Scraps and Jadis.
Six thousand bales of cotton, as we
learn from the Charlotte Observer, lately passed
through Charlotte from Seluia, Ala., to Norfolk,
Va., via Piedmont Air Line railroad.
Washington's family carriage, nearly a
century old, is now in possession of Henry
Dunlay, of Philadelphia, and will be at the
Ceuteunial exhibition.
They do some things better in France,
vide the following neat way of putting it, from
a Parisian paper: "The Princess de M. is
about to retire from society for a little while, i
and is buying edgings, insertings, muslins, and
__ : 1.:? .? i:,.i I
so on, which sue la iua&ing up iutu uuic gm- j
nients, too large for a doll and too small for
hersef."
One of Mark Twain's funny stories is
that of a Scripture panorama, the proprietor
of which engaged a pianist to play appropriate
music. The musician, when the picture
of the "Prodigal Son" was passing, struck up
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home!"
which excited the indignation of the moral
lecturer.
As everybody is interested in the matter
of cheap food, it is pleasant to learn from
the monthly report of the department of agriculture,
that the corn crop for 1875 is one of
the largest ever grown in this country ; that
the potato crop is extraordinary, both in product
and quality, and that the buckwheat
crop equals that of last year.
There are two Chinese Sunday-schools
in Vallejo,California; one uuder Presbyterian
and the other under Baptist auspices. They
are very successful in point of numbers, but
scoffers assert that all the Chinaman are after
is to learn English. The Presbyterian drew
off largely from the Baptist school by furnishing
better singing, which fact iudicates
that music hath charms to soothe the Celestial
breast.
A novel bit of newspaper enterprise is
that of the New York Herald, which has organized
an expedition to discover the whereabouts
of Boss Tweed. The expedition includes
scouts on land and steam tugs on water. If
success crowns its efforts, it will not only have
performed a substantial public service, but
have also earned the 810,000 reward the
sheriff has offered on the production of the
distinguished fugitive.
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
says: "Heretofore the people of South Carolina
have been harassed and overawed by the
federal government. They have been intimidated
from exercising the legal rights of citizeus.
Let them remember that next year
they have nothing to fear from this quarter.
The house is democratic, and the President is
powerless to interfere with the freedom of
elections. Unity of action and a square out
fight will enable the honest men of South
Carolina to get control of the State government
in 1876."
The New York Times contains the
official announcement that the National Republican
Executive Committee, of which exSenator
Morgan, of New York, is chairman,
and William E. Chandler, secretary, will meet
in Washington on the 13th of January, to
decide upon the time and place for holding
the next Republican Presidential Convention.
The National Democratic Executive Committee,
of which Hon. Aug. Schell, of New
York, is chairman, will also meet in Washington
a month later to decide when and
where the Democratic Convention shall be
held. As both of the last coveutions were in
the East?the Republican at Philadelphia,
and the Democratic at Baltimore?it seems
to be conceded that they will go West next
year.
Mr. John G. Thompson, of Uhio, is
weary of public life. He was elected sergeantat-arms
of the House of Representatives only
a few days ago, and already the pertinacity of
_ ?hungry officer-seeker lias iimde life a l?u?den.
He said to a sympathizing Ohio editor
recently: "If I had known the vexations
which this position would bring upon me, I
would have stayed out in Ohio, where peace!
was tinkling on the shepherd's bell and ringing
with the reapers. I have no patronage, and
yet the impression is abroad that I have. I
can only appoint three assistants, whose duties
are similar to those of book-keeper and cashier,
and yet I am pulled and hauled by every
applicant from California to Maine. The fellows
smile incredulously when I tell them that
1 have no places, and those who know that I
have none to give, are ready to kill me because
I can't help them in other departments."
James Robinson, the owner of the
"Robinsou House," on the Bull Run battle
field, near Manassas, Va., died a few days
since. He witnessed both of the memorable
battles, remaining on his place with his family
during those terrible scenes of blood. His
house received hundreds of bullets and one
solid twenty-four pounder, which went
through a bed room, carrying away one post
of a bed upon which lay a sick Confederate
soldier. He witnessed the death of the Confederate
Generals Bee and Bartow, which
took place within a hundred yards of his
door. He saw the marble monument erected
to their memory, and saw the Federal soldiers
destroy the same at the second battle. He
gathered up the fragments and preserved
them, and up to the time of his death would
give visitors to the battle field,jwho desired it,
a small piece of the marble as a memento.
The Philadelphia Times of Friday last
says: "There was a movement in the Keeley
moter business yesterday. It was the day of
the annual election of directors by the stockholders,
of whom there are 112 on the rolls,
having 20,000 shares, of a "face" value of ?50
a share, distributed among them, and held
about half-and-half in New York City and
Philadelphia. After electing eleven directors
1 (Kn ?onn.io r\f tJ,o nppcpnt. rnnrli
illlU IJCai lUg tu^ 1 tpvi I/O V* VIIV |/IWVM? VVMW.
tion of the machine, the party took carriages
and drove out to Keely's workshop, where they
inspected the new generator. It weighs two
tons, and is made of phosphor bronze, an
Austrian gun-metal, aud will, according to
Keeley, be able to generate 30,000 pounds
pressure to the square inch. The new receiver,
a perfect sphere thirty inches iuterior and
forty-two inches exterior diameter, weighing
seven thousand pounds, cost in steel, and
taking four days to cool and thirteen days
to be decarbonized, will also be received in
about a week. Then, in about three months,
the Keeley motor will be ready to split ships
in two, drive engines to New York and
back on a pint of water," &c.
A couple of ladies arrived in New
York from Liverpool the other day, to whom
a somewhat remarkable story is attached.
Many years ago there lived in Virginia a
man of large means and of good social and business
repute?Stacy by name and an ironmaster
by trade. He had married, early in life, a
handsome girl, by whom he had four children.
He did not live happily with his wife, and
eventually he instituted suit for divorce, and,
meanwhile, separated from her. Pending the
suit Mrs. Stacy went to England, and shortly
after, Mr. Stacy, reading in one of the English
papers of her death, stopped the proceedings
for divorce, and married a young lady
living in Richmond. Two years ago Fanny
Stacy, the only surviving child of the first
marriage, went to England on a visit. While
staying at Torquay she met a lady who had
known her father and mother in America,
aud from this person she learned, to her surnrUp
that her mother. Mrs. Stacv No. 1, was
not dead, but living in London in straitened
circumstances. On her return to America Miss
Stacy told her father what she had heard.
The old gentleman was incredulous aud angry
that any one should have dared to mention
the name of his wife. Last year Mr. Stacy
died, and when his will was opened it was discovered
that he had left the whole of his
fortune, amounting to over one million dollars,
to his second wife and her children.
Fanny determined to contest the will. To do
this it was necessary to find the first wife,
prove the first marriage, the consequent illegality
of the other marriage, ana the illegitimacy
of its issue. Miss Stacy, therefore, iu
company with an old friend, went to England
in search of her mother. She engaged the
services of some English detectives, and sue- j
ceded in finding her mother, and the two
lately arrived in New York and started for
Virginia, where the suit, is now pending, to
set aside the will of the late Mr. Stacy, ironmaster.
IJorfeviUf inquirer.
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THE ELECTION OF JUDGES.
The action of the dominant party in the
Legislature, on the occasion of the recent judicial
election, exhibits a degree of corruption
in that body, which, with all their political
sins and shortcomings, we confess we were unprepared
to expect. From the promises made
by Mr. Chamberlain during the last canvass,
and reiterated by him with solemn emphasis
on assuming the functions of chief executive
of the State, we had hoped that with his inauguration,
the thieves and plunderers who had
enriched themselves with the peoples' money,
if they did not sink from the surface altogether,
would at least, in emulation of their leader,
give some evidences of reformation ; especially
as it was an oft-repeated maxim, a year
ago, that "reform must begin inside the party."
That Governor Chamberlain, as the head
and front of the Republican party in this
State, has done all that it was in his power to
do, to effect a reformation in his party, we
are not prepared to gainsay ; that he ha3 effected
much we will not deny; nor do we
doubt his inclination to accomplish all he can
in the future. But from recent developments
it must be conceded that he has not that control
over his party which it was hoped he
could exert; nor can he, alone and unaided,
bring about the reformation so desirable for
the prosperity of our people.
It may be necessary for reform to "begin
inside the Republican party but if, after one
year's trial, the leaders?the legislators elected
by that party?persist in elevating to the
judicial bench such men as Whipper, Moses
and Wiggins, we may well doubt the expediency
of restricting the experiment to Republican
lines.
What, then, can be done ? We answer, the
remedy is with the people. Surely, there are
in South Carolina enough honest men, under
proper organization, to control the political
at!'airs oi theotaie. x>ut tney cauuoi uo organized
under the banner of the Tax-Payers'
Union; and equally futile would be the attempt
to draw the lines either of color or party.
Let the issues of party-name, or the race
or color of the citizen be ignored, and let the
honest men of the State deliberate the question
of the hour, irrespective of the side-issues
which heretofore have been a goblin in their
path.
We cannot but believe that there are a
large number of colored men in South Carolina,
acting with the Republican party, who
would prefer an honest State government.
And we have the same good opinion of the
larger number of the white voters iu the Republican
ranks. The Tax-Payers, are in the
minority. They are as powerless on the one
hand to check corruption, as is Governor
Chamberlain on the other. But by proper
effort and unity of action they could constitute
a strong and powerful element in the
work of lifting the State from the slough of
corruption into which she has been sunk.
Under the banner of Reform, with the determination
that the work shall be accomplished,
let the Tax-Payers and the honest
element of the Republican party unite?for
surely in this good work they will meet half*1%/*
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wajr atiu tUC cuu nut uuvvuwvu UVVUIU|1IIWI<
ed. To attain this object, however, there
must be organization, the details of which it
is unnecessary here to elaborate, further than
to suggest the propriety, of at once calling
township meetings in every county of the
State, in which honest men, irrespective of
party or race, may be allowed to participate.
| Let the townships meet in county conventions,
j aud let the couuties send up delegates to a
State convention for the purpose of adopting
a platform with Honesty as the corner-stone,
and taking such steps for thorough organization
as may, after deliberation, be regarded
| for the best.
THE GOVERNOR INTERVIEWED.
Mr. Dawson of the News and Courier has
interviewed Governor Chamberlain on the
subject of the recent judicial election, and
! that official declares it to be the greatest caj
laraity that has yet fallen upon any portion of
I the South. The election was had during the
: Governor's absence at Greenville, to 611 an
j engagement made several weeks ago ; and
though he does not believe he could have
j changed the result had he been present, yet
; before leaving for Greenville, he had made an
: effort to stay the election, and had received
] such assurance from Speaker Elliott as to lead
! him to believe that it would be either post!
poned or fought oft' until he should return
from Greenville. But he is now convinced
| that the conspiracy was carefully coucocted,
J and that the color line, the party line and the
j line of antagonism to his administration all
were sharply drawn. To the question, "What,
in your judgment, will be the effect of the
election of Whipper, Wiggins and Moses ?"
the Governor made the following reply :
"The gravest consequences of all kinds will
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I JOUOW. V^UtJ lLUHieuiaiC cucui mil uunwuuij
be the reorganization of the Democratic party
. within the State, as the only means left, in the
' judgment of its members, for opposing a solid
and reliable front to this terrible crevasse of
, raisgovernment and public debauchery. I
[ could have wished, as a Republican, to have
kept off such an issue; but I have a profound
belief in the logic of events and a Providence,
too, that shapes events ; and I do not allow
i myself to think that the good and honest men
of South Carolina will find it impossible, be!
cause they are organized as Democrats, to
j give their help to whomsoever shall be best
S able to undo the terrible wrongs of last Thurs;
day. I am free to say that my highest ambij
tion as Governor has been to make the ascendancy
of the Republican party in Houth Cari
olina compatible with the attainment and
V
maintenance of as high aud pure a tone in the
administration of public affairs as can be exhibited
in the proudest Democratic State of
the South ; and it was also my fondest hope,
by peaceful agencies, here in South Carolina
alone of all the Southern States, to have worked
out, through the Republican party, the solution
of the most difficult and one of the most
interesting political and social problems which
this century has presented. If these results
shall not be reached, the responsibility for the
failure will not rest upon me, nor upon the
Conservative citizens of South Carolina, who
have hitherto, with unvarying fidelity and
generosity, stood by me in my work ; but upon
those, and all like them, who dealt the cause
of good government so deadly a blow on
Thursday."
M. E. CONFERENCE.
The South Carolina Conference of the M.
E. Church, in sessiou at Orangeburg, Bishop
Keener presiding, adjourned on Monday night
loo. Tn tVio Poir .T Wnl.or Dmlrsnn wo are
iudebted for the list of appointments for Columbia
District, which are as follows:
Columbia District?E. J. Meynardie, P. E.
Washington Street?A. Coke Smith; Marion
Street, J. Walter Dickson; Columbia Circuit?G.
M. Hoyd; Richland Fork Circuit?C. D. Rowell;
Winnsboro Station?Geo. W. Walker; Blackstocks
Circuit and Mission?David Seal; Fairtield
Circuit?J. M. Boyd ; Chester Circuit?Thomas
Mitchell, A.C. Walker; East Chester Circuit?J.
W. Kelly ; Rock Hill Circuit?T. W. Munnerlyn ;
Yorkvifle Station?J. E. Carlisle; York Circuit?
E. L. Archer, L. A. Johnson, Supernumerary ;
Lexington Circuit?T. J. Clyde; Lcesvillo Circuit?J.
A. Clifton; Edgetield Circuit?G. F.
Round ; President Columbia Female College?S.
B. Jones; A. J. Stafford, Professor in Columbia
Female College.
The following ministers, well known in this
section, were assigned as follows:
J. B. iMassabeau?Allendale; R. L. Harper?Florence
and Liberty Chapel Circuit;
\V. T. Capers?Spring Street, Charleston;
0. A. Darby?P. E., Greenville District; D.
D. Dantzler?Orangeburg Circuit; A. W.
Walker?Walhalla and Pendleton ; J. Emery
Watson?Goshen Hill; J. W. Humbert?
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macK o warn p.
The next Conference will be held at Chester.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 14th, Mr. Patterson
presented a memorial from the Chamber of
Commerce and the Mayor of Charleston for
an appropriation for the improvement of the
harbor at that city. Louisiana affairs were
briefly discussed, after which the Senate went
iuto executive session. In the House, among
the vast number of bills offered are the following
: By Mr. Blaine, proposing an amendment
to the Constitution providing that no
State make any law respecting the establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof, and that no money raised by taxation
in any State for the support of the public
schools, or derived from any lands devoted
thereto, shall ever be under the control of any
religious sect, and that no money or lauds so
devoted shall be divided among religious sects
or denominations, and making the President's
term six years, the incumbent to be ineligible.
By Mr. Darroll, of Louisiana, to amend the
act of the 3d of March, 1871, incorporating
the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, a bill
similar to West's introduced in the Senate.
By Mr. Morey, of Louisiana, to remove political
disabilities from all the citizens of the
United States, and to prescribe an oath of office.
By Mr. Davis, of North Carolina, to
repeal the law forbidding the payment of ac
counts, claims and deraauds of Southern citizens
for quartermasters' stores, &c., and appropriating
$500,000 to pay for the same. Mr.
Fort, of Illinois, offered the following resolution
and demanded the preciaue ^uaation -nnits
adoption: "Resolved, by the House of
Representatives, that in all subordinate appointments
under any of the officers of this
House it is the judgment of the House that
wounded Union soldiers who are not disabled
from the performance of duty should be preferred."
A standing vote on seconding the
previous question showed 97 republicans voting
in its favor and 104 Democrats against
it. The vote was taken by letters with like
general result, the report of the tellers being
ayes 99, noes 126. So the previous question
was not seconded. Mr. Cox, of New York,
then offered the following as an amendment
to the resolution, and moved the reference of
both resolutions to the Committee on accounts,
J J - ?il?? mma??aiib miAohnn
auu utiiuauucu tile picviuua vjucsmuu .
solved, Tbat inasmuch as the Union of the
States has been restored, all the citizens thereof
are entitled to consideration in the appointment
to offices under the Government." After
some sparring by members of both sides,
the two resolutions were referred to the committee
on accounts.
In the Senate on the 15th, Mr. Morton, of
Indiana, introduced a joint resolution that the
United States constitute a nation, aud that the
rights of the States caunot be enlarged or diminished
except by constitutional amendment,
and that secession is impossible. The same
member also submitted a resolution to the effect
that the last election in the State of Mississippi
was carried by the Democrats by
fraud, intimidation and violence, and he
moved that a committee of five Senators be
appointed to visit Mississippi and investigate
the facts. At the request of Mr. Bayard, of
Delaware, the resolution was laid over until
the next day. Mr. Stevenson, of Kentucky
introduced a resolution that the Secretary of
the Treasury be and he is hereby requested to
transmit to the Senate copies of all letters,
telegrams, orders and instructions relating to
the organization aud prosecution of alleged
infraction of internal revenue laws at St.
Louis, Chicago and Milwaukie, if not deemed
incompatible with the public interest. After
long argument and much objection from the
Republican side, Steveuson withdrew it. A
large number of private bills were introduced.
After executive session the Seuate adjourned.
In the House, several postal and financial
hills were introduced and referred. Mr.
Randall introduced a bill for the removal of
all disabilities imposed by the third section of
the 14th article of the amendment to the Constitution.
The bill was set for the 21st. Rainey,
of South Carolina, introduced a bill to
abolish the committee on freedmen's affairs,
of the House, which was agreed to. Mr.
Holraau, of Indiana, offered a resolution proi
bibiting goverument subsidies for private en* j
| terprise, which was adopted by a vote of yeas, ,
j 223 ; nays, 30. Mr. Robbins, of North Car-!
j olina, offered a resolution declaring it the j
purpose of the House not to interfere with I
the present tax on tobacco before the 1st of!
July, 1876. Referred to the committee on
ways and means. Mr. Springer, of Illinois, |
! offered a resolution declaring that in the opiu- j
' ion of the House the precedent established by !
| Washington and other Presidents of the'
United States in retiring from the Presiden- j
I tial office after their second terra has become,
: by universal concurrence, a part of our Re-:
! publican system of government, and that any !
departure from that time-honored custom
would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught'
with evil to our free institutions. Adopted?
yeas 232, nays 18. Among the nays were
Haralson, of Alabama, (colored ;) Hoge, of
South Carolina ; Hyman, of North Carolina,
I (colored})Nash,ofJV>uisiana;Smalls,ofSouth
Carolina, (colored;) Walls, of Florida; Wells,;
j of Mississippi, and White, of Kentucky. The ,
House passed a concurrent resolution to adjourn
over from the 20th instant to Tuesday,
the 4th of January, 1876. Adjourned until
Friday.
In the Senate on the 16th, Mr. Spencer, of
Alabama, offered a resolution, which was J
agreed to, appointing a committee of inquiry |
to investigate into and ascertain whether or ;
not he had secured his own election to the U.
S. Senate by corrupt means. The resolution j
which passed the House to adjourn until the 1
4th of January was amended by inserting January
5th, and goes to the House for concurrence.
Morton's resolution appointing a committee
to investigate the Mississippi electious
was discussed with considerable bitterness,
without action.
In the Senate on the 17th, Thurraan suggested
that Morton's resolution for iuvestiga-!
ting the Mississippi election be laid over until j
Monday the 20th, which was agreed to. Ed- j
munds submitted a resolution to elect a Presi- J
dent pro tem. on the 7th of Jauuary, which was j
referred to the judiciary committee. In the \
Housea bill was introduced to repeal the tax !
on leaf tobacco. Also, to repeal the law making
restrictions in the disposition of the public
lnuds in the States of Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida. Mr.
Page, of California, offered a resolution to the
effect that the House of Representatives has
no right to attempt to limit or forestall the
public will on the question of electing a Presdentofthe
United States for a third terra.
The reading of the resolution was greeted with
laughter on both sides of the House, and the
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LIUUDC 1CIUSCU IV OCVVliU bliv piUTiuuo vjuvubiw...
The House agreed to the Senate resolution to
adjourn on the 20th instant until the 5th of
January.
. THE LEGISLATURE.
The legislature has agreed to take a recess
from Wednesday, the 22nd of December,
1875, to Wednesday, January 5th, 1876.
A bill was passed makiug an appropriation
to pay the members and attaches, and
another authorizing the State Treasurer to
borrow 870,000 at 1J per cent, per month interest,
to pay the members and attaches.
The tax bill has passed both Houses, and
at our last advices only awaited the signature
of the Governor to make it a law. The total
levy for State purposes aggregates eleven
mills.
A bill has passed providing for the extension
of the time for the payment of taxes for
the fiscal year commencing November 1st, I
1875.
...
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Mrs. Elizabeth Abernathy, of Sumter
county, celebrated her centennial birthday on
the 11th instant.
? The Grand Master of Ancient Free Masons,
has appointed Col. Asbury Coward District
Deputy Grand Master for the th:rd Masonic
District of South Carolina.
? Fifty-one immigrants, men, women and
children, arrived in Charleston on Saturday
of last week, from Germany. They are engaged
to go to Anderson county to work on
farms.
? James Fetner, who was the engineer of
the train recently wrecked on the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad, has been
committed to jail to await his trial for murHap
at the Muroh term of the Edcefield Court
of Sessions.
? The Supreme Court has decided that the
Actof the General Awuibiy-W constitutional,
which gives trial justices concurrent jurisdiction
with the Circuit Court, in criminal actions
where the damages claimed do not exceed one
hundred dollars.
? A duel was fought at Sand Bar Ferry on
the South Carolina side of the Savannah
river, last Thursday, between two citizens of
Augusta, Ga. Mr. Tilly, a commission merchant,
challenged Mr. Ratcliffe, a cotton broker,
the grievance being that the latter had
repeated or circulated offensive reports affecting
the character of the former. One shot
was exchanged, Mr. Tilly receiving a wound
from which he died next day. The laws of
Georgia prescribe severe punishment for sending,
bearing or accepting a challenge to fight
a duel; and when death ensues from a duel,
then all parties, both principals and seconds,
are held amenable for murder.
? At the recent annual communication of
the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Masons of
South Carolina, the following gentlemen were
elected and appointed officers for the ensuing
year : W. G. DeSaussure, M. \V. Grand Master
; B. \V. Ball, Deputy Grand Master; A.
T. Smvthe. Senior Grand Warden; F. A.
? - ? ?
CoDoer, Junior Grand Warden; J. H. Honour,
Grand Treasurer; Charles Inglesby,
Grand Secretary ; Rev. \V. S. Bowman, Grand
Chaplain ; J. A. Law and T. B. Hacker, Senior
Grand Deacons; E. T. Westmoreland and
D.T. Barr, Junior Grand Deacons; Zimmerman
Davis, Grand Marshal; B. J. Witherspoon,
Grand Pursuivant; W. A. Wilson,
Grand Tiler.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Two Mormou preachers have recently
been preaching in Charlotte.
? The State Grange will hold its next annual
meeting in Greensboro on the second
Tuesday of February next.
? The St. John's [Lutheran] Church of
ftoliaknru will nail tr? its nast.nrn.orf> Rpv. Dr.
Dortch, of Charleston.
? Randolph Sutton, colored, convicted of
burglary at the recent terra of Cabarrus Superior
Court, was sentenced to be hanged on
the 21st of next month.
? Jesse Wood, Sen., Jesse Wood, Jr., and
John Fisher, of Onslow, were committed to
jail in Wilmington last week on the charge
of counterfeiting the five-cent nickel coin.
? The N. C. Grand Lodge of colored Masons
held their annual meeting in Salisbury
last week. A grand procession, for which
the colored citizens are proverbial, was the
event of the occasion.
? The extensive buildings connected with
the Tokay vineyard at Fayetteville, together
with 80,000 gallons of wine, were consumed
by fire on Monday of last week, involving a
loss of about $80,000.
? Thomas Gladden, who was convicted of
the murder of Calvin Rippey at the last term
of the Superior Court of Cleveland county,
and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary,
died in the hospital of that institution on the
6th instant.
? The barn of Thomas Cook, near Friendship
in Guilford county, was burned last
week, together with 6ve head of mules and
horses, 500 bushels of corn, a quantity of
wheat and a large amount of roughness. The
barn was the finest building of the kind in
the county. The fire is supposed to have
been the work of an incendiary.
? The night mail train on the N. C. Railroad
between Richmond and Charlotte has
been discontinued, and the mail is now carried
on the day train. Much dissatisfaction
is expressed by the public along the line of
the road, as by the change the time between
New York and Charlotte is increased twentyfour-hours.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
M. Strauss?Received New Good3 in every line,
20th December, 1875.
E. W. Faucette and H. C. Dixon, Principals?
Finley High .School.
W. I. CJnwson, Register?In Bankruptcy?ExParte
J. H. Clawson, Assignee, In Re. Jas.
A. Barnwell, Bankrupt.
Cornelia Craven Administratrix?Saleof Choses
in Action.
H. P. Adickes?Holiday Goods.
Ed. Thomas, Superintendent?Change of Schedule.
A. Coward, Principal?King's Mountain Military
School.
J. R. Schorb, Clerk?Town Election.
Kennedy Latimer <fc Hemphill?Choice Variety of
Goods.
A. Williford?Horses and Mules.
W. H. Herndon?Itis a pleasure to me?The last
Anneal?(hind Mnrniitur. Mr. Herndon.
Miss Sue Edwards?Day School.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
We have been requested to give notice that
there will be no meeting of the Board of
County Commissioners until the first Monday
of January, 1876.
CHRISTMAS.
In conformity to a time-honored custom with
the weekly press, in the observance of the
Christmas holidays, the Enquirer will not
be issued next week. With the New Year,
we will greet the public, making our regular
issue for the new volume on Thursday the 6th
of January, 1876. To our subscribers, one
and all, we present the compliments of the
season, wishing each and every of them a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year I
THE FAMILY VISITOR.
The first number of our new publication,
the Family Visitor, will be issued in a few
days. The features of the publication are fully
set forth in the prospectus ; yet as there are
many who may desire to see the paper before
subscribing, to such we would say that specimen
copies will be forwarded on application.
A fine opportunity is furnished to club-makers
by the liberal propositions we make.
Those forming clubs should at once send in
their applications for specimen copies, which
will be promptly supplied.
RECENT MILITARY CHANGES.
Dr. P. Rector, who has had charge of the
"O^innl fjon.rtmmit O t fVlIU nnfit ?it)PP .TlltlP.
lUCUt^ai uvpui KUIVUV MV VUIW |^iW? V ?.Vy
1874, has been ordered to report for duty at
Charleston, and on Monday morning took his
departure for that place. Dr. Rector, while
here, made mauy warm friends by his frank
and genial manners, winning the highest esteem
of all our citizens. He is succeeded here
by Dr. Skinner, Assistant Surgeon U. S. A.,
who was last on duty in Florida.
The lieutenancy made vacant in the company
at this post by the promotion of Lieutenants
Whitehead and Beuner, last summer,
was only recently filled by the assignment of
Lieut. Patton to the company.
ACCIDENTS AT BLACK'S STATION.
On Thursday last, Sarah Taylor, a colored
girl, while passing through the steam mills of
Hardin & Black, at Black's Station, accidentally
caught the skirt of her dress on the main
shaft while the mill was in motion, and was
jerked to the floor with such violence as to
tear her clothing in shreds and break one
leg, besides otherwise hurting her.
On the next day, James Biggerstaff, one of
the employes in the same mills, had his hand
terribly lacerated while feeding the cotton gin.
His hand was caught by the saws of the gin,
while the machine was running at full speed,
and nearly torn off at the wrist before it could
be extricated.
RjIILROAO SCII.EUUI.ES.
By the new schedule of the Chester and
Lenoir Railroad, which went into effect last
Monday, the train leaves Yorkville at 7
o'clock, A. M., and arrives at Chester at 9
a. m. Leaves Chester at 3 o'clock, P. M.,
and arrives at Yorkville at 5 P. M.
On the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Kailroad, the mail tram going south arrives at
Chester at 12 o'clock in the night and remains
five minutes. Going north, it arrives
at Chester at 1.54 A. M., and remains six
minutes. The accommodation train going
south arrives at Chester at 9.37, A. M., aud
leaves at 9.54. Going north, arrives at Chester
at 2.37 P. M., and leaves at 2.52.
MASONICS ELECTIONS.
We have been kindly furnished with a list
of the officers of the several Masonic bodies
at Rock Hill, chosen at the recent annual
elections:
Rock Hill Lodge No. Ill, A. F. M.?A.
H. White, W. M.; R. H. McCosh, S. W.; J.
F. Ried,j. IF; William Whyte, Treasurer;
S. M. Fewell, Secretary; D. D. Moore, S. D.;
J. M. Robinson, J. D.; E. R. Mills, R. W.
Workman, Stewards; S. G. Keesler. Tiler.
Bhatton Chapter, No. 32, R. A. M.?A.
E. Hutchinson, M. E. H. P.; A. H. White,
King; D. D. Moore, Scribe; D. C. Williams,
C. of H.; Wra. Dillingham, P. S.; J. F.
Reid, R. A. C.; W. G. Ried, G. M. 3d Vail;
J. M. Robinson, G. M. 2d Vail; D. Gordon,
G. M. 1st Fcu7:R. T. May, Treasurer; Wra.
Whyte, Secretary; S. G. Keesler, Sentinel.
Campbell Council, No. 18, R. & S. M.?
A. E. Hutchinson, T. I. G. M.; D. Gordon,
D. G. M.; A. H. White, P. C. W.; R. H
McCosh, Treasurer; Win. Whyte, Recorder;
W. D. Dillingham, C. of the G; J. F. Reid,
r r . n n YV;n;oma - S n K*ea.
ler, Guard.
THE TAX PAYERS' CONVENTION.
This body met in Columbia on Tuesday
.evening of last week. Only a little more than
one-half of the counties of the State wore represented.
The following named gentlemen
were elected officers of the Convention : Gen..
W. W. Harllee, President; Messrs. C. R.
Miles, W. A. Walker, J. J. Norton, Vice
Presidents; Messrs. H. T. Williams, J. C.
Sheppard, Secretaries.
The following extract from the report of
the committee of nine, which report was adopted,
embraces the main action of the Convention
:
Whereas, the State government, organized in
l.StiS, has systematically ignored the material in!
terests of the tax payers of this State in the creaj
tiou of a system uselessly expensive; that the
; welfare of the people has thereby been greatly
| damaged, and almost destroyed by the highest
possible taxation, and the most lavish and cor:
rupt expenditure of the public money; that the
I credit or tue wiate nas ueen aiuiosi anniuiiaiau
, and the public securities brought into general disI
favor, that since the inauguration of Governor
j Chamberlain there has been some amelioration in
| our condition, but not at all sufficient to ensure
a healthy condition of affairs; and we recognize
the fact, that the majority of the Legislature hits
only been withheld from continuing the illegal
exactions heretofore imposed, by the exercise of
the veto power; that the same corrupt influences
are still at work to injure and oppress the people,
j exhibited both in the State and county govern!
ments; and that, therefore, it is necessary that
! the tax payers shall exercise the utmost vigilance
j to protect their rights ; therefore,
I ltexolvetl, That this convention earnestly rej
commend to the tax payers of this State a thor|
ough reorganization cf the Tax Unions upon the
plan heretofore adopted.
Resolved, That the people should see to it that
one or more Tax Unions be organized in each
city, town and township in the State, and from
those local Unions that county Unions and a State
Union be kept filiveas the resources from which
shall proceed the vital forces, to be used as exigencies
may arise, for the reformation and ultij
mato redemption of the Shite; and that to this
end tlio rresuient OI tills uonvennon uu cuargou
| with the duty of securing proper organizations
of such Tax Unions in all places where they are
not now in operation.
Iicxolveil, That this convention calls upon the
young and active men of the State to use the
utmost vigilanco in ell'eoting this organization of
the people, and to employ all fair, honorable and
legitimate agencies to acoom pilch the same, and
to rescue the State from her present humiliation
i and restore her to her former dignity and purity.
The Convention adjourned on Wednesday,
I after a harmonious session.
THE ELECTION OF JUDGES.
Oo Thursday last, the legislature of South j
Carolina, in joint assembly, elected an Asso-j
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court and eight
Circuit Judges. From the Charleston Nem'
and Courier we gather the following particulars
:
"For associate justice, J. J. Wright, S. J. i
Lee, Speaker of the House under Moses' administration,
and Macon B. Allen, ex-judge /
of the notorious Inferior Court of Charleston,!
(all of them colored) were nominated. Wright j
was elected on the first ballot, receiving 128
out of the 138 votes cast.
THE FIRST CIRCUIT.
For the First Circuit, composed of the coun- ;
ties of Charleston and Orangeburg, W. J. j
j Whipper, E. B. Seabrook and Hon. H. A. !
Meetze were nominated. Whipper was elect- i
ed on the first ballot, which resulted as fol-1
lows:
Whole number of votes cast, 138
Whipper, S3
Meetze 32
Seabrook, 22
Scattering, 1
The members from York county voted as I
follows: Col. Beatty for Meetze, a white Con-!
servative; White, Davies, Bates and Steele ,
for Wbipper.
THE SECOND CIRCUIT.
Nominations were called for the second cir- >
cuit bench. Judge Maher, the present iucum- j
bent, Solicitor P. L. Wiggins, of the same cir- j
cuit, and Macon B. Allen were nominated. '
Wiggins was elected on the first ballot, as per
programme, the vote standing as follows:
Whole number of votes cast, 143
gag! ?i?
Allen 0
Scattering, 1
This circuit is composed of the counties of
Beaufort, Colleton, Barnwell and Aiken.
THE THIRD CIRCUIT.
F. J. Moses. Jr., the ex-Governor, and
Judge Shaw, the present incumbent, were the
only nominees. Ouly one ballot was held,
with the following result:
Whole number of votes cast, 135
Moses, 70
Shaw, 47
Scattering, 12
Thio circuit is composed of the counties of
Sumter, Clarendon, Williamsburg, Georgetown,
Horry and Marion.
Of the York delegation, Col. Beatty voted
forjudge Shaw; Bates, Steele, Davies and
White voted for F. J. Moses, jr.
THE FOURTH CIRCUIT.
Judge Townsend, the present incumbent,
was the only candidate nominated for this
circuit, and was elected unanimously. The
circuit is composed of the counties of Chesterfield,
Marlboro and Darlington.
THE FIFTH CIRCUIT.
Judge R. B. Carpenter, the present incumbent,
was the only candidate nominated for
this circuit, and was elected unanimously.
The counties of Richland, Kershaw, Lexington
and Edgefield compose the circuit.
THE 8IXTH CIRCUIT.
Judge T. J. Mackey, the present incumbent,
and A. B. Knowlton, of Orangeburg,
were nominated for this circuit. The ballot
resulted as follows :
Whole number of votes cast. 131
Mackey 00
Knowlton 41
The circuit is composed of the counties of
Lancaster, Chester, Fairfield and York.
THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT.
Lucius C. Northrop, of Columbia, and
Gen. W, H. Wallace, of Union, were nominated.
Northrop was elected on the first
ballot, which resulted as follows:
Whole number of votes cast 131
Northrop 114
Wallace 19
The circuit is composed of the following
counties: Union, Newberry, Laurens and
Spartauburg.
Ttir rfAtlTU f'TDPTTIT
Judge Cooke, the present incumbent, and
Mr. Thos. Thompson were nominated. The
ballot resulted as follows :
Whole numberof votes cast 136
Cooke 114
Thompson 22
The circuit is composed of the counties of
Anderson, Oconee, Greenville, Abbeville and
Pickens.
The Columbia correspondent of the News
and Courier says:
"Over the elections for the first, second
and third circuits, the chief fights were made,
and the wildest enthusiasm prevailed upon
the announcement of the election of each of
the Plunder candidates. In the nominating
speeches it was clearly given out by the leaders
that the party was on the brink of a precipice,
and its only salvation was to elect none
but tried Republicans of the stamp of Whipper,
Moses and Wiggins. In the remaining
circuits the Republican candidates went in
easily.
"A characteristic scene of the wildest confusion
prevailed throughout the elections.
Hats were thrown up and whoops and yells
and hammering on the desks in the House
echoed from the lobby and from the hall outside.
It is impossible to convey an idea of
the intense feeling of indignation and condemnation
prevalent in town over the election
of Moses, Whipper and Wiggins. Some
think the Legislature has builded better than
it knew, and has by its action to-day dealt
the Republican party a blow from which it
will not easily recover."
Commenting on the elections, the News
and Courier says, editorially:
"WnirrER, the Black Judoe!?The result
of the election for Judge of the Charleston circuit
iuappalliug. It means nothing less than insecurity
of life and property, the destruction of freedom
of elections, and persecution, to the death,
of those who have stood, or stand, in the way of
the gang, by whose agency Whipper is elected.
In tine, it means the triumph, in a most aggravated
and danuerous form, ot the worst elements of
negro Radicalism over the integrity, the intelligence
and property of the State.
"It matters little how the election of Whipper
actually came about; although it is evident that
the failure of the House, on Wednesday, to concur
in the Senate resolution for an election yesterday
was only a blind, intended to throw the opponents
of Whipper oft' their guard and leave
them no opportunity for consultation or organization.
Tbe-blaek- cohort was well drilled ; the
resolution which was tabled on Wednesday was
concurred in yesterday morning, and, an hour or
two later, by an overwhelming majority, a fullblood
negro, who iH known to be ignorant and
malignant, and is believed to be utterly corrupt,
was ohosen as Judge of the most important circuit
in South Carolina, and endowed with prospective
power, almost without limit, over the
fortunes and liberties of the people.
"It is not forgotten who and what Whipper is !
From the beginning of the Recor.struction period
he has held a prominent place in South Carolina
politics, and always as the associate and companion
of the scum of his party. Is ho corrupt? Let
this fact answer! While a member of the Legislature,
with a small salary, he accumulated a fortune,
and gambled away "that fortune in one night
i in Columbia. Is he honest? By Republicans
i and Conservatives he has repeatedly been charged
' with embezzling the moneys of the Sinking
| Fund Commission ; and again and again has he
! been threatened with prosecution on that account.
I Is he faithful and capable? Let it be remembered
I that, last winter, when Whipper was tirst a cani
didate for the Charleston Judgeship, then vacant
! by reason of the death of Judge Graham, it became
necassary for Governor Chamberlain to de:
clare, in a public gathering of the members of
the General Assembly, that Whippor was neither
; capable nor honest, and that his election would
i disgrace, if it did not ruin, the Republican party.
What, then, are his qualifications? We know of
none save the color of his skin, and his presumed
; readiness to play into the hands of the faction
; whose candidate he was. That faction is made
; up of those who desire negro rule, pure and simfuo,
in South Carolina, who desire to prevent any
uture co-operation of Conservatives with RepubI
licans, who desire to continue in office, next November,
the people who have lorded it over us so
long, and whose reign, Whipper wanting, would
have speedily come to an end. Their platform is,
Plunder and Revenge! Upon it they and theirs !
stand, and stand fast!
; "Nor do Charleston and Orangeburgalone suffer. J
: Judges Maherand Shaw, in the second and third
circuits, are succeeded by P. L. Wiggin and ex- J
Gov. F. J. Moses, Jr. 'On the Southern bench
there were no Judges more upright, more fair or
, more competent than they who have been thus
displaced. Of Wiggin we know very little. The
fact that lie was the candidate of ex-Land Commissioner
Leslie and the Black Ring damns hint.
But F. J. Moses, Jr., is known throughout the
length and breadth of the land as the Robber Governor,
as a man whose rascality is equalled only
bv hisaudaoity. The election of Whipper, Wig- ;
gin and Moses unites the State in a common j
| cause. War is declared upon the honest people of t
South Carolina, whether Conservatives or RepubliI
cans. As such a declaration must yesterday's"
work be understood. As such must it be faced.
And if the issue be met squarely, if the people
stand together, on a platform broad enough and
strong enough to hold every citizen whose wishes
and interests are on the side of judicial purity, and
consequently of private and public justice, the
tight can vet be won. Nay ! it miuit be iron, or
South Carolina, and all that we inherit is lost beyond
recall !"
The Union-Herald, the organ of the Republican
party in South Carolina, in regard to the
election, says:
^"From one end of the country to the other, South
Carolina republicanism will once more become.a
stench in the nostrils of men of all parties. This
will be deemed of little account at present by the
poor fools who have signed the death warrant of
the party in the State; but in lhat near and certain
future, when in degradation and despairthey
learn the bitter lessons of adversity, it will be
seen by them that their misfortunes* come from
themselves. They will see tiiiit no man, no party,
no State, can resist the awful power of public
opinion.'V
The Columbia Register says:
"Whipper and F. J. Moses, Jr., on the bench of
South Carolina, charged with the high duty of
dispensing justice ami holding the scales between
man and man! Was ever such a mockery of justice,
such travesty of right, imposed upon a people
before ?
"Radicalism has stepped upon thescene in snch
colors that even the most besotted, ignorant and
pusillanimous can see what it means.
*??***?
"What, then, are the people to do? They have
the alternative of sitting down and allowing these
persons who rule over them to grind them to
powder, reduce them to penury, take the food,
clothing and education from their children, debase
their lives, trample upon their rights, degrade so-; ciety
anddragdown civilization itself, or, b
certed, earnest and determined effort, overthrow
them at the polls, and wrest power from the hands
which abuse it. That is the sole mode of qperations
left to us, and, we believe, the surest against
exactions, wrongs and outrages which are well
nigh unendurable. That is our doctrine, and circumstances
are occurring at this moment which
vindicate the necessity of putting it into practice.
m>tr~>Km>aae is deep-seated. The remedy must be
decided, the treatment heroic."
MERE-MENTION.
The corn crop of Georgia is 2,000,000
bushels short; that is to say, the people of
that State will have to import the above quantity
next year. The State Grange of
Massachusetts has adopted a resolution in favor
of taxing church property and savings
,1? A wu.i
unu & ucpucibo* rjL uuuuiu^ ui tuc ?i
er & Wilson Sewing Machine Company, at
Bridgeport, Conn., covering two acres of
grouud, was burnt last week. Two hundred
skilled mechanics are thrown out of employ- <
ment. Young ladies who are accustomed
to read the newspapers, are always observed
to possess winning ways, most amiable dispositions,
invariably making good wives, and
always select good husbands.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, December 20,1875.
Cotton stealing is becoming a very common
occurrence in this county. A few days ago a
bale of cotton, belonging to a widow lady, living
in the lower portion of the county, was
stolen, carried to Winnsboro and sold. And ^
now two bales, belonging to Mr. E. M. Mills,
from the eastern side, are stolen, brought to
our town and sold. The parties engaged in
this thieving operation were Wade Roeborough,
Leroy Chestnut and Willis Caldwell,
all colored, the latter of whom lived on Mr.
Mills' place. Mr. F. M. Cross, who bought
the cotton, when be discovered it was stolen,
immediately caused one of the parties, Wade
Rosborough, to be placed in jail. The others,
fearing a similar fate, returned the money. m
It is to be hoped that they will not escape so
easily. The grand jury at the next sitting of
the court will find a true bill against them,
and if the counsel for the State does his duty,
these rascals will undoubtedly be convicted.
A lengthy stay in the penitentiary will do them
good, and will he attended with a wholesome
effect upon those who may he inclined to lay
Kunrla unnn onMnn that rl/\oa ttAf Kfl.
I V1U1CUI IIOIIUO U^VU VVbVUU VIIWV uvw UVK wv
long to them.
Ill a late correspondence, I had occasion to
refer to the absurd demands made some times
by colored laborers. The impression prevails ^
among them that they are entitled to one-third
of the crop, regardless of the advances that ,
have been made them by their employers.
The following account of the trial, in which
John Jaggers, colored, was the plaintiff, and
John B. Cornwell, defendant, will serve to
explain. The plaintiff worked on Mr. Corn*
well's plantation, and was furnished with supplies
during the year by his employer. The
supplies having been enjoyed, he did not relish
the idea of paying for them. So he brought
suit for recovery of the full amount of his labir.
Of course, the Trial Justice decided
against him, but, still, the defendant in the
action incurred considerable trouble and some
expense in resisting the suit.
On Tuesday the case of the State vs. Angelina
Dawkins, colored, charged with committing
an assault and battery upon Mary Johnson,
colored, came up for trial before Trial
Justice Sanders. TJie friends of the parties
to the suit crowded ttie court-room and gave
an attentive hearing to the testimony and proceedings
in the case, which consumed a good
portion of the day. The Trial Justice decided
in favor of the State, and gave the defendant
the alternative of paying a fine of ten
dollars, or going to jail for twenty days. She
paid the fine, and the State was enriched to
that extent.
Dublin Walker, Senator from this county,
has for the second time given the death-blow
to the bill providing for a fence law for this
county. He probably thinks that by this
course of action he is carrying out the wishes
of his colored constituents. Yet'tbere is great
room for doubt upon this point; for the negroes
ought to know that their interest and
that of the whites are inseparably united,
and what injures the one is an injury to the
other. Laud-owners are extremely desirous
of the passage of the fence bill, for the supply
of timber is rapidly diminishing, and the time
is approaching when it will be an utter impossibility
to fence a large number of plantations
in this county. But they must wait with patience
for the expiration of his Senatorial career,
as he seems bent upon the defeat of legislation
in the adoption of which they are so
vitully interested.
A matrimonial event, which transpired
here last week, merits a passing notice. On
, Wednesday evening the Baptist Church was
filled with an overflowing audience who bad
assembled to witness the nuptials of Mr. E.
C. Stahn and Miss Victoria Nail, both of
this place. The bridal party, which consisted
of the happy couple and four additional
couples, who acted as attendants, entered the
sacred edifice about eight o'clock, arrayed in
all possible beauty and loveliness, and in a
short time the ceremony, was performed by
the Rev. Mr. Sanders. Just at the conclusion
of the ceremony one of the groomsmen
was seized with farntness, and would, probably,
have fallen, had not the fair one by his
side acted the good part in extending to him
a sustaining hand. He soon revived, but the
unfortunate incident served to cast a shadow
upon the enjoyment of the occasion, which,
otherwise, would have been marked with unalloyed
felicity. The happy couple, when
the significant declaration of "husband and
wife" had been pronounced, repaired, with
their attendants and friends, to the home of
the bride, where they delightfully spent the
evening. With the exception of two of the
bridesmaids, who were from Charlotte, the
bridal party were from our town. All joy
and happiness to the young couple who have
1 so auspiciously launched their bark upon the
sea of matrimony!
I General W. A. Walker, Maj. S. P. Hamilton
and C. S. Brice, Esq., represented this
annntv at ttia lata maatincr of the TaXDavers'
Convention in Columbia. General Walker
expresses a favorable opinion as to the probable
results of the meeting. He was one of
the vice-presidents, and a member of the committee
appointed to confer'Vith Governor
Chamberlain. The Governor, he said, expressed
his pleasure in meeting the committee,
and in listening to the suggestions made ^
by them. The most important action of the
Convention was the passage of the resolution,
recommending the organization of Tax
Unions, so as to euable the taxpayers to act