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?be ? orbriUe Ghtquim. I 8 YORKVILEE. S. C.: \ THURSDAY MORNING.MARCH 21,1878. ! THE YORK COUNTY BONDS. * Sometime since, proceedings of mandamus t were instituted in the Supreme Court, by J. j L. Harris, as the agent of certain guarantors j of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad Company, to compel T. C. Robertson, Treasurer of York r county, to pay out certain moneys collected by him, which had been levied to pay the in- c terest on the bonds of York county, and also j to retire certain of said bonds. The case was j argued in the month of January last, C. S. u Brice, S. P. Hamilton and J. F. Hart, Esqs., appearing for Mr. Harris, and Messrs. Patterson & Gaston and LeConte, for Treasurer ^ 8 Robertson. On Tuesday of last week, the Supreme Court filed its decision. The opinion was delivered by Associate Justice Haskell, the oth- ^ er Justices concurring. In another column of this issue, the opinion is printed in full. ^ By reference to the opinion it will appear ^ that the court declined to grant the writ of ^ mandamus, solely upon the ground that Mr. ^ Harris had shown no ownership in the cou- ^ Dons to entitle him to the remedy sought; or, n in other words, that the suit had not been T 11 brought by the proper party. None of the ^ issues at bar have been determined, and the ' r case stands just where it was before the proceedings were instituted. In the language of ? the opinion, the court "takes pains to observe ^ that the decision relates solely to the defect of ownership in the relator, (Harris,) and ^ does not go at all into the merits." 6 P HAMPTON FOR A SECOND TERM. b The best interests of the State, under all c the circumstances, demand that Governor c Hampton shall serve the people for a second b terra. While this fact is conceded by over I nine-tenths of the white people of the State, e we believe the conservative, conciliatory and a manly administration of the office, since his ii induction into the gubernatorial chair, has w won for our noble Governor the confidence of p a vast majority of the colored Republican p voters; so that it is safe to assume that in a the approaching campaign, his reelection over ? any and all opposition would be a foregone d conclusion. With no dissension in the Dem- o ocratic ranks, we doubt whether the Repub- p lican party will attempt to place a candidate w in the field, preferring to support one who tl has been tried and found true to the people, ii serving them regardless of party, raoe or previous condition. This would be a happy ? state of affairs and would forever close the w outrage mill, so far as this State is concerned. Already the people are beginning to speak, h and their voice i9 unmistakable in their pref- f, ence for Hampton. Besides numbers of meetings of Democratic clubs throughout the g State, thus giving expression to their views, the Democracy of Abbeville, by delegates w from local clubs, convened in the Court House w on the 14th instant. Sixteen out of nineteen is clubs were represented, and three additional clubs reported and were enrolled. ai Col. J. S. Cothran, former President, called the meeting to order and addressed the tr convention, declining a reelection. Gen. S. McGowan was elected President by acclama- si tion. Resolutions were offered compliment- ? ary to Col. Cotbrau, the retiring President, of and adopted by a unanimous rising vote. The following resolutions, offered by W. K. j* Blake, Esq., were adopted unanimously and ^ with great enthusiasm: Resolved, That we endorse the policy pur- ci sued by Governor Hampton as eminently wise; that conservatism, the distinguishing tl feature of the administration, is pure Democ- <* racy, and he who disregards it would rob the c< party of its vital principle. Resolved, That in Governor Hampton we d, recognize a man of whom a century produces tl one, reared by Providence for special pur- 1)1 pose, our redemption, and to whom we look as the only man in South Carolina who can ir unify the Democratic party. C( Resolved, That for this purpose it is the du- v ty of the party to nominate Hampton, and it ^ is his duty to the State and to his people to bear the Democratic standard once more, P that we may preserve our unity. S Resolved, That should Governor Hampton oi refuse to serve the State in the capacity of h Chief Magistrate, it will be hazarding the ? safety of the State, and upon him, who alone can avert it, will rest the responsibility of her relapse into a condition utterly intolerable. These resolutions have the ring of the true c< metal, and but echo the voice of every county ^ in the State. % s' . ^ . - - - w PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. o In the Senate on the 12th, Mr. Sherman, d from the committee of the judiciary, reported, a with amendment, the Senate bill to prohibit t members of Congress from becoming sureties e: on certain bonds, and it was placed on the It calendar. He gave notice he would call it ti up. for consideration at an early day. Mr. T Morrill submitted a resolution that the ju- tl diciary committee inquire into the expediency o: of providing that all claims against the Uni- d ted States, exceeding one thousand dollars in k amount, be prosecuted in the Circuit Courts C' of the United States for the Districts in which, y such claims originated. Agreed to. Mr. ci Conkling's bill in aid of the Polar expedition, ! n designed by James Gordon Bennett, was ta- [ ken up and passed unanimously. Mr. Jones, >' of Florida, from the committee on public j a lands, reported, with amendment, Senate bill ! U to amend section 228 of the Revised Statutes a of the United States, so as to enable citizens r< of the State of Florida to transfer a portion ' b of their pre-emptions or homesteads to aid In ii the construction of railroads, which was b placed on the calendar. The sinking fund si for Pacific railroads occupied the day. The o Committee of ways and means agreed to si report in favor of Burchard's postal savings e bill for the purpose of reducing the interest o on the National debt. Deposits not under i n one dollar may be made, to bear interest when u the sum reaches ten dollars. A number of tl nominations were confirmed, among them d George C. Tanner, of South Carolina, as li " ' nnrl f iorea Tkfi JTnnQO ! n V.0U8U1 til VCITICIO auu juagu. a.uv u was in session in committee of the whole on I the diplomatic appropriation bill. During si the discussion that ensued en the various ap- il propriations embraced in the bill, Mr. Hale, ti of Maine, made a speech attacking generally, ti the picayune economy of the appropriation S committee. Wbitthorne, of Tennessee, ar- I gued that if all claims presented by Southern I people were paid, they would not make more I than a fraction of what the country had been e robbed of by Republicans under the credit a Mobilier system. Dunnell, of Minnesota, and j Neal, of Ohio, advocated a more liberal ap- f propriation for consular service. Cox, of f few York, made a severe attack on Pres ent Hayes' title, and, also, upon what 1: aid was called his civil service reform polic; le affirmed what he said the other day aboi layes beiug a fraud, and declared he for or rould never cease to remind the country ( he fact that a man occupied the Presidentii hair who had never been elected. Th louse adjourned at 4.50 P. M. In the Senate on the 13th, a number i tills were introduced, among them one f< he relief of the city of Macon, Ga.; for the r ief of the Masonic Hall Association of A ^ 1 ? ??. *l.l XT A?1 anta, tia., aud a Din to am me new wneai nd Pacific Railroad CompaDy. Mr. Ma hews called up resolution to refer, and rea he communication of Secretary Schurz in r ation to timber seizures iu Montana. . engthy and acrimonious debate ensued, i rhich Sargent, Blaine and Teller attacked tl eport, charging a want of business cupacit ,nd oppression and outrage, on Secretai >churz, ia his treatment of the people < lontana. Mr. Merrimou, of North Car ina, introduced a bill to provide for and rej date the counting of votes for Presidei ,nd Vice President, and a discussion of tl questions arising thereon, it was referred I . special committee appointed to consider tl uestion of counting the vote, and Mr. Merr aon expressed the hope that the report woul oon be made, as four months of the sessio ad passed, and action should be had on tl aatter at the present session of Congres lr. Gordon introduced a bill to provide f( eposits on savings and funding of natiom ebt. Referred to committee on finance. Tl ill directs the issue of a new series of bond earing 3 per cent, interest; twenty yea: oupoc8, renewable for twenty years, payabi a coin, of interest payable in any legal tei er, exchangeable with treasury notes tl eplacing of old notes with a new issue < reenhacks and 3 per cent, bonds receivabl dt all dues. Pending the appreciation < hese new notes to par with coin, the pu hase of that needed for interest with bond "he bill also repeals the tax on deposits lermits the holding of these 3 per cen onds for reserves and the usual repealin lause. Mr. Morgan, from the committee o laims, reported a bill for the relief of th ook agent of the Methodist Church Soutl Maced on the caleudar. The Military Aca< my bill was taken up and passed. A mendment, proposed by Mr. Sargent, limi ig the appointment of cadets at-large to tei ras adopted. This, if agreed to by the Hous revents the President from making any a| ointments during the remainder of his tern s the number is now forty. The Hous rent into committee on the consular an iplomatic appropriation "bill, the discussio f which occupied the clay. The question c aving ante-bellum Southern mail contractoi ras, in an irregular sort of way, drawn inl tie discussion, which gave rise to the follov ig proceedings: Mr. Reagan, of Texas, referring to the debal f a day or two ago about the payment of ma antractors in the South, said that when the bi as up he had asserted that the Confederate Goi rnment had not naid for them. He made tl tateinent in good faith. Ho had not seen tl iws of the Confederate Government for tiftee r sixteen years, and the reading of extrac om the archives the other day by Mr. Congi nd Mr. Willetts, showed that he was mistake 1 his assertions. He did not complain of tl entleman from Michigan, who had these e? acts read ; it was right that the facts should t isclosed, but he did complain that these reeon ere accessible to one side of the House, an rere withheld from the other. Mr. Reagan then sent up and had read a pro< imation Issued by film In ltwo, In willed he too ie ground that the contracts of the United Stat< 1 the South must be fulfilled until the Confede; te Government took full charge of the post! jrvice there. This circular showed that he wa ght in his assumpton the other day. He r< lembered the circumstance and the proclaim 011, and had forgotton the subsequent legish ve acts by which these claims were paid. T low that he was earnest in his belief, and thi e had forgotton the legislation thereon, he sai > his political friends that there was no necessit Fengrafting legislation on the bill to prohibit tli nyment ot claims that had been paid by the Cor deracy, because that government had nevr aid them. His failure to remember this legi.< ition, was what led him into the error, and li new now that he had been mistaken. Mr. Conger, of Michigan, in reply, said the fa< ?mained that the Confederacy had paid tlies aims, and he was free to say that he muc oubted whether the members on the floor fror ie South were not aware of the fact. Mr. Douglass, ofVirginia, wanted to get into mtroversy with Conger, but as he was not in mdition to cary on a discussion, an exciting bi: isgraceful scene resulted. The chairman rappe ith his gavel, but Douglass refused to be pi own, and it was only after an earnest effort o ie part of the sergeant-at-arms and special meir ers, that he was induced to leave the hall. The diplomatic bill finally passed almos i the exact form in which it came from th jmmittee on appropriations. Mr. Wood, ( few York, moved to take up and pass th enate bill in aid of the Polar expeditioi roposed by Mr. James Gordon Bennett. M: cales, ot iNortn uaronna, gave nonce ins [i Tuesday, 19th instant,he would call up th ill to transfer the Indian Bureau to the Wa >epartment. Io the Senate on the 14th, a number c ills granting pensions to various persons wer Dnsidered and passed during the mornin our. Amoug them was one granting a per on of 850 per month to Mrs. Mary Wilkei idow of the late Rear Admiral Wilkei f the U. S. Navy. Mr. Voorhees iutr< uced a bill providing for the payments c II customs duties and other debts due th Inited States in legal tender notes at pa; ircept in cases where it is otherwise stipi ited on the face of the obligation or cor act. Refered to the committee on financi 'he PaciBc Railroad funding bill occupie ie day. The House passed, by a majorit f two, the extending for three years from th ate of entry, the payment of taxes on whii y in bonded warehouses, interest at 5 pe ent. to be added to the tax after the firs ear. The Massachusetts contested electio ase of Dean against Field was disscussed, bt o result was reached. In the House on the 15th, Mr. Robbins, c Forth Carolina, from the committee on way nd means, reported a substitute for the bi > promote deposit of savings in the Treasury nd refunding the national debt, which wa eferred to the committee of the whole. Th ill provides that for the purpose of refunr ]g outstanding six per cent, bonds into bono earing a lower rate of interest, any pe Dn may deposit at any postal money orde ffice, lawful money of the United States, i jms not less than one dollar, and shall t titled to receive therefor a postal mone rder on the Treasury, and that when sue loney orders shall be presented to the Treai ry at Washington, they shall be ente~ed t he credit of tho depositor, and whou sue eposit shall amount to the sura of fifty do irs, they shall, at the option of the deposi r, be convertible into four per cent, bond nterrupting the proceedings, the speakt aid : "The Chair believes it his duty, thoug ; is a very painful one, to lay a communici ion before the House." He then handed I be Clerk and had read a teleg-ara from tl lecretary of State, announcing the death i lavana, of yellow fever, of the Hon. J. 1 jeonard, a representative in Congress froi Louisiana. Brief eulogies were then pr lounced upon the deceased, and the Hou idjourned. In the House on the 16th, Mr. Waddel rora the postoffice committee, reported a hi or the classification of mail matter and po i- j tage thereon. Ordered printed and recom- j le j mitted. The enacting clause of the biil to i y. make available 8375,000 to pay ante bcllum it i mail contractors, was stricken out. Vote? j le yeas 112, nays 100/ SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. | ?It is probable that the State tax, inclu-j ! ding the levy for school purposes, will not | .! exceed 6i mills. | ? The democrats of Columbia have nomi-1 )r ! j nated Capt. W. B. Stanley as a candidate for Mayor of that city. ? Both houses of the legislature have agreed to adjourn sine die on Friday next, 22ud ^ I ? The long-expected Liberian ship Azor j ^ | has arrived at the port of Charleston, and it J is expected she will start on her first trip ! from Charleston to Monrovia, in about two j weeks. y ? The Spartanburg Herald has made the i necessary calculation, and finds that it costs ; about seven hundred and eight dollars a day ; i to pay the members of the General Assembly, i ^ j The entire cost of the legislative machine is i 1 about a thousand dollars a day. ie j i ? The Carolina Spartan says that the upper I portion of the State, along the Air Line . Railroad, is filling up with Northern settlers ^ who are brought on principally through the exertions of Rev. Tilman R. Gaines. The immigrants are represented as being of the j ^ better class, who bring a small capital with j them. I >r jj ? The following board of directors has been | elected for the Atlanta and Charlotte Air 8 Line Railway for the ensuing year: Eugene rg Kelly, George Warren Smith, Abrara S. |e Hewitt, William H. Fogg, Poraeroy P. Dickenson, Hiram Sibley, Henry C. Hardy, Bclie den R. McAlpine, Hiram W. Sibley, Frank P. Clark and Skipwith Wiloner. |e ?The Greenville New of the 8th says: jf Mr. Eldred Griffith purchased, yesterday, from r. Bob Smith, of Laurens, several bales of 8 cotton 20 years old. The cotton baB been .. carefully stowed away and the staple is as t good as if raised last year. For this same g cotton the owner was at one time offered for n ty cents per pound in gold. ie ?The political campaign of 1878 will be! i. opened by Governor Hampton and others at | j- Anderson, on Wednesday next, the 27th I n instant. There will be a grand inspection t- and review of the troops of the county by the nt Governor and adjutant-general on that day, e, after which the Governor will make a speech > upon the political prospects of the party and the policy to be pursued to ensure success. se A grand demonstration is expected, d ? Mr. L H. Trevett, an old resident of n Columbia, died suddenly in that city, on >f Friday last, under the following circumstan rs ces : His wife died quite suddenly on Wed:o nesday and was buried on Thursday. While r- the procession was moving along, her husband was taken suddenly ill, and could not te get out of the carriage when the procession J reached the grave. He had to be conveyed rapidly back to his residence, where he sur[g vived the burial of his wife but a few hours, n ?Speakiug of manufactures in this State, jr an exchange says: South Carolina is makiug ? progress in manufacturing. There are now in the State 5,900 spindles and 1,400 looms, jP divided among ten prosperous factories. (] When the Vancluse anu Piedmont Mills, now nearly completed, are filled with machinery, K it will add buiuc 1,500 apiudlcs and 450 looms 's to the above figures. In the course of a few al months, it will be safe to say that there will be 7,400 spindles and 1,850 looms in active profi itable operation, besides other factories in I1 process of construction. ? Robert MoEvoy, convicted of the murder v of J. J. Gregg, of Augusta, at Grauiteville, lfc in this State, and sentenced to be hanged on ?r last Friday, was respited by Governor Hamp^ ton on the morning of the day fixed for the execution. The respite was granted on two grounds: The alleged invalidity of the senh tence, and the statement of the condemned n man that he is conversaut with the particua lars of two murders, the facts of which have heretofore beeu shrouded iu mystery. It is d probable that, on technical grounds, McEvoy will have to be sentenced again, making the >- third time the sentence of death will have been pronounced against him, and which, according to the reasoning of an Irish Judge, , will surely prove a warning to him. >f e NORTH CAROLINA NEWS, i. ?Raleigh claims 52 miles of streets, and r- 13,000 inhabitants. d ? Winston will have fifteen tobacco factoe ries in operation this season, employing one r thousand hands. ? A whale forty-two feet long, and extreme>f ly fat, was killed near Morebead City, on I e Tuesday ot last weeK. g ? The trial of Hoke Sechrest, charged with l* murdering his wife and her child, in Burke 8> county, was continued until the August term 3> of the court. )- ? From reports of the revenue officers, it ^ would seem that thirty illicit distilleries have e been closed in Randolph county within the r> last month. ?Henry Setzer, an enterprising citizen of Dallas, Gaston county, has erected a Masonic 3- Temple in that town, which is a large and d quite an imposing three-story brick building, )' and is a decided ornament to the village. e ? A son of Rob Blackwell, near Hillsdale, 3" in Guilford county, was killed the other day I !r in a singular manner; the plow-handle struck ! him in the abdomen and he died instantly. n He was plowing with a fractious horse, d ?The wedding tragedy reported to have recently occurred in Clay county, was an im-1 >f aginary sketch, written from Charlotte to the 's St. Louis Democrat by some one of the; 11 numerous "reliable correspondents" traveling f, over the country. is ?One night last week, the store room at e the distillery of G. C. Lanier, near Hickory,! ?- was fired and burnt, including about 500 gal-1 Is Ions whisky. The loss to Mr. Lanier will be r* several huudred dollars, and to the govern-1 >r ment, near S500. No clue to the incendiary, n ?Judge McKoy, who is presiding at Guilford Superior Court, has ruled that where: y ! parties are couvicted jof crimes for which there | h | is no penitentiary penalty, it is the duty of B* 1 the County Commissioners to farm them out 0 till fines and costs are paid, instead of letting 1 h tliera remain, as heretofore, in jail. 1* - - | t. MERE-MENTION. s. The reported surrender of the revolutionists i 3r in Cuba is premature. Only a portion of h them have ceased hostilities toward the Spana ; ish government. A Philadelphia firm to has just shipped a cargo of twenty-seven lo-1 ie comotives to Russia, and another is soon to | in i follow. The President has signed the : 3. act to make persons charged with offences ' m and crimes competent witnesses in the United j o- States and Territorial courts. The Unise ted States Circuit Court, at Alexandria, Va., i Judge Hughes, has rendered a decision favorII, j able to General Custis Lee, claimant of the 11, Arlington estate. There is, however, legal s- machinery to stave off the decision for at least two years. In the meantime the owners will be compensated by Congress. The New Hampshire election resulted in a Repub- ^ lican majority of about 2,500. Strawberries from the South are in the New York ; market. j SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. Tuesday, March 11. The Senate, at its night session, sirucK , out of the appropriation bill the provision for the agricultural college, and the $2,200 con- ^ tingent for the collection) of arms, &c. The printiug fund was increased to $20,000, and 1 the bill passed to its tTftird reading. The bill to prevent unjust discrimination in freight charges by railroads, passed its second reading . after a long debate. In the House, the feature of the day was the introduction by Mr. Siraoutou of the joint resolutions on the public debt, and their adoption as a substitute For Mr. Hood's reso- j lutions. The resolutions and the proceedings ? in connection with them, may be found on the first page of this issue of the Enquirer. The adoption of the substitute necessitates corresponding modifications of the appropriation bill. The following estimates will ac- ; cording!? he submitted to the committee on | ways and means: One hundred and eighty-nine thousand three ' hundred and forty dol lars and twenty-seven cents 1 for the payment of coupons and interest due in 1877 and 1878 on bonds and certificates of stock mentioned in Schedule.1)of the Bond report. Three hundred and thirty eight thousand two , hundred and fourteen dollars for the payment of 1 coupons and interest due on bonds and eertili- | cates of stock mentioned in Schedule 6, to be . paid only on a final favorable adjudication of the ' suits brought in the manner prescribed by Si- ( monton's substitute.' ' After considerable filibustering, the bill to create a special license tax on drummers, ; passed to the third reading. Wednesday, March 13. In the Senate, the appropriation bill was under discussion. Some progress was made upon it, after which the further consideration was postpoued until Thursday. Mr. Crittenden introduced a resolution to so far modify a former resolution ordering to be priuted 6.000 conies of the fraud committee's report, as to limit the number of printed pages to 100, the matter to be selected by the chairmau of the committee. Mr. Crittenden, iu support of his resolution, stated that he was informed that the eutire report would 611 1,000 pages, and 6,000 copies would cost $8,- < 000. The cost of the public printing is al- ] ready largely in excess of the expectation of | the printing committee and of the Senate. , Mucli extra work has been ordered, and this ( is charged not at contract, hut current rales. The resolution was laid over under the rules. The hill to authoiize the adjutant and in- I spector-general of the State to purchase four I pieces of artillery belonging to th3 Columbia Flying Artillery, came up. The friends of the hill advocated its purchase on the ground that the battery did good political service in ' the last campaign. Mr. Wylie replied that the red shirts also did good service ; but does < the State propone to purchase all the red- | shirts which were vrorn ? The State is too ( much like Mulberry Sellers to attempt to make a military display. She would wiud up every parade with cold turnips aud water. He expected next to hear of some man who ' did good service antl made things happier in I the Ia3l camuaicn by means of a tuoukev and i hand-organ. Mr. \Vylie raoved to strike out the enacting clause. The vote resulted: Yeas, 13; uays, 15. The bill was then ordered to a third reading. In the House, Mr. Youmans opened the proceedings by moving to reconsider the vote whereby the drummers' license bill was passed and sent to the Senate. Mr. Eckhard moved to lay this motion on the table, which was carried by a vote of 61 to 45. So far as the House is concerned, therefore, this troublesome measure is placed beyond recall. The bill to make appropriation for salary and mileage of the members of the General Assembly, attaches, employees, &c., and interest on the public debt, were read a third time and sent to the Senate. A bill to protect the rights and interests of the State in the phosphate rocks and phos phatic deposits iu the navigable streams and waters of the State, together with a bill, by the minority of the committee, to survey the navigable streams in the State containing phosphatic deposits, and to regulate licenses for the current year, came up as unfinished business, and was discussed until the hour for adjournment. Thursday, March 14. In the Senate, the bill to redistrict the State into five Congressional Districts passed its third reading, and was sent to the House. The bill to prevent unjust discrimination by common carriers, passed a second reading, with amendments. l In the House, the supply bill came up as t the special order immediately subsequent to { the morning hour, and was passed to a third ^ reading, after being amended in almost every line. As was expected, the tax levy was re- ' duced from 7Mo 7 mills, inclusive of the two J mill school tax, making the tax for general i State purposes 5 mills. 1 The discussion <?f the phosphate bill occu- \ pied the remainder of the session. { Friday, March 15. f In the Senate, the bill to prevent unjust ] discrimination by common carriers, passed by a vote of 18 yeas to 10 nays. The following acts were duly ratified : To ( restore the remedy of distress for rent; to amend au act relating to vacancies in county offices and the mode of filling the same; to prevent cruelty to animals ; to amend au act to regulate the fees of probate judges, clerks of courts and other officers. In the House, the discussion of the phosphate bill was resumed. The principal ground of contest was whether the phosphate territory should be granted with exclusive rights to certain companies, or whether genera] rights should be extended to all who could give security to the State that the royalty would be punctually paid. The matter was finally decided, by a vote of 57 to 47, in favor of the granting of limited, exclusive | rights to certain parties mentioned in the bill, and the territory was accordingly apportion- ^ ed off to the several companies applying for charters. None of the companies are except- 1 ed from the provisions of the Act of 1841. J This Act makes acts of incorporations sub- i ject to amendment or repeal at the pleasure < of the General Assembly. None of the priv- | ileges exteud beyond ten years. : < Saturday, March 16. , In the Senate, the bill to authorize the j purchase of four pieces of artillery belonging : to the Columbia Flying Artillery, passed a third reading. The bill to tax drummers was postponed j 1 until Monday. i 1 In the House, the proceedings were un- i interesting. The calendar had been cleared j i the night before, and very little was left to be i ] disposed of. Notwithstanding this fact, how-1 ^ ever, the whole of the usual time was occu- j pied in debate. 1 i < Monday, March 18. j" In the Senate, the bill to amend an act to charter the Cheraw and Chester Railroad, was laid on the t.able. The bill to impose a tax on traveling sales-: men was killed by a vote of 18 to 11. The compromise resolutions as to the pub- J | lie debt, passed a second reading by a vote of 20 to 9. 1 i The bill to fund the floating debt of the 1 State passed a second reading. i In the House, the bill to re-district the State into five Congressional Districts, passed a second reading. The fourth district is , composed of the counties of Union, Spartan- 1 burg, Greenville, York, Chester, Kershaw, ' Sumter and Fairfield. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Kennedy Bros. & Barron.?Chnfa at 25 cents a quart. F. Harabright?Fair Warning. r. S. Jefferys?Guano. H. F. Adickesd Sons?H. F. Adickes, Jr., heard from. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?CitationJohn Rattaree, Applicant?James Daniel, j deceased. James A. Glenn, D. D. S.?Dental Notice. J. M. Adams?Tin-Shop in successful operationGranite Iron Ware?Stoye Fixtures?Bees- 1 wax and Rags. National Publishing Company?Pictorial Histo- 1 ry of the World. W. H. tft J. P. Herndon?Paint?Buy the Watt Plow?Hams?N. O. Molasses at 50 Cents. Hunter ife Oates?Mr. Hunter still in New York? Miles' Shoes. John C. Kuykendal?What We Know about Cattail Millet. Williford?Fine Stock. FERTILIZERS. The demand fur fertilizers this spring is greater than it has been any previous season, rhe farmers apply it to corn as well as cotton jrops. GONE TO MARKET. Mr. T. M. Dobson, of the firm of T. M. Dobson & Co., started to the Northern markets, on Tuesday afternoon last, for the purpose of making his purchases for the spring trade. YORK POMONA GRANGE. At a recent meeting of Rock Hill Grange, the following were elected delegates to attend the meeting of York Pomona Grange, to be held at Tirzah Church, on the second Baluriay in April: Col. J. W. Rawlinson, A. H. White, William Whyte and J. R. London. Alternates?F. H. Brown, Peter Garrison. T. S. Neely and Capt. J. F. Workman. MAJOR HART FOR CODIFIER. The Charleston News and Courier remarks editorially: "There is a flattering prospect that Major Hart, of Yorkville, will he electjd one of the Code Commissioners. No better choice can be made, for in him are combined gallant service in war, integrity, industry and kuowledge of the law." In which statement, ill who know the Major, will most heartily joncur. CREDIT TO WHOM CREDIT IS DUE. The Charleston Nexus and Courier acknowledges the receipt of ten dollars from the proprietor of the Enquirer for the Simms memorial fund, the phraseology implying that the amount was donated by us. In making the remittance, we explicitly stated that $6.45 was the proceeds of a lecture delivered in this, place, some time ago, by Dr. Meynardie, and the balance was derived from other sources. DISAPPOINTED EMIGRANTS. The party of negro emigrants spoken of by )ur Chester correspondent, as having started to Kansas last Friday, on reaching Gastonia, were disappointed in their expectation of meeting "a mau" who was to conduct them )n to the promised land. "The man" has, jp to this time, failed to show himself, and the would-be emigrants are scattered around Grastonia, in a somewhat demoralized condition, seeking employment by the farmers of that section. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. Dr. Meynardie, Presiding Elder of hia District, will fill the uuloit of the Metho list Episcopal Church in this place ou Sunlay next, the occasiou being the first quartery meeting of the present year. The sacrasent of the Lord's Supper will be administered at the morning service. Several improvements have been receutly Hade on the interior of the church edifice, i fine pulpit Bible has also been donated to ;he church by the American Bible Society, >f New York. jenkins'rifles. The above company appeared in their new jniforms, for the first time, last Friday afterloon, presenting quite a creditable appearince. The following are the officers of the :orapany: Captain??T. R. Gardner. First-Lieutenant?George H. O'Leary. Second-Lieutenant?John J. Smith. Sergeants?R. J. Lindsay, W. H. Herndon, W. P. Good, R. A. Parish. Corporals?VV. T. Barron, J. A. Latta, Withers Adickes, J. B. Scott, C. G. Parish. Secretary and Treasurer?A. S. Withers. advance in freight rates. A meeting of freight agents of Southern -ailroad and steamship lines was held in Bal* .iraore last Friday, to discuss the recent cuting of freight rates from Northern points to Charlotte, N. C. After a full interchange of opinion and discussion of the insurance differences between railroad and steamship lines, t was agreed to increase and fix the rate Vom Baltimore to Charlotte at $1.05, 90 and 15 cents for first-class freight, and 70, 55 and 10 cents for second-class, and the usual differ;nce of 10 cents on first-class and 5 cents on lecond-class, higher from New York and Philadelphia. These rates will go into effect )u the 25th instant, and mutual pledges were sxchanged to maintaiu them. JOURNALISTIC. The Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalst has entered upon the second year siuce the :onsolidation of the two papers, and in noicing the fact, the editors announce that the laper is in a prosperous condition, and that t is their determination in the future to keep t up to the high standard of excellence which t has long siuce attained. While the Chronicle and Constitutionalist is a live newspaper, furnishing the freshest news from every quar.er of the globe, it is also edited with dignity ind ability; an honor to its State and a aright exemplar of Southern journalism. By the present railroad schedules, the Charleston News and Courier again reaches ill points on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, and the Chester and Lenoir Rail oads on the afternoon of the day of publi- J nation. This is a welcome arrangement to ! ;he readers of that sterling journal, whose arae is a household word in every portiou )f the State. It is with pleasure, too, that tve record the fact that the charges of fraud ; n conneetion with the printing ring swindles n this State, at one time alleged against the News and Courier, are not sustained by the 1 euort of the investigating committee. The representative newspaper of the State, so far ! is the record shows, is free from taint in con* I section with its contract for publishing the : ,aws, and the exoneration places it higher t,han ever in the estimation of the people of ;he State, who have at no time questioned the enterprise and ability with which it is coniucted. JUDGE PRESSLEY. The Abbeville Medium denies that Hon. B. C. Pressley, lately elected Judge of the First Circuit, is a native of York county, \ ind insists that he was born in Abbeville. While Abbeville has been prolific in great men, and we would not detract an iota from tier distinction in this respect, we must be permitted to claim for York county the honor of Judge Pressley's nativity. We speak advisedly, after making careful inquiry, and our investigation leads to the conclusion that Judge Pressley never even lived in Abbeville. He was born ten miles east of Yorkville, in ! the vicinity of Tirzah. His sister, Mrs. Dr. wl A. I. Barron, now lives in this place, where m she has resided many years. Judge Pressley's ve mother died when he was a child of bat three be years of age, and two years later his father lii died. Previous to his death, the father re- af Bided, during the summer season, in York j d( county, and passed his winters in Charleston. j sh The orphaned child became the ward of Rev. hi James Adams, at that time pastor of Bethel j he Church, in this county, aiid continued in the ' of family of Mr. Adams until he was fourteen at years of age, when he was placed at school y( in Newberry, and from Newberry he entered B college at Athens, Ga. After graduating from fr the last-named institution, he made his home to in Charleston, where he studied law, and has at anar airina rMiHar) H The Pressley family came to America in 1732, with what is usually called the Wil- ^ liamsburg colony. There were two brothers? a" John and William?and a sister, Sarah. On 1D the passage from Ireland to America, Sarah P' married a Witherspoon. One of the Press- ai leys come from Williamsburg and joined b' Patrick Calhoun, in Abbeville county. Judge H Pressley is not, as was stated sometime ago by the A. R. Presbyterian, a brother of R. hi M. Pressley. Their fathers were brothers h< and are full cousius of the Rev. John S. w Pressley. So much for Judge Presaley's nativity and ancestry. His qualifications as a jurist, are stated as follows by the News and Courier: The familiarity of Judge Pressley, not only with the criminal law, but with his duties as It Judge, has doubtless surprised many who only knew him as a distinguished practitioner on the civil side of the Court. The clue to the apparent mystery is, that in the eatly part of his legal career, Judge Pressley was a magistrate for nine consecutive years, and at that time all crimes committed by colored persons were cognizable in the magistrates' eourts. Consequently, in the . long period duringwhich he served as magistrate, every species ofcriine known to the law, even the hi Grossest felonies, the punishment of which was w eatli, came under his jurisdiction, and he was called upon to deal with them, sometimes as ju- ^ dicial and sometimes as prosecuting magistrate, bi The common law and statutes, the rules of practice, and the law of evidence, as involved in criininal trials, thus bei-ame familiar to him. The 2. body of the law is the same as it was then, and H f - aln^n | " naviug ueen ill cnunmiib piautiuc c?iijv.Oy auu u. ways a hard student and close observer, he has kept up with the changes of the times, and there a: is probably no Judge on the Bonch who can de- n cide more readily and justly the many minor ' questions that are continually arising in practice, and which, if not not so decided, produce always tj confusion and delay. J"" 0] EDITORIAL INKLINGS. 8? Release of Anderson. lb A New Orleaua dispatch of the 18th, says that in the case of Thomas C. Anderson, w convicted of election frauds, on appeal for new trial, the Supreme Court has reversed w the verdict of the jury aud ordered the prisoner to be released. The Court decided that o! the forged election return was not a public h document and the indictment was defective. r( This, of course, ends the case as to the other members of the returning hoard. It is stated from Washington, that when w the actiou of the Supreme Court was comtnu- g nicated to the President, he expressed high ci gratification, and said that the whole Union et would applaud the decisiou of the Court as el patriotic, and in the interest of conciliation. P Sunday School Convention. The International Suuday School Convention, will meet at Atlanta, Georgia, on the 8f 17th of April, next, and continue in session U for three days. Delegates from all the States a| east of the Mississippi will be present, and n many from the Pacific coast. The most die- ^ tinguished Suuday School men in our couo- t| try will there meet in council. Col. Fore- cj acre, Superintendent of the Air-Line Railroad Company, offers excursion rates over his F road. A fine opportunity will he afforded tl persons to visit the "Gate City," for a small -A amount of money. Let no Sunday-School ei man or woman who can spare the time and ^ about fifteen dollars, lose this opportunity. jfc This Convention will not be in our section of tl country again for years. Then, by all means, ai go to Atlanta, if you cau. c< Adjournment of the Legislature. tv With regard to the probable adjournment of the General Assembly, the Columbia ? o ?! _ *7 I /t i __ W correspondent 01 me iveira ana wuner, uuuer q date of the 17th instant, says: jc It is now a fact, as positive as things human tl can he, that the General Assembly will ad- c< journ sine die during the present week, most oj probably on Friday night or Saturday morn- p; ing. The House has cleared its calendar, and tl the burden of the work now rests upon the 01 Senate. The Joint Assembly will be called si upon to elect the three Judges for the Court tl of Claims, three lawyers to assist the attorney o' general in representing the State before that w Court, and three commissioners to codify the laws of the State. A caucus of the Demo- Si cratic party will be called on Monday or Tues ri day night, and all these matters can be ar- C ranged without much delay. As far as is di now known, the most probable candidates for rt Judge of the Court of Claims are Thomson, a Kershaw and Hudson. The assistant lawyers tl to represeut the State have not been settled m upon, but Maj. Meetze, the chairman of the ui Bond Commission, is spoken of, and his evi- a! dent fitness for the position seems to indicate M the correctness of the report. si The Bright, White Dollar. Cl The first silver dollar coined under the ^ 61 silver bill recently passed by Congress, was struck at the mint in Philadelphia, ou the jd 11th instant. The first twelve were coined F! from polished planchets, and removed by p< hand from the machine to prevent abrasion. ^ Tbey were enclosed in envelopes, duly marked c' in the order in which they were coined. The ^ first was sent to the President, the second w to Secretary Sherman, aud the third to Di- p, rector Linderman. This coinage occupied gi fifteen minutes, after which the machine be- rc gan running at full speed, and finished about e' $2,000 before the hour of closing. Other dies ^ will be prepared as rapidly as possible, and ^ the mints at San Francisco and Carson City j will be put iu operation. The first delivery ]jj of coin?about $80,000?took place at Wash- th ington last Thursday. On the same day the r* new dollars made their appearance on Wall ^ street, New York. Being limited in amount, 8U the supply soon became exhausted, aud the desire to obtain them a9 tokens being general, h, buyers paid a fraction above par in gold. C Revenue Troubles in Plckcus. ?' ? The sheriff" of Pickens county makes an J8 official report to the Governor, that on the m night of the 9th instant, a body of armed a, men forcibly released from his jail three men who had been committed for violation of the cc United States revenue law. The armed tnob, cc itseem9, was headed by an outlaw from over in C( North Carolina, named Redmond. Gover- f8 nor Hampton has offered a reward of $200 " for the capture of Redmond. As soon as Collector E. M. Brayton was tl notihed of the occurrence, he telegraphed the lv facts to the Revenue Department at Wash- j ai ington, and he was immediately instructed by w the Department to make every possible ex-: q ertiou to capture the offenders. To this end 0| he has organized a force of armed men, and tt at latest accounts had captured six, some of n< whom were concerned in the rescue. tl Redmond, the alleged leader of the mob ai who rescued the prisoners, is a native of ^ Transylvania county, North Carolina. He p( is said to have a slight infusion of Indian ^ blood, although apparently be is full blooded w bite. Physically, he is a superb specimen of anhood, being six feet tall, stoutly built, try strong, and active as a cat. He has loDg ten engaged in the business of illicit distil* ig in his native county. About two years ;o he was arrested by Mr. Duckworth, a jputy United States marshal and deputy eriff of Transylvania county. While on s way to jail, Redmond drew a pistol which ? had concealed in his hoot, and shot the Beer dead. After this he Bud to lihis Slate, id resumed his old occupation. About a sur ago he was arrested by deputy marshals arton, Gary aud Hendricks. He escaped ? ora them oa the evening of his capture, ok a position in am hush by the roadside id fired into the party, wounding Gary and endricks, the latter desperately. Subse* lently, he went to Mr. Barton's house for ie avowed purpose of killing him. He was vay from home, and the outlaw, in searchg the house, found a check for $100. He laced Mrs. Barton ou a barebacked horse id forced her to go to Easley Station with im, cash the check and give him the money, 'e then coolly selected Mr. Barton's best arse, and rode away to the mountains with im. Redmond is also strongly suspected of iing the murderer of Mr. Alfred McCreery, bo was shot dead while at work in his own sld, in Pickens county, some time ago. BONDED DEBT* OF^YOKE. An Opinion by the Supreme Court. i the Supreme Court, November Term, 1877.? The State of South Carolina Ex-Relatione Tr.hr. r. Harris relator, airainst Thomas C. Robertson, County Treasurer of York county, respondent. Alandainua. Opinion by Has kell, A. J. ; Willard, C. J., and Mclver, A. J.t concurring. Filed, March 12, 1878. The objection that John L. Harris, the re,tor, has failed to show any right or iuterest eld by him in the coupons, payment of hich is sought, which would authorize him * demand the writ, appears to the court to e well taken. It is alleged in the suggestion : Paragraph ?"That said series of one thousand bonds, mounting to the sum of one hundred thou* tud dollars, were delivered to the Chester nd Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Compay in conformity with law, by the proper uthorities of York, county, to-wit: the Counr Commissioners of said county." Paragraph 3.?"That six hundred of said ae thousand bonds of the county of York, in lid State, amounting to sixty thousand dolirs, were, by the said Railroad Company, eposited in the National Bank of Chester ith your relator, upon a special trust, among ther things to collect the interest on said ouds and to apply the same in accordance ith the terras of an instrument of writing lade the 22ud of November, 1875, a copy f which is hereunto annexed, marked Exibit A, to which your relator craves leave to ;fer as often as may be necessary." By reference to this Exhibit A, it is ascertined : 1. That the said bonds were deposit1 in the National Bank of Chester, "not ith relator," but "to be held by the said lank." 2. That the Exhibit shows no 8peal trust in the relator "to collect the interit on said bonds and to apply the same," c.; but, on the other hand, it is the special roviso, that the said Railroad Company iall have the right, by and with the consent od approval "of a certain agent or attorney lereiuafter named, to collect the interest on lid bonds so hypothecated, and to sell or retin the said bonds at such price as shall be greed upon by and between the said Rail>ad Company and the agent or attorney of le undersigned, and apply the proceeds exlusively and solely to the extinguishment of ie obligation of said Company for the purlase price of said iron rails." The agent afterwards named, is John L. [arris, and it is presumable that the same is ie relator, though it is uowhere alleged. 3. nd not that the relator, as suggested, nor ?en the agent, shall "apply" the proceeds i therein directed; but that the Railroad ompany shall so apply it. Paragraph 5 alges: "That ou the 1st of January, 1873, ?w lere was due, of said coupons, certain 863^ sd there was owing to your relator, hy said luuty of York, on the same, the sum of veuty-five hundred and forty-one dollars." This claim of ownership and liability is introverted hy Exhibit A, which shows that ie said coupous belonged to the Railroad ompany, subject to the lieD set forth by said istrumeut, and that until the obligation lerein named bad been extinguished, the lupons must be held by the National fiank f Chester; were owiug to the RailroadCoroany, and could be collected by no one except le Railroad Company, with the consent of ae John L. Harris, agent. Thus, by his own lowing, the relator cannot have any right in teae coupons, and only a power of control rer the action of the Railroad Company ith regard to them. Paragraph 8 alleges that on the 3rd of ppteraber, 1873, the relator, John L. Har8, presented, for payment, to the County ommissioners of York county, three hunred and twenty-four of said coupons, and iceived therefor a check or order, of which copy is giveu. The check or order is on le County Treasurer, and is drawn payable, ot to the relator, but to Ja9. Mason, Treasrer C. & L. N. G. R. R., or bearer. The ffidavits of John L. Harris and of James lanon, which are appended as Exhibits, iow that the relator neither presented the >upons nor received the check or order from le County Commissioners ; nor is it suggest* 1 in the petition how the said check or order rer came into the hands of the relator. He estopped from claiming it as "bearer," by Exhibit A, attached to paragraph 3 of tho stition; for he thereby sets up the ownerlip by the Railroad Company, and nowhere aims that the coupons were ever delivered i him by the Company, or any one else. Exhibit A further shows that the bonds ere deposited, if at all, to iudemnify the irii?'s tlu-rehy indicated from loss, by a jarauiee for the payment, by the said Railtad Company, of a stipulated euro, in the rent that certain rail irons, in a time named, i delivered to the Railroad Company. The ilator makes no pretence to a right, except i agent or trustee for these guarantors, here is no evidence that the guarantors are able; that the contract was executed ; that ie iron was delivered, or that the Railtad has become liable, or if it has, that the ibt has not been paid. No such facts are iggested. Then, even if the relator be the jent named in the instrument, and have the )wer therein to collect the interest, (which, awever, is expressly reserved to the Railroad ompany,) he has failed to show that the aarantors are liable for anything, or that be , as agent, entitled to receive or demand the oney for the purposes named in the instruent from which he seems to claim that his Jthority is derived. The relator has shown no legal title to the >upons; no interest in them; no right to >llect the money on them; and cannot be lusjflered entitled to the remedy which be ieks. The questions wbicb would arise ia te case, had it been brought by the proper irty, are matters of public interest. The court, therefore, takes pains to observe tat the decision herein rendered relates sole to the defect of ownership in the relator, id does not go at all into the merits, which ere argued at some length. The questions irae up in the case of Glenn vs. County ommissioners, vi 3. C. Rep., p. 412, and an *der was made dismissing the motion. The vo justices who concurred in this order, are it now members of this court. None of te points made in the ease were considered, id no reasons were stated in the order. The court is, therefore, really not aware, as > what poiuts, if any, were decided on apeal in the case of Glenu vs. County Coralissioners, and deems all questions of law hich arose therein, as open and undecided,