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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 <
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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| 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.
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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*
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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.