lio acts, but we believe lie is onest. With considerable sagacity, sound sense, and considerable admhinistrn tive ability, we would regard his election to the Governorship as an auspicious event to the State. We know that there is gicat oppo. sition to bin: on account of his m.. political somersaults, but the whi;e people of South Carolina are so sit. Uzted to day, that they cannot be olosers, and it is to their interest to get the best wait front the opposite party. wisdin dictates tuh a course, and we intuud to follow it. As a dernier resoit let us take the leser of two evils. The Redding Case. The recent fi.aco in the Legislature, that called Judge Giahaut from hia official duties in Ch -rleston before the L,egislm,ive Judiciary Committee, h,s involved only' the iu,tigator, 8.,. licitor Seab:ook, of Charlst;bs, and Judge Graham .stands fully viudioat ed. The history of the whole matter Is biiefly as follows: Stnue time last year a woman bamed Julia Rudding was put out of te firs.t class co'ach tin the Suth Carolina .ts,ad by parti-a ini no wise connictied with the road. Suit was brought agaiunat th company by herself and lihsnd, and thne case was argued before Judge Giaamu, who had a non-suit entered. The plaintiffs appealed, and the Supreme Court, referred it back for a new trial, and the jury brought ini a verdict for -the company. Seabrook, ut ho was one of the counsel for the Reddinigs, foilt so umuch mortified at the reeult of the suit, that Ihe lost his temnpor, hure ied up to Columbhia, and soon had repor a in oireulation that in,proper influence bad been execited oier the Judge anid jury. rThe Judiciary CX.uaniite of the House were ordered to investigat e it, and uisade quite an elaborate re port, which has already appested in print. Our readers know the rest. Preserye lihe Recordu. UJpon the final paisage of the bill legalizing the bond swindle and frauds, the record shows the votes of the Represent atives from ibis County. In the affirmative, McDowell and Smart ; in the negative, Moore. We want the people, particularly the color ed race, to keep this always in :nind, and let it be known throughout the County. We intend to use It wvhen the proper time comes, and expose without fear or favor those who miis represent us, andI betray public trusts and confidence. We shall see to it that the ignorant are n.. longer kept in ignorance, and shall do ever.Sthing in our power to enlighten the under. standing of deluded voters. Arrests and Releases. The followiag p.ers->ns have been arrested in this couuuty since our last issue : Gen. - Joseph F. Giist, D. P Mosely, 8. J. Mosely, Prank Goleman; re-arrested, Harper Floyd, Ben Scott, white, Alfred, Keenain, colored C. C. Scott, and Ira Williarc, WVhiite, and W.* Nichole, colored, who were bailod out some weeks ago, under oonds of $2,000 each, bave been surrendered to the anathorities by their sureties, in cnsequnce of another prisoner, at l,iberty under the same "ond, having, ai is supposedi, 'left for parts uni known." Capt F. M. Farr and Daniel Black are at, liberty, under their own bond, to appear at the Court to be held in Chaslesten next moanth- Un ionell. Ts,n. IomlcidIe. We regret to announco that a diffi. Duity occurred last night, about half. past 7 o'clock, In the co-operative ntore of the Oharlotto, Cotumbia and Augusta Railroad, Blanditig street, between Mr. Jokeg Simpson, an em. ployee of the comtpaiy, and a colored 4an, named Lucas, in which the for iner was killed, by a out aofoas the thigb froi a sumall pooket-knifVe ir the hands of Lucas. The origin of t he difficulty we did not learn ; the n.urdered man was, it is said, bome11 what under the influence of liquor. Simpson was a gallant soldier ii the late war-serving in the Richland Volunteer Rife Compauy-arid his untinaely death will be deeply deplor. ad by his muny friends and old cotu rales in.arns. The murderer wasar rested, after, slight resiot.auce, by Mes,rta. J. E English ani Joseph Prim, (who were present when the aiuortuanto uffairovour rel,) and car ried dowu to Sheriff Frazoo, who afterw.rds-ably and proipi ly assist. ud by these gentlent and Mr. W. Reeves, in the absence of policemen -suocceded after com,iderable difli Culty, in arresting Haunch Bridges ad Wm. Dennis (colored) a acce. sories. The prisiners were lodged in jail about 12 o'clock. An i6que,t will be held over the remains this MorLi ng.-PhOhlix. Tornado in Georgia. A tornado recently passed over Milon county, Georgia, which (lid considerable danage. Upou the place of Mr G. F. Mayield every building except a little fodder house was unroofed. The dwelling house had the roof lilted clear off and scattered in all diiections. Some of the p1rta have nut been found, and some of the portions were found three quarters ol a milu from the building. The kitch. en was torn to pieces, and logs ear. ried from here over seven inches iti diameter mora than three hundred yards, and ona-half the Yoof earriod entiro for somue one hundred and fifty yards and dropped, one end of tht rib stiuking a considerable depth into the ground ; the autokehouse, the corn crib, the stables, ad the well curb and all outhouses were entirely do molished and scattered. The Champion in South Carolina. A correspondent of the New Yori Herald says . "Among the Republicans in Sontli Carolina there is a deadly conflice between the mass of the party and the Fed3ral office-holders and their supporters. As already stated in the Herald, the delegites to the Ropub. lioian Cuotvention which endorsed Gen. Grant's adminit-tration were instruct ed to vote against his renoiniatitn if he did taot wake a clean sweep of all the piesent officeohulders in the SLate State. A number of the del.,gates la.ive already left Columbia for Wash ingion, aiti these hate been rapidly followed by the offico-holders. Thei is no doubt th,t, thu delegation will v to 1.traight" for Grant's nomina tion, atd here, as int all the Southurn Stites, the begroes will vote en mass fir his election " Destructive Fire at Union Courti fonse. lBy the p.rompht at tetiotn of ata es. teemaed corresponident, we ate ena bled to furnih the following facts el ana extensive fire which occurred al Union Court House on yesterday haornintg. Thme fire broke out between four andc live a. mn., ini the rear of Mr. Wmn Eller's store itn Maina street, and' eoor resutlted in the detruoti.mi of the pricipal part of Main street. 'ITae t wo haotels, the stores of Me ers J. L. L~ oig, a .n. El ler, Rauoben Sitai Git>be, & Co., Foster & Wilkins, A 'i.'hon, ps.1n, It. W. Tuem.ly, thb TI amed . fli:e, tan d several otber build. inig. The l' me'e office and the gosod: of Mr. Eller were a total loss. Them amnounat of ins.mrrnanee ona the property destroyed is not knowaa. T1o.. mutch prmise cannot be giver to thte Federal gairrison, whao ude, the c'otammantd of Lieutenant McDoug a!, rendered effective aid in protectinj the property which was saved frou the flaume.-Carolinian. Dead and Altre. Robert Anderson, Major, who in ai emergency was faithful to his trust died a poor main abroad, and his re amains are at this moment deposited ii sorme obscure receivinag vault of New York ina charge of a sexton. George K. Leet, Colonel, who neve saw abattle or euncounted danager, wa a clerk at Vaoksburg, and while th army wus fighting through th< Wilderness snup ly reposed at Wash inagton, is tat this miomnent receivinj $400 a day, plundered from the mer, chailts cf New York with the acqii escence of the President of the Uni ted States. Cold Check, Among the latest and most eenspi eouts examples of the "height of in, pudenee" is the prese'ntation to th. City Council by General Phillij Sheridan's patriotic volunteers wh< achieved the cold-blooded murder o Colonel Gio.vernor of a bill request ing the city to pay them for their pro digious services. If General Sheri, daa'sswash-.bucklers want their pay let them get thme Piegen hero to certit fy, their little bill to President Grant, It is a good rule for servants to look for their pay to their employers. Chicago Time. A uman courting a young womiar was interrogated as to his occupation, "I am a paper hanger on a lairge seale,''he replied, Hie was accepted, mnd aifte: marriage it was found that it was a bill sicker. Foreign News. PARIs, March 14.-Negotiations for anticipating the balance of the war debt are pending between France and Germany. PARNs, March 16.-A despatch from Canes, announes the death in that4ewi of George Eustis, formerly member of the United States Roose of R11preseutatives frons Louisiuna. and later private secretary to John Slidoll, when he was Confederate Oilmmisilover to France. H4 was the son-in-law of Mr. Corootan, of 'Was~hi nton. The Comminloner of Pardons bay ing ri-jeeted the appeal of - Fodet, Qaestal and Girard, three Oonimu Im.tAs convicted of m'ardering hostages, they were shot this. woruiug, at Sat ory. Piesident Thiers, At In eception yesterday, spoke upon the Roman questiou, and in his remarks main taied that (.Itholinisin is tradition, and an element of strength to France. Items. HAVANA, March 12.-Domiogo and Giralo, both had their sentenees cos I muted to imprinonmtent for life. Tie Spanish offi3als report from ceutrul departtments that but few wbites remain in open hostility. Small pox here is inoreasing. The Russian fioot departs Wednes day. LIAnnS19u1, March 12.-Emanuel Shafferner, who tried to murder two wives, was convioted. MOBILE, Narch 12.-Judge Hill, of the United States Court, appointed Chas. Wulab, of this oity, leceiver of the Alabama and Chattanooga Rail road, in Mississippi. le is already in posso:sion in Alabama. L. J. Floming, Goneral Superintendent of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, has the management, of this road. SELMA, March 12.-The Governor of Missis.ippi has cleared the A. and C. road from Meridian to York of the obstructions on the track by unpaid laborers, and the trains are again run uilj 1AS1INOTON, March 12.--Private dispatchesindicate that New lamp shire has gone Radical by a very smaall majority. Nothing yet decis ive through regular channels. Nrw YORK, March 12.-A Muita. mosas special says it is rumored that Trevinto was defeated and wounded. Mlartiuez Marango and Cortiua were captured, losing their artillery and iamifiuaition. The general features of the news indicated reverses to the revu-a. tioni8ts. WAIINGTON, March 12.-Senate -The Great Southern Railroad of Florida was reported. The hill, as amended, gives one hundred feet on either side, and forty acres for each station. Tha House isdi-cussing amnesty. COLUMBUS, March 12. -11. S. Mott's Pulwee Fiour Mills wore burn. ed this mruing. Lizs ieventy-five thousand dollars. Incediarlasm. Uminsurod. NEw YORK, March 15.-Advices from Spain indicate a crisis. Ammaus is concentra timng his army around M.drid, aind is diuarti.g the Natioal Guaird and preparing to de femnd his thr.one. A M1 i)rto special says Naranjo is at an .Esperitu Santo, on the Zai. V ata,cas road. Martmnes Is besegig San Louis Putosi. Te'rvino, with six thou5amnd men, is roarchimng aga.inst RoTha, who was advancing with seven houand men,* Ruchlma ratreated to Sa. .\ligue' but afterwmards moived to S.an L-auis Potosi, cowmpelling Tr evino to retreat. The revolutionists are retic.,nt, L.ut admit teverses. SAN FaANC:8co, Matrch I14.-The prop. ietars of tuo Alta Calif~ornaian are :,cquitte.d of dhe charge of libel for callinag a lsa wyer a shyster. The suit Wiun for $50,000. IPnovIRaNCE, March 14.-Thie Re. pubbeana Sta.te Conavention fully en dorses Granit and Colfuax and favors their re-election. The present State .ffieers were nominated. Arizona dispatches say Win. Mc Farland was founad murdered and horribly mutilated. Americans went after the Mexica~n who was reported to have threatened MeIFarland's life, and having found him, shot him on sight. His Mexican friends retalia. ted by killing one of the party, on which the Americans made a general raid on the Mexicans and killed four; a fifth entrenched himself in an adobe house, on which the attackin.g force blew up the house and shot him also. a All business houses ina Sanford and Floremnce are closed in ap.prehension of an attack from the Mexicans, who are the moat numerous and greatly exas-perated. -LAwaxNoE, KANSAS, March 16. M is. Jane Ruth, charged as an ac cessory in poisoning her husband, has been discharged. L.oISeVa.r.E March 1.-The Even ing Sun newa.paper has set. A suit against Police Juno~ Price, for refusing negro testimonj before the State House, has beeni authorized to be dism.iesed-theo Federal Court holdinig the Judge justifiable in obeying the State law. Judge Bal. lard added: "I do not thin k Con gress haa power to enact a law to pro vent, him fromn so doing." A Matamioras special says a des-. patch from the Mexica Secretary of War reiterates the capture of Zacato eas and the rout of Trevino. MEIsMPIS, March 1.--A cotton suit seizure, involving *200,000, de cided against the Governumeat, in the District, and appealed to the Circuit Court, has been remanded to the Distriot Court for a new trial. IPuIEnAZ.Pun, March 16.-Mace and O'Baldwin have depod Oan forfeit for a $2,500 fight, in Virginia, July 16. SFRANGMILD, MASS., March 16.-. The 611y train hence for- Boston was t brown from the track by a broken rail Twenty parione in the smoking oar were more or less injured. BUFFALO, March 1.-The Ohio street elevator, owned by the Erie Riilway Company, and leased to Clark, Towaseud & Co., was burned to.day, with 58,000 bushels grain. The fire is believed to be the work of an inoendiary. No insurance on the elevator ; the grain was fully insured; loes on buildilig $17,500. WASMINGTON, March 16.-The Tribune's Washington correspondent has iufurmation from an unquestioned source, that Sumner has consented to preaide at the. Cincinnati Conven tion. The Sonate was not in session. In the House, there was debate only. Shermne, in a speech yester,lay. said the tariff could safely be reduced $20,000,000, but he warned Senatora that if tea and soffee were admitted free, reduction must stop there Sherman favors a reduction on tex tile fabrics. Tom Murphy, formerly Collector of Customs, before the Retrenchtuent Commnitee, testifies that he was not influenced by Giant, Porter or Bab cock, in the Leet & Stocking's order business affairs. Grant wanted Leet to leave New York, on account of th6 scandal. market Reports. Naw Yona, Marah 1S.-Evening-. Cotton firm ; uplands 221 ; Orleans 221; sales 2,260 bales. Gold lOg. CHARL11TON, Muroh I.-Cotton quiet-tiddlings 211 ; receipts 527; sales 100 bales. LIvrttpoo., March 16.-Evening Cotton opened and closed firm-up. lands 11 ; Orleans I If ; sales 12,000 bales. fires In reeavillf. On Wednesday night, March 6, the large btable of Mr. A. W. BAl, in West Greenville, was burned duwn. A mule and a horse were lost in the flames. Loss $1,500. On the same night the stable of Mr. Bearden was burned down. Loos.$100. On Thars. day uight the stable of Mr. Win. A. JeUnings was bnrned, Loss $250. At tbe burning of the table of Mr. Jen. ningr, two unen, Frederick Allen, white, and Charles Oas,ouored, were arrested on suspioion of beiug prin cipals or necesories in our reoppa fires, and have been oommitte jail. No official ezautination has yet been made, but there are ample r4a sons for the belief that one or both are guiliy, and such is the establish ed ntsurunae of the officers having them in estorly. When they were first taken in charge tbe crowd could scarce. ly be restrained from lynching them. The Enterprise urges every one to be on the alert, and the city council offer $500 for the arrest of the incen diaries. Fatal Iffray. A murder was corumited in the up per part of Greenville county, on Tluesday, 5th instant, live wiles north of Gowensjville, on the person of John E.. McClure, by William Durham, through a p stol shot in the hands of the latter. The affray arose in the yard of the deceased, from difficulties arising in connection with McClure, in which Durham stak ed his pistol against ten dollars by eceased. The inquest over the body of the wnurdemed man was held before Trial justice WV. D. Robertson, acting as Coroner, the jury rendering a ver diet of umuider. Durh:um was committod to jail on Sunday eveninig last, for trial, surren d'urin,g himself to the law.--GrecaWe Enterpris. Trial of Mayor RlaIl. So far the trial. of Mayor Hall, of New York, for complicity with Tweed and others, in the Tammany ring frauds, has proved a tedious business --a maeie corflict of technIcalities as to the ad misibilityo fcertain formsiof testimony. Tihe defence has ocou.. pied much time in an attempt to rule out of evidence a certain warrant is sued to Garvey, the plasterer, for over $41,000,to which the Mayof's signature was attached ; but on yes terday the objections was overruled, and the warrant admitted as secon. dary evidence. The prosecution then offered a book of audit, and the de. (once objected, and so the fight will, doubtless, continue to the end, if, indeed, it is ever ended. lore listing Records. In a cantested election case ini Philadelphia, on the 8th instant, th.e returns from a certain district were wanted, when, upon application at the prothonotary's office, the papers "turned up missing." Upon an in vestigation ex-Prothonotary Donegan made the suprising state ment that he had sold the papers along the with a quantity of other records becansa there was not room in his office to store them. Hie was bold in the sum of $10,000 to answer the charge of misdemeanor. Taking Time by the Foreloek. In anticipation of a removal of Judge Graham by the Legislature, on the unsounded ebarg~es recently brought against him, an ambitious member of the bar armed himself with a, petition with forty signuatures, and took an early train for th er.pital with a view to seeuring the vacancy. Happily the whole thing p roved a eaputal failure, 'only this and nothing mor.."-...6%m'5a.n Quwiw.