An Independent Family Journal?Devoted to Politics, Literature and General Intelligence.
HOTT & CO., Proprietors.
ANDERSON. S. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1869.
VOLUME 4.---NO. 42.
la f mpurtant jpw.
An Act to organize and govern the Militia
of the State of South Carolina.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of South Carolina, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That all able-bodied male citi?
zens, between the ages ot eighteen and
forty-five years, residing in this State,
and not exempted by the laws of the Uni?
ted States, shall be subject to military
duty, excepting
1st. A1I persons in the army or nary or
volunteer forces of the United States.
2d. ?ctf?lurly ordained or licensed min
isters and preachers of the Gospel.
3d. The Lieutenant Governor, mcmbeis
and officers of the General Assembly, the
Secretary of State, Attorney-General,
Comptroller-General, State Auditor, Com?
missioner of Bureau of Agricultural Sta?
tistics, Superintendent of Education, State
Engineer and Surveyor, State Treasurer,
and clerks and employees in their offices,
judicial officers of the State, including
Justices ot the Peace, Sheriffs, Coroners,
Constables, civil officers of the United
States, ferrymen employed at any ferry
on a post road, and millers.
4th. And all persons entertaining con
scicntious scruples against bearing arms,
practicing physicians, professors, teachers
and students in colleges, academies and
common schools.
5th. Persons rcgulariy and honorably
discharged from thcarmy and navy of the
United Slates in consequence of the per?
formance ot military or naval duty, in
pursuanco-of any law of this State, and
all persons who now are, or may hereaf?
ter be, active members of regularly in?
corporated companies in this Slate.
Olli. That commissioned officers who
shall have served as such in the loyal mil?
itia of this Slate, or in any of the United
States, for ihe space of seven years j but
no such officer shall be exempt unless by
his resignation after such term of service,
duly accepted, or in some other lawful
manner he shall have been honorably
discharged.
7th. Idiots, lunatics, paupers, and per?
sons convicted of infamous crimes, shall
not be subject to military duty.
Sec 2. That under the directions of the
Coinmander-in-Chicf, all persons liable to
military duty within this State, who are
not already members of the National
Guard, as hereinalter provided, shall im?
mediately upon the passage ot this Act,
mid from lime to time thurcafter, as the
Commander in-Chief shall deem necessa?
ry, but as often as once in every two
yoars, be enrolled. Such enrollment shall
distinctly specify the names and resi?
dences of the persons enrolled, and shall
also divide the same into two classes?
the persons between the ages of eighteen
und thirty years to constitute the first
class, and the persons between the ages
of thirty and forty-five years to constitute j
the second class. Four copies of such en?
rollment shall bo made by the officer'
making the same, one ot which, after be?
ing corrected, shall be retained b}? him;!
another shall be tiled in the office of the
Town or Ciiy Clerk in which such com?
pany is enrolled ; another shall be filed in
the office of the Clerk of tho Courts of
Record in the County where such district
is situated; and the fourth shall be filed
in the Adjutant-General's office. The
persons making such enrollment shall be
compensated at the rate of one dollar and
fifty cents per day for every day necessa
rily spent in making and copying the
same ; the number of daya not to exceed
ten; and the amount of such corapenua-1
lion shall be paid by the Treasurer of the |
State, upon production of the certificates!
of the Clerk of the Courts of Record in
the County and of the Adjutant-General
that such rolls have been duly filed, on or
before the first day ot February in each
year in which such enrollment shall be
made: Prodded, That the Commander
iu-Chief may, if he deem it necessary, ex?
tend the term of completing the first en?
rollment under this Act, not to exceed
twenty days, and authorize payment for
the same, as hereinbefore specified and
set forth.
Sec. 8' That all persons duly enrolled,
who .shall neglect to attend the musters
and drills provided for in this Act, except
in cases of sickness, shall be subject to a
fine of one dollar for each day so neglec?
ting, which, if not paid to the County
Treasurer on or before the fifteenth day
of March next ensuing, shall be collected
by the collector or receiver of taxes of
the city or County in which the person
so neglecting is enrolled; and the Board
of County Commissioners, at their annual
meetings, are authorized and directed to
annex a list of the several delinquents,
with the fines set opposite their respec?
tive names, to the asscsment rolls of the
several towns and wards; and iho war?
rants for the collection of the same shall
direct tho collector or receiver ot taxes
to collect tiie amount from every person
appearing, by the said ussesment roll, lia?
ble to pay the same, in the same manner
na other t;ixen arc collected; the .-ami- to
be paid to tho County Treasurer. And
when tho name of any person between
the ages of cighlocn and twenty-one
3'car* shall appear on the said roll liable
to pay the said fine, tho said warrant shall
dire?-t tho collector to collect tho same of
the father, guardian or employer with
whom sue!) person shall reside or bo em?
ployed, or out of any property such
minor may own or possess in tho city,
village, town or ward in said County:
nnd such collector shall proceed and exe?
cute such warrant, and no property now
exempt from other executions shall bo
exempt from the payment of such fine.
Sec. 4. Tho Ccunty Treasurer of each
County shall, on or before tho twenty
fifth day of Apr:! in each year, pay to
the Treasurer of the State, upon his order, I
the actual sum received from delinquents
who have failed to'attend such musters
and drills; and it shall be the duty of the
officers commanding the several regi?
ments, to furnish the County Com mis
sioncrs the names who have failed to at?
tend nach musters and drills. The Coun?
ty Commissioners shall give the names
of tho persons so failing to the County
Auditor; and unless they are excused,
shall place an extra assessment ef one
dollar per day on their general tax, if a
property holder*; and in case said delin?
quent or an}- of them arc not property
holders, then he or the}* shall be com?
pelled to work the public road.-, at a rate
not exceeding one dollar per day.
?ec. 5. The bond required to bo execu?
ted by the collectors or receivers of tuxes,
and County Treasurers, shall also apply
and extend to an)* moneys required to be
collected for military purposes by this
Act.
Sec. 6. That all tavern keepers, persons
keeping boarders in their families, keep?
ers of boarding houses, and any master or
mistress of any dwelling house, shall, up?
on the application of any officer authoriz?
ed to make such enrollment, give infor?
mation of the names of all persons resi?
ding or lodging in .such house liable to be
enrolled, and all oilier proper information
concerning such persons as auch officers
ma}' require.
Sec. 7. That if.any person of whom in?
formation ia required by any such officer,
in order to enable him to comply with the
provisions of this Act, shall refuse to give
such information, or shall nivc false infor?
mation, he shall forfeit and pay twenty
dollars for each item of information de?
manded of him by any such officer and
falsely stated, and a like sum tor each in?
dividual name concealed or falsch* stated;
and every person who shall refuse to give
his own name and proper information,
when applied to by any such officer, or
shall give a false name or information,
shall forfeit and pay a like sum, such pen?
alties to be recovered in any court ol com?
petent jurisdiction in the name of the
Stale of South Carolina ; and it is hereby
made the duty of such officer to report
the names of all persons who may incur
an}* penalty, under this Section, to any
Magistrale or Justice of the Peace in the
Count)' for prosecution.
Sec. 8. That wherever an enrollment
shall be made as provided in this Act, the
Board of County Commissioners shall
cause to be published, once a week, for
four weeks previous to the first day of
February, in a newspaper with circulation
in the County, or by written or printed
placards, in not less than four public pla?
ces, a notice that such rolls have been
I completed and tiled as aforesaid, which
notice shall also specify that any person
who claims that he is, tor any reason, ex?
empt from military duty shall, on or be?
fore the fifteenth day of February next
ensuing, file a written statement of such
exemption, certified by affidavit, in the
office of said Clerk ot the Courts of Rec?
ord, or before a Justiee of the Peace or
Magistrate, in said County ; and the pub?
lication of such notice shall be sufficient
notice of such enrollments to all persons
named therein ; Buch roil shall be made in
tho form prescribed by the Commander
in-Chtef; and the Ad utant-Gencral shall
furnish all the enrolling officers suitable
blanks and instructions for the completion
of such enrollment.
Sec. 9. That all persons claiming ex?
emption shall file a written statement of
tho same, verified by affidavit, in the office
of tho Town Clerk of the township in
which he resides, on or before the fif?
teenth day of January; in default of
which, such person shall lose the benefit
of such exemption, except such as are
especially exempted by this Act or by
Act of Congress.
Sec. 10. That the person making such
enrollment shall, thereupon, if such per?
son be exempt according to law, mark the
word ''exempt'' opposite the name of each
person presenting such exemption; if auch
exemption be permanent, the name of
such person shall not be included in any
subsequent enrollment. If any person
shall swear falsely in such affidavit, he
shall, upon proof thereof, be adjudged
guilty of perjury in any Judicial Court ot
competent jurisdiction.
Sec. 11. That the persons thus enrolled
shall form the reserve militia of* the State
of South Carolina; those over eighteen
and not over thirty years of age, shall
constitute the reserve of the first class;
and those over thirty and under forty-five
years of age, shall constitute tho reserve
of the second class.
Sec. 12. That if any officer charged
wilh any duty under the provisions of
this Act shall refuse or neglect to perform
any of the duties required of him by this
Act he shall forfeit and pay the stun of
not less than fifty nor more t han one hun
! drcd dollars for each and every ofTencc. to
bo recovered in the name of the people of
the State of South Carolina ; and such
officers shall, as an additional penally, be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanorj and ii
shall bo tho duty of the Solicitor of the
Judicial Circuit within whieh said offen?
der resides, upon tho complaint of the
commanding officer of the regiment, or on
the pai l of the Hoard of County Commis?
sioners, to prosecute thesamo. Any pen?
alty incurred and paid, or collected under
I this section, shall be paid into the treas
ury of the County, for the use of tho mil
j itary fund of the County, where the fund
! may have accrued.
Sec. 13. That the Adjutant-General un?
der tho direction of the Commander in-1
I Chief, shall organi"so and apportion the
' militia, and the districts therefor, into di?
visions, brigades, regiments, squadrons,
? troops, batteries and companies, and cause
the same to be numbered und lettered as
nearly in conformity with tho laws and
1 regulations governing the army of the
United States as circumstances will per?
mit, and may afterwards divide, annex or
consolidate the same, nnd the districts
thereof, as he may judge expedient.
Sec. 14. That the organized militia of
this State shall be known as the National
Guard of theStatejof South Carolina, and
shall consist of such divisions, brigades,
regiments and battalions, nnd in addition
thereto, such batterries of light artillery
and troops and squadrons of cavalry, as
the Commander-in-Chicf may deem expe?
dient; and nothing herein contained shall
be so construed as to interfere witb the
power of the Commancler-in Chief, in case
of war or insurrection, or of imminent
danger thereof, to order drafts of the mil?
itia and to form new regiments, battalions,
brigades or divisions, as he may deem
just and proper: Provided, That there
shall be no military organizations, or for
mations, for the purpose of arming, dril?
ling, exercising the manual of arms or
military manoeuvres, not authorized un?
der this Act, and by the Commnndcr-in
Chicf, and any neglect or violations of the
provisions of this section, shall, upon con?
viction, be punished with imprisonment at
hard labor in the penitentiary, for a term
not less than one year nor more than three
years, at the discretion of a competent
Court.
Sec. 15. That an Assistant Adjutant
General may be appointed, if deemed ne?
cessary by the Governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate; his
salary shall be at the rate of fifteen hun?
dred dollars. The duties ot Quartermas?
ter-General shall devolve upon tho Adju?
tant-General in times of peace.
Sec. 16. That in case of invasion, in?
surrection or rebellion, or imminent dan?
ger thereof, tho Governor shall appoint
by and with the advice and consent ot the
Senate,a Quartermaster-General, Commis?
sary-General and a Surgeon-General.
Sec. 17. That tho arms, equipments and
munitions ot the State shall be stored
under the directions of the Commander
in-Chief, and in such places as be may des?
ignate.
Sec. 18. That all officers of tho militia
(except as herein provided.) shall be, ap?
pointed arid commissioned by the Gover?
nor. They shall draw pay only when
engaged in actual service.
Skc. ID. That all commissioned officers
of the militia shall be appointed and com?
missioned bjr the Coinmandcr in-Chiet,
and may be removed from office on re?
commendation by the commanding officer
of their respective brigadesand>divisions.
Removal may also be made by decision of
court martial or retiring or examining
board, pursuant to law, and for miscon?
duct: any officer may be suspended by the
Coinmauder-in-Chiet.
Sisj. 2U. That the militia of this Stale
shall be mustered and drilled at such
times as the Coinmander-in-Chief or com
mauding officers of divisions, brigades and
regimen is may direct.
In the Senate House, the fifteenth day of
March, in the year of our Lord one
thousand ci<rht hundred and sixtv nine.
CHARLES \V. MONTGOMERY.
President of the Senate pro tern.
FRANKLIN J. MOSES, Jr.,
Speaker House of Representatives.
Approved the sixteenth day of March,
1869.
ROBERT K. SCOTT, Governor.
A Beautiful Compliment to Woman.
Dr. Samuel Henry Dickson of South Car?
olina, one of the Professors in Jefferson
Medical Collego in Philadelphia, in ad?
dressing the recent graduates of that in?
stitution, paid the following beautiful com?
pliment to woman, which we know every
woman will appreciate:
It has often been remarked that the
physician, above all other men, should be
a gentleman and a man of honor. I avow
myself as of those who hold iu profound
reverence "the grand old name of gentle?
man," whether it represent the chivalrous
knight of the ancient legends, the Bayard
without fear and without reproach?or
the madman of Cervantes, the peerless
Don Quixote; the hero of Thackerary's
charming fiction, the de;ir old Colonel
Newcome; the bright poetical picture of
noble King Arthur, as drawn by Tenny?
son, or the glorious statuesque model of
history, Sir Philip Sidney ; and 1 regard
honor as the bright, fragrant flower of
morality and virtue. Our profession is
one of the highest and most sacred trusts,
which to violate must entail all the penal?
ties of the basest treachery. Our rela?
tions with our patients, and especially
with women, arc inexpressibly confiden?
tial and delicate, and afford us opportuni?
ties, which should never bo disregarded,
of sustaining the feeble and protecting
those who need sympathy and help?
whose "faces we should not permit the
winds of heaven to visit too roughly."
Depend upon it that in proportion as'
you fulfil such duties in the domestic cir?
cles where you aro received as a guardian
and guide, will be your future success. 1
am proud to say that a large part of the
purest happiness 1 have enjoyed in my
checkered course has resulted from my
professional relations with women, and
the close and vnluablo friendships origi?
nating therein. It is to them that we
must look for tenderness, gratitude and
fidelity.
Woman's Boft hand my early cradle spread,
Her gentle care bedecked my bridal bed;
By Woman let my dying hours he hurM,
Her love the last loud solace, ss the first.
? . -
? A bill providing that chloroform
should be administered previous ti? execu?
tions was vetoed lately in an Eastern
Legislature, because chloroforn was dan?
gerous to life !
? Josh Billings says he will never pa?
tronize a lottery so long as he can hire
anybody else to rob him at reasonable
wages.
I^isccltoncatis JUticlcis.
The Eise in Sugar.
The lute rise in sugar ought to suggest
a lesson to us as a people. It shows us
how wholly we are dependent upon oth?
er countries for a supply of this great
staple.
We use in the United States upwards
of four hundred thousand tons of sugar
yearly; three hundred and fifty thousand
tons of which are imported. There is at
present no lessening of the supply, but
ihe bare probability of next season's
supply of sugar from Cuba being cut off
on account of the troubles in that Island,
is sufficient to send up the price 25 per
cent, in a single week. If the prospect
of continued war in Cuba should bo re?
alized, the price of sugars is likely to be
still more largely increased, atid in case
of the cessation of our foreign commerce,
should we become involved in war with
any foreign power, nearly our whole sup?
ply would be cut off, and prices must ad?
vance wholly beyond the reach of all but
the wealthy classes. This would be a
National calamity greater than the loss of
any other single article of importation. It
would affect every citizen.
We know of but one way to insure our?
selves against such a possibility, and that
is to raise our own sugars. This we are
abundantly able to do. We do not refer
now to our capacity for tho production of
our cane sugar, but to our far greater ca?
pacity from the production of sugar from
the Sugar Beet.
In a recent complete and valuable work
on Farm management, farm crops. &c\,
(entitled?"How to make the Farm Pay"
?and published by Zeigler, McCurdy ?t
Co., of Philadelphia and Chicago,) is a
most excellent chapter on the cultivation
and management of Beets for sugar, from
which wo make the following extract:
"The production of beet sugar through?
out the world, is now about six hundred
and fifty thousand tons, or one-fourth of
tho whole production of sugar. We have
millions of acres adapted to the cultiva?
tion of the sugar beet. We have the best
labor saving machinery of any country
on the globe, and there is no good rcasotii
why we should not produce a million tonn
of sugar annually, within ten years. In
accordance with the practical aim of tili?
work, we shall endeavor to show that it
is to our pecuniar}*", and especially to our
agricultural interests, to do so.
'?The cost of raising the beet cannot, un?
der judicious cultivation, exceed three
dollars per ton. und wo think that they
can be raised for two dollars per ton. But
taking the highest estimate, of three dol?
lars per ton, there is left a large margin
for profit, as one ton of beets will yield
from one hundred and forty to one hun?
dred and eight)' pounds of refined sugar;
about fifty pounds of molasses suitable for
distillation; five hundred pounds of leaves,
an excellent green fodder; and five hun?
dred pounds of pulp, worth one-third as
much as good hay. But this is not all;
the beet crop cleans and prepares the soil;
ami, in a rotation, in one ot the best pre?
cedes of any grain crop. The yield of
buets, per acre, varies from seventeen to
forty-two tons. Wo think that, with our
improved methods, an average yield of
thirty toriB per acre can readily bo se?
cured, but taking the low average yield
of twenty tons per acre, at five dollars
per ton, is one hundred dollars; deduct?
ing the highest estimate of the cost of
production, three dollars per ton, leaves
forty dollars per acre clear profit to the
farmer. Considering the probability of a
yield of thirty tons per acre, costing two
dollars per ton, we have the possibility ot
a profit of ninety dollars per acre.
"There are, at present, but few manu?
factories of beet sugar in this country,
but they would spring up ou every side,
if farmers once determined to raise the
crops, and made that determination
known. Communities settling ou the
rich 6oils of* the west und south, have this
matter in their own hands, as have also
the farmers in the older States. Let a
dozen farmers, in any section of the coun?
try, agree with some capitalist to supply
him with beets, and a market will be at
once created. It is for farmers to agitate
this matter, in their daily conversation,
in their visits to the city markets, in
farmer' clubs,and through tho columns of
their chosen agricultural journals. The
manufac'urc must be exceedingly profit?
able. It is carried on from September to
March, a period when labor is easily com?
manded. It will employ the extra farm
laborers, at a season when their services
are not required on the farm ; thus inci?
dentally conferring a permanent benefit
upon every community, where such an
industry is established." The author of
this work from which we quote the above,
estimates the cost id working ouo thou?
sand tons of beets as follows:
1000 tons of beets at S5.U0.85,000
Labor..2,000
Other expenses.1,200
Total.8,500
KKCKIPTS.
100,000 lbs. sugar at 10 cents.810.000
7200 gallons molasses at 25 cents... 1,800
200 tons pulp at 84.800
Total.818,000
Leaving a profit of over hundred per
cent, on the manufacture, reckoning the
sugar to he worth only ten cents per
pound. But supposing such a quantity
could be raised as to bring tho prico of
raw sugar down to eight cents per pound,
there would still be a profit of over fifty
percent, on the investment of tho manu?
facturer. Certainly this branch of indus?
try cannot remain long unoccupied."
? Never confide secrets to your rela?
tives?"blood will tell."
Message from President Girant
The following message ot t he President
was received by Congress, on the 7th
instant:
To the Senate and House of Representative?:
While I am aware that the time in
which Congress proposes now to remain
in session i? very brief, and that it is its
desire, as far as is consistent with the
public interest, to avoid entering upon the
general business of legislation, there is
one subject which concerns so deeply the
welfare of the country, that I deem it my
duty to bring it before you.
1 have no doubt that you will concur
with me in the opinion that it is desirable
to restore the States which were engaged
in the rebellion to their proper relations
to the Government and the country at as
early a period as the people of these
States shall bo found willing to become
peaceable and orderly communities, and
to adopt and maintain such constitutions
and iaws as wil! effectually secure tho
civic and political tights of all persons
within their borrlers.
The authority of tho United Slates,
which has been vindicated and established
by its military po?ver, must undoubtedly
be asserted for the absolute protection of
all its citizens in the full enjoyment of the
freedom and security which is the object
of a republican government. But when?
ever tho people ot a:rebellious State are
rend}' to enter in good faith upon the ac?
complishment of this object, in entire
conformity with the constitutional au?
thority of Congress, it is certainly desira?
ble that all causes of irritation should be
removed as promptly as possible, that a
more perfect Union may be established,
and the country be restored to peaco and
prosperity.
The convention of the people of Vir?
ginia which met in Richmond on Tues?
day, December 3d, 1867, framed a consti
lotion for that State which was adopted
by the Convention on the 18th of April,
1868, and I desire respectfully to call the
attention ot Congress to the propriety of
providing hy law tor the holding of an
election for that Mate at some time be?
tween the months of May and June next,
under the direction of the military com?
mander of the district, at which the adop?
tion of that constitution shall be submit?
ted to the citizens of the Stuten. And it
this should seem desirable 1 would recom?
mend that a separate vote be taken upon
such parts as may bo thought expedient,
and that at the same time, and under the
same authority, thereshall be an election
for the officers provided under such con?
stitution, and that the constitution, or
such parts thereof, as shall have been
adopted by the people be submitted to
Congress on the first Monday of Decem?
ber next for its consideration, so that if
the same be then approved-the necessary
steps will have been taken for the resto?
ration of the State of Virginia to its
proper relations to the Union.
I am led to make this recommendation
from the confident hope and belief that the
people of that State uro now ready to co?
operate with the national government in
bringing it again into si eh relations to
tho Union as it ought, as soon as possible,
to establish and maintain, and to give to
all its people those equal rights under the
law, which were asserted in the declara?
tion of independence in tho words of one
of tho most illustrious of its sons.
1 desire, also, to ask the consideration
of Congress to the question whether there
is not just ground for believing that the
Constitution framed by a Convention of
the people of Mississippi for that State,
and once rejected, might not be agtiin
submitted to the people of that State in
like manner, and with the probability of
the same result.
(Signed) ?..S. GRANT.
Washington, D. C, April 7, 1869.
A Cunning Elephant.?In the Garden
of Plants in London, the keepers were re
ceutly engaged in destroying a great
number of rats, when one of them es
eaped and ran to the spot allotted to the
elephant. Seeing no other refuse, in the
twinkling of an eye the rat snugly encon
sed himself in the trunk of the elephant,
very much to the dissatisfaction of the
elephant; He stamped his foot and twist?
ed his trunk around Itke a windmill, and
then stood suddenly still apparently re?
flecting on what it was best to do.
Presently he ran to the water trough
where lie was accustomed to drink, plung?
ed iu his trunk and filled it, and then
raising it, dashed out the rat in a torrent
like tliat which issues from the hose of a
lire engine. Wheu the rat struck the
ground the elephant seized him and made
him undergo the .'mmersioti and projec?
tion three or four times. The fourth time
the rat fell dead.
The elephant, with a quiet but majestic
air, crushed it under his foot, and then
went round to the spectators to make his
usual collection of dainties.
? An old lady who was making some
jam was called upon by a neighbor.
"Sam, you rascal, you will be eating my
jam when I am away.'1 Sam protested he'd
die first ; but the whiles of his ryes rolled
hungrvlv towards the bubbling crimson.
"See here, Sam,'' said the old lady, taking
up a piece of chalk, "I'll chalk your hps,
and then Til know when I Come back
whether you have eaten any." So saying
she passed her fore finger over the thick
lips of the darkey, holding the chalk in
ttie palm of her hand, and not letting it
touch him. When she came back, she did
not ask any questions, for Sam's lips were
chalked a quarter of an inch thick.
-.?
? The cure for the Grecian bend has
been discovered by a farmer in Munme
County, N". V., *'ho had a daughter afflict?
ed by this terrilde malady- He dipped
her in cold water, and laid her iu the sun
till she straigbteued into p$aw.
The How Jury Law and its Abasement of
Justice.
The trial by jury has well been termed
tlie palladium of our liberties. The in?
tegrity of the jury-box lies at the founda?
tion of all public and private security.
To degrade or contaminate this is at once
to strike the deadliest blow which can be
aimed at the interests ot society and the.
right of property and person. '
This has been carefully guarded by all
people who ure not lost to a sense of soci?
al order and general welfare. It has been
reserved for the late Legislature at once,
to imperil the public interests and place
at hazard all private right.
The late slaves have been emancipated.
They are now equal before the law. They
have the same rights of freedom, of-per?
son and ol property. And in this, all
have acquiesced.
The late Jury law rendered them ample
justiee when it practically declared that
the Jurors should be selected from the
tax-paying citizens, irrespective of color.
It made no discrimination. It placed all
upon the same basis. But at tho same
time, by confining the qualifications of the
Juror to the tax-payers, it secured some
degree of assurance for intelligence in the
jury box.
This, however, did not prove Radical
enough. At one blow tlio whole security
of the jury box is swept away, and its}
value utterly destroyed. It is now enac?
ted that the juries shall be so drawn, "that
the number ot white voters thereon, shall
bear to the number of names of colored
voters, as near as may be, the same pro?
portion as the win le number of white vo?
ters boars to the whole number of colored
voters in the township, tit}', or county, as
the case may be."
Iii more direct language, that the jurios
are to be drawn from tho registered list of
voters instead ot the tax payers, and that
these are to be constituted ot colored men
and white men, in proportion to their ve
? ting strength.
j Tins Act makes every field hand, how?
ever ignorant or debased, a juror. For
every negro over twenty-one j'cars of agej
whether he can read or write, and with?
out regard to his in telligence or capacity,
is a voter, and, therefore under this Act,
is a juror. Ai.d not only so, but if these
are in u preponderance upo<i the voting
lists, they are to constitute a majority ot
every jury.
The Court of Common Pleas, whose sit?
tings are in Charleston, is held for the
Judicial County of Charleston, composed
of the election counties of Charleston and
Berkcly. The jurors are, therefore to be
drawn from the voters in these counties.
As near as can bo estimated by the re?
cent elections, there are 16,717 colored vo?
ters, to 5,573 white voters in these coun?
ties, or in the proportion of three colored
to every white voter.
Now the Act says that the list of jurors
shall hear, as to color, the same proportion
?'as the whole number of white voters
heart* to the whole number of colored vo?
ters." ? In other words, that every jury ot
twelve shall consist of eight Colored and
four white men. This is the result.
The bare statement of the case is suffi?
cient to show the nuturo of the laws un?
der which the people of South Carolins;
arc living, and the character of the legis?
lation under which they suffer.
Never was there a more monstrous per?
version of right! Never was there a
more direct at tempt to degrade and drag
in the dust the administration of justice 1
There can be no pica in its behalt. The
heretofore law placed all classes, irrespec?
tive of color, on tho same footing.
This gives ignorance the supremacy,
and shuts out intelligence.
Tlio public welfare, the material inter?
ests of the country, and ail that is worthy
of preservation, assures us that the time
must soon come when justice will resume
her sway, and when the laws which strike
at the vitals of the people, and tho law?
makers who would shatter in common
ruin all that is virtuous and of good re?
port, will pass away before her indignant
presence.? Charleston Courier.
? "I was,"' said the reverend gentle?
man, "-attending divine service in Norfolk
several years ago, duting a season of some
excitement.'' While the officiating cler?
gyman was in the midst of a most inter?
esting discussion, an old lady among the
congregation arose, clapped her hands,
and exclaimed: "Merciful Father, if I
had one more feather in my wing of
faith, I would fly off to glory." The
worthy gentleman thus interrupted, im?
mediately replied, ??Good Lord, stick it in
and let her go, she's but a trouble ficrc.'*
That quieted the old lady.
? There is something inexpressibly
touching in the story of Ishmael: the
youth was sent into the wilderness of life
with his bow and his arrow, "his hand
against every man, and every man's hand
against him.'' Even in our crowded, busy
and social world, on how many is this
doom pronounced ? What love makes
allowances like household love? God
forgive those who turn the household altar
into a place of strife ! Domestic disseu
sion is the sacrifice of the heart.
? A new made widow went recently
to a life insurance office to receive the
amount of a policy on her husbaud'a life,
which had providentially been made pay?
able to her, the president thought it only
proper to eviidole with heron her bereave?
ment. "I am truly sorry, madam, to hear
of your loss." "That's always the way
with you men. Yon are always sorry
when a poor woman has a chance to make,
a little motiey,"
-e>_
? A Canada editor says he has ??'?a keen
rapier to priek all fools and knaves." Hin
friends, if they are prudent, will lake it
from bim? He might commit suicide.'