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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1879. VOL. XIY-NO. 28. XiTZI OF SUBSCRIPTION.?Cm Dollar and fifty Cexts per annum, in advance. Two Dollars at end of year. Sevesty-Fivk Cents for aix raootbs. Subscriptions ars not taken for a lets period than six months. RATES OP ADVERTISING.?On* Dollar per square ?I one inch for the I rat insertion, aod Fifty Cents per square for subsequent insertionsless than three raoaths. No advertisements counts less than a square. Liberal contracts wtl 1 ba raade with those wishing to advertise for three, six or twelve months. Ad? vertising by contract must be confined to the im? mediate business of the firm or individual contrac? ting. obituary Notieos exceeding (We lines, Tribates of Respect, and all personal commuoications or matters of individual interest, will be charged for at advertising rates. Announcements of marriages and deaths, and notices of a religious character, are espectfullr solicited, and will be inserted gratis ISTERTIEW WITH GOT. HAMPTON. Hampton's Views on Public Affairs. From tlie Columbia Itegistir. Accompanied by an old and long-tried friend of the Governor's,, we drove out to bis Excellency's residence in the Sand Hills, some mile aud a half from the court house. It was a bright, a beautiful day, and never a Wednesday smiled back with brighter and gladder heart than that which found us on our way to con? sult with Carolina's great leader, who, without seeking it, seems unconsciously to have climbed into the position of the great leader of this wide Southern land. Brave, frank and steady, yet careful, pa? tient, poised. If he is not a great man, he bas the singular faculty of being all that a great, man ought to be, without tbe first appearance of effort in that di? rection. He leads because men instinc? tively vouchsafe him leadership, as much iu their own interests a* in his own modestly-worn right. True as the truest to his personal friends, he is yet a thor? oughly unselfish man, so far as he him? self is concerned. These were the re? flections which naturally regaled us as our trusty bay, nothing loath, turned off the sand from his heels for the hospitable portal of the Governor's humble little home amongst tbe "?Jnjack-jacks." THE HOMESTEAD. As we' drove up to the quaint little brick cottage, with three rooms on a row, and a projecting lrame entrance, we were much impressed by the primitive, simple, inexpensive air of all the surroundings. If an old-fashioned log hut in brick can be imagined, we have the mansion to a dot As we drove up to the door, we drove round a dismal effort at an old-fashioned circle in- front, bordered by a faintly developed hedge struggling for life in the thin sandy soil. In tbis "circle" of fair dimensions a single stunted magnolia was shimmering its dark green leaves in the bright January sunlight, and it reminded us of the colored brother's recommenda? tion of his pig?"ee little but ee ole." Well, we circled round and up to the Governor's door. A FOBMEB MILLIONAIRE IN BIS BLACK? JACK HOME. As we did so, a colored servant of the genuine tint, who bad evidently not at? tempted a change of skin, approached us politely, and quietly receiving our names retired to the Governor's room for instructions. He soon returned, and biking our horse be invited us' into the middle room?a plain, very plain, but comfortably furnished room?surrounded on all sides with a fair remnant of the Governor's ante bellum library. There they reposed on the shelves?the well selected handsomely bound tomes of the bist authors in the language. Over the mantle leant a richly framed painting? the last, perchance, of a once prized gallery, as the great McDuffie quoted in a memorable speech, and the great Swe? dish songstress has oftentimes so sweetly resuscitated, "like'tie last rose of sum? mer, left blooming alone." We were not left to pur own reflections leng, for soon the door to tbe Governor's chamber open? ed and we were kindly invited in, - THE MAN HIMSELF. We found the old hero in bed, but every inch a man again. He received us with a quiet yet frank warm lb,-' pecu? liarly his own manner. Tbe Governor, like all his near of kin, is an unmistaka? bly modest man, and a reticence which amounts to something of hauteur in the eye of a stranger at first glance is soon recognized, by one familiar with society *h the natural coyness of a truly modest nature. The gentleman accompanying us congratulated the Governor on his stalwart appearance, notwithstanding his wrestle with tbe grim-visaged Mors, at the same time taking occasion to excuse himself for not calling before, saying frankly, "I thought, Governor, unless I came to. nurse you, I played the part of true friendship in staying away." "Ah, well," said the Governor, "I was always glad to see my old friends. I sent you several messages to come and see me. You would not have disturbed me at all. Yet, I recognize and appreciate your kind intentions, and am only glad you have broken all restraint and come to see me this morning." It was then remark? ed, "Why, Governor, your face does not ?how your recent illness at all, ei her as to its fullness or the cheerful yet compo? sed expression of your countenance. Ob, we'll have you out before long, as much & man as ever/' Ths Governor smilingly .hook his head, and with a reflective shade passing across his broad, open face, replied: "Perhaps not, my friend." "Oh, yes," was tbe quick, genial response of friend? ship. "All you want is some seashore air, the fresh oysters and fish, some of the good wine of your numerous friends on the coast, and Richard will be himself again." Governor?"Yes, it will do me mnch good." CSOF>; TO CHABLESTON ON THE 22D OF FEBRUARY. "They have invited me to the celebra? tion of the 22d in Charleston, and I have made up my mind to meet my old friends there, and hope to receive much benefit from it" Correspondent?"How :s your appetite now, Governor?" "Not good at all," said the Governor, pushing himself up in his bed. "It could not be expected otherwise. Here I have been for ten long weeks suffering or wearily waiting for recovery on this bed, and only in the last few days have I had the power to change my position. Hence one of my usually active habits must feel sadly tbe want of exercise. I am suffering consequently from indiges? tion." Correspondent?"You take the fresh air sometimes ?" "Oh, yes. Every fair day uow I am rolled out on the porch and enjoy the fresh air very much. ' THE AMPUTATED LIMB. Accompaying friend?"Do you suffer much pain from your limb now?" Governor?"Oh, life, yes I Sometimes I suffer very much. I suffer, strange to say in my foot. My toes seem so cold, and my foot at times is so painful. Then again it itches me beyond endurance, and when half awake I find myself stretch? ing my hand to scratch it, but to find its presence a mere delusion. Yet I am doing very well and feel myself on the tncjtrj." Friend?"This is a bright, beautiful d.iy. Have yon taken the benefit of tbe fro.-h air this morning?" "Not vet, was the reply. "But [shan't mis* it, I assure you. I shall see the ghid sun before the day is over." THE TELLER INVESTIGATION. Correspondent?Governor, i would be pleased to know if you feel well enough this morning to entei the list, and talk with me a little on public affairs. It is not flattery to say to you how much your own people rely upon your counsels and bow .much we fondly believe the whole country, without reference to party lines, respect your frank, outspoken views.? Whilst therefore 1 have done myself the infinite pleasure as citizen and friend of utliiug upon you this morning, (smiling,) | I yet mean a little business, if you are confident of being equal to the task." Governor?"I don't think it will hurt me a bit, and whatever my humble opin? ions are worth, I feel the country is en? titled to them just as they are." Correspondent?"Well, then, Gover? nor, what have you to say touching the Blaine-Teller investigation ?" THE BOTTOM FACTS WASTED. Governor?"I have no earthly objec? tion to the investigation itself, if the right to make it is conceded. Of course, under the present circumstances, we could not lodge an objection touching unwarrantable espionage involved in this measure without being misconstrued, and I think Thurman, Larmar and But? ler and others with tbem received this measure with most becoming spirit. Now that it has been undertaken, I wish to see it go to the bottom, ^yhalever we here have done amiss, let it be shown. However it may expose any possible dereliction of ours, it must do us good in the end. No good citizen, no wise man, no good patriot can afford to cloak and cover up fraud or corruption in elections. It goes to the root of our institutions, and it destroys the fruition of liberty it? self. But we have a right to ask that the Teller committee shall tell the whole story and not the half of it. Whatever comfort there is in it, and I confess it is very poor one. due and honest investiga? tion will discover as much irregularity on the Republican side of our household as the Democratic. And this much I may say, that so far as intimidation is concerned, there was literally none what? ever on our side, whilst on tbe Republi? can side there are the most unquestion? able evidences of gross intimidation. Two cases of this kind happened with two of the employees of my son-in-law, Col. Haskell. Two of his "harfljs" were sadly beaten for voting the Democratic ticket. So, too, there were instances of unquestionable intimidation on the part of tbe Republicans all over tbe State. This was more or less to be looked for. We bad all tbe surrounding influences of superior wealth, social and political pow? er on our side, which, naturally, without actual or nndue constraint, exercises a great control over the average voteis of the country. When, then, the Republi? can party saw power slipping from tbeir bands like water from the broken vessels at the-well, they first denied it and then put the thumb-screws on their colored partisans to hold them to their old politi? cal reckonings whether or no. Every sensible man, North or South, will at once recognize this condition of things, and the unvarnished truth of the relation thereof. Hence, though I have been per? mitted to exercise the executive functions of my office since the election, owing to the unhappy accident which befell me, the executive of the State, in the worthy hands into which it has fallen, will be fouud, I doubt not, recognizing facts as tbey are, opposed lending itself to use? less and unworthy recriminations on the colored Republicans in this matter. Our courts are fully open to all parties, and our State laws will be found amply prov? ident and sufficiently penal touching this whole matter. Our judges are gentlemen above reproach, and will know neither Republicans or Democrats in the dis? cbarge of their duties, and whatever fault might be found with juries on the score of partisan bias, either on one side or the other, there would be the evidence taken under the control of unpartisan judges and sent to the jury under charges which could not and would not squint at fraud or intimidation. How happens it, then, that no complaint touching tbe elections are lodged with oureourts? Why, plain? ly' 'because the Republicans know that "those who live in glass houses should not throw stones." Correspondent ? "Governor, do you frankly acknowledge, then, that there were irregularities in our Democratic household?" Governor?"I do unquestionably. It seemed impossible to prevent it in view of the terriole moral obliquity visited on our people by the Radical rule under which they htde lived since the war. This is a far greater curse to us than all the thefts that have been perpetrated on us a bare catalogue of which filled col? umns of our newspapers. No one can regret this more than I do, and no one could have striven harder to impress its wrongfulness and absolute impolicy upon our people'than I have. And I now hold as ever its utter impolicy." THE DEMOCRATS IN FULL COLTROL OF THE STATE. Correspondent?"Governor, what have you to say as to the actual Democratic strength of the State?" .' " Governor?"It is unquestionably and' overwhelmingly in the control of the Slate. Hence, even the poor excuse of being necessary to the preservation of civilized rule is wanting to any irregular? ities put afoot on our side. I have no disposition to shirk investigation, and I want it, as I have said, to go to the bot? tom of the matter. If we can have such an honest investigation as shall keep its eyes wide open to election irregularities, in all parties, in all parts of the Union, it is well and more than well. So far as the prac icability of such an investiga? tion is concerned, is another question. Yet, without this, what of the fairness of an investigation in a corner when the hustings everywhere else are "full of dead men's bones?" Why investigate elections in the Southern States, where irregularities have sprung like thistles from Radical sowing, when the govern? ment departments at Washington and Federal officials all over the Union are openly and shamelessly taxed for Repub? lican campaign funds? If the amount taxed on these officials is not necessary to their support, then it is so much of the people's money taxed for the main? tenance of party rule, which could not be otherwise maintained, and if it could be otherwise maintained, then it is so much squandered to satisfy partisan greed. All we want is n fair and square effort before tbe people of the country to purify the political atmosphere, and we are content and more than content to take all the ill consequences arising to us immediately, in view of our own ulti? mate good, and the great good to the whole country, which is no less our country because we are Southerners aud Democrats." Here the conversation at the bands of the correspondent was turned for awhile into pleasantries of no material momeut, so as to rest the distinguished invalid, who it was feared might overtax himself with* ut being aware of it. Having talk? ed along quietly for some time, the Gov? ernor was then asked: GREENBACKS OR HARD MONEY*. "Governor., I presume we will have to set you down as a hard money man ?" Governor?fcOf the strictest school. I do not comprehend the greenback phi? losophy at all. If I hud been in Con? gress at the time, I should have voted against tbe resumption measure, not be? cause I would have been opposed to re? sumption. I have always recognized re? sumption as necessary to honest money and the actual payment of (he public obligations, which must be met dollar for dollar in constitutional money and in good faith, to the letter and spirit of the I law, as well as necessary to tho honest payment of all debts. But jet I would, to use Mr. Tilden's phrase, "have got ready to resume," and more or less invited into co-operation with the government the wise providence of the business cir? cles of the country, and permitted the business necessities of the country, with its shaping hand, to disentangle the fi? nancial web which Republican states? manship had wound round and round the great industries of the country until ft stood like the lion in the meshes. The small operations of daily life, gradually cutting mesh after mesh, would in due time, and with wise providence and pa? tience, relieved the distress of the coun? try, naturally and permanently. Sudden resumption, in my view, cost the people of the country too much to be advocated. I should have preferred more of what the doctors call the tentative process than the enormous physicking through which the country has been put. No one can tell the countless loss and sorrow through which the people of this country have passed in this rapid resumption measure, which can be compared to nothing else ! than the Egyptian order to the Israelites t to make bricks without straw. Yet when the hard pan has been reached, painful though the process may have been, it does seem to me to be unwise to go back and, perchonce, have unwisely to travel! over the same ground again. I do not think it wise tor the Democracy at this stage to set back the wheels of resump- | tion. Let us rather now take advantage of whatever good may be found in it.. The past, with all its sorrows, it would be as well with all might and main to. put bravely behind us, and look out to the wide future before us. The truth is, resumption will prove a partial success 6r failure before 1880. We, in our own Interests, whether Democrats or other? wise, should wisely endeavor to make the most of it, and the country has a right to expect this much at our hands." THE JACKSON DEMOCRACY. Correspondent?"I believe, Governor, you have always stood on the platform of the Jackson Democracy." Governor?"Ever, and I stand there to-day. To my view, we should get back there as fast as possible. The true Jack? son policy, as I apprehend it, is to disen? tangle the business transactions of the country from the legitimate financial conduct of government affairs. To mix the two things is unwarranted by the constitution and dangerous to the last degree. Why, does not everybody see, from what has transpired before us, that the moment that the government becomes involved in its financial operations with those of the country at large, the mon? eyed men of the country and the great industrial classes become involved in "an irrepressible conflict," even more terrible than that which the great New York politician of a former day pressed upon the attention of the. country? The moneyed men in their own interest en? deavor to shape and control the financial policy of the country, more or less, as the necessities of the cose or the greed of the moneyed men might demand. The industrial classes, at first uncon? scious of control, or patient under it so long as business prospers with them, as soon as reverses come?either arising from the exigencies of the times or the misshapen policy of the government, it matters not?begin to howl against the undue control of the moneyed classes, who in turn cry repudiation, until there is a lost confidence, a general lock-up of current notes, and consequently universal stagnation in business. Thus, in attempt? ing to join that together which the con? stitution has left apart, we erect a dan? gerous propinquity of interests, which must lead in the end to anarchy, actual repudiation, if not bloody revolution. The Jackson Democracy, on the contra? ry, puts the conduct of the financial affairs of the business and iudustrics of the country at large in its own hands, tfi expound and contract according to its own necessities and the uncontrollable laws of trade, more or less variant in different sections, and hence more j>r less adapted to the wants and interests of each section. The State Legislatures incorporated the banking institutions of the country, which, in the enlightenment of the times, will only permit such vari? ations from the common standard of chartered privileges and requirements as the special industries and necessities of the case may demand and justify. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1S80. "So far as I can see," continued the Governor, "I do not recognize the neces? sity just now of the Democratic party taking on its back the responsibility of the financial question. The Republicans as a whole, have shaped out the financial problem which they now claim is a suc? cess. Let us not meddle with it, but give it a fair chance of success. If they have brought the country to death's door in achieving it, let us at least strive not to make it an actual funeral, whereas it will in such an emergency become our funer? al no less than theirs. Let us look at the permanent interest of the whole country, and endeavor, whether we win or lose, to deserve well of the whole country. "I am convinced we can win in 1880, if the Democratic party of the Union will have done with men of expediency and learn to toe the mark squarely and fairly on established principles, and I know no better school than the old-line Jackson Democracy. Then let us put f;ood, trusty men in nomination, fcarless y avow our principles, and show our? selves worthy of trust by being willing to take defeat at the hands of the people should they disapprove of our policy. A epnslitulional rule, self-government and no sectionalism should be the sum and sub? stance of our platform, fitted to good, honorable, trusted and tried standard bearers, it matters not whether they be from the East or the West. I have no patience with an Eastern Democracy and Western Democracy, a Northern Democ? racy and the Southern Democracy. It is no Democracy at all that is not as wide as the whole country. Until we can find an Eastern constitution and a Western constitution, or Northern or Southern constitution of the United States, let us have done with this sectional Democracy, which means and ought to mean certain defeat. "Let us trust the people with the matter, and I believe the sober second thought of the people of this great couutry will go back to the constitution of our fathers with one consent and find in its wide bosom what we all want, with the exception of a class of wicked mischief, makers?peace, blessed heaven born peace /" STATE FINANCIAL QUESTION. The Governor then, of his own accord, turned to a consideration of the $tatc debt and its being met squarely. He said he begun his administration ad vising and advocating the broadest generosity to the^iublic creditor in the interest of the people of the State themselves.? Nothing could make hint believe that the people of South Carolina, if let alone, would do wrong in this matter. The whole debt, just us it is, could be carried by the people, ..nd Chey would find it more to their interest in the end to carry the lust dollar of it as it stood than to repudiate or seem to repudiate duo dollar ol it. Even if there was n>^ other con? sideration, no higher one, ^ve were too poor not to protect our credit even from scandal. Still further, the political atti? tude of 18S0 demanded that we should not add to our troubles the influence of commercial men against us in our final struggle for righteous government a.nd home rule. "When I first went to Washington to see Mr. Hayes," said the Governor, "ibe commercial men of the North sen; a delegation ahead of me urging the Pres? ident to recognize my government in the interest of intelligent and honest rule. I found their good word had proven, as it ought to have done, potent with the Chief Executive. It seems to me to come in bad grace from our people now to turn their backs flatly against this same class which, whether our bonds were issued regularly or irregularly, is in possession of them, shorn down in amount by an accommodation, adopted during the Radical rule, between the .State and her creditors, so as to leave the State two millions less debt than her un? questioned obligations foot up. This is a fact wc can't get awry from, and should we bravely go forward and show our de? termination to meet tho last dollar, I am convinced that arrangements can be made through the old English financial agents of the State to cash all our obligations for $5,000,000, and fund the same at a low rate of interest?thus proving tin actual, instant pecuniary relief to our people, and saving our good name with? out a blot on it at the same time." "As I have said," lie continued, '"I shalj go to Charleston on Uie22d of Feb? ruary, and I suppose they will expect me to talk to than. If I am strong enough I shall do so. As this will nar? rowly approach the time when I muut retire from the Executive chair, in which I have honestly and faithfully endeavor? ed to serve the beloved people of my be? loved Slate, I shall conclude my trusts with the same advice that I undertook them, and that is for our people to meet this obligation to the full extent of tbe letter of the law as well as its spirit." Here, fearing that the Governor was overtaxing himself, and beholding with wonder how easily and powerfully yet calmly his mind worked as his manly sentiments rung out with the true Hamp? ton metal, your reporter softly turned him aside with the following remark : the LOVE of the TEOrLE. Correspondent?"Well, Governor, you must permit me to say how much pleas? ure it always gave me in your serious ill? ness that, so far as the devoted love of your own people could soothe your an? guish, you had it, you had it, sir." "Ah, yes, sir," was the hearty, deep toned reply, "never man more. I believe, as confidently as I do that I live, that tho prayers of the people saved my life. I will tell you why I feel and believe itso firmly. Whilst I was lying here at the point of death and had become utterly indifferent whether I lived or died, I got a letter from an old Methodist, preacher, one of my old friends. He wrote me word informing me of the deep and devout petitions put up in behalf of my restoration by the Meth? odist Conference then in session at Newberry. He then urged upon me to exercise my will to live in response to the supplications of the people of the whole State, who are pray? ing for me night and day in every household in the State. My sister, who had tremblingly brought the letter to my bed side and read it to me, then urged me to listen to the kind, loving words of the man of Gud and to rouse my will to live; and I promised her to do so. I fell into a deep sleep that night, and the most vivid dream I ever experi? enced in my life crossed my slumbers. I dreatnpt I was in a spacious room, and that in it I was moved to all parts of tbe State, so that I met my assembled friends everywhere. I remember most distinctly of all old Beaufort, where I had last been. It seemed there were im? mense assemblages, and as I looked down upon them a grave personage approach? ed me and touched nie on the shoulder and said tome: 'These people are all praying for you. Live, live, live!' I never realized anything like it before. It seemed a vision. I woke the next morn? ing feeling the life-blood creeping through my veins, and I told my family the crisis was passed and I would get better." At the close of the touching and thrill? ing relation, feeling as deeply as our great friend seemed to feel, we bade him good-bye, heartily wishinga speedy recov? ery and many long yean of health aud usefulness. Stirring up the British Lion.?The following explains itself, and is publish? ed to show how the British Liou has been stirred up. It is very amusing: To the Editor of the New York Herald: It appears, from the virulent attacks made in a morning contemporary, that the proposal of Cyrus W. Field, to erect a monument to Major Andre, the British Spy, is not favorably received by tbe so-called American people. It is si range that a people such as the Amer? icans, who are the riffraff and descen? dants of the scum of Eti rope, should ob? ject to have a monument raised to the memory of a good Englishman who used all his efforts to help the suprem? acy of British power in this country. And had the English been then suc? cessful, had they subjugated the col? onists, there would not be to-day such villany and corruption in this upstart, mush-room country. That trite old saying, "Put a beggar on horseback," &c, is applicable to the people of this country. Having obtained their inde? pendence, they anger the gods by their national impudence and pomposity. Yours respectfully, A Britisher. Henry F. Pakston, 23G East Forty-eighth Street. Don't (iivc up. What if you have tried different "put up" medicines in vain. Have you not been equally diappointed in some phy? sicians? 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Kemper, of Gallandct. Ind., RAILROAD BO>'DS. Some Queer Doings Connected With the Grccnvillo ? Columbia Railroad. The following report, which was sub? mitted to the last session of the Legisla? ture, shows how the Slate's liability on the bonds of the Greenville and Colum? bia Railroad were abused when the Rad? icals were in power: The special joint committee of the two Houses appointed under a concurrent resolution to investigate the liability of the State on its endorsements of the bonds of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company, submitted the follow? ing report, which was adopted : That owing to the limited time at the disposal of the committee from their other duties as members of the General Assembly, they have not been able to give the matter the thorough investiga? tion which its importance demands, and which a complete examination of the whole subject would require. We find in the comptroller general's report for the fiscal year ending October 31, 1878, that the outstanding liability of the State on its endorsement of the bonds of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company and certificates of indebtedness amounts to $l,436,?4?.S0. We also find by the report of the treasurer of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad Com? pany, December 31, 1877, that there are outstanding as liabilities of the company original first mortgage or "blue bonds," past due, to the amount of $230,000. On examination of the various acts of the General Assembly authorizing the guar? antee of the State to be endorsed upon the bonds and certificates of indebtedness of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company, we find that the original Act of June 28, 1861, entitled "An act to lend the name and credit of the State to the G. and C. Railroad Company in the readjustment of their debt," provides that the endorsement of the State should be placed upon the bonds of the company to the amount of ?000,000 for the express purpose of exchanging them for the $800,000 of original first mortgage or blue bonds of the company and funding its floating indebtedness to the amount of $100,000. It also contains the following proviso: Provided that the bonds en? dorsed as aforesaid shall not be used by said company for any other purpose than for funding the debt of $100,000 now due by the company on notes and accounts, and of taking up the bonds of the com? pany already issued and now secured by mortgage." The guarantee of the State to the whole amount authorized by the above act, namely, $900,000, having been placed upon the bonds of the company under the provisions of the said act, it is im? possible for it to have been done in ac? cordance with law, and that $236,000 of the first mortgage or Blue Bonds should still remain outstanding. The act of December 20, i860, to alter and amend the act of June 28, 1861, shows plainly the condition and status of the funding and exchanges of that date. It provides "that to meet the objections that the bonds which have been hereto? fore issued and endorsed under the au? thority of the said act bear date after the late war, and are entitled 'Confederate State! of America,' the said company is hereby authorized and empowered to .issue new bonds to be substituted for those already issued and endorsed to the amount of $700,000, and it shall be the duty of the comptroller general from time to time as. the bonds heretofore is? sued and entitled as aforesaid shall be delivered to him foT exchange either by the company or by the holders thereof, to endorse the guaranty of the State upon new bonds upon the same terms and con? ditions in every respect as is authorized by the said act, and to exchange the new bonds thus endorsed for those heretofoie issued, until the whole, if required, shall have been substituted by a new issue." By this act it is evident that but $700 000 of bonds with the guarantee of the State upon them had been issued on the 20th day of December, 1866. This is still further shown by Section 2 of the same act, as is also the fact that they were issued for the purpose of funding the $100,000 of floating indebtedness and in exchange for $000,000 of first mortgage or Blue bonds. Said section contains the following: "And whenever evidence shall be furnished the comp? troller general that the said company has taken up and deposited with the treasurer $200,000 of the bonds, now secured by mortgage, in addition to those heretofore deposited with the president of the Bank of the State, he shall endorse the bonds of t.*-?? company to the amount of $200, 000 more, which will complete the en? dorsement of $900,000 as provided by the said act." Your committee would also call the at? tention of the General Assembly to the fact that there are $10,000 of the bonds of the Grecnviric and Columbia Rail? road Company, upon which the guaranty of the State was endorsed by Comptroller General Neagle, which are missing from the comptroller general's office, and in no wise accounted for by the records of said office. An examination of the books of the Greenville and Columbia Rail? road Company shows receipts from J. L. Nengle, comptroller general, under date of February 6th, 1872, for bonds of said company to the amount of $01,000 which were put in his possession lor the pur? pose of having the endorsement of the State placed thereon, and being ex? changed under the terms of the acts au? thorizing the same. Of this amount but $81,000 has been accounted for by Comp? troller General Neaglc. The records of the office showing that his successor, T. C. Dunn, receipted to him but for $S1,-! 000 of said bonds, Mr. Neagle was invi? ted by the committee to appear before them, or submit a written statement to explain this discrepancy, but up to this time, has failed to do either. Your committee, therefore, recom? mend that the facts set forth in this re? port be referred to the attorney-general, and that he be instructed to take such action as the interests of the State may require. Respectfully submitted, 8. S. Cbittexdex, J.vo. D. Wylie, Senate Committee. Root. W. Shakd, House Committee. Since the above report was written the accompanying statement from J. L. Nea? glc has been received by the committee: S. S. Crittexdex, Chairman Senate Committee. Columbia, S. C, Dec. 23, 1878. To Hon. S. S. Cr'Mcndcn, Chairman Sen? ate Committee : Sir?In answer to your rcrbal inquiry through J\Ir. Batoman, I beg leave to state that the ten thousand dollars of the bonds of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company guaranteed by the State in my name as comptroller-general were issued by me in May, 1870, soon after the lot of eighty-two $o00 bonds of the company were placed in my hands and long before the date of the receipt held by the company bearing my signa? ture. These bonds were deposited in my bands in May, 1870, but no receipt was given at the time. After Mr. Magralh became president of the company, I gave Mr. Carrington a receipt for all the bonds originally deposited, when in fact, twenty of the bonds had already been issued nearly two years prior. I left on iile in the office of the comp? troller-general complete vouchers for all the bonds of this company issued with the guaranty of the State in my name. The balance of the bonds which the company hold my receipts for were turn? ed over to the Hon. T. C. Dunn in 1875. These.bonds were not turned over to my immediate successor, because I desired to cancel the bonds and return them to the company, as they all have my signature, and, when I ceased to be comptroller general of the State, I did not think the bonds should be issued with my name. This arrangement was not agreeable. Some of these bonds have been since is? sued with my name endorsed. Hoping this explanation will be entire? ly satisfactory, I am, sir, very respect (.(?ii. Grant in Dublin. At the banquet given Gen. Grant, at the Mansion House, last night, the ci in pany rose and gave the Irish welcome when the General's name was proposed. The ex-President made in response the longest speech in his life, speaking in a clear voice and being listened to with rapt attention. He referred to himsel f as a fellow-citizen of Dublin, and intimated, amid much laughter and cheering, that he might return to Dublin one day and run against Harrington for Mayor and Butt for Parliament. He warned those gentlemen that he was generally a trou? blesome candidate. Then, passing to se? rious matters, the General said : "We have heard some words spoken about our country?my country?before I was naturalized in another. [Laugh? ter.] We have a very great country, a prosperous country, with room for a great mnny people. We have been suffering for some years from very great oppres hearll There is no question about the fact that whim you have forty-five mil? lions of consumers such as we are, and when they are made to feel poverty, then the whole world must feel it." [Ap? plause.] "You have had here great prosperity because of our great extravagance and our great misfortunes. We had a war which drew into it almost every man who could bear arms, and my lricnd who spoke so eloquently to you a few mo? ments ago lost a leg in it. You did not observe that, perhaps, he has a wooden one in place of it. When that great conflict was going on we were spending one thousand million dollars a year more than we were producing, and Europe got every dollar of it. It made for you a false prosperity. You were getting our bonds and our promises to pay. You were cashing them yourselves. That made great prosperity and made pro? ducers beyond the real necessities of the world at peace. But we finally got through that great conflict, and with an inflated currency which was far below the specie you use here, it made our peo? ple still more extravagant. Our specu? lations were going on and we still con? tinued to spend three or four hundred millions of-money per year more tha,n we were producing. "We paid it back to you for your labor and manufactures, and it made you ap? parently and really prosperous. We, on the other hand, were getting really poor; but being honest, however, we came to the day of solid, honest payment. We came down to the necessity of selling more than we bought. Now we have turned the comer. We have had our days of depression ; yours is just coming on. I hope it is nearly over. [Hear! hear!| Our prosperity "is commencing, and as we become prosperous you will too, (applause,) because we become in? creased consumers of your products as well as our own. I think it safe to say that the United States, with a few years' more such prosperity, will consume as much more :us they did. Two distin? guished men have alluded to this subject ?one was the President of the United Stales, and he said that the prosperity ol the United States would be felt to the bounds of the civilized world. [Ap? plause.] The other was Lord Beacons field, the most far seeing man, the one who seems to me to see as far into the future as any man I know, [applause,] and he says the same as President Hayes." A Southern Wilderness.?A Nash? ville correspondent gives.an interesting de-cription of the couniry, in Pentre.-s County, Tennessee, and Wayne county, Kentucky, to which the revenue forces have been dispatched to unearth illicit distillers. The wilds of these counties have never beeu invaded. The county is mountainous and rugged. The hills abound in iron and coal in enormous quantities, and are covered outwardly with forests and .strange plants. The way to the stills is over tortuous roads, through winding paths that are seem? ingly nothing except hog-runs through the wilderness. Over these roads, and down deep declivities almost impassable, it is customary with the distillers to drive little shaggy moles, with which they arc all provided, laden with corn or meal necessary lor the; manufacture of "wildcat whisky." The stills are of the rudest construction. The number of men employed at each still is from two to six, even eight or ten. It was Fen tress county which Mark Twain said resembled Nazareth, insomuch that no? thing good came nut of it. The villages are located on almost impassable coun? try roads, far distant from railroads, and average from fifty to two hundred inhabitants. In the most active of them the weekly mail is an event of great note. The raiders will remain in Fen tress, Wayne and adjoiniug counties for a month or more as may be required. They will have to encounter unheard of hardships. ? Logic is logic the whole world over. It is sometimes used, however, in very queer fashion. Here is a German?and the Germans are a philosophic people? who says that he can dissipate a fog, however thick it may be, at will. All of us may not be able to sec the clear con? nection between cause and effect but, that is certainly not his fault. When asked to explain his theory he replied:? "Well, I will tell you. 1 take a dram and goes out and feeds to pig, and if te fog don't gn off pretty soon I take anoth? er tram, and den I goes out and fodder te cattle, and if to fog ain't gone by dis time I takes another tram, and den I goes nut and chops wood, and if te fog don't go py dis time I take another tram, and so on I keep a doin' till the fog all goes away. Palatable and Digestible.?If you desire your food to be enjoyable and di? gestible, use Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder, which is not only free from adulteration, but wholesome* The edu? cated cliemiitts and physicians of this country use Dr. Price's" Cream Baking Powder in their own families. fully, Your obedient servant, J. L. Neagle. sion. The world has NIAGARA FROZE* OVER. A Solid Spnn Sixty Feet in Thickness Over tho River. A Courier reporter was sent to the falls yesterday, and learned that the ice bridge became an assured fact on Sunday last. It is really a child of the great snow storm of last week which accounts for its uncommonly early formation. For some days a large amount of snow-covered ice from Lake Erie has been passing over the falls, and about the beginning o( the present week old inhabitants began to look ex? pectantly for an ice bridge, though it was at least a month earlier than the usual appearance of this phenomena. At 8 o'clock Sunday morning the accum? ulated ma<s of ice came to a stand-still beneath the new suspension bridge, and the watchers began to hope that there would be a bridge with a smooth surface ?a thing unprecedented so far as histo? ry or tradition bear record. But the hope was soon dispelled, for the huge dam of ice suddenly began to heave, grind and break up into fragments, with aloud noise which is described as being exceed? ingly trying to the nerves. At 10 o'clock there was a second stand-still and it seemed certain that the bridge had been formed, but at two in the after? noon there was a third and more severe disturbance, as the imprisoned waters exerted their giant strength in an effort to be free. The battle was a grand one. Vast quantities of ice and snow were caught in the water's arms, and tossed hither and thither like playthings, fighting and struggling with one another, and grinding themselves to fragments in the fierce engagement. Great hummocks, weigh? ing hundreds of tons, were pushed into the air, and remained there as monuments of the fearful battle. Large bowlders were torn from the shore, and swept into the stream, and the solitary fir which was wont to mark the landing place of the ferry became a victim of the warring elements, though ordinarily it stands three feet above high water. The slow; awful strength of the infuriated waters was so apparent that it seemed as if they must rend the great gorge in twain and escape from their thraldom by some new road; but there was only one gate-way open for them, and as they could not break the mile wide dam in two, they lifted it up bodily and swept away beneath, still raging, but completely conquered by the Frost King. Having thus suc? cumbed to this inevitable humiliation the water allowed ice to rest above it, accepting the voke which it could not break despite its boasted strength. And now the victor rests quietly?torn and ragged, it is true, but invincible; and so it will remain until the mightier beams of the spring sun deprive it of its strength and once more restore Niagara to its accustomed freedom. The bridge is nearly a mile in length, extending from a line drawn perpendicularly to Point Lookout, in the American Park, half way to the railroad bridge, and fill? ing the gorge from shore to shore. The ice mountain is still in its com? parative infancy, but if the wind and mercury are favorable it will soon be in a condition to form a coasting hill for the people, as it did during the winter of 1878. The great ice bridge itself is a counterpart in miniature of the Alpine glacier, and fully as interesting as if ten days of sea sickness were a necessary pre liminary to seeing it. You have the rough, broken surface, the hummocks reaching ten, fifteen, twenty feet into the air, the starting fissures, gaping, perhaps, with a depth of thirty feet in the solid ice, and you have the pure snow ice itself in a million strange and inexplicable shapes; but there is an association of terror in this place which does not belong to the genuine glacier, and which may come from the muffled roar of the waterfall; perchance the thought of 200 feet of water seething and boiling beneath your feet. Many of our readers have stood on the bank beside the Whirlpool Rapids, and seen the wrathful waters mount upward toward the sky in a thousand contending cur? rents as they battle to escape from their prisoning walls. Imagine this agitated surface suddenly becoming petrified, and every broken wave halting just where it was, and this will give an idea of the ice bridge. Figures are poor makeshifts for assisting the imagination to work, but they will perhaps assi-t a little in giving an idea of tho magnitude of this structure. In thickness it is probably sixty feet, while the surface of the ice is at least hall that distance from the water. There are crevices twenty-five feet in depth, and yet they show no sings of water. As we have said before, the sur? face of the ice bridge or (ice field, for it is really that), is exceedingly rough, and the work of crossing is very fa? tiguing. Before long, however, a road will be constructed from the American to the Canadian shore, and it will be quite an easy matter to cross. The first man who crossed the bridge was Mr. Tom Conroy, the well known guide, who saved a man from the rap? ids a year or two ago. As Mr. Conroy weighs about 200 pounds, hedemonstrated to the satisfaction of the good folks of Niagara the entire safety of the bridge for purposes of locomotion. Those who doubt its safety are at liberty to attempt the breaking of its sixty feet of solid ice.?Buffalo Courier. A Notable Wedding.?The marriage of Kate A. Smith, Mrs. A. T. Stewart's grandneice and reputed heir, to Rev. Joseph ?. Wetherill, an Episcopal cler? gyman wealthy enough to need no pas? torate, at Trinity church was one of the most imposing ceremonies that ever oc? curred in New York. It was a choral wedding, with white-robed choristers to do the singing and Rev. Dr. Dix and Bishop Littlejohn to tie the nuptial knot, in the presence of one of the most fashion? able audiences Trinity has ever held. The altar was tastefully buried in flowers, and the bride's diamonds and pearls glis? tened on her white satin costume, which was itself enveloped by rich Brussels lace. The bridal presents were numer? ous and costly, the most magnificent be? ing the diamond necklace from Mrs. A. T. Stewart, having flowerets and leaves in silver, with petals of diamonds, and a pendant of emeralds and d'.imonds in the form of a dove. The bridal trous? seau was one of the most costly the me? tropolis has seen, comprising, among other things, a dozen elegant toilets, in which each dress is accompanied by jew? elry, a bonnet and hat, a dozen pairs of kid gloves, silk hose and other articles to match, besides a dozed point lace hand? kerchiefs and as many morning robes of the richest goods, trimmed with real lace. The entire outfit is from A. T. Stewart & Co., the designs being by Parisian ar? tists employed by the firm. After a re? ception at the house of Judg'> J. Law? rence Smith, the bride's father, the bri <i il pair started on a brief lour in this country, and will sail in a fortnight to pass the winter in Europe. Economy.? 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All communications should be addressed to "Ed? itors Intelligencer," and all checks, drafts, money orders, Ac, should be made pavnldc to the order of E. B. MURRAY A CO., Anderson, S.C. THE MA>* ON HORSEBACK. Grant Said to be a Necessity to the Ropitbll enn l'arty. Special Disputed to the N. Y. Herald, A prominent Republican politician, wbo has the means to be very thorough? ly informed of the thoughts and inten? tions of the lending men of his party, remarked, in conversation in Washington on- the 6th instant, that Gen. Grant will be nominated in 18S0, not only because he can most easily carry the convention, but because be is a necessity to the party. "We sec very clearly that the next elec? tion is very uncertain," he said; "we may not be able to elect any man, but we cer? tainly cannot elect any one except Grant. He has the confidence of the wealthy and property owning classes at the North, and with him as candidate we can raise funds more easily than with any one else. Moreover, either Blaine or Conkling would have to encounter the hostility or lukewarm support of his rival, and we cannot afford to risk anything. Another consideration which has some weight is that in case of a contested election we should be certain that Grant would not suffer himself to be cheated. If we elect him he will go into the White House. Whether wc can elect him is, in my judgment, by no means certain. It de? pends not at all on the Republicans but on the Democrats, if they make fools of themselves, as I have little doubt they will, we shall have the country with us fer Grant, because even the anti-Grant men in our party will vote" forbim rnther than incur the risk of any wild Commu? nistic regime which would make property insecure aud capital valueless, because it would cripple enterprise. If the Demo? crats insist on keeping the currency questions alive and nominate a man like Thurman or Hendricks. you will see that the properly of the country will rally solidly for Grant, and you know even Thurman admits that property and intel? ligence must rule and can carry elections. Tue next election depends entirely on the Democratic partv, and the chances of its acting so sensiGly and manifesting so conservative a spirit as to win the con? fidence of the country you know as much about as I. They may once more, as they have so often done, give the country a fright and disgust that will lead it rightly, as I think, to fling itself into the arms of Grant as a means of security, because property means civilization. The Dem? ocrats have but few men who could carry the country against Grant. I can think of only three, Bayard, General Hancock and Randolph, of New Jersey. With either of these they can win, in my judg? ment, and I don't know of any one else they have. These three have all clean records on currency and all other ques? tions. They are thoroughly respectable and would have the confidence of the country sufficiently to carry off from us the considerable number of men who strongly dislike Grant and who will not vote for him if they can help it. But the Democratic party is only a mob; it has not brains enough to go straight, and that is our main chance." The Contest for Senator Butler's Scat. Washington, January 9. Senator Sharon, of Nevada, arrived here to-night, his first appear .ice in Washington for nearly two. years. He will be on hand in the Senate chamber to-morrow. It is understood that the purpose of ihe Republican Senators is now, at the first auspicious opportunity, to reopen the Butler-Corbin case. The report of the majority of the committee on privileges and elections, declaring Corbin entitled to the seat, has been ready for some time, and action will be called for on it. When Mr. Butler was admitted as Senator from South Carolina, with Senators Conover and Patterson both voting for him, he had but one ma? jority. If the case is brought up now, Mr. Sharon's vote against Mr. Butler will make it a tie, and the casting vote of Vice-President Wheeler will give the seat to Mr. Corbin. This is the Repub? lican calculation, but it is possible that the calculation may be at fault. On the occasion of Mr. Butler's admis? sion to the Senate, Judge Davis, of Illi? nois, did not vote at all, for the reason that he had doubts as to the legality of Mr. Butler's election, although some of the friends of the latter asserted that Judge Davis's vote in his favor would be forthcoming if necessary. If this state? ment was correct perhaps the vote of Judge Davis can be counted on by Mr. Butler at this time, which would still give him one majority. It is true that there were quite a number of Democratic Senators who entertained the same doubts as Judge Davis, and who thought the South Carolina Legislature ought to go into a new election for Senator, but as they walked manfully up to the scratch then, of course they will do so a second time. This doubt as to the legality of Mr. Butler's election was shared also by members of the South Carolina Legisla? ture, in Columbia, in April, 1877, after President Hayes had recognized the Hampton Government. Members of the Legislature were then debating the pro? priety of having a new election for Sena? tor, aud it was said that one of the main causes which dissuaded them was a dis? tinct intimation from Governor Hamp? ton that he would give the certificate of election to Mr. Butler, and to no one else. However, Mr. Butler is in the seat, and the probability is that he will stay there if Patterson and Conover both stick. The casting vote of the Vice-President would, it is extremely probable, be dis? regarded by the Senate after it becomes Democratic on the 4th of March, as the ground was taken that the Vice-Presi? dent's constitutional prerogative gave him no right to vote on the question of the admission of a Senator. Mr. Eaton gave formal notice that on the 4th of March, 1879, he would move to declare any seat vacant the occupant of which had been admitted by the vote of the Vice-President. The only hope, therefore, it would seem, that the Repub? licans can entertain of getting Corbin in is to seduce either Conover or Patterson from the Butler side. If they can do this, the victory will be theirs. There are rumors that Mr. Conover is dissatis? fied and mad with the Democrats because they would not let him come to the House of Representatives from Florida, but, as his support of Butler has always been understood to be due solely to per? sonal reasons, this may make no differ? ence. As to Mr. Patterson's course, there are curious stories afloat in Democratic circles to-night to the effect that Patter? son, at the time Butler was admitted, would have succumbed to the pressure and obliquy heaped upon him, and de? serted Butler, had he not been held up by the hand of Don Cameron ; that Don Cameron, on account of personal friend? ship and other reasons, wanted Butler admitted, but of course, for reasons of policy, could not give his own vote to him. Strange as this may seem, it is be? lieved to be true, and it is really not so wonderful as many things which con? stantly occur here.? Telegram to the Bal? timore Sun. ? Tampa, Florida, has watermelons and tomatoes in the market, and Jack? sonville has ice half an inch thick on the beach.