Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MUralceotrastj will be m ado with those withing te ?lt?rile? for three, ?1= or twelve month*. Ai TcrtttlDgb/enatrMtmuctbeeaoBned to the Im mediate b?*ln?ss af th* firm or Individual contra** tin?. ?bUuarjr HetlMs eneidlng five line*. Tribal** of H?spoet. and all personal communications or tasitsn vf l??ltt?uai interest, will be cb urged for at ?tfvertlttax rate*. A nnouneemenU of marriages and deaths? ?ad notices of a raUriout character, are QtneMfo.Hr ?elicited, and wl? be Insertad gre'Is Southern Claims, Again. The whole question of what are known as Southern Claims was brought up in the llouso of Representatives last week. Three children of George Gorman, of Mississippi, a loyal citizen, who died in 1869. made a claim for stock and farm produce alleged to have been taken and used by the United States Army during the war, of the estimated value of 19,870. The reason assigned for not having pre sented the claim before is, that George Gorman placed his claim in the hands of attorneys at Memphis, Tenn., for prose cutiou soon after the close of tho war ; that there WAS then no jurisdiction for such claims arising in Mississippi ; that such jurisdiction was not afforded until tho creation of the Southern Claims Com mission in 1871 ; that meanwhile Gor man died, and in tho course of the ad ministration of his estate tho matter was not brought to the attention of the peti tioners until 1874, a year or more after the time limited for the filing of daima had expired. The Committee on War Claims reported that a prima Jade case had been proved, and reported a bill referring the claim to the Court of Claims for adjudication. The third reading of the bill was opposed by Mr. Clarkson Potter, of Now York, and we are in formed that his remarks provoked ap Elause alLround. His difficulty with the ill was not that it provided for a judi cial ascertainment of facts, but that it ''provided for payment to the claimants if the facts be established, while there is not by law any liability for thom." Mr. Potter Baid: "Once for all, let it be remembered that whero property within the enemy's lines was taken or destroyed by our troops in earning on the war, tho Government of the United States is not liable tor such property by the laws of natious and of war unless it choose to assume such lia bility. That it did see fit to do, ns re gards the property taken from loyal citi zens, for a limited time. But its liability for Buch claims ended with the limita tion which Congress provided in the bill establishing tho Southern Claims Com mission." Slr. Potter insisted that the right to make such claims never existed except by positive law, which positive law de clared that it must be asserted within a certain number of years, which number of years has expired, so that the right has gone. He said: "If we are going to give one loyal claimant the right to come iu aller the limitation originally provided hos ex pired, we ought to give it to every such citizen, and we ought not to bey in by re ferring to tho Court of Claims a singlo one of theue war claims and directing that Court to adjudicate and allow it in preference to all tho rest, or without un denstandiner Lhnt this bill is the first step in that rond and being prepared to travel it through. At any rate the Houoo ought to understand that this is one of a muss of claims for losses sustained by men at the South during the war, which claims were for a time allowable, if I may use tho term, by the law establish ing tho Southern Clairnu Commission, but which are no longer so." "Within the time allowed by law a great many Southern loyalists applied to the Southern Claims Commission and hud their claims allowed ; but others (some because they could not do so in time, wine because they did not take the trouble to bo in time, and some for other reasons,) did not apply. Now it is said that the whole Southern couutry ?B full of claims of this kind which will bo pressed the moment we give tho claim ants a right and opportunity to enforce thom-claims, the amount of which will go txx to exhaust the treasury of the United States in their payment. Now we, on this side of the House, have as serted that we did not intend either to provide payment of these claims nor to establish a tribunal in which they can be enforced ; and gentlemen will remember M that in ?ho late debate on William and ? Mary College the gentleman fi om Vi r B ginia (Mr. Goode) said the South did jj| not expect nor demand that we should do 80. "If we renew it for one loyal claimant we should renew it for all. This bill menus that we shall provide for paying tho hundreds of millions of dollars which the Republican journals say tho loyal Southerners mean to take out of the treasury. I do not believe the people of he South, aa a whole, want these claims irovidsd for, and I am not going to take be first step which shall open the door ? such payment when I do not believe e aro bound to do it by right, and do ot believe it will now be for the adran ? ;e of either section to do it by favor. 'There is no such thiug as a legal lia [lity on tho part of the (iovernment in vor of loyal or disloyal people for prop ty taken by the army in the enemy's untry. Such sufferers have no natural hts of recovery for such losses. Con JSB did see fie to create a special lia lity for those in the South whom we y lc" loyal citizens. Tho liability thus eated has expired. This bill proposes revive it. I think it is a dangerous ing to do, and I want it understood .mt one Democrat stands here opposed n that subject to the distinguisher! Re ublican from Ohio, (Mr. Keifer.) "The war has been over for some fif en years. The loyal men of the South ave had an opportunity to present their alma. To now, at this lato dav, givo ...ni ?iuut?ifi Opportunity, WOU?Q DO tQ | pied , the door to a vast aioiy of claim- 1 uta, '. many of whom are without merit. "he question of a. man's loyalty, who was mth during the late war is one of tho oat uncertain and illusive of questions, roof of some sort, indicating that he us dissatisfied at some time with the rc ???ou or with ila tenders, can be coiiec d in regard to almost any man there; nd the temptation that would be held t to get up. pretended claims, and for timants to assume to have been loyal, uld be very great. 'From ali lean rn from gentlemen from that section, ? |nfc ?he general opinion rt tho South .mt fow of these claims are honest; t more injustice than justice would bo e by reviving them ; that they afford instant ground for irritation, miscon ction and mistrust! ftod that the th would, on tito Whole, be better off wero ones for all understood that tho riuiiHy iv jsaocri ouch maims wouta o revived?) . . n the whole, therefore, I think it is r for the South, better for tho North, r for the whole country, that the should bc treated as-settled, and should Ave understood that no one wir daim? will be paia\ and that _ say, ouco for ali, frankly, that l not pay them, f Applause from publican Bide.) Tho North does nt th?* telaims paid ; tho South a whole, does not demaud their j, and no step looking to tho pay such claims should bo taken by us? How." next d.iy Mr. Bragg, of ,WIseot!-' Pomocrvtt, ?poko upon the bill. ht exist* in any party who live? urreetionurv territory, wb*? U people in insurrection against "Gov7ru?Teut."to Inake claim have euded for any injury which may ( have bccu douo while the war was going on. The argument goes as well against, loyal peoplo as disloyal. The jirar was ? Dot against individuals. Thar war waa ? against the belligerent party, .the South, I and the difficulty is, although there may j he men, there may be women, there may I be children who haye claims which we ' feel ought to be paid, yet when we open j tho door for the payment of such claims it is impossible foi- the iicpublic to de termine between tho good and the bad, and while we ard attempting to do what will be a solitary case of food we throw open the door to evil which bids fair, if we take bills introduced into this House as earnest of what is to com?- to hasten' the hour when bankruptcy shall come upon the Government by reason of the r>ay mont of claimants under the guiso of oyalty. This is the proper outcome, perhaps, of the Southern Claims Com? mission. That Commission I always re garded as an ovil. That Commission I always regarded as a political expedient for the purpose of building up a party in the South in accord with the Administra* tion. Instead of being a judicial court, it was a political court. Instead of being a court wheto justice was done, it was a court that spread fraud and perjury all over the land. "The 'iyai men of the South are BO few that tho evil that will be done by leaving them out is nothing in compari son with the great evil that will bo done if we open thc door and allow the $17, 000,00U for claims upon our calendar to be passed and appropriations made for ihe bondit of men on the pica that they were loyal peoplo of the South. I have here time and again heard a threit? thrown to the Democracy upon this sido of the House which I bavo thought for a long time needed an answer, and it carno from Mississippi. I have heard it said here upon toe floor of the HOUHO that unless the Democracy of tho North is more liberal, that unless they would open their hands and give out money more lavishly from tho treasury, the solid South would soon go over to the other side. I say, as one of the representatives of the Democracy o? the IS or tb, that if there are any men iu the South who pro pose to belong to the Democratic party simply for the reason that the doors of the treasury aro to bo opened to them, the sooner they go over the better for them, tho better for our party ; and when the people of this country see and feel, as they are beginning tb do, that they cun trust the interests of the country with tho Democratic party of the North and South, then we can make recruits in the Northern States that will fill up our ranks to the maximum. We have no need of that class of gontlcmen that we can only hold to party allegiance by golden ties, by {jiving them the promise of everything wuich they mny ask out of the treasury. Tho remarks of Mr. Bragg were re iriied to hy Mr. Ellin, nf Louisiana, who frankly said : "Upon the general features of this bili I do not know that I desire to say any thing now. What I am about to say is called forth by that portion of the extra ordinary speech of the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Bragg) in which he alluded to cortciu 'taunts' made by Southern members in reference to money now in the Treasury, collected illegally and nnconstitutioDf.lly ; aye, and he might have well said with the robber's hand. In the course of my speech upon the Mississippi Levee bill 1 did allude to the fact that $86,000,000 were in the Treasury of the United States, collected without the semblance of law or justice from the impoverished South. "Now I agree with tho member from Wisconsin (Mr. Bragg) that the percent age of 'loyalty* in the Southern States during the war was a great deal less than one per cent. I undertake to say that the Southern man who was born there, who was reared there, and who was iden tified with the Southern people, could only have been loyal when he entered the Confederate army and did his full duty as a soldier in the armies of the South. Such men were the only loyal men in the South. They were loyal to their country ; they were* loyal to their God ; they were loyal to the noblest and highest and holiest emotions that ever animated the human heart. "AB regards the claims which are for ever being urged hy 'loyal' claimants, and known as war claims, let me say that I for one am willing, here and now, to vote for a constitutional amendment which shall close the books and forever settle the accounts between these loyal men and the Government. I do not stickle for their allowance or urge their payment. Somo few of them are just, no doubt, and ought to be paid. I know, personally, of a few cases of this charac ter; but in order to achieve peace, in ordor to silence tho tongue of slander, in order to ease the heurts and minds of the peoplo of the North who are jealous lest Borne rebel be paid, I nm willing to end all this matter by a contlituf'onai amend aient forbidding forever th* puymatil af every claim growfne out of the war." Tho remarks of Mr. Bragg were in the worst possible taste, but there is some ex cuse for his reproaches in the mass of claims presented by Southern members, and in tho frankness with which they "jgo for the old flag-and an appropria tion." Mr. Potter is a quiet, conserva tive Democrat of the highest character. Louisiana hardly hsa a more arttiyft rapt rARnntittiva than'Mr. Ellis. When these thro* members agree, it is pretty safe to assume that the presentation of war claims is a waste of time and money, as Well as damaging to the Democratic par ty.-Charleston Newa and Courier. "What is home without a mother?" says the old and popular ballad. Truly, what is home without her, if she bo a -bright, sunny-faced woman, healthful, hopeful, happy, always look on bright side of life, the beloved companion of her children, sending her husband out into the wovld every morning with a cheerful word of encouragement, and meeting him at night with a welcoming kiss I >A home is indeed made desolate by the loss of such' a wife and mother. . Many a mother is not this "bright and. shining" hcS*C-Ught, !CSS bcCSw.?O Crf bei ?jiBp?a? tion than becauso weakness and disease have deranged body and brain, making her irritable, peevish and faultfinding, even to those whom she best loves, . Dr. Price's Favorite Prescription is a never fniling remedy for fsmalo diseases. Hun dreds of happy homes owe their bright ness and attractiveness to this remedy, which transformed their wives and moth ers from despondent, feeble ir balkis into healthful, hopeful women. - Mrs. Williams, of Utah, wa? the other day before the Judicial Committee of .Congreta praying that the recent decision of tho Supremo Court shall not bc enforced upon there living in bigamy, as the surrender of all but one wife would drivs the others with their chil dren into a state of destitution. j - Four colorotl btndcnts have entered ; tat- ?Vn- ;-r:i ?piscu]>iii Inv?nicy och?oi nt Wc~. Philadelphia, who expect to STOBT, TUB SCULPTOR. Bia iv Ki crrnl ns Roman Dornt, Bia Poema, Bu Btatoea ?ad Ela Cte nias-A JMm of Noble Labor Deliberately Preferred to Ignoble Ease. Here) and there, redeeming an age of .melancholy, monotony and unlovely haste, there is to be found a human life reviving in the nineteenth century tho fairer tradition? and the richer and warmer faiths of an earlier time. Es caping from tho bondage of conventional custom, and strong enough to stand alone, such a life arises like a beacon of light from tho formless mass of triviality and money-grubbing which constitutes the joys of the modern world, and is never to bo entirely dragged down to tho level of th? commonplace, nor altogether tarn ished by tho atmosphere of a corrupt society. Such a life will bear the fierce light that beats upon a throne, and glow the purer for it; it will boar even tho harsh scrutiny of common and envious observance, aud still keep its greatness and proportion, because ft is what it ia by the power of its own genius and na ture, and not from any accidental circum stance or extraneous influence. Such a life, it may be said without flattery and in all simple truth, is that of William Story, '.he American sculptor, in his Roman home. In tho palace of tho "barbarous Bar berini"-under the same roof that shel ters tho Cone! and the Fo rn uri na por traits, within tho sound of the fountain and within the sight of sunrise and sun set-tho home of this truo artist is made in a country moro congenial and natural to him than that which g&vo him birth, When he first arrived in ltaly.Mr. Story was wont to say that he felt like thc Irishman who "had had tho misfortune to be born out of bis native land." To a man .'"xl on classical lore and with an instinctive passion for all the arts, life ai it is understood in the United State could offer but little sympathy or satis* faction. The Storys are an old Nen England family of high standing am eminence. Waldo Island was given then in the early days of colonization as i Crown gift, from the King of England and they were men always of high plac< and character. His forefathers and hi father-& Judge of tho Supreme Court the highest legal office that an Americai can fill-were famous for their forensii talent, and were great lawyers, Willian Story was intended by hw family to be i great lawyor also. But. although h< studied for the bar, and. even for som time followed it as a career and wrot some able legal works, to him nothing i: life seemed worth living for but art. J bronchial affection alarmed his parent and procured him liberty to follow th desire of his heart and go to Italy ; her at last he seemed to breathe his ns Liv air, and here he has since continued t live a life beautiful, noblo and useful bc yond that of most men. Worthier of the Barberini Palace tba is its prince, (who has torn down il magnificent tapestries, leaving them t moth and damp in lumber rooms, bc cause he prefers French wall papery Mr. Story has a homo aa characterise and as artistic as the heart of any gret artist could desire. The grand old hons is in one of the finest positions, big above all suspicion of malaria, commam ing a view from Monto Mario to the Viii Pamfill Doria, all tho city lying botweei You enter by iron gates into a court mi sical with the sound of a graceful an lofty column of water that plays in tl garden, proceed up the grand and state: staircase, one of whoso ornaments is tl famous Greek lion brought from Pale trina, past lines of old statues, gray wall solemn and majestic arches, and* so u] ward, leaving Cardinal di Lucca's apat ment beneath you, to the sunshiny roon of the second floor. There a sort of he English half Roman home has bei made-English for comfort and luxui of arrangement, Beman for vastness at breadth of design. It is tho abode oue who may fairly claim, now th Gibson is no more, to bo the first of li ins sculptors of the Anglo-Saxon race. What looked at first glance to him ai his wife too spacious and too desolate f family use has been wrought, by the coi bined graces of wealth and talent, ic the beau ideal of an artist's and a ge tleman's residence. Five or six lat salonB open one out of another, besid other small and quiet little chambers f of-books and sunshine. Mr. Story ci ried a large portion of his father's libre with him to Borne, and thus has a si dent's resources always at hand ; c large ball has been built into a thea for private theatricals, where many < lightful evenings have been passed, a where tho amateur ability displayed I very often approached high art. Indo the whole house has been long famous all that is best in Roman and Engl society for its rofind hospitalities e brilliant receptions. In tho social r intellectual gifts of his wife Mr. Sb bas fouud a helpmeet singularly fit for him, whilst tho sympathetic gra and musical t?lenla of nis daughter (n by marriage one of the Florentine '. ruzzi) and the fine promise cf his & have surrounded this wonderfully ha] and gifted man with & home-life of r perfection. Every year when the wi weather comes thoy go northward, t ally to England. But the approacl winter or of tho red vintage of autu always sees them safely back in tl beloved paiazzo, within the sound of r_e.,- .L-l- r>-. One glance at Mr. Story's faco 1 you that you are looking at no ordic man ; tho broad and powerful brow the vigor of a strong intellect ; the wi expression has that mingled delicacy mastery which are only to be seen on countenances cf those whoie iiye? spent in great thoughts and high deavors. He is emphatically a "nu aided man," very Greek-like in mucl his temperament, and perhaps < northern in the ono quality of "tal pains," which ho possesses in a rare grce. In all the circle of the arts n lng, it may bo truly said, ia allen to ] His mind is catholic in itasympat with all othor arts, as well as penetr with the greatness of that to whicl own Ufo is especially dedicated. He repeatedly that when it was given to to live in Italy, his life became pe in his sight, and ho asked nothing i of fate than to live long enough, u these highest and happiest condition work at tho many ideal subjects w crowded upon his imagination, which is poetic and sublimo has al characterized his choice of themes mind ls Imbued with classic know! and the terrible allures him as it al! the Greek dramatists. Yet there h a fanciful and gay sido to his art his temperament; ho will mold a p faun and duueing child as sympai cally as ho will Clytemnestra ii agony and a Deborah beneath the p This blending in him of the airy humorous with the tragical and ma is a? visible in his writing as in his bles. Ho jests mirthfully half th? in "Roba di Roma," and ho portray dark and burning passions ol his ad country in many a powerful poe which inu finest of ail are to bo iou the "Graffiti d'ltalia." I When ono reflects that, gradu?t! Harvard Colltgo and (be Lavr School of Cambridge, be delivered the poem cf bia graduating class, wrote three volumes on legal subjects (beaides;'editing several volumes of the reports of the law cases of bis father's court,] many articles in Blackwood, three volumes of poems, the dramatic poem "Nero," a tragedy in verse, "Otho and Stephania," two or thr ie comedies for bb own little theatre, and that most delightful end truly Ro man of books, "Roba di Roma ;" when on ? reflects further that these, which would sc?m quite enough for most'men's lives, are reckoned cs tue mere windfalls or ddatte.nadsjoi his, it must be conceded that hero we have one of thoso careers which to a ?treat extent reproduce the universality and breadth of the great many-coloted lives of an earlier time. Joined to this, also, Mr. Story is ons of the finrst talkers of his century-epi grammatic, eloquent, overflowing with pointed wit, apt quotation and historical allusion-an admirable letter writer, an admirable host and an admirable actor, notably in tho character of "Shylock." He takes P. keen interest, io politics and in all publie questions of the day. He continues to be well acquainted with con temporary events on both sides of the Atlantic, and delights in discussions, to which ho brings a power of logical analy sis that is indebted for much of its vigor to tho hard legul studies of his youth. Nor does bo hesitate to attribute to this stern traiuing of his intellect much of his success in sculpture. It is at least a training which has restrained him from the extravagances that are the pitfalls of no many artists, and has made a law of intellect to see clearly in his mind's eye before commencing its execution ail that he desires to achieve. As a sculptor Mr. Story never works on the tamuliucss of any model. His ideas of feminine loveliness is very love ly, while tho grandeur and sombre mel ancholy of which a woman's countenance may bear the heroic impress aro never more fully seen than in the great "Jeru salem" which he created about four years ago ; a Jerusalem in her desolation in expressibly majestic, lovely and sublime. Indeed, wnoever sees Story in his studio, with his nightingales singing amidst his marbles, and on his own lips impetuous picturesque speech steeped in classic cul ture and memories of the literature of ail Seat nations, has seen a true artist. All o day loug, and every day, ho works in his atelier, giving his daylight to sculp ture, loyally, and with intense devotiou. After a long dav prolonged into twilight ho returns to his'home, to be its light and lifo, full of bright fancies and rich with changeful mood. Tired out physi cally he lies on tho sofa after dinner, whilst his wife reads to him somo new romance or some old poem. At 12 o'clock he lights his study-lamp sud feces to his own room, there to read till 2. This is his constant practice, and his lit erary work is dono wholly by the mid night oil. With all this he finds time to bu"extremely popular and delightful in a socib?y which never tires of him. That William Story has been exceptionally happy in being from boyhood raised by wealth from all pressure of, and struggle with, adverse circumstances is certain: what is equally certain is that this angel of fortune which ho has held, so that it has thrice blessed him and bis, is to many less strong and less noble than he only a tempter and a destroyer. All honor be to the man who rich from his birth up, has followed art with the most rigid i elf-denial, the most srduous devo tion, and has invariably taken the stand ing-point of his riches as only a reason for tho stricter obedience to all the canons of his work-only a vantage ground from which he is raised above all necessities of mercenary thought or of mechanical labor ; a thing for which in a noble humility he thanks God and fate. lion? Gustare Schleicher'? First Nomi nation. . The district that the late Gustavo Schleicher represented in Congress was tho largest in the country. It t .ok in the whole southwestern part ot Texas, from the Mexican frontier half way across the State away beyond San An tonio. Delaware, Rhode Island and New Jersey could have been packed away in it without covering ail the ground. To hold a convention in that district was not the work of a day or week. When the convention was called in 1874 there were two candidates in thc field whose strength was about equal. The convention was called to meet at Brownsville, and there wcro 125 dele gates. Tho party from San Antonio ex pected a siege and made preparations. They hired a good cook, laid in two or three wagon-loads of supplies, the items being a ton of ice and two barrels of whiskey, and started. It was almost a two-weeks' journey, and they took it leisurely. On arriving at Brownsville they pitched their tent, unlimbered the barrels of whiskey and then they were ready ,'. for the fight. Day after day the balloting went un, always with the samo i result, and the end apparently as far off j as ever. Finally the ice began to ^row beautifully less and even tho whiskey was low in the barrel. With the dissi pation of the ice and the failure of the whiskey, it was evident that something must be done. The thirteenth day of the convention was approaching, when an old atajrn driver got up and, after eulogizing the two candidates, said that bc wanted to make a suggestion. There WC3 one man who Inow the whole State of Texas. It was a big State, and there was only ono man who had tramped all over it. That man was Gus. Schleicher. He knew every foot of it as a surveyor. Besides that, he was an honest man and one whom all the boys could trust. He did not waul lu erny ??ything, uV.i cn thc next ballot he should give his vote for Schleicher. No ono has thought of it, but the effect was electrical. The voting I had hardly begun when the end was plain, and one of the candidates with draw his name. Schleicher was nomina ted and the nomination made unanimous. No one was more surprised than he. He was speechless, and when they called upon him he could not say a word. He had never thought of tho omeo as one that ho could aspire to, for the competi tion was bitter, and between two noptjlgf and able lawyers. Ho attempted to say something, but burst out into tears and sat down. The boys gave bim another ronnd of cheers, and from that day to this not a man in that convention ever regretted the vote, that he gaye. EDUCATB THE NOSE.---"TO tho 'un learned' nose all odors are alike, but When educated, no member of ti ie body is moro sensitive." The nose is Vie gate to.the lungs, and when well tuU rcd .it often proves a life proserver. Educate the nose, and the most tensitive will find that Dr. Price's Unique Perfumes are the gems of all odors. I ?Hf i . ., ? ? - The anti-Polygamy Society in 8alifc, Lake City has passed a resolution stating that tho Mormons aro nroost universally determined to adhere to polygamy, and that if Congress adjourns without ani?r.n_ or grant amnesty," tho Mormons would regard it as a triumph of tho Saints over , their enemies. TUE STATE DEBT MUDDLE. Changing ike Battle Oro un a to tLa 6 Ute Supremo Court. COLUMBIA, Monday Night, Jan. 27. This was the day fixed for the hearing, by the Supreme Court, of the petition of Thomas P. Branch for a mandamut to compel tho State Treasurer to pay out tint, interest money in h's iiands on account of the January interest on the recognized Consolidation debt. In this case Messrs. Lord and Brawlcy, representing certain holders of bonds in Schedule G of the report of tho Bond Commission, who had obtained an in junction from thc United States Court restraining the Treasurer from paving interest on the recognised bonds of the State, desired to be heard for the purpose of arguing that the act of Decor,'ber 24, 1878, was unconstitutional, in this, that it proposed to divert funds in the trei. J ury from tho purposes for which it was claimed that such funds had been already appropriated, and by the force of contract wer j to be kort for that purpose. The counsel for the holders of tho re cognized debt, the Hon. A. Q. Magrath, contended in his reply to the answer of the State Treasurer, setting forth the re straining order of tho United States Court, that the holders of the unrecog nized debt in Schedule 6, in their bili, claim a right to the moneys derived from taxes, disregarding the conditions and provisions which attach to the same in thc hands of the Treasurer of the State : disregarding all the measures, judicial and otherwise, adopted by the State for the proper investigation of its alleged in debtedness ; disregarding all the proceed ings already had and taken in thc Courts of the State to determine the question of tho liability of the Stateffor the bonds of these complainants, and seek to obtain a judgment upon tho questions now before the Courts of the State, to whicli Courts the State has submitted the question of its liability, with its pledge mado in the Act of 24th December, 1878, that as soon as the validity of thoso bonds Bhall have been finally decided, provision shall be made for the payment of tho interest upon all bonds which may be decided to be legal, honest and valid, to which bill and other proceedings in the Courts of tho United States the State is nota party, and cannot thereto be made a party. In the Supremo Court to-day tho Chief Justice and Associate Justices, severally speaking, said they were not willing to allow tho issue to bo discussed whilo pro ceedings to that end were now pending in another jurisdiction. Tho Judges would not undertake to suggest how tho difficulty could bo obviated, but stated to the counsel on both sides that, if any mode could bo agreed upon by which it could be removed, the Court would bo willing to entertain the questions, consti tutional and otherwise, involved in tho case before it. I uudcrsLutm iuut tho holders o? ino unrecognized bonds have dismissed pro ceedings in the United States Court and will movo to-morrow before the Supremo Court of the State (where proceedings of the recognized bondholders aro now pending to compel tho Treasurer to pay the interest on the recognized bonds as frovided in tba act of December 24, 878,) for an order requiring the Treas urer to retain tho funds until tho final determination of the validity of said' bonds. In this way all conflict of juris diction will be avoided and tho question will bo determined at an early day. Cor. News and Courier. BUILLETS MEETING IN TUE AIB. The probability of bullets and other mis siles in their flight when shot from oppo site points in such numbera as they would necessarily be in battle, is certainly not by any meanB doubtful. The possi bility of sueh missiles being welded to gether by their contact, however, seems ?o decidedly remote that such a result appear* to us certainly phenomenal. lt appears, however, front Fbreet and Stream, that the New York shot manu facturers, Messrs. Tatham Brothers, oc casionally found bullets welded together in the scrap-lead brought from the bat tle-fields of the American civil war, and Lieut. Col. John A. McLaughlin recent ly forwarded twe ballets to tho Scien tific- American so impacted in each other which were also picked up on tho same fields. He sayo that at the time of the retreat of th? Federal General N. P. Banks, after his defeat, in attempting to capturo Shreveport, Louisiana, in tho summer of 1864, he (Lieut. Col. Mc Laughlin) was in command of one of the retreating regiments. A portion of his regiment was thrown forward on the flank of the main body in skirmishing order. These two bullets, he says, were impacted in the air between his skir mishers and skirmishers of the enemy, and fell like a spent bail near the head of the column of tho main body. A drum major, seeing the missile fall near him, picked it up, thinking it to be a spent bullet, but found the two bullets welded together. Ho afterward? presen ted it to Lieut. Col. McLaughlin. One nf tho bullets belonged to a larger bora rifle than the other,** and tho larger one is stated to have belonged to tho Confed erates, as it woj of a calibro then known to be much used by them, and somewhat larger in boro than the rifles used by the Northerners. It ls supposed that the larger bullet had traveled a shorter dis tance than the smaller at the instant of impact, and possibly bad been propelled by & superior quality or quantity of pow der. Tnis, together with its weight, it thought to have had the effect or driving the smaller bullet back beyond the line from which it was fired. - A 'New York business man who has made a large fortune mainly through ihejudl??o?B ssa of "printers' ."ck," hss recently given the public the benefit of his experience. He holds that advertis ing should be included in the general estimate of expense, as regularly as store rent, clerk hire and insurance. It is of ten said .".hat a good stand at a high rent is better than a poor ono rent free. Ad vertising brings a man before tho pub lic in a way that makes any "stand,' good, The best stand you can have is to bo in tho newspapers. These are facts brought out in the experience of the fall trade. Most of the iarge concerns are so exten sively ongaged tn advertising that it it mado a special department with a "bead" and his assistants. The leading houses have a man skilhid in the art or writing and displaying their notices. They study the various methods of reach ing the public eye of every important journal os an advertising medium. - We gather together only to have our treasures scattered far and wido after death. This ls true of the great as well as of the humble, and no better examples of this fact can be found than lathe sale of the valuables of two men who only twenty-five years ago were the most marked figures in Europe In three chambers of the Vatican the possessions of Popo Pius IX have been set out and , are being bought by people of foreign ! countries, and of various forms of religion. j ?H * fe T? dije thc Chins,' j-?;? t v, tum vauio linea of Louis Napoleon are to be sold at auction, and tho property of an Em peror is to go to tho nighest bidder. FACTS ABOUT LEPROSY. A DIeeato That May Tat Tic oom? Common tn America. Dr. Wesson writes to the Louisville Courier'Journal as follows : As the arti cle in laut Sunday's paper, headed "A Leper in Chicago," was generally read,, j no doubt with preat interest, the writer of this respectfully asks space in you? columns for a few short chapters on tho subject of this moat loathsome and terri ble disease, calling? attention to its past and present existence, tho probabilities of its origin in early age*, how its vic tims are affected and the erroneous ideas concerning the disease as expressed io tho article alluded to. There ls, perhaps, no subject which has attracted more at tention among medical men of late years than the disease of leprosy. And now that it has been brought to our very doon, in our own conotry, aod may be corno common enough in time, till the sight will become quite familiar, possi bly, in all our cities, it is only reasonable to anticipate a growing interest with the appearance of tho disease. This awful scourge, which amiets the human body, although comparatively unknown in tho largest part of Europe oven to the present day, is very common in many countries, and its origin and history dato back to early antiquity. I have used the word origin here in con nection with its history, not however, unadvisedly, and to which I will refer subsequently. The fact that this dreadful disease has, until recently, been removed so far from tho Hold of modern investigation by medical scientists, both in Eurone and America, has continued to make lt only tho moro obscure and wonderfully e'.rango phenomenon. In 1863 tho Royal Coilego of Physi cians of Great Britain i-, meei a series of interrogatories, which were sent to medi cal men in different paris of the world, the result of which was an accumulation of a vast amount of valuable informa tion. The concludions drawn by the committee of tho college from an exam ination of the entire evidence submitted to them on tho subject-matter of each isterrogatory, tho account of the pott mortem examination that had been mad? on cases of leprosy, the nature and ten dency of tho disease and its general character, &c, ufforded matter of the greatest interest to the general reader. Having traveled much, and spent con siderable time in different parts of the Orient, and paid some attention to the study of leprosy in various parts of those countries, but especially in Egypt, Pales tine ar.'i Syria, and collected information of great value- from residents and physi cians, as weil as from personal observa tion and examination of cases. T ahull now proceed to give tho reader who feels an interest in this subject a short detail of facts and conclubicns thus drawn from my own researches, which will embrace, first-symptoms and pathology of lep rosy. In giving this, J. acknowledge my in debtedness to my esteemed friend and eminent physician, John Wortabat, M D., D. D.{ a native of Greece, but long ? resident in Syria, with whom I spent t ?art of my time when in that country ho most prominent fee.tures of leprosy which form its peculiar characteristic! are these : Anaesthesia of the extremities often involving the face and rarely o seldom the truuk of tho body ; tho skit ia generally thickened and changed in it color into a red, dusky, glossy huo ; th li air of the face falls off, sometimes com pletely ; tubercules appear on the fae and extremities, which break from tim to time, or largo bulbtc are formed on th extremities, which are often converte into deep, corroding, fetid ulcers: th joints of the fingers and toes uro almo: invariably involved during the course c the disease, often sloughing away jolt after joint, till tho hanan and feetbecom crippled ; the voice becomes husky, or ! wholly lost, and the respiration become difficult. While these changes are goin on tho grjeral health is more or less in paired, and after a few years the victit sinks from exhaustion or some intercu rent disease. The Greeks called th disease elephantiasis, but tho Arabs mal a careful distinction betweon what wi anciently known to tho Greeks as el phantiasis and true leprosy, or what th? call el judham, but ordinarily, called < Da* el Kebir, the Great Disease. One the earliest symptoms of which the vi tim tah -s particular notice ia a loss sensation or motion in ono or all of tl extremities, sometimes on the face, ai less frequently on the body. On its iii appearance tho ci.culatiou becomes fe ble, tho color dusky, and general sens tion or feeling diminished. Tho patio describes it us one of numbness ; som times ho calls it a stinging, prickii pain. The skin of the affected parts is at 6: puffy, and ultimately permanently tine cued and somewhat scaly ; Boraetitr with hard, corded, knotty lines runni up tho forearms. As tho disease advil ces, tho fingers and toes lose their nal ral feeling or sensibility, so that in wal ing he may co-it off a lo?se slipper withe being aware of it. At this time or so after, the face becomes similarly affect) with a change of complexion plait marked, and n disfigured appearance the features, which is so peculiar to t disease. The color become.! red. due and shining, tho skin thickened a knotted; tho hair of the head, the c; brows and huhes often entirely disappe with red and watery eyes. When I body becomes attacked, tho skin is ail ted m patches. < *. The earliest symptoms of tho disc are ushered in (ao stated by El Kamt au ancient Arabian author) by a "c gested appearance of tho eyes, duskir of the skin, huskiness of tho voice, f. perspiration, puffiness of the face, v ulceration and increased reduc?s i gradual loss of the hair of the < brows." In his great concern as to the fea . onsequenccs of his malady, the pat rarely speaks of it. All active cheer ncs> is lost, and the leper assumes a subdued, melancholy mein through He knows he is a victim of an incun and loathsome disease, shunned by nearest relations, disahlwl froto w and reduced to dependence, if not to most abject poverty, as is frequently ease. His life thus becomes a bur heavy indeed to be borne, and this : ing sometimes becomes so intolerabl to causo tha poor, micerable suffore put an untiu.'ily end to his life. POPULAR.-So popular are Dr. Pr Special Flavoring Extracts, that kitchens can be found where they an used and their introduction to any ht hold is the advent of new pleasures a table. Dr Price has succeeded in ducing flavoring pecuHary delicious, - Henry Ward Beacher is about sued for $10,000- damages, for arran to lecture nt a Maryland fair, and canceling the engagement, because i not promiso to be profitable. VJ:- Kiohmond, tho Kearnov Coi Heb., mur ' ?cr, who is to bo' exe thc 25th of April, will experieno novelty of being hung on Saturday, has ?oid bis body to a medical celle T'JLE RADICAL CIPHERS. How Morton Destroyed Them Two Year? Aso-A Circumstance in the History of tao rrcildeati?l Steal. It ia a patter of history that , the first demand made upon the Western Union Telegraph Company for the political dis patches sent during the campaign of 1876 came from the House committee. With in a few days after the tubpuna ducea tccum of the Housocommittco was served, Morton's Committee on Elections of the Senate issued and had served a similar demand upon Mr. Orton, then President of the Western Union Company. This corporation, which was managed in the interest of the Radical party, under cov er of a desire to protect private correspon dence, resisted these tubponaa at first, but it was merely a pretense to gain, tempo rary relief from the pressure of tho House. Mr. Orton issued commands to the oper ators to send all the political dispatch?* to the principal office in Now York, and as soon as this was done he had them placed in a trunk and turned over to the attorney or the company, who brought the trunk to Washington. He took refuge at the residence of Prof. Holden, theu and now professor of mathematics at the United States Naval Observatory, where the trunk oi telegrams was con cealed for soveral dava. Mr. Orton was in Washington himself, and directed every movement of his em ployee, who had possession of the tele grams over which the two houses of Con 5ress were struggling. Finally, by or ers of the President of the company, the attorney delivered tho trunk of dispatch es at the room of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, and it was received by Mr. Burbank, the.then clerk of that committee, and immediately turned over to George E. Bullock, mes senger of the committee. Senator Mor ion was promptly not?tad of the receipt of tho trunk, ana he lo*v no time ia re pairing to his committee roora and .mak ing au examination of the contents. He took with him several Republican Sena tors, members of the Elections Committee, (whose names will como out during the investigation,) and togother they exam ined au tho dispatches. Bullock took the telegrams from the trunk and assist ed in assorting them. Mr. Morton was personally interested In getting po&Bcssion of the telegraphic messages ot that campaign, because ho had eont and received, in hin management of tho Pacific Slates for Hayes, d'spatch :a that ho did not want to see the light. All the telegrams which compromised tho Republican party lu any serious degree wero separated from tho others, and tho balance were returned to tho trunk. The honorable Senators then left the room, leaving the uepubiican dispatches in che bands of Bullock, with an understanding thet he was to put them where they could never do any harm. Huiiock locked the loor and made a bonfire of th? bundle sf telegrams which bad been been left nr?tts bim. He then arranged the others in gCwd order .in the trunk, and next dav Mr. Morton called a meeting of the full :omttjittce, informing them it was to ex amine the telegrams which had been turned over to him by the Western Union Company. Of course nothing was found that the Republicans cared to conceal, but thero were telegrams which perplexed the Democratic membors of the committee. Morton, with an assumed air of magna nimity, suggested that the trunk and ita contents be kept a secret, and this was tacitly agreed to. Subsequently General Butler rnysterously found himself in pos session ofa package of these cipher dis patches, and now he proposes to turn them ^ver to the Potter committee. It tu rna out that Professor Hu Iden was the man who translated the cipher dispatches for the New York Tribune, and as this oxperienco doubtless furnished him with the key, he bas been selected by Genend Bugler to continue the translation. Gen. ?. Bullock performed his part of Ibo work to the entire satisfaction of the Radical Senators who were engaged with him in tho job. Ho was promised reward in tho shape of official position, and he got it in duo time. He wes appointed as a consul to Cologr e, and was confirm ed through the influence of the very Senators who examined the contents of the trunk, with the exception of Morton, who died before tho job could bo com pleted.- Washington Pott, f> A PUFACHEB'S IDEA or Tun FUTURE OF Tins .'LAUTu.-On Sunday night, at the Cami), ia Philadelphia Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. L. Hughes, preached on tho future of the earth. Hio theory was that, at the laatjudgment{ tho world, which, as the Scriptures say, is to be destroyed by firo, will not be anni hilated, but. rather that, ui.der tho ac tion of fire, its present form will morely undergo a change.. Ho argued that the languago of prophecy ana the whole tenor of tho Scripture pointed to this idea, and that it was impossible) to- be lieve that ibis earth, which God him self declared to be good, and upon which the Saviour lived and died, should bo cn tirly given over to tho flames. The trans formation of the bid earth into anew earth would, so tho preacher argued, take place after the day of judgment. The new earth will bo as prim as the present one and with tho same hcavenlv rtnm? epread over it. Beauty would delight the eye. music attract the ear, and there would be blissful intercourse between man. Thore would bo green hills, majestic mountains, fertile fields, fruit-hearing trees, flowing streams, fragrant flowers over a clear, bright sky, an evor-shin iug sun, with anthe materialism which sense-sees in the present, but without the sensualties that sin creates and impress es on our present existence. In short, it will be tho present eartb, so renewed and regenerated that it will appear in all the Saces of its first formatiou. ''This said o preacher, "will be Paradise Regained. - The Jewish Chronicle finds "a prophecy fulfilled" in one of the results of the new understanding between Great Britain and Turkey, and thus speaks of it: "Tho report that the Porte hau gran ted a concession to an English company for tba ennstnifiion ?f-fse Fl! "brutes Valley Railroad, and to a Frenen com Eany tor the Joffa-Jerusalem line, has cen very favorably received jy the Jews in Jerusalem, especially ??, according ta their belief, a prophecj in tho Scrip tures will thereby be fulfilled. The^Eu ph rates Railway, so it is proposed, will intersect the former provinces of Assyria and Babylonia, and will have stations at Mossul and Ilillcl, in tho neighborhood of Which towns aro Assyri an and Babylonian ruins. It ha-, been suggested at Constantinople that eventu ally a junction might be effected between the Euphrates Hun and the Egyptaln. railways, which, if carried out, -emla confirm the following prophecy of liv Jab, xix,23: 'In that day there shall beabifrh way out of Egypt to Assyria, and tho Assyrian thalfcorao into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria and thc Egyptians shall serve with tho Assyrians. -The consumption of beer in tho whole Gorman Empire last year was 841,053, 703 gallons, or nearly twenth gallons per non th of population, ', ,?X> WIUtWroybj??T3.-~ln order to r??lv? attention,, comruco Ic V. lo D ? wurt bo *o?or*p?i>lwi br th? t?oo anmeimd adi?roM Of the writer. IU? J?ctM *MVau?cripta ?tn ?ot t?a^vtn*?d. 4M?M* tb* ceMmry.it*?p?areftr&I*?^ '?ll'conni mii^ ftddre-*e? to"?<I l^taUlll^ncor^?jidt? elifeck?. diafU. raoo?y ord,?, dc.. ?. ' . . ' ? Antonien, fl? C. .???.???*,**00***o|'**?**ipaa?wwss?*???w^ - A Short Study ia Statistics. Tho fear waa expressed the other day that the vast emigration lu progress to* ward the Western States would result, before long, In crowding the country. ' The maps wJM have to bear the ?respon sibility .of whatever misapprehension ex ists as to tho comparative siso, of the va rious States. Mee know, io a gcuyral way, that Rhode island, Delaware anet Connecticut have a small area in com parison \rith the groat States of the West and South. But in the examination of atlases they have not taken into account the different scales, and many fall into ?uecr errors about the size of States like 'ennaylvania and Kansas, or New York and Colorado. They look at the bounty mops of the smaller and older 8?> a, and bring these in juxtaposition with tho maps of thinly-settled communities, which ?we drawn on a much smaller scale. A few comparisons will serve to remove those misconceptions. The area of the States ranges from Rhodo Island with 1,800 square ml!er v? Texas with 274,800. The area of Eng land, exclusive of Wales, is60,962. That of France, including the coast Lilaud aud Corsica, is 204,961. Take all tho New - I England States together, aud their area is 68,867-say 17,000 more square miles than old England, but only 8,000 more than the single State of Missouri. Tho area of France is only the little matter of 16,000 square miles greater than that of the single State of. California, and m we have seen, is 70,000 square miles less than that of Texas. England and France together are not equal to tho Lone Star Stato. Maine, with 85,000 square miles, com prises rather more than half of tho New England States, but Maine is not equal to Ohio, with its 89,904 squpro miles. Yet out of tho 88 States, there are twen ty with areas exceeding tho area of Ohio. AU the Now England and Middle States together have a lera area. 171,797 square miles, than California, with 188,981. If | to these States are added Maryland, Vir Saia and North Carolina, the area ni ese thirteen States is yet less by moro than 2,000 square miles, than the area of Texas alone. It would take very nearly seven such States as Ohio to equal Texas in terri torial extent, more than two. to equal ?-?nsas, and nearly two to equal Nebraska. And yet it would take more than fivo States of the site of Massachusetts to make up Ohio. Ohio, Indiana aud Illi nois combined have an area of 329,1.88 8uaro miles, lesa by over 60,000 than ilifornia alone, ana onlv 25,000 greater than Colorado alone. Nevada has .ah area of 81,680 square miles, and is almost as large as the two States of New York and Pennsylvania pnt together^ Oregon . O AAA Dni,i|M M* 21 . - 1 ~-. I. _ ?~ iL A '. wv. -.,uw SqUctio KI m iai?G? ii;mi mn ?rrO combined. Michigan would hold seven Rt atina r?F th* atm* ef Massachusetts, Ssd Texas more than 200 of tho size of Rhode lsUad, five of the sisa of New York, and three of the size of Kansas. All tho . New England States together are almost 80,000 apuare miles less in extent than Oregon, and aro fifteen thousand miles less than Minnesota. Minnesota is more than double the size of either Ohio, In diana or Virginia, and is equal to New York and South Carolina put together. So is Kansas. Nebraska is ?qual in ex tent to Pennsylvania, and all the New England States but Maine. Texas alouo comprises more than one-eighth of tho territory of the whole. Texas, Califor nia, Colorado, Oregon, Minnesota, Kan sas and Nebraska are nearly equal in ex tent to all the rest combined. Now wo tura to the statistics of popu- I latioc-wo use tho figures of tho census of1870. The relation of the States will be seen in another light. The population of the thirty-eight; States, Ij that census, was 88165,005, ,. In round numbers, the square miles of theso States foot up two millions. France, with an area only chont ont tenth ?VJ large, with an area only about five^'i^v enths that of asingleState, had a popu lation, in 1872, of 86,102,921. The pop ulation of England, whoso extent is, as nearly as posnblo, that of Alabama, was, in 1871, 21,487,688* The population pf Texas, as compared with' that of France, W03 818,679, and that of Alabama, 995 992, against the 21,000,000 of England. There were only 16 States out of the 88 that had In 1870 a population of a mill ion and over, though there wore 14 that had a larger aroa than England, that supported a population of over 21,000-000. Tho States towards which. tho tide of emigration is now setting aro Minnesota, Nebraska, Kausas, Texas, and Colorado. Their united area ?B 620,000 squaro miles. Their population in 1670 was 1,985,541, a population which was a trifle in excess of that of Missouri, though their aroa' was ten times as great. It was half a million more than the population of Massachusetts, and tho area of these com bined States ia to that of Massachusetts as ninety is to one. Were theso States as densely populated as Massachusetts, they would have a population nearly five. times as large as tn et'winch a? present dwells within the entire Union. Wc; o these States as densely populated as Ohio,. the number of persons dwelling within . them would be 42,400,000. With the I population they had in 1870, they weiro exceeded by four . States. New York . alone, that had less than one-twelfth of the ?rea of these States, h fm muru iuan double the population. Ohio with only j one-fifteenth of their area, had a popu lation a third larger, Pennsylvania had a population nearly twics* as ' largo, though its area was 675,000 square mi.es less. If any ouo thinks of theso older i States as overcrowded, we suggest that I he take a day's rido on any railroad run ning through Ohio, Fthn?ylvania or New ! York. If he is not surprised at the vast I r?i?on??t?A? nt\*nti thu*/ na* .?-?JS.I??. *?j tj^ ' used, it caa only be because he is famil iar with the facts. If he had traveled I abroad ho will better understand tho cs pacity of this conn try, and the vastness ? of the mighty domain that is waiting to bo peopled. Uncle Sam has yet room for nil the i vast throngs that aro turning to us. Ho I has land enough and room enough ' to Igivousall a farm. - Queen Victoria leads a very dulci, and yet a busy life, and few great ladies find limo to compress so many occupa tions into a daytime a-t sh? docs. She breakfasts at 9, lunches at 2, and dines I at 8. From 8 to 6 abe generally drivas or I walks ont; but the remainder of hex. hour* ls devoted to Stato business, study, pr correspondence with members of ber wido-spread family. All the Queen's private letters are written in English ; not m German, as ?nany think; ar.. . in iact, German, ia so little spoken w-mug the royal family that even when tho Crown Prince of Gsrmany comes over, bc .English at Coori like his wife's relative? Tho Queen reads alNihe dally newspap ers. Tho Queen's devotion to Stato af fairs is well known, and her intervint in them, particularly w?ea re" questions are involved, is Wot e ?hearted. -'SH^^HSSIH j - North CcroliiiR has twi and sixty-one turpentine 'distil I number cf illicit liquor 'distill) i as easily counted,