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f maps and (farts. ? Mr. Keely, of "motor" fame, is said to be hopelessly baukrupt. ? Of ex-President Lincoln's war Cabinet, Montgomery Blair is the only survivor, , ? A heavy storm prevailed throughout California last Monday eveuing. ? There are now twelve American officers in the service of the Khedive of Egypt. ? Active preparations are being made to < - * -x xi r* i. r j consummate peace oeiweeu me opanisn iorces i and the Cuban insurgents. ? Small pox is raging in an epidemic form at Bremond, Texas. Nine-tenths of the in habitants have left the place. ? The President has approved a joint resolution that a reduction of the tax on distilled spirits is inexpedient. j ? Virginia's Court of Appeals has decided that the liquor-registratiou tax by the MofFett! bell-punch is constitutional. ? The Cardinals assembled in conclave last j Monday evening for the purpose of electing a j successor to Pius IX. ; . ? John T. Abies, over sixty years of age, was hanged at Carthage, Mo., last Friday. : " He killed John L. Lane, in MacDonald county Mo., in 1874. ? Gideon Welles, Secretary of the U. S. j 1 Navy during the administrations of President j J Lincoln, died at Hartford, Conn., on the 11th | ] instant. E ? The mansion of Daniel Webster, at j Marshfield Mass., was destroyed by fire on the ! ( night of the 13th instant. Only a few articles ! of its contents were saved. ' ? The obsequies of Pius IX were celebrated throughout Christendom, last Wednesday, in 1 ( the English language, and on Monday in j 1 Latin. I i ? The Senate checkmates the President by j < not considering his appointments or report- , i ing them. This is supposed to be a neat de. |, vice for keeping the old Grant Ring in power-1 j ? Mr. Andrew Green, of New York, one of . the parties in a divorce suit, testifies that he j has been obliged to keep his hair Bhort in or- j der to prevent his wife from pulling it out. | ? No living wife knows her own value. It: is only when a railroad company comes to be sued, that a husband begins to learn what a treasure he has lost. ? The former Private Secretary of President Polk, has been discovered, old and poor, in Sante Fe. He was well acquainted with Andrew Jackson, and relates how he once saw i him praying at the grave of his wife. j ? Destructive fires are reported as having occurred last Monday, in New York, Mobile, I Savannah and the town of Midway, Ala. In j the latter town fourteen stores were burned, j involving a loss of $50,000. ?Skeleton manufacture is the latest branch j of business in Chicago. The discovery that an enterprising family has been engaged in this horrible work for some time past, boiling down human remains for the purpose, has created a sensation even in that city. ? A Washington dispatch of Monday night ' says the silver caucus has resolved to have the silver bill referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, with authority to report any time. General Ewing, chairman of the committee, is indisposed to accept the bill in its present shape. ? The Governor of Louisiana is in favor of licensing gambling houses. He has presented a bill to that effect to the Legislature. His idea is that games of chauce ought not to be forbidden, but that cheating ought to be guarded against by close official inspection and severe penalties. ? The Moffett bell punch is in favor with the Richmond, Va., liquor seller. First, it is a check upon the bartender, just as it is on a car conductor ; second, it enables him to raise the price of every drink of whisky and applejack five cents, uf which sum he only pays one half to the State; third, it puts an end to the credit system. ? A Russian paper estimates that about forty million bushels of wheat will be ready for shipment from Black Sea ports, as soon as there is an absolute assurance of peace. The Turkish blockade of the Russian coast is al/ ready raised, and the exportation of the accumulations of breadstuff will probably soon begin. ? A bill has been introduced into the Virginia Legislature requiring all persons selling cigars to take out a State license and be furnished with a Moffett register. Every time the dealer sells a cigar he turns the crank of the register, and at the end of each month he makes oath of the number sold, and pays a tax of one cent on each cigar sold. ? Among the recent shipments to Europe , by the Walthara Watch Company, was a lot of two hundred stem-winding watches, by c order of the British Government, for the use a of conductors and engineers on the State r railroads of India. This order was obtained in direct competition with foreign manufacturers. ? ? A so-called Congress of "beautiful and elegant ladies" opened in New York Monday a evening, but was pronounced by those who at- 8 teuded it to be extreme vulgarity and folly, p The Tribune says the show opened with forty j or fifty young women and girls, in tawdry or , very plain attire, ranged on platforms and in i r J i? ... a e? iu? 0 uuxes, ur lui uueu uy uauica uscu iui luc oaic of sheet music. If one of them secretly en- c tertained any claim to beauty, or even pret- t tiness, it was a case of misplaced vanity. A J dozen, perhaps, appeared to be too good for a their surroundings, and were probably in need ^ of the pitiable salary and the possible prize which the show offered them ; the majority i were silly, light headed girls, who giggled but 1 scarcely blushed under the scrutiny of jeering 1 men. A few matrons were in the ranks, so c plain in features and so sedate that they were i not annoyed. t ? Among the schemes set on foot for the ] relief of the unemployed, is one to promote settlement on the surplus lauds of the South. It is said that capitalists in New York, Bos- c ton and Philadelphia are concerned in the 1 movement, and have formed an association i with a paid-up capital of 81,000,000, with a i view to purchasing lands and advancing! , money for stock and buildings. Each settler ( ( sent out by the company is to receive one hun- j dred acres of land and the necesssary advances for beginning cultivation, exeouting a! mortgage to secure repayment. Gen. Rosen- j t crans and General Gillraore are mentioned as f concerned in it, and an effort is raakiug to ' < secure General Beauregard, in Louisiana, j and General Imboden.in Virginia, at agents, j ] The plan looks feasible and promises sub-1k stantial benefits to both North aud South, ( } ifsuceessfully carried out. i t ? Among the many virtues of the eucalyp- I tus, or blue-gum tree, is the property of ab- i sorbing moisture, and instances are related in j i which moist and marshy places have been ^ made comparatively dry by planting trees of: this species upon them, although this method : of draining has not yet come into general } use. There is another tree whose properties 1 are as wonderful as the blue-gum. It is the rain tree of Peru ; and it is said that moisture j ( drops from its leaves and branches all the time, c and that in some instances the ground around it becomes a swamp. It would appear, from these facts, that by judicious use of these trees, 1 which are so opposite in nature, the wet places 1 of the earth can be made dry and the dry t places wet; that deserts may be turned into i ( swamps and swamps into deserts. The rain ( tree, whose peculiar property is said to in-1 crease in the dry season, might be made useful for irrigation. ? The Richmond Dispatch advocates the 1 election of General Joseph Johnston to Con-1 i gress, in the following strain: In his whole j j life, General Joe Johnston has had but one oc- j casion, so far as we know, to show his abilities ^ as a statesman. That occasion was when he made with General Sherman terms of the ' surrender of his army. He secured the best ' of terms, not only for his army, but for his I countrymen of the Southern Confederacy. If, i YORKVIL.LE, S. C.: FHURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 21, 1878. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate on the 12th, the hill appropriating $275,000 to buy the Freedmau's Bank building in Washington was passed. Mr. Christiancy, of Michigan, in presenting leveral petitions from the citizens of Michigan in favor of the Sixteenth Amendment to he Constitution of the United States, conferring the right of suffrage upon women, said te hoped the committee on privileges and elections would take up the subject and report upon it. When he should become satisied that the majority of the women of the :ountry were in favor of female suffrage, he vould vote for it; but until then he would lot. He did not think these petitions should ie presented to Cougress ; the Legislatures of he States were the proper bodies to present ,bem to. The feature in the house was the presentation, in joint convention of the Senite and House, of Carpenter's large painting c .1 1: e ta?l i? )I iLie reauiug ui tuc jL/euiaiauuu ui juiuaujipation by President Lincoln to his Cabinet, rhe presentation speech was made by Mr. jarfield, of Ohio, and was followed by a ipeech by Mr. Stephens, of Georgia. In the Senate on 13th, a discussion of the tilver bill occupied the day. The tedious moictony aod dulluess of the discussion on the Military Academy bill in the House was reieved by a personal and political alterca,ion, which brought in question the whole >f the management of the late Presidential itruggle, the alleged bargain for the withIrawal of troops from Louisiana and South Carolina, the famous Worraley conference, ind the pending prosecutions of the members >f the Returning Board in New Orleans, rhe discussion grew out of some unpleasant solloquy a few days ago between Hewitt, of tfew York, on the one side, and Aiken, of South Carolina, and House, of Tennesssee, on he other. Aiken had, on that occasion, ex* )re8sed the opinion that West Point should >e brought to the hammer and sold. Mr. Mewitt had attributed that sentiment to southern hostility to the institution which tad turned out such gallant officers as West Point had, and Mr. House had stigmatized Mr. Hewitt as a demagogue, who had slanlered the whole Southern people. To day, Mr Hewitt brought up the subject again and sxplained away any offensive imputation igainst the South, which explanation Mr. Mouse, of Tennessee, accepted on his side and reated it as entirely satisfactory ; but not so is to Mr. Aiken, as to whom (and his State) Mr. Hewitt had only added a fresh Bting to lis remarks to day. He reasserted Mr. House's iharge of demogogueism. He named Messrs. Davis, Lee, Jackson, the two Johnstons aud >ther Southern Generals as reflecting honor md glory on West Point, eulogized Uniou >fficers, graduates of that institution, with vhora he had measured steel on the battleield, while the geutleman (Hewitt) had ony served his country through a paid substiute, and, Anally, as a Parthiau shaft aimed it Hewitt, said that West Poiut had never >roduced an Esau, a Benedict Arnold, or a nan who had sold the Presidency. This iharge brought Hewitt to his feet again, and te related the whole story, so far as he was :oncerned, of the late Presidential election, md said that if the Presidency had been sold, 10 Northern man had done it. In the Senate, on the 14th, Mr. Bayard ireseuted a memorial from the New York >anksand banking institutions, remonstrating .gainst the passage of the silver bill. He aid the memorial was signed by persons, who, >erhaps, more than any other class of men n the country, were charged with the care of (ronertv of others aud knew ahout the matter if which they spoke. The memorial was laid m the table, the silver bill now being before he Senate. The silver bill was resumed, loues, of Nevada, speaking in its favor, Sen,tor Coke, of Texas, made a strong legal ar;umeot in favor of the bill. He argued igainst the constitutional power of Congress 0 demonetize silver, and said it was a constiutional right ?f the people to have a curren:y of both gold and silver. The constitution tself established a bi-metalic standard. Afer a brief discussion, the Senate passed the Touse joint resolution declaring that the reluctiou of tax on distilled spirits is inexpelient?yeas 40, nays 3. Iu the House, a let,er was read from the Secretary of the Treasiry showing nearly five millions decrease in evenue as compared with last year. Theapsropriation bill for West Point Military Acad>my was discussed until the hour of adjournment. In the Senate, on the 15th, a number of peiitions were presented?among them, one 'rom the Hartford County Maryland Medical society, favoring the removal of duties irasosed on crude Peruvian bark and quinine, several amendments were proposed to the silver bill. Mr. Lamar spoke at length againBt he passage of the bill. In the House, bills sassed removing the political disabilities of 1 number of citizens of Virginia, and one of Arkansas. A bill directing the payment of 5375,000 appropriated last Congress for claims >f Southern mail contractors before the war, vas discussed all day. No conclusion was cached. Adjourned to Monday. Iu the Senate, at 5 o'clock on the morning )f the 16th, the silver bill, as amended by the senate finance committee, was passed by a rote of 48 to 21. It now goes to the House 'or concurrrence. Silver is remonetized and nade equal with gold, and free coinage is itricken out. Senators Patterson and Butler, )f South Carolina, were paired, and consejuently did not vote. The former would have roted for, and the latter against the bill. In the Senate on the 18th, among the bills ntroduced, were one by Mr. Chaffee, of Colo ado, by request, to provide for the election of i territorial governor, secretary and other jerritorial officers in the several territories of ;he United States; referred to the committee >n territories. Bill by Mr. Spencer, of Alabama, to provide for the organization of the territory of Oklaharaa and the better protection of the Indian tribes therein ; referred to ; same committee. Bill by Hoar, of Massa-!! ! chusetts, to encourage the organization of. j free public libraries; referred to committee i : on library. Mr. Eustis, of Louisiana, intro- , duced a bill to defray the expenses of the ! mint and assay office at New Orleans and j I making an appropriation therefor; referred ; ] | to the committee on finance. It appropriates $60,000. In the House, the silver bill, as j passed by the Senate, is on the Speaker's ta- ' ] | ble, to be called up for passage by a two-' ; thirds vote. 1 +-*-* . SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Corn is selling iu Pickens county at fifty ( cents per hushel. ? The first snow of the season in Marlboro ^ ! county, fell last week. ? Seventeen cavalry companies have been formed in Anderson county. ? Among those lost by the wrecking of the Metropolis, was the steward of the vessel, Phillip J. Kennedy, of Charleston. ? Gen. A. C. Garlington, who several years ago removed from Newberry to Atlanta, Ga., has returned to this State and located in Greenville. ? A preacher who resides in Pickens, and i who is very appropriately named Thomas j Looper, claims that he has married more than three hundred couples siuce he has been in the ministry. ? The war guidon of Hart's Battery, (of the Washington Artillery, Hampton Legion) | j will be presented to the Washington Artillery, in Military Hall, Charleston, on Friday night, 22nd instant. ' ? It is asserted that ex-Governor Moses is , j in New York, in utter poverty, and dodging J j police officers, who, as the World says, are aui thorized to arrest him on the charge of stealj ing clothing from his wife, his mother and i a widowed sister. ( j ? Says the Anderson Intelligencer: The j : frequent rains somewhat retard the progress < | of our farmers. A larger aggregate than f usual of small grain has been sown, which, if the seasons are as favorable as last vear. will y - ' i bring an abundant harvest. ( j ? The Register says that some of the old | Radical lovers of the dark way of looking at j things were greatly disgruntled at the elec- j tion of Judge Mackey last week. "De wus , man in de 'publikin party 'lected by Dimoicrats? How cum dis? Whoopee!" | ? The correspondent of the Nem and Couri- < er says that a letter has been received in Co- , luinbia from Senator Patterson, stating that he has decided to vote for the confirmation of L. C. Northrop as United States district at! torney, with the understanding that he will | appoiut E. W. M. Mackey as his assistant, j ?The Rock Hill Herald says that the hog j cholera has appeared among the hogs of Ebj enezer township, and that quite a number j | have died. It is thought to have been startj ed by a drove of Tennessee hogs which pass- { I ed through that section more than a month j ago. ? Judges Pressley, Aldrich, Hudson, Mack- ( ey and Thompson, of the First, Second, j Fourth, Sixth and Eighth Circuits, respect- , ively, haveqnalified before theSupremeCourt, and will enter upon their duties as soon as , the bill to regulate and fix the terms of the ( Circuit Courts, now before the General As- ( sembly, becomes a law. ! ? The Lancaster Ledger says there at pres- ( ent teu prisoners in jail, all colored, six of < whom are awaitiug trial, and four serving out ?-tlinoa uuraitinrr trial nnp is ......... -e> -- - , charged with murder, two with forgery, and three with burglary and larceny. One of < those undergoing sentence of court, is suf- i fering two weeks' imprisonment for failure to 1 pay his State and county taxes. ? Wash Booth, the thoroughbred and spir- J ited racer, died on Wednesday night, from the iujuries received in the Charleston races on . Monday of last week. It will be remembered 1 that while ou the "stretch" at Washington Course on that day, he accidentally broke the left hind leg at the pastern joint. He ' lingered out until Wednesday night, when , he died. The horse was owned by Mr. C. W. ( Mediuger, and was valued at over 85,000. ? During the session of the Senate last Sat- 1 urday, Mrs. Carpenter, the wife of L. Cass ( Carpenter, appeared upon the floor of the Senate and had circulated among the mem- < bers a petition, addressed to the Governor, 1 praying for the pardon of her husband, who is now confined in the jail at Columbia. The 1 petition was placed in the hauds of Senator 1 Gary, who presented it to the various Sena- J tors, all of whom signed it. The petition has j been transmitted to the Governor, who, it is ? expected, will act upon it favorably. ? Robert McEvoy, who cruelly murdered 1 Maj. James Gregg, at Graniteville, some * two years ago, was tried, convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hanged, J and who has been confined in Richland county jail for some time past, has beeu returned i to Aiken county, where he was re-sentenced to be hung on the 15th of next March, the ^ Supreme Court having refused to grant his ' motion for a new trial. McEvoy is a young *1 man in the prime of life, about 24 years of ( age, of decidedly prepossessing appearance, i He uses a crutch, having been run over on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad some years ago. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Snow fell to the depth of fourteen inches in Watauga and adjacent counties last week. < ? The Milton and Sutherlin Narrow Gauge ) Railroad was finished last week, and regulur j trains will be put on it at an early day. j1 ? Judge Win. A. Moore has been appoint- j ed, by the President, as commissioner to repre- j1 I sent North Carolina at the Paris Exposition. | i ? Jacob T. Brown, of Lexington, a lawyer and a former representative in the Legis- 11 lature from Davidson county, was recently j < found frozen to death in a creek near Lex- i ] | ington. Whisky. ; ?The work on the extension of the WesI teru Railroad from Egypt, Chatham county, 1 ( to Greensboro, has been begun and will be I pushed to an early completion. A number of 11 convicts have been put to work on the grad- !) ! ing. This road has been in operation foreev- I eral years from Fayetteville to Egypt. | ? Edward H. Sutton, a colored man of; j North Carolina, has invented a cotton culti- * vator, which, it is claimed, will do the work of ten men with hoes. D. Wyatt Aiken nas seen the implement and gives it his endorse- 1 i ment, remarking that he is not surprised at a , j colored man inventing a substitute for the i ( j hoe. i j ?The Charlotte Observer says that on I Wednesday of last week, a colored man, whose name is unknown, was run over by a j 1 train ou the Air-Line Railroad, and was mangled in a horrible manner. He was ly ing on the track near King's Mountain, asleep, or so drunk that he could not arise,. and the engineer being unable to stop his train, all of the cars passed over him. His body was dragged underneath the train fur some distance and toru into pieces. ? Mr. J. M. Coffin, supervisor of convicts on the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, informs the . Lincolnton Progvest that the grading is completed from Lincolutoo to about eight miles west of that place. The work in in charge ' of Mr. J. E. Fry, of Newton, an energetio, wide-awake gentleman. The contractors ex- i pect to complete the work to Newton by the j first of October, when it will be ready for the iron. About sixty-five convicts are engaged in this work, and they are all represented as | being in good health and fine spirits. ? The Charlot:e Obsnver saj's that on I Thursday night of last week, about thirty ne- ' they had been approved at Washington, the country would now be happy, prosperous and thoroughly united. It was real statesmanship that obtained and granted these terms. They jught yet to make General Sherman Presilent of the United States. They ought to secure for General Johnston a unanimous election to Congress! Talk about this man not jeing qualified for Congress! Why, he is nore truly a statesman than nine teuths of the present members of Congress. m ffttkriUe inquirer. rroes, nearly halt of whom were cnuaren, , came down the Statesville road from the southern part of Iredell county, on their way | to Charleston, there to take passage for Liberia. They were somewhat disappointed in not meeting a "Mr. Johnson," who was to take charge of them at Charlotte ; hut, nevertheless, they boarded the Columbia train, expressing their determination to proceed to j Charleston. ? Mrs. Mary Barnes, once a woman of fortune, died recently in the poor house of Caldwell county, her disease being pronounced by the doctors broken heart. Having been deserted by her husband?once a man of prominence in Caldwell county?who squandered all her property that he could not conveniently carry with him to a distant State, her spirit , broke down under the combined influence of ^isoucp and miufnrtn no and nhe Hied of the disease above stated. ? The Supreme Court of North Carolina having reviewed a judgment rendered by Judge John Kerr, sentencing a man named , Driver, of Yadkin county, to imprisonment for 6ve years in the county jail for beating bis wife cruelly and uifhoercifully, decided that the senteuce was unconstitutional for its se verity. Judge Kerr has replied to the same, through the press, recounting the testimouy establishing the brutality of the husband, and contending that the sentence was not unmerited. According to Judge Kerr's summary jf the evidence in the case, the prisoner deserved imprisonment for life. THE ELECTION OF^CIRCUIT JUDGES. The Democratic caucus met in the Hall of the House of Representatives, in Columbia, it 4 o'clock, p. m., on Wednesday, 13th initant, for the purpose of making nominations for Judges to fill the vacancies existing in the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth and Eighth Judicial Circuits. Thn fHoniia wns culled tn order hv Senator I " "w " - - J 3. S. Critteuden, the chairman, who, on convening the body, delivered a short address. Mr. Charles Petty, of Spartanburg, was then selected secretary. Mr. Rhett introduced a resolution that the nominations should be made binding. Senator Lipscomb, of Newberry, introduced, as a substitute, a set of resolutions declaring that none but men of true and tried integrity and ability, and unquestionable members of the Democratic party, be nominated, and that when this rule was departed from, the nomination should not be biuding. Phis substitute was lost, and Mr. Rhett's resclution, declaring in favor of policy nominations, was adopted. Mr. Lipscomb then withdrew from the caucus. Mr. Memminger introduced a resolution that all the ousted Judges, with the exception >f Wiggin, be reelected, on condition that "">111/1 Mowvh of fKo ixrwJ limn mKuh LfllCjr wwuiu ICOlgll C*u buv Willi u> bliw vnuv ?>?4V?I their terms would have expired, had the desision of the Supreme Court not ousted them. This resolution was lost by a large vote. Nominations were theu called for with the fullwwiug icaiilb, in tho sovorul nircuilo ; First Circuit?Mr. Siinonton nominaied B. C. Pressley, of Charleston ; Mr. Rutledge ooniinated T. M. Hanckel; Mr. Petty nominated S. Dibble. Secoud Circuit?Mr. Buist nominated Judge A. P. Aldrich; Mr. John W. Holmes nominated Col. W. M. Elliott. Third Circuit?on motion of Mr. Verner Judge Shaw was nominated unanimously by icclamatiou. Fourth Circuit?Mr. Howard nominated \V. H. Harllee ; Mr. McRae nominated J. G. Blue; Mr. Buck nominated Judge C. P. Iownsend ; Senator McCall nominated Col. J.H.Hudson; Mr. Simonton nominated A. u. Spain. Sixth Circuit?Senator Walker, of Ches;er, nominated Judge Mackey ; Mr. Aldrich, >f Barnwell, nominated Senator I. D. With- 1 jrspoon. Eighth Circuit?Senator Bowen nominated 3ol. Thos. Thompson, of Abbeville; Mr. Verner nominated Judge T. H. Cooke. After a lengthy discussion concerning the nerits of the several candidates and the quesion of whether the nominations should be nade upon the principles of Straight-Out Democracy, or be dictated by policy, the baloting began with the following result in the leveral circuits: First Circuit?Pressley 71, Dibble 26, Hanckel 15. Pressley declared nominated, ind the vote made unanimous. Second Circuit?Aldrich 79, Elliott 25. Aldrich declared nominated, and the vote uade unanimous. Third Circuit?Judge Shaw, unanimously lominated by acclamation. Fourth Circuit?First, ballot, Hudson 37, Blue 29, Townsend 19, Harllee 10, Spain 7. Second ballot, Hudson 50, Blue 40, Townlend 9, Harllee 6. Third ballot, Hudson 60, Blue 43, Harlee 6. Col. Hudson was then dedared nominated, and the vote made unanimous. Sixth Circuit?First ballot, Mackey 52, Witherspoon 50. Second ballot, Mackey 52, Witherspoon 51. Third ballot, Mackey 56. Witherspoon 49. Fourth ballot, Mackey 60, Witherspoon 45. Mackey was then declared nominated. Eighth Circuit?First ballot, Thompson 53, 1 Cook 52. Second ballot, Thompson 56, Uooke 48. Third ballot, Thompson 62, Cooke 42. Thompson was declared nominated, and the vote made unanimous. The caucus then, after a session of five hours, adjourned. The caucus was strictly secret, but it is i known that the contest was fierce and bitter, j After the nomination of Mackey, Mr. Youmaus, of Barnwell, withdrew from the cau- ! cus, on the ground that the caucus could not be binding after it weut beyond the party ! lines for a nominee. On Thursday, at 1 o'clock p. m., the mem- j bers of the Senate, together with the Presi-; rlent and officers of the same, came into the j Hall of Representatives and took the seats i assigned them. The President of the Senate I presided ever the joint assembly, and stated that the object of the meeting was to eleet ; six Circuit Judges to fill the vacancies in the : First, Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth and I Eighth Circuits, occasioned by the decree of the Supreme Court in the case of A. J. Shaw. Messrs. Gray and J. J. Hemphill, on the part; of the House, and Mr. Livingston, on the part; of the Senate, were appointed tellers. vr?L;n? ^wlor \Tr Sumnpl i.1 UUJluatimic uciug in muvi) <> Dibble, of Orangeburg, nominated Hon. B. C. Pressley for Judge of the First Judicial Circuit. A ballot was then taken with the following result: Pressley 245, Sheppard 1. Total number of votes cast, 146. Necessary to a choice, 74. Mr. Buist nominated the Hon. A. P. Aldrich, of Barnwell, for Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit. The ballot resulted as follows: Aldrich ' 110, Wiggin 31, 1. Total number of votes cast, 142. Necessary to a choice, 72. < Mr. Simonton nominated the Hon. A. J. Shaw for Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit. The result of the ballot was as follows: Shaw 143, 1. Total number of votts cast, 144. Necessary to a choice, 73. Senator McCall nominated Joshua H. Hud- j son, Esq., for Judge of the Fourth Judicial I Circuit. The result of the ballot was: Hudson 140, ' Townsend 1, Blue 1, 1. Total number of votes cast, 143. Necessary to a choice, 72. Senator Walker nominated the Hon. Thos. Jefferson Mackey for Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit. The result of the ballot was: Mackey 107, Witberspoon 32, Thompson 1, 1. Total number of votes cast, 142. Necessary to a choice, 72. ' Senator tJowen nominated uoi. momas Thompson, of Abbeville, for Judge of the Eighth Circuit. The result of the ballot was: Thompson 137, 2. Total number of votes cast 139. Necessary to a choice 70. At the close of each ballot, the President of the Senate declared the result, which was that Messrs. B. C. Pressley, A. P. Aldrich, A. J. Shaw, J. H. Hudson, T. J. Mackey and Thomas Thompson had been duly elected Judges of the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth and Eighth Judicial Circuits respectively. The Senate then retired. The ballot was conducted with little or no excitement, and was looked upon as merely a necessary form and confirmation of the caucus action of the preceding evening. THE SILVER BILL. The following is the full text of the act? known as the "Bland bill"?to authorize the coinage of the standard silver dollar, and to restore its legal tender character, as passed by tbe Senate last Saturday morning : Be it enacted, etc., that there shall be coined at the several Mints of the United States, silver dollars of the weight of 412} grains troy of standard silver, as provided iu the Act of January 18th, 1837, on which shall be the devices and inscriptions provided by said 1 Act, which coins, together with all silver dollars heretofore coined by the United States of like weight and fineness, shall be a legal tender at their nominal value for all debts and dues, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to purchase from time to time silver bullion at the market price thereof, not less than 2,000,000 dollars worth per mouth, and cause the same to he coined monthly as fast as so purchased, into such dollars ; and a sum sufficient to carry out the foregoing provision is hereby appropriated out of any money iu the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and any gain or seignoruge arising from this coinage shall he accounted for and paid into the Treasury as provided under existing laws relative to the subsidiary coinage. Provided, That the amount of money at any one time invested in such silver bullion, exclusive of such resulting coin, shsll not exceed 5,000.000 dollars; and Provided further, that nothing in this act shall he construed to authorize the payment in silver of certificates of deposit issued under the provisions of sectiou 254 of the revised statutes. 2d. That immediately after the passage of this act, the President shall invite the governments of the countries composing the Latin Union so-called, and of such other European nations an he may deem advisable, to join the United States in a conference, to adopt a common ratio as between gold aod silver for the purpose of establishing internationally the use of hi-metallic money and securing a fixity of relative value between these metals, such conference to be held at such place in Europe, or in the United States, at such time, within Bix months, as may be mutually agreed upou by the executives of the governments joining in the same. Whenever the governments so invited, or any three of them, shall have signified their willingness to unite in the same, the President shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. aDnoint three Commissioners who shall " ' ri attend such conference on behalf of the United States, and shall report the doings thereof to the President, who shall transmit the same to Congress Said Comisaioners shall each receive the sura of $2,500 and their reasonable expenses, to be approved by the Secretary of State, and the amount necessary to pay such compensation and expenses is hereby appropriated. 3d. That any holder of the coin authorized hy this act, may deposit the same with the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurers of the United States, in sums of not less than $10, and receive therefor certificates of not less than $10 each, corresponding with the denomination of the United States notes. The coin deposited for or representing the certificates, shall be retained in the Treasury for the payment of the same on demand. Said certificates shall be receivable for customs, taxes, and all public dues, and when bo received may be re issued. 4th. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisoes of this act, are hereby re pealed. For the Yorkvllle Enquirer. THE YORK COUNTY INVESTIGATORS. In the Enquirer of the 31st of January, your correspondent innocently reviewed the report signed by two of the commissioners appointed to "ascertain" the indebtedness of York county. In the Enquirer of the 14th, as also in the Hampton Herald of the same date, comes a double-barreled rejoinder from the two commissioners, which the latter organ styles a "dignified hut stinging reply." Its publication iu the Herald, without giving the article to which it purports to reply, is, so far as its readers are concerned, the firing of a blank cartridge at an uuseen target. Why not let the readers of the Herald have the article and judge for themselves whether it is "snarling" and "splenetic," and whether the rejoinder "effectually turns every position of 11.," as lis reauers are compiaueuuy informed ? In one particular, at least, the writer agrees with the organ of the two commissioners. The reply is very diguified ; so full of dignity, in fact, that there is room left for little else in it, except its apparent had humor, which may be called "stinging" in the absence of a better name. Let us see how the issue now stands as between the article of "H." and the rejoinder of the two comtnissionera, and let the public make their own verdict. The article asserts, "it is now beyond question that they, (the county commissioners,) had the legal authority to vote the subscription." The reply does not deny it. It asserts "a ratification (of the bonds) by the Republican Legislature of 1875 and the Democratic Legislature of 1877." This is not denied. It asserts, and gives the figures, as to the profits derived from the subscription. They are not questioned. It asserts that the commissioners were "never together but two days during the whole period of the investigation ; that it acted as a sort of roving commission, one member at a time interviewing a witness in Becret," Ac. This charge is confessed in all its material points. It charges two of the commissioners with prejudging the question at issue. They admit it. It alleges that the L _.l .U- I 1? k-.l.tora D0I1US arc III lilt* liauua wi hhiuv/ciih uwiuvioi They admit this, as to many of them. It alleges that "not a voice was raised against the county making the subscription" at the public meeting of citizens, and that while the commissioners did wrong in exercising the dangerous power conferred upon them by law, no one charges them with willful misconduct. These assertions are not contradicted, but some of them are Bought to be avoided. It asserts that the conclusions of the two commissioners are without evidence to support them. You say : "This is mere assertion. To repel it, would require an elaborate argument," Ac. Why not give the argument? The article alleges the incompetency of two commissioners to make a report. You have not denied it. The only material issue of fact between us now rests upon the assertion that in examining wiines-ses ex parte and without a full hoard, you brought iu "so much of the witnesses' statements as suited the purposes of the commission." You say in reply, "that is mere assertion, and is untrue." I am glad to accept your disclaimer. You admit, however, that in making your report, "matters not considered material vers omitted" from the testimony. Might not some of the persons whose property was involved, have considered, not only that all the testimony was material, but that all that the witnesses knew about the subject matter should have been taken down in the testimony and its substaUce condensed in the report? In the examination of L. M. Grist, the only occasion given the bond holders for cross examination of witnesses, the writer remembers the extreme reluctance governing a majority of the commission in admitting his statement contradictory of Hulleuder; and it was only after great effort had been made, and long deliberation on your part, that the modi1 - - - ? -i -- ued statement 01 mis witness, us encueu uu cross-examination, was taken down. "H." may have remembered this circumstance, and based his assertion upon a fair deduction from it. You say also, in this connection, that when the "testimony implicated certain individuals, the commission summoned the parlies so implicated, that they might speak for themselves and be heard in their own defence." You also say: "Turn to the testimony of Hulleuder, and learn that at the meeting which voted the subscription, Roberts, its chairman, said : 'We will not have an election ; the people are opposed to subscribing.' Did you ever summon Roberts, that he might speak for himself as to this charge, as you say you did iu every such case ? If so, no condensed statement, even, of his testimony appears in the report. The issue between us 011 matters of opinion is very properly stated to be one for the courts to decide. Mine is based upon the law as it is written and expounded. Having no further interest in the matter than as a representative of innocent holders of these bouds, I am satisfied to rely upon it. You claim the right to proceed in the secret manner complained of, because investigating fraud, as vou allege, and because "iu vestigations of this sort before committees are usually conducted in this way." But, gentlemen, you are not a committee. You were appointed, in the language of the act, a commission "to ascertain" the real indebtedness of York county. You advertised for claims to be presented. The holders of the bonds asked to he represented, through cnuusel, at your sessions. You admitted their counsel once, and then afterwards evaded notice of any other meeting, and admit that you never held any other. At that meetiug only one or two witnesses were examined. You proposed to meet in Rock Hill the next week to write your report. Was this a ruse, merely to evade the appearance of bond holders, or not? All your evidence of any real consequence was taken after that adjournment. Let me ask, how was it possible for you "to ascertain" the indebtedness of the county by examining only the debtors, or those in their interests, and evading any inquiry on behalf of its creditorst True, you were not a court authorized to decide or conclude anything ; but you constituted an honorable commission of whom the county expected an impartial report of all the facts on both sides of any question you might investigate. You say iu regard to this, that the witnesses examined by you were "able to take care of themselves." Probably so; but that is no answer to the objection. Their ability to take care of themselves does not imply their ability, or right, even, to take care of those whose rights were in issue. They were your witnesses; not ours. The commissioners, in a note to their recent article, call for the publication of certain anonymous letters mentioned by "H." in his communication; as also the name of the supposed writer, and to whom addressed. As these letters, or one of them at least, may subserve a better purpose in behalf of the parlies interested, by being withheld from the public for a time, they will not at present be made public. The name of the supposed writer, and the person to whom addressed, it ie not my province to givo. H. THE ELECTION OF JUDGES. The action of the Democratic caucus, in renominating Judge Mackey and refusing to nominate Judge Cooke, was rather a surprise. Both Mackey and Cooke are Republicans who stoutly supported Wade Hampton, in the agonizing days of 1876. Judge Cooke announced his purpose to act with the Democracy as soon as Chamberlain and Elliott were nominated by the Republican Convention. There was general rejoicing when Judge Cooke, at the Democratic meeting at Abbeville, declared himself in favor of the election of Hampton, as the only means of obtaining honest government in the State. The expectation was, therefore, that if any of the Republican Judges were reelected, both Mackey and Cooke would be replaced 011 the Bench. Yet one is taken and the other left. It is a matter of certainty that, in ordinary times, neither Judge Mackey nor Judge Cooke would be chosen to expound the law aud administer justice in South Carolina. They were elected by Republicans in the days when fitness and character were not as acceptable, or as available, with the Legislature, as they now are. Upon a point raised by the Democrats, however, the six Circuit Judges who had been elected viva voce were ousted by the Supreme Court as haviug beeu improperly elected. The Democracy, therefore, were brought face to face with a perplexing question. Judge Wiggin was not expected to be reelected, for he is notoriously incapable. For Judge Reed there Was little liking. Despite his admirable conduct on the Bench, Judge Townsend seemed to have but few I friends. Judge Shaw, a Democrat, was sure j to be elected. Mat-key and Cooke alone had strong "claims" on the Democratic party. Should they he turned out, as monuments of the ingratitude of political parties, or should they be reelected on grounds of expediency alone? The Democracy have cut the kuot by reelecting Mat-key and rejecting Cooke. In Cooke's former Circuit there will be mingled rejoicing and mourning, and this will also be the case in Judge Mackey's Circuit. Both Judges were stronger with the yeomanry than with the members of the Bar. The other Circuit Judges nominated by the caucus are unexceptionable in character Hnd attainments. Col. Pressley is an old member of the Charleston Bar, accomplished, courteous and erudite. Judge Shaw has already proved himself to be hard working and efficient. In the Barnwell circuit, Judge Aldrich resumes the place from which he was driven by Canby's soldiers, in the days when North and South Carolina formed "the first military district." Col. Hudson, who succeeds Judge Townsend, is spoken of in the highest terms by the people and Bar of his circuit. Than Mr. Thompson, of Abbeville, I there is not a more thorough lawyer in the I State, or one more likely to make a model judge. The Democracy have made excellent j selections. With such men as Wallace, Ker| shaw, Pressley, Thompson and Shaw on the I Circuit Bench, and Mclver and Haskell on I -* ?i- ? -1? n i ? | me supreme JDeucn, we simu umc ? ; faithful execution of equal laws in South Carolina. It would have been better if the question 1 of the validity of the election of the Circuit I Judges had not been raised. As it was raised ' and the elections were declared illegal, the ! vacant places must be filled. We are not ! disposed to find fault with the Democratic ' caucus, but it would have been more consist; ent, in selecting candidates, to look entirely | to their personal and moral qualifications, or . wholly to considerations of policy and political interests. In either case the result would I have been somewhat different.? Charleston ! News and Courier. I 16?" The President told a congressional caller, ! the other day, that he considered Wade Hamptou the fairest man in South Carolina. He had allowed the negroes to orgauize raili| tary companies, and had appointed them to : Justiceships of the peace and other local I offices. The President said that, although the Republicans generally did not believe it, I he was convinced that Hampton was doing I his best, and trying to do the fair thing. X.OCAZ. AFFAZES. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. H. F. AdickesA Sons?Dry Goods Department? <-- ? - Grocery Department. J. A. M. L. Stewart, Surviving Executor?Application Tor Discharge. Kennedy Bros. A Barron?For Farmers?Irish Potatoes^?Trunks?Groceries*? New' Grade Fertilizer. Hunter it Oates?Now is the Time. H. W. Hope A Co.?Farmers, Look to Your Interests? Bargains ?Tobucoo; ' / | Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation? " " n r% ft Dlo A nnlimnt-? Josepil C . vy nujtc?, v/. v v/. * iof William McLure and Robert McLure, deceased. ' _ f A. Springs Withers, Secretary?Attention 1 Company. R. Lathan, School Commissioner.?Free School Notice. CULTIVATION OF THE CHUFA. Dr. Dickert, of Newberry, has contributed to our agricultural department this week, a very interesting article on the cultivation of the chnfa. PROF. DUNCAN. Prof. W. \V. Duncan, of WofFord College, Spartanburg, will fill the pulpit of the Meth- N odist church in this place next Sunday? preaching both morning and evening. REPORT OF BOND COMMISSION. We have received from Hon. J. A. Deal, member of the House of Representatives from York county, a copy of the report of the commission to investigate the indebtedness of the State, made to the General Assembly at the present session. THE COLORED G*RADED 8CHOOL. The colored people of Yorkville now have a graded school conducted on the same priu* * " - 1 J ..L ciples as that or the wmte graaea scnnoi. We learn that tbey have sufficient funds to continue for ten months. About 90 pupils are in attendance, and three colored teachera are employed?Pauline Vandehoop, Eva Wright any Loney Wegener. DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The Democratic Executive Committee of York county, held a formal meeting in this place last Monday. Capt. S. E. White, of Fort Mill township, was elected a member of the Committee from that township, to supply the vacancy caused by the death of Col. John M. White. While the political situation was fully discussed, we are not advised of any action of public importance being taken by the Committee. LADIES' FESTIVAL. The ladies of the Methodist Church, prompted by a desire to ruise sufficient funds for makiug some improvements in their church edifice, will hold a festival at Allison's Hall to-morrow evening, February 22d, at 7 o'clock. Extensive arrangements have been made for furnishing everything that will tend to make a pleasant evening for the aged, as well as the young. The usual social privileges connected with an occasion of this kind will not be denied any one, while the love of a real good supper, or of oysters prepared in any way, will surely be gratified. We trust that the ladies will have the patronage of the community generally iu their commendable efforts to complete the improvements contemplated. TRANSFERS OF*REAL ESTATE. The following transfers of real estate have been recorded in the office of the County Auditor since our last report: R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to J?ihn Nichols, Tract of 590 acres in Bethel township. Consideration $5,294. James Brian to J. Martin Brian. Tract of 230 aeres in York township. Consideration 8600. Alioo M. Latimer to W. T??i.* , i i of 500 acres iu York township. Consideration 8425. John J. Smith to Andrew D. Jackson. Tract of 35 acres in King's Mountain township. Consideration 8100. John J. Smith to Tamer Jackson. Tract of 60 acies iu King's Mountain township. Consideration $180. Edward T. Avery to W. B. Fewell. Tract of 1200 acres in Enenezer township. Consideration 86,665.80. J. \V. D. Russell to A. Baxter Bailes. Tract of 200 ucres in Fort Mill township. Consideration $200. CHESTER AMATEURS. The Chester Amateur Dramatic Association, gave au entertainment at this place last Friday eveuing. Owing to the inclemency of the weather, they were not greeted by a good house, though this discouragement did not prevent them from presenting their programme in full, which they did in a truly creditable style. Harry Parento, a professional, sustained most of the leading parts. As a legerdemainist and ventriloquist, he has few superiors. His feats in this line were mostly new, aud were performed with the ease and facility of a Blitz or Wyraan. His athletic feats were also well performed. The burlesques, songs, Ac., which went to make up the programme, were well rendered, Messrs. Parento, Hollister, Gaskell and Reynolds, the leading performers, sustaining their respective parts very creditably. The entertainment was far better than the average of traveling companies, and we trust they will visit Yorkville again, when, uuder more favorable circumstances, we feel assured they will meet a good audience. BREVITIES. ? That skillful mechauic, J. Ed. Jefierys, is building a new mail and baggage car for the Chester and Lenoir Railroad. ? Since the promotion of Lieut. Jack Gardner, it is very bandy for his friends to call him "Captain Jack." ? The cotton market has been more active this than for some time past. About forty hales were sold on Tuesday at from 7} to 93. ? Mr. T. M. Dobson, who has been serious* ly indisposed for several days, is convalescing. His friends were pleaded to see him on the street yesterday. ? A lady up street, of sensitive nerves, whose husband is an amateur musician, says he never plays on the fiddle without doing violins to her feelings. ? Mr. Ed. Thomas, formerly superintendent of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, and now connected with the Wilmington, Augusta and Columbia Road, is on a visit to his family in this place. ? The fast schedules and close connections to establish rapid communication between Charleston and the up-country, vaguely promised several days ago, have not yet gone into operation. ? Even the most savage of barbarian tribes acknowledge that woman is better than man; though their mode of recognition may not be commendable in every iustance. Du Chail| lu says the cannibals of Africa will never I eat a man if they can get a nice, plump I young woman. i ?The recurrence of St. Valentine's day, last Thursday, was the occasion of the young folks indulging their propensity for sending missives of love done up in paper lace and , colored inks. Of course, the practical joker availed himself of the opportunity to victimI ize innocent and law-abiding citizens with ! the so-called comic valentine, all of which went to increase the revenue of the post-office and mollify the postmaster, who had a kind word for every expectant Miss and Master who appeared at the delivery wiudow.