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fctaps and Jfarts. A rich man, named Bndd, has recently died in London, leaving $100,000 to his sons, on condition that they snail never wear moustaches. /./(i.1 V. < . - It would seem that Gen. Grant's highest ambition is to retire at the end of a second term with "plenty of money and no poor kwJ'?Louuvitle Courier. ^Barer than the phoenix," said De Quineey, "is the virtoops man who will consent to lose a good anecdote because it is a lia" ; ??"When a man dies, people ask : "What property has be left behind him V' But the angels, as they bend over his grave, enquire: "What good deeds hast thou sent before thee?''?MahomeL < An old woman of Lancaster said in a ' recent testimony in regard to the Ku-Klnx, that she saw one hundred and fifty of them come out 6f her well. She declares she will' never drink from the well again. Well! -?Winans, th6 New York Republican Assemblyman who has been charged with corruption because he voted with the Democrats, has published a card denouncing the charge as slanderous and utterly unfounded. There is a.gre&t political turmoil^ in Mexioo?the election for President being warmly contested. Several of the members of the present administration are to be impeached. Juarez, it is said, is likely to be elected rreaaent. A citizen of Kentucky being unexpectedly called upon to address a Sunday school, rose to his feet in some confusion, and after some desperate but vain efforts to say some-1 thine appropriate, hoarsely murmured: "Dear children, never fool with powder." An organization, composed of merchants and others, was formed a few days ago in Boston* under the name of the Anti-Income Tax Association of Boston, the object being to contest ,the constitutionality of the income, tar. Similar leagues are being formed in all the large cities of the Union. ?rMffi. Kneas, of Cleveland, had more bed-buss than she had r^om for, so she soaked the bedstead in benzine. One of the bed* bugs struck something hard and struok fire, igniting the benzine, burning the house, and killing every bug on the premises. She says she can recommend benzine for moving buildings. Wa Koro nntutjJ until nlAUIlK thfl bold stand taken by Senator T. J. Robertson in opposition to tbe Ku-Klux bill, and in favor of the amnesty bill. Congressman DeLarge, in tbe House, stands ou the' same platform. Both these men, politicians though they be, know, that their interests are with South Carolina, rather than with Massachusetts or Michigan.?Charleston New. An Illinois woman committed suicide by hanging herself to an apple tree. At the funeral a neighbor, noting the sad appearance of the husband, consoled nim by saying that he met with a terrible loss. "Yes, said the husband, heaving a sigh, "she must have kicked like thunder to shake off six bushels of green anples that would have been worth a dollar a oushel when they got ripe." * The New York Standard says : "Let the South reform its opinions and mend its manners in relation to the dignity and duty of labor. Then, its inviting climate and alluring prospects of ample returns for exertion and hardships, will attract to its vacant or sparsely peopled plains a valuable and abundant population, which will make gardens of waste, and create wealth and greatness." Colonel Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte arrived home in Baltimore on Saturday. In New York he told a reporter that he visited the Emperor in England, and had a long conversation with him. He found the Emperor reticent, but greatly pleased with his reception at Dover. Colonel Bonaparte has faith in the restoration of the Napoleon dynasty, and believes anarchy will not cease until that dynasty is re-establishesLcr1*' -'wfij** Franoe. | The Cincinnati ffriqvxrcr, in advising uguiugt uogua jvu-iviux reports sometimes set on foot, as a matter of fan, by our newspapers, says: "Southern editors nothing is #?jjre*><?*?yrra3Tir"that line that wtH-n**-?e?(iny be believed by the Republicans North. If it should be seriously published that the Ku-Klux had outraged and then swallowed the moon, Republicans would wait with impatience for night to see if the moon had not actually disappeared. Their credulity is wonderful." The Connecticut Legislature will assemble on the first Wednesday in May, and if it shall appear on a canvass of the vote for Governor at the recent election, by the officers designated by law for that purpose, that by reason of scattering votes, there has been no election of Governor or other State officer, such officer will be elected upon joint ballot of the General Assembly, on the second day of the session ; the election to be had, without debate, from the names of the two persons reported as having the highest number of votes cast It seems that one of the reasons which defeated the Amnesty bill in the 8enate, says the New York Sun, was that it would have relieved Governor Z. B. Vance of North Carolina of his disabilities, so that he could take his seat as Senator. This was more than the Republican members would agree to. They are strongly antagonistic to Vance on account of the extraordinary zeal and ability which he manifested as Governor of North Carolina in supporting and protracting the rebellion. It is now certain that he will not be admitted to the Senate for some time to come. The convention act recently passed by the North Carolina Legislature provides for submitting to the voters at the polls the decision of the question as to whether there shall be a convention held to amend or alter the present State constitution. An election will be held on the first Thursday jn August next, when the people will vote for and against a convention, and at the same time will choose delegates to attend the same. If a majority be for a convention, the delegates elected will assemble at Raleigh on the third Thursday of September, 1871; if a majority be against it, proclamation will be made of the fact, and no convention will assemble. In the House of Representatives on the 17th of April Mr. Wallace introduced a bill authorizing the payment of interest due to the State of South Carolina. The bill provides that the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be authorized and directed to liquidate and settle the claim of the State of South Carolina for interest upon the moneys advanced or expended by her for the use and benefit of the United States during the last war with Great Britain, said liquidation qnd settlement to be made upon the tsame principles as the liquidation and settlement of a similar claim by the State of Massachusetts. The bill was read twice and referred to the committee on the judiciary. A correspondent from Rome writes that Pius IX continues to receive many visitors?Protestants as well as Catholics?and he recommends himself to theprayers of the former as well as the latter. To an English lady, who attended one of the recent receptions, the Pope said: "Pray for me. Protestants also can pray for the cause of justice and truth." The following expressions to some other visitors are quoted as indicating the Pope's own opinion of his confinement: "You t have come to see him who is called the prisonL" er of the Vatican. Truly I am so. I could, I doubtless, materially go out, but I could not F do so morally without seeing the afflicting spectacle of a city entirely changed from what , y it used to be. Every step, every glance, ki would torture me; therefore, I shall go out no BL-^jnore until God puts an end to the bitter trial to which He has chosen to subject us. Your prayere will hasten that day." Two porters, aged eighteen and twentytwo respectively of a Broadway clothing k . house, Bays the New York Times, have -long been in the habit of selling their employers' goods and pocketing the proceeds, their opportunity coming during two or three hours of thejnorning, in which they had sole charge. But this business being too small for them, they {usually set up a branch store of their own in Chicago, with two partners to manage it, while they supplied it with goods stolen from their employers. They had planned also a hat store m Brooklyn, to be supported i like the other, by- the involuntary contributions of their unlucky Broadway pi^ncipala But the Chicago partners proved jrecreant to their trust, sold out the stock, amounting to about $20,000, and decamped with the money and the porters were compelled to return to their primitive plan of selling in the morning, "in order to get square." Meantime, the Broadway firm, missing goods constantly, put detectives on the watch, who have just arrested the ambitious young merchants. $ke fjotfcvitte drtnjuittft. YORKVIL.LE. S. C.: ; THURSDAI MORNING, APRIL 27; 1871, I ; - ! -V ' Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addressteitjei'' suua5 uip mm m wuniitiw suuwunpuuuiB paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date miist be kept in advance. Cash.?it must be .distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance FROST. From various sections we have reports of slight frost on Sunday morning last There was frost in this locality on the same morning, and also on the morning following, but no damage was inflicted to fruit or vegetation. THE CHESTER REPORTER. We congratulate the people of Chester upon the fact that J. E. McLure, Esq., has deter mined to revive the publication of theReporter. Mr. McLure is a gentleman of ripe cul iure and a ready writer, and will make the Reporter a paper well worthy the patronage of the public. See the advertisement in another column. BURGLARY. On Friday last, Harry Faulkner, colored was committed to the jail in this plpce for bur glariously entering the post office at Fori Mills, in this county, and stealing therefrom the Bum of four dollars and seventy-five cents Harry was discharged from the penitentiarj a month ago, where he had served a terra o] one year for stealing. The second attempl was made within twenty steps of his former ex ploit, and will no doubt result as disastrous!} as his first As an expert Burglar Harry 11 not entirely a success. THE KU-1LUX LAW. Notwithstanding the extreme length of the Ku-KJux law just passed by Congress, w< publish the document entire. Our opinion! of the measure have heretofore been expressed fully and freely. As a law, fairly adminis tered by upright and competent judges, il could perhaps do no harm. The principal objection to it is that Congress had no right tc pass such a law?one that places law and lib erty in the discretion of the President, and ii spirit making our Government a despotism It makes Federal judges, who at present ar< - rnnra r features of the President, masters-^-*1" property and the persons in effect repeals the Federal Constitdtio^ ^ far as that instrument de^niji llmli" > -^-rne press 01 the North, Republican as well as Democratic, is almost unanimous in denouncing this law; but we attribute this action more to the fact that the provisions of the law extend over that section as well as the South. So long as oppressive laws were passed affecting only the Southern States we heard very little complaint from the North. It will not be denied, however, that the same necessity for the law exists at the North as at the South. The Ku-Klux spirit, as the term is now accepted, pervades everywhere, and in the South it is only a manifestation of the same spirit of violence and lawlessness which is found in any Northern or Western State. THE SITUATION. On the first page will be found a lengthy report of an interview between a representative of the Charleston News and Governor Scott, had on the occasion of the Governor's recent visit to that city. The Governor, as will be seen, gave his A.ll? n.Anrtnn. IYIcno Y CI J 1 Ull y UU UVVIJ Vjuwuuu ?/x U|?VMU ded, and it cannot be denied that his answers ! carry with them convictions and evidences oi candor. He says that the State debt has been grossly exaggerated; that the increase of the bonded debt represents mainly unfunded liabilities contracted by the previous administration ; that the railroad endorsements by i the State are amply protected by the actual I assets of the roads, and that the entire bonded debt of South Carolina is less than eight million dollars, with about one million floating debt, which last will be paid immediately with funds in the treasury and with the incoming taxes. To that portion of the report relative to the changing of the time of collecting the taxes we would direct the attention of the reader. By a misapprehension it has been the belief of many persons that two taxes were to be levied and collected this year; whereas, as the Governor shows, the impression is erroneous. The Governor explains that the tax now being collected is for 1870, and by an amendment to the tax act, it is proposed to commence tne collection ior ro/i on the 15th day of November next, the object beipg to bring the collection of a portion ol the taxes within the year in which they are levied. The reasons for making this change as given by the Governor, will, we think, be satisfactory to the tax-payer; and as an extension of time will be given in cases requiring it, we see no reasonable cause for complaint. The Governor adds his testimony to the unanimity and promptness with which the people are paying their taxes, which, he says, is deserving of the highest praise, and illustrative of the law-abiding character ol our people. Regarding the tax-payers' convention, called for next month, by the Charleston Board of Trade, he thinks such convention would result in showing the people that the State finances are in a healthy condition, and the ! debt as he had represented it. He hopes also, that it will create a better feeling, and re-esI tablish confidence, by preparing the way to ! give a fair share of the State offices to men of ability and experience. This, and the concluding declaration that hereafter his policy would be to disregard party lines in making his appointments, and that he would be guided chiefly by considerations of personal fitness, give us, we eonfess, an encouraging ray of hope for the future. . PROCEEDJ^s'oF CONGRESS. On the 18th, the Conference committees made reports on the Ku-Klux and deficiency appropriation bills... In the Senate, after a long debate, the report on the Ku-Klux bill was adopted, yeas 32 ; nays 15. The 'report on the deficiency appropriation bilLwas reject. eckby-the Senate,-and neither was acted upon by the House. t The House concurred in the Senate amendments to the post rontebill, and also a number of bills of a private nature which had previously passed the Senate. On the 19th, the Senate adopted the new conference report on the deficiency appropriation bill. Among other changes made is one reducing the appropriation to the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy at Charleston to twelve thousand dollars; one striking out the clause 1 appointing an attorney to represent the Government before the Southern Claims Commission ; and also striking out the clause increasing the compensation to census marshals. The House adopted the report of the committee on the deficiency appropriation bill as adopted by the Senate; ^ The House non-con; curred in the conference on the Ku-Klux bill, and a new conference! was appointed. The Speaker said that he construed the appointment of a joint special committee on South: ern affairs as rendering unnecessary the appointment of the special committee ordered by the House, and he announced the following gentlemen as members of the ioint committee on thejjart of tB6 HUUW, m: mesais. x? < land, of Vermont, Maynard, of, Tennessee, 1 Scofield, of Pennsylvania, Cook, of Illinois, Cob urn, of Indiana, Stevenson, of Ohio, Buckley, of Alabama, Lansing, of New York, Cox, 1 , 1 of New York, Beck, of Kentucky, Voorhees, of Indiana, Yan Trump, of Ohio, Waddell, of North Carolina, and Robinson, of Illinois. ^ .1 ftA.1 il'_ " O a. un tne zuin, me oeuauj imviug auwu; concurred in the second conference report on the. Ku-Klux bill, ;and passed a concurrent resolution to adjourn until December, the House agreed to both the report and the resolution of adjournment The House agreed to the Ku-KIux report by a strict party vote, yeas 93; nays 74, Mr. Farasworth, (Demos crat) of Illinois, not voting. Nearly every ' absentee was announced as paired. Before the vote Was taken, Mr. Shellabarger said that the substitute for the Sherman amendment in relation to the liability of counties and persons foroutrages, &c., was more eflect, ual in reaching all classes of offences under the second section than' the Sherman section. ; Mr. Beck, of Kentucky, denounced the whole t measure as a "premeditated plan of the radi. cals to send down Corrupt judges," and by conr trolling the juries deprive the people of their f rights." Butler asked unanimous consent to t make a personal explanation, which being ob jected to, by a vote of the House, the rules r were suspended, when he proceeded to defend 3 himself in regard to an attack recently made upon his character by Senator Davis, of Kentucky, and to exculpate and exonorate himself of matters and things generally, which ; brought on quite a war of words between the 5 gentleman from Massachusetts and Messrs. ' Farasworth and Beck,- the latter gentleman 1 having the floor at the expiration of the hour, * when the matter dropped. t The usual committees of the Senate and 1 House having waited on the President and re> ported that the Executive had no further com* munication to make, the first session of the 1 Forty-Second Congress was then, at 2 P. M., adjourned sine die. F the Democratic , men to the people qf nniinTTTi hv > ibnrteeif Senators and ninety-five members.of the House, is issued. It is a brief paper, prudent and plain, and indicts the Administra, tion and the Republican party in a general way, and appeals to all who desire to promote f economy in the Administration; to preserve i what little remains of State authority; to , protect the constitution from violation, and , restore the general harmony and peace of the nation, to unite in taking the government out , of the hands of those who now control it A i strong point is made relative to the Ku-Klux , measures, designed for the persecution of the Southern States, and to secure the votes of those States to Grant, on which poipt it speaks . with decision and force. The address concludes in the following language: "Everything that malicious ingenuity could suggest has been done to irritate the people of the middle and Southern- States by gross and exaggerated charges of disorder and violence, which bad their origin in the mischievous minds of political managers in the Senate and House of Representatives, and to which we ' regret to say the Executive has given his aid, and thus helped to influence the popular feeli ing. In all this course of hostile legislation and harsh resentment no word of conciliation, of kind encouragement or fraternal fellow[ ship, has ever been spoken by the President or by Congress to the people of the Southern States! They have been addressed only in the language of proscription. "We earnestly entreat our fellow-citizens in all parts of the Union to spare no efforts to maintain peace and order, to carefully protect the rights of every citizen, to preserve kindly relations among all men, and to discountenance and discourage any violation of the rights of any portion of the people secured under the Constitution or any of its amendments. "In conclusion, we earnestly beg you not to aid the present attempts of Radical partisans to stir up strife in the land, to renew the issues of war, or to obstruct the return of peace, ' aud prosperity to the Southern States, because ? it is thus that they seek to divert the attention i of the country from the corruption and extravagance in their administration of public i affairs, and the profligate attempt they are making toward the creation of a centralized ' military government." i MERE-MENTION. The Chinese call geometry Mthe science of t how much." Indigo, bound dry on the wound, is a sure cure for rattlesnake bites, ; scorpion and bee stings, ect., says a Mormon who has tried it. An inch of rain falls ing upon an acre of land weighs about 100 , tons. A subscription is in circulation in i Mobile, having for its object to place a head stone of Alabama marble at each of the thou sand graves in the Confederate burial ground near that city. Commissioner Pleasanton decides that a certificate of bankruptcy disi charges the government claims against a i bankrupt. Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps says, there is no use quarrelling with a woman, the press, a railroad company or the telegraph. An inquest in Boston over a dead butcher developed the fact that his death . was caused by the blood of a diseased ox, i . which he was dressing for sale, getting on his i person. Twenty-four circuses are to per- i i ambulate the United States this season. A . Boston paper speaks of an individual there ' who is so addicted to tardiness that he is ! known as "the late Mr. Tompkins." Mrs. 1 ' Jones of Iowa, wants a divorce because her < husband loafs around home to see her run a sewing machine for his support. "Do < write and fear not," is what the girls say to I their correspondents. The man who i works with a will?the probate judge. 1 THE WAR IN FRANCE. fj c There was fighting again all of last we t jreneral Cluseret offered hts resignation, i s t was not accepted. Dombrowski hai m- t ariously disappeared. It is supposed h1T~ iither dead or wounded. It is annamil that Menotti Garibaldi will return at oqc$ [taly. General Ducrot has arrived at V- tailles with 20,000 men. Neuilly wai fid' \ 3y shells on the 22d, and a conflagration^#! ill day. The army of Versailles has otfajil 3t. Dennis. Another deputation is Wgolo Versailles in the interest of peace. Th[ari? >f Versailles are strongly fortifying th#fw^! >f Sevres, Courbevoie, and Asnieres, 11 tie Communists are erecting works atluillp Levallois, and Villieres. A MANUFACTORIES. | s The man who has two strings to h bow has a decided advantage over the m who lias but one. That people which cfev ps-ife" ittention partly to agriculture, partly- "ton* merce, and partly to- manufacturing, in A . i ? , _ *?,. .1 .i . 11 _ i J more independent condition man tnatpeopie which devotes its attention wholly to art )f these industrial pursuits to the exdlsiqb )f the others. The Southern people arerexjlusively an agricultural. people. ThfeW been the case since the organization of ^be )riginal thirteen States. Our dependjte jpon other sections for manufactureetgiws }f all kinds is notorious. Every article of slothing from the coarsest to the fiwes^ls manufactured abroad. All our, impkqagfta jf agriculture, except thoee of shop with foreign axes, saw with foreign fceffs, hoe with foreign hoes, and rake with fbrefen rakes. Our graves are dug with foreign doels, and the sod that covers the rich Soiihem planter from mortal view, is shoveled with a Yankee spade. So long as this state of things coniinWlytln Southern people will be little bettet than "hewers of wood and drawers of watir," for the rest of the world. All the crons co into the nbekets of those whtf rnanu ?At a foot race m unariesion oaiuruaj between two well known young men of thi city for a stake of one hundred dollars, on mile distance, Mr. Barlow, one of the conta tants, ruptured a blood vessel and died tha evening. ? The Edgefield Advertiser Bays that Cole nel Bacon's horses, Corsican and Nanni Douglas, have been brilliantly succ-erafuLia^ ly in Mobile and New Orleans. ~ 'fifflie lattfc city, a few days ago, Corsican won one of tB grandest and most hotly contested races ? the season. . ? On Friday last, the police of Coluinbi, made a descent upon some suspicious person who were supposed to have in their possescioi a large amount of stolen goods. Six person were arrested and a large quantity of goodsembracing articles of almost every descrip tion?stolen from the Greenville depot, was it covered. ? Hon. A. S. Wallace has introduced i bill in the House of Representatives appro priating twenty-five thousand dollars for th purpose of erecting a United States Cour House, etc., at Greenville. The bill contain a proviso that the citizens of Greenville shal furnish a lot, upon which to erect the building free of cost to the government ?The Greenville Mountaineer says: Las Sunday afternoon, about 5 o'clock, there wer twenty-four persons baptized in Reedy rivei at the upper bridge; of these thirteen wer ladies, and eleven gentlemen. The ordinance was administered by Rev. W. D. Thomas Pastor of the Baptist Church. We presumi that the number of persons present on the oc sasion was not far short Of one thousand. ? The Cheraw Democrat gives an accoun of a shooting affair which occurred in Ches terfield county on Monday night of last week in which a man named Melton and his wif< ivere shot dead, and their daughter danger facture the raw material. The pecplewkc produce the cotton are comparatively poor those who card and spin and weave it, ait rich. We sell our cotton for whatever tw can get, and pay the manufacturer what ever he asks for his calicoes. This may b< independence, but it is a one sided affair Like the tracks that go into the lion's <|en, i all goes one way. It is profit to one party and loss to the other. It seems strange that Southern have not seen this long ago. A few havfi en gaged in manufacturing on a small sjsale and ample fortunes have been, as a rule, th reward. It is but a few years since we ha the facts of the case demonstrated.^9i|hi| the late war our people were puttogrea straights to clothe themselves. We mad the discovery that we were at least one hun dred years behind the age so far as maufiw taring is concerned. The cotton of the SoOtl era States was sent to England and Yankee dom and bartered for the commonest article of clothing. Every one knows hpw the mat ter stood during the time of the war. Whe it commenced we'had an abundance of cotton but it was next thing to worthless. In it raw state we could not use it, and we had n manufactories by which it could be converte into a form that it could be used. Our co ton was bartered for shirting and calico fal rics made out of cotton. This crippleef on efforts and kept us tied all the time of tl war. The same state of things exists to*daj but we do not see it so clearly nor fee) H i our almost absolute dependence upcxf othdr We do not envy the prosperity of other but self preservation is the first laW of naturi It is a shame that we, who have been bora o Southern soil, should sit down and supinel wait until some enterprising stranger come olnncr onr? KnilrJa ? mAnnfaMnrincr ftstfthlial ment and growB rich in our midst The roa is open to wealth and usefulneess. The quef tion to be determined is who will make th fortune ? At some other time we propose t call attention to this subject more in detail. STATE ITEMS. ? A female convict in the penitentiary gav birth to a fine, healthy boy a few- days ag< Executive clemency is invoked. ?A forty-horse power engine was put i operation for the first time at the penitentiar last Friday. * ?Hon. Z. Piatt, Judge of the Second Cu cuit of South Carolina, died at his residence i Aiken on Friday last ? Comptroller-General Neagle has gone t New York on business connected witrrt Blue Ridge Railroad. ? The Columbia Union records the mui der of Peter J. Lemans, of Clarendon cour ty, on Saturday last, by parties unknown. ? Berry Hawkins, a farmer, living 8 mile north of Greenville, committed suicide o Saturday morning by shooting himself wit! a pistol. ? A man by the name of Campbell, roa carpenter on the Greenville' and Colomhi Railroad, was run over and instantly kille by a construction train, near Williamston^o Tuesday morning of last week. - i i n_ x >usly wounded. Theiainily were aroused by he barking of the dogs, and on going out to iscertain the cause, were fired upon. The issailants arfr uiikuowu. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Governor Caldwell has appointed W. A. Moore, Esq., of Chowan, to fill the vacancy 3?rthe Superior Court bench from the ^ecopd, judicial district, occasioned by the resignation' of Jtrdge>dfmeRr=?,aM*e?-*^'*"'-" >?"**? ? The barn and two horses, belonging to Peter Baxter, of Lincoln county, were burned on Wednesday night of last week. Two white men have confessed that they were the incendiaries, and they are now in jail. ? Solomon Frazier, who was tried , at the /Wake Superior Court and found guilty of burning the paper mills of the Wake Forest ManufacturiugCompany, haf been sentenced to hard labor in the penitentiary for twentyfive years. j ?A waggish passenger from Charlotte to Wilmington reported in Wadesboro that the disabilities of Senator elect Vanoe had been ?a an the credulous edi rtiliuVCUj TTII1UU WW V?w??v?. ? _ tor of the village paper that heat once issued a flaming extra making the joyful announcement. . ii i 'jC'ir ri?T^e improvements in the city limits of Wilmington, for. the three months ending with the first of April, amounted to $73,650 jThe Wilmington $ar says if the city contin ues to improve at this rate, it will not tab majov years to make it one of the leading citie f ~ Mecklenburg Presbytery met on the 14tl instant, at Paw Creek. The Soathefn Horn .says the meeting was pleasant and harmonious .Rev. Dr. Miller was elected delegate to th General Assembly at Huntsville, Ala., ii ' May. Over 300 communicants sat down t the Lord's Supper on the Sabbath?amon I. them a colored man and woman. . mi 1 ?On Thursday evening last, says the Chai ' lotte Democrat, Mr. J. Lee Alexander, mille - at Mr. Phifer's mill near that city, met wit an accident that caused his death in a shoi \ , time. He was closing up the mill after nigh i. and in walking across the floor fell throng > a small opening to the ground beneath, a di ' tance of about 20 feet, inflicting a fatal woun - on the head. , 3 ?A correspondent of the Southern Hon writing from Dallas, details the particulars i t a horrible outrage committed in Gaston com ty on the night of the 15th instant, by t* . negro men, their victims being a Mrs. Stroo 1 "" * * * 1 1 A I[ and her daughter, a giri or x* yww????? ^ persons were outraged in a shocking manne ij One of the negroes has been arrested, and e now in jaiL . i ? On Tuesday morning of last week as tl I" passenger train on the Charlotte, Columb t and Augusta Railroad, was approaching M< row's Turnout, Mr.' Jas. Richards, of Ghi ^ lotte, while in the act of passing .from 01 V} coach to the other, fell, the ears running ov ^ and terribly mutilating him. He died so< after being taken to bis home in Charlotte < ? the evening of the occurrence. ' t- ? The Ashoville Pioneer of the 13th, say n, Hon. N. W.Woodfin arrived in this place * t; Sunday last, from New York, where he h Is been engaged for several weeks with matt? o pertaining to the western division of the W< d tern Ca^olipa railroad. His efforts to reoc t- er the funds of this road have been untirii and, we are glad to learn, partially successf ir. It is said about $50,000 was recovered fit LittlefieldA Co. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. [ J. H. AdLS^ThTSldest Rstablifthed fcouse h Yoftvffle. ' W. P. Hobbs, Overseer?Nottctf., ' Withers AStflwell?Furniture, n J. W. Carroll?Hie Golden" Rule?What Do t Live For?Pop Goes the Weezel?This W J. Everybody?The Youth, r Carroll, Clark & Co.?New Goods?Hate?Croc ery?Just In?Spectacles?Knives? Har ware?Take Notice?Tobacco?Groceries d Dry Goods. E. C. McLure?Chester Reporter... 6 EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Special Session of the Senate. President Grant has issued a proclam tion requiring the Senate to convene in ext session on the 10th day of May to consider e e ? 1 : rTL.*_ *?.?. k?i;,?r?i. buuuvb uuniuraa. xmBicauBiu ura ucuci m >a the joint high commission "have perfect , .treaties on the various matters brought befo D them, and whiofi require the final action F the Senate before they are accepted by tl -U. S. Government. '" *j; r" The Weekly Union. 11 The publisher of the Daily Union, - Columbia, has commenced a weekly issue jL Jihe same paper, the first number of which \ have received.. It is of good size and is ve handsomely printed, bearing upon its face tl unmistakable sprightliness which charactc l" izes the daily. Those who desire a week > -newspaper from the capital of the State wi 18 find the Weekly Union to contain all the 1 n test intelligence of the day, as well as s ^ matters of interest transpiring in the cit Price $2.00 per annum. ^ "Territory of Columbia." a The first election under the new ten ^ torial form of government lately imposed up< the District of Columbia by Congress, pass* off quietly on the 20th. N. P. Chipman, R r> publican, was elected delegate in Congress 1 % about 4000 majority. The lower House? elected by the people?consists of seven Dei ** ocrats and fifteen Republicans, the latter ii eluding two negroes. The upper House, a , ? painted by the President, are all Republican h consisting of eight, whites and three negro* 6 All other officers of the Territory are a tjjf 'pointed by the President, and are Repub: * cans. ? Southern Investigating Committee. ^ The joint .committee of twenty-one, o dered by Congress to investigate the conditic a of affairs in the Southern States have decide * not to proceed on the mission at the presei Q time, and have adjourned until the 10th < 8 May, when they will meet in Waahingto: " to mark out their programme for the summe h Some members of the committee favor makii 'a trip this spring and then return to Was] ington and summon witnesses to go there an ft testify, while others urge a postponement < K the whole inquiry until next fall. Thei 0 does not appear to be much interest felt i ^ the matter among a majority of the member 8 Disloyalty In Brooklyn. 1 ^ ? An illicit distillery in Brooklyn, N.Y ?* | was seized by officers of the internal reveni department on Wednesday of last week. A t examination of the premises revealed the &< e that large quantities of illicit spirits had bee received there, and that the law had been evi a dedto a considerable extent. The officers m< a with resistance and several shots were fire i before the owners of the premises yielde< a The establishment and contents, valued t - $15,000, are now in possession of a number c deputy collectors, who will doubtless make t good thing of the affair. But suppose thi - had been an obscure distillery, with a capac , ty of only a few gallons a week, in one,of th i Southern States ? What a howl of indignt - tion would have issued from the virtuou North! The operations oCthe Ku-Klux law extend to Brooklyn, however, as well as other sections; and we presume in his "discretion" tbw-Fresident will suspend -the writ of habeas corpus there. Unless it makes some difference as rto, Whose ox is gored, we know he will, dfteken Cholera. 1,1 '! ' This fatal disease among poultiy is prevailing^) a great: extent this spring, and in this county it is on usually prevalent We have freard' of the deaths of two or three perj sons in this county, which were supposed to have been caused by eating fowls thus diseased. ^ A writer in the Greenville Mountaineer gives the following as a remedy for the chicken cholera ' "Take a piece of fat bacon, cat into small bits and roll the bits in mustard, making pills of them. On noticing that a chicken has been attacked by the cholera, administer to it three of these pills two or three times a day, and also mix a little mustard with the ddngh fed to the ponltry generally." Removal of Political Disabilities. ?? On the 10th instant, Hon. A. 8. Wallace, by leave, introduced the subjoined bill in the House of Representatives. It was read twice and referred to the Judiciary uom* mittee and ordered to be printed: Section 1. Be H enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State* ; of Amerioa in Congress assembled, (twothirds of each House concurring therein,] ] That all legal and political disabilities im posed by the fourteenth amendment of th< 2 Constitution of the United States, bvreasoi 8 of PflrticiltafT" *XL_!' . ~ Sen^Boveoliom the foliowing claaees^nama i ly: Sheriffs, clerks, masters-in-equity, probata e judges or ordinaries, magistrates or justice , of the peace,, and post masters, in the State g lately in rebellion. a Correspondence of the Torkrille Enquirer, 0 EXECUTION OF TWO MUBDEBEBS. * 1 Unioh C. H., S. C., April 21,1871. The two negroes, Henry Cannon and Taj "" lor Palmer, convicted at the last term of ou j* Court of the murder of G. M. Stevens wet executed to-day tinder the sentence of- Jndfg * Thomas. They were taken from the jail m :? der guard of the company Of U. S. Cavalr stationed here, and carried by the Sheriff 1 the usual place of public execution a mil from town, where a gallows was erected ft the occasion. They were cfclib and firm ! " their step, but their countenances indicate deep concern. To the very last they asserte a"' their innocence of the killing, but acknow ^ edged that they were of the party that haltc 'P poor Stevens. They said the pllm was to f 88 to Joneeville to fight Ku-K3ux, and findii f' none to return home add "get somebody 18 headon the way." But they went up the rot only as far1 as Duck Pond chorch, where tl ?e tragedy was enactbd. u Golden Foster, a colored preacher, v ir' their spiritual adviser. They mid they we prepared td meet their God. The bolt wi 110 drawn at about half past twelve and Hen 011 Cannon and Taylor Palmer passed from li }n into death. Cannon's neck was broke 3n Palmer struggled some minutes?and all w over. After-hanging about thirty minup 8: life was pronounced extinct by Dr. J. 1 on Moore, and the bodies were taken down. 88 All the circumstances of the trial and t m evidence, left no doubt upon the minds of ai one of the guilt of these negroes. Hum testimony is not infallible, and it is possQ '?> that these two men did not actually, kill 8 ^ vens; but it Is a possibility,not a probabiK >m The evidence of their guilt was very stro indeed; far too strong to! be borne dowi feather's weight by theJf<oppofling confetti ^ before execution^ Bat true, thfcy are p^verthelesB Utility o/&e ic l? crime murder in its full extent . in This ends the Stevens tragedy. Borne the ring-leaden are still at huge, but th will probably never be arrested. It. has be the source of "woes unnumbered" to Unio and its effect upon this community will nev be forgotten by this generation. It was t i? death-knell of negro rule in Union county. The lawyers of this bar are unanimously opinion that no jury cases can be tried ; this county Until further legislation. The being no Chairman of the Board of Conn a- Commissioners, the Board of Jury Comm rc ,8ioners is incomplete; and without the pn x- ence of every member of the latter boar they can take no action as the law now styM Thanks to stupid legislators and no, fete ferthp re legislative legal advisors, say wethanks ?f the Ku-Klux says his .Excellency the Go ke ernor. ' ' W. ? . ; j ^ / Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer of ' LKTTER FROM CHESTER. of Chester C. H., April 24th, 1071. re The Circuit Court adjourned for thefei ry on Saturday evening after an intermittent w le sion on Monday, Wednesday and Satorda >r- No cases of general interest were tried, e ly cept the cases of Smith & Melton, and Ha ill den & Co., against the Charlotte, Colnmb a- and Augusta Railroad Company. These we ill suits brought against the Company, to reco y. er excessive freights .charged on cotton fro this point to Charlotte, N. C. On the 1st di of October last, the freight on cotton 1 ri- Charlotte was suddenly raised from one do mi lar and a half oer bale to three dollars. T1 jd merchants above mentioned paid the ne ?- charge under protest, and at once instituto )y suit before trial justice McDonald, to regovi ? the amount believed, by them, to be charg< n- in excess of the rates allowed by the chait q- of the company. A decree in their favor wi p- rendered by the Trial Justice and an appe is, taken by the company to the Circuit Com ss. At the hearing of the case on Saturday, tl p. facts necessary to constitute the right of a li- tion on the part of the plaintiffs were admi ted, and the company rested its defence c the legal right, under its charter, to make tl r- charge it did. The charter provides that tl >n said railroad shall have the power to char; id for the transportation of "goods, produc at merchandize and other articles, any sum, n< of exceeding the following rates, viz: "not e: d, ceeding fifty cents per hundred pounds f< r. each hundred miles, on heavy articles, an tg fifteen cents per cubic foot on articles of mea h- urement, for every hundred miles." T1 id plaintiffs contended that under a proper coi >f struction of thecharter, cotton is a heavy art re cle; that the legal rate of freight thereon in to be ascertained by its weight; that the rai s. road is required to pro-rate its charges for di tances less than one hundred miles; and, tha therefore, the legal charge on a bale of cottoi te weighing four hundred pounds, from this poix n to Charlotte, the distance being forty-fh ;t miles, is ninety cents. The defendants clain n ed that under their charter they have tl i- right to classify articles for transportatio 3t either as "heavy articles" or as "articles < d measurement," according to their own plea 1. ure and convenience ,* that cotton is not it "heavy article," and is properly an "article c >f measurementthat the road is not require a to pro-rate its charges for distances less tha is one hundred miles; and that, therefore, the i- have the right to charge on an average bal e of cotton, measuring thirty cubic feet, fou i" dollars and a half freight from this place t s Charlotte. The plaintiffs were represented b; Messrs,McAlilly & Brawley andE. C. MoLure, the defendants by Col. J. H. Rian and J. J. McLure, Esq. The decision of his Honor, Judge Thomas, was reserved. Aa the interests involved in the case are very important, both to the railroad and to the mercantile and planting community, it wiilcloubilesr go, for its final determination to the Supreme Court The garrison at this place consists of one <x>mp?mjfof cavalry and'one'of iHfaritrj^SSfflr numbering about ninety men: Maj. James Van Voast of the 18th Infantry, and ranking Major in the army, is commandant of the poet The Cavalry is troop C of the 7th Regiment under the command of Captain V.'R. i Hart, and the Infantry, company H, of the 18th Regiment, is under the command of Lt H. H. Adams. Lt R. F. Bates of company H, is acting Adjutant, Quartermaster and Commissary of poet Lt J. E. Porter of troop C, is also here on duty. The most admirable order and discipline is maintained; and the presence of the troop* is a soume of interest and pleasure to the town, rather than an an noyance, as it used to be in the days whet volunteer troops were quartered upon us. The - * ?C?ivman4 ?ru1' Ml] officers are genuemeu UI ICU1KJ1UVMW ? I tore, and while we doubt not that they woulc impartially discharge their dnty m ever ' emergency that might arise, we are satisfiec ' that they have no prejudices againet the whit ' race in favor of the colored. * . v . Early risers report a heavy froat on yeatei j uaj winning, Ua a light one thd wonilnf . So far we have heard of no damage done. Th< 9 spring is uhusuallyTSrwara uaraena are aj B moet ready to furnish supplies for the tabk s and the fruit crop is mole promising than fb several years past A killing frost now weal be a very serious calamity to the eoontry. i. , I):' ' - X.V .. > > . 9*ortb? VoffcrlDeEixittirer. tJKIOH COUHTf C0MK8P0HDISCR. . ' 'M '' CfcOP PB06PECTB, * Wheat promises a fair average crop. Thi ? which was put in early in the season kol e very well. The late sowing is backward an i' unpromising. So upon the whole an^veraj 7 is ali wemay expect, Jt might be well ? ? fisrmen who wish ta improve their < peed, 1 le go through their fields, when, ripe, .and sele >r the earliest and finest heads. A peck or hs * bushel may soon be gathered in this way, ar d it certainly would pay,for the ^trouble. d The spring hps been favorable so farf 1 *? l.. *" the oat crop. a.greater an? um uoay.wi ^ than usual Fanners are, trying some of ti J? Norway oats, and other highly jrceommeod varieties,. It would-be better for us, and i ^ 'finitely better#)? horses and tuples, if mo "d care and attention were givento ibis crop. * About the same, quantity of; cotton will planted this year that was last The pri e does not stop the planting, ; it seems tb *e agricultural papers waste mm* ink is oxho ss in<* farmfirq to nlimt lean OOttDO. and BK <7 corn. This all works opt nicely onpapc & but you cannot manage .the. map of fiumu m. as easily as you can figures. They are get ee rally alow in their action. As a class, tb ?, do not like'sudden changes in their ope ft' tions. They have to oome to these things degrees. ..:.M ; . , be Barely enough oorq jrill be planted in! ay tapper portion of our county to supply i an home demand. Should the season t^e un )le vorable the supply wOl be aipvL te- More attention has been paid to the cu ty. vation of sorehum for the last year or ti ng 'than was before. It seems to oome in a i ft time hands cannot get bacon, and gives tfa - a cheap and healthful food.-; It is mt . sweeter than- the rrgrmnttti mnlassrn bought , ''**' ' i ...I AT? ?0?M DM to fiunm th*itl riSLS ey be planted with com any time betw?* i ei lit cTMa?, n little attentionilgbwilto thea^ * t?od ei will be made five!yeara outcifsix.Vein *r thinc on the? &*? Will yield * better site be for the same labor. The vinea wffl perhr in est, and the prospect is generally as good it has been any year since the war. P. ty . ^THB XV-|O.IJ^ LAW. is- Ah Aot . to enforce the provbdom of the Am ? ttetith amendment to tbeCanatifettkm of I , : TJntte* States, end *arOttoK- purrcaw. ^ > d* Be it enaeUa by the Senate and House fe. Representatives of the United States of Am< Id ica; ifl Congress assembled, That any pen to who, under color ofany law, statute, or nance, regulation, custom, or mage, of a State, shall subject, or cause to be sabjecti any person within jurisdiction of tiie Ui . tea States to the deprivation of any righ privileges, or immunities secured by the Cc stitnfcion of the United States, shall, any su law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, m usage, of the State to-the contrary notwit ^ standing, be liable to the party injured in iu action at law, suit in equity, or other prop proceeding for redress; such proeeeanpg. r* be prosecuted in the several district or circi courts of the United States, with and subje ia to the same rights of appeal, review up re error, and other remedies provided in fi] v. cases in such courts, under theprovirions the act of the 9th of April, 1866,entitled **A act to protect all persons in the jOitfted^tet l7 in their civil rightg, and to fbroish the men of their vindication," and the other remedi >1* laws of the United States which are in the ... nafiiM annlinaKIn in innii nuwi m Sec. ^ That if two or more persons with ,4 any State or Territory of the United Stat shall conspire together to overthrow, or to p down, or to destroy by force, the Oovernmei ** of the United States, or to levy war again ^ the United States, or to oppose by force t) as authority of the Government of the Unto eJ States, or by force, intimidation, or threat, i ^ prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of ai law of the United States, or by force to seu take, or possess any property of the Unto ?" States contrary to the authority thereof or 1 k force, intimidation, or threat to prevent ai >n person from acoepting or holding any offi< le or trust or place of confidence under tne Ux ie ted States, or from discharging the duti ^ thereof, or by force, intimidation or threat ' induce any officer of the United States i ' leave any State, district, or place where h " duties as suoh officer might lawfully be pc formed, or to injure him in his person < >r property on account of his lawful discharj d of the duties of his office, or to inju: g. bis person while e: gaged in the lawfi l0 discharge of the duties of his. office, or to ii jure his property so as to molest, hinder, ii ]' terfere with, or impede him in the discbarj J" of his official duty, or by force, intimidatioi is or threat, to deter any party or witness in an 1- court of the United States from attending sue <wni4 n* Atnm facrfiAntlff ft? HIT DfilM g. WUAV) VI UVIU WOWMT^ - r * ing in each court fully, freely, and truthfully or to injure any such party or witness in h 3' person or property on account of his having ? 11 attended or testified; or by force, intiznidi 'e tion, or threat, to influence the verdict, pr? sentment, or indictment of any juror or gran ie juror in any court of Jtbs United States; or 1 n injure such juror in his person or property o * account ofany verdict, presentment, or indie ment lawfully assented to by him, or on ai ^ count of his being or having been such juror * or shall conspire together, or go in disguii >f upon the public highway or upon the premise d of another for the purpose, either directly c Q indirectly, of depriving any person or an class of persons of the equal protection of th y laws, or of equal privileges or immunties undc 6 the laws, or for the purpose of preventing c r hindering the constituted authorities of an o State from giving or securing to all person y within such State the equal protection of th laws, or shall conspire togetfter ior us purpose of, in any manner, impeding, hindering, obstructing, or defeating the due course of justice in any State or Territory, with intent to deny to any citizen of the United States the due and equal protection of the laws, oar to inj^anyjwqoni^hiswrso* or JWe property for lawfully enforcing the right of any person or class of persons to the equal protection of the laws, or by force, intimidation, or threat, to prevent any citizen of the United States lawfully entitled to note from .gifing-hia nagy. port or advocacy ip a lawful manner toward^ or in fit/pert the election of any lawfWly quaHned pbnon as an debtor of PresidenVor Vice-President of the United States, or as a member of tiseCoMFSM of tiie United States, or to-injwe any soon citizen in his person or cacv, eech ana every person so onending shall be deemed amity tff* Mglr crime, and, upon conviction thereof in any district or circuit court of the UudeMSlittq, ot district or sui preme eonrt of imy Territory of the United i .States liaving jurisdiction of similar oftnoes, . shall be punished by a line notion than five ' hundred nor more than five tnoosana aouan, ' or iflroriaonmsnt, with or without hard la' bor; m toe court may determine, fait, period t not lees than six months nor nwtrnthaasix ; * endued in any such conspiracy shell do, or ^ cause to be done, tny set ifrlbrtheranee of 1 the object of each oonspbacy, whereby any 0 person shall be injured in his person or property, or deprived ofbaviagand exsrrisiM any - light or privilege of a- citizen of the United f r* Vll- -^4 A'.:-- n# r .U1A IS ICwm TOT u6 reCOTOJ Ox OBSMra uG>, flirioWod by each injury or depehmwhi -of r riafato and privilege* amunt any itoe or toore * ?SiaSpntoH i? triotorcircint. caa%o?j3!e ,TJnited States,, with and subject tp the same fights of app?2, . review upon ertbiyand bther remedies provided to like cases insuefc coorts tmder the provisions of the act of April 9th, 1886, entitled it "Aaaotto protect aM persons in the United a **40 farai8h ** 5? domestic violence, unlawful cordbSS^ or >r conspiracies in any State shall so obstruct or tp. hinder the execution of the laws theno^ and ct of the United States, as to deprive any portion j!" or class of the people of such State of any . of by this act, an<Ithe (V such State ehAll either be unable to protect, or m shall, from any cans, fiul in or nfhse jtototobe tiou of gie people in such righto, snoh'ltau shaU be deemed a denial by such State Of the equid parotectipn of the laws to which they are fin titled under the Constitution of the United "IP*;?" soon UMBRMBOBi TVmwM, nniawnii 00001be nation,or eonspincrftfhal! oppose ofdhtttrnct oe the laws of the United Sts^arthb-dtiesfcat ecotiartUer?<ogiaped>or>hiUaL.I thsda* rt. cow cfjnstiee and* the sin* iUknll Wf ?^?gay a* of the United Ststt^br of either, or WttW ?* meai^ as homey deem neoemarxttikW ey in osrionof iotb ,i?Mwotion,- doowstfaVto-1 ~ Ienoe, or oombinatioos; and eat pcMfeWhe *< , the marehalofSs proper district, to he dealt be with according to ?w ? Saa 4. in fi>" of ? Bute Uw BBbwfal ^mtmtkrn wnad in the preoeding asetiou of shall he Iti- organised and armed, and so nuMrooaand wo, powered as tobe vkJeno^ 2 ? rebellion against the gorernmen? of the to United States, and Ausii5ti<e<wii6ine 6i<?f ft ?ach rebellion* ?nd iShia the liaiti at Ike rn- of, soch limits to be prescribed bypsroclamatk?. itshallbe^laiMfc^ShftSS^S F United States, when, in his judgment, the r.ai puDiic wiriy utiEii require it, to -tuspeoa tne ? .. privileged the writ ofkabeot evrpu*,to the W vr- end that andi rebellion may be overthiswn: Bj ** Provided, Thst til the propone of the sec- 9 S tmnprirhtrm himilml ?i?liiiffillii hi WliTi 1i I K inleto tp thci i1iw hei?n rif infawwin ottisrllin H J. prisoners of war, aodtothe penaltyIfbrrefe* ..;B ^ sing to obey the order of the ooart, sMll be B , in full Jbnw so ikr as the same are jutolicsble H 2 to the mo^onid this section; PnwUifiir v thar, That the President shall flat have made B __ proclamation, as now providaiby hW, oott^ B , manding sucn inSbrgente W 'cfiflgMsiSt A&d B| ' provided, al?$, That the provwone of thissto- B tion shall not be in force after the end of the- I * nuTt roffnlir flfiBori of GoDfiZB? H to i ^C^ISw' . T7 . !Jf> :*ii i?*vM.fcia>> BB lit Sec. 5. That no person shall be a mod or ^ petit juror in any ooort of the United States B 5n upon iny inquiry, hearing, or trial of any. B ^ suit, proceeding or prosecution, based upon or . ^ . prising under the provisions of thit act who H shall, in the judgment of the eourt, be in ' Complicity with any such combination og jeeor M spiracy; and every such juror shall, before .1 entering upon any such inquiry, hearing or trial, take and subecribeanoath in cm Apart that he has never,directly or indirectly, conn m selled, advised or voluntarily aided, any such ? combination or conspiracy; and each and ev ttt eiy person who shall take this oath,and .ebaU . H t therein swear falsely, shall beguilty of perju u ry, and shall be subject to the pains ana pen l-' slties declared against that crime, and the H ^ first section of the act entitled "An act defi- B ning additional causes of challenge and pre- B w -T 1 i.L r 1 ?J ? 'Hi i_ scriDiDg an aacuuoiuu unui iw^isuu WM jmu h / jurors m the United States warts," approved B jjj Jane 17th, 1862, be and the seme is hereby B ? repealed. - B ty Sac. 6. That any person or persons having B ce knowledge that any of the wrongs conspired B i$. to be done, and mentioned in the secon<f sec- B M tion of this act axe aboof to be committed, and B to having power to prevent or aid in preventing - B to ing the same, shall neglect or refiaaao to do, B ;m and each wrongful net shall be committed, B p. such person or persons shall be liable to the 'B >r person injured, or his legal representatives, for M re all damages caused by any such wrongful act, B re which such first-nszned person or persons by B j reasonable diligenoe could hive prevented; B a. and such damages may be reamed in an B j. action on the case in the proper circuit court B re of the United States; ana any number of per- B \t sous guilty of such wrongful neglect or refa- B - ml miv m ioined as defendants in such so- | ? tion, provided that such action shall be com1. menced within one year after each cause of p-, action shall have accrued. And if the death fe of any person shall be caused by any spch to wrongful act and neglect, the legal representi ativee of such deceased person shall have such y action therefor; and may recover not exceeded ing $5,000, damages therein for the benefit of io the widow of soon deceased person, if any n there b*ro if there be no widow then for the t- benefitof the next of kin of such deoeased > Pe??r; Sec. 71 That nothing herein contained shall le be construed to supersede or repeal any fors mer act or law, except so for as the same may >r be repugnant thereto ; and any offences herey tofore committed.against the tenor of any fore mer act shall be prosecuted; and any pto- < sr needing already oom menced for the proseonr tion thereof shall be oontinoed and completed y the same as if this act had not been passed, is except so far as the provisions of this act may e go to sustain and validate such proceedings. m