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HOYT & 00., Proprietors. ANDERSON 0. H., S. 0., THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 4, 1873. VOLUME IX.--NO. 22. C From the State Capital, farrjO Correspondence of the Charleston News and Courier.. , (?OLUMBIA, Nov? 24. The extra session has ended to-day, and it has closed with nothing more remarkable, per? haps^ than the resolution in the House, to pay Speaker Lee six hundred dollars for extra ser? vices. This .js^customaty, I berieve, or has been made so' in the last two or three years. Otherwise the proceeding of the General As? sembly to-night have been without interest. The Senate passed resolutions complimentary to the1-president a rid1 to the clerk for the dis? charge of their respective duties. President Gleaves made a short speech, complimenting the members "upon the harmonious action and Upon the disposition which had been manifest? en to act honestly by the State and resist all the dishonest schemes which have been pre? sented. Whether the praise of the president ? ? deserved or not remains afterwards to be seen. So far it is evident that the Senate has been inclined to favor every claim against the State, whether honest or aishonest, which is presented as tolerably authenticated ; and that body is the main stay of the "credit mobilier" printing arraugement. Though they reduced the amount in the appropriation bill for the expenses of,the extra session from $50,000 to $2oj000 for printing, on the second reading, yet on tne third reading $50,000 was reinstated. It is plain-as the nose on a man's face, to use the homery expression, that the Senate is en? tirely bought up in the interest of the Repub? lican "Printing Company. The Democratic members, Donaldson, Dunn, Duncan, Jeter, Keith and others, may oppose and do oppose, the printing claims, but they pass nevertheless, and,will continue to pass. Whence arises this strength or this corrupting power of the Re? publican Printing Company ? I hare tried to ferret the thing out, and I have found, or I have the best reason for believing, that there are no stockholders of the Republican Printing Company whorthy of consideration except the clerks of the two houses?Woodruff for the Senate and Jones for the House. It is a Credit Mobilier arrangement beyond a doubt, but the manipulators are too sharp to make an actual distribution of stock. Members are made par? ties in interest, but it is done immediately by the payment of money, and not through the inteisention of stock. Cardozo, (colored) sen? ator of Kershaw, and the two colored senators, Jervey and Gaillard, of Charleston, have so far acted with the Conservatives in fighting the printing frauds. There may be other Re? publican members, but they do not now occur ] to my mind. It has come to ligh t that there has been a slight business disagreement between Moses ana Neagle. The accounts of the matter have been somewhat exaggerated, and somewhat incorrect. I have put myself to the trouble of getting the true facts of the case, and they are as follows: During the campaign of 1872 Moses borrowed from Foster Blodgett, now of Newberry, sundry amounts of money, and gave therefor sundry notes endorsed by J. L. Neagle. j The notes were due last Spring or winter. In J order to quiet Blodgett and prevent a pressure of the collection of the notes. Moses of his own accord intimated to Blodgett that his I (Blodgett's) son was a suitable man for the place of county treasurer of Newberry, and that he meant to appoint him to the position. Upon this understanding Blodgett allowed the notes to stand over. But Moses did not stand tip to his agreement, and Blodgett placed the notes in suit and recovered judgment. Last week the levy was ordered, and Moses having no visible effects the sheriff attached Neagle's Bridge, which is the best paying property that the ex-comptroller owns. Thereupon the latter became quite indignant, and being about three sheets in the wind, swore eternal ven gence against Moses, and declared that he would kill him unless the money was immedi? ately paid and the levy upon his bridge re? leased. "If Moses was poor," said Neagle, "and could not pay his debts, I would not frumble and would meet these obligations, but e has got as much or more property than I have,-and I will not be swindled in any such manner. He has to stop this levy on my prop? erty, or I will stop his life." Honest John Patterson hearing these remarks, and feeling a warm interest in the continued existence of the Governor, drove down to the executive office and sent in a hurried note demanding immedi? ate conference. He was promptly admitted, and told Moses the story as it was, abating nothing, and declaring that Neagle would sure? ly kill the Governor unless the levy was im? mediately stopped. . 'Why, said Moses, tremu? lous with apprehension, "I will fix it all right if* he will give me a little time. Patterson can't you go up and see Neagle and quiet him a little*?" "Go and see him, said Patterson, "none of that for me?he would as soon shoot me as you, and I am not going to jeopardize my carcass in any such way, and I would ad? vise you not to risk yourself outside of your office until you have had this matter arranged." Whereupon Moses, it is said, slipped out of the back way of the Statehouse and, driving rapidly home, got Mrs. Moses, in whose name all of his property stands, to allow the levy to be made as against her. The likelihood is, from the best information I can get, that the bill to reduce the volume of the pnolrc debt which has passed the House, and which brings the debt down to between four and a half and five millions of dollars, will not pass the Senate in its present shape. The lobbyists will work to tinker it, and will doubtless succeed in getting the Senate to in? corporate in the bill all ol the .floating; debt, thus raising the amount of the proposed new bonds to some figure between eight and nine millions of dollars. Whether the House will agree to the amendments or not remains to be seen. Hitherto the House has evinced a decided disinclination to touch at all the float? ing debt, such as the outstanding certificates supposed to be in a great part fraudulent, the Blue Ridge scrip and like claims which are ?mb^wed in; the term, heating debt. ?JL 1 X'OLT75TBiA, November 25. The regular session of the General Assembly commenced to-day, It was a mere formality, of course, but the ordinary routine in the or? ganization of the two houses was gone through with. The Senate sent to the House, and the House* to the Senate, a notification that the respective bodies were organized and readv to proceed to business. J. P. Moore, J. D. Bos tori, Simkins and Rivers were appointed as a committee on the part of the House, and Whittemore, Smalls and Swails on the part of the Senate to notify the Governor that the General. Assembly was organized and ready to receive any communication from his Excellency that he might see proper to make. His Ex? cellency replied that be oould not give his regular annual message until the boads of the different executive departments made their reports to him, and that he did not believe that the said reports could be had until at least the $2d of the next month, or ten days from the present time. Thereupon both houses agreed to take a recess until Tuesday next, the 2d in ptantvat.l^-m. One.can understand how the House might take a recess, for that body has passed the bill to raise supplies and the bill to adjust the pub lie debt. But the Senate has done neither the one nor the other, and by their action in ad? journing at this time merely prove that the ex? tra session was a farce-and a humbug. The legitimate objects of the session, outside the counteraction of the mandamus in the case of Morton, Bliss & Co., were undoubtedly the fixing of the annual rate of taxation and the adjustment of the public debt. The Senate has not presumed to touch either one of these subjects so far, and is taking a week's recess without having even entered upon the two main objects of the extra session. It looks very much as I have heard charged, and by the Republicans, too, as if the extra session had been ouly a dodge to swindle the people out of more money, and thus furnish the means to certain high State officials in these trying finan? cial times to keep their heads above water. In the House to-day, Hamilton, colored, of Beaufort, introduced a resolution that the ser geant-at-arms of the two houses be prohibited from hiring any rooms outside of the Capitol building. This hiring of committee rooms is the source of much ill-gotten profit out of the State by parties who have been sharp enough to manipulate the business. Chief amongst these is ex-Treasurer Parker, who has built a "block" in close proximity to the State House for the purpose mainly of controlling this avenue of trade. In support of his resolution, Hamilton of Beaufort, went for Parker and his flock, asserting that the State had paid for the building once already, and that she should not be forced to pay over again in the way of hire of committee rooms. After some discus? sion a substitute, which means nothing, was adopted that the sergeant-at-arms be instructed to make no further contracts for the hire of committee rooms outside of the State House after his present contracts expire. The tax bill, which passed its third reading in the House yesterday, was amended in some important particulars. Section eight of the bill which provided that the taxes should be divided, one-half being made collectable on or before the 20th of January and the other half on or before the 1st of August, was stricken out, against the earnest opposition of a number of members. Another amendment was also made to the bill making such of the bills of the Bank of the State as were embraced in the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court, amounting in all to about ?10,500, re? ceivable for the tax which is levied. There was no calender for the Senate, and but little business was done in that body.? Smalls, of Beaufort, introduced the following preamble and resolutions, which were ordered to lie over uuder the rules: While the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina would avoid all interference with the action of the Federal Government in its foreign relations, and, in common with the whole country, rely with entire confidence upon the quiet resolution of the President to main? tain the honor and interests of the nation, yet the critical condition of our foreign relations rendering war a possibility makes it not inap? propriate in this General Assembly to express an opinion upon a policy which such a war might render necessary for the protection of the South ; therefore, be it Resolved, That in the opiuion of this Gener? al Assembly the condition of the couutry makes it a matter of urgent importance that a navy yard be established at some convenient and fit point upon the South Atlantic coast, and that in their opinion the harbor of Port Royal is eminently suited as the location for such navy yard. Resolved, That as the establishmeut of a naval depot at such a point would render it im? portant in peace and essential in war to main? tain certain and speedy connection with the interior, especially with the great supply pro? ducing section of the West, it would be, in the opinion of this General Assembly, a wise and patriotic policy on the part of the National Government to aid, either by subscription, guarantee of bonds, or grant of public lauds, any railroad enterprise which would couuect directly the South Atlantic coast from Wil? mington to Brunswick with the west at Chica? go, Cincinnati, Louisville or Toledo. Resolved, That in aiding and encouraging such an enterprise, and establishingsueh naval depot, the National Governmeut would be con? tributing, in a practical and constitutional manner, to relieve the monetary distress and the want of occupation .for houest industry which are now affecting the South in common with the whole country. Resolved, That oui: Senators and Representa? tives in Congress be requested to countenance and aid the State in securing these important objects. Resolved, That-be appointed a com? mittee to memoriali2;e Congress upon this sub? ject, and that his Excellency the Governor be requested to lend any aid in his power to pro? mote the object of these resolutions. Pay certificates were issued to all the mem? bers, and I am credibly iuformed that the per? sons who desire it can get their certificates cashed at the treasury iu certificates of indebt? edness of the Republican Printing Company. The company have agreed with the treasurer to allow him to use $70,000 of their certificates in the payment of members, if so much be neces? sary. The idea is to get the certificates dis? tributed through members of the General Assembly, and thus frighten any judge from granting any injunction to restrain their pay? ment, it is openly boasted that such is the object in view. Why the South is Poor.?The Columbus Enquirer says the South is p .or, not because we have less thrift or intelligence than other sections, but because we do not wisely use our gifts. The profits of our labor go to enrich Europe, and the North aud West. Though our cotton money amounts annually to hun? dreds of millions it must go abroad to pay for almost everything we eat and wear. Perhaps a hundred millions go to Europe, Fraucc and Germauy, for cxtravagaut dressiHg aud fancy goods, twice as much more to the West to pay lor provisions, furniture, etc. Our agricultu? ral implements are nearly all made abroad. How much goes to Cinciunati for whiskey ? How much to Tennessee and other States for guano, hay, dressed poultry, pork, aud Bologna sausage ? Why canuot our farmers raise poul? try, and why not our butchers make as good sausage as Tennessee or any other State? Thus in thousands of ways our profits are borne away, and we are left without money, completely at the mercy of those upon whom we are dependent. It is time our people were reflecting seriously upon their vassalage, and turning their attention to ways and means to | {?revent the outflow of money from our midst. I jet us encourage home production in every j possible vfay, for only by so doiug cau we hope j to regain our former position of wealth and independence. ? Tho star life insurance agent of tin coun? try is said to live in St. Louis. He is in the habit of getting himself on to juries in doubt? ful cases when business in his line is dull. Then he "hangs" the jury until every man of the eleven las insured in his company. Spftfa's Defence on the Cuban Question. The correspondent of the New York Herald gives the result of an interview with Admiral Polo, the Spanish Minister, in which the action of his government is defended, and arguments are made to show the folly of hasty action on the part of the United States j Washington Nov. 23, 1873. Admiral Polo, the Spanish Minister, who has hitherto maintained a strict reserve on the subject of the Virginius inbroglio, accorded to your correspondent an interview at a late hour this evening. The Admiral expressed his opinion fully and frankly on the grave compli? cations which threatened to involve this coun? try :in a war with Spain, as he is evidently de? sirous of placing before the American people what he considers the real facts of the case of the Virginius, knowing full well that when the question of peace or war comes to be decided upon our Congress and government will be led by public opinion. "iour correspondent opened the conversation by remarking that it was the accepted belief we were on the verge of war with Spain. Admiral Polo replied: "Yes; war has stared me in the face from the newspaper prints for the last fortnight or so, and I suppose there is a great deal of talk about war; but I doubt very much whether those who are clamoring for it represent the real sentiments of the American people at large. There is certainly no occasion, not a pretext for war, except it be to find employment for the many idle people about New York. It is said they must be pro? vided for, and therefore war would be a good thing. Perhaps it would, but I think it is a queer way of solving the labor problem." Your correspondent here queried whether the insult done to the American flag was not a good pretext for war. Admiral Polo said : "There has been no in? sult done or intended to the American flag, because the Virginius was no more entitled to it than to the flag of Venezuela, and perhaps not quite as much. I ask you, in the name of fairnesSjjshall the great flag of this country serve as a cover for the lasvless acts of asiet of adven? turers who, except as a temporary expedient, care no more for it than for a mere rag? When the facts of the whole career of the Virginius will be Jaid before the American people they will look at the case ha a different aspect. The Virginias has been engaged for three years in a lawless pursuit. During all that time she has not been once in an American port. There is ample proof that she was owned by Cuban insurgents, and by no Mr. Patterson or any other American. It is well known that she has landed several expeditions in Cuba. She took part in the civil war of Veuezuela, carrying troops for Guzman Blanco, which fact "was euough to deprive her of her Amer? ican nationality, if she had not forfeited it be? fore." Here your correspondent said : "As the Vir? ginius had American papers and was cleared by the American Consul at Jamaica, would it not have been well to examine the question of her nationality before assuming her to be a pirate and before the wholesale shooting of prison? ers ?" Admiral Polo replied: "The Virginius ob? tained those papers on fraudulent representa? tions, and therefore they were void. The American Consul at Kingston did wrong in clearing her; for the character and real desti? nation of the Virginius must have been known to him as well as the filibusters who manned her. General Burriel, upon whom so much abuue has been lavished by the American news? papers, ouly carried out the sentence of a reg? ularly constituted council of war. It was, however, no mere assumption on the part of the Santiago authorities that the prisoners of the Virginius were filibusters. They knew it to be a fact They had attempted to land for the purpose of killing loyal peojple in the is? land ana destroying their property. The au? thorities acted upon that knowledge in enforc? ing with the utmost rigor the municipal law governing such cases. I deplore most sincere? ly that the orders of the Madrid government aid not arrive in time to stop the executions. Regarding the capture of the Virginius, I am sorry to say. that many people in this country have the mistaken idea that the same laws of evidence apply to nations in their dealings with one another as to criminal cases. A statement of ft! certain fact by one friendly government to another ought to be sufficient evidence. Dip? lomatic action should not be hampered by the requirement of sworn affidavits and other legal instruments of that nature. They are right and proper in criminal cases, but seem like chicanery in international dealings. The American government has been repeatly noti? fied of the character of the Virginius. Why was she not brought back to the United States and turned into a bona fide merchant ves? sel? "Are the present complications'likely to lead to a war with Spain ?" was the next querv of your correspondent. Admiral Polo said : "I believe there will be no war unless the senseless clamor of a few should prevail over the American government. If you drive the Spanish authorities from the island, which cannot be done bo easily as some people here suppose, what government would you substitute ? Americaus who have lived in Cuba know that the Cubans are inca? pable of self-government. There remains, then, annexation to the United States. Well, if you must have the island, if that is what you. call 'manifest destiny,' take it, if you can, but get a stronger case than that of the Vir? ginius as a pretext for aggression. I do think it would be geucrous for this great Republic to take advantage of the difficulties of a strug? gling sister Republic, although I am of those who believe that a war with a foreign power would have the effect of uniting the whole Spanish nation for the defence of the national territory." - m * ? The Cotton Tax.?During the approaching session of Congress another effort will be made to get the cotton tax refunded. It will be re? membered that an equally divided Court re? fused to declare the law levying the tax uncon? stitutional, and that this decision has brought the question. befo.-r Congress?the only body which now has the power to do the South jus? tice. We sincerely hope that the tax may be refunded, aud we believe it will be if the friends of the measure will work as they ought to do. There is nothing which would benefit the people of the South more, which would afford them greater and more lasting relief. The tax was a harsh and cruel war measure. Embittered by the struggle in which they had : been engaged with the South, the North im posed this tax as a punishment?in order to ' make the "rebels" pay some of the expenses of tho war. So soon as passion began to yield to reason the tax was removed?hut not until it had worked us great mischief. It is now j time that reparation was made complete by a return of the money to the people from whom ! it was illegally collected. Let tho Southern ' members present an unbroken front and they will get allies enough from the West to carry the Dill through both Houses.? Wilmington Journal. "More Bread and Less Cottott.^ The Athens Watchman has the following excellent advice to the farmers: Let this, in the future, be the watchword of Southern planters. If our people dow had their corn-cribs, barns and smoke-houses well filled, and haa saved their domestic manure (which, for want of attention, was suffered to run to waste) instead of creating liens to pur? chase guano, they could snap their fingers in the face of Monsieur Panic. The great desideratum with planters has al? ways been a plan by which to secure high prices for cotton. Many expedients have been sug? gested?many learned essays have been written ?many impracticable plans suggested. Not? withstanding all these failures, there is a plati so simple, so certain and efficacious, that it is absolutely amazing that it has not been adopted long ago. It will secure the object sough;;, Let Southern planters raise their own stip {)lies of bread, meat and domestic animals, and et manufactories of all the common necessaries of life be established in our midst and no cotton sold for less than 2? cents-! Planters have the remedv in their own hands?it is simple, safe and certain?as simple as the prophet's prescription for the cure of Naaman's leprosy. Why will they not adopt it? Is it because, like Naaraan, they desire to do some "great thing." So long as cotton has to pay for corn, bacon, flour, horses, mules, clothing, agricultural im? plements, furniture, groceries, and even man? ure, it will require all the cotton we can make to purchase these supplies?and under the in? exorable laws of supply and demand, the lar? ger our crops are the lower will be the price of the commodity. What profit is it to the planter to make a hundred bales of cotton, if it requires one hun ? dred and ten bales to pay for his family sup? plies, including guano? Is it not infinitely better to make but twenty-five bales, at 25 cents per pound; and his own supplies? Whatever the cotton brings will be clear profit. The plauter will then have capital toinvestin man? ufactures or otherwise. This is no empty theory. It is a well estab? lished fact. Let any planter look around him and inquire who has been compelled to borrow money to carry on farming operations. It is the cotton planter who goes "the whole hog" on cotton. From whom does he borrow ? From the man who raises, first, his own pro? visions, and afterwards, what cotton he can make. Is not this always true ? No one will pretend to dispute it. What is good for one individual, is good for the whole community. Let our Southern planters adopt the policy recommended, and, instead of being "hewers of wood and drawers of water," they will be? come the most prosperous agricultural people the sun ever shone upon. Mutton vs. Bacon for the South? Could we not kill two birds with one stone? raise our own meat and improve our lands, if we were to raise sheep upon our farms more than we do ? I know that mutton is not a favorite article of food with our people, but I believe if they would eat more of it and less of fat bacon they would be stronger, healthier, and less liable to inflammatory diseases. I can understand how a people living -in a cold climate prefer very fat meat, because it is necessary to supply the carbon to maintain in? ternal heat. We know the Laplanders drink train oil, and Russians will eat tallow caudles with a relish, but I cannot understand people living in a warm climate making fat bacon their principal animal food. Mutton is the cheapest, most nutritious, and consequently the most wholesome food we can eat. I think it is Liebig who says in animal chemistry, that the prize fighters in England when in training for their barbarous encounter, use mutton almost exclusively, never allowing the use of pork or bacon. It is not necessary to present at any length the other consideration?namely, the value of sheep as renovators of worn land. That is not denied, I suppose, by any intelli? gent farmer. Taking into account the small cost of keep? ing a sheep, and the value of the wool aud manure, the meat is evidently the cheapest an? imal food we can raise. We cannot expect to see mutton introduced at once as a substitute for pork, but we may hope to see it used instead of a portion of the pork which we eat. What I want is to mix mutton with our hog and hominy?to find a fine, fat, juicy leg of Southdown or Cotswold mutton on a farmer's table now aud then in? stead of the inevitable fat bacon swimmiug in its own grease. Then, the economy being con? ceded, the sanitary advantages come in. If we were to eat more mutton and less pork we should be less liable to inflammatory dis? eases, and less liable to dyspepsia.?Southern Home. Immigrants.?It is a good time now to in? troduce immigrants into the State. The de? mand for them in the Northwest is not so active as it was. A considerable number of Germans, recently brought over, have just re? turned to their native shores. The stringency of the times in the North has thrown a large number of persons out of employment. They are drifting Southws dly, attracted by the more geniai winter climate, and by the hope of find? ing the means of living here. Several have gone up to Newberry and the Districts above, aud orders have beeu given to bring on more. Yesterday, two German youths reported at the office of Messrs. Moore & Faber, and through their recommendation, secured situations with with Messrs. Monteith, McMaster & Co., in their stave and shingle factory, on the Cou garec. They were salesmen in dry goods arid hardware stores in their own country, but have cheerfully gone to different work in this. Eight Italian immigrants, farm hands, also turned up ou the streets, seeking employment. They have not found it at time of writing this, but are in negotiation, we understand, with the same firm and with other parties. We ought to have an immigration society or a well equipped agency at this point, to facilitate bus iness communications between those having j employment to give and those in search of it. | ?Phoenix, Anecdote of Abraham Lincoln.?When the late President Lincolu was practicing law at Springfield, 111., he and the judge once got to bantering one another about trading horses, and it was agreed that the next morning at nine o'clock they should make a trade, the horses to be unseen up to that hour, and no backing out under a forfeiture of twenty-five dollars. At the hour appointed, the Judge came up, leading the sorriest-looking specimen i of a horse ever seen in those parts. In a few minutes Mr. Lincoln was seen approaching with a wooden saw-horse on his shoulder. Great were the shouts and the laughter of the crowd, and both were greatly increased when Mr. Lincoln, on surveying the Judge's animal, set down his saw-horse and exclaimed : "Well, Judge, this is the first timel ever got the worst of it in a horse-trade." ' peradventure?it cannot possibly fail. Feeding* and Fattening Animals. Every farmer, who makes the feeding of an? imals an important part of his business, ought to know that their unremitting growth is the only true and successful way of treating them. This is the course which the most successful pork-raisers pursue in feeding their hogs regu? larly through winter and summer, till they are sufficiently fat in the autumn. Many intelligent persons are accustomed to suppose that poor animals may, in a short time, he changed into fat ones by stuffing them with ricn food. The more food they can make them take in a day or a week, the quicker, they sup? pose, they will become fat and fit for market. But this is a false opinion, as experiments clearly show. The overfeeding is always waste? ful ; for after all the animals gain but little fat, and the owners begin to think that the fattening of them for market is an unprofitable business. An owner may withhold the proper quantity of food- from his hogs and cattle, and even half starve them for months, and then may change his mode of treating them, and glut them with excessive food, and thus hope rap? idly to put them in fat condition; but the at? tempt will prove abortive, as the growth of the animals from the earliest period of their exis? tence, and their increasing in fat and flesh, must continue on without interruption til1 they are marketable. Careful observations prove that the profits of raising and fattening cattle and hogs are realized only when they are reg? ularly fed from day to day, with neither too scant or heavy feeding. Some object to this mode of treating their animals. They wish to finish the fattening process in two or three months, acid think it is too expensive to con? tinue it for two or three years. This would be the case if their way of feeding was the correct one; but it is not, for heavy feeding is not re ui8ite to keep up the continued growing con ition of the animals. We have in mind an observing farmer who carefully weighed all the animals he was fat? tening every week. To a fine steer he gave daily four quarts of barley meal, and he found the increase in its weight to be ten pounds per week. He then tried the experiment of giv? ing it eight quarts per day, and he found the weekly increase of weight was less than when four quarts were given. Twelve quarts were now given daily, and at the end of the week there was no gain of flesh. These facts teach all persons who feed do? mestic animals that there is such a thing as feeding their stock so largely or heavily that the profits will be less than if the stock were to receive smaller allowances. When a por? tion of the feed passes away without having been digested, it is a reliable indication that the food is not consumed as profitably as it should be. Suicide and Life Insurance. Life insurance policies usually contain a clause providing that if the insured shall die by his own hand the policy shall become void. An important case has just been concluded in the United States Circuit Court of Iowa. Charles L. Hogan, whose life was insured by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, killed himself in 1871, and the company declined to pay, on the ground that Hogan had died by his own hand, within the meaning of the exception stated in the policy. Hogan's administrator consequently brought suit, ad? mitting the suicide, but declaring that the act had beer* committed whilst Hogan was "tem? porarily insane." Upon the insanity issue the trial took place before a jury, there being first excluded from the jury-box, however, all jurors who "had the preconceived opinion that a man was conclusively insane merely because -he committed suicide." Upon the side of the ad? ministrator evidence was produced toshowthat Hogau had, in the latter part of his life, changed from an affectionate husband and father to one who was irritable and morose; that he complained of pains in the head; treated his wife and children harshly, butafter wards denied all remembrance of such conduct; and that, in the opinion of several physicians, who testified as experts, he was really insane. Upon the side of the insurance compauy, this change in his conduct was admitted, but they declared that it was produced by a different cause than insanity. They showed that his family relations were unpleasant; that he got into severe pecuniary embarrassment; was a defaulter to the express company by which he was employed, and had embezzled a five hun? dred dollar money package, which the com? pany was engaged just before his death in tracing out. Exposure being imminent, he ineffectually tried to borrow the money neces? sary to make good his deficit, and finally the superintendent of the express company unex? pectedly appeared iu Hogan's office to investi? gate his accounts, and on the same day Hogan shot himself. The jury, after an hour's delib? eration, gave a verdict for the insurance com? pany, and declared, in a special finding, that Hogan voluntarily took his own life. A mo? tion subsequently made for a new trial was overruled. This case has aft important bear? ing upon life insurance in connection with suicide. Low-Necked Dresses.?"Roundabout," of the New Orleans Times, having attacked low necked dresses, a correspondent defends them iu this extraordinary fashion : Ma. Roundabout : Why is it that some j people will "sling ink" against, and seem shocked at the low-necked dresses of our mod? ern belles? Those "quill drivers" ought to crawl into a pillow-case and have ashes poured upon their heads. If I were a husband or j father, or both, I might so far sympathize with 1 them as to enter a feeble protest against the prevailing mode, but being only an unaccom? panied stray waif in this wicked, weary world, I am willing to admit?sinner as I am?a pen? chant for dresses cut short at both ends. Be? sides, the fashion is always accompanied with the holy and tender associations of infancy. As the countryman said when asked, after leaving a very fashionable party, if he had ever seen such a sight before: "No," was the emphatic reply, "not since I was wcaued." Yours, A. Under which "Roundabout" "caves," and says "if low-necked dresses really do remind the hardened sinner of his childhood, and flood his sinful heart with memories of inno? cence and home and mother?why, perhaps, they're entitled to more respect than we have heretofore imagined." The County Pater.?The "little county paper" is the best read paper in the world. No other contains the marringes and deaths, to say nothing of divorces and births; no other relates the accidents happening before the doors of the villagers ; no other gives the time for the next ball, pic nie or political meeting ; no other discusses the affairs of the town and county, the arrival of new goods on the mer? chant's counters, or of a new hat on the editor's i desk. Without a paper, a town that has ever j enjoyed a well managed ono feels indeed lost.; ?Exchange. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? A nice little boy said he liked "a good rainy day?too rainy to go to school, and just rainy enough to go'fobmg*,'' ? Why does the "girl of the period" make the best housekeepers ? Because she makes so milch bustle about a little waist. ? Life is like a theatre?during the play* we take higher and lower seats, but when it is over we mingle in the common stream and go home. ? "My dear," said a husband to his wife, on observing new red striped stockings on his only heir, '-why have you made barber's poles of our child's legs V "Because he is a little shaver " was the neat reply. ? In nine cases out of ten, whatever it may be called, the ultimate cause of suicide is in? digestion, diseased liver, or some other physi? cal derangement. No healthy person ever cut his throat because things went wrong. ? According to a writer in the Popular Science Monthly, a house should be so placed that^ the direct rays of the sun can have free admission into the living apartments, because the sun's rays impart a healthy and invigora* ting quality to the air, and stimulate vitality of human being as they do those of plants, and without sunlight human beings, as well as plants, would sicken and die. The aspect, therefore, should be south-east. ? There were tooth carpenters in those days; for in Egypt mummies have been found with teeth filled with gold, and in Quito a skel? eton has been discovered with false teeth se? cured in the cheek bone by gold wire. In the museum at Naples, among some of the surgi? cal instruments discovered at Pompeii, there is i fac-simile of Sim's speculum. In the ruins of Nineveh, Layard found several magnifying glasses. ? Hon. James B. Beck favors the ren?.al of the late salary law, with a provision directing the excess of the present compensation over the former pay received by any member since the 4th of March last to be de'ducted from any future payment to be made to such member, and this repeal to be made applicable to all persons, including the President, who were benefitted by the salary act. ? A lot of minstrels went to a town not far from Boston and advertised to give a perform? ance for "the benefit of the poor?tickets re? duced to ten cents." The hall was crammedi The next morning a committee of the poor called upon the treasurer of the concern for the amount said benefit had netted. The treas? urer expressed .astonishment. "I thought," said the chairman of the committee "you ad? vertised this concert for the benefit of the poor!" Replied the treasurer: "Didn't we put the tickets down to ten cents so that the poor could all come?" ? One of the victims of the yellow fever at Shrevcport was the Hon. Samuel Peters, mem? ber to Congress elect from the Western district of Louisiana. He was cashier of the Freed men's Savings Bank of the above mentioned city, and had the funds of that institution under his his control. The dreadful disease carried him off so suddenly that he had not time to give any directions concerning the affairs of the bank, and he died without mak? ing known the "combination" on which the safe was locked. The books show that there are $12,000 in the safe, but there are no mer? chants in that part of the country that can open the safe without destroying it. ? ''How do you get on ?" said a loving New York wife to her husband, a merchant, the other day. "Oh ! I shall weather the storm, but I wish I had ouly a few hundred dollars more. It would be very convenient, to say the least." "Don't you wish you had married a rich wife?" said she, in a teaming way j then rising and going to her room she returned with rather more than the amount required in United States bonds. "Why, where in the world did you get this 7" said the bewildered husband. "Well, my dear, you went to a champague supper seven years ago, and on your return home, finding navigation around the room rather difficult, deposited hat, shoes, gloves, and a large roll of bank bills on the carpet. I put it away, and waited three weeks for you to inquire if I had seen it. When finding you were ashamed to do so, I invested it; and here you have it." Defaulting- County Treasurers. The following communication^ which ex? plains itself, has been forwarded to the General Assembly, aud shows a delectable condition of the fiscal affairs of this State: Columbia, Nov. 25, 1873. To the Honorable the Senate and Home of Representatives: I have the honor to acknowl? edge the receipt of your concurrent resolution of this date, requesting information as to the cause of indebtedness of the present county treasurers and ex-treasurers, as shown in my annual report, and why they have not been held accountable therefor. Most county treas? urers who appear on my books as debtors to the State, are debtors, not by default, but by non-eettlement with the comptroller-geueral. This, in many instances, is very difficult to be had, principally on account of the treasurers being charged with nulla boiias, polls, uncol lected taxes, from the Joss or destroyal of pa? pers by fire, robbery and other similar causes. In some instances it occurs from proper aud correct accounts not having been rendered by the county auditors, aud in others where treasurers have been charged with railroad taxes which they have been unable to col? lect. But this information is known oniy by the comptroller-general; who has the set? tlement of their accounts, and from whom, and from the treasurers' monthly reports, I can only learn what treasurers are defaulters. Durrug the past summer months I investigated the accounts of those treasurers whom 1 lound large debtors to the State, upon taking charge of the books of the office, and requested each of them to settle with the comptroller general. When no efforts were made by them to make a settlement, I have placed their cases in the hands of the Attorney General and the solici? tors of their respective circuits. The subject of settlements with county treasurers, however, belongs to the Comptroller General's depart? ment and, as he iuformcd me personally, you will receive from him full information concern? ing it in his annual report. Very respectfully, <&c, F. L. Cardoxa. Treasurer Sta'e South Carolina. A New Classification?A gentleman who has a planting interest and who is distinguished for his punctuality iu settling bills, called the other day on a merchant of this city, to whom he was indebted, and asked him to have isorae cotton weighed?remarking that he wished to pay him on, as he understood he was allowing 15 cents per pound ou debts. To his surprise the merchant refused the cotton. An explana? tion being demanded, the merchant remarked, "You know it has been usual to classify cotton heretofore?middling, ordinary and inferior. We now classify the producers instead of the cotton, and the inferior article brings the high? est price. Not belonging to that grade, sir, we canuot allow you 15 cents."?Athens Watch