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HOYT & CO., Proprietors. VOLUME Vn.?NO. 24. Debate on the Governor's Message. The correspondent of the Charleston Courier furnishes a report of several speeches in the House of Representatives, which were deliver? ed last week, while the Governor's annual message was under consideration. We copy the most notable efforts on that occasion: Brigadier General Whipper (colored) sounds the tocsin of war upon the RlNG. At the outset he disclaimed any intention, as the author of the resolution deferring the reading of the message on Tuesday last, to slight the Governor. There were but few things to which he would refer in the message, which, in his opinion, was not such a message as an honest man would have presented to a Legislature. Personally, he entertained the kindest feelings towards R. K. Scott, but offi? cially, his opinions would be seen in the re? marks which he was about to make. The great question contained in the message was the question of the finances. The Governor had attempted to quiet the people of the State by what he called "a true exhibit of the debt of the State." This exhibit the speaker pro? ceeded to dissect, and show by figures and facts its falsity. He said, even taking the Gover? nor's statement, financial ruin was staring the people in the face. But what rumors were abroad in the land ? He had heard enough to believe that Governor Scott's statement did not show half the actual debt of the State. The report of the Treasurer, which accompanied the message, shows, on the face of it, that it is false. He then alluded to the report of the "committee of citizens," which has already been published. This report, said he, is only based upon what accounts they were shown. How many of the accounts they were allowed to see, God only knows. The report shows, in every line of it, a predisposition on the part of the committee to cover up the tracks of the monsters who have plundered the State. He did not mean to impugn the motives of the committee. But who were they but men who would,most naturally, spring to the invitation, such as had been extended them. They were of that class, of men who were interested in the State bonds. The report itself was drawn out, he said, by the representative of a bank which had invested its money in bonds, and it was natural for them to attempt to bolster up their tottering fortunes. He honestly believed the debt of the State to be $18,000,000 to ?20,000,000, and years hence, when the truth would have a hearing in this matter, his predictions would be verified. But whether it was ?11,000,000, or ?15,000,000, or $20,000,000, the result was the same?finan? cial ruin. All this showed that, the Govern? ment had proved itself a failure. The question now was, "Is there a remedy, and if so, is the General Assembly educated up to the point of applying it." Figures will show (said he) to any calculating, reasoning mind, that we can? not carry on the Government as it now exists without laying a tax of twenty or twenty-two mills on the dollar. Will you dare to levy that tax? Your constituents will never stand it. It remains for you, then, to accept the ouly re? maining remedy?there is one thing left us? we are driven to repudiation. We need no Act of the Legislature to accomplish this; we have but to submit quietly, and the result will bring on repudiation. We can forget to pass an Act to provide for the payment of the inter? est on the public debt, and this will be virtual repudiation. I am not interested in bonds of any kind, and, for one, I do not intend to allow the men to enjoy them whom I have assisted in hoisting into power. The time has now come when we must either do something or give up the attempt to carry on the Government. I, for one, will not share the ignominy of this man, (the Governor,) and not share his bonds. He has shown in his message that he has vio? lated the law, aud it is now the time for action. I am ready for impeachment; ready to see the guilty go to the penitentiary. Enough is known not only to impeach them, but to send them to some narrow confines, there to meditate up? on their post crimes. The Virtuous and Incorruptible Tim Hurley speaks a piece about Honest Carpet-baggers. He said that as a member of the joint com? mittee, which was to report in a few days, he had intended not to say anything on the sub? ject, but he was prepared to say this much.? A lie, upon my soul, a lie. That every state? ment contained in that message, in reference to the debt of the State, was a lie. He was, more? over, prepared to say that the debt of the State was more to-day than R. K. Scott dared to tell the people. He thanked God that in the con? stitutional and other conventions he had per? sistently refused to vote for the men who to-day ought to be in the penitentiary. (Whether! ought to be there or not?sotto voce.) Last year I gave him the name of the dog killer. This year he has earned the name of credit killer. Well, this credit killer says that this will be his lost annual message. I doubt if he is tell? ing the truth in that fraud. If there is any money left in the Treasury I have no doubt he will try to buy himself in again, and the wires are even now being laid. He will attempt again to foist himself on the State. There never was a Governor who made as many dif? ferent statements concerning the finances of the State. But that is not his fault, because he can't tell the truth, even if he were to try. Why, even the books which he exhibited so willingly to the Tax-payers' Convention were prepared for the purpose. He then asserted that the decline in the price of bonds was caused by the Governor. The rapid decline was caused by Scott to enable him to purchase bonds enough to cloak up the over-issue. He had stolen $10,000,000 and run down the price in order to buy and cloak up his theft. He didn't know what injury the Governor ever did to the man that wrote the message, but that man will certainly be able to write over his tomb? stone, when he dies, I am the man who killed cock robin. He did not believe that ?14,000, 000 would cover the fraud. He knew, for a fact, that a man was in New York last summer with a blank commission in his pocket, trying to get some broker or banker to negotiate the sterling bonds. This commission was signed in blank by the Governor, and was hawked around among the financial men, who were begged to take^ the loan and negotiate it. So far as the Legislative expenses, to which the Governor had referred, there was this to be said: If the Legislature were to remain in session year in ana year out, the expenditure would not he half as great as that caused by the Governor's stock operations. He believed that the mem? bers of the Legislature had made up their minds to hoist one of those fellows in the ring, and if they were true to themselves they would begin by impeaching the Governor. ["We will," from June Mobley.J ? A little girl, when her father's table was honored with an esteemed guest, began talking very earnestly at the first pause in the conver? sation. Her father checked her very sharply, saying : "Why is it you always talk so much ?" "Tause I've dot somesiu to fay,'' was the inno? cent reply. American Cotton Manufactures. The importance of the greatsuccess which has attended the manufacture of Cotton fabrics in this country, has, we fear, not been fully appre? ciated. That success has been so marked as to emancipate our people from dependence upon England for most of the Cotton fabrics which we consume. Moreover, not only does the suc? cess of Cotton manufactures here deprive Brit-1 ish industry of this lucrative trade on this side 1 the Atlantic, which it once enjoyed, but it threatens it with a formidable rivalry in mar? kets hitherto even more exclusively its own than was the market here. Before the war, when we were practically free from taxation, we competed with Manchester in supplying the China, India and other markets with certain kinds of Cotton cloths, and there is no reason why, with reduced taxes aud a return to specie Eayments, we should not do it again. England as the important advantage of cheaper labor and capital, but this advantage is partially off? set by an abundance of raw material and an abundance of motive power, at our doors. It is a slow and difficult thing to move skilled la? bor, but to a commercial people it is the easiest thing possible to move the material. Hence, in getting the two necessities together, Cotton has gone too largely from our side to the labor on the other side, the only advantage from this movement being the lucrative employment of American shipping. But this trade was prac? tically destroyed by the civil war, and it is not probable that it will ever be fully restored.? There is a possibility, however, of turning the tables upon the Lancashire cotton manufactu? rers. The English laborers, by whom Cotton is wrought into woven fabrics, are living in a couutry which gives fewer comforts of life and a smaller share in the general physical and in? tellectual inheritance of humanity. This is be? ginning to be understood by the laborers them? selves, and, judging from the dissatisfaction which exists among them, it may be safely as? sumed that the influx of the skilled labor of England to our shores will be far greater in the future than it has been in the past. With the drain of her excess in the supply of loom work? ers, we shall have gained a strong point in fa? vor of our renewea competition in this impor? tant field of industry. Indeed, we believe the period is not very remote, when England will no longer have the advantage of cheap labor. We shall then be able to contest with her for the supremacy in a branch of industry that has done so much to make her great in the modern world. The spread of Cotton manufacturing indus? tries at the South is one of the most gratifying indications of the times. The establishment of Cotton mills all over the South would add an immense valuation to the raw material. This would be retained in the country, and distribu? ted amour operatives and laborers of all classes, who are required in and about manufactories. These would in turn distribute it in purchases, and thus create a wide-spread prosperity. The condition of the South, as respects the employ? ment of capital and labor, is to be on an en? tirely different basis in the future. In the days of slavery, capital was invested in large plan? tations and in slaves to carry them on. There was little money to spare for the erection of manufactories, and if there had been, there was an insurmountable obstacle in the way of en? tering largely into manufacturing. It was the conflict between slave labor and free labor.? Slave labor was unskilled, and, under slavery, was incapable of attaining any high degree of excellence; free labor would not work, and so the South was confined mainly to the produc? tion of the raw material. Now, however, the conditions are changed; the old plantation sys? tem has passed away, and free labor maps out a new order of things. There will be, more or less, a division of plantations. There will be a more productive system of cotton culture, more bountiful crops, and larger cash returns for them. It is not too much to say that the accu? mulated capital will be liberally invested in manufacturing enterprises, chief bf which will be Cotton mills. A tide of immigration South? ward and the natural increase of population will furnish an abundance of labor, not only for the plantations, but for the mills. Now the arts of reproduction arc in a rudimentary state ; but with that spirit of enterprise which ac? companies free labor, higher degrees of skill will ne gradually introduced, and thero will come a time when the finest fabrics will be pro? duced in the midst of the plantations where the cotton is grown. The true interest of the South lies in the encouragement of manufac? tures, that she may retain within her own hands the profits upon the production of the raw mate? rial and upon the manufactured goods, and that she may also save the freights that are now lost for want of skilled industrv within her own bor? ders.?jSr. Y. Shaping and Commercial List. Heroism of a Railroad Coxihtor.?A conductor on a freight and passenger train of the Syracuse and JJinghainton railroad per? formed a daring feat a few days since, by which a fearful catastrophe was averted. A corres? pondent furnishes the following particulars : "The train consisting of twenty-four stock cars aud one passenger car, which was filled with passengers, was between this station and Whit? ney's Point, going at a tolerably high rate of speed, when the engineer, William Hardy, dis? covered a rail entirely out of the track* some distance ahead. He immediately reversed Iiis locomotive, but, on second thought, determined I to attempt running the train over the place where the rail was missing, and at once turned on a full head of sterun. The engineer and fire? man, however, did not remain to sec what suc? cess the experiment would meet with, but jumped off the engine, leaving it without any one to control it. The train bounded over the disconnected track at a fearful rate of speed, every car retaining its position on the track. The dangerous spor, was passed, but, with no one upon the locomotive to control its speed, a most terrible fate awaited the train somewhere. The state of affairs became known to the pas? sengers, and a panic was at once raised. At Whitney's Point there was every probability that the track would not be in readiness for the train, as at the rate it was going it would reach there some minutes before its time. In this ex? tremity Conductor John Vrooman proved him? self to be a hero. He was in the passenger tar at the rear of the train, but clambering up the ladder of the freight car next in advance, he ran the whole length of the runaway train on the tops of the cars, and was soon in the loco? motive cab, seized the throttle, and in the next moment had the train under control. A less hero:,c man in charge of the train, and it is im? possible to tell what the result of the extraor? dinary runaway might have been." ? The death of ex-Governor John Bigler, of California, is announced. The sad event oc cured at San Francisco, on Friday last. There were two brothers, both leading Democrats, and while one was Governor of Pennsylvania, the other occupied the same position in California. The two Biglcrs began life, like many other ; eminent men of Pennsylvania, in the genera i tion now passing away?in a small country printing office in that State. Their success should encourage all printers' devils to aim I high in life, even if they fall short of the mark. 1 Onr Thrifty Governor. The Toledo (Ohio) Times gives the following information about the investments of our thrif? ty Governor, recently effected in that State: In view of the attention which is being di? rected to the finances of the State of South Carolina, it may not be amiss for us of the State of Ohio, the home of B. K. Scott, to say, a word. That veracious statesman has had a great deal to say on Wall street, for some days past; and his sayings there iiave been very well advertised?better, probably, than he ex? pected. He has also had a word or two to say in Ohio, without the benefit of so great a pub? lishing, and without any desire for it. We dis? like, however, to see his modesty ruin him; and will do him the favor of advertising an item or two that can do no harm to anybody else, and may be of great advantage to him. It is generally understood in this region, that Mr. Scott', of Napoleon, Ohio, was not an overly wealthy man when he espoused the cause of the United States "against all foes, foreign or domestic." A carefulcyphering, ac? cording to the most appnroved rules of arith? metic, show the reward of that enthusiastic espousal to be about as follows: Two years' service as Brigadier General United States vol? unteers and Chief of the Freedmen's Bureau for South Carolina, at about $3,500 per year, $7,000; three years' loyal and most valuable service as Governor of the State of South Car? olina, at $5,000 per year, $15,000; making a grand total of the reward of loyalty to the ex? tent of $22,000, which is not too much for the extraordinary loyal services which have been rendered to the Government by this soldier and statesman. And to show that this distinguished son of Ohio is a financier as well as a states? man, we venture upon the ventilation of a few figures, just to show what prudent use he has made of the twenty-two thoiisand above men? tioned. Of course, we will nay no attention to the ordinary expenses of himself and family during this long period, for they are domestic affairs, and are none of our business, except as govern? ment money pays for them ; and we may rest assured that government money, after it came into Scott's hands, never paid for anything that he could avoid. So we can take it for granted that our worthy South Carolina Governor, start? ing out in our great civil war without a penny, did not expend a penny during that war, or the revalsions that have followed it, even for the maintenance of his family. So we give him the advantage of $22,000, the whole of his pay and emoluments since he began to be a briga? dier general, including all the time that he has furnished discipline for the State of South Carolina. What has he done with that $22,000? He has been in the State of Ohio, since the expo? sition in the public press of the South Carolina bond frauds, and has invested his $22,000 as follows: He is building in Napoleon, Ohio, where he expects to live after his South Caro? lina contract has expired, a $10,000 house for his sister. He has taken stock in a new na? tional bank, in the city of Toledo, to the amount of nearly fifty per cent, more than his whole pay as an officer of the army and Gov? ernor of South Carolina during the whole time that he has occupied those positions. A prom? inent business man and capitalist from Cana? da, well-known to capitalists in this vicinity, visited Williams County, and other adjoining Counties, since Gov. Scott was here, for the purpose of purchasing timber land, with a view of getting out large quantities of ship timber. He found that all the available timber land of the country round about had been purchased ouly a few days previous by Gov. Scott. It has also transpired that, during his visit here, he left in the hands of some of his friends, fully $35,000, to be invested in safe real estate. That money is, to-day, in the hands of busi? ness men in this vicinity awaiting investment. And this makes about $100,000 which Mr. Scott, of Napoleon, Ohio, now acting as Gov? ernor of South Carolina, has invested, within the last two mouths, in this immediate vicinity, out of the $22,000 which has comprised the whole of his pay and emoluments since he be? gan to be a government officer. The paltry sum of $100,000 is but a baga* teile, in comparison with the $9.000,000 extra fraud on the South Carolina bonds, if it is true. But Governor Scott denies having made any? thing out of the bonds; and, as far as his Ohio speculations are concerned, wc give him the benefit of the doubt* We will charge him only the $22,000, which has come to him in the shape of pay and emoluments?which is all he claims to have received?and credit him with the $100,000 he has saved out of it to invest in Ohio, at one pop, within the last month. We would merely suggest, that it isn't fair for one man to have all the money ; and that the Governor, having feathered his nest, cught to stand aside, aud give some other loyal man a chance._^ _ Southern Agriculture.?The Commis? sioner of Agriculture, in his report accompa? nying the President's message, speaking of the needs of Southern agriculture, says: 'Tt must be conceded that the course of agriculture in I the Southern States has not been conducted with that care, skill and regard for ultimate re- i suits, which have characterized the operations of farmers in other States. While their lands are continuously devoted to cotton and tobacco, until they have arrived at a state of exhaus? tion, those of the North are continually improv? ing by rotation of crops, which is absolutely essential to the life of the soil itself, and with- j out which fanning and planting had better be | abandoned. These impressions have induced me to turn my attention to these States, to seek some mode by which the influence of this de? partment may be directed to benefit them?to lind out whether their implements, and especi? ally their seeds, may not be greatly improved ; and how, in the distribution of seeds and plants, we may best reach thosa to whom they may be profitably sent." He says that the Southern States suffer greatly in their interests for want of grasses, in the use of which their productions would be greatly increased by ren? dering a rotation of crops necessary. Clover, with its deep roots, aud rye grass, n strong grow? er, will well endure the hot sun of the South. Referring to the distribution of seeds, the Commissioner says: "I am satisfied that the mode heretofore pursued is erroneous. The quantity sent is entirely too small fur even an experiment. A pint or a quart of wheat, oats or other cereal, cannot, be successfully grown, and such experiments almost uniformly fail be? cause the quantity is too small. I need not here discuss the reasons for this, but the result is manifest to those who have tried the experi? ment. It would be far better to put a half or whole bushel of seed into the hands of one concientious and careful person, than to divide the same quantity among ten or twenty," ? A gentleman was arguing with n Scotch lady, when at length he stopped, "I tell you what, ma'am," said lie, 'I'll not argue with you any longer. You're not open to conviction.'* fi>>ot open to conviction, sir I" was .the indig? nant reply ; "I scorn the imputation, sir. I am open to conviction. But," she added, after a moment's pause, "show inc the man that can convince nie." The Presidents Message on the Ku Klux. "We extract from the annual message of Pres? ident Grant that portion relative to the execu? tion of the Ku Klux law, and the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in nine counties of South Carolina, giving his reasons for such ac? tion : There has been imposed upon the executive i branch of the*?rOvernment, the execution of the act of Congress approved April 20,1871, and commonly known as the Ku Klux law, in a portion of the State of South Carolina. The necessity of the course pursued will be demon? strated by the report of the committee to in? vestigate Southern outrages. Under the pro? visions of the above act, I issued a proclamation calling the attention of the people of the Uni? ted Slates to the same, and declaring my reluc? tance to exercise any of the extraordin?r}'pow? ers thereby conferred upon mc, except in case of imperative necessity, but making known my purpose to exercise such powers whenever it should become necessary to do so, for the pur? pose of securing to all citizens of the United States the peaceful enjoyment of the rights guaranteed to them by the constitution and the laws. After the passage of this law, informa? tion was received from time to time, that com? binations of the character referred to in this law, existed and were powerful in many parts of the Southern States, particularly in certain counties in the State of South Carolina. Care? ful investigation was made and it was ascer? tained that in nine counties of that State such combinations were active and powerful, em? bracing a sufficient portion of the citizens to control the local authority, and, having among other things, the object of depriving the eman? cipated class of the substantial benefits of free? dom and of preventing the free political actions of those citizens who did not sympathise with their own views. Among their operations were frequent scourgings and occasional assassina? tion, generally perpetrated at night by dis uised persons, the victims in almost all cases eing citizens of different political sentiments from their own, or freed persons, who had shown a disposition to claim equal rights with other citizens. Thousands of inoffensive and well disposed citizens were the sufferers by this lawless violence. Thereupon, on the 12th of October, 1871, a proclamation was issued, in terms of the law, calling upon the members of those combinations to disperse within five days, and to deliver to the Marshal or military offi? cers of the United States, all arms, ammuni? tion, uniforms, disguises and other means and implements used by them for carrying out their unlawful purpose. This warning not having been heeded, on the 17th of October another proclamation was issued, suspending the priv? ileges of the writ of habeas corpus, in njne coun? ties in that State?direction was given that within the counties so designated persons sup? posed upon credible information to be members of such unlawful combinations, should be ar? rested by the military forces of the United States, and delivered to the Marshal, to be dealt with according to law. In two of the said counties, York and Spartanburg, many arrests have been made; at the last account the num? ber of persons thus arrested, was one hundred and sixty-eight. Several hundred whose criminality was as? certained to be of an inferior degree were re? leased for the present. These have generally made confessions of their guilt. Great caution has been exercised in making these arrests, and notwithstanding the large number, it is be? lieved that no innocent person is now in custo? dy. The prisoners will be held for regular trial in the judicial tribunals of the United States. As soon as it appeared that the authorities of the United States were about to take vigorous measures to enforce the law, many persous ab? sconded, and there is good ground for supposing that all such persons have violated the law. A full report of what has been done under this law will be submitted to Congress by the At? torney General. Stimulants.?There is a time when the pulse lies low in the bosom and beat? low in the veins; when the spirit, which apparently knows no wakening, sleeps in its house of clay, and the windows arc shut, the doors hung in the invisible crape of melody ; when wc wish the golden sunshine pitchy darkness, and wish to fancy clouds where no clouds could be. This is a state of sickness where physic may be thrown to the dogs, for we wish none of it. What shall raise the spirit? What shall make the heart beat music again, and pulse through all the myriad thronged halls in the house of life? What shall make the sun kiss the eastern hills for us, with all his old awaking gladness, and the night overflow with moon? light, love and flowers? Love itself is the greatest stimulant, the most intoxicating of all, and performs ail these miracles, and is a mira? cle itself, and is not in the drug store, whatever they say. The counterfeit is in the market, but the winged god is not a moucy changer, wc as? sure you. Men hnve tried many things, but still they ask for stimulants. Men try to bury the float? ing dead of their souls to the wine cup, but the corpse rises. Wcsce their faces in the bubbles. The intoxication of drink sets the world whirl? ing again, and the pulses to playing music, and the thoughts galloping, but the clock runs down sooner, and au unnatural stimulant only leaves the house it filled with the wildest revelry, more silent, more sad, more deserted. There is only one stimulant that never intoxicates?duty.? Duty puts a clear sky over every man, into which the skylark, happiness, always goes sing? ing.?Prcntiss. Pi.KKPi.rc.ss.xrcsR.?The best anodyne is n lib? eral amount of muscular activity out of doors every day. Persons who set around the fire and lounge on the sofa, or read or sew a great part of the day, need not expect sound sleep ; only the laboring man can taste it in its sweetness. Many fail to sleep at night because they will persist in sleeping in the day time. It is just as impossible to healthfully force more sleep on the system than the proportion of exercise requires, as to force the stomach to digest more food than the body requires. Rather than court sleep by industrious activities, many persons re? sort to medicine, and every new drug which is heralded as a promoter of sleep becomes at once immensely popular, even though it is known to possess dangerous qualities. Chloral hydrate has had a great run, and even young men arc known to be purchasing it at the drug stores, to be used in promoting sleep ; it should never be taken unless advised by the family physician, for the medical jour? nals are constantly publishing cases where se? rious harm and even fatal results attend its ha? bitual use.?Journal of Health, ? In one of the Ohio towns a citizen hud rendered himself obnoxious to the rest of the community, so ho was placed in the hands of a vigilance committee for treatment. The chair? man of the committee made the following re? port: "Wc took the thief down to the river, made a hole in the ice and proceeded to duck him, but he slipped through our hands and hid under tin- ice. All our eflorts to entice him out failed, and he has now retained his point of ad van tilge jouic hours" The Finance- of South Carolina, The New York Daily Bulletin?a commercial journal of high standing?in publishing the Report of the Committee of Citizens, who re? cently "examined the books of the State Treas? urer, at Columbia, as far as practicable," says: We shall not venture to prejudge the ac? counts of the Financial Agent; but that he should control such an enormous amount of bonds, and that nothing should be known at the State Treasury respecting the nature of his operations, the condition of his accounts,or the extent to which he has involved the credit of the State, is a matter which, to say the least, demands the promptest remedy. Mr. Kimp ton's promised statement should not be delayed one day; nor do we see why it need be; and it is due to himself that he should invite, at once, a full examination of his accounts by parties who would command public confidence. The gublic very properly ask, how is it that the t?te authorities know, or profess to know, so little of the operations of the New York Agen? cy, when all the debt operations have been conducted through it? There is either gross neglect or something worse in this apparent ignorance; and the public can ouly be expect? ed to discredit the State officials until the mys? tery is cleared up and everything told. If peo? ple distrust the Government and, as Governor Scott complains, the press has protested and the people have begun to utter the foul word "re? pudiation," what wonder, when the most extra? ordinary irregularities are wrapt up in profound secrecy ? Until the Governor gives the public a full and fair statement of everything, he can only expect to be distrusted, and all who hold positions of financial trust under him. It appears from the report of the Committee that the Financial Agent has hypothecated $3,773,000 of bonds, against advances amount? ing to something over $900,000; but, on what account this money was borrowed, they fail to show. Their report states, relating to a summa? ry of the debt, which we give below: "In the above statement it will be observed that the sum of $203,000, already referred to, has been deducted from the estimated debt of 18o9; whether it should be so deducted must ne? cessarily depend upon the report of the Financial Agent. It is admitted that this amount of the debt has been redeemed, but its final position in the account cannot now be ascertained with cer? tainty." We understand this to imply that the com? mittee was unable to satisfy itself of the incor? rectness of a report current here that bonds received for redemption, or in the way of con? versions, have been used as collateral for loans. Respecting the $200,000 held in the Sinking Fund (also deducted from said statement of debt,) the report makes the darkly suggestive remark: "This sum purports to be on hand for the re? tirement of that amount of the existing debt. If the whole of it or any portion has been us-ed, (which can only appear by the report of the Financial Agent,) the amount so used becomes a portion of the floating debt." Thus, the committee suggest a grave doubt that not only has the Sinking Fund been di? verted from its proper use, but that retired bonds have been reissued. What have the State officials to say to these imputations ? How long do they suppose the bond-holders and tax? payers will keep their patience under the dark suspicions thus inevitably suggested? Their reticence is naturally construed as an evidence of guilt; and yet Governor .Scott in an official bulletin, assumes an air of injured virtue 1 The committee deserve thanks for what they have done; but some explanation is required of the reasons which prevented them from ex? tending their examinations to the othce of the Financial Agent, where only they could expect to find the information about which the public are most concerned, - ? I m - A Remarkable North Carolina Negro. ?The most remarkable character we ever re? corded is n negro murderer in Nash county named Luke Johnson, Luke was first taken up for larceny some months Rgn, and a negro wit? ness living ih a little log cabin in the woods had testified against him before the grand jury. He tracked this witness to his house one night, and poking his gun, loaded with nails, through a crack, he shot him dead. He was immedi? ately arrested and lodged in the jail of Nash county. He only stayed there one day?got out that night; was re-arrested and carried to Warren county jail, there to be kept more se? cure. This is a strong jail, and is fenced around by a strong rock wall, and there are fifty fierce bull-dogs Kept in the jail-yard, Luke was confined in a close coll, nntl at lost the authorities thought they had him safe. But they were mistaken. He took a rock out of the floor that weighed five hundred pounds with his own hands, and crawled under and got to the door of the jail, but there he stunned Oh ac? count of the bull-dogs, and he stood there in the door and waited for the jailor to come and "put him hack." The jailor came along after awhile and slapped Luke in again. But the authorities were afraid to trtist him much long? er, so they took him back to Nash county, and he had bin trial. He was sentenced tobe hung hv the neck till he was dead on lost Fridav, the 17th inst This time they handcuffed him securely in the jail, with cuffs made to order, and also put on anklecnfFs, locking them up securely: and then they had a chain that run from his hand? cuffs to his ankleeuffs.and this chain was locked through a big iron bolt and ring iH the floor.? He was allowed a sitting posture in a common split bottom chair, and with his hands reached down, chained and buckcled, took the round out of the chair, and running it in the ring, twisted it out, breaking the link in about twen? ty pieces. There was a wire in some way con? nected with this ring, and with this he picked the locks on his cuffs and got his hf.nas and feet free. Then with a piece of the Iron link he forced the locks on three iron doors locked on hjm, and also the wooden one at the en? trance of the jail, and in this way made his third escape, letting out with him another tic* gro prisoner. He thus made his escape from the gallows six days before hanging day, which was appointed to have been last Friday. Luke Johnson, wc are told, is a young, strapping ne? gro man. gingcrcakc color, and is about twen- j ty-fivo years old. He was sold as a slave seven times in Richmond. Va.f before the war. He I is a real mechanical genius, and during the war ] he made a buggy out of wood, with white-oak i springs, and without a piece of iron in it. In j tliis buggy he used to ride to church. When j sentence was pronounced on him in Nash Coun? ty (,'ourl House, as the sheriff marched him out, he exclaimed; "You all ain't going to hang me; you can't do it!" He is still loose, and swears he will never leave Nash county.? Raleigh Carolinian. ? A young married man was remarking to some ladies that it was always the women who ran after the men, when his wife indignantly said, "You know, my dear, I never ran after yon." "That may be," he replied, "but you took mighty good care not to get out of the way." -- The woman question : What did she have on ? Historic C'arpet-Bagism. It looks odd that Massachusetts should bo quoted in justification of Southern opposition to carpet-baggers. But such is the fact. The people of that old Commonwealth were owe made the victims of a carpet-bagger, and th y protested lustily against this outrage. In a document bearing date April 18,1689, and eh-' titled "The Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants and Inhabitants of Boston and the Country Adjacent,'" they complain that Sir Edmond Andros had been brought from New York to be their Governor, and they set forth their grievances after this manner: " The Government was no sooner in these Hands, but care was taken to load Preferments upon such men as were strangers to and hater* of the people; and every one's Observation hath noted, what Qualifications recommended a Man to publick offices and Employments, only here and there a good Man was used, when others could not easily be had; the Governor himself, with Assertions now and then falling from him, made us jealous that it would be thought for his Majesties Interest, if this Peo-. pie were removed and another succeed in their room. And these far-fetched Instruments that were growing rich among us, would gravely in? form us that it was not for his Majesties intercut that wc should thrive. "But ot all our oppressors we were chiefly sgrtecz'd by a crew of abject Persons, fetched from New York, to be the Tools of the Adver? sary, standing at our right hand ; by these were extraordinary and intolerable Fees extorted from every One upon all occasions, without any Rules but those of their own insatiable Avarice and Beggar}', and even the probate of a Will must now cost as many Pounds perhaps as it did Shillings heretofore; nor could a small volume contain the other Illegalities done by these Horse-Leeches in the two or three years that they have been sucking of ??.*** Persons who did but peaceably object against the raising of Taxes without an Assembly, have been for it fined, some 20, some 30, some others 50 pounds. Pact and pict Juries have been very common things among us. Some have been kept in long and close Im? prisonment without any the least Information appearing against them, or an Habeas Corpus allowed unto them." The protest was printed in pamphlet form, and no doubt had a general circulation among the people of that day. The carpet-bagger as here pictured nearly two hundred years ago, is true to his instincts to-day. The picture is so life-like that it seems to have been drawn for the Southern States in the light of the past five years. The governments of the Southern States were "no sooner in these hands, but care was taken to load preferments upon such men as were strangers to and haters of the people; and every one's observation hath noted what qualifications recommended a man to public of? fices and employments; only here and there a {;ood man was used when others could not easi y be had." Could the writer have been more true to history had he written of the carpet? baggers of our time? And well may the tax ridden and robbed people of South Carolina, and Georgia, and Florida, and Louisiana, and other Southern States exclaim, "But of all our oppressors, we were chiefly squeezed by a crew of" abject persons fetched from the North; "by these were extraordinary aud intolerable fees extorted from every one upon all occasions, without any rules but those of their own insat? iable avarice and beggary." There is not a State iu the South that lias l.ot felt the presence of this class. Massachusetts once protested against these "horse leeches," but now the Rad? icals among her people rejoice to see them prey? ing upon the Souib.?AiwAnY/e Union and American, - "<m m * ? - The Story of a Ring?One or the Romances of the War. In the year 1801 a young man, then living a few miles from this city, went into the Missouri State Guard as a soldier. At Springfield, and on the re-organization of this branch, of the army, he took service as a Confederate. Before leaving home, however, his mother gave him an old-fashioned gold ring, which had a heart upon it, and the letters "K S." en? graved Upon this heart. She placed it on her son's hand with a wish, or rather a prayer, that he might go through the war and get safely back to his nonie ngaim ( It is not known that either the ring or the prayer acted as a charm, but the young man went unharmed through many bloody fights, being hit in but one of them, the wound then proving to be only a mere scratch. In 1864 the young man was very sick of a fever at Clarksville, Texas. During the deliri? um attendant upon it, and while he was tossing to and fro, the ring slipped from his finger and was lost. The closest search failed to find it, and it was given up for good. There waited upon the young man, however, a very pretty and amiable girl, who seemed to be sorry when he got well enough to rejoin his command.? When he left he laughingly told her that if she would find his ring, and he lived, he would come back and marry her. If this promise was made with any degree of sincerity, it wa* soon forgotten in the excitement and care of a soldier's life, and only at rare intervals, per? haps, did he recall the sick room and the min? istering angel. - When the war was over the young man re? turned to his father's farm iu Jackson county, and went to work in good earnest. Two years ago his mother died, and once more the loss of the ring came back upon him with redoubled sorrow. He determined to write to the lady who had nursed him, and to inquire of her whether she was married or not, and whether she had ever seen or heard anything of the present his mother had made him. The letter was written in August, 1869, and in March, 1870, what was his surprise to re? ceive an answer from the identical girl he had left in 1804, and to whom he had made a light promise of marriage. She whs still single, she said, aiid waiting for him. And what was stranger still, only five days before she wrote she had found the missing ring. The manner of finding it was as follows: The father of the young lady had determined to make some repairs in his house, which re? pairs necessitated the taking up of the floor of the room in which the soldier had been sick. After doing this, and while digging away some rubbish beneath, the workmen came, upon the [ ring. It had slipped through a crack in the j floor, and had been lying their safe and sound j for nearly live, long years. The lady took pos ; session of it at onec, and wrote immediately to ? its owner, as wc have stated above. Perhaps she looked upon its recovery as an omen, and perhaps it was. At any rate, it was a little ro? mantic with all it.s attending circumstances. The correspondence thus commenced, or rather renewed, was continued with an ever-in , creasing ardor on the part of the gentleman, I until in the end he made a new and impetuous I offer of marriage. Without that the story would he incomplete. I>ast week, with money in his i pocket, a good home in Jackson county, and a , great happiness in his heart, this young soldier i ?now somewhat older and more settled aud se? date?started for Clarksville, Texas, the home of his betrothed.? Kansas City Times.