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Desportes & Williams, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, _Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, Industry and Literature. [ Der Annum In Advano VOL. VIII. _ WINNSBORO, S. WEDNSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1872 FAIRFIELD HERALD is PUniSIMID WEEKlY BY DESPORTES & WILLIAMS, Terms. -Tui IInLALp is pulb)slhed We ly in Iha Town of Winnsboro, at 63.00 variably in advance. Olli All transient advertisemealS to paid in advance. Obiluary Notices anti Tributes $1 00 p square. Legidative Ptotecdils. SENATP. The Senate met at 12 M. Vi'esi dent (Weaves 9n the Chair. A couimunioation was receive from the Comptroller General, rel tive to a resolution of the Senat( requesting to be informed by whos aumority the "offioial" advertist ment of an Act to regulate the ager cies of insurance compar les hot inoor porated in this State ; also, an Ac to better protect the policy-holder of insuraieo poliesem in this State, i published ia several. papers in thi State, He states that no aconunt ha been paid since February, 1870, an - rie only paid under the Act to prc vido for the printing of the publi Acts, reports, j int reolutions, &c approved January, 1871. Lea presented the report of th County Comiissionlers of Cleste County. Riforred. Donaldson presented the ieport o Ji C. F, Camp, County TrtasUVor u Spartanburg County. reliti vee .too numibor of perkbs.killid by th4.1 Klukx in said County. " Laid ovnr. Whittemore) fron the Judiciar: Committee, submitted a faverabi report as to a bill to empower th Oupreme Court to frame issues ani dirc.t the Pamc to be tried in the Cih cuit Court in certain cases ;.whiuh wa laid over. White offered a joint resolutlo authorizing the Governor to appoiu two additional Trial Justices fu York County. Laid over. Duin introduced a bill to furthe protect insurance polioy-hold ers in this state, Referred. Loo introduced a bill to amen' oot ons 55, of Chapter CXX, of th general statutes. 'Maxwell, from the Committee o Education, submitted a report upo a jint resolution to compel th School Commissioner" of Fairfiel County to open certain schools in sia County. The unfavorable report of the Con: mittee on Printing on joint resolutio prohibiting the publication of th Acts of the General assembly, wa adopted. A bill to renew the charter S Knox's Ucidge over the Tugalo Ri er was referred. A bill to make approprintion fa tho payment of half the salary an, m11ile.ge of the members of the Gen( ral Assembly, and salaries i he *it'rdinate offioera and employoc n wi o:ier expenses incidental theret vas rcferred to tie Finanoo Cou mn itt.: . Tne nouse sent to the Senate joint resolution to take a recess froi the 20tir December, instant, to Jar uary 10, 1873. which was amende by inserting the 7th January 18T~ and returned to the House. The Senate, at dk u'olor-k, adjourne until to-morro w at, II A. M. II OUSE OF R EPR ESE~NTATIVE| $The house met at 12 M., Speakn -Lee in the Chair. Ilumbert introduced a concurrei 'i resolution, thmat a committee of thri on tihe part of tile House and - Spart of the Senate, be appointed examine into thme legality of the issl n nd the amount of pay certficates ~Nmembers and attaohes of the Gen ral Assembly of 1872, now outstan, ing and unpaid, rand that such cor mittoebo empowered to send for pe sons and papers, and that they r 9port at the earliest pnossible mnomet ' Adopted. Bowley introduced a bill to a and incourago mlanufactutres andi tornal improvements. Referred. Wilson offered a rosolution, th~ the State Auditor be requested to i Sport as early a practicable to t General Assemblly the amotitit of taxable property in this State ; whi was laid upon the table. The Committee on Incorporati reported favorably upon the follo ing bills :To amend an Aot entitl "An Act to alter and rene w the obe ter of the town of Chester ;" to S corporate the Georgetown Cy'pre MIanufactumring Cornpainy ; A bill authorizing an d fldireeti the County Comnmissio ners to IC * certain taxes was taken ups Mr. i' S ors offered an amendment to a #A three mills, for the purpose of p' ing the Blue Ridge sertp. A Ic and eroiting debate ccurred upon * amendment, which was lost by a V of yeas 4, nays 103. Pending re' ading of the other sections of bill, at St P. M,, the House adjou ed. The Senate met a II A. M., Pr dent Gleavee in the Chair. Mr. Owens, from the Commuitte ort on a bill to make appropriation for the payment of half the salary and mileage of the netmbers of the Gene rd Assembly, and salaries of the subordinate offioers and employees, ,k and other expenses incidental there in t. Bill to reneal Sections 56 and 6)i ChapteP CNX, Title 4, of the Act for er rovising aid consol' ting the jeMal statutes of the Sta ' approved Feb ruary 10, 1872 ; second reaiing and refe. red to the Judiciary Commit tee. Favorable report of the Committee on Jitdininry on bill to empower the Supreme Court to frame issues and d direct the same tb be tiiod in Oitou1a Courtain certain cases, refertid to Judiciary Committee. D The Senate attended ih joint as, sembly for the purpose of electing a Judge for the Fifth Circuit. The House sent to the Senate the following : Bills to designate the officer by whom sales ordered by the Courts of this State shall be made ; authorizing and directing the Comp. troller-General and County Uotmini-' sioners to levy cettain taxes; to amend an Act entitled "An Act to more effectually provide for record. ing cuniveyrnees. After which the Senate went into ekecutive SeSion,C and then adj mrned. 10USE 0P it lR'I1% I ENTATIVE . I 'The IoIet cV u a1 t 12 M., f Speaker le.'e 1, Ghair. f . N !x t rodna1d int r. olution to :1 A"-ppint tan llah t r::, e4t the Act . .nmui.1 3 Agent in Now Y I to require Cvunnty 'Ti I'S to re . ceive jdtry Cei tidleAtS t ini Ua1udited s claims in payment fur taxons. Concuarrent resoltion relative to I recess, nuchded s, that no &ubordi t nate ollicer shall receive any pay dur - r fng said recess, and that the receis and on the 7th inbtead of the 10th of r Janttary, (the House refused to concur in the first amendment.) Bills to- amend an Act regulating I pay of members of the General As. r , sombly, was read a third time, passed and sent to the Benate ; repealing a the general license law ; to amend a the Act more effectually providing a for recording conveyances cf roa I estate. SENATE. The Seiate assembled at 1 2 Ml. and was called to order by President Gleaves. Swails, from Committee on 1tail roads, to whom was recommitted a bill to amend the charter of the Char leston, Georgetown and ,Conwayboro Railroad Company, rep~otted back the same, with a recommtuendatloii that roations 2, 4, 5 and 7 be stricken t out, and that the bill, so amended, do pasn. Agreed to. Owens, from Committee on 1i-i nance, to whom was referred a bill t aithorising and directing the CoInp' troller General and County Commis. i sioners to levy certain taxes, re. I a ported back same, with a recominen dation that bill do pass, with slight amendments, Owens, from Committee on Fi. D ance, to whom was referred House d bill to repeat an Act entitled "An I Act to provide for a general license law," reported back the same, with 3 the recommendation that the hill to ipass, with the following amendments rAmend Section 2, by striking out all after the word "effect," and insert ln ilieu the words "from the first day of SApril, 1872." n Hope introduced a bill to repeal ~the first section of an Act entitled S"An Act to amend an Act providing for the assessment and taxation of p: roperty,' passed September 15, 1368, asdal Acts amendatory thereto," 'padMarch 12, 1872.1 r- Cardoso introduced a joint resoltas s' tion to authorize the levy and cole t' tion of a special tax to pay past in* debtedness of Kershaw CuOity, id Whittomore introduced a bill to - make North and South Wimbee Crocks, in Beaufort County, naviga at bIe streamns. -' Jeri'ey introdtrced a bill to provide lie for the relinquishment to tihe United iStates in certain oases of title to lands 3for sites for light stations on the coasts and waters of this State, on C. Smith introduced a bill to amend W- Sction 2 of Chapt er XXV of general ad statues. "'Nash introduced a 1ill to restulin I'Associate or Circuit Judges fromn ' granting injundon1m Migenid ig theu operation~s of A.*W of the Genem'ul ngAssemb'ly,or Slt s':, I, ~ a of I.ho St ate. SY A bill tos maike up piatin 1cor dv' payment of half tbh, sai.,y andl~ milo dage of members of thu Gineratl As '' semly and salaries of subordinate ng oficoers and employees, and other eN ,penses incidental thereto, was sent to the Report of Committee on trinting ,he on House concurrent resolution re. rn trioting publication in newspapers, at tbe expense of the State, to Acts of public obaiactet and general inter eat, we.s agreed to. ,al- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVECS. Son The House met at 12 A. ?4. re. Spaakar Lee in the Ohair. Meetze, from Committee on Judi ciary, reported favorably on a bill to remedy and supply the loss of public records, and to perpetuate testimony in regard to deedi, mtnrtgagds and other paperslost by fire at Abbeville, with amendments. ciICullough, froma Ubntiittee on AgrioultUie, Nported unfavorably on billt to awed an Act entitled "An Act for -fe protectIon and preserva tion of useful anitiale ;" to atoend an Act entitled "An Act to secure ad. vanoes for agricultural purposes," passed September 20, 1866. Vanderpool irtroduced a bill to provi-e for the appointment of con stables by coronets. Turner inttoduced bills to repeal the charter of the Joint tulc Cow. pany of the State. Urittehdtii introduled a rebolution thit hereafter bo bills, on which the report of the committee to which it ras referred, is uinfavorable, shill be printed, except by order of the House, which was adopted. J. P. Moore introduced a bill to iuthorite and empowet-- Judges of Probate to grant orders of injuno ion. R. M. Smith introduced a bill to -epeal an Act relating to the bonds >f the State." Cannon introduced the following ireaible and resolution, which were ordered to lie over for consideration : Whereas Trial Justices' courts are )roductive of -much expense, .and Ateu of unnecessary litigation, as now radtioed In souse Counties ; and Ot- reas, it is~balieved that the pay al owed, by law; to jurors tnnd witnesses a stid courts, tends not otily to in. rense litigation and heavy expenses, ,ut often is adverse to the 'ends of ustice; therefore, be it Resolved, That the Judiciary Com. nitteo be instructed to inquire as to he expediency of repealing or modify. ng the law authorigitig said pay, and hat they report by bill or otber vise, The unacting clauses of the fullow. ng bills were stricken out; To abolish he office of County Auditor; and de, rolve the duties on the County Preasurei ; to authorize Circuit rudges and the Judge of the Inferior Jourt of the County of Charleston ;o grant fees to counsel assigined to lefend indigent persons charged with >fOeces in said courts ; to alter and imetad Section 3 of Chapter bi of tbe Jeneral Statutes of the 8t-ate ; to en ible coroners to dete3t murderers and ither criminals I to regulate the rales if lands sold by order of court. A joint rbsolution to make appro. iriation for expenses of priniing, irdered by the General Assembly luring the regular sessions of 1870-' rl and 1871-172, was read the sec >nd time, all the Conservatives vo ing against it. A concurrent resolution, that thE >riting of the General Asseil'ly be qt out by contract, was referred to ,he Committee on Printing At 9 o'clook P. hl,, the Hoube idjuurned until to morrow at 12 Continuedon Sennd Page. Ori Old Joke, Plat was a frightful joke perpetra ed by Governor Moses, of South Care. inn, In his inaugural address at Co' umbia a few dayS slned, when ht' ox' >ressed surprise that e migrants turns heir faces frein8South Carolina and sapital shrinks back from that lot'ely Ioamonwealth. T'he trouble is that he emigrants and Onagitalists know :he lengtht of lFrancia Jd's. arms rand the incredible depth of his pockets. rhoy have read the history of this sie young mian frm the day when he raised the filst Confederate flag on the ramparts of Sumter to the period tyhon he "raised the wind"' to the great discornfort of the i'npovdrished bax-payers of South Cutolinsa Ca pi, Lt "#hrinks" back from the Palmetto Etate because the public funds ''shrink~so fearfully In the irodl grasp af her delightful young Governor lotffi Seotts Laiefienani. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun takes the same vie* as the News of the nature of the infiuences which procured the election of Mir. S. i, Vfatterson, to the I.Jnia ted States Sentte, He taye, inore over, that Mr. Patterson, "as is well krnowni, is in Intimate relations with certain pci*srful interests which,I radiating from the great State of Pennsylvania, have infiuenced not only State Legislatures, but Congress itself, and tihich to-day has a foot. hold in a majority of the Southern States.' T'his is no news in month Carolina. ~The Bouthern Security Company and ~Tom Boott need a few more Congtesamenr'-Chaar. eos. Ilesponses to prayers and sermon. mnay be good, if they come in at the right piaeo. N~ot soi, holwever,- came in responses, recentlf, to a minister in an American church, Ile had come down from the pulpit to invite a stranger mn one of the pews to preaoh for him, bu6 wasn unsuccessful. "Brethren," said he, "I invited brother 8...-- to p reach, but he declines I" "Thesk God 1" roared out a nean from the mid dle of the ehuarob..-. - Italian BirligNds. For several day ' tlted New Yer press has has been mit exerclse over the arrival of pome' fifteen but dJed Italians saitl- toibb genuin brlgands teut over .3 g'et rid < them. Ir .t.he Hion. iamilton Viali, Secreta ry of State, has been appealud to t stop this sort of thing. The following is a dAscriptiop c these fellows by the %New Yor World The scene presented 1aatiht in 0h4 rotunda of the Castle Garden, hal lighted with gas, with groups o Italians closely blustered around t, stoves, was rather a remarkable one Outside the cirole of those whosquat ted on the floor .wore the tall forms o a fbw of those men haiikg from Na pica enveloped in the amplp folds of i dark cloak lined with red iloth, att< which at enee recalled to Ilie onlook ers the daring brigands. hese inen though poorly clad, have thi demounoi of a desperado, and struda back anI forwards, at inte-vals. ocasionzall dropping in a word or two in the lom conversation that was going on. Tbe all smoked lo .g pipes auaj seeued al. together a dilIeront ulassof wn frot those who sat on the -flior. The Were altogether diff.:retAly attired. 3one of them wore Iotg st-iekings o blue or green in iersper8ed wit h yellow iijd pants th-it camo .hail, wcay to the knee. They seem to be rcduced to great poverty, yet show that proud bearing which is supposed to charac. terize the Neapolitan briginul. Un. ]er the cloak each of them carried v lirk. Bcatillful Allegory. Mr. Crittenden, of Kentitucy, wa it one time defending a man who had been iudicted for a capital ofteaie, After an elaborate and pownr'i de ensei h elosed his effort with the followiig strikinag and beatitlf.ul 1A.le 'WVhen God in~ his eteri ttin,el conceived the thouit of &tit. '. ci en. Lion, h allied Mo him the thir<. mil' ters who constantly wait up-n the Lhrone-Ju.itice, Truth, and Merc) - and thus tod res-ed them : 'Shall we make matt 1' Then haid Justice, 'Oh, Goid, mn'ke him not, for lie will tranm pie upon the laws.' Truth made an. swer also, 'Oh, Oud, intike him not for he will pollute the sanctuarice.' But Mutcy, dropping upon hr knees, and looking up through her tears, ex flaiined, 'Oh God, make him : I will watch over him with care thtough all the (lark paths which he may have t< tfead.' Then (od made man and sait] to him, '0. man thnu aert the child ol Mercy ; go and doal with tby broth. The jury wheni he had finished wts drowned In tears, and against evi dence, and what must have been theil own convictions, brought in a verdict of not guilty. A Neal fit. Two well.known clargynida wei-e conversing when one startled th< other by abruptly askiig "Brother G., is it possible that yot chew tobacco I" "I must cof'ess I dos' the othei quietly replied. "Then I would r'mat its sir,'' the oli gefitletlin enetglecally conltinued "Itt's a very unclerical practice, and I must say, a very uncleanly one Tobacco 1 Why, sir even a hoj would not echew it '' "F~ather C.," responded his atiusci liaetener, "do you chew tohateco 1' "1 1 No, sir !" he answered, grufil; with much indignation. "T1hen, pray1 which Is most likt the hog, y tu or lI" Thu old doctor's fat sides shool with laughter, as lie said "Wcjll, I hatve been fairly enaugh this time.1 Forney's Laast Sh~ot at Cameron. Says the Hon. John WV. in his Pret of W ednesd ay : T'hero are some men so dead t pattriotistn and Indifferenit to con eece ase to make politics business of pecuniary profit, and ti p roatitute allI publie service to thi base end. Of course, suoh narrow minderl and atnall-biearte d persous ele rate party above all considlerationst C lftncr anid docency. The Unite< States Slenate yesterdlay, at the Um< tion of one man, was compelled t refuse to adjourn ouit of respectt Mr. Greeley, and oven to listen to a eulogy of him. And this individaa was one not worthy to loosen th latcheth q[ the dead mant's shoes. A Sheessful Ilun . A party of eight or nine amnatet sportsmen from Aikon, 8. C.,set o' In the early part of licst week for bunt in the eastern portion of ti 5tate. They returned hilendsay, at reported that they had splendid luec Int one day'sa hunt, the p arty kiiha one hundred and twenty'fl e sq uirre and twenty-five ducks, besides a-larj quantity of smaller game. Seventel fine doer wore killed during tl week's bunt. Pretty successful huz ing, that, for smateurs. Lad7 hotel clerks aro being tinL 'luncad in Wrmoat. Coiltened News. k Articles of impeaebtilemt atgaisi d GoVI. Warmoth for offering btibes tt . Pinobbaok have been subAritted. 0 Father Mulkey, V'icar Geneal o f the Catholle Dionso of Virginia, dWi in I'etoraburg. Fatal explosiun df h herosano l1d6p 0 inNe* York. A majoriy ofl thd lkrehf Absotn ,f bly oppose Ilior. government. k Crook i# pushinglipetatiohllibgAins the Indians. The Supreme Coirt decide? in th r Louisiana case that the Court mus f await the taking of an appeal frou the Circuit Coart. The London Jourrals sympathimi with Disraeli on the death of hii f wife, the Viscountoss Beao.tifield. Several important bills introduced into Congress. Cox's resolution in the House ask. ing information conoorning conditiou of affaire inl Louisianni was voted dotra - y a party vote, but one from a Itidi dal.rhember was adopted. Supreme Court retusted to grant a writ of habeas cot-pus in Uase of treer from South Carolitnu, as it would have luivoived the coustitutionality of the Enforcement Act. Wil. Ortion has pui chased 01 shares) a controllIing in the Tribune, Wlbitelav iteido sell bid atirbs and withdraws. Earthquake on the Pacific coast Sunday morning. A Hamilton (Ontario) firm of wool brokers lose $120,000 by fire. Postal Comuteo adopt bill pro. hibiting double rates of postage whore lotters hasve not been propaid. Gen. Young's resolution in the Hloute of Rtepre.ontatives to investi gate the Credit Mobilier was obuked off. Col. Frobel explained the obj.lets of the great chiehl etitorpriae hand its benfi. to the South and Wost. INearly 1,000 liihns in New York intwl i. days Petitionms n,( e-cbin i n Vrane for dim-olut; r f he Assembly. G(.rton 4 leq.od MmaVr of Boston: lie wns ;ij ; orted by l ie Dniocrats. Di .ah Ie. f L Q. C. Lnar re, movc-t y ,Y Sene ulnailinously. suilisec Civil iights bill went over on account of oljiction. Finhaie Coummittee reported bill concerning 1asessors, etc, Dispatch from Binghamton reports three persons killed by caving of a gravel bank at Osborn Hollow. Fifteen States represented at the Commercial Convention at St. Louis. Terrible gtilo at Parisi Wnrmnoth impeaihed atid sti.pefid. ed frorin his tiubernatorial function with whlih Pinchback Li invtistod. Greeley's will is contentd. Senator Colo affured a j int resolu flon eleuting President, Vice Presi. dent and Senator by direct popula vote. Eight inches of snow at Brunswicki 1ille. Lota says ,ho is not dead. Continued reports of gale disasters in Rogland. The Secretary of the Treasury wants a "tI hter grip" on disbursing offtoers of t e UAited States to whe imioney is entiusted. Several very iniportant bills intro duced in tower hlouise of Congress. Confusion worst confouiadd 111 Louisiana. Thelii Alabama double-Legielature diverision continues. Italian immiigrami's lately arrived~ in New York proset a mniserable sp pearance. UraInt's beart is fied ott sitataining the P'inohbback usurpations Edwin Forrest left all bs estate to found -in abtor's homne in Philadel. The State militia at Now Orloani surrendered on the 14th instant, t: the U.S8. commander. It is thetight that Colf'ax will tat charge of the Tribtno and resign th Vice Prosidenoy. S Two wrecks reported from Liondoni and loss of twenty one lives. 0o Part of Lille, France, flooded ani -abando~ned. Great destrtot: 0 a cfop5. I Both Alabama tegdafves the 5 Tuesday lust for compromise. importanti o Cellon Merfhgnft, WeX~ learn that the Postmi~ater-Gen 1er'al, who has been consulted on thb subject, has decided that the pradtid% 0 which has existed amnotrg eottoff mer 0 ehants of writing tili qualities of thei ni cot ton earn ples sent thr ough tbe mlai Iwith the add ress, is a violation of th 0 law. It in adminible, however, I denominate the grade on the outsid of the package by figures. The de oision will be published in the Des cembet number uf the P'ost Ofmeo 0s ' sette5 which will be issuied about th a let proximaa. d T1he population of the Globe r, usually estimited at l,000,0003000Y ad A now and careful estitmgteg base e, on the very. latest retofna has fua e been published at Gotha by two oov an potent German statistiolans, who oa a. oulate the present Dumber of ti 4-. earth's inhabitants at 1,877,G00,O lof souls. ,o. Shakes eare is esga e~d (n the woc and coal aIan a~gt aklant fire in Now York. The Fifth Avenue Hotel Oro. in the laundry I ls 6, One woman *as burnud tata31y a two seriously. Dreat exotoinog among the gabsia. Lant.- The fire burned the cook loft, ooupled by the laundry womod and domestioi S1zteon bodies *er found burndd beyond recognitiou. The bodies wore found neat tile only window of th5 roomt *hih *CA barred. The only meatis of aSoapO was the stairway, whifh *hs in Ramest The victims had to WaIt for daths It is hoped many died hile asleep. Twenty-two bodies were recovered up" to 2 o'clook. The fire originated in the elavator loading to the laundry1 None of the guosts are reported i jured. Lose by aro and watdr pfob4 bly over $10,000. The sipoke was suffooating. The water drenched the floors. The halls were filled with bagga e and clothes. The sevenkY or eighty servants who escaped lose everything. Fully one-fourth of the furniture, valued at $400,000, was ruined, Eilevon bodies ate at the thogue from the Fifth Avenue loeteL Ony two have been recognized. All givd sign. of terrible suffering. Mark Hleaney, one of the servatsti at the hotel, isat Bellevue Hospital, having been injured by failing through a fire escapo. She states that when the alarm of fire was given, she ran 4nd knoched at nearly all the doors of the olhor sartahtb, and burst open two of thew. AIid than tried o get down stairs, bit the smoke And flames drove hbr btaock when, with Mary Turney and Bridget Curtis, she broka open a sky light and got on the rooft remaining thore till the firemen roes. tuod thema. It is ilow thought that only eleven girls perished. Mr. driewold, one of ptopribtora, emphati. eally denies delay in soutding the alarm. Upon discovering the ire, three. servants were despatched to wake the girle, and prompt measures wore taken to alarm the guests. S O1tr Now 8tnator, AflAirs are vnsavory in Oouth Caro& liual where Mr. Ja J. latterdon, a. thrifty, unscrupulous lVennsylvaniaa, has boon elected to the Benate by the Logislaturoa Ite came to grief at once; being arrested for bribety and corruption. Temporarily reloasod from eustody, he was rearer %od, and is yet to be tried. This se .udalous chapter in South Carolina polities will not surprise anybody who has paid any attention to affairs in that State. As between ex-Governof Scott and Patterson, the latter would be a choice of evils. But both are understood to have regarded the doa' test for the senatorship as one .of cash only. It may be difficult to prove bribery it Patterson's case, thotig there is little doubt that the moral evidence against him is codotusivei Mr. Elliott, the colored atindidate, scems to hate out ISo Agute id the oantanis. His sttength has bden stip. posed to be anorely and unknown quantity which was marketable ., Y. Tribune. The fire In Cbestct; '.fc peoplb of the State will eatend to thme people of Chester their heart felt sympathy. Three or four yeard ago a great p art of the town was do stt eye d by flrea Lat~ siimmer a galO of wind swept ever the place, and laid many~ homes in ruins. And noW the heaviest blow comes in the shape of a seonod fire Which, breaking olit yesterd'ay mormning, consumed proper' ty to the value of $75,00. It needs nOt to say that wo grievd to heat of any trouble which befalls our fellow-countrymon, whether they live North or South of the Potomac but it is natural and tight that we should fool most for those who, lik'e thle peopluf of Cheuter, ire our owdi kith and kin, who live in the sate State, who share the same ptibllb sorrows, and who, a. likely e .0c6 atrank out #1f the ssm8 eghtsbo. IEst; *otds afoue *111 not suioce. The people of Chestet mnay need instanb help. And, if so, it :s onr duty te give it tho m.-Chaarlesten Naes. Murdered for is Mony, Aa rad Wood, eighty years df ig who lived In the ekstern part of the town of Aeton, Miass., was found mur. dered last Saturday morniog in hiB dwelling. He was reported s have lng much tuoneys and. theft was.a doubtedly the objeot otf the murder. He was toally vefy pobr, thougb ensd pooted by some people ,of hoardiuj .money.. His murderers odid hav~ obtained nothing.- BuspfoloW puinte , to two Ifrench 43atadiane, *ho were rooantly employed oU the railrog4 de the murderers. . Fulaa sleeping~Kr est ow'd bei ing rovided wihsafes, awbegtlg a sta*elets eag. aejvstteit 4Mmgtbl#y One of tbeyp eor. ofta geteIi house. at BadeneAn ha. Vo e 4 *4000,60f0 iUIgI us as.Oftes y4am . Tlit barrele et .blaokbea'tywwig a brotgI4 0.akr41190onth, aeatgy. o man $l,570. The wine wai mad.aJ oedd'times last ademoera ' The President's 800theta Policy. The hopes which were entertainod i that the President would pursue a jubt, if not a liberal, policy towarde the South ate fost fading before steri I and unmistakable facts. In Louib tana he has signified his intention ti sustaift the rump and rowdy bod) that has assembled under the name of a Legislature) and in Alabamahi, preferbnoes are equally as decided and etqually as misdiroctbd. A sham tbompromsbe has bece suggested te the legal Logjislatdro of the lattei State by the Attorney G otoral, which, if ngreed upon, would result in giving the State up otirely to the carpet bag crew of plunderers, and which he knows will be rejected. Upon thit rejection it seerns pretty clear that the Ruwp will be recognised by the Federal Government and backed by the bafnots of its soldiers. Both States are thus to be given over to their most reiorsoless and merciless enemies. All hope of escape is cut off, and clemency on the part of the Ad. ministration is not to bo looked for. The situation is extremoly pitiable, but the people of the United States have become so necustomed to wall. ings fMion the aflictod South that thuy no longer leod or hour them. Tbey have beoo as "a twildstold t ald voking the ear of a dt-ow.9 Mani" and it will not be until bayonets at-e fix. ed at the throat of the North as well as of the South that 'bo great mass of the people will fully ialito the perll to whith their instituins are exposed. We are not alarmnists ; but no thoughtful person can deiiy that these are portentous events thur, are daily transpiring before our eyes-Courier batrnal. Our New Siiilft. What a conmmnontary upon the Im. provement of the South. % as ever such a thing fai the imuprisontiment of a mnit foi bribery, just elected UnI.. ted senator letrd of in South Caro. lina or any other State before the war I And how iW :i t Amh "thrif ty and uuscrupuloums I enni~lvanIau" shall be nmude it representatives of the proud Statt of South Carolina while her own capable and tried and honest sous ac banished into privatb life and denied all patitloipation in thuit govb'nmnent I bepond upon it that facts like theeo mubt damni the government through whose misrulo they have ex i.dtence.- IeAhhtond Dis. pIatch. Patterson li geterally known In South Carolina as "Honest John." Ifor any one in that State nowadays to havo a sobriquet including the word "Honest" is to mean that he is one of the chiefs of the disreputables, and so the couutry eanl easily see what sort of a nian has been elected to this high office by the once proud State of Bouth Carolina. Patterson is a man of great khrowdness, one of the chiefs, if not the general-in-ohief, of a lobby as morally rotten as Gredhe atteet. Hn lis mado large Sulms of money. His name Is con nected with soni of the thost gigantio of the infamous railroad and other swindles of the wrotohed South Caro lina Legislature. John .J. Patterson with the dignities of the United State Senato tpdn hith, is the ittitig dap sto of the monument reared by those mocking jesters of the South Carolina Legislature to be memory of dead publio virtuc.-New York Tele grat. Chcap beniocracy Tle Charleston News soa: "Tho State tair in Democratic Georgia is two-fifths of one0 per cemt. tin RadI cal South (Jarolina it is one and a half per cent. Where a Georgian pays f orty cents, a South Carolinian pags one dollar and a half. Bunt wabaua a goat rid of deficiency taxes, we may gol down to ue per cent, unlessi the pay. msmnt of Interest renomneoes and runs the tax back tutho prcsent level, Society and FasliIoli. Velvet is more torn by fashlona. b'leo foug lad icA en the streote thh wifitor than it has ev'er been boforo Church wveddings have lately coime to be such ocusions fer vulgar . dia. play that the best people have drop pedl them altogether in New York and get married at bomoe. I Birides in gou society now-a-dayi atoid most stridthy the traditlona gray and brown traveling suits for, Smmerly in vogue, anid dress as unoon s piduously tas possible, so t~hat "all * ereation needn't know we've jusi, beet 0 umarried.'' ^The Federal i jury gave Hion. Jo *slah Titrnerj editor of the Raleigh *N90., Sentinel, $5,00dI darmage in ii s uit against Kirk and Bergen for fals< iumprisonment and bad treatmenlt. .Bishop Quintard and Gene J. 1E ml flood addreossed the Survivors' Asse 6t elation of, Soutb Carolina, In 04I0: -* lestop, last Tbtprsday evening. Thm houso was 411ed. 0 It Is said that ftenry A. Wise boasi that hw has never boen interviewee He and our distingalshe4 friend, Job 4 P:nith, then, are al one in tbe sam koe