University of South Carolina Libraries
v-,. r ?*/. .?'?.?V?. >r ^ ... ; .! ,;, ??h- . i ?> . -o-.' li'-ds > .wsf/* -orti:! ?-i>; .a-iiiLjjfjji^! !fc ..Ji?i*"?.rtH?(?y? nu .,m/!.{> ; _ 4<.,*^",l7jt:_i,1Jl lS,ir, ?Jch^?niril* > j ?nfc **? ?mit?* oj tono RATES or 8VB3C#iPnoir.--cai?. DOLLAR ?nd K?fTT Csxr* Mr.?nttttni. In ?dranos. Two ?^?IB at end of yoar. Ons DOIT AR for <lK rafl?bi-rtptlonj) tue not taken for o ten orio. iaKA Titi OP ASrSST.rSiXJ.-Ou9 DG*!=7 rc "?re ol ono loch for the fl rat insertion, nud Fifty tints tor sc .ore for subsequent loMrtt?!>.le? than three ni'iulhs. Mo sdre'tUb .li.nla ocun'.e lau (hail .? 6QUjVr*9* Llberiu contract! ?Ul bo tusdevrlth D.xs wDiitng to*drerttaefor'^ree,slxor tvelvo montna. ad vertido* by contract moat be confined to tho Im yioillfttebuslr.easof theArm or Individual eonlrao Uoo::tuary rioUeei exceeding fite linea, Tributes of Respect, and all personal ooas-rl-Moua or matters of individual Interest, viii bo charged for nt advertising rateo. annouacorrsnts of marriage aud deaths, and not'ces of a rtJljrlous character, ?re respectfully aol lc! ted, and wlu bo Inserted gratti OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. MB. EDITOR : Blnco writing our last communication upon thia subject,, ve late learned ff?sj your journal that tho House of Representative* has, by a vote of 88 to 23, pained the joint resolution to amend the constitution of the State so AS to require a minimum tax of two mills for educational purposes, which resolu tion will become a law. Hence, we most respectfully suggest that aa the constitu tional amendment gives us a Bare, relia ble and permanent basis upon which to rear a substantial superstructure, that we at once abandon the present anomalous-, and ine'ticit it plan of conducting our pubUo ciiools, adopting in its place something similar to tho following: First, Let us commence operations upon this new edifice by the Legislature enacting a law to divide the Counties of tho State into School District? of as ncurly equal sire *ia may be found prac ticable-say five miles square. Then, upon tho assumption that Anderson County be 80 miles square, wo would hnve 36 School Districts. And then, upon the supposition that the number of colored children in the County be equal to ono-third of the white, and we would have two schools in every third District, making in all 48 schools in the County. Second. Then let the Legislature pass an act declaring the so-called public schools of the State of South Carolina tc be in fact what they purport to be in name-"Free Common Schools," open to all "without money and without price ;" without tho anomalous, incongruous ad mixture of private and public funds to run free common schools ; without any written agreement between patron and teaches in which it is agreed to pay the teacher an excess of rate above ?nelo Sam's rate, etc., eic. Third. Let the Legislature abolish the ?ter diem systen. of paying teachers by enacting a law that all first grade teach ers shall be paid a salary-say $30 per month-no other grade bo employed, unless it should be found that a sufficient number of first grade teachers cannot be had for assistants; then let tho second grade come in upon a salary of S20 per month. Fourth. Wo would have the teachers, both principal and assistant, chosen each y?ar by the popular vote of the Diotricto; those elections to be held anuually the last Saturday in the year, and all the schools opened tuft first Monday ID Jan uary. The selection for teacb'.rs to be made from those holding first' grade cer tificates signed by the County Board bf Examiners. But perhaps an objection may bo rained here that competent teachers can not be had at $30 per month. To thin we answer that wo feel very certain that a sufficient number of competent Eng lish teachers can be employed to teach ail the public schools of the State at $30 per morth ; and ?;ood sense and economy would Beem to dictate that we should pay ro moro than this, if competent teachers are willing to teach. We our self will pledge that we will teach any of Uncle PSO'H schools at the above salary, and put in a first grade assistant for $20 per month. This would amount to $50 per month for one Behool. Hence, for teaching 48 schools one month would bo $2,400. Now, assuming that the tax of two mills gives to the County of An derson $10,000, this, with tho poll tax, which ?8 about $3,000 world make $13, 000. This sum, at $50 per mouth for each school, will run 48 schools about 5} months during each year. Hence, we perceive wo would have 48 schools "in full blast" during 5J months euch year, with two instructors to ouch school at that. But an objection may be urged that .should principal and assistant each havo under bis charge 50 scholars, that this would only be about one-ha'f tho num ber of children in tho County between tho ag?M?f. six and sixteen. To;thia wo would rcpTy, thnt fiojn past experience os teacher in tho public schools of our County, wo aro prepared to nato vhat tho averago attendance has never been * but little more than one-third tho number of^childrcn between tho above named ages. Perhaps another objector comes for ward and (ays: "Fi v? miles square would be entirely* too large for All practical pur poses, becnuso thoso children living in any ono of tho corners .of your square would have too far to travel io get to vour sehoo!." We would very respect fully reply, that thoso children who should happen to live in any of tho cor ser**, cf the District would not hp. va anv farther to go than many under the pres ent arrangement do go-the distance be ing a small fraction over 3? miles. Wo haye frequently heard an.objec tion brought to bear agaiust this plan upon tho ground that our Stato ia too thinly populated to afford enough chil dr?r; 5fr ?ste a : ched '.?itbiri ti"?'aT*?a ni every five miles. But when we como te test it with the facts and figures in thc case, we. percol ve at once how puerile thia argument Is ; that it becomes dissi pated into .V-'e thinest air." Do we no1 see .? in many instances three or foui schools within tho boundary of fiv? milea? And, mark you, this is the great trouble; titi? is the principal causo whj thc publie schools nave done so little good. Four oe five schools where then should be hut ono, ranging in number o scholars from ten to fifteen, continuing, in operation from ton to thirty days little, puny, lifeless "affaire"-crophati cally one-horse schools, taught by one horse teachers. Now, these sro stubborn facts, suffi ?tnr.4 ..... ?l.I-.L. "til.li. Ikuwrnlmi. *. v.. ?.-, nu i " iiii'., .II. - evince to every reflecting man that aorai plan almifor to ours should at once *> Inaugurated and ?et in operation. Di? miss at once and forever all thoso incom petenta presiding over those small carica tures of schools throvyirigall tho childr? together within the boundary cf fiv mile i ; employ itv?', energetic, first grad teachers to each school, and just, ai? coi Uin as appropriate ?nd yvell-directe moans bring ?bout corresponding an desired end?, just so certainly will yo sec a great chango for the better wrougf iii our public schools W. H. IS THEBE AH ENDLESS HELL! Th? Doctrine Zealously Rejected and He nonaeed. From Out London Christian World, Not. 23. Dr. Farrar. Canon of Weatminater, ?nd I author of the most popular "Lita of Christ" of pur time-read ?nd admired of late years in thousands of Christian fam dies-has been preaching at the Abbey on subjects relating to the future life. Both last Sund*? and Sunday week the minister was crowded with people to lis ten to these discourses. The throng waa so great that many had to stand through out the services. Our short-hand writer has provided us with verbatim reporta of both sermons, but our space is so preoc cupied to-day with o'.her matters that we can only give a summary of them. In his first discourse, based upon 1 Peter, iv., 6, Dr. Farrar discussed the subject of the future punishment of the ungodly. In reply to questions which he assumed his audience to be asking, and which he said they had tho fullest right to ask, and which it was the bounden duty of ministen of the Gospel, as far as possible, to answer, be, for one, in all" deep humility, yet always asking God for fearless courage and perfect honesty, would try to give such answers as he could. If it were but the fragment of an answer, it was because he believed it to be God's will that uo other should bo possible. Those who took loose conjec tures for established certainties, those who cared more for authority than Tor reason and conscience, those who- pre tended to dignify with the name of Scriptural Argument inferences out of the narrow aperture of single texts, those ry ho ts! ked wirb' the CT!ib se!i-ccm*Mu of au ignorance which calls itself knowl edge, as though they had been admitted' into what, with unconscious blasphemy, they c^-led tho Council Chamber of the Trinity-they, perhaps, might speak readily of fire and brimstone, and might feel the consolatory glow of a personal security as they dilated upon the awful ness and finality of the sufferings of tho damned. But those whose faith must have a broader basis than hollow repre sentations-than the ambiguousness of opposing texts-those who grieve over the dark shadows flung by human theolo gians over God's light, those who believed that reason and conscience and experi ence-no less than the Scripture-are no iess the books of God, and that they, too, must bavo a direct voice in these great decisions, they would not bo so ready to snatch God's thunder into wretched and feeble hands. They would ley their mouths in the dust rather than make sad the hearts which God had net made sad. They take into account the grand princi ples which dominate through Scripture no less than its isolated expressions \ and, undeterred by the bar? and feeble n ut iov that virtue would bo impossible wlwtOSit the horrors of an endless, hell, they would 'declare thrill trust that even after death, through the infinite mercy of the loving Father, tho dead would be alive again, and multitudes, at any rate, of the lost be found. After this eloquent introduction the preacher proceeded to state what, alter ?rears of thought on the subject, he be ieved, and what he knew to bo the belief of multitudes, and of yearly increasing umltitudes, of the wisest and tho most learned in the church. P/vceeding to examino the subject in detail, he first set forth tho popular notions of hell to be found in the curly theologians, in Dante, in Milton, and in Shakespeare,. citing some of the most terrific passages de scriptive of endless torture. Happily, the thoughts and hearts of men were often far gentler and nob'sr than their creeds, customs and traditions. It was only when these topics were treated by narrow-minded and loveless hearts that thov were seen in all their intolerable f;hastlincs3. He knew nctbing so calcu-.; ated to make the whole eoul revolt with loathing from every doctrino of religion os the easy complacency with which some cheerfully uccepv the belief chat they are living und moving in the midst of mil lions doomed irreversibly to everlasting perdition. No language could be stern euough to reprobate the manner In which many elder brothers of the Prodigal had turned God's Gospel of plenteous redemp .ion into anathemas and ali but universal perdition. If we were not unaffected when tho destitute perish with hunger, or the dying agonise in pain, was ibero any human oeing worthy of the dignity of a human being who did not revolt and sicken at the notion of n weld of worm and flame? If St. Paul again and again fiusg from him, witb a "God forbid,'~tho conclusions of an apparently irresistible logic, wo surely, who had no irresistible logic against us in thia matter, but only in great part spiritual selfishness and im peachable traditions, do wo "ot, in the high name of outraged con? cience, of humanity-nay, iq the far higher name of the God who love?, us, or tho Saviour who died for uf, of the Holy Ghost who enlightens u>-do wo not hurl from us representations of a doctrine BO horrible that every nerve and fibre of our intellectual, moral and spiritual Ufe re volts at it? ignorance may^ if it will, mako a fetish of such a doctrine; phari saism may write it broad upon its pailac tories ; hatred may inscribe it instead Of Holiness to the Lord; bnt here, in tho presence of ad many living, and in this vast mausoleum of the glorious dead hero amid the silent memorials of the men of fame and the fathers who begat us, of whom many, though oof. saints, were yet noble, though erring men, and whom though they and we alike shall certainly suffer, and suffer bitterly, both here and hereafter, tho penaiiy us unreported sin we cannot and will not think of aa con demned to unutterable tortures by Irre vtfsibl?' decrees. "I r?pudia.:,, ex claimed the preacher, "these crude eni ghastly travesties of the holy and awlu will of God. I arraign them aa Jnerei ' leaslv ignorant. I impeach them aa I i falsehood against. *Jnrisc:s universa i redemption. I denounce them as a blas i phomy against God's exceeding and eter . nal love. More acceptable, I .am veri \ euro, than the rigid and most uncompro r raising orthodoxy of all the Pharisee ) have ever judged their brethren eine t time began-more acceptable by fart< t Him who, on tho cross, prayed for Hi j murderers, and who died that thewpigh , livs-mers acceptable I sav. than tb f delight which amid a Reloge "of ruin hug ? the plank on which alone Itself ia aaw ? would be the noble and trembling pict i which mada Sr? Paul declare himael - ready to be anathema from Christ for th sako of his brethren, which made MOM - cry to God at Sinai, 'Oh, thia peopl 5 hovn ginned a ir mn tain : vet 10W.it Tho ? wilt forgive their sin, and if not/blot nit o I pray Thee, out of Thy Book whic f. Thou hast w nilen.* *' Dr. Farrar very earnwtly aaUed hi - hearers to believe that he spoke not wit a natural passier, but with nw?* accural e theological precision when ho said thi * though tests might be quotedjvhieb gai r? prima facie plausibiiiy io ouch luOijei.?> d teaching, yetj to say nothing of th: fa d that thc light of love which .God libwfc ti has kindled within us. recoiled fro it them, those texts are, in the first pla? Ialian to tho broad. uuifylDg principle? Scripture; that, in tho next place, th? axe rounded ou interpretations demon* etrably grousdieea; ?od, in the third place, that for every ooo to quoted ttro can be adduced on the other sid J. There wau an old, se cabio, admitted rule of theology that phrases which belong to matapbor, to,imagery,.to poetry, to emo tion are not to be formulated into neces sary dogmas or crystalized into rigid creeds. If this rule bo used to test them, nine-tenths of the phrases on which these views are built fail utterly to the ground. But even were it othei-vr?ie, once more, io the name bf Christian light and Chris tian liberty ; once more, io the name of Christa promised Spirit, he protested against the ignorant tyranny of ist Isled textp, which nad ever been the curse of Christian truth, the glory of narrow in tellects, and the cawse of tho worst errors of tho worst days of the most corraled church. Ignorance had engraved texts upon her sword, oppression had carved them upon her pillara, cruelty had tied texts upon her faggots, and ignorance, again, had set ko lwiedgo at defiance with texts woven on he.* flag. "If this awful doctrine had to bo do cided by texts, then the original lan guage must be appealed to, and inter preted in its proper and historical signifi cance. They would have to be inUrore ted not in that sense which makes thew convey a thousand different notions which did not originally belong to them. Now, I ask you," continued the preacher, very solemnly, "where would be the popular teachings about heil if we calm ly and deliberately erased from our Eng lish Bibles the three words, 'Damnation,' *holl/'and'everlasting?' Yet I say un hesitatingly-I say, claiming thc fullest right to speak with the authority of knowledge-I say. with, tho calmest and most unflinching" sense of responsibility '-I Bsy standing here in the sight of God and of my Saviour, and, it may be. of the angels and the spirits of the dead-that not one of those words ought to stand any longer in our English Bibles; and that being, in our present acceptation of them, simply mistranslations, they moat unquestionably will not stand in the re vised version of the Bible if the revisers have understood their dury." After explaining the original meaning of the words,- he closed by saying thai Mtiuiiig, uciiiter iu Scripture sc? any where, anything to prove that the fate of every man is at death irrevocably deter mined, he shook off the hideous incubus cf atrocious conceptions attached by f&lao theology to the doctrine of final retribu tion. But neither could he speak dog matically on the other side, tit could not preach the certainty of what was called Universalism-that all will finally be saved-though that doctrine did, in deed, derive much support from many passages of Scripture, and bod been held by some of the early Fathers. Neithei could he accept the spreading belief in conditional immortality. His uelief wat fixed upon the living God, and his au swer to the question, What ls the fate ol doad sinners? was, with Thomas Ers kine, that ra are lost here s.=? mach ai there, and that Christ came to seek anc to Bave the lost. His hope wau that thc vast majority of tho lost would at lengtt be found. If any hardened sinner, Bhnmefulh loving bis Bin and despising the long sui i fering nf his Saviour, trifled with tha I doc?ii??, it was at his own deep ant [ awful peril ; but to those longing an? j anxious souls who were stn i;>tj to cree] nearer to the light, ho would sar : Hav faith in God. There is hope for y "?u hope for you, even if death overtake yoi before the final victory is woo. "Say y to the righteous that it shall be well wit! him, for they shall eat the fruit of tho! doings. Woe unto the wicked ; it sha] bo ill with him, for the reword of hi hand shall be given him." But bay, als< as Christ's own apostles said, that thex shall be a restitution of all things-tht God willeth not that any should peri?h that Christ both died, and rose, and n vivo.!?, that He might be the Lord bot of the dead and cf the living-that as i Adam all die, even so in Christ ehall a be made alive ; and that the day uh a come when all things shall bo subdue unto Him, that God may be all in all. ' THE CONFEDERATE GOLD. An XnteresUse History of the Claim ma? for the Captured Treasures of the lUc mond Banka. Xpcciai io the Eatihiuri? San. WASHINGTON, Jan, 6. It appears that the cl* im made for tl coin of the Bichmond Banks cover into the treasury is nov/ presented 1 Wm. B. Isaacs & Co., of Bichmond, w! ?in 1871 purchased the claim. Tho asst of the Bark of Virginia and the Fan era' Bank of Virginia were sold by ord of the United States Court in 1871, a the coin and bullion covered into t treasury were considered as part of t assets. Tho history of this coin a . bullion is quite interesting. On tho d Richmond was evacuated by the Confi erato forces the coin and bullion, am.rji ing to about $450,000, waa loaded on o of tho last trains leaving that city a sent to Abbeville, O. From that ph it was transported in Wagons to the to of Washington, in Georgia. r In May, 1866. tho banks obtained fr Gen. Patrick, then in command of 1 United States troops at Bichmond, a p - mit to bring their property back. So i ral of the officers of the banks went . Washington and started back with th I treasure. When about- eighteen rai i from Washington, it is stated, they w ' met hy a roving band of ox-Confeder 1 soldiers and relieved of $250,000. 1 ?????ind ?200,000 WS* a*?aly carrie*! > Richmond* and.'delivered to "the bar - Of the stoles $250,000 about $100; ? was subsequently recovered and tal 1 back to Washington, Ga. In July I agents of the banks made another - tempt to remove this money, but G i [ Wild, in cbargejof tho freedmen's i ] re?u, objected, and oaid he would i - r^osseri?on bf it for the benefit of 1 - instir^tio?. They then appealed to C r Steadman,.in command of tho dep - ment of Georgia, who. overruled ( ? Wild. By the advice, of Gen. Steadi o it was ?hen taken to Augusta as a s ? place than Washington. Gen. V? s however, sent word to Secretary Sui t and others about it. Just aa the b o officers were starting from Augusta, i a a permit from Gen. Terry aod a .? conduct from Gen. Steadman, a ?pt Y treasury agent arrived with orders i if Mr. Stanton to transport the coin e bullion to this city, where lt was pl s as a special deposit in the treasury. e banks then made application here, a after a full consideration President .1 h sou, upon the advice of Aitorney-0 h ral Speed, ordered the Secretary ol Treasury to turn it over to the bi ?a Gen. Spinner, then Treasurer, delay h comply with this order, and Went < ie to the capital personally and proc *t the passage of a joint r?solution Ihr re both Houses, ordering the whole am vf to bo covered into the treasury. Bl resolution was referred to no comm If but passed both Houses f i same c w was introduced. Gen. Spinner ther mediately sent the bullion to the j of 1 to be coined, in order that all trace >71 identity might be Jlost. - THE POLITICAL CAULDRON. President Haye? on hla Folley and Ito Op ponent?. Special (o the Kew York Herald. WASHINGTON, Jen. 4. The Pr?sident bas recently spoken with considerable freedom to several old per sonal friends about the political future and ?be present situation. Ho ii report ed to liavo aaid that so far he has met with no surprise ; that what baa happen ed waa foreseen by him before be left Columbus, and that he bas seen no rea son to change in the least the course which he laid out for himself before he came to Washington. The recuits rf the Southern policy havo been auch as be expected. Ho is not surprised that a part of the Republican party opposed that policy, nor at the vigor of this oppo sition, and as he foresaw and expected this he is not disappointed that greater ftolitical results have not been reached n the Southern States as the fruit of that policy. It was inevitable that an attempt to arouse and create a solid North against the policy of reconciliation should main tain so far as possible a solid South. If the Republican leaders bad at once heartily accepted the Southern policy, he is reported to say, the solid Sooth would have crumbled to pieces before ibis; but he did not expect that, and be is satis fied with the beneficent results so far at tained. The present excitement on this ques tion will not last, he is reported to sar. No party could be formidable or could bold tho confidence, and support Of the people, which should plant itself ondead issues, and he believes that the Republi can leaders will soon see this and will cease their agitation of this subject. He bas entire confidence in the future of the Republican party, and believes that it has the brains and capacity to take up the new and live questions, and to deal with them aa the best sonso of the nation demands. Those who refuse to do this, and who cling to old and dead questions will inevitably drop into the background. Tho American peor 'e do not stop to look backward. Their desire now, he be lieves, is for harmony between the sec tions, for a revival pf industry, a renewal of commerce and a new period of pros-, perity, to be secured by inte??geot l?gis lation, and not by empty disputes over sectional issues. If tho Republican par ty could commit the blunder of allowing itself to bo mada a sectional party it would inevitably lose the favor of the Eeople. The time for sectional parties a? gone by ; there is no longer occasion for them, and as a Republican aa well as a good citizen, it is his strong desire to ??o tho Republican party represented in eve ry State by a shnrc of the intelligent and property-owning class. He believes that as soon as Southern men are convinced that the Republican party will not as sume hostile sectiom-f atdtudo this will come about. But he ls patient, and be lieves events will move slowly. If he is rightly reported, he attaches but little importance to tho angry opposition of some of the Republican leaders. It is mainly, he thinks, personal in ita nature, and personal issues cannot have a lasting lifo of important results in tbe fae? of real questions. He appears to have made up bia mind to suffer a certain, a perhaps uncertain, amount of annoyance ; but ne believes that it takes two sides to make a quarrel, and be does not quarrel with any one. He thiuks most of ?hose who oppose him do so under a misconception, j ?nu will by and by see this, nc sees, he is reported to say, tba* ho has made mis takes in details. In the multitude and variety of affairs calling for the action of the Executive this is unavoidable, espe cial!/ with a new administration. Bat his general policy, he is persuaded, ia not only for the tost interests of the couutry. but hos the sympathy of the people ano \>i tu? oouy ci tilo iv?puouc?in party, ans ho believes that tbe people v'll presently openly adhere to this policy as necessary to their security, welfare and future pros perity. The reform of the civil service ia ne cessarily Blow work ; it requires cautious action in a great number of cases. But though,.in the opinion of some friends of. reform, he has acted too slowly, he believes thoughtful men will soon recog nize tho fact that a new spirit bas begun to animate' the public. seWiee ; that the work is better and more effectually done, because tbe old officers whom he bas not removed feel that they are watched, and that they must attend more carefully than ever to their public duties. ? He be lieves, it is said, that the public service is now moro - correctly and effectively conducted than it hos been at any period since the war, and while ho is by nu means satisfied that the highest standard has been reached, and while he does not mean to relax his efforts to improve it, yet be is satisfied with the results so far attained. In relation to the New York appoint ments, be is reported to say that it is less easy than many people suppose to find ; good and capable j men to manage so great a business house as tho New York j custom-houso. He regards that as the j institution which it Ss most necossaiy to , place in the hands bf men not only hon est and capable, but positively friendly reform Ox IUD Civil B?rac?, , and be believes that, as the New York . custom-house is the largest business es . tablisbment in the country, not only, is , it the true place to make a real begin . ning of reform, bnt that when this is , done thora the effect upon other govern . mont offices will be so great rs to make j tba work of reform easier everywhere, j It is for this reason, and not out of hos , tility to Senators or other pereonsLthal he bas sought to piace the New xork j custom-houso in new hands. . Ho is Said i to disclaim very positively hostility tc s any one, and believes that A public office; . ought never to allow himself to entertait j such feelings. Having no personal endi . or ambitions of his own. he is desiroui AHI. Ar. 1* ia #^ ?. I J J Iv. Iii. .wtfttoftw* nVi/ t ho believes . that whatever tempor?r] effect misrepresentations and misconuep "' tiona may have in ibe long run, thi i, American people are sure to recogni? j fidelity to their interests and welfare r while all experience shows that the; I pardon errors in minor matters, if the] ? are convinced that the purpose has beei lt to serve them. IJ It follows fruin all this, if he is correct 0 Vj reported, that thc President has no is rt tenlion to change bis policy in *\ny rc n spect, and it is regarded as certain b j tb Ose best informed that he will raak J no change in his-Cabinet either. E CURRENT RUMORS OP INVESTIGATION d As tho time for the re-assembling c I- Oontrr?i? snnroa?t?*? r???O?* thicken ? ?- intended investigations. It is said, fe ie instance, that an attempt will ' be mad s. in tbe Senate to declare Senator Butler to scat vacant, but there i? little foundatio ti for thia report. The Senate ha* held o id several occasions, notably in that of ;h Kansas Senator,- that once admitted t at bis aeiu a Senator cannot be removed OJ ie <*ept by oxpulsion, which requires a tw< e, thirds vote. It ia said, also, that Rep ul it Heans will introduce in tho House a re a- olntion investigating tho Louisiana elei ts lion, the notion of tho returning boat Ita and all matters connected with it. It doubtful whether the House would co: Mot to such aa inquiry. A majority of member? would fail to seo that Any uso ful results would flow from it. and rrould refuse to take ap the time of thu House and the attention of tho country with the rehash of old scandals to gratify the malice of G few disappointed Republican politicians. Io the Senate there is so far no tumor of a resolution cf inquiry, but it is reported in anti-Hayes circles that W. E. Chandler and others mean to call upon Senator Matthews to justify him self against accusations they will bring. On the Democratic aide some members and Senators ire not averse to an inves tigation, but they say they will insist on its being thorough and directed to all sides and parts of the matter in contro versy. They believe that if everything which was planned, proposed or negotia ted on the Republican side between the election in November and tho 4th of March following could be uncovered, while nothing compromising Mr. Hayes would ba discovered, some of bis bitter est Republican opponents would be placed in very embarrassing and equivo cal positions before the country. A real investigation, it ia urged, must include Florida as well as Louisiana ; must cover not merely the period of the returning board acts, but that of the subsequent struggle in Washington, and must in clude not only negotiations in New Or leans and Tallahassee, but here in Wash ington, d? all kinds and for various pur poses connected with the Presidential count. It is asserted with some confidence that an attempt to institute an inquiry will bo made by tL? Repub?caua in the House, but what the precise nature of the movement will be is as yet hardly determined on. It is pretty certain, however, that a considerable number of Republicans would like to bring about at least a partial investigation of the Presidential druggie, and a few perhaps would think it to their advantage ts havo a complete uncovering of all parts of that struggle in tho hope that the revo lutions thus rondo would kill off several Presidential candidates. SENATOR PATTERSON'S ABSENCE FROM HIS SEAT AND ITS EFFECT. It is not probable that Senator Patter "in, of South Carolina, will resume bis . at in the Bennie thia Scission. His health is still precarious, and when he is strong enough to travel ne will seek con genial scenes in Pennsylvania. The question ia raised whethor Mr. Patter- ; son's absence would affect the vote of the Republican side of the 8enate. It ls a courtesy usually accorded to a Senator absent on account of sickness for some member of the opposite party to pair with him on all political questions. Mr. Tatterson would hardly ask a Dsiuocratic j Senator to do this, and his absence would render the presence of all tho itopubli can Senators uc cern ry to oecuro a ma jority. T THE DEFENCE OF SUMTER. The Demand for tho Sarresdor of the Oar- ' rlcou-anderson's Gallant Reply. On the morning of the 11th of April, the dawn of day disclosed an activity at I once nnnsual and significant over the entire harbor. Tho waters were covered with vessel* hastily puttiug to sea. . An I iron-clad boating battery of four guns, the construction of which in Charleston had been watched by the garrison for I months, was towed down the bay to a Eolnt at tho western end of Sullivan's j sland, where its guns bore directly upon Fort Sumter. A wooden dwelling on the beach, near the end of the ? .mod, was pullen down, and unmasked a land work, mounting four guns, hitherto unknown to the .garrison. Its fire would enfilade tho most important battery of Fort Sum ter, which waa upon the parapet of the mtJLt ??t A? 5i.-i tc?** J wU~. "?J"? tvtmwUwt. i.? v. OTU.?., nuuni giiUo < T?ere cssinSy relied upon to, control tho fire from the heavy guns on Curaming's Point, that would take tho fort in re verm Bodies of troops were landed and the batteries on shore fully manned, and every, preparation completed, wheo at four o'clock p. m., a boat under a white flag approached the fort. Two officials, aidea-do-camp of the general command ing the Confederate forces in the harbor, Col. Chesnut and Capt. ?3. D. L/66, were admitted to tbe guard-room jost inside the main entrance to the work. Tbe*; bore a communication from the military commandant at Charleston and to the following effect. It stated that the Gov ernment of tho Confederate States had hitherto forborne from any hostile de monstration against Fort, Sumter, in the hope that the General Government would voluntarily evacuate it in order to avert war, and that there .was reason to believe that euch would have been tho coursa pursued, but that the Confed?ralo Government could no longer delay -'as suming actual possession" of a fortifica tion so important to it. The evacuation of Fort Sumter waa demanded, in. the name of the Government of the Confed erate States. All proper facilities ??.ra tendered to Major Anderson for the re moval of himself and his command. He was to take with him his company and private property, and to salute bis flag upon taking it down. Calling iiie officers of the garrison i o te bia private room, he . Laid the communi cation before them, and then for the first timo made known to them the confiden tial dispatch from tho government, re ceived a few days previously, in which their determination to relieve the fori was expressed, and instructions in regare lo it conveyed. In this commuiicatiot authority was given him to capitulate whcnjho necessity of the case^ requirer, it. xho conference of tho officers wm long and earnest. There Was no though' for a moment ef acceding to the demanc for th? .evacuation of the fort, and tbi following reply was returned jy Majo: Anderson: ''That the demand for thi evacuation of the . fort was one wit! ***hicb he 'fretted *hs.i hi: of or and his obligations to lils governmon {?revented his compliance." On recel? ng this communication the Conf?d?ral officers left the fort. The entire inter view was characterised by every courtesy though more distant and formal than ii previous conferences. They1 were fol lowed to tbe main gate of the work b Major Anderson and the writer of thl article. As they were about to embark XSmAryr A mlACTU\T> mmarTrnd in their haai ing that he "would be starved out an way in a few days^if their gun? did nc batter him to pieces, and this was repeal cd more specifically to tho Conf?d?ral officers in reply to their inquiries on th subject. As the boat returned, the ba tenes around were cov'er^d with *p#ci? torn, all anxiously Watching the result. ? the mission.-Gen. S. 1FT Crawford i Philadelphia Time*. - The latest report about Senator Pa tersen iato the effect Hut when he rccc era sufficiently to travel he will leal Washington for two months, ^nd that li will not.ask a Democrat to pair wi him. Tho Senate would ihen be uncor fortably close for the Republicans, sin that ' ody would stand : Republicans fi Democrats 30, Independents ll Thia cn culation presupposes the continued a esnce of Senator Sharon, Republican. THE CROOKEDNESS OE COBBIN, True Inwardness of Ul? Great Phosphat? Steal. ?pettial Dispatch to th* Ktv* amd Qmritr. COLUMBIA, Tuesday, Jaa. 8. The Corbin committee is engaged sev eral hours daily in prosecuting the in vestigation entrusted to it by the Senate. Its sessions are conducted in private, and the bond of secrecy is imposed upon members, clerks ana witnesses alike, to remain in force until the report has boen submitted to the Senate. It is. thcrofoco, difficult to ascertain what has been done in the committee-room, bot from varions outside sources the following facta have been obtained, which will' bo found In time to correspond pretty much with the results arrived at by the committee : Mr. Corbin was a member of the Gen eral ?sssombly at the time the phosphate monopoly ant was passed, and largely assisted, both within and witbout the General Assembly, in securing its pass age.. Ho was the largest stockholder In tho company organized under the act, and managed its interests in the triple capacity of president, counsel and legis lator ; and it was in its interest, and his own, that he applied to the Attorney General to bring suit against a rival com pany, and to let him (Corbin) Linduct the ault iu tho courts. lu his "Card" recently published he state* that "novel and important ques tions" were involved in this suit. These,1 however, may bo summed up in tho one question : Whether North Wimbeo Creek waa or was not a navigable stream, a question which, under Corbin's manipu lation, may indeed havo "run through about three ye:ja(" but which might have been readily uetenniued by ono tess interested in protracting tho suit within aa many weeks. Having, in course of timo, obtained a decree for $5.900, (not for $28,000 as ho alleges,} Corbin nost applied to tho court to appoint a rrfcrco to ascertain what fee should bo paid to him for the dis tinguished and disinterested services which he had rendered the State in con ducting the suit. The referee was ac cordingly appointed, and soon reported that Mr. Corbin was entitled to 62} per cent, on the 96,900 for which a decree had been obtained, and tho court con fi?ui?d tho referee's report. It- nhnuld be remarked just here that at the timo the refcrco mudo his report there waa no other amount boforo tho couti, besides tho $6,000 above referred to, auJ tho enormous per cent, by him recommended to bo paid waa awarded solely upon the ground, that although the $6,000 was the whole amount for which tho decree had been obtained, and on which ho could be allowed a fee, yet the State would eventually receive many times that sum in royalty obtained by virtue of tho find ing of the court. It chanced, however, that the phosphate company, tho defen dant in thia case, had been compelled, to give a bond to tho State, pending tho suit, conditioned for the payment of a royalty to the State on all the phosphates they should tako from Wimbeo Creek, after tho commencement of the suit-if it ahould finally be decided against them, i After it had boen so deoided a referee was appointed to find the amount of their liabilities cn their bonds ; and after the Court had allowed Corbin 62} per cent, on the $6,000 as his fee in the case, the referee reported that the-company ; should pay $22,000 on their bond to the State. This amount, iu regular course, would have been paid directly to thc State Treasurer. Corbin certainly bad nc claim to tho custody of it or to any pei cent, upon ii, but he coolly asked leave of the Court to allow him to receipt te tho company for the $22,000 on behalf ol the State. The Court granted the re ?uest, aud Corbin got 'possession of the . 22;000 and claimed 62* p?r cent, OP it This was too much for even Corbin'i official friends to stand. The claim wai so preposterous that the Attorney Gen eral, who was both his personal and po litlcul friend, and who had employee hm to conduct the case, advised thi Comptroller General not to allow it Tho Comptroller General, who vas alai his political and personal friend> at ona made a formal demand on him for th? whole of tho $22,000, as well as for th 37} per cent, remaining of the $6,900 and filed in the Comptroller General' office conies of his cincial letters to Coi tri., setting forth with painful perspicui ty the swindling character of that greed, individual's proceedings. The Comptroller's pointed dari glanced from the brazen surface of Coi in's cheek without inflicting a visibl scratch, and Corbin kent the $27,900 By his own showing, which is merely ai cepted here for purposes of argumon Corbin should have turned over to tb State at least 87} per cent, of the $27 900; but he turned over nothing. B complacently claimed to have renderc the Comptroller General certain oth< services, not specified, in another eas and kept tho 37} per cent, on the who amount as his self-awarded fee. we knowing,, that, if he had rendered ax 1 such service, tho Comptroller Gener ' bad no power tc fil his fee, which cen ' only be paid through an appropriate bv the General Assembly. 1 'What ho did with his plunder ia V ' well known to need re-telling. Ono 1 two pointa only may bo indicated hoi Corbin, in bia card, says that Judge Cs ' penter had granted an injunction again ; the, banks from paying out State mone * tho wheels of government were there ' stopped, and that he (Corbin) lent Ct 1 dozo, State Treasurer, $20,000 to cai \ on the State Government. The reply ' these statements is a very simple ai ? brief one: \ Carpenter's injunction did not st 1 the wheels of government, for the reas 5 that the moneys then in the b?nks Wi r not moneys that could be used "to ke 5 the wheels of government in motioi 1 nor yet the wheels of the misgovernmi _t_:_i ?_ti-_i_ -. Tl 1 HA. TTU1V.U VA/IUIU Tl OO IICOIIJ VA 1 cerned. Every dollar in the banks! * longed to specific funds already app 0 priated, ? except the amount, of ab * $9.78, the unexpended bataneo app '? priated for "legislative expenses" for i a previous fiscal year. Not knowing * exact amount in bank, it is possible t F Corbin may have been misled by * tempting "item" undor which t '"t amount was returned. Corbin did not lend *?0 000 to C 57 dozo. Stott Treasurer. Ho lent noth ?t to thc State Treasurer for any purp? t* as the State Treasurer's books coin ? aivelyshow. He did deposit $20,000 o thereabouts, with Oardozo, not as Si 1- Treasurer, but as his messenger and 1 i- Kviai in ?im matter of the election >f Uniter? States Senator. Thia ame " was a\A paid ont for any State purpc The whole of it was paid out by Card not aa "State Treasurer," but in his t- official capacity as Corbin's agent ?f.. membeis of tbs General Assembly, re. The only point worthy bf notico in ic immediate connection is that it was < th paid out to Jiqtttbtica* members ol n- General Assembly, a point which Co cn carefully omits to mention in ' his c ?7, Whether these < favored members < rt- paid by Corbin for their votes can on! b- determined by a jadi?la', investiga ii -which will certainly bo had. Until result of auch investigation is wade knowu, however, those who know Corbin and who know bis meu-rthe Republican members of tbe General Assembly of 1876-and who know' how these men voted, will hardly be at a loss to form an opinion for themselves. C. McK. - mu i i. - ' ' ' THE WAE OS 8BNATOE BUTLER. A fctracge Story of Ute Coiupiraoy io Ytv cat? HU Seat. Special to (As UaUltnort Gatette. WASHINGTON, January 3. The Republicans of the Senate are working with all the resources ti their command to complete the ech?me to overthrow both Patterson and Butler at tho reopening of the Senate. Tho true inwardness of this conspiracy has never boon told,-although correspondents have had: their skirmish linea out for several weeks past. The statements made haie ali proceeded on the hypothesis that the lido of attack was to be directed against Butler on tho merits of a report on the legality cf the South Carolina Legisla ture now being constructed by Senator Cameron, of Wisconsin, and Christiancy, were members of the Senate sub-commit toe s??nt to investigate affairs in that 6t?te last This report, it has been ?aid, was to be submitted to ?he full committee ou privileges and elections at the first meeting, reported ?ri favorably by a patty vote and then introduced in the Senate, whore it has been stated there would be some probability of passing it and then following it up with a resolution declar ing tho body which elected Butler illegal and vacating his seat. If these state ments were at all reliable, taken on their face value, it is hard to see how the Re publican, knowing the majority which scated Butler would not waver, could ex pect to succeed in any effort to pass such a rcsolutio'. ti TOE BEAL FACTS, however, are very different, end' great caro has boen taken to conceal them.. Beforo tho vote to seat Butler had been taken, it will bo remembered, a resolu tion was pending in tho South Carolina Legislature to instruct Gen. Butler to present to tho Senate the report prepared. In tho Patterson case, wherein bribery waa alleged.^ Immediately on the scat ing of limier this rcsOiUww? ?as sc changed as to strike out Butler's name, an ho had positively refused to take tho role of a prosecutor after Patterson's courageous conduct and .'vote in his be half, and was so modified as to provide in a general way for presenting these, charges to the Senate. Gen; Butler doe? not attempt to disguise the fact ?hat he used all his influence to put a stop to the {irosecntion of Patterson, as he believed t foolish to proceed to such extremes in view of* the fact that men who1 were i charged with plundering the State treas I ury had been let alone, while Patterson's alleged fault consisted in paying money out O? his own pocket to further hiB own ends. This resolution, after having gone through various modifications and boen indifferently considered in both branches of tba Legislature, was finally tabled in in the State Senate by reference to the committee on Federal relations. It waa hoped and believed by Gen. Butler, and a great many Democrats of South Caro lina, that it would die there, and Patter son would bo quietly permitted to sit ont bia term without any further trouble from that quarter. They believe^, it duo to him, as ho had braved his own party in Decttiiiig South Carolina native represen tation on tho floor of the Em ute. : It soon became evident enough, how? ever, tb?t~Governor Hampton was ,not disposed to let tho resolution sleep there. When Hampton's determination became known hero among the politiciens of both Rides it had the eiltet to encourage the RsDublicacs and corr?japosdls2"'" ?Gprv~2 tho* Democrats. A meeting o? Republi can Senators, io which publicity hoi never yet beet) gi**'*-. rudd on Friday beforo vue adjournment at the residence of a Southern Republican Senator, anti tho matter was there discussed, Nearlj tho entire strength of the Senate wai present Senator Edmunds spoke foi nearly an hour, and was -fellowed bj Hoar, Dawes, Christiancy and Camero? of Wisconsin, tho latter confining him self to thc law questions involved in th consideration ot what it requires to con stitute a legal body. It waa then dec! ded that in order to Buccecd it waa c frime importance to have the case again* atterson taken out of tho clutches c the legislative committee and -..jade avail ablo ns u lover in the Senate. When thi scheme wa? outlined, five Senators, all < whom ?ympathiced more or. less wit Senator Patterson, withdrew from tb conf?rence. They were Chafiro, Jone of Nevada, Cameron of Pennsylvani: Couovnr aud Bellina. They refused t lend themselves to a plan which propose to persecute Patterson for bis vote in tl " Butler caso, because they contended th action Hover would have been resorted i 1 had Patterson stood by his party. Th< looked on it as a piece of revenge. The matter was given into tho han 1, of Senator Angus Cameron, ^Visco i sin. Ho has matured a piaii. ic is i secure powession of this prepared repe against-Patterson end hold lt over. Pi ? tenon's head as a. threat., He will ? told that if he refuses to ?ustnin-his psi . in the resolution declaring Butler's BI - vacant, this report will bo introduced a t referred to the committee on. the judie ; ry, whose chairman, ?Mr.. Edmunds, w r stand ready.to pr?sent a report and - commend Puttereon's disinUaa! from ! f body. It will thus bo seen that the oj > rations against Senator i Butler ' are i based on- whether Cameron is able secure this report, and thus hare the I ? portant lever oh Patterson. They bell? i that When the alternative is given him o supporting his friend or saving himt ? human nature will not be strong enot to hold out and Butler will go by t board. It has been part of tho piar >- get ?Jonover in line, sud she most nati i- lng promises have been made him in V way of patronage if he will come b it on this resolution. As ho'voted w r* Patterson on personal grounds to s e him from his South Carolina troubles a was believed more than probable thal it would also voto with him again for e same reason, and the result would is Butler's defeat. It. requires'only n jority vote to declare a seat vacant, w r- two-third* *re f*yi\?rc*ito excel. It g j be remembered also that Senator D "y i tock a course which would ecom to i i- cate that he did not believe cither Bi >r or Corbin had been legally elected te he voted - against the resolution to J* Corbin, and dodged a vote on tho rei jf t?os to seat Buti*?.- It is cleitnod "?'" at Republicans that ho will join in this .s. olution; abd, with the above changes o, the presence of Hr. Sharon, the deed n- be done. to Realising the exact force nf Ibo ; and the chances It might have for sue ils some half dozen Democrats in the.?ci ly whose names are at present withheld ho publication, wrote letters to Govt in Hampton urging him to give hp a d. encouragement to tho ?chemo by hoi xe to scud un tho Patterson report, be few days Govornor Hampton replied m, very high-flown letter, in which he o he heaven to witness that he meant to ., Ertcl?Kett^?f,t?rt*?o?*>Uon?, ? - , - ' TO CO?i?IoJPC^JrJm^-I? ortar tertv?:*? j?ttfjasjtfttn?ta T?ifiot fa* re&ar&ad, witt* Uj? r>?c???ar7sU?p%AM^ W? *r? pot rt??K)ajsl?4*,iuT tb? ?lo?? aaa' opio toot of oi)rcorr?p?i:uint<(. All <<m?g?ft*Uoa/?U ai? ia ?tJ r**?l to"E& Itera l?U?UMftt?f." ?ad aii^jWkv draft*, monty onUr?, 4c., ?houM jf?f'^jl^Y1^0*' Aoacrwa^'c. ' "-"-r-iT;r i i III mi i > III. ' . 'i 11 ' " M?"??* ?< 'i |i.? i i .? ii. . form hU trust, without regard to anything bat tho honor of kia .State And hu own .responsibility under the laws, ?od that bo should act in the matter just about as he th' tight a eense of duty required bim to act. Tho gentlemen addressed hfivebvou making a great ,deal of sport brer the language made <. se cf by the Governor ?ri his reply. It ^pears they are (lot ex actly pleased with the answer, for it seems to justify their fears that Governor Bampton will, lo a certain sense, though not in any overt way, co-operate with tue Radicals of the Semite, who are so anx ious to get possession of the pigeon-holed report. It ia reported now, as the last. piece of intelligence, that in case Gover nor Hamilton ls prevailed on to keep . ?oietin the ?natter, Mr.' Cameron may e abb to p ossess bta&elf of the mala pointe of evidence incorporated in tho report, and have them eubraitred by cer tain unauthorized Republican members of the South Carolina Senate. Action can then be taken on this memorial. Senator Patterson's : friends who are watching operations during bi? sickness Have no positivo intelligence as to Gov. Hampton's movements. The Legislature reconvenes In a few days, and then moro wit' be known.: lt cannot be learned whether Slr. Cameron has goiter posses sion of any. important points, but it is Moved ho is still oh tho scent. Gen. Butler, meanwhile, is In South Carolina ; and as soon as Senator Patterson ia better, be intends visiting Simon Cameron, in Pennsylvania. Conover is in Florida, but bas said on several occasions that n ?thing ever could induce him to retract what he had doue in the Butler case. Senator Butler's VIewa. United States Sebator M. C. Butler, who arrived here ou Friday evening, left for Edgefield- on Saturday night, after spending a very pleasant time among his friends and admirers in Charleston. Sonator Butler is looking remarkably well and is in fine spirits! Ho came here from Beaufort and Port Royal, where ho had been on a brief riait upon the invitation of Capt. Flem ing, the Superintendent of tho Pori Roy al Railroad, to look at tho harbor and tho country francrally. While there he visited thc United States supply, < Bhip (few Hampshire, and had a pleasant In terview witt!. Commodore Hughes, and the e2?c??3 of the'shin. On Saturday a reporter for the ??te* and Courier called upon, Senator Butler at, the Charleston Hotel, and obtained from'him his views cone?rni?g the move-* ment for the repeal of the Resumption Act. "I ara," said Senator Butler, "op posed to the repon! ni .tbs Rcs?ir-??.*oB Act. and will voto against it, I nra a hard money man, and my r?a&ons for. opposing the' repeal of tho Resumption Act, ns at present advised, aro briefly, that it seems to me that our people have come down to a solid basis in business mattcF?j ?u? I conceive that it would be wrong to disturb that condition of things, sa I believe tho repeal of tba Rcaump tiou Act would most ?ciiainiy do. Our people have about mode up their, minas to conduct their busincso upon that basis in the future. I. boliovo that confidence l-i being restored, from tho very fact that the people have made tip their minda tb accept the resumption of specie payment} in 1870, and I cannot see that any good ctn como from the repeal of the act. On the contrary, I think there has been .en tirely too much tinkering with the finances of tho country, and that i twill be well to allow the business interests of the country to regulate themselves and settle down upon a- substantial basia. The whole financial system o'' the coun try has; in my judgment, been conducted on a false anet speculative basis, asd I cannot' imagine any '''greaser - calamity than to reme that condition of things In the business world. The people of raw MVMH. WWW MVQ.?J...??J^ OV I*\A|USIT? habits of economy and self-reliance which are indispensable to their'substan tial prosperity in tho future, and I tato it that this has been brought about in a groat measure by the prospective resump tion of specie payments. The reports from the North indicate a fearful statoof things in tho financial world, brought. about, as I conceive, by tho false and spccnlativo, System upon which all of ti-.air tr?ncactioaB have boen bused and , conducted in the. past. They, too., witt I havo to pass through a terrible ordeal, in order to reach that solid foundation from which they must again begin to build up : tp.elr fortunes. Woof the&o?th, I hope, have passed, through it, and hare seen .. the worat? and I trust that; by prudeuce, economy, thrift and industry on tho part of our people wo shall build up our. for tunes upon ts, lasting and substantial . .fo?tdation.' I do not'see.howt!>?pros perity of tho country can bo adv?Sfccd by ocnibming a state bf uncertainty nach as will result from a repeal of tba Resump tion Act. i ? "As to the Silver bill, I have noi given that matter sufficient investigation, as yet, to form an opinion.'' ?WATCniK'3 A RlPI?BBAtli'S FLIOIH'. '4-Three gehtlmon, members of the Ama teur Riflo Club, jv corneo ii wera In the to\vn of Brighton, rifleshoot!?-. The distanc? was 200 ^rda^ all three 1 W??tv Shooting C?c?daOvr r?u?3. rr wu? the firing point to tho target the ground gradually ascended, ao that a small tel? acopo, ,out. a good onoj, firmly fixed in true bounds on a tree, at a , distance of perhaps thirty feet, mado ?. fino point for "'observation. Ono of tho" shooters, while looking through tho gloss td ma?k a ' shot of oue of his companions, ex claimed that bo saw tho ball as it sped on Its mission. Tho announcement waa .A^A?o?ui uj'iiji jncr?il"lit,r - b"- ?mm ef the other shooters went to tho g?iss, and be . also saw the ball almost as itieft tho gu?, h and throngh its whole flight, nearly the frhole line of Its frajectory, until it ' reached the target. So interesting and ' beautiful "waa the sight that every ball ' ' ?tas watched bv one or the other of tho r gentlemen ; and it ls an actual fact that ? tho point at which the ball would eirike . : the target could be seen before tho ball 1 struck. It was insisted upon that the rc ' tary motion of tho ball could bo observed. . J -fache**? (N. K) Herald. * THE KEELY MOTOR.-A .gentleman * connected with a well known banking ' firm ia thia c?tyf and one of tho ia i. \ stockholders ia tho Keely1 Motor Compa M?y. haviniT rnluruod from Philadelphia, * Where he fiad been to invest?galo th& pro r grew made by tho inventor, said : "Tho * stockholders held a meeting in Phijadel \ phis, and resolved io mako nothing pub * lie in regard to this invention. From * tims to time we go and Bee how things are ri {foiling BlOiip, ?iiu S?? 5m>WS m?rrS???~. ? results; but tbsre is always something ! 1 lacking, which prevonts ft public pwanta tt tion of the i.iventlon-oomathing to be ! -doatf. The ooncluaion wo have como to is this: Either thia ia the greatest Intention V tbe wodd over saw, or Kooly is tb? most *? clover and gigantic humbug ever known. ?J AVo shall wale ami York f;4! Over $20,000,000 of gold yeatly g' passes over tho gold balancea in tho a United Stetes Mint. A new balance lia? aJ just boen made; having a capacity of 10, d, OOO troy ounces (About COO pt each pau.