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^iiiHPi^H II gil|i|Piii?iPi|i|,lP)|/4 BY HO fT & CO. _ ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 19, lin._VOL. XII-NO. 40. RATES OP 8U#?Cfi!PTJ0jr.~Tmo Poiuu M^OB^?ndO??I>ojJ^?lor ?Ix ??ai?* P flabacrlpUon? fer? not taken for ? lose period ,^^'ra-"defloctton? mad? to elufci of Un or 7'jL1r^?^?"?FW?*OT/r0.--0?? Dellar ?er '?-^IM ?nt ?teh ter Ik* flnt Inaertioa.and Fifty ? i'n?W aquvo for?uUequtrnttaaertioaaleeathar, ?breo laoDtbi. No adrartUemtnU count? ie? IhxsS ?'??aro. ' "uLeral cojU/acja viui be maw? ??? ?i^-~ toadT#rtto?for?.tee,?lapr twelve awkOf. Ad ?ortitloK br contract mutt bo confined to th* Im mediate bualne*? of Ut? firm or Individual ecntrao* "("iD?tuarr Notlcei exceeding AT? Uno*, Tribute* .,f awpect, and all norton*! cotnmaalcatlcna cr m.tur. of iadi-ldUiaUnVeioa*. will U caaraodtor itad^erUalngratea. Announcements ormarriages .n 1 Jeatbi. and notices of a rellrloua cliaracior, ar* retpectfullV iollcltcd. and will bo insertad griU* THE LAST Ol THE UfUBPAtlOBT. Elliott. Cardon, et al.. T_?!d Chamber lain Adieu t Chamberlain's Farewell Arraigns the President. COLUMBIA, S. C., April 10,1877. Jii$ Excellency D. H. Chamberlain, Qov~ emor South Carolina, Columbia, ? C.: DEAR BIB-Recurring to the views severally expressed by us during the per bonal conference, which we had the honor to hold with you yesterday, in regard to tho political complications which havo grown out of the Ute canvass in this State, vie beg leavo to apprise you form ally of the conclusions we bavo reached, after ?? stu rc deliberation and the gravent reflection which wo have been abla to bcotow upon the subiect. Whilst we aro no less inspired with ad mira tion for '',n dignified and rMolute mariner in which you have consistently m&tntained your claims to the Guberna torial chair, by virtue of tho election held in Novembe: last, than we are solemnly impressed with the validity of your title to the office, we are unanimous in the be lief that tn prolong the contest, in the absence of that moral aid to which we '. <1 ourselves and our party justly en titled at the bands o? a national adminis tration, installed, in large measure, through the same agencies which are now hold to be insufficient for our main tenance, will be to incur the responsibil ity of keeping alive partisan prejudices which are m tho last dog ree detrimental to the best interests of the people of the State, and perhaps of precipitating a physical conflict that could have but one result to our defenseless constituency. We cannot afford to contribute, howevoi indirectly, to such a catastrophe, even in the advocacy of what wc know to be om rights. We aro agreed, therefore, in counseling you to discontinue the struggle for thc occupancy of the Gubernatorial chair, convinced as we aro that, in view of tnt disastrous odds to which its maintenance has been subjected by the action of tht national administration, your retirement will involve no surrender of principle nor its motive be misapprehended hy th< great body of that political party tc which, in common with ourselves, yoi are attached; and whose success in thc past in this State has been ennobled bj ?our intelligent and useful services. W< avo tho honor to be, very respectfully yours, ROBERT B. ELMOTT, Attorney General. THOMAS O. DUNN, Comptroller General. F. L. OABDOZO, Treasurer.. H E: KAYNE, Secretary of State. JOHN R'. TOLBERT, Superintendent of Education. JAMES KENNEDY, Adjutant and Inspector General. The following is the address of Mi Chamberlain : Tb the Republicans of South Carolina : By your tqt'W J.was made Governor o this Stato in 1?74.. At tho election oi tho 7th of November last ? waa again; b; your votes, elected'to the samo office My title to tha office, i upon every legs mid moral ground, ia to-day clear am perfect. By the recent decision and ac lion of the President of the United State I find myself unable longer to maintaii my official rights with the prospect o final success, and I hereby announce t you that I am unwilling to prolong struggle which can only bring forth c suffering upon thone who engage In it. In announcing this conclusion, it is tn duty to say for you that the Republican of South Carolina entered upon their r< cent political struggle for the maint< imnco of their political and civil right Constituting, beyond question, r. larg majority of ?tbs lawful voter* of .the 8tftt< you allied yourselves with that politic: party whose central and inspiring prit ciplo has hitherto been tho civil an political freedom of all men under tb constitution and lawa of our countr By heroic efforts and sacrifice's which tl just verdict of history wiU rescue froi the cowardlv scorn now cast upon the: by political Dbvc^aien and traders, ye secured tte electoralvote of South Car lina for Hayes and w heeler. In accoo plishing this result you became the vi tims ol every form of persecution and ii jury. From authentic evidence it shown that not less than ono hundred < your nutntier wero murdered beean they were faithful to their principles at exercised rights solemnly guaranteed them by the. nation. You wero, ''.enii employment, driven from your home robber! of the earnings of years of hone industry, hunted for your lives like wi beasts ; your families outraged and sci tered, for no offense.except your peacef and firm determination to exorcise yo political rights. You trusted, as you hi a right to trust, that if by auch effoi you estcbi?Bhed the lawful supremacy your political party in tho nation, tl government ofth??il^ted States, in tl discharge ;dF its " constitutional dui would protect tho .awful government. the State fron overthrow at the hands your pqUtitsfr .ueaieKi'v Fram ";oausi pateaitb' ill uW?nd questioned byso who regard truth, you nave been una! to overcome the unlawful combinatio and obstacles which' bate opposed t practical supremacy of thogovernme which your- votes have established. I many weary months you have waited 1 your deliverance. While the long stn Kio for the Presidency was in progr. you were exhorted by every represen' tive and organ of tho national Republic party to keep your allegiance true to tl party iu order.that your deliverance in tho hands of your oppressors might certain and complete. Not the faint whisper of the possibility of disappoi nene id these nopes and promises e reached you while tho struggle was pei ??e. To-rl.^ April ?O, 1877, by 1 c.?cr of thu rresident ? wnom your vo alone rescued from overwhelming defe -he government of tho Uniter! Sta abandons you; deliberately withdn from you ita sapporo with tho foll kno ttlgo that tho lawful government of otate will be speedily overthrown. By a new interpretation of the con tution of tho United States, at variai alike with tho previous practice of Sovernraent and with'the decisions of opreme Court, the Executive of united cutes avades ibo mn/ of ss; talniug which of two rival State gove menta U the lawful one, and by withdrawal of troops now protecting Stato from domestic violence aband tho lawful State government to astruj with insurrectl??ary forces too po weriu bei resisted. Tho grounds of policy u; which such action ia defended are st ling. It is said that the North ls wear; -he long Southern troubles. It weary, too, of the long troubles wi Srung from the stupendous cr'*ne *ttel slavery and longed for repose, .ought to cover them from tight by w td compromises with the wrong wi dwnrbed its peace, but God held it U ?oiy until, through a conflict wi rocked and agonized the cation, the g enme waa put away and freedom was drdned for ali. ti is said that if a majority of ibo ] P?* of a Stat* are unable by phy? force to maintain their rights, they most be left to political servitude. Ia thia a doctrine ever before heard in our history? If it shall prevail, its consequences will not long bo confined to South Carolina or Louisiana. Ii Ls said that a Democratic House of Representatives will refuse an appropria tion for the army of the United States if the lawful governmcat of South Carolina Is maintained by tbe military forces. Submission to such coercion marks the degeneracy of the political party or peo ple which endures it. A government worthy the name, a political party fit to wield powor, never Wore blanched at such a threat. But the edict- hs? gone forth. No argu ments or consideration which your friends could present have sufficed to overt the disaster. No effectivo means or* resist ance to the consummation of the wrong are left. The struggle can bo prolonged. My strict legal rights are of coursa wholly unaffected by the action of tho President. No court of the State has jurisdiction to ?tasa opon the title to my office. No law ul Legislature can be convened except upon my call. If the use of these powers promised ultimate success to our cause, I should not shrink from any sacrifices which might confront me. It ls a cause in which, by the light of reason and con science, a man might well lay down his life. But, to my mind, my present re sponsibility involves the consideration of tue effect of my action upon those whose representativo I am. I have hitherto boen willing to ask you, Republicans of South Carolina, to risk all danjera and endure all hardships until relief should come from tho government of tho United States. That relief will never come. I cannot ask you to follow mo further. In my best judgment, I can no longer servo iou by further resistance to the impend ng calamity. With gratitude to God for the measure of endurance with which He has hitherto inspired mo. with gratitude to you for your boundless confidence in mo, with profound admiration for your matchless fidelity to the cause in which we have struggled, I now announce to you and to the people of the State that I shall no longer actively assert my right to the office of Governor of Soutn Carolina. The motives and purposes of the Presi dept of the United States in the policy which compels mo to my present course are unquestionably honorable and patri otic. I devoutly pray that events may vindicate the wisdom of his action, anrj that peace, iostice, freedom and pros perity may hereafter bo the portion oi every citizen of South Carolina. D. H. CHAMBERLAIN, Governor of South Carolina. Haye? on the Sooth- Letter from Gov, Von oe. RALEIGH, N. C., March 27. Ed.iiort Chronicle and Cor.itiiuiicndizi. DEAB Sir.3-Yonr letter has been re ceived, asking my views aa to the poai tion the Southern Democracy should oe cupy towards Mr. Hayes, and whethe: they abonid apply for or hold omeo undo; his administration, etc. Briefly and simply, then : In every thing, except the mere forms of law, : regard Mr. Hayra an a usurper. B; maintaining armed intervention in State' recently declared by the commission un der which he claims to be so sovereign .that no act of theirs could be impeachei or even inquired into, though tainted b; a fraud tl .it wonld have avoided an; other horo&u transaction, in any court ii christendom, he is flagrantly defying th Constitution of bis country. Every da; that United States troops are kept in ant about the State Houses of South Carolin: and Louisiana by Mr. Hayes' order, he i guilty of crucifying the Constitutioi afresh and putting it to open shame And ali mon who nold office under bin of political significance, are holding hi garments whilst liberty is bay on et ted t death. The plea of uniting with evil doers for the purpose of controlling thet is as contemptible as it is stale. It lot ita efficacy in the service of ronegade ns live Southerners, who joined the Radi cals in time to participate in the recoc struction era of plunder. Tho duty of the Southern Democrats i well as of the Northern Democrats, on of Dom oem ta and friends of con nt itu tiru ni liberty everywhere, is to wago ope war against Mr. Hayes and all other me ? who disregard the plain provisions t that'great chatter of the rights of tb States and of the people. Especially ? it the duty of the Democracy to see tin [not another dollar is voted to the euppo of the army until guarantees are give that it snail no longer be used to destrc the States, and shear them of their ju ? powers. I see no objection to Democrats Allic subordinate positions to which no polit cal significance is attached, except in i far as the sense of obligation to the a] ?pointing power may weaken the blot ; which an honest man should always 1 ? ready to strike the enemies of his com try's honor and welfare. Yours respectfully, Z. B. V ANCE. Is Your Note Good. A Boston lawyer was called on a she time ago by a boy, who inquired if 1 bad any waste paper to sell. Thelawy had a crisp, keen way of asking questior and ls, moreover, a methodical mac. ? pulling out a large drawer, he exhibit a atocle of waste paper. "Will you give mo two shillings 1 that?" The boy looked at tho paper doabtin ly a mc jont and offered fifteen pence. "Done 1" said the lawyer, and the \ per was quickly transferred to the bag the boy, whose eyes sparkled as ha Hit the weighty mess. Not till it was safely stowed away c he announce that 'io had no money. . "No money i now do you expect buy paper without money ?" Not prepared to state exactly his pl of operations, the boy made no reply. "Do yoe consider your note good asked the lawyer. "Yea sir." "Very well; if you say your ni is good, I'd just as soon have it as t money; but if it isn't good I don't wi it." The boy affirmed that he considered Crod ? ~hcrcu**o? the l?t??yer ??;cts noto for fifteen pence, whi :h the 1 signed legibly, and lifting tho bag papera, trudged off. Soon after dinner the little fellow turned, and, producing tho money, i nounced that bo had come to pay note. " ,, , "Well," said the lawyer, "thia is first tims I ever knew a nota io ha tal np the day it was given. A boy t will do that is entitled to note and mor too;" and. giving him both, sent him his way with a smiling face and a ha] heart. _ - For nineteen years a tiraldj foo wife waited in agony for death to div< her from a druuken, brutal husband. - It is pleasant to shake hands wi girl whose fingers are covered with inonda, for yoe feel that you have a tune within your ?.-sp. TERRIBLE HOLOCAUST. Detalla of a Fearful Conflagration. ST. LOUIS, April ll. Tho Southern Hotel was burned at 2 o'clock this morning. Appalling loss of Hiv, nwivu nw av ut nv auupvvcu vu wu 200, but ii now reduced to 60. Jinny were killed io jumping from the third, fourth and finn story windows. Kat? Claxton, tho actress, who BO narrowly eccaped from tho Brooklyn horror, broke both legs jumping from the third story. 1 The fire originated in the upper stories. I The windows in the upper stories were | crowded with shrieking men and women, whom it seemed impossible to sate. A few were rescued by ladder* placed on the Fourth street portico, but on the ; otbnr th rea nii?r-.-i nf th? hiijidin:/ bounded by Fifth. Walnut and Elm streets, tho longest ladders fell far short of reaching the windows. Mr. Peter Blow, son of the former Minister to Brasil, was slcaping in his room on the sixth floor, and succeeded, after strenu ous exertions, in escaping with his lifo and a broken arm. The building was six stories in heighty and Mr. Blow thinks that the majority of inmates of the two upper stories of the building must have feriahed. Two men unrecognized wore ii.ud by jumping from the third story window?, ana e. third one was badly mangled. Five worner were rescued from the sixth story on the Fourth street aide by the hero efforts of firemen, v lit?, after ascending the patent ladders, suc ceeded in getting a rope to the half suf focated creatures. The fire originated in tho store rooms. It is supposed from forty to fifty were burned to death directly, or first suffoca ted. The fire originated in the storo room in the basement. It first came through the ground floor, north of the office, had ascended the elevators and rotunda and spread over the sixth story, occupied h" employees, mostly women. The amok." 'as BO dense in acme of the halls that the gas jets were extinguished, which rendered egrees. even to those most familiar with the building, a mat ter of great difficulty. The density of the smoke in the halla drove many guests and boarders baek in their rooms, and they rushed to windows as a means of escape. Ladders were raised as soon as possible, and the women and chil dren, with nothing but their night clothes on, wero thus taken from the bu rai ag bar "og. Some fainted from fright, and o' a< irs sank exhausted to the f?round fron lervoua prostration. The adders gou .ady were too ohort to .-each to the fifth nd sixth stories, but by hoisting some of them on the one-story balcony on the east side and the two story balcony on the north side of the building, theso floors were reached, and all those at the windows were rescued. TheSkinnnr fi rp partann ?aa alan hmnght promptly into service, and was the means of saving many lives. While work was going on, some frightful scenes occurred. One man, who had been oe cupyisg a window on W-!-"t street, in front of the hotel, becoming desperate at seeing the delay in effecting his es cape, with nervous hands he toro sheets from his bed into strips, tied them to gether, fastening this improvised rope to the window sill, and disregarding the fact that it did not reach more than twenty feet, he let himself down band over hand. Those below, who saw bia position, turned away their faeea to avoid witnessing the sickening event that was inevitable. Finally he reached the end of the ropo, and then, for the first time, he seemed to realize his position. He stopped, threw bis head back, revealing a ghastly face, and swung slowly to ann fro, swayed by the breeze which the roaring flames above created. His limbs ?PUnj; around convulsively, as though to caleb upon something ; then be let go, and groans went np from hundreds as ne whirled round and round and finally struck on the Btone flagging with a bick ering thud. He was carried to a saloon across tho street and died in a few min utes. Two other men jumped from the fourth story window-one of whom seemed not to be dangeronsly hurt. LATER.-The fire engines are atill play ing on the fire. A force has been organ ized to seat ch for the dead bodies, and several bodies have already been taken from tho ruins in a moro or less burned condition, but have not yet been identi fied. Also, several dead bodies are nt tho morgue awaiting identification. Mrs. Moran, a servant, was killed white jump ing from a window. George Frank Gouldy, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Free Masons of Missouri, ia supposed to have perished. Six persons, whose names are unknown, were killed, either by jumping from the windows or j were suffocated by smoke, and dragged out of tho burning building. It io diffi cult to procure the names of the dead, but ie hoped a complete, or nearly com Slete, list will be obtained this afternoon, idmore Hayden, superintendent of the j American Exp eas stables, is among the I killed ; also Henry Hnzen, deputy audit-j or of tbs Missouri Pacific Railroad Corn-1 pany. An Englishman named Adams, | said to b^acommissionerof education, was i identified at the morgue. A woman at a fifth story window on Fifth street front became panio stricken, jumped out, alighted on ber feet, was carried to St. James Hotel, and io atill alive. Her husband, who had been standing by her nido, then descended by a rope made of bedding. A man named J. E. Wilson jumped from a fourth ?tory v.-indow and was killed. Andrew Ena-1 man and Mrs. Scott met (heir deaths the aame way. The mortality among the female help of the. hotel wa great. There were 200 of them, al- of whom were lodged in the upper story of tho building. The panic among them was perfectly terrible. A number jumped from the upper window On Elm street, on the rear aiae of the house, is, ato Clax ton, the actress, had another escape, but was uninjured. Among the known saved wa?. II. Kretz, of Texas. Dr. Gorlaet, the Goman Consul, jumped from a win dow and broke a leg. Hts wifo was un hurt. Charles Teenan lost his life while attempting to save others. Philip Ger ald, a boarder at the hotel, was brought out alive, but entirely bereft OL' reason. At a quarter-past 2, or about half an hour after the fire was discovered, tho entire roof s?sse? ind tbs fL?steT ws*? idly descending to the lower stories. A half hour later the floors and interior walls began to fall. The roof fell In. There is now nothing left of one of the finest hotels in the country, except tho Walnut street front and parts of Fourth and Fifth street faces. Loas on the building and contant', from $75,000 to $100,000; iasarsiiie GDVn?wn. - Copy waa out. The devil picked up a naper and said: "HW? something 'About a woman'-must I cut it out?1' "No I" thundered the editor, "tho first disturbance in the world waa occasioned by tho devil fooling about a woman." - A little boy of our acquaintLr.cc who had just learned that the nrmed John and Jack were nsed interchangeably, took occasion, nov +z naturally, to call his sister's attention to a picture of "Jack th? BapUat." THRILLING INCIDENTS. Experience of Judge Mackey In South Carolins. _ t Wadi {upton Capital. Hon. T. J. Mackey, Republican Judge of the sixth or Chester Circuit Court of South Caroliua, at present in Washington as tho legal adviser or representative of General Hampton, is a gentleman who in London for example, would become in one season the autocrat of tho English dinner table. Ile was described to tue by General Calvert Butler, Senator elect, as the most wonderful conversationalist in the State, and acquaintance not only affirms but enlarges Butler's description. In course of a recent conversation. Judge Mackey related tho following incident, as bavin" come under his judicisl observa* tion in his administration of justice, which, owing to tho peculiar condition of society in his circuit, is partly statuto ry and partly patriarchal in its nature. Tho Jung J said that some two or throe ?cars ago, while holding court at Winns oro, no noticed a girl of wonderful beauty nt the country tavcru where he Eut up, and, upon inquiry concerning er. learned tbat sho belonged to a fami ly living there, related to the tavern keeper and of tho class usually termed in South Carolina "poor whites." He learned that she was soon to bo married to a young mau of her own class, and ho took so much interest in her fortunes that ho sent her n wedding present. About six months afterward the Judge was journeying by rail from one court to .motiiar in his circuit, and met this girl on thc cars. She was dressed in deep mourning and seemed in great affliction. Tho Judge approached her and in quired what had happened. She said I she was going back to her husband's birthplace to bury him, and that the corpse was in the baggage-car. In reply to a remark that tho death seemed to have been very sudden, the girl began to cry and told the Judge that she had silled her husband hy accident. She said they had lived quite happily together for about four months, when sho discovered that ho was surreptitiously visiting and corresponding with a young woman who lived several miles away. She had as certained these facts by intercepting some of the correspondence. Aa soon aa the husban \ found out that his amour had come t J the knowledge of his wife he re solved to murder her. So one morning he ordered his breakfast early, announc ing his intention to drivo to a town sev eral miles dh ant from York, where they lived. Just as they were Bitting down t? breakfast ho sent his wife for some bread, and in her absence emptied into her cof fee arsenic enough to kill half a dozen people. But ns sae was returning to the table his horses, which were hitched a( the door, became restive and began tc null at their halters. He rushaa from ihe table and went out to attend to them. While he was gone the wife noticed some coffee grounds or other impurities floating in her husband's cup ; and, woman-like, took it herself, settine her own cup, whicl was clear, by his plate. He then cam? in and ate nia breakfast. As he aros? from tho table, and began to put on ht overcoat, he was seized with a cramp ii tho stomach, succeeded by violent pains dizziness and other prostration. Tin wife, alarmed, assisted bim to the lounge and Bent a negro boy for the doctor, win lived a few doors away. Tho doctor cam? in a few minutes and pronounced it i case of poisoning as soon as he saw thi symptoms. After a few momenta of ox animation of the patient, tho doctor sait tho case was hopeless, owing to the cor rosion of the walls of the stomach, whicl had already taken place ; that he cou? allay the pain while the sufferer lived, bu that was all. Upon tho ministration o the anodyne tho patient recovered hi speech, and lived several minutes in ; consc us state, during which he made i confession, and called tho doctor ant other neighbors who had come in to wit ness tho facts as above stated. A pot mortem was held and a verdict rcndcrei by tho coroner's jury in accordance wit! tho confession of thc dying man and th testimony of tho physician and otho witnesses. The facts are of judien I re cord in Judge Mackey's court. If the; had been put in tho form of a plot in i romance, critics would have declare them too incredible to bo made the basi of a fiction professing to represent ih possibilities of poetic justice m real lift Another incident waa even more rc markable. Ono morning, aaid the Judg< as I Was opening court, Col. Ingrubam, planter whom. I had known for man years, stepped up to the bar, accoinpc nied by his nephew, a boy of thirteet This boy was the eon of Major Crawfor of tho Confederate army, who fell ? Gettysburg. Ho was b pale,slender littl fellow, quito effeminate and unusual! bashful. Indeed, said tho Judge, he %i ted more like a girl than a boy. . Colon? Ingraham addressed the court and ?aie "I am. hore for the purpose of surrende ing this hoy into thc custody of tho off cors of the law. He shot and killed h Btep-father last night," The Judge then proceeded to state tl circumstances as follows : Somo time afa tho close of t^e war, Mrs. Crawford, tl boy's mother, married for her second hu band a man named Legge. She had daughter two or three years older thu the boy who was before the court. The lived pleasantly enough on the plant tum owned by Mm. Crawford until tl girl become about fourteen, when Logt effected ber ruin. After the intimaoy had continued Bon time, Mrs. Legge discovered that h husband had seduced her daughter, bu to prevent scandal, the affair waa hush? up on condition that Legge shonld lea' tho State and never return. He left, at after ho had been gone some timo Jud? Mackey granted a divorce upon petitit of tho lady, who resumed her widow? narnu of Crawford. About a year and half after these event?, Legge return soddenly and presented himself at Mi Crawford's r?sidence jost after dark. Tl house stood at some distance from ai other dwelling, and on the occasion Leggo'a return Mrs. Crawford had no o with her except this boy, tho unfortunc Sri and an old negress. Legge enter e house, and said he had come to a the girl and take hor away with him. J displayed a revolver, and commanded t negro servant to back un the girl's tra immediately, as he intended tb take Y. away with him that night, he havi brought a carriage for that purpose. Legge paid no attention to tho bi who, while his mother waa expostuiati with the wrotcb, quietly went into 1 mother's room. On a shelf in an < secretary in that room were several n mentes* of Major Crawford. Arno them was his old revolver, which b been preserved just as it was unhook from the body of the dead officer up the field where he fell. Three ban had been discharged at Gettysburg, a the other three remained loaded with I same charges and capped with the aa caps that had been pitt ?her? by Crawf before ne went into battle. Ia this o dltion tho revolver had. lain tbirb years, and now it was in the hands of dead soldier's son-who, I believe Jut Monkey said, had beeu born after ur. ford left his home for tho, last time avengo the wrong that had been done to bu little girl. The boy crept out ot his mother's room, and, as soon as he saw Lcggo, shot him through thc head, kill ing him instantly. Judge Mackey beard the hoy's state ment and then said: "My child, tho jail at Chester is very strong. Tho walls are thick, tho doors aro of solid iron and the windows are strongly grated. It has BO curoly held many bad and dangerous men. It ha* defied many attempts to escape from within and some efforts at rescue from without. It is said to be the strongest county jail in South Carolina. But it Is not strong enough to hold you. I would not dare to risk its walls to re strain you from your liberty. You may go back to your mother, who needs your protection. You will be indicted by the "rand jury, and when your trial occurs I will let you know, because it is necessary that a prisoner on trial for homicide should bc present during his trial 1" The Judge then directed tho district attorney to present the indictment in the usual form upon information, and the day was sot. for trial. Tho boy appeared, accompanied by Col. Ingraham and his mother. After the usual formalities of arraignment, the Judge said to tho boy ; "Please write npon a piece of paper tho words 'not guilty.' .*' The boy did as di rected, and the piece of paper wa? handed to the Judge. The district attorney then asked the mother of the boy a few attes tions relative to the circumstances of the shooting, and announced that the caso on the part of the State was closed. The revolver which had dono tho work was then produced by Col. Ingraham, and said it had not been reloaded in thirteen years. The trial thus consumed, perhaps, half an hour, when Judge Mackey roso to charge the jury. This charge was an ar gument in behalf of the boy, tho force and pathos of which could not be imag ined by any one who has nover heard tho Jud/'^e speak. At its conclusion he banded to the foreman of the jury the piece of paper on which tho boy had written tho words "not guilty," and said, "you will now ronder a verdict in accord ance herewith." The jury, without leaving their seats, returned a verdict "in accordance there with." Such is the semi-statutory, semi Satriarcbai dispensation of justice by udge Mackey in thc "Mountain Circuit of South Carolina." A Gigantic Model Dalry. The London Court Circular says : The food supply of metropolis bas long en gaged a large share ox the public atten tion, and upon the purity of articles sup Elied depends in a great measure the ealth and happiness of its inhabitants. Some ten years since tho design was in troduced of supplying the dwellers in this great city with milk and other dairy produce, which for general excellence could not be surpassed. Like most good works these laudable efforts were at first in a great measure abortive ; but by dint of perseverance and good management the Aylesbury dairy company has as sumed an importance far exceeding even the most sanguine expectations of its originators, and may fairly be designated one of the most useful and prosperous corporations now in operatiou. To give some idea of the gigantic nature of tho business so successfully developed by this company we may state that they daily supply 5,000 futnilies with milk, which is guaranteed, so far aa human care and judgment can insure it, to bo not only ai the purest description, but obtained frc ia perfectly healthy sources. Upward of 25,000 gallons of milk are dealt with avery vveok, being the produce of nearly fifty farms in some of the best of our dairy counties. To carry on this en or - mous trade the company have, in addi tion to their town premises in St. Peters burg place, Bayswater, a largo factory at Swindon and a dairy at Beurton, whoro all the surplus milk is converted into cheese. With such admirable sources of supply it is not a matter of surprise that tho business has rapidly extended and that so successful a commercial re ult has been achieved. The Aylesbun dairy company can take into their Swindon factory 8,000 gallons of milk daily, which they hold, os it were, in reserve. In the summer time, when the fashionable World is seeking recreation in garden parties, and other such like delicacies are in request, then the company are in a ?osition to meet any suddeu demand, 'hey possess every modern appliance suitable for the dairy, and have the pow er of netting 1,500 gallons of milk in 800 square feet of milk pans-the product from which in ten hours' time would be a large quantity of cream. Tho cream ia daily sent to London, and after tho orders uro executed the surplus is made into butter, the excellence of which is such that the demand exceed; the sup ply. THE FUNERAL BAKED MEATS.-The Allentown Chronicle says: Probably there is no other county in this State, or tho United States for that matter, where feasting at funerals prevails to so great an extent aa in Lehigh county. Thc custom prevails also in thc counties of Berks and Southampton. When a rich farmer or farmer's wlfo dies, the breath is scarcely out of tho body before prepa rations for the usual funeral feast begin on a grand scale. Oxen aro killed and tho tatted calf is brought to the block. Fowls are slaughtered Dy tho hundred. The ovens and the cooking stoves are kept busy for days, cooking, roasting and baking. Immense supplies of bread, pies and pastry are provided. The neighbors generally do this work unbid den. On the day of the funeral the feasting commences early in tho morning and is kept up to a late hour in tho day. Half a dozen tables aro kept going, and nearly all the rooms of tho house are oc 1_ lU- C_i_v.'--t attends is supposed to eat two or thrco times a day-near neighbors as well os those from a distance. AB many as from three hundred to six hundred persons aro feasted at one of the grand country fune rals. The horses of attendants aro also put up and fed. Close as cur ?armera proverbially are it is considered "mean" to stint on solemn occasions like these. In fact the immediate family are not considered at all in the matter. They are the "mourners," and ore at the mercy ot tho volunteer attendants, who take possession of the house and arrange everything to suit themselves-consulting the family, of course, but taking it for granted that their most extravagant sug gestions will be approved. Nov, all this shows a great stretch of hospitality and liberality, but it is high time the custom was. abandoned. While a rich family may ba able, to afford it, one not so rion must find it a very serious and expensive business. The custom, we believe, prevails nowhere except in the German districts of Pennsylvania. - Man proposes, but woman does as she has a mina to-about it. - A Connecticut girl has sued a younjr man for sixty dollars' worth of light and fuel wasted in ??o^nclusive courtship. - A quack doctor advertises confident ly : "People never cough after taking ono bottle of my cough mixture." A Model Government. Mr. ?. M. Smalley^ one of tho editors of tho New York Tribune, writes to that paper from Columbia, under dato of the ?Oth ultimo, as follows: This morning I took u look at what is loft of tho rival (State governments, now that their chiefs aro absent in Washing ton. First to the State House. At the extremity of tho long hall, which runs from the end of the building, I saw what has been for nearly thrco months the only obstado to an immediate settlement of tho South Carolina question-a few stacks of arms and a bluo-coated soldier walking to and fro. This sentinel pacing his beat boforo the door of the Governor's room, represents tho vast power of thc United Stiite-s government exerted to piotcct Chamberlain and his associates against being ejecied from their offices by icgni process of the State courts. From their offices, did I say? From their office rooms would be tbo correct statement, for not ono of them exercises nuy official functions. All executive powers have passed into the hands of tho Hampton government by the force of tho popular will and of judicial decisions. Leaving tho State House and strolling down tho broad, sunny, lonesome main Btreet, I was directed to tho second floor of a small two-story brick building, for tho offices of the Hampton government. On tho lower floor was a bank. Mount ing a narrow wooden staircase, I carno to a landing on which two doors fronted. A printed sigu of white- card-board nailed on tho panels of ono rend, "Lieu tenant Governor, Comptroller General, Attorney General ;" and on the other a like inexpensive tablet had this inscrip tion, at once instructivo and hospitable to all who might be seeking the head of tho State, "Governor-Walk in." Thia door lcd into a sort of ante-room, furn ished with a few fifty cent chairs and a rude table on which stood a bucket of water and a tin dipper. Beyond was a smaller room with a table at which a clerk was writing, a store counter sup porting a caso ot pigoon holes, and a dilapidated plush-lined sofa, suggestive of a boarding-house auction. Still farth er on was a ?maller room, scarco six by nino in size, where tho Governor works. An unpainted pino table, a desk made by penitentiary convicts, and four or five chairs were its outfit. Walls and floors in ali these rooms were bare, and tt?y looked liko tho quarters of some poor country lawyer waiting for a practice. The whole ?tock of furniture would not fetch $25 at auction. In the adjoining office, occupied jointly by the thrco officials whose tildes were on tho sign, a like Spartan simplicity reigned. To save money uutil ho should bo fully established, Gov- Hampton has only com missioned such of tho officials as ho can not get along without, and he is running tho government with tho utmost economy, rho Comptroller General, Mr. Hagood, told mo that the whole St ato government only employs ono clork, who served the different officers by torn. "When we get behind with our books we go out and recruit Homo volunteers to help us," bo added. A gentleman who was writing at n table on tho other side of the room said that ho had boen drafted into service to fix up the returns of the insuranco com panics. "Herc," said Mr. Hagood, point ing to the pigeon-holes of the cheap desk at which he sat, "is the whole Corantrollei General's office." To ?how that the bus iness of the office was actually carried oe by him, au<\ not by his rival in the three luxuriously furnished rooms in the State Hodse, ho showed bia accounts of monej received and paid out, including tho re ceipt:; of tho superintendents of the State charitable and penal institutions. The Hampton Legislature, not bavins a quorum in tho Senate, passed no tai bill, but adopted a resolution requesting the people to pay such person as the Governor might appoint, a sum equal tx one-fourth ol their last year's taxes, and promising that such payments should be credited when tho rogular tax levy was made. Gov. Hampton thought he wculd not need so much money, and asked, bj proclamation, for only ten per cont, ol last year's tax. Tho people responded with almost unanimity. Some aid not pay, but they were few in number, and their refusal to comply was compensated for by others paying moro than theil quota, so that Hampton got in all rathol more than one-tenth of the total tax o; 1876. Up tc ino 2nd of this month hi obtained, from these voluntary payments 9120,141. He has now a balance oi hand of nearly $80,000, after paying al demands except county officers' salarie and tho school fund. His LegiBlaturi cost only $12,000. Republican Legisla ture.;* havo cost about $200,000 annually All thc Judges of the State courts, excop three, have drawn their salaries fron him. Tho Chamberlain Government ha not collected a dollar of taxes. Its Leg islftture passed a tax bill, but injunction from the courts ? topped its enforcement The officials are, to quoto the words o ono of them, "living on faith." Cham berlain's legislators did not have to g away entirely empty handed, howovei for Corbin paid them $200 a piece whe they elected him to tho Senate. H cashed some sort cf warrants to tbs amount for all the men who voted fe him. It is alleged ho used money fe thia purpose which belonged to tho Stat as royalty due from a phosphate minin company of which ho is president. AN INDIAN Dur r..--A citizen ofSiou City, says the Omaha Herald, who lu spent much timo among the agenoies < the up-river Indians, says it is amusinj as well as touching, to hear an India sing his death song. Our informant -Aas at Standing Rock few months since, and ono day he ol served an unusual rttr among the Ii dians. Soon two bucks came from diffe ont lodges, each with a gun in his han Thtw walked ont soma little, dintani from tho rest of the Indians and toe posts, distant from each other about fifi yards. At a given signal they turne raised their rifles to their faces, and fire Both foll, wounded, one fatally. Th< were immediately surrounded by friend who made no particular effort to bil their wounds, but simply stood orout talking among themselves and gesticul ting, while the wounded Indians, as soe as they fell, began the death song. The was little music in it It waa a sort of ucuf- u??'?, U?ii?v?i?l iouu of voice, kc up for half a minute or so at a time, whi it would cease, and tho sufferers would tho interim mako a confession of all tl evil deeds they had ever done. Th would tell of the massacres in which th had been engaged ; how many scalps th had lifted from tho beads of the whi people : tho number of ponies they b stoien ; together with ail ur>?-\j ci imp tant and unimportant e"li doings in th ii fe ti me. This accomr (ished, they wi ready to give up the gt ist. - Senator Hoar says ho can ?icc connecting link bctwocn piety1 and ta ing through tho nose. - If you have a friend who loves y< who has Rtudicd your interests and ni piness, bo sure to sustain him in advsi ty. Let him feel that his former kit ness is appreciated, and that his lovel not thrown away. About China, The population of the empire is 400, 000,000, nearly one-third the population of the entire world. It is an eminently conservativo population, using, to-day, as they have used for hundreds of years, the writings of Confucius and Mencius aa their school books. Confucius was not a teacher of science or of religion, but of political economy. His books are stud ied and memorized by the scholars in all parts of the Empire, using everywhere thc tame printed characters, but pro nouncing them differently, so that the scholars in ono section of the country reading them aloud would not be under stood by those or another section. This written language is not a spoken lan guage anywhere oxcept it be in the form of quotations. Thia difference in pro nunciation ieads to a kind of local clan nishness, somewhat similar to the historic clannishness of tho Scotch. Thus it hap pens that between the Chinese of Foo chow and those of Canton, for inatauce, there exists about the same regard as exists between the Chineso people in general and the people of the United tates. As to scholarship the average Chinese scholar knows little or nothing of geography, mathematics, natural phi losophy, chemistry or astronomy. He knows no language but his own. Schools abound, but Yt is doubtful if moro than one-fifth tho population have what may bo called a common Behool education. i he masses of the peoplo know the writ ten characters representing the common articlea of food and clothing, without be ing able to read a single pago of litera ture. The art of printing, tue manufac ture of gunpowder and of glass and tho use of the compass carno from China, but ? for many hundred years no new inven ! tion has appeared. Tho whole civiliza tion of the Empire bas stood still, and I becomo like a great stagnant pool. The religion of tho educated may bo described as a blind fatality ; of the masses, aa a heathen idolatry. "What the Empire needs is to bo moved from centre to cir- i cumferencn by contact and friction with the Christian civilization of America and ! Europe." They have always opposed both emigration and immigration, and living there by themselves they have be como filled with the conceit that they are superior to all other nations of the earth. Tho Confucian system of morals iu ac cepted by tho whole naiion, and is com paratively pure and elovating, but the mass of the people are untruthful, selfish, and cruel. In business transactions, however, the commercial honor of tho Chinese is on n par with that of the na tiona with whom thoy deal. The mar riage relation is recognized and honored. Polygamy io allowable, though not gen erally practiced. A man will sometimes -marry a second wife because be has no ann hy his first. Merchants WuC do bus iness in different parts of the country usually leave their families in one placo and often take a scccsdarj wifo in the place of their temporary residence. The offspring of mich alliances aro considered legi'?vaate. Marriage is rather a civil contract than a religious rite. No public register ia kept ; no oniuiai certificates of marriage given. The parties pledge each other in small cups of wine, and perform a whole ritual of prostrations before the open heavens, ona also before the family idols. In taking a second wife, forms may bo omitted, the woman taking her place in the household as if she were a servant. Divorces are allowable, and one of the aoven justifying causes is "a persistent habit of loquacity on the part I of tho lady." But divorces are not fre quent and if a man marries poor, and afterwards becomes rich, he may not for any cause put away the wife who ?h?fed bis years of poverty. It is not considered respectful fer a widow to marry again, and if a young girl loses her betrothed before marring*', it is considered highly meritorious for her to remain unmarried all her life. Sometimes a . young lady thus bereaved publicly commits suicide in order to remove temptation to mar riage. In such a case, one of which tho author witnessed, cards are sent round to friends as if to a festivity, and all are present to encourage tho commission of the virtuous deed. Married women are more faithful than their husbands. Prostitution exists in all parts of the Empire, but especially in the large cities and sea ports. Poor peo ple often sell their female infants for thia purpose. Infanticide of females is also aargely practiced, none of. boya. The practice is openly defended by mothers, on the ground that it is better for a giri to die than to live. The Chinaman's habits of living are very simple. Throughout Central and Southern China, rice ia the principal . ataple of food. In most parts of the Eui Sire the men caa live on from seven tc ftcen cents a day. The price of laboj corresponds to the cheapness of living Fifteen or twenty cents a day ia verj good pay for a common laborer. Litera ry men receive from six to ten dollars t month, and beard themselves. Housi servants receive two to four dollars j month and their room and food. Me chanica and ntnno-masonB receive fros twenty to forty cents a day. The curren cy in all parts of tho Empire is bras "cash," a small coin about the size of i twenty-ceut piece, quite thin, with < square hole through the middle. Thea? are strung together in hundreds tied ii pairs or links like a log-chain, and sob in packages of four, six, eight bundre? or a thousand each. Each single pice is worth about a mill. In large transac tiona, payments are made in syece-the ia, in mass or lumps of silver or b; weight, bearing Che stamp of tho hons issuing it. All accounts aro squared a the end of tho year. If the debtor can not pay, or make suitable arrangement) ho frequently commits suicido. Their personal habits are dirty. The J" iii,? .... .v._ -nf-M I. .il___ J. ViW MWW ?? 'IU ?UV WIU ?*?.?Vft WU.Il" V...141 any circumstances. Their clothing i frequently washed, and the water i which it is washed is not seldom serve for drinking purposes. Opium-eating : very pr?valent, and ia to China wbi drunkenness is to America. Mr. Gibso holds tho prime cause of tho goner stagnation to be their false religion-"IS people can rise above the plano of tl gods thoy worship." SAVE THE ? So * r-surx!. - Hov. ever d EiorrSlo washing day may be to tl c s-hold (and the careful houso mi tress or tidy maid has it in her power I greatly modify ita discomforts.) to tl garden it is a very bountiful day. O hungry and thirsty grapevines and flo1 era are glad of every drop of wash t?at< and will repay every bit of fatigue it rn; 0051 as to siv? thom this ?cri?liser. tho sun h shining hot when we go out dispense our favor, it ia best for na toe a slight trench not far from the root the plant, end pour the water into and cover again with the top soil. Tl makes the water go farther, and at i samo time do*? not tempt the rootlets the surface of tho ground. No bet liquid can be prepared iban the soaps! from the "woolen tuba" as they are w to nourish the roses-If any of the liq reata upon tho foliage of tho pleut?, wi 11 it off by syringing smartly-planta al w I pay for this extra care. ZJW?L A?rXSTfrtma.-Wii aro com-^llM to rehuir? c*?h paymed-a for wire H lal oe ordered by IxtmUn, ?i?a?tMr?Utn ?od other ndutlarit*. and Uicwltb append tbs latea for tho ordinary SO??O-?, ?una wi? vc?y wo inserted whits 100 aio-i?? comes with tho ewer j. C.-iU/iOU. twatWrU/uifl. - ... SSS* Esutt) Keile?, tltfoofb?rW??/ "?- ? ? ? 'i? Final BeUtaaenUviSro inacrtiojj* . . ?X? .tUnt?wftot?^nloiS?uf ^^?^**?wlsi}?n?oS ia l?iuinio fl?t?8?m unis? or mo-writer. Be? jectod manu?crlpta will cot bo returned, uplesa tho necasMrr at?tcp? sid furnished to repay tho putac* * 43r Wo sro not rea ponai hie for the tlewt aaa opinion? of our correspondent*. AU eomuiuulcallouu should bo addressed to "Ed itors inumigMe*?/' aaa all checks, draft*, money orden, ?c., ab:-'.<ld bo made psraulo to the order of HOYT & CO., Andoraon.B. C. Twenty Thousand Dollars In Gold Foo nd In a Cave There is a strange ?tory, yet neverthe less a true ono, to no given you for your r-adera. In the early history of East Tennebeeo, about 1794, as near as can be determined, three men by the name of Patterson, all brothers, visited the New Market Valley, with the intention of buying the rich and extensive lands near what ls known as Panther Springs. They brc:ght with them a large amount of money, supposed to be from $20,000 to $50,000 in Mexican coin. While looking over tko lands they were murdered and their money and other articles of value taken from their person by a hunter, and their bo nc a burnt in a cave near what at til itt. time was known as the "buffalo crossing," now known os tho Grindstone /ioiiow, which place was also the rendez vous of the murderer; whom it is sup* Eoaed, fearing that the Pattersons wonfd e missed f.?m the neighborhood, fled to the western portion ot Virginia. There be died and on his death-bed he gave a way bill that his hidden treasures might be found. Some forty years ago, say the older citizens, two men came with the way bill, giving a description of the place, and made every effort to find the money, but to no purpose, and after-sev eral weeks of hard labor gave up the search. Now for the sequel : During the heavy snow of the past winter a man by the name of John Lam bert and a man from the vicinity of Panther Springs went hunting and tracked a coon to a small hole by the edge of a rock. Lr mb' rt stopped up the bole, and remarked that "he woola get the gentleman yet, if he wasn't pretty sharp." He subsequently went back (it is supposed after the snow had melted) and found two rocks over the hole ; he moved them and saw below them a vast cavern. He returned home and procured a bcd coid, tied the same to a walnut tree and descended into it for como 100 feet, and there found the treasure spread out upon a rock, with an old Mexican saddle blanket spread over it. The blanket had decayed until nothing but the "filling" remained. He also found one saddle and six Mexican stirrups. Lambert made these statements to n friend of his, and showed him a pocket full of money. He waa a day laborer, and did not know what it waa to have any amount of money. Your correspondent visited the section of country while the people were making excavations where Lambert had Oiled tho cave, and witnessed with his Dwn oyes nearly one-half of a human Moleton taken out, and all other signs made a hundred yearn ago. Lambert und his family have departed to some unknown country with the money. These aro facts, os can be proven by any number of the best citizens of Panther 3prings.-Morrittoxcn ( Jinn.) Gcuettc. Don't. Don't judge a man by the clothes be (veara, for God made one, the tailor the }ther. Don't Judes s ann by the house he lives in for the li r.ard and rat sometimes inhabit the grandest of structures. Don't judge him by hits speech, for the parrot talks and the tongue is but aa in strument to make sound. Don't judgo him by bis family connec tions, for Cain belonged to a very respec table family. Don't judge him by bia success in life, for that is much oftener the result of a combination of circumstances with which be had nothing to do, than of his own merit. Don't judge him by his failure in life, for many a man fails* because ho is loo honest to succeed. Don't judgo him by the show ho makes ; au average turkey-cock in a barn-yard san strut all around him and not half try. Don't judge him by the lack of display, for tho long cared beast is the humblest sf animals, but when aroused is terrible to behold. Don't judgo bim by his activity iu chorch affairs, for that ia not unfrcquent ty inspired by hypocritical and selfish motives. Don't take it for granted because he carried the contribution box ho ia neces sarily liberal. He often pays the Lord by sorviccs in that way and keeps his currency. Don't imagino the Creator-tlf under any obligation to you for the quarter you give to eonvert the heathen, that is only a small fraction you owe for turning your own aucestors away from their wooden gods. Don't imagino beaven was especially created for the probabilities are you be lieve just as you were taught to and you don't know whether they who taught you woro right or not. Don't carry your hymn book In your band when you go to the house of wor ship and your ledger in your head. Thc Loni can see through your skull. Don't, when in church, chew tobacco and spit over the floor. Yon would not do that In your own house you ought to respect even more. Don't walk into the house of worship with your hat on. You bare your heed wheo you enter a lady's parlor. Is your ledj friend entitled to moto respect than you? Creator. Don't spend the time devoted to prayer to idiotically gazing about whisking or note writing ; they are silly ana rode if not sinful. Don't think when you haye gono to church on Sunday that entitles you to do as you please t-H balance of tho week. Tho upright man lives through the six as he does the seventh day. GOOD ADVICE TO BOYS.-The boy who spends an hour of each evening loung ing idly on the street cornera, wastes in tho course of a year 365 preci?os hours, which if applied to study, woold famil iarit? him with thu mdlm#?*? nf ?drj?CBt any of the familiar science. If, in addi tion to wasting an hour ea-?h evening, he spends ten cents for a vigar, which is usually the case, the amount thus worse than wasted would pay for ten of tho loading periodicals of the country. Boys, think of these things. Think of how much time and money you arc wasting, and for what ? The gratification afforded by the lounge on tho corner or the cigar is net only temporary bnt positively hurt ful. You cannot indulge in them with out serioosly injuring yourselves, xou acquire idle and wasteful babita, which will cling to you with each succeeding year. You may in after life shake them off. but the probabilities are that the habits thus formed in early lifo will ro main with you to your dying day. Bo 'warned, then, in time and res?lvo that as the hoar eoKnYin idleness is gone for ever yon will improve each passing ono, and thereby fit yourselves fer usefulness and happiness. - It ia not right, but tho mau with tho least mind has tho greatest trouble in making lt up. The rumor seems well founded that a number of prominent citizens of BaUt more huvo resolved to erect a monument to thc memory of the lats Dr. J, Y?, Bull, discoverer of that wonderful remedy, Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup.