Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, December 02, 1869, Image 2
Scraps and partis.
Ad Indianapolis financier proposes to extinguish
the public debt b^ substituting Treasury
notes for bonds, and keeping them in circulation
till they wear oat *
The young man who sang, "I'm lonely
since rav mother died," isn't so lonely now. His
father has married again, and his step-mother
makes it lively enough for him.
An old tobacco cbewer, who has a perfect
horror of "Rison's Antidote," finds that the Bible
sustains his favorite habit Hequotes: "He that
is filthy let him be filthy still."
Removing the Bible from the public schools
at Cincinnati, has induced a great many to read it
One of the editors, who has. apparently been "interviewing"
it, pronounces it "one of the best
books he has read recently."
Since the adjournment of Congress the Pres
ident has suspended about one hundred and twenty-live
postmasters in various sections of the country.
A list of these suspensions will be submitted
to the Senate for its action immediately after the
opening of Congress.
It is rumored that the delegates to the Labor
Convention were informed that they would be
paid $3 a day, but upoa adjournment no paymaster
oould be tound ; and, as a consequence, many
of the country delegates found themselves in an
ugly fix, and their friends had to "oome down," to
enable them to leave Columbia.?Phoenix.
? An old lady, on being examined as to her
place of legal settlement, was asked what reason
she had for supposing her husband had a legal settlement
in that town. The old ladv said: "He was
born and married there, and they buried him
there; and if that isn't settling him there, I don't
know what it is."
An old man in Canterbury, Connecticut, *75
years of age, died recently ind was buried in a
suit of clothes which he procured when a'young
man, and had worn constantly as a Sunday suit
for more than half a century. He had been married
four times, and on each of these occasions
wore the same suit, .
??A New Orleans detective rooontly arrested
an innocent man on the charge of passing counterfeit
money, and charged him $20 For "expenses."
The only outlay he could prove' was $4 for cab
hire. The rest was, as he alleged, spent for whiskey,
and upon being doselv questioned, he asserted
upon oath, that $16 worth of whiskey would not
intoxicate biin. ,
A Chicago paper tells a story of election
night,' which it thinks shows the enterprise of young
Chicago. A party of boys were seen getting together
the materials for a bonfire. '..When they
were asked what was, the news, they replied that
tbev hud none. "We don't dabble in politics. We
built the fire so that when the news comes we can
sell it out to the side that beats I" .
Late advioe* From England state that them
lately arrived in Liverpool from New York 4075
bundles of palm leaves, weighing forty tons, whioh
were sold for $256, currency, per ton. The leaves
are the product of the palmetto tree of the Southm
States, and a large and profitable business, it
is asgerted, has been established in gathering, packing
in bundles and exporting, what has heretofore
been a useless product lit all, 7595 bundles of
palmetto leaves have arrived in Liverpool
A short time ago a close-fisted farmer on the
Sandy Kiver, in Maine, died, after devising one
dollar to his only son. The old gentleman was duly
buried in the venerable church-yard, which suffered
a terrible washing away by the late flood, and
a short time ago his body was found opposite the
son's place, having been brought down the river a
long distance. When the tender-hearted son was
informed of the fact, he made the touching remark:
"Prqbably come back after that dollar."
A dispatch from Memphis, Tennessee, dated
on Thursday last, says that masked men went to
the plantation of one William Jones, near Tiptonville,
on the previous Sunday, for the purpose of
disarming Jones' negroes. Jones being forewarned
fired on the partjr, killing one and mortally
wounding two; the maskers retreated. Officers
arrested Jones and six negroes on Monday.' Jones
was taken to the river and placed on a steamer for
Louisville, The negroes, while eu route ior Troy,
were captured by a party, five were shot and the
sixth spared. The excitement in Upton was intense.
Further bloodshed is apprehended.
A Washington paper says: 1 'The President,
in conversation yesterday, stated that his message
would not exceed probably two columns of an ordinary
newspaper; twenty or thirty pages of cap palter.
He will confine himself to facts and recommendations,
and will not indulge in elaborate ar
gumects upon any subject The message will be
sent to Congress, in manuscript, aud will be kept
open until tne lost moment, in order that any new
matter that arises may be incorporated if necessary.
While the plan of the message has all been mapped
out in his mind, the President has not yet demoted
much of his time to its preparation."
A novel weddingwas celebrated in Memphis
on Thursday. A widow lady from North Carolina,
Mrs. M. Blackwell, on her way to the Red
River country with ail her household goods, including
several children, felt au aching void, and
' determined to fill the place of the late Mr. Blackwell
upon short notice. Procuring a marriage license
with a blank for the name of the husband,
she explained her wishes to the landlord of the
wagon yard where she resided while in transitu,
who introduced to her a young strapping fellow
named Daton, who was nothing loth, and the two
were made one five minutes afterward where they
stood in the wagon yard. After the ceremony the
new matched pair took up their march for their
new home.
The Emperor of China is fifteen years old,
and is to be married this year, with immense pomp,
to his first and chief wife, his Empress. -He will
be simultaneously provided with second and third
wives; and from all parts of the Empire victims
are being oollected to swell the lists of his harem.
Every Tartar family, we believe, is obliged to contribute
its quota. Local selectious are first made,
and the holocaust is sent to Pekin, where a fresh
selection takes place, and a "chosen" number are
condemned to a live-long seclusion. They are not
allowed to see their relations: may never see their
lord and master, and in the event of his death they
are still condemned to perpetual isolation and celibacy.
A row occurred in Abbeville on Saturday, at
a gathering of negroes who were addressed by
Judge Hoge. He recommended that the laborers
should take not less than half a crop. Cothran,
Democrat, asked him what the negroes would take
in money. Hoge replied that negro meant "dirty
dog," and there was none there. Cothran then
desired to know what would the colored persons
take. The negroes became turbulent at this, and
Cothyan left, but the neeroes pursued and caught
him outside of town, ana dragged him out of nis
buggy and carried him to prison, guarded by five
negroes with Winchester rifles until night Cothran
was then released on $2000 bail, and no charges
preferred.
Don Piatt writes to the Cincinnati Commer~
cinl: "As for Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan, I
fear that under the impartial peu of military criticism,
especially after the Confederate side is heard,
these, our shadowing laurels, will wither and fade,
and the verdict will be, that these officers had the
good luck to be in command when the'Confederacy
ti.ll lii frntu nvlmiwlinn Of* ilia (rf>n
end Sherman is certainly the most unfortunate.
From the time he and Grant threw a portion of
their army on the wrong side of the river at Shiloh
aiai permitted it to be surprised and butchered,
(with the only excuse I ever heard that one officer
was drunk and the other crazy,) to the inarch from
Chattanooga to Atlanta, where he lost more men
killed and wounded than his enemy had under
him, we have a succession of military blunders."
A gentleman connected with the Wilmington
and Manchester Railroad informs us that emigration
in the counties along the line of the road
iu our neighboring State of South Carolina, is bew>ining
prevalent to an extent which is truly
alarming to those who are solicitous for the welfare
and prosperity of the State. This state of
affairs is more particularly observable in Darlington
county. On Monday or Tuesday last about
forty emigrants from that county got on the train
at Timmonsville, who stated that they were en
route for Arkansas, and on the Wednesday following
about twenty more started for the same destination.
Our friend informs us. that this state of
things has been in existence for some time past, is
constantly on the increase, and fears are enter*
tained that it will finally result in almost depopulating
the country.? Wilmington Star.
Henry Ward Beecher has created a new sensation
by taking ground in favor of excluding the
Bible from the public schools. In hiB Thanksgiving
sermon he contended that the reading of the
Bible was no part of the duty of our common
school teachers; no portion of the curriculum of
the school room; no part of the proper line to be
pursued in an aggregation of children whose parents
are of all creeds, all nationalities, all prejudices
all sorts and conditions of men. The Protestant,
he says, has no right to compel the child of a
Catholic to listen to instruction which the Catholic
disapproves; the Christian has no right to force
the child of a Jew to listen to the teachings of the
New Testament: nor should the ohildren of atheists,
skeptics and disbelievers be made to listen to either
the Old or the New Testaments.
i&c IfmhviUc ^uquitxr.
YORKVILLE, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING/DEC. 2, 1869.
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enlargement *of the enquired.
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will be inoreased by the addition of one
' column to each page and by lengthening its columns,
so that the enlargement will be equivalent
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without exception, the largest paper printed in the
State. . >n'
- The increasing pressure upon our advertising
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order that our subscribers may have the usual variety
of rending matter. But, notwithstanding
the increase of size, there will be no increase of
1 price. We propose to furnish our readers with as
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but reserving the right of a free expression of opinion
at all times and on all subjects.
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praiseworthy liberality.
The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
is in the hands of public-spiritedand liberal-minded
men. Always ready to grant favors, they nevertheless
show commendable tact and judgment in
distributing them. It so happens that there is a
bill before the Legislature to amend the charter of
this road. It also happens that the Phoenix contains
the following advertisement :
Office Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad Company, Columbia, November 27.
1869.?Members of the Legislature will be passea
over this road at half fare each way, when visiting
their homes during the session,
C. BOUKNIGHT, Sup't
We cannot refrain from again expressing our ad
miration of this delicate liberality; for we do like
to see a thing neatly done, oven when it is merely
the grinding of an axe.
GOV. SCOTT'S MESSAGE.
This document, like most of the emanations from
the mind which conoeived it, is extremely lengthy
?too lengthy, in fact, to be published entire in our
columns. We therefore give our readers those
portions, which we think of more special interest to
them, including bis rather too sanguine introduction,
and his concluding delicate but incorrect compliment
to the freedmen, by whioh he transforms
a Roman Emperor into a colored freedm&n. The
Governor should be informed that, though the
"colored troops fought nobly," none of them ever
acquired the command of a Roman army, or any
other, indeed, unless it were in the wilds of Africa,
where their achievements were lost to history.
There are some points in the message with which
we are much pleased. The financial showing is
not bad for these* times, and compared with the
indebtedness of other States. It is gratifying to
know that the credit of the State is not likely to
depreciate, and that the Governor thinks taxation
may be lightened and specie payments resumed at
an early day. The .Governor's opposition to State
aid for railroads is wise and commendable, as also
is his suggestion with reference to attracting manufacturing
capital.
But we feel compelled to add that a great deal
of the message reads more like an electioneering
speech than a grave and impartial State document.
The spirit of the demagogue shows itself in his
studied insinuations and cuts against the "large
landed proprietors," who seem to flit like phantoms
before the Governor's imagination. There is
no occasion for all this railing against a class of men
whose high tone of character has won the admiration
of the world. If they ever had done any
harm, their power is gone. Nor have they ever
done the Governor personally any injury, unless it
be that they are no great admirers of his. Good
taste, if not magnanimity, should prompt him to
let them alone. >
The same spirit breathes in the Governor's ostentatious
ohampionship of the poor man and the
laborer. If any one were simple enough to take
all the Governor's protestations at their par value,
he must believe that the Governor intends to falsify
the saying of the Saviour, "the poor ye have
always with you," by making everybody rich.
But the most demagogical paragraph of all is in
reference to pardons. Out of 506 prisoners received
in the penitentiary, 136 were pardoned.
The Governor accounts for his executive leniency
on various grounds, one of them being that the
prisoners were punished from political motives and
prejudices. He brings the same charge of political
prejudice against our juries, and recommends
a change in the method of drawing jurors. The
egotism of assuming that he can decide upon the
motives which led to the imprisonment of a criminal
is great; but it is less than the unblushing assurance
which brings, against others, charges which
have been publicly and specifically brought against
himself. If there be a man in South Carolina
who must clear his skirts of the suspicion of political
hias in dispensing justice, that man is Governor
Scott. ?;
We are not of the number of those who delight
in Gnding fault with public men, knowing that very
few of them at all approximate perfection. Nor j
do we regard Gov. Scott as a fox who is to be run ]
down every time he breaks cover. But when he
talks partizan in an official capacity, he ought to .
be severely censured, and will be.
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ITEMS.
? The Comptroller-General's report estimates ;
that Dine hundred thousand dollars are necessary ,
to meet the current expenses and other payments j
for the coming fiscal year.
? A number of County Commissioners are in
Columbia to deliberate in regard to the township
question. A meeting will be held at an early day, '
anA It ia ttirvnokt tYia auatem will he either abolish
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ed altogether, or its working suspended for the ,
present.
? Among the persons spoEfen of for the vacant
seat on the Supreme Bench are Judge Carpenter, :
W. J. Whipper (colored,) Judge Orr and Judge
Boozer. Judge Carpenter is the favorite, but it is J
likely that an attempt will be made to run in Whip- '
per, so that the negroes may have another man of
their own color in high official position.
?The new Democratic members of the Legislature
are: James E. Hagood, Pickens; James C.
Beatty, Horry; and Mr. Cothran, Abbeville. The ,
first two have been admitted to their seats in the
House. The credentials of Senator Cothran were
referred to the Commltfe on Elections.
? The Grand Jury of the United States Circuit <
Court, now in session at Columbia, has found a i
true bill against'David T. Grice, Deputy Post i
Master at Edgefield Court House, indicted for I
stealing from the mails. It was ordered that Grice
give bond in the sum of $5,000 for his appearance
at the next term of the. United States Circuit
Court, to be holden at Charleston on the first Mon- j
day of April next, and that he stand committed
until said bond is given, and held in custody of the ,
Marshal' (
THE LABO'tt CONVENTION.
A Radical assembly bearing the modest title of
a labor oonvention, met in Columbia last week and
continued in session three days. According to the
Republican, three hundred delegates were present,
representing most of the counties in the State. !
The main business accomplished was the appointment
of those well-known "laborers," T. J. Rainey,
J. J. Wright, Simeon Corley, Lucius Wimbush,
T. J. Mookey and W. B. Nash, as delegates
to a national Labor Convention. It may be re-. ,
marked, in passing, that this delegation admirably 1
represents the character of the Convention which
appointed them, both as to their taste for labor and
their fondness for laborers' votes.
The only other business accomplished was the
adoption of a memorial toihe Legislature, request- ,
ing of that body to provide by statute for tbe wants
of the laborer, as follows: 1st, to make tbe claim
of the laborer, for wages, a preferred lien upon the
land he works; 2d, to appoint a "commissioner of
contracts" in each county, whose duty it shall bo
to examine and attest all oontraets and act as
"counsel" fbr laborers in all disputes about the
terms; 3d, to give preference to laborers' suits,
over all other civil suits, in the courts; 4th, to appoint
an officer in each county, who shall see that
the laboring class is fbrrly represented on juries;
5th, to require sheriffs to divide lands sold under
execution into tracts of fifty actfes, for the benefit
of laborer^ who may want to become landowners;
6th, to make planters' due bills a Hen on their
crops; 7th, to make nine hours a lawful day's
work; 8 th, to abolish aH taxes on the sale* of cotton
and rice. ' ' ' ' ': 1 "
In addition to the above business, there was a
good deal of humbng transacted. Reports from
the various counties represented were heard, uud
we were almost melted to tears while reading them,
to learn what a wretchedly oppressed* half-starved
and overworked class the laborers of South Carolina
are. Amongst other items of information, we
learned that it is no uncommon thing for these unfortunate
beings to work from "sun-up to sundown'
' the year through and have nothing at Christmaa
a van wlipn ftiAv bav? had lnnre non-working '
families to support by their hard work 1 Of course
these reports roused the sympathies of the wellfed
politicians who acted as delegates, and various
speeches and resolutions resulted as a matter of
oouree. The wrongs of the laborer were thej'matin
song aod evening chant" of the convention for -i
three days, and the speakers generally came to the '
conclusion that one-half the crop, or.twenty dollars
a month and board, is as little as a laborer can possibly
live on. 1 :
Now we honastly believe that if they cannot a? i
ford to live on less than the above terms, they cannot
afford to live at all. When a laborer cannot
live unless his employer sinks money, his chances
for making a living are not very bright We have (
no sympathy with that Pharisaic philanthropy ,
which seeks to make a poor man believe that another
man's wealth is a wrong to him, and no faith in 1
a movement which shows so clearly that its object
is to gain poor men's votes for the Radical party.
Nor do we apprehend any injurious consequences
from this convention. Labor, like any other mar- i
ketable commodity, will bring what it is worth,
add no number of resolutions or Legislative enactments
can make it bring any more.
So far as making a living on less than half the
crop is concerned, we know a good many laborers
who are accumulating property on the third.
Those who are not doing so, would not accumulate
anything, even if they got the whole crop.
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MERE-MENTION.
Georgia grows the tallest men iu the United
States; New York averages the shortest. A
North Carolina paper records the singular fact that
no minister of the Baptist Church in that Sta^e
has died during the- past ecclesiastical year. "VA
Chinese carried off the prize for ploughing at the
Oregon State fair." Noted horseflesh iu England
seems to command higher rates than with us.
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sales of the more oelebrated specimens. ExGovernor
and ex-Uuited States Senator Benjamin
Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, died in Elmore County,
in that State, on Sunday, of last week, aged seventy.
The first Methodist sermon was preached
in New York, a little over a century ago, to a
congregation of five persons. Ex-President
Johnson has made arrangements for remaining in
Washington during the present winter. Jefferson
Davis has been elected President of a life
insurance company in Memphis, at a salary oi'fif
teen thousand dollars per annum.
Resumption of Specie Payment.
A Washington dispatch to the New York
World ventilates the following rumors in regard to
a return to specie payments:
From semi-official sources I have ascertained j
that, after some consultation with leading New 1
York bankers and also with Western financiers, !
Secretary Boutwell has decided to submit at an
early day?probably in his annual report?the fol- >
lowing programme for a return to specie payments I
to the consideration of Congress: _ i
1. The national banks to redeem their notes for
greenbacks by July 1, 1870. <
2. The government to redeem its greenbacks iu 1
gold after January 1, 1871. . <
3. Free banking for all parties upon bonds bear- <
ing interest at 4 per cent, in gold. ^ . '
4. This point is not quite settled. There is some ?
division in regard to the question whethei the banks
shall be permitted to issue notes as now, or whetli- f
er the United 8lates shall take charge of all circu- 1
lation by the issue of greenbacks on a plan somewhat
similar to t hat of the Bank of England. It
is, however, underatood that no greenbacks of a
smaller denomination than five or ten dollars will t
be issued. . i $
The free-banking clause of this programme, i
which finds great favor among those who have been I
Wrmitted to sec it, was inserted to satisfy the
estern States, where the greatest obstacles to a i
resumption of specie payments now exist. (,
LOCAL ITEMS ti
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
T. M. Dobson& Co.?John J. Hunter?Shawls? V
Thread?Hoods?Velvet?Barter?Carpet- &
Bags?Men, Women and Boys?Tin-Ware, rAltention
I Old Soldiers!!
H. T. Peake?South Carolina Bail Boad. 1
F. C. Harris, Judge of Probate?Citations?Dr. ?
J. Gr. Smarr, 'Applicant?Andrew Nelson ^
and Wm. Nelson, deceased. 0
David J. Glenn, Jr.?Application for Discharge.
Joseph Herndon's Mill.
J. F. Johnston?Hoi for Arkansas?Sale of Personal
Property.
H. D. Stowe?Sale of Property.
J. A. Ledcrer?Take Notice. e
B. P. Boyd?Just Arrived?Yarn?Bagging?The
Cash?Eggs?Hams?Pork?Your Orders 0
?Black Cats?Flour?Nice Things?Wan- ?
do Fertilizer?-Insure Your Life?Free of
Charge. P
f. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankrupt- ['
cy?Applications tor ihscharge?in tne "
Matter of Robt. F. Hall and John Rataree. .
W. B. Gulick, Cashier?Tlie Carolina National 1!
Bank of Colombia. .
E. P. Alexander?Dickson Fertilizer Company. J
Dr. John May, Agent?Christmas Holidays! New 0
Year!! v
M. Jones, Deputy Collector?Collector's Sale,
las. Douglass?Yorkville Female College. ''
Hart & Sadler?Attorneys at Lnw. f
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, HA&I8TBATE. 0
His Excellency, Governor Scott, has appointed
Miles Johnson, Esq., a magistrate for Yorkville, a
md the appointment has been accepted. c
THE' BIBLE CAUSE. ' f;
We are instructed to say that the Presbyterian r
ihurch of Yorkville has made a handsome response
to the call of the York Bible Society, by depositing
with' the Treasurer of the Society its donation
Tor the promotion of the good cause. L
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THE ft-'C. fiEGI8LATURE. 11
The Legislature of South Carolina assembled in t
the new State House, in Columbia, on Tuesday of a
last week, 23d ultimo. The Senate chamber and 0
House of Representatives have been, fitted op in t
handsome and tasteful manner, and the halls are ^
said to present m air of ,cowfoit and convenience D
unknown since the close of the war. v
'' The Senate was called to order at 12 o'clock, ni., fj
by D. T. Corbin. and a quorum being present, was a
immediately organized. The standing oommittoes ^
remain as at the last session.
The Houso afco-met at 12, m.?ninety-five mem-,
bers being present Speaker Moses addressed the B
body at considerable length. Seven new members j,
were then qualified ana admitted to seats, viz: fj
rhoraas A. Sullivan and L. P. Griffinr, from Abbe- t
ville; James E. Hagood (Democrat), fVom Pick- j.
ens; James O. Beaty (Democrat); from Horry; c'
W. Warren Ramsay, from Sumter; Win. Adam- 0
son, from Kershaw; James A. Bowley, from a
Georgetown. The three last are colored. ,
In the Senate, the credentials of Cothran (De- ^
mocrat). Senator elect from Abbeville, with sun- c
dry affidavits from parties contesting the election, f;
were referred to the committee on Elections. c
The President laid before the Senate the report g
of the Commission to codify the laws, which was n
made the special order for next Thursday. n
A bill to aid the Port Royal Railroad company, ?
which was on its third reading at the close of the
last session, was indefinitely postponed, for the
reason that the road does not require State aid. n
The report of the Special Comtaittc on the re- i
moval of Federal disabilities, on a joint resolntion, y
requesting Congress to restore the political disabil- a
ities of those disfranchised by the Fourteenth y
Amendment, was, on motion of Wright, laid on j
the table. . t
In the House, DeLarge moved to take up, out f
of their regular order, the following bills, which j
was agreed to: A Senate bill to regulate and de- 8
fine the law of divorce; a bill to regulate divorces; s
a bill to regulate divorces, alimony and the custody jof
children. The bills were ordered to be printed. ].
DeLarge moved to take up a bill to amend an j
Act providing for the assessment and taxation of a
property and recommit to its proper committee, c
which was agreed to. j.
On motion of DeLarge, the remaining bills on .
the calendar, wore recommitted to their appropri- [
ate committees. t
Ferriter introduced a bill to amend an Act to or- c
ganize the Circuit Courts. The bill was read the c
first time and referred to the committee on the y
Judiciary. " . " ,
WEDNESDAY, November 24. \
In tue Senate, Leslie, chairman of the com- y
mittee on Railroads, made a report on the bill to r
afford aid to the Spartanburg anu Union Railroad, y
The report says the committee do not deem it nec- t
essary to consider the merits, or demerits of the c
bill, or to discuss objections that might be urged;
that the Constitution of the State positively prohibits
the Legislature from passing any bill endors- .
ing the bonds of any Railroad company. A ques- ^
tion which is vastly more important to the people, c
and to the credit of the State to answer, Is wheth- ^
er the Legislature will grant any more aid to rail t
roads, until its credit shall have becomo firmly es- ^
tablished, and the public confidence, at home and j
abroad, perfectly assured. The committee say that c
their intention and determination is, that the ere- c
dit of the State shall be maintained at all hazards; j,
that the public debt shall not be increased auy con- c
siderable amount, and thoy therefore recommend t
that the consideration of this bilh and all similar v
bills, be indefinitely postponed. The report of the 0
committee was adopted by a vote of twenty two to y
one. A motion to reconsider the vote, and to lay t
the resolntion 4o reconsider upon the table, was <]
carried, thus effectually disposing of all railroad t
matters for this session. . -j c
Notices were given of bills to amend the charter t
of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad; r
to establish and maintain a system of free common r
schools for the State of South Carolina; 1o incor- j,
porate the Provident Mutual Lite Assurance Com- 0
pany of the South.
A House bill to def ne contracts for laborers, and
for other purposes, was referred to the committee .
on Incorporations.. ..... V' . . . *
Message No. 1, from the Governor, was presented
to the Senate, and the recommendations em- a
braced in the message, falling within .he scope of a
the several standing committees and appropriate ?
to them, were referred to those committees, and all
other matters are referred to a select committee. e
In the House, a resolution was adopted that a ?
standing committee on Labor be appointed by the 1
Speaker, to consist of seven members. a
DeLarge introduced a bill to repeal an Act en- '
titled "An Act to organize townships and define 8
their powers and privileges.'' Read the first time, c
and referred to the committee on the Judiciary,
A resolution was read and referred, that the
Treasurer pf the State be required to pay the ac- I
counts of school teachers, for thoyear 18G9, at the o
rate of four cents per scholar; provided that no li
accounts be paid until the same has been approved I
by the State Superintendent of Education. o
t
..." THURSDAY, November 25. v
In the Senate, a bill reported by the Commis- t
sioners to codify the laws, and a bill to amend an t
Act organizing Circuit Courts were read the first a
time. 5
In ttie House, Turner gave notice of a bill to c
repeal the Act authorizing additional aid to the s
Blue Ridge Railroad. c
FRIDAY, November 26.' i
In xrie Senate, a resolution to define the sense 1
of the Senate on the adoption of the report of the ?
committee on Railroads on a bill to afford aid in 1
the extension of the Spartanburg and Union Rail- e
road, was laid on the table. > t
The committee on the Judiciary reported un
favorably on a bill to amend the Act to define the .
jurisdiction and regulate the practice of Probate 11
Courts, which was ordered for consideration on a
Saturday. r
Mr. Jillson introduced a bill to establish and J'
maintain a system of free common schools for the e
State of South Carolina; which was made the c
special order for 1, n. m., on Saturday. P
In the House, Mr. Rivers introduced a bill to b
lesignate the officers by whom, and the times ?
svhen, and plaoes at which sales ordered by the "
Courts of Common Pleas and Judges thereof, and *
)f the Courts of Probate, shall be made, and for F
ither purposes. Referred to the committee on the b
Judiciary. ' ?
Mr. Perriter introduced a bill to regulate the w
>ale of cotton, which was roferred to the commit- [(
:ee on Agriculture. "
P
SATURDAY, November 27.
In the Senate, notice was given of a bill to auhorize
the issue of State bonds to the amount of tl
52,000,000, to be applied to the purohase of lands I
n this State for homesteads for the poor and la- P
>oring classes of this State. p
In the HotfflE, the Judiciary Committee were ci
nstructed to inquire into ana report upon the ai
[uestion as to whether there are any statutes of ir
le State discriminating against persons on account
f color, now in force in tnis State.
In tiie Senate, notice was given of a bill to
rovide medical attendance for the poor in each
junty in this State, and a bill to prevent the marking
of first cousins.
E. J. Gain introduced a resolution, which wns
dopted, that the Committee on the Judicjpry be
jqnested to report whether, in their opinion, the
rovernor of this State can remove auditors or
Dunty treasurers, or whether their term of office
annot expire before the lapse of' two years from
heir appointment.
MONDAY, November 29.
In the Senate, Mr. Green introduced a bill to
xtend the jurisdiction of Courts of Probate.
A bill to establish and maintain a system of free
ommon schools for the State of South Carolina,
ias referred to the committee on Education.
A bill providing for the election and defining the
lowers and duties of Justices of the Peace, ana for
egulating their practice in Justico Courts, was
lid on the table.
In tre House, a bill to amend an Act to organ
le the Circuit Courts was laid on the table.
A concurrent resolution to elect an Associate
ustioe of the Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy
ccasioncd by the resignation of Hon. S. L. Hoge,
ras indefinitely postponed.
Mr. C. D. Ilayne introduced a bill to change the
>cation of the county seat of Barnwell county from
Hackville to Barnwell, and to provide for the holdag
of the Courts for said county, lleferred to the
ommittee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Smalls introduced a bill to provide for the
layment of the principal and interest of the bonds
nd stocks of this State in coin. Referred to the
ommittee on Ways and Means.
The petition of W. R. Burris, of York county,
w relief from over assessment of tax on land," was
eferred to the committee on Ways.and Means.
TI1E GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. .
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and Gentlemen of
'ie House, of Representatives;?In .transmitting my
cdond Annual Message to the General Assembly,
t gives me much pleasure to congratulate you upn
your occupancy of your new Halls of Lcgisla*
ion, which contrast so favorably in appearance ami
daptjon to their purpose with those you recently
ccupied. . May tneir lustrous beauty be typical of
he brightening prosperity of our beloved State, of
ler unstained honor, and untarnished, credit: and
nay it witness the purity, the patriotism and the
risdom of her councils, until her principles, are as
irmly established as the foundations of this edifice,
nd peace and prosperity prevail within her boriers.
. *;v RAIL ROAD AID.'^
I am gratified in being able to inform you that
auch progress has been made during the past year
a securely placing the finances of the State od a
irm and healthy basis. This is owing greatly to
he decided stand takpn by you at the close of the
ist session, in declining to jeopardize the State
redit by yielding to the pressure brought to bear
ipon you by individuals and corporations for State
id for the construction of rail roads. The financial
eputation of a Commonwealth, like that of an inlividual,
depends upon the care with which it
hcrishes its resources and tne pronptituae ana
idelity with which it meets its obligations; and the
orrect and honorable business man who desires
uccess is careful that his reputation and credit are
iot tarnished by unwisely lending the use of his
anie to parties who have neither credit nor repitation
to lose themselves.
THE STATE DEBT.
The following statement exhibits the indebtedless
and the assets of the State, October' 31st,
8G9: Funded debt of the State six millions, one
mndrod and eighty-three thousand, three hundred
nd forty-uine dollars and seventeen cants. The
otal amount of assets held by the State on th^
late was two million, seven hundred and fifty four
housand, six hundred and sixty dollars; interest'
ailing due during the fiscal year of October 30th,
809, three hundred and eighty-eight thousand,
ix hundred and ninety-three dollars and eightyix
cents. .For a full and detailed statement of the
inancial condition of the State, I would respectfulv
refer you to the reports of the Comptroller anil
.reasurer. The State debt is comparatively small,
.mounting in the aggregate to about six Bullions,
Be hundred and eighty-three thousand three
mndred and forty-nino dollars. The taxable prolerty,
at a low valuation, will amount to one
lundred and ninety millions of dollars.,..During
he past fiscal year, at a season, too, when our
apitalists, merchants, fafmcrs, mechanics, and
itucrs had all their money invested in their various
>ranches of business, a million of dollars for taxes
ras received into the State Treasury: To more
ully illustrate the ability of our people to meet all
tecessary taxes, we may refer also to the payment
>y.our citizens into the Federal Treasury as Inter>ol
Revenue, a tax amounting to the sum of $2,>22.090.08,
making an aggregate of taxes paid.ino
tne State and Federal Treasuries the past year
if over three and a half millions of dollars.
RECOMMENDS'A REDUCTION OP TAXES.'
When the present State Government catoe into
>ower we found that the Provisional. Government
ontrolling the State from the close oflhe war, had
nntractea many debts, for the prompt payment of
rliicli, as well as to meet the current expenses of
he State Government, it was necessary to provide.
Vmong the liabilities was a floating debt amonntng
to $477,905.80. Thi9 debt was due to various
ounty officials, Sheriffs, Magistrates, Coroners and
ither claims against the State. By authority of
iw there had also been put in circulation bills re
civoUe to the amount of $222,000. In addition
0 this was the past due interest on the State debt,
phich had accrued, from the 1st of July, 1867. All
if these varions amounts have been paid, and the
>ills receivable redeemed. At the present time
here is but a small floating debt that the State
'reasurer will bo compelled to meet Owing, to
hese payments the expenses of the State Governnent
were heavier last year than they will be for
he presept fiscal year, and the assessment of taxes
flay therefore be considerably reduced fbr the comr?g
year and the tax burden upon the various
tranches of industry made lighter than the taxes
if almost any other State./ .. . ! . < ,!
OPPOSES STATE XlD TO RAIL H0AD8, ,
We have escaped from the disaster of lending
he State credit to rail roads, so earnestly pressed,
,nd demanded at the last session of the Gener1
Assembly. Whatever the opinions of individu,1s
may be, or however much they may feel that
heir interests have suffered from the failure or reusnl
of the Legislature to comply with their wishs,
all must oonccde that,, the examples by whioh
re are surrounded of {he liberalitv of other States
n this direction, atid the financial results of their
ction, justifies your coprse in refusing to cotriply
pith their demands, it is to be hoped that the
arae care and the same course will-continue to
haracterize the action of the General Assembly.
BESUifPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENT. . ,i.' II
A large part of our debt was incurred before the
lassage of the Legal Tender Act,,; The creditors
f the State loaned their money whqn gold was the
2gal tender of the country. The creditor was
iroinised, and expected to receive the equivalent
f his loan, both in principal and interest Were
his and the other States of the Union to take this
'iew of their responsibilities, and decide to pay
heir obligations in gold, it would be a great step
owards tne resumption of specie payuieuts, and
issist very materially the policy of the present able
Secretary of the Treasury, in bringing gold and
uirency on a par. It would also prevent the pos
ibilitv of a recurrence in the great moneyed centres
f wild reckless speculations in the gold of the
ountry. I regard it as a matter of tne highest
mportance, that you should take into consideration
he propriety of authorizing the State Treasurer to
fleet in future the interest duo on the State debt
n specie, believing that but a short period must
lapse before it will cost no more to pay in specie
han in currency.
INSURANCE COM PA NIKS.
With the increase of commerce and intelligence,
iwurance upon both life and property has become
favorite security. Much of this business is caried
on in this State by companies in no wise sublet
to our laws. Their property cannot be reachd
by the process and of our courts, their solvency
annot be determined, and there is no adequate
revision to secure the capital of our own companies
3 meet large or unexpected losses. I recommend
hat a law be passed requiring each company ^ eficting
insurance in this State to deposit sufficient
ecurity with the Comptroller General, indemnifying
olicy holders against losses. The deposit should
e graduated in proportion to the business and
apital of the company, making it a misdemeanor,
nth adequate punishment in any agent attempting
3 effect insurance until the company ho represents
as made deposit^ of ample securities to protect
olicy holders against fraud or attempted frauds.
THE BANKS.
In this connection I would further recommend
lat {ill Banking institutions that were Banks of
eposit, other than National Banks, also Savings
!anks, Trust Companies, &c., be required to deosit
with the Comptroller-General sufficient acuities
in horn's and stocks, to protect depositors
gainst loss in case of failure. Some of our bankig
institutions are now receiving deposits where
neither the stockholders nor any of the officers of
the Banks are in any way personally responsible,
and if in the event of fluctaations of the money
market any of these institutions should fail, the depositor
would have no security to protect him
against loss. It has been the policy of all old States
to protect the poor man, the widow and the orphan,
for whose benefit these banks are professedly used,
by limiting their investments to certain securities.
manufactories.
In view of the importance of attracting manufacturing
capital to the State, I respectfully submit
for your consideration the propriety of exempting
from taxation ior five years all oapitol-bereaiter
invested in them. This policy has been adopted
in the .adjoining State of Georgia, and has had the
effect, in some cases, of diverting capital to that
State, which would otherwise have been invested
within our own.
pardons. # |
Tim nninhor nf minions granted since niV last
message has been unnsuaily large, which is in part
to be attributed to the fact that many of them were
granted a few days before the expiration of their
sentences. Theso were pardoned to preserve their
civil rights, and were recommended by the Superintendents
on aocount of their good behavior. Others
were pardoned od the petitions of friends and
citizens, with the concurrence of the Judge before
whom they were tried; and others again from the
fact that their punishment was prompted by political
motives and prejudice*. In all cases or par,
dons, they were granted for reasons which commended
themselves to my sense of justice and humanity.
THE LAND C0SU1IS3I0N.
Up to the present time there have been purchased
in the several counties, for the purposo of
the Land Commission, forty-five thousand gcreaof
land, which Is'hdwin process of survey tod division
into tracts tif eligible size for purchasers and
occupants; I recommend an additional appropriation
to this beneficent object, of securing homesfor
the worthy and industrious mechanic and laborer,
which will establish many small farmers ra the
place of the comparatively few heretofore holding
that relation, ana consequently will ensure the better
cultivation of the soil and the expenditure of a
greater portion of their earnings at home, instead
of being dissipated in luxury and extrnvsgtoce in
distant cities. The bonds issued for the purpose
of the Land Commission must become of first claM
security, as they will not only have the credit.pf
the State, but the money arising from the sales of
the lands, with their improvements, as an additional
guarantee. The annual instalments of payments
for these lands wiH be ample to meet the interest
on them, otf weH to to provide a sinking fund
for their redemption at maturity, without the possibility
of having to resort to taxation Sot (hot purpose.
Their issue, therefore, qan have no possdde
injurious influence; on the credit of the State, ouit
should rather 'enhance it, as the subdivision . of
large bodies of land, much of Itihi'rtultiVkted, info
small and produotive farms, would at once treble
its value, and afford an increased basis of taxation
to the same extent, in 1,:.,. t-v - /
... .xaEfENi-wmAia. ,ki i u?. ;J
The report of the Commissioners of tho Penitentiary
and jthe accompanyipg report of t^ ^q^erin
ICSiUUUC UI VUC llioiltutiuu .yviu l#G XUUUU, AUU uuu
highly satisfactory.1 The .Superintendent states
that on taking charge of the institution on the 23d
of January last, he receipted for ;20! prisoner*.
There have been received since, 301; recaptured,'
4; making an aggregate of 505. There have been
discharged, 1; e*pir^tion of. seotenoe, 51; died
from disease, 7 j died from.iiyuries received in attempting
to escape, 1; pardoned, ]36;^scaped,
16. Total, 211. Leaving in confinement, ,2p5'.
A great^nutnoer of thpse pardoned were nearly at
the expiration of their Severit Sentences, and thfe1
Superintendent is of tti? opinion that -this policy
has greatly aided in enforcing discipline.and din*
inisUirig toe qumber of punishable ofipnoes. il?:
u , .HOMESTEAD RELIEF. . -j.i
The law securing a homestead worth one thopfc
and dollars, with the products thereof, and fiyfj
hundred dollars worth of other personal property
to each head of a family Wnose property may DC
levied upon for debt, continues fcrffolfifl its beneficcnt
design, but there is no sufficient reason why
its beuefite should be restricted to the landholder.
The professional man, the roeebanw, and the laborer,
are equally entitled to its advantages.At
present the proprietor of {he homestead may rent
ont portions of it to the fajmier, the mechanic,, and
the laborer; and if by sickness and misfortune they
should get behind hand, their1 little property is if-1
able to seizure Even the food provided for his
family may be taken from them, and they expelledfrom
their humble shelter and egnosed to the severities
of winter, and all this while their landlord
is enjoying in comfort the raunifioenthoonty of the
State. This is neither right nor just, "nor in accordance
with sound public policy. The poor, the
unfortunate and the helpless, shoukihever be the
special objects of publia regard. I therefore recommend
to your favorable consideration the propriety
of so amending the Homestead Lair, that
its principles should be applied to tha laboring
classes, and that the personal property.oTthe professional
man, the farmer, mechanic, and laboring
man, including their books, tools, implements, cattle,
clothing, TurnitUre, and provisions, shall be
' exempt flrom seiiure and aala for debt-to the
amoantttf five, hundred dollars. Thfe will only be
carryingout in good faith the prinoiplea established
by the Homestead Law, ang^ extending to all the
benefits and exemptions now confined to comparatively
a few. , *7". V . '
' i '[ '; ' LABOB Atrtf-C^ITAI,' 0UU.U
''Ariiphg the evils of civilisation may be deemed
the antagonism of capital and labor,; and the strifes
and conflicts which generally accompany it Perhaps
in no portion or our Republic has this antagonism
been more imperiously enforced god more
distinctly reoognized than in South Carolina, where*
amnnc the lartre landed DroDrietors. who owiiea.
to a large extent, the sOiT and co'nlroled its legisTa,tion,
the laborer,'whether white or colored, ynk
considered on a level with the slave, and if there
was any discrimination, it was in favor of the slave,'
who generally had an owner, and, therefore, a protector
in the coqtroling class, while the white la borer
owned himself and had to care for himself;,
and no solicitude was felt for him, except upon the
eve of an election, when his Vote wad wail ted. If
tainted with the blight cf labor, ij was of no consequence
how intelligent or worthy in other respects
the individual might .be, an interdict like that which
expelled our first parents from Eden, rested on
him, and the remark of Borne row-lipped maidep,
he is only a mechanic^ has been the fiat of ostracism
to many a promising and aspirins young man
from the charmed circle Of gcx>u socmty, and frequently
of exile from friends and' hbnfo1 to a community
where labor was not a disgrace, nor being
a mechanic disreputable*: . Of the extent of this
vital loss,to the South, some estimate may be made
from the fact that, in addition to tbe many thousands
scattered throughout the West, there are upwards
of seventeen thousand Southerners, a goodly
portion of whom are frotrf South Carolina, at the
present moment devoting thdr'tatlehts and energies
to the building-up and extending the already cnortaous
biisinere of New York. - > v
And yetjrpny of the class whoso former dominance
was so baleful to the general interest and
prosperity of the State, insensible to the affliotive
lessons of the ordeal through which they have so
recently passed, learned nothing, forgetting nothing,
not realizing that they arc only the shadows
of the power they once exercised, while not only
their soepter but their dominion is rapidly passing
from them into the hands of the speculator and
the money lender, and of those who feed and fatten
upon the vices, the weaknesses and the .nisfortuncs
of maukind. , .
APPRENTICES. ' '
A law binding out apprentices is greatly needed.
An investigation woula show that at present there
are but comparatively few apprentices, either white
or colored, and the great mass of our youths are
growing up in habits of idleness and iguoraooe.
which promise badly for their future career,, ana I
which but too frequently lead to vice and degraoa
tion. An apprentice nas tne opportunity oi- acquiring
some useful trade or industrial pursuit
which will be advantageous to him or "her tn after
life, in seouring employment and good - wages, and
with the schooling which should always be provided
for, enable them to enter upon a career which,
if industriously pursued, will lead to respectability
and wealth.
THE MILITIA.
The records of enrollment not having been yet
completed, and the quota of arms and accoutrements
appropriated to the State not having been
received from the Federal Government until recently,
the organization of the Militia has been
somewhat impeded. It will be hastened, however,
as rapidly as practicable, and I hope soon to be
able to report that the requirements of the law
have been fully complied with.
juries. '
A change is demanded in the system of selecting
juries. As at present managed, it is liable, ana
perverted, to great abuse, on account of the character
of the persons placed upon them. Men have
been appointed o? Grand and Petit juries who
were at the time, and are now, under heavy bail
on charges of complicity with murder j and in one
case, when one of these accused individuals was
foreman of the Grand Jory; bills for murder submitted
to them by tie Solicitor of the Circuit were
ignored and thrownout, notwithstanding the oaths
of witnesses who identified the accused as participants
in the murder. ?ases are decided, not by
the guilt or innocence'of parties, but in accordance
with the politicjrf bias of thejtmesf ?nd,;from the
intensity of prejudice existing, ifis vain to,expect
a better condition of things while the present systcm
of drawing juries continues.T This corruption
of justice at the fountain head demands a prompt
and efficient remedy, which wall place thf jury box
above the influence of politics, and* fill' it with our
bert-?f*d mm* intelligent eitisens, wlmse repwf tion
places them.Above reproach and abate suspicion.
nii'J i fl j g f '5 'iii b
MAtfiSTBAfK ?O0RT8.
I have heretofore directed your attention to the
subject of Magistrate** Courts, aad would urgently
renew my recommendations on the subject. The
wide latitude heretofore giren to the discretion of
Magistrates and Courts has bad the effect to crowd
our jails with petty offenders, at a heavy expense
to the State, much of which could be avoided by
giving final jurisdiction to Magistrates' Courts,
with right of appeal, of all minor offences, such as
petit larceny, simple assault and battery, and other
misdemeanon.of similar grade, win power to
determine the question of guilt, and its extent, and
to inflict penalties by flue. This would obviate
the necessity of a good deal of Sessions business,
and the cost of witnesses' fees and expenses. <A
fair and reasonable fee bill should be established,
as there is much complaint that Magistrates ana
Constables are guilty of making extortionste ex?cA
tions from the poor and ignorant Mm? ease#
have been so manipulated as to involve the largest
amount of costs, and otherq again have been ianti?
tuted for malicious purposed frequently from .political
motives or political objects. When such
chsea have been substantiated, I hays promptly
removed the offenders, and many of them; ^n'thy
opinion, deserved a more rigorous punish merit.'''x
have been apprised of eaaea where Magistrates
have attempted to interfere with the State Coo.
stables while. in the dischafgp)o?.,tbw: duty*.and
recommend that adequate banishments be provided
for such "offence*- Severe penalties should
also he provided' for carrying' oonceafe^ deadly
weapons, a cowardly prattieB, whtefi'has become
entirely too prevalent ' ,
conclusion/-* ? ;# <; ? '* ? '
It is related of the Emperor fit verts, (OtWfe a
colored freedmaa in the Roman ?rmy, hnt whoso
energy* talent#,<uid valor had: placed him. at ka
head/) that daring an invasion of Britain, he was
arrested in hjs march byan attack of illness, which
it was soon tnown would terminate fatally. In"hiq
dying motfaeoja, strrr6uUdecf4by hia'GepCryls, who
Were passionately attached to hmi; he was approached
by a Centurion of his army, who applied .
to him for the password of? the day; The dying
monarch, in that supreme mctqenJ^oa the verge
of eternity, gave _ utteraaoe tp a wtUaept, which
response to the application of the CentmSdUibf
the' password, he exaamsed: *'LaboReots r'?
let us work?and ihlling backwards^ expired. .GeOn
tlemenof dae.t}oBenib:A?einblv, m viewi af oot
dixies, and responsibilities, to those who hate enthe
Uriiverse, in whose hands are-the destinies of
Nations, "Let us wobk;!'1"'- " -' . , V'
! m - < Roswr K. S?rrt^6ovem<#.
Columbia, 3. 0.y No*; 24, 184ft
;: s?s.? V,
: The Washington correspondent of,
h? Chedosn
jtoji ^Veias furnishes the aujfl'oined summaijr of biHa
before the various committee of the Senate and
House .and otherwise pending ?* Coc gross, w?ch
wlahe to makers and thing? in Bouth Carolina,
nrul am tnrvaf liIraln.t<\.Ka iiiUwwlJ nf mt du>?nmiaa
ww- ?? w M u
session. The^mO! a*ibUt>Wat -i: -> ;-i jniap
A bni.tp estaWwh^oerUiji portol'ioutai ra vmk
qua counties of Sou^h.CwpliM, .phighiu a m#asure.
that generally goes though ijnQuestipaedi ,
A joint Resolution nroyiding that the land script
issued to the 9h^ or South Carblina may be used
fbnoomti off school pttikweCi K.: . k"*!5*1* *
; A1 bHiotn temovo the disabilities of Jacob P,
Reed, ,t>f Anderson, South Carolina, under the
Fourteenth amendment , ...amu v;u.?
. A dull for. thejftliefpf the Sisters, ofyQUrLody
of Mehy. of Ch^feston, South Carolina.}^ ^
AmeftforiaTfrem citizens of South Carolina, for
the relief of certain Jaws concerting ports of entry.
The Northern papers, in commenting upon the
course of the House Committee-on MeetSofcsifc
refusing to go to South Carolina to take teitimosy
in the matter of an election coolant speak-ofasceral
cases, while in fact there is but one case, ./that
of A. S. Wallace against W. Dfpimpeon,of the
Focrth District, 1' where Oekhe'r'party has been
dwom' in; 'Butrn thtse&ae, -kIii J.tnat of' Hoge
against Reed, the committee decided, and sb repotted,
tb the. Hoosa, that Simpson was nrwia
fyfk entitled to ,the. jmi, and the matter.?? ooly
open, now to tojiaevidepce to establish th* legality
of Simpsoh's election?a matter about whioh theft
is no doubt, and which'will give kirn the full legal,
as well'as a'iWma to the seat. ! It wlfl
be remembered that the Committee, On' Election^
to which wa? referred the olahn of S. L Hoge, for
a seat io the4lst Congressfrom -tbte Third Congressional
District pf Booth Carolina, snhmkted a
report in writing that upon the paper* refewed*!
theCommittee on Elections on, the contested aase
of S.'JLHoge. Vs. J. P.' Re#t, from the Third
Oon^rtsnoahT^'District of 8outh Carolina!'S. 12
Hcgeis prima f&ck entitled id a seat In w'Hbbih
as the representative of said -district, - SibjOK "fc
the future -aotibn oftfe House as totheuierilau?
the,eaaetjjWiiawwtfollowed by Hogebmagsttsrw
in, pepdi?g.t^r,i^^tepf^pfpifesfci4.,TWi
i ^ ,i<wao'>
. IPhw Income TMtHA Watfringtoh'dfsptfeh pf
Tuesday,' to thsi BaltisMM >Sm, sags )- ".> rui*
From what! J?*be?n drnktoped within a few days
post ? ijievbteqMhj* the; question, of ftfrfalj*
cfuse excited,
and prolonged.fli&usaion m the approaching ses,
siobbfudngress. The tnbtteR tt. or especial impbrtande
to htfgttWhpbmtion^aDd1!^ of
immensediicoae. Certain of these have combined;
it iialleg?h;and formed a party >witb a large aggregate
fiurdisuhaqribed to use he? is lobbying a
repeal, of the income^, r^hyb expires by . Mmita
tipn next J one, ,or, 'iauing m tois, to preventaoootinuance
of that law in a modified form, as Ts proposed
by another party. , . , ' *"
A (few representatives and senators have mide
known their purpose of opposing the oontmoaaee
of the law in any form, and; will demand tkt it
will be permitted to drop Crem the statute book
with, the expiration of the, limitation already fixed
by law. On the other hand, a large Dumber of
Congressmen are known to be infhvpr of modifying
3be law and continuing it indefinitely. There
is variance of opinions as to the extent of modification,
some advocating two or three per cent instead
of five, with provision! that no.iacotne less than five
thousand dplucs shall be taxed; others argue thai
three thousand dollars ehoqjd be. the iiiaif .. i ^
These differences cab W.reaaUy; reconciled, it is
argued, and ibis accomplished, the majority in both
Branches of Congress is vpry decidedly in fhvor of
re-enacting the law in; a modified fwm. Besides
the argument that the aot is hxpiiattaHnl, &o., the
repealers say it induces peijiny, and1 they offer, aa
illustrative of this, the many thousands of oases reported
to the commissioner of internal revenue,
One case mentioned is where a wealthy man returned
one hundred thousand dollars income, and a corporation
one hundred1 and fifteen thousand; and
recent official investigation has shewn thst in jfhe
first base the man's iaoome wan over four hundred
thousand dollars, and in the seooud case the corporation's
income subjeot to tax was ov6f seven
hundred thousand.
-?1?. ' ? ' '
Blue Ridge Railroad.?A pi^jminaryrneet
ing of toe hhrectors of tr>9 nrae Ktdee Jttailroad
Company Maw held in this city, on Friday last, and
cm Saturday a meeting of the stockholders was held.
These meetings were held with closed doCrs; and
no reporters were allowed to be Jftfyutf, ;oor, was
any account of the proceedings furnished for publication.
It has, however, transpired fjiat the directors
declared the contract of CressveH, Fatterson
& Co. to be forfeited, and elected Wm. McKinlay,
colored, and Judge James L Orr to fill-Che
vacancies caused by the resignation of Mr. Geo;
S. Cameron, and the withdrawal of Mr. J.. H.
Holmes. The Board of Directors is now aelbllqws:
J. W. Harrison, President: T. J. Robertson, H.
Gourdin-WillTam Gurney, G. A. Trenholm, James
L Orr. William McKinlay, J. H. Jenks and Jas.
M. Allen! Governor Scott And Mayor Pfflsbury
are directors ex officio, and as they represent ninetentbsof
the stock, they control the company absolutely
and entirely. No more need be said on
that point ^he company, it is understood, will
ask for no appropriation this session, unless the
price of State oonds can be run up to trie neighborhood
of par.?Charleston News.
Igt, New York is a verv moral place. No less
than 200 respectable merchants are involved in the
Custom House frauds. False invoices and a smart
thief in office did the job.