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ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY, DEOEMEBR 16, 1869.
VOLUME 5.?NO. 25.
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
To the Senate and House, of ?epr&senta
fives:
In coraiug before you for the first time
?as Chief Magistrate of a great nation, it
is with gratitude to the Giver of All Good
for the many bene?ts wc enjoy. We are
blessed with, peace at home, without en?
tangling alliances abroad to forebode
. trouble, with a territory unsurpassed in
.- -'fertility and area, equal to an abundant
Support of five hundred millions of peo?
ple, abounding in every variety of useful
?niner?lsj in quantity sufficient to supply
the'-, world lor generations, exuberant
- crops, variety of climate, adapted to the
?Formation of every species of the earth's
Hebe?, and suited to the habits and tastes
j&ud requirements of every living thing?
.^ population ot forty millions of free peo
jpic speaking one language, facilities for
'. every mortal to acquire education, ins tit u
j lions closing to none the avenues to tame,
vjr any blessing of fortune that' may be
coveted, freedom of pulpit, press and
school, a revenue flowing into the national
lYeaaury beyond the requirements of gov?
ernment. Happily* harmony is being rap
idly restored within our own borders.
Manufactures hitherto unknown in our
Country are springing up m all sections,
producing a degree of national indepen?
dence unequalled by any other power.
These blessings, and countless others, are
entrusted to your care and mine for safe
keeping, for the brief period of cur tenure
of office. In a short time we must* each
- of-us, retui n to the ranks cf the people
who have conferred our honors, and ac?
count to them for our stewardship. I
earnestly desire that neither you nor I
may be condemned by our free enlighten
?-? ed constituency, nor by our own con
science*
THE LATE WAS.
Emerging from a rebellion of gigantic
.magnitude, aided as it was by the syrapa
thies and assistance of nations, with which
we were at peace, eleven States of the
Union were, four years ago, left without
legal State- Governments. A national
debt had been contracted; American
commerce was; almost driven from the
seas; the industry of one-half of the
country had been taken from the control
. ot the capitalists, and placed where all
labor rightfulty belongs, in the keeping of
the laborer. . The work of restoring the
State Governments loj'al to the Union, of
..protecting and fostering free labor, provi
. .ding means for paying the interest on the
^ttbifc debt, has received ample attention
,i fron?. Congress, although your effortB have
not met with success iu all particulars
that might have been desired, yet on the
whole they have been more successful
than conld have been reasonably anticipa?
ted. Seven of the States which passed
,.lhe Ordinance of Secession, Ifavo been
? fully restored to their places iu the Uu
iou?'
GEORGIA.
The eighth, Georgia held an election, at
which she ratified her Constitution, Re?
publican in form, and elected a Governor,
Members of Congress, a State Legislature
aud other officers required of them by the
-Hcconstruction Acts of Congress. Subse?
quently, however, in violation of the con
sritution which they had just ratified, as
since decided by the Supreme Court ot
the State, they unseated the colored mem
hers of "the Legislature, and admitted to
scats some members who are disqualified
by the third clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment, an article which they them
selves had contributed to ratify. Under
these circumstances, I would submit to
you whether i t would not be wise, without
_ delay, to enact a law authorizing the Gov?
ernor of Georgia to 'convene the members
originally elected to the Legislature, re?
quiring each to take the oath prescribed
by the Reconstruction Acts, and none to
4>e admitted who are ineligible under the
third clause of the Fourteenth Amend?
ment.
TOE FB.SEDMEN,
under the protection which they Iiave re?
ceived, are making rapid progress iu learn?
ing, and no complaints are heard of lack
of industry on their part when they re?
ceive fair remuneration for their labor.
r?BLIC DEBT.
The means provided for paying the in?
terest on the public debt, with all other
expenses of the Government, are more
than ample. The loss of our commerce is
the only result of the late rebellion which
has not received sufficient attention from
you. To this subject I call your earnest
attention. 1 will not now suggest plans
by which this object may be effected, but
will, if necessary, make it the subject of a
special message during the session of Con?
gress.
YIEGIXIA, TEXAS AND MISSISSIPPI.
At the March term, Congress, by joint
resolution, authorized the Executive to
order elections in the States of Virginia,
Mississippi and Texas, to submit the new
Constitutions, which each had previously
framed, to the people, and to submit the
Constitutions, either entire or in separate
'parts, to be voted upon at discretion of]
the .Executive. Under this authority elec?
tions were called. In Virginia the elec?
tion took place on the 6th of July. The
Governor and Lieutenant Governor elect
have Dcen installad. The Legislature met
and did all required by the resolution and
by all the Reconstruction Acts of Con?
gress, and abstained from all doubtful au?
thority. I recommend that her Senators
and Representatives be promptly admit?
ted to their seats, and that the State be
-fully restored to its place in the family of
States.
Elections were called in Mississippi and
Texas, to commence on the 30th of No?
vember, two days in Mississippi, four days
iu Texas. The elections have taken place,
but the result is not known. It is hoped
that the Acts ot the Legislature of these J
States, when they tneet, will be such as to
receive your approval, and thus close the
I work of reconstruction.
TH? CURRENCY.
Among the evils growing out of the re
j belli jn, and not yet referred to, is that of
I an irredeemable currency. It is an evil
which I hope will receive your most ear?
nest attention. It is a duty, and one of
the highest duties of the Government, to
secure to its citizens a medium of ex?
change of fixed, unvarying value. This
implies a return to a specie basis, and if
no Substitute for it can be devised, it
should be commenced uow and reached at
the earliest practicable moment consistent
with a fair regard to the interests of the
debtor class. Immediate resumption, if
practicable, would not be desirable. It
would compel the debtor class to pay be?
yond their contracts, premium on gold at
the date of their purchase, and would
brin g bankruptcy and ruin to thousands.
Fluc tuations, however, in the paper value,
of the measure of all value of gold, is
detrimental to the interests of trade. It
makes the man of business an involuntary
gambler; for in all Bales, when future
payment is to be made, both parties spec?
ulate as to what will be the value of the
currency to be paid and received. I ear?
nestly recommend to you, then, such leg?
islation as will insure a gradual return to
specie payments, and put am immediate
stop to fluctuations in the value of cur?
rency. The methods to secure the former
of these results are as numerous as specu?
lations on political economy.
To secure the latter, I see but one way,
and that is to authorize the Treasury to
redeem its own paper at ;.. fixed price
Whenever presented, and to withhold from
circulation all currency so redeemed until
sold again for gold. The vast resources
of i.he nation, both developed and unde?
veloped, ought to make our credit the
best on earth. With a less burden of
taxation than the citizen has endured for
six years past, the entire public debt could
be paid in ten years. But it is not desira?
ble that the people should be taxed to pay
it in that time. Year by year the ability
to pay increases in rapid ratio \ but the
burden of interest ought to be reduced as
rapidly as can be without a violation of
contracts. The public debt is represented
in great part by bond, having from five to
twenty, and from ten to forty years to
run, bearing interest at the rate of six
and five per cent, respectively. It is op?
tional with the Government to pay these
bonds at any per cent, after the expiration
of the last time mentioned upon their
face. The time has already expired when
a great part may be taken up and is rap?
idly approaching when all may be. It is
believed that all which are now due may
be replaced by bonds bearing a rate of in?
terest not exceeding four and a half per
cent., and as rapidly as the remainder be?
came due. To accomplish this it may be
necessary to authorize interest to be paid
at either of the three or four of the money
centres of Europe, or by any Assistant
Treasurer of the United States, at the
option of the holder of the bond. I sug
gest this subject for the consideration oi
ongress, and also, simultaneously with
this, the propriety of redeeming our cur?
rency, as before suggested, at its market
value at the time when the law goes into
effect, increasing the rate at which curren?
cy will be bought and sold from day to
day or week to week, at the same rate of
Interest as the Government pays upon its
bonds, subject to the tariff, and internal
taxation, will necessarily receive your at?
tention.
REDUCTION OF TAXATION.
The revenues of the country are greater
than the requirements, and may, with
safety, be reduced; but as the funding of
the debt in 4 or a 4} per cent, loan would
reduce the annual current expenses large?
ly, thus after funding justifying a greater
reduction ot taxation than would now be
expedient, I suggest a postponement of
this question until the next meeting of
Congress. It may be advisable to modify
taxation and the tariff in instances when
Unjust or burdensome discriminations are
made by the present laws, but of a gene?
ral revision of" laws regulating this subject
I recommend a postponement for the
present. I also suggest a renewal of tax?
ation on incomes, but at a reduced rate,
say 3 per cent., and this tax to expire in
three years. With the funding of the
national debt, as here suggested, I feel
j safe in saying that the taxes and revenue
from imports may be reduced from sixty
to eighty millions per annum at once, and
may be still further reduced from year to
year as the resources of the country are
developed.
THE CUBAN QUESTION.
As the United States is freest of all na?
tions, so too, its people sympathize with
all people straggling for liberty and self
government. But while so sym; arizing,
it is due to our honor that we should ab?
stain from enforcing our views upon un?
willing nations, and from taking an inter?
ested part without invitation in quarrels
between different nations, or between gov?
ernments and their subjects. Our course
should always bo in conformity with strict
justice, and law international and local.
Such has been the policy of the Adminis?
tration in dealing with this question.
For more than a year, a valuable province
of Spain and a near neighbor of ours, in
whom all our people cannot but feel a
deep interest, has been struggling for in?
dependence and freedom. The people
and Government of the United States en?
tertain the same warm feelings and sym?
pathies for the people of Cuba in their
pending struggle, that thev manifested
throughout the previous struggles be?
tween Spain and her former colonies in
behalf of the latter, but the con test has
at no time assumed conditions which
amount to war in the 6ense of interna-1
j tional law or which would show the exis?
tence of a de facto political organization
of insurgents sufficient to justify recogni?
tion of belligerency. The principle is
maintained, however, that this nation is
its own judge when to accord the rights
of belligerency eithor to a people strug?
gling to freo themselves from a Govern?
ment they believe to bo oppressive, or to
independent nations at war with each
other. Tho United States has no dispo?
sition to interfere with the existing rela?
tions of Spain to her colonial possession
on this continent. They believe that in
due time Spain and other European pow?
ers will find tbeir interest in terminating
thoso relations and establishing their pres?
ent dependencies as independent powers.
These dependencies aro no longer regar?
ded as subject to transfer from one Euro?
pean power to anothor. When the pres?
ent relation of the colonies ceases they
are to become independent powers exer?
cising the right of choice and of self-con?
trol in the determination of their future
condition and relations with other pow?
ers.
The United States, in order to put a
stop to bloodshed in Cuba, and in the in?
terest of the neighboring people propos?
ed their good offices to bring the existing
contest to a termination. The offer not
being accepted by Spain on the basia
which we believe could be received by
Cuba, was withdrawn. It is to be hoped
that; the good offices of the United States
may yet prove advantageous for the
settlement of this unhappy strife. Mean?
while a number of illegal expeditions
against Cuba havo been broken up. It '
has been the endeavor of tho Administra?
tion to execoto the neutrality laws, no
matter how unpleasant the task, made so
by tho sufferings we have endured from
lack of like good faith towards us by other
nations.
On the 26th of March last the United
States schooner Lizzio Major was arres?
ted on the high seas by a Spanish frigate,
and two passengers taken and carried
prisoners to Cuba. Representations of
these facts were made to tho Spanish
Government as soon as official informa?
tion reached Washington. The two pas?
sengers were set at liborty, and tho Span?
ish authorities in Cuba would not sanct?
ion any act that could violate tho rights
or treat with disrospect the sovereignty
of this nation. The question of the seiz?
ure of tho brig Mary Lowell, at Bahama,
by the Spanish authorities, is now tho
subject of correspondence between this
Government, Spain and Great Britain.
The Captain-General of Cuba, about
May last, issued a proclamation authoriz?
ing the search of vessels on the high seaR.
Immediately remonstrance was made
against this, whereupon tho Captain-Gen?
eral issued a now proclamation, limiting
tho search to vessels of tho United States
authorized under tho troaty of 1795. This
proclamation, however, was immediately
withdrawn.
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.
On my assuming the responsible duties
of Chief Magistrate of tho United States,
it was with the conviction that tbreo
things wero essential to its peace, pros?
perity and fullest development; first
among these is a strict integrity in fulfil
ing all our obligations; second, to secure
protection to the person and property of
the citizen of the United States, in each
and every portion of our Common coun?
try wherever ho may choose to hlovo
without reference to original nationality,
religion, color, or politics, demanding of
him only obedience to the laws, and prop?
er respect for the rights of others; third,
union o 'all the States, with equal rights in?
destructible by any constitutional means.
To secure the first of these, Congress has
taken two essential steps; first, in declar?
ing by joint resolution, that the public
debt shall bo paid, principal :.nd interest,
in coin; and second, by providing tho
means : or paying. Providing the means,
however, could not securo the object de?
sired without a proper administration of
tho law, for the collection of revenues and
an economical disbursement of them. To
this subject the Administration has most
earnestly addressed itself with results, I
hope, satisfactory to the country, There
has been no hesitation in changing offi?
cials in order to secure an efficient execu?
tion of the laws; sometimes too, wberoin
a mere party view, undesirable political
results were likely to follow; nor any
hesitation in sustaining efficient officials
against remonstrances, wholly political.
TENUKE-OF-OFFICE LAW.
It may be well to mention here the em?
barrassment possible to arise from leaving
on the statute books the so-called Tenure
of Office Acts, and to earnestly recom?
mend their total repeal. It could not
have been the Intention of the f ramers of
the Constitution, when providing that ap?
pointments made by tho President should
receive tho consent of the Senate, that
the latter should havo power to retain in
office porsons placed there by federal ap?
pointment against tbo will of the Presi?
dent. The law is inconsistent with a
, faithful and efficient administration of the
! Government. What faith can an Execu
| five put in an official forced npon him,
j and those, too whom he has suspended f or
reason ? How'will such officials be likely
to serve an admistration which they know
does not trust them ? For the second
requisite to our growth prosperity, time
and a firm but humane administration of
existing laws, amended from time to time
as they may be ineffective or prove harsh
and u nneeessray, are probably all that are
required. The third cannot be attained
by special legislation, but must bo rogar
ded as fixed by the Constitution itself,
and gradually acquiesced in by tbo force
of public opinion.
THE Fp EEDMEN?CENSUS.
I would respeetfully call your attention
to the recommendation of the Secretary
of the Interior for uniting the duties of
supervising the education of freed men
with the other duties devolving upon tho
Commissioner of Education. If it is the
desire of Congross to make tho census,
which must be taken during the year
1870, more complete and perfect than
heretofore, I would suggest early action
upon any plan that may be agreed upon,
as Congress at the lust session appointed
a Committee to take into consideration
such measures as might bo deemed proper
in reference to tho census, and report a
plan. I desist from saying more.
AGRICULTURE.
I recommend to your favorable consid?
eration the claims of the Agricultural
Bureau for liberal appropriations. In a
country so diversified in climate and soil,
as ours, and with a population so largely
dependent upon agriculture, tho benefits
that.can be conferred by proporly foster?
ing this Bureau are incalculable.
SUPREME COURT.
I desire respectfully to call the atten?
tion of Congress to the inadequate sala?
ries of a number of the most important
officers of tho Government. In this mes?
sage I will not enumerate them, but will
specify only the Justices of the Supreme
Court. No change has been made in tboir
salaries for fifteen years. Within that
time the labors of the Court have largely
increased, and tho expenses of living have
at least doubled during the same time.
Congress has twice found it necessary to
increase largely the compensation of its
own members, and the duty it owes to
another department of the Government
deserve? and will undoubtedly receive due
consideration.
CONCLUSION.
There arc many subjects not alluded to
in this message which might with proprie?
ty be introduced, but I abstain, believing
that your patriotism and statesmanship
will suggest the topics and the legislation
most conducive to the interests of the
whole people. On mv part, I promise a
rigid adherence to tho laws and their
strict enforcement.
U. S. GRANT.
Horace Greeley writes a Letter to Ben.
Sutler.
The philosopher of the New York Tri?
bune has written a remarkable letter to
Beast Butler, which is herewith append?
ed. It will be seen that the main point
urged by Greeley is that the Radicals
shall bribe the people of the South and
their friends at the North by the offer to
remove the disabilities imposed by the 3d
section of the Fourteenth Amendment to
the Constitution, in order to induce them
to ratify the proposed Fifteenth Amend?
ment, and which Greeley more than indi?
cates will fail unless the proposition which
he makes be acted upon by his party :
ToMaj. Gen. B. F. Butler, M. C.:
My Dear Sir : Your nsnigj I think
you will have remarked, is very often pro?
nounced) from one end of our country to
the other. I, traveling somewhat, ob?
serving a little, and reading newspapers
considerably?quite often hear it mention?
ed, and (it may surprise you to learn) not
always admiringly. And yet, while I have
for many years heard and read all manner
of evil said of you?some of it absurdly
groundless and false?I cannot recollect
that I ever heard or read a suggestion that
you were a fool. Now, I come before the
Eublic to impeach, not yourself personally,
ut a policy wherewith your name is pop?
ularly and prominently identified, as lack?
ing rational motive and at war with com?
mon sense. 1 allude te that policy which
prolongs indefinitely the proscription and
disfranchisemen t of a large portion of the
men of the South for their part in the late
rebellion.
Understand that I speak from the stand?
point not of sentiment, but of business. I
do not here impeach that policy as harsh
or hateful, but fls deficient iu tact?in
gumption. 1 impeach it as nursing and
intensifying enmities certain to subvert, at
no distant day, the party which is identi?
fied with it.
I will not dwell upon the well-known
fact that the late Governor Andrew, in
his farewell message of address, put forth
fouf years ago, strongly urged a policy
antagonistic to this?a policy that con?
templated the early and complete concili?
ation of the South, through the enfran?
chisement and magnanimous treatment of
her natural leaders. Nor need I invite
your attention to the fact that General
Sickles (a shrewd, thoroughly practical
politician,) officially remonstrated, more
than three years ago, against the proscrip?
tion of prominent and wealthy ex-rebels,
as depriving him of the services of the
very men he urgently needed and could
make most useful in governing South Car?
olina. Nor do I care to press home the
fact, of whieh you cannot be ignorant,
that tbe Southern men of education and
property are by far more reasonable and
less bitter tban their poorer, more igno?
rant neighbors?are less implacable, more
rational, and more ready to unite heartily
in rebuilding the waste places of the land.
Nor will I dwell upon the noble addition
made, on motion ol General Carl Schurz,
to the latest National platform of the Re
Kblican party?that plank which declares
oscription a temporary expedient, ren?
dered necessary by a grave public peril,
and to be abandoned when that peril shall
have vanished. I rest on the naked fact
that the Republican party imminently
needs the good will which this policy re
Is, and must go ander if that good will
not secured.
I assume that you realize the absolute
necessity of the triumph of the XVth
Amendment to the success of Gen. Grant's
Administration, and that you must beJ
aware that the fate ot that Amendment is
yet doubtful. Ten adverse States suffice
to defeat it; and seven?(New Jersey,
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennes?
see, California and Oregon)?are already
beyond hope. The loss of Tennessee was
at once a calamity and a blunder?one of
those intense stupidities which a great
party is seldom flowed to repeat. How
Rhode Island, Indiana, Georgia and Ne?
braska stand, I need not inform you.
Suffice it that it will require the wisest
counsels and the best efforts to avert the
threatened failure of that great and wise
measure of safety, benignity and peace.
The men now coming to Congress to de?
mand that Tennessee be upset, and Vir?
ginia remanded, and Mississippi and Tex?
as held as satrapies for an indefinite peri?
od, unless they vote as they are bidden,
utterly fail to comprehend the situation.
They evidently suppose that we have not h
iug at stake?that we may keep three or
four States unreconstructed and unrepre
fiented in Congress during pleasure. I
hope you know better?at all events, 2 do.
We do not merely ueed theXVth Amend?
ment ratified before 1872?we urgently
need it now. If it be delayed one year
longer, we shall have more than one State
Legislature beside that of New York as?
suming to withdraw the ratification al?
ready accorded; aud, while you and I mav
rightly deny the legal validity of such
withdrawal, I am sure neither of us will
dispute its moral weight. Connecticut is
to hold an election next April, when the
votes of her colored citizens will be found
exceedingly useful if not absolutely need?
ed ; New Jersey and Pennsylvania have
U. S. Senators depending on the result of
their next State election respectively, and
the like votes are absolutely needed in the
former, and probably so in the latter.
Several seats in the next Congress from
Ohio and other States will be won or lost
as the right to vote for members shall be
exercised by tbeir whole people or only by
the whites. Kentucky, Maryland and
Delaware, will each be stoutly aud hope?
fully contested next year if the Amend?
ment be meantime ratified, while we shall
not elect one member from all three of
these States if it be not. To my appre?
hension, the control of the next House ot
Representatives will probably hinge on
that event.
I ask you, then, to consider, as a practi?
cal man, whether we can afford to pick
and choose from among those disposed to
favor that Amendment?whether it will
not be suicidal folly to repel any proffered
or possible support. I ask you whether
any attempt to pry into the motives of
those who may favor it?to ascertain
whether they were not rebels, and, if so,
whether they have repented of having
been such?is not a Childish exhlbitloh of
that spirit which "goeth before a fall."
In short, I ask you to consider this whole
matter in the light of naked, hearty,
homely common sense, and act upon it as
the demands of the exigency shall seem
to require.
T?he urgency of the case must excuse the
freedom of this appeal. Rightly or wrong?
ly, the country regards you as the leader
in Congress of those who have been most
exacting in their requirements of the de?
feated rebels, and least inclined to t treat
them with confidence or generosity. The
reproaches which / have incurred in this
quarter Will never attach to you, and your
adhesion to the policy which the occasion
demands will never be attributed to weak
ness or sentimentality. I ask you, there?
fore, to place yourself promptly and heart?
ily at the head ot a movement looking to
the instant and complete removal of all
political disabilities whatever from any and
every one who favors or shall favor the
XVth Amendment, and their prompt res?
toration to all the privileges of citizenship.
"Let us have peace 1"
Yours, Horace Greeley.
New York, Nov. 20th, 1860,
Death of Distinguished Men.?Hon.
Robert J. Walker died at Washington on
tho l2th inst. He was a man of great
ability, especially in financial questions.
ite was a most prominent advocate of
Texas annexation; tho subtreasury sys?
tem; was Secretary of the Treasury du?
ring Polk's administration, and always a
conservative Union man. Ho was a
writer of great originality and power.
Amos Kendal died at W&shington on
tho 13th inst. Ho was a man of lino in?
tellect and an old Jackson democrat;
once distinguished as an Editor, and in
time of Gen. Jackson's administration he
was Postmastor General, and was very
able in that office. Ho has long led a re?
tired life in the city of Washington, and
had devoted himself to more quiet pursuit
than politics for many years past. He
was quite a religious man in the latter
years ol his lifo, devoted to the interest
of Sunday schools, and a liberal giver to
charitable objects. It is said that bo gave
some years ago one hundred thousand
dollars for building a Babtist Church edi?
fice, in the city. Mr. Kondal was eighty
years old at bis death.
Major-Goneral Wool, of the old United
States Army, diod on the Ilth of Novem?
ber, at an advanced age.
-?
? Josh Billings, in an article on straw?
berries, says: "Cherrys iz good, but tfrey
are too much like sucking a marble with
a handle tow it. Peaches is good, if you
don't got enny uv the pin forthera intew
yuro lips. Watermelons will suit enny
body who iz satisfied with hall-sweetened
drink; but tho man who ken eat straw?
berrys. besprinkled with crushed sugar
and bc8patted with lcroam(at somebody's
else's expense,) and not lay his hand on
his stummuk, and thank tho author of
strawberrys and stummuk, and the phel
low who pays for the strawberrys, is a
man whose mouth tastes like a hole in the
ground, and don't care what goes down
'ft w I
The Township Question.
Mr. Frank Arnim, Chairman of the
Conference of County Commissioners,has
presented a memorial to the Legislature,
Urging the postponement for ten years, of
the organization of the townships. It is
to be hoped, says the Columbia Phoenix,
that the suggestion will be heeded. Inas*
much as this recommendation carries fi'olU
the County Commissioners themselves,
and many of them members of the party
?in power, the inapplicability of the town?
ship system to the present condition of the
State must indeed stand out in bold relief.
The fact of the matter is, the adoption of
the bill by the Legislature was an instance
of legislative folly. It was a Northern
system, totally unsuited to this State, and
entailing heavy and entirely unnecessary
burdens upon the tai payers; Let Mn
Arnim's memorial be entertained. The
system is a nuisance and an outrage upon
sensible legislation. The memorial says:
"The County Commissioners of the sev?
eral counties have had their attention call?
ed by the citizens to the provisions of the
Act, and have been invited to confer about
the objections that have been urged t<iit.
The opinion entertained is, that the im?
poverished condition of the State, at the
present time, renders it. impossible for the
people to pay the additional taxes Which
the requirement under this Act provide
for, aud in view of this opinion it.was
deemed worthy of the attention and con?
sideration of the Conference of County
Commissioners of the State, in the proper
discharge of their duties, to the people of
the several counties, to represent to the
Legislature the necessity of postponing the
organizations of townships for a period of
ten years at least, at. the expiration of
which it is to be hoped that the State will
be m a prosperous eon ditto hi
??The counties of the State, laid out as
the law directs,'would be sub divided into
townships of not less than thirty-six and
not more than a hundred square miles in
extent The State contains 37,000 square
miles. Let us suppose we divide the State
into townships of fifty square miles each,
it would Contain 740 townships, which will
require, according to the Act, seven officers
in each township. The law allows $1.60
per diem for each officer. Say, for argu?
ment, that these officers are on duty 150
days, at $1.50 per day; per annum it would
amount to $1,575. If one township
amounts to 81,575, 740 townships would
amount, per atinUm, to 8l,i??,500. We
have no doubt but most of these officers
Would be on duty for the greater part 'of
the year. You will perceive by these fig?
ures the enormous expense this township
bill will incur. This is only paying the
salaries of officers, whose pay will be the
small sum of $1.50 per day, for which no
competent man, if be honestly discharges
his duty, would be willing to give his pep
vices.''
The Killing of ToLfifc?T.-=The fei'
lowing is the Radical version of the man?
ner in Which Tolbert met his death i
About half-past seven o'clock on the
night of December 2d, Hollingshed,
Brown, Freese and White Manuel, star?
ted for the capture of Tolbcrt. They had
reccivod information that there was tobe
a wedding at widow Hinton's residence,
about three miles from Greenwood, near
Abbeville, and while on their way learned
that Tolbcrt was therei After securing
their horses in a neighboring thicket of
pines, they started tor the house; When
near the house Brown, Freese and Manuel
stopped, while Hollingshed slyly crept up
and looked in the window at the end of
tho house. He saw Tolbcrt sitting by tho
fireplace, conversing with a large party
of his friends. Presently some one came
out of the door, when ho cropt under the
house remaining there some ton minutes,
While there ho heard Tolbert relate to
his friends how he escaped from the Peni?
tentiary. As soon Us me person who
came out of the door returned into the
house, be came out of his hiding place
and went to his comrades and told them
Tclbert was there* lie asked whaLUiey
should do, as there were some forty men
and women there. They all agreed to
take Tolbert or die there. They .then
pulled off their coats, and, drawing their
revolvers, started for tho door. With one
bound thoy alighted In the middle of the
floor, Hollingshed foremost, saj'ing, "Bill
Tolbert, you are my prisoner; surrender,
or I'll kill you." T?lbert ran through the
house to a door at the foot of the stairs
among the worn en, tho house being full.
Hollingshed followed, and while grap?
pling with Tolbcrt, received from hiirilrfs
first shot, which struck him in the side,
making a slight flesh wound, and passfnjf
out of the door opposite. They still
struggled with each other, when Tolbert
fired a second time, the shot piercing the
ceiling overhead. Brown at (hut moment
rushed in the room und fired. Tolbert
then fiicd his last shot, the ball pas?
sing through Hollingsbed'e leg. Manuel
and Freese now entered, and shots wore
tied in quick succession by Manuel and
Brown, Tolbert in the meantime throw?
ing up his arms and exclaiming, "I sur?
render!" He then expired.
?.
? Ex-President Davis makes his home
in the Sooth as an insurance agent; where?
at E. A. Pollard grows wrathful, and in
bists on his quitting the country. The
Courier-Journal settle* the matter thne:
"How would Pollard Kke to submit tho
question to a vote of the people of the
Sooth, as to which of the two should quit
?Jeff Davis or himself?"
? A quaint writer says: ?*! have seen
women so delicate that tfeey were afraid
to ride for fear of the horse rnmiingaway;
afraid to walk for tear the dew might fall;
afraid to sail for fear the boat might upset;
but I never saw one afraid to be married,
which is more riskful than all the athittj
put together." * -??>*?s-j