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Scraps and facts. i ? By a resolution of the city council of Mobile, all cotton factories erected within the corporate limits will be relieved from city taxation for ten years. ? A list of clergymen who have fallen from grace within a year, in the United States, is I published in the Jewish Times. The number of convictions for crimes is given at forty. j ? Hereafter there is to be no South ; none, that is, in a distinctively political sense. The negro will disappear from the field of national politics. Henceforth the nation, as a nation, will have nothing more to do with him.? New York Nation. ? Half the fools in the United States think they can beat the doctors at curing the sick; two-thirds of them are sure they can beat'the ministers nraaehinp the GoSDel. and all of them know they can beat the editors running the papers. ? The Cincinnati Enquirer likens the President's policy to a blanket. "If he pulls the blanket off from the South the North gets cold, and if he pulls it off from the North the South gets cold." The blanket, however, is begining to stretch to comfortable dimensions. ? The New York World, in view of the removal of the Federal troops from South Carolina, takes occasion to refer to the excellent conduct of the citizens of the State under the most exasperating provocations, and welcomes them back again from their thraldom. ? On the principle that the "early bird catches the worm," the Martinsburg (West Virginia) Statesman has thrown its presidential banner to the breeze for 1880, bearing the names of "Blue Jeans" Williams for President and Wade Hampton for Vice-President. ? According to a Washington telegram, Senator Patterson has said that he does not intend to return to South Carolina to live after the expiration of his two years in the United States Senate. This will be sad news to Pennsylvania, which will probably have to take him back. ? Fisk University at Nashville, is to have an important addition. The foundation is commenced for a building to be called "Liv- i iugaton Hall," after the great African explorer. It is to cost $50,000, and is to be used , to educate colored missionaries for service in Africa. ? General Fitz Lee says he was three years at West Point with Gov. Nicholls. He says Nicholls "was popular, strong-willed, amiable 1 and audacious. If Packard and his friends think they can 'bull dose' Gen. Nicholls out of the rights conferred upon him by a majority of some ten thousand votes, they will lose time, and, if they shoot, life." ? A bill has been passed by the Legislature of Tennessee to reduce the salary of the Governor from $4,000 to $3,000, Supreme 1 Court Judges from $4,000 to $3,000, judges of the inferior courts and all special judges from $2,500 to $2,000. The bill, after it receives the promised signature of the Governor, goes into effect after the next general county elections. ? Vice-President Wheeler's home organ lets out the interesting fact that he was the most surprised man in the country when he found the Electoral Commission had counted Louisiana for Hayes and him, as he had expected and predicted that its vote would be thrown nut entirely. The or?an further de clares that Mr. Wheeler intends to keep entirely clear of responsibility in the settlement of the Louisiana case. ? Despatches state that President Hayes' policy toward the South, is in a great measure, the result of an excursion taken through the Southern States soon after the war. On this tour, he saw and conversed with all classes, and came to the conclusion that if Federal interference was dispensed with, the Southern people would soon become as loyal to the Union as any other citizens, and that peace, i tranquility and prosperity would be restored. ? The Gretna Green of California is a marine league outside the Golden Gate. At a late runaway wedding, a youth of 19 and a girl of 14 chartered a steam scow, took on board the necessary clergyman, steamed away outside the jurisdiction of the State on to the open sea, and there, amid the foaming breakers of the bar and the howlincr nor'wester which prevailed at the time, the marriage ceremony was performed. ? Ah Mood, a San Francisco Chinaman, being on trial for murder, was told by bis lawyer that the defence would be an alibi. The prisoner said that he could arrange readily for witnesses, and he did. Three of his countrymen swore that, at the time of the murder, be was at work in a wash-house; two swore that he was asleep at home, and others would have sworn that he was in other places had not the lawyer interposed. ? Wade Hampton hits the nail right on the head so plainly that the most illiterate black man in South Carolina can understand him < when he appeals to the colored people to give ' his administration a fair trial, and if it fails ! to fulfill its pledges to all races, "throw out { all the men in office at the next election and put in anybody you please." As Hayes is on Hampton's bond, with the army as back bail for the President, the security to the colored ( people of the Palmetto State may be consid- i ered better than the average of security in I business transactions these days.?Philadel- , phia Times. I ?S., who was traveling in Kansas, received the following telegram: "Return immediately. You are a father." On the eve ! of his return, bis lady friends, determined to nlav a inlre on him. nroeured from the neich I J " J?" ? ??' r-'- oborhood three other babies, placed all four in a row on a bed in an adjoining apartment, and covered them op. S. arrived, embraced his wife in great delight, and was then led forth to behold his first-born. When the cover was raised, an indescribable look of surprise overspread his countenance as he exclaimed, "Great God 1 Did any of them get away ?" ? The records of the police departments of New York and Brooklyn, show that the num- < ber of people who have mysteriously disappeared, during the past three months, is much greater than during any previous period of twelve months. During the months of January, February and March, eixty-four persons were reported missing in New York, and forty-one in Brooklyn, making a total in the two cities of one hundred and five. Of this number thirty-four were found through the agency of officers and detectives ; thirty returned to their homes and gave explanations , of their absence; one, A. Oakey Hall, has re-appeared in England; eleven were found dead, having committed suicide or been mur- 1 dered, and thirty are still missing. i ? Philadelphia is getting nicely ready for the opening of her permanent international exhibition, May 10, the anniversary of the j, Uentenmai opening, wnen tne rresiaenc ana other distinguished guests are to be present. The permanent show promises to surpass expectation in its comprehensiveness?including industrial and agricultural exhibits by nearly all the countries originally represented? while its arrangement will be more convenient and intelligent than before. The articles will be grouped by subjects, and the longitu- j dinal avenues of the main building are to be | widened, practically doing away with the j transverse aisles. When things are fairly set- i tied on Fairmount Park, the display will be well worth a second study to those who saw ] the great world's fair, and will go far toward , making up their loss to those who missed it. , ? On general principles it is held that custom makes law, but such rules of action are ' subject to review, and even to reversal, ac- J cording to Judge Gilbert, of Brooklyn. In 1 that city a lady made a lease of a sewing machine, and paid for it the sum of $80, but, | failing to pay a last instalment when due, the ( agent seized the mechanical seamstress, vi et, , armis, and took it to his salesroom. The lady brought suit to recover the amount she had 1 paid to the agent, and the jury awarded her 1 a verdict for the sum of $80, with interest, and the court ordered execution to issue forth- 1 with, although the defendant asked for delay. Judge Gilbert observed, in support of this action, that the defendant had shown no mercy to hia helpless customer by allowing reasonable time to make up the 6nal instal- ' inent on the sewing machine, which she had 1 really purchased under what was misnamed a lease, and it was but even-handed justice to require the defendant to repair the damage, he had done, at once. ffathviHt (Hhtqtmtr. YORKVfLLE, S, C.: THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 19, 1877. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and State in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post-office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirer is delivered free of postage to all subscribers residing in York county, who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?Thedateon the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date imist be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. THEPROSPECT. Quite a number of the people of South Carolina, seem to be of the firm opinion that now, since Gen. Wade Hampton is the undisputed Governor of the State, that idleness and plenty will soon be wedded. This is all nonsense. Deservedly great as are the power and influence of Governor Hampton, there are Borne things he can not control. He can not make a lazy, idle and prodigal people happy. He can not cause corn and cotton to grow without work. He can not regulate the price , of bread-stuffs. Gov. Hampton can control, 1 in a great measure, the politics of the State. He has demonstrated that he has superior ad- j ministrative powers. Every honest man in j the State?we may add many in the United States?has unbounded confidence in the capabilities and integrity of Governor Hampton. , Still be, nor any other man, or set of men, , can redeem South (Jarolina rrom its pecuniary thraldom, unless the people go to work. The political condition of the State, we feel convinced, Governor Hampton will redeem; but the private pecuniary embarrassment in which the multitude of the inhabitants of the State are involved, can only be relieved by individual effort. It is right and proper that the mass of the < people take this fact into consideration. Gov. Hampton does not engage to pay private debts out of the State treasury; neither does he propose to establish 8 mammoth poor house in which he will feed a host of lazy, idle loungers. This is a free country, and the prime idea of freedom is that every one must work 1 for his living, steal or starve. Greeuback^ and corn will be no plentier with the lazy man next spring, than they are to day; but if all our people, or even the majority of them, 1 go to work in the right way, the country will Boon be in a prosperous pecuniary condition. I It will, uo doubt, be said by not a few, that I the negro will not work. He will spend one I day in every week in running to the nearest town or store, and knock off work every Sat- 1 ^ - - 1 ?-!- -1- TM : u* ' uraay at iweive o ciucK. ?umu 19 muuu uutu in this, as the rags of the negro population de- 1 monstrate; but the negro is free. Let every tub stand on its own bottom. If every white man will produce enough to feed and clothe his own family and pay not less than ten dollars of debt, the country will be greatly relieved. In South Carolina there are near two hundred thousand able bodied white men who are able to till the soil. Suppose each one of these feeds and clothes his family and clears ten dollars. This will put two millions of dollars in the State. This amount put in circulation may be made to pay at least fifty millions of debt and still be in the State. If Bvery inhabitant of the Stnte will clear only ten dollars during the present year, we will have the best times we ever had since the settlement of the country. If, however, our people give themselves up to a detestable lethargy, we will see blue blazes yet! Our common country expects every man, woman and child to work. There is gold and greenbacks plenty in the old State yet, if we will only go to work and dig them out. The time for talking is over. The work season has arrived. Woe be to the man who folds his arms in idleness. Poverty will come upon him like an armed man. Manfully the people have purged the State of political misrule. Let them now go to work and purge it of private embarrassment. ' A FENCE LAW. I On next Tuesday, the General Assembly of the State will convene at Columbia. The <' peculiar condition of the country demands ! that the representatives of the people, when they assemble, direct their attention to the < enacting of such laws as will be conducive to i the "greatest good of the greatest number" of < the inhabitants of the State. Among the ' questions which will, in all probability, come ' before our legislators for discussion, will be < that of a change in the existing fence law of ' the State. For the last ten years, much of ' the legislation has been of a party character. 1 Laws have been enacted, not for the good of I < the people, but for purely party purposes. 11 Things have, at last, begun to change for the | better. The fence law, we suppose, will be | discussed, and such changes made as may ! meet the circumstances of the country. j ( Let us understand the question. What is , meant by the fence law? As the law now j ( 3tands, each individual is required to enclose j his crop with a fence which will protect it: from the ravages of his neighbors' stock. 1J The change which is proposed to be made, re-; i verses the present order. Instead of fencing ] the crop, it is proposed to fence the stock. ; Let it be distinctly understood, that no en-11 croachment is proposed to be made upon individual rights. At present, every one is compelled, by law, to secure his crop by a fence, and he is permitted to let his stock run at large. He may fence up every foot of land he owns and keep both his crop and ' stock within his enclosures, if he sees fit. He must fence his crop, or submit to the loss of having it eaten up by his neighbors' stock ; for, by the present law, ad lands not fenced are common pasture grounds. j The change proposed is simply this. Fence the stock up, and let every man plant his crop wherever he sees fit, on his own land, with the distinct understanding that it will be protected, by the law, from all depredations of domestic animals, no matter whether there is a fence around the field or not. This takes ; no right from any one. Every one can do as he sees fit about fencing his crop. He may fence his whole plantation. All that is required is, that for the good of the whole, each one must keep his stock from disturbing the crops of his neighbors. If we have succeeded in making it plain what change is proposed to be made in the fence law of the State, we think it must commend itself to evefy thoughtful man. In this country, less fencing would be required to enclose the stock, than is required to enclose the crops. No one will doubt this. < Hence, there would be a greatsaving of labor if a change was made in the law. Every ' man's land is his own, and he is entitled to all that is on it, or grows out of it. The good of the country demands that every man be protected in all his rights. As the law now stands, he who purchases land not under feuce, is obliged, by law, to Bubmit to its being fed upon by every cow and hog in the community, or incur an expense equal to the cost of the land, by putting a fence around it. This fence will be to repair every year, and a new one to build every ten years. On every plan tation there are small patches of land that j are rich, but which are not in cultivation, simply because their owner cannot fence them at a reasonable cost. So far as the stock of the country is concerned, it would be far better for every stock owner to keep his domestic animals constantly enclosed than the way it 1 is now. The only objection that we can see I that any one can make to the proposed change is, that farmers will not get the advantage of pasturing the fields they work in crops. It remains to be proven whether they would lose ( or gain in this respect. What they would ( lose in one direction, they would gain in an- { other. The fields would not be so exhausted j by the crops that are taken off them. It is the duty of legislators to enact laws ( that will advance, not the interests of some ( party, but the interests of the whole country. , This being the case, a law should be enacted , by the legislature, which will convene in a j few days, leaving it to the people to decide whether they will continue to fence the crops and let the stock run at large ; or fence their stock and iet the crops be without enclosure. This ODtion should be left to the people of the 1 whole State, to the several counties of the 1 State, and to the townships of the counties. ' Some counties in the State may desire a change 1 in the present law, while other counties may not; some townships in the counties may desire a change in the law, whilst the whole county may not. The question should be submitted to the people by townships. Let 1 the law be enacted so that the people of each ; township in the State may have the right to 1 make the change if they see fit. It iB evident that no change can be effected during the present year. The present crop j will soon be planted, and no arrangements ] have been made to fence the stock. In aDy i event, the present law must remain in force i during the greater portion of this year. ] SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Cotton planting has been commenced in Marion county. ? Capt. O. N. Butler, a brother of Gen. M. C. Butler, died in Augusta, on Thursday last, after a short illness. , ? Extensive preparations are being made for the State Inaugural ball, to take place in Columbia early in May. ? In 1876, South Carolina had 232 Granges and 8,440 members; in 1875, 357 Gran1fi QQ9 momhors?? lnaa nf 19Ji ("Iran gco QUU AU|i/VM M ?wvw ? ... ges and 2,552 members. ? To-morrow is the day set apart for the 1 execution of ten colored prisoners in Abbeville county, convicted of murder and con- 1 jpiracy. ? Quite a number of the citizens of Columbia, including several of the Republican i claimants of the State offices, called on Gov- . srnor Hampton last week and paid their re- < 3pects. j ? The New York Tribune of the 13th, says < that ex-Governor Chamberlain will remove to J that city in a few days. He will be, from 1 May 1st, a member of the law firm of Chamberlain, Carter & Eaton. ? Judge Mackey has accepted the invitation to deliver the anniversary address before the r literary societies of Erskine College at the approaching commencement in July. His sub- < ject will be "The Anglo-Saxons, their lan- , guage and their civilization." ( ? A committee of gentlemen has been ap- | pointed in Charleston, for the purpose of ob- ^ taining subscriptions for a suitable testimonial ( if the gratitude of the people of South Carolina to Senator J. B. Gordon for his efforts in Washington in behalf of the people. ? It is announced that the colored Republicans of Charleston, contemplate holding a jrand mass meeting, at an early day, for the purpose of publicly and formally withdrawing their opposition to Governor Hampton, and pledging him their aid in the establishment of peace and order. ? The South Carolina Railroad President md Directors, in their recent report, make an encouraging exhibit. The earnings of the road during the year have been 81,126,437.05. The expenses of operating and maintaining, 5647,752.64. Balance of earnings, $478,754.30. ? Recently, in Edgefield county, a number if colored men, some of whom had absolutely refused to do road duty, while others pretended to work, but did absolutely nothing, were reported by the overseers to the county commissioners, and by the latter to the trial jusdee. Being summoned before the justice and brought in by a sheriff's deputy, they were jnable to show any cause for their refusal to | work, whereupon the trial justice sentenced ( jach one to thirty days in jail, or to pay a 5ne of 85. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? There are now employed on the Western N". C. Railroad, above Old Fort, about 375 jonvicts. ? A new colored militia company, to be sailed the "Vance Guards," has been organized at Raleigh. ? Fourteen tobacco factories in Stokes and 3urry counties, have recently been seized for Qot complying with the internal revenue laws. ? Rev. C. F. Deems, of New York, has been selected to deliver the annual sermon at the State University in Chapel Hill next June.. ? At a recent meeting of the stockholders af the Fayetteville and Western Railroad, a resolution was passed providing for the ultimate change of the present gauge into a nar-, row gauge. Efforts will be made to complete j the road to Greensboro as early as practicable.! ? The Charlotte Observer learns that on Tuesday of last week, while a party of men were working the road near South Point, Gas- j ton county, an altercation ensued between a white man named William Johnston and a, aegro named Minor McGill, in which the for- j mer was killed. The murdered man bad but recently moved to that section from Union ? county, S. C. The murderer had not been ? arrested at latest accounts. 1 LOCAL AFFAIRS. J , y NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. < T. M. Dobson <fe Co.?Fresh Groceries?Millinery i Goods?Parasols?Black Grenadines?New j Goods?Straw Hats?Ready-Made ShirtsLooking Glasses?Curtain Lace?Onlv 15 Cents?Ginghams?Cork Corsets?Only 5 ] Cents?Alpaca?Cottonades?Ready-Made i Clothing. | W. H. <fe J. P. Herndon?German Millet SeedHoes. H. F. Adickes?Our Stock?Calicoes?Shoes? 1 Cassimeres?Straw Hats. W. LaFayette Hood, Administrator?Application for Discharge. ' A. H. Davega, President?Stockholders' Meeting. J. M. Adams, the Tin-man?Home-Made Tin ware?Try Home First?Notice to Rag Sellers?No money to Lend. John C. Kuykendaf?Useful Combination?Attractive Variety?The Kid-Gloved Commu- | nity?A Defensive Sporting Implement? Don't Overlook This?Brown's Blood Purifier?'Spect Its Wor-rums. I Kennedy Bros. <fe Barron?Plows?Hoes?Hard- , ware?Soap?Wooden Ware?Ready-Made Shirts?Just Received?Tin-Ware?School Books. M. Strauss?White Goods. Latimer <fe Hemphill?Straw Hats?New Goods? < Glass Lamps?Hardware?Wooden Ware? ] Tin-Ware. r. J. Mackey, Circuit Judge?Spocial Term of the Court of General Sessions and Common i Pleas. L. M. Grist?For Rent or Sale. R. H. Glenn?Administrator's Sale. R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sales. W. P. Good?Attorney at Law. wt rt T - /f n 1 A. o. jeiiervs?untnu Aixuiuitiuiit Jefferys <fc M'etta?Navassa Guano. CIRCUIT COURT. As will be seen by advertisement, Judge 1 Mackey has ordered a special term of the Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas for York county, commencing at 10 o'clock A. M., on Tuesday the 15th of next month. , WIND AND RAIN STORM. A more boisterous day than was last Friday is not remembered to have occurred in this section for several years. Rain fell almost continually during the day, accompanied by high wind which raged incessantly, inflicting considerable damage to fencing and other property throughout the county. From our exchanges we learn that the storm pre- , vailed generally throughout the State, and was more severe in Charleston than any that bas occurred at that harbor since September, 1874. THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP. , At an impromptu meeting of the members of the Yorkville bar, a few evenings ago, the question of the successor of Chief Justice Moses having been introduced, a vote was taken as to the choice of the gentlemen present, with the following result: James P. Carroll, 8. W. D. Porter, _...4. ^? T ^ i Urtju. unities V^UIIIIOA9 It is proper to remark that I. D. Witherspoon, Esq., a member of the bar, and Senator from this county, did not make any expression of opinion on the question. , VANCE PORTRAIT. We have received from the publisher, J. 3. Tomlin8on, Hickory, N. C., a fine lithographic portrait, 14 by 18 inches, of Governor Z. B. Vance, of North Carolina. This ( is a correct image of one of the Old North State's worthiest sons, and the only correct picture we have ever seen of him. Those desiring the picture can obtain it by mail for 50 cents; or if they prefer, it will be sent, by express, in a neat walnut frame of 1} inch moulding, for $1.50. Mr. Tomlinson desires to secure agents to canvass for this picture, and he may be addressed on the subject at Hickory, N. C. SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY. We are in receipt of a note from Mr. Henry Ewbank, General Agent of the Southern Historical Society, informing us that he will visit Yorkville at an early day in the interest of the Society he represents. In canvassing for this Society, Mr. Ewbank has the following endorsement of Governor Hampton, at whose request he is thus engaged: Columbia, S. C., March 20, 1877. My dear SirIt will give me great pleasure to aid you, by all means in my power, in putting i the Southern Historical Society on a sure ana permanent footing. The objects contemplated by the Society, appeal to the patriotism of our whole people. These objects are neither partisan nor sectional. They simply have for their sure end the vindication of the truth of history, and we awe it to ourselves and to our children to leave no means untried to placfe ourselves right before i the world. I am very truly yours, Wade Hampton. H. Ewbank, Esq. EDITORIAL INKLINGS, [he Republican Ex.State Officers. The Columbia Register says that on i Saturday last, Governor Hampton addressed i letter to the present Republican occupants )f the State offices at the cap'tol, inviting them to vacate the offices and permit the le- J jally elected State officers to enter upon the ( liacharge of their duties. The request was lo/inmnnnipd with the assurance that as soon I is the Supreme Court should sit, which would je shortly after the assembling of the Legis- 1 ature, when that body would elect a Chief Justice, their claims to the offices would be ' mbmitted to that tribunal, and if found valid, > ,hey would be reinstated. The parties addressed have replied to the i governor, declining to vacate until the Su- { areme Court Bhall have passed upon their | espective claims to the offices. The Colura- j )ia Register says that the Democratic State )fficere will enter upon the discharge of their luties until the Supreme Court decides the | ;itles of the several claimants. I Patterson Rises to Explain. 1 The Washington Republican of Satur- j lay contains a leugthy report of an interview . vith Senator Patterson, in which he disavows j nuch that has been reported as having been ittered by him. Senator Patterson expresses liraself as displeased with the abandonment >f the contest by Chamberlain upon the withIrawal of the troops. He says the troops vere in the State-House to preserve the peace ind not to support Chamberlain's title to the tffice, and that when Hampton promised to jreserve the peace they were no longer needed. Hampton's promise also covered protection to 'ihamberlain in a resort to the court, and liharaberlain's surrender now places his Rejublican friends in a false position. He dis-' ivows any intention to oppose the administrainn of President Hayes, but says he is willing ,o give it a fair trial. He believes the Re>ublican party in South Carolina has a ma- ority of 20,000, and if Hampton fulfills his dedges for a fair election, as he believes he vill, he has every hope of carrying the State it the next election for the administration sandidate, whoever he may be. rhe Doty of the White People. Now that Governor Hampton is in un- j * lisputed possession of the gubernatorial chair, ! c ind the causes for dissatisfaction so long ex- i ] sting in the State are comparatively ended, j t ye hope to see both races dwell in peace and i inity. To this end, we commend the adrair- J ible address of Gen. McGowan, at Abbeville, j t few days ago, which was full of deep thought, j dad in noble words, as the following brief e ixtract will show: e We promised to put an end to race animosties. We have complained that strangers r ind carpet-baggers have divided our people | >Q the color line, and alienated one portion of | >ur citizens from the other, and the complaint vas well founded. Let us be just and kind to t ill. Let us, in this respect, not follow the ex-, t imple of our opponents; but teach them a 1 c <!88on of generosity which they have not t mown, and make even them rejoice that they were defeated ; that we succeeded to the government, and that all now will get exact ju4lice before the law. This Hampton has promised. This is in accordance with humanity and good feeling. This we will do, and I predict that before these buds, which are now just beginning to swell and burst, shall have grown into leaves and fallen by the autumn blast, we will, indeed, be a united people, "one and inseparable." We will then have crossed the river,and we will rest in the shade on the other side of Jordan. Extra Session of the Legislature. By the following proclamation, the first official act of Governor Hampton after the withdrawal of the troops from the State House, it will be seen that the General Assembly will convene in extra session on Tuesday the 24th instant: Under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution of the State to convene the General Assembly on extraordinary occasions, I, Wade Hampton, Governor of the State of South Carolina, do hereby summons the Senators and members of the w"r * w-a - J Oi.i. A ?. nouse 01 .Representatives or saiu orate ru meet in general assembly, in the city of Columbia, on Tuesday, the 24th day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, at 12 o'clock meridian. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great Beal of the State to be affixed. Done at the city of Columbia, this eleventh day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and in the one hundred and first year of the independence of the United States of America. WADE HAMPTON^Governor. R. M. Sims, Secretary of State. Mr. Hayes and the Sooth. Regarding the President's Southern policy, the following Washington dispatch, under date of the 11th iostant, shows how variously his plan is viewed by different headlights of the Republican party: The President is represented by his friends to be very indignant over the tone of Chamberlain's letter, and looks upon the concluding paragraph, which assumes not to doubt the patriotic and honorable purpose of the Executive in removing the troops, as a quiet bit of sarcasm added as an afterthought several days subsequent to the writing of the letter. The evidence of the coming revolt in the Republican party agiinst the administration, however, continues to multiply, and will doubtless continue to increase the President's indignation. A noted Republican who arrived here to-day from Boston, where he bad ? ?: :.u \\r?i?n ???? BU iuusrview WIIU VT CUUC1I 1 lumps, aajo uo told him that he bad a bushel-basketful of letters from Republicans applauding his recent speech denouncing the ^President and his Cabinet. Many of the writers are publicly known as supporters of the administration. A distinguished Republican ez-8enator from Ohio, Ben Wade, has also written a letter here severely abusing Hayes and his so-called policy, and predicting disaster as the result of it. On the other hand, Governor Hartran ft, of Pennsylvania, had a tiro hours' interview with the President to-night, and assured him of his warm approval of all that the administration had done, and expressed the opinion that it would contribute to 'the welfare of the Republican party and the best interests of the country. The President, in return, thanked him for his support, and said he believed bis policy was right, and that he intended to fully carry it out. Mr. Blaine, of Maine. As waa to be expected, there are soreheads among the Republicans, who affect to believe that the President's Southern policy will be a failure, and that the Southern people are not entitled to proper consideration at the hands of the chief executive. Prominent amoug these malcontents is Mr. Blaine, who publishes the following letter in the Boston Herald: Augusta, Me., April 10th, 1877. To the Editor of the Herald:?Your Columbia correspondent is in error in bis statement that I had a conference with Gov. Chamberlain in New York. I have seen Governor Chamberlain but once for a year, and that was in the private Cabinet-room of President Hayes, on the 27th of March. Nor have I written or telegraphed him, or heard from him in any way. The same is true respecting Gov. Packard, except in the matter of one telegram received from him, which I read publicly in the UnifpH States Senate: but I am sure that Gov. Chamberlain knows that he has my profoundeat sympathy in the heroic, though unsuccessful, struggle he has made in South Carolina for civil liberty and constitutional government. I am equally sure that Gov. Packard feels that my heart and judgment are with him in the contest he is waging, against great odds, for the Governorship that he holds by a title as valid as that which justly and lawfully seated R. B. Hayes in the Presidential chair. I trust also that both Governors know that the Boston press no more represents the stalwart Republican feeling of New England, or the pending issues, than the same press did when it denounced the enforcement of the fugitive slave law in 1851. Very respectfully, Jas. G. Blaine. rhe Louisiana Commission. A dinnAtph from New Orleans to the New York Tribune, says that it may be safely stated that a majority, if not all, of the members of the Louisiana Commission have been led by their inquiries to the following conclu* sions: First. That the Packard government has the best, if not the only, dejure title. If returning boards be a constitutional part of the machinery of elections, then Packard, bis eourt, his officers and his legislature, are the legitimate products of that machinery. There is room for fair doubt as to the constitutional power of the board to make up the legislature ind to act judicially on the Supreme Court iecision, denying it the power. Its return was binding. TheNicholls party had, therefore, no right to build up a government on their own doubts as to the constitutionality of the statutes under which the board acted, rhe question goes to the President, however, >iot as a legal, but as a political one, and he may fairly satisfy himself, and be governed by his conclusions as to whether the board's action was constitutional. Second. That the Nicholls government exercises complete de facto authority throughout ;he State and in every acre of its soil except within the walls of the old hotel used by Packard as the State-House. The assertions )f Packard that in certain heavy negro parshes he is recognized, have not been verified. Reputable gentlemen of both parties have ;ome in from these parishes to assure the cornnission that the Nicholls' administration neets with no more opposition in these localities than in New Orleans. Packard's statenent that nearly all of theCircnit Judges in he State recognize him, has been found to est solely in the fact that these Judges were :omrai8sioned by Kellogg,and is disproved by >ath8 of office filed by them with Nicholls' secretary of State. It|js literally true that 1 Packard is a prisoner in the State-House and !. hat his claims are actively supported by no- j >ody in Louisiana except the members of his < government and two or three hundred guards te is feeding and paying. No doubt the negro population believe in bis right and want i t enforced, but they will not raise a finger to lid him. The white population are in active ' ind determined hostility to his pretensions. Third. That Nicholls' administration is naintaining order throughout the State, and 1 >rotecling the rights of both races, and that'' >eace and prosperity would result Fourth. That Packard's administration can-1 i lot be established by a simple recognition on : i he part of the President, but only by a use j' if a large force of Federal troops to crush out j I he acting government, and the maintenataoe i of a garrison io the State during the whole of Packard's term; farther, that if this course were practicable, it would involve a continuance of the race conflicts, social and industrial disturbances, and business depression which characterized Kellogg's administration. A New Orleans dispatch of Monday Bays the controversy is practically settled, bnt two or three days will be required to arrange details. The compromise is that the Legislature will be organized upon prima fade right to seats. This theoretically leaves the gubernatorial question open, but practically inaugurating Nicholls. The dispatch says the Nicholls Legislature passed, on Monday, a resolution giving effect to the programme of settlement, and will also pass resolutions covering the following points: Confidence in and support of President Hayes, guarantee to accept the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution, the fullest protection of the colored people in all the rights and privileges of person and property, eoual educational advantages, amnesty for past political offenses, so that peace and order may prevail, and an union of all in restoring national prosperity to the State. What Mr. Stephens Says. Hon. A. H. Stephens is yet in Washington, the delicate state of his health not permitting him to return to his home in Georgia, at the time Congress adjourned. His health is, however, improving, but he will not attempt to return home until after the extra session of Congress, to be called by the President in June. His views regarding matters vitally affecting the Sooth, given as follows, are gathered from a recent conversation with Mr. Walsh, of the Augusta Chronicle: He hopes to be able to take an active part in the deliberations of the extra session of Congress. He will advocate government subsidy to the Texas Pacific Railroad. He thinks that it is the grandest project now before the country, and that it should receive aid from Congress. The South is especially interested in the construction of this road, and the whole country will be benefitted by it It is not a party, but a national measure, and should be built as a work of vital importance to tbe interest of tbe whole country. The South will be materially benefitted by it. Mr. Stephens thinks that the bill can be so framed as to protect the government from loss. He regards the Southern Pacific as one of tbe grandest projects now before the country. Mr. Stephens speaks hopefully of the future of the country. Personally he thinks well of President Hayes. He likes bis record. He believes that the President will carry out his policy of peace aud good will to tbe South. He considers that tbe solution of the South Carolina troubles, which has resulted in the pacification of South Carolina and restoration of home rule and good government under Governor Hampton, will lead to like results in Louisiana by the recognition of Nicbolls' government. He considers President Hayes fully committed to this policy, and believes that he will use all legitimate means in his power to carry it into execution, and thus aid in restoring peace to all sections of the republic. He considers that President Hayes has a grand opportunity and that he ought to elevate himself to a plane entirely above party, and by so doing be will inaugurate peace and prosperity in a country already too long distracted and depressed by political excitement and party bitterness. He thinks that Congress will heartily second President H$yes in his efforts to give the South good government. - > MERE-MENTION. Boss Winans, a well-known citizen of Baltimore, is dead. A destructive fire occurred in St. Louis on Wednesday night of last week. The Southern Hotel was destroyed, and about twenty persons lost their lives. The resolutions of bate offered in the New England Methodist Conference last week, were not adopted. A wealthy gentleman of Connecticut, who had willed his property to that church, burned the document in disgust when be read the resolutions. On Saturday the provision market of Baltimore was more excited than it has been in a great while. The sales of corn amounted to 900,000 bushels that day?the largest by 200,000 bushels ever sold in that market in one day. This unusual activity is attributable to the prospect of war in Europe. The cotton blanket quite common in France and Germany is made by only one mill in the United States, the Eagle and Phoenix, at Columbus, Georgia. The war news from Europe advanced gold in New York last Monday to $1.07}, but otherwise the news had only a nominal influence. A dispatch from Dead wood says that a part of Crazy Horse's band is on the war path again. They are incensed at alleged deception practiced towards them by Spotted Tail, who, to induce them to come to the agency and surrender, represented that only the arms they captured from Custer would be taken from them. The Gov eminent demanded all tbeirarms and ponies. THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE SOUTH. The Southern policy of President Hayes is an experiment, but it is not a surrender. It allows the people of South Carolina to prove whether they are capable of self-government and of securing all classes of the citizens of that State in the possession of civil and political rights guaranteed to them by the oonstition; but it does not abandon any olass of citizens whose rights may be denied and leave them at the the mercy of those who oppress them. If South Carolina, being left to manage her own domestic affairs, proves herself willing and able to protect the rights of all her citizens, then the action of the President in withdrawing the troops will need no vindication, for all good citizens will rejoice that the State has fully accepted the logical results of the war and proved itself fitted for local self-government But if Wade Hampton and other white leaders repudiate their pledges; if the "fire-eaters" refuse to accept the situation which requires them to recognize that anqgro has rights which a Southern white man is bound to respect, and if the freedmen are not allowed to exercise the rights which belong to them, then the experiment will be a failure indeed, but the President's policy in that case is to promptly inter fere with the national power to enforce the guarantees of the constitution. No Republican will contend that the naT: tional power should be exerted in the Southern States any longer than is necessary to educate the people of those States up to the point of fairly and frankly accepting the results of the war and acknowledging the principle of equal rights. The question is, Has that result been reached and is it safe to entrust the Southern people with the government of their States without further federal interference? On this question there is a wide difference of opinion anioag Republicans. The President thinks that in South Carolina there is no condition of affairs which justifies or requires the further interference of national troops. Many radical Republicans criticise his position sharply. But such should remember that while they may theorize, the President is obliged to act. In the erideavor to carry out the wise and patriotic purposes which he announced in bis inaugural, he has taken the course of withdrawing the troops from the State-House in South Carolina and leaving the questions in dispute to the constitution and the laws. In this policy we think that be merits the hearty support of the people, who cannot doubt his honest and patriotic purpose. Let South Carolina feel that U is not only the President, but the nation, which holds out to her the. opportunity by. the right use of which she may secure to tier-, self the blessings of a just and stable self government.?Rockland (Maine) Gazette?Republican. The New York Herald, speaking of the withdrawal of the Federal troope from South Carolina and ex-Governor Chamberlain's retiring address, shows how the latter demonstrates, by his own confession, the fact that his government was a failure. Upon this the editor comments: "Be it observed this is Governor ChamberJain's own description of what took place under his government. It was a government that he did not govern. Even with Federal ! troops to back it, it was powerless to preserve ^ order; powerless to repress violence, protect life, or punish crime; and a government of whioh this is a true picture painted by a friendly hand, passes an irreversible sentence of condemnation upon itself; and when it is added that daring this condition of anarchy and violence, this government, which did not ornvern. ate ud the substance of the people by exhorbitant and ruinous taxes, and was a hotbed of reeking corruption, Mr. Chamberlain's protest seems absurd to the degree of being an insult to the common sense and moral feeling of the country. There is every reason to expect that this hideous picture will be reversed under the wise, just and enlightened administration of Governor Hampton." The Tribune comes to the rescue of Chamberlain so far as to say: He has spared the country and the State the affliction of a legal contest for the possession of a shadow, and for this, as well as other things, the State at least owes him a debt of gratitude. The letter of protest in which he announces bis.withdrawal is no more fervent than was to bq_gx- A pected under the circumstances, and so^Vfefrom indulging in the cheap sneers at the ad- w ministration, to which Mr. Packard lately treated us, expresses an unselfish and patriotic hope that the President's policy may be > vindicated by events in South Carolina affairs. Yesterday he was angry, but to-day he is willing to accept the situation. The New York Timee says: The President has assumed the responsibility of the step be has taken, and we must at least hope that it will lead to satisfactory results. The country waits patiently for these. And it will not look approvingly upon any effort designed to thwart the successful operation of the policy, or to make it a pretext for reviving partisan trouble in the States concerned. The feeling which thus predominates will be strengthened bv the moderation and good sense which Wade Hampton has displayed since his re- ? turn to Columbia. His pledges to the Presi dent, given before leaving Washington, were , sufficiently explicit, and they are reiterated with increased emphasis in his Columbia speech. He bids his friends give up partisanship for a time, and address themselves to the material interests of their State. He calls upon them to forget "for the next four years everything about politics." The fruits of their victory, he tells tbem, depend upon their good faith toward the freedmen, the ^ welcome they may extend to Northern citizens, and the broad views which they may apply to the government of the State and the development of its resources. These are wise utterances. Whether the man who uttered them is ahead of the men who voted for him, a brief period will determine; but, at any rate, they are honorable to him, and their immediate effect will be to strengthen the hands of the President and his advisers. Their justiffcation will be all but complete if the aia indirectly rendered to Mr. Hampton be followed by the improvement in the rela* tion of the races, and in the condition of the State, which he promises as a consequence of the policy inaugurated by the President. The New York World thus gives a welcome home to the State of Marion, Sumter, Pinckney and Laurens: The respectable people of fiAiitK f!o rnlino Kaun fiiw>noo/lo^ uf 1 uof In ra. >^vu vii vHiviiua iiu * v quvwvvuvm 1111 inov iu ??" gaining control of the destinies of the Comroonwealth. During the canvass of last summer and the exciting contest which followed it, South Carolina proved conclusively that the welfare of the State and all of its people, white and black, was safe in the hands of its best citizens, and nowhere else. The firmuess, the devotion to duty and the respect for law which South Carolina has exhibited under the leadership of Hampton has convinced ber bitterest enemies that she is fit to take charge of \ her own interests, and that the lessons learned by the English-speaking race through ages of experience in the management of free government have not been forgotton in the Commonwealth of Rutledge and of Lowndes. She has so far overcome the animosity of the North, and so far won its respect by her wise and temperate bearing, that something of the old feeling of fellowship will come back to-day when the news flashes through the country that the Federal military no longer dominate in Columbia, and that South Carolinians have once more assumed the full stature of American citizenship. We bid a hearty welcome ome to tne estate 01 Marion, oumter, fine*ney and Laurens. ? ? WADE HAMPTON?1865 AND 1877. In 1865, very soon after the surrender of the last of the Confederate forces, Gen. Wade Hampton was urged to take the lead in establishing a colony of Southerners in Mexico. The answer he made to the letters addressed to him on that subject is given below..; In 1865, as in 1877, he urged bis fellow-citizeos 'to stand by our State manfully and truly.' There is no change in Wade Hampton, save that he has ripened with time, and to-dav is in the mellow prime of physical and iutellec- ^ tual vigor. The letter in full, as published in the Columbia Phoenix on July 27,1865, is as follows: i ..?! To the Editor of the Cohmhia Phoenix: Sib?Numerous communications having been addressed to me, proposing to form a colony to emigrate, I take this method-of j answering them, not only on account of ih'eir umber, but of the want of all mail facilities. The desire to leave a country which has been reduced to such a deplorable condition as ours, and whose future has so little of hope, is doubtless as wide-spread as it is natural. But I doubt the propriety of this expatriation of so many of our best men. The very fact \ that our State is passing through so terrible an ordeal as the present, should cause her sons to cling the more closely to her. My advice to all my fellow-citizens is,- that they oKaiiM /lownfo iKol* osWaIa - i*- *1? ou<n?u <<v>uw wbu wuuic oirargiw w me restoration of law and order, the re-establishment of agriculture and commerce, the promotion of education, and the rebuilding of our cities and dwellings which have been laid in ashes. To accomplish these objects?the highest that' patriotism can conceive?I recommend that all who do so should take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government, so that they may participate in the ? ^ restoration of civil government to bur State. War, after four years of heroic but unsuccessful struggle, has failed to secure to us the rights for which we engaged in it. To have any of our rights?to rescue anything more from the general rpipT->will require all the partriotism of our citizens. If the best men of our country?those who for years past have risked their lives in her defence?refuse to take the oath, they will be excluded from the oounoils of the State, and its destiny will be committed to those who forsook her in her hour of need, or to those who would gladly pull her down to irretrievable ruin. To guard against such a calamity, let all true patriots devote themselves, with zeal and honbsty of porpose. to the restoration of law, the bless- ' ings of peace, and to the rescue of whatever of liberty may be saved from the general wreck,., If,.after an honest effort to the effect these objects* we fail, we can seek a home in another country. ' A distinguished citizen of our State?an honest man and a true patriot?has been ap- a pointed Governor. He will soon call a Convention of the people, which will be cbarged with the most vital interests of our State. Choose for this Convention onr best and truest men ; not. those who have skulked in the hoar of danger?nor those who have worshfpped' Mammon while their country Was 1