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D. 8. HKSDEiwoy. E. P. Hesdeimox. Henderson Brothers, ATT<iKNEV8 AT LAW, AlKEN, S. C. ill practice in the State and ited States Courts for Sr*uth Caro- a. Prompt attention given to coi tions. iir.o. W. Caorr. J. Zed Dcxlap. Croft & Dunlap, Anw.s: vs at Law, Aiken, 8. C. James Aldrich, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Practices in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. P. A. Emanuel, Attorney at Law', Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the State and United States Courts. Special atten tion paid to collections and invest ments of money. W. ({uitmau Davis, Attorney at Law’, Aiken. S. C. Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit. Special attention given to collections. 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. F. W. Norris, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts of tills State. Emil Ludekeus, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in ail the Courts of this State. All business transacted with promptness. James E. Davis, Attorney at Law', Barnwell. Court House, S. C. Hawkins K. Jenkins, Attorney at Law, Book Hill, S. 0. Will practice in all the Courts of this State. Special attention given to collections. Claude E. Sawyer. Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. C. jfive special ancing, pre and Nej ^Y. ^ attention to Convey- •pariug Abstracts of Titles egotiating Loans. The State. Governor, Hugh S. Thompson. lAeuteiiani-Governor, John C. Sheppard. Secretary of State, James N. Lipscomb. A ttorncy-General, Charles Richardson Miles. State Treasurer, John Peter Richardson. Comptroller- General, William E. Stoney. Sujjerintcndent oj Education, Asburv Coward. Adjutant and Inspector-General, A. M. Manioadlt. United States Senators, Wade Hampton, M. C. Butler. • Congressmen, First District—Samuel Dibhle. Second District—(jeo. D. Tillir/u. Third District—D. Wyatt Aiken. Fourth District—John H. Evins. Fifth District—John J. Hemphill. Sixth District—George W. Durgan. Seventh District—E. W. M. Mat-key A gricultural Department, A. P. Butler, superintendent. L. A. Ransom, secretary. Bail road Commissioner, M. L. Bonham. Penitentiary, T. J. Lipscomb, superintendent. Supreme Court, W. D. Simpson, Chief Justice. Henry McIveu, Associate Justice. S. McGowan, Associate Justice. Circuit Courts, First Circuit—B. C. Pressley. Second Circuit—A. P. Aldrich. Third Circuit—T. B. Fraser. Fourth Circuit—J. H. Hudson. Fifth Circuit—J. B. Kershaw. Sixth Circuit—J. D. Witherspoon. Seventh Circuit—Wm. H. Wallace. Eighth Circuit—James S. Cothiau. Solicitor Second Circuit, F. Hay Gantt. Congress meets on the first Monday in December of each year. EST'Tbe Legislature meets on the fourth Tuesday in November of each year. £37“ The Circuit Court for Aiken County meets three times a year, as follows: first Monday in February, last Monday in May, and second Monday in September. Congressional Districts. First—Charleston and Berkley— (St. Phillips and St. Michaels, Mount Pleasant, Moultrieville, St. James Gooseereek. Summerville), ' »town ships of Colleton, fourteen townships of Orangeburg, and the entire County of Lexington. * Second—Hampton, Barnwell, Ai ken, Edgefield, and Collctqn=-(BroX' sou and Warre, Thirjv ,. Spartanburg CAUSES THAT L.EI> TO ILLNESS. His Indomitable Energy and Tenacity Fail Him at Last, and he Bravely Says, “I A m Going to Die.” Atlanta, Ga., March 3.—It was announced last Monday that Gov. Stephens was seriously ill. The ex citement and fatigue of his trip to Sa vannah had prostrated him. Mr. Stephens lives in a temperature of seventy-three degrees or higher. On leaving Atlanta to go to Savannah, he had his car heated to sixty-seven de grees and kept it there ail the time. As the car neared Savannah, it ran into a heavy fog that was damp and chilly;—perhaps the heaviest fog known for some time in that section. Anticipating trouble from riding through this to his hotel, the Governor telegraphed to Savannah for a close carriage. Upon arrival he found that it had been provided, hut that tne windows were down and could not be closed. He sat in tiie carriage with the clammy fog penetrating his sys tem and chilling him thoroughly mr about thirty minutes. Upon reaching his hotel, he went to bed and was stf sick that he did not have strength to rise until about 1 o’clock, and ne never recovered from the shock his system received. When he left Savannah the temperature was about eighty degrees; when he reached Atlanta the temper ature was about forty degrees and chilly. He drove to the Mansion early in the morning ami immediately took to his bed and iias never been out of it since. At first he was only slightly indisposed and said to visitors wh > came to his bed-side that he was suf fering from cold, but would ne up next day, which day found him worse ami weaker. HE WAS IMPAiIENT under his confinement, as there were several contested election eases that he was anxious to attend to ami get out of the way. The doctors were not at all alarmed about his condition un til at length his stomach refused to retain nourisment. Owing to an at tack of neuralgia of the Ixnvels, his pain was very great and he took quan tities of morphine to keep it down and quiet him. His system continued to become weak day- a. ter day, and last Monday lie became very despon dent, and when Cint. Nelms asked him how he felt, he said: • “l AM GOING TO DIE.” Capt. Nelms said he hoped not, and remarked that the doctors did not think his condition dangerous. -‘They may be fooled about it,” he replied. “I know exactly liow much strength I have, and 1 believe J am going to die.” On Tuesday he repeated the same thing to Cant. Nelms, except more positively, and t<» several person* lie said, ’’ThiLtima^ii come at last when I to rally, and th) line. n created a marked sensation through the South. On February 3, 1865, with It. M. T. Hunter, and John A. Camp-' bell, he held an informal conference on a steamer in Hampton roads with President Lincoln and Mr. Seward, which had no practical result. After Lee’s surrender Stephens returned to his home at Crawfordville, where, on May 11. 1865, he was arrested and sent to Fort Warren in Boston harbor, but on October 11 he was released on pa role. February 22, 1866, he delivered a speech before the Legislature of Georgia favoring the restoration poli cy of President Johnson. In the same month lie was elected to the United States Senate, but as the State had not complied with the conditions of reconstruction, lie was not permitted to take iiis seat. In 1872 he was elected to Congress, and again in 1874, almost without op position. He was elected to the Forty- fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses, and w-as re-elected to the Forty-sixth Con gress as a Democrat, receiving 3,355 votes, against tifiy-eight scattering votes. His recent election to the Gov ernorship of Georgia is still fresh in the minds of the public. ALMOST A DEATH WOUND. During Mr. Stephens’ Congressional service, and pending th£ campaign of ls48, lie returned irmn Washington Georgia. He was fresh from the great debates on the acquisition of Califor nia and New Mexico as United States Territories,, and for having taken, against the wishes of a majority ofi the Southern members, a most promt neut part in opposition to such acqui sition, he was met with much adverse criticism. Judge Cone, who was at the time one of the leading politicians of Georgia, was particularly severe in iiis comments upon Mr. Stephens’ ac tion, and was reported as having pub licly denounced him as a traitor to the South. Hardly had Mr. Stephens reached his home when these and similar re ports w-ere conveyed t-> him. At first he did not credit them, but as one kind friend after another inlormed him that Cone had called him a traitor, and ad vised, that he owed it to himself to demand what is cailed “satisfaction,” the fires of pugnacity in his nature, which are always smouldering, hissed up, and he declared that if Judge Cone would admit haVing called him a trai tor to the South he would “slap his face.” Not long after this he met the Judge at a numerously attended Whig gathering, and and going up to him quietly, said: “Judge Cone, I have been told that you, for reasons of your own, have denounced me as a traitor to ice South, and I take this opportunity of asking you if such reports are true or not.” “No, sir,” w-as Cone’s reply, “they are noi true.” “I am very glad to h?a~ you say so,” said Mr. Stephens, coruiu.ly, and in the same friendly tone continued: “Of It fast. In the struggle Ste- ouce more dragged to his the blood was rushing in streams hia many wounds; his hold upon wife which sought his brave heart to relax—he w-as dying. But qverwhen he believeti the next mo- mei. would be his last, strong men cam to hia relief. The madman Cone was : ecqred and held fast. TIh» quickly the wounds which Mr Stephens had received were ex alted. It w-as found that one of t’,e» had penetrated to within a six- t;,ei h of an inch of his heart. An utecostal artery had been cut; the doorsdeclared that he would surely die happily their predictions were not verled; hia life was saved by the un- rem ting care of a surgeon, iiis de- votj friend, who, as good fortune wool have it, happened to he in Al lan* at the time. When he recovered, will a magnanimity of which few meiare capable even of understand- ingne refused to prosecute Cone, and thaperson, instead of getting his de sert in the dark cell of a State prison, v. :?ifined $1,000, and with ids “honor vinjeatod,” was allowed to go free. Fr^uently Mr. Stephens spoke of him in D'm» of consideration and forgive ness- Not long ago, referring u> the terrde struggle I have altempted to dearfbe, and showing me the great holt in his mangled hand, he said, w-itla quiet and far-away look in his de^idark eyes, “Poor Cone! I’m sure e sorry if he knew what trouble e to write with these stiff lingers Blake. The physicians of Lancaster county will organize a medical society on the first Monday in April. The United States Senate has con firmed Mr. K. Robertson as post-mas ter at Greenville. A bright and interesting little son of Mr. Theo. Campbell, of Marion Coun ty, was drowned in a tub of w-ater on last Thursday. of fine/ is anc Fourth—Grenville, Spartanburg —vexeept WP^ 'Plains and Lime stone Tow«f . s), Laurens, Union— B. F. GUNTER, (except i Townships), .eysvillo and Drayton- Fairtield, Richland Township, Columbia and Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will Dractice in ail the Courts of South Carolina. Prompt attention given to the collection of Claims. Dr. B. H. Teague, Dentist. >FFICE ON- Bichland Avenue, Aiken, S. G. Dr. J. H. Burnett, Dentist. —OFFICE GraniteviUe, Aiken County, S. C. Dr. J. R. Smith, Dentist. JFKICE A1 Williston, Barnwell County, S. 0. or wm attend calls to the country. Real Estate for Sale. Also Houses and Rooms to rent. Apply to H. SMITH, Main street, - - Aiken, S. C. CAROLINA SAVINGS BANK. OF CHARLESTON, + s. c. Incorporated by the State, 1874. Authorized Capital . .$500,000 Undivided Profits ... $2i>,07U 50 Deposits received and interest al lowed in the above Bunk at the rate of Five (5) PerCent. per annum. Ex change on New York, Liverpool and London bought and sold. Geo. W. Williams, President. J. Lamb Johnston, Cashier. -FIRE- Iiisuraiicc on a Solid Basis. T HE undersigned would call atten tion to their facilities for insu ring property against lire in compa nies of unsurpassed reputation and at fair rates. In cases of losses occur ring, their friends placing l>usinc.»s in their hands can rely on their personal attention to their interests in settle ment ot claims. They ask a call from property own ers before placing their insurance elsewhere. Terms as low as any reli able, first-class companies. E. J. C. WOOD, SIBERIA OTT. Go ville —(Upper Centre). Fifth—York, Chester, Lancaster, Union—(Gou deyr ville and Draytou- ville), Spartanburg—(White Plains and Limestone), Chesterfield and Kershaw. Sixth—Clarendon, Williamsburg— (Kiugstree, Sumter, Lees, Johnsons and Lake), Darlington, Marlboro’, Marion and Horry. Seventh—Georgetown, Williams burg— (except Kiugstree, Sumter, Lees, Lake and Johnsons), Sumter, Richland—(Lower Township), seven townships of Orangeburg, Charleston and Berkley not in First District, six townships of Colleton, and the entire County of Beaufort. Judicial Circuits. First—Charleston, Berkeley and Orangeburg. Second—Aiken, Barnwell, Beau fort, Colleton and Hampton. Third—Sumter, Clarendon, Wil liamsburg and Georgetown. Fourth—Chesterfield , Marlboro’ , Darlington, Marion and Horry. Fifth—Kershaw, Richland, field and Lexington. Sixth—Chester, Lancaster, and Fairfield. Seventh—Newberry, Laurens, Spar- j tanhurgand Union. Eighth—Abbeville, Oconee, Ander son, Pickens and Greenville. Edge- York course, I do not uesire to be in any way OFFENSIVE to you, Judge Cone, but in order that we may have no further misunderstanding - .. through the misrepresenlnkifip of otb L ndqHBBBkKL f think it right to te.’ laid I wqnid ^1 a a<rmlttea naving used tiielanguage at tributed to you.’’ Upon this, the Judge again disown ed having spoken disrespectfully of Mr. Stephens, and so for the time the affair ended. It was the subject of discussion all over the State, however, and the general verdict was that J udge Cone, a very powerful man, by tne way, had shown the white feather to “Little Aleck Stephens.” In such a community, no public man resting under sueli a charge could hope either for political preferment or popular re spect. Cone, of course, knew this, and, very much boated and annoyed by the comments which were being made upon him, wrote to Mr. Stepb. ens demanding an immediate and pub lic retraction of the threat. In reply, i Mr. Stephens wrote that the threat of slapping the Judge's face had been made contingent upon the truth of re ports regarding which he (Mr. Cone) had pronounced to be untrue, and that such being the case, there could be no cause for oflense or angry feeling on either side. Unfortunately, this let ter was never received by J udge Cone. Three or four days after it was writ ten, however, he met Mr. Stephens on the pia/za of a hotel in Atlanta, and, disregarding that gentleman’s ver; friendly greeting, said in a very tensive tone: “Mr. Stephens, I demand that you make an immediate retraction of your I TIE DIRTIEST OF SPEAKERS. An Unprecedented Rebuke to the Cdfemptable Creature Ketfer—A Kmctant Vote of Thanks—Several Mmber Vote No and Many Abstain F#m Voting, Only SO Ayes. ipccial to the New York Tribune.] Washington, March 4.—There was one jnsarkable scene in the closing hour—uhTra^ented so f ar aK ail y one^ems to know. About 10 o’clock the Speaker being absent from the ch&» which was occupied by Mr. Bla^i>uru, ex-Speaker Randall offer ed jv usual resolution of thanks and cordliment to the retiring Speaker. Notuore than one hundred Repre- senitives were in their seats at the nioi-Ut. Mr. Blanchsrd, of Louisi ana.' Democrat, one of the youngest meibers of the House, sprang to iiis faetnd asked whether a single objec- tiorA'ould prevent the consideration of ie resolution. Mr. Blackburn •promptly replied that it would not. Mr$McMillan, another Democrat, Tennessee, asked under what the House that decision was Mr. Randall bioke in with xlignation. saying: “Jby a pro ve rule, a violation of which be unprecedented and contrary [iency.” The question was put eelared carried, although there The Rev. Dr. Talmadge lectured in Greenville on "Wednesday night, to a crowded house on “the bright side of things.” * The cotton receipts at ftreenville for this goason up to the ,'tli amounted to 23,570 bales r.s sgainst 23,357 for the same period last year. We notice several advertisements in the Abbeville Press and Banner of parties desiring to sell large quantities of corn. This looks healthy. According to the Greenville 'News the ’possums of Greenville are dieting on the carcases of mad dogs. ’Possum is now a proscribed dish in that sec tion. Tiie Spartanburg Herald says: Cot ton conies in slowly. Low prices deter farmers from selling, they preferring to hold on to what they have in hopes of arise in the market. A Newberry colored boy was sick a week and then died. A blade of a pen-knife an inch long was found in his skull and penetrating his brain. The case is unprecedented. The dwelling house of Mr. E. R. Hayes, at Graham’s, Barnwell Coun ty, together with all its contents, was destroyed by an accidental fire on Sunday, the 4th cf March. No insur ance. Mr. D. Jas. Winn, president of the Bellemonte Factory, Sumter County, has retuned from the North. While there lie purchased, some additional machinery for the factory and made very satisfactory arangements for the sale of yarns. The Keowee Courier says: The schedule time of the Blue Ridge train from Belto ' to Walballa, is five hours and fourteen minutes, o_ about seven miles per hour. A good team with good roads could heat it by changing a time or two. Besides the train is often hours behind time. Bansley & Renz, AT THE Globe Hotel Barber Shop, AUGUSTA, - - GEORGIA, Are prepared to accommodate the most fastidious with a first-class shave, haircut or shampooing. BARBER SHOP. T HE undersigned, having purchased Mr. Rentz’s interest in his Barber Shop, would respectfully solicit the patronage of the citizens of Aiken. Shaving, Hair Cutting and Sham pooing executed at reasonable psices. J. B. BOYCE, At Renta’s Old Stand, Aiken, 8. C. The County. Senator, D. S. Henderson. Representatives, John M. Bell, George W. Croft, F. 1*. Woodward, Thus. J. Davies. Sheriff, Milledge T. Holley. Clerk of Court, Wm. M. Jordan. Probate Judge, W. W. Williams. School Com m issioner, Luther W. Williams. County Com m issioners, Wm. M. Foley, J. Cal. Courtney, Wiiliam Stevens. O. P. Champlain, clerk of board. T rcasurer, J. E. Murray. Auditor, David II. Wise. Curoiu r, S. P. Kitching. Jury Commissioner, R. L. Evans. who constitutes the Board, with tiie following ex-ollicio members, viz., the Auditor and the ehuinnan of the Board of County Commissioners. Board of School Examiners, Luther W. Williams, ex-officio eh’m. James E. Crosiand, Charles E. R. Drayton. Board of Assessors, B. W. Moseley, Aiken. J. H. Quat tie ban 111, Chinquapin. J. G. Sally, Giddy Swamp. James Powell, Gregg. E. S. HiMiimond, Hammond. Macom Gunter, Hopewell. W. E. Sawyer, McTier. Martin Holley, Millbrook. Daniel Jefcoat, Rocky Grove. James M. Cook, Rocky Spring. J. D. Taylor, Shaw’s. Jas. C. Hammond, Shultz. R. S. Hankiiison, Silverton. Isaac W. Foreman, Sleepy Hollow. James K. Brodie, Tabernacle. R. L. Evans, Windsor. Chairman—E. S. Hammond. Secretary—Tas. C. Hammond. Ex-oflkio Clerk—J. H. Morgan. unconscious, with lucid intervals. There seemed to be but little alarm among the members of the household. He has been near death’s door so often before, and has been rescued by such » iracles ok vitality and nerve, that they counted confi dently on his strength to pull him through this cri.ds. An invalid for fifty years, and his life despaired of a dozen times, a condition that would awake the greatest anxiety in any other patient is looked 011 with little alarm in him. There was an unusual hush about the Mansion, however, late yesterday, and anxious faces on every side that showed plainly that apprehension was felt as to the strength of the old man who for half a century has been in constant conflict with death. Major James Warren said: “Mr. Stephens is literally working himself to death. He insists upon supervising every de tail of his office, and will allow us to do nothing without his direct orders. If this attack were to prove fatal. Gov. Stephens’ last official act would be the signing of Senator Colquitt’s commission, which was issued a few days ago.” About 10:30 p. m. f March 4, Mr. Stephens sank rapidly into a deep stupor. The family, Col. John Ste phens and wife, Col. Grier and wife, Mrs. Linton Stephens, and the State- house officers rapidly grouped around the lied of tiie dying Governor. Tiie minutes passed painfully until at last he sank away in a quiet gasp at mid night. A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. Alexander Hamilton Stephens was bora in Taliaferro County, Ga., 'Vb. 11, 1812. lie graduated at Franklin College, Athens, Ga., in 1862, was ad mitted to the bar in 1884 and rapidly obtained a large and lucrative prac tice at Crawfordville. lie was elected to the Legist ture of Georgia in lc36 and was re-elected lor five consecutive terms, in 1842 he was elected 10 the State Senate, in 1843 he was elected, as a Whig, to Congress, and heal his seat till LsoJ. in rebruary, 1^47, he submitieU a series of resolutions in re- J lation to tiie Mexican War, wnich afterward formed tne platform of the j Wnig party, lie opposed the Clayton j compromise in 1848 ana tooK a leading I part in tne compromise ol FvjU. Tne passage of the Kansas and Nebraska Act ol 1854 m the House of itepresen tatives was strongly supported oy nim | heart. Instantly as he “ * ‘ ever, Stephens, seizin; bivlia which he held in \ver ! 8ome “noes ”—an unusual sound ou tm 'occasion. Sir. McMillan call* for a division..Eighty-six mem- in the affirmative, and eight alive. The latter'were Geu. gBggiBfillaLj Manici, ^ hilt-—- AtJJm on tb * &aLLb^- anxYj Vf ra.^1 McMillan, of Tennessee ' } ot Indiana; Blanchard of Lou- isiar®; Covington, of Mary lands , of North Carolina; and Evins, of.&Aith Carolina. Tiiese were t?ll Damlcrats, but several Republicans declined to vote at all, among them White, of Kentucky. Old raeay that in the stormiest cf the war and reconstruction, h incident as this was ever Speaker Kiefer’s last official laces him in an unfortunate po- sitiotT. Mr. Tyson, one of the stenog raphers of the Flouse appointed by tiie Speaker last winter, was called into his room yesterday and informed that the Stealier desired the place for his sister's son, Mr. Gaines. Mr. Tyson deiulin ed and later in the day wrote a letter representing that lie was en tering on the vacation period in which he would enjoy a rest after the labors of the two sessions, and that for busi ness and family reasons a resignation, would be inconvenient. The Speaker sent almost immediately tha following remarkable letter to Mr. Tyson: “I iaven’t time to go Into details, but Irwill to-day appoint Mr. Gaines to ou$ of the places as stenographer held by you or your colleague, and I prefer that you make an arrangement which will save me from the painful ueces »ity of ordering a removal. It threats regarding me.” SICK AND WEAK THOUGH HE WAS, Alexander H. Stephens could allow no one to speak to nim in the fashion described. Judge Cone was a very giant in size and muscular develop ments, yet the hail man whom he ad dressed^ with aggravating politeness and without hcsLuiing a moment, re plied : “Pardon me, sir, I have already written you on that subject; 1 must decline to discuss it further.” “Am I to take this as your answer?” asked Cone, excited.y. “It is tiie only answer I have to give you,” was the calm reply. “Then I denounce you as a misera ble little traitor,” cried Cone, mad with excitement. Tiie last word had hardly left his lips when a light cane wielded by the quick hand of the man tie had insulted ioit its red scar across hia cheek. Wild with pain and passion, without uttering a word, he drew a keen point ed dirk knife ami made one furious thrust at his weak little adversary’s did so, how ls du< me, I think, that this should lie done. I certainly would like you and Mr. lawson to make a satisfactory arran renient.’ At 1 he side of tne tetter was w ritten hast!] y: “I have your letter and I have considered it. Please send early (answer, to eniage in mattt r with the Speaker, sent in Tis resigi ation and Mr. Gaines was ap point id within twelve hours alter Mr. me an ” Mr. Tyson, not caring a contest over such T sop's resignation had been demaiid- as Chairman of the Committee on ; Territories. After tne breaking up of j tiie Whig party, he acted with tiie j Democrats. At the conclusion of the Tuirty-fifth Congress, Mr. Stephens declined to be again a candidate, ana ou July 2, 1859, tie made a speech at Augusta, oa., announcing ins RETIREMENT FROM PUBLIC LIFE. During tiie Presidential canvass of ! 1860 lie inter able for arm’s its mark. length a stout um- his left hand, it as a defense, and was moment to hold him at The knife fell short of (Jm-e more it was thrust at Stephens, cutting a deep gash in his arm, but reaching no vital point; eighteen times it cut dee*p into his breast, arms and body, but still he did not fall. Tlien lie could hold out uo sustained Douglas, and de- : longer. No courage, no spirit, ho\v- | nouuced those wiio advocated a disso- j lution of the Union in case* of Mr. j Lincoln's election; and in N .veiuuer, | j i860, lie made a speech before the Leg- ! I islaturc of Georg in against scctistsioiij I ! on which subject he bad an interest- j ! ing correspondence \\ itn Mr Lincoln 1 jin Dccemoer. He was, nevertneles-, ; i e.eeted to tne Secession Convention j ! which met at Miltedgeviile, i 16, 1-61, and mere sjmke and voted ! against the sece . u oroiuanee. lie | was a member of the Southern Cou- i giess which met at Montgomery, Ala., in February, and was elected Vice- President of the Confederacy. On March 21 he delivered a s;*eech in Sa vannah, in which he declared slavery to be the corner-stone of the new gov ernment. On April 28, as a special commissioner, he addressed the con vention at Richmond urging the union of Virginia with the Confederacy. He frequently differed from the policy of the Richmond v overnmeut. especial ly ou the subject of martial law; and ou September 8, 1862, he pronounced ed. 'file Speaker had no complaint to make against Mr. Tyson, because 1:6 expressly stated in his note accepting the resignation that it gave him pleasure to commend him and that he had bieen “a good reporter. ” Thq only possible conclusion is that the Sneaker dismissed Mr. Tyson in order that hi.s nephew might draw the salaii r during the vocation when there'will be no work, it is stated that Mr. Blaine, when a like vacancy occurred and lie was urged to appoint a personal friend, declined to do so, on th* ground that it was sheer waste of public money. MrJ Gaines, who is a newspaper cor- respoiident, has been holding the placelof Speaker’s clerk, to which ?*ir. Keifen* immediately appointed Mr. DeHas, until recently a clerk of Mr. Robeson’s committee, that on expen ditures in the navy department. Mr. DeHass, who, it is stated, is a relative of the Speaker, was originally ap point id as a favor to Mr. Keifer, and resigned at Mr. Robinson’s request. the 17th Regiment, S. C. V., in. Green ville on Monday, it was resolved to call a meeting of the companies to secure all the nmies, if possible, of the mem be s of the 13th and bring for ward the complete rolls at the next meeting, which will be held on March 24th. x - Of the 126 students attending the Atlanta Medical College during the session just closed five were South Carolinians. Of the thirty-nine grad uates only two, J. R. Culbertson and B. A. Mattison were South Carolin ians. Tiie reason of this is that we have a better college of our own at Char leston. According to the report of the grand jury, published in the Ledger, Lan caster county paid out last year over six hundred dollars for the support of four or five paupers at the poor house and fifty dollars apiece for several outside paupers. The g-and jury re garded “the institution as a reflection upon the County.” At tho recent term of tiie United States District Court, at Greenville, S. C., over one hundred criminal eases were disposed of. Thirty-nine were found guilty; seventeen not guilty, eighteen entered pleasof guilty and thirty-one were discontinued, and yet tiie New York Post says crime goes unpunished in tiie South. The Edgefield Chronicle says: Mr. Benj. I*. Covar is making arrauge- ments to have a telephone* line estab lished between this point and Trenton, and already a sufficient amount has been subscribed by the people of this village. We have several times here tofore urged tiie importance of this matter and it seems to us that it would be a great couvenieuce to have a tele phone from this place to Trenton and also to Johnston. THE OLD INDIAN TOWNS IN THE WEST. Valuable Additious Secured to the Bureau of Ethnology at "Washing ton by Researches Among the Cliff Villages. I From tiie Louisville Courier-Journal.] The Bureau of Ethnology, which , has its office and collection in the National Museum Budding, and is under the direction ef Maj. Powell, has had its collection greatly enriched by the researches made by different parties sent out last summer into the Indian reservations, and especially to those sections where the most ancient American ruins within the limits of our country are believed to be. Ifc was determined early last sum mer to vary the work in one branch and organize a party to make a thorough preliminary survey of all the ancient ruins and monuments s *:ittered over the Southwestern por tion of the United States. The work of the bureau in the field during its four years’ existence has brought to light the sites of many well defined villages, once occupied by people now believed to be extinct. ABOUT THESE RUINS are the remains and fragment of the mechanics and arts of the inhabit- tants, exhibiting no small degree of advancement in husbandry and other evidences of comfortable life. In order the better to study what man ner of men there were who had thus lived, it was naturally deemed of great importance to find" the skeletons of some of them, and therefore Mr. Stevenson, who was in charge of one important party, devoted much of his time in the latter part of the summer and in the autumn of last year to re searches among the burial places near the ancient ruins. Tiie most inter esting matter found was just in tiie angles formed by the junction of Ari zona, New Mexico, Utah and Colo rado. This is about the center of the lar gest and most important group of cliff and cave dwellers on this continent, and it is more than probable that this group is not equaled in the world for extent and magnitude of archeologi cal treasures. They cover an area of about 125 by 150 miles square. The region is known as the San Juan. The drainage of tiie country, as well as its geological structure, i*s peculier, and the readiness with which erosive forces have CARVED OUT GREAT CANONS, in which the whirling winds have worn out large caverns ar caves, is notable. In these recesses the strange hi refuge and constructed e caves are domeshaped cavities, elongated horizontally, the entrace being a semi-circle and often upward of 150 feet above the bottom of the ci»non iielow. “The" ifam discoWiyr nr^oh-flectioir with the ruins of Southwest, of the burial of the inhabitants found in the original place with all the evidences sufficiently clear to define their nor mal or common custom of burial, and uuery: Gould it oe possmie that some of these now extinct people were living in that region as late as 1540 and wearing the garment Coron ado thought were made of cotton? Mr. Stevenson’s party visited be tween forty and fifty of these cliff ruins of more or less importance. Some of the ruins are so high us to be inaccessible to human beings of the present day. Tiie mode of access the natives once used have been through the ages since past worn away by the elements. Mr. Stevenson, as usual, was ac companied by Iiis wife, who by her tact 111 approaching the Indians and securing their friendship is ofteu able to obtain information and purchase relics, whicha man would not be like ly to get. She does this chiefly by cultivating pleasant relations with the WOMEN OF THE VARIOUS TRIBES. But she does not shrink from less agreeable tasks which would appal less zealous feminine explorers, uirtl site went with her husband to the burial plaoea and gathered up finger nails, etc., which became loosened from the skeletons in moving them. Although the sketch now given does not touch nearly all the points of interest in the researches of the party, still the explorations up to the pres ent time are far from complete (th* Bureau of Ethnology being yet in its infancy. It was founded only 1878). The work of exploration will be con tinued in the most thorough manner and Congress has appropriated for this year $140,000, double the sum ob tained at first. The first annual report of the bu reau has already been issued, and has attracted much attention throughout tiie country and Europe. There is uo otiier similar bureau in the world, and scientists who have been to Eu rope in the last four years speak of tiie great interest felt there by stu dents of archaeology in the researches gy this bureau is making, WHAT IS NOW NEEDED is the securing for our own Govern ment or scientific institutious of this country the valuable relics yet to be collected in the region so fruitful of articles of inestiuumle value to stu dents of arclneology. At present there is no law • to prevent anx ex plorers from any part of the world going to the field indicated, or any where within our bouuderies ou which there are no settlers, and car rying off anything they find there. One party from Europe carried aWay archftiological treasures that thoaands of dollars would not purchase from the museum which has them now. They were collected in the Territories. fn view of tiiese facts, at the last session of Congress several petitions were presented to Congress asking for the passage of laws for the preserva tion and protection of thb public do main. One of these was presented in June by Senator Hoar, and came from the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, and referred to tiie fact that there are in New Mexico and Arizona twenty-six towns of the so-called Pueblo Indians, containing about 10,000 inhabitants, and set forth that this number WAS ONCE MUCH people sough houses. The THE FIRST PERFECT SKELETONS found in the cliff ruins, wore in a cyst in the canon dc Chelly, which cyst is above ground. It was penta gonal in form at the bottom and about five feet across at tiie bottom and four feet high, measuring from the bottom to the apex of the dome. It is dome- shaped, first being built np from the bottom with small logs. Inside the dome a coat of plaster about six in ches thick was placed, and the out side covered with earth. This plaster has become so solidified tiiat it is as hard as the rocks of the cliff over hanging the dwellings formerly used by those interred in the cyst. In this four skeletons were found. They were placed with their heads toward the cast, and were all in a stooping posture, with knees drawn up to the chin and fists under the chin. Three of them were badly broken in getting them, out, but one was secured in a good state of preservation. The mus cles of the legs and arms were in great part preserved by dedication, and tiie finger and toe nails were nearly all in place, while the skin of the palm of the hands and bottom of the feet was in a sullicient state of pre servation to enable a study to be made of it. Clumps of hair also remained attached to tiie head. The cavity of the chest contains what are supposed to have been the lungs, heart and some other organs of that portion of the body. THE CLIFF VILLAGE where these skeletons were found will become historical in the annals of arclueologieal research, for tiie reason tiiat it is one of tiie most extensive and "furnishes a greater variety of data in the way of complete struc tures far residence, several well-de fined estufas (place of resort for wor ship or amusement), religious and other hieroglyphics here and there on the walls of the cave, u tches for climbing through the village, liun- tne Tiny whose origin and history are y« known,' and that the question ol origin of those Pueblos and the for mer use of the buildings, now mag nificent ruins, is one of the most in teresting problems of the historian of the preseut age. And it further urges that these extinct towns, the only in terpreters of these mysterious people, are daily plundered and destroyed; and the ancient Spanish Cathedral of Pecos, a building older than any now standing within the limits of the orig inal States, built two years before Boston was founded, is being plun dered and its graves robbed, and its timbers distroyed or put to base use, some even being used to build a stable. Wherefore, the memorialists prayed that at least some of these Pueblos, mostly dating back to grants from the Spanish Dominion in 1080, may be withheld from public sale, and their antiquities preserved. Mr. Stevenson, whose explorations have been partially detailed above, is a Kentuckian by birth and lived there until he grew to manhood, and there imbibed his taste for arclueologieal researches. Miss Grundy. ever firm and unyielding, could long witiistainl such an attack. Cone was determined to finish iiis work. He. threw all his great weight against the umoreila which held him away from tiie* man he had determined to kill. It br«»ke; Stephens, half fainting, tell upon his back; tiie giant Cone was at iiis throat in a moment; his head, by Jauuarv a £ r ‘p of iron, was held against the 'cruel floor; the keen aod blood-drip ping knite was held aloft before him, ready for the last fatal thrust, but still the poor pale face of the little hero was set and deiiaut—his black eyes still flashed undauntedly. “Retract, or I’ll cut your cursed throat!” hissed Cone. “Cut! I’ll never retract!” gasped the almost lifeless Stephens. Like a flash the knife came down. With an alm.st superhuman eflbrt the prostrate man caught it in his right hand Clean through the mus cles, tendons and into the bones of the right hand it cut, then stuck fast and reached uo vital pari. With ti —I lockade no longer possible.—Ac- cotdi ig to an ollioial report lately publi shed in the Marine Feordnung's Blalt it is the opinion of German nava .authorities tiiat for the future an ef ective blockade has become ini- possi! 4e. The reasons given are tiiat a fie t would always be obliged at suuse 1 to gain the open sea, and to re main sufficiently far ofi’ to prevent torpedo-boats issuing from the harbor comii ^ up to the vessels hi tiie dark ness, nud not even a single ship could be lei & on guard iu sight of the port with ut the risk, almost amounting to ce tainty, iff being sunk during the night, while the port would remain open not only to light ami speedy cruisers, but to any ship whose eu- trauc 1 might be deisred. Under such circui istauces the probability of a few tt rpedo-boats lying hidden along the c< ast would, it is thought, be suf ficient to paralyze the action of the most powerful squadron and prevent the ijossibility of any serious ope ra the appointment by Gen. Bragg of I are strength Cone tried to wrencl civil Governor j free; with a grasp almost of death 1 r appoi James H. Calhoun as of Atlanta, a palpable usurpation. 1 horribly mangled and mutilated 1 tolds, a prominent of Sumter The Ninety-Six High School has three teachers, all of whom are college graduates, young and active. There are between 75 and 80 scholars on the roll and still they come. The pupils are Uiiligcnt and an excellent senti ment and high moral tone pervade the school. An additional room re-! i cently buiit, enlarges the capacity and increases the convenience of the school house. No village in the State can boast of better school facilities than Ninety-Six. The Edgefield Advertiser says.- On Monday last we went around and around and around iu tiie vast crowd brought out by salesday and Court. And we were delighted to find that almost all our beloved fellow citizens were crazy—upon some points or other. Some upon carp culture, some upon improved agricultural implements, some upon hog Raising, some upon early amber caue, some up m upluud rice, some upon gold digging, some up on turpentine farms, some upon fruit raising and shipping, some upon rail roads, Ac., &.C., &c. This vve regard as a most valuable sign. Whenever people are crazy they are going to ultimately do something valuable. You may be sure of that. As re gards the hog-raisiug craze, we are glad to say that the Hon. Geo. D. Tillman is at the bottom of it. Still another proof of level-headed insan ity iu “Your Uacle George.” dreds of lit tel cavities iu the rooks u|ed for sharpening the stone axes and many other equally important features. The selection of this locality for a village was wise, as the great walls of the canyon, about 1,200 feet above the valley (a sheer precipice), protec ted the inhabitants from all intruders, while tiie valley below amply sup plied all tiie agricultural products they needed. The entrance to the dome-shaped cavity in which the vil lage was situated was about 150 feet above the valley. That these people were AN AGRICULTURAL RACE is evident from the fact that corn, pumpkin and melon seeds were found in the graves of the so-called mum mies. But a careful serach among the debris and ruins did not reveal any evidence of any sjiccies of do mestic animals, which the explorers think very strange. Ths garments of these ancient peo ple were numerous and varied. The explorers louud as many as six or eight d.ffereut kinds of moccasins, or sandals—what the South Ameri cans call alpargates; also several kinds of network, some very closely woven, others resembling very much the kind used in our hammocks. The material used for making all these garments, sandals, etc., is evi dently a species of the yucca. Some of the finer work, when unraveled and bleached, shows a very tine white fiber, which might be mistaken for cotton. This fact brings to mind • A CURIOUS COINCIDENCE mentioned in Coronado’s account of tiie conquest of Mexico, dated 1540. In this he says: ’’While traveling through the Pueblo country I met a strange people, low of stature, dark complexion and wearing garments made of a species 0/ cotton.” The "Whipping Post. [Greenville News.] A correspondent of the- Edgefield Advertiser directs attention to tiie fol ly and wrong of tiie custom so preva lent among iarmers of compromising larcenies and allowingdetected thieves to work out or pay the amount of their thefts without the action of the eourti*. Tuis is all very well, but there is some thing to be said on tiie other side.— The farmer who prosecutes a petty thief knows that lie is adding to the taxes of himself and neighbors the expenses of tiie maintenance of the criminal in jail and the penitentiary, the costs of court etc., aud that it will cost the prosecutor several days of valuable time in giving his evidence. We will have to go back to the whip ping post or see tho evil complained of in the Advertiser increased daily. Many very sensible newspapers every- wiiere are reaching that conclusion.— The assertion that tiie punishment of whipping is demoralizing aud offeu- sive to communities is stuff and non sense. We may object to hanging on precisely the same grounds, impris onment lias been used as a punish ment because it is a punishment to men with sense of shame and longing for liberty. But to a man without sense of shame a term ef a few days or a few months in jail is no punish ment at all. Trashy Lies. The concluding sentence of Frank Wilkeson’s last letter to the New York Sun contains as little truth as the most of the deelaratiuns made by that gentleman concerning the South and tiie .Southern people. Mr. Wilkcsou says: “I wish to say, and now is us good a time as any, that there is a widespread seuti|nen( among the Southern people btain help in all sorts of ways frovedic national gov ernment. T rbey know that they pay but a small portion of the expenses of the government. They realize that the millions of dollars lying in the treasury is northern money, and they regard it as a legitimate transaction to obtain possesion of the surplus by any aud all means. There is not a man in the South that does not in his heart think that it would be proper and just for the national government to reim burse him for the loss of a tom cat that died from over exertion in climbing fences o’ nights. I have been aston ished at the variety of schemes, all to be carried to completion by the ex- E enditure of national money, that I ave heard of in the Southern States, from educating children to replacing the losses of chickens and cats: from improving the Mississippi to digging a ci.nil across Florida. They would be glad to Impoverish the North to build up the South.” are silly trash, and ths Cun ” Such st both Mr. 1