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9mp m jm. ; ? There is a woman living in Cherry Val- f ley, Pa., who has read the Bible through an- 1 nually for the past twenty-five 'years, begin- ? ning at the age of twenty. c ? It pays to be President of a life insurance 1 company in New York. One company pays t the officer $15,000 salary, two others $12,000 e apiece, and hardly any less than $10,000. ? A teacher in a Nashville Sunday school j urged the familiar lesson that the early bird j catches the worm. A bright boy reminded him that the owl, wisest of all birds, is out all e night and sleeps all day. ( ? The cotton manufactories of the world run a total of 64,089,000 spindles, and spin " 2,669,000,000 pounds of cotton. England operates 35,000,000 spindles, or more than one-half. ? The New Hampshire election takes place .1 1 1 _ _ OV A- L.? this montn, ana desperate enoris are iu ue made by the Radicals to elect all the members of Congress from the State. Money and orators are.to be sent there in abundance. ? Frederick May, one of the principals in " the late bloodless duel, has returned to his accustomed haunts in New York. Jas. Gordon r Bennett, the other principal, is in Lohdon, where letters report him as enjoying an ex- ceedingiy gay season. c ?An experienced lady observes that a good c way to pick out a husband is to see how pa- * tiently he waits for dinner when it is behind time. Her husband remarks that a good t way to pick out a wife is to see whether the ? woman has dinner ready in time. a ? "I bad nine children to support, and it * kept me busy," said Smith fo Jones, as they ^ met, "but one of the girls got married. Now I have " "Eight?" interrupted Jones. 1 "No, ten?counting the son-in-law 1" said * Smith, with a sigh which might have been heard afar off. c ? Nearly 100,000 Germans are settled in . some forty counties of Texas, particularly Comal and Guadalupe, and they are highly successful as agriculturists. In nearly every instance they began as day laborers, and have 8 now comfortable homes, full grain houses and ( barns finer than their residences. f ? There has been a great slaughter of cattle e in Nevada by railroad trains this winter. The *] * -i - i_ l snow has been so aeep tnat toe animais nave ( sought the tracks for comfortdble standing places, and upon the approach of a train, after making frantic efforts to scale the banks 1 of snow lining the track, have been crushed in large numbers. ? ? Another new design of a postal card is to s be issued by the post-office department. Many $ people, it is said, still persist in writing the f message, address and signature on the same side with the stamp, and it is to be the object of the new design to make it- impossible to write more than the address on the proper * side. . t \ ? Attorney-General Taft reports that he c employed 11,614 Deputy Marshals to secure t a fair election throughout the country. Eight f thousand of these constables were employed ( in the Southern States, and largely in Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina, where the Hayesites assert "the poor, unprotected black 1 man" was driven from the polls. In addition < to these armed constables, troops were liberal- t ly distributed through the three States named, t ? A party of English and German capital- ( ists have purchased 3,000,000 acres ^>f the ( Florida State lands, and are organizing an . emigration company. The money paid for these lands, it is said, will pay off the State J debt and leave a balance in the treasury. 1 Florida, since the war, has become one 01 tne < marvels of the South, and the Northern peo- t pie have found there some of their most de- , lightful hours. < ? Two boys in San Francisco resolved to be- * come robbers of the Claude Duval kiod. They began by breaking into a store and ( stealing $180 with which they bought a horse, y guns and a camping outfit. Loading themselves and their goods on the horse, they took \ to the road, intending to undertake daring t highway robberies. They made their first at- g tempt on a stage coach, were captured, and c are now in jail. ? An eminent New York physician, who has attended many cases of the peculiar fever resulting from visiting the Centennial, be- f lieves that the disease was caused by the pres- s ence of formites in certain articles on exhi- c bition, wbich had been brought from some * of the worst plague spots on earth, and says i he has fears that other types of fevers, bither' i ? j*-u I.. S to unanown 10 us, may iouuw as a resuii ui the exhibition. * ? The venerable Dr. Lovick Pierce, now in his ninety-third year, is writing a series of reminiscences of the century. He is the oldest Methodist minister living on this continent, and probably the oldest of any denomination. He points to the great difference that exists between Methodism at the beginning of this century and now, and concludes that either primitive Methodists were more religious than was needful, or else modern Methodists are less so. ? Dr. Bucknill has returned to England, after visiting the inebriate asylums of the United States, and does not hesitate to condemn them. He says that the patients admitted to him that they could get liquor whenever they pleased; that the asylums were "capital places to pick up in after a debauch, but good for nothing else." He also contends that these institutions afford great facilities for the wrongful detention of inmates whose presence at home is not desired by their friends. ? The Nflw York Tribune savs : "We hope i that the conduct of Southern Democrats at ! Washington during the past forty-eight hours 1 has not escaped the attention of those Kepub- ' licans who have tried to persuade their party that a former rebel was necessarily to be distrusted. We think it is not an exaggeration to say that the country owes the peaceful de- * cision of the Democratic caucus to the honor- 1 able attitude of Southern rebels. Under the | wise leadership of Lamar, Randall, Gibson \ and kindreds spirits, these gentlemen have ( placed patriotism above party in a way so conspicuous, and at a time so critical, that j neither the country nor the incoming admin- ' istration can afford to forget it." 1 ? Bishop Wilmer, of Louisiana, called upon i the President on Saturday to urge upon him I to recognize Nicholls' Government. He said i that some such action was necessary to protect life and property in the State. He stated most positively that he believed it was the only way possible to secure the future peace * in that State, and that the people could not 1 be brought to stand the Packard government. They would revolt in a body against him. The President said that he did not feel called , upon as yet to do anything. The public mind is in too great a state of excitement, and he should wait. He gave Bishop Wilme^ a per- 1 sonal letter to Mr. Hayes. .Bishop YV timer ' left for Columbus on Saturday evening to con- ' suit with Mr. Hayes upon the situation in i Louisiana. ( ? A jury in Alabama had been impanelled . in the case of a Mr. Johnson, charged with ] killing his wife. The evidence was positive ^ and conclusive, leaving no doubt of his speedy conviction. To the amazement of all, the ' jury, after a short absence,. returned a ver- diet: "Guilty of horse stealing." The Judge ] astonished, asked an explanation, stating that < the indictment was not for horse stealing, but ( manslaughter. The foreman, with his hand upon a huge law book, and with an amusingly dignified air, informed the Court that "it ( was not a case of manslaughter, but woman- ^ slaughter, for which the law made no provis- 8 ion ; but being satisfied the man deserved to j be banged, they had brought in a verdict of ] horse stealing, which, in that county, would j be sure to swing him." ?The "Maine Law" has long been the synonyme of extreme sumptuary legislation, * but tie recent session of the Legislature in J that State proved that there could be a still j J deeper depth or a more dizzy height, accord-1 < ng as people look at it The "intensified li(uor law," as it is called, will soon go into effect. The penalties for selling any intoxicaing liquors, except cider, made by the seller n the State, are two months in the county jail ind a fine of $1,000, the offender to stand tommitted until the same is paid. The law reats cider vending by the glass just as it reats the sale of rum and whisky ; so dealers ixpect to sell it by the gallon for home conumption instead, and if any "medicine man" ian discover a sure cure for stomach gripe, hlaine is the State where a fortune awaits tim. ?he fotlniUc #n<juiw. YORKVILLE, S. C.: rHURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 1,1877. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name if the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, ounty and State in full, and send the amount of he subscription by draft or post-office money irder, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirer is delivered free of >08tage to all subscribers residing in York couny, who receive the paper at post-offices within ne county; and to all other subscribers the post? tge is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no natter where they receive the paper, are not liable br postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, dthout additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the"addressabel" shows the time to which the subscription is >aid. If subscribers do not wish their papers disontiniied, the date must be keptin advance. Cash.?It must be distinctive understood that ur terms for subscription, advertising and jobvork, are cash in advance. * THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION, On Friday, the Electoral Commission idopted a resolution that the ballots cast for )dell, Cartwright and Watts, were the lawul electoral votes of the State of Oregon and hould be counted for Hayes and Wheeler. The vote stood as usual, 8 to 7. On Saturlay, after the two houses assembled in joint ession, the vote of Oregon was counted for Hayes and Wheeler. Pennsylvania was next opened. Springer ind Tucker presented objections. They were igned by a sufficient number of members and Senators, and allege a vacancy illegally filled >y the college. The houses separated and a notion for a recess to 10 o'clock Monday was ?rried by a vote of 132 to 121. In the Senite, Mr. Conkling who was absent heretofore then the questions of sustaining the decisions >f the Commission came up, said in regard ? Oregon : The State of Oregon intended to ippoint a Eepublican elector, and the people >f Oregon intended to elect a Eepublican * ? n ir . ttt_ii_ rpl. (lector, ana votea ior ivir. waits, tuovuuinission bad given its decision and he disclaimed any intention of alluding to any of he reasons which prompted the decision of he Commission, and believing that the State )f Oregon intended to appoint Republican (lectors, he should vote to sustain and affirm ;bat intention and the decision of the Comnission. He was also opposed to impeding n the slightest degree the operation of the lecision of the Commission, and on the con;rary was in favor of aiding it and consumnating it at the earliest practicable moment. The decision was sustained by a party vote. The Senate, after two hours debate, agreed to ;ount the vote of Pennsylvania without division. On Monday, South Carolina was reached, vhen, on objection, the Houses separated and he certificates were referred to the Coramislion. The House then took a recess until 10 ('clock Tuesday. The following are the objections presented ;o the vote of South Carolina: 1. That no legal election was held in South Car?lina for Presidential electors, the General Aslembly of that State not having provided, as required by article 8, section 3, of the constitution hereof, for the registration of the people entitled o vote, without which registration rio valid or egal election could be held, o Tl.ot (Urn woo tmf oviatin<y in the State of South Carolina, on the 1st of January, 187(1, nor it any time thereafter, up to and including the Otli of December, 1876, a republican form of government, such as is guaranteed by the oonstituion to every State in the Union. 3. That the Federal government, prior to and luring the election ou November 7, 1876, without luthority of law, stationed in various parts of laid State, at or near the polling precincts, detachnents of the United States army, by whose pres>nce the full exercise of the right of suffrage was irevented, and by reason whereof no legal erfree ilection was or could be held. 4. That at the several polling plaoes in said State vere stationed United States deputy marshals, apjointed under the provisions of sections 2021 and 1022 of the United States revised statutes, which irovisions were unconstitutional and void ; that said deputy marshals, exceeding over 1,000 in lumber, by their unlawfuland arbitrary action, in )bedience to the improper and illegal instructions eceived by them from the Department of Justice, io interfered with the full and free exercise of the ight of suffrage by the duly qualified voters of laid State that a fair election could not be and was lot held in said State on November 7,1876. 5. That there was not, from the 1st of January, 1876, up to and including the 10th of December, 1876, at any time, a State government in the State )f South Carolina, except a pretended govern aient, set up in violation of law and of tlie conititutionof the United States, by Federal author,ty, and sustained by Federal troops. The Democrats have it in their power, by legitimate parliamentary tactics, to defeat the inauguration, though it is not probable that ;hey will resort to such a policy. proceedingVof congress. In the Senate on the 21st, Mr. Sargent, of California, from the committee on appropriations, reported back the deficiency appropria;ion bill with sundry amendments. The legslative and post office bills passed, with many amendments, including half a million dollars iubsidy offered by Bogy, for mail steamers oetween New Orleans and Brazil. Sherman, from the committee on finance, reported a bill to aid the resumption of specie payment. In the House the sundry civil appropriation bill was considered until recess. In the Senate on the 22nd, Mr. Edmunds, jf Vermont, from the committee on the juliciary, reported adversely on the bill to remove the political disabilities of John R. L. fafnalL M. M. Kimmel. Lloyd J. Beale, Henry Myers, P. S. Armisted, J. H. Forney and J. S. Coward, and they were indefinitely postponed. He said the committee reported adversely on these bills for the reason that the persons named, who were formerly United States officers, had not settled their accounts at the Treasury. He also reported adversely an bills to remove the political disabilities of A. E. Sheppard, H. W. Washington, Charles D. Ascott, Wm. Sharp, H. H. Lewis, D. B. toward, W. E. Wisbam, C. H. Williamson, John Johnson, C. H. Kennedy and Oscar Hermetz, and they were indefinitely postaoned. He 8aid these persons, formerly offi'pirn of the United "States, had been dismissed, tnd under the rule heretofore followed by the Judiciary Committee, bills for their relief sould not be reported. At the next session, lowever, their cases could be wrought up igain, and the rule could be so cLanged as to >a88 bills to relieve their political disabilities. 3e also reported, from the same committee, avorably on bills to remove the political risibilities of C. M. Wilcox and A. C. Myers, >f Maryland ; John S. Marmaduke, S. B. Moon, W. T. Carrington, J. P. Mayor, R. S. Kenney, Sam'l. ^,W A. Webb, )f Virginia; Florida; W. H. Gibbs and Wm. Butler, of South Car- i olina; C. A. R. Jones, of Alabama; L. S. t Baker and D. H. Hill, of North Carolina ; j R. C. Gattlin, of Arkansas; Henry B. Kel- t ly, of Louisiana, and Wm.'R. Jones, of Tex- ( as, all of which were placed on the calendar, i The deficiency appropriation bill passed with f amendments, which carries it to a conference committee. The House occupied the day con- 8 sidering the civil sundry appropriation bill in t a committee of the whole. The principal t appropriations in behalf of the Southern e States is: $15,000 for continuance of work { on Atlanta Post Office; $5,300 for the same { object in Raleigh, N. C.; $13,000 for the i a*mo nhipnt in Nashville. Tenn.: also that \ the sum of $375,000, or so much thereof as ( may be necessary, be appropriated to pay the < amount due to mail codtractors for mail ser- ( vice performed in the States of Alabama, c Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Loui- ? siana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, ( South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, and Vir-i ginia in the years 1859, 1860, 1861, and be- ( fore the States respectively engaged in war against the United States. The provisions of f 3480th section of the revised statutes of the 1 United States shall not be applicable to the 1 payments herein authorized. Provided .that i any such claims which have been paid by the \ Confederate States Government shall not be < again paid. Without disposing of the bill, i the House took recess. t In the Senate on the 23rd, bills were pass- 1 ed to remove the political disabilities of Wm. t Butler and Wade H. Gibbs, of South Caro- e lina. The House occupied all day in com- t raittee of the whole in consideration of the 1 sundry civil appropriation bill./ When the i paragraph was reached relative to the mail i contractors in certain of the Southern States, t a point of order was raised that it changes ] existing laws. Pending a decision on the \ point, the committee rose, and. the House { took a recess till to-morrow at 10 o'clock. ? * I I MORE PETTY TYRANNY 1 Extensive preparations bad been made in ( Columbia and Charleston to celebrate Wash- , ington's birthday in those cities on Thursday last, the 22nd, by a military parade, and the usual display observed on similar occasions in the Southern States.; but the matter hav- i ing been reported to Grant, that functionary at once issued orders prohibiting the proposed t parade of militia companies, whose officers < were regularly commissioned by Governor Hampton in accordance with the militia laws 1 of this State. Accordingly, the following I communication was addressed by Col. Black, U. S. Army, comraand^pt of the post at Co- 1 lumbia,- to Capt. Thompson, and officially i served on him on the day of its date : 1 Post of Columbia, \ 1 Columbia, S. C. February 20, 1877. j To Capt. H. S. Thompson, Columbia, S. C.: i Dear Sir?I have the honor to notify you 1 that I have been this day directed by the ? honorable secretary of war to inform you that "his Excellency the President of the United States directs me to notify you that the mem* ( hers of the so-called rifle clubs, who, under his proclamation of the 17th October last, 1 were instructed to disband, are not to make i any public demonstration or parade on the ( 22d instant, as is said to be contemplated," j and it is hoped you will give a cheerful obedience to this order, and notify the members of your club or company, in order to prevent a parade, of any kind, taking place. My or* * ders require me to see that no such parade 1 takes place. , I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient t servant, H. M. Black, Lieut. Col. ( Eighteenth Infantry, Com. Post. The announcement of the reception of this Dotice and threat caused consioeraoie excue- ( ment among thosd most nearly interested in ^ the proposed celebration, and indignation and { contempt for the littleness of this last effort , of President Grant to humiliate our people, j was freely expressed on all sides. The matter ^ was speedily brought to Governor Hampton's ] attention, and he issued the following proclamation. i State of South Carolina,") j Executive Chamber, ? . Columbia, S. C., Feb. 20, 1877. ) 1 His Excellency, the President of the United ( States, having ordered that the white militia f companies of the State should not parade on t the 22d inst., to celebrate Washington's birthday, in deference to the office he holds I here- c by call upon these organizations to postpone c to some future day this manifestation of their ^ respect to the memory of that illustrious Pres- 1 ident, whose highest ambition it was, as it was 1 his chief glory, to observe the Constitution 1 and to obey the laws of his country. If the ] arbitrary commands of a Chief Executive, ] who has not sought to emulate the virtues of j Washington, deprives the citizens of this State of the privilege of joining publicly in paying f reverence to that day so sacred to every * American patriot, we can at least show by our obedience to constituted authority, however arbitrarily exercised, that we are not unwor- ^ *A Ko fKo nnnnfromon f\? Wflflhincrtiin. luj vu w?...j?*,.- *,? b? We must therefore remit to some more auspicious period, which I trust is Dot far distant, the exercise of our right to commemorate the civic virtues of that unsullied character who wielded his sword only to found and perpetuate that American constitutional liberty which is now denied to the citizens of South Carolina. Wade Hampton, Governor. There wa? no parade in either city, but in Columbia the day was observed by suspending United States flags draped in mourning, and in the afternoon Judge Mackey, by invitation, delivered an address on the life and ( character of Washington, which is said to have been the best effort ever made by this i ready and eloquent speaker. t SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. < ? Arrangements have been made for an 1 early completion of the Laurens Railroad. ? General M. C. Butler, who was elected as qs-a + rvf. canota* ktt fkn t^q mnnra f a 1q I I UUltCU kjuatco UCUCtbUL \JJ lUO l^otuw?HVU| ?w y now in Washington. i ? Lieut. H. H. Benner, of the 18th Infant- ' ry, has returned to Columbia from a forty I days' leave of absence. ? I ?Professor William Williams, of the South' ern Baptist Theological Seminary at Greenville, died at Aiken on Tuesday of last week. ? The Supreme Court of the State has dej cided that a widow, being the head of a family, may claim both dower and homestead in the estate of her deceased husband. ' ?Mr. Joseph Purcell, at one time proprie tor of the Mills House, in Charleston, died at j the Roper Hospital in that city, on Wednesi day of last week, in the 75th year of his age. j ? The Wiunsboro' News and Herald says j that Messrs. Newcomer and Walter, of Bal- j timnro have nnmhased the controlling inter-1 r w est of the Southern Security Company in the | i Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. ' ( ? The Kingstree Star is authority for the i < statement that Governor Hampton will not j 1 appoint a county auditor for |ny county, at!1 | present, as it is expected this office will soon j1 be abolished and the duties conferred on the j county treasurer at; a greatly reduced salary, j ( i Patriots who are waiting for office will please j I take notice. ' j 1 j ? The editor of the Anderson Intelligencer 1 | has received a bunch of cotton yarn from ma-, j chinery owned by Colonel F. E. Harrison, at11 , Andersonville, in that county, which was i < v nade directly from seed cotton, thus saviof he trouble of a separate process for ginning lacking and spinning. The ginning, carding ind spinning is all done with combined ma ihinery, which accomplishes a very great ad rentage. The thread is represented to be o ine quality. ? The guard of the Aiken jail dreams t< ome purpose. He dreamed, not long ago ,hat the prisoners in jail were making an at empt to escape. Relating his dream to thi liorifr fhaf nffiniol ovaniirorl thfl fplls nf thl lUOUUy l/UUU WIUVIUI vaMUOuvv. .... msoners just in time to foil their plans for i general jail delivery. They bad removed ai ron rim from the bucket used for carryinj vater to them, and with a file which was con sealed, they made a saw, passing it from oni sell to another. With this instrument thej jut through the boards on the inside of thi sells, and removed the bricks. It was ai sasy matter then to drop on the guard below >verpower and murder him, which they sai< t was their intention to do. Let no man saj Ireams are not prophetic. ? Chief-Justice Moses was attacked by par ilysis, at his residence in Columbia, abou mlf-past ten o'clock, on Wednesday night o ast week. The Register furnishes the follow ng particulars < "He had, for two hours pre nous to the attack, been seated io the parlor jonversing with the ladies of the family vhen be bid them good eveoiug and retire< \o his room. Shortly afterward, a servan lad occasion to enter his bed room, and fount he light burning and the Judge lying in bet ipeechless. Inferring from his gesticulation hat he desired to speak, she approached hi jedside, and ascertained that he was ill. Sum noning aid, she again repaired to his rpon vith the lady of the house, only to discove ,hat his whole left side was paralyzed. A )hysician was immediately summoned, a vere also bis son, ex-Governor F. J. Moses ind other relatives and friends of the Chie Justice. This attack is supposed to havi ieen superinduced by the great mental ex jitemeut under which Judge Moses has labor >d for the past few months, as it is but i epetition of his first attack." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The temperance people of Raleigh an noving for a local prohibitory law. ? The Lutheran Church at King's Moun ain, Gaston county, was destroyed Dy nre re jently. ? Charlie, a little son of H. D. Stowe, o Mecklenburg county, died of scarlet fever 01 ,he night of the 23rd ultimo. ? A pounding mill with ten stamps has beet )ut in operation at the Rudisill gold mine lear Charlotte. The McGinn mine, also ii Mecklenburg county, hAs Jbeen recently sol< ;o a Philadelphia company for $25,000. ? On last Thursday night, while the mar iage ceremony was being celebrated betweei SVilliam Thomas and Mrs. Forney, at Thorn isville, the bride, who was subject to hear lisease, fell dead, before the ceremony wa completed. ? The Morganton Blade says that Tboma Messer was wounded on Thursday, the 15tl iltirao, in a difficulty which occurred at Brin lleton, and died on Saturday last. A war ant has been issued for Frank Goines, th< lupposed murderer. ? A gan& of a dozen counterfeiters wer irrested at Sand Hill, Richmond county, 01 Monday of last week. When discovered the; vere engaged in making counterfeit nickle ind silver coin. A Dumber of these wer aken, together with the dies from which the; vere made. ? A terrible tragedy occurred in Rowai jounty last week. George Coleman, hereto lore a good citizen, stabbed his son, Bingham i young man of moral and industrious habits nL* ?-of loot onnnnnfc JL (16 youug lUttLX WOO IIT lug ai/ iuou auwvuuw 3ut is thought to be mortally wounded. Th ather was committed to jail. Another sai *esult of intemperance. ?The Swannanoa tunnel, through which th< W. N. C. Railroad is to extend, is about foui ?en hundred feet long and has only beei ilasted and worked a distance of eight hun Ired feet, and more than one year's time ha ilready been expended. About one huudrei ind eighteen convicts are daily employed. ? The Lincoln Progress learns that on Sun lay night of last week, H. W. Rumfelt, o Bouth Point, Gaston county, during a fit o nsanity, went into the upper story of hi louse-and set fire to the building, which wa turned down, he perishing in the flames 3is family were below stairs and escaped tfear Cherryville, in the same county, on th< [9th of February, Mrs. Frances Tisdal, ai iged lady, fell into the fire and was burne< 1 A% -o aeatn. ? m * EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Tilda Norris Case. Up to our latest advices from Colum )ia, the Supreme Court had not rendered i lecision in the habeas corpus case of Tildi Morris, involving the question of who is thi jovernor of South Carolina. The delay i mpposed to be occasioned by the illness o ZJhief Justice Moses. It is also intimated tha Judges Willard and Wright will probabl; iisagree. Sovernor Hampton on tbe Commission. Governor Hampton has given his view >n the Electoral Commission as follows, to th Dolumbia correspondent of the News am Courier : "I think it not advisable to throw obstacle n the way of the decision of the Commie sion. We submitted our case to that tribu lal, and, if we have been deceived or betray ;d, we can better afford to suffer defeat whicl wrings no dishonor to our party, than to incu ;he imputation of acting in bad faith. Utbe egitiraate means of redress are still open t< is, without resorting to parliamentary tactics which may imperil the peace of the country ind would surely place us in a false position rhe interests of the whole country demand i aeaceful settlement of the pendipg question.' Southern Policy yet Matured. ??A Washington dispatch of the 26th, t< ;he New York Post, referring to the policy ilrelv to be adoDted toward the South bi Hayes, should he be inaugurated, says : In a letter received here to day from Co lumbus, Ohio, the statement is made by au thority that Governor Hayes has not only not expressed to his friends the probable pol icy to be pursued by his administration ii reference to the complications in Louisiani ind South Carolina, but he says distinctly that at this time he cannot tell what it wil be. So far as relates to the two States named if declared President by the joint convention be will endeavor to meet all the questions md decide them in accordance with the spir It of the constitution and with justice to al classes of the people; but the question of de siding between the two rival factions in botl these States is not one which should be set tied without grave and careful consideration and after full consultation with hiB constitu tional advisers. Governor Hayes has no settled these questions, and does not propose to until after he is duly installed in the Pres idential chair, and has had time to call abou bira his Cabinet. What Will Tllden Do ? The following Washington dispatch ti the Baltimore American intimates that Til len will not quietly acquiesce in the decisioi I of the High-Joint Commuwon, but will Initi- if < , tute legal proceedings to obtain the Presiden- res j tiai chair: for Yonr correspondent has information from Ca . a most reliable source that Mr. Tilden is averse ere f to the policy of delay, and that as soon as rat Hayes is inaugurated he will institute pro- j ceedings in quo warranto or scieri facias by . 3 citing Hayes to show cause why he should > not vacate the Presidential office, for the pur* 32, - pose of getting before the full bench of the the a Supreme Court the question as to whether the Hi B tribunal, in excluding evidence, construed hoi i the Electoral bill in accordance with its true so| meaning and with the Constitution. This will 1 have the effect of an appeal from the Tribu- c< I nal to the Supreme Court in full bench, and * will compel the Court to go on record as sus? tninina np rAvarftinp the action of the Tribu t- Dal. The first test will come od the question ' 0 of jurisdiction ; if jurisdiction is affirmed, the 0f } next test will come on the question as to do< whether the Tribunal properly discharged its wh ' duties under the law ; if this be entertained Th * by the Court, the third and final test will an, f come on the question as to whether evidence ha excluded by the Tribunal shall be admitted oe< . in rejoinder to Hayes' answer to the citation t to show cause why he should not vacate the ,ga; ^ Presidential office. ry) The Hampton Contribution. Mi The Columbia Regular publishes the , following amounts as having been paid by j^1 the respective counties to the Hampton con* j tribution up to Wednesday of last week: tb, t Abbeville $ 6,700 00 kp ' Aiken 3,662 60 T, J Anderson, 3,864 70 yn< , Barnwell, 4,445 00 ly 1 Beaufort, 1,650 00 0Vl a Charleston 27,907 84 n Chester, 3.602 50 8 Chesterfield, 1,450 00 bo . Clarendon, 549 64 Colleton, 1,908 87 <a,( 1 Darlington 1 3,150 00 ?u _ Edgefield, 3,400 00 013 r Fairfield .. 1,316 00 th< L Georgetown, 1,278 89 B Greenville 3,700 00 aD 8 Horry 275 00 un i, Kershaw, 1,571 30 otl p Lancaster, 836 19 i; 1 Laurens 1,739 00. B Lexington, ; 2,242 40 oft Marion 2,837 87 CI Marlboro, 2,015 00 i - Newberry 6,157 23 , OmreB 1.279 70 tbl * Orangeburg, 3j600 00 gjo Pickens 323 75 on Richland, 4,142 93 on Spartanburg, 2,600 00 wa Snmter,.-. ' 2,870 00 as e Union, .. 2,149 30 __ Williamsburg, 1,100 00 ?. York 4,766 76 alt Co Total, $ 109,090 86 Grant on South Carolina. ral f In his conversation with Mr. Gobright "ri } last Sunday evening, President Grant made ?f the following utterances relative to affairs in ou j this State: ne! Mr. Gobright: "It has been published that ^ you have distinctly said you would not for- ra< , raally recognize one of the two governments ]tj| in Louisiana or South Carolina. Is this true?" its The President: "It is; as I think it would ;Q - be improper for me to fix a Southern policy if i for my successor, and thus embarrass him. If Ft . I wero to recognize the Republican Governors bi( t they would have to be sustaiued by military 0f force, and I think the entire people are tired of th< 8 the military being employed to sustain a State a)] government. If a Republican State govern* 1 s ment cannot sustain itself, then it will have to ha i mv end if a remcdv is reauired. let RI 6,,v "?J I ? - j i . . Congress, and not the President, provide it." th< Mr. Gobright: "Much unfriendly comment bu has been made on the executive order pro- y( hibiting a military demonstration in Charles- tio ton, S. C., on Washington's Birthday. If you Cto 6 have no objection, it would be interesting to L. i learn the reaaon for the action in the premises." of y TBeTreSdent: "My proclamation heretoB fore issued, commanding all illegal or unau- we e thorized armed associations to disband, is still f0, in force. The meu who were going to parade Hi ? were nothing but armed political bands, po They have never respected the proclamation, ed 3 and only seemingly disbanded. I must say tbi h that while I believe the Democratic leaders Qt t would have done all that was possible to co , prevent an outbreak, yet, on an occasion of tbi ' that kind, men sometimes indulge too much tbi ' in strong drink, and while under its influence Re, ? might so express themselves against their po- Vo ^ litical opponents as possibly to provoke re* raj taliation, and thus incite a riot with serious, {nE e if not fatal consequences, and which disturb- ari ance might extend to other localities. There- pe 3 fore, entirely apart from the propriety of ob- f0( serving the day, it was thought better that ba the military demonstration should be prevent8 ed, for the reasons stated, rather than run the be 1 risk of a riot." ch Hayes and the South. go " In debate on Tuesday, Mr. Foster, (Re- be f publican) of Ohio, who represents the Conf gressional district in which Governor Hayes wj 8 resides, spoke of the duty of both parties to f0I 8 abide by the decision of the Electoral Com' mission. The speaker made slight allusion evi ' to Governor Hayes' attitude toward the pj* 6 I South, in which he said: _ 1 "While I do not rejoice simply in a party ^ * eense, I do rejoice that one of the purest and moat patriotic of our fellow-citizens is to guide poi the affairs of this government for four years art to come. Representing as I do the district do in which Governor Hayes resides, and being cat " a life-long acquaintance of his, I but speak i the opinion of all persons who know him when ter i I say that his administration will be wise, pa- W B triotic and just. Notwithstanding whatever got else may be said to- the contrary here or f elsewhere, the people of all sections of the at country may confidently expect from him ' t not only fair but generous consideration. Ra J His letter of acceptance is the expression of 8ol a man of the broadest patriotism. I feel cer- fer tain that I shall be sustained by his acts, coi when I say that his highest ambition will be Tb 8 to administer the Government so patriotically to e and wisely as to wipe away every necessity iog i or excuse for the formation of parties on a mo sectional 'basis, and all traces of party color Lit 8 lines; that thereafter and forever, we shall hear poi 1-j TMr.rfh h do more 01 a sonu ouutu ui a uui^u .... , xuu . the flag shall float over States, not provinces; Ra - over freemen, not subjects. When Governor Ca i Hayes appealed to the people of the South in r his letter of acceptance, he addressed them as r "My countrymen." And why not his coun3 try men ? Are not the Southern States the ' i, equal of those in the North, East or West ? Re , and is not the South an integral part of the . nation? It has been said, sneeringly and for Wft i the purpose of stirring the wild passions of the ' human heart to bad actions, that the South, . under President Hayes, must submit to an unconditional surrender to the Republican 5 party. No,sir, no such demand will be made. ?e 7 All that will be expected is the patriotic coope7 ration of Southern patriots in the great work ta" of restoration through the Union, the consti. tution and the enforcement of the laws. In a't . this great work the representative men of the k?] j South have already distinguished themselves . for patriotism and statesmanship during the nal i pending of the present crisis in our history. reJ l quj * MERE-MENTION. ^e 1 Litigation over Commodore Vanderbilt's ^ will seems probable. Rev. Bernard Kee- a(j, ? nan, the oldest Catholic priest in the world, | ' died at Lancaster, Pa., last Friday, aged 98 pai j years. In addition to other troubles, Mex- ant . ico is now wrestling with a returning board, i which threatens to ruin the country'. The - health of Hon. A. H. Stephens is steadily ju ?J improving/ Miss Mary Danger, daugn-1 fj ter of Mathiaa Danger, a New York gambler, I tor e hag bequeathed $335,000 to tbirty-one rellg-' St? j ioug gocieties. A combination of distilt. lere has been formed in Chicago, whereby a mu J certain share of profits will accrue to idle stills. i It is thought that this will check the produc- BUf 3 tion and make trade profitable. The, the State tax in Maine is only a third of a cent | an< 11 on a dollar of the assessed valuation, which I 1 r jqaal to about a sixth of one per cent, on d value. The prospects are favorable the election of a democratic Senator from lifornia in place of Senator Sargent. Govlor Irwin is the principal democratic aspitt. Gray is to be the fashionable Spring or. Richmond, Virginia, has a popition of 76,000?white, 58,230; colored, 170. U. 8. Grant, Jr., is going into i law firm of Davies, Work, McNamee A lton, New York. Sir Walter Scott's use in Edinburg, Scotland, has just been d for less than $15,000. meapondence of the Yorltville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER, Chester, February 28,1877. 1*.* . t _ Ll!_ _ fl? me cooauioo or me various puouo otuces this county remains very unsettled. Time 38 not appear to remove the confusion icb encircles the present status of affairs, e old Board of County Commissioners are, d will probably remain, in office until they ve surrendered to successors chosen at a w election. Two of the Board elected on ivember 7th, gave bonds which were rerded bv the grand jury to be unsatisfacto, and were enjoined by an order from Judge ickey from discharging the duties of the ice until they had given bonds compatible th the requirements of law. Tliis they ve failed to do, and as the time in which sy.were required to give bond has passed, 3 only solution for the difficulty seems to another election. This will be held when i Governorship Question has been definitesettled. A cloud of trouble also bangs er the office of School Commissioner. S. J. uch, who was elected in November, gave a nd that was approved by B. B. Elliott, io claims to be Attorney General of the nut Elliott's claim uot beincr recow :ed by the presiding Judge of this Circuit, i old School Commissioner is still in office, d will, in all probability, continue to act til another election has been held) and an* ler person chosen to preside over the pub* ' school department of tbfo county. The ice of Probate Judge is in charge of the erk of the Court. John Dickey, who was cted in November, and who gave a bond it was approved by the County Commis* ners, has not yet qualified and entered upthe duties of the office. He is probably iting for a formal recognition of Hamptoq Governor by the General Government, d then he will make application to him foz i commission. C. C. Macoy, Clerk of the urt, gave bond, and obtained a commission im Chamberlain before Hampton's inaugu* ion, or he, too, would be suspended on the igged edge" of uncertainty. The agony another election must be endured before r county can subside into a state of quietis. The anniversary of Washington's birthday seed away at this place without any pales, processions, or demonstrations of any id. The National Bank of Chester closed doors in honor thereof. Business kept Oh the even tenor of its way, and few thoughts, any, were given to the memory of the tther of our Country. Grant's orders forIding parades by the volunteer companiet our State, impressed upon the hearts oi 3 people too deeply their degradation, tc ow of any patriotic feelings. The dullness and hardness of the times ve not. affected our neighboring town, nckstocks, to such an extent as to prevenl 3 continuance of improvements. A new ilding is in progress of erection by Dr >ss Douglass, and others are in contemplan of erection. Messrs. J. C. Mackerol & i. made an assignment, last week, to Mr. J McCultough. I do not know the amount their liabilities ,? Posters were conspicuously displayed last ek, at different places, announcing a per 'manoe on Thursday evening, at Coleman't all, by the "Chicnra Minsttels." The ap inted time arrived, and no troupe appear This w&8, probably, a disappointment tc 0 lovers of minstrel performances. Yet the licoras did the town a good turn in not ming. The poverty of the people is sucfc at they are not able to attend shows. Still ay will do so when the opportunity is pre ited. I highly approve of entertainments cal or dramatic, having for their object th< isiog of money for some local enterprise oi ititution. But shows, the proceeds of whicli a intended for the benefit of professional rformere, stand on an entirely differenl >ting, and ought not to be patronized these rd times. As usual, there were a considerable num r of people in town on Saturday. Merants dealing in plautation supplies did a od business. The lien system, which hai en ao generally condemned, is again resortto by farmers with the view of carrying on sir planting operations. Wagons, loaded th corn and bacon, leave town almost daily the country. There is also a great deind for guano this year. Farmers are idently making great preparations for the inting of a big cotton crop. Their past ter experience from such a course does not m to have made any salutary impressions, ter paying their corn, bacon And guano la, tbey will find themselves, in a money int of view, next winter, just where they s at the present time. Yet probably they so from stern necessity, and, consequently, inot be blamed. Mr. W. T. D. Cousar has sold out his inest in the firm of Wilson A Cousar to Mr. illiam Rosborough. The firm will be Wili & Rosborough. ? Rev. Mr. Obear, of Winnsboro, officiated St. Mark's Episcopal Church on yesterday, rhe Directors of the Chester and Lenoir ilroad Company, at their last meeting, re ved to accept the seventy-five convicts ofed by the State of North Carolina. These ivicts will be immediately put to work, e people of the old "North State" are said be fully aroused to the necessity of finish; the road from Dallas to Lenoir. The rtgage upon the road has been recorded at Qcolnton by Dr. A. H. Davega, from which nt he returned this morning. The first rtgage bonds of the Chester and Lenoir ilroad will soon be put upon the market, pitalists will then have an opportunity. Qui. -? IRE ABOUT HATES' SOUTHERN POLICY. The Philadelphia Tina, an Independent publican paper, sketches the following as s probable policy that will be adopted tords the South by Hayes, on his accession the Presidential chair: L. Rutherford B. Hayes will be declared i next President of the United States, will peaceably inaugurated with the practical ent of the whole country, and will be suaned as the lawful President by the whole >ple, while two-thirds of them believe that, hough legally commissioned, he was not oestly elected. 2. He will signalize his assumption of the lional authority by discarding the men and eetiug the agencies which gave him his estionable title to the highest trust of the public. He will make an entirely new binet.and the names of Morton and Camei will not be found in its list of the honored risers of the Executive. 3. He will aim at a new Republican derture, that will disrupt parties both North 3 South. He will recognize Gov. Nicholls Louisiaua and Gov. Hampton in South rolina, recall the bayonets from the Southi States, aud invite carpet-baggers and inde.ers to play by themselves hereafter, i will teach Louisiana that his tainted vioy from the Wells Returning Board of that ite is the very last that the country can nd, and that Packard must retire, Kellogg ist vanish, and Wells be branded as an outt. The safety of the Hayes administration peratively demands it, and the country will rerno convulsion by the final overthrow of i adventurers who have shamed the nation 3 left the South one field of desolation. 1. He will cast from him the dregs of the Grant administration by the dismissal from his trust of the Camerons, the Chandlers, the Mortons and the Shermans of the party. He will not bar! them over the battlements of the . administration by any aggressive acts, bat he will end their revolutionary policy, discard4 their dependents, and offend tnem in his earnest effort to teach forgetfulness of the stains upon his own skirts, by disowning those who waded through usurpation and corruption to bear him his crown. 5. He will aim to harmonise hotb branches of Congress with the administration. He well understands that he has the lawful bat not the moral support of the nation in his. great office, and he cannot confront an adverse House or Senate. He will dissever the Sotith by givingthe Conservatives the control of every State government, and ending all military interference with their local affairs. With that done, what will they have to war against ? Their great battle will be won, and how easily may they inaugurate a Conservative administration organization in the House by the election of some such man as JBanxs to me Speakership? The South wants government, law and peace, and Hayes has those Domino* ditles to give them in exchange for tolerance of his blotted title to the Presidency. 6. The North will share the infection of po? 1 litical disruption, and uncertainty, will be 1 stamped on every Northern State from New ' Hampshire to the Mississippi, with tbesiDglb exception of Vermont The worst elements of Republicanism, those which have been ftis* ' tered by Grant and have been the prolific an* 1 tbore of reproach upon the Republican name, will desert Hayes, for they are trne only to ' the idlatincts of the jobber. They will be the , 1 loudest and fiercest to denounce Hayes as a J pretender and a fraud that was spawned of 1 fraud; butjusttotbe extent that such ele* I > ments condemn him, will the better elements 1 1 of both parties sustain him. The nation will " ' never love Hayes, nor can it ever esteem him > as having justly won theobief authority of a great people, but it will honor his just' acts 1 and sustain him id so far as be shall be right; 7. The organs of the party which have been " proclaiming Hampton and-NichoIts from day 1 to-day as conspirators, assassin and usurpers, 1 and wbicb have been flaming with hate and ; vengeance against the South, will, within thir* . ty days, declare Hampton and Nichoils to be estimable gentlemen and lawful Governors, and they will pay tribute to peace and otfc krnttiarhfwl ft* tliA fthrirtftft it Mb ery patriot should bow. STRONG LANGUAGE IN WASHINGTON# 1 The following article appeared in the Wash* . ington Capital of the ISth ultimo, foiMhe i publication of which the editor, Don Piatt, has been indicted .for seditious publication. ? 1 Don is an Independent Republican, but it seems that his utterances are tinsuited jutt , now to the palates of the horde of office-hold* era and hangers-on in Washington: The sickening apprehension felt by the - < 1 people, to which we referred last week, that i the Supreme Court would be found1 as rotten i as the other powers of our unhappy govern 1 ment, has been realized. v'-~" v j The swift decay that in the last ten years f has made our self-government a sham and a , mockery, and in the executive and legislative branches shamed us before the world, fit* i been silently working its way through the ; judiciary, until now, in its first trial, it of' fends with its stench the nostrils of all honest citizens. The appeal made to Judges of the Supremo ; Court from the people, sorely distressed ao4 . perplexed, was to save ihem from the wieked . : conspiracy of men they had repudiated at the _ poTlsT They saw their faithless agents for years robbing the treasury of their hard-earni ed taxes; they saw their highest official8_in>> f dieted for the meanest crimes ; they OaW a President, coarse, brutaf and ignorant, apt pointing sycophantic pimps to thenighest poj 'sitions; they saw him the associate of roughs ^ and commissioner of thieves; they saw car, pet baggdrs, sustained by bayonets, manipulating the polls, that ignorance and rascality. \ might tyrannize over the 8outh; they saw ^ rings organized in the lobby control their w [ Congress ; they saw huge monopolies created . by their government eating out their jsnb| stance; they saw themselves reduced to want, I trade paralyzed and labor without employ, . and they made a desperate effort to right j their wrongs through the ballot. With a subsidized press against them, with an army of hungry officeholders, that, count> ing those - of_ the general government with k those of the States, make a horde of treasury | eaters greater than any standing army of Europe?with ail the accumulated capital in ! the hands of monopolies arrayed on the side I ef their oppressors?they made one despairing effort, and came up from the polls with a majority of over.half a million in their be, half. And of what avail ? ] Through a dishonest returning board, made up of criminals who have escaped conviction and punishment under the protecting arm of a corrupt government, enough votes/ are tlyown out to render all their efforts vaiq, ant} saddle upon them the old corruption and old horde for another term of years?perhaps forever. From this an appeal was taken to five Jna-. tices of the Supreme Court?for that, no more and no less, was the commission created. 'It was believed that by such process the ques-. ^ tion at issQe, being a charge of conspiracy against certain corrupt men, could be liffed A from the political arena to a tribunal of hightoned, impartial judges, who would decide in H accordance with law.and justice. To the amazement and disgust of all > thoughtful minds, these justices divided, as the partisans bad, on a political line, and three indecent old men joined with the ene UiICO U1 bUC pwpio IU UAiUg wuupiiuu U|AJU us, aod destroying all confidence in the very foundation of our political structuie-^-ihe ballot. They decide that fraud does not Vitiate, and beyond this that they hqve nothing to decide, and so send the question to the people. We have not the patience, to argue what the people in their broad common sense will not consider?the fine-spun legal technicalities under which these aged scoundrels seek to hide their shame. Their real brief is to be found in the utterance of one of their commission, James A. Garfield, who said, boastingly: "You'll have to grin and bear it; we hold the cards and intend to play them." Poor political- gambler. The stakes for which he plays are the rights of 40,000,000 people, the peace and prosperity of the only republic known to humanity. For all tha* _ freemen hold most dear, these hands, stained V with plunder, gamble, as the soldiers of Pilate severed in division the garment ef the cruci-' fied Christ. As we said a week since, this is not law?it is revolution ; and if the people tamely submit, we may bid a long farewell to constitutional government Fraud no longer vitiates. A corrupt administration has only, by its bayonets, to hold a State usurpation long enough in power for a corrupt returning board to do its vile task, and the work is done. If a man thus returned to power can ride in safety from the executive mansion to the oapitol, to be inaugurated, we are fitted for the slavery that will follow the inauguration. We do not believe the people of the United States are of this servile sort. We do not believe that they are prepared, without a blow, to part with their bard-earned, bloodstained possessions. Notice is now served on the citizens of Louisiana and South Carolina that they must care for themselves. How soon lamp-posts will bear fruit is for them to say. To the people of the North and West notice is given that all the toil to which they are subjected, that bondholders and monopolists may fatten secure, is repaid by no seen rity for their rights, and that a shrinkage of values is now in order.' If there is law for fraud there is reason for violenoe. And' t<b that we make our last appeal,