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||^^ ^orh'iUe ^ YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 11, 1879. KING'S MOUNTAIN CENTENNIAL. The meeting of the delegates, on the 25th of last July, at King's Mountain Station, for the purpose of making arrangements for the centennial celebration of the battle of King's Mountain, 7th of October, 1880, adjourned to meet in Yorkville on the 1st day of January" next. The time for the meeting is rapidly approaching, and we feel that we need hardly i4-L/vftA WKA AAtvkrvAofl/1 fRn mnniinff HlipiCSd UJJUU tllUdC WHU l/UUi|/Ui5CU tiAJLV Uivvviu^ ?naMi&the 25th of July, or others feeling an interest in the celebration, the importance of a full meeting 011 the 1st of January next. Not only should there be a full attendance of the delegates, but the gentlemen composing the various committees, should, in the meantime give the subject some thought, and come prepared to report progress and plans, pursuant to the resolution adopted last July. It is not desirable that this celebration?the centennial of the turning point in the struggle of our ancestors for liberty and American Independence?shall be merely local in its character, nor confined to the States of South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia?the States whose gallant sons shed their life blood on the historic ground?but that the celebration shall be emphatically a National affair, second only to the proposed celebration of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, as the event to be commemorated in York county is only second in importance to the final scene in the long and bloody contest. Georgia and North Carolina are alive to the importance of the occasion, and while we are assured that these States will be well represented in the meeting on the 1st of January, representatives from every county in this State, as also from all sections of the Union, are earnestly and cordially invited. The result of the engagement at King's Mountain is the glory not alone of the States immediately represented in the battle, but of all the original Thirteen, and the freedom which that battle \ wrought is the heritege of our common coun/ try^fropa the Atlantic to the Pacific. Republish from the proceedings of the *4eeting of July 25th, the following names, V. constituting the various committees appointed X^ppt that meeting: * Executivecommittee?Col. A. Coward, chairjnan; Capt. W. T. It. Bell, secretary; Capt. J. M. Ivy, treasurer; Col. E. P. Howell, W. *Waddy Thomson, Gen. Johnstone Jones, Col. --* (\Petty, Col. Chas. R. Jones, R. Y. McAden, Govv A. II. Colquitt, Gov. W. D. Simpson, Gov^T^L Jarvis; J. C. Chambers, Simpson ^ in^^fcons and correspondence?Judge 1WI. WtC&ce, Col. B. McDowell, Dr. J. S. Lawton, IA J. W. Tracy, J. W. Garrett. On troops?Gen. J. B. Gordon, Gov. Wade Hampton, Gen. Matt. W. Ransom, Senator Z. B. Vanp^Col. John P. Thomas, Major C. ^L^gPCol. J. II. Rion. Usance?Frank McGinnas, R. H. Garrett; J. M. Hambright, Ira Hardin, R. E. Porter. On transportation?Maj. W. J.' Houston, W. A. Mauney, W. O. Weir, W. Holmes Hardin, Maj. A. B. Andrews, V. Q. Johnson. On, ways and means?B. C. Yancy, Col. I. .D. Witlierspoon, J. S. R. Thomson, Rankin Falls, B. F. Logan, J. S. Bratton, E. G. Byers, Col. Wm. Johnston, P. S. Baker. On historical records.?Rev. Robert Lathan, Col. Moore, J. G. Ramsay, A. H. Stevens, - Edward Cantwell, D. G. Stinson, A. Hardin, ae? STSealiorn. On a monument?A. E. Hutchison, Dr. A. P. Campbell, F. G. Latham, R. P. Waring, Dr. J. M. Miller. On preparation of grounds?Dr. J. R. Logan, Dr. A. F. Hambright, A. Y. Falls, J. A. Deal, J. W. M. Harry, Freno Dilling, W. S. Goforth, Emanuel Patterson. PROCEEDING OF CONGRESS. The Forty-sixth Congress assembled on the 1st instant. The Senate was called to order by Vice-President Wheeler. The President's Message was read. The President also sent to the Senate the nomination of George W. McCrnry, of Iowa, to be judge of the eighth circuit. Mr. Ferry announced the death of his colleague, Hon. Zachariah Chandler, and . moved that the Senate, as a mark of respect , to his memory, adjourn. Agreed to, aud the / Senate adjourned. The House adjourned immediately after the message was read before that body. the Senate on the 2nd, Mr. Gordon iuabsolution favoring the proposed J N^HFgua Can^L Referred. Mr. Burnside ttian aq 11 o/} nn liio >?ocr>lnfinn n'PlnQi' cps^inn bllVU VU1 IV.U U AM ig ]^UV4UV4V*? VTA ?MWV WVW>WMJ reaffirming the Monro^rlQctrine in connection with the proposed Darien Canal, and proceeded to speak, thereon. At the conclusion -Of his remarks, the Senate went into executive session, and when the doors were reopened, adjourned. In the House, a resolution, offered by Price, of Iowa, declaring it to be the opinion of the House that no change should be made in the currency laws at the present session of Con; gress, was referred, as was aJso a joint resolution introduced by Ellis, of Louisiana, pledging the protection of the government to the /"fticaraguan Inter-Ocean Canal Company, when it shall have obtained a grant from the Nicaraguan government. White, of Pennsylvania, introduced a joint resolution proposing constitutional amendments providing that the general appropriation bills shall contain nothing but appropriations, and granting power to the President to disapprove any separate item without defeating the entire bill. Mr. Fort offered a resolution opposing attempts to withdraw or change the status of any of the paper money issued by the United States, or to re-cpen, by legislation, the currency questions settled by the Supreme Court. Mc Cord, of Iowa, offered a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to give Congress power to regulate and protect trade marks. Adjourned. In the Senate on the 3rd, Hon. Henry P. i .Baldwin, of Michigan, appointed senator vice Hon. Zacliariah Chandler, deceased, presented his credentials and was sworn in. Mr. Beck introduced a bill to authorize the payment of customs duties in legal tender notes; also a bill to amend.title 48, Revised Statutes, so as to authorize the purchase of foreign built ships by citizens of the United States for use in the foreign carrying trade, both of which 'wePe referred to the finance committee. Mr. Bayard introduced a joint resolution that from and after the passage of this resolution, the treasury notes of the United States can be receivable for all dues to the United States excepting duties on imports, and shall not be otherwise legal tender, and any of said notes hereafter re issued shall bear this superscription. Referred to the finance committee. Mr. Ingalls offered a resolution that in the opinion of the Senate, the present volume of United States notes should not be reduced, | and that said notes ought to continue to be legal tender in payment of drafts. In the House, Mr. Wood, of New York,1 introduced the following respecting the refunding of the National debt: "Be it enacted, That so much of the authority conferred on the secretary of the treasury by the acts j July 14, 1870, and January 20, 1871, to1 r refund the public debt to the extent of $1,500,000,000, as has not been exhausted and ] executed, be, and'the same is hereby modified i so as to limit the rate of interest on the bonds yet to be issued, as authorized by these acts, < to a rate of interest not to exceed per ! cent, per annum." Without transacting any important business, the House, at 1 o'clock, adjourned. In the Senate on the 4th, a number of private bills were introduced. Also, a bill by Mr. Merrill to facilitate the refunding of the National debt. Carpenter offered a resolution declaring that the resumption of circulation of gold, silver and greenbacks as lawful money, and the expectation that the finances would not be disturbed by precipitate legislation, hhd been followed by renewed industry and general prosperity; that the successful conduct of business depends upon a stable finan cial policy, and that, therefore, in the opinion of the Senate, any legislation, during the present session, materially changing the existing system of finance, would be inexpedient. The Senate then went into executive session, and after the doors were re-opened, adjourned until Monday. In the House, among the bills and resolutions introduced and referred, was one by Gillet, of Iowa, declaring that Congress is opposed to any reduction in the value of United States legal tender notes; but, on the contrary, in favor of substituting greenbacks for national bank note9, and that it is in favor of free and unlimited coinage of the 4121 grains silver dollar. The House then, at 12.30, went into committee of the whole for the purpose of distributing the President's message. Having distributed the President's message among the appropriate committees, the House, at 2.55, adjourned until Monday. In the Senate on the 8th, Mr. Voorhees offered a resolution declaring that the Senate had heard with deep regret the propositions of the President and secretary of the treasury, in their messages,'to inaugurate a new and uncalled for financial agitation, and destruction of the most necessary currency now in circulation, and that the interests of the country require free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver on conditions of exact equality, and that it is the part of wise financial policy to maintain the present volume of greenbacks in circulation,"and to preserve their legal-tender quality unrestricted and unimpaired as to legal effect. Laid on the table to be called up by Voorhees hereafter. A *me8saee was then received from the House announcing the death of Representative Say, of Missouri, and both houses ad journed. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? General Hagood has been nominated in at least six different newspapers for Governor. ? It is said that the entire unpaid taxes in Lexington county does not exceed five hundred dollars. ? There is a negro man in Anderson county who is said to be the father of thirty five children. ? The South Carolina Conference of the M. E. Church, will meet in Charleston on Wednesday next, 17th instant. ? Several droves of Tennessee hogs were in Greenville last week, which were being sold at five cents per pound, gross. ? Governor Simpson has appointed Col. Alfred Rhett, of Charleston, Chief State Constable. ? An exchange says of Gen. Mart. W. Gary, that he is one of the richest men in Edgefield, and pays taxes upon a larger land ed estate than any other man in the county. ? Hon. Henry Gourdin, for many years a prominent citizen of Charleston, died in that city on Thursday last, in the seventy-sixth year of bis age. ? At the recent meeting of the South Carolina Synod at Rock Hill, five churches in Fairfield county were transferred from the Presbytery of Harmonv to the Presbytery of Bethel. ? In a case which came before Judge Mackey, in Columbia, several weeks ago, he decided that a person is entitled to a homestead exemption in personal property, whether the owner of land or not. The case has been ap pealed to the Supreme Court. ? Hon. John H. Evins did not leave his home in Spartanburg until last Thursday, on account of illness in his family, and consequently was not in his seat on the first days of the session of Congress. ? Rev. A. W. Lamar, well known in South Caroliua as the General Agent and Secretary of the State Baptist Convention for several years, has resigned that position and accepted a call to the pastorate of the Camden Baptist Church. ? Paris Simkins, colored, in the days of Radicalism a member of the Legislature from Edgefield county, has been appointed, by the internal revenue authorities at Washington, storekeeper and gauger for the District of South Carolina. ? There is a man residing in the town of Laurens?an old merchant?who has never been to the depot, nor ridden on the railroad since it was rebuilt, eighteen months ago, yet he has done business in town all the time, and was once a conductor, in antebellum days, on said road. ? Ex-Judge Wiggin died at his residence in Beaufort, on Wednesday of last week. He was a native of New Hampshire, and came to South Carolina with the Federal army at the close of the war. He was elected to the bench by the black combination in the Legislature which elected Whipper and Moses. ? A number of persons who emigrated to Texas from Lancaster county, have returned after remaining about one year. They represent that the lands in Texas, on an average, are not any better than those in South Carolina, while the disadvantages as to health, water, society, comfort, &c., are ten times worse. ? Mrs. Sarah Stoney died at the residence /? i i i 01 ner SOn-lU-iaw, mi. xuiuuiciuu uicnaii, at Glenn Springs, Friday, 28th ultimo. She : was passing from one room to another of low- j er elevation, and fell at full length on the i floor, striking her cheek, which injured her j so much that she died soon after. Her age ' was about 75 years. ? In consequence of his election as Presi-1 dent of the Charlotte, Columbia and \ugusta ; Railroad Company, Judge A. C. Haskell, on Friday last, tendered his resignation as one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court,' to take effect immediately. The resignation has been accepted, and the duty of filling the vacancy will devolve upon the Legislature; now in session. ! ? The case against the South Carolina Railroad Company, for foreclosure of mortgage, came up before the United States Cir* j' cuit Court, in Charleston, on Monday last, for 1 a full hearing and a final decree, on which , ' an appeal to the Supreme Court might be' 1 based. The Court refused to grant the mo- 1 tion on the ground that no final decree could j be made until all the creditors had been call- < ed in. A referee will be appointed before' 1 fi whom the creditors will be summoned to prove their claims, and the case will be presented for final hearing at the April term. An order was granted permitting the receiver 1 Df the road to tender bills of the bank of the ' State of South Carolina in payment of State taxes, and to litigate points of law thus . raised. ? No definite action has been taken by the legislature in regard to the election of a Chief Justice. The resignation of Associate Justice Haskell has created a vacancy about which there is no doubt. There are several candidates for this position, prominent among whom are Gen. Samuel McGowan, of Abbe ville; Judge W. H. Wallace, of Union; Judge Kershaw, of Camden; and Judge Pressley, of Charleston. ? Frederick Schmidt, of Columbia, brought ^ m 1 /> il suit against ur. ji?. ts. iurmpseeo. ror me recovery of his arm, which the Doctor amputated in April, 1878. The petitioner is a Roman Catholic, and wanted his arm to receive a Christian burial. The Doctor wanted it for scientific purposes, and had preserved it in alcohol, and declined to surrender it uuless he was reimbursed the cost of preparation, some six dollars. On the advice of the Court, Schmidt paid the money and had the satis faction of burying his arm'. ?The United States Circuit Court met in Columbia on Monday of last week, but adjourned without disposing of any business, in consequence of the fact that under the Act of March 3, 1879, allowing the defendant the right of appeal in all the criminal cases where the penalty was over three hundred dollars, all revenue and other cases other than the election cases on the docket, should be remitted to the District Court. Otherwise, the defendants would be deprived of their right of appeal under the statute. This relieves the Circuit Court of nearly all the criminal business. There were a number of civrf cases on the docket, all of which go over to the April term. The Circuit Court is now sitting in Charleston. ? A fire occured in Greenville about three o'clock on Sunday morning last, which de stoyed the Academy of Music, recently completed, the drug stock of Sloan & Brothers, the grocery stock of Sloan, Luce & Taylor, and other valuble property contained in the building, and the three stores underneath it. As far as can be ascertained, the losses are as follows: Building and furniture, owned by Cagle & Co., $35,000; insurance $18,000. Sloan, Lee & Taylor, stock, s?,uuu; insur ance $4,500. Sloan Bros., stock, $7,000; insurance $3,000. F. W. Poe & Co.,. damages about $500; fully insured. W. E. Speir, furniture, Ac., $1,000; no insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown. ? The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company, was held in Columbia on Wednesday of last week. The directors submitted their annual report for the year ending the 30th September, 1879, making the following exhibit: Gross earnings $478,491.61, expenditures $437,491.72, net earnings $40,526.89. The business of the present year has netted $84,959 81 over that of 1878. The profit and loss account shows $105,121.89 to the credit, and the increase of trade of the towns and villages tributary to the road gives good promise of the future prosperity of the road. The debt of the company represented in bonds, bills payablp, accounts, Ac , is $2,639,043.41, and the amount of capital stock outstanding liable for dividends, $2,392,000. Col. J. B. Palmer, who has held the office of President for the past seven years, tendered his resignation, which was accepted, and Judge A. C. Haskell, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, was elected to supply the vacancy. The resignation of Col. Palmer will not take effect until the 15th instant, at which date Judge Has kell will enter upon the discharge of his duties. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? J - 1? J/n.a /v^1 Hfanono JL ntJ gruiiu 1WUJJC \J 1 1/U1U1 V.U 1TAUOVUO VTA North Curolina met in Greensboro last Tuesday. ? The colored people's fair, held at Raleigh, is pronounced a success. The clear re ceipts, after deducting expenses, amount to 8500. ? A fire occurred in Winston on Monday of last week, completely destroying the Joyner Row, composed of the handsomest stores in the place. ? Says the Asheville Journal: About three weeks ago, Long Tom Wilson, of Cane River, Yancy county, killed four bears (fully grown") in one day. Two of them were trapped, and the other two were treed and shot. ? Mr. C. M. Pendleton, long known among the profession as "Uncle Mace," and probably the oldest printer in North Carolina, died recently in Thomasville, aged 78. He was formerly one of the owners of the Salisbury Watchman. ? The Winston Sentinel says that the administrator of R. L. Patterson, deceased, has received a letter from the vice-president of the .Etna Life Insurance Company, declining to pay the policy issued to Col. P. by the company. Litigation will be the consequence. The policies iu this company on Mr. Patterson's life amounted to $60,000. ? The following are the revenue statistics of the Statesville collection district for November, gathered from the collector's office: Collections for the month $52,224,52; eighteen illicit distilleries broken up ; 12,900 gallons of beer destroyed; 323 gallons of crooked whiskey seized; tax paid on and shipped from the dristrict, 41,675 gallons during the month. MERE-MENTION. The East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad has taken a lease of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad for a period of twenty years. The lessees guarantee the payment of seven per cent, interest on $4,225,000 of the bonds of the road. Fifty thousand acres of land in Palo Pinto counties, Texas, have just been purchased by a French capitalist for colonization purposes. France has spent $200,000,000 since the German war in re-arining. There are eight newspapers in the United States which claim to be over one hundred years old. Gen. Jos. E. Johnston emphatically denies having any ? -!xU nrnnncjorl connection witn ui i^iuaun^ buo scheme of providing the office of CaptainGeneral for Grant. The tobacco crop of the country this year will be 25 per cent, less than last year. The amount of taxable property returned by Georgia negroes this year amounts to 85,182,398. A Chicago man claims to have invented a machine by which he makes water burn. Two i hundred and fifty colored emigrants from : North Carolina passed through Washington ' the other day on their way to Indiana. The 1 widow of the late R. N. Caldwell, of Greens- ! boro, N. C., destroyed her life by drowning ( berself in a well on Saturday night last, j Mrs. Caldwell had been in a melancholy state , )f mind ever since the death of her husband, j ;wo years ago. < * ZiOCAXi AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Christmas at Kennedy Brothers <fe Barron's. M. Strauss?Good News. T. M. Dobson?Bargains, Bargains, Bargains. Mrs. Fannie L. Dobson?Ladies' Ready-Made Clothing. J. C. Kuykendal?Read a Christmas Paragraph. J. A. McLean, Judge of Probata?Application for Homestead?Sarah E. Davis, Applicant. A. Williford, Rock Hill?House and Lot for Rent. R. H. Glenn?Sheriff's Sales. J. N. Roberts?Beef Market. TRIAL JUSTICE APPOINTED. Governor Simpson has appointed R. LeRoy Crook, a Trial Justice for York county, in place of D. T. Lessley, Esq., resigned. THE HOME CIRCLE. We received a visit last Friday morning from Mrs. J. E. Britton, editress of the Home Circle, a deserving literary paper conducted by her in Charleston. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. At a meeting of Yorkville congregation of the Presbyterian Church last Monday evening, Rev. Taylor Martin was chosen to minister to the congregation as stated supply. It is not known as yet whether he will accept the call. GOOD COTTON YIELD. Mr. Joseph Herndon informs us that from 6^ acres lie lias picked 7 bales 01 cotton, averaging 403 pounds to the bale. Three acres of. the land is of good quality, and the remainder poor hillside. lie manured it all equally, applying 175 pounds of fertilizer to the acre. MASONIC ELECTION. At the December Communication of Philanthropic Lodge, No. 78, A. F. M., the following persons were elected officers for the ensuing yean C. E. Silencer, W. M.; H. W. Hope, 8. W.; J. R. Gardner, J. W.; W." T. Barron, Treasurer; H. C. Strauss, Secretary. SUPREME CfOURT DECISION. In the case of J. Wister Allison vs. Thomas' M. Whitesides, which went up from the Circuit Court of this county, and was argued before the Supreme Court at its present term, a decision has been rendered by the Supreme Court, reversing the judgment of the Circuit Court, and ordering a new trial. Opinion by Mclver, A. J. CHRISTMAS TREE AND FESTIVAL. Misses W. A. McCorkle, B. Adickes, and Mr. J. R. Lindsay, committee, have our thanks for an invitation to a "Christmas Tree" and Festival to be given at the Female Institute building on Christmas night. The entertainments are given by the ladies for worthy objects, aud will deserve the liberal jiatronage of the public. COLORED BAPTISTS. Rev. W. T. Boulware, colored, of the above denomination, speaks encouragingly of his work in the ministry, and of the progress his denomination is making. Since his ordination last July, he commenced preaching at Mt. Prospect, near Susie Bole creek in Chester county, without a member, and up to this time, with the aid of Rev. L. Featherston, has baptized 34 communicants, all members of iv - i- -1 -V mat uuurcn. ATTEMPT TO* BREAK JAIL. On Thursday afternoon, Miles Borders, colored, a prisoner in jail, attempted to effect his escape by boring through the floor of his cell in the third story, with an auger which his wife had clandestinely conveyed to him. Miles was assisted by two white prisoners?Pughand Reide?the former of whom is in jail for violation of U. S. revenue Laws, and the latter on a charge of malicious mischief; but the wily sheriff detected them before they had made mucH progress in their attempt. Rev. C. O. BETTS. The above divine preached to a large and attentive congregation in the .Associate Reform-1 ed Presbyterian Church hist Sunday. This was the occasion of his first visit to Yorkville in several years. Mr. Betts was for some time chaplain of the l*2th South Carolina Regiment, and is kindly remembered by the men in Gray to whom he ministered in hospital and camp. In Yorkville he met several members of this regiment to which he was attached, all of whom were glad again to grasp his hand. CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows: Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Thos. Gilbert, Pastor. The Pastor will conduct services at Philadelphia Church in the morning at lOj o'clock, and at Yorkville at 7 o'clock, P. M. Prayer meeting on Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. A^ociate Reformed?Rev. Robert Lathan, Pastor. The pastor will fill his regular apI>ointment at Tirzah next Sunday. Episcopal?Church of the Good ShepherdRev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. Services at the unsual hours, morning and afternoon. Presbyterian?Services at 7 P. M., by Rev. J. Lowrie Wilson. CAPTURE OF JOE MASSEY. A correspondent at l orKvme, sevier county, Arkansas, encloses to us a slip from the Arkadelphia Standard, giving the particulars of the capture of Joe Massey, ex-County Commissioner, and an escaped convict from the South Carolina penitentiary. It will be remembered that he was sentenced to. the penitentiary from this county in 1876 on conviction of attempt at rape. He escaped from the penitentiary September 10, 1877, and, according to the Arkadslphia paper, committed a murder in Brownsville, Ga., and was arrested in Atlanta, and again escaped and fled to Arkansas.- The Standard says: He lias been in this State ever since, and a reward being offered for him from both South Carolina and Georgia, he was finally spotted and captured as above stated. He was brought to this city this week, and confined in jail, and has made several attempts to escape here, begging his custodians to shoot him rather than carry him back to the scene of his crimes. He confesses nearly everything, and is a sharp negro withal. He will be taken to South Carolina without delay. CLUBS FOR THE ENQUIRER. For the convenience of persons desiring to subscribe for the Enquirer at club rates, we publish the following list of persons who have notified us of their intention to make up clubs. They will receive names at $2.00 per annum, the subscription to commence at any time, ojv tional with the subscriber. The names of other club-makers, as 1-61)01160 to us, will be added to the list: Jasper N. Roberts, Herndon's Mill. Mrs. J. D. Gwinn, Clover, S. C. Joseph Black, Black's Station, S. C. H. K. Roberts Whitaker, S. C. Capt. E. R. Mills, Rock Hill, S. C. R. A. Rhea King's Mountain, N. C. Col. W. W. Gaffney, Gaffney City, S. C.. T. Gib. Culp Fort Mill, S. C., Sam. M. Grist, Yorkville, S. C.. Geo. T. Schorb Chester, S. C., W. T. M. Beard, Hopewell, S. C, S. G. Brown, Hickory Grove, S. C, A.J. Matthews, Clover, S. C. A. F. Lindsay, McConnellsville, S. C. A. W. Ingold, Yorkville, S. C, Mrs. M. K. Strain Etta Jane, S. C. John L. Miller, '. Blairsville, S. C. I. M. Faris Fort Mill, S. C, Claiborne M. Smith, Rock Hill, S. C. W. W. White Coates' Tavern, S. C. H. Parks Allison, King's Mountain, N. C. Mrs. M. C. Grier, Bethel, S. C. Maj. Myles Smith, Clover, S. C. William Dobson, Yorkville, S. C, William D. Simpson, Blaekstocks, S. C. D. T. Lessley, Coates' Tavern, S. C. J. C. Saville, Pineville, N. C. W. O. Guy, Bullock's Creek, S. C. i W. II. Crook Fort Mill, 8. C. ! R. G. Whitesides Hickory Grove, S. C. j AN OBSTREPEROUS INDIVIDUAL. j The Charlotte Observer of Friday says that I for several days past a man named J. C. Rogers, i from Union county, (N. C.) had been hang-! ing around the wagon yards of that city, mak-: ing himself extremely disagreeable to wagoners camping in these yards. On Wednesday night ; iie so annoyed a party of wagoners from York 1 jounty, S. C., that they undertook to whip j nim out of the wagon yard of Messrs. Schiflf & Grier, where they were camped, and in the nelee he cut one of them, a man named McCullough, right severely in one hand. ,-The t i ~~ V facts having been reported to the police, Officer Blackwelder undertook the arrest of Rogers, and he resisted to such an extent that it was found necessary to knock him down. Even this did not cool him off, and help was called in, when a rough-and-tumble fight ensued. The services of five or six persons were necessary to get the obstreperous individual to the lock-up, so furious was his resistance, and once lodged there he manifested a purpose to make a wreck of the building. With powerful force he tore tightly nailed boards from the walls of the cell, and acted so violently in other respects, that for safety he was afterwards transferred to the jail. He is supposed to be insane from the effects of excessive* drinking, THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. ** r\ i < 1 n Monday, ueceraoer i, io/?. In the Senate, the bill relinquishing a bequest of $3,000 to the heirs of John Blair, passed to a third reading. The bill to establish a uniform system of registration of births, marriages and deaths, was recoraihitted. Owing to the absence of the chairman of the judiciary committee, the Crittenden and Taft Penitentiary resolutions were deferred until Tuesday.. In the House, the Senate committee to appoint a joint committee on amendments to the constitution, was referred to the judiciary committee. Mr Simons introduced a J)ill to establish a system of registration of births, marriages and deaths. . . Mr. Morrison introduced a bill to require county commissioners to publish certain reports before the sitting of each term of court. Mr. Kennedy introduced a bill to provide artificial legs for soldiers of the late war. Mr. Moody introduced a bill to pension maimed South Carolina soldiers in the late war. Mr. Chase introduced a bill to forbid the running of freight trains, and to regulate the running of passenger and mail trains on Sunday. The bill to provide for the establishment of new school districts in the several cities and towns and incorporated villages of the State, and to authorize the levy and coll. ction of special taxes therein, was taken up for a second reading, and after discussion, was made the special order for 12 M. ou Friday. Tuesday, December 2. In the Senate, the unfavorable report on a bill to provide for the holding of a convention, was adopted. The two sets of resolutions in regard to the treutment o:' penitentiary convicts, came up for consideration?one set, offered by Mr. Crittenden, referring the matter to the penitentiary committee, and the other a t offered by Mr. Taft, referring it to a special committee. Both sets of resolutions having been read by the clerk, Mr. Crittenden moved that as these two resolutions looked to the same object, they should be discussed together. Mr. Taft objected on the ground that they did not look to ;;he same end: both could not be adopted. Mr. Critteuden was in favor of the fullest investigation ; that it was due to the parties in charge that it should go forth to the world that it was on the testimony of the convicts themselves that these charges of cruelty, &c., had been made in a prominent journal. Moreover, he would not forestall the guilt or innocence of any one; that the committee on the penitentiary, from their large acquaintance with the onvicts and with the working of the system, were eminently fitted to investigate this matter, and could more thoroughly and in a shorter time do so than any special committee. Mr. Taft said: I wish to state at the outset, that I propose to discuss this whole matter with malice to none and charity to all. It is a burning shame that for eighteen months the Legislature has done nothiug. The matter has been glossed over. A year ago last summer convicts were returned unable to walk, and yet no protest had appeared excepting -in the columns cf the New and Courier. It is true that the Superintendent of the Penitentiary had been invited to examine into the facts of the case, and that, theoretically, he had done so.- The parties implicated had dined him and wined him; they had made a speech ? ' i j a. ?j and he had made a speecn, aim ine euu ui n all was that he had declared that it was all right Perhaps it was thought that I desired to create a little campaign thunder; I desire no such thing. What I do desire is that these outrages be inquired into and the perpetrators be punished. I make war on the whole system. The Senator from Greenville owes it to himself that these outrages be redressed. To dav, five or six correspondents of leading Northern journals are waiting to see what this Senate will do. Mr. Crittenden here interrupted the Senator from Charleston to ask him if his resolution had not taken sufficiently high grounds. Mr. Taft?I make great objection, and I think I can show that they are words only. It has been rumored that it won't do to allow my resolution to succeed ; that it must go to the committee on the penitentiary and be there smothered. Of what use is the resolution of the Senator from Greenville, when the existing law covers the whole ground ? Why say "it shall be the duty of the AttorneyGeneral to prosecute," &c., when the law distinctly says that such is his duty? Again, not in a single instance has the coroner done his duty. The Solicitor has failed, the Attorney General has failed, all have failed to do their duty as by. law prescribed, and yet we have a resolution to ask the Attorney Gen| eral to go ahead ! But I might continue for hours giving reasons for this investigation. I oppose Senator Crittenden's resolution because fts object is to bury this matter. I am opposed to the penitentiary committee being made the investigators, as they are wedded to this iniquitous system. I want a committee that is not tied down to that system and that has not placed itself on the record that it is so tied down. I do not desire to make politi1 if irnn dnn'l odnnf mv rPflnll). Ctti capital) uiit 11 j\ju uv/u v uuvj/w J tion, I warn you that I shall do so, and so also will my party. If the Senate adopts my resolution, all well and good; if the other, the investigation will never take place. Mr. Maxwell, of Abbeville, replied at great length from a written paper, in which the specific charges that appeared in the columns of the iVeuw and Courier were specifically replied to and combatted by counter evidence. Mr. Crittenden did not propose to be putin a false position by the Senator from Charleston. He had yet to meet a single Senator who desired to have this matter smothered. Mr. CoIHds followed, and made a few remarks in support of the resolution of Mr. Taft. Mr. Crittenden moved that Mr. Taft's resolution be laid on the table. Mr. Gary moved to refer both resolutions to th^committee on the penitentiary. Mr. Crittenden objected to Mr. Gary's motion, and moved that his resolution be substituted for Mr. Taft's. Mr. Gary said he would as soon vote for one resolution as the other. He could see no difference between them. Mr. Wylie remarked that the Senate was not to be so vilely used as to be made the avenue for the injection of political thunder. Mr. Todd moved that the Senate do adadjourn. The Senate was equally divided and the motion was lost. Mr. Gary withdrew his resolution and moved to adopt the resolution of the Senator from Greenville, and to allow Mr. Taft's resolution to have free course. Mr. Taft sought to make political capital, but, like Caesar, disclaimed all such intent He would put both resolutions in the same mill. Mr. Taft moved to lay Mr. Crittenden's resolution on the table. Mr. Lipscomb?I do hope the Senate will stop this thing. It is just doing exactly what Mr. Taft wants. Adopt his resolution and adopt the other also. Kob him of his thunder?take the wind out of his sails. y Mr. Lipscomb moved to allow Mr. Taft to G amend bis resolution and to adopt it and to [j lay Mr. Crittenden's resolution on the table, ai Mr. Gary intended to stand by Mr. Critten- v den's resolution. ^ Mr. Brad ley'8 motion to postpone the con- tl sideration of these resolutions until to-morrow was lost. # o Mr. Taft withdrew his motion to indeBnite- if ly postpone Mr. Crittenden's resolution. r Mr. Gary's motion to lay on the table M.. Taft's resolution was adopted, with t\)T un- * derstanding that it was to be taken up at e some future time. In the House, Mr. Beasley introduced a t bill imposing a tax and prescribing the mode t of collecting the same.-oh the privilege of a selling wine, alcohol and malt liquors within a the limits of the State. -This bill provides for 1 the use of the bell punch. o Mr. Watts introduced a bill to require a e special license for dogs. u The unfavorable report of the committe on the judiciary on a bill to prevent the carry- f ing of concealed weapons and providing pun- \ ishment therefor, was made the special order c for Tuesday next at 12 M. 1 The bill to regulate the sale of patent raed c icines and other compounds, the composition 1 " "l ?v?/\/1a r\f nvftnarafinn ftf OlKipIl it linlfflOWn. I auu uivuc \ji |/ib|iui?n?vu v? (tuivm ?v ..~y | was recommitted. The object of the bill is to compel those preparing aud selling such preparations, to state their components upon the face of the package. It was recommitted for the insertion of a penalty for making such | statements falsely. I The ways and means committee reported favorably on joint resolution paying balance | of Gen. R. H. Anderson's salary to his widow, and on a bill to pension maimed.soldiers of the late wur. The same committee, to whom were referred resolutions requiring them to inquire into the expediency of collecting all taxes at one time, reported that they deemed it inexpedient to make such change. Report agreed to. The committee on privileges and elections repotted favorably on a bill to repeal the "two hox" election law. The committee on the judiciary reported favorably on bill abolishing referees and creating the office of master in certain counties. The medical committee reported favorably on bill to provide artificial limbs for maimed soldiers. The bill to establish a new school district in Chester county, and authorizing the levy of a special tax therefor, passed its third reading and was sent to the Senate. A bill for the further protection of religious meetings (designed principally to prevent the running of railroad trains to such meetings on Sundays against the wishes of the officers of such meetings, and to check rowdyism) was brought up, and Mr. Gaillard opposed it on the ground that it would give whatever i religious Doay nilgai oe in session iu uuy > towu or village, or even city, entire control I of the railroad system leading to it. Mr. < Bradley recited the fourth Commandment, and said that the members of the House were i forgetting their religious training and en- i cou raging the violation and desecration of ] the Sabbath. Mr. Johnstone expressed his < pleasure at the Bgatiments expressed by Mr. I Bradley, and said that the bill would operate I against people anxious to attend religious exercises, from which they lived a long way. I Mr. Murray had, in support of his bill, reci ] ted a disgraceful scene enacted at a camp meeting iu Anderson last summer, when row- i dies were brought by the train load to inter- i fere with and disgrace the meeting. Mr. i Johnstone, in reply, said that existing laws < covered such cases, and could be enforced. < He did not think that this solitary instance < justified special legislation,. The House theo i agreed to strike out the enacting clause of the bill. Yeas 65, nays 35. i __ I Wednesday, December 3. In the Senate, the committee on rail- 1 rorfris reported unfavorably on the bill to | compel all broad gauge railroad companies in this State, to use patent air-brakes on all passeDger trains. The concurrent resolution of Mr. Taft; known as the convict-labor resolution, which was productive of such useless discussion yesterday, and which was laid upon the table by 1 an overwhelming vote, was taken up again ( to-day, and on motion of Mr. Taft, made the ( special order for December 16th. In the House, Mr. Fickeo introduced a bill to ptovide for the settlement of the consolidated debt of the State in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court of South Carolina. Mr. J. P. Richardson introduced a concurrent resolution, which was considered, agreed to and sent to the Senate, to consider the expediency of a change in the present Congressional Districts. Mr. Deal introduced a bill to authorize William Howell and his wife, Hannah Harriet Howell, to adopt and make their lawful heir* Mary Carolina Howell. THe committee on railroads made an unfavorable report on a bill to prohibit the running of freight trains and to regulate the running of passenger trains on Sunday. The committee on the judiciary made an unfavorable report on a resolution instructing the committee on the judiciary to prepare a bill to abolish the office of trial justice, Ac. The report was agreed to and the resolution ordered to be laid on the table. Mr. Gaillard, from the committee on the judiciary, made an unfavorable report on a bill to relieve the counties of the State from the expense of maintaining persons convicted of certain offences during their imprisonment in the county jails; also, on a bill for the relief of the counties of Spartanburg, Greenville, Union, Pickens, York, Chester, Lancaster and Chesterfield, which had subscribed bonds in aid of certain roads; also, on a bill to provide for the appointment of a Master for the Sixth Circuit, and to define bis pow- t ers, duties and liabilities. t Mr. Simonton, from the committee on the t judiciary, made an unfavorable report on a c bill to require security for costs in appeals from trial justices. \ Mr. McGowan, from the judiciary commit- t tee, made a favorable report on a concurrent 1--4--- A nnAAi.tl /lAmmWfflfl /"> reauiunuu iu ujjjjuu.ii. a oj;cuiai L.UIUIU1I.IW w examine the constitution of the State of t South Carolina. The report was adopted, the ' resolution agreed to, and ordered to be sent to the Senate for concurrence. r The committee on railroads made a favor- 8 able report on a bill to authorize and direct * the County Commissioners of the counties of York and Chester to transfer certain shares v of stock of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow ? Gauge Railroad Company, to the Boards of u School Trustees of their respective counties. The committee on the judiciary made a favorable report on a bill to prevent the paying or receiving compensation for weighing cotton r in bales except by a public weigher. t] Mr. McGowan, from the committee on the 0 judiciary, made an unfavorable report on a bill to preserve the peace and prevent homi- ? cides; also, on a bill to prevent persons from t] carrying concealed weapons in this State with- a out a justifiable excuse for the same. Mr. Kennedy, from the committee on priv- ^ ileges and elections, made the following report, p which was considered immediately and agreed " to. Jj The committee on privileges and elections, to U whom was referred a resolution: "That the com- fi mittee on privileges and elections be instructed to s: inquire and report what offices, if any, to be tilled v by election of the General Assembly, are or will be vacant," have carefully considered the same, o and respectfully report, that the office of Chief tl Justice of the State of South Carolina will become o vacant on the 31st day of July, 1880, being the si time of the termination of the unexpired term of ? the late Chief Justice Moses, to which unexpired S term the Hon. A. J. Willard was elected on the m 15tb dav May, 1877, and that the present General n Assembly are required to elect to the said office, ? as the vacancy occurs during their term. But, o inasmuch as grave questions as to the construe- p tion of the constitution aud laws of the State in r; relation to the tenure of said office, and of the ii time of election to the same may arise, in order that the same may be thoroughly considered and Ii decided, upon mature deliberation, your commit- b tee respectfully recommend that it be referred to the judiciary committee of this House to inquire i it and report upon the tenure of the said office of < w Chief Justice, and of the right and duty of this ' f ^ 1 eneral Assembly to elect to the same. The comlittee further recommend that it be referred to le committee on offices and officers to inquire r.d report what other offices are or will become acant,aod which should be filled bv this General .ssembly, and beg to be discharged from the Airier consideration of the resolution referred to lem. The House proceeded to the consideration f r bill (from the Senate) to prevent and punih the intermarriage of races. The bill was cad the second time. ' 1 Mr. Gaillard moved that the enacting fords of the bill be sticken out, which motion licited a lengthy debate. Mr. Dargan said that so far as the constitu* ionality of the question had been discussed, he difficulties under the Federal constitution June had been presented ; but that lis grave , difficulty existed in our constitution, Article ., Section 39. I am opposed to the passage if this bill because I regard it impolitic, unlecessary, unwise and unconstitutional both mder tber Federal and State constitutions. Mr. Cook favored the bill; he could see no orce whatever in the argument of the mem>er from 8umter and other geutlemen who ipposed the bill that it was unconstitutional* 1 t made no distinctiou between white and tolored, and these gentlemen themselves acmowledged that the bill was in its intent and >urpo8e, both just and moral. Mr. Massey?This is a Senate bill, passed >y that body at the last session, and contin* led by this House on accounf of a qpnstituional objection urged by the gentleman from Jumter. Since that time, we have had a deiision from Judge Hughes, of the United States Circuit Court of Richmond, Virginia, sustaining the constitutionality of a similar * ict passed by the Virginia Legislature, which lecision, I suppose, has been read by the nembers of Jhis House, aud I hope that it ^ vill satisfy them on this point There are a lumber of States, North and South, that have aws to prevent the intermarriage of .races, ind none of them have been declared unconititutional. Virginia and North Carolina lave such laws; hence (he great necessity of luch a law in South Carolina; especially for bat portion of the State whteh borders on STorth Carolina, in order to prevent this low, worthless class of people from coming into >ur State and manying. I don't know how t is in other counties, and I will not underake to say how many such are in York coun;y; but I do know that in Fort Mill township, wherein I reside, there are at least ? ;wenty five or thirty white women living with jolored men as husbands, and every one of .hem have come from North Carolina, and be colored man is the sufferer in every in* stance. About two months ago, a negro man aoiucted a white girl, only 12 years old, from tier parents in Mecklenburg county, N. C., Drought her over into South Carolina and married her. Her parents fiuding out where ,hey were in this State, sent an officer and bad them arrested and the man put in the Charlotte jail. ^ Now, Mr. Speaker, if North Carolina has i right to do such things, surely South Carolina has a right to enact such laws as will protect her own society; and the good people if my section of the State, both white and 1 black, demand this protection. I hope the bill will pass. * Mr. Johnstone opposed the passage of the bill. If, he said, there ever was a time >vhen we should be careful in our action, it was now. We have but lately passed from oppression and a demoralized condition of public seoti-. ment, from a condition of which we still' ihudder to think. We should now carefully consider where we are and whither we are drifting. A late case carried to the Supreme Court of the United States for investigation, shows that a constitutional principle is involved. The parties who carried it there were not Virginians or parties interested in the question, but a Northern firm of attorneys. This shows the condition of public sentiment at the North in relation to it. The uses to * which the passage of an act^of this sort might ; be put in the next election, are patent to all * and of sufficient magnitude to warn us to pause and consider. The fact that the question is now undergoing judicial investigation proves that the act may be useless, ana it is scarcely wise to legislate' in the face of litigation. Mr. Murray?It is- expected that this bill should pass; it is right in itself, and the outddo world would rMnwt us for doill? what WOS right Mr. J. J. Hemphill?I oppose the passage of the bill at this time od the ground that its \ constitutionality has been seriously questioned by lawyers of eminence, and a law of similar import as this, enacted in the State of Virginia, is now undergoing examination in the Supreme Court of the United States. The question of its constitutionality.has been there made, and the decision may be looked out For soon. I think it, therefore, unwise to pass in act which it is gravely questioned whether we have the authority to do, and especially when we have notice that the question here nade was undergoing judicial investigation. [n addition to the above objections, the wis* lorn of the measure at preseut, in a political point of view, may well be questioned, but, whether wise or not, it is clearly inexpedient 0 pass a law which might be injurious in its. t : fleets, politically, and have it overulled by 1 court, and thus run the risk of all its disaa* vantages and possibly reap no benefits; I hintc aeiay win doe injure us, as uijr ibii.u iu he white race forbids me believing that they vill ever intermarry to any appreciative ex- / ent with the blacks. / The House refused to strike out th'e enact- -S ng clause by a vote 22 to 87. * / A bill td provide artificial legs for citizens/ >f the State who lost their legs during roilita/ y service in the years 1861,1862,1863,18<pl ind 1865, was ordered to be laid on the table. / J Thursday, Decern beiv'4. 1 In the Senate, Mr. Duncan presented^ bill o repeal an act for utilizing convict labor.' Mr. Bradley presented a concurrent resolution o extend the time for the payment op taxes and o refund penalty for fifteen days from passage >f the resolution. Adopted. / The bill to authorize the Supreme Court to adnit John S. Wilson to practice law without the eqnisite two years' previous study, passed to its bird reading. / ' The joint resolution to pay the claims of cerain county auditors, passed to' a third reading. In the House, Mr. Oonzales introduced a Dill o recall all convicts now hired out, and to estabiah a system of internal improvements and to letermine the manner of the same. The committee on railroads made a favorable eport on a bill to require railroads to furnish con- ^ ignees an itemized statement of freight charges, nd requiring them to settle according to the bill f lading. The committee on the penitentiary made a fa- .. orable report en concurrent resolution (from the ^ leriate) relative to alleged cruelty to leased con- . lets, which was considered immediately and iniinimously agreed to. The committee on agriculture recommended tie extension of the stock law to all counties, the elegates from which desired it. Report adopted. The medical committee reported back the bill eiative to patent medicines withont amendment. The special order, Mr. Britton's bill, to prevent tie carrying of concealed weapons, came np for onsideration. Mr. Blue moved tostrikeonttbeenactingclanse. Ir. Britton opposed this in.an earnest ana effective speech, urging the many evils springing from tie practice, and necessity for vigorous legislation gainst it. Mr. Dargan.said that the practice referred to ras an evil no one conld deny, bntall evils could . ot be legislated against. No legislation conld revent the carrying of weapons any more than /vnuifi nrArAnt lvtno'nr Anfnrcs nersonal cleanli- , ess. Legislation could not reach it. How was ; to be done? Citizens could not be held liable } search in the streets. The practice had grown rom the war, and the chaotic condition of affairs ince, and was diminishing steadily with the adance of civilization. Mr. Earle also opposed the bill in a brief speech n much the same grounds. Mr. Walker opposed le bill also, on the ground that in many portions f the country weapons were necessary for the elf-protection of citizens traveling on roads. He [>uld not endorse such a bill until an efficient tate and county police was organized. The cities rere sufficiently protected by legislative enact:ents and local ordinances. Representative T. !. Millert of Beftufort, favored the bill. He, for ne, always felt safe everywhere, although a Reublican. He knew of no necessity for the carping of weapons by anybody, under the existlg state of affai rs. Mr. John C. Seegers hoped the bill would pass, f such a law had been passed fifty years ago, noody would carry concealed weapons now. Mr. Hamer favored the bill, but moved to lay on the table for consideration in connection rith another of similar import Agreed to. The bill to prevent and punish thjTV^ ^arry? - I