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Jmtraps and .farts. ! - .... ________ ^ ? Congress is beginning to talk about ad- f journment, and the date usually predicted for i m the realization of this blessing to the country j * is from the tenth to the twentieth of July, j \ The country will be delighted when the session j of the present Congress ends. ? At Danville, Illinois, on the 22nd instant, j Allie Mills, aged fourteen years, Mary Oglie, aged seventeen, ami Mary Jones, aged twelve, committed suicide by taking arsenic. Allie Mills gave as her reason that her father livetl . with a shameless woman, Miss Oglie's reason wjis that she was an orphan, and Mary Jones took the drug because the others did. ? Lawyer Polk was fined $20 for contempt of Court at "Winterset, Iowa, the alternative being twenty days' imprisonment. He had no money, and his fellow members of the bar raised the amount. "My gratitude is bounu- r less, dear friends," said he; "I haven't had twenty dollars in my pocket before for twenty years. I shall keep it there, with your kind permission," and he went joyfully to jail. ? Labor is very scarce in the Piedmont re- i gion of Virginia, and but for the substitution of labor-saving machinery it would be imi>os- ( sible to secure the heavy crop of wheat in that ( section now ready for harvesting. Many col- 1 ored men are reported to have left for Pitts- j burg, Pa., where they find work in the rnanu- j facturing establishments. Mahone's reform . movement does not seem to be salutary. ? The display in Baltimore, on the 21st, on . the occasion of the Grand Army of the Republic gathering was a grand affair. Over 20,000 * men were in the line of the procession and the t display of decoration on the buildings was pro- j fuse. President Arthur, Secretaries Lincoln, ( Howe and Chandler, General Sherman and a . host of minor officials from Washington were ' present. The day was fine and nothing occurred to mar the general enjoyment. ( ? Michael Davitt, the Irish agitator, has ar- 1 rived at New York, but his appearance in 1 America does not seem to create much enthu - 1 siasm. lie spoke in Jersey City last Friday ] night, and alluding to this iutended speech lie , remarked on Friday : "I intend to-night to i answer once for all the charges brought against me, and if after this they are again repeated 1 1 shall resign ray position in the Land League 1 and return at once to Ireland." 1 ? The Louisiana Legislature has passed a s gener.il law authorizing the consolidation of | railroad companies in that State, also the con- , solidation of railroad companies of that State , with companies of other States. It is under stood tliat tins law was irameu to eimuie tuo lines recently purchased by R. T. Wilson & 1 Co., of New York running from Xew Orleans ! to Memphis on the East side of the Mississippi River to consolidate, and under itthe consoli- ( dation of these lines will be at once perfected. ? A sort of new departure is taking place in j the Mormon doctrines of the survival of the , fittest. In future all the females, spiritual and ' corpotal, are to be "of the elect most beauti- 1 ful in body and mind." A deputation, not of < elders but of "electors," is now ;n England < picking out the prettiest girls given to the j fleshy school of religion, and they are many. , Some exquisitely beautiful girls are enrolled ' for Utah. Feeble faith is uot profitable with ' the Mormons in England. ? The funeral took place at Alexandria, Va., 1 on Wednesday of last week of Col. William R. ] McLean, who had the singular fortune to own i and reside iq>oii the fields of Bull Run and Aj>- j pomattox when the two armies mec at these ( places at the beginning and end of the war. After Bull Run, anticipating continued hos- ; tilities in that neighborhood, he bought a farm 1 near the Appomattox River, to which he re- 1 moved his family It was on this farm that i General Lee completed the formal act of sur- ; render. J ? At the funeral of the four children in Chi- } cago who were murdered by their mother the crowd was immense, all anxious to get inside. Some one suggested as the father did not have money to defray the burial expenses, to oi>en the door and invite the mob to fall into line and view the liodies for ten cents. The crowd 1 assented with an eagerness that was painful, 1 and two men stood at the door taking the | dimes for more than an hour. The collection amounted to ?80, and one of the men who ^ suggested the plan remarked, "a respectable funeral can now be gotten up for all of them. 1 without applying to their rich relations." 3 Chicago is prolific in novelties. ? The postal authorities have made arrangements with the Richmond and Danville Rail- 1 road Company, to have the fast mail trains, ; which were discontinued last February, put ( back on the road and in a few days the first trip . under the new arrangement will be made. The fast mail train coining South, will leave Wash- ( ington City at one o'clock in the day time and ( arrive at Charlotte about 11.30 o'clock that t night, running at an average speed of 35 miles , an hour. Between Danville and Charlotte on- t l.. ft/mo Tt-ill niii/la 'if Cifonslinrn JLIIO k J J vnv OtV'Jl-'O If 111 l/V IIIIIUV l?v | Salisbury. The postal authorities have always |( favored the Richmond and Danville Road as ( the best line for a. fast Southern mail and have 1 agreed to pay a price that will justify the com- j puny in running these extra trains. A ? Two important reforms in the rates of postage have been brought forward in Con- , gress. It is proposed to reduce the charge on ' letters from three to two cents, and a bill to abolish the ]>ostage on second class mail mat- ; ter? newspai>ers and periodicals?has been in- ( troduced into the House. These are advan- * tages promised to the people ;is a result of rid- t ding the sendee of the star route jobbers. * For years every person who used the mails was made to pay tribute to these plunderers in the 1 form of unnecessarily high rates of postage. > A material reduction is now practicable, chiefly in consequence of the enormous saving in ]>ostal expenditures that has been effected J since Brady was ousted from the department 1 and the shameful jobbery of the corrupt ring ^ of contractors stopped. ? The famine in Patrick county, Va., is dis- c tressing. The number of sufferers is estimated at 5,000 to 8,000. A dispatch from Dan- ' ville says : "A few days since, when a few 1 wagon loads of corn reached Patrick county, 1 and were being distributed, women and chil- I dren when they received their i>ortion would l thrust their hands in the bags and eat the dry t corn to relieve their hunger, not being able to , wait to have it ground and cooked. Two families, known to be in past days well-to-do, have 11 been existing for weeks on wheat-bran alone, j t Large families go for days without a morsel of i c bread, and a ride along any road in the coun- j c ty will show travelers hundreds of i>oor ]>eople I ? 1 ....... r.f ! e nuusc >><111, I'llllllCU K1WO oiiun nut; mint/ ut ; food. Deaths have occurred, possibly not j s from actual starvation, but through disease I s brought on by hunger." | a ?The New York Court of Apjjeals has re-1 e cently passed upon the question whether drunk- c enuess can be pleaded as a defence to a charge of murder. It was claimed by the counsel for a condemned murderer that his client was the victim of an appetite for drink which amount- e ed to a disease that destroyed his will-power 1t and rendered him legally irresponsible, as in i the case of insanity. A new trial was there- j1 fore asked, because the court below had re- j 1 fused to charge the jury that the accused was j a not responsible if the crime had been commit- n ted when he was the victim of such disease, or j, if committed while he was drunk. The Court t of Appeals refuses to recognize drunkenness as I any excuse for crime. It holds that not even e frenzy or mental alienation caused by drink t can exempt a person accused of murder from s criminal responsibility. If a man voluntarily j j gets drunk, and commits a crime while in that' r condition, he must answer for the consequence !, of his acts. . 1 A vomofl-nVxlo fi/lol WUVO CtUOnf flip ]jll?*P ; XX 1 tPHKfti I\clk/lty 11U(U IT ? f V M v I'K, vv ?.?.V front at Cleveland, Ohio, last Friday morning, j The wave was about two miles wide and elev-. a en feet higher than the surface of the lake, t It came in the wake of a dense angry-looking I black and gray cloud which moved sullenly c from the northward over the city. There was c no rain nor wind at the lake shore, but a brisk rain fell in some parts of the city and the wind * blew fiercely south of town. Vessels parted l1 their lines at the mouth of the river and the t piers and docks were submerged to the depth j of four feet in some places. Hundreds of fish v were cast ashore. The fires in the Lake Erie Rolling Mills on the river beach were put out. s A scow loaded with sand lying at the break- J water was landed high and dry on shore. A li section of railway near Union depot was ri{>- o ped up, and numerous switch shanties and small buildings were overturned or moved about. Some iron rails twenty-eight feet long, t piled near the depot, were lifted up and scat- j tered in every direction. Huge logs were washed ashore. A life-saving station was badly wrecked and various other damage was done. The wave lasted only about one min- c Ute. Several parties who were fishing in skiffs r eport that there was a sudden rise in the waer and a violent commotion like a whirlpool, The skiffs, singular to say, weathered the itorm without accident. The damage to proptrty on shore is roughly estimated at ?30,000. $he ferhiUc (inquirer. YORK VILL15* S. C.s rHURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 29, 1882 THE APPROACHING CANVASS. The recent letter of Senator Hampton on -he political situation, the material portion )f which we published last week, has received extensive publicity throughout the State, and iKe every uung maw eui<tii<iir? mun mo .-Minacious mind, the subject matter of the letter s well worth the attentive consideration of ;he iKiople. He says "the perils that surround is now are nearly, if not quite, as great as ;hey were in 1S70, and the incentives to united iction are just as urgent.'" There is no loubt but this is true; and as he hints, "our present dangers spring not from the strength )f our opponents, but from divisions, jealousies ind dissension among ourselves." The ques;ion arises, IIow shall these dan gel's be avert?d ? One plan proposed is for the people to igain unite upon Hampton for Governor and et him lead them on to a brilliant victory, as le did in 1870. It was mainly to decline this mnor that impelled the Senator to write his ecent letter. lie wishes to retire to private ife, but yet will respond to any eall the people may make upon him. We know that his nagnetic influence would unite the people Tom the mountains to the seaboard, and if it riiall be deemed necessary for him to again near aloft the banner of the people, none would support him more heartily than we: but is the emergency so great as to demand ;he resignation of a Senator, already surfeited with public life, to again guide the ship of State V We would by no means disparage the claims :>r doubt the ability of several distinguished gentlemen whose names have been mentioned in connection with the Governorship of the State ; and we place the name of Hampton preeminently at the head of the list. But conceding his desire to retire to private life, and r?>cHnty iilimit, for one of eoual ability* in all """""S ? ? the requirements for conducting a brilliant and successful canvass, there is none who could better supply the place of the hero of 1870, than Judge J. S. Cothran, of Abbeville. A man of rare intellectual gifts ; a captivating public speaker; of courtly presence, but a man of the people ; recognizing the claims of every citizen, and with a firmness of purpose to execute the laws faithfully and impartially to all alike ; possessing in an unbounded degree the confidence of the people, his entrance upon the canvass jus the standard-bearer of Honest Government as exemplified by South Carolina Democracy, would silence all discordant notes, unite the people as one man, and gain a victory over Radicalism second only to the grand results of 1876. HARVEST TIIA$KS?lYINtt. It has been mentioned in these columns that the good people of a portion of Abbeville county propose to hold a Harvest Thanksgiving on the Fourth of July proximo, (Tuesday next). \fe do not know what particular ceremonies they intend to use on that occasion ; but their purpose suggests a solemn duty to the Godfearing people of York, which, we trust, they ivill be, in no wise, backward to i>erform. Just one year ago we realized that the liarrest had failed, and that food for both man uid beast was insufficient to carry us to another crop. While this gloomy prospect opened ;o us, the assassin's hand nipped in the bud )ur hopes of national good feeling and politi;al i>eaee. The burning heat of summer and :he failure of the "latter rains?' parched the neadows, destroyed the pastures, and cut ihort the staple crop upon which all depenlence was placed for future sustenance. Many )f our good citizens, discouraged by the outook, which winter presented, gathered up their emaining substance and moved to more favored lands. Now the harvest is over and is found to be tbundant beyond the most extravagant expecation ; the fruit trees are bending with their veight of luscious offerings ; our uplands are u.-itiinii with flip vpnlnvH nf mowing cotton. md our valleys stand thick with luxuriant lorn. Shall we be dumb in the presence of liese undeserved blessings ? Shall we not at her go up to the sanctuary of the Lord and vith glowing hearts "praise Him From whom all blessings flow?" ind what day could be more appropriately seeded for praise and thanksgiving than the lay of our national jubilee ? We, therefore, respectfully and earnestly recommend the good people of York county to tssemble at their usual places of Worship, at Oi o'clock A. M., next Tuesday, to render raise and thanksgivings to God for all his lessings, and to implore the continuance of lis mercies to us. And let us not go with mpty hands. Remembering that he loves leeds of mercy more than sacrifice, let us each rovide a thank-offering from the ample store lie harvest brings. A bushel or two of wheat >r oats, or a dollar or two which the prospect f abundance enables us to spare, given by tach one, will aggregate an immense boon to ome sections of our country where starvation tands as a wolf at the door. The collection md distribution of these offerings may be asily effected through committees or regular church officers. EXIT MACKEY. The long-looked-for letter of ex-Judge Macky, reading himself out of the Democratic par y, lias at last seen the light oi uay through he medium of the Washington licjtublican. The letter is addressed to Senator Hampton, tnd it must be confessed that this latest literiry effort of the political gymnast is a disap ointment to the public, who, however widely hey may differ from the ex-Judge, or howevr much they may deprecate his political ways hat are dark, and tricks that are vain, find ometliing enjoyable in his wit ; and in this nstance, supposing that he would rise to the nagnitude of the occasion, they had reasonaile cause to expect a rollicking letter, aboundng in wit afid all manner of amusing droller-' es, while to the contrary it is rather flat, and .ppears to have been conceived in the vain atempt to find fault where really no fault exists, t is of the Little Jack Horner style of omposition, only in this case the position if Jack is reversed. Just so long as that hisoric personage was favored with plenty of ilum pudding and pie, he was a good little toy ; and he even intimated to his nurse that f, at any time, the premium on his good behaior should be withdrawn, he could not asume any responsibility for the consequences, list so with Judge Mackey. The premium on lis good behavior has been withdrawn. lie is nit of pie, and being no longer privileged to> "Run in his thumb and pull out u plum, And say what a good boy am I," he dire consequences are now upon the public. Ie reads himself out of the party and seeks ither fields and pastures green. Apostasy, such as Judge Mackey's, is easy, ommanding but a low price even on a light narket ; and in due time lie may expect a re ward commensurate with the service performed in the unfolding of his latest phylacterie. If he fails in securing an election to Congress by the very system of suffrage which he essays to condemn, he can lay a more imperative, claim for an executive appointment as a reward for his patriotic and disinterested self immolation on the political altar. 6(J1TEAU*T0 IIA AG. The result of the s|?ecial meeting of the Cabinet last Friday evening to consider the case of Guiteau, was made officially known on Saturday morning by a statement from the attorney-general," that the plea for a respite had been refused. This conclusion was reached on Friday evening, but was withheld from the public in order that it might first be nuide known to the prisoner. The attorney-general, to whom all appeals and petitions presented to the President bearing on this case had been referred, submitted an elaborate report to the Cabinet, reviewing all the i>oiiits presented in favor of a respite, and recommended that it lie not granted, on the ground that the sanity of the prisoner had been fully established at the trial. The report was generally discussed and unanimously approved by the Cabinet, all the members of which were present. An understanding was reached as above stated. The Rev. W. \V. Hicks called on the President and attorney-general Friday evening to learn the result of tlie meeting, but was informed that nothing could he divulged on the subject till the next morning. Similar efforts on the part of Mr. Reed, Guiteau's counsel ..i v?:i. 1 mi.? /...II were illhU UUllIfM*. Jilt: JVt:v. xui. uit:i\o tailed upon the attorney-general Saturday morn-, ing, by appointment, and was informed that the Cabinet had decided not to interfere with the execution of Guiteau's sentence. Mr. Hicks thereupon drove to the district jail and informed Guiteau of the decision. Guiteau has sent the following message to his spiritual adviser, lie v. Mr. Hicks: uGo and see Arthur and shake your fist in his face. Tell him I made him President by my inspiration and lie must give me an unconditional pardon, and if hedoes not God Almighty will blast him forever. 1 tell you, brother Hicks, I am God's man, and God takes care of his own." Letters have been received by Mr. Chas. II. Reed and others interested in Guiteau's case from Geo. Seoville, who is now in Chicago. In these letters Seoville announces that his wife has left Cleveland for the East and he expresses grave apprehensions as to her sanity. He fears that she contemplates attemping to kill her child and commit suicide on the day of Guiteau's execution. Seoville earnestly urges her friends in the East to keep a close watch upon her movements. The attorney-general has issued instructions to the marshals of the district and wardens of the jail to keep Guiteau in strict confinement till the day set for his execution, and to allow no one except his spiritual adviser, his physician and the officers of the jail to communi caie wiin uie prisoner. Guiteau's death warrant was signed by Clerk Meigs, of the Criminal Court, Monday morning. The seal of the court was attached, and the document was immediately forwarded to Warden Crocker at the District jail. It will be re-'l to the prisoner just before his execution. POLITICAL NOTES. ? Arthur's ambition is said to be more social than political. lie is looking out for a second term of matrimony. ? The West is demanding that a Democratic candidate for President be taken from that section for the campaign of 1884. ? The name of Major John W. Daniels, the orator of King's Mountain, is coming to the front in Virginia, as a candidate for Congressman at large. ? The New York Herald significantly observes that the Republicans are always quarreling, but they have the knack of making up their quarrels before election day. ? The Arkansas Greenback convention met at Little Rock, 011 the 20th instant. There was a small attendance, but harmony prevailed. R. K. Garland, brother of Senator Garland, was nominated for Governor. ? At a mass-meeting of the Democrats of Richmond county, Georgia, held in Augusta, hist Saturday, resolutions were adopted endorsing Alexander II. Stevens for Governor and James C. Black for Congress from the Eighth District. ? Democratic politicians in New York State have 110 candidate for Governor, but think a man can be nominated who will bring the factions together, regardless of any programme the managers may make for running the Convention. ? The Philadelphia Record says a rumor is afloat that Mr. Dallas Saunders, a well-known Democrat, of that city, has gone over to the Republican party. Mr. Saunders recently as-? 1 ' . 11 - --C LI xi. n .1! sisteu 111 me prosecution ui uw ouuui v>uuiiiia election officers before Judge Bond, for which service, it is said, lie received 87,500, although all the efforts to convict were unsuccessful. ? The XtUionul Republican, the Washington organ of the Republican party, compliments the North Carolina Republican Convention, which met on Wednesday of last week, by saying "it adopted ringing resolutions in support and eulogy of the Arthur administration. The Southern Republicans and Liberals are very greatly encouraged by the appreciation shown by the President of the Southern political situation, and will shake Bourbondom to its foundation this summer and fall." ? The platform of the California Democracy thanks the Democrats for their struggle against Chinese immigration; appreciates the movement of the Eastern workingmen, notably in Pennsylvania, against moneyed corporations ; denounces the Chinese as an unmasked curse and an obstacle to progress, and demands that the next National Democratic Convention shall declare for the removal of every Mongolian in tiie country ; demands the material reduction of railroad fares, and legislation which shall tax railroads on full assessments. Col. Cash again on the Rampage.?We take the following from the Columbia corresIHUidence of the News and Courier of the 21st: On last Saturday Col. Cash went to Cheraw, and in company with Mr. Wells went to the store of Malloy. On reaching the store Col. Cash went up to Capt. Malloy, who was present, and asked him if he said that Col. Blair, of Kershaw, was no better than Whittemore. Malloy replied that he had said so ; wherupon Col. Cash called him a damned liar. Malloy at once struck Cash, and Cash falling over a plough that was standing in the store, Malloy sprang 011 top of him. Several blows were struck bv each of the parties, but friends interfered and they were separated. On Sunday as the story goes, Mr. W. B. Cash, Cash's son went to Cheraw, carrying with him a challenge to fight a duel from his father to Capt. Malloy. Capt. Malloy declined to receive the challenge 011 the ground that the day was Sunday and not the proper time for making arrangements for a hostile meeting. On Monday Col. Cash and his son went to Cheraw, young Cash on horseback and Col. Cash 011 the train. When the train reached Cheraw Col. Cash was arrested as soon as he ^ " 4 - * r i t .i' got on xlie irain, ana was wiKeu ucuuro <t xn.u Justice"who required him to give a bond of one thousand dollars to keep the peace. Through the influence of his counsel, Gen. IV. L. T. Prince, the amount of bond was afterward reduced to four hundred dollars. The "bond was given by Colonel Cash in this amount, and he returned to his home at Cash's Depot in the afternoon. Efforts were made to arrest young Cash, but the officers were eluded, and up to the time of the last accounts he had not been brought before the magistrate. An effort was made by the Rev. E. II. Buist to settle the dilliculty between Col. Cash andCapt. Malloy, but without success. A great deal of excitement prevails in Cheraw over the dilliculty, and unfortunate consequences are expected to result from it. / XjOCJLZj AFFAIRS, re Si' NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. tl J. A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?9. D. ri Harron, Applicant?John Barron, deceased. W. N. Klder, Principal?School Notice. John R. Ashe?Fruit Jars. at J. M. Adams?Now Goods?Glass Fruit Jara?To- a, bncco, Snuff? Butcher Knives? House Fur- , nisliing Hardware?Kerosine Oil. 01 Withers Adickes?To-ArriveTliis Week. fi; Enquirer Office?Wanted. it THE FOURTH. HI The stores and business houses of Vorkville Ri will lie closed on Tuesday next, the Fourth of tj July. ^ ill PREACH 1NG*AT CLOVER. We are requested to announce that Rev. W. L. Brown, of the Baptist Church, will preach at Clover on Saturday night next. ol PERSONAL* MENTION. ' We were pleased to receive a call from Mr. Lawson P. Erwin, editor of the Rutherford- C( S6 ton (X. C.) Banner, who visited Yorkville 011 business last Thursday. u BICYCLE ACCIDENT. ei Oji Wednesday evening of last week while fe Mr. Mclver Law was practicing with his hi- <>< ; cycle on the pavement lie attempted to turn ii out to the street to avoid some ladies, when u his machine careened, throwing him with such n violence as to break one I>one of the right forearm. B ? ? regis ntfrion. -vl The aggregate number of registered voters s' in York county, to this date is 4,903. Voters are reminded that after the first Monday in July the supervisors wifi commence the re- ^ , vision of the lists, arid make such corrections ^ as may appear necessary, and also hear and * determine all contested cases. All who have ^ not yet registered, are urged to come forward a and register before the revision begins. 0 d THANKSGIVING SERVICE. Conformably to the suggestions advanced in another column upon the aliove subject, the dilterent congregations of the town, as also ^ all others not identified with the church, are 0 requested to meet in the Presbyterian church } at 9 o'clock A. M., next Tuesday, the 4th " proximo, when appropriate thanksgiving services will be conducted by those of the local 11 clergy who are in town on that day. ^ The Zion and Methodist Episcopal (colored) 11 churches will also unite in the church of the f1 latter, on the same day, for the purpose of 11 conducting thanksgiving service. 51 from iilack'k station. t| Our Black's Station corresjMmdent speaks in n glowing terms of the abundant yield of the v wheat and oat crops in that section. He men- g tions that I)r. John G. Black raised 05 bushels j( of oats to the acre ; Win. II. Goforth, from 34 j bushels of wheat sown, thrashed 70 bushels ; ^ Felix Dover thrashed 100 bushels from 54 bushels sown, and the general average is esti- j( mated at ten bushels to one of wheat sown, while the yield of oats will be even larger. g On Monday last, lightning struck in the garden of Dr. G. II Ileatwoule, severely shocking his daughter, Miss Georgia. A NEW COLUMBIA PAPER. n We have received the first number of a new 1 semi-weekly paper, the Eaylc, which made its S appearance in Columbia last Saturday. The J Eayle is published by the "Eagle Publishing I ? ' ' i *- - - t ii.^i company," tnougn 11 is unnersioou uuu iur. e Julian A. Selby, so long and favorably known t as the publisher of the Columbia Phtenix, is at J the helm of this new journalistic enterprise. J The Eatjh announces itself to be Democratic, I and a specialty with it will be the publication f< of the roster of South Carolina soldiers in the J late civil war. The number before us contains the rolls of companies B, C and D of the Sev- d enteenth Regiment S. C. V. o CHURCH NQTICKS. 11 Presbyterian?Rev. T; R. English, Pastor. c Services at the usual hour in the forenoon. P At Ri P. M., a missionary address will be de- c livered by Rev. II. C. Dubose, missionary to ^ China. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks, 1 Pastor. Services at Philadelphia Church in si the forenoon ; at Yorkville in the evening. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. j Lathan, Pastor. Services at 10] A. M. Sunday-school at i) A. M. a Baptist?Rev. W. L. Brown, Pastor. Ser- ti vices at Union Church at 11 A. M. ; at the t' church in Yorkville at 8.15 P. M. ^ SENATOR IIART. C The Winnsboro News pays the following de- ei served compliment to York county's new Sen- S( ator: s' The Democracy of York have done well in the election of Major James F. Hart as State J Senator from that county. Major Hart made j. a brilliant record as a Confederate ollicer, and since the war he has attained a high position as a lawyer and as a citizen. lie has worked hard for the Democracy of his county, and they could scarcely have found one on whom t the rewards of public life could have been more ? worthily bestowed. Major Hart will be an acquisition to the Senate, and will do honor > alike to the State and to the constituency he represents. i nr. i.ui i uii i.nut-. p( Our information from various sections of the county, is to the effect that cotton is more w promising than it bid fair to be earlier in the \ season. The warm weather is bringing it for- ^ ward rapidly. On Monday morning blooms were reported to us as having made their appearance, the preceding day, on Mr. B. Prank Ilawlinson's plantation, OJ miles south-east of 01 town ; but 011 Monday evening we received a M bloom plucked on Saturday, 011 Mr. John ^ Smith's plantation on Broad River. On Tues- lr day we received three blooms, taken on Mon- . day?one from the plantation of J. C. Gwin Jl cultivated by Ed. Miller, one from the plantation of John P. Hood, cultivated by Baker. Russell, and one from the plantation of J. S. Moss, cultivated by Sumter Robinson. ' J w A YOKKVILLK l.ADV ABROAD. is The Laurensville Ilcrald pays a high com- r? pliment to Miss Sue F. Lbwry, of this place, ^ who has had charge of the music department [j of Laurensville Female College, during the w past session, and in another paragraph thus w notes her departure from that town: hi Miss Lowry, who presided so successfully id over the Music Department of our Female al College the past sess'on, left for her home in tli York, 011 Tuesday last, perhaps not to return, te This is to be regretted, as she was held in the II highest esteem by all who knew her?by her vi scholars, and all her associates of the College, w and indeed was a general favorite. And she eil was a "bright particular"?an especial favor- ye ite with some, we learn, who refuse to be com- t'o forted, now that she is gone. But joking so aside, {if it is a joke) it is hoped she may be th M>/1nnuil fn ?'??f urn ;? ; 1IIU lu A C/tUl at. - 7 - Cf? CUAIlLESrO.N WEEKLY NEWS. |,( "The Euttiw Cadet," or "Under the Xew rn Flag" is the title of a serial story, the pub- a lication of which will begin in The Weekly lie News of July o, and be continued from week cn to week until concluded. The author is Mr. I'51 J. "VVitherspoon Ervin, whose Bride of St. ! Z David's was so well received by the readers of j y'j The Weekly Xetrs. This story made his name ! mi familiar in every household of the State and : aii gave him rank as one of our purest and most j K' charming writers of fiction, one on whom j the mantle of the lamented Simms seems to 1 have fallen. The Eutaw Cadet was originally | pipublished, under another title, in the York- j in ville ExQU.iiKit, about fifteen years ago, but j V1 it had recently been re-written and improved, i . with a view to publication in book form, when I the author, yielding to solicitations and impelled by a praise worthy desire to build up j w< periodical literature in his native State, con- j ki sented to dispose of it to The Weekly News, j th Mr. Ervin's story will lie followed by a thril-; p ling romance from the pen of an accomplish-! t.j, ed South Carolina lady, who under the unn He ' 0(1 plume of Rose Ashleigh, has achieved a wide he putation and of whom the New York Star Lys "Rose Ashleigh, of South Carolina is \ le coming novelist of the South." Miss Aldch's story is entitled "77ie Cavalier and Pa- j tan, or Love and LoyaltyP The scene opens j ; the close of a forgery trial in Xew York, j id is immediately transferred to the battlefield ; Trevilian's Station, where the Southern trees were so gloriously victorious, and thus runs from one stirring scene to another 11 til, in the denoument, the power of the two ! reat principles and the character of the two ' q>es of man embodied in the title are fully : lustrated. A STRING OF ACCIDKISTS. On the 20th instant, Trial Justice Nunnery, Jting as coroner, held an inquest 011 the body I a negro, name unknown, who was killed by dug run over by a freight train of the C. C. A. Railroad near Smith's Turnout, in this lunty. The facts as developed at the inquest, :em to bo that the deceased, who, it was ibsequently learned was from Winiisboro, as either working his way as brakeman or ideavoriiig to steal a ride 011 the train, and (11 from the top of a car, the train passing ver his body, badly mangling it and causing istant death. The accident occurred after ight and was not discovered by those collected with the train on which he was riding. Last Friday, on the plantation of Walker lurris, in Bullock's Creek township, a threeear old child of Moses Burris, colored, was Tuck by lightning and instantly killed. On the same plantation, and 011 the same ay, a negro boy about IS years old, named Jug, while fooling with an old pistol, accientally shot and killed his sister, aged 10 or 7 years. The case was thoroughly investiga?d by Coroner Caldwell and a jury of inquest, nd all the facts elicited confirmed the theory f accidental shooting, and a verdict wasrrenered accordingly. CIRCUIT COURT. The June term of tiie Circuit Court of rork county was convened promptly at 10 'clock A. M., last Monday, his honor Judge Wallace on the bench, Mr. Solicitor Gaston 1 his accustomed seat, the Clerk at his desk, lie Sheriff at his post of duty, an eminent rray of legal talent eager for business, and Ir. Crier Lewis at the outer wall, ready to lake any proclamation that might be ordered rom within. The attendance of those not iterested in the proceedings was not so large s usual. The full panel of grand jurors answered to lieir names as follows: J. A. Watson, foreiii.ii; John A. IJyers, ,J. A. Stewart, Wm. Vhyte, G. S. Cobb, Jordan Meacham, J. L. tarr, It. A. Steele, S. W. Jackson, lien. Galway, li. J. Gould, J. B. Neeley, M. L. Ross, tennis Morgan,. W. S. Wilkerson, J. M. Kobison, James M. Biggers, Anthony Clinton, llis Honor declined to charge the grand my formally, assuming that they had been reviously instructed as to their duties. The olieitor was ready with a number of indictments which were given to the grand jury nd they immediately retired to their room. The following petit jurors answered to their ames: M. R. Nichols, J. W. Thomson, W. ?S. Jyers, Andrew Black, Noah Gaston, I). J. mith, J. T. Whitesides, Berry Bates, Alfred loore, J. R. London, J. A. Glenn, W. B. )rennan, WylieDavie, P. K. Mull, Mack Few11, B. 1). Springs, W. A. Milling, D. J. Stan011, Frank Nelson, J. Randolph Wallace, J. L Roberts, J. E. Lowry, W. M. Whitesides, olm Whisonant, I). J. Good, J. S. Gourley, i. P. Love, I. Milton Wallace, E. A. Craword, Scott Fee, W. S. Belk, S. II. Epps, W. L. Barron, C. W. Hope, W. P. Ilobbs. The grand jury acted promptly on the inictments placed in their hands, and at 1 'clock the Solicitor announcing that he would ave nothing more for them, they were disharged, without the formality of the special resentment which they usually make at the lose of their service. The following cases were disposed of on londay: State vs. Henderson Clark, colored; larceny, 'rosecutor?Z. 1). Boyd. Pleaded guilty and entenced to the penitiary for one year. State vs. Mack Smith, colored; burglary, 'rosecutor?Jos. D. Boyd. Mr. Bell for the efence. Verdict, not guilty. State vs. Sylvan us Gates, colored. Assault nd battery with intent to ravish. Prosecur>r?S. B. McCully. Pleaded guilty. SenKiiced to the penitentiary for a term of twenty ears. State vs. Burt Moore and James Black, olored ; house breaking and larceny. Proseutor?Robert L. Love. Pleaded guilty, and intenced to one year and three months re[icctively in the penitentiary. State vs. Peter Eaves, colored; carrying oncealed weapons. Prosecutor?T. C. Beckam. Verdict, guilty. Sentenced to the pen;entiary for three months. State vs. George McLean ; retailing withut a license. Continued. State vs. Newton Hemphill, alias Little rp.wton Hemphill; retailing without a license. fol. prossed. .State vs. Elias Falls; obstructing })iiblic )ad. Continued. State vs. Win. II. White; breach of trust 'ith fraudulent intent. Continued. On Tuesday the following cases were disosed of : State vs. Jas. B. Castles ; breach of trust ith fraudulent intent. Prosecutor?J. N. [cDill. Messrs. Ilart & Hart and T. J. lackey, Esq., for defence. Verdict, guilty, lotion for new trial argued, but decision of ie Court not rendered at the time we go to ress. State vs. Wesley Robins, colored ; larceny f live stock. Prosecutor?J. S. Stevenson, [r. Jenkins for the defence. Verdict, guilty, entenced to the penitentiary for twelve lonths. This ended the Sessions docket and the petit irors were discharged. MERE-MENTION. Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky, has prossed Qonversion, and on last Sunday united ith the Protestant Episcopal Church in Louville. Reports from Denver, Col., repisent the Indians as being troublesome in iat locality. The army worm, which is ported to have been very devastating in porous of Ohio and Kentucky, is moving southard. The first lot of this year's crop of heat, raised in Virginia, was sold in Petersirg last Friday, at SI.50 per bushel. ? Present Porcher, of the South Carolina HistoricSociety, claims that Whitney did not invent ie cotton gin, after all. He has found a letr-patent granted by Gen. Washington to ogden Holmes, of Georgia, for a similar dece, which he produced in 17%. The heat crop of Tennessee, now about harvest1, is the best that State has had in ten ars. The total number of emigrants r the fiscal year ending with June, will he mething over eight hundred thousand. Of i ose landed during the last five months only i 500 have come South. The three first holars in the class graduating from West )i?t, this year, were Southerners, as was the an who ltd the graduating class at the Naval cademy. Atlanta, Ga., has 87 licensed pior saloons, over the counters of which, ac- j n,n r>?4:1 nnn nnn .i vn.ii> I 1UII1? C*.* l/liu I.'UHdl/lttlWlUlby VAjWV/jVV/V/ it JVIU sses. Owing to the large and constantincreasing stock of print cloths, there is a lk of shutting down the mills at Fall River, ass., for a brief period, and thus relieve the arket.- A new railroad, two hundred I id forty miles in length, from Roanoke, Vir- j uia, to Ilagerstown, Maryland, has just been J mpleted. Five important firms of Mos-1 w, have formed a syndicate for the promo- j m of cotton culture in Central Asia. They | opose to engage American experts to super-1 tend the cultivation. A terrible storm ; sited Findlay, 111., last Friday night, and : ree men were killed by lightning. Ad-, ces from the Indian Territory say that small j x is raging with fatal effect among the | eek Indians. Iowa was visited last j . ek by three of the most severe storms ever lown in that State, inflicting a loss of over j ree million dollars, and rendering two thou-1 nd persons homeless. ? Last Friday night, 1 ofessor W. J. Land, the most prominent emist in Georgia, committed suicide in his j ice in Atlanta, by shooting himself in the ad with a revolver. Ilis mind was unsettled. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. tl ? The Spartanburg Democratic Convention ti decided to nominate county oflicers by the 0 primary election plan. | tl ? There are ten prisoners in jail at "Walhalla. . cl Eight of them are United States prisoners, d and two are confined for violating State laws, i' ? The total vote registered in Lancaster P county up to the 20th was 3,015, which is :i within 200 of tht? voting strength of the t< county. ^ ? Tlie cost of the last session of the Court tl in Lancaster county was only 8315.10, or , about twenty cents a minute during the ses- S! sion. |s' ? The Democratic Executive Committee of Edgefield county have adopted resolutions1 _ urging the State Committee to double the rep-; resentation in the State Convention. ! j ? The advisability of issuing bonds where- j i SI with to raise money for the improvement of i the town of Lancaster is being considered by the citizens of that place. ? The misunderstanding between the editors e of the Chester Reporter and the Chester liulle- c tin, through the intervention of mutual friends, ti has been amicably arranged. v ? Mr. T. S. Clayton, Jr., of Anderson, ti sold a five hundred dollar Confederate note r, last week for $30. It was the only note of v that denomination issued by the Confederate t government in lSlil. d ? Mr. Charles 1J. Ilamraett has contracted \ for the sale of his gold mine in Spartanburg e county, including the homestead and about j, 100 acres of land. The price agreed on is * about ?27,500. a ? Hon. Giles J. Patterson has been elected, \ without opposition, as Senator for Chester p county, to serve the unexpired term of Sena- t tor Walker, deceased. Mr. David J. Carter has been elected in Lancaster county, to fill a t legislative vacancy. ? At 5 o'clock last Thursday afternoon the ' Confederate monument in Columbia was jj struck by lightning, and the statue surmount- f iug it shivered.all to pieces." The statue will n be replaced by a new one, steps for securing 1 which the ladies of the Monument Association v are now taking. ? The Governor is receiving from different 8 parts of the State numerous applications for ' appointments to cadetships in the Citadel j Academy. Each county, is entiled to two 1 appointments, and in return for tlieir educa- I tion each beneficiary cadet is required to ' teach for two years in the public schools of 1 the county from which he receives the appoint- J, ment. t ? Gen. W. "W. Ilarllee, of Mai ion, has re- ' eently written a strong letter urging upon the j1 special session of the Legislature to leave the | registration and election law as it now stands, L< and asserting that he can give valid reasons for holding to the opinion that the colored vo- j ting majority in the State is only a little over t 8,QUO, which, with the registration law in t force, preventing illegal voting, he claims can t be neutralized by votes of colored Democrats * and those not entitled to or failing to vote. ? On the 12th instant, says the Edgefield t Advertiser, Dr. J. 11. Dubose, assisted by Dr. ;i L. M. Asbill, extracted a large niinnie ball e from the side of M. B. Asbillf who received 1 the wound during the late war, near Marietta, Jj Ga., about eighteen years since. The ball en- j tered the chest, between the seventh and i eighth ribs, and since gradually made its way down, discharging pus all the while, to the left t iliac region, causing a large abcess in the hyp- t ogastric region, through which, at a distance 1 of four or five inches, it was seized by forceps j and extracted. The patient is doing well, and j will recover. t ? The Edgefield Advertiser of last week j says: "Our June term convened on Monday 1 morning last, Judge Witherspoon presiding. J On Monday afternoon the grand jury were N discharged ; and on Tuesday afternoon the J Sessions Court was brought to a close. All . e> t the more important cases on the docket were v continued until next term; and the two or three cases actually tried were of no earthly a interest to the general public. On Tuesday '' afternoon Judge Witherspoon sentenced two ? negro fellows to the penitentiary, one for six months, and one for three years. The latter of c these, one Silas Bouknisht. had contracted an t unpleasant habit of breaking into the houses I of Mt. "Willing people and stealing their (I goods. The civil court is now in session, but ? will probably adjourn on Thursday. And juries, witnesses aifd people have gone home ^ to house their grain and fight the grass. v ? Of the cotton seed oil mill to be erected in t Chester, the Bulletin says: The entire capi- n tal, $30,000, has been subscribed. A meeting 11 of the stock-holders was held last Friday and * the contract for the erection of the proper j. building was let out. Mr. A. D. Holler, of j Rock Ilill, was awarded the contrct upon a t bid of 85,800 and a force of hands was set to 0 work on Monday. The building is to be a brick structure of three stories and is to be , 100 feet long by 30 feet wide. The first two ^ stories are to be sixteen feet high, and the b third is to twelve feet. Mr. W. J. McDer- I mot, of Memphis, who has the contract to 11 furnish the machinery, subscribed 88,000 to the enterprise, and the balance was made up a in Chester. A forty ton apparatus is to be n put in, and the mills are to be completed by Q the 1st of October, according to contract. L. Applicat ion has been made for a charter, ui>on y the receipt of which, the company will be ti properly organized. !? ? Anderson Singleton, Lucinda Teasdale, j, Abraham Anderson and Boston Singletary, all n colored, were hanged at Kingstree last Friday, tl The first two were convicted of the murder of tl Phoebe Teasdale, the wife of Anderson Single- 0 ton and half sister of Lucinda Teasdale, on the 12th of July last. Singletary and Ander- ., son were convicted of robbery and arson on w the 27th of March last. The execution was d conducted within the jail enclosure, but a 11 crowd of about two thousand persons were in town. There was no disorder and everything *( passed oil quietly. All the prisoners protested their innocence except the woman, who said ]); she killed her sister in self-defense. Singleton |, in his last speech said the rope had been put k around his neck by witchcraft and named a l'j voudou doctor who he said had bewitched him. (:1 The execution occurred at 12 M. All the "j prisoners died easily except Singleton, who S( struggled violently and had to be pushed away c from the scaffold. gi ? A special dispatch to the Charleston Sunday Nam says that a negro excursion was run | In from Lancaster to Chester last Saturday morn- u ing. Everything passed off pleasantly until 'st' the arrival of the train at the Catawba River, jj on its return to Lancaster. Here a certain eJJ number of passengers are allowed to cross the a river at one time. When this number had 1? been completed, Jim Witherspoon, colored, at- ?| tempted to board the Hat, but was informed ^ by the conductor, W. W. Perry, that he must jt wait until the Hat came back. He resisted and m was put olf by Capt. Perry. Witherspoon Cs continued to curse Capt. Perry and to use j C< very indecent language. After landing on the i Lancaster side of the river, Conductor Perry J51 not being present, Dave Morris interfered j 0f in behalf of Perry, at which time Shepard ta Witherspoon, colored, ran up and made sever-I cb ill stabs at Morris, who thereupon drew a! 01 pocket-knife and stabbed Shepard Witherspoon i1)1 through the heart, killing him instantly. ! Morris lids been arrested. jSU1 ? Says the Camden Journal: "A call was JV' paid our otlice a few days ago by one of the | ia most prosperous colored men in Kershaw I wl county?one who owns lands, horses and stock j y;> generally and owes 110 debts?who remarked j1.11 to us that when the stock law was passed he 1 regarded himself as a ruined man, and felt ei] that he would be forced to sell out and leave I en le country; that lie further regarded it as a rick of the Democracy to oppress and crowd ut the poor man and the negro race, but lat at this time so much had his views hanged that he would not for a thousand ullars see it repealed. After its passage he nmediately went to work and fenced in his asture lands with the rails around his farm, ml now lie says in the evening he simply has i go to his enclosure, to look at his hogs, :c., milk the cows, and come home, without le trouble of running all over t he country .) get up his stock. In addition thereto lie lys that he has not lost a cow, hog or sheep 1.0 {V>nf>r>ri tiwin in?:l verv 1111 usual oc urrence, ;is he termed it, and furthermore, iny stock never looked so well as they do ow, and 1 expect to get a finer breed next rinter." This ought to have made him vote lie Democratic ticket next Fall, and we so uggested, but bis reply was, "I will see." JUDGE MA (KEY'S LETTER. The "open letter" addressed by Judge Macky to Senator Hampton sets out by reviewing the anvass of 1871} and the causes that implied he white people and tax-payers of the State to J id themselves of the Radical bondage by which heir substance was stolen and squandered ; eminds Hampton that while his nomination ,'as made ostensibly by a Democratic Convenion, the platform on which he was placed was |^H istinctively Republican ; that 20,000 colored tepublicans cast their ballots for him in that QHj lection ; and while he applauds Hampton ersonally for keeping in good faith his pledges o the colored people, he quotes Sections 20 jj^H ml 00 of the Election law enacted by the last legislature, as showing how the Democrats iave broken the safeguard pledged by Ilampon, and then proceeds as follows : H Did ever a legislative body frame such a Bj remendous piece of enginery for crushing the * B ights of a free citizen ? You will perceive Q hat the managers alone (all Democrats) are B lermitted to speak to the illiterate voter who M resents himself at the poll to cast his ballot B or the candidate of his choice, and they can B oily read to him the names on the boxes. ] Phis gives him "no light, but rather darkness 'isible." i THE VOTER WHO CANNOT READ tands in such case-, so far as is his power to orrectly place his six ballots concerned, irecisely in the position of a blind man who, f the boxes were designated by colors, should e informed that they were painted red, white, uue, green, aim yeiiow resiH-etiveiy, ami uiai/ ie must deposit the red ballot in the red box, fcc., or it would not be counted. The per lexed voter, whose right to vote has been sol mnly certified by the supervisor of registraion stands with his six ballots in his hands, iliable to read the name u]>on any of them, Hid when he asks to be informed which balot he shall place in the box labelled for 'Members of the House of Representatives," kc., the law forbids any one to answer. HERE IS AN* EDUCATIONAL TEST APPLIED n the most odious form, in open defiance of he Constitution of the State, which forbids he General Assembly to prescribe an educaional qualification for voters. There have ?een political exigencies where honorable men lave reconciled it to their conscience to vioate the law of the land, as where a people con-. end for the supremacy of their civilization tnd their rights of property against the threatened rule of an inferior race. In such a suireine emergency I shall answer to the roll:all of my race wherever its camp-fires bum, Hid cheerfully hazard the penalties of violated aw. The present Legislature of South Caroina is, however, the first law-making body THAT IIAS EVER DAREI) TO MAKE he statutes itself the vehicle of fraud. In so loing it has polluted the very fountain of the aw, and sapped the sinews of public order. Jays that enlightened publicist, Helvetius, in lis treatise on Man and his education (vol. 2, p. 158,) "It is not on the truth of a revelation ir the purity of a worship, but solely on the ustice or viciousness of the laws that the virues or the vices of the citizens depend." s ro EXECUTE THIS FRAUD-11EOOTTEN STATUTE vhich violates alike the Constitution of the >tate and every principle of natural justice, hree thousand and four (3,004) managers of lection are appointed, all Democrats, each of vhom takes the following oath : * * * I do solemnly swear that I will upport, protect and defend the Constitution ?f the United States and the Constitution of Jouth Carolina, as ratified by the people on he 10th day of April, 1808, so help me God. Limerick, Ireland, in mournful reminiscence if a great National wrong, which, for nearly wo centuries has clouded the memory of its ier|>etrator with infamy, is termed "The City if the Violated Treaty." This system of or;anized fraud must cause South Carolina to be xecrated by the American people as TIIE LAND OF VIOLATED OATHS. [Miis great crime, to effect which the deadly irus of fraud is made to-circulate through all he veins and arteries of the body politic, caniot be sustained by the plea that it is done to naintain white supremacy in the State. Alhough the colored population exceeds the rhite, according to the late census, by two undred and thirteen thousand (*213,000) souls, 11 a total population of nine hundred and niney-five thousand (005,000), showing a majority f at least forty-two thousand (42,000) colored oters, yet neither as colored citizens nor as lepublicans have they nominated a State tickt since 1870. Our House of Representatives onsists of one hundred and twenty-four memers, and the Senate of thirty-three. In the louse there are, I believe, but nine colored lembers, four of whom WERE COUNTED IN AS DEMOCRATS, nd are generally regarded by their race as the iere servile creatures of their political taskjasters. In the Senate there are but two colred, both Republicans, from the strong colord counties of Beaufort and Georgetown, ,'here the blacks outnumber the whites more han seven to one, and can thus awe the Demcratic managers into making a fair count. 'et even in those counties, the colored people ave generously shared their power with the nspectable whites, without regard to party, in lie filling of county oiliees, and in Georgetown hey elected Mr. Alston, a Liberal Democrat, n their ticket to the Legislature. In a few ther counties they have nominated some few f their number for the smaller local offices nd for the Legislature and Congress, all of horn have been inexorably counted out, uner the general scheme to annul the colored mn's rights of citizenship. THEY STAB IMS CITIZENSHIP i the earth through the shields of two constiutions interposed for its protection?and this, ot to save a civilization, but to aggrandize a arty. A starving, shipwrecked man, obeying is instinct of self-preservation, has been iiown to slaughter and eat his feebler cominion, and moralists excuse the act; but no JA vilized ruler would sanction the feeding of len upon human fiesh where proper food sup- I lies are abundant, in the midst of organized Q iciety. Yet the present government of South arolina has virtually sanctioned almost as t rent j A DEBAUCH OF HUMANITY 1 f establishing fraud as the regular diet of 1 s Democratic adherents, and this not under fl ress of any great overruling necessity to eserve the State from threatened misrule. 1 aving thus stated tiie wrong, I now most irnestly invoke your potent aid to effect H remedy. The ''pledge" that you gave in S >70, when you became the public guarantor fl the Democracy against any "interference fl itli a single right which the colored people" 9 len possessed, is as binding upon you now as was then. In the forum of honor there is ) statute of limitations. In view of South iroliuu's having been allowed two additional jngressmen under the new apportionment, ^ e Legislature will convene in special session i the 27th day of the present month for the irpose of redistricting the State. The lustre your great character must inevitably be rnished if you do not appeal to that body to lange the existing election law by striking it the provisions that effectually SFKAXCHI3E FIFTY THOUSAND COLOUED CITIZENS, id not less than 15,000 whites. If the Deocracy must have easy facilities for the pracje of fraud, let them re-enact the rejiealed w of 1878, under which they held no election. Inch provided for only two boxes, at 200 uds apart, one for the State election proper, id the other for Congressmen and l'residend electors. That law was drawn by me in del' to save the Federal suffrage of the colorcitizens from the general wreck, thus seiring three Congressmen. In a recent letter